skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Ads are doing better than ever, Android is holding steady worldwide, Maps has a huge moat that Apple has yet to overcome (in over a decade), nobody really complains about Google Search except us nerds.

What you've just described are the conditions that, time and time again, have persuaded companies to cut R&D spending and set the stage for being overtaken in a couple decades.

(After going 20 years without an engineering culture in management, would they respond to a threat by jumping on a real emerging technology, or a buzzword technology? That's why you can't cut your researchers and simply bring them back when your competitors are getting close.)
Cars are usually equipped with headlights. ;)

On a more serious note, it’s pretty common for UK roads to lack street lights. Particularly in more rural areas. The majority of my drive home from work is unlit.
GitHub announces stance on sha256 stability
Was just going to ask about Summer of Code
Sounds like this could solve the woes I’ve been having building x86 images on my M1. Docker emulation via qemu is still really buggy.
Another co-founder of IaSQL here. There are definitely some similarities with IaC tools in IaSQL; at it's core there's a diffing system between the cloud infrastructure state and the desired state that is used to execute AWS SDK calls to update your infrastructure.

But we also use the same mechanism to take changes in your infrastructure, perhaps made via the AWS console or an IaC tool like Terraform, and pull that into your IaSQL database. We use an audit log tracking who made changes where to determine which way the synchronization process goes, and this gives us a lot of "powers" over normal IaC.

First, you can inspect the tables in IaSQL and be sure that it's actually the state of our cloud (within a few minutes of difference), so you can be more sure that the changes you're writing up are likely to work.

Second, the changes you write are SQL statements to mutate your infrastructure rather than editing a declaration file, which is a different mental model vs IaC. But you gain from the constraints and foreign key relations on tables to catch mistakes in configuration before execution even happens to a greater degree than IaC tools can as this is like a "type safety" on top of dynamic information (other tables you depend on).

Third, you can enter an IaSQL transaction (slightly different from a normal Postgres transaction as you can't hook function calls on `BEGIN` and `COMMIT`) to make these changes and inspect what IaSQL will do like you can with IaC tools, but if there is a failure, the `iasql_commit` will take the information from the audit log and roll back the changes that were applied by applying the prior versions in reverse, so IaSQL should always be in a working state.

Finally, (since this is getting long) the live-infra data model of IaSQL makes dynamic infrastructure much simpler (eg, you deploy isolated instances of your services per customer) -- anything with a SQL client and credentials for the IaSQL database can connect and initiate these changes, which can be Postgres stored procedures you write and added to the database.

We're in beta so our coverage is not as large as existing IaC tools, but we now cover 25 different AWS services with our modules: https://iasql.com/docs/modules/ But please let us know if there's something you use that's missing. :)
> a breaking point

Of our sanity maybe, or a breaking point of traditional liberal enlightenment values, but short of a global catastrophe I don't see anything halting the inexorable march of technological development and the social chaos that inevitably causes. Any attempt to stop this through political means would require Pol Pot tactics applied globally; aegrescit medendo.

With LLMs and voice generators particularly, I think the general public has been given access to military-grade information weapons. The chaos this causes will be used to justify crackdowns and regulation on the flow of information, to curb the automation of weaponized misinformation. New technology always spurns new regulations, so new information technology will beget new information regulations. The inexorable march of technology cannot be stopped, and so our freedoms will inevitably be curtailed until there is nothing left.

Or as another man put it:

> 114. As explained in paragraphs 65–67, 70–73, modern man is strapped down by a network of rules and regulations, and his fate depends on the actions of persons remote from him whose decisions he cannot influence. This is not accidental or a result of the arbitrariness of arrogant bureaucrats. It is necessary and inevitable in any technologically advanced society. The system HAS TO regulate human behavior closely in order to function. At work, people have to do what they are told to do, when they are told to do it and in the way they are told to do it, otherwise production would be thrown into chaos. Bureaucracies HAVE TO be run according to rigid rules. To allow any substantial personal discretion to lower-level bureaucrats would disrupt the system and lead to charges of unfairness due to differences in the way individual bureaucrats exercised their discretion. It is true that some restrictions on our freedom could be eliminated. but GENERALLY SPEAKING the regulation of our lives by large organizations is necessary for the functioning of industrial-technological society.
Because senders can be forged, probably. It’s not uncommon (or at least it used to be) to receive spam seemingly from addresses you know but not actually sent by them.
Ripping CDs was common practice back then, in addition to all the piracy you mentioned. I'm pretty sure iTunes had a built-in feature for it.
> line cooks

I agree with you. However it is interesting that Charlie Ayers (employee #53 as a cook at Google), made millions when his stocks vested.
> Why would a European think an American would possess a gun in their country? And how would they get it there through customs - it’s not an idea?

