skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A couple of years ago I ran into a old colleague at the pub who mentioned he’d quit for a while to work on a game idea. I made a joke asking if he was now making a game engine and turned out he was first instead working on a programming language to code the game in and showed me some examples of it…
Being familiar with both KDB and somewhat so with InfluxDB .. it strikes me as a challenging space. I suspect there just isn't much money in it.

Oddly InfluxDB has raised amounts of VC money approaching KDB parent companies current market cap. I know VC raised and market cap are not directly comparable, but what is the hoped-for enterprise value at exit of NewCo if the IncumbentCo is worth Z?

My take is that orgs with real revenue-generating time series data challenges, budget and dev staff to cook up solutions have long ago bought KDB licenses or rolled their own in-house column store.

Orgs using time series DBs for telemetry/observability/etc type of "back office" problems (where you are willing to downsample/conflate/offload history) either don't want to pay a dime, or want a fully formed SaaS solution with pretty GUI, alerting, etc like a DataDog they will like $10M/year to.

Not a lot of middle ground oddly.
I’m amazed you have had any luck with 4o. I found 4 was much better than 4o but still quite bad.

I tried to use 4/4o for a MIP several months ago. Frequently, it would iterate through three or four bad implementations over and over.

Claude 3.5 has been a significant improvement. I don’t really use chatgpt for anything at this point.
Are DJI drones autonomous?
Well, that doesn't capture the whole story. If I punch your leg, you experience these "discrete" events simultaneously: the feeling of being punched, the sound of being punched, the visual phenomenon of me punching you.

Your brain uses a combination of signal delay and anticipation/prediction in order to create a seamless experience that holds until the temporal discrepancy between events is too large. So there is some cyclic, recursive element to consciousness which is not adequately explained by a linear stream of discrete events.
Of course there's more to it but someone taking a picture of the Mona Lisa with their smartphone doesn't add much to it and certainly doesn't commend the same respect as Da Vinci painting it in the first place.
Obviously there is debate, but reciprocal trade and national security are the reasons.
It’s really a shame that OpenBSD doesn’t have a good file system. Otherwise I’d use for my production systems (I could put it inside of proxmox, with a ZFS container outside for stability inside, but I like to run bare metal, no VMs)
As you can tell from GP's response to my question, it was actually quite effective in pushing the conversation forward. It revealed GP's (alleged) confusion in separating the blogspam commentary in this article from the NPS's statement on ecosystem health.
> ACSL SOTEN [1] have LTE connectivity for remote control

LTE connectivity that would use US infrastructure (LTE towers) for its connection.

Unless the drones start shipping with satellite radio, I'm not sure what the scare is about, seems to be mostly about that Chinese products just shouldn't be available to the average American.
Dont ask these questions
I was at a local event my city was hosting and the only water option was Liquid Death. It felt criminal to charge as much as they did for water in a fancy can, but I wasn’t going to order soda just so I could feel like I’m paying for something. It was probably 2 years ago and I’m still bothered by it.

The world needs less of this, not more.

I’ve been to a couple cities in Europe that were very proud of their water. Hotels and restaurants advertised that they served tap water, and the bottled water was proudly bottled tap water. There were filling stations around town to get more of this water for free. I want more of this, and less Liquid Death. Invest in the local water supply, not marketing companies with the laziest product possible.
The Eleven Laws of Showrunning (2016) [pdf]
Having atomic weapons is basically a cheatcode for infinite lives. Back then it was a normal concern for a country to be entirely eliminated, idk. Prussia, but once you have atomic weapons, suddenly nobody can wipe you out of the map.
Because the "Hobbitses" intro is a rephrasing of Gollum/Smeagol.
Kotlin? For sure, it's the Android language after all, so it is looked after, sure. Does it integrate better? That's up to debate. For example, F# 9 integrates C# NRTs in the form of T | null unions, which is elegant and idiomatic approach that brings together nullness knowledge between the two. For now, this is not the case with Kotlin.

