skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But then there's no value in Premium, how could they sell it then?
Computer Server Factory; Watch How It's Made: Cases and Servers [video]
After all this time I don’t remember what the bug was. We did have boxes locally that we tested on of course. But somehow this got out.

It might’ve been something that only showed up under certain configurations. It might’ve been something that just should have been caught under normal circumstances and wasn’t for some reason. It may have been something that worked fine tested off-hardware until some bug in packaging things slightly changed it and broke a script. Or it could’ve been a case of “this is trivial, I know what I’m doing, it will be fine“.

We were a very small operation so I’m not going to say that we had an amazing QC process. It may have been a very human mistake.
That guess was actually quite close. The target system does support the GET way out of the box as a way to pre-fill data into a form; but only over GET.
This reminds me a lot of "Bumper Sticker Computer Science" from Programming Pearls (1985):

https://moss.cs.iit.edu/cs100/Bentley_BumperSticker.pdf
For us blast radius is a reason to intentionally limit the size of our servers. We could have smaller fleets with bigger servers, but then if anything went wrong it would impact a larger number of customers.

That being said I'm partial of having fleets as small as possible to simplify operations. While trying different instance sizes, I found our bottleneck ended up being network. The largest instance types saturate the network first, and hence we can't use servers as efficiently.
Another interview where Paul speaks and clarifies how tech (technology and people) plays a role in this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzXASFo-cf0
Sure but that’s a matter of testing assumptions and updating them per new info.
WAT is a fun format! I'm curating some readable samples here -- https://github.com/eliben/wasm-wat-samples/
I was really hoping for an article about design playground equipment.
> the result seems to be the same.

I don't ... think that's true, but I'd have to think about this some more. The distance between two objects increasing at a speed greater than light is not the same thing as an object traveling - that is, traversing space - faster than the speed of light.

To put it more specifically, the expansion of space doesn't help whatsoever get you from Point of Interest A to Point of Interest B faster than light can get there. (If you can compress space - the Alcubierre drive has been mentioned - then that may not be true, but that's not the same thing as the expansion of space, I don't think.)

> it focusses on detecting the initial and terminal event - a mass disappearing (rapidly) from one point and re-appearing (rapidly) at another.

I'm still not convinced that this is what FTL travel would look like to an external observer. I don't think you've done enough to justify this assertion.
One major gripe I have with driving in California is no clear traffic law requiring folks to move over when getting passed on the right.

It's not the speed. It's the speed difference as cars end up weaving between lanes in traffic because slower vehicles sit in the passing lane(s).
I do this on my bike in the city. I used to have so many scary incidents until I started doing this. It's funny how differently people treat you when they look you in the eyes.
> the scientific community is very resistant to the idea of categorizing any non-human communication as “language” (language is pretty much defined as being done only by humans) despite many cetaceans clearly showing signs of having this ability.

Plenty of animals communicate, just not like we do. I’ve always found the self-righteousness of humans to not accept that to be ridiculous and indicative of how entitled we are as a species.
In Australia, cars have red rear lights on at all times, so it’s easy to distinguish a reversing car or a headlight.

Also, aren’t all cars now required to have front on driving lights in most jurisdictions, separate to headlights?
I half-jokingly said crypto-bro after seeing an ethereum related project on the commenters' profile.
>AI is about to take over the world

Define "take over the world"

Pushed to everything even if it doesnt make sense?

Or will actually significantly affect everyone's life?
We sure love our CEO cults in the startup tech world. I don't understand why we give credit like that for people that high in the management chain, but we sure do.
20 years ago, it was, "A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money," but nowadays I question whether a billion here and there even realistically adds up to real money. The amount of assets Altman controls are unimpressive on the scale of "who controls power in society," and there are literally thousands of people who control more money.
Love it! I keep a similar set of quotes. Lots of fun. https://snarfed.org/software-engineering-quotes
"okay, so you mean that the profile data is being sent, but something is messing up in our endpoint handle, right?"

"No, it looks more like it's a routing issue. The endpoint never gets hit when the client sends data, so we're trying to troubleshoot where the disconnect happens"

Not trying to be snarky; just had a real world example handy because my entire team uses this type of messaging. Usually starts with a "okay, just trying to level set...", or "just so I know I'm on the same page".

