skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Past performance is a piss poor indicator of future performance.

You can’t deny (I don’t think) that the things he’s done are amazing. He’s in the zone where he’s smelt too many of his farts though, and believes he can do no wrong, which is historically a very bad place to be. I hope, for all of the awesome things he’s said he’d like to do, that they don’t come agutsa due to that
It maybe isn't on Twitter though! It is a public place, of a sort, which should always be borne in mind.
Yep, it takes around a month though to fully adapt. You are better served asking questions on the Discord, they are more knowledgeable than I: https://discord.gg/polyphasic-sleeping-249219704655183876
OpenAI made the first AI chat bot product that didn't suck. There is a critical mass of innovation and Open AI got their 9kg of Uranium-235 together first as reflected in the market.

The real question isn't why did OpenAI get there first but why Google didn't, they had every advantage.
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Nobody quotes art without a reason behind it.

He either quoted Tupac because he agreed with the sentiment or he couldn't act responsibly, and both are not acceptable for a CEO.
I thought the article did a good job addressing it. There were a lot of nice touches which make this app work well with the vision pro.
So, a weld instead of solder!
M5stack makes nice plug and play hardware too, almost like Lego
https://m5stack.com/
This article might be life changing for me. This is exactly what I needed to hear and couldn’t put my finger on myself. He seems Dutch (.nl domain), and this is definitely a thing in NL. I wonder if it is from a Dutch perspective, because it is a bit of a caveat as I feel that the US seems to have tech companies that value generalists a bit more.
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The NASA workmanship guides provide a great set of options for various methods: https://workmanship.nasa.gov/lib/insp/2%20books/links/sectio...
The app is only $5.

Best case scenario: you get an app you use all the time for almost nothing and are supporting an independent developer making cool stuff.

Worst case scenario: you never use the app but supported an independent developer with a tiny donation.
pre-fix is the finest notation for many reasons.
So, Intel syntax makes more sense than ATT syntax.

Even C functions are pre-fix. [function_name arg1, arg2 ...]
If schools were teaching pre-fix, we would be in better position to appreciate Intel syntax.

Higher maths uses pre-fix, for example:
y=f(x)
unfortenately, above line is not pure prefix...
= y f(x) would be pure pre-fix.
TrueCrypt’s deniable fs took more than one password. I doubt this dude picked TrueCrypt, more like:

1. Full disk

2. Home directory, like ecryptfs

3. Downloaded/downloadable file system image
No, we use assembly for access to specialized (e.g. AES-NI) or vector instructions, and we do so reluctantly. We much prefer writing cross-platform constant time Go. https://go.dev/wiki/AssemblyPolicy

The actual implementations are in that tree, too: https://cs.opensource.google/go/go/+/master:src/crypto/
I think the author is not an embedded guy and assumed that ESP32 is the generic name given to these sort of devices.

Either way, I am sure this was a fun project and he achieved what he wanted to do. But if this happened to me I would probably try to reverse engineer the device to free it from PetNet cloud. It would be fun and cool and interesting and I would probably never finish it..
What I've heard about Garry Tan so far suggests he is childish and out of touch.

- He blocks random people on Twitter over the slightest disagreement.

- He capriciously refused a once-in-ten-thousand-lifetimes offer from Peter Thiel for the safety of a steady paycheck at Microsoft. Someone who is that risk-averse really shouldn't be role-playing as Tupac.

How can he be a role-model to the thousands of founders who typically take massive personal risks with no backup plan?
I honestly couldn't care less. Outrage from people with nothing better to do.
Very interesting. Wonder what a killer app for the Vision can be.
Stepped license for heavier and more powerful vehicles is how it works for motorcycles in at least several European countries. (And of course for heavy lorries pretty much everywhere, AFAIK. But, as you say, that needs to split up into far more categories on the lower end.)
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It’s sort of my own personal (open source) Swiss Army knife of plpgsql development. It’s a complete work in progress, not production ready, probably has bugs, and needs more and better documentation - but I use it daily. It lets me use Postgres as my main development environment.

