skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it’s reasonable to be upset at both the people who implement bad policies and the people who intentionally profit from those bad policies at others’ expense.
Money can't buy happiness, but it's more comfortable to cry in a Ferrari than on a bicycle.
To my untrained eye, Latex still lays out words in paragraphs in a nicer looking way. Hopefully this can be improved.
Do Not Share This Book, a Popular Fantasy Series Warned Readers
Mozilla has some stories about suffering from SJW. First was refusal Brendan Eich because of shitty reason, now refusal of bitcoins.
So it’s like Notion?
> have to wonder at what point developers remember how anti-developer Microsoft used to be and potentially move away from their ecosystem.

At a certain point you may find that you've got your hand so far in the Microsoft cookie jar that it would make more sense to just accept that you are a MS shop and go for the rest of the cookies as shamelessly as possible.

We've embraced our fate. Almost everything is Microsoft branded in our workplace now.

It's really easy to hate on Microsoft through the lens of programming tooling and other nerd abstractions. It's super hard to hate on them from the perspective of IT administrators and business owners wanting to enjoy their weekends. [Azure] Active Directory and the modern Windows/Office suite are a competitive advantage for enjoying your free time. I have never seen a better overall experience for managing a small startup.
It's more a personal account that's 1 year old which opens with a tweet on cancel culture followed by his political leanings, cryptocurrency posts, and an overwhelming amount of basketball stats. It does have the occasional post about his involvement in geothermal energy though but beyond that following the account isn't going to get you any content he's known and respected for.
Nothing.

You hire a responsible experts when you want to trust them with full decision authority. You can only do this if there's no real risk of failure.

But when you're producing software with real risks, you have a QA-first process that details, validates, and verifies all requirements. You have a large team, cross-checking (and helping) each other. The key virtue of a developer in this context is diligence and honesty.

It's a great gig. In FAANG and software-only products, you're always on the critical path. For medical devices, it's typically the chemistry or device that sets the schedule, so software can proceed at an even pace.

Plus, you're building something meaningful!
When oil prices went from $86/bbl in 2007 to $176/bbl in 2008, inflation went from 2.5% (2007) to 3.7% (2008), which was within "target" for the fed.

Oil peaked at $108/bbl during Covid, and that's not inflation adjust. You can't tell me that when oil prices doubled in in 2008 and no inflation happened, that oil prices drove inflation now when it went up far less.

Like I said, supply constraints can drive inflation when there is excess money supply. But without excess money supple, the inflation impact of supply constraints is muted because, well, there isn't the money to feed demand - consumption just drops.
I'm in Boulder, too, and you can't ignore the "housing stock" problem here. There are a lot of crap houses in boulder that really need to be demolished. A late 90s house on my street sold in 1 day over asking, while an '87 house with a mid aughts renovation has been sitting fort 6 months. They were priced very differently relative to quality. I think what's happening here is not that the market has cooled overall, but is reflecting the vast annoyance that is boulder's building department, mixed with bad housing stock.
I really liked Dark Sky for the notifications and rain intensity charts. But for me in the central UK the map _never_ worked properly for me. Only fragments of the map would load, for some of the time range, and the extrapolation parts never worked properly.

Unfortunately the new apple weather version seems to have inherited exactly the same map flaws.
$3.2M for a measly 1700sq ft?! Nuts. You can have a bigger, probably better house near the new Apple campus in Austin -walking distance, through a beautiful park no less!- for $600k or $700k.
Physical artifacts depreciate over time because of wear and tear. They lose value because the object itself is actually degrading. (Though even this isn't cut and dry because they also gain intangible properties like age and history which are meaningful and valuable to some.)

Digital or conceptual artifacts are not subject to the effects of physics and entropy, so do not naturally decay. The text of Moby Dick today is the exact same as it was 100 years ago.

A "home" is a combination of those: a physical building sitting on a legally enshrined plot of allocated land. The former depreciates while the latter naturally appreciates.
Well, this is quite a detailed analysis and I don't want to take a dump on it because it's obviously a good analysis. BUT. Masterpiece? I don't think so. Dark Sky's data visualization was all shiny gold and not enough real science.

Their radar map with all those pretty colors was super buggy, so much so that you couldn't trust it. If you move the map or zoom in, or pan around, the rain / radar data often would not move with the map. So you would have a 2x scaling issue with how large the rain area was.

Also, they never provided confidence information. They often made predictions that were wrong, and never informed you of how confident their forecasts were. But they would always show a 'flawless' representation of the data so you would be convinced it was right.

Yes yes, it was pretty. But it was not backed by science, and the data was misrepresented I'd say 100% of the time. You can't have a masterpiece of data visualization where a major component of the vis is 'looking pretty' and the factualness of it is ignored.
All state including the app logic, UI, and app state of the component was shared/stored/synced via Fluid (I believe now Azure Fluid Relay.)

