skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is it my responsibility to ensure my data doesn’t inadvertently harm your model that I have zero knowledge of?
It can be (but that's not Relaxed, that's SeqCst), but that can be a lot of overhead in optimization loss and potentially hardware cost on some architectures.
Love that bun just implements anything that could be useful.

They are busy building useful stuff whilst others pontificate about what they should/shouldn’t build
I really can't grasp how people think that a system that doesn't have a need to preserve itself will somehow start thinking for itself.

AI is quite troublesome for privacy though. How much privacy humans need is a question we'll probably have answered the hard way.
Dana-Farberications at Harvard University
For me, the act of writing something down helps with memory and comprehension. Reviewing something I wrote down a week ago does not. If I forget it, I look it up and write it down again. Eventually it sticks.

Or it doesn't.
Labor conditions in Japan in general, in terms of pay and hours, seem so much worse then nations with similar per capita GDP I don't really get why.
> Products are getting shittier because ultimately consumers accept them.

More like consumers are unable to find anything that isn't shitty. The entire article is about people who spent good money on a product, bought from brands with good reputations, and their products still turned out to be trash. This is not a case of people being unwilling to pay for anything but cheapest options and getting shit-tier goods, it's about how an increasing number of companies are demanding high prices but giving nothing but cheap trash dressed up to look like quality in return.

It turns out that it's a lot more profitable to sell people highly priced garbage than to give them quality goods. Every furniture company wants to make more profit, so now they all sell highly priced garbage and there is no one left making quality goods at a reasonable price to take customers away from the people who cheating us.
I’d be interested to learn. If there aren’t harmful effects to outliers (I.e. exceptional people can still earn a great deal) then that does give me pause. Possibly enough to change my mind.

Thanks. If you have any references on where specifically to start reading, feel free to drop them here. Otherwise I’ll start at the acronyms you mentioned.
> Yes, Switzerland pays you to run a startup.

It sounds like they're just taxing you less, not paying you anything.
Right, which is why I said...

>... if people are really digging a piece of music then please buy it directly from the label, the artist, etc. via other means, if possible.
> database-as-a-service like Firebase/Supabase. I think it's inevitable that people will carve bits and pieces off of their meta-frameworks into different types of applications as they scale

(Supabase maintainer) Supabase is just postgres, so it’s actually designed like this. You can start using all the “auto generated” tooling, then evolve into a pure Postgres + middleware solution if you need/want to

> they're very expensive to run in certain situations.

In terms of pricing, it’s ~equivalent to RDS, at least the database component
It can be fixed.

People need to learn some basic finance if they want to influence how creator economy businesses run. If you can't do that make friends with business experience who you can trust and rely on. If you can't do either, don't get into a creative field.

Most of the time creatives just hand over all financial decisions completely to some one else.

And then guess what, the financial engineers gain much more influence over how the business run. Even Disney is being pushed around (see Nelson Peltz). And the reason Peltz and finance logic hasn't totally over run them is there are people with finance skills saying profit maximizing, cost cutting finance logic cannot run this shop.

You will not find a single sucess story in a creative field without someone with business skills involved.
Stupidest thing I've read all day, and condescending to boot.

I'd argue posters are appropriate at any age. I, myself, have several galaxies as well as 'The Kramer'.

Also photographs in a nice frame are just posters with borders.
'#pragma pack' isn't part of the C standard, but #pragma is and "causes the implementation to behave in an implementation-defined manner."
You have to be careful looking at GDP per capita. That money doesn't always stay within the country, especially with tax havens.

Look at Ireland's GDP per capita - it's on par with Singapore! But a lot of that is due to the tax strategies of companies like Google that park their IP in Ireland, then "sell" it to countries in Europe. That's all GDP for Ireland. But what happens to the money? It gets pumped back to the US.

It's similar with Singapore. There are huge refineries, and pharmaceutical manufacturing on the island. The country makes these product (often of high value), which contributes to the GDP. But that money exits the country (save for the workers in Singapore) back to the HQ country.

If you look at median wages in Singapore, you'll get a much better sense of the wealth. But do note that the number the Singaporean government quotes doesn't include the 40% of the population that is migrant workers - it's only Singaporean citizens and PRs. So it ignores the bottom ~40% of workers (save for the highly skill people on work passes).
> I wonder how much stress it puts on the cards to be run through the machine each time.

