skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So there's this weird playlist about Excel by Martin Shkreli of all people:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI_riscmviI&list=PLJsVF3gZDc...

It keeps popping up as he is apparently quick and knows the ins and outs. But I've never bothered to go through it as it is seven years old at this point and focused on finance.

Can anybody recommend something similar but up to date with the new goodies so a fella could be competitive at this? I'm talking more keyboard shortcuts and advanced features (many of them overlap). The latest versions of Excel sort of open it up anew.

puts on headband and cracks knuckles
Do you do analog chips, or digital ones?
What chips did you design?
How much it pays?
Can it be profitable to design and tape out your own chip?

What cheap FPGA would you recommend to drive two 2k screens, implement Gbps LiFi transceiver and some basic video decoder??? ;-)
Sentry is self hostable. https://develop.sentry.dev/self-hosted/
You've read it correctly.
The vast majority of braking done by trains is electrical, ie "regenerative" except lots of trains just burn the generated power in a grid of resistors and dump the heat.

If every mile human beings moved in cars was replaced with two miles taken by train, the world would be a less polluted place.
The ability to collaborate across teams and orgs is critical to success. Gone are the days of holing up in your silo. Leadership teams want to see more collaboration from senior devs.
Oh it definitely is, it's just also a requirement for reasonable living in most of the US too. It's not a good combo.
Anyone else have awful penmanship?
My chicken scratch is so bad only I can read it. Tried to switch to cursive but was still bad to read.

I also get horrible cramping when handwriting after a paragraph or two. I'm clearly out of practice and need to stretch but it was always a problem for me in school.

I made up for it with stellar typing skills since I type way faster than I write .
That never stopped the crypto farmers...
Intel Architecture: Lunar Lake ITT: Next Gen P-Core Lion Cove [video]
DC-Roma Laptop II with 8-core RISC-V processor launching soon with Ubuntu 23.10
My understanding of the key point of this blog is:

> Instead of explaining the technical background first so listeners understand the solution to a problem, start with the problem. Then explain the context/technical background second
I don't really see the distinction you're making. C++ will still be around for legacy projects that don't want to switch, but I can't think of a new project that would benefit from picking C++ over Rust, apart from needing to integrate with the C++ ecosystem beyond what bindgen offers.

You get to write code that's just as or more performant, and you get to jettison the decades of bad language design that is C++, which is win/win to me.
3 year commit pricing with Jetstream + Maxtext on TPU v5e is $0.25 per million tokens.

On demand pricing put it at about $0.45 per million tokens.

Source: We use TPUs at scale at https://osmos.io

Google Next 2024 session going into detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QsM1K9ahtw

https://github.com/google/JetStream

https://github.com/google/maxtext
Nvidia terms of what?
"the world’s most important piece of software"

"there’s simply no more powerful piece of software on the planet for turning a mess of numbers into answers and sense"

I never want to be one to downplay Excel's ubiquity and importance, but these statements seem a tad... hypberbolic.
They also weren't selling the usage of the cards.
Financial nihilism comes to corporate governance
> "It's not the phone itself that they issue, it's the content."

I agree, but unfortunately, phones are by default set up to contain the bad kind of content.

In theory, it should be possible to set up the phones for my kids so that they only contain useful applications, without ads and in-app purchases. Also, either to remove the web browser, or to limit it to a selection of useful websites, which in turn do not contain ads. In practice, that would require a lot of work, and I do not have much free time.

It would be nice to have a website that would teach parents (including the ones who are not very tech-savvy) how to configure the kids' phones like that. Even better, to sell phones that are already configured like that.
Yeah but this article is terrible. First it talks about naively copy-pasting code to get “a seeming 10x speed-up” and then “This ended up being incorrect way of calculating the tokens used.”

