skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And easily access and understand your home electricity use with new Electricity Usage and Rates features[14]

> 14: Eligible users include Pacific Gas and Electric Company customers who have residential electrical service, including areas served by Community Choice Aggregators. Users must be the utility account owner or authorized user of the utility account.

what an extraordinarily specific feature to put into Home.app. I guess California is a pretty big state, with a pretty big portion of their target market, but still
Well, the only thing that is going to get you is access to unemployment, which isn't life changing.
It takes time to build a company to significant revenue. I'd be curious to rule that out as the primary explanation before reading too much else into this.
Amazon has been making custom chips for a while now, this isn't a new trend for them.
Things are pretty specialised and RF before you need a 100K oscilloscope.
I have a 500MHz DSO, 16 channel logic analyser, 10 digit GPS locked frequency counter, 5 digit bench multimeter and a 2GHz AWG and I think it's not even 10K.

(I'd love 250K of test equipment all the same LOL).
(2011)

Formatted version: https://infinitepartitions.com/cgi-bin/showarticle.cgi?artic...
Apple allows you to completely stop automatic updates. They're on by default, and they're not going to force you to restart. You can always postpone.
> No BC was attempted on PS4 at all, AFAIK. PS3 is a weird basketcase of an architecture, but even PS1 or PS2 aren't BC supported.

To Be Faiiiirrrrrr, that whole generation was a basket case. Nintendo with the motion controls. Microsoft with a console that internally was more PC then "traditional" console (and HD-DVD). Sony with the Cell processor and OtherOS™.

I do have fond memories of playing around with Linux on the PS3. Two simultaneous threads! 6 more almost cores!! That's practically a supercomputer!!!
Blog: Clapping music for two flip-disc displays
The degree to which people tailgate is incredible. I live in a small town and people still act like it's going to take forever to get to where they are going.

One of 4 cars on a city street? Better try to push the car in front of you along, even if the other 2 in front of them are going the same speed.

Driving 2 miles on a 45 mph road? Better crowd the car in front of you that is already going 50 mph.

And then you get to the freeway where people think it's a great idea to try to push the car in front of you out of the way so you can weave through a little bit of traffic.
I'm not going to make any assertions as to who is right, but some of the assertions in this reddit post conflict with the data from the other articles.

> there are no photos or eyewitness accounts.

The other resources provide satellite images of excavations and eyewitness accounts from Ukrainian hunters and biologists.

Anyway. Do your own research, come to your own conclusions.
What I meant by general-purpose computing not being a good benchmark is that whether a user should have the control I described should not turn on whether the device in question is considered a "general-purpose computer". It should not be a part of the criteria.
Why don’t you just read what the guy said by following the links in the forum? Surely, you can find more explanation there that will answer some of your questions? Hahaha! :)
Nah. I wrote critical boot code for brand new silicon from home. Took my team from "behind" to "changing how people did chip bringup." Without ever seeing them in person for literal years.

Can be done. And yeah, that comment rubs me the wrong way.
That might also be because you're not in the office every day, people use those days to talk more (scarcity bias). I'm in-office 5 days per week and because we don't have this scarcity of time, there are lots of periods of quiet. When I wasn't in person all the time at this and other jobs it was exactly as you described.

The biggest advantage of being primarily in person is actually that we have fewer meetings. I don't have to schedule 30 minutes on Zoom with someone and if I pop over for a question (when I see the person isn't in deep focus and can contextually grab them which is fantastic as well). If it takes 5 minutes to come to a decision, great - if we need to go over to the whiteboard and take 2 hours to flesh something out; also works.
Dang. I should’ve bought the dip.
If that were true, I would expect a lot of smaller CEOs hiring away talent that likes to work remotely.

