skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They are probably one of the best run companies in the world.

I would disagree with this. Although their risk is spread much better than it was in the early 00s, a huge amount of their recurring revenue right now teeters on the brink of destruction in the form of their 30% app store cut and the walled-garden nature of their app store. All it would take is a morally principled, non-lobbied regulator to step in and regulate that down to something reasonable like 5% or 3% and require allowing third party app stores (both actions would be equivalent economically because their current fee only works because of their monopoly), and I don't see someting like this not happening in the next decade.

It will be a huge and deserved adjustment when this does happen, and stock speculation will only amplify the blow in the form of lost stock value. There are many, many long-time holders of apple stock who might see the threat of such an event as a time to finally sell. Then we'll see how much value is really there.

Additionally, they have sunk billions of dollars in a brand new campus at a time when WFH is here to stay. That investment will also likely turn out to be worthless in the coming decades as the value of CRE races to $0.
Related: Meilisearch v1.0.0 release two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34707727

I have been following these two libraries (Manticore and Meilisearch) very closely. Their simplicity, portability and performance gains over Elasticsearch are impressive.

Since two days ago, I am creating Python bindings for the core search engine of each of these two libraries, starting with https://github.com/AlexAltea/milli-py.
Getting extreme performance, but as an embedded/self-contained package (basically same goals as SQLite).
> My guess most of these companies were also borrowing money. You can look on their balance sheets for the stock.

You don't have to guess. These are publicly owned corporations. Their published balanced sheets include debt.
Or a replacement for room heater.
Proud owner of HP Pavilion DV5-1106AX which got me through winters of 2008-12 when I was broke.
beat me to it :P
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Breaking news: litigant wants to win lawsuit.

They probably didn't rigorously track the licensing issue, but I'm pretty sure training a LLM is completely acceptable use of source under Freely licensed code. It would be somewhat amusing though if CoPilot is forced to spit out the license for every piece of code used to develop the derivative work, along with copyright notices and whatever else the licenses may require.
I was thinking in terms of simple logic and semantics. The example I picked though muddied the waters by bringing in real-world phenomena. A better test would be anything that stays strictly within the symbolic world - the true umwelt of the language model. So, anything mathematical. After seeing countless examples of addition and documents discussing addition and procedures of addition, many order of magnitude more than a child ever gets to see when learning to add, still LLMs cannot do it properly. That, to me, is conclusive.
Point one feels like table stakes for doing freelancing seriously. The third point is also very important. If there is a hiring freeze or other budgetary issues, they may still be able to pull contractors in through existing agreements with other firms. Plus those firms have already gone through the procurement process which covers legal agreements, etc. So instead of having to go through that full process again (which can be extremely time consuming in some organizations), it's much easier to funnel freelancers through an agency with whom they already have all the arrangements and agreements approved.

From the businesses point of view, would you rather deal with a couple larger providers or manage individual contracts and relationships with potentially dozens of individuals?
Continuous improvement beats big ‘tada’ releases
> one of the best run companies

They off-source all of their factory efforts to other companies. The other companies are doing the hiring and firing.

Probably the best run company is Qualcomm. I have never heard them do layoffs. And they are based in San Diego.

edit: Just googled it and found https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1l5vLinG

edit2: also, https://www.thelayoff.com/apple
Interesting, I looked at Linear as well and no doubt, it's a very polished product with food UX/UI, etc.

But still is very much Issues oriented, no ?

What i wanted to do with AJIR is create something that has both Task management and Product/Features documentation in a well integrated way, i.e. having a documentation that is 'self-organized' in the very same hierarchy than your Products/Features tree.

Was I clear enough ?
How fingerprints get their one-of-a-kind swirls
I suppose it's all a personal preference thing to some extent -- at least if you have a car to get you further away for whatever it is.

But true, different people at different points in their lives, income levels, social positions, and preferences will prioritize different things.

The OP list seems pretty good for improving quality of life for a big round population of people at different stages of their lives and social positions. (After all, generational and income diversity in a neighborhood is probably also a plus?)

I wish I could make a personal preference to have all of those things in a 15 minute walk from me! It would require moving to a different city probably, and paying much much much more than I do now for living expenses.

I think 15 minute walkability actually has would have a much larger impact on quality of life than many people realize. I think if most people could get it without having to trade off between different personal preferences (like being able to afford the rent!), we'd be doing a lot better.

Like... nobody needs a coffee shop or everyday restaurant within a 15 minute walk. And if it requires trade-offs, including to affordability, not everyone is going to choose it. But when everyone has one (or ideally several), I think it's going to make neighborhood relationships and connections stronger in general, the people that run into each other at such establishments, or while one (and not necessarily the other) of them are walking to such establishments, the relationships between workers and customers, etc.
I don't see how Paris is the best example. I would nominate Zurich.

