skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a generalization of this idea once: not only giving freelancers equity, but giving EVERYONE equity who contributed to the success of the company. For a while, during my 2nd startup attempt, I carried a little paper notebook and documented anyone who helped me. (Alas, I did not raise funding the world was not ready for mobile search in 2004...)
> Taxing the super-rich might be admirable from a jealousy point of view.

It has nothing to do with jealousy and everything to do with fairness and limiting the concentration of power.
Definitely agree with the author on this one in the general sense of programing is an act[1] of defining ontologies and programmers who are aware they're doing this can be more effective. Likely because doing anything deliberately is more effective.

What I wish he touched on is indiscernibility of identicals. That is, drawing a comparison between the idea that we can perceive two object having the same color that have two wildly different spectral distributions we can, also have two objects that are indistinguishable based on identical relations.

"Where does 'green' occur?" is a perfectly valid question for green objects. If we insist that green is an essential characteristic of the object, then why is it that one object emitting 525nm light and another emitting both 450nm and 575nm light are both the same color? It would seem as though green isn't an essential characteristic of the object and instead it's a characteristic of perception. Ie: green objects are perception-interchangable.

Similar to perception-interchangability is duck typing. Ie: if a thing is in all ways that matter, perceived the same as another, then they can be substituted. Though one does have to rather careful about what actually matters lest they find themselves in a plucked chicken scenario[2] with someone trying to point out the metameric folly of comparing them to men.

1. among others

2. https://www.worldhistory.org/Diogenes_of_Sinope/
To be clear I’m nowhere close to an expert. But my reaction to that blog post is that I’m not quite sure what it’s rebutting? It seems to argue (successfully, I guess) that g isn’t some singular source of intellect that’s powering all other dimensions of intellect. I am not sure if other people believe this to be the case, but I certainly don’t, as that seems contrary to the structure of the brain itself. There is no “smartness” lobe that’s supporting the “smartness” of all the other things the brain is doing and smart people have a bigger/better smartness lobe than dumb people. That’s just not what the brain looks like.

What this blog post does say, which I believe to be true, is that intelligence on one dimension is highly correlated with intelligence on other dimensions. Not because they’re necessarily all driven by the “same source,” which seems like an implementation detail with, AFAICT, pretty much zero bearing on anything of practical concern?
it sure is huge, but it's still far from 26x
DragonCrawl: Generative AI for High-Quality Mobile Testing
Privacy oriented users are already using Linux.
100s of engineers all coding against the same Postgres database becomes a pain. Lack of decentralization leads to silly outages due to people sharing resources they really shouldn't.
Why Postgres? Just use Excel, who even needs more than a few thousand rows anyway
This Porsche doesn’t have doors or an engine. It is a tractor though: https://newsroom.porsche.com/en/products/porsche-mission-e-t...
Everything you wrote was par for the course for a private equity company (note that venture capital is a tiny subclass of private equity)

The founder kept everything because investors expect that their relationship with this person is going to continue and eventually this person is going to “make the fund” in a future venture

That’s the key thing here, as a CEO/founder if you have gotten the stamp of approval from venture/capital class (in the form of a series A conversion on a note, or some kind of liquidity event), as long as you’ve pledged allegiance to returning investors capital above all things, you can “fail” a lot actually, and it’s pretty much ok as a writedown.

Provided that you keep investors legally at the front of the line, they will be willing to continue to invest in you.

This is why you see all these people put “serial founder” in their bios, they want to signal that they are a reliable person for finance to come to
The primary use case is not analytics. This data store is the system of record in their credit card authorization and billing pipeline, and so it has extreme consistency requirements. The lion’s share of its engineering is to provide consistency across a large spectrum of failure modes.

