skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can we also have a desktop keyboard trackpad combo?
Right - there was no major market gap here. With laptops there was, but not desktops. Not sure the point of this. I hope they didn't spend too much eng time on it, rather than on their laptops. The F16 could use a new rev...
Think about the modern cloud-first architecture where you have a thick back with a complex DB, a thin client with a temporary cache of the data, and an API layer moving data between them.

This is an experiment in flipping the traditional design on its head and pushing most of the computation to the client using an architecture similar to what Git is using, but for your actual application data.

You get all kinds of nice byproducts from this design like realtime collaboration, secure data auditing, multiple application versions coexisting on different branches in production, etc etc. It's really about pushing the boundaries of what's possible with modern client hardware
Would Scala be able to run on this?
10 print "ur fired"
20 goto 10
Fun story, thanks for sharing! Seems pretty inevitable... the Elon Musks of the world would love this. Luxury living for the 1%, fully automated indentured servitude for the rest of us.

But at least we'll have nice text to speech in the headsets, hopefully.
What are the administrators of CANVAS hiding?
Related. Others?

Chicory 1.0.0-M1: First Milestone Release - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42086590 - Nov 2024 (3 comments)

A Zero-Dependency WebAssembly Runtime for the JVM - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38759030 - Dec 2023 (1 comment)
The framework website currently has a strange message about putting users into queues just to view the homepage. Might be time to start thinking about setting up Varnish
Imagine being able to swap components between their laptops and desktops! That would be pretty cool. Not sure how practically useful, but cool nonetheless.
An AI is not a layer of abstraction. It’s not deterministic, it’s frequently wrong, and its scope cannot be clearly defined.
Reddit is now using AI to generate answers from pieces of past user posts
It looks like their event drove a lot of traffic towards frame.work - Cloudfare is giving me a 1hr 9min wait to access the site.

https://i.imgur.com/twcxJjr.png
Kudos to you for enduring through this fight! We can only achieve transparency when people choose not to be complacent. Thank you.

What do you think are the next steps?
Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs [pdf]
>That's why I'm stuck on Facebook. It's for hyperlocal information and resources.

If it's for hyperlocal information, why don't you use a hyperlocal resource, like notice boards?

People seem to think this social infrastructure didn't exist in the past but in reality we have never been so disconnected socially.
Huh, good call thanks - I've updated my post with a correction.
Gravity is non-linear (as in: the Einstein field equations are non-linear differential equations).

That has nothing to do with the measurement problem. Also, the measurement problem is only a problem of the Copenhagen interpretation. It doesn't exist in the many worlds interpretation.
State ownership of business or heavy restrictions on the ability of owners to sell, dissolve, for take risks with business they own.

I don't agree, but that seems like the clear alternative.

Some people might propose preventing debt backed private equity firms from defrauding investors, but those laws are already on the books. The banks that fund buyouts and sometimes get left holding the bag absolutely know the risks and have well funded legal teams capable of protecting them.

Consumers don't get a say because they are not actual equity owners things like securing access to yarn or all you can eat shrimp do not supersede property rights in the view of the government.
I don't understand how you could come to that conclusion, they are referring to a sweatshop employee by a number and humiliating him for bad performance to the audience. How much more explicit would their demo have to be in order for you to believe they understand how their tech will be used?

Edit: They know exactly what they are doing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43175023#43176516
I guess there's more electronics hobbyists than ever. The real problem is that Selling a 10-cent resistor was always a loss leader for a radio shack.

When the majority of bigger ticket purchases moved online, the revenue dried up
Energy usage as does not care about whether any of the energy is wasted. If it did, a 100W incandescent light bulbs would only use 1W of power.
This is a strange view.

Weapons development is at best helpful as it hopefully provides a deterrent to nefarious actors and at worst protects our interest as Americans if someone caused us to move beyond weapons as a "deterrent."

Pretending like national defense and development of weapons is a bad thing is hiding your head in sand and pretending that there's nobody that wants to hurt you.
AI Is a Junior Developer: A Proposal to Make It More Useful
Delving into Japanese Complete Chapter 26
As time permits! I'm the only current article writer at this time
Framework is great because they took an entshittified category and made a good and repairable product in it, upgradeable in a way the other vendors refused to enable. That was the laptop. Now they made a less repairable desktop PC. This brings nothing to the market.

The soldered ram is particularly unacceptable. I get and believe that they could not make it work otherwise, but then they should have stopped the product instead of just adding to the e-waste.
Bully got found out, doesn’t like being found out. They want the posture across their economic and social status strata without impairing their ability to source talent (because talent is what makes a business).

