skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HN has always been a tense standoff between a few cliques, the first two being the ostensibly intended audience;

* competent and curious engineers

* entrepreneurs, who live on a continuum where one end is...

* ...hucksters and snake-oil purveyors, of which there are plenty, and

* (because this is the Internet) conspiracy theorists and other such loons

and recently

* political provocateurs

You can make a thread work (for that group of people) if it self-selects who reads it. Unfortunately, AI is catnip to all five of these groups, so the average thread quality is exceptionally low – it serves all five groups badly.

Whether some of these people _should_ be served well is a separate question.
The sun would be a good hiding place for planet 9:

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007APS..4CF.E1013P/abstra...

Life deep within a sun-engulfed planet could perhaps survive for a while.
Wait, these are not the same.

"you now (2024) have the opportunity to become Reddit owners at the same price as institutional investors" is very different from in 2014 saying "the Series B Investors are giving 10% of our shares in this round to the people in the reddit community".

Is there anyone who was a very active community participant prior to fall 2014, who as part of the series B got (was _given_) shares?
You can use just ray.core to do multi process.

You can do whatever you want in the workers, I parse JSONs and write to sqlite files.
> Cost of Revenue

> Cost of revenue consists primarily of payments to third parties for the cost of hosting and supporting our mobile applications and website. In addition, cost of revenue includes expenses directly associated with the delivery of our advertising and other services, including advertising measurement services and credit card and other transaction processing fees. Cost of revenue also consists of personnel-related costs, including salaries, benefits, and stock-based compensation.

That was only $111,011,000.

Edit:

This is incorrect, R&D does include R&D salaries.
Same happens for and with our banks and credit companies. Lots of privacy policies, futile without enforcement, pointless without consequences. Pure Bullshit!
You think lisp is "weird and sinister or ghostly" and that 'we' are still wrestling with something 66 years later?

This sounds more like someone getting caught up in the pageantry of a niche that pragmatic people have left behind a long time ago. Lisp was very influential, but those advancement have made their way into practical languages and lisp has been impractical for many decades at this point.
Cash Advance Looks a Lot Like a Loan
What if they charged you a fee because they now have to restock the bananas that you removed from their display?
The Nature of Technology Book Review
I don’t understand why this is a worry. There’s no such thing as an in-room security camera in a hotel. Airbnb should have had a clear ban on indoor security cameras a long time ago.

You might as well say that “laws only apply to law-abiding people.” That’s not a reason to not have laws.
Bees and chimps can also pass on their skills
I find it sad how Airbnb has taken a market that worked (in many places) and re introduced all the problems that have been resolved through decades of regulations being put in place for hotels etc.

Chances of finding a camera in a hotel room are near zero while at Airbnb you have no idea what kind of pervert the renter is. At this point prices for Airbnb have rissen so high why not get a hotel?

It's like we don't learn at all from history or just like to forget so we can make an extra buck.
It's true that there were CRTs that performed worse than others and that glare was an issue. CRTs could develop some weird image issues when they started failing too so for a lot of people used to old CRTs that needed repair getting a new LCD probably did seem like an upgrade. Very few people who'd been using a well functioning Sony Trinitron would have felt that way though.
Both true. What’s wrong with them?
I believe the argument is that dishonest hotels will simply say "Yep, we got rid of cameras too!" without actually doing so.
Seems to me that there IS a market for web sites that offer something more than social commentary, product pitches and ads. That are genuinely useful. That help accomplish needed, wanted, useful and necessary things.

Yes, such places exist but are in the very minority.
Context for the 300ms delay: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/300ms-tap-delay-gone-away/
Multiple spacecraft tell the story of one giant solar storm
What is the upside of using an infinite canvas? I tried playing around with them in the past but I think my brain's mental model of how to parse data is incompatible with "clutter" (for lack of a better term) of an infinite canvas.
Probably a very small minority of Python codebases run on Windows, no? That's my impression. It would explain why so many people are unaware of multiprocessing issues on Windows. I've never ran any serious Python code on windows...
Yes, Onedoc generates tagged PDFs as long as you add a `title` property to the API call to make the PDF UA/1 compliant.
It would be nice to see actual examples. We use an infinite canvas (https://switchboard.app), but it's hard for me to map the objects we have on our virtual-desktop-like-canvas with the file format described here.

