skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But then what is the point telling us they are doing it with WASM now? Seems more like a KPI - Work Progress report.

Edit: In a different blog post :

https://workspace.google.com/blog/sheets/new-innovations-in-...

"Building on improvements like smooth scrolling and expanded cell limits in Sheets, today we’re announcing that we’ve doubled the speed of calculation in Sheets on Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge browsers,"...

I dont use Google Sheet but I wonder how far apart are their new implementation compared to Native Microsoft Excel.
Bill Gates is a fan, as are many other rich people. I‘d assume that Khan
doesn‘t strictly need to be breaking even (although it would be great).
OpenAI: Strategic Content Partnership with Time
The US police force is rotten to the core. They like to pretend like they’re military adjacent but in reality they’re just local gangs with taxpayer funding. There’s no overarching command structure nationally that you could use to reform the police force at a broad scale. In my opinion all police officers should be in the military and subject to military court and prison if they break the rules. It’s a failure in planning on the US governments part, in my opinion.
I know it's leasing, not owning. Given current track record, a minimally maintained 2025 Toyota Camry will probably outlast Musk. Also, a Camry is substantially cheaper to maintain and repair. My local mechanics can probably rebuild a Camry in their sleep with parts readily available.
Yes, it's good to be cautious against nostalgia, but it's also bad to just pretend that everything just basically repeats.

To be clear, since I feel a bunch of comments are taking that "90s was peak humanity" quote overly literal (another commenter pointed out there were still horrible wars during the 90s), I'd point out that it was about the expectations of how tech would improve human lives.

Most specifically, there was a very broad belief that things like the Internet would bring people closer together. But by lots of objective metrics (measures of loneliness, polarization, pessimism for the future, youth mental illness, etc.), not only did tech not "bring us closer together", it actively helped rip us apart. And I think if you time traveled back to the 90s and explained those outcomes, the vast majority of people would be genuinely shocked and surprised.
The Church of Interruption (2011)
Woops! I messed up.
Because 0,1,9 are too extreme. 5 is right in the middle. And I guess we have a psychological bias against even numbers? You're left with 3 and 7.
I don't remember doing anything particularly weird.
Is that 90% of bees, or 90% of bee species? I think around 90% of the bees I see are of a non-solitary species.
A lot of lease special deals are during the holiday season, so you have a lot of leases ending around that time. (We leased our Tesla last December just before the $7500 tax credit expired.)

With the gas savings we're paying about $200/month for our Tesla 3. Our only regret was not leasing the Polestar 2 instead.
Pedantry really has no place here. The question was whether Apple would exist as it is (i.e., as successful as it is) if Jobs were not an asshole. It was not whether it would exist at all if he didn't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
The non-profit famous for giving away all of its educational material, in multiple languages, with the goal of allowing no-cost world class education to anyone, is trying to juice it's profits?
The auto market comes in waves. Not that long ago supply was thin and dealers were adding big markups to the cars that were available. Now many dealers are backed into a position to practically beg you to take cars off the lot. Show up with cash and play hardball. It’s a buyers market.
> You have insanely large pools of capital creating an incredibly inefficient money-losing business model. It's used to subsidize an untenable customer expectation. You leverage a broken workforce to minimize your genuine labor expenses. The companies unload their capital cannons on customer acquisition, while this week’s Uber-Grubhub news reminds us, the only viable endgame is a promise of monopoly concentration and increased prices. But is that even viable?

Inequality is driving this. We have let money become so accumulated, that the owners of the capital are being silly with it at the same time that workers are having a hard time. We have to tax this capital and make it work for everyone.
Win by Giving In
The question is what evidence suggests that Jobs being an asshole led to Apple's success?
Very interesting!!!
Exhaustive runtime checks for all forms of UB are basically impossible. A data race is UB. Are you going to find a way to insert correct data race detection on all writes? Writing through an invalid pointer alias is UB. How are you going to detect when that happens at runtime?

Sanitizers exist and do detect a subset of UB via runtime checks, but there is nothing resembling a system that can detect all UB. That would basically require an entire VM implementing the C-standard with a truly outrageous amount of runtime overhead.
alright yes this sounds funny now but at the time my rate-limiting implementation was very slow!
Not surprising, google apps regularly seem to be slow to respond when I just type stuff.
For a second, I was wondering why GP comment was downvoted ? On surface, it seemed informative and then after seeing your comment, I realized it was just copy/pasted from ChatGPT.

This is the danger we are in now with this stuff.
I absolutely recognize and can adapt to interacting with people who use interruption as a normal part of conversational flow, but I find it exhausting and prefer to avoid such interaction when I can.

