skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> someone was looking to buy Paramount for $26B

Sony and Apollo Capitol 'expressed an interest'.

BigCorp buys BigCorp deals seem to be about consolidating the market to 1)reduce competition 2)raise prices 3)kill jobs = a)raise bonuses b)promise a higher stock value. Also synergy.

We'll get a pre-merger announcement about creating new jobs; biz media everywhere will excitedly amplify it.

Typically, the DoJ can't rubber stamp these deals fast enough but sometimes they balk - or at least pretend to.
Hi HN,

The internet doesn’t seem as fun as it once did. Sure Flash was the root of all evil, but it led to so much experimentation. Now it’s all feeds and infinite scrolling. Has all that fun gone or can we bring it back with some good old useless apps? What’s your favorite? Mine is probably this guy: https://wow_wow_wow.toddle.site
Keep on going until it overflows and sets the sign bit, then they'll credit your card with quintillions of euros.
Late 90s in a college computer lab about 20 people playing unreal tournament when lab tech storms in giving out about incorrect use of resources when one of the guys stood up and said we're the gaming society holding trials to form a team to play against another college, that was news to me, good times!
Capabilities can just be variables. Variables all belong to something, all the way up to the OS. Would you say variables are a type of user permission? Obviously not. Variables are more versatile than that. So are capabilities.
Not OP either, for me due to RSI I've switched to use a touchscreen when I can, and alternate the mouse between left/right when I have to use one (Ergo mouse and similar never seemed to do anything for me). As well as a super light/smooth keyswitch keyboard (Fujitsu Libertouch with cut domes).
Thanks for all the answers!
Who is saying these things?? This entire thread is full of people like you, not people actually saying this is okay.
Dont be ridiculous that’s a huge percentage of their market cap
It is hard to find modern references on this. When I led a search group, coming from an ML but non search background, I found the following most useful

1. Query understanding series: https://queryunderstanding.com/query-understanding-8a2b16024...
2. Deep learning for search in manning. It covers some non DL techniques

Then it is mostly papers and talking to people. Berlin buzzword has videos of all talks and is very non academic but technical.
Feels like an opportunity to make a very cool ultralight given the weight savings, and no pilot license is needed (though still recommended…)
I was looking to modernize my skills in systems languages as C++ is my systems language of choice at the moment and I'd been deciding between Go and Rust (I know, to call Go a "systems" language is a bit of a stretch, but what we call a "system" is also a bit different these days) and I've decided it's going to be Rust.
Agreed. But what I meant is not the literal "what does typing trackers find" but a higher level surprise, as this type of tracking will scare away precisely the people they want to hire: senior python developers who can work autonomously in a remote-first culture. My 2c.
I'm sure they do a lot of R&D. They built their own CPU for goodness sake.

But there's diminishing returns, at some point the ROI for the next candidate investment isn't good enough to make it a valid choice over a buyback or dividend.
They will when federated learning kicks off
I will go against the grain and say I'm not worried about IDEs, or my job as a programmer.

If so-called AI in its current state, extrapolated into the next few years, can do a significant part of your job as well as or better than you can, that says more about your skills and the value you bring to the table than it does about the capabilities of LLM coding assistants.

The AI bubble looks more like a (half-baked) solution looking for problems than anything truly useful. The models cost way more to operate than what their owners currently charge for them, so they seem cheap, for now. Big companies jockey to create and control a market with hype and subsidies, creating a lot of FOMO and worry. It will pass.
> The longest of those in Auckland run up to 290m (957ft); in the US, that figure is closer to 4km (2.5 miles), with Ape Cave at the Gifford National Park in Washington the longest continuous tube in North America.

