skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So if that’s all it takes? Then why are so many businesses failures? I bet if you got in a room with 30 people and they all told you their story without mentioning the outcome and you could judge the characteristics you mentioned and they were all equal, you couldn’t predict which ones are successful business people and which ones are failures.

Luck. Or, IOW, random variation. In physics, you could probably predict the position[1] of every atom in a confined volume of a gas, if you knew all their initial positions and velocities with sufficient precision... But that required precision is so high, and the effects of any infinitesimal deviation from the true state has such far-reaching chaotic effects, that it's in practice pretty much impossible.

Same with the social sciences, economy, and "the market" (whichever market it is you're entering): Random impossible-to-measure tiny variations add up to a chaotic sum of effects that manifests as what is usually called "good" -- or "bad" -- "luck", which probably accounts for almost as much of your success as anything you do (or don't do).

> On the other hand, if you gave 10 people a job at BigTech, 10 a job at a well known non tech company and told 10 to go start a business, which one of those groups do you think would have the highest median and mean compensation history over 5 years? 10 years?

> I posit that it would be BigTech, Enterprise Dev and the startup founders would come in dead last.

Yup, I'd guess so too... For N = 10 or so. Add an order of magnitude, and the mean might rise enormously -- though not the median.

[1]: Heisenberg's uncertainty principle notwithstanding.
All of the cruft can be disabled on macOS, if you know where to start; that said, FreeBSD remains an interesting option for scenarios where a headless PC is all one needs.
When you add "actually" to "what" it becomes "how")

What the code using C++ ranges is doing is quite clear, but understanding how it is doing it requires some knowledge of how ranges work.
I wondered what happened to it. The YouTube channel used do be quite active, with a new song about every month, but it has definitely slowed down since the Floppotron 3.0, and the last update is now nearly 2 years old.

Only 8 songs have been released on the Floppotron 3.0, compared to about a hundred on the 2.0, why so much effort designing and building such a machine not to use it and also make money?

Or maybe, and that's actually what I am interested in, is it featured anywhere else? Live performances? Collab albums? etc...
Wow they didn't say a single word about information warfare
> Tech innovation destroys lives in our current capitalist society because only the owners get the benefits.

If you want to become a (partial) owner, buy stocks. :-)
The AIs have never really been great, tbh.
Speed Up Your Audio Pipeline by 85.71% with Golang – Part 1 [video]
A lot of Fortune 50 companies compete in some way with Microsoft, Amazon, and Google so are reluctant to use their services. I think Meta has the benefit of less corporate competition

Anyway in that context, you don't need trust when you have a sufficiently large legal department
Kinda interesting. (But, yeah, obviously an apples/oranges comparison.)
That’s definitely a big factor, and I’ve noticed a similar pattern with cafes or other locations.

The office is just the most reliable “not at home” environment for getting work done for me—there’s no guilt about camping out all day, seating is always available, internet is reliable, and so on.
I am applying for graduate school (after 20 years in the software industry) with the intent of studying computational linguistics; specifically, for the documentation and support of dying/dead languages.

While I am not indigenous, I hope to help alleviate this problem. I'd love to hear about your research!
they ruled that it was plausible enough to pursue the case
That's why internet exist to make the mouth-to-mouth as fast and effective as possible
> I am not clueless and don't like beinf treated as if I am.

You made a clueless comment which I tired to (constructively) dismiss. If you don't want to be treated as clueless, don't recommend the equivalent of using a hammer to peel potatoes.
Threads has a nice selection of extremely smart, interesting people, trapped inside a short text limit and an algorithmically curated culture of adversarial outrage porn and drama.

BlueSky feels a lot more adult.

Threads also has a huge oversupply of fragile mediocrities who love the drama and/or haven't worked out it's a terrible medium for self-promotion, and has generated some of the most jaw-droppingly stupid takes I've ever seen online.

(And I used to be on AOL...)

A good few people left Threads when the censorship started to become too obvious, and a lot more will leave when the ads become too heavy-handed.
I haven't read the study itself, but normal practice is to give the control group some kind of attention that doesn't include the intervention you're testing.
> Musk owns 42% of SpaceX's total equity and 79% of the voting equity.

How much of their balance sheet is debt vs equity?

Eg in theory you could have lots and lots of (debt) investors and still only a single shareholder.
Humans are notoriously suggestible by nature. If we are told to look for something, we are likely to convince ourselves that we have found it. Airport staff are actively looking for terrorists and criminals in a way that few other professionals do.

This means that even as a passenger with a completely clean record, every action you take is viewed through the lens of being potentially suspicious. The worst case scenario is not being delayed - it's being falsely accused.

