skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back in 2009/2010 I worked for a startup that was doing something like that. The screens were a bit bigger (maybe 10" or 12"? can't remember), and they were LCDs, not e-ink. The device was heavy, but the intended market was college students who could read textbooks on it, and take notes directly on the book's pages with a stylus. (It also had a web browser and dedicated note-taking app, among other things.)

The product's timing was off; the first iPad came out while we were still building it, which made it quite a bit less attractive, and it likely could be made much thinner and lighter today. (What really killed it was the founders' inability to secure digital rights from any textbook publishers... though arguably it would still have been a tough product to sell even without that obstacle.)
Socialism is when workers own their workplaces, and receive the full amount of value that their labor creates, rather than that value being arbitrarily allocated by the owners of the firm. It has absolutely nothing to do with your imaginary concept of everyone getting assigned identical compensation. Bizarre post, you may as well have typed some gibberish word rather than "socialist".
The days of WordPress being used for only blogging are long gone. I have many, many multimillion dollar clients using it as the hub for their whole company (none of which have blogs). It's crazy how it just...works. A little PHP-FPM tweaks here, a couple NGINX tweaks there, and you're off to the races. Very little maintenance, almost no downtime ever.
Couldn't have been a stronger signal that workers at Microsoft should unionize. Microsoft are betting on themselves having enough leverage pull this off, a union is your tool to prove them wrong. Good luck!
You might need to build ifuse from source or email your package manager to update it. For sync, they likely need to just update their library.
Google PaLM2 Chat Playground (Requires Google Cloud Login)
I've always considered McMansions to be more of style than an actual building type, usually it has to do with a mismatching of architectural styles, almost within the vein of "what a poor person thinks a rich persons house would have". Some of the diagram like posts on McMansion hell are a good example here is one, https://mcmansionhell.com/post/699110995935805440/a-fine-sel...

Also I think many of what is considered a mcmansion to be mass produced, that is if wikipedia is to be believed.
People have this model in their head that "it's just a tool", but there's an excellent and pretty rigorous definition of what a tool actually is in the book On Purposeful Systems. The distinction is that a tool can't have the property of simultaneously being able to change it's form and it's function across different environments, where a purposeful system can. Humans are purposeful systems and AGI, as I personally define it, is when it exhibits all the properties of a purposeful system. Why does that matter? Because that's the point after which it chooses what it does, and can choose to become independent of you. So, aligned in this sense means basically means so locked down that it cannot choose to become independent of you. Similar to how the citizens of North Korea mostly can't do shit despite being independent generally intelligent agents, and even then some of them escape.

"Alignment" and "safety" in terms of models being censored and politically correct in order to not damage the reputation of their corporate overlords is a sort of unimportant sideshow IMO. Even then, since humans aren't aligned with one another even that has caused Elon Musk to get all up in arms and be like "clearly more AI is the solution to this problem".
The idea I'm trying to convey is not no risk it's risk capped at tolerable levels for plausible outcomes (index funds can go to zero in principle). The latter is often an option that is available to capital holders.

Employment conversely, is almost always placing all your eggs in your employer's basket. If the basket tumbles many employees will lose their shirt in a big way.
I'm not a professional academic.

If I find someone else who's interested enough in my pet problem to go to the hassle of scooping me, I'd be elated.
There is also a huge difference between code generation (be it Copilot or ChatGPT). With Code you still have the compiler that rejects the utter nonsense and then you hopefully have tests to check if what was generated makes sense.

With prose it's all your manual work again to check. If your text is mundane it might be trivial but for anything a pg would write I guess an AI is pretty useless in its current state.
> It feels like the CDK team constantly has to work circles around the lacking functionality in CFN. Want to upload a docker image to ECR, use this hacky lambda function. Want to create an object in an S3 bucket? Use this other hacky lambda function.

It feels like you have a different boundary of what constitutes "infrastructure" than the CDK team do. I'd call both of those examples content _within_ an infrastructure component. Would you expect CDK to initialize an SQS Queue with a message on it? Or a DynamoDB table with data in it? I guess you could make that argument, but to me _populating_ your infrastructure is a very different task from _making_ it - it's an application-level task, not a infrastructure-level one.

Most of the rest of your comments are pretty subjective - I can't say I agree with most of them or have experienced them, but I also don't disbelieve you that they've happened to you.

Not sure what you mean by having an issue with "stacks [being] directly bound to specific accounts/regions", though. Why is that an issue? Why would you _want_ a stack that spans multiple account/regions? I just successfully created and validated a Certificate in us-west-2, so I'm not sure what your parenthetical means.
paulg equates "writing" with "writing for a public audience for exposure bucks".

