skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you are smart and driven enough to build a device you can certainly go out and get pretty good programming gig.

The job market/job opportunities for programmers is/are much worse in many other countries. Also consider that many programming jobs that exist are actually quite boring (think into the direction of implementing LoB applications in a department that is considered a cost center instead of profit center). In my experience, there exist not that many programming jobs that give satisfaction to highly smart people, and getting such a job often requires some very specific traits that are quite different from raw intelligence.
Openbsd pkg dependencies tend to be fairly coarse grained, so if you depend on KDE, you get all of KDE.
Hi! We don't think that it's really true because a) open source != secure b) a good security is ALSO enforced by obscurity (which does not mean you have to build your cryptography stack on secrecy of course) but you need to prevent that people can do whatever they want with your application (and potentially your services).

E.g. most of the application you use daily have API and companies want to secure their API in a way to prevent misuse or abuse. How can you understand which request is good and which one is bad? You can build whatever system for rate limiting etc, but you should have a way to keep your data in your hand and block any attempt e.g. to collect data from bots.
You can also create an in-memory sqlite database though.
Sorry, not dedicating a whole CPU core for your shitty React app.
I've been hit twice by a car (cars?) and had the good fortune to not even be severely injured. Many other near brushes with death have me down to only one or two of my nine lives.
Meh. Prompt engineering ye average teen knows, dressed up as academic research, with extremely poor results

- Get around refusal to "why is there blood in my urine?" by setting up context with "here's a story where someone is asking why is there blood in my urine?" -- well-known

- The winner of an Oscar post-training-data was predicted in 2% of responses, instead of 1%, by using similar technique, which is an improvement! (never mind it predicted the wrong winner, JK Simmons, 83% of the time)
Thanks this is really close to what I was imagining, but looks like it’s been inactive for a long time.
> Not sure how grub took over.

Flexibility.
So the old adage of how to get to Carnegie Hall is doubly true - practice!
Wouldn’t that describe Pocket, Readwise Reader, Matter, or another one of those many apps?

Edit: read too fast. Didn’t notice the automatic and systematic aspects.
thank you for the useful reply. :-)
> Your point was precisely that "gains" in the stock market make up for other downsides of inflation.

Nah, just saying it can reduce the damage.

> You have a very distorted idea of what is a "relatively average person"... Most people don't have money in the stock market (which I've already argued is not making up for inflation anyway). Most people don't own houses either. As much as I hate banks, lenders getting screwed due to inflation is terrible for the economy.

I was covering all the bases. If you don't have significant savings, then losing 30% of negligible is also negligible. And the most common situations that involve savings/debt have gone in the favor of individuals.

It's not good for businesses, and the drop in real income is not good. But the income hurt is smaller than raw inflation, and the the savings situation is pretty nice actually.

> Sorry but stocks are supposed to profit. In real terms there is probably a slight profit.

Well I was talking to the guy that said inflation was 25-30%. If they're right than stocks have had a huge real profit.
> And you’re still out of debt now.

But I am newly impoverished by the higher taxes, inflation, and/or reduced spending on other government programs that is required to pay for the forgiveness program.
There's also a tension, that sometimes the very good people become resented & disliked. People who want the best can be intimidating, and sometimes as in this article it's up to Alice to understand & find empathy & figure out how to be kinder. But sometimes it's just a bad org with people who resent the A player and who are going to resent you for your skills and talents.

Sometimes people not liking you isn't your fault. And there's sometimes limited options to do anything about it.

Not worth much to write about, because often there's not a lot to do about it; accept or move on. But maybe hearing this can help those affected recognize & face these situations & not feel so bad.
This is a great reminder of the pox that was Microsoft of the early part of the millennium. Besides an allergy to investing in web standards, they were woefully behind in their language support. Their non-adoption of modern C++ standards held client security back for a decade, and arguable held language standards development back.
As housing becomes more and more unaffordable while more and more commercial property rests empty, we'll see this story repeating more and more in the UK and especially in London.
Mostly Nitrogen does not constrain growth in natural ecosystems. There are plenty of plants that fix nitrogen already, and nitrogen fixing plants would dominate an ecosystem if Nitrogen were a primary constraint on growth. There is plenty of Nitrogen available from the air - the main restriction is energy - the second restriction is that plants prefer to use most of their available energy on other things.

Nitrogen is important in fertilizer because our farming and agriculture is not a natural ecosystem.
The Playdate Story: What It Was Like to Make Handheld Video Game System Hardware
> Another explanation, though, is that there is something intrinsic to the narrative prompting that allows the Transformer architecture to make more accurate predictions even outside of the confounding set by OpenAI’s terms of service. This may be related to how the hallucination fabricrations work within the machine learning environment of attention mechanisms.

