skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq%E2%80%93Saudi_Arabia_rela....

>The Saudi leadership opposed the U.S. plan to invade Iraq in 2003 and did not join the Coalition. Their fears and warnings that Iraq would fracture along sectarian and political lines proved accurate.

>What was worse for Saudi Arabia was the strengthening of the Shi'ites in Iraq, seen as Iran's proxy. This drew the Iranian threat much larger for the Kingdom. Iraq, as a result of being now ruled by Shi'ites, have chosen Iran over Saudi Arabia as their closer ally.
You paint a defeatist picture of the situation, which should be obvious not to be helpful in any way.

You list many categories of small groups of people opposed to one encompassing the absolute majority of all. How is the former more powerful by necessity?

The key is people realizing they are part of a large group with a common cause. And powerful if they organize as such. Your comment appears designed to prevent that.
I understand what you mean but it's just the world we live in. These surveillance capitalism and attention economy corporations are actively hostile to us and there's no proper legal solution in sight. Therefore we must actively take measures to defend ourselves against their exploitation. Software like uBlock Origin is digital self-defense.
Nothing. What's wrong is choosing through arrogance not to rise above amateurhood.
Yes because “analysts” have been spot on when it came to Apple ever since in the 80s.
Appear to be available here:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJsVF3gZDcuTxcdH5FmQR...
Available here:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJsVF3gZDcuTxcdH5FmQR...
US, as per federal sentencing guidelines[1]:

* baseline offense level of 9 [2]

* -2 adjustment for acceptance of responsibility[3]

* That gets you an offense level of 7, which puts him in the 0-6 months band[4], making him eligible for probation[5].

IANAL but all of this is for offenses that make it to trial. If there's plea bargaining involved the sentences are probably even lighter.

[1] https://www.ussc.gov/guidelines/2021-guidelines-manual-annot...

[2] https://www.ussc.gov/guidelines/2021-guidelines-manual/annot...

[3] https://www.ussc.gov/guidelines/2021-guidelines-manual/annot...

[4] https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/guidelines-manu...

[5] https://www.ussc.gov/guidelines/2021-guidelines-manual/annot...
You’d want to compare this with the base rate of failure for a business venture (ideally across the economy and specifically bootstrapped tech companies).

Spoiler: most businesses fail.

I’d also believe that VC funded companies are more likely to fail as they are making all-or-nothing swing for the fences plays. But you need to compare to the correct baseline to avoid confusion.
If you're firing up anything on AWS with that kind of RAM, you want to make sure you understand how much that's going to cost. The per second cost is always going to look really low and you will tend not to worry about it. However, once you do the math, you could find that you're easily and quickly spending more money than it would cost to buy a machine to run locally with that much RAM.
In hindsight the key difference is that a group text only goes to that specific group of people that you have already established relationships with and have some idea who they all are, whereas with Twitter it was there the beginning of the cultural shift, due to reality shows and other factors, of publicizing one's private life.

and it turned out that at least in the beginning when the internet wasn't quite as full of garbage as it is now, that broadcasting yourself to a bunch of people you do know plus a much larger circle of people they know but whom you do not know, ended up bringing a net positive return of new contacts to you. This was and still is incredibly helpful especially for young people just starting out in life who need to build up networks (of all ... kinds) very quickly.

The limited space available in a tweet ensured that everyone was capped at the same minimal level of effort, so there was little or no expectation that you had to put a lot of work or thought or polish into what you were saying - rawness and immediacy were prioritized over polish. Quantity finally had a slight edge over quality, because everything was tinged with the quality of "novelty" at the time.
I've only gotten completely new hires as loans, where you also have to train them up to being useful
> Cant get around in Cambridge the traffic is terrible, unless you have an ebike

Isn't that a great news? A good city should be walk-able and bike friendly instead of car friendly
Huh. So it's nothing to do with spacetime. Thanks.
This website builder/editor gives everyone the ability to create awesome websites, regardless of skill level. Easy enough for your parents or grandparents to use, I love using it and hope everyone gets to check it out!
North Korea exists because 5 years after the US liberated China from Japanese oppression, the communist Chinese declared war against the US lead UN forces in South Korea.

Fairly wild, in retrospect.
What do you think about C3 then? https://c3-lang.org
1) Those who are willing to pay to get your data

vs

2) Those who think it should be easy and convenient to use services and free to keep that data private

Which group is in fantasy land? Privacy takes work and meaningful trade-offs.
I learned this lesson: focus on mastering the language and understanding the fundamentals of networking instead of chasing new shiny web frameworks.

