skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34112548
> Stand here with no shoes

They now sell you a solution to bypass that step.

Surely a little background check proves your shoes are safe.
When I was with Accenture I booked multistop flights to get my star alliance frequent flyer status sooner.

This year I just went to random European locations doing wfh vacations (not telling my company because it would have needed approval).

I really, really don‘t want to queue for security checks with the dirty masses and their nasty offspring.

Good times.
Conversely a phone will get you "acceptable" quality very reliably, whereas something like my Canon 5D (outdated now I know) always felt like a complete wildcard, and since I don't know photography, not worth the hassle at all.

Which is to say: my phone will reliably get me a perfectly good image even blown up in size for viewing - which is to say, no blurriness under most conditions. My 5D wants me to account for all sorts of stuff, and then I still wind up with a blurry image or can't tell if I got the focus dead on for sharpness or a dozen other things.

I think that's largely because the post-image review on dedicated cameras sucks, whereas phone screens are high resolution with pinch-to-zoom so you can actually inspect the output quite quickly. I am very surprised no one's cottened onto making a higher-end camera which slots a phone right onto the back so you can real-time view what you've just taken a picture of to check it came out okay, because it's the biggest flaw.
Like anything else, taking flights is a skill, improved by repetition, insight and effort
"cannot" and "should not" are not the same argument. (hell, even "doesn't need to be, and yet bullies will" is not the same argument)

As for facilitation: I think you're not thinking very deep about what it takes to ensure non-English speakers are treated decently.
Not OP, but Radiolab did an episode years ago on this topic called: Eye in the Sky. They have some strong evidence and interview some companies that do exactly what the commenter is discussing in other countries.

Original episode (2015): https://radiolab.org/episodes/eye-sky

Follow-up (2016): https://radiolab.org/episodes/update-eye-sky
Many such cases...
The sad thing is that I can't tell if you're talking about Uber/Lyft or traditional taxi companies. Neither are exactly immune to shadiness and outright criminal behavior.
It's accessible in that you don't need to be terminally ill or get your doctor's permission. If you want Dignitas to kill you, they will.
Every year this war lasts will diminish the dependency of the West on Russian gas/oil, so there's that.
> Supporting these drivers required the addition of an “OpenBSD compatibility layer”, which builds on top of the existing FreeBSD compatibility layer.

This doesn't look very good, in my opinion. While having working WiFi is important, stacking compatibility layers is not a good architectural decision.
> Would I be correct in assuming that you are coming at this conversation having never tried Meson?

I tried to port the project I've previously mentioned here from CMake to Meson build, but could not find a way of doing it with Meson build in a satisfactory way.

The lack of user-defined functions is a show stopper because I have a complicated multis-stage build process. It is also very different between platform. Having to repeat parts of this process is disqualifying.

A programming language, and a build language is a programming language, without user-defined functions is unfit for human consumption.
How did you end up in this thread?
Same here. Looks like they fixed it. (Hi, you.com engineering!)
Only when someone figures out what the fair price actually is. Which depends of course on who is doing the accounting and when/if mark to market actually happens (which doesn’t necessarily need to, for most entities).
So Graham Hancock was right
No.

I mean yes, cops are mostly above the law, and in the US they definitely murder enough (disproportionately PoC) people without consequences to be a problem.

But in this case police are being told their are people with guns threatening to kill people, which is exactly the case where police are ostensibly justified in using force.

Police killing a swatting victim is meaningfully difference from police making up a fake claims to get a warrant, breaking down a door without notice, and then shooting at anyone who moves, or pulling someone over, asking if they have a gun, and then shooting them if they say yes, etc
I'm imagining a world where Ask Jeeves actually worked.
Honestly Altavista would have been ‘code red’ for Google if it still existed. There is nothing but SEO spam on Google nowadays. They basically have a few niche areas where they rank sites like stackoverflow and wikipedia the highest and everything else is total dumpster fire.

There is a search monopoly and its villain is resting on its laurels.
thanks, 1 hour was obviously enough to figure this out.

time is just tight and it's hard for new things like meson or the rest of 20 different build systems to stand out, unless they're really simple/quick to take on I guess.
Apes and Kitten in the Music Industry
Deliberation about NFT utility in the music industry
Toptal has a wide variety of work, not really many big names that I've seen. A lot of MVC-type stuff, six-month-ish projects, and also a number of long-term contracts. You apply to be considered for a project with a 200 word description of why you are a good choice, if you get shortlisted the company has a half-hour chat with you, and if they like you, you're in. The chat has rarely been technical, I'm kind of surprised.

