skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For information, static sites are unchallenged imho.

Even for a certain level of collaboration, I think one could get away with using static sites. I haven't tried this in practice but imagine having a git-based CI/CD flow for a static site, where non-technical end users could use the web-based Markdown editors of github.com or gitlab.com to make small changes, save and push via a pull request.

Each merge is of course approved by a more technical user.

I would love to hear if anyone has tried this model.
The only way to avoid this is to make the business a hobby too.
As someone who admittedly belongs more to the "AI believer" side, I find the vagueness of the training data increasingly frustrating.

The thing that impressed me most about LLMs so far is less the factual correctness or incorrectness of its output but the fact that it appears (!) to understand the instructions that are given. I.e., even if you give it an improbable and outlandish task ("write a poem about kernel debugging in the style of Edgar Allan Poe", "write a script for a Star Trek TNG episode in which Picard only talks in curse words "), it always gives a response which is a valid fulfillment of the task.

Of course it could be that the tasks weren't really as outlandish as they seemed and somewhere in the vast amounts of training data there was already a matching TNG fanfic which just needed some slight adjustments or something.

But those kinds of arguments essentially shift the black box from the model to the training data: Instead of claiming the model has magical powers of intelligence, now the training data magically already contains anything you could possibly ask for. I personally don't find that approach that much more rational that believing in some kind of AI consciousness (or fragments of it).

...but of course it could be. This is why I'd wish for foundation models with more controlled training data, so we can make more certain statements about which responses could be reasonably be pulled from the training data and which would be truly novel.
I usually just run a postgres container in development. A small bash script or even docker compose works fine.
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I've been maintaining my personal website since somewhere in 2014. I write a bit all over the place, but there's things from personal stuff to more technical things. On the homepage, you can also see some of my favourite posts.
In the future the computer will tell the user what they want.
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I’m inclined to cite not so much “sexism” as “32-minute rant”. For all I care, it could be tabs vs spaces, with the same outcome.
I used to do programming projects on the side for almost 10 years now. Programming has been my hobby, passion or time-pass whatever you could call it.

At the beginning, these projects was my vent from the day job to learn new tools/tricks, try out random stuff, nothing specific. And I mostly don't finish it, I just move on, because I didn't have to complete those. Some were open source, many weren't.

And then one of my project that I spent hardly few hours on got some 1000+ upvotes on ProductHunt. So many emails, new follows, it was exhilarating. It pegged me into submitting my next project to PH as well. Though it didn't get as much recognition, it was covered by few tech journals, then some more followed. Suddenly I had users who were using something that I've created and I started charging for it. When it started making money, albeit little (i think at the most it was $100/mo), it changed things.

A thought arose, "I like building sideprojects, what if I get to do this full time!". It was exciting!

After that, I could never go back to working on my projects for just "fun". It always had to have some business reason. Can it work? Is the idea worthwhile? What is the revenue potential and so on. Suddenly, I'm not just programming, but doing customer support, marketing, trying to promote the project, etc.

Eventually, I wasn't doing the thing that I enjoyed and by pursuing it for commercial motives, it had become something else entirely.

I think many of us fall into this pit either by chance or being egged from outside. In my case, what I enjoyed was just programming. I conflated it with building a business. Unless you are famous or successful, almost anything that are pursued by passion alone, had to morph into something if you want it to support your life.

I just went full-time a month ago to try and build some profitable products. And I'm trying to get that "fun" part into the full-time thingy again. Can I truly work on things I enjoy, try new stuff and still make money out of it? Only time will tell. If the results don't come, so be it.
> ...we have no real evidence for string theory.

Because we cannot experiment with items that are so small.

However...

Science has thrown math at the theories of strings and the math tends to work out. The models we've built tend to confirm it.

At one time mankind didn't believe in unseen 'creatures' that made one sick. At one time mankind didn't believe in anything we cannot see, and yet we have infrared detectors, xray detectors, photon detectors, etc...

