skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Coat the carrots in chocolate?

One can always do as in "The good place" show: put a bunch of hotties to talk about and play with moral philosophy. I think the show was somewhat evil in that approach, but at the same time, it was also morally sound...
Weren’t the big record labels terrified that streaming would cannibalize CD sales? I think it was a pretty huge thing that Spotify got them onboard at all. I’m not sure how much that matters to your overall point but saying they ”didn’t value streaming” doesn’t seem quite right with how I remember the discussion at the time - they were afraid of it because they could see its value, and how that might disrupt their lucrative plastic disc business.
I know someone who wanted to move from government contractor to government employee. He was already a veteran, had a degree, few years of experience as a contractor, etc. it took an entire year from “okay we can give you a job” to him starting.
Same here. I never subscribed to Netflix or Disney+ for the intended purpose of continually paying for it in perpetuity - it was always to watch the one show I want (in <1mo) and then immediately kill it.
Mastodon is much better than any alternatives, in my opinion, too. Open it, see there's no new posts, and close. Deterministic like an RSS feed. Exactly what I want.

I even don't care about "spamming" by serial posters anymore. I chose to follow them, and unfollow them if they bother me that much.
chatGPT (pro at least) creates amazing logos in 30 seconds, amazing look websites around the logo you settled on and then codes the front-end (html,css,js). That can all be done in 5 minutes or less.

As UX Designer and UI Developer who does all the above (also do UX Research which anything where you interface with humans i think is safe for awhile) it's slightly disheartening to see my skill-sets future worth.....

Where I work we were told we can't use GPT and that is fine, but in what a year to three or five Im sure their stance will change.
> since then we pivoted away from it. we've roughly pivoted almost every month to something new. there is no longer any vision or clear problem we're trying to solve. each month is our team simply fishing for ideas in different industries and domains hoping to strike gold.

I've parted ways with cofounders in two of my five startups (they left, not me... I could afford a zero paycheck for a little while, they couldn't). In both cases we did better after the split. In both cases our original business idea didn't work out, and we were trying to stay alive. It felt like pivoting from idea to idea. Reality was it was just trying to sell and collect enough to make payroll in six weeks. So we went from whatever we were doing to custom dev shop... Survival mode sucks.

When got down to a single founder, it wasn't that one person was right or wrong about what the business could do. It was that the business could execute well enough (without cofounders fighting and second guessing) so it could survive, and eventually find something to productize.
How did you arrive at this proposal? Is the Mona Lisa propaganda because she isn't holding a branded flask with snake oil?
I built Cal.build after getting frustrated with planning documents shared as PDFs usually from people outside my daily workflow.

I wanted a minimal way to go from idea -> schedule -> live calendar.

You type what you want to plan, it returns a calendar with a .ics URL you can subscribe to (Google Calendar and others).

Example:“Plan a 5-day team summit in Costa Rica starting May 1st, including team building activities and project planning sessions.”

Returns a full schedule with editable events, a public URL, and live updates.

Features:
1. Text-to-calendar conversion
2. Subscribable .ics link
3. Shareable and auto-updating

Stack: Next.js, Supabase, AI SDK, deployed on Vercel.

Would appreciate feedback.

https://www.cal.build/
I'd say it's very much by design because it's a common feature of places America's rulers love - Hungary, Russia etc. One of the many ways in which uppity PMCs get put in their place is by the rulers flaunting their lawlessness and gaslighting the PMCs, while of course making PMCs submit to the rules and work with reality.

So here's we have blatantly illegal behavior by the party that constantly sings about "law and order" and the grating helplessness you feel is what they want you to feel, because they are your masters and want to yo always be aware of this.
Corporations certainly have advantages over individuals, but classifying them as superhuman intelligences misses the mark. I'd go with a blind ravenous titan instead.
Same problem here. How about alpha, bravo, charlie etc? That's why it was invented.
This is why the US needs automation. You don't want jobs assembling iPhones by hand, you want jobs building and maintaining factory automation equipment. But this is the trend globally anyway because a) it's becoming increasingly possible and b) the wages in countries like China have been increasing, so there is less "cheap labor" available in the alternative. But if you have an automated factory that requires trained workers making middle class money instead of a sweatshop, then why would the US want it in China instead of at home?
Development has dropped off a cliff over the last couple of months. The release cycle has moved from quarterly to yearly. He's basically taking his ball and going home. My guess is we'll see more internal initiatives like this AI builder instead of focusing on the core product.

