skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For sure, just replace the first dot in the url from my profile with an @
I got one of these recently as well, and have similar feelings. MNT's devices are not for everyone; you definitely need to be prepared for some tinkering, and some things are a little bit rough at first. But for a certain kind of person (and I count myself as one of those people) they're so much fun.

It definitely has been scratching my tiny laptop itch. I think the first laptop I ever used was my dad's Libretto 70ct back in the day, and I've loved mini laptops ever since. I think they hit on the right input method with that small trackball too, it's very smooth!

I also designed a custom back panel for mine, though unfortunately I missed a few details so I'm gonna have to get it re-made. But it's fun to have so many customization options! https://www.terracrypt.net/posts/custom-pocket-reform-lids-h...
No. The public transit there hardly goes anywhere in reasonable time. It takes a good 40 minutes just to get across it. Many times I've walked faster to my destination than the public transit estimates. The Muni trolleys get stuck at intersections and red lights and don't move faster than cars. The BART only goes down 1 smelly street. I'd spend 2 hours round trip (1 hour each way) just to buy a vegetable from the nearest Ranch 99. That's not city life.

Most Asian public transit systems blaze past all the cars on the surface. They actually save time from driving.
Avoid Scrum
>The right to associate freely is not what is being debated here - the article clearly says this is about anti trust. Corporations do not have the right to just do whatever they want.

A fair point. But does X (and by extension Elon Musk) have the right to demand that advertisers purchase ads specifically on X?

If so, I'd love to get on that gravy train! "What? You're not spending advertising dollars on my platform? That's anti-trust! You are required to pay me!"

Which is pretty much X/Musk's argument. Which isn't very compelling, is it?

Feel free to disagree, but what specific law (anti-trust or otherwise) guarantees X the right to force folks to pay them to run ads they don't want to run on that platform.

How would you justify that? I'd be very interested to know, because if Musk can do it, so can I and I could use a few hundred million in ad revenue too.
I find them criminally underrated. Mine is also my favorite device, and I've worked months at a time on it as a programmer as my only device.

I liked it so much I wanted to install it on my own desktop machine, but unfortunately ChromeOS Flex at least runs an older kernel that doesn't work on newer hardware. In my case it doesn't even try to boot.
Most of the complaints you hear about Airbnb come off as off-the-shelf repeats of things people have read on social media. If you read reviews and pay attention to the listing there's little risk of having a bad experience or being surprised by a fee (which is extremely common at hotels.)

All that being said, if you actually get to the point where you need to engage Airbnb or Vrbo for help, they are actively harmful to the situation. The people on the other end of the phone or live chat don't have a single clue what is going on.

They deserve a correction.
For your second example it's impossible to find a YouTube video of Chika dance that is available in every country. Try this: https://streamable.com/0hrdh

It's remarkable how smooth the animation is. And how natural the character's movements are. This scene jumps over the uncanny valley straight into being enjoyable.

And I think there's an AI paper from a Chinese researcher using this video as a demo.
At least Nintendo's D-Pad patent expired. All other console manufacturers had to come up with workarounds for a long time, and sometimes they were bad (e.g. the Xbox 360 solid circle D-Pad).
This isn't only about formal audits. Memory corruption and UB type bugs are also some of the hardest to debug since they may not reproduce in debug builds.
I see many, many tech people take an extremely simple position on a topic contrary to general knowledge.

Then they say something like 'I believe in strongly held beliefs, held weakly'.

I'm so bored of debating people with opinions on things they've spent zero time researching or even thinking about. Just say you don't know. It's okay.
OK! Though we also had lots of Germanies in the 19th century between dissolution of HRE and before Bismarck forced the partition into (more or less) two Germanies (Kleindeutschland in the north and Austria-Hungary in the south).
Also bad are the applications that don't understand that [DELETE] and [CLEAR] are not the same thing.
The FOSS community raised a generation of VC darlings who loved parroting the "we'll just do the hosting and keep the data, that's where the money is!" line, and who never considered (or ignored, or perhaps knew but didn't care about) the fact that the number must always go up. Not "must go up to a certain point and then everyone's happy", "always".

There is no scenario under which some ghoul comes to Stanford, tells you you're Jesus Christ with a MacBook Pro, offers you millions of dollars to pursue your passion project if you drop out, and doesn't expect unending increases in returns even at the cost of the core philosophy of the software development community you came up in. That's literally their job.
Phew!
Now that was a lot of work.
Thanks for taking the time to write such detailed answer.
I really appreciate it.
> Just like updating the tests when code is changed, update the comment when the code is changed.

