skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is "deep tech"? Like, not a CRUD web app? Hardware? AI/ML?
> because of political and ideological priorities over pragmatism

FWIW, depending on cheap Russian gas was very pragmatical and it worked well for the economy.
I wish I had the problem of sleeping too deep. I don't even set an alarm because I wake up at 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 even if I want to sleep until 8:30. And yes, I go to bed at 11.
In the future, car batteries can be made from trees
There are some configurations that can allegedly allow SQLite to be more suited to higher and more concurrent load. I have never had to use them but people have written about it like at: https://kerkour.com/sqlite-for-servers
Nice overview/details. Do you plan on adding more metrics?

Idea for a metric:
- Number of pixels that stays the same between input/output.
- Histogram changes.
The big problem is that order is a thing at all. Positional arguments are the mistake, any discussion based on that mistake is garbage-in-garbage-out. Partial application should be based on named arguments, just like all functional calls (except some very specific and rare exceptions).
In my opinion, you should take the difference between their market salary and the salary they're being offered, and consider that an investment by the employee at the upcoming (not past) valuation.

For example if they're in SF and they're hiring a senior first engineer that would maybe make 250k elsewhere, and they're offering them 125k, and they would take the classic 7% for 125k, then 7% is a good starting point. (Of course if they already have the YC investment, then that would go down dramatically)

If that equity vests over 4 years, then frankly maybe 28% is a better starting point.

But what's fair isn't really relevant. What's relevant is what the market demand and supply is. If there's some dolt who would happily take 1.5% as a first engineer ("founding engineer") for a $125k salary cut, then the founders would be idiots not to take that deal. And frankly, if that $125k salary cut gets them their dream job, then maybe they're not even dumb for doing it.
Support in for high level backends almost always comes down to c++ either way.
That goes for NPUs (which are really fragmented anyway, i.e. there is no uniform API), and and also for JAX' TPU backend (which iirc is using XLA).
This was an official pip. No specific meeting with an HR person, but htey were involved. There was paperwork, formal list of goals/expectations, timeline, I had to agree. There was an evaluation, there was an end date.
Exactly, i have website that is visited by couple people a day and I just want to store some data on every action in one table + some settings in DB. Perfect for SQLite and anything else if overkill. Also if I ever want to rewrite it in the future its not a big thing, its just a database.
Engagement tuned algorithms degrade your internet experience, but you don't need to subject yourself to them. There is still lots of quality, organic, human written content on the web. If you are seeing too much AI slop, your platform is failing, stop using Facebook et al.

Today I recomment using tools like Mastodon and RSS, they are a breath of fresh air. You may encounter AI generated or shallow content, but you can prevent it by unfollowing or blocking. Curate your news feed. Your mental health is worth the effort.

As the major social networks continue to enshittify themselves, interest in indieweb and the fediverse is growing. I've been building an RSS directory based on parsing blogrolls to form a recommendation network, as one example. It's still an early release.

- https://indiewebify.me/

- https://alexsci.com/rss-blogroll-network/
> We haven't seen independent reviews of these Qualcomm chips yet, but not even 3 years later and it sure looks like the entire PC market is about to leapfrog Apple.

How? There is barely any software for Windows that is made for ARM, much less drivers for all the various kinds of gadgets people have or the various anticheat crapware, and without a solid runtime translation layer similar to Rosetta and backing for it in hardware (memory access orders, other acceleration stuff) any Windows effort will fall flat on its face as it did some years ago.
> the essay mentioned a comic series called BLAME, in which machines programmed to build cities, buildings, infrastructure, got derailed after humanity perished, endlessly creating walkways and stairs and buildings to nowhere, for nobody, forever unempeded, as they were programmed.

This is BLAME! (with the bang) by Tsutomu Nihei. There's a one tankobon prequel: NOISE.

