skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this comment seems unrelated to the comment you're replying to - they didn't say it included CDC, they said that if you want it on MS SQL it will cost lots of money.
IBM hardware is reliable, BUT, IBM avoid to go to airspace industry as flight computer supplier.

After Saturn-5, flight computers made by other companies. Its hard to understand, if this is because conservative regulations, or because not enough money for such big company, but fact, that IBM electronics near absent from large civilian airplanes.
The only time I ever had a large piece like that missing, it was pretty clear (on afterthought) that the box had been opened in the store before I bought it.

And I've had to return a set or two to Amazon because they'd clearly been opened and returned (and usually all the minifigs stripped out).
Probably compared to micro controllers that are getting fast enough to do a lot of what used to take custom hardware or FPGAs
tiktok should get people to flex there qualifications. Lets see pass rates go up then! Kids think that all crap from Tiktok is cool.
Advertise a house to rent in Cornwall and you will get 30+ enquiries in 48 hours and have to suspend the listing before getting overwhelmed. A third of them will have always dreamed of moving to Cornwall. A desperate third want to overfill the house with adults to share costs and be able to just afford it. A sixth are "interesting". The remaining sixth of reasonable locals who can afford the rent will still leave you five times oversubscribed. The market is fundamentally broken here. You can't check a reference with an agent because they are all swamped. I don't know the answer. Possibly train and support a skilled building industry? But the rental yields on current house prices are 1-2%. Costs are rising. It's not getting better.
I feel that worry too, but I can validate his advice, somewhat.

I'm 44 and spent most of my career working individually and with my closest friends on projects that felt interesting, and it went really well for us in all of the ways. I also met these friends at a selective school, though it was a state-funded high school (massacademy.org), not a university.

Also, someone once came to my very conventional elementary school in 5th grade on career day to talk about a very unconventional career path (being a full-time peace activist) and this had a huge impact on me, both because it validated activism as a career and perhaps more importantly because it validated not having a normal job.

Getting a very short lecture in school from an interesting non-teacher can be at least very memorable and perhaps life-changing.
I dunno, I toyed with the starting phase of YC application a couple years ago, and started working my way through what was involved in their application process and reading their materials, even watching some YouTube content, etc.

I didn't really see how a business that was starting from a more R&D angle would make it through.

And a lot of it seemed really pitched to the bizdev "hustler" founder personality, not to engineers/nerds.
Local minima aren't normally a problem for neural nets since they usually have a very large number of parameter, meaning that the loss/error landscape has a correspondingly high number of dimensions. You might be in a local minima in one of those dimensions, but the probability of simultaneously being in a local minima of all of them is vanishingly small.

Different learning rate schedules, as well as momentum/etc, can also help getting stuck for too long in areas of the loss landscape that many not be local minima, but may still be slow to move out of. One more modern approach is to cycle between higher and lower learning rates rather than just use monotonically decreasing ones.

I'm not sure what latest research is, but things like batch size and learning rate can certainly effect the minimum found, with some resulting in better generalization than others.
One cannot/shall not have a right removed without a trial.
(for most research you need a lot of money and people, so out of reach of startups)
Cillium has been bought out by Cisco, so its monetization is only a matter of time.

Also, not everyone needs to implement a service mesh.
Though it would be nice to blame this on Management (who are often the root cause of all sorts of screw ups) - managers generally have no idea of, let alone interest, in build systems. We did this to ourselves.
Show HN: Go Community Website
Setup this website: https://godev.com/

There's no ads on it or anything – a community service which may or may not get used. I'd like to improve on it more. Hope to eventually make some meaningful contribution(s) back to the answer.dev project itself which is pretty awesome if you haven't seen it before.

I've been passing down computers to my nephew for about 8 years and he's now dual enrolling in college. He's "Kostin" the programming novice on the website and I'm trying to get him started with web development and go. During the coming summer break he will be trying to create his first website to start his learning journey. So even if nobody is interested in this website I'll use it to help him.

