skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yet the media has been explaining it for weeks. I guess I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt, assuming that they have sources and aren't just making it up.
Gumbo HTML5 parsing library has been discontinued
Also way better cycle life, but the density is slightly lower.
"we have a long way to go"

Hopefully, the direction of that long way is relegate python (and javascript!) to legacy languages.

Something, hopefully, will come out of webassembly. Otherwise, the last decade only saw the rise of two fundamentally flawed languages as the most popular ones.

Ruby losing to both was not a good thing. And I'm not even a Ruby programmer! I hated the language back in the Rails vs Java days. But it is impossible to deny that great software came out of Ruby.

Javascript and Python has produced no great software, just ponderous stacks of crappy code and poorly organized libraries. They are popular because they are used for throwaway web applications and throwaway scientific / non-programmer code, and it shows.

The fact that golang is what is producing new "good" software: a language that is intentionally bad, as opposed to python and javascript being worse because of cruft accumulation or Eich writing it a weekend, is also not a great sign but it's not the step backward that javascript and python are.
ah the GPT combover, the future is here
The other 3 were for wife and two mistresses; or if he was real spicy for three wives.
May be a slightly different use case but moving from BigQuery to managed Clickhouse on clickhouse.com has been pretty great. Easy data injection, super fast querying, lots of control over the environment, and a nice SQL console for quickly looking at the data.
.gitignore that is not checked into repository
Stripe. They are a payment processor and work in Finance. What significant contributions to tech have they produced? I'm not being snarky, I'm just not familiar with any off the top of my head like I know React came from FB/Meta, Google & Amazon produce all sorts of cloud computing stuff, Apple produces lots of libraries/frameworks (most likely for their own hardware/ecosystem), Bootstrap came out of Twitter, etc.
Sarcasm, the degree process is gated too.
I mean severance was basically a year's wage. I doubt any of them are in a rush to be re-hired.
> The leaders we look at are just incompetent.

I think the problem with democracy is we ultimately interview and select leaders whos skills are in persuading a population, but we don't generally need those leaders to actually take the job, we need people who are good at distilling information and making appropriate judgements for the benefit of the population
I've cloned this setup for BTRFS on Guix, which took some questionable hacks because they don't have all the hooks I needed throughout the boot process... still meaning to migrate it to ZFS on Root, which will entail yet more hacks. Going for it though c:
Glad you stuck with us from early on!
Do not forget the protondb plugin on deckyloader:

https://github.com/SteamDeckHomebrew/decky-loader

This shows the protondb status directly on steam UI.
+1 for Linux
"Nobody has even tried GPT" is as meaningless as possible. Not sure if this is satire, but exactly this is a kind of cargo-culting. 99% of persons are better off not "trying ChatGPT".

Your country is very lucky to have its own high-quality farmland and the culture around it. The food there is of such a quality that "countries with like 5000% more arable land" will never have a chance at of having. See the US, for all its land, most of the food is low in nutrition or outright toxic.
Why not cut out the middleman and pay the kid? Go to the poorest high school in town, tell the kids they each get $1,000 at the end of the school year if their performance is at grade level (and $5,000 if they're in the top 10%), and watch the place transform overnight.
SaaS companies that are linking one business function to another where the entirety of the product is some software running on the cloud.

This isn't saying that they don't do development, but rather that they're not breaking new ground in tech. They aren't working on any cutting edge problems or developing frameworks to enable development at scale.

I worked at a company that did some logistics. There was an app for phones, some servers, and some software that did routing, provided ETAs to customers, and produced some reports.

I would lump it in the broad umbrella of "tech" but it isn't a company that's building the next big thing (or even small thing) that will change the world.
This is gold. Really. Well balanced, and much details.
I lack details but most probably their grief is that OpenAI has not put in place reasonable* safeguards to check if the user is minor or not.