Definitely a recommended read. The art is magnificent, the mastery of perspective incredible, managing to give you a sense of the unconceivable scale of the megastructure and by way of consequence, the mind-boggling energy involved in some events. It made me feel vertigo in spite of the small tankobon pages. The storytelling is top notch: few words, but a very complex story and setting connected through a ton of small details.

SNIKT! is a crossover with Wolferine (or rather, Logan), an unexpectedly excellent rendition of the character.
making cars safer means reducing by design speeds to <30km/h in cities + traffic calming infra(speed bumps, bollards, curbs etc), and including pedestrian fatality risk in evaluating car safety so that bigger cars will be deprioritized
> The hash can be on the web server.

Wait, wasn't the hash supposed to help when the web server is compromised?

Man in the middle is also a problem for the hash. I really don't see what this theatre is about...
I didn’t write the original comment but I would guess that “low touch” means “requires less time from a knowledgeable human.”
I think the popular perception is that his theory is extremely important, as far as I know the academic consensus is that while hugely influential it is long obsolete.
Good marketing for how big Danish market is for these noodles.
> Plan around it being worth zero and go in eyes wide open.

This is the best advice I have seen on HN about start-ups. Note: I have seen it repeated multiple times.
Does Gleam lean on e.g. Ocaml like Elixir leans on Ruby or?
My daughter (6) loves experiments, but honestly all the chemistry sets and similar we've bought have been quite boring, except for the bog standard baking soda/citric acid/green coloring snot volcano.

I like chemteacherphil on YT, who does a lot of visually fun experiments, many involving fire, and I would definitely buy packaged products of some of those, instead of trying to source chemicals/metals/tools for home (not having access to our own lab).
Turkish student arrested for using AI to cheat in university exam
Most can even file for personal bankruptcy and then lounge around in their parent's home for a bit. (Or a house in the name of their spouse-with-a-prenup.)
My parents didn't have a garage for me to found a business in.

When people helpfully suggest, why don't you start your own business, they usually have a substantially bigger than average support network and liquidity to begin with. I never get those suggestions from people who've actually experienced hardship due to job loss or financial stress.
But not very strategic.
So a billion years of evolutionary search plus 20 years of finetuning is a better method?
Tesla shareholder sues Musk to return billions in alleged unlawful profits
"By printing more money you're not making more pie, just dividing the existing pie into thinner slices."

So if you need a haircut but can't afford one, and I give you a new £10 note to get a haircut, and the barber works the extra 10 minutes to do that haircut and earn that £10 there's no new pie there.

Looks like 10 minutes more output to me.

"Printing more money" does make more pie. That's exactly what happens every time a loan is taken out, or government hires somebody who would otherwise be unemployed.

"Printing more money" leads to "shredding more money" via loan repayments and increased tax take, all via increases in the utilisation of existing resources.

That because "printing more money" is about buying something. That something has to at least potentially exist or more money will not be printed and circulated in the first place.
Can't think of anyone I regard higher. Stick in there Noam
I found something that was supposedly in stock with 2 or 3 in a particular store. I drove to that store, looked everywhere and finally gave up and asked an associate. This person walks to a different aisle, looks up in the higher areas and then says that “only 3 in stock isn’t that high of a number and that they probably don’t have it.” I drove to Harbor Freight and made my purchase of a slightly lesser but available floor-stand belt/disc sander.
Would it be any better if Qualcomm developed their own proprietary RISC-V cores with proprietary/patented extensions that most software would be reliant on? Currently Qualcomm and ARM are somewhat balancing each other out, with RISC-V if Qualcomm got significantly ahead they'd probably be in a position where it would be impossible for anyone to compete against them (I can't really see any reason for them to make their extensions freely available to their competitors).
Although it has already been said close to 137 times, this is the best read I've had this year, although that's likely an understatement.
I love the hacking spirit and how they always settle on the simplest solution, whether from a technical standpoint or an investigative one.

