skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had AP classes in high school and a 20 hour a week part time job - easily 10 hours a day on the week days including homework and ongoing projects. So at 17 I was working 70 hours a week. College was more of the same - honors classes and projects.

I graduated college and was like "I only have to work 40 hours a week? What's the catch?"
Austin's interstate expansion becomes a test case for "induced demand"
Thank you!

> What does "premium support" mean?

Premium option includes prioritized support and access to new features that might be unavailable for other types of licenses.

I will update the website for more clarity.
Platform *decay seems inadequate though because it fails to make the distinction that the platform is declining specifically in quality and likely NOT in use.
I've always counted Prayer to God up there in my "best songs ever" list.

What a huge bummer and loss.
Those kinds of projects are the best ones..
And we just saw him in the last few months in a bunch of podcasts talking about the anniversary of In Utero. Sad news.
A few thousand likes on Twitter isn't all that many
Yes, at least with the right guardrails. The fact that my law abiding neighbor can own a grenade launcher (You actually can legally own a Grenade Launcher with the right paperwork) wouldn’t bother me any more than an aggressive SWAT cop doing a pre-dawn raid on someone’s house.

If you want to own anti aircraft weapons sure, maybe with a license and a background check. If spending a few million $$$ to explode things in the desert is your jam you should be able to do it. Maybe you could even open source it and help develop better weapons for people in Ukraine or whatever.
very useful - I find a lot of audio SR (compression) algos to sound really bad - likely just because of the loss functions and/or eval metrics are 'inhuman'.
Map matching to a road network might be helpful here. For example, a Hidden Markov Model gives good results. See for instance this paper:

"Hidden Markov map matching through noise and sparseness" (2009)

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
I assume the comment was deleted for pointing out it’s a sterilized version of 4chan’s “goyslop” which refers to meritless, poorly made, post-Obama modern media like what you would see on Netflix, and not AI.
I’m just saying that compared to only a few months ago, everything seems to have stagnated. There used to be a lot more news and things getting released left and right.
Time series data are inherently context sensitive, unlike natural languages which follow predictable grammar patterns. The patterns in time series data vary based on context. For example, flight data often show seasonal trends, while electric signals depend on the type of sensor used. There's also data that appear random, like stock data, though firms like Rentech manage to consistently find unlerlying alphas. Training a multivariate time series data would be challenging, but I don't see why not for specific applications.
Catching cheaters in games might seem like a good use.
Bountylist – A list of short-term, high-impact projects for hackers
https://stuffyoushouldknow.com/episodes/ has an episode "Wireless Electricity" (February 29, 2024) discussing the history and current progress. Could be a billion dollar company but you'd need customers who pay magnitudes as much for electricity.
Sounds like they want people to fund their romantic idea of what an author is.

> ... and our dreams of being an author will be realized. Alas, that’s all it is. A dream.

You wrote a book, you published it (?), you're an author. If you mean a famous and/or well-off author, then say that instead. I write because I love writing.
It's worth pointing out that Google wasn't really moonshot stuff.

It was a search engine, and there were other search engines. already.

Then it became an advertising network before IPO, to make the $$. There were other ad networks already.

The key thing is that they were able to invest heavily in infrastructure to do... big stuff... for many years before IPO. Like, boatloads of fiber, data centres, expensive employees, R&D.

That money also let them make a superior UX that didn't dump crap in your face, which then acquired customers.

I kind of wonder if the time might be ripe for new social networks to replace Facebook, Twitter, etc. that would be to existing "social media" what Google was to Yahoo or AltaVista or Lycos. Not garbage. Not in the way. Seemingly (for a time) ethical. User focused. Working with some new metaphors. Moderated. Civil.

Facebook used to be a place to connect with friends and family. A thing that took the place of MySpace, Friendster, etc. and rapidly blew up because it was a way to get a hold of people and stay connected.

Now it's ... something else. (I won't waste time here explaining why it is hot garbage now).