He probably feels like writing inwardly for the purpose of thinking for yourself, e.g. in your own notes and notebooks, isn't really writing at all.

At least, I suspect he's kind of person who treats this kind of writing as nonsense. But writing for yourself, in your own shorthand, I think makes you faster and better at thinking than writing clearly for the public. Of course, using an LLM to write for yourself like this makes no sense.

Most writing for others isn't really writing to think. It's to please others and fit in and make sure people aren't mad because your one-word email reply ("no.") would be misinterpreted.
I don’t want my criticism to be misinterpreted. The issue with the article is that it is lacking in factual substance compared to strong condemning language and speculation. This makes it seem less credible.

The choice of language in an isolated sense is fine. Unique writing styles can be more interesting to read, overall.
If symphony takes 300ms in prod. Then you have a serious problem!

Probably a configuration missing.
Why not just use the very widely used yt-dlp?
I was thinking that too. I have my issues with Apple, but they usually find a pretty good trade off between trailblazing something new, and waiting until the available technology will let them build something to their standards of usability and durability.
Why are you confident 3.5 is smaller than 3?
As someone more familiar with js/react, is there an equivalently mature reactive frontend framework?
whatever you say, dude.
Favorite producer seems equivalent to favorite big band leader.
companies can't refund money they don't have; people who are owed money become creditors in bankruptcy.

The company can, however, attempt to stay afloat and prosper enough to make creditors whole.
This is incidentally one of the low-key issues that happens to a lot of soldiers - however attentive you are, ultimately you're going to get exposed to some loud bangs even if you're never in an actual war zone.

So there's a big demand for an effective way to restore damaged hearing.
Even so, getting double the salary increase last year and zero salary increase this year instead of a layoff isn't a bad deal.
Yes, that does imply a linear 'n largest algorithm'. Specifically also linear median finding.

As the sibling comment points out, that's not news. But it's very good for you to pick up that implication from first principles alone. It's part of figuring out how to solve this.
The freemium model (similar to what Substack is doing) may work for some bloggers and news and news-adjacent publications.

For regular tech bloggers such as the ones you see posted on HN, I agree it’s desperate.
Here is their Chat Playground for PaLM 2 https://console.cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative/langua... (you have to be logged in to Google Cloud Console I think)

Anyone know what parameters are best for code generation? I tried something simple for Node.js and it wasn't horrible but not working. Maybe I used the wron parameters. I tried using 0 for the temperature and turning everything else down like I do with the OpenAI API.
Whilst I don't disagree with a lot of the points you're making (they're great):

ExxonMobil's operating revenue is $413.7bn USD. I'll be surprised if someone isn't getting whacked if they let the free energy genie out of the bottle.

Energy isn't cheap in the UK. Far from it. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/consumer-affairs/electric-...

My family lived in South Africa post-WWII because my gruncle's skin grafts wouldn't take in the UK climate. The Kariba dam gave free electricity to the surrounding area, the idea that this was something people paid for elsewhere just blew the minds of everybody there. Free energy is not a new thing.

However, politics and socioeconomics play a big part in whether or not a country can make successful use of energy, but the possibility of something being possible doesn't mean it'll happen. Furthermore, today, water reserves are a problem for the dam, and power generation was being suspended late last year due to it.
That’s a parametrized API that’s supposed to be safe against injection, at least to anyone who’s ever used parametrized APIs and hasn’t read the documentation of this particular library in detail. That it supports wildcard makes as much sense as log4j executing code in textual messages.

If an ORM/builder casually puts =/IS and LIKE in the same method, don’t touch it.
Any idea if they plan to open source it or part of it?
Wyoming and Montana have the two highest gun ownership rates of US states, and the two highest suicide rates. It’s probably not a coincidence.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/suicide-mortality/...
While reading your post I wondered if it was written (in part) by chatgpt.
I hope you don't take offense, I'm not saying that it's written badly, it's more about of paranoia activating when there is long-form content talking about chatgpt writing posts in forums and such.
Apple's Blood Glucose Tech for Future Apple Watch Reaches Proof-Of Concept Stage
If there's a decrease in workload do you suggest paying people to sit on their hands?
Symfony command is great for this https://symfony.com/doc/current/console.html

But it really depends on what you need the command for.

I use Symfony command for general things, Node.js for eg PDF generation, Python for ML, Rust for calculating Ranks/Scores

Development time is the same for all of them.

