skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Estonia’s old city is a treat to explore. Last time I was there was several years back during the winter and it was -30c or so out. Didn’t stop some drunk Brits from having a good time.
what service does this announcement do to the public exactly
Yes, I was introduced to the concept through this project first.
GPT-4o mini is $0.15/1M input tokens, $0.60/1M output tokens. In comparison, Claude Haiku is $0.25/1M input tokens, $1.25/1M output tokens.

There's no way this price-race-to-the-bottom is sustainable.
I always love the "my programming language is smaller" and the "build a webserver in only 3 lines" type posts. This one is about smaller. He mentions Sector Lisp (a marvel at about 436 bytes, Tiny Lua in at 100K. Pretty cool. But as much as I admire Sector Lisp, it's the bare bones Lisp. I need to add scaffolding around it to do anything really practical. Likewise for Tiny Lua, it needs a ton of things before I can use it. Once I get done adding some support, it's up to 300K, the size of regular Lua.

(and on the other hand, Webserver in 3 lines, that's after pulling in 2MB of libraries, I guess that code doesn't count ;-) )
Having Lived in the Midwest and CA, I strongly suspect this is some kind of artifact of CA doing something better.

Either schools in CA are harder as in teaching much more, CA is counting more kids, CA is failing kids who didn't academically succeed, or MO might not be tracking kids from certain areas, MO might be pushing kids along and passing them out when they don't know the material. It could be as simple as when schools lose track of a kid CA might default to "did not graduate" and MO defaults to "don't care not tracking".

Live in each place for a week and tell me the average education level in the lower midwest is on par. I know that one person isn't a statistical sample, but it is so easy to reproduce and so many people have done it seeing the same results.
I spent a bunch of time in China recently, and it's interesting how effortlessly people in larger Chinese cities seem to make new friends.

First of all, a lot of their life just takes part outside, together with other people. They meet to do their Tai Chi exercises in the morning, hang out in front of stores and schools during the day, meet at little hot pot places to eat together, play with their kids outside in the evening, and then do some line dancing before going to bed. It's much closer to the kind of social interactions I used to have as a student than I have now as an adult.

Second, it's interesting how easily they exchange contact information. I bought shaving utensils, and the salesperson gave me their personal WeChat contact so I could talk to them in case there's a problem with my purchase. Somebody asked to take a picture with me, and then exchanged WeChat contact info to talk to me more. A kid asked for my WeChat so she could exercise her English. We met a couple on a walk at night, and we exchanged some words, and then our WeChat contact info. And in each of these cases, there was some follow-up, and in some cases, regular chitchat.

I don't know what the reason for the difference is, but it's one of the things I really enjoy about living in China.
"The California governor’s office responded to Musk’s tweet noting that, following Tesla Inc.’s move to Texas in 2021, the company ended up expanding in California, relocating Global Engineering & AI headquarters to the Golden State"

This announcement is just the opposite of virtue signaling, I say it that way because musk thinks he's displaying a virtue, but he's twisted in the head.
> Eightify - YouTube Summary with ChatGPT

Do you not have a more reliable source than youtube videos summarized by a LLM?
Perhaps people may not want to watch content made by an alleged rape apologist.
Here's a mathy explanation of its use in the real world (for peer to peer communications): https://github.com/bitcoin-core/secp256k1/blob/master/doc/el...
except that was a secret government program and humans were used as guinea pigs. that's not what i'm talking about at all
Assuming this means 25/75 percent, there is a strong counterpoint to this:

99% of the work is ahead of you. 95% of the risk is ahead of you.

So why get only 25% if the CEO gets 75?

Here’s a split I would want if joining an early startup as CTO / co-founder-in-all-but-name:

40% CEO.
30% CTO.
30% Employee pool (this assumes another big chunk will need to be given to at least one other key hire in the next year).
> X and Y are fundamental CS concepts

In 2024, the list of X and Y are fucking HUGE. I would like to see OP sweat in an interview on some "fundamental CS concepts" they have not used in the last 5-10 years. The lack of humility in some of these comment is simply stunning.

