skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Easier/faster replication/implementation/new invention etc is the value. There are other people besides software developers that can look at a patent for inspiration and hire software developers to implement it
80% of this is is solved when you, as the receiver of the request say, “great, let me dig in a little and I’ll circle back later today/tomorrow/end of the week with an update and any clarifying questions”
1. This lets you get a little smarter on the ask, and potential resource investment.
2. Quickly reporting back some rough estimates/responses + an estimate of what’s require to get the more complete answer usually ends the conversation there.
3. If not, you now have the opportunity to pin them down on expectations and resource investment etc.
SpaceJam Website – Stuck in the Past
A bit of nostalgia. I just randomly stumbled upon this website that seems to be from another era - 1996 - pretty much the year I started to use the Internet and created my first website. Thought I would share :)
Embracing the Multi-Party Dilemma: Incident Response Across Company Boundaries [video]
oops I misread it.. seems it was rejected because it was not standard enough...

https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/83479#issuecomment-...
The trick in comparing it to a joystick is that it can distinguish between tilting the control to a side, and pushing the control to the side. Does that help? Similarly, it can detect pushing straight down and pulling straight up.
It really depends. A company has to at least break even for longterm success. Otherwise, there won't be enough money to pay workers.
Wasn't this pretty common for comics during the 70's/80's?

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tfJ2jdP-UbY/UETPI7yXmdI/AAAAAAAAF...

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2c/32/80/2c32806b8a19c33614d4...

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e0/3f/7e/e03f7eec694bf14dfb09...

I guess the difference being that Marvel approved the advertisement.
Are Visual Studio Professional and Enterprise not profitable? Not bashing just curious.

They do give away VS Code and VS Community is free so I guess tgat must cut into profits...
All that may be true.

However, I don't think we can say for sure if SHA2 will be broken. Cryptography is hard like that.

In addition, SHA2 is still vulnerable to length extension attacks, so in a sense, SHA2 is broken, at least when length extension attacks are part of the threat model.
> If you haven’t read the memo yourself, give it a read. Are you disagreeing, or are you offended?

Damore's memo made very flimsy scientific arguments, supported uncritically by a couple of studies at best, from a field which is currently undergoing a replication crisis, to make sweeping criticism of a policy widely regarded as beneficial. The disagreement is obvious. The offense is that he would, apparently in good faith, expect people to be convinced by such paltry evidence.

With the author's hunting example, the author has no evidence that 'offence comes first', or even that offence exists at all for the friend in question now that they're an adult.

With the Galileo example, there was no "pretence at disagreement". The church straight-up tried him for heresy. That's nothing to do with offense OR disagreement: it's the church maintaining its authority.

The reason the examples are so weak is because there is no strong dividing line between disagreement and offence. Trying to find one is to pretend people are rational beings when they're not. You can make a pretty good case for "what caused what" (disagreement) or for "self conception and identity" (offence) for each of these, and to attempt to shoehorn them into one or the other position is simply to argue for your own preferences -- but to do so from an imaginary position of scientific legitimacy.
Seems like a good spot to mention https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

Cool Retro Terminal is a nice accessory for when doing recording or screenshots - cause it looks cool. Can't use it as my daily driver tho.

And enough settings in there you can make it look like your favourite old one.
I think there is less of unifying theory than an assortment of artful tricks - and it's a pretty small assortment, too.

If you want to be able to reproduce every clever mathematical trick of the last 200 years you probably can (I believe in you!). But everyone short of Ramanujan learns them by studying many problems, repeated exposure, and either systematically or organically memorizing them. Afterwards, using them in a problem is more about pattern recognition. This is my experience as a physics phd-master-out ymmv
A coworker took one of his scenic photos from a weekend trip and printed it out in quadrants. This was done as a cheap way of enlarging the print, but it also gave the sense of looking out a four pane window. It was later upgraded to have an actual frame to complete the look. He was the only one to have a window in his cubicle.
Many inventors are employees with an employment contract that says that any patents are owned by the employer and/or they have to sell them to the employer for a token amount.
They too could --and should-- have said no.
If you replaced the rust with any other language (including python) you shouldn't need pytorch because the rust code is using ggml (which is cpp)
I just rip a huge fart for entertainment purposes.
“The Lost Cause” by Cory Doctorow

I got an early copy at a conference he keynoted at. I’m enjoying it quite lot.
Sorry, you thought you'd be rich just because you are named on two patents? You don't think it matters what the patents regards nor how useful they are to others? It seems like you don't even own the patents... I'm struggling to understand the point of your "criticism"
NO GOD NO

Code reviews are not about trust. They are about 1) educating your teammates on the whole codebase slowly, PR by PR, 2) a second pair of eyes on your solution to a problem (perhaps it could be solved another way simpler or perhaps there is a subtle bug)?
Not necessary the company directly, but could be parent company, stockholders. What value would office buildings retain if there were no one leasing office spaces? They would be burning money by maintaining the buildings.
> Since becoming "independent" they're only degrading with ever-increasing speed.

