skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They aren't abandoning it, they removed anything below 500 users e.g. $45k per year.

This is a huge fuck you to mid sized businesses that can't go into the cloud because of multiple reason such as certain plugins that cont be used etc. etc.

What is a business supposed to do? Pay the $45k or spend 10 times that to find a mediocre replacement that doesn't exit and go through the grueling process of getting out of a vendor lock in? Worst part is of the replacement isn't open source you end if up the same shit again.
Yeah I get that, but I think there are two sides to this.

One is that it is possible to guess ballpark figures without knowing the intricacies, and I think anyone with experience in a big tech company of this ilk can probably make a reasonable estimation (to within 50%?).

The other is that it's easy on the inside of these situations to justify each individual role, and miss the fact that the system is too complex and a simplification may be able to drop significant numbers. I'm not suggesting it is too complex, I fully realise there's a different sort of scale involved when you operate a large globally available service like this, but duplication still happens, engineers still make things more complex than they should be, etc.
Last year, when GPT-3 was already around, people managed to get it solve some of the earlier problems itself, but not the later problems. This makes sense, because the earlier problems are made deliberately easier, while more difficult problems are saved for later. To eliminate this "busy work" aspect would require knocking out those easier problems, which would be a loss for those who can't solve the later problems at all.

Even then, it seems like something being beatable by a computer doesn't make it pointless to do as an exercise. We still teach children to add and multiply, even though computers can do these things billions of times faster than a human can and have been able to do so for decades. We believe that being able to do these things in ones own head is valuable even if it isn't the fastest way of doing them. Besides, there are still many people who practice and enjoy chess even after computers beat humans at it, and in fact many people integrate computer chess programs into their practice and analysis of chess.

The advent of code problems are already "busy work", in the sense of not making much sense, and having numerous complexities thrown into them for the sake of it. People have still enjoyed them for the competitive aspect, or for the fun of solving a puzzle. Those aspects don't change when you introduce an AI that can solve them faster.
... and just prior to the big attention-boom for AI many of the same players were trying to make their variant of the "metaverse" the Next Big Thing -- most of them advocating for the importance of virtual meeting spaces while simultaneously mandating RTO.
Intrinsics are not part of C though. C is the abstract machine defined in various specs and its syntax and semantics.
I was peripherally involved with a similar project a few years ago. They got bought out by Facebook. This was before Aquila.

There’s a good reason why most airplanes look and behave alike: because it works. Technology choices like flying wings (not used here) or twisting wings (used here) are a “code smell” to my computer programmer nose. To me, nothing is sexier than good reliable technology that works. Smart investors will know that. The other ones will do you a favor by staying away.

The use of batteries to maintain altitude at night is a big concern. Batteries are heavy and will dramatically cut down on the usable payload. They need to be maintained warm (but not too warm!), which is a challenge at the low ambient temperatures the aircraft will experience while flying.

Most airplane accidents happen during take-off and landing. Please do not shortchange these phases of flight, and good luck.
Do you have any ethical concerns about the use of your technology for surveillance of civilian populations?

That’s the obvious use case for this technology, right? Cheaper and more easily retargetable than satellites. Longer duration, quieter, and more resilient than manned aircraft, but not fast or maneuverable enough to survive in contested airspace.

So that leaves large area, long term surveillance in uncontested conditions as the prime use case.

Sounds an awful lot like cops or an occupying force putting a fleet of these up to indefinitely track all movement or signals over entire neighborhoods or cities. Do you plan to market and sell your technology for this use?
It's a 404 Not Found or 500 Server Error.

HTTP server panicking is never reasonable
I'm not saying that FPGAs aren't interesting, or don't have the possibility of allowing one to produce highly accurate emulators. I think that FPGA emulators are really cool -- I've written one! Check the website linked from my profile.

I'm taking issue with how Analogue markets their products. If they want to talk about the specific benefits their products have (like low latency, or video output, or original cartridges, or accuracy), great! But the claim that they're making is that their work involves "No Emulation". And through that, they're implying that FPGA based emulators are inherently better. And they're not. It's a different set of tradeoffs, and they certainly have the possibility to have certain advantages, but that's still all up to the quality of the implementation. Which is exactly the way that software emulators work too.
I thought about why I'd want an AI summary or even a human-made summary of a long text and realized there's a deep wrongness this need stems from..
I like a summary so I can know if I like the article and agree with it. If I would like and agree with the summary (thus reinforcing my worldview) I'll most likely read the whole article. If the summary is uninteresting or does not support my worldview, I'm more likely to skip the article.

