skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you think/know of any areas in Go codebase that would enable jump in performance bigger than e.g 10%? I'm very grateful for any work done in Go codebase, for me this language is plenty fast, I'm just curious what's the state of Go internals, are there any techniques left to speed it up significantly or some parts of codebase/old architectures holding it back? And thank you for your work!
I thought espresso is something you order in quantity of 2 or 4, to be mixed into the regular coffee so it works. That's what I always do.
Your .dockerignore is supposed to filter out for you. In the Symfony default implementation, you have this file you can use:

https://github.com/dunglas/symfony-docker/blob/main/.dockeri...
the aesthetic and authoritative effects of wrist watches cannot be understated
When I was tutoring HS kids (as a grad student myself), we also had afternoon practices for the kids that wanted to compete in the math olympiads.

Truth be told, some of the kids loved it - but those were the kids that were really passionate about math, for the sake of math.

But you also had a bunch of kids that seemingly hated every second of it. So why did they do it?

- Some had pushy parents that wanted them to excel in extracurricular activities. Think typical tiger parenting...

- Some had big ambitions about certain schools, and felt that they had to compete on a national level in something, in order to stand out in the selection/application process.

Granted, this was over 15 years ago. A couple of years ago I checked up on some of the kids (LinkedIn), and the most passionate kids were either now math/physics Ph.Ds, or Ph.D track.
> But here on the ground, I can type a few queries and reveal that Kagi is the same shit as Google.

Here on the ground in Norway I just say "lucky you" if Google serves the same results as Kagi.

My experience is Google expands my search terms beyond recognition and I am absolutely and utterly fed up with starting to read an article about a problem I searched for, getting a result from a trustworthy site, starting to read only to realize Google secretly behind my back expanded my search from "unpopular-ancient-javascript-framework-from-2021" to "currently-popular-js-framework-with-kinda-similar-name".

My time is valuable. Not having to babysit my search engine is something I happily pay for.

Could probably get my employer to pay for it too.

If Google by some miracle has you in an experimental group where they don't mess with your queries, or if you have time to babysit it - more power to you.
Finally the quest for systems to exploit labor, can cut out the middle man.
Side question: when Tesla finally gets FSD working, will I be able to use my Tesla to make money by using it as a taxi? Or will there be licensing issues? In other words, will I own it or not?
Hence the name?
If it works it’s a really great achievement for humanity.
Yep, accidentally looked at quarterly numbers for Apple.
Good. Great to learn that hot water/steam can be substituted by ultrasound in some particularly important general-use processes. Making note of this, it looks like another building block on the quest to build the real-world equivalent of Star Trek's food replicator.
So then why did the board re-hire Sam Altman? A non-profit board should want a CEO befitting a non-profit company in my eyes, not one that promotes a for-profit culture. I see losing employees with for-profit motives as a desirable side effect of firing Sam Altman.
Moreover, with a culture of altruism, there is no principal-agent problem. You want to help others, so you do.

As soon as you introduce coercion, the type of people motivated by power are attracted to the power to coerce and corruption takes root.
The main takeaway for me is that Google is caught lying. Many things were already assumed but Google used to deny them.

- They claimed that clicks were not a ranking factor, it turns out it is.

- Also turns out that they are using Chrome data for ranking purposes (Not good for the ongoing lawsuit)

- There is also a field called something like "is small personal site" and it presumed that those sites are penalized.

You can find a summary here: https://www.reddit.com/r/SEO/comments/1d2gllz/google_caught_...
Cool idea, but it sounds dangerous. Data is often the most valuable thing for the company / project / app.
The report you're probably basing this claim on says $600 million FCF, and that is an estimate for 2024. The same report assumes an 80% revenue growth in 2024 compared to 2023. But it's hard to estimate how much their market will actually grow, especially as they've lost the broadband subsidies from the US government.

