skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about beaming monochromatic red or near infrared light down toward existing solar installations? Silicon can have up to 50% efficiency at these wavelengths and it's much safer than microwaves, especially visible red light is.
From the "If I could" files, I would have liked to spent 5 years on an AS/400, trying to make it work for whatever company I was working for.

The best way to learn this stuff is simply apply it, trying to solve problems.

Going from a High School PET to a College CDC NOS/VM Cyber 730 to a RSTS/E PDP 11/70 was very education cross section of computing that really opened my eyes. If I had gone to school only a few years later, it would have been all PCs, all the time, and I would have missed that little fascinating window.

But I never got to go hands on with an IBM or an AS/400, and I think that would have been interesting before diving into the Unix world.
Got it. I guess that was just illustrative, though, because why isn't "reduce average page load time from 3s to 1.5s" the objective?

Ah, I see. It bubbles. Explained by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40979799

Thanks everyone.
> Makes sense to expect this kind of thing to be open source. The whole point of providing improved compatibility is to make people’s lives easier, and open source is usually an important feature to ensure wide compatibility. It also means projects can live on after the creator

AMD just bought company working with similar things for more than 600m.
Mmh, I have to read more about this, I'm not really familiar with British schooling models of the 19th century.

In any case, the problematic schooling model that persists to this day was introduced around the time of the Industrial Revolution, which predates your references.
Many ideas are serendipitous. They come while you are doing something else entirely. Do something completely different for a few hours. Experience something new and you will be surprised at what might pop into your head.
Briding the gap between OTel tracing and profiling
How does this compare to something like Timely or memtime? Is the draw for an individual the one time payment instead of the subscription?
I remember putting my lunch box on my desk one day and accidentally doing something that ejected the CD tray, nachos all over the office.
Doing More with Less: A Better Way to Write Programs
How large is the staff at hugging face?
I'm expressly not opposed to trust busting, or anti-monopoly moves from the govt. I feel it's a fair trade for limitations on liability to company investors. Limitations on liability are a grant to corporations from govt. Certain resource constraints are limited/licensed by the govt (especially communications).

Beyond this, I feel that a primary lesson from COVID should be an emphasis on dual/multi sourcing and domestic production at least from a security standpoint. There are some levers that can be used by govt to promote this.
Right, they aren't explicitly saying it.

They are, however, implicitly saying it with the position that "I don't care as long as it works."

Javascript is available on every modern browser. It's not going away any time soon. Migrating to some other frontend language, no matter how demonstrably better it is than Javascript, is a Herculean effort. Actually, it's more of an Atlassian effort, since it would require practically an Earth-wide shift.
I was hoping it’d explain why all the pirated streams of the German Eurocup final on Sunday were in German when the anouncers spoke English…
Maybe they think you are monetizing your website and providing the free app, thus avoiding the Apple tax.
it really is one of the great problems of today. this combined with what my grandpa called “blowhards”.
> We also expanded Web AdAttributionKit (formerly Private Click Measurement) as a replacement for tracking parameters in URL to help developers understand the performance of their marketing campaigns even under Private Browsing.

Without fail, the knee bends. This also just got quietly enabled by default in Firefox 128, go check and turn it off if you are so inclined.
"Where are the numbers coming from?"

The numbers are sourced, both in the charts and in the text. You can find a half-a-dozen more sources that say the same.

It's great for you that you're in the low-single-digit percentage of people that have already found use cases. Now, look at the data.
Except what you'll get will be an all-seeing, spying, hallucinating LLM.
- You should consider creating and uploading How-To Videos of your Game on YouTube.

- Do a Stream or contact people on Twitch asking them to stream and Play the game.

- Also make a campaign with real prize for reaching a level or something and Use Paid Digital Ads on Google, Youtube and Adwords to start people to play.
Thanks for the interest!

