skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are many clues that this article is employing some amount of dramatic storytelling. That said, stories of people feeling calm in extreme situations are pretty common, so your intuition and logic might be off here, especially if you lack experience skydiving.

Jumping out of a plane is very different than being on your roof. When I jumped, part of it was wanting to conquer my fears, heights being one of them. I discovered that fear of heights doesn’t occur to me when looking out an airplane door, you’re high enough that the fall is abstract and impact not immediately imminent. Jumping was easier than it is to clean my rain gutters, I still get weak knees on a ladder.

It seems like you’re thinking of worrying about death before an accident starts, and even before choosing to skydive, not during a mishap. I’ve never worried about dying during an evolving accident, and it makes complete sense to me, having had a few, that lots of people would say they weren’t thinking about dying while it was happening. You usually don’t have time to. There might be some panic without specific thoughts of death, or there might be thoughts about how to fix the situation, but I think it’s common to not think about death while something is going wrong, at least for survivors. I’m sure there are situations where the outcome becomes obvious and there’s nothing you can do, but I suffer from survivor bias and can’t ask them.
Would you know roughly how much IEEE charges for access to their salary survey?
So cheap it didn't cost them a dime :P (They were scrap-metal payments in kind for Pepsi products, because the ruble was a closed currency and the soviets didn't have much foreign currency)
Houses largely don't get built without being presold. Presales are not going to happen without a significant interest rate drop. Interest rates aren't going to drop. This isn't the multifamily market under discussion. Rent prices have significantly more wiggle room under market forces than does new single family construction, the latter which needs to be profitable upon sale instead of over 30 years.
>When land value increases it is not because of anything the landowner did, but because of what society did. The gains should go to society.

Nicely landscaping your home can increase the surrounding home values, especially when other neighbors do it also. Conversely if neighbors have junker cars and trash on their property or if you're in a city surrounded by abandoned buildings, land value decreases.
My solution was similar but less extreme: candles or warm low output LEDs that are not ceiling-mounted.

Electronics are allowed until the last hour before bed, but after 7pm or so only with a blue light filter and minimum brightness, and only with text content, no video or gaming.

The second I break these rules I immediately have trouble falling asleep, like clockwork. Which of course I periodically do for a media or video game dive, then I either accept the crappy sleep or I take a pill.
Perhaps you mean Magic:

http://opencircuitdesign.com/magic/
> "the user has requested not to save this"

Yea it has stuff for these use cases.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy-and-cont...
I remember playing a version of this on a TI programmable calculator back in the 80s. There was also a graphical version for an assortment of 8-bit computers where you could navigate over the lunar surface in search of a flat landing area.
That long covid is most likely a made up thing or a catch-all term for a lot of different things that has nothing to do with covid.
Generalizing this (doing half a step away from GPT-specifics), would it be true to say the following?

"If you train your logic machine on a bunch of medical textbooks and prompt it to tell you a cure for Alzheimer's, it won't tell you a cure, it will tell you what those textbooks have said about curing Alzheimer's."

Because I suspect not. GPT seems mostly limited to regurgitating+remixing what it read, but other algorithms with better logic could be able to essentially do a meta study: take the results from all Alzheimer's experiments we've done and narrow down the solution space to beyond what humans achieved so far. A human may not have the headspace to incorporate all relevant results at once whereas a computer might

Asking GPT to "think step by step" helps it, so clearly it has some form of this necessary logic, and it also performs well at "here's some data, transform it for me". It has limitations in both how good its logic is and the window across which it can do these transformations (but it can remember vastly more data from training than from the input token window, so perhaps that's a partial workaround). Since it does have both capabilities, it does not seem insurmountable to extend it: I'm not sure we can rule out that an evolution of GPT can find Alzheimer's cure within existing data, let alone a system even more suited to this task (still far short of needing AGI)

This requires the data to contain the necessary building blocks for a solution, but the quote seems to dismiss the option altogether even if the data did contain all information (but not yet the worked-out solution) for identifying a cure
> In canada net migration is many many many more times the building of houses

Okay but that doesn’t say anything about immigration versus commercial land ownership, which was my point. You’re saying immigration influences house purchases and I don’t disagree, I’m just questioning the magnitude of that effect compared to commercial land ownership.
How is it desperate?

