skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article strikes me as somewhat OK but overly critical of the MIT startup and overly forgiving of the Stanford startup.

Also prior to the mid 1990s it seems like the Stanford startup thing really hadn't begun yet. You look at the old guard of SV companies and they operated much more like east coast culture. To me it seems like the modern "Stanford startup" culture arose from VC money from the investors who made tons of money in the first .com boom.

As someone who has spent my entire career in the Boston area (but have worked for SFBA HQed companies too) my perception has been that the MIT influence and the general cultural difference has some of the following elements:

- East coast is much more conservative in business approach

- Fake it till you make it is far less common here

- For a long time it was unheard of for a Boston area company to try and go public or seek an exit without showing a sustainable, profitable business model

- Companies here are basically never founded on breaking the law and hoping you become too big to fail and the law has to be changed

- Way less focus on consumer tech here

- Way less adtech influence (but that has grown)

- Way less tech businesses based on trying to ruin traditional jobs and way less focus on trying to convert people to gig jobs.

Some of the sports betting tech is here which is a black eye on the area IMO.

There is some stuff in the Theranos vein that just seems like it would be very hard for it to have happened on the east coast.

But over time now the east coast is being influenced by the Stanford culture and things are getting a little less conservative and a little more likely to be get-rich-quick and/or shady.
Standardization was an option, but it took laws to actually force the inevitable refuseniks (like Apple) to the table.
'Shocking': The fall of Third Street Promenade, Calif.'s once-vibrant mall
I have noticed this a lot with open source projects, for some reason they seem to be against any amount of meaningful screenshots in the documentation.

I think we can accept that the screenshots may at some point be slightly out of date and won't always be updated for an open source project unless there is a major change.

But we can't treat a GUI based application like we do a CLI one. They also don't have to be super professional screenshots like I see on some projects. Just some simple screenshots so I can at a glance see if it is something I care to try to download and setup.
Most search engine popping up are just a rebranding of bing and yandex. There is a good article about it: https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-...

Regarding your question of cost, if you buy the cheapest hardware possible, and manage it yourself, because you don't want to pay AWS' premium, for storage (again, assuming to discard 90% of the pages, and only do english) you'll be at least at €80k (12 × €3000 disk servers with 300 × €150 HDDs) of upfront cost, then, if you colocate at Hetzner, just for storage, you'll bet at €500/month + ~€3k of electricity that you need to pay yourself.

My gut feeling is that this would cost (only 10% of the English-speaking web) ~€150k of upfront cost and €5k/month to run. Assuming you buy the cheapest everything, and do your own admin sys. And this is not forecasting growth, serving ads, etc...
I heard that already over 10 years ago. Are we just going to keep at it because of sunken costs?

Also having a parallel system on the side would be fine. Just something more efficient and with types please!
Why certain rhythms make us want to dance
Yes... my new favorite use of ublock origin is to find the selector around the little sparkle icon that let's you autoreply "sounds good!" and banish it from my site.
Legend... thanks for looking into this, I am now less paranoid :)
Absolutely. Replicating the way humans do it is also going to replicate the failure modes (optical illusions, crappy low light performance, etc.)
Generation isn't less useful, it is less autonomous than it seems. You need to impose a process on generations, and generate inside a framework. Think about humans - the best authors and artists have a methodical process for producing and refining their work, and if you forced them to just generate stuff with no process in 1 shot they would probably produce sub-standard output. No surprise machines that aren't at our level fare no better given the same conditions.
I can only fully agree.

been using it for years

Android 14 on my old 2018 Oneplus 5T.

Privacy and Freedom is that too much to ask.
Got it, now I understand. I agree that it is trivial, but I don't think it is meaningless.

> telling legislators then "the first thing you need to understand is that guns will still exist" is true in a meaningless way that doesn't convey anything

I disagree: if the legislators vote those laws and then tell the police and the military that criminals will never have guns again, then I think it would be worth letting them know that guns will still exist. Again: trivial, but not meaningless.

> "if it's still technically possible it's not worth/possible to outlaw"

Right, I understand your point here, and that's not what I meant. I just meant that some politicians sound like they believe that people have to go to a specialized store and present an ID to get access to E2EE. And with this vision of the world, I understand that they may consider the benefits of "enforcing strict E2EE laws". But that's not how it works (and in that sense it's pretty different from guns), and they need to understand it.
Sorry, I'm not following. I don't bike as much lately, but I was an ardent cyclist here for more than a decade. If I won't trust a vehicle as a pedestrian, where speeds are lower and I'm more maneuverable, I'm going to trust it even less as a cyclist in traffic. So if bryanlarsen thought the cyclist comparison to be unfavorable to Waymo, then I'm agreeing. But I think he thought it would be favorable, and I'd disagree on both counts.
It's a bit heavy, but I've liked Tabby outside Windows a bit... I really like the new Windows terminal from MS, but it's Windows only, Tabby is about the closest I've found to it.
So you're focusing on the memory model. To which I'll say, it's not the language but it's the _machines_ that have SMP so effects will be visible out of order. The machines provide you with escape hooks to serialize read and write effects, and the language must give you access to these hooks because if the language opts to keep up the illusion of all sequential effects even in the face of SMP, it has to do so by serializing basically all memory accesses, which is going to be incredibly slow.

