skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting justification for their subscription model [0]:

> Naturally, developers benefit from the subscription model by having a more regular income, but customers also benefit because they hold more power over the developer to fix bugs and provide regular updates in mind of you keeping your repeat subscription active.

I'd love to learn of cases for subscription software where subscribed customers were able to successfully pressure a developer to fix bugs by threatening to not resubscribe. Wouldn't bug and feature bounties be a better solution, if indeed empowering customers is the true reason for subcriptions?

I can see how subscriptions might be good for the subset of customers for whom it is easier to use opex funds to subscribe, rather than capex funds for perpetual licenses. It can be the difference between simply submitting a expense report versus going through a months-long series of committee meetings.

[0] https://twinbasic.com/preorder.html
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Of course you shouldn't unless you have billions lying dedicated for leaving your legacy. It is a semi moonshot semi charity project, I don't think even investors would disagree with this. Similar to what OpenAI was like 4 years ago when it raised $1B as a non profit.
Let's not forget the "Fake it until you make it". It's driving force of any software related project.
The price was $100 + “years”, not $100.
How do you have time in the day for anything other than wild assumptions about strangers?
I went to Google IO in 2014 and it was very exciting as a young engineer.
Google Glass, Google Cardboard, Modular Smartphone, 3D space scanning tablet, Android Wear, and Android Auto were all announced there.

Now it seems Android Wear never really took off and Android Auto is the only product that made it to somewhat mainstream.

I'm not seeing much exciting experimental projects from Google anymore but maybe I'm just older and not easily excited.
> But that has nothing to do with my point. My point was that if some action is considered illegal to perform on an adult subject, I would not consider it a "twisted idea of forcing your beliefs about raising children onto others" to think that those actions are illegal as well when the subject is a child.

Except that child-rearing involves actions that would be "considered illegal to perform on an adult subject" (e.g. grounding a kid for misbehavior or putting a two-year-old in a time-out would arguably be false imprisonment if applied to an adult). There are necessary exceptions for parent-child relationships, because the latter is immature. Creating a false equivalency between children and adults isn't a valid side-step to salvage that statement about the "twisted idea."
Show HN: A community hub for prompt engineering and sharing
Hello!

I dove on the AI hype-train with everyone else and designed / built PromptDen over the past 2 months. The site JUST went live this week.

The hope is to foster a community around all types of prompt engineering. You can find prompts for both generative text and image AIs. The ability to expand that into different realms of media is also there should the site grow.

Anyway, check it out and let me know if you have any feedback, questions or suggestions!

Cheers,
Brandon
Yes, it obviously IS. In what way was it not?
I think keystrokes was just a metaphor for whatever operation the application has to deal with.
> I don't know anyone who managed to have a healthy relationship with it for more than a decade.

Absolutely! When the 2020 season was cancelled due to Covid, one of my teammates asked "what are we supposed to do now, ride bikes for fun?" They were joking, but I think the sentiment rings true for a lot of people.
It should be owned as long as people must rely on ownership to survive in our society.
Transformers??? GCS is a very solid alternative to AWS and leagues ahead of azure.
Maybe I’m a pessimist, but I’m skeptical about how this works out in the long term. People can barely handle the cashier-less kiosks at Mcdonald’s, and now you want them to talk to an AI?

I'm generally ambivalent or even opposed to introducing LLM user interfaces all over the place, since I find communicating with computers via natural language to usually be more cumbersome than using existing interfaces.

But here's a case where I think it probably makes sense. Customers at a drive-thru are already expecting to speak out a natural language order, and increasingly drive-thrus have some sort of digital display that shows back what the customer ordered, so they can confirm if it was right or not.

In the case of the indoor kiosk, you're introducing a totally different interface mechanism. People walk in to a restaurant expecting to speak out an natural language order, and instead have to fiddle around with a custom UI that they probably only ever see inside that restaurant.
1. Wow you think transformers are a product like Search and Maps and Android are. That's great.

2. I think most people consider both Metaverse and chat agents as failures. ChatGPT isn't a 'chat agent' and most chat agents still don't work.

Watching the keynote and Google are expecting developers to cut and paste code into Bard rather than releasing a Bard plugin for code editors and taking on Microsoft directly. Weak.
At least to me, this current generation of AI progress is looking a lot more "foomy" than a lot of people besides him predicted
The idea is nice, but uploading documents is a security concern. I get you “use industry standards” to protect data, but that’s vague and any actual real privacy and security people will brush it off. How do we know what’s going on behind the scenes?

