skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most VCs want a founder that will spend years grinding away earning nothing and in the off chance they have something successful, sign away their rights, so the VC can make their millions. By 40, most people see right through the bullshit.

Im in my 40s and I even turn down good paying jobs at startups, when I see no upside for me (long hours, terrible business model).
Manipulation (Psychology)
The average age of a successful business founder in the US is in the early 40's - these days I see 42 and 45 thrown around based on available data.

It's always been the case. 20 years ago I remember seeing the number 38 being thrown around.

By middle age you've had enough time to accumulate skills, a network, and capital, which can far outweigh the downsides of this period of your life.

Young adulthood is your fuck around period. Middle age is your find out period. It's really when the rubber hits the road and whatever you've been turning into a reality through your actions for the last 20+ years, happens.

Old age is when you live with the consequences.
I think this is a reasonable solution. I also hope we can standardize a random function which takes an integer range of maximum.
The S&P 500 is down less than 1% below its all-time high. It’s mathematically impossible to lose 52% following that advice.

I think “with 10% leverage” deserves a lot more than a parenthetical here.
You’re thinking “any data”, he’s thinking “useful data for training an LLM”.
I began designing a kirigami-based orientable "parabolic" mirror-mesh with the goal of creating an affordable solution. My primary design objective was to minimize the number of actuators relative to the number of "pixels" in the mesh, enabling me to control the position of the focal point using just a few servomotors. The project originated as an exploration of redirecting sunlight onto plants by mounting these mirror meshes on my house walls, though I did not complete the design.

The actuating system I developed can tilt pixels in a row at an angle proportional to their distance from the mesh center. This approach creates a "focus parabola" rather than a precise focal point—which would require actuators to tilt pixels according to an arctangent function relative to their center distance. Despite this limitation, I believe the design remains viable for my intended use, notwithstanding the significant incendiary risks involved.

While this approach might not be suitable for the scenario discussed in the article due to wind conditions and the need for a flat surface, it offers advantages over costly hydraulic systems. The mesh could be rolled up and transported in a bag, providing a potentially more portable alternative.
We could also disclose who is a parent and who isn't, to make decisions about which comments to deprioritize.
Anectdotally, I've also been getting in a bad habit of staying up 2-3 days and agree there are similarities to being drunk - certainly in terms of cognitive ability and reflexes - but I even experience similar loss of inhibition (although not in nearly as fun a way).

The first serious cognitive effect I've encountered is struggling to find a word I'm searching for (or recalling a person's name) in conversation. On the third day, I also start having significant vision impairment, reminiscent of hallucinogenic effects, where objects seem to be swaying slightly when I focus on them.

It also quite apparent to me that it is much harder to retain information learned after being up for a day or two.
I guess many countries on a budget look at this as a "cheap" nuke nowadays, something a few extra steps of physics could make easy reachable, without having to pay for the whole nuclear force "shebang". Thanks russia, thanks china, thanks usa - one world locked in a eternal Mexican standoff it is. Future generations are going to look at the collapse of Assads regime as the last "downfalls" without nail-biting.

I wouldnt want to work at the IAA right now.
VPNs are used in businesses around the world and nobody has issues with performance. What kind of ancient hardware are we talking? Performance used to be an issue with HW not supporting AES accel, but since we have wireguard this doesn't seem to be an issue.
It's a size and shape that's so omnipresent one expects that it's some combination of geometrical efficiency, ability to pass/reach things, some flexibility in self-organizing conversational groups, and probably some other things such as not being too large to setup, teardown, and store.
Ah..so our fines can have teeth. Not just that 'cost of doing business' slaps on the wrist. Shows they don't really care about consumers. They care about power
Can LLMs represent meaning? / Getting over the impenetrable wall
Inspired by the discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42419543

I really hope we can get over the stochastic parrot discussion...
WTF you talk about Ivan, we have a dictator that repeatedly claimed he will wipe out most of Europe's capital cities with nuclear strikes. Desire to stop his war campaign at atlantic. The only reason its not already done is utterly shitty state of russian army, otherwise 0 reasons. Existence of NATO is another one.

For americans this is easy peasy squabble far from home about topics you don't care nor know enough, for Europe and its democracy this is existential threat.

Funnily enough russia will mostly benefit from global warming so they have 0 reasons to act in any good way. Their burning military warehouses blowing up so big time earthquakes are detected far away produced more pollution than whole Europe driving around.

If you measure world-war scale conflict damage just in amount of GDP cost then its hard to discuss reasonably topics with Ivans of this world.
They honor special deletion requests if you have reasons, but otherwise if you want to stay anonymous, I find it’s best to just create a new account and start over to prevent being profiled.

