skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In the email, Musk wrote: “If you are sure that you want to be part of the new Twitter, please click yes on the link below,” adding that staff who did not would receive three months’ severance pay.

> Ireland’s Workplace Relations Commission (WRC), the country’s employment tribunal, heard that Rooney did not click “yes”.

> Three days later, on 19 November, he received another email from the company “to acknowledge your decision to resign and accept the voluntary separation offer”.

Honestly I see Elon’s point. I don’t have much knowledge on employment law in Ireland but I can see how they took this as a resignation
> eliminating stick drift would certainly reduce some number of repeat customers

Someone experiencing stick drift - there is no guarantee they will come back to the original company for a fix. In fact they may well go elsewhere.

Eliminating stick drift, and as importantly eliminating reports of it happening, can only enhance your brand. Better build reputation = more sales?

What we don't know is (1) the cost of a Hall Effect sensor and (2) the replacement cost to the company. That would seem to be the maths that matters.

I know I put off buying a Switch in part because of drift reports.
Thanks for the feedback! I totally see what you mean about the layout and those pesky arrow lines. Your suggestion for the book sounds interesting. I'll definitely check it out .
> propagate errors found and fixed 2 years ago

Ahh! Yeah, we need better value functions.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41188647
They are not under legal obligation to maximize return for shareholders. And they can pursue whatever quality/cost/market segments they want.
The format (%ii) semantics aren't platform independent that seems like an obvious error.

And code gen and protocol descriptions bring a certain useful discipline to modifying existing protocols.

But it has that funky C style so I bet people using C like it.
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Theory of mind error here. If it doesn’t work I may assume their system is down or doesn’t support my browser. Thus there would be no point in trying again, even if I was interested in the product. If it were to work on the second try it’d still be a sour taste - bugs are not a good first impression. At least personally I would have suspected the SaaS company as opposed to Google.
Great to see a big company like Apple adopting Elixir. Here's hoping that many others follow their lead!
> The behavior of "-Ofast" where it affects globally the content of MXCSR is unacceptable.

> The right behavior would have been for any function compiled with "-Ofast" to save MXCSR, put in it any desired value for the duration of the function execution and restore it at function exit. Moreover, when invoking any other function it should restore the original MXCSR before the call and put again in it the desired local value after the function returns back.

I completely agree here. The problem is that introducing floating-point environment into the programming model requires disabling some of the transformations you want to do with fast-math in the first place, so doing it this way kind of doesn't work to enable what you wanted to do. Furthermore, one of the SPEC benchmarks gets like a 30% speedup if you turn on denormal flushing, and that's the kind of change that gives compiler engineer management heartburn if you want to tell them to forgo that speedup because the optimization is dumb.

I am grateful for blog posts like this one because this does help build a case for getting the compiler to stop doing stupid stuff like globally enabling DAZ/FTZ bits.
Yep, Tuesday looks much better than a Monday.
> If I found a sensible use for the surplus power then costs drop even lower even faster.

Buy a few Bitcoin miners. Since you won't be running them 24/7, might be worth buying less efficient ones from last-gen.
As other commenters have said, you're just going to learn the decoder ring from context, but I'm also curious. If I take off the keycaps to clean the keyboard and then put them back, do I need to relearn the defects? If I rip out all the switches and rearrange them, do the defects follow the switches or is it more about the position of the key? Is there some resonance that could change if I move the keyboard onto a desk pad. If I switch to Dvorak in software, obviously the key presses mean something different, but also I'll type completely differently. How much does user cadence/timing matter? To what extent is user cadence/timing identifying?

Anyway, I assume the answers aren't known because it would be an ethics/privacy nightmare to run these kinds of experiments on anyone but yourself.
I don't think this is any surprise for anyone using Steinberg software? I no longer use any eLicenser controlled apps, but I have had emails and notifications from Steinberg about this already going back at least a year I think?
I saw this earlier this morning on X, and loved the application of AI bots to interact with AI bots. I haven't had to deal with the DMV over the phone too much luckily, but dealing with other similar support systems for home maintenance, health insurance, banking etc. has led to what's felt like countless wasted hours so I'm all for beating (or at least matching) the system here.
Presuming that the price fixing mentioned in this article is also applied to hotel prices (which the FTC and DOJ are also looking into right now).

I really hate this anti-skeptic rhetoric that's becoming so popular on HN right now. It's like you can't even be suspicious of something without having evidence of it happening. But if you had evidence, you wouldn't be suspicious in the first place!
The opening sentence of this article is 100% wrong. Hubble was a good scientist and correctly made no assumptions regarding his observations that objects that are further away by parallax are more red shifted.

