skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have noticed after the holidays many of the people who I followed on twitter, just… didn’t come back, lol.
Meanwhile in the real world we often find new deposits of gold, and if we ever make it to space presumably we’ll find a whole lot more of it (perhaps infinite amounts).
> several exist and they track the BTC:USD rate relatively accurately

They are terrible assets with severe discount/premium swings reaching the high 40%s [0]. The ratio's only tightening now that a potential arbitrage opportunity is on the table.

[0] https://ycharts.com/companies/GBTC/discount_or_premium_to_na...
Not an engineer so I'm curious... Is this actually a thing that's happening in Eng orgs these days?
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Double Exposure: Zola's photographs (2023)
It already is as viable for web development as JS is.
When is 500 employees not a big number cut?

The WARN Act calls mass layoffs at just 50 employees. https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/WARN-FAQs.html
I would email the HN moderators - smart, responsive people who really know their stuff - and talk about it with them. They encourage people to reach out, including about things like what we're talking about.

hn@ycombinator.com

I'm not sure where they are today - usually they would have arrived long ago for a conversation like this one. You are entitled to your opinion, of course, but that type of activity - poisoning, etc. - isn't welcome on HN.
Since Teenage Engineering has been mentioned as a design partner, I'd look at the specs for the Playdate and give it a spec bump.

Based on the rabbit keynote showing a colour screen - take a Playdate device, turn 90 degrees counterclockwise and reduce the height-now-width since you don't need a controller, just a roller wheel, pushbutton, and rotating camera.

Quick web search states a Playdate device has a 168MHz ARM Cortex M7 and a 400x240 LCD B&W screen.
> I mean, for starters you can just calculate average lifetime earnings and subtract expected earnings of the person over the remainder of their lifespan, then add an amount per year in prison roughly corresponding to the QALY value of prison vs normal life...

I would at least double, or triple it. He lost his life outside his work and earnings. He wasn't in prison for only 8h/day.
Thanks, I must have missed it.
Recently there has been a trend of inscribing data on the bitcoin chain representing issuance of new assets and in some cases media (images etc.). Keywords here are "inscriptions" "ordinals" "brc-20"

The speculation component of these new asset types has has created a high fee environment where instead of paying for bitcoin moving around, ownership of secondary assets encoded as data are being transferred.

There is currently a big controversy where one tribe says that these transactions are spam and should be banned via opt in from miners.
I have not used the online version but you could have just as easily walked into a western union and done the exact same thing for substantially less fees.
> There is lots of out of copyright content available

OpenAI's quote, from which the headline is derived, briefly mentions public domain content:

> > Because copyright today covers virtually every sort of human expression including blog posts, photographs, forum posts, scraps of software code, and government documents – it would be impossible to train today’s leading AI models without using copyrighted materials. Limiting training data to public domain books and drawings created more than a century ago might yield an interesting experiment, but would not provide AI systems that meet the needs of today’s citizens.

I do think they're right in that you're not going to get remotely the same performance as modern LLMs if you train with solely public domain content. Licensing a sufficient amount of content could be feasible for OpenAI/Meta, but hopefully we get something that still works for smaller companies, FOSS groups, etc.
it’s also not a particularly good way to send money from one person to another
Labor Department cements rule change on gig worker status
Typical Javascript strikes again?
Same reason every nuclear topic is invaded by renewables supporters.

At this point, it isn't even a culture war, it's a college football fans' rivalry.
There are already good products out there and I doubt Apple could make much money off of it anyway. If it’s not at least a billion dollar business, why would they even consider it?

Edit: maybe if they make it a HomePod too it would make sense? Just please fix Siri first.
Apparently not - look at venntel for example.
All I really saw is an awkward looking device (sorry TE) that probably wouldn't fit in my pocket, and would probably break if dropped. And whatever they paid for the keynote was a waste of money. If you can't explain how this works in about 30 seconds - I don't care.
Sorry, I mean a single point of failure service. I guess maybe the term would be large blast radius. The database implementation was HA to almost paranoid degrees but if we lost the database it was a total outage every service down for all customers. If the DB had issues there was really no sense of a partial outage.
The $180 Lenovo Tab M11 has a 90Hz display, updates through 2028
Well, shiny bald heads would indeed attract the shiny-things-loving magpies..makes sense.
The modern US military has $800+ billion to spend.
The DMA defines a 'gatekeeper service' as one that has more than 45 million European users. Thus, this would be more like you've laid a table for 45 million Europeans and invited them to eat your food on condition that they don't eat any other food apart from yours. I think you'd get a fair amount of scrutiny from EU officials if you did that!
The world would be a lot better if people didn't use obnoxious tools for jobs. No, you shouldn't be commuting in your truck that is a tool meant to haul things. Doubly so if it's within walking distance and the weather conditions are favorable.
Discussed at the, er, time:

The faulty digital clock problem - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27346655 - May 2021 (16 comments)
“Pure Math” might as well be poetry, just in a given linguistic domain.
Amen

To me, this looks like an example of those ads that look like this

edit ( tried to do a text table right on here but it got really messed up in the page display)

here is a screenshot of the effort

https://imgur.com/a/XtwSkyx
Juniper Networks to Combine with HPE
I can’t prove it to other people. I proved it to myself, but when other people want proof, they don’t sit down with me to investigate it.

