skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> IT forces me to use OneDrive that often simply doesn't work.

Also happens to me. OneDrive sucks. It can't even generate proper zip files. Any zip files over 2GB or so I download from it shows as corrupted when I try to extract under linux. IIRC is because OneDrive puts some invalid flags in the files.
Nikki Haley calls social media anonymity a "national security threat"
If Ford or Nissan want to invest as much in ms as NASA does in Voyager....
This is kinda rich in irony, like the following 2 bullets being in sequence

"There is no such thing as human rights. There is only identity politics and culture war, which are profit centres.

• Far right white supremacism; libertarianism for white men, forced birth for white women. Eugenics for everyone else."

There are other examples of complaints of how the other fish are drinking water but there's no point in listing them. After all the author did not claim to be outside of the silicon valley worldview
Most people's phones would probably be more lucrative targets as the car location data should just be a subset and isn't necessarily tied to the individual
That isn't vendor agnostic.
how do FIRE people avoid eating out if they work at home all day and need to “get out” and “wind down”?
I've been using X11 on my Framework laptop for years. No desktop environment at all. Just my regular old school window manager[1]. No KDE or GNOME. But also no XFCE.

The only thing I had to do to get scaling working for me was set two environment variables[2].

I was indeed worried about this when I bought the laptop. Prior to this, I avoided anything with resolutions higher than 1920x1200. But it turned out that everything mostly worked with a couple tweaks.

I think the only real issue I've run into is `git gui`. As I understand it, the GUI toolkit it uses doesn't support scaling? Not sure. I ended up working around it by just increasing font sizes. I suppose this exposes the weakness that is probably impacting you: the scaling on my laptop is being done by the GUI toolkits, not the display server or compositor. (I don't always run a compositor, but when I do, I use `picom`. Mostly just to avoid tearing.)

[1]: https://github.com/BurntSushi/wingo

[2]: https://github.com/BurntSushi/dotfiles/blob/ea3a88e6160f4244...
It's basically Ohm's law V = RI, or in this case I = CV (conductance times voltage), on a lattice of wires. On many analog devices setting the values (write) can be very time consuming, although the read operation can indeed be fast and super low energy. Unclear if this is the case here.
The team's I'm talking about don't meet in person that often. Once or twice per year. Every month feels like a good cadence to develop and maintain good relationships.

I should push for more frequent meet ups. Given how spread out people are this is certainly difficult.
Can't remember last time I met a Silicon Valley person that smokes.
Threads about Starship attract positive people who see unproductive comments like that and downvote. Threads about someone's imaginary personal status competition against Silicon Valley more likely just get flagged or ignored, so the individual comments don't attract downvotes.
reminds me of my own opinion that a lot of what goes on in academia, along other 'dynastic' systems of lineage-tracking, apprentice-master chains, IN large institutional settings (groups)

I think there's a lot of collective trauma (i.e. abuse) that is transferred from group of elder to the next group.

the idea is how this is similar to parent-child abuse "chains"... to summ up, in the psychologist's phrase: "either repeat your trauma or fix it" but with the added complexity that this is happening to entire groups of people traumatizing and insisting on repeating (passing on) trauma to the next younger group "because that's what they do" or some other weak excuse. the kind of excuse that psychology (taken as one whole field) solved for the individual personality.

however, the complexity pulls the problem beyond the field of psychology, and into something which also involves sociology and possibly anthropology, to say the least
Toucè
Somewhat obvious disclaimer that this is my own stab at this a little while back: https://johnvidler.co.uk/blog/federated-web-rings-and-link-s... with its associated search tool: https://johnvidler.co.uk/webgraph/

I tried to come up with a spec for listing bookmarks in an easily handled format for both humans and machines, and just ended up with using .json files; here's mine for example: https://johnvidler.co.uk/webgraph.json which all follow a very loose specification. Because it just requires a single file to connect to others using the same system its really easy to implement.

