skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ”Spotify was a one-company podcast bubble. Its drastic cuts have triggered a podcast winter”

I don’t Spotify was responsible for the podcast bubble. I am also not sure there is a podcast “bubble” at all. I sure don’t think we are in a “podcast winter”.

I agree Spotify’s bet on podcast might have gone wrong. But podcast industry seems to be going fine.
"Secure communication in a single round-trip" implies securely transmitting to a specific audience without any correspondence beforehand and securely receiving information from them afterwards - which seems impossible - probably because it is.

If you relax the constraints to allow for shared state beforehand (which could only arise from prior communication-trips of some sort), you're just at RSA: cool to be sure, but coming up on 50 years old at this point.
The phrase "zoning amnesty"/"zoning peace" is like the "death tax" or the "green new deal" - a way of rebranding a controversial political issue to make it seem incontroversial and obvious. It's called this precisely so that uninformed citizens will make the same mistake and think "Yes, why should people be homeless over some trivial political bullshit like zoning laws?"

From everything I've been able to find, it was building code amnesty, in effect. The proliferation of these laws in Turkey, dating back all the way to the 1940s, created a culture where builders could basically build what they want, without the necessary permits/code enforcement, confident in the knowledge that they would fall under the next decree of amnesty and never be required to fix it.

"...more than 50 percent of the buildings in Turkey were constructed in violation of the current building code... Union of Chambers of Turkish Engineers and Architects (TMMOB) Ankara branch chair Selim Tulumtaş warned .. that the legislation put the lives of 2.7 million people across the country at risk since they live in shoddily constructed buildings."
https://www.turkishminute.com/2023/02/13/turkey-construction...
I predict this rate will fall much lower over time (assuming Apple sticks with the effort there).
When I tried installing it via apt on ubuntu 2204, it wanted to install an entire 32-bit GPU driver chain. Couldn't ctrl-c fast enough
Most people probably don’t realise that Valve has actual kernel devs. I bought a Logitech racing wheel a while ago and force feedback wasn’t working. After some research I found a mailing list where someone with a valve email has submitted a patch that fixed it.
Oh yes, Rust is great interactively.
Check out evcxr:
https://github.com/google/evcxr
They have a repl:
https://github.com/google/evcxr/blob/main/evcxr_repl/README....
And for Jupyter:
https://github.com/google/evcxr/blob/main/evcxr_jupyter/READ...
I'd be lying to say Rust was on par with Matplotlib, but it has promise:
https://plotters-rs.github.io/plotters-doc-data/evcxr-jupyte...
"It’s likely that similar issues will arise with new Apple suppliers in other countries too."

Not at all Apple. Move to Vietnam and you can duplicate the success you have in China. Indians are only good at talking a good talk.
What are you talking about? This isnt the first earthquake in the region, it s a story that goes back thousands of years of written history. Most countries in the area have changed their codes and now build houses that are very resistant to earthquakes. Earthquakes happen all the time, (arguably not as big) but rarely you hear about such damages. Turkey has a problem of bad building, like what happened with the Izmir earthquake in 2020
They speak Russian so... they haven't been attacking Russians in eastern Ukraine since 2014, as confirmed by every related NGO operating there? Ok...
Here is a Python package that can download transformer embeddings automatically

https://www.trychroma.com/

In general a lot of people download models from huggingface, I think that package automates that task.
That's awesome to hear, and thanks so much for the detailed feedback. Really appreciate it!
> This whole trend of optimising everything to the max without caring for people is going to create an employee base that is completely disillusioned about their role or prospects or what's their best strategy for life.

While I get where you're coming from, it's a pretty big leap to go from what's happening now to "optimizing everything to the max". Twilio tripled in size since the pandemic, and wasn't/isn't profitable.