Less than almost every other card reader ever made, which is why that Documation unit took over the industry. The hard problem is pulling exactly one card off the bottom of the stack. Most previous readers involved some kind of pusher which had a ledge slightly less than one card thick. The pusher pushed the card through a gate slightly more than one card thick.
The IBM 1402 card reader, and all the earlier IBM electromechanical card machines, used that technology.[1] Pushing cards through a gate works only if cards are within tolerance and in good condition. Otherwise, card jams are frequent. Card data processing operations had dehumidifiers, because high humidity would make the cards thicker.

Documation made a breakthrough. There's a crosswise air jet that separates the bottom few cards in the stack before picking. The video shows that. The picking device itself is a vacuum picker. It grabs the bottom card, rotates, and starts the card into the rollers. The card is always pulled by a face, never pushed by an edge. Card thickness does not matter much. It just works.

That air jet trick is still used in some printers and printing presses. It's one of those clever tricks of mechanical engineering that yields a simple, reliable device.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1402
if you're writing "await" before every function call maybe that should be the default.
Jon Oliver did a piece on body donation[0]. Many people probably wouldn't expect their loved ones body to be used for entertainment in a hotel, sold piece by piece for profit or used to test explosives.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn7egDQ9lPg
The worlds economy isn’t underpinned by an underpaid underclass.

Every major commodity cobalt, shoes, cellphones etc has large scale automated production. What’s going on is essentially a parallel system where people making almost nothing can barely out complete automation. However, because both are occurring at the same time consumers wouldn’t notice a significant change if 100% of that production was automated.

Granted without infrastructure and a skilled workforce you can’t instantly swap to automation, but that’s a different question.
Contact has been re-established[0] although the state of Ingenuity isn't known yet. Still, very encouraging news.

[0] https://twitter.com/NASAJPL/status/1748883252604236281
The same author also made a video on the subject that has some additional context as well. An example being this part [1] with a QC flow chart.

[1] https://youtu.be/BDEIPa9b3OU?t=934
The title of this really needs "GitHub" in it somewhere.
The economy in general is bad, possibly in a recession. Companies are tightening their belts not just in the tech sector. I don't know if "saturated" is the right word though. There are still shortages of skilled, experienced techies.
Make the "middle" table first and do to left joins from that one to the other two
Skimming through Zorich, it looks like it's roughly at the level of an American honors freshman calculus class, i.e. one aimed at math and physics majors. Engineers are unlikely to see any rigorous analysis in undergrad unless they're personally interested in math.
Sir /u/b3nsn0w is courteous, `/nod`.
Now do Blue Peter and Shaun the Sheep.
Am I the only one that hates the "sign in with other_company" thing?

I hadn't thought of the issue of changing your primary email, but what always worried me was tying everything together to other_company in case my account was ever compromised, shut down, or the sign-in or even entire service is discontinued. I also don't like that I'm forced to consider the security scope -- how much am I granting this service access to? What does the scope it's requesting actually mean to my privacy/security?

I like when I go to a site and my password manager shows me the little "[1]" badge indicating I have an account, because I honestly wouldn't remember where I have accounts or what sign-in partner I previously used. It's especially neat when I stumble across something that seems new, but then realize I have an account that I created 8 years ago.

When I'm forced to use a sign-in partner, I learned to make a password manager entry that just says "use provider_name", but since I'm doing that anyway it doesn't save me any time at all.
> So enough teasing! What have astronomers observed that’s caused their jaws to drop?

Yes, please, enough. We didn’t need eleven paragraphs of it. If you know you’re doing it, please stop.

> JWST spotted galaxies scientists didn’t think should exist

Thank you. Wasn’t that hard, was it? Much further down:

> So … what explains these bright, large galaxies?

> In short: They don’t yet know.
I used to play a defunct Japanese online only pvp and pve mech game on a pirate Taiwanese server. With a big enough fan base anything is possible. I’ve personally never heard of The Crew but there are some old flash games I’ll never get to play again because they were served on an encrypted site but I think they’re obscure.
The footage from Ukraine is absolutely astonishing. This war is documented in such up close and personal ways, from above with drones, from soldiers POV with gopro like cameras. It's absolutely wild watching video on the internet taken form a battle, sometimes within 24 hours of it occurring.

Also interesting is how close these armor vs armor engagements are. A lot of modern doctrine seems to focus on distance but the videos from Ukraine show they're engaging in "drive by shooting" type ranges.
Duty of Care, additionally from an alternative perspective there are a number of laws covering the transmission of data that is intended to cause harm to another system.
> If people were paid fairly, most productions would be untenable.

A similar argument was used in favor of perpetuating slavery prior to the civil war.

> People just have to accept that means the industry will shrink dramatically. So many things will just never get made.

I've accepted that. Now let's pay people fairly for their time and skill.

