skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure that theme of founders being ignored by industry is true. At least, not as long as they have some modesty and say, "Hey, I tried something. It did not work. Lessons learned, so I am wanting new work."

What I have seen is problems from founders who maintain the idea that "founders" are somehow different. The ones who expect to be held up on a pedestal, even if only slightly. That attitude is what turns people off, not that fact that they tried something on their own.
Nice, I agree the lanczos is the best out of the pack.
Well yes in the sense that "kids these days" is a moving goal post.

My sense is that millennials are split: the older half fatigued and eyerolly regarding "too much wokeness" and the younger still thinking themselves young and leaning into whatever the socials are on about.

This isn't a moral judgement. Just one millennial's observation.
> which is supposed to be faster.

If you care about this, you figure out exactly how much you need and always use the smallest type that meets this criteria.

There have been architectures in the past where the "native" size was in practice faster than the smaller types, but those architectures are now long dead. On all modern architectures, none of the instructions for smaller data types are ever slower than the native size, and while using them doesn't directly win you cycles of execution time in the cpu (because they are no faster either), it wins you better cache utilization. As a rule, the fastest data type is a byte.

There is no reason to ever use "int", other than inertia.
> probably won't play out that way

Do you revise your opinion in light of Instagram having been sued by a similar coalion of states for similar reasons last year [1]?

[1] https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67908468/1/people-of-th...
Interesting: https://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2020/news20200813
> mining and producing nuclear fuel causes a lot of emissions

It may cause a “lot of emissions” per kilogram of enriched Uranium, but it is very low compared to the amount of energy it produces because you really need little Uranium to produce tons of energy (that's also why all French nuclear fuel waste over 60 years of nuclear industry fit in a single room).

> There has been a strong decline in coal usage in the last years

This has been the narrative for the past 10 years, yet here we are. And in ten years Germany will still be producing way too much CO2 from its coal plants…

> And no, France hasn't been "filling the gap". Until very recently, Germany had been a constant net electricity exporter.

So is France, but that doesn't mean there's no gap to fill when the wind isn't blowing…
> At Monzo, we experimented with some pretty wacky management structures at times. There was a period when our middle managers were basically just responsible for “pastoral care” of each employee. They were not connected at all with the output that the ICs were producing. It was totally insane and overlapped with our period of lowest productivity by far.

Funny - I took a manager role where the company was trying this approach. I was the manager, but I wasn’t empowered to manage the team or their work. They had a lot of feel-good ideas about empowering employees and reducing the role of managers.

It had the same result. Lowest productivity period of my career, for the entire company. It turns out there is some value to traditional management structures when implemented properly. Nearly all of the companies that experiment with weird management structure ideas seem to discover this eventually, and either revert to traditional management structures or they get built up in the shadows via social standing within the company.
Wasn't my understanding from the contact I spoke to at Fractyl and associated docs. Noted to follow up with a domain expert, appreciate the context. Are you available for a paid 30-60 min conversation on the topic? Attempting to fill knowledge gaps, as I am not an expert.
Well, mainly because employers are more likely to hire a candidate from Harvard than they are from East Mississippi Community College.
While accurate, this misses the point. The chip is very similar to that in the Mac and it’s frustrating to have Apple prevent it being used more fully.
What I really wanted was to load the textures in a separate thread, but 10 years ago, when I tried it, I didn’t get good results. Maybe now things are different.
Very cool!
Great blog too (add RSS!). You officially have new reader.
Labelling a service like TikTok as "intentionally addictive" is just the height of stupidity around semantic games. It is obviously not addictive in any medical sense of the word, and insofar as we stretch the definition of "addictive" to include things like this we dilute the term enough that it becomes another word for "enjoyable".

You can read at least New Jersey's complaint here [1]. They do rightly point out the degree to which TikTok is used by the CCP to direct users to videos that serve as whitewashing propaganda, but the vast majority of the complaint is all junk science around dopamine hits and other bullshit.

