skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You need to compare likes as much as is reasonable. I literally priced everything out on Newegg.

1. You certainly can, but that's the Corsair with the crappy components rather than one with good guts. If I were being completely fair, I'd be spending well over $300 to buy a GaN PSU.

2. Maybe you're different, but I'm not spending almost $500 on a high-TDP CPU only to cripple it with a crappy cooler.

3. I went with a midrange case. In truth,You can't even buy a case on-par with the MacBook Pro case. Even trying to get close would be in the $400+ boutique range.

4. I never mentioned what work was going to be done. If I were going to compare for LLM work and be competitive with Apple, I'd have to go WAY more expensive on the GPU.

B650E and X670E are for overclocking and you'd pay WAY more to get them over their non-E counterparts. x670 offers quite a bit more IO. Maybe that's more IO than Apple offers, but the cost difference for a decent B650 isn't very much (maybe 3-4% of build cost). Certainly less than upgrading the other things you mentioned.
for bar_vec in bar_mat:
if bar_vec != []:
for y in bar_vec:
if baz(y):
for x in y:
foo(x)

Seeing it written out here, the example looks nice. In real code with more complexity, it takes longer for me to write it, and it usually takes up a lot more space than this. It bugs me how much space it takes up for something that is one idea in my head (Foo all the baz things in bar_vec).

But if there is anyone coming after me, I would write it in this style for their sake, because this style is easier to change.
The 409a isn't based on what the market will pay since private shares aren't on the stock market. It's a guess about what the market might pay, but since the shares aren't liquid, the guess can't be tested, so there is huge leeway to pick a favorable number.
Quoting: "The emphasis on a simple and didactically appealing language would automatically have resulted in the development of a nucleus of a self-extendible language, perhaps the most promising approach of development. Such a language provides a facility for programmers to define data structure patterns, and operators which apply to these patterns. The crucial point here is that the language nucleus must be of utmost simplicity, and every aspect of the nucleus language must be very efficiently implementable on any reasonable computer organisation."

Such a simple language I suppose would be LISP. And an application of extending the language, say, could be hashmaps where ... what? ... something like?:

* define new language keywords, types, and operators in LISP plus a canonical implementation

* then have application programmers use those contructs?

This is similar in spirit to fix it "in a library not with new keywords" except in addition to the canonical implementation the inclusion of this new work would introduce new (valid) LISP tokens that programmers would re-use?
> hardware decoding for modern codecs line h265(something that is weirdly missing from nvidia gpu's)

not sure what you're talking about, nvidia GPUs have h265 support: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_NVDEC
It is moving towards proof of uniqueness + age assurance. Eg: confidence score you are human + confidence score you are over X age.
80085 in hex is OxTITS
Luckily, small developers are unlikely to reach the $1m pa to qualify for the 30% fee. They’ll be subject to 15%.
Plus, a minor could use their friends' devices. Their parents may not have set up any controls on those devices.
What a crazy idea. Who would pay $5 for a shit?
100% I've been saying the same thing for some time. Very happy to hear a lawyer agreeing.

https://www.marble.onl/posts/general_technology_doesnt_viola...
the url is clever. Well done
Googling suggests Intel's A770M has 16.79 TFLOPS, M3 Max's GPU has 16.4 TFLOPS?
Samsung Announces Collaboration with Tesla at CES 2024 for SmartThings Energy
> a gym customer needs quite a bit more space compared to the retail customers in the rest of the high street

You can tell this also when you look through a shop window, say of a woman’s clothing shop. The more free space (wider aisles, fewer goods on display) the higher the prices since the sales of fewer items have to cover the rent. Conversely it’s why dollar stores tend to have narrow, jammed aisles.
This should not be that hard. How about:

- At point of purchase for a consumer device that can view Internet content, the salesperson (or web store) is required to ask if the device is for an underage child, in which case either the device is placed in "child safe" mode, or printed instructions are directly provided giving instructions to do such. The child protection settings should be linked to the parent's e-mail address (so they can be lifted when the child is of age, or the device is given to someone else, etc).

- Consumer devices must support filtering for underage users (they already do, although perhaps this could be made more standardized and easier to use).

- Adult sites are required to list themselves as such so they can be filtered (they already do this quite voluntarily).

Of course, this assumes that legislators are making these rules in good faith (I strongly suspect they are not, and thus they are actually unconstitutional attempts to restrict free speech).
Just a cut and paste when I submit.
My 2c

Working at a “large tech” company can be rewarding in several ways. Less stress, more pay, huge tech stacks and access to more resources within the company.

My advice is to prioritise the work for your role, but also look for other problems in the company that you can (and want to) solve… without somebody asking you too.

