skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like I misread GP (thought ref was to the investment period).

Why do some smart people go into obscure fields. Who knows, there are so many variables. One of my absolute favorite cs geeks is John Backus. Do you know how he got into computing in the '40s? He was walking down the street and liked the look of the street level display of the IBM office and walked in and began his career in computing. And granted, he was a unique and somewhat strange bird, but that is one of the variables mentioned. I honestly don't think people like him really pay attention to what the liberal arts crowd ("intelligentsia" /g) thinks about technology.
Because all of that's going to be cheap right? In a nation which loses its mind even gas prices go up 20c?
That's what I mean by performative, yes.

If it were somehow miniaturized and handheld then it's easy to move.

I doubt that's physically possible, but I've been surprised before and am old enough to have been surprised before about how clever people are.
I use USB-C-to-DP cables as well as full Thunderbolt and haven’t had issues with them.

USB-C cables can be garbage, so you probably need to get a better one.
Isn't fast startup the point of firecracker? It's supposed to scale down to zero when there are no users, and quickly ramp up when needed.
Is this the one? :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2,4-Dinitrophenol#Toxicity
I know this exact comment gets posted so often, but it's crazy how things my brain muses about magically appear on HN. I'm a long-time MUD enjoyer (played one semi-religiously for about 10 years) and have spent lots of time tinkering around with my own MOO implementations. Recently, BEAM languages have been getting a lot of attention, so naturally my mind drifted to the possibility of writing a MOO on top of BEAM that takes advantage of the immutability/concurrency/whatever.
Yep. I lost 30lbs on it in 3 months. It took me 10 years to gain that weight.

So I guess if it takes me 10 more years to gain it back I can look into taking it again.
I see posts like this and wonder: with the amount of coding necessary to write your own OS and then write a retro emulator for it, do you do anything else with your free time?

(Implicit question: are the rest of us just slackers?)
NYC is sinking due to the weight of its skyscrapers
Last time I remember they were fined INR 1337 Crore.

Waiting for an interesting number this time.
...and everything else that made the PC great.
I think the more interesting thing is that he was actually in the position to come into contact with all these people. Let’s say he didn’t invest and was just a professor, there are very few people who can look around around and say “yeah I know a couple of dozen people who became fabulously wealthy”

Seems like he was in the right orbit of people at the right time, and then put his money where his mouth was.
This is a very cool interaction and I hope it turns into something. Would love a place to keep up if anything ever materializes.

Here's some other projects you might have inspo or crossover with and some discussions you might find possible collaborators in:

Bonsai https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28446147

Mullvad Browser (security oriented FireFox-based) https://mullvad.net/en/browser

Browsh (purely text-based browser) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17487552

Ladybird (browser from scratch for SerenityOS)

Kosmonaut (browser from scratch in Rust) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24170201

Refresh (concepts for a new kind of web browser) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17638477
https://archive.is/djg9l
can we do this for working out and exercise?

I’m lean but dont do that and can recognize the benefits. It would be cool if we could pharmacologically make that appealing too.

What if we could just continually swap in states.

Executive work mode, ah it feels so good to think and focus.

Empath mode, ah it feels so good to build relationships.

Brolic mode, ah it feels so good to think about working out, and actually work out!
I think the focus here was for firecracker VMs used by lambda? If you're paying 2ms on every invocation of every function that'll add up. OTOH it seems like SnapStart is a more general fix.
Yes, here is how to do it:

https://airborn.com.au/layout/vddtest.html

A 16-bit DOS application using DirectX..

In the case of OrCAD this was very easy because it already had plug-in architecture for graphics. It had this because even the mouse was not standardized in the early days.
Tridactyl checks my boxes.
Did an llm write this? I can imagine the prompt. "write a snappy sounding article about how a tech mystery got solved"

In reality, nothing is solved.

> Why were routers affected even when they had been configured to not automatically update and no manual update had been performed? Asus has yet to address this,

Why indeed
Semi-automated code migration using AST-grep
Could the RP2040 ROM be adapted for RISC-V creating a defacto standard for emulating features that aren't implemented by the specific RV-variant?

I'd also love to see a big-little implementation with a Linux capable RV paired (gateable) with the above M4-class RV and the state machines from the RP2040.
Indeed - one of the great changes in v15. (for any folks on previous versions, you need to change the view owner to a non-superuser role without the bypassrls attribute).

Thanks for all your work on PostgREST, Steve! Do you think we'll see relational inserts in the near future, or is that still a bit down the road?
Well, that's a problem, considering it's funded with public money.

