skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What If GPT-5 Didn't Meet Expectations?
A lot of companies that raised a lot in 2021-22 didn’t hire much because the labor market was so tight. Also, I think many knew that the availability of capital was unnaturally high and that they shouldn’t plan as if those conditions would continue.
The residents of culdesac have to sign a lease that states that they are not allowed to park on the streets. This was a condition of the city to allow the zoning variance for culdesac.
> but it feels like more of its complexity is front-loaded and that you run into difficult patterns that test your knowledge more quickly. That might just be my impression though, I'm tackling the two languages at different times of my life and I'm doing different things with them.

That’s exactly it. C++ will let you do things that are 100% wrong, or worse, occasionally wrong, and you have to “just know” how to do them right. Rust will absolutely refuse to compile until you’ve used the correct concept to solve the problem.

It doesn’t eliminate pure logic bugs, but it can vastly reduce the set of possible inputs and code paths to include a subset of possible failure modes you’d find in C++ code. Which would only be enforced by discipline or code reviews, and forces everyone to be consciously anal-retentive to avoid introducing subtle errors in the codebase.

In addition, a lot of C++’s additions have been more type-safe constructs to partially accomplish some of the safety in Rust, but it doesn’t have a way to drop additions. As a result, the “bad practice” solutions are the ones that got there first and are easiest to reach for, and the best practice solutions have more complex syntax.

For whatever reason, new C++ additions also seem to often be half-baked because support isn’t added to other parts of the STL that they interact with, even if it’s painfully obvious you would absolutely want to reach for those tools. For instance, the limited types supported by std::to_string, or hash tables not supporting tuples for multiple editions (haven’t checked C++23).

So yeah, if you stick to or start out with C++03, single-threaded programming, small codebase, it seems simpler. But once you start scaling the complexity of the code or the size of the codebase, or digging deeper into the language (I haven’t even mentioned template metaprogramming), you keep on encountering more and more complexity.

Whereas with Rust, if you’re writing it idiomatically anyway, the difficulty tends to plateau as
(1) the language is in the background minimizing side effects and enforcing cross-module constraints so the volume of code you have to “just know” to safely work on something doesn’t scale with the codebase
(2) your initial learning only consists of the modern best practices constructs, and after that additional learning tends to be more bite-sized.

When you factor in C++’s still-chaotic DIY buildscript, packaging, linting, formatting situation, the level of cognitive overhead for the parts of a practical C++ project that you actively have to manage tends to be far, far greater than Rust.

And some teams just throw up their hands and decide they aren’t even going to try to keep pace, and just negotiate some arbitrary point in the past they’re going to keep the codebase.

So the editorial comparisons between the safety of bleeding-edge modern C++ and Rust aren’t even really practically relevant, because a lot of teams fall off from how user-unfriendly C++ tooling and later editions wind up being.
Based on that integration test a phone number is still required.
What about freeform? I've never used it, but it seems fine.
Interesting, what features are most impactful in making it more pleasant to work with?

We picked Selenium because it seems much more widely used at least in the Python world (selenium has about 10x more downloads on PyPI than playwright). My guess is that's at least partly because Playwright is more focused on the JS/TS ecosystem and testing.
ESP32 Supports Wi-Fi Aware (NAN)
The one I was thinking of is titled "Sam Bankman-Fried Goes to Jail, Back to School With A.I. and a Self-Driving Car Update" from Aug 18th
If things are so dire today that they have no money and must shutdown immediately, they were dead in the water 6-8 weeks ago anyways. The company isn’t going to be miraculously saved during that time, so just take the cash you used to pay your employees to rearrange chairs on the sinking ship, call it 2 months early, and pay out their severance/health care during that time while they look for new jobs.
I think we some creative marketing this could be changed. People is 1st class hate having to watch everyone go by them. Anyway, who cares. If the end result is faster boarding and more reliable service it should be done.
Why craft when you can play? Great to see a refreshing perspective amidst the hustle and grind of the tech world. Next time someone asks why I spent my weekend making a digital potato, I'll just link them to this article. On a side note, there's a secret brilliance in 'useless' software: it reveals the pure essence of the coder's joy and curiosity.
$500k in tax-free profit for a married couple goes a very long way without needing to pull a 1031.
A startup will never survive long enough to close the next round with that logic.
Honestly I think I'd love this. Being able to augment an existing MacBook pro with a bunch of RAM or a good GPU would be very useful to me.
On the other hand, americans are fat as hell lol. (I am american)

