skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My wife's last name is only 2 letters long. Some websites don't accept that as it's too short (take that, Xi Jinping!)

Could be apolitical protection against chess grandmasters: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_So ;)
The general properties of knot categories are already known. Real world factors such as the diameter of the line, its mechanical properties and environmental considerations (eg. presence of powder/dust, oil, rain, etc.) will significantly affect the actual deployment properties of a given knot. In addition, there are infinite places within a given knot that forces can be applied. Lines will also degrade over time, and factors such as complexity, time and fingers/hands/tools required-to-reliably tie/untie will also often be practical concerns in selection for deployment. Therefore, while your interest in the algorithmic exploration is interesting, if the goal is to generate novel practical results then there is a lot more complexity to add to the modeling before a useful result might be obtained, and any such result would have to be clearly based in assumptions around deployment scenario.
math knots and real knots aren't the same thing and I don't think all possible human tieable knots have been enumerated and classified although I am happy to be pointed to evidence.

Math knots embed circles while real knots are typically made with free ended ropes (although some knots are not). Math knots ignore friction and the width of the rope; real knots can't ignore friction and the width (and other phyhsical properties) matter. See the comment in this article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overhand_knot

While researching my answer I found out there's a term for what I wanted to do,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_knot_theory

I've had this discussion with mathematicians a few times now and they don't see the difference, so maybe I'm just missing something important.
By the next year you'll be prompting your LLM with what is allowed to pass. Seems like local LLMs will be embedded in phones, laptops, browsers and operating systems.
Unless your client base is exclusively the same kind of engineer employed by said company, how could that possibly work well?
For some idiotic reason this repo has a specific rule that no rule pertaining to Facebook/Meta is allowed "since they are evil". So, being evil allows you to keep showing a terrible experience to it's users and you can't crowd source an escape route. It doesn't make any sense.
As I understand it, uBlock Origin has support for modifying CSS because sometimes sites pull stunts like hiding/dimming all their content with CSS and then un-hiding it in a script that also shows ads, or similar mechanisms.

Using it to add a dark mode is certainly an unintended use, but an impressive one.
One thing my mom has been dealing with recently is where the insurance EOB and the bill differs substantially. My mom called the hospital to ask for an explanation and poof the bill is magically lowered by a several hundred dollars.

How the heck is this not criminal fraud? Why are people allowed to simply bill whatever they feel like it, and why is my mother getting 'balance billed' for random amounts? They're still doing all this dirty underhanded stuff and when they get called out on it, it's 'Oopsie! Our mistake' when they know most people they do this to will naively pay it
This is the way for sure. I use my main OS as a hypervisor and pass through to various VMs as needed.
What a bargin. I need to send in like 100k images to get edited in a week for 5k and resell them.
> Is a microscopic bit of harmful chemical going to do anything?

Dioxins are generally a class of chemical where the answer is yes. Even trace amounts are horrifically carcinogenic.

In one instance, six truckloads of 2,3,7,8-TCDD-contaminated waste (not pure TCDD) mixed into used motor oil and spread over the roads of a ~420 acre town as dust control resulted in the entire town having to be permanently evacuated and disincorporated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_Beach,_Missouri

Also, more generally, letting catchphrase-driven handwaves from industry about how their dumping is actually ok really isn't a great way to be. Things like dumping of low-level waste (ie not actual uranium or fission products, just ordinary furniture/materials from facilities that are mildly activated) off the coast of california have increasingly been realized to be a mistake. Even "diluted into a whole ocean" (it never is), it turns out it doesn't just go away, and the plumes are in fact both detectable and potentially harmful.

You know what actually is the solution? The complete opposite, concentration and incineration (for dioxins) or permanent containment (high-level nuclear waste).
Thanks for confirming your accusations are baseless and not rooted in any factual evidence.
There's also a way of seeing it as just a thing.
There hasn’t been 60 votes for a long time. Reconciliation is how a lot of normal legislation is passed.
It's an explanation of why I won't attend any, and I assume some others as well.
Works for me. Do note that archive.is blocks CloudFlare DNS.
I do this today with residential batteries on a time-of-use rate plan that is highest between 3PM and midnight (with an average $0.30/kWh price difference between peak and low rates).

I end up arbitraging about 5kWh/day (1825kWh/yr ) of usage between those rates, which works out to about ~$500/year in utility bill savings. Compared to the cost of the battery system, that's not much and the payback period is well beyond the life of the battery.

In some locations (alas not mine), you can sell your battery's charge back to the grid during, providing grid ancillary services, for an even better ROI.

