skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can think of a couple people I know who work in high-end manual work but they both work effectively alone. One does old-school illumination and another makes expensive handmade watches. Both are what would probably qualify as "master craftsmen" both in the sense that they're at the top of their game in their field and that even if they don't necessarily have people working under them (one does, the other doesn't) they at least are both passing on their knowledge (the one who doesn't have employees still teaches a class for others to learn illumination).

I'm not sure this is the sort of thing that lends itself well to vertical integration due to the radically different set of skills required and maybe most critically, low volume of the final product. For example, making high-end ink has entirely different skill and material requirements from making high-end illuminated pages. But someone who makes high-end ink can produce in much higher volume than a single illuminator requires (not to mention it takes more than just ink). Likewise for watchmaking, the manufacturing of most of the parts can be generalized and scaled up while any individual watchmaker only needs so many gears and springs and such.
very fine lines: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/Sun_opti...
> You should keep that sort of tip under your hat and short them yourself.

Why?

The more people shorting something, the better chance for short to succeed. It's in the best self-interest of all people shorting something to be as loud as possible about that.
NVIDIA has the software aspect which leaves them leagues ahead, but AMD is trying to play catchup.
This is one of my own personal gripes with modern interfaces. Interactive widgets are often indistinguishable from non-interactive elements.

I'm only in my 40s, still very hands on in tech and I still struggle with some applications. It's gotten to the point where I now loathe most web-based and mobile applications.
Isn't replacement of complex patterns better served by generated regexes (and both .NET's built-in and Rust's most popular regex crate are very fast)?

(questioning whether this particular case is illustrative for the point the article makes)
I actually think they are quite reasonable compared to a lot of the alternatives.

It gives a good framework for going from business’ overall goal down to what are we going to do with this product the next four months?

I am asked to set my yearly goals in January and in December I have to argue how I met them. With okrs being tertiary you get a bit more manageable time horizon, while maintaining half year and yearly goals.

There are a few silly things about the framework, like how goals should be unobtainably optimistic and that phrasing of goals are not “improve user satisfaction”, but “I want to make the user cry of joy when opening product”. It’s stupid, but user stories also dictates silly phrasing.

But as the article and comment section shows, it’s no cure for stupidity or bad managers.
Here's my personal blog, set up in 2019 on github pages (free hosting), built with Jekyll [1] which supports markdown, code snippets, tags, sections and more.

For a technical person, it does the job pretty well and almost without any maintenance effort:

- Github: https://github.com/TCGV/Blog

- Live: https://thomasvilhena.com/

[1] https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll
If metallic dust from burnt up satellites can affect the magnetosphere on earth, could we do the same to create a magnetosphere on mars?
Servo was about parallelism.

Mozilla tried multiple times to parallelize CSS style calculation in Gecko which is written in C++, and failed all of them. When they tried again in Servo with Rust, they succeeded first time.

They integrated Rust-written parallel CSS style calculation to Gecko. As a result, to this day, Firefox is the only web browser which can parallelize CSS style calculation, and beats every other browser in CSS style calculation performance.

The meme that Rust is easier to parallelize is true.
Why would I do that? I think the fact that this sort of insane manic runups happens every few months on an anointed stock since the GameStop spectacle shows that institutional investors have now harnessed that sort of movement into a regular market maneuver. This isn't a sign of a functional market, why would I do something rational in a broken market?
Going short a bubble is a reliable way to become insolvent unless you time the market perfectly, in other words luck.
I love the project. what's your thoughts on this syntax?

class Blinky

microcontroller @mc(RP2040Kit)
led-indicator @led.blue
.input(&.microcontroller.gpio13)
.gnd(&.microcontroller.power.gnd)
.resistor.value(100, 10%)

voltage-regulator @regulator(Reg3V3)
.power-out(&.microcontroller.power)

usb-c-connector @usbc
.power(&.voltage-regulator.power-in)
I've bricked a couple of older phones due to very minor hardware version differences meaning fatal software results.

