skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Curious that the article speaks plenty about Dorsey and ommits the fact that he has been very active on the Nostr platform.

Nostr is so far the only platform where I see a decentralized future. Mastodon does not provide portable identities that you can easily move to other servers, nor helps you to preserve your post from previous years.

Nostr solved both obstacles. One private key, zero email addresses needed. Move your texts to wherever you want, your identity is always verified (as long as you don't leak your private key) and fully private when you wish to remain so.

There are even built-in payments over there now. Basically everything that these larger groups have been talking about for years has been implemented with success in a few months independently from them.
Because users are so famously reluctant to download apps? Apple would like a word with you ;)

It's mostly devs who obsess over the downloading and running of programs as if it's a great torment. Users don't care much. They're happy to go grab things from app stores or even just download and run them. Notch was able to buy a massive mansion in Beverly Hills on the back of people downloading and running his Java desktop app.
Perhaps HBO Max only uses L3 for all content then?
A lot of the recent Google moves make more sense if you see them as something suggested or driven by an AI.... which gives credence to rumors that top execs rely heavily on AI to make decisions. Of course an AI would say that the most important thing to work on is an AI.
When one company, that has a culture of incentivising new features over maintenance, has monopoly control over the web you get a lot of new features. The merits of those features is somewhat irrelevant.
That carbon comes from animals and plants that took it from the atmosphere in the first place. It's the normal carbon cycle: we don't drink oil. Well, not the kind that's extracted from underground and so is out of the carbon cycle.

On the other hand, if the filter was disposed of appropriately, that carbon would be removed from the carbon cycle and the atmosphere would be freed of some CO2 as a consequence.
ChatGPT can provide huge value to average Joe or Jane, provide me at least one reason how Bitcoin is useful to average Joe compared to fiat currency.
Wait what impact did the Vietnam War have on Indonesia? I've never seen this documentary
> Cross platform languages.

You don't know unix things, yes. I can't understand how can someone be so proud of not knowing something.

Python and C++ are cross platforms and both support the things I listed that java doesn't support.

> fork() is legacy, it can't even handle modern UNIX workloads with threads.

Lol, ok. Next you're going to tell me file descriptors are obsolete?

Just a curiosity, what do you use instead of fork()?
This criticism, like many others, attacks the mechanics of how LLMs think, apparently dismissing the models for not doing so using the same process, faculties, and background life experience as a human. It does not contain any compelling arguments to refute the notion that LLMs think. We may not have consumer level AGI just yet, but suggesting a LLM is just a dumb anything (stochastic parrot or otherwise) is a rather extraordinary claim to make about something that basically patterns the whole internet.

We’ve been here before. Our sense of place in the universe was first upset by the heliocentric model (we’re not as special as we thought), then the theory of general relativity (not as correct as we thought), then quantum mechanics (not even living in a deterministic universe, really). With all these fantastic discoveries behind us, now seems like the right time to learn that we’re not as smart as we thought either.
Hi, thanks for the mention!

The Mapbox repo has an older version of tippecanoe; there's a newer version actively being improved by Felt at http://github.com/felt/tippecanoe , and they've also funded my addition of the Protomaps format (PMTiles) as a direct output. No conversion step required anymore!
To your point on family ties, potential DNA matching between relatives will not be avoidable. I wonder if there could be a constitutional amendment to protect us.
The real meat of this story:

> A web application with 50,000 map loads using the Google Maps API will cost $350 per month.

> A similar amount of traffic running through a Protomaps CDN install on Cloudflare, with an average of 20 tiles per session, costs fifty cents in Cloudflare Workers request fees.

$350 versus $0.50! Who's going to be the first to build a (maybe Google Maps-compatible?) API on top of this and sell it for a fraction of the cost?

Edit: Looked around a bit and Protomaps already offers a hosted map through Github Sponsors here: https://github.com/sponsors/protomaps
The “Not Creative” Trap
Due to paywall, I couldn’t read the whole article. But that doesn’t stop me from summarizing it:

How you should think

The astute follower of mainstream media will sometimes notice rifts in the global narrative continuum. What was confidently touted for a year no longer seems to be true, and instead the ideas that we ridiculed endlessly seems likelier by the day. Is this an indication that we got it wrong? Of course not. Let us assure you that this is merely a temporary disruption and total consensus will be restored promptly. In particular, don’t be tempted to take this moment as an opportunity to exercise critical thinking. Remember: truths are always wrapped in complicated packaging, such as spooky “confidence levels”, which isn’t designed for layman consumption. Our most credentialed experts are working day and night to integrate these new discoveries into the narrative you all love and care for. Stay tuned.