I encourage you to look at the state of Clojure and its usability within larger Java ecosystem. Quantity of material, as usual, is not everything.

> Meanwhile Microsoft keeps behaving as if it was a management mistake to have added it to VS 2010.

Do you have anything to back up this assumption with?
Now, the question is, how did the Rapanui make contact with Indigenous Americans on what Diamond once called "the world's most isolated scrap of habitable land" – located roughly 1,800 km (1,100 miles) from the closest inhabited island in Polynesia and 3,512 km from Chile in South America?

Our predecessors who spent less time exploring and fucking are less likely to be our ancestors. It's who we come from and only the mask of civilization lets us forget for a while that it's still who we are.

How? Of a few hundred adolescent boys who go paddling around and get swept out to sea maybe one survives to reach a distant land. "How I met your mother." The article treats the oceans as a barrier rather than a vector for spreading seed in coconuts or testicles or whatever. Those boys are dandelion pods.
> national security are the reasons

How, exactly, is national security even a reason? Ok, so the drone has a camera, but that doesn't mean someone can magically transport the data. Ok, so the drone has a LTE modem, that still has to be connected to US infrastructure once connected somewhere within the US.

So how is it supposed to be a national security issue? Sounds as harmful as a calculator.
As added support for this view, I can contrast with the relatively uncommon experience of having some experiences unified: when listening to an audio book, my brain often (but not always!) ties the experience of the book with my physical location at the time. When I return to that location, the experience of being there is inextricably tied to the portions of the book I heard in that place. I can't really remember one without the other.

But this is unusual. Most things are not tied together like this. In the author's example, I can separately remember the philosophical musings that were in my head on a drive, and the feeling of the steering wheel (which normally would be too mundane to remember, but on a hot day the cover will get sticky and I'll be very aware of that). There might be a weak association from one to the other, but usually not much at all.

As a tangent, I wonder if LLM attention heads are doing something analogous. Each is associated with a strand, sometimes combined with the others and usually not? (I don't know enough to say whether this matches at all.)
AI CCTVs to detect, predict criminal activities
Chinese goods are a large percentage of the goods that American consumers consume. A price increase in them is a broad price increase.

And approximately all of the goods produced in the US use a large percentage of Chinese parts. American services use Chinese goods. They'll all see cost increases.

The shift in demand towards different domestic products will cause price increases -- demand for these will outstrip supply, causing price increases.
This is 100% on the scientists who continue to use a tool that doesn't work for their use case!
Any app built on top of Apple's Document-based App paradigm gets the versioned file thing for free.

System Preferences > Desktop & Dock > Windows > Close windows when quitting an application = OFF means any Document-based App also gets the resumable persistent storage for free.

I agree two of the greatest features in macOS. "Don't make me think!"
> Would you be willing to set a deadline (not fuzzy dates) when my job is going to be taken by an LLM and bet $5k on that?

This is just a political question and of course so long as humans are involved in politics they can just decide to ban or delay new technologies, or limit their deployment.

Also in practice it's not like people stopped traditional pre-industrial production after industrialization occurred. It's just that pre-industrial societies fell further and further behind and ended up very poor compared to societies that chose to adopt the newest means of production.

I mean, even today, you can make a living growing and eating your own crops in large swathes of the world. However you'll be objectively poor, making only the equivalent of a few dollars a day.

In short I'm willing to bet money that you'll always be able to have your current job, somewhere in the world. Whether your job maintains its relative income and whether you'd still find it attractive is a whole different question.
people invested in scrum all think it’s great

people who have to do the actual work don’t.

you should pay attention to that
The Value of Vultures
I have done mimir deployments. I am generally very happy with mimir. It's very cost efficient. It does require someone to know enough to admin it though.