Web frameworks come and go, but the language and network protocols are here to stay.
There have been numerous CVEs in various text-rendering engines for just this reason, and that's because TTF was invented before it became common to render arbitrary fonts downloaded from the Internet. A new format with a well-defined WASM interface would be a welcome development; bonus points for a TTF-to-$newFormat conversion tool.
"The Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks has forecast auroral activity on Thursday in Alaska, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, New York, New Hampshire, Vermont, Indiana, Maine and Maryland.

Auroral activity also has been forecast for Canada, including Vancouver.

Light displays are expected to be visible overhead in Milwaukee, Minneapolis and Helena, Montana, and low on the horizon in Salem, Oregon.; Boise, Idaho; Cheyenne, Wyoming; Annapolis, Maryland; and Indianapolis"

"The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center said people wanting to experience an aurora should get away from city lights and that the best viewing times are between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m. local time. "

Cool!
opening the article link with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser) let me read it without the paywall.
thought it's in a terminal so goodbye images or css
At the end of the day, it's about solving problems with the budget you have. You need the appropriate discipline to allow for maintainability and growth, but not to over-engineer.

Boring CRUD is faster and more sustainable than an abstraction that cannot be modified for new requirements. Or understood by future (perhaps misfortunate) maintainers.

One day your thing will become the tech debt for your organization. Write in a way the custodians of the future won't curse your name.

I've inherited systems where the original authors tried to be "smart": over-use of functional programming, "cute" abstractions, "powerful" mixins, layers of lazily-dispatched decorators. It's almost ways caused nothing but headache and pain.
I keep reading stories about experiences like yours, but no, never experienced that myself.

But then, it might be about my buying habits: the cheapest thing which suits my needs, and only when I actually need it rather than as soon as it comes out, so I'm almost never there at the sales peak for whatever it is I'm getting.
https://archive.ph/eSRYk
> unclear use cases ... a small group of enthusiasts

Apple's image announcement is just for future positioning: this really is a "Pro" device, for specific market segments and use-cases - niche. It's how apple won desktop publishing years ago.

Segment 1: creative professionals keep buying more and bigger screens. Vision Pro (VP) can eat that budget, and provide as many displays as you want. (The technology appeal is that a display must be high resolution everywhere - but VP only needs to be hi-res where you're looking, giving arbitrarily large "displays"). Apple carefully and specifically claims text is crisp. The engineering question is if Apple has actually done this: is it as good as a physical display? (or close enough)

Segment 2: creative professionals who make 3D objects: industrial designers, architects (but not yet engineers - they have different priorities). Also directors: cgi sets and set extensions have long been standard, and directors (and production designers etc) use an ipad to "see" the fully dressed cgi set, overlaid on the practical set. This is a better version of that. I can see James Cameron and Denis Villeneuve ordering any many as they can use - if it actually help. (aside: maybe for actors in rehearsal, but interferes with mocap).

Creative professional collaborate, hence Apple's huge efforts on the eyes being visible. A real question is will it be enough, for effective and natural communication, in a real-worlx work-flow situation? Will Jim be able to ordsr people around, or will he have to rip it off?

By announcing it after years and years of work, Apple shows they think they have enough of it, for it to be worthwhile for some people.

Provided they can get a genuine foothold, in actually making people more productive (real ROI, not jus enthusiast prosumers), then this has endless upside. If they can, users, usages and sales will grow fantastically for decades....if
Take some tips from Uncle Roger and get a Huawei phone as a burner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnLScLsHNa8
Lexicographic ordering of the sets X and Y is crucial in the problem described in the post because it admits an efficient algorithm for iterating through X*Y without needing to enumerate them prior. It would not work for e.g. binary-on-disk ordering, since algebraic laws don't carry over in that ordering.
> S3+dynamo which many people prefer anyways

Those people have not experienced the :heart_eyes_cat: of GitLab's TF state store, which I find just a bazillion times superior to creating TWO separate AWS resources only for storing a bunch of JSON to make TF work: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/infrastructure/iac/terraform...
I would expect it to be close to 100%. The difference between the 80% and the 100% is the ones that grow in spite of and sometimes because of their problems. Every business will run into trouble, sooner or later. In fact I don't recall a year in the past decade without some kind of crisis that needed fixing. Some self inflicted, some just circumstance and some outside malice. Never a dull moment if you run a small company.
You don't even need to bother with the encryption and sensitivity levels (your data classification policy can be just that, a policy). The ace move is to roll a set of SOC2 policies that just captures what modern dev teams do anyways; that was the idea behind https://latacora.micro.blog/2020/03/12/the-soc-starting.html.

