skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Social Media Websites are Marketplaces for Attention.

For example Mobile Gaming: Mobile games are demand generation bound - you literally run fake ads on facebook, and only the games that convert well are made. Yes, that's why the fake game videos exist. Making games is no longer hard, you pay a bunch of chinese and get the game. The majority of a mobile game's budget, with few exceptions, is spent on user acqusition.

Now picture AI making it easier to make content. Games. Movies. Etc. It invariably results in more content (and less quality, but as we've seen with News, that's not Mark's concern and people who think quality is something consumers choose over commoditized volume haven't paid attention for the last 2 decades). More content means more demand for eyeballs on Meta's platform, higher ad auction prices. Higher user acquisition spent.

Lucky for you, making more content with fewer people is a good effect of AI. So you save on talent, you lay off people and ... then discover that because Meta made AI available to everyone, you're just going to spend the additional money you made to pay for ads.
Outsourcing production sounds great conceptually; "It's great! Production issues are someone elses problem now!" Until you realize that producing EVs is hard and when there are problems you now have many layers of management between your customer services and the people who can actually fix the problem.

People bitch and complain about Tesla all the time, but their vertical integration means that they can fix problems with their cars relatively quickly.

I think this is why Fisker failed. Twice.
Hey guys,

My name is Stan, and I'm a beginner mob developer and designer.

I'm looking for advice on how to reduce your chances of failing your hustle. What to focus on mainly and understand the "right road" to take.
I've seen a few chinese knock off switches on Amazon and Alibaba that are cheap and layer 3/"managed". I messaged a few of the alibaba sellers telling them I'm "building a custom switch OS and want their hardware to prototype" and they seemed amicable to helping me get a custom firmware installed, but never pursued it more.

I'd love to have managed 2.5Gb switches with 10Gb uplinks in my house using a custom linux OS that I can use standard config management tools with...
Very much, I think the Guardian could do well by including the graph with min/max/average
The author here. The point there is not a critique of Rust. I'll offer a bit of context - I started my „from scratch” utility library with a std::string-like type that operates on reference counted buffers. In the end, any operations I try to do I have to put the sliced string in a zero-terminated string because that's how one interacts with the operating system and with other libraries as well. Which is a bit dumb, unfortunately.

A lot of C (and C++) memory-related issues are caused by this assumption that by just passing a `char *` one sends a string out into the world. A point that I made on other occasions in other contexts is that in the end POSIX makes us do this, and perhaps it's time to rewrite from the bottoms up.

That aside, the issue of safety of Rust doesn't change: just because one has the `unsafe` keyword doesn't mean that someone will not use it badly. Maybe the reader of this will not use unsafe unwisely, they will eventually call unsafe-by-design APIs. At their layer they will write safe code, but below them there's a rusty bucket, if one can pardon my pun.
well as i said it is quite a specific niche. It is a subniche of beat making and music producing in general. Did you already stumble upon type beats on youtube for example?
Totally irrelevant to the discussion, which is explicitly about streaming services delivering in lower resolutions than they have available.
Writing the whole css syntax as classes is almost like using the style="" attribute, and comes with an enormous css payload cost
> I was under the impresion that modern AI still runs mainly baremetal.

Generally yes, but you can do (PCI) pass-through of GPUs to VMs and containers and such, so it is not strictly necessary.
One-to-one calls won't work on web Teams for me using Firefox, but group calls will, for some reason.
Techcrunch mentioned it was $700M
All I'll say is that the I understand completely why the demo is time limited, however it took about 2.5 minutes to fully respond to my first instruction, though it did write some code eventually. There was no time left to see how well it could refine/fix what it had created.

I'm not in the market for this (not convinced by Tailwind or by the AI assisted coding, yet) but people who are may need more than a few minutes to properly judge it.
https://tailwindcss.com/docs/text-color

Any tailwind class can have named colors ("green"), semantic colors "danger" and then you can chose the number of the gradient of that color.

