skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is a design system. While beautifully on-brand, as you click in, you get all the way to literal cut and paste code:

- Overview: https://adele.uxpin.com/audi-audi-ui

- The system: https://www.audi.com/ci/en/renewed-brand.html

Some less brand-y examples:

- https://polaris.shopify.com/patterns/app-settings-layout

- https://ux.mailchimp.com/patterns/color

- https://designsystem.digital.gov/design-tokens/

Frameworks or component libraries like Tailwind or Material, are not design systems.

Therefore, when you say you plan to integrate open source design systems, this should not mean frameworks or component libraries. It should mean design system systems, such as:

- https://storybook.js.org/

This, on transforming component libraries into design systems, is worth reading:

Design Systems for Developers - A guide that teaches professional developers how to transform component libraries into design systems and set up the production infrastructure used by leading frontend teams:

https://storybook.js.org/tutorials/design-systems-for-develo...

There's a huge need to fill the gap for design systems that "implement themselves" in the transition from wireframe to code. Hopefully you can vector to align with actual design systems instead of components/frameworks. Serving companies with real design system needs is how you get the enterprise ecosystem revenue to get bought by Adobe for $20B in cash and stock!

// Disclosure: Was co-founder and CTO of a top 5 digital (web design) agency, am enterprise customer of today's design agencies.
Enigmail wasn't even part of core Thunderbird for most of those 21 years.
ChatGPT blocked in Italy due to unlawful collection of personal data [Italian]
Ubuntu can be a bit easier to get a laptop running than Debian (although I personally use Debian).

But whenever I see someone running Ubuntu on a server I think that there is a very real competence issue. Ubuntu should be kept as far from the server room, data centre or cloud as possible.
Solid state might share the fate of Betamax.

There was a post a while ago about a small scale battery manufacturer named Amprius, which reported 500Wh/kg batteries:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35276709

Thing is, the company is producing 450Wh/kg batteries NOW and they're planning on scaling up their manufacturing capacity to 5GWh:

https://www.convertingquarterly.com/ConvertingQuarterly/Indu...

This solid state news piece is exiting, but the real revolution is happening in the background, with LFP achieving decent densities without sacrificing cost or longevity and silicon anode batteries reaching large-scale commercialization as we speak.
Oooh, no I haven't. Thank you for the suggestion! I'll need to figure out how to get it shipped, but it looks quite nice.
Also Alibris: https://www.alibris.com
Use pipreqs instead of pip freeze. It resolves the minimal set of dependencies for your package.
You're misunderstanding the point. When the government collects an average of $37,000 per household, that means they are also spending an average of $37,000 per household (actually substantially more, but let's stick to ideal scenarios for now). Ought that be enough money ensure the functioning of a country?
The CORDIC algorithm is great! Just a few months ago, I implemented a sine generator with it and also used fixed point arithmetic. It is a real eye opener to see that you can substitute multiplications by bit shifting when you store the numbers in the “right“ format.
At first, a maintainer considered it to be a regression to implement (reading the bugzilla page), which caused it to be delayed for ~7 years. Then the issue went more or less inactive for almost a decade because the world at large dismissed OpenPGP encryption on mail as pointless (in part due to the complexity in actually getting it working since no mail client gave it a first class implementation, leading to a circular case of it not being implemented because nobody did it.)

2 years ago it was deliberately revived by Mozilla, then it devolved into bikeshedding about the design and now it's finally shipped.
This looks extremely useful, congrats on the launch!!

The splash page took me a bit to figure out, at first I was like like "wait is this like a UI for a vector DB?" then i figured it out. The demo video is fantastic.
What kind of emails are you sending, how many, what kind of errors you have ran into? Throttling or the silent discard?

We had almost no issues with Gmail, only with Outlook "Protection"
Is this guy a free rider? I mean, i've been hearing about him all my life and he seems to just be enjoying himself, maybe good at marketing, or keeping good contacts happy
This comment threw me off hard because of how loaded it is.

