skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably the cheapest way to get this is a subscription to the FT. The comments are great as long as the topic isn't too popular, and it's much more finance heavy than around here.

Definitely not a perfect source, but I find it helpful at least.
>a careful influence campaign by Russia

Which helped Trump get elected, which was enabled by a former-KGB-led Cambridge Analytica which was sold data en masse by Facebook who after the fact put on a show about how it was not used as intended. BS, they didn't care, they just wanted to make money. Everybody is doing it and you only know about the ones who got caught.

Again, much more worried about FAANG+ than TikTok.
They were mentioned in 2.1.1.
No I don’t think that’s right:

When a light wave enters the new time interface and the device changes its optical properties, the signal keeps moving forward in space. However, the signal gets reversed—if it were a spoken word, it would sound as if it were getting played backwards. In contrast, with a conventional reflection, a light or sound wave would travel back at its source but mostly look or sound the same as it did before the reflection.

—
They continue forward, but they behave in the reverse with respect to time alone.
This is like when I heard Roger Penrose won a Nobel Prize in 2020 and I thought for a second "wait is this his second? What? You mean he hadn't been awarded one until now? Who was in line ahead of him and for what?"
I suppose what people are afraid of is that the devs who can do Hello World + pass Fizz Buzz might use AI to orchestrate sophisticated systems which actually are effective in reducing a lot of menial work, which could eliminate a non-trivial number of jobs through sheer reduction of necessary labour/brain power.

I agree though, off-shoring could have been the cheap labour which displaced a lot of devs, but I actually found a lot of work cleaning up off-shored applications and made great money doing it. It's perfectly possible that some horrible amalgamations of software will be puked out by AIs for a few years and ultimately create as much work as it displaced.
I'm looking forward to getting the React Forget compiler at some point. I think this might result in React working closer to how people (wrongly) think React already works. And handling callbacks is just a bit annoying right now.

Overall this might automatically improve performance for people that didn't try to optimize rendering so far. And for those that try to optimize, it'll help reduce clutter and noise and lets them focus on the less repetitive parts.
they've made to make it easy to give up your location privacy to Apple? Emergency SOS is the latest one

I look forward to your blog post where you detail your phone call to emergency services:

911: 911, what's your emergency?

You: I fell down the stairs and broke my leg. It's gushing blood everywhere!

911: What is your location?

You: Oh, no you don't! I'm not giving my location to anyone! You're just gonna have to GUESS where I am!
The USSR succumbed to the resource curse and an unstoppable arms race. In the 50s when they were still on somewhat friendly terms American newspapers were openly fretting that the Soviet economy was too efficient and growing too fast.

Its intrinsic economic woes were overplayed by western elites who were terrified of communist contagion.

Western ideology is about the primacy of property ownership. It's not economically efficient in the slightest but it's the only game in town these days.
We are talking about computer systems that connect a network of humans. Humans are notoriously imprecise and unreliable machines. Anything more than 0.00001% is therefore a miracle.
There is an advantage on the high-end which is a) safer, b) higher functionality, and c) better customer service. The philosophy many follow is buy the cheap one of something, and once it breaks (from extensive usage), replace it with the high-end version.
Thanks, even if I'm not the one who asked. I guess the longer version of your answer would be "if you have larger input, just downscale first". And for the quality demands, you wouldn't even miss any antialiasing, just sample every nth pixel for a n00xn00 image, should really be good enough.

I wonder if it might be nice to allocate some more bytes to the center than to the edges/corners? Or is this already done?
Previous tech has replaced drudgery and allowed humans to focus on or move onto doing something else. Typically something requiring more creativity or intelligence.

What new things will humans do in the face of automated intelligence and creativity?
I've settled on just getting Ikea or used (and usually quite old) furniture for most things. To get consistently-better quality than Ikea, you have to go up to like 10x or more their price. There's a whole middle-range of furniture that's largely complete shit, as bad or (more often) worse than Ikea, but with massive mark-up. The market's super-weird.
I still haven't forgiven Apple for killing off Aperture.

To date nothing has come close to Aperture's seamless blending of image organizing, editing, and metadata enrichment. I'm not holding my breath that an app that feels like DarkSky will ever come along.
Shouldn't be too hard to integrate. Just need to load the result into a Unity scene.

If nobody has tried it in a week or two I might give it a go.
What happens when s6 crashes, then?
No:

When a light wave enters the new time interface and the device changes its optical properties, the signal keeps moving forward in space. However, the signal gets reversed—if it were a spoken word, it would sound as if it were getting played backwards. In contrast, with a conventional reflection, a light or sound wave would travel back at its source but mostly look or sound the same as it did before the reflection.

