skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting parts:

> As of 2016, he lived in a rented apartment in San Francisco, with remaining assets of $2 million.

> [I]n 1984, [he] secretly transferred his entire 38.75% stake in DFS, then worth about $500 million, to the foundation. Not even his business partners knew that he no longer personally owned any part of DFS. For years, Atlantic gave away money in secret, requiring recipients to not reveal the sources of their donations.
Not as long as I am forced to use VS Code.
$70K?

The one pictured appears to be $14k

https://m.unitree.com/en/a1/
> These filters ruin the retro pixel art look by making things blurry, making larger pixels, introducing a screen door, and more.

I think there's an argument that pixel art was designed for CRT displays and thus optimized for it. I think of it like Pointillism: the work is made of little dots, but the point is for you to see the entire work blend together. And for low resolution works like retro games, they often hold up well on CRT (especially real ones). However, I think modern games with the pixel art aesthetic look best crisp.

To each their own tastes, though.
The gist of the article is that LLM-generated text will soon occupy more of the SERP, which will answer search queries without the user having to click on links, which drive down SEO traffic.

I am a little bit skeptical that this will “eat into” SEO traffic rather than create a new kind of query traffic where the user goes in wanting to engage an LLM in a discussion. The kinds of queries that are zero-clicked today, like “weather in seattle”, are more frequent because the answer is right on the SERP. Users were less likely to Google that when it just linked to weather.com and you had to run another search there to search for your zip code.

It may however cannibalize queries that are directed towards finding human discussions, i.e. searching reddit.
I know you quoted the article, but this equation

> w = 300 Mm / 2.437 GHz

Has the wrong unit for c, it's missing the "per second"
"Properly utilized". Get a grip
Plato and the Nerd
Open Access Book

»In this book, Edward Ashford Lee makes a bold claim: that the creators of digital technology have an unsurpassed medium for creativity. Technology has advanced to the point where progress seems limited not by physical constraints but the human imagination. Writing for both literate technologists and numerate humanists, Lee makes a case for engineering—creating technology—as a deeply intellectual and fundamentally creative process. Explaining why digital technology has been so transformative and so liberating, Lee argues that the real power of technology stems from its partnership with humans.«
yeah i think... things are better now. people are still pushing those boundaries by poking at the unknown, and learning by exploring. like those people porting Linux to the Apple M chips. they have so many more resources so their exploration nowdays takes them so much farther than it did us back in the day trying to flip a bit in copy protection binary
Yeh I think it’s a name rather than a number to be honest, also I’m going back twenty years so might not have been a thing back then.
A Plan for Multicast Support in Noise-Based Protocols
> Patents should benefit small companies with actual products in the market.

Which would be great, except as the ruling states, Sonos didn't introduce the feature in the market until 5 years after Google did:

> The essence of this order is that the patents issued after an unreasonable, inexcusable, and prejudicial delay of over thirteen years by the patent holder, Sonos, Inc. Sonos filed the provisional application from which the patents in suit claim priority in 2006...Google then began introducing its own products that practiced the invention in 2015. Even so, Sonos waited until 2019 to pursue claims on the invention (and until 2020 to roll out the invention in its own product line).
Could this be the same tooltip issue I see everyday on Thunderbird? I must use Firefox differently but in Thunderbird I'm often left with a tooltip telling the date of the last message I was looking at after changing to a different app.
It's a bit strong to call Sequoia "fraud victims". They were at a minimum incompetent and at a maximum intentionally misleading to other investors. You shouldn't write an article like this (https://archive.ph/GQkCp) unless you have done your research. Did they do literally any due diligence prior to leading a massive investment round?

Just because they stand to lose millions doesn't excuse their responsibility and influence. Venture capitalists have no one to blame but themselves for the risky companies out there. They are effectively snake oil salesmen, just looking to siphon off relatively short-term profits under the guise of "changing the world".
Microsoft lost the plot with their app frameworks for local apps so electron not so bad and gets you cross platform
When you resize a large gap buffer, it seems like you could mremap the pages after the gap and avoid almost all copying. The usual alignment problems don't apply since you can adjust the position and size of the gap slightly as needed to accommodate.
There's a rumor that older AGESA[1] versions had a bug that prevented the chipset from recognizing and utilizing ECC ram properly even though the chipsets should support it. Check any motherboard in question for a firmware update which includes at least AGESA 1.0.0.5 patch C.

https://www.reddit.com/r/truenas/comments/10lqofy/

[1] Part of the firmware on AMD systems, that brings up core system components. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGESA
A bluffer's guide to the Jane Street coin flip game
"Some have wondered why Wang chose such a seemingly arbitrary number as $65,355,999,994"

int((2^16 - 180) * 999999.9999 + 1) = 65,355,999,994
Is there any implementation of open source vector db that is fast enough to say create embedding of 100M documents locally within few hours and find ranked matches in under a second? I tried ChromaDb and it is super slow, basically unusable.
Finder does it to me all the time
I thought stocks represented ownership of a company. If a company has 100 stocks and I own 50, I own 50% of the company. If the company issues 100 more, shouldn't 50% go to me, since a share represents a part of the company ownership and I own a known percentage of the company?