The same arguments can be applied to most large tech companies. Things got insane, and lean times were inevitable. Given your 25+ years in the industry, you must realize that a huge number of younger engineers have never seen anything other than boom years.
https://peel.fm/39ecb93
BMW replaced my battery pack to analyze the cell chemistry where the "incident" was rate of degradation (2014 BMW i3 pure electric in this case), so it's not necessarily something dramatic, but might be just engineering analysis and iterative improvement.
> that interest hasn’t been spun up

This usually happens outside the news room, investigative journalism being the exception. The lack of environmental NGOs raising a fuss may be part of the problem, if you think spin is the issue. (I do not. I think most Americans simply aren’t concerned with this, and those who are, and have influence, are mostly looking at rulemaking and liability ramifications.)
> In the United States, a room must have a closet to be considered a bedroom.

Source? I can't find any that confirm that using actual codes (at least on a national scale), and many (from sellers and lenders, no less) that rebut it [0][1], nor do I see it in the FHA housing policy handbook [2, PDF]. It's possible that real estate businesses customarily don't let you market bedrooms without closets, but that's not regulation.

[0] https://www.rocketmortgage.com/learn/what-qualifies-as-a-bed...

[1] https://www.realtor.com/advice/sell/what-is-a-bedroom-featur...

[2] https://www.hud.gov/sites/documents/SFH_POLI_APPR_PROP.PDF
While pushing for the spec to be useful is fine they've forgot the important things: usability.

Even now, after nearly 12 months the reference client manages to lock android up (multiple devices, 11-13) to the point where every other app hangs and the only fix is a reboot.

There are ecosystem failings too but none of those are as bad as having exactly 0 usable clients on a platform that has such a huge market share.

I want to know if you intend to fix it or just ignore it? (For Aaron)

Also as a bonus answer, how 45 million ends up with nothing to show for it.
this is reason why so many people are against admitting turkey to the eu. it's not racism, or fear of immigration, its hatred of corruption and fascism in the turkish state.

having spent a huge chunk of my life in a greek/turkish neighbourhood in north london i like turks, shop in turkish shops, eat turkish food, etc. but they really need to kick out this horrible bastard.
I also don't think he built his career at his daughter's expense, I'm saying that the over-dramatization of the post leads to this even being something to call out, even when it shouldn't be.

You can call me names all you like, but don't expect people to not question intent over a poorly-conceived sentence.
> Is this just naming and not relevant to the product at all?

They took funding as an open source non profit. Once they got the money they turned into a closed sourced for-profit censorship machine.
Millionaires Tried Turning a Yacht into a Tax Break. The IRS Sank the Plan
I'd be curious to hear more about this. KV stores as a basis for distributed databases are really interesting.
222nm is not safe to shine on anyone! It will definitely cause skin cancer.

254nm is also not safe.

254nm destroys ozone, interestingly.

240nm and smaller (160nm being the highest producing freq.) produce ozone.

[https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/php.13391]
It depends what you use it for. If it’s to classify text and you can fine tune it, it’s probably good enough.

For following instructions, ChatGPT is a lot better but GPT J did relatively well if given enough examples on simple tasks.

For a chatbot, it’s not really useable.
What is the pricing like for the MI300's?
I started around the same time (Debian Woody), it's certainly come a long way from SuperTux and Battle for Wesnoth.

Windows is still on my gaming PC, mostly due to anticheat issues with games like Hunt, Destiny, and Battlefield. I'm finally able to play games like Crusader Kings 3 on my Linux laptop without any issues though.
Oh no the point I’m trying to make is just that any rocky planet or moon or whatever is going to be like 10-50% silicon right on the surface. It is more or less as abundant as is possible to imagine anywhere we can land.
There's a couple of "previously connected" bits with QUIC:

- The very first connection to a site is usually HTTP/2, which requires an additional RTT compared to QUIC, as the browser doesn't yet know if the server supports QUIC. In the response, the server can advertise the presence of QUIC support with the Alt-Svc header. This support flag can also be present in a HTTPS DNS record for the domain but that isn't queried by all browsers yet. Future connections to the same server will default to QUIC once the browser is aware of support, saving an additional RTT.