This would be an okay strategy if his core product wasn't in such a state of disrepair. I've seen multiple issues on Github projects from Automattic developers saying "this would be easy to fix upstream but we're not allow to fix anything in WordPress right now." It's pathetic and actively harming his own business.
It's not implicit in this case, it's explicit. + is the function you're calling. And there's power in having mathematical operations be functions that you can manipulate and compose like all other functions, instead of some special case of infix implicit (to me, yeah) function calling, like 1 + 2, where it's no longer similar to other functions.
Yes, I agree. The consultants are certainly wasteful, but I am personally aware of many employees for the government who literally have to do nothing and are actually not allowed to do any real work. We need to clean up the waste everywhere.
There is tons of competition for Tailscale. Its 'just' an easier to use VPN with a great GTM exceution. I think they need more money as they need to fundamentally re-architect their solution to sell into enterprise use cases they their valuation requires.
My mistake, I meant GPT-4o mini.
Decision making in computing is mostly a matter of fashion / cargo-culting.
They're still battling out in court, with a timeline that extends into 2027. Meanwhile: (very quick summary) Matt's pulled his developers off the project, and the release schedule has slowed. Some commercial vendors have increased their support, while others have pulled back. Meanwhile the ecosystem of devs and agencies basically shrugged it off. If we need to get rid of Matt we will (with big vendor support), no big deal.
It is simultaneously possible that Ericsson banned Erlang in 1998 (a statement claimed multiple times by the creators of Erlang) and that Ericsson rescinded the ban later in 2004, when they hired back Joe Armstrong.
Modern 6502
Agree that these are extremely common but you don't hear about them when you're constantly reading TechCrunch.

I've seen almost 10 breakups from startup friends in the last year and have been through one myself. It's like dating — very few end up in marriage and most marriages end up in divorce. Except maybe worse, because people get married after knowing each other for just a few days, in order to apply to YC.
When I was hosting a site run on bespoke PHP pages, I had a hit counter that used straight text files under the hood. It was surprisingly effective and a fun experience.
The PS3 failed?
Looks like Google was demonstrating some of that on stage recently: https://gizmodo.com/google-showed-off-advanced-ar-glasses-th...
Yes. And it also relies on pre-compilation, which t-strings do not support.
yawn Pretty much every major WP builder has an AI component. I'm sure this one is as half-baked as all the others.
Then don't follow or engage with their content? You understand that's your option, right?

I actually enjoy Bsky as a replacement for Twitter mostly to keep on top of news (tech and otherwise, the tech often coming from the source), along with a small selection of high profile figures. So I follow those sources and venues.

It is absolutely pathetic that a small mob attacked Adobe -- primarily a super aggressive anti-AI contingent that runs around like a sad torch mob on bsky -- and I hope Adobe return to the platform. It would be nice for people like me, who chose to follow these brands, to see the news from Adobe, OpenAI, Microsoft, etc, and my choice shouldn't be limited by those people.
Perfectly stated. It was more stable and had better UX than NT4, but didn't have all the unwanted anti-features that came in later versions of Windows. It was the last version of Windows that didn't get in my way.
I just spent a bit of time in Wien and was blown away by the ease of use of their transit system and its integration into Google Maps. For someone from the US, it's like a different world.
So? They're wrong too. I don't like copyright and I don't like ladder-pulling AI companies like OpenAI either; what I do like is new technology, as long as it's made open and available.

It's very possible for neither party to be right and I wish people would acknowledge such situations more often.
i was thinking similar lines.

maybe i dont full understand "many-core", but the definition the article implies aligns with what i think of latest qualcomm snapdragon mobile processor for example with cores at different frequencies/other differences.

also i dont understand why ps3 is considered a failure, when did it fail?

in NA xbox360 was more popular (i would say because xbox live) but ps3 was not far behind (i owned a ps3 at launch and didnt get a xbox360 till years later).

from a lifetime sales, shows more ps3s shipped globally than xbox.
Different notions of reproducible. This project cares specifically about bit-for-bit identical builds (e.g. no time stamps, parallel compile artifacts etc). Nix is more about being declarative and "repeatable" or whatever a good name for that would be.

Both notions are useful for different purposes and nix is not particularly good at the first one.

https://reproducible-builds.org/citests/
You still have to be careful with supervision trees and parts of the tree restarting. For example your system might work if the whole erlang operating system process is suddenly killed and restarted but your system might start corrupting data if parts of the erlang process tree is restarted. Erlang gives you a good model to work with these problems but it doesn't allow you to completely turn off your brain. If you walk in thinking that you can just let things restart and everything will be fine then you might end up getting burnt.
Damn. I transfered ownership over the cudnn and cudnn-sys crates (they are by now almost 10 year old crates that I'm certain nobody ever managed to use them for anything useful) to the maintainers a few years back as it looked to be on a good trajectory, but it seems like they never managed to actually release the crates. Hope that the reboot pulls through!
> Isolated process heaps? - Just use OS processes

OS procs are heavyweight. Erlang procs are ~2KB each. You can spin up millions on one box while traditional OS procs would melt your machine. Not even in the same league.