[citation needed]
Copyright can do that, in exactly the same way that patents can. It just happens not to as currently configured.

You might observe that a clean-room replacement is in and of itself evidence that a patent covering it was obvious and therefore not validly granted, which would tend to imply that patents cannot prevent this.
Hence my choice of phrasing: "benefits to results".

There are certainly perceived benefits to management and/or related to real estate interests, including but not limited to: easier observation and suppression of employee organizing, different legal exposure profile as fewer people are casually creating business communication that may later be sifted during legal discovery, propping up commercial real estate investments, etc.
$921M loss in 2022.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/U/unity-software/n...

$570M loss just through Sep 30.

https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001810806/19c9981...
Code review is a means of enforcing higher level, more important software development policies. Is there a design for this? Does at least one other person understand why this is being done? Does at least one other person understand what these changes could break?

Code review protects from sloppy thinking and poor planning very easily. "I don't know what this is, or what it does, where is the design for this?" pumps the brakes on those sorts of changes.

Code review as a means of ensuring code quality (whatever that means) is secondary, and it requires much more of a time commitment on the part of the reviewer. This is what can make code review slow, and this is the fat to cut, to make code review faster. It's probably not worth 45 minutes of developer time to generate a vast plethora of nit picks and discussions about what is idiomatic. For a new hire / junior engineer: maybe worth it. Under steady-state conditions: definitely not.
Can't Think, Can't Remember: More Americans Say They're in a Cognitive Fog
No, it didn’t. My first Amiga with an FPU was a 2000 with an A2630 accelerator card.
I read many times that 486SXs were rebranded 486DXs with a defective co-processor unit, don't really know if it was rumors or just plain fiction.
I often ask people to write up requests and often write up my own verbal requests to provide documentation of the ask and allow for clarification. Over time I’ve learned that my verbal requests often leave out important details and then people make assumptions that aren’t always right.
Quordle: Simplified and Obvious Scoring
Love the game. Have daily competition with a dozen friends. Would be great to have results of the four panels generate a single numerical score.
Sort of an average of total number of tries across the four. Lower the score the better. Or game could apply some logic so that higher average is better.
The “share” also could be more compact… just the score… as the 4 panels are only modestly helpful.
Just an idea. Thx for creating
Rails does everything. You can build a stateless API gateway with it. Is it great for that particular use case? No. Your question about frameworks with similar capabilities is pointless because my point was that there are use cases where the capabilities of Rails are not a good fit.
Blurring the lines between corporations and governments
When will I be able to buy a RISC-V Laptop and will it be mine or actually belong to any of the three-letter-organisations?
I feel like at least they tried a pricing change before going to layoffs. A lot of places would have gone straight to cutting people.
Or maybe netflix is so cheap and run on the margins, that they can't afford to license the technology, which is why they tried using it for free...
This is exactly why folks should be free to choose remote or to “band together” in a shared workspace - people aren’t the same and it’s so much better when we can tailor our workspace to fit our personalities and way of working.
Also awaiting word on MCR-DIMM (multiplexed combined rank dimms) which I think also allow a sizable boost, but via fan out instead of huge dies.
> An error signals that a non-error value you were relying on will not be available.

Except the non-error value should always be available, even if that means relying on the zero value. Zero values should be useful. An error state is an independent state. It should also be useful without any other values.

While the caller may choose to use the error state to make decisions about other state, it is faulty API design to force that upon the caller.
As a father/husband: having a community (like a church) and a group friends who are in similar life stages as you helps a lot. There were several moments where I felt lonely and they all tied to major life changes (getting married, having a kid, etc.) Once my friend group shifted a bit, we essentially started to do life "together". We now have a dinner with at least one of our friends every couple of weeks and see each other at least once a week through church or some event.

As a founder: I felt most lonely when things were falling apart and the writing was on the wall that we needed to shut down. It results simply because of comparisons to others. When your YC buddies all appear to be successful and your startup dies, it's important to take time to process death properly. It's like a bad scar that only time will heal.
How dare a human being be granted a small reprieve from the monotony of their day to do something they enjoy for a few minutes, huh?
If they invented the soup and the can, then probably.
Sure, and we should definitely reform those jobs as well. Part of why there's a shortage of medical professionals is due to the insistence on putting them through terrible hours.
Maybe this happens somewhere in some industry I'm not aware of? There are many different kinds of documents I use to help me write code, but looking at even just a few (software) patents, they never seemed like they were written in a way that was useful to me?
I don't think we are on it as much this time. prices are sky high again, rents are sky high too.

