skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think HN has changed that much, but perceptions differ. Perceivers also change, though—especially over a longish time frame like a decade.

I can tell you for sure that we don't run HN to "pursue YC's existing investments". We're trying to optimize for intellectual curiosity [1] because that's the way to maximize HN's value for YC [2, 3]. The point is that it's in YC's business interests to run HN this way, and the argument holds no matter how cynical one wants to be about it.

HN is an interesting corner case in internet economics. If we tried to optimize it for existing investments (or worse, tried to squeeze money out of it directly), its value would go down, because that would make it less interesting to the community, and HN's value comes from the interest and quality of the community. Basically: the more one tried to make money out of HN, the less it would be worth. That's interesting, no?

I suppose you could say HN's value comes more from future investments, not existing ones. We can optimize HN for that by having it be as interesting as possible, so people want to continue to hang out here. (Btw, that phrase "as possible" is important. There are limits on how good or interesting a large public internet forum can ever get. But we can try.)

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

[3] There are a few exceptions to this, but they're secondary, and all explained in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
They're probably just making small talk, not seriously offering recommendations.
I wonder whether avo could have been useful here?[1] I mention it because it came up the last time we were talking about AVX operations in go.[2, 3]

1 = https://github.com/mmcloughlin/avo

2 = https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34465297

3 = https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/10hmh07/how_to_use_...
This usually refers to the billing model of the computation.

Serverless products usually are charging by # of invocations or CPU times, whereas "server-full" products charge you a multiply of "# of servers".
Battery is what prevents me from taking my 13 framework with me when traveling. I spend most of my time in pycharm, rebuild docker containers constantly, and have celery + postgres + redis running full tilt. The fan is running constantly, it's always burning hot, and the battery lasts under 2 hours (if I'm really lucky).

Previous generation Macbook running the same workload last for 6+ hours.

That said, for someone who isn't going to be running every core at 100% all the time, I'd still recommend it.

Edit: Oh, and under arch with the latest kernel, I find many monitors that cannot display video output over usb-c, like the Dell U4919DW.
In my experience, they are seriously enforced, though any time you have a large number of people you'll definitely find exceptions. The threat of massive fines and long jail times tends to encourage compliance. Also, many of the people who work in SCIFs know they are dealing with information that, if released, could lead to a number of people getting killed (think intelligence sources) or a country being unable to defend itself because a US weapon system was compromised (think Ukraine). Nation-states are working to extract information from SCIFs, it's not a theoretical problem, and SCIF users know this.
Another piece of reality is that sometimes people don't know how/what to look for in search engines, or they're so overwhelmed with work they don't have the time/patience to look for it, and they need the solution to be placed in front of them.

Those scenarios you mention could be venting off in their free time when they have the time to ruminate and think about their pains.
I hear what you're saying and you're right in that there is nuance. I normally will give a light glib comment about something and then wait to see if I get any back. If I do it's good fun and I'll do more but if I never do I know the person isn't ready or willing to engage on that level. I find that people usually use the "It's just a joke" line after saying straight up rude things rather than light remarks.

Additionally: what motivations does one have to ride a unicycle instead of a bicycle? I can only think of reduced storage space being a practical benefit.
8 weeks plus 2 weeks per year seems light. 4 weeks for every year sounds more fair. The interview process was over 8 weeks
It's like all those fake terror alarms in the post 9/11.

People now see ghosts everywhere. Some event happening somewhere in the world and extrapolate exponential doom.