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And no one cares I commit on main
Is it fair for profitable companies to fire staff to make more money?
According to Bard, the EU purchase from the App store a bit more than the rest of the world (per capita).

"Therefore, citizens of the European Union make up around 5.6% of the world population."

https://g.co/bard/share/6753ec350a27
You're not an engineer.
No, it was an Applet from Java era.
To think that (relatively?) small things like that could jumpstart a career... I'll be honest, I'm still young and I wonder what kind of journey is ahead of me
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TechAltar on youtube posted a video last year about the decline of Philips. They apparently just excel at toothbrushes, smart bulbs, and shavers nowadays, and cash in on the name through licensing. [1] It is an unfortunate tragedy that so many people died because a corporation did the wrong things.

The US FDA has many flaws to be sure, and they are not known for making fast decisions. It sounds like more lives could have been saved.

A member of my family fortunately stopped using their device when it was recalled and has struggled to find a replacement.

[1] https://youtu.be/WE58YisgFeQ?si=3mWRxg-b9WOPFKQm
They killed at least 561 people, knew about it, covered it up for years, and you want to debate whether manslaughter charges might be appropriate? Any justice system which allows that to happen without imprisoning the people responsible for the rest of their lives is completely broken, says me.

It's not casual cynicism either, at this point it's professional cynicism because we've all seen this film 1000 times before and we know how it typically ends. Personally I'd reserve the use of words such as "toxic" and "dangerous" for Philips' CPAP machines and their leadership.

They're going to pay less than $1 million per victim while their annual profits are in the billions. Would you feel good about that amount if they killed your dad, mom, brother, sister, son or daughter?
The Qt licensing model is actually a bit less restrictive, since Qt is distributed under the LGPL, and Slint is full-fat GPLv3
> are microwave links still common?

Yes, they have their purposes. I work in finance and we use microwave links to talk between systems in Chicago & New York. Fiber links are the backup, here! The reason is purely latency as the bandwidth of the fiber links is orders of magnitude higher. The major downside is the microwave links drop quite frequently as they're sensitive to the totality of the weather between data centers (e.g. any sort of precipitation as a crow flies between NYC & CHI and there's potential for dropped links).
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My armchair answer to that question is that Google isn’t a product company.

They might have had similar or better technical AI capabilities, but they aren’t great at productizing it.
They are pointing out his hypocrisy.
> Something happened to business software.

> You used to pay for it once, install it, and run it. Whether on someone’s computer, or a server for everyone, it felt like you owned it. And you did.

What a beautiful but almost forgotten world.
Of course Emacs has a mode for it:

https://github.com/redguardtoo/vc-msg
The author or Slint worked on Qt and is one of the designer of the QMetaObject system and QML.
> but he's apologised for it so I don't think it's fair to drag him down.

So, the way this works is, he can say whatever he likes, but people shouldn't say mean things about him? How does this work? I'm genuinely curious; this, on the face of it, makes no sense to me at all. Is it because he's rich? I don't get it.
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x++

is a postfix kind-of function

a ? b : c

is ternary infix

Edit: arguably

/* comment! */

is a function that takes an unquoted string. It's a no-op function so the compiler removes it at compile time (giggle)
That's interesting. For me that paper is more than readable – probably because I know all the terms, as I studied SDT extensively. But I can understand how terms like "introjected" can sound alien.

Before replying to expectations vs reality, we need to establish and agree on facts. Are you saying that in US, across all states and all sports, competition prizes has been replaced by participation trophies and you see a negative trends in sports participation?
I've been made aware of fiction authors that publish in free platforms (Say Wattpad) that use their existing following to publish either new stories (less common) or physical (Maybe improved) versions of already online books
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You can read Franz' PhD dissertation on it here[1]. While it's reasonable to describe it as serialising an AST, most of the Oberon compilers of the time did not have an AST per se, and so what you serialize is entirely arbitrary to your choice of node types, and the operations used by the Oberon version are low-level enough that while some work would have needed to be done to be generic enough if one wanted to more easily support other languages, it's largely moot. There's no large semantic gap between what is serialized and the generated code.

