skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically, (and this is getting really esoteric at this point), if you use big endian byte ordering in your data structures when saving to disk, then you can place items in order of descending "sorting order" importance at the beginning of your file. Anyone wishing to sort such files wouldn't need to know anything about the actual structure of the file, or what is stored where. They could simply choose an arbitrary number of bits to read (say, 512 bits), do a big endian sort based on that, and it will always come out right (even though they're technically reading more than they have to).

struct myfile {
uint32_t year;
uint8_t month; // Assuming packed structs here
uint8_t day;
uint32_t seconds;
uint16_t my_custom_ordering;
uint8_t some_flags;
uint64_t a_checksum_or_something;
char name[100];
...
}

Reading the first 64 bytes from this file will give year, then month, then day, then seconds, then my_custom_ordering, then some_flags, then a_checksum_or_something, then the first few bytes of name (assuming we used big endian byte ordering). The extra bytes won't hurt anything because they're lower order when we compare.

To do this with little endian ordered data, you would have to:

1) Reverse the ordering of the "sortable" fields to: my_custom_ordering, seconds, day, month, year

2) Know in advance that you have to read exactly 12 bytes (no more, no less) from any file using this structure. If you read any more, you'll get random ordering based on the reverse of what's in the "name", "a_checksum_or_something", and "some_flags" fields (because they comprise the "higher order" bytes when reading little endian).

3) If you were to add another field "my_extra_custom_ordering", you'd have to adjust the number of bytes you read. With big endian ordering, you can still read 64 bytes and not care. You'd only care once your "sortable fields" exceeds 64 bytes - at which point you'd read, say, 100 bytes to be completely arbitrary... It doesn't matter because with BE everything just sorts itself out.

The comparator function is also much simpler with BE: Just do a byte-by-byte compare until you find a difference. With LE, you have to start at a specific offset (in the above case, 11) and decrement towards 0.
AFAICT this library generates "flat" JSON objects. Wouldn't be too hard to implement it such that references to Javascript objects are instead returned, where some sort of callback could be invoked whenever the actual object is modified. I do rather like this "query engine" approach, too. It's a much cleaner interface IMO and doesn't seem to incur too much overhead either....
The difference is how long time has passed. The current party leader joined the youth movement in 1994, when the party was still full of Neo-Nazi ideology.
> There is also no monetizing, it doesn’t have ads nor subscription...

This is false. HN is hosted by YC, and as such promotes YC ventures. On the front page right now is the following link (with disallowed comments and upvotes):

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/continue/jobs/smcxRnM-...
That's all bitcoin is...

If someone had a quantum-supreme solution they would go after the sitoshi wallets. Some addresses have like $1B+ and combined represent ~$200B.
Giving Opportunities to People Who Need Them
Interesting read. This feels like quite a deal breaker though if you're going to run Linux:

> The laptop is also prone to occasionally cooking itself in a bag and discharging the battery while "suspended".

I've heard of that being common on Linux laptops in general (fortunately mine doesn't do that). Why is it so difficult to do right?
I responded above, but it could be used maybe for network libraries for eg. libvirt. I did my thesis on this topic a couple years ago.

I am very intrigued to find out how this would fit in, if at all.
When you did nothing you must know how much of nothing you did
Its like saying geometry is just math. Proofs are just math.

They didn't train a model for millions from experts to just basically use CoT now. Thats a harsh simplification, probably.
It achieves punishing the overgrown little boys who want cooler toys at the expense of our health and the planet?
Cycling through a few wallets is unnecessary, that is mostly applicable to bitcoin users trying to make their transactions harder to follow.

In monero there is privacy on each transaction. Of course it isn't complicated to match public transactions if you transfer 100k EUR from binance to monero and then magically 99k EUR are credited into your personal bank account within 1~2 days. Finland is a small country, deposits from bank accounts related to crypto exchanges are easy to find.