Yeah, you know how stuff works in Europe, so this transparently sounds like nonsense to you. Similarly, the OP's assertion that caste and sex discrimination is "rampant" among Indians in Seattle sounds like nonsense to me.

> And a gun is a lethal weapon - is the caste system?

Definitely, in a bad way. People have been murdered in India over inter-caste marriages.

> I just can’t make sense of this metaphor.

I'll try to explain it point by point:

- Caste-based discrimination is a terrible thing that happens all the time in India, similar to how gun violence is a terrible thing that happens all the time in the US.

- But if a European said to you "You Americans in my country are super argumentative! You seem to be ready to pull a gun on each other all the time against each other, it's just like what I read in the paper!", you'd think it was nonsense that was basically stereotype-matching.

- Similarly, I find OP's comment about rampant caste discrimination nonsensical because it relies on simplistic stereotyping.
Podcast Text Downloader Idea
It would be awesome if you went to a website adn copy and pasted a link to a podcast and then you can get an output of a text transcript of the podcast.

I found a hacky way of doing this by using a youtube mp3 downloader and then then uploading that file into otter.

but was considering building an app that automated this process. The next step would be to leverage otter or gpt-3 to give you a condensed summary of this podcast.

Is this something that is legal? Is this something that people would pay for?

Cheers,
MP
Could you say more about the team size? Taking a 2000-hour year as ballpark, 2500 hours in 9 months is puzzling to me.

And as long as I have your attention, how many releases happened during that period?
pulumi is really sweet, but yeah, I think the claim is a bit strong.
Seems to be addressed (briefly) here.

> Because not all inflation is caused by price-gouging. Some is caused by too little capacity

The thesis, restated, seems to be that an egg monopolist buys up all viable competitors, and then keeps production artificially low. As you note, this causes the market price to increase. In a healthy market, this causes new production to come online. But in this case, allegedly, that is all bought up by the incumbents.
Are you a man or woman? Are you trying to date women? The implication is that you're a guy after girls, but that's not clear and I'm not sure what to take from that.

And did you explain anything about why it is toxic, just a reflexive "it's bad mmmmmkay" and that you left -- but you didn't say what you went looking for, or what you found, and why it's better.

Furthermore there is the "[probably rich] guy in a foreign country" thing, which may skew things further.

Nor did you explain why, despite having a ton of female friends who stayed at your house, you weren't able to turn those into romantic options.
I guarantee you that even in Germany, someone that has been charged with second degree murder will absolutely go to jail while awaiting for their trial.
Affluent people existed before Google and tech workers.
I just wanted to post a quick comment apologizing for extending this thread any further.
You have a communication issue I think. It took me some time to realise you didn't mean present, as in presentation. Dumb your homepage down, it may be too clever. Great idea though :-)
Women are not objects to be owned. Even if she's in a relationship she might be unhappy with it and open to other options. Just don't be creepy or aggressive about it.

To use an analogy, hiring managers are allowed to offer you a job even if you already have a job. They're not obligated to wait until you're unemployed.
The article mentions pre-diabetes screening as a potential application - could that plausibly be accomplished with less precision than is required for a bolus calculation?
Well, for starters, we've paused hiring for a few months on the role it pertains to?

Once again: this started as a hiring challenge, and Ben and Kyle overperformed and made it something more interesting. I guess we could have waited a few months and ran this at a time when we could metabolize more platform candidates, but, once again: this isn't a recruiting thing.
Nice! We built something very similar recently, it is more like "Ask your documentation" but very similar implementations otherwise.

See a demo on the huggingface transformers documentation: https://huggingface.co/spaces/jerpint/buster

code: https://github.com/jerpint/buster
Any source for this?

I would say the change towards “less exciting” is driven by risk-averse management. Even their latest “risk” (Bard) was driven by Microsoft’s Bing release. I would even argue that releasing Bard represents the lower-risk approach. The risk incurred by being silent is undoubtedly what moved Google executives to rush out a half-baked and even more poorly executed “demo”.
> However, Vietnamese service suppliers said the failures on the five cables will not have great impact on the speed of Internet connection between the country and the world.

> The SMW3 cable is outdated and going to be decommissioned, so it has not been used for fixed broadband Internet services, they explained, adding that the latest breakdown didn’t occur in the peak time, and they immediately carried out responding measures to reduce impact on the Internet speed.
> Women actually dont prefer a v large age gap--less than men and on the order of 2-3 years.

This seems mathematically impossible to me. The average age gap in a relationship with a woman for a given man should be the same as the average age gap in a relationship with a man for a given woman.
The stress of being in jail has a negative impact on the fetuses development. It's shameful that we aren't prioritizing the well being of the next generation. It's also against the state's interest to do anything that would hurt their future taxable income.
Since this comment is at the top of the thread, I’m going to attach a quick reminder that egg prices are high due to a major outbreak of bird flu. I know that won’t keep this thread from degenerating into political rants about inflation, but maybe it will help someone move on with their day.
> A man living in NYC will have a better chance of finding love than a man in San Francisco purely based on the city that they live in

[citation needed]
> Tip outs are better in bougie joints frequented by tech workers.

