skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not "panic" in tech just corporate politics. Some middle manager wanted to shutdown this site for several years and didn't have the approval of higher managers or consensus with others. It's the same with Amazon Smile program. It's meaningless for Amazon in terms of cost, and imho it causes much more harm in communities like non-for-profits in the case of Amazon Smile or photography hobbyists in the case of DPReview.
It appears that only BlurHash is using base83. I imagine the base83 encoding is being used in the table because that is what the library returns by default.

As to why everyone else uses base64, I figure it's because base64 is what you'd have to inline in the URL since it's the only natively supported data URL encoding.

In other words, in order to take advantage of the size savings of base83, you would have to send it in a data structure that was then decoded into base64 on the page before it could be placed into an image (or perhaps the binary itself). Whereas the size savings of the base64 can be had "with no extra work" since you can inline them directly into the src of the image (with the surrounding data:base64 boilerplate, etc.) Of course, there are other contexts where the base83 gives you size savings, such as how much space it takes up in your database, etc.
> At one time, people programmed without google or search engines. They literally used thick ass books, and had to read through them and then type out what they saw in the book. Today, that sounds absurd.

Even if it's absurd I still like to buy physical books. The information is better structured and I like holding a book and turning pages.
And don't get me wrong: whatever works for the company but k8s experience alone is already super helpful.

A lightweight k8s stack out of the box + argocd + cert manager is like I fra steroids.
I did that once (or it might have been something similar with the same effect, don't remember) and after a while it made my terminals super slow.
No no, actual bicycles. The Netherlands, famous for having 1.3 bicycles per capita [1], has implemented a law intended to prevent mobile phone use on very non-stationary, moving bicycles [2].

[1] https://amsterdamfox.com/news/the-number-of-bicycles-per-cap...
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/27/dutch-cyclists...
Interest rates like this were a lot more manageable when the cost of homes was less. Adjusted for inflation, the average home price today is about 60% higher than it was in 1998.

Adjusted to 2023 dollars and assuming interest rates of 5.5% in 1998 and 4.5% now (source: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS), home owners on average are spending about 43% more money on their mortgage payment per month.
> Something often touted in the psychometrics literature is that the number of jobs for folks with IQ under 85 are quite rare in the US where once they were common. That's ~15% of the population who are close to un-employable.

This is because we decide it's better to pay people to do nothing than to clean streets and medians and countless other things that need done.
How is your approach different than tf federated or any of the other federated libraries out there?
As an OSS contributor I'd love it if GitHub decided to share their profits with me, but I did knowingly contribute my work under free software licences so I don't see myself as having any moral or legal right to that. (If they've trained it on private repos that's another matter, I am assuming they haven't.) Either way, I don't think it's a strong argument to say it's our work being sold back to us. Whatever it is that makes people pay for Copilot, it can't just be the OSS code that it was trained on, as that is all still freely available online. People must be paying for the part that GitHub has trained/built, the part that reads your codebase and makes good suggestions.
The cultural bifurcation however is increasingly pronounced. Ironically, all the more so as communications technologies improve, because those improvements are concentrated increasingly in dense metropolitian areas. Not necessarily city centres, but the urban metro areas net of suburbs around wealthy regions --- many along the coasts, but also urban areas within otherwise rural states (e.g., the blue-red division within the South and West between cities in those regions and urban areas).

The height of homogenisation probably came about with general availability of rail-based package deliver, direct postal mail delivery, rural electrification and telephone service, major broadcast television and radio networks, and the US Interstate Highway System buildout.

At some point between the mid-1940s and mid-1970s, there wasn't a whole lot of difference between what general culture was available within a broader metro region and a rural area. Broadcast and print culture (e.g., magazines) were fairly uniform (there weren't enough networks to support hugely divergent micro-targeting), goods and communications could spread well. Yes, major cultural hubs such as New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco had their own specific cultures, and there was information for which you'd probably have to physically visit a major university campus or library to access. But overall, cultural diversity was hitting a low point. Flyover regions might wait a few weeks or months longer for first-run films (distributed as actual film prints), or see less coverage by major performing acts, but that was largely it.

That's been walked back with increases in direct-cabled broadband communications infrastructure, probably starting with cable TV (the fact that cable TV wasn't yet available was a laugh line in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, 1982, with the book it was based on published in 1981).

Now, the distinction between broadband in the tens of Mbit (or lower) vs. 100 Mbit to Gigabit ethernet, 5G vs. 3- or 4-G mobile networks, and general reliability of network infrastructure, as well as installation and maintenance costs, is a major distinguishing feature between first-tier and tertiary markets. In a world where work is performed remotely, being able to participate in full-video conferencing or download or upload content matters.

