skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are just anecdotes, which are fine for informal conversations like this, but hopefully you’d be a little more rigorous if you were seriously proposing a course of action for the justice system.

In the case of students, they seem to try and cheat sometimes, so the deterrence doesn’t seem very effective. Anyway, the negative consequence is very disperse (it hurts the reputation of the school if they get through without learning anything). The main bad result falls on them (they waste thousands of dollars to intentionally avoid learning). They also might fail the final, not as a punishment, but as a natural result of not learning the material.

In the case of speeding, everyone here speeds. The flow of traffic is always 5-10 over the speed limit here. People are intentionally breaking the posted speed limit to go the safer speed (going the speed limit here impedes the flow of traffic and makes a more dangerous situation for everyone). I think it is more of an informal decision making process—people just follow the herd—but it is a funny example!
At least it’s not Zurks… shudder
There's obvious potential savings in not wasting FLOPs recalculating things unnecessarily, but I'm not sure how much of that could be realized by just building a data-flow digital GPU. The only attempt at a data-flow digital processor I'm aware of was AMULET (by ARM designer Steve Furber), which was not very successful.

There's more promise in analog chip designs, such as here:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/low-power-ai-spiking-neural-net

Or otherwise smarter architectures (software only or S/W+H/W) that design out the unnecessary calculations.

It's interesting to note how extraordinarily wasteful transformer-based LLMs are too. The transformer was designed part inspired by linguistics and part based on the parallel hardware (GPU's etc) available to run it on. Language mostly has only local sentence structure dependencies, yet transformer's self-attention mechanism has every word in a sentence paying attention to every other word (to some learned degree)! Turns out it's better to be dumb and fast than smart, although I expect future architectures will be much more efficient.
I wouldn't say that, my latest big user story for making sure I'm handling huge inputs was "translate Moby dick to zoomer". Cant give any service chunks larger than ~5K tokens, over API, without it failing.

(Miserably, like, I'd be fine if it gave a paragraph back. But at least on this "map" task, there's a critical point where there's so much input that the reward function ends up imitating the input more instead of chatting)
There's a small fence around each tower with signage indicating the RF danger. Then around the whole property there's a horse-height fence, with a locked gate. And around that there are a few miles of soggy farmland, so it's pretty low risk.

Site plans have to include certain safety precautions, and fence type, placement, height, etc. are all submitted to the FCC when a tower site is designed or rebuilt.
Skilles like that are only really learned by doing it.

There are no shortcuts, sorry. No amount of synthetic experiments, simulations, theoretical examples will give you the actual hands on knowledge.

For sure, books etc. are useful to gain some basic understanding.

But beyond that - you should set more practical and specific goals that would lead you to scaling challenges naturally.

For example - build your own web crawler etc.

Or just set a goal to join a company with demanding products.
I don't think so? The files and folders are still there on Chromebooks and Android smartphones, and there is even a stock file manager app, but I find it very rarely used. And individual apps have been dying for many years already with everything moving to the web - for example I have only 3 apps I use daily (web browser, mail client, terminal), and many people only use the browser.

This leaves only general "browsing", that could be described as:

- There is a virtual document which can be big or small

- This document may consist of text, images or videos

- At any given time, a portion of the document is displayed on the screen. Navigation commands (keyboard, mouse, special hardware, gestures, etc...) could be used to choose which portion of the document is shown.

- Some parts of document can be interacted with (using mouse, or light pen or fingers): then some action happens or a different document is shown

This model has been unchanged for at least 50 years - first Smalltalks worked like that, and today's browsers work the same. Sure, there are more colors and images are much higher quality, but the essential interactions are the same.

So I am not sure what would exactly LLMs bring to that picture.. sure the search bar may get replaced by a natural-language query, but that won't need the new OS, it's just an incremental improvement of existing status quo.
But you're sending that $100 from another computing device, and if you're not trusting a bank-like entity to hold the cryptocurrency for you, you're responsible for securing all your money on that device without locking yourself out.

