skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it's not silly. Immortality = staying alive for an infinite amount of time.

Since this is not possible, the best we can hope for is living for a long, but finite amount of time. Which is infinitely short compared to true immortality.

To put it another way, with true immortality you will never be one minute from dying. Without immortality, you 100% will, sooner or later. This is the qualitative difference between the two.
The gun nuts have convinced so many people there is only one way to read the 2nd amendment.

"Despite the Supreme Court’s rulings in Heller and McDonald, many constitutional historians disagreed with the court that the Second Amendment protected an individual right to “keep and bear Arms” for the purpose of self-defense in the home. Indeed, for more than two centuries there had been a consensus among judges as well as scholars that the Second Amendment guaranteed only the right of individuals to defend their liberties by participating in a state militia. However, by the late 20th century the “self-defense” interpretation of the amendment had been adopted by a significant minority of judges. The self-defense view also seemed to be taken for granted by large segments of the American public, especially those who consistently opposed gun control."

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Second-Amendment
Indeed. The company I work for uses F# for large revenue workloads across many services; mostly coming from non .NET dev's. It handles large scale customer traffic quite well without a hiccup and with the C# interop we never find we are blocked (e.g enterprise/vendor libs). They found it easier to learn F# than C# - it has a lot more in common with JS/Go/etc in how code is structured and maintained from their POV. Good mentorship is critical for learning and deriving extra value from it especially if coming from old C#/Java/etc. The push for C# to minimal APIs, less classes, etc from our experience has slowly made it less necessary to have F# wrappers as well - the interop ugliness usually only resides in one file (e.g. ASP.NET Startup.fs or equilvalent in given C# framework). Given our proprietary nature however we don't broadcast a lot of our dev effort/development online - I assume many F# shops are/were similar.

We've created very large scale applications in it requiring significant throughput. One of its benefits is also its disadvantages - we typically are quite productive in it and so don't feel the need to hire as many people in the team. Before LLM's were a thing we found we were wasting less time with boilerplate in general than our C# code for example. YMMV.
Even on a small project it's actually better imo than tying everything to a platform like netlify or vercel. I have this little notepad app that I deploy to a two node cluster in a github action and its an excellent workflow. The k8s to get everything deployed, provision tls and everything on commit is like 150 lines of mostly boilerplate yaml, I could pretty easily make it support branch previews or whatever too. https://github.com/SteveCastle/modelpad
I agree about that phenomenon and it doesn't change anything about you shooting yourself in the foot by personally attacking people when making your case. Please stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
It uses the MySQL protocol and has some extra features for MySQL users like the Federated engine [1], so it should definitely be nice for MySQL users. But it also has an HTTP API [2] so sending data to manticore should be no different than sending it to Elastic, Meili or whatnot.

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1: https://manual.manticoresearch.com/Extensions/FEDERATED

2: https://manual.manticoresearch.com/Connecting_to_the_server/...
I don't understand the point of lying about me when all of the evidence is directly above, six sentences in total length, and abundantly clear. That leaves me with the conclusion that, no, indeed, three times was not enough.

>You can reasonably argue they they should get more

>Like I said, it is reasonable to argue that the public deserves more return

>it is reasonable to argue that people should receive more benefit for their tax money

That brings us to six. Can I just add that I think a reasonable argument might be made that the public is entitled to a greater benefit from their contribution to drug research? Or is it supposed to be 77 times 7 times?
First, incorporating Stack into your project is really easy if you use Next.js — literally just a single command:

npx @stackframe/init-stack@latest

If you use our managed hosting, we'll deal with deployment, backup, ... for you.

.

Anyways, here are a few things that you'd have to build for yourself but come for free with Stack Auth:

- Session management, because you probably don't want to store passwords in cookies, and JWTs should not be long-living

- Impersonation to debug users or do customer support early on

- A user dashboard for basic analytics & editing, saves you from having to build this yourself in Retool

- Email shenanigans — for example, some mail clients click verification links automatically to check them for spam and then even interact with the page

- User profiles and account settings pages

- OAuth access token management, if you ever want to access APIs on the user's behalf

- App-based 2FA with HOTP/TOTP — we don't actually have this yet, but should be released this week still

- Redirects, so users land back on the same page after they successfully logged in

- Teams, so you can segment your B2B clients

- Access permissions for your users

- and more stuff, every time I make this list it's slightly different
It'd help to know how much area each core takes within the die.

I would expect the ARM cores to be much larger, as well as use much more power.
I mostly agree with your take. Mobile is particularly challenging. I'm optimistic about a hardware only startup succeeding (Framework but for phones), but building your own hardware and your own OS is much harder, I think.

This doesn't negate any of your points
It appears you’ve never needed to take screenshots or screen recordings, and cannot comprehend those who want access to such functionality being anything but idiots.

