skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obligatory comment that countries exist where the "pharmacy bill" is either $0 or sufficiently low that it will never cause stress.

For people living in those countries, health costs are no longer an incentive to earn a lot. In the UK in fact, the pharmacy is free for people on low incomes but roughly £120/year for everyone else. The same applies to the dentist.
Not OP.

This is done via "L2 Isolation". WiFi access points typically have this setting, as do some wired switches (ex: Cisco's PVLAN)
https://archive.ph/nLHkE
There really is nothing intellectually stimulating in learning that there is misery out there and that you too can fail. A cat can tell you that there's misery out there. What's interesting is knowing how to build things and get out of said misery. If you surround yourself with stories about losers you'll think that there are only losers out there and you'll get stuck. This is a forum about hackers and hacking a way out is far more interesting than constant posting about "survivorship bias". I want to learn stories about how people, small or large, build things that matter - not just plumb APIs and "hack" a new language. Those are cool too but those aren't the only "problems" that need solving. And indeed there are forums dedicated to that but I want to hear is the more "scientific" side of making commercially successful things, and like me there are plenty - but some have been alienated by this boring mindsent.
"How much would a bank be willing to lend you?"

Depending on how the economy is doing and how crazy your bank is that could be a truly awful measure.
A significant issue probably affecting your Yubikey is that there are very few male USB-C plugs available. The ones that do exist are mostly designed for USB-C cables, which uses a tiny 0.8mm thick "paddle card" fully embedded in the plastic cover.

Alternatively, there are "brick nogging" connectors which stand up straight from the PCB and are therefore unusable for a Yubikey, or "sink board" ones which require a custom jig for assembly.

Meanwhile with USB-A you don't even need a male connector at all - just have a bit of your PCB stuck out in a vaguely USB-A-looking shape and it'll work just fine.
Passwordless Login with Passkeys
https://archive.is/2023.10.09-133848/https://www.haaretz.com...
I have a genuine question - in practice on a workstation/developer computer, what sort of protection does ECC ram give me?

I've got two daily driver machines - a 3970x threadripper with 96GB ram, and an M1 Macbook Pro - neither of which have ECC ram.

I've been using them both for over 2 years, and not once in that period (that I'm aware of) have I found myself with a problem due to faulty RAM, but I do regularly find myself wishing both were faster.

What practical benefit would I get in exchange for the performance hit of ECC memory?
IPXO Launches a Platform to Uncover Forgotten or Hidden IP Resources
The Discovery phase is a game-changer, empowering enterprises to efficiently identify and catalog their IP assets within a centralized repository. Leveraging various identifiers such as AS numbers, subnets, ORGs, and more, IPXO’s proprietary algorithms excel at revealing hidden IP resources, even those often overlooked or left unused.
People forget that getting answers is not what makes a good solution. Computers are still dumb, they only give answers. Asking the right question is everything. With the right question the uncertainty of a problem is resolved. Finishing is a mere exercise. whether hand-crafted assembly or an LLM’s regurgitation and synthesis of things it’s seen before is just a matter of efficiency.
> Two years ago it didn't even dawn on me that this would be my way of writing software in the near future

So you were ignorant two years ago, GitHub Copilot was already available to users back then. The only new big thing the past two years was GPT-4, and nothing suggest anything similar will come the next two years. There are no big new things on the horizon, we knew for quite a while that GPT-4 was coming, but there isn't anything like that this time.
Make a deal with all the banks or systems that can print money that would allow you to take an infinite loan from them. Then just double the bet every time you lose.

If they can print money, why not infinitely as you will always pay it back anyway, so you don't have to worry about introducing inflation. There will always be a point when you can just burn the money that you temporarily introduced.
because they don't have a probability of exactly 50%
It’s in the Entrepreneur subreddit so I think the assumption is a lot of these people have employees. Not sure what’s magical about the number 20k though.
I need that Go1 support asap. Time for my little Unitree friend to evolve and keep up with its GPT4 brain…
Also, if you do find an edge, you need to be prepared for what happens when everyone else discovers your arbitrage opportunity, and/or you tap out the potential of it.