- Once connected to a QUIC server, the encryption keys can be cached for future connections, allowing the client to send data with the initial connection request (so called 0-RTT). This is only safe for idempotent requests though as this part of the protocol could be replayed by an attacker.
When I heard the story a decade or two ago, it was Ford buying screws or bolts or something from a Japanese manufacturer.
~ 250nm actually destroys ozone.

Smaller than 240nm creates it, to various degrees, with the ideal frequency being 160nm. 185nm is 'produces a noticeable amount'.

[https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/php.13391]
A smash in the face of everyone who tries to do their part
Except it's not quite the same as Spotify - when you try to order a ride, Uber doesn't dilute and replace found rides with food offerings which you don't need or want at that time. That's what Spotify did - they actually undermined their main feature to push podcasts and hurt/cannibalized their main value proposition to try to push another product that we didn't want when we opened the app.

Honestly, I think this could go much better if they just organized their damn software better and not damage their music offering with forced podcasts. Many of us would probably stay loyal and use it for podcasts as well if they made the experience great instead of forced.
Oh yeah, adding to my to-do list!
Tangent: I wonder if Bing has an advantage in that most people perform SEO for Google; so long as Bing has different algos it may be “immune” to Google-focused seo?
Interesting, in my experience generally it's business types that don't know shit from their elbow and don't include IT early enough due to negligence.
Maybe? GPT-J is closer to the AI-Dungeon model of intelligence. It's able to fill in the blank after what you type, but it's hysterically bad at answering precise questions (to the point that I had to nerf it for fun to see how stupid the output could get).

It will handle basic natural language and context clues just fine. It's just not very fast, and the generations probably won't be as thorough as ChatGPT.
> unhealthy to be emotionally invested.

I used to agree with this, but I've changed my tune recently. Working 8 hours a day on something you're not emotionally invested in for years is incredibly depressing and puts you at risk of burn out. My more nuanced opinion is that you need to find the right pieces of the company to be invested in. I can take pride in the quality of the code, in trying to help out my co-workers, etc.
I'm far from convinced that there are any software patents that should be considered legitimate. In the US, you aren't supposed to be able to patent algorithms if they fall into any of three categories: mathematical concepts, methods of organizing human activity, or mental processes.

Which software doesn't fall into one of those bins?
I mean it's clearly not working for this guy.

But seriously, depends on your definition of "works". It works for large companies, doesn't seem to work for anyone else. It seems the only opensource that "works" is when large companies are nice enough to open source and maintain something that is accidentally useful to someone else (IE, never the crown jewels obviously) otherwise you mostly hear stories of harassment and burn out.
> It's that those devs get to dictate which platforms are even capable of making use of the software written in those languages.

Adding other tiers is welcomed. Take a look at the supported platforms (https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/rustc/platform-support.htm...) and see if there's a platform you'd like to target that isn't a tier 3 target at least. There's HaikuOS, PlayStation1 etc. I'm on a Tier 2 platform myself and I'm really happy.

If you'd like even more platforms, there's an ongoing project to add a GCC backend to rustc (https://blog.antoyo.xyz/rustc_codegen_gcc-progress-report-20).

> if it can make all the existing code written in that language suddenly available for the new platform, that platform instantly becomes orders of magnitude more useful and powerful.

I agree with this, but creating a front end that can actually compile all existing code correctly is a massive task. If the compiler is modular enough, you should be able to contribute just a backend, rather than reimplementing a frontend. I'm strongly against only the frontend reimplementation, because it's no longer clear what "valid" Rust code is.

In summary - I completely agree with the importance of targeting niche platforms. I think supporting multiple backends (LLVM now, libgccjit and Cranelift in future) gets us there without fracturing the ecosystem.

> but easier than having to reimplement a whole userland from scratch.

Probably. But once it's reimplemented (https://github.com/uutils/coreutils) I think it's really cool you can run get binaries for Linux, macOS and Windows with one build command.
Steve Jobs and Wozniak were hired to build a demo. Jobs kept reward for himself
Actually, I chose LFS. I was building out a systemd-based LFS system, and I had fucked up on GPT vs MBR or something like that, so I binned it. That was like ten hours down the drain, and I felt discouraged, so I didn't retry LFS.

