skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this really standard management advice? Half-way through the PDF I already felt like I'm reading some insane drivel of a sweatshop boss / wannabe cult leader. Whatever illusion I had that Mr Beast videos are worth watching, I lost it entirely, having learned that they're just a factory product with Mr Beast brand on it, a corporation pretending to be a person, optimized to waste people time[0], and made by people bullied into extremely unhealthy and antisocial behaviors.

Like, the part about making your co-workers feel like they're bottlenecking you; can't imagine working in an environment where everyone tries that number on everyone else. It's extremely adversarial. Is that really standard management advice? Maybe on Wall Street?

This source is pure gold: techniques to manipulate people into consuming your product - which they otherwise wouldn't be. All so you can make money on poisoning their minds (advertising, which is how you convert views to money). You can easily imagine this came out from a drug cartel boss, I'd expect the best and most ruthless one to operate just like that, with same level of cultishness.

And if that's who Mr Beast is, and that's how he thinks of other people - because believe it or not, viewers are other people too, not some cattle to be milked and slaughtered - then I'm glad I don't watch his videos. Not going to, and I'm happy to pass this document around to dissuade others from viewing his channel.

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[0] - I mean, that's kind of obvious in anything social media, but rarely do you get it spelled out without any qualms.
It's trivial to justify if you're a middle-class Westerner. You'll likely spend dozens (more likely hundreds) of hours to properly refresh your knowledge; $50/mo is dominated by the time needed, unless your time is worth very little.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41073264
What are some dev features in chrome not present in ff? Just curious what I’m missing out
They do however change their figurine bases from square to round in an effort to deprecate people's armies in a bid to generate revenue.
I've found Niri* to be the best but there are stability/performance problems (especially when you go over +20 windows) with all of them. Maybe once they will be "baked-in" in Gnome/KDE things will change.

https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri
Well, with Tree Of Thought (ToT) and fine-tuned models, I'm sure you can achieve the same performance with margin to improve as you identify the bottlenecks.

I'm not convinced OpenAI is using one model. Look at the thinking process (UI), which takes time, and then suddenly, you have the output streamed out at high speed.

But even so, people are after results, not really the underlying technology. There is no difference of doing it with one model vs multiple models.
RIP. I note that he had a Twitter thread a month ago where he shared some broad observations about healthcare and ended it with a goodbye: https://x.com/DanBealeCocks/status/1819712155941228853
The reality is even good devs tend to work hard on the wrong thing. Accountability comes from your peers as much as your manager. If this makes you angry you are one of the bad ones.
Extremely interesting and valuable
The only rational way to interpret D&D is not as medieval, but as a distant far-future post-post-industrial setting.

Magic spells as ambient nanotech that's poorly understood and difficult to invoke -- hence the "Vancian" system which comes from Jack Vance's "Dying Earth" series.

Magic items as remnant tech.

Different "races" as the vast gulf of time has led to speciation.

Gods as posthuman or artificially intelligent entities that have transcended the world but still keep an eye on it from time to time.

And so forth. There's literally nothing medieval about it, but it could be 1,000,000 AD. Just think of their medical technologies in light of our era's!

(All assuming, of course, that it's "baseline reality" and not a sandbox, as it was in Neal Stephenson's The Fall.)
If visibility was important then why put such a large snout?
Does anyone else have everything zen renders being blurry?
He's an influencer, his job is to make things sound dramatic for clicks.
Your scrum master is management. It’s just a renamed PM.

I can run a very near standup when allowed to. I also think it’s a waste of time. Just send weekly updates to a group email, or something.
For the "sour grapes" metaphor to work the grapes need to be desired at first.

This isn't the case here. Most people do not want to be rich at any cost. I might feel some jealousy about Microsoft or wolfram.com, but not about a YouTuber whose massive team produces bland addictive videos, especially if YouTube is full of good videos if you know where to look.
This will only amount to more electronic waste if they do not allow to unlock it for reuse. Technically possible but not allowed because of procedure everything will go the a landfill.
Youtube is the single most important and valuable learning tool that exists on the planet. There are lectures on literally everything, i have been recently learning my way into geometric algebra and lie theory for my physics phd. Sure, there's a lot of crap and youtube is just as happy to waste your time but if you search out and only watch educational content, your Frontpage will become educational content. It's hard to keep that way because there's tons of fun but uneducational things to watch, but there's browser extensions and things to help with that. Extensions that block the homepage and video recommendations, extensions that let you group your subscriptions and create your own feed. It can be amazing if you use it right, it's hard to use right sometimes
Astronomers detect black hole 'starving' its host galaxy to death
Codeforces Bans AI Code
One of the most insightful things I heard someone say at Toyota (in an interview) was that they replace their tools (drill bits and the like) at 80% wear instead of letting them get to 100% and break.

