skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Companies losing money can still sell, but expect the price to be a lot lower, to make the business math work better, and to offset the risk.

You can't sell "potential" but you can buy it. In other words a "good" company, with a "good" product, but running really inefficiently (and thus making a loss) can be very attractive to a buyer, if they can get it cheap. They might see that AWS line, or that Google marketing spend, or the giant sales team, or whatever and realize that by refactoring that part of the business they can extract a lot of value in the short term.

But this "potential" is not reflected in the price. You can't sell a business saying "oh, you just have to make AWS go away..." etc.

Ultimately any seller is saying "you're offering me a price where I think I get more cash now than waiting for later". Usually with time commitments built in.

The buyer is saying "you have something interesting, but I can get a lot more profit out of it than you are currently doing." Often by doing things you have specifically rejected (downsizing staff, cutting expenses, maximizing revenue etc)

Be aware that any _principles_ you have, which are suppressing your profit (open-source licenses, fair wages, pride in customer service, reasonable price increases, employee benefits, whatever) are all _almost certainly_ going to be changed after the sale. Those things are exactly where the purchaser is going to get their return from.
You can play games without committing any sum of money though.
Boy you fellas sure know how to talk a guy up!
A good few years back got to drive a hovercraft on a corporate day out… it was brilliant fun (up there with as one of the most fun things I've done)

Should do it again sometime
It would, but it might take couple more winters.
This is how I tend to feel about fevers. Fevers are commonly treated with fever suppressants, which doesn't make a lot of sense if you consider that the fever is something that you do to an infection, not something that the infection does to you.
The height of my HiFi adventure was buying some used good quality speakers for cheap and some decent cheap chipamp from Amazon.
I'm not very good at maths so I let Z3 work out some convenient seeds for me, leading to

import java.util.Random;
public class Hayley {
public static void main(String... args) {
byte[] b1 = new byte[4], b2 = new byte[2];
(new Random(0x2effe2140e00L)).nextBytes(b1);
(new Random(0xc2f0097)).nextBytes(b2);
System.out.println(new String(b1) + new String(b2));
}
}
Windows XP used to have that issue until they released some patch that prioritized UI when CPU was under stress. Linux had the same issue some time ago as well. I guess Apple will need to do something similar...
Dora Metrics: the Right Answer to measuring engineering team performance (2022)
I apologize. It was simply my subjective impression of the AoC this year, not a statement of objective fact. I didn't intend to insinuate that Wastl is a liar.
'joking' is always a bit manipulative anyway (I bet asperger people understand that better than me, I've heard that it's how therapists teach them white lies).

I guess the issue is when the joke isn't that funny and perceived as too manipulative, and anybody's threshold is different on both those.
Is there a reason you did the math with a 13.5kWh battery? Do you heat a large house electrically? Do you need to charge an EV at night off that battery?

Most people can get away with a significantly smaller battery - if your goal is to just get a normal house through a single night. That goal can be achieved pretty economically, especially if you're willing to use grid electricity on mornings with little sun on your panels or nights with unusually high demand.
> Perhaps there should be a way to limit their speed from the user side at least. Maybe I don’t want my teen driving over 65 mph anywhere.

Standard Tesla feature.
> Also Valve do some steamdeck optimizations for every game via their shared shader cache

Isn’t the only purpose of this skipping shader (re)compiling?

As far as I understood it, they did it because compiling shaders both takes long on a handheld device and time is at a premium for handheld players. They don’t want to wait eight minutes for a shader compile.
> at a University you've heard of.

Cal State Humboldt?
This is a very forced metaphor, in that many elements don’t fit well into their groups, and could reasonably sit elsewhere.

The x, y axes means something in periodic tables, but nothing here.

Typography hence readability is extremely poor. And so on.

Not sure about this at all.
If you would buy a Tesla power wall you actually have a system which would keep running if you have a power outage.

There are plenty of areas which would not mind paying a little bit more for this feature.