On the other hand, having some money outside a bank is nice. I've had them freeze my assets before just cuz they felt like it, until I spent a whole day telling them to fix it.
Rust's Arc is like ARC, this is more like a generational pool of Box<dyn Any>.
Mojo feels like a great fit for so many domains outside of AI. It could be a killer general purpose language.

It's easy to read and write, offers memory safety without RC or GC or even much mental overhead, will (eventually) be a superset of Python, and it's very performant already.

So far I've been hesitant to invest more time in it when it's pitched as "the programming language for all AI developers", when it's distributed inside the MAX package[1], and when Modular is prioritising features around AI over all else. (I understand why for all these things, I just wish it were otherwise.)

It's great to see the library in the open, but it would be much more compelling for me if Mojo were a separate entity, with its own open site and foundation, to be used by Modular but with more diverse adoption encouraged. Of course it's early days, but I hope it takes on a life more like Rust than Swift (which — despite its potential as a general-purpose language‚ is still largely used in one ecosystem).

1: https://www.modular.com/blog/max-is-here-what-does-that-mean...
That is how evolution works. Something wins until something else comes along and win. And so on forever.
What Elon Musk Won't Tell You About Settling Mars
Sure, but is that a thing you'd be able to (and want to) do using a small handheld radio?

It's not like HF where ionospheric reflections are pretty much the biggest appeal of the band.
Crypto is a vice. You can say exactly what you said about cigarettes, cigarette brands, and their stock prices.
Just made some optimizations.

Never got my fans spun up even on an old MacBook, so I assumed everything was peachy, but there were some wins to be had. I was doing a small amount of parsing during the "typing" effect to prevent small glimpses of styling syntax from showing up, and found some wins there. Also cut down the number of particles in the intro animation, though that's a Svelte component that's being destroyed once you start.

Thanks for flagging.
You can just copy/paste the URL into http://archive.is yourself
Thats news to me. Can you link to a page of a bank in Europe where they state that they offer free instant money transfers?
We see this among political figures that swindle hundreds of millions, fail to pay taxes, etc. over and over again. They are granted absolution and even admired.

Someone who steals food does time in jail.
The Unfair Takedown of a Female Founder (A YC Alumna and Person of Color))
Library for my city has passes for patrons.

If one doesn't want to use archive links, might be good to check their local library.
Is Landy envious of Girard? With Landy having just 1 (one) wikipedia article to his name, and Girard 36 (thirty-six)? Who knows. Thanks for the reference.
It's not cloud backup if it syncs two ways.

My family use a mix of Office 365, Exchange Online and Google Workspace for email, documents, etc. Add to this the required Microsoft Account for Windows logins and OneDrive.

I use a Synology NAS and they have packages to backup all these kinds of accounts, including versioning.

Even if an account is closed their files and emails live in our NAS.

If someone's life depends on anything digital, backup is a minor inconvenience or cost.
The thought of space warfare is a bit scary in how it will affect modern life. Reading this I realized I have an implicit assumption that, in my lifetime, someone very well could blow up some key satellites. That would have a meaningful impact on day-to-day life and the economy.

Hopefully countermeasures and/or back up systems are figured out that add sufficient defense & redundancy before we get to the point where that happens.
There's this fitness app called madmuscles https://madmuscles.com/ that takes dark patterns to the extreme. It has to be seen to be believed. I don't know how they get away with it
Well, I take it that it's always true and is a good lesson for anyone trying to set the price for their own product (like a hacked together side project one of us might be working on :) ).

My understanding is that the price should never be set based on production cost but on the value it brings to the customer. Thereby, a simple program you or I could hack together in a month, might have a cost of 10k in labor only cost, but if it would save the customer millions each year, they would pay a million for it.

So, you set the cost based on how much they are willing to pay, based on how much they would profit/save.

