skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm happy to say that my company writes "good" code, at least on the production side, and I have genuinely learned a ton and become a better engineer while working here. The experimental, test, and sometimes CI code is shit. Test code makes sense, it's immature prototype. CI should be much better than it is, it's extremely fail-safe and its false-positive rate is a major headache for the entire software org. But our production code is genuinely very good. You won't get a PR merged with literals in code or custom functions that could be replaced by STD functions or unnecessary copy operations, or without thorough design documentation and comprehensive unit tests and CPU load test results and a review of the effects of your change on near and distant stakeholders. (Our code could literally kill large numbers of people, so it's a good idea to maintain these standards.)

Previously I worked for half a dozen early-stage startups that wrote super-janky demo code that would have to be power-cycled multiple times to get to a fully operational state and no one at the company had more than a year experience outside academia so founders didn't see a problem with that level of reliability. In those roles I learned a lot about math and dealing with giant egos, but not much about software engineering.

Point is, there are companies who rigorously enforce good code requirements, where you can learn from others and improve your skills, where "good code" is the norm.
I'm really bad with names. I almost wish for unique color highlighting for every name. I would remember previous scenes or conversations way better than keeping track of tons of character names.
Certain people often complain about “systemic” problems but never aim the magnifying glass at themselves and go on to claim there’s no censorship effect, there’s no bias, etc.
'difficult' is relatively meaningless, or I guess only meaningful relatively. Basically once you know something (e.g., a particular leetcode problem, or how to paginate an API) it's easy all of a sudden, but it was hard before you knew it.

The more interesting endeavor is to make the complicated simple.
To me, these features look very unappetizing.

As a teenager I’ve been "traumatized" by Pascal, but I was lucky to find a refuge in HTML and CSS. After I got a job as a web designer I discovered Python and I realized that I could actually program.

The people who came up with this new syntax have different needs that I do and probably have a different kind of brain than mine.
If anyone thinks they can tell the difference, I encourage them to take this abx test comparing lossy/lossless streaming. I would be shocked if you pass:

https://abx.digitalfeed.net/
So A* is the most optimal search algorithm under the specific constraints it specifies. You can't do better.

However, sometimes the specific domain you are searching has other constraints that can be exploited to do better than A*. An example of this being Jump Point Search that exploits certain properties of grid searches if you can only move in certain ways.

If you were able to write a general searching algorithm that can effectively exploit the whatever the specific properties of the underlying domain "automatically" without you having to actually work out what they are, that would be useful right?
My point is that while Cisco was an early winner, Amazon and Google started growing a few years later and were much larger winners in the end. I think there is a possibility that history may repeat with Nvidia -but I have no idea what new companies are going to rise in the AI era.
It is weird and disturbing that free speech has become seen as a far right value as if the only reason anyone would support free speech would be to use slurs.

Freedom of speech is the freedom to dissent; you can't have dissent in a society that doesn't allow freedom of speech. Yet the left has become strangely anti-free speech and supportive of censorship.

Both the left and the right are depressingly authoritarian, at least from where I'm standing -but you'd expect fascists (and their supporters) to be.
How did you figure out the UPS was the cause?
The random Amazon items are probably the "brushing" scam[0] which I guess is about using stolen payment to generate "verified purchases" for fake reviews.

[0]: https://www.uspis.gov/news/scam-article/brushing-scam
Intuitive Machines-1 Lunar Landing News Briefing at 5:00pm ET
Really? I would say it's about the same quality as the preview. Did you download the full color PDF or the black and white PDF?
So Satoshi used: Japanese pseudonym. German email domain. British English and a US Timezone.

His ability to generate entropy in his identity is significantly underrated.
Has this aggressive churning ever actually produced a successful product at google? From the outside it’s hard to see how incentivising it is of any benefit to the company?
The aides aren't lobbiests though. Actually I think the problem is that many politicians are using lobbiests as substitutes for aides. The aides work directly for the senator and thus the state, not for a private organization.

Think of it as the continued decentralization that democracies are. The point is to increase the number of keys to power because then it becomes difficult to amass enough keys. If the politician has more aides, sure they can be corrupted too. But now you would need to corrupt many aides as opposed to only the singular politician. You can't just bribe the politician as the aide would then be likely to whistleblow.
I was about to pounce, but this ratio has really compressed since the Great Society single parent household boom.

1968: 7.3X more women

2017: 4.4X more women

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2018/04/25/the-cha...
> Old-school science fiction often proposed that we’d be entering a new age of art and leisure, as robots and AI take over menial tasks. In fact today I think we’re seeing AI and robots — in part — taking jobs from humans, and in order to provide entertainment and economic leverage to richer humans.

