skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In general, caches need to be fast. However, the Solid Cache article you linked says:

> On Basecamp, compared to our old Redis cache, reads are now about 40% slower. But the cache is 6 times larger, and running on storage that’s 80% cheaper.

It seems that their caching needs don't require the speed that Redis provides. Instead, they can get an overall performance improvement in their application if they cache more things -- that's why they want a bigger cache.

Based on this, it seems that Redis was too fast and too expensive. Being self-aware of your needs is key. This way, BaseCamp could tailor a solution that suits their needs.

You don't always need the fastest, the biggest, the most scalable, or the cheapest. If you know the thresholds, you can come up with a better tradeoff.
Exactly. While he may be very good at something, this kind of person is an net negative for a team.
The problem with LLMs for code editing is that they generate new tokens, instead of performing in place context editing (IPCE). It probably shouldn't be that difficult to just add a final layer that is trained to perform IPCE. Then you would get a lot of the benefits of MemGPT without an external tool.
The LLM could go back and only rewrite a handful of lines.
Why should public money fix a process that will help Boeing shareholder value?

The executive leadership should lose their own (potential?) personal money over this incident. Until that happens, nothing will get fixed.
To make a product cheaper ingredients / process can be changed. How will product quality be protected? A law against “crapification”?

If laws make product changes difficult what might the second order effects of these laws be?
Life and the universe are mysterious, real intelligence is bound to life and we really have no idea how or why they exist.
I typically use "pass" for this exact case of having a stub function body (typically to be implemented later)
Previous discussion about their legal relationship:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31532285
As a long-time developer against GTK (I started using it back in the 1.x days in the late 90s) this is really awesome to see.

I enjoyed the side-by-side comparisons of the old vs new renderer, and especially the idea of homing in on particular letters ('T' and 'e') and extracting them, that really made the improvement clear.

Cool stuff, and many thanks to the developers who keep pushing the GTK stack forwards.
Does that just make this an echo chamber?
I find that kind of hilarious. Especially as they are the ones providing the tissues.
Nice. But with regards to the SQLite cloud, it annoys the hell out of me that so many of this type of site hide their pricing. It makes no sense to me at all. It just puts me off signing up to test services if I don't know the pricing.
I wouldn’t do it on a Monday morning, that’s for sure.

Having worked for a few companies that don’t have the ‘HR types justifying their own paycheck’.. it IS possible to find a positive environment. The one thing they’ve all had in common was a sub-100 head count.
As mentioned this is a distributed system though, and realistically most micro services etc aren’t being fully rigorous about multi-phase transactionality and proper rollbacks etc.

Realistically it is the norm to yolo updates at a service and if it fails then the whole thing 500s and things are just in an unexpected state. Often it is not even possible to guarantee successful rollback etc - if your update back to original state fails then what is the application state now? Undefined and potentially invalid, pretty much. Most people just replay the request again and hope it succeeds.

Obviously the right answer is “don’t do that” or “offload that complexity into graphQL or something” but in the real world… people don’t.
> What laws are TikTok breaking?

None yet. That's what US lawmakers are trying to change.
> I suspect that the author would be fine with the company meeting if he didn’t already have well formed (and it appears, justifiably formed) opinions about the competence of the company’s leadership.

Disagree. Speaking for myself, even if I already liked my leadership, if they gave me a mandatory 4 hour meeting with that kind of language, I would wonder if they had been eaten and replaced by aliens. Clearly something changed, because that's a bad meeting, and if I was ok with them before it's because they don't do stuff like that.
The percentile will vary by whatever the testing period is, since the percentile is the rank among other people taking the text within the same testing interval.
Empty egg cartons?

Today it’s seen as rather reductive to think of women as baby factories, but given the current fertility trend and its demographic and economic consequences, I wouldn’t trust people 500 years from now to be understanding or forgiving of us today. At least no more understanding or forgiving than we are of people who lived 500 years ago.
Really appreciate it

Super cool wrapper, love the methods that make it super easy to get the content

What would be the best way to for example, get the latest Ask HN: who's hiring page and all it's top level comments?

Thank you
Apply to YC for fun and see if they'll fund you. It's a long shot due to the non-commercial nature. But who knows? If you do, include me in it. I'm not the best OS dev, but I do know Pharo. I'm up for making a YC application if you are! ;-)

My email is in my profile if you'd want to entertain this idea.
How did developers like yourself afford paying l hundreds to thousands of dollars (in the '90s no less!) for software and documentation without going bankrupt? I still find it strange that individuals spent the price of a used car on software that would became obsolete within a year or so.
> FSF/OSI traditionally reassign the meaning in their own scope and have a process of approval, probably for a good reason. Also some people will resist and blame you for being “misleading” with your “open source”. But you definitely can have an open source non-free non-modifyable project.

