skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is quite helpful in my opinion and I don't come from a C++ background (although I have some experience with it).
>No, it is not. You aren't breaking the law just because your stock price didn't go up.

But if your goal is to get the stock price down, it gets dangerous quick.
But good job standing for honest small NZ software businesses! I mean, no way it was done just to protect the interests of those wealthy multinationals right? /s

Disclaimer: actually I do think NZ fares better than many countries on this so let me know if my cynicism is misplaced.
Then let's not mince words. This behavior is not illegally anticompetitive. Nvidia's advantage is fair, and they only monopolize GPU compute APIs because their competitors literally abandoned their own solutions.
Ask HN: My YouTube feed constantly recommends nonsense, anyone else?
Has anyone else noticed their YouTube feed on a downward spiral lately?

My feed has just turned to mostly clickbait / smut. It's been getting noticeably worse of late. I see conspiracy theory nonsense, doomerism, mindless clickbait and more. It's really turning to garbage.

This part of their product is actually starting to feel like their search product, which I find has become really quite poor. I'd like it if Google recommended something actually interesting and wholesome but whatever algorithm they have working doesn't seem interested in doing this.

Personally, I'm still not really over the fact they don't display the dislikes, it is really becoming impossible to discern good information from bad. That combined with the crap recommendations is a big turn off.

I don't have a YT red subscription or whatever, I'm definitely interested in purchasing if it improves the experience. Has anyone else become a member and seen an improvement?
Honestly it sounds like you would benefit from working with a therapist.

Also, higher quality media would probably do some good too! Shows that are well-written, funny, and emotionally interesting weren't written by AI. Plenty of schlock was written before the advent of AI, so it's not exactly fair to blame AI for unenjoyable content. Check out Abbott Elementary, What We Do In the Shadows, The Lives of Others, or The Seventh Seal
Steam Ovens are a thing... But I think they are outside that range and too big appliances. But still a type of trend I could see being next thing at least in some circles.
Can I ask how sparringly? Can you take lesser amounts and take only when depleted so there’s no crash?
It may not quite have all of the JSON features of Postgres, but recently the JSON handling has become way more usable in SQLite. More than usable for sure.
Open season on people with X amount of money?
Laudable I guess. But it does seem relevant to note that The Guardian is owned by the Scott Trust, which is sitting on £1bn+ assets.
I spent a couple months last year trying to figure out how to commercialize this tech and never really landed on anything that felt venture scale. There’s lots of cool stuff happening in the research space though, and I remain convinced that it is only because of our natural bias towards vision (it being our most conscious/directed sense) that this technology is slightly behind CV.

If anyone ever wants to start a machine listening company that isn’t focused on speech or music come find me and I’ll share all of my notes/competitive research/etc.
I think that’s more sexy.
Where I am, there has been talk of banning these ads statewide, but of course, that may be just a fund-raiser for the upcomming election. :(
This is... not how I would really write it. If `encrypt` takes a `&[u8]`, as it should, you don't need a `&vec![]` at all, and can do:

self.payload.as_deref().unwrap_or_default()

...which I think is the best here.
The more one looks for aliens, the less worthwhile it is to look for aliens.

If nobody had ever thought to look before at the sky for any signs of aliens, then it would be worth a quick glance to see. But since people have been looking at the sky now for many hundreds of years, with increasingly advanced tech, and still found nothing, it might be worth scaling back the effort.
People thought the same one hundred years ago, and they will likely feel the same in the next hundred years when we all have our own AI assistants and probably stuff like ocular implants to replace monitors and other unfathomable discoveries
Probably from users of more classical UI, this feels really unpleasant to me, like putting a tshirt backward. (not that it's a bad UI or anything, says more about me than your website)
I don’t think people who say meat is a problem for climate change are ignoring the utility of meat. They’re just pointing out that meat is a problem for climate change. Which it is, regardless of utility.
Contrast this:

"wildly popular pirating website Megaupload"

and

"the victims of Megaupload"

With:

"After their 2012 arrest, Dotcom and the other two men set up a legitimate cloud-storage website called Mega."