—

So it’s
Light -123-> wall -321->

Where wall isn’t a wall but a time mirror.
It's my understanding that the original Yandex founders and tech left Russia several years ago. Is this new technology? Or is it stuff being extricated from the (now) Kremlin-controlled codebase?
My parents had a microwave growing up that was older than I am. I'm in my 40s. It was an absolute tank. It still works today.

I used to say "they don't make 'em like that anymore", which is true, but then I thought about all the other furniture they bought in the 70s that did not survive this long. When I looked around their house, I saw that very little furniture or appliances were original. Most of it had broken and been replaced.

I realized I was looking at that microwave and drawing the conclusion that it was the rule when it was actually the exception.
to my understanding there are 4 levels to add information:

1. train a model

2. fine tune a model

3. create embeddings for a model

4. use few shot prompt examples at inference time

These have decreasing resource need, but also decreasing quality.

For example, the GPT-3 API (not yet the GPT-4 API) has a functionality to send it your own embeddings, for example of your own source code documentation. Then you can query GPT-3 and it "knows" your source code doc and answers specifically with that in mind.
Anyone comfortable with using high level languages on an Amstrad PC1512 will do just fine.

Many still don't grasp how powerful ESP32 actually happens to be.
And here is a Trump TI, just in time, lol:

https://civitai.com/models/22983/donald-trump

Anyway, I am surprised it went so viral. This kind of response from Midjournay and Twitter isn't sustainable... Maybe cloud generative AI and Twitter-like social media really are doomed, especially if Section 230 is weakened.
So true…
Yeah, that second part of the statement was a dumb joke from me. But maybe it was a different Abel from the ones I listed.
Could you please review the site guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) and use HN in the intended spirit? Note these ones:

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

"Don't be snarky."

"Edit out swipes."
no. I think you're all getting screwed. that's my solution. I certainly don't think it scales, but this works much better for me. I'm really sick of ordering stuff expecting it to be reasonable and have to return it, or throw it out, or try to make do.

I'm just objecting to your statement that 'everything is just fine'. its not.
Nothing's so clear-cut as history lessons might have you believe.

The USSR et al had many more problems than most people in the west, at least of my generation, properly appreciate — the Holomodor and the irony of the Berlin Wall's official name (≈ anti-fascist protection barrier) being the most pertinent in my mind.

Conversely, while the USA was a symbol of hope and freedom in my childhood, that childhood was oblivious to the official segregation of the USA even in the 60s, let alone the unofficial segregation whose continued existence was the basis for the term "woke" prior to it being appropriated by all the political talking heads to mean everything and nothing.

The oligarchy in the USA today is not one I favour, but it is kinder than the… I was going to reference the events of the Homestead strike, but it turns out I must remember my own words, for that too is less clear-cut than I had heard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_strike

But yeah, reality is a complicated mess.

My opinion is that laissez-faire capitalism is BS, that the Roosevelt New Deal marked an end to that era for the same reason that the equivalent living conditions ended Soviet-style communism; that other forms of communism and capitalism exist; that both over-simplify human nature and that a superior alternative to both can be designed with careful effort; that such a thing probably won't be taken seriously until the current system is utterly broken because of those with power in the current system; and that by default AI and robotics is a lot closer to communism than anything else because "from each according to ability" requires much less personal consideration when everyone has a dozen droid servitors at their disposal.
So we can deduce the training data is from before January ‘23.
Since you seem to believe that Indeed is a massive monopoly in an industry where it's almost impossible to build the infrastructure to reach customers and provide competition, why aren't you lobbying for the government to break them up?

I'd be interested to see if you could even convince leftist anti-corporate monopoly interest groups to go along with your plans, never mind the fairly center right US govt.
One pervasive source of slow connections, even in well-developed places, is mobile devices as they travel in a car or public transit.
AI generated images for every Bible verse
Where the author talks about containers you can mentally substitute cgroups since Linux containers are cgroups + namespaces.
Well, yes and no. There is lots of waste for sure, but this is really just not warranted. Honestly i'm not sure it ever was. Even 15-20 years ago actual pictures loaded just fine. And don't get me started on text placeholders..
> If I were given a choice whether to spend hours learning integral calculus or partial differential equations, I’d have most certainly said no!

I'd have said... yes?

Unfortunately school greatly reduced my enthusiasm for certain subjects – and for reading books.

And my enthusiasm for computing was further diminished when it became something I had to do to survive.
Lindy: AI Personal Assistant
Not that it matters, but Kallax isn't MDF. It's much lighter than that. Which is for the best, because MDF at those dimensions would weigh a ton. It's constructed just like a Lack table, which is essentially cardboard honeycomb between sheets of melamine. Mostly air.
Yep. Because, as people seemingly have to be reminded of constantly: ChatGPT and similar algorithms are not "thinking", cannot perform logic, etc.