Maybe those differences will get ironed out. But as with postal mail, intercity rail and bus service, interstate highways, telecoms, and electricity, it all but certainly won't be market mechanisms on their own which do so. All of the listed services I've just named were brought to rural regions through government programs, projects, organisations, and/or subsidies.
Unfortunately the second you talk about banning large trucks in cities, someone comes along worrying about the policy applying to their rural town / homestead.
> Small and midsized banks (those not among the top 25) currently hold 67.2% of all outstanding commercial real estate loans, Axios recently reported.

https://www.axios.com/2023/03/21/small-bank-struggles-could-...
That's the charlatans' fault, not Kent's.
Yup, Google is not allowed to flounder at the moment

Or the whole company going under.

Same of AWS, or other big techs as well.
Smokes in CS right now are one of the areas where people don’t love the current implementation.

A few patches ago if you had your settings right you would get a competitive advantage on smokes due to the way they were rendered.

This new rendering feels more like Valorant and ultimately for CS players everyone in my playgroup is excited about the new smokes. They seem better to play with
wunderground 10 day is about as good as it gets
Over long timelines, and with rare exceptions, yes they do.
I can do the same with a coin.
My expectation was actually a Linux-First-Approach to push Linux and the Steamdeck.

Delaying tests on Linux feels really bad because this means we will unnecessary bugs upon release.
Personally I'm not a fan of this term "Neonliberal" because neon lighting doesn't really have anything to do with cyberpunk. The neon lighting aesthetic is a retro 80s thing, only indirectly related to the cyberpunk genre by way of dated cyberpunk media from the 80s. Cyberpunk media made today shouldn't feature neon lighting, it should have LED lighting. Focus on neon is missing the point of cyberpunk, it reduces cyberpunk to little more than a retro aesthetic.
> Being a gold bug is irrational

Then why is it up 1.8% right now?

It does not matter if it is rational or not, it is signaling how investor see the economy. Gold is safe. Always.
Good news, you're not fat any more.

Bad news, you've been disincorporated.
Okay, in very high variance cases like thunderstorms the expected value might indeed not be enough, but there are usually additional storm warnings for that anyway. My claim is just that the expected amount of rainfall is much more interesting than the probability of rainfall. Yet the apps I know display probabilities prominently, not expected values.
Ha, sorry for the spam. I did something similar: https://datandy.com/
You can't always drive a heavy duty truck like that in the city. You have to take certain routes a lot of the time.

Also F150s and similar are somewhat commonly used as commuter vehicles.
All the library does is facilitate the build process.

I think there's possibly some automation that can be added once that whole stuff stabilizes properly. From Rust it's already possibile to automate exposing a C header via cbindgen, so it wouldn't be too hard.

JNI ultimately still provides the most complete set of capabilities (e.g. calling back into Java).

For the rust-maven-plugin, we've accepted a PR to build binaries and we'll continue accepting PRs for any future enhancements such as the one you're mentioning.
Salesforce wastes all their effort on new acquisitions making business-driven decisions like “add Einstein to it!” or “integrate it with the Lightning Experience (TM)!” instead of doing anything remotely useful to pre-acquisition customers. Once it’s adequately diced up, they can add it as another line-item to renewals who already pay so much money to salesforce that they don’t care.
Lots of people saying something doesn't at all make it true; in fact, it should make you skeptical that they are following a mis/disinformation herd and don't know what they are saying.

Education isn't the only source of skills, of course. There is training, and also people are far better informed now, for example, due the the Internet (or disinformed).

Even if the quality of education is reduced, it's not nearly zero. Partly because of education (and health, freedom, political stability, etc.) we are far more productive than illiterate neolithic peasants farmers.

Also, the quality could go down, but may more people could be educated, resulting in a large net gain.
And ironically by paying them just for existing, they are ending up as the only group capable of reproducing at higher than replacement rate.

We are artificially selecting the worst people to reproduce and dooming ourselves.
It's complicated. There is warming occurring, on average, overall, that's indisputable at this point. Variation is also increasing. (Or to restate it... things have gotten spiky...the average is trending up, but the increase in variation is such that the lowest lows are lower than they were in the past.
Could always take the facebook approach and call them CoFLaM.
Right? ‘It’s not only for Northern California! It works fine up as far as Seattle!’ is not exactly a refutation of my (slightly hyperbolically stated) thesis that Dark Sky’s human friendliness is not as global as people seem to think.
Playful intelligence applies uncertainty overmatch to defeat the opponent as a chess master does to beginners played in parallel.
We're bundling b/e services from typescript monorepo in production as single bundle files - it works very well. Main reason was simply enforcing lockfile from monorepo.
Some people like it. I would find it annoying except they used to do it all the time in the 18th century and it's kind of fun that an old convention came back.
Hot take, but if you're doing a lot of soft skills work with non-developers, you might be carrying the team too much. You're very much right that those jobs won't go away because that would mean people around the developer would then have to do more work and be more technical.

