skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It should go without saying that custom designed chips are going to outperform the more general purpose chips at the task if everything else is equal.

We've seen that with cryptocurrency mining. CPU -> GPU -> ASIC. And many other examples.

Aren't AI GPUs already to a great extent custom designed for AI? Is it even a GPU if it's not used for graphics? What's left on the table in terms of designing an ASIC that specifically targets a single AI task?

Having nicer tools to design and simulate ASICs is cool. I'm guessing that if you work at a higher level you might want to drop in to the lowest levels to extract maximum performance.
The Rebel Girls series comes to mind.
Yeah, that was the part that caused me to sit up — you can steal music and get away with it if no one uses your app.

Oh, your app is popular? Hire lawyers, they'll clean up your mess for you.

Move fast, steal things, lawyer up.
Boeing merged with Lockheed/Martin when L/M was in serious trouble and rumors say it was pushed by the DOD because of all the L/M defense contracts involved. This then lead to the worst parts of L/M (management over engineering) gaining a foothold at Boeing (Engineering over Management).

The rest is a long, slow, decline into Boeing being what L/M was when they needed to be rescued.
In my (non-finance, parent of a roblox-player) opinion, the problem that Roblox has is that every single roblox game has a "roblox" essence. Every roblox game is undeniably roblox, and to broaden their market and attract higher-paying users, I think they need to fix that.

There's a certain amount of jank in every roblox game, and that's part of the charm. But it's undoubtedly also a reason why people with fatter wallets don't spend more time in roblox.

If you've never played a roblox game this might be hard to understand, but those of you who have spent time in these worlds with your kids you will know exactly what I'm talking about.

Perhaps more finance-related, but the monetization of roblox games is also extremely haphazard - providing more guide rails and designing payments more "in platform" would go a long way towards spending confidence.
I can't recall the exact company name (Edit: it was TCI), but this was a smart accounting move that made one of the big US telcos frogleap the competition in the race for connectivity.

Basically, the company invested sufficient into long term assets, big infra investments like cabling, towers, etc. Because of accounting rules, they could choose to amortize all of that investment in a straight line over 30 years, OR accelerate depreciation in the short term.

I believe the company always chose the latter, and the net effect of this was that every year the company would show a loss, 100% related to said infra investments. However, when you carved out depreciation, the company was clearly making increasing amounts of money. Further, all that fiber was capturing new clients, which was free cash flow which they would turn around and capture even more customers with a new round of investments. In effect, the use of accelerated depreciation helped the company manage its tax obligations while expanding aggressively. By deferring tax liabilities and reinvesting capital, the company was able to capture market share and grow its customer base.

Eventually they had to show income and therefore pay the IRS, but by that time they were at the leading edge of the race and investors rewarded this company's CEO handsomely.
Often there are not other ways to commute
To be fair, "functions themselves" seldom form a valid unit, so in practice you'd end up having to test the composition of said functions.
Sleep is quantum problem solving mode?
From my childhood I remember we had The Lives Of Remarkable People collection. Was available pretty much in any library. It's Russian-language Soviet series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lives_of_Remarkable_People - those were pretty interesting read. I haven't read all of them, but I still remember the feeling after reading those few I had a chance to read.
FuzzOS – Gamozo Labs Blog
My family has been a fan of the ValueTales books by Spencer Johnson. They are great for that transition period going from reading to your kid to your kid reading for themself. I read them as a kid, my sisters read them, my nieces and nephews read them, and we still have about half a set waiting for the next generation. My favorite was probably "The Value of Determination: The story of Helen Keller".

Amazon link:
https://www.amazon.com/ValueTale-Multiple-Value-Tales-Book/d...
But its Google's marketplace... not The Marketplace
No question here. Big fan of your canoes here in NorCal (and so is the rest of my club). Pueo was my first boat. Currently have a PueoX, and Noio. Thank you guys for sticking it out through thick and thin.
Americans saying the US must play world police is the exact same principle.
20240404 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39935526 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39934101 (Roblox executive says children making money on the platform is 'a gift' )

>Arguing that it's a "gift" when they're taking a 75% cut is just offensive.