Less importantly but hugely more likely is that you travel is disrupted. Your bags are misplaced or stolen. You can't take your water bottle so now you have to buy another for 10x the price. Your passport was accidentally torn so you now have to explain that to a skeptical border police officer. You don't speak the foreign language well enough to explain yourself. Your flight is cancelled and you must now rush to the only hotel to book a room before they sell out - or risk waiting in order to convince the airline to book it for you.

I don't disagree with you that some relaxation can go a long way to making such an experience more pleasant, but it's still true that there's more to go wrong in one international journey than in a whole month of most people's day-to-day lives.
The Flux Keyboard should begin shipping this year.

https://fluxkeyboard.com/
Wayland of course is the present and the future, Xorg receiving only the bare minimum of attention.

But I believe that many technologies, protocols, and formats that were commonplace in late 90s/early 2000s are just here to stay forever: X11, BIOS/MBR, FAT32, 32-bit x86 PE, Win32, GTK2, Cocoa... The Linux kernel still runs static binaries built in mid-90s.

Judging from the feature list, TinyX hits a very sweet spot for otherwise underpowered or obsolete machines. You can of course spend €50 and get a RasPi that can handle a more complex / demanding stack, but also you can take advantage of the spare power, or just appreciate the architectural simplicity.
> why?

If we take it as granted that life has a "cost" (and therefore a value), it is also a given that someone must pay that cost for people to live. Given that some people are born more capable than others of paying the cost (their value) we find ourselves forced to take the monsterous position that some lives have intrinsicly more value than others, and worse that some lives have negative value as they cost more than than the value they provide.

However, it is obviously not true that life itself has a fixed "cost", except within one of the specific systems of government that acknowledge property rights and the concept of cost in general. A lone man born into nature incurs no "cost" by existing, he is a part of the ecosystem that supports him and "costs" it no more than the beasts of the forest "cost" it.

"Cost" as a concept is a fiction that we develop to trade with other humans, not some natural and unavoidable aspect of life granted to us from the gods.

> This is compatible with the statement "existence isn't free."

It is not. Existence is free, and the only cost it incurs is within our imaginations. The obligation to care for those who can't or won't function within the new systems of trade are the debt we owe for taking that freedom away by enforcing property rights through violence. The obligation is real, the cost is a social fiction dreamt up for accounting purposes.
Will be cool if this car still works in 20 years and the ads just show an error because the server no longer exists.
Both will be used more, the issue with the nickel is that it costs around 14¢ to make one.
Choosing the best medical treatment with the help of AI
No, it wasn’t, because the Second Legal Tender Act of 1862 as well as 12 USC 418 explicitly grants the Secretary of the Treasury the authority to approve new designs for currency. All of this information is easily googleable if you’d like to educate yourself.
We don't ban Maoists or Stalinists or Mussolini style facists. We don't ban Napoleonics or Confederates.

After WW2 there was a period of strong Jewish support for nazi rights. Were they not an open democracy? Is the risk in 2025 stronger than what they faced?

I don't know really, is it that every era needs a boogeyman or is it just that we are on a grand cycle away from liberality? Both maybe?
Since myself and everyone I know refuses to acknowledge this "name change"... what map apps do you guys recommend?
Also ignores the enormous costs that come to the US if Ukraine falls.

UA falls, 40m people flee into Europe, Russia attacks NATO in about five years, China invades Taiwan at the same time.

Also, do you and I want to wake up in a world where Russia invades countries and tortures, kills, and abducts children? I pay taxes for a number of reasons, and one reason is so I don't have stuff like this in my life.

Trump is running the country like it's a hotel chain, not a country. Countries and geopolitics are a different game.
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Because when you want to record your instrument along with whatever else is in your project, timing is critical and everything needs to line up.

You cannot be performing to audio that you are hearing with any delay, especially if the monitoring of the live audio is also being routed through software.

At a certain point of latency it introduced delays and badly affects how you perform. In some circumstances it makes performance actually impossible.

There are ways around this, namely if the software knows exactly what the input and output latency is then the playback and recording can be compensated. For live monitoring though you really need that done in the audio hardware itself in hard real time.
Ye good point I might need to rescind that.
it's fundamentally how these things work; learning token distribution given prior context. The expected output over time is the mean value of that distribution. Regression to the mean is the danger I'm talking about.
The fascination i sort of get - sometimes rabbit holes are fun to jump down if you have time.

I'm working on a satisfactory node modeling tool for fun, and built one of the stores (I have a few different stores) using CRDT's and added collaborative support over webrtc. Is it practical? The result, yes. The process - no, it's a total waste of time and energy compared to much simpler alternatives. No question.

Is it fun? Yes. It has been a lot of fun.