At least with COVID it was hard to separate between exponential growth of the virus (which was always gonna happen) and exponential doom (which was a cognitive bias from those who saw the fatality rate in Wuhan and extrapoated it to the whole world)
Waymo is level 4. SAE calls out “local driverless taxi” as an example of level 4.

https://www.sae.org/blog/sae-j3016-update
> let’s first make one thing clear: dopamine does NOT generate pleasurable feelings. (In fact, it is the other way around – pleasurable feelings generate dopamine)
It's rather more than a tech demo already.

https://youtu.be/P6sw4EKegp4?si=Yafm5a-ufCGizumy
Analysis is fun, but any device with a microphone or camera represents a security risk for sensitive environments... Fropies.
Why not both? It’s iterative improvement, but also combining bits and pieces.
The SEC had a disclosure recently which had an effect on the bitcoin market. They turned off MFA and forgot to re-enable it supposedly as well as it was a sim swap attack.

The OPM data breach was bad. So much data on there about the individuals and a few degrees of association away from them. Every security question and answer are there.

I had 4 data breaches last year and one so far this year I just posted about today that I have no idea how they got my information (0). Mail was stolen by a petty theft and identity theft ring which called to try to get more out of me a couple years ago.

Freezing your credit is the best course of action. I don’t really worry about it much anymore.

(0) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39101272
Because it seems like, regardless of the announcement, there will always be someone who has the most niche issue with it and manages to make assertions for an entire group of people while only really referencing their personal experience ("and all of the people they know").
> But do layoffs ever solve systemic or structural problems?

Brex is a leveraged play on start-up fundraising. They're a fundamentally cyclical business.
Sunbathing in the Living Room: Oven Stoves and Heat Walls
I'm not convinced Apple is really working on a car. Maybe some related technology, maybe just doing R&D that might be applicable to cars, but not product. It doesn't help that Bloomberg (imo) favors stories that move markets rather than more realistic/correct ones.
It's not vanilla MIT but some kind of MIT + NDA.
Attorney. Build a system, work from anywhere, make your own schedule. Hard to outsource.
There's another big difference between Python and C (and I don't know how Ruby does it):

When a module is imported, the file is evaluated once, then stored in memory as a stateful object. Further imports of the same module, even from other files, reference the object in memory instead of evaluating the module again.

The dict used for this is accessible in sys.modules
It's in her power to appeal. Probably a really bad strategy for her party though.

As for payouts, they would be going forward now despite an appeal, but in acknowledgement of the appeal.

The emergency act had never been used before, it has to be an emergency. The act has an entire section about compensation to those whose's rights are violated. That goes forward now.
I did a testing here and it’s working now.
Indeed, that's a good point
There are already phishing websites which copy the look of the real website, and a user could easily mix the two up.
I'm talking about the contractors. Most of the rovers, orbiters etc which we think of when we think of NASA overperforming, like Curiosity, Spirit, Voyager, Cassini, were built by JPL, not Boeing, Lockmart or NG.
In a few decades, 3d printed metals and other long lasting materias might be accessible to hobbysts
Boeing has been owned by the public market for a long time?
Standard roads are probably the intent. Being pedantic is just moving goalposts.
Software determines whether good hardware succeeds or fails. China has yet to build successful software ecosystems on top of its hardware innovations.
Yeah honestly I just want my browser to be dark and not spam me with stuff when I open a new tab. I don't need some fancy picture.
A Tunguska event exploding over Moscow could even trigger the 'Perimeter' system without human intervention. And likely most of the missiles are pre-programmed with US targets...
Everyone is part of a leak already. It's hard to be bothered by these anymore.
For me (not the author) "local first" makes it clear that "on device" is a first-class citizen, and the server is an afterthought. "Offline-first" or "server free" sounds much more limiting, like it will be able to limp when offline, but really wants to connect to a server eventually.

I also (personally) don't like "serverfree" because servers are good - they're not the problem! It's the "servers you don't and can't control" cloud dependencies that are the issue.
Bombardier sold all non-bizjet businesses over the last few years.

This included the CSeries which became the Airbus A220, the primary competition for the 737 MAX-7
That'd still be a bit too tolerant for my tastes. It should have some kind of reinforcement signal that's stronger than just preventing the code from compiling. Some kind of shock therapy to help users learn and internalize things might be more appropriate here.
Fwiw Kauffman has a very interesting stance on consciousness that he is hinting at here. Consider this recent paper [1] or interview [0] where he explains his thinking. Cool to see a respected scientist exploring areas that were previously looked down as quackery by academia.

