skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not a direct answer but from what Notion tell us about their own business:

* The team are based in the US, specifically California, and Notion Labs, Inc is a Delaware corporation.

* Their investment comes from Venture Capital and individual wealth. The investors are listed on Notion’s about page and are open about how they themselves became rich through VC funded tech companies.

There is a very open sense of panic in tech right now to climb to the top of the AI pile and not get crushed underneath. I would be amazed if there were any companies not enthralled by — and either already embracing or planning to embrace — the data-mining AI gold rush.

Notion is a great product but one would be naive to use it while also harboring concerns about data privacy.
> It benefits consumers.

On the short term and reasonable spatial scale; sure. What's currently happening in the West is that common people are discovering that on the long term and at world scale, it does not really benefits them for a myriad of reasons, among which unevenly applied norms, difference in regimes, different social models, etc.
Organizations not connected to remote manipulation of public opinion have an evolutionary disadvantage. Were there no one using it, then it would be a power vacuum, and those tend to get filled regardless.

My personal theory regarding morality is that since we did not spend long time evolving to world where writing is a technology, there is no emotional reaction to contract that will allow a factory to pollute killing humans, compare to woman who sees a man to stab a baby with a fork.

Human society has three classes: owners, hermits, and pets. The owners have assets, do not need to work for money, and have means of influencing the public opinion. Hermits do not work for money, but also do not have assets or influence. Pets are 99%

Same as you train a dog to sit and run, you train a pet to BUY and VOTE. Then you laugh in the room with your fellow owners because you've bought all the representatives, won the election, and can now use legislation to crush your opponents. Kropotkin was right one hundred years ago:

"We are so perverted by an education which from infancy seeks to kill in us the spirit of revolt, and to develop that of submission to authority; we are so perverted by this existence under the ferrule of a law, which regulates every event in life — our birth, our education, our development, our love, our friendship — that, if this state of things continues, we shall lose all initiative, all habit of thinking for ourselves. Our society seems no longer able to understand that it is possible to exist otherwise than under the reign of law, elaborated by a representative government and administered by a handful of rulers. And even when it has gone so far as to emancipate itself from the thralldom, its first care has been to reconstitute it immediately. "The Year I of Liberty" has never lasted more than a day, for after proclaiming it men put themselves the very next morning under the yoke of law and authority."

Were I to re-establish a society in an empty land with no worries about existing nations coming after us militaristically:
(1) Supply of money would be limited, tied to gold (export controls), have demurrage (except for government accounts), be cryptocurrency so that one can near infinitely move it to smaller denominations (eliminating deflation). I have quite sepcific system for this, where even all property will be demurraged algorithmically—based on ∆ market value!
(2) Direct democracy, EG everything would be directly elected. If you cant participate, that is ok, but the elections will keep flowing. The voting system will be tied to prediction markets, EG vote for a thing that fails to perform as predicted and you may have less votes for the next election.
(3) System that connects the prediction markets somehow to how public is informed / educated, probably involving censorship or at least having news outlets that are recommenmded by state because no state that allows CIA type propaganda to flow in survives.

These are only the policies that would affect the problem you brought to surface the most.
"How Strawberry works is a tightly kept secret even within OpenAI, the person said."

The mystery continues. It can only be solved by adding more venture capital.
The Overlooked Aspects of Successful Development Teams
I am not sure that anyone recommends that 22 year olds put 40% of their retirement portfolio in bonds! That is insanely conservative.
Leadership for Results and Peace of Mind
https://blog.greggant.com/posts/2024/06/25/half-life-for-the...
> Simple modifications such as code moved or indendation changes wil usually only be recognized by diff programs if they're on their own, without other changes included.

Yeah, those are some of the situations where I will push multiple commits. Though indentation changes are something I prefer to avoid by using autoformatters.
I'd switch browsers if it weren't for plugin compatibility...
Is that pension plan defined benefit or defined contribution?
https://librewolf.net/ - only a few tweaks to enable/disable to have sessions persist across quitting and re-opening

but - as with any software updates, us users always suffer in having to re-check over all options to see what things changed on us (if we're lucky and get an option)
With LLM that sort of approach can be attacked at scale
DraftKings must face suit claiming its NFTs are securities
Kotlin isn't really used as much as people think outside Android, besides it is useless without the Java ecosystem it depends on, in a platform written in a mix of Java and C++.

https://learnhub.top/the-most-in-demand-programming-language...

https://newrelic.com/resources/report/2024-state-of-the-java...

https://www.itpro.com/careers/29133/the-top-programming-lang...
As I understand it stomach cells aren't really acid-resistant. The stomach creates mucus to keep the acid from touching the cells.
With age, your ability to spend money greatly diminishes. Even driving to expensive restaurants is tiresome. The need to impress other people goes away, and rocking chair on the porch doesn't cost much. I'm struggling to spend 1/5 of my investment income. And the kids have forbidden me from giving them more money because they want to 'make it themselves'.
Have thought to start your own fund? If what you say is true (which I doubt), you can make squillions in fees.
Blaugust 2024 Is Coming
Amit's a* Pages
Nah the author lied in the title to grab attention. That's different than being "succinct".
Thanks for the assumed honest post. How are your returns after switching to indexed?
The classic from The Daily WTF:

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/the_customer-friendly_syste...
gentrification is a problem. But it's hard to truly understand a problem if all sides try to make it extreme.

