skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
have you tried Apple Maps lately. By me its 95-105% google map’s quality. And the Apple Maps app has way less ads and better UX. Really worth a shot.
I think developers in my experience are very clear communicators, and PMs & managers tend to be poor communicators or at least communicators who have goals very disaligned from that of the company.
It's absolutely not a fact.
> Put short, I cannot corroborate your experience at all.

Put short, you transpose your success to the whole universe.
So to modify my view, it would be that it works in the specific case of parasocial relationships but not for impersonal things like news.
One of the inherent problems with unsustainable free-money-fueled business is that it's inherently unsustainable.

It emerges, blows up, drives out the local / native / intrinsic business, industry, and culture, collapse, and disappears, leaving a vacated wasteland.

This is part of the overall cycle and criticism.

The one possible bright light is that there's been another cycle of infrastructure development which, if not obsoleted by recent developments (tech itself, shifting culture, COVID-19 / post-Covid, etc.), might be the fertiliser for a new round of growth, whether that's native/local or yet another over-inflated investment bubble.

There are of course regions which never did recover from previous booms, notably rustbelts throughout the world of previously-industrialised areas.
> "less vertical space" so let's have a hamburger menu on a desktop screen.

hamburger menu on desktop should be abolished
It isn't (the indicator for this is that Reeves is saying exactly the same thing).

It is hard to be brief but:

* Financial services - totally fucked, most of the VC funding in the UK comes from overseas investors because pension and insurance rules (that were largely adopted from Europe) mean that they have to own large amounts of govt bonds...the recent problems indicate how wise that was. Everything isn't working: retail, savings, banks, it is all not working.

* Planning - obviously...lots of countries have versions of this problem but it is becoming very problematic. Iirc, there was a recent infrastructure project that had to do a new environmental assessment (costing tens of millions) for every km of work they did...it isn't just housing, it is everything, it is all fucked.

* Healthcare - obviously...not going to say anything more but it is at the point where it is impacting the economy.

* Labour - again...do I need to say more? Look at what is happening right now.

* Education - again...do I need to say more? We have massive issues producing people with skills that employers require. There are other issues around this that relate to poor management and immigration, but schools are just bad (this is mentioned in the article to be fair but only from the perspective of too many politicians being from Eton...why can't they just...find people from journalism, who work at...the Economist say?).

* Housing - separate from just planning, there are specific rules within the housing market that cause distortions above the planning system failing to produce enough supply. For example, rent controls in Scotland...that caused a 40% drop in rental supply in two weeks, this is economic mismanagement on a grand scale.

* Local govt - needs fundamental reforms in multiple areas. Social care, planning, a lot of the new environmental rules are very dangerous (if people from outside the UK can believe it, some local councils are introducing rules which mean you will be fined if you exit your neighbourhood in a car to go to another part of the same city).

* Transport - almost everything isn't working properly. Road, rail, it is all gone. Almost all due to problems in other areas above but which will now require structural changes.

Btw, I don't know what planet you have to live on not to notice this stuff. I am in my mid-30s, every single job I have had things that impacted my ability to produce more output because of govt intervention. Every one. Once you see this stuff, you realise how bad it has become, every level of govt, every institution, it is everywhere.
You can improve your communication skills indirectly by brushing up your organization skills. No AI app needed.

For written communications, you can keep it short and point people's attention to a linked issue ticket, or a shared doc with the technical requirements. It is OK to keep emails short and let the recipient follow up if they have questions.

I find that communicating is a lot easier if both sides are on the same page more or less on what needs to be done. That's where organized documentation can help.
Have you tried writing and reading books first?
The only way to get better at writing is to write more. Reading also helps, but you need to read good writing.

