skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Repeating a comment from 2021[0]:

“Entrepreneurs are not at all like ordinary businessmen. An entrepreneur who is not in trouble closes no avenues, keeps a lot of balls in the air, and will never tell you the whole truth when a half-truth will do. An entrepreneur who is in trouble will lie, cheat, and steal. He will smuggle cocaine or ship bricks. We should never measure an entrepreneur by the standards of a rock-solid businessman.” — attributed to Kenneth Rind[1]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28060166

[1]: https://books.google.com/books?id=MQvGc8Ee1SsC&pg=PA137&lpg=...
And not hot-pluggable. I lost track of how many motherboards I had to replace due to hot-plugging PS2 devices.

Note: keyboards and mice were pretty low risk. High risk were PS2-based barcode scanners.
How many software companies give managers private offices without programmers getting at least cubes? I don’t think I’ve ever seen that phenomenon.
I think you may misunderstand my point. I'm saying when "they" claim to have disproved the simulation hypothesis, it is useful to show that they have overstepped their bounds.

You can't disprove the simulation hypothesis. You can be as pissed about that as you like, but it's true. That doesn't mean all hope is lost. You can still work in the space where you just sort of take it as an ambient background fact that you can't do much about, then work with what you have. Technically that's what we do all the time anyhow. But when someone rigidly excludes the hypothesis, you know they've gone too far.
Some say there is a speed limit to allow distributing the computation required for the simulation, since it guarantees that distant nodes do not need to communicate.
Nice work. That Sun Microsystems one should be the same as the Facebook one, but the back of that sign ;) (as I see you've included in the FB writeup. Good show)
> We now know it was likely that "the virus was accidentally leaked from a lab"

Do we? Why does this one always get used as the example of something being revealed later as true and exposing the corrupt media when, as far as I'm aware, there's still no evidence for it. At best, there's a few people saying it's not been totally ruled out. Or non-scientists like the FBI suggesting it's likely.

Why not point to the reams of climate denial or warmongering if you really need to question the media?
With this are we any closer to some standard being set for the Lottie format?
> Kudos for whoever at OpenAI that approved calling those "GPTs"

I think OpenAI are only good at one thing: Making LLMs.

The rest of their offerings are pretty bad: Custom GPTs are a mess, their API is terrible, they deprecated their Python library the moment they released a new API version even though they changed the classes and they could have continued supporting both interfaced for a time, etc.
Argumentative with no substance.
Monkeys and apes also have sweat glands all over their bodies and none of them engage in endurance hunting so that theory is very unconvincing
> These two types of work were first identified, to my knowledge, by the programmer and essayist Paul Graham.

Repeating my comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38693398 when this came up last month, DeMarco and Lister described flow state in their 1987 book "Peopleware: Productive projects and teams".

Here's the relevant text from the later 2nd edition: https://archive.org/details/peoplewareproduc00dema_0/page/62 ("Brain Time vs. Body Time").

571 other comments in last month's discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38691468
I think at lots of coding companies every day somebody needs to be reminded that YOUR CODE IS GARBAGE.

Probably best to remind yourself before somebody else does ;)
And pumping out the water, helpful to have a steam engine to lift all that mass out of your mine.
https://shifthappens.site
>>> For that matter, who's going to replicate a condensed matter experiment for which a grad student took three years to build the apparatus at a cost of $250,000?

That was my thesis. To make it worse, the laser I used became unavailable as I was finishing up. My work was adopted by 2 labs but required extensive adaptation.
To me it just channeled the 80's/90's dad with his face planted inside a huge camcorder/8mm camera at his kids birthday. Doesn't seem to be anything new under the sun. https://i.redd.it/5o0fv89d69dz.jpg
> Learning numbers, integers, rationals, and real numbers, introduced so much power with each step, to the point that every child is expected to know the basics about real numbers.

