skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can take care of the coding part - after all that's where the fun is.

What usually drains most of my energy, as someone in the JS ecosystem, is the sheer volume of modules I need to sift through to find one that does what I want.

The other day I wanted to find a library for handling zlib in the browser - eventually I stumbled on `pako`, which is great.

Seeing this post I asked ChatGPT a somewhat vague question, namely: "What is the best npm module to handle zlib compression?"

It told me about the built-in zlib module, but the last paragraph had this:

"There are also other npm modules available that provide additional functionality or a different interface for handling zlib compression, such as pako and node-zopfli, but for basic compression and decompression using the zlib library, the built-in zlib module should suffice."

Now I feel dumb that I haven't used it for this purpose earlier.
That already exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Societas_Europaea
I suppose the political argument would be that the DA manufactured evidence and coached witnesses what to say in order to “get Trump.”

But there are dozens of people involved in a grand jury and there is just no way to manufacture anything without it becoming public knowledge. Someone in the NYC AD office is very likely a Trump voter and they’d never play along.

This is just a standard legal process with an extraordinary target.
Research Vs Reality are quite often decades behind in physical world.
Refreshing good and neutral writing, love the respect kept up for SO
Well your alternative is to use a VM, which is a slower and clunkier container, or fight the myriad of bespoke python environment management tools so you can make one Python install work for X number of projects and all their unique dependencies.
World of books I find good. Lots of abebooks sales go there anyway.
> what worldview would brag about being hated by UN

Surely not the constitutional originalists, since under the constitution and its original interpretation the UN Charter is the supreme law of the land.
What a scoop! Time to write an article behind a paywall
This idea is both fascinating and terrifying in equal parts
Thanks! I think I found you on LinkedIn, sent you a msg there with my email.
I have similar question. AI is baffling!
I've had ideas for web apps that I've been wanting to build for ages, but my coding skills are nowhere near good enough.

Last night I sat down with ChatGPT and within a few hours we'd built the foundations of a fully functional app.

It's a fascinating process – it often leaves out vital information or doesn't get things quite right and it's obvious it's writing the most likely code rather than something written specifically, but it provides enough to get me 80% there so I can finish up the rest. Felt like collaborating with a forgetful, distracted genius.
Ahh I thought it was Native Instruments - music production is a lot like graphical programming in some sense: you perform a bunch of mathematical operations on sound data by turning knobs, dragging waveforms and drag-and—dropping snippets
Thank you - as mentioned in a parallel comment, I was completely mistaken about the reason for the seal. Now this is clear. Thanks.
How come Toyota has been saying the same for years now?
Conservation biology does focus on the benefits of biodiverse ecosystems to individual humans. In particular it models the way in which reduced species numbers will adversely impact us by degradation of ecosystem services like water cycling, water and air purification, pollination, coastal and inland erosion prevention, carbon storage, and the loss of potential new foods, medicines, materials, and a very wide range of biotechnologies. It's the louder voices in our culture and media with oppositional interests that successfully mischaracterize and drown out what conservationists say.
Even worse for the intent angle is that he did it through his lawyer. Proving someone acted with illegal intent by following the advice of their lawyer seems to be an oxymoron.
100% this.

I just used GPT-4 to help build an analytics dashboard using ChartJS. There's so many settings in ChartJS, it would have taken me a week to StackOverflow / Google how to get my charts how I'd like them - it took me a day with GPT-4. I could just ask it anything and it would help no problem. Any buggy code it produced, I'd just copy and paste the error message and it would provide a fix.

The day before I built a basic version of Stripe Radar: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35323278

Coding with AI has made me more excited to build than ever before after 10+years of programming.
Most probably you’re simply left out if others plan activities. It’s annoying, but that’s how it is.
Fedora IoT is essentially the server variant of Silverblue.
Why Cloud Zombies Are Destroying the Planet and How You Can Stop Them
Does anyone have a tldr of why it took this long?
See https://github.com/Fabulously-Optimized/fabulously-optimized...
Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Bard, A.I. ‘Whiplash’ and Competing with ChatGPT
It's Google killing it, I thought the graph made that absolutely clear.
Most likely on welfare
Funny, because both computers and rockets have been jumpstarted with government money.
Fedora Silverblue is to workstation what Fedora CoreOS is to servers, so the underlying technology would fare very well.
> Almost all of my kids' sports activities and parent groups are on WhatsApp, I have to use it.

Stop associating with clueless people
This _is_ Silverblue and other ostree-based repos.