So enterprise use will be extremely limited I think. This would be better as a software that runs locally to extract text, or in customer’s own controlled clouds. Maybe use Apache Tika for that, with a nice frontend. Then, make calls so the OpenAI API only using the extracted text. The same reason I won’t upload important documents to those free “file conversion for free!” websites applies here. Just too risky for the reward. But, fix that requirement and you have something nice I think.
Yet CEO's bonus in 2022 was 20x bigger than his salary. I don't think it will be less this year either; with all-time high stock price and these "cost cuts", he will be wholesomely rewarded.
Quick Comment on Blue Sky
i'm sure it's not popular with the dude-bros or reactionaries on here but it's wild how ill informed (it's open source) or poorly researched some of the takes are on here.

is it perfect? no. neither is anything else in the decentralized space in any way shape or form.

it's also beta, and they're working their asses off on it with the right directions in mind.

as someone who's worked in software for 25 years now (most of them as a developer) i find the criticisms to be mainly about boosting the profile of the critic and less an honest take on the platform and protocol.

i find what they're trying to do to be delightful with a very good north star.

take that as you will.
There you go about time you coughed up some links. Please be my guest go to a third world country for cheap care. Unfortunately your precious big government throw's caution to that wind!

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/page/medical-tourism

Your second link, I'd love to see what access is restricted. Nearly all restrictions in the US are because of the FDA.

Most medical tourism is for cosmetic surgery (which is elective and therefore not covered, I don't care what country or insurance plan you have, generally not covered). I don't need that, I'll stay in the States, thanks.

https://www.maineplasticsurgery.com/blog/when-medical-touris...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCG2nM7ghXo

https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/healthcare/5-ways-medical-t...

https://abc7chicago.com/what-is-medical-tourism-in-mexico-co...
Give the LLM access to `shellcheck` and have it iterate on the warnings. I think promising results have been shown when you allow LLMs to reflect on their answers and give them access to tools.
Survivors are the only ones on the market so its already accounted for I guess. I think I misread your original comment, are you saying price for a well-built new home is similar to pre-owned good bones?
idk, I get way less abuse on the Fediverse than I ever did on Twitter. There is definitely drama out there, and the mastodon.lol debacle was well, ridiculous. (As Douglas Adams said, "People are a problem." -- that's not going away no matter what nifty new protocol you come up with, unless it exclusively routes to /dev/null.)

My point was more that there's no real profit motive to Mastodon, so it can't fail in that sense, which is generally what we're talking about when we're talking about web services.

If 75% of the new people on Mastodon eventually go to BlueSky, the people who remain will probably be perfectly happy to remain on Mastodon, and I don't know how one can call that a failure.
Heck, I've heard stories that several big agencies only started deploying firewalls at their network perimeter in the late 90's. I guess one of the saving graces was that a lot of stuff like personnel records were hard to reach or still only on paper.
Great analysis. Stability of culture means no room to disappoint like Google.
love this callout, this is definitely on our roadmap. we refer to it internally as "one-tweet." basically - we'd love to be able to either

1. render that single tweet on the shield so you don't even have to enter the app to see it

or

2. let you passively stack up all the links you get sent socially, like a reading list, so you can work through them all at once.

will keep you posted on which way we go but definitely going to address this because it's a pain-point of mine as well.
surely FedNow will be a game changer but still it is 1 or 2 years away. And it will support account to account transactions. Need of credit would still be there :)
I've heard of a structure in France that's translated as "moral rights" of a work. I met a guy who was the moral rights holder for a deceased author and had the right to veto large and small elements of the representation of the characters, but received no royalties from the works.
This is already noted in the Queue readme, only the Queue constructs the type, the other 2 data structures are meant for PODs only.

I will take a look at adding support for constructing in-place for the other 2 data structures, but at the moment, they are just for PODs.
>The breadth and depth of their knowledge is secondary

That's what the parent comment is saying. Open-book instead of closed-book, just have the candidate walk you through figuring out what they don't know, listen to them think aloud, and evaluate that.
I've been dealing with pay reductions via inflation for years. I probably lost 7% over the past 2 years.
Just the opposite, the company has been around for 10 years and they have are an intellectually oriented professional services provider. This is quite common. The VM they built may or may not be a direct demand from a customer, my bet is it was an idea that someone had and they decided to make it, to see if there was some customer buy-in. There might be a niche need.

The problem with the 'A Customer Can Run An Applet In A Browser' as a solution, is because this won't materially work for most wide, public style deployments - there will be any number of snafus, and for more 'internal' style IT deployments, there are just easier, more robust ways to deploy a Java app.

I have explained how 'Direct Buffers' are a problem to anyone who understands what VM and Direct Buffers used for (they are inherently about bridging to native memory), which obviously is not going to be accessed in WASM context.

Actually - WASM itself is a great analogy for what is going on here. It's 'perennially almost there' tech aka a neat idea that has limited value in the real world, it's been around for so long and there isn't that much activity, or at least not commensurate with what it's supposed to be able to do. By the time WASM catches up, the performance of JS in V8 gets so much better it becomes 'good enough' which obviates the need for WASM. And so on it goes.

