skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Unfortunately most of the game-changing tech isn’t going to be low capex moving forward.

I agree with the assumption, but I believe that the difference is that in the last 10 years you could have some scrappy machines or free-tier machines in any public cloud provider and have an MVP ready to show it only using software.

For Military Tech/Deep Tech there's no way to do that since the intensity of capital its so high that even if someone trust you to deliver something and write a 500K check the burn rate will kill your company in 6 months; plus all procurement process for it if you going to sell it to any western government.

For instance: I was working in a product to monitor military excercise/disguised build-ups via mixture of aerial images and probing and talking with one innovation branch of a european miitary they told that even if I came up with a finished product I need to pass to several procurement approvals and it could take at least 4 years; and in the meantime I could not even offer that to other places.

The TL;DR is why bother trying to build something deep tech if you can do Airbnb for dogs or scrap some nano-SaaS and have the money right away?
> window tiling shortcut requires dragging a window first

man that's so dumb
Has anyone taken the coding as compression (when you create repeated behaviour, stuff it in the dictionary via creating a function; switching frameworks is changing initial dicts; etc.) metaphor seriously?
Where are your retirement savings that inflation is outpacing it? If it's in 401k's or IRAs then shouldn't the stocks in that be keeping up with inflation (mine are). Even bonds should be outpacing inflation this year at least. And real estate has been insane the past 5 years and done so much better than inflation.
> manager layoffs coming too.

A large pharma company which I worked for until quitting in July went through a similar process this year. The goal was also to reduce the manager / IC ratio - organizational efficiency and span of control, they called it - but in most instances it were ICs who were laid off while their managers were simply relegated to ICs.
This is terrible advice. The non-technical founders who are struggling to find someone to implement their "great idea" are never[0] worth working for. It's not like you'd get a 50% share of the company anyway.

[0]: I'm sure exceptions exist. I've never met one.
Where is this legal right to work from home? It does not exist in Germany as well as in couple northern countries. Is this a thing for Netherlands?
Thank you for your work! I always wondered how those worked, and where the info came from, on top of what it runs on etc -- moreover I love seeing software built that directly improves people's lives :)
We did a smaller launch a few days ago, but we've actually made a lot of changes to our github contributing page, website, logo since then (based on the feedback). Just trying to ship fast, haha.
For GPU emulation, I'm not super knowledgeable but I would think the shaders are a big issue, older systems don't have that problem. Console games come with precompiled shaders and you won't be able to reuse those between AMD vs. Nvidia. Certainly you can get around it, emulators for modern Console do just that, but it's not without it's issues which might be considered unacceptable.

That's still fixable if you're willing to ship newly compiled shaders and such, but that's a lot more work if you're talking about needing some kind of per-game fix to be downloaded. This is how the XBox 360 "Backwards-compatibility" works, and this approach means it only works with a subset of XBox 360 games, not all of them. It's much better than nothing, but it's not a hardware-level fix that makes the original game binaries "just work".

For packaging the old GPU with the new system, I think that's not really realistic anymore since prices for them simply don't drop enough and the system design would be a mess (the chips are huge and you'd need cooling for both chips. I guess if only one is running at a time then it's not as bad, but...). Separately, if you're swapping from Nvidia to AMD then you're talking about trying to convince one of them to make a batch of old chips for you while you use their competitor's chip as the the main one, they might not be willing to do it.
It's always a hindsight declaration though. Currently we can only say that Intel has reused the same architecture several times already and cranking up the voltage until it breaks because they seem to be yet to find the next design leap, while AMD has been toying around with 3D placement but their latest design is woefully unimpressive. We do not know when the next compute leap will happen until it happens.
Show HN: DPaZ – Desktop Pan and Zoom
Hi HN!

I really like Miro and similar tools for whiteboarding - and one particularly nice feature of those is that you can pan and zoom around the whiteboard. Zoom into something to work on it, zoom out, pan a bit and find something else on a giant whiteboard.

