skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The strange thing is that even if Softbank is effective at floating at this valuation (apparently by having 28 banks hawking the IPO and having a small float), there is almost no prospect of it remaining at that valuation, and Softbank is left holding the vast majority of the shares.

I don't see how this doesn't end in tears. It seems to be mostly wishful thinking.
I've been laughing my ass out all my life thinking about non-sensical crap like this in my head and apparently now we have the tech for it!
Really, I thought Claud and GPT were both excellent, and it show how far ahead they are of the rest.
They were bad, very bad
Apart from being useful for presentations, Powerpoint is still my go-to for mockups - screw Figma, I can achieve 80% of the result in 20% of the time.
> If somebody pays them to kill the clock and not cover the spread, is that fraud?

Yes. It’s called point shaving and it is fraud.
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Tennis players make like no money unless you are top 80 in the world so yea I imagine it wouldn't cost much to get a match thrown
The author starts by citing greenspun's tenth rule and goes on to elaborate on the argument that if you are going to have a half implementation of async anyway, why not just pull it in? Yet fails to interrogate the relationship between this argument and the cited "rule". If you should use async because you might need it in the future, shouldn't we all be writing in lisp?

If we presuppose that all software eventually develops an async, and we therefore should use async. Would it not stand to reason that greenspun's rule that all software contains a lisp would imply that we must also all use lisp?
Stuff that stuff into a semantic graph and call it done.
Is this actually used in practice? I feel like it’s common that “everyone speeds”.
She counts as her own sister :D I can be sister of myself?
Not any more:

>Fog signal

The fog signal was originally a series (72 in total) of Tannoy units built into the lighthouse tower; they were powered by an alternator coupled to a 2-cylinder Ruston diesel engine. This was later replaced by a short-range Pharos Marine Omnidirectional electric emitter sounding the same characteristic of two one-second blasts every 30 seconds during fog. The fog signal was decommissioned in 2012.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tater_Du_Lighthouse
the title is amusing :)

though most lightning cables sold today have USB-C on the other side already, so your dongle is the cable you already have.
My employer gave us an allowance to build our home office when Covid hit, I used mine to get a width adjustable dual-motor electric desk with 4 memory slots for different heights. According to spec the two linear motors in this desk can lift about 150kg. =)

Our apartment at the time was kinda small and I had to fit my desk to a very specific slot, so no off-the-shelf desk would've fit the nonstandard size. I bought a 100% wood kitchen counter cut to my measurements and finished it to fit the decor.

We've moved since and I took off the old tiny desk, spread out the legs and got an even bigger kitchen counter cut. Still the same base. The old desktop is now my SO's remote work table, with a similar set of height-adjustable legs.

tl;dr

1. Get a base with a memory so you can set your favourite positions fast (sitting, standing+writing, standing+just watching)
2. Get the biggest desktop you can fit and get a sturdy one. If the tabletop is too light, it'll shake and vibrate as you type.
3. Ikea Skådis pegboards can be attached to the actual desk so they move up and down with it: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/skadis-pegboard-white-50320805/
I read a Time article which used an LLM to generate Onion-style headlines and the best one they got was “rural town up in arms over depiction in summer blockbuster ‘Cow Fuckers.’” Crude, admittedly.
The Saga of Salmon Steve
This is also a problem for electric vehicles, just to a lesser extent.
> But that same logic can apply for many people and our lifestyles... why not take the train across the country instead of flying? Why not arrange carpools to/from work, or take the bus and subway? Why not stop eating meat? Ride your bike more often?

Some people feel the whole "why not stop eating meat and ride a bike" narrative is PR by huge polluters like coal power plants and private jet owners, hoping to shift responsibility away from themselves.
How are there fewer homeless on display in Europe? Are the governments there more empowered to use force to take care of the problem?
Well, if they live in a small town in some rural area they either inherit a house, or build their own, with substantial financial help from from their parents.