I wanted to avoid the monolithic desktop environments and build one out of individual components that I would then customize to my liking. I had some experience with two 'highly customizable' distributions: Gentoo and Arch. I picked the one that was less likely to get me made fun of /s

It has worked out pretty well. My desktop has some quirks and I want to re-do it, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. Current desktop works and is 'good enough'

Another consideration was the Arch wiki. There are few better resources for getting Linux desktop software to work the way you want it, IMO
Original title: "Steve Jobs was hired to build the first prototype of "Breakout" for Atari. He enlisted the help of Steve Wozniak promising to give him half of the $750 pay. The pair stayed up four days straight to finish the game and were given a bonus because of this. Jobs kept the entire bonus for himself."
You may not agree with Ayn Rand, and in many cases I certainly don't, however she was a well known philosopher responsible for Objectivism and heavily influenced the formation of the Libertarian party.

There are many philosophers that I disagree with, but I wouldn't challenge whether they or their works are philosophical in nature.

Atlas Shrugged used trains and science fiction as a literary device to illustrate her philosophy.

I found it to be more engaging than her non-fiction works, which was the point, I suppose.
It's amusing that the 2nd link is over the count limit by one character, ha.
It's still 32-bit on Windows too, for some reason. I have it installed via Flatpak to avoid the pile of 32-bit libraries.
> Also anecdotally, in 10+ years of office work, I've never observed a single "watercooler conversation" leading to a particularly interesting idea.

I have. Happens all the time.

> The famous "whiteboarding sessions where ideas are born" can be easily done remotely

Really? How? All the tools are garbage and none have the tactility of a marker.
I have never seen a handover being very useful. Nobody has time to receive the handover and if the system is not a total mess, other people will get up to speed quickly as needed. Every time I have seen somebody leave or being laid off, things just moved on without much problem.
> LLMs are not supposed to answer knowledge questions

I googled for a knowledge question and wasn't able to find an answer.

Then I used ChatGPT and it produced a surprisingly satisfying (opinionated and correct) response.

I was able to successfully extract value by treating LLM as knowledge base, what exactly is absurd about it?

(to be fair, I asked ChatGPT the same question today and this time it returned a bland "it depends" non-answer).
Noticed the same thing. Even implying that what management wanted wasn't realistic would make them incredibly uncomfortable.
Honestly, I look at these numbers and I think 'is it really worth it to complain about these private jets?'

Looking at the top slot on the list, Thomas Siebel, he uses ~300x an average American. There are maybe 100 names on this list? And each uses less, so ballparking, lets call it ~15k Americans worth of CO2/year.

Yeah, thats a lot, but in the grand scheme of things its a drop in the bucket. If 15k Americans disappeared off the face of the earth today then nothing would change in the climate crisis.

To me this just tells me that we need to be focusing down on the bigger sources (big companies that make lots of CO2)
I don't see anything in your link about 222nm causing skin cancer? It's short enough that it shouldn't be getting through the outermost layer of skin, which is dead.
You're right. Nonetheless, not quite at the level one might have hoped given the early promises they made years ago. They never did create the car of the future to sell to the Americans.
Thats probably the reason, or at least part of it. On Windows I heavily modded it with tons of new items and sidequests, so that might have interfered with how it ran on Linux. However, I never installed any visual mods because I was playing the game on a toaster of a Windows PC and didn't want to risk lag. Its 7 years after the fact so its too late to troubleshoot, but I think it was probably a combination of the game not knowing what to do without my mods and WINE being weird.