The assumption that these observations indicated an expanding universe was delivered to us by LeMaitre; if you believe in an expanding universe with a finite age, then give credit where it is due...
Well, this is why I pointed out McKinley and also stated the process did start shortly after the founding. True financialization only after Morgan and his friends met and formed the Fed tho, which was 1913. Once the Fed was in place, they could vastly expand the amount of available credit, bribe and purchase without restraint, and start the type of economy to which we are all now accustomed. Importantly, this pattern is a direct inversion of “capitalism.” In capitalism, the present is leveraged for the future. In “financialism,” the future is leveraged for the present.
You accept that what I said about the UN isn't factually untrue - this is progress. Let's keep going.

We both agree that they say more warming is worse.

Do you also now accept that the 1.5C figure (or 1.5-2.0 range) isn't merely a communication device set at an arbitrary threshold for political reasons, but one that appears in scientific papers that claim there are non-linear responses involved?

If so, we can now revisit the two original points to find the remaining areas of disagreement:

1. It doesn't make sense to talk about increase if you don't define what it's relative to regardless of whether it's a point or a range, because arguments about tipping points or extreme weather are all based on physics and chemistry that depends on absolute temperatures, not deltas.

2. There are famous climatologists making claims like 1970 being pre-industrial or that baselines don't matter, and the only people pushing back on him are outsiders. Small children know that 1970 is not "pre industrial". Does that problem matter to you?
The Guide to Developer Happiness
A constant in a codebase is not “uttered somehow at some point.” It is a fixture for everyone to see until it is changed by another commit.
> But remember, Apple’s fees are only in the iOS app. Your prices on the web and the Android app will remain completely unaffected. You can always send your fans to this Help Center article which explains the iOS in-app fees relative to other platforms, so they can better understand the implications of where they choose to make their purchases.
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I have astigmatism, and have worn rigid gas permeable (RGP) lenses starting over 40 years ago. I have tried various types of soft lenses a few times but could never see as well with them.
GitHub repo here - https://github.com/a2fpga/a2fpga_core/
I don't think generative AI is replacing humans at all. It's like how SQL replaced software engineers, with added bonus of copyright doubts gatekeeping common folks from exploiting it. It's obviously killing open Internet fast and encouraging power concentration too. It's worst of couples of worlds.
Very interesting. I just tried in Termly.io as well, and I do see the loading indicator you mentioned, albeit not _immediately_ (if I throttle the network speed, there is a delay before it appears). I captured a HAR file and am inspecting it to see if it has anything revealing about why the loading screen appears in some cases but not others.
I see, you are right. I believed I had read this from multiple sources in the past, but in fact, it appears to be a well-propagated myth! Thank you!
If they operate from M-F, its likely users noticed nothing during the weekend. But that does not mean, that for example, data ingestion stops during the weekend.
IOW their software was worth a lot less than you were led to believe to begin with, and not designed to be trusted nearly as much as you thought, but it could have been worse.

And now it's worse :\
I was just saying what's happening with my friends and why they feel disaffected. You're the one making a lot of claims with no sources.

For specifically about the research project (which is the only question really relevant enough to answer): no, I don't think someone running fully funded research projects at a top university in her field should necessarily be living luxuriously but I do think they shouldn't have to worry about making rent in the city the university is in.

Edit: to put it in perspective my dad was able to pay for college working part time on the docks. Nowadays it would struggle to pay food/rent, let alone get close to paying tuition.
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Seems the future of programming language is natural language
It's news for people who don't currently use Steinberg products and may now think twice about starting to use them after this move.
That’s a good nuance I overlooked when reading too fast.
> none of which need a mouse

Heh, I'm having flashbacks to a time repairing a computer where the BIOS/UEFI simply wouldn't work work with the regular keyboard, even though the regular OS supported it just fine.

So I had to go dig up a PS/2 one just to change settings.
I think the mods reposted this thread. This is really neat, I wonder if they'll offer their normal Pis in a RISC-V flavor. I will likely pick up one of these as soon as I can.
Agree, Tuesday sounds much better than on Monday.
How brain processes contribute to different types of delusions
> After the eLicenser service ends, upgrading your eLicenser-based product to Steinberg Licensing will no longer be possible. For example, users of Cubase 11 (or earlier versions) will need to purchase a full version to update to the latest version.

This looks like a robbery.
it was a lot of fun re-reading it :P
Simply - yes. Furthermore, civilizations that arise in that era of the universe will likely have a different cosmology than what we are able to understand today. If you could only see the galaxy that you are in, you wouldn't be able to see galaxies that were forming shortly after the Big Bang, or be able to use supernovas in other galaxies to measure the scale of the universe.

Kurzgesagt did a video on that - TRUE Limits Of Humanity – The Final Border We Will Never Cross https://youtu.be/uzkD5SeuwzM
I’ve been using western but unable to search my command line history or find the relevant documentation.

Ideally fuzzy search of just the commands I’ve entered and not the full scroll history as some results take many hundreds of lines.