If you discover that a new script can improve CI builds, or a new internal website can help people find documentation…etc… the rest of the company would be thankful for your effort, and if everyone loves it that could be your new responsibility!

Compare this to a “small tech” company, it’s generally less resources, less pay, more stress, more hours, tighter deadlines etc… which makes it harder to work outside your immediate responsibilities

Basically, it’s easier to go off and find random problems to solve with your programming skills in a large company, as they’re generally in a better position… and have more problems.

Ironically this means an individual can “feel more entrepreneurial” in a large company a lot of the time
I think you’re misunderstanding tying by getting it backwards. If you want to buy Windows, you have to install Internet Explorer and agree not to install Netscape Navigator. The issue is the economic interest in the product being sold. The equivalent would be if you want to buy an iPhone, you have to use iMessage. Which is not the case.

Walled gardens aren’t antitrust violations.
You might like the book Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death by Nick Lane. (anyone enjoying this comment section would) but specifically he presents some really cool interesting ideas related to this and metabolism
Looks great! Did you use QT Quick or the Widgets?
I'm afraid of "cuz", mostly.
I agree and that's why I added the comment about a Thinkpad at the end. My point was that the difference is closer to 25% rather than the 300% that was claimed.

I own an M3 Max laptop, so you can suffice it to say that I think the 25% markup is quite reasonable for being able to stuff a very nice desktop into my bag.
Show HN: Hashmap.me – Simple HTTP-Based Data Storage and Retrieval
I'm excited to share Hashmap.me, a small tool I've built to simplify data storage and retrieval. It's a straightforward service that allows developers to store data records via HTTP requests and retrieve them easily, all without the hassle of setting up and managing a database. Initially I built this because I was tired of creating a database to prototype my own projects, I just wanted to persist my in memory cache between restarts early on.

Each hashmap you create corresponds to its own collection in MongoDB.

Perfect for small projects, quick prototypes, or learning purposes. I'd love to get your feedback and hear your thoughts!

Check it out here: https://hashmap.me

Thanks for taking a look!
It will automatically make a video ad for my site using AI somehow?
Just Accept the Dang Software Update
This is currently on the front page and hasn’t been flagged:

https://nautil.us/what-you-dont-know-about-sperm-482001/

Solid counter example in under two weeks. Call me cynical if you want, I don’t appeal to a person’s better nature because they may not have one.
Kids can purchase unrestricted amount of sugar drinks and ruin their health for the rest of their lives. I insist government implements age verification for soda purchases. All sodas must be accessible to 21+ years only.
Phone numbers? That seems like a bunch of security theater. (Edit: presumably that's why the states that have passed porn AV laws require IDs, not phone numbers.)

> For adult industry, the issue is gating web traffic.

Clealry that is not the only issue as adult sites have chosen to stop operating rather than comply in jurisdictions that require AV.
Researchers use Earth's magnetic field to verify event in Bible's Book of Kings
Sure thing! We hire primarily out of SF, NYC, and Seattle -- in-person has boosted our productivity and been a lot more fun for us! Transparently, we have made a few exceptions, and are not entirely opposed to more, but it's really the exception rather than the rule.

We are in-office 3 days a week, so there is some flexibility built in there, too.
I'm gonna check this out - thanks.

I also play this one which I think was posted on HN a while ago:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=go.lang.bintri...
>It's just wrong for the pro piracy crowd to use this as an excuse to justify their theft.

My main point wasn't really about modern pirates. The internet cabal will define however they want to fit their own notions.

It was more about artists treated as "thieves" by companies like Disney that themselves have done "copyright infringement" to get themselves off the ground (by the definition they defined over the past century).
My favorite bit, "Threats quickly lost their power when you realized nobody at any point had asked your name or any information about yourself. It's hard to threaten an anonymous person."
My extremely tired mind: "holy f... wait..."
A state in Mexico did this [1] [2] [3] with positive results (junk food). It's a good idea. If you can get it passed in the US, you have my PAC dollars/dark money and vote.

Sometimes "think of the children" really is think of the children.

> One-third of Mexicans aged 6 to 19 are overweight or obese, according to UNICEF. They may not be disproportionately affected by COVID-19 now, but they can suffer myriad health issues, especially in adulthood. [2]

(for comparison, 20% of children in the US are obese [4])

[1] https://www.npr.org/2020/09/14/912029399/we-had-to-take-acti...

[2] https://twitter.com/CongresoOaxaca_/status/12910804963032227...

[3] https://twitter.com/Magaly_LopezOax/status/12910848195611729...

[4] https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/childhood/index.html
For some weird cases of debuging code I didn't write[1], I copy the code to Google Docs and paint it there.