This tool aims to replicate that experience for the Windows Desktop - it gives you the feeling of unlimited desktop real-estate, implemented with a relatively short Autohotkey script.

It's a bit janky, but I use it daily; PRs welcome
Does Twitter actually need 60 qps, or is this just a consequence of not having JOIN operators?
Palantir explicitly enables sketchy corporations and unfriendly regimes in doing mildly annoying to very bad things.
However it's not a boolean choice, since OP has a third option: change workplace. Which is exactly what they are seeking to do and demonstrates their integrity.
It's not really convincing what you're saying as Apple have much more money/technology/people then literally any professional hearing aid manufacturer. Just combine total market cap and revenue and it will be in single digits compared to Apple (Oticon parent company Demant is just ~2 billion - Oticon probably way less than that). I would like to see spec sheet of mild hearing loss hearing aid of any of the manufacturers that are charging 10 times more than Apple and see how that hardware is different from what Apple have in AirPods Pro 2. Is there any exact sample you want to share? I really want to see actual spec sheet and see type of hardware they are using as it's complete mystery...

You are underestimating number of people working on them and data that is flowing into Apple from all the people using them for years.
>Remarkably, constant depth is sufficient.

How would that be remarkable, when it is exactly what he Universal Approximation Theorem already states? Since transformers also use fully connected layers, none of this should really come as a surprise. But from glancing at the paper, they don't even mention it.
Most where specifically? Never ever encountered those in most countries in the world, haven't checked them all yet.
Re: yawning

I listened to a "Science Vs" podcast on it (or perhaps it was "unexplainable"), yawning is not yo increase oxygen levels. Study participants sat in an oxygen enriched room and also a depleted room without a change in yawn rates.

What did affect yawn rates was brain temperature. Yawning lowers brain temperature. Importantly, when ambient temperature is higher than body temperature, yawn rate dramatically goes down.

These resource [1] [2] goes into some of the details if you want to skip listening to the podcast

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/scienc...

[2]
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24721675/
I haven't blogged in a while, so i decided to write a blog post about my experience building a chatbot that was actually generating revenue and helping people. There is a lot of noise in this field, but at the same time no real information. The more I wrote the more i realized that I had a lot more to say than a 900 words article.

Next thing you know, I shared what I am doing in an HN comment and I was asked to provide a way for people to follow. I dumped what I had so far on github and it's now gonna be a book written in public. I'll probably turn it into a physical book eventually, but for now I got information to share and I'll type away until I'm done Sharing.

That's one reason to write.
Don’t tell me, if I buy your book I can learn how to do it too?
Yeah the early internet was a public facility funded by the government. They chose to privatize it and it became a cesspool of advertising and corporate rent extraction. Very lucrative, created a lot of profits for American corporations. Working as designed isn't it?
'can'

But will they? I believe the frontier has moved to making them make sense instead of just making infinite language.

The infinite monkey problem is not solved yet
Cyberpunk books that revolutionized the genre
TechieTom: “I get that Amazon wants to boost collaboration and productivity, but isn’t the flexibility of remote work one of the biggest perks these days? I’m curious how this will affect employee morale.”
> Python code used by Excel runs on the Microsoft Cloud ....

Nope, not only there is the security issue, regardless of what is promised, good luck editing those Excel files in flights, or train travels.
From the CEO’s memo:

“(you need to be joined at the hip with your teammates when inventing and solving hard problems)”

Somewhat telling that he’d use a congenital disorder as a metaphor for how work should be done at Amazon
Author Stu Jones shares some of the best cyberpunk books he feels revolutionized the genre :)

My all-time fav is Snow Crash, blew my young mind when I read it.
Apparently playing Windows games on Linux gives good sarcatistic skills.

Just remember, Gabe isn't going to be around forever.
> It also said it would pause construction at its chip factory project in Germany for two years, a move Reuters had previously reported. The company plans to pause its project in Poland as well.