Old data could probably live at lower cost in a data warehouse, but then developers would have multiple systems and namespaces to deal with in order to query on transactions.
Whether Israel is an apartheid state or not is a controversial topic and far from settled. Palestinians are not getting the same rights as Israeli citizens because they don't have Israeli citizenship, just like in any other country. The discrimination is based on citizenship status and not on race. Arab Israelis have the same rights as Jewish Israelis.
Juxtaposition and equation are different. The press release makes very clear which charges apply to which parties—the charges against the Hamasnikim are quite different from those against Israeli leaders. It also makes clear that the principle of subsidiarity of course applies.

If you think the prima facie case against Bibi and Gallant is convincing, the Israeli AG is quite plausibly doing so little that subsidiarity is no longer engaged. If you think it is unconvincing, as you say, the problem is not some inappropriately symmetric ignoring of subsidiarity but that the charges themselves are unconvincing.

A final point is that the Rome Statute does not prohibit merely ‘orders of directly targeting civilians’, and so other potential crimes must be considered. These include ‘cruel treatment as a war crime contrary to article 8(2)(c)(i); [e]xtermination and/or murder contrary to articles 7(1)(b) and 7(1)(a), including in the context of deaths caused by starvation, as a crime against humanity; [and o]ther inhumane acts as crimes against humanity contrary to article 7(1)(k)’. Of course, you may think that Khan has jumped the gun on each of these in that each of these charges is also implausible, but that is a stronger position than doubting that there were orders to directly target civilians.

(edit: I should add that Khan [I imagine] and I would say that while subsidiarity may not preclude proceedings against Israeli officials because of Israeli inaction, Hamasnikim are not subject to anything that remotely resembles a judicial system worth the name, so there is nothing comparable to even fail to act.)
Opera also had a mode where it reflowed individual div's to fit the screen, without reflowing the entire page. I remember looking for an alternative browser with this feature back when, but never finding one
> What else can Biden say in this situation? He cannot both assent to the validity of the ICC charges and continue negotiating with Israel for things like US-built supply piers on Gaza's seafront. You can't really do diplomacy wth a world leader while at the same time saying (or implying) that they belong in the Hague.

He doesn't have to do diplomacy with them. He could call their bluff. He could unilaterally start delivering food and dare anyone to stop him. If Israel starts killing "3-5x as many civilians" he could declare war on Israel.

All of these are things he could do. Won't. But could.
Please, feel free to circle back and respond once your life amounts to something truly meaningful.

I'm looking forward to you spending the rest of your life wallowing in misery so you can "accomplish" less than your adversaries and die an even less-remembered figure than the one guy who played second-fiddle to Jobs.

This is what you want, right?
I lost interest in Sci Am in the late 1980s when they got bought by a German publishing conglomerate and started printing articles with process color instead of spot. For about a decade they were really struggling with the monthly columns like The Amateur Scientist and various replacements for Martin Gardener's Mathematical Recreations column.

I noticed they were "too woke" at least five years ago, like a lot of conservative commentators the authors of this article come across as slow on the draw. I see it as mildly annoying, like an obnoxious character in an anime that you might still watch anyway, not an existential threat to western civilization.
> If leetcoding or requiring some specific knowledge is too much for candidates, those employers will not be able to find enough talent, so they will be forced to lower their standards and the mismatch should be gone, right?

I'd revisit any train of thought that conflates access to capital with wisdom or intelligence. If someone invents a money printer then everything they do afterwards will be seen in a post hoc ergo propter hoc light as long as the original money printer still works.

For example, your statement assumes feedback loops I see scant evidence for in real life.
> can't do apartheid and democracy at the same time

You very obviously can, given 18th-century America and ancient Athens were democracies despite slavery and male-only suffrage.
Do you believe that you could implement the Airbnb interface without any CSS or Javascript?
> then tell me how you do it

The way Israel is doing it. There is no pretty, hygienic way to fight an existential conflict, which is what this is.
The concept of "components" is borne out of developers wanting to "engineer" the generation of HTML, CSS and JS. Those are the core building blocks of the web.

