skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are definitely assumptions involved in writing this piece:

My definition of "business degrees" were:
Business(incl. biz mgmt/biz admin, etc.) + Accounting (11) + finance (5) = 32

"Engineering degrees" were:
Everything with engineering in the name of the degree = 23

So for the time being, there are more CEOs with college business degrees than those with engineering degrees. If you separate accounting and finance from business, then the story is reversed.

However, I also did notice that the average age of the CEOs is 60 and the mean is 61; things may have changed now.

It will be interesting to see the backgrounds of some more recent founders of successful startup, etc.
Apple built up a really strong brand by not doing this kind of thing for a while. They get to charge twice as much money for half as much performance because they made sure their products felt nice and intuitive to use. Now they’re willing to destroy the most valuable brand in the world to make crypto money? It makes absolutely no sense, even accounting for greed.

Also, I’m sure this kind of thing hurts their prospects in antitrust cases (like in the EU)
Knowingly is the case the Federal government must make.

If it was just a message sent by an agent, I hope we will not see a conviction.
Worth noting that ph is a logarithmic scale.

This means that apple vinegar is more acidic than you might think just by looking at ph if you don’t take that into account.
Working as intended. Apple has repeatedly rejected an update to an app that we have recently updated because it had a link to our help site which links to our main site which has an option to purchase a subscription. Despite us having published 60 versions successfully until today, that link being there and unchanged the entire time. But this sort of shit, no problem go right on through, sir.
> still lack good reputation in terms of durability, repairability or reliability

Are Western cars particularly better in these areas? I have a Mercedes E class (W212) bought new several years ago which I've always serviced at Mercedes authorized workshop. It's a money pit. Reliability — something or the other snaps every other month these days. Repairability — even simple things require taking apart the whole car. Durability — you mean the strength of the body? Yeah that seems good, actually.

And I know mine is not a one-off case.

Maybe the Chinese cars might actually get these things right. We don't know yet.

The European cars' redeemable aspect is that they drive well.

> As far as I know they also are full of needles software stuff prone to fail

Go sit in a new Mercedes BMW, or even Volkswagen and enjoy all those screens. Decide for yourself if they're needed or not.

> for the Asians it heaven finally on Earth so they just cheer more and more of it

Fascinating how you caricatured away billions of people with a simple flippant thoughtless remark.
Boeing news … meanwhile doors or flying off planes, planes are dropping mid flight … and the whistleblower is dead. What a strange time. I’m afraid of airplanes (made by Boeing) now.
The difference between our opinions is I see 2024 as the time just before the knee of the exponential progress curve, and you see it as a long way to go to get to the knee. I realize how saying "this time it's different" might sound. But I do think this time it's different.

I remember when I read http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness back in 2015 I became convinced that these models are scalable. I remember thinking if only we could find a way to train a really big RNN/CNN hybrid on a lot of video data to try to predict the next video frame we would eventually force it to develop understanding the world. Predicting what happens in a video frame is a lot harder than predicting the next word (just ask Lecun), but it turned out that even just predicting the next word is extremely effective, and GPT4 feels like the first model that finally "understands" the world. To me, this was the hard part, developing this proof of concept that we can get there simply by scaling. Next step is video prediction, and we have a lot of room for further scaling to get there. There is a lot of video training data, and we can scale our models a lot more. The progress is mainly limited by available hardware processing power. There's no lack of good ideas to try to make things work.

In a way, 2024 feels like 2012, when deep learning took over ML world by storm. The same thing is happening now with multi-modal foundational models. GPT4 is like AlexNet - a culmination of many years of gradual improvements, a combination of unprecedented scale and various tricks. Think about every improvement starting with GPT1, which established state of the art in language modeling using a simple, universal, and scalable model architecture. GPT2 was able to generate a high quality one page long text. It's funny, it does not even sound that impressive now, but at the time it was absolutely mind blowing. GPT3 demonstrated incredible generalization capabilities, and significantly raised the quality and reliability of generated output. GPT4 took it to another level, achieving human-level reasoning capabilities. Every single one of these breakthroughs took me by surprise, and I do deep learning research for a living. I have absolutely no reasons to believe we have reached a saturation point in quality of these models. So what's next? Where do we go from already near human capabilities of GPT4?