It's certainly a cultural or habit thing, and one that I was not exposed to until I was an adult. I think because of that, when I'm interacting with people who use the technique I can no longer actually focus on the substance of the conversation because I'm always having to decipher the mechanics of it. By that I mean I have to pay conscious attention to the conversational flow in order to determine when I should interrupt and why the other person is interrupting.

At first it was pretty disconcerting, though, because if you weren't raised with that sort of conversational approach then it does come off as being rude or, worse, dismissive.
50 years ago: the new Cambridge University Press printing house
I've wondered about this as well. Is there a way to have a small, efficient LLM model that can estimate general task complexity without actually running the full task workload?

Scoring complexity on a gradient would let you know you need to send a "Sure, one second let me look that up for you." instead of waiting for a long round trip.
In comparison: The average rent in Augsburg for a 60m³ flat is around 756 Euros (way more for new contracts and furnished flats), the median net income in Germany is ~ 2244 Euros.

One downside, if you're on the taller side, is that the doors in the Fuggerei are only like 5'8, though - and if you're taller than 6'4 or so, even the ceiling height becomes a problem. :D
think about training.
Gian-Carlo Rota is probably the best combinatorist of the 20th century.
Shouldn't this (2.6B/9B) be compared with Microsoft's Phi-3 mini (3.8B) instead of Mistral and Llama-3?

(table 13 on page 7) vs https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.14219 (page 6, quite better in general)

The report on knowledge distillation training is interesting, though.
>> Nowadays a MODERN a big apartments complex cost more than an equivalent of single families homes per unit (HVAC, seismic, fire-safety, ... costs)

>Isnt that because of the price of land?

Citation needed first of all.

From what I can tell, a high rise apartment building - that is more than 10 floors costs substantially more to build per floor area than a single family house. This is because to go that high you need stronger building materials than a single family house and that adds cost.

However a shorter building - is a similar price per floor area (at 3 floors slightly less, but more than that elevators start adding cost but still only slightly more). You can use similar building materials for the most part. However the apartment still wins because people who live in them share common areas - one shared laundry room is enough for several apartments, often there is a community room, exercise room, and pool - expensive spaces/equipment not used much by most individuals but as shared spaces the cost is shared and so cheaper per apartment.
Python has two garbage collectors - reference counting, and tracing

Reference counting does not handle circular references, and tracing does

Tracing collectors have to be able to read all the references of objects to work. The difficulty is that some of those objects or references to objects are in the stack - or in simpler terms, these are objects and references that only one function can read and understand. In C there are some non-standard extensions that let you do this to varying degree of success. In WASM, this is prohibited by design, because it’s a safety issue
I have no affiliation to either locality, but I thought this whole saga was interesting from a legal perspective. The sheer audacity of the developer to sue for unjust enrichment. I think it also would have been a pretty important case if it hadn't gone this way, as others pointed out, it would have opened a lot of potential avenues for developers to abuse neighbors or steal land.
Jim Sachs' Serene Screen Saver
Fun, learning games! I think there’s also so much untapped potential there.

Think how much you learned playing sim city (assuming it was realistic). Imagine effortlessly learning any skill by having fun.
I'm waiting for the "you should run the same code on the front-end and back-end" argument to get thrown on it's head.

golang on the back-end - golang in the browser.
You need to have about 50% more range than just the distance between airports (really, enough for two failed landings and a diversion to your most distant alternate) for the sake of having a safety margin, but I see what you're getting at.
This should not be a Show HN post, as they are for things that you yourself have created. See guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
The comparison isn't exactly fair. I love my Tesla and won't go back but if I'm not mistaken when leasing other brands you can buyback the car at the end of the term which isn't the case when leasing a Tesla.
It's more complicated than that. They knew it was killing people and turning thousands (millions) into addicts and they kept pushing doctors to use it at all costs. I'd recommend the John Oliver special on it.
You’re already unemployed if you focus on history or literature but we still learn it.

It teaches you how to think and how to learn which is valuable no matter what.
Our whole concept of justice enshrined in the US Constitution is that the truth must be ascertained by a jury of your peers from a fair presentation of the evidence and arguments in a court of law. And it is entirely to prevent people from being "rubber stamped" guilty and discarded. At its heart the trial is about ascertaining the truth, with the understanding that the verdict has some powerful gravity for everyone involved.
Which country are you talking about? Or are you just making things up and applying them to every single non-Western, non-Northern country?

The Chinese execute people for corruption. In Korea and Japan, executives kill themselves out of shame when they screw up. In Britain, every posh shithead handed a job is too important to fail.
Hello (again) from the Gemma team! We are quite excited to push this release out and happy to answer any questions!

Opinions are our own and not of Google DeepMind.
> I guarantee you that not one SK Telecom executive will spend time behind bars for this blatantly illegal conduct.