You’re sacrificing your privacy for karma points.
I wonder how this compares to the use of zarr format which seems to have similar goals and design and is already well integrated in several libraries (particularly xarray)?
How YouTube Ate Podcasting
The in-browser H2 database is very cool, thanks for sharing. I'm a regular user of H2, but have only used it server-side so far.

How much trouble was it to get working? Not sure how doppio handles the absence of raw TCP connections and a standard filesystem in the browser, but if it works in doppio I would think it could work in TeaVM too.
Amtrak Sets All-Time Ridership Record in Fiscal Year 2024
badkeming: a site for kerning so bad it's keming
running 1hr/day will do that to you
I’ve been thinking about ways to improve GPS accuracy particularly in large cities to provide precise locations , route optimization and context aware navigation. After doing some research I believe this can be achieved using foundational models.

Foundational models can:
- Interpret natural language queries and convert them into routing actions.
- Integrate various data sources like traffic API ,weather conditions and satellite data to improve decision making.
- Be used for multimodal analysis. Combining textual input , map data and real world signals.
- Be used for route optimization by analyzing patterns in existing Map API data.
I Worked on a rough prototype of what an AI GPS could look like.
If you would like to try it out sign up using the link below:

https://shorturl.at/ggD68
Related submission: "‘A huge loss’: is it the end for the ship that helped us understand life on Earth?"[1][2]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/09/a-huge-l...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41785543
I find all of these bans quite interesting because when I was at school we would be figuring out how to circumvent the web filters and would be building apps to hide the games we had open on Miniclip when a teacher walked past.

I think I kind of owe my software development career to these early days as that is what inspired me. We didn’t have smartphones when I was at school and I guess things weren’t as optimised to be so addictive but we did have Facebook and Bebo.
Methane and Climate Change
I'm proud to have contributed my grain of sand in the form of two tiny patches for this release.
LL commentary: https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=67333
If the days selected were purely random, investing in SP500 would be wise (though not with 10x leverage).

In this experiment only 1/3 of days were random, with another third in employment report days and the last third in fed announcement days.

When I did this with -10x SP500 every day the result was a +36% return, which is surely not what you would expect if the trading days were purely random.
I think most software outside of the few Silicon Valleys of the world is in fact a bunch of dirty hacks put together.

I fully believe recursive application of current SOTA LLMs plus some deployment framework can replace most software engineers who work in the cornfields.
Well said. I use nvim with all kinds of plugins and a custom init.lua, and then I use vim (or nvi) when something goes wrong with my init.lua, and nvim won't start, or when I want to quickly open a file really quickly and not wait the second or so it takes for my nvim setup to load.

Likewise, vim lets me do local editing on any system I connect to as there's rarely ever a Unix left that doesn't have vim installed. (Back when vim was the new kid on the block, I said the same thing about stock ex/vi - I made sure I was comfortable editing in vi, and then I never felt uncomfortable when I had to do work on a remote system.)

Another benefit with vim or nvim is how easy it is to copy someone else's full-featured setup: one of the programmers I work with is really into nvim, and he figured out an ideal setup for both working on Go and Python code. Then he just shared his setup with me. Copying someone's VSCode setup with plugins and all and getting it all to work would be a multi-hour ordeal.
Totally agree. When I worked at Radiant Earth the most frequent question we got was "I have this data I want to share, how do I create a good STAC for it?"

It was a totally valid question but one that's practically impossible to answer. As a result there's just so much variation between STACs and you never really know what you're going to get.
Man, I have to get my 800xl running again.

This looks very interesting!
I’m curious to know your opinions on teaching coding to kids. Is it a good idea given claims around AI taking over programming jobs in the near future? How many parents here would like their children to learn coding?
Not that I am aware of. It is a revival of the PLATO networked learning environment.
a and b have to be real numbers, whereas the identity works for any commutative ring.
foo, bar, baz, quux, fleem ... then I get stuck.

Well, more usually, then I ask myself wtf I'm doing that needs that many metasyntactic variables and try and figure out an approach that doesn't.

(I have no idea whatsoever where I got fleem from anymore)
Wait, why do I need React for a live calculator or sliders updating a table? Does plain JavaScript and the Web APIs no longer exist? Don't Web Components/custom elements exist? I need to immediately jump to React/Vue/etc. at the slightest bit of client-side interactivity?

Also, do people just update and yeet their apps into prod without testing it? What happened to test environments? Test suites? Manual QA? Letting it soak? Where did quality control go?
I haven't tried that Mini CPM model yet.
Both. It should be a inverted pyramid,starting at the likes of lua, condense to something c#, then the training wheels come off for deep low level access and stranger high level concepts.

All within one engine, your elders giving and taking your freedom.
> That was my thought, is model as a computer the best we can do?

Nah, there's a better option. Instead of a computer, we could... go for treating it as a person.

Yes, that's inverting the whole point of the article/discussion here, but think about it: the main limitation of a computer is that we have to tell it step-by-step what to do, because it can't figure out what we mean. Well, LLMs can.

