skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd assume that the overlap between capable open source developers and people who enjoy accounting enough to write their own accounting solution is fairly small.
If half of commenters had skimmed through the article instead of just commenting after reading just the title or, at best, the abstract, they would have answered their comments themselves.
What's the point of multiplexing tasks on a particular core if the tasks don't do any I/O? It will be strictly faster to execute the tasks serially across as many cores as possible then.
Unfortunately 1password has been a requirement in many projects I have been involved with.
Wouldn't that be this new Swift Foundations project?
The infrastructure for pricing electricity on demand already exists, at least where I live. And that is rolled out to all private residences. Why couldn't that be done with water?
Noticed all this hubbub about AI yet?
I don't know if this is justifiable but I've always considered that story a significant piece of web heritage as much as anything else. It's from a book that sold few enough copies that it's $400 on Amazon right now, as a measure, but it's a beloved piece of folklore that's been exclusively spread by people lovingly repeating it to each-other in conversation threads for the past 20 years.

I'm struggling to come up with any other examples that have lasted as long that are as beloved.

RIP
Peter principle.
Many "grown-up" countries do care about this. This problem is non-existant in Austria, or Germany for the most part. Roadside police checks consist of decibel metering, which they are trained to use. They will impound the vehicle on the spot if its over the legal limit. Even race tracks have strict sound limits, the scrutineering process has a sound measurement part.
Winamp Clone Whips the Llama's Ass on an Espressif ESP32
Alternatively, possibly for some, these little introductions are the first, albeit imperfect and incomplete step toward answering those recurring pesky questions. By developing a skeletal cognitive framework on a subject that relates to a relevant question I have, I can better map a route to the answer(s).
> What's the point of the technology if it will provide an answer regardless of the accuracy?

The purpose is to serve as a component of a system which also includes features, such as the prompt structure upthread, that mitigates the undesired behavior while keeping the useful behaviors.
Always wondering pros/cons of Chroma and Qdrant. Can someone tell me?
> Cloud gaming was a crash and burn story already.

What? No it isn’t. One company failing doesn’t mean the industry has crashed and burned. I use Xbox cloud gaming all the time along with millions of other people.
Hence the batching.
Asus have acknowledged the issue: https://www.asus.com/support/FAQ/1050466
Amazingly the ruling is unanimous. Big win for free speech on the internet.
I've seen that sales funnel (selling to the business, not to you) from the other side, integrating some "request appointment" UI where your click supposedly sets some back-office in motion that asks for an appointment with the business that might in fact never had contact with the intermediary before. Then later the sales squad will drop in arguing that all those appointments are revenue that they might lose if they don't become a customer to the full version of appointment tool.

This is not that bad in the beginning (though certainly not good!), the hopeful customer won't be promised anything before the appointment is actually made. If the presentation is sufficiently clear about the appointment hunt not really being over before confirmation it's not that bad. But even when started in a rather benign form, these things can quickly turn nasty, by skimping on the back office and/or "streamlining" the UI into a presentation that isn't clear at all about nothing being committed yet. And I'd also imagine that unscrupulous competition might be tempted to fake-register with the service in some zero-cost tier, effectively black-holing all appointment request to let the resulting Google/yelp/whatever zero star reviews ruin their competition. Which points us to the deepest tier of darkness, the appointment service knowingly claiming to have made an appointment when they haven't, betting on more of the fallout hitting the small business than themselves and using that to coerce them into buying the service (essentially a darker form of what yelp was famous for).
I’ve also been somewhat scarred by having a previous boss who was on the older side. He only became a manager because of an ego thing where he “didn’t want to report to someone half his age”. He ended up being a terrible manager and basically ended up driving me to leave for another team. I don’t want to become that guy.

That experience was very eye opening to me. As a result, despite being offered lead positions several times, I’ve always declined. I know where my talents and interests are, and they most certainly aren’t in “people problems” or managing someone else’s career. Thankfully my employer still has a very robust career track for people like me.
There's a part here that people seem to miss about hoarders.

Horders live powerless lives. It's rare that you seen an insanely wealthy person who built their own business who hoards things. Usually, hoarders have had either an emotional abuse component growing up or emotional trauma as an adult.

What's money equal? Power. Hoarders with a few dollars in their pocket will seek out that next high that they get from purchasing an item that they MIGHT use some day. From the time they put that item in their cart until the time that they make the purchase, THEY are in control of the decision making process. It might be the only time they ever feel in control of their own lives, as the mounds of stuff close them in and hamper their movement.

