skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google itself, according to the opinions of its own creators (and vinod khosla who was urging them to sell it), if their own actions are anything to judge them by:

> In 1999, Larry Page and Sergey Brin were looking to sell Google to search engine Excite for about $750,000. But Excite's CEO George Bell passed on the offer

And you can add the CEO of excite to that list too I suppose. So pretty much a short list of the who's who of the internet in 1999 didn't think Google was worth even a million dollars.

I would enjoy finding a collection of backstage tales like this that collectively serve to undermine the broad and unsubstantiated belief - our current generation's disguised version of the great man theory - that Superior Visionaries always know just how dominant their ideas will be (and who deserve to be proportionately rewarded for their vision and boldness and risk-taking blah blah blah) to the humble desk jockeys and implementers who end up working for them.
It's also worth mentioning the Ian knot [0]. It's just a way of tying the standard square knot, however in the convention established by Clifford Ashley [1] a knot consists not only of the topological configuration, but also the method of tying.

In fact, tying a knot correctly demands not only creating the topologically correct configuration, but that it is correctly "worked" into the correct snugged up form. Many knots have different "capsized" variants that are completely different in function. Ashley says "This is a matter of no less importance than correct tying and often presents a more difficult problem, requiring both patience and practice".

The point is: a "mathematical knot" has almost nothing to do with a knot in the real world. It is exactly the information the mathematical model discards -- the actual configuration of the knot in 3D space, where the friction (the "nip") is, etc. -- that is most important in a knot. And no, knot theory isn't needed to identify the problem of mistying a reef knot as a granny knot. That's the #1 rookie mistake, closely followed by using a reef knot as a bend.

[0]: https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ianknot.htm

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ashley_Book_of_Knots
It was an economic, political, and a moral concern. Free Soilers wanted the land for their own purposes. Expansion of slave states would mean expansion of a Senate group that would be in favor of reducing taxes and tariffs, an issue that almost caused a civil war to happen 40 years prior.
Technical Details of CVE-2023-30990 – Unauthenticated RCE in IBM I DDM Service
> and someone finally bothered to look at the proof and it was a blank page.

I think I agree more than not with your worldview, but it seems like in this case this was the first time the person tried to improperly use the system... and he was caught and is now being sentenced. So I would say this is an example of the system "working".

I'm sure there are civil rights abuses that happen much more frequently, which we don't here about, but this specific incident seems like something that should be cheered.
I read in an art history book that cave paintings were used as a form of magic/manifestation and the farther down into the cave the more powerful it became.
That book, unfortunately, is too "basic" these days. There is plenty of conflicting information regarding that but Google is said to have the most complicated coding problems, including dynamic programming.

The really stupid thing about a lot of such problems is that implicitly they require pattern recognition and probably even memorization. For example, solving the problem of finding a duplicate number in an array/list with O(n) time and O(1) space complexity is pretty hard, in my opinion. Even knowing the required data structures doesn't help a lot unless you know the trick with fast and slow pointers. To be fair, this particular pattern is well-known and should be in your algorithmic toolbox if you're aiming for FAANG, but the whole situation is a bit strange.
SOC2 is also waaaay less expensive on the development side if you do just a little upfront development in dev tooling: logging, backups, encryption in transit and at rest, tagging data with sensitivity levels, IAM policies, and CI. I've seen a few founders who invested a few weekends pre-funding into this sort of tooling get to SOC2 and have almost no development costs (still have to document those processes though).
Dust3D: 3D modeling software to create low poly 3D models
>I have always formulated this for myself as follows: Any sufficiently strategic self-interest is indistinguishable from altruism.

This "sufficiently strategic self-interest" is the same kind of non-existing unicorn as the "sufficiently smart compiler".

>Empathy is just evolution's way of encoding millions of years of this observation into our emotional response system.

Evolution (if we abstract it as a thing with intentions) is satisfied with the survival of the species. If the individual perishes, it's fine as long as they either protected their offspring or helped the others in their species survive, there will be more of them (because this actions help the species survive more and make more copies of itself, so species with members who will sacrifices themselves for the species get an advantage). Individual ants and bees for example will sacrifice themselves for the collective.

So, empathy that drives altruistic acts is not the same as "strategic self-interest". If we are to see it in a reductionary way, let's do it properly: usually it's the interest of the species (or the offspring) driving it.
It's true that the text isn't great out of the box on the current batch of 1080p versions. Personally, I just stick the zoom level to 110% / 120% and then find it fine to use though.
AI would probably do it less than humans. If AI also does it, then Jareds probably really are better the employees.

(Or the AI was used incompetently. That's always an option. Was AI the reason why US universities discriminated illegally against non-blacks and non-hispanics?
I really doubt it.)
Why should you spend your time writing it in the first place?
418 gives no details as to the size of the teapot.
There are actually a bunch of really compelling strategic level national security style reasons to come to the same conclusion, it’s not purely just a consumer rights issue.
>2. reeks of anglo-centrism.