But I think the truth is much simpler- the C suite is primarily made of extroverted people-persons who work better in person and think others will too.
i suspect his sudden love of big brother is that he plans to own the hardware its cloud runs on.
Intel secures $3B military semiconductor grant despite CHIPS Act funding dispute
Updating to 13.4-RELEASE also requires a reboot.
It's a logical next step to what major cities are already doing for years now. I agree it will happen, not that it should be welcome.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Awareness_System
Missleadimg title
because its a regression. WFH is better for a lot of folks. It saves time and money. Being forced back to office is like taking a pay cut as well as wastes 2 hours each day.
The two uses of mecanum wheels are: 1. rolling on clean flat surfaces and 2. nerd-sniping.
>Under the terms of the settlement, Mr. Ellison would designate the charity

Say no more.
> I am amazed that it's 2024 and we still have problems with basic input validation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41392128 :rolling-eyes:
> what about the compact nuclear reactors startup?

Nuclear energy is the textbook definition of start-ups "that need very high capitalization" with "a focus on developing hard, risky technology."
There are some people that like the stability of staying in a single branch for a longer period of time. Same as for example people staying on RHEL 8 vs RHEL 9 or Ubuntu 22.04 vs 24.04
The reason why music is getting worse
It works to an extent. True bonding comes from being shoulder to shoulder in extreme situations under shared duress.
Sounds pretty god-awful to me. But it's certainly worth considering that this capability will exist in the next 20-30 years, for better or worse.

Technology this powerful is the bedrock of a successful hypothetical totalitarian state, a big prerequisite. What do we do once it's within reach?
They got offices with doors that shut and had access to secretaries for office tasks. Also, homes were much more affordable in desirable locations.
TIL about fountain codes and raptor. Thanks!

I wonder if it opens up new opportunities erasure coding replacements, e.g. RAID for disks, PARQ2 for data recovery, or as Reed-Solomon replacements for comms?
The phrase "Pragmatic Programmer" is a common one to denote somebody focused on "pragmatic issues" in Software Development and can be used in that capacity wherever it is applicable.

This book deals with such practical issues in ML software engineering and hence very much worthy of this name.
love this -- would be cool if could mod line thickness, ball size / density to vary pitch?

also hard not to picture building a mini transformer in here where can visual backprop and stuff-

some templates to load or get started - play X etc or let the computer just play semi-random

anyway love it well done clean simple
If there's one thing the C-suite folks in these companies do is stay in the office. They're always "somewhere".
> Is it possible that these RTO policies are actually meant to select for younger people and force others to resign?

Yes, these policies are quiet layoffs.
Late to the party, but I have a script called zbeep that takes command and args as arguments. Makes a sound before starting execution and has success and fail sounds. It’s great for those 5-10 min processes. For long stuff I have a similar zslack command.
> you said they can what?

Something tells me you and I live in US cities with different attitudes towards this sort of thing. ;-)

In Europe, some downtowns are already doing this, even without the robo-taxis to make up for it.
Visual studio plays a >donk< on test or build failure and a ding on success. I have a habit of switching away to another project or hacker news while tests run, so this is extremely useful for me.
There has been a shift since the 9-5 meant you leave your laptop at work, and were virtually unreachable.

Next, you were reachable so managers especially also bothered you at 7PM (I even sometimes had meetings at a FAANG). In exchange, employees got the freedom often to work in their desired 40 hours as long as things got done.

Now, companies want it both ways where you come in 9-5 AND they want non office hours productivity as well. Somehow we've forgotten the paystubs and employee offer letters say "40 hours of work"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41563211

It is a overview of practical issues book and hence an easy read.
There's a reason why 3rd grade "teachers' edition" textbooks for math exist. It's because those teachers need an answer key for 100+200.

As for "good at math", it's hard to see how a teacher with a degree can fail at 3rd grade arithmetic.
This exact search functionality?

If we accept Apple's claim that Apple AI is coming in beta in fall 2024 (or per the Canada page December 2024), and I have the release of 18 which by that restriction is not Apple AI enabled, I can already do complex semantic search which means that functionality can't be "Apple AI", right? And person on date has been in iOS for at least two prior generations as well. iOS has been allowing you to search by people in images, places, events, and text appearing in the image, along with broad categorizations like "sunset", "beach", etc, for at least two generations.