This simplified integration because each app only need to include a simple boot loader that could connect to the appropriate endpoint and then load every part of the component.
It has some similarity to the weather overview graphs from weather.gov which are my daily driver.

Its just stacked graphs of temperature, humidity, wind, and precipitations for 2 days. Shows sunrise/sunset. Its so not pretty, but quite effective.

It took a few days, but I got quite good at reading the weather from these graphs at a glance.

https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=42.3761&lon=-7...
Well, no, not everyone else. Many people are owning homes for the purpose of renting them out, for example.
Loop was in the making for at least 2-3 years now inlcuding the publicly known product name

Seems rather long for a preview launch finally
> I'm dubious that the "Fed's money printer" had much of an effect on inflation

In all of modern history around the world when has printing more money not resulted in inflation. Let's look at Zimbabwe and other countries that went nuts printing money.
> take full HELOCs out and roll over into more property

This is a leveraged bet on that region’s tourism. The local government approving a single large hotel would likely crater the market.
They are no different from how Go routines or Java's virtual threads multiplex OS threads per execution path.

In fact, if you feel like doing some advanced stuff, you can write your own schedule algorithm.
>there's going to be a run for the exits as it turns out that rents don't always go up

No, but they tend to stay up when they get there. I have only seen them go down once in my life in a town where the major employer left and about 1/4 of the town was economically impacted.

It is not easy for many people to come up with a down-payment for a house. I know that there are programs to help people, but generally, renting is the only option for many people no matter how much the price of houses goes down (within reason).

So people with money can just snap up cheap houses if the prices fall or sit on their money for now and collect rents if interest rates skyrocket.
Introvert people are going to love this.
Urbanization has been a thing for a long time.
He said that as part of pressuring the Fed to keep rates ridiculously low, kicking the can down the road and adding to the problem we now have to confront.
So we will have to train our developers to produce code using gpt prompts.

I see many jobs are at risk.
yeah, time to give up on Firefox because Mozilla can't seem to focus.
Their 7b model performs much better than the 13b model I have running locally with alpaca.cpp. I think this is because (looking at their code) they stick with the float16 parameters while alpaca.cpp is using the quantizized 4bit parameters. The difference is quite noticeable.
Yeah, that can definitely be hard to fill if you have no other obligations. If you have a family though, opening up 40 hours a week for your own personal fulfillment is pretty incredible.
VS Code constrains a single IDE instance to a single window. Extra flyouts like Copilot chat can only exist in this window, impacting on available real-estate for the code we actually care about.

It's Code's biggest weakness IMO.
It was a masterpiece. Apple deleting Dark Sky something I will never forgive them for. Maybe not enough to make me switch phones, but enough to make me look elsewhere when needing peripheral items.

The statement that Dark Sky features were incorporated into the native weather app was an insult.

I know I sound dramatic talking about a weather app, but it was in a class of its own and nothing else is remotely comparable.

I feel like I lost a friend that I consulted with daily.
As with all pathogens, the scary thing isn't necessarily what we're seeing now, it's what we might expect to see in the future. The more C. Auris infections occur, the more opportunity it has to mutate into something scarier. And yeah, confinement and sterilization is a huge expense.
Cupertino is a unique case as you have extremely rich Chinese investors as well as apple HQ in that city. Also it is known to have the best schools in the bay area besides Palo Alto. But yeah totally crazy nonetheless.
Everything I have worked for is worthless. The programming knowledge I sacrificed my prime years to learn is obsolete. Everything I earned I used to buy a house which is declining in value day by day. I wonder if I would be happier and more successful if I didn’t take the responsible path in life.
Thanks, it is a lot better (11s instead of 30)
Why bring him into this? His only reason for ever admitting something like that is to warm people up to his thicket of lies.
They are portraying the market exactly as it is. Reality is speaking for itself, not the realtors.
"People who harass certain types of people will harass those people" just doesn't convey much information, so it's not worth saying. Any thoughts on how to best phrase this pattern?
There's alot of naysaying against selfhosting & p2p, saying people don't care about that stuff.

But to me the clear advantage is having malleable systems & protocols. It's the ability for folks to try different things, to change the products or make new products that interoperate.

