skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hahah, this is a great point. good to understand the meta dynamics. This is why I ask in HN!!! Hehehe :)
It's Not a Token Offering, It's a 'Node Sale': Sophon Blockchain Raises $60M
A large company I work for declined to buy licenses from a supplier that had this clause. From my understanding it's not really legal - or at worst it's a gray area - but the language is just too risky if you're not looking to be the test case in court.
I like how Acquired ventures beyond recent tech startups and discusses older and non-tech companies like Walmart [1] or Hermès [2]. Their interview with Charlie Munger [3] was a particular treat and ended up being one of his last interviews.

[1]: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/walmart

[2]: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/hermes

[3]: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/charlie-munger
Different software. They had different APIs from the programmer perspective. MacTCP was older and was based on Berkeley sockets (I think with some BSD code in the implementation?) and was somewhat primitive.

OpenTransport was fully multithreaded and based on SysV UNIX streams. Technically much superior. It has partial MacTCP API support for older apps but some programs demanded real MacTCP to work properly. I think Mac was the only place that really used Streams widely. Mac network programming in the OpenTransport days was alien from a Unix perspective.

OS X now uses sockets like everyone does these days.

Going off memory here it has been a long long time.
Founder or owner I think are the best. President is fine if you have a a couple employees, CEO I'd even be totally fine with for a small company, it just approaches cringy in my book when its founders using a corporate title that usually implies a larger organizational structure and it is really just them (a single person/no employee company).
I think the argument is that companies take longer to go public because of increased regulations due to the whole Enron thing.
A fundamental measurement for this in a modern society is payslope:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/time-to-lead/h...

and it really should be a fundamental aspect of how companies are viewed.
Same here in Europe. I dont go there anymore. The PC section was already decimated and the hardware stuff they sell is nothing more than rebadged AliExpress crap. And yea tons of merchandise.

It's not unique to GameStop, we also have a European chain called GAME which is the same. They're trying to revive themselves with second hand consoles and phones.
My take on "don't roll your own" is:

The people who take this advice are people who have respect for the difficulty of things like crypto and should be the ones implementing it, or at least on-ramped into learning how to do so.

The sorts of people who ship bad crypto because they don't bother to learn anything about the field are going to ignore this advice.

So I think as a strategy for fighting bad crypto it's neutral or maybe even net-negative by discouraging the right people from learning crypto and having no effect on overconfident fools.
Oh gosh wait until Amazon sells securities based on their v4 addresses then aggressively starts making their services v6-first lol.
Again, I think that view is US centric. Many other countries have WhatsApp as the default. I'm not even suggesting that they should have WhatsApp as the default, just describing the reality as I am seeing it. And yes even the biggest companies and government entities are using WhatsApp. When I was traveling through LATAM they were taking pictures of passports on their phones and sent off for checking via WhatsApp - a US passenger freaked out over it and I had to explain to her that this is just how it's done in LATAM.
Decline of search engines hits research
> F is a much better unit than C for everyday use.

People say this, and it confuses me.

Basically the only difference between the two is the absolute numbers and the resolution.

Regarding resolution, for me the difference between, say 22 C and 23 C isn’t consistently noticeable - it depends on what I’m wearing, my recent activity level, humidity, etc. having a finer resolution - i.e. between 72 and 73 F isn’t that useful. That is to say, I’d change my plans if it were say 8 C outside instead of 18 C, but I wouldn’t if it were 17 instead of 18.

Regarding absolute numbers - sure with Fahrenheit you don’t need to use negative numbers as much, but apparently you still need to across much of the US, and dealing with negative numbers is… fine? Having generally smaller numbers (i.e. most of Earth has natural temperatures of - 40 to +40) is probably better? And having that obvious distinction of when water freezes makes some sense maybe?