Was it fascinating - yes, i learned a lot.

So the fascination i get - sometimes people do this stuff to learn more about it, or because they are jumping down a rabbit hole they like, or whatever.

At the same time, i totally agree with you that this article presents something wildly impractical as-is. But i'm not sure it was meant to be practical. I hope not, since it totally isn't :)

For C++ itself, this is why Google, and others, gave up (on the evolution of the language) after decades of trying. Or at least one reason. C++ exposes all this complexity because it's not willing to break anything, ever.

If you go look at the reflection paper, they use one single opaque reflection type, and the whole justification is that baking it into the language is dangerous because we might have to change it and that would break things. They give an example of something standardized in 2003 that would have broken if they gave more specific types. Note this is now proposed for 2026. To me, 23 years before breaking something would be a pretty reasonable thing. Especially if migration can be automated.
Worse, this logic unfortunately can be applied generally - if you are never going to break anything, it severely restricts your ability to generate more useful interfaces, because you can't depend on anything that might ever change.

Which is of course, a losing war anyway - you won't accurately predict all the things that you will want to change, so either you get it wrong anyway, or you now actually block the language by what you did choose to depend on. So the interfaces will only get worse over time, as you are either restricted by the existing stuff not changing, or because you guessed wrong and became one of the reasons those existing things can't change. This has a very predictable end.

For every other language, they would just eventually break things, and figure out how to do effective language migration. When they do, you hope it's for something better enough to be worth it, but that's a product problem, and that the language migration takes care of ~all of it for you, which is an engineering one.
I did something similar but using a K80 and M40 I dug up from eBay for pennies. Be advised though, stay as far away as possible from the K80 - the drivers were one of the most painful tech things I've ever had to endure, even if 24GB of VRAM for 50 bucks sounds incredibly appealing. That said, I had a decent-ish HP workstation laying around with 1200 watt power supply so I had where to put those two in. The one thing to note here is that these types of GPUs do not have a cooling of their own. My solution was to 3d print a bunch of brackets and attach several Noctua fans and have them blow at full speed 24/7. Surprisingly it worked way better than I expected - I've never gone above 60 degrees. As a side efffect, the CPUs are also benefiting from this hack: at idle, they are in the mid-20 degrees range. Mind you, the noctua fans are located on the front and the back of the case: the ones on the front act as an intake and the ones on the back as exhaust and there's two more inside the case that are stuck in front of the GPUs.

The workstation was refurbished for just over 600 bucks, and another 120 bucks for the GPUs and another ~60 for the fans.

Edit: and before someone asks - no I have not uploaded the STL's anywhere cause I haven't had the time but also since this is a very niche use case, though I might: the back(exhaust) bracket came out brilliant the first try - it was a sub-millimeter fit. Then I got cocky and thought that I'd also nail it first try on the intake and ended up re-printing it 4 times.
> Of course it also led to some not so humorous incidents, but such rapid advances rarely come for free.

Luckily, you can run a lot higher risks (per mission) when going unmanned, and thus this becomes a purely economic decision there, almost devoid of the moral problems of manned spaceflight.

Manned spaceflight has mostly been a waste of money and resources in general.
> Don’t work for Apple but some bugs just take a lot of work to identify.

On the other hand, I have reported to them security issues which would take literally one line to fix and literal typos and errors/omissions in the documentation which are all still present after years.
Surely we know the rules by now! Only play a Civ game when its successor is launching.

Gives them time to re-release with all the DRM and you get to play a relatively complete, relatively bug-free and balanced game. Much, much, much cheaper this way too.
Chewbacca Defense
They are very good at searching for niche results that are not often found by simply looking them up on Google. It is often depressing to find a better alternative after building software, but if you ask deep research first, they will find all the competition.

example: https://chatgpt.com/share/67ab4d04-4470-8011-a67d-fd7effc923...
That's interesting. Agent Orange and Napalm are two things I immediately associate with the Vietnam War. The countless severe birth defects caused by Agent Orange have been a big topic. (Well, at least outside the US...) In fact, they still happen today! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Orange#Health_effects
yea, his mental breakdown.

Come on, you cannot have missed this.

We started seeing signs of it when he called that diver rescuer a pedophile.
Most recently its been him caught lying about him being the greatest gamer in the world and being one of his biggest fans (Adrian Dittman).

And then high on ketamine doing that salute on the inaguration
You get those meetings at Meta as well ... because there are re-orgs multiple times a year and so the org leadership is sent to sell their teams on how this is now the perfect org structure. Until the next one, of course.