Private entities making money off public initiatives is a big reason why we're having the economic troubles we've been having the past few decades.
It looks like they are primarily thinking of this as protecting a non-mobile installation like a base vs troops on the move. So miniaturizing for hand-held might come, but the power supply for that would also have to shrink making it less useful. I see it mounting to a truck as part of the convoy moving troops during an advance to make it mobile
And operator overloading. TS code tends to look like this `c.add(b.add(a))` or `add(add(a, b), c)` instead of `a + b + c` as you might write in Python.

That was my biggest pain-point with using TS for graphics related projects. If operator overloading existed, then TS would be a no brainer for entry level graphics + AI/ML projects.

Edit: This gets more complicated when doing operations that force you to manually respect PEMDAS. For example, `add(div(a, b), multiply(c, d))` in TypeScript would simplify to `a / b + c * d` in Python. The TS version is unreadable.
Do you not believe that the governments of Russia and China will pursue their interests at the expense of the United States? Of course they would, and it seems bananas to me that we should pretend otherwise.
He's also a spiteful, not very nice person.

He had an acrimonious divorce where he essentially refused to minimally support his children as a multi millionaire.[1]

He cofounded Arista, but also sued Arista, and lost[2], through OptumSoft, his pet company, out of what can be summarized as spite[3].

[1] https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/ca-court-of-appeal/1071866...

[2] https://www.networkworld.com/article/3016667/court-finds-for...

[3] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-arista-networks-billionai...
Counterpoint: Don’t inject yourself with stuff you found on the internet because people on the internet told you it’s ok.
Hmm, will look into this one. Have some idea what it might be!

Ah this is one of your extensions / plugins adding a div to the page. and my CSS defaults setting it in a particular way...
Extensions that add these kinds of elements to webpages are annoying, making assumptions about styling
My $5 is on the MTU mismatch.
I hope this will lead to positive change, but unfortunately I don't expect much. The forces of inertia are very strong in this domain.
They're not mutually exclusive. You can exercise regularly and still have a substance abuse problem. In fact, substance abuse is a major problem amongst high-performing athletes [1]

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4140700/
> yeah turns out it was never about will power.

What a completely silly take away. It's like nature vs nurture it's not 100% one thing only.
If we're talking firmware, the gigantic mess that used to be called ACPI, still leave users suffering every day for example.

And replace it with what? APM? I'm completely unaware of another power management abstraction that has even a fraction of the capabilities and proven track record. Sure if your apple or IBM you can build a machine with a custom tightly bound firmware/OS/hardware interface that works well. But, if you look at for example the Arm ecosystems attempts to use DT in the linux kernel and manage everything from a heavyweight kernel it is a fools errand. It has successfully been failing for fully 1/2 the lifetime of ACPI. Never mind no one in their right mind designs a system these days where the big cores try to manage their own power/perf curves, nor even modeling the system power/cooling without using a small low power core continuously monitoring and adjusting the hundreds of fine grained power domains on even smaller machines needed to achieve modern perf/power parity.

So please explain.
Are you self-hosting? Or is there a convenient host that provides logs?

I think NearlyFreeSpeech.net provides logs, and the service is pretty cheap. My only complaint is that the pages don’t load super fast.
Tired of people calling Remix "flavor of the week". It's been acquired by Shopify, is actively being iterated on and is by no means another JS flavor of the week. I think it's proven itself in that sense so far.

Having worked for several years at a startup on rails, I can really confidently say the DX experience with Remix is no match..

I don't understand people in this thread complaining about niche complicated stuff when at the end of the day.. it's all just javascript, there's no magic..

The amount of abstractions, opinions, and siloed "you kinda just have to know that's the way it works" sort of knowledge that come with working with Rails is far beyond that of working with Remix. Would be curious to know how much time folks here have actually spent building with Remix. It's just good, give it a try.

Personally, I've learned a lot from Kent. I think his content is mostly quite good, I also don't find him to be someone who's sole mission is to make money and sell his product like a lot of folks in this thread have claimed. He gives a lot, for free, and contributes a lot.
Yeah, pulse/jack/pipewire was a bit of a mess. But since 2023, pipewire can replace both and works very well. At least with my hardware.

I actually DO use arch on my personal servers and never had any problem, I was also able to always fix the OS. But I have a new project starting where I will host more sensible stuff and I am wondering what I'll use. I might just use arch with N+1 machines and use the +1 to test upgrades.
> and fundamentally it requires that each individual doing the work understands what needs to be done

Which is precisely what agile is about, specifically the estimation process. No story enters the sprint unless there is unanimous consensus among the engineers as to its point value, and it's the process of coming to that unanimity that makes sure each individual understands what needs to be done.

