skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you reduce fascism to "let's genocide everyone else", of course the ideology doesn't make sense. I would say the idea of fascism is more about doing what's best for the nation or people, guided by a strong centrally led state, and a belief that imperialism and war can be appropriate tools to further this goal. It's adjacent to ultranationalism (though it doesn't have to be about the nation).

For example to name the most well-known example, Hitler's goals were:

- unite the German people under one country

- more lebensraum (space to live) for said German people

- get rid of undesirables who hold the Germans back (Jews, disabled people, Gypsies, homosexuals, etc)

If you start from the axioms that the German people are the best and should be elevated and all other people don't deserve compassion, it's not hard to arrive at those goals by pure reason. Of course those are bad axioms from our point of view, but you can't reason yourself away from your axioms.
"WebGL Water" (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38370118 :

> Three.js interactive webgl particle wave simulator: https://threejs.org/examples/webgl_points_waves.html

> [Curl, Vorticity,]

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31049970 re: Deep Learning / CFS: Computational Fluid Dynamics:

> google/jax-cfd https://github.com/google/jax-cfd#other-awesome-projects lists "Other differentiable CFD codes compatible with deep learning"
"Everyone wants investment from venture capitalists".

I have a bootstrapped side project, Tunnelmole, turning a small profit and growing at a slow and steady rate on its own. I'm the engineer so I only really pay hosting costs, which are covered by the revenue, although in the early days I had to cover this.

While venture capital is an option, if it continues to grow, it's entirely possible the venture capitalists may not be needed.
This doesn't sound correct. Everything you type or paste into the box goes to Google but when you click on links the browser knows that's a URL and doesn't search for it.
I can relate to this a bit.

Prompt engineering feels a lot like SEO. Learning by trial and error, no factual knowledge to go by.

I fear the future will be mostly about poking the big black AI box until its output seems to work as expected. It sounds nothing like what I enjoy about programming.
I use PIOUS and TEARY but only because it's somewhat of an invocation in a morning ritual.
They are intentionally planting a false seed when they really intend to go in another direction. It reminds me of Agamemnon in book 2 of the Illiad: https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/iliad/section2/.

What I find insidious about this kind of behavior is that although they claim that it is to encourage the team to not be shy speculating on new ideas, it seems as though the true purpose is to make the team lead appear smarter that the other team members. It's a kind of reverse psychology. If everyone is throwing out spontaneous ideas, some (probably most) will be bad. Some ideas are very dumb and are easily dismissed. Sometimes however it takes time to work through the subtleties and see the problems. If the leader deliberately seeds a bad idea and then is able to quickly point out some very subtle problem, it makes them look like a genius relative to others who would need more time to see that issue. That is why it seems manipulative to some of us.
Any effort to change this has to be centered around open, crowd-sourced datasets.
To be clear, I wasn't suggesting locals are obligated to do anything. I'm just pointing out tourists seem to have difficulty in more than one direction.
>There are plenty of crimes that deserve death.

In your opinion. In the opinion of many others, there is no crime that deserves death, hence the widespread abolition of the death penalty in developed countries. We used to execute people for stealing cattle and I imagine that many people at the time though that it was an entirely right and proper punishment.

A jurisdiction that uses the death penalty with any real frequency will at some point inevitably execute an innocent man. What is the appropriate punishment for those who supported the laws that caused his death?
God damn kids, get off my lawn!

Here's a video of IE5 on Windows 98, at 0:45 one of the dropdown suggestions is "search for ...": https://youtu.be/K1OyEMsF9mc?t=45
As soon as AI is embodied, via Boston Dynamics or Tesla or any of a number of other players, it will take a big bite out of the skilled trades as well.
Use an LLM like Llama2 to manage your personal sprints. Have one for 2-week sprints, daily standups, and of course epics.

Prompt it to help you develop a plan. I use ollama.ai to help me.

