skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not the OP, but I recognize this kind of situation from my own frustrations at bigcorps:

There are probably

1) many legacy systems with slightly different definitions of opted out, which may be out of sync with each other, forcing the developer to figure out an algorithm for what to decide in the many edge cases, forcing the dev to gather more requirements from many different stakeholders who did not anticipate this

2) many organizatioal owners for all these involved systems and for pieces of the logic and it's consequences, all of whom have different corporate priorities and incentives and calendar schedules

The result is a trivial thing becomes a jungle of scheduled meetings to gain access to the appropriate systems and to make decisions about each edge case, and ultimately go further up the change to reconcile incompatible opinions about how edge cases should be handled
> We should also be restricting immigration, except for applicable spots of vital need until we can get our healthcare (and housing) situation under control.

Some would say the demographic bomb of our aging population means immigration at these levels is fulfilling a vital need.
Macintosh 40th Anniversary event [video]
David Pogue moderates. Hear insider stories of the Mac and Apple’s early days from key members of the original hardware, software, design, and marketing/PR teams, including Bill Atkinson, Steve Capps, Andy Cunningham, Andy Hertzfeld, Bruce Horn, Susan Kare, Dan’l Lewin, and Mike Murray, plus learn about the impact of the Mac from insiders and experts including Chris Espinosa, Guy Kawasaki, Steven Levy, and David Pogue.

More info on the event: https://computerhistory.org/events/insanely-great/
People love the “BDFL” model. This is what they deserve.
That looks like a super different process for entirely different applications.
I don’t disagree - it’s just I don’t think you’re paying for what you think you are paying for.

A world renowned research university- let’s call it Barvard, hires brilliant researchers who invent amazing technologies and win prizes. That’s great. And the richest people on the planet try send their kids there. I mean the small airfield next to Barvard is solid with private Lear jets at every commencement ceremony weekend. And that’s what is being paid for. Some bright kids will get scholarships. But Barvard is only affordable to people who also have Lear jets because people who have Lear jets want their kids to go to university with kids of other people who have Lear jets. So the prices get jacked up so much because there are only so many places.

The point of elite university is to give elites access to each other.

Fund universities as we fund schools. Remove charity status. And require research universities and Ivy League to never allow students from the top 1% of wealth.
That’s the difference between a plain old tax credit and a “refundable” tax credit.
Would Firefox OS have a difficult task in securing a 7nm production run of processors from TSMC (or Samsung, or even SMIC in smaller quantity) to be assembled by Foxconn?

China domestic devices use Android without Play, and iOS is now discouraged for government workers.

Is the bar for Firefox OS still quite so high?
1 year ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32465615

4 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22072494

3 years ago (related link to Wikipedia page):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27045463

10 months ago about warm liquid from the fault:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35559145
i got one as a gift and i can't get it to work because of the terrible account system. pure e-waste!
at least it wasn't

from transformers import
Gitlab upgrades, omg that was a nightmare, so many broken upgrades, there are literally thousands of issues on their issue tracker only about problems with upgrades.
> Just because you don't like your choices doesn't mean you don't have one

But I don't have a choice - how am I supposed to make my JIT-based/IOKit-using/Kernel-mode/Launchpad-extending app available to (informed) potential users?
This is the version of Topaz that came with KS (Kickstart) version 1.x. Commodore revised the font for KS 2.x: https://csdb.dk/gfx/releases/121000/121035.png
Glad it help! If you find any other bump don't hesitate to ask in the Discord server - https://discord.com/invite/QewZMZa

The guys there enjoy being helpful.
Thanks, comparing positional encodings, MoEs, kv-caches etc are all good topics that I have in mind for either supplementary material and/or a follow-up book. The reason why it probably won't land in this current book is the length and time line. It's already going to be a big book as it is (400-500 pages). And I also want to be a bit mindful of the planned release date. However, these are indeed good suggestions.
Casino Royale was mentioned, so no.
Thanks for your support, I hope you'll get something useful out of this book!
We already pay them an annual fee, buy a bunch of hardware to test on, and pay to send people to their App Store where they sell ads on our trademarked names.

On the flip side, when’s the last time you’re seen a successful computing platform without 3rd party software?

Simply put, this should be a mutually beneficial relationship like it is on Mac and windows…but Apple and Google are trying to change the code of conduct for mobile so they can not only take their piece, but ours too.

Should you also have to pay each telco a fee to make your phone number reachable? Should Comcast be allowed to block traffic if you don’t pay them a toll?
> "let's create a brand new service where we will keep everything clean

This is maybe the core delusion here.

