skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well yeah, if you take a look at the "group photo" (https://www.grc.com/validrive/drives.jpg), you can see that all of them are either no-name, have "brands" like "Blanbok+" and "Dianww", and one of them is even a borderline counterfeit SanDisk product (the SD card). I suspect that if he had bought a (non-counterfeit) product from brands such as Kingston or SanDisk, he would have got the actual advertised capacity (although probably not as cheaply).
Why are (some) Europeans surprised when they are not included in tech product débuts? My lay understanding could best be described as; EU law is incredibly business unfriendly and takes a heroic effort in time and money to implement the myriad of requirements therein. Am I wrong?
I'm getting lots of emails from them including funding requests, are they legit? I might have entered previous credentials at one of those fake clone websites. The OG website still works fine, content is legit and helps me almost daily. Thank you whoever you are.
It was preached to me that this was how it worked since I started working in the mid-90s. I didn't learn better until an accountant friend clarified that when I got him to do my taxes when I started making real money in the mid-00s.

I dare say that it was probably the most common understanding until fairly recently. The internet has probably helped a lot with that. That is to say, if you're of a certain generation you probably think this way because that's what was generally understood.
Right, or at least that is just one part of the criteria. Your job should be something:

- you are naturally good at
- takes years to master
- the job market values
- you like doing or don't mind doing all day
The advanced lectures were the ones that finally clicked monads to me.
Protein folding historically was more reliant on physical simulations. Like, David Shaw (of DE Shaw fame) had/has a team optimizing the hell out of simulations. There are oodles of fields (like weather) doing similar, and they are finding they can use statistical models where they previously thought they couldn't.
"Any gambling for real money is the equivalent of just setting your money on fire". (c) by Jajko, 23/07/2024

It doesn't require advanced studies to realize this, just learn from mistakes of others. Even if 1 in 1000 wins (for now), its a losing game for any honest folks. Scammers prey on simple and powerful addiction and little else, games can be easily rigged in ways you will never realize just as parent describes.
This is not what the parent wrote.

Not having a yacht is not like “having a worse yacht by xyz criteria”, hence that comparison just does not work. There is always a family.

I personally agree with the parent here, it might be helpful to read the article again.
Statistically, you'll make more money working for someone else than working for yourself (and have a better work/life balance as well).

And you might say, "well - you'll never become a billionaire working for someone else".

That's not true.

There's plenty of CEOs (non-founders) who are billionaires.

And the chances of you running your own company and becoming a billionaire, is about the same probability as you becoming a CEO at a Fortune 500.
>Germany shifted to a system that is as close to a basic income as you can currently imagine.

It is free money for everyone. Everyone obviously excluding the people who work full-time and who are paying taxes so that "everyone" can live of Bürgergeld.

>but especially for those relying on government money...

Yes, those are the real victims here. Who else could be victimized by working full time, so that other people don't have to work?

Maybe the real victims are the people who have to work full time and are suffering from the increased cost of living?
Because a lot of people don't want everything resting on them. Takes a special kind of person. I know I ain't one. My dad owned his own business with a 100 employees and it was miserable growing up
What could have made it responsive.
> 8mg oral estradiol per day

You are never going to supress T with just oral E.

> Also I’m 39, so whatever masculinization I’m due for I suspect has all happened already.

It never ends.

If you feel like finasteride isn't helping much try dutasteride instead.
It is an entirely different problem with almost nothing in common with their existing product, and there are a ton of incumbents, some of whom are even quite good (Carbon Black, SentinelOne, etc)
> is the stress level actually that different?

Your liability is. Worst case scenario is you don't get hired, or you get hired, and then get fired. That the worst that can happen. FAANG isn't gonna come after you for damages if you accidentally brick something in production or are just lazy and incompetent. As a business, your customers might.

Let's watch how the Crowdstrike scenario unfolds in the coming months, when they'll probably get lawsuits up the ass for the damages they caused. Get your popcorn ready.

>And there are plenty of examples (search on HN for them) of people running one person internet businesses and making a healthy living.

Sure, but not everyone can get there, the same how not everyone can become a successful football player despite so many successful examples. There's too many variables. Usually, the right connections are your most valuable asset as one man company, and not everyone has them.
Don't make such far-flung analogies.

The Russia/USSR transition is more akin to that of the Roman Republic to the Principate/Dominate. Or the different stages of other closely related empires throughout history after dealing with internal regime, partial reversals and so forth.

Even Putin sees Russia/USSR as parts of a organic historic continuum, and this is a key component of his rhetoric. That the USSR's territorial losses are Russia's losses and must be reversed if Russia it to "save face" and so on.
How about switching lights in quick succession, enough to cause real-world issue, but avoiding the direct conflict?
Llama 3.1 405B on Groq
Lmao. Had such a man crush on Mitch.
My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
My son has been working on this game for the last month or so. He got inspired by Prodigy to make his own take on the game.