Strangely, I live with my wife and daughter in Boise, Idaho and we don't own a car. The high school, my work, grocery stores, etc. are all within a short walk.
Thank you so much. Appreciate it!
Way off-topic, but I'm curious about how you approach unit testing.

Coming from Java into a C# job, I'm used to mocking downstream dependencies, and even POJOs in some cases, that a class depends on. C# has stuff like Moq, but you _have to_ wrap everything with an interface to mock it since C# seals by default.

Meanwhile, in JVM land, you can use Kotlin, which still seals classes by default, but allows test compiles to open classes by default so you can still mock them.

Every C# thread I read suggests wrapping all concrete implementations with an interface like I'm coding in the 90's for the sake of decent tests, or they talk about how my code must be written poorly for me to be in this situation. Meanwhile, I'm just trying to get _some_ testing into this code I've inherited.
Politically difficult, yes. Enormously expensive, I'd imagine not. Retrofitting a house to be a cafe/shop isn't that difficult or expensive. And it needn't be done all at once, it could be done gradually over time.
The stealth plugin is good, but not 100%. Some sites rely on heuristics other than what the browser reports.
This is interesting, why can licenses like GNU GPL3.0 be enforced in US courts but not for new plant varieties?

> "Legally, Open Source Seeds (OSS) in Europe works slightly differently because of EU seed protection laws. While in the US the OSSI pledge would be hard to enforce if challenged in court, Johannes Kotschi, the founder of OSS Germany, went with an open source licensing model. The license is printed on every OSS seed package in Europe. Whoever opens an OSS package agrees to never patent these seeds or future breeding of them. OSS cooperates with bakeries such as Le Brot in Cologne that offer bread baked with OSS wheat and rye, not least to raise awareness."
An Update on Sharing – About Netflix
People like to hate on the VDOM, but here's some food for thought:

- VDOM is data-driven without side-effects

- VDOM does not actually require JSX or build steps

- VDOM decouples you from the real dom, which has allowed things like react-native to "just work" the way react web works.

- VDOM means you can make test assertions without having to load up a "browser-like" environment

- JSON is a pretty easy to reason-about data structure, which makes debugging fairly easy

I'm not saying the virtual dom is the best answer, but I guess my point is that it's not really an issue of speed any more. If I recall my internet history, React came at a time when browser DOM standardization was still pretty wonky, so the virtual dom did provide a boost in manipulating the data that would translate to DOM mutations. Now that we're basically all running Chrome or Firefox under the hood (give or take webkit safari), I'm not sure that's the main drive any more, but the other benefits still stand, and that's why things like react are still using the virtual dom.

Anyway, cool library. I'm curious if it provides something that is actually different from other libraries I've used, in terms of interface or flow, and I might find some time to check it out soon. Good job!
Years ago I came across this talk about a guy who built a Clojure wrapper around OpenSCAD in order to design his own keyboard. Potentially relevant:

https://youtu.be/uk3A41U0iO4
This is very different to most static languages.

From the article:

The whole process is lazy — only things transitively used from main are analyzed. Compiler won’t complain about something like

fn unused() void {
1 + "";
}

This looks perfectly fine at the Zir level, and the compiler will not move beyond Zir unless the function is actually called somewhere.
I think it's possible that we lost this because, while people do genuinely like it, they like quiet, space, and privacy more.
Lightning has always been in this weird place, and it tracks that it'll likely end in a weird place.

- it was badly needed when it was introduced, because the 30-pin connector was massive and came with a bunch of trade-offs around water ingress

- the prevailing standard at the time, micro-USB, was both a poor user experience (directional connector without enough to distinguish up from down) and had reliability issues (the clips on the connector would wear with time), two issues Lightning solved several years before USB-C was available on the market

But since Apple took a bunch of blow-back from users on changing from the 30-pin connector ecosystem, they promised that Lightning would last at least a decade (whether that choice helped or hurt electronic waste, I'm not sure). So even though USB-C has been at a good point for consumer adoption for 3-4 years, Apple has drug their feet. I think they'll be switching to USB-C with the next phone redesign, regardless of what the EU may regulate, just because it's "good enough" relative to Lightning (my only issue is that the device side of USB-C has a "tongue" that can break off, while that task is on the more-easily-replaceable cable side for Lightning).
Yea, you have to precycle effectively and create accounts before hand and let them build at least a small amount of karma.

