skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the most damning comment of all on "founder mode" came not from the critics but from a LinkedIn post giving Brian Chesky apparently sincere praise for purportedly examplifying it. Apparently AirBNB had completely screwed up customer support responses to a fellow founder to the extent they'd blocked her, but as she was a member of the YC alumni network, a quick message and Brian resolved her in a few minutes, at the weekend. Who needs process or executive decision making at lower levels when you have "founder mode"?!

Customer support mistakes are unavoidable in large companies and AirBNB definitely isn't the worst offender in that regard, but I can't really imagine a bigger example of dysfunction in a B2C business than customer support resolution being the CEO needing to respond to personal messages of customers well connected enough to reach him via private channels. But now customer support failure is actually something to aspire to, provided it involves the important virtue of CEOs being busy at weekends.
FYI, I recently posted about a 2d game I made, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41761517

Putting aside the politics and all, focusing on the tech- one thing I came across when trying to do my own collision detection was the idea of using the GPU and occlusion queries for pixel-perfect results.

I didn't come up with the technique, but it's super cool, and since you're not taxing the GPU with tons of 3d triangles, it's perhaps a bit more free to do stuff like that.
if two attentions A, B are identical, would (A - lambda * B) be just (1-lambda) * A, how does it "boost the signal value(s) over the "noise""?
As a bystander, I am baffled. You are clearly misunderstanding the core ideas of the book, yet adamant that you wouldn’t learn anything from reading it. Your reduction of the ideas to communism is juvenile. In fact, the alternative tax system proposed would keep value produced from labor in the private hands of the laborer — in essence the exact opposite of communism. Taxation can take many forms, and the details matter quite a lot. Until you open your mind to realize this, even if you still disagreed with the proposals, I think you’ll continue failing to understand why Progress and Poverty is globally one of the most widely distributed political economy books in history.
> Most Parquet files are bulk exports from various data analysis pipelines or databases, often appearing as full snapshots rather than incremental updates

I'm not really familiar of how datasets are managed by them, but all of the table formats (iceberg, delta and hudi) support appending and some form of "merge-on-read" deletes that could help with this use case. Instead of always fully replacing datasets on each dump, more granular operations could be done. The issue is that this requires changing pipelines and some extra knowledge about the datasets itself.
A fun idea might involve taking a table format like iceberg, and instead of using parquet to store the data, just store the column data with the metadata externally defined somewhere else. On each new snapshot, a set of transformations (sorting, spiting blocks, etc) could be applied that minimizes that the potential byte diff between the previous snapshot.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wad2j8kBPHU
Depends on what you mean by "IT". If you're thinking like fleet management for thousands of desktops, then it's probably not a bunch of people having a good time. On the other hand, trying to do fleet management for Windows desktops isn't much fun either.
Not the poster, but I don't understand the downvotes: this is exactly right. Higgs was awarded the Nobel after the mechanism he theorized was experimentally confirmed, and that is 100% the reason it took so long.
"I think the trap people fall into is to have things be overly specific in the name of optimization they never get to achieving anyway."

Yes I agree, writing a specific functionality in the engine does allow for more optimal performance but the tradeoff is that it's more brittle and more complicated to write and maintain.

My personal approach has been to do the first principles and avoid writing use-case specific features in the engine as much as possible but provide more fundamental functionality that the game then combines to create the desired effect.

That being said I've still had to do some concessions and move stuff like simple constant velocity game object integration to the engine side simply because the perf difference between native code doing that vs Lua code are just too massive.
Huh I have an Ecovacs vacuum
I hope this leads to a cloud cut exploit so I can run it locally.

The biggest disappointment has been Tuya patched the exploits which let tuya-cloudcutter work without dismantling devices.

I don't know how we do it, but I want a world where IoT is required to be independent of cloud and flashable.
You’re arguing against establishing an important precedent that can be used against other social networks.
Related (the first Duo) Microsoft cuts ties with the Surface Duo after just 2 Android version updates (24 points, 1 year ago, 32 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37458562
You could read the article if you want to. It says that he voluntarily joined the SS Totenkopf division, committed atrocities at a concentration camp, and he openly stated that is biggest/only regret was that Germany lost the war...
I was a voracious reader and was signed up for honors English Lit.