Somehow people think that the next project they start from scratch will have clean well factored code, even though empirically all their previous projects have not.
The whole startup ecosystem that normally trends on here is substantially less interesting than it used to be now that interest rates are above zero (and the section 174 tax changes are definitely not helping). Layoffs are another symptom of the same root cause—in the absence of a thriving startup ecosystem neat tech can surface to the top again, not because people have more free time after layoffs, but because there's not much else to talk about.
It’s incredible how the markets where the government intervenes the most - housing, medicine, education - are also those with the most dysfunction, scandals, cost growth, lack of accountability, and on and on. Yet many think, “We just need a few more laws and tax dollars, and this time it will be fixed for sure!”
They choose and often swap shells.

Who knows, this could just be a fad. The more conservative crabs probably mock these youngsters for their flashy colors, even though human offcast glass and aluminum are probably lighter, stronger, objectively better for the purpose the crabs have.

The old ways, living in the corpses of your neighbors, were better.
That happens pretty regularly anyway, e.g. `example.com` vs. `example.co/m` or `example.net` vs. `example.ne/t` (and both `.co` and `.ne` allow SLD registrations).
O1 visa is the Einstein visa. Also Albert Einstein would have likely failed to obtain one for number of reasons.
So you think Apple will go broke if they have to compete with sideloaded apps?

Keep in mind, we already pay them for dev tools each year, just like how we pay Microsof for visual studio.
Waiting for upcoming news about Monsanto spinning off the Roundup division into a new company that suddenly files for bankruptcy.
ah, the joys of dutch cuisine!
"What's damaging?" I'm having a really hard time following HN rules and assuming this statement has been made in good faith. That's going to come through. Sorry, but not that sorry.

Women are regularly at risk of being fired from their jobs for the mere accusation of doing sex acts for pay. How would they convince anybody that they're fake without victimizing themselves further?

How will children - young girls who are already at risk of suicide due to body image issues - convince their bullies that the dozens of photos generated of them are fake?

Convincing AI images can be produced and distributed at volume by anyone with a cell phone. Any statement that this is no different from an artist painting a nude is disingenuous at best.
If the state evolution:

(a) is deterministic

(b) depends only on the current state, and

(c) can only occupy a finite number of states

then it will loop.

Pi digits do not satisfy this because while the digit space is finite (10), the next digit depends on more than just the prior digit.

Related (but not the same): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poincaré_recurrence_theorem
"new SIM" and "transfer SIM" are pretty different situations.
FWIW I was previously using a host that at ~$24 was providing 8gb RAM which sounded okay, but that resulted in lots of lag, rubber-banding, and resulted in OOM errors roughly every 2-3 hours that brought the server down.

I put about an hour into setting up something off of my own machine which has memory to spare and the server has been running for ~5 days excluding the rare points where I intentionally brought the server down to change settings.

EDIT: I had to do roughly the same amount of "server management" in both cases but with the host I had to use their (not really intuitive or friendly) UI whereas with my machine I get my terminal. The host had some niceties for handling really simple things (server name, server password) but if you wanted to do anything they didn't cover (egg hatch rate, building deterioration rate, etc) you would have to edit configuration files... just with their tooling.
Crap, this thread revealed to me that the developer of Giac/Xcas basically gave up on using git altogether due to its complexity/poor workflow. I'm profoundly annoyed that the worse DVCS won, became a monopoly, and that a whole generation which hasn't seen better just accepts its quirks without a second thought.
> provided you take steps to make sure no one other than you is harmed by your decisions.

Well there's the rub, isn't it?

What goes up must come down and the chance of the latter happening uncontrolled is a lot higher with engines outside their maintenance window.

Better hope it's not your house it crashes down on :)

The chance is pretty low yes but that's exactly because of all these regulations and maintenance overhauls.
The first rolling-ball mouse: Telefunken's RKS 100-86
I'm not a bitcoin or gold advocate, but I do think that the end of Bretton-Woods was a disaster.

It didn't have anything to do with gold, but with the fixed international exchange rates of national currencies. These were only allowed to be changed by an agreement from the commitee:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system#Fixed_exc...

To me it seems, that having a market driven currency exchange rate creates something like a double pendulum chaotic effect. With both the values of goods and services driven by a market that is also driving the values of the underlying currencies...
I wish the OS wasn't so tightly coupled with the hardware. Mozilla shouldn't need to secure a 7nm production run of processors and produce a whole device. I should be able to grab a phone that I like and install an OS that I like. I think that we have been robbed of so many possibilities.

Perhaps we are slowly getting there. Historically, phones were never used in this way nor were they expensive or powerful enough for users to demand it.
This isn't a new discovery by any means. Hermit crabs will take any home they can fit their butt in to prevent getting eaten. They prefer real shells but there's often a limited supply. If anything the trash is supporting a larger hermit crab population.
On that note, I have a relative comprehensive intro to PyTorch in the Appendix (~40 pages) that go over automatic differentiation etc.