For data storage, it uses a local database, specifically SQLite for its reliability and lightweight nature.
That's oddly reassuring in that I have CPTSD. How has your memory improved? And through what modality – just therapy?
Not sure how the link got munged, but the root is https://docs.aws.amazon.com/securityhub/latest/userguide/gua...

It's definitely a bit of a simplification - although I'm not aware of large orgs using anything else to meet the relevant PCI requirement

The whitepaper AWS commissioned helping explain GuardDuty to auditors[1] is definitely a large component there

[1] https://d1.awsstatic.com/certifications/foregenix_amazon_gua...
Thanks for taking that feedback in stride. I like your example of vim, and how Bram drew from a wealth of experience - not just in software - to inform his decisions for vim. I'd love to see you discuss that example in the original article, and maybe even some more from the list. THAT would be a compelling article.
RAG made simple without the bloat: How to ground LLMs in reality
I'll give you a big reason why this behavior exists: people refuse to write high quality documentation regarding their systems/processes/etc. Or they are willing do it, but do an extremely poor job and are oblivious to its low quality. This will necessitate meetings to "Clear things up". And sometimes your documentation ticks all the boxes, but people get pissy about updating it because it's not in their preferred format and it rots away into irrelevance.

When I became an engineering manager I invested a ton of effort into providing solid documentation where people expect it: Swagger docs with real examples for our RESTful services for devs, confluence documentation for wider audiences, various guides and FAQs, and even in-repo ADRs. It probably saves us about 15 labor hours of meetings a week and maximizes my team's hands-on-keyboard time and minimizes interruptions.
There are a lot of college degrees like this too.
Even with a 13% increase you are probably still better off renting if you are in a VHCOL area. I'm in the bay area and at this point my rent could go up 100% and I would still rent. My rent is 3900$/month. The value of my townhouse is 1.9m$. (Palo Alto area). It would make zero sense to buy even if the rent was 8k$/month
That book is really helping me look at the creative process differently and in a more evolved way.
Not at all. He forked an altcoin that was already a fork of Bitcoin. Bitcoin Cash was the name, and he forked it into Bitcoin SV. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_Cash#2018_split_to_cre...

To understand why Bitcoin's entire goal is to maintain security of its ledger. Increasing the block size means less people can download the ledger and verify it, since it takes up more space. This is seen as a risk to the security of the ledger and any change to the block size should be avoided. Instead it is better to optimize for the space already available (Segwit is an example). Bitcoin Cash is a fork that disagrees with this opinion and has a bigger block size.

Craig Wright spun off Bitcoin Cash into Bitcoin SV with a massive (128mb per block) size. It is easy to monitor network performance and see both of these networks under preform against Bitcoin. These cryptocurrencies serve as a way for Craig and the other crypto grifters to pad their bags. If you held Bitcoin at the time, you got the same amount "airdropped" on the forked chains represented in their blockchains tokens. This means that once the crypto currency goes live on any exchange you can immediately dump for profit and no real risk.

All he is doing is finding a contentious issue, digging in and marketing his own solution without understanding any of the engineering philosophy in order to exploit and extract money from people in a loosely regulated market.

Hope it truly catches up to him some day.
What are you working on actually? Like what problem does it solve or is it an alternative to existing solution?
OTA updates was a bit of snideness on my part, I will admit. It seems these days the more online elements of the political sides get new vocabulary to use every few months. Right wingers tend to focus on in group signaling through esoteric memes (based, peaty, keyed, "the breakfast question") while left wingers generally focus on new ways to ingroup signal through painting their enemies negatively, christo-fascist being the latest example.
> Something similar happens in high-pressure sales. I bet those guys would make great interrogators.

Without question. The best, most accurate, and most comprehensive texts I ever read about how to go about manipulating people was a series of books aimed at car salesmen. To the degree that "mind control" is a thing, these books were clear how-to guides.

And they convinced me to never talk to a car salesman.
The problem with "a single model of everything" is that it is an inferior tool.

It's a drawing or diagramming tool, but the stand-alone diagramming tools are better.

It's a text composition tool, but word processors are better.