I do more writing English these days than I do writing code and I'm here to say that writing is labor, just like coding is labor. The more you do it, the better you get. There are no shortcuts.
I worry about this risk a lot. There is no way to delete DMs on Twitter; even if you delete them they stay in the system so the other side of the conversation has them. To folks below saying "that was always true", yes, but I trusted the previous management of Twitter to not snoop on my private DMs. I do not trust the current owner the same way.

(I had a typo in my original comment btw; I said "surprising" but meant "unsurprising".)
Also, all the college classes and the bootcamps for programming are geared towards webdev. Skipping the largest desktop platform in the world with 80% market share, and 38% share overall for all OSes both mobile and desktop.
> This post is actually about validating a business idea

This message would be lost in a busy business world, which again suggest that the AI doesn't work and the problem lies elsewhere. My experience is as follows: open with the most important part first, then continue with the why. Almost nobody has time to read the finer print in the bottom of an email.
Bill Gates might be quietly boycotting Elon Musk's Twitter
There are also public sector unions which appear to only serve a special interest group at the expense of everyone else. Teacher unions are an example--they appear to protect bad teachers, stifle innovation, and it isn't even clear that they are great at getting pay for teachers.
Yep, like the people who say they are better than their coworkers and say unions would make them compensated less… USA propaganda succeeded… they don't even realise the enemy is their CEO.
agreed! not to take away from the win here for the filepicker -- thank you :)

but since fedora 37 scrolling is totally busted... think it only occurs on x (which i use over wayland for a dozen reasons). its pretty brutal tbh, scrolling is kind of... fundamental.
Thank you, I did not know about him, I'll look into that.
I’m very interested in Twitter alternatives, but would not click that link if it cost me to do so.

That feels like a bad sign for this model.
I was at one place where I kept a public blog about day to day stuff. I mean 'public' in the sense that it was internal, but I shared it with the team.

Meeting notes, any issues I hit, resolutions, etc. It wasn't necessarily something I posted to every single day, but at least weekly. Ended up being around 2-3x/week. Notes on why certain decisions were made, other options tried, etc. I had originally put some of this in comments, but was working some place where "comments in code are bad - remove them all - should be self-documenting" so... I needed to put them someplace.

I was lightly teased for keeping this log. Then I quit, and a couple folks told me they were still looking up things in my blog months after I left, as they couldn't tell why certain things were done. "Couldn't use X because person Y indicated we weren't paying for X, so I had to build a smaller Z version instead" - that type of thing.

It 'helped' some because we got a new dept manager in, say, June, and July was the time for all the 'end of fiscal year' review stuff. Dept manager had to do 10-12 staff reviews in... 3 weeks? He had no ability to contextualize most of anything, but I had a running history of months of issues, resolutions, meeting notes, conversations, and more.

I will say that was... over a decade ago, and I don't think I've been that diligent since. It was useful, but definitely more work than I would feel comfortable committing to again, at least with current workloads. The workload there was surprisingly... light enough such that I could keep docs as a regular part of week to week work.
Funny you ask this, I remember actually having a discussion about doing this, but for another reason - to avoid users losing their messages because they lost their keys. We ended up not doing it of course, it makes no sense to have e2ee if you're going to bypass it anyway... If you need to be able to access the data I think you should probably force your users to not use e2ee rooms...
FWIW: I've been working further on the above, though I'm waiting for my tweaks to stabilise before posting an update.
> ...the practice has a troubled history in the United States.

The practice is inconsistent with the ideals of the US, but highly consistent with the country as it pragmatically is.
Linus Torvalds Bashes Intel's Lam – Rejected for Linux 6.2
I worked at Microsoft 10 years ago and at the time Bing was still being pushed hard along with the new Windows phone.

The lack of geospatial was a major painpoint for both products but confusingly it's one they decided to not invest in.

I heard directly from the VP in charge of it why: open source maps were going to make Google maps irrelevant. We saw it with encarta and wikipedia he told me. Once the open source community gets its hands on something it becomes impossible to compete with.