Just three days ago: Poland's Intel plant gets EU green light for $1.9B in state support [1].

Germany is subsidizing Intel with $11bn.

I'd be fuming.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41534763
The thing about this quip is, it applies to the plebs. The owning class gets our free lunches all the time. This is a joke about being on the outside, not about the grit of reality. It makes those proclaiming it sound submissive, not edgy.
I'm quite interested in putting FreeBSD on one of my dev servers. I had tried it back in July and got as far as installing Podman, but despite Podman for FreeBSD coming with a message that says many containers work with FreeBSD's Linux emulation¹, I couldn't even get the basic "hello world" container to start. I know FreeBSD has something called jails that are akin to containers, but I don't know anything about them and felt too frustrated being unable to get a simple Podman container off the ground.

I want to dedicate some time to trying it again soon.

[1] https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/podman/
To be fair, I've had the same thing but never had an issue just working my contracted hours
> > the people who will chose to quit will be the ones who can most easily get new jobs - the best people.
>
> There are lots of reasons good people quit. Good people are not universally against RTO. Many are. But many other good people stuck around at Amazon even after the mandated 3 days per week in office, and many good people will stick around with 5 days per week.

You are mixing up "quit -> best" and "best -> quit".
Tenuous side-hustles don't get grown and built in a crisis to make a living.

It's far better to have a stable 9-5 gig and then build things on the side intending to grow them, or at least let them validate/bake with other income and/or savings to see where they go.
Musk fired thousands of Twitter employees and the system is still running. It’s even getting significant core feature upgrades! Clearly, most of those engineers were superfluous.

I’ve thought Twitter was over-engineered years before that event and feel a tiny bit vindicated in holding that opinion against the HN gestalt.
HN threads from the past discussing the articles:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16786698

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3576261
I bet if you asked those people who were winning those life-changing amounts of money, they would say they felt the opposite of exploited.

Again, more overwrought language. People are doing this out of their own free will, and benefiting substantially from it. If you truly care about people being exploited in uneven financial situations, you would do well to put all your effort towards enacting a higher minimum wage, removing part-time and contractor classification for all low-paying jobs, etc. Because complaining about fun YouTube videos paying people six figures for not all that much time ain't it. And if you really think that people who don't have lots of money can never consent to doing anything, well god isn't that a paternalistic approach that infantilizes adults.
Deep dives into systems (and system failures) for curious programmers
Nora Sandler shares some awesome books for curious programmers :)
They have also mathematically proven that transformers are great randomness generators.
Wensleydale doesn't travel for some reason. Nor Caerphilly. Here i am 15,000km away, and I just have to come to terms with the fact I can get almost any European hard and many soft cheeses I want, but not Wensleydale. Well.. not proper Wensleydale.

Nor russet apples. They're seen as "unsellable" despite being the perfect accompaniment to.. Wensleydale cheese.

Grommit.
Evidence for widespread human exposure to food contact chemicals
I'd love one for React-native, might look into making one if I don't find any :D
What happens when you walk up to a publishing agent and tell them you don’t have anything to show them, and they’ll need to force you to write every sentence but assure them it’ll be brilliant?

I think you’re also talking about one of Adams’ later books after HHGTG once his publisher was deep in hock for his advance.
I often see this misconception that compute alone will lead us to surpass human level. No doubt it is inspired by the "scaling laws" we heard so much about. People forget that imitation is not sufficient to surpass human level.
Begun, the cheese wars have. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEPfNrRBnDs (vintage IBM cheese ad)
An additional difference is that humans know what they dont know. LLMs will happily and confidently make up nonsense.

I'm not entirely cynical on the value of LLMs, but I've yet to see one say "I dont know", or "I'm not sure, but here's my best guess".
Sure, but it’s really easy to list both - even that almost never happens.
If the manager had an URA quota to fill, they might have decided to be an asshole and pad their numbers. As retribution, too, perhaps.
Supebase instead of firebase would be better imho.
I am going to have a field day with that site.