They are very complex statistical databases of language.

LLaMA doesn't seem particularly sophisticated. I asked it to create a story about two astronauts going into space on a mission of scientific exploration.

Ten guesses what their spaceship was called. Hint: "no bloody letter..."
> CGO_ENABLED=1 CC=musl-gcc go build --ldflags '-linkmode external -extldflags=-static'

Unless you cant use musl for some reason, but that’s a glibc problem, not Go
Similarly, IBM bought Weather Underground, deprecated both Storm and Wunderstation apps with excellent visualizations, and then never bothered to release anything that was worth using.

I keep Storm on an iPhone and look at it every so often, even though it no longer retrieves weather data.
Functional capitalism serves 2 main purposes:

1. Money encourages people to help each other by facilitating reciprocation: I do something for you and you pay me, someone else does something for me and I pay them, etc.

2. Private ownership fosters accountability: People maintain their own houses because it's theirs. See also tragedy of the commons.

If these purposes are not being served for a majority of people, they will reject capitalism. But the right regulatory environment can ensure that they are. In a distant future with extreme levels of automation, people will still need help from one another and people will still want to own their own things. We just have to make sure it's possible. Progressive tax schemes and UBI, possibly in the form of equity, could accomplish that.
> Since the fed isn't listening to them they are going to force the Fed to listen to them by laying people off to increase unemployement and will continue to do so until the Fed relents to their demands.

That would be threatening the Fed with a good time! The Fed has lower consumer demand as a target metric, and laying people of is one way to achieve that goal (roughly speaking).
32 kB?
That’s why your buy low duration. Payroll doesn’t just suddenly happen you can plan for these things
Different people may indeed have different values, but when we are talking about most people and what they are taught, I think this is true. People are thinking about retirement, buying a house, or paying for their kids education and this is why they save.
Just to pile on - Kent Beck was one of the authors of JUnit. His credentials are pretty solid.
I'm actually very lost in terms of what inflation means anymore. As far as I've been aware, inflation comes from the cost/benefit relationship that is supply and demand.

For instance, housing inflation has to do with people who have long-running cheap mortgages who don't want to sell their asset just to pay a higher monthly premium while the market is in low supply. So shouldn't your calculation also take into account supply and demand?
I think you’re 3 orders of magnitude off here, it’s ~30 bytes for each image, not kilobytes.
It isn't new, in the article they state that it originated back in 2006. It's been in development since then.
Probably enough to mess up your hand, probably not enough to completely remove it. I wouldn't want to count on it for rendering a laptop completely irrecoverable; but it'd probably do a good enough job most of the time.

A "thumb drive" that's much bigger than an m80 is going to be a little suspect anyway, isn't it? some of them things can be swallerd now. Don't think any are designed to work after, alas.
Can you please not fulminate on HN? You may not owe big-corporate app-suppressers better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it—we're trying for something else here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
They haven taken our jobs. But they have made the buying power of workers lesser by time. Try buying a house today with an avarage sallary.
The detail error from example is pretty awful and missing any useful detail.
Is it the limitation of the jsonschema library?
I hate the idea of requiring 6 random binaries from 6 random companies just to get the basics working like tabbing windows, resizing windows, and reading drives.

Doubly so when they are closed source and free. How are the developers making the money? Are they community supported somehow, maybe patreon? Are they tracking you? Inlining ads to your desktop? Who is paying for their apple devel tools or apple store ID?

As the saying goes, if the app is free, you are the product that company is selling

Imagine supporting 100 mac users, each with 6 random binaries installed.
This is nice, I really like it.

It reminds me of exploring the SVG loader using potrace to generate a silhouette outline of the image.

Here's a demo of what that's like:

https://twitter.com/Martin_Adams/status/918772434370748416?s...
I don't know about furniture, but in my industry where we have mechanical and electronic stuff built both domestically and in china, the difference in pricing is _insane_. It's not uncommon for things to be a difference of 10x, or 1000% more expensive to be built in the US.

And it's not like these shops in the US are swimming in cash. The infrastructure (for manufacturing) sucks and the labor is much more expensive. And frankly the quality has been slipping a lot too, Chinese stuff is now often overall better quality at a fraction the cost.

Perhaps if you are a megacorp and can arrange economical supply lines and leverage economies of scale, you can get down to small differences. But for small to medium production runs, China is just so overwhelmingly dominant.
I don't like to shill companies here, but I've used these guys a few times:

https://www.selectblinds.com/

They custom cut everything so odd shaped windows don't add a lot of cost, they quality is good, and they do in fact honor their warranty. I had someone destroy a blind and they still replaced it under warranty!
At this point, Copilot is as natural as autocomplete and syntax highlighting to me. Of course I can still write code without them, but it would feels really off and counter-productive.
North Carolina person here and yes, all of that going to mexico/elsewhere did lower the quality of everything, as well as the expectation that furniture should be cheap.
Highpoint now has a furniture market without much production.