Well, yeah. But the point is that tests can be run in a pipeline that can fail if the tests fail. Comments going out of date has to get caught by a human, and humans make mistakes.
This is fair. But I think that instead of debunking this approach, it just limits its applicability.

(1) Keep the "kvetching order" for the (relatively) short time when the impact of the trauma is still very strong and hasn't been processed by the person in the center.

(2) Do not allow two systems of kvetching rings clash. Yes, this includes both warfare, hopefully far from most people here, and, say, divorces.

This is not a universal solution. Taken too literally, or too long-term, it will harm the person(s) in the center it's intended to protect. Yes, sometimes the only way out of pain is through, "no pain, no gain". But this is a good rule-of-thumb kind of solution that helps limit the pain inflicted to the people definitely more hurt than you, without any significant gain. Maybe a traumatized person, for their long-term benefit. needs to have a difficult conversation that would be extra painful due to the trauma. But there's no reason to inflict pain by small talk and trivial daily iissues.
Second link is the same as the first.
> It’s interesting you feel you can judge the type of person I am almost no information. The internet makes everyone overfit their priors.

This is pretty common on HN when lifestyle is the debate.
In Canada I think they are legally required to, but sometimes it can be frustrating if they don’t always compare like units - one product will be price per gram or 100 grams, and another price per kg. I’ve found with online shopping, the unit prices don’t take into account discounts and sale prices, which makes it harder to shop sales (in store seems to be better for this).
This is a joke right? Ars is the leader in shitting on Google. I will say this, Ars has absolutely mastered the Fox News/Tucker Carlson ersatz outrage generation and quick pivot to actively denying their part in what they spent months engendering.
The popular talking point is the FDA slowing things down. The large criticism given by most is the FDA not allowing drugs already approved by other large foreign medical regulation to be used, like the NHS or Australia's review body.

There is moderation on Twitter today things do occasionally get removed like death threats and the ilk.

You're likely misremembering his 'medical regulation = bad' arguments, and misremembering his twitter content policies as well.
Accountants and financial analysts all over the world know control-enter - the Excel newline key combo.
Interesting. Are we finally reaching the point where ssd are bigger than hdd ?

How many years before price/GB gets better too ?
So we can send an image + text to the new structured output model and use the chain of thought schema?

I'm getting an error.

openai.BadRequestError: Error code: 400 - {'error': {'message': 'Invalid content type. image_url is only supported by certain models.', 'type': 'invalid_request_error', 'param': 'messages.[1].content.[1].type', 'code': None}}
It's all fun and games until businesses just stop ceasing their already-hobbled services instead and start to shed employees... oops now you have a deflationary spiral with decline of quality of life.
British Columbia has effectively banned whole house Airbnb rentals Province wide, and it's no longer possible to buy a condo and rent it out 24/7 as if it was a hotel.*

Have any other States enacted rules this severe? Are any about to?

Various cities have enacted Airbnb regulations, but it's at the State/Provincial level where enforcement would start to have real teeth and Airbnb would genuinely start to be in trouble.

* Exceptions: Municipalities below 10k and those with rental vacancy above 3% can opt out of the rules.
How does someone go about doing something like this? Do you have a blog? I would love to read more.
So I could just draw a picture, call it Iron Man, never publish it and then send DMCA requests to all people who do anything with Marvel's Iron Man telling them to stop because they violate my copyright to my Iron Man?

I own copyright to my Iron Man and I can't be blamed for being misunderstood, right?

Or maybe I could name my drawing Iron Men? Blame mistargetting the DMCA on overzealous AI bot?
I have one, but I never use it. It sits in a corner. I want to love it, for it’s simplicity if nothing else, but it’s slow and then I’ll want to run something it doesn’t support.

Interestingly, I’ve fallen for a Kindle Fire lately. An even more limited device. I also have the pen. My Chromebook has a pen too, but the keyboard folds around and is awkward when in tablet mode.

If you have a stylus though, I highly recommend the Squid app. It’s a pretty great app for handwritten notes and drawings. I might have loved the Chromebook more if I had discovered this app on it.
I mean, its not Facebook or Twitter levels of hate, but they're definitely tarnished
Laziest way to build multi-agent LLM apps
> I strongly prefer the explicitness

I have a rule for my teams: "Don't write clever code".

I try to constantly reinforce that we don't write code for ourselves, we write it for the next person.

We should be doing everything in our power to decrease their cognitive load.

I try to envision the person that comes after me (who may be me in months or years!) and imagine that they are having a Bad Day and they have to make changes to my code.

Good code is clear, and tells a story. A story that's easy to follow, and easy to drill into.