Not even monero could save a person with such awful practices.
Quiet-STaR: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Think Before Speaking

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.09629

> In the Self-Taught Reasoner (STaR, Zelikman et al. 2022),
useful thinking is learned by inferring rationales from few-shot examples
in question-answering and learning from those that lead to a correct
answer. This is a highly constrained setting – ideally, a language model
could instead learn to infer unstated rationales in arbitrary text. We
present Quiet-STaR, a generalization of STaR in which LMs learn to
generate rationales at each token to explain future text, improving their
predictions.

>[...]

>We generate thoughts, in parallel, following all tokens in the text (think). The model produces a mixture of its next-token predictions with and without a thought (talk). We apply REINFORCE, as in STaR, to increase the likelihood of thoughts that help the model predict future text while discarding thoughts that make the future text less likely (learn).
I specifically use social media to not engage the same people. With friends we often still use a mumble server or the next random chat app for the extended circle.

But I do like to read other peoples perspective. Naturally I prefer platforms like HN or reddit that are more orientated around topics instead of people. I don't care for e-celebs at all and as such platforms like bluesky or Twitter are often too boring.

Instagram is too stupid for me and I would suggest this is a form of pathological absence of any intelligence. There is some very good art though and some good ideas and this is generalizing, but the signal/noise ratio makes you crazy. Everything is filled with some form of very radiant moron aura. Sometimes I believe it is deliberate.

I think Threads was a conspiracy by Facebook to make Insta less stupid and expand the demographic. But it isn't open enough and anonymous usage isn't possible.

In the current form and with the dynamics around Twitter, I think Bluesky draws in quite a few insufferable people. Probably those that hate Musk the most and I am wary of them as I was with those that wanted to make him king of the universe in times past.
Both times (and a few after that), it was accessing excel settings before opening any files or starting a new one. I've tried after opening files, same thing. The setting is just not there like it was the first time.
Like sugar and carbs in diet, things slowly creep back up.

I am old now, but i have read so many articles claiming a near magical solution (ie low carb => lost 20kg) and them one never hears from the author again. I would like to imagine she/he was ashamed that things mean reverted and is keeping a low profile.
neeeeed
It's cool to see a hearing-aid related project on HN! I'm fortunate that my Phonak hearing aids can connect to any standard bluetooth audio source, including my windows laptop. However, I know other geeks with hearing aids that might find this useful!
;^D
Ok gotcha. I'll keep that in mind... Thx!
Startups usually have no choice, they cannot afford A players. There are businesses which do hire A-players such as OpenAI, Jane Street, Netflix, etc. but A players require A compensation.
If you had asked me five years ago if I'd be regularly ordering from walmart.com instead of amazon.com, I'd have thought it unlikely. But here I am -- I don't have to worry about counterfeits as long as it's sold & shipped by Walmart, and I can get same-day delivery (usually within an hour or two) for the cost of a tip. Their inventory is different (many more consumer staples, at better prices; many fewer random long-tail products), but it's replaced maybe 1/4 of my Amazon purchases. I also order from target.com once in a while; I never ever used to.

Amazon has not lost, but it is definitely losing its unique edge.
More generally, sustained existence is detrimental to everything. In physics, this is called entropy.

This applies to products, companies and yes, even to people.

In order for you to exist, something has to die or be degraded/deteriorated in some way. The only question is the magnitude of the impact.
Thanks for linking that video, fun watch.
Or coming back from year or two on adventure and wondering where is everyone and why there is tribes of whatever creatures around. Just to find that your peasants are really really angry for abandoning them and not doing your duty to protect them and moved to neighbour who is actually around to do their job.
Show HN: I created a digital version of my bookshelf
It’s not that people are wanting them to fail, just that they are being so anti everything whilst their competitors amass.

I’ve got friends who’ve moved from AWS-centric roles to Azure-centric, prime is a dead product walking, twitch is unprofitable, Alexa is dead, and their original business is squeezing users, drivers, and employees. A strong viable Amazon.com alternative and they are done.
The correct spelling is "warranties" (since singular y becomes i when it gets plural).