At that point it's no different from with Java - if you add new bytecodes, the JVM needs to support it. Same here - if you add new node types, the code generator will need to support it.

Just as you wouldn't change the JVM bytecodes for every language change, you likewise wouldn't need to add new node types to support most language changes for Juice either. You could just as well choose to generate what in effect would be an intermediate representation instead. You'd only add new node types if they provide a sufficiently big win over generating more complex output, just as with the JVM

That said, nothing would've prevented dynamically updating the code generator.

[1] https://oberoncore.ru/_media/library/franz_m.code-generation...
Now this is my kind of engineering!

KISS in action is beautiful, don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
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They killed people for money. They will get away with it because the managerial class is generally not held responsible for their actions. One legal system is not immune from criticism just because worse ones exist.
Apart from respiratory infections: cardiovascular events. There was a famous paper about guys dropping dead while/after cleaning snow from the sidewalks/driveways (Illinois?). Not necessary from the physical shovelling but from just riding a domestic snowplow. It is good enough be exposed to cold: vessels constrict, blood pressure rises, you may drop dead when old, obese, unfit and with atherosclerosis.

*edit*: article stating that the spikes in mortality were within 3 days of a cold blast.
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Actually no, it is not what happened in Vietnam and Afghanistan. In Vietnam there was constant foreign infiltration by the enemy and they used quite nasty "tactics" to gain local influence. Afghanistan is not much different. In principle the side that was more willing to instill more terror into local populace won.

The same problems of logistics also do apply to the local opposition. If you run out of weapons or ammunition then you are done. If your supply lines are cut then you are done. It is also the main reason why the two wars mentioned were lost - incapacity of political will to cut the enemy supply lines.
But the question was why there's more than one code point between normal quotes, left quotes, and right quotes, and the answer is that it isn't possible for left and right quotes to share a code point.
I am not a medical professional but was recently officially diagnosed with sleep apnea and am using a CPAP. I was taping my mouth, which did work. However, I was strongly advised against doing this when I mentioned this to my sleep specialist. It’s possible for your nose to get obstructed and you can risk suffocating.
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While that's true, the thing where ~all bluetick replies are promoted above ~all normal replies is a post-Musk 'innovation'. Stupid idea; there's 25 years of experience showing that pay-for-attention is corrosive to social sites (dating/hookup sites have been trying to make it work basically forever, and have generally ended up having to ration it).
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It was the several paragraphs of history and background I didn't get past, instead of just cutting right to the value prop and how it works.
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Two fold: Legal consequences if some of the people threatened by him want to sue or have him indicted about it. And whatever YC as his employer sees fit for the resulted harm on the reputation of the company.

So, in the end, it can be everything from nothing to a criminal charge and conviction with loosing his job somewhere in the middle.
The same applies to regular jobs. Most job ads have a bullet list of
requirements. There is some flexibility but when I was interested in a Ruby job as a C# developer I had a real hard time and didn’t get any offers although I got close. Same for Haskell but there was only one company hiring for that ever in my city. And that is not taking into account the pay hit. Which is a luxury for the unmortgaged/kidless or both.
I'd like to add the caution that songs might change a lot during their author's life, and the "suzanne" she heard might be different from the one we know.
Unfortunately mathjax_conv.py is missing so `make epub` fails...
Decoding has a component that is proportional to the bitrate. Anime has a much lower bitrate than say a 4k bluray movie. The truth though is somewhere in the middle, as recent CPUs are getting to a point where they can do all the heavy decoding on their own, but older models (that are still widespread) still struggle.
Reading this article by Rebecca Solnit [0] posted on HN here [1]
absolutely helped me make sense of the Garry Tan story, and what is
going on in Californian politics.