1. How does that address the fact that NixOS is immutable?

2. If discussing server side applications was the intention of the author, why didn't they make that the explicit focus of the article? As the article currently stands, that's not the stated topic, but it is a point included in the article about why immutable OSes are cool. That's a noticeably different reality.

3. Even if we look past the above, NixOS can be used for server side deployment and in many cases is favourable to, say, Ansible deployments, so that STILL doesn't explain why it was left off!
This has nothing to do with child abandonment
One way to solve this is to announce that you will allocate funding after a task is completed, to those people and companies who most helped complete the task.

For example, the EU announces "We have €20B to be divided between companies who can make the EU have a 30% share in worldwide semiconductor production by 2030".

Then, in 2030, you see to what extent the goal was achieved, and if so, get every company to say how they helped achieve the goal. Then you have a bunch of experts vote to divide up the pie based on who contributed what.

Companies who do paperwork and nothing else will turn out to not be major contributors. Companies who churn out millions of useless chips which are outdated before they even hit shelves and end up in landfill will also not be seen as big contributors by the expert pool.

Obviously, companies need the investment upfront to go do the task - but investors will bridge the gap in most cases - ie. "I'll pay for this semiconductor factory now, as long as you give me the €4B that I expect you will probably be awarded when it turns out you produced half the semiconductors between now and 2030".
I was looking for something really simple - like how the BBC Micro and ZX Spectrum were to my generation. Linux Mint is certainly capable, but also more than what I need.
> People will just adjust to send you sms or call you instead for important information

That's a big leap of faith.
Are you expecting a salary similar to the one you were getting at a FAANG though? Because that seems to be the main issue - FAANG people thinking they're worth way more than they actually are.
Finland Cleared to Join NATO
Thanks for the link, just learned of this and I'm impressed and interested.
But they're still based on that kernel that's hosted at that Linux website?

Do you consider ChromeOS a Linux distro? it's based on Gentoo.
"...the problem they face going through cycles of discharging and recharging in a stable way."

They suffer from poor wearing like almost all new battery technologies. Until that's solved they aren't useful.
With ChatGPT!
Could you give some example? Not attacking, I'm just curious.
> Go back to the basics of recurrent neural networks, deep learning texts, and so forth? Or is there a shortcut into the hip and popular transformer-based technology at this point?

Sure there is, if you want a black box design that you don't understand.
In large swathes of the world, refusing to use WhatsApp means losing contact with the majority of people you know. It's the de facto communications method in many countries.
Google layoffs started in January 2023. How is the November date relevant?
It's well understood that Cohen was Trump's fixer, so I don't think that'll be that big a hurdle.
Is it not possible to have a client / desktop OS where each app runs in its own container by default with its own writeable filesystem... I would have thought that's beneficial from a security perspective as well as making things easier to separate...
This is the Economist, they don't really go for scoops much. (And I think that makes them the only somewhat decent newspaper)
They became my go-to by having cheap shipping options to Europe a bunch of years ago. It’s always been a pleasure buying from them.
Well thank the benevolent lord that NixOS is the only OS you have to google stuff for. Good heavens, I could only imagine the horror of googling for a bug in Debian. A relief such a thing is nary even conceived of.
Even if you avoid it their trackers are on so many sites that its very hard to not have them collect data on you. Even after opting out I doubt they can actually follow through and not know anything about you.
Large Language Models and Simple, Stupid Bugs
Do you have any data on accuracy/completeness of LinkedIn profiles to accompany this? I get that LinkedIn is the most used platform, but as someone who doesn't use / update it (I have a largely dormant profile), I got the impression my demographic, while a minority, is still a relatively large minority.

