skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's an old aphorism that goes something like "don't get loans from family".

I consider people worth calling friends to be similar to family. I also don't have close family connections at that level. Guess that means I put more importance on friendship.

I've had the experience one time of cofounding a company with a friend. It didn't end badly, but it wasn't ideal. I realized pretty quickly I was going to be solely responsible for actually building the product. My partner was a great designer and actually had the business knowledge. To be completely honest we could have made something of it but I wasn't in the right place at the time to deep dive. Probably should have carried through with it. We'd likely be the biggest site to basically do Airbnb for cinema rental locations today. Again, I only say that because he had the connections to make that happen. Not something I could have done on my own

I guess I don't have any specific advice, other than general history.

If you and your friend are highly aligned then make a go of it. But on the contrary, Steve, Steve, and the other cofounders didn't agree. One backed out, and Apple became what it is now. Woz and the rest are $$$$$$$$$$$ aires.

In the end we all die. How do you want to think about your life in 10-20-40 years? Did you build anything? Are you ok with not having a big impact? Depends on you.
No. You don’t. The sun doesn’t shine 24/7.
It's probably an important thread to follow in any case
> Then where was the flood of photoshops making headline news?

It was news several decades back then everyone just ignored it.
Exactly. Language like Italian, French, German (and more) assign a "gender" to any word. "Chair" is female in Italian, male in Germsn (iirc).
And articles like a, the, this, that have slightly different forms for male and female (German also has "neuter").
Articles also have to match the gender of the word: "la sedia rossa" (the red chair in Italian) vs "il divano rosso" (the red couch).

English has "gendered" words in rare, exceptional cases (master/mistress?) but for Latin-based languages it is the opposite.
My proudest moment in high school was getting a 5/5 on the calculus based AP Physics C exams at 15 with no calculus and only rudimentary algebra knowledge at the time. That experience permanently colored my thinking, and made me much more open to practicing thorough visual imagination as a way to solve problems. I found that practice useful all the way through my EE degree's vector fields courses a decade later.

I think that's the modern fundamental difficulty in Maxwell's reworked equations - the 4 we all know and love, not the 20 or so he originally published. To even begin to get a true intuition for them, you have to get really really good at visualizing idealized objects with flows running through surfaces, and (if you're lucky) symmetries that cancel each other out. You can't be afraid of imagining the infinitely small and the continuous to really get the most out of it, even if you "know" on some deeper level that the continuity of spacetime is a convenient approximation.

14 years later I am still grappling with the beauty of saying "yeah yeah, this area of interest is technically discrete, but let's pretend it's continuous and see what kinds of stuff falls out." If you have examples of things like this in other areas like mathematical finance, I'd love to hear about them.
Your friend is probably rich or very frugal on his power consumption
> kernel-debugger (kdb + USB debug cable) is enough to work-around anything in Ring 0?

At least for Vanguard specifically, nope you'll get pinged if you try that naively; mainly because Vanguard looks for funky USB devices (among other things)

Now the way to approach it is to spoof USB hardware IDs and data streams, so you can then use approaches like what you've described, and some even use that to inject HID/mouse movement back into the host PC.

Basically allows cheats with nothing more than a micro-controller and a second PC, but it is still more detectable/cat-and-mouse than PCIe DMA devices + second PCs (and video muxing/overlay devices to put the ESP/whatever over the existing "clean" host PC's output)

Also if you're running Windows 11, Vanguard requires TPM 2.0 + Secure Boot which makes some things a lot more painful
Define the enum to be represented as a two's complement integer made of hardbools.
I am a long time user/contributer to horizon-eda. In fact I made their original landing page at https://horizon-eda.org and designed the logo.

During that time I created roughly 10 finished (and working) projects using the software.

The only downside compared to KiCAD is that the official parts library is smaller. But what is in there goes through a review process and is often verified by other builders. There are also fancy things like 3D views, length tuning, alternate footprints, board layouts consisting of multiple boards, ...

If you are one of the people who has no problem creating their own footprints and always wanted to like KiCAD, but is driven insane by the UX, this one might be it.
then your definitions are circular, "intelligence is whatever the IQ test measures, assuming it measures anything"

this is no way to establish validity or reliability. you need an independent theory of intelligence and a variety of indepenent objective measures -- otherwise the whole enterprise is circular
Home solar is a pretty big industry here in South Africa at the moment, mainly because of our ailing power utility. Banks provide reasonable long term loan options to homeowners. There are better and worse contractors, but because it is quite a booming market right now, you can fairly easily figure out who the good ones are.
Here's a scenario:

It's 2030 and deepfakes run rampant. This is a problem creating political deepfakes, celebrity fake porn, CSAM, fake revenge porn, etc.

