skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Simons shunned the limelight and rarely gave interviews, citing Benjamin the Donkey in Animal Farm for explanation: "'God gave me a tail to keep off the flies. But I'd rather have had no tail and no flies.' That's kind of the way I feel about publicity."

I'm glad to read about billionaires with non-poisonous personalities. I'd prefer a world where no individual held such relative power, but next best is a world in which the dreadful oligarchs have foils to balance them out slightly.
Tenants have more money, and there are more tenants who now qualify who might not have already saved up for a broker fee. I'm sure landlords have factored this in.
Application servers missed the containerization wave
FBI raids Polymarket CEO's home, seizing phone, electronics
This is a big factor for me, especially as someone who has been doing software development for a long time. When I first started it was typical to have individual offices, or at worst office sharing where you shared an office with one other dev who was likely trying to keep distractions to a minimum as much as you were.

Now almost every workplace is an open office plan, hot desk swapping hellscape.

If offices were like they generally were when I first started I would be a lot more personally pro-RTO, but the way they are these days I much prefer to work at home in peace and quiet.

(Of course, the peace and quiet aspect will vary based on the particulars of everyone's homes/families/etc).

Traffic is of course the other major factor. As someone who lives in Southern California, the commute time from where I live to where I work is either 15 minutes or an hour and a half based on traffic congestion and its pretty freeing to not have to worry so much about preplanning your commute to minimize the likelihood of landing on the bad side of this.
Have you read the book? Or you simply don’t like the premise because it might challenge your existing world-view?
Amazon owns most of its downtown Seattle real estate.

Low occupancy means balance sheet write downs, and higher cost of capital.
They lease a lot of buildings too. Paul Allen owned a bunch of the area.
It's not like I'm telling you to trust me on definitions. Just look up how it's been applied in the past. It's been a much, much higher bar historically.
The only thing that trumps good decision making is ego.

I suspect a non zero amount of this is ego driven, be it either from middle management to upper management or c-suite need to exert some control.

I can't for the life of me figure out why otherwise. Especially organizations that are clearly still demonstrating success. They don't have the supporting metrics for this and they know, and the employees know it, and by some extension, the public knows it now too.
Seems safe to say they're doing better than Gaddafi
Vengent is indeed a legend.
Hey thrw42A8N,

I've done a large greenfield rebuild before, which was a success - but I will never do that again. It ate my life.

I do have a bootstrapped product already in the market, but this is a second, unrelated product for a different audience....a new project entirely.

First project is Node + React but considering Retool for a v1 for this next project.
I think 100 miles/d could be quite common commute in some places in US (50 mins driving one way on highway withing speed limit).

Also, range anxiety is mostly for those who is taking road trips, not for everyday commute.
And there are other factors: model3 is 10k more expensive than civic hybrid, electricity cost in California (as example from references on car prices above) is over the top.
Wait. Is it? I see pictures if I focus, but it's mostly like a conversation with someone who lives inside my head.
Election betting is legal. But that doesn't mean it's unregulated (which Polymarket is).
> and sorta just published whatever they got 6 months to a year later.

Publish and perish...
And it has produced a system superior to several engineers working full time for several years.

Seems like a fair carbon trade.
I don't see why they wouldn't. They signed a mutual defense hacked with North Korea last year and the Korean army is fighting to expel the Ukrainian army from it's counter offensive incursion into Russia
They should also make a rule where tenants will get full security deposit if they haven't done anything extreme to the apartment.
> Russians now pay a third or less what you are probably currently paying for eggs

Now do it as a fraction of real disposable income.

(You're not wrong. American eggs are pricey [1]. But they'll always be pricey relative to Russia's simply because the dollar is strong.)

