skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe, but as an(other) aficionado of Deno for smallish projects where Node is irrelevant, I don't feel like these panders to the mainstream hurt anything.

To the contrary, they make every conversation about using Deno easier, even where we don't and won't use Node (including NPM packages).

I mean sure, they consume some of their resources that might in some ideal (to me) world be spent on something more relevant (to me), but in this world it seems like engineering resources well spent. ¯\_(ಠ_ಠ)_/¯
> You can do whatever you want of course, but perhaps consider just trusting me when I say if this was as simple and effective as you put it, it would have been done by now.

> > > Don't forget that every telco would lobby against this, and they are some of the most well-connected enterprises around.

Oh, you already covered the reason I think this actually hasn't already been done.
Kagi founder's comment. Quite interesting..

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36013945
If things continue, in 5-10 years, dollars will be worth 50 cents, and it should be MUCH easier to pay your mortgage.

And, I'll eat my hat if we don't get back to ZIRP sometime in the next 10 years.
They shouldn't be shutting down nuclear. Build more nuclear reactors. That will provide more clean energy and a lot of jobs. Modernize the grid. Make it a smarter grid that is more resilient to harm. These projects pay for themselves quickly and are easy to finance with how much wealth Germany has.
Perfectly describes your non-engineer neighbor or best friend when he encounters an idea he’s never heard of before.
When they are breaking up potential future "trusts" for a business that doesn't exist, sure
Every time I look into tape I find the drives are prohibitively expensive. An LTO-8 drive is US$3000+. Unless you have hundreds of TBs it's not worth it.
No, they are recently choosing to go with Mobileye too. For example: Porsche announces collaboration with Mobileye from a couple of weeks ago:

https://newsroom.porsche.com/en/2023/company/porsche-mobiley...
I'll add that they better have open WiFi just to be sure everyone can actually access the menu.

I was on a wifi-only plan during covid and QR menus absolutely sucked.
I think these platitudes are just mental hacks people use to manage their emotions. Emotional responses are valuable information, but only up to a point. If you dwell on emotions and allow them to become the basis of narratives about yourself then you are becoming disconnected from reality. This applies to both good and bad things, you never want to get too high or too low. Ultimately what matters is your character and how you operate. If you put in the work, you’ll tend to get better outcomes, but nothing can insulate you from mistakes. Being able to learn from mistakes and be your best requires that you don’t let your sense of self-worth be tied to fragile narratives or heavy self-defense mechanisms that deny reality.
By god, that's Deleuze's music!

I disagree that the code I write is "part of me." It expresses a series of ideas that I had. And every therapeutic modality I have tried would have failed if I didn't have the implicit understanding that I have something like a soul or an essence that stands apart from my thoughts and feelings. My thoughts are just random noise in the grand scheme of things, including this sentence.

I can't stand the way that some people write, but that doesn't amount to a criticism of them as a person, unless I choose to make it about that.
sorry i should have clarified that this was for employees who aren't on a strict hourly contract.
Since when is coca cola niche?
reducing systems of systems to "farce/not-farce" reductionist binary is blinding to real solutions. Change comes based on what we have now.
Cars do face a ton of regulations today. You can’t sell a car if it doesn’t meet or exceed hundreds of regulations.
Paying a billion dollars per year in fines is still cheaper for Facebook than leaving the EU.
- Mathematica(https://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/scrapbook/) — Still going, and Stephen Wolfram won’t let you forget that

- xScope (https://xscopeapp.com/history) — OK, I’m cheating, 19 years, but still a notable tool in my toobox

- Transmit (https://panic.com/transmit/) — Though it debuted as “Transit”, it’s been going since 1998
Imagine for a moment that every time you submitted your work the only feedback you ever heard was "Great" or "Thanks".
How would that make you feel?
Engaged or isolated?
Would you wonder if they are even giving your work proper consideration?
Feedback is critical to improvement. Improvement is a continuous never ending process.
Try leaning into it, Actively asking "Where is this falling short?" "Where is my thinking flawed?" Soliciting comment in this manner makes you an active participant in the feedback process.

Having followed this approach for my entire career, I can say that it has paid off handsomely. Some of the most valuable criticism coming from professionals that would not have offered actionable feedback had I not pushed past their initial stock "looks good" response.

Most of the time criticism = engagement, a person taking time to pay attention to your output.
Making yourself vulnerable in this way will encourage a subset of others to behave similarly, which could lead to some pretty awesome peer relationships. Certainly has for me.
> Alien still holds up in almost every way.

I very reluctantly disagree. I'm in my mid-30s (born 1988), and I watched Alien for the first time about a year ago. I have to say on the whole, I didn't like it. I think it's a victim of being just on the cusp of being "too old" for modern tastes. Like much other media of its era & older, it's paced too slowly. Too many long panning cuts, too much staring at a wall, too much space between dialog, too little action. I ended up staring at my phone for the 2nd half of the movie, wishing it would be over already.

