skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. Anyone in the tech industry who buys this is a fool. But I feel sorry for everyone who doesn't keep up with tech news to know everything Google releases is dead in the water and gets duped by this and the inevitable shutdown.

If this lasts as long as Stadia it will shut down on Thursday the 5th of August 2027.
I was honestly coming here to say fuck those exploitive assholes at Google. But I see your point. Maybe this could be a good in-between.
You were asking about a hypothetical situation in which you may find yourself. That's what I addressed in my reply. The person whose voice was used does not pretend to be SJ afaik. It's the communications between OpenAI and SJ and Altman's tweets that created an ambiguous situation similar to someone trying to ask an attractive person out, being told it's not going to happen, but publicly winking and suggesting that there is something going on. It backfired. OpenAI and Altman are trying to get out of it, but their time of being the darlings of the media is over. There will be more scrutiny of their actions.
1) Congrats on your exit.

2) Congrats on expecting.

3) Thank you for sharing. I found this insightful, and hopefully throughout the journey you found more fulfillment than you would have had you stayed working at Google making software for such amazing product manager decisions like a $240 smart watch for 8 year olds...
Caddy 2.8
Your theory doesn’t explain 49% of people thinking the sp500 is down for the year
> It's hard not to extrapolate 50 years down the line with this tech. Stuff gets complicated quick.

Indeed, though looking at the rate of change in various fields, I feel everything goes weird some time around 2032 or so: https://benwheatley.github.io/blog/2024/03/23-17.24.34.html

> How many human neurons do you have to use before you get an actual human consiousness?

How many grains of sand makes a heap.

(I don't know the relative importance of organic neurons as hardware vs. whatever specific connectivity architecture they happen to have in us, so the same might apply to perceptrons).
Is there a cheap test for this? I don't wanna run out to my Dr. and seem like a complete nut but I do worry I got this. I am an absolute idiot
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40508278
Death to small media companies! You should have gotten some VC money if you wanted to make products for people, you poor pieces of shit.
Usage Electric (see YouTube) obtained it and sent it to me to see if I could figure out more about it.
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> Am I wrong? I'm not into filming, so I might be.

Yes, it's because you haven't seen raw log video before. It'll look very washed out when filming in log (and typically when previewing recent shots) but then in post-processing you'll actually tune the colors (called "color grading", in case you wanna seek out more about it).
Not that stunning because:

A) Planets all move along the same apparent line called the ecliptic which is the direction of the plane in which all planets move, so they will often appear together.

B) Whether you can see this before dawn and the sun drowns them out depends on your latitude.

https://stellarium-web.org/
Researchers discover evidence of cancer surgery in skull from Ancient Egypt
the US and global partners dismantle the 911 S5 proxy botnet
Nah the person/company willing to do the thing for the lowest margin wins out.
The intestinal tract's neural network could be an entirely separate consciousness with its own thoughts and personality spending ninety years of life thinking about food.
Are you unemployed? Otherwise, this is just not true. Assuming OP and his wife earn average incomes for academics in the US, they'd pay 2x ~920 USD per month in Germany, totaling 80% more than the premium and only 9% less than the worst case scenario of OP having to pay the full deductible.
Yes, yes we all know the history. "We didnt want it! We dont want it! We've never used it" As if 42 years are a long time.

Of course, the feds dont really need the clause. In less than 60 years they've invoked the war measures act twice. The last time the government lost the court case on its suitability.

Canada has always been the land of the free to conform.
I remembering visiting WBB at 20 Edward St when I lived in the GTA during a co-op term. But the real treasures I found were usually in BMV Books next door at 10 Edward St. BMV offered incredible collection of vintage books and magazines. I recall the owner guaranteeing to me that he could find any book sold at WBB and get it to me cheaper. Glad to see that it's still standing.
Under Tech Specs, https://store.google.com/us/product/fitbit_ace_lte_specs?hl=...:

"Tap to Pay (NFC)4(Coming soon)"

What? Why would my kid need Tap to Pay? That's just setting the user/Google up for a horror story where the watch wearer goes overboard on spending for some lame game with in-app payments...

Or are they expecting adults to use this as well?
It depends on how old and what you are comparing. In another thread on here I suggested comparing a brand new Chevy Trax to a 2012 Audi Q5- I think it's pretty safe to say the Audi will be a much safer car for 1/4 the price.

If safety is important, someone with cheap new economy car money can instead get into a high end vehicle well known for its safety and quality, still for a lot less money.

Sure, if you are going to compare something over 30+ years old, and from a manufacturer not known for safety or quality in the first place, it will be a lot more dangerous.

Still, even with old stuff it varies. Late 80s Mercedes and Volvos, even base models, for example had most of the modern safety tech that other cars didn't see for a very long time.