This article is focused on containers because when the root OS is immutable, then mutable developer workflows/etc necessarily happen in containers (distrobox, toolbox, whatever). OSTree is/was commonly described as "git for filesystems". Every update is an entirely new system image which applies a 3-way diff. It's possibly to state in a single command "show me the drift in my config files/data versus the ref I'm running" and/or "show me the diff between my running system and an update I may apply".
Side question, is the 3-4 months of severance pay cushioning a bit the impact to whatever micro-economy laid off workers would otherwise be affecting? We're not yet seeing the potentially worse effects yet until severance runs out? But I would hope that most laid off workers are able to find jobs in that time frame.
Is Google Analytics HIPAA-Compliant?
This is 1000% horrible than slack. Reading is much faster than listening. I can't imagine having the need to go back to millions of audio clips
> indict a previous president over this with all of the ramifications.

Some would argue that the consequences are positive. It's important for every citizen to know that nobody is above the law.
Have you tried it yet? It is significantly better than a stackoverflow answer. I've been using copilot since release and have now integrated chatgpt into that workflow (thankfully copilot using chatgpt 4 and some tricks I figured out to treat copilot more like a chat bot are making it so I can avoid the chatgpt browser).
This is one of the few times I've read a post about using GPT for dev work that has actually made a somewhat convincing argument.

In my day job, there's been various attempts to use GPT to speed up some work, which has generally resulted in me having to fix "confidently incorrect" code. The outputs usually about half right when its usable.

Using an LLM to basically auto complete trivial bits of code that are "just typing" but usually require a referral to the docs is probably the optimal middle ground for productivity - so time can be spent creatively solving the actual problems.

I'll have to experiment with it further - have it emit all the boilerplate for something, do the fun parts myself, then check for correctness might well be the workflow best suited to GPT.
Thanks for the heads up.. yeah, we're starting to see some destructive proclivities develop already..

It will be a fun ride in the future!
Is your Postgres ready for production?
Do you know if the social media icons that people put in their email signature can also be used to collect data on sender and recipient? I tried searching for information on this a while back but all I got in the search results were tutorials on how to add the social media icons in the email signature 'block'. :/
>12-step programs are empirically superior to any alternative
...

You'll want to reread your study there. For most of the criteria they measured, the conclusion was that AA performed as well as other interventions. Not better. It certainly doesn't establish AA as the superior treatment. The author's conclusion seems to be that it might be about as good and it's free.
Speaking from no experience, but it should be doable. But since in most applications you're going to use floating point anyway (or, if you're using fixed point, maybe right bit shift or maybe even do integer division until it fits the range of your value), the extra precision would be discarded in the end.
what an imaginative 'Bro' name given by tech bros
Understanding the Hoax of the Century
News about news battery chemistry is interesting, but it's not meaningfully correlated with our ability to produce practical batteries at scale.

If there are existing manufacturing processes that can be leveraged to build cells with this chemistry—and do so economically—then commercialization could happen very rapidly.

Otherwise, it's likely to be filled away until future manufacturing technology comes along, which may be "too late" if even better or more economical options exist at that point.
Betteridge's law of headlines comes to mind. So I'm included to answer no.

[Fun fact, in a study of news articles with question headlines, it turns out that most are actually answered with 'yes' in the article. So there you go]
Tubes are still sometimes used in specialised high power applications – typically broadcast TV, or for very high power RF amps for typically either military purposes or MRI scanners (my domain!) where you really want the ability to blat tens of kW of RF at a person for a very, very short period of time.

They break. They get hot. They contain high voltages that can kill people. They're basically the definition of a nonlinear device. Yet for some reason, they're the best in their niche – if you want a tube amp that can work up to 112 kW, Eimac will sell you one [1]. Some of them come with wonderful descriptions like "The tube does not require a socket as it is designed to bolt directly to the chassis by means of the grid flange. Cathode and heater connections are made by bolting directly to the amplifier circuitry."

Solid state (GaN / IGBT) are getting there but there are still new machines with tubes in being produced today. Of course, they have to (literally) warm up and are very annoying to work with – and can kill you – but, hey, valves aren't totally dead yet…

[1] https://www.cpii.com/product.cfm/1/22/174
Wow, so Fetron is the original LISST [0]

[0] https://www.schiit.com/products/lisst
Americans Are Losing Faith in College Education
> I spent a dozen hours understanding how cryptocurrencies work

… and there’s your story’s entire pathway, in a nutshell. With a dozen hours of diligent study you might, just might, be able to understand how the wheel works.

Here’s hoping loads of peoples spend just a dozen hours understanding how your platform works.

BTW, a better headline would be “I Lost $2500 Per Year Gambling on Crypto; Using My Method, You Can Double That!”.
Child abandonment is illegal
Electron is still an abomination.

