skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it would make it easier to run on Macs

But Apple doesn't ask HP or Dell to make its laptops. And Apple uses their own SoCs exclusively. So I don't think it would change anything other than some mild effect -- helping a larger shift in the developer ecosystem to make more developers accustomed to developing on ARM.
This article is interesting because it is claiming Goldman is hating on its consumer businesses, but meanwhile its Marcus division seems to be doing well. I use it for both savings and loans and it is very convenient, and they are pretty aggressive in marketing it.

Is it really all consumer facing activity, or just the Apple portion?
It can be if you want it to be https://graduallythensuddenly.xyz/pay-me-in-bitcoin-theory/
> Inertia is not a virtue - neither for an object, nor for a human

because inertia is unavoidable. a fact of nature, it's useless to try to judge it as good or bad; however we all do this. and after trying to do this, we all eventually learn that inertia is unrelated to virtue and that everything will be affected by inertia

is this good? or bad? is this a virtue? or a vice? good for subjects? bad for objects?

the answer is no all the way until one realizes that it doesn't matter. it'll still be inertia
Are there any tools that allow you to manage a server like a pet, yet ensure it can be restored/rebuild?

And, while with the analogy of pets, when you are on holiday, allow your neighbors to look after your pets?
Not sure if this is the same event,... but microsoft did invest $150M in apple as a part of settlement in a patent lawsuit
Ok, that would take care of the bank. You still need to build the servicing company, which is the part they seemed to have fucked up.
"Broken down there are 137 Engineering management roles and 38 Product roles being reduced. Additionally, there will be 388 role reductions across our Engineering team"

Companies have cut back on recruiters a while ago, so I guess they stopped money on linkedin.

I wonder what areas will be impacted next.
Yeah, this being written by Andreesen is a non-starter for me. I have no interest in what he has to say at this point - hard pass.
This looks like a good policy to me.

I used ChatGPT (3.5 - 4 wasn't out yet) to help with Advent of Code last year and found it extremely useful - but I was careful not to attempt to make the leaderboard because it felt unfair to me: https://simonwillison.net/2022/Dec/5/rust-chatgpt-copilot/
What's funny is my immediate reaction is "Shut up and take my money!"

The people who have nostalgia for this sort of stuff happen to also be the people the age where nostalgia takes hold and disposable income becomes available.
Yep. SO wants to be a wiki, but in Q&A format. Its rules are designed not primarily to be a Q&A site, but rather a searchable knowledge base. But the interface is largely designed around making it look like a Q&A site, and this conflicting purpose causes a lot of the negative interactions (IMO).
Training and inference code for audio generation models
Doesn't Google Pay do this with normal cards?
If there are global markets for products, they should be global markets for employment.
Starting a food co-op: Year 2
That's where the focus usually is, but aborting at startup is the next best thing. It's an undervalued technique.
"Today I had to say goodbye to my fellow LinkedInians. I am truly grateful for the 2 years I spent there creating value for shareholders of MSFT. Being pushed by my managers to excel and being able to learn from Satya Nadella's memos made it some of the most impactful years of my life. ETC ETC. Please refer me at your company. Thanks." - 700 linkedIn posts appearing today.
The issue I have is that they’re implying it’s inherently better than software emulation, perhaps because it more accurately reproduces the behavior. But an FPGA emulator isn’t necessarily any more accurate.

I think it’s dishonest marketing, and they know it. The low contrast, fine print at the bottom doesn’t make the same claim:

> 3. Analogue 3D is not designed using software emulation. It is designed using a specialty hardware chip called an FPGA, which operates on a transistor level implementation of its functionality.
I don't understand what the dunk is supposed to be here. Plenty of unionized companies have layoffs.
They were able to ship both my Mega Sg and Super Nt and a Pocket Dock a few months ago within a few days of each other. I think once they have the stuff in-stock from manufacturing its very quickly in the hands of customers.
that may be true if you are Ok to have only one thread and not utilize parallelism.
The Eon Super 64 is like $150-ish and works perfectly. I guess you need an original N64 too.