> Supervision trees? - Use kubernetes.

Comparing Kubernetes to Erlang supervision trees misses the mark. K8s is infrastructure that requires significant configuration and maintenance outside your codebase. Erlang's supervision is just code - it's part of your application logic. And those nested supervision trees? Good luck implementing that cleanly in K8s without a ton of custom work.

> Message passing? - Not a big deal, I can write two threads and a shared queue in Java.

Basic threads and queues don't compare to Erlang's sophisticated message passing. Pattern matching on receive makes for cleaner, more maintainable code, and the transparent distribution across nodes comes standard. Building equivalent functionality from scratch would require significantly more code and infrastructure.

"Any sufficiently complicated concurrent program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Erlang."

> Hot code loading? - Java can do that too

Java can reload classes, but Erlang was designed for seamless evolution of running systems. The gen_server callbacks for upgrading state during hot code loading show how deeply this concept is integrated into Erlang's core.
Their is tons of competition depending on how you want to attack the problem. Tailscale's problem imho is that their product does not scale well as required by large enterprises. One could argue nor do traditional VPNs, but they are already in place and workking so that product config already works, no need for change. The market is massive, but you need to be at a high abstration layer in my opinion, so that you can replace far more than just the VPN.
No. They get more rights because the process of getting residency and citizenship is stricter than a short term visa. Once you have the status, you've got more protection.

Plenty of people can get a tourist visa but would not be permitted to settle here.
This seems to happen really often! I think I remember there was another one being about color blending being done on the wrong gamma space on GPUs?
It felt like malicious compliance. Oh, you want security? OK, here you go, hope you choke on it.
Back in the 90s a Japanese sports car actually offered a noticeable performance advantage relative to regular passenger cars. The regular passenger cars generally had weak engines, terrible suspensions, slow shifting automatic transmissions, and little in the way of driver assistance features. Now any generic modern crossover SUV can be driven well beyond the legal speed limit on any public road without really approaching the vehicle's limits, so except for hard core enthusiasts who intend on tracking their cars there's just not much advantage to buying a sports car any more.
> The PS3 failed developers because it was an excessively heterogenous computer

Which links to the Wiki:

> These systems gain performance or energy efficiency not just by adding the same type of processors, but by adding dissimilar coprocessors

Modern CPUs have many similar cores, not dissimilar cores.
You don't really have a startup, you're back to searching for an idea to work on.

Your team is no longer productive.
I think your link is broken (missing the l in html) and should point here: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/05/style/strava-messaging.ht...
Oh no they will hit each other, someone call 911!
Very good book. I read it way back when as well.
that's what I'm saying
> Burn it all down and start over again clean.

This approach has an abysmal track record historically and I expect history will repeat itself here. Burning complex systems down is many orders of magnitude easier than building them up, and much less fun for the people who like burning things down. So the predictable effect is that blunt wide-scale destruction almost always makes things worse.

Yes Academia and government could be vastly more efficient. Almost everyone agrees on that and a lot of work has been put into improving things. But doing that in a way that's net good requires patience and competence, traits the current people running the government openly disdain.
We observed the same thing here at Copper Robotics where we absolutely need to have good Cuda bindings for our customers and in general the lack thereof has been holding back Rust in robotics for years. Finally with cudarc we have some hope for a stable project that keeps up with the ecosystem.
The last interesting question at that point is why Nvidia is not investing in the rust ecosystem?
> It is important to understand why the PS3 failed

That's a weird assertion for a console that sold 87M units, ranks #8 in the all-time top-selling consoles list, and marginally outsold Xbox360 which is compared against in TFA.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_game_cons...
Author mentions Simmons' Differential Equations with Applications and Historical Notes (1972), which is at Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/details/differentialequa0000simm/page/n6...
Do they? What does it do that nothing else does?
Yeah, looks like they shipped ~87 million of them, a bit more than the Xbox 360.
I'm happy with this, but cynical enough to expect $5.1B to turn into $10.2B for Palantir, X
It's not clear how north-south grid connections are supposed to address this. You can create a long-distance transmission line from New York to Florida, but it's winter in Florida at the same time as it's winter in New York. Can you create a long distance transmission line from New York to Brazil? Even if you could in theory, probably not in practice, and even regardless of the technical factors nobody is going to want that kind of cross-border dependency for something as important as heating.
> Why is the second set of parens necessary?

