skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's not a technical guy, it's not like Ilya or Geohot. So it's not that important in the grand scheme of things...

From wikipedia:

After dropping out of university at 19, Suleyman helped start the Muslim Youth Helpline[6][7] with his university friend Mohammed Mamdani,[5] a telephone counselling service. The organization would later become one of the largest mental health support services for Muslims in the UK.[5]

Suleyman subsequently worked as a policy officer on human rights for Ken Livingstone, the Mayor of London, before going on to start Reos Partners, a ‘systemic change’ consultancy that uses methods from conflict resolution to navigate social problems. As a negotiator and facilitator, Mustafa worked for a wide range of clients such as the United Nations, the Dutch government, and the World Wide Fund for Nature.[8][9]
Watching doesn't consume their resources, but does spread their "ideology" and create further demand (discussing a show with others, etc)
> As a person who used to be fat and lost ~20kg over a few months by eating only 1 meal/day, I cannot symphatize with people who say they cant lose weight because of their genetics or whatever because you are supposed to feel hungry when losing weight.

My own anecdote:
I lost 68kgs naturally by sheer “willpower” in 12 months. My weight stayed stable for about 18 months and then I slowly started to regain weight despite maintaining my exercise regime, my appetite was becoming more and more difficult to regulate, and I’d regained about 10-15kg’s after 2.5years.
I decided I wasn’t prepared to go back to my much more obese starting weight, and so I got a prescription for a GLP1.
I feel much better, I still actually decide what foods I’m going to eat, but weirdly on this medication, I’ve got a preference for fresh fruit and vegetables, and lean cuts of meat.

After my experience with weight loss, both “willpower” and substantial loss, a little regain and a GLP1 my anecdotal experience suggests to me that obesity is not a willpower issue, but rather a physiological issue with living in an environment that’s saturated with unhealthy food.

If only 1 or 2 people were struggling with obesity then sure maybe it would be a them issue, but this issue effects so many people that it’s got to be something far deeper than there being some sort of moral failing of the individual suffering from obesity.
Yes. I was reinforcing your point. Not even the example he uses is directly applicable to the audience. Just out of highschool and 6 years in one of the most rigorous CS programs are very different.
I believe Japan went zero/negative interest after their real estate bubble spectacularly imploded, not before (we are seeing history repeat in China, but much worse). But Japanese lending has always been supported by personal postal savings at low interest rates.
None of the people involved in scientific funding decisions are politicians in the sense of being elected or caring primarily about public opinion. The pejorative you're looking for is "bureaucrat." :-) Although in most cases the ground-level decisions are made by peers (which means "professors.")
> The drones did not carry dosimeters to measure radiation because they had to be lightweight and maneuverable

Weird claim. Devices such as RadiaCode 101 - 103 are highly portable and can also do gamma spectrometry with fantastic to its size quality. Yes, it's not a "proper" calibrated dosemeter, but it's much better than nothingness of claim about a necessity of being "lightweight and maneuverable".
I like unions. I don't like socialism. Socialist countries ban unions, which I like.
Unions need freedoms to operate, which need to be respected too. Unions have a lot of ideological affinity with socialist movements, usually downright indistinguishable, I think this is not good.
Which is exactly why the things that are tracked are the things that are.

To keep from giving people ideas.

I mentioned this not long ago, but by far most people don't know when GDP began to be calculated, plus how & why it got to be that way then, and the way it is now.
Oh I haven’t had that happen in such a very long time.

Like CI, onboarding is a process we get better at by doing. If I work some place that hires consistently, I’ll make sure to sit with a new engineer at least once a year to 18 months and observe them going through the documented process. Save them when they get stuck, and rephrase that part of the documentation.

I’ll also prompt them to make changes as well, for one very particular reason: when you encounter a jargon term for the first time maybe the first half dozen times, you still have Beginner’s mind. You can still explain it to someone below you on the ladder. Senior staff can get trapped in circular definitions and unspoken assumptions.

