skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we are in agreement. To elaborate more -- you are right, "the non-technical cofounder doesn't have all of the upside" -- I mean "they have all upside" meaning, they can only go up -- they have contributed nothing so everything for them is upside.
Also a 911 looks like a cool sports car, while the cybertruck looks like it's being rendered by a Super Nintendo. A lot of the attraction of sports cars is the cool aesthetic, which your average family SUV or pickup truck really doesn't have, and the cybertruck has a negative amount of.
I transitioned from Apple Pascal (based on UCSC p-system Pascal) on the Apple ][+ amd //e to Turbo Pascal on DOS in the early 80s. Turbo Pascal was a blast: the very quick compiler, good feedback, colorful editor, and use of the Wordstar keybindings, which I already knew, made for a great experience.

I recall writing programs large enough to require use of the overlay facility, which essentially let you page in different parts of your program under DOS.

I also recall meeting David Intersimone, a great ambassador of Borland, sometime in the 80s - might have been later 80s - when he visited my university as a guest of the local ACM chapter.
Skyfield: Elegant Astronomy for Python
My uni had two micros halls, one with 5.0, the other with 5.5. What's the difference? I asked. It turns out the 5.5 had some new shit called "Object Oriented Programming"... and a Breakout clone to illustrate the paradigm.

At some moment Borland released, free as in beer, the 3 and 5 versions. Binaries should be out there somewhere for those curious.

I'm sure young people would be surprised to see what 5.5 provided. The on-screen help was amazing: cut and paste useful examples from the help of many functions. And the instantaneous compiling... :)
A couple are kind of annoying, such as sign conversion/comparison.
Main belt asteroids and comets are perturbed out of their orbits all the time. Why would planets be meaningfully different?
Thanks for the report - I'll take a look at see what's going on. (There's some postMessage funny business there that tries to make the oauth experience nice that might be the culprit...)
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The folks who buy EVs as a fashion statement and those who buy flashy trucks as a fashion statement seem to have very little overlap. I suppose the plan is to bridge that gap and expand their market. I'm skeptical that it will be a success, but Elon is world class as getting money from people so I won't be surprised if it works out for Tesla.
That works, it's called launch control. It's just not as important as it is with ICE engines if you can supply enough power to the motors. Subtracting rollout will always give a lower number though, and it's easier.
1993 was a long time before social media-mediated collapse. Geocities, phpBB, 2channel, and the big IRC nets all postdate Eternal September.
The data collection for this study is dystopian in itself. Like, regardless of the goals, this study should be impossible to do. It doesn't seem like these people consented to be tracked, having there income and race guessed, along with their friends. Anonymized seems like a misdirection with this level of inference.
This also brings to mind the concept of federated search. Frequently brought up as a thought experiment, but it's a shame it's not discussed more seriously.
Sorry, unfortunately I am a bit lost on what this does (on my phone, so couldn't see the demos on the website). I'm an android developer, but I am not sure what this would do.
Do you have an example of an app/backend at which you can explain where Powersync helps?
Accusing someone of lying is accusing them of deliberately intending to deceive
Well, again, you are confused... and, most likely the CPython developers didn't bother.

No. You don't need the Python object model when implementing Python dictionary. You have evidence right in front of you: std::map bindings are successfully used in its place.

Why even keep arguing about this?

In fact, you can implement your own dictionary, and if you expose all the same mapping protocol, it will work the same as the built-in one. Do you have to use Python objects for this? -- absolutely no. You can convert at the interface boundary. Experience shows that this works noticeably better than using Python objects all the way. Why did the original CPython developers not do it? -- I don't know, can only guess. I already wrote what my guess is. And, in all sincerity, CPython has a lot more and a lot worse problems. Compared to the rest of the codebase, the dictionary object is fine. So, if anyone would seriously consider improving CPython's performance they wouldn't touch dictionaries, at least not at first.
It’s cheaper and has larger context because it’s worse. Just go to the api playground and try a difficult coding problem.
Pentest Muse: An Open Source AI-Powered Tool for Ethical Hacking
Isn't the opposite true with regards to complexity of ordinary living? We've specialised so far that most people aren't required to or even capable of sewing their own clothes, hunting/growing/foraging their own food, building their own shelter and furniture. Something our great grandparents would find unbelievable.