Why waste that 20%?

Because if the tool breaks and scratches a $200K Lexus, then that might be a $20K fix, or possibly even starting from scratch with a new body! Is that worth risking for a $5 drill bit they buy in boxes of 1,000 at a time? No.

Then the interview switched to some guy in America looking miserable complaining how his bosses made him use every tool until breaking point. He listed a litany of faults this caused, like off-centre holes, distorted panels, etc...

And you wonder why Tesla panels have misaligned gaps. Or why rain water leaks into a "luxury" American vehicle!
Rambus HBM4 controller for AI GPUs: 2.56 TB/s per HBM4 stack, 2048-bit bus
> I think the AUR certainly started as the second thing, but it's often viewed as the first, and maybe it even should be the first thing. But if you assume it came from the second option then all its design choices make sense.

People who cite the AUR as a major reason to use or prefer Arch (which seems to be a lot) definitely see it and use it as the former. If it's not that, pretty much all of the package availability arguments in favor of Arch disappear.

(Which is fine— I don't think package availability arguments are very good when it comes to distro selection in general, except for non-technical people and absolute noobs.)
This doesn't apply for pod-based systems though, does it? They were everywhere for years there and are still very common. Basically by definition there's only one or two people that can do each task.
Outsourcing car manufacturing to China, apparently the cause of and solution to all of Ford's problems.

Perhaps one day he'll learn that you can hire professionals to do value engineering rather than half ass it on the fly for a "great man" micromanagement anecdote to end a credulous puff piece.
Streamlining Your Database Management
Creating Alpha from Web Data with LLMs
Recent big discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41522931
Please update your blog CSS to use a monospace font/typeface for the code blocks.
How's the electricity you're using produced? ;)
There are far more FTP connections where people download files than there are available APIs at a bank. Plopping CSV files on a SFTP server is dirt cheap compared to an API.
> "Eliminate all local excel files.."

Isn't the ability to interact with local environment, half the reason why people use Excel in the first place?

Okey maybe if they connect the cloud instance to a shared drive, that could indeed replace it
That ad hominem got under my skin admittedly.
I’m a company owner only in the most technical sense.

I still have to earn money by going to my day job 9-5. And while some parts come from
China, I still assemble my epaper displays myself, on the desk where I work from home during the day.

So I know what it means to have to go to work. And I also know that work can be positive sum and make all sides of the transaction better off.

And again, I’ve never said that the world is FAIR or that I think it should stay unfair. I’m angry every day about how unfair it is!

I’ve just said that work is still a necessary part of this world.
Implementing absolutely everything, because I wasn't sure which part was intentional or not. My version even replicates some bugs and subtle behaviors: for example the toast animation lasts 5 seconds, which is measured from the beginning of fade-in animation to the beginning of fade-out animation.
The energy expense of Bitcoin is dominated by its Proof-of-Work algorithm, the cost of processing transactions is negligible compared to that. And the PoW operates over the root of the last block's Merkle tree, which is a hash of all the transactions in the block. Being a fixed-size hash it doesn't matter if the block contains 1,000, 1 million or 1 billion transactions.

Therefore Bitcoin could scale to handle millions of transactions per second with a sublinear increase in electricity spent. [0]

[0] http://blog.vermorel.com/journal/2017/12/17/terabyte-blocks-...
Maybe no form of _non-fiction_ writing benefits from it, but that's not the only type of writing there is. Let me link a clip from Dead Poets Society regarding this: https://youtu.be/WfZu-Um9PV0?feature=shared
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Founder @ Questmate
> And obviously the DMA is political, and specifically how it is used against this or that platform is political.

... Are you suggesting that Twitter is being spared as a political act? Per the requirements of the act, which are made clear in the article, the DMA simply cannot apply to Twitter; it is too smol.

(Possibly you're confusing it with the DSA, which absolutely does apply to Twitter? I'm not totally clear on what you're trying to say.)
Does anyone have some real-world use cases for something like this? The algorithm is cool but I'm struggling to see where this is applicable.
Honest question: why is Unified so popular in the open source circle?

I considered buying one for my home network but found out I had to install their closed source controller which depends on mongodb. To be honest that turned me off for now.
At least Apple lets you turn it off. Go to Settings -> Battery -> Options and change "Wake for network access" from "Always" to "Only on power adapter" or "Never".
I agree with the observations of the author. I have found MA much more engaging than any book I've crossed paths with. Going from a pile of math textbooks to MA was going from good intentions to good results; it's quite amazing how much I've relearned over the past few months. This is the future, as far as I am concerned, with only refinements needed.

Also: I too really hope they expand into physics.
This is also a terrible pattern in general that permeates every corner of the tech blogging world. Stop `doing` this with your `posts` so that every other word is going to be tokenized to stand out from the background text.