Weight is also a huge factor- a big old truck with no regard for safety in its design is still a lot safer than a light economy car in a collision. Probably the safest cars on the market are still the over-engineered 20 year old full sized luxury SUVs that weigh as much as a 3/4 ton truck and have tons of heavy offroad gadgets they don't put on SUVs anymore.
It seems like everyone loses in this model. Consumers are paying 2x normal pricing to get delivery. I've heard very mixed reviews from drivers. Restaurants seem to feel the need to jack up the prices to not get destroyed by the fees being charged. And the delivery services... the ones selling the shovels... are losing $20B somehow.

I miss old delivery services when stores had their own drivers. It was much more consistent, and if there was a problem they'd make it right. DoorDash will give refund, which is fine, but doesn't help with solving food problem that led me to them in the first place.

I also had DoorDash try to guilt me into ignoring issues by saying I reported things more often than most and it hurt the restaurants and drivers. I was getting bags with more than 50% of my order missing, sometimes the main course missing, and many times a completely different meal with someone else's name on it. Trying to make me feel guilty for reporting when I didn't get what I paid for, when I was paying a premium for it, left a really bad taste in my mouth. They tried to make it sound like I was taking advantage of their policy, without explicitly saying it, and that wasn't the case at all.

A few things that would solve most problems would be:

1. Having the restaurant contact the customer if something isn't available, like any standard restaurant would in the pre-DoorDash days. This way order issues can get resolved, either my substitutions or adjusting the order cost and expectations accordingly.

2. Having a unique and simple code that is really big on the receipt. Some places currently use something like last name, first initial, which has been a been a problem with some of the wrong orders. Looking at the receipt I can see some ambiguity and where someone in a hurry would make a mistake.

3. Show issue rates at restaurants. On what percentage of orders are mistakes made that lead to a refund? This would be a helpful stat, as I have noticed some restaurants are much worse than others, to the point I stopped ordering from them. Let the customer see this, and better yet, if they fall below a certain threshold, kick them off the app until they can get their act together and show they fixed whatever the problem was. Things like this make everyone look bad.

These are things these companies should be fixing with their system to reduce these problems, not trying to shift blame to customers.
As a cyclist/pedestrian I'm used to drivers ignoring me anyway, YMMV
It used to be a directory; nowadays it seems to be becoming more of a social media platform.
It’s different because the National Weather Service uses “grapefruit-sized” specifically to refer to hail that is more than 4.5 inches in diameter but no more than 5 inches in diameter. It isn’t “any hail that is about the size of a grapefruit”.

This hail was bigger than 5 inches, so NWS needed a new term for it per their estimation guidelines.
You don't know what the "right indexes" are, because sometimes "no index" is the "right index". Sometimes because a full table scan is faster. Sometimes because you're okay accepting the various performance trade-offs (e.g. insert speed vs. update speed, storage space on disk).

Many applications don't have tests for every single last trivial SQL query, and adding those just because the SQL server may decide to bail out because it might perhaps possibly could be 100ms slower is not a good way for most teams to spend their time.

In the end it's just trading one confusion for another confusion. But the current confusion has a lot less complexity overall, so that clearly the "better" one IMHO.
Researchers make lithium discovery in Pennsylvania
"Everything's bigger in Texas."

Cue that Hillary Duff video...

https://youtu.be/lt6PVVr4B04?si=SVfSFzdJzdAWOUpc
How much tax did you pay? Long term cap gains?
There are earplugs that minimize certain frequencies, e. g. Flare Calmer [1]. They have a report with frequency response graphs [2].

No idea if this helps with tinnitus at all.

[1] https://www.flareaudio.com/en-eu/collections/calmer
[2] https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1721/0649/files/ISVR_Offic...
Do you have a link to the notebook?
People are so used to the zero interest rate period of tech that everyone expects the pricing model of VC backed startups that can burn money forever and maybe figure out a business model at some point.

Software costs time and money. People complain that they don't want the same uninspired corporate created junk – and then they balk at paying indie developers a reasonable amount for apps.

So much work goes into this stuff! It's so tempting for indie devs to just take the high paying job, and then congrats – no more unique and interesting apps like this.
It's only going to be a real business when they approach profitability--now they have massive losses.
They acquired Oriole, see: https://supabase.com/blog/supabase-aquires-oriole
What’s really wild is when people assume that everyone shares their value system

It also appears you haven’t met anyone truly wealthy, because I can tell you they don’t share your point of view
...which is a real shame because they are building useful EVs that are safe enough for Western markets at compelling prices. Having access to these could attract a lot of price-sensitive buyers and make a significant dent in US automotive emissions.

We don't care that the Chinese are dominating other manufacturing (i.e., consumer goods); why do we suddenly care because it's automobiles?*

*Yes, I'm aware of the legacy power of auto worker unions and American Pride.
And because of this, these mirrors are often non https so your ISP can actually intercept and provide the data to you directly.