There are thousands of them. Only the ones you use get compiled into the css file.
I have long suspected a model like this, borrowing from lawyer shops and worker co-ops, could be pretty good for software. Since software is sort of inherently project based, could have a mix of product and contracting, and could have wins both on the co-op side and whoever the co-op is doing work for/selling product to
It could with hierarchy of needs, but what would the gain really be of doing so? Mostly ideological. And that is putting aside any of the other 'competitive balance issues' vs other business structures.
Why would someone ever take a 40Mbps (compressed) video and downsample it so it can be encoded at 400Kbps (compressed) but played back with nearly the same fidelity / with similar artifacts to the same process at 50x data volume? The world will never know.

You're also ignoring the part where all lossy codecs throw away those same details and then fake-recreate them with enough fidelity that people are satisfied. Same concept, different mechanism.

Look up what 4:2:0 means vs 4:4:4 in a video codec and tell me you still think it's "pure insanity" to rescale.

Or, you know, maybe some people have reasons for doing things that aren't the same as the narrow scope of use-cases you considered, and this would work perfectly well for them.
The traditional Windows desktop is quite open and has all sorts of extension APIs where 3rd party extensions can hook in. A rewrite might remove the extensibility for the sake of "security and privacy" (read: ad revenue)
Please read "The Price is Wrong" by Brett C. It takes you around the industry and business models of green renewables.

It's an amazing book.
Assessing the Y, and How, of the XZ Utils incident
Energy cooperatives are another thing I've seen work well here in the US.

A house I lived in got our electricity from a Touchstone Energy cooperative[1] and our rate was dirt cheap and they even mailed us a dividend check every year. I've even received a few checks from them after moving out of the area and no longer being a customer of theirs. They had great customer service too. They were significantly better in every way than the regional monopolies and municipal power companies I've dealt with.

[1] https://www.touchstoneenergy.com
Complete misunderstanding.

I am not saying that "Gas and coal accounted for just 2.4% of power generation for an hour last week" is good but not good enough, I am saying that it is meaningless. The problem here is not the degree progress, but the choice of measurement.

I will happily celebrate incremental progress with the measurements that I think actually matter.
No, it's forced modularity. It's saying there are hard lines between parts of your program that can't be crossed. This prevents the over time formation of spaghetti code.

It's like British tanks in WW2, your system is composed out of standard parts. Not necessary the best, but standard parts and that's what tends to be important.
Is there an overview of the user share of PyPy vs CPython? I have the feeling that PyPy usage became less in the recent years.

How well does PyPy work together with frameworks like PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow, etc? I know there has been some work to support NumPy, but I guess all these other frameworks are much more relevant nowadays.
>Pursuing a co-operative model is far from plain sailing, however. Numerous hurdles exist. For one, membership does not come cheap. To join a co-operative, workers typically put up a one-off payment of about €17,000 each. Plus, just as they are entitled to a share of any profits, so, too, are they liable for any losses.
Commercial pressures can also prove acute, as Fagor Electrodomésticos’s troubled history shows. The fact that all major investment decisions have to be put to the vote can also make Mondragón’s co-operatives less agile than their conventional competitors. And finding financing can be problematic as the private capital markets are effectively closed to them, admits Fagor Arrasate’s Mendieta: “We can’t incorporate external capital into the co-operative’s share capital because we are governed by the principle of ‘one person, one vote’, which no capitalist investor would accept.”