Generally speaking, I find that the people who hate ramping up new engineers have made a mess that they don’t like to think about, and onboarding makes them look at it.
Any issues were really minor. I worked for an MSP for most of the Windows XP through Windows 8 era and update problems were anomalies, not par for the course. If there were problems, they were newsworthy events.
I think you're moving the goalposts. A motivated and/or incentivized support employee could very plausibly respond with something along those lines. And this is the result of GPT-4 running off of a very basic prompt without any examples, fine-tuning, or LLMOps/moderation/filtering mechanisms wrapping the raw API response.
Tesco to change Clubcard logo after losing Lidl legal battle
thanks a lot. I am looking for the longest time to get temperature sensors for the various radiators of our house's heating system (temperature of pipes entering/leaving each radiator plus room temperature, wall temperature). I found no suitable ready-made Zigbee sensors and developing my own seemed like a daunting task. Your setup looks like a very realistic option for my project.
Fuck the Cult of Productivity – Do less. Be more. Fuck everything else
Off-topic, but I think we should stop calling them bubbles as they are getting larger and longer-lasting. It's more like they are domes, which don't pop easily. You've got people lying to poll-takers, rage-bait videos of people pretending to believe things they don't, trolling as a lifestyle, shared culture based off of weird beliefs... people can get away with avoiding truth and reality for longer than they used to. They can have happy lives doing it. It's a huge societal shift that I don't think has been properly analyzed yet.
Thank you for checking! That works, we could just override the key logic to check the source code (I'm guessing it's easily accessible)
I work in .NET on the daily on an M1 MBP using primarily VS Code and occasionally Rider.

There's no need for VS for most (any?) .NET workloads these days. That's why I wrote it was an early mis-step. Nowadays, it's easy to do .NET dev on any platform. In fact, we ship our production runtime to AWS t4g (Arm64) instances.
Btw, do you mean you downgraded DP to 1.2? I think there isn’t a DSC 1.4 (only DP 1.4 which has DSC 1.2, and DP1.4a with DSC 1.2a).

Do you have any more info/links about this? I’m curious, since I do have a Pro Display XDR, and I’ve been trying to understand for some time how exactly it’s able to reach its bandwidth, which is definitely a rabbit hole.
I never said the EPA ban was bad. My point was to point out that natural asbestos sources remain a threat. I was quickly massively downvoted though because readers assumed I was criticizing the EPA when I in fact was not. I will have to be more careful in the future to understand that many readers don't carefully read what one actually writes, but rather read what they think someone might be implying.
Those are unrelated uses of the word string. The first (nuclear physics) is still used today as a classical model of a quantum force. The latter (particles) ultimately grew out of the late work of Einstein.
Is there a story about what mobile access might look like? Would be good to have some kind of access on the go even if the macOS app is the daily driver.
At least prior to the pandemic, that price growth can be almost entirely attributed to the Abenomics policy of a rising sales tax (which went from 5 to 8 percent in 2014, and then to 10% in 2019). This was deliberately implemented to cause consumer price inflation and accelerate consumption (due to the expectation that prices would rise in the future). Consumption tax is included in the CPI. If you look at base prices before sales tax, they're almost perfectly flat between 2010 and 2020. Anyway, the CPI is flat enough over the decades that the Japanese yen has largely held its value, at least on domestic products, and this supports the thesis that Japanese citizens haven't felt it necessary to accumulate real estate to protect their wealth.

As an aside, the fact that the purchasing power of the US dollar has fallen substantially over that time, while the exchange rate of JPY to USD has risen, is something quite fascinating to me. I don't see it discussed nearly enough.
Ukraine Suspects Russia's Missiles Guided by US Commercial Satellite Imagery
> "But you will avoid many of the annoying things that come with a job, including a boss telling you what to do."

Isn't this a bit misleading and can only be true for companies that don't take VC money or never go public (ex: Basecamp/37 Signals)? For VC funded or public companies, ultimately you'd have to be responsible to answer to your shareholders.
That link shows that it's using >45W while (potentially) powered on and doing things other than charging.

Apple supplies a 30W charger in the box, so I think it's fair to say that a third-party 30W charger is "full speed" (in the sense of "as good as the stock one", if not full speed in all potential scenarios GP might or might not care about).
Lockean way.
That’s fair.

It actually matters to me, latency and ease of use are #1 reasons I avoid Jira and Asana.

(Asana is easy to use, but damn if it’s slow).
American billionaires are a policy failure
Not to mention when you understand so much about the bodies physiology, its probably hard to allow yourself to fall out of shape considering you know better than most what that means.
I don't even mean in terms of the product. Their old main product was a bug tracker and their current iteration is a low code dev product.