No proof doesn't mean shit in science, it only means we haven't been looking long enough or hard enough, or we don't have the right tools /at the moment/ but perhaps in the near future.

Here's a bit of a primer:

> https://www.space.com/17594-string-theory.html#:~:text=Has%2....
https://terhech.de

Haven’t posted in some time but plan to post more in the future. Topics are Rust & Swift
> This is a non sequitur, given that libjpeg-turbo has reached libjpeg-turbo's success and its author is not several times very rich.

I'm afraid you must suffer from some reading impairment, as I explicitly said this (now with the emphasis added):

> if you manage to create a commercial software that reach even a fraction of libjpeg-turbo's success.
I don’t know if that’s necessarily true. I use a 32” 4k 144hz monitor at 100% scaling just fine. I’d loooove to replace it with an 8k monitor with similar refresh rate to run at 200% scaling and keep the same amount of workspace I have now
Would this be useful to tie to an HDL model?

I suppose you could use Verilator and then interface it to this; I'm unsure how, but that seems like an interesting avenue.
That's still quite low. As I mentioned in a previous comment, my family doctor wouldn't persribe TRT even though I was outside of the "normal" range. I ended up having to go to a "mens health clinic", who are much more liberal with handing out prescriptions.
I for one hope to grow new teeth when I'm older - see post from two days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36563590
Very excited to hear about this. Elixir is a fantastic language but tooling lags behind some other options, a type system should help with that.
Chinese EVs have yet to succeed in Europe. The Middle East could be different
I didn't consider many options to be honest. Medium was just an easy way to start writing. I am planning on moving to a platform where I have more control (was thinking self-hosted static html) eventually. Do you have a favorite alternative?
and having read through your comment in more detail, I will defo reply later. lots of interesting points. my email is halhodson at economist dot come if you'd like to ping me there just so that we don't loose the thread
> Sharktooth hill has lots more fossils of seals, sea lions, turtles, birds, whales, and other marine life.

I guess it must have been named because even a smaller number of shark teeth is less common than those other fossils in the area?
Daytime fireworks cast bold hues in the sky
No disrespect to any citizen, but it remains the ugliest city I've ever seen. Pure random concrete chaos.
There are also "legitimate" reasons to fail first round interviews, such as the recruiter picking your resume for a role that you are not actually qualified for (which the hiring manager notices after the interview), your salary expectations being too high for that specific company size/geography/role (usually a communications mismatch where they advertise a more senior role than they actually have), or it coming out that you are not legally allowed to work for them (they cannot sponsor visas; they don't hire in your country; they require citizenship; etc).

All these cases are technically the company's fault, not the candidate's, but they do often come out right after the screening call.
Mozilla must have introduced this feature for some reason, but the article doesn't talk about the possible negative consequences of disabling it.
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Discussed yesterday also.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36576352
They play games and watch mindless YouTube videos. This isn't a very good argument.
High-velocity air is amazing. Nearly silent, tiny openings instead of large grills, fairly even temperature throughout each floor of the house, doesn't tempt people to put a business-style drop ceiling in a historic home. I wish it becomes common enough & cheap enough that all the old leaky space-hogging ductwork, everywhere, gets replaced.
https://jmmv.dev/

You probably have seen this in the front page sometime last week due to the "Fast machines, slow machines" post :)

I started this blog during exams session back in university and I'll reach the 20-year mark next year. Wow. I write about my own projects, but also tech in general based on my current interests, which at the moment are around Rust, Bazel (again), and Unix systems in general.

It's interesting how the blog has changed: I used to write short posts almost daily describing whatever I had been tinkering with in open source projects (back when I contributed to NetBSD and Gnome regularly)... or whatever crossed my mind really. These days, most of those misc posts go into social media, and the blog is reserved for purposeful articles, which end up being much longer (and thus infrequent).