I've been slowly pushing for folks I know to add to the sources that the search engine can idly spider, slowly building up a large searchable list of user-selected links.
Because solar is already so cheap to make that transportation is a significant expense and Australia is closer to China than the US.
Mustttt saveeee realestateeeee

The zombies are in charge again!
I pride myself on being flexible and adaptable. I’m good at what I do, but there are so many things I don’t know yet and I have to trust the smart people around me to make those decisions.

But there are times I see it as my job to dig in my heels and say oh hell no, we’re not doing that. This would be on that short list.
> Far right white supremacism; libertarianism for white men, forced birth for white women. Eugenics for everyone else.

Writing tip: don't make laughably false claims above the fold. You expect me to believe that the prevailing opinion in Silicon Valley is against abortion?! Save your silliest assertions for after your readers have become too tired to recognize them, or you'll discredit yourself too quickly.

>Optimisation culture masks the abusive and bizarre relations with the human body, primarily their own. Dorsey’s eating issues.

And once you've done that, the disgusting cheap shots like this just mark you as a troll.
Quote:

“When I get into office, the first thing we have to do, social media accounts, social media companies, they have to show America their algorithms,” said Haley, a 2024 GOP presidential primary candidate, in a Fox News clip posted to X, formerly known as Twitter.

“Let us see why they’re pushing what they’re pushing,” Haley continued.

“The second thing is, every person on social media should be verified, by their name. That’s, first of all, it’s a national security threat. When you do that, all of a sudden, people have to stand by what they say.”

Twitter search to reactions: https://twitter.com/search?q=nikki%20haley%20social%20media&...
This is a good general point: it sometimes makes sense to be against X, while simultaneously participating in X. For example: in a country where you need to bribe people to carry on a normal life, you can do so while advocating for anti-bribery laws. It doesn't make you a hypocrite.
> Silicon Valley’s most famous funders and CEOs veer strongly into sociopathy, narcissism....

Any competitive industry or profession finds this personality type rising to the top at many an entity, agency, etc. Its both a bug and a feature of mercantilistic societies, where I might add, most innovation and increases in standards of living take place. There's also no shortage of these personality types in non-mercantilistic societies including, theocracies, authoritarian governments and local school boards!
Exactly. Now you know why we’ve been arguing over it for a millennia.

To be completely transparent. I was referring to religion “Trust me” and science “Don’t believe me, try it yourself”.

Because humans have bias, and depending on what side of the fence they are on, they will read it how they want to read it.

One could make an argument for both.

The statement is true though. One is about loyalty and faith through blind trust, and the other is faith through trust that they followed the scientific method. Both have “published papers”. Both have some sort of verified results. Only one is real science of hypothesis, experiment, observation, conclusion. If it fails that test, it’s lumped in with Scientology.
I don't think it can. I have some experience in teaching and one of the worst issues I initially had was that you can't believe how messed the knowledge can be in heads of the kids. They literally mess everything – topics, words, culture, personal experience. Everything. To teach kids effectively you have to have a lot of background knowledge – from their family background to the info from teacher in previous class and you have to adapt constantly.

People who are talking about automation of education are grown up people who think that all people think structurally and just lack the specific knowledge. Kids actually don't do it.
Thanks

I learnt something
tbf it wouldn't be a bad signal for search engines that can understand forum markup.

A boon for search is knowing intent and know who wrote something certainly helps in that regard, if a strong enough signal of course. Without knowing who intends what, you basically rely on the topic and words.
Does it matter if the document is incorrect? It's an official document from the committee of foreign affairs showing that the U.S. stance on China is that they lie about various things.

I don't care how substantial those things are, I care that the official stance was one that China lies a lot and then we proceeded to mimic their covid response while we had other options from more reputable sources (i.e. Korea).
> “Palo Alto” by Malcolm Harris does underwrite a lot of the terse remarks made in this blog post

The research is great. But the tone is grating and often self congratulatory, with heavy doses of sins of thy father interspersed. Large sections of the book had me simultaneously intrigued while asking myself "tell me you were at Occupy Wall Street without telling me you were at Occupy Wall Street."