Explain this, please. What about it is Anglo-centric?
Pretty much any low-level library in userspace as well, though there's a (very slow) move towards more security-focused languages/variants in those areas (probably also true of kernel space). Though C++ creeps in as well (we see a lot of "C with templates" coding).
Not true at all.

https://developer.apple.com/visionos/
I don't think this designed to sell in numbers, it exists as a placeholder for them, in case m$ or Pico start drawing too much attention, the old 'what we have is better, you just can't have it yet' routine. I will be interested to see what they spend on content and how they approach webXR, I'm not sure a market for walled garden devices in 2024 will be there, hopefully not :)
Maybe whatever RedHat is working on. Last I read there are only 2 people paid to work full time on GTK. I'm not sure if they are looking though.
Amateurs obsess over tools, pros over mastery
Show HN: F-Droid Insights – Explore F-Droid apps with external data
Show HN: Landingsite.ai – AI-driven, mobile-friendly website builder and editor
Hey HN, I’m Todd. I previously founded Prerender.io where I scaled it to $2.5M ARR, serving billions of web pages to Google every month, before a successful exit.

I’ve been working on a new side project for a while. I wanted to take a different approach to building websites with AI.

Existing AI website builders either give the AI too much freedom, which ends up generating a poorly designed website or they don’t give the AI enough freedom and become too rigid. I wanted a way to create more visually appealing websites using AI to select the best images from Getty images, write the best copy, and still give people the freedom to iterate and edit on the site using AI as well.

I’d love for you to give it a try and give any feedback. My goal is to help anyone create a website for their business by just asking AI to make changes so they don’t have to know how to write copy, make an appealing design, or make more technical changes.
I've been building startups successfully for a decade, but they are US based. So you got me there.

There are many self proclaimed dropshipping millionaires on the the internet selling courses while living the good life in Bali, overleveraged to the gills, living off of credit card debt, desperately hoping the courses they sell as a grift somehow can be ponzied to the next fool before the whole thing collapses. So that's always my assumption when people discuss something in business that seems too good to be true. But maybe you are correct. Perhaps my US all or nothing priors have closed my mind.

What kind of business do you run that can be done without too much risk, how does it make money, and what country do you operate out of? I am genuinely curious and I would like to be prove my priors wrong, if possible. They're not particularly pleasant priors, as you might imagine.
My definition of "good" in this context is being able to solve a Leetcoed medium in 25-30 minutes on average.
I don’t understand why other instances wouldn’t cache the older content and periodically look for updates
What seems to be missing are the hardware optimized and accelerated short and big memcpy/memset.

On x86_64, on modern micro-archs, "rep stos[bwdq]" and "rep movs[bwdq]". I bet that, in modern binaries, memcpy/memset call sites are actually place holders for such instructions (before the memory segment goes back to Read/Executable), registers are rdi,rsi,rdx (rcx would be pushed on the stack or the code generated to account for just rcx availability on the call site).

Also, expect x86_64 -> risc-v port bugs because to:
byte->byte
word->halfword
doubleword->word
quadword->doubleword
Are there any French banks with a presence in the Tunisian market that would offer a smoother integration for any fintech start-up?
What? LLMs have been improving for years and years as we’ve been researching and iterating on them. “Obviously they’ll improve” does not require “solving the hallucination problem”. Humans hallucinate too, and we’re deemed good enough.
> The Moto 360 was out before the Apple watch.

And it was seen as a toy for geeks and software developers who think t-shirts are an acceptable office attire despite being the most watch-like of the smartwatches.

I would never have gone to the office wearing a moto360. People would have given me funny looks all day. Meanwhile you can wear an Apple Watch with your suit and everyone finds that acceptable.
> Fredick Douglass owned and published a newspaper that was not censored

He was the owner and publisher, and his viewpoint, while not exactly establishment, was well within the Overton Window where it was published.

> when you look at abolitionist articles or early drafts from the Seneca Falls Convention, you are not likely to find a bunch of scribble marks or other equivalents to the [deleted] tag that litters the internet today.

Because their weren't user content platforms with the owner exercising post-publication editing, for technological reasons. The ideas that were censored were just never published (sometimes because those holding them were murdered for expressing them), not published and then edited partially after the fact.
>The kind people seem to be the losers in recent history.

