skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Much too small. Using Wikipedia's figures: volume of Qattara Depression = 1,213 cubic kilometres, volume of Greenland ice sheet = 2,850,000 cubic kilometres. And the project is only useful as a long-term power source if the contents evaporate leaving space for renewed inflow, i.e. it only sequesters a fraction of its volume.
This is literally two of the three things the article talks about.
> there's TwinkleTray for Windows

There is also Monitorian for Windows:

https://github.com/emoacht/Monitorian
https://feedbackassistant.apple.com
Is tire wear roughly proportional to road wear (in states where chains and studs are illegal)? Increasing tire tax would have negative effects (encouraging people to wear their tires dangerously thin, etc.) Encouraging tire manufacturers to use more durable formulations would likely increase road wear, but reduce amounts of tire dust pollution.

In any case, it's not a perfect solution, but does a tire tax more closely approximate taxing road wear vs. a fuel tax or an annual flat tax based on vehicle weight?
Maybe include some more verbose instructions on the screen that displays on my iPad when I attempt to open the app. Following instructions from other posters on this thread has it working beautifully. Thanks!
RepoSize: A command line tool that returns the size of a specified public repo
Irish trad scene is unique in this regard. There are Irish trad sessions everywhere in the world (I was able to visit some in quite faraway places like Moscow, Istanbul or Santiago de Chile), and in Ireland there are a few in every village, and then some.

But that's just it, Irish trad. Frenchies have something similar with balfolk, but not so epic, and while there are other strong European folk scenes, none of them is on the scale of Irish trad. Alas.

Source: I play jigs and reels for fun.
They are stepping stones to 4-year degrees for many people. As the article mentioned, most people in CCs are planning to graduate from a university, but stuff happens.

They have some incredible transfer opportunities, where you can get half the cost of a state school for pennies on the dollar.
Every microwave I’ve ever owned has had a button to turn off the beeps. Usually, a long-press on 8 or 5.
This thing wont be fairly enforced until the ISO is fined $50 Googol for publishing the C spec. .
> Copyright is anti-capitalist

...uh, what?

Like, if you're referring to, say, some hypothetically limited version of copyright where it's more or less a private right-of-action for artists to sue publishing firms for unpaid work, then sure. That would be anti-capitalist, specifically because the Soviets tried that.

As it currently stands copyright is the foundation of modern capitalism. Yes, it doesn't feel like that if you're, say, a right-libertarian or a hardcore free market guy. However, you have to remember that capitalism and a free market are two different things. Capitalists do not care if the market is free, they care if line goes up. They will happily choke off the free market using monopoly power or government power if it will make them more money.

A large corporation deciding that you will own nothing and be happy does not make them suddenly hardcore pinko commies. This is just the end stage of capitalism: once you run out of legitimate ways to make a profit, you find ways to steal from others. That's why we used to have antitrust laws[0] to keep companies from becoming democratically unaccountable quazi-governments of their own. And in my opinion the greatest own-goal right-libertarians ever made was campaigning against their use.

[0] Antitrust law in the US has been functionally braindead since the "consumer welfare" standard was adopted by a bunch of federal judges litigating from the bench in the 1980s.
For that to be true there would be plenty of places where it's falling. Are there?
If it ever works reliably, I hope the feature gets integrated to KDE by default, possibly in the battery icon where there is the brightness setting of the internal monitor.

Could be weird for desktops, so maybe the widget could be generalized a bit so it also allows setting the brightness of the laptop screen.
US-China chip war: Netherlands moves to restrict some tech exports
I don’t see any changes on the repo. The permissions in your case should just be activeTab and storage. That’s it.

You can run the extension via chrome.browserAction.onClick and it will receive the URL. You also don’t need the tabs permission just to create a tab.
Whaaa?

> the more of something you have, the less of it you want. This phenomenon is referred to as diminishing marginal utility by economists.

Okay, but I have a counter-example. Money. The people who have the most sometimes still act like penny-pinchers, and lust after even more, and haggle over the smallest things. Therefore the "law of diminishing marginal utility" is more a rule of thumb than a law.
Hi, Supabase engineer here.

This is a webserver built on the Deno runtime. Deno makes it easy to build a custom JavaScript runtime [1]. I am excited about extending this runtime to integrate it better with the rest of the Supabase stack. For example, we can modify the Deno filesystem API to read and write files to Supabase Storage instead.

[1] https://deno.com/blog/roll-your-own-javascript-runtime
They can probably only get so much because they worked on chat gpt. It gives an idea of the huge value of chatgpt in the valuation of investors.
Probably everybody knows that each test run and build is downloading GB of data but they're doing it quickly, they don't cost much money or none at all, and it's easier to do it than setting up a local cache and use it (CI, local dev machines,) etc. The only reason I ever saw some optimization at that level was because building the base image took too long, so we were saving one and we were rebuilding it only when dependencies changed. I can't remember the details.
Interesting. Thanks. I don't understand why they quoted some comments then, I guess they were authorized by the users.
By using embeddings, relevant docs are clustered and then sent as context to query for a response
All the parking garages in NYC do this.