What do you expect from GPT-5? In what ways do you think it will be better than GPT4, and what will be its main limitations? Which aspects of software engineering do you think it will excel at, and which aspects we will still need humans for? Would these challenging aspects still not be solved in GPT6, assuming another significant improvement in quality over GPT5? I will not be surprised if GPT6 will be designed by GPT5, with some help from humans. How does your timeline of AI progress look like?
>Wow. Red tape city.

At least it was more auditable than a modern Boeing assembly plant.
> Vehicle is all solid 3-staged.

I once embarked on an R&D program to make a 2-stage rocket out of bottle rockets. I'd tape the second engine under the first, and the first's fuse midway along the 2nd's fuse. Then light the lower engine's fuse.

It was nothing but explosion after explosion, the top engine would never ignite, or sometimes fall to earth and then ignite. But being a Certified Rocket Scientist, I doggedly soldiered on. Finally, success!! The rocket rose up about 10 feet till the lower engine was exhausted, then the top engine ignited! Woo-hoo! It launched skyward another 10 feet before exploding.

I was never able to duplicate that stupendous success. I bet Musk could have made it work reliably!
Tigo optimizers are nice, and you can have just one optimizer for 2 modules. It's mostly meant for commercial bifacial modules, but it can work just fine for 2 completely separate modules. You can also use their cloud monitoring thingie to remotely track each DC optimizer's health.

Or you can use SolarEdge optimizers, they are simple and cheap (<$100 per module).

Both support automatic shutdown, so you can safely de-energize the entire system if needed. It's a problem for classic string inverters.
Sounds like it's all software, so no marginal cost of installation:

> add-ons like adaptive cruise control or Apple CarPlay and Android Auto
Seems to me if you're filming a rocket launch, you'd want one of those very high frame rate cameras.
Show HN: Online Meetings App with Virtual Background and Picture in Picture
My project isn't intended to replace standard video conferencing platforms like Google Meet. Instead, it focuses on facilitating code sharing. I've noticed that features such as Virtual Background or Picture in Picture aren't widely implemented in existing solutions, and there's a lack of reference code for them. Many developers resort to third-party solutions for video calls but often miss out on these features. My goal is to provide a reference project that includes these functionalities, offering developers a starting point for integrating them into their own products.

Technology Stack:

- WebRTC SDK
- Flutter
- NestJS

Finally, I look forward to receiving contributions from everyone.

Github: https://github.com/lambiengcode/waterbus
Longitudinal design would usually refer to an observational study, but lest other readers be confused by your comment, this is -- from the title -- a "a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled study."

In my opinion, compared to numerous studies in the same category, the placebo seems very reasonable, and the dose-dependent effect size seems highly suggestive of a real effect.

I hope additional / larger studies confirm the effect, and if so that a metabolic ward study can help us determine where the effect is taking place! (Food diaries are better than nothing, but notoriously inaccurate.)
> the same one year of experience twenty times

I dislike this meme and how it's supposed to be bad somehow.

That heart surgeon with 20 years experience? Yes, been doing heart surgeries for 20 years. That's a good thing.

We don't ask surgeons to switch to a different body part every year so that they can avoid having multiple years of experience in the same thing!

What would you call someone with 20 years experience in 20 different things? A rank beginner in all of them. That's not a good thing.

If I need someone with experience in something, I want the person with the 20 years doing that thing.
Yeah it's crazy to charge for Apple CarPlay on an Audi. It comes standard on nearly all economy cars! There shouldn't be a fee at all — let alone a subscription.