This time though it's more because enough isn't being built to meet demand. A good chunk of property is be gobbled up by AirBNB.
The linkedin post states: "Build a culture of trust around xtreme programming practices; namely continuous integration."

I interpret that as saying: trust the process (of xtreme programming), not trust the other developer (to be a superhuman that never creates serious bugs?).

I'm more curious about the details of how to organize this than any principle objections. Let's assume we are going to do review-after-merge, what would it take to make it successful? I think its a good thought experiment.

I'm assuming we want most, if not all of our changes that are going into production to be reviewed. So there's this branch that is getting constant updates of unreviewed code, lets call it trunk, from which we want to do a release, but we want all those unreleased, unreviewed commits to be reviewed before the release.

How to keep track of what has been reviewed and how often do you review it? Will you review a massive diff with unrelated changes every once in a while and freeze trunk while doing so? Or will you review individual pull requests as they were at the time of merging them? Will you review collectively?

I guess it depends on how often you want to release and with how much risk.
> I've watched direct reports operate as a "human command line"

I've recently started teaching my daughters how to play chess. When they hang the queen, I ask them "do you really want to do that move?". If they ask why not, I tell them. If they insist on doing it anyway, I capture the queen.

They've learned to listen when I ask "do you really want to do that?"

I treat my managers the same. :)
Couldn't agree more - or at least, whatever is good and true in Finnegan's Wake is thanks to God
Open-Source 4K Dungeon Keeper Remake Spent 15 Years in the Making
was it a big a company ?

where I used to work, the micro kitchens all had their own foodservice licenses, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they’d balked at employees bringing their own equipment

small companies don’t give a shit about stuff like that ime
I'd really like to see the legal agreement before trying something like this. The price is too competitive with cloud hosts that do place limits. Surely there's a limit in types of usage if not in bytes? Like you wouldn't allow someone to flat-out start their own NoSQL SAAS just reselling this platform?
What a fascinating project!

He has a quote from another article here:

I don't like naming parameters of functions. Using bruijn indices is a universal reference independent of the function and can actually help readability if you're familiar enough.

This reminds me of the problems that GNU Guix, Nix, and Unison language are trying to solve. The author just seems to be doing it at the deepest layers of the symbolic patterns, rather than relying on hashing.

It really seems like this kind of pattern is a very promising way that would allow us to wrestle back simplicity from the current explosion of complexity.

I imagine a world where every named function is just an alias to a large compendium of well tested, and well understood primitives in a language like this.

Links to the other projects I mentioned:

https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Nix_Hash

https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Features.htmlhttps:...

https://www.unison-lang.org/learn/the-big-idea/
Israel has total military domination over Gaza and would never need to resort to nuclear weapons. The notion is absurd and some guy's ill-considered bluster isn't betraying some secret agenda.

The Israel nuke theory comes more into play for an opponent like Iran. While Iran is already the backer of Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthi, insurgent groups within Iraq, among others, if Iran really got involved it would be Tehran that would be the demonstration.
Interesting. Though, to be fair, C-levels are C-levels because they are the best at doing what they're told to do. So I feel like a CEO just has to say, "obviously WFH is bad" and then the sycophants will parrot that as if it was their own idea.
I don't think the dev tools division has ever been profitable. It's always been done to support their platforms & operating systems.
Please respond to a particular point in my comment.
These two have lots of backend code that's not Ruby. Rails is great at what it does and it's not optimal for many other use cases.
I'm glad you've noticed as well. I thought it was just me.
References? Can you elaborate?
Based on the leaks in the Ars article, it seems like their real focus is to use Unity and Unity changes to bolster the ironSource ads side of things, and they were/are? willing to slash and burn a lot of the core Unity engine business to do so.
> You're building CRUD apps.

No. "we" are not.
I've been finding it challenging to get a new job this year.. it's been painful with all the layoffs and increased competition. Jobs coming through now are reduced on salary too :(
The entitlement in your comment is staggering...

Why such a desire to be spoonfed, whining about having to put in the work?
This Job Post Will Get You Kidnapped
> Remote pair programming? Honest question here, is pair programming still a thing?

I don't know about strict pair programming where one person instructs and the other person types, and then they switch after a while.

But.. if you mean two or more devs on a call looking at code.. then that is very much a thing.
You need the social contract even more, because there's not much recourse once you've paid someone in crypto.
Funny they show pictures of Berlin overlayed with "Toronto" at @22:16, I guess they meant to say Tobias moved from Germany->Canada but it made me ???.
Complexities of Magic Links
Isn’t doing Stuff on top of it what it’s for? llama.cpp is explicitly highly portable systems code with bindings in many languages.
_everyone_ uses 264 as the baseline fallback because every device under the sun supports it.
If you ask an LLM "did Alice on the X forum write Y?", you can get a justifiable answer. That's the text that the LLM got directly. Remember that speech is sensory input for an LLM, and it's as direct as your human senses.