I'm always scared of messing up the delicate process of custom recovery installation, custom ROM installation and rooting. Some of the hardware variations are essentially unknowable outside of seeing if it works or if it's bricked.

Having said that, there are four functioning LineageOS phones in my household.
I wonder why they don't sell more stock in a public offering at these prices, then use the cash along with shares to acquire a bunch of stuff.
https://archive.is/0U41Z
For syntax highlighting: https://marketplace.getpublii.com/plugins/syntax-highlighter...
What the idea of "sex robots" tells us about prostitution
I've tried to offer alternative options (Intel Gaudi, AMD, etc) to researchers here on campus. There is zero interest.
First of all, you obviously only did this in cases where there was some prospect that a crime might have been committed, not in any instance of something mysterious happening.

Second, the police did attempt to figure out why the man jumped from the balcony. However, without the cooperation of the other people who were in the apartment, there is really no way to know for sure. And without knowing for sure, there's little prospect of anyone being convicted of a crime. The police don't have infinite resources. At some point you have to accept that the circumstances around a death may never be fully known. This happens all the time in the real world.
Can the smart folks on HN point out to a good resource or a collection of resource for a software engineer to get up to speed with LLMs and Gen AI concepts, and understand basic deployments and use cases?
So you could've done science experiments in your office then, or archaeology in the basement, and it'd have passed as doing your job.
Transit Maps Hall of Shame – How not to represent public transport
That's more than the GDP of Argentine in a change that has happened in less than two months. It's crazy how we see such speculation as a normal process and I wonder if that's really a good thing.
https://archive.ph/2023.11.10-153614/https://www.wired.com/s...
It always strikes me as odd why they're too starved to investigate unexplained deaths but at the same time they're not too starved to investigate misgendering tweets[1]. There are two explanations I can offer:

- misgendering tweets are more important than unexplained deaths

- police would be less starved if they allocated their priorities better

1 - https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-surrey-47638527
I wish billionaires would spend their money on this, rather than the crap that the WEF comes out with.
Many of the recommendations in this thread are great. Go with a SSG; almost all of the bigger players will be able to do everything you list and (a lot) more. Personally a big fan of Astro[1] but Hugo, Jekyll, 11ty, etc. will do the job just fine and there's imo no reason to pick one over the other in your case apart from working with a framework in a language you're comfortable with.

If you're looking to get started right away and don't care about having it hosted by someone else there's also bearblog[2] which I can recommend btw.

[1] https://astro.build/
[2] https://bearblog.dev/
People arguing this usually mean they want to deal with only one set of bugs, and since Chrome won't die, Firefox must die.
Bummer for me: Moto G5 plus isn't supported. I'm rather forced to abandon my phone because my employer (thanks to MS) is dropping support for BYOD.
Just add a verifier: /item?id=123;vf=ixkdS1Xb

Then select * from item where id=123 and vf='ixkdS1Xb'
> The problem is that it's a really hard problem for which no one-size-fits-all solution exists.

Not really, IME.

Let's say I want a SMPS. Something basic, say 12-24v in 3.3v out at 1A. I can buy a module and solder it onto my PCB, or copy a reference design out of a PDF, or vendors like TI have tools like webbench to help me generate a custom design.

The vendor wants to hand me a proven design and have me buy their chips. I want to be handed a proven design and know my project's going to work right first time. But no, the likes of Altium have got to have their vendor lock-in by making copy-and-paste absolutely as difficult as possible.

There's no great skill or inventiveness in me drawing out the world's billionth SMPS design. I'm not "solving a hard problem" - it's drudgery.

> and there's a pretty decent chance these days they'll be openly available for the part you are using. But they always contain mistakes,

So you'd agree, then, that when a human copies from a PDF manually there's a substantial chance of them introducing errors?