[1] https://www.globalproductprices.com/rankings/egg_prices/
Ask HN: How to handle sensitive document uploads as a one-person SaaS?
I am thinking of a product many businesses would find it useful but my only concern is that the product revolves around sensitive documents(like lawyer's documents but can be extended to other industries too). The product is already built by many companies but I have found a unique angle that I think would benefit my users. I am not a team and I don't know how to handle laws of sensitive documents as a business entity(and those documents might live on AWS S3/similar services).
> I would prefer to use native Linux, but it seems like nothing comes close to Apple Silicon for battery life, portability and performance.

Not quite true. Chromebooks can approach MacBooks in some ways. Google mandates 10 hours minimum battery life for anything labelled "Chromebook", along with 8 years of software updates. That's competitive with Apple.

Chromebooks support crosini, which is a Debian installation. With crosini you are forced to use the ChromeOS "window manager" but everything else is standard Debian. GUI apps like Firefox, Gimp and so on just work. It still gets it's 10 hours when using crosini.

Most Chromebooks are targeted at the education market and so are very low end, but there are a few high end Chromebooks. They are amd64. In MIPS/watt they are maybe 1/2 of what Apples M series can do, so they can't reach the heights Apple does - but they come as close as the hardware allows. You will probably see a Snapdragon X Chromebook ... one day. On that day, Apple will find its performance and battery life threatened by a "Linux desktop", assuming you are willing to call Debian + ChromeOS window manager a Linux Desktop. Who would have dreamt it?
I was there too, but the incompetent leadership started at least from Craig Barrett, before Otellini took over. Barrett, as I recall, was the idiot who drove the RAMBUS association, the Netburst/P4 architecture, continued to push EMT64 instead of developing x86/64 until AMD forced him, and continued with Itanic. He also tried to get Intel involved in the consumer space with silly stuff like keyboards, mice, and crappy digital cameras.

Maybe I'm misremembering, but I thought Otellini was the one who rescued Intel by pushing the new "Core" CPUs when the P4 architecture was clearly a failure.
Trump not caring will mean the case proceeds. Why would they drop it?
It’s very surprising they didn’t continue this style of meeting, some sort of internal IEEE disagreement seems the most likely reason to me, but the evidence is probably lost to time now…
They never win best place to work awards. Success for shareholders isn't success for employees.
I'm 48 and I still DJ. The kids are fine. The underground scene is still real. D&B is just jungle 14 BPM faster.
If you’ll humor me - what specifically did the Twitter files show in that regard?
I am building the https://github.com/claceio/clace project as a platform for teams to deploy internal tools. As part of that, Clace implements an application server which uses containers to deploy any application.

AppServers can be much easier to use compared to full-featured container orchestration solutions. AppServers support deployment of stateless applications only. The limited scope means that it can be much easier to configure and use.
Blaming the incident on “political retribution” (their words) implies that the US government is corrupt.

Such a weird thing to blame it on.
Yes. The data is embedded in the pixels of the image, and it's embedded in a way that survives recompression of the image and some editing.
Only just clocked yesterday that Keith FLINT would be a literal fire starter.

Twenty eight years!

I’m ashamed of myself.
Madness to think your paying someone to you might not have even met $10k for the keys to an apartment you found yourself.
> Namely it's a lot easier to shirk while remote.

In my long experience as a software developer its actually not this way at all in practice and is actually the inverse of your claim.

In practice I've seen that it is actually much easier for lower productivity employees to get by on vibes alone while they spend all day browsing reddit/social media/HN/etc when everyone is in office, whereas when you are remote your actual output tends to be much more openly documented.

