skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where is he now? Why doesn't he write more books like this? I mean in this lucid explanatory style.
> a16z's investment thesis completely centers around finding the next bagholder for their investments.

Boom, yes, this. I think a big part of the (for lack of a better phrase) butt-hurt the best of HN feels towards a16z is summed up by the Obi-wan scene where he's screaming at Anakin about how he was supposed to be the chosen one blah blah you've hurt my feelings because I truly believed you could have been something you are clearly not etc.

In reality, a16z are shrewd, smart operators, and it's a valid, scary effective investment thesis to be able to push waves higher due to your own gravitas. If you had the Buffet/Elon effect (genuine ability to move markets) and could, why wouldn't you trade on it?

The "they were the best of us and now look at them" is a sad, hard reality lesson for anyone feeling it, and utterly irrelevant to a16z.
They are not in recession yet. Someone was going to be first.
Driving a Volvo BEV, they got it right. One pedal driving + slight regen doesn't light it up but anything harder where you can feel the deacceleration in your seat, the brake lights illuminate.

I haven't driven a lot of other EVs but Volvo put a lot of thought into their one-pedal mode and it's fantastic. It's incredibly precise.
No one is saying the Bible is the favorite book of Christians nor that its enough to sway votes. The claim was saying his favorite book was the Bible connected him in some form to a majority of the electorate which it did.

These seem like uncontroversial observations.
> For pretty much any use not discussed above, you must contact us for permission before you use our marks. For example, if you want to use our marks (or some variant of them) in your company name, product name or domain name, you must obtain prior approval.

Wow, yeah! This is spelled out exactly. I do wonder if they have written approval for this? Not that this is any of my business, of course!
I have worked in distributed databases. I can't seem to find any host organization that's actually building anything and really cares about those details. I know several other senior systems engineers in the same boat. where are you guys hiding?
Oath Keepers leader Rhodes sentenced to 18 years for Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy
Honestly I'll take any action. Is it a mental health issue? Let's take action to address those issues. Parenting? Figure out how to improve parent involvement, resources, etc. "division and culture issues that stirs up the violence"? Great how do we DO something about that.

Too often these "it's not the guns it's X", then use that as an excuse to do nothing rather than focus on solving X. I tend to side with the folks pushing for gun restrictions more because they are actually pushing to try something rather than doing nothing.
> Even if we turn around today and start building a hundred nuclear plants all over the world, it will take decades for them to come online and start displacing fossil fuel energy production

A. Construction start to finish is well under a decade.

B. This concern is true of any alternative energy source.

> The push for "we shouldn't do renewables, because they can't do the job, so we should invest in nuclear" is about taking the wind out of renewable's sails.

The push against nuclear is to line the pockets of renewable companies, and exploits the layman's misunderstanding about environment impact of nuclear and its alternatives.

There are just as many manipulative, disingenous arguments by Big Oil as by Big Renewable.
While it is true that more complex error correction methods can reduce a lot the amount of tapes needed for storage, the simple approach of making 2 or 3 copies remains necessary in many cases, because storing the copies in different geographical locations is typically the only method that can protect an archive against a calamity that may destroy an entire storage center.

It is possible to use RAID-5/RAID-6-like encoding schemes that can survive the complete destruction of 1 or even 2 storage centers while using less tapes than with simple copies, but such encoding schemes can be used only by very large organizations, which use more than 3 separate storage centers.
expert user of flux here. I've been waiting for their implementation of impedance control for a while.

One key perspective I want to bring up is the impact this has to new engineers who run into differential impedance for the first time (e.g. wanting to slap on a USB connector because they're so ubiquitous). My first experience with routing diff pairs was in Altium, where you can do anything under the sun, but it was really confusing and I had to become an expert first by stitching together information from various YT tutorials and application notes.