Apple builds on their Spatial Photo feature, and their newest smartphones allows POR, or Proof of Reality.

Proof of Reality: Data from multiple cameras and a LIDAR sensor are stitched together to generate a 3d depth-map + color map that can validate that a photo or video was shot without post-production manipulation. This processing is done on-chip, on a Secure Enclave-like chip, and cryptographically embedded in the following photo. Each raw capture starts as the first block of a blockchain; further images or videos that are created from this raw data are understood to be downstream of this first block.

A piece of Proof-of-Reality media, edited together with multiple clips or images, can be cryptographically verified that it is composed out of individual Proof-of-Reality media. Like a Merkle tree.

Apple pioneers the first fully Deepfake-proof media workflow. Consumers can watch news media or social media while being cryptographically assured that it wasn't AI-generated.

2031: Proof-Of-Reality (POR) starts to catch on in public. Samsung gets on the bandwagon, and develops their own version (or joins a POR consortium). Soon, 40% of media is POR-validated, following the usual smartphone & OS update statistics.

2032: A particular egregious deepfake scandal from a non-POR source drives the rush towards POR standardization. Apple and/or the POR consortium partners begin to produce more professional-level POR camera equipment. Content blockers that block non-POR media become developed.

2033: Certain social media websites begin to place labels notices on non-POR media. POR-media consists of 70% of all news & social media.

2034: News media companies fully switch over to a POR-workflow. Browsers start adopting non-POR labels for content, like Twitter's 'Community Notes'.

2035: Deepfakes as we know it are mostly hidden from the public eye, but continues to evolve and change in unexpected ways..
I think it’s the other way round. Before the auditors signed off on it, they would have to satisfy the auditors the bitcoin existed (and the ex-employee had no claim, and why the fuck did they not keep better track of their assets and …)

So no, simply claiming as a company you have an extra billion is similar to me claiming Inhave an extra billion - found it last night on a hard drive not seen since 2011 actually :-)
ICANN proposes creating .INTERNAL domain to do the same job as 192.168.x.x
We’ve known they have had this in the pipeline for years. It is priced in until we get new info.
Ask HN: How much ad revenue you make from your side project?
I try to understand if it's still good business idea for simple web apps . from your experience is it ?
can you give examples and numbers ?
thanks
I buy that one, but I think there's a coupling with metric availability.

Where we have measurements for pretty much everything but people don't know measurements are proxies and not always aligned with goals. Like how a ruler doesn't measure meters, but meters according to the ruler and only at the ruler's precision level. I can totally get how people who don't work with these tools don't understand the nuances, but it confuses me with experts. Isn't expertise, by definition, contingent upon understanding nuance?

It seems that the more metrics we have available to us, the less we care about understanding how those metrics work and what their limitations are. That they just become black boxes.

I mean there seems to be a very common belief that you can measure visual image quality by measuring some difference between an intermediate representation of a classification model. Or a belief that entropy measures quality of speech.

I'm really concerned that Goodhart's Law might be one of the Great Filters.
Japan: Moon lander Slim comes back to life and resumes mission
Kintaro Oe in golden boy translation? Oh wait that was Harvard.
> I now have the very nerdy perspective that law is the operating system our socially run on. Laws are small snippets of code similar to a predicate in Prolog. We apply them once the conditions are fulfilled.

That's a very government centric point of view.

Compare https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/16/book-review-seeing-lik...

See also the exokernel papers like https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2008/readings/engler95exoke... or via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exokernel

Traditional operating systems try to help programs securely share resources, but also want to provide abstractions away from the raw hardware. An exokernel approach limits itself to just the secure multiplexing, and delegates abstractions to another mechanism much better suited for the task: user space libraries.

To close out the tangent: I wonder how you would bring this metaphor back to laws? I guess it would have something to do with Subsidiarity? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidiarity
It raised a flicker of polite interest that died, from your own link:

The Advisory Committee on Uranium was the beginning of the US government's effort to develop an atomic bomb, but it did not vigorously pursue the development of a weapon.

What did move the needle, again from your link:

The Frisch–Peierls memorandum and the British Maud Reports eventually prompted Roosevelt to authorize a full-scale development effort in January 1942.

In essence, the letter from Einstein did not start the Manhatten Project, it was instead the direct efforts and in person meetings of Oliphant:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Oliphant#Manhattan_Projec...
So I think your points 1 & 2 apply whether stack ranking is implemented or not.

Either way, the direct managers decide who to fire, not an executive.