They did not "reassign the meaning". They created the term, it did not exist before their usage. They created it to mean the thing you're now saying it doesn't mean.
Guess what. Based on the success of your blog, not only are you a leader - you're a _thought_ leader now!

Good luck.
So uh compressed raw would be just like a regular (loss-less) compressed image format, then? I thought the distinction between raw and non-raw was the use of lossy compression formats like JPEG.
Another way of saying this point is that intelligence requires interaction with the world, or embodiment. Hip hop can’t be derived from European classical music without the context of 70s-80s NYC.
Bout to show my hand here, but do you folks really sit down after a day of work and read a book about leadership? I might kill myself before I do something like that.
> ...when you swap in "Product Leader" for "king,"

I can't help myself but swap it with the German translation of "Leader", which is "Führer". Especially when somebody insists on calling himself a "Leader" (in English) in an otherwise German conversation, which unfortunately is quite common.
Tenstorrent Officially Launches Their First Grayskull AI Dev Kits
> Canonical's interview process is legendarily invasive and dumb

Since they put an Amazon affiliate link in he start menu I've just assumed they are full of them self.
>Writing is one discipline where women have substantially levelled the playing field.

If we look at quantity the assertion is true.
It's good for Nikon, IMO. Canon and Sony both have cine equipment. This will level the field.

While I moved to Sony, I don't want to see dominance, but competition.
Is thought leader the next evolutionary level of the "idea guy"?
Z8 and Z9 already record 8K60 12 bit RAW internally, but of course more cameras joining the list is welcome
Unit prices are the law where I live. I'd say I am very price-conscious shopper. I have a clear feeling about unit prices of many products. But I absolutely don't care about package size(1) or package price.

(1) of course within limits suitable for our household. It doesn't make sense to buy stuff the won't be consumed before it's getting unusable.

In the very old days in Germany chocolate was only allowed to sold in certain fixed sizes. 100 grams bars had >98% market share, although several other standardized sizes were allowed, too. With EU free markets that regulation had to be abandoned because it hindered free market access. I don't know whether unit price information was introduced at the same point in time, I wasn't living there at that time. But I still hate to see 90 grams and 282 grams chocolate bars where I live now.
Right years after RED lost it's competitive edge sounds exactly like the thing Nikon would do. The weapon was the last camera with an advantage and it's now 8 years old?
>Their insurance won't cover negligence...but their customers won't accept incompetence.

Why wouldn't they? What choice do they have? It's not like they can call up Airbus and order some new planes to be delivered this year (or the next, or the next, ...).
Feng Shui? Which edition?
Uber Eats starts robot deliveries in Tokyo
You know why it’s easy? Because management fucking sucks.
The british controlled the police in northern ireland, Israel does not control the police or other government functions insude Gaza. (As an aside it should be noted that that conflict is orders of magnitude less violent. If the IRA did what Hamas did, i suspect belfast would be leveled) At most israel control their border with gaza (but not egypt's border with gaza) the sea access and air access. A blockade no doubt, but not donestic government functions.

Whether or not gaza is independent is complicated, since they have some features of independence but not others and don't quite squarely fit in either camp. Nonetheless if your suggestion is that israel should have called in whatever their equivalent of a police swat team is - that's impossible because hamas controlled all domestic government functions in gaza. You can't use domestic police techniques on land where you only control the border but not the land itself.
The guide emphasizes the importance of creating a comprehensive employee retention strategy for HR managers to maintain organizational health. It covers personalization, recognition, flexibility, and career development as key areas. The guide offers data-driven advice and practical steps to help HR professionals meet and predict employee needs, making their company a more productive and loyal workplace.
Though it's certainly sensible to question the accuracy of the numbers, considering Israel is making it impossible for anyone besides Hamas to verify those numbers and considering that the Netanyahu gov has actively given aid, comfort, and power to Hamas to crush any rival in Gaza [0][1], this then is also true:

Israel currently has no standing to dispute those numbers.

>Any article or media organization that does not point this out instantly loses credibility.

by that logic, any article or media organization that fails to point out the information in the references below also instantly loses credibility.

[0] https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up...
[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/netanyahu-israel-gaza-hamas...
Shrinking only works once though. When a customer is duped, they adjust expectations accordingly, and some consumers even 'punish' the brand by stopping buying that product altogether.

The phenomena is annoying, but I don't think legislating against it is the correct approach. Australia has had some quite amazing laws that require 'per 100g' or 'cost per 100ml' pricing on the store label, which is incredibly helpful. I'd like to see more tools of those kinds.
These are the horrifying realities of war. People may die. Borders may move. Atrocities may happen.