This is why torrents would actually work fine in this model.
I've seen multiple administrations try to make the numbers seem better than they are but this administration has gone fully into gaslight mode. It's going to get a lot worse going into the election too. You're going to see articles like this daily. Whatever numbers the government is publishing do not reflect the experiences of the citizens.

Housing is more unaffordable than it has possibly ever been.
Grocery prices have skyrocketed.
Several of the big jobs reports were actually all part time or government jobs. Full time private employment was flat or down.
Thanks, Zeke!

>Would you build another hardware business, or are you going to try for a software business next?

No, I don't think I'd try hardware again.

It's a shame because I learned so much about hardware and selling a physical product, so I do have an edge if I wanted to do something else that involves both hardware and software, but bootstrapping hardware from zero is just so risky. I caught a lot of lucky breaks for it to work out with TinyPilot; but simple one-time events like a manufacturing error or a lost shipments could have sunk the entire company in the first two years.

I'd like to try another educational product. I released a blogging course at the end of 2020. I didn't have time to promote it much because TinyPilot swallowed all my time, but it still has made $10k of profit. I'd like to try something like that again.

But I would also like to build some kind of pure software business if I land on the right idea and the right market for it.
Google makes almost all their income from ads. Apple makes almost none.
Tap to pay with spend controls sounds ideal for things like after school snacks/activities and transit. It could also be an easy to way to manage things like allowance digitally?
Irrelevant, the problem is runaway inequality, not general inequality.
Writing a Debugger from Scratch: Source and Symbols
He didn't say otherwise. Under the legal definition, my 'death vindaloo' made with 3 moruga scorpion peppers is a chemical weapon, and simply the act of cooking it as a combatant in a warzone would constitute a war crime. It's also immensely delicious and one of my favorite meals, I make it twice a month.
Why even are they URLs? The only reasonable suggestion I could find is that it was part of an abandoned or poorly adopted idea to also host the schema at that URL.
This point is really irritating. When pundits complain about the public being wrong on the economy, they constantly ignore the fact that inflation has been very high for many months, prices went up, so even if inflation is lower now - the prices are still up. I can see the impact of it every time I go to the grocery store.
MLIR is cool and has an exciting future for sure.
If I get an oil change on an ICE car, and not at a $20 drive thru type place, they are at minimum pulling the tires off and doing an underbody inspection.
> "there’s no way to substantiate the claim the US revolted because the UK was freeing slaves."

Not the only reason, things rarely have a single reason; but there's more than nothing to it. Certainly the OP claiming the USA was built on the spirit of free enterprise when it looks more like it was built on the backs of slaves and downtrodden labourers isn't going to pass unremarked[1]; some quotes from https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/37986/was-the-so...

"He's not 100% wrong that the desire of slaveholders in the States to protect their "property" and the institution itself has been drastically underplayed by Americans in talking about their own history (and really, can you blame them?) For a good historical perspective on this, I highly recommend Slavery and the Founders, by Paul Finkelman."

----

"I think that there were probably a great many factors that led to the American Revolution. Concerns about the growing anti-slavery movement in the UK were undoubtedly among them.

Although it is true that the case of Somerset v Stewart in 1772 was a landmark in the campaign against slavery, I suspect that an earlier case would probably have caused greater alarm to slave-owners in British colonies.

In the case of Shanley v Harvey (1763), the Lord Chancellor, Lord Henley stated " ... as soon as a man sets foot on English ground he is free". He further observed that, in his learned opinion, a negro could take his master to court for cruel treatment. Now, these comments were only obiter dictum, and so not binding on subsequent courts, but they would have caused huge concern to slave owners anywhere in the world who considered themselves to be British subjects."

----

Then Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerset_v_Stewart#Influence_i...

"The Somerset case was reported in detail by the American colonial press.[citation needed] In Massachusetts, several slaves filed freedom suits in 1773–1774 based on Mansfield's ruling; these were supported by the colony's General Court (for freedom of the slaves), but vetoed by successive Royal governors. As a result,[citation needed] some individuals in pro-slavery and anti-slavery colonies, for opposite reasons, desired a distinct break from English law in order to achieve their goals with regard to slavery.[47]"

[1] yes yes British Empire had slaves, genocides, cruelty, poverty, &c.
The original Matrix wasn't color graded like that! They only pushed the green levels in the subsequent home video release!
Careful with "Threads" - I've heard from normally stout people that it sent them into a funk because it was rather traumatic.
Waymos are not full robotaxis. It's an illusion provided by having the humans responsible for the cars in a remote location. We don't have transparency on how that system runs and how often the humans intervene. We also sweep under the rug many, many non-crash traffic incidents. Watch videos on Youtube of peoplr taking Waymos and you will see the cars do lots of dumb stuff. If there were lots more of them it would make traffic even more of a problem than it is today.
Nothing. But they dont need to use it.