In our experience, this type of communication has helped minimize instances of completely mismatching on task expectations
You’re correct. I think every box that got it started having problems (or at least most), the only reason any were still up is that updates were scattered in case of think kind of incident (and to avoid hammering out poor little server).
As much as I hate Apple and think they are in the wrong on this Beeper thing, Apple 100% allows you full access to your iMessages data: it isn't canonically stored in their cloud in the first place, and if you merely take a local backup of your phone using iTunes all of your data is trivially accessible (and thereby visible to software you run on your computer that could read the backup and import your message history into something else... though, like, the premise of uploading your message history -- something which should inherently be local and owned by the user -- to Google -- who certainly wouldn't encrypt it -- squicks me).
Engineers Straightened the Leaning Tower of Pisa [video]
I cancelled my subscription before the price hike. I agree it's not a lot of money but it also was not a lot of value. I think the criteria should be about how much value something provides.

As a runner, that was not interested in any of the social functionality, I didn't really get anything out of strava that was not already in Garmin. What are the "tracks exactly what you want" feature(s) in strava for you?
People who make bad choices tend to commit the kinds of crime that tend to get caught. People who make bad choices also tend to have more expenditures than income, so they don’t have a lot of money.

Changing the amount of money they have (e.g. winning the lottery as mentioned in the article) doesn’t change a person’s propensity for making bad decisions, so it’s not surprising that they continue to commit crimes, including the kinds of crime that tend to get caught.

Note - there are many ways to become poor that have nothing to do with committing crimes, so just because a person is poor doesn’t mean they are someone who would commit a crime.
Address the problem that people have a proclivity to do "bad". Call it mental health, resolving trauma, spiritual practice. When people are no longer wounded and "broken" internally, they will go out and sculpt the outer shared physical world to match their improved internal state, and all will be good.

I'm not sure this is possible, but I am sure that any attempt to control human behavior externally will fail.
Ah, the age - 41 years! - explains a lot and makes me so much more forgiving of these. They certainly come from another era.
A lot of games are incredibly involved, requiring a long explanation and rundown of the rules at the start of a session to all those not already familiar with it. It's a common enough issue that Shut Up & Sit Down made a 15 minute video on mastering "the teach" [1]

I don't think I've had a single gaming night lately where there isn't some explanation stage to every game, where it is eventually decided that "it will make sense once we start", yet frequently everyone agrees that it will be a lot better next time.

Then you have games like Root where learning about the insanely intricate rule-set and how the different factions interact is almost half the point and fun of playing it, still a process after multiple sessions. I've never played that one, however. Seems too daunting.

[1] https://youtu.be/P5fjDaFuft8?si=jN5LUnOBv9iqTGvI
Maybe it’s because I just woke up, but why does a hexagonal pyramid not satisfy the definition? (Or any n-pyramid?)
The legality of a pilot watching a movie is irrelevant to the discussion. It's legal for the person in the driver's seat to watch a movie with Mercedes' level 3 "Drive Pilot" active (in certain locations). A cop pulling you over is only wasting the time of everyone involved.
Do farmers in West Punjab burn excess fasl (I don't know the english word) as well?

In East Punjab, because rotovators are expensive and the government subsidizes incentivize quick sowing cycles, farmers will burn fasl to kick off the Kharif sowing season.

I'd assume a decent amount of Lahore's air pollution is due to that pattern in Majha and Malwa.
It's mostly a cover for wealth redistribution as you noted.
For some time I've been fascinated by the codebase of a small WAT compiler written in JavaScript.

https://github.com/stagas/wat-compiler/blob/main/story.txt

And I mean "small" as a real complement to how readable and compact the entire compiler is. It's been a great way to appreciate the design of the WASM text format and WASM overall. It's not a Lisp but has a similar feel to it.

I've been meaning to get more fluent at writing WAT directly, not for any practical purpose but just for pleasure of it. I could see myself gradually building up some abstractions to help me deveolp larger programs, perhaps a slightly higher-level language.
Mostly exploration and a little mischief -- cloning his garage door opener, turning the smart board off (and on) on the teacher in class (similar to those keychain devices that roll through the off codes on TV IR remotes), trying to break into the NFC tag the Laser Tag equipment uses at the place we play.

I've since sent him some suggestions :)
> I don't see a way to make anything longer than 20-30 seconds though.. or is that limited by the lyrics?

General current limitation of generative audio where longer than 20-30 seconds gets really wonky
Yeah, it's ridiculous that 4K blu-ray and 4K Netflix etc are both advertised as UHD. The difference is huge.
I have a burning desire to know what was going on here -- fascinating.
FORTH was the closest competitor. Perhaps it could have worked well enough if it was extended with custom parsing modes for infix arithmetic and for printing out floating point numbers, which were the main poimts where even minimal versions of BASIC were genuinely more user-friendly than FORTH.
How easy is it to move from Scratch to a traditional text oriented programming language, let's say Python?
"we don’t actually want them to operate like startups (for instance we expect them to prioritize longevity over risk-taking: we expect them to preserve capital, etc)".