Anyways, I just wanted to show HN.
But you can't really dismiss criticism of her work as being from just a bitter rival. Whatever his personal motivation for doing it, Freeman and later anthropologists talked to Samoans themselves (some of whom were alive when Mead was doing her study of their society) and they didn't agree with Mead's description of them.
>It's not that clear why they are downsampling and then upsampling again. Why not do all the work at the original resolution?

For NNs, This is pretty much a compute efficiency thing. Working on the original resolution directly is more compute intensive.
No, quite a lot more.

50 effectively becomes and unlimited amount as capability grows. If AI can match the capability of a single programmer, it would then be trivial to scale up. Although in that case the term programmer makes little sense.
Drives. OP explains the typo
ft link: https://archive.is/20230924232054/https://www.ft.com/content...
Earn a Stake in the AI Revolution
Given that Things, Todoist, TickTick, and probably most(?) others don't support e2ee, I'd not consider it table stakes. If anything it could be a positive differentiator if they did add it, since folks in the forums for other apps often bemoan the lack of e2ee.
200% Optimize V8's Math.hypot argc <= 3 – Hidden cost of the loop
Yep, unless some new thing is acquired in a buyout, or if an entire group is spun off with almost no oversight, large companies are horrifically bad at creating new things. It's nearly impossible for them to do it in the case where the new product would affect existing revenue streams.
> 1-byte difference

It's actually just 1 bit
ah yes, I had that poster on my wall as a kid... https://twitter.com/JBrooksBSI/status/952291667041599488/pho...
The creation of plastic products causes significant emissions, which is something that I don't think is widely understood.
I just wish the stickers were high quality plastic ones, so you'd have a chance in hell of removing and replacing them immediately if you mess up.

I've never had a confirmed piece missing (the few cases had obvious open boxes, etc), but then again I've not bought as many in the last ten years.
The foundational $$ that has gone into the research to make the LLM stuff happen... was inside the existing big corporations (Google, FB, MS, etc.) and only left there once it had been proven.

Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI) for example was employed inside Google doing that kind of work and only left when he ran up against the limits of what he felt he could get done there. But the fundamental R&D had already been done. When I was at Google I saw some of it from a distance before I ever heard of OpenAI.

The VCs have come along at the tail end of the R&D cycle on this stuff in hopes of cashing in. Same as they did with crypto and N number of trends before. They're trailing, not innovating.

They're primarily interested in successful business models capitalizing on existing technology, not the actual development of new technology. Unless one has distorted the meaning of "technology" significantly.
And our political systems are making rational choices based on the internal logic of the actors and the information available to them.

No direct benefit from any of the solutions to 50% of the population so not popular, direct returns to business negligible so little support from the elite.

You have to make the effective reforms popular through wider applicability or education or you make it profitable.

The first is even less popular with business and conservatives; the second is cheapest and very difficult; the third is nigh on impossible.
I'm envisioning something more like continuous monitoring electrodes. Low amplitude, high bandwidth, always on.
yes, see https://github.com/reegnz/jq-zsh-plugin
Why do think this is an "American" thing?

The author is British, for one.
maybe. right now, if a startup has a new ML training technique or whatever, for a specific niche, cloud and VC capital will let them make a model that does way better for their niche than repackaging well funded models from OpenAI.
> Themes. Open source. Running executable code without review.

Call me naive, but I was surprised to discover a theme pack could contain arbitrary executable code. Apparently they can contain/install custom "plasmoid" widgets, which I guess makes sense, but it's apparently obvious.

The user seemed to install the theme through something suggested by the desktop environment without seemingly making it clear that it was unverified, unsourced user submitted code. This doesn't seem obvious or like a calculated risk.