Flux designed this with the noob and pro in mind. The pro can configure their part to their hearts content just like they can in Altium and all those impedance rules/calculations are packaged nicely for anybody to reuse. Some may call this cheating, but if I had my own design with USB working, I would be so motivated to learn those inner workings.
Never mind that the whole war was a crime in the first place, I guess.

"Sure he was robbing a bank, but that guard pointed a gun at him! That makes the killing justifiable!"

Well, it might. But under the circumstances, no, it doesn't.
That’s literally cuckoldry
Crypto has done absolutely nothing to warrant anything beyond the most cursory dismissal.
Disclosure: I work at Deno

For example, if you use Deno first frameworks like fresh and use Deno Deploy, you’re eliminating build steps. You git push and the application is live across the world in 1-2 seconds. It feels like magic.
Optical vs. Tape is only a discussion if you intend to archive (and not read!) your data for years. This is a very uncommon workload, and thus the size of the optical market is much smaller than necessary to get the COGS down.

The vast majority of even backup data is legally required to either be readable in a very short amount of time (say one week) or is required to be deleted within 90 days. Neither of these are ideal for optical (or tape btw, thus why it's YoY growth is only 5% in this LTO marketing piece)
Define "fix." Twitter is a tool used by extremists to reach massive audiences. Some of those extremists have socially destructive and violent objectives. Responding to harassment and hate speech involves understanding the psychology of harassers and racists so that incentives can be designed not to reward those behaviors. IMO, "fixing" Twitter isn't just about fail whales and 500 errors.
I'm not talking down, in fact I think it is likely they have either been lurking for much longer than they've had an account or this is not their first account. That's the case for me, for instance.

There's no higher "status" or anything to be gained on how long you spend on this silly site, I just think it is relevant to the specific conversation.
If an LLM can learn to create a picture it's likely it can also learn to create a prompt.
And ... I've turned up an interesting article on the New York Times "news zipper", more properly, Motogram, first installed in 1928.

It's one of a class of electromechanical light-based informational and advertising displays.

Dale L. Cressman, "News in Lights: The Times Square Zipper and Newspaper Signs" (2018)

<https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/facpub/2074/>
Passwordless access to Google Cloud SQL at scale
Sadly, the EU has already lost that competitiveness through many other similar regulatory situations. The real risk is not competitiveness in creating products, that's a lost battle already :( The real risk is losing competitiveness in even being able to work for the American companies that are creating products.
You make a great point. No matter how high the complexity level is, if interfaces and abstractions are trivial to follow and they "just work" then the system is actually simple and trivial.

I'm seeing poorly advised commenters in this thread trying to argue that reinventing the wheel is simpler than just using industry standards that are readily available and "just work".
The Museum of Holography in Chicago was really, really cool. Hopefully someday it can be on this list.

I wish it was still open. I was there last in the early 2000's. The story about the museum's closing is pretty sad[1], but the collection was saved.

It looks like there were some public exhibitions in the last few years but there's no permanent space right now. There's a Facebook page[2] from a group trying to resurrect the museum.

[0] https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/museum-holography-mro

[1] https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20150610/west-loop/museum-of...

[2] https://www.facebook.com/holomuseum/
There's this by Cohere - https://txt.cohere.com/embedding-archives-wikipedia/
'Blood on his hands,' the other 3 flesh out specific claims.
let's get it straight, what' is exactly the false claim are you referring to? I never said USA did nothing to China, in fact it helped China a lot.

If you mean "China does not hate US", then check its textbooks and the government propaganda since 1950 until now.

If you mean "American bullets chopped off Chinese soldiers' heads", it goes both ways, are you saying US soldiers are supposed to remain quiet while being ambushed by Chinese soldiers? Or South Korea should just give up when invaded by North Korea? that's why I said who started the war is key. No wonder China is backing up Russia these days, invasion seems justified there.

If you mean "why USA are at Korea", then "Why China was at Korea many times including this time"?