It was also predicted in the mid 20th century that rising productivity would create a shorter work-week; instead we have figured out how to prevent workers from being compensated for higher productivity.

https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/
A good test I typically use is this ABX test:

https://abx.digitalfeed.net/
Hi! Author here: I use a Balmuda Phone now, an exotic Android 12 Japanese discontinued phone that still receives security updates and weighs 138g with a 4.9" display. The iPhone Mini is my previous phone. It sold millions and millions of units, close to the entire number of yearly shipments of Google's Pixel line, but that was not enough for Apple. I like phones that are less than 140mm in height, less than 5" screen, but run modern software. Apple made enough that it would have been considered a huge success for any other company in the world. But alas :)
Driverless taxis are causing less mayhem on SF streets. Officials explain why
Right, which was fine for them before there was major competition. But starting in 2020, they have basically attrited most of their talented labor force to OAI and competitors who were not similarly dysfunctional.
What exactly is 'traditional' nonstick cookware? Teflon?

I avoid it, because I know I'm too stupid to never make a mistake with either a bad scratch, or bad temperature control.
We need to coin the term "hyperthetically".

"hypo" means under or less than.
because the vector contains characters, so clearly it encodes categorical data and not numeric
Data brokers and companies who own data brokers (Oracle) collectively spend about the same amount on lobbying as Google or Facebook did.

They know raising a stink about that data after roe v wade was overturned would draw way too much attention to the industry and the fact that us Americans really don't have any privacy protections.

So it is restricted to the types of data that those lobbyists think are too toxic to try and protect. Typically they seem to use 'national defense' as their version of 'think about the children' to make sure they can collect and sell this information.

There really aren't laws about PII at the data broker level, Even HIPAA doesn't apply.

"In most cases, unless the app is provided to you by a covered entity or its business associate - PDF, the HIPAA Rules also do not protect the privacy of data you’ve downloaded or entered into mobile apps for your personal use, regardless of where the information came from."

https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/guidance...

So if the data broker wanted to really fight this, they could probably win this battle but they would risk losing the war for the entire industry.
In what way?

I've used a number of interoffice communication apps, and was on IRC in the hey days of dialup.

Slack (for work purposes) just nails the experience for a broad set of users.
Correct. Workers will never win at a game designed by capital. The only path forward is exercising labor power by withdrawing it for political ends.
Nvidia does admittedly have a lock on the market at the CUDA level but not necessarily at the Pytorch level.
Is it possible to build end-to-end autonomous discovery systems using LGMs?
I do not have a Mac anymore but I do have several computers and a phone and being able to access my documents from anywhere is very handy
Show HN: Overlayed – A Discord Overlay for Mac, Linux, and Windows
Hi HN

Overlayed allows you to see who is currently in the voice channel you’re participating in. It shows you your voice status such as speaking, deafened, and muted, but also other participants as well.

It’s built with Tauri, React, zustand, Tailwind, shadcn/ui, and sprinkles of rust here and there.

I get this question at least once a week, “why don’t you use the built-in Discord overlay?”. Here is the short answer, the Discord game overlay only supports Windows and a handful of games. That means for someone who is chronically online, using macOS daily, and primarily working in a text editor, the Discord game overlay doesn't work for me.

Feel free to check it out and if you have questions, comments, or concerns please do share.

Source: https://github.com/Hacksore/overlayed

Twitter: https://x.com/OverlayedDev
Regular Li ion has more recharge cycles than most lead acid batteries that come with UPS. Even high power density liion still usually has 4-500 recharge cycles before reaching a maximum of 80% SOC vs the original capacity. With smarter power management you can get away with much more (for example, if you don't fully cycle the battery)
Very few projects are created truly anonymously. I believe the Bitcoin creator had a real motive to stay anonymous, and a practical use case that was driving him to make Bitcoin eg transferring large amounts of illegitimate wealth internationally and outside of the banking system.
We've came to the sad state of ecosystem where tools work by default on Linux and rarely on Windows
I like the presentation of this, heres 10 different environments and multiple videos of each.
You could add another ssd and have that be a linux distro. Its not a partition per se, since the whole drive is dedicated to it.

I have that on my PC and I like it a lot
That comic really doesn't apply. The "medium" of PFAS (drinking water) is a lot less likely to be bothered by hostile treatment than the "medium" of cancer cells (our bodies). We're mostly not concerned about the water itself, unlike the patient with cancer cells in their body.
For people who's life savings was that $20k, that's still $20k that they'd previously written off. It's not $60k or whatever, but it's still better than $0.
It's probably not worth the time and effort. You can get a judgment, but good luck getting them to pay out on it.
> there’s nothing magic about what’s taught or how it’s taught

Why does it have to be magic? It's simply "culture", as you've said. Indeed, your reply alludes to this:

> they can counsel-out disruptive boys (so they can’t interfere with the learning of our orderly girl)

Private schools usually have more disclipline, higher expectations of students, a better learning environment, and selectivity. Public schools have to take everyone, no matter how disadvantaged, disruptive, or dumb. And whatever the cause, the stats do show that private school students score significantly higher on average on the SAT.