A number of failed finance companies have the story: find a legitimate arbitrage opportunity; take on a billion dollars in investment to exploit the opportunity; make bank; other people discover your arbitrage opportunity and jump on; stop making bank; try riskier and riskier investment opportunities to keep it going; engage in outright fraud to keep it going; go bankrupt and/or to jail.
The need for active electronics.
We can inspect these models and look at exactly what they're doing. We don't need to guess about why they fail tests like this. We know as a fact that they are static and not generating new knowledge from input.

I don't understand why you keep talking about human capabilities - your guesses about what humans may or may not be able to do are irrelevant. You can hold whatever opinion you like about my ability to reason, but I'd suggest using less wishful thinking with regards LLMs.

They're very useful, but not for reasoning.
Before I read the linked thread I thought this whole post was about salaries. I don’t know about average SWE in the USA, but it’s certainly common in some markets.

You can be rank-and-file in software, law, and medicine and exceed $20k/mo after taxes.

Makes the risk in entrepreneurship not worth it for me.
Non US person here.

Can anyone explain why is the lawsuit against RealPage and not the landlords specifically? They are the ones hypothetically doing the price fixing.

Considering the following scenarios:
* A landlord/tenant publishes their rent online: not price fixing.
* A group of landlords/tenants publish their rents online: not price fixing.
* A group of landlords share their rents privately: maybe price fixing?
* A group of landlords share their rents to a 3rd party, which publicly shares aggregated data: doesn't look like price fixing to me.
* A group of landlords share their rents to a 3rd party, which privately shares aggregated data: maybe price fixing?
* A group of landlords share their rents to a 3rd party, which uses ML/AI to predict occupancy rates at a given price; and uses it to maximize expected profits to each individual: doesn't look like price fixing to me, maybe it is if we consider that it is using non-public data.
* A group of landlords share their rents to a 3rd party, which uses reinforcement learning to dictate the best price to set, considering that the same policy will be shared with other landlords: price fixing.

Considering the difference between the two last scenarios, is the lawmaker going to evaluate how sophisticated is the algorithm behind the scenes?
ptrdiff_t is a signed integer type - which means you can subtract these numbers without worrying about underflow
Traktor: True multimaster replication for vanilla PostgreSQL
You don't think that immigrants need a place to live? The more demand you have for a thing, the higher the price goes.
Is there any way to increase 4g LTE reception like this without using any "active" devices?
Everything except short-term profits. X seems decently focused on the long term, especially with subscriptions being introduced as a (new) revenue stream.

Also not sure about R&D, as I don't know what R&D Twitter was doing pre-acquisition, but there's been an extraordinary increase in the rate of addition of new features and changes to the platform.
Silly question, but isn't a PIN a password?
How did you determine that both outcomes have a probability of exactly 50%?
I find small flat bladed screw drivers work well.
We still see quite a few new products being released which fail to implement the spec.

A common offender is devices which leave out the CC resistors, making them only work with A-C cables. But the soon-to-be-released Raspberry Pi 5 also violates the specs, making it basically only work with their proprietary charger.
Another idea of BASIC is that the language should be similar to english. To this day, I am not sure it is a really good idea, because while it appears "easy" on the surface, you actually have to memorize the specific syntax of each command (e.g. FOR, or the punctuation in PRINT).

Most other mainstream languages (C, javascript, java, rust, etc) seems to have settled on some semi-common syntax of the same ancestry so that it is "easy" to learn once you know another of the same kind.

Lisp, on the other side... You have to learn a different paradigm initially, which some find hard and/or irritating, but then, everything is so wonderfully regular.
I do about 100 million embeddings using around 50 GPU instances and feed them into Qdrant. Takes about 12 hours. Very happy with the result and performance as long as you have the option to have a very large memory instance running.
Not only that, but also the concept of open-source development is not the panacea we believe it to be. Bear with me.