You mean like back when it was kind people and not warlords, and rich scum, and Genghis Khan being the winers?
yea well i pay people in money not crypto
I have been saying it for years, but it remains true of Oculus' modern products, and it remains true of the VP. In ten years it may be different, but today is not ten years from now.
Diagnosis is usually the easiest part of treating such conditions. The problems are more in lack of medical supplies, facilities, and personnel to administer treatment.
> Harfbuzz is used in Firefox, Chrome and Safari for example

Not to dispute harfbuzz's significance -- it's a crucial component of much of the software we use every day -- but are you sure about Safari? I thought it relied on Apple's Core Text framework to handle font shaping.
My experience with fp4 has been pleasant. No problems. The only mild annoyance was the finger print unlock mechanism, which feels less user-friendly than my previous phones. But you get used to it.
This epithet is a common coinage due to its rhyming structure. You hear it on the streets. However, from Musk, one can only assume its antagonistic baiting of Mark for the colosseum cage fight. It likely does not represent new information about Mark's personal marital life.
Same. That’s about the price of an entire single AZ by AWS’s own numbers.
Having replied to a text, checked my emails and responded to people on HN all from my first-gen Oculus Quest, I'm not really sure what you're talking about here. Do you not find a web browser sufficient for those tasks? Is there something inherent to the Quest ecosystem that should be stopping me here?
I joined a blockchain startup late 2021, moments before the crypto winter broke out.

I left 15 months later, but they're still going, just did an alpha release.

Because of my work being present on GitHub, I've been contacted by recruiters over email for similar positions several times this year.

I went to two conferences on blockchain and zero-knowledge. Everyone at these conferences seem like serious people working for funded companies, and everyone seems to be okay with there being no customers. It's a little surreal.

It seems that some of the early profit makers in the space are still sinking money into the hope of a future "after the crypto winter" bubble. There is a lot of zero-knowledge hype. Some of the startups that claim to use zero-knowledge cryptography simply aren't.
It’s correct in the same way Joe Rogan talking about anything other than MMA or comedy feels correct to some people.

It’s great at feeling like you’ve said something clever but also makes it clear you haven’t actually thought about the topic for more than five minutes and you just said the first thing that came to mind and missed a bunch of important points in the process.
The problem is that we'll have to consent to allowing the sale of our data just to use a service. From what I've seen a statement to that effect is already in the click through license fine print.
I thought it is the explanation of how to tie shoes without wasting time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPIgR89jv3Q
> https://github.com/turboderp/exllama

Is exllama an alternative to llama.cpp?
I mean, I did say developed world, but the link you're giving me is about China. I guess it's up to debate whether you consider that a developed country, but the IMF for example doesn't.

Being more concrete, test in Europe scores are generally not a factor in university admissions* or school funding.

I love being told I'm blatantly wrong about the world by confident Americans on the internet but, like, I did go through three of the systems in Europe for a total of 18 years and not once did the topic of test scores even come up.

*: How could they be? How do you use Swiss Matura grades to apply to an Italian university?
I live in Québec. We never had mass tracking - this was FUD about the app, which did NOT share data... and that level of privacy protection is also why it was difficult to prove its positive impact.

What we did have was public health which sometimes managed to call people after a positive result - to warn their contacts, so they don't infect others in turn. This is absolutely standard for public health for many illnesses, and helps reduce contagion.

Neither of those is mass tracking. Public health doesn't report you if you went to see prostitutes or used illegal drugs; their job is to stop chains of transmission, and contact the people you were around. That's true for TB as mentioned, as well as smallpox, Ebola, etc

Anyways, since you're in Québec you might be interested in this figure, selecting the 0-49 demographic. Public health isn't telling us about this, or simple methods to reduce risk. Hell, HEPA filters are still near impossible to install in schools.

https://statistique.quebec.ca/fr/document/surmortalite-hebdo...
So far it has been challenging to find time and energy to explore ideas and do costumer development after 10 hours at work and spending a couple of hours with family.
Given limited resources exponential growth will always hit saturation. It is time we structure out economic systems in a way that aknowledge this reality.
Yeah, I understand both sides of the Coin. I appreciate your response, and it deepens my concern is that there will be an entirely new DLC-ish content model whereby you have one price for an ios app - and then a different price for the "Apple Headset AR *EXPERIENCE*" version of all the apps - and certain features will be lock-outs to non AR-paying-premium customers...

Its just FN financially-dystopian

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@scarface_74 ;

"*May you please ELI5 expand on your comment - as I am OOTL and would like to understand what you mean, precisely. (because I want to learn, kthxbai)*"

/as-i-am-posting-too-fast....
I think US intelligence should have access to any data that is already out there for purchase. If you have an issue with that, then regulate the sale of data.

Otherwise, this is all just PR, due to agreements such as Five Eyes where for example British intelligence buys American data and shares with CIA, etc.
> future employees most likely won't be pure idealists who will take a lower pay out of the satisfaction that their work helped others

If you rewrite that to "a much smaller percentage of prospective future employees won't be pure idealists..." then I would agree. But it's about the pool being smaller, and in fact small enough that you risk not being able to find anybody, but the fact that 95% of people are not going to be adequately motivated by helping underserved people does not mean that the remaining 5% won't be.