> That also means far fewer people will get to become animators. They’ll have to find some other job as competition for the jobs that remain will be sky high.

The online independent animator community is thriving. If people create something that has appeal, they are able to at least partially subsist from subscriptions and donations. I contribute to several animators' Patreon accounts (though Patreon takes far too much out of it). If there isn't enough appeal, well... I'm sorry. Either everyone agrees to a fair wage based on these market conditions, independent efforts raise money through crowdsourcing, or... people find other ways to sustain themselves. That's just a healthy economy in action.
And the really neat part is that this compounds.
Have they been under the bulbs at the dentist?
It does feel like Bun is trying to do a lot. And when the company depends on VC funding I think it’s fair to question whether you want to rely on them for a core project functionality.
Fun idea, with a tinge of truth but ultimately isn’t accurate. Perfect fodder for likes.
Ok, valid point. Trade secret misappropriation is called theft sometimes.

I was thinking more of patents, copyrights, and trademarks.
Impersonate your voice.

Think of the old scam where someone texts you and says they're your granddaughter and they're stuck somewhere and need an urgent money transfer. In the old days the advice would be: call your granddaughter and have get confirm the story. But now with AI tech your granddaughter could call you up and deliver the scam in her own voice.
> The artifacts are a non-issue.

According to which authority?
Currently it's not legally defined what is stealing and what is fair use with respect to this, which is of course why k feel it is such a strong issue, however, poisoning data and intentionally masking it to hide said poisoning is rather blatantly illegal.

Rather clearly I think most people support individual IP protection and that's not really a contested issue, however what is fair use and where things fall in that gray area is where things do get dicey.
Because there are not many desirable traits. If people were really doing what they enjoyed, it would be fine, but the problem is that they often don't. I am thinking more about the video game industry, but I think there is a similar problem in animation and all other "fun" industry.

People who get in these industries often want to get paid for what they already do for fun, being doodling or coding small games. Or maybe they see the big projects like a popular anime or a game they loved and want to be part of it. But in many cases, what they only get is a repetitive, not very creative, and high pressure job, with all the fun sucked out of it. Which would be fine if the pay was worth it, but it isn't, and the prospects are not great either, because the really interesting positions are few compared to the grunt work.

Problem is that newcomers don't know that, or maybe hope they are special, and companies really play on that, schools too. What happens is that a few years later you get a bunch of guys that are completely drawn out, hopefully they find a better job elsewhere, to be replaced by a new batch of kids with a soon to be broken dream. Some are luckier and get the job they really wanted (it probably won't be you), and others are really unlucky because their skillset doesn't translate well to other industries and end up with burn out, depression and poverty.
First, there is no such thing as a "fair pay". All of it is driven by demand and supply, always, except when regulations or external factors somehow break things.

Second, of course increased costs of production lead to consequences for end users or people who buy the content. We see that all of the time in every industry.
I followed this person on Twitter when he first started gaining traction. His Tweets were always of the hot take variety, but he was a good source of the latest news and drama in the tech world.

I don’t recall seeing him for a while (maybe moved to a different platform for some time?) but his Tweets have been appearing again. I was surprised at how aggressively cynical he had become. Everything seems optimized for outrage and engagement, presumably after thousands of iterations of posting and seeing which content gets the most engagement. He’s definitely become very good at engagement, but the content has become uninteresting to me for the reasons you mentioned.

Of course, HN is a haven for this exact type of content where people share war stories and sneer at managers and business people and VCs and corporations. That’s probably why his Tweets are now showing up on my HN feed, despite HN being averse to Twitter threads.

It’s tough because there is a kernel of truth in this, but this has been so optimized for engagement bait that it’s hard to discuss the original topic in a meaningful way.
You were considered an enemy back then and rightfully so as your government would have sent their military to attack US and their allies. If you want to be mad at somebody then it should be Russians who forced your country into this situation.
> Startups tend to have 3 generations of employees

> 1. The 1st batch: A random mix of talented and mediocre people.

> 2. The pioneers: The nights and weekends crew who believe in the mission.

> 3. The settlers: The 9 to 5 crew who are attracted by the success the pioneers created.

Why do the pioneers come after the first "random mix"? My experience has been the opposite.
This is neo-georgism, no? I knew somebody always advocating for this while simultaneously resigned to the fact it wouldn't ever be pulled off (too much inertia in the status quo i guess) but i like it a lot better than "eat the rich"
> You can’t open up the database and find a given duplicate of a work. Instead you have some abstraction of what it takes to get to a given work.

