skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Corvair, Pinto, Suzuki Samurai, seatbelts, head restraints, offset crash testing: Safety regulations are written in blood. Only when enough people have died from manufacturers skirting technicalities will anything change.
I think this is going a bit too far. Not a single other VC is going to look at you negatively for raising from a16z.
You should try to develop an accurate and nuanced view on your skillset. I am simultaneously quite proud of my guitar playing and acutely aware of my deficits. For me, when someone points out a problem I did not realize/perceive, I am thankful (if it comes from the right place). Building your own skill, confidence, and humility (as you try and fail) is the best way to develop resilience against criticism.

You also should develop a supportive peer group. I cannot emphasize how important this is. You probably will not find it at your job. Find friends you admire, and try to be the kind of person they admire.

Constructive criticism should always flow freely both ways. In most professional environments, this does not happen. (Criticism flows down the Org chart.) This is an inherently toxic situation.

Keep in mind, insults can masquerade as criticism. Snarky comments are insults masquerading as criticism (though they may be well intentioned).

Work environments are tough. I have had situations where a manager far less technically skilled than me criticized an architectural recommendation, the business now deals with the consequences of those decisions (bugs, instability, excessive resource usage), and I am comfortable (bemused) because events proved I was recommending the correct decision and I have a support network outside of work. This sort of situation is toxic to improvement if you are not careful. I suspect many people find themselves in these situations professionally so often they just consider it normal.
It was not needed anymore in Haswell, but the support was still there. It isn't supported at all anymore.
It's like paying $100 a month to be able to publish your fart noise app on the Apple Store.
Knowing the court makeup, they consulted with corporations, not experts.
With that attitude, nothing ever would. I'm glad VC exists. Without people taking long odds, our world would be much poorer.
$100/month strikes me as a “we don’t want you” price. I’m sure there’s someone out there who can justify it but it will immediately turn away a hell of a lot of people. Maybe this was the point? Reduce API users to only the most motivated people/organizations and expect that many of them will grow into the next tier?
but the popular models plastered across HN are in fact, dumb in a lot of cases.

Everyone is impressed when the model does something they don't understand deeply. But it's very rare when someone is impressed when the model is generating text based in something they do understand deeply.

I do think it's slightly better than the mean across all topics. But I also strongly suspect it'll soon serve as a great example for regressing to the mean.
I had that at the back of my mind as something similar, but I didn't intend it as a reference.

The two games are very different.

A better chess analog of yubitsume would be: you can make one (normally) illegal move in the game, if you pay for it by chopping a finger.
I haven't thought a lot about that, but it's a great question.

Maybe:

1. Try to affect a culture of and signal "we're working together / collaborating, not competing with each other."

2. Make it clear that you're not looking for reasons to fire/punish.

3. Expect and tolerate mistakes, simple/"dumb" questions, saying "I don't know", and build support structures for learning collaboratively.
For those in the Washington DC area, I really enjoyed the Cold War Museum. The docent working there (in 2015) was really knowledgeable about the material. I enjoyed hearing about how the local area was home to a listening station. Apparently there are large iron deposits in the ground that make for ideal radio reception. During World War 2, a radio operator noticed that he was receiving transmissions from taxi dispatchers in Berlin! The government ended up building a huge ring antenna that could listen to signals from all over the world.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vint_Hill_Farms_Station

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1993/10/04/cutt...

The Cold War Museum

+1 540-341-2008

https://maps.app.goo.gl/EkQfn4WvtbgujtNk9?g_st=ic
Is there a book or resource you'd recommend for operating systems? I recently finished CS:APP and really enjoyed it. Though I've been programming for ~7 years and felt that made it easier to digest.
The median real wage in Germany grew until the 90s, stagnated for a while, then started declining in the early noughts[0], with the effect worse for new entrants to the employment marketplace (i.e. young people and immigrants).

