skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember banging out BASIC on an Apple IIe in 6th grade to get simple things like an image of a turkey to display while playing Turkey In The Straw, or more complex like a down hill/slalom game. We had no idea what DATA 712101401c0067f22b229cdf5bd069a4 meant, but if you made a typo, it was hell to find it.

By the time I was a sophomore, I had a CAD class that was always threatened to not be usable because jokesters thought it funny to remove the ball from the mice making the computers unusable. Eventually, my senior year, we had our first state level computer programming competition in PASCAL. Based on the school's performance my junior/senior year, a generous donation was made to the school so that the year after graduation, the school was gifted a very nice computer lab that made my freshman college class look antiquated (it pretty much was. printing code to greenbar FTW!!) It just so happened my younger sibling was a freshman that year and rubbed it in my face
The "Disney adult" industrial complex
I imagine that’s a massive “depends on what you want them to do”

Add numbers, no of course not, write a book though…
You have a query like:

select * from book where author_id = 5

If you represent your data as objects, you'll create a Book class with an attribute of type Author. If you now want to run the query above, you'd say (in c# likelihood, but not a real Entity query):

Database.Set<Book>().filter(author.id = 5).all()

But that instructs the ORM to fetch the author attribute from all books, and only then filter it by id. So, you will end up running the following query:

select * from book join author on book.author_id = author.id where author.id = 5

There is no reasonable way to represent the difference between this query and the one on top with an object representation. And even though both have exactly the same semantics, databases have been historically bad at optimizing them so the second one can be orders of magnitude slower.
This link it taking a cool little tech project and using it to promote an absolutely awful politician. It's cheap PR, meant to distract from the disgusting things this person does.
Its not because most of the time spent is not coding. It is figuring out what the imprecise feature request is really about, how to integrate with this legacy system that Jeff maintains on the other side of the country, convince your boss to not spend money on this useless new AI shit thing, etc, etc.
You might like NightHawkInLight's videos on the topic[0] and Tech Ingredients[1] - they've been working on making paint using this technology with an at-home DIY process and experimenting with it.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDRnEm-B3AI&t=285s

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNs_kNilSjk
What about “write an asp.net web api template” kind of questions?
I thought it was a reference to the old skool O'Reilly books.
Damn, gets Michael Hobbes with the throw-away:

"Michael Hobbes, who makes a very good living as a professional debunker despite having an accuracy batting average about equal to what my batting average would be in an actual Major League Baseball game."

This is exactly the kind of statement I would love to see fact-checked by Michael Hobbes (or someone else).

Also, the article you shared is not another perspective, it's a deep dive into whether or not the sandwich anecdote at the beginning happened. It pretty much accepts the entire rest of the article, and then goes deep on the most throw-away piece of the entire piece.
with alex garcia's dataflow it has been possible for some time to self-host observablehq notebooks without proprietary software: https://github.com/asg017/dataflow

i, embarrassingly, haven't tried it
Fun fact static is very broadband
I remember forgetting to terminate the SCSI chain or even double terminating. Forgetting to move the jumpers on internal drives was a pain as well.
Ah you're right! I totally missed that line. Cheers.
> I would love at least some vague estimate that is more descriptive than "a reasonable amount of time" :)

SHOW HN: USB driver I created over the weekend
>Browser is central, but an OS is more than just a host for the browser. It's a separate system

A Browser is a piece of software that has dependencies on the underlying Operating System.

If you have a mechanical Machine A and Machine A depends on Machine B to function -- then Machine A's working is dependent that Machine B work.

Security is of secondary concern than that Machine A actually works...

If Machine A doesn't work -- well, what's the point of security in that scenario? Putting security before Machine A working -- is like proverbially "putting the cart before the horse" (possessing a working horse is a higher priority than possessing a cart, because without the horse, the cart cannot work as intended -- it cannot move!)

A Browser is a complex machine.

An OS is a complex machine.