But the Super 64 + an Everdrive was so worth it.
> On a modern high-end core, the register rename engine is one of the largest consumers of die area and power.

Another red herring. Register rename isn't the result of some PDP fetishizing. It is a direct result of using more hardware resources than are exposed in the architectural model. Even if it were a stack machine or a dataflow graph architecture, register renaming is what you do when you have more dynamic names for storage than static names in the ISA.
Twitter Is Throttling Patreon Links, Creators Say It Undermines Their Livelihood
Twitter and reddit would be phenomenal companies if they never took VC funding.
Infocom Universe Bootleg is 397.5MB

A yandex search will reveal various torrent links.

It should unzip to six folders;

Bonus Games

Infocom Games

Infocom InvisiClues

Infocom Universe Bootleg.nfo

IUB Database

Software Tools
Who is "beating" someone here? In adult reality, Apple are likely "concerned" rather than "feel amazing" if this isn't sustainable for their strategic partner. If your wife is miserable, you'd be dumb to think "I am better at marriage than she is" because eventually it's going to end.

Also. Businesses make bets. GS made a bet on consumer finance and on this deal in particular. You hope that every bet will work out, you know some won't and that's fine as long as you have more wins than losses. GS seems fine holistically so seems like they are taking a calculated amount of risk.
I don’t like advertising because it doesn’t even pretend to be informative firstly and secondly it’s not entertaining. Just inform me of what the product or service does and then if that is impossible just do a joke. I haven’t seen a YouTube in ads in years that doesn’t show some aspect of our society I don’t care about such as medications, crypto, how stupid a consumer who doesn’t buy their product is, etc.

That’s what I am avoiding with ad blocking. My life is better without all these things. I’m actually living a better life without ads.
Honestly, I feel like this is another bi-product of 0% interest rates for so long. Bankers have essentially stopped caring at all about deposit amounts. Many banks still offer 0.x% interest even with most T-bills paying 5%+. It is an odd position from something that should be easy business, receive billions in deposits, invest in 6 month T-bills, carve off 0.5-1% of the profit amount for yourself, profit?

I'm convinced this is less about them actually losing money and more about them having sour grapes about not making 100x or something. Like the credit card is losing money when it is immensely popular and charges like 18% interest, HOW?
Looks like no one in the thread addressed the elephant in the room, so I’ll bite and say the crass unsayable: while you are fundraising a $1B dice roll, you likely have options to take money off the table personally, such that even in the failure case your $1B company has a comparable or better personal outcome than the success case of the other two options. Also, while you still running a $1B company and has not hit the ground, the position is going to be more prestigious and profitable than the other alternatives. So, yeah, employees be damned; personally for the founder the #3 alternative is almost always clearly better in the real world.

One should never forget that majority of SV startups are not/will not be building sustainable businesses but building some technology and playing a short-term financial game. It’s easy to lose sight of that.
Classic JIRA is very flexible into shaping a workflow, but it's sort of a very long pipeline of: schemas, fields, workflows, project templates, etc. I loved that flexibility and being able to drill down into a bug report, but it definitely took time to set up, and occasionally unravel & put back together when you needed to fix something small.

There's also the usual stuff of finding & setting up plugins, and then looking for a maintenance window that people can agree on, while side-stepping those settings you forgot needed a restart to apply (thus bringing your live maintenance to a halt because you can't bring it offline now).
I'd like to pay less money and not get music. Just no ads. YouTube Red launched with Google Play Music, which I enjoyed. But that's gone now, and I'm paying for YouTube Music which I do not use.
The plastic which is the problem is at max. 2 generations old so the previous poster was off by 1. Considering this sites affinity with software development, an off-by-one error should be acceptable :)
Hahaha, haven't thought of that! I'd probably call that a feature and not a bug.
In order for code to be maintainable it first has to be readable.