The right way to think about SOC2 is that it's a ~$15k outlay that will come up when a major customer proposes a P.O. that justifies it, and little else.
> Marcus Brigstocke is a comedian

Ah k, that makes sense - I didn't know the name, and based on when I usually see that quote I'm guessing most others don't either.
What's the point of any of this TPM stuff? Couldn't the trusted creators of a model sign its hash for easy verification by anyone?
BTW, I totally understand the once-bitten-twice-shy, and McKinsey isn't a marginalized group needing protection, so personal aversions seem OK here. :) (I just bowed-out of an otherwise great co-founder situation, due to realizing a 2-hop connection to a party that I will never willingly go anywhere near again, even though it probably wouldn't affect the business itself.)

But I feel personally obligated to just note, for any HNers reading, that the two ex-McKinsey people I've worked with closely at a startup were both decent, and I'd work with them again.

Heh, maybe we can get McKinsey on our side, on this particular AI dystopia threat. Some hypothetical vendor-selection AI model (comparable to a hiring one) might take one look at certain past scandal involvements of the firm, and denylist anyone associated. But even organizations that don't care about individual fairness might still have to care about some AI pet project sabotaging the quality of their people and vendors.
It’s not so much Silicon Valley demanding that control as Hollywood
you can buy the product online and choose store pickup. can be ready within hours since it’s from their inventory.
Netron: A viewer for neural network, deep learning and machine learning models
You go to a jewelry store to buy gold. The salesperson tells you that the piece you want is 18karat gold, and charges you accordingly.

How can you confirm the legitimacy of the 18k claim? Both 18k and 9k look just as shiny and golden to your untrained eye. You need a tool and the expertise to be able to tell, so you bring your jeweler friend along to vouch for it. No jeweler friend? Maybe the salesperson can convince you by showing you a certificate of authenticity from a source you recognize.

Now replace the gold with a LLM.
Surprisingly the GP didn't include price of the device as a reason, but the 30% Apple cut/likely uplift in price that developers need to charge to recuperate development costs - which are far more significant than developer hardware costs.

A non-Apple device without the moat would be better. GP also didn't ask for free apps.
Reminds me of those X by Balenciaga [0] deep fakes, specially the head movement.

[0] - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iE39q-IKOzA
Ignore the framework wars, learn:

- data modeling
- domain modeling
- system design
- managing complexity
- syncing state
- teamwork

Those never go out of style.
Something not captured here is that the host team tends to have so much turnover that there's little difference between the host team's engineers working on a project and an away team's.
I think the conclusion is justifiable, but it relies on the author's definition of "destroy".

"If you want to run a company that looks like X, then taking VC money will prevent that from happening" is a pretty easy conclusion to make, though the only value in it is in the description of potentially surprising parts of what not-X looks like, to allow readers to judge whether they care.
What are you going to master if you don't know your tools?
I saw the bone quarry a few years ago, it quite literally took my breath away, one of the most amazing things I have ever seen in person. I am not sure what I was expecting, but it was not that. However, it is only one quarter of what it started out as. Vast swaths of it were removed. Mainly for museums, which is.. ok, I guess. But I am a bit sad thinking about what could have been preserved. While as the same time thankful they were able to keep as much of as they did in one piece.

Incidentally "The bone quarry" is on my short list for most metal place names.

https://www.nps.gov/dino/planyourvisit/quarry-exhibit-hall.h...
Dammit, I just looked at most of my shoes and they have Velcro!
1. 2022 was historically low for IPOs.

2. Companies will have multiple rounds of funding before IPO.

3. Acquisitions are more common than IPOs.

4. Yes, a significant number of startups fail. If it were easy everyone would do it.
Khan Academy worked well for our kid, who started at that age. She worked through 1-2 grades per year and is now in their Algebra series. The main complaint I have is that there is no concept of 'practice' or 'drilling'. You just learn something and go straight to the quiz.

There are two problems with this. The first is that it doesn't get kids used to doing practice, which is critical for learning more advanced skills.

The second is that the quizzes use a lot of multiple choice (particularly in the younger grades, where kids are not assumed to be literate). Getting a handful of multiple choice questions correct is not a good indicator of having mastered a topic. Once I realized this, I told my kid she had to get all of the questions correct on the quiz 3 times in a row in order to move on.
In iOS 2 UIKit was far more 'mature' of a framework than SwiftUI was, and it wasn't full of missing stair steps like basic navigation pushes working without it being a whole irritating song and dance, lazy loading table cells & navigation views, being able to hide the tab bar when you push a screen on one tab with things like "hidesBottomBarWhenPushed", etc.

