skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Create more GitHub Apps. If you're hitting rate limits you can double your capacity by adding a new app and using round robin to cycle through requests/tokens. If you're using a PAT, you only have 5k requests and will bottleneck quickly.
> This is why I use the term "libre". It's unfortunate that we have to import French words into English in this way as it sounds pretentious but at least it's getting closer to being unambiguous.

It's not like common English isn't chock full of French words already. Libre at least resembles liberty (case in point), which english-speakers fully understand. Spanish uses libre for free as well.

Plus given today's marketing-speak dominated discourse, it's not even unusual to have a seemingly stylized variant of liberty naming something. So I'm ok with Libre substituting for Free as in free speech. At least it's not a Turbo badge on an EV's trunk...
Exactly. The ideology that romanticizes free labor is very strong in software industry. Would my employer spend extra hours just to make me more comfortable or to help solving my problems? Would they be proactive to find ways to increase my wage instead of their profits? If not, why should I act in the opposite way going out my way to help their profits? We have a contract, so I fulfill exactly what is written in the contract: no more and no less. And even accepting this, I am being very generous, as I know that I produce more wealth than what I am paid for.
Not sure about 200B+ models on phone hardware in 10 years. But I think we'll be able to deliver the same predictive performance with models 1/10 the size and those will fit. That is what happened with CNN vision models over the last 8 years.
> persuaded by force

Or simply forced
Read the link in the topic... It literally now doesn't made up bullshit. It's a modified version of ChatGPT.

> Unlike ChatGPT, the new Bing can also retrieve news about recent events. In The Verge’s demos, the search engine was even able to answer questions about its own launch, citing stories published by news sites in the last hour.
If you’re not increasing the money supply, do you still get inflation or is this just shifting money from owners to workers?
from their discord

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/974081732171137075/10...
Are you serious? A BMW driving some schmuck to an office park has "all the utility"?
> outstanding returns compared to others.

Like this? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jan/03/twitter-s...
It's really incredible how bad are all of the native UI toolkits. So many of them. Zero progress, only handful of interesting ideas.
When you pay close attention to things like web standards, one would have noticed how during the last 2 years the Webkit team seems to have woken up from a decade-long hibernation. They're actually releasing things, and in a pretty decent pace.

As the article implies, very likely due to regulatory pressure building up. And that tells you everything you need to know about Apple's stance on the web: they hate it, as they hate anything that is interoperable and uncontrollable. They'll starve the web to the maximum they can get away with and now that maximum is reducing, hopefully.
Vaultwarden (bitwarden fork) render.com deployment
Customer Care Starts with Curiosity and Empathy
Bootcamps are great for people with non-CS STEM backgrounds. I'm happy to have engineers of other disciplines come into the field. But I do think companies should try to raise the bar of who they hire. Other engineering disciplines have government licenses to get. It would be nice if companies required Software Engineers to do the same.
This is what dealing with #@$!&% CSS feels like. Give me back WYSIWYG grids with optional "stretch zones", they can do 90% the same thing with 2% the headaches.
thanks for the response. unfortunately, the discord is full :sad:
If Safari weren't shoehorned through iOS user throats, webkit would cease to exist.

Right now web developers are forced to support webkit because they can't tell iOS users to install Chrome for better experience.

If they could, they would drop webkit and provide blink-only experience. Many websites do that to Firefox nowadays.

And if webkit can't render website, Apple would replace it with blink. So Safari would become another Chromium reskin and Web would finally settle on a single engine.
In the NBA, it IS genetics. You cannot increase your height through your own efforts, the limit IS genetic. Basketball is one of the few sports where genetic advantages are a major factor. The reason many black americans are so tall is some part a cruel history but an equal part genetics - you would be foolish to deny this.