As with any system, there are tradeoffs.
I no longer give advice or encouragement for people to use or not use any particular OS. What I started doing years ago was to tell friends and family that I don't use Windows (true, at home. Not true, at work) and can't provide any real tech support to them. If they use Linux or BSD, I'll happily help them with difficulties.
I'm not arguing that I think "Invalid name" is a good message here. I don't think it is. But if you're relying on either familiarity or the ability to look it up, then you're still relying on there being a manual to provide that information in the first place if it is not somehow included in the error message itself. As would be the case here with Bee and rg.
And then there was Enron that was causing the rolling blackouts in California on purpose. Some of those people went to jail for other reasons.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/enron-caused-california-bl...
Real innovation! biggest innovation apple made since mac pro with wheels!
Perhaps we could mitigate such risk with batteries? AFAIK they have decreased a lot in price.
Not if there isn't coherency between those chunks
And as usual, people thinking AI == LLM.
Progressive to me means, simply, "That which leaves the most options open for the most people."

Creating hardwired infrastructure to transport people from one place where they don't want to be to another place where they don't want to be, over timespans measured in decades for construction and a good part of a century to pay off, at a time when technology is delivering more options for individual mobility concurrent with other options that render commuting and travel less relevant, doesn't strike me as progressive.
Another boon for the porn industry
I understand free is nice and all, and many people are price conscious - but O365 I believe has worldwide geographic pricing, and it is the standard.

While Zoho is nifty, you are holding yourself back quite a bit because you are not running what is the standard.

From what I can recall, and it's been a while - even Google runs O365 because Excel is the standard, and a few other things, but of course not Exchange - though they did have an Exchange Online server a decade ago! (Not saying much it's included in most O365 skus's but I chuckled when I saw it on the DNS a decade ago - not sure about nowadays.)

Meta/Facebook also uses Sharepoint and Excel heavily too.

Around a decade ago I also used Zoho and thought it was clunky but I know enough 2-5people orgs that use it and are happy with it, but I really don't want to spend too much time w/ support and paying for $20 for license/for user, is easy enough. $1200 a month to not have to worry about much is nice enough and for security, geogrpahic blocking and other features it works very well. You can control alot of incoming mail w/ Exchange Online Protection/Defender - so you can cut down on your phishing and such.

I know I must sound like a Microsoft plant, but, for the price, the features included are very generous and you never have to worry about migrating off it for another vendor ecosystem because it is the standard.

Plus training, everyone learns on O365/Office suite. That itself is nice too.
Aside: zsh is standard on macs now, thanks to Apple's lawyers freaking out over bash license terms. If you want to change to industry standard bash (I did) then there are three ways to do it.

Short: csh -s /bin/bash

Others: system settings or terminal settings.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/terminal/trml113/mac

[2] https://www.howtogeek.com/444596/how-to-change-the-default-s...

You may want to update bash via homebrew, or install the full set of Xcode command line tools. (But not full Xcode environment)

xcode-select --install

[3] https://www.macobserver.com/tips/how-to/install-xcode-comman...
Is there any point in just learning to use a tool without making something with it? You won’t learn to use a saw until you build something with it.

Learn to program and you will be required to learn how to use the terminal.
Headquartered in Pacific Grove? Wild. The alternate history of Silicon Valley being the Salinas Valley instead of Santa Clara valley.
The author mentioned another similar write up which provided more useful explanations and context to me:

https://ipng.ch/s/articles/2023/11/11/mellanox-sn2700.html
No. It's just an unassuming IKEA picture frame, but I can ssh into them.
This is not socialism, it is syndicalism. Some argue that syndicalism is a type of socialism, but in practice, it behaves more like a type of capitalism.
one issue that may be affecting the result is that openmp's threadpool doesn't play well with rayon's. i've seen some perf degradation in the past (on both sides) when both are used in the same program

i plan to address that after refactoring the benches by executing each library individually
Not disagreeing (completely) with you, but worth pointing out the very next question in the interview I quoted above looks like this:

> What about device support?
> Chuck: You have a subroutine for each device. That’s a library, not an operating system. Call the ones you need or load the ones you need.

