skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the real issue here is that a CEO who nobody has heard of and is doing a bad job running the company claims that he needs to fly private as a business expense.

It's one think for Zuck or Tim Cook to claim that flying commercial would be dangerous and a waste of time, but the way that attitude has filtered down to very small companies is astounding (especially given the outsized negative impact private jet travel has on the rest of us).

Any reasonable board for a public company that size and a CEO that unrecognizable should at most reimburse first class fare and if the CEO wants to fly private, the delta can come from personal funds.
And this? https://twitter.com/zachxbt/status/1775207305614631341
https://archive.is/UdvN9
Long and dark winter probably. Nothing to do but sit inside, and study the dark arts of computers.
And the Ottomans in the Balkans.
I repeat

> the whole premise of node was async io, so if you're doing a bunch of blocking stuff then yeah, you're going to have issues.
That is very interesting! Thanks for sharing. I did not imagine that rice was a good candidate for this
A lot of the articles so far are speculating it's mostly a technology demonstrator, or close to a dev kit.

Everyone seems to agree it's mighty impressive, but not quite there yet.

Gen 2 or Gen 3 will surely be cheaper, lighter and better, and somewhere along there I'm betting we'll see iPhone levels of adoption.
It’s a huge advantage if you don’t have to wait in line for self checkout machines or human checkout.
Are there plenty of jobs? The article says no:

> In California there are roughly 0.8 job openings per unemployed person—the lowest in the country—whereas in America’s other 49 states the overall ratio is 1.6.

And that checks out. It's the inverse of (1 divided by) this:

https://www.bls.gov/charts/state-job-openings-and-labor-turn...
Absolute performance and absolute performance per watt - given a specific set of tasks - are the only metrics that matter in practice (for desktop and mobile/data center respectively). nm (which actually has had no meaningful correlation to size for at least a decade), IPC, or whatever other metrics are only actually useful to two audiences: the people designing and fabbing the chip.

"Apple would be faster than AMD/Intel if it ran at 5.5GHz," well it doesn't, does it? Even on the desktop SKUs. The high IPC is a specific trade-off that the designers made in order to hit targets that they care about. We aren't yet at the point where one chip is good at everything (well, not entirely true, Epyc does hit an unreasonable amount of targets).
Yep, Slack's pricing is terrible for communities. I have a community Discord with 2.8k people with full history. If that were on Slack it would be $25,000/month?
Is high enough resolution to identify products more creepy than simple ubiquitous surveillance?
Infinite-Scrolling Logos in Flat HTML and Pure CSS
If there is a larger shift to companies paying for the software they rely on that is currently free, it's not going to be companies paying open-source maintainers, it's going to be companies paying other companies that they can sign contracts with and pass legal responsibility to.
There was a really neat company called Digimarc[0] a while back that promised to bake the barcode into the packaging such that you could scan any part of the label and receive a barcode successfully. I have no idea what happened to them because it seemed like a slam-dunk idea that would have greatly improved the purchasing process virtually everywhere (and you could just have a traditional fallback barcode in case the baked-in one fails).

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digimarc
This is no unheard of. I worked at a company where the CEO got an interest-free loan from the company to buy his own jet, then charged the company to use it.

Of course that individual later pled guilty to a variety of federal crimes, so :shrug:
There is the host API - wander, which contains the Wasm runtime and interfaces with the GPU. The actual graphics code is always compiled to Wasm.
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Wikipedia’s article on Thomas Dudley, governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, says he issued one of Harvard’s charters, and provided land and funds for the founding of Roxbury Latin. Since as Governor he was technically the monarch’s representative, I could see why both Harvard and Roxbury might have elided the technical distinction between “chartered by the King’s official representative” (vice regal) and “chartered by the King personally” (regal)

> As my parallel comment noted, there are some notable omissions in that list, quite unsurprising given its thousand year scope.

The only "Royal Australian" body it has is the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI, to which my father belongs), which is the national professional body for chemistry. But, it is missing many other "Royal Australian” organisations, including all the “Royal Australian” medical professional colleges (e.g. the Royal Australian College of General Practice, to which belongs my mother). I know under Australian law, it is illegal to call yourself “Royal” without approval from Buckingham Palace. But, possibly, that approval isn’t technically considered a “royal charter”-since 1946, the Australian federal and state governments effectively control the use of “Royal”, the Australian government sends the paperwork to Buckingham Palace for the monarch’s signature, but the monarch will sign anything if the right person gives it to them. However, that’s out of the Privy Council’s jurisdiction (which is the UK only), so the Privy Council might not know about it. The RACI is on this list, because it was 1934, and that was before control over the use of the word “Royal” was transferred from the British government to the Australian ones, and hence the Privy Council would have processed the application. EDIT: One page on their website notes that getting permission to call yourself "Royal X" is technically a separate process from getting a royal charter, you can have one without the other

Another guess: the College of William and Mary got a letter from the eponymous monarchs approving its use of their names, but the Privy Council doesn’t technically consider that letter to be a “royal charter”, because it didn’t use the right magic code words to count as one
The last two paragraphs are straight up policy recommendations from the editorial board. That wouldn't be accepted as news reporting.
That and we need to pay open source maintainers and find new ways to support them.