Of course disparities exist among schools, whether private or public. Education in the United States is extremely decentralized. I've never attended a private school, but I recall that when I switched public schools as a result of my family moving to a wealthier city, I was suddenly far behind in math and lost. Though I eventually caught up, I suspect that if I had remained in my old school district for my entire childhood, I would have been at a disadvantage, through no fault of my own.

By the way, a few months ago I read the book "Quiet Street" by Nick McDonell, which recounts his experience at the Buckley prep school in New York. You might find it interesting, and in any case the book is quite short, so you can breeze through it.
Does a robot that moves things in a home need this? The challenging decisions are (off the top of my head):

1. what am i picking up? - this can be AI in the cloud as it does not need to be real time

2. how do i pick it up? - this can be AI in the cloud as it does not need to be real time - the robot can take its time picking the object up

3. after pickup, where do i put the object? localization while moving probably needs to be done locally but identifying where to put down can be done via cloud, again, no rush

4. how do put the object down? again, the robot can take its time

You can see in the video the robot pauses before performing the actions after finding the object in its POV, so real time isn't a hard req for a lot of these
> probably failed

That's silly. The fact that you don't know who somebody is says nothing about what some "state-backed actor" knows. If anything, I'm fairly confident that some people in NSA/CIA know who he is for a decade at least, and "probably" have it written in some documents that will long outlive you. Of course, this is as proofless statement as you saying that they "probably failed" to figure it out, but what you are saying basically amounts to "it is so unlikely for this to happen, so it's such a miracle it probably happened!" A more reasonable thing to say would be "it is so unlikely for this to happen, so it probably didn't happen".
Windmill looks cool and you guys have built a lot! Our focus is more on enterprise integrations for teams typically outside of engineering - we will continue building with this focus in mind.

At the end of the day we care about our customers and want them to solve their problems with whichever tools best suit their needs. We are on mission to build our version, but this isn’t a zero-sum game.
Youtube also ripped off their "interesting parts of the video" bit entirely.
The racism is in the context of deprivation. Watermelon in and of itself is neutral. In America however, freed slaves did not have access to good agricultural land that could grow many fruits and vegetables. Watermelon grows on poor quality soil, so it was available to the poorest black sharecropper.

Because of this, it became associated with black people, and thereby with criminality, low education and poverty among the dominant culture that created this sort of pattern-matching.
I’m always surprised by how difficult it is for people to understand this.
The article makes a big deal about ransomware/old data restoration, with the implication that backblaze backup supports it while the others do not. This is untrue - I think all of the competitors mentioned support rollbacks to specific points in time.

They do make a good point about full computer backups though. Id like to see support for automatic Time Machine ingestion by these clouds
My work banned any AI tool, and... After using Phind for months, going back to Google/SO is just crippling.
American ISPs injected tracking codes into their user’s HTTP traffic so they could get paid by advertisers. I would not speak in absolutes about that, especially because anonymizing data is a hard problem which even we’ll-intended people have made mistakes with.
> There are tons of unsolved problems, tools that aren't optimal, and products that don't work as well as they should.

I'm not sure you would approach any of those with programming. Once you have solved the problem, determined how to optimize the tools, or found a way to make a product work better then you might turn to programming to implement your discovery, sure, but programming alone won't get you there.
I am having good luck with Eaton so far. Rock solid and their network monitoring is noticeably less painful to use than APC's!
Hi! The only reason why I keep a Panasonic GM1 body around is to use two Panasonic Leica DG lenses whenever I miss them :) I see your point.
I very consistently get a pretty amber colored sticky surface from flaxseed oil. Olive oil doesn’t build a film as impressively quickly, but the result is less sticky and more durable.
I've seen people running routers on beefy machines that can certainly pull down hundreds of watts. Even more if it's an older machine.
> Or just the community it attracts?

The way it works seems to appeal to "artists" / "creatives".
It's pretty simple to get a visual output fast and the always running (hot-reload) aspect makes it easy to iterate on things, tweak some parameter (size, speed, color) and directly see the outcome.

> normal industry projects

It's used quite a lot in the context of trade fairs, not only for touchscreen exhibits but also stage shows. Nice example: https://nsynk.de/work/mercedes-iaa15

There are also totally different kinds of projects/uses, they are just not that well documented. For example I know of a guy that programmed a feeding robot for a fish farm using vvvv.