Asking an LLM about the physical world is not unlike asking a historian about the past. All information they have past a certain point is 3rd party, mediated by tens/hundreds of years. Can historians say anything justifiable about the past? So can LLMs about the physical world.

If you want to rule out historians being able to justify their knowledge, I'd like to hear that.
If they were to be partially paid in stock, they would actually get a share by way of dividend. There's upsides and downsides to such an arrangement, I would think.
Evaluating GPT-4-Turbo
Interesting. But in which direction does the arrow of causality point? Were they* advertised to because they* like instant soup, or do they* like soup because they* were advertised to?

* Oh okay then, "we".
> Is your espresso machine improving your productivity, or is it a hobby to fiddle with throughout the day? What other distractions are at home that aren't at the office?

This is what you said. Spot the differences.

Trick question, there aren’t any.
From my day job:

Stateless API gateway making HTTP calls to other services, which have response times in seconds for various reasons. Rails throughput ~20 requests per second. Golang rewrite throughput: 200k requests per second. Same hardware.
I know at least one patent author for whom the system worked exactly as designed. That being my uncle. Imagine the literal bearded tinkerer in his garage inventing a (much) better sprinkler head. What's the next step? Without the patent system, I guess raise money, build a factory and establish yourself in the market? With the patent system, he sold it to one of the largest manufacturers and today AFAIK about a third of sprinkler heads sold in the US are his invention. He was paid handsomely for the decade plus of tinkering, the manufacturer got a great invention without spending a decade on R&D. Win all around.

Notably this was a physical object and not maths.
Just writing in case some reader wonders why the downvotes.
Estonia was independent before the second world war and was doing very well. After the second world war until the nineties it was under Soviet occupation. During the occupation, there were mass deportations to Siberia, socialization of property, prevention of travel, prevention of free information and prevention of free enterprise and all those things. Until Estonia became independent again. The economic growth has been rapid since.
What type of job are you looking for?
I think jetbrains is doing a good job making and selling dev tools. But yes, very few in the world have been successful at it.
There are so many legends from the early rails days that paved the way to how we develop modern web apps. I would go as far to say that in web development there is a time before and after rails emerged.
Right, but it opens up a small page element that isn't very aesthetically pleasing to read from, and feels fairly useless.
Apple knows this and has curated it. Why do people think that they had specific bubble colours for messaging devices inside/outside Apple ecosystem.

They even did deep, dirty tricks like this: https://uxdesign.cc/how-apple-makes-you-think-green-bubbles-.... Not only that but Apple just love to lean heavily on their own custom functionality rather than coming up with open/reusable technologies. Apple are happy to use Wifi & Bluetooth standards to compete in the market, but not so much standards for chats/group chats (where Android users find things don't mesh as well/they don't have the same functionality as iOS users).

I can't for the life of me find it now, but I remember reading an article a while back on how Google found a way to trick iPhones into accepting Android messages as "blue bubble"/iOS messages by dumping some string onto the end or something. I'm sure it was a HN post but I can't find it, which sucks cause it was pretty funny reading.
What kinds of bugs have you run into? Any large-scale corruption of data at rest?
It was a tremendous value for the businesses who implemented it until customers decided that someone should be paid for that work and it might as well be them.
Managers are salaried and get paid a flat 40 hours a week. We did have to track our hours to ensure that we were meeting the minimum hour count.

So yeah, they basically just didn't pay you for all of your hours. It might technically be legal, but the company doesn't actually care about that. Wage theft is rampant, we all know that already
Whisper.wasm
It is true that the desktop Intel CPUs have lower idle consumption, usually by 10 to 15 W, than the desktop AMD CPUs.

On the other hand, for any given performance at full load, the AMD CPUs have a much lower power consumption, as low as two thirds.

Which is preferable depends on the application. For a personal computer, idle power consumption may be the most important. For a server, the power consumption when used is normally more important.

I have several servers in my home, which are used intermittently. Their idle power consumption does not matter much, because whenever they are not used they are shut down. Wake-on-Ethernet is enabled on them, and whenever I use them Ethernet magic packets wake them immediately.

The Intel E-cores are quite good for mostly integer workloads, like code compilation, or for file servers or Web servers, so for such tasks the Intel CPUs are adequate (but ECC-supporting MBs for them are quite expensive).

On the other hand their floating-point performance is quite poor (and the P-cores are few and intentionally crippled), so for such workloads AMD Zen 4 is much better, especially for running non-legacy programs, which have been updated and optimized for the modern ISAs.