The tug of war for control in the labor market continues, and those used to control are not happy. These outbursts are the symptom.
Which should also be available from all the usual motherboard manufacturers. Possibly well before this one, since it doesn't ship until Q3.
Discussed at the time (of the article):

Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36894932 - July 2023 (160 comments)
It doesn't make sense to talk about black holes outside the context of GR. What do you even mean by black hole if you can't describe it in the language of GR?
FWIW, I think people are getting confused because this is framed as a technology story, not a story about the inhumane conditions in sweatshops. I feel like this framing is common in a lot of news stories (big tech being the villain du jour), and is unhelpful because it causes folks who otherwise agree with each other to fixate on the "is technology bad or is it neutral" angle, which gets in the way of any actual agreement or progress.
Not quite, and the details get hairier the closer you look. The database in-question here is an IBM system. The database itself is used for government functions, making it FOIA'able, despite it being managed by a third party company. IBM even tried to argue that the schema was trade secret, but the statute isn't straight forward. Here's my (successful) response when they tried:

You mentioned on Thursday over the phone that IBM is not too keen on having its database schema released, and, between IBM and Chicago, is seeking an exemption under 5 ILCS 140/7(1)(g) - an exemption that is only valid if the release of records would cause competitive harm. This email preemptively seeks to address that exemption within the context of this request in the hopes of a speedier release of records. It is FOI's belief that there is little room for the case for the valid use of 5 ILCS 140/7(1)(g) when considering the insignificance of the records in conjunction with the release of past documents:

1. Chicago released CANVAS's technical specification [1] seven years ago. To the extent that the specification's continued publication does not cause competitive harm, it is very unlikely that the release of CANVAS's database schema would cause any harm.
2. The claim that the release of a database schema would cause competitive harm is not unlike suggesting that the release of filing cabinets' labels can cause competitive harm.

Furthermore, in your response, please be mindful that the burden of proving competitive harm rests on the public body [2].

[1] https://www.cityofchicago.org/content/dam/city/depts/dps/Con...
[2] http://foia.ilattorneygeneral.net/pdf/opinions/2018/18-004.p...
Is it not absurd that the supreme and appeal courts disagreed on a syntactical matter? Never mind that this isn't uncommon, or that (IMHO) it would be ridiculous to interpret it as "any file layouts at all, and other stuff too, but only bad other stuff". It's crazy to me that were happy for laws to sit on the books being utterly ambiguous.

I know this suits the courts who benefit from the leeway, and that (despite valiant efforts) we're not going to get "formal formal" language into statutes. I know that the law is an ass. I know that the laws are written by fallible and naive humans.

Even after all that, if the basic sentence structure of what's in the law isn't clear to the courts, hasn't the whole system fallen at the first hurdle?
Yeah, it's obvious the double standard here, then. Curious indeed why they are so adamant to keep the schema/data secret.
That's awesome. Will take a closer look!
I was thinking about CRDTs last night and now this. This is awesome.
And those are my favorite signalling mechanisms: async I/O and condition variables.
It requires elevated privileges, but this is how programs like tcpdump and wireshark work. On Linux it's also possible to give a program these permissions for any user by setting "capabilities", specifically cap_net_admin and cap_net_raw.
A quick scan gives me about 49 read. Having said that,

a. Finnegans Wake is tough going. I think that about 20 pages is my high water mark there.

b. The Phenomenology of Spirit and The Critique of Pure Reason require a lot of preliminary reading. And they are long, and even with the preliminary reading slow going.

c. Kapital. I know some pretty tough and motivated readers who tried reading this, and bogged down somewhere in the third book.

d. The Bible. I know many people who read in the Bible. I'd be surprised to learn that I know anyone not in the clergy who has read it through.
I wonder how much of this is a chicken-egg problem though; IRIX didn't have enough of a user base to justify porting over a lot of these applications, and because they didn't have these applications it couldn't develop a user base big enough, etc.

I think what you're saying is totally correct, if you're going to be spending a lot of money on a computer, you need to make sure it can actually do the stuff you need it to, and in the 90's that does more or less imply Microsoft Office compatibility.

Still, I do kind of wonder if SGI had actually tried to penetrate this market, that maybe they could have made this work. They could have licensed and ported some of these applications over themselves, and if they had gotten big enough then maybe some of these companies would have ported these things over.

It's tough to say.
Up to 128 GB RAM available for running AI models.