The location of basketball courts is incidental and i'm not certain what your point is.
This tracks with my experience (WARNING: Anecdotal evidence incoming). I'm currently aggressively hiring for development roles (in particular around data). Despite the layoffs our candidate pipelines are only modestly bigger and the quality level is similar to before. Layoffs haven't really moved the market down very much except for some pretty major outliers where someone was being paid pretty far above market.
It's the general's purpose to tell solider to fix it for the rest of the army.
tl;dr: Startup teams have to cultivate an ongoing intense curiosity in every team member on how the product creates value for the customer and how to remove anything that limits the value customers will get from the product.
It's prohibitively expensive, better would be to sacrifice some city corridors as pedestrian only. Cars don't need to be in the city centre on every street.

Most pedestrian friendly streets that do mix in cars actually do the opposite to grade separation, slow down the cars a lot and make it clear that they are in a pedestrian space by removing demarcation between cars and people,which changes behavior.
That sounds like the Citadel pattern…not microservices in the truest sense of the word.

https://blog.appsignal.com/2020/04/08/the-citadel-architectu...
Japan’s current inflated prices are more visible on gas and electricity which increased by 25~30% in just a few months, and are planned to increase again in the summer.

The PM is basically asking companies to foot the bill for energy costs, which have little to do with wages.
If you are punished by the gov't, yes. If it's not the gov't, then no. Basic 1st amd stuff right there.
If RISC-V is a success, there is a high probability that assembly will come back hard: "write 64bits RISC-V code paths once, run everywhere..."

Not to mention that it is not that hard to port assembly code between modern ISAs. For instance, porting from x86_64 to 64bits RISC-V should not be that hard, very probably brutal... but really not that hard.
Thanks Dino team, I am a big fan of this XMPP client.
Just remember that this is a societal choice. Biking can be safe and efficient. In Vancouver BC they have prioritized modes of transportation other than driving, including creating a dense network of cycling paths and slow-streets.

There is a big difference between what is, and what must be. Improvements are possible, which is what the linked article is all about. These are baby steps, but if you want to bike more (and get healthier and live longer and live happier and pollute less) then demand more from your local politicians.
The key is that AI needs to have a fiduciary duty to its users: it should always suggest the most economically advantageous deal for the user, not what is best for the AI if those are not aligned.

Make a marketplace for targeted discounts to incentivize changed behavior.

Many companies that sell consumables are happy to give a first sample free in hopes of repeat purchasing.

If I ask AI for a good lavender scented hand soap refill, it should have a fiduciary duty to give me the best economic choice for me. HOWEVER, AI could solicit discounts from this marketplace platform at the point the AI is making the decision: a new layer above and around Amazon and Walmart and every other established player. Hand soap manufacturers can compete with deals like "people who order hand soap at least twice a year can get 60% off their first purchase" and pay a commission to the AI platform for facilitating the discount. Users can trust the AI with their data because of the fiduciary responsibility and so become willing participants in keeping it accurate because it increases the ability of the AI to serve them.
They’re just audio integrated glasses, rather than something with AR, sadly.
> every minute of cycling increases expected lifespan by at least one minute

I just found a hack, I'm going to spend 12 hours a day cycling and extend my lifespan by at least 50%. All joking aside, cycling as travel is a fantastic way to add physical activity into your daily life.
A problem with the argument of IT being such a free market right now is the pattern of labor markets. Look at the AI leaps and you have yourself a foreseeable "streamlining" that every other profession of the past has gone through. Miners, mechanics, longshoreman, factory workers, truck drivers, printers, brick layers, glass makers, textile workers, typists, computing specialists, librarians. The pattern is always the same. It's a hot and competitive market until it is captured by automation. Google announced going public with the project to automate programming yesterday! You seriously think the job that is coincidentally useful now will exist forever?

Software Engineers are falling prey to what every other person on this planet save a very rich few live with. Welcome to reality. "The free market" always becomes a cartel. When the government stops the cartels, the cartels take over the government in the form of lobbying, campaign contributions, government employee hiring/revolving door.