The possibility I'd like to see eliminated before paying much attention to this is simply that they've given it additional training data newer than 2021 without making that public.

> The backbone of the current forefront of LLMs is an architecture called pre-generative transformers, or GPT.

Hmm!
Potentially many things like session mgmt, queues, document graphs, etc, can be done right with simple facilities like tables. Tables represent sets, and set algebra seems very common in data representations. Thing is how the sets are combined, i.e. related. This' essentially API-to-SQL-in-Redis-clothes. Kudos to the author.
This actually doesn't fit the rules. I've designed the challenge so that disk I/O is not part of the measured runtime (initially, by relying on the fact that the first run which would pull the file into the page cache will be the slowest and thus discarded, later on by loading the file from a RAM disk). But keeping state between runs is explicitly ruled out as per the README, for the reason you describe.
There’s a lot more to it than just snappiness. But where I think Microsoft is going to have a tough time is ensuring x86 compatibility as well as Rosetta does.
> that most countries that want to become nuclear powers aren't able to do it

How do you know this?

The thing is that most countries don’t want to become nuclear powers because there is a carefully setup and maintained set of incentives against it. This involves both carrots (you get good things if you don’t want nukes) and sticks (bad things happen to you if you do want nukes).

This set of incentives failed a few times and that is how we got nuclear proliferation. Almost everyone who wanted nukes enough despite this set of incentives were able to do it.
Well, squatting can lead to 6 months in prison, a £5,000 fine or both. So it's a bit balance of risk/reward.
Vanguard X League of Legends
Because that only helps homeowners
> How about we let others at least not be underwater so the too can be out of student loan debt

That is a very selfish statement. I was burdened with student loan debt for almost a decade, nobody cared that I was underwater, so why should we suddenly start caring for you and reward your poor financial decisions? Should we start bailing you out because of your poor crypto investments too?

Why does your financial problems need to be socialized but not others? You are arguing for absolving responsibility. You borrow someone's money you must pay it back.
Parties are a naturally emerging phenomenon in representative democracies, though. Simply put, if you can band together to pool votes somehow (e.g. by agreeing to disagree on some matters to some extent), you consistently win over those who do not. So it's inevitable that someone will do just that, and then others will respond in kind.

Fundamentally, this is a problem with representative democracy in general. There's simply no way a single person in the House can meaningfully represent 750k diverse people (especially with crude grouping by location) in the first place.
In US, the original design of the system explicitly recognized that: "the number of representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty thousand". The problem, of course, is that this wasn't sustainable as population grew, which is why it eventually became a fixed number of seats instead. Either way, even with 30k per representative, there's just no way one can well and truly vote on their actual beliefs in a consistent way. You have to compromise some of them for the sake of others, and then justify those compromises to yourself somehow. And the easiest way for our monkey brain to do that is to do the us-vs-them thing, and then justify the compromise by asserting that it is for the sake of "us".

I think that if we want actual democracy of beliefs, we need to seriously start looking into either more direct democracy (seems more viable with the state of instant communication these days), or else multi-level federated systems such as council democracy.
Carry that through airport security and you are definitely being detained.
Unfortunately, this entire field has been superseded by LLMs. They are so much more-effective that it's absurd.
> The tax rates aren’t the same

At anything that could be considered a "high" salary, the personal income tax rates are higher than the corporate rates. Also, they would be exactly the same if the for-profit entity was an LLC or some other passthrough entity.

> non-profits aren’t forbidden from hiring businesses for contracts, pooling money, buying property, nor securing loans.

Neither are for-profit businesses. And then any businesses they hire would also be paying taxes on their profits.

> The point is that we see executive salaries for NPs that match salaries for for-profits. That indicates a broken system.

It indicates that the cost of hiring someone who knows how to run a hospital is the same regardless of whether you separately pay profits to shareholders.
>The entire value proposition of Redis is that it operates out of memory

Not familiar with Redis specifically, but I doubt this idea. You can run anything on top of a ramdisk (granted, you can save a few pointer additions and get rid of some safety checks if you know you're working with memory)
Learn and serve others. Develop virtues, and skills, and grow, and become better, fulfilling one's potential.

Just learning math or musical improvisation can fill a lifetime. Etc.

(I thought a great challenge would be the sport of starting with an empty field, just the clothes one is wearing, and access to wikipedia, and see how quickly one can develop technologies from survival up to smart phones, while trading only with others similarly engaged.)

