skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The pyramids is a perfect example of an elite few exploiting the labor of many. All that labor to build tombs for a small handful of people looking for an advantage in the after-life.

Sure, in some places and times there was enough slack to allow common people to celebrate festivals or partake in elaborate religious activities. But I think you underestimate how costly education was when every book had to be painstakingly copied by hand.
I've played around with chatgpt telling stories to my kids, but they don't like it that much. The stories aren't very good, and they're trite and predictable -- even with 4o. It's really only interesting to them at all because it's choose your own adventure.
>Focus Will Be On “Personal Liberties And Free Markets”

So let billionaires and corporations do whatever they want for profit, even if they kill people.
Exactly. I really like the empirical example.
I find that solutions to work problems come to me at most random circumstances, shower, sleep, etc. Also a 15 minute break can unblock something that I’ stuck on for hours.

I think it’s important to realise that there’s that limit to productivity, so don’t force it if it’s not working. take a break, come back tomorrow, you may find that you’re far more productive even though you’re spending less time “bums on seats”. Somewhat employer dependent
Listen the new `luna-1` AWS availability zone will only make my resume look amazing. I'm not even splurging with my own money so whats the big deal?
At least the Arab world has a very wide range of dishes which require a large amount of preparation or require a fair amount of cooking time, so I would disagree with the ‘little preparation’ and ‘straight to the table’ descriptions you’re using. I’m most familiar with the Lebanese side of things , but I understand it translates to Morocco ( eg tagine, pastilla ) as well.

Now, this doesn’t invalidate your main point ( sophisticated tech is not a hard requirement for good food ) but afaik, some of the most famous dishes in the cuisines you listed do require specific equipment ( tagines, tandoors ) and don’t fall under the ‘ straight from the ground to the table ‘ umbrella.
Could you explain why its a yes?
This is what we get allowing mega-corporations control our media.

I hope the US brings back fairness doctrine. Or if not, force these companies and all their parent/subsidizes to own no more than 3 Media companies.

By media I mean: Radio, TV, Cable, Streaming, Movie Production and Social Media.
My work is about inferring solutions to Constraint Satisfaction Problem by using belief propagation in the corresponding constraint network, a few keywords caught my eye here :)

Do you have any illustrative example so I can understand better what you are hinting at?

Cheers
Microsoft did this iirc.
Optimzed Fused-SSIM
I significantly improved the forward and backward pass, as well as the inference of SSIM.

Optimized Fused-SSIM (Forward) 2.49ms (Backward) 2.68ms (Inference) 1.43ms
Original Fused-SSIM (Forward) 3.66ms (Backward) 3.52ms (Inference) 2.59ms

This is the new sota and probably the fastest implementation out there. I would love to see if someone could improve here and get another factor. More details are found in the repo.
Honestly Claude 3.7 can make a pokemon game in pygame fairly easily, at that point it would have a lot more control over it
Demos should count. The demoscene is almost archetypical in this regard, IMO.
Very nice indeed… I wasted a lot of time playing on it!
Same but it did not strike me this had to do with sierra until you mentioned it. My kids too are very curious if they see me playing an adventure- they don’t mind the blocky pixels at all.
It's very interesting to see Tech from the mid 90s all the way to today.

From nerds, niche, to Oligarchs.

From breaking boundaries to limiting alternatives.

From rebelling against the status-quo to become the status-quo.

The nerds now become the slave.
What "other methods"?
Hey, how small do you think a fusion generator can get? Like, ships, sure. But how about car sized? Phone sized?
Nope, makes a lot of sense. Not applying your talents is a waste, (doubly so if you enjoy it) and investing those talents into something that can give dividends at a later time is worth it. Good luck!
An iCloud Backdoor Would Make Our Phones Less Safe
Was working on a similar thing last year! Might as well open source at this point too.
not what was said at all
Right I guess NYC is a very unique market in that but good point, thanks.
the irony of censorship in the name of "personal liberty". Grade a doublespeak bullshit
Huge fan of Matt Deslauriers- meridian in particular is very beautiful. Recommend checking it out.

https://www.mattdesl.com/
No I won't, because yes it is.
Holy shit this is fast
Personal liberty for me, but not for thee.
John Swinton, 1883:

> There is no such a thing in America as an independent press, unless it is out in country towns. You are all slaves. You know it, and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to express an honest opinion. If you expressed it, you would know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid $150 for keeping honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for doing similar things. If I should allow honest opinions to be printed in one issue of my paper, I would be like Othello before twenty-four hours: my occupation would be gone. The man who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the street hunting for another job. The business of a New York journalist is to distort the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to villify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread, or for what is about the same — his salary. You know this, and I know it; and what foolery to be toasting an "Independent Press"! We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are jumping-jacks. They pull the string and we dance. Our time, our talents, our lives, our possibilities, are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.
i think one of the things astronomers were pleasantly surprised to see was that the Gaia results have indicated that other low rungs of the distance ladder were pretty well calibrated. Most of these are based in some way on stellar evolution, and given that stars can be kind of messy there was always a bit of nervousness that maybe our systematic errors are larger than we think. But the models turned out to be pretty good.
We can barely tolerate the latency and throughput limitations between Europe and the US for data center processing... and now we're okay with data being wirelessly transmitted (read: super slow) from Earth to the Moon?