"Back in my day we used <table> for layout." - Me (Oh the horrors of that)

Component driven development goes all the way back to things like Visual Basic development of apps on Windows platforms (like Windows 3.11) or the equivalent on Apple back then. We have taken a document driven technology that was HTML docs linking to other HTML docs and bastardized it into building applications with heavy UX/UI requirements that replaced the VB apps and mainframe green screens of their days. I'm not dissing it, I've spent a career building web apps with it, it just was not the intended use of HTML.

There have only been a couple of technologies in the last 25+ years that I remember where components really were a first class citizen and those were when it was not HTML/CSS and it was the browser ceding control to something else like Java Applets or Flash. I haven't paid attention to WASM but I was thinking something similar would come out of that where you could use the web as a delivery platform and ignore HTML/CSS for the most part and leave that for docs.

The pendulum is swinging back towards more server-side rendering.
Someone convince me that Microsoft isn't just some giant practical joke.
Not any more dangerous than any other technical choice.
I thought the same way. But I learned that you are allowed to re-post if your post didn’t get much traction.
> I'm more angry about how it forces itself into the top of the page, causing the actual search results to be forced further down the page.

Just scroll down? Is it that hard?
A single state solution is the only long term solution. Unless we accept that ethnostates are good for everyone. Israel will have a hard time bringing in the Palestinians, but the US created reservations and the native American population isn't trying to kill everyone else. Israel needs to learn by doing it that diversity is their strength.

Prosperity can do a lot towards killing the shared stories that cause people to want to go kill the people in the neighboring country. Grandpa's story about losing his home won't be as stirring when you're not being bombed and starved by the same group of people who stole Grandpa's home. Especially when they give back Grandpa's home.
> promoted to L6

Reading that just sounds so dystopian
I'd say the latter. Though I do try and keep it polite when talking to people about my work. I think that more people should be more willing to talk about the powers that be and the way they're acting toward their users.
Modular phones is a good solution. There have been a few genuine
attempts [0] - and a big win is for the environment too because
modular designs are repairable.

I don't much buy the "slippery slope" argument for not offering a
basic voice only phone, because there is a large demand for it
according to article which I take as the premise for the discussion.

The reality is that one cannot make a smartphone "as dumb as you
want". Well, technically I can, but I don't know many other people who
have a x100 bench microscope and SMD soldering gear to rework
chips. Hardware capability is the key demand here because one
fundamentally cannot trust software as it is today. Also, even if
disabled in the OS, many potentially insecure and power-hungry
subsystems remain active.

Modular phones will need to mature somewhat to meet these new needs.
It's high time that physical standards for modules were solid, but in
Europe we will see interoperability and environmental regulations make
that a reality.

Expect to see adding cameras, Bluetooth, GSM and memory be as easy as
flipping in a SIM. The environment and all cellphone users will thank
us for that.

[0] https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/modular-phones-roundup/
Experiments with Swapping Autoencoder
I remember that study with mice where some mice were kept in a simple environment, while others had a rich environment with all kinds of things like a mouse wheel.

when the mice died, the simple environment mice had lots less interconnected neurons in their brain than the complex environment mice.

turns out it wasn't the complex environment that caused the brain development, it was the exercise wheel.
Yep, easy to google, I'm not sure why folks want us to summarize and explain it all here for them. It's been going on for years and when you have stuff like that, you unfortunately tend to find a reason to use it.
I would much rather inherit and optimize someone's postgres DB with specific scaling challenges than a prematurely optimized multi-database solution built for "web scale".
I think that's unlikely to be true. I think it's a self-serving western myth that Israel, with one of the largest economies and the best trained and resourced military in the region (see the Arab States performance vs. the IRGC in Syria and Yemen for counterexamples) is a US-dependent proxy. The west tried to ice Russia out of supplies for the Ukranian invasion, and that didn't work despite near-unanimity. Israel will just buy bombs from China, which is their next largest trading partner after us. We will lose all influence over Israeli policy, at least until [insert US partisan political argument here].

