skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
and I say you win that bet. but that horribleness will be influenced by the underlying language is my point
I'm not an insider, but as far as I can tell they never had a vision or a strategy, so ended up just doing "AI" consulting for random enterprises. Surprise, surprise that wasn't a path to a successful business.
Pellegrino's research on this has been discussed here before

2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20880789

2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2976044
They knew what? The really important question (do these chemicals in the levels we see in the body of average Joe cause harm?) is still unknown. Yet half the population is ready to tar and feather 3M execs due to the hysteria. (Never mind that a dozen other chemical companies are still on the hook too.)

Purdue pharma might not be off the hook yet (didn’t the judgment that protected them from criminal liability get reversed? I admit I don’t know as much about that case.) and did commit mass murder, but this isn’t that. We don’t know that any sizable number of people have even been harmed by these yet, that’s my point. What does one evil corporation have to do with an entirely related other one? Are we supposed to just jail the execs of any corporation who we think may have done something wrong just because of Purdue Pharma?

We know PFAs and the like are in most people in low levels. We know there are a bunch of very weak correlations with various health defects with no indication of causality.

The penalty was harsh. That’s a whopping figure even for a mega corp. I just don’t see the case for jail time here like I do with the Sacklers.
The catch is also that everyone can see that you have less than 25k € in funds, so depending on what your customers are, they might not take you serious.
fair, I do the 2.5% (no international fees) and that does require keeping a $1k balance too... but that's doable. Although of course the value proposition of that has changed a bit now that CDs are paying >5%, too. But the extra 1% or so (on $10k/mo of transactions or whatever) does add up enough to make it more than worth it still, imo.
I have a hard time believing there are many scams that have succeeded specifically because the scammer was permitted to set up an LLC with nominal share capital (at least in the last few decades). In the business world it is pretty standard to do due diligence and get collateral for any material exposure to an LLC. So the people who would be taken in would mainly be the vulnerable and uneducated who could likely be scammed without an LLC. There are additional protections against scams via various laws relating to bankruptcy, creditor protection and "piercing the corporate veil" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piercing_the_corporate_veil).

Not to mention that the minimum capital requirement is unlikely to deter any determined scammer. All you're really doing is making life slightly difficult for scammers who can't scrape together €12.5k in capital, while simultaneously also making life hard for all the legitimate contractors and (would-be) entrepreneurs who can't scrape together that amount.
Really? I didn’t realize something like this could cause seizures. I know bright flashing lights and screens can, but a flickering image can too?
It's the same amount of code and on Mac you still run a full VM to load containers (with a network stack), so I'm not really sure what your point is. If anything it's less code because the notion of the container is entirely abstracted away, and the whole thing is entirely a wasm dependency that you load as a normal import.
Glad people care to look, that's what matters.
But OpenAI could make this themselves in a few weeks, right? If they happen to decide to, then this company is done.

That's what I don't get about all these AI startups. The core value of their business is an API call they don't own. It's like people who were selling ______ apps on iPhone when Apple added their own built-in _____ features to iOS, except the entire industry is like that.
Well done! Having read the source documents a few times, I wish that your article existed before. It took me a while to wrap my head around the concepts and to get them to work properly.
LOL - people have said shit like this to my face my whole life, including some CS admissions guy at CMU but he had the nerve to throw in a derogatory remark about ADD too. Just normal shit that happened in the 90's I guess.
Good on them.

Somewhat related, but one of my favorite movies of all time, Margin Call, is underscored by this constant awareness that all the brilliant on Wall Street - all of the intellectual power, and occasionally sheer genius, harnessed for financial engineering - all this mental horsepower could have been spent building rockets, bridges, incredible new materials, predicting the weather, or teasing out the secrets of the cosmos and of existence. Propelling the nation into a new century.

I was about to quote a scene at length, but honestly, I'd feel bad ruining a single moment of the thing. If you're even tangentially interested in Wall Street . . or the aughtie's collapse of the financial system . . or even just the giant sucking sound of all our best and brightest getting pulled into shit that is dumb and wrong . . I'd seriously recommend it. Probably the best Wall Street movie ever made.