What does "Portuguese people can't afford to live in major cities anymore." actually mean? Does it mean that major Portuguese cities are no longer inhabited by a majority of Portuguese citizens? Or does it mean that there are some Portuguese people who no longer cannot afford to live there and that the blame for that is the few foreigners who contributed to raising prices in such a way that the those portugues who were already poor now crossed the line and couldn't affort to live in major cities, and joined the other portuguese who already couldn't afford to live there because of other causes of wealth inequality?

EDIT: It's not just mere nitpicking; I really think actual magnitudes are important in in discussions around these topics but the public debates I see often present the problem in very broad strokes and thus inevitably end up in shouting contests by people who have very strong opinions and the rest of us just looks the other way no longer believing what is being said. I know for a fact that that gentrification is destroying europeans city centres. It's very hard to afford to live in other places like Florence, Italy too. But is it really so clear cut that it's because of tax cuts for expats? Or it's just a result of a bimodal distribution of wealth including native wealth?
Media profit from our outrage. And we go along with it. Politicians derive power from our outrage. And again we go along with it. We must befriend our political rivals. Consider their viewpoint long enough to appreciate it. See that the other, is really ourselves. If we aren't doing that, then we are part of the problem, and we are creating the atmosphere that moves people to take such horrible and drastic actions. We have noone to blame but ourselves.
Yes, that is overly cyncial. The last 10 years or so has seen big leaps in our understanding of the fundamentals of sleep mechanisms. I think there's a long way to go, but we know enough that genuinely science-based advice can help a lot of people.
Multiple people were convicted of carrying firearms inside the Capitol on Jan 6th, and it's been documented that weapon caches were prepared close by.
hiding under a rock with some bourbon until one of my industry friends drags me out kicking and screaming. in all seriousness this industry is very much a word of mouth back door room career, and if you actually try to fight on the job boards you are fighting for positions that were already turned down by top talent against recruiter firms that get a percentage of your salary. i don't work unless it's for a friend and there's equity. not everyone has that luxury and jobs have to be posted publicly even if the candidate was already internally chosen, so it's really rigged. i guess it's just old fashioned git gud scrub mentality which is very toxic but what can i do about it? i wouldn't trust a single person on linkedin if i was in a hiring position so it's really a losing game for everyone.
fwiw an internal usb slot isn't unheard of on server-class motherboards.
The Unexpected Genius of Contra-Rotating Propellers [video]
I see a scientist using a red band tag first and later in the video a silver-blue one for a different bird. Do they control for tag color when banding birds? https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(15)... some birds are known for their color/visual preferences and the measurement could ostensibly be a cause for the results: a confounding variable like in those mice studies where male or female scent inadvertently affected rat behaviour.
Except the performance of S&P 500 isn't random. Over a long horizon, it is explained by economic policy and resulting economic conditions. There is a reason that most EU and LatAm nation indexes have done so much worse in the last 25 years: Worse economic policy. I still have high hopes for China equities.
> Equanimity, often overlooked in leadership, is a state of even-tempered mind. It allows you to handle victories, failures, praises, and abuses gracefully. This calm state of mind gives you the power of presence, the ability to listen, observe more, and react less. It enhances your self-awareness and emotional intelligence. With equanimity, you can lead complex issues with a steady hand and not panic. Most importantly, equanimity ensures you have peace of mind every day.

These are millennia old philosophical questions that Eastern meditative traditions say cannot be solved by word play. For example, you cannot one day decide to be equanimous by following some 5 step plan. These take years of focused practice and that every day peace may come after 20-30 years of diligent practice. Stoics do a lifetime of practice just not to respond to insults.
The State of Bots 2024: Changes to the Bot Ecosystem
It's fun how a comment that felt hostile suddenly feels very friendly with such a piece of information.
It doesn't assume. Hence 'substitute'. long run refers to the amount of time for prices to adapt, not a short run dependence on one thing.

Hence change in factor inputs.

An example of a change in factor inputs was, for example, whale oil which was a big deal for lighting systems in the 19th century. But as cheap whales were running out, so whale oil, thought to be so important for many and which there were technical improvements in sourcing and usage, was shifted away from.