Example:

https://github.com/stephenwithav/Modelfiles/blob/master/busi...

edit: It doesn't provide perfect results, but it gives you a good start.
> I wonder if putting "You are GPT-4.5-turbo" in the system prompt improves performance

>> quite possible

I love this! I love the idea that we are in an age where, by accident, our technology pays attention to the energy we invest into its potential futures. It is also very silly? It seems absurd - but perhaps we live in absurd times.
This is less cyclical and more common sense changes.

AMD used to have 5-wide VLIW. Theoretical performance was massive, but NOTHING could take advantage of 5-wide parallelism consistently. When they switched to VLIW-4, essentially zero performance per CU was lost. GCN went the complete opposite direction and got rid of all the VLIW in exchange for tons of flexibility.

It turns out that (as we've known for a very long time) in-order parallelism has diminishing returns. If you look at in-order CPUs for example, two generic execution ports can be used something like 80% of the time. Moving to 3 in-order drops the usage of the third to something like 15-30% and the fourth is single digits of usage.

Adding a second port should guarantee lots of use, but only if the second unit is kept flexible. RDNA3 can only use the second port for a handful of operations which means that it can't be used anywhere near that 80% metric for most applications. Future versions of RDNA and CDNA with more flexible second ports should start to be able to leverage those extra compute units (if they decide it's worth the transistors).
I think if you want to skip the queue you use a different service,
where that is part of the setup.
And just as importantly, is it controlled for changes in diagnostic criteria, improvements in testing and pre-screening? In the past decades, we got better at classifying and discriminating between cancers and other illnesses and causes of death.
> Maybe the fascist must appeal to mechanical-ism because his philosophy is fundamentally emotion-driven.

I don't feel like this is the case. Fundamentally all philosophy that has moral prescriptions is emotion-driven.

That is to say, this is the case in all philosophies that say that something "ought" (or "ought not") to be. To say that something "ought" to be a specific way, you can't just rationally and objectively look at the material world. That only tells you how things are, not how they ought to be. You have to cross Hume's Is/Ought gap at some point, and that can't be done objectively. Any philosophy that does this can be undermined by the average two year old asking "Why?" enough times.

You have to start with some fundamental moral assumptions in order to get an ought, and those are just absolutely dripping with emotion.
This is how I play as well, because in my mind it makes it basically just a long, never-evending game of Wordle, which I find slightly amusing.

Though the number of days where I forget the previous day's word is probably too damn high.
I feel a bit silly here... but why do you keep your airspeed when you turn 180° after entering the faster-moving air? The article says "due to momentum" but that doesn't really make sense to me. It says "the tailwind has now accelerated the glider", but if it was all down to tailwind you would only be able to reach the groundspeed of the wind, after that there can be no tailwind right?
"Everyone wants investment from venture capitalists."

Am I the only one not living in this bubble. I cofounded a boostrap business. Having cash to hire and not have to work two jobs would sure be nice, but if I am raising it would not be to be on Forbes list, it would be to build an actual business. The vanity of those people sometimes.
The really wide definition seems to be mostly from economic organizations from what I could find. Which makes me question their interests here.
What are you favorite Deep Learning / ML Twitter and YouTube accounts?
You've finally let slip what you believe: Israel should continue to subject Palestinians to military occupation indefinitely.

The alternative, you claim, is "what is happening already only on a bigger scale," meaning more attacks on Israel, as on 7 October. You say that ending the occupation will lead to loss of life, which you accuse me of not caring about.

In other words, in your view, only Israel's security matters, and only Israeli lives matter. 20k Palestinians killed: a necessary price for Israel's security. Indefinite Palestinian subjugation to a foreign military power that slowly takes over more and more Palestinian land: necessary to preserve Israeli security. Israel withdrawing to its internationally recognized borders, as demanded by UN Security Council Resolution 242: unthinkable.
Thanks, I've also just learned that a Dutch oven is not just a crude prank, but also an allusion to how the cookware might work.
It's a good retrospective. It's clear the author learned, and improved. I didn't find anything new, it's got commentary on three common failure-to-raise modes.