If they live in a city they are screwed, unless they are lucky enough to get a really well-paying job.
"Vile and barbaric" lmao. Is this the Arab equivalent of an uncle tom in the wild? عمو توم?

Are there issues with the treatment of women in north africa? Sure, and we should address that, but please keep your self-loathing to yourself.
Have noticed that teens tend to indeed say they're x old on stuff they're doing.
Breaking changes are part of the deal. It’s no secret that iOS has a new major version every year. If there’s blame here, it’s on DJI.

And usually the breaking changes only come after many years of advance notification from Apple, unless it’s an urgent change to address for example abusive developers doing egregious infringement of privacy.

Those developers tend to be hit harder. Maybe that’s the case here.
Your answer boils down to: "I know this technique, I don't want to learn blub technique. My job is to get stuff done, not learn new techniques." In which case, good for you; enjoy your sync code (seriously), and please stop telling the rest of us that have learnt the new blub technique that we shouldn't use it.
Which LLM is best for coding? Specifically code architecture and system design. I can't really find any comparisons of this online they mostly focus on commonly solved coding problems.
You can totally learn weightlifting and barbell training from good books and YouTube and practice at the gym alone.
I opened the page and got a pop up thrown at my face, with some text I didn't bother to read ending with "$5/month subscription".
At what square footage does it start holding then? At what point do you start caring more for others than your family and vice versa?
but see that's the thing, i don't even need that silly thing. i just run syncthing everywhere I need to (and it pretty much runs everywhere, including the kobo), and that's it. no middleman required (other than the syncthing meet-me infra of course, which is not as much as i expected: https://relays.syncthing.net/).
You make an interesting point. Has any language introduced a generic-resource-collector? You're not supposed to use deconstructors to clean up resources because you're left to the whims of the GC which is only concerned about memory.

Has anyone build a collector that tracks multiple types of resources an object might consume? It seems possible.
I promise that my carbon footprint is less than the virtue signalers in the media talking about climate action. I walk to work. I don’t air condition my home. I paid to have my home made energy efficient. But because I’m honest about my attitudes, I’m “a horrible person.”
Not at all. The main way is to reduce pressure on the GC by reducing allocations, which is a fairly straightforward process thanks to good support from the tooling.

Past that, you either call out to C via FFI or give up and rewrite in C/C++/Rust. Nobody really bothers with the asm.
As a developer starting a new project, what would you use instead?
Just got back from Europe and this was my biggest complaint about the places we visited.

Living in Florida, I never have a problem finding restrooms. Not sure what kind of restroom oasis the author is from, but, at least here in Florida, restrooms are not hard to find.
I don’t think most immigrants to Canada have those concerns
Python is great when your goal is to have the highest environmental footprint.
> There are also new truly useful features that people have come to expect that doesn’t work well with packaged software.

Supports the latest iOS version...
You can also do it with the word Fuck:
"Fuck it, the fucking fucker’s fucking fucked." ~as recounted by author Anthony Burgess https://www.anthonyburgess.org/blog-posts/anthony-burgess-on...
I wonder how much the maintenance cost is.
The amazing thing this demonstrated to me is how many capable models there are out there now. The progress in the last year has been incredible!
Most commercial code is running an almost entirely IO workload, acting as a gatekeeper to a database or processing user interactions - places where async shines.

Async isn't a lark, it's a workhorse. The goal is not to write sexy code, it's to achieve better utilization (which is to say, save money).
Flask is decent. Can’t we use that?
That guy is starting from very far away, HN not the place as it is not enough to fill in that amount of blanks.

And from the first thing you learn in real life, is humility, but sometimes, some people makes you feel you know everything, like here... but I very well know I am average/normal, which worsen even more his/her case. Yeah, a bit like John Snow.

This is an horrible feeling.

Not to mention, this post is border-line passive-aggressive... so...
It takes a long time for big companies to collapse. I mean Novell was still around until 2014 and they peaked and sucked since like 1995.