Are you and I not equally vulnerable to making such mistakes? Frankly I find it absurdly wasteful that the industry has transistors in the same package but with different pinouts and the 'solution' to keeping this stuff in order is... senior engineers checking junior engineers' work against PDFs manually.
There's also an aspect where pieces of infrastructure control systems (valves etc) can freeze over externally, and some systems will have cooling system that can't run at too low temperature - Essentially, you have either not enough heat entering the cooling system and the system freezing itself, or the system cooling the heat exchange materials too much thanks to increased efficiency from cold air - freezing the system again. Happens for example when you install in a server room a too powerful HVAC system that can't "dial down" low enough to actual heat that your room gives out, freezing the HVAC heat exchanger resulting in cooling system downtime.
mmm... interesting. But wouldn't be a problem for rockets to land there if metallic dust is used to generate the shield?
> Are intel & amd really just sitting by and allowing nvidia to scoop this market?

Yes, because unlike AMD and Intel, NVIDIA really is a software company with a hardware division, like Apple and Microsoft.
Yes, but hardware is hard. Reliably building up to enough volume to put a dent in Nvidia sales is extremely hard and independent of designing the successful product, tying it to current software APIs and convincing users. I am not surprised that a new company, however talented, cannot crack that nut. My 2c.
That is such a pedantic discussion. Soon, we will be requiring multi-year studies to confirm that, because there is ice on the freezers that still run after the rolling blackouts, we are still on an ice age.

Meanwhile, emitting another 37GT of carbon to the atmosphere is preapproved.

That is how inaction is enforced.
Although the article compares it to sticks of dynamite, 3 MJ of energy is worth about $0.08 at wholesale electricity rates. So indeed, even if they increase output a couple orders of magnitude, precision gold-plated capsules don't seem economic.
I recently gave up with the cat and mouse game trying to keep my banking apps working and defected to an iPhone. If I'm going to be locked down, Apple does it better. Sorry, Google, your main advantage to me over Apple was flexibility. Of course, now I have to deal with the completely locked down App Store, which is a diseased pit of useless subscription and ad riddled apps. I do miss f-droid. Why is my only real choice between two platforms that are actively antagonistic toward me?
I’ve surly benefit from both the month and the products of VC and speculation.
Timing shorts is tough; even clear bubbles can last unexpectedly long.

As popularized in "The Big Short": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Burry

> During his payments toward the credit default swaps, Burry suffered an investor revolt, where some investors in his fund worried his predictions were inaccurate and demanded to withdraw their capital. Eventually, Burry's analysis proved correct: He made a personal profit of $100 million and a profit for his remaining investors of more than $700 million. Scion Capital ultimately recorded returns of 489.34% (net of fees and expenses) between its November 1, 2000, inception and June 2008. The S&P 500, widely regarded as the benchmark for the US market, returned just under 3%, including dividends over the same period.
But burning up doesn't make them disappear - the resulted compounds will still be in the atmosphere. Doesn't that matter?
I meant that a founder who is already confident of her product or her ability to grow her business without the YC cachet, or, more substantially, a founder who is already acutely aware of the dangers of premature (fundability) optimization, would naturally not feel the need to apply to YC. If she does not apply, then by virtue of YC's positioning, she has been filtered out in favour of founders who prioritize looking impressive.
Nvidia has a "monopoly" on the graphics card market because of Cuda. AMD's hardware is catching up, but until there is a Cuda alternative, Nvidia will continue to dominate.
Barrier to entry is insane.

Their only competition ATI is also trying to fight Intel in the CPU single vendor market. And I don’t think they are even trying that hard in gfx.
I dunno, my favourite stats [0] are telling me that the solar market in Germany is actually pretty tame and they ended up going with wind.

The thing about the economies of scale is that usually there is a sort of burning front where there is some niche that an expensive technology makes sense in (like solar in remote sites) followed by slow drawing down of the cost curve and the niches that get filled moving ever more mainstream.