Obviously that is a complicated issue, but what's the cost look like for everyone if 40% of Americans weren't so fat?
Alzheimer's microbiota induce deficits in cognition and hippocampal neurogenesis
The problem with idle scan isn't much scanning itself, but understanding trust relationships between hosts. This allowed to target the attacks much better. But I get what you mean in general.
These types of optimizations are what I figured Carmack would be doing at Keen. He's so good at optimization and low-level hardware understanding that I thought he might be able to wring some small extra percentage out of existing hardware for AI tasks. With compute currently as expensive as it is, that would be extremely valuable.
Never really understood the privacy argument for hiding (or disconnecting) your phone number in a User-User "texting" type application. I suppose if Signal were linking my identity across a bunch of platforms I'd be worried, but their privacy policy is pretty aggressive so I'm not really worried about that. Indeed the additional friction for scammers is a benefit to me. Telegram is a morass of dodgy group chats and spam, Signal is miles better for the things I value in a messaging service (encrypted texting and group chatting with people I already know in the real world).
Show HN: Logss – GA Release. A simple Rust tool to helps visualize logs
Also available in https://crates.io/crates/logss
>What makes you think the executives are making anything from this?

If the CEO was still speaking for the company then he's being paid.
On a tangent to the main point, I like the subtle acknowledgement of our new reality - or at least of the one of many sudden shifts in common software tooling:

> Google Translate translates the phrase to “Praise be to God.” ChatGPT translates it to "Praise be to Allah" or "All praise is due to Allah."

LLMs turned out to be pretty good at translating, and ChatGPT (especially GPT-4) went straight into competing toe-to-toe with Google Translate itself.
https://nitter.net/AAMortazavi/status/1713265395388252666
Argh, I can't edit my comment – inspired by the article, I prepared my own list:

https://untested.sonnet.io/Here's+a+List+of+Toys

I actually forgot about a bunch of those
A huge part of modern startup culture is to put on a happy face in all situations to project an aura of confidence.

Cynics would call it fake it until you make it, but for many businesses if they don’t look secure they will find it harder to get new customers in order to survive.
> Netflix on Wednesday disclosed summertime subscriber gains that surpassed industry analysts' projections, signaling the video streaming service's crackdown on password sharing is converting __former freeloaders__ into paying customers.

Has the AP (the source of the article) always been this editorialized? I'm not sure how one could be a freeloader when someone is paying for the allotted usage of a subscription plan.

I understand now, Netflix limits the usage to those under 1 roof / IP but previously, they sold subscriptions that allowed N people to use the service under an account at a given time. Seems like that is just people leveraging the service they bought...not "freeloading".
This generation of ThreadRipper has higher TDP than last generation of EPYC. There is very little difference between EPYC and ThreadRipper of the same generation. There are plenty of workstation style motherboards for EPYC as well (see asrock offerings).
If my understanding is correct, the idea behind cobra is to use it just-in-time for healthcare operations that are more expensive than the monthly premium, ie a $25k surgery + $15k hospital stay
If Safari only is a viable browser because of Apple literally being anti-competitive to it's users in other ways, I'd argue it's hardly viable at all.

The reality is that we're most likely in a monoculture already when it comes to browsers (just on the whole); Firefox gets funded by Google as and Safari only is propped up because Apple does it's own anti-competitive practices in other areas (read: their gatekeeping of the App Store) rather than being a common choice because it's a good browser.