Anyway, it's somewhat related, but it's also very related, because, jesus. Do we really need another bumper crop of generic bachelor degrees feeding the paper machine? The last big enterprise software install I sat in on, a rotating cast of forty some different executives, with over sixty seven hours spent in meetings at an average cost of eleven hundred dollars per minute. That's just salaries. Somehow, in my gut, I feel like if we had more certified technical people laying around, we would not be seeing crap like that so damn often.
>And a video walkthrough is available here: (pending)

* A demonstration of my attempts to complete the challenge is available here: (YouTube livestream) https://youtube.com/live/IDF7zN0NGgA

* The ChatGPT transcript I used to generate the code is available here: https://youtube.com/live/H93LiEFo8Uo

* a copy of the transcript is available in various formats on my website: (https://taonexus.com/publicfiles/apr2024/chatgpt-7-April-rob... (zip file with various formats).

* The code snippets I saved are directly downloadable here: https://taonexus.com/publicfiles/apr2024/7-April-2024-robot-...
I don't have enough experience to speak about CC in Germany, but I don't see why a Rewe or ... boh, Aldi, Mcdonalds, etc should prevent that. I am a bit surprised, to be honest.
The one you chose to use, maybe.

Still no need to post the output when "$thing can give you the answer" is the point you're claiming to be making.
AI is not your friend
Of the FAANG companies, how many of them were started in Argentina? Of produce, how much is sold to other states in the US by Argentina? It's a lazy argument to say this totally different other place did this thing, and so we should expect the same results if California did that.
Is that like gaitost, the brown whey cheese?

It’s basically solid whey that’s gone through a Maillard reaction to make a sweet, salty cheese like stuff.

We made some a few years back, but couldn’t get it to turn out as aell as the commercial stuff.
I have never integrated notebooks into any of my workflows, but it sounds fun. Thanks for sharing, I'll check out your code.
Xkcd 1928: Seven Years (2017)
Do you have a good soldering iron with a good tip set to the correct temperature? That's step number one. Then put the wick right over the joint, make sure you have flux or generally "wet" your soldering iron's tip (really using the "side of the tip" to heat up a wider amount of wick is an option).

I used to do this all the time but now I have a cheap crappy soldering iron and that makes it much harder. I hardly do any soldering these days so haven't bothered getting a good one.

The tricky bit is really melting the solder, getting it to flow, while it's in good contact with the wick.
Name your city and I will find the rule your people have chosen to enforce “look but don’t touch” and “come but do not remain”. I’m sure you’ll have some justification for it. “Oh that’s just to protect historically significant this and that” and “that’s just to ensure locals don’t get priced out”. Modern sensibilities are to conceal this nature and state them as if they are protective of the vulnerable. This very article does that.

Your people will do the same and you will find it acceptable. After all, you do give tourists directions.
AI promises to be the antidote to the ills of the knowledge economy. Computer technology multiplied the productivity of a small class of high-IQ workers, leading to massive inequality between knowledge workers and other workers. AI, if it works, promises to level the playing field again. It’s not going to replace plumbers, nurses, and HVAC technicians. It’s going to replace the top 20% of mostly college educated knowledge workers whose incomes have grown at triple the median income over the last few decades: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/a-new-contract-with-the-m...
I'm comparing 'exit taxes'. But also if you leave Germany, you're no longer subject to German income tax, and you have to both leave the US and renounce citizenship to become no longer subject to US income tax.
I think the wording was unclear as that's what I thought too, that "leaving" meant for good, and maybe there was a way back - hence the temporary part.

A tax on simply exiting the country is a very foreign concept to Americans I would assume.
This looks really cool, awesome work!

Correct on PGlite only being single user at the moment, and that certainly is a problem for using it for integration tests in some environments. But I'm hopeful we can bring a multi-connection mode to it, I have a few ideas how, but it will be a while before we do.

