skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s actually the other way around: it’s surprising software investing works so well compared to biotech.

While biotech companies carry a lot of all-or-nothing R&D risk, their “product market fit” is all but guaranteed. Their addressable market size is well known based on patient numbers and how much they can charge nationalized healthcare agencies and insurance companies based on quality of life improvements is well understood. Once they have premarketing approval, they’re all but guaranteed an exit to one of the pharmaceutical giants. The most promising ones get acquired in phase II before efficacy is even 100% demonstrated.

Look no further than IPOs: on HN we lament all the unprofitable public tech companies but the average biotech IPOs pre-revenue! Before it’s even legal for them to sell a product! That’s increasingly been the case since the 80s due to the exhaustion of small molecules and other low hanging fruit.

In practice, scientific due diligence is harder to fake than aspirational user growth numbers which are far easier to game (case in point: Reddits ongoing bullshit). The FDA isn't going to let anyone put a dozen people at risk of death in phase I trials without a level of due diligence that puts all VCs to shame.
AMD openSIL open source firmware proof of concept
>if I were to run a web forum then I must provide an API or data dump to download the posts created by the users

It's implicitly provided by hosting the forum, blog, etc. at a publicly accessible URL. HTTP is an API, HTML is a data interchange format. There's this weird idea (which I've seen parroted both in this article, and in u/spez's discourse on the topic) that "scraping" is somehow evil and bad, when it's actually an intentional feature of the web. Scraping is quite literally how Google built its search empire. It seems to me, now that the major players are sufficiently centralized and entrenched, they want to turn scraping into a boogeyman so nobody can follow in their wake.

The advantage of providing a "real" API is to (a) limit scope narrower than an account/session, and (b) eliminate the overhead implicit in laying out the content for human eyeballs; reducing processing costs for both the server and client.

I find it somewhat hypocritical for Reddit et al. to provide the former for free, and charge for the latter, when the latter is explicitly designed to optimize their costs.
The human body is an insanely complex system, hence the resulting complex system to discern fraud and waste. Really only a doctor or very educated person can evaluate another doctor’s determination.
Those sound like excuses. FYI, a lot of the alternatives are things like pumped hydro which isn't that inefficient. Many situations just need heat at the end, and therefore don't need pure electricity.

I am merely pointing out that the battery part seems like an unnecessary component.
Even for individuals, the eviction process sucks and is expensive. As a landlord, you really only do an eviction as a last resort.
Yes, MAC OS dock came from NeXT, but by default NeXT did not center it on the bottom, the article said middle-aligned.

The only one I remembered doing that did that by default is CDE, not NeXT. Someone else brought up RiscOS.

By your logic, I could say Xerox Alto was the first if a launcher could be added and centered at the bottom manually :)
Additionally, we assume the attacker can collect measurements from locations of interest directly from the
victim when located at specific locations/areas of interest
(without revealing the attack) or deploy similar devices
and connections as the victim at these locations for data
collection

In the Preparation phase, the adversary repeatedly
sends multiple (silent) SMS, with Delivery Reports enabled, to the victim while observing their respective locations.

This is a cool paper, but hard to actually implement it
I was hoping this would be an actual confusion about "million million" billion vs "thousand million" - https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-61... - I got very confused with my grandfather about this once.
I'll piggyback here for a related question: I need to build some simple UI on top of a few Snowflake tables, to support a small group of users and their quality assurance tasks. Essentially, they verify important metadata and need to fix it in the Snowflake tables when it is incorrect.

Ideally, I can build that with Python. I was thinking of DRF and React (since things like Retool are out of the question) but I'm open to any framework/stack. What is the most simple way to accomplish and maintain this?
Same for me on NextDNS
This article about TripAdvisor immediately comes to mind.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/434gqw/i-made-my-shed-the-to...
That is exactly where LLMs are useful. (People thinking of them as "AI", meaning AGI is just so wrong. Writing legal briefs??) Using them to ex post facto adjust transcripts in order to make them available and searchable is great.
I think things like time spent looking at an ad, time spent in comments, time spent replying. Capturing all entered data even if its deleted prior to send, etc.....