I didn't pick thanos because I really like the horizonal scaled blob store architecture the Grafana crew put together.
Here you go https://victoriametrics.com/blog/mimir-benchmark/
It is from Sep 2022, it would be great to get newer results.
Best retro I ever had, on a small team of seniors: we all sat down, looked at each other, agreed that a sprint happened and we couldn't think of anything that was good or bad about it. Then we called in our manager, who also acted as scrum master, so we could do planning for our next sprint. I thought this was reasonable enough - ostensibly we'd do retro and then planning back to back, and none of us minded the chance to take a few minutes and reflect if we had anything we should discuss.

By contrast, I've worked with scrum masters who were strict about the process and insisted _every_ retro needed to have at least one improvmenet or action item out of it, preferably more. I found this pointless and I've rarely seen them actually followed up on.
I think screenwriters could easily do a reboot of Big Bang Theory using this approach...

input:

> you stink

results in:

> Your olfactory profile presents suboptimal aromatic qualities that fail to align with contemporary societal expectations for personal fragrance management.
> Also a once atheist you starts to immediately understand the religious teachings

I ponder the topics you mention and at no point did I feel compelled to radically retool my life around 2000 year old religious documents which themselves have clear lineage to even older, less-informed belief systems.
What's fascinating, and probably points to how young&naive IT org management also tends to be is ... how many let themselves be sold on these solutions.

Oh you are going to rewrite established solution X in Y in 2 years with 5 devs, and it's going to solve all of the problems we have in X, awesome!

Ignoring that solution Y is so new that the guy proposing it has never actually delivered an enterprise solution in it. And since they just got hired, they have no idea what the user facing problems X is actually exhibiting. Often the problems with X are organizational, managerial, and prioritizing. Switching tech doesn't magically change the decision makers.

Invariably hiring a guy who has a string of 18-24 month jobs on his resume, which, uncannily, is the typical runway of a Greenfield re-write project before heads roll.
Companies are, by their very nature, designed to maximize profit (fiduciary duty laws), not benefit humanity. Governments are what we're meant to guide this in the right direction, but globalization and unfathomable wealth broke the system.

Technology has become so powerful and integrated into our society that the companies that drive it have become as powerful as governments, and our political systems cannot keep up.

I see this in how the EU suddenly is stepping up to regulate American tech companies, something it was never designed or meant to do. They are suddenly the only organization with enough regulatory power to do so properly, as the American government seems to have given up trying themselves.

I don't think this is unsolvable. I'd love to see "fiduciary duty laws" disbanded for one, and America being less of a pushover for lobbying would go a long way as well. By time, we will figure out what works and what doesn't.
Bernardo de Gálvez

Casimir Pulaski

Marquis de Lafayette

Mother Teresa

William and Hannah Callowhill Penn

Raoul Wallenberg

Winston Churchill
There's a difference between noncommercial and barely commercial; if you model something on OpenSCAD and sell a single copy for $5, is that commercial? Lawyers say yes. But no amount of productivity from Solidworks will make spending $3000/year be worthwhile here.
Fwiw I run more than 'a' site. EBS is great for 'a' site. Last I checked, it had serious cost consequences past the one site.

But yeah, if I only wanted a thing, Ebs works.
That sounds ... intense, to say the least.
> They certainly don’t allow their citizens to use it for anything else, and they don’t allow their citizens to leave the country because they would never come back.

I never thought about it like this but it’s the largest open air prison on earth.
The math notation doesn't need parens. The computer notation needs parens. This alone is simple obvious proof that they are different notations, at least in my understanding of what a notation is.
It'll be interesting to see how substack tries to hold these authors and avoids fading into the background. Their monetization options are the best in the industry right now, but I wonder how authors feel about the network effect they receive. I'm surprised Chris Hughes didn't find a way to pivot New Republic to a substack competitor somehow.
How to Take the High Road
I mean, maybe if you don't know something, you just don't have to comment at all. Not every discussion needs to be had, especially when every single commenter doesn't have the requisite background but still tries to debate specific technical merits anyway. This is how you get Uber inventing buses and then acting like it's a new thing.