This sounds a little trickle-downy. Why not strive for an economy where people doing important work like feeding their communities just... Don't need to be tipped?

I know it sounds crazy in today-terms, but if it makes any sense, it makes tipping culture look like more of a problem than a boon to anyone receiving the tips.
It's a gigantic canteen, but it's only filled to 50%.
Patenting all basic computing algorithms and data structures that were not published yet. And add "on a network" to everything else already existing.

Maybe patenting first a few common enough practical things (I don't know, even cardboard boxes for pizzas) to have enough money to lobby legislators for accepting the big patents of above if they weren't accepted back then.
My recollection of Vista was that everybody was complaining of its performance compared to XP because so much switched to .net-based apps, slogging everything down. It wasn't until Win7 that everybody was happy (it could even run on netbooks).
Talk to people who raise chickens. Costs for everything from baby chicks to egg-laying hens have tripled pretty much country-wide.

H5N1 has hit the US and Europe extremely hard this year and there seems to be no end in sight to this current outbreak.
This seems like a joke, but humanity's feature is probably going to involve a LOT of talking to AI companions. So many people out there already have parasocial relationships with youtubers and streamers, it's only a matter of time before they have AIs that are "good enough" for them to chat with endlessly.
More like at most 2 years of drastically altered lifestyle, after that you just send them to a daycare and go to work and then at home they are able to walk, talk and eat by themselves and you can get a babysitter and go on a date. For these 2 years we have to be grown up about existence of reproductive dimorphism, most obviously breastfeeding but also fathers and their children learning parenting relationship as an acquired skill rather than instinct. Rather than demanding that there is no statistical difference between life paths of men and women, how about respecting both equally? Why is being a cog in corporate machine inherently more worthy of respect or life meaning than taking care of your own family? If this is considered equally desirable, more fathers will also be interested. Plus there is now remote work and robots/AI are taking our jobs, so why is this even a big deal?
I originally wrote this comment to someone else, but that parent comment was deleted, so I'll copy it here.

I think you've done many of the right things - perhaps it was just bad luck. Depending on where you live - that could be another factor. Who is your competition? Who are women comparing you against? The other thing to note is - did the things you do for self-improvement actually improve your status, as the women would see it. Status is frequently linked to power (and not necessarily income), but not always.

The other counterintuitive thing is that you want to be capable of evil, but choose to do good. I think a lot of people who are good people miss this point. It is crucial. If you have no capacity to commit evil, then by doing good you are showing no virtue - you are just acting by default. Develop your own dark side, learn to be selfish and then choose not to be (but don't go overboard).

(lots of parallels here in popular stories - Harry Potter / Voldemort, Vampires, Werewolves, etc etc)
So all the crypto bros that retired at 25 now have to re enter the workplace and they want to do it remotely.
I can't recall if iTunes was introduced at exact same time as iPod not

iTunes was released in January of 2001, 9 months before the release of the first generation iPod in October 2001.
Again... and I can't stress this enough. The best way to get someone's password isn't phishing, it's threatening to hit them in the head with a wrench. The idea that we can create some sort of libertarian utopia seems blind to the fact that humans are inherently social.

I think the idea of making unseizable assets is noble, sort of, but the concept of property, and money or value, is social by design. The assets with intrinsic value are wheat fields, oil tankers, and silos of grain... not artistic works.

I think the idea of a digital, anonymous currency, though fraught with problems, can be extended past national (thus cultural) borders, but the same can be accomplished with the banking system. When a country plans to seize your assets, the goal should be to leave the country, not remain with hidden cryptos.
> I wonder how you missed that?

I'm interested in friendly debate, not rhetorical games nor exchanging hostile posts.
Worked at Google in the early 2010s and it was still a bit quirky/different, not enterprise at all ... but they were hiring armies of project managers, agile coaches, multiple layers of HR specialists ...
Coroutines This is another can be used It as another way is still possible to language construct like manage object lifetime, and make some to use threads control flow much easier if you have coroutines to write. lambdas.
Better get good quick at enterprise sales
>nobody really complains about Google Search except us nerds.

I know many non nerd complainers, but they don't know any alternatives.
The summary itself is still generated, but has all the context to do summarization in the prompt.

It's very difficult to otherwise finetune existing LLMs. GPT itself is closed-sourced, and doesn't allow for finetuning (except via an opaque API and with limited amounts of data). Other open models are either very difficult to load in memory and/or simply not as expressive as GPT
Haha, right, the government is kind of incompetent, but it is the government we elect so it functions as a democracy. It just doesn't function very well as a government.
To give a slightly different answer, because they don't need to.