If another competitor offers a similar solution, you just undercut them by 10%, or invest another 10k for superior features.
For context, Visa and MasterCard combined average 10k's tps, and are capable of processing 100k's tps at peak. So if it works out, that would put Ethereum in the same ballpark.
I hope he gets pardoned. Trump pardoned some straight vermin and I just don’t feel all that much hate towards SBF (I did lose a few thousand). I have to say I don’t see Biden being so blatantly “teamist” though I wish he would.
I would not call this a game. I liked the story but this would've been more convenient as a blog post.
Huawei nova Y72 Specifications: 6.75″ screen 720 x 1600 pixels, 8GB RAM, 50MP 1080p, 128GB/256GB Storage, 6000mAh battery, 23W charging, Released 2024, February
And yet it's perfectly true. Sorry you feel condescended to. People who say this are relating their own experience of being parents and how they couldn't anticipate how much it would change them.
Crawfish could transfer ionic lithium from their environment into food chain
It's a real worry. It's amazing what's connected to GPS that ought not to be. I just happened to notice that modern broadcast TV transmitters have integrated GPS/GLONASS receivers.

We should have a general prohibition against telecom and power infrastructures being dependent on GPS. The NERC looked at this for the power grid in 2016.[1] There was concern, but not enough was dependent on GPS at that time to be a serious problem. This needs to be looked at and tested regularly.

Telecom has been looked at, too. 5G has problems. The relevant report is paywalled.[2]

[1] https://www.naspi.org/sites/default/files/2016-09/nerc_exten...

[2] https://www.atis.org/press-releases/atis-issues-report-gps-v...
When mojo was initially released I didn’t think much of it because: 1. It was announced prior to being available, even in closed source form. 2. Emoji filenames meant to me that it wasn’t taking itself too seriously. 3. Many people have tried to make Python fast and failed, and that was my naive take on it, and despite the fact that LLVM allstars were working on it, it seemed like a lofty goal. 4. Closed source programming languages usually suck.

They presented at the LLVM conference in 2023 and this video totally changed my view: https://youtu.be/SEwTjZvy8vw?si=itaRiFCIwGnyOQcc

There are some fascinating ideas here, I’m especially excited about what could come from their templated IR. Recommend others give it a watch if they’re confused on why they should pay attention to this project.
I feel like I'm experiencing whiplash. When it's convenient, crypto is unregulated and unprotected. But for this argument it is convenient to refer to it the matter as fiduciary, which implies trust, and declare that the only amount which matters is USD.

You might expect to only get the USD equivalent back, but not for one minute does that make you whole. A lot of money was in fact stolen.
Why would they emerge with devastating debt if they were paid reasonably well all along? (I am with you on the other points)
> When Larry and Sergey started Google, they began by just hiring all the smartest people they knew out of Stanford...

I worked for a large tech company as an intern in the late 90's, which is where I learned smartest doesn't always equal best. There were two of us interns in the org, one on the east coast and one on the west coast. I was in grad school at a regionally known engineering school, whereas my west coast counterpart was a grad at Stanford.

They were one of the smartest people I've ever met and worked with, and were basically a walking encyclopedia of CS knowledge, all the way down to level 1 of the OSI model. They were also entirely unable to execute on anything. There was no ability to plan and schedule work or to stay focused on the job itself.

One of us got a raise and asked to come back next summer and the other got walked from the building by security (a first, apparently) before the summer ended.

Yes, it's anecdata, and over my career I've worked with many other people from "top" institutions. As a whole, I haven't been any more or less impressed with them than any other Engineers I've worked with or hired.
Why you should build your apps client-first
>It's certainly possible to get near optimal ratios and quantities with a mix of plants but this takes a bit of planning

This is true for any processed food. And I’m using “processed” liberally here. Meat must generally be butchered, and salted/smoked/cooked before consuming, but we’re just so used to it we don’t consider it “processing” or “planning” to do it.
Ask HN: Forming a new startup based on old one
I used Stripe Atlas to create a Delaware C Corp and it came with all the attendant documents about shares vesting etc...

