skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am almost here. Similar age and in a company planing 2nd round of layoffs. I really have no delusions that somebody will want to hire me again. Universities are pumping out thousands of cheaper and better looking graduates. I never saw big corp hiring (in Germany) a graybeard like me for developer role. All the graybeards were so called consultants hired over specific agency. 40 is the magic number I guess.

On the other hand 40 is about the right time, because body and mind is still functional. The network is available and the people skills should be developed even in worst outcasts (there are exceptions). People often have some business ideas and the worthy ones are developed a bit as a hobby. Being fired is the so much needed kick to get started for real.
I would argue "organic", "fair trade" is more a marketing-feel-good problem than actually solving the problem. There's always many if and buts which complete nullify the effect of the original label means and manufactures are more interested to lie to consumers.
Compare your income against the OECD Income Distribution Database
So there is no such thing as a cargo cult? Every time some trend picks up, be it agile, standup, open offices, WFH, return to office, over-hiring, massive layoffs, and what have you, it’s because it backed by rigorous data analysis?
100 lines is such an amateur number. I can actually do this in 1 lines of shell.

curl -O $1 $2

Checkmate 100line python guy!
poe.com is a web interface (by Quora) to multiple LLMs. Right now it's ChatGPT, GPT-4, Claude, Claude+ as well as Sage and Dragonfly.
> who wrote a janky frankensteins monster which they sold to customers

That's likely because they are focused on building products not fancy toys. No wonder they succeed. Once cash flow is established you can hire workers to tidy things up and argue over what indentation style to use or which shiny new framework to adopt.
I have been working on a Go/WASM canvas renderer for this subset, but the drawing overheads seem too high. I also tried rendering into WebGL, via creating an Image from a b64 encoded SVG. That works ok, until you try to manually (code, not CSS) animate any of the SVG attributes. Creating on the fly Images seems to leak memory (at least in FF) and trying to re-render into a texture seems to always involve a read-back. Overall not sure if I continue this route. Only Video seems to avoid the read-back, but are we supposed to render SVG into frames of video for efficient rendering? Of course I could inject into the DOM a 'naked' SVG, but it would be nice to find a route to use SVG via canvas or webgl. Maybe that would make the format more popular... But a binary format might be nice if rendering could be done via a shader :)
For instance, many culturally significant sassafras products and their derivative safrole are still illegal on the basis of overly-broadly applied mouse studies.

It was later discovered the harmful metabolite does not occur in humans. But the regulations still didn’t get rolled back. Enjoy your fake root beer.

Edit: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/030048...
Russia's ambassador to Australia accuses International Criminal Court of bias
> Developers are passionate their tools.

What’s the price for not loving a decent proof-read?

(I suppose it is this.)

I recognize the difficulty of this course correction, yet I advocate for it all the same.

It hurts. I know. I’ve been there.
Oh, I definitely feel stupid for underestimating human stupidity.

>USD is backed by a computer at the Federal Reserve. Sounds pretty stupid but it works.

Pretty much why I think it's stupid as an investment, it's no better than the USD if SHTF. You can't hold it like gold or silver.
Given the sturm and drang over subject matter in places like the us, why would somebody go into teaching if they had a safer alternative? And certainly, why would they go into teaching in the contentious areas? Is there a clerical career field left, or did the pink collar stuff die off around the turn of the century? I’ve not seen assistants outside the head shed since then.

What is the gender ratio of paramedics, as that’s somewhat analogous to nurses with more exertion and haste? And, why would people stop at nursing if they had the time and money to proceed further into healthcare? Perhaps the gender ratio of nurses results from that of childcare, as it’s a “”serious” field that can be fit into the gaps from raising kids.
Why so keen to deploy on Friday? That seems like a red flag

Unless it is an urgent bug fix, there is no reason to push it

Once we deployed on a Friday, but a partner's API also deployed, errors start happening at 2am, the API team only has generic support on call, so our devs keep investigating, logs and changes. In the end everything was OK on our side, it was the integration API that broke, by coincidence, and they were insisting it was us.

So you cannot always control, or know, when your partners deploy. But if you avoid Friday your team can sleep assure it is not their fault

There might be an unconscious bias to deploy on Friday because people want to feel they were productive that week, or manager's pressure to fulfill imaginary targets. So people might rush it just a little bit
To prove two points: First that forcing objects everywhere makes things really complicated compared to FP, second that under the hood everything can be shoehorned to object model.
I never thought about it this way, but it is nice and interesting browsing my upvote history. So probably in a subconscious way - yes.
> The company is just unstable

Minimum net income of $10 billion a year for the past 7 years is now apparently unstable
That is basically what continuous learning is and so far everything I have seen is that it is discounted as not important or something you could easily work around. There is a difference between waiting for the next minor release which updates the weights based on whatever OpenAI gathered from your chat history and having the model update its weights as you query it.
> It has Chazz Palminteri in it. He played a conman.