If we are comparing lava tubes, the longest in Australia is the Bayliss Cave at Undara, Queensland, at 1300 metres long. Kazumura Cave in Hawaii is a lava tube over 65 km long, but that is including human-dug tunnels through collapsed sections. Working out what is the longest lava tube in the world not counting collapses is a bit trucky; Kazumura is near the top of the list (at around 11 km for longest uncollapsed section) but Bilemot Gul on South Korea’s Jeju island apparently beats it. [0]

[0] Per http://www.vulcanospeleology.org/sym03/ISV3x15.pdf but that’s a 1980s source so may be outdated
Do you plan to only use public SQLite APIs, or do you expect to be appended to the amalgamation?

I'm definitely interested in something like this, but need to think through how I could distribute this separate from SQLite in my Wasm based Go bindings. So far everything C is bundled, because it's a lot simpler than Wasm "dynamic linking".

Also, you've mentioned incremental BLOB I/O, and you probably know this already, but keep in mind that BLOB I/O is never random access, as large BLOBs are stored as a linked list of pages.
If global warming is real and weather will change, it's possible that some shifts. Cold places will become warmer.

It's also important to think about predictability. Issue with many lands is unpredictable weather. You put your grains in the soil, month later you've got -2C and grains are dead. I feel that global warming will not help here, but rather will make things worse: weather will be less predictable, even if average temperature goes up, local extremums will occur often.
Really cool tool, sadly the code editor is glitched out for me (I can't select all the text, using Edge if it helps). Some bugfixing and you have a really good tool on your hands.

I don't really have much use for it though as the websites I tend to work on are either fine with a slightly customized prebuilt template or are more full-on web-apps in nature.
Probably to pay for import duties due to brexit. Not sue what the duty on account deletion is nowadays.
What's artificial are the compensation plans that are written in terms of nominal (gameable) share price instead of real market caps and payouts to shareholders.
Corporate diversification entails risks and fails 70-90% of the time.
Mortgages are generally not full recourse, meaning they can’t do that. The collateral is the house, not your assets.
Apple: Earnings Come with a Low Bar and Big Buyback Hopes
Nice - you got it!

The followup is this: That approach only uses about 50% of your coin flips. The other 50% are discarded. How would you improve the efficiency?
That would make it more like the US with over litigation, companies hiring people to find competitors in violation and going by the letter instead of the intent of the law. Also; the gdpr is large and complex but the intent is pretty clear; if we start to go by the letter, very many companies are unknowingly in violation but cannot afford consultants. They don’t abuse the data ; they just store too much for instance. It would be very strange if they get fined immediately; they will have 0 complaints over their existence probably, so a warning would suffice.

The companies that don’t give a shit aka ignore warnings from the overseer in their country, will get fined; small or big. It works fine.
Runs super fine on Pixel 7
TL;DR Business is hard.
Except that XPath and JSONPath are overpowered. I'd welcome a simple standard path syntax for JSON, for instance, I'd want to use for reporting schema errors in JSON document ($.users[10].name must be a string). I can use JSONPath, sure, but even this subset is annoying to parse - compared to a filepath which you can parse with `path.split('/')`.
His other businesses will most likely get sanctioned, employees associated with them will conveniently get searched and detained on trumped up charges whenever they visit said countries. It's very difficult because Musk's businesses are hardware businesses, and with hardware there is a supply chain involved.

It's not difficult for a state level entity to create problems for his businesses.
Very good question. Looks like they bought $44 billion in 6 months and had about $30 billion left in what was authorized, so raising it a bit "makes sense" if they wanted to continue at that clip (which almost feels like indication that management expects their stock to be somewhat undervalued over the next year)

From https://www.bamsec.com/filing/32019324000069?cik=320193

> During the six months ended March 30, 2024, the Company repurchased 248 million shares of its common stock for $44.0 billion. The Company’s share repurchase program does not obligate the Company to acquire a minimum amount of shares. Under the program, shares may be repurchased in privately negotiated or open market transactions, including under plans complying with Rule 10b5-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”).

