skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Saving a down payment in a single month would mean you have a pretty sizable income to start. I get what you’re saying, but if it’s a $10 avocado toast every day, then there are enough days in 3 years to save a $10k down payment for a starter home.

One of the unintuitive consequences of low interest rates/ZIRP is that the savings rate is abysmal. When I was a kid I remember my first savings account earned maybe 2 or 3% interest annually. Now you’re lucky to get half a percent. People are disincentivized from saving money and instead end up putting savings into investments, which are inherently risky.
> So glad we moved on from that.

Don't look too closely at the collision avoidance mechanism in 10base-T1S, standardized in 2020. Sure looks like a virtual token ring passing mechanism if you squint...
Downloaded for future RAG / LLM retrieval :)
I mean if the joke that Google is just an Ads company with a software engineering org is true, then Oracle is just a Sales company with a software engineering org.
If you struggle to find a job you like, why not create one for yourself and potentially others too?

Imagine a cause you'd like to support (you mention a number of things you are frustrated with), and see if you can improve it with software? You'd still need to find how you can charge for it (otherwise, it's charity/volunteer work), but you cap it at reasonable profit (eg fairly compensated but not get-rich-quick scheme).
This article is a bit odd. It does mention the "B" vacuum tube batteries you linked in that Wikipedia page, but B-size batteries are not the same thing. The article kinda mentions this ("voltage range of 45 to 90" vs 1.5v) but overall just conflates the two.
It depends if you see it as a zero sum game. And indeed if you view others gain as your loss. It's possible to be rivals, without being adversaries.

Plus, I think it's worth qualifying "adversary" there. If you're not a politician then what do you care about their political choices, and so on.

If you grew up during the cold War you likely have the viewpoint of America being exceptional, being "the best" government, democracy, everything. This can be a hard position to let go of - to see that some things could be improved, that some countries do done things better. That the US can learn. The essence of the MAGA movement is to return USA to their global position as it was in the 50s, but the world has changed.

And yes, China has things to teach us if we'll listen. Of course they are also far from perfect, and some lessons may do well in one context but not another.
That only makes it easier: go talk to their once slaves.
P.S. the thing about instrument flying is your senses lie to you, and you need to rely on the instruments. A green student is at risk of panicking and believing the lies his inner ear is telling him (spacial disorientation). When JFK jr crashed in the mist at sunset, my dad passed by the TV when they reported it, and said "spacial disorientation". It's killed a lot of pilots.

A major part of learning to fly instrument is to learn to ignore your body screaming at you that you're flying upside down.
I would say Apple and especially Nvidia have the best products (ignoring price) and they also have good marketing. The absolute best product in a category has no price ceiling.
It's probably safe to assume that if you're looking for a fork of Firecrawl, you already know what Firecrawl does.
> no matter how it was produced

IIRC, this is wrong. Independent creation is a valid (but almost impossible to prove) defense in US copyright law.

This example is not an independent creation, but your reasoning seems wrong.
Can you give a ballpark figure of what scale you have in mind?
I love how the "Index" (starting on page 18 of the PDF) doesn't send the reader to page numbers
My point was that twofold:

1. torts often fail to make people whole, and even when they do, they aren't always a good deterrent.

2. The comment I was replying to implied that SCE was a scapegoat for the Camp Fire; all evidence strongly suggests that this is not the case.
There is Miele 'Professional'...
Perhaps, picking one consumer app/tool everyone knows and tell a positive story how it changed the world. When I was volunteering in autism school, I saw many kids have talent of drawing, despite communication challenges. They use instagram to showcase their works, got tons of followers, and find their communities. It's a testament to how technology has changed our world in unimaginable, empowering ways. Telling something inspiring could be great for kids.
> The only place I've seen struggling with recognizing sarcasm is hackernews.

I honestly don't know if this is sarcastic or not...
Nosedive into the Black Mirror!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosedive_(Black_Mirror)
Maybe, but if you actually want to poach people, you have to make large pay offers to get them to jump ship. So instead of just paying the prevailing rate for SWEs in $country, they need to actually look at how much those devs are making in the US and match that. Sure, it'll be expensive, but if it's only a handful of key people, it doesn't matter.
I heavily advocated for introducing GitLab at our company 5 years ago. We're now stuck with it, and GitLab is increasing the price continually. We started with the $4/month start edition because we needed 1 or 2 features, and now we are looking at $29/month for the same 1 or 2 features. We are seriously looking at ditching GitLab because of this. The price hike is insane. They're destroying their customer base in the long term for short term profits.
Google being the source of their money did not, in any way, prevent Mozilla from spending their money more wisely and putting some into an endowment.
VMware users are starting to say that Epyc is too powerful for one server because they don't want to lose too much capacity due to a single server failure. Tangentially related, network switch ASICs also have too much capacity for a single rack.
> I'd hate to show younger me current me.