...for sure it's a departure from the common way of doing things, at least. And it's almost impossible to imagine, today's generation would have to look at retro-computing to see something akin to the idea [0] [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64#BASIC

[1] https://dfarq.homeip.net/commodore-64-operating-system/
I didn’t choose that language. The “war on drugs” is the DEA’s own marketing.
When you've got the US fueling your war machine you tend to have a lot of money left over to plow into tech dominance.
A carbon tax & tariff & rebate would let the market fix the problem. But tax is a dirty word so most governments aren't brave enough to do it.

Thanks for the book recommendation, have purchased.
Sorry, I'm not a WSJ subscriber. It wouldn't surprise me if Google are being squeezed between two organizations with different goals though.

Ultimately the Privacy Sandbox has dozens of different proposals, and each is on a separate standards track. It's not a singular technology.

I will say that many of the proposals do directly improve user privacy, or offer more-private alternatives to existing APIs. But I'd also be surprised if there weren't objections as well. It's the web, and scrutiny is important.
Yes

How many 286s are out there?
I think alternatively/additively they may be more responsive around firing ineffective staff, and a culture of productivity. When workers/managers directly pay for their co-worker's unproductiveness, they have an incentive to replace opposed to simply hire more additional staff.
That's just my personal preference, but this whole setup can be done with Usenet too.
Lawmakers unveil sprawling plan to expand online privacy protections

After years of contentious debate, the bipartisan measure marks a significant step toward passing a landmark federal privacy law

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/07/congres...

Bit of discussion (on CNN article) here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39980232
Yeah this is a completely fair point. I've seen this in software so its not shocking.
[dupe]

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40053248
> This is probably the first time in history that a graphic artist has painted a functionally workable computer program by accident.

More accurately, a programmer accidentally came up with a language that can run on real world paintings
One sweetspot Zoho I think has been in more from fortunate circumstances was grinding away as a GSuite competitor for years on years without the wasteful budgets or engineering egos of Silicon Valley.

This way they naturally had to focus on core features more, which they did well enough, and understanding vertical integration as one of the main pillars of their organizational culture.
It feels like you're pointing to your proximity to those affected as the source of your authority here? I live on the south side and more or less always have so hopefully my view is taken at least as seriously on that principle.

The police don't use this tool to reduce shootings on the south side. It's debatable whether this tool is even capable of that, but regardless that is certainly not what the police have done or intend to do with it.

Chicago police are a menace to my community and any power or tool they have been given they use primarily to harm and intimidate. Regardless of what the tool could do, or is intended to do, the history of CPD here is very clear.
as far as i know, very little is shared. ndarray-linalg is mostly a lapack wrapper. nalgebra and faer both implement the algorithms from scratch, with nalgebra focusing more on smaller matrices
A bit of a tangent, but the same author has something like a libdivide (C++) for Rust: https://github.com/sarah-ek/fastdiv . Cool.
I had the idea that handwriting, an infinite canvas and cross linking between ideas were going to be a big part of my external knowledge base. So I learnt a lot of technical skills that would allow me to put something like that together. Then right around the time I got an eink tablet and thought I'd start making something, I started using org-roam and it seems more than enough to contain all the information I tend to want to record. If I really want to handwrite or sketch something, I'll just do it on paper and snap a picture, crop it and paste it in Emacs (I have a script that copies it into a subdirectory) and the whole thing lives in a git repo.
Wouldn't fiscal spending devalue the currency since this money has to be "printed" instead of lent?
Perhaps a second pass that focuses on smoothing out the frames where the clips are joined.
Lawmakers unveil sprawling plan to expand online privacy protections
Almost All Stock Market Growth Since 2008 Is QE
It's a solid laptop. If I was running x86, it would be my daily. I use my framework for field work and it's great. 30 hour battery life idle on the 11th gen at min brightness (Windows)
I assume that would be under Biomass, and about 5% over the last year: https://grid.iamkate.com/
Hahaha...Oh, you're serious. Let me laugh harder...

The CMA has specifically mentioned that just blocking 3rd party cookies would provide Google an unfair competitive advantage because their large web presence allows them to develop better user advertising profiles based on just first party information. Advertisers without a large first party user base (because they only do advertising) would not be able to develop user profiles.