The teacher gave us a test on Moby Dick, one of the questions was what was the main character's name. I didn't remember because it only appears right there at the beginning.....

Still pretty bitter about that question.
A lot of people, including people in attendance, do too. I think the reason is that people read Paul Graham posts about startup management as if they were written on stone tablets. Sometimes I think he intends for them to be taken that way (and in some cases, I think I get why), but this was not one of those cases, and the discourse ran away with it.

That said: there's a real phenomenon Graham and Chesky were grappling with, and if you've done startups for awhile --- startups, in particular, because they give you the vantage point of seeing a company's management processes develop from zero --- you've almost certainly seen it yourself. Not enough has been written about it! The point Graham was trying to make isn't banal (or wrong).

It's just not fully formed, and is being taken that way.
I'm already treating the WWW and the commercial internet generally as "Babylon". You have to use it for a lot of stuff (doing commerce, interacting with the government), but why would you willingly use it on your own time?
If I may be so bold, a breakthrough will require new experimental techniques, and we aren't likely to get those from ML.
> Lowest productivity period of my career, for the entire company

"Productivity" is a nebulous concept in knowledge work. So unless you're referring to a factory with a very concrete, measurable output, this isn't particularly meaningful term.

How was the quality and employee satisfaction (as shown by solicited feedback or subjective anecdotes, plus attrition/turnover, etc.)?
My experience using LLMs to learn is similar. When I read MDN or some O'Reilly tome I get a lot of information but it's in the general sense. I can use what I've learned to build some specific project and it'll work but because the book isn't tailored to the specific thing I'm doing, there will often be a much better way. The LLM on the other hand gives an answer as specific as I'm willing to give it context for and since I know software engineering as a discipline I know when the specific suggestion from the LLM is far superior to the more general method learned in the text book.
> I’m sure you’re capable of inferring what the OP means.

And it’s that I’m disagreeing with. I’m sure you’re capable of understanding that too. Words matter. By being against something and calling it fake or fictional, you’re doing more harm to your cause than by recognising the impact it has on the real world and those who inhabit it.
How about a prize for the Monte Carlo simulation methods needed as input to these models?
> what happens if the two groups of attention learn the same thing

I wonder if there's a metaphor here for our own experience and utility in "surprise".

Like if one attention head is surprised by what another learns, up-weight it. But if they both find the same, assume it's not very surprising and down-weight it.

Admittedly, "surprise" is something that has a big section of my knowledgebase[1][2][3] (both as a subjective feeling and adaptive function of our minds, one of the most complex adaptive system we know of)

[1] https://plus.maths.org/content/information-surprise

[2] https://blakeelias.name/papers/Multi-Agent-Cooperation-Intri...

[3] https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/81/transcript
If it's an ideology of genocide, there is a way to win that war. Kill them first.
Suicide Rates by Industry and Occupation
Thanks for the correction, having a read of the wikipedia x32 ABI [0] page now.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X32_ABI
> key to economic growth

At a national level, there are no single keys, there aren’t even major factors. You’re kind of trading in the same narrative rhetoric of the article you are ackshuallying.

The Renaissance Technologies example is funny anyway. My dude, literally nobody but bankers thinks hedge funds are good for the economy, let alone a good use of “productive employees.”
Ok, that's fair. But you have to admit that there are some limitations imposed on what you can do with your phone.

For example: my bank doesn't accept check deposits via the website, but they do via the app. But the app only works if you're on an "approved" operating system, or if you root the device to tell the app it is. If I didn't use the app, I'd have to go to a bank branch in person, which means a car trip for me.