Everything you can do on the web I guess.
We got around this at my company by just pooling all of the LISTEN/NOTIFY streams into a single database connection in software, here's a sample implementation:

function software_listen(channel, callback):

if not channel_listened(channel):

sql("LISTEN " + channel)

listeners[channel].append(callback)

function on_message(channel, data):

for listener in listeners[channel]

listener(channel, data)

function unlisten(channel, listener):

listeners[channel].remove(listener)

if len(listeners[channel]) == 0:

sql("UNLISTEN " + channel)

Here's the actual go implementation we use:

https://gist.github.com/ColinChartier/59633c1006407478168b52...
The default read-committed is good enough for most use cases, explained in https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/transaction-iso.html (search "it is just right for simpler cases"). If somehow you've designed a schema that causes race conditions in the default mode, you're probably better off changing your design than you are switching modes.

Serializable mode uses some kind of optimistic concurrency, where your transaction might get halfway through then fail because of a conflict with another one, which also fails. Then you have to do retry + random backoff on the client side. Spanner does something similar. Problem with Postgres serializable mode is it's slow and won't scale well if many readers/writers are touching the same data.

I get it if this answer isn't satisfying. Partial ACID is worrisome, and full ACID is expensive.
And that solves fake reviews... how?
The benchmarks only include throughput, not latency (P50, P95, P99), which are quite important.
I don't know if the finance sector would consider this a big problem, but if it turned out to be a big problem, wouldn't they just be able to bypass it by opening up specific offices in, say, NJ or CT? A ton of firms are already located in CT.
There are three major problems with this argument.

First, Tesla's system is primarily engaged on easy roads, and will automatically disengage in tricky situations. This means their safety figures are heavily skewed by the implicit exclusion of many accident-prone locations.

Second, comparing per-mile numbers across wildly different modes of transportation is impossible. Cars often drive literally an order of magnitude faster than a bicycle in a low-risk environment: it's called a "highway". Meanwhile, bicycles spend all their time in high-risk environments.

Third, it completely ignores the cause. A "bicycle fatality" is almost always actually a car killing the cyclist. Bicycles don't do the killing. Meanwhile, an "FSD fatality" is usually someone who actively got killed by a car with FSD engaged.

Once your are comparing apples to apples, Tesla suddenly looks a lot worse. And even if it were as safe as they claim it is, they should not automatically be allowed on the road. A lot of accidents are caused by poor or distracted driving. That's already illegal, and anyone caught doing so would be prosecuted for it. If Tesla acted exactly the same on the road, it should be prosecuted too. Right now they are shifting all the responsibility onto the driver who is supposed to "supervise", but considering how their product is marketed I do not believe they should get away with that loophole.
Well this is pretty clear to me, it's definitely running only iOS apps natively, I don't see why they would open the app store for it as it's a huge goldmine for them.

Apple still thinks people can use an iPad for all their work though my experience at work is very different (and I managed a large fleet of mobiles)
How we built a vector search engine in 200 lines of Rust
Lots of places have a mandatory tip screen, I have literally never seen one that didn't have an "enter your own percent" button that allowed you to enter zero (if not a skip button)

Perhaps many people aren't recognizing that that's a 'no thanks' button that makes tipping non-mandatory?
Actually Python done one thing right. The following syntax is better when coding with IDE,

from os inport listdir

After you typed `from os`, IDE could suggest signature names based on the module you are importing.
afaik (and based on a few minutes of googling) there is no such EU wide regulation or directive.
My experience is that it is a good source for leads on things to do but not for convincing facts. And an LLM is good for that too. I still end up needing both.