And the market price of launching the 6528 satellites that they launched is around 11.3 billion dollars (67 million dollars per Falcon 9 launch, 169 launches). Assuming this is more or less the density of satellites they will maintain, that amounts to 3.7 billion per year just in constellation maintenance costs (to which we should add peering costs, personnel, ground station costs, etc). It's really not an easy business to maintain, unless it really does grow massively, and in a distributed manner (since lots of people in a small area will compete for bandwidth).
> Getting a Perl website running has always been a challenge.

What am I missing? Getting Movable Type working was to FTP and dropping it in "cgi-bin" > making them executable > connecting to the DB you created. Every web host that runs Apache has that, doesn't it?

I've started and sold a few blogs - the Pagerank, Domain Authority, Domain Age, etc. I think I also sold an entire website with a pretty popular WordPress theme. The primary theme that started it all was acquired by Automattic, the WordPress company.

I have been blogging on my personal blog since 2001, so it's been about 24 years now. I think mine started as a Flash website, with a `/blog` serving up the first few articles from PHP (or was it ASP?). The host was in a suburb of Bombay, and I remember seeing my neighboring websites, which were pretty popular brands. Yes, I could see the files, but I could not edit them. Very secure stuff. ;-)

Here is a bit of the story I wrote on my website's 20th year https://brajeshwar.com/2021/brajeshwar.com-2021/
Powell's is the largest at 68000 sq ft.

The largest was Barnes & Noble at 105 5th Ave 10003 at 154250 sq ft but it closed.
there are meta sim-card that connect to any carrier, pricy though
In that case I think I'm missing the value prop here, doesn't that also hold for plain old php-fpm?
This doesn’t make much sense: actors don’t write their material, they are given it. They can’t write like they speak, and also they can’t improvise
I believe the response grew to the ddos in part due to silence. With no word from the inside, mob justice took over. Had the company immediately said something along the lines of this looks bad and we want to help fix it, Anonymous may not have targeted the company.
This sounds like the basis for the "Baseline Test" in Blade-Runner 2049. Fascinating write up here: https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/blade-runner-2049-how-a-key...
You shouldn't use mod_php.

It's a security nightmare. https://www.php.net/manual/en/security.apache.php

Even Apache httpd discourages the usage of mod_php. If installed, Apache recommends some extra configuration to limit memory leaks. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/HTTPD/php
If you can't even break even then your entire venture stops. Stopping development and launches is by definition failure. This seems pretty obvious.

I am also not launching rockets. It seems like I am launching exactly as many rockets as Carmack, thus by simple math I am just as successful/good at launching rockets at Carmack.
DC-X predates Carmack and SpaceX both. The actual challenge is to produce an economically viable product that can survive beyond grants and investors. This is important, as it determines whether the system continues to operate or not. Falcon 9, and not the DC-X, flies today.
GraphQL was the shiny new thing that everyone was excited about and I was also trying to learn and use it too, but I've never found a compelling use-case to use it over REST API. Now that you shared your experiences with it, it give me more reason to stay away from it. Plus, I think it's more productive to stay with the stack I'm very fluent at.
Is that not just a general issue in public? Park bench? Back of the bus? There could be human semen everywhere! It's why I always insist on wrapping my kids in plastic before letting them leave the house.
> It's a choice a parent can make until someone calls the cops because your kid is unattended.

Since an unattended kid doesn't automatically advertise "I'm being tracked so it's ok!", the cops will likely get called regardless.
You could be plucking a logo for use in a link to them or a mention on a slide, or other copying that constitutes fair use.

You could also be interested how an SVG had achieved a particular effect, like everyone learning HTML from right-click|view-source back in the late 90s. This is also generally considered fair use, though could sit in a grey area wrt what constitutes code if the SVG is a resource in an app covered by a restrictive licence (commercial, GPL-bases, etc).
> my young children continually wobbling my screen during chats.

Nudging! I loved this so much as a kid! I'd spam my dad constantly. I miss this so much, thank you for bringing back the memory. I wish I could travel back in time and experience that time again, I miss it so much. I had so much fun, everything was new and fresh.

> Yahoo chat room "Down the pub". pure fun.