If I choose to use software I do trust, why does the OS have to ask me “Are you sure?” every single week for the rest of my life?
There are other out of the box features that are useful:

* Cert manager.

* External-dns.

* Monitoring stack (e.g. Grafana/Prometheus.)

* Overlay network.

* Integration with deployment tooling like ArgoCD or Spinnaker.

* Relatively easy to deploy anything that comes with a helm chart (your database or search engine or whatnot).

* Persistent volume/storage management.

* High availability.

It's also about using containers which mean there's a lot less to manage in hosts.

I'm a fan of k8s. There's a learning curve but there's a huge ecosystem and I also find the docs to be good.

But if you don't need any of it - don't use it! It is targeting a certain scale and beyond.
I wish there was a way to share memory with a Pi. The PIO looks great for high speed custom IO, but 100Mb scale interface to/from it is quite hard/unsolved.
You would be surprised at the amount of effort and success $0.01 represents at BigCo. Even when projected sales are in 6 figure range.
If you're using the word "lying" about a comment on an HN thread, it has gone off the rails, and you should stop.
Great article and a really interesting history of the company. I first heard of FitBits (and activity trackers in general) while working in Singapore in 2010; I met up with a hacking group that had a few FitBit enthusiasts.

I had no idea until this article how close that was to a) the product's initial launch and b) the product's actual manufacturing site.
Nice! Thanks for the direct communication BTW.

I guess you are very serious about competing with industrial MCU’s.

We had to use a 2040 shortly after it came out because it was impossible to get STM32’s. Our customer accepted the compromise provided we replaced all the boards (nearly 1000) with STM32 boards as soon as the supply chain normalized.

I hope to also learn that you now have proper support for development under Windows. Back then your support engineers were somewhat hostile towards Windows-based development (just learn Linux, etc.). The problem I don’t think they understood was that it wasn’t a case of not knowing Linux (using Unix before Linux existed). A product isn’t just the code inside a small embedded MCU. The other elements that comprise the full product design are just as important, if not more. Because of this and other reasons, it can make sense to unify development under a single platform. I can’t store and maintain VM’s for 10 years because one of the 200 chips in the design does not have good support for Windows, where all the other tools live.

Anyhow, I explained this to your engineers a few years ago. Not sure they understood.

I have a project that I could fit these new chips into, so long as we don’t have to turn our workflow upside down to do it.

Thanks again.
RP2040 shows up in a lot of qmk keyboards, for real product use
It's all about work culture. If crap like that is accepted at work then it continues. Both Gates and Ballmer have this over the top personalities where yelling and screaming and throwing things is part of a day's work. We saw that type of energy over and over in the presentations they gave and the articles written about them.

Nadella is a different type of CEO so the culture will follow his lead. I doubt throwing chairs is one of his go-to moves. He has other ways to make his point.
Doing LODs Backwards
I think you're missing an enormous part of being a musical act if you're only looking at Billboard chart placement. My wife and I have made a hobby of going to concerts and festivals for the past few years. Just in the last three years, we've seen KMFDM and NIN multiple times, Tool, Madonna, Judas Priest, Kreator, Queensryche, Slowdive, Echo and the Bunnymen, Metallica, Dead Kennedys, Social Distortion, Bad Religion, Rob Zombie, Alice Cooper, Filter, New Order, Ministry like five times. We've got Slayer, Weezer, and Flaming Lips coming up in the next couple months. I have pretty badly wanted to see Massive Attack, Juno Reactor, and Spiritualized, but their tours never hit the US.

Some of these were multi-generational megastars. Some of them charted once or twice 30+ years ago. Some of them never charted at all. All of them have devoted fanbases and they sell out venues. Some of these are 80,000 seat arenas, some are small clubs with standing room only, but they're all enough to sustain the band for decades.

You don't need to be on the Billboard top 100 to make a living. A whole lot of fans continue to be fans and will love you their entire lives regardless of whether a single one of your songs hits the mainstream ever again or even if you don't release new material at all. KMFDM thankfully does release new stuff damn near all the time (now 40 years of conceptual continuity), but my wife and I met at one of their shows. We've gone to see them every single time they come within 100 miles of us ever since and we always will. They're a far more important part of our identities than Icona Pop is to the casual radio listeners that sung along to their one popular song for a summer and then forgot about them.
Does anyone else's neighborhood get flooded with contractors and other roofing/repair companies every time it rains or the wind blows? Sarcasm aside, it seems to be a regular scam where they try to talk you into colluding with them to bill your insurance company for "damages". They get a big check and you get a "free" new roof or basement or whatever.
Their stuff seems more like art to me, like collectible examples of interesting industrial design.
Dev time spent waiting for compiles is way more expensive than CPU time.
If that's right that's very good to know, eigenvectors were just procedure following for me.
Can we improve the energy efficiency of EUV lithography?
If we can get flutter running on these...
as someone currently running a mate desktop with xmonad as the window manager, this is pretty much everything i want in a desktop environment. mate is showing its age a bit and has some rough edges and glitches, so if a modern, active project is taking over the mantle I'm perfectly happy to embrace it.
I think if you put in charge a good visionary that truly understands your requirements (either a curious new hire or someone from within), you can drive development externally.