0. https://youtu.be/XWbxdREQ6xM?si=t2-AywFf2cnQfAni

1. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03032...
it's the company's policy that should enforce automatic screen locks, not relying on an error prone human
> But you do seem to have a foot in this.

lol, actually read my comment and re-evaluate that statement :)
> If privacy is important to you, prepaid debit cards are not a bad option.

Agreed it's an option, but why bother adding a level of indirection and extra effort, I'd rather just pay cash.
"Against" is a pretty clear winner at this point. The chances of a level 5 self driving car being available for purchase in the next six years are ~0.
Any plans by you, or others, to make an extra rugged case (and hinge) for the laptop?
Right, I'm using the memory chip as strong evidence to argue that the R1 cannot be an ordinary GPU.
active vs passive, it makes sense to me that they would only be symmetric if the active side (heating) was done at a lower threshold than the upper threshold for cooling.

But it makes sense as to why heating would potentially be faster than cooling.
I’d assume Apple will treat it as a service. They own the cars. You pay for the rides.
Sure, but it's an incredible amount of work to change the year numbering, and it's easy to change the word we use for the calendar.

The French revolutionaries tried it, and they discovered that no matter how much people agree with the idea and want to switch in theory, it's really, really hard to do.

Mind you, the French Republican calendar was a LOT of changes, all at once. First, they started counting over at year 1.

That'd be a big enough change, but they also decided to use a calendar with 12 months with nice secular, names, each with 3 weeks, where a week had ten days with nice, secular names (plus some extra days on the end of the year as needed).

That'd be a huge change, but they also decided to switch to the decimal system, so a day would have exactly 10 hours of 100 minutes each. And that turned out to just be way too much, and the whole thing fell over.

Anyway, that's kind of tangential to your point, but I just like thinking about the French Republican calendar. I hope you have a happy 4th of Pluviôse, Ere Républicain 232.
I won't ever give my moka up. A lot of value for the bucks I spent.
Long life span, almost zero maintenance hassles and costs. And good coffee too.

P.S. I am southern Italian.
This is a theory that keeps coming up on the internet. However, roman dodecahedra predate knitting by almost a thousand years. The earliest known knitting was from the 11th century (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knitting#History_and_culture), while the earliest dodecahedra are from the 2nd century (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_dodecahedron#History)
I love Pocketbase + SvelteKit.
Local LLM, tts,stt and embedding runing on Mac M1
Hello, does anyone know of any simple setup to use a good text to speech , speech to text and mistral 7 b along with a good embedding model.
Relying on regexes instead of thoroughly tested parser AST's encourages vulnerabilities.

Are they really scraping logs for credentials instead of using an API?
> except in the case of natural disasters or emergencies

Whatever a human driver with a non-commerical license does on a day to day basis is a good measuring stick.
Could you give us examples of NASA contractor projects that have these problems?
I agree that "changes the generated binary" and "displays information to the user" are separate use cases, but the compiler already does both. There's even a compiler error for unused imports and variables.

Doesn't seem far-fetched to ask for the compiler to warn on unused types/functions too.
Musk lashes out at Biden administration over rural broadband
> if BYD doesn't get there first

I mean, BYD is already there. It's mostly a question of tariffs vs subsidies at a geopolitical level now.
i wish i was a little bit taller i wish i was a baller
in principle yes, i agree but one aspect the desktop apps lose, the distribution model. it's way easier to just say "go to this link" and the app is running (no install step, no central store, no "code signing").
The proper term for that is "shared hosting". Serverless is just technobabble.
Right. The whole email thread seems very reasonable to me. TFA characterizing this as "freaking out" is nonsense.
To be fair, everyone is laying off. Whatever paid peanuts or millions. Hopefully, the devs who got the bigger piece of the cake stashed some under the mattress.
He also tried (is trying?) rockets.
implicit in my responses is an assumption that you've worked extensively with jquery so you understand the syntax and how it's functional.

