skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And all you're doing is complaining that someone doesn't like what you like, and trying to invalidate their opinion through ad hominem. Sorry, but I don't need to engage with the thing the same way you do to form and voice an opinion on it. That's just the way it is.
> The market incentives are not there, why not try finding those first?

I agree, we should make companies actually pay for copyright protection (by ensuring the works are available after the copyright period) instead of just giving it them for free. That would fix the incentives of corportations to design games and other products to disappear.
You can buy a full flight director autopilot on a G1000 Cessna 172.

The main reason it can't fully land itself is the lack of autothrottle and FADEC. But some GA planes do have even that. For example the Cirrus Vision (very light jet) is also a GA aircraft and has an emergency function where a passenger can trigger an emergency landing at the closest airport (as well as having a rescue parachute too)
My big issue with KANs is that MLPs can trivially be made functionally identical to them up to an arbitrarily small error. Just take a group of neurons/layers and thanks to the UAT you can get them to model any reasonably well behaved activation function. Now redefine that group as a KAN node and you have something that works exactly the same way. In that sense it is actually strange that KANs with the same number of parameters don't outperform MLPs. This could be seen as a hint that activation functions are not really what matters in the end. This is also something that the biology of real neural networks seems to suggest from experiments with rats. Although there is far too little conclusive research in that area. I'm about 50:50 on whether this question will be solved by biologists or computer scientists.
AI Is Not Dangerous
Revenue is down by a larger percentage than the headcount, right? I think that counts as "collapse" by any reasonable definition.
Real vintage computing aficionados prefer a KryoFlux disk image, it's magnetic flux transitions produce a warmer image and hits the high photoreceptor notes in your retina.
I expect them to have hundreds if not thousands of drones in surveillance/recon roles, in which they'd mostly be reusable. If that "4k used per day" figure actually means the ones expended per day I'd be pretty surprised.
Coffeezilla – Logan Paul sued me [video]
China launches its rival to Elon Musk's Starlink internet satellites
Only if you pay severance/etc., which X doesn't.
Actual title

How to help parents & teachers give their children better education?
The different meaning is for the word "register name", which is a completely separate, reified concept different from "register". The big difference is that RAX or R1 no longer refers to a register, but a register name. Registers are still registers.
in the end it boils down to political will. It could facilitate planting more stuff polinators do like with tax incentives, or could ditch zoning/park mins or invest more in pub transport/bike infra to reduce pollution, but again, will they? Pub transport can longterm be cheaper than facilitating car infra and it's costs (the more cars - the faster you need to repair the road and the more parking you need over time) so it's clearly not even costs are enough motivators for them to act...
> A conventional drum or disk brake is kind of fail safe in that regard: The mechanical pressure from the brake pads is not transferred through any fasteners.

A slight nitpick, the torque applied to the caliper from the disc, through the pads, does travel through the caliper mounting bolts. It's a lateral force rather then a axial one but it does go through fasteners.
The number of people in the comments blaming homelessness solely on homeless people is embarrassing. Sure, mental health, the economy, drug use, and housing costs have no effect, apparently.
> you just defined conservatism as the beliefs bad enough to get Twitter’s famously hands-off moderators to act.

This sort of disingenuous reply really isn’t helpful. The GP was clearly accusing Twitter of enforcing their TOS for righty accounts, while not enforcing their TOS when lefty accounts would do similar things.

I don’t think they are correct, but your rhetoric is just going to alienate people and makes your argument look weaker.
Transit in the Bay Area has very fragmented governance: 27 different transit agencies for 7.6m people in 9 counties with little coordination and no regional vision. By most measures, the Bay Area has the most fragmented public transit network in the country. See Seamless Bay Area if you want to make your voice heard for fixing this: https://www.seamlessbayarea.org/

For a map and list of the organizational insanity, see https://www.seamlessbayarea.org/blog/transitagencieslist (2019).

(Large tech companies like Google, Meta, Apple avoid all this by using private employee-only shuttles which take the freeway where possible).

BART from the East Bay is in the process of being extended to downtown SJ (latest estimate: "2036", they are still debating single-bore vs twin-bore tunnel, to save money in construction).

It's not fair to just blame BART vs Caltrain though, there are multiple cities that need to cooperate with other too: as we saw in the neverending saga of the CA High-Speed Rail project, people wanted a midpeninsula stop, but no midpeninsula city (Redwood City vs Palo Alto vs Mountain View) wanted to be the one to incur the increased traffic and enormous construction disruption from underground multistorey parking lots, so it was dropped.