The items on our infinite canvas are more akin to a desktop app, where most objects are application windows.
Try it with a Private tab. Mine did the same until I did that, after which I got 16.5 on an iPhone 13 Pro Max.
This and Bloomberg's 2020 campaign are good counter-examples to the cynical idea that money buys votes.
Nothing. I don't expect something in return for my HN posts, and I don't care what someone does with them. It's not a job.
Saying that posters and mods are not getting value from the content they generate because they are not getting paid implies that reddit as a platform has no value. If you moderate the astronomy sub because you love astronomy and get joy from the community, then you are profiting from your involvement with or without getting paid.
Shared memory:

https://docs.ray.io/en/latest/ray-core/objects.html
Surgeons use Apple's VR goggles in an operation in the UK
Of course not a napkin, but it’s happened to me that they pushed made up charges on to me. So you can’t tell me it doesn’t happen.
A friend of mine came to visit me and stayed at a place for one night. They hit him with smokers damage. Not only he doesn’t smoke but also he was there only to sleep. How
Do you even fight that?
Really? I used the website on Chrome on my Samsung Galaxy M12 (a fairly average smartphone) and the experience was fine.
We're either watching it die, or we're watching its immune response to some nasty tumors as people fuck off back to niche forums, the fediverse, etc.
I'm sure you could engineer a case that pierces the right parts of the phone such that it is effectively a [self-?]destruct button.

The biggest issue with this of course is that if you have a legitimate threat profile that requires you to be able to quickly destroy your iPhone, you're not going to have an iPhone in the first place.
1. Realising that 99% of the time, the stack doesn't matter. Users don't care about whether you're using a single PHP file or a dozen NodeJS microservices.

2. Realising that complexity is the enemy. Smart people avoid complexity, dumb people who think they're smart introduce complexity.

3. Realising that in order to ship anything worthwhile you need good specifications, a clear line in the sand, and the time to be left alone to do it.

Edit:

4. Shipping something small is good. You don't know what is needed, but once you've ran something in production for a few days you probably will. YAGNI and MVP all the way!
AOL, CompuServe, Prodigy, etc had isolated content and communities.

The internet at large (web, gopher, http, ftp, email, etc) existed and was available at universities and through regional ISP's and a smattering of local BBS's but for a very long time there was very little shared traffic between this common "internet" of services and those proprietary services.

The propriety services were delivering convenience, curation, cohesion, and features that the internet-at-large hadn't matured enough to deliver. Consumers liked that.

That's the "dark" time the author, and myself, generally see us trending back towards.
But the "AI" recommendation does sound like it came from a Discworld book.
I guess he could have just thrown her to the sharks instead of supporting her. But you must be right.
Is it possible that long Covid developed in people who prior to vaccination, would have simply died of Covid?

The larger point is that there are many many confounding factors including Survivor bias
Reddit revenue idea: sue the heck out of developers of various LLMs and other models trained upon relatively high-value Reddit content, and switch to licensing the Reddit corpus at fees high enough to put Reddit in the black.

Also, reconcile with contributors, and reverse some recent changes.
Even so, if the vaccine weren't available I would want to get bonked with the rock. That's a more merciful way to go.
Ive been using lemmy since the API shenanigans from Reddit and, apart from the not so smooth onboarding (a problem with all Fediverse applications) the experience is pretty similar to Reddit, only lacking the volume.

