skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the clarification, I was definitely under the misapprehension that Fuchsia was basically 100% C++.
Berenberg_Bank, private bankers since 1590, and Beretta, making guns since 1526, are probably the oldest large companies. There are a few wineries, hotels, and religious goods makers that are older, but quite small. Berenberg remains a successful merchant bank today, and Beretta guns can be purchased wherever guns are sold.

[1] https://www.berenberg.de/

[2] https://www.beretta.com/
I'm very much in line with the the gist of what's being said here. That said, there are a couple of discrepancies I think.

First, I don't think Founder Mode works as a name. He's saying all the founders are being told to grow their company the wrong way—the Manager Mode way. Chesky is unique in that he's ignoring them. Most Founders are doing Manager Mode not "Founder" Mode.

It's possible the name could work because it describes what Founders should be doing rather than what they're currently doing. It's meant to capture that people who start a company have a much different interest and emotional investment in the mission and company. This distinction is important (and has been told many times). I'm not sure that model holds so tight anymore. Being a tech founder today is a mainstream and maybe default path today for many, it's not a weird one that you'd have to be crazy about what you're trying to build in order to attempt. Founders are choosing founding first and searching for ideas second, and then pivoting those ideas as a best practice of founding.

Pick a random company that's sent you a recruitment email—look at what they say they do and then ask yourself how many people might be excited about that. Take an interview with a small one, you have a good chance you'll talk to a founder or someone quite high—this person frequently does not seem interested in this. Even without a successful product or an exit, the VC round is paying them a good salary to startup. A recent thought I've been having is there's a little more opportunity now to treat founding as a salary job, not really an equity play.

"As Airbnb grew, well-meaning people advised him that he had to run the company in a certain way for it to scale." The problematic norm to me in tech is the opting for organizing functionally (dividing into engineering, design, marketing. etc.) to scale. Related to this is the problem with PMs at most companies. If they're good ones, they should be leaders. Yet they don't own much nor manage anyone (they're ICs with no reports). And so Chesky removed them or guided them to something more specific like PMM.
Sometimes people use terms in a way we don't agree with, but it doesn't give us license to misinterpret their meaning in doing so.

(Please note I made no claim here about whether or not AI is "founded on theft" and only that Procreate used that turn of phrase.)
Wow, what a gem of a post. I knew about the Navajo codebreakers but didn't ever hear about the Shiprock connection.

I also am admiring how deftly the author was able to weave in (heh) little bits of low-level computer knowhow. This is an article I can send to my non-tech friends!
Progressives would tell you that gun violence is mostly caused by poverty, the drug war, and various institutional failures (e.g. El Salvador before the gang crackdown) and thus if you reduce these problems you'll also reduce violence.
Happy user since day one. Since adopting Orbstack most of our frustrations with Docker on Mac OS are gone.
Please let this go viral, it's about time to make social media great again
The article says these 6 "tips" are data-driven, yet provides no source or information on why or how the tips actually work. Just that fitness tracker Reddit users "tend to converge on the same set of lifestyle recommendations."

For instance, why does eating before bed affect sleep quality? What kind of times are we talking about here? An hour? Two? Five?

The rest I anecdotally agree with as I have experienced them. But I've never thought my sleep quality suffered due to eating dinner late. What's the reasoning behind that?
How in the world is c# too complicated? Console app, top level statements, vs code. As easy as Python. Easier because your env isn’t messed up.

If they can’t manage that they have no business doing data science or something similar to begin with
I added in an option via a settings button (up top) to toggle grid lines...hoping that is a good start!
Critically, the GPS battery life was only a few days and the GPS weapon "tracker" signal was routinely lost especially in car trunks

Sounds like what a high schooler would do when trying to stalk someone. Or, alternatively, what a corrupt Attorney's office would do if they were working for Mexican Drug Cartels who needed weapons.
Different 'someone's could conceivably collude to whittle down the result of the search, fingerprinting users via separate means to align the results. Or, less conspiratorially, one could present an apparently-poorly-designed interface where the credential is only valid for the current login session, then wait for a few cycles of the user clearing their browser cookies.

Perhaps a very explicit prompt "This service wants to know if you're > X years old!" might give up the trick, but then users would have to be trained not to click through it within milliseconds, which is never the most viable solution.
Well the photons leaving earth are scattered in almost all directions. So at 1500 light years there might not be any photons arriving from that exact moment and place on earth because you might be down to say 1 photon arriving per hour or even less. Then the photons coming back would be all mixed in with other photons from the black hole so even if the same photons did go to where earth will be, the picture would be mangled beyond repair, and the darkness of the data you’re trying to capture is so low that again it might be less than a photon an hour.
Lovely project
One of my wishlist items - rocksdb storage engine for postgres.
It all seems to suffer from some of the issues the EM Drive saw: the proposed effect is tiny and very, very difficult to tease apart from environmental and system noise. I hope I'm wrong.
It requires iCloud but the data itself is transferred directly over Bluetooth or local WiFi (like airdrop) so it shouldn’t hit any Apple servers.

