skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a nuc but how do I connect 6 hdds to it?
They faked their books, literally, and underrepresented their governmental debt and deficit[1] . I assume the parent post includes state borrowing and spending in assessing "wealthiest"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_government-debt_crisis
1000ns = 1us :)
sort of - most of the people there also didn't have good options to leave. I suspect most would leave if given a better option. Note however that better option needs to somehow include your friends and family.
“Pioneers get the arrows, and settlers get the land”?
Seattle: hold my beer.
The Spanish civil war is a fascinating topic and I can't do justice to it in the small space of an HN comment. Many Americans were sympathetic to the republic against fascism. It's not surprising that Chomsky could have that as such a foundational piece of his left wing politics.
Finally there is the Prompt API explainer: https://github.com/explainers-by-googlers/prompt-api
I think the reason why these tools are not accessible as they could be is because the vast majority of solvers are MIPs (Mixed Integer Programming) based, meaning the domain need to be written down using mathematical equations. This in turn means a user would need to be familiar with both the domain and mathematics in order to correctly write constraints.

That being said, MIPs are not the only kind of solvers. There are also "local search" based constraint solvers, which does not have the restriction that each constraint must be modelled as a relation or equation of integer variables. In local search solvers, the constraints are mostly treated as a black box that tells how good a particular solution is. As a consequent, local search solvers are typically unable to find the optimal solution (since it would require testing all possible solutions because the constraint is treated as a black box), but rather finds a "near-optimal" solution in reasonable time.

One local search based solver is Timefold Solver. In it, users annotate their domain so the solver knows what are the variables and possible values. This means instead of your constraints dealing with `int`, it would deal with `Shift` and `Employee`, and can access any of their methods.

Disclosure: I work on Timefold Solver
> Apple: First "smart phone" but not the first personal computer

Was it the first smartphone? I would call phones like the Palm Treo and later BlackBerries smartphones. There were even apps, but everything was lot more locked down and a lot more expensive.
I wouldn't call them "hacks", but some style choices that I have adopted for my personal code that I haven't seen often in other people's code:

1. (In C-style languages), indent labels by half the tab-size, using spaces. I find that indenting labels (jump labels, case labels, public/private/protected) makes them easier to distinguish as labels as opposed to something that delimits blocks, while at the same time I don't indent code under a label more than code not under a label.

class Whatever {
protected: // having the access modifier indented makes the class easier to read
int i;
};

struct SomethingElse {
char c; // same indentation as in the class above
};

2. Put complex logical expressions on multiple lines with the conjoining logical op first on the line, with internal indenting. By using the start of the line and using two dimensions, I think that it is faster for a human to parse top-down than otherwise. Example:

if ( long-expression-with-boolean-result
&& ( second-long-expression-with-boolean-result
|| third-long-expression))
{
...
}
You should have stopped at ‘but’.

Great job, Hacker.
I was under the impression, that for most (popular) chip families, like RockChip, Allwinner, Amlogic, some assorted Broadcoms, .. the Mainline linux kernel support has mostly been sorted for, and it's only the stragglers like Hisilicon, Huawei, Most Broadcom, Qualmcomm where mainline support is not on their priority list?
What if you're being stabbed by a clown?
My recommendation specifically about Amazon: don't webcrawl it (you'd need direct help from Amazon itself to get their data in some other way, some direct and consistent data interface).

Reason:

Wrote about ~10 years ago a crawler to discover books and to scan all of the books' ratings (the "stars" given to each book by a reviewer). It was just a hobby project.

At the beginning everything worked well, but after some weeks the layout of the pages and/or the technical IDs behind them started changing in an inconsistent way (some pages were still ok, others were slightly different, others were completely different).

My initial code was (surprisingly, hehe) excellent (nicely structured, flow & tasks of sections easy to understand, etc...), then I kept adding if/else conditions to the crawler at multiple places to make it able to cope with the new layouts/changes, after a couple of months I could hardly understand anything out of it (main point: I never knew if I could delete some portions as 1) it was garbled and 2) I didn't know if Amazon would present again old pages which would make old code relevant again).

Btw. (not directly relevant for the question) the organization of books was (is?) as well a mess:

the same book can be sold with multiple (often slightly, sometimes huge) different titles and/or authors (if more than 1 author wrote it) => ultimate confusion => at that time I fixed that by comparing the names of reviewers and their "stars": if book X had about 90% of the same reviewers AND same "stars" as book Y (data presented by Amazon can slightly change from query to query) then they were mooost probably the same thing (without comparing at all the title nor ISIN - from time to time titles of different versions of the same book were very different, even a human would have been very challenged to identify them as being the same thing, but based on what I saw Amazon knows very well what-is-what therefore even a book-version that sold 0 copies gets all reviews that got its twin book-version that previously sold 10000000 copies).