If it doesn't make sense for you, all good.

The batteries will get even cheaper I'm pretty sure.

And the big batteries make their money through grid stabilisation.

But there are a few companies which can leverage your battery at home and act as a big battery
Clicks hands-on: this BlackBerry-like iPhone case could be a winner
> The standards of intellectual and academic rigor in physics and aerospace engineering is far higher than nutrition science or whatever.

I'm not sure that's justified, at all. The domains are harder to experiment in - so the standards are more fitting for their domain. That doesn't make them better or worse, just different.

> All things being equal, I would probably trust the judgement of someone that went deep in the hard sciences and engineering, and then educated themselves on the literature of some soft science specialty on the side, than the average person whose entire education was in the much less rigorous and more shallow soft sciences.

You are, IMO, too dismissive in your language about entire professions. "Shallow, soft sciences".

I get where you're coming from - I'm more of a CS/Math/Physics person myself. But I think "our" side of hard sciences is far more dismissive than it should be - leading to implicitly trusting people who wave the right "hard science" credentials around instead of people working on the field for many years.
That's an analogy I can work with. Lots of those visualisation methods are not fit for human consumption. And in fact a whole lot of them are just grey blobs that shouldn't be near humans at all.

(just my opinion from a random sampling)
I mean, maybe everyone here is so used to the word, but try nesting these inside each other: https://www.amazon.com/Classic-Address-Phone-Directory-Refil...
I don’t find these arguments compelling. You don’t have a right to the means to commit a crime. It’s illegal to shoot a gun on a plane but it’s also illegal to bring one in your carry on. Even if there could be a hypothetical self defense scenario where a gun is advantageous, that doesn’t outweigh the baseline risk.
Those companies pay below the market.
Just TIL from side comment [1]

> Apart from the speed cap, every Volvo car will now also come with a Care Key, which allows Volvo drivers to set additional limitations on the car’s top speed, for example before lending their car to other family members or to younger and inexperienced drivers.

[1] https://www.media.volvocars.com/global/en-gb/media/pressrele...
It will get incrementally better at being a word calculator and looking up text, but LLMs aren't going to magically gain critical thinking skills or impactful intelligence capabilities.
Yes, humans use terminology to describe abstract concepts. This terminology often has nothing to do with the actual inner workings of this abstract concept. Everything is a social construct.
We are well past the need for a massive upheaval in privacy rights, and if this won't come from muscular government intervention, I would not be shocked if hacktivists started just destroying vast swaths of data stores, since we already see actors with the capability to do so holding the data for ransom instead. Such an attack could be more discreet too. The situation is simply out of hand
As you point out there's a lot to cover. There's the language, the libraries, and the tooling. Then there's learning how different people use the language. The stylistic elements, how to play to the strengths of the language, how to deal with the shortcomings etc. All that takes time because you have to gain some experience with all of this. Even the things you figure out aren't very good.

The reason it took me a long time to learn Java is because when I started learning Java there was a certain way to architect Java systems. And to be frank, the way Java was done in the 90s was horrible. Lots of complex boilerplate, lots of structure and none of it seemed to pay off. And on top of that, most people still didn't understand OO all that well so you'd get layer violations and strong coupling all over the place. Making code really hard to maintain. (I used to ask people to read the first part of the GOF book, and forget about the rest of the book. Because at that point, the introduction contained the best explanation of OO we had found. It is probably still worth reading. Though the rest of the book led to a lot of silly dogmatism where some people suddenly behaved as if the patterns were the only allowable design strategies)

Then came the 00s with people adopting huge frameworks that in themselves took a lot of time to learn and, again, didn't produce the results we wanted. Worse yet, applications became hostages to these frameworks. Ever been faced with a few hundred thousand lines of code trapped inside a Spring-dictated architecture. That's really, really expensive to do something about.