I just don't know how that makes money without taking the same crappy path that FB did. But, Google also didn't know how it was going to make money.
Of course Google is. That's what Gemini Nano is for.
That's the one thing missing from all online right now but it's completely killed because the team I'm on doesn't have any other developers on my team in my city so any whiteboarding has to take place online and we don't have smartboards or something like that that can do whiteboarding well online. The closest we use is Mural but that's not quite as easy or good.
We can't tailor every feature to the widely disparate preferences of so many developers nor do we try to convince every last developer of the merit of our approach -- this is both impractical and a losing strategy. Rather, we rely on our experience designing a highly successful language and platform, and consult with companies -- each employing thousands of Java developers -- and authors of some of the most popular relevant Java libraries to ensure that we meet their requirements. Of course, we also look at what other languages have done and the tradeoffs they've accepted (some of which may not be appropriate for Java [1]), but there are always many possible designs and we don't adopt one from a less successful language just because it, too, has its fans.

I would encourage those who think that we're consistently making suboptimal choices for Java compared to choices made by significantly less successful languages to consider whether it is possible that their preferences are not aligned with those of the software market at large. Java is and aims to continue being the world's most popular language for serious server software, and that requires tailoring designs to a very large audience.

I always notice a certain lack of respect on forums such as HN for the world's most consistently successful and popular languages -- JS, Java, and Python. Different programmers have different preferences and I'm all for rooting for the underdog now and again, but you simply cannot consistently make wrong decisions over a very long period of time and yet consistently win. What we do may not be everyone's cup of tea (no language is), but it is clearly that of a whole lot of people. We work to offer value to them.

[1]: E.g. the design of native interop has significantly impacted that of user-mode threads (or lack thereof: https://github.com/dotnet/runtimelab/issues/2398) in both .NET and Go, and we weren't willing to make such tradeoffs in either performance or programming model.
It's a shame performance per watt doesn't double every 2.6 years for modems and screens.
Would anyone more familiar with the field be able to provide some cursory resources on the protein folding problem? I have a background in computer science and a half a background in biology (took two semesters of OChem, biology, anatomy; didn’t go much further).
You could embed the chiller in a nitrogen only environment. I am imagining a closed loop system where you are cooling/using the nitrogen on a daily basis.
Yep, you're right, they do exactly that. Apologies for the confusion.

Decompiled class file:

try {
var4 = File.createTempFile("libzstd-jni-1.5.0-4", "." + libExtension(), var0);
var4.deleteOnExit();
Thirty Jokes and Memes About All Things Programming
in a single round of digit-pair radix sorting, you can put 100 piles of ≈1000 bills each into 10×10 cubbyholes, a piece of furniture which is small enough to fit on a desk. then you need about 20 minutes to linearly search through one such pile when the dj announces a number, which is probably fast enough to win

if you have a second cubbyhole array, when you linearly search through a pile chosen from the first cubbyhole array, you can radix-sort that pile by another two digits, dividing it into piles of ≈10 bills. those piles are small enough that you can keep them sorted as you build them without much loss of efficiency, even on a computer

if you can fill the first array with 100 wallets with 10 numbered tabs each, like the tabbed dividers in a looseleaf notebook, you can divide the bills into 1000 piles on the first radix-sorting pass. in practice it might be too much work to find or make the wallets

but i think the sad thing about michael larson's story is not that he didn't know enough about computer 'science' (or, i guess, library 'science'), but that he spent more effort searching for a hack that would make hard things easy than it would have taken to do them the hard way, destroying his personal relationships in the process
steve certainly didn't hold back his contempt for the concept of a "producer", but I don't read him as disagreeing they have significant influence over the finished product. if anything, that's the core of his objection: someone other than "the artist" diluting the work, and hence why he asked to be credited as "recording engineer", if at all. the irony is that, despite his insistent denial, everyone else seems to think there is a signature "albini sound".

what has changed since he wrote that piece is that the concept of "the artist" has been heavily blurred by mainstream music that predominantly features synthesized instruments. if I'm singing words written by one person to a melody written by second over a track composed of thousands of different samples sent through various filters by a third, who is "the artist"?
I was thinking about an AI to feed you the proper Snowflake sales pitch each time a query runs expensive or fails a benchmark. At my previous org it could replace several headcount.
One of the things that helped me was to have an actual dialog with the book.