Modern living is so monotonously boring and devoid of any challenge that people are find more and more creative ways to try and get an ounce of that physical and mental stimulation back in their lives (hobbies, exercise, gaming, etc).
> The button has no downside

downsides:

- inconvenience (like if my hands are in my pocket)

- exposure to illness transmission via increased contact with unknown but certainly dirty surface area (assuming touch is required)

- energy expenditure (if its not immediately next to you, or you have a disability)
You can still use -Werror in your CI on compilers you do support. Just don't enable that flag for everyone else.
This was a great read, pretty much as always with Quanta. I'd also never heard of the Huisken-Ilmanen conjecture, and so this sent me down a rabbit hole, which I always enjoy.
Hellcats are built to go fast in a straight line with the limitations of a 20+ year old platform. Beating a vehicle Dodge spent about $20 developing in a shed with a giant pushrod engine and hand-me-down parts they got from 90s Mercedes Benz isn't that big an accomplishment.

Going fast in a straight line is easy for electric motors, so it's just not that impressive. It's like a native speaker enrolling in language 101. The A doesn't really mean anything. EVs have been up against the limits of tire adhesion for years now.

EVs with impressive sustained track times are far more interesting since that's actually hard to achieve. Batteries are heavy and that's killer for a real race car.

That 911 will pound hot lap after hot lap until the fuel tank is empty like it's nothing if the owner ticked the ceramic brake option. I suspect the Cybertruck will run out of cooling long before it drains the battery and I guarantee it will cook the brakes hauling itself down from 130 mph.

Edit: plus F-150 Raptor R does a 12.1 quarter mile. That's pretty close to running 11s.
I'm not a welder so I can't tell you more. It's hearsay. I guess it's the same kind of super local / random thing as restaurant owners may have to deal with in order for their establishment to be "protected" :shrug:
> Even projects with a “stable” set of targets have too much churn for this to be practical.

Are you speaking here from experience ? Because mine has been quite different.
>> I've been burnt multiple times by this.

I've similarly had so many technical friends burnt by this.

My new suggestion for "business co-founders" pitching ideas to technical friends where "business co-founders" propose techies do all the upfront work is --

If you have no Purchase Orders, no Funding, no Transact-able Relationships, no prior wins (esp publicly verifiable wins) -- then you put in money. Find some reasonable rate you pay for the upfront technical work. This "balances out" the skin in the game. If they have no money, i'd half-seriously suggest they go borrow money to pay the technical co-founder.

They need some risk, some skin in the game to make this an equal effort.
Discovery of structural regularity hidden in silica glass
Historically, literate music has always been confined to elite settings. The common people played folk tunes transmitted orally, and later "popular" songs and dances when mass publishing of sheet music became a possibility.

(There's actually no reason nowadays why this published "popular" music shouldn't become a part of the literate canon that's researched academically etc. But that only adds to a very long list of individual composers and entire musical traditions that end up being broadly neglected by standard academic POV's. It's also a general problem wrt. the study of human art and culture.)
There's a video of Cybertruck struggling to go up a dirt hill, with tires losing traction: https://www.threads.net/@ben_woodward/post/Czeo1X-BLAd
I've been watching a lot of the footage coming out of the conflict. The Israelis were using almost exclusively Mk-84 2000lb class warheads with various guidance kits attached (JDAM, Paveway, Spice). These are the largest class of commonly utilized air dropped warheads, the others being 1000lb, 500lb and 250lb. There were pictures of them staging hundreds for the initial assault and it's likely that ultimately thousands were dropped. These are not "precision" weapons, they are 100 times the size of the warhead on the AGM-114 hellfire missiles which are commonly used for counter insurgency operations and have a fragmentation radius in excess of 400 yards.