I ended up dissolving and moving to an LLC. But now I've decided I do want to try to raise money (at least a seed round) and I don't want to just use the standard Stripe Atlas contract, considering I've already put a year and a half of work in developing the software.

Should I just approach a lawyer that specializes in this sort of thing? I want something that will be easy to put on AngelList but doesn't start me from zero.
Your definition of "solved" is quite a bit different than my definition of "solved". Especially if you are going to just pretend that the economics aren't to be included in the solution.
I have not been following any crypto news POST mtgx and pulling all my crypto to local storage. What did this guy actually do? Did he mismanage funds or literally took money from poeple and stashed it away?
I think this is a wise answer. Thank you.
The moral of the story, don't rob from rich people. If you rob from poor people, with MLM, or fraud, or money laundering, thats fine. But if you rob from the billionaires, you're being put away for life.
Powell's (Portland) and City Lights (SF) are worth mentioning and should be on your bucket list.

0. Powell's is massive.

1. How many bookstores can claim they published Ginsberg?

2. The used bookstore collapse from 2002-present has been a slow-moving, silent killer of independent bookstores. Davis, CA had a half dozen bookstores until Borders moved in. Then Borders went bust in 2011 and they were left nearly a book desert. This mirrors, in a more minor way, food deserts that Walmart's expansion and contraction brings.

https://daviswiki.org/Bogey%27s_Books

https://daviswiki.org/Gayle%27s_Books

https://daviswiki.org/Orpheus_Books

https://daviswiki.org/Sweet_Briar_Books

https://daviswiki.org/The_Next_Chapter
“You can’t cheat an honest man” as the expression goes.

Not literally true - completely innocent people do get victimized - but there’s certainly a reason for the expression.
High demand back home. People see dollars as valuable, so they can send it to pay other people as needed. Loads of people have a binance account and will accept usdc for goods and services. Also, BTC is accepted everywhere in el salvador which is close to where fam lives so there is a lot of acceptance
KDE Global Themes Are Fundamentally Changing [video]
> If you could just send the money, the barrier to pay would be 100x lower.

We can already do that here in Brazil: the web site displays a QR code (plus its contents in text form), the user scans the QR code (or copies the text) into their banking app, and confirms it on the app to send the money.

I hasn't AFAIK made any meaningful difference for websites. What people dislike isn't the inconvenience of credit cards, it's the inconvenience of having any paywall at all.
> We're currently working with professional to improve our domain rating, ensuring you receive the quality backlinks needed to boost your SEO. Please be patient. It might take a while.

The irony in this is magical.

I highly suggest you remarket as a collection of some type of link a la product hunt. Tech startups, cool apps, anything.

"backlink service" is literally just "seo spam" on it's own.
Every long context sucks right now. All the model providers benchmark on fact recall which is very limited. Actual ability to do anything complicated beyond 16k tokens is not present in any current model I have seen.
My wife ain't happy with performance. Hence I tried Immich, Photoprism, even attempted using Redis but not satisfied with any of these.

After installing Nextcloud Preview plugin it might've improved. I am currently processing entire library with Nextcloud Face Recognition plugin model 4 (= 1 + 3) since model 1 only recognizes our kids as same person. Almost done, then I tag clusters and give it a whirl.

Nextcloud Memories is ready as I speak but because I put strip EXIF on uploads, it isn't as useful.
I messaged your LinkedIn company account with some screenshots.
Fastmail is great. Five thumbs up!
> in general a good experience, but it was also clear that lots of things were still missing

I'll second that. I was working on a GUI frontend for sshfs in Dioxus about 9 months ago. My impression was that it's a really, really good GUI framework... until you run into a wall because the developers aren't finished with some feature yet.

Sharing state across different contexts can also be a pain sometimes, but that's true of every GUI framework I've ever used, regardless of language or underlying technologies. Dioxus 0.5 looks like a big leap forward in this regard.

My blog uses Dioxus to render a sizable portion of its HTML. In that use case, its limits aren't pushed, and it does a wonderful job.
> Having your first kid at 38 is old, I should know.