I honestly don’t thing either is particularly better for everyday use, it’s just that a lot of people are habituated to one or the other.
This is precisely the wrong way to engage with LLMs. If you are asking it 'what can be done better', it'll spit out something. That something isn't necessarily better or not because it has no concept of 'better' or 'worse'.
those are quarterly revenue numbers. they are at >1B in revenue
> That seems like a failure to define success in the first place.

You are in precise agreement with the article's own text: "So when a startup comes to me with an idea for an experiment, the one thing I tell them is: make sure that there’s a well-defined distinction between success and failure."
Okay, thank you. What is a 4x8? Is that the truck bed? Why is that important?? ha :)
I still need to get all my converted Google Domains out of Squarespace as it is... I got about 20% done a few months ago... I kind of wish the process were a little easier.
It seems to me that there are two main sources for the parent's expectation that their children should take care of them in the old age. I'm just referring to the "regular" cases here, with parents into the 80s and children past their 50s.

1) "Old fashion mentality". Usually framed as "I wiped your butt when you were a kid, now it's your time to change my diapers".

I object to #1 with "It's not the same effort to take care of a 5kg kid as of an 80kg adult". When my father had late-phase Parkinson and could hardly stand, it was almost impossible for two persons (like me and my mum) to lift him up. Doing this every day wrecks your back and physical health as well. Not to mention the mental toll. Changing their parent adult diapers is also not good for children's mental health.

2) Lack of financial resources. In the old days people had to take care of their very old parents themselves because there was noone to do it otherwise for a price they could afford.

I re-iterate, mainly there's the problem of physical strain, literally impossible to lift a full grown adult without special equipment or at least three persons without risking back injury. The rich can hire full time personnel (lifting needs to be done at night too, several times possibly), otherwise the solution is to share this hired personnel in a hospice. One can visit every day or even commit their parents only intermittently but a severely disabled adult is no baby and it's unfair ask for "duty to kill yourself" as a child taking care of one.
$16k Unitree G1 humanoid robot rises up to smash nuts, twist and twirl
Chat GPT and friends are best when you tell it to write code from scratch, even then it's only good for straight forward tasks.

Give it existing code to work with, particularly a larger code base and things get weird.

Still, I love it for hacking out small prototypes. If you don't really care about performance or best practice, it's ok.
That means the TAM is fully owned and you have to work that much harder to grab a slice.

"Competition is for losers."

I suppose if you're really passionate about the space, go ahead, but it's incredibly crowded with dozens of players. Some are even owned by the fintech giants.
Given productivity gains in industrialized society, there is no reason for why high QOL can't be sustained with a smaller percentage of the population working at any particular time.

The demographic implosion narrative is just a nativist distraction from the investment class eating all the productive surplus.
No, that definition is arbitrary.

Free will is the idea that there is a "you" and you are the author of your actions, or at least you can significantly influence your actions.

Of course, your actions are authored by the neurons in your brain but most people speak as if there is more to it than that. As if there is a "you" that exists outside the brain.
> most scrapers probably skip the .svg file

But they won't as soon as they realize it's just easy to parse text that contains data they're looking for.
And they also don't like it when that single link points to onlyfans.
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Carebit is a young, design-led healthcare technology company helping hundreds of private doctors across the UK run their practices more effectively and efficiently with our web platform, along with hundreds of thousands of their patients. For too long, medical software has been clunky, user-hostile and complicated, and we are changing that.

We are a bootstrapped, profitable and fully-remote company with an engineering team of 4. Having been remote from day 1, we believe in its benefits.

*About you*

You’ll consider yourself to be a senior level developer with solid technical ability and good communication, but what really sets you apart is your interest in product engineering (https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/the-product-minded-engine...).