Great job, and I'm glad they got the recognition they deserve.
Shout out to the Finnish police as well for not letting their ego interfere with information brought to them by a couple of random amateurs.
This should be the norm, but sadly it isn’t.
That one we'd like to do at home, if I could get my hands on an LPS lamp, there's a lot of wrongly marked bulbs out there, afaict.
The only problem with gas is that Germany does not have its own gas. After Russian supply stopped it has to buy it from Azerbaijan, which not only has its own trail of human and civil rights abuse as well as ongoing military aggression, but also is plausibly suspected in reselling the same Russian gas.
When I start a project, my priority will be SQLite>PostgreSQL>Others.

If the application only runs on one server, then definitely SQLite. That means you do not need fail over, replication or other fancy features. Why not simple SQLite?

A complex system is more likely to have problems. Network, TLS, runtime, your application may have so many reasons to crash. But for SQLite, just check IO. If it does not have problem, then you check your application.
> I love Noam Chomsky so much

±1
by record, I mean precisely that. Apple stores this data. As the Key bearer it has significant control.

Moreover, because apple has great PR, you don't hear about privacy breeches. Everyone seems to forget they made a super cheap and for a long time undetectable stalking service. Despite the warnings. (AirTag)

Had that been Facebook or Google, it would have been the end of the feature. They have improved the unauthorised tracking flow, but its really quite unreliable with ios, and really bad in android still.

> You should look more into their security architecture if you’re curious about stuff like this.

I have, and its a brilliant manifesto. I especially love the documentation on PCC.

but, its crammed full of implied actions that aren't the case For example: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/108756

> If you choose to enable Advanced Data Protection, the majority of your iCloud data – including iCloud Backup, Photos, Notes and more – is protected using end-to-end encryption.

Ok good, so its not much different to normal right?

> When you turn on Advanced Data Protection, access to your iCloud data on the web at iCloud.com is disabled

Which leads me to this:

> It seems like you think this means Apple somehow has access and stores all that information in their cloud and we just have to hope/trust that they don’t decide they want to poke around in it?

You're damn right I do. Its the same with Google, and Facebook. We have no real way of verifying that trust. People trust Apple, because they are great at PR. But are they actually good at privacy? We have no real way of finding out, because they also have really reactive lawyers.

and thats my point, we are basically here: https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/11gxpcu/our_little_... but with apple.
> In shopping mall design, the Gruen transfer (also known as the Gruen effect) is the moment when consumers enter a shopping mall or store and, surrounded by an intentionally confusing layout, lose track of their original intentions, making them more susceptible to making impulse buys. It is named after Austrian architect Victor Gruen, who disapproved of such manipulative techniques.

> The Gruen transfer is a psychological phenomenon in which an idealised hyperreality is realized by deliberate reconstruction, providing a sense of safety and calm through exceptional familiarity. In a speech in London in 1978, Victor Gruen disavowed shopping mall developments as having "bastardised" his ideas: "I refuse to pay alimony for those bastard developments."

(citing in case the article ever gets edited in the future)

Based on these descriptions it sounds more like Victor Gruen first came up with the technique described in the second paragraph, with good intentions behind it. Then, after implementing said ideas, the effect described first was discovered, and mall owners and other shops started doing this on purpose.

Maybe it would be better, and also more fair to Victor Gruen, to explicitly distinguish two as "Gruen transfer" and "Gruen effect", with the transfer causing the effect?

(also, as an aside: assuming my interpretation is correct, it's kind of funny that for once Stigler's Law of Eponymy[0] doesn't apply, but in a monkey's paw kind of twist it still backfired)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler%27s_law_of_eponymy
Ha. I was on the simple choice iirc, and when they decided they wanted to force an upgrade, they just broke all the data, and the only fix was to change plans.
Actually I'm using pbkdf2 with 100000 iterations of sha256 for the encryption, but not for hashing the pass. That will certainly add a few orders of magnitude to the infeasibility of cracking the password hash when the server itself is not to be trusted. I'll implement that and thanks for bringing it to my attention.