You don't seem to understand how marginal tax rate works. It's OK, almost no one on the far right does, but almost everyone knows a little about that story about Pomperipossa.

You're like a machine, just ticking away with confidence. I hope I get to see your movement die out during my lifetime.
I think long COVID is pretty interesting? It is also unpredictable with a new symptom being added every day (200 symptoms and still going).
Linux is fine with lower ram. but it will obviously use more for caching.

and nobody truly bought sgi machines with 16mb ram. not even pizza boxes.
This is about a person that gets invited to hold presentations to upper management, and thus unlikely to have to "scramble".
If your goal is to build parsers, KV stores, and play with network programming, Go is going to be the most productive for those goals. It will get out of your way, and the “correct” was will be fairly straightforward. C++ is a language with decades of history, and a whole mess of “dialects” out there, and these will all distract you from building things.

Once you’ve cut your teeth with a few projects, I’d recommend Rust first, then C++. I built good habits fighting with the borrow checker that improved the C++ I wrote out of the gate.
How to back up and restore supervised iOS devices without losing any data
All the financial difficulties were brought on by one person and one person only. The debt structuring was bad, but could work. Pre acquisition the revenue and profitability was growing. Instead of coming in, keeping things as is, understanding the business and making changes over time, he went spitefully nuclear and stripped the business back to bare bones. And that still would’ve worked, but instead he went ahead and antagonized the only source of revenue he had, the advertisers. At that point, the business no longer is viable.
imho. (!)

disclaimer: i'm a tech guy / software-developer etc., no experience in HR ;))

but i worked for countless startups during the last ... decades, in my experience: you have to look for 3 things

in short:

1. generalists / "T-shaped" people

2. self learning

3. "passion for the cause"

why?

ad 1. generalists: in this early stage you need people with a "broader" knowhow, you can't have those "single trick ponies" who are focused on a very narrow skill-set and are not willing to do whats necessary right now.

i read a lot about "T-shaped" people: generalists with certain areas of deep knowledge.

idk. for example. you are looking for a software-developer, ok ... look for people, who have deep knowledge in software-development, but they should also display interest and knowledge in a lot of other areas...

you will need this at some time in the future, you are hiring your first employees ... you don't have the "luxury" to have people on payroll for every task which could come up during "doing things in the real world", you need to have people who are willing to "get their hands dirty" outside of their "primary area of knowledge"/their "comfort zone".

ad 2. good "self learner": as i stated above, you'll discover problems which need to be addressed "as you go". and as you are trying to work out how to solve those things, being able to delve into new areas quickly w/o a lot of outside help besides "the internet" is key.

ad 3. "passion for the cause", read: willing to work for low salaries:

i'm from europe, we don't get "flooded with VC money" just by spitting out a few buzzwords on a business-plan.

so you'll have limited resources - read: money. you won't be able to pay FAANG salaries etc. so you need good - or at least decent - people who are willing to work for relative "low salaries", at least at first...

and we all know the statistics about how likely startups fail, so for most "first employees" this low-paying job will be the only thing they get out of this adventure ...

ah, and the experience / hopefully fun & a good-looking entry on their resume, which can be worth a lot more than money ;))

just my 0.02€
Instead of maps.me I suggest to use https://organicmaps.app/, the privacy-respecting fork, since maps.me was sold to a payment processor. OrganicMaps is a fork from the original founders.
As per the spec there's no formal limits on size, although in practice there can be in several levels:

- Your SDK's exporter

- Collector processors and general memory limitations based on deployment

- Telemetry backend (this is usually the one that hits people)

Do you know where the source of this rejection happened? My guess would be backend, since some will (surprisingly) have rather small limits on spans and span attributes.
In your opinion, how do you weigh collateral damage when it comes to censorship and free speech?