Had my first kid at 45 and second at 49. Guess that makes me ... ancient?
Most companies only promote once or twice per year. But if you leave, you can get promoted any time of year.
Of course not, that would render rehabilitation impossible.
This just feels like an ad...
Does that mean long time employees are incompetent?
Amazon's search in Poland is atrocious. I only get international offers where shipping costs are higher than good's price. What the hell?
What parts of the world? In non developed countries bank fees are actually higher than in the West.

In Bosnia a most basic bank account costs about $3 per month, or 60 Ethereum transactions (most people usually have 10 - 20 transaction per month). For paying bills banks usually charge a commission fee of 1%. And if you want to send money to someone 50 kms away but across the border the fee is $20 with few days wait for money to be received.
Fortunately for academics looking for a new start in industry, this widespread misunderstanding has made it only far too easy to transition from a slow-paced career in computational neuroscience to an overwhelmingly lucrative one in machine learning!
Postdocs tend to be paid poverty wages, so if they have student loans those won't have been paid. Additionally if they emerge at 30-something but on the lowest run of the career ladder they may never catch up.

Obviously less of an issue if well paid, but well paid academia is kind of a contradiction.
Tell HN: Abstractions are just realities with fewer parameters
I’m sorry dang. I enjoy debate but admit I have a habit of going too far with the snark and sarcasm. Will be more respectful in the future!
Isn't that a given? Out of sight, out of mind.
False dichotomy, appeal to ridicule, and generalizations about climate change science in two sentences is impressive.

Honestly one of the worst arguments I've read this year. Might be the witches talking though.
> why would the default be to NOT keep what you just put into the computer?

Because you didn't ask it to save and closed the app?
If you are raising money, the investor is going to want to restart your vesting anyway and its a huge red flag if you aren't ok with that.

Just start a new C Corp and use your developed IP to buy your shares. If you are the sole owner of the LLC, this should be a simple transaction.

(I am not a lawyer though, and especially I'm not your lawyer. You should get one.)
They are much smaller, about half the size of the Chiquita ones and slightly less sweet and harder. They are called Elaichi bananas.
> I don't put my toaster away when I'm not using it

I actually do lol
Except greed...
> the money ended up all being there,

Someone associated with the case said that just because it was possible to recover most of the money he stole doesn't mean he didn't steal it. Crooks routinely go to jail even when the cops recover the money or goods.
> How can you be giddy about a human being locked in a cage for 25 years?

The guy is a massive fraudster who not only cost thousands of people their savings, but - maybe even worse - he did significant damage to crypto finance reputation.

He was an already wealthy entrepreneur who could’ve at any point chosen not to be a massive fraud.
Actions have consequences. Good riddance.
So MacArthur had a "reality-distortion field" like Steve Jobs? Interesting.
Which breakthrough in the last two years are you referring to?
It is scary. Here they caught the culprit quickly, but if they've been careful, I think they would be able to stay under the radar and still infect a fair few systems.

As a person who regularly runs pip install on my main desktop, I am definitely worried about arbitrary code execution that happens when you pip install.
Sure I can run everything inside the container, but given that I do most of my work in python, I think that is too restrictive...
Every time I see Parc mentioned, I miss going their for various talks. A friend worked there in the AV department and I got to see a lot of talks I would not otherwise. I also loved showing up one time when they had an exhibit of David Huffman's paper folding -

https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/collections/collection/david-a-huf...

Parc, HP Labs, etc. were places of innovation back in the day - even things going on well into the 2000s.

Sadly most companies don't do or value that type of research anymore.
And still, Zoom's "annotate" feature is not available in web version, although there is absolutely no technical reason for that.
It is. It’s literally a clickbait title from fastmail
Are you talking about SCT Inst? It seems like there are no fees built into the protocol itself, but your bank can still charge you to use the service, and it seems many banks charge between 1 and 7 euros:

(pdf reference) https://www.beuc.eu/sites/default/files/publications/beuc-x-...