It's a good book for people likely to agree with the author's worldview. But it's not written to change minds nor even engage in serious debate. (I do recommend it for anyone who finds the culture and history of Silicon Valley interesting.)
> I find it absurd that the government can take your home AT ALL after you have spent your whole life paying for it.

They can, but IIRC the Supreme Court just ruled that they have to give you the proceeds from the sale minus whatever lien value they had on the property.

Not that I necessarily disagree with your sentiment, but the situation isn't quite as dire as the statement makes it appear to be.
> That sounds like a bug farm.

Stealing that expression.
> Silicon Valley

> Far right white supremacism; libertarianism for white men, forced birth for white women. Eugenics for everyone else.

How can anybody take this text seriously?
> half of them were psychologically incapable of staying in a cushy mid-six comp position at a big company, even when they had the chops. It's part of what drove them to do something else.

This is an incredibly good point. I, myself, left BigCo to launch aforementioned startup, and mentally, I was accepting that if went to zero (it did) at least I was spending the prime of my career doing what felt like the most meaningful thing I could be doing. I did not, however, create my recommended operating agreement or get the buy-in of my wife.
7A doesn't sound right for a full rack. Each rack has its own breaker and those are 15A at the smallest. I suspect the 7A was for a half-rack deal, though those are extremely rare for HE.
Yeah, but this is not someone burning their garden furniture because their kid fell from it. They’re deciding to kill a living thing because it got startled once.
The sharding done for turbo models has almost certainly affected the attention mechanisms. It makes me think the sharding was done at the layer level.
This is kind of blowing my mind, but I'm looking for people discussing the proposal here and can't quite find the valence that seems most potentially viral or self-perpetuating:

There seems to be a really exciting incentive to share lots of links, to regularly hit a hotkey to add the current page to a link list, because there is a kind of graph traversal thing that can emerge, akin to recommendation engines spotify or youtube use, whereby your (anonymized) "like history" -- might be interesting to include some metadata, including when it was liked, how you arrived there, whatever -- will connect you with other people who have intersecting likes, and then blow open entire other leaves of search trees you didn't know you wanted.

I have this feeling on the net recently where I feel like starved, it just feels so stale and bland, hard to find actually good content, going back to HN or Twitter or Reddit or whatever, these little linear "feeds" with discussions etc.

I want a feeling of opening-up, branching, discovery, excitement.

I feel like if a bunch of people shared their like histories in a pseudonymous fashion, you could see these fascinating interest clusters emerging and if there was a compelling UI for navigating them, it could really be self-perpetuating and awesome.

Sort of like visualizations of LLM embeddings, showing regional clusters of information domains, but with a navigable, social aspect, and where because it's pseudo-anonymous you don't mind running AI recommendation engines on it for you and others.

Does this exist? Should it? I would love something like this!
Why must all apps support all scenarios? Is the latest triple-A big-budget video game ADA compliant? Does it run on a 3" phone?
I did the walkthrough - pretty slick!
> And then like - what's a centimeter even?

About the thickness of your pinkie.

A kilo is about 1/2 a lb so it's not really wildly different.

> pound -> fits in my hands

> gallon -> 10 pounds of water.