Maybe I'm a little bit soft on the whole copyright infringement thing, and maybe time has blurred my memory, but I don't really separate Megaupload and Mega. I thought they were both just online storage lockers.

The primary difference, as far as my understanding, being that the US was really focused on copyright infringement as a top priority evil back when Megaupload existed, and a low-level annoyance in the time of Mega.

I also think Kim Dotcom isn't exactly the kind of person we'd encourage our kids to grow into, but what the US and NZ authorities did to him, raiding his home, where there were children present, with semi-automatic weapons out, is a far worse criminal act than any scale of copyright infringement.

KDC isn't someone I would ever want to feel sympathy for, but the US authorities made it happen.
Glass can be half empty or half full:

1) You currently have top %5 salary, not tomorrow, but today - you probably doesn't have to worry that much for the next 5 years at least and probably will enjoy similar high salary

2) You have currently 20 years of experience - that's a lot. Compare to someone who is currently studying IT or just starting their education.

3) After 20 years of working in industry most likely you have some savings and warchest

4) You probably in better situation comparing to someone just starting carieer - most people work around 40 years in their field before retiring, you already half there.

5) Worst case maybe you won't enjoy top 5% salary but median Tech salary - which is still way above median salary in most countries. You managed to live with lower salary before so will do fine as well.

6) With your experience probably easier for you to find remote job if haven't done already. You seems like don't have mortage so probably easy to move to cheaper city or even country even if just for couple of years.

7) Many expats on retired visa in south east asia (thailand, malaysia, indonesia, vietnam) - life is so much cheaper there - that's assuming you are currently from more developed countries.

8) If you salaries will get lower you will have 3 choices:

a) live with lower salary like you used to before but at least you job will be easier to because more automated by LLM so probably less stressful

b) should be easier for you to learn and pick any new specializations with LLM as your copilot: rust, machine learning, vr/ar, robotics,

c) embrace it and use it to develop some you own product/SaaS/app as a side hassle/hobby - it's probably now the best window of opportunity for indie devs.
But usually only if they can’t turn it into something better. Anyone betting millions on a company goes in aiming a bit higher than selling off real estate or whatever asset. That’s usually the back up plan after a short play to turn the company around. It’s just not pretty when it doesn’t and people who care about the business naturally see them as shortsighted opportunists.
How can you store program state on disk like that? You'd need serialization and deserialization. A DB might be easier.
The fact that governments have banned media speaks more to their abject failure than of the actual need to ban it. Someone could make a case for killing all life by on the planet, but that doesn’t mean we should respect that opinion. It also doesn’t mean the underlying logic is sound or guarantees the desired outcome.
Sounds extremely reasonable.
It's interesting to compare this with the Great Fire of London in 1666. One of the first hand accounts was written by the great diarist Samuel Pepys [0], in between saving his gold, wine and Parmazan cheese, informing the King, and starting the process of demolishing houses to create firebreaks. His diary really is a great read, not only for the account of the fire

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Pepys#Great_Fire_of_Lon...
Not the OP but I think mainly digital plumbing type of work is helped a lot by AI
Yes. It certainly is not as easy as the stock price and there is a broad spectrum of things which can be in the interest of shareholders, which do not relate to an immediate increase in stock price.
I wouldn't call Ariane 5 an evolution of Ariane IV.