Linux users by definition trust their distribution. The distribution recommends and installs the desktop environment - the user should also be able to trust the DE. The DE recommends to install something sounding benign - I can see exactly why the user wouldn't treat that with due suspicion.
Optimal Performance Without Static Graphs by Fusing Tensor Operation Streams
Happy to share what we have been working on lately. The blog post explores Burn's tensor operation stream strategy, optimizing models through an eager API by creating custom kernels with fused operations. Our custom GELU experiment reveal a remarkable improvement of up to 78 times on our WGPU backend.
There are several African energy startups named Okapi, I don't think it's an appropriate name for a CRM startup considering competition for visibility.

https://www.unhcr.org/us/news/stories/refugee-led-business-p...

https://www.okapi-oil.com/ (maybe not a startup)

(I built the Okapi Green Energy pilot minigrid funded by USADF in Kakuma)
What is the parallel advice for a 40 year old? I guess the programming and tinkering stuff still applies. But university cannot be redone. Sure I can study but I wont have any connection to most young people. I’ll be the old guy.
And this assumes I can afford the loss of income.

I assume a lot of start ups are started by older people too.

I think for older people an advantage is to solve older people problems. Like how sucky accessing all kinds of “adulting” things are from aged care to dealing with myriad systems with kids schools or any other problems that have inevitably been chucked at you. Some of these “startups” might actually be lobbying/political work for the good that doesn’t make money, some might be startups.

Also being older I don’t care about making a unicorn. I see that as an odd goal for a founder of any age but a great goal for an investor.
>is what are the situation where an independent small startup can make it big.

Yes, there are also all kinds of completely unrelated to your idea things that can succeed or kill your business.

Happen to launch your idea the day before a global economic collapse, well, better be exceptionally lucky.

Happen to launch when interest rates drop though the floor and banks are handing out money to anyone. You're going to have a harder time failing.
It's not uncommon in sensitive analog systems to do something like this, ~but I haven't seen anyone doing it with an FPGA yet~. Very old analog systems (that were a lot more temperature-dependent than modern analog circuits) often were contained in small ovens, and an intermediate step between a normal oscillator and an atomic clock today is to use an oven-controlled oscillator. In both cases, they keep the ambient temperature on the analog devices at 40-50 C to make sure that they operate at a stable temperature regardless of ambient temperature.

Edit: See the sibling comment - someone has found a reasonable circumstance to do it!
I used to do a lot of .NET. That’s the community’s fault, not MS.
One thing that's always been a little unclear to me is this:

With proofs, I normally think of the "work" as being in the derivation of a statement that is shown to be true. That is, the value is in deriving a new true statement that was not previously known to be true.

In the examples I usually see for using something like Lean, there's a true statement given, and the question is how to prove it. Although there are reasons this could be interesting, it doesn't seem quite as valuable as deriving some truth statement that wasn't previously known to be true.

Can something like Lean be used generatively, to generate multiple true statements given a set of assumptions?
So, is this why fasting sometimes seems like a solution?

Edit:
Oversimplified, but: Less, calories, less fat? Excess calories, more fat?
Network Mapper – low privileges, no-eBPF network observability tool for K8s
Understandable. I am pretty selective when it comes to a kit. Dare I say autistic? Box condition is a consideration, along with down to how I open them. It's noticeable.
Show HN: My QR Code Tattoo
Here's a short writeup of one of my favorite projects so far. I've not included a picture for privacy reasons (sorry if the title is misleading).
Very much so [0].

[0]: https://dev.to/pbnj/fzf-jq-interactive-jq-15no
Biased or not, it's still useful and need to be free.
Why even bring up 'Google' when the odds are (and always were) so long? It's like saying your bet could be the Powerball winner. I mean if his audience is only soon-to-be lottery winners, then it's kind of embarrassingly narrow and niche. And what advice is there to say except be rich enough to buy a lot of tickets?
I forgot about self-heating FPGAs! I am definitely going to add that to the article at some point. This is a paper I read on this a few years ago. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6818753
That would be quite a strange function. For example, Tic-Tac-Toe has 26830 possible games on 5478 possible positions, while 2x2 Go has 386356909593 possible games on only 57 possible positions.