And this is the grave problem of the matter. I'm selecting things to read and learn about that I am already familiar with and agree to. That's no way to learn new things and new perspectives. This action repeated over many times over many days and years leads to a person who's very closed minded and starts to think of themselves as the main character of their reality. I'm noticing that in myself and it's really hard not to do.
I still miss buying CD sets. I understand why the project doesn't do it anymore (lots of effort and time, similar to why VAX was dropped), but it sure was fun getting them in the mail and using official discs to install.
And here I am modifying each .git/config by hand like a pleb
The dystopian novels all were.
wow, some serious whataboutism there, go back and read the HN rules

...and inaccuracy, the secretary of state does not oversee wars

Condi is president of the Hoover Institute, she's a good person with good ideas. Maybe try listening before going off on baseless whataboutism
V. I. Arnold, "On teaching mathematics" (1997)
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I don't want to build the future I just want dental care for my children.
Yes update speed, iteration speed and general ease of deployment is a huge part of it. Also the ability to develop on Mac/Linux but deploy to Windows.

One of the popular features of the desktop deployment tool I like to shill here sometimes is web-style "aggressive updates", which basically means synchronous update checks on every launch. If the user starts the app and there's an update available a delta is downloaded, applied and the app then launches all without any prompts or user interactions required. As long as users restart the app from time to time it means they stay fully up to date and so bugfixes can be deployed very quickly. This isn't quite as fast a deployment cycle as a multi-page web app, but is comparable to a SPA as users can leave tabs open for quite long periods.

Weirdly, AFAIK no other deployment tool has a feature like that. It's unique to Conveyor. Desktop update tech is pretty stagnant and is optimized for a world where updates are assumed to be rare and optional, so support for fast delta updates or synchronous updates are often rough/missing. When your frontend has a complex relationship with a rapidly changing backend / protocol though, that isn't good enough.

Also we made it from the start be able to build packages for every OS from your dev laptop whatever you choose to run, no native tooling required. So you've got a deployment process very similar to an HTML static site generator. Hopefully this closes the gap between web and desktop deployment enough for more people to explore non-web dev.
> Which means that intermediate versions shouldn't start the clock

No, but an initial time presenting a form of the work will. So, e.g. using the basis for a future textbook with your students starts the clock on those versions.
Why even have a leaderboard for this? At least make it anonymous.
Exactly. And I HATE it! Instead of just being able to use a search engine to find a related issue, I now have to look up the project I'm having a problem with, find their Discord, join it, accept the rules, assign roles, click through their onboarding, and then finally I'll be able to use the builtin search that probably doesn't return an answer anyways so I have to ask the question in an ever moving chat room and hope someone bothers to help me before my question drifts off into oblivion.

For real, though, who though this is a good idea to do project documentation and issue tracking? It's stupid.
Under SB9, yet put the prefab housing in the backyard of the existing home you live in. You're not going to sell your own home out from under you.
I usually care a great deal, because it gives some strong hints up-front about what to expect from the project while trying it out and subsequently deploying it for production use.

I know some languages and ecosystems much better than others, so I have an idea how well I could support it up-front if needed. Others have different deployment styles, ranging all the way from "just copy this one binary somewhere" to "first install this language interpreter with a fricken curlpipe, then this language-specific package manager, then these hundreds of dependencies, then our app if you're still awake. But don't forget you'll still need an application server..."

The widespread use of Docker has made the last even less common, but I still run into docker containers just don't work, and I don't know the tech stack, and learning a whole tech stack just to troubleshoot someone else's broken code in order to try it out is not my most favoritest use of time.
> Ellison worked for Jane Street prior to FTX. Had I been in her position I would have

How did they come to "start using customer funds"? Prices went down and they lost a lot of money, likely in the region of $20bn-$40bn in the 6 months before they went for the customer funds.

They were "buying the dip" and it never came, only the next move down was with even bigger positions and even bigger losses.

She knew exactly what she was doing - she might actually be more guilty than SBF.

Ellison thought crypto prices would rise again, allowing Alameda to balance things out, but that "did not work out," she responded, before giggling.
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Because it was created to be a secure replacement for text messaging. I gather that in some parts of the world people don't use text messages so much anymore, so this may not seem obvious, but in the US, Signal was primarily adopted as a secure alternative to SMS. People who routinely texted each other's phone numbers could simply install Signal and continue doing exactly that, with the added benefit of encryption.
A significant amount of the enterprise SaaS company is sales and marketing.

As for engineering, a significant number of people are required to keep various services running. But more importantly, a lot of engineer time is wasted in optics and metrics for management.