But you see, if the Browser increases in complexity and that increased complexity forces the dependency on an increasingly complex OS -- then what we've done is evolved a machine that may have been understandable and controllable by some people in society (mechanics) -- to something so unwieldy and complex that fewer and fewer people can work with it, much less control it (compare to the current AI debate).

>Another thing is the understanding. Why would anyone need to understand the entirety of X? Suppose a person understands every line of Chromium code. Do they also understand the compiler? The x64 CPU that the software runs on? I don't think anyone ever did.

We do, at minimum, know that there were groups of people who worked on all of those things; that is, to have been created the collective knowledge must have existed in some form somewhere.

If anyone sought such understanding, then I would suggest a quote by the esteemed (and very learned!) Software Engineer, Grady Booch, who wisely stated:

"Complex systems evolve from simpler ones"

While it may be impossible or impractical for someone to rigorously study all of the systems you have mentioned, if someone did want an understanding of all of them, yes, all of them -- what they first might do is recognize that "Complex systems evolve from simpler ones", and then seek to find the simplest working example of such systems, i.e.:

Chromimum Code -> First version of NCSA Mosaic (whose soure code later became Netscape, which later became Firefox, which later became Chrome/Chromium...)

Compiler -> Simplest of simple C compilers.

x64 CPU -> Simplest RISC CPU on an FPGA (then study VAX or other early CPU's microcode for the microcode aspect)

X11 -> Simplest earliest graphical window manager / GUI.

etc., etc.

Also, Terry A. Davis, the creator of TempleOS, deserves to be praised for his effort, not shamed because he was not a member of the "I'll let other people do it for me" managerial class...

>Consider looking into management.

Consider looking into Dilbert:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilbert

https://www.google.com/search?q=dilbert&tbm=isch

https://scottadams.locals.com/
I'm so glad no one said that to Nicola Tesla or Thomas Edison. I wonder if they were aware that they might have injured themselves!
Can anybody point me to a better introduction into organoid intelligence? This all looks important and interesting, but this article seems to be all over the place. Turing test and CAPTCHA are not very convincing arguments brains beat AI. Brains store 2,500 (terabytes)? I'd like to see a source for that. Most brains I meet don't seem to know more about the world than a 7B LLM
They are wearing MTA-branded hard hats and MTA badges, so I assume this is a facility owned by the MTA, not Alsom.
I'm really not sure what you mean. Do you think people can't move out of American suburbs?
I’m more surprised there aren’t fan controller standards so the mobo or OS can tell the fan to ramp up with usage instead of relying on temperature probes.
You'd have a point if you compared the number of edge cases with the total number of homicides, and those edge cases are enough to swing the results.

But I doubt there are enough.
There just are some people who don't care about career and money. They need money to pay their checks but they don't spend a second thinking about it any other moment. Some people are even more weird and hate specializing and planning, they just do whatever comes into their hand. CSS this, Verilog that, organize a team, interview some candidates, train some sales, build an office network (cabling + rack + AD etc), do some email tech support, proofread some contracts, design some boxes, walk a boss' dog, whatever, don't care, here and now, on and on, year by year, from the day they're in a high school to the day they look like Dumbledore. This is a legitimate way of life for those who are fortunate enough to be uninterested in alcohol.

Money- and status- hungry people don't understand this mindset. They are here to sacrifice their young years doing whatever it takes specifically to grow rich step by step and nothing else, then gtfo. But some people just live, have simple fun and feel no urge to change anything. Someone would say this is out of accord with the American spirit but in fact it's just another kind of it, like that H. D. Thoreau wrote about.
Examples where Digital Signal Processing saved my butt
Gotta love how an objectively cool project is taken down because some people here disagree with his politics.
I'm not saying zero Christians adopt, but adoption is a small minority [0] (5% adopt) and in decline [1].

[0] - https://adoption.org/who-adopts-the-most
[1] - https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2023/may/adoption-fos...

> Most people who oppose gun control would argue that it costs more lives than it saves.

In countries that have banned guns, how many children die from school shootings each year?

