skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Useful for what?

A peer-to-peer decentralised network of database nodes which is "immutable" only insofar as a peer cannot afford to outspend the network... is useful for what ?

The only use-case identified so far is defeating state regulation of finance, ie., crime.
Is the test different year-on-year? I thought they were somewhat standardized instruments (or at least standard question pools drawn from randomly). Not my area of expertise though.
https://0x0.st/HXU8.png

anyone know what these POSTs to play.google.com/log are for
And this is even worse on locally ran models. I get 2k tokens of context, max.
That's a good point. Indeed there is a technical focus on login flows at the moment as this seems like the hardest problem to solve. Adding API key flows makes definitely sense though!
Dating sim that does your taxes: https://taxheaven3000.com - No idea if it's powered by "AI".
See here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35242069

What the commenters there didn't realize at the time is that code-davinci-002 has nothing to do with the "Codex API" specifically. It is simply the GPT-3.5 foundation model without fine-tuning applied to it. See

https://platform.openai.com/docs/model-index-for-researchers
The facial recognition software issue is not orthogonal: the biggest problem with it is that it's proprietary software being used to do law enforcement. We don't know how Clearview's software works and it is already generating false arrests and convictions. If this is an orthogonal issue, than software freedom is just a petty tech squabble between programmers with no bearing on the average user, and nobody should care about it.

The way that you get the average user to care about software freedom is by drawing lines between it and seemingly unrelated issues. You don't say "proprietary software means you can't edit the code", you say "proprietary software means more surveillance tech everywhere". And the way that surveillance tech works is that it follows a very specific "shitty technology adoption curve"[0]. It will first be weaponized against socially acceptable targets such as criminals first, and then to social minorities that don't have the leverage to say 'no', and then to poor people at large, and so on and so forth up the chain of oppression.

Of course, because of how this adoption curve works, a foundation staffed entirely with old white guys isn't going to be inherently aware of these sorts of problems. They are going to be fighting them by accident, and losing out on a way to do effective outreach about the problem they want to solve.

[0] Thanks to Cory Doctorow for pointing this one out.
Recent media on this points to some pretty negative sentiment around this move - do you think this is more likely to be a “behind the scenes” movement instead of a “front and center” one?
Please tell me you are only talking about urban photography. Because there is more life in this world than just people, and if you honestly feel that nature photography without humans is apocalyptic, that is a really bleak outlook on the vast diversity of life and beauty in our world.
But how could title information be decentrally controlled? How would random 3rd parties running a node (and why would they do this? What would be their compensation?) be able to verify anything about the state of some thing that exists in the physical world like claim to title? How is consensus reached? If one reads the chain, how do you verify what it says is true?

All of this still requires a central authority to decide these things, so they should just manage the database themselves. The "public" would not be permitted to just write to this permisionlessly.
This is pulsed MIG.

Edit: It's TIG in the video. I assumed jewelry used MIG because that's normally how thin copper is welded: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyAaX0RZMVc&t=70s
I've always found academic research to be one of the most natural homes for open source software. It's in the paper formatting software (latex) and much of the lab software.
The vegetation there (varieties types of spinifex, among other things) tends to have thorns that are much harder and sharper than anything in the US or Europe. Even though modern off-road tires are way way way tougher than they used to be, it still tends to go straight through them.

Note: I've never even been there, but my wife spent several years doing field work in the remote outback, so I hear a lot of stories. They carried 4 spare tires, a lot of patches, and typically completely destroyed all 8 in a field season. And they were mostly hiking... The vehicle was just to 1) drive 8 hours from Alice springs to get there, and 2) drive up washes and avoid needing to carry rock samples excessively far.
I feel like this is the Seinfeld is Unfunny effect, where something that's been woven into the very fabric of a certain field is then found to be underwhelming or cliche, because it's been copied and iterated upon so many times. But 3000 years ago The Art of War was absolutely groundbreaking.

Furthermore, as someone who like you has served in the armed forces, I agree amongst those who serve we do not think of "war is business", those in charge do absolutely think of "war as business".
Living in SF for 30 years I am over, over, over severely mentally ill people killing themselves and harming others. No, they don't take their meds. The consequences mean they do need involuntary hospitalization. This has to be done with checks and balances but it has to be done.
You can't have a sound argument if the argument isn't valid though. A sound argument is just a valid argument with premises that are true.
> "the strength needed for the blades means they are also physically challenging to break apart."

Obvious BS, just try harder. Crush them with a big steam roller or with a crane that drops a heavy thing on them. There are a thousand ways to break strong things. Then bulldoze the fragments into an industrial shredder, and bury the result. No need to separate the "fiberglass material" for recycling, thermoset resins don't recycle for shit anyway. Crush it and bury it, this whole thing is an imaginary problem.
California DMV wants to issue car titles as NFTs
Eh, no. Just because you aren't getting paid doesn't mean that what you're doing is useless. "Useless" is a word the writer chose deliberately to be provocative and thus get attention, but it's wrong.