The second example has poor readability. And that's even before we get to the issue that this approach has fallen out of favor exactly because it result in code that can be a pain in the neck to figure out.

Please don't do this. This is the kind of legacy approach that I try to teach people working for me NOT to follow.
I actually did this for a while (not condemn people :) -- I paid for Youtube and then never signed in and continued to use 3rd-party apps and uBlock Origin).

One big issue is that your payment then is basically just to Youtube -- and it's kind of impossible to avoid because the point is to stop Youtube from obsessively tracking everything you view and do, but in the process you stop Youtube from knowing which videos you're watching, so the creators are no longer getting their piece of that pie.

It's a tricky problem, I'm not sure how to solve it using Youtube Premium's model (that's not true I can think of ways to solve this using some kind of anonymous token system, but Youtube's never going to do that).

It's part of why I advocate now for supporting creators directly (and by extension not caring about Google's profits, although that's secondary). But you could still buy Youtube Premium on the side if you specifically want to support Youtube; it's just if you're using 3rd-party clients I don't think that gets rid of the obligation to help the creators themselves.
A lot of woodworking is done in inches and fractions of inches. Doing joinery where you have to consider things like the kerf of the blade often requires many annoying additions and subtractions of power-of-two denominators. While adding 3/16 and 5/32 is trivial, trying to do that while focusing on making a good cut and taking accurate measurements can be distracting.
What are some visible indications that Marcus is doing any better?
Who says people who use adblock don't do that? I certainly avoid those sites, that's also why I self-host Invidious and often use youtube-dl.

If you are using a different front end for a service, you aren't avoiding using that service...

Why can't you just choose to use a different video sharing platform if you don't like what Youtube offers? Why bother using Invidious and youtube-dl?
For anyone wondering about the term "modular":

> In mathematics, modular arithmetic is a system of arithmetic for integers, where numbers "wrap around" when reaching a certain value, called the modulus. The modern approach to modular arithmetic was developed by Carl Friedrich Gauss in his book Disquisitiones Arithmeticae, published in 1801.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_arithmetic
I think you'd get the same result with a lot less overhead by just increasing corporate taxes a fraction of a percent (or just enforcing our current tax laws better) and making vocational training schools tuition-free.
I liked Fresco - but CORBA was kind of going the wrong direction it turned out in time.
I'm still not convinced on Wayland. Does it solve X's security issues?

https://berlin.sourceforge.net/

oh and this for X11 security issues as it's a nice summary : https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/4641/why-are-pe...
> I have a pet theory that lisp macros over an assembler is the right high level language for systems programming but that hasn't made it off the whiteboard yet.

I'm having a little trouble visualising this. Don't many assemblers provide macro-instructions already?
The source is open in the internet. Everyone can train with the SO-data.
Microsoft about to swallow a $25bn+ tax hit.
Agree completely. They did the same thing with discourse. The type of thinking I classify as "I'm smarter than my users".

Draconian limits on even slightly adjacent questions in SO are basically the same thinking that led them to prevent posting on a Discourse thread _in private instances_ unless your answer has the number of words they think you should use.

And they of course justify it by saying their "research" says this will create a "healthier" community which is of course bullshit.
Did someone else release or announce an N64 FPGA device? I didn't hear anything about it.
This was the part that was most surprising to me as well. Most other reports seem to indicate that education is among the fastest rising costs compared to inflation, similar to healthcare. I'm surprised to see that number so low in this report.
Direct electroconversion of air to nitric acid realized under mild conditions
I don't think its a systemD thing. This sounds more like an issue with changing a server's behaviour without asking.
I'm really a bit shocked this was flagged. A blog post (marketed as a manifesto no less!) from the founder of Netscape and one of the biggest VCs in the business about the future of technology. I understand its potential for flame wars, but how could this not be on-topic for HN?
> Which unfortunately is a problem in itself. A lot of core knowledge is lost and many people running infrastructure don't know how to read actual logs and debug outside of what the GUI shows. Just like you mention it's not even VPS these days it's a Dockerfile pushed to some cloud.