Read history, all things happened for a reason, nobody is innocent.
How much time did it take to prepare all of that for ChatGPT? Won’t you have to redo all of that work every time you ask for more help since code bases are not static? Would it take less time and effort to just write the code on your own?
I highly recommend MIT open courseware 6.824. Incredibly valuable for learning distributed systems, and one of the lab assignments is implementing raft in Go.
http://nil.csail.mit.edu/6.824/2022/schedule.html

There are a ton of fascinating and potentially frustrating edge cases and gotchas to implementing raft correctly. There's no better way to understand it than actually implementing it, and I probably never would have done it myself without these course materials.
I doubt it. This is probably talking about early versions of OS/2, like, pre-2.0.
> Invisible cliffs in your code that it will fall off at some unknown point in the future are the antithesis of engineering.

I think this describes the general shape of problem seen in any engineering domain. After a certain point of time (i.e. unknown), we can no longer guarantee certain properties of the system. This is why we add all kinds of qualifiers and constraints in our discussions with the customer.

Certainly, you can make some predictions about how tables will grow over time, but there are also some potential headaches that can be incurred if you arbitrarily add indexing. "We might need to expire records to manage growth" so you go ahead and index that CreatedUtc column. Turns out, the usage patterns of your app changed such that that table is now experiencing 20x more insert volume than you could have ever anticipated and your prediction is now a gigantic liability. With 20x insert volume you would have _never_ indexed that column. You would have used some alternative path involving temporary tables, etc. Now, you are stuck with essentially same problem - a judgement call at 2am regarding whether or not you should drop an index while the rest of your team is in bed.

Since I am unable to predict the future I feel like waiting until the actual problem arises and then dealing with it at that moment is the best option. Strategically, not having an index will likely fail more gracefully than if an index is bottlenecking requests during peak load (i.e. instantaneous vs cumulative data volume).
It's almost offensive how this "AI Canon" leaves out landmark AI results from... what, before the 2020s? (or 2017, I suppose) Honestly reads like something generated by ChatGPT.
Twitter and their V1 api was one of the reasons I fell in love with programming and automation.

Today "For hobbyists or prototypes" you pay $100.
A month!

It's sad.
Microsoft calls for a new U.S. agency and licensing for AI
Honestly just look at their homepage: https://postgresml.org. I'm usually the first to criticize products for using buzzwords and making it very unclear what they do, but of all the AI products I've seen their homepage has to be one the clearest pages I've encounter in the space.

The example there makes it immediately obvious what it does and I won't repeat it here. If it's not clear to you probably you are not the target market.
What's the value of bringing Facebook/Instagram mechanics into HN? Wouldn't that skew social dynamics away from egalitarianism, giving rise to "influencers", social bubbles and rise in clickbait? I think that not having a 'follow your friends' mechanism is a feature of HN.
Yes, it would have to be done at the OS level. I don't see that as a blocker.
Some people do take it that seriously: https://www.gnu.org/software/librejs/
Dagster and the Decade of Data Engineering
Speaking as someone who worked for FB for five years, it really sucks when people seem to hate the thing that you're in to.
They may seem obvious to you, but to a lot of us, it's not obvious at all. Vague notions of "damage" could refer to anything, like harming competition. Different value systems and all that.
Freedom and Democracy is lost. This isn't about the candidate or his policies, I don't even know what they are. It's about the foundation of Western Democracies.
Let’s be real, the poorest are only not suffering as it is because of all the marvels of the industrialization onward

It’s somewhat ironic to say that we need to stop the systems which have helped so many poor people so that we don’t cause harm to poor people
“The news is garbage, you shouldnt read it” is probably the best answer.
Not to mention a massive consumer hostile price hike for no good reason.