To be fair though, "a life doing useful things you aren't getting paid for" doesn't roll so trippingly off the keyboard.
Isn’t there a tool that lets you get the updates?

I can’t get the latest Xcode either. Other than that, my 10 year old MBP runs great.

I’m holding out for the M3 chip.
Yes. I've seen its tides in person. It's almost unreal. Boats go from sitting on their sides on dry land to floating in 3+m of water and back every tidal cycle.
I'm sure repos would just block access to European IP address if the maintainer requests it.
Were the unhelpful docs written by ChatGPT? Otherwise your story doesn't support your conclusion.

It's more likely LLMs will result in better docs for some projects and worse docs for others.
Very interested was it CRUD? Are you building in public
> Doing anything beyond that is not only a bad solution, it is immoral to press your hand down on the weight of one candidate over another based on his or her identity categories. It is as wrong to prefer a white candidate as it is to prefer a black candidate.

This is a very convenient position to take for white men in power. Now we insist it must be a perfectly level playing field, never mind the centuries of racism.
Reminds me of let it go scene from fight club.

But in back of my mind floyd is singing , don’t give in without a fight.
There is no responsibility with open source, thats the entire point.
Hasura, Budibase, Supabase all were enough to finally have me spend enough time around Postgres.

I hear you on firebase/NoSQL. It's never quite made sense to me when people select non-relational databases to spend an extraordinary amount of time and effort to make it into a relational database. It's more work that just learning relational databases. I'm learning more about knowledge graphs that are not strictly programatically managed and it's been fun so far.
> When's the last time you saw a base model F150?

About five minutes ago. I see them all the time, practically every day I go outside.

> Almost all F150s either have crew or extended cab, a bigger engine, bling, etc.

All of that still doesn't double the weight. And yeah the RAM is heavier from the start, but still its not twice as heavy even with a lot of those options. The curb weight of the heaviest RAM is < 6,000lbs, the lighest Model 3 is a bit over 3,600lbs. 3,600 * 2 = 7,200, and 7,200 > 6,000. And the heavier 3 is 4,200lbs, 4,200 * 2 = 8,400, and once again 8,400 > 6,000.

The claim here was that trucks are twice as heavy as Model 3's. An average Model 3 isn't that much lighter than most trucks. Far from half the weight.
Sorta...come on man 12h average a day? get a life
Here's a few points for your consideration.

1) Startups aren't mega-corporations with clearly defined roles: you're expected to try and do whatever is needed for the company to succeed and that means wearing different hats. At one of my first startups, I was hired as a software engineer, but happily helped move office furniture around when we were reconfiguring the office layout or washed dishes from time to time in the office kitchen. These extra efforts helped me get lifelong friends and business partners. You do you, but you're probably not going to get far in a startup by saying "that's not my job description" too often in an annoying way. It sounds like you might not be a great fit for that startup and you might want to move on. Not sure if that's the best move in a tough job market.

2) Your job isn't necessarily to write code: it's to solve problems. Sometimes that means making websites. Sometimes that means creating some scripts to process some data. Sometimes that might mean manually labelling some datasets. Sometimes that might mean writing a blog post even though you're not hired as a writer. Sometimes that might mean taking pictures for the company website even if you're not a trained photographer. It's all part of being in a startup. By all means, tell your bosses that you're particularly interested in web-development and don't want your skills to get rusty and you want to have opportunities to learn and grow, but be a little cautious how you go about it if you care about your job.

3) It's ok to think of yourself as a Junior Developer because that's probably what you are in the marketplace, but I'd recommend not plastering that label too heavily everywhere otherwise people might think less of you. There's a fine line between appearing humble and realistic about your experience, and appearing to be too low-confidence and self-deprecating.

4) Big corporations are draining in different ways than startups. You might have a more clearly defined job description in a big company, but even worse office managers and processes. In a startup, if there's a problem in the workplace or you want to try X new thing, you can probably walk down the hall and talk directly with your CEO and at least give them your pitch. In a big company, you might have to work through 10 layers of managers in different departments and send 50 emails to figure out if some new process is even permissible.

5) If you don't have any equity in your startup, I can see being a little miffed about this situation. It's one thing to go the extra mile when you stand to gain extra, it's another thing to let your skills atrophy and push yourself to do new things when you don't have a direct stake in it.
A browser rendering engine's output isn't purely graphical, and most things can be tested through other means such as by reading console.log output, looking at the DOM, or looking at computed CSS styles and/or bounding-box information.