Textual chat interface is annoying, particularly the way it works now, but I'd say the models are fundamentally right where they need to be - it's just that a human person doesn't use a single thin pipe of a text chat to communicate with the world; they may converse with others explicitly, but that's augmented by orders of magnitude more of contextual inputs - sights, sounds, smells, feelings, memory, all combining into higher-level memories and observations.

This is what could be the better alternative to "LLM as computer": double down on tools and automatic context management, so the user inputs are merely the small fraction of data that's provided explicitly; everything else, the model should watch on its own. Then it might just be able to reliably Do What I Mean.
Does the Kaypro do graphics?

If so, there is a client written in C, I believe.
One day during my vim journey I discovered filters and realised I could turbo charge my editing by running selections through any and all of unix and now I don't need fancy spacing plugins - I have `column` and I can `sort`

This then allowed me to golf a one line vim macro that shells out a selection to nc which connects to a clojure socket repl

I don't think many "vim modes" would allow that. The most earnest of vim modes is probably evil mode. Of course, only your true mortal enemy could ever understand you...
What you are talking about (looking for pretty patterns in lines and ascribing meaning to them) isn’t day trading, it is called technical analysis. I mostly agree with your take on its usefulness though, there is a reason it is getting memed as astrology for finance bros.
you cannot ask a customer of a building to specify what strength concrete needs to be used.

But you can push back when they ask you to build a 40-storey skyscraper out of dry spaghetti noodles.
A technology demonstration doesn't need to be practical. That's for follow-up works. e.g. We could have a mostly GPU workload, and now instead of having to run CPU logic off-board, we may be able to run in on GPU as well.
My ode to why speed even matters https://h.43z.one/vimsteps/0
You can also just submit happenings like any other contributor here.
I think one of the reasons why someone might think it's hard to write code in Ada is its Pascal-style syntax and verbosity, which might give the false impression that it's an "outdated legacy language". I've written a few hobbyist projects in Ada (SPARK to be specific) during my spare time and now I greatly enjoy the language, but my very first impression of it wasn't enthusiastic (coming from a C background). I don't fully understand why Ada lacks popularity compared to Rust, outside of Rust having a more vibrant community.
Indeed wireguard. Fixed, tnx
Is there a source to this video?

TSMC has always had N2 on its roadmap long before the AI boom.
I hope huggingface is able to stick around. They've been a great resource for this phase of the AI revolution.
But not interesting for me in any way since it’s not open source.
And there are also plenty of citizens who are even a bit older. Ageism is huge in this business.
I am actually surprised that this is not self-evident, I figured everyone knew it, but upon reflection I suppose not.

So we have a bunch of data that points to these conclusions, since I'm not sure precisely what I'm trying to prove here, I'll start with what I consider some key insights

- We know that attention spans are just massively shorter on phones than any other medium, the evidence from this comes from multiple disciplines and subjects - like pretty much any task you might do, when you do it on the phone you do it for a smaller period of time, on the web for example you always see higher bounce rates and shorter session times. Same with game/media engagement

- When it comes to reading we have a fair amount of research showing that memory and retention seem to suffer on screens in general, especially smaller screens; the gold standard is still reading from paper, and then handwriting notes about what you read

- It follows from the various above points that you're going to struggle to read and digest long, complex texts on a phone more than you would on a larger screen or in a paper book. And sure enough the type of behavior we see on phones is the consumption of bite-size content where it's difficult to express much in the way of complexity.
Of course you can. What do you mean?
In order to love others first love "yourself".
There are other fun tricks for squares like this: https://blog.jgc.org/2010/03/squaring-two-digit-numbers-in-y...
From the comments on the video:

>This man was asked what he thinks about when he is flat out and he responded with “why don’t they make a faster bike”
And here it is in Racket or Scheme:

(define (apply a b)
(cond ((null? a) (list b))
((procedure? a) (cons (car a) b))
((null? (car a)) (cdr a))
((procedure? (car a)) (apply (apply (caar a) b) (apply (cdr a) b)))
((null? b) (caar a))
((procedure? b) (apply (cdar a) (car b)))
(else (apply (apply (cdr a) (car b)) (cdr b)))))

(define t-false null)
(define t-true (list null))
(define t-not (cons (cons (list null) (cons null null)) null))

(apply t-not t-false)
(apply t-not t-true)

Leaf is null, Stem is list and Fork is cons.
Try it yourself, the game is not randomized. You should receive exactly the same result.
To add cognitive context to what you’re saying, which is right, I’ll add that intuition is an unconscious averaging of direct or indirect observations, which doesn’t translate well to anything which hasn’t been experienced in some manner. We cannot develop gut feelings about physical phenomena that is outside of our experience or perception, which is why some quantum level effects seem surprising to us, but both simulations and experiments can confirm these counterintuitive effects.
Almost all code in an unsafe language will misbehave on bad inputs.