However when you're typing in a search, for each term it tries to contextualize it via selections. For instance if you already had "{Person} on " and then typed Christmas, it will let you pick if you mean Christmas the event, Christmas an "object", or Christmas the literal text (an icon of a couple of lines of text in a photo frame). I suspect the poster selected, probably unintentionally, Christmas the text and it gave them images where that text appears somewhere in the image. Just out of curiosity I did that and it gave me a set of images that I thought must be mistaken, but on each image somewhere the text Christmas could be found. In one it was a crazily distorted cursive writing on a table cloth hanging over the edge of a shelf, which is just crazy.
verisimilitude, not coherency. The real world doesn't appear coherent, why would a fantasy one. The consistent application of style and rules- that gives verisimilitude, and that's what counts.
Ignoring for a minute that Apple has back channel access to the EU regulators, they just need to play the same game as for their AppStore:

Release their implementation following the guidelines, and see if it passes review, fix and resubmit as needed until it's accepted.
> Has anyone integrated sound effects in any way?

Terminal bell rings every time I press escape more than once in vim :-)
I'd expect nothing less from a crowd that's informed enough to reference Dunning-Kruger and Gell-Man effects but not self-aware enough to realize they themselves will still fall for them.
Not to mention, employees have bought home and shifted to other cities and neighborhoods
I'd literally prefer to watch MrBeast sit in ketchup for 50 hours than watch an NFL game.
that’s what i said. libertarian. thiel is in the same biz. the cattle have clearly and consistently expressed a preference for security over liberty, so might as well make a buck off it! not endorsing btw, just saying.
I would fully support going back to offices with doors. Unfortunately the tech companies and newer generations brought us open plan offices (because they're more social!) and made secretary an offensive word. Now I live in a world where you don't know how to properly address the lady that books your travel.
Forget UBI, we're going to need Universal Basic Compute.
I'm sure this view will last for as long as it doesn't affect Larry Ellison.
Well that’s because the alternative is starvation
Not to mention, Amazon has vested real estate that is massively depreciating along with the entire corporate real estate market
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41563220

Read the introduction to see for yourself.
If the CLI runs on an engineer's laptop (like AWS CLI for ex) then it doesn't matter
Only if you notice that you've deleted something.
The internet is worse than it used to be. How did we get here?
The comment above is elaborating on x86 micro-architecture, the differences between how the CPU handles x86 instructions specifically.

The overall system architecture is different between PC, which has discrete memory systems for the CPU and GPU, and a very long pathway between GPU memory and system/CPU memory, versus today's consoles which have unified memory for CPU+GPU, and optimized pathways for loading from persistent storage too.

Consolesuse their own graphics APIs, but you would have any vendor you contract with for graphics support your native graphics API and everything would be "fine". PS5 games use GNM/GNMX Playstation proprietary graphics APIs. Usually PC ports of console native games re-implement the rendering engine using the PC graphics APIs like DirectX or Vulkan. The re-implementation is probably less efficient and less tuned.
I’d like to invite you to consider what the differences between dogs and human IRS employees might be. When you equate them, you are not being very charitable regarding their intelligence or moral agency.
I suggest you dispel of this notion that the players in this game have any sense of rationality or logic about this topic. There are massive (many trillion) commercial real estate interests at play here that totally trump all productivity, health, and even the holiest of holy climate change benefits. I don’t think people quite understand the real order of priorities and issues related to remote working. The big corporations are under both pulling and pushing pressures from the government and interests that control it to “put butts in seats” in big commercial real estate. They don’t care about anything else and they are throwing around money and fear to whip everyone into shape.

Yes, there will be some pressure pushing back and dread by corporations stuck between the ol’ rock of competition and the government-favor hard place, but it is unlikely to win out at the corporate level unless some real independent competition rises that is putting on massive pressure by not having commercial real estate capital expenditures.

