skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Generating JSON Schemas from TypeScript
The real question is why does a service require a specific program to use it.
I have to say I was very impressed when I tried out Budibase and was able to create a CRUD app out of the box without looking at docs. You guys are easier to use than Retool — and self hostable/open source!!

i have no idea what it's like to work on this problem for 2 years but really looking forward to see what you become. the youtube updates are super helpful btw pls keep that up
The Problem with Exceptional People
Ask HN: How do you invest in yourself?
Not to mention that many folks (including a lot of HN -- see: the recent thread on the ACLU) seem to be fighting to the death for the right to spread holocaust denialism and misinformation.
Notepad++ with the XML plugins was amazing when I had to maintain 43 XSLT files and massive amounts of XML data. Glad to see they are still doing well.
There are plenty and it happens over and over again. TikTok is notably one of the biggest recent ones.

You build something that a few people really love, as opposed to something that everyone likes. Facebook did this with colleges. Pinterest with sharing. TikTok with content micro-creation.

Facebook throws a lot of money into trying to pin TikTok but it's doing poorly because it fails to understand why and because they try too hard to appeal to the mainstream. It's promoting sexy dance videos on its Reels, and the data supports this for obvious reasons. But TikTok has been more about the enjoyment of dancing with others, rather than ogling dancers.

Clubhouse had a good run but also went through the lifecycle of social media. At some point it goes from fun and happening to overpopulated and toxic, and unless quality control can catch up, it collapses.
AI assisted virtual Doctor > No Doctor
> AAA games as of late are even more rigid as they aim for realistic-looking characters, save for monster-design. So you get the same brown-haired 6ft tall white guy hero in 90% of games.

I dunno if that even qualifies as a style for FPS games, let alone AAA games in general.

Overwatch, Gears of War, Halo, Team Fortress 2, Destiny, and Splatoon all have distinctive art styles.

Sure, some games take inspiration / style from other games (ex: Fortnite clearly is going for Overwatch's style). Call of Duty vs Battlefront both also take from each other pretty severely.

But there's more to AAA games than just Activision or EA Games.
Do you have any direct suggestions?
How is this not strictly worse than money? It’s like money but not fungible.
V8 is really an engineering marvel, making such a high-level, dynamically typed language as fast as it is.

I see people talking about WASM and “why bother with JS at all”, but keep in mind that JS code is more expressive than WASM, so if you’re aim is to minimize costs you still save bandwidth using JS over WASM. You could argue that it’s negligible or worth the performance increase, but if you’re a big site the cost savings add up, right?

Also, JS is of course widely used outside of the browser, and there’s a reason it got so popular: it lets you focus on the domain instead of all the other stuff. I can’t think of another mainstream language I’d rather use to prototype and algorithm, application, system, whatever. And the fact that V8 makes it so fast is the reason people just stick with JS. Gradual typing with TS eliminates the only remaining downside (dynamic typing and a big code base).
I think it makes sense when it's simply describing that you don't manage the server.
Our collective productivity has increased almost 3x since 1950. That 40 hr/week could be 13 for everyone but people choose not to structure their lives that way.
It’s Time to Ditch the Abundance Mindset – It Paves the Way to Inequality
Oh right. I didn't think about the extra time that signal propagation through a big ugly ROM would take.

I my comment earlier about EDA tools being able to "simplify" the ROM into the die was probably a paraphrasing of what I was told about a tool.
The tool (or workflow) allowed a designer to go from a working prototype microcode ROM to a hardcoded gate circuit (presumably by the same sort of process that one can go through to simplify a logic statement that is in disjunctive-normal form).

This was information passed on to me second hand from quite a few years back now so I probably should've tried to look up some primary sources before writing my comment! Oh well.
The Bank of England says 'stablecoin' payments need same rules as banks
Please report this to Apple; the AASP was not following the rules.
Most people use their visual cortex to see what they are typing, though.

EDIT: I mean, on the screen (and perhaps some on their keyboards).
Show HN: InstaNote – notes in a simple chat interface
(https://www.instanote.io)

Hey HN, founder here. I announced this first on HN a few months ago that got a bunch of interest. It has grown a lot since then: I’ve made many improvements, added paid subscriptions, and the app hit 100k+ downloads on Android recently. There’s a growing list of subscribers supporting development.

This started as a iOS app to build what I personally wanted for these reasons:

* There are many tools for complex note taking and project organization, but they don’t make it easy for quickly noting down thoughts. I wanted a fast way to write something down, and an interface like chat seemed most appropriate. I’ve seen many people use chat apps to achieve these things in roundabout ways but they don’t support everything I wanted.

* Keeping track of things over time isn’t easy in other note-taking apps. InstaNote has threads and I personally use them to track my weight and pictures over time. Super easy to see trends.