For non-fiction books, this means pushing back against claims that appear to be unsupported. When I read in a paper book I do so with a pen to make notes in it (I don't sell my books, and I obviously don't do this with library books), but ebooks just get marked up in my ebook reader and it's very nice. It's also good when reviewing a book because I can see all of my thoughts and questions and often can answer them by the end of the chapter/section/unit.

For fiction books, this ends up being a "what would I do there/what would an ordinary person do?" It's very helpful to try and place yourself in the character's shoes and see how you may have reacted differently or if you agree with the character understanding _why_ you agree with them.
How is anyone else going to know that the public key I hand them belongs to a person that satisfies whatever requirement they are checking? For example, if someone wants to verify my age, how do they know the public key I hand them belongs to a person that meets the age requirement?

Some third party is going to have to verify that that's true. Which means some third party is going to have to have access to my private data, to verify that my public key belongs to a person whose private data meets whatever requirements are being asked about. That third party will end up being a big tech company.

Your example about CAs is not relevant because CAs only need to verify that someone has control of a particular web endpoint. They don't need to verify the private information of whoever that person is. So the information they need is much less intrusive than the information a third party who is going to attest that public keys belong to people meeting things like age requirements would need to have. Yes, once a third party has attested to your age certificate, they aren't involved with how you use it--but that third party has to have a lot more private information about you to be able to make that attestation, than CAs currently have about website operators.
Thanks, but that’s not the one. It was like a pure Markdown outliner, very keyboard driven.
speaking of which, whatever happened to qualcomm's bizarre assertion that ARM was pulling a sneak move in all its new licensing deals to outlaw third-party IP entirely and force ARM-IP-only?

there was one quiet "we haven't got anything like that in the contract we're signing with ARM" from someone else, and then radio silence. And you'd really think that would be major news, because it's massively impactful on pretty much everyone, since one of the major use-cases of ARM is as a base SOC to bolt your custom proprietary accelerators onto...

seemed like obvious bullshit at the time from a company trying to "publicly renegotiate" a licensing agreement they probably broke...
But we do know why, it's just not simple. The atoms interact with one another because of a variety of fundamental forces, but since there can be hundreds of thousands of atoms in a single protein, it's plainly beyond human comprehension to explain why it folds the way it does, one fundamental force interaction at a time.
I'm sad that we're losing a lot of great designers from a company like Apple.

I feel like with Ive's exit and the exodus of many members of his team there, Apple has been too scared to evolve its industrial design language.

- The iPad Pro has looked the same since 2018, and now all iPads look just like it.

- The iPhone hasn't had a meaningful design change since the iPhone 11 in 2019.

- The MacBook Air now just looks like a skinny MacBook Pro.

I'm sure having the COO with no design knowledge heading the design team isn't doing them any favors. They're probably just sticking to what's worked to squeeze out any juice left in Ive's designs.

I was hoping they'd build a new design "era" of sorts with the release of the M1 iMac, but it feels like they've effectively given up on it. And now it stands out like a sore thumb among all these aging designs.
Awesome to hear! Looking forward to a launch -- the Waitlist form was too long to complete, need to take another LLM to fill that :)
It's also plausible the secret service doesn't want to deal with the volume of idiots that might try to create fake bills if it's made easier. If stores in Idaho are getting a flood of fake bills (even if the quality is low), the secret service is going to get a call eventually. They might prefer to keep the noise volume as low as possible so they can more easily see the serious fake bill flow and have more time to focus on that.
Xilem Releases v0.1.0
>Unlike MS that went with the Big Bang in your face approach that was oh-so successful.