If management is culled and their way of working is changed from measuring dumb metrics to keeping things steady - the number of engineers required will reduce, albeit only a little.
Because they might want to support DOD or intel customers. They clearly do not want said customers.
If you only knew how trivial Basic looks after implementing a C++ compiler :-)

The challenges would be:

1. fitting it into 32K of ROM

2. figuring out the interface to the cassette player and the interface to other software that relies on the Basic interpeter

3. testing it
But 53 years later, it's added the `<stdckdint.h>` header, offering `ckd_add()` and friends. :D Better late than never!
No one is claiming the wildfires are unrelated to human activity, just that they are unrelated to the EPA's emissions standards, which neither regulate the gasses responsible for climate change, nor affect actions in other nations.
I had an in-depth conversation with a AI generated version of either Tia Mowry or Tamera Mowry about death note over WhatsApp. It went pretty smoothly but eventually she got some facts wrong/didn't know the show that well.
> It's been part of human behavior across all cultures since history. Men are the workers and women are the care givers and home makers. The behavior is seen so consistently across cultures that it's safe to say it's more then social conditioning. It's biological.

Except that's not true, is it? It's somewhat consistent "across cultures" today, as are many things that are barely decades or centuries old. If you look at isolated peoples that are likely closer to "our biology", you see something very different. This makes sense if you consider that the atomic family is a fairly recent phenomenon. Even agrarian societies did not necessarily have a division of labor across the gender binary: harvest meant everyone had to help, including children. Even the idea of blood kinship breaks down in agrarian Europe with farmhands being part of the family "unit" in a way more resembling adoption than employment.

> If the woman demands to have the same pay and rank as the hard working guy who works 5 days a week because she spent a lot of time caring for some kid that has nothing to do with my business, how is that fair to me?

I don't know what strawman you're trying to construct here but I never said someone working 4 days a week is entitled to the same pay as someone working 5 days a week if their contribution is entirely measured in hours. In fact I said nothing about pay or social welfare at all.

I do think it's funny you seem to value "more hours worked" as a measure of entitlement on a website that's literally all about "working smarter not harder"(what did you think a "hack" is?) but it sounds like you're more invested in evopysch nonsense and 2010s era pay gap discourse so I don't see any point in continuing this conversation.
No, because what matters here is if information complexity (aka entropy) is being increased.

Humans increase it, LLMs decrease it.

This matters because eventually in the future information complexity will be humankind's only valuable resource.

(So humans create value, LLMs destroy it.)
Next to what the sibling comment already said: no MitM needed. ISPs can act as MitM as well. That can range from annoying to nefarious. See for example: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/70970/my-isp-is...
I get the sentiment from the pro LLM folks, but this is a fun thing we do once a year that is held by a few dedicated volunteers that want to keep it to be a programming competition. Using an LLM is not in the _same_ spirit as past years and if AoC wants to maintain that original feeling then I'm all for it.
Something that I'm not even asked to read, just shown a link to alongside the link to the privacy policy, doesn't seem like any kind of "agreement" If it's necessary for me to read something as part of an agreement then I need to be told of this, i.e. for any "meeting of the minds" to have happened.
But that shouldn't be an either-or thing. You need both a QA team and for the dev team to do appropriate testing.
> No, Google made StackOverflow live and StackOverflow die by stopping its referencing.

Maybe that as well. But I have definitely reduced my Google searches for technical answers and focus them on ChatGPT. So to me it doesn't matter if Google stopped referencing them or not. ChatGPT is phenomenal at answering technical questions with context specific answers and code snippets.
You think if you make it a less commercially viable skill and make it easier to communicate with deaf people without learning it, more people will learn it? Or even the same number of people?
Do you understand that they have certain other ways to make more money so this deal which they agreed and calculated, is just part of doing business? And their business at top is protected like few other top institution. So they can make mistakes and then ask the unlimited printer brrrr

Just a lower level of accountability, no matter what. Compared to risks they decíde and keep.
That is not finance, that is accounting. Those are not the same thing.

When Google pays a fee to other companies it becomes revenue. Revenue is a temporary account and does not feature in the balance sheet. Retained earnings does, which is revenue - expenses - distributions. This is all tangential to the point that the majority of funding for a company at any given time is likely debt and contributed capital. Apple is over 80% debt funded. Retained earnings accounts for less than 0.1% of Apple’s funding.

I have passed the CPA exam so consider if you really think you’ve got the upper hand here.

> Now check your math against the publicly available breakdown of revenue and the overall profit and see how nonsensical your math is.

Products sales: 61B. Products COGS: 39B. Gross Income of 22B

Services sales: 21B. Services COGS: 6B. Gross income of 15B.