Sure, when working from home you can go take a 1 hour nap in the middle of the day, which you can't do in the office, but such "shirking" as snapshots in time don't equate at all to actual sustained productivity (and in fact, being able to nap randomly during the day I've found is often a huge productivity boost if anything).
I regularly get OOMs at 16 GB/core doing debug builds. LLVM is practically a memory stress test.
Not a New Yorker here, can someone ELI5 (briefly, I don't want to waste your time) what function brokers serve other than extracting money from people? I know a real estate agent at least takes care of a great deal of paperwork that must be done correctly in the transfer of title, and shows properties to buyers. But in terms of rentals, I've never needed a third party to do any of that, and I lived in 5 rental apartments in about 8 years. Landlords 'just' list their properties on the Internet, people find said properties and submit applications or go see them at a predefined time. I'm aware of property managers and have dealt with them in cases where the landlord doesn't want to bother interviewing tenants and stuff -- is a broker a subset of these functions? I think of a property manager though as also serving the function of arranging repairs and handling the whole tenant relationship. In my experience, a property manager does charge a percentage of the rent to handle all this, which kind of means it's passed on, but in terms of how the broader market contains competitors who aren't paying a property manager constrains how much it can be fully passed onto the tenant.
Hence how all the draft dodgers were pardoned after Vietnam.
This is going to add a ton of liquidity. People will switch apartments more often
- With Next.js: That it works best on Vercel and has issues on other hosts, especially around caching and invalidation (which are big reasons to use Next), e.g. on Cloudflare https://github.com/cloudflare/next-on-pages/issues/292 or Netlify https://answers.netlify.com/t/netlify-support-for-next-js-ca.... I don't think this is some big conspiracy or that they deliberately brick other hosts, but there's an undeniably an inherent conflict-of-interest there. Next itself is open-source, but Vercel only makes money from hosting, so if they make it too easy to deploy elsewhere with all the features working, they don't get paid at all. I kinda wish Next followed an open-core model instead, like MUI, and had more vendor agnosticism. As a frontend dev I love Vercel, but their business model makes it a harder sell to higher-ups who are afraid of vendor lock-in.

- With web dev in general: How quickly everything gets obsoleted. I started back in the 90s/early 2000s, and over time sooooo many fashion trends have come and gone (ColdFusion, Perl, Java, ActiveX, RealVideo, framesets, Shockwave, Flash, Silverlight, Air, Bootstrap, jQuery, XHTML, XPATH/XSLT, Angular, tables, CoffeeScript...). And some things go through cyclical periods of popularity, like clientside vs serverside rendering vs static pages, various VR/AR implementations, etc. By and large I don't know that the web is really that much better today than it was in the 2000s. Is all this additional complexity truly justified? XMLHttpRequest (what we used to call AJAX) and media queries/responsive pages were pretty big leaps forward, but it seems like we've just piled on unnecessary complexity ever since. Will we look back in five years and scoff at Tailwind and Next? Moreover, we've gone from the thriving small web (GeoCities, personal blogs, academic sites, etc.) of those days to what, like 2-3 big social media walled gardens and endless seas of SEO garbage?

- With .NET: It seemed to hold such early promise and I was really excited to start learning it around version 1, but Microsoft did what they typically do. Everyone was still deathly afraid of their EEE strategies back then, and Microsoft never really made it truly cross-platform, especially at the GUI layer, until decades later. By then it was much too late. Now I think it's still used in the E.U. but I haven't met a U.S. .NET dev in decades.

- With Drupal: Oh wow, so THIS is what childbirth feels like. Yeesh. Never, ever again.
If I were to speculate, I would guess he quit Google. 2 days ago, his $1+ million Artificial General Intelligence competition ended. Chollet is now judging the submissions and will announce the winners in a few weeks. The timing there can't be a coincidence.
I am not sure what that has to do with calling elections. The Associated Press calls who wins, not some random person with $5 to throw away.
> The standard is (a) whether the act was illegal, (b) the company knew it was illegal and did it anyway.

Allegedly...
Yet another situation where piracy delivers a much better user experience than trying to pay for content.
You can do it, but it's an incredibly foolish way to operate, as the CEO is finding out.
Hackers are lazy at the core otherwise we wouldn't spend writing a program once so we never have to do it again.

Someone could do all of those things you list or form an opinion based on the title. Which way do you think a hacker would take?
Humanity does.
This'll be unpopular, but if you want to keep it super lean and avoid being asked for compliance certs like SOC2/ISO, you could consider building it as an installable app on top of a platform your customers already trust

ie. a Salesforce App.