Similarly, netflix movies and games are only usable on LOS after rooting it. I don't do all that much of either of these, but it's nice to have if I end up stuck in a lobby somewhere for an hour. Odds are good that I won't have a laptop with me.
Meta debuts new generative AI tools for creating video-based ads
> I was expecting a little variation in execution time for each comparison, but what I wasn't expecting was the bimodal nature of the results. For each function, there were two distinct groups of execution times. These peaks existed for all the function types at consistent relative spacings, which suggests that certain vector comparisons took longer than others no matter which distance function was being used

Surely pre- and post- JIT?
This came as a huge shock to those who only got the "free Starlink" through word of mouth here on the ground. We were told, "just go to starlink.com/activate" and type in your address. It was complete horseshit. The worst part about it was phones were in SOS mode, there was no internet anywhere, yet we could load that page to activate, which meant THERE WAS INTERNET. Just not to those who didn't pay for hardware and delivery (to places that are impossible to deliver to even today a week out). Infuriating.
I hear you and sort of agree with your general point. Though I think I would love to see the exact same Google Play, but with filtering for apps with ads and IAP. Basically so I could filter for freeware, open source and paid apps.
Minisforum is also selling a new option with an external GPU bracket/dock[1]; honestly the same thing can be replicated with a Pi Compute Module, though nobody's making a nice enclosure for it yet[2].

I would like to re-test things once the CM5 comes out, but as you state, more PCIe bandwidth is better. Would love to have at least Gen 3 x4, that way you could also get more bandwidth between other devices too, like NVMe + GPU + 2.5 Gbps NIC.

[1]: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/minisforum-b550-amd-ryzen-...

[2]: https://pipci.jeffgeerling.com/boards_cm/pi4gpu.html
Then they shouldn't be trusted to give awards in an area they are not experts in.
Yeah, that's just an infix function that provides some default parameters to this extension method:

https://github.com/eriksencosta/money/blob/4bef95a1d2158e308...
Thanks - noted to the team. We're moving a lot faster now that I'm full-time and I finally have two really great devs alongside. Look forward to improving this and having people say "actually it's really good now" in a few months time.
That's why school supply stores will sell you 4,800 tubes for only $1,640!

https://www.discountschoolsupply.com/arts-crafts/arts-crafts...
Since Elon Musk started supporting Trump, ex has been filled with hate
I heard it from a professor who was a researcher in magnetohydrodynamics, studying flows on and under the surface of the sun. I don't know where to read more unfortunately, I'm not sure where it'sbeen fleshed out as an ideology.
Definitely. I'm over 60 and I still can't get a job
I think most "I want to make an engine so I can make games faster" people are cursed to make engines forever, this is rare.
I think common mode filtering in balanced audio cables is a much better analogy than noise canceling headphones (and where this paper gets its name from I assume), you don't know what the noise is ahead of time, but if you take two samples with one positive and one negative, noise displaces both absolutely, which you can take advantage of to denoise the signal (find the differential mode).

For example, if you are trying to send a +1V signal on one wire, and a -1V signal on the other and a +0.5V noise exists, one wire will have +1.5V and the other will have -0.5V,

Take the difference and divide by 2:

(+1.5V - -0.5V) / 2 = +1V
or, if your setup is different
(-0.5V - +1.5V) / 2 = -1V
> It can't be a scam if customers have full information before they agree

It absolutely can be, if customers don't know how that price is generated, which you don't. You agree but you don't have the full facts. Your friend could be paying half and you're getting ripped off.

And, to be clear, many taxis before Uber did actually advertise their rates. This is the same situation then, but even better, because you know your rate isn't for you, it's for everyone.
The behavior you've described seems deeply dysfunctional but for reasons that are entirely separate from how the term "founder mode" has gained a life of its own. "Founder mode" is being weaponized to critique people for entering a market much more competitive and dry of opportunity than it was thirty years ago Without acknowledging any change in the market the article at hand seems to be just a person belching complaints without anything to say.
Many Amcrest IP Cameras are manufactured by Dahua and use localized versions of Dahua firmware. The same applies to the Lorex brand in the United States.