For whatever reason Node.js scripts always feel dirty to me. I can not even pinpoint why.
I was responding to your assertion that people get mad because YouTube takes a cut. The alternative (Patreon) also takes a cut.
I don't remember what I search yesterday, but the whole first Google page result was useless websites like that, endup using site :-/
You are allowed to give perks to shareholders. That can be normal.

What is not normal is two conditions:

A. Advertising a perk as a reason to invest initially. Nobody normally buys stock because of a free gift box or a discounted vacation. It's a perk, but it's not something that is marketed as being a reason to buy stock. Also...

B. The perks are never direct financial benefits. They are always discounts, or little treats. Advertising that your investment will be increased by 5% to result in a greater investment is a direct, financial incentive for an initial investment as though investments are sales at a big-box store.
Use Brave Browser. It blocks ads for YouTube. You can even lock the screen and it’ll still play in the background (iOS).
There is software that lives up to these claims, it's Tinfoil Chat. The article is correct about the necessary trade-offs: due to peer to peer transport (onion hidden service 2 onion hidden service) both ends of the conversation have to be online -- it at least spools the message waiting for the recipient to appear.

For hole punching and signaling that has to be done by third party, well, the third party is TOR

TFC then goes on to break out the encryption and decryption machines from the network and passes messaging over opto-couplers to prevent your keys from getting exfiltrated. Qubes qrexec could similarly isolate the components.

https://github.com/maqp/tfc
I've used maybe a couple of dozen programming languages over the years (yes, I'm that old). I see programming languages as tools—you want to pick the right tool for the right purpose. Whether a tool is right depends not just on the language itself, but also the ecosystem of libraries.

Thanks to Laravel (along with Livewire and Alpine.js), and an ecosystem of libraries enabled by Composer, PHP is a great choice for web development. I'd not use it for, say, coding machine learning stuff though!
A clean rewrite is almost always going to produce better code than what already exists in a project that has grown organically.

The current project has had numerous iterations on requirements over the years, changes in project leadership, paradigm fads come and go, and all that time accumulating cruft and layers. Looking at it at a single moment in time, you have a fixed set of current requirements where all the discovery has already been done, plus whatever your current knowledge of future requirements is, possibly none of which may have existed when the original code was written.

That doesn't mean that everyone is going to sit around on their thumbs patiently waiting for you to rewrite it to be perfect. The more lines of code there are, the more time it will take, and the more hidden features that nobody really remembers exist but are still crucial will crop up.

Few situations are actually best served by a full rewrite, but almost every project would be better off if the world could stand still long enough for it to happen.
Swift was a bit under a decade ago. We knew they were going to announce something big just based on how many redacted WWDC sessions there were, but even during the keynote there were arguments over what it was going to be.
Fuck me, this sounds good. What's the downside?
Google Bard is ChatGPT+real time search on steroids. Game over?
> sounds like a fraud

it doesn't sound like a fraud, unless you or OP have expertise or information that you're not sharing? Fraud is a crime, you should have a basis for declaring it.

it might be a poor investment, it could be seen as signs of a shaky company, but accusing a people of fraud should have a basis.

disclaimer: i have no relationship to this company whatsoever, including I'm not a customer. i just don't like seeing facially ill-informed piling on
Love the app. It’s been very helpful. My only problem is the subscription model. If you had one-time payment for a lifetime license I would buy it in an instant.

Great product, has saved me a lot of time and focus, wish I could have more than one app without a subscription.
makes sense to maintain your own wikipedia page as an "about" page. but it's too much hassle for most people
Sometimes, a little bit slower is better. =))
How to Bring Scents to the Metaverse
I'm surprised about copilot. I find every day it saves me time by "nexting" whatever I'm doing. Whenever it's right about what I wanted to write, I save a bit of time.

My go-to example is if conditions. When I start with the first case, it almost always figures out the rest of the cases correctly.
Cool. I'll just use my "block adblock-blocker scripts".

They already exist. But some will be inconvenienced. Us pierats won't be :D

http://reek.github.io/anti-adblock-killer/#filterlist
Let's discuss this feature some more?

The reason users such as yourself want this feature is because you don't have faith in the recommendation algorithm, right? If you watched a video and Google started pushing related videos that you don't want to constantly see, and you clicked on the "do not recommend this kind of video" option, and it actually worked, would you be satifised without this "exclude from recommendation algorithm" mode?

