skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since there's a paywall here is the text:

The bad news keeps coming for Ginkgo Bioworks.

Four days after it announced it was slashing labor costs by at least 25 percent, the once-high-flying Boston life sciences firm said it had received a notice from the New York Stock Exchange threatening to delist it because Ginkgo’s average closing price was less than $1 per share over 30 consecutive days of trading.

The cell programming and biosecurity company said it will notify the exchange within 10 business days of how it plans to respond to the notice. Exchange rules give Ginkgo six months to bring its stock price up.

“The Company intends to regain compliance with [the] NYSE’s continued listing standards and is considering all available options to do so,” the firm said in a news release.

Founded in 2008 by five scientists from MIT, Ginkgo was once one of the hottest venture-backed startups in Boston. In 2019, two years before the firm went public, it was valued at about $4.8 billion, according to PitchBook, a Seattle company that analyzes and sells data on the private markets.

But Ginkgo has struggled since then and its earnings report last week was abysmal. Total revenue in the first quarter of 2024 was $38 million, down from $81 million for the same period last year, a decrease of 53 percent, according to the company.

The firm also lowered its predicted full-year revenue to a range of $170 million to $190 million, down about 20 percent from its previously predicted range of $215 million to $235 million.

Jason Kelly, Ginkgo’s cofounder and chief executive, said he intended to take “decisive action” and cut labor costs. The firm declined to say how many layoffs it planned to make. Ginkgo had 1,218 employees at the end of last year, according to filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

Ginkgo originally started as a synthetic biology business in 2008. In recent years, it has tried to expand its biosecurity business, which got started during the COVID pandemic, into monitoring wastewater for pathogens. Ginkgo became publicly traded in 2021 after merging with a special purpose acquisition company.
“3M Execs convinced a Scientist [of the fact that] PFOS found in Human Blood”
My Phone Is Making Me Sick and I'm Not Alone
> Secret meeting between Apple and TSMC reported, /possibly/ to reserve all 2nm capacity

> Secret meeting /may/ have been about 2nm exclusivity

> The low-profile visit was made to secure TSMC’s advanced manufacturing capacity, /potentially/ 2nm process, booked for Apple’s in-house AI-chips, according to the report.

It's nothing new at all for Apple to buy up all the capacity and this isn't even an article on that actually happening. It's speculation on top of speculation. Also "secret meeting", ooooooo secret, give me a break... Show me the public meetings that other companies have with TSMC or hell the public meetings they have with any of their suppliers.

But what else do you expect from a shovel-blog?
What do you mean back? Pluton has been shipping in all mainstream CPUs for at least 1 year.
> I don’t think punishing stock holders makes any more sense than punishing all of Germany after WW1 did.

Come on, stockholders are nothing like the subjects of a hereditary monarch.

> You need to cut the head off the snake, not nibble at the tail. A hypothetical corporate death penalty should start at the top, then cascade down some amount of “tiers” down the executive chain.

You need to do both: punish the owners and their agents.

What you're proposing is akin to punishing the generals and general staff, but letting the Kaiser get off scot free (including keeping his position).
I would guess this as well. There are plenty of working examples for conveyors. "Since it is downhill conveying, the system generates more than 100 million kilowatt-hours per year at a load of 11.000 t/h. The disk breaks have a diameter of 2,5 m. The length of the 3-part system is 12.700 m. Almost the complete belt is operating in tunnels to protect it from the danger of avalanches in the Andes." https://conveyorbeltguide.com/examples-of-use.html
Microsoft's mission to take down the MacBook Air
"Snake-Like" Probe Images Arteries from Within
How then, can we know that the treatment worked/did anything at all?
Once you are splitting up 10 sqlite dbs you have a bespoke distributed system anyways, and you will find yourself doing all the headache of LedgerStore anyways.

Most of the novel work in LedgerStore is probably around managing the headaches of distributed storage, not the persistence layer.
> is using archive.org as a way to get around paywalls like WSJ's an abuse

HN either shouldn't allow any sort of paywall bypass (other than gifted sharable links) or should ban submissions from sites that have a paywall, IMO.

I don't think YC could say with a straight face that they'd be OK w/ one of their portfolio company's content being taken from behind a paywall and shared elsewhere to a very large audience. Actually I do think they could (and would) say that, but I wouldn't believe them.
Your question is a cop-brained false dichotomy. The real world isn’t divided into good guy/bad guy “sides”.

It’s not an either/or - we can and should address crime while also respecting civil liberties.
https://archive.ph/vYY8I
People are generally supportive of the use facial recognition by police, according to a Pew poll from 2021 https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2022/03/17/public-more-...