But I don't think a strong password can be cracked that quickly. Let's say you use a 12 character long lowercase, uppercase, digits and some specials chars. That should give you at least 60^12 possibilities. At 1BH/s, that would take 70k years. Is my calculation wrong?
Are there any places in the first world where this isn’t true?
I have never tried running these verifiers, so I'm not sure they work.
https://github.com/michaelhodel/re-arc/blob/main/verifiers.p...
This episode is more of an ad for their cloud offering, rather than talking about SQLite and the reasons for the hype.
What a waste of resources. The nuclear plants were up and running. Could be running for decated with good maintanance. The most of the costs were already paid. And now:

Germany won the European Union's informal approval to pay billions of euros to gas powered plants to be able to stabilise the grid when unsteady renewable energy supplies fall short, people familiar with the negotiations told Reuters on Friday.

People in my country are upset when gas and coal barons get rich. But we are making them rich by our wrong decisions.
A Brief History of Data Breaches
Different Take on NumPy Broadcasting–Strange Practices at the Broadcaster's Inn
> This one is supposed to have an actual third flash and no beeps.

Nope, it has only two flashes in reality :)

If, like me, you are perceiving three when focusing on the + then the illusion is working. When I focus on the line where the flashes appear then I can clearly see there are actually only two flashes.
This has nothing to do with open source. For GraphHopper I researched many papers regarding fast routing algorithms or advanced data structures etc ... and I'm pretty sure that this is true for other open source projects too.

It could be even the opposite: because many people can look into the code the code converges to the state of the art.
Would it be any better for the whole market if Qualcomm developed their own proprietary RISC-V cores with proprietary/patented extensions that most software would be reliant on? There wouldn't be any equivalent of ARM to keep them grounded and they'd have zero incentives to give away their IP for free to their competitors (or even license it).
An Image Is Worth 32 Tokens for Reconstruction and Generation
It is too bad it is up to the founders themselves to offer liquidity to employees. Founders are financially incentivized to not offer anything, so you're counting on their sense of justice and morals to overcome their sense of personal gain. This should be regulated.

(Yes, this is a political opinion. No, I am not American.)
That's simple - they find a CTO.

The really hard thing is marketing and closing big clients.
Diminuendo Lagrimoso: Tracing the decline of big opera voices (2023) [pdf]
I thought "founder liquidity" would refer to the supply and fungibility of founders. I've heard that, although ZIRP is over, there is still a large supply of capital, which implies that there's not enough good idead / founders to go around?
> But if there’s even a chance that it could be wrong, why are we offering it to the user?

Corporations push code written by fresh junior devs into production every day, breaking stuff that could cost them tens of thousands. Do they care? On paper, very much so, in practice, they dgaf.
Would using standard Basic English (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_English) help?
I don't know if "acute poisoning" is gross exaggeration or some medical classification but having tried them and know people who really shouldn't have tried them fuck up their stomach for week+, these should be behind the counter purchase. I can see kids too audacious to know when to quit.
If I understood things correctly, they do have in common that they employ chaining of execution units: a result can be used as an operand to another instruction without going through the register file. (The Mill does not even have a register file)

Otherwise, they are completely different. The Flow processor is more like a SIMT GPU modified to run general-purpose code. The Mill is more like a DSP modified to run general-purpose code.
The Missing WHERE Clause in Vector Search
> Don't believe, the proof is self evident the moment you try to update a UI that requires users to do things differently than before.

Is this because they don't like learning something new, or because they've been burned so many times by badly done redesigns that make things harder to use for pretty much everyone? I'm sure half of Hacker News despises how Windows has been redesigned from Vista onwards, or at the very least since 11.

Perhaps many people don't like change as much because a lot of changes come less from user needs/insight into what would actually improve the program and more from the need to give designers something to do (or provide another way to add ads/track users/appeal to shareholders).