Something may eventually come from JVM in WASM, but what we see is a very early experiment.
Reminds me of a similarly vague "statement" made by BOOM supersonic, another YC company. [0] Here's an excerpt:

United will purchase 15 of Boom’s ‘Overture’ airliners, once Overture meets United’s demanding safety, operating and sustainability requirements, with an option for 35 more aircraft. Slated to carry passengers in 2029, the net-zero carbon aircraft will fly on 100% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).

Let me tell you where the problem is.

If there is no PENALTY for United or Microsoft to get out of the deal, and/or no upfront payment, it's simply a completely empty statement.

Let me give you an example.

Here, on HN, today, I solemnly declare that I am available to sign a deal with Helion to purchase 50 MW of power generation, for 10 years, generated by their 1st power plant, starting in 2028.

We can pre agree on the price, yes. Let's say $40 per MWh [1]. This is 50 MW * 24 * 365 = 438,000 MWh / year, or ~$16M/year. (correct me if this math is completely wrong). Fantastic!

Oh, by the way: nothing will happen to me if I walk away from this deal. I am not giving any upfront payment. Nothing. Just my word.

See you in 2028. Or not.

p.s. happy to be proven wrong, if Microsoft of Helion (or Boom) are kind enough to provide more details about this "agreement".

Besides this, I wish them all the best. Just don't try to sell me this PR BS, please.

[0]: https://boomsupersonic.com/united

[1]: https://www.nuenergen.com/solutions/smart-grid/price-point
It goes the other way too. I've had it generate code using better methods or features new to me, when I thought I knew the language well.
if you were going to design a filesystem for solid-state storage (instead of linear or rotational media), could you implement wear-leveling by determining where to place the next segment of a file by hashing it, and using the hash as its address, updating the linked-list/tree/table/whathaveyounot that tracks where files exist?
Airpods are in a category of their own. Multibillion dollar business that redefined the headphone industry
This is making me feel so out of touch as someone not actively using social media. Is this person actually right that doing this can _help_ their job search? I would absolutely refuse to hire anyone like this but I'm also out of touch so not sure if that's widespread opinion
Embedded people are pretty pragmatic and tend not to chase fads for the sake of change or resume engineering. If it works, it's good enough for them.

Switching away from Jenkins would cost effort and offer no competitive advantage to your end product, so then why do it?
Truly Awesome! However "the website is not supported" is a dealbreaker for me. I do my doom scrolling through browsers, as the apps have already been restricted through screen time.
airline industry has some cost-cutting to do, overall the high vacation costs have to come down for people to afford.
Yeah but hiring companies don’t care. Same as these interviews that they do have some correlation to success maybe no better than iq
Executives get most of their compensation from non-salary (stock grants). Are they sharing the pain (e.g. lower grants)?
"and she is now SMTS in 2 years" implies this person got a promotion every year.. At Salesforce's development pace I somehow doubt this person made such an impact to go straight to a senior position. Especially during a period of hiring freezes, promotion freezes, and squeezing profit margins.
How do I add a semantic definition in an HTML tag to a JPEG, or MP4, or WAV, or any non HTML format? HTML tags fix HTML, not other formats.
I agree. The "AKS paper" or "AKS primality test" or "AKS PRIMES in P" paper is a good example of the recall value of human names/initials.

The initials are alphabetical order (of last names) and it provides enough context to do offline lookups.
You must mean that it got even cheaper, as today's $100 is worth a lot less than a couple of years ago.
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I am more in the orchestrated collapse to centralize power camp. The Federal Reserve was created with the intent to centralize power in the hands of the bankers despite stated goals. We are 110 years running under that regime. After a 110 years working towards a goal the ability to orchestrate on a global scale could be quite extensive.

I am with you on being dubious of official numbers though. We really have no idea who is telling the truth and who is fudging numbers. I believe that people with a goal to build their power will lie, cheat, murder, and steal to accomplish that goal. If some countries collapse or a genocide is committed in the process they do not give a shit as long as their power is retained.
Good luck suing them
Self-custody is one of the core components of crypto, but there hasn't really been a system built to help users seamlessly pass down their assets to the next generation. Webacy, who just closed a $4M funding round, is using smart contracts to solve this problem.
Lucked out and got the domain I want: https://www.cinemodal.com/
I think it's a long term great option that will have to prove itself based on a cost/performance basis in an extremely competitive market.

Therefore, short term the impact is going to be minimal/negligible. There are no plants yet, no approved plans to build any, no validated designs for any, etc. The first few plants are going to be very research/prototype focused and won't produce any impressive amounts of energy relative to what is needed and what is coming online every year in other forms. Best case, we'll see some early adoption in the late 2030's early 2040s with some proof of concept reactors coming online maybe in the next five to ten years already. Several companies are claiming that they are doing that; including Helion. That would be optimistic but it could happen. But I'd be surprised if it hits more than a few percent of global supply before middle of the century. And even that would be a lot.

