skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surely it would be closer to justice if one were to dispatch the various management gurus and architects who claimed open plan was acceptable and any CEO who agreed with that garbage?

Here's a new idea, will it be adopted? Well does it increase office misery - then yes. If one idea gets past that goes the other direction its removal will be the most pressing management concern. Presently the biggest trend in the c-suite is how to end remote work in the face of all its positive metrics. Hot-desking, which has nothing positive about it for anyone, get behind it!
The discussion you’re looking for is happening over on X. It’s long been dead here.
Yes, actual diagnosis. As an adult, after it already destroyed my marriage and career.
Fraud is a material misstatement of fact to induce someone to do something. It's really not clear that there's any actual inducement here; this isn't exactly the centerpoint of a pitch video to investors. (As it turns out, Tesla's stock went down like 9% the next day after the event, with most of the analysts' reactions to the announcement essentially being "okay, so he doesn't really have anything that he wasn't already pitching").
Hopefully, they will check for overemployment before allowing them to remotely control, otherwise we end up with one operator controlling several cars. I don’t know if it is good or bad
Looks like something is misconfigured. Searching for "daveverse" returns the following URL that works in the Mastodon UI, but redirects when opened standalone: https://mastodon.social/@daveverse.wordpress.com@daveverse.w...
Not so much rude as.. silly. What's your goal here? Optimal resource consumption? Can't relate. It's not like absorbing more information faster makes me smarter or more capable. Or happier. If anything it's the opposite.
confusing indeed
There are FPV drones, although I am not sure about their precision
It's ironic that the domain name is one of those that my mental "classifier" would instantly put into the "SEO spam / ads" category and subconsciously skip over when scrolling through search results.
I miss those days :’
Whether it'd be a true success remains to be seen, at least in terms of making a profit on total investment. My point was that it certainly wasn't vaporware, even if it didn't sell well.
The turnaround time for Shuttle was 2-3 months, while building a brand new rocket takes like 1-2 years. Although for the cost of Shuttle, we could have built a whole bunch of expendable rockets, pipelined with a regular launch cadence, and probably also gotten some cost savings through economies of scale.
Ah, you're right I grabbed the wrong paper. I presume the other commenter (hervature ) also knew what paper I meant.

But yes, the item you want studied might not have been studied. ("However, the trial was only able to enroll participants on small stationary aircraft on the ground, suggesting cautious extrapolation to high altitude jumps.")

https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k5094
I think there's an example in the next line with YouTube being in italics
The War on Passwords Is One Step Closer to Being Over
Yes, they are not usually driven remotely, but an operator can take the wheel in an emergency situation. Most of the interventions are "this plan or that one?" decisions from the teleoperators.

That still isn't really "autonomous," but it's a lot closer than anything Tesla has done. My question, though, is how frequent the interventions actually are.
People used to whip up Delphi GUI apps in an hour or two. I'm not sure how to achieve this so efficiently with "modern" tools and languages.

Maybe Python, but it doesn't compile to a static bin.
Not Android, but it's an open-source music player:

https://www.crowdsupply.com/cool-tech-zone/tangara
after reading the actual words he writes himself and publishes them for the world to see I came to the same conclusion
I just want to say that fruits need a ripening time because they are picked too early to accommodate transportation.

Fruits picked ripe from the tree are significantly tastier and probably healthier.
Zapata AI Ceases Operations
> Not sure if that is sarcastic or not, but the whole article seems to be "middle manager doesn't like basic parts of being a middle manager".

Can you share which parts made you think that? I don't think that's a fair assessment.

I was unexpectedly appointed manager
The fact that Waymo has lapped anything Musk has to offer made the entire spectacle cringey and sad.
> I later learned that the execs at most of the tech companies were similarly clueless on what made software possible, and basic stuff like trading off time for space and vice versa.