At least, Caltrain electrification is finally promised, fall 2024: https://www.caltrain.com/projects/electrification/project-be...
(more reliable (=> fewer breakdowns and delays), less noise, cleaner air quality)
For me it was the opposite. Learning the stick & rudder stuff was much harder for me. All the VOR navigation and patterns not so much. Probably because I've been using flightsims since I was very young and knew what it was all about, all the while learning bad flying habits (chasing the instruments etc) :P
Don’t AWS and GCP also produce some of their own chips and hardware?

But basically you’re saying, yes, AWS and GCP are making just as much, maybe more, margin as Hetzner?
If I pay $10/month to Spotify and play 2 artists 20 times each over the month, then each artists should get $5. Ignore Spotify fees for this example.

What Spotify actually does is give these two artists some cents per play. Let’s say $0.01 per play, they each get $0.20 from my subscription and the rest of my $10 goes to Spotify.
You're right that it doesn't make sense to have everyone run their own crawler.

But if there were a standardized index transfer format (that is, a standard index type and a wire encoding) then that would open up more options.

One could imagine an RSS-style feed where a site could post an index of its content. Or, if you think that's open to spamming, then multiple crawlers could publish indexes for types of content and users could subscribe. Hell, even something like UUCP or a Usenet style of "store and forward" could be used to propagate indexes across the network.

Still, the size of the index is a problem: I'm sure storage of the index would take many terabytes to make local search reasonable.
AI is a commodity right now, or at least - text. I just realized when paying the bills this month I got 1kg of cucumbers and a few KBs of text from opanai. They literally sell text by the kilo.
This passage particularly struck me: He noticed when a technician on a call began by examining copies that had been thrown in the trash and deduced from them that the problem with the machine was different from what the customer had reported. “The trashcan is a filter between good copies and bad,” one technician explained “Just go to the trashcan to find the bad copies and then… interpret what connects them all.”

On a related note, I'd like to highly recommend Lucy Suchman's work, mentioned in this article as Plans and Situated Actions: The Problem of Human-Machine Communication, but the updated version now called Human-Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and Situated Actions. The new version has several extra chapters and some other revisions. I've read it several times, and had my mind blown each time.
The purpose of synchronous designs is to minimize the overhead of the handshaking that asynchronous designs bring with them. There is no other meaningful difference between them, really.
America is HUGE... And all of the big cities seem unable to herd their own cats. People often forget that the USA is really 50 small countries wearing a trench coat. Just look the maps linked below. The EU has all its people piled up close where as the US has HUGE tracts of low population areas. That's why you'll never see a high speed coast to coast rail system here. logistically it's just not possible (at least not on the west coast). I live in one of the unpopulated areas and by car it takes over an hour of continuous travel at 70 MPH (115 KPH) to get to a smallish big city. There's just too much empty space.

https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/2021/geo/popul...

https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/figures/fragmentatio...

I could see local areas like California or New York getting some high speed rail but even then, how many people would use it and where would they be going?
Elderly care is the new fraud.

It used to be opiod rehab back in the 2010s. There were companies that went from 2M operations to ~100M in about 3 years. That's unheard of in the services industry. I would almost call it ARR because people were getting sucked right back into recovery and govt would still pay.

Crazy times.
Deals are mutually beneficial. If Apple and Mozilla were both taking Google's offer it's because neither felt they had more to gain from developing their own search engine to compete outright in the meantime or from offering someone else's as a default. There might be something to the argument Mozilla isn't in a position to reject the money because they're sort of a shambling corpse at this point but Apple is about as far from a desperate company as you can get.
That's right, and it's also why you see Kubernetes distributions popping up.

That way, someone has already done all the configuration of various plugins and components for you. For instance, the major clouds that all let you easily start with their Kubernetes services and that they integrate well with the logging and monitoring systems, IAM, server/node provisioning, etc.

Or ones that are not tied to any particular cloud provider, and perhaps focused on security (full disclosure: I work for Elastisys, who makes exactly that) or ease of use.

I'm sure we will see more and more such efforts in this space, exactly because cobbling together something yourself from scratch (basically just a control loop runner, as you said) is neither very appealing when you think about ongoing maintenance, nor very cost-effective for businesses to spend engineering time on.
You have companies like Kroger whose prices are out of control. One way to save significant money is to avoid them if you can.

If they have a competing grocer it is always drastically cheaper...free tank of gas per shopping trip cheaper.