That way, they already use/trust the environment where the storage/processing of their sensitive data is taking place, akin to an old school 'on prem' solution (but without as much headache for you)

Worth thinking about
Including this in the blog would have been helpful although I don’t think the decrement explanation is unsolvable - just have a second field for decrements that is incremented when you want to decrement & then the final result is a sum of the two.
“ In Germany, for instance, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action is financing the Sovereign Tech Fund, a program of the Sovereign Tech Agency investing in “projects that benefit and strengthen the open source ecosystem.” Currently funded projects include FreeBSD, a Unix-like operating system; JUnit, a testing framework for the Java ecosystem; the PHP Foundation, which is behind the PHP programming language; and the OpenJS Foundation, which hosts a range of JavaScript projects.”

I would be pissed if my tax dollars were going to e-commerce platforms. We do not need more JavaScript frameworks. Protein-folding? Security research? Artificial vision? Sure. PHP? Um, no.
Some people might, sure. But studies have shown that a majority of people don't trust the news anymore, across the spectrum of views. If you pay attention and remember what you hear, it does not take long to find examples of the news confidently communicating false reports.

Bias in news has always been a problem, and I think you just have to listen to a variety of sources with different biases to find out the truth.
> Wait, how do closed-loop air conditioners poison anyone?

Not parent-poster, but I believe "closed loop" is referring to having no air exchange between inside and outside atmosphere of a room, as opposed to the refrigerant flow inside the air-conditioner itself.

So somebody trying to make their cooling or heating effective (or extra cheap) may inadvertently seal off too much ventilation, and then a crowd of humans becomes in danger of their own CO2.
PayloadCMS was recently front page

Can't speak about Retool but I wouldn't want to go away from standard software development life cycle with version control, release management and testing... And I definitely would want to avoid a proprietary platform. Isn't there an open source alternative?
Universe Home [Distributed computing research] is ending:(
The constitution does not make anything a crime
You are thinking of UTC offsets as zones here, which is wrong. Yes, you can interpret an offset from the epoch in any utc offset and that's just a constant formatting operation. But interpreting a zoned datetime as an offset against a point in UTC (or UTC+/-X) is not.

You do not confidently know how far away 2025-03-01T00:00:00 America/New_York is from 1970-01-01T00:00:00+0000 until after that time. Even if you decide you're interpreting 1970-01-01T00:00:00+0000 as 1969-12-31T19:00-0500. Postgres assumes that 2025-03-01T00:00:00 America/New_York is the same as 2025-03-01T00:00:00-0500 and calculates the offset to that, but that transformation depends on mutable external state (NY state laws) that could change before that time passes.

If you get news of that updated state before March, you now have no way of applying it, as you have thrown away the information of where that seconds since epoch value came from.
A few things from personal experience:

- LLM support with PyTorch is better (both at a tooling level and CUDA level). Hugging Face transformers does have support for both TensorFlow and PyTorch variants of LLMs but...

- Almost all new LLMs are in PyTorch first and may or may not be ported to TensorFlow. This most notably includes embeddings models which are the most important area in my work.

- Keras's training loop assumes you can fit all the data in memory and that the data is fully preprocessed, which in the world of LLMs and big data is infeasible. PyTorch has a DataLoader which can handle CPU/GPU data movement and processing.

- PyTorch has better implementations for modern ML training improvments such as fp16, multi-GPU support, better native learning rate schedulers, etc. PyTorch can also override the training loop for very specific implementations (e.g. custom loss functions). Implementing them in TensorFlow/Keras is a buggy pain.

- PyTorch was faster to train than TensorFlow models using the same hardware and model architecture.

- Keras's serialization for model deployment is a pain in the butt (e.g. SavedModels) while PyTorch both has better implementations with torch.jit, and also native ONNX export.
Laying off disabled people seems pretty illegal. I don’t know.
Bill Atkinson has pancreatic cancer
The real problem is that national media regulators would have to give up sovereignty for this to work, which they never will.
> only list the apartments on a website that operates on a subscription basis

oh no, that's horrible! what are these websites? just so i dont accidentally click on any, can you give me their names / links
> maybe they know something about being a super successful company?