[sic] means "I copied the word as written in its original, and it was already written that way" [0].

[0]: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sic
any idea what does tidy uses internally? or is it iterating over entire array for every operation?
I think I'm missing something here - what is "OD&D" in this context? Is this just some back formation for the original D&D once AD&D existed?

Looking at the "Basic" D&D rules (red books), they don't cover characters up to the levels where they would be landowners etc. They only cover up to 3rd level.

The "Expert" D&D rulebook (blue books) covers characters up to 14th level, and includes sections on strongholds and land ownership. Once characters are 9th level, they can gain land but the narrative is definitely rooted in feudal concepts (fighters get land from a higher lord, and their realm is a barony etc)
Ok but the main issue is the stopping things from happening instead of finding solutions.
My bet: Statistically, and adjusted for Amazon's relentless enshittification of the products they sell, he has not done that. But since Amazon's optimal strategy - short-term - is to just keep dialing up their shit, and dialing down their tolerance for people returning their shit...
Yes.

https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/09/03/giant-wyoming-carbon...

> CarbonCapture cited “intense competition from data centers” in the region for electricity as partially the reason why it is moving from Wyoming.

Wyoming is a very popular state for cryptocurrency mining due to substantial state support, cheap energy, cool climate, etc. Miners use a lot of clean energy that would have been used for more useful purposes, as shown by the article I linked.
So while this is going on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl6VhCAeEfQ (ted talk)

a lot of people created co2 to take part in a btc lottery and the winner was now randomly found.

I hate crypto :|
He’s been doing it a long time, has an excellent understanding of the tech industry, and is a master at producing content that is easy for everyone to digest. I’ve been watching him for years and have always thought he had a knack for his craft. Just because he has a calm demeanor shouldn’t take away from what he does, but in my opinion should add to it even more.
Well, and a lot of the time you have to creep out to peek around various obstructions so, in practice, there really isn't a hard stop line because you need to go a bit further to see around that tree that hasn't been trimmed.
xkcd did reference it in https://xkcd.com/394/
check out Sublime - www.sublime.app - simple, beautiful, and communal, so you can discover the cool stuff other ppl are saving too.
The Merlin JavaScript Framework
Raj + Superfine + Tint + SPA Router =
https://github.com/marcodpt/merlin

A Hyperapp alternative, based on:

Raj: View layer agnostic state management.
https://github.com/andrejewski/raj

superfine: Minimalistic vDom.
https://github.com/jorgebucaran/superfine

tint: Logicless template engine that uses valid HTML.
https://github.com/marcodpt/tint
Exactly. There are definitely people who lead higher risk lives by having exposure to carcinogens, but even that has some randomness to it. I had a family friend that smoked like a chimney his entire life, and died in his late '80s with tar-filled but cancer-free lungs. Another was an x-ray tech in the earlier days before they took nearly as many precautions as they do now to protect the technicians. No cancer.

Contrast this with some aunts and uncles who lived relatively clean lives, and still ended up dying of different cancers. Sure, I don't doubt there is a cause if we dig deep into it, but there's still some randomness.
Waymos are notorious for signaling for half a second and then cutting you off to merge. Ive almost hit a couple that cut me off only to then immediately brake in front of me.
A new constellation of satellites can detect smaller wildfires earlier
Dozens of different ways, I should think, but foremost among them is by example. If you mother only had the one child, or maybe two... you don't grow up to have seven yourself. But then they send young children to school where many or most of the teachers are childless women. Their television programming will portray most women as childless, and those without children as being the happiest, and so on. I don't know anything about Greek comedy entertainment, but if it's anything like that of the rest of the western world, there will be all those groaner jokes about how horrible having a family is.

There are other childless cultures where these aren't the major factors in childlessness, but Greece doesn't strike me as one of those.
Do you have it turned off? The eyesight in even my sister's 2016 captures speed limit signs. This is not a new technology.
I don't like long daily meetings, but there is essentially no value in the YTNB meeting either ("yesterday, today, no blockers") meeting either.
> As though startups are trying to hire mediocre people instead of having no choice.