A small office in a city can easily cost $1M per year, sure there are tax benefits, but they’re not benefits if you are competing with someone that does not have those expenses at all or far fewer, even after paying for team meetups that also fund a family vacation.
There is no winning with stock investing.

1. if you buy it, and it goes down, dammit I shouldn't have bought it. I'm so stupid.

2. if you buy it, and it goes up, dammit I should have bought more. I'm so stupid.

It's nothing but regrets!
They are but not at these high rates of pay.
Surel backspacing beeps at the empty prompt can be turned off. I feel like I do it all the time.
Do you think the US government also encouraged Amazon to throw Intel Foundry a bone and give them some business?
It is probably "Inspire is an implantable device that treats obstructive sleep apnea by stimulating the tongue nerve to keep airways open during sleep. It's an option for people who have moderate or severe sleep apnea and can't use or don't benefit from a CPAP machine.

Here's how Inspire works:
Components: The device consists of a generator, sensing lead, and stimulation lead, all implanted under the skin. It also includes a handheld remote that patients use to turn the device on and off, adjust stimulation strength, and pause it during the night.
How it works: When the sensing lead detects breathing, the generator sends a signal to the stimulation lead, which then stimulates the hypoglossal nerve. This causes the tongue to move slightly forward, which helps keep the airways open.
FDA approval: The FDA approved Inspire in 2014.

Some potential side effects of Inspire include: Damage to blood vessels near the implant, Excessive bleeding, and Nerve trauma or damage"

There's a reason it hasn't taken off in 10 years.
Protect the first and second amendments.
Amazon is so heavily reliant on the performance of their server farms that even a 1% improvement is worth a vast amount of money.
Cities like London and a lot of larger Chinese cities already have the majority of the city under continuous surveillance. It’s only a matter of feeding that data into an LLM. It’s already within reach.
I think it's actually predicated more on hiring the type of people that will be easily parachuted into FAANG companies through acquihires. I had long conceived of YC as basically a glorified recruitment channel for FAANG but when YC said they'll accept founders without an idea it cemented this view for me.

That they get lucky with a handful of companies as well is a nice to have but liquidity events provided by acqui-hires can't be ignored as their bread n butter surely.
This is neat, but I'm a little confused on those benchmark numbers and what they mean exactly. For example, with 10% or 50% packet loss you aren't going to get a TCP stream to do anything reasonable. They will seem to just "pause" and make very, very slow progress. When we talk about loss scenarios, we are typically talking about single digit loss and more often well under 1%. Scenarios of 10 to 50% loss are catastrophic where TCPs effectively cease to function, so if this protocol works well in that that environment, it is an impressive feat.

EDIT: It probably also needs to be clarified which TCP algorithm they are using. TCP standards just dictate framing/windowing, etc. but algorithms are free to use their own strategies for retransmissions and bursting, and the algorithm used makes a big difference in differing loss scenarios.

EDIT 2: I just noticed the number in parens is transfer success rate. Seeing 0% for 10 and 50% loss for TCP sounds about right. I'm not sure I still understand their UDP #'s as UDP isn't a stream protocol, so raw transferred data would be 100% minus loss %, unless they are using some protocol on top of it.
Yeah, but such concerns are from a long ago and it didn't happen yet. So the best approach is (and has been) to just support the platform until it is not possible anymore and don't be emotional about it. We just know that one (still quite distant) day it will happen.

Then the usage of the platform will end for many users & developers. One could still live a quite long time on the older systems to ease the transition out.
> At this point Nintendo is skewed towards ditching (SNES/N64/Gamecube/Switch vs. Wii/WiiU).

Ultimately, a company is its people. And the management class at Nintendo is famously new. Everybody is expecting them to focus on robust backwards compatibility as part of their new, exciting development.
It’s actually less discussion than here.
i have literally witnessed students in a senior level discrete math class struggle with simple algebraic operations. they were on the math education track.
Having people back in the office doesn't change that. Sounds like a bit of a sunk cost fallacy.
Likely an attempt to break out of the mold. It's possible to adjust YC style incubators to work on harder problems that require more capitalization - but the milestones look different. You wouldn't encourage a nuclear reactor startup to go straight for revenue and commercial deployment with a tiny reactor on 500k.