The Israeli army also possesses a fleet of specially armored Caterpillar D9 mining bulldozers which appear to be a central part of their current combined arms/armored doctrine on the ground. These are 4m tall, over 100,000lbs and, unusually, are used as front line units destroying buildings so ground troops don't need to fight amongst them.

The combination of these strategies really seems to suggest this isn't a counter-insurgency campaign at the planning level. They very much seek to pave over the entire strip.
It wouldn't.

Or to be more precise, any purpose to moving bodies would be better served with a different solution.

Goal: Announce selves to greater universe.

Method: Occlude parent star in a way judged not natural.

Dumb Solution: Destroy an astronomical amount of energy and time to reconfigure a system.

Real Solution: Just build star shades.

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Goal: Create a way to travel easily in the system.

Method: Use gravitation wells of bodies in the system.

Dumb Solution: Destroy an astronomical amount of energy and time to reconfigure a system to make slingshots predictable.

Real solution: Slingshots and other orbital movements are already predictable, use sails and Hohmann transfers for cheap movement, and fusion + ion / antimatter + ion drives for fast movement.

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Goal: Engineer a star (e.g. starlifting, nicoll dyson beam, star moving with a statite shell, etc...)

Method: Use material from orbiting bodies

Dumb Solution: destroy an astronomical amount of energy and time to reconfigure a system to move bodies closer to star

Real Solution: Send material from bodies into desired location with mass drivers.
Yes, brilliant.

Sounds (pun not intended but noticed) like steganography.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography
It's bizarre that in the middle of a oil market crisis it wasn't expected that the consumer market wouldn't have moved to higher MPG vehicles on it's own anyways. To me, this is one of the hallmarks of a highly monopolized market where consumers don't have any actual choices, and where competition for consumer approval is almost entirely absent.

The correct answer would have been to increase the number of companies manufacturing vehicles, not passing laws that constrained a market and possibly lead to an overall decrease. Now we have a market that's almost entirely bound to congressional whim and mostly disconnected from consumer demand.
> The money printer is mapping market demand to technical products, which is a business skill. And that business skill is worth a lot more than technical skills. Its just a type of business skill that you find more often in developers than you do in MBA, and so we don't associate it with "business guys".

I think you're underplaying the ability to map requirements to a feasible and sufficient technical product. Being the person who is also mapping the market demand to the technical product makes this process significantly more efficient.

I also think there's a lot of overlap with Software Engineering (with a capital 'E') in these skills - a lot of this is about figuring out what to build and making sure you've built it. I believe that's why they're more often found in developers than business types.
We need a lot more Chevy Bolts

I dont understand, there are millions of 5 door hatchback evs being sold at the moment, from all different manufacturers, its the most popular form factor for evs by far.
Cybertruck first production vehicle with Automotive Ethernet and 48v arch
Remains to be seen if there is a CAN bus or legacy 12v battery still included.
That's an idiot kid who thinks that flooring it while towing several tons up a 12% grade is even safe, let alone wise.
That's an extremely valid point. I'm no longer there, but I definitely can acknowledge that there is likely some inherent bias in the subset of customers that VMware/Red Hat has versus the entire market.
Jane Street: "We fight at a fundamental disadvantage" using OCaml over C++
It’s probably the same, but I’m not necessarily talking about outlawing the practice itself, just the acquisition that makes the practice (eventually) profitable for investors. Large companies with monopolistic product lines shouldn’t be able to merge either.
I feel like a neural network is probably overkill for this task and a suboptimal substitute for a theoretical understanding of optical illusions, but can't argue with results.
One of my favourite computer games was written in Turbo Pascal: ZZT, written by Tim Sweeney of Epic Megagames. It was a quircky text-mode game with puzzles, shooting, and so on. It had a built-in game editor that came even with the free shareware version, and it even had a little programming language called ZZT-OOP.