And all code that gets linked into security critical applications/libraries needs to be covered by under some sort of security focused code review.

So no patching the compression code that openSSL links to with random junk distribution maintainers.
I took a look at Jia Tan's early behavior, and I found it to be consistent with being "compromised" from the beginning. They had months of contributions on private repos before forking a test library and making superficial changes to it, and then diving headlong into archival libraries. It all looks set up and I see no evidence of an actual person at any point.

I also think it is more difficult to get away with bribing/beating an existing contributing than you suggest; esp since failure means likely exposure.
I still think mass delusion is the most plausible explanation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_psychogenic_illness
I agree, and if you bring bags with you, you can bag as you scan. Works great for quick shopping trips, not so much when I'm making a big purchase.
Great follow up!

Ornithopters are designed by humans who sleep - the complex computers needed to make them work replicate things humans told them to do, right?

It is a very incomplete model of an ornithopter to not include the human.
Calling Haskell from Swift
> target embedded systems (such as military transport vehicles

You are giving a lot of credit to that, I have seen military ones with ancient software, even the “new” updated ones are still on ubuntu 18.04 because of some drivers/sdks compatibility, but it isn’t a major issue since most of the times they are not connected to the public internet.
What's wrong with Mimosas? They smell so nice in spring!
Yes! Will look into that
I don't see nihilism reflected in his comment.

I see someone drawing attention to unstated assumptions embedded in our society about technological/social/civilizational progress.

Unfortunately earth has basic physical limits that simply do not permit an indefinite growth-based social order. When wealth is produced by depleting non-renewable resources and destroying natural systems keeping the earth in balance, that wealth will inevitably lose its purpose.

Choosing a social order that values human life and the wealth of the natural world is not nihilistic. Choosing a social order in which the natural world is destroyed to increase the number of 0s in a bank account is.
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If it's cheaper for the company than leasing or renting cars somewhere else, why not?

Presumably you hire the employee for their time and expertise, not because they own a car and offer its use for company travel below market rate. (That does happen in many industries, but that's a market distortion we should look down on, not a yardstick for what's right)
I remember TV from my childhood being just people shooting each other and screaming at each other. Advertisers didn't have any problem with that, or with monsters tearing people apart or with gangster rap.
The PR turnaround for Tesla on HN is incredible. Shows how effective peer pressure from journalists is.
Oh, they exist. Imagine Microsoft based companies that must have commercial licensing with software that guarantees to work or is secure.

I know of some CMS’ which were dual licensable for this reason.

Other reasons why:

https://www.channelfutures.com/connectivity/reasons-organiza...
It seems the job post was recently removed
The cheap cookers use a mechanical setup as there are no electronics. I have the cheapest Zojirushi 3-cup cooker where you just push down a lever. That lever mechanically latches a spring loaded mechanism that closes the heating element switch. The temperature will stay relatively stable as the water absorbs the heat keeping it at around 100 C. Once the water is evaporated from the bottom the temperature rises which trips a bimetallic mechanism releasing the spring loaded lever opening the heater switch. Stupid simple.
Wait what? When did they reveal it's offloaded to workers in India? I remember this being touted as fully automated when it was announced, surely being watched by strangers from creepy angles would discourage a large portion of customers.
> That the report was true …

And now you’re pulling my leg
Earthquakes - so far so good, but I grew up in LA and lived through multiple large-ish quakes (Northridge). One big difference is that many small rural towns only have one road in or out, so a quake could block the road, leaving you stranded, possibly without power. This is the case along the west coast of the South Island.

Food - groceries are pricey! It was surprisingly expensive given the lower wages here. CA seems to be catching up though!

Mosquitoes - comparable to LA, less than Sonoma County. Smaller too. But here on the South Island we also have sandflies. They vary by region. West Coast has them bad in some remote spots.
Hey Kenton, great to see you chiming in here as well!

> Additionally, V8 is just much better at running JavaScript than you can hope to achieve in a Wasm-based JS implementation. And JavaScript is the most popular web development language (even server-side).

I agree with this statement as of today. Stay tuned because very cool things are coming on Wasm land (Spidermonkey will soon support JITted workloads inside of Wasm, bringing the speed much closer to V8!)