How is it legal to say "you bought 50% of this, but now I've arbitrary decided that I own 99% of it because I gave myself more percent"
It reminds me of NASA's EM Drive debacle from 2015.
A sane method for websites to indicate if a password worked or not. And for enough websites to use it that password saving heuristics could be disabled.
I guess I understand it in theory but I guess I am also just a different person - if something is urgent but not at all important it will always be dropped. To me that would be the only valid choice.
Off-topic:

The "listen to the article" feature on this blog post ... is it using an AI voice trained specifically on the author's real voice? Or is it a real recording by any chance?
Given the title, the video was indeed a bit disappointing but I imagine that “extreme” is ironic or at least relative.
This is great. Is there any version of BASIC that integrates with VSCode?
Yep. It would require a ton of money to tank that much fuel up there. For maintenance alone, ISS requires 7 metric tonnes of fuel every year just to stay where it's at.
this makes me happy , I was the PM for that feature :)
I’d believe it if you count every random plot people make as “design.”

It blows my mind how much people do in excel. On one hand it’s pretty cool how much it can do but you end up with these monster spreadsheets that should really be their own program of some sorts.

One example I think about a lot (because I use the end product a lot) is Fangraphs’ ZiPs model that predicts baseball stats for upcoming seasons. It’s 20 years old and, from what I’ve been told, a massive Excel book with some VB. The creator was a stats major but they didn’t do much programming in his curriculum so Excel was the option he was most comfortable / productive with. Yet, he’s doing a massive analysis over every player in the league using decades of historical data. The thought of doing that in Excel makes my stomach churn but if it works for him then I guess it’s good enough!
I'm currently on Ryzen 3700X and asus tuf gaming x570 MB. I'd love more single core performance and more nvme/disk speed. Also I have a dual GPU setup, 2 M2 nvme, and 6 sata occupied.

I'm considering upgrading end of the year. I briefly considered thread ripper (for it's pcie lanes) until I found there is still no zen4 thread ripper and the price is likely yo be eye-watering.

So the choice is, upgrade to Ryzen 5900x and keep the rest of the system, or spend a lot more and upgrade to a AM5 ryzen plus a new mobo(I considered Intel too, until I found it tops at 20 pcie lanes).

I've always been buying mostly gigabyte and asus mobos, but I got burned more than once by them so I might go with another manufacturer this time.

What do you think? Is it worth upgrading to AM5 for just single core and disk performance? What about Intel? Considering I'd love more pcie lanes for a 10gb adapter perhaps(so I can move some of these spinning disks out) Intel is probably not a good choice.

I'm happy enough with the multi-core performance of ryzen 3700x. If I got a new MB I'd definitely want at least two nvmes in a mirror(for speed) - perhaps more and sata ports for my 6 spinning disks.
It feels weird how prickly people got over this.

I suppose it's possible we've reached the end of history and there's just no way anyone is ever going to meaningfully improve on the production systems that we have today.

They're basically perfect, right?

There also really aren't any small markets worth serving. Like people with disabilities as one example.

Perhaps we'll just stop trying to build small batch products inexpensively because it's so hard and also those CEOs need 40x markups on labor to make ends meet.

Maybe I'm wrong about the direction, maybe tool and hardware companies should double down on big design up front and extend the time it takes to do their job.

Maybe, but I sincerely doubt it.
That would be theoretically possible, yes; but all proposals along those lines so far have been met with staunch and bipartisan political opposition. Attempting to alter the retirement age seems to be political toxic waste.
I see all of this as implementation details of a single biological system that exhibits "thought", not a definition of "thought".

> It’s just by no means “the same.”

