skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm sure that if he had to decide on a direction to pivot to today, it'd be towards generative AI.

And he would have been too late.
Even worse, given the vast hubris and fraud, and timing, I can't help but think the birth of kids was strategic. It may be hard for the kids to shake that feeling, too.
> If the current financial system stopped working and for some reason we needed to actually use Bitcoin to pay stuff, it would not be possible. Cryptocurrencies don't scale, because the way they work is extremely inefficient.

What exactly do you mean? This is exactly the one use case where cryptocurrencies do work, compared to all the other bullshit use cases cryptocurrency hypists have came up with. Doing non-centralized transactions is what it excels at.

Unclear if you're talking about Bitcoin specifically or cryptocurrencies in general, but there are cryptocurrencies that handle transactions quickly and at scale in a secure and decentralized manner. Algorand is one of those, but there are plenty of others out there that fits the requirements.
Maybe we engineers should swear on a stack of Star Trek DVD's
Pay per use has terrible incentives for pure software.

It’s more reasonable if there’s an end product at the end. But you don’t want to discourage people using your 3D printing service because your bundling software access that people might not need.
an href is just a magic string in HTML :)
Large profile was a design choice to enable: 1) a much larger dirtbag, 2) a water bin, 3) but most importantly, for a camera vantage point to be able to see top down the way we see from a higher vantage point to really see dirt, floor type. It allows us to build a 3D map.

And go look for a mess is there as voice or app. We just thought that giving users an ability to do it as per preference is the way to go.
Maybe they want to improve their "diversity".
Missed writing it in rust and calling it wasm :)
Even if they hadn't committed fraud I am happy that they are in problems. The article says they were selling TVs to hospitals to display ads. The last thing we need is more ads and I hope every company that tries to push ads into new spaces will go bankrupt.
I don't think the problem is I paid for it and now it is free. That is not a big deal to me (but a small thank you something would be nice).

The bigger issue is that they degraded the game because of the free players and subjected those who paid to the same ads and noise that you wouldn't expect from a free game.

For example I paid for TF2 and don't really care that it is free now. They do give me an occasional crate to tempt me to buy a key but it is fairly unobtrusive (and I think they had that before it went free anyways). If I was asked to buy stuff after every game I would be quite upset and would like my money back.
What ought to be rarely is.

Also, that is one horrific example lol.
I would like to point out that the language compiler in Rust (rustc) is certainly separated from its modular build system (cargo).

Also, how so wonderfully and utterly balanced of you to give an old-school Maven pom.xml file with the maven-shade-plugin and exclusion lists, but omit the Cargo.toml and go.mod files.

Also, its as simple in Java as:

Gradlefile:

apply plugin: 'java'

command:

gradle build

Can you spot the difference ?

EDIT: Ok you were asking about creating single all-in-one fatjar ? Add the below to your Gradlefile:

Gradlefile:

plugins {
id 'com.github.johnrengelman.shadow' version '8.1.1'
}
apply plugin: 'com.github.johnrengelman.shadow'

command:

gradle shadowJar
The point is, if a developer is resorting to another language just to write a 20 line script with a data structure, a loop and control flow, that's a failure of the shell. I don't want to have to use anything other than PS to script on Windows, but I'm often forced to in order to be productive.

It's not saying much for the language that Windows sysadmins use PS primarily. Like Bash, the reason people use it is availability, not language virtue. See last year's Stack Overflow developer survey, where Bash was more popular than PS (29% (Bash) to 12% (PS)[1]) and loved (57% (Bash) to 43% (PS)[2]).

I don't like Bash. I'm using it as a yardstick to show how disappointing PS is.

[1]: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#most-popular-technolog...

[2]: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#technology-most-loved-...
But how does it work when one isn't allowed to leave the country for whatever reason?
Intel Foundry Services and Arm announce collaboration on SoC design
That is too defeatist. There isn't an unending pool of potential employees that FB wants to hire. The company is getting less efficient because they are not negotiating effectively. Remote work is a powerful bit of leverage for recruiting and retention, and FB has flushed it.
I see your point, and I largely agree with you.