I would not bank on anything in this article. It might as well have been written by a tiny Llama model.
The video on this page has one brief example: https://newsonjapan.com/article/142113.php
>This creates urgency to change the law (e.g. back to the original 12 year copyright terms)

What was the reasoning for lengthening the terms in the first place? It's not clear to me why works from 1780 would be relatively trivial to modern and thus only merit potentially up to 20-something years of protection while they now may need ... 80ish? I'd assume production of essentially any work would be more of a PITA and riskier in 1780.
Well, that's horrifying. Presumably the value is being copied whenever it is converted from a const char * to a std::string?

The right thing (TM) would probably be to refactor some of the std::string's into std::string_view's, for instance by adding overloads where it makes sense. I doubt you could avoid all the copies, but I think you could cut it down substantially if you collected metrics and focused on the most egregious cases.

Of course, I do not envy the person who is tasked with doing that, and I could be wrong for any number of arcane technical reasons.
OP here. Yes, that's what I meant. Using the rocket equation, truncated Taylor series approximation, truncating even more to make things solvable, then iterating to improve the solution, were all things I wouldn't have expected.
Frankly I want my software to cost more, not less.

The App Store cratered software pricing. One of my favorite apps is now abandonware because the developer didn't (and probably couldn't) charge enough to support it long-term. I still rely on it, but someday it will no longer be usable.

I want developers to make enough money on their software to keep supporting it.
Sure, because there is not 100% consensus on the political situation of Crimea, that gives the right of Russia to invade Ukraine and kill people as much as it wants.

There is a mechanism to resolve those matters: referendums. Once again your arguments are left wanting. Messy and difficult internal politics surrounding fundamental issues does not allow the invasion of a neighbour.

Crimea didn't need daddy Russia to forcibly integrate it into the Russian state. It could have done that all its own if it had wanted. The fact Russia has to lower itself to violence to integrate territory illustrates how poor its logic is.
What about on prem? Like, my small business needs an LLM. Can I put a 3090 in a box in a closet?

What if I’m a business and I’m selling LLMs in a box for you to put on a private network?

What constitutes a data center according to the ToS? Is it enforceable if you never agree to the ToS (buying through eBay?)
Okay - we're unable to refine most of the oil we produce. Is that better?

The point is Americans believe the United States is energy dependent, and we are not. Not by a long shot.
> Mortality went from 0.13% to 0.2% for newborn black babies with a black doctor presiding (no effect found based on skin colour of obstetrician), in a longitudinal study in Florida.

If Mortality increased, that means less babies survive. The chance of living is thus reduced, by definition. It can't be double anything.
Factorio – Fix, Improve, Optimize
I've never taken the internet for granted — have scraped anything and everything I have found interesting. I suggest everyone do the same.

(As a bonus, you don't even need internet for the content you have backed up.)
Ask HN: How do you benchmark compensation for your team?
I’m working on comp recommendations, and part of that is benchmarking against similar positions at similar companies. Where do you go for this kind of data?
> > unless you think all their subscribers are stupid

> Ah, there’s the capitalist’s circular religious belief, if it’s profitable it must be good, and it’s good because it’s profitable.

Not sure how you got to that conclusion from my words, unless you're projecting a metric ton of your own bias into my post.

Sure you can turn this into a big complicated discussion, but I still say that for most companies the decisions is "is it a better choice for our company" and that can absolutely involve spending money but also focus, experience, employee happiness, future flexibility and more.

> To think that subscribers pay money because they see a “reasonable value exchange” is to be completely blind to the incentives behind many big ticket software purchases.

Can you be more condescending? Honest question.

The value exchange is not the only reason but it is the primary reason most companies (and people) spend their money (at least in my experience and observations).

It doesn't actually need to be more complicated than that in a lot of cases.

I don't disagree that what you're saying certainly happens as well, but you make it out like that's always what happens and I don't believe that's the case.
Yup. True. Should say "will" - currently free but heavily rate-limited. Together AI looks to be about $0.30 / 1M tokens, as another price comparison. Which you can pay for.
Ah, cool, didn't know - joined the train late.
Those aren't necessary outcomes, those were policy decisions made by the US/Western elite. They chose to deregulate and let global capitalists do whatever they wanted.

