skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Am CRO/COO of a hedge fund where a good friend is the CIO/CEO.

Was definitely straining, as he never handled the actual business side of running a hedge fund and only cared about raising money/trading. The biggest screaming match was when I had to explain to him that even if we did 30% a year for the first 2 years straight we would not see institutional(insurance, retirement scheme, etc) investors until Y4-Y5 simply because of the difference in requirements from wealthy individuals.
That is his bottom line, but not a TLDR. He writes in detail about his experience owning a Tesla for years and lists many reasons he doesn’t like about it, besides positive experiences.
> That’s just the nature of western capitalism.

I'm also an Australian, and I think rgmerk is bang on. It's not the nature of all capitalism - just the USA style of it, and only in some instances. It seems to arise from the USA's love affair with free markets, or perhaps distrust of governments. They are two sides of the same coin, because distrust of government means they don't trust them to put the rules in place require to create competitive markets.

For clarity, not all markets are equal. A monopoly is a kind of market for instance, but it's one that favours the suppliers. As other comments here have pointed out, some markets can self-destruct. A personal example is I refused to purchase SD Cards off suppliers like Ebay because fraud was so rampant, and it was impossible to figure which sellers were genuine. Later, SD Cards disappear from Ebay from a while - ie the market collapsed. I bought my SD Cards from stores instead, so that market (for an identical good) worked fine.

A competitive market is one where there are lots of buyers, lots of sellers, free flow of information - in general no power imbalances. They are surprisingly fragile. Government intervention is often required to create them. An example of such in intervention is the EU changing the rules for software, effectively saying software must do what it promises on the side of the box. (Currently software typically has shrink wrap licences that disclaim all liability if it doesn't work.)

In typical fashion, a lot of what appeared to be USA posters here decried the the unnecessary impost on business, and promptly predicted all software producers would move their operations to the USA. Perhaps they will, but businesses can't survive without customers and it's just as likely the customers will doing their purchasing in the EU when they can.
MicroSaaS: The Lean Startup Model Redefined?
HN community, as we pivot towards leaner business models, I'm exploring the rise of MicroSaaS as a strategy for solo founders to build profitable, niche-focused software services. It's a path less traveled, avoiding the traditional VC route, yet it seems to promise sustainability and independence. Has anyone here ventured into MicroSaaS? What are your thoughts on its scalability and long-term viability in a market dominated by well-funded SaaS giants?
Do I understand correctly that you worked there for six months for no pay? No wonder he doesn't bear you ill will, he took advantage of you.
A typo killed a 124 year old family business
How a mistake made by Companies House, a UK government agency responsible for registering companies, killed the 124-year old Welsh engineering firm Taylor & Sons Ltd. This led to Taylor & Sons' business evaporating as orders were cancelled and credit withdrawn due to believing the company had ceased operations.
It's so meta.

It reminds me of Frank Abagnale
Huh? Which ones? I also use Firefox Mobile and they all seem to work.
Teletext is great. It's highly curated and you can read all the pages in the morning in a few minutes. It's part of my coffee and morning routine.
I take your point about feelings of communion being a kind of self-preservation, but I think it is taking it too far to extrapolate competition into that realm. That's per definition not self-transcendence according to how it is described in the article.
broadway (discussed in other comments) + carbonyl is kind of similar https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl

https://i.imgur.com/pIQ4K7Q.png
I remember when TVs had special features regarding teletext, like some sort of page cache where you didn't need to wait for pages to load. Weirdly enough, contemporary TVs don't do this, despite memory and parallel processing power for this not being an issue. Or maybe I'm just remembering this as working better than it did…

If your TV/VCR had this and ShowView/VCR Plus, you were riding the knife edge of the future…
"and if at all possible keep them off the public internet", this is the way. I would recommend going beyond a VPN to implement zero trust networking which does outbound-only connections so that its impossible to be subject to external network attacks. Tailscale does part of that, other exist, such as the open source project I work on - https://github.com/openziti
I would honestly rather not make any user's Chrome experience better than Firefox given the curtent marketshares. It would not feel ethical to me to partake in helping Google seize more power on browsers.
Haskell is over 30 years old and I don't know if it really was a major leap over SML.