You’re thinking of Joe Mantegna in House of Games.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Games

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Riy4God934c
No, that's what the 'favorite' link is for.
It's certainly very cold deep in the polar craters, which are in permanent darkness. But in the sunlit areas it's relatively mild. There's far less variation than in equatorial regions, which have to deal with huge variance between day and night temperatures.
The only way to practically interact with SVG content [...] you need to embed it directly

Right, and this is actually pretty common -- you can use <svg> tags directly in JSX, and you can set up a build pipeline that lets you import .svg files directly into your .jsx/.tsx.

It's useful because you can do things like animate your SVG using CSS, driven from the JS/JSX code.
there are plenty of talented new engineers with the knowledge you listed, but you need increase the salary if you want to attract them
I think moreso it's a yet-another reminder that we will never have networked things that don't have second order effects.
You get that only in dark mode.
The key there being a trained human.
Show HN: I built an app to chat with yourself based on your diary
Lobsters and HN have really become a hotspot for arrogant contrarians. You can observe this best in the comment section of any thread that dares to mention modern web development.
Which is what midjourney already does for example
Because the main objective of commercial AI generative projects is the "Uberization" of the Arts. Massively dumping on prices, becoming gatekeepers on the creation process, ultimately forcing themselves between clients and the artists, who then become disposable "content creators" for the training model.
Why wouldn't it be true?

That's the purpose of the training, no? To generalize the model so that it can produce images it has never seen before. That includes images in styles it has never seen before.

Whether or not models have generalized to that point is a different question, but if they do, (and let's be honest, alot of artistic styles aren't that unique or different) the only thing that would be different is that the model cannot conjure up the style by providing the artists name in the input, instead one would have to describe the style in other ways.
The price of a house in the middle of nowhere is labor + materials. The closer you get to a population center (where people want to be) it becomes labor + materials + property value, where property value increases non-linearly. At the center it becomes labor + materials + property value + zoning overhead. Zoning overhead grows as more people are involved in the process.

I don't think you'll ever get much cheap housing, unless you build a ton along the periphery of a population center (which people don't want). You'd have to build at least 20% more housing for the price to drop 10%, and most of that housing will be where people don't want to live.
I've exclusively only worked for small companies and my job has mostly always revolved around one person's opinion.
Time to play catch up with all the new JavaScript frameworks that were released in this 48h then.
> Most people's internal alarm for self preservation starts yelling long before endurance is truly tested. Nobody sprints for 24 hours, but I am certain that even the average couch potato can keep walking for 24 hours. They'd be hurting after, of course. From learning to jog, I can attest that it mostly about willpower, and I suppose, desperation at times.

I'm not disputing this, but the response was that humans can't generally outrun a horse. Which is true. The average human will not be able to outrun the average horse.
It might be the actual research is more diverse, but they plucked out examples that were more likely to get people interested. Bob's Extruding in Elbow, Alabama might be a key plastic component supplier for the global economy, but nobody's heard of it.
AFAIK the "requests" module in python (the most popular one) doesn't actually depend on curl:

https://github.com/psf/requests
Right, but this difference in opinion hardly constitutes an active denigration of marriage. And this survey result actually undermines the idea that marriage decline is _because of_ elite opinion that marriage isn't important: the classes with the highest rates of divorce and unmarried parenting actually believe marriage is _more important_ than those with the lowest.

Gee, I wonder if there is a material, economic, explanation for the stability of various family structures in different classes?
Betraying Vim for the IDEs of March
This is why courses should focus on fundamentals not flavour of the month stuff.

Learn assembly, then learn C, then code up a small OS and learn semaphores and stacks and how a computer actually works.
Every instance has its own moderation, there is no central moderation.

Porn is not detected automatically, but most instances require you to put it behind a content warning. Then it will not be shown automatically, you have to click to view it.
Why do big projects go wrong?
https://archive.ph/EETuF
Alpaca [1], perhaps. It's based on facebook's model (LLaMA) and its been trained on a conversational style, same as chat gpt. I don't know if it can produce code, though.

[1] https://github.com/antimatter15/alpaca.cpp
Most of curl (or libcurl for that matter) included every edge case you could ever think of. I like that it packages a wide number of tools that fall under the topic of networking.
My employer is hiring many older people. Where do you live in Germany?
> Algorithms are programs.