The difference stack ranking makes is not who to fire, but whether anyone is going to be fired.

In theory, the manager is on the chopping block. But in reality, success is difficult to measure in business. Often the contributions of orgs are subtle and difficult to measure. The effects are often only apparent years later, if ever.
Kintaro Oe, Golden boy (translation)
Fine until it very, very suddenly very, very wasn't fine anymore. I will never do that again.
Being in the public eye is already miserable. The public eye appears to be a close relation to the Eye of Sauron. These people smile a lot, but they don't look like they're having much fun.

The existence of AI will make life a bit worse for some of them. But life being better or worse doesn't really reach my standard of 'more harm' here. I suppose what I was thinking is a bit like if someone cuts in front of me in a queue. I might be worse off, certainly could feel annoyance, but I wouldn't say I'm harmed. I just don't like it. For harm to have happened I would actually have to be ... I dunno, harmed.

Ms. Swift already has to deal with literal stalkers. The baseline of what public people are expected to put up with is already high. I'm not sure this thing is really moving the bar.

> I'd also be curious if you think...

2 thirds of that (bullying, miscarriage of justice) are already major problems. The legal system is already a crapshoot; they do there best but it makes a lot of mistakes. I could see the net effect of AI being helpful in both cases; I'm more excited about neutral, AI judges than I am worried about evidence quality dropping off.

Con artists, we'll see what happens. The major protection I've relied on to date has been rollbacks and balances rather than preventing fraud up front. Social engineering is hard to stop.

You can feel concerned about whatever you like, of course.
Mugging is a bad example because it's not just about financial theft but for a brief period a credible threat to your life itself, so the trauma is clearly bound to scar you for a long time.

Perhaps 800$ fraud on Amazon/Ebay is a more appropriate example.
I wanted to come in liking this. I liked your initial description about "level up" and that it was a game.

What you've made might be great, but looking at the UI, I don't instantly see why this would be a "fun" way to "level up".

I don't mean that what you've done couldn't be great, but it's not good enough yet, and I think it's going to be difficult to get any sort of traction without a great design here.

You clearly put a lot of effort in getting both the Kotlin and Swift apps.

I suggest you pick a single platform, and get your iterations done on that before trying to support both platforms off the bat.
I love how I know RMS = Richard M Stallman, but my brain always auto expands it to Root Mean Squared first. Definitely up there in the divine rankings of the three letter acronyms of old.
Yes. It's a shame that it is hard to install on the ground - or rather it's a shame that permission isn't easily given for ground installations, if you have space. Ground installs won't damage your roof, and will be easier to clean, install, etc. But then, as noted elsewhere, is it really the answer anyway? Solar doesn't really give you the energy when you really need it - in the winter.
In my company’s last round, the VP leading the effort (audience of engineering managers and senior ICs only) flat out stated feedback from managers doesn’t count, only from senior ICs. For engineers, at least.

Unfortunately, senior ICs can play favorites and be toxic just as well as managers.
I find it so ironic that you have a cap on abuse reports...
This is factually true but my claim is that what motivates people is a desire for greater energy security (EDIT: where improved price stability is one aspect of that, as konschubert points out).
Because search killed bookmarks. Have you requested this feature in any browser? Maybe nobody asked for it.
> GPS also often gets confused and suddenly thinks the car is on a frontage road instead of the freeway.

When driving on Highway 17 (between Los Gatos and Santa Cruz, southern silicon valley area), very often my GPS will suddenly jump to being in one of the tiny mountain roads that parallel 17 and trying to start rerouting me back to 17 even though I'm on 17.

For anyone familiar with 17, you can imagine the consequences if the car braked hard in the middle of a corner from highway speed to tiny backroad speed!
Honestly I don’t get the “gold standard” thing - why is the number of factories built on an arbitrary piece of land got to do with whether an asteroid hit the planet a billion years ago.
Btw, not all jurisdictions even care about precedence. So courts can't reverse anything.

(Though in practice precedence seems to have about equal value in common law and civil law jurisdictions. In common law, the court just has to nitpick enough to find a difference between the current case and the precedent, to argue why the latter should not apply. In civil law, courts routinely defer to precedence as a matter of convention and habit.)
We can learn a lot about Software Development when playing retro games.

Explore the topics of Composition, Inheritance and what Composition over Inheritance means with a little help from our 8-bit friends!
Related: An updated meta-analysis of the interrater reliability of supervisory performance ratings. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-47758-001
AFAIK there is currently know way to reliably tell from DNA sequencing data whether a prostate cancer will become dangerous. That may change, but I suspect there may be some inherent stochasticity in the transition of a cancer from benign to dangerous that will make a perfect classification possible. I would guess some form of monitoring may be required for all the currently non-dangerous cancers.
This is really great news:

> Ubuntu's low-latency kernel is mostly Kconfig configuration changes applied to their kernel build that they are now at least considering to make by default.