A decade later Google maps still has no real competition.
If a "secret sauce feature" turns out to be generally useful with interest from multiple implementers, it can be standardized as an official ISA extension. If it doesn't, you're no worse off than if you used literally any other bespoke ISA - except that your vendor toolchains will likely be higher quality if they're built on a shared RISC-V base.
Self-Driving Cars Are Dangerously Confused by LED Lights
Social Blade confirms breach after hacker posts stolen user data
You could, in principle, use a hash table to implement what an LLM has 'learned' about token occurrences, but LLMs do not return the same response to a given prompt, while hash tables do. Consequently, Mjburgess' attempt to dismiss LLMs as mere hash tables is a flawed argument by analogy.

And even if it were a justifiable analogy for LLMs, it does not follow that it applies to Turing-equivalent devices in general. A hash table is unequivocally not a Turing-equivalent device, even though it can be implemented by one.

In fact, the more one argues that LLMs are ordinary technology, the greater the challenge they present to the notion that things like conversational language use are beyond such technologies. The most interesting thing about these models, in my opinion, lies in figuring out what their conceptual simplicity says about us.
IME most engineers < staff tend to have trouble “thinking clearly” vs writing well. Writing can always be improved, but you must start by understanding what you want to say and why.
My general rule of thumb is that I'm not going to tip to provide base compensation for someone's employees. That is their responsibility.

The one exception being wait staff who can deplorably earn a lesser minimum wage under the assumption that thier employers be allowed to dodge payroll and taxes by foisting it onto others.

When I do tip outside of the wait staff context it only for unexpectedly great service. I would never tip for someone just doing their job.

My wife and I argue about this frequently as she likes to tip seemingly everyone for everything.

Checkout cashiers at coffee shops are certainly the worst example of this in my opinion. I am explicitly asked to tip prior to knowing how long my order will take or if it is correct at all.

After that, it is the entire hotel industry that irks me. Guy at the curb, guy at the door, person checking me in, guy who wants to take my bags the gal who cleans my room. They all want a handout.

When was the last time your flight attendant or pilot asked for a tip? Anyone ever leave 10 bucks in the back of the seat pocket to thank the plane's cleaning crew?

Please properly compensate your staff so they dont grovel for money at my feet. It demeans them and makes me feel like a gross fat cat out of a Dickens story showering the plebs with coins as I walk about.
... when will the first AI get a credit card?
I don't want to bother. Manually creating a serial connection means it's more effort to hook up and the whole thing is larger, more fragile and less portable than necessary.

Might just be me, but I value the ability to quickly get started without a lot of setup and debugging hardware before getting to the software aspect. I don't want to keep the thing fully set up on my desk, I'd like to put it in a bag and get it out whenever I feel like it.

The WiFi capability may make this easier after the initial setup, but it's still an unnecessary hurdle.
Exactly! If conditions are so bad in a company that 99% of it's workers immediately sign on to a union then that means something very different than when you can only get 51% of workers to eventually sign on.

Collective bargaining is a escape valve against shit employers for employees that don't have a lot of options. A standing union with mandated membership and support from laws and regulations very easily becomes something far more twisted.
"Jeremy Corbyn 'most unpopular opposition leader of past 45 years', says poll"

https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/jeremy-corbyn-most...

I'm not sure it's really fair but that's kinda how the polls went.
The partner structure makes sense, I guess this will be the result:

- TomTom provides their mapping data (they already have fleets of cars, planes, people and relations to city planners, as well as live data for traffic conditions. They get some sort of monetization back as the market for navigation devices has all but collapsed over the last decade.