It took a really long time to figure out a good way to do software in Java. It also took a very long time to re-train Java developers whenever we got a new hire. To teach them anything from "microdesign" (how you express things in Java) to how you design, plan and architect stuff without ending up with a lot of
optimistic (slightly distopian) view: governments will step in and build national artificial intelligence machines. OpenAI will be competing with open source LLMs. we'll all re-create society structured around a priesthood / ceremonial worship of a big ai that symbolizes how great your "tribe" is and compete with the followers of the other gods.
For "normal" people they represent a unique and finite set of files under a specific hierarchy.

The technical implementation allows us to put the same files in as many folder as we want, folders recursing on themselves, "smart folders" that don't have any stable set of files, remotely synched folders etc.
Sadly it seems to be abandoned. It is not "real" Smalltalk, it is more like just yet another scripting languag, so no class browser.
I have an observation not related to chatgpt but to the debugging skills mentioned in the article: indeed I've always felt that most teaching is done on perfect working code. I've never seen an exercise for developing debugging skills. For example: "This Djikstra implementation is finding the wrong path." and work with students to pinpoint the off-by-one error. I think it would reveal so much more about the implementation details than just explaining how it works. It could be its own topic to explore race conditions, edge case studies and so on.
> I think it's as close to the perfect benchmark as you can get.

Depends what you are benchmarking for... If you are benchmarking the ability of the solution to solve LEETCODE challenges, that is different to the ability of GPT4 to assist everyday programmers knock out business logic or diagnose bugs.

My experience of GPT4 is that it's significantly better at the latter than GPT3.5.

Additionally, the real test is for me is "Can an average programmer using GPT4 as a tool solve Advent of Code faster than an equally-skilled programmer without an LLM?".
Yeah, which depends on the torque band of the engine which drives the transmission.

Generally 8 gear systems are paired with ~1.5L force induction engines to keep them in a very narrow RPM band, similar to Diesel engine dynamics. However, speeds nearing 180 KM/h is a natural result of these mathematics.

What I was proposing to keep the same engine, reduce the gear count to 5-6 and keep engine RPM around 2-3K which maps to 90-120 KM/h band generally.

You'll either keep 8 gears with closer ratios for a smoother acceleration, or shave two gears from top, because 8th gear on 120KM/h results in RPMs too low for the engine (on the cars I have driven though).
Another exception: autonomous flight (drones). They were in PopSci magazine in the 70s.
On building HTTP API docs from scratch
That's just not true. We know a lot about the basics of nutrition. Actual nutrition scientists mostly agree on lots of different things.

The problem is that the public doesn't want to hear it, so the media keeps running articles that make it simple like "nobody knows anything". Which is just plain false.
Before buying a MacBook Pro 13", I've seen lots of reviews on notebookcheck. I bought my MacBook used and it really gives me 20 hours of battery life like in their test.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-MacBook-Pro-13-2020-Lapt...

If that Zenbook lasts for 18 hours, it is a good contender. I don't care for having the fastest CPU, just a decent one and plenty of battery life.
From the article:

>Taubes has published five books on sugar, fat and carbohydrate, including his latest, Rethinking Diabetes, in which he posits that low-carb diets have been under-used as a way to manage blood glucose in type 1 and type 2 diabetes, in favour of drug-heavy treatment regimes which, he suspects, may do more harm than good.

So, it conflates and then says "we shouldn't conflate".

It's not good enough. I currently live with a type-1 teenager who is not at all happy about her condition and my family simply does not need cross talk that can be selectively quoted back at us over the dinner table. This sort of wording and "questioning" is harmful and dangerous. Before my daughter was diagnosed she got scary thin, we were seriously frightened by the process and I have no doubt that without insulin she would have died before her 10th birthday.

Taking insulin or not taking insulin is a life and death issue for us, this sort of article is not the right place for a debate of this sort - that debate should happen in the scientific community. This isn't a popularity contest.
This looks great, thank you! I've joined the wait list.
The period table is less a visualization method than an accurate model.
Biggest thing will be ai based robots.