Still, you may wonder how to make sense of such a world, with seemingly contradictory truths? Well, the only permanent cure is to not focus too much on truths and factoids, but rather subscribe to the narrative at large. It’s a lot easier than thinking for yourself, and much safer. Don’t let this wear you down though. Remember, the current truth is no more than a click away, for only $9.99/mo.
Normally high earning employees have non-compete clauses that are enforced.
There’s something in the video that makes me feel uneasy.

Hope that other browsers won’t follow the suit cause I’ll have to get myself comfortable with “use reduced motion” switch.
The Beauty of Hurrying Slowly
Ah it's a JS app because of course it is.

(don't hate me please, I write JS for a living and I need this job <_<)
> Java needs set of microservice libraries reimagined from the ground up

Which has pretty much already happened.

Maven and Gradle are not bad at all, hell, Gradle is probably one of the few build tools that can actually handle more complex tasks correctly. Sure, that fancy new build tool definitely is more ergonomic to use for that hello world with 3 dependencies listed, but can it actually be used for generating locale files and whatnot? Not everything is running the compiler.

Java’s ecosystem is one of the best and I can claim that quite objectively.
Carp lang: statically typed Lisp, no GC
My girlfriend uses it to write her Instagram captions. My nephews use it to do homework.

Anywhere you need text written, it can generate something. Like you said, it might not be correct, but you can read what it tells you, you don't need to copy paste it verbatim.

Rather than asking it a question, feed it some bullet points and watch it convert it into paragraphs. Read the paragraphs and remove anything extra it added. It probably saved you 10-20 minutes and lots of frustration depending on how much you hate writing.

If you can't see the use for yourself, that's fine. But I really don't believe that you can't see how it would be useful to other people.

I find it hilarious to compare with crypto, where the majority of projects are purely about speculation.
Yeah, I can imagine that’s painful. But I hope joyful sounds balance it out! One that I always notice is the TiVo bi-bip - every time I hear it on a TV show I have happy memories of a great device.
Shrug, would you expect anything else from Redmond?
I use cheap notebooks
In the limit of quality of sequence continuation, there are many wonders.
> primary school do not allows them to get out without me

Please tell me you’re joking.
ChatGPT - Write for me the next superhero script for Marvel about someone who magically has super powers.

That's essentially where we are going with this.
Couple of other things to try.

Hold off on loading and playing the videos until they are visible:
https://web.dev/lazy-loading-video/#video-gif-replacement

Automatically pause the video when they are scrolled off the screen and no longer visible:
https://benfrain.com/automatically-play-and-pause-video-as-i...
Sorry, I went on a bit of hyperbole. But from apocalypse, I meant as AI causing mass unemployment in dev community.
I assume the thinking is that the filters placed in a car will have (more) air flow go through them by virtue of the car moving. It's as if you placed the filters in a facility that didn't have to run fans to force air through the them.
I think one of the author's problems is that he conflates C and C++ and it seems they do not have a knowledge around either. This quote also supports this:

> There is no malloc keyword like in C/C++.
> I would expect it's because Brave advertises itself as being privacy friendly

Yet the bug was not an privacy issue.

Brave still is the most private mainstream browsers. Bugs that were fixed do not reflect the present reality: https://privacytests.org/
As mentioned in the post there's a _free_ API for non-commercial use that I maintain, and you can make commercial use of it by becoming a GitHub Sponsor:

http://github.com/sponsors/protomaps

But being "Google Maps compatible" will never be possible as long as the Google Maps client library and data are proprietary.
Do any of the Big Five stand out in terms of being above-average (or below-average) for WFH? Or are they universally meh? I know there's team-by-team variation, just wondering about overall trends.
I wish there was more movement in the native GUI space, at the moment it feels like everything (even official clients from companies that have the funds to have native developers for every platform) are built in a web technology.

It feels like you get the OS's native toolkit - which is fine, it just means you can't easily have one design across multiple operating systems - and tools like QT which go back decades. I know there's some GUI toolkits for new languages like Go and Rust, but they're often very barebones and since there's no commercial interest in them, they don't develop into full-scale native UI libraries.

I mean as a compromise, is React Native a thing for desktop applications yet?
I am not familiar with that service.

