skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The comments here from the first hour are depressingly predictable. Just because you don’t take issue with something doesn’t mean someone else won’t.
Brands have always been bigger than their main product. People wear branded tshirts, put stickers on their laptops to show some kind of affinity with a brand.

The opposite can also be true. For reasons they don’t want to use the product anymore, and they want it to be known (they mention they’ve been using it for over a decade).

The reasons themselves have been debated here on the DHH posts themselves, so how about we ask the bigger question.

How can you join the political debate publicly, without risking customers? Or should you risk loosing customers?

How do we talk politics at work? Because sometimes it’s needed.
I don’t have the answers, suffice to say starting from a position of respect and a high-trust environment is important.
I couldn’t tell whether I could integrate my SQLite app with my own Postgres database? E.g. is it free to self host, and the paid services are a convenience? Or the cloud hostage is mandatory?
Out of curiosity, I pulled up Duke’s FIRE rating and it’s overall “green”:

https://www.thefire.org/colleges/duke-university#:~:text=Duk...
With software-controlled motors there should be no slippage whatsoever. I think Tesla is only doing this to make the numbers look slightly better.
You're assuming everyone has a freeway/city owned roadway to their garage.
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No matter what we think about FSD, Tesla's end goal are robotaxis – eventually probably with no steering wheels. Steer by wire is a stepping stone in that direction.
Woah. Had no idea he was responsible for Turbo Pascal
I've added screenshots of the software.

Thanks for the comments and feedback!
I had already installed the UEFI USB image.
i got multiple virus warnings d/ling the universal USB image.

Got a bit freaked by that, trashed the usb stick, but it changes the partitions on you and LOCKS them.
turned a nice sandisk 64GB into a 126 Mb stick.

computer management would not fix it.

I ended up going oldschool with diskpart, and good old delete part override cleared up the shenanigans.

USE AT YOUR RISK.

at the very least, run whatever .7z you choose through virustotal.
Having toiled in sushi taverns for nigh on a decade, wherein the verdant avocado reigns supreme in North American fare, I have honed my skill in discerning the ripeness of countless avocados each passing annum. Nay, there lies no enchantment in this art, only diligent practice. A keen intuition doth develop with time. Lo and behold, should an avocado err in ripening, fear not. Craft thyself a guacamole or an avocado toast, and the subsequent fruit shall be of greater delight.

(I wrote a reply and asked chatGPT to rewrite it in a medieval style)
I think the key factor is how difficult it is to specify what you want in detail, since this is still going to be necessary with AI. If you can't clearly express what the AI should do, you won't get good results.

I'd say it would be much easier for a technical founder to write a detailed spec for the work that a typical non-technical founder does than the reverse.
Lucky! Figs are great for creating homemade energy/protein/w.e bars as the binder and mangos are great frozen as pulp for mango lassi.

What about grandparents? Are you all set on grandparents? In-laws?
They would if the users affected do not impact their bottom line. After all, the whole point of this is to keep out users who are not paying their 'fair share' via Google/Meta by proxy.

But also, the technical solution to bookmarks and small-scale sharing between friends is quite obvious. You don't need referrers to solve that problem.
He doesn't seem to be mentally all there. Is he suffering from some type of condition, as this isn't normal behavior.
Wow, that picture is striking. It needs to be an automatic reply to about 10% of comments on the subject, both here and Reddit.
I have made this mistake exactly twice in my career and the simplest advice I have... I won't categorically say that you should never accept "a lower salary right now but when we bring in investment/sales we'll bump it" because, well, sometimes there are companies/projects/founders that you meet and truly believe in and want to be a part of their team. But... the absolutely critical piece of it is to get in writing:

- what the triggering events are (investment, revenue thresholds, etc), and make sure to include "hiring other team members for similar roles at higher salaries" as one of the triggers

- what the salary bump will be

- whether or not there will be retroactive compensation included

The first time around I ended up leaving the role before any of the usual triggers would have been activated. Management was toxic, salaries sucked, morale was in the shitter anyway. The second time around I discovered after tendering my resignation that someone who reported to me was making $40k/yr more than I was. It would have been an amicable parting (I was moving on to something that was much better aligned with my interests) but it got pretty sour when I found that out. I got asked a couple times to come back to consult on a few projects and the rate I quoted them (and they begrudgingly accepted) was steep.
Yes, and all Tesla cars do this.
I spend about $20/month to charge mine at home and drive about 700 miles/month, unless I go out of town.
The alternative is to fix warnings! You don't have to completely fail the build, to have the good engineering sense to fix warnings.

Unless you never build locally? And never look at a build log? You really never improve code if Werror doesn't force you to?