There is still, however, some resistance against opening the gates to leaf-node distributed energy resources from traditional utilities and generators.
I'm suspicious of those numbers. I personally can build a home scale battery storage system for around 280£/kWh. As in, I can go and buy the parts to do that and put it together. I can't believe they can't already do it cheaper at grid scale. That said, it might well be it's as easy to buy at small scale as at grid scale currently.
Turns out quality software is also popular. Imagine that!
The guy probably existed. It is his involvement which may have been fabricated to hide the real story. His death, the time and the manner, exactly provides indirect credibility to such fabrication.
Try looking at that ratio over time.
Yeah it's sad that Siri stagnated as soon as Apple bought it. They had some great ideas.
can we cut the middle man and have a spot etf on ransomware?
I believe so. It even has a tool for selecting elements you want to remove interactively.
>an operating system capable of doing basically anything from physics simulations to movie editing is dead once people can play videogames elsewhere

isn't that something
Polestar CEO Promises to Keep Apple CarPlay and Android Auto Around
ublock origin already provides an element zapper, and lists to delete annoyances. you just have to check the box to enable them. go look at your settings it's right there
Thank you for pre-ordering, but as I mentioned in the post, the main difference is that it's just 7x cheaper than alternatives and already live (i.e. you can try it, versus other products you can't try yet cuz they are not released)
> Synthetic data has been estimated to be 5x more efficient than human data, you can make a model 1/5 size with similar performance.

Interesting. Can you cite anything to back up that claim?
The connective thread is that tech growth has slowed/stopped and Wall Street is looking to make cuts, because salaries are expensive, and shit, if they have the option between more expenses and less expenses, they will keep taking 'less expenses', until it clearly and incontroversially affects the bottom line.
I know this is a startup incubator (whatever that is) forum, but I’m tired of this Market Strategy-first framing.[1] Companies like Meta clearly gave away access to their platform in order to build an effective monopoly in some niche.[2] And companies will do whatever within the Law to increase profits. I’m sure all the CEOs here will agree. Anything less is leaving money on the table.

This worship of the Market Strategy was bad enough before when there wasn’t much talk of actual laws defining how much of a “product” they can make their users. But now there are! And this submission is about unlawful practices. And we’re still going to frame this as Meta just being effectively forced by the horrible consumers who refuse to “pay for services”? Ridiculous.

And I haven’t even really gotten into how much of a fallacy the specific belief is that if you just “pay for services” then you won’t become a “product”. But thankfully there are a lot of other reasonable posters on this forum about tech company profit-maximization.

[1] The Company’s perspective is the prime one. The Company doing shady stuff is merely because the consumer’s are stingy or difficult in some way. If the consumers are inconvenienced by the Company then that is just because the Company had to adopt a market strategy which is not as wholesome as the one they could have used if the consumers were better in some way.

[2] And do we have to retread the hopelessness of making a social network where you have to pay to use it when no one else is using it (at the start)? That’s a complete dead-end.
The majority of wall street has accepted that there will be a recession, and interest rates are triple what they were a few years ago.
Why its a bad idea to invest in Treasury money market funds
I have been using an YC-backed app called Finvest to buy US Treasury Bills directly (I am also helping the founder), instead of buying money-market funds.

Interest rates will drop soon. Treasury money market funds only invest in short-term securities and hence, their interest rates will drop as the Fed cuts rates.

With Treasury Bills, your rate is locked in if you hold to maturity. So if you buy a 1-year T-Bill, your rate is locked in no matter what happens.

What are the others doing to hedge against a future environment where rates drop?
I've been contacted by collection agencies over an ER bill that I paid up front and in full. The system isn't even designed for that possibility.
It could also be a method to put pressure on AWS to get rid of their egress fees.

If it doesn't work - GCP looks a little better compared to AWS

If it does work, AWS users will have an easier time extricating themselves from the platform, and possibly going to GCP.
SpaceX Sends First Text Messages via Its New Direct to Cell Satellites [pdf]
Nobody is asking you to be a domain expert. When it comes to almost any other issue, people ask how and demand evidence. But when it comes to Hamas's claims of a certain number of dead, nobody seems to ask "How do they calculate it? Are they looking at morgue data? Are they doing photographs of mass burial sites, as Ukraine did? What is their method?"

So people are asking you to be scientific and critical rather than to uncritically repeat the claims of a belligerent in combat.

Finally, I'm not sure if you're saying this facetiously or if you genuinely don't know what Israel is capable of, or the lengths its gone to to reduce civilian harm but Israel is not doing indiscriminate mass slaughter. That's what Hamas did on October 7.
Contrary to what's in the paper, I'm pretty sure IMUL-by-constant is in fact useful, since you can use subtraction:

x * (a - b) === x * a - x * b

and this applies even when losing the top half.
Misleading title. You should indicate that it is, in fact, tech-related.