If you don't the only response I can have is to go learn it.

This isn't about functional being better, it's about functional being more fluid to use in javascript.
what prevents any company from releasing their code under MIT and then adding a shrinkwrap EULA that prevents looking at the code or modifying it? The license wouldn't mean anything.

This has been an intentional feature of MIT/BSD licenses all along. Tons of proprietary products are built on MIT/BSD code.
The issue with Fluorinert is not toxicity but a very high global warming potential.
Samsung still makes a phone like that. The Galaxy XCover6 Pro.

https://www.samsung.com/us/business/mobile/phones/galaxy-xco...
Following the same logic, we also have plenty of examples of how US is (not) worried about democracy, free trade and attacks against civil targets. And therefore, we can dismiss its statements about these issues. No problem, it's a tie. Therefore, what remains to discuss is just how legitimate is the stated purpose of Houthi's attacks that is claimed to uphold article 1 from Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide from UN. According with that convention, which is signed by Yemen, their members must act to prevent genocide whenever it is happening, either during war or peace. A blockade is indeed a way to act against this crime.
> Also can't find code which is masked behind interfaces

Is this not the Greeter interface example from the OP? The example finds an unused variant of an interface and all code only invoked by said unused implementations and marks all of it as deadcode.
I have used SVB in the past as well, for my first startup. They were solidly OK. This is still an area ripe for disruption IMO, old Brex filled the niche but for some reason we just can't do payments and banking correctly in the US. India has UPI for instance, and even foreigners can avail themselves of this facility.
Related, lately I have been enthralled with the work of Michael Levin at Tufts. He studies things like goal directed behavior of cells and systems of cells. Here is an intro to his work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3lsYlod5OU
So is this basiclly a fully peer-to-peer application, like bittorrent clients?

Or something like bisq (https://bisq.network) when the program runs locally peer to peer and hosts all user data locally, but still pings oracle servers for outside market price data?
Is there some relevance in the comparison to ramp.com or were you just mentioning it as an example?
> I remember that it required me to restart whenever I opened a new tab, or I wouldn't be able to use that tab. Anything in already opened tabs still worked.

That might have been the case. I almost invariably open every link in a new tab, so for my use case it would have felt the same as nothing working.
It’s extremely hard. I’ve tried to get my released games into the Switch and am rejected because I don’t have a team with console launch experience. Nintendo asks for team member resumes etc.

Of course at the same time they have tons of junk in the store. It turns out the trick is to just use a publisher.
Would also love to discuss if you think AIs Can Develop Their Own Personalities? Thank you!
The larger companies get the more systems they have in place forcing specific processes to be followed. It’s often mind numbing, but it does serve a purpose.

It’s just hard for me to believe.
Really it needs to scan my coworkers commits as well. Can't be too careful.
The holes in them are of different sizes.
Roman dodecahedra predate knitting by almost a thousand years. The earliest known knitting was from the 11th century (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knitting#History_and_culture), while the earliest dodecahedra are from the 2nd century (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_dodecahedron#History)
Do kids actually die from biking without a helmet? I've never met one.
I don't understand why you'd need drone footage to do this. If the purpose of the drone is to give you live footage of the race to update your bet, wouldn't a cell phone let you do the same thing from a seat in the stands? Obviously not, and I'm missing something, but I didn't get it from the article. Is it that he's making money by providing an alternate feed of the race to other gamblers, not from placing bets himself?
Yes but LLCs are usually easier/less paperwork if you're starting a new company or doing what the linked commenter described.
I wonder how this will play out in practice. Their reasons to ditch Boeing are valid. Airbus though has a decade long backlog for the A32x series. How are they going to get that many in time?
If you need a computer it’s better to use a mini pc form factor from a major vendor that benefits from economies of scale. NUC’s aren’t great value. You can get used HP and Dell stuff used from IT recyclers for ~$150 that do circles around the Pi in terms of performance.