There are some other films of a similar timeframe that do hold up. I thought Jaws, released 4 years before Alien, was paced absolutely excellently, and I'd call it one of my favorite films. But Alien feels more like older media in its pacing, and it suffers for it today. I absolutely do not deny it is an excellent film "for its time." Obviously the special effects, acting, set design, and music are all wonderful and hold up on their own, and it's undeniably a very important film historically & culturally. But much like Citizen Kane or original Trek, I think it's just a bit too slow for a general audience in the 2020s. The sequels feel better today.
I had nightmares for months.

What a great film :-)
Cambridge Analytica's sold their services literally as "election management agency" and promised to be able to influence a large number of undecided voters.

More than 87M people were profiled, and more than 3M people were targeted by Cambridge Analytica in 11 key states during the election to feed them the content that would swing their indecision towards Trump based on their psychological profile and preferences.

Trump paid for that, and Michigan and Pennsylvania and New Hampshire were all very close.

To boldly state that CA had no impact on US elections, Brexit and I don't remember which South American election when the people involved in it literally sold it and used previous results as evidence seems a bit of a stretch.

I might be wrong, but there's no clear way of knowing unless votes were not anonymous.
Well, I guess we agree here - the basic functionality will be common, Open AI will not have a monopoly (unless lawmakers really screw up), but will likely exist and be a major player. I am not sure about Open Source at all just yet - e.g. it's possible that a panic will lead to restrictions that will make open work rather difficult. I guess we'll see.

>what happens when everyone uses AI? One of the most exciting possibilities I see for this technology is to entirely toss out the persnickety concept of the API in favor of LLMs talking to LLMs.

Hmm. Your idea has lower throughput and higher latency, while having not entirely clear security properties. But really, companies will sacrifice nearly all that in the service of faster shipping, paying less to programmers, and easier interfacing. Just look at the history of latency in user systems from the 1980s till today. The only game breaker here is security.

Hm. We implement an internal API that the LLM must use in order to do anything local, and do the limiting/auditing there. So the external interface is language, but what the LLM can do is either use the limited internal API to do approved actions locally, or speak to other LLMs (which will have their own internal APIs) using the user's context (OpenID token, whatever). There's a slight risk in the security boundary here (e.g. make sure the LLM never impersonates - don't allow it to see the actual user context, make sure each LLM instance only has access to the current user context. Also need to make sure it doesn't tell the other LLMs too much), but I think it's handleable?

Regardless, we aren't there yet, and there are still a few issues here (e.g. I expect Microsoft/Google to always have an advantage in Office 365/GSuite integrations somehow). Until we do, integrations will still have a big effect on the market.
It sounds like doublespeak to me. Inaction is a lack of action. You're saying they didn't act, but you they did act and therefore what you said is correct. You're argument is quite convoluted at this point.

That graph is good at pointing out that historically the US has contributed more than anyone. I didn't dispute that. It just seems like a silly argument to go back hundreds of years before any powers recognized it was an issue and use that as a basis for what should be done going forward so that other countries can catch up to the US's historically awful record. You see something, you fix it.
You’d think maybe they could make the annotations less ugly
Watched in not too long ago with my older one, aged 15. Means he grew up with Marvel and DC movies. I never saw him as glued to a film before, onoy thing that came close was Terminator 1&2 and Aliens.

Tells a lot about good story telling, because by now the overall arc of Alien is not much of a surprise anymore, cinematography, design, music and sound. Absolutely one of the great films of all times, and proof good scifi doesn't need a ton of CGI.
Atleast for the past few decades, salaries have increased less than what's needed to compensate for the change of value of the currency. Meaning the amount you make each year will on average be worth less.
Here is my approach:

It is okay to take criticism personally on the path to not taking it personally. Your thoughts and emotions are not you so first and foremost don't feel bad for feeling this way. I'm not saying you should act on them however.

I suggest sitting down and making time, remembering the feeling and then feeling it. No need to psychoanalyze, and have mental talk. Just feel the pure emotions and be curious about them. Where do you fee them? what shape do they have? how big they are? what texture do they have? etc

The point is to make the task of feeling your emotions interesting for your mind so it stays there enough to get used to it.

Hypothesis:
When an emotion is causing us suffering it is usually because we don't want it, but unfortunately thats not how they go away, especially if they are big emotions.

After a while your mind will know the emotion so intimately that it will either be negligible or not come up at all.

Note however, if you go towards the emotion with the intention of it going away this will not work, there must be total acceptance. So cultivating that loving curiosity may actually be the hard part. The trick there is that I like to imagine myself as a child having these emotions and soothing this child as a caring adult.