TBH, with a name like Dev Thoughts (shoulda been in the title), one needs to understand programming to even be able to determine whether it’s funny…

——> The tagline at the end is priceless, but I don’t know enough about programming to know if it’s funny.
> The initial benchmarks show something of a 2-9% performance improvement. You might be disappointed by this number, especially since this blog post has been talking about assembly and machine code and nothing is faster than that right? Well, remember that CPython is already written in C and that was already compiled to machine-code by the C compiler.

WTF has this to do with JITing the code written in Python?
Related to the classic: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/06/the-bir...
The landing page looks awesome, however, the site just spit out the following for flingup.com:

> It is down for 100% of the world.

The above couldn't be further from the truth. The site is actually up for 100% of the world.
Google is part of Cloudflare's Bandwidth Alliance [1] which is removing most egress fees. Google still charges for egress, but it's half of what AWS is charging. We moved everything off of S3 anyway and have been using Cloudflare's R2 storage along with Google Compute Engine instances. R2 can be a little flaky, but the cost savings for us more than makes up for it.

[1] https://www.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-alliance/
Has someone tried the Tiny11 [1] it seems there are security issues involved but would love to hear. Last time I tried to remove all the malware/spyware (e.g. telemetry) it was time consuming.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows11/comments/1443318/whats_up...
Still -- my quick google came up with 750 employees mid 2023. So this is 125-ish employees. Particularly with 5 months severance, that seems too small to save much money (assuming $300k fully loaded, that's $40m pa) and also too small to materially impact velocity by reducing headcount and being more careful about commits.

I'd expect more like a 50% cut to really speed up the significantly fewer projects by eliminating coordination overhead and giving PMs the ability to really slash projects.

ps -- I'm not claiming it was bloated, that's (implicitly, and I believe fairly?) the ceo's claim.
Yeah, I think that the motivation behind the article is “it would be a social good for there to be more independent websites”, and that’s probably true, but it’s academic.

If you tell someone they should run their own website, their response is generally not going to be, as the post suggests, “how?” It’s going to be “why?”, and if your best answer is “because it’s better for society”, good luck convincing them.
We all had windows machines on our desks, but MetaWare made cross-compilers for the complete cross product of every flavor of CPU and OS. So lots of SunOS/Solaris servers, BSD, IBM 360, Irix, etc servers on the network.
Do they really? I don't even pay that much for my entire O365 suite.

The most expensive app I pay for is Telegram Premium at 30$ per year. And that's really worth it for me for the translation otherwise I would have thought twice.
Salesforce just announced a hiring freeze and word on the street is that in the next 30 days they are going to be cutting staff.
Right but where are Atlassian's layoffs, Asana, or any of the other hundreds of "lower" tier tech companies? It's unusual that they're all skating by, to me.
I think he means solar panels becoming so cheap that the total cost of solar is 1/100 of nighttime energy sources.
The flip side is that it's more convenient and faster to do it.

Biking to local grocery stores and getting through them when I lived in Munich was generally much faster than doing the same now that I'm in a typical US suburb using a car. Getting onto and off a bike, parking it, and getting from there into the store is much faster than the equivalent for a car. Finding things and getting through the store is also much faster than in the US because it's smaller. In total, grocery trips for basics tended to go significantly faster there.
Is Simon Peyton Jones still at Microsoft? He is is at Epic Games now IIRC. Lennart Poettering is there though last i heard.
170 employees at average IT salary of $100,000 = $17,000,000.00USD.

Saving 17 million a year is a lot. I feel sorry for the workers.
It doesn't have to be batteries, hydrogen gas can be generated from solar at 80% efficiency, and storing hydrogen is way cheaper than batteries. Certainly way cheaper than nuclear.
At any given time I have a few hundred dollars of unpaid medical bills because they are so inconsistent. Some don't show up for months. Some show up right away. Some are tracked in the providers' proprietary apps. Some are sent by mail.

Some, I don't learn about until they're in collections. Did I miss an email/notification/mail? No idea and no way to tell.

Incredibly frustrating situation.
As opposed to a single 'doctor' mass denying 1000's of requests a day? That should be illegal.
The only suggestion I've seen that would make some sense is Section 174: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pulse-75
> Using it to add a dark mode is certainly an unintended use, but an impressive one.

I agree. But now that I think about it, light mode is actually up there or even higher, in terms of things that my computer makes me see that I don’t want to see. Begone, light at night!
Why all([]) is true, prod([]) is 1 etc.
Scooped again! Either @ingve never sleeps or he/she runs a bot that posts new content to HN 24/7.
As someone having to write .NET Framework for his day job, I made the switch back to 10 when I started noticing the small things that affect my experience. Edge was aggressive when I would try to download Chrome, Windows 11 updates prompting you to reset your browser settings, lack of taskbar customization options from 10 (I like my system tray minimal).