In fact there's a good reason to keep graphical tests to a minimum: web specs do not dictate things down to the pixel level, so pixels can shift around from version to version, requiring the occasional golden data rebase.

Fun aside: Chrome's test suite contains a font named ahem.ttf where (almost) every character is an identical black rectangle. This allows tests to include text without relying too much on the details of a particular font.
I'm my own employer, and I'm usually way more passionate about writing features in my problem domain than implementing SSO & other enterprise features, which BTW are not in any way a differentiator or usable as a sales tactic. It's just that without SSO you won't be able to sell any enterprise software anymore, at least if it's a web-based product. SSO isn't something that SaaS startups try to push on enterprises, it's rather the inverse.

Our customers, which are often regular people working for BigCo that try to solve their own work problems aren't overly fond of SSO either, they just need to implement it as a policy since most companies enforce it from the top. You can debate whether that makes sense but if you're running an organization with tens of thousands of employees then not having a unified authorization & access control solution in place is regarded a bad practice, and for very good reasons. SSO solves many real problems that were extremely painful before, where you'd have either no common authorization at all or would need to write LDAP integrations. For all the flak it gets, SSO is orders of magnitude easier to implement and better at enforcing security best practices.

And the reason most SaaS vendors don't put price tags on their website is that it's extremely hard to do pricing as software integration in most enterprise environments still requires a ton of consulting and bespoke development, so if you e.g. put a 10.000 USD price tag on that you're setting yourself up for failure as you typically won't be able to estimate the integration cost until you've talked to the customer and assessed their needs and their IT environment. Deployments have become better as tools like Docker and Kubernetes become more ubiquituous, but it will still take many months to years in most places.

And writing an SSO implementation isn't difficult thanks to many libraries that are available and that do the heavy lifting. In the end SAML-based SSO isn't much more than reading a metadata document, forwarding a user to an external URL, parsing the response document and verifying its signature and generating a local access token for the user. The complexity lies somewhere else, e.g. in the role mapping and in working around the quirks of the specific SSO environment you encounter. Customers e.g. love to use non-standard fields to map organizations, users will often have inconsistent role and organization mappings, the customer wants to add some additional metadata field etc. etc. etc...
Google accounts for Fitbit: A new way to log in
Exception stack trace in the Result class
That would be a fun post to read - is there a link to your blog?
I seem to recall having the opposite experience - vanilla username/password was the only option a few years ago, then later at some point id.me showed up as an option. If id.me ends up being required, that will be pretty gross...
Wind energy opponents have successfully played this up as an issue to divide environmentalists.

The correct response to this is of course that wind turbine landfill isn’t a problem at all.
> A fintech that can't pay $14 per user?

There costs add up quickly and it is prohibitive for a small business that is not profitable.
I think even the Bell Curve admitted that the numbers showed the gap closing, so your 3 is therefore a relatively extreme position for the specific case discussed, but certainly a valid permutation.
Doesn't sound like a startup to me. At least it's odd to me there would be "leads" and "managers" at a startup.

Startups I've worked for have been fairly flat structured and typically everyone is trying to do everything all at once. There usually wouldn't be any formal planning or allocation of tasks – there's just things that you need to do as a team of people with difficult skills and abilities.

And that's the way it has to be in a startup because you can't afford to have a team of user researchers, UX/UI designers, BAs, devops engineers, frontend devs, backend devs, TAs, etc. Instead you tend to just have a few technical people who have broad experience and are comfortable learning and doing anything that's needed of them.

If the company is large enough to have hierarchy and to delegate tasks to certain individuals it's probably structured more like a typical tech company, hence why you're being pigeonholed.

I have quite strict opinions on what is and isn't a startup though... It's common these days for tech companies that have been around for years and have hundreds of employees to claim they're a still "small startup". And that's generally why when speaking to recruiters about startup roles my first two questions are how big is the company, and how many devs do they have? More than 3-5 devs and 20 people at the company in total and it starts to become less like a startup and more like your typical software engineering gig.
Most developed countries are already worried about declining birth rates (many are already below replacement rates).

The rise of AI companions is going to absolutely drop the bottom out of even the most pessimistic birth rate outlooks. It's easy to imagine a future where the majority of all young people give up on trying to establish real relationships and just resort to AI companions for the cheap and easy dopamine.

And I think we're going to see the rate of mental illness, suicide, mass shootings, etc continue to climb to numbers that not long ago would have been unfathomable.

I don't want to be an AI luddite but I am terrified.
I have written an extension for VSCode that replicates the repeat last test feature and lets you run the test under the cursor.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=fcoury.r...
You beat me to it.