USD has been primary global reserve currency since more or less the 1970s (end of Bretton Woods period), but the tendency for plutocracy goes much deeper and has not abated in the last half-century.

China has a lot more tradition and experience running a long-term civilization that doesn't rely on endless conquest and growth, and they have fresh memory of how USA/Britain fumbled the bag. Expect them to repeat the same mistakes at your own peril.
I haven't finished the whole intro video yet, but if anyone from Effect sees this, curious why y'all went with your own schema validation library? I've worked on a bunch of projects across a bunch of companies and everyone seems to have standardized on Zod. Any thought on making Zod pluggable here?
> people who have recently experienced something traumatic

As a parent of a 5 month old baby, I can say that nature has already provided a mechanism for this to work. If it were not for the lack of memories of the first 3 months, I would never agree to have another child. It appears evolution has found a use for this quirk of our brains already.
No currency comes close as a replacement reserve currency? Elect Trump in November and see how fast the euro becomes the world's new reserve currency!
> I quickly discovered that I really like Zig because it feels like C!

I honestly cannot imagine anyone feeling this way. Here's some code randomly pulled from the Zig website:

const std = @import("std");

pub fn main() void {
const msg = "hello this is dog";
var it = std.mem.tokenize(u8, msg, " ");
while (it.next()) |item| {
std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{item});
}
}

That's the kind of code you write with Zig. It's definitely not C. The author probably means something else, but to me the two are very different.
Well actually. They (python SDK maintainers) argue their implementation is the correct one according to the spec. See this issue thread for example.

https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specificatio...

There are more. This is a symptom of a how hard it is to dive into Otel due to its surface area being so big.
> nil checks, or getters that do the nil check for you

Yes I agree there are patterns to solve for this but it is just strange that the compiler doesn't stop you from making these errors. I mean even Typescript has:

interface Human {
name: string
cat?: Cat
}
> One side effect of the magnetic field shift is slight but primarily beneficial: It can help shield Earth from galactic cosmic rays — high-energy subatomic particles that travel at near light speed and can damage spacecraft and harm orbiting astronauts who are outside Earth's protective atmosphere.

Buried three sentences from the end of the article, after a wall of ads and filler (I'm impatient).
> What was the reasoning for lengthening the terms in the first place?

I've heard Disney and Mickey Mouse cited. But perhaps that's a different issue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act
Show HN: Open-source implementation of Meta's Unit TestGen–LLM in Golang
Rolling versions: The new standard for API versioning
a) Defence? Sorry to be nitpicking here, but most of the world would say those missiles are being used for anything but defence.

b) So tell me, would Boeing benefit from whistleblowers being too scared to blow their whistles? If I am wrong to make that assumption, then please tell me why? AND for a business which provides the actual missiles which have wiped out around 15000 children, would that company have any qualms about a threat to their business disappearing?

What I said was logical. And there is no way you will be able to provide anything which is more logical and SANE than what I have said. But, I am OPEN to think about whatever reply you have.
The US government is currently suing all those large conglomerate companies for one thing or another. There is a conscious effort to shape those companies in better directions within large swaths of the Federal government.

The level of cozying between Japan and its large conglomerates is nothing compared to the relationship the US government has with its large companies.
Apple Sued by Employees Alleging Unequal Pay for Women
AI Jobs by State
From the main page:

https://postimg.cc/sBQB37h6

There's lots to Effect beyond error handling, I can imagine it can seem a bit overwhelming.