> Note that the time to initialize an isolate isn't actually on the critical path to cold start, since we can pre-initialize isolates and have them ready to go before knowing what application they will run

That's a good point. Although, you are kind of optimizing now the critical path to cold start by actually knowing what the app is running (if is Python, restore it from a Snapshot). So even though if isolate initialization is not in the critical path, there are other things on the critical path that amounts for the extra second of latency in cold starts for Python, I would assume.

> Minimizing application size is really essential to making edge compute inexpensive

By leveraging on proper-defined dependencies, you just need to compile and load in memory the dependency module once (lets say Python) and have "infinite" capacity for initializing them. Basically, if you put Python out of the picture and consider it a dependency of an app, then you can suddenly scale apps as much as you want there!

For example: having 10 Python versions (running thousands of apps) will have a overhead of 5Mb (Python binary size in avg) * 10 versions (plus a custom memory for each initialization of the app, which is required in either strategy) ~= 50Mb, so the overhead of pinning a specific Python version should be truly minimal on the server (at least when fully leveraging on a Wasm runtime)
I always forget some people can't see wp links

I think this is the rule that stops the annoyance

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Fair questions.

- Not easily, but possible for a genius perhaps.

- Linus Torvalds, Einstein, Grothendieck, Zuck.

First two points is why the loner theory has legs. It's compelling, satisfies the "lone hero" narrative impulse. But maybe that's why it's lasted so long, and maybe that's even why it was designed that way as cover.

- From a financial point of view, Idk. I'm not up on my subversive/combatant commerce history as may have been performed by DoD/intel. But from a tech point of view? Similar to the development, analysis release of sophisticated hashes and ciphers that became widely adopted. Similar in use to other cipher tools that came from the same places around the same time: TOR, encrypted messaging apps.

- Good point. But it could cut 3 ways: 1) "so stupid it couldn't be us", 2) "so provocative we don't care if you know" / "we never intended it to be a secret, we assumed everyone would figure it out and laugh at the ridiculous of 'Satoshi Nakamoto' -- instead they revered him and turned this fiction into an idol."; 3) "deliberate misattribution by another actor probably a cryptologic agency"

- I don't find the peppering of a few Britishisms to be as compelling as the tech history alignment in the DoD/IC at the time (TOR, encrypted messaging apps, research into crypto currencies), tho maybe there's more to the GCHQ angle than that? And I'm not up on British history, maybe they had more motivation to create an 'alt digital reserve'? Fits with London being a fin powerhouse, I guess. Superficially there's also the GHCQ created it but disguised attribution with Britishisms and NSA anagram. Not that intriguing but could become more so with additional factoids. :)

- Idk. I assume it's useful for agents to receive payment, and anonymously purchase supplies, and goes in the bag with encrypted communications. If DoD/intel had focus on a lot of HUMINT and covert subversion/influence then they'd need to run thousands of agents worldwide, this could be a very useful tool for that arm of US power. Scale seems reasonable post-9/11, and around the Arab spring and other color revolutions. But Idk, just speculation.

Many of these uses would also be valid for commies too. The utility to all sides does not weigh heavily on an assessment of origin. I think the timing and tech antecedents, and motivation, play strongly into the hand of it being an NSA-CIA creation.

Maybe it was like Bill buying DOS. Maybe there was an inventor, just he or she didn't end up playing that large a part once other, possibly more ambitious, focused, aggressive or perceptive, players got involved! Haha :)

Given all these questions, sir, what is your assessment? Or are you only content to be up in there in the stands, rather than on the field? :)

edit: I just thought of a new acronym - OK I AM HOT NSA SOTA
hahaha! :)
I understand what you said. I did not expect full node runtime workers with all the other benefits that you listed that current workers have (global distribution, no cold starts, cost..). But it would be great to have a choice. I feel it would benefit both users and Cloudflare to support both (with different tradeoffs). For example, selecting "I want node runtime for this app workers," I would need to select the region they will run in, and that's it, those functions/workers would not be globally distributed, would probably cost more, but when you need full node runtime you need it and that is fine.
And apparently his mother popularized origami in America!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Oppenheimer
I can barely read this on mobile with 80% of the screen covered by ads and a giant "swipe for the next story" widget.
Thanks for the history of legal material on patents for the technology.

My understanding of the transistor is that Bell Labs gave it to the world for free use by anyone. For the exact legal steps they took to accomplish this -- I'm not a lawyer.

For the FFT, amazing patent activity: There was a lot to the FFT -- not all for just some 2^n numbers for positive integer n. There was a book I lost in a disaster -- was written at MIT and full of really tricky extensions of the basic FFT ideas. Curiously I can't find any mention of the book anywhere on the Internet. Was the book withdrawn as some part of US national security?