If you work W-2, the payroll processor for your company likely gives your payroll details to theworknumber. This is ridiculous.
Yes, their notifications were more "in your face" and for some reason you'd get a bunch of random people adding you to their "circle"

Poor UX management
Might be a new startup idea! Time to sell train friend subscriptions :p
Maybe it's just my own little bubble but everything around me seems to be going digital. I used to print invoices / received printed invoices, communicated with the government with printed forms. These days I receive/send invoices via email, and communicate with the government via their web apps. I haven't printed anything in quite a while. And if I wanted to print a photo to put on a wall, I would probably go to a professional shop anyway to get the best quality.
I don't know serverless, but recently-ish (few months ago) I was testing Java memory usage on a tiny program. Something like:

public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
for (int i = 0; i < 60; i++) {
System.out.printf("%d\n", i);
Thread.sleep(1000);
}
}
}

After spamming as many flags as I could find (literally listing all possible flags and seeing what looked like a high number, and lowering it), I could only get this program to use 307MB VIRT and 40MB RES memory.

Unfortunately I didn't save the flags I used.

That's more or less on par with the equivalent Node.js program on my PC (Node.js actually uses a bit more RES memory, 44MB).

So I guess as long as you can (and want to) spam a lot of flags, it's feasible to lower memory usage.

Disclaimer: Not a Java dev.
I think the energy required to capture co2 is needed to run fans that force the air through filters. The filters themselves are passive.
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If you read the prospectus for almost any publicly listed equity, it will say something along the lines of "our company is a dumpster fire and could implode at any minute." In slightly nicer terms. They will say the exact opposite in the verbal quarterly conferences, but they put that in writing just so they can say you've been adequately advised.
We need to optimize for "tonnes of CO2 scrubbed per dollar". This cost includes capital cost, and energy cost.

Because location doesn't matter, putting lots of small battery-powered mobile units is always going to lose to a large fixed industrial unit with an industrial-scale energy supply. Probably orders of magnitude worse on both CAPEX and OPEX.
People downvoting you are clueless. Different assets have different moneyness depending on how they can be used. A credit card limit is more moneylike than bank reserves are.
> Very early in development, lacking in features, stability, and general user experience.
To clarify, throw out as in, device (armed with a key/lock mechanism) becomes unusable (because said key is corrupted lost, lost amid mountain of other keys).

I am using password/key here somewhat interchangeably despite common (mis)understanding of what both words imply i.e. phrase versus some random(ish) bits, because the only distinction between the two is the algorithms used to compare (if you want to get pedantic pub/sub and splitting schemes are a bit more different, nevertheless they share the common theme of "secret used to protect something"). So no your YUBI has no password (that I know of) but it is effectively a password (by scanning it and reproducing it at a molecular level you could in fact reproduce it, it's as much a password with protection by obscurity in this sense as writing down a pass phrase backwards is, albeit one is much more difficult to reproduce than another).
The mathematics in this article looks not all that complex. From the little that I understand about it, it is not a direct proof that the equations are stable, but that it is based on a definition of enthropy and a stochastic argument. That argument gives good reasons to assume that the equations are smooth, but I wonder if it proofs that it is smooth in all cases. In this regard, it is interesting to note that in a recent paper [0] it was shown that Euler equations (a simpler system than the Navier-Stokes equations) might be instable.

[0] https://www.wired.com/story/a-new-computer-proof-blows-up-ce...
For full disk encryption, if you use systemd and not another init system, i'd also recommend systemd-cryptsetup, it's already installed on your machine if you have a relatively new systemd (at least 248). With systemd-cryptsetup you can use fido2, and your normal fido2 pin, to unlock your LUKS drive.

This also works with the YubiKeys "Security Key" series, that only have fido2 and no otp/chalresp.
It's always been a part of the cost - maybe implicitly.
Well a 1080p stream at 30 fps would be 1,5 Gbit/s -- a little outside the spec of most people's internet tubes. And 4K UHD at 30 fps would be around 5 or 6 gigabit.

It helps to capture the Netflix stream uncompressed to remove the extra compression step you'd otherwise get at capture time, and modern encoders are pretty good, I don't think most people would notice on a laptop screen.

On a 40+ inch 4K TV though, it can be quite noticeable
I agree it takes a village, and like you I was lucky to grow up with lots of aunts, uncles, and grandparents around all the time. But I don’t like the idea that it we need a village so both parents of the child can work full time.

The first couple years of a kid’s life are formative, and fleeting. Why only spend a small portion of each day together? It takes more than that to form a good bond.

Plus, grandparents might have all the free time, but aren’t as able to do everything as someone in the next younger generation. But why don’t any of the aunts and uncles have jobs, while the kid’s parents do, in your hypothetical?

The sooner we get away from 5 8s the better IMO, so we can start living richer, balanced lives. At least the commute is going, which really makes it more like 5 10s on average.
It's not a uniquely YC thing. Every major company did this well at some point.