But building a team, research roadmap, and fundable "milestones"? Sure - it's possible the right team could use 500k to get to an initial funding round from a power company, GE, or someone similar.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240917015436/https://tamulaiti...

In case it gets hugged to death.
Sounds like they didn't pass a high enough filter. It's easy to have a high impression of yourself when you didn't actually compete. I remember having conversations with roommates and people in my classes about how hard so and so works, how you would always find them in their office, how we would get emails from this or that professor in the middle of the night, etc. My guess is that most people don't see how competitive academics can be. Without that visibility, people form inflated (egotistical) attitudes.
You either didn't read what I wrote, or are homing in on the things that are ambiguous vs the things that aren't. (or I'm just a bad writer). One thing is not ambiguous:

The intent, as stated by one of the primary authors of the HTTP specification has "no semantic meaning" and "is never useful to do so".

You can do something different and assign meaning to the body, but it's no longer HTTP. So you are correct, it's not disallowed, just pointless. I'd also recommend you read the latest version of the HTTP spec. It's a bit more direct about this.

You can disagree with the authors of the HTTP spec of course, but I'm not interested in having that argument with you.
> low hanging fruit has been grabbed

I don't believe this. But let's assume it's true. We still have the Barksdale binary: business comes down to bundling and unbundling [1].

After the fall of the USSR the world went unipolar. The Internet was spreading and bundling was business. Now we're Balkanising. Factories and servers on one side of the planet no longer look as reliable from the other. Unbundling, now, is business.

Even if you believe the fruit has been picked, it hasn't been picked everywhere. We have a generation's work replicating Chinese dependencies in America (and vice versa), with the same applying to India and Europe.

[1] https://hbr.org/2014/06/how-to-succeed-in-business-by-bundli...
> We have mathematically proven that transformers can solve any problem, provided they are allowed to generate as many intermediate reasoning tokens as needed.

That seems like a bit of a leap here to make this seem more impressive than it is (IMO). You can say the same thing about humans, provided they are allowed to think across as many years/generations as needed.

Wake me up when a LLM figures out stable fusion or room temperature superconductors.
They wouldn't need the tax breaks if they didn't have the big office. Chicken and egg.
> Amazon is past the point where excellent software engineering is what makes them money.

It's worth many millions and millions of dollars to Amazon to improve server software efficiency by even 1%. I bet the software engineers that can make such optimizations are making $millions in compensation.
Single prompt achieves competitive results with o1-preview
"We evaluated REAP using a dataset designed to highlight the limitations of large language models (LLMs), comparing zero-shot prompting with REAP-enhanced prompts across six state-of-the-art models: OpenAI’s o1-preview, o1-mini, GPT-4o, GPT-4o-mini, Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro, and Claude 3.5 Sonnet. The results show significant performance improvements, with o1-mini increasing by 40.97%, GPT-4o by 66.26%, and GPT-4o-mini by 112.93%. While OpenAI's o1-preview already demonstrated strong baseline performance, it still showed modest gains. In addition to the performance improvements, REAP provides a cost-effective solution. For instance, GPT-4o-mini, which is about 100 times cheaper than o1-preview, delivered competitive results."
They received a substantial settlement under threat of litigation. Unemployment would’ve been received regardless.

Never trust HN for legal advice. Not an attorney, not your attorney. I highly recommend engaging an attorney, both prior to and during acceptance of an offer, and when separated from an org. If you don’t, you’ve already lost, and I write these comments so others don’t lose.
Sounds like a you problem.

1. I buy, it goes down. “Meh. Can’t win ‘em all. Might as well hold see if it comes back.”

2. I buy, it goes up. “Nice.”
I'm seeing this in personal experience. Interns and juniors are just totally lost between Zoom meetings. They don't have the confidence to jump into busy work chats.