One thing I noticed about the tale was lots of focus on the product and MVP things. I think more efforts on Customer Development before MVP can provide a lot of traction signal to VC.
I was wondering what this adds over mlocate. It seems it's a GUI only / GUI first tool.

The GitHub page recommends mlocate for a CLI version.
> why you would care about the price of tap water

Because I have to ask and unless I'm explicit they'll bring a 330 mL glass bottle which is extremely annoying. That forces me to drink beer all the time just to avoid that which is not exactly ideal.

> eg Bulgaria

The VAT there is 20% which is much higher than any place in the US.
This is almost accurate. I would add one more thing:

-> Have previous success (as founder or as employee) in same space -> funded
It's a matter of cultural differences and expectations. Only American cities are like American cities. If you travel anywhere else expecting everything to be just like America you'll be hugely dissapointed.
Right - like, you'd think it's obvious that of course you'd just do the right thing. But developers are expensive and market research, talking to customers, planning for the future, etc. becomes rivalrous to building things. And that stuff is generally much less interesting, so without compulsions to solve those problems, they frequently then don't get solved.

"But if you don't do these things, the company fails!" Yeah, and look at all those small, engineering-heavy companies that do exactly that! And further--eventually, as you scale you reinvent division of labor because as much as we like to kid ourselves, software developers are not, universally, better at doing everyone else's job. (If you find yourself in a position where you are better at doing everyone else's job, you should probably find a new company to work at.)
This is more ADA title I. Typically for Title III ADA lawyers troll small businesses looking for accessibility issues like lack of ramp, and have a stable of disabled clients who will file against the businesses. Since the businesses can’t generally afford to context or pay fines they’ll settle quickly and remediate, or a non trivial amount of the time get run out of business (if for instance the remediation costs a non trivial amount to pull off). I’m not judging bad or good, here, it is what it is and perhaps it’s the right outcome to allow for general accessibility.
Hackers behind outage target ChatGPT for 'dehumanizing' Palestinians
"It works on my machine" - apt comparison for the software crowd.

I grew up in a restaurant, but my main lesson from it was that I didn't want to be forced to do that kind of work. People have praised me for my work ethic, but I'm not sure it came from doing anything at the restaurant, it came from NOT wanting to do anything at the restaurant.
“White conservative Christian male” is absolutely a dog whistle for Christofascists nobody is a fan of.
Worrying about the speed of smart pointer reference counting sounds like premature optimization at best. If this is really what's slowing your app down in 2023, then you've got bigger problems than choosing owning vs non-owning references.
Just been in France recently. The radio really plays only French-African music. At least 90% of the time. I don't think it's anything racist about that. It just that France changed and I think most of Europe will change as well due immigration. We will see more African, Asian and maybe middle-eastern culture.
> Intel and AMD are not doing that because both hope to replace CUDA with their proprietary equivalents, instead of an open GPU API

Like AMD did with FreeSync (now VRR) and FSR3 (whatever open standard it will morph into)?

I'll never understand the hate AMD gets from the open source community. Mind-boggling.
Stainless steel pans are basically as durable as cast iron pans, while being lighter in weight and quicker to heat. I am finding it difficult to justify keeping my cast iron pan around.

Carbon steel is fine.
What Would It Mean to Treat Animals Fairly?
> All the world tour about "oh so dangerous AI" was purely marketing as anyone even remotely associated with AI would know.

This oft-repeated idea seems clearly absurd to me. Even though I personally think concerns about AGI killing everyone are baseless, the company was in fact founded on those concerns and its top folks have been consistently concerned about it for a long time, way before they sort of randomly blew up and became a tech giant with a massive product.

It seems exceedingly clear that they have been concerned about "oh so dangerous AI" for many years before they had anything to hype.

Sibling replies are arguing that they're right to be concerned. But there's no need to be concerned yourself in order to see that they probably, in fact, are.
>It should also only ever be used with a rubber spatula or plastic utensils.