The implementation is not the same. Everyone agrees with that. The concept being compared is "thought", not "implementation of thought". Maybe I'm lost.
There are a few areas in L.A. where between 137th St. and 138th St. you will find the much smaller 137th Pl.
I found it too cumbersome, limited and not very intuitive to do it in SQL with the PIVOT operator so that I created my own API to be able to build a pivot table from a simple SQL statement https://github.com/squashql/squashql-showcase/blob/main/TUTO.... Roughly speaking, it consists in a single SQL statement and a list of headers for the rows and columns.
Yantrajs: Another Competitor with Node.js
Everything you know about Roman Roads is Wrong[video]
What do you feel has changed in the last 20 years? (This has been discussed a lot but my impression is that people compare today to the 1960s more than to the 00s).
It's not a right to have a guaranteed return on an investment. It isn't silly at all. They literally only want a single downside (losing their initial investment), absolving themselves of all responsibility for their investments while retaining maximum return in the event such a return on investment happens. They will also do everything they can, a la various modes of propaganda, to manipulate avoiding that single downside as well.

The startup culture that has fetishized making it big at all costs (move fast and break things) has lead to customer (and non-customer) deaths amongst several other massive failures. The investors should have some responsibility and accountability assigned. Right now, they have zero.
It knows the letters each word is made up when asked within a specific context. Humans also often struggle to recall things in one context that we have no problems with in another. It may well be reasonable to call it "too stupid" but at the same time it's unreasonable to call it stupid without then acknowledging that it can understand and reason. That it has gap in knowledge in areas we typically drill into young children and don't leave huge datasets online about is unsurprising to me.

That said, I incidentally think a whole lot of adults - even native English speakers - would struggle with the task given, and would repeatedly fail in the same way until given a detailed refresher.

E.g. being able to explain a rule and fail consistently to apply it is something I've seen up to and including supposed senior software engineers im interviews. Getting their mistakes explained and still repeating the same mistakes also.
> the first computer to ship with only USB ports

I remember presenting this in a project as an undergraduate and I was challenged by the lecturer that it would be highly unusual for a consumer device to ship without RS232 and I could only say “yeah”
> Video Upload / Processing Service that saves the video into chunks

At this point you also need to chose what streaming protocol you want to use. You have mostly two choices, HLS if you want to get things done quick, or MPEG-DASH if you want more control (but you'd need a separate HLS pipeline for iOS anyway…)

> Build or use a video streaming library that can play video chunks as a stream

As someone who's worked on a web streaming player, I'd strongly recommend not to build one but to use an existing one (or, in short: use HLS.js)
Ask HN: Node v.s. Deno v.s. bun which will win in the end?
Out of curiosity, how do you achieve that? One VLAN per IoT device?
Embodies the antithesis of most billionaires, some of whom abuse the Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF) to cheat the US govt (and other US taxpayers) by not paying their fair share. Why pay taxes when you can promise something in the distant future and get a tax dodge now?
Lots of software have problems with persisting tooltips. I regularly have tooltips from VS Code getting "stuck" and can't be removed until I close the application.
Displace came up with a landing gear safety system for its wireless TV
I for one am happy for only Zaphod Beeblebrox be allowed to vote.
OK, I can only speak to my personal projects and 20+ years experience at work.

We run all of our stateful and stateless workloads on 10+ kubernetes clusters at work in multiple datacenters in multiple continents, and we serve 500 million users a month with it.

I wrote the first BORG version of DFP backend systems at Google, where we served billions of users billions of ads a day, and we used stateful infrastructure management on some of the first container runtime systems that inspired k8s during it's development.

Using rabbit and "most databases" native fallover strategy is fine for toy projects, but when you're operating at this scale, you need automated infrastructure provisioning and all of the automated tooling around it.
> I'm a programmer in finance: I understand nothing when SBF talks, it's like complete random BS, totally different from the traders I work with who would use complex concepts but with always a visible thread: utility -> transformation adding value -> profit, with SBF it's all so fuzzy and unclear, it's like he pretends to talk like we're idiots to hide the fact he's the idiot who forgot that you need to sacrifice potential upside for downside insurance...

It appears that there is a sizable audience who will hear that and conclude he's a subject matter super genius and that you're a total idiot.
That could work also, it would be basically turning the power system into a bunch of interconnected microgrids. In Vermont power loss happens often, usually due to snow and ice bringing tree branches and trees down on power lines. If everyone has a battery backup then a downed line doesn't affect anyone and fixing it can be more leisurely. If a neighborhood is on a microgrid a downed line can still take out half of, or the whole, neighborhood. Just getting to the location where a repair is needed can be difficult in a big snow storm and especially in ice storms, so individual batteries would help with that.
The insurance company Guardian Direct had a phone number along these lines. Good marketing since I still remember it to this day: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/the-owl-s-number...
From Traditional Machine Learning Governance to LLM-Centric AI Governance
The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT has captured headlines and imaginations. AI systems can now generate amazingly human-like text on any topic with just a few prompts.These behemoths, with their unparalleled capabilities, have necessitated a reevaluation of governance models. As organizations explore integrating LLMs into business operations, it’s crucial to implement governance measures enabling innovation while managing risks. As executives, understanding the transition from traditional machine learning governance to LLM-centric AI governance is crucial.
I'm not taking about hiring senior experts in their field.

