skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or a proposal/feedback process. Ala you are hired by non technical person to build something, you generate requirements and a proposed solution. You then propose that solution, they give feedback.

Having a feedback loop is the only way viable for this. Sure, the client could give you a book on what they want, but often people do not know their edge cases, what issues may arise/etc.
> We've spent the last 80 years (ostensibly) talking about how great representative government is, then we let people own a majority of voting shares so that they can run companies like dictatorships.

I think it’s basically admitting that the right dictator, if they are there based on merit, can really perform better than someone who wins by their skill at campaigning. Forget voting shares - even when a single person doesn’t have that amount of control, you have a small board elected by shareholders who is essentially electing a dictator.

Personally I think most companies would do far worse if rank and file employees selected the CEO. But I haven’t thought much about it. Curious what ideas HN has on this aspect.
The criticisms there are at the same time 1) true and 2) irrelevant.

Just to take one example. Yes, on ARM and x86 you can often do array indexing in one instruction. And then it is broken down into several µops that don't run any faster than a sequence of simpler instructions (or if it's not broken down then it's the critical path and forces a lower clock speed just as, for example, the single-cycle multiply on Cortex-M0 does).

Plus, an isolated indexing into an array is rare and never speed critical. The important ones are in loops where the compiler uses "strength reduction" and "code motion out of loops" so that you're not doing "base + array_offset + indexelt_size" every time, but just "p++". And if the loop is important and tight then it is unrolled, so you get ".. = p[0]; .. = p[1]; .. = p[2]; .. = p[3]; p += 4" which RISC-V handles perfectly well.

"But code size!" you say. That one is extremely easily answered, and not with opinion and hand-waving. Download amd64, arm64, and riscv64 versions of your favourite Linux distro .. Ubuntu 24.04, say, but it doesn't matter which one. Run "size" on your choice of programs. The RISC-V will always be significantly smaller than the other two -- despite supposedly being missing important instructions.

A lot of the criticisms were of a reflexive "bigger is better" nature, but without any examination of HOW MUCH better, or the cost in something else you can't do instead because of that. For example both conditional branch range and JAL/JALR range are criticised as being limited by including one or more 5 bit register specifiers in the instruction through having "compare and branch" in a single instruction (instead of condition codes) and JAL/JALR explicitly specifying where to store the return address instead of having it always be the same register.

RISC-V conditional branches have a range of ±4 KB while arm64 conditional branches have a range of ±1 MB. Is it better to have 1 MB? In the abstract, sure. But how often do you actually use it? 4 KB is already a very large function -- let alone loop -- in modern code. If you really need it then you can always do the opposite condition branch over an unconditional ±1 MB jump. If your loop is so very large then the overhead of one more instruction is going to be far down in the noise .. 0.1% maybe. I look at a LOT of compiled code and I can't recall the last time I saw such a thing in practice.

What you DO see a lot of is very tight loops, where on a low end processor doing compare-and-branch in a single instruction makes the loop 10% or 20% faster.
Yes, I did, of course.

Storage is MUCH cheaper when you colo, and bandwidth requirements are a large part of why you colocate instead of just running servers out of an office building that has at least two upstream connections.

I'm really curious what you think they're using now. Certainly you read the article... It says they're using bare metal servers. That's basically colo where the provider owns, but doesn't control, the hardware.
I'm mainly a Mac guy these days but when the time comes for my Windows 10 machines, I'm sorely tempted to put a Linux distro on them. I don't really game and mainly use it for ham radio programs.
> Creation of invitations requires an iCloud+ subscription.
Based on Musk’s tweets, the depth of this “audit” seems to be entirely surface level, e.g. “Lutheran in the name? DELETE.” (Not that they could do any better even if they wanted to given the blitzkrieg nature of the audit, size of the team, and complete lack of expertise.)
Elon's Twitter Playbook Hits the US Government, and It's Even More Dangerous
In point of fact, I have been asking whether they are parroting lies or gullible.

This type of "review" is simple McCarthyism. DeSantis, in Florida, has shown us how this goes. The Trump admin is doing this on a pretext of removing politics from science, when it is demonstrably injecting politics into science.
> Anyone can reply to invitations. Creation of invitations requires an iCloud+ subscription.
ctrl-f "android", expected result
Love the idea, can take away the complexity that comes with such an effort
A family friend was 7 years old in Leningrad when the siege started. He talked proudly of finding a cat and killing it so that he could bring it home for his aunt to cook (his father was conscripted and his mother was already dead). He talked about how they would peel down the wallpaper because the glue used to put it up before the war contained flour, and so a very weak sort of soup could be made from it.

They evacuated him over Lake Ladoga to Siberia where he spent the war. His father returned to Leningrad after the war and made contact, and they sent him at 10 years old by himself on the trans-Siberian railway back to Leningrad with a sack of potatoes to eat/trade.