Theoretically awesome, but this might have some interesting market consequences for everyone else.
Wishing the best to my PM, who struggles to write a ticket title.
Will it? I'm not aware of any other than the HP workstation. Maybe one or two of the Chinese mini PC manufacturers. But nothing you can buy as a mini-ITX motherboard.
This is clearly intended for use in web applications so a JS runtime comes for free and the package is only 8.2kb
What could be interesting is playing against a full-strength engine, that is forced to sacrifice a piece every N moves (I initially wrote "blunder," but the top sacrificial Stockfish move would likely still be a viable strategy).
You can do that with https://www.coolermaster.com/en-global/products/framework/

This announcement is bog standard mini-ITX.
I literally described my experience of booking a taxi before Uber. Many of the local services also had apps that showed the location of the car and a fixed price before Uber was available here.
This is not a standard issue. They just had a large event, so a lot more people are trying to use the site relative to their standard visitor count. Traffic will probably be back down to standard levels in the next few hours, if you're able to wait that long without having a heart attack.
Why not, as long as the aliens didn't use the work of human musicians.

These musicians aren't complaining about AI generated music. They're complaining that the mechanism being introduced to supposedly help them avoid having their works ingested by AI is, in fact, worthless.
I used my own CLI tool LLM, which can handle these long requests in streaming mode (Anthropic won't let you do a non-streaming request for long output replies like this).

uv tool install llm
llm install llm-anthropic
llm keys set anthropic
# paste in API key
llm -m claude-3.7-sonnet -o thinking 1 'your prompt goes here'
This furthers an idea I've had recently that we (and the media) are focusing too much on creating value by making more ever more complex LLMs, and instead we are vastly underestimating creative applications of current generation AI.
Ok I think I need to go into more depth on the examples.

I think HN knows that anyone can prompt LLMs. I do think its interesting though that this has allowed PMs/SMEs to direclty influence products that are deployed to millions of people. That seems genuinely novel. Maybe I over egged it
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The categorical elimination of single-family zoning along with any building envelope restrictions that would make as-of-right 3-flats uneconomical.
The most balls ever juggled is now 12 [video]
The standard for "qualifying" is 2 catches per ball. He got 24 catches here.
You're on point. Really if you look at all the religions and creeds that have stood the test of time, they all kind of shift focus away from satisfying your ego so much. It's so easy for the mind to rationalize this or that as a failure, given enough time to neurotically brood. Even if you're actually in a very good spot in life.
I like the "Click OK to terminate" error. As though it wants to make sure it has my permission to crash.
The Antarctic treaties allow for the development of greenhouses, etc., for scientific research purposes (in areas that have already been developed).

And scientists residing there have tried to make a closed-loop system for decades now. They haven't succeeded yet. It's a lot harder to do than fiction and Hollywood would have you believe. Importantly from the Martian colonization perspective: it's irrelevant that the scientists in Antarctic can't use local resources to build their closed loop, because that's part of proving the Martian concept, where there aren't any usable local resources.
He could have chosen a different word besides "complexity" but I don't really think it would have affected much. The subjective easy/hard is specifically what Ousterhout is trying to talk about.

Ultimately the problem he is (and all of us are) facing is that "good software design" can't really be measured with the right linting ruleset or static analysis. So if you're trying to break the concepts down each level, while still maintaining a scope that should include all software, that probably means it's impossible not to come off as squishy and non-specific at several points. I still think he strikes a really good balance in general here.

I agree that there could be more discussion around context and audience. Ousterhout says "if you write a piece of code and it seems simple to you, but other people think it is complex, then it is complex", but then what can possibly be done if everyone on my team was replaced with new hires who had next to no experience writing code? Did the same codebase go from simple to complex?
There's no other way to get 256 GB/s of memory bandwidth for this cheap, and that's quite valuable in many workloads. I'm curious to get one for compiling code too.

You can get similar bandwidth with server boards that cost 5-10x as much, or with a Mac Studio that costs 2.5x as much.
To be fair, whether you disagree with it or not, this is the spirit of the law: ostensible religious symbols are not allowed in public schools (and more generally in republican institutions). So yes, one symbol is more visible than others, and that makes it somewhat unfair, but the "visible" portion is realistic. You can't ask teachers to check under student's clothes for them.

I will agree though that France has also been very reactionary towards its Muslim population and laicity has been a convenient tool to bash them. But that doesn't invalidate the purpose of the original principle.
Your complaint was about tires, which is a much smaller problem than the ones that have known solutions, and one that has plausible solutions because it's a normal materials science problem.

"Climatologists" are talking about CO2, which is the thing we already have everything we need in order to solve. You use electric ground vehicles, charge them with solar panels or nuclear reactors. Use synthetic or biofuels for aircraft. Switch to electric heat pumps to heat buildings. This isn't a matter of "we don't know how to do it" or "the only option is to reduce energy consumption", it's only a question of whether people are willing to adopt these things fast enough, because adopting them faster sometimes costs more in the short-term. So that's still a thing we actually have to do, but it isn't really a question of what to do, only a question of how to get people to do the known thing.
Philosophy of Software Design seemed more pragmatic to me.
100%. Dealing with legacy issues is much more laborious and also complicates hygiene.
(Both the company and the projects are very impressive of course! Not to mention OCaml itself.)
Customer service is a different set of skills. Anybody and everybody can learn customer service if they want to, and get rid off the middle men with some effort and some investments. But most companies simply don't want to invest in it and leave it to middle men instead.