I've gone from hating PHP for most of my career, to now having a grudging appreciation for it. Its a clusterfuck, but it works really well, and deployment barely gets simpler than "untar into webroot, done".
Aliases make spam free email, see e.g. https://simplelogin.io/
I meant in general, not for Python specifically (which I don't use nearly enough for it to be a problem).

On the one hand, it bothers me that software is so brittle that you need a container around it so that everything is just right. On the other hand, you can argue that containerisation is a clever way to make it all more robust.
Apple bet on the wireless future across the board, and has been betting on it for a while. The results are a mixed bag to say the least.

As for headphones/earphones, IIRC there was a marked trend in adoption of bluetooth headphones, so Apple bet on that. Funnily enough, the competitors that derided Apple for removing the jack, and building some of their marketing campaigns around that, would remove the jack a year later.
Something interesting, number of corrupt US presidents:

GOP

Warren Warding, Teapot OIL reserve scandal

Richard Nixon, Watergate which was funded by illegal Corp political funds which were money laundered through Mexican banks

Donald Trump, Alledged money laundering to fund hush money to porn star, alledge russian money in Apartment sales via Netherlands anonyomous corps, etc.

I cannot seem to find any factual stuff on corrupt Democratic Presidents, aha aha while the Electoral College act was inspired by the Civil War events including the only time Democrats attempted voter fraud none of the elected Democrat presidents were involved in that effort.
Why aren't incorrect close voting discouraged with technical measures?
Sure, although Blink and WebKit are still much closer than WebKit and KHTML.
What Is Left Unsaid (2015)
BloombergGPT, Bloomberg’s finance language model
You have to remember to activate them. Node/npm has a similar concept with its scripts execution, but it automatically runs them in the local node_modules environment (i.e. virtualenv).

You might think this is silly but think about something like making a systemd service to run your python script in a venv--how do you do it? You have to activate the script or call its python bin, but it's not obvious how to do that in any python docs.
We actually tracked every laid off individual from Google to understand the story behind the layoffs.

Here's the summary:

- 747 out of the 2,762 laid-off Googlers have since updated their profiles to indicate a change of employment status in the last 4 months since November 2022.

- Only 56.7% of these people joined a tech company.

- 1/3 of these ex-Googlers joined startups.

See the full blog post here: https://nubela.co/blog/1-in-3-ex-google-employees-in-15-bill...
And probably leading to the next wave of innovation and/or unicorns.

https://www.wired.com/story/tech-layoffs-are-feeding-a-new-s...
WordPress once setup gets out of way completely. I recommend WordPress too.
>> The outputs usually about half right when its usable.

For data projects/pocs/mvps using python its saving me lots of hours, you have some tiny mistakes, but once I have the idea in my head I just iterate and in 30min or less I have "written" the code for what would take me many hours.
I don't have any real information, but my guess would be the same as for any other feature in any other open source software: nobody stepped up and did the legwork until now.
Not to defend twitter here, but it's not that far out if you're a grad or Ph.D student working on some project for your thesis or whatever - especially if you can get the money refunded.

A collegue of mine is writing his Masters thesis part time on deep learning, and he's paying around $30-$50/month for cloud computing
Could also be why you can't find a job. You may be too expensive, and they're looking for engineers in the sweet spot of cheap/can keep the machine running.
Well said sir. Rare book collections.... an art. Totally captivating once you get engaged in this hobby.
As if Trump didn't corruptly use the power of his office to obstruct a lot of those investigations.
That's my evening sorted!
Why Elon Musk joined a call to stop A.I. development
This is a fundamental misunderstanding of "middle class," which has no connection to median income, but is exactly what it says on the tin -- a class between the upper classes and the lower classes. The earliest recognised middle classes were the wealthy merchant class who had similar wealth to the upper classes, but less social capital -- they were definitively above the lower class, whose labour was owned by the upper classes. These were the free men, or yeomen, of the middle ages, for instance -- people who owned their land, likely had their own businesses, and weren't beholden to the upper class.

In more recent times, such as the 18th-19th century, the middle class expanded dramatically to include typical professionals, such as doctors and lawyers -- people who may rub shoulders with the elites, but whose wealth was still tied to their jobs. If their business failed, they would often no longer be middle class, whereas the upper class could likely fall back on connections and maintain good social standing. The median worker was decidedly lower class.

This structure broke down somewhat in the US and, to a lesser extent, in western Europe in the post-war era, due to an abundance of demand for labour, which allowed lower class workers to enjoy traditionally middle-class luxuries, which included widespread homeownership, often multiple cars per family, etc. But don't make the mistake of thinking a well-paid factory worker was middle class -- they were working class.

