skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Business may be competitive, but there are rules and it is not war. To Eddie, business was not only war, but war with the only rules being do not get caught if you can and make all the money you can. And trust no one.

Eh, what? Don't most rich self-made people, and people at the top of big corps, think this way? (Not all, but a good-size majority?) I can assure you that the majority of such people worry only about the appearance of honesty and morality, not the substance.

The 'elderly businessman' he quotes in the next paragraph has it pretty much right.

We live in Hobbes' world. Or rather, we created it, by allowing such people to gain power and influence, and even seeing it as a good.

(Btw, I'm not defending the subject's behavior, he clearly deserves a long spell in jail and needs to make right what he's done. But his argument that "everyone does it" isn't too far from the truth.)
I think even these days, a lot of what the author is doing here is still generally done in hardware for power efficiency reasons - it's just that nowadays, the hardware looks a lot like the software-defined architecture used here with a conversion to digital at the frontend followed by hardware accelerators for doing cross-correlation in the fourier domain. Actually, this kind of approach of implementing the architecture an SDR-based receiver would use as specialised hardware seems to be pretty common in general nowadays.
Elon Musk even says so himself that he believes Chinese EV's are good. His personal experience from a couple of years ago, and also as per his team feedback recently.

Source: https://podcasts.apple.com/no/podcast/in-good-company-with-n...
(Episode from 9 Apr 2024 - interview with Elon Musk)
Ok, we've modified the title above to include those two details.
This reminds me of "All The Queen's Horses"[1], where a woman embezzled $53 million through careful accounting. I seem to recall it was mentioned how the perpetrator was described as nice and generous by her friends.

[1] https://www.allthequeenshorsesfilm.com/
Maybe "almost everyone" should stop buying it?

Spatial audio is like this too.
Author here, sorry about that. I’ve since updated the link href
Also, from the article:

Interestingly, Anthropic’s Claude Opus AI tools have been useful during this GPU designing stage. “I've been proposing my ideas for how each unit must work to Claude, and then somehow it will guide me toward the right implementation approaches which I can then go and confirm with open-source repos,” explained the engineer.
I see this in the bitbucket readme:

> The GBA4iOS codebase is distributed under the GNU GPLv2 license. That being said, I explicitly give permission for anyone to use, modify, and distribute my original code for this project without fear of legal consequences — unless you plan to submit your app to Apple’s App Store, in which case written permission from me is explicitly required. Dependencies remain under their original licenses.

It says it is GPL then adds additional terms—is that even allowed by the license?
The founder's roadmap to $100M ARR
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Wait -- being fired for low productivity wouldn't require his multiple jobs being discovered. But you say he was fired when the companies found out. So they (or rather... you, his direct manager?) didn't notice his low productivity until they noticed he was working three jobs? Or perhaps you noticed but weren't sure what to do about it until you discovered the extra jobs?

(Incidentally, I don't approve of working multiple jobs simultaneous like this without your employers knowing, I think it's unethical. But also... let's be real, many supervisors and companies don't in fact seem to notice or fire people with low productivity, and productivity varies wildly between people who aren't secretly working extra jobs too)
Here's an example of what it looked like 21 years ago: https://web.archive.org/web/20030204090614/http://freshmeat....

Back then, for years before and after, I looked at it almost every day. It was my go-to 'take a quick break from work while at work' site.
A person would have to have a quite flawed mental model of what GPS is to form the belief that it would stop working without data service, wouldn't they?
Plenty of Europe's ports filled with chinese EVs nobody is buying.
Freshmeat was a daily (or multiple times a day) visit for me. Or sub to the RSS feed.

Back then it was Lambda the Ultimate and Freshmeat on daily rotation.
I agree with and appreciate that saying, while not being rich.
I remember a story of a bank branch manager who got into embezzling because of his gambling debts in this classic book

https://www.amazon.com/Crime-Computer-Donn-B-Parker/dp/06841...

I would not say he had a master plan but was making it up to go along and figured he’d win big at the track one day and pay everyone back, (We had someone like that who stole $750k from our county’s bus operator because of gambling too.)

Boy if these people were cogs in the machine and probably didn’t see a lot of upward mobility. The perp told the author of the book that he’d “learned his lesson” and that he came across as sincere but FBI agents told him that people like that (gambling addiction + embezzling) will reoffend almost always if given the chance. (One reason I think the European “right to be forgotten” is a problem is because it is a shield for people who use their social skills as a weapon.)
Elon Musk on AI, Space, X, Mars and hardcore gaming
> What would motivate the private sector to solve the problem?