They are salivating over this Albertsons merger. Easy money. Thank the gods for Walmart.
Like I said, there's no proof of massive profitability potential in the near future. You can dream about an optimistic utopic future for those LLMs but the expense bills are real and they are right now.
My dad and I have an old Case backhoe that we got with bad brakes. Turns out they're very similar to this design, with a ball and ramp assembly that pushes clutch discs outward into friction surfaces. A couple notable differences are that they use a a band around the disc assembly, connected to the pedal, that slows the disc assembly causing the ramps to engage. And also, they're attached to a couple of splined shafts coming out of each side of the differential, rather than on the wheels/axles. Anyway, apparently they're notoriously troublesome, and were a lot more difficult to rebuild than I would have thought.
If you think all food, literature, and movies are “mundane” I’m not really sure this conversation will go anywhere.
Russian Railway Networks Facing 'Imminent Collapse': Report
Most of the time none of those are doing anything. Shifting a manual is a minority of time, non-synchromesh makes shifting harder but it doesn't add much time. Most of the time when you stop the anti-lock brakes don't kick in and so again you lose nothing. TMPS makes your care safer if you have a lot tire - but tires these days are good enough that they rarely go flat. Same with the others - they are rarely used - not useless but only small factors taken all together - I've driven without each from time to time.
I thought "pie menu" was the generic term, going back a few decades. Not a brand name implementation of a generic term "radial menu" like the headline suggests.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_menu
My first exposure to computer architecture was through a Minecraft video[1] (which I likely stumbled upon on Digg). In Linear Algebra lecture the next day, I overheard my classmates discussing the video. I purchased the game later that week.

Seeing the circuitry of a computer in this way helped me to understand that computers operated by means other than pure magic. And, the video I saw was much less descriptive of how a computer works than the one the OP linked. So, although neither video amounts to a full college course on the topic, there’s still a lot of value in their ability to expose people to the topic. It’s inspiring to see how computers are mostly a composition of NAND gates, and to compare the massive structures in the videos with the microprocessors of the real world.

[1] https://youtu.be/LGkkyKZVzug?si=hZRdmablPt15gGqn
I think you have to accept that loneliness is part of the package, unless you take specific efforts to counter it.

Being a founder is inherently isolating because you probably work extreme hours, and are not a peer relationship with anyone else in the company apart from perhaps others in the C-suite due to the inherent power differential.

You say you can't quit, but I think you should rephrase that. You essentially acknowledge this yourself: you can quit, but doing so would have consequences. Turn that into an equation, and verbalize it / write it down. I'm not sure why, but it feels different than just thinking about it. On one side you have $X million dollars, and on the other side you have the costs associated with it: burnout, unhappiness, but also providing employment to others (not all negatives, fill out the equation as per your perspective)

Then break that down a little further: you might be able to address burnout (give yourself some odds, and a cost in time/energy for that attempt), quantify exactly how unhappy you are and how that's trending, and then acknowledge that regardless of how your company performs, your employees will (very likely) find other jobs. Most will do it anyway even if your company survives.

Your sides of the equation might look a little different, but the basic approach is to just divide it into an equation and start pulling apart the components. If you're unhappy but it's getting better, perhaps that's not so bad. If you're unhappy and are on the verge of suicide, it's worth thinking strongly about if it's time to move on.

From my understanding the general advice on burnout is that you should expect it to take months to recover from, but individual cases vary greatly.

On the subject of loneliness, I'd try focusing on non-professional relationships. There's too much power-play in professional relationships, even when there's no current exchange of value.

Perhaps most importantly, in your personal relationships, don't say what you do or be a bit vague. Be extremely modest. "I'm a founder of a company" becomes "I work at a startup" or "I'm in XYZ industry". Try to find people who enjoy being around you for your personality, not what you are.

Personally I went the other way and found hobbies I can do individually. There's a reason so many people in software turn to woodworking afterwards. There's a sense of progression, zero bureaucracy, and it feels like artisanship.
So here is my question, Anthropic seems to be trying to say they are a "safer" and more responsible AI company.

And based on the features they have released that seems true so far, but I am legitimately curious if they really are or if its basically marketing disguising not having some features ready yet?
When my mom was in her last week, she told my sister she'd come back as butterflies. (Of course, I don't believe in that.)

At the time, there was a single sprig of milkweed near my mailbox. Since then, the milkweed has exploded.

I can't bring myself to trim it back, because every time I look at the milkweed I think of my mother's statement. Of course, it's magical thinking on my part.
The point is that Clorox cannot pay OpenAI anything.

Marketing on your own site will have effects on an AI just like it will have an effect on a human reader. No disclosure is required because the context is explicit.

But the moment OpenAI wants to charge for Clorox to show up more often, then it needs to be disclosed when it shows up.
> American ad revenues was down 80% to $114M/quarter since the acquisition

Debt service was estimated at ~$100m/mo, with the likelihood that rates on some of the debt could increase substantially since the financing was initially booked in mid 2022.

If these numbers are directionally accurate (and they do not report, so we don't know for sure), this thing is probably closer to losing a billion $ annually than to breakeven.
Only if that artist can provide me with a voucher code to “purchase” the bandcamp music which allows me to stream/play offline in the app. Exception being vinyl-only releases by which usually a high quality WAV is provided to buyers.