Does the defender turn into the aggressor and vice versa, when the „Winning“ side changes? Should war just „end“ at this point?
Ruined in the recent reprints where they used a handwriting font instead. I mean, an actual digital font instead of hand lettering, and it didn't much resemble the lettering by Herge (or, according to Wikipedia, one Michel Demaret).
How!!! Could you think of writing a blog post about it?
Great show though, you can tell everyone involved was extra passionate about it. But yeah he wouldn’t have a private plane from it.
First tactic of lawyers is to scare off people. Only resourceful and knowledgeable entities can challenge such claims.
Dupe:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39613326

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39620507
Yeah they're (in)famous for their onerous hiring process, and specifically for asking lots about high school.

See for example this Reddit thread posted by a rejected candidate (and note Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth is in the comments!)

https://www.reddit.com/r/recruitinghell/comments/15kj845/can...

or this HN post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34507640
Play online with the tuning systems in Ableton Live 12
Close to half of all inflation went to increased profits. That's a coy way of acknowledging markets used public awareness of supply chain and other real issues as cover to jack up prices. How is that not profiteering?
I disagree. It shows that the original test taker was less likely to be cheating than a lower scoring person and the system was at more likely to be at fault.
Your logical loophole is that you forgot to include "process of creating thing" into the subset of human activity and this can be trained. Back in the days AlphaGo make some magical novel move in the game that shocked every Go experts. People study how AI play games to improve themselves nowadays.

LLM nowadays solve insane hard science problem, invent new algorithms that you don't see.
I had literally zero predictions. I was too ignorant to have any.
VR powered by N64 [video]
Hahahaha

This means Nikon acquires a license to Canon’s mounts due to the prior RED patent trolling.
The article behind

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39600642

suggests that women did a great deal of coding until home computers became widespread and heavily marketed towards males.
I reread the whole series (plus the 5th book, that was written way later) after a 25+ years hiatus and trust me, it was great...
Reddit's IPO Success Hinges on Infamously Unruly User Base
A critique from 2015.
> If someone doesn't have the ability to award someone else status or money, they're told they're a good manager. This is usually a person whose job it is to hover in the air, screaming, while the organization channels all their dysfunction like bolts of Atlassian-branded lightning into their twitching, smoking mortal coil.

To the author: did you use this line before, in another post? I'm pretty sure this is not the first time I've laughed uncontrollably at it.
>American companies need to start learning that profit seeking has its limits

It has no limits when there's no competition. That's the situation Boeing is in right now: Airbus already has more orders than it can handle. All the Boeing customers defecting to them would only mean they won't get any new planes for 10+ years.
Oh.

Well, that sounds horrible, and will definitely take more years than rewriting it to React.

It's more FUN though!
I still don't understand how the claim that AI supporters don't think thermodynamics is a law is related to that at all though.
OpenAI publishes Elon Musk's emails. 'We're sad that it's come to this'
>It's also easy to jump on the "management sucks" bandwagon.

Global warming is real, the sky is blue, etc.

>This person sounds like an energy vampire.

The only thing worse than grumpy people are the posiopaths who keep spreading through organizations.

As one other commenter put it, the emperor has no clothes. And a lot of us are _really_ tired of pretending like he does.
I don't understand this media campaign against shrinkflation, it's not Coca-Cola and Heinz' fault if inflation exists. Is it more egregious if price rises from 90 cents for a 100g ketchup bottle to 90 cents per 90g bottle, instead of 1 dollar per 100g bottle?

It even has the added benefit of people eating less pre-packaged crap.

As others have said in this thread, if you want to be honest with costumers make supermarkets add price/100g next to the price label.
Your comment comes off as "people who score well on tests are more often cheaters", supported by anecdotal evidence. Above all, it's hardly relevant to the overall discussion and feels more like a grievance.
Will these robots work in the US?

I can't imagine that they would with the rampant crime here. Imagine a little robot delivering something in NYC or San Francisco. They'd get stolen, kicked immediately.

However, East Asian countries such as Japan, SK, Singapore, China could work very well.

I think delivery robots can only work in the US if they can fly - which is less efficient than ground.
Surely you can see how insane this idea is IRT pollution. If companies aren’t forced to NOT pollute, they will pollute. Government very rarely (at least in the West) regulates industries for the sake of regulation. Usually, those regulations exist because companies wouldn’t self-regulate and “do the right thing.” History has shown time and time again that if given the choice, a company would rather poison and kill its employees, their families, and neighboring communities (and in some cases, their customers), than lose out on profits.

IRT fires: fires are extremely unlikely to hit your specific house. You already have insurance for it. No, the fire department isn’t there to put out your fire to save your house. They are there to stop a single fire from burning down the city. I’ve seen this happen on our base in Afghanistan. It all started with a small fire, the guy ran to get a fire extinguisher, but by the time he got back, the fire was too big. In less than an hour, half the base was gone. People prioritized saving mattresses over ammo (mattresses would be the last thing replaced while ammo would be replaced immediately, and fuck sleeping on the ground).