It was kind of successful, touchscreen laptops see pretty big sales nowadays. I don't know what crack they were smoking with Windows 8.0 though.
As a fellow HPC user, I tried a couple of years ago to do a tricky data format conversion using these newfangled tools. I was essentially just taking a huge (multi-terabyte) 3D dataset, transposing it and changing the endianness.

The solutions I was able to put together using Dask and Spark and such were all insanely slow, they just got killed by Slurm without getting anywhere. In the end I went back to good ole' shell scripting with xxd to handle most of the heavy lifting. Finished in under an hour.

The appeal of these newfangled tools is that you can work with data sizes that are infeasible to people who only know Excel, yet you don't need to understand a single thing about how your data is actually stored.

If you can be bothered to read the file format specification, open up some files in a hex editor to understand the layout, and write low-level code to parse the data - then you can achieve several orders of magnitude higher performance.
Come now, we all know they'll just feed the résumés into an LLM which will then take all of the remote jobs itself ...
Par for the course: "A child is born with 3 legs. Therefore, humans do not have 2 legs."
You're right. But a lot of people that are good coders code for fun. But you're also right that not all those people push their code into public repositories. The same is true for mechanical engineers. They're almost always makers. Fixing stuff at home or doing projects for fun. Not always, but there's a strong correlation.

But getting people to explain projects they did and challenges they faced can still be done. We do it with people who have worked on classified stuff all the time. If you're an expert it's hard for people to bullshit you about your domain expertise. Leet code is no different. It doesn't test if you really know the stuff, it tests how well you can memorize and do work that is marginally beneficial in order to make your boss happy. Maybe that's what you want. But it won't get you the best engineers.
> there is an idea that adding any kind of technology should be avoided for recreational activities.

That's a pretty weird idea.

Skis, snowboards, or snowshoes make traveling on snow, especially downhill, much more fun.

Bicycling, rollerblading, skateboarding (basically using anything with wheels) is very commonly considered more fun than running.

Most people who swim in cold water prefer using a wet suit rather than toughing it out.

And it's pretty fun to use a boat, surfboard, or scuba gear rather than be stuck swimming without any aids.
Haha oh yeah
Oh wow, I'm only 5 minutes in and he's already said so much cool stuff that resonates with me around neomania, timelessness/the lindy effect etc (I've read too much Taleb recently). Thanks for the link!
This reminds me of the old website, "Where's George?"

Sample bill report: https://www.wheresgeorge.com/b:QZHjxdYnJ&entry=17
in 01984 the apparatus to scan them all would have cost you more than the bills
that's grounds for divorce
Hardware QA is sometimes hit and miss, but Roccat mice have a shift feature that is implemented in firmware. The same goes for their macros: their mouse emulates a keyboard at the hardware level. That way it Just Werks and you don't need some cringey gamer-themed spyware always running in the background just to make full use of it, like you do for many features with Logitech mice. My go-to atm is the Kone XP, which doesn't have as many side buttons as the Logitech G6xx mice. They do make an 'MMO mouse' with many many buttons like that called the 'Nyth'.

Unfortunately their configuration software hasn't supported macOS for a long time, but you can configure your device on a Windows VM via USB passthrough, which is what I do. Alternatively, there are also several reverse-engineered tools for configuring Roccat mice, including libratbag (and the older roccat-tools) for Linux and roccat-iokit for macOS, if you'd be interested in either choosing a model according to what's supported there or adding support for the Nyth.
Almost four hours long podcast with Steve Albini. I listened it in two parts, super interesting stuff.

https://youtu.be/QKEtP3s1FLw

Also others from that podcast are interesting if music production is somehow close to heart.

R.I.P.
> So why are you trying to enforce your standards on someone else?