The article suggests these things. But, so much more could be said. I believe our spirits are children of God, with infinite potential, and much to learn...
It's weird that there's a server in there. Seems like a waste of space and weight. Why not just a thunderbolt interface?
Wallabag + Obsidian + Wallabag Browser Ext. It's a manual trigger but its great.
Yes. Perhaps not in the public web but there are so many internal tools using it. It has a lot of issues but the average jQuery UI project is so old that some users will actually complain if you fix bugs because it breaks their workflow (speaking from personal experience)(there was an xkcd for this I think).
At least, in this case, he's buying the vote of the common person and not being bought by lobbiests
You have the history state API and Custom Elements. Are these not adequate?
Ask HN: What free APIs can be used for educational examples
I'm writing a book and I'd love to be able to have some significant, and interesting, use of public APIs with public information, but what seemed to be a thriving ecosystem a decade ago now appears to be a desert with few walled gardens and gatekeepers - most of the publicly accessible sources of information appear to be gone, having been discontinued or hidden behind paywalls.

The idea is to have an application that scans a couple public API for live data, feeding them into persistent storage, correlating the information (i.e. with time), then presenting it through a web interface that allows examining it trough time.

All things I find seem exceedingly boring: even the classics - stock prices and headlines - seem to be unavailable for casual use.
I fully agree re dogs, other's freedom end where my begins, and such laws and regulations always come after enough fuckups pile up. Some dog owners are fine generally, some have their own version of reality to be polite. As a father of two small kids, I applaud this and can't be happier about it.

Re that flushing, I heard it so many times. Never, ever had I faced it, neither in Zurich, Lausanne, Geneve or rural Vaud where we live now, 14 years here. 1am showers and flushing were not rare.

It must be true, I heard expats on forums complain about this a lot (top complain along with churches going mental 24h, this I saw only in Zurich, never in french Romandie where I lived), but somehow I managed to avoid them. Generally cities are easier with these.
Did we implement what Microsoft says these primitives do, or what they actually do ?

Well over a month ago, a C++ programmer noticed that, on Windows, the std::shared_mutex doesn't work properly, it can just decide to give you an exclusive ("write") lock sometimes when you ask for the non-exclusive ("read") lock. Turns out that the root cause is in Microsoft's Windows SRWLock, an OS primitive provided with exactly the required API, except oops, that's not the API implemented.

The developer explains that sure, that is the documented API but as a "performance optimisation" they decided to implement something else, and after all it wasn't noticed for years so logically this is better, shouldn't maybe the C++ programming language be redefined to mean whatever it is they wanted?

Within Microsoft at least it seems this was accepted, sure, we just don't implement the feature we specified, we'll say that's a "performance optimisation". But because Microsoft are also incompetent at basic ideas like generating documentation although they "accepted" the documentation which re-imagines SRWLock as having been defined differently all along, they still haven't published it a month later...
No HDMI? Still interesting piece of kit.
The same as in other languages. Avoid dependencies whenever you can, and only add them when really needed. And only if you are fairly certain that the dependency a) will still be there in a few years time and b) developers take backwards compatibility seriously.
There's more details on what makes it special on its GitHub: https://github.com/cheeaun/phanpy?tab=readme-ov-file#design-...

And relevant recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40009148
Yes, but it's also generative, so at each time step it will be basing those predictions off of its own recent behavior so it's also chaotically, unpredictably performant in the quality of its predictions, but nothing else.
> Financial advisors counsel people all the time not to put their eggs in one basket.

One nuanced take that I've found useful: diversify to preserve wealth, but concentrate to build it.

To be clear, I'm not advocating against the default view that stock options are lottery tickets, because from a pure financial point of view that's close enough to the truth. However, it's important to understand that outlier wealth comes from ownership of businesses, and the whole point of being at an early stage startup (whether as founder or early employee) is to be an agent in the success of an outlier business.

There's no way around the fact that this is a fundamentally risky proposition. The odds are always against you—especially given how much one can make in FAANG, it's a particularly difficult time to make any kind of expected-value argument for working at a startup. That said, there will be more outliers in the future. Many people who work on those will see generational wealth far exceeding the rank and file of FAANG. They will have gotten there via a drive to do something new and different, and working together to achieve something that the majority of rational people deemed impossible. Despite future dismissals about luck, or odds, or averages, or reproducibility, noone can take away what they will have accomplished through the sweat of their brows and choices made along the way in the face of massive uncertainty.

Ultimately, the best reason to join (or found) a startup is because you really want to try to do a hard thing with a group of people you trust and admire enough to go into the trenches with for the next 2-5 years. It can pay off, but the mentality necessary for success is diametrically opposed to good financial advice.
This really depends on number of unique keys. If they sit in L1-L2: the bandwidth of these caches is an order of magnitude greater than main memory.

