skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> maybe you can just say if you've got enough to pull $100,000/year, you're good on healthcare too.

You’ll be exposed to tens of thousands in risk per year on top of (low) tens of thousands in premiums per year for a family Exchange plan. You’ll be burning nearly half of that (and spending all your free time trying to keep hospitals and insurers taking even more) if one of you gets cancer—or, if it’s you who gets cancer, you better hope someone else can handle that.

You also can’t withdraw at as high a “safe rate” as people planning for an ordinary retirement at ~65 do, because your fund needs to last a lot longer despite inflation and such. $2m isn’t “retire at 35” (… or 45) money. It might be “take a big gamble and maybe get lucky… for a while” money. Or semi-retire money.

[edit] at constant 2% inflation (ha!) you need a very safe source of consistent (not average!) 6% returns to retire with 80,000/yr income on $2m, without eating into principal. Anything goes wrong (“whoops, ‘safe’ wasn’t as safe as I thought!” or “whoops, we had a year of 7% inflation and my investments didn’t benefit from that!”) and you can find yourself burning principal while your account value is already down. It won’t take a lot of that before $80k is no longer your safe-withdrawal amount. A couple such years and you may be back to work. 30+ years is a long time…

[edit edit] also damn under $10k max out of pocket on a family plan at the bronze level for $17k? I gotta get out of my shithole state. That’s better than our Gold plans (also our plans tend not to cover like 2/3 of area providers, which may include 100% of area specialists for certain situations)
https://archive.is/L90ff
If he said "use Erlang" then that eliminates the actual message he's trying to convey, which is message passing is good.

I bet if he simply said "use Erlang", 99% of headlines and discussion would be "Alan Kay said Erlang is the greatest language evah!"

I do appreciate that he respects his audience, ie me, enough that he thinks we can read "message passing is good" and go from there to choosing a message passing language that is suitable for our needs, or even using a non message passing language due to other factors, but recognizing that OOP is about message passing and not state encapsulation, which would impact how I code even in Java.
Lego price per part over the years
Looking at the screen shots: we see an exchange that appears to be related to the reported location of a telco provider? Nothing that says that an unauthorized party accessed anything. Also, it seems that Dominion has Serbian nationals as employees.

Concerns about potential hacking would be par for the course, we're always concerned about potentials. I'm highly concerned about potential hacking from other nations. Doesn't mean it happened. This is all part of the random fun on Twitter.
The issue in Sweden is that he didn't have enough evidence to convince Sweden that he was arrested and tortured at the behest of the American government. Since he was on the no-fly list no air carrier would take him as a passenger, so Sweden's only options were to keep him or fly him in a private jet.

https://www.wweek.com/portland/blog-31874-swedish-government...
Haha, I think the evolution was something like this:

1. Slack introduces "sidebar" concept

2. Notion takes it a step further

3. Everyone starts doing sidebars, including Linear

We took inspiration from Linear's 'search button in sidebar' and 'profile pic in sidebar', which I think were maybe their unique contributions to the tradition :)
I interviewed Jeff Shrager. He is one of the people behind this site and the effort to investigate Eliza.

They do a lot of interesting work and the history of Eliza is more complicated than you would guess.

(The interview was before chatGPT was a big thing.)If you don't mind the plug:

https://corecursive.com/eliza-with-jeff-shrager/
Supervision Trees (2019)
A => B <> B => A though
TL;DR: The authors embed task instructions in a vector space with a language model, and train a sensorimotor-controlling model on top to perform tasks given the instruction embeddings. The authors find that the models generalize to previously unseen tasks, specified in natural language. Moreover, the authors show that the hidden states learn to represent task subcomponents, which helps explains why the model is able to generalize.
I thought that Waymo is 'almost' a robotaxi - in the sense that there is a remote operator that takes over when the car is stuck or it's getting dangerous. I think Cruise revealed the numbers about the % of time an operator takes over and it was surprisingly high - one intervention every 2.5-5 miles.
All right, I respect that. I’m sure there are plenty of things that I might do that would leave you scratching your head too.
Definitely going to add the hotkeys-for-objects feature! That's on my to-do list.

Want to work on reducing bundle sizes. Just haven't gotten a chance to get to that yet. Totally agree that load times really matter here, I've been focused on that and still have a few ways to speed that up.
I wonder if all of that was in an operating system as described but backed by Nix so we accomplish the NixOS-style reproducibility and configuration time travel, what the developer experience and user experience would be like. Instead of binary blob images, we'd have Nix declaratives and flakes we dissect at will, without fear of wedging the system with the live modifications we make.