* Most tools don’t have the flexibility of reminders that I wanted. InstaNote has one-time reminders + reminders repeating daily, weekly, monthly, with multiple snooze options. I have 10+ repeating reminders set for myself (this surprised me too!). All reminders can be ported to a new device when you login with one click.

* Everyone saves a ton of links. Without link previews (like those shown in chat apps), saved links are really hard to browse and find. InstaNote shows link previews which make browsing and searching a lot easier.

* Sharing notes also works great in a chat-like UI.

* CSV copy of notes: Subscribers get a CSV copy of their notes on email with one click in the app (available on Android, upcoming on iOS but emailing support@instanote.io will work in the meantime). I want users to use the product because they find it useful, not because their data is locked in.

Many app subscribers have given great feedback over the last couple of months. Would love to hear feedback from the community.
That's a pretty optimistic take given their past history with big shifts like this. Maybe they will start by using cells from their partners, though.
This comment seems rather vague and general. Could you provide an example where you’ve used this technique?
Some form of appeal to the rights of the individual is the cry of every political minority until it seizes power.

Some of the group's members might actually be pluralist civil libertarians at heart.

But this news demonstrates that the vast majority are not. They were authoritarians in libertarians' clothing, and today's political environment is woke enough for them to swap out their duds.
I also found the balance of the book refreshing, and took the lack of "character development" as instead a sign of his intense focus on the problems at hand. It actually made it more plausible to me that he survived - sure, if he'd spent many sleepless martian nights agonizing and introspecting it could have made for more drama, but his optimism and ingenuity would have been less believable, and ultimately had he survived it would feel more fantastic than earned.
Direct link: https://www.instanote.io
I’m confused. It seems like she read a book that didn’t fit into her preconceived notion of what the world should look like. It’s true, Tim Ferris does not focus on broad macro strategies to free everyone from wage slavery. Instead he chooses to focus on small micro adjustments that are within many people’s power. I’d argue the latter approach is far more likely to increase your personal well being.
FDA approves Biogen’s Alzheimer’s drug, the first therapy in nearly two decades
Where do you get that confidence? Reading the article, I'm mostly seeing somewhat deliberately hyped-up claims and hand-wavey references to AI, neither of which give me much confidence in this tech taking a tremendous leap anytime soon. Still very impressive, but as someone who knows nothing about the tech, I'm not sure why I should expect it to improve so quickly?
He's against a lot of things - not just authoritarianism.

Are you confident you'll remain on the "good side" of his politics forever?
Thanks for reminder. I am sleeping less these days, I guess most of us aren't sleeping/resting enough.
Again, there’s no judicial review. If you take the communist government to court because they violated the law, the court can’t make the government do anything.

The laws are only to promote production to increase the country's productive output. At any time the government can strip you of your property and redistribute it... which HAS happened numerous times already, without recourse, not appropriate compensation.

How can you possibly argue that faux property laws mean the country is not socialist??

The sooner the wider community accepts that China is a totalitarian regime with a long term communist agenda, the sooner we can stop allowing them to take advantage of the international community.

Property theft, land and sea right violation... corporate espionage. All are part of the official Chinese communist party aims.

> Yet China’s courts cannot invoke the constitution in rulings, so such a change will offer limited legal protection to peasants

https://www.cfr.org/blog/chinas-retrograde-rural-land-polici...

How China’s Legal System Enables Intellectual Property Theft

https://thediplomat.com/2020/11/how-chinas-legal-system-enab...

Human Rights Practices: China

https://www.state.gov/reports/2020-country-reports-on-human-...
The audience reading the book is already filtered (probably) to people that would make this unnecessary, but for the joey beercans of the world that would never read a book (let alone this one) but watch the movie might actually find Glover's explanation still hard to understand.

That scene always made me laugh but more for the Project Elrond bit. Seeing as Boromir has to explain the meaning.
> Apple should implement a "send for service" option that configures the device so that service can be done without exposing the customer's information.

except that doesn't solve the problem if your phone is broken and you can't enable that option.
What I got from your reply is that your samples of socialism are only confined to China. I don't recognize it to be the same as for something like European socialism, China's "socialism" just a name that the CCP would like call themselves ( and this by definition is a propaganda ).

>And READ the educational material before commenting!

Seems like a real condescending way to reply.
> Invariably the point was how much war sucks.

My experience has been that when I meet people who saw actual combat, they invariably focus on how much it sucks. The folks who glorify it seem to always be the people who never experienced it first hand.
I agree, I find the first page is about the right length to get right. (first page is generally half a page). The first sentence needs to set a scene, and so it can't give enough information about the future action or if I will even care about the people. If you are a bad author I'll know in the first few paragraphs, but never after one sentence.
>At the time it was kind of an open secret in the industry.