Dude, he can speak all the proper English he wants. I’m not enforcing anything on anyone, I’m saying keep your nose out of other peoples grammar. You people give me a migraine daily, Jesus H Christ. I’m done here, you folks are insane.
How to handle secrets on the command line. (2021)
Sure, they may well be quantitatively better. If you were to create metrics to measure the number of mistakes or weird spots or overly annoying things, it's quite possible that the output from the algorithm could score better than human output, and the throughput would obviously be incomparable. But, whether or not something is qualitatively better is far more subjective-- it's influenced by our culture, our experiences, and everything else that creates the lens through which we see the world. Something's origin absolutely affects the way people experience it, be it a physical object, story, experience, etc. Don't get me wrong-- I realize there's real value in affordable quantity with with mediocre quality-- how many restaurants in the world are McDonald's? But then again, how many restaurants in the world aren't McDonald's? If McDonald's could sell you a ribeye comparable to Capital Grille, I'd be astonished if it put a dent in Capital Grille's bottom line. Applebees, however...
I remember some attempts to achieve that, do not have source anymore. The whole idea was to take two electrodes and grow thick forest of graphene tubes on them massively increasing surface of electrodes. But to get even close to batteries, electrolyte was necessary, however pouring electrolyte onto electrodes modified in such way caused graphene tubes to break off and create shorts. So ultimately went nowhere. Maybe if it would be possible to grow graphene in the electrolyte directly.
This is devastating. One of the best there ever was.
Surprise, surprise - when you work somebody 60-80 hours a week they don't find things fun when they get home and are just trying to recover.
Ah, thank you for clarifying, I misunderstood but still have the same curiosity about their methods .
Shopify's shares hit a 6-month low after quarterly growth slows
I may be missing something, but that seems to be an apples to oranges comparison.

How is your turn based app example analogous to a complex physics simulation? And what exactly do you consider about the app's multiplayer to be the bar?
This should use some kind of impact printer, so the vibration of it working also indicates incoming messages.
I made no such comparison.

No, it's not. Is Mono independent today?
I've never really paid all that much attention to producers, but 61, it still hits too close to home. I'm not that far behind. It kind of freaks me out that I'm hitting 60 soon.
Well... you get back what it was worth when things collapsed, not what you would have had if you had held the same asset to today. That's foregoing further profit that you could have made in a hypothetical universe.

On the other hand, they're probably using the large run-up in crypto since then to cover for the fact that they didn't recover all the assets. If they recovered one third of the crypto, but crypto is now worth three times as much, then they can make it look equitable in dollars. Or, they could not bother, and just say, "we only recovered a third of the assets; here's your pro-rated piece".
Are you thinking of Bike?

https://www.hogbaysoftware.com/bike/

(Maybe not — this isn’t markdown first; but it is a very macOS-y, keyboard driven, hierarchical outliner that I enjoy.)
Steve Albini, Influential Producer of '90s Rock and Beyond, Dies at 61
Improving my self-hosted scrobbling implementation
Xerox PARC, ETHZ, DEC Olivetti, Microsoft Research, Genera, and even Bell Labs had another understanding of systems programming.
That’s a good point, each individual sort probably takes only slightly longer than just looking through them for the number. So the actual sorting might not really add much time at all
Beware that reasoning. We only knew about the holocaust very late into the war and there were denials just as you claim right now.

And indeed, when the Nazi's were losing they tried quite hard to hide the evidence, however it was so total and immutable in many cases that it could not be hidden, mostly because the allied powers controlled their lands and had free access to their previously governed population..

Without such access proof rarely escapes and when it does the total brutality is considered impossible; this is exactly what happened during world war 2.
Sorry, I didn't need high quality, just in-browser, so I have no clue. ¡Buena suerte!
That setting broke a long time ago. Hasn't worked for ages, which is why people have relied on more extreme approaches like those of SteerMouse, CursorSense (same author) and LinearMouse.