Money.

Cost of grid-solar is somewhere between 50% - 70% of coal and the trend is decreasing renewable cost. [1] If you are a utility, what is the next plant you are going to install? If you can get solar for a fraction of the cost of a coal plant, it's a pretty easy decision. Plus, you can probably keep the rates the same and pass on that savings to your shareholders.

Every time I visit family in Oklahoma I see more and more wind farms. Texas is has one of the highest level of renewable energy. These are states that have a knee-jerk opposition to "the liberal agenda", and yet Texas the largest producer of renewable energy (solar + wind handily beats California), and the most "anti-liberal" red states are generating the most renewable energy: Oklahoma (42%), Kansas (47%), Iowa (60%), S. Dakota (57%).

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/493797/estimated-leveliz...

[2] https://www.fool.com/research/renewable-energy-by-state/ (switch to the second tab for percentages)
That study is solely about savings behaviors and only to the second generation. I don't have access to the paper so I couldn't see their methodology. I also have so many questions (not expecting you to answer, just stuff that popped up in my mind). Is there a proposed mechanism of action? Has the effect gotten stronger over time as communications have improved and immigrants can better keep in touch with their homeland? Or is it coincidental, and more a function of changing economic conditions? Did 4th or 5th generation Americans also start saving more in the same period? What about immigrants from countries where the savings rate reduced?

You were generalizing about a range of cultural behaviors, and for several generations.

> You think you're well-assimilated until your kid wants to "express themselves" and you realize you abhor how Americans raise their kids

There is no single "American method" for raising kids, even among populations that have lived here for many generations. Compare rural Utah to the Bay Area or to suburban Dallas and you'll likely find stark differences.
Hah I just concurrently posted basically the same thing.

Thanks for the nostalgia-link. Man I miss those years.
I’m very doubtful that it is, since an important goal of the GPL is to prevent such restrictions in derived works.
>There's no trace of a real person named Benjamin McIsserson

I don't think this has any bearing on the whether the story itself is fictitious or not. I imagine all of the real names have been substituted in all of the stories, to prevent any unnecessary conflict/drama/liability/etc.
Even if the story is fiction, the author has certainly come across the exact same type of embezzler that I have.

As far as I can tell, these type of fraudsters are deeply wounded narcissistic people who were utterly twisted by their caregivers as children.
Where's the fraud if he did what was asked of him?
You say he was fired for productivity, but you also say he was fired when his employers found out he was working for all 3. It seems to me that the real reason wasn't his productivity, because he would have been fired for that without waiting for his employers to find out about his multiple jobs.
This was just nuked off front page. Will be flagged out shortly.
I am wondering how do you perceive Orion browser pushing Kagi search on users? (it is not even set as default search engine in Orion)
It's something like

yypi(info "<esc>A")<esc>dd

in vim, which imo is roughly as ugly, but like others are saying, it's all muscle memory and thus doesn't break flow state.
Geoffrey Hinton: AI models have intuition and spot analogies unseen by humans
> The primary goal of this application will be to serve as a directory for discovering open-source projects

Maybe an increase in potential contributors is a natural outcome of increased discoverability, but I’m not convinced that a new site that is primarily facilitating project discovery will drastically change contributions.

If you’re the type of person to submit code to a project, you’re probably already scouring the web to find the projects that are most relevant to you, and a site like this just makes that process more efficient.

Most users of OSS are not contributors, and this project seems to be aimed at one of the barriers to adopting OSS: knowing where to look for options when you realize you need Tool X for Project Y.
Does it support extensions like PostGIS?
Ok, but please don't post flamebait or snark HN. We've had orders of magnitude too many of these, and this is one of the most tedious topics.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
GPL doesn't let you restrict it further via added clauses, but it does let you be more general under other licenses.

So that "I explicitly give" is a separate license you can use the code under, the GBA4iOS license, if you will, which is for anything but the App Store.
If by going out of their way, you mean not wanting to get in a copyright dispute where they hold liability with a likely copyright holder outside of more complicated legal claims on a project they don’t particularly want in the store anyway, sure
Thinkpads are/were basically modular laptops for decades and I think they are as business, as business can get. I am pretty sure modern Thinkpads failing in modularity/repairability is on Lenovo cutting costs, not lack of demand. After all, some models are still fairly repairable/upgradable with good (video) documentation.
Oh but what if Jesus WAS an alien ? slash astronaut slash cosmonaut slash taikonaut
allow me to express how frustrated I am with Model 3 highland, less than 50 miles on the car and I already have a safety issue