The amount of additional power you get from real numbers is zero, and in fact it isn't possible to work with them because specifying an irrational number takes an infinite amount of time and space.

They give you additional power in the sense that they let you give names to the exact answers to certain equations, but not in the sense that you can manipulate those equations any better than otherwise.

> When I realized that complex numbers weren't the end

But... they are the end. That's the point. We call that the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra: every solution to every equation takes the form of a complex number.

Quaternions do not generalize from complex numbers in the sense of the progression of the numeric tower from integers to rationals to reals. That is known to stop at the complex numbers. They generalize from complex numbers in the sense of functions that scale and rotate two-dimensional images. Quaternions are a way of expressing functions that scale and rotate three-dimensional images. They are familiar to most people who have taken calculus under the name "vector cross product".
I’m curious to know why they don’t support Elixir and Haskell to a greater extent.
I love when Jepsen's reports hit HN. I always learn a ton about databases from them. Kudos to the projects brave enough to put their claims to the literal test. Jepsen is the best in the biz.
I don't think any company explicitly claims their implementation handles X failure scenarios, certainly not in the EULA or license. You could possibly pick apart their documentation, but I think the warranty clause in most licenses would cover the product. This may not apply to regulated products dealing with health/safety/defense, and IANAL.

Either way, best to assume most companies are lying through their teeth about any feature until you or someone you trust has validated it.
OpenGL rendering engine written in pure C++
An OpenGL rendering engine written in C++. The engine is small and light. It implements things like shadow mapping, ambient occlusion, and shader application. This engine is made open source through the MPL 2.0 license.
This is not even close. Pure math is often complete clueless about how it applies. For example Developing algorithms to compute properties used in the most basic pure math is a massive pursuit.
Or Russia's efforts to revive it's expansionist military. Yes, very sad indeed.
I like Eli Bendersky's blog a lot. He talks about a variety of topics and he satisfies my occasional Go interest since I don't work in it regularly: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/

Mr Money Mustache has been my favorite blog for probably about eight or nine years now. Some people have negative opinions about the financial independence space or they say he's too hardcore for them, but I love a lot of his posts and they've led me to make happier decisions in my life. He's always got a different way of looking at things and sometimes I acknowledge that those aren't for me, and sometimes I adopt them. https://www.mrmoneymustache.com
Simulation theory is tired in the popular and pragmatic sense. The answer to the question doesn’t have much bearing on our day to day lives. And that likely for the best.

But that doesn't make it irrelevant to the philosophy of science and metaphysics. We very direly need to resolve why half our physics is continuous and the other half discrete.
Yes, but I'm just confused because saying "Why isn't there an open source FaaS for on prem that shares hardware" makes no sense. At that point, you're just talking about regular coding with functions. Unless there's something I'm missing.
I had never heard of it until today, but a quick Google tells you it’s a Mongo-like JSON database with multi master capabilities. If you really really want those (I’m not sure it’s a good idea), then this seems way better than PG.
I think you miss my point. There are those that find the notion that a being can have always existed without being created as plausible but not the notion that another type of "thing" could have always existed without further elaboration on why that "thing" could not have always existed. That you have a more nuanced view on the matter just means you are not in the group of people that I'm referring to.

At any rate, you believe something can exist without being created and in this we are agreement. I too believe that something can exist without being created.
https://archive.is/E31yb
"SWE-bench: Can Language Models Resolve Real-World GitHub Issues?" - https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06770

"... Our evaluations show that both state-of-the-art proprietary models and our fine-tuned model SWE-Llama can resolve only the simplest issues. Claude 2 and GPT-4 solve a mere 4.8% and 1.7% of instances respectively, even when provided with an oracle retriever..."
No, both Open SaaS and Wasp are free and open-source, like most of the frameworks. If we manage to get the community adoption for Wasp, the next step would be to look into value-add services on top of it that can be monetized (our role models are companies like Mongo, Terraform or Databricks).
> where these deities suddenly came from

There is a line of thought that the deities come from when humans "suddenly" became conscious. The creation of the world is the creation of the human mind.
The observable effect is true, but I don't think it squares. Circles below the ceiling in the middle of the room aren't perpendicular to the window as a light source.