ZZT's original source code was lost. Years later, Adrian Siekierka painstakingly reverse-engineered the original Pascal code till -- when compiled with the original version of Turbo Pascal -- produced a byte-for-byte identical executable. Amazing! Read more:

- https://blog.asie.pl/2020/08/reconstructing-zzt/

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22609474

- https://benhoyt.com/writings/zzt-in-go/
This brings memories.. I remember running Turbo Pascal 4.0 under PC-Ditto (XT emulator) on Atari 520ST :-)). It all looked mysterious and raw comparing to GEM [1], but it was probably my first _serious_ programming setup.

The Atari was from Germany, and I didn't know German at all, but I knew a bit of English. And so probably that was an important factor in why it was more attractive than whatever Basic or Assembler I had on the host system.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEM_(desktop_environment)
They used to do something (vaguely) similar, like 0-100-0 which also included brakes in the equation.

I also remember a motor trend article where they figured out the "horsepower" of the brakes and a 911 would decelerate like 1000 hp
Some people get credit on your taxes, some people don't, yet Tesla is advertising it as a universal tax credit. So they aren't stating what is "enshrined into law" but rather the best case scenario.
Fond memories of watching my dad sat in front of a bright blue screen covered in inscrutable glyphs. It looked like pure wizardry to me then.

While the original colours are too intense for my taste, I do sometimes switch to the Noctis Azureus theme in VS Code when I find myself thinking of him.
I don't think it has anything to do with brain development. I think it's entirely related to the development of an individual concept, whenever the structure of ideas that make the concept is too simple.

I would claim that most people use intuition/assumptions rather than internal chain-of-thought, when communicating, meaning they will present that simplified concept without second thought, leading to the same behavior as the toddler. It's actually trivial to find someone that doesn't use assumptions, because they take a moment to respond, using an internal chain-of-thought type consideration to give a careful answer. I would even claim that a fast response is seen as more valuable than a slow one, with a moment of silence for a response being an indication of incompetence. I know I've seen it, where some expert takes a moment to consider/compress, and people get frustrated/second guess them.
"Grinding away" or "having the time of his life?"

Life is short. If you are spending half of your waking hours in a job, it might as well be fun, meaningful, and helping the world.

If it pays the bills, and it's what you'd be doing if you were independently wealthy anyways, why not skip the "independently wealthy" step if someone is glad to pay you to do it? That saves a few years of your life. I am doing _exactly_ what I'd be doing with my life if I had a few million dollars in the bank and could spend my life however I liked. Indeed, having a sponsor opens doors and provides support for it. And the BATNA, if my employer were to ask me to do something I don't want to do, is to become independently wealthy at a FAANG.

As a footnote, seven-figure salaries at FAANG are common for world-class experts in many fields (not just in AI, although that's where they're the most common).
I'd love to see how this compares against Llama.cpp on speed. Do anyone any benchmarks that compare PyTorch.compile vs Llama.cpp?
It looks like they created a sort-of-roundabout-ish traffic pattern with the intersection, which is why it is so large. I assume it is a fairly busy location?

The parking spots were probably just opportunistic use of the extra space. They seem have been removed, if you look on street view. The satellite view is from 2019 or before, but some of the street views are 2020 and 2021 and show that they've removed the parking and added road capacity.
I think it's a valid point. Mozart and Beethoven's music was at the end of the day made to appeal to mass audiences. Although considered niche now, Mozart was quite the celebrity in his day and had a loyal base of (mostly female) followers. Whereas modern classical is meant to appeal to musicians, not a mass audiences.

We forget that although there are many surviving transcripts of their work, Mozart and Beethoven also improvised and performed on stage a lot. That whole genre of classical music is lost.
He has a 5 mile commute to work. I figure at the most, he drives twice as much as I do, but that would still be less for gas than what he is paying.