I never understood the fascination with the Pi. Especially with all the options today.
No, it's like saying you the employee are a separate entity from the company you work for. To say that Boeing is increasing profits suggests that they are raising prices, doing more business, and/or cutting costs. The article linked by the person you're replying to posits that airlines are actively weakening their own financial positions to increase leverage for shareholders, which is a different thing.
> _everybody_ drives huge SUVs. A few rugged men(TM) driving a large truck isn't the problem, they're couleur locale. It'd be adorable, like people wearing cowboy hats in Texas.

Roughly 18% of the light vehicles sold in the US in 2023 were pickup trucks. The top 3 selling models in the US were pickup trucks. Yes there were about 3x as many SUVs sold[1] as pickups, but pickups aren't nothing.

1: I partitioned the "light truck" class into just pickups and SUVs; 78% of cars sold in 2023 were classified as "light trucks" per [2]; I got the 18% figure for pickups by totaling the sales of the 8 most popular pickup models by hand and dividing by 14.9M

2: https://carsurance.net/insights/car-sales-statistics/
For a console game you'd have to pay a 10-20% title fee and then the retailer also takes 30-40%.
ASP.NET Core + HotChocolate GraphQL for backend, blazor for internal tools frontend, and react for web frontend
A guide to open source for the social sector
He actually wrote the Netflix VR app for Oculus, and wrote a really detailed post on it: https://netflixtechblog.com/john-carmack-on-developing-the-n...

VR is not _at all_ outside his domain expertise.
Every year, loads of kids die because a family member runs over them by accident in the driveway, a parking lot etc. With these huge cars, you don't properly see around them, and 360 cameras and sensors will not make up for all of that.

So yeah, "safety".
Running "smart" LLMs locally takes a lot of RAM, a lot of compute, and a lot of disk space.

It produces a considerable amount of heat unless it's run on an NPU, which basically doesn't happen on desktops at the moment.

Hot loading/unloading it can be slow even on an SSD.

Users often multitask with chrome in the background, and I think many would be very displeased to find Chrome bogging down their computer for reasons they may not be aware of.

Theoretically Google could run a very small (less than 2B?) LLM with very fast quantization, and maybe even work out how to use desktop NPUs, but that would be one heck of an engineering feat to deploy on the scale of Chrome.
The book cover does appear to feature an anthropomorphic shrimp.
Doesn't need to be "AI" despite the bill's name (link to page that has link to draft of the bill):
http://salazar.house.gov/media/press-releases/salazar-introd...

(a) DEFINITIONS.-In this Act:

[...]

(2) The term "digital depiction" means a replica, imitation, or approximation of the likeness of an individual that is created or altered in whole or in part using digital technology.

[...]

(4) The term "digital voice replica" means an audio rendering that is created in whole or in part using digital technology and is fixed in a sound recording or audiovisual work which includes replications, imitations, or approximations of an individual that the individual did not actually perform.

[...]

(7) The term "digital technology" means a technology or device now known or hearafter created such as computer software, artificial intelligence, machine learning, quantum computing, or other similar technologies or devices.
I seriously doubt Apple is working on an actual car. More likely, they're working on car tech and that's all - trying to make OTS tech so companies that actually manufacture cars don't have to. Imagine 30% of every car sold - 15% if they can sell subs to the consumer.
If they are managed devices (which I hope they are at a fintech company), it should be trivial to remote wipe them before removing MDM from them to enable personal use/resale etc.
Instructions unclear. Toddler still not speaking clearly, but appears upset.
Everyone wants a better horse buggy, thats why you dont listen to clients.
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