An example of something is someone posting that their AKG headphones will only charge on the USB-C plug if the other end is USB-A. I couldn't get mine to charge, and that was the answer. That answer existed only on Reddit, until recently when someone had that same problem on another forum.
The level of fraud going on in life sciences seems absolutely astounding. I used to think that fraudulent research was mainly “paper mill” stuff.

But in the last couple years there are so many cases of outright data falsification from famous scientists’ labs and in Science/Nature/Cell publications.

It seems even worse than the social science replication crisis, and with worse consequences.
yeah this really has been a mask-off moment for spez.
Port Revel
For me this was the final nail in the coffin for the "Elon's just playing 4D chess we don't understand" argument and really just shows that he's a dude that thinks he can do whatever he wants with no consequences, because so far there haven't really been any.

If there were a logic to it, I'd guess that it's more important he make the interest payments on the billions of dollars in loans he took out for the purchase than it is to not get sued for non-payment of a lease.
It's this sort of thing that makes me bullish on OpenAI, oddly enough. I keep hearing rumours that it's possible to watermark LLM output with a sort of unique key such that the resulting text still sounds just as fluent, but it can be detected with 100% accuracy given more than a few words and the key. I also hear that OpenAI have mastered this technology.

If that's true then it leads to the possibility of converting first mover advantage to absolute market dominance:

1. Spend lots of money to give a high quality LLM away for free (ChatGPT). Rapidly achieve market dominance by doing so.

2. Watermark its output without making a detector publicly available.

3. Users flood the internet with watermarked text.

4. Now you can generate fresh training data without circular corruption because almost all the LLM output on the internet is yours.

5. Your competitors incorporate LLM output into their training inputs because they can't detect it. Their quality suffers in ways yours don't.

6. Users notice the quality gap and continue to use your model. Competitors can't close it because they have no way to do so.

7. Profit!

This sort of loop happened with Google where using the click stream to do ranking yielded a virtuous cycle that competitors struggled to beat, and then sites using robots.txt to ban non-Googlebots made it worse. If this equivalent actually happens then OpenAI can end up having an absolute monopoly on LLM technology.
Most modern games could be ported to the PS3 and Xbox 360, keeping gameplay the same but lowering graphical fidelity. The same cannot be said of porting N64 games to the NES. I think a better measure of retro-ness would include the degree to which gameplay experience is influenced by the game's age.
They do try: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36324118

But keep in mind that EU legislature (and "government", such as it is) is as dysfunctional as the US one, just in different ways, don't expect much enlightened lawmaking there either.
They were, in a much less constrained way, until companies running platforms started suing people for scraping. And investing heavily in making it difficult technically. The difference is advertising. The vast majority of people do not want to be advertised to, given the choice, nor do they want to have their contract with a platform downgraded (by having to use the UI designed by the company). This situation is some of the users taking a stand about it.
Fed holds interest rates steady, forecasts two more rate hikes this year
Here’s an approach to return just JavaScript:

https://github.com/williamcotton/transynthetical-engine

The key is the addition of few-shot exemplars.
It's not unheard of for businesses to pay up when the punitive action is real and on their doorstep (see BoA branch being foreclosed on for failing to pay a legal settlement paying up on the day of: https://business.time.com/2011/06/06/homeowner-forecloses-on...)
Single core concurrency doesn't have to deal with hardware memory synchronization.
i mean only at the most superficial level. she has a ton of other validators that arent superceded (eg SQL is validated by branching the database - we discussed on our pod https://www.latent.space/p/guaranteed-quality-and-structure)
Well that's the thing isn't it... Reddit can just reopen all these subs if it wants, and replace mods as it wants... It owns the platform.

Who owns the platform controls the message.

Sometimes metaphors help me... This is like drivers who drive Google buses going on strike over what Google is doing (hypothetically). Now some of the staff support them (drivers spoke to their passengers).
But.. Google own the busses, and the regular workers aren't striking, they are just saying, well look we can't come into work cause there's no bus...
But Google own the buses, and the workers aren't striking...