The latter is predictable in a developed country (meaning past peak GDP growth) with high social safety nets and employee protection (meaning an additional burden for newer entrants to clear).

I'm not sure about "free fall", but the median worker's earnings has basically broken even since the 80s or so, with a definite noticeable downward trend since the 2000s.

[0]: https://labourmarketresearch.springeropen.com/articles/10.10...
>>so unless Microsoft is going to start handling that kind of emulation natively

They already do, and have since the x64 version of XP.

Its called WoW64.
No. Reality is that people will disagree with other people. And pretending that an opinion has no value because it might upset someone or apply to a generalization or group that isn't intended to mean "all of Group X" so much as "many/most of Group X, from my experience" as a disclosure doesn't mean that the rest of the statement, that could be impersonal or even offensive to some has no value.
> For example, an effectiveness of 40% means that incidence of infection in the three-dose cohort was 40% less than that in the two-dose cohort.

It’s a relative hazard ratio. % less likely to get COVID vs. the cohort with just the vaccine
Perhaps why many have been moving to preferring "Xenia" as the Linux mascot. She's vintage 1996, too, but she has been through quite a few more transformations over the decades.

https://xenia-linux-site.glitch.me/
Lest we forget, here is their piece de resistance, dripping with VC gravitas, about the role of tech in the midst of the covid crisis: "It's Time To Build" [0]

What did they end up investing in? NFTs and shitcoins.

[0] https://a16z.com/2020/04/18/its-time-to-build/
Related tangent: Lemon law lawyer on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/stevelehto
I’m not taking offense, but I think your understanding of geopolitics is a little… I don’t know, simplistic? I’m not trying to say that to be rude, but look… as long as we have the power we have and can browbeat other nations, we cannot and will not be coerced in to making good on our foreign debt.

That’s it, that’s the whole reason. The entire global trade system depends on us flattening any bad actors with the threat of force. Other players would like to edge us out, but they can’t yet.
So a data lake of business artifacts queried using natural language and AI.

I think one disadvantage of pulling “context” is that you don’t really know what exists. You can get context for things you have an idea about, but not necessarily all the context you need.

Im not saying lots of meetings are necessarily great but you’re essentially indexing the information by listening.

Generally speaking though I like the idea of ingesting things as quickly as possible and then giving people strong tools to get what they need on demand.
Why would an Arab country guarantee Israel won't get attack? They literally want that land for themselves and went to war over that.

Actual people are the ones giving money to Hamas. Those people can and should be sanctioned. The people that aren't shouldn't be. It's a simple concept.
stuff like processing sex industry related payments isn't illegal but isn't supported by big payment processors so it's defacto illegal. govt indecision to regulate here allows them to make shots of how economy operates via monopoly power
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36069118
Glad to hear you're going to give it a try. Let me know how it goes.
- This is well written.

- I agree with almost every line, which is no surprise because I cannot recall ever disagreeing with the EFF

- ...Except for this line: "That’s good for everyone. Giving publishers their fair share of ad revenue means they won’t have to plaster their websites with content-obscuring ads. Reducing costs for advertisers means that goods can be sold more cheaply." It's not good for Meta and Google, and not good for whoever they are going to lobby. They have spoken up about wanting "regulation" so that they can follow ground rules without compromising competitiveness, but I don't really buy that.
Every major RDBMS requires an index for both constraints.
FDA approves Paxlovid to treat Covid-19
It is infinitely easier to drop an index on a table that is causing poor performance than it is to add a good index to a table that suddenly needs one.

Index everything, drop those that make things worse.
> loaded into a staging table from a flat file, performing the normalization and inserts into the destination tables.

This is how I've always done things, but I'm starting to think decoupling normalization from the entire process might be a good idea. This would have simplified design on a few projects (especially the ones that grew "organically") and seems like it would scale nicely.