I don't see how general advice is going to help you, though. My general advice is: update your resume to highlight themes in areas you want to work, discipline yourself to apply to one or two jobs every M, W, and F, and practice algorithms for interviews. I expect that's not going to be very helpful for you, though, since I assume you're already doing that.
They have a CEO with a lifetime worth of experience clawing back ill-gotten gains. I read that on Enron he was able to recover 52% of the money for creditors.
A few reasons.

1. I tested it by asking it to write Python scripts around an area where I consider myself to be a domain expert - AWS and the Python script was correct. I asked it to make changes and the changes were correct.

2. I gave it some Python scripts I wrote using the AWS SDK and it described what it did as well as I would expect in an interview. On top of that, I asked it why I would use it and the purpose of one of the methods. The method was trying to determine whether it was running from the root account or a delegate account.

It has to run slightly different depending on where it’s running from (Cloudformation stacksets). It answered the question as well as I would expect an interview candidate to.

The answers to my questions - write code to do $x was proven correct by the Python interpreter.

I also asked it generic AWS questions like I would in an interview. I knew the answers.

If you look for a random high school math word problem on the internet. It won’t just tell you the answer, it will tell you how it derived it.

I haven’t used it for random search. I had it open and was using it to generate code and documentation for a project I was working on.
The fact that such people exist is unsurprising - and it concerns me.

The fact that one doctor has confirmed he meets one (of several) criteria (which is physical suffering due to a disability that is intolerable and cannot be relieved) is a factoid.

At this point he has not been approved, and in the state I live in, on the face of the article, would not be approved, at the very least not without the intervention of counseling and effective welfare assistance.

You're correct, this is the exact kind of story scary right wing monsters amplify and use to suggest that any day now we'll be stacking the corpes of the homeless in carts and rolling them off to the landfill.

I'm guessing their endgame here is improve support for the homeless?

Yeah, .. right.
Trusted enough that user chose to install it.
Not if we are talking game consoles. Sony and Microsoft sell them at a loss and then recoup that loss with a cut from game sales.
This is unrelated, but I just had to look up "daring" vs "derring" and unearthed a factoid others may enjoy.

Apparently the technically correct spelling is "derring" because of a 16th century misprint.

Perhaps being technically correct is not the "best kind of correct" this time.
Perhaps. I have several friends who have started ventures in the multi-hundred-million to low single-digital-billion-dollar range in various industries. All of them brought technology into traditionally low-tech industries. Some took on a lot of VC, but some grew organically:

- In some contexts, consulting is an easy way to get started building a product, to avoid needing much external investment. In others, it's a trap and a distraction which will prevent you from focusing on building a product.

- An initial product can stagnate into a lifestyle business / living dead (a business which pays the bills, but never grows beyond a few $M), or it can have a pathway into a larger market.

Technology (and not just software) is eating the world, and those pathways do exist. A lot of industries are being disrupted by technology plays. The connection is strategy. You want a good beachhead which has a nice growth path to a larger market, and ideally one no one is targeting.

There are risks from point A to point B to point C, of course, with strategy, execution, timing, luck, etc., and plenty companies cap out at much less, but plenty of them make it too.

What I'm a bit surprised at, thinking through this, is the number of times I've seen this sort of play work. I know at least a half-dozen companies in the >>$100M range where I know the CEO pretty well as a friend. All of those did take external investment at some point, but a few, much less than you'd expect.
https://krateatthegrove.com/

https://maps.app.goo.gl/ZZfM1V3stWtEQCHQ7 (check out the photos from the reviews)
This article misses the point. Its not about the developers, its about the people driving the developers.

If you take anti-trust, wiretapping, and other existing laws like the constitution and applied it rigorously you wouldn't have these issues.

These companies have been allowed to spy on their customers as an indirect arm of government without being held to the same laws governments are held to, and worse to make a profit off it (i.e. 4th Amendment).

If you take government money out of the monetization game, and enforce existing laws like anti-trust, this behavior goes away almost immediately because there is no financial incentive and many disincentives (i.e. prison and fines).

Its not like this hasn't happened in the past. Read up on the Stasi, and other socialist systems. You see the same fundamental problems going back thousands of years on that side of the economic system.

You either have one of two factors driving economies. The division of labor which historically protects and rewards people for being ingenuous with strong property rights, and Corruption which offers incentive to a small group of people to make a system work.

The former is self-moderating as long you don't have a Ponzi or Fraud going on, and the latter is unstable over time because people get old, age and die eventually, and competence isn't rewarded.
I once worked in job which included constant travel. More than once I saw one of my colleagues take a flight the wrong way around the earth-- e.g. flying London to DC via Japan-- in order to get the miles they needed to maintain their status.

Being on an airplane has always made me feel a little ill (from fumes or reduced air pressure?)-- even though at one point I was regularly flying cross country multiple times per week, so I can't imagine voluntarily spending more time in one than strictly necessary.