Forcing the issue just resulted in them phasing out a bunch of perfectly serviceable nuclear plants. It hasn't pushed solar along much compared to economic applications of the tech. I mean, maybe China have been doing something stupid to push the market along but it'd be them not Germany.

> The Afd vote is mostly a vote discoupled from reality (xenophobic to begin with).

I am agape at the sloppy thinking people use for their political enemies. Are AfD voters like mushrooms in that it rained a few years ago and they suddenly pop up? People cope with migration if times are good; but they're going to get unhappy when the economy isn't expanding in real terms.

This is the same dynamics as Trump and Brexit. You have these countries with 20%, 30% per capita energy draw downs [1] and then it turns out there is a big local populations who are rather perturbed by the fact that they are being squeezed by the hand of the market and want something to change.

It continues to amaze me how people never try to link the most obvious things that would be upsetting people to the large number of upset people. I promise to stop talking about the AfD now.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-energy-source-sub?c...

[1] EDIT I'm just going to jump back in and add this graph of GDP v. energy per capita. Some might suspect there is a link of some sort... https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-use-per-person-vs-...
> Why would someone pay money to back up to the internet what they downloaded from the internet to begin with?

most of your points lack insight/pragmatism but this one made ma laugh
This showed up for me a couple days ago. It sounded really dumb, so I tapped the X to try and dismiss it about 20 times, but it wouldn’t go away. I was hoping my persistence in trying to close it would be noted, as this entire concept makes no sense to me. I figured they were going to try and predict my mood/personality based on the color I picked and recommend video’s accordingly.

I found this line pretty interesting…

>Users on Lemmy also pointed out…

I think this is the first time I’ve seen Lemmy mentioned organically, outside of content about Reddit alternatives.
Am I the only one who found it utterly boring?
IR is obsolete. The idea that we can understand the relations between states in the context of new technologies by looking at past examples is obsolete.

Imagine a field called CR (corporate relations) where people try to understand the relationship between Apple and Google by looking at the relationship between the dutch and the british east india company. Absurd.
Acquisition says you can’t grow the current business faster than you can buy share. These results say quite the opposite.
I don't think so, at least not in the Pro line up and while I do very much like the Touch Bar, I like M3 Max a lot more. :o)
And you won't get Skype, Slack, Teams and many other applications people use on a daily basis on Linux, at all. Features on Mac will be limited compared to Windows version, because the team prioritizes work on the platform with the largest userbase. There will be more inconsistencies in feature and UI for "desktop" version vs web version, if companies still bother to maintain two versions.

That's the future you want to see, huh?

Have you developed a cross-platform desktop application in the last few years and make sure everything works on every platform? Probably not. If there is a way to make it easy, cheap, reliable to support multiple platforms and the solution takes little system resources, I'm sure everyone will want to do that. Before that happens, stop your wasting complaining about the Electorn mode of making apps. This will not change. It is the only thing that makes business sense and make developers' life easy at this time.

Or to put it simply, are you going to pay for the extra cost used for developing "native" applications for each platform? Put your money where your mouth is.
How do I get Asia?
Adam Neumann, Dan Loeb's Third Point Plot Bid for WeWork
Wow, the reply from the CEO was really tone deaf.

They clearly do not understand how to engage with the community.
I just mean like do the same with other mental models they have articles about on fs so everyone can comment on how they've applied them...

You don't have to write or do anything, I an encouraging you to do a series in terms of posting more in a similar way so everyone can engage on that
China on track for ultra-high speed trains with hyperloop test 'setting record'
It might be over bought, but what you call speculation is a good signal to the company and others. People are seeing the potential and importance of what Nvidia is doing so this attracts more investment and competition. It'll take a lot for a competitor to come in so the prize better be very large
This is just the latest example of what has been happening since GameStop. It's a sign that institutional investors took the concept and have been applying it to different stock every few months since then, DWAC, UPST ect. It's not real, it shows the market has been totally gamed.
I'd really like to understand what you mean by this?

