skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm astounded by your use of bitcoin in the past tense. It's only just beginning - it hasn't even reached the market cap of gold yet.
This is why you download the things you love. Hard drives are cheap.
Even moreso:

> Please note that these limits may vary depending on Claude’s current capacity.

Fine for the free tier of course, but not great for the paid version.
Markus is above average, but I wish it had a detachable upper end. Sitting in it for hours makes you wish to bend back but you can’t. Also not a fan of its rattling tilt lock.
Build what? Sell to whom? What, write my own subscription/billing module, on top of full stack development which, as you said, takes a lot of time just to be competent at. on top of building it, do sales and marketing and accounting and all that other business stuff? I mean, I guess
Gigabit links to the home were cheap in South Korea 20 years ago, something like $50USD/month, IIRC. The population is so dense, it was comparatively quick and easy to put in the infrastructure.

Some of the fastest pirate FTP sites in the world were .kr at the time, it was crazy seeing 125MB/sec inter-site transfers back then.

The ops must've set the machines up with a /dev/shm ramdisk or similar for uploads. There were no SSDs those days, so no way to even write at 125MB/sec, unless you had an unreasonably large Raid-0 array of WD Raptor HDDs, also possible.
> Starlink, which is already in black

It doesn’t make sense to claim “Starlink is profitable” if the underlying rockets still lose money and you don’t account for that in the claim.

> they'll have to invent something which needs a lot of super-heavy launcher flights

Losing money with your expensive solution? Easy, just invent a profitable problem.
Thanks for sharing. Looks like I'll be calling customer service in the morning. Wonder if they'll even know what Paze is.

> Chase will load your eligible Chase credit and debit cards to your Paze wallet on your behalf and then notify you when they are ready for use with participating online businesses. If you do not want your Chase cards automatically loaded into a Paze wallet, you may contact Chase to request that your eligible Chase credit and debit cards are not made available for use in a Paze wallet.
When Spain looted the New World of gold and transported it back to Spain, it did not make Spain wealthy. It simply resulted in a lot of inflation.
By far the worst I ever experienced was ten years ago, in the final versions of Chrome that supported Java Applets, they had a massive list of ridiculous security and signing requirements to get a Java applet working for users. Took me weeks to get everything right from buying expensive certs from GoDaddy to writing the manifests and signing the .jars.
> In a custom language, this can be implemented very easily following the approach outlined in this paper: Accurate garbage collection in an uncooperative environment.

Cheney's algorithm and conservative roots don't mix too easily, as you cannot move conservative roots: an integer which looks like a pointer shouldn't be changed by moving. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2660193.2660198 has an overview of algorithms which don't move conservative roots (including never moving, as in Boehm-Demers-Weiser).
great, how do we opt out
I filled it with "I like bananas" annd selected "no emojis" and "Happy" and the result was:

> "Hello! I'm a proud banana enthusiast sharing my love for this tropical fruit on Facebook. No emojis, just pure banana goodness. Don't forget to follow for more banana fun! #BananaLove #FruitFanatic #HealthyLiving [banana emoji] [banana emoji]"

where [banana emoji] was the actual banana emoji, but HN removes them.

In another try, I got emojis again, and the word "Happy" was leaked to the result.
MTV news then this?? Did some older and borderline archaic provider skyrocket their prices?
Justices side with Biden over government's influence on social media moderation
It's getting serious

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40807058
I was a department manager at a Fortune 500 Company that required every department head to rank all the department employees from 1 - (n) based upon performance and importance to the department.

Senior VPs had to do the same for the department managers who reported to them.

We were instructed to fire the bottom 10% every year.
Have anybody tried it against Gemini, for extraction tasks against large documents(its similar to question answering from books, right?)?
It is not just about math it is about tokenization and chain of thought.
Where do you get 24 bytes of overhead from? A mark-sweep collector only needs a bitmap of 1 bit per alignment granule.

edit: oh, that's what the article uses - the tracing function and size function can be per-heap and the forwarding pointers can overwrite the start of objects, to just have enough header to support tracing and sizing, which could be one word.
I don’t disagree. Someone above said bytedance is valued similarly which I find really surprising given the value-prop of the two companies couldn’t be further away from each other. One tries to suck time and energy away from humanity while the other tries to expand our human capacity beyond our planet.