I had the reverse. My younger self wanted to do something to benefit the humanity, but hated see the old me having no money and out-to-date skills (See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41716772). At the end of the days, the people at the top wanted the money. I didn't even have handcuffs, let alone golden ones.

There are jobs you like in this world, but you may not like the salary.
Take a look at the PDP-11 price list from 1973: https://iamvirtual.ca/collection/systems/minis/PDP11-10/PDP1...

Does not look very cheap to me. Please note that $1 of 1973 is approximately $7 of 2024, so prices of usable configurations quickly reach the $100k to $200k territory, with a few grand of monthly upkeep.
AMD has been ahead for 5 years and upgrade cycles are 4-6 years so AMD should have ~80% market share by now.
Over multiple decades, Apple delivered products that transformed their respective categories, including, but not limited to: Mac, iMac, iPod, iPhone, iPad, Apple watch, AirPods, and M1 MacBook Air. Strategically, they also priced their products to capture profit share rather than market share.

Besides developing category-leading hardware, Nvidia advanced both graphics and general-purpose GPU computing with CUDA and a software stack that competitors have still failed to match (though AMD is trying.) CUDA fueled the gaming GPU and crypto waves, as well as the AI wave which has enabled Nvidia to turn itself into an end-to-end AI company, from desktop to cloud to supercomputing.
subprocess.run() will happily accept a single string, though, so you may still inadvertently run into the issue anyway.
Also, I learned that Hive-partitioned Parquet on S3 is much slower than on disk.

S3 is high latency unless you use for S3 Express Zones (the low latency version).

We used EFS (not EBS) and it was much faster.
Middle class is always more insecure. A middle-class individual could move either up or down, this causes anxiety.
Are you suggesting women are less able to take hostilities than men ? Since now we have inuendos from both.
https://jero.zone/posts/reverse-engineering-apis
Nobody seems to have mentioned electron beam lithography. Hobbyists have done that.[1]

E-beam lithography has been used since the 1970s. It's slow; it might take a day to make a CPU. That's why it's not used as a production process. But as a prototype process, it works fine. There are a few hobbyists doing this.[1]

E-beam systems are basically scanning electron microscopes with more power. There's a vacuum chamber, means for focusing and steering an electron beam similar to what's inside a CRT, and control equipment. It's all computer-controlled, of course.

This has many advantages. Software can correct for nonlinearities in the scanning. The machine can inspect what it's written by scanning at low power.

You still have to coat and etch; it's not a dry process. The beam just exposes photoresist.

The equipment is the size of a desk. Here's a machine at CMU.[2] Many universities have such machines.

[1] https://hackaday.com/2024/08/06/creating-1%c2%b5m-features-t...

[2] https://nanofab.ece.cmu.edu/facilities-equipment/fei-sirion....
Wishful thinking is not a strategy
It is a proxy.
It's not so much about size but about usage pattern.

If your workloads require fast writes and reads, SQLite will probably work fine.

If you're looking to run analytic, columnar queries (which tend to involve a lot of aggregation and joins on a few columns (say less than 50) at a time), then DuckDB is way more optimized.

Oversimplifying, Sqlite is more OLTP and DuckDB is more OLAP.
> ...didn't want money or people who didn't align with one specific USA political party...

Was it ever about party? I thought it was more about executives who donated to bigoted causes.
> Maybe it was Dave Long that pointed out that lerp is a generalization

iirc it was email among the three of us where I brought that up and pointed out that identities about Bézier splines looked pretty with infix lerp notation. (Blurry memory as usual, though.)

> to get the C/JS semantics, bool ? x succeeds with the value of x if bool is true, or fails if bool is false, and x : y succeeds with the value of x if x succeeds, but if x fails, does y.

There's a potential snag in that if x in (bool ? x) can fail then (true ? x : y) could run y. Of course this can be addressed...
Those aren't B batteries, they're "B" batteries. You can tell because there's also a photo of a "C" battery that isn't cylindrical.

There's a photo of an actual B battery here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:B-AA-battery.jpg

Linked from: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_battery_sizes
The deep learning boom caught almost everyone by surprise
Trick is to start some sort of commune in Colombia and attract talent with the local amenities. Nice private community full of 10-15 software engineers, private chefs, security, etc would be less than $1-2k/month per person. Maybe turn it into a vacation spot: “tired of your work? Take 6 month sabbatical to come party in LATAM while making meaningful software. Work hard/play hard - apply by linking to the most meaningful PR you have contributed to an FOSS project.”