Code and digital system re-use in aerospace systems is not uncommon. After all, the fly-by-wire computer system on board the Space Shuttle was derived from the original Apollo flight computer, and they are two very different space vehicles..
I doubt Guardian is as reliant as say Sky is. Betting is pretty much the primary driver of revenue for their sports coverage, and indeed football as a whole. It seems half of premier teams have some form of betting company on their shirt -- often aimed at those in the far east

Although I see that's on the way out

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/65260002

And good riddance too

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/65601190
Yes that makes sense. I wrote:

> The fact that Covid (as an illness) has become milder is due to the hosts adapting, not the virus being milder.
Science Fiction from Latin America, with Zombie Dissidents, Aliens in the Amazon
"Hi Sandy, hope you're doing well."
In 2019, I read "AI-Superpowers" by Kai-Fu Lee, where he went through most of the worries we have today. In the final chapters however, he started talking more about how we, as humans, need to adapt, and he also mentioned UBI as a (possible) way forward.

At some point, AI indeed will "replace" what people like you (and me, who has pretty much the same background as you) do. We are just tools that knows how to code.

Quite a big part of my time, as part of a large development team, consists of fixing bugs. I believe AI in the near future will be able to solve those, based on input and expectations. Someone still needs to verify the code, and take responsibility for the changes, before they're released to production. This is where I think developers will be needed. I don't think you'll ever find a PO so frisky as to just release it, unless for maybe very small domains.

But.. we'll all get hit. And the way I see it, developers are not in the direct line of fire.

I hope UBI will never actually happen, even though they're testing it out several places in the world recently. I also hope a One World Government will never happen, even though it looks like we're heading for it. I also hope WHO, UN and NATO will not gain the power they seem to strive for, but I don't see much resistance.

Instead.. what I do personally, which might be a solution for you also, is to try to embrace it. These years are quite unique in the history of the human kind. It's a mixture of 1984, Terminator 2, Ex Machina and more. I have a bad feeling about it all, but at the same time I'm curious, and still have hope. But also, I'll try to resist the sinister parts of it whenever I get the chance.
Reasons to Use Vectara with LangChain
To me it recommends the same 6-8 channels over and over on my main feed, quite boring

Few months ago, I was quite happy when I noticed the "New to you" label at the top, I used it quite a few times. But since a while it got stuck to like another set of 6-8 channels that I have mostly watched already...
Certainly. It's an odd dynamic because the same people who want to eliminate fossils also hate nuclear. The trending political position is energy austerity, while at the same time electrifying everything. But that's just not going to happen. (Well, I guess it does in California with the rolling blackouts.)
let what pass?
Absolutely. But refusing clear growth opportunities is an easy way to upset shareholders.
None of my machines were ever hacked and I regularly run a year old kernel. I guess I'm an uninteresting target.
Ask HN: Which Reddit-alternative open project should I contribute to?
As a dev with a disdain for corporations who take advantage of the position their users helped them get to, and a lot of time on my hands, I'd like to help to build an open alternative to Reddit.

But not an alternative that will inevitably end up in the same position in 10 years, so that rules out for-profit startups. This needs to be a source of information that is BS proof.

Instead of starting from zero, which existing open alternatives looks promising to you?

Some important factors for me:

* Portability of data

* Decentralized or federalized, with interop between nodes

* Fully customizable CSS or layout skins, like old.reddit

* Open API and platformability

* Plain old HTML navigation by default, no JS frontend (but the option for others to build that for themselves and others if they prefer it)
yes. it's a digital piece of paper. it does more by doing less. it doesn't have a web browser, it doesn't play YouTube or music, it doesn't run multiple apps at the same time. because that's not the point of it. it doesn't have those distractions and you pay extra not to have them (like paying to get rid of ads)
Tech companies are the weird perverted ones.

Many investors are happy just to take their yearly dividends. At least when these are on reasonable level. And some companies aim just at this. These could be the traditional "blue chip" companies.
I can't tell if this is an honest call to keep things simple, or if it's meant to ridicule that idea. Because I strongly, deeply agree with some of these points, and am absolutely horrified by some of the others.
Its right wing broadsheet counterpart -- the telegraph - just filed for bankruptcy. So I don't think there's any counterfactual to support your 'arugment'.
Yea my dad isn't the best example. He had a business partner that was refusing to buy the expensive scanners and 3d printers because the business partner didn't want to make the investment in new technology. They stayed old school and went out of business.