20220707 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32014754 (Problems at Roblox)

> Roblox is horrendous. It is as dangerous as any dark corner of the Internet, except that it appears child-friendly to parents.
With qualified immunity on the books, if the police reach into your car and steal something important then you're out of luck. I'm not optimistic that better definitions around this particular method of theft would have any effect at all on the fruits of that power imbalance.
Ask HN: What are the most important formulas for life decisions?
Examples: Bayes Theorem, Compound Interest, Kelly Criterion…
Getting downvoted for pointing out that regular people can't figure out complicated networking workarounds and set up their own DIY internet-accessible cameras... Definitely peak HN.
Hmmm, not all credit cards have a PIN. Debit card, I could see that. I don't know if the data on the card indicates if there is a PIN attached to the card (i.e. ask for it if there is, don't ask if there's not).
My son liked this book on Thomas Edison: https://amzn.to/4cxwCJC

It takes a "misfit proves everyone wrong" angle. He was 3 though when we read it. Maybe a little basic for a 6 year old.
Firebase is going away?
Shame you couldn't manage an explanation and just went with abuse.
Trunkless: A new interface for creating cut-up poetry from large corpora
Would RNAV be able to handle the runway moving nontrivial distances? That seems to be one of the problems this solves.
Sure was. https://www.wired.com/1999/01/sun-on-privacy-get-over-it/
Advertising, to grow sales can be expensed, for example. Buying new plant, not so much.
I came to this same conclusion some years ago while working on a side project.

Before anything LLM existed, I built a site[0] to generate fake "AWS Blog Posts." I trained a markov chain generator on all AWS announcement posts up to that point, copied the html + css of aws's standard blog posts, then glued them all together with some python + JS. It turned out, IMO, pretty funny! People familiar with AWS's blog posts would often get several sentences in before they realized they were looking at word-soup.

When GPT was new, I looked into using that to "upgrade" it. I spent a weekend messing around with Minimaxir's gpt-2-simple generating blog posts based on AWS content. What I found was, ultimately, it was way less fun. The posts were far too realistic to be interesting. They read like totally-real blog posts that just happened to not be true.

I realized then that the humor of those early markov generations was the ridiculousness. The point where, a few words or sentences in, you realized it was all nonsense. LLM's these days are too good for that - the text they generate is sometimes wrong, but rarely nonsense in a humorous way.

Markov chain content was wrong in a "kid's say the darndest things" way, while modern LLMs are wrong in a "My uncle doesn't know basic geography" way.

[0] https://totes-not-amazon.com/ - click any link to get a new one.
Sounds like John Malone at TCI Cable
Roblox is not a game, and indeed makes its money by giving its engine to developers for free, then taking a cut of their earnings.
I commuted every day in London, for 6 months, going to work in Croydon, from Blackfriars. It was the worst six months of my life, you make it sound like you're the only one commuting via train, every morning I would get covered in armpits, train delay, train canceled, people standing on top of each other.
I recently did interviews with Meta, Google, Amazon, Apple, Nvidia... Meta leetcoded the ** out of me. They were insisting on 3 days in office. Definitely the hardest interviews out of the bunch. Never got around to answering Netflix recruiter to get the tradition "N" in FAANG out of the way, I took the first offer I got, I was so tired of interviewing.
> Or maybe mad that he wasted his life having no work-life balance

He's been trying to make up for it... https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/eric-schmidt-google-sc...
They had their love, but they also had their typewriters.
> Edit: It's now dawned on me that they're storing this plain text so that they can do this... or at least encrypting rather than hashing, meaning that they can always decrypt the password.

It could well be that they're doing the encrypt/decrypt thing, but you can also get the same affect by pre-calculating the slices of password and hashing those slices.

For example, when you create the new user entry, you could take the password, pick three random characters from it, and store the indexes and the hash together in a table row (in your case, something like ("31,98,102","salt$hashfgtd")).

You do that two or three times, and then, every time you ask the user to log in, you randomly choose one of these entries, ask the user to enter the character positions, and check the hash of the result against the hash in the row.

The Student Finance England website used to have a similar setup about asking for letters X, Y, and Z, but it rotated between only a handful of combinations, so I think it probably used something like this.

That said, a few years ago gov.uk took over the SFE login form and modernised it, including replacing the XYZ system with a version where you just enter the whole string, so presumably either they also had hashed the whole string, or they were storing it in a format that was retrievable. Or I guess they still only store the XYZ tuples but do the indexing and comparison logic internally.
I came in to say exactly the same thing. What OP is saying is literally a lie, accounting is much more sophisticated than that.
Imagine my complete surprise that the guy in charge of Google when sex with subordinates was rampant, and who gave an exec who was sacked for sexual harassment a ninety million dollar parachute, is upset that there aren't more people in the office.
That describes YouTube's path to becoming the online video monopoly.
There are better places to live.

So? Going into the office makes a clear delineation between my personal and professional life. Working from home means I never get around to doing the things I need to do at home. Working from an office means I leave all (well, most) of that shit at the office. IOW, don't shit where you eat.
Or, you know, just use emacs.
John Malone at TCI?

(I learned about it from HN here a couple days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41263855)
No.

Parent directly challenged the model because of thermodynamic loss and expense v. substitutes.