How do you do 10 handfuls of water?
Weed, there’s plenty.
10 for GPTs, 20 for Assistants
Thank you!
Yes, we settled on booking to the brand, who knows, maybe they will add us to their portfolio.
David Attenborough narrates your life
I currently have a 12th Gen Intel Framework. How much of an improvement in everyday use do you see?
The component model is already shipping in Wasmtime, and will be stable for use in Node.js and in browsers via jco (https://github.com/bytecodealliance/jco) soon. WASI Preview 2 will be done in December or January, giving component model users a stable set of interfaces to use for scheduling, streams, and higher level functionality like stdio, filesystem, sockets, and http on an opt-in basis. You should look at wit-bindgen (https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wit-bindgen) to see some of the languages currently supported, and more that will be mature enough to use very soon (https://github.com/bytecodealliance/componentize-py)

Right now jco will automatically generate the JS glue code which implements a Component Model runtime on top of the JS engine's existing WebAssembly implementation. So, yes, Components are a composition of Wasm Modules and JS code is handling passing values from one module/instance to another. You still get the performance benefits of running computation in Wasm.

One day further down the standardization road, we would like to see Web engines ship a native implementation of the Component Model, which might be able to make certain optimizations that the JS implementation cannot. Until then you can consider jco a polyfill for a native implementation, and it still gives you the power to compose isolated programs written in many languages and run them in many different contexts, including the Web.

(Disclosure: I am co-chair of WASI, Wasmtime maintainer, implemented many parts of WASI/CM)
> At the end of the day the counter to this is starting and building companies with remote work forces.

You'd think so. CrowdStrike, a self-proclaimed remote-first company, instituted a return-to-office policy earlier this year. Despite never requiring office presence before the pandemic. They still have blog posts like [1] on their website.

[1]: https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/the-perks-of-remote-work/
Webrings and some called them "Affiliates" (I dont know where the name came from, it makes more sense in Spanish, not sure in English), but they had this 82x32 buttons on the sidebar (sometimes anitmated GIFs) to similar websites, usually websites handled by friends.

Oh, internet was so muuch better.
Oh, I've mistakenly read that as "Develop GCC using COBOL".

And this is not the existing GnuCobol compiler https://gnucobol.sourceforge.io/
https://www.rubykoans.com/
Last time I looked they hadn't been updated in a while, so may not have support for the very latest & greatest features of rubylang, but find this a great approach to quickly familiarizing with 'core' ruby. Hope you enjoy.
Yeah, saying unorthodox opinions out loud results in social penalties. That's why examples can't be produced for people who believe unorthodox opinions don't exist.
Taurine Levels in Brain Linked to Depression
Some DE jobs have leetcode interviews, some SDE jobs don't have leetcode interviews. So don't switch tracks for that reason.

But if comes down to no job or a DE job then I'd take the DE job.
Then you're not getting out there if you live in the Valley, lol.
Flexential can absolutely be blamed on all of that, and if I were their customer I'd be massively pissed off too.

However, CF massively failed at the whole "entire DC goes down" mitigation thing. This time it was Flexential screwing up power, but it could've also been a fire, a flood, a tornado, an earthquake...

Once you get to CFs scale, you simply cannot hide behind your vendors anymore. CF has gotten big enough that we can fully expect them to just deal with it.
Two different groups claiming the same label.
The examples seemed clear enough to read (I did not test them), but I felt than even when teaching by example there needs to be more overview and explanation. I.e., I would prefer an overview of WASM structure and use with examples, rather than just the examples. (I have some (but limited) experience using WASM.)

As for the utility of wasm, note also that Cloudflare workers can run WASM on edge servers [1], and that the Swift community has some support for compiling to wasm [2].

I've never really understood how wasm could do better than java bytecode, but I've been impressed with how much people are using lua and BPF. More generally, in a world of federated programming, we need languages client can submit that providers can run safely, without obviously leaking any secret sauce -- perhaps e.g., for model refinement or augmented lookup.

[1] https://github.com/cloudflare/workers-wasi

[2] https://github.com/swiftwasm
What is to stop a list of bookmarks not also just being a load of links to spam and astroturfing? You could argue "ah well you have to just use the ones from websites you trust!" But that is basically PageRank when you think about it. So we're back to the same problems.