> In addition to its contractual cash requirements, the Company has an authorized share repurchase program, under which the remaining availability was $30.1 billion as of March 30, 2024. On May 2, 2024, the Company announced the Board of Directors had authorized an additional program to repurchase up to $110 billion of the Company’s common stock. The programs do not obligate the Company to acquire a minimum amount of shares.
Could they expect to do better than TSMC with it?

Seriously though, people decrying this as financial engineering seem, to me, to be completely missing the point. It's not the purpose of a firm to endlessly expand their business until they do everything. It's to do the thing they are good at, what they have a comparative advantage over the rest of the industry over, and then instead of chasing ever worse roi on ever more marginal investment and research, return the rest of the money to the investors so they can make their own choices on what to invest on.
I personally use Everything by Voidtools.

Remembering the exact name is great, but I find using *.docx combined with sorting by date is often good enough.
I knew several people in Sweden who did this 10+ years ago. They'd finished their degree and in many cases even gotten a job, but still stayed enrolled in one or two courses just so they could keep their student apartment.
Yeah, it would have to be a "real" POTS all the way too. These days you're likely using VoIP under the covers anyway.
Perhaps Ryan thought he might make a windfall from any warrants that weren't purchased in bankruptcy.

"But startups’ objections were made in vain when the court overruled them. A bankruptcy court’s goal is to oversee the selling of assets to settle debts. If there is money left over, it’s paid to shareholders. Ryan is the majority shareholder."
Looks awesome, can't wait to try it out on my side project.
Buybacks literally hands money to current investors. They can only buy shares from people who own shares Ie investors.

Individual investors get three options they can some shares and maintain the exact same percentage of the company making this equipment to a dividend, they can liquidate more shares which a guaranteed buyer propping up the price, or they can avoid selling shares and simply own more of the company. The final option is more tax efficient because there’s no taxable event unlike a dividend where you pay taxes before buying more stock.
I’ve got the opposite problem where my alarm goes off every Wednesday at 8:30 and I have no idea how to turn it off…
This first came out in 2007 without picking up much popularity, so I wouldn't worry about it becoming widespread.
> But when you are Apple the sums are so huge and the choice of places you can invest so limited, that giving it back to the shareholders and letting them decide is pretty much your only option. A good problem to have.

Crazy thought but I know one larger entity to park the money in and it's the US treasury. Apple has no positioning to improve things like infrastructure and public education.

Stock buybacks should be a clear signal that taxes can go up at that bracket of the economy.
I suspect it's more to do with being the number one cause of preventible cancer by far.
Vision Pro matured out of R&D, Apple Car got scrapped and written off.

I am sure there is more in the works or in stealth mode (Ai?), but the big R&D projects appear to have been forced to ship or been canncelled.
Such a throwback to see a company where the CEO or cabal doesn't have majority voting power.
The grift just never stops with Musk.
> If they put 10B into Apple it won’t have any legal implications (Apple is so huge) and it’s probably a better return than anything else available.

While this is true, investors would generally rather have the money returned to them so they may diversify their portfolios as they see fit instead of letting the company do it for them. (at least for spherical cow investors)
AI engineers report burnout, rushed rollouts as 'rat race' to stay competitive
Backblaze has been slowly releasing SSD stats, but their usage of HDDs dwarfs SSD usage, so it won’t be as useful.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/ssd-edition-2023-mid-year-dri...
Sony forcing Steam users to link to a PSN account or lose access to Helldivers 2
Shoot, is anxiety an issue? Unless your business is running on complete autopilot, with fat margins, wouldn’t a sane entrepreneur who has to make payroll be a little anxious?
I want to self-host my account credentials. Or more accurately, I absolutely do not want Apple | Google | Microsoft to be able to lock my account, and thereby lock me out of every other account. Especially as two of them have already done so.

If I could act as a passkey provider for myself, similar to how I can do that with SSH, then that’d be great. I do not comprehend why it’s not allowed, apart from being part of a further grasp for power by those companies.
That's the phrase I had in mind when I wrote it. I decided to extend it based on the experience of Pyrrhus :)
Adrian Newey to Leave Oracle Red Bull Racing
AI boom combined with bottlenecks in foundry capacity and advanced packaging has created contango in GPU sales. Value of old H100 has gone up after sales.