A lot of people like to complain that agile slows down their coding, and this is by design -- to achieve exactly what you're asking for.

> But now we often seem to have one-paragraph tickets, maybe spend a few minutes thinking of some class names that look about right for each one, and then dive into coding.

That isn't agile. If you're estimating a new story the team hasn't discussed before, it's usually going to take between 5 and 30 minutes to come to consensus on its size and what it is conceptually.

So the main problem you're describing is what Agile solves.

Then you seem to have a secondary problem which is about different team members working in incompatible ways in terms of coding architecture. That require a team lead who is in charge of architecture decisions, that team members consult with whenever they start a story that there's no precedent on how to build. And code review ensures code is written as planned.
> There’s no reason in principle why a business in any other industry could not adopt the same ownership model, although it does make it harder to raise capital.

Yes, it would make attracting capital harder. It would also make it implausible to ever consider leaving that business and doing something else if you're one of the owners.
Yeah, this is what a lot of people don't get: HDMI Alt mode has failed to launch, a lot of devices out there just use the DP alt mode when trying to output video out of a type C port.

When you have a C-to-HDMI (eg https://frame.work/products/hdmi-expansion-card) it's more like .... C-to-DP(implicit in type C)-to-HDMI. If you have a monitor that has both DP and HDMI you probably want to get yourself a simple C-to-DP cable as there's no active conversion going on so it's more likely to work.
Person A also took the most risk with their funds at that point in time. I'd like to see what people's views are on giving people close to strangers funds early on when the company has no chance of success.

That is the risk of losing the entire sum of what they put in.

Taking on that risk is where the disproportionate ROI comes from. Person C took way less risk.

In addition, I believe "Person A" in this case actually gave more help than just funds, ie legwork.

I believe there also lots of other versions of the same thing. For example if you bought lots of Bitcoin/Ethereum early on in its first year. It's just that its too risky for people to do that.
I feel like there's a lot of great stuff going on at https://www.crowdsupply.com but it's very hardware centric.
s/calories/carbs

Calories can still be a useful metric as a proxy but low calorie (“diet”) foods tend to compensate with more carbs. At least the ones I see regularly at my grocery store.

As a side note: It’s actually difficult to find pre-packaged low carb food at regular grocery stores sadly. It requires effort to make yourself, just like going to the gym. Like most good things in life.
> Why wouldn't you want tie your identity to something like that?

Because conflating _need for purpose_ and _need to pay rent_ can be tricky business: they don’t always join neatly.

Happy they do for you!
These are all great comments. Doesn't look like the author read them (or at least they never responded). Hopefully they read them at some point and use your good info.
I heard that 2/3 of the weight loss is muscle, do you find that to be the case?
> The additional costs to the healthcare system due to people being overweight probably exceed 12000/person/year

This is a big claim to assert without evidence. If it was the case then insurers would already be adding the drugs to their formularies.

There is undoubtedly a cost associated with obesity but you are suggesting that simply being overweight doubles the average cost of care[1], a figure that already includes overweight and obese people (which are of course a huge population in the US).

A quick Google search turned up a report[2] that suggests that

> This estimated public cost equates to an average marginal cost of $175 per year per adult for a one unit change in BMI for each adult in the U.S. population.

So, even for the extreme case of a very obese person that has a very successful treatment and goes from 40 BMI to 25 BMI, you are only saving a hypothetical $2,625 per year (perhaps an underestimate due to inflation and the age of the paper).

Therefore it would appear that unless insurers strike a deal with the drug companies (lower the price, make it up in volume), such a law would dramatically increase insurance premiums. A better compromise would be a law which requires insurance companies to offer co-insurance on these drugs up to the expected savings.

[1] https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2023/01/why-are-americans-paying-m....

[2] https://vinecon.ucdavis.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/cwe12...
Church of Reality: Ernst Mach on Mind, Matter, and the Illusion of Self
And the 10TB of free egress. Their proprietary stuff is very generous as well. Also 3000 emails/day -- really great offering tbh
Silly question. How did he turn that $100k into $10 billion? Early stock options? What did he negotiate early on to get that type of return?
Monoprice has relatively cheap USB4 cables in 3 ft (40Gbps) and 6 ft (20Gbps) versions. I've gotten a bunch to replace my previous mess of different cable types.
Know this is supposed to be a joke but why
I've had the same experience. Especially when you're trying to daisy chain or use anything very high bandwidth. I've tried different cables too but the mating just isn't solid enough and small bumps kill the link.
Thank you for sharing this. Before this I would have just been wondering why resume is not working anymore. Now atleast I have one more approach or at least the way people are trying to get pass the filter.
Resume making is gonna be battle going forward it seems.
Is this a low key plug for Quantum Computing Since Democritus?
Oh that sounds like an interesting blend! Wonder if you can find any example artists/songs that fit what you recall
Oracle OCI will randomly shut your instances down, which is super annoying. I stopped bothering to boot them back up again.