Requirements:

* Proven ability to take a brief idea from a customer to a designed, shipped and tested feature that wows

* Ability to see the big picture when building a feature (e.g. how it can be made modular or flexible to accommodate changes in future, or where else could it be deployed in the Carebit application)

* 3+ years of React development & 3+ years of Ruby on Rails development (We use Rails 7.1 and Ruby 3.3)

Benefits:

* Salary in the range of £80k/$100k equivalent + annual bonus depending on experience and velocity

* Async work (minimal meetings)

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* MacBook Pro, ergonomic chair and anything else you need to do your best work

Please reach out to hiring AT carebit DOT co and introduce yourself with examples of products you have worked on - shipped or not!
They refuse to update so many hazard maps due to improved science, im amazed no ones disputed this
> In retrospect, Microsoft has been prescient in adding virtual memory to 9x

Did you mean protected memory? Didn't OS/2 have both earlier?
It isn't a free market when a government is giving billions in subsidies outside of direct to consumer subsidies for their own manufacturing products
How can Hydrogen be eco?

Isnt it extracted from fossil fuels?

How can you call hydrogen eco when it is used to keep on drilling and building new infrastructure for the fossil fuel industrial complex.
> What does a makefile look like for "install this list of dependencies with pip/homebrew/apt, and don't run it twice?"

It looks like this:

default: your_task

VENV_DIR := venv

$(VENV_DIR)/bin/python: requirements.txt
python -m venv $(VENV_DIR)
. $(VENV_DIR)/bin/activate && pip install -r requirements.txt

your_task: $(VENV_DIR)/bin/python
do_your_thing

clean:
rm -rf $(VENV_DIR)

> C and C++ compilers at this stage are the only places that I work with file based dependencies. Unless you explicitly declare all the headers as dependencies in a makefile, make won't rebuild a cpp file if you change a header. IME ninja (plus cmake to generate it) has entirely superseded make in this space. Tools and languages comes with it's own build tool (see above - go/cargo/dotnet/etc) or state tracking (docker) that break make's assumption of file based dependencies.

In our Python example above, you have a file-based dependency between requirements.txt and your virtual environment. And then you have a file-based dependency on your virtual-environment's Python for whatever task you're trying to run.

> Because every make file I've ever used in recent memory has been 30% workarounds to avoid file based dependencies, and work around subtle footguns that make has, rather than actually doing what I want it to do - execute a build command.

Why would you want to avoid expressing your dependencies? File dependencies exist, and are the simplest / most correct model for 75% of all build automation. When somebody has to sit down and read your Makefile, isn't it nice to have a way to express "these are the files that actually matter for task X"?
That's the dirty nuance of it.

One can certainly have stress or frustration based on truly perceived unfairness.

Take the case of someone who gets more test time because of a disability and the ADA.

Those who don't know the why, may find it unfair. And there may be people that perceive it as unfair despite it being overall accepted as such.

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That said your observation is also entirely true in it's own right. You can even distract from the real problem by focusing one's attention on a different unfairness, even if that unfairness impacts them less in the short and/or long term.
You can keep just saying it's impossible, but Oxfam and the UN have plans that use those two sums and claim to alleviate all non-violent causes for world hunger. The Oxfam plan also talks about plans to make the food system more resilient to effects like war.

Instead of just saying it's impossible, please look up their plan and respond to it.
Hahahaha it's a little like that except here the cheaper yacht is better.

(Dons serious hat) Since many people in our context (this thread) would consider a car something they might buy (as opposed to a yacht, I hope you would agree), to the extent that it is a purchase they are going to do anyway, for the not insignificant subset that's going to buy a new car, it's not a bad thing to save roughly $12,000 on said purchase while getting a car that's less smelly, more roomy, faster, more fun, and more safe.

If "roughly" doesn't work for you, the exact amount can be calculated during checkout at better EV purchase websites by putting in your local electricity cost, local gas cost, etc. if that's what you're asking.
Figure 3 in [1] suggests the opposite

[1] https://wid.world/document/inequality-trends-in-europe-world...
> Like what are the chances you can choose the wrong word across lets say 200 sentences, and still maintain meaning in all of those sentences?

See Harry Potter with s/wand/wang/g, for example.
That is Falcon 1, not Falcon 2.