The program is put together in a way such that it avoids stepping on those cases. For instance, by validating and diagnosing inputs so as to avoiding executing that code.

You would think that a program which has been deemed "correct" cannot misuse any of its own code with undefined results. Alas, that is not the case. Such a program is called a "robust" program. A correct program is one that meets all of its functional requirements; does eveything right with correct inputs. Whether robustness is required for correctness depends entirely on how the program is specified: does the specification explicitly call for robustness (grace on bad inputs) or not?

For instance, the memcpy() function in your C library is a correct program (hopefully). When you use it correctly, it does its specified job. Most implementations of it are not robust, though. Most memcpy functions cheerfully accept overlapping objects and do something, and are easily crashed by bad pointers.

Robustness is related to security. It is often in the areas of the software that lack robustness that attackers find exploitable surfaces!

Safe languages contribute robustness to programs. It's as if the requirements were added to the spec of every program. The programmers working with these languages, and their users, get accustomed to this and then expect robustness out of programs as a tacit requirement.

Note that an incorrect program can be robust! A program that due to some coding mistake or misunderstanding calculates the wrong thing for correct inputs (not meeting a functional requirement) can still be impervious to misuse.

So in a nutshell, safety is more concerned with robustness than correctness. That's why we can talk about languages and libraries being safe, in the absence of a program being specified. Those tools are still safe when they are used to put together a program that doesn't meet its functional requirements.

The safety mechanisms in safe languages may not be enoguh for some desirable level of robustness. Users don't want programs to stop with a diagnostic message because they gave bad inputs. Modern safe languages have tools like exception handling.

Some wrongheaded programmers think that just because the default robustness provided by safe languages is not always good enough for many kinds of professional or industrial applications, those robustness features are therefore not worth it. ("If I'm going to have to check for bad inputs and take special action, what's the use of the language doing the checking robust.") The safe language can make it much easier to do that, though. For instance, we can often let an entire module execute freely and just catch an exception in one place. Say, inside a CAD program, some calculation over a model could divide by zero. We just catch that somewhere, put up a dialog (or log something in a log window) and the CAD program keeps running.
The problem the author describes is that doing this is not compatible with the mobile app. It doesn't support http basic auth and also can't present a client certificate (that's what I used to secure remote access to other browser based apps)
I think the author is not a native-English speaker.

They mean

> imagine if you remove the functionality that Vim mode in VSCode gives you from Neovim.
It isn’t a suitable language for data science and lacks the ecosystem of Python.

For example, people will write Eden files to parse data, which involves creating a really complex DSL for every file for import.

They will try to use Datomic as a database, which requires using datalog and does not scale.

The worst part is the clojure users are convinced it is somehow better, and ignore the business use case.

I feel bad for companies because it clearly isn’t a good fit and those devs will hire all their friends and do nothing for five years.

This happened at an organization doing cancer research, so the selfish cultists ruined a chance at understanding immunotherapy by focusing on writing clojure rather than doing science.

Recursion pharmaceuticals also had this problem, and had to rip out all of the clojure from their system.
keeps surprising me that, in a time where everybody seems to be concerned about privacy, people willingly "give away" their dna profile...
Which material on our planet release high amount of methane ?
1. Txn fees are completely unrelated to miner activity. They are simply demand vs supply (7/sec).

2. The ledger grows at a rate that's lower than the value decrease of storage. Effect increases over time..

3. Miners are incentivized to not collect around cheap sources of energy. As more collect, the energy becomes more expensive due to supply and demand and mining becomes unprofitable. So miners are geographically repelled from each other.

4. Bitcoins primary application is as a savings technology (not sure what crime and fraud you're talking about) and is not regulatable, nor does it need to be. The T&Cs are defined in code.

How on earth have you rationalised bitcoin going to 0 since 2013? And that it is failing? Sounds like a twisted cope mechanism to protect your ego - you couldn't be more wrong if you tried.

What Satoshi envisioned for bitcoin and the way that might happen is simply that - a vision, an idea - and has no effect on how the free market uses bitcoin. He could have thought it would be used to keep track of ships in the sea - it makes no difference.
Hard to believe the claims here, when no real empirical data is presented. Has the process been integrated in any foundry (even test fab)? Have they been able to tape out even an old chip, like 180nm, one with copper, one with graphene? If so, at wafer size and what yield? How many metal layers can be processed (global or local interconnects - if it's pressure based, how will the bottom most layers be affected as the interconnect stack is built up?

Also, back side power delivery + new materials like Ru will keep interconnect roadmap going for a while.

Articles like this read nothing more than fluff pieces.
Because :wq is sufficient and I need :w and :q! anyway