I'm taking about working with someone who repeatedly moves materials through a long established process.

It can be arduous and unpleasant and rarely pays very much. We can debate the ethics of all that, but it's not reasonable IMO to pay pennies and charge 40x.
They didn't specify.
Meh I learned a thing or two.
I'm still waiting for to fix basic container tab behaviour [1]. I can't help but think that their product management is completely broken.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1479858
Umm, is this still consequence free in USA?
> If crypto had gone up and up and up forever as intended, the fraud would never have been discovered.

I'm not sure of that. When you need an account's credit limit set to $65 billion because the account (Alameda Research) kept hitting the credit limit, something is seriously, seriously wrong irrespective of the state of crypto. It seems like they were inevitably going to fail hard. FTX was literally allowing Alameda Research to trade with make believe money.

Some of the major traditional brokers will just up and close your account permanently if you abuse, even within their already strict rulesets, their margin accounts.
But that isn't a correct solution - it leaves the cabbage with the goat.
I think it is? I don't have much python experience, but I think that inner expression is equivalent to

ignore_collateral ? balance.available_ignoring_collateral : balance.available

Personally I would agree that it would be clearer if the syntax was more differentiated between a conditional expression and a statement.
> Nonsense.

Literally everything I said is true.

> Ukraine ceased to exist as an independent entity quite some time ago. It 's hanging on only because NATO and EU are propping it up.

It's being propped up because it's hard to have a functioning economy during a war thats literally inside your borders.

> As soon as the USA finds a new thing, and the EU/NATO realise they have been played, then Ukraine will be done.

How have EU/NATO been played may I asked?.
I have 5900X and I wish I’ve waited for 5800X3D instead.
Together with 1Gbit ratification, so ~2000
>legislators

Haven't you seen those congressional hearings with Zuck and others where congresspeople ask about how to use their phone ? How do you expect them to legislate about ECC ?
That would explain Covid vaccines. Think about it.
How do you guys manage to get users for your products/SaaS
This is exactly true. These jobs can be very difficult and rarely pay well at all.

This is what I find so profoundly offensive when so many Western companies charge insane labor rates. I know for a fact that very little of that money is going to the person doing the work.
Solving Problems or Opening Possibilites
Pretty sure Macs download everything, but I don't know what happens if there isn't disk space for that.
I have always had this bug but I always thought it was a bug in my window manager :-)
I guess this is why evolution is taking unreasonable amounts of time.
What are the optimal parameters for the size, mass, and velocity of the stone, and the material, height, and thickness of the walls, to meet the objectives without the stone damaging the walls? For more than one stone? How do you get them up?
Is the insulin cheaper now? No.
literally was annoyed yesterday by this. i remember it from the compiz 0.8.1-6 days
The v-color RAM I linked to in the post is Hynix: https://v-color.net/products/ddr5-ecc-udimm-servermemory?var...

I haven't tried overclocking it.
That seems… unlikely given that moores law itself doesn’t really hold any more and the costs involved here are almost entirely incurred in the data center.
You can bring in investors, go in retirement, sell your company. So ownership of a company can change. One way of doing that is to sell shares, another way is to give new ones to the newcomers. I don’t know this precise story with Silver Lake, but emitting new shares and diluting past investors to inject cash into the company is sometimes the only solution to bring cash on the account.
A DAF is not promising to give in the future: the shares are given immediately to a charity and must be donated at a certain minimum rate to other recipient charities.

A DAF has the same tax status as a charitable foundation you create but without the organizational overhead or potential abuses.
Holy shit. This bug literally drove me away from Firefox a couple years ago.

Wild.
I totally understand what you are saying. I think for now its going to be a one man agency. My primary focus for now is to launch this thing and bring subscription in.
Recent and related:

How Games Used to Look: Why Retro Gaming on a CRT Looks Different [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37808475 - Oct 2023 (167 comments)
I think wikipedia is wrong. I don’t see how it would make sense to have a mmu in the ram expansion card.
It’s foolish to spend 5-6 years getting paid subsistence wages because you wanted a PhD for fun. Also, phds are not really fun. Grad school is much more miserable than pleasurable.
> effort writing assertions in production code

Presumably the assert is used because it doesn't consume resources (ie effort) to write. Testing takes a lot of effort.