Yahoo also had a bunch of games, some of which had chat rooms. It was always fun to hang out, play some games, and chat with random people. The only experience that comes close today for me are the free-to-play worlds in old school runescape where a lot of people are goofing off in chat.

> provided default Wifi password: surname + postcode

I didn't experience this, but have a related anecdote. I'd learned the default user and password to a variety of different routers so that whenever I went to a friend's house I could quickly get into the admin panel and port forward so we could let outside players join our game servers.
I start a side gig and my employer tells me to choose the side gig or my employment. I choose side gig and lose employment. I am fired.
It’s crazy there’s no better way than the bloated LinkedIn jobs and indeed. I guess word of mouth and contribution to open source is the play.
> So, no vaccines for you and your kids, right?

Depending on the person, the answer you expect might not be the actual answer you get...
But that goes against the soap opera narrative! What muck will people raise now?
It's interesting that some parents seem to be more worried about what their peers think about them, than about giving their child the opportunity to grow to be well-adjusted and independent.
The main takeaway is that Google has been lying and gaslighting about their ranking factors.

The main lies that were uncovered is that they are indeed using clicks, and chrome browser data for ranking purposes.

Summary of their lies here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/SEO/comments/1d2gllz/google_caught_...
Resignations...

Only two notable figures resigned. The others worked for the superalignement group (nothing of value, just a waste of time).
Show HN: I made a pixel art editor for Windows desktop
I make game developer tools for fun and to fill a need that I myself might encounter when trying to make a game. I figured creating a pixel art editor would be a good challenge (graphics programming is hard), I wanted it to be fast and as easy to use as possible, something that Photoshop users could comfortably use as a replacement. A 99% fully functional free demo is available for download (you just can't save the layered art files to disk using the demo version).
Did anyone ask them to sign?
The “marketplace” is the internet. Anyone can make a website and sell goods, with the same amount of effort as going to Amazon.com
Docker Hub is not accessible from Russia
Neither Swedish nor Italian, but I completely agree. It took me a long time to realise I don't actually like espresso. There is this perception that espresso is "better" than other coffee. I guess it's the shiny machines, the weird noises they make and the fact that most people can't make it at home. I always thought that home methods like cafetière, drip/filter etc. were like poor imitations of the real deal.

I've recently learnt that most Starbucks have filter coffee as an off-menu item. It's still Starbucks but it's so much better than their "Americano". Unfortunately many will refuse to make it for you (presumably because it's more effort).

It's not that espresso can't be good, but for most places this is the cheap, low effort, coffee-on-demand. And in most of southern Europe (Italy, France, Spain) the taste seems to be for burnt coffee that all tastes the same.

Also, it really annoys me that if you order two drinks (like a café con leche in Spain) they'll split a double shot into two cups with one getting clearly more coffee than the other. It's a 50% chance you're going to get the weak brown milk.
Programming for long enough also changes the way you think. I suspect that's true for every nontrivial activity.
Narrator: they fired him.
NDAs have been voided. Contracts have been changed.
Yeah, source URLs have always been hopeless to get out of ChatGPT. I suspect not because it couldn't, but because they wouldn't: citing sources would open up for copyright infringement lawsuits. So it makes sense that source URLs can be available when quoting the Atlantic now: they have signed the deal and made the pact and can't come complaining.
No need to worry about something that will never happen.
PG clarified (on the thread) that if he chose the other way (staying on YC) it would have been fine with them as well
pg disputing the narrative that Sam was forced out for being dishonest is totally valid, there is just some real interesting language parsing here to rule this not a “firing”. He lost employment at his employer’s behest and it wasn’t a layoff.
Healthcare Datasets for AI/ML
Hey guys, I built this large list of healthcare datasets from last year when I spent some time in researching and downloading them to try out various things (AI).

Hope this is useful to someone!
Deeper voice: They were forced to fire him
"We didn't want him to leave, we were very happy that he went off and started a different company while he was working for us, and when we asked him to please either work full time at the job we're paying for, he quit".