The major difference of course being that Go allows stones to be captured.
Hotter tip - if you live near a Goodwill auction site, you can pickup "in store" and so you can bid for their bulk Lego without shipping.
> That is irresponsible advice.

"Well, son, a funny thing about regret is That it's better to regret
something you have done Than to regret something you haven't done."
"And by the way, if you see your mom this weekend,,,"
Nothing. It's a bit more convenient for Mac users in terms of setup.
> For reference, the estimated number of individual atoms in the universe is thought to be between mere 10^80 and 10^83.

Yes, but what are the estimated number of states of all these atoms?
Thanks! Yeah, we all stand on the shoulders of the giant that is Tailwind UI :)
tl;dr no one knows, lots of hints but every attempt at chemical intervention turns out to be worthless
Let's be clear. The Apple premium is LARGE. You expect more from them than any other computer company.
OpenFeature Web SDK v1
I suspect you could do something quick and dirty with "connectors" - a 1x1 brick would have two connectors, a 2x4 brick would have 16.

Apply some form of modulo by piece count (8 1x1 bricks are more "creative" than a single 2x4) and you'd be close.
Yes he tells you how to increase your odds in the lottery from 1E-11 to 1E-6 perhaps. His advice assumes you won the birth lottery already. Really you can’t be motivated by being the next Google because it (approximately) won’t happen. Be excited by the other things on the way.
To me the question "Why would I use X over Y?" in programming space is a bit redundant. Why would I use Kotlin over Closure? Why would I use Groovy over Scala?

Even only considering JVM languages you run in to way too many options for the question in itself to be worth your time as a serious discussion.

IMO - use whatever you and your team like best and that suits your needs. Java is great for hiring new devs and is arguably the most well established in an enterprise settings.

If you want an actual answer: Personal preference.
Show HN is for things you've made other people can try which excludes reading material:

Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

You can just post this sort of thing without the Show HN, though.
I remember Projectpad being really close to what I wanted in this regard: https://github.com/emmanueltouzery/projectpad2/

Shame it appears to be abandoned.
> We could conceivably use good AI to spot the bad AI

I suspect this is Google's actual goal with the tagging system. It's not so much about helping users, rather it's a way to collect labeled data which they can later use to train their own "AI detection" algorithms
One issue here is semantics. The things that happen in our brains which we can put into words tend to be the things we categorize as ‘thoughts’. But there are things that happen in our brains which we struggle to connect to language too, and we might call those ‘feelings’ or ‘emotions’ or ‘instincts’ instead. So we’re trying to use language to think about how we think about language and I suspect this might be why that end of neurolinguistics falls off the deep end into philosophy.
Now I'm having fond memories of discovering the IBM box drawing characters above 128 as a kid, and doing fancy text files.
How many people do you know that have their own WiFi router VS. some crap provided by the ISP?
I feel like there was a moment where “love was all you needed” and people just followed their passions with real careers as a backup. Hollywood pressed that view (or echoed it) into the zeitgeist and I’m not sure what the turning point was, but people started getting filthy rich. Almost as if the dormant culture combined with the internet made it possible to amass an absurd amount of wealth. Since then, whenever that is, it feels like it’s socially acceptable again to do be driven by earning potential and nothing else.

I agree with you, wanting to become “filthy rich” is abhorrent given all of the known implications that comes with. At the very least people should have some shame and keep that to themselves.
That it's not one tiny renegade bank breaking the rules.
I was thinking about people who squeeze in when you're already at min safe following distance. But also, no it doesn't always help the flow of traffic to follow as close as possible.
Nvidia AI nurses could cost hospitals $9 an hour
Doesn't this boost the hypothesis that Alzheimer's is closely related to insulin resistance in the brain? What some people call type III diabetes.