One trickynes is with the "This incentivizes them to deliver value" part. The problem is that if the software just "works" and there are no compelling new features the user will quite rationally stop buying new updates. Which incentivises the developer to make sure that either the software never really "just works" or that they hype up new features to create FOMO. They will probably do both.

I guess they could also let go a portion of their developers and keep a skeleton crew around to maintain the product at current But that is not a realistic prospect for many reasons.

People talked about this regarding Photoshop. They said the new features are cool, but far from necessary, which made users stick with "old" but perfectly fine versions. The rumour was that that forced Adobe to change to a subscription model. But of course I don't have any first hand knowledge so it might be false.
I’m older generation, choose Go because it’s almost universally better for my use cases.

But what would I know? I only worked in Java for 20+ years…
> The map data from robot is communicated to app via local wifi.

Good, this is the kind of thing I was getting at. Lots of companies would say "we do all the data processing locally" and then upload the map to their server to get it to the app, because that's technically not "processing".
That leaves off basically the whole point of it: JVM-native blocking calls don’t have to actually block, they can do an OS-native async call, and do some other work on the thread, returning upon completion.

Since Java uses very little FFI, it will benefit greatly from this automagical “no more blockingness”, of course only when there is some other available work in the meanwhile. Servers are the best fit for that.
Just from looking at it, they don't seem to focus on MacOS only on Android
tbh, for characters interacting with a game world, a script and triggers would suffice (provided you don't mind the conversations being banal and repetitive, but perhaps a bit less banal and repetitive than a model trained on a restricted vocabulary). Maxis could have done it, but chose not to, wisely IMO

In theory, a full blown LLM gives you a lot more variety and ability to handle novel situations, but it also gives you a lot more potential for conversational gambits that don't affect the game mechanics in the way you want them to and general weirdness (I love the article's anecdote about the Sim who thinks his neighbour Adam Smith wrote Wealth of Nations!). I'm sure someone will ultimately end up designing great LLM-driven game experiences, but I don't imagine they'll look much like The Sims.
> If you’re the first ‘principal’ engineer in your company of course you don’t know what you have to do to succeed

On the other hand, if you are the first (and, therefore, the only?) 'principal engineer' in your company, how do you even know whether you have succeeded or not? :-)
>> As it stands, my intuition (and everybody else's) turned out to be right.

It’s been 18 months since they “pivoted”. Come back in 5-10 years to see who was right. Assuming the metaverse is a failure at this point is simply arrogant.
That's a good idea actually. If I get bored on Mastodon and feel like I wanna give Twitter another whirl I'll try that. I went opened it up a few days back and saw a promoted post for every ~8 real tweets or so. Unreal.
TLDR: htmx can give you the UX of the later with the simplicity of the former.

I would recommend reading the essays on the htmx website for more in-depth discussion:

https://htmx.org/essays
There is a huge amount of tooling relying on DT_NEEDED for dependency detection. I am not so sure about general purpose Linux, but in the embedded Linux world this would be a disaster. The Yocto system for example would no longer be able to determine the runtime dependencies of generated binaries.

For the static library part, this is such a beaten down argument I just will not argue. I hope you enjoy re-installing your OS every time there is an security update on a library like openssl.
> Zuck was trying to avoid Facebook becoming the next Oracle or IBM -- companies with consistent revenue but thay have lost their ability to innovate.

Such sad tales, companies that only make billions of dollars a quarter, with a solid chance of continuing to do so for the rest of our lives...

This obsession with growth is deeply unhealthy. "Innovation" can be great, and we certainly need it happening somewhere, but the idea that it's something that any given company needs to be doing or it will die is preposterous, particularly when applied to an established industry giant like Facebook.
Even a illiterate/crazy/demented person on the roadside would have told her that she would be 100% convicted.