If I were a betting man, I’d wager SpaceX to be valued more in the long run.
Knowledge Graph vs. Vector RAG
Previously/related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40794415
Torrenting becomes a moral imperative.
> They don't work anywhere else you'd want to use an SVG (e.g. embedded in a PDF)

My workflow is exporting to PDF and then just embedding that inside the larger PDF. Works fine?
What languages / frameworks do you focus on?

I’ve also had worse results with 4o than 4. It’s faster but it vomits output.

I can’t tell if I need to go tweak memory or if it’s just like this.
I always thought one of the nice concepts that WS did was the presentation of the command menu.

WordStar worked with prefixes, much like Emacs. I think it used ^K and ^Q. But, no matter.

The important thing was that if you hit one of the prefix keys, a menu of all the commands would come up. And it was a non trivial menu. More a panel, full screen width, 8-10 lines long.

However, if you were fast enough, the menu didn’t appear. Or if you hit the second key of the command, it would abort the menu presentation, restore the screen and keep going.

This was important because the displays were slow. It worked on serial terminals, and rendering that menu took quite some time. Of course while it was displaying, and aborting, and restoring the display, it was buffering the keystrokes.

Not a small task on a 2Mhz 8080.

Simply, a lot of work went into this key component of the experience, to keep the interface out of your way, yet novice friendly and responsive on the very slow hardware we had back in the day.
The same way as when you learn something new from some random internet person.

Does what they say conflict with anything you already know to be true?

Is their argument internally inconsistent, does it contradict itself?

Can you corroborate parts of their argument from other independent sources?
FedEx to Spin-Off Its Less Than TruckLoad (LTL) Business
Lack of collaboration with folks in other expertise areas who won't/can't use that tool.
From TFA:

> The move would appear to be part of continued belt-tightening measures at Paramount, which is more than $14 billion in debt, led by losses at Paramount+ and its aging cable networks.
Paze is not really a "startup": it's a product from the same company as Zelle. The company (Early Warning (earlywarning.com)) is "bank owned" and has been around for decades and is involved in fraud prevention for Chase (and others): Early Warning almost certainly already have much more than your credit card information.
Paze is operated by a company called Early Warning Services, which is owned entirely by a collective of banks including Chase. They also run Zelle and a bunch of other infrastructure.

Calling it a startup is a bit misleading.
Apple has less than 30% market share globally.

Meanwhile the EU—a minority of the world population—levies fines based on global revenue.
Yeah, the "posted on the front page of HN" DDOS :S
Isn't bitcoin at all-time highs? In what way has it died?
I’m working on adding Sonnet 3.5 to JACoB this week. So far it’s been very impressive. https://github.com/jacob-ai-bot/jacob
Not to mention when you were also very recently occupied by a neighboring country. And an extremely brutal occupation at that. I mean there's still a handful of women still alive who were sex slaves, it wasn't that long ago. Korea really has had it tough, but I wish that would be a drive for more freedom, not less.
> If you can bring a trillion dollar rock back to Earth or at least LEO every few years,

. . . you'd destabilize the world economy, and your trillion-dollar rock would either no longer be a trillion-dollar rock, or else your trillion dollars won't buy nearly as much as it would have before.
I can't help thinking that zapping sites with no warning is intended to defeat amateur archivists.
If Falcon 9 was a company it would probably be profitable and Starlink could probably pay Falcon a fair price and still be profitable. Obviously SpaceX is not profitable overall because they are investing tons in Starship.
Funnily enough I remember reading somewhere that this was some of The Daily Show’s secret sauce in where they would DVR/record all the other news programs.
A CRDT is a purely technical construct! Correctness (in terms of merge conflicts) is well-defined in that context and it's orthogonal to any kind of semantic/application definition!

