skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Learning how deep networks learn features isn't obvious, and teasing out the details is valuable research.

Superhuman levels of feature recognition are at play during the training of LLMs, and those insights are compiled into the resulting weights in ways we have little visibility into.
That 1g constant acceleration requires practically infinite amounts of energy
"choosing their parents correctly" - yes.. having great parents doing their best is probably one of the main indicators of success. (mileage definitely varies) A child can learn a lot from their parents.. things like prudence, patience, work ethic.. a lot of folks think its about "inheritance". imho
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Exactly; this is aimed at current OmniFocus and Things users. People who want it to compete with free Vim won't buy at any price.
I think trustability is pretty specific and without a foundation of trust the rest of the effort”s value is unknowable.
Yeah right that’s definitely what 14 year olds will take away from this.
Implementations of Newportian Principles, or how to improve knowledge work
I think this is the very first time that I've ever cheered for a patent troll.
> https://github.com/KevM/tikaondotnet/releases/tag/v1.17.1 - Apr 3, 2018

You're right, how silly of me, I'll install some rando's 6 year old build of it right away. But in seriousness, that readme did remind me of the thing I was thinking of: http://www.ikvm.net/userguide/ikvmc.html
The Cash Flow tab is the result of the inputs in Plan, so no inputs needed there. In the Plan tab, lower right, you will see the 'Cash Flow Priorities'. There you enter the details (time span, amount, etc.) of the build up phase. In the 'Income' section you can enter the withdrawal phase on your "school" dates, as cash inflow. You can add each kid their own entries for different withdrawal date span. Under the 'Expenses' tab is where you put the details of the outflow (ie. expenses) during the "school" dates.

HTH
> […] you need to do well in your classes to get into a good university.

Isn’t this also mostly inherited: do most get into the good universities because of their grades or their connections? Can most get good grades without an “inherited” support system?
Totally agree. What I mean is many research topics can be very interesting from a technical perspective but don't translate into solving problems that are frequent and important enough to build a business around. In the case of Search many business gurus didn't understand at the time that you can make a fortune with a free product. What matters is who has the traffic and who they're selling it to = eyeball meets ad. Page and Brin initially "expected that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers" (foreshadowing). Also they tried to sell to Yahoo for $1M so it took time to see the full potential, as you describe.
Okay.

The point of dymanic dependencies is that Rig could run some code to figure out what the main function imports, transitively, and use that info to build the entire project.

All without listing dependencies in the build file.

A good API might look like this:

build_java_package("com.yzena.rig");

So when you add a new package and use it, you do not have to change the build files; Rig would pick it up automatically.
Ok but are we overlooking the $150 for a todo app? There are entire suites of software that cost less than $150 to own. Microsoft Office Home, Windows 11, Photoshop Elements 2024, Premiere Elements 2024...

I'm just saying I think the buy to own price is an order of magnitude too high relative to other significantly more complicated pieces of software.
OP could offer the same thing as JetBrains does : for X months of continuous subscription (here 18), you get a lifetime license for the current version. It satisfies both the customers who wants one time purchase but as a developper you still get your ARR.
And as an example, since we've been dealing with a huge amount of incidents over the last few weeks: To me, it's completely normal if BryantD is like "Yo tetha, how are the caches and restarts coming?" and it doesn't take much for me to mumble something like "16 out of 28 done. database, you see anything changing?" No need to be vastly eloquent or anything.

Or I might throw something like that in on my own if things are dead silent right now and no one else needs the radio. And I think that's a good habit other people on the team are picking up. If someone needs the air for something important, they can talk, but otherwise you have various status updates floating around. And more often than not, those result in "Wait, did you just say xyz changed? Did I just do something useful?"
FTA:

> Macbook chargers also fail due to internal problems. The photos above and below show burn marks inside a failed Apple charger from my collection.
This is overly reductive. Understanding what they're doing at a higher level is useful. If you knew enough about neuron activations and how they change with stimulus that wouldn't be enough for a human to develop a syllabus for teaching maths even if they "understand how people learn".

What you describe also doesn't answer the question of how to structure and train a model, which surely is quite important. How do the choices impact real world problems?
But is it faster than getting a pen and jotting down your to-do's on paper? Mac opens up fast these days for sure, but... Anyhow, I really like the idea and wish you all the best with this! Looks real good.
The deeper reason is that he’s throwing his toys out of the pram after failing to convince OpenAI to become part of Tesla.
Apologies, you're right. DP 1.4 - just looked at the manual (for the LG 27GN750-B, though I know that many other monitors were affected). Has been a couple of years now.

Ironically, I too, moved to the XDR.