Intel has their own foundry, AMD is quite happy with whats a fairly recent move to 5 nm. Graphics card manufacturers are more concerned with selling off old cards than making new ones.

Apple isn't going to get very good yields out of 3nm and will likely only get to put it in a few products for now, but for a few months they get to say they'll be the biggest baddest company on the block, which is what apple marketing is all about.

Qualcomm gets the entire mobile market either way, and for desktop/server manufacturers apple isn't an option. Apple 3nm doesn't directly compete with amd/intel, so why worry
Thanks! Actually I noticed 2 issues in any starter project:

1. First thing someone does after clone is search-and-replace e.g. com.example to com.mycompany. Sometimes it results in broken code or partial replacement e.g. bcoz the phrase is whitespace-separated.

2. Starter code can be very complex. For my starter project, I ensure each commit is "atomic" e.g. one commit for unit tests, another for swagger-generation. So that people can follow it easily.

So I'm just wondering if you can "standardize" those two, or even provide "UI"?
Matt Ruff’s “Destroyer of Worlds”
I wish the results were reversed, so I could "well actually" your comment, but 'site:news.ycombinator.com "well actually"' gives ca. 4k results in Google and 'site:news.ycombinator.com "I think you'll find"' gives close to 17k results, so you appear to be right.
I don't have a better response for this than that we got a huge flood of candidates for that role, are doing our best to keep up, and have done an imperfect job. We're a small company. You're more than welcome to reach out directly to find out what happened with your application (it's entirely possible that what happened is that the ticket got buried somewhere, and that we'd have been excited to hire you had we not screwed something up on our end).

As for the scope of the challenge: that's deliberate, and we're up front about it. If the challenge is going to take you many hours to complete, and doing that work isn't something that lights you up, then it's the wrong role for you. There are candidates that breeze through it, and there are candidates who wrestle with it for a couple evenings just because they're nerdsniped and enjoy doing that stuff. Both those kinds of candidates are super interesting to us! But we're very comfortable with the idea that the job (in this case: infra engineering) isn't a perfect fit for everybody.
Great idea! Reach out to Google board. They'd be thrilled to see double the talent at half the price.
Amen, but rephrased as "I'm throwing away my good years till death"
We thought the same solution for YoBulk but intentionally did not use S3 and lambda because all cloud infra cost and maintenance cost associated with this solution.You can find the details in our blog https://www.yobulk.dev/blog/Scaling%20a%20CSV%20importer
> Deciding personhood based on our tech level doesn't seem very reasonable.

Why? This strikes me as begging the question.
>IIRC CD's from top artists were going for $15-$16 in the late 90's.

That's because the labels were engaging in pricefixing and blacklisting retailers who did not go along with their scheme. People suspected it but nothing really happened until the FTC stepped in.

https://archive.is/3thhx

Even then the result was basically a slap on the wrist and most people had begun using P2P instead.
It's unfortunate. This would be so easy to fix, too, just tax carbon as it comes out of the ground and let the market sort out the rest. Let the best technologies win.
Ask HN: People on non-US keyboard layouts, how do you use keybindings?
Hello hackers,

I have recently re-discovered my love for using my keyboard as my primary mean of on-screen navigation. However, it appears as if many (web) application shortcuts are not configured with an international audience in mind. Even more annoyingly, the option to change those keybindings seems to be increasingly rare.

For me, using keyboard shortcuts for layer reordering in Figma is completely impossible due to the way [ & ] are pressed on a German keyboard. Even for everyday programming languages, commonly used keys such as "(){}[];" are in a less convenient position than they are on a US layout.

So I am wondering, for anyone else who's used to a non-US layout, how do you deal with it? Do you remap key bindings? Do you adjust to not being able to use some shortcuts? Have you taught yourself using a different layout?

I'm interested in your experiences!
I'm very unclear about what "otherwise" means in "elevating when it otherwise wouldn't be elevated".

There's no natural state of how content would be displayed, any choice of how to do it would result in a moderated list that elevates something that wouldn't have otherwise been elevated with a different approach.

There is no distinction to me between what YouTube and HN do, and I certainly don't think the law should treat them any differently. Both should be legally protected regardless of which specific approach it takes.
The comments too? Everything in a moderation queue and potentially serious penalties for getting it wrong? I'm pretty sure you would notice.

And would the developer of a Mastodon client be personally liable if their algorithm recommends someone harmful as a new account to follow?
In the case of VinFast, they own it. You can't even buy the car itself, it is a lease from the start. You'd be correct in the economics not making any sense and of course people are ripping on that in their forums. Hopefully, they figure it out eventually. Luckily for VinFast, the entire Vietnamese government is backing them.

What you're imagining though is that you own the battery. In the case of NIO, it is a lease the entire time. When you sell the car, you're selling the lease on the battery with it.
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