These days I don't even log into reddit. After wide spread banning from subreddits for random reasons it's not worthwhile. I'll keep browsing old.red as long as it exists but if it goes away I'll DNS block all reddit at the router.
Would it be better to make patents have shorter lifespans before entering the public domain from companies of a certain size? Maybe that would level out the playing field and allow small players to be more competitive against behemoth corporations and patent trolls.
More recently, Sebastian Lague has revived a video series on digital circuits [1] and the software featured in the series is made available [2] with a full source code.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZwneRb-zqA (2 years ago), and more recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEDQpqhY2MA and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3cNcmli6xQ

[2] https://sebastian.itch.io/digital-logic-sim
> Which might require multiple heat pumps and separating existing duct work. But definitely new construction should start designing around these constraints now.

Ductless mini-splits remain an option as well. I'd actually like to see somebody make some ground-source exchanger that ductless heads could connect to, because they're much cheaper to install than a multi-zone ducted system.
> annoyed if .. creating an incentive to build a restaurant in the plot next to you, not enough restaurants nearby

Why?
There are a lot of those fields around growing just seed. Some are Bayer owned, others are regular farmers who contract with Bayer to grow seed as their crop. One of the most common jobs for young farm kids is "detasseling" where they go around to seed fields to cut the tassel (male part of the corn plant) off some of the plants. Normally you plant 1 row of male plants, and 4 rows of female plants, since corn plants are both male and female, they need to cut off the male parts of the female plants. (the male plants produce corn on the female parts that is not used for the seed). You can just assume that every rural kid between 15 and 18 does the above job for a couple summers, which gives you an idea of the scale.
"Nobody"?

How much "fan noise"? Compared to what? An anechoic sensory deprivation chamber? A jack hammer outside the office building? Your refrigerator? Car tires at highway speed?
Yup, can even hear the guy’s voice.
Thank you, I am very open to feedbacks and will try to solve it.
This has been on my mind lately since I saw the paper originally.

I think the question for me is why people misestimate others' attitudes, and what that says about them.

For instance, if a group of people are getting more liberal but believe everyone is getting more conservative, is that a reflection of their mood?

I guess it raised a bunch of questions for me about how well surveys track things like mood and perceptions.
Playing the game according to the current rules seems preferable than playing the game according to rules that may or may not come into existence.

Also, they will still be one of the, if not most, profitable businesses in the world even if they lose all the App Store revenue, so it does not seem reasonable to expect more.
Is there any evidence of Apple supplier mass layoffs? If anything, Apple has had supply chain problems of not being able to produce hardware fast enough to meet demand, due to pandemic-related closures in China.
What did I say that is not entirely true?
What happened to Eclipse, is it still big for Java developers ??
Apple, nVidia, Microsoft, Intel, ... release plenty of papers and we don't call them open.
Exactly, you have so little leverage as an individual or small group. The pack of wolves that are patent trolls relentlessly look for small targets who can’t afford to defend themselves, and larger companies courting a deal or a buyout can implicitly threaten a similar situation.

It’s also a slightly depressing reason why I refuse to publish source for a commercial game I built, despite wanting to. The likelihood of being sued is very tiny, but why risk it when you’ve had enough success to be noticeable.
I also tend to be skeptical when I see something hyped, but I work in this space and I can say that this tech is really the best option for most residential applications.

It's old tech, it's been around since the 1800s. The only thing that has changed is that heat pumps have gotten cheap and energy has gotten expensive.

There are applications where heat pumps cannot replace boilers - in industrial processes where high temperatures are required or tremendous capacity is needed intermittently.

However, unless your temperatures are routinely below about -20 F, a heat pump is the best choice (and even if temperatures occasionally drop below that, heat pumps are still an excellent choice because those extreme temperatures might only last for a handful of hours out of the year, during which insulation or a cheap electrical resistance heater can keep you warm).
Apple is able to see demand signals way in advance of many businesses and industries. Obviously product reports can quickly tell people up their chain of command. I commend such an organization.
Along with murdering there warrant canary, and repeated attempts to force people to there new crap web design or privacy invasive app.
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Well django admin is great but I want something I can low code a few screens in my main app. Say I want to present the user with a grid of orders to be processed and also an action for each row called "Release Order". I'd like to write a sql statement to display the orders and also a little python handler for the release order logic. I can of course do this with regular Django but it's a couple views, probably two templates, configure a couple urls and on that template pull in a friendlier js table like aggrid, etc
Oftentimes being "blocked" is more nuanced than whether the site returns a 200 vs a 4xx. The site may render, but the backend API may respond differently based on the behavior it sees.
also ... not everything from the accounts/subs I follow is strictly "photography" (some is video, some is general conversation, etc etc)
Yes true but they overhired and most growth has stalled. The idea I'm getting are the layoffs are happening in the less profitable parts of the business.

Also, I was told because of the severance packages, these companies aren't going to be saving any money until a few months down.