https://twitter.com/gauravphoenix/status/1776285356146729185
When it comes to multi-ton death machines, selling something you don't know is safe is the same thing as selling something you know isn't safe.
Yes, Apple will take down apps that are blatant redistribution without license of open-source software. Years ago I made a simple utility app and put the code on GitHub, someone took the code, changed the name, and uploaded it on the App Store with a 8$ price. It was taken down after I contacted Apple.
Years ago I recall a guy in Russia who documented over several years the continuous announcement of a given local road being improved. Every year trucks, supplies and such would show up at the appointed time, local news would show up with a local authorities and they'd point at things and film. Then the next day everything was just left in place, no workers, eventually each night the construction equipment would slowly vanish, and finally other trucks would come and slowly collect the supplies. Then next year same thing again, same spot, they'd dig up the same ground for TV, wash rinse, repeat.
Is the issue just that the developer didn't give credit, or that even giving credit was enough to violate the guidelines?
As another comment points out, plenty get by with high school algebra. (I kind of fall into that category.)

Whatever extra math is required can be considered (sub)domain knowledge.

If you want an efficient way to approach this, you can just start learning/working on whatever tech you're interested in, and learn whatever math you come across.
Link to the actual content: https://www.youtube.com/@KitbogaShow
According to their tweet, the discount on API costs will be 50%, so pretty significant.

https://x.com/openaidevs/status/1779922566091522492
A 60W CO2 laser won't touch steel (or even paper thin aluminum foil), while a 10W diode can cut through it. The type/wavelength of laser matters greatly.
Yes, but the problem for Elon is that the people like you in the intersection of all those sets is rather small.
Astrophysicists solve mystery of heart-shaped feature on the surface of Pluto
where you worked doesn't matter to me very much, when what are you saying contradicts what you probably did ("experience in large scale systems"), also it sounds like argument from authority.

not having cpu/mem/hdd metrics is just plain bogus and sounds like fantasy world, where everything works like we expect it to work, and there is no bugs at all. ridiculous
That argument would have to be made by the actual owner of the copyright though
I'm trying to find where the cut-off point might be.

Do you read the man page every time you use "ls"?

Do you read the man page every time you invoke the compiler for your favourite language?

If you use someone else's machine, do you read the man page for every command you type? The distro could be different, so you can't be sure it will be the same.

I suspect the answer here in each case is "no", so I'm curious as to where you draw the line. If you used a command yesterday, and the day before and the day before that, do you read the man page today?

Again, I suspect the answer is "no", but again, I'm curious as to where that line really is.
Please don't cross into personal attack or post in the flamewar style to HN. Those are two of the things we most want to avoid here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> It's like writing a letter vs having a phone call.

This is the way. If you adopt the same communication style as the old scientists (euler?), you’d get a lot done. You write clear, detailed requests, responses, and notices and the delays with the back and forth won't matter that much. Maybe that's why most of the scientists we know of have been people with good communication skills.

Then schedule meeting with a clear agenda when synchronous collaboration is needed.
TLDR:

The company formerly known as rewind ai (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33421751) is going all-in on wearable devices up-to and including a label mic/pendant that will plug into a ton of AI services (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37744213).

As a result, they're changing their name to limitless and also moving a ton of stuff off device and into the cloud.
I would appreciate some details on the implementation of isolation for multi-tenancy. Are the worker nodes shared?
Evidently, he didn't.

>So he was fired for low productivity
You are correct, that is an error in an otherwise great video. The k+1 token is not merely a function of the kth vector, but rather all prior vectors (combined using attention). There is nothing "special" about the kth vector.
Just curious how you would populate the data?
It's allowed since it strictly grants additional permissions.

If Apple allowed GPL code then the restriction wouldn't be valid, but as it is it is only a restriction to the additional permission.
This only holds if you assume telemetry means personal data, but that is a very big if. Meta, Google and other giants generally deal in telemetry that includes personal data, however for most run of the mill software that's not the case. Outside of advertising, I would argue that for most applications you're already pretty close to being clear of personal data as long as you exclude the user's email and other identifiers from the logs. Sure, there are examples where this is not the case, but it isn't even remotely as big of a problem as you claim it to be.
All that shows is that the NYT does some very expensive things. It doesn't prove that all investigative journalism costs that much. Many useful investigations are essentially a series of FOIAs and working through source documents, don't require a year of work and don't require animated hand-coded graphics.

Newspapers also have to churn out content or else their subs will cancel. That's inherent to any form of recurring subscription journalism.
This is also the "applied game theorist" who attempted to exploit AAVE with the rehypothecation attack[1].