Ironically the 4090 might be the only one approaching appropriately priced for its performance, it is a monster after all. The rest of the 4000 series are units traditionally a grade or two lower on the scale but masquerading as higher tier parts, for whatever reason.
Likely some other good links about but the one that most caught my attention was Transcending Posix, & it's notion of a Cloud Operating System for apps.
https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/transcending...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32789171
“We would benefit from a new agency,” Smith said in a speech in Washington. “That is how we will ensure that [Microsoft] remains in control of technology.”
Good point, ctags is a bit old school! Most IDEs use Language Server Protocol now for similar purposes.

I added a few sentences of explanation and background on ctags to my writeup.
Killing off 32-bit x86 support broke many games on Apple devices.

A friend of mine loved playing a specific game on her Mac that broke, and she was pissed about it for years. She later built a Windows gaming PC.
Synoptek vs. Enterprise Integration
Question - anyone here work with either of these MSP/MSSP's? They are in our current selection process just looking for any general vibes from the companies. Thanks!
Poll: Preferred seating when working from home?
I am curious to know what people's preferences are for seating when they work from home.
none of the listed options
none of the below
balance ball
ergonomic office chair (aeron, etc.)
gaming chair
couch, sofa, loveseat, etc.
recliner, eames chair, la-z-boy, etc.
bean bag chair
in bed
Roko's Basilisk is nonsense, and Roko Mijic is a racist sexist nut case.

https://twitter.com/jachiam0/status/1651327867375218688

Just got sexually harassed by the Roko's Basilisk guy lol:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/133t856/just_got...
I agree with both you and the commenters roasting a16z, tbh.
The most likely winner of such schemes are the brokers who sold two things instead of one. Buying great companies at fair prices is much easier and, in my opinion, safer. Another argument: how many short seller billionaires are there and how many long billionaires?
The name is right but the claims of clear badness are suspect.

https://unherd.com/2021/03/the-truth-about-spermageddon/
I know this course is meant to be content marketing for your company, and I don't mean this in a derogatory sense--you're doing content marketing right by providing high quality information to an audience who could be interested in your services--but it's a bit odd that going to https://llm.university unceremoniously drops me in the middle of what looks to be your product's documentation. That's not wrong necessarily, but it all adds up to arriving at a site and having a feeling of "what am I looking at?".

Like the grandparent comment mentioned, the pitch is "visual, intuitive explanations", but I don't see that on the landing page. I'm looking for a way to get to the start of your content, but the top and left hand menus don't help and are, if anything, confusing until I realize that I'm now inside of a larger set of documentation unrelated to the course.

Below the fold we see a "Let's get started!", but the link I see, Structure of the Course" doesn't sound like getting started. It sounds like more front matter. From the nav menu I see that after that I still won't get to the content, but instead a page about the instructors. Do I really need to read blurbs of the instructors before I get to the meat of the course?

It just feels like too much wrapping paper and packaging to get to the good stuff--and it really does seem like good stuff! And I think the way that you've embedded this course into the rest of your documentation prevents you from presenting it in a structure that is more familiar and easy to navigate (e.g. an 'About' link at the top that talks about the instructors and Cohere).

It might be frustrating to put a lot of time and effort into high quality materials, only for people to not want to spend a few minutes looking around, but from the audience perspective, there's a sea of LLM-related content out there. I want to quickly determine if this is worth adding to my already-too-long list of LLM related bookmarks of things I want to read.
SoftBank. Tiger. There are investors with negative brand value; take their money, but expect it to make future fundraising and business harder.
> the people who did the egregious ones mostly knew at the time that they were doing a zero sum wealth transfer to themselves

sorry we can't all be dirt farmers in USA we got to get that bag or we die from medical cost

EDIT: everyone downvoting me knows it is true
This is a big problem I have with modern movies; they're unable or unwilling to simply show, they need to show and tell. It doesn't matter the theme, even wholly unpolitical themes are far too often explicitly laid out, multiple times, with blunt dialogue exposition to the audience who are presumed to only be half-watching the movie.

The smart writing (and smart audiences) have all moved to TV. The Sopranos, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, True Detective, Better Call Saul. These are the shows that respect their audience's intelligence.