Source: I spend a lot of time in NYC driving a minivan which counts as “oversized”.

:-)
> I expect there will be an open model on the level of chatGPT by the end of the year because suddenly there are lots of interested parties and investors.

I really don't think you understand just how absurdly high the cost is to train models of this size (which we still don't know for sure anyways). I struggle to see what entity could afford to do this and release it as no cost. That doesn't even touch on the fact that even with unlimited money, OpenAI is still quite far ahead.
I've finally found our marriage doppelgangers!
Why on earth would they make the original vendor of a component liable instead of the last corporate vendor wholly liable for all components of the final product they sell? This seems like something which can only benefit:

1) very large corporations

2) who use a lot of components they don’t make

This seems almost designed as protectionist legislation for dinosaur companies unable to manage their software dependencies at any level of competence.
1. Not all startups (or companies of any kind) are like this.

2. Don't call yourself junior if other people aren't calling you that.

3. This environment isn't good for you. Go somewhere where you'll do actual software development work and where you'll be able to learn from people who know more than you.
GPT-3 detected 213 Security Vulnerabilities... Or it did not
I'm not surprised modern cars don't have them, they'd add a good bit of cost to an already crazy expensive vehicle for a feature that the vast majority of people would practically never use. The vast majority of cars never leave the pavement.
When I decided to go to grad school in Econ I had to take all the math classes I didn’t take during my undergrad years. Community college was the obvious choice. I had 2 really good professors and one hack. This was from 2002-2005.

I also tried to take a “fun” class each time I took a math class just to break up the grind. Creative writing was an eye opener. Most of the stuff turned in was dreadful, sometimes in style/substance but especially in effort. Short stories meant 2 paragraphs for a lot of them. The final story of the semester was supposed to be the culmination of the class. I turned in a 7 page story. While several people were enthusiastic about reading it for critique most were not. One guy even told me, “I’m sure it’s good but dude, I’m never going to reading anything that long.”

I asked the prof about the lack of effort and awful results from the class. I was in a BFA program in film and photography for undergrad and the critique sessions were intense. Part of what drove us, me at least, was fear of embarrassing myself in front of everyone with lousy work. This creative writing class was an elective and presumably the people that signed up for it should have been at least interested in the topic.

She said that you have to understand that most of the people there were really pushing themselves to be at college at all. Most had never developed successful academic habits or understood what it takes to seriously engage with a topic. “That’s why they are at community college instead of a 4 year school” was left unsaid but was clearly implied.

I’m of the opinion that marginal students, either in skill or interest, are more likely to just not try college at all these days instead of wasting their money and time. That’s actually a good thing IMO.
How is this "illusion" different from humans knowledge of things?

(We don't know)
I’m all for software vendors requiring to take more responsibility. Anything better then the current “if it works you’re lucky” guarantee that drives drives the bug parching normality.

The responsibility lies with the commercial vendors however, not with the open source developers. What a perverse world we live in, that that can even be possible… Using our software for free and then holding us responsible… ha!
IMHO, this just seems to be another polarizing piece of clickbait, rehashing the pointless “RMS vs. ESR” diatribes.

The author frequently posts in support of the OSI (applied for a seat, endorses their “we get to define open source” nonsense, etc.). A March 2022 post rants against Elastic and others because of a non-OSI “open source” license change, while glossing over Amazon’s and the OSI’s roles leading to that change. It also makes a strange argument about bias, which almost comically contradicts itself at the end.

IMHO, the OSI, FSF, RMS and ESR have all done more harm than good to the open source community. I’m not saying they’re all equal, or even always bad, but I’m not a fan of bringing one-sided political or philosophical arguments into the hobby and career I’ve truly enjoyed for over 20 years. And no, my contributions don’t somehow mean I get to define what “open source” means for everyone.
We got SOC2 Type 2 last week, HIPAA is next.

We won't do much of an announcement about SOC2, so you can consider this comment the "official announcement" :)
Try not plagiarizing articles.

Reuters et al have a standing relationship and will cite the original article, or straight up say 'originally published by X'.

You are trying to ride the chatgpt hype train and have been called out.

Also 'our'? How many people can it take to put up a garbage site with broken links, and throw a prompt at gpt to obfuscate the original article.

Your website is spam.
Not all things can be or even should be regulated. This is almost akin to a law punishing good samaritan for helping someone in need because that someone ended up a criminal later. Not only is it dumb but also a perversion of authority.