I guess we can't have nice things.
Oh!
Will fix that. Yes JS and TS are even what we build it in!
> What if I want to write apps for myself that solve random niche issues I run into that would be worth it just for me to learn to resolve and pump out a solution for that so, at the very least, I (capital i) solve one of my own problems (craftmanship?)

Write it for literally any other platform.

Developing anything inside a walled garden always comes with the risk that you might later end up on the wrong side of that wall.
See also the recent events: ChatGPT code interpreter only generating Python code and Microsoft embedding Python into Excel.

Microsoft, for whatever reason, is betting on Python.
POST operations don’t get “always allow” because they might mutate a resource.
"While this was happening, the civic and religious institutions that Americans traditionally relied on to manage their own affairs were quietly disappearing. Some organizations, like religious boards, unions, and bowling clubs, declined in number; others, like charities and NGOs, switched from a model of mass participation to a model of mass donations. Add it all together and you find that the percentage of Americans expected to be familiar with Robert’s Rules of Order shrunk precipitously."

This is a good point. Do you belong to any non-governmental organization where the members can vote to fire top management, and this happens once in a while? A golf club? A maker space? A gym? A homeowners association? A mutual insurance company? A savings and loan? A school? Anything? Such institutions used to be common for non-profits. Now they are rare.

Robert’s Rules of Order is for meetings where the members hold the power. Motions are voted upon and then are binding on the organization. Unless the members have power, it's just a talk shop.

When someone set up a local maker space, they set it up as a nonprofit with a self-perpetuating board. That is, the management chooses its own successors. I declined to contribute.
Sequoia Icon Michael Moritz Bets $300M on Reshaping San Francisco
Yikes those names are horrible.
Tangram Vision packs AI skills onto HiFi 3D sensor
>> Other than the most used browser, the most used operating system, the most used mapping application, the second most used office suite, the most used online storage, the most used video platform, the second highest revenue app store, the most used email client, and a $30B / year cloud, what have they ever succeeded at?

Would they have so many "most used" if they did not pay to be the default in so many places?

How much of their success is due to merit of the application, service, system, etc. versus "stacking the deck" by paying to be default or preventing competition?
Space travel will be relatively easy since requires computers. Everyone will keep track of their local clock in seconds. Then they will calculate clock for places they care about, eg Earth-time, since those are pretty predictable. Relativistic corrections will be pretty minor.

My guess is that planets will keep local day-year. Mars is close enough to Earth that throwing in extra 37 min might make sense. OTOH, most planets and moon might use Earth calendar because local day cycle is too far off human internal clocks.

They will calculate time for other places, but will be less important than time zones since every communication will have light speed lag. No video calls, but lots of email.
Could you please stop creating accounts to break HN's rules with? The combination of trollish usernames and single-purpose accounts is not ok, and you're wasting your time.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Agreed. I haven't heard of companies outside tech that put the same amount of efforts into DEI. It's not only sham programs either, many companies are putting diversity above performance when it comes to hiring/promotions (not judging this either way, just stating the facts).
The averages skew things a bit here. Yes, many of the wealthiest people in the world live in the UES, but in between those single-family mansions and full service buildings full of quiet billionaires on the park, there are plenty of unremarkable apartments occupied by white-collar families. Its a more affordable neighborhood to rent in than some other family-oriented parts of Manhattan.
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In most places policy seemed to be dictated by preserving the essential function of the health care system and to a lesser extent the sanity of the health care workers.

When ICU beds filled or looked like they might, we optimized for not having excess people drowning in cytokine storms in the waiting rooms. It doesn’t seem very nefarious to me.
> If we assume everything bad is the work of untouchable dark figures in smoke filled rooms, we'll never confront the real problem of various policies with broken incentives

In that worldview I think it's the dark figures in smoke-filled rooms who are in charge of all policy, broken-incentive or not.

More seriously: in any system where broken incentives are [still] in place, isn't it typically those in power who are primarily responsible for that being so?
It’s worth mentioning that it’s not entirely classic. It’s still using the 32k context turbo model.