Well one choice you might make is to hire some number of 'mediocre people' instead of one 'A-player'; the ratio of more junior to more senior; etc.
I worked at a small startup that actually handled that distinction well for a while.

We did 2 week sprints, but that really was more to keep a remote team regularly in touch and updated. Sprint work was very much up to each dev, and at the end of the sprint anything that changed or slipped was just chalked up to lessons for future work.

That did change eventually, both as the team grew a bit more and funding started to run low. Eventually we had the worst of both worlds mentioned in the article, sprints with more rigid goals leading to a quarterly goal driven more by marketing goals than anything else. Throw in the fact that the still rather small company ended up with one person making product, marketing, and even technical decisions and we devolved into glorified code monkeys pretty quickly.
Maybe the subheading “no does not mean no” can be also taken literally.
I think it actually looks a bit more like a mallard duck. Eye up top right, beak comes down towards bottom left of frame. Other upside-down rabbit ear is the neck. Took me a while!
But touch that $1B+ wallet and suddenly nothing is worth anything... so if I had the capability to silently steal money from the bitcoin blockchain, I would go slow, and in discrete places.
31mph is insanely fast on the water. As a sailor, powerboaters going that fast, and invariably not understanding right of way rules or keeping a proper watch would be a nightmare.
> What we consider "natural" now is not what was originally considered "natural" during the early centuries of the Hindu-Arabic numerals' journey.

Which no doubt affected the byte order that the early Hindus and Arabs used for their processors. For processors made in the 20th and 21st centuries, however, the numeral order used by people in those centuries is a more relevant data point.

By raw human nature, humans can do it either way. For the humans we have now, with their background, one way is definitely more "natural" than the other. That is, it's more natural to them, because they come with a cultural background.
I have seen the ruleset for Pathfinder where you can purchase land and titles, etc. and it is pitifully boring. I would be surprised if someone seriously into crunching the numbers behind real estate would be interested in a game based centrally on die rolling. I have also seen rulesets that tried to be more medieval and they were near unplayable. Someone who was serious about playing that sort of game is generally not the same kind of person who would play the more popular forms of TRPGs. I think there's not much about medieval life that is exciting enough to be able to make a sustainable ruleset for TRPGs.

There's very little in modern society that is pro-medieval. Even the Ren fairs that so many people are into have almost nothing to do with recreating actual medieval life.

Being pro-something does not always mean being anti-something else. Sometimes it means that a certain group just isn't interested.

And in the context of modern TRPGs, medieval is a marketing term, not an actual descriptive term.
And now you're normalizing not really mostly stopping and taking a good look before proceeding--which is probably OK when merging but probably not at a lot of cross-traffic stops.
Yes, yes, unified billing and security generally make up for how much Amazon's technical offerings suck donkey balls and those network effects are why we let them get away with pushing such god awful product. We all know how this works. We don't have to like it.
There is no such a thing as a painfree meal when a big cooperation is devouring you..
Pretty much, except World War 1.
There are those who automate, and there are those who Appomate
I am on a watch-list too because of a recent problem with a broken package with only one item out of two inside. It was clearly a too light packaging for a heavy item with sharp corners.
The only other problem I had was a warranty claim 5 years ago.

My account is not closed (but they "reserve the right to close it" anytime). I am glad I have no kindle or DRM stuff...

I tried to get an explanation, but just got a robot email.

I will never buy there anymore. Even if some stuff are hard to find elsewhere
>they told me I’m on a watch list for returns and could have my account terminated

Do they actually use such direct language? I received a passive-aggressive message from Amazon implying I was returning things too frequently (which was unfair IMHO; I had just returned three items that I had purchased as part of a bundle, but which might have made my return stats for the year look bad). But they haven't escalated it yet for me with more direct language.
>WebPositive seemed to hang when I went to SoundCloud.