At this point might as well ban Eragon and Percy Jackson and Harry Potter and all the other "addictive" books my kids read -- they can't help but turn the next page! And even after they finish they're asking for more books! ADDICTIVE!

I continue to maintain [2] that the use of the term "social media" is itself extremely deceptive as it confuses the consumption of content with the creation of content as well as the social network effects.

[1] https://www.nj.gov/oag/newsreleases24/2024-1008_Complaint-Fi...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40718848
20 years ago was Private Ryan and Band of Brothers. Maybe this is just an American perspective? We certainly didn't spend a lot of mental energy on Bataclan.
I don't know where you get that "it makes no difference" opinion.

Back then when the VPSes you could rent had 256MB of RAM or some times even 128MB, it was common knowledge that using a 32 bits distro would have a huge impact on your memory usage.

Maybe you are reading those opinions wrong, and what they are really saying is "it's not pointers filling 4GB of RAM, the pointer size makes no difference on modern machines"? Because I can agree with that one.
Napkin: Back-of-the-envelope calculations in Python
MoneyGram confirms hack: customer data have leaked
Right or wrong, the USG can do more stuff to inhibit foreign corporations operating here than it can to domestically owned ones. I expect we will see that play out as the deadline approaches here.
Ah, a fellow RSS reader! Thank you!
I'm curious how this will affect YouTube Shorts which is an obvious copy of TikTok.
They certainly are. It's the American way.
> don't think the concern would be as much if TikTok were British or Canadian or French

Under the TikTok ban bill, TikTok being sold to a Canadian or French owner would let them stay in American app stores.
The State of Canada's Birds
How is that hypocritical? Many smokers know they're killing themselves and if asked will discourage you from starting, but they keep smoking. Addictive experiences are like that sometimes - it's harder to quit than to not start.

Edit: Thinking more about this sentence:

> So two options, either they are hypocritical and inconsistent and actually watch a bunch of YouTube to form such an informed position that it is all slop OR they don't actually watch so they wouldn't really know.

Doesn't this imply that no one is in a position to call YouTube content crap since they either haven't seen it or are hypocrites? Whose opinion that YouTube content is crap would be valid then or are only positive opinions about YouTube valid?
> I guess TikTok is like everything bad about YouTube but with less attention span and controlled by the CCP.

I feel like YouTube has more content with actual effort put into it, and if you took the top N videos on each platform on any given day, the ones on YouTube would be substantially better.

Can I prove that? Nope. Does it even matter if the algorithm is just feeding you trash anyway? Perhaps not.

But at least YouTube *can* be used in a way that's not absolute mind rot. If that's even possible with TikTok, it's gotta be done by a substantially smaller chunk of the user base.
Then you need to cure your OCD and don’t ruin experience for normal people.
Love seeing updates / progress on gccrs.
One thing that's not clear from the article (perhaps it's explained in the book) is why the school had his marriage certificate on file. Since it listed his SS rank and the fact that he worked at a concentration camp, I'm assuming the US immigration authorities did not see it. But then the question is ... clearly he realized that being a Nazi was frowned upon in the US, so why would he provide that document to the school?
Nah. He didn't have to hide anything. He was asked once, when he immigrated, if he'd been a member of the SS (we explicitly disallow immigration by SS members), and he lied then. He was never really asked again, until 1981, and then was more or less immediately deported. Over his 30 odd years working here, there wasn't ever any concerted effort to protect him, until the very end.
'Threading' is an overload term. And while I didn't know, I was wondering if at the library level, the fact that posix_spawn() pauses the parent, while fork() doesn't, that is what you were leveraging.

The python multiprocessing module has been problematic for a while, as the platform abstractions are leaky and to be honest the POSIX version of spawn() was poorly implemented and mostly copied the limits of Windows.