There are a few other limitations with PGlite at the moment (related to it being single user mode), such as lacking support for pg_notify (have plans to fix this too). Whereas with this it should "just work" as it's much closer to a real Postgres.

I think there is a big future for these in-memory Postgres projects for testing, it's looks like test run times can be brought down to less than a 1/4 with them.

(I work on PGlite)
The French aristocrat who understood evolution 100 years before Darwin
I believe it did. Are you satisfied with the software you use on a daily basis?
The parent of the thread is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39950725

It argues that you shouldn't debug optimized builds.

Obviously, as I pointed out, a real programmer needs to be able to debug optimized builds.

Maybe you should be the one tracking what you're replying to.
I always thought of this so-called “progressive blur” as simply being a Gaussian blur with a kernel gradient mask whose channel range was used as the coefficient for the kernel size for a given pixel.

So where the kernel gradient mask is 1, you multiply this by the desired max radius blur, down to 0, which represents a radius blur of 0.

Edit: Why downvote this? It’s literally how you implement it.
it does in some specific places. The original Stable diffusion would generate the exact same image given the exact same initial conditions.

With the more opaque systems where we don't have access to the models, we can't.
Someone in the US can start a Delaware LLC or C corporation without living in Delaware. Can someone living in Germany set up an LLC or corporation in Denmark or Estonia instead of Germany?
> the cost of changing v is p and the cost of changing x is F

I’m sure the equation is right and all but this seems sideways in terms of an intuitive explanation - velocity changes position, and force changes momentum. Force doesn’t directly change position (only indirectly via changing momentum) and momentum doesn’t change velocity, having momentum is consistent with a constant velocity. It doesn’t even make much sense to me to think of integrals as being about “costs of changing”, would that not be a derivative?
The fact that so many people on HN dislike this proves hacker culture died in programming..
Not sure about those, but I got mine around 2-3 years ago from gebührenfrei.de, which is from Advanzia Bank. Seems fine so far…with a minor disclaimer that I don’t really use it much. :-)
If one major economy regulates and slows down AI the rest of them will ramp up their investment and gain a competitive edge. The jobs will be gone regardless, just this time to an AI company in China or India rather than the USA. That's how the world works.
Karma and voting are ruining Hacker News as well, just not as quickly because the algorithms here are not as aggressively tuned to maximize engagement.
The Evolution of AI Bot Blocking on News Websites
Remember the recent stories about how FOSS is inherently less secure than proprietary systems - and because of the xz exploit, which was infinitely more complex? I'm trying to remember a FOSS system with a hardcoded, passwordless backdoor - it's a big world; there must be some. I almost expect a backdoor (though with a password!) in a consumer NAS.

I don't knee-jerk reject proprietary solutions. And they might have an advantage if there was liability for this sort of thing. D-Link should be paying hefty fines for selling this obviously substandard, unprofessional crap to the public.
And to top it all off I heard MS just put Surface people in charge of designing the next one, to copy Switch success I guess?.
No. It's not noteworthy. It's SOP.
so stealing is ok if it's from the wealthy and corporations..
FIFO Is Better Than LRU: The Power of Lazy Promotion and Quick Demotion
nice, i like the tree view.

I have been using beyond compare for this sort of thing for longer than i can remember though.

Edit: actually, bc has different features.
Says the person who us afraid to use it.
> a sprinkling of billionaire-hate

Everyone hates billionaires. That's simple human nature, right? :)

Only two kinds of people _say_ the don't hate billionaires;

Other billionaires.

People who (wrongly) imagine that they too one day will be billionaires.
Soft Electronics
surely you meant "... and then fax back again. X-D"

?
The common wisdom is , if you’re going to be an artist, it better be because you can be nothing else. It’s that hard.

So, it’s a rare person indeed who can be a serious artist and support themselves financially some other way
that's a technology, not a feature. A how not a what
I now have a German GmbH and had a UK Ltd in the past for 10 years. Definitely there is more seriousness/trustworthiness to a GmbH.