It's really obnoxious to also immediately and completely fail the build for someone who wants to use an updated compiler, or wants to compile for a different architecture, or wants to compare to an older compiler, or a different vendor's compiler, or test with and updated library with changed headers, or ...
I would suggest, rather than inventing your own mythology, rather than subscribing to the mythology of HN comments without any scholarly references, rather than write off a history book because it only has a single author (would two have convinced you? perhaps three?), to go directly to the primary sources cited in the book:

[1] Patriarcha by Sir Robert Filmer

[2] The Diary of William Byrd II of Virginia, 1709-1712

These are just a couple examples, both of which are quite representative of the ideas and culture of the governing elite of the Virginia tidewater.

If you engage with these primary sources, you may be able to relieve yourself of any spurious mythologies and preconceived notions.
could've picked a better analogy that don't reinforce the fitness myth that fat "turns into" muscle.

fat is fat. muscle is muscle. one does not convert into another. it can be broken down into energy to be used but ultimately each cell starts from scratch.
The theory is "we already have a finance, S&M, admin etc" so we will dump the other one wot we just bought. That will instantly fix up the PandL and BS and the share price will simply head north because we have dumped duplicated cost sinks. Loverly

Obviously, we won't bother to compare functions and functionality now 'coz ours will be the better one, 'cos its ours.

Broadcom seem to be a firm of breakers, shakers and dumpers.
absolutely, and people making less than 50k buy 50k cars. Plus, there are also a lot of people in low cost of living areas that hapily drop cash on cars.

I was visiting my hometown where houses are 200k and lots of households make 100k-200k/yr. All the driveways were full of new trucks, SUVs, and boats.
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> we have on the books the authorization to be able to invade the Hague in case any US person was being held or tried. Hague Invasion Act / ASPA is wild.

That's more the reason to move the court to a country with nukes, say France, Strasbourg and put some retaliation Act in place if Americans put Strasbourg Invasion Act in place
The Porsche 911 wasn't being driven at top speed.

It has a 1/4 mile time (9.9 seconds) a full second faster than a Cybertruck (10.9 seconds).

Its sort of like saying some kid on the high school track team running all out is faster than Hussain Bolt when he's running a warmup lap.
AFAIK Fusion development already moved to India.
So let others add ideas to the backlog and the product owners triage? I would be worried about ideas getting drowned, leading to a disincentive in participation. I would probably add a layer of voting or something to allow good ideas to surface.
Raycast does the same, but I don't like it.

I like to have margins between my windows, so almost all window tiling / snapping managers just make me feel cramped.
> Bikes get out of harms way faster and in a much mire agile fashion compared to cars

That may be true but there are situations where you physically can't get out of harm's way even with good reflexes.
Their follow up post will be about what they switch to as Microsoft To Do is absolutely horrible, in my experience. We jokingly call it “To Don’t.”
Verilog isn't slow to compile to RTL.

The problem is after it's compiled and 'linked', laying out and routing it efficiently on the fpga takes a lot of compute as the occupancy and timing requested gets closer to the edge of what's possible on the device.

On the plus side, you can quickly iteratively compile and simulate your change to confirm it is logically correct before putting it on the fpga.
i've seen some blog posts saying if you buy a used 3090 that has been used for bitcoin mining then there is a risk of thermal throttling because the thermal paste on the vram is not great and worse if it was run hot for a long time.

any recommendations on how to buy one? e.g. 24GB model, any particular model to run LLMs? what is the biggest baddest LLM you can run on a single card?

have been thinking about it but was sticking with cloud/colab for experiments so far.
I know it is your "natural" interpretation, but it does not automatically make you correct. In this case, I did not give anything particular stance of if prisoner should be given free calls or not. I merely state that being a good thing for somebody is really not an supporting cause why it should be free. There might other valid reasons to provide it free or not free, but being a good thing for prisoner is just a poor argument. The same goes for things like since non-prisoner are already paying bunch of things for the prisoners they should not be bothered to pay another thing.
Inflation adjusted that $35k would be over $43k nowadays so it's actually quite a lot cheaper than promised. And it comes with many features included like Autopilot, which I think was a $3k option back then.
Maybe they didn't choose Microsoft To Do as a replacement for Basecamp, but they are using Microsoft products anyway and this is just one individual's to do list for the sake of this screenshot? I just want to state the possibility, because they didn't say anything about their new tool.

I neither know Basecamp nor To Do that well, so I might be completely wrong. But I think Basecamp plays in a different league than To Do, doesn't it?
> Ford killed the Focus and Fusion because they simply couldn't be sold for a profit since most people didn't get the high end models

They stopped providing it as a model to the American market. It's based off a Ford platform, though, and other automakers are continuing to use that platform. The Focus also continues to be a model in European markets.

During the beginning of the pandemic there were also parts shortages. Many manufacturers stopped making their lower end vehicles and only produced the higher end ones with the limited parts they could get, because, they can convert those parts into higher profits.