Honestly not a bad plan.
I think universal conscription is a good idea for the sole reason that everyone should get a bit of this perspective. The people who’ve never left the nice-people bubble of college and professional employment will go to completely inappropriate lengths to avoid feeling offended. You said the manager’s idea was maybe not as good as the other thing in a meeting? You just made an enemy for life. Meanwhile soldiers have productive and respectful working relationships with people who they physically fight with the day before because that’s a better alternative to however UCMJ allows your commander to screw up your life.

It’s a great exercise in personal growth for coping skills.
Them not paying taxes where I live means they can stay out till they do. Why should I have to compete with multinationals that don't play by the rules?

I expect my polkticians not to let themselves be dazzled by the complexity of their tax schemes and tax them the same amount they would if I sold that service here.

Does not seem too controversial.
Good point, I shouldn't use the term "free" market. I mean a functioning market, as is intended by anti-monopoly law.
Whats your solution then, when Taiwan falls to China tomorrow and the chips stop flowing in? The parasite execs are a problem, but a much smaller problem than if the Chinese blocks flow of essential chips. It will cause all kinds of cascading issues. Which we saw when supply chains from there, all shutdown during Covid.
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This reminds me of the Atari 8 bit computers making sound when data was being transferred to the floppy drive and the cassette.

The TRS-80 flashed an asterisk in the upper right corner of the display.

I wish this was an option with modern computers if nothing else, for old times sake.
> Pledge can't really help with the torrent program since it needs to make new network connections and write and read arbitrary files constantly. Unless as you say, you substantially modify the code.

Unveil helps with the "arbitrary files" part. There's a reason Linux is cloning that interface with landlock.
I’ve worked with a few organisations that I’d call “late adopters” to the cloud, and it’s rare for them to use IAAS or even PAAS. It’s all SAAS and serverless, and while they all say they’re doing devops it’s almost always clickops.
Yes it's possible. But it's not cheap. If you buy a bunch of UPS and a few generators (you need more than one, in case it doesn't start) and don't maintain them regularly and test them regularly that's when you get some bad surprises.
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You forgot the 10 nm / 7 nm node troubles that continued for years and held back their CPU architectures (which honestly kept improving).
"I noticed that there are no B batteries. I think that's to avoid confusion, cause if there were you wouldn't know if someone was stuttering. 'Yes, hello I'd like some b-batteries.' 'What kind?' 'B-batteries.' 'What kind?' 'B-batteries!' and D-batteries that's hard for foreigners. 'Yes, I would like de batteries.'"

Demetri Martin
> That's not how it works.

Being fabless does have an impact because it caps AMD's margins and makes x86 their only moat. They can only extract value if they remain competitive on price. Sure that does not impact Nvidia, but they get to have fat margins because they have virtually no competition.

> The market is completely irrational on AMD. Their 52-week high is ~225$ and 52-week low is ~90$.

That's volatility not irrationality. As I wrote AMD's valuation is built on the basis that they will keep executing in the DC space, Intel will keep shitting the bed and their MI series will eventually be competitive with Nvidia. These facts make investor skittish and any news about AMD causes the stock to move.

> the market thinks AMD needs to compete with GB200 while they're actually competing with H200 this quarter. And for whatever reason the market thinks that AMD will get zero AI growth next year?

The only hyperscaler that picked up MI300X is Azure and they GA'ed it 2 weeks ago, both GCP and Azure are holding off. The uncertainty on when (if) it will catch on is a factor but the growing competition from those same hyperscaler building their own chip means that the opportunity window could be closing.

It's ok to be bullish on AMD the same way that I am bearish on it, but I would maintain that the swings have nothing to do with irrationality.
Test out the nvme drives though. It’s blazing.
> But is it malicious? Almost certainly not.

Honestly, it often will be malicious, or will quickly become malicious if you don't take it graciously. And why should you? It's not acceptable to make fun of people for being skinny, ginger, shy, black, white, female, or any other things that the in group considers non-standard for whatever weird reasons.
And yet, it did.
The Sims could really use this.
funny and smart.
No, what I'm saying is that governments aren't compilers you mess around with at will when you're as big as Netflix. The fact that something might be illegal is a changeable state by that very government if they decide a corporation has been jerking them around too much. Something being legal right now is a temporary state.

Did you miss all the screaming of US corporations in relation to EU Acts like DMA? Those changes are exactly what happens when you start to think that law and people behind it are separate.
As someone who lives in an apartment and has a baby who I want to be able to sleep at night - this idea can go to hell, I’d have our strata rules ban this service so fast.
There’s a reason cities zone areas for parties/bars and others for residential.
This presupposes that decisions made by the collective would be better than the direction the execs have given. They won't. It will be just as ineffectual as the Mozilla we've known for the last 10 years.
Hello Omani,

This is not a 'message passing framework.' It's a program to establish direct TCP connections between peers. Existing solutions are largely based on mesh networks where messages reach nodes via one or more links. As you can imagine, this approach isn't suitable for all use-cases. Imagine a game server where you want your friends to connect to it. They should be able to make a direct TCP connection to the server with the lowest latency possible.

