skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
they only needed a backdoor root because you're a gatekeeping dick and they wanted to get their job done without having to "deal" with your shit.

OMG. they applied unapproved patches! to the product they were responsible for making work.
I bought one of these Marshall speakers to use as a practice amp, only to find that the dsp latency is unusably bad. Maybe this is an option…
You need docs. Most users won’t read them. Do a good job anyway because they can save you a TON of support costs if they’re good, even for the few people who do read them. The cost of writing docs is easily offset by even a modest reduction in human support cost, unless you just half-ass your support with LLMs and FAQs and chat with overseas wage slaves.

ALSO: your UX needs to warn people about sharp edges and one-way doors, BEFORE your user commits to an action they might regret. These are not incompatible.
I love my kobo for the fact that I can carry it with me everywhere, but navigation is so slow that I'm not tempted to switch books or even quick scan them. I only have to charge it every 3-4 days (heavy readings sessions). I only use it for fiction and text heavy books.

It has my whole library on it and I open it everytime I'm waiting for something.
How does it break the C Standard?

> how to deal with functions that may not terminate or take rather long to execute

Control-C, the same as when running any executable that shouldn't be taking that long. It doesn't solve the halting problem :-/
Only if you avoid connecting to the DHT, and public users not on the private tracker. It's a niche usage and not really that well supported.
Not really. That is how humans learn and evolve. I think it is ok for people to be wrong.

I think effort should go into honesty, humility, and open mindedness.

I'm sure someone can have different insights from their lives experience which should be recognized, but that doesn't mean they should trump all else.
This. And to expand on the above: few people consider how much it actually costs to provide 12- or 4- hour support with a strict SLA. This pretty much means that the business needs to bear the full loaded cost of at least one additional employee. Now go divide that fully loaded cost (take the salary and multiply it by 2x, roughly, and I'm not quoting any numbers here to avoid stupid discussions about "but it costs less to hire a person in my area") by the number of customers that require these SLAs and see how much this needs to cost.
Insurance is a forcing function for change. Local and state and federal governments intervene for political short term gain but the money signal is enormous. If fire risk and flood risk aren't price signalled how else are people meant to understand their exposure to risk?

Because insured or not, the risk exists. People might argue about AGW but I haven't seen a serious take suggesting the insurance industry is overstating the cost of people living in areas now under higher risk. Those premiums are a signal to risk from water and fire, climate linked or not, risk, consequence and likelihood.

Warren Buffet was huge in reinsurance. (Insurance companies like betting shops lay off risk amongst themselves) because it was profitable. But I wonder if he still is.

I bought an apt in a flood zone. We had one in 2011 before I moved in and one in 2020. I lost things in the basement, our lifts were out for two weeks, along with total power loss for 3 days, we were islanded. Our premium went up this year but by less than we feared both because we did extensive mitigation work (demountable flood barriers to protect the lifts, bigger ground water pumps) and accepted a higher excess, we now pay the first $100,000 or so of flood consequences from the building funds.

It's a price signal. We reacted to the signal. Some people now react by not buying in flood zones. This is good.
yawn this is old news
I'm already logged in, which I infer is why I didn't see a login wall. Anyhow, I also posted an alternate link.
Nah. Way too much ROI for a true hacker.
We already have a few: LinkedIn and the real world.
All your base belong to D!
A lot of the people who make money for the bank were already doing much of their job over email long before the pandemic. (Which directly led to proving the LIBOR scandal.) The longer I’ve been working under my own part-time return to office requirement, the less I think it’s about the day-to-day work.

I personally benefit from having a dedicated place where work “lives” that is separate from my home. This helps me shift into a work “mode”. I know some people claim their routines are equally successful, but mine simply aren’t. In the office, I am surrounded by people who are also actively spending time in the same problem space. I’m not constantly pulled back into the domestic world by walking into the kitchen.
Thank you thank you thank you!

I have as part of my mega-project, an attempt at making a to scale earth (I am using main branch, compiled daily Godot), but many of the datasets for elevation and sat photos I have looked at are gpl incompatible datasets. I'm not sure how I missed the NASA SRTM datasets, but they are public domain and thus gpl compat!

This is great news and I appreciate this very much! (your product is cool too!)

Now, turning the HGT data into an actual mesh is going to be the challenge, but it seems doable! Mapping elevation data to a sphere is sure to teach me some things...
... because it's unthinkable that the "high touch sales processes", which add zero value and suck for everybody other than whoever's taking home the huge commission, should change.
That's I am wondering too.. may be commenter itself is an AI?
Retroactive morality as per Salem, Berlin book burning, the inquisition, commie blacklisting....
"There are two genders." The belief comes from watching birds and bees.