It's a code writing tool, but IDEs are better.

In every single thing it tries to do, a specialized tool is better. So this single tool needs to be close enough to the best in every category in order to not be a boat anchor holding you back. So far, nothing has come close.
I think that might work as a tourist, but it seems like going to epcot and learning about the world through its "taste a handful of skittles" approach.

I tried learning to speedreading a long time ago, and found my enjoyment went down the faster I tried to absorb the text.

It seems to me slow down and enjoy it is better.

But I don't know the answer if you have time constraints. Is a bad experience better than no experience?
That's one way to play chess I guess.
I wonder if modeling/system design people didn't have new insights since the last 20 years (when Model Driven * started to sink).

Languages changed a bit, more types, more concurrency, more functional idioms. Yet I feel we're not going anywhere.
I was going to correct you but I was wrong

For anyone else that got tripped up... 1x to 3x is 200% growth because you don't get to count the original 1x
This looks like exactly the kind of thing I've been searching for, and I'm happy to pay a one-time price. I'd much rather own than subscribe.

Two things:

1. Will the local storage version be dependent at all on your servers? In other words, if I buy it once, can I use it forever even if you stop supporting it?

2. I would hit "buy now" today if there was a limited trial period before I was charged for it. $90 is a fair price for software (a little high, tbh, but I don't know another app that can do this) but I wouldn't pay that without having the chance to do a test drive first.

Best of luck, this looks awesome and I want to see it succeed!
Are you in europe or not? If yes, you can use an lawyer to solve this problem.
Mobile phones, ok, apps sendig the data. But what about the car?
A one-time payment used to be a draw. Now I wonder how long my lifetime access will last until I need a subscription. (TextExpander, Sketch, 1Password, Ulysses, for example)
I’m interested in this. But it seems like most of the work is hardware or political or heavily impacted by legislation and integration. It’s daunting like healthcare startups are daunting.

Do you have any good examples on the software side? (Not saying the other things aren’t important, just outside my wheelhouse)
Yeah, all true. In fact Tor explicitly forgoes any mitigation against a global passive adversary - it’s designed to accept that risk.

Another thing Tor does better is that it creates circuits with nodes spanning multiple jurisdictions, whereas Private Relay circuits are confined to one jurisdiction (and worse, to your current one).

> actively works against a situation where the hops are owned by the same operator, but AFAIK there isn't such a thing

Right, there is nothing Tor can do to guarantee this, but it does take some best-effort measures like maximizing diversity of AS providers (you won’t get a circuit of three nodes with the same AS number). Of course this is meaningless in a world where anyone can purchase servers from anywhere. There is a lot of research on this attack vector against Tor (and p2p networks in general) - the relevant search term is “Sybil resistance.”

Btw - just to add some detail to the discussion, this blog post from Cloudflare is a good introduction to Private Relay: https://blog.cloudflare.com/icloud-private-relay
Officially there is just gdscript, c#, and c/c++.

There's a lot of unofficial bindings with godot's GDExtension interface. Looks like there are supposedly "production ready" bindings for JavaScript/typescript, lua, nim, and rust. I've been looking into using rust with godot though, and it looks like it only works with desktop apps, not web or mobile yet.

And then there's even more that are supposedly "almost production ready": closure, D, and haskell

In development but not production ready: f#, go, kotlin, python, Swift, wasm, zig
Whatever anyone will say. I am glad he is doing something meaningful with his life beyond just making investors in OpenAI more wealthy. At some point I suspect the money just becomes a number and then you can afford to think about bigger things like how can we help alleviate some of the broader suffering in the world.
Not to mention he's funded by Peter Thiel. Whatever else I think about him, I certainly wouldn't call him anti big-tech and I'm sure he'll hold the purse strings tightly.
I've been wanting a tool like this, and just spent the last weekend hacking together a bare minimum version for myself [0], so it's awesome (and hilarious) to see this pop up now.
Clearly you're doing a much better job at it than I ever could ;) Do you have any plans for Linux support?