I ask because one of the hallmarks of insulin resistance is the presence of lipid droplets in close proximity to mitochondria [0].

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10455923/
> And Google obviously worked much better than the existing crawler-based search indexes and curated directories.

Funny thing is I recall using Google from the very day I first saw it come across Slashdot -- probably late 1997 -- before they were incorporated even... but I also recall that at some point around 1999 I actually switched back to using AltaVista or something similar for a bit. Because I preferred the search results I got.

It was actually a more competitive situation than people might remember in hindsight.

The big difference is that Google made it through the .com crash filter better than anybody else. That and they kept the good will of their customers by keeping minimal and straightforward and (for a while) ad free.
1. Get into Stanford just as Stanford is getting into the VC business.

2. Use Stanford bandwidth for your web crawler.

3. See how AltaVista does it; they're in downtown Palo Alto.

4. Get 100K from the guy who founded Sun.

5. Move into the space above the bike shop in Palo Alto. (9 major startups began there.)

6. Get more funding from the guy who founded Amazon.

7. Sell search ads.

8. Profit!
Your comment is shockingly out of touch, are you Elon Musk? Check out Mr. Billionaire over here, with money to throw away on idle computers.

I live in California. Electricity is not free, or even cheap.

I have 4 computers. 1 out in the garage that's my "off-site" backup system, complete with LTO tape drive. It's also got an 8 drive RAID10 array. I don't need it running 24/7. I need it on when I have a backup job for it to do, and off when I don't need it on.

I have a workstation that I only use when I'm developing personal code. I don't need it running 24/7. It also has 8 spinning disks, video card, and a massive CPU. It consumes about 300W of power, so that adds up.

My laptop is off when I'm not using it, but even that I wake remotely from time to time when I'm out in the garage and need a file from it.

I have 1 server that runs 24/7 and handles Plex, security cameras, and 6 virtual machines. It's a workhorse, but it's got a 65W CPU in it and barely uses the video card.

My electric bill is $600/month in the summer months, mostly due to AC but I don't need to make it any worse by running 4 computers continuously when I don't need to.
Depends on the type of traffic. You're describing gridlock, but temporary jams are more common on freeways. In those situations, if everyone left extra following space, it'd actually improve the overall throughput since people take extra time to stop then start. In some places, the police or automatic signs will even tell people to slow down in advance when there's a jam ahead.
Don't forget "It's time to change laws to accommodate this groundbreaking technology in a way that will benefit the company that created ${content machine} and absolutely no one else."
Need I say more?

Yeah - cost. :)

Cost is the reason I’m moving everything I can off our existing MSSql Servers before our next renewal comes up in a years time.

We did our due diligence and tested all manner of existing expensive queries and whilst there are a handful we just can’t get to run as fast as MSSql Server on Postgres, they only run slightly longer on average (as in 9 or 10 minutes as opposed to 6 or 7) and only at night.

However, given the cost differential ($50k+ vs $0), we can live with this.
See also: Retina, eBPF-based network observability tool by Microsoft. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39759627

The Network Mapper can export to Grafana Tempo (contributed by the community!), but doesn't have to. You can get its output as text, JSON, PNG or SVG using a CLI or an API (directly from the deployment in your cluster), and use it to auto-generate network policies.

Built while avoiding eBPF and reliance on a particular CNI with the intention to run on older nodes, with low privileges, a low performance footprint, and most importantly - zero config.
I believe that too few people have such a huge load. In 99% if the database can handle 10K warehouses, it's more than enough.
True, 01000101 vs 01000001
I think one of the Raspberry Pis were resetting on flash because of an exposed/uncapped chip.

Yes. It’s the Raspberry Pi 2:
https://hackaday.com/2015/02/08/photonic-reset-of-the-raspbe...
Inflection on deathwatch now?
NB: The quoted text appears in the BI article originally submitted.

<https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-see-exploding-star-no...>

The URL's been changed to the Nasa source it references.