Now, say that in 2020 in a woke software organization.
FSE Sprite Compression
Community, exercise, species-appropriate diet, and psychological richness also reduce the risk of Alzheimer's and a variety of neurological disorders.
What is amazing for me is that these sales tactics actually work, because many people want to be sold to in this way.

Do the direct approach with no bullsh*t, instant demo, meaningful trial period, easy onboarding, etc and lose those customers that expect the usual sales ride.

Source: I do the direct approach.
Guilty. I worked with a version of this program.
I think one should be somewhat skeptical of the claim that schizophrenia is completely absent in blind people; it might merely be more difficult to diagnose. Combined with the population of congenitally blind people being sufficiently small, the cases that might exist could escape notice. There was an informative post on Less Wrong about this https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/z9Syf3pGffpvHwfr4/i-m-mildly...
You have to click into it as it's not visible from the preview.
Support is an example of an "enterprise" feature with a high cost basis. SSO is an example of an "enterprise" feature with almost zero cost basis. But in both cases, the cost is a sideshow. The real driver for the pricing of these features is market segmentation: the customers with high expectations of support, or a requirement to have SSO, strongly tend to be less price sensitive than the rest of customers. The fundamental goal of product pricing is to find ways to charge price-insensitive customers more than price-sensitive customers.

Like, yes, you'd lose money offering 4-hour-SLA support to customers paying the entry-level price. But you could make that decision, and have part of your business model be subsidizing those customers. It depends on everything else in your model; how you acquire customers, what their lifetime value is, &c.
The MacBook came out in 2006, it had 512MB. I suppose it could have contained an array of 2^30 bits, though that's unlikely to occur. The point is that most machines weren't going to run into this at the time it was published. I'd be curious to see how many machines would run into it today, single sets of that size just aren't that common.
There are countermeasures for all contingencies.

> you could bomb them with planes

Not necessarily. If a plane has a combat radius of 600 miles and it can't take off from within 1000 miles of the theater, and it can't refuel once in the air, then it's tricky. Maybe the planes have very long range missiles, but those can be electronically jammed, and the targets are moving. The US has both refueling tankers and B2s that have a very long range. But refueling tankers are not stealthy, so China has a chance to take them down, and B2's are extraordinarily expensive.

> you could torpedo them with submarines

Once a submarine launches a torpedo, it ceases to be stealthy. Of course, it can regain its stealth mode if it submerges quickly and leaves the area, but it becomes a game of cat and mouse. It's possible for China to infest the area with lots of unmanned underwater vehicles that could patrol and once an enemy submarine is identify, keep track of it.

> you could mine the area where they land

There are ways to get rid of the mines. Lots of ways. Plus, if China feigns an invasion and doesn't actually invade, what is Taiwan to do? Leave the mines there? Permanently? That is quite hazardous for the civilian population. If China feigns 4 times and attacks for good the 5th time, will this be a problem?

Bottom line: these questions that you are asking and I am answering: there are a few thousand people in China that are asking the same questions and trying to come up with answers, and then some are wargaming the answers and some are trying to come up with answers to the answers to the answers. There are people in the US who do the same. But China's threat to invade Taiwan should not be taken lightly.
A teammate here in the Bay Area is currently collaborating with someone in Israel. It is possibly the worst time zone difference I’ve seen. Worse than Japan/California has been for me.
hey this is great work, I'm sorry I complained, I'm thankful for what you're doing here
So you are born in the middle class, then it is a class issue? Will Smiths son Jaden had it way better than you. The axis for where to look is just bizarre.

To really help, make sure the schools in poor areas are top notch, even better than upper class schools, and you will automatically fix the imbalance, without having to use equipment for darkness, dna samples to check the heritage and other clearly bizarre future paths.
That’s great. They’re still capable of doing other things
Yeah, and people are talking about renewables as if the storage is free. Or people quote case 17 out of

https://www.eia.gov/analysis/studies/powerplants/capitalcost...

as if 1.5 hours of storage was going to cut it. I've been looking for a detailed analysis of what the generation + storage + transmission costs of a reliable renewable grid is that's less than 20 years old covering a whole year and I haven't seen one yet.
Reply was to me and I live in Tasmania. I definitely would not recommend Tasmania as an exemplar of financial innovation :)
Because the goods made will be sold to American consumers directly and indirectly and are priced to reflect all kinds of costs including EPA compliance in domestic markets.

European markets also demand European norms to labour and health and environment are met, even if tokenistically. To some it is a form of protectionism.

It's also the "why can't we make it here" reasoning. If you tried to make it in the US it would be white anted out by lawfare. That's what happened to BHP when they proposed metals and minerals processing plants on the Californian coast.
There’s also ~100x more miles driven than biked. Bikes riders do cause a significant number of major medical incidents per mile and even some fatalities, but it simply doesn’t get much attention.
Right; the thing here is: the author obviously knows the game (because they wink knowingly at it repeatedly). Given that: why are they ever getting on the phone with a sales engineer? You can just delete the emails.
Early Iron Age horse sacrifice at a royal tomb in southern Siberia
This is not what I observed in the last 8 years. People with power (both D and R) get away with anything while individuals suffer for the slightest infractions.