[0] https://github.com/bo0tzz/focustime
I think their goal was interesting for the time, but its release coincided first with the whole 'netbook' craze which meant, all of a sudden, you could buy a regular laptop for $100-$200, rather than the maybe $700-$800 low-end laptop price that had prevailed before that, and then with smart phones becoming ubiquitous and dirt cheap all over the world.
The app is free and provides full funtionality as long as you are a member (paid or unpaid) of the website. The paid part of the website has nothing to do with the app's functionality.
A court that doesn't act on demonstrable perjury is just a stadium.
I think you’re underplaying HF by a significant margin. There were many opportunities to blunder along the way (and there still are btw).
> Ultima III had top-down tiled dungeons in '83.

That's not what I remember, Ultima III had crude 3D dungeons similar to Wizardry's dungeons. The maps of the dungeon levels were 2D and tiled. Google image search for "ultima iii dungeon" confirms my memory.
The OS for the AS/400 is really remarkable as a "path not taken" by the industry and remarkably advanced. Many of the OO architecture ideas that became popular with Java were baked into the OS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_AS/400

and of course it started out with a virtual machine in the late 1970s.
We have ~220 total team members across all roles
Holding Things Together
What do you do when you have a string that's longer than 2^32 that gets truncated to len=0? Instantly freeing the buffer might not be what the user wants, if they intend to immediately reuse it for an another very long string, for example.

I think that's a pretty bad case of premature optimization, especially because the first CPUs with 57 bit support are now hitting mainstream. Just use 3 words, it's not that much extra space.
UML had the idea. But instead of focusing on the visual aspect they went bananas on trying to turn it into some sort of a programming language.

Also the design tools for it were hilariously expensive and notoriously cumbersome.
As long as I can't silently get wrong behavior or runtime crashes, I'm happy enough. Is it guaranteed that an incorrect calling convention will always cause a compiler error? I wasn't aware the calling convention was considered part of the pointer type.

Anyway, thanks for engaging with me so earnestly. I guess I had some assumptions about calling conventions that needed to be straightened out, which is important, as I'm doing work in this territory right now.
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This looks awesome, I’m definitely going to give this a try.

Also, how has freelancing been for your burn out? Do you feel rejuvenated?
Brev.dev has been acquired by Nvidia
That’s amazing. I bet she was feeling like this toward the end even if only in spirit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCwfil6r1cg
Great question! You’re on the right track — I hate subscriptions myself. Unlike others, Taim offers a one-time payment option instead of a subscription, making it cost-effective for individuals. Compared to many other apps, it is much more resource-efficient and makes time tracking effortless with various features. With some apps I’ve used, I sometimes don’t want automatic time tracking. Taim allows you to track both automatically and manually.
They said 300%, not growth by 300%

IMO I prefer the former ("growth factor") calculation to the "growth by" calculation as it's simpler, it's just [the_percentage]/100 * current_value

in the other case it is (the_percentage + 100)/100 * current_value
which takes an extra CPU cycle of my brain
Space solar has the same problem as other base load power as not being economic unless they run all day. Ground solar and wind can cover the day and much of the night. Battery storage can cover the night.

There will be need for long-term storage for days when there is no wind and solar. But space solar would be uneconomic to leave idle. Easier to build long-term storage system, or build interconnects and more wind and solar.
I am based in UK. Will a legal approach still be effective?
They’re still just probability databases that hallucinate and are confidently wrong, just like the squishy wet neural nets that created them. You’ll never get beyond that if you don’t add extra features like nonverbal neural biasing to simulate pleasure, pain, and situational emotional reactions. Effective interfaces with rule-based systems can reduce hallucinations to acceptable levels. Continuous real-time state monitoring can stand in for consciousness, and invariant motivations can stand in for instincts and conscience.
One laptop per child is why there was a netbook craze!

They basically showed it was possible to get a machine at that lower price point and then capitalism and mass market manufacturing did the rest.

