skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But making a profit can still come in the form of solving an issue for people. They may be the minority, but companies exist that don't just optimize for short-term profit, but have a stable base of product and customers and get better at what they're doing. Nothing glamorous, but it can still be fun if the people get along (which is kinda like a game being "fun with friends" I admit).

I'm not really debating your point, which is totally fair, but for me the question isn't so much how many companies aren't like that, but how to find that which are, or how to recognize them, filter out their spiritual opposites, etc.
> Why are the downlinks not wreaking havoc today

The entire point is the concentration of RF energy per unit space.

Downlink from a satellite in LEO, this is fuck all.

The uplink, in front of a directional VSAT antenna, this is very significant.

The fact you do not understand the difference suggests you are commenting outside the area of your expertise.
Chatbots that look like they 'think'
This was the final straw for me to set up firefox container tabs, and put facebook there.
I haven't heard anything about the kernel but they're still trucking along with using Rust for other sensitive low-level stuff, most recently their secure enclave firmware:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows-itpro-blog/...
I went from being curious about C++, to hating C++, to wanting to love it, to being fine with it, to using it for work for 5+ years, to abandoning it and finally to want to use it for game development, maybe. It's the circle of life.
...And you'll start having dot files and dot folders in your home when you start using brew...
It sort of has. Lots of people you think of as living in fairly rural locations are still in small towns rather than the middle of nowhere.
https://archive.ph/fTuZc
Yes, I agree the overhead scales close to linear unless a grant is very heavily dependent on one type of cost such as bulk sequencing of 10,000 subjects. In that case the overhead is usually much lower or disallowed. And there is no overhead allowed on equipment.
As far as I know the best definition of intelligence is "ability to solve problems".
Oh yeah! I've seen this pattern used at work. I don't have an opinion on if it is better than a checklist. The lack of will or time to automate affects a do nothing script as much as runbook.
A display is much better for this. I recommend Samsung tablets, as the Wacom stylus they use can't awkwardly run out of battery on you in the middle of a class.
After reading the landing page, I'm still unsure what the exact use case is for this? Could just be misunderstanding the design-test-prototype workflow, but a straightforward example would be nice.

Edit: upon reading through it again I'm realizing it's a pretty screenshot maker. Which is neat. Unsure if it calls for a dedicated .exe though.
And most of that misses the goal of why you write software for a business.

You write software for a company so someone will give them money for it or so the company can save money

Everything else takes a backseat to that core mission. The first goal when writing software is to efficiently get to a point where one of those goals can be met.

It makes no sense to polish software if you are going to run out of money before it gets released, management cuts funding or you can’t find product market fit to convince investors to give you money depending on what your goal is.

Code doesn’t always need to be long lasting, you can’t predict how the market will change, how the underlying platform will change, when a better funded competitor will come in and eat your lunch, etc.

Good design doesn’t need to be “innovative”. It needs to fit within the norms of the platform or ecosystem it is part of.
Terence Tao on how we measure the cosmos [video]
Click and it changes colors.
IMO that's a smart choice. This cpu isn't made to be a daily driver. It only is in a laptop chasis to make R&D easier. No one will miss the extra 5WH
> He wants to come back to Germany

But can't? If so, why not?
So you’re saying it was transparent what people were voting for?

Trump isn’t governing like a monarch. He’s not regulating private conduct or imposing taxes or putting people in prison. What he’s doing is exercising the executive power, as vested in him by Article II.

(As an aside, Article II says what it says. We don’t need a label for it. What requires a label is the theory that there’s an independent civil service insulated from the President and political appointees.)
The app seems to just ask you an endless series of questions without giving a book recommendation LOL!
People that use xi should lose their math credentials
The history is pretty well documented and the islanders overwhelmingly voted to align with the UK.
I benchmark many of these things as "what would I want a human assistant to do" if they were had insta speed and noticing the pattern would definitely be warranted to determined if data could be falsely generated.

It's not silly at all.
ℓ is totally fine.
No, they don’t. They’re just going to charge you an insane price to use it, other than that they all know the service is better.
Mental health is a real killer. It’s so sad when people who clearly have passion and (initially) wealth and apparently a stomach for risk and hard work just can’t bring themselves to be honest.

The market wants triviality from us. It wants web design companies and domain name squatters (his ventures that apparently made returns). The brilliant art or game changing technology is what our souls desire but man, don’t chase the ideal and abandon the pragmatic. And certainly don’t lie to yourself to get there. A joke: the market wants Loom, not Boom.

This is a good article to read if you have a good life but only did moderately well in tech. I beat myself up daily for not having made more money doing simple obvious stuff, but at least I’m not a delusional liar.
> prices would be reduced by up to 33% (from $0.45 blended rate to $0.30), but PG&E’s profit margins are only 11%.