Maybe that's the game: distract with outrage over subscriptions, and people will be happy to "just" pay a one-time purchase fee.
It is not really a new system but the type of features to put behind a paywall is. My car (also from the VW family) has some features which need an extra subscription. But either these are included for the first 3 years, which aims the whole system at second hand buyers, or include features that are not really needed. To be fair we already payed for overpriced features in the past. It was mainly assumed that they will go together with special hardware. But most of the time that wasn‘t actually the truth. „Get the media+ package for Apple car play and sat navigation“ etc. they just try to move some of these packages from the configuration within an AppStore. I still don‘t look forward to a system with monthly/yearly subscriptions.
EVs, Hybrids, Tesla, Waymo, Android Auto and Apple CarPlay are innovations in the car industry. They did not come from the incumbents, but innovations rarely do.
Bumble's new CEO is rethinking whether women should be required to message first
Two hundred years before it starts moving again according to the engineers themselves.

From Wikipedia:

> In May 2008, engineers announced that the tower had been stabilized such that it had stopped moving for the first time in its history. They stated that it would be stable for at least 200 years.
https://imgur.com/a/YU9CFOK
> Space One

Always wait for Version Two.
What if everyone does it?
For people who are religious, how do you factor in an external entity (omnipotent, benevolent in nature, cares about guiding humanity's karma, etc.) weighting the odds of certain events?

This is something I've been thinking deeply about for a while now. Curious to hear other people's thoughts.
Sadly something like this doesn't exist internationally from what I can tell. I live in Japan and have no idea which sources are good and which are bad.

The local apps pull data from the Japan Meteorological Agency, so does Apple Weather, and so does Carrot Weather since a recent update (though those 2 still give me different results).
Outside of Japan, when I travel, I have no idea so I just leave the Carrot Weather source on Apple Weather, because that at least pulls data from local weather services if available (https://developer.apple.com/weatherkit/data-source-attributi...)
That's incorrect. California and Arizona require a licensed electrician to hook up inverters to the grid. I have not checked other states, but I'd be surprised if it's not the same.

And most of the more powerful inverters require a grid connection because they can't work in an "islanded" mode.
Apropos of nothing in particular, a sentence from Pliny's Natural History:

- "I myself have seen the fleece upon the living animal dyed purple, scarlet, and violet,—a pound and a half of dye being used for each,—just as though they had been produced by Nature in this form, to meet the demands of luxury."

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/60230/pg60230-images.ht... (Book VIII, Chapter 74)
Java doesn’t claim quite to be type safe considering type erasure is built into its spec, so that, by runtime, containers (for example) might be surprised by a runtime appearance of an object type not checked for or known at compile time.
Montana Man Pleads Guilty to Creating Franken-Sheep with Cloned Animal Parts
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> In many countries

Those countries include the US btw. The rules are basically the same for all of them, that they have to have not just made a mistake, but made an unreasonable mistake. It is often hard to lose a license this way as you need to balance just shit happening, things going wrong when you made the right (or a reasonable) choice vs when you made a gross mistake. And of course, the conditions are based on decisions made a priori, not post hoc. Because post hoc is a dangerous game to play given so much more clarity.

e.g. for Doctors: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2628513/

Of course, this doesn't say anything about cops or the state of affairs here in the US. What surprises me more is that despite what many think, there is quite a lot of distrust for the police.

What someone needs to tell me is how most Americans have "very little" to no confidence in Congress and they keep getting elected. Its pretty universally agreed that no one wants a geriatric in the White House yet here we are. How we distrust all our institutions and yet continue to prop them up.

At this point I'm no longer mad at them. I mad at us. We are being enablers. Even down to local elections I hear so much uproar and low polling rates and yet watch these officials get reelected. I don't think it is foul play because I hear people talk about how they hold their nose while voting. City, county, state, or federal, it is all the same.