Downgrading to DP 1.2 improved the display options from DP 1.4.
> If you look at the lists of the richest people that occasionally get published in the press, nearly all of them did it by starting their own companies.

And actually it's a stupid point to begin with; making a point by choosing the absolute top percentage as if there is nothing other than 'really' rich (forget whether that is even a good thing I'd argue it's not a plus to have that much money and notoriety). There is of course 'lots of money' or 'comfortable'.

Irony also that Paul is probably not on that list but even if he was it's not because he 'built a google' but rather he decided to be an investor and incubator spreading bets over many potential winners.

Also ironic that Paul had decided rather than making more money he'd rather spend time with his family.
You forget the higher up you go in these companies, the politics get nasty. Not many people have the appetite for that.
>that AMD sponsored

The problem currently, as people like Hotz and many others are discovering, it not the lack of CUDA. Most people use PyTorch and don't care what the underlying software is. Infact most CUDA is hand tuned to nvidia hardware anyways and is optimized to make the most on nvidia. The problem is AMD's drivers - the piece that actually sends the code to run on the GPU, tends to be broken. AMD cannot "sponsor" an outsider to fix this. A legal, but broken, AMDCUDA will not be any better than the current situation; so no, having CUDA on AMD wouldn't change anything.

The problem is not "CUDA is not AMD", the problem is AMD has not, does not, and for some reason will not invest adequately in GPU compute. CUDA is a mirage; if AMD had a similar platform someone would have done the work already to ensure PyTorch works on it. PyTorch already supports ROCm, people don't use it because the performance is bad and it's buggy. When nvidia had this problem, nvidia hired engineers to work on open source projects and debug issues in open source libraries (not even limited to AI, you will find nvidia engineers debugging issues in a wide range of CUDA projects). When AMD has this issue, they barely acknowledge it.
Also worked at Google in the 00s, and have spoken personally with several people who worked on Google when it was still a Stanford grad project.

To hear Larry tell it, his original idea for Google was to download the whole web and throw away everything but the links, and he was inspired by academic notions of citation indexes. It wasn’t specifically (or really at all, until Google books came out) about books - that sounds like a cover story to get grad student funding for his actual idea, because you can’t really go to a university and say “I want to download the whole web and throw away everything but the links” without telling them why or connecting it to some plausibly useful idea.

The acquisition offer is often cited, but I don’t think Larry and Sergey were ever really serious about taking it. They didn’t, after all. But if you’re living on a grad student stipend (which was like $20k in the 90s), a million bucks is a lot of money.

And they absolutely knew it would be big, they just didn’t know how it would be big. It was quite popular within the Stanford lab as well…it’s interesting, looking through the early CVS commits for Google, how much work was done by people who ended up not actually becoming employees of Google or having a major part in its story. I think the real genius of Google was treating the web as an object that could be studied and manipulated, and not as some amorphous thing you were part of. That was exciting even if people didn’t know how it would be.
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Microsoft has been in the monopoly business since at least 2001.
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The thought process leading up to this work

https://openjdk.org/projects/amber/design-notes/on-ramp
Nobody on the moon to file NEPA complaints.
It's the same way we do it, form a number of possible variants and use the ones that work best.

They have the advantage of millions or even billions of times more compute to throw at the learning process. Something that might be a one in a million insight happens consistently at that scale.
> RP2040 documentation is superb, I must admit. That's what they did perfectly.

In the end this is what really matters anyway; I'll take a fully documented complex chip over a black box whenever it matters.

Also while I appreciate everything that the RPi foundation does in their documentation efforts, I think they dont do a good job of indicating the difference between a lack of documentation and a lack of /public/ documentation. I would like to know a LOT more about the pcie interface between the Pi5 CPU and the custom peripheral controller for instance, but there's zero docs on it outside of kernel sources which are just a bunch of magic numbers and other undiscernable enchantments anyway.
Thanks! This person was literally right when I stopped watching (shortly before legacy of the void was released).

I'm kinda curious what happened to the earlier pros, like Idra, Huk, etc. I suppose time to do some detective work. :D
I assume it's similar to the 1 billion row challenge with java - C# and Java have sufficiently advanced VM's that they can compete with C/CPP performance - assuming you go out of your way to optimize for it.

https://github.com/gunnarmorling/1brc
Maybe I missed something but I don’t see where they claim to offer anything, so I don’t see why they should try adhering to this (completely unreasonable) standard.

Besides, the anecdote actually offers something: a perspective from someone who escaped the grinder just in time. I don’t have a cohort study at hand, but I know both first- and second-hand that the situation described is not the norm, but all too common. In such cases, the correct response is what was described: jump ship whilst you can. You don’t need a double blind study to demonstrate this when simple logic is enough.
what would be required for trusting an LLM?