Falcon 1 is entirely obsolete at this point, based on every benchmark I've seen.
Hugging Face launches Agents 2.0
That depends. Indian parents, even from the upper middle class don’t always save enough for retirement. They’re fine while they work but a significant number rely on their kids once they retire (with the exception of pensioners and entrepreneurs).

I would say a good 80% of Indian immigrants I know send money back to their parents every month.
There are no agile trainings, only agile indoctrinations. Not that you can't have a bit of fun with them (at your own risk).

1. Ask if they've worked as a professional software developer? If not, enjoy them squirming as you subtle question why they're trying to train in things they don't understand.

2. If they do the penny flipping excerise, when it's your turn sweep all the pennys into a book, close the book, and flip it over and sweep the coins back out. You'll do the exercise 10 times faster than your coworkers and show them innovation is more important than agile.

3. When the agile training talks about splitting work down into small bits, as them what happens if there's a large chunk of work that can't be split down and has to be done in a large serial chunk. Think of as many examples as you can of this in the real world, and generally be a skeptical jerk when they tell you that any task can be broken down into tiny bits. If they're not technical, make sure you pick the most technical examples as possible, to further erode their credibility.

4. Bring a tub of single cell legos with you, and if they do the Lego excerise, ask them what to do if your team is given a tub of these and the other team (or your competition) is allowed to have broad-stretching legos.
Is there a calendar date at which you will concede to the claim that the base idea is simply false?
Designing it is easy and always has been. Programming it is the bottleneck. Otherwise Nvidia wouldn't be in the lead.
The misspelling in the title of an article about how documentation doesn't have to suck made me actually laugh out loud.

Having documentation use correct grammar and spelling is an important part of making documentation not suck. Encountering poor grammar or spelling in documentation makes people trust the documentation less, and discourages people from referring to it to get answers to questions.
On climbing Annapurna with an all-women team, one of the 10 highest and most difficult peaks in the world.

www.traditionalmountaineering.org/News_ArleneBlum.html
I’ve talked a lot about propaganda as a war invention, like many great technological advancements, found its way into these civilian systems. Capturing mindshare with propaganda is basically what this is.

Marketing is the commercial term (brand ambassador, Orwell sleeps soundly). Propaganda has a lot more coercive connotations.
How do modern foundation models avoid multi-layer perceptron scaling issues? Don't they have big feed-forward components in addition to the transformers?
Similar here, but mailu (docker-compose) setup... which works very well, aside from deliverability issues to some outlook.com domains. Gmail, and most others (even other MS domains) deliver fine.
How will they know you're using it?
Would love to see a Mac Pro with 8 of these…
One bank's brilliant upgrade was another bank's crash
My literal life goal is to have a software startup with moderate success WITHOUT VC funding. One that can sustain my lifestyle, but also keep me busy and happy without going completely overboard.
I was part of some social computing facilities and burnt my own and friends’ money to offer basic stuff for people to publish basic html pages, small twitter like service, one nextcloud and one invidious instance. Within weeks, nextcloud was filled with pirated content sharing, html pages were hosting fake bank login phishing pages and moderation became horror. Our colo provider sent us some written warnings to sort this out immediately.

While I still inspire to launch a twitter 1.0 plain old less featured version, but the thought of moderation kills my motivation immediately. :(

There are still public computing facilities here, like sdfeu, envs.net etc, am not sure how they handle the moderation of spam and pirated content attack.
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Time-restricted eating linked to 91 per cent higher risk of cardiovascular death
I find that extraordinarily cute.
>Ultimately, planned parenting is a selfish act.