Rust is basically an ML with a borrow checker, it's cool but not really a major leap in power over C++ (maybe a leap in freedom from bugs).

What does Zig do that's so revolutionary? Custom allocators are nothing new. And compile-time evaluation has been around so long some of us forgot we had it. Also Zig is working to step off LLVM.
I Just Wanted Emacs to Look Nice – Using 24-Bit Color in Terminals
You're talking about minimum lengths, not discrete spacetime.

It may be the case that there's a minimum length beyond which "no meaningful laws of physics apply", but it really says nothing about whether real numbers are indispensable in the formulation of physics, or about whether spacetime is continuous.

There being a minimum length doesnt mean that everything is a discrete multiple of this length, or that space is broken into units of it, or that objects have to be aligned on grid boundaries defined by it.

Whenever people try to do philosophy of physics the inevitable place everyone lands at is a series of false equivocations, often caused by the language of physics being ambiguous and polysemous. But "minimum length" here does not mean a sort of grid length.
Yes, it is only machine learning. Trying to separate it from the scientific community is creating a wall that does not exist. Besides, barely anyone uses python for 2d games or microcontrollers (out of hobbyist programs, and ruby also has a stack there with mruby or dragonruby, which have professional adoption mostly in japan), and you can't say with a straight face that python is a meaningful player in the Web application space, beyond its niche (and async python is a s**show).
Well, the costs of photolithography have skyrocketed recently, so that's a big part of it. I suspect that plus cost reductions for this tech is why it can be viable despite the masks needing to be remade periodically.
I've found that plywood that comes in 4'x8' sheets usually uses phenolic glue, whereas the stuff that comes in 5'x5' squares usually doesn't. "Exterior grade" or "marine grade" anything is also a strong predictor that it uses phenolic.
If you're about to fail an assertion (which is semantically similar to a SEGV), you probably shouldn't care about messing up signal handling anymore ;)

FWIW the actual answer is that libraries should be good at reporting / returning errors to the calling application in a reasonable manner instead of tripping assert()s or crashing the entire process. Which makes the question moot because ideally the library has few asserts to begin with.
Here is a relevant tidbit from the RWKV paper "Limitations" section (https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.13048):

First, the linear attention of RWKV leads to significant efficiency gains but still, it may also limit the model’s performance on tasks that require recalling minutiae information over very long contexts. This is due to the funneling of information through a single vector representation over many time steps, compared with the full information maintained by the quadratic attention of standard Transformers. In other words, the model’s recurrent architecture inherently limits its ability to “look back” at previous tokens, as opposed to traditional self-attention mechanisms. While learned time decay helps prevent the loss of information,it is mechanistically limited compared to full self-attention.
Yea, the map is poorly generated IMO as well - sadly there is only a few online tools online i could fine that "help me highlight, places where this list of languages is supported"

So if we want a better map, we might need to redo from scratch

That being said, depending on your sources, you can find multiple citations for 15-18% of the world population support english

With approximately 25% being native speaker (english as first language) and 75% as non-native

[PS: i realise later we were talking about different maps, the comment is for the 2nd map, for the languages we support]
That can't be evaluated without full knowledge of the contract and a lot of knowledge of the personalities involved. There is no 'safety' in dealing with other people, you need to know whom to trust.
They did, basically teletext iterated over pages so for one channel it was not that much data. I think teletext now is mvp feature that no one actually develops after it works most of the time. Thus worse user exeperience.
Fastext?
https://twitter.com/grim_fandango/status/857683620831604736?...
In my experience, it's Chrome that usually lags behind in implementing new standardized features (subgrid, for example).
Your list of deniers seems to have a majority of non-deniers. What is your point?
On Android? You must be on an ancient version then. All of these things—except for the new `word-wrap: pretty` property value—are supported in Firefox for Android.
This is really good - lots of studies from I/O psychologists measuring at companies in this analysis. This makes a strong case for anonymous peer reviews in addition to the manager’s review (peer reviews are the most correlated with performance but the manager review is correlated as well.)