I guess what I'm saying is unless the user's go away, not much is gonna happen.

It's already too late tho, writing is on the wall, you're either making content for Reddit or you're going to go somewhere else
FsTimer, free, open source software for race timing
For a subject like pesticides that is both emotionally fraught, and the subject of multi-billion dollar lawsuits, I'm genuinely not sure you can find accurate information anywhere. People are careful to say things like "not supported by credible science", because the industry has paid for some of the research.
Because their employees want to live in Boulder?
by itself, Citus is just sharding to multiple databases. Then each of this database can be protected like any database with a standby
I have had the same experience you describe with Webpack, and I've never felt anything similar with Vite.

> Ah, yeah, if you want to argue that there is no "new generation" at all yet in frontend tooling, then I can agree with that.

But I don't want to do that. For me, the "new generation" of frontend tooling is characterized by great UX and speed, which puts Vite and esbuild in the same new generation. :)
Wait but wasn’t Blizzard known at the time for always doing MacOS releases?

I was raised with Macs and game availability scarcity.
Seems in addition to unpaid rent, they also haven't been paying to have the office cleaned.

https://www.denverpost.com/2023/05/22/twitter-boulder-colora...

I wonder if this office was still occupied.
Number 3 just seems like a fancy way of saying that you're getting older. Not that I disagree; I'm also getting older.
It gets higher. Southern California Edison's (Los Angeles and surrounding counties) top rate is 74c https://www.sce.com/sites/default/files/inline-images/TOU_Ra...

Granted, they have other TOU rates that price the same time span slightly cheaper.
Recovering secret keys from devices using video footage of their power LED
This does not execute code!
Excellent suggestion! I've typically done this in the past; however, targeting Kubernetes deployments, having a single point of ingress has been a major factor of keeping costs down. But no doubt, multi-ingress would speed things up. There's also a whole Media subsection of the app that uses an internal S3 instance, which would obviously be more efficiently served from its own ingress/egress.

If you have some ideas for how I could handle automatically rolling out updated HTML/JS to such a CDN from the K8s cluster, I'd definitely be interested. PRs/code would be best, but even just walking me through any good solutions you know would be immense :)
There is an enormous gulf between a platform with abusive users and a platform where the operator uses it to engage in extortion.
It sounds like Comcast would not be having this problem if they were being honest - which is exactly what the FCC is trying to do.
Why should anyone care about that?

If you want to sell something and keep it all to yourself, then go buy something. Qt will happily sell you a quite nice resellable component. If you want to reshare that which you got for free yourself, great, no problem there either.

Say what exactly is the problem that isn't either of those two situations out loud.
Core was 5.2% (from report I heard). But it is a dead man walking; the ground has fallen out from underneath it. The two main drivers were post-pandemic-supply-chain-shock oscillations, and corporate monopolistic price-profit increases. The supply chain has largely normalized, shipping rates are collapsing, we're decoupling from China, etc.. And corp pricing power has reached it's limit as consumers start saying "nope, not buying it" and/or downshifting purchases.
I stipulate that a 30 day notice for a major change from something that has been available for 17 years is pretty egregious. However, I'm still of the mind that when you build a company/product that 100% depends on a 3rd party existing or allowing one to play in their playground, these are the exact situations that can arise. You have to know that at some point, if the dependency is no longer available, neither is your product regardless of the reason for the lack of availability. That's just how it goes. Yes, it sucks to have the product of your blood, sweat, tears get invalidated, but that is where you chose to put that effort while knowing the caveats
One thing that’s super frustrating about this is that developing VR/AR apps right now kind of sucks. You do what you can to test functionality without the headset on because taking it off and on 200 times a day is awful.

This product is in the position to make that all super streamlined, but it seems that it won’t be.

To be fair, my experience is in games and non-gaming apps might not be as bad.