> nobody famous

There is at least one "famous" user :)

https://refikanadol.com

If you have further questions feel free to join their matrix chat:

https://matrix.to/#/#vvvv:matrix.org
"Great wisdom is not obvious, great merit is not advertised. When trouble is solved before it forms, who calls that clever? When there is victory without battle, who talks of bravery?" - Sun Tzu
I'm so glad I'm free from the chains of agile. Stand-ups at every company I've ever worked at asymptotically approached one of two things:

1) People pointing fingers around claiming everything is a "blocker" to mask their own inefficiencies causing a bunch of PMs and middle-managers to light everything on fire for the day because """blocker""" is such an inflammatory term, or

2) Everyone blitzes through with their report in one sentence just wanting to get back to their office and get actual work done, rendering the entire meeting useless

In the past I've successfully moved an 8 AM to a 10 AM claiming something like "people need to refresh their brains as to what they did yesterday" or some other such nonsense. Give that a whirl.
This was really helpful, but only discusses linear operations, which obviously can’t be the whole story. From the paper it seems like the discretization is the only nonlinear step—in particular the selection mechanism is just a linear transformation. Is that right? How important is the particular form of the nonlinearity?

EDIT: from looking at the paper, it seems like even though the core state space model/selection mechanism is linear (except for discretization?), they incorporate a nonlinearity in the full “mamba block”, which is stacked up with residual connections and layer norm just like in a transformer. They describe this as combining a linear attention and an MLP into a single step, rather than alternating attention and MLP as in a transformer.
>> "Customizable UI design - Product selection can be extended to include products not physically in the machine. Consumers can store them in Invenda Wallet [a mobile app] and redeem them somewhere else."

Speaking only for myself, this would not be long-term profitable for the vending machine company, as the cost of them fixing the boot-sized hole in the machine would be far higher than the $2 they stole from me.
Merchandising, Merchandising!

https://youtu.be/vjB8XXw9y70
That's really unacceptable. If they're going to be that late, they should at least ship it using Jiffy Express:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e134NoLyTug
That's precisely what is typically considered to be the problem of AI alignment.
Peopleware is also a good book on the same general topic.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peopleware:_Productive_Proje...
> I'm not sure if there's a decent UPS brand any more. I get the impression APC has been going downhill since the acquisition.

I’ve noticed a similar thing.

I had a 2005 Smart-UPS tower that never failed, but developed some transformer buzz that was annoying in an office environment—and hey, improved standby efficiency and an LCD panel would be nice—so I replaced it in 2013 with its latest equivalent. This one ran for about nine years and then started rebooting itself randomly, dropping the load each time. (It had no issues transferring and holding a load on battery, and self-test passed.) Its 2022 replacement now uses a non-standard USB-A male-to-male cable, is missing information that used to exist in the LCD menu, seems to have a problem charging from 98% to 100%, and has a broken event log (event 1 is always “Site wiring” and every other event is always “None”, even though there have been multiple power events, and there is no site wiring issue). It works, but QA issues are evident.

I’d previously tried a prosumer-grade CyberPower UPS (CP1500PFCLCD) on some other less critical equipment. When its battery failed after two years, it cut power to the load. When the charger failed a few years later, it cut power to the load. It died completely in about six years.

Tripp-Lite’s consumer grade stuff seems to work well enough for what it is, but their higher-end equipment seemed to all be designed for environments where noise doesn’t matter, which makes it a non-starter for an office. Eaton (their parent) seems the same.

So it would be great to know what is an actually good choice these days. At the moment I’m not in the market for anything and hopefully what I’ve got will run for another decade, but if it doesn’t, I have no good idea about what else to buy today.
TBH Many legit services funded from taxes, contributions, and insurances feel like scam. Many jobs fell like scam. Scammers focused on profit extraction exploit the decreased level of alertness. Unfortunately, random "friendly stranger" is almost always scammer especially if pulling out anyone's wallet is involved.
Oh I agree that a Lisp machine or Smalltalk machine is turtles all the way down. The only problem is that it seems like there isn't really a good modern option with fully modern libraries and all that. Mathematica is a nice tool for exploring all kinds of computations in a manner that is kind of similar to lisp with brackets if you squint. That may or may not be of use to some on here. I only mention it as I don't think many in the CS field get exposed to it.
Well to stay within the example porn website of OP, because it is not an SPA you cant really make a playlist play in full screen - the hard page reload will require you to intersct to go fullscreen again on every new video. Not an issues in SPAs (see youtube).
A link to a reddit post of a screenshot of a LinkedIn post is a really funny way of sharing text-based content haha

Original post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/johnrossgork_everything-in-th...
There is an inside joke here as well.

I regularly accuse my wife of being Satoshi Nakamoto.
It also doesn’t have to be nearly as confrontational as this or the replies to this comment.
Your team will probably treat you like a human being and move the meeting back an hour unless there is an important conflict.
Assuming a good school horse is worth their weight in gold, there's no need for a good system: you all already have (8 * 500 kg * 51250 GBP/kg / 1.05 GBP/Guinea) about 200 million gns. of livestock!