Ubuntu used to have an absolute monster of a hacked up franken-kernel compared to mainstream, but (very fortunately) over the years it's gotten much, much closer to upstream. It was honestly a bit of a nightmare trying to apply a set of custom patches on top of it (to improve a driver that was buggy for many years that I hacked in a way that made it work awesome but would never be accepted upstream because it violated FCC regulations). I'm an outside observer so pure speculation, but I have suspected that it was painful for the Canonical kernel team just as it was for me, and that they made a concerted effort to get away from the craziness. In related news, the people who backport kernel fixes to LTS versions they maintain for their distros (think Canonical and Red Hat, for example) are some of the most unsung heroes in the world. That work is brutal and takes a lot of dedication, and when you're doing your job perfectly nobody knows, but when you mess up everybody knows. That leads to a lot of thanklessness.
Will your next battery be based on salt? [video]
UK doesn't seem to have quite as much suing as the US? And they also have a common law system.

In contrast, German military procurement is famous for its endless lawsuits.
It's the boy who cried room temperature superconductivity effect. If we in fact live in a simulation I can clearly see that when someone in fact achieves RTSC, nobody will believe it at first. It's the most movie like turn of events, just as a good simulation writer would like to see.
Which doesn't make too much sense outside of the US, where land isn't nearly as cheap.
What was the logic in the name Dewhale?

Maybe a better method to showcase would be a walkthrough demo video.

If you haven't seen the original dropbox video, it's great format, and really worked for them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QmCUDHpNzE
I can actually think about three highly idiomatic expressions, none of which translate well, and some of which apparently younger Finns neither understand any longer. The most obvious would be something along "who is given and who receives". But as said, the pun doesn't translate that well.
It will be so expensive :(

But btw now you can enforce function calling and json responses
I thought I would avoid those issues by buying a system outright, rather than financing it. I had the cash to spare and thought it would be a good investment.

I went with a local company. The owner was an electrician and knew what he was talking about. He didn't try to upsell me. He didn't claim to be the cheapest but the price was competitive and the workers were in-house, not subcontracted. It seemed like just what I wanted.

The installation day came and they arrived early in the morning, and spent hours installing brackets. The solar panels were supposed to arrive by 9am. By noon they were still waiting. Finally they gave up and went home, no answer on the panels. The next day they came back to keep working, still with no panels. I sent them home and called the owner, demanding an answer. Eventually I learned that the panels were damaged in transit and it'd be weeks before they could procure new ones. They couldn't guarantee a date.

They had already charged my credit card for the full amount of the install. I told them this was unacceptable, the law says they can only charge a deposit, with the balance due when the work was actually complete.

They stopped returning my calls, so I initiated a chargeback with my credit card company. That got their attention. They begged me to cancel the chargeback, which I only reluctantly agreed to after they hand-delivered a refund check to me in person.

It took me dozens of calls before I found another company willing to work with the half-completed install. Most companies didn't want to touch it.

In the end, I got the system I wanted and it worked great.

One thing I learned through this process is that there are a lot of companies who want to install solar, but none who want to service your existing solar installation, which is seen as a money-losing business. Lots of homeowners buy a system that supposedly includes an excellent warranty, but then their solar company goes out of business, and suddenly they have nobody to call when something goes wrong.

I don't really know the solution to that problem. It makes me think that if I had to do it again, maybe I should go with a larger national company.
Here are some photos of the places mentioned, plus some in KSA:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/mikhailfranco/albums

An early morning view of The Monastery at Petra, with my poetic musings...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/mikhailfranco/8579438475/
It also means you're less affected by rising prices. (Not that I expect rising prices, but others do)
I mean, language is hard, and it evolves. What they called mediums, we now call (quantized) fields. QED would say the photon field _exists_ at all points in space and that it is kinda fair to say that it is a "medium" for electromagnetic forces and waves to propagate (with the additional point that special relativity is required to understand how to correctly transform it into a different reference frame, rather than imagining it as a strictly Newtonian medium).
This is a welcome change. Even though I moved away from Ubuntu and onto Fedora, I haven't used generic kernel in years on my desktop. Low latency variant with low-tick scheduling (I hate the false term "tickless"), rcu offloading and higher scheduling hr tick frequency makes a noticeable difference in responsiveness.

I hope other major distros follow suit.
At this point it's easier to rename the command