The movie business has turned into Disneyland with guns.
Supreme Court Limits EPA’s Power to Address Water Pollution
Pre 2015. Boss wants a banner printed with some QR code. I state we should also include the URL, because no one knows what a QR code does until it's scanned. Boss disagreed. Android had an exploit at the time with #* codes that would brick the phone. Generated a QR code based on that exploit. Had a "dummy" banner printed. Had the boss test it. The phone went blank and it was a brick after that. The URL was included in the banner. With how easy this was to pull off, I haven't wanted to scan a QR code since. You are free to make your own choices, you don't get to choose the outcome.
No I agree the distilled map is most useful in context. However I wonder if providing a vector store of the total code base amplifies the effect. You could also pull in vector stores of all dependencies as well. Regardless amazing work and looking forward to seeing your future work as outlined.
The "Use Cases" they list are hilariously vague and devoid of content.
Private Preview for Stargate-Mongoose Astra Support
>Progress in LLMs has come much more rapidly than expected

I hear this very often, but I'm not sure, what were the expectations 10 years ago? What are the expectations for the next 10 years?
The FAQ explains pretty well what they do, it looks like you can delete it, not sure if that removes it if already collected

https://bard.google.com/u/0/faq
The regulations forbid competing currencies (sorta), but people create currencies for trade even when no government is doing so.
Have any of the other implementations gotten traction? Last I checked in Synapse or whatever seemed like it had been backburnered.
The shear amount of floundering that twitter has done since Elon bought it is hilarious as a non-user. I do feel bad for the people who just like using twitter though, like every other week the checkmark means something different. I hear the trending tab is overrun with crypto spam now. Elon really knows how to shake up a company! And by shake up I mean destroy one step at a time.
The point is a16z is wholly unqualified to offer commentary on AI. The authors are qualified. But I’m immediately sceptical given their choice of affiliation.
And why should we trust their judgement about anything, after they put money into Adam Neuman's new company (after the WeWork debacle)?

CNBC: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/15/a16z-to-invest-in-adam-neuma...
Yeah but who, other than the person responsible for the firmware that boots the system, cares? These simplifications will have zero observable benefits to you. They won’t save a lot of die space or cost.

The complexity of the far past is so small that it is inconsequential today. The PS1 was implemented in spare die area of the PS2’s USB controller. Time marches on and die space becomes free.
What? Do you understand my previous comment?
Seeing as Windows 11 joins Mac OS in being 64 bit only (at an OS release / kernel level), the hardware is presumably already effectively "dead" in terms of being able to run on current operating systems anyway.
Anyone else feel like we've seen peak A16z at this point?
For me it was reddit's api. That being said, they can't be expected to provide free or low-cost apis across the board forever...otherwise everyone's gonna just constantly use them to the detriment of the entire platform! There has to be a cost so that an equilibrium between demand and availability is attained.

Tbh, $100 a month for a hobby project or prototype is not the end of the world. Maybe they could add special student pricing for student hobbyists. Aren't they also still doing a free option that's reasonable for testing out the api?
That's fair. On the other hand, you can still run x86_64 applications on Apple Silicon through Rosetta. Sure, it's not 32-bit x86, but there are ways to provide backwards compatibility without supporting decades of legacy in hardware.
IIRC, when you boot linux on a mainframe, you load your kernel and initrd into a virtual reader device so the machine can load it in 80-column punchcard sized chunks.
Is it too crass to say that the old design is much better. Gentler and was actually self explanatory.

I have often seen this. Products going through an identity crisis try to reinvent themselves and then fail miserably at it. So they end up doing things like logo change, font change, and more enterprising ones cite a new revolutionary made up design philosophy. I do hope I am wrong about Thunderbolts though.
That's an interesting idea, but is it true?
Except Apple doesn't support 32-bit applications on newer versions of macOS regardless of the underlying architecture, they effectively killed gaming on Apple computers when they decided to remove 32-bit support.