This is addressed right at the beginning of the article. The argument is not that PG&E is skimming off huge profits, rather that it is structurally inefficient:

> Distribution: How much to get the power from your local substation to your house over local power lines. In PG&E's rate chart, they charge 20 cents per kilowatt hour for this. That just does not match up with how much it actually costs them to transmit power over local lines and keep the lines maintained.

> Everything else: Operations, maintenance, profit. This is where PG&E is actually seeing large expenses, because their coverage area is massive, it costs a lot of money to deliver power to rural customers, and they are also undertaking a massive project to underground utility lines in fire-prone areas.

The backstory here is that PG&E underfunded maintenance for decades while paying out substantial dividends to shareholders, and now that fires are killing lots of people, they have to go back and properly maintain their network.

Now, you can make the case that CA as a whole might not be better off if cities leave PG&E and the state has to subsidize rural power delivery even further, but I think the article is correct on the question that it tackles.
Art museums in Shikoku deemed likely victims of a master art forger
I've been writing C++ since 1996-ish.

Less and less, for sure.

Nothing the past few years.

They killed it.
It’s only ~3500 people on the islands, it’s not exactly a difficult to find if someone brings it in.
In the past the US government stepped in multiple times to protect the interests of big tech against European legislation.

I guess people became used to assuming non American laws would not matter and I cannot blame them, it really looked like that.

The interesting point about trump is, that he is burning lots of “threat potential”: If I announce tariffs and withdrawal of military cooperation anyways I run out of threats at some point.
Fun thing!

The double-click to clear is too sensitive for me. I keep accidentally clearing when I try to go fast.
I dislike twitter just as much as the next guy, but i was able to read the conversation without logging in. EU exit point here. Maybe that plays a role?

having to click through each single image is quiet the turn-off though. not missing the platform
> That there was a revolt against thinking machines...

Yes...

> ...because humans had become too dependent on them for thinking.

... but no. The causes of the Butlerian Jihad are forgotten (or, at least, never mentioned) in any of Frank Herbert's novels; all that's remembered is the outcome.
The Cross and the Machine
That's an amazing idea, why didn't I think of that. It'll be just a couple of network calls to achieve that.
The USPS has always been correct since I moved in. It’s been local records and the telcos that have been the problem.

And in this case the fire companies had no problem finding my house in spite of the incorrect information in town records. As you suggest the field people on the ground generally know what the ground truth is.
Marking files as hidden seems easier on Windows. I find it much more annoying to hide files on Linux (especially folders like ~/snap which can't be renamed).

If there's anything I've heard about drivers, though, it's that filesystem drivers are particularly annoying to write.

If you want to simply hide the files from view, you may have an easier time writing a shell plug-in. You have to deal with COM, but you're less likely to take down the whole system.
Posts are of different lengths on different social media. And why bother when you can... just split the timelines by service ;)
But i need to signal that i am smart
Why support a workaround-hack for a dying platform instead of a well working alternative that many shift towards already?
Out of context Canadians are ... out of context. We are discussing utilities in California. California and Quebec could not be more different in terms of climate and fire risk. I can't wait for you to justify the claim that fire risk is the same in California and Quebec. Every place in Quebec can generally expect precipitation every other day on average and the normal number of consecutive dry days in California every year would shatter the same record in Quebec.
If you're around 75 years of age, and you're living in a quite comfortable, but increasingly problematic accommodation, it's not too easy to move. Right now we're looking for a place for him and his fiancee. Living and housing costs over here are quite heavy.
There are two other phis with the (non-mathematical) Greek letters earlier, but unfortunately fonts vary in which one they display as \phi or \varphi: φ (U+03CD), ϕ (U+03DC).
learned this by experience in...1998

thanks for the insight
No, 90 Percent of Aid Is Not Skimmed Off Before Reaching Target Communities
I assume you mean something other than OMV, ran in a container? Reason I put it in a VM was that I wanted to use a Linux compatible file system. I’m using BTRFS with raid, I’m sure I could have ran APFS in raid instead!

For haas, it was partly QoS, partly because I had historically ran all of my things separately. I might look at bringing that to the container level.

I’m using OpenWRT as my main router! One port to my LAN switch, one to the modem.
Skin color is visible, but it is not a marker unless you allow it to be one.
Apparently, this article was written almost exactly a year and a half ago so... I guess the author is forgiven!
Title needs a date on it
Prevalence of processed foods in major US grocery stores
Nice! Any idea how Tesla would look?
> the Islas Malvinas are a disputed territory between Argentina and the UK

Not according to the Islanders who live there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Falkland_Islands_sovereig...