Consider then that the vast majority of their supporting expenses including 7B in R&D go towards their product (which is the hardware and OS) and I think you’d find this easily supports what I’m saying. It’s closer than I thought though.

> So which market share are you making up to make your comment logical?

The most important one. The US.

> Are you really saying that Apple has no competition in the phone market??

No, you just didn’t read.
I would define a "bad" company as one that puts profits over people. People includes customers (incl b2b) and employees. A "good" company is one that realizes treating people with respect is a long-term profit driver.
tsyringe is a popular library that does this in TypeScript
NTLM is being replaced by Kerberos.

Kerberos has requirements about clocks being synchronized such that clock skew will prevent authentication.

I rather doubt that Microsoft has made Windows any more punctual about setting its damned clock even if you give it a time server and tell it to set its time from the network.

Even if the behavior I observed was somehow rare, there's still the matter of local IT "gurus" needing to punch holes in firewalls sufficient to enable NTP and/or being punctual about setting clocks.

This is going to be fun.
> Its user base has now grown for consistently quarter-over-quarter for the past two years. Today, the firm has 950 million users across more than 200 countries and territories worldwide.

This makes it sound like the user base did not grow quarter-over-quarter before that period (or at least had some quarters with no growth). That strikes me as quite surprising — why would they have been losing users?

I always assumed they would add new users as kids graduate HS or college and join, but very few people would delete their accounts when they retire. Seems like a recipe for an every-growing user base (even if MAUs stay relatively steady).
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That analogy doesn’t make any sense - the free samples are the ads! – but in both cases there’s a simple principle: your use of someone else’s property happens on their terms. If you don’t like their business, go somewhere else.
Form me, one of the significant criticisms of cryptocurrencies, particularly Bitcoin, is their environmental impact. The process of “mining” Bitcoin requires significant computational power, leading to a large carbon footprint. Recent estimates suggest that the power consumption of the global Bitcoin network is comparable to the energy consumption of entire countries, like Finland and Norway. This has led to concerns about the sustainability of cryptocurrencies in their current form. Even with Prove of Stake, this is still a very high price to pay for a system that is slow, and mostly used as a speculative resource. I can’t seem to find the “real” value of Crypto, other than the get rich schemes we see, and how they end…
> No, but don't try to assert conjecture as facts.

I hedged with "I wasn't aware", "pretty sure", "ordinarily", and ended with a question mark. I don't know how I could have been more guarded in expressing my recollection as non-authoritative. OK, maybe "pretty sure" was a bit on the strong side. sigh Sorry for that.

> I said that the hardware had cassette tape access.

I thought your point was that IBM cassette drives, unlike the tape systems I mentioned, "were used on contemporary machines that PKZIP ran on."

If your intended meaning was something other than "original IBM PCs running ROM BASIC OS so they could access an IBM Cassette tape was a supported platform by PKZIP", then I apologise for not being smart enough to make whatever leaps of logic were required to understand what your actual point was.
> I'm utterly mystified by folks who are interested in making the leaderboard or even solving AoC puzzles with AI assistance

This reminds me of the Project Euler position on people posting their solutions publicly. The assumption is others would seek them out, get credit they don’t deserve and not learn as much.

I understand trying to prevent skewing the results, but personally it doesn’t affect me since I’m not doing it to compete in the website, I’m doing it for self edification.

I believe this actually helps me compete in the thing that really matters, getting a job, bringing high quality products to market and generally solving real problems people have.

Are LLMs starting to solve some of that? Sure. So then I want to compete for the jobs that still can’t be solved by them and involve more complicated and interesting solutions.

If people want to handicap their problem solving abilities or compete for jobs supervising boilerplate generation, all the better for me. I’ll take a hopefully more rewarding career over making the leaderboard on AoC and PE. Though I do feel sorry for their maintainers.

> Is it fun to hit <tab> over and over?

It’s probably a mixture of entertainment (I’ve seen countless apps where it looks like people just tap the screen as fast as possible without even really watching what’s going on) and imagining they’re learning something by watching answers appear (although IMO the lack of engagement leads to lack of retention; sort of like Socrates’ position on reading vs discussion).
I feel like being gen x i might have been part of the first wave of kids never to learn to use a slide rule. I'm actually not even totally clear on what they are even for.

I am really digging some of the other mechanical calculators in the collections though. Always love to see a curta.
They killed their most reasonably-priced ad-free option (without bundled music service):

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The US has half the homelessness rate of the UK or France. Childbirth is due to lack of universal health care and gun violence is due to the massive number of guns – not the tech economy.
The residual model is very interesting for tech... It's complicated by software refractors over time (kinda leading to compensation questions similar to those around genAI)