A honest "Good luck!" with your startup :o)
>professionally annoy people on street

>Provoke a response

They mostly do it to cops and people in authority. It's their right to do so, they should be able to. They expose so many cops and authoritarians who blatantly do not respect citizens' civil rights. Good for them.

The fact that "oh no you're annoying me I'm going to arrest you because you're annoying" is even a talking point from you is baffling.
If this were true (and maybe it is) one could make a strategy of shorting companies after being sold by PE
What do you feel when it’s working? What’s the aha?
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Me too. I did have a couple of LD in my early life and the experience was amazing that I remember it to this day. But I can't seem to be able to experience it again
It kind of feels like a local optima situation where they relied on memory so much that they didn't feel the need for writing. Either that or the fact that there was no writing for so long resulted in them specialising in memory techniques a lot.
The pretense (official embargo, etc.) is gone these days, and the US openly supports repressive regimes and war criminal leaders as long as the money can keep flowing.

Things changed a lot since the predicted "End of History" and I struggle to understand what exactly led us here...
It interests me that the $200-600 billion number seems to be all-derived from GPUs. Are LLMs/AIs totally dependent on GPUs? I read last week (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40787349) that there is research ongoing to run LLMs on FPGAs at greater energy efficiency.

I'm reminded of Bitcoin/crpyto, which in its early history was all operated on GPUs. And, then, almost overnight, the whole thing was run on ASICs.

Is there an intrinsic reason something similar couldn't happen with LLMs? If so, the idea of a bubble seems even more concerning.
Only if they have faith in you and your legitimacy.
Same with police and citizen videographers. Being a citizen reporter is once again an option.
Add a disk shelf :). Basically supplies power and data cabling for just a rack of drives. Those get interfaced with the NUC via a host based adapter.
I'm happy with XigmaNAS (BSD) on a used mini-pc and a multiple USB3.1 HDD enclosure. Speed is excellent as is stability. Having some memory and CPU cycles to spare, I also am playing with Home Assistant Supervised run as a Virtualbox VM inside of it.

Regarding that LaFrite board, I mailed a while ago LoverPi, which appears to be the only one selling it, to ask them if they accept PayPal, but got no reply. Does anyone know of a distributor in the EU or a different worldwide seller?
You should probably try thinking about it instead.
So the issue is poor sandboxing of extensions. Wouldn’t something like WASM help with this?

As in, a content filter extension (or anything that interacts with a content filter) is run in a WASM sandbox without any access to the network or underlying system? It’s hermetically sealed from the rest of the extension, that might well need to make external requests to function.
This technique relies on bizarrely over-powerful intellectual property infringement counter-measures built into youtube, the platform. Relying on it gives me serious XKCD spacebar-heater vibes. It wasn't designed for that.

Yes, people who are assholes in public are annoying. Shoplifting and bank robbing are probably also career choices. Don't rely on a side effect of "big copyright" systems to save us.
I know the sorts of “creators” you’re talking about, but I’ve never heard of this as a response before.

Are there really that many people who 1) are aware that this could be effective, and 2) are quick witted enough to pull their phone out and play music in response to being harassed?
Others are saying this article is bearish, but then...

> A huge amount of economic value is going to be created by AI. Company builders focused on delivering value to end users will be rewarded handsomely.

Such strong speculative predictions about the future, with no evidence. How can anyone be so certain about this? Do they have some kind of crystal ball? Later in the article they even admit that this is another one of tech's all-too-familiar "Speculative frenzies."

The whole AI thing just continues to baffle me. It's like everyone is in the same trance and simply assuming and chanting over and over that This Will Change Everything, just like previous technology hype cycles were surely going to Change Everything. I mean, we're seeing huge companies' entire product strategies changing overnight because We Must All Believe.

How can anyone speak definitively about what AI will do at this stage of the cycle?
Swing apps were also terrible for end users. The default “Metal” look and feel was just not very good, and the platform emulating ones were just uncanny valley. They never quite looked or felt right for the platform.
Good idea to put your backup on the same machine! /s
You mean like "Billy on the Street"? Or something closer to the "comedy gang" from Viral Hit?

Can't really imagine why you would both give a response to an interview-style question, while being recorded, and simultaneously not want that response to be public. Or are they doing it secretly?
Oh.. so there is a way to get profile and company info if you go through their application process?
Any recommendations for 3rd party companies that offer this?
> In reality, the road ahead is going to be a long one. It will have ups and downs. But almost certainly it will be worthwhile.