I know that Silicon Valley VC is all about relationships (read: not calling out shitty behaviour) but it's difficult to spin someone just full on walking off the job.
The funny thing about this is that it's all about reinforcement and standing up for what you believe in. If more parents reported ridiculous busybodies like this woman for harassment, rather than caving in and changing their parenting style, then more potential busybodies would be on notice that their busybody behavior won't be tolerated by the community.
I'll repeat my comment from the previous discussion, as ultrasound can be used to extract many things quickly:

Alternatively you could use a (quite affordable) ultrasonic machine designed for gentle cleaning of jewelry, dentures, glasses..

I've used one to extract fragrance from biological material for an artistic project[0], and it worked really well. Instead of having to wait for a few weeks for a tincture to finish, you put the same tincture (alcohol and material you want to extract fragrance from) into a plastic bag for just 15 minutes. Sure, it smells not quite the same, but the speed is often worth it. I've even heard about some guy trying to turn vodka into whiskey with an ultrasonic machine and wood chips.

There are quite a few ultrasonic machines on the market. I've tried EMAG and multiple Chinese no-name machines that are just as powerful but cheaper. Sadly the no-name machines are quite a bit louder - you can't stay in the same room while it's running basically. Still, they all work well for this kind of fast and dirty extraction.

[0] https://rybakov.com/blog/smelling_cz/ (second half of the page)
Yeah. The provided explanation certainly sounds like firing to me. If he had been performing at a level worthy of his continued employment he wouldn't have gotten the ultimatum.

It doesn't sound like he was incapable of doing that - just incapable of doing that while also running OpenAI.
On paper - Europeans, from the average voter to the top political leaders, are vastly more educated than they were in the 1930's. Or 1910's. Or 1810's. Or ...

In practice - one wonders whether modern "education" is of any real-world use. The illiterate peasant soldiers of the 1520's knew that to keep re-loading their muskets, they needed a steady supply of musket balls, and of wadding, and of gunpowder, and so on.
Show HN: AI powered image search across multiple folders for macOS
This is MVP for semantic searching app (just photo first).

It works fully on-device, running multi-langual CLIP model using ONNX and vector database.

The folders are monitored for changes and the index is automatically updated.

Model: https://huggingface.co/sentence-transformers/clip-ViT-B-32-m...
How exactly will a robotaxi ride ever reach zero marginal cost?
That is the exact scenario covered in the post you are replying to.
I don't think any obvious 10%+ opportunities have been overlooked. Go is optimizing for fast and simple builds, which is a bit at odds with optimal code gen. So I think the biggest opportunity is to use Go implementations that are based on aggressively optimizing compilers such as LLVM and GCC. But those implementations tend to be a few major versions behind and are likely to be less stable than the official compiler.

That being said, I'm sure there are a lot of remaining incremental optimization opportunities that could add up to 10% over time. For example a faster map implementation [1]. I'm sure there is more.

Another recent perf opportunity is using pgo [2] which can get you 10% in some cases. Shameless plug: We recently GA'ed our support for it at Datadog [3].

[1] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/54766
[2] https://go.dev/doc/pgo
[3] https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/datadog-pgo-go/
The sad thing is that constantly tracking the child won't help with these problems. If someone wants to murder a child, a tracker watch isn't going to stop them. If someone wants to kidnap a child, a tracker watch is going to be ripped off and discarded (along with a smartphone, if they have one).
Umm, are you saying its mutually assured destruction for the book pirate (AI company) and api wrapper startup?
In the full context of their statement, many modern databases separate the data storage component. RDS Aurora, etc.
Well PG, you didn't let him stay. Not to imply that you were the bad guy, or this was a bad decision. The idea that you fired sam was certainly a lot more gangster than this story.

In light of sams public perception I find it interesting that PG is clearing the air NOW.

EDIT: it needs to be stated that "when we found out from a press release that our CEO would be double dipping at another for profit venture..." is shitty way to find out your CEO is moonlighting. The fact that you DIDNT fire him on the spot isnt the best look.
Exposure to microplastics, forever chemicals and pesticides is a frequent topic of open conversation and criticism. Those remain politically intransigent because of competing economic interests.