* for some value of reasonable -_-
Am I the only one that's been disappointed with GPT for coding? It's good at using common libraries and frameworks but for stuff using more niche libraries it fails miserably almost every time, to the extent that by the time I've debugged and written prompts to try and get it to do it properly I've spent more time than needed

still good for handling a lot of grunge work and really useful for doing the stuff where I'm weaker as a "full stack" developer
What I could see happening is a cult forming around an AGI and doing their bidding.
And there were/are often two or more in the truck.

A system that cannot be cheated can also not be corrected, and even then people will discover ways to cheat it if they want to.
I had Chatgpt write a book for me on a topic I had wanted to write a book on but didn't have time. I'm essentially rewriting it paragraph by paragraph, but having a draft to work off is invaluable.
Google has been fined several times already, and at least try to pretend they care about this. At the very least their cookie banners now have a reject button, they delete user data, and there have been some other changes.
Just like it's entirely possible you could be hit by a meteorite.

Focus on what you can control and let go of that which you cannot.
But literally even JUST THE FEDERAL taxes is incredibly complex.

As far as income taxes, the state income taxes have always been pretty simple for me. City even simpler, and I've lived place with and without them. Most of the complexity is federal (although in part because state and city take the income from the federal as their starting point). But that's enough! And sure, adding more on top doesn't help.

The federal taxes keep adding complexity, even for people with relatively simple situations. It's true for low-wage earners who don't have many assets, federal taxes can be... relatively simple. Maybe as simple as European ones. I dunno, it's a mess.
I was using GPT-4 with a prompt of a tabletop game's rulebook pages that were relevant to building an army. It got the points math so wrong it build me a 1,000 point army, then when asked to fix it I got a ~750pt army. Then when correcting it again I got it to ~515 points and manually fixed it the rest of the way.

It would list stuff like:

>Troll: 70pts Total

>Base Cost: 50pts Equipment1: 30pts Equipment2: 10pts

It did write a rather compelling backstory for each character that perfectly fit the lore of the scenario.
Then, lie.

"I can't because my Facebook got hacked, and I got banned from Facebook. I tried multiple time to recreate an account but it was banned each time :('
Ah yes. The innovation! A sibling topic is literally "Meta wants EU users to apply for permission to opt out of data collection". So much innovation!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35383925
I recommend throwing some airport metadata my way, rather than just the map with pin.

For instance: City/country, IATA/ICAO codes, lat/long, etc.
I have done my research well and I still support Telegram. I don't think Signal has what is needed to rival WhatsApp.

Telegram is a much better option that does not sell your user data and still has the best privacy options. Where most people like to disagree is the security part, but E2EE is not as important to me as long as my privacy is respected.
Stop fishing for sympathy on the internet.
Microsoft seems to care less about platforms than apps nowadays. Windows and Xbox are important, but mostly because they get people to buy Office and Microsoft games. On the platform front though, the Steam Deck is for most people purely a gaming device, but their PCs are both gaming devices and workstations. SteamOS only solves the gaming part. Microsoft might be worried about their platforms if they put work into getting the workstation part better, or they might embrace it and dive entirely into selling apps and games
Oh no, it gets worse: https://hongkongfp.com/2022/09/26/father-of-chinese-ink-girl...
Playstation is BSD.
You've become Chatgpt's scribe. Are you going to feel good putting your name on this book when you're done?

I too like using Chatgpt to get my creative juices flowing, but paragraph by paragraph seems like the power dynamic has shifted.
Poorly laid plans of mice and men generally go awry.
This is really cool, but the lack of the ability to have code at runtime to do things dynamically is a massive limitation for me, I think most of my issues could be solved with just the ability to do things at runtime. Here's some things I couldn't get working in helix:

- Can't make the the editor's theme automatically switch at runtime when I change the system to dark/light mode. In neovim this is done by hooking Signal and VimResume.
- Can't dynamically configure auto-formatters for python projects on the basis of the presence and contents of a file located at the root*
- Can't turn off the completely unusual feature of having the tabstop position change (for the actual tab character) depending on the language, or to set a default. Also, why on earth is the bash (or shell) tabstop set to 2 characters?
- Can't only show trailing whitespace.
- Editor doesn't warn you when you open a file twice (only once you actually edit it). In neovim I have this set up with a custom bit of code to find out which window the neovim instance is in and focus that window instead. An incredibly neat feature you can't seem to implement in hx either.