Currently, its hard to run servers on regular home networks where uses are behind NATs and firewalls. The goal of this project is to facilitate direct TCP connections. The software implements many improvements that are only in computer science papers at the moment. In the process of implementing such papers over 20k lines of code have been written, covering everything from NAT enumeration to automated port forwarding. Neither of the links you posted solve all these problems.

The blog goes into a higher overview of the project if you read it. Cheers.
Yeah Otellini disclosed Jobs asked them for a CPU for the iPhone and he turned the request down because Jobs was adamant on a certain price and he just couldn't see it.

Even if it was hard to foresee the success of the iPhone, he surely had the Core Duo in his hands when this happened even if it didn't launch yet so the company just found its footing again and they should've attempted this moonshot: if the volume is low, the losses are low. If the volume is high then economies of scale will make it a win. This is not hindsight 20/20, this is true even if no one could've foreseen just how high the volume would've been.
Surprisingly enough, several large systems on the top500 list use AMD (and even intel?!!) GPUs.

To me this indicates that AMD and intel have the potential to compete with Nvidia, but they haven't managed to translate that into the general AI/non-HPC market.
Context matters. In a 95% male profession, making hostile comments about women is absolutely more of an issue than similar comments about men. And vice versa in a predominantly female profession.
Yeah, my overall reaction was kinda "Welcome to being a dude. You get shit on mercilessly until you prove otherwise. You get told to shut the fuck up and knock it out even if you're tired after 4 hours. You have to look out for yourself because nobody else is going to. God help you if you're a tiny or effeminate guy. etc."

Blue collar work sucks ass. You generally only do it because you don't have any better options.
If you were talking about some discretionary thing, like magazines, I'd agree with you.

But customers don't buy chips, they buy stuff, and chips are in everything. There's the obvious (phones, tablets etc), but also everything else, like cars, washing machines, tvs, air fryers, plus more.

Clearly tarrifs drive (domestic) prices up, which will cause some level of inflation, but it will be across the board (not on "chips"). And clearly that will weaken demand.

But given global demand that will likely not be all that noticeable. Indeed it'll likely just result in US manufacturing being less competitive. Certainly it'll make US manufactured products more expensive on the world market.

Which likely leads to more American plants moving offshore, not onshore.
The Eureka Moment (2006)
Discovered this awesome tool a couple months ago, evaluated it, and began a new enterprise project with it. So far we’re getting great results. So happy not to need a separate search cluster.
It's almost as if the shortest possible designations are most likely collision candidates.
The B battery referred to in the article is a vacuum tube battery.

The B battery you linked, is an carbon-zinc/alkaline battery and against that the comment says -

> Most commonly found within a European 4.5-volt lantern battery.
Not to be confused with the vacuum tube B battery
Men from a profession that doesn't have these issues would probably name them something nicer too.
I think non-cloud is the new monolith, which is fantastic.
Even if they had pursued government officials for their criminal negligence and incompetence, the supreme court would have simply erased their crimes. They've erased far worse scandals. They've returned corruption money to people who confessed everything and ratted on superiors. They've returned drug money to drug traffickers.

It's Brazil. It's not a serious country.
Throughout human history, have there been any periods or times when an organization was led by the majority? Or has there always been a need for a king?
Democracy is a sham, especially in a capitalist system, a system that sees personal interests and money as the only important things.
> apparently investors/shareholders seem to not care even the tiniest bit

They rarely know anything about what middle management is doing. After all, if you own any stocks, do you know anything about the middle managers in that corporation?
Your diagnosis is off. So many of the good workers got poached by Facebook and all the other companies that HNers dream of working for. Not all of them ever even worked for Mozilla Foundation or its subsidiaries—some simply got reassigned by the company that was actually paying them. Pre-Chrome, for example, the Firefox lead was a Google employee.

And not that it's the product of any of the people who were let go, but developer.mozilla.org is a pretty valuable and high-impact resource. It's more "advocacy for a free and open Internet" than it is "making a browser".
The executives knew, and the employees knew. I think there's little doubt of that. Then the executives changed their mind. That happens, and as an employee you either accept it or you move on. Or try to negotiate an exception. But you don't really have any kind of legal claim for damages.
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Nvidia's margins are remarkable, and much higher than Apple's.
Ha, I was just reading your blog post on running next.js on cloudflare. It made me seriously consider remix as an alternative. I'll take this comment that remix is the way to go. I'm also working on a small webapp like the one you built