There's a famous poster from the Facebook days - don't mistake motion for progress. I always thought they should make one for re-orgs.
> the footguns in C++ are more benign

I don't think I can agree. https://pvs-studio.com/en/blog/posts/cpp/1215/
Thank you for the thoughtful reply. Note that all the citations are USAID funded media orgs and have deep ties to the CIA or the IC.

Also note that their sources are all basically IC sources + DOJ allegations. This supports my original statement that this is all a large scale disinformation campaign aimed at the American people. The CIA has conducted these operations for decades, and now they are doing it to us. As Chuck Schumer so eloquently put it "They have six ways to Sunday at getting back at you"

https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/do-us-politician...
UK and US refuse to sign international AI declaration
No, low latency is not needed for all non-realtime things. Even then, you are looking for latency compensation. Just add one VST plugin to an audio track and you will instantly add latency.

The crux is you want everything to play in sync when doing recording and overdubbing, e.g. "hit record and what I hear live is in sync with what I have recorded already". Almost all DAWs solve this by just starting things a bit later (latency compensation). Some audio cards solve this by allowing direct hardware monitoring. But even then you will have some samples of latency.
Yeah but anthropomorphizing the LLM makes VCs spend stupid amounts of money!
Having worked on hard realtime systems for years, the definition is quite clear. Everything you describe falls into the soft realtime bucket because missing a deadline isn't a system fault, it's just undesirable, not to mention that system load can and does affect hitting deadlines. "Soft realtime" is fairly broad term that gets abbreviated and thrown around in domains in which it is not appropriate. What this article describes is really just a UI and architecture that enables live updates. There's no deadline, there's not even a concept of wall clock time baked into the system.

We understand despite the muddling of terms, but let's not pretend that precise language isn't desirable to the best extent possible.
https://bootswatch.com/spacelab/ is the closest i've found to the original 2.23 theme which was the perfect blend of 3D and colours to my eyes.
It’s definitely not worse than reddit.

Reddit has become a hysterical left-wing echo chamber.

You cannot visit any default sub reddit without being bombarded with hyper-partisan conspiracy theories about politics and economic issues.
I made it to write one poem, & to learn how to code with HTML & CSS & JS. There's one kinda practical usecase though. You can take notes either freeform or of different types for each paragraph of an essay, where each column is maybe notes of the same type. But you have to constantly resize rows to accommodate changes in paragraph length. It's very clunky. The only reason I haven't deleted it is because my dad likes it. I can't imagine why anyone else would though. It used to have autoresize but it just created wasted space. But without it you have to scroll individual editors.
Where are the parody map artists?
> Thank you for sharing specific details. I find this fascinating. How does one acquire this knowledge?

I think that lost of information is available on most subjects.

The differences in attainment (assuming equal access) is generally one of effort and interest.

Be curious about the world, attempt to answer your questions. You are likely to discover something along the way!
> When they don't serve a purpose anymore, they should be replaced by something more functional.

Okay colonizer.
> Or the relative topology between those events.

But the interaction is no longer simply a connection between us and the origin: the path along which the photon traveled changed our measurement.

And indeed, different paths can change different portions of it, eg, if you have something like an Einstein ring where part of it passed through a dark matter filament. At the point where the entire path needs to be considered because it interacts with space while passing, I’m not sure what sense it can be described as “an edge like a graph”. That seems like a classic trajectory, ie, a continuous path.
There’s only one entry point for all requests. It’s php (well, Hack) all the way down from there. So all the routing is readable as php code, request handling etc.
hey great idea , watch later playlist also tells a lot about people
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To which $15 do you refer? Surely there is no charge for being at the end of the queue?
First: I did not use the word terrorist, nor do I know anyone that has. I am sure some people feel that way, particularly those that are close to communities in which he is inspiring fear and anxiety.

As for why I and "the left" don't like him? To be honest, I don't really want to have that conversation in an internet forum, and your incuriosity on your original comment coupled with inserting words into my mouth gives me zero belief that this will be a good faith conversation. Just ask ChatGPT if you really want to know, or I'm sure there's reddit threads on the subject.
The iPhone: 3g's killer app
I do recall a mod or scenario where you basically replayed the entire history of Rome in surprising detail. Tons of scripted events.

And obviously the Web was very much up and coming when Civ 2 was released, but I don't think releasing a game through downloads and updating them through the internet was really much of a thing yet when it was first released. As far as I know, everybody ran it from the CD-ROM. Also because that's how you got the awesome advisors (still the best).
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/664/
If you have the right to speak your mind and I have the right to blast an airhorn every time you open your mouth...

... and I actually do that ...

... do you actually have the right to speak? Maybe banning airhorns would increase speech rights.
That dip didn't exist in 2024. Site visits just increased steadily throughout last year with no summer dips.