There's also the fact that a lot of this is a tough thing to claim when by all accounts from webdevs... Safari is an unviable browser without Apple's anti-competitive behavior because Safari fucking sucks. It's the modern Internet Explorer of browsers; a lot of modern web APIs that both Firefox and Chrome use just... don't work on Safari because the system has bugs or weird design decisions that don't follow spec, which means they're not widely used because Safari is still there and holding back everyone else.
Why do we need to fix it? Plenty of tourists not buying the Dystopian Hellscape meme. Why help airbnb and tech companies?

Look at what happened when Oregon scrapped their Enjoy your visit but please don’t stay motto.
I disagree about worse service. I really love the ui on tesla and rivian. When I've had rental cars with carplay or aa it's been fine. The latter two mobile apps have also added more 3rd party streaming services. Tesla & rivian had added things too.
1500 employees on an average of $100k pa is approx $195m dollars in salary, taxes, benefits, etc. If you have a bunch of engineers and that average is more like $150k, it goes even faster.

They raised $260m in April 2022.
For example, I never went to college, but I can easily do calculus and science in my head. Some of us just naturally would exceed without needing to be lectured.
Why do they even do it that way? It’s so annoying to scroll through the mass of images to get to a previous one you generated.
Yeah that relationship is important and no reason any given trucker, carrier, broker can't just offer lower rates and suddenly you're out of the picture.

You gotta offer more than just a rate...
how can you prove that apple's gatekeeping of browser has an economic impact. the google deal is easy to assess
You maybe coming from a place with high computer literacy, but what I have expressed is what I see in my surroundings.

You mentioned electronic bills (idk what that is), bank account/SWIFT/IBAN. You maybe suprised, but these people don't type these numbers at all. They don't ever need to. The most they can type is a phone number.

People have more patience to type CC number because it's more important to them than receiving a file, which can be easily shared through WhatsApp etc. For larger files, they will just copy using a data cable, or pendrive.

> And unlike the CC info, every IP a non-techie ever deals with - and they have most certainly seen and typed one at least few times at this point, such as when they got internet service - starts with the same 6 digits.

Yeah, keep living in your bubble. One rarely needs to type an IP address to use a modern fiber optics internet connection. It's generally pre-cofigured.

> A QR code is a far better solution

> Then just use that instead of ranting about how IPs are unacceptable.

Yes, and I am always going to choose the QR code over typing IP address manually any time of the day.
based on Larry Niven story Inconstant Moon which won the 1972 Hugo Award for best short story.
Yeah, this isn't working at all for me. In fact, it denies any ability to use DALL-E. ChatGPT+ customer, using GPT-4.

Edit: here is what I get when I use their own example prompt:

Me: I am doing a report on cirrus clouds for my science class. I need photorealistic images that show off how wispy they are. I am going to compare them to photos I took of puffy cumulonimbus clouds at my house yesterday.

ChatGPT 4: I'm sorry, but I cannot generate or provide photorealistic images directly. However, I can guide you on how to describe, find, or use them in your report (yadda-yadda-yadda).

Edit #2: I tried logging out and back in and now I have it, so if it's not working for you that might be worth a try.
According to Bloomberg they had a headcount of 1500 at their peak, so assuming that USD 1000000 gets you 5 employees for a year, USD 26000000 would get you 1300 employees for a year. (That’s a lot of hand waving on my part but overall the amount of money burned doesn’t seem mysterious)
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>1,000 employees means a burn rate in the hundreds of millions per year just on the costs of having employees, $260m burned in a year sounds about right for a company of that size.
One underused angle for oodles of memory is the humble ramdisk. If you haven't run into these, you set aside a portion of memory to serve as a disk volume. If you have a temporary work product, some kind of intermediate stage bit you will not save, shoving it in a ramdisk provides some really amazing speedups. You can put a SQLite database in it on the fly, just for analysis, run at blazing speeds, keep the results. Image an optical disk into your ramdrive, chow away at it, keep the work product, and just clear the memory.
The audit framework is less flexible in what you can get events for. eBPF gives you basically unlimited options, though you have to implement it yourself. Additionally the audit framework is wonky. There's the kernel side plus a userspace daemon that logs the audit data to disk. If you want to implement your own daemon to act as the audit agent, maybe to do something more sophisticated than just logging to disk, it gets complicated. There's very little documentation on how to implement such a custom daemon, you basically have to just copy what the existing agent does and hope you aren't subtly breaking things.
Not when a company shuts down like this. If they did, the investors would claw it all back through the courts. The founders and executives walk away from this with $0.
What if all the traffic ends up routed through Nevada?
You should deduct ~60W baseline I/O die power consumption (~40W for 12 and 16 core Threadrippers), which gives:

96-core: 2.5W/core + 60W I/O-die
12-core: 21.7W/core + 40W I/O-die

Lower TDP settings are still available. With PBO, you might be able to extract more juice out of stock power levels.
Depending on the level of your students, if you get the chance to talk a little bit about sockets, you can always guide them to build a very simple HTTP Server.
In reality, you don't need to go much deep on sockets, just talk about send() and recv(), and in very simplistic terms. You can check this [1] blog post of mine, and the final code is very simple but very useful to learn how the "internet" works..

Good luck!

[1] https://joaoventura.net/blog/2017/python-webserver/
better hope 4chan doesn't get a hold of this
I hope I can finally put signal on my second phone with the same account.
Are you suggesting they would also not pay out the final payroll, because of course they would never shut down unless they had literally used their last dollar?
wrong.

I don't recall the keywords to find the bust I was talking about from a couple years ago (2019 or so) which was explicitly targeting Bitcoin mining, (not eth or some other altcoin) but it turns out I didn't have to because in the past 2 years alone there have been two _more_ busts of electricity stealing crypto gangs, in thailand alone, collectively of a similar scale to the one I was referring to. By the evidence tables they appear to have been using slightly older antminers, what looks like a mix of s9, s17 (distinctive plug/fan layout), maybe s19 vintages, so although they don't say so in the articles this was almost certainly Bitcoin (or just as bad, BCH) being mined.

2022:
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2455120/thousan...

2023: (much smaller scale than above but still stealing over USD $150000 a year in electricity)

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2569745/crypto-...

This time around the authorities estimate that they've only found 1%, not 10% as they had before, of the illegal mining done in their country. Perhaps the mining bans in Vietnam and China have triggered an influx of even more illegal activity into neighvoring states. This is the dirtiest secret in Bitcoin, bar none, and the conveniently suspicion-deflecting narrative that miners barely make profit is a straight up lie. This is just one of the many reasons its earning the name klepto-currency.

Sure, some upstart miners, the ones who foolishly attempt to operate completely above board may be in that position but they are not the handful of quiet established operations that have been around for 5, or even 10 years, and who have longstanding ties both to one another and to pool operators who help conceal the illegal portions of the hash rate they control. Thus is substantially the reason that miners can survive downward price pressure, since they themselves are the main source of it. But you're perhaps one of these hopeless cases who actually believes all or even a majority of the volume on exchanges is real as well.
Yep it's funny to me how many developer/poweruser type people act like exchanging money for goods and services is a weird unsavoury concept. Do they have this same hangup in other areas of life?
Ask HN: Many of You Use Linktree and
what is the one feature you wish it had in the free version. Or in general?

Do you even find such link Aggregators useful? How much helpful is it to your success?
Floats aren't uniformly distributed over the reals (e.g. larger floats are sparser) so the above approach simply tries to account for that when generating the number by using a precisely counteracting non-uniform selection method which will result in even distribution in relation to where in the reals the picks are. It does so directly.
Sure: a cloud variable is like a normal variable, but its value is replicated to all people using the project. Perhaps important context for Scratch variables: all variables are global in Scratch.