They are coming and I have seen more impressive demos the last few weeks.
> take hacker for example... I think that it started as something good.

… he wrote on a site called Hacker News that is not focussed on unauthorized computer access :)
Supposedly, the Bugatti Veyron tires last for 12-15 minutes at 400 km/h. Then you need a new set, for $42k.
Show HN: After Rabbit, generate your AI Clone here (text and audio)
Gnu Smalltalk is for writing scripts, Smalltalk in name only. It s far closer to lisp than tcl, and faster than tcl too.
pretty much every major military has these

russia, china, india - you name it
If it refers to random beach balls for 30 seconds when accessing disk ether directly or through apps... yeah I get that. I found it disappointing, a flaw in an otherwise great machine (M1 Mac mini).
Surely you can provide a better summary than just linking to a video that's an hour long. No one is gonna watch all that on your "trust me bro".
Norway handled it pretty well.
Who will develop a cross-platform UI system as capable, flexible and well-embedded as HTML/CSS and as responsive as native UI? Google did its shot with Flutter, it's not exactly eating the world. The performance issue will long be solved before somebody comes up with a capable contender.
> You could try throwing a bundle of chips in boiling acid and see what comes out. But my guess is the bond pads will not be usable anymore.

Decapping with extreme prejudice.
The only information I can find about that is an article from 2005 about car makers dropping this informal limitation:

> Premium automakers are quietly abandoning their informal agreement limiting the top speed of production cars to 250km/h.

https://www.just-auto.com/news/germany-car-makers-dropping-2...

Maybe it's not a thing anymore?
To be fair, I raced 2-stroke karts for years, and up until relatively recently, clutches weren't a thing. Most karts were direct-drive, as you didn't want lag and power loss, and simplicity was usually more important than anything else for weight and general sanity. The engine was more likely to stall when you didn't want it to than go when it shouldn't - if you spun in a race, that was it, race over.

That said, the rest of your kart sounds like it was probably best avoided - you should be grateful for that pull-start breakage, yes!
The best thing about SI is that it only has one unit per dimension, and no conversion factors between units (it is "coherent"). Unfortunately, this simplicity and elegance usually goes unappreciated; while people focus on arbitrary powers of ten (e.g. that 100 hundredths is one)

http://www.chriswarbo.net/projects/units/metric_red_herring....

PS: The SI unit of time is the "second"; which is actually a sexagesimal fraction (a "pars minuta secunda", AKA a second small part; which is a sixtieth of a "pars minuta", a sixtieth of an hour)
>Soooo can you help me understand what's happening here?

They can't decrypt proper https (proper meaning your computer does not have a fake CA cert installed that is owned by them, which in itself is HIGHLY unlikely). So your privacy is safe in this regard.

However, they can intercept traditional DNS queries, which are plaintext and not encrypted. And likewise, they can see the ip address destination in all TCP/UDP packets. The latter of which gives them the ability to filter for people who are potentially suspicious.

For example, if your computer is talking to a known Tor node, or a known VPN node, you can get flagged for additional investigation of things like finances, travel, e.t.c.

Or for example, they can see that you are doing a lot of crypto transactions because of the network connections to networks, and then that can get flagged for a more thorough tax investigation.

>How can Swiss people protect themselves?

You really don't need to.

In general, there is nothing really to worry about if you aren't doing something against the law in the first place. You could make the argument that ignoring this is essentially handing your rights over to authorities who are going to use it to control you, but that argument has 2 big holes.

First, generally with government, there really isn't any government in existence that will do authoritarian stuff like mass spying without having other authoritarian structures in place to control its citizens. Its either full on 100% authoritarian regime (like North Korea), or its not really mass spying for population control and more for things like terrorism, money laundering, or anything else that is illegal, and has legal processes in place to protect its citizens even from itself. This is the case for USA and Switzerland. It wouldn't make sense for them to want to spy on all the citizens when there are significant barriers in place in them being able to just round up anyone they want based on any and all suspicions and throw them in jail without due process.