I am sure that some of the recent deadlocks are due to this pull request as an example that calls out how risky this is.

https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/114279

Personally knowing the pain of fork() in the way you are using it, I have moved on.

But I would strongly encourage you to look into how clone() and the CLONE_VM and CLONE_VFORK options interact, document your use case and file an actionable issue against the multiprocessing module.

Go moved away from fork in 1.9 which may explain the issues with it better than the previous linked python discussion.

But looking at the git blame, all the 'fixes' have been about people trading known problems and focusing on the happy path.

My reply was intended for someone to address that tech debt and move forward with an intentional designed refactoring.

As I just focus on modern Linux, I avoid the internal submodule and just call clone() in a custom module or use python as glue to languages that have better concurrency.
Has NN led to any fundamental breakthrough in physics research? I understand the impact from NN to scientific research, but I'm not aware of any big results in fundamental physics research because of NN.
Eric Lichtblau wrote a good book on the resettlement of Nazis in the US, beyond the usual Paperclip names, called The Nazis Next Door.

Here’s a talk he gave at UCSB on the topic in 2015: https://youtu.be/eP3srgksUqU
> Should this lawsuit succeed, would that open up American companies to the same claims?

No. They are spying the kids for your own good. Remember, everybody can be a terrorist. /s
Adobe Announces Adobe Content Authenticity App
The significance is that it's not a Nobel prize. Saying that is simply formally wrong. It's a prize lobbied in (with a hefty donation) almost 70 years after the establishment, trying to raise the status of Economics as a scientific discipline by basking in the reflected glory of the actual Nobel prizes.

You may not care about the distinction, and if so that's your prerogative, but this Memorial prize in Economics, despite sharing in the festivities, is not in the same category and that's what you keep running into seeing pointed out.
same with gps - the user should deside how to open direction / location links.
got decently good at it

If you want to be good, you won't do it. Because learning == endless process of doing something badly relative against adult standards. Not being able to play blues guitar as well as B.B. King don't mean you ain't got the blues.

If you want to do draw, I can give you permission. Nothing will change until you give yourself permission to draw badly. Until you give yourself permission to draw for the sake of drawing. Until permission to take your drawing seriously. Until you accept the technical flaws of your technique. Accept that your flaws are what makes your art your art. Good luck.
Yes, Listening to Music Is Therapy
The video without annoying music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGliD4KjxAo
That still exists, they just call them pre-prints and put them on the arxiv.
Infix functions is one of the worst features of Kotlin.
European govt air-gapped systems breached using custom malware
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-promised-withdr...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withdrawal_of_United_States_...
Wonder if this has anything to do with increasing COSMIC and Wayland usage shares
To equity-holders, it's code for the obsession that makes founders work extra-hard to please the financiers. To employees, it's code for being an abusive asshole.

FWIW, I would never describe any of the (successful, with exits and now-successful brands) founders I worked for this way. It's disgusting.

It's been a long, long time since pg had to answer to employees. He clearly no longer understands the current labor market, nor what it implies about actual workplace conditions.

EDIT: To be clear, "obsessive" attention to detail is still what makes products work coherently. It's the rhetoric that an individual, even a "founder" taking on mountains of potential value, should (or even can) shoulder and internalize this, without breaking, that is inherently wrong.
More important than Python 3.13.

Bravo !!!!

Can't wait Scilab and Python to ship with Tcl/Tk 9.0

I think Next Scripting latest releases are 9.0 ready.

Keep an eye on Undroidwish and the Binary Releases section of the official page.
Taking GLP-1 meds without a program around them is like taking psychedelics without support/setting.

Before I started taking mine, I had to spend a whole month living the diet I'd be on (I lost 10lbs just with that diet change alone) to prepare. Lots of water, lots more fiber. Avoiding certain foods.

When I started taking the meds, my weight started to drop further and it was a minimal change to eat smaller portions (I felt full earlier). No side effects at starting dose.