People on this website really overestimate their ability to be experts in things they have zero experience in, and it's kind of terrifying.
...which merge into a single zygote cell.
Slackware is also systemd free.

http://www.slackware.com/
> Public URLs should never show different content depending on anything else than the URL and current server state.

As a real-world example: you're providing some service that is regulated differently in multiple US-states. Set up /ca/, /ny/ etc and let them be indexed and you'll have plenty of duplicate content and all sorts of trouble that comes with it. Instead you'll geofence like everyone else (including Google's SERPs) and a single URL now has content that depends on the perceived IP location because both SEO and legal will be happy with that solution, and neither will be entirely happy with the state-based urls.
Drones will dominate warfare going forward (see Ukraine). Having production capacity for drones concentrated in your primary geopolitical competitor country is a bad idea. Hence these policies (which make a lot of sense to me and equally apply to other fields like semiconductors).
I mixed up companies. I bought bigme hibreak. And I had Hisense A5 cc some time ago.

I used both as a cycling computers, without sim and almost without internet.

It is fine, not great yet, but not bad. Just a bit on a slow side. But overall it is a working solution for my goals.

Screen seems to be worse for maps then I remember screen from hisense a5cc phone. Maybe it is just my memory, though.

Same with battery: it.seems.to be a bit worse then in A5 CC.

Overall, I think color eInk technology is not there yet, at least
Optimizing Vector Math for Debug Compilation
The question is why has that innovation of breakthrough ideas dried up. Past glory is small consolation, or none at all. How long will we keep sharing these 1000-year old memes in 'modern' India? Maybe innovation still happens (likely) - but no one recognizes it, and it gets lost in the endless clamor and noise of meaningless rituals that define religion in India today - or there may be no ecosystem to surface it, ie bring to market.

What religion/culture was then in the time of Aryabhata (which no one really knows I suppose) - is very likely totally different than what it is today , i.e. a way to impose majority opinions with zero debate. Because Aryabhata and others created works which made it through the centuries of strife, they survived, they had an ecosystem that supported the genius - which seems to be lacking now in Modern India - which might explain why it has dried up - i.e. Indians aspirations are far less lofty, the bar is set quite low - because there is no lack of money, there is no lack of tools. Whether now, or 1000 years ago, they were recognized as authoritative, transformative works - do we have the current generation creating anything (to which the average Indian response is the last 70 years of liberal rule has to be ruled out, and undone first).
Apple's New Hearing Aid and Health Upgrades Saved iPhone 16 Launch
Curious, does rsyslog support metrics or traces? My impression has always been it's log lines.
A Swarm of Blocks Flocks to Human Presence in DRIFT's Interactive Installation
Build vs. Buy: The End of SaaS?
Have you considered reaching out to tell them they're wrong and to not waste their time? I'm sure as cave caretakers and scientists they're busy doing other things that you could also correct them on.
The weird and wonderful world of animal sleep
Sounds like a good boss. Acknowledging the push back, adjusting, and viewing it as a good thing is not always common.
Beyond screen time: Rethinking kids' tech use with the "Goldilocks hypothesis"
yes, afaik global perception moments are normally are generated every 100ms
That's okay. I didn't decide to ponder the religious teachings. After the shift I immediately started to understand the teachings that I once thought was primitive and irrelevant. They all point to the same thing. It's hard to understand what they are pointing to without knowing or experiencing it. Read a bit about perennial philosophy. But it's a bit like telling to blind person what colors are. It will not make sense till you see.
Basically no one has cared what degrees or certifications I have in decades.

(The one caveat is the fact that I went to the same school as the ultimate hiring manager probably didn't hurt. But the decision had probably already been made at a higher level.)
The trouble with this idea is that, if there is no unity to the thoughts whatsoever -- as some seem to say -- then any kind of rational thought is impossible.