1: 100% transparency. Open Source code, fully (and correctly) attributed training data.

2: A predictable model of what these models are actually encoding (so that hypothetical new models (or modifications) can be reasoned about).
I dislike this sort of advice for teenagers. You may as well tell them to be rock stars or professional sports people.

Tell the kids to study, don't sell them an unobtainable dream
Who was he talking to? I have no idea what kids pg was talking to, but if it was to peers of his own kids, chances are they are already firmly in the 1%. In any case, to go from top 1-3% to the top 0.0000001% is still incredibly rare and noteworthy. Just because it is easier to do that than go from the top 50th% to the top 0.0000001% doesn't mean it is actually easy.
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We'd need to build a network of anonymous human checks. You verify that someone you know in person exists, but protected by an anonymous layer. The way you know some internet actor is human is connecting trust networks until the unknown person.
I see this becoming an Azure service. But you are right, half of the Microsoft Research projects fizzle out within a year - unless used internally.
I think it's a jump to assume the kid will believe there is a _guarantee_

If the kid is motivated from this essay to learn programming, work on things that interest them, do well in school, and go to a good university -- I think they're well setup for success in their life.
Typo in the title, the company is SoftIron, not SoftIorn :)
> I remember meeting an old artist at college who had gone to NYC for training in his youth. He explained how such an adventure was impossible nowadays, because it's just not possible to afford living in NYC as a young person without money.

Nowadays, there are plenty other affordable places to train. It's not NYC or nothing.
Probably not much reason to panic anyhow. If you live within 20 minutes of a hospital (probably, in 2024), know what measles looks like, and ensure Vitamin A in your family diet, there's a very low likely-hood that even if your family contracts the disease, your infant's symptoms will be mild. IANAD, so this isn't gospel, but I do think it helps to learn and understand risk before panic. There is plenty that can still hurt or kill us in this world, but in general, our ancestors would love to have the peace of mind we have from our modern health care system.

I say all this having had the lived experience of my infant developing necrotic pneumonia from an otherwise innocuous RSV strain that went through our house and spending two weeks in the NICU wondering if she would survive. Prevention is great, and I would never wish anyone to go through what we went through. But I also refuse to panic or live in fear.

EDIT: I had not heard of immune amnesia before. That sucks. I will exercise more caution around measles.
True message passing is one of the key ideas behind smalltalk which would improve computer security considerably. This is analogous to the design of the internet that he references. The internet scales well. So imagine building entire computing systems this way.
If you consider that >10 years ago there were blog posts talking about how hard the "FizzBuzz" question was to implement when asked in-person as a way to demonstrate how you approach solving problems, there's definitely a reasonable assertion that these types of interviewing methods help weed out applicants unable to write basic compound statements. Might not be the best way as a single pass/fail criterion though.
That would apply probably to most famous entrepreneurs. Whatever I have read about Jobs, Musk, Gates and others, they all are very willing to abuse people to achieve their goals.
Calling Android Java is certainly a stretch, but aside from Sun/Oracle folks, I don't ever see anyone do that. Android is Android, Java is Java, and Android is written in Java.

If the language of the non-standard, deliberately ES262-incompatible NodeJS programming system (and GraalJS, for that matter) is called "JS" without anyone batting an eye—which it does—it's pretty silly to insist the language of Android isn't Java.
I have several well-functioning 1st-party chargers with perfectly intact cables, and sometimes it won't charge. Or it will, but the light doesn't turn on for some reason. Fixes itself when I replug it. Been this way since '06.
Check out outlines by .txt : https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines

sglang: https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.07104
Totally insane.

99% or more of the people who enable Google to do what Google does are employees of Google. Same with every other company. The odds of being the founder of a successful company are probably worse than being a professional sportsball player (if only because they turn over more frequently).

Does anything good come from encouraging kids to think that they will manage to sail through life as a successful business founder rather than an employee?

Does anything good come from encouraging people to ignore the actual situation that the overwhelming majority of the population finds itself in, and instead focusing on some essentially impossible pipe dream?

Obviously, every successful company does have founders. But so does every unsuccessful company. And what actually powers every successful company are its employees, not its founders.

The absolute worst of SV thinking, personified.
$150 for an electron app. I was considering holding my nose about the Electron part as I've been desperately trying to find a todo app that meets my needs, but damned if I'm going to subscribe or pay $150 for one.
> When poor people do idiotic job for you they don't develop their society, economy and environment.

Yes, they do. South Korea is a prime examples of this, e.g. Seoul peace market where the people got enough income to start focusing on unionizing. That market went from sweatshops to an internationally recognized quality market in just a few decades.