Used to be a huge proponent, it was a good 4 years of freebies. But this too shall pass.
I didn't even get that far! I was curious about the font being used (turns out it's Lato) so I right clicked to examine an element and boy did that fart scare me something awful!
> Yesterday, I finally realized that this method would never, ever work. I was shocked. But it never, ever has. I’ve been after myself on this score for, what, like ten years? Had it ever worked once in that time, I asked myself. No!

I had a similar realisation a few years ago. I used to try to come up with side project ideas by sitting down with a piece of paper and writing down every idea I could think of. Then, I’d decide which of these ideas seemed in the realm of possibility for me with my current skill set. Out of that whittled-down list, I’d then choose the idea that I thought would have the most chance of success.

The problem? I could never remain motivated. It turned out that I had invented a formula for choosing ideas that neither extended my skills nor spoke to my inner curiosity. Things only changed when I asked myself the question “has this ever worked for me in the past? Even once?”

I decided my new philosophy was to work on whatever I was most curious about — even if it seemed way too hard for me, or if everyone else thought it was stupid. I haven’t exactly made millions of dollars from this approach, but I’ve learned more in the past four years (and had more fun doing it) than I did in the previous 10.

It makes me wonder what other things I might be doing out of habit that have never actually worked.
> Sometimes the best way of knowing what the job is is to do something quick

And that "something" you're doing quick is based on...user stories! Unless you're making up something entirely in your head, with the idea that "if we build it they will come," i.e. a solution in search of a problem.
I use GlitchTip — it works well! A bit hard to deploy (many moving parts) but that’s more a problem with F/OSS Sentry.

It’s been nice being able to use the sentry reporting ecosystem with it (including newer reporters for stuff like Svelte)
Apparently the F-35 has touchscreens. That would seem .. problematic.
Microwaving a trout actually works pretty well, but the joke is that it releases enough odor that just might be strong enough to be banned under The Hague Convention Against Chemical Weapons.

It’s definitely not a nice thing to do to the office microwave!
Romanian Mint Rubbing Association (RMRA)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/side-view/
It's both. Burnout is when you invest too much emotionally in something or someone and don't get anything back from it. That can be because you have a steady stream of work items and none seem particularly important but you feel obligated to do each one. Or it can be because you labor on the same project for years and never complete it. Or it can be because you work hard and deliver but events outside your control make that delivery pointless.

I'm an eng manager at a FAANG. I view my primary job to be saying "No, that doesn't matter." New bug comes in - if it's not a production outage or security bug, it can go in the bug queue and we can forget about it. Engineer says "But what about [edge case], now I have to worry about that too", I can say "No you don't. Ship it anyway." Request from another team comes in - "Sorry, we don't have engineering capacity for that." UX designer has a great new idea - "That's not feasible in the time and resource constraints we have."

Probably doesn't make me very popular with other teams, users, or cross-functional partners, but my team (which had had recurrent problems with burnout and spinning their wheels before I joined) is being productive and delivering stuff and seems reasonably happy at work now.
About 10 years ago I tried to write a gameboy emulator based on a pdf document i found on the internet somewhere.

I ended up finding the documentation wrong in a handful of places, which made the project tedious. Did you find that document reliable?
Why are south Asians dying of heart disease?
I know this isn't your family member, but if they were a 500-pound alcoholic smoking two packs of cigarettes a day, I suspect they probably felt like crap before the ozempic.
In that case I recommend the commuter train, which created inner-ring suburbs which still exist. Not exactly ancient history anyway.
Yes, there are multiple ways: Sending data to a plugin or having the indirect prompt injection emit a markdown image. I reported it to OpenAI on April, 9th also provided a CVSS score and argued image injection would be high severity issue once built-in plugins are available. After some back and forth, I was informed that it is a feature and that no changes are planned to mitigate the markdown image data exfil angle.

Also, always enjoy reading your content- very thoughtful posts.
I like how someone felt the need to write out insertion sort in some 4 line code golf challenge in the midst of qsort. This right here is why no one wants to deal with C anymore.