Having an interest in making your own job easier/more efficient is very different from being interested in accepting every redesign under the sun.
I have a website that's visited by a couple thousand people a day, but since it's not a bloated mess that writes to the DB for every page hit, it's still faster than any competition site in that particular niche, and those deploy to expensive DB clusters to handle their spurious writes. :)
There's a nifty use for AI: Read, grok, simulate, report, repeat ...
The task is here.
https://neoneye.github.io/arc/edit.html?dataset=ARC&task=11e...

There are many examples where the test is slightly OOD (out of distribution), so the solver will have to generalize.
Because they usually are in a tech bubble where Apple is the best there is on everything and they never really tried any alternatives.

So, they think it's good and it's a delusion because it would not be objectively considered good if it was compared side by side with the competition.

I know that for sure because I have spent a lot of time with people like that and I used to be a bit like that. It's much easier to see the world in black and white for most, just like religions are with good/bad and people who really like Apple stuff are very often like that.
Did we give up before AI arrived?
> And arguably more file loaders than operating systems as such

That's a bit unfair. They also provided file operations and hardware abstraction. That way, it didn't matter how your disk IO was implemented (CP/M on Apple II's used the 6502 for that) and your code could be exactly the same.
GUI you say. So I have upgraded ubuntu 20.04 to ubuntu 24.04:

`sudo sed -i -re 's/([a-z]{2}\.)?archive.ubuntu.com|security.ubuntu.com/old-releases.ubuntu.com/g' /etc/apt/sources.list`

https://askubuntu.com/questions/91815/how-to-install-softwar...

update /etc/environment

`GSK_RENDERER=gl`

and restart.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1511575/ubuntu-24-04-screen-...

`echo 'GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="$GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT initcall_blacklist=simpledrm_platform_driver_init"' | sudo tee /etc/default/grub.d/99_disable_simpledrm.cfg && sudo update-grub`

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1509661/could-not-switch-the...
For most U.S. taxpayers selling a home, the capital gains exclusion on one's primary residence ($500,000 filing jointly) obviates such bookkeeping.
I don't use Audacity often, maybe once or twice a month at most but stability and snappiness aren't really things I associate with Audacity.

None of the crashes I ever encountered with Audacity has been due to SQLite of course. If anything this article made me want to use SQLite in more of my projects where I need to store local data.
> Though maybe this is not an issue as you mention some of the keepass-based apps that go the "app-sync" route instead of manually placed file?

Right, my main concern here is programs that talk directly to the service's API, because that's the easiest to implement in a correct way. Dumb file storage, but without the worry of stale versions appearing.

Though most people don't need their vault to be robust against simultaneous offline edits from multiple devices.

> (also I think it's more than a sub-Mb, you have icons there, but also images of docs and what not)

I have usernames/urls/passwords, some notes, some icons, and some ssh and bitlocker key files. In total it's 159KB, including a bunch of version history and the recycle bin.

What kind of documents would I put in a password file?

Though some extra megabytes don't really affect my argument much.
Notably, back then you couldn't get GEM on a PC without it being bundled with another program.
Parachuting beavers into Idaho's wilderness (2015)
Notably Diamine’s Registrar Ink and Rohrer & Klingner’s Eisen-Gallus-Tinte inks are relatively easy brands of iron gall ink to acquire and the modern formulas are less harsh and useable in fountain pens.

They’re nice in that they’re naturally waterproof inks. They’re a bit on the dry side though in terms of flow.
Gas turbines and nuclear do not fulfill the same role. Nuclear is base load, gas is peak load.

You can’t stabilize a grid with base load because you want to run base load plants at maximum capacity. Whereas peaker plants are quickly spun up and down to match up supply with demand.

To be clear, shutting down those nuclear plants is a bone-headed decision fueled by a false idea of greenness, but it has little to do with gas turbines. Nuclear replaces coal or hydro.
No, this came with Swift 3 back in 2016.
I wonder if the Intel Management Engine, which famously runs MINIX on just about every Intel motherboard since 2008, uses a database.
My thoughts on Python in Excel
Spreadsheet Assassins – A short history of "software as a service"