Why would an exec ever need to know about time/space tradeoffs? That's an engineering detail that is almost never relevant at the executive level. If you're pitching a business idea at this level, you're going to have a rough time.
It's perplexing because Elon is effective at fundraising and pursuing challenging and ambitious goals.

However now Tesla cars are protected by a 100% tariff on competitors, and Elon is campaigning for Trump who is now promising 200% tariffs on imported goods.

The gigapress sounded like a good idea when I first heard about it bc it could reduce manufacturing costs, yet Tesla does not seem to have realized any significant improvements in 2024 from it, and needs massive protectionist policies to compete.

It's interesting to imagine the price and performance we'd be seeing (and all the new dealerships and service centers popping up) of Chinese engineered and manufactured EVs if it weren't for the tariffs. Surely there would be some very capable options in the $20K range that would eat the Model 3's lunch. But Elon has government protection to the rescue and so he doesn't have to actually win at engineering or manufacturing, only lobbying.
If it wasn’t actually bothering him, I doubt he would be spending so much time and effort dodging it. Either ignore it (actually), or just do it, eh?

Instead he seems to be intentionally playing a high stakes game of chicken. Weird.
That’s just a job. Might as well get paid while you do that kinda stuff
The rebate had existed before, and the quota renewing at some point between announcement and release was not a crazy idea.

If Tesla's jacking up the price because of that rebate, they get NO credit for it. 63k is what they are charging and what I will judge them on.

And I don't think the exact moment it applies really matters.
If economists can't predict the future then what good are they?
The Netherlands is closing emptying prisons. What can other countries learn?
The fact that the fraud was lazy and blatant makes it worse, not better.
> "People screaming out against ozempic and friends are just angry that maybe it does work well enough and that people don’t have to struggle for once"

No, I'm angry in the way that you punching me in the face with my own hand, saying "stop hitting yourself" then offering to sell me a painkiller subscription might make me. The sheer ridiculousness of Big Food vs Big Pharma with humans trapped in the middle. Humans presented by geeks as perfectly spherical rational decision makers, but actually lizard hind-brains wrapped in frontal lobes and language centers, with very exploitable biases, feelings, fears, and base drives and very few defenses against it, and those defenses being undermined at every turn by political lobbying and profit seeking.
IANAL but if Automattic decides that its name can't be used in the context of third-party hosting, that could be a problem for the preconfigured installer feature of Lightsail. I don't know how big an impact it would be for them, but presumably it's somewhat important given they highlight the preconfigured installer on the site. Many other hosts offer this as well.

GoDaddy has a menu item for "WordPress hosting," which is exactly what got WPE into trouble. Namecheap has "WordPress" in its navbar.

Beyond hosting, the theme retailers (like Themeforest) could find themselves in the crosshairs. The plugin developers.

Anybody who uses "WordPress" in their marketing. If you sell an add-on for WordPress, you probably need to say "WordPress" somewhere in your collateral, and this may mean you own Automattic a percentage of your revenue.

The problem is nobody knows, because the proposed rules are unwritten. Working in the WordPress ecosystem just had an unquantifiable amount of platform risk added, where there was effectively none at the beginning of the year.
TLDR; Reused Instagram code + infra and server driven UI.
Can everyone justify paying for a search engine though?
There is another factor that everyone is ignoring here. Some people are just much more sensitive to that kind of pain. If you Lymphadema, or especially Lipodemia, you are much more likely to experience a lot of pain even when a manual sphygmomanometer is being used.

The Omron BP7000 doesn’t hurt me that much, and I measure mine every morning and every evening. But it does hurt my wife, and she has both conditions.
Aside from the central thesis, I found this part very interesting (and worth an article of its own):

"As in many other western countries, the number of violent crimes has significantly dropped in the Netherlands in recent decades.