I wouldn't hire and staff for this, because it will be a hard sell for anyone with great SWE skills to work on internal software, while you can hire rockstar freelancers to build a good foundation, and evolve your own platform opportunistically with additional freelance work.

You can also leverage LCOL countries to set up your own dev shop, possibly Eastern Europe if you want good timezone overlap. Feel free to reach out if needed, this is my wheelhouse.

The only question you need to answer is supportability. If the platform is the cornerstone of your business, what happens if/when it goes down? What kind of SLO would you have internally? Who is on-call?
I agree a small amount of process is a good thing. It needs to be small enough so that people won't be squashed by it, so they won't stop thinking and act correctly in whatever situation the process didn't cover.

As someone who was doing waterfall projects back in the day and lived through various agile variants, I don't think the amount of process that scrum involves is justifiable. At least waterfall produced tons of documentations which made projects rock solid. With scrum you do all these crap rituals and you are left with nothing but depressed engineers. And no, an "energizer" is not going to help.

I've seen plenty of times were scrum was added to organizations (even to teams that were working incredibly well without it) with horrific results. In one case, developers just started quitting (me included).

I'm glad one of my client is walking back on scrum, even though there are still a few zealots trying to do scrum without calling it scrum, no matter the pushback they receive from everyone else.

There are definitely some good ideas coming out of scrum (the product backlog is a great concept) but as a whole it's definitely a net negative for morale and productivity.

I respect the hustle of the scrum masters who managed to create the most useless job role I've ever seen, though.
Sequoia Screen Recording Prompts and the Persistent Content Capture Entitlement
> Also, an electronic/physical device that "doesn't drift over time" is a device that hasn't been tested for long enough.

I just want to say that I love this phrase, it reflects my experience perfectly.
Why America fell behind in drones, and how to catch up again
There was no pipe, as such. Just a wide deep long trench full of rocks.
This is what leaves me annoyed about NASA choosing (so far) not to continue with the suggested financial penalties for Boeing. Boeing sought to save a dollar by using less-qualified, less expensive labour, in an area that they clearly shouldn't have. That should have a cost, dammit.
Perhaps it'd be better if these were just weekly, non-intrusive notifications ¹ (instead of prompt dialogs) that said something like "hey, this app can still record your screen, head to Settings to revoke that permission."

¹ Insert your own definition of non-intrusive notification.
>it's called Excession, and it is even better than you imagine.

I'd advise not startin with Excession but with Player of Games. Read from there. You'll get to Excession on time with plenty of background knowledge of how stuff works.

Reading Excession as book 1 will leave you ultra confused.
Ha, sorry. It must say something about my mood today that I just (for no reason) assumed a reply was disagreeing. Never mind, thanks!
> And then there's the fact that to some degree, you're endangering the people who need to come get you.

This is especially true because the same kind of people who will drive somewhere out of their league are more likely to also be doing so in bad conditions with inadequate preparation so the rescue team might be rushing at night, in adverse weather, etc. A couple of people I knew who went hiking or mountain biking in the BLM land east of San Diego had stories about sharing food and water with people who’d only packed driving treats and forgot that SUVs can get stuck pretty easily no matter what the ads showed.
There's sorrow and confusion at intel that the server and desktop markets are shrinking. People just aren't buying as many computers any more. Not to worry though, they'll probably want more in the future.

The rest of the world has noticed that people are buying lots of computers. This doesn't seem to cause any cognitive dissonance for intel though. Perhaps "computer" means "thing intel sells" and excludes the work of the heathen outsiders. It makes for some quite confused reporting from the financial press.
I know it's not popular, but it could also be a place where a 3rd party engineering / development / managed services firm could be useful. Your labor requirements in building and transition may be different than long-term run, and if it's relatively simple, maybe the long-term run/maintain will be different.

disclaimer: I work in the research org as part of a company that specifically advises the contracting and management of outsourcing relationships. This does work, but is not risk-less and effort-free. But, in logistics, you're probably used to managing critical 3rd parties.
Personally, I am more concerned with the cumulative drop in productivity that will control for all variables including this one. Again though, sponsored clubs for a particular gender are a luxury good. If these initiatives were self-organizing it wouldn't be a problem. However, the implication here is they are not.

On a numbers basis the rules still apply: there are N members of this club. Each are paid an average of X dollars per hour. If the meeting is only an hour a week thats still N x X x 48 annually. Add in a food budget, perhaps bringing in a guest or two once and while. This quickly gets unsustainable as N grows.