Being dependent on so few to provide all the "innovation" & leaving everyone else as consumer to that provided "innovation" feels like a broken system.
You could take it a step further and make the user download a small stub Actually Portable Executable (https://justine.lol/ape.html) which downloads the real binaries.
Directly addressing the topic of a upvoted article is starting random language fights?
Red tape threatens U.S. efforts to revive chip-making
The Copilot Voice dictation experience looks way better than the current state of the art of "type keyword import space quote foo quote semicolon newline".
Bye Firefox, we will miss you.
Why not offer parts of it as a website? The part where I chat with it, where I ask my questions and get my answers. (Maybe it could bridge into VS Code via a local server to exchange code.)
Why is it absurd? If it writes readable code, you can check it. Writing the first version often takes a long time, so this is clearly a breakthrough.
"I've dwelt among the humans. Their entire culture is built around their penises. It's funny to say they are small. It's funny to say they are big."
Using a crate is the opposite if reinventing the wheel. Also are we talking about go? The language without a set implementation?
I have moved from Dark Sky to Weather Strip: https://www.weatherstrip.app

It does a really nice job of showing me most of what Dark Sky showed, in a similarly easy-to-glance-at format once I spent a little time learning to read its graphs.

I think Carrot Weather has a lot of graphs directly ripped off from Dark Sky but the constant attempts to upsell me to a subscription plan while I was playing with it really turned me off, as did the "what political alignment would you like the sweary forecast to have" switch.
I found what I was looking for here [0]. Looking forward to seeing Alpaca on top of it - so far it seems pretty underwhelming compared to GPT, and often just regurgitates 4chan-looking stuff (with timestamps and usernames) like earlier generative models did.

[0] https://lawrencecchen.com/llama-65b-m1-max
that means you need docker running and the dependencies explode if you take this approach. I really like the tight dependency tree.
> server you can make with an old computer

Power consumption inefficiencies often make this a very poor choice (for same workload than can be done on low-wattage rpi or similar).
Don't worry, this is explained in the first 5 minutes of the first episode.
It's called a leasehold and exists in many places. Americans will be familiar with it in Hawaii.
That is one of the common outcomes talked about. Certainly nothing more stable right now than being an Electrician or Machinist!

I will say though, that for a lot of those jobs human-replicating robotics isn't even necessary. We exaggerate the difficulty required because we're still assuming that the exact current system should stay in place. However, sticking within food preparation example, look at those elaborate cake vending machines found primarily in asian countries. There really isn't a reason why McDonalds can't do the same for some of their offerings, after all most of their stuff is frozen anyways.
Deaths are down, not up, so obviously most people aren't switching to such hazardous intoxicants.
If you're in the area, come to my tech conference this August!

[1] https://outland.sh
Also Merry Sky[1], which uses the Pirate Weather API. Open-Meteo is also interesting.

[1]: https://merrysky.net
[2]: https://open-meteo.com
Historically, this response doesn't make a lot of sense. Yes, farm labor became redundant, but it became redundant because of machines that had to be built, maintained and repaired. People who would have been on the farm their whole lives moved to the city and got jobs that paid well and lived possibly better lives as a result.
Brings back the fond memories of Ballmer and his sweaty shirt.
I'm just not convinced how useful this will be. On one side you're very limited to the default style and list of available components. On the otger side you have to learn a new framework. It seems to me if you invest the time into a static web framework instead, you can design sites like this just as quickly while being able to dig deeper into html and css whenever you need to.
The article makes it sound like Apple just used Dark Sky as a backend and threw everything else away.

In fact it seems that they inspired heavily from Dark Sky's UI as well. In my opinion iOS now has a very clever and polished Weather app that contains many of the features mentioned in the article.

Some screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/GYP3ym8
Would be a clever move but I have doubts that no longer Yandex has much to say in Russian Yandex. The latter seems very close to the Kremlin now.
Thanks :)

Yes to QuinnyPig's point, for other readers, it's worth noting that because this tool is just copying data from one object to another via API calls, there is no compute involved that the data goes through. So the tars created are not compressed.
You can take Yandex out of Russia... but you can not take Russia out of Yandex. Admittedly, the same could probably be said about any other $big_search:$nuclear_power pair. It's just that the other companies either can't or have no reason for exile.

And so I suspect Yandex leaving it's home turf would essentially be a covert invasion of wherever they'd swarm to. Somehow, money tells me UK would be a likely target. Source: worked briefly for an exiled Russian company. Would not repeat.
Another Dark Sky thread, another opportunity to ask the community if anyone knows about Apple doing research with the barometers in their phones. Dark Sky claimed they 'did' but they never expanded on what that meant for them. Did they actually use the barometer data collected from the app? Or did it just get sent to /dev/null as I suspect?

And if Apple bought that code, did they use it themselves? Is Apple doing anything to improve weather forecast accuracy in the main weather models by running data assimilation on cleaned barometer data?

If not it is such a wasted opportunity that I just get so angry about. If so....please tell us more.
>just like our ancestors.

why am I laughing at how much this stings? we're not that old, damnit!
As Tim Minchin said:

> Do you know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work?

> Medicine.
> Glass = yuppie.