So is there any 'open secret in the industry' about the current chip shortage, that I'm unaware of?
I buy uranium developer/producer miners and wait for the profit.
First new Alzheimer treatment in 20 years approved
How does it compare to FancyZones that comes with Windows PowerToys?
Wouldn’t bombing the camp kill the prisoners? Or are you suggesting that they could have successfully bombed and “incapacitated” the camp without killing the prisoners? How exactly?
Apple shut down my iCloud account for five days, no warning, no explanation
We’re Living in the Age of Downward Mobility
your question reads like you're saying it's the victim's fault
"AI" can't even perform as well as humans (despite plenty of promises) in a field like radiology. The idea of an AI family doc system or ER doc system actually making diagnoses (instead of being a glorified productivity tool*) is downright hilarious. Lots and lots of luck interpreting barely coherent, contradictory and often misleading inputs from patients, dealing with lost records or typos, etc.

Doctors don't get paid the big bucks for rule-based solutions based on rote memorization. They get paid the big bucks to understand when it's inappropriate to rely on them.

* which IS a worthy goal to aspire to and actually helpful
Feeling Blah During the Pandemic? It's Called Languishing
Agreed,that's why most AI/ml in radiology is limited to critical findings, identifying acute areas for the radiologist to review, it's not making a diagnosis of it.

And on the EHR/history side, there's ML starting to be used to organize and highlight relevant info so the rad doesn't have to go searching for it.

These are both tools for the radiologist to interpret exams faster, and more accurately.

It's not taking them out of the picture.

Eventually likely to happen... But not where "AI" is today
I'll second the other Gen z person in the replies and say that lots of us hate thumb typing and if we're going to generalize across every single living person by one factor, my experience is that typing speed goes down with age.
"One of just 69 men in his 12,000-strong division to survive the war"

The Soviets suffered a horrific toll in WWII. 25 million dead is an unimaginable number.
Why would they do that? I mean what was the point of posting the pictures to her own account?
I would much rather have a native (and M1 ready) client for Teams and Discord than the Electron apps. Electron is good for end users via Nativefier, though. I can pop together a sandboxed app, invokable like any other program on my computer, for work-related sites that I want absolutely segregated from my daily browsing habits (and thus political, religious, and personal opinions).
Just pull the storage out

Oh wait.
Funny enough Louis Rossman, a person I'm sure many people here look up to with regards to his commitment to fight for right to repair, made a video on this exact subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt3YSD36ZNc

I really resonate with his opening point; that somehow there's this belief that the "authorised man can't be a creep". This same logic I see paraded about across a number of other sectors to discredit small businesses and institutions.
International travel is already so easy these days that spies and saboteurs have no trouble entering any country they want.

But OK, so let's scratch the "and forget about them" part. Have the counterintelligence agency keep their details in their database, and warn them that they won't get security clearance in the next decade or three. This won't discourage anyone who's eager to escape their home country.
Semantic Search with S-BERT is all you need
This might be true on the device, but if it's synced with iCloud the rules[0] are different.

> iCloud secures your information by encrypting it when it's in transit, storing it in iCloud in an encrypted format, and using secure tokens for authentication. For certain sensitive information, Apple uses end-to-end encryption. This means that only you can access your information, and only on devices where you’re signed into iCloud. No one else, not even Apple, can access end-to-end encrypted information.

> End-to-end encryption requires that you have two-factor authentication turned on for your Apple ID. Keeping your software up-to-date and using two-factor authentication are the most important things that you can do to maintain the security of your devices and data.

Then it lists what is end-to-end encrypted when the criteria is met, mail, photos, messages are not listed.

[0] https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT202303
I went to an Apple certified repair shop to fix my macbook. They asked me for my login password...

Sure let me just give access to all my banking apps, photos, browser sessions etc...

I ended up creating a guest account for them but i was surprised they didn't have a policy not to access private user data or ask for passwords.
We buy a lot of seagate drives .... over the past few years in the 8, 10, 12 and now 16 tb capacities.

I have never put any stock in this Ford vs. Chevy argument with hard drive manufacturers. Any of them are One model away from having a deathstar.

We proof the drives fairly extensively and burn them in for long periods before deploying them. That has Worked out well.
An electron app, Visual Studio Code, is displacing notepad++. I was an avid notepad++ user for years but now I just use VS Code because it's easier/faster and more familiar since I use it for most other development.

Cross platform ability just clinches it.
It seems to escape English writers (at least at college level) that different ways of writing have different meanings and connotations, which may be necessary in some situations. Another example is the passive voice that is derided in college circles as if there was no good way to use it (yes, there are many).
How could it? We find most things we're capable of finding. Medicine needs more treatments, cures, and prevention techniques, not more diagnosis.
The story doesn't mention anything about any criminal charges.