Google can coast for 30 more years, or longer.

Comcast is slowly dying but will be profitable for a long, long time.

So you can have a bad brand and exist for a long time.
The thing with humans is they will say “I don’t remember how many syllables a haiku has” and “what the hell is kubernetes?” No LLM can reliably produce a haiku because their lexing process deprives them of reliable information about syllable counts. They should all say “I’m sorry, I can’t count syllables, but I’ll try my best anyway.” But the current models don’t do that because they were trained on texts by humans, who can do haiku, and not properly taught their own limits by reinforcement learning. It’s Dunning Kruger gone berserk.
If you do anything wrong then it can cause problems, sure. Is that what we should base our decisions on?
> For something to die at 3am in production, that means either someone pushed code way too late, or something changed in the stack unpredictability.

I don't think those are the only two scenarios. I think the most likely scenario by far is user input triggering a latent issue in a code path and promptly bringing the application down. A classic example, of course, is a missing bounds check.

Modern language design makes this less likely by enforcing invariants, adding checks, and making these kinds of issues impossible by construction. It doesn't mean that there isn't a space for languages without these safe guards, but it does mean you should have a really good reason to use them.

> But bugs are bugs, if I'm called at 3am to fix a bug, I don't want to spend hours trying to fight my compiler, and then fall back asleep while I'm waiting for it to compile. I want to quickly identify the issue, and then to be able to write the smallest possible patch until morning. In my limited experience, rust is conducive to neither of those options.

In my experience with Rust specifically, I've actually found it easier to make those kinds of fixes as the area of code I have to reason about is much smaller. I don't have to worry that a local change will have global effects, as I can much more clearly see the dataflow. It's not a silver bullet, but I've felt much more comfortable doing emergency fixes on Rust than on C++.
Is memory safety the only thing holding you back? Suppose there were a way to do static borrow checking, as a 3rd party tool?
The book puts names to things that are otherwise nameless, and draws those names from places in the UK. One that sticks in my mind is a "sheppey", the distance at which a sheep stops being picturesque. It has the narrative structure of a dictionary, but the ideas...
Hmm, you have me thinking...if these orders don't exist, perhaps they should? The Pragmatic Enshittification Temple does have a nice ring to it.
So your logic doesn't apply for your home, for your neighborhood or your city? Does it hold for you state or do you need to become completely independent country?
If there's a meeting and most, but not all, of the folks read the document, then there's the potential they'll have to wait while the others read the document. To avoid that eventuality, the convention is that no one reads the document until the meeting, and then there's no wasted time.

source: worked at Amazon and was told this by my boss
> It's what they do with it that matters, not what the contract says.

What they do with the data changes based on leadership (should we sell to 3rd party data brokers to increase our revenue or not?)

It’s also out of their hands once a subpoena for that data comes from law enforcement.
My point is the logic is inherently self contradictory regardless of the definition.

To use a analogy. It is like I am saying: (A or TRUE) == TRUE. And someone is quibbling about the value of A. It literally does not matter. Pick any value. The sheer force of the rules of logic make the value of A irrelevant. That is analogous to my assertion, though obviously much stronger due to its basis in the underpinnings of propositional logic.

If you want to disprove my statement then all you need to do is unilaterally propose literally any condition/action which results in a non-trivial paradox.

I do not know how to make my argument any clearer. It is up to you if you want to think of a proper counter example or not, but I have said everything I care to say. Have a good day.
This must be regional.

There are public restrooms basically everywhere by me in WI.

Every gas station, every restaurant, fast food etc, every store in general has a public and unlocked restroom in my experience. There are public restrooms at most parks too.
Yes, yes. You're right. Though it does sometimes feel like it.
Sounds like not much different from working on ur own startup. That would be very different from coasting as senior/staff in faang
'Atlassian' and 'fun' are 2 words I'm not sure I've heard together before.
Same thing happened with accessibility of these in NYC. So please tell me how it’s better for the handicapped that there’s no restroom at all. It’s ridiculous.
Neither can most engineers
What I mean is that the person making the request is bound by law to not make those requests.