Personally, I have been using this variant:

javascript:location.href = '//archive.ph/newest/' + location.href.split('?')[0];
> Would you have said "Dorsey did this" when Twitter made stupid API policy decisions previously?

That's an ad hominem tu quoque. If what you want to do is criticize the character of people criticizing Musk, carry on. But even if the person criticizing Elon is a serial murderer and leaves the toilet seat up, the truth or falsity of any statement they make is independent of their character.

If you have some argument to make about "Twitter" doing it and not "Elon," make that argument and we can discuss it. Speaking of which:

You can believe whatever you like about whether Twitter before Elon would or wouldn't have done things like ban Elon's Jet tracking account (they didn't), Bring white supremacists and Trump back (they didn't), ban journalists using a flimsy pretext of doxxing (they didn't), fire the trust and safety team (they didn't), &c. &c.

Point being, I am not giving you opinions, I am giving you facts about how Twitter under Musk is not like Twitter pre-Musk, and these are not trivial changes.

Then you add the fact that Musk himself brags to high heaven about how HE is changing things, and to boot, people talk to him on twitter and he says he will make changes.

All these things point to Musk personally taking responsibility for Twitter's actions. If he turns this around and the company ends up being worth $250 billion (his claim), do you think the world will say "That was Twitter, not Musk?"

So why when the company shits the bed shouldn't we say "That was Musk?"
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> If people don't want treatment, we should ask what's wrong with the treatment

This reasoning works with most illnesses, including most mental health problems. But it sort of falls apart with psychotic illness. A common symptom of schizophrenia is a denial of any illness, or ill-functioning. In extreme cases, an individual may show no appreciation of the fact that e.g. being socially isolated and with no income will probably quickly kill them. I'm usually the advocate for the agency of people -- I do point out the opposite in another post in this thread, that many people with schizophrenia are aware of their illness and impairments, because many are. But many are not. Even with truly perfect treatments with no side effects that completely cleared delusions and clouded thinking, many, because of their illness, would choose not to take such treatment.
Fair enough. In the GH100 architecture doc https://resources.nvidia.com/en-us-tensor-core/gtc22-whitepa... (page 18) they do mention retaining 2 graphics-capable TPCs but it's clearly not the focus.
The NOAA Sea Level Trends data and visualizations are fascinating:

https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/

Sea levels have been monitored for over 100 years... because of commerce.

East coast US seems to be going up about 3mm/year, or a foot per century. That's on top of 7 foot tides.

West coast US is very steady, barely moving at all.

The sea level is dropping in Alaska by 10mm/year. Dropping in Scandinavia also.

Some cities show rising sea levels, but really the cities are sinking due to collapsing aquifers; New Orleans and Bangkok. And measurements made on river deltas are always going to be wild due to silt and all.

Most notably, I can't find an example in the NOAA data of the rate of sea level rise increasing due to industrialization. Anybody?
Apple already figured this out with iPhones.

I can easily see continuous hardware specializations that are tightly integrated with new OS features to stabilize Mac sales and incentivize shorter device lifecycles.
The Spiral Economy
To be fair the article is badly titled and should probably substitute tech for software.

Not everything needs to be a revolution, and I find that kind of more pragmatic article very useful to understand what tools are becoming available for your craft.
EU Cyber Resilience Act: Five Things You Need to Know
Oh boy. If this passes, I'm basically going to have to not allow people to use my FOSS in Europe.

I have actually written some Open Source licenses [1], and one different thing about these licenses is that they are null and void if the law requires the original contributors to accept any responsibility for the software unless they voluntarily accept it.

In my opinion (IANAL, but I wrote those licenses), if things passes, then anything licensed under my licenses would not be legal to use in Europe or by EU citizens.

Licenses will now need protections like this to keep FOSS alive, and places with laws like these will lose out.

By the way, my licenses are currently being checked by a lawyer. However, it may cost me more than I can spare, so I may not be able to get them fully checked.

[1]: https://yzena.com/licenses/
These are private/business blockchains, not public ones. Again, know nothing about the CA DMV case so no idea what the rationale is.

And, yes, in a lot of cases, it makes more sense for one entity to be the sole arbiter of truth.
I’ve been at my current job for 10 months. I’ve had three instances where I proposed a solution implementation to a problem, was denied, built the implementation I was told to build, had it break, and then told to build it the way I initially proposed (without any credit to the fact that I initially suggested it, of course).

I had a manager for 5 months, was without a manager for 5 months, and now have a new manager.

I checked out a few months back and haven’t been able to motivate myself to work at all. I would quit but I’m locked in for a year with golden handcuffs and don’t want to repay my starting bonus. I can’t wait to quit this shit job.

(This isn’t even half of the shit I’ve gone through since starting here, but only the most relevant pieces to the topic at hand. I could go on and on.)