This is patently incorrect. An algorithm is an idea, whereas a program contains a concrete representation (implementation) of one or more algorithms executable on a computer.
> Perhaps visit the "flyover" parts of the land sometime.

Or perhaps you may wish to look at the demographics of who buys pick-up trucks:

> Despite any TV ads you see with F-150s in a rural or country setting, the vast majority of these new trucks are in large and medium-sized cities.

* https://hedgescompany.com/blog/2018/10/pickup-truck-owner-de...

>80% of the US population lives in urban areas:

* https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/urba...

Only 1.3% (2.6M) of the US population are farmers:

* https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/farming-indu...

Yet 2.8M pickups trucks were sold in 2022:

* https://www.goodcarbadcar.net/2022-us-pickup-truck-sales-fig...

Yes, if you're on a farm a pick-up truck could be useful. But the majority of buyers are not farmers (or even construction workers, though even a full-size van may be of more practicality). Pick-up trucks are far and away lifestyle vehicles for the vast, vast majority of owners.
In the defense of some of the particularly jerk-inducing ones, they're conflating libcurl with curl.

Sure if you want to fetch a file from the internet you could do it with one line (see the person I'm replying to);

I'd love to see the look on some of these people's faces when they find out that tool/software/whatever they use is actually using libcurl under the hood.

Good luck even getting on the internet in the first place without that router, switch, PC, modem or anything else that's also running curl/libcurl.

I don't know whether it's just my age showing, but thinking you could do anything remotely like curl in 3 days is .... well, my 1 year old probably talks more sense when he says "no".
> First that forcing objects everywhere makes things really complicated compared to FP

Pointless. They are OO courses, not FP courses. You have FP courses already covering that.

> second that under the hood everything can be shoehorned to object model.

You do not need lambdas or FP for that.

So, what's the point of lambdas and FP in a OO course?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Operating_Systems
Modern Operating Systems by Andrew S. Tenenbaum, this book explains how Operating Systems works in general. Including boot.
Curl filled a big missing hole. How can we code on plain text an HTTP Request in a reproducible and predictable way? The HTTP Protocol describe the request content (method, headers, body...) but do not specify how the call is done (real IP address, port, certificates, timeout, etc.). Curl filled this and I think now it's options are the de-facto standard for describe in text an HTTP Request.
I'm not pretend to add great games for all children, just enqueued my list:

Clouds & Sheep 2
https://store.steampowered.com/app/439800/Clouds__Sheep_2/

Journey of a Roach
https://store.steampowered.com/app/255300/Journey_of_a_Roach...

ENCODYA
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1137450/ENCODYA/

Aurora: A Child's Journey
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1438440/Aurora_A_Childs_J...

Hunt for Junk
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1973040/Hunt_for_Junk/

Iris.Fall
https://store.steampowered.com/app/907470/IrisFall/
Ethnic Hungarians have been having a tricky time in Ukraine
https://archive.ph/WtMDB
Last sentence in abstract:

> Overall, these findings suggest that a high intake of sucralose can dampen T cell-mediated responses, an effect that could be used in therapy to mitigate T cell-dependent autoimmune disorders.
I came here to say the same thing.

Somebody recently pointed me at a nice online GUI for svgo, so you can try it for yourself without installing anything: https://jakearchibald.github.io/svgomg/
I love geckos for this reason. super efficient at keeping the place bug free and also cute
There are also tools for prompt engineering, see https://inventai.xyz.
The problem is that it is not sticking cash under the mattress it’s the equivalent of buying trading cards and sticking them under the mattress..

You are exchanging cash for crypto which means the exchanges now have to deal with the cash deposits somehow and where can they put it? Well they’ll put it either in banks which solves nothing or invest it as they see fit which likely to be even more problematic.
Exactly. All the people saying LLM's aren't important because it is just auto-complete, really don't connect the dots that humans are also just auto-complete.
Sure but that’s like saying people fought before machine guns and atom bombs and drones. The force multiplication effect of these technologies is the thing. With generative AI a small number of people can manipulate a much larger number of people significantly more effectively at a lower cost and a higher speed.
Left cities behind forever in 1993; have been so much happier for having done so. I advise a pack of hounds along with a rural address; they help keep one centered on the moment.

However, "leave society behind" no longer involves locality. If you come out to the sticks and still obsessively doomscroll the news, you will not reduce your stress much. Conversely, if you resolutely ignore the distressing noise around you, you might find contentment in your city, still.
According to the ViperGPT paper their "ImagePatch.find()" uses GLIP.