"This does not necessarily mean that there is actually less crime overall, as Dutch criminologist Francis Pakes, professor at the University of Portsmouth, who has studied the reasons for the emptying Dutch prisons, told me: “There is less conventional, violent crime, like murder. On the other hand, a lot of conventional crime went online and is less visible. And it is quite possible that there is a kind of organised crime that we have little visibility on. But fewer serious cases are coming to the police and courts.” And so fewer people end up in jail."
In this case it would't care. Since it's basically redefining what (lambda) means to the Reader. That is where that notorious distinction of Read-Eval-Print-Loop comes to play.

1. Read:

- In Python, the read phase must parse text into an intermediate representation (AST) that is distinct from Python's data structures. During the read phase, Python using built-in tokenizer and parser, parses its infamous indent-based syntax, handles literals, identifiers, keywords, operators, decorators, docstrings, comments, etc. Finally, it builds an AST.

- In Lisp, the read phase produces a data structure (s-expressions) that is directly usable as code. The syntax and the abstract syntax tree are essentially the same thing. Lisp uses built-in Reader - parses s-expressions while handling special syntax elements - quotes, backticks, commas, hash-quotes, handles reader macros, parses numbers strings, other literals, comments. But! No need to build an AST - the code already is.

2. Eval:

- Lisp can evaluate the s-expressions directly. The code is data, and data is code. That's where macros get expanded before the evaluation, function calls are resolved, symbols are looked up, tail calls optimized, byte-code compilation is available but not mandatory.

- Python must compile its AST into bytecode before execution. Python uses stack-based VM, figures out scoping and class namespaces, special forms (if, for, def) handled by specific bytecode instructions. Decorators are applied, reference counting and GC, tail call optimization (if runtime has it, standard CPython doesn't). It always has to compile bytecode before execution.

- Lisp macros operate on the code structure directly, allowing for powerful metaprogramming. Python's metaclasses and decorators are more limited in comparison.

3. Print:

- Elisp's printed representation of data is often directly readable as code. What you see is what you can evaluate. Eisp has built-in circular structure handling, Python doesn't. Elisp's printing is more focused on producing readable/evaluable Lisp expressions

- Python's printed representation, especially for complex objects, is often not directly executable code. Python's object-oriented approach allows for more customization through methods

4. Loop:

The Loop phase in both cases ensures that the REPL continues to accept and process input, making interactive development and experimentation possible.

- In Lisp, you can easily manipulate the environment, even the REPL itself, using the same language constructs.

- Python's REPL is more of a black box from the language's perspective.
Don't worry, your monitor is good enough for the purpose of screening for hypertension. Truth is the exact values don't matter much for this purpose. Only thing that matters is the fact that people die less and develop less complications when treated based on the results. They are still useful even if the figures have some error in them.

Medicine is just statistics.
Can one volunteer for jury duty? Asking for a friend.
Tensor programming for databases, with first class dimensions
Because in-spite of all the FUD on here, it’s magical, I use it everyday and I don’t believe we’re anywhere close to the limit of what they can deliver yet.
Sodium batteries theoretically should be cheaper than li-ion, but they are not yet there in practice. And they still won't solve problems with polar vortexes in the US or a month-long Dunkelflaute in Germany.
LLMs bullshit like their "life" depends on it.

For math that is a fatal flaw.
This book changed my life. I listened to the audiobook while I was doing some heavy yard work for a couple weeks in my backyard. There were times when I was 8-hours in and muscles I didn't know I had in my hands, back, and feet were aching and hurting unlike anything I've felt before. The streaks of clean skin formed by the sweat beading and trickling down my face had tried and slowly returned to the dusty grit from which it was carved. It was in these times I felt I was strong, I felt I was pushing my limits, I felt like I had conquered the earth.

Then the passages of the book flooded my mind's eye with images of their struggle, conquest, and perseverance. Their endurance.

It put my efforts into perspective.
What other activities are prohibited in your dream dictatorship?
Thanks.

Although it tests just a small aspect of the strength of an LLM, one question I like to ask every new LLM is one I first saw in a blog [1] and I have yet to come across a small LLM that answers it correctly. Almost all large LLMs won't answer it correctly either.