And yet developed nations where unions are a facet of the labor market have fewer of these issues, and on a less grand scale.
Is a single node k3s overkill? I don't think so. Once you outgrow it, you can port your deployments to a real k8s cluster.
You prioritized app size, and that's great.

People prefer Electron because it gives them a consistent environment across operating systems, OS versions/update patch numbers, browser versions etc.

If you write your app to work in all possible combinations of the above - like you'd write a web page - you can use OS web view.

But not everybody wants to do that because it's not as straight forward as just writing your app and being able to fully rely on your environment. Perhaps you actually need features that aren't universally available in the OS web view yet, and performance degradation because of polyfills is not acceptable.

Also, OS web view is usually locked down more than Electron. It's basically a browser without the UI around it. Then you need to hack your own native bridge instead of just using whatever Electron made. I guarantee your version is going to be worse, you simply don't have the combined resources of the Electron open source project.
Check out the AMA happening in a couple of days!
https://www.reddit.com/r/AR_MR_XR/comments/10w3d9s/im_happy_...
"and speed of crash is one of the core determinants of crash fatality."

I mean, you have to strike an object. Adding obstacles on the shoulder seems like it would increase that likelihood. It would also prevent the option to avoid oncoming traffic, or a sudden braking vehicle in front. I have seen both of those happen multiple times.
Updated parent comment with a link.
First builder’s remedy plan for Bay Area revealed in Los Altos Hills
AGI is bigger than the internet. We're somewhere along that path right now, and I suspect we're closer than we realize.
> AAA video games have been $59.99 for like fifteen years

SNES games were $50-60 and that was thirty years ago!
Yup. Literally first sentence of my citation "Dandong New City, a district of Dandong which was built from scratch to be a China-North Korean trade hub, now stands mostly empty." [0]

[0] https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/974210.shtml
I think this should be turned around. You should pay attention to what's happening.
I'm sure the other statement was made with the same confidence. Downloading doesn't have to be for listening today. In the future we may not have the same hearing limitations.

In short the overconfidence is a result of not imagining a future that's different than today.
I bicycle commuted for years in an American city. It is as safe as your local council decides it should be, and my commute always felt safe. Don't give in to the belief that unsafe cycling is inevitable.
So, 4% incrises in average prices cause by the sour of gas prices and comoditiess, means employees cause the inflation.
Or b what he wants is the distribution of the Cost of being share between companies and employees.
> I used to joke that Data Scientists exist not to uncover insights or provide analysis, but merely to provide factoids that confirm senior management's prior beliefs.

The SNAFU principle: communication is only possible between equals. When an hierarchical divide exists the subordinate will tell the superior what he wants to hear.
The scene from the film Idiocracy where the main character is being triaged in a doctor's office comes to mind.
The Movie Industry’s Confused ‘Eat the Rich’ Fantasy
If your revenue is under $1m, it's only 15%. If you'd do your own payment processing (stripe) and tax consolidation (?), it would only equates to about 11%.

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/small-business-program...
Some good quotes:

> The true villains of our time are ensconced in cocoons of comfort, immune to accountability. They enjoy their lives; they are not burdened by guilt or shame; the other shoe is never going to drop. To see them suffer, we have the cinema.

And

> As critics have noted, there is an element of feeble wish fulfillment in these works, an unctuous eagerness to flatter the audience’s moral sensibilities while satiating a furtive lust for class warfare. (Somehow, hostility to the ultrarich has become a marker of modish cultural literacy.) At other times, a frisson of class consciousness serves only as an alibi for an audience eager to live vicariously in luxury. (HBO’s White Lotus­ and Succession, which Mylod frequently directs, manage this dance particularly well.) As viewers, we get to have it both ways: Indulge in a fantasy of extravagance, and then, remembering we’ll never have it for ourselves, relish watching it turn to (literal) shit.
The separarion of streets for people and roads for cars means better, faster car flow too. The problem America has is that it tries to smoosh cars and peds on the same roads, making them terrible for both. Instead of being able to do 40 on every road, think instead of doing 15 on some roads and 60 on others.