GPU supply-demand curve is nowhere close where Nvidia would like it to be. Demand is so high that Nvidia would make at least 2X profits if it could sell 3X more GPU's. TSMC just cant build new fabs fast enough.
Companies have a limited number of R&D projects and not all of them have great expected returns on investment, so sometimes it makes more sense to wait before investing in Project n+1
My godfather turned to woodworking after commanding an AA missile regiment. He moved ~ 50 km (30 miles) from Alin and spent about 20 years sculpting in wood, he became quite good. I was a kid when he started, not paying attention to that, but when I was in my thirties I talked to him about it; he said it was relaxing and very enjoyable.

I grew up further North in a region where every house had some tools for working wood. It was natural, some people were really good at it, some mediocre, but using a manual wood planner or a wood chisel was almost routine for any man or kid. I am no longer living there and I am not working with wood, but I find it escaping to do some work in the garden, put some pipes for irrigation or fixing something on the vise. It is a different world than the craziness of the software industry, especially in the corporate world.
The same can be said of all painkillers and yet, opium hasn't destroyed society yet, despite thousands of years of use.

These drugs are not to be taken lightly, but I don't like pain, I don't like people being in pain, so if there are ways of making people feel better, I am all for it. And every new treatment we find is a new option, one that we may be able to use as a substitute for something with worse side effects, like opium.
This is actually not an accurate report. https://twitter.com/glennklockwood/status/178624248776766284...
iirc they're using iPhone 3d scanner now
Hi Noesis, I just noticed that your implementation, combined with the efficientKAN by Blealtan (https://github.com/Blealtan/efficient-kan), results in a structure very similar to Siren(MLP with Sin activations). efficientKAN first computes the common basis functions for all the edge activations and the output can be calculated with a linear combination of the basis. If the basis functions are fourier, then a KAN layer can be viewed as a linear layer with fixed weights + Sin activation + a linear layer with learnable weights, which is a special form of Siren.
I think this may show some connection between KAN and MLP.
It's not profitable and we should stop saying that. The issue is that there's just not enough quality out there so companies accept less quality and have to start managing for it.

If they could hire fewer people who crank awesome shit out they would.
Far as I know I never killed anyone by looking at their picture
No worries man
Either way, we treat most of animals as if they weren’t either.
> a VM for my work doesn't change anything

For complex software, real-life testing all the corners is impossible.

You'd get some value out of people running it on VMs, some people running it on the same old hardware, some people running it on cutting-edge hardware, some people running it for extended periods and doing dist-upgrades, some people constantly reinstalling it (even within a VM).

There are so many places software could fail. Especially things that aren't repeated often seem to fail: For example, websites where logging in works, but creating a user fails and nobody notices, because all employees already have accounts.
An insurance agent somewhere just had an involuntary twitch they can’t immediately explain.
Great part is you can also style the rss feeds with with `.css`

https://interconnected.org/home/feed

https://github.com/genmon/aboutfeeds/blob/main/tools/pretty-...
Modern capitalism in a nutshell.
Two take home projects, in two years? Hmmmmmm.
I am fairly certain the backbone customer for starlink is or will be militaries, not necessarily private jets.
Aha, I don't think it was that post (feels too recent and I don't remember the main post), but the much simpler demo I remember is linked in the comments there: https://css-tricks.com/using-css-without-html/
What is so bad about adults consuming porn? Is it addictive like recreational drugs? Does it lead to delusional thinking like television?
This is the same as tdarb.org's "Shinobi Website" phase[0]. For more information see [1].

Sadly, tdarb.org is dead, but the HN link[1] is not.