Thank you.
I'll acknowledge that I speak from a privileged position, but from up here in my ivory tower, I can see that a lasting relationship is necessarily founded on trust.

Sometimes in life we develop defense mechanisms that are self defeating. I bet a lot of us are familiar with the conundrum of the IT department that always says "no." The environment becomes too constrained for work to be done, so the rest of the business develops shadow IT out of necessity.

Telegraph to your partner that it's unsafe to discuss their friendships with the opposite sex with you, and they will start hiding that information from you.
Damn, we just used our entire Round A acquiring an infinite amount of bananas and typewriter ink. The boss is not going to like this.
FWIW, there are lots of comments here calling you a sucker (or saying words to that effect without the name calling), and I'm here to say the opposite.

I think it's good that you have an independent sense of what's 'right' and 'wrong' for you to do, and you follow your internal moral compass on big decisions in your life. Your personal integrity should not depend on the integrity of who/whatever it is you're dealing with.
Reddit hasn't just closed off, it's become a hollow shell of fascism.
It's a way to get rid of people without looking like you're laying off.

Sadly it's the most competent that leave first and fastest.
Not the point they’re making.
If you planned correctly and then have an unforeseen sickness, you'll miss the goal. That's independent of any framework.
Finding Private Information Through Resumes on Google Search
Incidentally, I believe I had sleep apnea when I was a kid, and for years into adult life until my wife elbowed it out of me.

My parents never thought I needed a diagnosis, but when I was just a few years old I got pneumonia from a bad cough and was prone to chest infections all my life afterwards. It was after I had whooping cough that my dad came in to check on me, and he noticed that I "wasn't breathing" (which he told to mum in a typically 'Irish Farmer'). She thought he was telling her that I was, in fact, dead and to my bedroom in a panic. Turns out she had previously noticed that I "didn't breathe". Basically, I'd appear to stop breathing entirely for very long periods of time. I think that the air would be very slowly leaking out for about a minute, and I'd be making a low whine noise. Then I'd take in a huge breath... and the low whine would begin again. I wasn't overweight, I was actually as thin as a rake, and my mother nicknamed me "Boney M" (which might show my age).

It was when I met my wife, back in the late 90s, that it became a "problem". She'd tell me I was making a terrible noise in my sleep, and I said "oh yeah, I do that". Every time my weird breathing woke her up, she treated it as if I were snoring: elbow me and say "YOU'RE DOING IT AGAIN". And I'd kinda wake up and then focus on breathing properly as a fell back asleep. I also took up running around that time.

After a few years the weird breathing (which, I now think, was asleep apnea) stopped. I had better sleep and woke refreshed, whereas all through my childhood, walking up and getting out of bed was a gargantuan effort. I could sleep till noon and still be foggy.

Anyway, aside from losing weight and doing cardio, maybe a watch that activated an elbow would be an idea?

Incidentally, another thing I trained myself to do was sleep with my mouth closed. I used to wake up extremely dry and absolutely need a pint of water beside the bed. I read once about surviving in the desert: keep your mouth shut too conserve moisture. So I'd intentionally keep my n mouth closed and breathe only through my nose. That worked too - except when I have a head cold, but I take antihistamines before bed to avoid blocked sinuses.
I think the issue with formal processes is that, while they are created to serve a goal, they very quickly become the goal.

When everybody in a room agrees that deviating from the process will improve the chances of success, but nobody in the room is empowered to approve the deviation, morale will drop quickly.
Ultima (1) ends as a space game (2012)
Try copenhagen. They use the screen for ads and flash the name of the next stop for a couple of seconds between ads.
Indeed. I really would want my questions answered.