According to the GLIP paper,† accuracy on a test-set not seen during training is around 60% so... neat demos but whether it'll be reliable enough depends on your application.

† https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.05836
I agree it's inconvenient, but it's limited by Apple's choices. The only alternative really is to go to Android which doesn't have this kind of nonsense.

I've already done this for my tablet - sold my iPad Pro and bought a Samsung Tab. Being able to run whatever I want on it makes it actually feel like a personal computing device. iPad is so crippled by iOS/app store limitations it makes the device next to useless for me.
> At what point are some of the major government legal departments actually going to step up and sort this shit out?

At the point when their love relationship with US will end up in divorce. So not in the near future.
Can we expect search option soon? (or test it if you have beta already)
Where we could search a particular user and generate his personality profile?
> Toxic and hateful people simply get banned

I don't know if that's supposed to sound like a good thing, but to me this sounds like a distopian place where anyone that does not align with the "correct worldview" is made to disappear and never be heard of again.

If you think "only bad people are toxic", you probably haven't been to many debates where your viewpoint happens to be the minority viewpoint.
Does anyone have an actual list of websites that can be consider minimal?
I have a new grad who is shadowing me at work. Not surprisingly, he wasn’t taught any of the foundational fundamentals of full stack development lol.

Day one, we started with Gang of Four, the 25 class design patterns, and what an MVC is. Then we are leading into SOLID, and I’ll push him into mastering Dependency Injection and Unit testing.

I feel like his college professor or something lol, and I’m still so surprised that programmers aren’t taught the ABC’s in school.
When I left China I spent a year or two traveling and then returned to work in Taiwan. If you already speak Chinese, it's a very soft landing. Imo the food isn't nearly as good as in China, and (depending where you were before) the weather in Taipei is much worse, but the general pace of life is way more relaxed. You don't need to go through security to get on the subway or show your ID to buy a train ticket. You hardly ever see cops pushing people around. The bureaucracy is just regular plain old bureaucracy instead of the latest creepy layer of techno-fascist privacy invasion. I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop and then I realize it won't, because that sense of constantly fearing the next policy shift, or wondering when something you like is about to be arbitrarily taken away, that anxiety and pessimism really is something unique to authoritarian countries.

To be sure, Taiwan is going to face increasing pressure from China in the coming years, and there is some chance that it might escalate into a hot war. But the sense of existential dread is much less for me than it was in China. Despite their best efforts, the party is much more capable of ruining the lives of people inside China than outside of it. Aside from Berlin, I've never lived in the other cities on your list, so I can't really compare, but if you enjoy the lifestyle of a tier two city in China and would like somewhere similar with a much less oppressive government, Taipei is a pretty good option.
Ask HN: Cheapest hosted database options for 1M read & writes per day?
Building a tool for free users so don't want to spend bucks on database. Looking for a hosted database with generous free tier for read/write ops.

I should mention that read and write operations are expected to surpass 1M/day.. Firestore is a no-go (expensive).

If there's no NoSQL option available I could also look into SQL DB given it's hosted.
It was able to beat the top GO player. What does it matter if that technology is also used in image recognition. I'd say that if its 'brain' can play games and recognize people, or in case of ChatGPT4, can talk and play chess, this is all starting to sound pretty 'General' to me.
While not a rewrite - one recent tool for making http requests which i quite enjoy is:

https://github.com/ducaale/xh

It's basically python httpie rewritten in rust. my only gripe is that i keep forgetting that it exists - and that "xh" is for http and "xhs" is for https.

So i frequently end up with curl anyway:)
In that race, Humans won 3 times, and in several other races the margin was in the low minutes. So I wouldn't say "generally" is true. And overall, it seems Humans benefit is to have more endurance than horses, so the longer the race, the more likely will they win.

If we take a look at the numbers of humans doing a 24-hour-run[1], and compare it with Endurance-Riding[2], then humans seem to be able to run far longer, at peak even significant longer. Though, to be fair, it's possible that the numbers are skewed for the horse's safety, and riders are not going all out till the possible mile.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24-hour_run
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endurance_riding
Lua. In fact, I think I could do this in Turbo.LUA in about a day.
https://old.reddit.com/r/spiderbro/
ChatGPT is like the robot from Asimov's short story Liar!: It doesn't tell you the truth, it tells you what it thinks you want to hear. Instead of reading minds it returns a statistically plausible response to queries similar to yours.
I actually found this thread to be more interesting: https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1637509968021819392
Use netcat instead?

printf "NICK gitbot42\nUSER foo bar baz\nPRIVMSG #gitevents :pull now\nQUIT :foobar\n" | nc irc.server.foo 6667