Presumably the "total number of identified LinkedIn profiles" & the "total reported layoffs" figures don't match up: what happens to the data gap in your reporting?
“every laid off individual” should be “every laid off individual with a LinkedIn account”.
Well I've certainly heard most eager civil war talk coming from the same side that did it last time.
This is so cool! But I also kept clicking until I found my home airport...20 mins still didn't see it :D
NixOS is a general purpose distribution. In the desktop use, it provides better management for the ad-hoc software dump that any personal machine inevitably becomes.
I'm also reminded of how rocky SVG's road was, and is: Me and SVG by
Amelia Bellamy-Royds: https://codepen.io/AmeliaBR/post/me-and-svg
What's the story with the seizures?
> The company really was just ego stroking for Mr Billionaire

The modus operandi is to slap the "Virgin" brand onto a venture - lending the brand in return for some equity. If the dice roll between a 5 and a 9 he cashes out - every other outcome, someone else loses.

Its not far off the Dragons Den model of venture capitalism, and seems to be somewhat of the basis for the Celebrity SPAC model.
Because you want to marginalize out non-layoff-related variables?
I remember Oracle sneaking the Ask toolbar into the JRE installer. Meanwhile the JDK installer (which also installs JRE) has no toolbar. Clearly preying on people who aren't developers. True scum.
The opposite — the US constitution is more like a slaver bill of rights, rife with plantation oligarch backdoors. The checks and balances are akin to NBA owners negotiating how not to ruin each other. Those rights originally were only extended to white men formally, and only rich white men in effect.
I'm pretty sure there is no cap on how much Trump was allowed to spend on his own campaign; that's why US politics is filled with so many rich people spending so much on their campaigns for office (sometimes for very little effect, as happened with Bloomberg). What's capped is how much any single other individual can contribute. Also, it's probably not all that clear that the payment should count as campaigning; if I remember rightly there was some speculation at the time it first became public that Trump might've funded the payment with campaign funds and people came up with equally plausible arguments that this would've been illegal because it obviously wasn't a campaign expense.

The whole thing is... probably not great grounds on which to carry out the first criminal indictment of a former US president, but the state of US politics and media in 2023 is such that outside of Trump circles the issues will be largely ignored.
Basically, "delayed by human factors".

I wonder how such human factors could be reduced/eliminated?
If you read the article to the end it does actually offer reasonable perspective on this, pointing out that there are many other challenges left to solve before even getting to a prototype scale. TL;DR It's a promising step in the direction of solid state batteries.
> We then used ChatGPT to clean up and categorize all 2-thousand and more roles into 9 main categories. Finally we did a quick manual comb-through to correct any discrepancy.

Yet another example of how times are changing!
A Voter's Dream
I was going to argue, because I am part of the "fedora good :)!" crowd. Surely, fedora good?

But considering the nonsensical arguments I've seen elsewhere around a certain OS whenever it is merely mentioned, I am starting to think you're right.
Those facts don't support your conclusion. The popular vote is not even close to "a majority of Americans". Something like 120 million American adults didn't even vote in 2016, versus around 66 and 63 million who voted for Clinton and Trump respectively. Clinton winning would still have been "minority rule" by this measure.

Also, broadly speaking, being progressive means wanting change and being conservative means being more comfortable with the status quo. It seems obvious that of the 120 million people who weren’t motivated to vote, more of those would be latent conservatives. Or at least, it’s very hard to see a progressive majority in there.
> the world at large dismissed OpenPGP encryption on mail as pointless

This is quite amazing, if you think about it. I'm not one to promote conspiracy theories, but if you look at how we horribly botched all implementations of E-mail encryption over the years (that includes lack of development, terrible UI, delays, bizarre and unimplementable in practice standards like S/MIME), it is quite an impressive story.

Meanwhile, the HTTP world mostly got things done, and instant messaging is in a pretty good shape (although I'm still amazed that so many people are willing to sync their entire phone book to Facebook for advertising purposes without a second thought).
I think of analog synthesis - using analog components to create audio waveforms which can be piped into an amplifier and speaker to create sound - as being different from analog computation like it’s described in the article.