The alternative, if you want to build something truly from scratch, would be to implement everything in CUDA, but that would not be a very accessible book.
H1Bs are limited in number only 64K and they are assinged by lottery as around 300K people apply for them. Also you need to start applying in January and you can come only in October. Escorts often need much faster recruitment and short contracts.

H1Bs are used by people from what establishment sees as "undesirable" people such as Indians and Chinese and hence there is far too much red tape and confusion there. Senators and Us Reps aren't going to take their route for their side chicks.
A Gameboy Emulator Written in C3
Related :

The pro-Israel information war - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38572675

Israeli group claims it’s using back channels to censor “inflammatory” content - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38941719
The charts are reflecting bleeding edge industry results .. some may yet fail repeatable verification.

The 500wh/kg figures come from at least two companies nine months ago - one might be a US arm of the other:

https://www.catl.com/en/news/6015.html

https://amprius.com/the-all-new-amprius-500-wh-kg-battery-pl...

Both have asserted idependant verification.

High energy density isn't the only desirable goal of course. Really cheap, bulk storage, hard to damage, with long lifetime and many recharge cycle batteries are good for grids even if they're too heavy for the mobile | car market.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanadium_redox_battery

,for example, have a promising future in not { car | phone } applications.
This is so ridiculous, the science points to the fact that the claim that it causes cancer is not true... I really don't like the american justice system.
We literally live next to coal plants that put chemicals in the air 24/7 that are certainly certainly causing cancer for people later...

You can find studies showing certain meats are correlated with cancer, can we sue the grocery stores?
It is a nice idea, but just looking at some basic stats [0] I'd be a little surprised if it ever gets up and running. Let alone finished. Nuclear technology isn't really something a western country can handle under the current regulatory environment. At this point, the only real hope is in Asia. The west seems to be committed to an ongoing (if you check the energy availability stats) program of deindustrialisation.

[0] https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-an...
oh, haha - I thought that was your abbreviation

agreed. that's pretty "lazy"
Leaked Google Memo Shows Aimless Execs Basically Worshiping AI
Sounds like a dumb conjecture, how do you explain reading and talking on the phone then?
Likely due to regulations, fcc, certification costs, etc.
Martin Shrkeli - remember him? - was convicted of securities fraud for running a ponzi scheme. He faked it until he maked and nobody actually lost money but he still spent 7 years in jail.
Same. I love my Hybrid HR. I really don't want a screen on my wrist, and I like traditional watches, so this was a great middle ground to get some smart functionality.

All other alternatives are too gaudy, bulky and techy. Guess I'll have to keep looking. ...Based on the discussion here, the Garmin Vivomove series looks interesting...
Zillenial crabs making fun of all their boomer predecessors stuck in the old ways. Corpse shells doesn't even have wifi.
Taiwan's election and its potential impact on East Asian politics
I'd say Chapter 1 would be the high-level intro to transformers and how they relate to LLMs.
Penne is the best, it’s very similar, you scoop the sauce inside it
Here's a 3D Minecraft clone I was working on for this calculator: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1135251023435415633...
mmmm. so, like, we've had deep fakes for half a decade.
> Gitlab is both open source and has an on-prem product, so my guess is that you're simply hearing about more of the Gitlab bugs than you would with a comparably sized competitor.

It seems you might not be using their on-premises product, considering your guesswork. We used it for years and it was a nightmare. Almost every upgrade was problematic, and we often had to scour through GitLab issues to find solutions from other users. These solutions were often makeshift and carried the risk of causing further issues. Their salaries are below market rate, which reflects in the quality of staff they hire (there are few exceptions). I prefer not to point fingers, so I won't link to any specific discussions from GitLab. It's worth noting that they have a culture of open discussion, and from what I've observed, the engineering quality in some of the teams was quite low. We utilize numerous other large scale open source projects in our stack and have never encountered as many problems as we did with GitLab.
Several years ago, we didn't have remote working tools neither we had remote working cultural norms. All of those were forcibly established during the pandemic. So now is a different time for offshoring. I am seeing a lot of companies having headcount outside the US these days. If remote work works, then why even bother paying someone in the US?
Only if you have battery storage.
Nice. I worked at Commodore and was responsible (ish) for the new Topaz for OS 2.0. We had been told to replace Topaz with a sans-serif font, and we replaced it with a font originally called "Clear" that was on one of the Fred Fish disks.

There was a big argument over the lower-case L. It has a rightward curl at the base even though it's sans-serif. This is widely seen now, but we had a lot of pushback at the time.