Did the sweatshops suck? Of course they did, but the income took a people from trying to survive to realizing their worth and demanding better conditions while catapulting their economy into one of the most modern countries in the world in a matter of a few decades.
Agreed, read a few sentence & move on.
That’s where the real money is. Even the best technologists won’t make it very far if they don’t know how to play politics.
> No such thing as shame in business

Depends if you care about the people (customers, employees) or the money more.
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The amount of survivorship bias ignored in the article is appalling. Why?
Seems like they could use something like GammaPix from https://www.imageinsightinc.com/ with their existing drone's CCD camera to estimate radiation levels.
> A generous reading of my posts and OPs shouldn't trigger this kind of vitriol.

It should not, and you should not have to defend yourself against this kind of behaviour. I would not have phrased it like that, but I agree with your message.
This is a crazy comment to find. I LOVE IT.
Inherited wealth did see an increase in 2023 in the UBS Wealth Report.

https://www.ubs.com/global/en/media/display-page-ndp/en-2023...

https://fortune.com/europe/2023/11/30/billionaire-heirs-over...
This is true too but removing the recharge hassle would’ve gone along way. Drivability is a valid concern as well. I always have some trouble in most rentals beyond the common interface controls (steering wheel etc..)
According to this chart (whose source you have to pay to see, so unknown reliability), ATT Wireless has had well north of 150m customers in the date range in question, so it wouldn't be all of them.÷
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> how do we actually know it’s not just personal preference

No studies on hand but having spent a lot of time in academia adjacent to CS you see a lot of departmental surveys and the like where women consistently report feeling pushed out, experiencing sexist harassment, or simply having a hard time connecting with peers when there’s a large gender imbalance. Obviously this doesn’t imply that personal preference plays no role, but I think that so long as these things are being reported it indicates that the discrepancy is not purely the result of preference, and at least partly reflects a systemic pressure away from the field(s).
In Java, there is no 1:1 relation between package imports and jars. A jar (dependency) usually contains many packages (namespaces), and of course the same packages can be contained in multiple (usually mutually incompatible) dependencies. (Java imports are often more fine-grained than, say, C/C++ header files.) Dependency selection therefore requires a conscious decision.

IDEs provide tooling to suggest matching dependencies to be added to the build file based on the names of unresolved imports. However, the much more common direction is to first decide which libraries (dependencies) you want to use and add those to your build file, which then allows the IDE to suggest imports when you reference some unresolved type in your source code. So the dependency declarations in the build file generally come first, before you start writing your corresponding code. (This can be likened to specifying coarse-grained includes in your project build file, from which fine-grained sub-includes are then selected in each source file.)

The conscious selection of dependencies is a good thing, IMO. Dependencies also don’t change frequently, so there isn’t much work to be saved by determining them automatically (except for transitive dependencies upon version bumps, which are determined automatically by the build system). Moreover, it’s not only the dependencies as such that are consciously selected, but also their respective version numbers. This prevents unexpected breaking changes.
Yeah, slower charging (like 20W) seems good, but I've used phone chargers out of desperation before and seen the alternating charge/discharge. Can't be good for it.
Usually by the time VCs have the power to fire you, you have so many different investors that they cannot really do it without some massively difficult political manouvering, at least in software.
How to get my first engineer?
how did you get your first engineer (esp if you don't know any)? If you’re an engineer, what compelled you to take up a job that paid not very much at first?
The more I think about this the less sense it makes. Over-hiring expensive tech workers with planned firings after a few months will burn incredible amounts of cash. If management can't effectively evaluate candidates for a single role, then why assume they will have success by increasing the number of employees? And if engineering management can't evaluate candidates, then they probably stink at onboarding as well, so that initial period will likely prove very little about the new hires. They also have to communicate their intentions up-front not only for ethical reasons but to avoid lawsuits from fired employees that almost certainly have the resources to sue for any alternative opportunities that they were screwed out of. So the company has to compensate people for their risk to even get qualified candidates, which means paying contract rates.
A lot of enterprise software is on a 1 year "maintenance" cycle too. In some cases, you no longer get support and you can continue to use the latest version from that year, and in other cases the license completely expires and you can't use the product at all.
As someone thats on startup #7 and is ~37 years old I can attest to this: I have had 5 flat out failures, 1 break even experience and 1 life changing experience (I don't own a private jet unfortunately). I'm fucking tired. I really hope theres something huge in the future, but the reality is I struggle to believe I have enough left in me to finish this one, let alone more.

Also, I'm just more interested in family and enjoying the mobility of the youth I have left, much more than chasing down unlimited resources.