He's coded all the HTML, CSS & JS by hand in VSCode. He's made the animated graphics on his own using a web based sprite editor called Piskel.

I provided some hints along the way and Google Gemini has been his coding partner.

View source to see the code. He's excited to share and get your feedback!
Seems strange that ridicule should be your instinct rather than simple education
Competition is a funny thing—it doesn't just apply to companies competing for customers, it also applies to governments competing for companies to make products available to their citizens. Turns out that if you make compliance with your laws onerous enough they can actually just choose to opt out of your country altogether, or at a minimum delay release in your country until they can check all your boxes.

The only solution is a worldwide government that can impose laws in all countries at once, but that's unlikely to happen any time soon.
Not quite a war story, but hey:

Our university's computers were all connected by Novell NetWare around the late nineties.

I browsed the network folders one day and crept into the depths of the mechanical engineering's masters department, very curious to see what they're working on.

Everything was password-protected, though. So, I tried the obvious trick of using the folder name as the password.

One of them works: ertjie ("pea" in Afrikaans - this was Rand Afrikaans Universiteit, btw, now called University of Johannesburg)

I gain access, and look at some awesome blueprints for what looked like a dune buggy, etc etc. Then I spot something which makes my heart rate increase ever so slightly: QUAKE2.EXE

I right click and create a networked link to the EXE and share it with the entire class (30-ish second-years taking "C++ for engineers").

Most of us run the game, and find an ongoing LAN game and join it. All of a sudden, 5 or so masters students are joined by 20+ more folks and having a blast.

And "ertjie" popping up on in-game chat asking something like "wtf did you guys come from lol"
Anecdotal evidence?

I used to work with/host lots of small php apps that tied in with MySQL. PHP has dropped in popularity over the years.

Add to this hosting for Postgres has become common so you're not tied to cheap hosting for MySQL only.

At least I think that the Oracle name being tied to MySQL made it icky for a lot of people that think the big O is a devil straight from hell. This is something that got me looking at Postgres way back when.

There's probably a myriad of 'smaller' reasons just like this that enforce the trend.
An alternative interpretation (and the way in which I read it) was that the author is incredibly passionate about something mundane and his wife is very obviously not interested anywhere near as much or at all, just like everyone else who likely stumbles across his blog. I don't think it was attempting to show disdain but acceptance, admitting that he builds a blog because he cares about it alone; even his wife doesn't read it.
Not the OP but have a look at the scikit-images and other scikit packages. Lots of different algorithms implemented. Also of course the OpenCV library.
Ever done any UI programming or other paradigms where you have a specific OS thread used for cross runtime synchronization but you need to efficiently call background threads knowing exactly what's running where?

Async/await handles that well and so far the other paradigms just have not targeted these use cases well.

Message passing and promise libraries end up looking a lot like async/await with less sugar. (Compared to C#'s async/await implementation. The level of sugar depends on the language, of course.)
Every project is in Linux, the most used OS in server which is absolutely free but you think Windows is better. Please, explain to us why do you think that.
Operational and creative chief of staff on demand
Simple patches/upgrades vs tricking people into thinking you've made a whole new piece of software. Linux, BSD, and Apple roll out OS upgrades with new functionality without charging for the new versions.
I want to move my DAW to Linux, but giving up TotalMix is quite a blow...

Not sure how well the NI Native Access crap is working on WINE either. Does anyone know?
Just check out the number of posts you see on HN where you have people that started "successful" small (< 10 people) SaaS businesses.

In basically all instances:

1. These stories get a ton of upvotes because they're actually quite rare.

2. The total income to the founder is still considerably (like way considerably) less that a senior dev at a FAANG.
GitHub doesn't have it all in one huge file, but has a somewhat comprehensive template repo of many ecosystems: https://github.com/github/gitignore

(This is what is used to populate the templates if you ask GitHub to include a gitignore when creating a new repo, or if you add a new file to a Repo and name it .gitignore and get the template selector to show up.)

I believe `dotnet new gitignore` basically shares the same template, even, as this file: https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/main/VisualStudio.g...
Wow, this and all the various other options mentioned look very useful. Like others, I have hacked together configurations to do this in the past and would have loved to have these instead.

I had no idea on the availability of all the various options, which leads to the question: Where would one find examples of similar network test servers for other protocols/functions?

For example:

- A SAML IdP - Define accounts and complete a login, allow debug of request/response.

- A DNS Server - Define local domains and records, control whether Internet domains are resolvable or just local ‘corporate’ records.