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/security/secf78dbe639/...
I'm really tired of these papers and experiments.

You cannot test reasoning when you don't know what's in the training set. You have to be able to differentiate reasoning from memorization, and that's not trivial.

Moreso, the results look to confirm that at least some memorization is going on. Do we really not think GPT has extensively been trained on arithmetic in base 10, 8, and 16? This seems like a terrible prior. Even if not explicitly, how much code has it read that performs these tasks. How many web pages, tutorials, Reddit posts cover oct and hex? They also haven't defined zero shot correctly. Arithmetic in these bases aren't 0-shot. They're explicitly in distribution...

I'm unsure about base 9 and 11. It's pretty interesting to see that GPT 4 is much better at these. Anyone know why? Did they train on these? More bases? Doesn't seem unreasonable but I don't know.

The experimentation is also extremely lacking. The arithmetic questions only have 1000 tests where they add two digits. This is certainly in the training data. I'm also unconvinced by the syntax reasoning tasks since the transformer (attention) architecture seems to be designed for this. I'm also unconvinced these tasks aren't in training. Caesar ciphers are also certainly in the training data.

The prompts are also odd and I guess that's why they're in the appendix. For example, getting GPT to be better at math or many tasks by having it write python code is not novel.

There's some stuff here but this really doesn't seem like a lot of work for 12 people from a top university and a trillion dollar company. It's odd to see that many people when the experiments can be run in a fairly short time.
And it’s time to stop saying “make ___ great again”.
This how I have always thought of the Giza plateau and other temple sites. They look like different digital components or circuits attached to each other. It was easy to convince myself that they were indeed designing some type of deep logic within the structures.
Tried my hand at an update on the calendar. Thoughts? The colors were proving tricky
> Brains do not reason ...

They can, at times, and do so best when emotion is not involved.

> I'm tired of reading comments from people who keep repeating that LLMs don't think, don't reason, isn't intelligence because it is not human.

LLM's represent a category of algorithm. Quite elegant and useful in some circumstances, but an algorithm none the less. A quick search produced this[0] example discussing same.

Another reference, which may not be authoritative based on whatever most recent edit the link produces, is[1]:

A large language model (LLM) is a computational model
capable of language generation or other natural language
processing tasks. As language models, LLMs acquire these
abilities by learning statistical relationships from vast
amounts of text during a self-supervised and semi-supervised
training process.

> Define what reasoning is to you.

Reasoning was the process I went through to formulate this response, doing so with intent to convey meaning as best as I can, and understand as best as possible the message to which I am replying.

> Then tell us why LLMs don't reason and why it matters.

LLM's do not possess the ability to perform the process detailed above.

This is why it matters.

0 - https://github.com/rasbt/LLMs-from-scratch

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model
I've been staring at it too long and can't tell if it looks good or bad
> They skip steps in writing because they can generally do them and it obscures the flow of the argument to have every thing spelled out.

They do that in lean too; that's the idea of simp.
> > employees simply doing what was best for them
> No leader should expect anything different from their people

But then there are generals who lead soldiers to die so that a war is won. So at least there exists another mode of leadership not covered by your statement.
Hm, what pops up when you click play (or anywhere outside of the pop up)?
Good topic for a second blog post/skill share. Are there any other interesting topics you can think of? I think I know so much but in it too deep to remember what is unusual. These came up with the recent onboarding of some new devs.

Thanks, I will update the data migration code!
It's not possible to know if anyone has consciousness, other than them themselves.

We must be *very* careful before making authoritative statements about who and what has qualia.
One might argue that, but unless the one arguing it has been involved with the construction of an EPR, I would not put a lot of stock in it.

My viewpoint (having involvement with many large (>$100M) construction projects, but not power plants): I don't believe the constructability issues with the EPR have anything to do with the size, specifically. I suspect the root issue is design and construction being too separated on the EPRs.
I'm no expert but I think this is Shintō tradition (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ise_Shrine#Rebuilding_the_Shri...) rather than Buddhist. But, (Buddhist) temples are sometimes destroyed (war, natural disasters) and are rebuilt as a result (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinkaku-ji).
Do you prefer meetings or solving problems? Pretty sure I’d jump off a bridge after 2 weeks of meetings
If the electron starts with zero energy at infinity (e.g. a parabolic orbit, a natural default assumption), and some of the potential energy is converted into free EM radiation due to acceleration of the electron as it is falling down the potential well, then it will become bound to the proton. My reading of phkahler's original statement is that the electron will wind up going faster than the speed of light (which is incorrect, due to gamma) due to falling down the potential well, and not due to having non-zero kinetic energy at infinity...
The text is converted to embeddings after tokenization. The neural networwk only sees vectors.