I think these decisions are best viewed as the awful intersection of short term wall street thinking combined with latent and intentionally imperfect measures of consumer demand.
except teslas very safe cars
Reminds me of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon
Any resources people could share about the engineering of the cybertruck? I don’t know too much about cars in general but I want to know if there is anything interesting in this one.
exactly what do you expect to learn?

there should be no racial bias coming from evolution because mixing of of people of different skin colors is a very recent phenomenon in terms of human history. i believe evolutions influence takes longer than that to work.

and culture? if you grow up in an open community with open minded parents, that's all you need to not learn to judge people by their color. it's as simple as that.

if you didn't have that privilege, then it helps to seek out friends from various colors and backgrounds and let that help you open your mind.

my grandmother grew up with racial bias, and she occasionally expressed that, yet whenever me or one of my cousins brought over an african friend, she loved them, and i hope that one by one it made her realize that her prejudice was based on ignorance.
https://tildes.net/register?code=FGRQ6-VYJV2-8E8SF

let me know, you got it.
>> History has shown them to be right.
>> There are many terrible products in this world that were successful only because of good sales and marketing. And vice versa.

Just because technologists have been marginalized, abused, and extracted from successfully thru history -- does not mean it should be accepted and it does not mean I want that for myself or my technical friends.
Next year: Tripplex, a new startup from ex-VMware employees that promises 2X the performance of any other virtualization platform and doesn't charge for "extra" features!
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turn large language model (LLM) weights into executables.…
How can the build system differentiate between new and old errors? Maybe I misunderstand you, but it seems like that piece is missing.
Well, very simplistically, yes it is correct and should be expected to reduce headcount post-acquisition, that is the GCSE ('grade school') business studies answer: there are core functions which are non-linear in business growth if you like; that have an 'absolute' requirement but without a marginal need to grow as fast as the rest of the company. Thus an acquired company that is well-integrated doesn't need its payroll department any more, say.

And you don't buy out a company entirely because you like the way it's running(^) and just want all the profits for yourself. You buy it as a company because you think you have some kind of 'synergy' with it, or as an individual because you think you have better ideas for it; in either case you have some change to make that makes it worth more than it's present market valuation. It would be weird for an acquisition to result in no change.

(^So you like everything except think the dividend should be higher, I suppose.)
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What is the alternative? Chat gpt and clones are rather wrong most of the time.
Yeah, but imagine you don’t know what “decoding”, “buffers”, and “display” mean in a software context.
It’s quite possible and very likely they do. But this post doesn’t describe their rationale and it just seems like a waste of effort.

If I worked there and relied on Basecamp and had to migrate to something new, for these reasons, I would be frustrated. And I would trust my tech org less because they aren’t making decisions to make it most efficient for me to build things.

As a developer, I don’t want to worry about whether my company is going to arbitrarily decide to switch technologies to something inferior.
Article recommends ldd without a word of warning that you must not run that on untrusted code. It could execute malign code. Not understanding that might lead users who try to find out whether they should trust some binary to inspect it with ldd.
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>> If the founders you need cost you 75% of your equity and you make a unicorn.... Were they worth it? Who cares. You got your fuck you money.

How many times does it end at the technologist owning 25%? I've seen tons of friends swindled and ending up with nothing and successive rounds of business hires walk away with the value.
> And hopefully without that a word from our sponsors section.

it won't have this, because the product placement would be seamlessly integrated into the content so naturally that you don't notice being subliminally persuaded to think or buy what they want you to!
that's the price of capitalism
In Australia, there's an LED present if hitting the button will do anything, which changes intensity when you press the button. In intersections where the LED doesn't do anything, it's either inactive, painted over, or replaced by a black plastic cap.

In other countries I find the lack of feedback quite frustrating.
That’s why I rent the Home Depot truck with the 10’ bed for $25. Manufacturers found people want a second row instead of a longer bed at some point, must have been some convincing A/B testing in the 90s.
A quote I've seen attributed to Carl Sagan comes to mind, "But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."

The Cybertruck is definitely different and attention grabbing. But there's good and bad versions of that and I really feel like this is the latter. Previous Tesla vehicles were also different and bucked certain traditional vehicle design trends but did so in a way that made them look like they were moving beyond current cars and legitimately belonged in the future.

The Cybertruck also looks like the future, but as envisioned by a SyFy movie of the week that stars Lorenzo Lamas and that ran out of money and built their future vehicle out of spray painted plywood sheets. There's quirky bad, it grows on you bad, and then just bad bad. I also find it reminiscent of the Pontiac Aztek and some quick Googling tells me I'm not the only one. This is perhaps not the comparison you want to evoke. I've never seen an in-developed product gets such a huge amount of derision of its visual design and then come out essentially unchanged. Maybe Elon and Tesla have vision far beyond everyone else on this point, but it's difficult to imagine the appeal of this outside of an extremely niche market...perhaps of people who were sad their Pontiac Aztek died and that it didn't cost them more money.
I didn't realize the settings were that fine grained -- that's on me. I thought it was all or nothing, for auto-correction.