(I also think it's not at all clear that serious policymakers in Israel "want Gazan land", let alone need it; the messianic nutballs bolstering Netanyahu's coalition are, to put it mildly, not representative of mainstream Israel policy thinking.)

A reminder that we're just talking about this stuff here; this is HN, not the UN Security Council. If we're going to have threads like this here, we're going to have to accept that we're having curious conversations, not high-stakes deliberations. So: I can be wrong about all of this stuff, and I'm glad to hear why. But we're not going to solve Israel/Gaza on a thread.

(You didn't say anything to prompt that disclaimer, it's just a stress reaction from previous threads).
they've been doing it already since the M1...

on device OCR and photoshop filters using onboard NPU cores
The better comparison is between Hamas and the current Israeli executive branch, not the state of Israel per se. Even so, I see no equating the two. The ICC is implicating both parties with war crimes, not claiming they are equal
The F-35 program also comes to mind. Or the high speed train effort in California coming in at 10x the price per mile compared to European equivalents..
I'm hoping for the hand terminals from the Expanse: Project images into the space around you.
Build up equity?

What are you talking about?

Explain to me the felicific calculus for determining grandparent equity in the year 1375
Where big iron might be something between a raspberry pi with an NVMe hat and a gaming PC.

My 6th gen i5 (4 cores) can render ~15k page views per second with database queries, or several times that serving cached pages from nginx. 150 requests/second wouldn't be noticeable if I were using it for gaming at the same time.
I'm not very familiar with how US politics works internally, but how would it play out in practice? My experience with my (admittedly flawed) government is that the head of such agency would be dismissed from his position, and a new - more amicable - one appointed not long after. Are the US different?
I ended up in the same E.R. several months apart for the same thing. Other than an MRI the first time, identical treatment, prescriptions and length of stay.

First time: Over $11,000

Second time: Under $900
Does the Airbnb interface need to be implemented at all?
Democracy is a gift that keeps on giving.
I think you have to take under consideration that Hamas has been attacking Israel for decades with little repercussions. I think they crossed a redline and convinced Israel much worse than a few rockets being lobbed over the wall was the future and Israel answered them with the only thing that Hamas understands, annihilation. I'm still convinced that Israel does not want civilian casualties of regular, non Hamas aligned Palestinians, because they absolutely would be killing a lot more of them if that was the case. War is hell and the West has forgotten that since WW2.
GPS Jamming Explained [video]
> All the toxins in the food chain end up in the apex predators

Is there an analogy for media and information?
> Palestine is either a separate state from Israel or it isn't

I don’t believe the ICC’s jurisdiction is limited to state-on-state conflicts. The more-curious question is how the ICC is claiming jurisdiction over non-signatory nations.
I wish we would drop "eviscerate" from headline lexicon.

Imagine reading:

Edited highlights from the beheading of Craig Wright (ft.com)
Could you share a little more about your setup? I assume a linux host, and perhaps 2 GPUs with one per OS? I'm guessing it's a desktop build and not a laptop (iGPU+dGPU)?

I've really wanted to switch fully to linux, but I still use some "power" features in MS Office which apparently don't play nice on linux. Dualbooting Fedora is decent... when I can understand what's happening and don't need to go 4 layers deep every time I have a problem, unfortunately.
We cannot in fact unilaterally establish supply operations off the Gazan seafront over the objections of the Israeli leadership.
Huh? Your comment is frankly non-sensical. Witnesses/victims that appear in court are doing so on behalf of the prosecution, they aren't charged with any crime.
An Engineer's Guide to Cats (2008) [video]
> Your argument is that we should not make any improvements unless we can achieve utopia.

Not at all. As I said originally:

> I think it is a little more nuanced. While I think banks should shoulder more of the responsibility account owners also need to be invested in keeping their personal information secure.