The whole privacy sandbox effort it's supposed to level the playing field between large content providers that are also advertisers (Google, Facebook, etc) and providers that only do advertising (Criteo, RTBHouse, etc). Google couldn't drop 3rd party cookies support without Privacy Sandbox.
I'm more concerned about the environmental impacts than anything else TBH. The current AI boom is spurring a massive race to construct new data centers and requires far more compute power than what it is replacing, so it is if anything a job creation rather than job replacement program at present.

Plenty of things that are inefficient or resource intensive are cool (like monster trucks and rocket ships), but that doesn't mean they're the best use of our time, attention, and resources.
Zoho is hugely underrated.

They have a massive suite of capabilities, so much so a SMB (most of the worlds businesses) could run their entire company off of Zoho.

Because it isn't a Bay Area company, or making exciting products - makes them overlooked far too much.

For those who use Zoho, they love it because it-just-works.
Not very hard but they should prefer big fat clients over tiny ones. Google products are at the top of my list of things to avoid. I don't have time for their endless work for free assignments. I'll reluctantly use their services if they are just to good but I keep in mind I'm not client material.

I hear of zoho for the first time, it apparently has 100m users. I hear they have actual support. There are employees on this page answering questions, or should I say busting myths? I haven't seen any of their products and it already sounds superior.
My suggestion is that humans are still noticeably better at this, not least because humans are able to backtrack and re-adjust their interpretations, which LLMs cannot in the same way. An LLM's "thought process" and "output" are essentially the same thing.

Now maybe I'm wrong about this, but even if so I think it's still a risky change. We have understood human error for pretty much all of recorded history. We have a very poor understanding of computer error, to the point that there are some legal systems where computer software is assumed to be correct by default.

Courts and laws around the world are designed to cope with humans making mistakes and lying.
We are well into that era already. Nvidia tried to buy ARM from softbank but was blocked by regulators a few years ago.

It's amazing that a company known for video game graphics cards is now a $2 trillion company. Nvidia's market cap ( over 2 trillion ) is the 2nd biggest of the FAANG+. It's bigger than Google. It's bigger than Amazon. Only Apple has a bigger market cap. And most of nvidia's market cap gains has been in the past year. It's unique for being the only predominantly hardware company of the group.
There are some large co-ops in the US. The largest iirc is CHS, a tier 2 co-op (co-op made of smaller co-ops).
per year?
ubuntu 24.04 will be released tomorrow and fedora 40 released today, perfect timing
The only problem is that there's absolutely nothing green about an 8,000 pound truck that will only last 10 years. It can't tow worth a shit, so it's absolutely not a truck for people that actually need trucks.

It's environmentally disastrous to manufacture, tears up roads, chews through tires, and gets abysmal mileage when compared to other electric vehicles.

It's just an emotional support truck for cyrpto bros.
CMA seeks views on AI partnerships and other arrangements
Finally, we get to know whether the Patterson bigfoot film is authentic.
The Smith Chart: The scariest thing you learn in Electrical Engineering [video]
Which is?

(I am genuinely asking)
interesting, which scene is this?
Here’s an Unbox Therapy video

https://youtu.be/W2pYTRdX5LA?si=giLseweTP0zWf-M-

I’m sure more stuff will drop throughout the day but in case folks wanted to see a hands on.

Right now I don’t see it doing anything I can’t do from my phone already.

I’m very unclear on why these (rabbit and humane) aren’t just apps. I just don’t see people carrying these in addition to their phones and dealing with the split interaction ecosystem.

I also don’t understand why neither made their products into a watch form factor. That at least solves the majority of their issue of “having it on you in a convenient way”

Also as an aside, while I think the teenage engineering design is gorgeous, I’m disappointed that the packaging is so plastic heavy. A plastic cartridge like case wrapped in plastic. Neither of which will be used again.