Is there a wezterm community where I can ask this and similar questions?
Sophon is amused:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_of_evil_(cosmology)
Congrats (from Pinecone) on the launch! The e-commerce and media recommendation space desperately needs an AI-based solution without the lead-filled baggage of legacy search or recommender systems.

> 100M+ Users
I assume you mean 100M+ end-users have interacted with a site or product that uses your technology. The way it's phrased sounds like you're saying Shaped itself has 100M+ users which of course it doesn't. Consider replacing that with "100M+ interactions" or something.
In realistic scenes dynamic range is more important than precision. That is you can frequently find things that are many orders of magnitude brighter than each other and proper representation involves lots of bits and using them properly.
Good news, you can make new natural languages too!
Note that Go has very different GC behavior to what .NET GC and likely Unreal GC do. At low allocation rates the pauseless-like behavior might be desirable, but it has poor scaling with allocation rate and cores and as the object graph and allocation patterns become more complex it will start pausing and throttling allocations, producing worse performance[0].

It also has weaker compiler that prevents or makes difficult efficient implementation of performance-sensitive code paths the way C# allows you to. It is unlikely game studios would be willing to compensate for that with custom Go ASM syntax.

Almost every game is also FFI heavy by virtue of actively interacting with user input and calling out to graphics API. Since the very beginning, .NET was designed for fast FFI and had runtime augmentations to make it work well with its type system and GC implementations. FFI call that does not require marshalling (which is the norm for rendering calls as you directly use C structs) in .NET costs ~0.5-2ns, sometimes as cheap as direct C call + branch. In GoGC it costs 50ns or more. This is a huge difference that will dominate a flamegraph for anything that takes, for example, 30ns to execute and is called in a loop.

It is also more difficult to do optimal threading with Go in FFI context as it has no mechanism to deal with runtime worker threads being blocked or spending a lot of time in FFId code - .NET threadpool has hill-climbing algorithm which scales active worker thread count (from 1 to hundreds) and blocked workers detection to make it a non-issue.

Important mention goes to .NET having rich ecosystem of media API bindings: https://github.com/dotnet/Silk.NET and https://github.com/terrafx cover practically everything (unless you are on macOS) you would ever need to call in a game or a game engine, and do so with great attention paid to making the bindings efficient and idiomatic.

For less intensive 2D games none of these are a dealbreaker. It will work, but unless the implementation details change and Go evolves in these areas, it will remain a language that is poorly suited for implementing games or game engines.

[0]: https://gist.github.com/neon-sunset/72e6aa57c6a4c5eb0e2711e1...
I've almost entirely replaced Pandas with DuckDB in my day-to-day work. I wonder if it would be an easier lift for someone who is familiar with SQL, and doesnt want to pick up Pandas/Polars.
Congratulations on the launch! This is the right way to think about LLMs and document processing.
That's not the case for autotools output, or flex and bison output.

If the generated files are what you say? Well, just embed the generation step into the build system. A simple approach like that is easily made reproducible, and we avoid introducing noise into the repository.
So are they going for feature parity with librosa? I think that would be great.
Found this thread yesterday. Finished the book yesterday as well. It was well worth it.
It's incredibly refreshing to see them pricing these at volume costs for non-volume buyers.

The insane component prices that we pay in the US for lower volume electronics manufacturing are killing innovation and driving manufacturing to countries with actual price competition.

Looking on Digikey/Mouser, you'll find that other MCUs with a similar spec are selling for at least $4-5 at qty 3000+.

The RP2350 price is a lot closer to what a large volume buyer would pay for MCUs like this, and still appears to have a healthy margin on top of the cost of dies, packaging, test, etc.
Ok, that explains it. I have a usb powered LED lamp that I’ve been trying to recharge via a c to c cable- but it only works with a b to c.

Thought it might be the cable at first, but it was general. Just couldn’t think of a reason why it wasn’t supported though…
Curious to know How "vanilla" the pglite compared to the vanilla postgres?
I saw many people are using this for automated testing and dev environment.
Also a concern about the paper generation process itself:

> In a similar vein to idea generation, The AI Scientist is allowed 20 rounds to poll the Semantic Scholar API looking for the most relevant sources to compare and contrast the near-completed paper against for the related work section. This process also allows The AI Scientist to select any papers it would like to discuss and additionally fill in any citations that are missing from other sections of the paper.

So... they don't look for related work until the paper is "near-completed." Seems a bit backwards to me.
"But according to Freedman, the galaxies’ supernovas seemed to be intrinsically brighter than the ones in farther galaxies. This is another puzzle cosmologists have yet to understand, and it also affects the H0 value. "
perhaps im misunderstanding the product offering here, isn't this just throwing PDFs (which also has unparsable content like formulas, symbols and large tables even with OCR) on an LLM with structured outputs and running SQL queries?

isn't it obvious that this would be a problem that will eventually be solved by the LLM providers themselves including the ability to flag and apply business logic on top of the structured outputs?