Existence proof: I am working for substantially less salary than I could get elsewhere. I can prove it, I've been offered the higher salary at a FAANG and turned it down twice. It's financially irrational. I don't think it's wrong for people to work for directly ad-funded Big Tech. Or even for me. I'm not ecstatically happy in my current position. If I were younger I might make a different choice.

But I care enough about working for a mission-driven organization that I basically have no intention of leaving as long as the organization doesn't lose my trust about being mission driven. (There's often a gap between stated positions and reality, and I try to watch closely to monitor how big that gap is.) And I think I'm far from being the only one in this position.

I'm also aware that it's a privilege to even have the option. I grew up poor. Now I have a spouse and kids and live in an insanely high CoL area that we mostly don't get much from, but our past work was enough to make us financially comfortable. (Actually, I suspect it probably has more to do with the extremely unfair macroeconomic situation that has inflated our real estate and other investments, but whatever.) When I go to feed the worms, I won't be leaving my kids with as much financial security as I could have, but I hope to leave them with better respect for my values than I would have otherwise.

That said, "mission-driven" doesn't actually mean that much. Any mission is going to have unintended consequences, and it's pretty dispiriting what people are actually using my mission-driven labor for. There's no easy way to sort companies into "good" vs "bad". It's often not even a meaningful distinction at a whole-company level. But there are still large differences if you pay attention.
yeah you can't plan for a once a century pandemic.

I think where SF went wrong though was over emphasis of commercial in a single district. They should have known better, but likely didn't want to touch existing residential neighbourhoods at all, so here we are.
I had a blast showing my Rift CV1 to friends, but only one person I showed it off to got a VR headset, and both mine and his seem to be gathering dust at the moment.

It seems to me that Apple is very worried about their device getting slotted into the “fun expensive limited use toy” niche.
I don't get why people have zeroed in on the Settings app. Outside of some very specific sections, it's fine.

Meanwhile, the Home app can't be closed when viewing an accessory because they made it a modal, the Music app sometimes can't be searched because the search field looses focus on every keypress, and the AppStore may crash outright.
> Assuming Framework's thesis bears out, that their customers will actually upgrade their laptops piece by piece when given the opportunity to do so, rather than buy a whole new laptop, then it's a matter of increasing their market share, especially through corporate IT contracts.

You can't upgrade a framework laptop 'by piece', unless you mean swapping in more ram or a bigger/faster ssd. Not really any different from other mainstream laptop vendors in that regard. The CPU is soldered, so you can't upgrade within the CPU platform generation, there's no drop in replacement options for the screen except the IPS panel they ship with (so no high dpi options or OLED/microled, no high refresh rate option, etc), and only proprietary recessed USB-C dongles for changing ports. It's a joke product.

> When I used Apple laptops for software development, I only got around three years out of them before they felt uncomfortably sluggish

Sounds like your usecase calls for a desktop system then, I know plenty of people still using 2013-2015 retina macbook pros for daily development work and they do just fine. There wasn't much performance improvement after those years until the apple silicon transition, you could get 6 and 8 core coffee lake CPUs on the last year of the intel macbook pros but they were essentially unusable for laptop usecases since they had to aggressively thermal throttle and nuked battery life as a result (something that is an even worse problem now with Intel and AMD both juicing core count and clock speeds to chase benchmark wins rather than improving perf per watt and overall system usability).
The shading’s effect on lettuce and potato from elevated agrivoltaic system
Tweet he was replying to: https://twitter.com/fentasyl/status/1678095904220360704

Content of tweet:

Elon: Protects free speech

Zuck: Protects brand speech
Iirc there's a software to do that if you have root, it's called Xposed/Xprivacy

Dunno if it's still maintained though
>The results of the study indicate that potatoes show significant potential for
successful cultivation under PV modules. The reduced solar intensity caused by
shading does not severely hinder potato growth, suggesting that solar panel
installation on farmland can coexist with potato cultivation. The findings reveal that
potatoes can adapt to lower levels of solar radiation, making them suitable for
cultivation in shaded areas.
Well. That's crazy.

Auto industry is all based in the opponent-colors theory, imagine convincing thousands of people that the problems and fines involving color quality control were wrong all along.
Great article, thank you so much for taking the time to write all your explorations down. With regards to the mentioned patent(US4449184A) It turns out I am terrible at reading patents, any explanations what it is for?

My best guess is it for placing memory or state between the registers and the processing units. Or perhaps some subtlety of this as registers are already memory or state. I could not figure it out.

Modern patents are especially prone to this. They try to claim as much as possible while avoiding publishing any trade secrets. The result tends toward a unreadable mess.