Is this so often the case innovation requires someone to prove what's possible and then going down the same path is much easier for those who come later.
Household sizes are shrinking, so same number of people want more homes. Plus the population is growing in many parts of the country.
"why does everybody here think that imgur is a failure"

Because what everyone on the internet wants is a place that will just friggin hold images and respond to HTTP requests with that image

"in light of OP's stated goals"

because op seems to want to build a sustainable business, but at a certain scale it just becomes unsustainable because you become a CDN that is paid for per-seat. So they will inevitably need to either not scale (which makes them not what the internet wants), or scale by either becoming Cloudflare or becoming a social networking site, so that they can either pay their bills via usage-based-billing or pay their bills via sweaty VC money.
SpaceX will now move its HQ from Hawthorne, California, to Starbase, Texas
(b) growth is still the right metric imo. for example, lots of open-source libraries (which by definition are available to use for free) measure and optimize for growth
Comms is also the greatest battery drain for a remote edge system. Local inference can allow for longer operation, or operation with no network infra.
We never figured Roddy McDowall for a fairy.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Tempest_Hallmark_Ha...
> This suggests the iterated optimum strategy is to just keep chasing new points trying to land that golden moment, though.

Yup exactly. We call that venture capital
I've had e208 from on.to. It's a lovely nimble city car.

The downside is that it charges at 60-80kW, and it's not especially efficient car either. Purely from BEV perspective it's a low-end performance for a mid-range price.

I've heard that e3008 is better, but the first gen EV powertrains from Stellantis just weren't good.

ID.3 is a bit better with charging speed, and Hyundai/Kia's e-GMP platform runs circles around them with 2-3x faster charging for not much more money.
It's stylistically typical in English for someone writing on behalf of an organization to use "we" to refer to the organization in its entirety, not to the individual or individuals doing the writing - so in something such as this, "we" is indeed appropriate as Apple the company definitely was there when they released Private Browsing back in 2005.
Here's a couple of practical tips.

A very powerful method for remembering facts long term is spaced repetition. There's a go-to app called Anki that makes it easy to get started. A good write up on how it works and why is here: https://gwern.net/spaced-repetition

If you want a neat way to help with more "absent minded" type stuff, just associate whatever you're trying to remember with something unusual in your environment. For example say you're driving home and you want to make sure you stop by the store to get milk on the way. If you wear a watch, flip the watch the other way around on your wrist. Now every time you notice your watch you'll immediately think, "oh yeah the milk." If you don't wear a watch just pick something else in your vicinity and arrange it in an unusual way. Every time you see that object you'll immediately recall the thing you don't want to forget.
From the article:

> Alongside the new suite of enhanced privacy protections in Private Browsing, Safari also brings a version of Web AdAttributionKit to Private Browsing.

This is worse for privacy. No other browser does this. No other browser even lets you opt in for this because it's so nonsensical.
If they can access the iCloud account then the phone can be backed up remotely then read the backup.
Yes I tried it and I always end up disabling it... that's why I need something more radical.
As for the flip phone I want a good camera so not an option for me.
Via CoreData/SwiftData?
Ironically, since HN tends to dislike short content-less posts, which means quite often unless we have something more to say, we do not respond at all.

That is, there is no ack signal.
It's optimistic, but given the OP is one of the best-informed technical generative AI researchers, and has been passing on that knowledge to the rest of us for a decade +, I don't think we can just dismiss it as unfounded hype :)
What are those tools?

Every big tech job I've had just uses the more generic ones like draw.io or maybe an internal only version.
I miss Caity and Rich at Gawker, they indeed had the best reviews.

https://www.gawkerarchives.com/the-best-restaurant-in-new-yo...

Here in the Philly area we have a guy doing cheesesteaks.

https://www.philadelphiacheesesteakadventure.com/
Hehehe. Maybe some day if somebody asks me "how did you get into ICs?" I'll have to answer "well, I kept reading Ken Shirriff's blog..."

Also, what type of microscope do you use?