Yes of course, mathematics is used in the design of the instrument but it's not really a "mathematical" / precise device in the same way a calculator is, nor does a good musician conform to mathematics only when expressing themselves using the instrument.

In traditional musics, people use stones which when hit will make a sound that might conform to some frequency, but I wouldn't think the stone is "mathematical"?

I completely understand math is involved in Western and Eastern musical theory, but a saxophone being "mathematical" ? My trumpets and saxophones will only play the correct tones if I work with it to do so.

Disclaimer: been playing sax, trumpet since I was 6.
>Watching the matrix reloaded for the 10th time, and seeing the actors appear in two places

Nope, it's not a compression artifact, those white braid guys are actually twins!

(jk)
There are a bunch of companies doing that. Cerebras, Tenstorrent, Nuvia and so on. Hyperscalers like Google and Amazon also try to get on the game while the field is pretty new.
But as as far as general purpose AI acceleration goes Nvidia has a massive headstart because they provided a rock solid software framework from the beginning, at a time AI wasn't having much reach beyond student projects. They captured the entire mindshare of academia and hobbyists.
I've made a stab at GEB numerous times in my life, in very different stages of my life. I'm close to 60 now so I've HAD a few different stages. I haven't been able to get through it; maybe not even the first 300 pages.

I may try the "skip that bit" trick and tilt at this windmill once more.

(NB: I hated "The Three Body Problem" when so many seem to love it. I wonder if there's any correlation there.)
Numi – Beautiful Calculator for Mac
Previous discussion (179 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26624386
Yip, that's the explanation.

Making 11bn on a 19bn revenue is, prima fascie, evidence of a very uncompetitive market where this player has some extraordinary anti-competitive market power.

Hopefully competitors can take this boom and use it to bring this down.

I'm downvoted no doubt by double-thinkers who think 2x on the cost of a graphics card is a bad thing, and would prefer not to pay it.

nvidia in the rent-seeker position over all graphics compute is a terrible position to be in, for everyone but a handful of nvidia shareholders
the idea is that if it sounds good on the 'wildly different setup' (i.e. posh speakers in controlled environment) then it will also sound good on cheap earbuds... but not the other way round.

to me the whole 'mastering AI' stuff misses at least some of the point of what mastering really is, but i suppose it'll be useful for people doing stuff on their own who wouldn't pay a proper mastering engineer anyway.
Neat, today I learned! Sadly no photos on that article, but I did find one here: http://www.computersammler.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/IMG...

Ahead of its time, clearly!
I don't see the contrast here.

> proudly declares himself Unix herder

You know what herder's herd? Cattle. Not pets.

> wants to keep track of which systems are important.

I mean obviously? Industry does the same. Probably with automation, tools and tagging during provisioning.

The pet mentality is when you create a beautiful handcrafted spreadsheet showing which services run on the server named "Mjolnir" and which services run on the server named "Valinor". The cattle mentality is when you have the same in a distributed key-value database with UUIDs instead of fancyful server names.

Or the pet mentality is when you prefer to not shut down "Mjolnir" because it has more than 2 years of uptime or some other silly reason like that. (as opposed to not shutting it down because you know that you would loose more money that way than by risking it overheating and having to buy a new one.)
The Newton was mostly held back by the lack of money. Something had to be axed and Newton was the nail that stuck out.

Apple of today don't have this problem or feature.
TSLA is sort of crashing. The real stock valuation should be more like $150
A funny example of this I came across recently.

There's a video game called Sonic Chronicles--just before it was completed, the developers were prevented from using the soundtrack they had made and were forced to recompose new songs for the entire game for reasons that remain murky. The result are some almost incomprehensible pieces of minimally instrumentated MIDI music like [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o47N-aYd08).

Yet despite sounding like complete ass, those songs were actually lifted from previous Sonic games, where they sound [completely different](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4-DQ4hGRJo) despite being structurally identical.