If you are going to do this, ensure that it is a very subtle treatment to the text.
I mean, there is also just hardcore survivorship bias at work here.

How much of the ongoing success is algorithmic / network capture?

You see this across all the “old” content networks like YouTube, Instagram and Twitch, that being well-known and putting out aggressively mediocre content trumps being a hidden gem with stellar content.

I dislike TikTok even more than the former, but one thing they do right is having the algorithm weight towards content. A great video by an unknown person is more likely to skyrocket and a mediocre video by a well-known person can easily bomb.
You've got that backwards. If you're using a solar credit from KC in Seattle, you're subsidizing the cost of power in KC. Solar generation is built in KC, but demand is unaffected. Therefore the price of power drops in KC, crowding out fossil there and lowering the price of green power.

In Seattle you've increased demand without increasing generation, raising the price there. Yes, fossil generators may be built to satisfy this new demand, but that's unlikely in 2024. In Seattle in particular, excess demand is generally met by buying hydro from BC.
https://archive.ph/RfZEj
in general i agree with the other guy that said using llms like this is codegen ... but you have given a case agreeing with another perspective in the thread, that using llms like this is akin to treating them as a compiler from spoken language to code ...
It also does not hurt.

The Guardian blames companies who use regenerative power, and who pay to have regenerative power generation expanded faster than would otherwise be possible. IMO that blaming hurts.
Why would you learn and use this over typical load-balancing solutions like K8S? Honest question.
People post fiction on the internet?
What about other fantasy works that culturally influenced creation of D&D, like Lord of the Rings or Conan the Barbarian? Are those also anti-medieval?
Or it might be a reconstruction of a broken world after the events of Ra (https://qntm.org/ra)
The "net emissions" are zero because "having 1 fossil plant running somewhere" is your baseline. You only move the location of that plant around.
If you haven't played Horizon Zero Dawn, I highly recommend it :)
Because it formed the basis for essentially every web engine that is used today? I would call that successful.

(Before you say "but gecko!", take a look at the usage stats.)
A very fun example of this theme is in the franco-belgian fantasy comic series Thorgal, which is set in a Conan-esque fantasy world with all the expected trappings, but in which the gods are highly advanced alien entities and magic is often framed as manipulating extremely complex and powerful heirloom technologies that the living have no frame of reference for as anything other than magic.

The titular outsider hero falls from the stars in a little space pod as a baby and is raised by the local Viking-proxy culture ala Superman or Goku. Quite an engaging read if you're into this blend of sword and sorcery with background sci-fi elements.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorgal
Great project, love to see how it's progressing, keep it up.
There is also version for those already initiated [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LjN3UclYzU
Which is your own choice.
Hey - built a tool for learners to create their personalised video courses using AI.

Feel free to check it out and comment!
Intel lost the Sony Playstation business
Yes, if you move to Pasadena and enroll in the 7th grade.
Is it really "wrong" if everybody understands what you mean using the term?
This is why we never did even ostensibly innocuous lying like Santa Claus.
Basically, Chainalisys was able to gather more offchain metadata (IP in this case by setting ip-logging nodes) that then helped them narrow down some heuristics to try to guess some things on the blockchain. From the leaked video, they can't trace nothing and they say "Monero is awesome". Cool.
Yeah I agree. Though it is hard to tell if LLMs are capable of "easy" creativity like that though because anything that easy has already been done many times in its training set.

You've have to invent some new domain I guess and see if it could be creative within that domain. Difficult to think of a good test though.
A lefty professor who likes trade unions sounds like a horrible person! /s
Probably stopping at yellow lights and for pedestrians at crosswalks. It's a good way to get rear ended in Boston.
It shouldn't be so easy to derive a private key from the corresponding public key. Is the attack you're referring to working because most of the bits of the private key are already known or am I missing something else here?
D&D is what happens when you put pulp novels in an idea collider. The really big influences are Conan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conan_the_Barbarian and Tolkein, which are themselves very different styles, but there's also a magpie effect where anything that Gygax read and thought was cool got added in.

Expecting "realism" and coherency from a fantasy world destroys the fantasy. But somehow projecting realism onto fantasy is a popular activity for fans.
No. Let’s be clear: Google absolutely could have continued in removing third party cookies. They’d be doing what Apple and Mozilla already do today, after all. The problem is that Google’s alternatives that still allow tracking by ad providers have run afoul of regulators and Google isn’t prepared to lose that ad revenue.
How about using AGPLv3 on the whole source code?
Shopper's videos of himself trying to beat speedy Aldi cashiers go viral
My total guess(!) is because relatively few people lose a large number of years to cancer, due to both the median age of diagnosis and long term survival rates of some common cancers being high? (For example, breast cancer has a 75% 10 year survival rate with a median age of diagnosis of 62. Bowel cancer is about 60% and 71 respectively.)
> Since the state is stored in a multi-level Bloom Filter style data structure, the memory needed is constant and does not scale with the number of clients.