For RSA, okay, there's a patent. Did the three guys ever get any revenue from that?

I agree with the common remark, that this thread seems to agree with, "Ideas are easy; execution is hard" and "80% of success is just showing up", etc. Also agree that tough, as in the discussion in this thread, to get a technical cofounder ....

But I also wanted to point out that sometimes there are some quite powerful ideas that were not at all "easy".

Maybe the ideas resulted in gushers of revenue so that "execution" was easy.

My real view is that, unique ideas can be darned valuable, the key to being more successful than all the competitors. The ideas maybe are protected only as trade secrets or intellectual property -- i.e., don't tell anyone.
Create an organization of paid professionals who are responsible for maintaining these libraries (and providing support to library users).

It's heartblead all over again (though those were honest mistakes, not an intentional attack
Cities in those countries, for the most part, were built around public transit. As a result, navigating by car is difficult and sometimes costly.

Retrofitting public transit into a city designed for cars at that same scale is unbelievably expensive before the costs of changing public opinion are factored in.

I say this as someone who dislikes what suburbs have become and would _love_ to see public transit proliferate throughout the US.
> And all because one owner of a library had some mental health issues

Wrong takeaway.
Right, but that’s why languages like Rust have an excellent DX. There is no complex choice about what linter, formatter, test runner, doc builder, or package manager to use. These at all such common requirements for building software at scale with lots of contributors that the language tooling just includes them. It’s not hard to maintain, because the language toolchain is so foundational it needs to be stable.

JS doesn’t have anything like that, which is why projects like Deno, Bun, Biome, etc are interesting. These projects explore how JS can also get a great out of the box experience without requiring the complex setup and maintenance steps that so many existing tools require.

Besides, professionally, you normally don’t make the choice in a vacuum. Linters, package managers, testing, bundling/building, type safety, and even formatting are all very useful in big projects with lots of people. So you often don’t get to say “ah we just won’t have unit tests because jest doesn’t care enough about backwards compatibility.”
Was their influence over the legal system due to the amount of money they could spend, or something else?
>> Maybe a little humility is in order here?

I agree with most of your statements. But you realize the whole discussion is about Non-Technical Co Founders chasing Technical Co Founders. If people are chasing the Technical Co Founder (at meetups, at industry dinners, at hackathons) why is it on the Technical Co Founder to go thru a full interview first? Shouldn't the person doing the chasing justify their side first?

As a technologist being cornered, am I obligated to do a full interview every time someone has an unsolicited idea and approaches me? Or can I just enjoy hanging out with fellow technologists at Hackathons?

I have literally gotten people pitch me ideas at cafes where I go to relax. Am i obligated to now do an interview on the spot? If random people started demanding unsolicited job interviews I think that would piss off most technologists.
Why would anyone think that the current ICE manufacturers will just sit idly by and not get out EV designs at some point? Either on their own, or in collaboration with other legacy manufacturers? They have existing brand loyalty, existing relationships, supply chains, dealership networks etc. etc. that they can make use of even if their designs aren't as good as brand new entrants (and that's assuming brand new entrants can actually scale up quality manufacturing, which so far they haven't been able to).
Nothing, the same as current self-checkout systems. You can already easily just put stuff in your pocket or ring expensive items up as incorrect, cheaper things. I suspect shops have done a risk analysis and decided that they'd prefer to have more shoplifting and fewer staff.
I wish there was more appreciation of how difficult reproducible builds are and unwinding the decades of non-reproducible cruft that we have built up.

Commenters on forums and issue trackers often seem to think like it could all get done tomorrow, when large projects like this, which even have it as one of their core competencies, find it difficult to do and aren't done yet.
Maybe not untenable.

If everything is done carefully enough with reproducible builds, I think using a binary whose hash can be checked shouldn't be a great extension of trust.

You could have multiple independent autobuilders verifying that particular source does indeed generate a binary with the claimed hash.
I feel like Sams Club has this down pretty well. You self-scan as you shop. You checkout as you walk towards the door. You flash a QR code to them and then they quick scan spot check items to make sure you weren't missing anything.
I agree. It's one thing for the CEO of a large, profitable company to be flying private, but for a small, loss-making company, it feels off.

The guy is already ultra-rich...he might as well pay for those flights himself to show solidarity with shareholders. But it's up to Canoo shareholders to decide that, not me.
This actually exists - testing in Berlin, running in Las Vegas: https://vay.io

Maybe not a bad idea - it is a step towards autonomous driving, and will probably ensure drivers have less unintentional down time.
There is one from MS too.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/blu...