So distributing a zip file of a copyrighted work subverts the copyright?
Kinda morbid thinking about all the failed mutations as laying eggs evolved into the placenta
Tell HN: Stop using "Sign in with <site>". Both DO and Replit let you sign up with a plain old email address. And with a password manager, it's equally convenient, still just one click to sign in.

Why would you rope in an unrelated point of failure to your relationships with online companies and give up sovereignty of your identity? It's only a matter of time before the leopards eat your face.
This article is so obsolete it’s actively painful every time it’s brought up.
> I'm only storing one half-move per position, specifically the current player's best move. I use that for the "Show hint" feature.

I think you are describing B = 1 case. When is the B != 1 case used then?

I also wonder why the reference board seems to have an obvious mistake (rooks in place of bishops). Again, I hardly know any chess, so that might be my oversight and that does improve the compression for this particular data set.
I remember someone here on HN said most if not all of the problems in this post have since been fixed. Is that actually true?
It is possible there are significant internal issues that became impossible to manage any longer unless fronting the need for a justified massive military offensive to distract the locals from something they were otherwise becoming preoccupied with. I do not foresee there being individuals who really hunger for acquisition of materials in that same way anymore as in the old days. These days, those energies are channeled almost entirely into acquiring as much valuable IP as possible and building the most bleeding edge platforms these days, which is usually good for the user/customer/consumer/investor/everyone. Fortunately, humanity's taste for that old type of aquisition has dwindled. I think the Internet and Democracy and the American Constitution have succeeded and some places that never wanted those things to succeed now need distractions at home so their populations don't start expecting the same types of possibilities or freedoms.

People noticed what changed during the pandemic and after and suddenly everyone is demanding the same type of lives and opportunities and freedoms that the free people of the West have, especially in the United States... so some places became less stable than others and needed to drum up nationalistic fervor to feign justification for a war in order to try to stymy the changing tides at home. It's like when Boris Yeltsin visited a supermarket in the USA and couldn't believe what he was experiencing here versus what he expected to experience based on what he was primed to believe, versus what he experienced in his own home...that story alone when he went back contributed a lot to the eventual downfall of the USSR when people learned the truth. I think what's happening right now except at a much larger and unavoidable scale because of smartphones and social media and more easy access to the open international web where everyone can see how the world works.
If you paid 100k in salaries and earned 100k in revenue, then you broke even, and no actual profit was made. Under the rules being discussed here, however, the 100k you spent in salaries has to be amortized over five years, meaning that even though you actually spent 100k this year, only 20k is deductible from this year's taxes. The IRS then taxes you on the 80k of "profit" you made, which doesn't actually exist, so you don't have the funds to pay the taxes, and your business becomes insolvent.

This is absolutely about taxes being charged against non-existent profit.
I use generative AI to rubber duck and help improve my code.

Am I no longer a software engineer?
A blog post that shows how we implemented Rust inspired error-handling at Flytrap to solve many problems of good error handling, and what open-source JS libraries we use to achieve this.
The -N flag tells hyperfine to not run it in a shell, which means it is not nested.
Precisely.

There is no city government, state/province. Just the parliament. PAP has had an overwhelming majority for Singapore's entire existence (helped by some rather dubious methods). If a law needs to be passed - it's passed. There is no real debate.

You need a police permit to protest in Singapore (except for Speaker's corner). Today, there is little culture of protest in Singapore. They've pretty much completely passed their reins of power to the government.

Singaporeans like to call the country Singapore Inc. And it's true. It's about as close to a business structure as one could imagine.
Probably a silly question, but as a non-academic, what's the barrier of entry for publishing these papers? I have many adjacent ideas and projects that never see the light of day outside of my personal lab/play space. This one is very similar to another I have been toying with.
This seems to be a common thing. We're an amalgamation of different viruses and bacteria that somehow over billions of years coalesced and evolved together into what we are now. I'm never not astounded when I think about it.
"Bullshit Jobs" is still pound for pound the most impactful concept I ever learned that explained viscerally to me why modern work makes so many people miserable.
> at current exchange rates

Looking at exchange rates is the wrong way of looking at things since they vary widely in the space of 5 years or so. You need to look at purchasing power in their local currency. Like eating out in japan is WAY cheaper than in Europe for anything comparable.

And looking at the bubble that is programmers salaries is ridiculous as a benchmark, because then it mostly depends on whether there are large actors to drive such salaries up in said countries.
Beavers. A swarm of beavers. You have no idea unless you've done actual combat.
thanks, I hadn't read that poem before, and it was a good one.
Party affiliation is self reported. You can be lifelong “independent” and vote straight ticket red/blue.