At this point I can't spend much more time with this, but may later.

The main issue I have with helix (and had with kakoune when I tried it) is just the vast number of slight issues. I don't really care that the motions are different (I agree that the vim motions are inconsistent and would be happy to ditch them for something more consistent) but there's just too many little things for me to feel happy with the end result.

*I have worked around this in hx temporarily using a bash script which works in the formatter key in a [[language]] block for python:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
bail() { exec cat; }
declare -A rootfile=([python]=pyproject.toml)
declare -A format_cmd=([isort]="isort -" [black]="black -q -")
while [[ ! -e "${rootfile[$1]}" && ! .. -ef . ]]; do cd .. || bail; done
[[ -e "${rootfile[$1]}" ]] || bail
pipeline=()
{ exec 3< .autoformat; } 2>/dev/null || bail
while read -r; do
pipeline+=("${format_cmd[$REPLY]}")
done <&3
recpipe() {
if (( $# > 1 )); then
$1 | recpipe "${@:2}"
else
$1
fi
}
recpipe "${pipeline[@]}"

I encountered what I feel might be a bug during this, if the code formatter exits with a failure, you end losing your code.
Launch HN: Inri (YC W23) – Wealthfront for Investing in India
Hello everyone, I’m Nishad, cofounder at Inri (https://www.goinri.com/), an investment platform for Indian expats to diversify capital in India, without any taxation or repatriation hassles. Super excited to be launching on HN, the platform that I personally nerd on and has helped me discover some of my favorite products early.

My cofounder Hemant (@hemantgangolia) has been living in the US since 6 years and has tried multiple times to invest in India. He couldn't go ahead with the process because bank account opening was a challenge and the process after that wasn't clear. There is complexity around taxation, moving money back and a general lack of clarity on where to invest.

Even though there are currently over 30 million Indian expats globally, there are no digital, full-service solutions offered for them specifically. US solutions focus only on US investments and Indian solutions focus only on Indian customers—this makes the India <> US belt underserved. Indian banks with overseas branches offer these services, but investors don’t trust these banks because of conflict of interest. There are other small players in the market but they expect customers to do their own service, which is not what customers want, based on our learnings.

We found a lot of other Indian expats in the same situation as us - wanting to invest in India for financial and emotional reasons, but unable to do so easily or consistently. We wished a simple product existed to solve for this online. We couldn’t find one, so we built it.

Inri is like Wealthfront for your India investments. It is a web platform that offers curated mutual fund portfolios and solves for all tax compliance and repatriation needs online. We have curated the funds based on performance, history and compliance based on your resident country, and funds are selected based on your risk preference, similarly to Wealthfront. We facilitate investments through central platforms like National Stock Exchange and show the holdings via a dashboard on the platform once the investments are done. Additionally, we do this while making tax compliance and repatriation easy.

Just log in to the platform, upload your documents, approve the emails with details confirmation and you’re sorted. Currently, only people with a PAN card (Indian financial identity document) can invest.

Our early customers are all people who have tried doing this before, but gave up because of all the hassle. The fact that they could get invested in just 2 days vs weeks for traditional alternatives was unheard of to them.

We know this is a bit of a niche product for HN but we also know that there are quite a few Indian expats like us here, who could make use of it—and we hope it makes interesting enough reading for everybody else. We would love to get your feedback! Thank you!
As a C# guy, I’ve figured out how to build in-memory graphs with generics and dsl/fluid queries. I’m working on a blog entry about it because it’s such a powerful skill to learn and leverage. No data store required. I can deserialize/serialize the data structure to/from binary or json.
I can finally say I’ve written a Firefox extension while sitting on the toilet!