If I read this correctly, this correlation is despite all the drawbacks people bring up in this thread, since they would be baked into these datasets too. Seems like you would want multiple anonymous peer reviews to try and get something predictive.
> How do you signal a turn then?

Buttons on the steering wheel. It's not very usable when you're trying to indicate while turning (like around a roundabout):

https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/tesla-steering-wheel-mode...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA2dSHu-hns

> How do you change the gear?

Via the touch screen or buttons in the overhead console:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/h6CgpHMuqC8

They are both dumb design choices.
Note that in spite of what is said, this is not remotely equivalent to the true rt patchset for low latency. They switched ubuntu studio to the non-rt “lowlatency” and all of a sudden I have to increase my audio buffers by about 10x to get jack to run xrun free, which leads to some pretty horrific latency on a midi keyboard.

I can easily run buffer sizes for 0.5ms latency on the rt patchset while running random twitch streams and games at the same time, but struggle to maintain 10ms on lowlatency without xruns with everything but the core audio apps shut down.
I'm mostly surprised Windows defaults to rounded. I know their UI is a complete shambles but they seemed to be leaning towards non-rounded user interfaces over the last few years.
Yea, thats why I focused only on the top 25 languages, despite the model being trained for 100+ languages.

Was not confident, on the languages beyond the 25th cut-off, until we build better datasets (which we are in works on with various regional groups!)
Even with the chest harness, she can switch seats. You have to put the seatbelts on the empty seats as well, but that makes it harder for her to lie down comfortably.
Most other languages don't have knifes at all. What do you call the interface{} madness in go?
> That company recently made headlines for hosting image generating models fine-tuned to generate CP

assuming you're not referring to the stanford internet observatory - laion thing, could you be more specific or even link a writeup of the story?
No, because the treadmills do literally nothing but get in the way. They don’t reduce motion sickness, and they don’t enhance the experience. And it seems unlikely that it’s even possible to solve that problem.

You would have a better experience using a joystick and just getting used to it.
Learning those specific environments and stacks will take more effort than learning however much Python is necessary for them.
We Transitioned Prisma Accelerate to IPv6 Without Anyone Noticing
The link that I first tried came to a summary, without any text from the article.
One of these days they should make a movie about him (one that isn’t based on his own testimony).
That would be great but the message from government, media and academia is overwhelmingly that people who double check ("do their own research") are fringe crazies who to be mistrusted and ideally silenced. Before getting to the point where people are actively encouraged to double check, we'd have to get to the point where people aren't actively ostracised for it!
There’s always one like you, isn’t there?
"text-wrap: balance;" works, only "pretty" is not yet supported
Yeah it's sad. I hope Musk reverses course for X. At least in showing threads, not necessarily for individual user feeds. Perhaps when the platform is in a better financial position.
Yeah sure you can, you can do pretty much anything in any language nowadays anyways, it doesn't mean that its going to be the industry standard. Even Ruby has DragonRuby for games (but not too popular either)

For games, none of the big engines are python or ruby based and Micropython is more of a Python dialect to me with some partial compatibility, you can't just pip install what you want.
I think if you are operating on your kid without anaesthetic to remove a limb that was smashed to pieces by a bomb, it won't matter much what any official has to say about your tormentors name ..

It speaks more of the person who cannot get past "IDF vs. IOF" in the discussion. If this is the issue that breaks the argument for them, while ignoring those smashed limbs, then it may be worthwhile dismissing them entirely ..
Not quite true: it’s amazing how many mainstream media figures have nasty things to say about social media.
Hearing Loss Due to Stress?
Hello Everybody, last year exactly this day I once woke up and found out that my left ear is clogged and It seemed that something is inside my ear that doesn’t let the sounds go through my brain. Also after that I’ve got a constant high-freq sound in my left ear, the TINNITUS! I had sudden sensorineural hearing loss.