There are other methods but this has been very helpful to me and I hope it will be helpful to you as well.
I found the suggestions here pretty useful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36069151
Most countries raised interest rates to the same level but they are not in recessesion. I don't know what does it says about Germany's economy... At least in Canada I believe the recession was averted by increasing immigration.
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Isnt this what Bitcoin is for?

Use Bitcoin. There are services that will convert bitcoin to other currencies and vice versa.

We don't need paypal.
By that logic, any android or iOS-app would be also a desktop-application. As also any DOS-App and anything with curse-interface. What about interactive commandline-apps? Like a database-shell? They also have their own interface, it's just made of text.
The ones that criminalize participating in a boycott? A fourth grader can identity those as flatly unconstitutional.
Cease and desist can be used for any issues where the person or entity issuing the C&D thinks they have a legal right that is being violated and wants to put the violator on notice in the hopes of securing a change in behavior short of legal action.
Park your ego at the door when you get to work.

Base your ego on the success of your relationships (mom, dad, siblings, wife, kids, gf, friends whatever you have today).

It will take investment, self awareness and ability to forgive and forget.

You could direct this investment to work relationships BUT more than likely none of those folks will be at your funeral.
Are adjustable-rate mortgages common in Germany?
Exactly. This is like the police going to a store with a list of suppliers and demanding personal data of everyone who bought any of those suppliers' products. That's well beyond "normal" but somehow for digital data its ok?
The supreme court disagrees with you and the only way to change that is to change the ratio of justices. Why do we even bother with a legislative body at this point?
Fully agree.

If there is a person consistently giving hurtful feedback and I would be in a position to get the person fired, I would do it. (And I have done it.) And I would not work in such a work environment. At least 50% of programming work in typical organizarions is about getting along with people.

But I have found myself in environments where I needed to tolerate this to a degree. And the only thing you can ultimately change is your own attitude. If you can see that hurtful criticism may be even more truthful than other criticism, it helps to develop the right attitude.
Toyota to launch 10 new battery EV models by 2026
I thought it was tunicates (sea squirts) because they are closely related to vertebrates and start off free swimming with a notochord. (I also heard the joke as being about Americans- they are curious and thoughtful while young, but then settle down, become couch potatoes in front of the tv and digest their own brains). Either way, it is a cute joke and interesting marine biology.
> The banks will reinvest this money. (Cf Fractional-reserve banking).

Only if there is demand for the money at a high interest rate. The credit boom is dependent on the borrower as well.
Who's they? Both annotations seem ugly. And ugliness is hardly a reason to litter everyone's code with a parallel set of names.
But then it's processed sugars!

https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/03/10/for-then-against-high-...
Show HN: HN Follow – Follow Your Friends on HN
HN Follow lets you follow authors on Hacker News, and get email notifications when they post. It was inspired by alerthn.com and hnreplies.com.

The app was built in an experimental style on Val Town. We’re trying to create a new web primitive that you can:

1. write like a function
2. run like a script
3. fork like a repo
4. install like an app

This is our 5th iteration of this same “HN Follow” app. We launched the 3rd version here on Hacker News six months ago[1], but it was very kindly removed from the front page by dang in favor of us launching Val Town itself first, which we did in January[2].

We’re trying to strike the right balance between something you can use and install with one click, and something you can infinitely customize. For example, you could fork `@rodrigoTello.hnFollowApp`[3] and change the input parameter from authors to a generic query, like I do here[4] to get notifications whenever “val town” is mentioned on HN. In addition to emailing myself (via `console.email`), I also send a message to our team’s Discord. The possibilities are endless, but it can also be overwhelming. We’re trying to find the balance where we help you navigate the space of possible integrations, without limiting you the way a no-code tool would. We would really appreciate your guys’ feedback and suggestions!

[1] - HN Follow, first launch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33533830

[2] - Val Town launch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34343122

[3] - `@rodrigotello.hnFollowApp`: https://www.val.town/v/rodrigotello.hnFollowApp

[4] - My fork of hnFollow: https://www.val.town/v/stevekrouse.hnValTown
$47 for this work via that service
One additional option would be to use uBlock Origin if already installed and if one wished to not install userscript. I mention this because I know many here already have uBlock active.

Addons -> uBlock Preferences -> My Filters: Append something like

# top (title / url)
news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing span.titleline > a:has-text(/(lockchain|202[3-9]$)/):upward(tr)
# bottom (stats / comments)
news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing span.titleline > a:has-text(/(lockchain|202[3-9]$)/):upward(tr) + *

And/or adjust it to match the regex used in the linked article or adjust as desired. This example would block blockchain discussions and article titles that end in a year.

