skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
take something metal, get it really cold, wheel it out into a steam room or a sauna where someone just poured a bucket of water on the rocks... tons of moisture is gong to condense on the metal, and in all the gaps and tracks inside
It’s my opinion that you have been unfairly downvoted on this comment. This was a reasonable and astute analysis, but I suspect peoples political allegiances and Musk opinions create knee jerk downvote reactions on here. Your comment is probably a casualty of that.
It's also worth adding that the self-promotion laden submissions for this domain have only been posted from two accounts "yzcoach" and "yuezhao" (https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=yuezhao.substack.com) and that those accounts have almost no other postings, i.e. this user is probably intentionally violating the HN guidelines against self-promotion and advertising. Rather inappropriate behavior for a former executive or anyone worth hiring as a coach in my opinion.
You could play with open models and different temperatures using the lmgen script from this repo we just released:

https://github.com/RichardKelley/hflm?tab=readme-ov-file#lmg...
> slowly losing relevance

I love this type of editorializing language. Ok, if VLC is "slowly losing relevance" (a claim for which you provide no evidence), what player is "slowly gaining relevance"?
And as money is a sign of how society values you, it stands to reason that those people are wasting their IQ because everyone overvalues social skills.
That's exactly it though, these CEO's are so divorced from reality that they forget. Schmidt knows how silicon valley really operates. Because he's probably been involved in a lot of this shitty corporate behavior.
This sounds great. Did you save any examples?
In 2008, I learned enough Java from HFJ to pass an interview and do well in the subsequent job.

I generally like their approach.
This is true of my experience with Google as well. I know it's fashionable to hate Google but Google's search was better than what was there before (altavista, webcrawler or those godforsaken screen cluttered portals). Gmail was/is vastly better than the alternatives. And even though I've always used Firefox it was Chrome that broke Microsoft's monopoly on web browsers. I suspect that a lot of their policies end up being that way to cope with any % of the whole world's population trying to cheat/scam/beat any system or rule.
I updated my original post with examples. I also included this research paper from Microsoft that shows a clear advantage of contracts and code quality. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...

Note also types are a contract. TypeScript is basically introducing contracts at a high level to javascript.
> If, after a few days, you can't actually implement the feature, think of what groundwork, infrastructure, or refactoring would need to be done to enable it. Use this method to implement that, then come back to the feature

really good, this is key. building a 'vocabulary' of tools and sticking to it will keep your velocity high. many big techs lose momentum because they dont
Palm Foleo would like a word.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Foleo
This has been discussed for several years now. There are plans for thousands of Starship launches per year. Heck, there are plans to build thousands of Starships.

Starship can launch 200+ tonnes to orbit per launch. That's 200,000 kg metric tonnes. This is the point I'm trying to get across, access to space is about to become very, very, very cheap, and there's a lot of talk about it.

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2024/01/how-will-spacex-bring-...

There are many other similar articles.

Everything is going to change at this cost level. Everything. All of these mega-expensive probes are going to morph into cheaper probes. It will be less expensive to experiment, to play, to try new things in space.

There are so many sectors in space I am envisioning getting involved in.

Heck, with costs like this even a YC startup could have the fiscal might to try experimental methods of mining asteroids.

SpaceX is in a particularly envious position, I can envision neuralink enabled astronauts controlling Tesla robots in SpaceX hardware, on site. EG, to reduce lag, and also provide strong direct feedback.

Experiments on advanced propulsion systems, especially theoretical ones, need not be "big big big". We can iterate. We can try 1000s of different designs, we can experiment without big budgets.

I want to see 100kg of mined ore, unrefined, lifted and automated, weightless methods to refine that ore tried. I want to see an immense range and scope of sensors tested, in space, never tried before. Space born solar panel construction methods tested. The list goes on and on and on.

I imagine lagrange points becoming congested with endless stations, sensor platforms.

We don't need asteroids back moved back to earth. Imagine latching onto an asteroid, with the ability to refine metal, you can simply build a station there! Multiple mobility methods have been pondered, solar sails, there are endless electrical engines, so multiple mass-driven methods of propulsion can be employed. Travel to/from such stations need not depend upon earth provided propellant, any molecule or atom can be shot out the stern.

The cusp of so many things is right on the horizon. The "Internet" age has landed in our laps ~ 2000, and in 2024 is now a saturated market, filled with an immense array of competitors, there is little "new" to be had here.

But space? Space is new, just as multiple biotech fields are new. There are enormous opportunities in space, and SpaceX and others following it its wake are building the backbone. We just need to build the "apps".
I guess it’s technically easier to interview at Taco Bell. But I assume usually changing careers requires some kind of certification.
To be fair, this doesn't just affect nuclear plants.

Here in Norway we've had a few cases recently about toxic waste and landfills where the gov't is essentially left holding massive cleanup bills for various reasons.