Clearly we've made our own bed, but we just don't want to lie in it. If you're going to half ass your job you can't complain about how shitty everything is. Before you go blaming others, take a long look in the mirror. I'm sure __you__ are better than that, just the way __you__ can't be manipulated by propaganda and how __you__ can't be tricked by scams. Clearly, we've been played. Clearly we're still being played. So stop blaming your neighbor or pointing to others until you look in the mirror. We all need to do it if we're going to get our shit together. Because we're all in this together, for better or worse.

But what I fear most is that because we'd rather stroke our egos to claim our own team is best we won't ever realize that it is this action that creates the radicals. It is my fear that we won't solve problems before they are problems. That we believe so much in "don't fix what ain't broke" that we won't ever perform basic maintenance. It is far more expensive to fix what is broken than to fix what isn't. My fear is we won't fix things until the streets run red. And that's my biggest fear, that we, the people, won't realize that the blood isn't just on the hands of the elites, but that it is on ours too. We are happy to play the mafia boss who has fully convinced himself and matter-of-factly asks "do you see blood on my hands?"

[0] https://news.gallup.com/poll/394283/confidence-institutions-...
I own and iPhone. It works great. I have my "subscription" via my phone plan already. It connects to CarPlay great.
In all honesty, I've probably deleted more code than I've written in my career. So I guess I'm a destroyer more than a creator.

I wonder if writing is the same in an attempt to be more concise?
If you think incandescant lightbulbs could last forever, and no one would break ranks to cash in on this universally better product, that's fine of course. It just sounds unlikely.
Florence is absolutely not a tourist trap. It is a beautiful city that was one of the wealthiest republics in Renaissance Italy. Great art (Uffizi Gallery is amazing) and architecture (i.e. Duomo) abounds. It is an essential visit in Italy alongside Rome in my opinion, though Rome deserves more time.
There is no need to install Docker Desktop just to run nvidia-smi in WSL; the Windows directory containing the nvidia-smi binary is mounted inside a WSL instance and added to PATH automatically by WSL on instance startup.

As an aside: there is no need to install Docker Desktop just to use Docker containers in WSL either, unless you want a Windows GUI to manage your containers. Just follow the official documentation for installing Docker in your Linux distro of choice, or simply run `sudo apt install docker.io` in the default WSL Ubuntu distro. Docker will work just fine with an up-to-date WSL.
Tap “Get”.
btop++ is also worth a look if you like bottom, another take on a modern htop.

https://github.com/aristocratos/btop
Trains also have brakes which produce large quantities of fine particles.

This is especially a problem in enclosed spaces with limited ventilation: on parts of the London Underground, air pollution in the tunnels can be many times worse than on the streets above.
I had a high school teacher (not math!) who insisted that if you guessed on a multiple choice question, your chance of getting it right was 50%, regardless of how many choices there were.
Everyone knows you can’t act on old stock advice
Is this what you're referring to?

signature file can't be a named pipe (or /proc/uptime)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62993

can't attach signature from pipe (fifo)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163831
Over 40 years of programming here, and I'm back in my prime again.

Started out in BASIC on ZX Spectrum and BBC Micro/Electron.

The toughest programming I did was writing a full texture-mapped, shaded 3D engine in x86 from scratch, aged about 12.
(I pasted my 12-year-old code into this commercial video game, although I think the texture-mapping here I replaced with Direct3D's much slower software renderer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2kdKB18c7I&t=332s )

The best paid was modifying some existing source for a torrent site that brought in ~$13m.

Funny moment: putting a language I didn't know on my resume, getting hired from it on a Friday and starting on a Monday as lead developer :D (crazy weekend)

My favorite language of all time was VB.NET, but that's not worth pursuing any longer.