it distinguishes the bindings from the body.

strictly speaking there's a more direct translation using `setq` which is more analogous to variable assignment in C/Python than the `let` binding, but `let` is idiomatic in lisps and closures in C/Python aren't really distinguished from functions.
They use Customer Service as their domain example. This is an area that I've spent the last decade applying AI/NLP to. 99% of tasks in this domain are fully deterministic - get information about a product, place an order, cancel an order, get status on an order, process a return, troubleshoot a product, etc. These are all well-defined processes that should make use of orchestrated workflows that inject AI at the appropriate time (to determine the customer's intent using a classifier, to obtain information for slot-filling using NER, and lately to return information from a knowledgebase using RAG). Once we know what the customer wants to do and the information required, we execute the workflow. There's no reason to use an "autonomous agent" to engage in reasoning and planning. Unless we just want to drive up token costs for some reason.
You just posted a poll. From 2015 Of not even 50 economists. That’s not “the vast majority” of economists in any sense. They did no statistical analysis of who said what, so this isn’t even statistically valid poll. It’s just raw numbers, with self-selection bias.

They also vary widely in their comments on what they agree with. Even if you think I’m uncharitably reading your words, you’re entirely misreading the poll and the site you posted. You’re putting your words in their mouths.

“Long run fiscal sustainability in the US will require some combination of cuts in currently promised Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security benefits and/or tax increases that include higher taxes on households with incomes below $250,000.”

This poll question is biased and doesn’t include anything about whether taxes on those above $250k need to be increased. You’re, again, misreading the question that asked and adding in your own words about wealthy tax. There is nothing in that question that allows you to posit these polled economists don’t believe “that we can reach a fiscally sustainable path solely by raising taxes on the wealthy.”
Ah, my bad, I didn't understand the definition of many-core
It feels more dangerous, but that sense of danger is what improves safety. It's when people, especially drivers, feel comfortable that accidents increase; they let their guard down.

The US has dramatically higher rates of pedestrian and cyclist fatalities and injuries than Western European countries, both per capita and per kilometers walked and cycled, and that's presumably with those countries having more narrow roads.[1] See, e.g., https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5227927/ Japan falls somewhere between the US and EU. But since the elderly are at far higher risk of both injury and especially fatalities, the larger elderly demographic might have something to do with it.

That sense of danger is it's own legitimate issue, though, and as someone with two small kids I'm definitely a proponent of separating pedestrian and cyclist traffic from cars, and even cyclists from pedestrians.[2]

[1] The lived density in the US isn't that different from Europe. There's plenty of analysis showing that. But I haven't seen rigorous data and analysis comparing road layouts, traffic patterns, and their association with pedestrian and cyclist accidents rates writ large (as opposed to local studies), thus the conjecture.

[2] Cyclists in the US are incredibly aggressive. I've never been hit by a car, but I've been hit twice by cyclists while crossing the street, and nearly a third by one going so fast I definitely could have been killed. (It does happen--cyclists killing pedestrians, albeit usually the elderly.) Two of those three incidents the cyclist was going the wrong way down a one-way, and while ever since the first crash I habitually look both ways crossing a one-way, the third incident happened just as I was turning my head to look in the reverse direction while stepping off the curb--they were flying down the (flat) road the wrong way while also hugging the curb. (FWIW, I was crossing at a busy crosswalk downtown, not jaywalking.) While drivers are liable to be negligent, cyclists of all ages seem much more often to be wantonly reckless.
Reproducibility is at odds with Profile-Guided-Optimization. Especially on anything that involves networking and other IO that isn't consistent.
C nodes are under appreciated. We have one (Cgo) for communicating between Go and Elixir services running in the same Kubernetes pod. The docs are also pretty good for Erlang and its C libs.
From an audience perspective, if you use an AI generated site, I'm just assuming your product is shit. And not even because I'm opposed to the way AI is being used in many places (though I am) but for the same reason I don't buy products that advertise with shitty commercials that look like they were filmed in 2006 on a budget of $500. If you don't have a marketing budget for proper advertising, I'm assuming your product is some fly-by-night garbage that's likely to break on first use, if not an outright scam.

Is that fair? No probably not, but I don't know what to tell you. That's always been a rule of thumb for me: if the marketing presence of anything, services, products, tooling, what have you is cheaply/poorly made, I avoid it. I always have almost instinctively.
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