As will be the case for copper, as it's a derived demand. The derived demand will be more price sensitive than the demand for the end service (lighting in the case of whales, or Open AI for copper). Not happening with copper in the short run will only make the long run change happen even (as time passes) faster.
i take it from the downvotes that you really didn't know
Now this is truly the programming language that we should be using to benchmark LLM code gen in a private hold out set. There is no substantial datasets on the internet or github, and no documentation except the one provided. And that's all the model should need.

I asked GPT-4 to write a mat mul function, but that was too ambitious and it spit out outrageous nonsense.

To be more fair, I gave it in-context access to the documentation in prompt, along with the fibonacci example function; aka everything humans have access to. I then asked it to do the simpler task of converting a base 10 integer to binary. It was unable to write something error free even after 4 rounds of supplying it the error messages.

I repeated this 5 times in case it generates something grammatical in the Top-K@5.

I suspected there was some confusion it couldn't surmount about string manipulation. So I changed the question to something challenging, yet something that only used function calls, conditional logic, basic math ops, and numbers. First, I asked for an nth root approximator using newton's method. Didn't work. Asked for just the square root. Didn't work. Finally, I asked for a function that prints a student's grade given their integer percentage. Not even.

GPT-4 also persistently hallucinated the keyword BREAKING NEWS, which I think sounds like a pretty good keyword if Tabloid were to ever get error handling.

The spooky part is that the almost all the solutions at face value would get partial credit. They had the right abstract approach, being familiar with reams of example approaches in natural language or programming languages. However, in each case, GPT-4, 4o, Claude all failed to produce something without syntax errors.

I suspect this is the case because transformers do subgraph matching, and while on one end there are rich internal connections for all the problems I requested, on the other end there is nothing similar enough for it to even get a foothold, hence the biggest struggle being syntax. If the only barrier to executing Tabloid code (or other unseen languages) is more basic syntax training, then it excitingly suggests it just needs to learn the abstract concepts from leetcode scrapes once for every syntax it knows. Prior research has shown that grammar is easy for language models. When GPT-2 was made large enough, it went from babbling to grammatical sentences very early in it's training, and at that moment its loss plummeted.

All tests conducted in temporary data mode so that this eval stays dark.
Show HN: I made FAQs that customers read
Ever notice how customers ask the same questions over and over, even though you've got a perfectly good FAQ section?

Yeah, me too. Turns out, burying it at the bottom of the page is not the most effective way to inform confused visitors.

So, I built this cute little widget that pops up and says "Psst, got a sec? Here's what everyone else is asking."
Well, bye bye official Firefox. Not gonna lie it's getting rough in the browser space. What a shame.
Releasing an Album on Floppy Disk
We need everything in one place for our tools
Hey Hacker News,
I’ve been working on this problem because time and time again I’ve had a mess of workspaces where you end up with 100s of tools and not a single workspace where it just all comes together and I don’t need to use so many tools.

I’m going to release an MVP where initially everything does come together with your existing tools, like a source of truth for all your tools so your whole team can see it.

But is this a problem you have, if so to what extent? And do you want to try out my MVP when I release the MVP (I’ll comment you the link when I do)?

Best, Imran
It's more like a preposition that exceptionally comes after the noun phrase instead of before it. (Is there another thing like that in English? I can't think of one, though there's one in German: entlang)

Etymologically it's a past participle: three days agone (gone) => three days ago
The Rust allocator APIs require layout information on dealloc[0]. In the majority of cases it's a non-issue. Take Vec (like std::vector) for instance, it has pointer+length+capacity. It needs the capacity value so it knows when to realloc, so it can equivalently use it to dealloc with size information as well.

The only case I know of where this is an issue is when downsizing from Vec<T> to Box<[T]> (size optimisation for read-only arrays). Box<[T]> only stores the ptr+length, so the first step is calling shrink in order to make the capacity and length equal.

When it comes to type-erasure, it happens to work just fine. A type-erased heap pointer like Box<dyn Any> will have the size+align info stored in the static vtable. Yes it's some extra space stored, but only in the .text data and not as part of any allocations.

On this topic, I've linked a short post on allocator ideas[1] by a rust std-lib maintainer, which lists some of the other things we might add to rust's upcoming (non-global) Allocator trait

[0] https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/alloc/trait.GlobalAlloc.html#t...
[1] https://shift.click/blog/allocator-trait-talk/
Privacy-Preserving Attribution – Auto Opt In
> Also nobody launches to orbit using lithium ion batteries as main propulsion.

It can be part of the main propulsion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutherford_(rocket_engine)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric-pump-fed_engine
SpreadsheetLLM: Encoding Spreadsheets for Large Language Models
There are thousands of sticky tapes, some designed to have no residue.