Also, most business owners do not have a clue of what they're doing. They inherited the business, or caught a ride on low interests etc. That's why there's still fierce competition and newcomers eating their lunch.

I agree with you that it is completely backwards!
Tesla's stock slump is a glimpse of the multinational future, and it's not good
Surprisingly, in this context, I frequently came across interfaces that make it difficult to implement certain features using those libraries. There's not a one-size-fits-all implementation yet.
Hard to say. One of my personal drivers for this lawsuit is a tip I received that said that Chicago has a list of vendors whose tickets are dropped in the back-end. When I requested that info, the city said they had no such list. I trust my source, so having schema information could help figure out the extent and if they were lying.
I love it when statistical modelling is used for research like this. I think we're underestimating the impact research simulations will have on science, especially when they get cheaper and easier to build. Exciting stuff!
Here is a painful truth that I would venture that 95%+ of people don't know. In fact when I learned it, removing this small block of knowledge from my head toppled an entire ideological castle I had lived in until that point.

Low wage labor is not very valuable at all, and has very low margins on it. The gap between "profitable worker" and "unprofitable worker" is the absolute smallest at the bottom. These workers keep almost all value they create and are never in a position to generate massive value. They are perpetually right on the threshold of being unprofitable to employ.

So the problem then becomes "How do you keep a worker above that profitability threshold when they are barely above it?". You can have kludgey borderline inhumane approaches like this, or maybe try to use perks as coercion to hit targets, but not matter what it's a very difficult problem to solve.

Everyone jumps to "Pay them more" but almost everyone is unaware (and certainly unwilling) that that would necessitate cutting money from their checks to buffer the profitability threshold of these bottom tier workers.
This came up for me in my YouTube feed recently and I wanted to share. I see it's been linked once before (much closer to publication) but didn't get an awful lot of attention. What I find really remarkable is the combination of techniques and clever hacks used, all presented fluidly as if the presenter has simply memorized all the necessary information:

* Machine code (as well as configuration data for the built-in hardware synth) is written not only as raw bytes, but with the byte values in decimal as expected by BASIC syntax

* The editor is exploited to repeat lines of code - by editing the line number, going to the end of line and hitting Enter again (when I was a child using a C64 I had no idea the editor had any features like this; of course I didn't even really conceive of there being an "editor" in the first place)

* Screen buffer memory is used both for input and output; the program runs on interrupts while the editor is active, so that inputting new "code" (not actually added to the BASIC listing) provides note data

* The musical sense of the presenter, on top of the actual programming knowledge.
This is exactly like that famous tweet about the torment nexus[1], but they're trying to make the factory from Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times[2].

[1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/torment-nexus

[2] https://criterioncloseup.com/2015/06/14/modern-times-1936-ch...
How do I best get this business off the ground?
Hi,

Long story short, I've spent the past year burning myself out next to my day job building a SaaS application focused on providing a specific type of IT security using a concept that has seemingly no competition yet. The MVP is essentially ready, very reliable with close to zero technical debt and has been refactored multiple times to prevent bigger issues as it scales. So far so good.

I've talked to other experts in the field and have received positive feedback in terms of value proposition and use-cases ranging from mom and pop shops to mid size, all the way to larger enterprises with big attack surfaces. I've designed very attractive pricing plans that make the service essentially a no-brainer for any size of entity, yet because of the laughably low cost of operation the gross profit margins on each subscription are sky high.

However being a SWE and not a businessman I'm kinda stuck on how to actually get it off the ground now. I was looking into angel investing but I do not have the capital necessary to start a LLC-equivalent which, I believe, is probably necessary for any angel investor to consider since they wish to receive equity in return.

My first thought would be to start it as a sole proprietorship, try to generate revenue and with this revenue eventually raise enough capital to modify the business structure to allow for equity shares. But I fear that the growth without real advertisement and marketing would be rather slow and eventually someone with actual resources would come and frontrun me.

Any advice would be highly appreciated! I'm not looking for any kind of big amount of funding - very small pre-seeding, if anything, as I assume organic growth would be quite self-sustaining after the initial kickoff. Is convertible debt a solution here?
To me it feels like the kind of dispute that is exactly why we have multiple levels of appeals court. The "file format" thing is super dumb, and they got it wrong, but the "that if disclosed" statutory interpretation is a thing that seems important to get a final, consistent determination on.
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