A small strawberry is put into a normal cup and the cup is placed upside down on a table. Someone then takes the cup and puts it inside the microwave. Where is the strawberry now?

[1] https://towardsdatascience.com/openai-o1-the-enigmatic-force...
We have lots of local customizations (and how we keep track of them)
Unicode uses elephants as baseline comparison of cultural frequency for emoji
There are many factors, and Abnb can be one of them, but it’s not the only read. Zoning laws, economic landscape of the town, etc all play into to the lack of affordable housing. I would posit NIMBYism and zoning are likely the biggest ones.
The real comparison is between Rust and C++, even though folks seem to be pushing Rust for web services and internal tooling. And modern C++ is an absolute monster in terms of complexity, often just dancing around problems that Rust solves pretty elegantly with ownership and lifetimes.
> insinuating

Didn't he say "this is not a pusher?"
Favourite AI Assistant App?
Hey fellow HNers,

I'm curious to know what's your favorite AI assistant tool, aside from ChatGPT and Gemini?

What AI assistant have you found to be the most useful, and how do you use it?

Thanks for your suggestions! Cheers
Does anyone know if that visualization is representative or just an illustration? I’m struggling with how all these parameters (mass, speed, and relative direction for all three objects) could map to a fractal on a 2 dimensional plane.
Oh yeah totally, it's not a criticism of PE, that's not what it's meant for. People just use PE and LC and AoC because that's the closest thing, but I think there is space in the market for a product I describe that really drills down on getting you familiar with the common tasks and stdlib of various languages.
Really awesome, thank you for sharing
Lex?
It seems that zamba 2 isn't supported yet, the previous model's issue is here:

Feature Request: Support Zyphra/Zamba2-2.7B #8795

Open tomasmcm opened this issue on Jul 31 · 1 comment

https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/issues/8795
That stood out to me too. If your customers won't care about it I wouldn't expect your execs to have deep understanding of it.
Given that the sum total of their four goals is a text based social network that is interoperable with the fediverse wouldn't the natural codebase to start from be Mastadon? I'm sure using IG came with a lot of benefits but given they had to punt on the fediverse interop, their most important thing outside of Threads working, starting with a base that speaks the protocol you want to adopt has got to count for something.
> I wouldn't be surprised to learn cPanel had as many WordPress using customers as WPEngine - and it's now owned by PE as well.

I would bet that WPE is not nearly the largest WP host by # of sites. Bluehost, for ex, is claiming millions of WP sites.

> WordPress fork developed by a consortium of companies who offer Wp as a Service

Exactly this. And folks working in the broader ecosystem (themes, plugins, retailers of the above, potentially contract WP developers as they also have to use trademarked terms in marketing) also have an incentive to work with such a fork.

MariaDB is a solid example of a community fork taking root when the corporate owner became perceived as being unstable.
I have been trying to understand what is being suggested here and all I can think of is some Buffer.co-like posting UI for the desktop. The parts of podcasting that make it discoverable, consumable, shareable is already in the web for text…
It's always the start of eternal September for someone
I'm confused. Where's the postmortem on how Threads failed? Why is this talk structured like a victory lap?

In a time when users wanted to flee Twitter desperately, they could have launched a clone and likely won. Instead, they "kept it simple". They lacked even the most basic features, to the point where you signed up for Threads and found nothing at all which turned users away.

This is a talk about how to launch a successful app!? That seems totally disconnected from reality. No one should be learning any positive lessons from this.
I don’t know. Despite being remotely controlled, their movements were smooth and human like. I mean it’s literal untethered bipedal robots walking around in the midst of a party. It’s already pretty incredible in my opinion and can only go up from here.
This was in the wrong thread…
A huge roadblock for effectively planning things is pretty bad for relationships and careers.
Is this game well-known enough in Britain and Ireland that readers will know what on earth is being alleged just from reading this article? Or are you expected to have to google it?