I'm starting to look at normalization as a completely separate concern and this has led to some fun ideas. E.g. if a system operated on flat files that were already normalized it could save time writing tools; you're at the command line and everyone involved can get their grubby mitts on the data.
FFmpeg - my favorite video/audio file transcoder.

Initial release in Dec 2000.

FFmpeg 6.0 "Von Neumann"
6.0 was released on 2023-02-27

Edit: I see OP mentions Desktop software. It runs on Linux, Windows and Mac, so I guess that qualifies.
Like the old joke goes-

Q: Why will there never be a coup d’état in Washington?

A: Because there’s no American embassy there.
ZFS Writeback Cache with Bcache
There are a lot of reasons to be skeptical of specific AI applications and even opposed to the progression of the technology in general. Grouping all of those together as a single cult is reductive, adversarial and defensive, I'm not sure why you'd do it in good faith.

Something I think about often is that people who study cults don't use the word cult to describe them. It's too broad, dismissive, and negatively associated to be useful for actual curious work. Anyway.
Unfortunately, I hit a roadblock while implementing the Raft assignment. I knew it was simply beyond my capabilities but would have made through if I had anyone I could reach out to. I second this recommendation, but make sure you know what you are signing up for. This course is as hard as they come.
Effort spent on lower tiers takes away from higher tiers that make actual amounts of money for twitter.

They don't want the $10/mo student because realistically that student is only going to be a drain on Twitter.

They want the $100/mo "amateur" who has an actual shot at growing to a $1000/mo or beyond tier. If they don't blow up they want that user to stop paying and being a net-drain on Twitter's constrained and expensive (man-hours) resources.

Further they want to price out some bad actors. See cheating differential in free vs. paid games.

Look I disagree strong with Twitter's direction and leadership - but this pricing ain't the hill to die on.
It's a bubble for sure.

But as long as you're on the first half of the bubble, you're okay.
And on the PDP-10, it contains a virtual robot to toggle the virtual switches on the virtual PDP-11, to load a loader that runs the virtual tape drive to load the startup program for the PDP-10.

j/k I have no idea how linux boots on Z.
> The decision to shut down our nuclear reactors came from a conservative government, where the greens were in the opposition.

The conservative party was in government when that decisions was made, yes, but this discounts the decades of Greens opposition to nuclear power, and crucially that the strong Greens showing in the Baden-Württemberg elections in 2011.

Without the greens there would have been no impetus to shut down domestic nuclear power.
window.$ = (selector) =>
applyExtendedTools(Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(selector)));

Oh noes, I'm now using a defacto Framework, even if I wrote the applyExtendedTools and the $ function to give me something like a lighter jQuery.
> That is a rather bold statement without proper evidence.

I based this on a couple of insights

1. OpenAI itself encourages adding examples to prompts where necessary. Given the same initial prompt, this means that the prompt with examples will elicit more specific results.

If the goal of a plugin is to be used by ChatGPT, then adding examples and exhaustively covering different conversational tracks in which that plugin can be used can only help.

> Is it universal or does the optimal length depend on the plugin complexity?

If the plugin is so trivial that it can be captured by a short description, then a longer description will not be necessary. It remains to be tested what ChatGPT will do if it is asked to choose between two identical plugins with short and long descriptions.

This gets to the heart of why optimizing for AI is so fascinating to me. You're working to attract a non-human intelligence to your door. Of course, I realize that Google's search algos are also AI infused so we have been doing this for years now but this is the first time I am actively thinking about how AI will pick my content over someone else's.
Punch in the face over IP's retropurpose is for developers who don't implement No_colors though.
https://no-color.org/
Even if an AI skeptic has good reason to be right, I can't imagine a scenario where the AI bubble collapses so quickly. If it's a bubble, seems like the beginning of one.
I tried to dig into the legal entities behind that company as part of DD and it's pretty shady: multiple different company renames, offshore companies on far away islands, founders being involved in other questionable companies, no company/CoC information on the website (illegal in at least a few countries the do business in that I know), ToS mentioning unknown offshore companies and having points that are, again, illegal. How seems pretty trivial. As for why, your guess is as good as mine.
Congrats on the campaign Jonah!