The biggest takeaway from this piece is the stark realism of this article (maybe a bit too bearish, imo) compared to the usual Sequoia VC-speak. Maybe FTX did teach them something, after all.
First modern smartphone (capacitive touch screen/multi-touch/form factor), but not first smartphone.
Whenever I hear the AI hype cycle, I'm always reminded of expert systems and how they were going to revolutionize the world.
It is indeed a very good fit. There is some cool research about it: https://github.com/skadio/ner4opt
Also, might be a way of making sure Russia has less money for war.

Russians Using Crypto To Fund War Face An Uphill Battle
https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2023/02/21/russi...

and:
https://archive.ph/xXhHw
Anecdote:

My father was a Director at <large telecom company> and then an executive at another.

He's spent his entire career in the industry.

It's coming up on almost a year unemployed for him, and at this point he's resigned himself to the idea he'll probably have to re-train and do something else.

Take that for what you will.
> for cyclists that are averaging 20 miles an hour

I don’t think modern professional cyclists even can ride at 20 miles an hour ;-)

20 miles an hour didn’t win you the Tour de France in 1950. Nowadays, with better tech, better training, and shorter stages, you have to do over 25 miles an hour to win it, and the last rider in the general classification easily is within 10% of that.
I mean, usually these types aren't the ones who see the world as bisected into "the West" and "the rest" to begin with, so I am suspect of your characterization...
They spent a lot of money on their CEO and board, and funded it by getting rid of good programmers and defunding long term projects like Servo.
> There were even apps, but everything was lot more locked down and a lot more expensive.

And just plain... bad. The entire experience didn't have that "feel" that Apple turned into reality. It's comparable to today's AI landscape—the technology is pretty neat, but using it is a complete slog.
From the start, GPS has been used for accurate time keeping as well. And for later versions of the GPS protocol the week number was increased to 13 bits.

https://www.gps.gov/systems/gps/modernization/cnav/
Yes, police do it, in fact: https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3n75x/police-disney-music-c...
I lived in Provo for 17 years and the legacy of WordPerfect was still in the air - not to mention the development and gardens at Thanksgiving Point which was an Ashton project, IIUC.

Anyway, I wasn't aware of Bruce Bastian specifically but the Mormon/LGBT angle stands out. It must have taken a lot of character to be out so publicly in that community.

(The LDS church's response to legalization of gay marriage was to excommunicate anyone who got married to someone of the same sex, and to bar their children from baptism and advancement unless they disavowed their parents' relationship. The policy was rescinded in 2019. In earlier times one could get excommunicated simply for _being_ gay.)

It looks like Bruce and his husband made some appearances on Mormon Stories podcast if you want some inside baseball:
https://www.mormonstories.org/?s=bruce+bastian
If you're alluding to the pronunciation of symmetry, I'm pretty sure eye and symmetry was specifically meant not to rhyme in order to throw off the reader slightly. Guess that hints at how difficult recovery of pronunciation can be.
About the C++ implementation, instead of BFS, you most likely want to use Uniform search.

In general; search algorithms like BFS, DFS, Uniform, A* and variants have the following structure:

do
current_state, cost <- container.pop()
container <- container.update(expand(current_state))
while current_state != goal

where container is a datastructure, and this is the key difference. DFS simply prepends all nodes, so every expansion just goes deeper, we use a stack. BFS simply appends, it's a queue (an expensive one too!), uniform uses a priority queue based on the cost. This allows you to blend actions of variable cost, and still reach minimal cost nodes. A* simply augments this with a heuristic when sorting.
It's basically the inspo for every cyberpunk dystopia ever from Blade Runner on forwards. Right down to the black markets, prostitutes, drugs, unlicensed doctors and dentists plying their trades, etc.

Most recently, the setting of the video game Stray is basically Kowloon with the serial numbers filed off.
I personally don't associate those rituals with the idea of democracy itself, rather just its particular instantiation in modernish society.
I've read most of his books and pretty much bought into a lot of his analysis around "manufacturing consent", corporate power, etc, 35 years ago. I still think it's largely correct .

However, I also waded into the Khmer Rouge business and his words are uncomfortably close to justifying Pol Pot. Complex as that situation was there's really not any excuse for what the Khmer Rouge did.

You can also read his actual words on Ukraine/Russia (easy to find) and see the same tendency there.

At the same time, his analysis on the US and ME wars is more accurate, IMHO.

This seems to be a pit some otherwise excellent minds fall into: one side bad implies opposing sides are somehow good.
And if you have a Mac, get MacWhisper. It's been a godsend for transcribing almost anything. Usually pretty good if the main voice is discernible at all—though in OP's case, if the main voice is almost indistinguishable it might not do amazing.
> I imagine falsification of results in math is extremely difficult or just impossible.