Having kids well knowing that she would be going to jail is well in the territory of 'Evil'
It would need to be a very specific kind of washing machine (that hopefully probably exists) to make your idea work.

A fully analog/mechanical washing machine is just a big mechanical timer controlled relay behind the knob like a toaster oven. If you set it without power, it just runs through the timer without doing anything.

The machine would need to have a timer mechanism that is turned by an electric clock motor, not a mechanical spring with gears etc.

Or you could possibly set up an electric actuator that blocks the knob from turning. Then trigger both the power-on relay and the actuator retraction to do both at the same time.
It’s always fun to have an equality operator that isn’t transitive.
Hm which gear was particularly French? I was just channeling 80s aerobics workout in the intro, or the style of the songs played in the video.
Companies hate remote work – till it’s time to fire you
Ask HN: Prettiest Free Domain
I realized today that I've lost my personal domain name. It wasn't set to auto-renew and the warning emails slipped through my inbox.

Sad as this was, it's kind of a relief. I hate having to maintain my own domain and it wasn't much more than a calling card. I would still like to host some stuff but not own / pay for a domain. What free services have nice domains that I can use to host my own stuff.

* Cloudflare Pages: pages.dev
* Firebase: web.app
> maybe just do it when it’s appropriate

when we want you to
As someone who lives around bears, mountain lions, and wolves (in the US), guns are a reasonable thing to have available. I’ve personally run across all three of those without leaving my local urban area.

Mind you, I’m thinking of hunting rifles and revolvers generally, not assault rifles.
Slightly related to the topic, but another way to screw up the customer it's when a web hosting company offers "free, unlimited shared hosting."

We all know it's technically impossible. Once your typical-day WordPress weighs more than 5 GB, they'll be calling you urgently to split it up or increase the supposedly unlimited plan.

Wasn't it unlimited? We all know unlimited server resources don't exist, especially not for $3/month.
I figure it's quite common for non native speaker, no ?
I really liked The Theoretical Minimum lectures on classical and quantum mechanics by Leonard Susskind (suggestion: google up the guy, he’s cool) at Stanford. You can buy books, but the lectures are all free on YouTube.

Classical mechanics playlist can be found here https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL47F408D36D4CF129 and then there’s quantum mechanics available too, should be easily discoverable. And also there’s just https://theoreticalminimum.com/

Not sure if they qualify to be a “true” uni course though, because in this case nobody’s gonna give you assignments and grades :)
It is still in the books as one of the optional activities you can do. If you do it depends on the leaders of the pack. I've seen it in my kids books, but we never did that page.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicast_DNS should work fine here
Free Dolly: First truly open instruction-tuned LLM
I wouldn't worry too much, considering my Plex pass (that I bought on sale, no less) is still good, 12(?) years on. Hell, Plex got dropped from my de-Googled phone before they ditched Lifetime users. I changed email providers before they ditched Lifetime users.

Plex could renege tomorrow, but they've absolutely earned the benefit of the doubt in my opinion.
I wouldn't mind Carl Sagan judging my every move. Maybe I'll imagine this from now on.
> poisoned it with the engagement algos that put politics and fake news on top, and drove people away.

publicly traded company. they have to keep that quarterly income up, and on a long enough timeline that means taking whatever revenue you can. if you don't your executives keep getting sacked until they find ones who will do the job.

it's not a question of if they'd do shady stuff but when.

or else they pull a Microsoft and start expanding into wildly unrelated fields like the Zune (which failed) or the XBox (which is huge).
And one of my favorite pieces of software, Sublime Text.
You might be able to set up a virtual access point or "guest network" with a different name.
Trivia:

There is a street named after him (Rodger Bacon Dr.) in Reston, VA.

Right across from it is Isaac Newton Sq, where the lab that discovered the Reston Ebola Virus was located. Around the corner is Michael Faraday Dr.
An order of magnitude speedup for GPT-like models? Not sure why this story isn't bigger news..
Given her age and the possibility (at the time, obviously known now) of a lengthy prison sentence, it was also likely the last chance for her biologically.