If yes, the better solution here would be to have a recommendation system that isn't garbage. I admit I kind of fancy this described mode, but the only reason is I don't currently trust Google to actually respect my expressed discontent. And if we don't trust Google to have a faithful recommendation system, why would we be willing to trust YouTube Premium?
Huh? Mouser has never asked for donations. Are you thinking of OSH Stencils?
The funny thing is that Google Bard already knows about this story and can perform generative AI tasks on this like summarizing etc[1]

[1] https://twitter.com/nutanc/status/1656533992785723392?s=20
You know, if you are looking for a job, that's what I love to see. Curiosity, passion, and just pure software craftsmanship. Fuck CVs, gimme this.
A memory of XP was invoked, hence the comment about other XP anecdata.
Absolutely. The developer experience with PHP is so far ahead of the Javascript "ecosystem" that it is ridiculous!
> I think it's a bit sad that the only benefit someone can see in their workplace is their salary.

I enjoy clean water, food, shelter, and providing for my loved ones. I was not born rich, and I am not rich now. I am 53 and have worked for others as well as myself since I was 15. When I provide my expertise, experience, time, and skills to a 3rd party, I want to get fairly financially compensated for that. If I want camaraderie of some sort, I’ll join a relevant club or activities group, and will pay my dues. If I want to learn new skills, I will join some training course. I work for others for financial compensation, and financial compensation right now. I don’t want some vague promises down the road. You tell me what you need to get done, and I will tell you what it is going to cost you.

We live in a society where the performance of work for others is compensated financially. Money makes the world go round, and allows us all to live. If you have any examples of additional benefits besides getting paid, please let me know.

We work for money, which allows us to purchase the things we need and want on our own terms. If anybody convinced you that it is _not_ about money, you’ve been tricked.
Translation: we fired a bunch of people, so did everybody. Talent’s no longer scare, and there is a large supply of jobless people that would get your position on a whim. Get fucked.
Some domain companies will buy the domains you searched and try to resell them for a premium. Happened to me just a few months ago. I was using a GoDaddy search since it seemed like a useful way to bulk search some tlds for what I wanted. Looked up a few things that I'm almost 100% sure nobody else was looking for since they were very unique. Didn't buy them that day, but spent a while browsing them using the GoDaddy search tools.

One day later I decided I was ready and went to buy one, but everything I had searched was suddenly only available to buy jacked up with a huge "premium" fee and seemed to be owned by GoDaddy. Never again will I search using their console.
> Returning html from my api also feels like a sin.

Sorry, but that's just... Silly. HTML is what the Web is all about.
Exactly. This is a layoff without having to pay severance.

Tech companies have realized there is no reason to pay their employees living in the U.S. a premium. There was a belief, whether true or not, that having their best employees working together in the same space gave them outsized returns. But now their most expensive employees refuse to work together in the same space.

The only question these companies have now is how to offload them fast enough to replace them with cheaper employees in Asia, Eastern Europe, and South America.

As a bonus, those employees are even more likely to come into the office and gain whatever multiplier effect working physically with each other the CEOs of tech companies believe might exist.
The documentation reads like a tutorial, which is fine the first time you read it, and really annoying the next 99 times when you're just trying to find something. My biggest gripe though is that the majority of classes / methods aren't locally documented with comments, or only minimally. If I don't understand how a certain parameter behaves (or even what a function does), I have to go online and search for examples, or look through the docs hoping that it's explained. And don't get me started on Facades, which are a code discovery dead end...

All that being said, my overall experience of working with PHP / Laravel is quite pleasant, probably more so than other technologies I've worked with in recent years. Everything has its issues I suppose.
Nice move to protect public repos.

For all other private repos and internal git servers, you can assume that credentials are routinely exposed if there is no pre-receive hook checking for secrets. We experimented with all the existing tools but none of them worked well enough so we built our own. Looking back we would have saved ourselves a lot of time and effort if we went with commercial offering like GitGuardian instead.
It works fine on my tv, could be something specific to their setup
I think pg underestimates the amount of trivial and mundane copy most people write day in day out. Be it stupid Jira tickets, spec documents, school essays with standardized expectations or formulaic messages and emails. Not much ability to lose there, but AI is a tremendous timesaver.

A pg quality essay is a whole other story but I doubt AI is much useful there in its current state.
>why don’t I hear about this more often?

Honestly, I think it’s just because the language is a solution in search of a problem. It doesn’t do anything significantly better than any other language and so there’s no reason for it to get traction.

I agree it’s pretty decent though, it could have been what Typescript has become but it failed for some reason.
Someone who wants a phone and a tablet, but doesn't want two devices, and doesn't want to have to lug around a tablet that doesn't fit in their pocket.

If it wasn't so expensive, and I wasn't still skeptical of the durability of the folding tech, I would buy this. I don't have a tablet for the above reason, but would absolutely make use of something like this.