Any given senate hearing or political speech would lead to dozens of expulsions in a standard censored software company.

It is the small people who need protection.
The morally negligent corporate poster is my favourite stereotype on this website
it's hard to take anything you say seriously when you're committing such a huge category error with socialism.

socialism is publicly-owned houses. it's the public owning equal portions of the major capital forces in the country. it's running large portions of the country without any focus on profit whatsoever. it's not propping up multiple colossal profit-making companies because you're too scared to do anything even resembling government interference. that's government interference, by the way, not socialism. we're so far from socialism here that it's laughable.

what you're demonising is incompetent Keynesianism.
The easy solution to this in my state is to just wear a recording device.

I live in a one party consent state for the recording of conversations [1,2], whether on the phone or in person. I don't know how y'all get away without it in California. It pairs really well with free speech, and it feels wrong to not have this legal feature available.

[1] https://www.justia.com/50-state-surveys/recording-phone-call...

[2] https://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/georgia-recording-law
I don’t think they are. I think it’s the owners that are trying to buy good favor while still paying less. “I tried to pay you more! Look at the 30% button I had them add!”
This assumes that mass social media is some kind of idealized “meeting of the minds” rather than like…the digital equivalent of a loud and raucous bar.

The ability to block obnoxious and hateful people is fundamentally far, far less of causative factor of information bubbles than the pervasive engagement-driven algorithmic feeds are.
Euthanasia.ttf should be the name of the font on that page. Why is it randomly rotating the occasional character by a few degrees?
yes. most very large corps. that like to keep patent portfolios will encourage engineers to patent (assigned to the co. of course) anything slightly creative or unusual. or sometimes anything at all that sounds slightly technical.

the engineer gets his name on the patent and maybe a bit of prestige. the org gets another (sometimes bad) patent in the portfolio.

skimming the patent https://patents.google.com/patent/US4135240A/en it seems actually pretty well drafted and pretty good (patentable).
starting with 802.11ax ("Wifi 6") [0] they've started doing frequency-division [1], in addition to time-division.

as I understand it, a channel can be effectively divided into K separate sub-channels, and then in a crowded space with N active users, your time-division only needs to contend with N/K other users.

this dovetails well with Wifi 6E expanding to the 6ghz range, and Wifi 7 (among other things) expanding channel bandwidth to as large as 320mhz. (compare this to classic 2.4ghz having only 3 non-overlapping channels of 20mhz width each)

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_6

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonal_frequency-division_...
Please believe me when I tell you that I am not enthusiastic about insurance and/or callcenter operations.

What I’m enthusiastic about is serving those applications to country sized populations.

I’m fairly certain I’m not the only one.
I've settled on two modes: Either speed-reading or note taking. If I'm speed-reading a book and I find something interesting, I screenshot the section. The few books that make the cut, they're in my "bookshelf" and slotted for a deep read where I'm actually trying to learn the stuff it's explaining. That's when I take notes, think about the concepts, and try to explain them to my friends.
It's definitely a generalisation, but in my experience - and others who I've spoken to - this is broadly correct.
> why would the host feel awkward protecting the injured party?

Suing is time-consuming and expensive.
Interesting how the IPv4 price has pulled back 30% since early 2022.
If you're not deeply steeped in startup business model lore, the search query you want here is [product led growth], the very-fashionable trend of go-to-market and business models that admit your preferred way of marketing products. Tailscale, Slack, Notion, and Dropbox (at least, early Dropbox) are all big examples of PLG startups.

This model works especially well when your early (pre-series-B go-to-market) is not big companies (say, 1000+ employees).
At the end of the day, I don't think many people would be doing this if they really had a choice (e.g. a few million in the bank, house paid off, etc), but it is what it is. You still need to play the game of life and make the most out of it.

The circle jerk enthusiasm and camraderie really does help to keep a lot of people motivated and focused on providing for the company. While it might feel over the top, it serves a purpose, and gives people a sense of community and belonging which is often hard to find in the modern world. Plus it stops them from being depressed thinking about how mundane their life is, spending 60+ hours a week fixing the CI pipeline.
I've occasionally thought about trying to organize a filesystem that way.
Ask HN: Pull the curtain back on Nvidia's CES keynote please
I've spent 15 years building a career in robotics/software engineering along the "traditional path": writing software to solve problems, mastering fundamentals, and architecting complex systems. I stay on top of cutting-edge technologies to stay relevant, but I’ve mostly seen AI/LLMs as powerful tools for augmenting specific tasks rather than fundamentally reshaping engineering as a discipline.