Hopefully they know what they are doing and revise the law.
Don't see this in Chrome + uBlock
To make a web browser from scratch is like making a hamburger from scratch. The problem is not about the first part but what you truly mean by from scratch.
Ask HN: Where does software developers go now, with AI/GPT4?
I have seen a lot of posts like this. I have refrained from making one until now. Not said anything when GPT first released. Even after the ground breaking GPT3.5. Maybe it is just getting to me now? I really am not sure if this post is a valid HN post as per the guidelines.

For context, I have been a Full Stack Developer for only a year now. Pretty much a junior developer still. I was excited and just changed my role to a developer one. I have a lot of ideas that I am keen on building. I have a clear cut path laid out by myself. But will that be enough?

But seriously, how long do we have until a mass layoff on top of the current one that is going on?

Something feels different with the current atmosphere. The amount of stories like the person who lost the freelance job from reddit was crazy!

Or am I just in the bubble with too many AI related stories/content?

PS: Another reason for asking is that I am pretty sure that there are people like me who are not sure if we are in a bubble or not.
Of course GPT can do it, you just need to raise the inference temperature.

The difference, if it exists, would be more subtle.
What’s a civilisation or two in the name of think of the children
...combined with the selection bias that means community colleges disproportionately enroll "relatively low wage, low skill workers" that would most appreciate "direct, cheap, no frill, about the education only".

That is, the talking heads might not be wrong about what they think community colleges are getting right.
Same thing happened in Vermont with some of the evidence for it being whale skeletons found in fields hundreds of miles from the ocean:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_whale
Charles III’s coronation: why a spoon and not a crown carries more weight
I’ve done few math pre requisites at community college. In my experience, the educators care a lot about the students. They are very helpful.
> SSO is just a handy feature that non-Enterprise customers usually don't need while Enterprise customers do

This isn’t true, IMO, most people just don’t realize there’s an alternative to one user account per service. We’ve convinced non-enterprise users to use an objectively bad solution of password managers because every SaaS service hides their SSO option behind enterprise pricing.
These all look really interesting. How do you pick what to make next?
the court order: you're right.

Otherwise, "more effective methods" are yet to be identified, AFAIK.
Thank you for open-sourcing especially under MIT license. I am digging through the codebase and finding a lot of interesting things.

I am building another open-source project that is also a self-hosted deno runtime written in Rust, Windmill [1], where we enable to build all of your internal tool and infra (endpoints, workflows, apps) based on scripts (deno, but also python, go, bash). Instead of running one http server continuously for your function, we run it on demand which has its own set of challenges.

We are doing something pretty naive right now: we create a fork and call deno run [2]. It's decently efficient (25ms for a naive script e2e). We are familiar with deno_core and use it in other places to run javascript directly, but for typescript, deno didn't expose directly the root entrypoint as a lib so we had to fork it [3] and are now gonna be able to do the transpiling to js AOT and save the fork for sub 5ms script execution.

We also want to make some functions togglable as high-performance endpoints and for those we would want them to be spawned as http servers to save the cold start. I'm gonna investigate thoroughly the codebase, and thank you very much for having shared it.

[1]: https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill

[2]: https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill/blob/main/backend/...

[3]: https://crates.io/crates/deno_cli_lib_windmill
Leaked Documents and Accusations of U.S. Spying Spark Outrage in Seoul
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The only vote that matters is college graduate HR personnel, and their vote is that CC and associates degrees are lower than worthless, literally a waste of time, would be more likely to hire with two years of entry level or minimum wage work than with an associates degree.

Any CC student whom is motivated by employment is flushing their money down the toilet if they're on a track or a program.

I was in a transfer program along with several other kids and that program worked very well, but "most" people paying for CC are wasting their money.

The non-credit courses are, however, a good deal and an excellent way to learn and skill up. Note that paying 100x as much to make those courses "credit" courses is worthless if the degree or cert granted is considered worthless in the workplace. And the institution cannot stay in business if everyone takes non-credit courses instead of being on a very expensive "associates degree" or "certificate" path.
Aren't CRDTs more preferable for most open source projects such as databases for ML training, weights, etc? I think blockchains have some utility in that scope (perhaps at a meta level rather than all transactions).
I would much prefer using CRDTs with ipfs/torrent (the best systems for downloading ML data) for any database rather than any centralized system.
Lots of work on that front no doubt, and not only wrt domains
Now, they don't. When cars are self-driving?
Neat, i didn't know this was possible (removing engravings).
Yep, it's interesting because this is the case in eg. device warranties... if something breaks down, you don't search who the manufacturer of the capacitor was, but just take the device to the seller/retailer/store and have them deal with it.
I have been doing some research on vocations and community college courses in USA. It’s hell. Most of them don’t make their curriculum
easily accessible. They don’t show the price. They treat visitors like some sort of corporate funnel where they take personal information up front like contact info etc and then say “they'll get back to you later”. As a potential international (Canadian) student, I haven’t heard back yet. This is terrible experience. Contrast this to Canadian colleges like Centennial, Humber, Conestoga, etc. Their websites are clear and easy to navigate, you can find the curriculum you’ll be studying and the price you’ll be paying with no sales funnel wall. I don’t get it. Why is USA education system such a joke?
If you leverage a secret you can use an LLM to filter out prompt injections (in my limited testing). I actually wrote about this exact idea yesterday: https://inputoutput.ai/tutorials/preventing-prompt-injection...
Animated guide to HTTP load balancing
Experimenting with LLMs to Research, Reflect, and Plan
I have done a little silver work with a tig, down around 15A. I really felt this was the bottom of the range and struggled to maintain a puddle. is there anything fundamentally different about this process?
How much of ancient and modern math was developed by group B?
Just using `cargo build` will work as you've seen, but building a Nix package won't work right now. If you're still keeping up with this thread, though, I have code in this repository to build a copy of buck2 with Nix -- it's several weeks out of date at this point though:

- https://github.com/thoughtpolice/buck2-nix/tree/main/buck/ni...

You should mostly be able to just 'callPackage' that and have it work if you have rust-overlay applied. Check the corresponding 'flake.nix' if you need it.

The prost issue with buildRustPackage is preventing an upgrade, so ideally the minor patches to prost can get upstreamed, but I need to (again) file a ticket about moving this along.
The Rosenhan experiment is now widely believed to have been a hoax.
Generative AI is dreaming up new proteins
As one who self-hosts a number of Open Source applications for a small group of family and friends, I would love to have a simple SSO proxy solution. Many "open core" applications don't include SSO in their Open Source offerings, thus locking small non-commercial users like me out of SSO features for my small non-commercial group.

I don't really need all of the auditing and compliance features this solution seems to currently offer- I just need a simple SSO proxy. If some one wants to build that, it could be a huge help for small non-commercial self-hosters like me.
I agree with you, except for the "punitively" judgement.
Thank you. Nice to see some love given to Safari.
Servers and domains are one of the easiest things to buy with crypto.

I actually just migrated away from Hetzner last week (for unrelated reasons) to two new providers to whom I'm paying crypto (no KYC required) based on this list:
https://bitcoin-vps.com/
How does a decentralized system emerge to solve this? Crypto currencies reward the network with tokens self-contained within the network. What would be given to the public to run this network?

Also tying the state of physical reality with a digital ledger is...nearly impossible without simply granting authority to a central player to dictate what the truth state is. How can a blockchain guarantee what is written into it comports with the state of the physical world (which exists separate from it?).

This can sort of be done centrally, but then you have to trust this party, at which point they should just run a more efficient regular database. But how can a decentralized network write information to this shared database? How can any of the information be verified? Even honest actors have no means of verifying what they are writing to it is true.

Think about it.. there is some odometer somewhere whose state is going to be written. How is it determined? When one reads the ledger, how can you trust what you see there matches the true state of the odometer or whatever? See how this chasm between ledger and physical reality can't really be bridged? These sovereign state matters at the end of the day require to defer to what the state says anyways. A rube goldbergian blockchain solution tacked on top solves nothing here.
How is this different from Calm or Headspace? The UI looks cool tho.
C++ Initialization Quiz
> Either IQs are going up (and racial gaps closing) on a non evolutionary timescale due to environmental changes that should be studied and encouraged by government policy or IQs are not a good measure of genetic intelligence.

Or 3) they're going up at the same rate, so gaps aren't closing. That's what I've always understood to be happening.
The brand name is "Singulair" in the US.
Fanfiction. It is a huge deal to some people. Many prefer reading stories over watching porn, and we all know how big of a market pornography is.
Do you have feature parity with Firebase. The main thing I love is getting auth up and running.

The Flutter integration is also top notch.
"Today, the rail administration says it lacks enough evidence that long trains pose a particular risk."

This is ridiculous, in fact outrageous. We've been using trains and railroad technology for about two hundred years and the engineering is well understood. If procedures now require trains to exceed the once-understood safe limit of 1.4 miles then administrators should automatically set up a testing program to determine new
parameters and operational safety limits.

What's the purpose of having regulators who cannot act proactively before an accident? If operational parameters change from the accepted norm or standard then then a reappraisal of the regulations should happen automatically.
I've generated an entire YC internal intranet (slack, google drive, confluence, everything...)

There's akward conversations between partners, mean reviews of applications, fights, and even drama!

The fake personas are based off of Michael Seibel, Dalton Caldwell, etc... Super believable! legit funny stuff hiding here.

host your own workplace search engine: <https://github.com/gerevai/gerev>

Disclaimer: no I didn't leak YC's internal intranet! all output by partners was generated by ChatGPT. don't sue me!