'[M]ajorities of the American public believe widespread use of facial recognition would likely help find missing persons and solve crimes, but majorities also think it is likely that police would use this technology to track everyone’s location and surveil Black and Hispanic communities more than others. In terms of potential impact, 46% of U.S. adults say widespread use of facial recognition technology by police would be a good idea for society while 27% believe it would be a bad idea. An additional 27% say they are unsure whether it would be a good or bad idea for police to widely use facial recognition technology.'
Funny how when one of us finds a workaround it's regarded as a hack and clever and a sign of how talented and 'relentlessly resourceful' we are. When a cop does it, oh god no the sky is falling. Asking a neighboring dept for an assist is within the law and from this own reporting not abused at all. It was used "at least 5 times" (ok, that is lazy, what is the upper bound?) and "no matches were returned". It's not some crazy surveillance state. It's cops trying to catch criminals. Which we need
Noise pollution is an issue that often doesn't receive the attention it deserves!
It pays to be a hard worker… thanks for the tip.
Liens sometimes are auto filed before work starts you have to file to remove them.

They aren't evidence of debt
yeah I wonder how many of those 240 tons ARE the battery!
Not if you tell them beware, all this will be used against you in some way in the future.
On any topic this divisive, everyone with strong feelings is certain that their side gets the worse treatment.
I think LISA Pathfinder showed that it's possible to phase lock lasers over very long distances as long as they are in a stable orbit. It's basically a metal cube in freefall surrounded a proximity sensor, so that as the sensor drifts toward the cube, but long before making direct contact, the apparatus can adjust it's position. The experiment demonstrated that the system can be used to keep mirrors precisely separated over large distances in support of gravitational wave detection. I would think something like this could be adapted to align lots of things that are in a stable orbit.
Whatever happened to the industrial R&D lab?
Ads should be taxed progressively based on company revenue. This way at least there would be more space for competition to arise.
that's a huge pet peeve of mine too, and i can't even begin to guess what they heck they're doing. maybe an unstable sorting algorithm?

"tel" -> "telegram"
"tele" -> "telegram uninstaller"
Honestly with the way it’s being done I’m 0% surprised. It feels natural for an ad-supported product, as much as I hate it and all ads.
> wrong things (leetcode-type challenges, unnecessarily specific knowledge..

I'm curious about the dynamics of this. 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? Case in point, I'd venture to guess that no more than 10% of the tech workers truly understand AI or stats or machine learning or basic college-level maths, yet magically millions of ML engineers or data scientists have popped up in the past few years just because the market had such high demand.
Yeah, that's a good question.

Another good question is "What if we spent these resources on actually eliminating the cause of this sort of crime instead of further cementing a police surveillance state that may actually paradoxically cause the increase in crime in the first place."

Another good question is "What would nightmare scenarios from the application of this kind of technology look like and how could they affect me personally?"

Imagine what this guy[0] could do to your family if he had access to the kind of technology you're promoting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Holtzclaw
Not sure if @dang is the right way to say the title is incorrect here, but shouldn't it match the paper?

1. The correct title is Layer-Condensed KV Cache for Efficient Inference of Large Language Models.

2. The paper does make a 26x claim later in the introduction, but it’s an outlier.

26x is for only one benchmark and that benchmark is CPU based, not GPU based like 99% of transformer loads actually run on.

If you look at GPU only workloads, the improvements range from 1.4x to 4.7x.
The 'guilds' seem to have a similar purpose here in Britain, namely that of providing legally-required accreditation programmes. However, these are only for certain trades, and I put guilds in scarequotes because they aren't as exclusive as the mediaeval form.

Re. universities, it was widely quoted a few years ago that more people graduated with a bachelors in photography during that year than there were practising photographers!
It sounds like your intuition is guiding you in a particular direction and you want confirmation from us it's the right move :) It's probably the right move for you. Only you know. I've been in the bay area, renting, with no roots or attachment for 15 years. I've had a lot of similar feelings. Also working on my own stuff income free and not planning to work for tech companies here. What keeps me here is 1) not having another place I want to be 2) cheap rent ($1800 kitchenless studio) and 3) not being in the city (palo alto). if any of those 3 conditions changed I'd probably be out of california at least for long enough to decide if I want to ever come back here for good.
As far as I can see, the whole history of art is a long argument about whether something can be called art or not. It's always art

As a recent example, Tron was disqualified for a visual effects Oscar because it was all done on computer and therefore seen as cheating, instead of being recognised aa both an incredible achievement and a precursor for the next 40 years of filmmaking. [1]

Imagine the howls when the first film with significant amounts of AI effects is released.