Constant memory, but those hashes will take up CPU cycles. If you're running a workload that completes sub 20 milliseconds, these cycles spent hashing may not be worth it over, say, a constant-time admission control like token bucket.
I don’t dispute his expertise, I dispute your interpretation of what he’s doing if you think it’s gaming an algorithm. Perhaps we’re debating semantics.

These are metrics one might use even if there’s no algorithm, in fact historically they have. TV shows used to use Neilsen data for similar purposes long before there was YouTube. TV producers would measure audience dropoff and then use that to help writers write more gripping episodes.

Google’s hope with their search for decades was that their algorithm was ungameable and that the way to get your site to the top of any result was to make it the best. That’s why they made it a black box and changed it whenever SEO caught on and used it to push junk to the top.

That’s had mixed results on the web for sure but it’s probably worked much better with video because you can track these metrics in a way you can’t with text. Also with the web, the page you land on may make Google further money (with ad sense, inspiring more Googling, using a Google product directly, etc.) or it may not, they don’t always own the ad service at wherever you land when you click a search result link. They don’t have the pure financial incentive of just showing you what you want, something you want a little less might make them more money.

With YouTube they own it all. The more you watch YouTube the more they make. You’re only clicking ads to other YouTube videos.

Everybody on YouTube knows you want a compelling lead in to get the click over to your video, a hook to keep them watching, etc. He’s codifying what they all already know and do. He just is better at it.
A dog once bit me, so now I dislike all dogs.
Show HN: I made a tool to embed referral program into SaaS in minutes
And what are the daily active users ?
Mine is on never, so as usual, macOS settings are useless.

(like switching the scroll direction between touchpad and mouse, where you have two separate toggles which toggle each other. "Just works" my ass)
1. I'm reading not writing.

2. Is our 'large' the same?

3. I'd rather the PR were whatever size it needs to be to entirely do the thing it's supposed to do (and nothing else) than conform to some arbitrary size requirement.
I think Conan the Barbarian is pre-antique. That is set in period somewhat before written history. So in sense it not anti-medieval.
Amazon is not a secret weapon, poison pill maybe?

This is a company that is actively shooting itself in the foot on all fronts and by the time they realize it’s gone too far they won’t be able to turn the ship fast enough.
Interestingly, http://www.donothingfor2minutes.com/ eventually morphed into Calm
I'm pretty sure this is just a list not necessarily owned by Mozilla.
To recreate this, start a new chat conversation, tell ChatGPT to ask you about your first week in high school. Then, use the browsers dev tools to hide the first message sent by you to ChatGPT. Watch SkyNet grow.
The presentation of the webpage is really really nice.
Especially the highlighting/linking of mathematical definitions and bound variables.

How did you achieve this?
In 2024 in America, there have been 133 children killed or injured by gun violence at school. With about 74 million legal children, that’s 0.000798%.

I couldn’t find 2024 statistics, but in 2023 there were 391 gang-related gun deaths in Sweden. With about 10 million people, that’s 0.00391%.

America has gun problems for sure, but school shootings are largely irrelevant compared to deaths from crime and accidents. And it’s not “clear” that you have “a very different set of values” in Europe when we’re discussing a nearly 10 year wave of gun violence in a European country
According to this Reddit thread from 10 months ago, some major US banks like Chase won't work even in development mode without production approval, and some people mention obstacles getting approved for OAuth without being a company or otherwise having that level of security posture. (Other people seem to have gotten successfully approved for OAuth.)

I agree this niche needs a better solution than it currently has, although the commercial and regulatory incentives might not be well-aligned to force that. In my family we have important accounts in the US and in the EU (as well as less important accounts in Canada and Mexico), and I don't know of any personal use-friendly solution that lets me pull my data automatically from all of these.

I'd honestly like some nice integration between Plaid and Excel or GSheets to let me track capital gains transactions for my non-euro accounts in the weird way that German tax law requires (over a surprisingly broad range of accounts starting next year at the latest). But nothing turnkey seems to exist right now.
There are only so many places you can order stuff on-line locally, to save on non-food products more expensive or downright unavailable locally. Interfacing with individual vendor and their bespoke system for each purchase gets cognitively exhausting quickly - a major reason why people prefer those large marketplaces. And then, it's not just Amazon. Adopting such policies is becoming a trend parallel to centralization. Amazon alone may not be "super critical piece of living a fulfilling life", but getting banned by it and a few more large companies (Google, in particular), and you may lose some critical things (at least critical in immediate term).
> For these claims to be true, there must be a significant enough fraction of people

No. For this effect to be significant, there must be a significant enough fraction of such people. For this effect to exist, there must exist any fraction of such people.