I worked with a guy who was absolutely a first class engineer. Very well paid; I guess about 300K USD. He had almost no experience in C++ for more than 20 years (mostly Java and C# for last 10 years). During a discussion, I mentioned that the original C++ std::map used a red-black tree. He was well-surprised that lookup was not O(1); instead: O(log2(n)). (My point: He knows about red-black trees, but was surprised the original C++ foundation library did not include a hash map with O(1) lookup!) Really: He would have failed an interview from this person based upon "fundamental CS concepts". Any software engineer, no matter how smart or experienced, has some weak spots in their fundamentals.
I think it's heavily quantized, so it doesn't cost them (too much). But I think it's still at cost...
I know plenty of unhappy people with lots of money. I know plenty of happy people with very little money. Are they all outliers ?
I looked again and I actually love the room, just the way it is furnished isn't at all appealing to me. Great stereo but with all those hard surfaces, it probably doesn't sound great.

The room itself though - those big windows and that fireplace? I love that and with enough books and the right furniture and some great art, the place could be super cozy and inviting. I'd probably even like the lamp more if it were part of an overall design.
Another place I'd like to go is Kyrgyzstan. And Turkmenistan.

Why? Because no one goes there. What other reason do you need?
Why? OpenSSH is probably the most battle test piece of software on the planet. You have to make sure you run it on a similarly hardened operating system though.
You got the recipe instructions or just ingredients?
This is the case in many non-english speaking countries. In LatAm for example.
Please don't post in the flamewar style to HN. It degrades discussion and we're trying to go in the opposite direction here, to the extent that is possible on the internet.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Well, as long as they're keeping energy rates high and the state continues to pay them to... not use so much when load increases, might as well keep that grift going.
Software from 2019 is horrifyingly outdated? If updates with security patches exist but haven't been applied, sure, but that's not really a default scenario depending on the stack.
> There's no way this price-race-to-the-bottom is sustainable.

Why not?
> If he’s properly weighing the options and makes a decision according to the orders, what would happen to them?

Right, but those are things that can be investigated. If it turns out the officer didn't use good judgment, or was drunk on the job when they made the choice or was otherwise negligent, there absolutely should be consequences, no?

But how do you do this with a black box algorithm?
OpenAI GPT-4o voice will be alpha later this month, GA later
Most likely find some loophole that lets them keep more or less the same process but doesn't quite reach the legal criteria that require it to be paid.
I was always fascinated by stuff like LSB stenography where you hide a message (or another image) in the least significant bits of an image. Not visible to the human eye, mathematically should look like thermal noise in the image at most.
Oh come on, where are the details in this report? How is the farming integrated with solar operations? Are the modules installed high with growing underneath? Or is spacing significantly wider to allow for farming between rows. Is this fixed tilt or single-axis tracking? How is shading being managed? Is the "alfalfa and forage crop" discussed being harvested or grazed?
What's Next for Flutter After Layoffs Hit Google Team
It's not just a vanity metric. The reason they choose to pay at a very high percentile of the market reference point is so they rarely have good candidates decline offers. Big Tech wants to be in the position where when they see a good candidate that they want, they get them, and don't need to worry about them going to a competitor. And they can usually afford to make that happen.

And knowing that puts you in an even better negotiating position. I got $150K/year extra in stock (which turned into $300K/year a year later when the stock doubled) with the 5 words "I respectfully decline your offer." If they want you enough, large pools of extra money are available to prevent you from declining or going elsewhere.
You can't make a friend in a month, so what the author sets out to do is nearly impossible.

Real, meaningful friendships take years to develop. They take years to get tested through thick and skin.