I’m not arguing that not ionizing radiation causes cancer. I’m arguing that it causes neurological problems. And because it can’t penetrate the skin deeply does not mean it cannot affect ion channels.

And also I wasn’t saying that we’re not smarter than mosquitoes I’m saying that they have different intelligence.

You’re not even listening to me, so how can you learn anything?
Go with the one that has lower actual operating noise levels.
Yes, the core of the problem with people "getting it" has always been that SQL has been so mediocre, and yet it's the only serious option people have.

And so people go looking for something with a modern syntax, that's properly composable, functional, etc. but because they haven't studied the foundations, they reinvent the wheel badly.

The Codd paper is so readable, and so persuasive. People need to start there, and then argue why their novel approach is better on first principles, not just because it smells better than SQL.

But that it's stuck around and done so well for so long tells you that the core foundation is sound.
yeah, cause with all of the fun that traveling through random airports is to the average traveler, adding crutches just to avoid sitting at the door of a MAX is exactly what we would prefer to do!
You should also add on the forked coins' values that tamimio owns.
Best way to learn Postgres: talk to the repo
Good question. Having had a quick look at my favorite search engine's results, screen responsiveness and ghosting seem to have been major issues, which is why many people suspect manufacturers are abandoning the technology.

https://goodereader.com/blog/e-paper/what-happened-to-all-th...

https://www.reddit.com/r/ereader/comments/15s7tgo/what_happe...

https://www.reddit.com/r/ereader/comments/zms0br/new_eink_ga...
> body weight (−1.9 [0.7] kg; 95% CI, −3.3 to −0.6 kg).

The dirty secret of diet and life extension research - half the time it's just caloric restriction.
Would be interesting to understand how far they got with the p2p experiments.
What happened to the ad policy?
In just a few years around 2007-2012 we got Oculus, Nest, Ring, Blink, Fitbit, Beats, Oura, Square, Pebble, Tile, Dropcam, SmartThings, Makerbot, Neato, Raspberry Pi... All pure consumer hardware startups with popular products and successful exits. So it's not like the category is somehow fundamentally not viable. It just needs VCs and consumers to both shift from the smartphone-only mindset and start taking some risks.
I wished they co-slanged it as "encrapification" because NPR did a report on it and did not mention the word on air. I think it's a valuable web-evolution term.
The real workers? So the execs that literally run the company and give people the jobs are... what exactly?
I found it to be rather buggy personally, it constantly freezes and needs to be refreshed
Seems like you could pull their site via FTP: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38933694
This is cool, but it's not carbon free if you have to drive to it.

Also, it would be nice to see this technique for multifamily, would be a big improvement to how they build apartments in the US.
Agreed. I don't see why they need to do interviews on the new fandangled television and radio programs either. If you want to learn about what the government is doing, pick up a newspaper or speak to your senator on congressman over the telephone line.
A cluster analysis of national AI strategies
In a series of papers, the authors have explored comparative differences in the design, deployment, and governance of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies among countries.
> Keep in mind that about half the cost is the transmission line.

The main cost of a transmission line is the land. This is a good synergy when it's available but you can't just subtract the cost of the transmission line if you want to know how much the generation costs to build anywhere there isn't a transmission line because you'd still need to pay for the land.

> Vogtle closely matches nuclear costs in Europe so trying to frame it as a special snowflake we will never repeat does not add up.

Western Europe has only brought one reactor online in the last 15 years, resulting in the same kind of issues as Vogtle. Problems caused by not building enough of something can be solved by building more of them, which makes that a poor justification for not building more of them.

> Bent Flyvbjerg has studied megaprojects.

"The Iron Law of Megaprojets: Over budget, over time, over and over again." -Bent Flyvbjerg

Claiming that the estimates are more often wrong for nuclear reactors doesn't help you when you're already comparing the actual finished cost of the nuclear reactor to the estimate for the wind project.
The unending quest to build a better chicken
How dare those people build a business and create jobs! They must have no humanity.