Our hardware is sufficiently capable enough these days that I'm curious if we can do this to conventional Smalltalk and Common Lisp system/machine designs to re-imagine them, and bring back a level of tight feedback looped developer experience that has gone underground in the mainstream.
I find the level-headed realism
and appreciation of those of us who work in OP's post refreshing, and the solipsism and wishful thinking of your post depressing.
No! Thanks for the callout! That would certainly help on my path. My main goal was to insulate calls to avoid overly complicated reference counting when integrating large native surfaces into as Java program, but certainly an important aspect is getting the function signatures to target in the first place. I threw something bad together to work sort of like this (testing using proton), but I'm more than happy to bin it for something that just-works.
The sync engine is proprietary, so you can't use your own provider. We wanted very tight control over syncing to achieve our goals with speed and shared lists. I totally understand your concern, though.

For what its worth, all of your data is stored locally in a sqlite DB. You shouldn't edit this DB or syncing may not work, but you should feel free to read from it if you'd like ~/Library/Godspeed/godspeed-db.sqlite
https://www.forbes.com/consent/ketch/?toURL=https://www.forb...

If I look here, top 20 are 17 founders and 3 heirs (2 Waltons - Walmart, and one Bettencourt - L’Oreal)
We're talking about Waffle House staff here so I'd be surprised if the turnover was low.
You know, that design makes a lot of sense, since the door would be mostly horizontal by the time the pulley got close to bottoming out the motor would still be able to move it.

I bet those tubes go below the foundation though and god help you if the cable breaks and you have to fish those weights out to reattach it.

Maybe there is some easily reachable latch point on top or some sort of fluid pump port that will make it easier on you?
This article is just an ad for a static site generator product called Eleventy.
What has changed since 2012 in the document printing space that would make that perfectly good machine obsolete? Machines don’t grow on trees, they are created at terrible environmental cost.
I think much of our technology today is just about consuming more crap, and all that could go and we’d be fine, but I also think that our, say, medical technology could be infinitely better than it is. There’s also cool potentials like space travel or intelligence augmentation that I wouldn’t want to concede.
I would consider someone who has made >1000x what they were given as self made without any doubt. Yes $200k or being in IBM's board or being US citizen or being able to afford Stanford is not a small thing for many, but saying that those were the biggest determining factor in making them richest is just being cynic on their progress.
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> He’s always just waxing around nebulous desiderata and complaining about the status quo.

How is inventing Smalltalk and putting his ideas into reality just "waxing around" or "complaining"?
FYI, this is written by one of the reCAPTCHA's competitors. Last sentence of the page:

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To my knowledge AlphaGo models never became meaningfully available to the public, but 8 years later the KataGo project has open source, superhuman Go AI models freely available and under ongoing development [1]. The open source projects that developed in the wake of AlphaGo and AlphaZero are a huge success story in my mind.

I haven't played Go in a while, but I'm kind of excited to try going back to use the KataGo-based analysis/training tools that exist now.

[1]: https://github.com/lightvector/KataGo
Good Luck, everyone has different needs and I hope yours are satisfied.
New Effect allows gluing of soft tissue to metal
As a modern language Java is still quite feature deficient. But you can use compiler plugins like the manifold project[1] to level up.

1. https://github.com/manifold-systems/manifold
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History of Java Versions' Features
Maybe in another ten years they'll remove System.out.println and allow for a simple println to be used.

Or maybe we'll all move to Kotlin by then.
Yup.... if you look at Minecraft Classic or one of the similar early versions' code..... it's quite advanced. It's conceptually fairly simple but the game just has so many small nice things which are taken for granted but are not trivial to implement.

It's no surprise that almost all of the iconic things about Minecraft was created in the first few years by Notch.... everything else afterwards is just polishing it and adding fluff.
That can get you rich - not wealthy
We really should have figured out anthropomorphization and how to overcome it before we got to the "AI age".
You've brought up good point. But let's consider this: Current LLMs are capable of generating code that rivals human output. However, two major challenges persist. First, there's no infallible method to evaluate the "quality" of code produced by LLMs. Second, even if LLMs were to submit pull requests, their generated code might not always meet our trust threshold for being "good enough."

Perhaps we should reframe the issue by focusing on developing LLMs that can precisely assess whether a PR should be approved. This approach simplifies the process to:

1. Instruct the LLM to modify a codebase.

2. Have the LLM generate a PR.

3. Leverage the LLM's ability to accurately determine PR quality for approval. If it's not good enough, the process returns to step 2.