Plenty of k8s users are accessing their services and logs through CLI. It's just that the relevant logs are from the application and not whatever the underlying infrastructure is. It makes it way easier to have amazon deal with the underlying server and just let me focus on the actual application. Saves labor costs (in theory) by not having to hire an IT guy, and you can put more faith in the security practices of the cloud providers than in your own organization.

Your criticism reads like old school developers complaining about new devs learning Javascript without learning C or Assembly. Technology progresses, the set of baseline skills required to do your job changes. Few software engineers know anything about hardware or electrical engineering, but that used to be a requirement many decades ago.

> Copy/paste a Dockerfile, edit some yaml for the CI and claim you know DevOps. It's a shame really. I don't mind a nice minimal GUI when it makes sense, but it's important to understand the pieces below it.

What you've described is a way to make it dead simple for engineers to develop code without having to interface with a human being (a sysadmin) in between. It makes deployments consistent and easy. When you add CI/CD into the mix, you don't even need to run the command anymore, you just merge the master and swap your staging and production instances. Amazon can hire the sysadmins, the client can hire engineers.
You think that all the Bitcoin believers who buy relentlessly each week without question will suddenlly stop if they can now get 3x as much BTC for their fiat? Oh my sweet summer child...
The artists sign a contract with youtube. Non subscribed users don't. The same way promises only apply to those who believe in them, terms of services only applies to people signing a contract for them.

If a physical shop decide their terms only allow the customers with a membership card to look at the window from outside but decide to not put curtains, those terms do not apply to bystanders who could see inside. Same when my neighbour is naked with all the lights on. If she doesn't want me to see her, she knows what to do.
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I think this is an uncharitable reading of this thread.

I’m arguing against the breathless use of “surprising”.

My gp explains what I think you overlooked in this dismissive response.

> to analyze its decisions computationally necessitates similar levels of computation for each decision being made as what was used to compute the weights.

Explainable but intractable is still far from surprising for me.
There are some tech worker unions (like at NYT) but not enough.

A relevant book that recently came out but I have not read is You Deserve a Tech Union by Ethan Marcotte

https://abookapart.com/products/you-deserve-a-tech-union
Amazon card is a good option. 5% cashback on Amazon purchases (and often with "no interest if paid within 12 months" type terms on stuff like TVs. 2% on gas and 1% on everything else. Cashback accrues in practically real time and is useable on 99% of products on Amazon, so it's very normal-person friendly as it doesn't require optimization of habits if you already buy a lot of stuff on the 'zon. Super simple since it just rewards flat dollars, no points or annual thresholds or loyalty programs or...

Also doesn't require the insanely good credit of the Apple card.
What technology you aren't artificially dependent on? Can't think of anything, starting from the fire.
I’ve derived quite a lot of benefit from a Sapphire Reserve and Amex Plat over the years, though a lot less recently with the pandemic. They pay for themselves very quickly if you do any amount of travel at all, like recently I used the points earned from a trans-pacific flight to cut the cost of a hotel stay later during that trip in half (and booking that stay also netted me a nice chunk of points).

Might drop one of the two at some point though since they both cover the same niche.
I have recently bought a `Miyoo Mini Plus` for about £70 (inc taxes) and it is able to run most old console games up to PS1 just fine and the build quality is good too.

It is linux based and community has made an alternate OS/UI https://github.com/OnionUI/Onion with custom scripts, webserver and support of many other systems etc.