Usually the 2nd/3rd tier of dose increases are where people get worse symptoms so your SO may be in for a more difficult time.

Some people don't tolerate the meds. Hopefully your SO is giving feedback to the doctor to course correct.
Art classes are high utility.
For sure, and I'm glad that the Government's powers don't go any further to truly "censoring" the content regardless of the platform. Even this current order is borderline, hence why I dance around the morality of it as I comment.

I do think that an App Store ban would be an effective tool. I don't think that average consumers would use the .com, over YT shorts or threads or whatever.
How Social Media Interferences with the Psychology of Time and Memory
Neo-nazis are a real problem on the internet, as I have been pointing out for many years.
Put it up on craigslist (or whatever is popular in your area) for free and label it "as-is, needs repair". Odds are decent that someone will take it off your hands with the intention of fixing it and getting a free stove top.
> As Hugging Face hosts nearly 11PB of datasets with Parquet files alone accounting for over 2.2PB of that storage

11PB on S3 would cost ~$250k per month / $3m per year.

HuggingFace has raised almost $400M.

Not saying it's nothing, but probably not a big deal to them (e.g. ~10 of their 400+ staff cost more).
That’s an application design choice, not a minimum. An alternative is to work internally in one unit and convert at format time.
I tried to watch the McAfee documentary and gave up after 20 minutes of that slog. How they managed to make the documentary about this man boring is beyond me, and answering that would itself make a more interesting documentary.

In short, it was so bad that I will no longer watch any Netflix documentary again.
Discussed at the time (of the article):

Alan Turing's Suicide in Doubt - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4150495 - June 2012 (66 comments)
> How is this unique to TikTok?

FTA:"Chinese-owned TikTok"

> This smells very election-yearish.

Is there a term for the phenomenon whereby when a conversation is being had by a group of people, and all participants know that the conversation is non-genuine (the talking points of the various parties are knowingly untruthful), but it hasn't yet been explicitly acknowledged that everyone is telling fibs?

I think it's funny that almost everything in the world runs in this general state, but we hardly ever talk about it. And then we whine about how everything is such a mess.

Is there anyone other than me out there that wonders about why we do things this way? No known laws of physics force us to do it, and yet we do almost only this (it is mainly a question of the degree to which "we" do it in any given situation, and there are many very obvious patterns of domains/topics where we tend to do it more so than in others). Might there be some other forces in our midst that we are overlooking?
Believing that you can do a better job of allocating your Nobel prize money than a central authority is free-market thinking.

If he’s a socialist, he should donate all his property to the government, including the entire prize money.
Maybe Libretube etc. might be good to use with children? One of the main problems with Youtube is the algorithmic feed of recommendation.

For kids it seem to converge in 'lets play', unboxing of toys and AI spam.
Wilfred Sheed had an interesting essay on Stafford, collected in Essays in Disguise. Stafford had been his father's secretary at the publishing house Sheed and Word. Sheed senior judged that what ate Lowell was that Stafford became famous before he did.
Out of curiosity, does Dev Drive do anything for you? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-drive/
I wonder how much of the value here is from canceling out the positional noise rope produces. I would love to see a table comparing an alibi version of this to an alibi baseline in addition to the rope models here.

Crazy gains though congrats to the researchers
> Rails is much more "batteries included". No need to decide what ORM, queue, mailer, remote storage, etc you want to use for the new project. You just use the built in solution.

One important aspect of this that I think isn't well-understood in the JS ecosystem is that existence of standard "blessed" solutions means that the rest of the ecosystem can be built around them, especially tooling. With JS and Node, every time there's a new fancy framework, you have to wait for IDEs to catch up to give you any kind of convenience above and beyond just typing code. I was just looking at test frameworks the other day, and the state of IDE integration (with stuff like e.g. Test Explorer in VSCode) is appalling even for well-established ones like Mocha. Ruby guys don't have to rewrite everything every two years, so their tools tend to be much more polished in that regard.
How did Hurricane Milton reach category 5 strength so quickly?
Here's the Ideas link: https://ideas.lego.com/projects/10a3239f-4562-4d23-ba8e-f4fc...
Technically, it isn't possible for you to know what is going on. I suspect you are mistaking belief for knowledge, as is our cultural conditioning, here in the land of Freedom and Truth.
It is very still relevant.