Software is extremely complex, even if it is open-source, no one except the original developers and very dedicated people will attempt to patch the myriad of issues and bugs they encounter daily. And even if we do spend the time to track down and fix a bug, there's a political and diplomatic game to convince the maintainers to incorporate your fix. It is not uncommon for a PR to just sit, unreviewed, for years. Open-source does not and will never scale, because software is orders of magnitude too complex.

Outside of software, this problem is lessened because maintainership is distributed: if your car engine breaks, you do not depend on your manufacturer to have enough time and energy to fix it. There are thousands of licensed garages that can do it for you. And, not least, the real world is much simpler than any piece of software, which is effectively completely ad-hoc: knowing how Chrome works will not help you fix this Firefox issue, whereas if you can fix the carburettor on a Honda car, you probably can do the same on a FIAT.

Open-source/distributed development and bug fixing worked much better when computers had 64 kB of RAM and programs no more than 10 pages long.

EDIT TO CLARIFY: I'm not talking of open-source vs commercial, or other types of governance. I'm talking more abstractly about the fact that having source available and open contributions does not noticeably increase the amount of bugs fixed. This comment is about software complexity and logistics of distributed bugfixing.
Ah actually I think that's right. Thanks!
There's an on going promotion advocating that banking, "misinformation", political views and banking should be combined. Regardless of whether we flippantly dismiss the "social credit score" promotion as a nutty conspiracy or not, it does offer an answer to your question.
Disney's new bipedal robot demonstrates the power of style
Looking at this map makes me want to move to Tokyo. Sure, the trains stopping at night makes nightlife and catching a morning flight annoying, but train culture* of just making plans to meet at a train station with a friend is so much better than the car dependent place I live.

*It's not unique to Tokyo, but I've spent extended periods of time in cities with trains and this is what we often did. Tokyo just has lots of train lines.
It depends on your workload.

Some industries require to be able to reproduce exact bit by bit data.

Anything that requires absolute bit certainty, for example digital signatures, encryption, or financial information, will require ECC.

If you don't care if your files eventually don't match a sha256 checksum, you'll be fine. for example source code, it doesn't matter because in the worst case, your code won't compile because variable names got flipped.

And even then, if you're using Git for source code control, you're already using hash signatures to detect data corruption, as well as a very large redundancy and replication. Git is, in a philosophical way, ECC by software.
...that still basically means commercial VPNs are outlawed
HN is not only not a forum - it is a news aggregator, but also not only about startups

It is mostly about interesting things with emphasis on tech and business

It serves as ad place for jobs in yc startups
We don’t really, just some specific animals which we have historically dunked on, so I guess it’s just tradition now.
Single-side-only plugs are an issue with USB-C extension cables - which aren't allowed by the spec and shouldn't exist for a wide variety of reasons.
> because, maybe they get a promotion?

While I agree with you in general, I don't think this bit is particularly fair. I'd say we know the limitations, and we also know that using LLMs might bring some advantage, and the companies that are able to use it properly will have a better position, so it makes sense to at least investigate the options.
Yeah, and seeing that the bias occurs only in some people, perhaps it occurs in people who do as little rotation as possible. Not sure if this study has a graph including amount of rotations occurred in general. E.g. you could take all coin flips where 0-5 rotations occurred and compare them to 6-11 rotations.
> what sort of protection does ECC ram give me?

The ability to detect (and possibly correct) physical memory errors.

> I've been using them both for over 2 years, and not once in that period (that I'm aware of) have I found myself with a problem due to faulty RAM

The "that I'm aware of" part is the key issue. ECC provides visibility into the health of the physical memory that you otherwise wouldn't have.

> What practical benefit would I get in exchange for the performance hit of ECC memory?