IRT roads: you are basically saying the rich have freedom of movement but the poor do not. With taxes, more can be taken from those that have more and less can be taken from those who have less. Having mobility in a civilized society is one of the hallmarks of a civilized society instead of middle age bs.
I expected more work on distributed computing and data. Data that lived replicated on systems all over. So the internet wasn't so centralised. Less "amazon owns everything". I thought the block chain and bitcoin would push people this way.

I was very wrong. We moved everything to the cloud and amazon is the cloud.

I dreaded the idea of "serverless" and micro-services, and I'm happy to say for the most part those didn't catch on. Or where they did, they've begun to putter and die.

Predictions for 2034
- Less internet freedom. More tech to ferret out hate actions.
- Most content will be AI, and the net will in part die. Google search are already less than they were.
- Everything will be subscription, and always connected will be required because there will be a need to check your subscription status.
- EV's regulations will make it harder/impossible for people to buy cars, and fixing an ICE will also be super hard.
He isn't wrong, but with current GPU hardware back propagation is actually the superior algorithm compared to his latest forward forward algorithm. Swapping the training algorithm doesn't get around the fact that you need to perform lots and lots of forward passes and those need an insane amount of memory bandwidth. Back propagation isn't a significant bottleneck in computers and also not in terms of memory capacity. So the only benefit of the biologically plausible forward forward algorithm is that you could run it on a digital or analog NPU, but with Ryzen AI coming in Strix Point, every high end laptop is going to have 50 TOPS of AI compute and 200GB/s of memory bandwidth. Nothing except large datacenter GPUs or a hypothetical 5090 with 32 GB would be competitive against that anytime soon. Anything smaller and you will have to buy several 3090 on eBay for like $900 a pop. Analog circuits are far off for now.
Tabs are sharing the code though, because it comes from the same binary. Every electron app instead has its V8 and Blink in a separate binary that has to be loaded into its own RAM.
It will all depend on how much women will have a hand at researching history and presenting it to the general public. History will probably still be about narratives and perceptions.
You'll still need different ones for different architectures...

At this point you might as well compile statically and include a virtual filesystem. Pretty much what Sun created in the 90s..
iirc, many businesses have deals about companies distributing products: they can’t sell the product for less than what it is sold at store #1, they cannot increase prices for a contract length, and more.

So, companies are beholden to shareholders to increase profits and must find workarounds.

New packaging and new formula same great taste are things to look for.
I think my laundry detergent should be over 500% more concentrated by now compared to 20 years ago.
Bad title. It's not a technical problem. It's a bureaucratic one. Flagging for clickbait title.
The Peter principle applies since in a lot of countries engineering is undervalued and the only way to gain anything is to become "management" to the detriment of everybody else.
the always connected bit showed up during covid in Australia, because you had to have a smart phone ready to show people you scanned into everything.. including the grocery store.
Ok; my comment was missing a bit of nuance. I agree with you pretty much entirely.

The point I was making is that I can conceive of a world where ‘come to a meeting for 4 hours’ would be something that in some companies, people wouldn’t mind because they already have so much confidence in the leadership that they know it would be a good use of their time.

I know this wouldn’t be the case in most companies. I am trying to say that I can conceive of exceptions.
They are making it quite a bit easier for the students to score high.
Which seems unfair to anyone who has already taken the test in the old way

> The test is also one hour shorter (down from three hours), has shorter reading >passages and uses digital tools, like a highlighter, a graphing calculator and a >bookmark to go back to skipped questions.
Excess capacity argument is more and more dog whistle for PRC exports that eats away at historically western/incumbant market share. It's just exports. Right now PRC exports ~15% of domestic production. Germany, Japan, South Korea exports >50%, I think US ~20% due to RoW not caring much for SUVs. But light vehicles like Tesla has >50% of Tesla export markets. PRC has a lot of absolute excess capacity, but not really relative to total production vs other exporters. The aggregate export of non PRC players is probably equivalent to another 15-20% of PRC production, a big chunk of which is the PRC market itself. It's still early days, no reason PRC not to aim for 50% exports (15m cars), and if there's tariffs in west, ban domestic western cars and chip away at RoW share. EV also ties into energy charging/infra exports, indigenous semi, RoRo ships etc. There's a lot of strategic synergies.
Chinese people take Western names because Chinese are very flexible and, especially, because the Chinese naming system is quite alien to Westerners.

There is also the issue of tones, which is the major hurdle for Westerners.

Now as to "you need to learn pinyin and it's rules". Yes, you need to learn and make some effort to pronounce a foreign language. The same goes for any language and it is unavoidable.