- AWS and Microsoft provide cloud services

- Microsoft and Meta bring reach to the new platform - MS has O365 Outlook and Meta with all their services that use maps integration

- Meta brings in a huge list of POI data and attendance information because almost all businesses still have (validated) Facebook pages with coordinates, and the Facebook app is notorious for being a data vacuum

- Linux Foundation coordinates dealing with FOSS projects, particularly OSM and desktop environments - the other companies aren't really the best in thinking in the same way as for-profit corporation

In the end, everyone brings in something valuable to the service, and gets something in return.
What makes you think Carmack is especially persuasive? Often, those with the best technical chops are the least persuasive and it seems misguided to think that the reason you can't persuade is because you are lacking technically.
I tried out Tom Waits's "The Piano Has Been Drinking", which it gets spectacularly wrong: https://www.songtell.com/tom-waits/the-piano-has-been-drinki...

It saddens me that we're entering into an age of infinite machine-generated bullshit (and here I mean "speech produced without regard for truth"). A lot of it has negative information value, kind of like how misshapen molecules can block cell receptors. I hope somebody is working on tools to detect AI-generated content so I can give it zero attention without having to dig through it.
I’m not sure only trusting people you know in real life would be a bad thing.

The internet has disconnected most from their surroundings and community.

If this new AI makes people seek out and trust only those they know it may reconnect people into their physical lives.

…And create a deeper distrust of technology.
TLDR (at the end): "Certainly the CL approach carries more historical baggage."

> Combining the empty list and the special false object can lead to particularly good implementations perhaps.

I suppose they wanted the null pointer to represent them both in RAM, because every CPU has an instruction to test whether a value is zero, or even a flag that is set for free when you encounter the value.
>not a failure of voters

I disagree. That Brexit was a massive con was obvious to anyone paying the slightest bit of attention. But the electorate voted for it anyway.
He didn't move to California to start a hedge fund, he had a Green Card because he went to Stanford, and his wife's family has a house there.
I think the biggest and most obvious when it goes wrong factor is.

That electronic calenders are less intentional people chuck over potential times and I don't necessarily consider if they are practical slots. Often I have multiple, up to five, conflicts with various meetings automatically appear in my calender.

If I personally write it into my calender I have a stronger connection with the decision to attend or act at that time. And I just have a better sense in my mind of what that means in terms of that's in a fortnight, that's the day before Christmas etc.

But what's come up in these replies is I'm also at a different team structure that my previous experience with Google calendars. Maybe I'm just not good in a large workforce Vs in a small 5 person team in a 20 office.
I share your frustration, particularly since one could add a canonical false value to CL in a backwards-compatible way. But it's too late now.

But as a practical solution you could de-serialize false into, say, :false, in order to distinguish them from empty lists, and then do a post-processing step to turn those into nils if you wanted to.
To the downvoters: please complement your downvotes by explaining where I'm wrong in my analysis. In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve (https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_de_Maistre slightly misquoted but still valid). If true, how can I not take aim at the electorate for their failure?
That's because the winning side won. It's very short sided. That may be fine for now, but just imagine future elections, when those FBI agents have a different narrative they wish to enforce. It really is not that hard to imagine.
NABU Computer's Bad Apple with Music
See Youtube description (I am just sharing this, not involved in the production)
I think that’s the point. Workers want to be paid more if they feel like they are more deserving.
Isn't the core problem VR. It will never fly. I remember I had some glasses that you put your phone in. Worked perfectly. But VR is even more annoying than home 3D movies.
But don't worry, instead they connected the MIPI CSI to.. the USB-C connector?
If it were up to me, I'd make the market a series of batch executions, every 30 seconds... 20 seconds of open for orders, 5 seconds to actually compute the transactions, and 5 seconds to send out the results, and then repeat.

Completely eliminate the idea of high frequency frontrunning.
Show HN: Textual Markdown – a Markdown “browser” in the terminal
Hi HN,

This is a TUI app which displays interactive Markdown documents. Interactive in the sense that you can scroll code fences / tables / and click links. There's a Table of Contents extracted from the MD, and a very rudimentary browser like forward + back.

I'm thinking it could be the starting point for a variety of hypertext like applications in the terminal.