It's well worth reading, but is a long and initially tedious article
bemoaning the passing of a gentler, humane culture.

Then about halfway through it grew some balls and teeth, and frankly I
found it shocking. I had no idea California was this degenerate.
And for those too close to it, no, this isn't just how every country's
politics is. It reads like Chicago in the 1920/30's, or perhaps more
like Mexico or El Salvator, with billionaires instead of drug lords.

Read alongside "The Californian Ideology" [2] it's eye opening and
paints a great picture of the slow trajectory of San Francisco and
California from a left-liberal counter-culture to extremist far-right
billionaire technofascism.

[0] https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n03/rebecca-solnit/in-th...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39226296

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Californian_Ideology
Did you also share that random baloney on a public account with your company logo on it? Probably not. And alcohol is not an excuse just because it happens to be legal compared to other drugs.
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> I assumed that was more the result of doing math on the properties the model generated for the tokens king, man, queen, etc.

This isn't wrong, the model does do a bunch of "math" (HUGE matrix and vector multiplications) on the vectors generated by the tokens, but it's not like the model has any recognizable process that resembles our own reasoning process (unless you ask it to explain "its own reasoning", but the fact that the model explains it in terms of human reasoning doesn't mean that's the way it works internally -- as of today LLMs do not have introspection capabilities).

I suspect most people who haven't thought very deeply about what computation, reasoning and intelligence is would need some time to come to terms to what generative AI is telling us about them.

If it helps, do note that the models have been trained on terrabytes of training data, and the model has "learnt" a bunch of patterns that it could apply to "king+man-woman=" to come to "queen" as the answer. We could even speculate that the word2vec vectors for king and queen would have some dimensions that roughly translates to "class" (monarch), and "gender" (same for man and woman), and it would be relatively straightforward for the model to grab the token that has a signal on those same dimensions. But that's kind of a crude way to look at LLMs since the billions of parameters aren't there only to make money for nVidia, so the actual processes involve much, much, much more compute that human minds would not be able to comprehend.
Because keeping the user on Google, so they don't need to visit the actual page, means that people won't make web pages anymore. that was a real concern.
Why can’t every satellite have a small rocket/firework like thing on the back pointing out to the expanse and if the power goes out or it doesn’t receive a signal from the dead man’s switch for long enough then it ignites? Even with a big mass you don’t need to give it much of a shove downwards in a zero friction environment to speed the de-orbit period up.

I’m sure I’m missing something but it just seems like a no brainer to make the deorbit process speed up with something relatively failsafe, as opposed to hopefully/maybe saving a bit of fuel to push it that way eventually
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Spain, see my other answer :)
only poor people have to follow the law...
The same way Cloudflare can report on foreign state hackers, other countries can discover and report on ours, no?
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Retrofit? The singular they has been used in English literature as far back as the 13th century, not exactly recent
Not everybody needs convincing. JSON already won.
I don't think we can ever really "fix computer security" because there's so much software being written all the time by just about anyone and the demand keeps growing.

Hacking computers is usually just a means to an end: fraud or theft. Competence is more than just preventing hacks.
> I keep hearing about drugs rewiring the brain ("Adderal causes changes in brain in long-term use") which is always taken as a bad thing, but shouldn't medicinal drugs that improve mental function be exactly expected to do that?

I can't recall right now which paper it was what described this. But this indeed seems to be the case and towards a state which is the goal for the patient in the first place.
It would seem the risk of death from the CPAP is far higher than that of mouth taping. A quick google and I can’t find any injuries or deaths from mouth taping but here we have confirmed hundreds of deaths from faulty CPAP machines
Singular they dates back to the 14th century. Isn't 600 years long enough to stop quibbling over it?