Of course, nuclear plants are orders of magnitude worse than "mere" toxic landfills in this regard.
away from earth is what I said.

Space is vast. Launching thousands upon thousands of small sensor satellites (we're talking SMALL) outward from the earth/moon system, is not going to even be noticeable.
Fortune 500 companies warn of growing AI risk to their businesses
I think a lot of people here would see revealing the "secret structure" of an LLC to be a positive.
IIUC, the way overcommit works on Linux is the memory returned by malloc() is not actually mapped to physical memory until it is accessed. So malloc may succeed and then at some point later you may get a segfault or similar when something actually tries to access that memory.
"Google isn't losing as we're not playing the same game of releasing a chatbot. We're working on something much bigger". They'd just have to do it
Fantastic project IMHO
The cost of buying an off the shelf GPS module to replace the original is so high that any price difference in microcontrollers or even an SoC is negligible. You could drop an entire raspberry pi in there and still be saving money.
scamming in the crypto space? No way google could anticipate such a thing.
I can't give details over why I learned these lessons without dox'ing myself, even speaking in broadstrokes is hard and the actors are litigious.

- Don't make your product hard to buy.

- Don't take investments from a potential customer.

Long story short, the key innovation was fiscal (looking to draw revenue from the real meat of the industry and not where it was traditionally placed in the supply chain), the tech was compelling enough to get investment from a large player, we built the product, then tried to sell the product to the investor, they dragged their feet, and eventually offered to buy the company instead of license the technology. But only after we ran out of runway and everyone lost their jobs.

The founder said "no" and the company is gone.

---

When I say "don't make it hard to buy," in B2B sales think about how much money you want to make off a single customer, given that number, what level of the organization is there someone that has that purchasing power, how hard is it to get them in a room, and can you walk out with a sales contract finalized or do they need to kick it back to their team for a final approval. And if that timeline exceeds your runway and you need the sale to close you're fucked.

In less crass terms, as an early stage startup you want your enterprise sales to scale horizontally through an organization. If your ideal user is at that company, you can only make so much money by selling it to them, because they have a limited budget. So you can instead sell to their manager, by getting the user to convince them to get more money to buy your product. But if you get greedy and then try to sell to that manager's manager, all of the sudden your advocate is two levels removed from the person making the decision and that's much more difficult to close. What you want is lots of deals closed fast, and that manager to tell another manager at the same level their team is using your product, or people to talk about you at the water cooler and get their managers to buy.

And once you scale up, then you can offer discounts for expanding to all teams under an org instead of each team buying individually, and now you have an enterprise contract that's a signal to get another enterprise contract with a competitor.
If you plan to do a charge back on Google, better be prepared to lose access to your entire Google account [1] including Gmail.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34016389
Thank you to bring this up.
Google is no longer a startup. Google is competing for a significant number of talented people. The startup mentality will not easily work for decades of competition with the other wealthiest tech companies.
RNAV RNP approaches can contain curved descents. They’re usually used in areas with high terrain but I don’t see why they couldn’t be used down here. LPV minimums seem to usually be very close to ILS minimums these days.

That said, it’s always nice to have a ground-based alternative approach. I wonder if they have sustained issues with GPS this far south.
Another thing I appreciate about this in the Python world is it avoids an issue I've seen in node a lot, which is people being too clever by a half and pre-emptively adding major version bounds to their library. So foo depends on "bar<9", despite bar 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14 all working with foo's usage of bar.

The end result of this is that you end up with some random library in your stack (4 transitive layers deep because of course it is) holding back stuff like chokadir in a huge chunk of your dep tree for... no real good reason. So you now have several copies of a huge library.

Of course new major versions might break your usage! Minor versions might as well! Patch versions too sometimes! Upper bounds pre-emptively set help mainly in one thing, and that's reducing the number of people who would help "beta-test" new major versions because they don't care enough to pin their own dependencies.
It's kinda funny that the link proposed here is only ads for Twitter premium, lol
I use to be unreasonably entertained tapping the suggest next word feature on google keyboard.
Knowledge, GP probably thinks that the kernel world moves like the userspace (probably js) world.

Which clearly isnt true. If OS development worked like userspace/web dev we'd all be in much more pain.
In my last role I was working remotely, and almost every day after lunch I'd have a nap on the sofa for 20 minutes with the cat.

In that role I felt the most productive I've ever been, and I suspect it is this habit that made it so. During this time I'd often come up with solutions or new ideas to problems.

Now I work in office, and even if it was socially acceptable to nap after lunch, there is no sofa or cat.
It lost the bite that bit the hands that feed IT. The Buzzard is bummed.
Idk why but this makes me sad (and feel kind of old). Maybe now I can finally afford one
> Has this ever been in question?