What would be great is for senior ICs to push into non-IC roles (ideally: ICs can use AI, so you need less ICs but this is unproven). Technical skills and knowledge applied to writing requirements cuts down on the number of conversations around those requirements. Then you get closer to a "greenfield spec -> bang out AI-generated code" situation because you're not slogging and negotiating through requirements written by non-technical people.
After they argued that k8s is better than AWS.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Its always gonna be an uphill battle. As a joke, i built a simple tool that randomly replaces synonyms of AI generated text and it managed to fool the Ai detectors: https://www.gptminus1.com/

Of course the text can be gibberish haha
So if Apple products are “user hostile” then why are enough users happily spending twice as much on iPhones and more on Macs to make Apple the most valuable company in the world?

Maybe their decisions are only hostile to geeks who want to run Linux on the Apple Pencil.
Hackers inject credit card stealers into payment processing modules
This reminds me of a quote from Joel Spolsky in the early 2000's but he was talking about offshoring:

"There is always a global shortage of developers who know what they are doing"

At the time, I wasn't sure if this was the case but two things have helped me believe that this is true:

1. a few years ago there was a stat going around on HN that something like less than 5% of the US population could even write a Hello World application in ANY language

2. 15+ years of working in tech and 5+ years of being a hiring manager have shown me that even people with great looking resumes often fail the Fizz Buzz test
That's super cool. I hate the pricing. I typically know everything I need to for day-to-day usage of the shell and only do things that require discovery every few months. 100 queries wouldn't be enough in those months, so I'd have some months where I'm paying for nothing and the odd month where I don't get enough usage.

$9 per month also makes it costly enough that I wouldn't buy it as a "just to have" kind of tool. I don't think I'd get $100 of value vs searching online, especially since I attribute some negative value to tools that can be taken away from me. I don't want to pay forever and be dependent on something that could disappear tomorrow.

I don't get why something like that needs to be an online service. I don't know much about AI, so maybe it's a lack of understanding on my part, but why can't I simply have a copy of the trained model on my local machine where there's no ongoing cost (to you) whenever I run a command? Isn't an online API a complex solution to a problem that could be solved with a local app + data?

Maybe I just lack understanding and the models are too big or the compute required to make a query is huge. If you could give some insight I'd genuinely appreciate it.

Even though I'd never buy it as a subscription, it's the kind of thing I'd pay for as a perpetual app. I'd wouldn't hesitate to pay $50 if I could install it on my machines and forget about it until it would be useful. I'd also expect to pay for updated versions of the models whenever I need them.

Regardless, I think it's amazing as a discovery tool. I don't mind reading 'man' pages to figure out details, but I always feel like it's a hassle to discover what command I need for certain tasks.

Also, I'm probably an outlier since I make a lot of effort to avoid tools that rely on an internet connection to function. IE: I won't rely on GitHub. I'll use it, but only as a push mirror.
> These people literally and earnestly believe we are on a path towards extinction

There might be a few people who believe that. However, a little coaxing and question asking will bring most people around to understanding that we're merely severely fucked.

Even this minor step then admits to the possibility of some mitigation, and that's a good thing.

Climate change is not going to wipe out humanity or life on earth. It could, however, completely reset or destroy what we currently consider "civilization", and for most people (especially those who particularly enjoy the comforts of said "civilization") there may not be not be much of a distinction between that an extinction. In addition, while losing only 1-2B people due to climate change is a far cry from human extinction, it is still a very big number. Even 400M would still be a very big number, with very substantial consequences for migration, resource control etc. You think people living in the tropic-to-tropic latitudes are going to just sit back while the outer latitudes live it up? I don't think so.

As for the timeline, that's always hard to say, but I'm almost 60 and I find it likely I'll see some severe disruption in the tropic-to-tropic zone before I'm done with this mortal coil.
Can attest. Right now we're priced out of the housing market because of inflation.
At many of the FAANGs, it's not uncommon to spend 4 hours of testing for every one 1 of programming.

Considering how important it is to not have bugs - we're extremely unlikely to have an LLM writing code at an acceptable level of quality, and anyone being qualified to verify that quality beside an eng, before I'm retired.

But I'm confident many 22 year-old new grads will reply to tell me how wrong I am, and how I'll be starving to death under the burden of unemployment by next week.
Because hitscan everything makes it too easy
Your product is great. I do have a pain with the price point. I live outside the US and it's simply expensive.

Maybe consider regional pricing? If you include this and region specific books as well, your service will be golden.

Btw, what stops someone from paying for just a month or two and collating all your plans and then use it for the rest of their lives without paying you anymore? I mean this genuinely and not with ill intent.