My installation was also bit weird because I was new to Linux and didn't understand how things were supposed to work. I installed the Windows version of Steam through Play on Linux and installed everything through that client, rather than running individual games through POL. Then again, the installation option wasn't even available for the game on the Linux client so at the time I felt that the weird setup was the only way to play it
If China is cut off from Taiwan's most advanced tech that it can not produce on its own it might as well stop caring that the factories get destroyed.
Buzzfeed is grasping at straws here. The stock over tripled on their OpenAI announcement. That being said, expectations are coming back to earth as its given up most of that bump.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/BZFD?p=BZFD&.tsrc=fin-srch
https://archive.is/DK24H
I think there is a big difference between exercising your immune system and creating a Petri dish for air borne diseases. If COVID has taught us anything, it’s that ventilation in many buildings sucks big time. We need to either improve ventilation, or start killing viruses.

I mean, if you’re going to go the naturalistic angle, then what’s natural about squashing people into buildings with poor air flow?
that ship has sailed.
Ever since it became a superpower, America has suffered from bouts of paranoia over its possible decline. But this time feels different.
Quant Interview Prep
I've created a quant interview prep system with probability, statistics and combinatorics questions that usually appear on these screening calls.

I'm using ELO score to rank both the users and the questions. This is not also interesting for measuring the skill of a user, but also for automatically assesing the difficulty of questions without having to guess.
I would caution against trying to parse the language. This is Turkey, they don't even use the words zoning and building code there (it's English with associated context), they use the Turkish equivalent. Their legal system is also completely different (continental vs common law). Just high level take away is Erdogan is boasting about helping builders avoid earthquake related building laws.
I don't remember ever making an account, I just bought it on Google Play.
I don't think problems like this were unexpected, everyone knows India's manufacturing sector is less mature and not hyper-competitive like China's. Companies like Tata especially are going to be cautious to a fault about changing processes or spending a lot of money on improvements, because that attitude is what made them successful in India so far. The question is, will this new interest from Apple and others allow the country's electronics industry to grow and see the more capable businesses outcompete the rest?
This is great! One small suggestion: try it with the newer veb bridge device. It should be a bit faster.
Yes, the rich consume more resources and emit more carbon, what else is new? As a fraction of total worldwide emissions, private jets are irrelevant.

The environmental movement wants everyone to be poor. Live in a small house, don't use much heat in the winter, don't use A/C in the summer. Don't travel far. Walk to the grocery store and carry stuff yourself. Don't own a car - not even an electric car - take public transportation. Don't go far on vacation, don't ski, don't visit your friends or family all that often if they live far away.

Really, the environmental movement would actually be most happy with you if you killed yourself and stopped consuming resources altogether! But they only say that in private.
Wait I've been assured that is disinformation to suggest that democrats were trying to ban gas stoves.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/11/climate/gas-stoves-biden-...

If national democrats ever said to california democrats "no that is too crazy" there might be an argument here but instead what they say is "shh don't talk about that now we'll do it later"
When I read that I thought, fragility ~= efficiency

But then I thought of nature, which is pretty amazing.

I think maybe:

fragility = efficiency / testing-time

so yeah, old-timers.
I'm hating it: Mcdonald's AI-powered drive-thru sucks
Yes. I suffer from my iPhone picking the correct word and then changing it after i enter the next one.
At my first job our manager was fired around the time his partner died of cancer and he was left with 2 little kids. He was slacking but also they knew about the whole situation. He was there for over 10 years. That changed me forever
I used chatGPT to convert it from TS to Ruby:
https://github.com/ZPVIP/commitgpt

Special thanks to Nutlope.
I agree, I should have phrased it as *I believe it's one of the reasons*. Developer ergonomics matters a lot, too. The compiler is incredibly helpful, it makes these kind of projects less scary to contributors too, and I agree that pattern matching is fun as hell.
> That's really not my experience. I'm always very confused when I see this statement being thrown around as if it was a universal truth.

Because it's obviously true.

Communicating through pull requests is shockingly inefficient. It can take days or even weeks to accomplish what face-to-face communication would accomplish in SECONDS.
https://abc7news.com/oakland-cyclists-attacked-injured-doori...

I wonder why…
There’s a different between a developer and an engineer.
What next? “I haven’t watch TV in 10 years. Who watches TV anymore?”