[1] Or code I wrote a very long time ago.
The Occupation of Water – Amnesty International
In the real world, the exact same idea in one time window can fail and succeed in another.

This may or may not fail.
Resurrecting All Humans Who Ever Lived As A Technical Problem (2021)
I see. I appreciate the information.
it's data mining.
Per the article:

>> Yet some products had much lower levels than others. A serving of Pizza Hut’s Original Cheese Pan Pizza, for example, had half the phthalate levels of a similar pizza from Little Caesars. Levels varied even among products from the same brand: Chef Boyardee Big Bowl Beefaroni pasta in meat sauce had less than half the level of the company’s Beefaroni pasta in tomato and meat sauce.

This is also surprising, seeing how Chipotle will prepare the food in front of you.

>> Chipotle Chicken Burrito (aluminum foil)20,579ng

Other notable:

>> Juicy Juice 100% Juice Apple (cardboard box)2,260 ng

>> Land O’Lakes Butter Salted (paper wrap/cardboard)581 ng

>> Trader Joe’s Ground Pork 80% Lean 20% Fat (plastic wrap)5,503 ng

>> Annie’s Organic Cheesy Ravioli (can)53,579 ng

FTW! BBQ all day.

>> Sweet Baby Ray’s Barbecue Sauce Original (plastic)22 ng
I am a programmer and run a grain farm. Can confirm.

I expect farming goes well with just about any profession, though. The data shows that almost all farms also have on an off-farm income, and the large majority of farmers have their primary income come from an off-farm job.
This has a bunch of "But what could possibly replace C?" type comments and the author (writing in 2016) replies Rust. So that's somebody with their eyes on the ball.

They also point out that C is a bad first language. This shouldn't be relevant to many Computer Science courses, but I have seen too many Electronics students who are taught C first, or indeed as their only language.
does overfitting even matter if your dataset is large enough?
Clearly not a parent
When was this not true in the past?
> Adult sites are required to list themselves as such so they can be filtered (they already do this quite voluntarily).

There's actually a meta tag that most adult sites set to do this already. It's also used by Google to identify a website as adult for SafeSearch reasons. The process seems simple enough, https://www.rtalabel.org/index.html?content=howto (meta tag) and https://www.rtalabel.org/index.html?content=howtofaq#apache (http header)

It is strange web browsers don't take advantage of it, though. This combined with some kind of AI model would work in most cases I bet.
From the article: "There are many commercial gyms that won’t let you in on a ‘pay-as- you-go’ basis at all, even if you beg."
How does such issues look in profiler? Is there a robust method to detect performance regression due to arg sizes?
A joke from one of the greatest Spider-Man movies of all time, so you get a pass
The lack of nvlink doesn't matter much for LLMs, which can work on distinct layers of the model on completely independent GPUs.
I would be utterly shocked if any MBA program in the world had a mandatory ethics component, for all that an unethical MBA is in a position to kill many more people than an unethical engineer.
A plain URL could be one of the future publishing options. Hopefully a platform like Seedling could add value through discovery and content monetisation.
Check out page 40 onwards: https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/pubs/koopman14_toyota_ua_...

The code quality can be best described as criminally negligent, unsafe, spaghetti garbage with incorrect concurrency sprinkled on top for laughs.
Don’t most private companies require board approval for secondaries? I wonder what you’d actually be buying here.
A Journey from Monolith to Micro front ends at Udemy – Part 1/3
Udemy is upgrading its frontend architecture to make your learning experience smoother!

In Part 1: Why we're shifting from monolith to micro frontends. Discover how it boosts development, release processes, CDN, and UX.
Air Canada: Woman wakes up alone on dark, parked plane (2019)
The flip side to this is that every system involving software seems to inevitably devolve into a situation where the human is expected to no longer be responsible.

Oh, you floored it while the car was pointed at the wall? It has cameras, why didn't the car disable the go pedal?

This is happening more and more with cars, and it seems inevitable that it will happen in other spaces as well, as software is expected to protect us from ourselves.
People don't trust potentially overclocked parts which in turn means they aren't worth very much on the used market. This is one area where an efuse indicating if a chip were overclocked could be useful and not anti-consumer.
I'm always surprised when people don't know this one because they're like multiplication and clamped addition.
*higher profits on the same ticket prices
I brought it just as an example of what is possible. I do not give rat's ass whether it "inspires one's confidence" and who wants to be locked into what.
There are many people who prioritize flashy trends and low effort accomplishments. I find that exceedingly boring irrespective of how much energy and excitement they might display for their trivial interest. Perhaps that makes me a covert narcissist as suggested by the article, but I would rather go do my own thing than attempt to impress people with all my wonderful knowledge I already know they don’t want to hear. I have also noticed those boring people seem equally bored, disgusted, or hostile to things outside their focused area of attention.
VA Linux stock dropped quickly after the IPO, and by the time his lockup expired, it was worth much less. I think he mentioned once how much he ultimately made from his stock, but it was no life-changing sum anymore.
OK, I'm on board.
> Finally I must add, all the friends (more like acquaintances) you make
> at the gym are absolutely crucial to motivate oneself and also just have
> a positive social interaction.