Otherwise, what you've made is an acquaintance that you maybe share a hobby with.
They would be a bad fit for a few software engineering jobs. I don’t deny that those concepts are fundamental, but the vast
majority of software engineering jobs out there are about: designing apis, calling apis, writing sql queries, fixing perf. issues, writing yaml config files, etc.
You can spend years working for companies in which you would never touch the topic of graphs, for example. That doesn’t mean one doesn’t need to be aware of the concept of graphs in case you need to deal with them. Another story is whether you need to know from first principles (or from memory) how to traverse a graph in different ways.

I think the most underrated skill is to know what you don’t know. To know your limits. I know that graphs exist and that they are useful in certain circumstances. I don’t know how to implement the associated algorithms. Same goes for almost any other important topic like virtual memory management , security, performance, etc.
How would you stop them?

The license is Apache 2.
She's already learned to copy and build off of old code. That's how software gets made too.
The recent Broadcom acquisition of VMware has left many VMware customers facing skyrocketing license fees and sun-lit support for cloud deployment.

That is why Wanclouds is announcing today a complimentary migration offer to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and IBM Cloud for companies reevaluating the best way to run their VMware workloads.

The free migration offer for those migrating VMware workloads to IBM or AWS is good for up to 150 VMs for new customers who sign up for Wanclouds’ one-year managed service subscription.
The original video within this reddit post where I learned of this has since been taken down. https://www.reddit.com/r/internetdrama/comments/meo391/baldn...
You don't even have to have learned, you just need to be learning
Once you view prolog goal reaching as a game. You can apply Reinforcement Learning methodologies. The goal is writing a valid proof, aka a sequence of picking valid rules and variables assignment.

Value being estimated : The expected discounted reward of reaching the goal. The shorted the proof the better.

The sufficient statistic : The embedding representation of the current solving state (the inner state of your LLM (or any other model) that you use to make your choices). You make sure it's sufficient by being able to regenerate the state from the representation (using an auto-encoder or vae does the trick). You build this statistic across various instances of problems. This tells you what is a judicious choice of variable based on experience. Similar problems yield similar choices.

The crude estimator : All choices of have the same value therefore a random choice, The improved estimator : The choice value is conditioned on the current embedding representation of the state using a Neural Network.

You can apply Rao-Blackwell once again, based by also conditioning one-step look-ahead. (Or at the limit applying it infinitely many times by solving the bellman equation.)

(You can alternatively view each update step of your model, as an application of Rao-Blackwell theorem on your previous estimator. You have to make sure though that there is no mode collapse.)

You don't have to do it explicitly, it happens under the hood by your choice of modelisation in how to pick the decision.
The evidence is clear to anyone with eyes: the intricately designed statue. It should be obvious to anyone that it was created, as it was for millennia across the entire world. It’s only after centuries of forced re-education that people began to think the dust randomly settled in the shape of a beautiful statue.
Hey!

> Why do you think building a business will fix the problem you feel?

It wont.

But it will solve one aspect of (lack of) independence -- the soul crashing 9-5 and working with people. I don't want to go length into my view of the tech industry and how I consider most of it an inefficient cog machine mixed with human psychology, but getting rid of it by creating a business which can be run on it's own -- will improve my quality of life significantly.

For example: there is no logical sense at all to work 9-5, 5 days a week from Mo-Fr, in an office. By having my business I can train in the morning and then work 12 to 8. I can take Monday off (without asking for permission). I can work from home or cafe, or a park. I get to build the lifestyle I want rather than conforming to some 1890s factory idea of the 9 to 5.

Another example: there is no need to have 15 people teams with idiotic daily standups. By building my own business, I get to work with only myself (yay), and some other people to whom I can outsource things I'm not good at, and not waste time on idiotic corporate rituals.

And as for McDonalnds, well, I been in the tech industry for over a decade now. That's what I know. I don't know anything about store locations, managing staff and stock. Sure I can learn, but it's smarter to leverage my existing knowledge rather than starting from 0. And also a physical business means more exposure to working with other people, and a more typical hierarchical structure.
Bad news -- actually good for residents -- those socialist era trams and buses are gone by now. The typical "UV" trams manufactured between 1956–1965 have been retired in 2007. The Ikarus 260 and Ikarus 280 buses last ran in 2022 November.