I mean, you're assuming that an SK Telecom executive did something illegal. I don't think anyone here is a supporter of corruption, but you're making a huge, completely unjustified leap to say that an SK executive was involved.
>The court on a 5-4 vote ruled that the bankruptcy court did not have the authority to release the Sackler family members from legal claims made by opioid victims. As part of the deal, the family, which controlled the company, had agreed to pay $6 billion that could be used to settle opioid-related claims, but only in return for a complete release from any liability in future cases.

Is this actually a positive outcome or a kick-the-can?
Contempt of civil servant

https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/article_lc/LEGIARTI0000...

google translate: https://www-legifrance-gouv-fr.translate.goog/codes/article_...
SIN like from Shadowrun? Are you SINless now?
I'd say you're putting the cart before the horse. Currently there aren't very many insurable events, because there is essentially no liability. Correcting basic liability is the first step to reform.

When a citizen is unjustly harmed, if an officer is not following written departmental policy then that officer should be personally liable, with the department as a jointly-liable fallback (for enabling them). If the officer is following written department policy, then only the department should be liable. This creates an incentive for municipalities to create written procedures that except situations like these (based on both the mens rea vindictiveness, and also the fact the victim had obviously broken no laws).

Note that I'm not proposing some radical departure from known territory, but rather something that is still less than the general liability dynamic that applies to everyone else.

Then if individual officers want insurance they can seek it out themselves, or if a municipality is worried about capitalization issues they can insist on it during negotiations.
> Also, a Camry is substantially cheaper to maintain and repair.

Long, long term this should work out in the favor of EVs. They have way less parts and are mechanically much simpler.

Right now, however, the market saturation, second hand parts market, repair shop density, etc means it's way more expensive to get an EV fixed.

I do wonder when this will flip. Maybe sometime around 2035?
> If the main goal is hardening existing code bases then this Clang proposal is the right approach IMHO.

Yup, on this I agree. And I've seen efforts in adding this to existing code
The right level of abstraction is key. If your problem maps neatly to the primitives offered by APL, then the code will be readable idiomatic APL. If, however, they don’t, and you are using the APL abstractions in ways they were not intended to, and you are building new abstractions on top of them, then you’ll need to be a skilled programmer to keep it readable.
We put DuckDB inside Postgres
For my Mazda I got a fair-market estimate price at the time of lease signing. Tesla doesn't allow you to buy a used Model 3? If so, why is it they won't let you buy your used model 3?
IKEA is a complicated mess of nonprofits and for profits. Khan Academy is just a 501(c)3.
Interesting that it has the Red Brand logo on a roll that doesn't use Red Brand's knotting. They do offer the same wire knot styles but the photo clearly shows a different style on that roll.

I prefer to buy US made wire products but with that said how would I know whether my supplier bought counterfeit rolls sold with domestic branding? The fact that they use a Red Brand photo front and center and then the other photos of their palletized rolls don't have any examples of rolls with the red top wire suggests they just "borrowed" the photo for the brand recognition it brings.

I can see how the price difference makes the Chinese knock-off very attractive for someone who is fencing a large area. I think as long as the strand gauges and wire strengths are similar I see no reason why the Chinese wire rolls would be an unattractive option. A fence serves to deter traffic (foot traffic from people or animal traffic on trails) from one plot to another and there are many different types of fencing materials that are effective. Here at home I have several types of fencing including chain link, barbed wire, field fence, cattle panels and polyethylene deer fence. It depends on the objective. On my own property I have one stretch of field fence (like the rolls in your post) that is decades old and in need of replacement. The cedar posts are old and loose, staples have fallen out and the fence material is largely vegetation-supported today. Once I remove all the birdshit hackberries, elm, privet, and cedar that has grown up over the decades, the wire will lay itself down and take a well-earned break.

I bought my rolls of wire to replace that stretch a long time ago and just haven't found the time to do it, yet. I'll get there one day.
I believe the Tesla has a longer warranty which could help
With the repair cost difference.

Plus no oil changes.
I gave up hope on r"Gem[ma|ini]" long time ago. I don't believe that Google can't produce good LLMs because of its massive company size; Microsoft is also a giant company (more market cap than Google) but it keeps surprising us with the ϕ models.

I think Google just lacks the vision to understand what makes a good LLM. Theoretical contributions by research teams are valuable, but the real-world is built around engineering ideas that may lack the "purity" and elegance of theory but damn it they work.
Why do people think model 3 should be more expensive than a Camry?

They are not even in the same class of vehicles, model 3 is closer to a Toyota Corolla than a Camry.
> The question is what evidence suggests that Jobs being an asshole led to Apple's success?

Could this be measured?
The article says "manipulate the light that shines on them that simulates their signature blue look". https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/simulation meaning number 4, "Assuming an appearance which is feigned, or not true.".