Not to knock elixir unfairly, but I think that's the basis of my mental block with that language. It seems to be designed from the ground up to violate that rule. Everything is elixir is clever. Very clever. Too clever for me.
Impossible to not read this in Norm’s nasal Canadian drawl.
To answer this and another comment, I think of it being able to manage social interactions reasonably well as a life skill. Without it people can have a really bad day if they have to deal with aggressive salespeople, unpleasant customer service issues, or overbearing family members.

The dancing analogy is a good one but while I can go a month without dancing I cannot go a month without required human interactions that put me in uncomfortable positions.

A peer post suggested that one should therefore force extroverts into uncomfortable situations too. My thought here is that I’m not trying to torture one group but not another. School forced me to be more athletic than I found enjoyable. I don’t believe it was that they were trying to make me feel bad, even though that’s exactly what running does for me. By analogy I would not ask the school athletes to gain extra weight just because I was forced to jog a mile.

I don’t have a dog in this race. I’m not even suggesting that it should be done, just sort of bringing up the thought experiment. I’m an ambivert or whatever it’s called. I could happily spend a year not dealing with people but I can also do it with unusual skill when called to do so.
Google search has been getting worse for years. Kagi.com is what Google would be if they had kept improving Google instead of optimizing search results for ad revenue.
What they often do is put different units on the same type of good. Three chocolate bars? One will be in oz, one in lbs, one in "per unit."

They all are labelled, but it's still customer hostile to create comparison fatigue.
This looks like it's exactly what i need for a project im working on. Right now Im actually starting a thread and raising an exception to stop it and restart which is not very safe.
I remember coveting the librettos! And then the slim sony laptops. These days I dont think there’s anything better than a MacBook Air though.

What’s the use case for one of these? Data centers?
I can be that person. Currently working on a web app on the AI space.
how about actually quoting the email instead of summarizing? if the advice was unhelpful, or rude (as you seem to be implying), why not let the rest of judge for ourselves? And maintaining a “day job” is not a mark of shame or an insult, it’s a way of maintaining low burn rate at the expense of less time to work on the startup. Whether thats the optimal scenario depends on where you are in terms of solving the problem that you’re working on, but adding yc/vc money does not magically help you find product-market fit, it just gives your more time each week to work on it. But unless what you’re doing seems to be getting you closer to that point, why not work on it and hone your process while keeping the day job?
> The strongest argument for YC is how few alums speak out against it.

Are you sure this is the case? Might it be that alums who speak out against YC suffer repercussions?

I praise 90% of what YC does. But I also call them out on their mistakes. https://x.com/garrytan blocks me, which is, I'm sad to report, the smallest of the repercussions they've taken against me.

I love YC, but they need to grow some thicker skin and quit hiding in their Silicon Valley bubble.
Sounds like a prison work camp!
Many spreadsheets treated [RETURN] and [ENTER] differently.

I had one spreadsheet program that would move the cursor down one row on [RETURN], while [ENTER] performed the calculation (and recalculated any associated cells).

Another spreadsheet program used [RETURN] for a newline, and [ENTER] would recalculate the entire spreadsheet.
If people want to look at some Real Deal Space Code, here's some parts I like:

CoreFlight System's executive code: https://github.com/nasa/cFE/tree/main/modules/es/fsw/src

Any code from the core of RTEMS: https://gitlab.rtems.org/rtems/rtos/rtems/-/tree/main/cpukit...

The code isn't special but it is neat and tidy, and very very clear. It says what it does, and it does something small and does it well.
Palestine was historically Jewish, long before Islam was even invented in the 600s.

Palestine was historically Canaanite, long before Judaism was even invented in the 1200s BCE. Yes, the Israelites, along with the Egyptians, the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Persians, the Ptolemies and the Seleucids, the Romans, the Byzantines, the Samaritans, the Arab Caliphates, the Seljuks, the Ayyubids, the Mamluks, the Ottomans and others came to occupy the land at different times -- but before these illegal conquests, the indigenous people of the land were solidly of Canaanite origin, heritage and culture. Considering the land as belonging to a different people doesn’t make sense to me.

So I am not sure what is controversial or disgusting.

Microsoft's providing matching donations to groups seeking to maintain Israel's illegal settlements in the West Bank (including at least one military academy), under the guise of supporting "charitable" donations -- is what some people find controversial and disgusting.
I'd like a rational explanation of how the LLM interprets "don't hallucinate" -Is it perhaps "translated" internally to the functional equivalent of a higher confidence check on output?