Since Reddit is following the enshittification path to try to pump up its valuation (ex: forced push to app use) I imagine that Lemmy will continue its slow organic growth until it hits critical mass. Hopefully all reddit investors would have exited until then...
Editors such as Overleaf, and those offered by MS and Adobe, have been around for a long time. Recently, companies like Pandadoc and Docusign have started offering services around PDFs (generation or other aspects of their lifecycle).

It might seem odd, given our long history with PDFs, but I believe there's still much to be done with these documents. They're everywhere—invoices, tickets, reports, etc.—yet the technology for generating and managing them hasn't evolved much in years. Our approach is to apply the same modern technologies used for web design to document design.
Agreed, that's why I'm trying to convince my team to ban brain storming sessions.
Ask HN: Is early startup CTO burnout unavoidable?
I've been CTO at a pre-seed software startup now going on 4 months. Actually, things are pretty great: we have several paying customers who like our product, we're not spending time on anything other than getting us to PMF, I like my coworkers very much on a personal level, our business doesn't sell guns to kids or isn't a dopamine factory, so I'm doing something I can sleep at night about.

However. I find that even doing the "core" part of our business requires a lot of heads down coding time from me. Even just writing basic "business logic" software day in and day out. Customer wants a new integration? I have to hop on that ASAP. Customer wants to use their dashboard in a different way? I have to hop on that ASAP. Even just keeping with what's needed for customers is just almost overwhelming for me. Not from a technical perspective - from a technical perspective this is all trivial CRUD logic. Easy peasy. But just the sheer amount of it is mind numbing. I find my days - day in, day out - are just this mush of heads down code work from sun up to sun down. It sucks. Every time I get to the point where I'm like "ok, and THIS is the last thing we're doing for now", something changes, or I have to go back and refactor something based on new info from a customer.

Oh boy can I feel the burnout coming. We don't plan to try to raise for another few months (we want to raise on our terms and by that point we should have a strong customer base). So my question is, is this just life as an early-stage CTO? Just writing code all day, every day until my mind is numb? Is there any way to mitigate this? Again, we have several customers, things feel like they're going great! But as the only software engineer at the company _everything_ tech is (rightfully) on my shoulders and I think the sheer amount of work I have is removing what "fun" I might be having in the job. Am I just being a crybaby? Thanks
Perhaps override the heat management clock frequency limiters and run every CPU, GPU, neural and video core at maximum frequency on the most energy burning instructions, with constant cache misses forcing continuous refreshes, and writes to memory, while locking the camera flash LED on, maximum solid white screen brightness, until the rising heat damages something?

Starting with a full battery?

Not sure if this is possible, or if enough heat could be produced for a long enough time to ignite a battery fire, but that would be my approach.

Or just keep writing to the flash storage until you break down the oxide layer within the floating gate transistors. The phone won’t “destruct” but it would become inoperable.
Check different cables. I bought a cheap one, didn't work. I bought a Google one it worked. But it broke soon. I bought another different brand and it works great.
Classic HN irony, down voted...which only proves the point being made. That is, from too early a biased \ distracting narrative has been rolled out; most just feel in line and parroted that mindset as good zombies do. Yes Virginia, they even roam the sacred intellectual grounds of Planet HN.

In short, we can't solve a problem, when we can't even have The Problem properly described, scooped, attributed to, etc. To blame "Humanity" *is* a step in the wrong direction. It is naive, at best.
I've used Airbnb 25 times. 12 of those times had issues. Issues like

"parking space included" - show up, no parking

"wifi included" - show up, wifi is sitting next to window and stealing from neighbor

listed on quiet road - after booking address is changed to unit on busy road

heater is so loud it sounds like a vacuum cleaner making getting any sleep hard

I no longer use AirBnB period. Hotels have extra rooms, reception, cleaning, etc. I'm not saying hotels are perfect but at least for me, the positive experience rate is 90% vs AirBnB which is 50%

AirBnb also lost the price wars, at least as the places I've looked.
I think the implication here is that ActivityPub is still server to server. Is better distributed than one closed-monolith to another, but BitTorrent was really good client to client. Protocol wise it’s probably not perfect for small updates, but imagine if you just had a magnet link to your friends’ “website” which, instead of being hosted somewhere is available when they update it and gets distributed around peers.
In 1900, almost one out of four kids died before the age of 5 in the U.S. By 2000, it was 9 out of 1,000. In 2020, it was 7 out of 1,000. It was a society where virtually everyone experienced death from a young age. Today, most people don't experience the death of a close family member until well into adulthood.
This reminded me that AirBNB is a crap service. I wanted to delete my account but never got around to do so.