The government needs to follow the laws that bind it. And making an illegal request is just that.

I didn’t mean that you are legally required to follow the request.
Leg day, Arm day, Liver day, Kidney day.
I doubt that's anyone's complaint. It's more likely they'd have been annoyed to have had crippled seats in a car they'd bought and have to pay an on-going fee for no reason beyond greed. There are no other on-costs for manufacturers unlike other subscription-based products.
1) "boomer" is a pretty hatefull slur these days

2) baby boomers are the generation born post post-1945

3) Miyazaki-san was born in 1941.
MalwareDB: Bookkeeping for malware, goodware, etc. with relationship discovery
An application to help malware researchers and forensic investigators with dealing with large collections of datasets from various sources. It uses similarity hashes to find relationships between files. Currently an incomplete work in progress.
Culture thrives on traditions, but if ours impacts others negatively, it's time for reflection and adaptation. Heritage grows when it embraces change.
I've used this technique on several of my projects. The formed threads are strong and reliable. It cuts down assembly steps and BOM. The tight fit means the screws won't back out (like locktite or nylocks). The only downside is they can only be reassembled a few times before they start getting loose, at which point you can either add material (superglue), or just reprint the part.

If you have something you want to reassemble frequently, use inserts. If you're putting it together once and intend to use it that way for a long time, threadforming works fine.
> Was planning to go this winter, but I don't want to be a tourist in the midst of calamity.

I'm very conflicted on this one, it seems like this is the intuition I (along with a lot of people) want to reach for but is that actually the most helpful thing?
Llama 7B is quite dumb. Using the 13B you'd get significantly better results, and you can train a qlora on a single 3090 (I think even less is possible but not sure)
Indeed, anyone who says llm's cannot reason since it is just reformulating things it remembers, is unable to explain what reasoning is, let alone how it would not be reasoning.

In the end, if the result is indistinguishable from a treat people call reasoning, let's call the behavior reasoning.
The first AI company to teach its LLM that it can’t do haiku because it can’t count syllables should get a special prize for not falling in love with their own bullshit.
https://search.savills.com/property-detail/gbtrrstrs210037
It's a very clear signal that the entire market is broken and there isn't competition there.
> then there's potential that customers wanting to design their own stuff will go to them.

There is plenty of evidence that anyone 'wanting to design their own stuff' are targeting RISC-V. Licencing ARM for that sort of thing is both costly and a pain in the arse and a distraction from actual processor development.

You dismiss startups, but the ripest growth market for processors is in AI accelerators and they are predominantly RISC-V based in the startup world.

RISC-V is growing fast and has a structural advantage to ARM's ISA monopoly, in that sense it is a real danger to ARM's business model.
Ask HN: Need advice on my Fashion Startup
Hi - I'm building a Fashion Search Engine called FashionFeed (http://fashionfeed.app). It's main purpose is to filter by clothing models that look like you (same Ethnicity, Age, Height, Weight).

It's still a work in progress & I only have a few photos up. But can I receive your brutally honest feedback on the site please?

Thanks.
In cities yes because of vagrants yet in the suburbs and rural areas ... public bathrooms are easy to find everywhere. I think Ive been to some places of businesses in cities that gave me the keycode to the bathroom once you buy something.
Imagine living in not-northern California in 2023. Ouch!
Ask HN: Do you know how a fridge works?
Without looking it up or reading the discussion, do you have a general idea how refrigeration works?

You don't need to understand any specific technical details. Just the general physics principles that are involved (i.e. why/how is the heat transferred out of the fridge).

Context: I had a discussion where the topic of refrigerators came up, and I considered it to be a widely known principle. But so far, the vast majority of people I asked never learned or questioned how do fridges actually work (however, most people do seem to know there is some sort of motor and some coolant inside). I think HN is definitely a biased source of data, but still I think it would be interesting to see how common this knowledge really is.