1. There is effectively one ruling party in Canada (the Liberals) representing the interest of the Eastern industrialists (the Laurentian elite). The supreme court is appointed from this incestuous group and the government typically wins (exception - truckers)

2. They have the War Measures act which the feds have proven very willing to use.

3. Canadians are extremely conforming. Really they are Scandinavians in their attitude.
Climate is changing so much that is even affecting our language.
Something this large would have a difficult time forming any other way. The sheer weight of it would cause it to not stay aloft long enough to get to that size.

Also, does it matter how it was formed? A chunk of ice of that size falling from the ground causing damage doesn't care if it's a single round ice cube for a really large cocktail glass or if it made up of lots of smaller things frozen together as a single piece of ice. The object getting hit doesn't care of it's formation and makeup either. It's still going to hurt. Bad.
In the late 2000s, when gas was $6+/gallon nationwide, SUV sales tanked. Automobile factories were furiously retooling to build small cars again. GM and Chrysler lost their shirts. (Ford made it out bruised but not broken.)

Then when gas became cheap again in the 2010s, SUVs became popular again, and everyone retooled again to build them.
Oh yeah, it's headed down the shitter alright.

But look on the bright side; Windows Recall! So many cool features getting made, and with enough AI greasing the wheel you'll have willing customers of brand new spyware. The way things are headed, I don't think we're going to be able to expect the average user to meaningfully resist.
>see how hard junior employees are staring at their monitor to determine the depth and quality of their work.

I don't think any senior does this. Managers, yes. Maybe a few leads. But I know butt in seat doesn't correlate to amount of quality work.

I've had days where everything is blank in my head and others where I did a week's work in a day. You can influence this somewhat by having a good environment, but the creative process doesn't work like blue collar work (despite many of our systems in office based on blue collar labor processes).
Yes. I don't know exactly how cheap, but it's a big risk for pregnant women (not to have it, but to get infected while pregnant), so they have tests available, and it was affordable enough that my fiancee did it as part of her a prenatal screening.
For decades now, when I enter a bar or restaurant I turn down the volume of my hearing aid. Not because everything is too loud, but because it allows me to hear spoken speech much better. It doesn't work quite as well on modern digital hearing aids as it did on older analog, and I don't fully understand the mechanics of it, but it's what I do.
Also children may not even know what a DVD is, so "new" is a reach. In 2034 it's going to be just like saying "8-track sized" in 2024.
A16Z Thesis on AI Voice Agents
I wonder if anyone's ever tried to figure out if APIs are copyrightable...

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/04/how-the-supreme-...
I think most people are at least vaguely aware of the scale of factory farming.
Is it any worse than giving your kid a smartphone?
Honestly, default behavior should be to at least share package files on the local network. But sharing to the wider internet should be fairly trivial in <current year>, we have no shortage of technologies that accomplish this.

I wish more systems had this kind of feature. I have a fat fiber connection, I'd be thrilled to pop up an unofficial mirror for something like a Linux distro. I've tried mirroring Linux ISO torrents, but it seems almost nobody ever downloads from a torrent, so I end up never actually uploading any of these images.
Congratulations! And thank you for sharing your story over the years. You are an excellent writer and thoughtful founder. I am really glad you found this graceful and economically rewarding exit.

I also own a small bootstrapped company (pure software), and I am now on year 21 (!). Someday, my business will run its course. When it does, I will probably write a blog post about the entire experience of starting and owning it, and if I do I will have been inspired by your posts.

Best wishes.
YouTube is pretty good at both theory part: there's MIT physics class, but also on intuitive parts (i.e. visualizing how phase arrays work). ChatGPT is also seems to be very good at TA/Professor job when grinding through math-heavy parts: asking intuitively explain things do wonders. And you can also ask lots of stupid questions to understand things.
Give Nickelback a try.
On Postgres, they are. You'll get an informational message saying the index was automatically generated.

But this is not normal behavior. I think Postgres is the only one that does this.
A lot of "totalled" cars end up in poorer countries, often sold to buyers who are not made aware of its damage/accident history.
Will it be a AI accelerator chip or just a regular CPU, which after X number of years of Moore's Law development will be as powerful as a H100 is today? Can you charge that much extra for it in X years, if you are NVidia?

At a certain point the AI chip market disappears and it's absorbed into general purpose computing.
A graphical depiction of the steps in building a C++ executable
lol downvoted for writing a reasonable explanation. People on Hacker News really love bashing China and not actually talking substance. Maybe this is a sign for our nations’ futures.
Some of the other examples in Three.js are quite a bit more complex. https://threejs.org/examples/#webgl_lights_physical

Probably just for introductory ease. Although, admittedly, appears to give the impression of nerfed features, rather than easy.