Yes. Reading is a prime example: https://time.com/6205084/phonics-science-of-reading-teachers... - connecting pictures of cats to the word "cat" is so much more fun than learning letter combinations.

> Too much memorization is a bad thing, it's called over fitting.

It's not. It's just a skill that might become unused, like playing piano. Children who grow up in religious cults that emphasize memorizing the holy texts (Hasidic Jews, some Muslim sects) do surprisingly well on standardized tests. Even though they receive a fraction of instruction time.

> What I'd say is wrong with both the US and China is failing to teach how to think.

And I maintain that you can't learn how to think without grinding through facts, learning how to organize them in your mind.
Many years ago I trained a Markov chain chat bot on all of the conversation history in a group chat with me and my friends. It was regularly incredibly hilarious. I also would train it on subsets of them, like two of the friends but no one else, and name that version of the bot a combination of their names. Something about it was just so funny.
> Also for most of those things, you want to be explicit about when to use the locale and when to not.

Right. And that's where the POSIX C API falls down. The locale isn't named explicitly. Its not a function parameter. Its specified via a global variable that gets shared between all your threads.

You might think you can use scanf to parse a string in a JSON file. It might appear to work fine on your local computer. But scanf behaves differently depending on the system locale. You can wrap scanf with a helper function which sets the locale to something sensible, calls scanf, and restores the locale. But because the locale is shared with other threads, which might be depending on the locale in other ways. So this can introduce race conditions.

The whole thing is horribly designed - and it leads to buggy, unreliable code that is hard to reason about. Even in the best case, introducing thread syncronization into a function like sscanf will lead to a dramatic decrease in performance.

Its horrible. Just horrible.
Someone must tell Mr Magee this was definitely not funny.
I'm surprised Brooklyn isn't on here. Insane amounts of pollution in Gowanus and Greenpoint. Locals are aware of a ton of obscure forms of cancer.
Lots of great startups have remote teams so this argument by Schmidt is pretty weak. Google is hybrid, not even remote. Also, I don't think that well motivated and engineers work or produce less while WFH. It could be the opposite. Less interruptions are key, as explained in Peopleware. But bad managers love controlling people in open plan offices.

Regardless, I found it surprising Schmidt didn't talk about other stuff that differentiates startups. Smaller teams, a lot less red tape, a lot more ownership, less politics... Google should really follow Steve Jobs 2011 advice to Page about focus. Breaking down into a conglomerate was a great idea to bring focus and agility, but it has not been fully executed and lots of the different resulting entities seem dysfunctional.
Even the ones that say flushable aren’t. It’s just a marketing ploy.
tailscale, wireguard, scp to a vps, upload to s3, save to dropbox, zerotier, ipfs, passive-mode vnc, stream to twitch with obs studio, or just upnp or configure a bastion host on your cablemodem if you aren't behind cgnat. there are probably a zillion ways i haven't thought of

i mean maybe there's a packaged turnkey setup that i don't know about, too, i'm just saying diy isn't rocket surgery in this case
You're right, there are places where the smartphone is the only compute device in the home. Would this be too expensive for those people though? I'm thinking people from Myanmar for example.
How is it justifiable for jira tickets to take 5-10 seconds to load in the first place?
> Subscribe to unlock this article

Meanwhile the content is behind a paywall. Hopefully more mom and pops shops open up, human creativity flourishes and we all have time and freedom to express ourselves and enjoy time with our families and live with the means to live comfortably while things like taco bell, arbys, call centers, etc replace workers with chat bots.

Hopefully.
> you're not going to let people work from home and only come in one day a week

Huh, I guess I dreamed the first start-up I worked for (a couple of decades ago) where indeed I only came in one day a week.

Yes of course you "work like hell". We had a nasty leak bug and I set things up so that day or night if the leak was detected my stereo would go maximum volume and play "Straight Outta Compton". How does commuting count as "working like hell" ?

If I'm sat in a car (and once a week I often was) then I'm not working am I? I am useless for several hours each day we do that. Maybe sometimes the CTO (who is in the car, he's driving, he worked from home too) is discussing relevant technology, you know design of our secret sauce schema-less database engine, IP stuff - but then it's also possible we're discussing the album that's playing, or a video game we both enjoyed, or a novel we're both reading.
Just what can be decteded from the air, in shallow water. But could be a good start.

Unlike me they may have access to some capability to actually do it.
Only the feds enforce federal crimes, so it's not relevant to most traffic stops.

The residue is enough for the dog to alert.

"If additional crimes are uncovered during a legitimate search, they absolutely can charge you with it and use the evidence they found."