The amount of actual ped zones in America is pretty small anyway, think downtown shopping precints and stuff like that, so the majority of roads would still be car dominant.
No. Apple's iPhone app policies on iOS are stopping it. Safari on iOS is utter garbage. Once regulation fixes Apple's app policies, Safari will have to get better.
Why would LLMs be less monetizable than search? People are still going to want to buy goods and services, and being the place they go to find out about those goods and services will be just as valuable as it is today. Perhaps even more so, since LLMs are able to answer questions that are difficult to formulate as search queries.
Why? Games are easier to develop today than they’ve ever been. The only class of game that can push the $69.99 envelope are those making AAA games.

Games and movies are the two cheapest forms of entertainment. They’re not going to mess with the formula, especially since both these industries do really well in a depression
Secret Government Telephone Numbers
That is because:

> We repeatedly make a political decision in the US not to prioritize them

Public transit can be fast and efficient if it is prioritized. That may require raising the federal tax on gasoline (last raised thirty years ago!!!) and directing that overdue increase to funding alternative transportation options.
Explicit nullability is one of my favorite features of kotlin. Kotlin basically treats nulls like a checked exception: deal with a null value immediately or incur the mental overhead of having your data treated like a 2nd-class citizen in all the code it touches.
Like, by a huge factor, at least according to Patio11. Think like 2-6x lower. A 10% raise on that is relatively significant, but does not get you close to US dev compensation.
Reassigning folks would defeat the point of having a layoff, which is to be seen as having a layoff (taking difficult actions in the light of new macroeconomic conditions, etc, etc).
Israeli computer scientist helps crack Mary Queen of Scots lost letters' secrets
Loving it. Pretty good in an art sense too, playing with proportions in both a mathematical as well a visual way. Makes me want to brush up my mathematics
>"Your right, I'm an idiot unable to think for myself.

It is bold of you to admit this, but I commend you, even despite your apparent and admitted idiocy.
It doesn't matter how good they are or how much institutional knowledge they've acquired. 50% of their revenue stream is being existentially threatened, and nothing will stick around if that vanishes. Talent will be plucked, internal projects will wither on the vine, and the velocity of the entire company will seize up.

It doesn't matter that Google was the Bell Labs of its time or that it was first and best at AI. Bell Labs also got sunk by disruption despite being the best in the world.

Google was also best at cloud once upon a time (Borg/k8s/spanner/...), and you saw what happened there. This is looking like a repeat.
Thank you! That instantly gives a much better idea of what it's actually like to have one on :)
Japan has desperately wanted inflation for decades. Not obvious it’s enough to get people to spend more and save less
All of these institutions have a vested interest in making a PR disaster go away. Resigning says nothing about the truth of the claims as it can be really hard to defend yourself against institutions with bottomless lawyers who are out for your blood. And, if all the testimony is just internal people, they can be pressured quite effectively.

To contrast, billionaires assume that they are going to get a return. If they believe that the money is going to all be wasted because the principal is a skirt chasing horndog, they are not going to invest.

None of any of this says anything about truth or justice.

Things get especially messy when consensual relationships are involved. He was apparently married to a fellow staffer (not a subordinate) and it looks like the breakup is at the center of this. Ever seen what people will do in the middle of a divorce?

Too many harassers get away with stuff, but we have also seen people pulled apart by the mob who were innocent. And the innocent need far more protection than they are given right now.

And, if the institutions suddenly decide to settle out of court, will we declare that as evidence that they went after the innocent and then send the mob after the institutions, instead? I have yet to see this.

Since things seem to be plowing through a court of law, I'll withold becoming part of the mob, thanks.
It'd be cool if the Android version of Firefox got some UI love to bring it back to where it was before they force-updated folks to the "phone only" UI.
> Web would finally settle on a single engine.