I see hoarding as sort of a sister to people who have issues with overeating, especially those who were conditioned to "clean your plate." The compulsion to eat until past full because you've got a food opportunity that you must not squander is probably a decent part of the reason that we have as many overweight people as we do. It's not enough to sit, have a nice dinner and some conversation, and let the food settle while you eat, discarding a bit if you get full. For some families, you are expected to consume every speck of food lest it go to waste. This ends with people feeling that they are satiated only when they are stuffed because they have been conditioned to behave in that manner.
In Switzerland it's forbidden to make noise on a Sunday. Mowing lawns and such has to be done some other day.

True also of conspicuous work that isn't noisy like hanging washing to dry outdoors.
I had a similar requirement several years ago and I settled on the service provided by my test lab. They are a large chain in India and their reports plot the trend of all the test report indicators along with baseline reference values and interpretations. Very useful for me and my doctor.

Yes, it isn't a complete interoperable EMR solution, but I kinda manage it myself by downloading the PDF reports and maintaining in my local electronic filing system. There is always some esoteric test that the doctor could order which has to be done at a specialist lab. So, my low-tech solution settles on PDFs of the reports. It works for 99% of the cases.

At least the trend in India is to lock all of this data into proprietary data silos.

There is an initiative in India currently underway to provide a digital health ID and an ecosystem for healthcare participants to share data Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM). It is yet to take off in a big way (and hopefully it does in the next 4-5 years) and achieves the same kind of success as the payments infrastructure by NPCI that brought the UPI network.
webb?
Is it private if it's using ChatGPT?
Check out https://lab6.com/ for all the cool stuff. ;)
> The common case we see publicized today is people poking around with prompts, but isn't it more likely, or at least a risk, that mass adoption will look more like AI running as longlived processes talked with managing done system on their own?

If by “AI” you mean “bare GPT-style LLMs”, no, they can’t do that.

If you mean “systems consisting of LLMs being called in a loop by software which uses a prompt structure carefully designed and tested for the operating domain, and which has other safeguards on behavior, sure, that’s more probable.
Another simple trick if you don't like saying "no": become a freelancer.

It will never ever occur to anybody in the company that a freelance software dev could possibly be put into a management role, so they won't ask. As opposed to an employed software dev.

Bonus if you're in the EU/UK: in most countries in the EU this will even lead to tax breaks and higher before-tax hourly rates. To the point that you'll make (way) more than your "higher"-up(s).
I might be in the minority here (though, reading the comments, it seems others have the same opinion), but I find Swift to be a step back compared to Objective-C.

I really like the verbosity of Objective-C - this makes the code more readable and easier to understand, even (or especially) when reading a program the first time.

Being a superset of C (and C++ with Objective-C++) means that, when necessary, one can easily write a C (or C++) method (or class) but also include existing C/C++ libraries.

I also find some of the improvements Swift brings to actually make developers more reckless and dependent on the language/compiler (yes, I liked to manually manage memory).

And a bit of a personal frustration: I find a swift package/project that I want to use, download it and ...start fixing/updating the code, so that it compiles with the latest Swift version. I still have Objective-C code I wrote more than 10 years ago that compiles and runs with minimal or no change.
Surely that can't include manual mowers? I like the idea though.
They're websites, come on.
People like you are the real destroyers of communities. You're doing nothing against the guidelines, but arguing "just because" and trolling.
Your comments have added nothing of value to the discussion.
"$BROWSER Internals style articles" sounds like something I would crave for. Do you have any examples with actual "$BROWSER Internals"?
I somehow need nine hours of sleep. With eight or less I am groggy and have trouble concentrating. I am also very sensitive to not getting enough sleep anyway. My partner sometime ls comes to bed late and only sleeps for four hours. The next day she might be a bit sleepy but is fine. I wouldn't be able to think or do my work.
Which is part of the reason why I think LLMs are a big deal. LLMs talk like the inner voice, and their failure modes are strikingly similar to the failure modes of "gut instinct" / first reactions and "stream of thoughts". I don't think this is a coincidence - I think we may have stumbled on the main trick that makes biological brains work. I don't mean language here, but rather the use of absurdly high-dimensional latent space for representing relatedness.

Now, if the above is anywhere close to the truth, then taking it together with the research you mention suggests that LLMs aren't simulating or parroting abstract thinking and understanding - they're actually doing it, the same way we do. They just lack an evaluator/censor layer of conscious experience.
The best engineers I know all started coding for fun too. Not to build "real-life" usable software, but to solve algorithmic puzzles.
> However the article is a bit old, from 2009. It could have been used for later systems.

That article is written by the main DRAKON pusher: Владимир Паронджанов (Vladimir Paronjanov), so I'd take it with a grain of sand the size of the Great Salt Lake.