One thing I’m confused about—it says here that $540 of $1 raised.

Is the campaign starting, or over?
Its not “single party conditions” if another party holds enough seats to block critical legislation.
Do they _want_ people to use it, or is this pricing specifically to get people to not use the API without having to actually announce they're killing it? They can let the API decay and this pricing will mean that its decline will be visible and relevant to far fewer people.
Oop, I need to read better...
While I think the app and service has gotten much worse in several ways post-Elon, I do see way less crypto spam than before FWIW. The "For You" tab now actually sometimes even surfaces tweets I'm interested in too now.

Performance and general stability has absolutely fallen for me though, and the launch of the DeSantis campaign on Twitter was a technical embarrassment/disaster as far as I could tell.
Whether they are right or wrong we will now in next years
When scraping with good expensive proxies is effectively cheaper than using the API the company is doing something wrong
> the UK has better infant mortality than the state with the best infant mortality, Massachusetts

The US uses a different definition for infant mortality than the UK or any other European country. (One major difference is whether a borderline-nonviable birth gets counted in the infant mortality or stillbirth column.) The raw numbers are not directly comparable. Correcting for the expected effect of difference in definitions, the UK still has lower infant mortality than the US overall, but by a far smaller factor.
Well there’s this: https://github.com/FlowiseAI/Flowise
Here is some relevant terminology:

Stagflation https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/stagflation.asp

Gini index (coefficient) https://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/gini-index.asp
So what if Elm hasn’t seen an update since 2019. It is stable and a change of pace from the churn and anyway…

Oh.

Elm might not be dead, but it is certainly a zombie at this point.
YouTube Is Killing Stories
Totally agree, this reads as "go enterprise or GTFO"
> These sounds like specialty programs ?

FHA alone accounts for something like 1/5-1/4 of all home mortgages, varying slightly over time; and, its entire purpose was to shift the whole market (which it did).
One more thing: I have seen managers blame engineers for their own planning/resource allocation mistakes. If you are a mid-level engineer, these mistakes feel like they are your fault. But zoomed out, they are a process/planning/management problem. If you do not have enough experience, you might not even realize the difference.
> Not a single other VC is going to look at you negatively for raising from a16z

Have seen it directly. Not automatic dismissal. But dismissing the valuation, which puts a founder in down-round territory out of the gate. (Also, questions about naïveté.) We saw similar issues with SoftBank when they were in the late stages of their reputational shredder.

It’s similar to the crowdfunding penalty. Is it money? Sure. Does it impact going-forward fundraising prospects? Of course.
> are you/have you ever been worth over $100b-$200b? If not... how can you sit there and cast judgement as if you actually know anything about what's going on behind the scenes/at his wealth level?...

This is such a hilarious fallacy it barely deserves a response. Hope you enjoy spending $8/month on twitter. His decisions have been objectively bad.
https://www.britannica.com/technology/cliff-dwelling
i like to move around, sometimes i stand, sometimes i sit in the kitchen, sometimes i sit in the office on an office chair, sometimes i sit on the balcony
Trump himself openly talks about admiring Putin and preferring the way Putin leads to anything here in America, and high ranking members of the American Republican party spent at least one recent July 4th in Moscow meeting with Putin.

Connections with the Russian Oligarchy haven't harmed them at all, especially since all their followers are convinced it was a hoax.
> I'm guessing Intel could create something radically more power efficient and performant if they gave up on decades worth of drop-in compatibility.

Like the success of IA-64?
How so? The bootloader already runs in long mode with UEFI and it also takes care of bringing up other cores so this is not really a problem in my experience.
> That being said, they can't be expected to provide free or low-cost apis across the board forever.