I see this mostly with one particular type of fly that just loves going around light fixtures, maybe they're sensitive to the EM spectrum rather than visible light?
Most CS papers are theoretical, and this is another reason why HN is wrong about requiring papers to publish code.
If a system is that old and still in use it means it's reliable.
Harder communication with coworkers, less trust, more conflicts, some people find it hard to work at home and need to be in the office ( ie they do nothing at home ), harder onboarding for new joiners, people misunderstanding the rules ( no you can’t work from vacation site x in country y for tax/insurance reasons ), not feeling part of something and therefore losing interest, etc

Edit: wfh also means an office ( if you have kids at home it’s the only viable option ) now so a bigger house /flat but I won’t get the corresponding pay rise.

I’ve seen some or all of the above apply to various people. It doesn’t apply to everyone obviously, some people are perfectly happy with wfh.

I personally need a bit of both !
And macaroni is a kind of pasta. Make it make sense.
Or macron, which is a president.
This is probably related to the Fundamental Attribution Error.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error
Yeah, there's multiple variations of that bug possible depending on what you set first, so setting these in that specific order likely avoided one bug they noticed.

They just didn't realize they have a different bug now.
If they go bankrupt they should destroy all the data but of course they will rather sell it to recover at least a bit of money.
>> I think the time when one man could bring us a century forward like Newton or Einstein is gone.

> I'm certain his contemporaries said the same about Pythagoras.

Pythagoras is best known as the center of a mystery cult. What did he bring a century forward?
I interpreted it as a mildly self-deprecating joke on the author's choice of usual reading materials.

However, if we're going to be pedantic... the informal jab can work if the author doesn't respect the what is published by the CATO institute.

If we're wanting to be true to the term, "rag" doesn't fit because the article is an opinion blog post, not published in a newspaper or magazine.

> informal

> a newspaper or magazine that is considered to be of bad quality:

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/rag

> Informal.

> ...

> a newspaper or magazine regarded with contempt or distaste: Are you still subscribing to that rag?

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/rags
There is always an implicit tradeoff of working in company A with one tuple of salary / working environment, or working in company B with another tuple of salary / working environment. If we eliminate tuples that are dominated by others then we end with a curve of equipreferencial points, representing such tradeoffs.

If such tradeoffs are offered by different companies, there is no reason why they should not be also offered as by one company.
Even the history of the Takata airbag saga alone is enough to illustrate that plenty of - generously - subjectivity or wiggle room is built into the application of the rules you're quoting on that page. If you were familiar with the history of the thing you'd know that the items which were recalled yesterday have been understood to be dangerous for over 20 years. The first study that showed this design tended to blow up came in the late nineties. Some sort of practical balance in an equation shifted to cause yesterday's recall. There wasn't a new engineering discovery made. Takata airbags using ammonium nitrate sometimes explode when they ignite! Something must be done!

That you've apparently discounted the possibility an American regulatory agency might not be fully living up to its stated principles is adorable, however.
Please ELI5: I understand that one of the key features of 23andMe is their health report because the genealogy and the DNA dump are included in other companies.

For a developer plus a scientist it is teally difficult to get the health data from the raw ADN and using current (Python?) modules?
Yeah I’ll pass on games that essentially want to install spyware only to be forced always online anyways. Never have to deal with that issue on indie games.
they've been saying that for years now
I still remember when Microsoft alongside Adobe, proudly presented Adobe XD at BUILD as one example of UWP applications, and Microsoft Store integration.
Saturated fat in excess. The dose makes the poison
A totally different reason, I think, actually. If your job is to manage people, that sometimes might involve conversations where you provide one-on-one feedback. This is sometimes negative, and the recipient might not want to share that, so it is good to have the option to make it private.
A woman who was sentenced to 5 years for her part in the Jan 6th riot was there because of this kind of thing. She hadn't even voted for Trump in 2016.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/17/us/jan-6-rachel-powell-se...