The issue I take with this reframing is that it is once again Men vs. Women in this completely fabricated war in tech (and only tech). RTO is a negative for everyone involved. The division here makes it sound like, once again, women suffer more than men for an isolated reason, not considering that men suffer in a different but comparable way. Or they are quitting at a dramatically higher rate over the baseline RTO quit-rate (and "women with children" quit-rate across industries). The actual reason boils down to simple MBA spreadsheet math.

Productivity be damned, RTO makes fiscal sense when you have a 15 year lease on a building you can't get out of. I don't agree with it, but I can see why you'd want warm bodies in seats when you pay 20,000 (or more) a month for your modern-tech cube farm.

Women with children in other industries that have never had these luxuries are clearly doing something that women in tech aren't. The question I have is - what is it? Is the actual solution an economic one whereby we could once again afford to live on a single salary so someone is staying home?
More detailed discussion here. The book has flaws.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/86rtp7/what_...
disposable ecigs...
It is just a wrapper around Avalonia, which is written in C#.
Frekvens for Ikea (which included an unreleased turntable)
One of the performance improvements mentioned is "Remove the usage of the C stack in Python to Python calls" [0]. Since Python 3.11, a Python-level function call can be evaluated within the bytecode interpreter loop, no longer requiring a C-level function call.

Interestingly, Lua 5.4 did the opposite. Its implementation introduced C-level function calls for performance reasons [1] (although this change was reverted in 5.4.2 [2]).

[0] https://bugs.python.org/issue45256

[1] https://github.com/lua/lua/commit/196c87c9cecfacf978f37de4ec...

[1] https://github.com/lua/lua/commit/5d8ce05b3f6fad79e37ed21c10...
> Pretty much everything that has to do with space was first developed by governments for military purposes. Rockets, satellites, communications, imaging, etc.

No. First works on rockets was conduct by free market, even British Interplanetary Society designed flight to Moon (1938) and Lunar Space Suit (1940), unfortunately these works stay plans. BIS said, this is because too strict British regulations.
https://www.bis-space.com/technical-projects/

It is just coincidence, in Germany made first space scale rocket (A-4) and Soviets made first satellite.

Planned first satellite was Vanguard, born in civilian American Rocket Society and used civilian sounding rockets rather than military missiles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Vanguard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Rocket_Society

Just after Soviets demonstrate first satellite launch and huge for that time ICBM R-7, US government joined space race and participated in it until Russians shown interest fall

After Russians avoid to show something similar to Apollo program, US government cancelled next launches and switched to minimalist space program, just to support lead in space, because of military considerations.
Create your own profitable software
I don’t think it is true that the perfect LLM emulates a human perfectly. LLMs are language models, whose purpose is to entertain and solve problems. Yes, they do that by imitating human text at first, but that’s merely a shortcut to enable them to perform well. Making money via maximizing their goal (entertain and solve problems) will eventually entail self-training on tasks to perform superhumanly on these tasks. This seems clearly possible for math and coding, and it remains an open question about what approaches will work for other domains.
Some of us are running llama 405B locally already. All my GPUs are ancient Nvidai GPUs. IMO, the point of an open cuda is to force Nvidia to stop squeezing us. You get more performance for the buck for AMD. If I could run cuda on AMD, I would have bought new AMD gpus instead. Have enough people do that and Nvidia might take note and stop squeezing us for cash.
Metal straws will certainly penetrate more, but there are hundreds to low thousands of ER visits each year due to straws. Most aren’t nearly as severe as this example though.
Indeed, though I'm curious about the rationale behind it. It is a 'plan B' in case their relationship with ARM sours? It is aiming for cost-cutting in the future (I can't imagine the ARM licences are costing them much given the price of the RP2040, but maybe they're absorbing it to get marketshare)
Prototype in Python so you can get your ideas on the page then rewrite in something else has been my method for a while now.
If we are mentioning mini PCs then I think it is only fair to mention that every single console went to AMD for chips.
To this I would also add the ability to manage all of your infrastructure with k8s manifests (eg.: crossplane).
cout << anything << to << avoid << this;
And it's not quite as obvious as setting up the chessboard on a windowsill...
No it can't, because the shooter is aligning the target with the near sight and the far sight. (I believe they typically focus on the far sight, but the issue arises regardless.)
Show HN: Elabeler a simple text annotation app for classification labels
There was lots of talk at the last earnings about "clean sheet redesign" to achieve "world class foundary" and a "world class semiconductor. Sounds like getting the organisation ready to split in two to me.

That probably kills the vertical integration that made intel the world leader in the past though.
Thanks for letting us know - we're planning to support TypeScript soon. A lot of stuff on our roadmap!
Or just any other real programming language.
Whatever you do, try to do it incrementally in phases. That way, you'll learn iteratively :)
Read about them on this page and then built an implementation: https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/