Otherwise, I think it's baloney. I know there is not a simple linear mapping from plain english to the ML, but the typed word clearly is capable of being parsed and processed, its the "somehow" I'd like to understand better. What would this do the interpretation of paths through weights.

Pretty much 'citation needed'
It’s about the same level for me.
The article proposes a heuristic for people to use when offering support to those close to them. You are analyzing it as if it is a treatment plan for the person receiving support.

It doesn't say that it's good for someone in the hospital to spend all of their time complaining about their situation, it says that their co-worker who is visiting to be supportive probably shouldn't bring up how it was hard for them to do it.
If writing something in blood made it correct I'd keep a pot of mouse blood handy for math tests. The fact that safety regulation is written in blood is one of the tells that it is overdone - it should be written with a dispassionate and distant consideration of the costs and benefits.

The major argument for rolling back most safety regulations is the fact they are written in blood during what was, effectively, a moral panic. Just tightening the regulations every time something goes wrong leads, ironically, to bad outcomes. The optimum state is to tolerate some level of risk.
I’m an AirBNB host, so I get a $100 non-transferable coupon each year; so I stay at an AirBNB once a year, and never without a backup plan. I’d be thrilled to stay at a place like mine, but I don’t understand how to use the tools they provide to be confident in that outcome, so I book hotels with brands that I trust to be accountable instead.
this is like complaining about small talk. small talk is meant to draw people in. same with saying outrageous things. no one wants to chat in depth immediately and saying wild things draws a crowd.

no one is going to talk with you if you're drawing out all the nuance of medical regulation (nearly an 5k essay to broach) with nuance.
I did not know about Eytzing-sorting, I'll look into it after my vacation, thanks! And yeah our current system is column oriented, and I already tried most of your recommendations (including tries) but the biggest limitation we face is that different kinds of queries will be better served by different kinds of data structures but you can only store a few of them on disk before the cost to index becomes too big.
There's also the looming overhead caused by all the government subsidies that Intel has been taking. Building fabs means hiring people to work in those fabs which is a huge operating expense Intel may be obligated to cover once construction completes. It would be very interesting to see the contribution agreements that Intel has signed with various governments to gain a better understanding of the scale of that future liability.
As a 'captain of industry' and generally wealthy man, Musk is much more constrained by regulation than he is protected by it. Unlike the common man.

So he's responding to his incentives, railing at the constraints on the ingenuity and productivity of people like himself. Likely underdeveloped empathy does not help.
Great article and nice blog layout.

8 years seems like long enough. Did you actually buy 40 macbooks from different eras?
Yes, but Russia vs Israel is the glaring example in the context of the bias in the West. Whataboutism is always there.
Can this be fixed with alternative GC’s or tuning?
Because that would give you exactly one data point, and for your decision-making, you instead want to understand the distribution
I think you are conflating "supposed" and "claimed to be able". There isn't really any evidence that it ever achieved that or that the stated goals were the actual goals. (one would think that if the stated goals were the actual goals one would make changes when one saw skin color diversify while ideas turned into a monoculture or when the above cronyism happened with a different skin color, which isn't happening among the people strongly for this stuff, they are as for it as ever).
There was some work toward this, not sure about its current status: https://github.com/postgrespro/rum

Badly needed.
Aw, he demos the Windows version - the original NeXTstep version has timeless aesthetics.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rgGmKD87U3M

Another innovative but forgotten piece of “better than spreadsheet” software is Javelin PLUS.

https://archive.org/details/Javelin3_5
> infrastructure improvements

Do you mean biking infrastructure? Also, what do you do during the rainy season?
A peer comment from three hours prior to yours said:

> It was pretty simple really - all they had to do was not lie about Cloudflare endorsing them

If Kamala Harris used Cloudflare, not an issue. If Kamala Harris went on to very publicly falsely state on her website that Cloudflare supported her and the Democratic Party to the hilt .. then that's another thing and something that breaks the Terms of Service .. apparently that was what tripped The Daily Stormer .. claiming they had Cloudflare "in their corner".
Yes, and in comparison to whatever your best alternative would be (i.e. max increase of success odds of giving someone else the same equity and same time commitment).
Return, short for Carriage Return, makes no contextual sense unless you're old (really old) enough to have seriously used typewriters.

You don't have to be all that old. I had a job in 1995 where I was the only person in the building with a computer, while everyone else (30ish people) had typewriters.

People like to believe the computer revolution happened overnight. It didn't. Businesses didn't suddenly throw away all of their equipment and employees in one day.
Well at least it's thought-provoking in a way. I like the idea. And given that's it's not that hard to contest, it can lead to nice debates.