Maybe the best way to explain the difference is dedicated purpose-built analog circuits (like synths) vs analog computers that are more general and can be programmed.
The IEEE standard doesn’t really require any particular precision for transcendental functions IIUC? The original standard doesn’t even define them. The 2008 version includes optional correctly-rounded transcendentals, but there seems to be a total of one implementation, CRlibm, which is an academic project of more than a decade (and a dead home page because of the INRIA Forge shutdown). Your run-of-the-mill libm has little to do with this.
Bafta Game Awards: God of War wins six but Vampire Survivors takes top prize
Depends on what you mean by "tech" - I have two:

https://maxrozen.com, where I write about React, and sell an extremely condensed book on a single function that few understand (useEffect), I use Gumroad for this.

https://onlineornot.com/articles, where I write about common issues webmasters have and ways to improve your team's incident management, and sell a SaaS product (via Stripe).

In both cases, I have a newsletter that folks sign up to, and I slowly convince folks that I know what I'm talking about by sending them my articles, and eventually pitch for a sale. Folks that don't like this approach opt-out by unsubscribing, and the newsletter gets stronger for it.

You could look at other payment providers - no reason to pick the ones I used.
Yes. Dems were never going to, for example, indict Trump on selling US policy to the Saudis, that’s a key political-racket revenue source.
The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank has sent shockwaves through the investment community. Many are wondering how they could have missed the warning signs that insiders were selling off their shares just weeks before the catastrophic event.
It's a painful reminder that staying informed about insider trading activity is crucial for protecting your portfolio. Fortunately, receiving fast alerts on insider sales reports, especially those from key executives such as the CEO, CFO, and CMO, can help you keep a close eye on your investments and avoid significant losses.
Isn't this what Quantumscape is already betting on ?
> Is this a satire ?

No, it’s honestly not. I carry a pocketknife all the time, to open envelopes or packages, cut twine, slice a sausage or cut some cheese, whatever.

As for handguns, it’s not common in other countries, but in many American states it is relatively easy to get a license to carry one, and about 1% of the population do on a daily basis. They are useful for self-defense. Plenty of people like to target shoot, too. It’s easy enough to fly with them in one’s checked baggage (one just has to declare them, and of course they must be unloaded), but they aren’t allowed to be carried aboard (or in the airport, for that matter). If one is already checking one’s firearm, one might as well just check a full bag.
where's the scream emoji when you need it?

the other thing to note is just how spoiled we are with monitors these days. $400 for a giant fat pile of screen real estate, on something the thickness of a book (adjust the kind of book for the kind of monitor you have). Back in days of yore, monitors were CRTs. Deep and heavy, and with poor resolution. it's only recently we've been able to get exquisite 4k (or higher!) monitors, which meant that losing any screen real estate hurt plenty.
This is one of those things where counterfactuals, reproducible-experiments, and meaningfully-sized datasets are pretty much impossible, but my first reaction to this is that there are countries with fewer taxes or "bureaucratic weight" than China - or even the USA - that haven't seen a ton of prosperity and innovation on par with what happened in those two over the past decades (a bit earlier for the USA) as a reward.
I don't!

I long for the early days of the Internet, when you published because you wanted to, and things didn't have to be "monetized".

Yes, you do have to make a living, but let's be honest: you won't make a living "monetizing" a tech blog anyway.
Italy: The Privacy Guarantor Blocks ChatGPT
Energy density is ~8 times higher than in 2008 at 1/10th the price. That's more progress than we've made in single-core performance in the same timeframe.

Sources:

https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/articles/fotw-1234-apri...

https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/evolution-of-...

https://mlech26l.github.io/pages/2020/12/17/cpus.html
Italy data protection agency opens ChatGPT probe on privacy concerns
Ooh man had hoped multiple lsp servers in one file would have made it into this release. Ooh well its not such a biggy but i would have made my transition to hx from vs code more doable.

I want multiple lsp for html files with tailwindcss its more a thing because im still learning/memorizing tailwind stuff.
>Only 56.7% of these people joined a tech company

Does this suggest that a large fraction of laid off employees were in non-tech roles (e.g. pro{ject,duct} managers, scrum masters, sales, etc.)?