Even after sentencing and years to reflect she thinks it was the FBI that handed her the pickaxe she used to smash windows.
I'm depressed. They all die. I suppose due to the name of this game, there are no chances of surviving for any of them.

... permanent colonies on worlds other than Fratlat. Although still largely unable to travel outside of the Latbûut system, the distribution of Fratbac civilization across multiple worlds greatly reduces the risk that they will collapse due to any crisis of merely planetary scale.

In 3904, a swarm of self-replicating Fratbac nanobots began to replicate uncontrollably, devouring vast swaths of Fratlat at a rate which Fratbac scientists had formerly deemed impossible. After several days of rapid expansion, the swarm seems to have become dormant, but not before consuming approximately 5% of the entire mass of Fratlat and rendering Fratbac civilization completely extinct.
The name they chose to try and make it not sound like anti-competitive practices just makes it sound like Iran-Contra
Sure thing! These terms may not be the best way to communicate these concepts. Would love your take on that, too.

I used the term decentralized to describe claim-based token-passing authorization strategies because the data defining their access is being source from various services, attenuated, and passed around with the request.

I use the term centralized to describe something where all the data defining access and the policies are sourced from one service. I personally work on a Google-inspired system, but there are plenty of policy engines using a similar approach.
It's grossly overstated because TW doesn't have the type or numbers of ordnance to structurally damage gravity dam the size of three gorges. And realistically they won't because the amount of conventional munitions needed is staggering, more than TW can muster in retaliatory strike, unless it's a coordinated preemptive strike, which TW won't since it's suicide by war crime.

The entire three gorges meme originated from FaLunGong/Epoche times propaganda, including in linked article (to interview with Simone Gao) and all the dumb google map photos of deformed damn due to lens distortion. PRC planners there aren't concerned about dam breech, but general infra terrorism.

The onne infra PRC planners are concerned about are coastal nuclear plants under construction, which is much better ordnance trade for TW anyway, and just as much of a war crime.
Always a delight to see a Neal fun link here.

I was able to get to Dandelion after many combos! Hoping it gets to human soon.

Will try to extract the full tree from the code :)
Silicon valley's tokenomics are going bust because of the Fed's tightening. Loosing the reserve currency status is another matter altogether which should scare the future of the American economy.
Not sure what the point is you're trying to make.

All I said is that as soon as you release a paper you fall in a niche of some topic (unless the paper is super generic) where the number of people with the expertise allowing them to review it is super small.

Quaternions or complex analysis where just examples where, even if not strictly experimental and more theoretical, if you're pushing the boundaries of knowledge the number of people able to review what you wrote and concluded isn't that big.
TTY queries are written to stdout but read from stdin. That's not user interaction. E.g. if you're system doesn't have ioctl for window size (or you're over a remote serial etc), setting the cursor to the bottom right and asking it's position. Those programs break with no stdin because a tty is inherently bidirectional communication!
If you type a name in your search engine of choice and the intended link is not on the first page of results, then that name might not be the best.
Google sucks so hard now, literally anything they do is getting worse. No idea why anyone wanna work there or why they think they are cool paying 100 of k to incompetent people
> However, if we're going to be pedantic... the informal jab can work if the author doesn't respect the what is published by the CATO institute.

I know what the words mean and the potential self-deprecation? But I don’t think we should characterize high quality publications we disagree with as low quality.
(2023)

Lots of discussion a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38691468
Not to be confused with micron, which is the size of most politicians’ accomplishments after they get elected.
Imagine being alive in 2024 and still not understanding that

“Individual liberty, limited government, free markets and peace”

Can demonstrably not all coexist.