Some things that matter when it comes to configuring your IP Cameras (Beyond security, etc):
- Support for RTSP
- Configurable Encoding Settings (e.g. h264 coded, bitrate, i-frame intervals, framerate)
- Support for Substreams (i.e. a full-resolution main stream for recording, and at least one lower-resolution substream for preview/detection/etc)
...

Make sure the hardware you select is capable of the above.

Configurability will matter because Identification is not the same as Detection (Reference: "DORI" - Detection, Observation, Recognition, and Identification from IEC EN62676-4). If you want to be able to successfully identify objects or entities using your cameras, it will require more care than basic Observation or Detection.
Cosine similarity of two normalized vectors is just the length of the projection of one vector on the other. That gives a very intuitive geometric meaning to cosine similarity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_projection
Yeah, that's why the war on terrorism is going so well. It's only been 24 years, I'm sure we'll have that stamped out any minute.

Then we can go back to re-winning against Nazism after we stamped it out the past 80 years... actually it never really disappeared.

So much winning going on.
ATC does not take appointments. Planes arrive early and late all the time. All ATC offers is _sequencing_ through protected airspaces. Your pilot is literally picking up their actual clearance on the ground right before engine start.

Planes can declare emergencies, they can divert to alternative locations, turn around for maintenance issues. And this is just IFR flights. VFR flights can take off, and once outside of controlled airspace, can just fly mostly however they want.

Your doctor takes appointments. That's a more apt analogy for what port appointments will create.
Go?? Ruby and Python I think count, Ruby is a JS contemporary and Python is close enough, no one paid it any attention before the late 90s.
Rust is still struggling in the domain it wants to live (a C++ replacement), I still have a suspicion that a new new C++ will ultimately come along and dominate before Rust eats the big money where C++ still lives. And I say this as someone who has been rooting for Rust since stumbling upon Graydon's proposal in 2006 while swearing at yet another C++ monstrosity (though a moneymaking one).
Yeah, well, those pipelines are running on HPCs that are using linux. Particle physicists kind of hate Windows.
Kudzu, the vine that never ate the South (2015)
I got, what feels like, the most productive month of the year behind me, because I thought that the data nerd top executives flagged me because my GitHub stats were down and they keep an eye on me. It turns out I took something as a hint from my engineering manager that wasn’t directed towards me, and my stats were fine.

In the end they got increased productivity out of me because I thought I was flagged in some faceless soulless nonsensical “insights” dashboard.

And by productive I mean that I feel like I made more impactful changes than usually, so I’m not referring to GitHub stats with fake cheat PRs and changes.
From here:

https://thebootstrappedfounder.com/why-founders-end-up-unemp...

"It probably won’t surprise you that instead of being praised for creating something that could be rightfully considered a piece of written art, I got reprimanded for not following the structural expectations of the task. The story that was a deep and honest expression of myself received a failing grade. Over-delivering was punished, and severely so."

The enterprise, like the school, don't want to see creativity. Unfortunately, just by revealing you started a company, you are telling the employer what they don't want to hear. This author is mostly putting the blame on the founder, but clearly that isn't the whole story.

He goes on:

"And generalists are not sought after by employers, particularly not in the lower rungs of the corporate ladder. Solopreneurs end up being overqualified in the most confusing sense: they have too much interdisciplinary knowledge to fit into well-defined roles."

So, unemployability isn't just about the attitudes of the founder.
Point of order: it was never demonstrated that he directly committed atrocities at Gross-Rosen or Mauthausen (where he was never stationed). Of course, his work guarding prisoners there enabled those atrocities, as both the courts considering his case immediately pointed out.†

He didn't say Germany losing was his "only" regret and he didn't say that openly --- he said that in a private session with the OPRF school board (the only citation we have for it --- I have no doubt he said it, given what his son Rainer wrote in our local newspaper at the time --- is an interview Soffer did with one of the school board members). He was not an out-and-proud Nazi or a public advocate for Germany.