The great thing is that you can cherry pick what you need.
Unless we hit another AI winter. We might get to the point where the hardware just can't give better returns and have to wait another 20 years for the next leap forward. We're still orders of magnitude away from the human brain.
[dupe] Different article, but already discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40644750
Well, it's more like: they tweeted links to published claims that it was a US bioweapon from a think-tank based in Montreal (Global Research Canada), in direct response to outright claims by US politicians & government officials that it was a Chinese bioweapon. You can read a detailed timeline in this report from the Atlantic Council:

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/W...
Yeah this is actually crazy.
Please keep comments focussed on the content
While I think Flash deserved to be put in its place and NOT have the Internet built on it, should that really have been up to one platform vendor?

My post was really about the early mindset from Apple in removing so many of a user's options. Everyone on the platform now has a Stockholm Syndrome vibe, justifying why they are not entitled to choices, or control of their device.
Playing against professionals at the top of their game is rarely fun for amateurs in any kind of sport. You just lose, quickly, and don't even understand what's going on.

(Not applicable to semi-professionals, they can at least figure out what's happening and learn).
Remo Saraceni, 89, Dies; Inventor of the Walking Piano Seen in 'Big'
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24747977/2024-06-13-e...

"...Could the CEO of Coca-Cola loyally start a competing soft-drink company on the side, then divert scarce ingredients from Coca-Cola to the startup?

Could the CEO of Goldman Sachs loyally start a competing financial advisory company on the side, then hire away key bankers from Goldman Sachs to the startup?

Could the board of either company loyally permit such conduct withoutdoing anything about it?..."
Amazon has a secret workaround to scrape GitHub for model training
I genuinely would like to hear about a more important piece of software for businesses. Or more used. In those respects I'd have to agree with each of those statements.
OK then I misunderstood it, mainly because you said you only need "20% of most used functionalities of lightroom"...
deepinfra.com hosts Llama 3 8b for 8 cents per 1m tokens. I'm not sure it's the cheapest but it's pretty cheap. There may be even cheaper options.

(Haven't used it in production, thinking to use it for side projects).
Interestingly this happens every 11 years and also their is a longer cycle called the Hale cycle which is double the length at 22 years. It flips from a mostly dipole where the poles match the orientation of earth to a reverse and much more irregular magenetic orientation. I didn't see anything about how this really affects Earth directly other than what I knew previously about sun spots make Coronal Mass Ejections sometimes towards Earth. Think we had a few things happen recently due to those but nothing too crazy.
> 'Interactions' is a very passive phrase for killing and dismemberment!

Be wary in modern theme parks. Visitor Interactions is big business in corporate-speak, and it is only so long before they decide to capitalize on this renewable food source.
> The [dark kitchen] model is so powerful that Uber’s founder, Travis Kalanick, started one after he left Uber that was last valued at $15 billion.

This sentence makes it sound like he just decided "you know, this $15B company is fine, but I think I can do better" and just amicably 'left'.
One down quarter doesn't constitute a "trajectory."
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/14/technology/remo-saraceni-...
Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode/Character Sets (2003)
You mean like the magic reboot you do in Teslas because the infotainment shit crashes in them? I've seen infotainment systems crash in so many cars, and people have to call the dealer to get the fucking Konami code to reboot the system. Don't you dare unplug the battery to reset it either, because you'll likely fuck something up even worse.

This stability thing is just a weak excuse used by car companies.
It's not about that they are made of, it's about how people use them and what their market penetration is.
That was in 2015, and it barely impacted anything I touched. So, granted, technically not quite 10+ years, but you get worse churn in JS frameworks over an 8 months period. (Unless it's jquery.)
Does anyone know the impact of the prompt size in terms of throughput? If I'm only generating 10 tokens, does it matter if my initial prompt is 10 tokens or 8000 tokens? How much does it matter?
I don't have a problem with the %30 cut, I agree that its a good deal. The problem is, Apple is also an editor and dictates what Apps are supposed to do like the days before iPhone when the carriers used to dictate what phones can, can't and should do. Where are they now with their MMS and ringtones?
https://archive.is/2024.06.14-142849/https://www.businessins...
Work with/within a given group(s)/context(s), ideally align/match what trying to do with group context. aka defined group parameters can help narrow down the 'luck' involved in garnering interest.