Somehow, all applications of DRAKON happened to be in areas like space and defense, that are heavily protected by the state secrecy laws. So nobody could really confirm it. And that was also an excuse for not having any public tools released.

> Wikipedia mentions hybrid variants of Drakon

The only real programs in DRAKON are written like this. The compiler simply generates the code from the graphical description by joining the sections together.
I really can't see the point in this.

> Tagline: “Instagram for your thoughts.”

That will be a hard no from me thanks.
The people who care about decentralization and like Meta/Facebook are two separate circles, but its interesting that they're supposedly building on ActivityPub.
I would never use Keepass client on the mobile device. I have 0 trust to what developers have published there. If I need to type a password on mobile device, I will do it manually.
Take some time out of your day and watch this presentation[1]. Regardless if you have any interest in the SR-71 or not.

I’m not a particularly sentimental person but hearing the following from Shul has stuck with me and feels like an appropriate reminder for today.

> Life is short and it’s uncertain. It’s not one or the other it’s both. And because it is you can’t possibly miss the gift that each day is.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hFJMs15sVSY
Consciousness is simply the awareness of being a person, and of having experiences. Do you not have that? I mean you don’t always have it, sometimes you are asleep or maybe sedated, but right now (whenever that is for you) as you are reading this?
So they are copying twitter now, I guess the circle of the internet has been completed, or maybe they after they fail this they will take a shoot on copying vbulletin/ipb forums from 2007 again?
What's the point of posting this? You may not be their target demographic. No one's forcing you to use it.

If I see a post about a new Lisp dialect (something I have no interest in), commenting "That will be a hard no from me thanks." is a waste of time and space.
But it doesn't actually work without JS...
Isn't instagram twitter-like already? So it seems they want to capitalize on the Mastodon crowd and make a centralized version that works well.

At least they should revert back to 140-200 character limit. Twitters extended tweets is a mistake and are degrading it
Meetings with limited time to talk- get your thoughts across faster or risk being muted.

No more yapping
There is a group who focusses on the paycheck. In my experience they often aren't the better ones. For many there however is also some intrinsic motivation in doing something "worthwhile" or "challenging"

For me money is a necessity, but not the goal. I could do jobs I care less about for more money (which of course makes my boss happy, that I don't change)
An opinon on what the OP of the comment thinks about it?

That's the joy of HN. You get the folks who are bullish on a 'new' idea, and those who aren't.
I'm happy with my Oura ring. Apparently its sleep analysis is on par with gold standard polysomnography (PSG) sleep lab test. https://ouraring.com/blog/new-sleep-staging-algorithm/
I'm curious to hear why people would be enticed by this app when it seems to be nothing more than recycled mastodon by one of the least privacy centric companies in the world.
No, thanks. Facebook/Meta has already done enough harm and I rarely meet anyone younger than me who still uses it. People tend to not like it.
HTTP/1.1 isn’t going anywhere in any popular server, so yeah, HTTP/2 fallback isn’t a problem. (HTTP/1.1 is basically required even if you just want to serve an https redirect on port 80, since h2 requires TLS. The clear text h2c protocol has no adoption AFAICT.)
I'm fully aware of the hypotheticals – what I'm curious about is which your personal experiences are with e.g. those three points you list.
You’ll have days where you feel fine though and be having fun and enjoying life. It’s easy to say but the initial symptoms might be very mild.
Gearing up for a classic EEE move, probably.
I am a complete noob w.r.t. Quantum computing, but how exactly does Quantum computing help with Computational Fluid Dynamics? Isn't CFD an issue of efficient parallel computation and scaling of computing resources?
> It's rare that you seen an insanely wealthy person who built their own business who hoards things.

Well, insanely wealthy people are a miniscule share of the population, whether or not they’ve built there own business to get that way, so, yes, its rare to see someone in the overlap of those sets.

And rich people can hoard a lot more before it becomes problematic, or even noticeable.
This looks to be based around Instagram, which certainly does have young users
I posted it 9 days ago and somehow this one gets the attention. The same freaking post. Unbelievable

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35914810
Meta runs the world's most highly regarded adverting platform which is already populated with the campaigns of almost every brand on the planet.

Brands already have limited ad spend with the global economy the way it is. And the fact that this will be a new channel that will be highly effective, work with their existing tools and require no additional effort will be compelling.

And that will extinguish what little revenue Musk hasn't fettered away. Twitter is finished.
Isn’t this exactly what you’d expect to happen given Twitter has become a raging dumpster fire and Meta has enough networking effect to get a Twitter clone off the ground?