So I did it now!
Secure Scuttlebutt is probably close to what you want but it seems dead (all the main implementations seem abandoned).
This is not how ML works generally nor LLMs like ChatGPT specifically.

What you're describing sounds like RLHF, which changes the style of responses and impacts things like refusals but does not add to a model's intelligence (in fact it reduces model intelligence).

An LLM's intelligence comes from pretraining in which there are no prompts, or answers, only corpus and perplexity.
It's a scam if a cleaning fee is charged and the renters are ALSO expected to do a truckload of cleaning themselves, for which the fee is presumably charged.

And a less charitable interpretation is that it's a scam because it's deceptive advertising to show a lower nightly rate.
Or one of those USB-killers that sends enough current through the USB port to burn things out.
Suggestion: add some metadata at the top level, including a bounding box that includes all nodes so that you can encapsulate a canvas and include it within another context before having created all the elements within it. It's redundant information and it needs to be kept in sync with the nodes and edges, but it's very useful for applications working with your data.

Also, this is not very json-ish, but optimizing your serializer so your metadata is always written first is pretty handy for embedding, since it allows you to use a pull parser and do useful things before the entire doc is parsed. (e.g. picture a huge doc being embedded and starting out as just a box and having its elements filled in async. You can't do that well if you don't know the bounding box ahead of time)
Dang what does your flamewar indicator say about these?
> On the other hand, premature optimization is the root of all evil.

The web ecosystem is extremely mature and widely used. The workloads are fairly well understood. It is a magic unit, but the factors that go into it have a lot of thought from real-world scenarios. Bringing up "premature optimization" is completely irrelevant because that's not what this is, it's about as far as you can get from that.
> It would be nice to see actual examples

If you click "Toggle output" on the linked page, you can see the code for the page itself
Subjective is the correct word. What task is relevant depends on the subject.

Relative would be if there's no way to put a number on performance other than a comparison between systems, which is simply not true.
> If someone profits off me it must mean I am being exploited.

This is a fallacy.
Warfare Revolution: 3D-Printed Drones for Ukraine
Some other ways to mitigate: https://www.sitepoint.com/5-ways-prevent-300ms-click-delay-m...
Two Definitions of Bubbles
Do they have 20,000? Where are you getting that figure from?
Oh right we'll just "formally verify it," all good then!
If you switch to the Australian AirBnB site, you can see an all-inclusive price because they are required by law to do so there.
Developer salaries are probably under Research & Development, further, given their employee count and likely mix of tech (it/dev/infra) to biz, that's the only line item likely large enough to house their engineering team.
Ah ok. I dont know.
They just licensed the data to Google for $65m, so it’s very possible to reconcile the remaining 90M they’re in the hole for.

But it’s not clear if a license will be needed.

Oh and the CEO made much more than that 90M last year, so you could cut his salary and immediately be profitable, no AI sellout required.
> An employee familiar with G.M.’s Smart Driver said the company’s annual revenue from the program is in the low millions of dollars.

Is that a lot of money for GM? I would have guessed no, but it doesn't seem like very much for selling out their customers like this. Either it's more to GM's profits than I'd expect, or they really don't expect much PR blowback risk at all?

I don't know if they are right or wrong, but...

> Drivers who have realized what is happening are not happy. The Palm Beach Cadillac owner said he would never buy another car from G.M. He is planning to sell his Cadillac.
He could have worked on the inside, but it would have taken years of hard work building his credibility and power within the organization.