I mean Fog Creek used to be a strong proponent of developer facing decisions like private offices for developers, and (back when it was a novelty) spending time easy onboarding and builds.
I thought every tree in the uk turned into an 18th century boat
GDS Govt Design Standards UK with Tailwind and Nextjs
What does Alan Kay think about LLMs?
Up until recently the bar selected for some combination of intelligence and dedication with a large false-negative rate that they could afford due to the sheer number of candidates being drawn to the high compensation, prestige and intellectual challenge. I don't want to sound ridiculous but the process navy seals go through isn't reasonable either.
yes, of course. As I said, it's an urge. I wrote quite a few examples of such stuff myself, ruby is amazing for inventing new control structures and trying things. But then I think about my peers and future self who'll have to change and debug my code later, and spend additional time making stuff simpler. This is actually harder to do.

Programming is about managing complexity. Making stack trace twice as long, hiding control flow in data, most cases of metaprogramming do not reduce complexity, they increase it. Unless your app is all about usage of some specific pattern (a lot of procedural scenarios with sideffects, shortcircuiting on error and no return value) then "railway framework" is not worth it in ruby. Use exceptions (really!). Use throw, maybe.
> the library ecosystem

I don't really see many gaps. There tends to be fewer libraries, but the libraries available generally feel more complete and well thought out because users tend to cluster around the known libraries.

Many of the first party libraries are really, really good. EF Core is a prime example of possibly one of the best ORMs on the market right now in terms of productivity, ergonomics, and performance.
Location Infrastructure for the Internet
Yeah there's 6to4 schemes. It's common in the U.S. for cell providers to give IPv6 but private IPv4 and do NAT (although IPv4 could be skipped altogether)

AWS you can use NAT Gateways for 6to4 and do v6 only subnets
Some of the most damaging people I have met are people that you are absolutely enthralled with when you first get to know them.
Show HN: AI Assist – SDKs to build AI-powered assistance into your product
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3. questions and answers are not integrated into the app itself but instead surfaced indirectly in separate and often disruptive UIs

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Toxmax rocket concept – Lithium kept molten by radioactive Cesium-137
Running Google's Gemma LLM on Android with MediaPipe
Hey all,

A couple of weeks ago I attended the Google Offices in London to hear about Google's new LLM models and tools built for deployment on local machines.

I wondered how well it would work on Android so created a test app to try it. I also wrote a blog post to share the findings. You can find both of them below:

Blog Post: https://www.darrylbayliss.net/playing-simon-says-with-gemma-...

Repo: https://github.com/DarrylBayliss/Simon-Says-Android

Hope you enjoy!
Science is a lot like a cult, not in that it has dogma, but that the dream of doing something that's good attracts people to abusive relationships with leaders that do not come close to compensating them for the true value of their long and unresting labors. On top of it the positions where you work the hardest for the least are the most difficult to obtain - which makes people value them more! Its just like Sea Org in Scientology...

At least the stuff they do is actually good and not, you know, evil.

See also: congressional staffers.
Even very early these days won't get you much. Just a bit of a lump sum you could apply to your 401k/RRSP or whatever and inch you ahead by 5-10 years on retirement. If you got it early enough in your life (20s, 30s) that it can gain interest. VCs and founders are writing stock option agreements these days with very low ownership stakes for even very early employees.

Back in the early y2ks, and late 90s, yes, you could get rich and be up and out if you were lucky and played your cards right. Those days are done.
> The old government was corrupt, but the us was pushing improvements.

You mean like in Haiti ? Or Nicaragua ?

When US pushes for "improvements" there won't be any.
Looks extremely nice. One thing that I’ve had serious difficulty with though is keeping my Jira/Asana and Google Tasks all linked up somehow.

I guess it’s a non-goal, but do you envision a future where you would integrate with those solutions? Of course any integration would hopefully sync lazily in the background instead of blocking the render…
The your job is to find a new job is the nice, rational answer but it's not what most people are able to do when feelings are in the way.

You are probably feeling so mant emotions, I'll dare one guess: feeling disrespected since you wrote how they are pushing this undesirable project on you.

It's not easy to look for a job when emotionally charged, so I would set aside a space with silence and focus on the feelings. Repeat for a few days. Processing the emotions will help.
Yeah, my main gripe is with the phrasing. It gives the impression that if you like composition over inheritance (which people mostly take as true without even thinking about it), you should use this.

I feel like that's the kind of over-simplification that then makes people pick a style like this without fully considering the implications.

Every single place that I've seen use these "command pattern" systems devolved into a complete utter mess of procedures. People forget the basics of OO and write everything into "steps" because that's now the hammer and everything is a nail.