This is a bonkers conversation. It's like claiming integer division isn't correct because 5/2 should be 2.5 instead of 2.
Yes, currents can be high as they directly correlate with build rate. But the voltages are typically low, making it a lower power process than one would think.

100-1000x faster than a typical electroplating process
I wonder if every computer in that museum can be emulated to keep it running without high costs?
> Protein folding is still an unsolved problem, and I’m dubious of the notion machine learning will ever solve it, but hopefully we get some helpful science out of it.

As a working hypothesis, protein folding assumes that a protein folds into the globally lowest energy configuration. And that's a good assumption for a start.

However, nature isn't magic and can't magically solve global optimisation problems. If there's a region in configuration space with a local minimum and high enough energy 'walls', this might be stable enough for the protein to be stable.

For reasons of computational complexity, I agree that machine learning will probably never solve the global minimisation problem. But the complicated and messy local optimisation problem that we see in reality might very well be solvable eventually by something like machine learning.

Why are you dubious? Where do your objections come from?
The bright dividing line in the history of the west coast was when the first transcontinental railroad was built. It transformed everything at a pace that astonished its predictors.
Maybe if they ever get anywhere close to asteroid mining their value will go up. They’re closer than anyone else, but they’re still very far away from that. When Starship is making regular flights, and making regular flights beyond Earth orbit, they’ll be in a position to start thinking about asteroid mining. Tho I think Moon operations will take up enough of their time, they may not spend much time looking at mining. I could be wrong, but I don’t believe they’ve talked much about mining on their roadmap.
Fun fact: the only credit cards in America that do not share credit card data with 3rd parties are:

1/ Apple Card
2/ Local Credit Union Cards

Apple doesn’t even have access to your transaction history as it is sired E2E encrypted in iCloud or on your local device. Goldman Sachs has access but they do not share it by the terms of their contract with Apple and privacy agreement.
Coding ability is off the charts, to the degree that I think in one year software engineering will be considered a dying field.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet supports a maximum of 200k tokens. Gemini handles 2,000k tokens.
Anything else owned by paramount that needs to be urgently archived?
There does exist a Forth for it though: https://github.com/ryu10/M5CardForth
I'd like to think we've learned a thing or two since the 16th century.
Ugh, It's apparent that this is owned by the banks as there is no way in hell they would just opt in credit cards and debit cards to some random startup. I just don't like this idea that they can just push your information without you being able to opt out easily. Should've been opt in rather than opt out any way.
I would think that just about any school would be better than a school which teaches kids their traditional ceremonies are "devil worship". If the schools are that bad, you're better off resorting to home-schooling.
I am currently in a pitched battle with some other asshole on checkbox 88.
It’s by Early Warning Services, LLC (EWS) who makes Zelle too. Not a startup at this point

> EWS was founded in 1990 and is co-owned by seven of the largest banks in the United States, including Bank of America, Capital One, JPMorgan Chase, PNC Bank, Truist, U.S. Bank, and Wells Fargo.

They should change the name of EWS to something that consumers can grok, EWS sounds like it predicts severe weather, not makes apps that integrate with antiquated banking websites.
I haven’t had a great experience using GPT-4o for coding; it will sometimes make a mistake, fix the mistake introducing another mistake, then fix that second mistake repeating the first. Or other weird things like that. I love the text to speech, and image generation sometimes comes in handy, but ultimately I prefer Sonnet 3.5 for coding and have recently switched to that.

If OpenAI comes out with a stronger model I’ll prob switch back, I don’t have much brand loyalty in this regard. I could see some features making usage more sticky (memory, projects, etc).
I like 'conventional' order, and I could figure out your message block.