The only reason they got caught is because they uploaded the pictures/videos to her Facebook. If they had sent them to a porn site instead they would have gotten away with it. The grandparent is largely correct, if sexually explicit photos/videos of you make it onto a digital device controlling their distribution is difficult at best.
I'm not sure, I didn't see the nominative determinism comment until I posted my own link.

From my POV, I like seeing comments that facilitates exploration into an observation so was happy to share the link!
I wasn't alive in the 70s, but it feels like there's a counter-bias against expert systems borne out of those failures.

"If you're putting in rules, you're don't know how to build models."

But that's probably the difference between people having success with "AI" and banging their heads against the wall: do what works for your use case!
The Soviets also had women fighting alongside the men. I can't recommend this book highly enough:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/540744/the-unwomanl...
My bad. I don't know why I remember it as wrapping around LibCST.
What will become of all the memories?

Are they to scatter with the dust in the breeze?

Who will stand before the world, knowing what to say

When the very last survivor fades away?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XcyeXd7Takk
Uptime 15,364 days – The Computers of Voyager
> Those who don’t do this are seen as underperforming.

Or: your employer does not value your time enough to grant on the job training time (aka what Google's 20% used to be).

This is exactly why a hard, legally mandated and enforced working hours cap is needed - to prevent people from self-exploiting themselves and their employer reaping the gains while those with a social life or a family get left behind.

> When a sizable fraction of researchers are in the lab 80 hours a week because they actually love their science that much

Or they are in the lab for such long times because they are understaffed as hell, underfinanced, and under constant pressure to pump out "research" of any quality to chase tiny grants? And most of them only put up with this bullshit because they are afraid of their 1-year (or shorter!) contracts not being extended, leaving them unemployed?

No one except a very few select top researchers actually wants that life style that is incompatible with any form of social life.

And for what it's worth: people died by the thousands literally fighting to their death a hundred years ago to force employers and the government to introduce worker protections. The way how tech and academia treats that sacrifice is frankly disgusting.
Stop defending censorship.
1970's disk drive wouldn't seek
I once sent in a ThinkPad for repair and Lenovo explicitly mentioned that I should remove any drives from the device before shipping it. I really think this should be the standard for fixing hardware issues.

Edit: This was during the times when even a layman could do it because drives were in a slot secured by a single screw. These days it might be more complex.
> .. but the inefficiencies of technology .. can't always be resolved by technology alone

Technology will always resolve inefficiencies of technology. Check your mobile in your pocket, and mobile in the 90's.
I'm not defending the comment you replied to, but the privacy vs. performance aspect of the browser landscape seems like a reasonable tangent to me. After all, it's not far fetched that improvements like this are partly motivated and funded by the prospect of funneling users into a browser built by a company that's thirsting for your data.
It's not about "poor performance", in the same way as poor IDE performance isn't really the root cause of my laptop's stubborn inability to write good Python code. Radiology is about using a generalist medical education to diagnose (or be instrumental in diagnosing) patients. Pattern matching or statistical information are a rather modest subset of that skillset.
Title doesn't tell the half of it. "Personal images" are photos of your kids playing in the backyard, or dinner with your extended family.

What they stole here was much more intimate than that.
Censorship is also easier when you have an AI to blame the "mistake" on.
I started appreciating single duty snippets of code instead of creating large abstractions that tie together multiple snippets of code that all work together. I do this to set myself up for success. (Think of it as making the rungs on a ladder closer together).

I haven't fully gone no-code[0], but I am close to it. I also do this to avoid the burnout trap. Working on large projects is physically and mentally taxing and it's only over longer periods, you find the project is actually an insurmountable task.

Then on top of this, FOSS is never finished. Only few projects have a finished feel to them, and even those require modifications and upgrades. This is why forking dead projects is always a great idea, and why FOSS succeeds.

[0] https://bubble.io/blog/no-code-manifesto/
This graph only covers the last decade, but it's enough to show that the trend for Mozilla ends in irrelevance. I personally think it's already there, but I wanted to keep my original post a little more pragmatic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#/m...

How can you look at that graph and say "you got this, Mozilla"?

I personally think a big part of the problem is that part where you said they implement "most of the web standards". Most isn't good enough, especially when the web standards are growing. We need the web standards to grow so that web applications can successfully compete with apps in walled-garden app stores. That's what I care about. I care about not being beholden to Apple, Facebook, and Google taking a cut of my revenue or having a say in what content I publish.

I have apps that would be hobbled to the point of being nearly unusable because of missing web standards in Firefox. I can release very high-tech apps in Chromium-based browsers that can go toe-to-toe with native apps on features and performance. I can't do that in Firefox, both because they have given up on several platforms that I care about and because they are falling behind on web standards on the other platforms that are left.