If so, perhaps the layoffs are a good thing—in my experience, the worst tech companies to work for are those dominated by non-technical employees. Perhaps layoffs are being used as a blunt instrument to shift the balance away from that.
I seriously doubt that. Might be true for younger people who were laid off by the "LIFO rule" (i.e., cheaper severance), but anyone with a 10y+ career would at least think twice before joining a startup... Especially in Europe, but these kinds of stories are never about Europe.
No conspiracy needed.

HTTPS was already there and working more or less automatically, you just had to make it the default.

E-Mail end-to-end encryption is inherently more complicated to make work, as you need to put the user in charge of key management.

Browser vendors made a big campaign and invested effort into making HTTPS work. Noone did that for E-Mail.

Also it should be mentioned that the same level of security that HTTPS has almost exists in E-Mail. You have transport encryption, it is largely enforced on C2S connections. S2S is a bit more complicated, but even that is mostly solved by now via MTA-STS, which at least the larger mail providers support.
To confirm a decision the judge had already made, sounds like.

Interesting thing to do. Proves their court system (or at least one presiding judge) isn't afraid of AI in the courtroom.

Do Not Pay tried to run an experiment with an AI lawyer, but people got spooked and it didn't happen.

Different strokes - I like the India approach better so far.
The biggest reason I've seen FAANG candidates (mostly Google, FB, and Amazon) get rejected is too much experience with proprietary technology, esp. if they've been there a long time, like 5+ years. I've even spoke to some FAANG candidates who think their internal proprietary tech is widely known or commercial products.
What suggests that the majority of laid off employees were H1Bs?
Criminal impunity for political elites backstops their entire racket: laundering hard bribes into soft, insider trading and so on. They've blocked T•••• prosecution for things like the coup because federal law enforcement report to them, and they're wedded to the immunity. Only the most egregious get prosecuted, e.g. the Congressman insider-trading on the phone in the background of a public T•••• event.
Technically very true, stick driving will give you a better feeling of what your engine actually can deliver. However this knowledge does very little to improve road safety, so my bet is still on AI support. Not sure of the English terminology but "basic" stuff like lane protection or tiredness detection helped me a few times - and finally taught me a lesson.
I'm calling BS on the "startups" number...I think this is a lot of people hacking around on side projects on their own dime

No mention also of how many will permanently leave tech...this may come down to who has the most savings to fall back on...if you just have to get paid to pay off that BMW lease, you're going to find work wherever you have to
Friend or foe: Can computer coders trust ChatGPT?
The relevant phrase in the Michael Cohen indictment referring to Trump was "unindicted co-conspirator". Individual one is how they referred to him. Trump was supposed to be featured much more prominently in the indictment, but the Barr's DOJ intervened on Trump's behalf to minimize his presence in the proceedings, and they went out of their way not to mention him.
On point. It would be nice with insight into the roles of the lay-offs.
Meta is way out of line. There is absolutely no way that the EU is going to allow Meta to break the law at scale without regulators throwing a fit. They might even get to be made into an example of what happens when you repeatedly try to knowingly break the law.
Many of these depends on your traffic, but some ideas I've seen:

- Sell weekly/monthly sponsorships directly (https://daringfireball.net).

- Write an ebook about a topic you are an expert in.

- Curated job posts if you are blogging about a niche.

- Affiliate links for products / services.

I'm not sure regular display ads would work well for a tech audience just because of the amount of ad blockers you'll encounter.
I see, you were referring to Meta specifically. Your statement doesn't generalise though.
If I've learned one thing as an adult, it's do whatever the fuck ya what (that my morals allow) and if necessary ask permission later, if asked. Never ask for permission before, just do it.
Great resource. Wish more CS-related educational content was made in a similar way.
My wife hates when I do exactly this. It’s extremely hard to change, because it’s so subconcious.