Back at school in Leningrad they saw German POWs helping cleanup/rebuild and they would trade with them.

He also remembers enjoying American movies in the late 40's, before they were banned.
This is pretty cool, seriously. As of latest patch it supports uninstalling an unpacked extension, too. I will probably add support for this as the extensions backend in BrowserBox/CloudTabs once it stabilizes, but for now we use a slightly different method to enable "normal" extension installs from the Chrome WebStore (which serves us pretty well, tho support is in beta as figuring out the UX for panels, popups, etc in a remote browser is important).

You can probably give it a whirl at: https://browse.cloudtabs.net/ss - no signup required.

Just visit https://chromewebstore.google.com/category/extensions

and once you install 1, try opening it from the little spray can menu at top right. The cool thing is it's a way to bring extensions to mobile. Yay.
> If you're careful in your prompting

In other words, if you replace natural language with a programming language then the computer will do a good job of interpreting your intent. But that's always been true, so...
I switched to Linux, and when my Surface Book 2 stops being supported by Microsoft, I'll switch that over too. I'm done.
Language evolves. As much as we are training computers to understand us, they are training us to understand them.

The level of precision required for highly complex tasks was never necessary before. My four year old has a pretty solid understanding of how the different AI tools she has access to will behave differently based on how she phrases what she says, and I've noticed she is also increasingly precise when making requests of other people.
The one thing this administration appears happy to outsource are human rights violations.
The fact that the elephant in the room, the Jones Act, is never mentioned in the parent article, is pretty telling.
I've never felt sick from anything on a traditional screen. In VR, any movement that doesn't match my personal movement makes me feel sick instantly. None of the mitigations help at all.

This even happened on some of the new Harry Potter rides at Universal Park. They have some sections that are kind of like a flight simulator with a wrap-around screen. The ride car is on some kind of articulated arm. The physical roller-coaster parts were totally fine, but this simulator parts made me feel sick. I had to close my eyes to keep from throwing up. I cannot handle a mismatch between my apparent motion and my felt motion. I will never play another first person VR game.
In VR, some games make me sick, though most of them don't.

One of the worst was a roller-coaster simulator. What really did it, I think was the lack of g-forces. If you have ever ridden a roller coaster, you are probably familiar with the crushing feeling after the drop as you go back up again, I was, and braced myself for it. Except... nothing happened, of course, but it felt really weird. Even weirder when looking to the side, the acceleration is all wrong! I lasted about two minutes before getting sick.

I took some time to recover then tried again. Now, I did much better. I wouldn't say it was comfortable, but it wasn't to the point of wanting to stop immediately. But also, the immersion was broken, I went from "I am in a roller coaster" to "I am watching a 3D movie", which made for a pretty boring experience. To be honest, I enjoyed the first two minutes where I had to call stop more than the half hour or so that followed.

I am sure the same thing happen with the rope swings. Like a roller coaster, rope swings alternate between weightlessness and high g-forces, which VR obviously cannot transcribe. But if for some reason, your brain didn't expect these sensations, then no problem.

That's the reason I think motion sickness is a real problem for VR, even if you can deal with it. Because the way you deal with it is essentially by breaking immersion, but immersion is the whole point of VR. It also applies to non-VR immersive games to a lesser extent.

So, yes, I think it is something we should take very seriously, first by fixing the "bugs": low framerates, unnatural camera movements, etc..., by adjusting gameplay to avoid unnecessary motion sickness, and finally by providing accessibility features.

It is a bit of a controversial take, as it may seem "woke" or something, as if caring about motion sickness will make the experience worse for those who aren't motion sick. But it is actually the opposite! Fighting against motion sickness breaks immersion, even at a subconscious level.
The general idea is that motion sickness appears when the sensory experience is inconsistent, try to make the sensory experience as consistent as possible, both against motion sickness and for better immersion.
You can still game on Linux, Steam is phenomenal. ;) I havent gone back to Windows.
That's a good point regarding the Matrix Cookbook. I didn't start using it until I'd already learned a lot of linear algebra and how to do matrix calculus by hand, so I didn't really need much of an explanation when I first discovered it in the 2000s.

In contrast, the Tensor Cookbook was my first introduction to tensor diagrams, so I didn't have any prior experience with them to lean on.

It certainly looks like a useful and powerful technique, but it seems like something that warrants almost a crash course in the topic with some exercises rather than just jumping in.
Spotify is getting “killed” because it was always a bad business to be in when your costs - payments to labels - scale linearly with your revenue. The exact opposite of a normal tech company that has high fixed costs and very low marginal costs.

> Apple and Google don't even need to turn a profit on their platforms, and both of them are hurting Spotify directly by taking 30% of their subscription payments. Neither of them even directly report revenue from their services.