Take that, bucket list.
RV Heraclitus: Around the Tropic World Expedition (1983-1986) [video]
Then there's Boris as London Mayor in 2014 decrying the UK government obstructing EU legislation to make lorries safer. Then 2018 Boris decrying the UK supposedly being held up waiting for EU regulations on lorry safety. All the while despite the fact there was nothing to stop the UK implementing rules on the same issues, which a later London Mayor ended up doing anyway.
Most of my complaints about this went away with --styleCheck:error. You might already know about this flag, but some people do not. Most projects I have found stick pretty closely to NEP1.
That’s just python, and I’m only half joking.

Another idea for that would be GraalVM’s Truffle. It’s not a language, more of a universal VM, but it can actually already just eval some python code, use the resulting code from Java and pass it on to JS. It also has support for any LLVM language, so C can be invoked from/be invoked from any of the aforementioned languages. And it can even optimize across language boundaries, pretty incredible.
It's not unreasonable to assume these same people end up clubbing dissidents after the upheaval as well.
This works well for nodes with at most 1 parent and child, the post is aimed at supporting many to many relationships though
DnD + ChatGPT + VR + Stable Diffison sounds pretty cool.

-dnd are the rules
-chatgpt is the GM
-vr is the environment
-stable diffision generates the environment
> “Of course, we need some data centers,” he says. But he wants us to talk about restructuring the way the Internet works so they are not so necessary.

I'm waiting for them to suggest it should be moved to the cloud rather than put in data centres.

This is a symptom of widespread technological illiteracy, globally (at least in the west)
Do explain. As far as I understand the problem is that Cohen paid for the hush money, so it was essentially a campaign contribution that was not reported.
I think that part will emergently come from a (sufficiently complex) loop: projecting a model of self onto inputs, recognizing it, identifying focus, predicting own behavior, and then adjusting focus based on current goal. Rinse repeat. I assume brains do nothing else.
Likewise. Bought the cheapest Deck & put a 512Gb SSD in it.

It’s going to be a lifesaver on the next long holiday drive with the kids.
I totally believe they have satellites with this level of clarity, and probably did 20+ years ago as well.

But how do you read a license plate at a 90° angle from space?
And it drives them up the wall that they can't get to the shipper/receiver, clock out and then load/unload, drive 10-30min to where they can park and then turn the truck off for the night.

Meanwhile some CDL bus driver or day cab driver clocks out at the end of his shift, commutes an hour home, has dinner, gets woken up for 10min at 3am by his infant and then clocks back into work at 4am and the government is fine with it.

Same number of waking hours. Same number of driving hours. But the white collar bureaucrats give the latter a pass.

Back in the day they just cooked the books but now with ELD they can't anymore.
Some answers from ChatGPT just feel better than some HN comments.
Understandable when talking about AI chatbots, but I was talking about ChatGPT in particular, which is super castrated and can't do even basic make-believe.
Reducing the friction to write and publish on the web.
I could see it going both ways. You're not going to know all YC founders by default, but you will know more founders than if the batches were small.

The individual network is larger, but comprises a smaller % of the total network as the program scales.
Writing documentation and working with engineers to backfill these skills, rather than being grumpy about it on the internet ;)

> How does it not help to simply say: Here's something everyone from a decent engineering program should know on graduation?

This does.

> So they should instead be coddled?

This doesn't. I'll let you figure out what the difference is between these two.
Sorry if I wasn't clear, there's confusion between banners put up because of GDPR and actual 'cookie banners'.

There are certainly plenty of examples of poorly implemented banners attempting to comply with GDPR while not actually being compliant, where consent is required, but I wouldn't call those 'cookie banners' since they generally talk about privacy and personal data, not just about cookies/local storage.