Bottled water in glass specifically.
Isn't that absolutely fascinating? For me at least it is, it also seems so effortless
Because that is a liquid commodity.
It's hard to read between the aggrandized lines, but it appears that this is a discrete phenomenon based on precisely switched gates/reflectors. It's super interesting but not exactly science fiction.

Imagine your signal looks like _A_B_C_ where each letter represents a discrete subpacket. The reflectors look like _1_2_3_. As long as those gates are timed to turn on precisely between the subpackets, the reflected signal would be the reverse order of packets.
> Indeed. If you think of the docker image itself as an executable format like PE or ELF, this becomes clearer.

But I don’t, because a docker image will not run without docker. A standalone, executable file can be distributed and deployed all by itself. A docker image cannot.
I've played with the readability lib by Mozilla before to extract articles from web pages and then feed that to the summarizers we had years ago but the result wasn't great. This is indeed different now, interesting!

Another thing that would be great is to use that to identify the news that really matter and mute the rest.

I could imagine a prompt containing something like "As a person that likes A, B, C, D, and F, does the following has a potential to be interesting to me: ..."
Do products like this have user-facing APIs or no? I keep meaning to go explore but doesn't software like Notion also have a lot of internal script-ability?

I'm interested to see what programmatic offerings this exposes.
The hardest interview in my life was a long time ago when I tried getting a part time/side job updating content on a mostly static PHP website (no database or backend). Thought this would be a nice way to get some extra beer money or something. The interviewer was the person who was currently maintaining the site and had just graduated from Yale and wanted to move on. Not a single question about PHP, javascript, HTML, instead question after question about implementing various algorithms in pseudo code. I figure he was asking me questions from a textbook or something. I didn't get the job.

Been a while since I've been in an interview but everything has been cake since.
I'm not sure if this is even possible on my car. Is there a hardware module I can remove?
Robots have been about to take all the jobs for 100 years
It's interesting reading this comment, because this perfectly aligns with my experience using the app on Android back before Apple shut it down. I agree with all of the article's points on how intuitive and helpful the UI was, and I haven't been able to find a suitable replacement. But the predictions were constantly wrong.
That does not follow, and how is trust even codified? Are you keeping a list of people and permissions?

Fundamentally though most of our society depends on a high degree of trust and stops functioning almost immediately if that trust becomes significantly tarnished. Going 'trustless' in human communities probably looks like small communities with strong initial distrust for strangers.
This feels like an archetypal bad product idea I would have worked on in my contractor days.

It's always some dude. Usually they made money doing something else, and they had a (really dumb) idea one day, involving gamifying something, or putting ads somewhere, or both.

If by some miracle they get the right people around them, and don't just waste all their money, they can actually put something on the market. 99% of the time, it goes nowhere, once in a great while it does.

I'm not totally convinced this product will be a success — they are probably just burning runway.

But your overall point is valid, because there will always be some dude who will keep trying this kind of thing until eventually, by statistical oddity, it sticks. Then, it will stay around, and we'll be on to the next fresh hell.

You talk about a Moore's law for privacy. My mental model is more like a ratchet: it takes a some force to advance the mechanism, but once it clicks into place it is locked there forever. There's no going back, only forwards, so you should be extremely careful about anything that pushes you ahead.
> innerText is hard to spec

I think this post basically spec'd it, did the competitive analysis and outlined a clear why tho!

How do these standards processes work? It seems like there's demand.
But I'm not licensing LLaMA from facebook in the first place so their terms wouldn't apply.
Only, in this case, it might be plant consumption...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9239177/
Can I just piggyback on this to shit on the iOS Weather app for a moment?

Whoever designed it doesn't understand the concept of daily max/min temperatures, and the daily low presented in the app is the lowest during that calendar day, rather than the forecast overnight low following the day. It drives me absolutely mad, because I can never reliably determine how cold it will get overnight without going into the hourly view (and even that could be inaccurate for fast-moving weather systems).
I'm not sure I understand your point. Yes, extensions can do bad things. Thats why you don't install those. There are also tons of extensions that do very useful things, but are not applicable to a wider audience. It would be silly to include that functionality in the base browser. Extensions are an absolute necessity in a modern web browser.
U.S. is rapidly moving to the left, that is a fact. It doesn't matter what other countries do.
If only they would decide what to do with plugin package, not use SCM paths for packages and decide to eventually support enumerations instead of iota dance (Pascal style would be enough.

Maybe 10 more years.
I read the ethernet paper(https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/360248.360253) in college - one of the few instances where the paper did a better job of explaining the concept that the textbook.
I doubt it, since they already did that journey long ago and are now adding virtual threads next to ordinary threads that replaced the original green threads. If you put your long running work into the virtual kind of threadpool, a timing sentinel can easily warn you and after noticing that you easily use the normal threadpool instead.

VertX framework had such a sentinel, but migrating code from the async futures to a normal threadpool can be a bit tedious if your design is poor.