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20220523124655/https://tdarb.org...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31372373
Apple is also one of the largest companies, so looking at absolute dollars is not really informative. Would have to look at some ratio like as % of operating cash flow or % of market cap, or at a minimum adjust for inflation
The worst part being that users in the Baltics, for example, cannot create a PSN account at all, but they were able to purchase Helldivers 2 via Steam and play it for the last 4 months.

This means that there will be customers who bought the game legally via Steam losing access to the product they purchased - which has worked fine for the last 4 months - due to the rules of a 3rd party store unaffiliated with the original store they bought the game from.
Those become a bit messier if store or book can be null.
So how do these huge buybacks actually work? Like, do they just buy them in the open market? Or is it all OTC?
Some scientists can't stop using AI to write research papers
Not entirely, but a considerable portion can. However, the modern supply chain has to be fully tracked down first, to uncover exactly where most emissions are coming from, and then focus on understanding how to decarbonise those sectors as much as possible.
Can you please elaborate? You’re saying that CPAP is effective but people don’t use it consistently, and insurance monitors its use and if they determine the % of use is lower than 95%, insurance will bill you instead? I thought people who require CPAP have severe enough sleep apnea that they could die from the lack of oxygen.

Also how is this related to depression, you said “this is the same problem” after you mentioned depression.
Further, those two stats are irreconcilable? There are not enough countries in the world to add up to nearly 2M deaths per year, given that the top rates are in the US and Russia. Who else has as many cars? Even China and India can't contribute much because of the dearth of cars.
> existing industrial complex-government power structure

Or local businesses as they are sometimes known
The most important cryptography papers
The data in the linked article from 20 million observations vs your 1 observed incident suggests you should keep going to the gym.

You have no idea what his pre-existing medical conditions were.
I tried the product, it has some nice themes which can be used for short videos. Also, the ui is clean and functional. Also, the subtitles generated are accurate.
Interesting! What sets it apart from the rest?
In corporations is not a lot of money, almost never the market rates. In my big non-IT company I am paid at rates lower than any external company we contract for projects, even if their people are always lower qualified.

Also there is the problem of having to deal every day with "professional managers" that don't know anything about IT, but make decisions based on magic 8 ball and their career interests. Similar to illiterate politicians in many countries.
Is the necessity of tools like JSON Path really just an indication that APIs are increasingly returning too much junk and / or way more data than the client actually requested and / or needs?

In dev mode, our internal APIs return pretty printed JSON so one can inspect via view-source, more, or text editor.
Yeah sure. And then you have smartphone parts labelled as "дисплей + тачскрин" (to non-speakers: it's "display + touchscreen" written phonetically), lol. Not to say it's bad, though. But it's funny.
That's interesting information, thanks!
You recovered?

It sounded like rheumatoid arthritis.
For desktop its fine but the mobile version is trash for me. I always imagined something more simple I just wanna review my cards and go. In the AI part, if I'm about to put my cards, it should be simple as copy paste so AI do that now. That's my main motivation to build this
How Artificial Intelligence Is Making 2k-Year-Old Scrolls Readable Again
Extending the metaphor with this behavior, it'd be like mainly feeding your dog store-bought food, and occasionally lining up a bowl of home-made. It might sometimes eat it, but you wouldn't know.

Not all software is easily dogfoodable.

A funny incident:

There's a git forge called https://ayllu-forge.org/ that they use to develop itself.

`git clone` had broken, and it hadn't been fixed because the developers had already cloned the code.
I occasionally get calls from my bank. They are always from the security department saying there was some charge to my card. Was it me or not? I don't have much problem with those.
FWIW this happened during the dot com boom and a lot of them scurried off during the dot com bust. The amount of US salary one can pull with no formal education needed is the driver for this cycle.

My preference in hiring is people that are drawn to computing naturally, they will be there for the long haul.
Heh, I was so paranoid about the bot thing that I didn't even consider it could have been sarcasm. I even checked your last couple posts on HN after reading your comment just to see if your account had a history and if it was all shilling for products.

I'm convinced you're a real person. Sorry for not catching on to the sarcasm.