I've always been of the mind that I'd rather let 10 guilty people walk free than imprison one innocent person. I extend that to free speech as well. I'd rather let 10 lible or slander complaints work their way through the court system rather than wrongfully censoring one person's speech.
The only one blocking aid right now is Egypt in the Rafa crossing. Israel is literally bringing in aid themselves again what other country warns a civilian population before it attacks? Does Russia warn Ukraine civilians?
the industry standard is to hire Oracle or SAP, depending on the side of the pond
And that is how you support your local industry.
GPT-4 is the best coding model by far and you can’t fine tune it yet. Start with GPT-4 and RAG.

Fine tune is good for changing behavior. For example you could create a dataset that makes the model directly output fully formed projects. Using RAG alone would require a bunch of prompt engineering to get the same.
There are open source variants: https://huggingface.co/prithivida/Splade_PP_en_v1
The DoD should get serious about communication software.
Well, telemetry is defined as logs, metrics, traces... So it kinda makes sense that OTEL supports the major aspects of telemetry.
Yah, some people do explicitly risk seek. But you don't need that to be drawn to a risky thing.

Indeed, the times in an airplane where I acutely felt the risk were not fun and were not what I was looking for at all.
Thanks for your share, I'm learning Bun.
+1 for Google Apps Script. I’ve built dashboards in sheets using Apps Script to call web services. I think you can even make your Apps Script act as a rudimentary FAAS using the sheet as a database.
The mountains are awesome but idk how many people are moving to Seattle for the weather haha
Ask HN: ECC Memory vs. DDR5 for Stability?
I'm looking into building a new computer soon. With DDR5 having single bit error correction, is ECC memory worth it for desktop computers? I tend to keep my machines for a long time and tend to notice some instability as the memory gets older (seems to be memory in at least 1 case as changing the memory helped). I was planning to do ECC this time, but DDR5 sounds like it could be good enough for me. I'm wondering if anyone has any input on that.
>Recall is neither the first nor the last thing to record and store your actions and data. Why is it such a big problem?

Not agreeing to something that one does not want, in spite of tolerating qualitatively similar yet different objects that one also does want not want, is not "hypocrisy". It's a boundary.

Are you unfamiliar with the concept of boundaries?

I feel like I'm in an argument with a psychologically abusive SO.

You imply a defect in rationality via your misuse or misunderstanding of vocabulary.

As what? A means of browbeating people into acceptance?

Your need to resort to such a non-agreeable tactic, alone, should inform you that your logic is the problem if not your motive or Recall itself.

It is within everyone's right, and within the bounds of rationality, to reject Recall on its qualitative differences, on the sole fact that they don't want one more tracker when they really don't want the first, or because others seem strangely over-interested in making poor yet insistent arguments in favor of it.

I mean, if it's just one more tracker than why does anyone need it? Right?

Or is the singular nature of Recall that makes it uniquely desirable to some the reason that it is rationally undesirable to others?

Denial of that nature of Recall is what is hypocritical.

>Most people are in fact fine with tracking,

Do "most" people have the option of easily turning tracking completely off? Most are "fine" with it?

Except the ones that aren't, who are tend to also be against having second to second activity recorded. Right?

And who are significant enough that you feel compelled to argue with them here.

>the commons do not fucking care about digital privacy

ooph, the spicy language. I'm persuaded.

>As for intrusions (presumably you mean attacks, whether digital or physical?)

No, as the attack vs tracking difference of user data being sent to an off-site server, and then sold or otherwise, is immaterial when the user isn't aware of the nature of the data being sent if they are aware of it being sent at all. With Recall and for most users, the possibility that screenshot data would be remotely accessed certainly falls under the category of "intrusion". In spite of legalese.