Building something on the moon would be cool, but a data center? Unlikely.
Do you know about Peter Struycken, who made many art works, painting, carpets, light shows, and 3D animations with the help of computers? Even his painting of the last decade where made using computer programs to find pleasant looking random patterns for placing coloured squares. See www.pstruycken.nl for more information.
Sometimes when I was bored in meetings I would ask how what we were discussing would benefit users. It almost always resulted in uncomfortable silence, then some half-assed attempt to paper over the real answer (no benefit), and proceeding back to enshittifying.

Truly soul crushing environment, but it was amusing.
Definitely not, but it's possible to focus exclusively on liberties that the right wing prefers.

I guess we'll see whether Bezos is willing to promote the liberty of a business to hire based on DEI criteria if that's what it prefers, or of individuals to marry people of the same sex. Or any of the other liberties that the right wing doesn't like. Given the recent closeness of Bezos to Trump, I suspect we won't see anything like that, but maybe he'll surprise me.
As someone who's been to Scotland but not Ireland, do you have midges?
Is that still true with dotnet? Especially since it has a surrogate pair api and a rune api? https://learn.microsoft.com/de-de/dotnet/api/system.char.iss...
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.text.run...
Same to you buddy.
Yes! And run there all autonomous ad+slop+BS-generators on one hand , and all the autonomous personal-electric-monks-that-are-to-be-irradiated-with-that on the other hand - with minimal latency and maximal throughput.

And leave us here in peace..
I guess I never read deeply on the subject, but Agentforce never felt all that grounded to me. It seemed like a tagline without a real underlying strategy. This I guess gets to Satya Nadella's recent observation that AI is "generating basically no value" but AI seems to still be globally in the like product/market fit stage, seemed odd to me to announce you were staking the entire company on an unproven AI bet.

Also one that's at a higher level of abstraction on a foundation that is fundamentally shaky.
Ya I find it interesting I feel like the nerds have been pushed aside by the mainstream. Social networks for instance were a lot better when it was just nerds.
This feels like it would apply to other similar technologies, like Java or Ruby. (Or Node, assuming the startup using it doesn't fail that fast.)
Just because something is OCRable doesn't make it structured data that can be used immediately. A table at a restaurant might have a QR code that takes me to a menu with the table number already encoded and pre-entered into the order page ready to go. An OCRable table number does not give me that, and an OCRable URL like https://fragmede.restaurant/menu?table=42 might work for HNers, but most humans won't recognise and understand their table number when going up to the bar to order.
At least he's honest about it.

Truth be told, it does feel like free markets have become a bit of a dirty word in both political realms recently; I'm not going to complain too much about Bezos advocating for it, we could use the help.

I guess it remains to be seen just what kind of views they end up pushing, rather than what he says he wants to push :P
If you've ever prepped for a colonoscopy, you'd be surprised how much you can poop. In general, I am a daily pooper... but I was amazed just how much is in there! I was wondering if it was ever going to end!
Can confirm. Recent graduate who found HN during my second year at university.
Lol. The resume includes expert in Mia Khalifa easter egg.
I want more Ada / SPARK and Factor. :D
I'd really like to hear what you guys are going to work on, beside PR. There are no nuclear fusion reactors, nor do we even know what one would look like if it did exist. How can you already plan to adapt fusion reactors to ships then?

This feels oddly "premature", for lack of a stronger word.
The role of such standardized coding interviews is to ensure consistency when hiring at very large scale. Some big tech companies hire thousands of people a year, and interview ten times that.

Candidates have a very diverse set of backgrounds, age, experience, culture, education, interests, experience. The coding interview is a common denominator: undergrad algorithmic knowledge, being able to solve problems which are application of classic algorithms. This is something that a decent coder should be able to prepare for within a few months of regular practice. In my case, I can tell that these months of practice were the best investment in my life. And honestly, I feel I'm a better programmer after this preparation.

> Cue the vague feeling of disgust on the interviewer's part that the interviewee didn't know something "so simple" in a tense environment with lopsided power dynamics.