Please understand the word democracy.
i think it was more a reference to their (old) welcome page https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-facebook-social-network-in...
I'm glad to see that Microsoft is investing in Rust bindings for WDK[0], but browsing the repo, there's really no point in using this over C since they haven't bothered to invest in safe, Rust native bindings. The kmdf example[1] is like 50% "SAFETY:" comments because they're stuck using the straight C bindings for every WDK API.

[0] https://github.com/microsoft/windows-drivers-rs/

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/windows-drivers-rs/blob/main/ex...
But making a profit can still come in the form of solving an issue for people

Every company is in the business of solving people’s problems to convince people to give them money. That’s not meant to be a cynical take. That’s why a company exist outside of gambling, MLM and maybe a few other companies. I gladly give companies money to give me goods and services and prefer that honest transaction over adtech.

However you choose to fault the current BigTech companies even, none of them are short term focused. That is except for Google. Google’s management has always had the focus of a crack addled flea.

If you want to work for a company with a long term focus, public companies that aren’t doing some type of financial engineering to juice stock returns like Boeing, Intel or GE back in the day is a safe bet.

Private companies are almost always in business trying to look good for acquirer.
Straight into Home Assistant.
Never heard pseudocode getting a bad rap. It is good for archutecture discussions, decision documents, comments and so on. But I don't often hear it referenced by name. I also think geohot(?) said something like "Python is popular as it feels like you are writing psuedocode". And I agree!
Fun, but more suggestive of Steadman (illustrator of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and other things) than Pollock: https://www.npr.org/2014/04/27/307285367/artist-ralph-steadm...
He has commented on this.

Retrieval is tricky as Algolia doesn't index '@' symbols:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%40dang%20by%3Adang&sort=byDat...
It incentivizes greater development of already-developed land (meaning less infrastructure serving more people) rather than acquisition and low-yield development of new (more rural) land.
As a South African (living abroad for many years, but still with the bulk of my extended family there), this seems overly alarmist. If you review https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_energy_crisis , very few consumers experienced anything like 50% of total hours without electricity even in the darkest days of the load-shedding in 2023. And 2024 was, comparatively, a good year, probably the best since 2020/1.

RE the police force and private security, that has been a fact of life in South Africa for decades, not a new development. Anyone with the means employs private security, in the same way that anyone with means utilizes private health care, not public health care. Here South Africa is not that much different from other high-crime and high-inequality countries like Brazil and Mexico.
Former Product Marketing Manager here. When I saw the word 'designs' on your landing page, I assumed the application would convert my screenshot into a Figma file/equivalent. Instead it looks like your app creates social ready images of screenshotted UI. I wonder if there's a better word to use than 'designs' that better captures what looks like the intended use case.
I mean that needing to scan the full context of tokens before the nth is inherent to the problem of sorting. Transformers do scan that input, which is good; it's not surprising that they're up to the task. But pairwise numeral correlations will not do the job.

As for avoiding certain cases, that could be done to some extent. But remember that the untrained transformer has no preconception of numbers or ordering (it doesn't use the hardware ALU or integer data type) so there has to be enough data in the training set to learn 0<1<2<3<4<5<6, etc.
Show HN: Stock Analysis Feels Broken – Here's My Take on Fixing It
Stock analysis tools are powerful, but I’ve always run into three challenges:

1/ Too much data, hard to digest – Plenty of insights, but filtering what truly matters is time-consuming.

2/ No clear buy/sell decisions – You get the data, but figuring out what to do next is missing.

3/ No way to build a personal strategy – Most tools use preset metrics, but does not help to invest your own way.

As a result, I often fall back on stock price and following others' opinions—not ideal.

So, I built https://stoclear.com/ (v0) to simplify key data, let you set your own rules, and turn them into buy/sell/hold decisions.

Would this actually help investors, or am I just solving my own problem?

Curious to hear from you:

Which of these challenges resonate with you?

What do you find useful, confusing, or missing?
Mail me at (redacted) and I provide his contact address. You may want to give him some tips.

To be honest I may have exaggerated the power outage ratio, as I am not a first-hand observer; but I tend to give some credibility to his description of the living situation over there, esp. as they want to move.

My point is more or less that denying things, even if not fully true, strengthens demagogues like Trump instead of weakening them.
I don't feel that the engineer answered poorly at all. They're answering a really broad strategic question, with no / very little hard data to go off of -- of course their answer is vague, there's very little certainty about anything in the question (not even price of acquisition!). I think they accurately call out the benefits and risks of the different paths. IMO this is as much as can be expected. Before "pulling trigger" on any of these decisions, there will have to be a lot more analysis, negotiation, etc, that they're just not going to get to in a dm. If the engineer was the kind of person to give a single definitive answer in this situation, I don't think they would be trusted with this kind of conversation.
Can you say more precisely what you mean?
Perhaps some people object to using that service.
From Zuckerberg's messages, it appears that an important motivation for buying Instagram was to limit the competition facing Facebook.