That code doesn't appear to be sequential from other threads is not the language's fault. It's just a fact of reality.

If you don't want to do SMP / lock-free programming, you don't have to pay for the complexity. You can still write "sequential programs" like it's K&R. Don't do multiple threads, and you don't have to care. You can also do multiple threads but use mutexes for synchronisation, everything will be fine.

Pretty much nobody uses restrict or volatile. There is some fringe stuff that is obsolete and maybe badly designed, but by and large you don't have to use it or interact with it. Compare this to other languages / ecosystems which have this amount of cruft times 100.

It's still this language where you can define a struct, then define a function that receives a pointer to the struct, and it does as you say, and you can actually read and understand the code a month later.

If you need to go fancy for a reason or another (most likely a bad reason), you can do that too, and of course you'll have to pay for it. But most likely, the complexity is not "cancerous" -- define a simple function interface with the most basic assumptions you require, and the complexity is pretty much isolated behind a simple pointer to an opaque structure.

> So C11 definitely isn't the simple language for a 1970s computer any more. C11 is a competitor with C++ or today Rust. And it doesn't fare so well by that comparison.

That's ridiculous and you know it.
Stanford isn't a finance school. CS and Human Bio/Pre-Med have been the 2 biggest undergrad majors on campus for a decade+ now.

Finance is an East Coast and Chicago thing placement wise, because West Coast High Finance collapsed in 2008.
New robotic palm uses sophisticated tactile sensors to mimic human touch
It doesn’t sound like her
Basically, you invented "remote" :)
This comment could read as provocative but it is not intended to be. It’s a genuine question:

Lisp seems to get outsized attention on HN. If Lisp is so good, why isn’t its use more widespread?

*Maybe it’s disproportionate attention on HN is just a pg remnant?
It's such a huge problem that it's only brought up in the context of someone (probably) doing exactly what it's designed to prevent... By some miracle, this actually isn't used to outlaw satire or put Elvis impersonators out of work. It's used to prevent people from implying endorsement where none exists.
This was such a poorly written opinion piece that I wouldn't be surprised if someone with a large GOOG-TSLA options spread commissioned it as a hit piece. It just repeats the fact that Waymo uses remote operators over and over, completely ignoring the fact that Tesla uses a local operator - the driver that takes control when it disengages. Its the same class of data being collected either way. The rest of the article read like ChatGPT generated fluff to make it longer, without real substance. It does make excellent engagement-bait, I'll give it that.
Interesting. Does this apply to the people making 5-6 figures on paid interview prep sites?
TikTok employees are the latest victims of the tech layoffs
The push to ban ransom payments is gaining momentum
Sometimes it is the second mover in a market that wins for this very reason.

For example, say Waymo does all of the hard work of establishing regulations and making all the big mistakes. Tesla then comes in later and is able to benefit from Waymo's public lessons. Because Tesla can set a direction more clearly, they might leapfrog Waymo.
Using firefox on a mac is basically enough to put me as all time unique on that site.
The closest thing is a Discord server linked in this post: https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-devlog-003

Beta invites are nearly random, though.
The Bavarian constitution says:

"All parts of the great outdoors, in particular forests, mountain pastures, rocks, wastelands, fallow land, floodplains, riparian strips and agricultural land, may be entered by anyone free of charge."

(Though you can't camp there like in Norway)
Yoto! looks interesting. My nephew got a Voxblock [0] for Christmas and loves it.

Practical and easy. It's not interactive and you can buy an wide collection of audio books (made with recycled cardboard) and listen to it with headphones

[0] https://voxblock.co.uk/
Honestly pal, I really appreciate you trying! I’m one of very few people strange enough to care about the minutiae of this. I’m grateful that you jumped into my weird rabbit hole with me for awhile. It was kind of you to try to help me.
Teslas Can Still Be Stolen with a Cheap Radio Hack–Despite New Keyless Tech
Let's not pretend the UK state does not abuse its powers to target journalists. Just ask Ernest Moret [1] or Craig Murray [2].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jul/21/police-watch...

[2] https://www.thenational.scot/news/23864847.craig-murray-deta...
Right. The OP title is: "I want flexible queries, not RAG". I didn't write the article, btw!
> A web app added to the home screen with one click can thus request permission to deliver push notifications. The only requirement: this request must be made in direct user interaction → for example, through a "Subscribe" button provided by the web app.