I'm not sure you need bureaucracy to do this? It is just the easiest and laziest way to do it. Adding processes that are by design wasteful as an attempt to slow down change is perhaps the most inefficient way of getting to that goal. It would be much more efficient to just have far far far less people with far more responsibility and work to do. That combination would be equally slow at less cost.
I believe those types of management consultant workshops are some kind of "gotta look like we do something to improve" type of box checking.

My current boss is nice in this regard. He holds the sessions himself at some sort of resort and pocket the money to buy us booze and spa time instead.
These days hardware and tech have come such a long way that building a service that supports millions of customers isn't hard at all. A colleague and I spent the last 3 years at work building a system that supports tens of millions of QPS, and we did 90% of the work ourselves.

Of course this doesn't detract merit from the post. The devil is on the details, and there are many complexities other than raw scale.
I would also remind people that you don’t have to have a pure monopoly to do things that are illegally anti-competitive.

E.g., as I recall, a company can’t explicitly state their reason for acquiring a company being to reduce competition. Certainly it happens all the time but you can’t come out and say it on the record.

(I don’t know if this issue is something that is illegal or not)
>So I'm wondering yet again: why do people find C pointers so difficult to grok?

For me, understanding pointers to data types was not the hard bit(int* or some_struct*), but wrapping my head around *array being a pointer to the first part of a contiguous segment of memory took a lot of time. Once that idea(and what ++array_pointer really did) settled in my head, pointers felt fairly normal to deal with.
your acquaintances may want to check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism

it's not some meme term invented last year on tiktok that we're fine to be ignorant about.
This document discusses the FM sound synthesis in the Commander X16 and in my x65 computer.
Sound in Commander X16.

Sound in Commander X16 is generated by two sources that are mixed together:
1) by the Programmable Sound Generator (PSG) in VERA FPGA, and
2) by the MIDI FM-synthesis chip YM2151.
For hosted models I’ve noticed that Bard has been quietly improving. Was awful at first but now seems to be closing in.

Actually-open AI with open weights and open source is innovating rapidly too, especially when it comes to making models more efficient on smaller hardware. We have fast local mixtures of experts now. Rumor is that Llama3 is training as well, and that it may be some kind of MoE.

I feel like focusing on efficiency first for local models rather than shooting to beat GPT-4 is the right approach, because without major efficiency improvements a shot for simple dominance will just yield a model only wealthier people can afford the hardware to run.

OpenAI still seems in the lead but it’s shrinking.
Unfortunately that's not true. Most beautiful stuff has been destroyed at one point or another.

The laws of economics and war and necessity really don't care the slightest about beauty.

The pyramids of Giza were covered with fine, smooth, white limestone that gleamed in the sunlight -- as beautiful as you could imagine. That didn't prevent people from stealing most of it later for their own purposes.
Because you're using Apple's closed platform that only permits Apple-authorized clients that only exists on Apple devices. You're still bound by Apple's ToS for their services, nobody is entitled to unrestricted access to it. If Apple releases Messages for Android, that'd be them adding an approved client for their closed network.

Messages is not an open platform, one of its features is the use of open standard SMS for fallback to chat with your friends on any platforms but SMS itself never had any support for encryption.

Hopefully, next year, Apple will switch to RCS and the RCS industry will adopt encryption between all clients and platforms.

If you want to talk to your friends on an open chat platform that is open to any platform and any client, you can with services like Signal.
Are the triangles in a hexagonal pyramid regular?
I stopped reading around #60, but I've gotta say that the first 40 or so really resonated with me.
The story behind Joplin, the open source note-taking app (2022)
Any article that trying to make a big deal about 30% performance difference without comparing price and cost is just making a case for itself.
No, literally seize the means of production and kill all humans, of course!
You’d need to consider baseline (wins/fails ratio) adjusted for macro conditions. And then look only at the subset of companies where Sam had impact.

A better way of looking at it would be to try analyzing the performance of Sam’s personal investments. And comparing it against a baseline (e.g. Sequoia or YC).
What I meant to point out is that Stackoverflow quotes the source CNBC wrong (primary source linked to by CNBC is no longer available). It is the median that is that low. The average might be higher or lower than that number.
Cave art possibly shows hands with deliberately amputated fingers
Last time I checked, the real time tracking was disabled by default and could only be enabled only for specially selected contacts, but it's been a while since I checked.

And if someone shows off their expensive bikes on social media (and that's what Strava is, among other functions)... well, it makes it known to others that they own expensive bikes. Social media has been around for long enough that its users should be aware that this kind of behaviour may impose certain risks.
A Nobel fringe.

Everyone remember COVID response doing away with bulk bins right?

How can we have a zero waste movement without bulk bins? Hm?