Any examples of that? Usually with warrants they have to specify what they are looking for. Probable cause searches are supposed to do the same.
Agreed. I've been using (n)vim for roughly 8 years now and only touch my config to put in bits of Lua I've hacked together to make my life slightly easier (~10 minutes every few months? I just do it as-needed). I use 5-6 plugins total. I think the most vocal users are probably responsible for the impression of constant churn, because they've got fancy tricked out configs loaded with alpha-quality plugins and probably do need to constantly update it. Nothing against doing that, but it need not be that way!
Many industries, like AAA game development, work this way.

There's a good reason for it -- code quality and performance is important. Understanding what your code actually does and how it does it, is important.

And as a result, AAA game software is able to push the boundaries of consumer compute performance. Micro-library-built software is generally just bloated crap that barely works. But it is fast to churn out, so there's that.
How many years until we have high enery lasers shot on people's heads?
Prompt to Claude 3.5 Sonnet: Below is a recently published essay followed by some of the discussion about it on Hacker News. Write 10 short jokes on this theme, making sure that the jokes are funny in the way described by the essay's author. [essay and discussion omitted]

Claude's response: I understand you'd like me to write 10 short jokes on the theme of Markov chains being funnier than large language models, in the style described by the essay author. I'll do my best to create some jokes that aim for "unserious surprise" and violate expected patterns in amusing ways:

1. Why did the Markov chain cross the road? To get to the other side of unpredictability.

2. An LLM and a Markov chain walk into a bar. The LLM orders a statistically probable drink. The Markov chain orders a lampshade made of cheese.

3. What do you call a Markov chain that tells dad jokes? A Mark-ov Twain.

4. How many LLMs does it take to screw in a lightbulb? One - but it'll spend 20 minutes explaining the optimal lightbulb-screwing process first.

5. Knock knock.
Who's there?
Markov.
Markov who?
Markov chain reaction of nonsensical hilarity.

6. An LLM, a Markov chain, and GPT-4 walk into a bar. The bartender says "We don't serve your kind here." GPT-4 leaves. The LLM stays to debate ethics. The Markov chain orders a bicycle made of spaghetti.

7. What's an LLM's favorite movie? Predictable and Furious 17: The Safest Driving Yet.

8. How does a Markov chain tell a story? "Once upon a time, there was a princess who lived in a castle made of bananas and ruled over a kingdom of sentient toasters."

9. What did the Markov chain say to the LLM? "Your mother was a abacus and your father smelled of silicon!"

10. Why don't Markov chains make good therapists? Because their advice is always "And then you should banana the feelings until they become a hat."
Eek this is weird. Why not make it a real subway system with trains? It would make so much more sense than this.
How can you dry off with only a couple squares? Does your bidet have a drying fan too??
Why so much code for Avery simple concept

One table.

Producer writes Co sumer reads

A very good idea
I compared the build quality of the SNOO to the build quality of a cheap baby swing. If it helps to avoid confusion, one could compare it to something else cheaply made that isn't also a device for rocking babies back and forth.
Until I read the comments here, I thought from the title that this was about those small neighborhood "libraries" that are basically a box the size of a very large birdhouse, mounted on a post, with a bunch of donated books inside that passersby are free to borrow. I was really wondering why someone would have a problem with these, unless they work for a book publisher.
you have no sense of humor
I'm not a googler, but my take would be that Google was a smaller ship with technical founders at the helm who understood the problem and acted accordingly with first mover benefits. I remember when I started to use search engines in grade school (AskJeeves, AltaVista, etc) and Google just had the most relevant answers.

Google is now a behemoth that seems to just chuck money and promo packets at problems (Stadia, Google Cloud, Nest, etc) with no clear vision for them. It kind of reminds me of the examples in this blog: https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611

There's also self selection going on - people joining startups generally have more vested interest in solving a problem and will work longer and harder, too. So I think there's some kernel of truth what Eric Schmidt was saying. How much enthusiasm can a person have about increasing the bottom line of a mega public company?
The underlying thesis seems to be that Japan doesn't have a thriving software economy due to things that happened 40 years ago?
Archiving "The Famous Computer Cafe"
Using Kirigami (Japanese Paper Cutting) to reduce plastic shipping waste
Weird, with Daniel Radcliffe playing Weird Al Yankovic, is probably the right tone for this one.
> That sounds wild. How else can it possibly fail than by failing malloc?

By killing your process and/or by failing fork()s.

In general, malloc() in Linux will never fail for small allocations.
I took this more as Schmidt being disappointed in what Google has become. He really did build Google, its completely valid for him to be mad about the state of the company culture wise.
I have a question out of curiosity: Has anyone or anything ever succeeded in deleting/removing anything from the Internet once it goes up?

I’ve realized that anything that goes online will be (perhaps unintentionally) leaked, hacked, uncovered, archived, altered, restored, referenced, and what not.
Googlers used to regularly work 50-60 hours. You did have the teams that had a decent WLB, but it was generally the non public facing stuff.

Google’s WLB ironically got significantly better after the layoffs. No one cared about the company anymore.