Secondly, in the sense of what is being collected, there really isn't an expectation of privacy here from even a functional view. From the ground up, packets get bounced around through different countries, so if your own country doesn't keep track of who you are talking to, some other country can. On a level higher, you depend on a lot of services for ease of life, and its not really an valid argument to make to say that you trust those services with your data, but not the government. Sure companies like Apple have less power over your life, but you have no idea who they are sharing that data with (and no, their own statements on it do not count).

If you truly want to be private on the web, you need to understand how internet works from the ground up in the first place. For example, in my past job with cybersecurity, we build software that used linguistic steganography and internet forums for secure communication. Until you understand how that would work and why, you can't really expect to be private.
There are no good sites, all of them focus on making money.
You could make the argument that with strong headwind you should drive slower to optimize for efficiency.
Hadn't arrived? Looks like their time arrived and gone.

All mentioned are nice technologies, but not commercially viable except of special cases.
In cases like this one I think it is more about the journey than the destination, and I know it sounds cheesy and all but I think it best describes situations like these. I'm surprised that he even got to "finish" it all, for me those "finishes" come with associated existential dread, as in "what should I do now with my life that I've finished my long-pursuit project?".
Maybe the AGI will help the Californians workout how to build trains?

...or just kill everyone, problem solved :)
I mean, I hate jokes belittling people or throwing them curveballs and hitting their self esteem. As a result, I never make these kinds of jokes. The jokes I labeled manipulative are about something else and built upon double meanings of words, in the context of the subject being discussed.
Developer Tool to Localize Xcode,Android,Flutter,.NET,Java Projects with ChatGPT
I believe this presents a good challenge, as the article mentioned: the problems are unique :) None of them are found in ChatGPT's training dataset.
On older AMD hardware it's controlled by lockdown registers which are written to by the SMU (Lattice Mico32 CPU) just after reset is deasserted.

The SMU reads the eFuses to determine what to lock down. So you can interrupt this process via JTAG and re-enable all the locked down cores. There is a window of a couple of milliseconds after de-asserting reset to halt the SMU.

I have no idea if this still works on newer chips with the AMD Secure Processor. There was some mention of a JTAG password in the leaked AMD documentation on the Web.

I'm not into that stuff anymore, I'm playing around with FPGAs now. No more locked down security processors to get in your way.
It's all games written for windows, but at this point valve bankrolls proton and wine development so heavily it might as well be an in-house product. Valve would like all games to be written for Linux (case in point: Steam machines) but the reality is that game devs are slow to adapt and desktop gaming is still largely done on PC.

With that in mind, proton _is_ the killer app.
Sure — all exponentials eventually turn out to be sigmoids, or some quote to that effect — but I'm unclear why this matters as I'm suggesting most people don't even know what an exponential really is and what to expect from them in even the short term?
It might pay for itself eventually.

Suppose I'm making toast -- a process that normally uses around 1100W, anywhere in the world.

At 120V, that's about 9A, which is fine for a 15A branch circuit running with 14AWG wire (the very cheapest of wire that we ever use for this stuff in the States).

At 48V, making toast requires about 22A, and thus needs something more like 10AWG wire, which uses about 2.5x as much copper.

But that bigger wire only needs to be purchased and installed one time, while any efficiency gain gets to be kept (presumably) forever.

And that efficiency gain (achieved by having fewer, simpler electronics between the sun and the toast in my kitchen) means a smaller solar array, and a smaller battery bank -- stuff that does wear out eventually.

So why not do both?

Why not stick with high voltage (because it's cheaper), and also switch some things over to DC?

Neither the wires in my walls nor the electromechanical bits of my toaster know or care if things are being powered with 120VAC or 120VDC. The toast comes out the same either way.

Why must voltage also decrease?
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