So, to put it simply, if there comes a time when LLMs can match or even exceed human judgment in deciding whether to approve or reject a PR, it probably means we've reached a stage where LLMs can (or have) replace programmers.
I had to re-read this few times but I think it makes sense now. So what you are saying is, that if a company goes into debt, the market will also lower its valuation because it has debt, so we should not count this debt twice and that's why we need to add it up?

I think we might be missing "assets" here? This is what still doesn't make sense for me:

- A company just created (market cap 0) goes 100M into debt, and so has 100M cash, so it balances out to be 0.

- However if that company uses those 100M cash to buy e.g. a factory, in this example what would happen? The Market Cap jumping to 100M doesn't make sense (since then the company would be "valued" at 200M), should we count the "assets" in the same way as "cash"?
Jumping through arbitrary hoops sounds an awful lot like "push hard, the door sticks".
We use the `interactor` gem at $DAY_JOB and it does 90% of the stuff described here, and the last 10% came naturally and we just kinda engineered it ourselves intuitively.

definitely works better than "fat models" that do everything and ruby on rails callback hell
To me, this depends on the different failure domains and how they interact with each other and based off of that, it can be decided if the teams should coordinate changes, communicate changes or just run.

For example we've had situations in which... creative user and amazing code managed to fry both the dedicated elasticsearch cluster for the application as well as the dedicated database, and the application servers were also weird. Here, we'd split into three small teams each responsible for each of these pieces.

And looking at these failure domains - ES and postgres don't interact with each other, so both of these teams should just run independently as fast as they can to get their components working again and inform the app team when they are back up. However, the application team should closely coordinate their actions with both of these teams - I've had enough situations in which someone pressed the "hilarious load on ES" button while people were still getting ES up to capacity... and down we go again.

Or in a similar way, we had a central database outage and a couple dozen apps got taken out. Database in the lead, sure, but once that's going again, the different application teams can run free and make changes with loose coordination with the database team.

However, within the same failure domain, I really don't like to make too many changes in parallel. Getting back up ASAP is a priority, for sure, but what about the outage in 2 hours, or tomorrow because we just hit the system with a couple of wrenches and have no idea why it's back up? Here I strongly prefer deliberate, individual changes so we can get an idea why the system failed. 10 more minutes of downtime / degraded service now can safe us many nerves and downtime hours over the next few days.
OpenRouter AI for Ruby
Just open-sourced this extraction from Olympia https://olympia.chat/

We use OpenRouter extensively, to power all sorts of big and little components that complement the main chat completions of our AI-powered consultants.
“Break compatibility” can cover a wide range of things, however, and that’s not always so clear cut. For example, if they were relying on lax permissions or a private interface then it’s a question of how much effort the OS vendor should spend on something they never promised would work.
I beg to differ. If the PII in the leak matches what's in AT&T DBs, they can still maintain plausible deniability that there is no proof the PII leaked from them. An encrypted DOB requires the DOB and an encryption key. The latter shall be unique and securely stored in their system and that's why I referred to presence of the encrypted data specifically as a smoking gun.
Recursive Make isn't the best. https://aegis.sourceforge.net/auug97.pdf

That said, if Rig gives you nothing new, please don't even try it!

I'd rather you wait until you need it to try it; then you'll be more forgiving of the bugs. :)
That is the common interpretation in the field, and in fact the phrases "strange metal" and "non-Fermi-liquid" are used somewhat interchangeably.

I'd point out that there is another interpretation of resistivity that is linear in temperature, namely that the basic physics of electron transport [1] is the same as a standard metal, where the scattering rate (proportional to resistivity) is proportional to temperature squared. The difference from normal metals is attributed to the linear increase in the carrier concentration (e.g. density of free electrons) with temperature. Since the carrier concentration (in the simple model) is inversely proportional to resistivity, this partially cancels the T^2 dependence of the scattering rate and produces T-linear resistivity. This is not (yet?) widely accepted in the literature, and I doubt it can explain all T-linear resistivity, but I think there's fairly strong evidence to believe it could explain some instances of T-linear resistivity, e.g. in the cuprates [2]. (n.b. I'm academically associated with some of the proponents of this idea, though I'm personally somewhat agnostic on the matter.)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drude_model
[2]: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/ab4d0f
Long sales cycles for startups – what to do in between?
I work for a FinTech startup. We are generating leads and interest for our product, but since we are targeting banks and financial providers, the sales cycle is inherently long due to regulation and general hesitation in the space. What should we be doing in between these long sales cycles?
What Happens to Harlem When It's White?
Before autoconf there was metaconfig, which was Larry Wall’s portability support for rn and perl.
The same AI that invades my life to do harm can "invade" my life and be (extremely) helpful.