My point was that there are plenty of websites that don't need to comply with GDPR (because nothing they do falls under its scope), but they still need to comply with the ePrivacy Directive and therefore there are plenty of cookie banners used for that purposes that are a perfectly acceptable way of complying with that law - though because people are more familiar with GDPR than with the ePrivacy Directive, they see those banners and think it's a non-compliant attempt at dealing with GDPR.
Cop-deaths like doubled during 2020/21/22 and it was entirely covid related.
Yes. I love the idea of using it for ffmpeg!
Why did you move to California if you’re working on a B2C app?

A B2B play like, say, Zendesk, I can understand, but isn’t anywhere ok for a B2C app?
The article already clarified that not every user will see prices double with the use of “many” rather than “all.”

Thus saying “not nessesarily” changes what? It’s like saying you’re wrong and then repeating what someone said.
I'm 50+ and my brain cannot handle alcohol like it used to. When I finally stopped for three weeks, I was flabbergasted and overjoyed how much better my brain worked in terms of memory recall, word association, and vocabulary.
> There's a host of crimes to pick from

The only reasonable conclusion to draw here is that the evidence of those crimes is even weaker than this (already pretty weak) charge.
… or the weather more than a certain time in advance.

What’s amazing is how bad the discussion on that (rather good) article is, as it is a matter of faith in that community that higher intelligence will take our problems away like the UFO cults of the 1970s.

What that article doesn’t point out is the other kinds of intractability that have turned up in nonlinear mechanics, for instance that hamiltonian chaos with N=2 position variables is largely a solved problem but little progress has been made for N>2 since the 1970s.

Einstein, Feynman and other early physicists didn’t make such rapid progress because they were smarter than Steven Hawking, Ed Witten and Lee Smolin but because experiments were possible to test their theories and today they’re not. Dark Matter is an unsolved problem not because our theoreticians aren’t smart enough but because the experimental problem is so difficult. We could have “intelligence quotient 10,000” right out of an a.e. van vogt novel and you will still die of cancer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTqruZje3gA

In the video, Twitch streamer Veritas uses ChatGPT to alter some quests in the video game Escape from Tarkov to make them more fun. Results are really interesting.
Variables are usually named after things, so of course they apply to a codebase. How would they not apply?
Very shortsighted IMHO. By keeping both they will be broadening the appeal of their cars to a larger segment of the market. All in favor of a subscription model??

"Buyers of GM EVs with the new systems will get access to Google Maps and Google Assistant, a voice command system, at no extra cost for eight years, GM said. GM said the future infotainment systems will offer applications such as Spotify's music service, Audible and other services that many drivers now access via smartphones"
Added Seattle, Oakland and Boston. Checking for MHT, MKE.
This reminds me quite a bit of the trading turret phone system used in trading rooms.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trading_turret - Sorry I dont have much more to offer at this point.
> Over 20 major cities cut or moved funding in some way by 2021

That's a misleading way of talking about those numbers, and in fact the source linked within the article shows the exact opposite.

For example, it cites New York as an example of a city which "reduced" police funding. Except New York famously didn't - they simply moved SROs to the Department of Education instead. Total funding for police actually increased. It just was reported on a different line in the budget.
Are you working on making this? If not, why are you looking down on people for not living up to a standard that does not exist yet?
Gary Marcus on the proposed 6 month LLM training ban
I think what the GP is getting at is that one’s personal feelings about Electron do not matter whatsoever. There are fantastic billion dollar products built with the framework, that’s an objective fact. We can criticize it from a technical standpoint all we like, but the market is not something we can out reason.

It’s a bit like calling e-scooters an abomination. It’s just an opinion, and one that certainly isn’t stopping money from being made.
S3 prices increased dramatically for some workloads when AWS introduced per-request fees.

Admittedly that was a very long time ago, but it has happened.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30012544
Binance suspended withdrawals for intitutional accounts
If you are going to shorthand entire countries as "shitholes" you should do so up front, so I don't waste my time responding to you.
From a paranoid viewpoint it seems prudent to treat this like an "arms race" and give it the "Manhattan Project" treatment.

Things are moving so fast that someone, somewhere will be working on getting to the next gen in spite of any pause or moratorium. Probably with state sponsorship.