Side-band ECC (which is what you'd use on desktops/workstations/servers) doesn't have a performance hit, as the overhead of ECC is fully neutralized by the additional bandwidth and capacity of an ECC DIMM.
Can negative mass be actually positive, by using different point of reference?

Like with voltages. One can be positive or negative if you swap "ground".
Actually if you set it up right it doesn't cost you anything more to do it if it's almost fully parallel. It doesn't matter if you paid for one GPU instance for 500 hours or 50 for 10 hours. The cost is about the same. You can also more confidently use spot pricing to reduce the cost.
But not running any large scale empirical studies and by ignoring any coins that landed on their edge.
See also, the (British) guy who made a computer-vision cat flap which didn’t let his cat in the house if it was carrying anything in it’s mouth…
> In a perfect world require every port to have the supported modes displayed beside it, and every cable to have the supported modes etched on the metal connector or something? Lightning bolt for PD, little screen icon for video, something?

Guess what? That's already the case! Manufacturers just choose to completely ignore that part of the specification.
Slashcrowd on early.
I built the original WiFi light bulb back in 2003. Does that count?
https://web.archive.org/web/20090923154300/http://www.oreill...

Coincidentally, this post and another post[^1] about the cantenna[^2], something I built with old friends back in 2001, are currently on the HN front page. Random and fun!

[^1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37826256

[^2]: https://makezine.com/article/home/food-beverage/pringles-can...
This bug is older than me
So it seems like they still use vectors - they just replaced the search (however that works) with a dot product operation? I mean from a vector point of view that makes total sense
full rewrites for sure, but _parts_ of many projects keep getting rewritten.

Firefox kept some Netscape code for sure, but replaced its CSS engine, its JS engine, its XUL-based UI.
> Less green space isn't really what most cities need.

IMO, it's better to follow the NYC model. Have a few great parks and then dense building.
> you have to bets many many times to make profit from stock market

You also have to take into account transaction fees and broker spread. (If you get a great deal on one of these, check the other very carefully!) I'd be quite surprised if the edge on your system is enough to cover those.
Wait until you hear who was until recently the chairman of the board.
This bug really annoyed me on Firefox and Thunderbird. Over the last two years I have learned to live with it.
Japanese drugstores under pressure for realignment
it's reddit. at best they're embellishing the truth, at worst they're just fantasies.

if someone is paying 100k p/m for consulting, they're not just paying for consulting they're paying specifically for you. that's the hard bit.
No. It always gets stuck on a wrong path and can’t get out
I don't know what the problem is precisely, but I suspect the issue lies somewhere other than the browser's standard HTTP version negotiation.

I think this because, when I was testing Postman, if I set up my web server to support only HTTP/2 in the TLS ALPN, Postman didn't fall back to HTTP/2, it just failed.

If the standard browser negotiation were happening in Postman, I would have expected my setup to force HTTP/2, even if it generally wanted HTTP/1. My guess is on the Postman side, they simply don't support H2 in the ALPN.

I admit, I know nothing about Electron, so maybe there really is some weird limitation. But I think it's more likely Postman just didn't want to write the code to support HTTP/2. Most API users don't care about the transport; but I maintain a web server, and learning this rendered Postman useless for me. For now, it's curl or Insomnia.
This video from Yann LeCun gives a great summary on where things stand. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd0JmT6rYcI

He is of the opinion the current generation transformers architecture is flawed and it will take a new generation of models to get close to the hype.
The article says ‘Add 0.5 g of alum per 500 mL of salt solution.’ but in the gif demonstrating the difference, it’s 0.5 g of alum per 100 mL of salt solution.
Nowadays, the competition and the cost to make a stood-out game is too high.

But still hoping one day I'll make another Flappy Birds.
That could be said the same about humans, if you took a bunch of uneducated children and just let them tell each other their own ideas with no one to teach them anything for real, they probably do at least a little better than the current fancy statistical spellguessers, but they probably won't do exactly great, because of the same issue of the blind leading the blind.