OK, some old trams remain but they have been throughly modernized so that old feeling is basically gone.
Ask HN: Making Microsoft Teams Bearable
My company was recently acquired. The acquiring company uses Microsoft Teams.

I'm not excited about this. For those of you who have been on a similar transition, what tips or tricks do you have for:

* making Teams more effective as a communications medium
* being able to stay on top of recent conversations
* managing notifications/interruptions

Browser extensions? Specific settings you'd turn on or off? Open to any ideas at all here.
Not sure it's even possible to distinguish between "what people actually want" and "what manufacturers have convinced them to want." Auto industry marketing is so steeped in psychology and persuasion, it's hard to tell where the border is between the customer's brain and the industry's marketers.

If you mostly produce pickup trucks, you're going to make sure that the general public "wants" pickup trucks.
Idea generation from psychedelics is okay, but we should avoid thinking we've received a divine revelation of unquestionable truth because it felt true.
MacBook Air starts at $650.
> wok hei produces enough smoke to be extremely unpleasant to have inside a residential building

Not true. Find some videos on YouTube about wok hei. Yes, you need to choose an oil with a high smoke point (not olive oil). With a bit of practice, you can do it in your sleep and enjoy delicious stir fry.
We need a version of chatgpt that just runs sha256 until the output resembles text.
You can definitely make cursory friends in a month - don't expect anything deep though
Secure Boot on Gentoo with Shim and Grub
> and the modern street lamps turning into gas lamps.

Really? Gas lamps are usually the luxurious option, only maintained at great expense out of nostalgia; Moldova has almost no domestic gas production.
>At such an early stage, 25% and no salary would usually be considered a co-founder. Of course, there's no legal definition so in actuality it's whatever you agree to. This situation is very common, where a founder didn't really derisk the company as much as he perceived.

This is strange Silicon Valley vernacular.

In the real world, a "co-founder" is someone who founds the company.
What Materials Are Magnetic?
Author is restricted everything including software necessary for homework.

That includes any means of communicating with other kids other then face to face.
I have a ton of these I keep in the spaced repetition software Anki. I use spaced repetition to remember a lot of stuff but I have a specific "life lessons" section to record things I learn about myself and other little life hacks that help me navigate the world. Everything from the embarrassing to the mundane to the profound, if it's something I think will be useful in the future I take a moment to type it in.
That's my question -- why license as Apache 2
What? Public health agencies are "goverment programs."

Also: corporations lobby against funding / legislation / regulation for public health data collection - and then tell conservative voters it's about "their privacy."

Meanwhile, corporate America is selling literally every scrap of data it can to each other, LexisNexis, Palantir...

It's not just other corporations buying up that commercially available data; it's intelligence agencies and law enforcement, too.
Can you please not post snarky dismissive comments to HN? We're really trying for the opposite here, to the extent that is possible on the internet.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Kind of crass for The Telegraph to write this when there are Ukrainian men getting shot by Ukrainian border guards for daring to cross into Republic of Moldova, but that's on brand for this media entity. From here [1]:

> A body with a gunshot wound was found near the border of Moldova with UkraineCivilians & politicians

> Last weekend, while harvesting wheat near the Klokushna-Sokiryany checkpoint, local residents discovered the body of a man with gunshot wounds. The body was found 250 meters from the border. As it turned out later, the murdered man was a 32-year-old Ukrainian. Presumably, he was able to cross the border into Moldova, but he was noticed by Ukrainian border guards. They probably opened fire on him. The bullets hit him in the head and back.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/comments/1e6e0y...
> But somehow when a mechanically computed algorithm is used as a step in a process, all of this sort of reasoning goes out the window and now it's scary

Humans following procedure can be analyzed in meaningful ways by non-technical third parties to figure out where a failure point is

Black box program algorithms cannot. They require experts to analyze, who are also often the people who own the algorithm and wrote it in the first place
It looks like the vision costs the same for GPT-4o vs mini.