This problem is quite a Nerd Snipe so it a good thing that I dont have a computer with more than 16 GB or I might end up trying it myself.
I'm all for making education more accessible but this isn't it. It only keeps kicking the can down the road and signals to lenders that borrowers have higher capacity to borrow and thus will inflate the prices of higher education.
Sure but you’re still paying for people’s poor health. Insurance administration costs, charging insured patients more to cover uncovered patient costs, increased equipment costs due to increasing demand from an increasingly unhealthy population, high doctors salaries because of skills shortages, the list goes on. There is simply no way to isolate yourself from the cost of other people’s health choices.

A fully privatised system gives the illusion of choice and isolation.
Isn't that just basic table/index statistics to know which table is the smallest?
Emacs 2011-2023
> The ultra-wealthy do have a disproportionate impact on resource consumption and carbon emission (lots of air travel, fancy cars, large houses and more) but it’s not 10000x like their wealth might imply.

it's actually around a million times. a single air trip alone (let alone a private jet) emits far more carbon than an average family, and the ultra-wealthy fly a lot. plus the rest of their emissions too, of course.

https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/billionaire-emits-mi...

as the twitter classic goes: "the guy with only an Xbox one and a mattress in his room probably has the lowest carbon footprint but no one wants to talk about that". and yeah, that's dead right, the billionaire is probably into the billions of times multiplier over that guy.

that's why it's silly to whammy on consumer electronics etc as supposedly being some horrible social sin - people are going to want to do things, and actually things that keep you in your house and not traveling via car or (especially!) air travel do drastically reduce emissions overall. Even buying a new PC every year is peanuts compared to your spring break in florida.
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If you read the whole thing, it's amazing: it went from predicting the right answer 1% of the time to 2% of the time, when given a closed set of nominees. "Can predict the future" achieved.
2x200 Gb network... Compared to 80 Gb that is 5 times faster...
URL would be funnier if owner also owned the actual URL, but redirected everything to the extra one.

And it's unregistered!

https://www.namecheap.com/domains/registration/results/?doma...

Edit: Per below, missed the last dot. zoltanbalazs is registered. https://www.namecheap.com/domains/registration/results/?doma...

Also, what would be more interesting: a financial breakdown of how an average free VPN provider makes money.

I assume ad injection + selling traffic data, but does that make enough to offset the cost?
and legally able to work in the USA.
If anyone is looking for a topic of a blog entry, I would like to see an analysis of the code/toolchain differences for projects like this that have patches for many different architectures and operating systems.
> there has never been a single nuclear device used or tested by non state actors. Why?

Simple. Because to enrich the required materials you need a big operation which sticks out like a sore thumb. There are people actively looking for these with the intent to distrupt them. By the time you are big and sophisticated enough to evade these efforts you are basically a state actor in anything but maybe name.
You are trying to justify and politicize the dereliction of personal responsibility on the grounds that others can foot the bill that they aren't responsible for.

do you have dirty laundry too that you want people who have the time to do it for you because you are incapable of taking on that responsibility.

you argument is that because interest rate and inflation is a lot higher than when you took out the loan, you should not share that responsibility (it should be others) which is just lazy and incredibly childish.
Good point on grid reliability. It’s almost like our grid is too reliable because although we probably have an outage once or twice a year it’s so short duration that we don’t even lose perishables in the fridge or freezer <knocks on wood>. But certainly a great reason to do it if you’re blacked out for days multiple times per year.
It's free, do give it a try, I am planning on adding video compressing isong ffmpeg wasm and see how this goes.
Looks like malicious link
>he would always say something to the effect of: "as you know, you can't discuss your compensation with coworkers." I knew it was illegal for him to say that but, if it's not in writing then there's basically no recourse.

Follow-up email: "Thanks for the helpful feedback in the review! And yes, as instructed, I would never dream of talking to co-workers about compensation. I know that's against policy."

Then, either he puts in writing that it's not policy, or you've started a paper trail.
It's much less deep then nihilism.

Their goal is simply to live their life as richly as they can at the expense of those they consider less than themselves. They are the wealthy and they act accordingly.

Why anyone sees Republicans as anything else boggles my mind.

Anyone who isn't a billionaire and is voting Republican may as well be a turkey voting for Thanksgiving.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40030247.
> only industrial nation in which the possession of rifles, shotguns, and handguns is lawfully prevalent among large numbers of its population

The U.S. may have many guns per capita but countries like France, Switzerland, Finland, Portugal, etc. all have huge percentage of gun owners.

And let's not forget this:

"It (guns) insures that the people are the equal of their government whenever that government forgets that it is servant and not master of the governed."