They did, for most of Twitter's history

> ...otherwise everyone's gonna just constantly use them to the detriment of the entire platform!

On the contrary, the free availability of the Twitter API is inarguably what drove the growth of Twitter as a platform. Twitter benefited far more from it than the low marginal costs of operation. It's not even close.
Your phone camera, hand held, is plenty good enough to digitize each page. Even if they don't lay flat. You could pay a student to just photograph each page. The cost is minimal.

Before anyone says "this will never work! It must be done by $$$$$ professionals! It requires $$$$ equipment!" just pick a book, any book, off your bookshelf, open it up, and take a phone photo.

P.S. It works better with daylight providing enough light through the windows.
The US is pretty much the definition of a top credit rating. Besides having the biggest economy, they can print more of the world's reserve currency.

Not defending government debt by the way - I think it's an especially insidious form of tax that devalues the entire currency and hits the poor the hardest.
This is for people than need to flow money to Elon under the guise of a valid business transaction.
For me, the Twitter Blue boost has really led to a general drop in quality. I find that Blue subscribers typically don't say valuable things and are some of the most uninteresting people on the app, and yet they get boosted right to the top.
This is just the beginning of all US federal agencies being gutted down to the core I hate to say it. Probably within the next year. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/01/supreme-court-chevr...

Going forward, the battles of regulation will go down to state and local levels. You can see it in broadband as an good example, where the FCC has become increasingly corrupt, feckless and powerless, and all the real battles are now state by state, block by block.
A lot of this has to do with keeping Microsoft happy, probably.

Once MS skips to ARM, let's see what Intel does.
Not really. Building the plant, and mining+refining the nuclear fuel involves a significant amount of emissions. Far more than most renewables have on the list. Overall it's greener than fossil fuels, but less green than renewables. And we are at the point where such differences matter. And that is not the only problem with nuclear. The high costs and the political problems are another things. Russia has their hands deep in nuclear fuels too.
This whole thing is just a negotiating tactic, no one actually expects the US to default. Except maybe the media who is greatly enjoying the extra views from concerned viewers.
> given how fragile digital storage and peripherals are

Post it on the web. Lots of people will inevitably make copies, ensuring its survival.
It's starting now and will go for 5 weeks. The raising threshold is $1 because even with one order I'll still deliver units.

The more orders in this campaign, the more units Crowd Supply will order to keep on stock, so there's potentially 50% matching on each sale in this campaign.
Once more the Sith will rule the galaxy, and we shall have... peace.
Good suggestion, but I'd say it's an "and", not "instead". Being a barista (customer-facing node, your UI) is a critical piece of understanding the business.
Typical enterprises will utilize the tape drive to do the encryption. The objective is that your tapes are encrypted when they go off site.
From https://github.com/itfanr/rust-doc-en/blob/master/unsafe.md#...

> In both unsafe functions and unsafe blocks, Rust will let you do three things that you normally can not do. Just three. Here they are:

> Access or update a static mutable variable.
Dereference a raw pointer.
Call unsafe functions. This is the most powerful ability.
That’s it. It’s important that unsafe does not, for example, ‘turn off the borrow checker’. Adding unsafe to some random Rust code doesn’t change its semantics, it won’t start accepting anything. But it will let you write things that do break some of the rules.
This misses the point that the op is making: $100/minus cost prohibitive for anybody looking to use the API casually or explore deeper integrations for it.

You might be able to get a solo developer to pay $5 - $20 USD per month to trial something, but few will be willing to drop $1.2k/year for marginal gains.
It's still not too late to bring the blood-money profiteering war criminals Kissinger and Cheney before The Hague. While the US isn't a signatory to the ICC, a cargo van and a private jet would solve that.

They should die in custody and disgrace while Snowden and Assange should be free.
For your amusement:
https://twitter.com/WeirdMedieval
https://twitter.com/WeirdMedieval/status/1653758543244279808