Give the aliens some credit, they might figure it out.
How to Make a Water Filter in a Barrel (2023)
Early Warning Services already has your detailed bank history. This does have some benefits, like fraud prevention. Request a copy at https://www.earlywarning.com/consumer-information
Damn, pancreatic cancer in 2023. I didn't hear until now.
What worries me is you need that time in the dirt to get a feel for coding as a craft. And at least for me that aspect of knowing the craft helps get my thinking in tune with problem solving in a very productive way.

Coding can be similar to playing an instrument, if you have mastery, it can help you be more expressive with the ideas you already have and lead you to new ones.

Whereas if we take away the craft of coding I think you end up with the type of code academic labs produce: something that purely starts on a “drawing board”, is given to the grad student/intern/LLM to make work, and while it will prove the concept it won’t scale into long term, as the intern doesn’t know when to spend an extra 30 minutes in a function so that it may be more flexible down the road.
Show HN: I built a tool for migrating CSV data without opening a single file
Hi HN. I created Sheet Shifter as a side project to scratch my own itch. I wanted to see if I could build something that would allow me to migrate data from one tool's CSV export to another SaaS tool's import template by mapping the data to new column headings and avoid jumping back and forth to copy paste everything. This is what I came up with.

You can try it for free on the website but more than anything I was excited to launch my first ever web tool. Hope you like it!
This resonates with me - someone who left big tech 2 months ago. It is so refreshing talking with business owners and thinking of smaller scale ideas. In addition to being a lot more authentic, they seem to generate a lot of wealth.
certainly an area we're keeping an eye on.
You said that already.
People are inherently trusting LLMs without even remotely understanding them.
I’m looking at getting Philips Hue bulbs. They’re expensive but look promising. I cannot stand the eco friendly bright white lightbulbs these days. Nothing against saving energy it’s just not for me.
E=mc^2 doesn't mean that a photon has mass. Photons do produce gravitational effects due to their energy, but not in the same way as a particle with mass m. See, for example, https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/6222
Do you think gafferongames algorithms would be good enough or need like a scheme for basically every game mechanic that would need to be synchronized?
> Now they use the money to get Starship flying, and in 1-3 years they'll likely get it to fly well enough. And they'll have the question what to do with that huge capacity, so they'll have to invent something which needs a lot of super-heavy launcher flights. Could it be a significant Moon base, for tourism, science, manufacturing, resource utilization?

While I agree that there will be payloads built specifically for Starship's massive capacity, most aren't going to need that much space.

Historically, an entity (company, academia, government) that wants to launch a satellite has had to not only buy/build it, but also buy the rocket, then wait months/years for launch. Some small satellites have been able to hitch a ride on launches of larger payloads, but even there the timing is out of the smallsat's owner's control.

With Starship, an entity only has to build a satellite. As it nears completion, the entity will go to spacex.com, find a day with a Starship launch with sufficient open capacity, and reserve a slot. If the satellite is delayed, the reservation can be moved to another day (perhaps with some percentage of the deposit withheld if too close to launch time). In other words, Expedia for space.

There will be as many Starship launches as needed. Maybe the combined Starlink+outside customer demand will at first result in one launch a week (less frequent than Falcon 9's launch cadence, because of Starship's greater capacity). Maybe over time it will rise to two, three, five, seven, ten, 20 weekly. The more frequent and more consistent the launch cadence, the more confident customers will be that a launch slot will be available when they want one.
IME

socat readline prog

always feels faster than

rlwrap prog
I never noticed this before but at 2:10 when he mentions the word subscribe, the subscribe button animates. How long has this been happening?
Mind explaining your workflow? I actually just broke my wrist today :(
Yeah, a trillion dollars of gold from soace will definitely crash the gold market
Sleep is about more than waste removal. You cant really learn new things without sleeping on it.
Strange. Both servers at the system level stopped accepting TCP packets. It might've been my cloud provider trying to mitigate an attack. I guess I shouldn'tve killed the server. Putting it back up now.
How long did it take you to make this? Looks cool, watched someone fight a chicken before the server update.
Ok, thanks for the heads up!!
So, this seems like an alternative to things like Apple Pay and Google Wallet. What's the benefit of the banks? Bigger cut of the transaction fees somehow?