Story:
I was in a stressful situation and constant pressure about 6 months. My body alerts me in different ways but I ignore them which unfortunately resulted in hearing loss although I’m not sure 100% that this is related to the stress but I think it’s the case. I went to the ERP he prescribed me Prednisone but no luck! I’ve tried magnesium, zinc and b12 but none of the improved my hearing.

I want to know has anybody there which has the same experience? What’s the cause that stress had in my hearing? What should I do?
The proof in the pudding is in the tasting.
You just send the commands upside down and it works
Shall we sue banks for being mentioned in some scammy same-day loan ad too? Wouldn't that be a sight.

One person's menace is another person's salvation :)
Right, and goto is still used regularly in production code.
What a dark mode on a mobile, woah! Just try it yourself.
Yeah I don’t know what to do with it. Same story, 15 years for me, and I’ve never gone this long without a job, or had this much trouble finding a job, or received so little interest or engagement from employers. It’s bizarre.
Oh no. Thank you. Will never get a Tesla.
There are other benefits to this too. With an electronic lock you can display the state of the toilet to other passengers on digital signage screens onboard the train. You could do this with physical locks but it would likely be more costly.
Oh, now I remember ReiserFS 3 vs 4!

It was like WinFS in Microsoft land. The filesystem would be the database etc.

(By the way never put an image of a reiser filesystem on a mounted reiser disk and then run fsck. Goodbye, all files.)
> if you’re looking for a stable living wage, you’re a fool — especially in tech

I don’t understand what you are saying. I have this condition called “living”. If i am exposed to the elements for prolonged time I get cold, then sick, then I stop living. Likewise i need to eat regularly otherwise i will also stop living. In the current system we live in one meets these things by paying for them. They don’t accept IOUs, or not for long anyway.

These are non-negotiable minimums I need to fulfill. Even if someone offered me a deal where they pay me a huge sum after years of hard work, and this would be a certainty but nothing before, i could not accept it because i would have no means to sustain myself for the duration.

This is what bruce511 describes when they write “They want a proper salary, every month, not some mythical payday in the future.”

If a place offers me both a huge payday in the future and enough money in the meantime to stay alive I may accept that depending on the amounts in question and the probabilities as i see them.

This is what bruce511 talks about with “ If you can find a place that does both, thats fantastic.”

> most logical and rational path is to make as much money as quickly as possible, and enter the capital class.

Sounds good! I will surely do that once i can. Until then I will need that paycheck thank you very much. And call me a fool.
In the UK company information is filed online with Companies House, by the company (or possibly a professional representative). Not by a bank data entry person.

And if the bank needs that data it should be able to download it.

So I don't understand where bank data entry comes in. However I only skimmed the article.
(b) is the sacrifice made in these linear attention type architectures.

As a mitigation, you can leave a few normal attention layers in the model but replace the rest.
Just

catch infinite-loop

in gdb and you're done!
The thing that makes this so expensive isn’t just the 3-4 months, but the probably not having a job when you go back
I used to play the games on that when I was a kid at my grand house.

I particularly liked on called bamboozle if I recall. It was a kind of quiz game.
You can use the Python library fontTools, which comes with a command line tool called `fonttools varLib`. Prerequisites: 1. you have a so called Designspace file which tells the tool where in the design space the fonts are and 2. The fonts have compatible glyph outlines and font features.

For the former, get a random font project like https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/cantarell-fonts/-/blob/master..., install the Python tool fontmake in a venv, and run `fontmake -m Cantarell.desigbspace -o ttf-interpolatable`. In a new subdirectory, you'll find a new Designspace file and TTFs. Switch them out and edit the DS file to make sense. Good luck.