If they stuck to the outer layers as the orchestrator for everything, that'd be great. But that never happens in my experience.
About a quarter of the way down there’s a section called, “The charger's underside: many tiny components” picture with a red line on it. Below it talks about it and claims only optoisolators connect the two sides. Obviously the transformer also connects the two sides, but you know what I mean.
I wonder how long it will take. We’ve been waiting for ten years already.
Japanese housewives were famous for carry trade on low Japanese interest rates or discrepancies in exchange rates (taking out loans in Japan, lending money outside of Japan). See:

https://documentwomen.com/mrs-watanabe

If you can identify a flaw in a government's monetary strategy, you can always do some arbitrage to take advantage of it, and people do that.
Apple and Google Are Discussing a Deal to Bring Generative A.I. To iPhones
> outrageous to ask for some of the crumbling infrastructure around us to be updated or better maintained

The top reaction on this thread almost refutes itself. Were this a story about autonomous rovers being ordered, I doubt anyone would blink an eye. But because it’s about even studying trains, we have complaints about cost.

> not like we need billions in R&D

But it does cost us billions more to do with trains what our peers have done.
This is conceptually correct. I'd be curious to hear how well you translate this into practice on something like https://gandalf.lakera.ai/!
I mean, like most advice from my generation and prior ones, the notion that people in their 20s can't fuck up too badly because they have little to lose applies considerably less well to all but the fairly affluent people in their 20s today. For many, taking risks means being gated out of the financial system by bad credit, being behind in an unforgiving job market, and possibly even destitution if they don't have a safety net of some kind

To be clear, this was always true to some degree, but inequality is higher, industries have more power and thus workers have less, and safety nets that don't come from your parents being well-off are weaker (and fewer people's parents are well-off) than when I was a kid, and this has actually been true for a few subsequent generations of kids
the irony is that when I asked them about the stanza in the footer saying "Powered by MPS" they said YouTrack is actually written in a DSL, so that implies to me they could compile a "lite" version that doesn't require several megs of JS to boot up
What I like about these notes is that a complex topic is described in a simple and very practical manner. By the way, a few years ago there was another project on creating a code generator using declarative constraint solving:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Peter-Sovietov/publicat...
It is not.

Mustafa Suleyman is the ultimate AI grifter.

He has ZERO technical skills. ZERO hardcore STEM background. He was just friends with Demis at the right time and road that hype train.

At Google he had a similar role VP of AI products or something and he contributed nothing (except all the garbage ethics, safety crap that didn't help google, probably kneecapped it actually)

This is Satya Nadella's worst AI move yet.
These are trees grown since then.
Agile is fundamentally a "UI convergence" technique. It is perfect for interacting visually and conceptualizing requirements (and the realization of those requirements) with end users and other stakeholders.

I'm not saying waterfall is the only alternative. But one week sprints is a dumb idea for any serious software development.

The other thing Agile does is give too much priority to outside concerns. Like pulling people off to do some thing the support team should fundamentally own, or meetings, support tickets that get too high prioritization because agile gives them too much prioritization.

Sometimes you have to sit in an office undisturbed. To Agile people, that's the worst thing ever, but fundamentally everything truly significant in software stemmed from that.
What’s the mechanism? You swallow a pill and it what? Enters your bloodstream and eventually makes its way out of the pores on your skin all over your body? For weeks?
What is he in favor of? He seems to be criticizing both further experiments in string theory due to being not even wrong, and further experiments with the standard model, since it's either expensive or not getting anywhere. (I'm not a physicist and understand very little.)
You're right, I was responding to your comment directly and not taking context into account.

I guess maybe what GP is getting at is that with vhosts on IPv4 you need to have some sort of load balancer in order to share the IP, but with IPv6 you can flatten this out and give every host it's own IP?
Agree but he doesn't do this because he makes money because people try this. Like other vcs he doesn't really care if the vast majority fail as long as he makes bank on a few who dont' fail.

That's a prism it's really worth applying to all advice given by VCs: What's the outcome for me if I fail vs what's the outcome for them if I fail?
This reads like it was written by an LLM trained on self-help books.

Is this the guy that a lot of HNers look up to?
It's people with very good baseline health, a lot of discipline in general to help maintain their health, decent enough privilege to lead easy/comfortable/healthy lives and retirements, and probably really good social lives. All things that help ensure long, healthy lives
They do, that's verifiable. Harming people is very rarely the intended purpose though.
Most lawyers don’t work at firms that pay top salaries either.
So the lecture starts with quackery as well. At no point does he say that he is using the scientific method to verify any claims. Instead, he says that the religious people and scholars are right because of magic.