I couldn't find the price for Analogue, but it will probably be too expensive in comparison.
If LLMs are mostly working by predicting tokens from previously seen problems (am I wrong? An AI noob here!), could an LLM even tackle such weirdly written novel problems? It's hard to know because the solutions for previous AoC problems posted on Github/blogs could be the reason it's capable of solving them nowadays, but could it solve 2023 on day 1? Really keen to find out!
Go implicitly buffers the first 512 bytes to sniff a content-type header so it's no like the status quo is free of arguably incorrect magic.
Maybe it works differently where you are from, but here (EU) there's usually a bunch of companies taking money out of your account via SEPA or transferring money to your account (salary).

This is usually rent, power, water companies etc. so it's not that quick to switch as you'll have to update your bank credentials everywhere. Depending on how much you use the account that might be a lot of work and it's not "30 minutes of work".
4 months later, Chrome still hasn't changed its opinion about supporting JPEG XL
Related post on HN (2023-06-06): Chrome still hasn't changed its opinion about dropping JPEG XL support (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36213330)
I think the right context for thinking about the quoted advice is for a person's education. If true beginners didn't ever handwrite a recursion algorithm, a list sorting algorithm, a CRUD application, an assembly interpreter, a neural net forward pass, etc., because they copied the code from an LLM, would they benefit from that? And if it's true for beginners, is there ever a point in one's learning journey where it stops being true and we don't have to learn or practice anything anymore which can be solved by an LLM, or never have to understand new concepts and tools even though the LLM can work with those concepts and tools for us?

I think there's a both-and answer for the contest. Maybe have one competition where the unenforceable spirit of it is, don't use LLMs for help, and another one where the challenges are just made... quite harder... so that even people who use the LLMs still need to marshal great ingenuity to use them better than others (e.g. the #1 spot is someone who used RAG and chain-of-thought better than the #2 spot, and also had better intuition of what to trust vs challenge from the LLM outputs).
Obsidian does not support collaboration.

It's a fantastic tool but strictly singleplayer.
An error does not rewrite your entire code on the assumption that it can not happen.

Signed overflow is not an error in C.
I don't want to SIMD / multi-thread explicitly.

I want my language to have low-level abstractions like "pack data into an array, map across array. Reduce array to a value." Those are abstractions a programmer can look at and go "Oh, the compiler will probably SIMD that, I should use it instead of a for loop." In contrast, C will auto-unroll loops. Unless it doesn't. Go memorize this pile of heuristics on popular architectures so you can guess at whether your code will be fast.

I want my language to have low-level abstractions like Orc's parallel and sequential combinators, so that when I need some operations sequenced I can force them to be, when I don't I can let the compiler "float" it and assemble the operations into whatever sequence is fastest on the underlying architecture; I don't have to memorize a bunch of heuristics like "the language allows arbitrary ordering of execution for either side of a '+' operator in an expression, but statements are executed sequentially, unless they aren't it depends on the contents of the statement."

In short, I want my language to ask me to think in terms of parallelism from the start so that my mind is always in the head-space of "This program will be executed in nondeterministic order and I shouldn't assume otherwise."
I sincerely hope that this means a lot more choices of good ARM based computers. While I am a happy Apple-user, or rather because I am, I want more great ARM chips on the market. I still remember the great times in the 80ies and 90ies, where a lot of different CPU architectures were competing with each other. Having more competition should be good in several aspects.
The taxonomy is not the point of the article. The point of the article is about language and hardware development interactions and whether we are locked in a paradigm in which our reliance on C prevents us from taking advantage of hardware innovations, and in turn create languages which properly makes use of such hardware.
High earner, not rich yet.
That is not true. It easy to create a holding on top of your GmbH in which case you only pay for 5% of the revenue taxes.

The only shoot in the foot is the higher cost of declaring taxes being it in time or in fee for a specialist.

And as long you are working from Germany you have to pay taxes for any kind of money you are going to take out from the company, being ist as dividend or salary.

The only exception is when you are not residing in one country in the EU for longer than 6 Months than you can play around with a LLC construct or other Holding structures from countries that have a double-tax avoidance agreement.