And really in reality we do have that actual problem to some degree with the presense of non-blind adults. Actual humans are a mass of mixed clued and clueless with a lot of bad input feeding output feeding other bad input around and around and around, not even counting the legitimate fair differences of opinion.

So it's a problem, but I don't think it's a fundamentally new or worse problem than we already have,and have already always had.

The fix is I don't think there is a fix for that any more than there is for the same thing in humans. There just will always be bad data feeding bad reasoning right alongside the other good data feeding good reasoning. It's probably wrong to ever expect anything else, and fail to operate from that assumption rather than the idea that there might ever be some resolution where we don't have to worry about that.
The problem with your premise is that you're already drawing conclusions about the potential of AI and deciding it is hype. Perhaps decades ago someone could have equally criticised "Internet hype" and "mobile hype" and look foolish now.
I read genghis khan and the making of the modern world a while back, it was an excellent book.
Finland launches a 20-qubit quantum computer
Sure but that record +3% GDP looks good, and comes from agro
Tax rates vary based on the type of good. Give a kid $5 and send them to the grocery store and you have to anticipate if they’ll buy candy or an apple or soap or a magazine.

The only advantage to not including taxes is that people spend more money. This is marginally better for stores and worse for everyone else.

Theres no genuine benefit to society for not including taxes in the posted price.
Lego MRI Scanners donated to hospitals to help children cope with anxiety (2022)
> Making USB reversible to begin with would have necessitated twice as many wires and twice as many circuits, and would have doubled the cost

Not really. I've got a cable which is USB 2.0 type A one side, Micro-B the other side and both the sides are perfectly reversible. It's already been many years since I've bought it and it still serves me reliably for both charging and data needs. The manufacturer didn't even have to change the standard to produce a reversible cable working great with all the old devices whose manufacturers never heard reversible USB cables exist.
Ask HN: Is there a event seating plan tool but for cars?
I regularly set up weekend retreats for groups.

Part of the logistics planning is to match people with drivers (volunteers who are also part of the retreat).

Currently I'm doing this on Excel but would love to know if anyone has come across any open source or online tool that can help with this?

Main criteria to match passengers with drivers is that drivers should be placed with passengers who are closest to them.

Usually what happens next is I put them all in a WhatsApp group and they can discuss logistics for the day.
This bug is older than the initial release of Firefox by two years.
Scaling WebSockets: Overcoming Challenges and Architectural Solutions
Who Runs the Best U.S. Schools? It May Be the Defense Department
And start selling the Chromecast Audio again.
Stripey orange

Orange

Stripey green

Blue

Stripey blue

Green

Stripey brown

Brown

Thanks for the memories!
I’m not sure either of statements really excuses the underperformance.

You either beat the market or you don’t. It’s relative. He could lose money but if he loses less than the broad market, he outperformed.

And sitting on a pile of cash is a negative, a lost opportunity.

That said 20 years is arbitrary, however it’s not an insignificant period of time. It’s two decades!

But my final point is that Buffet isn’t an investor in the way regular people are. He doesn’t passively put his money into companies. He often buys controlling stakes in a company - either taking them over entirely or getting a board set where he can change the way the company operates.

Comparing BH return with your average Joe is like comparing a casual gambler with one who does it professionally and often find edges nobody else has.
Now you own a smaller part of a more valuable company, given the the money is well spent. Your net worth shouldn't change much.

Either way, if you had a majority of the voting shares, you could've stopped the issue.
parent mentioned survivorbias as a precaution for those who think its their destiny to make 20k/month after reading the OP.

> This is a forum about hackers and hacking a way out

yes, and as such you'll run into the folks with opinions on either side of the discussion, how is that not more intellectually stimulating than the alternative?
Saudi-China collaboration raises concerns about access to AI chips
https://archive.ph/vwf61