Last night we watched "Up in the Air" (don't believe the claims that it's a comedy-- it's a drama, and a good one) and I found its depiction of a life of constant air travel and people in the milage rat race quite familiar.
IIRC there is indeed a driver-owned co-op in NYC. Really hope it catches on.

If any such prospective co-ops need a developer, hit me up.
It would be great if when clicking through the link, the relevant text could be highlighted in the webpage, similar to the featured snippets in Google search. E.g. when searching "What were the causes of the swiss civil war?" Google returns:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Swiss_Confederacy#:~:text=....
> Deregulation has saved lives just as regulation has.

I don't disagree. I'm more an Adam Smith guy. Low regulation is good, but that doesn't mean zero. Zero regulation is just as terrible as the government picking winners and losers. These discussions require a lot of nuance. I, and I'm assuming many others, read your comment as a very typical libertarian "free market" (but like communism, has "never really existed"), as your comment doesn't even hint at a nuance. I tried to allude to this in mine with my comment about the incredible complexity of our modern world, but I guess this too was missed. So I hope that is abundantly explicit now.
Show HN: Snake in ~50 readable lines of JavaScript
Nah, it gets 10x fewer fps in anything, if you can even run it. Laughable comparison, really, given the disparity of the two.

This isn't an ARM vs AMD64 competition where Apple has a 40 year instruction set advantage it can exploit. The 3090 is nearly state of the art.
> software actually becoming less efficient?

I'd argue that software is becoming worse in some ways. It seems that the acceptable tolerance is _very_ low these days, with most people are just shrugging issues off.

Personally, I find this talk by Jonathan Blow to be rather inspiring:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW-SOdj4Kkk

As for software becoming less efficient specifically, I'd say that it is, for example, relying on microservices for everything is probably not a good idea for most companies. Not everyone is AWS, nor do they need to be.
> Not in the way you‘re thinking. When googling, you very often get exactly what you searched for

No, you don't get what you searched for, you get what google has decided ranks sufficiently, with, sprinkles of ads. SEO spam has savaged Google.
You should watch the episode of Downton Abbey where Lord Crawley talks about this fellow in America named "Ponzi" who offers these great returns.
"Racket"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeering

> offer a service to solve a nonexistent problem, or offer a service that solves a problem that would not exist without the racket

Operating a racket is called racketeering.
Me:

Tell a joke about Marxism.

It:

Here is a joke about Marxism:

Why did the Marxist join the Communist Party?

Because he wanted to be part of the vanguard of the proletariat!
If they were ordering me to do war crimes I suppose I would but I don't think the annoyances in this article are quite at that level and I question the idea that you'll find anywhere that never makes any decisions you don't agree with.
> via suicide prevention measures (nets under bridges, restrictions on drug purchases etc.)

Those are all negative, in those cases you're not allowing someone to do something (which is different from forcing someone to do something). There are other forms of suicide prevention though, like forcing suicidal people to take medication
> Google’s chat bots are way ahead of ChatGPT, at least from what we can see from the outside. (Nobody has mistaken ChatGPT for a sentient being, but they did with LaMDA.)

Google’s search technology is way ahead of anyone on the market, yet their search has become garbage because of the marketing choices and UX decisions they are making.

Them having a technically superior competitors to ChatGPT doesn’t automatically mean it would be a better product.
if you go investing in new unregulated chaotic markets without doing due diligence to at least research what your investing in you are at least somewhat culpable for your own losses. Don't invest in thing you don't understand.
Russia (Putin) is pushing for short-term victories while digging its own grave.
I guess if the plane is going anyway..
Place the blame where it belongs: quantitative easing.

It's just as dishonest to blame inflation on the elderly as it is to blame the unaffordability of housing in many urban areas on a lack of any buildable land left.
Fascinating! Is the way these new groups mess with their genetics different enough from the rest of Earth’s life to require another shift in how we classify them? “What ‘known species’ even means” points to maybe yes, but I’m not versed in genetics and just found out about these groups from your post.

It’s only been, what, 20 or 30 years since our ability to look at genes started really shaking up taxonomy and yielded “the phylogenetic tree.” I wonder what studying these tiny weirdos will teach us about what we still don’t know about our own more stable branches.
Oh I don't know. ChatGPT gives unambiguous refutations of all the common lunatic theories I could think of, but Google presents all sides. When I asked Google for the significance of gold fringe on the American flag (answer: no significance) Google gave me 6 results for generic flag information followed by several wackadoodle tales about states of emergency and admiralty law. Only a severely stupid person believes there is a secret set of parallel laws in force when a flag is decorated with fringe, but Google is saying: you figure it out.
Elastic Deployment of Stable Diffusion with Discord on AWS
A week ago, (If you missed it) Harmonai started showcasing their progress (on a similar model) with a YouTube Radio [1]. It is mostly electronic music for now.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34055391
I have gold on United and get CPUs more often than not but these are often short flights, or even regional routes on Skywest, so that's really a crapshoot depending on the route, I think.