Geez.
Good point, but arent there only like 2 forked coins with any value? BCH and bitcoin gold? I think thats it.
I pwned half of America's fast food chains simultaneously
I can't tell if you are joking. The market cap of Bitcoin remained the same, one less coin to share it with.
It could be a trader who was already long and looking to exit the position. Figured this was a good way to goose returns. Who knows?
Nope. The closest Western Union/MoneyGram/similar services to me were hours away by car. Hence why we tried to do it online. We tried MoneyGram because my friend was banned from Western Union. But even MoneyGram wasn't possible quickly online.
I personally switched to youtube* for the streams I watch, since twitch's ads can be really disruptive. Not to mention they used to be ad-free for prime members, while at the same time the ad rolls became longer and longer.

*I pay for youtube premium
There's a lesson here:

Lay your foundation with strong types.
Something called hard work?
A basic problem is blockchains are public. How you voted is usually private.
You might need to reapply your thermal paste and reseat your cup hat sink.
Well, keep in mind that a lot of the ops is AWS.
> Elon raised the bar for how large of a staff cut you can make.

Every member of staff fired now has a beef with the company, and being a social media company those staff will probably be big social media users with quite a lot of influence. Some may set up competitors or just badmouth you and your product.

Elon discovered this the hard way.
* By "restrictive schemas" I mean being forced to represent your data storage in non-optimal ways – like not being able to have nested objects in a first-class way. Schemas themselves are extremely important, and they should be as tight as possible.

* Rama's JVM-based, so the entire ecosystem is available to you. You can represent data as primitive types, Java objects, Protobuf, Clojure records, etc.

* You deploy and manage your own Rama clusters. The number of nodes / instance types depends on the app, but Rama doesn't use more resources than traditional architectures combining multiple tools.

* Some databases support multiple very specific data models (e.g. Redis). I don't consider that flexible compared to Rama, which allows for arbitrary combinations of arbitrarily sized data structures of arbitrary partitioning.

* Depots (the "event sourcing" part of Rama) can be optionally trimmed. So you can configure it to only keep the last 2M entries per partition, for example. Some applications need this, while others don't.

* If you're adding a new PState, it's up to you how far back in the depot to start. For example, you could say "start from events appended after a specific timestamp" or "start from 10M records ago on each partition".

* We have a first-class PState migrations feature coming very soon. These migrations are lazy, so there's no downime. Basically you can specify a migration function at any level of your PStates, and the migration functions are run on read. In the background, it migrates iterates over the PState to migrate every value on disk (throttled so as not to use too many resources).
There's been a growing pushback against Fandom (tm), with contributors to quite a few Fandom(tm) wikis moving back to a self-hosted MediaWiki instance. The Minecraft Wiki (https://minecraft.wiki) is a major example.
OpenWRT turns 20; wants to launch their "first upstream supported" design
I'd heard of the island of stability but this one is new to me. I love the idea of there being loads more exotic elements to play with, and substances with densities far exceeding 22 kg/l (which it roughly where it tops out with currently-available elements).
While I do agree with the topics and perceive them as changing resistance, I would like to add that bootstrapping your community is always a good idea for a successful business, so VCs are not essential. On the other end, I feel that personal data control and the human willingness to daily give away so many tasks are hard barriers on the long distance.
Interac wouldn't have worked even if him and I had been Canadians. My friend was unbanked due to past financial issues (which is also the reason he was homeless at the time.)

This is one significant advantage of Bitcoin, that it works for the unbanked.
This is the best substantive response I can give to this: lol
In the linked keynote, Jesse Lyu mentions that LLM won't help us actually do tasks - there are currently no so-called "agents" that do something simple like book a flight - the best way to do it is still to click the buttons yourself.

Rabbit means to solve that by creating a "LAM", a "Large Action model", which is a service by Rabbit that will click interfaces for you. I'm not sure this is the right approach - if it is successful, it will lead to more centralisation around Rabbit.

I agree this is a problem, but I feel a better approach would be to have a market of agents that for a small fee actually handle the whole transaction for you. So there might be multiple parties that say they can buy Delta Flight DL101 tomorrow 21:10 for various prices - some might be a service like the Rabbit LAM, others might be booking platforms, and there might even be airlines themselves. And now an agent-concierge that you choose once at the start will look at all the parties, and then pick and buy the right flight for you. This will make the problem a problem of an open market, where good speedy service is promoted, and prices get ever lower. And if the Rabbit LAM gets outcompeted by an ever better speedier solution, that would be a good thing. (This will also allow us to move away from our current dreaded attention-based economy where e.g. a booking websites tries to exploit your required presence during waiting times, which the LAMs would also solve, but, like I said, let's not move towards more centralisation.)
OpenDev may not have been created as an alternative, yet it may well be an alternative. i get what you are saying, and i appreciate the history. i always love it when people who are/were deeply involved share their insights. but i don't see a problem with calling it an alternative when it actually is one. there is no rule that alternatives need to be newer or be created with the intention to be an alternative.

walking is an alternative to taking a car for short distances, even though walking as a mode of transportation clearly came first.
> People seem to forget part of civil disobedience is going to jail and paying a fine.