It's probably more of an example of how not to handle this sort of situation. Instead of being afraid of or avoiding the technology coming for your job, embrace it and figure out how to thrive with/alongside it.
> What I am suggesting is that using AI tools to fake empathy is worse than not being able to do empathy yourself. This should be evident.

you miss the grain of truth in the advertisement.

in a high stress situation, someone may know how to describe the necessary words but be incapable of accessing them. this is not for lack of empathy. nor are the generated words some form of fake empathy.

is the right choice to read the output like a script to an audience? maybe not. but reading it to oneself could do wonders.

there are a lot of new possibilities, as long as the tool isn’t treated as magic or abused.
The man who tried to redeem the world with logic
What kind of bugs?
The Xiao BLE nRF52840 might be worth a look.

https://wiki.seeedstudio.com/XIAO_BLE/
"in as few as 20 moves" is wrong, it's stating a minimum with an unbounded maximum.

The site states "20 moves or less" which is stating a maximum.
I am a former resident of this building, recommend it and the neighborhood highly, and they have a one bedroom for $4K. No broker fee last I knew.

https://www.equityapartments.com/new-york-city/upper-west-si...

Richie and Pedro the doormen are fun if they still work there.
> AI

Ah okay, nevermind - thought it would be interesting.
Hype generates crazy amounts of money, yes. Usually hyped products and ideas turn out to be at least 50% hot garbage, so its not like "b-b-but this is the next big thing!!!" is a good argument
Companies do not grow for the sake of growth. Many would outright go bankrupt if they stopped growing, as debt grows continually while they do not.
I was just sent a Vox video on the topic. Someone is running a campaign.
I am another stupid programmer.

Even if I have the experience, I still decide to use sqlite, single binary, local files, vps, monorepo. At least until market-fit is proven.
The MCAS was not thoroughly tested by design.

A new system requiring extensive testing would have alerted the FAA that something was off, and possibly led to a more costly re-certification they were trying to avoid.

That aircraft should never have been allowed to fly.
> Headless browser scraping is between 10x and 100x more resource intensive, even if you carefully block requests and cache resources.

Instead of setting up some kind of partnership with our vendors, where they just send us information or provide an API, we scrape their websites.

The old version ran in a hour, using one thread on one machine. Downloaded PDF's and extracted the values.

The new version is Selenium based, uses 20 cores, 300GB of memory, and takes all night to run. It does the same thing, but from inside of a browser.

As a bonus, the 'web scrapers' were blamed for every performance issue we had for a long time.
When google turned up (or before) we started to get more productive by being able to look up information and other people's code examples and so on. I couldn't have done my job properly in my whole career without search to help me.

Anyone could look up an internet reference and copy some lines of code without being special. Or could download a python library that does what was needed and write almost no code.

GPT is a kind of improvement of search which again makes the common knowledge base more usable. It obviously lets people do less work just as installing a module saves a mountain of work.

Yet jobs have not seemed to get more scarce since search engines appeared. We have built out a huge internet infrastructure and that might have skewed things because it needed such a lot of effort and people.

We've simply (IMO) done more and more amazing things because there has been an appetite for them. Perhaps there is a limit to software and there might be a time when there are enough people doing it that the salaries look less amazing but it need not fall off a cliff suddenly.

We tend to do the same things many times over anyhow,
I don't either and this is coming from a 4x vaxxed who (I'll shamefully admit) was part of the crowd who shamed everyone who didn't get the vaccine.

I still think if you live in a big city or any dense living arrangements, medical field, interacting with the immunocompromised, etc. you 100% should be getting it. But I now recognize if you wanted to roleplay lumberjack living alone in the woods or had a rural lifestyle it really isn't as important.
Middle management already doesn't do anything, so no change there.
He was not “caught literally making up lies”. There was an error in his reporting. Perhaps he lied, perhaps he made a mistake. Please don’t turn to hyperbole.