>it's not so much most people are fine with it so much as... it's all far above their paygrades.

Boom
Are you sure he's singing untempered?

Sounds more like vernacular singing without precise tuning.
Not sure if the mention of the SponsorBlock browser extension in the article is correct.

To my knowledge, this extension doesn't block programmatic ads (off-stream) like regular ad blockers do. Instead, it "blocks" ads that creators include in their videos (e.g., "This video is sponsored by Squarespace") by automatically skipping these segments using crowdsourced timestamp data reported by users. It's similar to how you can manually jump ahead on the video timeline.

I believe this extension was affected by YouTube's recent changes because now some videos are longer due to on-stream ads, causing the timestamps to be out of sync for users watching these videos.

However, I could be mistaken.
Spoken Egyptian in Age of Mythology
It's pretty easy to go archive.is and get the link yourself.
> My father used to complain that every new CEO at his company would first fire a bunch of people to make stock go up

Yup. My last company had a disastrous CEO who used public layoffs as his only lever. It worked once, despite a total of four pulls. The engineering departments were gutted and nobody really knew how everything worked anymore.

Somehow the company is still alive, though with a share price now about 1/20th what it was and 1/60th its typical highs.
America's assassination attempt on Huawei is backfiring
Variations on the same basic idea compete all the time, it doesn't mean people are out of ideas; it's literally the opposite.
But that same thing can be said of the GDP in the EU, it's not different. Plenty of actors skimming money off the top, or just government regulations sucking a few percent of GDP here or there (which is likely much worse in the EU).

So you're still comparing like to like.

And your example of 3% "skimming" ignores that most of that fee gets kicked back to consumers.
Questions? I have many. Where do you get the majority of your news?

We don't engage in flaming here, so I'll leave it at that.
Humans Need Not Apply (2014) [video]
Nope, powers some low-level infrastructure-ish stuff.
> unit quaternions also don’t form a vector space

Unit quaternions are the lie group. If you want something you can add willy-nilly, you want the lie algebra of all quaternions, which represent rotational velocities, just as axis-angle represents rotational velocities.

Comparing unit quaternions to axis-angle is a bit of a category error - it would be more appropriate to compare unit quaternions to rotation matrices, and all quaternions to axis-angle.

> One advantage of using quaternions is how easy the exponential map is to compute—if you don’t need a rotation matrix, it’s a good option.

You rarely need a rotation matrix at all when using quaternions. As mentioned in the article, you can compute rotations using `pqp^-1`.

I think the easiest way to understand quaternions is just to read about geometric algebra. It took hundreds of years to invent quaternions, but once you understand geometric algebra (which is shockingly simple), you can invent quaternions in just a few minutes. I found this article to be a good intro several years ago: https://crypto.stanford.edu/~blynn/haskell/ga.html
Can confirm. Followed instructions, got the camera facing the same in both cases (left, with phone upside down). I interpreted the 180 part as flipping the phone around the horizontal axis.
I don't think you understand the financial industry if you think it's "rents".
An executable from a nightly build kept crashing and I got tasked with fixing it. I was a novice back then and spent most of the day trying to figure out what was happening, and when looking at the disassembly I saw it was crashing at a 'hlt' instruction, which shouldn't have been there.

Next day, after another nightly build, no more crashes. I did a binary diff between the crashing version and the new one, it was a single bit. A bit flip on the build server.
Building the Zed Text Editor [video]
+ MacOS + iPadOS
Link to blogpost here: https://pointieststick.com/2024/06/09/new-human-interface-gu...

Link to guidelines here: https://develop.kde.org/hig/
I'm not sure I'd use your kids alone as a representation of the experience of day care for the entire population.

And you're only counting the benefits of daycare, but ignoring the opportunity cost of less time with parents and the benefits that come from that.