That said I read a few days ago Apple may start doing cuts in the future. iPhone sales are down 8% and smartphone sales in general are down 18%!
The get started button successfully redirects to another page, but the page it directs to is not useful because all it contains are apparently self-referential links to jobs and home. There is no way to actually "get started"
Exactly, landing and app are on different subdomains.

Is it really that annoying ?
From a Nondualist perspective, the idea of consciousness being limited to certain entities and not others is based on the dualistic notion that there is a distinction between subject and object, self and other. Nondualism asserts that there is no fundamental difference between self and other, and that all apparent dualities are merely expressions of the underlying unity of pure consciousness.

In this context, the question of whether AI can become conscious is somewhat moot, as the Nondualist perspective holds that consciousness is not something that can be possessed by one entity and not another, but rather it is the underlying essence of all things. From this perspective, AI would not be becoming conscious, but rather expressing the consciousness that is already present in all things.
It's not that I'm knocking him per say, it's just that he looks so immensely talented I feel with his skill set he could be making videos like "here's an open source hearing aid I made that only costs $10" that could be having a massive positive impact on the world rather than tutorials on how to swap out the usb port on expensive headphones that you'll be able to buy off the shelf next year anyway.
> show flashy special effects that would never work this way in real life

This is only true if you can’t see the future that’s right in front of your eyes. Also unless something will violate laws of physics, it’s not wise to say that never will happen or is impossible to achieve

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/oblong-minority-report-john-...

We also already have Quest 2 as a pretty good VR device that’s shipped, not to mention stuff from other companies like valve
Plenty of 2TB 2230 SSD on Aliexpress.

https://a.aliexpress.com/_EHpXKi5
Oh, I'd love that! I'll reach out.
The way “supermarkets” are in the US, I don’t WANT to be a 15 minute walk from one. They are usually surrounded by a mile of blacktop and concrete, for all the drive-in shoppers in the front and all the trucks offloading goods or picking up deliveries in the back.

Would much rather be near a decent small or midsize grocery with no or limited off-street parking, and which receives its deliveries on the street in the early morning (no loading dock)
Also I’m hoping someone does a OLED mod some day but I’ve learned that the screen size/resolution isn’t common so might not be possible.
Seattle is complex in this regard as the elevation changes between neighborhoods are an additional dimension. If I was living at the base of Lower Queen Anne and the "facilities" meeting the 15m criteria was at the top, that's not something I would consider a viable walk.
Not that I have a rigorous source, but I feel we can generally agree the following:

New hires take anywhere from 3 months to 8 months or more depending on the position to ramp up

During ramp up period, there’s a productivity toll taken on the team via teaching the new hire

Thus during this time, productivity is hampered

——

For culture, I think it’s a bit more subjective. But if you have a team of 5 who then gets 1 new hire to teach over 6 months, generally it allows them to “mesh” better in the culture.

Both in terms of team mates learning about the new hire, and the new hire having room to fit in within the culture, and bring their own value to the team (assuming an already existing good culture.

Now say you have 3 new hires on a team of 5. If we further presume productivity is also hampered more as more people are onboarded at once, that creates additional stress on the team to teach them.

Further, it could be harder to have the new hires feel part of the team if less time is spent getting to know each one. But assume this isn’t the case:

Business will most likely expect at least the same productivity from the team. Now they’re stressed from teaching, higher expectations on their output (onboarding a team member is tiring work), and the business is going to soon expect productivity to increase further after headcount is upped by over 50% in this example.

Now take that, and add on new teams created to interact with, additional communication layers, and it’s pretty straightforward to assume growing too fast can be negative
So you're saying Apple isn't a well run company because they haven't properly managed their regulatory risk around the app store? What should they do hire more lobbyists? Not have built a $100 billion/year business because of a vague threat of future regulatory change?

We've seen pushback on the 30% but mostly for a select group of major companies who want to offer alternative payments. The majority of apps aren't going to be asking customers for their credit cards separately vs a single "subscribe" button, nor do they all have CCs already in their existing DBs. Even worst case if 25% of the revenue gets lost due to secondary subscription payment support (assuming they don't somehow still take a cut), that 75% is still a monster that could support Apple for a long time.

Not to mention the rest of their businesses.
Will try not to ;-)
>...more on short-term gains instead of long-term quality...

Considering that Tim has been CEO for 11 1/2 years now, and things are still going incredibly well for Apple...it seems pretty hard to argue that he is too focused on the short term.

(FWIW, I mostly agree about their software quality.)
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The best results always come when you run the browser in full GUI mode, rather than headless.
That chandelier is really something extra!
There's an attack on 128-bit Salsa7 with time complexity 2^109, and an attack on 128-bit ChaCha6 with 2^107.