Finally: there's no shame in not knowing/caring how refrigeration works. Please don't turn this into "I know this one random fact hence I'm more knowledgeable". Save that for a whiteboard interview :)
> there is no potential for massive growth, all smartphones are using ARM chips already and their biggest client has a perpetual license already.

There's a war for the next platform. Meta uses ARM, while Magic Leap 2 for instance uses x64.
It would be about 64 gates. Sort of irritating that it doesn't work, to be honest.
Could someone please explain to me what the advantage of this is over traditional photogrammetry?
Fun fact I discovered recently is that Lost in Translation was heavily influenced by In The Mood For Love.
I've only ever seen a McDonald's bathroom that requires a purchase in NYC around 15 years ago. I doubt that's changed in the years since unless the city made customers only bathrooms illegal.
Spyder – The Scientific Python Development Environment
When you play sports and your team is winning, do you stop trying to give a chance for the competitor team?
That page doesn't render correctly the intricate visuals of the original (which, btw, works for me without a subscription).
Some people don't understand that you can attach just an image file to an email. I often get Word attachments containing a single image.
That would be a great way to guarantee that nobody builds hardware in your country.

It would also do absolutely nothing in this situation where the product already comes from a foreign country.
I’ve been up and down this country and outside of the pandemic one certainty had been that if I need to piss and I see a McDonald’s I know I’m covered. This changed during the pandemic since many of their lobbies were closed. But in the last year I haven’t seen a McDonald’s that you couldn’t walk into and use the facilities. Now they’re not always the cleanest bathrooms, but they’ve always been there.

People talk a lot of shit about McDonald’s but there’s a lot to be said for a rock solid never changing option anywhere in the country.
I wonder what it looked like inside when John le Carré wrote Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy in ca. 1974.
The confetti has truly left the cannon.
People die crossing the border trying to avoid those cameras, because it forces them through the most dangerous parts of the desert.

The same tech is deeply wrapped up in the Israeli occupation of Palestine.

It's absolutely absurd to pretend that the whole business of border enforcement tech is not stained with blood.

If you're interested in the relevant US history and why it's characterized as militarization and violence by those opposed to it, I recommend this book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7861.No_One_Is_Illegal

(The book has a point of view and makes no apologies for that. But if you want to see why people who disagree with you see the US border and its enforcement the way they do, it will provide that for you.)
Apple implemented a standard so most stuff that follows the standard now works. Nice but.... uninspiring?
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> to collect your personal and flight data.

Its no secret they save flight data (like everything you input, temperature, gps points...) in their cloud.

I think there are workarounds for this, a friend of mine never paired his drone with a smartphone connected to any network. Iam pretty sure this will not work for a long time.

Its very daunting if you ask me, the amount of data they gather. Not a small part of drones used in active wars, like ukraine right now, is by DJI. This is alot of power in the hands of a few.
Isn’t it odd that there hasn’t been created a better method of dealing with poop and piss? Why aren’t we all wearing waste recycling systems already?
Would like to see a simple site built on it besides basic examples (can even be used as a tutorial to the framework). The components seem interesting but feels like will quickly get complex.
In Australia, cats absolutely shred through native animal populations. They threaten, and have caused, the extinction of many species.

https://www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/invasive-species/feral...

https://invasives.org.au/our-work/feral-animals/cats-in-aust...
I am just back from Naples. Even in restaurants, restrooms are not a given. And for sure no toilet seat, toilet paper, or paper towels. Never had this issue in the US.
> Should I be forced to eat meat/seafood/poultry in prison to get my protein needs, just because I do not adhere to a tribe with sufficient political power to force an exception?

No, you can eat peanut butter bread like SBF. Or ideally, realize earlier that you aren’t really cut out for the prison system due to your dietary needs and not commit the financial crimes.
Billionaires forking out for eternal life
Because it's a free, well designed, clean and simple ISA.