WebPositive, their own webbrowser, isn't great, but there are many acceptable browsers (mostly webkit2 based) available in the package system.

Recently, the developers got Firefox working, but that one isn't available as a package yet. Soon.
OTOH, I've been in that situation too, and it was successful. The International Space Station has not yet fallen out of the sky. There are situations where waterfall is appropriate.
I don't know if this is properly part of scrum, but it is how I've seen it implemented on every team I've been on where scrum was implemented.

Sprints end with some kind of demo, retrospective, and sprint planning designed almost entirely to keep PMs and managers in the loop and happy. Reports are generated, spreadsheets with a few quarters worth of tasks are updated, and PMs or managers get to run that further up the chain, presumably to make it clear that great progress is being made under their supervision and well run scrum methodology.
Instead of sounds to indicate the end of a long-running task, use a notification:

https://github.com/t413/zsh-background-notify
Titan submersible hearing begins as questions linger over what went wrong
I believe you are correct; OD&D is the holmes/moldvay/etc. books that existed before AD&D, but I'm not certain.
The question is, was it rock solid with few features? I don't know if it was this article I saw earlier but seeing how Salesforce has a lot of customizability and a Visual builder and maybe much of it was vaporware initially but maybe they simply scratched the right annoyances the customers had by providing features for that quickly enough.

Seen some ERP's for mid-sized customers and the good ones makes it easy to build views and otherwise customize the software up to a point for non-engineers. The code is shit but they've also produced a lot of things needed internally that we wouldn't have gotten done quickly enough by doing it manually.

https://retool.com/blog/salesforce-for-engineers
Ask HN: Are you making money from LLMs? How?
I'm curious about the practical applications of large language models (LLMs) that are actually generating revenue. If you've successfully monetized an LLM-based product or service:

What does your product/service do?
How did you develop and launch it?
Which LLM(s) are you using (e.g. GPT-4, Claude, open source models)?
What's your revenue model?
How much are you making (if you want to share, ballpark figures are fine)?
What challenges have you faced?
Any advice for others looking to enter this space?

I'm particularly interested in hearing about niche or unexpected applications, not just the obvious chatbots and writing assistants. Also curious about solo founders or small teams, not just well-funded startups.

Thanks for sharing your experiences!
ACE 4, late diagnosed with ADHD at 30 years old (M33).

Had a whole lot of anger about my parents and the world crammed up in me until the diagnosis.

Almost every move until then has been trying to peel back the invisible onion layers of protection I built up as a child and teenager (masking, cynicism, not asking for help or showing emotions).

Being blind to the coping mechanisms which you built up subconsciously but which don't serve you is what annoys me the most about this overall condition.

But it also gives me a sense of agency.

Currently reading "Hope for Cynics: The Surprising Science of Human Goodness", which I highly recommend.

So overall, I'm not satisfied with my career life as I feel many opportunities were taken away from me through no fault of my own.

I'm very satisfied with my personal life as I have of last year found a woman who I have been able to build a wonderful relationship with.

In all of this mess, I am extremely grateful for ADHD meds every day.
What to call the many editions of D&D to differentiate them is a bit nebulous. Here is an article with an infographic at the end that explains what the community started calling the various editions.

https://daddyrolleda1.blogspot.com/2024/06/editions-of-dunge...

OD&D usually refers to the Original Edition that was first released in 1974. It consists of 3 little brown books.

Direct link to infographic

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi8QrcSdtdy...
> To my knowledge, nobody is directly paid by Linux foundation

I think Linus is
It may be a handy mnemonic, but it's not the etymology (you may know this, but I can't resist the pedantic opportunity!)

It comes from Swift's satire about egg eaters. The end in question was the small or large end of the egg and Big Endians broke the big end with the spoon - i.e. it went into the egg cup small end down.

The -ian suffix here is analogous to Christ-ian or Keynes-ian and has nothing to do with "in".