So from the article one would insert the following between the two //'s

[Nn]eural [Nn]etwork|Bard|[Mm]achine [Ll]earning|[Aa]rtifical [Ii]ntelligence|[Aa]gents|A\.?I\.?|GPT|LLaMA|[Ll]anguage [Mm]odel|(deep|long) learning|[Ll]aid[- ]?off|[Ll]ayoff|[Ss]table [Dd]iffusion|LLM|ML|Co-?[pP]ilot|RL|[Rr]einforcement [Ll]earning|VR|AGI
You don't need to force labor.

As always, you simply need to provide people with a living wage and they will do things. A right to health care would simply become a national health system that is adequately funded. Then the only argument would be, how much do we need to fund that health care system to fulfill our obligation to provide people with a right to health care.

People become medical practitioners for many reasons and will happily practice medicine as long as they can make a living off of it without being coerced or manipulated. A few want to be able to afford a Ferrari, but the vast majority just simply want to help people and be able to thrive.
Interest rate guarantees last anywhere from 1 to 25 years. That means that in any given year, it is a pretty small chunk of the housing market which will see a change in rates.

Overall, that has a significant damping effect on the effects of changing interest rates.
I agree, but try persuading a restaurant/bar chain that they don't need their own app.
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Tell HN: OpenAI server misconfiguration is breaking API outputs
A bug has recently appeared in OpenAI's API, which is breaking customer API integrations and workflows.

When generating long outputs with slow models, OpenAI servers have started silently terminate the connection after exactly 300 seconds.

This affects both standard and streamed responses. API customers are still being charged for the full output, despite receiving truncated responses.

When streaming, the final chunk indicates no finish_reason, implying the model is still running.

I first noticed this last week, but others reported it before then too. It's seemingly gone unnoticed by OpenAI so far (or at least, remains unacknowledged and undocumented).

This renders GPT-4's 8K/32K context window effectively useless in many cases. 300 seconds is only enough time to generate approx. 1.5K tokens.

I'm guessing this is some kind of server misconfiguration. I appreciate scaling this must be very challenging, but support tickets have been ignored, and this is a breaking change.

Hopefully someone from OpenAI sees this and can pass it on, or may know something I don't. Thanks!
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That's not going to happen, salaries are depressed and are not keeping up with inflation by a large margin.
That's because you aren't the target for tape backup - big enterprises with thousands of terabytes of data are. They spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on big automated tape libraries, and it's just a number on a budget spreadsheet.
Is that an example of the sunk cost fallacy, or corruption/lobbying?
https://archive.is/a8B0J
Postgresql is amazing but I must say the last few updates have been a bit disappointing.

Still waiting for automatic incremental updates for materialized views - been worked on for several years but still not released!

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Incremental_View_Maintenanc...

https://github.com/sraoss/pg_ivm
It might as well be that the only reason why Iran and others are active in Palestine is because it’s blockaded.
After Oracle v. Google, can a project consider a protocol designed by Microsoft safe to use even if they're doing their own implementation of the contract enforcement engine?
I'm an organic blob that evolved to have biases and the brain isnt perfect, it will make mistakes

Of course I'll be wrong. But its best to learn where I'm wrong so I'll be aware for next time. Learning why I'm wrong is the take away, not that I was bad.
Implementation partner was EY (Ernst & Young). Taking a heavily customized SAP into anything else is going to be painful, and the wrong partner for implementation can really cost.
If you are engaged in money laundering then the very fact that your funds were frozen is enough of the tip-off. If you’re not then they might as well tell you about their suspicions. If you were mixed up in some money laundering scheme involuntarily you might even be willing to help the investigation
Why would people use Bitcoin over sending USDC or other USD stablecoins directly on any other chain?
> It’s antisemitic to even suggest there’s an occupied Palestine.

How?
They are normal basically everywhere but USA I think.
Good question.
I don't think there's any real answer to this at all.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/03/10/for-then-against-high-...
Viewstamped Replication Revisisted [pdf]
I've been running wireguard on my own for a few years. I like it, but wish there was a better GUI.

I tried installing headscale. I didn't feel like I got the immediate rush of "cool, I have the baseline thing working" without reading the docs. And, I needed to use this for a GUI: https://github.com/gurucomputing/headscale-ui. I love the command line and am happy to use that, but I'm unsure if there is a benefit to headscale over wireguard if I'm already doing command line management.

I just read this article on tailscale vs. openziti and it mentioned netmaker (a YC company). I tried installing it, but out of the box, the "DNS" did not seem to work correctly (I could not use the machine.netmaker local alias, and not sure why not).

Is anyone here a power user that also benefits from a full fledged GUI? Is tailscale the only option there? I prefer to self-host whenever I can, despite loving tailscale and the people behind it.