Regarding pricing, I'd be happy to pay an amount as one time purchase for the entire curriculum vs a subscription model. Or pay one time for each bundle/grade. Just some ideas.
You're actually onto something, I think. Half of the fed's job is setting interest rates, but the other half is setting interest rate _expectations_. If people expect rates to hold steady or decrease, they may not change their behavior (e.g. slow hiring or spending) to the extent needed to reduce inflation. But if they do expect rates to stay high or go higher, then they will act on those expectations, and the effects will ripple through the economy.

And yes, it is by and large "rich people" the fed needs to convince, specifically business and capital owners.
New Simulation Reveals Secrets of Exotic Form of Electrons Called Polarons
There's no formal rule against it but it's often done in bad taste. When people overpromote their thing in someone else's launch thread, we tend to scold them. Someone else's launch is not a great place for competitive promotion—each product or project deserves its day in the sun. On the other hand, users like to discuss alternatives and comparables, and that seems healthy.

I'd say the sweet spot is somewhere between just leaving the competitor's launch thread alone, or, if you must, then (1) mention it once and stop there; and (2) when you have any relationship with the alternative thing, disclose it.

That's the sort of thinking we apply in practice but wouldn't make a formal rule out of, partly because it's always evolving, but mainly because we don't want the list of rules to be too long. If we tried to codify all such things we'd end up with a bureaucratic list of hundreds of rules—ugh!
It's little things like this, and big things like llama.cpp that convince me of Gerganov's superpowers :)
Yes, we "ought" not let people starve, go without heating, or become homeless because their skills were obsoleted by automation.

We "ought" to share the rewards and efficiencies of automation with the people that it displaces, rather than solely with the owners of capital.
It never was about emotional things like being scared.

It's about eliminating competition and especially preventing potential future competition,
it's about maximizing control and power to the most you can without losing otherwise
(due to e.g. law regulations lost consumer trust etc.). It's just a game of numbers
and future prospect.

Just the fact alone that Valve has Linux as a form of "escape hatch" if Microsoft locks things down more. With a bit of "future potential" (Valve Gaming console which is more then "just" the Steam Deck) is enough for Microsoft to take actions like that from a purely calculative perspective.

And Linux Desktop _has_ future prospect, maybe not in context of how currently most Linux desktops are but prospect anyway.

I mean Linux desktop has a lot of additional challenges:

- like _massive_ fragmentation through every layer of components and users, often with a lot of more emotional then technical opinions

- much smaller financial resources etc. (the companies which invest are either small (e.g. System76) or are not focused on desktop Linux (e.g. Canonical, Red Hat, Valve))

- a lot of money is flowing into server Linux hence all decisions tend to be focused on the server aspect thing things which are negative for desktop Linux and can not be configured away. (Through also a lot of "accidental" improvements and maintenance.)

but even with all this challenges Desktop Linux is quite usable, actually for some people _more_ usable then Windows. The main problem is normally not missing functionality or hardware support but fragmentation. Fragmentation making it a bad deal to support Linux as a software vendor (getting better through Valve, Flatpack and Snap), fragmentation wasting dev resources, fragmentation making system management/hardware support harder, etc. As well as there not currently being too much monetary reason to invest into 1st party desktop Linux support (Valve is a special case, System76 is small).

But non of the reasons which make people not use Desktop Linux are fundamental, and under the right conditions _one specific_ Linux Desktop could become highly successful. It's very unlikely but it's still possible, hence there is reason to make sure it's not possible.
From what I was reading, the original Game Boy boot ROM was originally extracted photographically.

The Super Game Boy boot ROM was extracted using clock glitching, and the Game Boy Color ROMs (it has more than one) were extracted using a combination of clock and power glitching.
Meh. Dark sky visualization design was nothing special. The pinnacle of beautiful, compact, data rich weather apps remains Weather Underground back in its day before it got bought up and shredded. Now there was an weather app that could show you a week’s worth of weather at a glance.
Because this is a big complaint from the current player base?

Do you play? I do and these new smokes will absolutely shift gameplay and I think towards faster more dynamic games.
>We are artificially selecting the worst people to reproduce and dooming ourselves.

The fallacy of eugenics is that 'smart' people have 'smart' children and the same for 'dumb' people.

I think 90% of this forum believes themselves to be smarter than their parents, so maybe pump the brakes.
I wish they hiked it 0.5 points, to send a clear FU to those trying to create panics and manipulate our banking system and government.
Interesting and scary as described. But I hope the root cause failure here is understood to be in the mail screening process, not USB hygiene.

Although accepting only sd cards would probably have eliminated this threat.
This is also not true. There are plenty of podcast apps, weather apps, notes apps, music apps, streaming video apps. I can’t think of a single bundled app where there are not plenty of alternatives.
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It is funny because right up until 2015 I lived in a South East Asian country and interest rate was always close to 10% all my life.
Slight inflation is not going to cut it to balance the federal budget.