Overall I think SwiftUI when released, and even today in some corners, is a general overall theme of incompleteness with features available in iOS 2's UIKit.

Did early iOS have it's irritating parts? For sure, but they were there for performance reasons mostly and it wasn't an 'incomplete' framework like SwiftUI is.
You can use the online Apple Store then either have it delivered or pickup in person.

Or purchase from the hundreds of third party resellers who also sell them.

There are many people especially with the Apple Watch who aren't experts at technology and so having personalised service makes sense for them. And for you there are obviously many other options.
Clever architecture can almost always beat clever coding, languages and frameworks.
Amateurs obsess over writing blog posts. Pros over code.

The blog post is not wrong. It's just a tweet-length insight HumanGPT-expanded.
Yeah, I agree, definitely at least that it is an insufficiently explored ethical issue.

I suspect people are just leaning on the intuitive answer (that it is just a computer program), and the fact that we just don’t have the ability to simulate anything that has, like, obvious rights yet. I don’t think the first will really stand up to scrutiny, and the second is clearly a temporary solution (to the extent that it even is a solution).
I dislike these generalizations. There are pros and cons to both approaches. Engineers who have used the same tool for a long time will often fail to admit there may be better tools out there to solve a specific problem.
"A True Patronus can destroy them, because it is fueled by the thought that Death does exist and that we must face it, but that we will one day defeat it."

https://hpmor.fandom.com/wiki/Dementor
well that specific advantage from a design point of view is gone for sure. What other design advantages do you see?
> We obsess over these tools, treating them like a crush—a fleeting infatuation that momentarily captivates our attention. All of this is wasted effort and delusion.

Amateurs obsess over forcing binary choices. Pros over integrating the best of what is available into the continued mastery of their trade (I actually really dislike this kind of generalization/framing, so my tongue is planted firmly in cheek here).

I think there is some truth in the general message of the post, and agree that complete fixation on tooling is a sign of a lack of focus on what matters.

But I'm curious how the author believes the "tried and true" gained that designation, if not by trying things that don't work and returning to the things that consistently do.

There's a different failure mode involved in a complete dedication to sticking to the tried & true: blindness to the moments when real step changes occur resulting in something that is truly better than what came before.

I'd argue that a pro does spend time obsessing over tools, but is differentiated from an amateur by knowing when to stop. I'd also argue that framing these behaviors as things characteristic of "amateurs" and "pros" is not useful.
While I don't think you should have been DVd, I think that you are ignoring his argument that the Tunisian market is just not there. And, frankly, if you can compete, with local talent, on a global scale, you have a lot going for you, and, it will inevitably lead to more at-home investment to support all the money you are bringing into the local economy.

I also find it hard to justify criticizing someone's decision with years of experience in that market.
Ask HN: When were flagged submissions/comments added to the profile page?
I noticed it just now in my status page. I'm fairly convinced it wasn't there last time I viewed it.

It's a useful addition, if only to check occasionally that I haven't mistakenly flagged a comment or a submission.
Definitely +1 for SigNoz, much more cohesive view of metrics, logs, and traces
That makes sense to me that in these two particular situations they have leverage. But what if they don't have enough board seats and you also aren't looking to raise a subsequent round? It sounds like then they don't really have leverage, right? If so, it seems easy enough to guard against the risk that VCs end up with too much leverage over you.
The array lookup approach taken in part two:

https://owen.cafe/posts/the-same-speed-as-c/

But taking the length of the string as a parameter is not, because that changes the problem statement (making the solution vectorizable)

Also note that you'll try to read element -1 of the input. You probably want to change the `>=` to a `>`
> (who thought getting pregnant would keep her out of prison)

blatantly false and mysogenist!! sorry to say
So how are they supposed to commercialize given that most Linux users are generally a bunch of cheapskates?

Donations seldom amount to enough to pay for hosting costs and supporting the developers and their families.

Nobody buys physical discs anymore.

Selling swag can have some limited success if you can come up with a really cool design, mascot, and/or logo

A few companies have had success selling hardware, but that's a pretty small market overall with quite a bit of competition already.

Subscriptions generally only work if you're providing commercial support contracts.

Valve and JetBrains are the only companies I can think of that are making any significant amount of money selling closed source software to Linux users.

I'm not surprised at all that they are using ads to monetize their distro, as it's one of the few ways they can.
Which is considered important by interviewers?