- Syslog Server - Catch logs and make them temporarily available. (usually syslogd works for this, but maybe test harnesses have advantages).

- SNMP - Trap destination to capture/show alerts
> Aren't all these calls blocking?

Only locally, which is pretty much the same as when you `await` a call.

> Threading vs an event loop are two different concurrency models.

The point is that you can build a "threading" (blocking) model on top of an event loop, such that you get a more natural coding style with most of the gain in concurrency.

It loses some, because you only have concurrency between tasks (~threads) leaving aside builtins which might get special cased, but my observation has been that the vast majority of developers don't grok or want to use generalised sub-task concurrency anyway, and are quite confused when that's being done.

For instance in my Javascript experience the average developer just `awaits` things as they get them, the use of concurrent composition (e.g. Promise.all) is an exception which you might get into as an optimisation, e.g. `await`-ing in the middle of a loop is embarrassingly common even when the iterations have no dependency.
What if the one of the authors themselves do it? And it is also meant to be free according to them?
I hacked together an SVG-filter based median filter once. It was horribly inefficient, but it worked: https://codepen.io/mullany/pen/ngJWvx
Really cool Project!!
But even then, you'd need to notify those users who now have that in their own local calendars on the other side of the world... assuming they aren't using an electric attachment with the original TZ.

For example, working in a secure environment and putting certain events on a calendar manually on one side or the other.
Two 128gb Mac studios networked via thunderbolt 4?
> The main issue is that their problems are too boring and obscure for anyone without direct personal experience to care about them.

I think there are probably several hundred HN readers who would be happy to tackle those problems. Boring is probably not the issue, but obscure is, assuming these problems exist. If they're difficult to discover that the problem exists, that's a challenge. Further, if the problems exist but are highly unique in each case, there may be a reason it's solved in a one-off way by Excel or scripts rather than a scalable product. The use of Excel isn't inherently ripe for disruption. There are plenty of problems to be solved that just can't be solved profitably. It would be no better than solving a problem that someone has but is unwilling to pay for.
Ironically, both of these platitudes have been crucial to my own success. But I think they probably only work for certain types of people, so I don't disagree with you.

My personal approach with "fake it until you make it" has been to decide I am a $thing (one example: an "ultramarathon runner"). OK, now what do I do as a $thing? I do x, y and z. Then, I do those things, because I am a $thing. Ultimately, I trick myself into becoming the $thing.

This all occurs inside my head. I've never discussed or mentioned it to anyone. I've done it time and time again for career decisions and for personal hobbies. I don't believe it's very ego-driven. In my head, I crucify myself for hypocrisy and not admitting faults.

With "Do what you love, and the money will follow", well, like many of you here, that was computers. And like with many of you, the money followed.
a6ks however
What do you mean they don’t do what they’re supposed to? They get you your money back. That’s what they’re supposed to do.

Dropping the merchant is a bonus.
according to another comment, ~10x 4090 video cards.
> it is perfectly fine for them to slap on whatever license they see fit as it is their work.

Is it? Has there been a ruling on the enforceability of the license they attach to their models yet? Just because you say what you release can only be used for certain things doesn't actually mean what you say means anything.
Sure but under what license?
Because slapping “open source” on the model doesn’t make it open source if it’s not actually license that way. The 3.1 license still contains their non-commercial clause (over 700m users) and requires derivatives, whether fine tunings or trained on generated data, to use the llama name.
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More than that, as professionals' career paths in fields develop, the organisations they work for specialize, becoming less amenable to the generalist. ('Why should we hire this mathematician who is also an expert in legal research? Their attention is probably divided, and meanwhile we have a 100% mathematician in the candidate pool fresh from an expensive dedicated PhD program with a growing family to feed.')

I'm obviously using the archetype of Leibniz here as an example but pick your favorite polymath.
K9s Kubernetes CLI to Manage Your Clusters in Style
Even mortals such as ourselves can apply some of Von Neumann's ideas in our everyday lives:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_coin#Fair_results_from_...
Started a business doing 1M annual recurring. I have plenty of reasons why it’s more advantageous.

• When times get tough, cofounders playing chicken to see who can take the lowest salary

• Giving yourself the lowest pay to prevent income loss of your employees

• Always having to hunt for sales to maintain your survival (which is typically nebulous and subject to when they feel like signing)

• HR and always trying to figure out how to not get sued

• Losing big customers or big customers going out of business

For any one of those bullet points there’s a coulda woulda shoulda, but again, just taking your 400k from a well established company that isn’t fighting for its survival every day is not inherently inferior to the heroics and cortisol required to operate a business.
There is a class of rich people in the US who really like that people believe this. It allows them to spread a lot of fear about higher tax rates for high incomes.
....and money, and not being a douche.
This would be my assumption, though I haven't found data on it and frankly it is a pretty politically unpopular topic to research.