Both start with 150x150px and if you click the (i) it says mini uses way more base tokens and way more tile tokens, it still costs the same...
> “Will they be ok?”, “All I want is a healthy baby,” most say.

And why is your baby's health so much more important than that of the other hundred million babies in the world? Because it's (half) yours. Your selfish genes made you for this moment; all the bloodlines that didn't sacrifice for their babies died off. You can claim to be less solipsistic; but not a whit less selfish.
How to make a friend:

Ask an existing friend to set you up on a friend date

Randomly talk to people and expect a deep friendship

Only have a month - skip joining an activity

Tell everyone you have a project so no serious friendship will develop

When opportunity to make friend is presented get judgemental because you never really wanted a friend

The type of friend this person wants could be found by going to the same bar or place everyday.

The real friendships others crave she already has. They just can't drop everything to eat at a New York restaurant at a moments notice. Neither can she if they tried this as she has child(ren), a husband, etc

In the end all that we learned was esquire is all font no substance. And this writer has LA envy and plenty of close people in her life.

The sad part is she never tried being a friend first. Helping someone else. That builds bonds for real friendship.
Somewhat surprisingly (to me at least), they produce some pretty good red wine (i.e. Purcari). Recently found it while checking out an eastern European grocery store.
I like your site especially the no code section for blog posts. Did you use wordpress or any other cms? It looks great!
I think the place for generating larger total revenue/margins would be in the highest end models. Budget models almost "come with" the effort put towards making those high end models so it's alright they are a race to the bottom (so long as someone actually realizes return on higher end models, which is a problem in itself at this moment).
> iPhones are the LEAST "general purpose computer"

Who are you quoting?
Put Something Back
Referring to Ukraine as "the Ukraine" is a symbol for many people of when it was a colony of part of the Soviet Union, rather than an independent nation. Similar to how many people use to refer to Kyiv as Kiev but changed as that was the more Russian spelling
Yes, and don't list skills like git, numpy, scipy, in some massively long bullet pointed list. Two pages max. Qualifications and experience, with previous role title front and center.
https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldAndBaldrDossier/
That is the belief that leads to evolutionism, not the exact definition of evolutionism. A necessary precondition.

I don’t have time to explain basic mathematics. Suffice to say, the concepts of changing over time and differentiating are very related. If you didn’t know that… that explains a lot I suppose.

I still don’t know what your point is, by the way. Maybe we should settle that.
Not only is it delicious but it’s often 25% of the price or less than other European countries. I am not sure why beer is so cheap in Czech Republic specifically but every country that surrounds it is significantly more expensive
Linked in there you have https://web.archive.org/web/19981206221926/http://www.msyste... which would be an amazing post on it’s own.

I had no idea people were already doing smart home things 26 years ago!
> A few dedicated clever people and idealists and dreamers talking about ontologies and building things I don't understand

I was briefly deeply interested in ontologies via OWL and I suspect Prolog has the same issues that I think plague ontologies in general.

They are a fantastic tool for a system complex enough to be nearly useless. Modelling an ontology for a reasonably complex domain is unreasonably difficult. Not because the tools are bad, but because trying to define concrete boundaries around abstract ideas is hard.

What is a camera? A naive attempt would say an item that takes pictures, but that would include X-rays. Are deep-space radio telescopes cameras? Trying to fix those issues then causes second order issues; you can say it’s something that takes images from the visible light spectrum, but then night vision cameras aren’t cameras anymore.

The reasoning systems work well, they just don’t solve the hard part of designing the model.
Evolving the ASF Brand
You may find this paper interesting: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/theory-and-practice-...

title: Fifty Years of Prolog and Beyond (2022)