Thanks!

Hmm... Upon reflection, I may have a vague memory of seeing that -- well before the brand name capitalization went berserk. I may have originally kept it because beginning of sentence capitalization was a nice to have. I tend to use the default keyboard along with whatever they are calling swipe-typing these days.
The claim that they are using AI to generate targets and bombing them faster than they could generate targets by human means is very interesting.
This is very common issue with software engineering in general but I'd say particularly with game development, the answer I've found to be the best is what converted me when I was getting started with game dev ("I have a great idea, I just need a team to build it"):

Why do you think we got learnt game dev/programming ourselves? Probably because we too had an idea we wanted to make a reality, so why would we put that on hold to make someone else's idea without some other incentive?
Not to sound like some sort of Pale Moon absolutist, but, I feel like the frontend changes were too much. And 3 years without Firefox biggest selling point is painful. It hurts. It really hurts. The only reason I haven't sold my soul and dignity to Chromium is that Iceraven lets me use μMatrix.
Did it with the Model X too.

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/cars/886776/Tesla-Model...

https://youtu.be/upJ7jSUoRwo
Ahh ok so to be correct you have to keep reading until you get an empty read?

Maybe I don’t need to query the file size at all?
Wow, fun one, thanks!
It's also more or less opinion, which categorically is not defamation in the US, dead or not.
Most Pickup Truck Owners Don’t Actually Do Any Truck Stuff.

> Only 7.0% of truck buyers frequently use their trucks to tow. About 2% of people use their trucks to tow occasionally, while 63% of owners rarely or never tow.

> But at least 28% of owners frequently use their trucks for personal hauling, while 47% of owners occasionally haul. Nearly 32% of owners rarely or never haul personal items.

https://www.motorbiscuit.com/most-pickup-truck-owners-dont-a...
One of the things that has always tickled me about this bent of "liberal thinking" is that they generally believe two things at once:

1. people who commit crimes -- even heinous ones -- deserve a second chance and reintegration with society (except, perhaps, for a select few crimes which may not even be especially heinous in the broader context)

2. people who hold unacceptable opinions are irredeemable

Regardless of what you think about DHH's opinions, it strikes me as magnificently childish to cause this kind of organizational disruption because of an opinion. The guy isn't funneling money to Nazi concentration camps. He has an opinion, and it's different from yours. Grow up.
> How did you get the initial capital to buy businesses, just from your savings as a research professor?

Much like Andrew Wilkinson, I started an agency. Agencies are great cash cows.

In retrospect, I could have just started with savings (I had enough). It probably would have added stress I wasn’t looking for.

That said, the agency was and is still great cash flow. It’s also a useful business space for learning how to build a business that (mostly) runs itself.
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Clang now makes binaries an original Pi B+ can't run
So exactly what do you think he’s going to accomplish spending years working with an employment lawyer? A reinstatement of his job at a toxic company? Some monetary compensation that probably won’t be worth the headache?

That energy can be better spent looking for a new job. My granddad use to tell me to never chase after old money or old girlfriends.
Agree. I am not an expert on AGI, but I suspect this route is a dead end because I believe true AGI requires interaction with an external environment to learn eg there needs to be a feedback loop to external things that it can interact with and learn from.

“You learn best from your mistakes” comes to mind here.

And not just shallow feedback loops but bigger, more profound ones eg “I didn’t go to work for a month and so I was fired and and now I have no money and it will now be hard to be hired again”.
This isn’t per artist, it’s per song, which means an artist might put out an album and only the single gets widespread play and if the few thousand plays the rest receive all fall just under 1k they’d be discounted to unpaid plays. Remember, for smaller artists every dollar counts. Most have already seen their revenues from music drop by 90-95% since Spotify ate the industry, so why should they be so willing to accept that the first 1k plays are worth $0.00 and the next are only worth $0.003 or less.

This is also compounded by their refusal to adopt a user-centric payment model where the artists you actually listened to that month are the ones your money goes to. Look at comparisons others have published and you’ll see how their current model siphons money from smaller artists towards major label artists (I’m discretely typing this in bits from our local chamber orchestra’s AGM and can’t look up facts for you atm).

With this change, it ensures that even moving to a user-centric model they’ll still be able to underpay smaller artists. It’s not so alarming on its own, but it ensures they can continue to keep the status quo even if they give in to pressure and adopt a user-centric payment model by being able to not have to pay for much of their catalog.
Are you open to investors?