This is your interpretation of the situation. As an interviewer, I want the interviewee to succeed, I understand it's stressful for them as I've been in their shoes before.

Ultimately, there are more candidates than positions, so whatever the interview is, people will complain about it. I think leetcode is a decent interview technique. I wish we would give more time to candidates though.
Did this a few times, devs loved it: all in posix-shell, the main script was a rather ugly thing but devs would never touch it. You'd code your command as a simple shell script in cli-lib/$username/$command, it would be available to you as 'cli $command', to others as 'cli $username.$command'.

Useful commands would be copied over into the directory that contains the commands accessible to all. Usefulness was determined at the coffee machine, the smokers' room or in conversations after presentations on their work given by devs.

Also, interested interns would be tasked to spot "optimization potential" - so they read through these commands, learned to read and write shell scripts and they had to learn to efficiently address senior devs.

Everytime this was more a social thing than actual workflow optimization: Tooling became a permant side project, people could (and would) look their peers' scripts, one could take a short break from the main project by working on this. One observation I made: the more senior the devs, the less interested they were in this "playground" - after all good devs are always faster at hacking solutions to these simple problems than evaluating and adapting existing ones.
They've got it all figured out, you just don't understand. Basically, the plan is:

1. Put data on the moon

2. ???

3. Profit

For more info, check out their promotional video: https://www.lonestarlunar.com/video
Zero chance of that happening unfortunately. The current Supreme Court would consider restrictions on corporate media ownership a violation of the first amendment, much like restrictions against unlimited campaign donations and restrictions on discriminating against non-Christians.
Ada has a more traditional syntax compared to Rust, for good or for bad.
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You're correct. It's about distinction between code and data.

You should simply discern between HTML elements (code) and HTML text nodes (data).
Same with prepared statements: Clear distinction between SQL code vs SQL data.

You just need to ensure that your data is never interpreted as code.
Good example of how ideology (and motivated reasoning) really clouds people's thinking.

Personal liberty and free markets are in direct conflict with each other. Free markets require private property, which requires enforcement through violent aggression (or the threat thereof).

Free markets and private property might be justified for any number of (other) reasons, but "personal liberty" isn't one of them.
Or just burying equipment. Everythng is very cold. No need to get deep. Cover them in regolith, freely available.
In case anyone is unaware...

https://librewolf.net/
"Bezos also made clear that alternate views will not appear on the pages."

So glad the US finally got a government focusing on freedom of speech .. And you know, not pressuring companies and the press to do their bidding /s
"Hands free" is sorta the point? I already have several things, including the oven, that have buttons to do this sort of thing. I don't use those because I have my hands occupied.

I get that not everyone would want this. I'm ok with that.
Yes, but the various Lisps that Common Lisp is the more-or-less common subset of are (were?) all 0-indexed. Between easy heap implementation (left is (ash index 1), right is (1+ (ash index 1)), parent is (ash index -1)) and easy last element selection (nth seq (length seq)) I prefer 1-indexing, but I realize that's an unpopular opinion.
I can just about do it, but it messes up my ability to focus normally for ages afterwards. Doesn’t feel like it’s good for my eyes…
The combination of “personal liberty and free markets” as a description of an ideological orientation is not merely exclusively right-wing, its pretty much a defining slogan of the American pro-big-business corporate capitalist Right (one of many segments of the American Right.)

It’s no less of a clear, specific ideological marker in the US today than “Blood and Soil” in 1930s Germany.

But its interesting how those trying to sell this as not ideological are just ignoring the “free markets” part.
people come up with the darndest things.
There is a pending hard fork to PQ Post Quantum algorithms for all classical blockchains.

There will likely be different character lengths for account addresses and keys, so all of the DNS+HTTP web services and HTTP web forms built on top will need different form validation.

Vitalik Buterin presented on this subject a few years ago. Doubling key sizes may or may not be sufficient to limit the risk of quantum attacks on elliptical curve encryption algorithms employed by Bitcoin and many other DLTs.

The Chromium browser now supports the ML-KEM (Kyber) PQ cipher.

Very few web servers have PQ ciphers enabled. It is as simple as changing a text configuration file to specify a different cipher on the webserver, once the ciphers are tested by time and money.

There are patched versions of OpenSSH server, for example, but PQ support is not yet merged in core there yet either.

There are PQ ciphers and there are PQ cryptographic hashes.

There are already PQ-resistant blockchains.

Should Bitcoin hard fork to double key sizes or to implement a PQ cipher and hash?

Spelunking for Bitcoin by generating all possible keys and checking their account balances is not prevented by PQ algorithms.