Why not? Nonstick cookware scratches easily, aren't heat resistant silicone utensils a good way to avoid damaging them?
That's just a cli for Spotlight, right? I have found Spotlight to be increasingly unreliable over the years, to the point of being essentially useless now. Most recently, I discovered that absolutely nothing in my iCloud drive can be found with Spotlight, even if the file is on disk and I'm just trying to match its name. For extra fun, I found an Apple support page that suggested the Windows-in-1999-esque procedure of blocking and then unblocking the directory from indexing in the Spotlight preferences. Unsurprisingly, this didn't work.

Testing out mdfind and trying to simply find a file in a specific directory (which only contains five files):

mdfind -onlyin . name-of-my-file.md

Nothing.

mdfind -onlyin . -name name-of-my-file.md

Nothing.

mdfind -onlyin /absolute/path/to/cwd -name name-of-my-file.md

Nothing.

This is pretty reflective of my experience with the Spotlight GUI. Every search turns up something, but the file I want is almost never in the results.
I can tell you, my children's lives are IMMENSELY better not having to do hard labor.

My childhood was spent on a farm, we all worked or we didn't eat. It was fucking miserable. I wouldn't wish that on anyone who doesn't want it.
How many of Opera's >600 is attributable to Opera's browser business, and not their payday loans or adtech businesses?
In French terms: La vie change! Viva la différence!
"Experts in the world on this topic" for self-driving cars, register-free retail and voice assistants made the same world-shattering claims. Anyone is free to "set off alarm bells" for anything. Silicon Valley has consistently undermined its own credibility by spending as much time and effort on BS as everything else.

The same "experts" on AI couldn't foresee what would happen when they decided to suddenly fire their CEO so it's not entirely reasonable to expect them to have some magic ability to tell the future (particularly when all of their messaging on any given product is specifically designed to entice investors).
You're gonna love La Cliqua! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Cliqua

Check the 1999 eponymous album, full of bangers.

edit, just in case: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mmKENGKgnhXwE7...
Yeah i was more so thinking of first time founders. Second time founder is a different thing, though I dont think early employees ("founding engineers") get much respect.
It came to me while doing some housework that this feels like “what if the moon crashed into the earth?” The moon cannot crash into the earth. Any alien that could make that happen would be so terrifyingly powerful they wouldn’t have to crash the moon into the earth. It would be the twentieth most interesting way to doom us. Tidal waves would be easier.
Irish woman whose forecast changed D-Day dies aged 100
Autism and neuronal cell biology have progressed in the past 25 years
The longer you go w/o raising money the better your position can be.
It’s crazy that 3M is still selling “fabric protectors” today [1] that rely on PFAS.

Not that you can tell based on the product listing or packaging, but they do publish a handy data sheet [2] that lists “< 3% fluorochemical urethane”. Unfortunately it doesn’t list any personal protection or toxicology advice for that ingredient as “ingredient may be below threshold for labelling”.

[1] Scotchgard Fabric Water Shield https://a.co/d/0E2DGjL
[2] https://multimedia.3m.com/mws/mediawebserver?mwsId=SSSSSuUn_...
> NANNY

Now that one was just nasty.
Whats your use case if I might ask? What kind of data is it?
This clip[1] totally changed my perspective on George W. Bush. The man may misspeak a lot but he is cunning and quick on his feet. He knows how to play into his weaknesses.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FTpxwBVl28
Solid summary tbh. It's all about incentives really.
Ahh, to be young and (even more) arrogant again.

What you just described is called growing up or maturation and not limited to software engineers. The next step is to generalize the idea.
>which is effectively decades-long torture

Maybe don't make prisons so awful that they constitute torture? That's very much a thing that we know how to do.

>Killing people that are evil is fine.