This is not true. Spotify hasn’t allowed in app purchases of subscriptions in almost a decade.
> Precisely what americans state you should not do

Regulations, on a large scale, were pioneered by America as a response to Great Depression. For a long time Europe was behind the US on this front.

Regulations, actually, worked miracles for the US. But two things happened: early success that prevented further improvements (medical care), and mechanistic misapplication of the practice (over-regulating businesses like hairdressing etc.) Blinded by the later, a lot of Americans believe that regulations, in general, are bad. Well, now we see a small group of people who stands to gain a lot from deregulating many aspects of American life is about to rob blind the remaining very large group of American people :|
I think everyone is aware that chat is not the ideal UI pattern for this. It's just the way current AI models work and generate content - that's why they have this "typewriter" mode, which naturally leads to a chat interface.

It's not really a conscious choice, but rather a side effect. And we already see the trend is away from that, with tools like chatGPT Canvas, editors like Windsurf, etc.
I wonder what the tax efficiency looks like when comparing a zero fee fund to its low fee ETF counterpart. Is it possible an ETF under 5 or even 10 basis points is still a better deal if it's tax efficient (taxable accounts only)?
There is a difference between investment and speculation and lots of people learn it the hard way, eventually.
> They can't be held outside Fidelity accounts, so what happens if you get caught up in some KYC nonsense and Fidelity closes your account?

This literally happened to me. I'm banned from Fidelity for some unknown (AML presumably) reason but have no other issues with any brokerage, bank, or exchange.

Fortunately I just held a bunch of ETFs, so it was straightforward. But it does happen.
Exactly what it is.
> They need a total rewrite of all their customer facing software and web stuff,

They've done that. And now you can't sort by capital gain/loss per share when picking lots to sell.

They're also almost done forcing everyone into the brokerage side, which is less flexible with some things like reinvestment of dividends. On the nice side, it includes foreign dividend info on the 1099s so you don't have to find a separate document to get those percentages.
correct me if I'm wrong but this used to be a main feature of facebook. Are they starting to compete?
I think its an interesting hypothesis to test. We should hold individual legal persons responsible for the actions of their AI, and those people can test the validity of the hypothesis by incorporating their personal consequences into the reward function. Email from legal: -10, $10k fine: -1000, 1 year in prison: -100000.
Of course, and streaming was always going to be the best solution. But unfortunately it's a market where there are a few big players and they can use that power in an abusive way. Spotify can do better. And puff pieces where they brag bout 'percentage of revenue' or speak in absolute numbers are bullshit and should be called out as such.

I mean this should be criminal given their market power:

> their new policy to not pay artists who get less than 1000 streams on a track in a 12 month period

It may not be much to the individual artists (at most a few hundred $ a year in the extreme cases) but it's a nice chunk of change for Spotify to pocket.
I'd say this criticism is well-addressed in aider. Steering the LLM via code comments is the first UX I've seen that works.

https://aider.chat/docs/usage/watch.html

How jarring it is & how much it takes you out of your own flow state is very much dependent on the model output quality and latency still, but at times it works rather nicely.
The real mind-virus.
Somebody reinvented the calendar ?
How does fentanyl get into the US?
He wasn't "really bad". He was a hero but also a human with human faults
Factuful is very helpful for me as a current High School Student writing many essays. It works for me as I don't have to constantly fact-check my info by switching tabs, and I can rely on the Factful extension, that does it for me in my document. When I'm writing fast, Factful also ensures that my writing is always correct, with me having to write countless essays in a timed manner. I highly recommend the extension, however I found that signing in on the extension was harder said than done, so I would appreciate context on how to use the extension upon downloading it.
Substitute any other adaptation that provides benefit but for which the necessary combination of mutations is unlikely to occur.
After spending $49 on a crappy baby shower invite sending tool I’m glad to hear this. Could save a lot of people a lot of money! Hopefully it works for non Apple users too.
Well, it really wasn't that bad. People were more selective about what they listened to but the average person probably spent about what they do today on streaming.

(Which also probably sets some ceiling on streaming prices and digital entertainment more broadly.)
I'm not seeing the obvious I guess. Care to share what the else was? And what the evidence is that the currency was "doing just fine" otherwise?
We are kind of actually there already.

With a 200k token window like Claude has you can already dump a lot of design docs / transcripts / etc. at it.
Spotify is part of the music industry.
Maybe it's just me, but seems a bit extreme for what amounts to a fancy calendar invite.
you can get keys from a reseller quite cheap
Was about to say this. Though less useful, because Partiful doesn't require an app so can be used by anyone.

I wonder how much the network effect may be leveraged for apps like these, to the benefit or detriment of apps like Partiful in comparison with Invites.