Banking and Finance and Critical Infrastructure also need to upgrade to PQ ciphers. Like mining rigs, it is unlikely that existing devices can be upgraded with PQ software; we will need to buy new devices and recycle existing non-PQ devices.

If banks are on a 5 year IT refresh cycle, that means they need to be planning to upgrade everything to PQ 5 years or more before a QC quantum computer of a sufficient number of error-corrected qubits is online for adversaries that steal cryptoassets from people on the internet.
>"Personal liberty" is not exclusively a right-wing idea.

I wonder if the approved op-eds on personal liberty will include Trans and Abortion rights? Will it include the right to organize?
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They said so in a press release:

https://www.instacart.com/company/updates/bringing-inspirati...

> Ask Instacart leverages the language understanding capabilities of OpenAI’s ChatGPT
I am curious how much they are in your country? In Poland one egg costs about $0.30
Why not do the same on Earth?

For all the heroics needed to establish this ok the moon, the efforts and costs are much less back home.
Daidō Moriyama is a great Japanese photographer who exemplified the Provoke movement in the 1970s. I find his work inspiring and liberating.

He pioneered a style that combined gritty black and white street photography with an avant garde approach.
if the Fairness Doctrine was implemented for the Internet and you had a Democrat leaning political blog you would have to give equal time/space to MAGA narratives on your site. That's what you want?
I have been working on https://m.emori.es to store photos and videos and to share with my parents.

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Ite called reciprocal because the fourier transformation is it's own inverse, and the input and output space have the same 'shape' (functions from the reals to the complex numbers).

So they are considered two sides of the same coin. And reciprocal in that sense.
> I do think shipping a product that has real users (and everything it entails, like writing the docs) is 100x more important than having leetcode and common interview tactics fresh on your mind.

It depends on the job! At a small product company, absolutely. Shipping useful features to customers is what you're hired to do. Hardcore CS knowledge is less useful than understanding how to talk to customers and shipping. Interviews should reflect that.

But that isn't all jobs, or all software. For a lot of problems - particularly in systems software or places where performance matters, understanding data structures and algorithms is essential. For example, video game engines, operating systems, databases, LLM inference and training, etc.

I get it - most product engineers don't make use of "leetcode" skills. But absolutely relevant at a place like google. If you don't understand how to reverse a binary tree, I wouldn't hire you to work on Google Chrome or the Go compiler either.

> But a medium+ question risks me not even being able to solve like, like having to use dynamic programming. And that's just humiliating.

What an incredibly entitled thing to say. "Those horrible interviewers asked me to solve a problem that was too hard for me! How humiliating! I failed the interview and its all their fault!"
NVDA growth will begin to slow down to the point to about *just* meeting expectations. There are too many eyes on NVDA expecting a repeat of those massive beat in results of the past.

You won't get the massive unexpected gains you had before in the past. All just as expected.

Instead what you should be waiting for is what will DeepSeek AI be releasing that will question the valuations of these startups.

Nvidia will still be fine, but I'm seeing a repeat of 1999 hype forming with lots of so-called "AI startups" getting trapped with over-valuation.
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Against Substack
I was crushed and embarrassed. Yep. Not even gonna lie.

I used to work on Insomnia at Kong, which is literally a frontend for cURL. But some of the questions I couldn't answer were like "how do you get headers with cURL". I DON'T FRIGGIN KNOW. THAT'S WHY I WORKED ON A GUI FOR CURL. I CAN'T STAND USING THE CLI. lol. But to them, it was a question they were supposed to ask, and I got it wrong. Same story for questions about the git CLI DX (I'm a GitKraken fanatic lol), and more like that.

I would rate my confidence overall as being quite low. Well. I donno how to explain what I'm trying to say. It's not that it's low or high, it's that I don't factor it in a lot in what I decide to do. Where I've noticed some people dip their toe in, I find it easy to just cannon-ball into the frozen lake without needing a lot of justification. That's what I meant in the video about "close-enough-manship". I'm a sort of personality that spends a lot of time just failing miserably over and over again in the least efficient way possible until I get what I'm looking for - and I usually quickly move on before I learn what I could have done better, lol. I've been told that my comfort in the face of non-stop-failures is what confidence is, but I donno if that sounds right.

Getting a job these days is really tough on the psyche.
You are wrong here. You can't have free markets without personal liberty.

In the same way, personal liberties aren't a thing if are are unable to establish your own business
Until we make a really long USB-C cable.

...or, just, use the moon servers as an extreme form of backups only. Rarely used, used only for the essential data.
We Don't Build Stores. We Build Stories
What's the expected lifetime of the average hard-drive in a datacenter? And does Amazon allow next day delivery to the Moon?