For the latter, you are probably out of luck because static fonts are usually compiled in an outline-incompatible way and your only options are to fix them yourself in fontforge or such or ask the original vendor, who is probably going to laugh at you and demand money.
Anyone else think this dude should write a book of fake articles and market them with the Atlas Obscura story, only their version contains several falsehoods?
This is nice. Now, we no longer need to replace `text-decoration` by removing it and adding a `border-bottom`.
I listed a few alternatives in the OG description. What do you recommend?
When you have small children, you put your sharp knives out of the way. If children get a bit older, you first teach em responsible use of a knife, then give a sharp pocket knife. And some kids not even that.

Point being: In Ruby, sharp knives are too accessible, come with no warning or even encouragement.

Yet contrary to actual sharp knives (or guns pointed at feet) the feedback loop is slow. When you shoot yourself in the foot, or cut your finger, you feel it right away and (hopefully) adjust before more accidents happen.
With Ruby, a footgun is fired today. Or a sharp knife carelessly tossed in the bag yesterday. But you'll feel the pain in months or years only. And probably not even you, but the person who followed your follow up.

Sharp knives are cool. But they need education on their dangers and responsibilities.
I run emacs with minimal colour, so will probably never use this but I very much enjoyed the read. I'm rather used to the garish green of tmux and a small amount of rusty red brown from the amounts of emacs colour left in my life.
Currently building Inkmi [0] - Dream Jobs for CTOs as a solo founder (no plan to grow).

I do think that the productivity gains (cloud, open source, knowledge how to scale, frameworks like Rails/Lavarel) of the last 20 years have been eaten up in companies (e.g. by Scrum [1]). Comparing my startup of 1999 with the ones of 2023 I can't see huge gains in output/employee.

I fear companies will do the same to productivity gains in AI.

From both perspectives, MicroSaaS/solo founders are underrated and undervalued.

[0] https://www.inkmi.com

[1] I became a Scrummaster in the early 2000s, an evangelist and introduced Scrum in several companies. Since some years I no longer believe Scrum is a good thing.
I should probably brush it up and just upload it to Arxiv. But then I need ok from my advisor, and maybe she’d rather not (since she’d be a coauthor of that..). I’ll try again, thanks for the encouragement.
The settings is literally what OP changed, and mentioned that the _source code which needs patches_ contains the URLs, which is correct.

You can verify that easily by grepping the codebase.

As LibreWolf doesn't patch these hardcoded URLs out, their marketing is wrong and a fraudulous statement. They don't remove these features and they are also not stubbing out the APIs (e.g. like TOR's patchset does).

I'm not here to astroturf anything, maybe just get your shit together and stop accusing people randomly?
"The results reveal a unique constellation of facial features that underlie judgements of social class. Faces perceived as poor exhibited particular characteristics such as being wider, shorter, and flatter, with downturned mouths and darker, cooler complexions. Each of these facial features also made faces appear more incompetent, cold, or untrustworthy. In contrast, faces perceived as rich were narrower and longer with upturned mouths and lighter, warmer complexions – features which corresponded to those associated with perceptions of competence, warmth, and trustworthiness."
English grammar and phonology is also much more complicated than what people give it credit for. There is also a general confusion between descriptive and prescriptive rules.

The same goes for other languages, like Italian.

My impression is that the main difference between English and other languages is the lack of an (central) authority that can tell you what the language "is" and what it "isn't" and that gives off the feeling that there isn't much to say about the language other than random stuff arbitrary people make up.

But I'm pretty sure there are tons of people who study the languages (including English!) In good faith with professionalism and sobriety.

An accessible example of it is Dr. Geoff Lindsay
maybe we should take another look at analogue computing
The only way to not refactor is being able to look into the future. And then why code and not play the lottery.
both are just tools at the end of the day!
I think the issue will be more the cost, they go for about 2500 to 3000 euros

But yes arguably synth experience won't even help, the 303 sequencer is very weird and unlike any other sequencer