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> At least get to know what they actually believe, before arguing against it.

I was raised in Catholic family and switched to protestantism from age 15 - 21. My Catholic Grandmother has 20 children + grandchildren. Not a single family has chosen adoption in 3 generations. My Protestant Grandmother has 2 children, neither chose adoption.

Can you please help me understand my knowledge gaps? I have provided what data I could find and shared my personal experiences on this topic.
Same here. I'm planning on replacing my Roku TV with a Google/Android TV model and replacing the launcher to avoid ads. Then I'll sideload a YouTube client that has sponsorblock and adblock so I can get the benefits of YT Premium.
This seems like another instance of the same general race condition often referred to as the lost/missed wakeup problem.
Is it true even in that example?

251MJ is what 2000kcal diet for a month works out to. That’s also 2.5kW for 100 servers for 1000 seconds.

Is it true that a human would write a better book in a month than a well-designed algorithm?

Maybe.
You know it's fund raising because it uses the word "announce" and because it's published in a "Frontiers" journal.
Ok, but aside from Elon, how many examples are there of billionaires doing things like SpaceX (which had a very good business plan too don’t forget. It isn’t purely out of goodwill that he created that enterprise)?

My point is that the vast majority of billionaires seem to spend their money not taking massive risks for the betterment of humanity but rather they buy islands and jets and art and blah blah blah.
> Would you have been satisfied if the statement said "... are often strongly idealised ..."?

Yes, I would agree with that statement, at least regarding Japan. I don’t have enough first-hand knowledge to comment about other East Asian countries. As you noted, they seem to be quite different from each other.

Thank you for your comments on generalization. I will reply to just one:

> I often wonder why people take offense at generalizations.

One reason, I suspect, is that generalizations about groups of people can become stereotypes, and people can resent being stereotyped, especially if the generalization/stereotype has negative connotations or if it doesn’t apply to one as an individual.
So surprising...

Their approach was quite unique, though. It surprises me how hackers trust each other enough to send money without proof, especially in an environment where you're expected not to trust anybody.
I'm Australian, I started high school in 1996, what stuck out to me was lack of computer literacy in the vast majority of teachers. It wasn't uncommon for students to know more than the teachers.

We had the occasional teacher who was enthusiastic, for example I had an English teacher who arranged for us to be email pen-pals with students from a school in Japan but for the most part the majority of teachers were utterly clueless about technology.

One vivid memory I have is from grade 10. I elected to do a tech drawing class, we were supposed to have some lessons on using CAD and the school had presumably paid money for CAD software in the computer lab but the instructor (maybe 50 years old) had no clue how to use the software. So after maybe 2 lessons of him fumbling around and no one accomplishing anything it was back to drawing in pencil with a compass and a protractor for the rest of the semester.
For some things it makes a huge difference. We use several different models in production depending on the exact use case
Blade runner 2049 screen writers got this right way before wsj pundits
I don't think the choice is "surveillance vs privacy", but rather "free-with-ads" vs "paid-with-privacy"

People choose to watch youtube with ads rather than pay for youtube premium without ads.

People buy the kindle with ads on the lockscreen over paying $20 or whatever more for an ad-free one.

When given the choice of a $3 app store app with no ads vs an identical free one with ads, users pick the ads.

Picking ads is effectively the same as choosing a lower price (free) over privacy, and people seem to consistently pick in this direction.

Because of that, I don't think it's fair to say that users aren't actually making any choice here. Users are choosing free services over privacy.
Felt like a pretty clear dog-whistle to me. Especially since the rest of the behavior around it looks like a dog-whistle as well.

"How could you say it means this thing. I've never heard of that thing before! I meant it in this other way!"

But also the clarification gives away the game:
"If you say that someone was given no quarter, you mean that they were not treated kindly by someone who had power or control over them." <- Even this could still refer to the war crime.

The original tweet was saying "No quarter for insurrectionists, anarchists, rioters, and looters."