Imagine the original question is posed in English but it is translated to Chinese and then the LLM has to answer the original question based on the Chinese translation.

It's a flaw of the tokenization we choose. We can train an LLM using letters instead of tokens as the base units but that would be inefficient.
Do you have a source for that?

By default, I don't believe your claim. Hydro power would be a horrible match for a LNG liquification plant. The strength of hydro is that it's renewable energy with flexibility on the timing of energy production. It means hydro power plans can be run at a low load when energy is cheap, and high load when it's expensive. (And thus, the average Watt of power generated by hydro is more valuable/expensive than the average Watt of power generated by solar.)

LNG liquification would have the opposite pattern. They'd either want to run the plant 24/7 to get maximimum utility from the capital investments into the plant, or if they are demand-constrained, they'd want to time their production runs to when energy is the cheapest. They're most likely to use electricity exactly when the dam isn't producing any. And conversely, there will be a lot of times when the dam is producing way more electricity than the plant is using.

So it seems totally impossible to believe that production from the new dam is getting allocated 1:1 to a specific LNG plant. It's just not how any of this works. If there's some kind of kernel of truth to your claim, I'd imagine it's some kind of greenwashing where they're buying the rights to claim the LNG was created with renewable energy.
I vastly prefer postfix for interactive use. I can enter a bunch of numbers and then decide what to do with them. With prefix, I start by typing operators when I haven’t even fully decided which numbers I’m going to be using with them. Basically, prefix emphasizes the operations and postfix emphasizes the numbers.

Prefix is perfectly fine for entering formulas into code. In dc or any other scratchpad, I find postfix much, much more convenient.
There really isn't a way to get a hostname from javascript in a non-modified browser.
just in the last week I've managed to break myself of the muscle-memory of reaching for Google to answer random questions that pop up in my daily life, in favor of LLM. About 90% of the time the LLM satisfies my query on the first try, 98% of the time by the second or third. With the enormous benefit of no ads
Smartcut: Cut video files with minimal recoding
i know some places uses 1password or similar, where users can then get access to certain shared passwords

and of course, save their own, which arent shared
It is a shame they rolled this to production. With no real posting or activity going on in their early integration platform, of course it is no surprise.

OP should try "Japanese knowledge not required" but still, shouldn't be necessary to be on our toes due to untested automation.
The key part that westerners miss about this is that in Japan, even after giving notice, you are legally obligated to show up to work and do your job "properly", and your employer can sue you even after you quit for any perceived impropriety.

So, even though the right to quit with 2 weeks notice is enshrined in the law, if your company says "no we don't want you to quit", they will make it their goal to make your final 2 weeks a living hell. You can't stop doing what they say though, because that would open you up to legal liability for not doing your job properly.
> Of course doing somewhat dangerous stuff (and then exaggerating the danger) is kind of the theme of his channel and works very well on youtube

I never got that impression from him. He definitely plays up the Rube Goldberg-ishness of his procedures, but his insistence on the risks involved seems to me to be a safety thing.

It’s important to note that he’s never cavalier about the risks. He isn’t playing up the “mad scientist” angle, or portraying any of the risks as cool. Every mention of the dangers involved is presented more in terms of him feeling uncomfortable with the risk, and is swiftly followed with what he did for safety.

Given how much he keeps bringing up that he’s buying all his reagents from Amazon and eBay, there’s a real risk that somebody might decide to try and replicate his videos at home.
Ultimately, the stuff he’s doing isn’t super risky for a trained chemist, but it is pretty damn dangerous for the random teenager watching his videos, so you need to make sure they respect the stuff that’s going on.
> They are statistical text generators, whose results are defined by their training data set

Honestly I'm pissed at the research community. It's fraud. If you don't know what's in the training data you simply cannot differentiate reasoning from memorization.

Beyond that, the experiments are almost certainly in the training data. Like come on! I feel like I'm going crazy here. How can any coder not think LLMs are training on oct and hex‽

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41422751
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Some of those servers are located in north Sweden, where electricity is cheaper (for now [1])

I expect it to be even cheaper for example on Iceland with an abundance of hydro power.