That's not even vaguely what happened here and it's well beyond arguing in bad faith to attempt to trivialize it to such.

The goal of freezing the accounts was to make the truckers unable to buy food or pay rent to force a near immediate end. If the civil disobedience starts being evictions and starving protests are going to become a thing of the past.
They need to sell on the longevity and robustness of these homes. If the houses are crap, this is going to be an incredibly wasteful project no matter how many environmentally friendly indicators they point to.
LWN article that I got the link from: https://lwn.net/Articles/957255/
It’s easier to just say you had some surgery. Or just not pay the $20 extra for the seat at the exit…
People fundamentally misunderstand how this works.

For a large enough product company there's always a years-long queue of feature requests, fixes, optimizations, and other things to do. All of it will never get done! The doable amount of highest-priority items will get picked through a combination of pressures from different people and departments, and will get more or less implemented.

If you cut the workforce by 50%, instead of doing 30% of the infinitely growing backlog, you'll do 15%. Since most of the completed work gets obsoleted or thrown away due to various inefficiencies, there will be some effect, but it will be far from dramatic.

As for the individual workload, you'll carry as much as you let the company put on your back. And that mostly depends on your negotiating skill, and somewhat on the supply/demand dynamics of the current labour market. The latter will tough for the couple of years, but the former is up to you to level up.
Considering that I have only very rarely given consent for my data to be sold or shared, and yet my data is commonly and widely sold through "legitimate" data brokers regardless, I think it's pretty clear that the answer is "no".

The FTC appears to require a much higher level of wrongdoing before effective punishment than I would prefer.
Cool.

I also found digikey stocks some 68k variants that are 3v3. Sadly no 030 or 010 which are the ones I prefer, but 000 and the still expensive 060 :X.
It's absolutely the fastest way to send larger sums of money.
Seems like the author knows their stuff, but I’d trust it even more without the snarky tone.
Basing ‘peak’ of a streaming service on a time when people were forced to be indoor seems like a bad metric. They (probably/hopefully) won’t see that rate of growth organically, but that doesn’t mean that it’s the peak.
I can see 35% of the workforce at a company with a mature product like Twitch doing nothing, or working on random extra features that no longer make sense when interest rates go up. Idk if you'd call it fundamentally wrong, it made sense at a different time.
Is Section 174 a driver for these layoffs?

It now eliminates the ability for businesses to deduct their R&D expenditures as an expense.

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/rp-23-08.pdf
Neuchips Demos Low-Power AI Upgrade for PCs
I don’t believe it was the SEC who normalized Twitter as the default communications platform. It was the public and the media who did that and the SEC followed
Every time someone here mentions the heritability of IQ, I wonder what they think that term means, because it clearly does not mean what most people intuitively think it does.
How does it change things if they had their own communications platform and someone hacked that to send this message?
It's happening at every tech company, over and over again, quietly and loudly.

Unfortunately tech is probably the ur-contrarian and ur-isolated field, and from the reactions I see to this, I worry there will never be a systemic response by employees.
Cursor/vanilla GPT/Copilot Chat are great but Onboard seems to have a unique search process that handles complicated questions over multiple files better.
Not many people realise this. Engineers build stuff. When your product is feature complete, you can get rid of most of them.

Big tech companies keeping tens of thousands of engineers on staff despite their core product not seeing substantial changes for years are just wasting money.
Most of his scientific ideas were ridiculous. Ships that can emit gravitational waves as a mean of communication. Folding dimensions. Transferring information through quantum entanglement which breaks the causality effect. Custom build mini universes.

Character development was also crap. All characters seemed flat.

The core idea though seemed interesting and it answers the Fermi paradox.
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An effort by Dr Robert Lustig and Kuwaiti Danish Dairy Company may be an example. Not targeted at obesity specifically but more general metabolic health: https://agfundernews.com/dr-robert-lustig-unveils-strategy-t...

Edit: Kuwait because it is small enough and has higher obesity rate than US (8th and 9th place as of 2016) https://web.archive.org/web/20071016062334/http://www.forbes...
HPE to Acquire Juniper Networks to Accelerate AI-Driven Innovation
I guess Twitch is probably not in an area of profitable business given the infrastructure cost of video streaming services, especially in that it cannot enjoy all the cost optimization like Netflix/YouTube due to its nature of live streaming.
Most execs aren't founders