Most software engineers worldwide are working class. In certain pockets -- the Bay Area, Seattle, etc. -- or certain industries -- such as finance -- they are closer to middle class by earnings, but still working class by vocation, as they (we) work for a living and do not own our own businesses (as many doctors and lawyers do).
Probably back home to their original country since they only have 60 days to find a new job. I imagine that is extremely hard when you are in competition with a lot of your former colleagues.
The US is a republic of states, not a democracy. We vote by electoral college, and not directly by the population, for a reason. The electoral college is weighted using both the House (population-weighted representation) and Senate (equal state representation) so the small states don't get ignored and controlled by the large states.
> Instead I believe we live in a dysfunctional era of "designer as absolute dictator" and it turns out copying Apple is a safer choice then wandering through the wilderness and claiming your own path.

Ironically you try to refute "Apple is prescient" and "Apple is holding the gun" with... "Apple is omnipotent, and all their decisions turn out right and are slavishly copied by others".

> I hate the monoculture through risk aversion, especially spearheaded by a company that seems hell-bent on turning everything into a locked down consumer-grade appliance but I get why it's that.

It's amazing that you call Apple risk-averse when they, to quote you, did all these things, often against considerable backlash: "The removal of physical keyboards from phones, lack of a serviceable battery, notch, death of the floppy, removal of ports from laptops, 3.5mm jack"

Don't forget that also it wasn't just "removal of physical keyboards from phones". It was launching a completely new product for a company that never made such a product in a highly competitive market with lost of entrenched players.

Risk-averse my ass.
Lovely points you bring to the table, agreed on all fronts. Just wanted to add that there is definitely a decent attempt at creating that implementation though: https://ruffle.rs/
Concur. When developers are deep into doing their thing, don’t bother them. This is why there are offices, doors, separation of job functions by area, etc. Keeping their staff from getting bothered is a key function of first line management.

This includes not bothering each other when working deep.
Vatic – AI Video Generator
I think this post should be removed now that most people have had a chance to see it or atleast discussion should be stopped. HN shouldn't be a political platform.
I have trouble understanding why it justifies taking ShareGPT's explore page down.
I fell in love with Helix a few months ago and every single release is improving so much. I stopped using Microsoft visual studio code and vim, and I am not missing them at all.
> I conjectured that it's Kubernetes. Just like XML, Kubernetes solves a problem, but it doesn't solve EVERY problem.

Like XML, Kubernetes does a lot of cool things which were not common before it came around (unlike XML, I think K8s actually manages to improve on the state of the art a bit, too). But just as XML was largely replaced by JSON, I am really excited to see what replaces Kubernetes.
Can we hear some more stories?
There is no longer enough space for it on recent iPhones, it has been used for other things.

Personally I think you could still make a small phone with a jack, but ultimately it doesn't matter much either way. Adapters work fine and bluetooth works even better.
Does anyone have standing to sue under 4th amendment spying violations?

I thought this was settled years ago
Love the editor for making some quick fixes or checking the repo/files. But not using it as a full time driver.
This release has support for snippets but at this day and age, I would have thought we would get our long time request fixed.
https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/1927
Yeah, I've been doing the coding crap for money for just a tad over 44 years. I've literally had 4 complete software careers, each lasting a over a decade, and each being riding one of the tech waves: early 70's-mid 80's 3D graphics, then console video games, then VFX for film, then facial recognition and now AI. Since getting my OpenAI key and working with my own implementation of static Diffusion I have to say my ambition has also increased. As someone with this span of experience, I want some type of youth syrum so I can see where this all goes and participate. It's fucking fun, amazing, daunting, and engaging.
In my off time I have been learning new languages, doing coding exercises and working on personal projects to try to display proficiency, but it doesn't seem to matter.

> Maybe you should use the off time to create a better resume and hone your interviewing skills instead.
Surprised how "dead" this industry is. I remember having Lithium-Ion batteries since I was in high school which was more than 20 years ago (and some Li-Po until then). Everything is leaps and bounds since then but not the batteries. Seems like a massive disconnect to me but I'm no chemist or researcher in this field.
It's not wild. It's precisely what they did in 2015, as revealed by WikiLeaks: https://www.salon.com/2016/11/09/the-hillary-clinton-campaig...
The Human Clone Market (2014)
Yes it seems weak.

However:

1 iirc Grand Jury's are the ones that get to do everything behind closed doors. So we wouldnt know if they had a smoking gun until after trial possibly.

2 The US has a history of pursuing people it doesn't like through financial crimes. Rico etc.

I think its easy to see this in the lens of "oh its another attack on trump that will go away again" and if you experience your entire life through the highs and lows of the media cycle thats quite possibly going to be the case. But I think each prong of attack opens up a little more of Trumps weakness and eventually, either through weight of legal cost or dumb luck they will find something to hang him with.