By comparison, it's hard to even approach a discussion about environmental pollution if it intersects with some issue regular people find personally important like birth control.
This is a bit over the top and stereotypes/over-generalises...

Italian food is genuinely good, but is now, in my opinion, also too beholden to traditions and tribalism (food must be prepared in this way and you are wrong otherwise), and I perceive a relative lack of openness to different cuisines compared to some other countries.

Italian coffee is built on dark roasts of non-specialty (and often even Robusta) beans, which works well with milk-based drinks like cappuccinos but can also work well for espresso and moka brews too. Despite having a preference for lighter roasts I still enjoyed the coffee on my trip to Rome last year, and actually I would easily choose it over the big brand chains like Starbucks.

What I find Italy is missing is the so-called 'third-wave', where light and medium roasts are preferred and higher quality (think specialty or single-origin, typically always Arabica) beans are typically used. I believe that this is partly due to the fact that espresso prices are regulated in many parts of Italy to be as low as €1-1.50 and so the business model just doesn't work unless the beans are cheap too.
I agree with every single word that you say including the part where they generate their phrases with an algorithm which I find very clever.

Poor man's LLM is not meant as contempt of the art but more for the LLMs if at all.
Sqlite is obscenely performant as Key Value store, though.
Can someone quote the whole thing here? Not everyone has a twitter / X account.
CDW?

https://www.cdw.com/category/storage-hard-drives/hard-drives...
For context, Helen Tonor [0] was a board member of OpenAI before they tried to fire Sam Altman. She claimed that Sam was fired by YC in a recent interview [1]. In the interview, she implied that Sam's firing at YC was kept quiet and that there was something underhanded about it.

[0] https://x.com/hlntnr

[1] https://link.chtbl.com/TEDAI
> I’m guessing the better “prize” is keeping kids from getting their first iPhone in school - most teenagers greatly prefer iPhones.

This is what I was thinking -- get the kids into Google's ecosystem earlier, because maybe they'll stay there as they get older. That alone is worth a lot to them.
I'm fine if I can get a reasonable number of years out of it. I'm not expecting infinite updates forever for $9.99. 1-2y for this would be disappointing but not even a bad deal. On Halide it seems the problem is more "pricing in general" - a 1 year subscription costs more than the one time purchase in this app so naturally expecting get and keep the app plus years of updates is a bit eyewatering for a camera app (but not necessarily because of the pricing model/that it switches major versions in long cycles).
RelMeAuth
Major differences of Bus/Tram/Metro vs Car (robo or not) is number of passengers that can be transported per "time"/"dolar/"citi space used". And my feeling is that cars are not on the wining side here. And remember Bus/Tram/Metro can also be driverless.
This is also what I realized when memorizing Qur'an. It's really felt when there are some similar "nodes" that makes you confused on what should be the next node. Like if line 1, 16, 78 is almost the same, when you encounter one of them you'll be confused whether to continue to line 2, 17, or 79.
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> If understanding something deeply is necessary in order to memorize it well, then one might achieve understanding as a secondary effect by aiming to memorize something by heart.

I heard there are people who memorise the Quran without knowing the slightest bit of Arabic?

And there's also the Kiwi chap, Nigel Richards, who memorised the whole French Scrabble dictionary in order to win the French world Scrabble championship, without learning any French in the process.

(Whether you call what he did to the French word list 'understanding' is up for debate, I guess. I am fairly sure he went much deeper into understanding the underlying probability distributions of letters in French words than most speakers, but he couldn't read a newspaper.)
I think that you can't work as a CEO at one company and a responsible role at another one. Do you invest your whole life for two companies?
This is not showing what you would always do, it's showing something novel that you could do.
> pg disputing the narrative that Sam was forced out for being dishonest

Yet he doesn't do that (in this tweet) as it's only an alternative reason and does not address those accusations.