And the latter is more likely. Because the willpower of an AI is just the mimicked willpower of the people who made it, and there will always be more good people than bad people.
Fortune reported that Microsoft hired most employees from Inflection.
The Disinformation Campaign Has Destroyed the Ability to Combat Disinformation
The circumstances around this particular crisis are spiritually difficult to process. I'm cynical, but not cynical enough to have imagined the political alignment that we currently ('the west') hold, to enable/allow this level of suffering to occur, in Gaza. When an _entire_ (state/state-less) population is displaced, facing famine, disease, with no functional infrastructure- is it not reasonable to suggest that historical/political differences of opinion around the conflict are not the pressing matter? That even the most cynical interpretation of the 'human shield' argument can not justify this level of collective suffering? That there are other options, least of which simply minimise suffering? Over a million people are lacking basic human needs. We could easily help but, for political reasons, do nothing.
I'm dragging my new company's codebases from 8 to 17 from soup to nuts. It's not always just about the language update, but all the old legacy crust that accumulated since java 8 that prevented anyone else to do it. My PRs are terrible and necessary.
I hope you mean all the theoretical physicists working on the high energy theories of physics, because 30% is a sadly high figure even for that subfield. If 30% of all theorists would actually be of no use to any other physicists, that would be horrendous.
Why would you ask to sign up only after entering the domain?! Can’t you just be a little transparent and clearly state that an account is required before anything?
> 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?

I think it probably has a lot to do with the US being the number 1 economy in the world so yes, it does appear to have society-wide benefits. Does it have personal benefits? I think this is probably more controversial. I suspect some people push themselves too hard and would have been happier otherwise, whereas others do indeed benefit from this advice. I suspect that the users of HN probably fall in the latter category.
> the bottom decile of income in the USA is $10k/year

That's before taxes and transfers. It's much more than that once you account for them.

Meanwhile, around 50% of the world's households make less than $10,000/yr: https://news.gallup.com/poll/166211/worldwide-median-househo...
Have you looked at https://www.taskpaper.com/?
They would need more than an email address to make a meaningful match in this case, since we're stating the email is unique to AT&T.

That being said, I've never heard of hackers performing Master Data Management but I guess it's possible. I'd hope they'd use something other than full name for their matches...
Honorable but important mentions:

5. Stackalloc (C alloca), fixed buffers in structs and inline arrays

6. ref T and Span<T>, which act just like &mut T and &mut [T] in Rust (with the same syntax). They are used in both advanced and most basic APIs alike to provide zero-cost wrapping and/or slicing of arbitrary memory (managed heap, stack, NativeMemory.Alloc'd)

e.g. You can receive byte* and length from FFI and construct a (ReadOnly)Span<byte> from them. That span then can be passed to almost every method that used to work with arrays only during .NET Framework days.
> The amount of people that will run their own models is negligible at the scale of the society

Let me transpose your sentence back to 1980:

"The amount of people that will run their own computers is negligible at the scale of the society"

(I was 8 in 1980. People literally said this.)

All someone needs to do is to productize a whole-house LLM that does voice to text, runs the LLM, does text back to voice (possibly mimicking whatever voice you want), and you'd have an Alexa replacement that is far smarter. I'd buy it in a heartbeat just so that I wouldn't have to do maintenance on it.
I'm not. That's why I asked what employment lawyers have to say.
This kind of PR pep talk is not a good place to go on a tangent about how three of your co-founders bolted to Microsoft do do AI stuff there. #lolwtf
The Cortex Sidekick Notepad is pretty great for analog task management. Expensive, but pretty great.
only anticipating AI by 34 years.
Then that's a single media org.
Author here.

Rig will have multi-project builds. It also has a concept called "context stacks".

The idea would be that you would have a "compiler option" context stack, and you would push `-Wno-bad-warning`, then inside the context, build that library.

Then the library would add `-Werror`, but it would also have `-Wno-bad-warning`, so no problem.

But multi-project builds won't exist in the first release.
Newton and Macintosh TV were both when Jobs wasn't around, and he quickly killed off the spin-off "Newton, Inc" company and the Newton line when he returned when Apple and NeXT merged.
Netty: Asynchronous event-driven network application framework
The essay isn't called "How to optimize your likelihood of retiring comfortably"

> You can't know whether it will turn into a company worth billions or one that goes out of business. So when I say I'm going to tell you how to start Google, I mean I'm going to tell you how to get to the point where you can start a company that has as much chance of being Google as Google had of being Google.