You say that like it's a desirable thing? Being a spec with multiple implementations is a feature of a good platform, not a bug. It pushes the Web towards consensus-driven evolution rather than design by one actor (in the past, Microsoft; now, Google).
This is just wrong. First of all, IBS != IBD. Second of all, IBD doctors will flat out recommend high fiber Mediterranean style diets for anybody who is not in an active flair.
Hey Simon, amazing work as usual!

Do you think you'll ever replace the search on your website with Semantic Search like this? I'm not sure how well Semantic Search gels with the ability to facet though, so that could be the hiccoup.

Otherwise it seems like you can get Semantic Search off SQLite that rivals e.g. the Typesenses and ElasticSearch's of the world
Yeah, I took public transportation for a while. It went from a 20 or so minute drive to about an 80 minute commute with 2 trains, a shuttle, and about a mile of walking.
Yes DIY is such a killer use case for this stuff, and what an awesome way to learn, imagine working on your car or anything really with an expert mechanic who can see exactly what your seeing highlighting where to turn your wrench or tell you that your technique is incorrect, or diagnose that weird sound you are hearing.
Okay, to correct myself, looking through their documentation it seems at least the electronics schematics are OHL-P, but they only provide PDFs, and no actual source files.

There doesn't seem to be much on the physical hardware though.
The decision to move to gitea was made before that announcement.

I wonder if gitea decided to become a company after they saw the interest from Blender. I know blender folks were asking questions about the long term future of the project.

For reference, here are threads asking for proposals on solutions to consider and announcement of gitea being picked:

- https://devtalk.blender.org/t/developer-blender-org-call-for...

- https://devtalk.blender.org/t/developer-blender-org-choice-f...
eh...decent hardware fits on an old steel frame. and while yes, it does suck to lose a bike...I still end up way way ahead of someone paying to park, fuel, and maintain a car. and I'm much more fit and enjoy my commute more.
If not you someone else would have talked. Same for this post. Japan has a population of over 125 million (4x US?). Over 2000 children are born there per day. We are not movie protagonists, don't worry about it
A fast, Chat-GPT like assistant for your Mac. App integrated
Have been playing around with this a bit lately and the OS integration is just really well done. Very nifty interface for shoving context from across your apps into ChatGPT.
Ah, interesting. So it sounds like they haven't updated the data in ages, either.

What I always loved about this site is that Google made it SUPER-easy to visualize just how good (or not) any given roof was for solar. At the time it launched, you had to get deep into the sales process with a solar vendor to get that kind of data/understanding.

I just tried a couple of big current-day providers and it looks like that's largely still true. Pick My Solar was the only one who would even try to give an estimate of solar potential without requiring an email address or full-on lead gen.

So at least for the people whose homes haven't changed in the past 5 years, some of the core visualizations will still be useful.
Not sure.

He seems like a ‘slave driving demon’. Best example how he treated the folks at Twitter or his other companies… demanding ‘hardcore’ hours and exactly like you said… he doesn’t care about people… doesn’t care whether they burn out or creating a culture where bullying is accepted.

I don’t think he really cares about solving big problems, it’s just a front to feed his big ego… he wants be seen as real life Tony Stark.

If he really cared about solving big problems like the climate crisis etc he wouldn’t have wasted his time with Twitter.

He wouldn’t have come with a stupid idea like the hyperloop and trying to derail a high speed rail project.

What he has achieved is he inspired more people to become engineers and problem solvers and have a positive vision of the future. But his big ego and narcissistic traits have ruined it and more and more folks see what he really is.
Tell me you’ve only ever lived in North America without telling me you’ve only ever lived in North America.
Layoffs have to be across the board / department, otherwise that would open the company up to even more lawsuits. They can’t special-case ML engineers out. This does not mean the company does not need or is aware it needs ML engineers elsewhere in the company.