I believe noting that simple is not easy was my point already: "While "simple", that does not equate to abundant nor easy"

Which goes to my other point - getting food on your own is hard. Doing so in the winter is even more difficult. Hence, calorie deficits was a serious problem for many.
Haha, "I doubt therefore I am^W don't understand"
It's worth considering if the people complaining are the actual people so concerned or just Social Justice Warriors bitching for attention.

If it's the former, it is obviously and absolutely necessary to listen to their concerns and perhaps demands and try and find a solution that satisfies everyone.

If it's the latter, we really need to use their playbook and just Cancel Culture(tm) the SJWs for the betterment of humanity.
Man I wish Casio would make a cheap fitness band in one of their entry level watch bodies. A miband in the shape of a F91W with oled and 3 programmable buttons for $40 would be amazing.
I also have a Daylight on order... but isn't the main thing with the Daylight that it's not a true/typical e-ink display, and that's how it gets such a high framerate? My understanding is that it's a first-of-its-kind thing, so "removing color" is more like "we haven't gotten to color yet." Although I hope they eventually do!
Maybe that's why it only lasted few months
It's a fairly common trope in old-school CRPGs. M&M and Wizardry are some other prominent examples of "wizards & spaceships".
Obviously you’re not a golfer.
I suspect most people who've ever been responsible for colo-ed unix-ish servers have learned to do something like:

> ufw reset | at now +5 minutes

When doing "dangerous" things like updating firewall rules.

I wonder if they have a way to send commands saying something like:

Switch to thruster set 1, wriggle the antenna aim away and back to earth, wait 46 hours, if you do not receive "all clear" from earth switch back to thruster set 3 and re aim the antenna at earth.
Are we getting to a point where the LLM will just answer "42" and we need to figure out the question? =)
That’s true, but they don’t call the cops
Fixed

//const lengthFactor = clamp(lineLength / 200, 0.5, 2); // outdated // Adjust between 0.5x and 2x
const lengthFactor = clamp(200 / lineLength, 0.5, 2); //Reason: This aligns the instrument with the physical properties of real-world instruments, making it more intuitive and educational.
> why the SQL API even allows injection vulnerability

How would one implement this?

"SQL APIs" use prepared statements. Meaning you have a string for SQL and some dynamic variables that inject into that string via $1, $2 etc.

BUT now if developer makes that string dynamic via a variable, then you have SQL injection again.
Rendered useless by the infinite money problem.
Why Undefined Behavior Matters (2022)
1) We have become lazy. Bit tech worked for us. Provided value. Bait and switch. Enshittification. Remove features, make them worse

2) Internet islands are not connected. Walled gardens. Platforms want to keep you in. Balkanization

3) Bots are everywhere. When you remove, sometimes you remove too much. Sanitization.

3) Controversial topics boosts your visibility. Social media therefore focus on what divides us

2) Algorithms use users vulnerability to waste time on funny gifs with cats. Algorithms use their users to sell their attention for profit

1) People had their blogs. Their pages. There were hobby related. No many pages I see are CV-like pages. It is again used for "sell-buy" mechanics. There are no "Links" section where author provides link to interesting places. Often there is no passion

0) Search is broken. Since you cannot find anything there is no motive to "create anything" outside what is visible

-1) I am trying to fix my approach toward search. I cannot replace google, but I may create something that helps me. My project for keeping bookmarks, and navigate the internet https://github.com/rumca-js/Django-link-archive
I am one of these naive people who expected happy home office forever. It bit me hard, because I bought an old house outside of big city and spent the time I would need to commute renovating it. The return to the office happened, I quit. The other place was weird. It advertised generous home office ruling. But under very special manager home office was forbidden. It was just too stupid to file a complaint to HR and I left. So my construction site was stuck for 1,5 years and it was very stressful.

Found by accident a job near my home. Small company with private office for me and unlimited home office ruling. Use home office only when I am ill. During this period I found out, that I absolutely love my private office and hate daily commuting and open offices.