I must admit, I use Apple Pay whereever possible, I'll even temporarilly switch my browser to Safari if I see a merchant accepts Apple Pay, just because its so much easier than any other payment method.
I think so, one of the other comments OP mentions OSRS having the same tick rate.
Currently, we launch little things into orbit. With big, cheap rockets we can launch big things, like an interplanetary craft, a spinning space station, robots to spread out through the solar system, even a moon base.
I don't think it's fair to merely compare your GC Arena to malloc. You've also got to compare a GC arena to a vanilla arena as well.

It's hard for me to see how all these GC variants make it easier to write a complex program.

> Having memory management options is a good thing

Having shipped Unity games I've spent a LOT of time waging a war with GC. GC's have caused me far far more pain than value over the past 20 years.

I think your project is pretty cool and you should keep pushing. But, respectfully, I'm extremely skeptical and not convinced! :)
It might also just be energy stores filling up again. Its like running, if you take a short break you can often get going at a good pace again, not just because you get your breath back but also energy resverse replensih
Computing Pi on the NES [video]
Credit unions rely entirely on third parties for their infrastructure. FIS, Fiserv.

Doubt Goldman Sachs can’t see it either - would make dispute handling and fraud prevention near impossible.
We used to do this a lot in the late 80s when it was 99 quid return flights from London<->NYC. Levi's jeans were at designer prices. Swiss watches, ship the boxes separately. I bought my first HDD at an Egghead in Boston in, I think '88, which was vastly cheaper than UK prices due to the dollar exchange.
Sorry about that. I think it's back up. I'm wondering if it hit a TCP limit for the cloud provider or something. My first commit was 15 months ago, but I spent some time doing 3d modeling before that, and lots of other failed projects that were somewhat related before that.
They use "TV Eyes" a service that records all cable channels constantly and allows you to search through them and download clips of that segment.
Same as USA in Iraq, Afghanistan? Vietnam? Israel? No. They are not in the category of western empires who could kill and maime civilian population and get away with moral superiority. These people are bad, unlike the western empires.
Indeed. Starlink was publicly announced in January 2015 with the opening of the SpaceX satellite development facility in Redmond, Washington

Full surrounding history at Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink
If they offered 51% of the company on a US ipo would they still be looking at getting banned?
This Golang guru talk of "handling errors" is almost entirely BS in my experience. I've almost never seen a Go library or code example that does anything other than bubble an error it got from its lower levels up to its callers, with some extra context if you're lucky. The rare exceptions are either some retries for network operations, or just ignoring the error and returning some default value.
I don't know if that's true. Exercise, meditation, adderall, and spaced repetition learning all improve work performance for knowledge workers and those things are far from universally employed.
Gamey is both a flavor and texture.

Most wild game has more muscle than fat compared to domesticated animals.

Hence it's tougher and the gamey flavor is an acquired taste.
However it did make some Spaniards wealthy
don't worry people, you will still be able to ask chatgpt about most videos that were on that website /s
We haven't found this to be an impediment. Keep things modular, and share the type definitions of anything you import with the model. As the benefits here become more and more clear tooling will improve and people will adapt their development practices to get the most out of the models.
It definitely made Spain extremely wealthy.
Huh, this is fun!

I built Genfanad (http://genfanad.com/) as a browser based game with similar inspirations to yours a few years ago. A lot of the technologies you mentioned are very similar. It's surprising how easy getting something up and running is these days!

We ended up shutting down a few months ago as I couldn't figure out how to take it to profitability. Do you have plans for that, or is it just a fun side project?
> Starlink, which is already in black

But which isn't the business people think it is.

It is making the majority of its revenue from populated areas in wealthy countries [1].

Making it very susceptible to the improvements in the rollout of fibre which is happening in most countries. For example in Australia they are upgrading our fibre network to 1Gbps which is 10x the speed of Starlink.

[1]: https://www.satellitetoday.com/finance/2024/05/09/starlink-o...