Also, I don’t personally own a Mac. I have a PC, and while I might be willing to plop down the money for the Vision Pro if it worked completely standalone but I absolutely won’t get it and a Mac.
> All of your labor should be free also.

Yes, it is, and that's ultimately the contention here. Reddit has taken many millions of man hours of free labor. Now it wants to charge for the fruits of that free labor.

Legally, they are within their rights to do so. Socially, however, it's thought to be uncouth to exploit workers like that.
He also indicated that it's not even $3, people who pay for Apollo Premium/Ultra tend to use the app more, and their usage would be in the $5-$10 range. So basically he'd be losing a bunch of users who brought the average down, refunding those in the middle, and his entire business would be catering to the most expensive users. $15 would be more of a breakeven, and at that point, what the point of running a tiny app for free?
Nah, HFTs have moved on a while back.

Now you've a 18 month notice period. You're paid salary, bonus etc.
"Why did Microsoft strive for [market penetration] turns out: They want to [utilize market penetration]"

What a novel idea.
Is it just me or do most python GUI options have ugly UI and seem to lack polish?
Last week I got an email from them about they had only 6000 H100 left. Got one today about how they have 4000. Tracks
Any books to read or papers to suggest on this?
"But mice did not prefer the social room if given enough ketamine to make them unconscious and therefore unaware of their companions."

ah yes
Then just enter your full address, I don't care. Whatever they are already using to calculate your bills.
I don't know about Walmart cashiers, but non-competes are concerningly common for entry-level positions like sandwich chefs or delivery drivers:

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/15/upshot/when-the-guy-makin...
It would seem not, as the official documentation mentions the arguments may be hallucinated or be a malformed JSON.

(except if the meaning is the JSON syntax is valid but may not conform to the schema, but they're unclear on that).
You are mistaken in seeing iOS frameworks as a limitation. It is an advantage! It is the natural fit for the eye tracking and hand gestures because those apps will work flawlessly with no change.
You are also mistaken in thinking Mac OS can't work with Vision Pro, because it can. Apple has put a trojan horse in Vision Pro by giving us any number of screens we want to use with our Macs. In the future Apple will bundle Mac OS and iOS in Vision Pro. It is the ultimate evolution of computing. This is my prediction. Vision Pro will replace both the iPhone/iPad and Mac. All of it can coexist perfectly in Vision Pro.

This is what you should do. Copy Apple. Make your headset work with Android. Allow Linux and Windows to also be able to work through the headset with existing computers, by providing virtual screens. In the future you can offer a version of your headset with either Linux or Windows, but Android must definitely be in the first version of your headset. This is the only chance you have.
Do you mean hacker news as "this site"? HN seems to be server side rendered, so it should display well without Javascript.
Egregious in the sense that it was so over the top obvious there was no other outcome but to award the win vs some minor squabble between two parties. Not that it was so egregious mountains of cash were expected.
Reddit would be better with better moderation. Would be great if there was a clever way (machine learning?) to identify and remove all low effort posts and reposts. Would also be better if there was a clever way to detect and ban karma whores and users who just post crap to build karma and sell the account.

All the big subs are garbage these days
> I often get the feeling that in these circumstances people derive first principles from specific desired outcomes.

That's a pretty normal way derive principles, isn't it? You start with an observation, and then you recursively ask "why?" It's possible that your answers are wrong, or even that your observation itself is flawed, but the concept of deriving principles from outcomes isn't really flawed. Where else are they going to come from? Should people just pick principles at random and hope they're not terrible?
Why would Reddit block CommonCrawl's access to future data?
I can't commit to a timeline, but can say the work is progressing nicely. I plan to blog more about it as we have details to share.

The GraalVM commercial license change seems like a positive change to me. But, I'm not a lawyer and I'm not speaking on behalf of Shopify. To me, it looks to be in keeping with how the Oracle JVM is licensed and I think that simplifies a lot. The commercial version has some really nice improvements for the native binary and that's been mostly closed off to Rubyists.