I know Facebook's last useful feature appears to be events in many circles.
In some editors, like Windsurf, you will get git-like diff and you have to approve each change (or accept all in bulk, of course).
And now I trust Vanguard just a little more.
This is an interesting approach, I was wondering what kind of data can I use with it? Can’t wait to try it out
AI is very good at this. Unfortunately, humans tend to be super bad at providing detailed verbal instructions.
This era of new experimental apps from Apple (Invites, Journal, Sports) has me excited about the future of app design. Vibrant colors, bold personality-driven typography, etc. The SwiftUI style onboarding screen that features the carousel is really fun. This approach feels very Apple'y, but gives me more freedom to explore designs for my own app to have its own unique voice on iOS, while still feeling in-family with Apple's other more experimental UI.

There are a few misses.

- I already declined a friend's invite, but that doesn't get auto filtered away, so my "decline" is still the primary thing the app has to show me. It's still my only invite, so maybe it gets filtered to the back of the card stack if there are multiple?

- I also don't seem to be able to see friends I know who were invited to the party (but have not yet responded). Perhaps it was because it was shared as an invite URL in a group chat rather than manually inviting everyone?
There was a wave of this previously in programming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_One_(software)

All the same buzzwords, including "AI"! In 1981!
Your counter assumes that it's one or the other, but there could be more reasons, such as doing well but looking to steal even more market share.

At over $10 trillion AUM, it's hard to think that they're "not doing so well".
The controvesial part is hypothesising nerve cells are endosymbiotically adapted fungus, and such like.
How else do you interact with a chat based ai? It may not be ideal, but it is an improvement.
That was with regards to Nippon buying US Steel? Why is it necessary they own US steel production?
So since RCS is now here, Apple needed a new way to force people into buying iPhones by direct social pressure from peers.

(In the US)
January 6th was an attempted failed coup. No doubt. Failed coup.

The events of the past few weeks are not even in the same hemisphere as a coup, by definition of the word.

Who is trolling whom, exactly?
Aider + git makes this a non-issue. You can revert anything it does easily (even 5-10 steps down the line) and it shows you the code blocks it's changing in the chat UI as well.
Wikipedia collects, synthesizes, and displays such information, and provides a references section for further exploration. How the heck can anyone justifying something that does that but in a chat format?

The threshold to building any of these save nukes is extremely low, and nukes are only high because there are fewer use cases for radioactive material so it's simply less available.
One of the problems is that the people who need housing aren't buying new houses.

Nobody is going to spend $x on a brand new house without having some say in it, and so those houses tend more and more toward "high end/luxury". After all, why go through the hassle of all the paperwork and building and NOT sell for the highest price you can get?

Same thing happens with cars; the market for car buyers is much larger than the market for new car buyers, but only new cars ever get made. Nobody is making used cars, or even the absolutely cheapest possible, which affects the whole supply.
Isn't it the creators choice to sell their rights to a publisher? Is anyone holding a gun to their head?
yes, please one more reason to delete facebook
idk if you think all those jira tickets and meetings are precise enough (IMO sometimes the opposite)

By the way, remind me why you need design meetings in that ideal world?:)

> Real projects don't require an infinitely detailed specification either, you usually stop where it no longer meaningfully moves you towards the goal.

The point was that specification is not detailed enough in practice. Precise enough specification IS code. And the point is literally that natural language is just not made to be precise enough. So you are back where you started

So you waste time explaining in detail and rehashing requirements in this imprecise language until you see what code you want to see. Which was faster to just... idk.. type.
Egg futures? At the extremes, according to the data I am looking at, prices rose less than 10% and were below historical norms throughout.
It's probably not so much that the world was cooler, but that it had more equable temperature. Remember Greenland was green once.
Interesting. That would put their budget higher than the bottom 10% of state budgets.
In cursor I keep a specification document in .cursorrules and I have instructions that cursor should update the document whenever I add new specifications in chat.
That's not how dividends work.
I don't see it much of an admission of anything, personally. The admission would have had to come as an answer to a question that was never asked. To me, it's more of a way to keep the ruling class in place. It used to be done through government, now it's done through corporations.

And honestly, the corporation is a far more attractive model if you're in that racket. Rioters don't burn down corporate HQs, they burn down police stations. Public sector pay sucks. The corruption would be far too obvious... well, it would have been until relatively recently.
The organizing people ecosystem is a mess. It's nice to see something new.
There was never a “back door deal”. Very few of the subscription streaming services allow in app purchases.
Companies may pretend they have buckets of money but, at the end of the day, it all comes down to the same bottom line. So, effectively yes, the same pool.
I don't understand your point anymore. Egg prices are up because we lost somewhere between 1/5 and 1/4 of our egg laying birds in the last year, and it takes a while to breed that many replacement birds. I have no idea what argument you are trying to make about the avian flu.
Thank you, that is an important point. Voting numbers can only estimate the totals.

I should have use the term *Electorate*.

The collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote.
Toto's electrostatic chucks are becoming a crucial element of modern fabs