If person A uses the project and modifies the cloud variable, person B also using the project at the same time will see the new value update in real time.

Related tidbit about cloud variables:
When I was on Scratch, there was no effective limit to the size of data stored in the cloud variable (though you were restricted to <= 10 cloud variables per project). Assign a letter to a two-digit number, a -> "01", concatenate the digits for each letter, and store the number into a cloud variable, and you get a simple encoding/decoding scheme for communicating between players in a game.

When enough projects that (ab)used cloud variables for intensive applications like multiplayer came around, I believe that the Scratch Team restricted the amount of data each can store. This change happened as I was no longer using Scratch much, though, so I can't speak much about it.
Why do you assume the worst, with absolutely no information?

The company is shutting down. I'd bet you a lot of money nobody gets anything.
> Ever seen a research reactor?

Yes, from afar, at CEA but I don't think anyone was working inside it.

> You might want to look up how Cherenkov radiation works, btw. - it's depolarization.

Would you mind expanding? Because Wikipedia seem to agrees with what I remembered:

The charged particle excites the molecules in the polarizable medium and on returning to their ground state, the molecules re-emit the energy given to them to achieve excitation as photons.

Also, what's emitting the radiation, if not water molecules, in your model?

> Anyway, it is good that you are kept away from nuclear technology given your lax and aggressive attitude towards risks there (anyone thinking accidentsare impossible has no place there). Good choice.

Well, I see you're angry, but that's kind of a funny thing to say to someone who's started this very thread by defending safety regulation in the first place[1].

FYI There's a big difference between having a “lax attitude towards risks ” or “thinking accidents are impossible” and noting that you're completely making up risks that simply don't exist like “spent fuel rods provide deadly amounts of radiation in basically no time to people around them”. If you have people “around” spent fuel rods in the open air, you have a serious organizational problem: what are you trying to do in the first place?! (researchers in many fields are known to be completely oblivious to any kind safety measures, so maybe that's the kind of thing you did in your lab, but in an industrial setting I doubt anyone would have be doing that after at least the 70s).

The special risks with nuclear have nothing to do with the deadliness of things like hot fuel rods, and much more about broad environmental impact with moderate increase in cancer rate spread over a big populations (be them workers in contaminated areas or general population in the wide place around an accident). This is a big topic. But when it comes to immediate death risks on a nuclear plant, the radiations coming from radionuclide simply isn't one of them.

[1]: see also this comment in a sibling thread for another even more explicit example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37935638
Google is regularly ranked as one of the top 5 most recognisable brands in the world. It's not some niche techy thing to know what Google is.

A few anecdotal experiences on help desk for, at most, a few companies, don't really change that.

Regular, normal people on the street use 'Google' as a verb for 'searching on the internet'.
What happens to the customers? Are there any business lines that were in their infancy worth exploring?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

There's a lot of shitakemushrooms going on.
They got caught in the same thing that happened to Flexport and others in the freight industry.

Price per shipment cratered -> Revenue cratered. (They make a % of each shipment) -> Losses spiked up. (Because they had fixed cost)

Flexport had a burn run rate of $600M a year. Convoy had less burn but also less in the bank.

https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/flexport-revenue-dr...
So many variables, but it's easy to spend $260M in 18 months at a decently sized company. If they have 1200 employees, that's about $12k per employee per month. So you could easily spend that much just on salary + benefits for software developers in Seattle.
Company shutdown != layoff.
Would this case affect rentals?

It should, as the rental fees affect the lower and middle income people (who rent) more than owners and buyers.

Paying someone 12-15 percent of year rent for doing absolutely nothing is borderline criminal.
Tech support only hears from people with technical problems, so it is subject to sample bias.
please don't extend POSIX

but let POSIX die in peace

create new standards, sure

but preferable standards with more narrow scopes, e.g. a remote block storage API standard, which is just that and nothing more
Exactly, I'm very curious as to what was their edge