E-fuels is contingent on subsidies, and you can't just wand away costs with a renewables price decline. These plants require firmed up renewables supply shape that a solar or wind farm can't provide alone. What's that mean? $$$

Another thing, most of the metal in these facilities doesn't have a price decline curve. The ramp to parity is long and level.
Really interesting talk from Stanford's Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders podcast.

2018 but its still worth listening to.

https://ecorner.stanford.edu/podcasts/when-the-platform-is-y...
can you name successful remote-only startups? Yes, I know gitlab, others?
there sort of is, if you install ollama (https://ollama.com) and then execute: ollama run llama2-uncensored it will install and run the local chat interface for llama2 in an uncensored version which gives a little bit better results with less guardrails. Same with wizardlm-uncensored and wizard-vicuna-uncensored. For reference, the SOTA version with guardrails you could run: ollama run llama3.1:405b
It is probably what was learned where, muscle memory can be a strange thing at times. I, for instance, enjoy the vi editor, to the point that I have a hard time using emacs, however, I need the emacsish keybindings in my shell and don't like the vi keys there.
Croydon

Well there's your problem.
Not according to my plumber. Feel free to pay thousands of dollars in plumbing bills when your pipes clog up, if you like.

We’ve had our pipes clog up, and paid thousands of dollars. Fortunately for us, it wasn’t so-called flushable wipes.
River is my go to in Golang, it’s really handy to have transactional queuing with a nice little ui.
How has MS not fixed this. It seems like the kind of bug that shouldn’t ever happen in the first place (it’s such an obvious flaw) but now that they are aware, it should be priority #1 to fix.
The term rendering in design/art predates computers by many decades, peaked around the turn of the 19th/20th century

Still used frequently today and I think the original title is more apt
Same, ST is the best

But they really need to speed up the pace of their updates and offer plugin API that interacts with the UI
I think a lot of aviation navigation is by named waypoints on charts. I am definitely not an expert, but I believe some of these would be visually identifiable in good weather, or even identified by radar transponders. Compas deviations would certainly be an issue, but I believe are important to account for even in much more populated areas. Aviation does use gps now, but many of the previous systems still exist and are quite clever. The ILS system this is based off of is such a system.
Imagine going to Croydon while covered in Napalm
Putting low throughput queues in the same DB is great both for simplicity and for getting exactly-once-processing.

Putting high throughput queues in Postgres sucks because...

No O(1) guarantee to get latest job. Query planner can go haywire.

High update tables bloat like crazy. Needs a whole new storage engine aka ZHEAP

Write amplification as every update has to update every index

LISTEN/NOTIFY doesn't work through connection pooling
I don’t think you understand what it takes to support “unsupported devices”. I already explained that it does take effort, so without that screen you’d have a broken app.

Also stop complaining, it’s a free app, get a new phone already.
Japan isn't weak in software if my game library has anything to say about it. ;-)

Fascinating that Joy-Cons run a TRON-compliant OS.

Docomo was certainly ahead with i-mode, but as the video notes i-mode wasn't successful abroad, and it was eclipsed by iPhone/iOS and Android, much as other mobile platforms (Palm, Blackberry...) were (though it will continue to operate until 2026.)

Line (perhaps similarly to WeChat) also pioneered the super-app space, but it was mainly domestically focused.

Incidentally it was SoftBank Mobile (formerly Vodafone Japan), rather than Docomo or KDDI, that adopted the iPhone in 2008, as an exclusive until 2011. That probably turned out to be a good move (though maybe not as good as investing in Alibaba.)
Which of course is different than the market price of an asset. You can't say sell something at intrinsic value if the market thinks differently.
Considering the salaries of software engineers healthcare costs in the US are way cheaper than most EU countries. Also, you don't have to wait months to see a doctor.
total available market, the size of cake you split with your competitors
Shortly after that happened, I found myself at a tech-conferance-adjacent soire (financed by, in El Reg's parlance, Chipzilla, open bar natch) with several Reg hacks and Magee hisself. Despite the parting of ways, all seemed to be getting along famously.

Mike handed me his business card, with the Inquirer imprint. I examined it carefully, looked at him gravely, and intoned "but you've misspelled 'Register'".

He looked back at me quite chagrined.

Great guy, and an amazing history. Godspeed Mad Mike!
Well, according to my source, it would have actually happened if not for oracle. These decisions really come down to the people involved. I’m sure some people, given that choice, would never consider zfs. But some clearly would - and did.

Using an opensource filesystem like zfs doesn’t mean you aren’t in charge of your own destiny. Apple has skilled systems engineers. They could easily have made custom extensions and changes to zfs if they saw fit.
Some folks apparently need to familarise themselves with El Reg's slogan.
> Every now and then I would update a plugin in Neovim and everything would break, and I would have to spend time fixing it instead of getting work done.

This is true, but only if you're not using one of the ready made distributions. I didn't switch to NeoVim until I discovered LazyVim and this amazing guide https://lazyvim-ambitious-devs.phillips.codes/.