Thanks Obama for enforcing the Sherman Antitrust Act:

> SECTION 1. Every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, is hereby declared to be illegal. Every person who shall make any contract or engage in any combination or conspiracy hereby declared to be illegal shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and, on con-viction thereof, shall be punished by fine not exceeding $100,000,000 if a corporation, or, if any other person, $1,000,000, or by imprisonment not exceeding 10 years, or by both said punishments, in the discretion of the court.
The Japanese toilets are “just” bidets though. They have heated seats for the winter, automatic wash and sometimes drying functions.
Hah! I waited far too long for the page to load. It wasn't until I moved my mouse to another window that I realized.
for those excited about tiny ELF executables, or tiny programs in general, check out the Lovebyte size-coding demoparty happening next weekend. It's likely there will be a few tiny ELF entries there.
I actually can't think of another language that has all of that built in. Rust doesn't, it needs a run time for async. JavaScript doesn't, it needs typescript and it doesn't compile to native.
Would you mind sharing more details from one or more of your examples, or a summary of your experiences and tips (either here or in a blog post)? I would be interested to read, and from the looks of this thread, others would be too! I'm in a different field (law practice) but I'd love to consider how I could apply this approach in my firm.
How would a do-nothing script be called by production? The whole point is that they're manual.

You're basically arguing against the concept of SOPs. OP blog post is basically just a programmer's version of an SOP.

SOPs are great, until they aren't. So then you change them. This is nothing new or strange.
I specifically said "non-legal" -- to be clear, I didn't mean (il)legal advice: I know you can't do that. But (I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice) it seems like you could track/present success metrics of various kinds.
Thanks for reminding us that vision (in the vision models) is not the same as having a pair of eyes.
> Do you keep a 5 gallon jug of spare gas in your garage? 165 kWhr

If you keep a 5 gallon jug in the garage, your risk is higher than if you don't.
If you keep a lawnmower in your garage, your risk is higher than if you don't.

Like I said: the higher the amount of potential energy, the greater the risk of it being released in a way that will make you sad. It's a straightforward derivation from thermo.
appreciate it! thank you for showing support!
How do you pick the set from where you are picking the "overwhelming majority"?

I would argue that most things we use daily now started out as anecdotes rather than science experiments. Most of the food we eat, etc. The buildings we live in, being in the nature, exercise, sleep, etc.

They were all anecdotally described before we were able to run proper science on them.
The use of the Greek alphabet is mostly driven by convention. You get used to it. They aren't just sprayed around randomly wherever you look.

As for your code, urgh. A mathematician would carefully define what the function and operands are and the domain of each. More, and I'm vasty simplifying here as I don't have LaTeX available. I don't know what your code does so I've invented some words.

Let f(x,y) represent the rate of change of doodads where x is the number of doodads and y is the amount of doodads per gronk.

f(x,y) = ( x^2 + y^2 ) ^ (1/2)

That's pretty tight and clearer than the code is.
I always hear about “import std” but still don’t see out of the support for it. Is it still experimental?
I had the same thought, this sounds like ChatGPT!
Then again, doesn't most corporate communication?
Or maybe it's the other way round and ChatGPT sounds like corporate fluff because it was trained like that?
I think is more than that. Rather, are we trapped into deterministic illusion where we don't have choice. For example, the Many-Worlds Interpretation (MWI) of quantum mechanics is one theory and might make it possible. The described hell is the life we cannot change and the unknown portion whether we are in a such world or not.
> Graphing data to analyze it - and then seeing shapes and creatures in said graph - is a distinctly human practice, and not an inherently necessary part of most data analysis...

I disagree. Even apart from the obviously silly dinosaur and star in the Datasaurus Dozen, the othe plots depict data sets which are clustered in specific ways which point clearly to something unusual going on in the data. For instance, no competent analysis of the "dots" data set would fail to call out that the points were all clustered tightly around nine evenly spaced centers. Whether you come to that conclusion through numerical analysis or by looking at a graph is immaterial, but, at least for us meatbags, drawing a graph is highly effective.
There's just so much C++ at Google that really has no business being C++ and falls into the "networked server" category. At least large swaths of the Search and Maps codebase, large chunks of flume (beam) batch pipelines, etc., etc. It's only historical accident and network-effect stickiness that keep that from being written in Java.

I could easily imagine him thinking Go could make inroads there. But then it took a very long time to get a flume port, and even then it didn't have half of the nice affordances that the C++ version did.

People say they need the efficiencies of C++, but IMHO they really don't when so much of the actual code time is spent slurping data from one sstable and writing it to the next sstable.
It is a calculation not learning