I don't disagree that there are benefits to daycare, but where is the optimum? A few hours a day? Or the kids in daycare from 8am to 6pm, so they see their parents for maybe 2 hours a day before bed time?
You can absolutely use just the OTel APIs and use something else besides the OTel SDK. Here is a blog post about how we did it with eBPF: https://odigos.io/blog/Integrating-manual-and-auto
Yes, and they’re notorious for rejecting credit cards. They can also shut down your machines at any time if paying users want more capacity. I moved off after they killed my machine and caused me to lose a bunch of data because I couldn’t spin up another (capacity full)
To tech founder or not to tech founder, that is the question
I'll catch you up to speed real quick:
I've been working through my startup's initial design phase. This has consisted of getting initial feedback and "usage" from users through paper mock-ups I've made which then turned into Figma designs that I've been testing and iterating on with users.
Over the past couple of weeks, I've thrown together an MVP where initial users can sign up and use my platform. I plan to have this live and usable within the next week.

I'm not a technical guy. I mean, I know enough to get my way around and to talk the talk -- but if any respectable developer took a look at my code littered with mementos from GPT4 and his cousin Claude, they'd probably break out in hives.

I'm really good at getting stuff done one way or another, but as I'm looking to continue to grow and expand this puppy, I think it wise to bring on a co-founder. Ideally, one that can tango with developing a bit better than I can. I want to hone my focus more on the sales, raising capital, marketing, and design side of things (these are where my true and natural strengths lie)

Now here's my problem/question: I've got 2 chaps I'm looking at to bring in as tech-focused co-founders. I know both of them and have worked extensively with one of them. Both are hard-working, eager, and passionate fellas, but both are probably around my level in technical skill (we're all in the same Information Systems program at university). I've ran a startup before (non-tech) so I learned through first-hand experience how important the soft skills of your cofounders are (do you get along with them, do they learn fast, are they hard-working, etc.), but I'm wondering if in this case I should aim to grab a co-founder or 2 that are a bit more skilled in development than I am. OR do I stick with these 2 who aren't gonna build anything revolutionary, but, will be able to make quick iterations as we receive user/customer feedback in this infant stage?

At this point, I don't need or want the world's most perfect and efficient program, I want something that is just enough for our users and allows us to build based on their feedback. However, I also want to make sure I'm not taking too many shortcuts to the point where I'm screwing myself and the company over in the future.

I'm open to any and all ideas, suggestions, advice, or good jokes so let em' rip!
Also, if any of you developers think you might be interested, feel free to slide into my dms to learn more about the startup.
Doing really nuanced classification of documents at very large scale. Needle in the haystack type problems.
To say nothing of sanctions, they're certainly swimming in beef: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40685175
We used the same book with our kids, and are encountering the same issue. The books that are at the proper reading level are often not appropriate from a content perspective.

I work in literacy and am aware of a number of companies that are working to develop solutions that allow teachers/parents to level up/down reading materials to address this mismatch.
One thing about this song that the article doesn't really go into is that the chords are just insane, really unusual, and yet it works perfectly - it sounds very different to your average song but it doesn't sound wrong or off-key.
They try harder you know.
Never say never: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulovi%C4%87
I’m doing non-interactive tasks, but in terms of the A6000 running llama3 70b in chat mode it’s as usable as any of the commercial offerings in terms of speed. I read quickly and it’s faster than I read.
That safe browsing thing is more recent. I was receiving so many requests from the Italian government that I had to do something quick, otherwise they'd have shut the website down.

As for the logs, vercel only has runtime logs. I do not store them. This is why it’s “privacy respecting” and not “privacy protecting” because maglit is not supposed to be the end all be all for privacy but It does have some nice security and privacy features for a FOSS project.

The amount of scammers that used it before the safe browsing check was insane. People used to message me about how some links were being used to create fake links for their profiles and what not.
> I'm just making up problems to worry about.

Isn’t that what parenthood is all about?
Libera, nowadays