Interesting. How is that constraint enforced?
Yeah, thanks for watching! :)
My not-sufficiently-informed opinion is in agreement with yours. Do you have any studies that we can use to compare shootings versus violent crime rate on public transit?

A quick Google search revealed some data collected by the US government on the topic.

https://www.bts.gov/content/reports-violent-crime-property-c...
As the article explains, Apollo was cheaper per mission than this.
Doesn't really matter if you can block the ads anyway

Besides, advertisers are not who i worry about when it comes to "my data".
Wait, what -- you were talking about the space-semicolon bit?

And here I was agreeing... But that was because of the "i = i".
The IHC Damage
That only applies to platforms on which those utilities already run. We are talking about portability here, so that means Windows, and those utils don't run on Windows. So you're left with git bash, which isn't bash and isn't running the same utilities; and WSL, which requires installing an entire operating system.

So I ask again, why does targeting bash offer a better portability story than say the JVM?
I'm questioning the fate of lunch (morning here)
It seems very much like a nuclear bomb used to go hunting for deer. I'm sure it will be useful to some, but it's the sort of specialized activity that is better left to extensions, particularly when they carry heavy infrastructural burdens that are then paid by everyone.

Chances that someone went "how can I justify playing with the new shiny?" are very, very high. Responsible leadership should take away the toys before they do something stupid.
Oil shell requires osh to run. That means that you can't run Oil scripts on systems that only have Bash installed.
>Does any other country have such a massive increase in universities?

The increase in university provision and the percentage of young people who go on to university is a world-wide phenomenon: https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/eag_highlights-2014-...

The new universities provide exactly the same kind of value that the old ones do, so I'm not sure why it's difficult to see what that value is (unless you just think universities in general are pointless). Countries should invest heavily in their comparative strengths. By any measure the UK punches hugely above its weight in global higher education. It's short-sighted beyond belief to throw that advantage away simply because some universities (a minority in fact) do not turn a profit in the simplistic sense that, say, a lemonade stand does. Moreover, if it is money you are worried about, then the measure that Sunak is proposing will only exacerbate the problem by cutting off a major source of funding.

The newer universities are, of course, not as good on average as the older ones. However, it takes decades, or centuries even, to build a world-class university. It would be a terrible mistake to close down these newer institutions simply because they have not somehow become competitors to the Russell Group or the Ivy League overnight. The short term cost saving (if there even is one) would amount to pennies in comparison to the terrible economic and social consequences to be passed on to future generations. But what hope is there of the current cabinet thinking further than the next few months?
They don't always all line up in time. Companies grow and die all the time.

Trends, Hypes and Bubbles are probably a consequence of human nature: most investors have a deep fear-of-missing out, so in general money loves to jump on the hype-train. Likewise, fear and uncertainty easily spread: markets moving together. When a couple of businesses fail, that insolvency or illiquidity spreads to related businesses.
It's funny how everyone acts like this stuff works, but then I try to log in and it's asleep. If it were easy, there wouldn't be a thousand ways to do it that are all incapable, it would just be a setting.
France's top rate is 0.5% points lower.

Denmark is average for the EU (much less than France) once you account for the employee taxes in France.
Obviously he was refering to Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffanys.
I went to school out East and work out west, and consumer tech is way more of a NYC thing than a Bay Area thing because the personas and professional networks are out there.

West Coast is also enterprise or business tech driven, but those founders aren't as media friendly or sexy despite being the majority (hence the Musks and increasingly Altmans hogging the limelight).

Boston has potential, but it honestly isn't leveraging it. The elitism is rife to a level unlike in California. A NU, BU, or UMass Amherst founder isn't going to be in the same circles as the Harvard and MIT founders who can leverage the I-Lab or Engine and HBS+Sloan resources, but in the Bay Area, a UCB, UCSC, SJSU, and Stanford kid will all be in the same professional circles. CIC tried, but they are trash. At one point, most startups in Greater Boston were basically Israeli companies using it as a US HQ because of the El Al direct and the large Israeli diaspora (throw a rock and you'll hit a Cafe Landwer).

Everything is tied up to elitism and old structure institutions out East (where did you study) while out West it's much more output driven (where do you work).

Works well for it's biotech innovation space though, which Boston is known for.

(ironically, I liked DC except the humidity - way less stick up their butt, but they also have a bohemian streak)
It's pretty much access for any non-motorised activity (including camping) here in Scotland:

https://www.outdooraccess-scotland.scot/
There is also another escape sequence, OSC 1337, apparently already implemented in iTerm2 [0], which makes iTerm2 open the URL instead of printing it:

The hypothetical new control code is different because it does not display a hyperlink; it directly opens the link using the appropriate system URL handler.

[0] https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/-/issues/10994
Following a car in front of you in perfect conditions (otherwise it full-on disengages) just to comply with the regulatory labels is whack.