Another quote I like from this piece: “No one can be a charlatan mathematician for long”.

If only that were true in certain other domains.
> Those who remain level-headed through this moment have the chance to build extremely important companies.

But in which sector will these extemely important companies be active? Adtech? Knowledge management / productivity tools? Some completely new category?

What is an undeniable fact is the drastic commodization of the hardware / software stack for certain classes of algorithms. How is this technological development going to be absorbed and internalized by the economy feels still rather uncertain.
More info about Google's Propeller, from https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2019-September/135...:

While BOLT does an excellent job of squeezing extra performance from highly optimized binaries with optimizations such as code layout, it has these major

issues:

* It does not take advantage of distributed build systems.
* It has scalability issues and to rewrite a binary with a ~300M text segment size:
* Memory foot-print is 70G.
* It takes more than 10 minutes to rewrite the binary.

Similar to Full LTO, BOLT’s design is monolithic as it disassembles the original binary, optimizes and rewrites the final binary in one process. This limits the scalability of BOLT and the memory and time overhead shoots up quickly for large binaries.
> EST, according to Google, is the east coast of America when daylight savings is not happening. For Sydney and Melbourne, you want AEST / AEDT / AET

Although AEST/AEDT are probably more common-in part to avoid confusion with American EST/EDT-people use EST/EDT for the Australian time zones too - random example: https://www.support.transport.qld.gov.au/qt/systemmaintenanc...

Some computer systems (probably designed by Americans) want timezones to have abbreviations but insist they can only have three letters, so in those systems the Australian timezones have three letters. I definitely remember seeing EST meaning UTC+10 on Unix systems before
Beyond longevity: The DIY quest to cheat death and stop aging
I never managed to learn touch typing. I type with my two index fingers and depending on the exact letter order they’re supported by the middle and ring fingers (e.g. if I type the combination ‘ijn’ which is common in my language, I do ring, middle, index downwards). none of it is consciously learned, it’s just what I ended up with after typing a lot and never learning a formal method.

I type mostly without looking at the keyboard, but I find myself doing quick peeks every few sentences or so. I also probably make more typing errors than a touch typist would.

I’ve started to learn touch typing a few times now, but every time I give up because touch typing feels like it will destroy my wrists or give me back pain. How do you people do this? Like typing the ‘.’ Or ‘,’ with the pinky finger, and even the normal letters often require my fingers to stretch in a way that feels painful after a while. My hands also are probably quite heavy or so and it feels like I have to strain to keep all fingers resting on the keyboard without pressing the keys.

So I’m sort of stuck between typing errors and shoulder/wrist pains, anyone who can relate?
H100s are in very high demand and usually running work 24/7. So much that the energy cost is a big factor. The B100 halves the energy costs, among many other things.
fwiw, the commercial services that do this are called "audio forensics" (unsurprisingly, they're usually hired by cops and lawyers). You pay them to use their (often expensive) software tools to clean up audio and provide a transcription.

I get the appeal of automating this task but the SOTA is not to automate it at all.
I’ve also heard the same advice with Dell/HP SFF PC’s. BTW, your link requires a username/password login.
That's basically already a thing. There's a big market for older riders who want a little bit of discreet assistance on their group ride.

https://www.orbea.com/us-en/ebikes/road/gain/
I’m not criticizing it, but half a laptop, some HTML and an iPhone shortcut isn’t the most elegant smart TV interface.

It’s a shame because there’s probably decent compute in that TV that people can’t access.
This one really stuck for me: "focus on something special, then expand from there".

I have time and again fell victim to fulfill all the prerequisites before I begin to attempt to understand a topic. This is a mistake I have made repeatedly. I now understand why this is tempting to do and why it is a mistake.

It is tempting to do so because you feel things will come easier to you if you fulfill the prerequisites first. But the problem is that there is just not enough time. AND, it actually may not be even necessary.

It is a mistake to do so because you are wasting time and ultimately it may not be necessary after all.

Even in a field such as pure mathematics (I have an MS in pure Math), it is okay to skim through some of the background material and understand it intuitively or even non-rigorously, while focusing on what you want to actually learn.

It took me a while to learn that and I am glad it is being repeated here by such an accomplished professor.
As always, free analysis by VCs and investment banks is not necessarily for the reader's benefit.

So we have this bearish piece and the previous bearish Goldman Sachs piece. While I agree with their analysis in this case, there is a lingering doubt that some banks might just want to tank Nvidia a little in order to go long. Or something like that.
That's not moving the goal posts at all, AI is just going to be hard to monetize with ads. The ad platform is also very important, especially given how hard it will be to monetize. It's pretty straight forward to the point of common sense.