Many artists I follow are not on Spotify anyway.
This is simply not true. There is a very active retro computing community these days and multiple vintage computer shows each year.

https://www.youtube.com/@The8BitGuy

https://www.youtube.com/@adriansdigitalbasement

https://www.youtube.com/@LGR

https://www.youtube.com/@TechTangents
I've never really understood the attraction to hairless cats. They look like someone's scrotum instead of a cute ball of fluff that I expect from a cat
> instead of putting together a UN coalition to come up with a weapons treaty to slow down the spread

I fully agree with the sentiment, but do you think that would have done anything?

The barriers to entry are just very low, and the off-the-shelf components are heavily dual-use, which makes containment extremely difficult. I think even minor powers would have an extremely easy time doing the development anyway, either in secret (China) or by just eating the sanctions (Russia, Iran).
Because they are paying SF rents? If they moved to San Jose wouldn’t they solve two problems at the same time?
I maintain at least one reasonably large open source project myself and pride myself on our turnaround time.
Our users/contributors don't need to wait weeks, months or even years until their issue is categorized, addressed and resolved.
Of course part of this is staffing and domain dependent, but I do believe that marginal updates to a project (< once per week) is worse than quitting
Micron announces industry first PCIe Gen6 SSD, claims 26GB/s transfer speed
You can't inject reason into a conversation that is largely defined by $$. GA is an incredibly tiny market - faa.gov has the current active non-student pilot population in the US as less than 500k. The survival of the companies that rely on that population is predicated on the tight regulatory environment - not in spite of it.
I think I should have added the /s.
I agree with you and that was the point as it mainly affects poor people the owners/rich people don't mind, in fact it's better for them as desperate people are easier to be abused as we can see all around the world. They tell us not take long showers while they keep the water for golf courses. Not to mention airplane traveling, etc ... In the end it will affect them but in the meantime all the rest are going to pay the bill.
The state of the art these days is https://github.com/MCHPR/MCHPRS

It's an implementation of the minecraft server that compiles redstone into a graph representation, and then does optimisations like constant folding, tree shaking, etc. Very cool project. If you ever see timelapses of minecraft computers running game of life, mandelbrot, etc it's most likely with this project.
I followed the "wireless" link, but thought they'd have much better arguments. Couldn't you make a replaceable battery, and an optionally-wired keyboard? Yes, wires are great (I went with wired for mine after my BT one proved too flaky), but wireless controllers are so cheap nowadays that you might as well add a wireless option to your keyboard.
The so called "homeless industrial complex" [1].

1 - https://www.nationalreview.com/the-weekend-jolt/californias-...
Search Engines will probably not disappear in the near future even if most information will be processed via LLMs. I wonder if certain open (meaning not via Google/Bing) data processing is possible just to have fully local LLM with up-to-date web knowledge. Another option would be to pretend to be a human user, surfing the web and collecting knowledge as people do, which may be not as efficient.
My positive encouragement to your success. Personally, I believe in a futuristic vision of transport like this for 50-300 miles, trains for 3-150 miles, and bicycles and ebikes for < 10 miles. Without roads, we could breathe so much more.

It may seem unrealistic, but just visit the Netherlands, or visit the airports around the UK and Western Europe. It's ridiculously cheap to get around by bike, and healthier. Yes not all or even most environments are not suitable for cycling. But enough city-like or nature environments are and can be connected. The world cries from the concentration of people and tourists to the same, accessible spots. You see this if you every go 40 miles off course in the US, or even 20 in Europe. Amazing spots, waterfalls. If unaccessible, an hour walk away from car access... such beauty is open. Wouldn't we all benefit from distributing people more widely, sharing experiences more affordably?
Hacker News turning into Reddit, something that has not been said for more than 15 years now.
You lost me at greedy.

Why is it greedy for doctors to seek reimbursement for a career that included hundreds of thousands of school debt, living off junk food at odd times, and losing your best years trapped in monolithic buildings with poor ventilation ? And then getting calls from patients are 10pm on a saturday night for the rest of their life because patients are anxious about an article they read online ?

Sorry, doctors should be making as much as they are now and then some, if the govt insists on having lamborghini healthcare standards in the US.

How we pay for it is another story, but how we got here is certainly not the doctor's fault. (or insurers, for that matter).

Or lets bring it close to home since this is HN. Is anyone calling developers greedy? Last I checked, US devs make more than a mid-level in the US, with zero sacrifices. Are devs greedy ?

The reality is that older generations and their representatives in congress got us in that mess, and shifting blame to others that are providing valuable service is a copout from actually putting your finger on the wart that is bureaucrat-managed lamborghini healthcare.
Or needs fixing so that there's more than one person in 100 years who can build things.
Well it doesn’t have to be in bold title case next to ‘MAP OF THE WORLD’ - just a small print copyright notice with a year on it would do for someone curious about how old the map is.