Who would be the person that had "power or control" over people who don't recognize your authority? He has to be viewing them as military combatants, in which case he clearly meant it as the war crime, but ran to the other definition in the hopes it would cover it up.
It will come sooner than that but will be made popular with a fart app.
> And this is why we built our current house on a north facing slope, in a forest - against all common wisdom about siting.

Can you comment or give more detail about the level of tree coverage required to have a noticeable effect of radiative cooling?
Anyone have more technical details, as well as what his typical load is, how long the panels will/are lasting, the price for all of this, and what he does when the sun isn't shining in Kentucky, and especially how the controller software works?
I think the closest comparison to AI is the assembly line. None of the current AI offerings make sense without scale. AI also helps enhance some work, but it's not the product itself that the end user wants.
You're just looking at the default garage collector settings...
Vitalik Buterin responded to the post by a user on Twitter over crypto infrastructure.
Buterin thinks that certain infrastructures have received too much funding.
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has stepped in to try to correct the record about the acceptance of memecoins, in reaction to a twitter post by Roko Mijic criticizing the adoption of the asset class that caused a huge rise over the weekend.

In the crypto space, the continuous memecoin surge has sent the aggregate market value of the assets up 30%, surpassing $41 billion earlier today. Shiba Inu (SHIB), a popular memecoin, led the rise recently with a healthy 52% increase. The price of SHIB surged to $0.00002 and shows no signs of slowing down..
I joke with bartenders and ask for fermented sky juice (good ol' water). They usually understand and smile.

And yes, perrier or just soda with lime is also perfectly acceptable too.
Mike Judge has got to be one of the most observant people around; he just nails it over and over again. Hilarious.
"I guess it comes down to how much we care about butterflies, how often we see them, and how much we don't want them dead."

For me it comes down to how much we care about reality, vs. catering to our fantasy conception of what reality is.

Fantasy in general is awesome - if you are aware that is is fantasy. But too many people mixed both concepts and this is bothering me, not particular butterflies.

I think nobody thinks, a real heart looks like ♡. But people do think, butterflies look in real life, like when they are dead. It is a quite trivial thing here, but the same happens with much more important things as well.
When you put it that way, it just seems really dumb. The veil has been lifted.
What is the limit? I imagine fully sentient super-humans. Somewhere in between the Kings from Foundation and the androids from Bladerunner. Or perhaps both - the Kings from Foundation ruling over Androids from Bladerunner in a world ever so decreasingly "natural".
Which hemisphere are you on?
If you're in the southern hemisphere do you want to have a south-facing slope(aka away from the sun)?
I also have to question the point about “direct negative feedback” quoted from Meyer, 2014. In many Indian companies, it is perfectly acceptable to provide negative feedback in public, and in an extremely aggressive way (shouting etc.) which is why people will often go to lengths to prevent others from discovering their mistakes.
I would not have put my money on the pandemic disease prevention measures providing solid evidence for the Hygiene Hypothesis… but the mechanism does make sense and it would be nice to see a change from handing out antibiotics like vitamin supplements for anyone…
Lawns are a Veblen good, like Louis Vuitton and Christian Dior handbags. That we don't see them as ostentatious the same way is a matter of culture. By all means, people should live where they want to live; urban, suburban, rural. But let's be honest about things.
A lot of this comment focuses on startups, but I don't think the original post was specific to startups.
Yeah, quite tricky if things happen in quick succession, a pin drops and and explosion follows (if your home audio can even reproduce the requisite decibels).
`52!` is indeed between 225 and 226 bits of information.

> 52!
= 80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766,975,289,505,440,883,277,824,000,000,000,000

> 2^225
= 53,919,893,334,301,279,589,334,030,174,039,261,347,274,288,845,081,144,962,207,220,498,432

> 2^226
= 107,839,786,668,602,559,178,668,060,348,078,522,694,548,577,690,162,289,924,414,440,996,864
Mode X
Either way, you recognized the linked rule violation as being motivated by human nature. Yet somehow, in that case, you didn’t handwring (with a clever ironic echo) about how you “can’t prune human nature”. Rather, you called out the rule violation and threatened consequences. So clearly you’re capable!