(To be clear: I think his case was handled properly by the authorities, and OPRF's protection of him after they discovered his Nazi past was not good.)

† Ironically, his combat service on the Eastern Front has more problematic documentation; he got a commendation for his involvement in the capture of 250 Soviet soldiers, and it's tacitly understood that those soldiers were then killed.
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New AI developer tools and practices conference (virtual)
It can be resurrected with a crypto domain name service (a reference to the web 3 industry for cryptographers that are still pretending like context isn’t obvious). there are plenty now.

since .io is already tech scene this one will be easy to resolve

of course you can do it without crypto but since this will be baked into wallets that people already have as browser extensions it will actually work
I'd love for a precedent to be established, but I have zero confidence that it will actually be used for anything that doesn't come from China.

Given it's very spotty track record, I have very little confidence that the US is actually a country where nobody is above the law. I'd be very pleasantly surprised if this actually goes the other way, but I would not bet on it. The entire discourse so far about TikTok has been about how it's bad because it's foreign media, not about a principled approach to why it and other things like it are bad.

What makes you think it'll turn around, and extend to other social media?
i like to think about thought experiments like this: what if electronics/large consumer goods were all bar-coded and, when they are disposed of, scanned in, and the original manufacturer is charged some fee for the recycling/disposal of them. Make "repairing with minimal waste" the recurring revenue that product companies shoot for, rather than the new new thing.
This was the Thugshaker incident where an an AF reservist released a bunch of crap online for clout. Takeaways from the wiki link that was posted:

Battle of Bakhmut:
Late February 2023: Russian flanking maneuvers near Bakhmut, Ukrainian military discussions on response, and supply shortages.
February 25: Ukrainian forces nearly encircled; low morale among soldiers.
Kyrylo Budanov described the situation as “catastrophic”; offered to deploy elite units to safeguard the supply line.
Deployment of reinforcements, including elite units, prevented encirclement but depleted seasoned forces needed for the spring counter-offensive.

Casualty Estimates:
Documents cover U.S.-provided military resources, Pentagon estimates on casualties, and Ukraine’s planned counteroffensive.
U.S. estimates: 189,500 to 223,000 Russian casualties, 124,500 to 131,000 Ukrainian casualties.
Soldiers killed in action: 15,500 to 17,500 Ukrainian, 35,500 to 43,000 Russian.
Significant casualties for Spetsnaz GRU due to their use in the war.

Russian Military Planning:
Russian General Staff plans to counter NATO-provided tanks, including paying soldiers who destroy NATO tanks.
U.S. aware of Russian plans to destroy a hangar containing drones near Odesa.

Russia–NATO Aircraft Encounters and Near Shootdown:
September 2022: Russian fighter jet nearly shot down a British surveillance plane off Crimea.
Incident disclosed by Ben Wallace in October; involved two Sukhoi Su-27 jets, one firing a missile at the Rivet Joint.
Potential NATO response if the missile had hit the plane.
Document details other encounters with Russian jets, including the 2023 Black Sea drone incident.
French and British reconnaissance flights between the near-shootdown and February 26, 2023.
U.S. defense officials stated the Russian pilot misunderstood commands from a radar operator.

Weapons Use by Ukraine:
Ukraine’s air defense (S-300 and Buk missile systems) expected to be depleted by May.
Documents refer to Ukraine using weapons within Russia; Zelenskyy suggested UAV strikes in Rostov Oblast.
Potential increase in Chinese aid to Russia if Ukraine strikes within Russia.
Exposure of LAPIS, an advanced satellite system used by the Ukrainian military.
Proposed “Combat Power Build” of 9 planned brigades supplied by the U.S. and allies.

Weapons Use by Russia:
Russia attempted to disrupt Starlink systems provided by SpaceX to Ukraine.

Western Special Forces:
List of countries with special forces in Ukraine: UK (50), Latvia (17), France (15), U.S. (14), Netherlands (1).
U.S. special forces at the U.S. embassy in Kyiv for VIP security and oversight of U.S. equipment and supplies.