Very much a work in progress.
It's essentially a marketing service provider.
One of them knows how but plays along. Cicada 3301 here we come.
> failure of imagination

10x. I think we should have a target of some percentage being able to be completely met by solar. Until we are literally drowning in free energy we don't know what to do with we don't have an oversupply. There are so many industries which were never electrified that need to be.

This ruling is so damn short sighted for so many reasons. Rooftop solar is the single best way to stave off upgrading the big power distribution lines, generated at the edge, used at the edge.

A year from now PGE is going to say we need XXX billions to upgrade the backbone due to increased electrification.

My central gas heater is running right now, there is no reason that a thermal reservoir couldn't have been charged during the day that I can use a 730am.

5G should have included a mandatory, public cert based low bitrate M2M network.

> Give me mobile electricity - if my solar panel is generating 5KW at home, give me the same electricity for free

Genius! Decouple transit from consumption fully. Greatly increase, mandate even, the points of consumption.

I'd like to see people charge at work, and drive the energy they need overnight back home with them.
Hmm.

I dunno radios (skipped that class way back in college). I'm guessing that although 802.11 and Zigbee use 2.4 Ghz, you might need 2x radios physically tuned for the correct frequencies, and listening at the same time.

Looks like channel 1 802.11 is different than channel 15 Zigbee for instance, so bridging the two might need two different radios.

So you'd need a 802.11 radio + Zigbee Radio working as a team (even if ESP32 has enough CPU power to handle both, there are likely physical limitations to radio designs).

And I'm pretty sure that the radios use more power than the microcontroller in any case.

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In any case, there seem to be many 802.11 to Zigbee bridges already available. So you should only attempt the project as a learning experience.
Am I understanding correctly that these new fields must be included as part of the "issue" record, not as a record of its own? Right now, I have:

===

# dig CAA hass.a-rwx.org +short

0 iodef "mailto:admin@lesaker.org"

0 issue "letsencrypt.org"

0 issuewild ";"

===

Can I add an additional TXT record for "validationmethods=dns-01", or do I need to append it to the "issue" record?
But that's the thing, meritocracy isn't a thing, and saying no to more protections (from unions or from pro-worker laws) just doesn't make sense. Granted there was some things I didn't know about how unions worked in the US, which I learned more about in this thread, but the same questions remain for pro worker and worker protection laws, why do Americans oppose them so much.
This article puts together two graphs and absolutely give no backing as to which one is the causation of the other beyond "see?" or if there's any backing model for their correlation than one could go and test.

This is sensationalistic propaganda, not research.
But how? Many poems don't rhyme, but there's no outward way to tell. And to parse linguistic texts it would need to know the phonetic alphabet, which I assume it doesn't.
Yep. It's probably the case that one should have a more complicated serializer / deserializer for JSON in CL (one that takes into account the expected JSON datatypes) because JSON is yet another type and value system from Scheme's and CL's, but there's an isomorphism from the Scheme one to the JSON one and there's no such similar isomorphism for the primitive CL types (though were one so inclined, one could certainly build one in one's own application).

I'd be willing to argue that this is indicative of JSON's unnecessary complexity (inherited from its source language... why does JavaScript need a false and an empty array and a null and even an undefined?), but reasonable developers can disagree on that point.
Leading Sanskrit experts have described Rajpopat's discovery as "revolutionary" and it could now mean that Pāṇini's grammar can be taught to computers for the first time.

While researching his Ph.D. thesis, published today, Dr. Rajpopat decoded a 2,500 year old algorithm that makes it possible, for the first time, to accurately use Pāṇini's "language machine."

https://phys.org/news/2022-12-ancient-grammatical-puzzle-yea...
The Control Strip in System 7 predates the Start button and taskbar found in Windows 95. If we go back further, NeXTSTEP introduced the dock and let’s not forget that AmigaOS and RISC OS both had very similar functionality too, along with others that I’m forgetting that all predate Windows 95.