Perhaps check out a few historical inventions/inventors:

[0] : https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/284158_townes.html

[1] : https://www.invent.org/blog/inventors/Legacy-Steve-Sasson (didn't stick to the fax : https://faxauthority.com/fax-history/ )

[2] : https://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/transist.htm
Is it about values or just complying with local government laws/demands?

If a western company for example bans sci-hub access because of US/EU demands then HN will be mostly, this is complying with local laws.
Groq is actually allowing you to pay now and get real service?
> If we don't occasionally inject entropy into the process, I think we find plenty of local maxima, but miss a lot of potentially higher potential maxima.

Someone sent me this video a while ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHuFSnhKG9I

The video uses an analogy that stuck with me, and the basic idea is that if autistics are good at deeply building out a single idea, schizophrenics / schizotypals find it very easy to adopt entirely new ideas. This could also be one of the mechanisms behind schizophrenic delusions, which are difficult to fight with logic, because they're not based on logical combinations of existing ideas, they stand on their own.

I think it's extremely fascinating. I don't think there's any doubt that he was suffering from his illness, but I don't think he suffered only due to his illness. I think general society doesn't yet understand mental illness and neurodivergence in general well enough to know how to approach it. I don't know if I'll live long enough to see real studies catch up to even just what I currently know and feel intuitively, and that makes me a little sad.

To me, autism, ADHD, schizophrenia, DID, BPD and so on, all feel critically misunderstood by medical literature.
Interesting, I got very different results depending on how I ran the model, will definitely give this a try!

edit: Actually could you share how long it took to make a query? One of our issues is we need it to respond in a fast time frame
Demo showing cursor accuracy and voice control/talking when the MouthPad is in the mouth:

* Only tongue tracking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH-z1KnIthM&t=1s
* Head tracking mode (& wink to Neuralink demos :P) : https://youtu.be/6TTIsE4GMEU?si=TbS07BdjUaZDSwx4

Regarding fatigue: We constantly use our tongues for talking and eating without feeling tired and so far, current users haven’t reported tongue fatigue issues.
Another curious feature is that the labels appears to be floating point, as in "G 5.9" appears to transfer control to line starting at "05.90".
...because cars have shit visibility. It's a solution to a problem that was created.
Thanks for the work you put into the Svelte platform, competition helps keep ecosystems more honest
I find the page style annoying. It does not facilitate reading.
> Zig doesn't have a borrow checker. If your application plans to use memory management strategies like "a bump allocator that frees everything at the end of a frame" or "a bump allocator that frees everything at the end of a query", it can be painful to express the lifetime restrictions of those allocations in Rust. Zig doesn't get in the way of those strategies, though that also means there's no such thing as "safe code" in the Rust sense.

I don't use Rust often, so I'm admittedly not that knowledgeable on what's already possible, but does seem like something that could benefit Rust is if there were a way to express in some limited context that something like a doubly-linked list is safe because all its nodes are associated with / owned by the same allocator, and their lifetimes all end when the allocator dies. The rule could be that, within the context of an arena allocator, these arena pointers could point to any memory also allocated by the same arena allocator (including mutable aliasing pointers), but the things they point to could never be moved (or else other arena pointers might dangle) and they wouldn't ever be freed until the "allocator context" ends (or else you might get use-after-free mistakes), and it would have to be within the context of one thread (or else there might be data races). The idea being that all the memory in the arena is allocated at once. Then you could do things like e.g. join two doubly-linked lists that were allocated by the same arena allocator. Then multiple doubly-linked lists could be expressed in safe Rust, as long as they were backed by one arena allocator that deallocates all at once.
We'd edit queries or add new HTTP endpoints. Some did a little more than query, maybe hit a cache or external service. There were a few shared helpers, not more than one layer deep though.
Is this court decision applied globally or only to US users? If the former, why?