Some of the comments on this article just strike me as quite idealistic about the ability of banks to bear full responsibility for authentication and authorisation. Practically, I think it works more smoothly when both parties are invested.
I assumed the ICC named the two opposed leaders in the same press release because the ICC had concerns about both, and it is a politically charged situation.

(If they had named only one leader in that press release, perhaps quietly expecting to name the other later, I would think that would appear to be a judgment of the multiple obvious potential concerns, and a taking of sides.)
Just some weirdness going on at Microsoft, this clearly originates from Edge.

Someone probably pushed dev/debug code to prod by accident.
> Hamas is an enemy Israel helped create.

In the sense that Israel failed to reach a stable endpoint to this conflict once before, in 2009, yes, I suppose this is true. They should have destroyed Hamas then, and they didn't. Which would suggest that Israel should finish the job this time.
The great king of klusterfuck, I agree
Technically it is a triode but that word would be misleading here since this device is more like a diode with a MOSFET like insulated gate.
Microsoft's AI chatbot will 'recall' everything you do on a PC
One of my points is that you only have 2x jobs to choose from during a certain window after you graduate. If the well you choose dries up after 8 years, many companies will no longer consider you for those same other roles that you once turned down.

I have experience in a number of disparate industries. But I can’t get jobs in fields I have years of experience in, because my resume doesn't have anything relevant to them in the past 5-10 years.

I went to school for Chemical Engineering and worked in chemical plants as an operational/improvement/projects plant engineer, working closely with plant operators, technicians, and construction crews, intimate knowledge of the “dirty stuff” - steels, pumps, motors, boilers, flares, reactors, tanks, etc. But the only jobs I’d be able to get at chemical companies today would be ones where the intersection of my chemical engineering training and more recent software engineering experience is specifically valued (desk work). I wouldn’t be able to land a plant engineer role at a chemical plant, even though I know it very well - no one will hire me to work with the tradesmen anymore.

At some point, the old wells you didn’t keep drinking from just dry up.
> him, and I don't know what became of the employees' equity. Probably nothing, given that the company had to be written down to nearly $0 for this transfer.

It is somewhat addressed (without specifics) in the article:

> We also gave a token amount of equity to alumni who worked on Gumroad from 2011-2015, without whom you wouldn’t be reading any of this. Thank you!
Just came here to say. This has become my all time favorite HN thread.
The Energy Needed to Carry a Baby
I learned about Mounjaro from TikTok, and have lost 70lbs. Likely prevented many serious health issues.
This is incorrect. They very comfortably fall within the definitions set out by ICSPCA, as detailed for example in the famous 280 page Amnesty intenational report, and also the B'Tselem rapport. This is not a matter of opinion, this is a matter of definition.
Watch how they change it again next year to dotnet (all lower case) AI core.
> That is a textbook, not research.

Where do you think textbooks come from? Have you ever looked at a textbook? Have you noticed that textbooks typically include a section called "References" (as this one does)? What do you think that is for?

> The HTML elements are broken in some of the code snippets by the way.

I know. That page was just exported from MS Word. Fixing it is not high on my priority list.

> you cannot compute without them.

What does that have to do with the fact that the article I pointed you to has neither proofs nor axioms in it?

> I think you are just incapable of reading and processing ideas from other people

> Be less obnoxious in future

Do you hear yourself?
"Researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)'s iGAN Laboratory led by Prof. Haiding Sun and other institutes in China recently developed a new three-terminal diode that can both emit and detect light."

Considering the topic of a new photo-diode, the professor's name is perhaps unfortunate.*

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpP2S6c74Ts
Don't forget "Azure Active Directory B2C".
One thing that postgres does not solve very well is reactive UIs. Postgres does have listen/notify but it requires much more boilerplate and infrastructure to set up than Firebase/Firestore. For example I'd like to be able to run a query and get notified that the results have updated when any of the affected rows change.