The human body wants to reproduce as its default state. When it can't, there must be physical or environmental reasons (or the likely rare genetic condition that can be a primary cause of infertility).
His explanations are great and just wanted to +1 on the idea of range trees.
Adding a reference here to a very lightweight read on range trees:

https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.851/spring10/scribe/lec03.pd...
As someone who has been self-employed for over 20 years, done the startup thing (including going through YC in the very early days), I totally understand why people would not want to.

There are real downsides to owning your own business. It’s probably been 15 years since I had a day where I didn’t check my email.

Most people are Indians, not chiefs, and I think that’s actually an evolutionary adaptation that’s built into us. Someone may want to be the best programmer they can be rather than the best at managing employees, setting business strategy, dealing with taxes and other paperwork, etc.

Totally get it.
I think the point being made is that there is very little room for creativity there... There are tons of examples of physics engines written in multitudes of languages with a full range of quality of implemention.

Now if the LLM had known to look for and found dark matter or gravitational waves all while sitting there on your computer comparing micro changes between CPU cycles, maybe you would have a point. To my knowledge most physics engines do the even emulate Newtonian physics nevermind more modern variants
Crowdstrike is essentially on the level of a FAANG, so I don't think this is remotely comparable to the type of business I mentioned.

The likelihood of a one-person SAAS getting sued into oblivion is pretty low, especially if you aren't providing something as fundamental as security services to banks and airlines.
And this is happening RIGHT as a new potential leader is emerging in Llama 3.1. I'm really curious about how this is going to match up on the leaderboards...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35906604

From just over a year ago. And honestly the recent reasons look like all the reasons why I moved away from it in the past.
You can't. Sorry.

Unless...

You have a couple hundred $k sitting around collecting dust... then all you need is a DGX or HGX level of vRAM, the power to run it, the power to keep it cool, and place for it to sit.
Lack of Real AI Alignment Incentives
This is a very important issue. And I also have a weird dystopian sense when I read this article embedded in the context of options to buy shelving units on Temu, barefoot shoes that "Leave Neuropathy Experts Baffled", walk-in tubs, and gutter guards for my house.

It's almost like the ad world's lack of contextual awareness is an echo of the problem decried in the article itself: "We need... a whole-system approach to violence against women and girls."
To check these types would then require possibly infinite time, and the checking may never halt, per the halting problem.

Useful types are a compromise between expressiveness and practicality.
You might be able to get away with running a heavily quantizied 405b model using CPU inference at a blistering fast token every 5 seconds on a 7950x.
In our C++ stack at work we accept HTTP requests, and then spawn internal IO which takes some time. During that time, we yield the handler thread to handle other requests. The arrival of the internal response sets up the next step in the request handler to resume, which needs the response message.

This can be done manually by polling status of descriptors, and stepping into and out of callables / passed continuations by hand, or it can be done with a task scheduling API and typesafe chained async functions.

Pick your poison, I guess, but it probably scales better than using synchronous IO and thread-per-request.
Integers are also iterable in TXR Lisp. But in a different way; you get an infinite sequence starting from the value.

1> [mapcar list '(a b c) 10]
((a 10) (b 11) (c 12))

This crops up on a regular basis in my coding, removing verbosity; I don't regret the decision. It's one of the "take alongs": something to repeat in a future language.
It also completely blocks extremists. They are ranked first by their supporters but last by every single other voter. This effect is mostly visible in a 3+ party system though.
> Some kind of academic CRM where you can start a new 'project' with some keywords and it assembles highly cited works and the authors of the works.
From there you can recursively search through the bibliography of the seminal works and the works that cite the seminal work to build a research map.
When researching different fields you often end up finding a) who the top researchers are and then you want to go read all of their stuff. b) who is currently working on the thing in $current_year who you might want to contact and talk to.

Yes, this would be great. Would also prefer if there's a way to trace back to the "origin" papers from which other papers build upon, and if you don't understand a term or concept, can search papers that explain it better.
Most SMBs would be able to run it. This is already a huge win for decentralized AI.
I mean, daycare is really local. Some have huge subsidies, some are run by a church, some are very small. It's quite variable.

Generally though, if you lose your job, you can go get another job and still stay at the same daycare. I think we've all survived through credit cards for a while in between work. But that doesn't work if the daycare is through the job.
> not sure about other *nixes

Should be available on any UNIX, it was added to V7 UNIX back in the 1970s: https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/Researc...

Even before that, it existed as a standalone text file https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/8cf2a84... This still exists on many systems -- for instance as /usr/share/misc/ascii on MacOS
> hair loss is probably only going to escalate over time

Not if you take the right meds. And I can assure you, they are very real.