Who gets to decide what is evil? What happens when the definition of evil changes? Practically every genocide in history has been justified by that logic - they are evil, therefore we are justified in killing them. Other than vengeance, there is little benefit to state-sanctioned killing for the purposes of punishment; all state-sanctioned killing carries the risk of justifying other kinds of state-sanctioned killing, by removing the simple and clear moral foundation of what a legitimate state can or cannot do.
Corporate crimes tend to be well documented. Even the communist Chinese can get these sort of convictions right. They did good work killing those bastards.
Cooking Up Holiday Magic: Sharing, Supporting, and Savoring at Shared Kitchens
I first recall it from the rise of AWS at least. "Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)" launched 2006 [0]. Google Trends [1].

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Elastic_Compute_Cloud

1: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=Compute&...
Banning children from using the internet at all would decrease porn consumption among minors. That doesn't make it a good idea. Although, frankly, it would be more effective AND less of a privacy violation than the ID law would be.
Could be useful for sparse data structures.
Sometimes you just have to ship it (2020)
That is possible. Annoying that you can get the last 10 days in a second but need to duct tape together something if you never want to interface with the gui and then instead of a few hours you have to collect the data over the entire 30 days (but only after you start doing this).
Very much looking forward to the blog post! At G we’ve relied on some existing key replication APIs and the caveats have just been the simplest possible and rigid protobufs for each application.

(And thanks! I’m still citing your Velvet Underground comparison.)
Unified Product Operations Process
You’d be shocked how common this is in academia. Most of the time it goes undetected because the people writing the checks can’t be bothered to understand.
Moving to cloud is more than just a purchasing exercise
That's the whole reason why they call it like that, because they don't understand it and it seems like something magical. And it will always be like that in the current materialistic paradigm. Why would dead unconscious matter suddenly combine into something which seems to have some kind of consciousness? Also see the Hard problem of consciousness:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousnes...
Thank you for saying! Certianly the post is primarily aimed at wide-eyed first-time founders like I was to help temper some of the naïvete
This is a solid 7-word tl;dr
“Founding ____” is not “founder”. It’s just a fancy way of saying “employee”. This is always been the case.
If they run down your clock because you think a check is coming, their other company can hire your former employees.
I love my cast iron pan. Had it about 15 years. It cost maybe £15.

Didn’t do anything special with it at the beginning. Just used it. Basically zero maintenance.

I just wash it with a wire brush and some salt.
I really hope you read the second sentence and understood I was trying to be a little satirical here
Anybody who derives their identity from their nomenclature quadruple of skin-color-religion-politics-sex sucks.

Don’t have a problem with white people, Christians, conservatives (the old kind who put America first and didn’t want to reduce the rights of others) and men. Combine all those? Clearly a stunted individual that’s deeply disliked and they know it. Like what kind of man is so lacking in self-assured manliness that they need to include "male" in their identifier? What type of Christian needs to shout loudly near the temple about their faith? Etc.

Have you ever met anybody reasonable who described themselves as a name quad that includes their skin color, sex, politics and religion? I haven’t. I keep trying to come up with a name quad that wouldn't sound super annoying in a hypothetical Twitter bio and I can't find a single combination that doesn't sound like a crazy person.
Rolling Stone used to be somewhat anti establishment, but now they are producing content for the fossil fuel industry.

I'm not saying that had a meeting and asked how can we accelerate climate change. But that seems like their goal.
I used FB Messenger over XMPP for the last handful of years before it was shut down using Pidgin and I'm pretty sure that's how it worked. You could talk to people on different networks but you needed your own FB account to talk on Messenger and you couldn't do group chats cross-network.

GTalk and self-hosted XMPP could federate and you only needed one account and conversations could span servers.
Unless you run out of cash
Isn't it so weird that a non-profit founded by the biggest names in Silicon Valley "randomly" blew up? It's interesting that idealism is such a satisfying emotion for some that they choose it over the obvious. Billionaires making a billion dollar product because of "concern" for AI? I don't know how to come to that conclusion but it's interesting that some people do.
I work at a VC firm. If the business can finance itself, you absolutely don’t need VC cash. Ultimately, that’s the goal - build a profitable business.
Fulltext Journals on Pubmed
Not really, no, if you refer to them being used for chaining. In FIDO it’s just used as a plain MAC in the expected places.