I believe what they are trying to communicate (pretty poorly) is that the hairs are not blue as such, but in certain circumstances can manipulate light into the blue-violet spectrum.

Think of it this way: a prism isn't any of the rainbow colors, but can manipulate light into such.
The Tesla Model 3 beat the Camry on total cost of ownership even in 2020 when the Model 3 was was considerably more expensive to buy or lease, mostly due to its cheaper maintenance costs. A Camry has >10X as many moving parts as a Tesla. The Tesla's maintenance cost per moving part is higher than the Camry's, but it has such an advantage in terms of number of moving parts that it's maintenance costs are a lot lower.
Well, the reduced business case for EV maintenance might actually mean it's harder to get / more specialized? I don't know - markets are weird.
Does this still apply? I used to use DoorDash a lot, and I remember in the early years, all the dashers had DoorDash-branded bags. As the years went on, it seemed a lot of dashers no longer had any bag or just didn't use it. Maybe it was the latter, but it also feels like one of those price cutting measures that a successful startup starts making. Like their customer service which went from fantastic to terrible to not even talking to anyone, but getting refunds denied for no particular reason.
This article presents a very odd version of what happened. Simon Clarke was the lawyer that actually stopped the Post Office prosecutions as soon as he got involved.

In this case he went to the judge and said he was aware of the existence of a report that needed to be disclosed, but it could not be given to anyone (including Simon Clarke) until the report had been presented to parliament. The judge granted the exemption for 8 weeks, after which the report was provided to the defense.
It became such a meme Childish Gambino made a song about it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE56dWF0p-M
Has there been any work on photoelectric plating? You could then use DPL to project a pattern for an entire layer at once. I'm not sure how one could ensure uniform thickness. Just wondering if the basics of such an approach have been developed or if its even possible.
We're going to lose so much more cultural history to corporate greed in the next century. Preservation of music, media, games are all being attacked in the name of profits. Future generations will not be able to enjoy the vast wealth we're creating because folks would rather destroy it than make it available for distribution, even for a fee.
Sure, but then if you take your code to production to monetize it as a business you won't be deploying on a datacenter of Mac Minis.

What you alone do at home, is irelevant for the ML market as a whole, along with your Mac Mini, as you alone won't move the market, and the companies serious about ML are all-in on Nvidia and CUDA compatible code for mass deployment.

I can also get to run some NNs on some microcontroler, but my hoppy project won't move the market, and that's what I was talking about, the greater market, not your hobby project.
Positive outcome. They earned hundreds of billions from their actions which resulted in the deaths of thousands.

Giving them permanent immunity was insane.
best 30 minutes of nostalgia. Game Design wise, I would suggest disabling attacking while walking, otherwise people can't even really run away
> I think if you were the defendant, you might feel differently about the importance of making your trial cost-effective and efficient

Of course! But that’s just an invitation to put aside reason and think with emotions. That doesn’t mean it would be fair to society to do that. And why should we allow a small class of anti-social people to revictimize society in that way?

I was a card-carrying ACLU member for a long time. But working in the court system really opened my eyes to the reality is that there’s a fraction of the population that’s anti-social and repeatedly victimizes society and the communities in which they live. They have rap sheets a mile long, and are prosecuted based on piles of evidence. Society needs some way to deal with these people that’s just to them but also just and fair to society.
> Also, a Camry is substantially cheaper to maintain and repair.

You have to do regular service on an ICE car and repair or replace things like the timing belt and hoses etc.

Teslas have the cheapest 10 year maintenance costs according to Consumer Reports, beating out Toyota.

https://insideevs.com/news/717341/tesla-cheapest-repair-main...
people who can't control themselves are /also/ victims:

We tried that approach for the last 60 years. Sit through a docket to witness for yourself its efficacy.
Thanks, I was wondering about this. The house pictured obviously isn't a $5M house, and obviously isn't the house you'd build on a $5M property either. Moreover, looking at the area on Zillow, everything is in the 6-digit range, except for a few on the shoreline that get over $1M, but nothing remotely close to $5M.

Yes, this is clearly a $500k house, not $5M. The article just goofed. Maybe the SFGate writers have trouble comprehending 6-digit house prices...
Building a new programming language in 2024, pt. 1
They also designed it to be more addictive. The recommended dosage and timing causes the patients to repeatedly experience minor withdrawal during normal use, which is a standard technique for conditioning someone into being an addict.

All of this is documented in emails that were presented as evidence in court.
Hot pitch is very fluid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4UDAa0i0tw.
Makes sense for essentially overpriced e-waste. Extreme hybrids or GTFO. Im talking gennys or low cc choked to all hell for emissions, hell drop a goldwing engine in it. I want my 2500+ mile per tank utility vehicle, preferably made by a company with real experience... like Honda, or Toyota.