All I'm saying is that Tesla claiming you are going to save $100 a month in gas is based on a whole lot of assumptions. It's not money in the bank.
The deprecated attribute is useless when -Werror and -Wall are both on. You can't land the attribute if any uses exist because any use is now a compiler error. You might as well just delete the entity and sort things out from there.
Apple Highlights iPhone Feature That Lets You Preserve Your Own Voice
IMO the problem is defining oneself as non-technical. Anyone can learn any topic if willing and with necessary resources. Some people make it part of their identity that they wont learn certain skills.

Tech is nowadays like literacy. Imagine a person saying I am not literate, instead of trying to learn to read and write, at least to a degree.

I think it is a status problem. Some people think of management as higher status than operational roles, and they do not want to be seen doing the low-status tasks. While it can pay well, tech seems for the general population as respectable as a mechanic or a chef, but not as a lawyer or a doctor (generalizing too much to try to get the point accross)

On another note, sql was supposedly intended to be used by "business people" but developers are instead the ones using it. In general, a business type wants to loosely specify the needs and get some body worry about the details.

I am talking here about the typical archetypes. Of course the best business people are not afraid of digging into details and learning, but for the average ones I found some generalizations apply.
Thanks for the perspective.

Cool hearing about your story! How did you get the initial capital to buy businesses, just from your savings as a research professor?
Every single one of the examples is like "yeah... I mean, I guess... sorta"

the penguin/giraffe is probably the best one. The old lady/dress barely looks like either.
Most security/safety feature either on the language or the tooling side are are some what annoying since by definition they tend to add constrains to one workflow. The real question is whether they introduce more pain than they safe in average.
Despite some misleading pictures shared on social media, if you do an apples-to-apples comparison (e.g., a 1972 F-150 and a 2023 model with the same bed size), they are about the same length. The differences are vastly better driver safety and fuel economy.

Even the differences in height are often overplayed by making bad-faith comparisons: https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads...

The main difference is that nowadays, there are more factory and aftermarket configuration options available, and people have more money, so you see more people driving heavy-duty trucks with 35,000 lbs towing capacity, which have big engines and thus are rather beefy. But conversely, you also see more people buying small trucks with "stub-length" (4-5 ft) beds.

It's interesting that you don't really have a market of mini-pickups that are seen in Japan, but that's probably partly a matter of weird fuel efficiency regulations, of import restrictions, and cultural factors (few people in the US want to be seen riding anything golf-cart-sized, and it's not exactly a guy-only thing.)
They won’t. I wonder if there will still be demand for original content though because it creates a connection. A communication of what others have to say ?
For the longest time, a section of the car enthusiast community has said that 'slow car fast is better than fast car fast'. Now a days, it is taken to mean that a light car that is fast enough is always more fun than a heavier car, no matter how fast.

The Tesla Cybertruck might be the best example of this phenomenon. At 7000 lbs and a high ground clearance, there is no amount of power that can make this car feel nimble.
Man, I don't know where most of the people here work, but the shit most people write about in their jobs is inconsequential and not super secret. It's performance reviews and meeting notes. 99.99% of the workforce isn't writing about the company's secret sauce... Ever. Maybe director level and up. Also, most companies make physical things, not software, so there's no secret sauce to share through email anyway.
This looks great! I've been planning a project and I wanted exactly this functionality and started looking into running SQlite in the browser. Very excited to try this out
There was a palm pilot version of Lights Out that I used to play a lot when I had my Tungsten E. At the time I felt like I was pretty good at solving it, but now I've completely forgotten the strategy.
Old internet: a local bookstore/coffee shop near the university housing.
New Internet: Grocery store in a big city check out aisle tabloid section(and also the bookstore is still there too)
Why is the technical founder becoming obsoleted but not the business founder?