He actually used to run a substack at deepfivalue.substack.com that, within like 5 articles, gave a pretty good rundown of what actually profitable MEV trades look like

[1] https://blockworks.co/news/aave-curve-bad-debt
Original discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32386762
I agree with you that the timing is very coincidental, and it irritates me that you agree to once set of ToS for a device you purchased, and then the company can say "accept the new terms or stop using the device you already paid for." It's crap.

However, I don't understand the outrage about this particular incident, and every headline I've seen about it is disingenuous and makes it sound like Roku was breached.

If some other service "XYZ" gets hacked and they steal your password, AND that's the same password you use with Roku, AND you didn't bother to turn on 2FA ahead of time, what exactly was Roku supposed to be doing to protect you?

If this is Roku's fault, then every service in existence should mandate 2FA with the assumption that their users are reusing a single password on every site. In which case, they might as well ditch the passwords completely and use only an SMS or e-mail verification for login ("magic link").
Had multiple leech brother in laws.

One was a lawyer who defrauded his elderly clients and the other just only worked for his parents his whole life after getting kicked from university for cheating and then attached himself directly to the teat after they retired. Once his father died he took over the life of his mother as she was descending into Alzheimer's and looted her assets with the help of his brother before he was disbarred.

Both thought that everyone else was doing it too- it was just about not getting caught. They literally couldn't comprehend the idea that others weren't just hypocrites.
I remember those, you got 5 of them... later Google Wave also had invites .. which was cool but ended up in the graveyard anyway... Lifehacker's Gina Trapani even wrote a guide to Google Wave but I believe Wave was killed right before after it was published
Maybe not surprising, but it’s nice to have a definite, quantified result. Plus it may point the way for future research.
Maybe his next opus will be a disassembled clock radio in a pencil case?
Isn’t it, though? Why do most people work? For the joy of making their employer richer? Or to take home the bacon and make a better life for themselves and people they care about?

I used to be the type to make loyalty to my great exalted employer first and foremost, sacrificing chunks of my personal life beyond what my salary required. Then I wised up and now view it as how much I can extract as quickly as possible. Coincidentally, the quality of my work shot up when I viewed myself as mostly a mercenary, consistent raises, consistently good reviews even though I care less and less. So I see where he is coming from and I wish more people thought like him.
> How do you verify? How do you keep spam out?

An idea for this: you could require them to commit a file to their repo with a specific name and the content would contain a one time use token to add that repo to a users profile.
He's basically offering a dual license: GPL, and also his custom "do whatever, except Apple Apps store (unless explicit permission from me)". The dual license only applies to the code he personally wrote though, not the dependencies.
I'm in Hungary, Youtube Premium is 4.54€ while Turbo is 11.29€, ok not 3x just 2.5x
I guess you mean it's some sort of great nerd challenge in school to comprehend and study this stuff. Taxing. Right? I didn't study EE so idk.

But if not...then you can just not read if you see it. Like a street sign to some place you don't wanna go: you see it, you turn the other way. Haha! :)
Atrocious how?
Now That’s What I Call A Trainwreck Volumes 1-infinity
There's a case to be made for done-but-not-dead projects that are feature complete and still the go to solution.
Apple doesn’t want the App Store filled with 100,000 copies of the same thing. So they are very strict around how different forks must be because of how low effort these copies are.

The rules are simply a pragmatic response to their business goals.
Is a kilogram 1,000 grams, or 12^3 grams? Is a cubic centimeter 1 ml, or 12^-3 liters?

But yes, having a standard everyone agrees on is way more important than how well thought out the standard is.
It’s not really that simple. Most phones these days do not rely solely on GPS for location data. Many use a combination of WiFi, Bluetooth, dead reckoning, GPS, Galileo, GLONASS, QZSS, and BeiDou.

Even if a couple of these signals are degraded, wrong, or missing, most phones will come up with a relatively accurate location using the remaining data.
Open source software wouldn't solve this problem if you could "simply" distribute open source apps on iOS because you could indeed just clone an app like this, make it open source on Github or something, and then distribute it without anyone in the way. Unless of course you want to start adding various validation technologies, in which case it's just Apple all over again except there's nobody to point the finger at anymore.
This seems like a fantastic approach to smoothing their GPU utilization.

It’s so difficult to compete with OpenAI - they ship so many “no brainer” features that are constantly setting the bar for what an LLM provider needs to provide - chat API, multi modality, function calling, json output, it’s endless.