I think people should stop assuming malice where other, equally probable, rationales could apply. Let’s give the benefit of the doubt.
It should throw FileNotFound.
I bought a lifetime Plex subscription in 2016 and it's still working
You can review the source code right here:

https://github.com/deck-of-cards/standard-deck

I'm not sure that there are many technical challenges. It's 10k lines of Javascript, and a ton of that are curly braces or blank whitespace lines.

I certainly don't want to knock the author here. This IS a neat and satisfying little project. But I have to agree with a comment elsewhere in this sub-thread, pointing out that teenagers were making advanced 60fps video games with Flash back in the 1990's.

Between Flash dying, and VB 6 dying, it feels like the ability for community members to simply MAKE SHIT has eroded tremendously. To be fair, a lot of this has to do with Windows declining as a monopoly desktop platform, and the rise of mobile as an alternate platform. Cross-platform is hard, especially across wildly different form factors and user interface types.

But even so, I miss the days of people showing off cool shit all the time. Stuff you could touch, play with, use. Today the showcase is mostly libraries "written in Rust!", that you can use to build other libraries written in Rust. Along with half-baked tools like Flutter and React Native, that are eternally "one year away" from being suitable for desktop apps, and kinda suck compared to the tools we had decades ago.
Massey, Fendt or similar could really differentiate themself and take market share on the back of this I suspect.

I love the idea. I wish that were a thing but I suspect that it would be seen as a lack of profit model and businesses are more competitive than ever now.

I have a 1947 Fordson 2n tractor and there is a large community of people that support it as well as a couple 3rd party parts manufacturers that make parts for many old tractors. I suspect that even if Ford wanted to manufacture parts there are not enough of us to make it profitable. Adding to that modern tractors are much more complicated and have many more parts.

It would be really cool if some college were to take on a project to build the "most capable" yet "simplest" tractors that could do everything the modern fancy computer driven tractors can do but using as few parts and as simple and generic parts as possible and then license everything in a way that businesses could not make it proprietary. Perhaps I have an odd fantasy. Open Source Hardware so to speak. If it were to become popular enough perhaps that college could fund their entire department making human and robotic driven simple and pragmatic tractors if for no other reason than bragging rights. "Our $100K tractor can do everything your $2M tractor can do and more." Bonus if it has some Easter-egg hardware like many hidden beer bottle openers.

Perhaps colleges could get DARPA and similar funding in the name of international and national security for each country to create something like this to Feed the World as food scarcity becomes more of a thing. Make farming profitable again.
Oh that makes sense. Got it, thanks!
We usually promote our blog (https://www.ratherlabs.com/blog) on our social media. Like rozenmd said, if someone has a question related to a blog article we had, we share the link into their tweet.
There is a sci-fi book that covered this a little, its the Children of Time series, rather good look into a "uplift" virus going wrong. (used in Children of Ruin, the second in the series on Octopuses)
Imo, a blogging software company really does not need to be valued in the billions or make a ton of money. The tech can be maintained by a relatively small team of people - see all the independent blogging platforms and open source tools.

This is a classic case of VCs corrupting an industry with money that’s really not needed at valuations that really can’t be supported.
Great job Mehul & Team. Congratulations on your launch
Why is this news? There have been so many false promises in tech during the boom of the 2010's and finally consequences are coming to those who were most egregious.

Low interest rates allowed hundreds of startups to make promises of growth and profit, but all they did was burn investor money (and pay themselves). So when one of the biggest overpromise/under-deliver offenders goes to jail, it becomes schadenfreude for all of us.
Business Mergers Between Rivals as Imagined by AI
125$ a month is way more i am willing to pay for a device that only cleans the floor. Thats the same price as a cleaner that works at least 3h a month, even in switzerland.
There's a new technology available and people are exploring uses for it, experimenting with dropping it into older problems and seeing what the results are.