Here is one I’ve found for example [0], although a double sided one might “look more professional”.

[0]: https://www.mcmaster.com/product/1756N101
> decades of experience working at a quant firm

Has quant finance existed for "decades"?
Economic drivers of biological complexity (2015) [pdf]
Your opinion of Hacker News is too favorable
Up 13% since March. (I only recently switched to index funds, so far it's good)
I haven't downvoted anybody; and I do know about cURL and LoRaWAN, but LoRA is already 'long' established as a DL term.

I didn't connect this acronym to cURL though.
Good point. It’s the problem solving.

Thing is I’ve solved so many problems, over the years at different companies, that there aren’t many new ones. Obviously, I can knock out the code quickly to the surprise of many. It’s just experience and I’m not a magician.

Like yourself, I enjoy helping others, younger coders in my case, work through their problems.

I guess that’s why I keep having to switch teams to pull them out of the quagmire they’ve gotten themselves into.
Time ticks at different rates depending on the strength of the gravity "force", or rather the rate at which objects fall into the space-time distortion caused by mass of the earth. Time also ticks slower for objects moving at higher speeds than the observer (satellites move pretty fast). Since GPS depends on time being in sync between the observer and satellites, the time tick is offset to account for the effects of special and general relativity.
i don't think that smaller than the smallest would make much sense useabilitywise, but they are launching a phone with 5" screen soon, which ppl get excited over
It’s either pure delusion or malicous distortion of reality.
I've been looking at these recently for a project.

nng looks promising, but the guide from zmq seemed like a killer feature. It describes all sorts of high level patterns, gotchas, etc.

For nng I mostly found API documentation, which made me a bit more cautious (though to be fair, I've not tried it yet).
A simple software:Batch extract unstructured files into structured files
I bought a C64 and SD card a few years ago. I enjoyed running up a few technical masterpieces - like DropZone - but the gaming interest has waned.

I don’t code 6502 nowadays but I’m active on r/c64.
OP Here.

I am actually comparing Edge deployments on both. I made a lot of points about the Cloudflare overall experience outside of the Edge bit. Obviously, in Vercel you can go with Edge or more regular Node.js, and that flexibility is quite nice.

Also, yes, I meant to say "v8 isolates", that was a typo. (Fixed now)
I'm obviously not speaking for dang (or for anyone who flagged the thread) but a successful assassination is on a different level to an attempted assassination.

I think younger people are mostly all aware of the assassination of JFK in 1963 but probably lots are not aware that there was an attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan in 1981 (which also came close to succeeding; closer even than this recent event). That's because the attempted assassination of Reagan had far less contemporary and historical impact than the successful assassination of JFK.

If the attempt on Trump's life had been successful a thread probably would stay up (my guess only). That's because there would have been HN on-topic things for us all to consider after such an event, including possible further crackdowns on internet privacy, further restrictions on free movement, free speech, etc.
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impressive.

did you have a chance to check what kind of beacons your iphone actually emits?
I always thought excel could do this, and everyone already knows excel. Toss out the vba, replace with python, every cell is a function, have a regular view, a relationship view that shows which cells connect to the current selected cell, have a run, stop pause, step/break button. Everyone would use this.
The distinction between the use of "ago" and compositional words that this text makes doesn't make much sense to me, but I do find the lack of a common word for "the day before yesterday" and "the day after tomorrow" quite jarring when my native language has a common word for it.

Ereyesterday and overmorrow are perfect equivalents found in some dictionaries, but they're not exactly common.
>So this is a drug (not a vaccine) that stays active for 6 months.

oh course, you cant sell vaccine over and over
Spring Boot and Htmx: The boring app
Lagrange: LAser GRavitational-wave ANtenna at GEo-lunar Lagrange points (2011)
There's definitely a few worthwhile nuggets in there, but at least half of this reads like a cringey tirade you'd overhear at the tail end of the company holiday party from the toasted new helpdesk intern. I'm surprised to see it from a subject matter expert, that he kept it on his website for 20 years, and also that it was so heavily upvoted.
Exactly how I perceive it
Benchmarking LLM Inference Back Ends
I remember being mind-blown on my first trip to the US when a taxi driver took my card and literally carbon copied it manually (with a pencil and carbon copy booklet) on the spot.

I had been using my credit card for at least a decade (Europe) and it never ever occured to me that the embossed letters had any function other than aesthetic.

And the cheques... jaw drop
Witnessing History: The power of iconic photographs
The photo from Eric Vucci, felt instantly iconic (my submission on it was flagged which is understandable given the political nature of it), but what I was hoping to open a discussion about is what makes a photo iconic. Like how can a photo have so much influence?
https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/klvynqkebpg/...
I just uploaded myself to GitHub
Yesteryear is also one I've actually heard used. (But again, not exactly common.)