If being successful is simply a matter of knowing a few things then why aren't more businesses successful? Why wouldn't those employees in the know just leave and start their own business?
(not op) for me its a matter of dependency. great, as long as i have my phone I can just ask siri to call my sister, but if I need to use someone else's phone because mines lost or dead, well, how am I going to do that?

Same as AI. Cool it makes you 5x as efficient at your job. But after a decade of using it, can you got back to 1x efficiency without it? Or are you just making the highly optimistic leap that you will retain access to the tech in perpetuity.
But is it a trade? Feels additive. Assuming same engineers will continue spending their carbon budget elsewhere ...
Ongoing discussions

(174 points, 3 hours ago, 116 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42130194

(40 points, 4 hours ago, 34 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42129791
> My question is, "where does the requirement that content be licensed in only one country" contractually originate?

From the Vivendis and EMIs who want to sell the same song to Britons at a higher price than the Romanians will pay.

It's not like countries aren't in on the action, too. Mandatory notices, censorship laws, et cetera vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.
I’m on Zwift a lot with the Zwift Ride and Wahoo Kickr core. But I’m looking for a recumbent setup so that I can also work while riding or game on the ps5 in a more comfy position. For keyboard I have the Ultimate Hacking Keyboard which is perfect since it has a mouse layer built in. Haven’t figured out the recumbent setup yet though. Any tips appreciated. I’m in the EU.
Autism's Hidden Brain Differences Discovered in Living People
First of all, half the population live in either the Greater Tokyo Area, or the Keihanshin area (Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe). Those areas are very dense.

Second, it is true that they don't have much usable land (but they still have some big flat areas), but outside of the aforementioned big cities, instead of building vertically, everybody wants to have their own house. The result is sprawling cities made of a combination of little houses and narrow streets cramped together, and big box stores connected by stroads.
Given your obvious expertise and experience, I’m shocked that they didn’t consult you.
Essentially all of those are true already, mostly through the military and police, and mostly through Dead hand guarantees.

If you destroy a city, shoot up a school, kill a family, or kill an individual, someone with weapons will likely come to retaliate even if your victim is dead
Surely you understand that I'm speaking with respect to the information provided by the article's source, regardless of its veracity.
Meat and Bread is in Seattle and
Vancouver too, and yes, it’s fantastic lunch.
Making Sense of Real-Time Operating Systems in 2024
>“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.” ― Aldous Huxley

Interestingly, though he didn't intend it (he thought he was writing dystopian fiction), Aldous Huxley actually predicted humanity's best possible future with "Brave New World".

Without traditional (basically pre-technological) societies where women are essentially slaves, people earnestly believe in ridiculous supernatural religious claims, and couples are basically stuck together no matter how miserable they are, it's simply not mathematically possible for birthrates to be kept high enough to sustain the human population. Huxley brilliantly predicted a future society that could use technology to solve this problem which we're now seeing in developed nations. Societies should be looking at it as a blueprint, not something to avoid, though the constant drug-use should probably not be emulated.
So can this be used to create a VM on Apple Silicon Macs?
The 7.5 billion? To the company that previously owned Grubhub. I believe that's how much Just Eat paid for it.

Where did the valuation go? Doordash and Uber Eats managed to eat them alive.
I speculate this is part of it, and this is tied to a lot of key people who can enforce this type of move. Big companies also want to legitimize their business by having a presence. Without any presence virtually anyone start competing them, chipping at their business.
I doubt giving someone who isn't doing a lot of work more money/leisure/status is going to motive them.
Microsoft bought Candy Crush for $75 billion.
I'd argue the article gets the history of jungle itself quite wrong too... there's no mention of breakbeat hardcore, no mention of Shut Up and Dance collaborating with Ragga Twins, etc.

Fabio and Grooverider are seminal figures to the scene, yes, but they did not originate the sound.