I am not sure there are "countless" scams in the UK, but yes, in 10 years of commercial operation did come across a few oddities. Example - a customer (UK Ltd) who declared bankruptcy owing us a money and then then next day founded a new Ltd company and tried to act like he didn't owe us the money because it was a new entity.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-packaged_insolvency

I have not come across this kind of thing in Germany.
Many zeitgeist things are a waste of time and money, like electric vehicles. Generative AI is definitely not one of them.
Suhh instances tend to be put on shared blocklists, effectively making them echo-chambers too.
We eventually will hit the point that technology replaces jobs and new jobs don’t popup. I hope by then we have our politics fixed enough to more equally distribute the automation bounty.
This Aussie expat is very thankful for our local Tesco always having Vegemite stock. They also stock Bundaberg Ginger Beer (try it if you haven’t, another Aussie favourite).
I have tried to teach myself both Hamiltonian and Lagrangian classical mechanics and there’s one mental hurdle I have not been able to get over. The problems are generally set up with starting position and momentum known, and ending position and momentum known, and then the math tells you the path taken along the way. But what if the ending position and momentum is unknown? How does one use these formulations of mechanics to predict the future and not just postdict the past? Is this just how beginner problems tend to be set up?
This emulator has brought me hours of fun. A huge thank you to the developers.

I also strongly recommend checking whether Insignia supports the games you're playing on Xemu. If it does, grab a retail dashboard hard disk image and try it out!

I think Insignia even recently added support for Halo 2, which is pretty huge.

https://insignia.live
Big chains and enterprises, for sure. But there’s still a lot of SMBs not accepting credit cards.
Where would you do it then instead?
> sitting alone at home and watching TV for weeks straight is an inhuman way to exist, and that’s where a lot of people will end up without work

Wall•E predicted a world of rich, fat humans amusing and eating themselves to death. It got the rich part wrong.
I updated my comment to improve its clarity. I can see how it was unclear to you.
Kids rode alligators at this forgotten amusement park
Thats from the article

The simultaneous appearance of the two cicada broods – known as Brood XIX and Brood XII – is a rare event, not having occurred since 1803, a year when Thomas Jefferson was US president
Also people who aren't disabled by envy.
1996-1997 IRC logs from EFnet #deathmatch
Going off on a tangent… I'm not sure whether it's improved or deteriorated IMO, myself. I'm pretty sure I have an opnion, but I'm honestly uncertain what it is. It seems to change by the day.

I wrote https://rant.gulbrandsen.priv.no/programming/suckiness-today on a frustrated day long ago, but maybe I'd rather make the opposite point today: If modern code reuse leads to less knowledge of what the (third-paryt) code does, it also brings more function, which is arguably an increase in quality.

Take code that uses images an an example: So the development team (and the documentation team, if any) may not know which image formats support alpha channels. But supporting more formats means there's a higher chance that any random image used by an end-user works. Is that overall good or bad? When I wrote that posting I was frustrated, today I might consider the overall extension of functionality to be the most important part. I think. Perhaps.
When TV and virtual worlds are more appealing than the real world, which one are people going to choose?
Landfills Leak More Planet-Baking Methane Than We Thought
Spotify Changes the Game. Half of Spotify '23 hit songs clock in under 3 Minutes
ARM VFP has VSQRT

https://developer.arm.com/documentation/dui0473/m/vfp-instru...
The more I read this, the more I dislike the writer. Probably some mixture of disgust and jealousy, as a failed artist who can't bring myself to do/am incapable of doing the things he's done to see some measure of success. Is this what it takes (for an extroverted white dude)?
i haven't looked into setting up a buildkit server. would it be easier to just attach an ebs volume?
Wayland is still buggier than a swamp. At this point they're no longer showstopping bugs, but if you don't want to be constantly annoyed by little things not working, X11 is still the way to go.
generally yea

there's also a big difference between "one guy supposedly stealing one thing as a part of a story" and "let's all go steal"
From what I can tell it's using online community Lego databases for an example application to be optimized.
isn't comparing it to an even worse jurisdiction like US a bit unfair? why not compare it to other EU countries or even Asia. I'm not a US citizen but being taxed on my global income would be a pretty strong reason to renounce my citizenship.
Yes, it's really painful here in Germany.
I've heard in Portugal it's pretty easy.