Topaz shipped in an 8-point and 9-point version. As I mentioned, we used Clear, maybe with a few mods (ampersand maybe), but that only existed in 8-point. I drew Topaz 9 sans-serif by starting with Topaz 9, and shaving off the serifs, and making minor tweaks.
The ETA for the last chapter is August if things continue to go well. It's usually available in the MEAP a few weeks after that, some time in September. And print version should be available early 2025 I think.
I don't know a ton about metal internal structures but I would assume that the properties of the printed product will be lesser than if it was made from extrusion or some other process? I think there's something about crystalline structure and the speed of the transition from liquid to solid. Would love to know someone else's informed guess on this.
Are you saying that every firewall misconfiguration that exposes any one host to the public Internet necessarily exposes control over the router configuration to the public Internet? I don't see how that follows.
You can't both say "how will a woman convince someone images of her are fake" and "fake images can be generated at scale by anyone with a mobile phone".

If anyone can produce fake nudes of anyone else with one click, why would any of them be believed? If I didn't want my nudes to have power, I'd flood the world with fake ones.
Sounds like a couple of people decided to take an extended gap year, and then came back more focused and in a better place for the number crunching
If you aren't particularly discerning, why would you greatly enjoy spending so much more money for what you basically consider equal to cheaper pasta?
The BBC Master had an even funkier mode. The RAM bank accessed could depend on the current program counter.

Imagine a video display taking 16K of RAM. This would be situated between addresses 0x4000 and 0x8000. This same memory range also included non-video RAM. The hardware transparently selected the video or non-video RAM depending on which code was accessing it.

Specifically, if the program counter was at 0xC000 or above (i.e. code in the OS ROM was running) then accesses to the video range would go to the video RAM. But if the program counter was elsewhere (i.e. running user code or an application ROM) then accesses to the video range would go to user RAM, not video RAM.

Additionally, there was a hardware register controlling this so that user code could choose to directly access the video RAM, and OS code could access the user RAM.
What guesswork? I use Github. My point is that you don't hear about most vulnerabilities in SAAS products, because there is no norm of disclosing them. BUt disclosure is unavoidable for open source on-prem products.
There’s only one real language … JavaScript.
Every single time.
The code base is what it is because of the business requirements, management, priorities and timescales demanded.

Any new system will end up in the same place very quickly.

Sometimes I've even seen management in on the delusion and promising "this time is different" to the devs.
There is going to be such a glut in a few years and a lot of this is going to close down. And I'm not just talking about the US. Basically every major country has announced major subsidies recently from India to Korea to Italy to the UK.
Thanks for the support! There's the official Manning Forum for the book, but you are also welcome to use the Discussions page on the GitHub page.
Ask HN: Do you need a web framework for a startup landing page?
Context: idea validation/prototype.

Could I just use htmx to do my prototype?

I want to code as less as possible and avoid no-code.
No unit in an army fights alone; combined arms warfare is the key.
Speaking of freight, I'm kinda surprised these A380s aren't getting converted to freighters. The demand for air freight seems to be huge and cabin costs can be omitted. Also the handling is easier because you don't need all the air bridges.
I ported the Numworks firmware to the CG50, though it runs from the existing OS

https://www.cemetech.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19114
This is correct, thank you for clarifying! The information was relayed from an intoxicated man to an even more intoxicated man, so I didn't get quite all of it. Time to get reading!
On one hand, this is unfortunate since X always directs me to a login page, and Nitter was the only way I could view whatever gets posted nowadays. On the other hand, the cynical side of me is thankful that I have no more desirable means to see the contents of posts on X.

Edit: a similar thing happened with Reddit and Teddit(?). API restrictions effectively killed alternative frontends, so I simply don't look at Reddit posts anymore. I am aware of old.reddit.com, but in the case of Reddit I preferred the alternative frontends not only for no-JS compatibility, but also a (possibly false) sense of privacy
Zoom also does not require an account nor does it require installing their software, although they try to hide that feature.
I think this is like third? fourth? time I've been thru it..
God knows how many times in my career I've been told programmers were all gonna be replaced (Hell, COBOL was IBM's ploy to make programming an 'entry level' job!). First AI craze I remember was reported in Doctor Dobbs in the '80s - first no-code craze was what - about 2000 ? And DBase/Clipper predated that. I remember layoffs in the 80s, the dot com bust, the 2008 crash....

It always comes back, fact is - there's not enough geeks to go around - and 10K boomers/day are projected to retire for the next 7 years.

I'm currently just _starting_ to look for work after 6 months off, as I think its gonna start ramping back up in the next couple of months. I'm seeing plenty of openings, though I'll admit lots of them sound fairly boring. Still seeing a lot of non-AI jobs that pay well being offered (I'm in cloud infrastructure mostly). So I'm actually optimistic - and dam near everything is remote, which is a nice improvement over the last 20 years (I started WFH around 2000..)

Talk of Unionizing tech has gone on for 30+ years as well... Don't really think it'll happen now.
Agreed. My use of windows dies with Windows 10. My next gaming PC will be Linux and I will deal with not all games working. My steam deck proved this is 100% viable.