However, NVIDIA’s recent CES keynote was another data point in a growing list challenging that view. While yes, primarily a sales pitch, the vision they presented suggests:

- AI can solve any problem across modalities—just feed it data.

- The future of engineering focuses on data gathering and AI integration, moving away from first-principles problem-solving.

While the presentation was compelling, my consumer experience with AI/LLMs has been vastly different:

- Great for suggestive tasks but unreliable for authoritative answers.

- Good for prototyping and scaffolding, but major rewrites are often needed for production-ready code.

- Image generation impresses but often includes noticeable flaws.

- Hallucinations across all modalities remain a major issue.

So, there’s this gap between the vision of AI/LLMs as a revolutionary paradigm and my practical experiences. I lack the resources to test these claims in depth, so I’m turning to HN for firsthand insights—not sales pitches or market hype.

If you’re using NVIDIA’s AI tools (like NeMo, Omniverse, COSMOS, etc.) or broadly working with LLMs/multi-modal AI in your daily work or business, I’d love to know:

- What are you actually achieving with them?

- What are their limitations? Where do they fall short?

- What's the reliability of the results? Demo-worthy Deployment-ready for high-stakes environments?

- Are the challenges you encounter just a matter of “more compute/money,” or are they fundamental barriers?

- Do these tools help you reach production faster compared to traditional methods?

- Anything else you think may be interesting.

I’m looking for honest, real-world insights from those at the front lines of these technologies.
Sure, if you view this as an isolated incident. But I think of it more as the latest example of the larger trend of how the industry has gone mad actively making their products worse with half-baked AI features. That is a more interesting story.
You keep referring to people who like cities that function as cities as "misery pushers" and then in the same breath doing as much as you can to create an association between increased density and all these hypothetical negative possibilities. Likewise it just seems as though you've developed some level of prejudice based on the negative experience you're contending with in your neighborhood, and then extrapolating that quite severely, because you think you've been lied to. It's tricky to reconcile how if you were inclined to be optimistic about the prospect of urbanism to begin with, you'd be so intensely and easily convinced otherwise, or surprised that the creation of an arbitrary higher density building didn't turn your low density town into European capital city overnight. Like how does it happen that you lived in no specific place in Europe for example, then to where you are now, and one thing gets built which convinces you that actually every city in Europe is and has always been wrong.

Your chart shows two lines that seem to represent sales of something over time in nearby cities, which may or may not be relevant, but are at most a narrow slice of what one would need to look at in order to understand what's going on over in Minneapolis if anything.

You then create a strawman who thinks the removal of zoning restrictions will automatically lead to a utopia in which we have no other human problems or economic systems to contend with, even going so far as to dismiss someone on the basis of a lacking argument against a claim that nobody made.
Haven't you noticed that the homepage does not include the X widget anymore ? It's been removed [1] exactly because of that, i.e the content is not public anymore.

[1]: https://github.com/dlang/dlang.org/pull/3714
My point is that JPM has been a net negative in the world. I have no doubt that they have innovated in financial markets. They have also innovated in their adherence to the law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPMorgan_Chase#Lawsuits_and_le...
Anchoring the FSF in Its Values
I believe this decision suggests that the worlds top banker of the worlds top bank, whose assets under management are greater than the wealth of most nations on earth, seems to believe that the fundamental change in the way white collar work is done post pandemic, is either not conducive to achieving a culture he desires or to garnering the level of performance he is targeting for his company. My first reaction is not to belittle someone so demonstrably competent, even if I disagreed with the decision, but to try to understand it.

I personally don’t have the answer. I’m curious what were the core criteria that drove this decision and how many, if any, are unique to a banks culture of risk mitigation.
The missing word is competitive. People want to win. So much of the rest of the world just wants to survive till the next day.
"It's a beauty there's no mistake the Barnes are white fellows?"

What??
Opening image: AI-generated picture of a slightly melting computer, with keys that can only type words like "kgonfutz" or "oøoøøo".

I can only assume the rest of the article is also AI-generated, with a similar attention to detail. Tab closed without reading.
At its core sales = harassment
> If you were on my team I’d manage you out. People like you are a cancer in organizations, always bringing everyone down.

If you have this absolutist attitude why would you expect anyone to ever be honest with you? Of course people are going to pretend that they believe in the company mission. Not doing so puts their livelihood at risk because of people like you.
That's probably more to do with interest rates than anything else. Cheap money => speculative assets are worth more.
So it’s wage theft then? Gotta love the “disruptive” tech industry. Such innovation.
Do you mean titles they find too verbose? Verbosity is not the same as difficulty.
10 years after I left a company, new relic still calls me twice a year in the hope of selling something there.
How else to solve childcare and socialization?