Isn't that kind of tech exploration central to the hacker ethos? (not trying to No True Scotsman anyone who disagrees, just how I've always understood it)
I've heard only the best things about Andrew Ng's machine learning course but never came around to do it. It is pretty old by now and with the dramatic development in recent times I wonder how relevant it still is?
And this one had a purpose. Remember, PHP was designed (as much as it was "designed") for less-technical people. And everything comes through $_GET and $_POST as strings.

The way I see it, this was a crude attempt to make things like $_GET['age'] > 18 work without having to remember to convert types manually.

Javascript was the same with input.value

The == conversions become more intuitive if you keep this use case in mind and think about semantic equality instead of programming's more traditional exact equality.
Five New Species of Treefrogs Discovered in Papua New Guinea
A reasonable suggestion given her sociopathic behaviour and I'm guessing she can self-justify the mitigatory timing and the effects on the kids.
What's that, you say? Individuals choosing whether to behave ethically because a shoddy reputation can have horrible impacts on their future career? I can't even imagine a world like that! *faints*
Shelly has a few relays with power metering and they offer lots of local-first and open ways of communicating. I use one to control power to my 3d printer.
It might not solve a real problem that you have, but it does solve the following real problem:

How do you create a shared transaction ledger without a central point of failure and control?
Oof, yeah. I'll pay $1500 for a nice thing, but I want the nice thing to be mine.
The Short yet Fabulous Life of Earring Magic Ken
They installed displays in medical buildings that sold as space. Then they oversold the ad space, billing customers for ads that were never displayed from 2011 to 2017 and took investment based on the fake numbers.

I wonder how the scheme unraveled. It takes a lot of people to cover up a fraud at this scale, so presumably someone noticed and reported it?

I really dislike this company. I went to a doctor who had advertising tablets installed in every patient room. Getting blasted with drugs ads while your doctor is 20 minutes late put me over the edge. She was a terrible doctor who tried to prescribe a lot of unnecessary products and services that she, conveniently, sold through the front desk of her office. The ads were a great warning sign that she only cared about extracting as much money as possible from patients.
"However, if I think of this as merely a short form update from accounts I follow then it's fine."

Substack will need to decide if they view Notes as a search engine with an RSS feed or a standalone social network.

Edit: I don't think their positioning is obvious yet.
Yeah, it's awkwardly worded. I must have read the same sentence 3 times before I realised what it was saying. Looking at the latest version of the TOS, the new company is operating under the name "ManyCam ULC"
Your wristbands look like the French flag.
Also Groovy kinda sucks
This isn’t true. Google developed most significant advancements in AI. It’s just that MS beats them hard on vision and execution right now.
The problem is: this is absolutely not true in the real world.
> While most convicted sex offenders in Florida are sent to state prison, Epstein was instead housed in a private wing of the Palm Beach County Stockade and, according to the sheriff's office, was, after 3+1⁄2 months, allowed to leave the jail on "work release" for up to 12 hours a day, 6 days a week. This contravened the sheriff's own policies requiring a maximum remaining sentence of 10 months and making sex offenders ineligible for the privilege. He was allowed to come and go outside of specified release hours.[99]

> Epstein's cell door was left unlocked, and he had access to the attorney room where a television was installed for him, before he was moved to the Stockade's previously unstaffed infirmary. He worked at the office of a foundation he had created shortly before reporting to jail; he dissolved it after he had served his time. The Sheriff's Office received $128,000 from Epstein's non-profit to pay for the costs of extra services being provided during his work release. His office was monitored by "permit deputies" whose overtime was paid by Epstein. They were required to wear suits, and checked in "welcomed guests" at the "front desk". Later the Sheriff's Office said these guest logs were destroyed per the department's "records retention" rules (although inexplicably, the Stockade visitor logs were not).[117] Epstein was allowed to use his own driver to drive him between jail and his office and other appointments.