I agree, but with the exception that parenting adopted children is not selfish
I don't know about that. Some people absolutely, but most people just want to belong to something and be a valued contributor. Like I really don't care about having the biggest house on the block, but some people having huge places and others stuck in tiny studios rankles me quite a bit.
Yes, MacTCP support is absolutely doable. It's a question of free time and priorities.
Well it certainly correlates with the rise of Zuckerberg and other SM ...
Hm, there's that, sure. But I get it physically tho, too. I actually feel this: the pumping. It's only a certain type of focus tho. You may not yet have attained it, or perhaps not everyone is physically capable. But I'm happy to try to teach you to do it: reach out to me heh :)
Study finds remarkably high levels of lead in locks of Beethoven's hair
Expandable VRAM on GPUs has been tried before - the industry just hates it. It's like Apple devices - want more internal storage? Buy a new computer so we can have the fat margins.

The original REV A iMac in late 90s had slotted memory for its ATI card, as one example - shipped with 2mb, could be upgraded to 6mb after the fact with a 4MB SGRAM DIMM. There are also a handful of more recent examples floating around.

While I'm sure there are also packaging advantages to be had by directly soldering memory chips instead of slotting them etc, I strongly suspect the desire to keep buyers upgrading the whole card ($$$) every few years trumps this massively if you are a GPU vendor.

Put another way, what's in it for the GPU vendor to offer memory slots? Possibly reduced revenue, if it became industry norm.
Honey, I Love You. Didn't You See My Slack About It?
Legally, yes. But the government does not break the encryption. Neither your favourite online provider. You just agreed to let them spy on you (TOS) and gave them access to your passwords.

Yes, they (companies) promise they won't sell your data and only give it to government with a warrant.
> I was traveling through LATAM they were taking pictures of passports on their phones and sent off for checking via WhatsApp - a US passenger freaked out over it and I had to explain to her that this is just how it's done in LATAM.

You had a mid-sized to corporate business sending passports over WhatsApp? I highly doubt that.

This is not even coming from a “US-centric” view. This is coming from a “that will never pass any sort of compliance or hell corporate governance” sniff test.
Internet access linked to higher wellbeing, study finds
I think 0.99% fixed over 72 months is pretty darn good.
I can’t remember the exact phrase but McLuhan talks about the “literate man” (or something) in a way that makes it sound like we have modern brain software, not better or worse, merely adapted for a certain environment.

I like the idea that we’ve lost touch with certain faculties, and they’re still there, waiting to be rediscovered, if only we can cut through the all the software that we’ve installed for writing book reports.
No. M1/2/3 has data memory-dependent prefetcher[0] which can speculatively chase pointers in contiguous memory ranges, reducing indirection cost provided the data there is homogenous, looks like pointers and prefetch attempts are successful per cache line. It also has extra good indirect load predictor.

These have little to do with memory packaging and a lot to do with cache and prefetching architecture.

It does have one of the lowest latencies for atomics[1][2] which is something Swift cares about, but the overall core design just as much benefits other, less indirection and synchronization heavy languages (side note: Swift and Java are closer with each other in defaulting to virtual dispatch, where-as C# sits in the middle of the road with static dispatch by default but some code heavily using interfaces and virtual methods which do make such calls virtual to an extent (JIT has DPGO to devirtualize, AOT can uncoinditionally devirtualize in certain scenarios too, similar to what Swift's WMO does)).

[0] https://gofetch.fail/files/gofetch.pdf

[1] https://dougallj.github.io/applecpu/measurements/firestorm/D...

[2] https://dougallj.github.io/applecpu/measurements/firestorm/C...
> Of course, you can get around production problem by buying used items. I could go to thrift stores and consignment shops and try to find the few things with all natural fibers, and just wear those, and I could learn how to mend and patch them so they don't have to be tossed as they start to wear out, as natural fibers so easily do.

> I could do that, but I have not done that. Why not? I could say I've been busy, a stock answer that is also true, but I think the real reason goes deeper. The truth is that I avoid natural fabrics because I think they won't look good on me.

> Natural fibers are mostly non-stretchy. I'm not super curvy, but I am moderately curvy. My experience with natural fabric clothing is that it either hangs like a giant pillowcase over my body or it bunches and binds in the ugliest way around my breasts, hips, and stomach.