I don't get why people cheer on it and even compare it with Tesla, which goes for ... actual self driving
In the west it's more often that the public "roaming" their land is hunting for big game and trying to edge onto private land to find it. Hikers are inconvenienced but they aren't the norm.
You could also do the extremely readable `| cut -f1 -d.` which will do nothing for an integer.
The order statistic tree was covered in the CLRS book. In the 4th edition, it is chapter 17 "Augmenting Data Structures", subchapter 1 "Dynamic order statistics". (I know for a fact it was present in the 3rd and 2nd editions too; did not check the 1st.)

I used this knowledge to implement a tree-based list data structure, with no set functionality at all: https://www.nayuki.io/page/avl-tree-list
'Bad' is notoriously hard to figure out. It might be good for the group to have a few people with major psychiatric disorders even if it's not ideal for that individual or the people who have to directly interact with them.
In most languages, I'd think, not just English.
Dense and functional looking UIs are also prime for any sort of B2B software. It facilitates giving buyers the impression that the software is more functional than something super polished.
Well, I was with the article until half was through, it then proceeded to go over my head at a faster and faster rate. So I guess my brain as a huge negative curvature :)
Google Blog: Doodle for Google's top artists share their wishes for the fu
Norway will not reward them again with even more money :)
Huh? Typing passwords would be a nice feature, nicer than the myriad of other ancient teletype control codes. Something like ^p (type password) ^P (return to terminal).
And here we are 11 years later with people cargo-culting all those things. I once overheard someone seriously suggest building a MVP for a game in an established genre.
Fittingly the now-defunct Amber Rapid was a blindfolded chess tournament.
The highest I jumped without oxygen was 17.7k ft (couldn't quite get that extra 300 feet), and I was quite hypoxic. The odd thing is, I had no awareness of my impaired cognitive ability and I basically staggered out of the aircraft. I wasn't thinking straight for half of the jump. I now think i'd be much more aware of the effects and impact of hypoxia, because i've experienced it.

I've also done the opposite by scuba diving to 30m and begun to get nitrogen narcosis, which is very similar. To understand it better, I've done a "dry dive" in a controlled environment in a hyperbaric chamber where they can simulate a 40m dive, and measure your cognitive ability throughout. This is excellent awareness training, and I now think i'd identify the early signs of it sooner.
(two days later)

NOTE: I don't think that web page of 'Current' missions is up to date.

For instance, the VSOP project is still on there; that was using a spacecraft designed mostly by JAXA, I believe, as an element of the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA).

I was still attending the VLBA Operations meetings, early 2000's, and at that time it seemed that they were winding that project down. Data reduction and analysis of VLBA itself had been difficult to implement and wasn't totally integrated into the standard software package. Adding a telescope that was moving at orbital velocity made things quite spicy. I found it to be a profoundly humbling experience.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/space-very-long-baseline-i...

(The VLBA is still very much alive, was part of Event Horizon Telescope, for example. But I don't think it uses the satellite.)

I have no experience with the other projects, most of which I am pretty sure are indeed still active.
I've been interested in this data structure for the ability to scan forward efficiently to any depth.

I am thinking of a binary protocol that can be navigated extremely efficiently and also be inserted into at any depth.
There has always been a split between students who are there to learn and those who are there to get a diploma. AI will simply make this divide wider. Students who actually want to acquire knowledge and skills will benefit enormously, while students who are trying to skate through with minimal effort will find themselves hitting the job market with literally no skills or knowledge beyond copying-and-pasting in and out of chat windows.
Roulette? It's often correct enough, if you know how to ask, so more like a superhuman than a roulette.

If ChatGPT behaves like a roulette to you I'll attribute that to operator error.
Yes, quite a lot better IMO.
>Picture this: You're a seventh-grade student who struggles to keep up in math. But now, you have an AI tutor like the one Sal describes by your side.

Picture this: You're a seventh-grade student who struggles to solve the equations in math. But now you have an AI that solves it for you.

I bet that there will be more students of the later type than the former.
> E.g.: As our understanding of DNA progresses, and we link more and more of it to different traits, will we eventually get into a situation where a swab on the water glass tells potential employer much more than the interview?

For almost anything that an interview is designed to discover: no. DNA manipulates probabilities of certain things in one direction or another, but then that probability shift is amplified and attenuated through layer after layer of immensely chaotic biological, then psychological, then social processes.

The connection between genetic code and "things we care about" is extremely finicky, with the exceptions being certain types of diseases which emerge much closer to the genetic code than any sort of social behaviors do.
I was thinking more about weapons integrated into satellites.

Like lasers and maybe close passby electromagnetic impulses.

The article indicates that the new Russian satellite is itself a weapon.
> The few times I checked it looked like official IPs

Considering Microsoft now runs a cloud service, it may very well be their cloud provider users and not official Bing scrapers.