I'll take the other benefits, too, and they're "worth it" as long as you don't spend a bunch of money to get them. There's a real dollar benefit to free Economy Plus, checked bags and the mileage multiple; but of course how much that's worth to you depends on what's important to you, let alone the intangibles like pre-boarding or better customer service.

So far, the status and miles I've earned haven't involved spending any money I wouldn't have otherwise. With the sometimes exception of spending a little more to stick with United. Which is of course the point of a loyalty program. But I've never spent more on that increment than I've recovered in benefit on that flight (like from free Economy Plus). But who knows? Maybe I'll get so addicted I'll be tempted to make a "mileage run".
The actual answer that ChatGPT gives you:

> There is no evidence to suggest that COVID-19 vaccines or 5G networks can control anyone's mind. These are baseless and unfounded conspiracy theories that have been debunked by experts and public health officials.

COVID-19 vaccines have been developed and are being distributed around the world in an effort to protect people from the coronavirus and help stop the spread of the disease. These vaccines have undergone rigorous testing and review by regulatory agencies to ensure their safety and effectiveness. They have been shown to be safe and effective in preventing COVID-19 and saving lives.

5G networks are a new generation of wireless technology that provide faster and more reliable internet connectivity. They are being deployed around the world to improve communication and connectivity for people and businesses. There is no scientific evidence linking 5G technology to any negative health effects or to the ability to control people's minds.

It is important to rely on credible sources of information when seeking to understand complex issues like these. It is not helpful to promote or spread misinformation that can create unnecessary fear or confusion.
But in point of fact engineers ship artificially limited products all the time. Yeah it's different if we're talking about a bridge that can kill someone but that's not exactly like an online installer, is it?
"Russia is on the brink of a decisive victory" is a truly remarkable assertion. I wonder of he will edit that out in some future time, and how long is "on the brink" militarily speaking?

Ending the dependency is huge, especially if it's wind and solar and battery backed: it's a technology paradigm shift.

What will Russia trade with the West once gas feed stops? Maybe direct products: plastics, pharma and fertiliser. That's decades off. Something for a new polity to explore, when it happens. Gerontocracy aside, structural change to a desire for peaceful bilateral engagement will be necessary.
Show HN: TapTab – Tab switching web extension for Safari
I like the tab-switching behaviour in Chrome/Firefox and wanted Safari to have something similar. Another wish of mine was for it to be a web extension that feels native to the browser vs an app extension that looks out of place.

I posted a while back on HN to see if other people feel the same and the response was very positive : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33811253

Say hello to TapTab : https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1659363738?pt=66324...

TapTab feels right at home in Safari and is loaded with features to improve how you interact with tabs. You no longer have to miss the native tab-switching functionality that you love in Chrome/Firefox.

I launched the app a few days ago, and the response has been great. Some of the features that users have been loving :

- Keep your hands at the keyboard: navigate all tabs without your hands leaving the keyboard.

- Fuzzy Search: Search through your tab titles and URLs at lightning speed.

- Switch to previous tab: Comes with a handy shortcut to go back to the previous tab. Finally!

- Dark Mode: The extension feels right at home in Safari.

- Multi-Window support

- Pin/Mute/Close tabs right from the extension.

The app is written in ReactJS (apart from the very minuscule bit of Swift you have to write for using it as an extension in Safari) and uses Tailwind for design.

If you are one of the dozen people like me who use Safari, let me know how you find it. I would love to hear if there are any features that would make it a better fit for you. I have a few things on my radar gathered from talking to users like an iPad version, custom shortcuts, etc.

If you find the extension useful I would love it if you vote for it on Product Hunt to get this in front of a few more eyeballs : https://www.producthunt.com/posts/taptab

Thank you!
I'd love to know how many are reposts that are years old. It seems like fully 1/4 of posts on the front page have a year indicator after them.
Only a few months until we find out if Elon is Gavin Belson or Russ Hanneman.
Bayesian Optimization for Performance Tuning in F#
Bayesian Optimization is an iterative optimization algorithm used to find the most optimal element like any other optimization algorithm however, where it shines in comparison to others is when the criterion or objective function is a black box function. A black box function indicates the prospect of a lack of an analytic expression or known mathematical formula for the objective function and/or details about other properties for example, knowing if the derivative exists for the function so as to make use of other optimization techniques such as Stochastic Gradient Descent.

I demonstrated how I developed and applied the Bayesian Optimization algorithm to various experiments including one making use of Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) profiles to obtain the best parameters and highlight how I made use of F#'s functional features to implement both the algorithm and the infrastructure associated with analyzing the results.