Since people here probably have the means, sharing some tips - If you want good solid-wood hand-built furniture in the US, a couple suggestions might be https://roomandboard.com/ - which is a frontend on a lot of small makers and has extremely good delivery fees, or finding a local (perhaps modern) furniture store that deals with smaller USA-made companies (like American Leather is pretty good for couches/chairs or Copeland for case goods). Regardless of what you do, often there's a bit of an ordering delay - sometimes up to 3-6 months, but it's always worth it than the obvious online options.

You may also have some nearby stores that sell Amish-made wooden furniture, particular in terms of kitchen tables and casegoods, and the quality is usually exceptional.

But yeah, stop ordering cheap MDF-stuff and then maybe factories will start producing good stuff in volume again, for a slightly higher price. Maybe.
Thanks for your writeup I am thinking of moving our Django Apps to kubernetes
There are some countering or counterbalancing factors here when looking at it through the lens of faster/slower.

Slower capital might mean more care and less fraud, but not implicitly. On the other hand, the velocity of capital through a system is at least one measure of its health and prosperity, and a system that deliberately tolerates a moderate amount of risk to min/max fraud/velocity is probably going to be healthier than one that errs too much on their side of either factor (at least in a very simplistic manner— of course there are many more factors and considerations as well)
The Iranians will tell you after stuxnet, USBs with viruses are still worse
the article is very interesting: thanks!
Gas prices were unusually low during the 1990's and that's when the SUV exploded in popularity. Look at an inflation-adjusted chart and you'll see a big dip between 1990 and the early 2000s.

Source: https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/fact-915-march-7-2016-a...
The same is true for the process group/session + controlling terminal solution: the solution doesn't work recursively (can't do process management downstream), and it also requires child processes to abstain from changing SIGHUP handler or mask, but in the vast majority most cases none of those limitations are a problem. Combined with POSIX fcntl locks[1] on a PID file, this is my go to generic solution for Unix-portable[2], multiprocess daemons. The amount of code required in the supervisor component is quite trivial, yet covers almost all of your bases.

[1] fcntl locks permit querying the PID of the lock holder,
so you don't need to write the PID to the file, providing a solution to the PID file race and loaded gun dilemmas. (There's still a race, but the same race exists with Linux containers, and both can be resolved in similar manner--query PID, send SIGSTOP, verify PID association, send SIGKILL or SIGCONT.)

[2] One of the crucial behaviors, that the kernel atomically sends SIGHUP to all processes in the group if the controlling process terminates, isn't guaranteed by POSIX, but it's the behavior on all Unix I've tried--AIX, FreeBSD, macOS, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and Solaris.
I hope you will try other entries in the series! Player of Games and Excession are big favorites of mine, but they're quick reads and if you have the time I would really encourage all of them in order of release!
Just curious, why do you think they want to destroy nations? It seems like if banks want to destroy the economy they have the means to do more effective things than trying to get governments to embrace green policies.
It’s such a bummer that it started as a joke confessional TikTok meme and became a bitter forum reply meme.
And taxes were substantially lower in terms of inflation-adjusted dollars.
In our company:

Writing React components -- frontend engineers (no "UI").

Designing flows -- UX (no separation on UXD/UXE, and they actually have to sit in meetings a lot, to figure out what users want and how others do it).

And we use "UI" for folks in design industry: images, colors, fonts, look-and-feel, modern fashion, transition animations, etc. Maybe some nice interactivity that UX didn't care enough for.
What strikes me is that this was intended to scare much more than harm. It doesn't seem much actual expertise went into the devices, just rdx wired up to 5v from the reports. No shrapnel, no boost capacitor.

Wait until someone repeats the trick with an external hard drive.
50% is an equivalent of a coin toss. We, of course, need an ML-powered tool to identify ML-generated digital junk.
I recommend being cautious. We recently bought a couple Hemnes dressers, which are solid wood mid-range furniture from Ikea. They're trash.

Nobody expects Ikea furniture to be great, but usually it's just cheap materials that assembly nicely but aren't necessarily that durable.

In this case, the wood was mostly okay, though several pieces were slightly warped, and after it was all put together more than half the drawers jam. Something is very wrong with their manufacturing tolerances.
I decided a long while back to never spend another dollar on garbage furniture like Ikea.

Furniture is something worth spending some money on.

Look around auctions and second hand stores for nice stuff at lower prices.
(We detached this generic subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35260301)