It is also supported on Scilab.
Maybe if they actually named some American competitors there'd be an actual argument.

As it states, it's just a case of whataboutism. Various states have sued various companies in the past so we're still in a rule of law situation.
"Denial" crimes. There's at least 3 of them involving race, gender, and religion. Good luck getting funding or even keeping your shitty job if you commit any of these cardinal sins.
Caveman Debugging in the Modern Age
I'd like to recommend Johann Hari's "Stolen "Focus" to you.

You'll probably recognize several patterns, personal and systemic, that are fighting against (y)our ability to maintain the focus needed for many worthwhile tasks. Knowing is half the battle :)
Replace managers with AI
There is a contingent of Hacker News that strongly opposes the opening of iOS to third party app distribution, usually with the reasoning that doing so would prevent Apple from strong-arming third party developers into abiding by rules that benefit users (no notification spam, billing for subscriptions must be centrally managed, users must be able to opt out of tracking). If developers have other distribution options on the platform then, if they're successful enough, they'll be able to have their users install their misbehaved (but popular/necessary) app by some channel that Apple doesn't control. Comments where I support opening of the iOS platform are the most consistently downvoted of any that I make, though most do recover to a positive score eventually. There are exceptions, but that is the overall pattern I observe.
something jeff bezos always warned against was the "narrative fallacy" - for one to believe so strongly in a compelling story that they dont stop for data.

here's the stock charts of the founder of founder mode vs a professional manager mode guy :)

https://x.com/ericnewcomer/status/1830998969490526423

just a fun reminder not to take everything as gospel.

to engage more substantively with TFA:

> I think the general pattern that Brian was identifying was the following. A young, inexperienced founder with limited management experience is running a rapidly scaling company. Famous VCs invest a lot of money and join the board. Headcount passes 100 and quickly grows beyond 1000. The VCs (who often have never run anything themselves) encourage the founder to hire “executives” with “scaling experience”.
>
> The founder is told to “empower” these executives, who typically then implement techniques that worked for them at previous companies. But, too often, these techniques fail in the new company.

yes, i have worked at a company where this happened — sans the "quickly grows beyond 1000" - we never got there before our hired gun execs made enough political moves to effectively kill the company momentum. i dont know if our founder couldve righted the ship by himself since he had his own issues to overcome, but i'm 100% sure he would have been better off just having the hired guns be advisors rather than management layers.
Heck, I'm a gamedev right now and I completely understand the not going back bit
I never _quite_ got that thing built. I came close, but then never painted it maybe?
They did not bring it into existence. The MLP is older than the Hopfield network. The invention that made it practical was back propagation, which wasn't used here at all.
This was in the early 90s when thunderbirds was being reshown on tv, comics reprinted and in the shops, toys available at all good toy shops etc

Howver the toy Tracy island was out of stock - demand exceeded the supply. With Christmas rapidly approaching and a lot of kids about to be unhappy, the “build your own” program lodged in the national conscious - everyone knew Blue Peter, it had been running for decades with its sticky back plastic and one they made earlier.
The only one in that price range is the Mario Kart Live, where a good chunk of that $80 has to be the FPV system.
Digital Signals Theory
https://archive.ph/ECqad
Whether or not these fields are meaningfully distinct is a matter of taste, despite the fashion being to imagine a plurality of interconnected but autonomous domains.
In the old days at MSFT, developers had a separate HD for code and builds that was completely excluded from virus scanners.

Sometimes a big blunt hammer does the trick!