Apparently it’s a game where you take turns swinging a chestnut on a string and trying to hit the opponent’s chestnut and break it. Yes, I can see how a steel fake chestnut would be an advantage here, though I’m amazed it wouldn’t be instantly obvious to even a casual observer that the look and sound were wrong. So maybe I’m still missing something.
The sub $10 unit will also include cameras for the additional training data
I think those other two are also very useful. I've actually had a lot of traction with introducing "yak shaving" in everyday life situations to non-programmers -- it applies to all kinds of things.

EDIT: Deleted paragraph on DRY that wasn't quite right.
Too many I’s and they’s
I think they're aware of all these problems because they do mention almost everything you said in the linked post thinking through the idea: https://www.elidourado.com/p/cargo-airships

Obviously that was simply a post thinking through everything hypothetically and I didn't read anything that seemed like they actually had the best solution, but at least they seem to be aware of the challenges to landing and off-loading cargo efficiently.
No. It's about determining if the structure and conclusion of the article is pertinent to my interests.

Just like Abstract section in scientific articles. I wouldn't call those silly.
I know that on Windows, DLL files get optimized a lot. If a DLL file can be loaded without any relocation, then it becomes a memory mapped-file rather than an additional copy of the program. All the system DLLs have different pre-defined base addresses, so they won't conflict with each other.

If relocation is required, then the DLL becomes a private copy in the process's address space rather than a memory-mapped file.
Having a full bladder will raise your blood pressure.
Okay, but there are plenty of objective truths that people disagree with. The fact that the earth is approximately spherical is objective truth, regardless of the existence of flat earthers.

I feel pretty okay saying "nazism is wrong" is about as objectively true as a statement of ethics can be.
What is conker, you ask? Here's a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LcaUTAuQfc
I find it to be unnecessarily callous.
I didn't confuse this thread with another; from the parent comments we have "diet and exercise works but nobody can do it because it's really hard" to "we can't do it because we have to think all the time about resisting ultra processed junk food" to my comment "we wouldn't have to think all the time about it, if we didn't have it".

I do see how it looks like a return to caveman times, and was unnecessarily sarcastic. Practically, the times when I don't have junk food in the cupboards, I don't have to think constantly about resisting junk food because there isn't any to eat and that makes a difference. Extending that out to national levels, schools shouldn't have vending machines full of junk food, hospitals shouldn't have coffee chains, coffee chains should have restrictions on how much sugar can be in coffee, soda shouldn't be a thing, breakfast cereals shouldn't be a thing, and keep going as far as necessary. In the argument between Nanny state and Laissez-faire it's very clear that the food industry will kill millions of people and ruin the quality of life of billions millions, hiding behind smiley friendly packaging, exploiting human biases in ways we have no defenses against, and it's not nanny-stating to regulate killers harshly.
Do you think everyone pronuclear is a climate change denier? It's so incredibly clear who's the "bad guy" here.
On water: More like atlantis, with a harbor and a loading dock.

Above water: maybe rope-anchored airships.

What I wanted to point out is that taxes are ground based, meaning the volume that's available above the ground usually is not used because of physical limitations of buildings and construction.

You could increase that efficiency of recurring costs for land vs storage space with airships.
Just dual-boot. Run whatever hellscape of windows is current when you want to game, and run Ubuntu (or whatever) the rest of the time.

Been doing that for 10 years.
This is a sleep which allows the kernel scheduler to move to a new process and not a busy-wait so it will have very very low processor usage.
efency: An efficient electric-fence malloc debugger for the 21st century
>Commonly used arm positions can overestimate blood pressure readings

are these arm postitions used so commonly that what we call high or low blood pressure is based on them?
I think the main point is not necessarily the laying down part, but it's just that you need to be perfectly still for 10 min. Your BP will still be dropping more even after 5 min. This is just how to get the lowest resting reading. Of course others on this thread have balked about whether this lowest readout has value on it's own.