Any recommendations what would be the best place to found a company for someone who's living in Germany?
I don’t even understand what there is to dislike. This person lives in misery
So many strawmen.
I'm not too familiar with Rust, but took a look at the Cargo.lock file of this project.

It depends on half the universe for some reason, sometimes multiple versions of the same library. And that doesn't even include the main dependency which is libclang.

Is the Rust ecosystem just dependency hell?
> whether or not this post is real or fiction

Well, he has one other post on the same site that is explicitly marked fiction, where this one is not. That may be a clue.
things worked when there was the state behind it.. Regardless of efficiency.
cm601 CPU was exact copy of motorola-6800 (with ~10% yield - doesn't matter).
Pravetz-82 was Apple-][, with M6502 imported.
There was even some DEC micro-VAX being copied, EC-1055 AFAIR.
Then came the PC... and things went more software-ish.
There was "mikro monitor 1.0" which was.. MS windows 2.0 but all in cyrillics and encodings (none in original). Xerox Ventura 2 was also copied and rev.engineered.
"docs 1.0/2.x" was (pre-MS and MS) Word. Lots of other stuff. Rev.engineered and fixed/enhanced to support cyrillics or else.

Then one day it wasn't anymore.

Actually all that, let's call it borrowing, laid a perfect ground for all future versions of those products/companies - with plenty of educated and demanding users thereof.

(btw rev.engineering was good fun.. but that's a forgotten land now)
As a data point, the online demo seems broken for queries it doesn't like:

select foo();
Error.captureStackTrace is not a function

That's when using Firefox 124.0.2 on Linux.
Spreadsheets are all you need – Regionalization problem
The 'spreadsheets are all you need' spreadsheet that runs GPT2 seems not to work with my British installation of Excel 2021. I suspect that this is a regionalization problem affecting how formulas get punctuated (like using semicolons instead of commas). Anybody know how to make a British installation of Excel 2021 follow the US punctuation rules expected by the 'spreadsheets are all you need' spreadsheet?

Regards

Gabriel Egan
Out of interest, why are electric vehicles a waste of time and money in your opinion?
Someone told Van Gogh that he wasn't Van Gogh? No wonder he went crazy, that's some hardcore gaslighting.
Take your document, cut it (cleanly!) into pieces small enough to fit into your sentence embedder's context window, and generate several embeddings that all point to the same document.

I would recommend against merging (averaging, etc.) the embeddings (unless you want a blurry idea of what your document contains), as well as feeding very large pieces of text to the embedder (some models have massive context lengths, but the result is similarly vague).
It shows "€12/user/month" for Business (9TB), but that's with a 3 user minimum, so €36/month. The "Essentials" package for individuals is €16.58/month, but has only 3TB of storage. I don't know what it would cost to add extra storage for that (doesn't show a price), but I would be surprised if it was less than €25/month, and wouldn't be surprised if it was quite a bit more than that.
It sounds like notaries are a different service as well, in the US a notary is a minor(very minor) government official whose primary purpose is to verify that the person signing a document is the person they are claiming to be. For the most part US notaries have little knowledge of the contents of that document.

In California (I think other states, but each state has it's own specific laws) the fees are fixed below a small set amount.

https://www.nationalnotary.org/knowledge-center/about-notari...
Yours looks much better to be honest.
how large is your cache and how long does the pull/push take?
It would look like whatever the largest possessor of extreme wealth that was defined outside the society wanted it to look like. That's every Communist society ever, "You're the People, just trust us,"
The point of this study is that if you’re told there’s a race condition in the code, you are much more likely to miss a big security hole in it.