He chose a much simpler path. Disruptively virtue signal knowing he would be fired. Now he can slide into a smaller progressive tech company where he will be lauded for his virtue, used by the company for PR, and ultimately not judged by the quality of his work.

This was a thoughtfully orchestrated career strategy first, protest second. It was well done and I think he’s set himself up nicely for the next 5-10 years.

If you disagree and think he was risking his future instead of securing it, I would humbly ask why? Both the media and Google’s response were 100% predictable.

If I were him I’d try to move into a fuzzy, semi-technical role with some public presence. Something like DevRel seems the ideal target and maximizes the PR benefit for his employer.
titles and expectations can be specific to industry, company scale, and even company by company. senior director in one place can mean senior manager in another, or even more towards svp at another. inconsistent, sometimes highly so. this can lead to interviews that are just absurd, as the two sides have a fundamental, but unrecognized, disagreement on what a given title means.

startups can inflate titles quite a bit, so if you’re looking in that space, don’t be surprised if there is a disconnect.

there is also a somewhat new (at least newly remembered) intense focus from the bean counters right now around doing more with less. efficiency, if you will.

in some businesses, especially those without a real war chest, this takes the form of leaders that are hands-on. which typically means you’re expected to lead while also part-time contributing. or maybe it was the other way around. depends on the place.

whether you view this as a good thing should really depend on you, the role, and the company. it isn’t always. it isn’t never.

you already have a better answer before you read the above, if you did. a month on leetcode is a waste. if the role and the company don’t inspire you to put in extra, you probably shouldn’t.
Coinbase – Crypto's AI Mirage Report [pdf]
Enabling it via developer options is only the first step. You also need to enable it via setprop using ADB in the desired mode. The official documentation for using MTE on the stock Pixel OS is available at https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/arm-mte. We strongly recommend this for app developers. It's a really easy way to find heap memory corruption in your apps, but you can use stack MTE without building the OS and your app with it.

We provided a user facing crash report system for memory corruption detected by MTE. MTE has no false positives. We strongly recommend users use the feature we provided for copying the crash report to report these bugs to app developers. App developers can replicate many of the bugs reported this way using either MTE on a Pixel 8 or a smaller subset by building their app with HWASan support.

Since many apps have latent memory corruption, we only enable it for the base OS, base OS apps and known compatible user installed apps by default. Users can opt-in to heap MTE for all user installed apps via Settings > Security and can then opt-out for apps with memory corruption occurring during regular use. Over time, we plan to add more apps like Signal/Molly known to be compatible to it into our app compatibility database so that it's force enabled for them by default without users enabling it in Settings > Security. The option to opt-out is only available for apps not known to be compatible with it, which is part of dealing with the issue of users potentially allowing it after an exploit attempt.

We're trying to convince Google to at least enable asynchronous MTE by default for the stock Pixel OS with user installed apps excluded from it unless they opt-in to it. The memory overhead is 3.125% and asynchronous heap MTE is near 0 performance overhead. Asymmetric heap MTE provides much better security but is more comparable to the overhead of a feature like legacy stack smashing protection. Stack MTE adds more overhead but SSP could be disabled to partly make up for it and deterministic protection of stack spills, return value, etc. can be provided through MTE instead since by not being tagged they have the 0 tag and everything tagged will be a random non-0 tag.
When I was first hired 15 years ago my first task was to create a PDF report. It was easy back then in PHP+fPDF. Two years ago I was hired to work on a Heroku-hosted NodeJS app. I was surprised to find that generating a PDF turned out to be substantially more difficult task, requiring running a browser emulator or connecting to an external service. And now, seeing PDF generation as a premium pay-as-you-go product is just too much.
I mean, public obscenity laws and laws prohibiting the distribution of pornography to children are as old as the first amendment. Moreover, I believe minors aren't even fully covered by the first amendment. Only adults.