[1] They are also trying to redefine steel-processing there and that will use a lot of electricity if they succeed.
Probably here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lennys-podcast-product...
I can't imagine what you'd have to have experienced to recommend Keeper over 1Password
A feature for your existing product that you can charge an extra $100-200 for and have it sell incredibly well might even be better than a distinct product.
Maybe this? https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lennys-podcast-product...
This? https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lennys-podcast-product...
Nice to see this here :)

I work on OrbStack. Happy to answer questions!
Boomer parents spoiled their kids, and Gen X parents spoiled their kids even worse. Now few people under age 30 know how to work hard to get what they want, or have any drive to do it. They just expect it. They think their parents must have been given their houses and jobs, because that's how they got everything in their lives.
Bluesky can block its own users. I don't see why they would be responsible for anything else beyond that.
> Even if people look down their nose at it, its working the same muscles just faster.

Unfortunately, this isn’t true. It’s just bathing in the median of others people work, at best akin to playing video games (vs making them). There’s no shame in it, I love playing games too, but if you ever want to rise to the level of independent creative expression, you’ll have to give up these crutches, confront your own limitations, and risk failure to overcome them. No challenge, no change.
The most interesting thing about these long lasting companies is how their governance changes over time considering how different society is from when they were originally founded. Countries have come and gone within the lifetime of these companies. There have been entire paradigm shifts in terms of how companies operate. And yet they still exist through it all.
Cosy Computing
He's not the boss anymore at this point (2003). Ballmer took over as CEO in 2000.
i'm running gforth under termux on android. i just ran a video game on it earlier tonight, this one i wrote last month

do you have a screencast of your calculator's user interface? it sounds interesting!
Oh boy, so familiar. I have Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, which is another CNS sensitised pain syndrome. "localised" for CRPS is usually a whole limb though. It's hard to explain how fully mind-consuming neuropathy is, as most people don't get much more than a toothache or a sciatica flare (which are bad enough, but usually "short" lived).

I've had an aweful lot of procedures and meds over 30 years, over 200, including 12 spinal procedures in 12 weeks when an attempt to deliver steroids to the C7 dorsal horn tore my dura mater. Very unpleasant.

It's really hard, as you say, to find good medical practitioners when you've got chronic nerve pain. They have to understand the relationship between hyperalgesia, allodynia (things that should not hurt hurting like crazy), movement (and lack of same) and meds, physio and psychs. Other injuries get involved once your brain is programmed to hurt you, and post surgical care involves more hard drugs to avoid sensitisation, leading to more complex drug tapering to get off the damn opioids (which only make chronic nerve pain worse paradoxically).

You say "I'm at my wit's end", and I've been there, past it and back again. You need to see a pain psychologist, a specialist psych. They can teach you "Jedi mind tricks" that may work for you. Things like how to focus your conciousnes into a bit that's NOT hurting. How to use disassociation to help getting day-to-day tasks done when you just want to curl up in a ball and cry.

I also strongly suggest you get in touch with other chronic pain patients. It's incredibly helpful to know you're not a weak freak who is a wimp and a weakling. To hear that other people have the same struggles. And to hear strategies for doing things that don't hurt as much.

Here in Brisbane people used to meet once a year in King George Square, for "Colour the World Orange" day. Three of these people are now friends who know what I mean by "it's not a good day". I found actually meeting other sufferers in the flesh to reinforce knowing that I'm not alone with this curse, other people struggle too.

And one from that group is in remission. We're all living vicariously through her, as this gives hope. Hope is what we all need.
The issue is just that Nix-Darwin doesn't 'own' your system, and it's conservative about blowing away existing files when installing files that it has generated. So if it detects that some file it wants to install conflicts with an existing one, it throws its hands up and tells you to deal with it before it will proceed.

As it happens, /etc/nix/nix.conf is one file where such a potential conflict can occur. As an optimization, I think it will (sometimes? always? idr) replace a file if the existing one and its intended replacement have the same contents. The defaults /etc/nix/nix.conf in the mainline Nix installer and the defaults for /etc/nix/nix.conf in Nix-Darwin are the same, so it doesn't complain there. But the Determinate Nix Installer ships a nix.conf with different settings, so Nix-Darwin refuses to replace it, to avoid clobbering your (the Determinate Nix Installer's) settings 'changes'.

There's no real compatibility issue, and the Determinate Nix Installer is doubtless intended to be used with any Nix-based software, including Nix-Darwin, Home Manager, etc. Nix-Darwin installation is just a bit hairy, as it's unfortunately always been.

NixOS is a better experience in that respect, and you should consider running NixOS in a VM if you want to get a feel for that kind of systemwide, declarative Nix configuration without worrying about installing it against a foreign base system. (If you do learn your way around nixos-rebuild, you won't need the Nix-Darwin installer anyway.)