[1]https://www.slashfilm.com/1177735/why-tron-was-disqualified-...
Now we can scam the next generation into even more debt and getting into the workforce at a later age by convincing them to get 2 degrees
Can LLMs find bugs in large Python codebases?
Hi HN - We built a new benchmark called "Bug In The Code Stack" (BICS) to test how well LLMs can find syntactic bugs in large Python codebases. (similar to a text-based needle-in-the-haystack test)

GPT-3.5-Turbo showed lower accuracy on the BICS benchmark than the BABILONG benchmark at the same context length and target depth, indicating that LLMs struggle more on code-based tasks than text-based tasks at long context length.

GPT-4o showed the best performance, closely followed by GPT-4-Turbo. The GPT-4-Series especially performed well at long context lengths compared to other models. Gemini-1.0-pro performed the worst, surprisingly worse than Llama3-70B.

Generally, longer context length resulted in lower accuracy. However, there were some exceptions to this.
Models react differently to the placement of the bug within the source code. GPT-3.5-Turbo and Claude 3 Opus were the most sensitive, and GPT-4-Series was the least sensitive. Generally, less sensitivity means a more robust model.

This benchmark has lots of limitations. I would love your feedback & suggestions on how we can make this benchmark more useful!

Link to results: https://hamming.ai/blog/bug-in-the-codestack
Repo: https://github.com/HammingHQ/bug-in-the-code-stack
Is it a surprise that Linus, one of the most widely known Open Source people in the world, would favor an open/standard chip (Arm) over a proprietary/unsupported chip (Apple Silicon)?
what people don't realize is that by putting tape/etc. on a wart for any extended period, there's a chance you may cause some minor nerve/circulatory issue whereas cryotherapy doesn't have the risk... I always opt for cryotherapy when my kids have a wart and it works perfectly/quickly/easily and no issues...
This is the actual problem. It is highly misogynistic and the comments here and elsewhere show how many people actually demand it.
I live in EU. Just spent four weeks in San Francisco and got back home last Friday. HOLY SHIT. Those few weeks in the eye of the cyclone catapulted my business and network into the future by at least a year or two. The number of new clients I landed, the insights from meeting my current clients and overall tailwind strength exceeded my expectations - by a few orders of magnitude. Sure, the cost of living is high, but if you optimize for growth, it’s almost comically worth it. I’m honestly considering putting my kids in suitcases and figuring out a long-term visa.

(Note: I run a service business with most of my clients being tech startups, so take this with a grain of salt.)
And I am almost certain I could win $10M from a lottery ticket. I'm not worried about that actually happening though because it is statically never going to happen.

https://i.imgflip.com/3bhvio.jpg
In the United States, protection from unlawful search and seizure has been in our constitution since the very beginning through the fourth amendment. This is a critical component of what we believe are human rights, so we will continue to insist that law enforcement should "get a fuckin warrant" if they want to dig through our personal data, regardless of your opinion on how easily that warrant will be granted.
Since you have no roots there, you can pick anywhere in the area you want. Are your meetings with contacts in SF infrequent enough to live somewhere vaguely nearby instead? I imagine half of them are in the South Bay anyway, which iirc is a 2hr+ train ride.
If you want this concept, without the Yaml, and able to run locally or in the cloud, check out https://dagger.io
All: if you're going to comment in this thread, please review the site guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). Make sure that your comment is following them, and that you are posting in the intended spirit: intellectually curious, respectful conversation.

"Respectful" here means respectful to the people who are wrong (in your view) and most respectful to the people who are most wrong (in your view). If you can't do that, that's ok, but please don't post until you can. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Hellish flamewars in deep subthreads are not ok. I'm going to lower the bar for banning accounts that do this, so please don't do this. If you're hotly indignant, step away from the keyboard until that changes. Nobody 'wins' on the internet anyway, and it's not worth destroying this community for. Not to mention your heart.
What do we know about Covid-19's effects on the brain?
I'm not convinced that any filtering is doing any good.

I see doofuses hired regardless.
that's not what they meant. a recent ios update restored pictures that were deleted ages ago.
Persistent noise pollution increases stress levels..And I felt the impact of this myself when construction work started near my office. It’s very hard to concentrate.
Having gone through this myself, the main skills I learned were how to navigate bureaucracy and manipulate people more powerful than me to do what I want them to do and work way too many hours while ignoring my own mental and physical health.

Both of those things are correlated with high income earners, but that doesn’t make them virtues.
Netflix sent this cease-and-desist letter to a 'Stranger Things' pop-up (2017)
They're certainly the leading player in terms of cutting edge capabilities, but there are plenty of companies working on fabs. It wasn't long ago that Intel used to have the leading fab and simply got complacent/slow opening the door for TSMC to surpass them.

In the macro sense there seems to be more widespread awareness and money going towards fab competition than ever before. I suspect we'll trend closer to performance parity between competitors in the coming years.

Nobody will be able to compete against Apple CPUs while they're 1 process node ahead of competitors though.