Or at least show me the evidence for his lies(not errors, which are not the same thing. Lies require an intent to misconstrue).
Transformers are Turing complete, right?
That sounds amazing. I am going to try this today. I have been irrational to the point of not trying this because I just love the notebook so much even though I love VS Code too. I imagine you just would never go back to notebooks.

That is nice the company pays for all that cloud compute but for an individual it would just seem more practical to build a beast of a machine.
Board games also reward the kinds of abstract thinking that American schools have been trying to promote. Taking standardized math tests all day may not make you better at real life, but it will make you better at complex Euro-games.
That's what at least a couple of youtube presenters have suggested -- something more akin to sports betting.

Only downside is that sports betting doesn't let you move money across borders
> I’m not smart enough to figure out docker confiuration, so instead I compile my web application into a self contained statically linked binary executable file.

I'd reverse that for myself. I am not smart enough to cross-compile my project or statically link, so I throw it in a docker container and call it a day.
It’s important to keep in mind that pretty much all the techniques you’re too „stupid“ for all aren’t necessities for small projects, but rather being able to manage complexity (or workload) at scale. For an MVP or a small product, keeping with the simpler techniques is absolutely fine, and adhering to those standards in many cases can even be considered overengineering.

Though there’s one thing I take issue with. „I’m too stupid“ implies that these techniques are impossible to understand, while I think it’s just a matter of being able to put in the time and effort to learn the intricacies. It’s absolutely fine if the resources (mainly time) aren’t available to you, but I don’t think it’s a matter of cognitive function.
Identiconn Connector Identification Utility
> VIM was shining when it was designed and created, it doesn't shine that much today, because for working with code you need things like LSP, syntax awareness etc.

This is not true at all. Nvim has built-in LSP support now, there's a huge amount of plugins you can use that integrate with LSP and they work great. I even use ChatGPT inside my vim (check out this plugin: https://github.com/dpayne/CodeGPT.nvim). The smart select functionality you mention is trivial to implement and I bet there is a plugin for this (btw, try `dit` to "delete in tag", or `di(` to delete in bracket, etc...).

I will admit that you have to spend a lot of time to configure it to your liking, not everybody wants to and I understand that.

Honestly I feel like (n)vim is going through a renaissance period lately, check out streamers like ThePrimeagen or TjDevries for some great content on how to get started.
this forgets https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/3127 and https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/111540
On the contrary, our current lens is a narrow ideology that generates criticism and complaints that apply so indifferently to everything as to make it meaningless. It exists mainly to separate people from their histories, which politically neutralizes and subordinates them to a small cadre of activated ideologues. It has discovered nothing.

The value of books and magazines prior to about 1995, and art in general, is they are physical artifacts of peoples diverse lived experiences that provide waypoints, continuity, and a fabric for a society and civilization. They enable a stability and freedom from the power struggles of the present, and they are there for more than to be just gawked at and complained about, imo.
Let me guess. Someone used JSF and hibernate in the same project. That is an easy way to blow up development time by a factor of 5x to 10x for literally no benefit.
ESP32s aren't really ‘lower level’ in the sense that anyone is likely to write assembly code for them (compared to, say, 8051 or PIC), other than maybe some driver author at Espressif. The big win from using RISC-V, other than name recognition, is mainstream compiler support (which is nothing to sneeze at, especially when it's largely funded by someone else).

When I worked on Matter¹, the Xtensa and RISC-V versions were basically fungible from the software point of view. (And really, so were other vendors' various ARMs.) We did find that Bloaty McBloatface² didn't support Xtensa, so I had to write an alternative.

¹ https://github.com/project-chip/connectedhomeip/

² https://github.com/google/bloaty
Sky as in Sky Bet?

https://skybet.com/
Can't believe I forgot that one!
it's funny you say that, the entire supposed purpose that the Fed was created for was to do just that: get rid of the boom and bust cycles. Unfortunately they never figured it out.