Like I'm not sure if this is well known but LLM providers have huge pressure to turn a profit and will not hesitate to copy any downstream wrappers out of existence rather than acquiring them outright.

Its like selling wrapping tape around the shovel handle for better grip and expecting the shovel makers to not release their new shovels with it in the near future.

The shovel makers don't even need to do any market research or product development and the buyers don't have any incentive to seek or pay a dedicated third party for what their vendors will release for free and at lower costs if that makes sense.
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FH is already very thin and tall, probably not practical to stick another stage on top even if it could work payload wise. Besides that, SLS and New Glenn are the only ones with comparable lift capacities, SLS is way too expensive for the capability and the massive SRBs make the ride pretty rough, New Glenn is probably a feasible alternative, although probably more expensive than Starship.
Please add gamification to the list, and big data.
Login is never "trival" to replace.
Bed Sores: 115,000

This isn't the kind of problem an indie engineer with a medium-sized Youtube channel could fix with a month of trial and error materials testing?
If a person wanted to transcribe sheet music from recorded audio, do you know which library and features would be the best starting point?
I think it's funny how many people really don't want to just wear glasses. I love that I can completely change my look just by getting some new glasses, though I'm admittedly fortunate to have a low rx such that I can get away without wearing them sometimes when I misplace them.

Another random comment: I just love that his contacts apparently only fit because of ptosis from using weed.
If I understand it correctly, if I build an Android app, I can offer in-app payments through a variety of integrations: Google, Stripe, Amazon, etc. If I build an Apple app, in-app payments can only be offered through the Apple payment system. Is that more or less correct?
"Everyone" meaning "everyone as a whole", not absolutely every individual.

If there's more than one grocery store, I probably get better prices. (Or, negatively, if there's only one then I probably get worse prices.) And so with every other aspect of the economy.
I would say the opposite. We want to make sure that we build our systems in a way that it get better as foundational model becomes better.

Our thesis is that foundational models will become good and affordable enough to be used in almost all data processing pipelines. We build systems on top of that to manage workflows, integrations, and data applications that people may want to develop.
Similarly, I’ve been thinking lately about forking Swift, because there’s a lot I love about the language, but also a lot of, IMO, unnecessary sugar and redundant surface area.
Similar to the IKEA effect
> Nowadays it's not that big a deal.

The same can be said about autotools itself :/

Historical and current use indeed vary, and many times even using autotools itself isn't as appropriate.
I'm mostly interested how the software stack for this compares to something like STM32.
Yeah, the whole point is to boil off your personality.
Literally a moving target ...

> You publish that, and the investors, government and the public, all motivated to support you

Interesting how PR/culture indeed is a factor - a tangible factor in this. Indeed optimizing for "PR Goodwill" might be a thing ...
All squares are rectangles I guess.
Google redesigned this screen recently (in the past few months), if I remember correctly? I'm not sure if this is related though.
I love this and agree 100%. I feel like we, as a species, had to go "full internet" to understand the trade-offs of connectivity. First it was all local, then all internet, now it's feeling like the pendulum is swinging back the other way. Maybe I'm just in an echo chamber ...
Domains should start with your company name. Like trellishq.com

Because browsers have an autocomplete feature.
The 1st Amendment protects Trump's praising Musk for firing striking workers. People who support/oppose what he said can vote/not vote for him.
Ahhhh my mistake
The observable universe has a radius of about 14 Gigaparsecs. If H0 is 67.4 km/s/Mpc, then a naive calculation puts the edge of the observable universe expanding at 943,600 km/s, or about 3 times the speed of light. Of course we still observe this as merely "close to" the speed of light, but the point is that most of the universe is shooting away from us so fast that we will never see them as they are "now", even if we wait billions of years. We have no way of ever interacting with most of the "modern" universe, even theoretically. They might as well be in different universes. All we will ever see is their images from billions of years ago, even if we wait billions of years from now.
Those channels are essentially informercials with brand deals. Rather than skipping sponsors, I dumped them altogether. LTT content especially has become far more vacuous over time. It's as if the videos are a vessel around which to place ads.
> Yes, a free software license must not require people to "contribute back", or anything of the sort.

This was in fact Stallman's original vision for Emacs.

https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch06.html

"It is distributed on a basis of communal sharing, which means that all improvements must be given back to me to be incorporated and distributed."
Note that "older software" refers to software released before 2022. So this is not antique software, but software that may be less than 3 years old.

They are trying (of course) to spin it as improved functionality for their customers, but what it really means is that many of those customers will be forced to upgrade -- and when eLicenser is shut down, they will have to pay the full price, not an upgrade price.

I guess their executives need a big end-of-year boost to the bottom line, in order to hit their bonus targets.