That changed everything. I just use LazyVim out of the box, as if it was a Jetbrains IDE. No config hassle, no issues with updates. It just works.

Regarding Zed:

It's a small niche they're trying to fill in a very competitive market. Currently they have the advantages of being the current cool thing. But that's not enough in the long run. If I would knew some killer feature, I'd go ahead and write it here. But that's the thing, I can't think of any. For simple, mainstream usage, VS Code is there. Ulimate IDE features: JetBrains IDEs. Ultimate productivity: LazyVim (or other NeoVim setups), ootb modal editing: Helix.
Same in my state.
> search qualifiers only work in "verbatim" mode

There's a verbatim mode?! That sounds incredible!
It's really not suddenly. They keep making the same mistakes. This is the second or third time the app has changed and they've got it wrong. I have to use two apps to control my Sonos equipment because one of my old units is too old even though it works and sounds great.

They tried to not support old stuff, they tried to make the hardware not work if sold, and they have messed up the app several times.

I want to love them, but it's hard to when you investment could just stop working at any moment.
My! Favourite! Is! Still! How! Yahoo! Headlines! Were! Written!

This seems to be a thing of the past, perhaps a consequence of Yahoo's sale to Verizon:

<https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/03/yahoo_aol_apollo/>

(The most recent occurrence I can find, dating to 2021-5-3. Despite the subhead.)
> How could I get the same feeling of fulfilment from the most amazing vacation?

If you can't answer this, you are going to have a very bad time when you retire.
It’s called “shrinkflation”.
This answer was responding to a question about smaller countries competing against China, the US, and larger countries in AI. “The rich” here refers to the richer countries, not people in general.

Please read/listen to the link before commenting on out of context sections.
wow, that is correct.

I read this in a book over 10 years ago, and now 2 articles about the same trick within the same week.
I said an example. If you're found with a dead body in your trunk for example, that will not be thrown out on a technicality, especially if it was found during an otherwise legal search. I don't have the case law memorized but I've heard lawyers discuss it before. If you do some research you will find exceptions to 4th amendment protections, such as the ones in this article: https://www.findlaw.com/criminal/criminal-rights/the-fourth-...

Who are these dorks downvoting me so much? Lol
What's an estimated dollar amount on this, for all patent trials in the US, with court fees paid by the loser excluded?
No man, you don’t understand. I take every step possible to avoid people opening issues, they just either disregard the 4 steps between the problem and the GitHub issue, or just come out swinging saying I should just implement it “because many people want it” or I should suggest an alternative. My issue template specifically says “do not request this feature” and they still delete it and request it.

I have no patience for people who are assholes and you shouldn’t either. They’re blocked on sight and that’s how I deal with them.

You say “unprovoked”, I see people completely disregarding my wellbeing by telling me how to spend my free time and how to design my product.

> Perhaps consider reading more of the history before calling them your soulmate.

I don’t need to judge a person by his whole life, I’m just talking about that specific issue as it matches my experience as described above.
Wow, this is the first time I heard about Ada Language
The big takeaway here is to dress well, scam people with smooth talk and abuse every loophole that exists with abstract business standing between you and the problem.

This is just another day for some people.
I think it is Ukraine's goal to seize the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant to balance threats represented by Russia's occupation of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. The current invasion is about 60 miles from the Russian plant. Has this been discussed anywhere?
Agreed. I've also heard this stated as:

> for each desired change, make the change easy (warning: this may be hard), then make the easy change"

(earliest source I could find is @KentBeck on X)

I love the idea of that vocabulary of tools and libraries, too. I strongly resist attempts to add to or complicate it unnecessarily.
Well, the app stores could fix that by also demanding a cut from ad revenue.
In most EU countries employees have to give a mandatory notice if they plan on quitting. In the UK it goes up to 12 weeks advance notice.
And that doesn't clean it up, it just moves the mess off of your plate to someone else's.
That reminds me of https://www.npr.org/2023/02/15/1156804295/shopify-delete-mee...
"open is when you have the right to make it closed"
It will be interesting to see if Schmidt’s comments about the future of AI being mostly a China-US game will come true, or if less powerful models will ultimately be more useful than single centralized powerful ones.

The analogy here might be between nuclear weapons and drones; the former are controlled entirely by a small number of countries, but the latter probably have more of a direct role to play in the future of warfare - and yet aren’t costly or difficult to make at all. The assumption tends to be that the most powerful well-capitalized tech always wins, but I don’t think that is necessarily the case.
If you're happy with Helix, do nothing, it you find yourself missing features, try this: https://lazyvim-ambitious-devs.phillips.codes/

I love Helix and used it a bit, but the lack of plugins (and thereby features) made me switch.