If we were pre-internet, pre global information exchange with excessively easy ways to tell if a source is good or bad, understandable. Ignorance is no longer an excuse. At this point, this is malicious.
It genuinely feels like we only ever add laws. There are still states that outlaw sodomy
This comment made me realize sometimes I’m such an entitled shit. Lately I’d been feeling legitimately depressed that I seem to have hit a career plateau, despite that plateau occurring at a very generous salary.
Joe Biden on Decision to Pause Pending Approvals of Liquefied Natural Gas
The data at those links indicate the demand for child care workers is more than 40x the demand for physicists and astronomers combined. Yet, childcare workers make only slightly more than 1/5th the wage.

This is because skilled labor is not fungible and different jobs are on different demand curves.
Walked into a friend’s house one day. His dad had a nice home office, hardwood desks with lots of bookshelf space and literature on just about everything to do with IT at the time.

He wasn’t there that week. He was doing long-haul trucking and would be back home in 5 days or some such.
Any reason to use

ret = syscall(__NR_bpf, cmd, attr, size);

instead of

ret = bpf(cmd, attr, size);
?
Snowden is still considered a criminal.

Again, politically, it was the same POTUS who extended and expanded the Patriot Act, and got zero - or close - push back for both efforts.

Legally? Does it matter? When was the last time the law stopped the NSA from pushing - and breaking - the envelope?

Aside from Snowden, who suffered? Hint: No one. Nuff said.
It is a RW think tank. I disagree that there is such thing as an unbiased source.
> I can't blame anyone for seeing $20 Billion dollars upfront and taking the offer, but did Figma even need to sell in the first place?

It's a great question from a P&L standpoint, but like you said: the board of the company represents the shareholders, and it's likely that $20 billion was a number _far_ above what they viewed the company's value - therefore accepting that type of deal would've made 100% sense to maximize return for those investors.

Note that many employees are also shareholders, and therefore would've banked quite a bit of $ if this went through.

I think the better questions are: did Adobe _need_ Figma? (We'll see...) and why did Adobe overpay by so much?

EDIT: after some quick searching, estimates place the value of Figma at $8-9 billion...making the offer of $20B virtually impossible to reject.
It says "using HTML5 and web sockets."
Does this mean the application freezes if the connection to server is disrupted?

Could developers use this to make web-based apps along-side desktop clients? If so , Desktop frameworks like GTK and Qt should focus on this idea more to reclaim the desktop from the monstrosity that is Electron.
Of course they aren’t familiar with the literature. Most of the papers rediscover existing math and physics in a worse way (harmonic analysis, etc)
Time reversibility during the ageing of materials
Lost City + Earth broke infinity.
The feature being developed was a way to make adopting Edge easier and with that mindset of that being what the users want developing robust ways for edge not to run it's import feature at every boot simply never gets to be an priority.

The mentality at MS is for everything to be about promoting their SaaS divisions to the point where there is no longer an independent business unit selling windows, and bundling them with an nearly impossible opt out is an proven strategy for selling value add services that people might either not need or prefer to get from 3rd parties if asked to explicitly opt in to the vendors version of that service.
Outside our universe, presumably. Perhaps where the physics of our universe does not apply.
This is a lot less true in mathematics research, where a question existing and not being trivial is enough motivation to investigate.

I would in fact argue that the trend, in "applied" fields, of justifying the importance of a piece of work by pointing out that a lot of people are doing similar work is in fact self-fulfilling. That makes it somewhat useless as a measure of importance.

Scientific context should be critical, not just descriptive.
Regrettably, most folks only are aware of EHEC strain of E. coli [0]. Other strains of E. coli are a workhorse in the lab and are harmless.

[0] https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseas...
A Notorious Pitchfork Reviewer Was My Biggest Musical Influence
Show HN: Encrypted Credit Card Approval Using Homomorphic Encryption