Everything shows a company too complacent and focused on their own business needs. C# and .NET are the exception because they fought hard to antagonize Java in the corporate world, and while they missed the "billion devices" train for being too forceful with pushing Windows Server instead of going multiplatform, they still won over a decent market share.
The comment isn't suggesting that he didn't exist, but rather that after he died in the motorcycle accident, it was possible to say that he was the actor and protect the people who were actually involved.

All this requires is to understand who died shortly after Stuxnet who could have feasibly been involved.
I've tried a bunch of them, but settled on Dark Reader https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/dark-reader/eimadpb...
They really aren’t. Even the comments here involved a long scroll to get to a hint of the unmentionable possibility.
Internet Brands CEO on RTO: "We aren't asking or negotiating at this point."
What are the statistics by age group?
This was created 5 years ago..
In their defense, I use Nebula a lot and I have specifically wondered "how can I block Rene Ritchie?". I'm sure he's a good person and has his own fans, but he covers Apple stuff I don't care about and had particularly egregious "YouTube face" thumbnails that really grind my gears.
And?

All you've pointed out is Wall Street's demand for eternal growth is untenable, as if we didn't already know that.
First, what is wrong with you? You're weaponizing a false racism accusation to silence someone making a point while denigrating and disrespecting actual racism.

Second, you're wrong because that was until 2002 when they were acquired and kept doing "dodgy shit" together with the Post Office until 2015. The Post Office recorded the profits, the private prosecutors got a cut of false reclaimed losses, and the software contractor enabled them.
> use JS as glue code if you want

You can and this makes it appropriate for tech demos but it's a huge point of contention for engineers who are concerned about performance sensitive applications - particularly where boot time (TTI, TFP, etc) is important.

Further, deferring the loading of a wasm module to js evaluation forgoes the browser's ability to optimize based on static analysis, dropping launch optimizations.

Lastly, the added tooling adds an aspect of distrust. Web development is already saturated with complex tooling.

We cannot simply run `cargo build --target wasm32-unknown-unknown` and have it work. Additionally, if you want to code split you would need to split your application up into a wasm executable with dynamically linked wasm libraries - something that isn't supported at present.

> That’s… not true? It has been supported in all major browsers for years

At present, you must initialize multiple instances of a wasm module and pass a SharedArrayBuffer between those modules to share memory. This means threads are controlled in JS and not in WASM.

Additionally, ShareArrayBuffer is not supported in multi-origin websites - making it impossible to use in contexts like established applications which already use subdomains extensively (like Slack, Jira, etc).
YouTube has over 2 billion active users.

uBlock origin has about 20 million, if we're being generous.

That's literally 1%. It is safe to assume no one at Google or elsewhere cares about our filters, certainly not enough to play a "cat and mouse game".
I just checked, you don't need one, if you go to the filters section you can just copy it from there
But Cruise, VMWare and Unity's layoffs were all very much company-specific execution issues - I'd expect to see some layoffs like that even during boom times. Of that list only Spotify is really in the "we hired too much and now we're downsizing due to economic conditions" boat. In fact, I remember thinking "That sucks, this is the first one of those I've heard in a while" when the Spotify layoff was announced.
As an experiment, lean into more flexibility and see what feedback you get.
It makes perfect sense. The solution is to delete your Facebook account. No more annoyances from their site then :D

(I still use Instagram and WhatsApp even tho I deleted my Fb ages ago. But hey, we’re only human after all.)
Yes.

> We follow the “Textbooks Are All You Need” approach, focusing this time on common
sense reasoning in natural language, and create a new 1.3 billion parameter model named phi-1.5, with performance on natural language tasks comparable to models 5x larger, and surpassing most non-frontier LLMs on more complex reasoning tasks such as grade-school mathematics and basic coding.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.05463.pdf
They had teams with software engineers with different levels of competence and experience [1]. There were good, mediocre, and members that were not so capable. Which is true for many teams. When at least the good members have the time and review the code of the others, than this code would probably not go into production.

Even when these code snippets are cherry-picked they tell enough about their review practices.

>have some highly atypical needs that we here on HN don't understand.

Somebody else checked in another thread. You can use unary minus in VBA.

[1]
>One member of the development team, David McDonnell, who had worked on the Epos system side of the project, told the inquiry that “of eight [people] in the development team, two were very good, another two were mediocre but we could work with them, and then there were probably three or four who just weren’t up to it and weren’t capable of producing professional code”.
> So if you buy a 1-year T-Bill, your rate is locked in no matter what happens.

For a year.

If that satisfies you, then good. If not... longer maturities?
Hmm? You can get instrument rating with CPL. There's also non-passenger commercial pilot jobs - cargo and agriculture for example. Those CPL holders are, by definition, professionals, even if other professional take the ATPL on top of their CPL.
People say this but then I look at them typing and I can literally see the lag compared to closer-to-the-metal toolkits.
interesting! didn't notice it. Wouldn't make more sense to have more rules about facebook/meta 'since they are evil?'