Commenting on the blog used to be much more common years ago, but these days discussion happen off-site in either social media or here. Similarly, people used to visit the blog periodically, but these days nobody does: traffic to the blog is either from organic searches or from spikes due to referrals from sites like HN.

As for how I build it: the posts are written in Markdown; I use Hugo to generate the site; Bootstrap for styling; and my custom web service (EndTRACKER) to offer email subscriptions, post voting and commenting, as well as privacy-respecting analytics.
I'm on Twitter less because too much of twitter is just talking about Twitter now, and that's what I signed up for.
A treasure in my collection of articles about a plain text.
I haven't been ghosted "so much." I've worked at a cool startup and two FAANGs. But there's no guarantee the interview process will go your way no matter how good you are; there's a lot of luck and interpretation involved.
you mean Pocket? I was wondering how well the search there works.
Turns out it is possible to search the pages themselves, but only with paid subscription. In the free version it only searches the titles and urls, like the Bookmarks.
Same in F. Apologies for ambiguity, I was referring to 'cooking or weather' by the word either, not 'C or F.'
Precisely. It's pretty incredible. Even with CentOS they were losing ground to the competition, it's going to accelerate going forward.
> They use less energy if they are dimmed than when they are blasted at full power.

That's true for anything, and not a difference between LEDs and incandescents.

> If I need to find something in a dark storage shed I need very bright white light for assistance.

Which you can get from a bulb.

> That's not great for the bulb. While the key benefits of the bulb is it's easy on the eyes, dims with absolutely zero flicker, easy to wind down to sleep.

Which you can get from a LED.

Both LEDs and incandescents can be bright or dim, both can be dimmable if you want them to be. LEDs offer a lot more control (some can switch between different colours, different colour temperatures), incandescent are more limited, but cheaper. And not as durable, and they waste a lot of energy when you have them on a lot when you don't need the extra heat they give.

So they're great for short periods when you need something simple, like in a shed, and not so great when you want them on for a long time or you want something unusual.
Sure, public votes would allow alternate algorithms or even client side ranking. That's a cool idea. Wallets are not required for that and are a weak part of the idea.

You could, for example, apply your own ranking algorithms on top of HN, using things like karma to decide reputation.
If anyone thinks Google respects your privacy and this is an isolated incident then boy do I have news for you LOL
Hey dang, you might want to point to this comment instead: https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/issues/53528#issu...
Regarding looking at the iPhone in a vacuum, I was referring to the iPhone gen 1 vs. the iPhone product line as a whole. The point was that the claims don't make sense unless you look at just the first generation of the product, which was clearly not Apple's vision.

Regarding other features, I don't understand the connection you're trying to draw here, or how they serve as counterpoints. All these anecdotes point to is where Apple has chosen to focus resources and in what order. Having worked on a product team, there are dozens of "obvious" things that get cut from every release. I don't see this as some enormous indictment of the product.

Mouse input on what? iPhone? Is this a thing?

A native file manager is a feature that applies to a small subset of users. Do some people want it? Sure! Does a lack of it somehow imply Apple is failing? I think that's hard to argue. Anecdotally, as a highly technical user, I rarely if ever touch that app. I don't think most of my friends/family know it exists.

Multiple apps on the same screen ... on the only tablet in the market worth considering. Again, this is a gripe about roadmap order and not an effective argument against the core claim.

And core to the claim is the fact that Apple is often late to the party.

> None of these are things that take years to get right. Apple commentators simply get lazy and recycle this iPod-era talking point.

I don't think anyone is making the claim that these things take years to get right. More interesting than this would be to examine what they chose to ship instead.

If you don't believe the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, MacBook Air and AirPods are market-defining products, we'll have to just agree to disagree. It's not as if the iPod was the last product to resemble the "Apple does it better" pattern.
Mercury is a great bank, much better than SVB when it comes to flexibility for small startups.

It's also very safe [1].