Eh, been going to a gym weight room for 10 years and it's damn lonely and demoralizing. I'm sure it's different in tiny one-room Olympic weightlifting gyms or whatever.

I'm not in my 20s anymore and I'm not actually that athletic, so 10 years of looking for a gym buddy have yielded nothing for me. Otherwise, the people I recognize at the gym are either the ones who camp out a piece of equipment or just walk around chatting others up and apparently never lifting anything.
Something like that parody of printed manual check copy protection on the original Larry game might actually work? Years later I had a huge "oh, so that's the answer!" moment when I finally discovered the meaning of the words agent orange.

Jokes aside, what would be the failure mode if some metadata about audience minimum age was given legal blessing? Regular browsers would simply ignore it, browsers with enabled parental controls would reject the page or site. Vendors of parental controls could focus their efforts on suppressing those sites that lie and the numerous proxy services that would inevitably pop up (but that's a problem they already have I assume). What am I missing?
> Congress does not have the right to delegate the authority given to them by the constitution.

> On what basis do you believe Congress is not allowed to delegate any power.

.... provides link proving point ...

> Agencies don't make law.

So you agree with me? What do you think the legislative branch of the government does besides legislate? Many times these agencies have overstepped their bounds, they are only rarely challenged on their unconstitutional behavior - lawsuits being hard and expensive. Some people even condone this unconstitutional behavior because it furthers their agenda.

Here's a better link: https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S1-4-1/A...

The joke processes that NRLB has setup are the source of its own demise. If they simply follow the law and didn't make up quasi-judicial proceedings they might be fine. Like many agencies before them, the NRLB will be taken to court, the court will find that _yet another agency_ has been assuming the authority delegated to congress by the Constitution, and they will be reversed.

Maybe you can explain why that won't happen? It sounds like SpaceX has a strong case here.
Most car - pedestrian crashes in the USA never end up with the driver at fault. Not sure this will change when cars are autonomous.
I've run into lots of issues running my programs on Windows. Sometimes it will even delete the executables outright if it decides they are dangerous. This was mostly with networked and virtualization apps.
How close is this to insider trading? I'm not an expert by any means.
This, but unironically.

... though it probably shouldn't use the same age cutoff as beer. 18 or even 15 would be better.

The downside is that - even with mild enforcement - fast food would get even more expensive for people who buy the cheap items which are currently subsidized by drinks.
Fun y you call it the hard work. I guess you mean hard as in, more "physical" so to say. The. Doing part is the easy work and flows well. The debugging and figuring out what do to solve problems is the hard part.
This is a good thing for employee-investors, right?
And what about producing porn?

Do we arrest the parent or the child when the child posts a picture of their genitals on insta-snap?
State your priors, rationalist.
Not close because it does not involve a public company. Still seems shady.
She should have blown the slide and come down people are so uncreative
I said this on another forum recently. There were good reasons for rejecting ALGOL 68, both because of the language's complexity, and because of the incomprehensible 2-level grammars of the Report. (Disclaimer: my grad supervisor was one of the editors of the Report, and I did a small amount of ALGOL68-related work then.) Languages like Oberon exemplify simplicity; at a different abstraction level, so does Scheme. But the complexity battle has been lost: for example, C++ is arguably far more complex than ALGOL68.
I had read the book some time ago. It was interesting.

One passage I remember:

Attitude matters too:

http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch01s09.html

Also:

http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch01s07.html
We talk about legislative solutions as if they exist in a bubble. Like there’s some idealized body of completely rational actors who will deliberately evaluate all the features of an issue and make a decision that will benefit everyone in aggregate. This is not how legislatures work. They are filled with imperfect humans who rarely have technical training. They should not be making decisions in a bubble.

In theory you could implement age based access controls, but as the article points out, these are full of tradeoffs, and none of them are good. You will either get vendor lock in, violations of constitutional rights, a wider dispersal of Personally identifiable information, or a poorly thought through government implemented solution whose only feedback is additional legislation.

Parental desires to prevent children from seeing inappropriate content is not strictly opposed to individual free speech rights, the need for dynamism and open competition in the marketplace, or a need for privacy and information security. To say these issues need to be balanced would be a false dichotomy. Perhaps the solution is for society to respect parents by giving them the resources they need, through paid parental leave and employment protections.