Supply infrastructure is imperative in supporting our way out of the consumertopia waste cycle.
I chased some links from Wikipedia and you're right that Edmonds uses "efficiently solvable" to mean P. However, he does not take "efficiently solvable" to mean "feasible" for basically the same reasons as I've said in this thread. From section 2 of Edmonds' "Paths, Trees, and Flowers" (1965):

> An explanation is due on the use of the words "efficient algorithm." First, what I present is a conceptual description of an algorithm and not a particular formalized algorithm or "code." For practical purposes computational details are vital. However, my purpose is only to show as attractively as I can that there is an efficient algorithm. According to the dictionary, "efficient" means "adequate in operation or performance." This is roughly the meaning I want—in the sense that it is conceivable for maximum matching to have no efficient algorithm. Perhaps a better word is "good."

> It is by no means obvious whether or not there exists an algorithm whose difficulty increases only algebraically with the size of the graph. The mathematical significance of this paper rests largely on the assumption that the two preceding sentences have mathematical meaning.

> ...

> When the measure of problem-size is reasonable and when the sizes assume values arbitrarily large, an asymptotic estimate of FA(N) (let us call it the order of difficulty of algorithm A) is theoretically important. It cannot be rigged by making the algorithm artificially difficult for smaller sizes. It is one criterion showing how good the algorithm is—not merely in comparison with other given algorithms for the same class of problems, but also on the whole how good in comparison with itself. There are, of course, other equally valuable criteria. And in practice this one is rough, one reason being that the size of a problem which would ever be considered is bounded.

You should read the rest of section 2, it's short very clear. Calling P the class of "efficiently solvable" problems is a completely reasonable framing for this paper, considering that this was written at a time when we had fewer tools to formally compare algorithms. Edmonds correctly does not claim that all P algorithms are feasible, and my opinion that P=NP is not important is based on the 60 years of feasible non-P computations we've had since.
Because furries? The last time I looked at the Mastodon federated timeline I was presented with belly fetish posts lol
>An exploit (from the English verb to exploit, meaning "to use something to one’s own advantage") is a piece of software, a chunk of data, or a sequence of commands that takes advantage of a bug or vulnerability to cause unintended or unanticipated behavior to occur on computer software, hardware, or something electronic (usually computerized).
> If you only read the Guardian

come on, the gruaniad ceased to be a newspaper many years ago.

the source: https://committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence/14007/html/

q141 actually makes a fair bit of sense, as its a insurance company who are the generally masters of hiring Henno who went to a good school, not Terry who's talented.

Moreover, its not "we directly discriminate" its "I question to make sure that the procedure is followed". Which is different.

Bear in mind, this is for rich senior insurance execs, who have a fucktonne of money to take people to court, you're sure as shit going to be sure that the policies they are talking about are going to be water fucking tight. Also, as its insurance, there are about 5 women who are that senior, so the CEO is going to be doing a lot of asking if the procedure is being followed.
I also started with BASIC at 10 (C64 in 1990) and I'm going to teach my kids to code in Python. It's simple (low abstraction) and integrates well with other things (IoT) and they can use a REPL.

It's disappointing that Windows doesn't release with an accessible interpreted language. They ship with a couple of games so why not drop some kind of super integrated and simple programming environment? Most of my generation cut their teeth on Microsoft Basic after all.
YC has been doing a lot more B2B for the last decade or so than in its early days. Many of the early unicorns (including all of those you listed) were B2C companies, so they're more well-known.
Do you know if these studies ensure the UPF and whole foods have the same amount of sugar, salt, and fat?
Exactly. BASIC a high-level low-level language, effectively pretty close to assembly.
if your site is popular and you have a problem with crawlers use robots.txt (in particular the Crawl-delay stanza)

also for less friendly crawlers a rate limiter is needed anyway :(

(of course the existence of such tools doesn't give carte blanche to any crawler to overload sites ... but let's say they implement some sensing, based on response times, that means a significant load is probably needed to increase response times, which definitely can raise some eyebrows, and with autoscaling can cost a lot of money to site operators)
Do the manager class really have that much "solidarity"?
Use the 'continue from this clip' feature. Next, merge the newly generated segment with the existing one using the 'get whole song' feature.

Or just get creative, use the vocal remover to extend the background sound, cut and paste different parts of it using the good old DAW. By using this method, i managed to make several "full" songs :

https://soundcloud.com/sulfonilklorida/prompted-melodies

https://soundcloud.com/sulfonilklorida/tax-report

https://soundcloud.com/sulfonilklorida/dance-of-despair

https://soundcloud.com/sulfonilklorida/rebels-of-the-byte

https://soundcloud.com/sulfonilklorida/break-the-chain