If there is no unity to the thoughts, then there is no single principle that unites the thoughts. If there is no single principle that unites them, then there is no single, unchanging person having them. If there is no unchanging person having the thoughts, then there is no connection between the thoughts. If there is no connection between the thoughts, then there is "right" or "wrong" relationship between the thoughts.

This makes all logical thought impossible, and means there cannot be correct or incorrect thinking.

But if this is the case, then any argument in favour of the position just outlined -- or any other, contrary position -- is neither right nor wrong. So everything becomes absurd.

(I don't think this is what the OP link is saying, btw -- he may think that, but his argument seems to discuss experience rather than ontology.)
Reminded me of the Sticky Camera from Splinter Cell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ-euCRgNO8
Yes, it's that last reason. Backwards bug compatibility. There are zillions of recorded macros and VBA scripts and other workflows by non-technical users that inadvertently depend on these behaviors in subtle ways. It's like all Javascript's weird warts, you can't change these behaviors without breaking old stuff somehow. It's true that Microsoft could say that more directly, but of course they'd rather just avoid that argument.
Not surprised there would be a “heated” discussion as a result of this one link, that measured only those who engaged it, and how? I opened the link, hit Submit just to see what would happen… now the percentage of HN users who are competent programmers is even fewer than before, by that metric.
Maybe they are locked into the tool because of legacy reasons, and they don’t have a developer around in their team responsible for upgrading their tool / software workflow. This must be a non-trivial problem for a lot of workers all around the world
Tender and creative is the night: on the benefits of insomnia
Indeed, there is some more detail around attention (foreground) vs. awareness (background), but the claim really is that in your foreground attention there can only be one object at a time. In your example the three sense modalities would occur sequentially in consciousness, and the rapidity would make you think they were simultaneous.

But I think what you’re also getting at is that “object of attention” can be a surprisal signal from different layers, which I think must be true, and I do agree is something that needs to be accounted for. I didn’t go deep enough to speak to what Dharma theory would say about this.
This just prompted me to finally look into boot time on my Asahi Linux setup. Turns out Docker was eating 5 seconds (about half of the boot time!) for some reason, so I disabled it (and enabled docker.socket instead, so that it starts up automatically when I need it).
XJACK PC Card Ethernet Connector
>You can't compete with these companies because each are probably heavily subsidized.

No. It's because they have much lower skilled labor costs. See how much it costs to hire an experienced mechanical, hardware, firmware and software engineer in the US vs in Shenzhen.

You can't make a competitively priced consumer appliance or electronics product in the west anymore that's competitive to those coming from Asia and still expect to make western profit margins. Your profit margins will either be too slim to stay in business or to afford to attract any talent, or you can choose good profit margins but then your product will not be competitive on the "free market".

Why do you think there are no western companies making phones, TVs or computers any more since 20+ years? Apple is the only exception now, but let's not forget that before them creating the iTunes and AppStore markets that made them wealthy today, they were months away from bankruptcy when they were selling just computers made to compete with cheaper PCs.
Have you opened an older file? Maybe it only works with files created with the feature. I’ve no idea why that would be the case, but it’s all I can think of.
Engineers at Ground Zero [video]
>Tax based on weight

Ooooohhhhh and that just makes all the EVs more expensive than they already are.
You don't. Everything is mental fabrication, including calling some mental fabrications illusion. You train your mind to fabricate things that you prefer. Whether they are more fundamental or higher-level representations doesn't matter.
Kernel mode Anti-Cheats in the aftermath of the 2024 CrowdStrike incident
I think a lot of people are taking Paul way too seriously. I mean he listened to the AirBnB talk, wrote his version of it on his blog and tweeted that he did. That's about it. Otherwise he leads a mostly retired life in England and is not really the evil genius controlling silicon valley.
Their bean burrito prices have increased in proportion to the rest of their items.

What else is in a Taco Bell bean burrito? Onions, cheese, oil, salt. Something else?
Study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221287782...