Microsoft is in that sweet spot where they're big enough to fund whatever they want, but not FAANG-tier, which tends to attract political types.
That's awesome, just saw that myself! This is a super cool project.

Fwiw with "Google Maps compatible" I didn't mean showing Google's Maps, I was thinking more a drop-in replacement to (some subset of) Google's client library.
There needs to be some lexicon for this kind of thing. Theres a parallel with NP problems, some things are hard to figure out but easy to verify. Others hard to do both.
Come on, I can honestly have a hard time taking anyone seriously that says that Go is a better designed language. Like, at times I even question the “designed” part.

They managed to create a more verbose Java 1.1 (yes, this is objectively true), with even more footguns than it had at the time. Oh, and it is absolutely not more performant than Java for most use cases - sure, it is a good choice for very basic server applications that barely allocate anything, but complex applications where allocations are significant will absolutely run faster with Java.
PMs are not idea people either.

They do not generate worth through ideas and they do not generate worth through implementations.

They solicit other people's ideas, count how many votes each idea gets, and passes them to the grunts.

They are middle management distilled.
No mention of any compensation anywhere.
Ah yes, the Europeans stealing the African's photons. I wont say much as there are already so many comments. This proposed cable and the solar farms that would drive it are not going to be owned by the British government. They are not some extractive colonial endeavour. The African governments should tax the generation, re-invest the tax revenue, and build-out their local infrastructure. I'm aware of the resource curse. As I think Bob Geldof said once "the only thing Africa really needs is a better class of African leader".
To make it worse, there is a bug with their flagship 120 fps displays making this specific transition run 2x longer.
We're still at the beginning of large language models. This is very new technology. Right now, they can act as question-answering and interaction systems that can do a decent job most of the time and are totally wrong some of the time. Improvement is needed, and does not seem to be impossible. Making up bogus facts has to stop if these things front-end search engines.

The concern right now is widespread deployment of really crappy systems. ChatGPT can probably outperform the average call center staffer now. That's going to be a problem.
I want a faster horse, or at least one that isn't saddled [sic] with the weight of all the crap hoisted on it. The winning formula may well be something like...

"OK Google, now repeat that search with all the SEO spam and content marketing cruft filtered out."
Jokes on you. The entire blog post you just read, ChatGPT. There never was a database.
while people will all point out the benefits of working together in the office, when you weigh it against the blindingly obvious downsides:

- enormous time lost to commutes

- massive lost flexibility

- restriction of your workforce to the tiny 20 mile radius of people willing / able to physically travel to your office instead of literally the entire world (or at least, those in your time zone who speak your language)

If you put the mild benefits of "chit cat at the water cooler", "separation b/w home and work" etc which mostly only benefits the extroverts it seem utterly bonkers to sacrifice all that. Far better to invest in actually doing remote well - which does take effort and does heavily mitigate many of the things people complain about with WFH.
A 3M-Year-Old Discovery May Rewrite the History of Earth Intelligent Life
Not just decorators, but all kinds of functionalities that allowed types to be constructed at runtime.
The cleanest vehicle is the vehicle that can move some quantity of weight using the least amount of energy possible. No way around those basic physics.
I once saw a Google talk about video codecs in Chromium. It included a section where they talked about the life cycle of a video codec.

They apparently introduce video codecs with plans for deprecating and then removing them. Literally breaking all sites on the web which rely on that codec.

That, to me, perfectly encapsulates their philosophy of introducing new features without committing to maintaining them. They don't view the web as something that's worth not breaking, they seem to only value the actively maintained part of the web which has enough resources to stay on top of Google's treadmill.
Agreed. I think the (now obviously justified) cynicism over blockchain hype has led a lot of left-leaning people to see AI as the next bubble.

It doesn't help that major non-technical consulting firms have been producing nonsense for years about the coming "fourth industrial revolution" (AI/ML, IoT, VR. self-driving etc.) These people are usually wrong.

The difference is that ChatGPT, midjourney, copilot etc. are just legitimately useful. Being able to transcribe, translate, summarise and process audio and text data is useful. Being able to generate a regex or SQL query is useful. There are obviously questions about how much closer this gets us to AGI, but the tech has inarguable utility in a way that cryptocurrencies never did.
Continuing trend.

https://www.gapintelligence.com/blog/home-printers-stay-esse...

Since HN tends to be incredibly pedantic: "irrelevant" here is obviously not literal.
Are you sure it's data driven or perception?
I think censorship-resistence is the usual term for that outside of the bitcoin world.
This is why I stuck to my very old laser printer, in this case an HP 1012.
Flipper Zero Devices Being Seized by Brazil’s Telecom Agency