I thought I had a good suggestion for how to save yourself from cleaning up the torrent of self-important reposts. If you don’t like it, you can ignore a nobody like me! It just seems like a lot more heartache on your end to invent an arbitrary reason why it’s a bad idea, and then link to comments where you reject that reason.
Back in the day, remarks of the form "If you were any good, you'd be able to leave your current job and walk into a new job within a week" were common on Hackernews. This is kind of like that, but worse -- "If you were any good, your options would have vested and you would have cashed them out, bought a boat, and started sailing the world and writing tiny artisanal computer programs like that Canadian couple by now."

Which is just -- in both cases -- fuck you. Not all of us have that confluence of extreme talent and fantastic luck, and somebody somewhere has still got to write the programs that people still need. At least until ChatGPT takes over that role...
PipelineC Example: FM Radio Demodulation (FPGA SDR)
I have 8 Noctua fans in my PC and I can tell you they are not silent at 100%. Are they annoying at full power? Not really. But they aren't silent. Thus, fan curves are applied so that when air movement is not required, they aren't running at full speed.
You focus on individuals, completely ignoring the team dynamic, the systemic nature of things.

Do you think teams, sports, military, corporate, or otherwise, who develop teamwork and comraderie would mind if you switch their captain? Replace their teammate with whom they have developed trust with a complete stranger? You can certainly replace people, or even a leader, but the cost is vast, and the transition frought with existential danger to the system. People grow and develop working relationships. It takes time and energy to cultivate. Google found psychological safety as the number one predictor of team success. Destroy the team, destroy most of the value.

The YC site talks about helping founders, not mass manufacturing businesses for their own gain.

What is your top 10 list of founder traits?
What would design the algorithm?
Related: PipelineC: A C-like hardware description language (HDL):

https://github.com/JulianKemmerer/PipelineC
> My overall rule of thumb is that in the presence of any exclusive acquires you can never assume a shared acquire is compatible with any other shared acquire.

Contract #1: In reader writer locks in general, after I share-acquire a lock, I know that there are no active exclusive owners of that lock and won't be until I release my shared lock. I can also expect that as long as I hold this shared lock, other threads can share-acquire the same lock without waiting. ony share-exclusive threads would have to wait.

This general contract seems useful to me.

The contract you're describing, contract #2, is one in which shared-acquire is an optional optimization over exclusive-acquire (not a contractual guarantee) and that the system is free to promote shared to exclusive lock acquisitions.

This other contract seems finnicky and error-prone.

Can't we have SRWLOCK implement contract #1?
I had no idea you could specify size in inches with css
> This is the story of the Theranos of marshmallows....

> ... Sebastiani wasn't an Elizabeth Holmes-style grifter. Marshmallows are real! But he did ignore the experts, and proceeded without having the necessary technology in place....

> ... But at trial, a Tanis engineer admitted that the samples Tanis had sent to Smashmallow to prove it could produce the product were actually made, in part, by hand. Apparently Tanis, too, had faked it to make it....

> ... The jury agreed, awarding Smashmallow $20 million in damages. After some legal back-and-forth, the parties settled for an undisclosed amount.

I expected to read this article for some guilty-pleasure schadenfreude but no, this is nonsense. This guy got a little too ambitious with manufacturing artisanal marshmallows and got screwed over when Tanis committed outright fraud. If anything, Tanis was the Theranos of marshmallows (which itself is a dumb comparison).

What this has to do with Silicon Valley is beyond me. It's just a bunch of outrage buzzwords strung together in an article about a failed confection company started by some wino from Sonoma, a city almost a hundred miles north of Silicon Valley. Garbage journalism from BI, as usual.
Nope. I use it more than Google now. Most amazing piece of software I've ever used by a country mile.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but aren't happy hour discounts are just that? Discounted food and beverage during slower hours.