File under: “Obvious things to do when you think about it”, really.
Very cool; in particular the GC-only-for-arrays thing feels like it falls out of some elegant design; does this basically mean it's RAII everywhere?
> How exactly are protocols a Swift "upgrade" to OO programming? They were in Objective-C since the mid 90s, adopted by Java as interfaces, copied by C# etc.

Typically you would write more protocol-oriented code - rather than using inheritance (which is mostly there for Objective-C compatibility) you define protocols and implement them for types.

This is a lot closer to traits in Rust than interfaces in Java. Among other things, a developer can define how a third party type implements a protocol they control, without subclassing or wrapping, as long as it does not require additional data.
What bridges were you using? I've set up several and the hardest part was reading through the default configurations.
Yes and no. IG requires that you post an image/video. This is their Twitter clone.

To me it's an obvious move. Try to move in when Twitter is in an odd transitional period. Not saying I have any interest in using it, but from a strategy standpoint it makes complete sense.
Correct. Parent commenter seems to be asking questions they already know the answer to.

Those are the wrong kind of questions.

They should only ask the questions about things they don't know anything about.

ChatGPT gets those right every time.
> The decentralized app is built on the back of Instagram but will be compatible with some other apps like Mastodon.

This can be interesting.
Maybe Meta is trying to follow the model of Chinese tech companies.

* Copy what works

* Build re-usable internal systems so you can quickly go from prototypes to millions of users

* Internal competition where teams are trying to create the same product and outdo other internal teams

Unfortunately, I'm not convinced that Meta can successfully copy Chinese companies. One major reason is that software developers in the US are significantly more expensive so you have to be more strategic.

Chinese companies are dominating in social apps. TikTok is just the start.

https://hbr.org/2022/02/how-bytedance-became-the-worlds-most...
Why would I implement netcat when netcat is already implemented? That's sort of why I'm asking – at least in the circles I move, all the low hanging fruit are already picked, and picking the high fruit seems rare, so I'm interested in which people do and what those fruits are!
Public networks are dead. We did it for two decades and now people need to go back to something more real and private. Social networks in the current form are just attention seeking. We've been trained to say things that will garner likes and retweets. I welcome text and chat, maybe even voice to text but not in the public form. Closed networks only now.
There's no explanation about why the OP thinks the way he does. If there was some interesting commentary or question, that would be worth reading about.
I'm sure it won't be a horrible privacy-violating, mental illness-inducing mess.

Meta would never do that.
I feel that these languages represent an era of language design that we're leaving behind. I think the experience in industry is that things like ad-hoc type coercions, which are sold as being simple and intuitive, are anything but that. The "Wat Javascript" talk is a great example.
> I explained why in the post.

No, my friend, you really did not. "end users to be driven into suicide or killing themselves accidentally" is insanely vague and unrealistic.

> Whoever uses it in the end.

So, people who have enough mental capacity to run them? Is your point actually that we shouldn't release objects or tools because of a vague unrealistic potential threat with an unrealistically small vector?

I really can't grasp that logic. How in the world people are thinking that "killing yourself with an LLM" is more likely then an adult dying of putting nails into powersockets or hurting themselves with non-rounded scissors?

Killing yourself with LLM is a definite Darwin Award winner. Realistically, something like this can only happen with a mentally handicapped person, up to the point where they need actual supervision, childproofed powersockets and rounded scissors.

This is really no more "problematic" than any minor everyday hazard, if not less. Powersockets are everywhere. Launching an LLM actually requires some skills and hardware.
Their choice to make the app "compatible with Mastodon" (uses the ActivityPub protocol and is basically a huge Mastodon instance) reminds me of the famous Microsoft "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" model. Not sure that Extinguish part is going to work though, considering AP/Mastodon are open source protocols/platforms and easily forkable.
Sounds a lot like... Facebook?
I would recommend everyone who retires from programming to get into the maker world. 3D printed, embedded programming - it’s great fun and just feels different from the day to day programming grind.
Don't remember playing against Viper but DauT had nearly made me smash my keyboard in a team game because I was sure he was cheating hehehe (and I was a teenager with a giant ego).
I took the same path and came to the same realization, yet my current architect role is still nothing but meetings. Ugh.
Banning laptops is very common due to space constraints, when you're the kind of café that doesn't want people to stay forever. Even my university canteen bans laptops at lunch times. But the purpose isn't the same, here the idea is to create an environment for people to actively seek focus and peace.
> If I see a post about a new Lisp dialect (something I have no interest in)

But I am interested in social media apps, its hard not to be these days. I just don't see the point from Meta's point of view, apart from more data collection maybe, and I don't see the point from the users point when Mastodon and Twitter are doing this, with arguably more respect for their users than Meta.
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