Right now I'm mostly writing hardcore ASP.NET in C#, running on Linux.
Except that working, unlike stock investments, isn't gambling. It's supposed to have a stable, secure, predictable outcome.
Hybrids came from Toyota, one of the largest incumbents.
The IRS helpline was much better back in 2009 when I needed some advice on a special case that the average tax preparer didn't understand. They forwarded me to a IRS specialist that knew how to handle it and went step my step in filling out the form and saving me $5k compared to what two tax preparers did. I think the Republicans back then gutted the IRS so they wouldn't audit the wealthy.
Yep. The parallel universe in which this could have been fixed in a sound way would have had C fixed first (bounded pointers, semantics of UB made similar to JVM, etc) and C++ would have adopted that.
I see what you mean thanks. Have you ever sen WunderMap? Not quite in the same league just an interesting source of information. It's kind of like windy, but based on near realtime data from personal weather stations around the country. Kind of fun.

https://www.wunderground.com/wundermap
As a middle schooler blindly copypasting assembly to make the mouse work in my Turbo Pascal programs, can confirm that this was extremely rare in the mid 90’s. Just having a computer at home was rare enough, the fact that you were into programming? There were like 5 of us seriously into it in the whole school of about 1000 pupils.

Even now there are only about 27 million professional software engineers[1] in the world. That’s 0.3% of the population. Looking at USA alone, 1.4% of the population are software engineers. We are extremely rare.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering_demograph...
You don't have to pick either of two extremes. There's a large design space in the middle.
Can you cite the responsible politicians?
>Old rockets that haven't been changed in decades like the Soyuz stopped exploding long ago.

Context for others: Soyuz, the spacecraft, is launched by Soyuz, the rocket. The rocket is the latest iteration of the R-7 that the USSR developed as an ICBM in the 1950s, and which it used to launch to orbit Sputnik 1 in 1957 and Vostok 1 with Yuri Gagarin in 1961.

The Soviets had to develop such a rocket—far more powerful than US ICBMs—because its electronics and warhead technology was inferior, resulting in far larger and less reliable warheads and satellites. On the other hand, Soviets and Russians have used variants of that rocket for 65 years and counting, even while the US used many, many varieties of Redstone, Atlas, Titan, Delta, and Saturn ICBMs and rockets for its satellites and spacecraft, along with the shuttle and now SLS and SpaceX Falcon.

While Falcon 9 and the forthcoming Starship are far, far, far superior to anything the Russians (or Arianespace, or NASA or other US commercial firms) are producing today, there is a lot to be said for having gotten the booster right the first time around and iterating it over years and decades.
Oh my god that is pathetic. 22 days is so short.
Is Hyper next? Makes me a bit worried about Pydantic too, and a several other open source dev tools (like ruff, and all HTTP GUI clients) that have taken VC money.
> lab grown meat is the best of both worlds

that's very debatable statement. I personally never tried it (and can't think of any possible reason why would I) so where the "best of both worlds" come from?

I am against banning it, just would vouch for huge labels to avoid makers mimicking it as natural meat.
Not using that same subset, however (unless working with a Self-Verifying Theory [0]).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-verifying_theories
Related:

Bumble's new CEO is rethinking whether women should be required to message first

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39688218
Very impressive. I love it. How are you going to evolve it? Would you mind sharing your plan?
Well, I'll bring the perspective of a recent college graduate from India.

Most students who started jobs in software aren't writing software for aeroplanes. They're writing crud apps, doing third-party API integrations or doing basic debugging.

I worry that although not some specialized software devs but a lot will still have problems due to stuff like this.

I'm not talking today, but say 2-3 years down the line, who will have an intern when you can get an AI intern that can perform as the top percentile and comes at $20 per month subscription?
I mean there are a huge number of viewpoints about this kind of thing even within a single religion like, for example Christianity. The long running divide between Calvinists and Armenians, for example. Calvinists say we don't have free will that God is pulling all the strings, Armenians say that God doesn't go against human free will. I have to say I'm more on the Armenian side - God isn't orchestrating events so much, we humans are given a large amount of latitude.

... but I guess I'm not following how this question is related to the article? They're not claiming to use some kind of supernatural means to predict the future.
Are there actually any benefits? I mean health-wise, not the virtue signalling carbon zero sorts.