Getting most coal, gas, and other fossil fuels offline by the 2050s would be the main challenge and a bit of a stretch goal according to some. I think fusion will be too late for to play a major role for that either way. If fusion starts working as advertised, it will likely be the second half of this century. It's main role will be to drive cost down and replace more expensive nuclear reactors.

I'm actually optimistic about the 2050 timeline here mainly because I think the fossil fuel industry is heading for an investment and cost cliff much faster than they are hoping and mainly because that is driven by the pricing of and investment in renewables. They are being to optimistic how long they can remain profitable and too pessimistic about how much further renewables are going to come down in cost. Once they hit that cliff, a lot of remaining supply will be deprecated and taken offline as fast as they can replace it with something vastly cheaper. They'll be bleeding cash all the way. Also, investment is ramping up and shifting from one to the other faster than they hope. So, I take most current projections that seem overly pessimistic and conservative with a grain of salt.

Either way fusion won't be that important for getting rid of fossil fuels. But if it works and is cheap enough there will be a role for it beyond the 2050 timeline.

By then, we should be pretty far done tackling climate change. Mostly via renewables and maybe a bit of nuclear here and there and lots of cheap and scalable storage. There are so many proven battery chemistries and other solutions for this now that I consider that as pretty much guaranteed to happen. A mix of short term, mid term, and long term storage coming online by the tens of twh per year in a few decades. The grid will be very different than it is today with lots of private and de-centralized generation (almost exclusively renewables) and storage, micro grids, etc.
Can they use that AI to drive an anti-aircraft system?
they did move and reshape the taskbar!
Why would you gate keep hacker culture because people want to get paid well?
TBH the constant cheering is a bit overwhelming.
Best person for the job given relevant constraints, obviously. When those are "relatively quickly" and "for the price we want to pay", you still want the very best person for the job.
Tigran Hamasyan, Animals as Leaders, and Plini are musicians I listen to almost everyday.
> a massive lineup of a bunch of new AI features to be announced

man I don't know about everybody else but I'm pretty burned out on the never-ending deluge of AI-related chatter at this point.
According to the app description, it’s free for a limited time though.
>> Yesterday we had an Apple post where everyone was losing their minds all day about Final Cut Pro on iPad

Were we reading the same thread? My take away was mostly complaints about subscriptions and people asking why you would use it on an iPad instead of a laptop.

I think the problem here is that this was posted hours before the keynote - meaning there is actually nothing of value to discuss yet. Now the thread that should be about todays even is full of “back in my day” comments.
Yes, but with some differences (opt-in, being one) that hopefully will prevent some of the abuses.

Moderation is also way better on Mastodon, so even with those features, the impact should be lessened.
>> Like, there was a time where this kind of personality type would just go get an MBA

It seems like you are implying that a person who gets an MBA is the type of person who would cheat on a test. This fits with a ubiquitous contempt for MBAs and also project managers that comes up a lot on this site. There is a lot of room for criticism of business schools and middle managers in tech. But if you really think of people like that as more likely to be dishonest you are being irrational.
You say "years", I say "a minute or two annually".

If I'd urgently needed it back, I'd have had to spend more, yes.
Shouldn't break anything. We are adding a way to skip the cutscenes. That's been on the feature list for a while, but we've been rather buried just trying to get the rest of the game playable :')
Most humans seem to need religion. Fighting religion is therefore futile.

Better to fight extremism, and not only the religious type.
More detailed writeup of this by Kotaku just went up here: https://kotaku.com/this-is-how-you-lose-the-time-war-trigun-...
Every time a company is one day telling the employees that they need to take a pay cut to keep the company "competitive" (and this pay freeze is actually a pay cut), and the next day they're doing a stock buyback and the C-Suite is giving themselves enormous performance bonuses they need to worry about unionization.
AWS releases Cedar policy language open source
Cedar is an open source language and software development kit (SDK) for writing and enforcing authorization policies for your applications. You can use Cedar to control access to resources such as photos in a photo-sharing app, compute nodes in a micro-services cluster, or components in a workflow automation system. You specify fine-grained permissions as Cedar policies, and your application authorizes access requests by calling the Cedar SDK’s authorization engine. Cedar has a simple and expressive syntax that supports common authorization paradigms, including both role-based access control (RBAC) and attribute-based access control (ABAC). Because Cedar policies are separate from application code, they can be independently authored, analyzed, and audited, and even shared among multiple applications.
Not really any different. Nobody was hurt in the latter case.
What is a better alternative, if you want to self-host?
Yes, but shell scripts are written on that assumption. VB code usually wasn’t.
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