I recently moved to Linux from MacOS, but probably will have to go back to Apple on the m4 for local LLM capabilities (high RAM specs much cheaper than commercial GPUs). Too bad Asahi is still missing some pretty critical capabilities (microphone, USB-C monitor connection etc)
You don’t think there’s any job role which would benefit from someone who double-majored? Personally I think it’s axiomatic that these roles both exist and are increasing in frequency because of natural evolution in the business/global landscape. But I’d be super happy to hear and consider arguments which might disprove my belief.

Math and Biology, or Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering, or Linguistics and Computer Science? I can definitely imagine roles where these combos would be highly valued and difficult to replicate the same value with two people. NOTE: I do think that if someone can demonstrate mastery and experience in both relevant disciplines that should “count” in lieu of a double major…but I believe that about any degree requirements.

We now have so many multi-disciplinary majors like “Mechatronics”, “Computational Biology”, “Bioprocess Engineering” specifically because of this value. So sure, you could “just” get one of those majors instead of the two they combine, but it seems folly to think that all practical combinations already have a unified major at the schools that a particular student might want to study at. It’s reasonable to assume that they might get accepted to schools where the best option for something like this is double-majoring - even if they get accepted to a school with a Mechatronics Program, it might not be as high quality of an education there as another school which doesn’t have that where they could double major in Electrical Engineer and Mechanical Engineering.
> Who willingly signs up for that except for driven individuals?

Idiots who didn't read the prospectus.

I doubled in CS and EE. In the UK that was called a "joint honours".
Not sure many places run them any more, but that was the 80s. What
they didn't tell us was that it isn't 50% or one degree and 50% of the
other - it's 75% of a comp. sci degree and 75% electronics
engineering, taught concurrently by two separate departments. I
sometimes had to make a choice between which lecture to take when they
were opposite sides of the campus.
I'm a college faculty member. I'll just note one thing in my experience. Everything in life involves tradeoffs and this is not an exception. I have often seen people unable to take something they were interested in because a second major means a lot of juggling. If they are okay with that, then that's fine of course.
Creatorsguild.ink post on LinkedIn directly from notion
Hey everyone,

I'm working on this app that allows you to publish/schedule on LinkedIn directly from Notion.

I'm trying to validate the idea and understand if this is a real problem people have.

Any feedback is more than appreciated! Thanks for your time!
Satellites will kill cell dead zones for good – and replace it with 6G
In the comments Steve addresses this:

"The DB-19 isn’t really a B shell and probably shouldn’t be called “DB” anything if you’re being precise about naming. Apple called it DB-19 in their documentation, though, and the name stuck."
Your question is also obviously unexpected.
If the following does not happen in 2 years I will eat my hat:

They will have performance problems. They will have compatibility problems. They will have poor repairability and zero repair network and support. The software will be abandoned and completely useless within 18 months. They will fail very early but just outside a standard 1 year warranty. This will be a lot of e-waste. Regulatory or national bodies will step in and force privacy regulations which make all of this unworkable.
I hope you realize that most of the gaming world runs on ARM CPUs and iGPUs today. Smartphones and tablets far outnumber gaming PCs.
The problem is that there's no concrete thing to point to as to why this would be used against them in the future

(I agree with the point, but it's just not trivial to make people aware of this)
How Allen Adham Built Blizzard Entertainment [video]
> but it sounds like you are an outlier

Ah the weak HN trope to anyone giving sound advice when all you care about is “winning” an argument.

This also veered the topic into ad hominem completely unnecessarily.

> doubtful that lots of people spend precious travel time (especially if with family/kids)

Sheesh. That website takes literally less than a minute to complete for a link that I found in less than a 10 second search. I have family/kids, so no, try again.

When I arrive at the airport and I see long lines of families waiting for up to an hour at the Thrifty/Dollar/Fox counter so that maybe they could save a few bucks (often not) while I am walking directly to the lot from a flight to pick up the car - perhaps I may be an outlier, but I certainly know something about saving “precious” time and false economies.

30 seconds to fill out a web form is a complete nothingburger.

> Very doubtful that many people have checklists for this purpose.

I have a checklist for traveling. This is one item. Do you not understand the “list” part, it’s not a whole list just for tolls.
Ironically, before I had a family I wouldn’t often bother. Having a family/kids makes lists a tremendous stress reliever.

> still benefit from no staffing the toll booth

> pull-off area right after the tollbooth

Open road (overhead) tolling has no toll booths. Some states are entirely toll booth free outside of bridges and others are following. The cost savings of eliminating toll booth infrastructure entirely is substantial because it’s not just the booths, it greatly simplifies hundreds of interchanges.
Time to get Europe back to work
I find the experience of Airbnb user hostile. The last time I checked, the app pushed irrelevant search results on me with no option of turning that off. Now they give advice on UX? The advice might be sound, but it comes from an authority in marketing, not UX