About Stripe Atlas, I only have good things to say, too. As a US NRA, I'm very grateful that it exists.

[1] https://mercury.com/blog/understanding-bank-sweep-network
I maintain two, with pretty different content. Both are intended to explore deep topics (AI and climate change, respectively), aiming for a middle ground between academic papers (meaty, but often hard to understand + contextualize if you're not already an expert) and popular press (often over-simplified or off the mark).

https://amistrongeryet.substack.com/ – was intended to be a general "things I've learned after coding for 40+ years", but so far just chronicles my attempt to wrap my head around the actual capabilities of current AI models and the potential trajectory and impact on society.

https://climateer.substack.com/ – my attempt to explain some of the big / controversial topics in climate change mitigation.
As you are already aware the constant bombard of new information on us every single day. It can be challenging to keep up with all the news and articles published daily. This is where a news article summarizer can be helpful, What do you think?
A news article summariser can read a long article and generate a shorter summary of the key points. This can save you time and help you to stay up-to-date on the latest news.
I have the same monitor but would get an 8k equivalent in a heartbeat. I run it at 100% scaling, and would love that sweet sweet 200% scaling
Here's hoping! I have also been bringing that energy to the work blog (eg: https://tailscale.dev/blog/headscale-funnel), and it's been working really well. I'm working on turning the user personas that we're tracking in DevRel into Socratic characters. It's a slow process, but writing is never fast consistently.
Stack Ball Fall 3D
I would assume personal use doesn’t involve redistribution. Probably true for most company software for internal use as well.
3-2-1..

3 Copies

2 Media

1 offsite.

If you follow that then you would have no fear of data loss. if you are putting 2 copies on the same filesystem you are already doing backups wrongs
https://christianadleta.com/map

I just started building it recently. Haven’t even gotten made a way to display all the posts just yet
What's the list of quarantined domains?
I want to say something good, but it looks like Mozilla continue search for a way to take more control from the user.
Funny that a comment to a preprint is already ifself published with volume and everything :)
I've opted out the last three times while traveling between Europe and the United States, but each time the worker has given me grief about it. One badgered me repeatedly about why I wanted to opt out, and then interrupted my answer to lecture me about much more tracking I am subject to as a smartphone user.

The fourth time I just didn't have the energy – not the desire to put my wife through all that again – to opt out. I don't like it, but they wore my willpower down. With human nature to avoid conflict, friction and sticking out from the crowd, increased surveillance measures will win nine out of ten times.

What surprised me was how enthusiastic/sold on facial recognition the TSA employees were, and how many pro-facial recognition posters were decorating the walls leading up to security.
> tooling lags behind some other options.

Just out of curiosity. What other options?
Maintainer here. That's a very good idea! Let us know if you ever have some time to work with us on this.
Exactly.

It's interesting to observe how the existence of a mediocre course in Sweden is leveraged to make the popularity of Google Analytics a major concern.

And maybe the course is not even that Google-dominated. Looking at the content here https://medieinstitutet.se/utbildningar/digital-analytics-di..., they use both Google Analytics and Adobe Analytics and mention other tools like Hotjar.
I'm not going to be at CCCamp. I'm sure the folks who do make it would love to discuss your PRs; I'm sorry if they've ended up getting stuck in review.

The point I was making earlier that I am not in a huge rush to talk to someone who is focused on enumerating a whole bunch of complaints at me, issues which I am PAINFULLY aware of already. Managing a FOSS project is miserable at the best of times, and I'd rather focus on fixing the issues (e.g. solving UX hell by shipping Element X) than being berated about how shit we are and how much better we could be.
I didn't think of this as I don't know enough of the subject to judge, but it would be funny.
Inspired by it, with my friend Dave we created a floppy disk including Linux an Squeak (Smalltalk) as the GUI: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11942537
It's been great, as a new dad with a young kid, I no longer had time to boot up my gaming pc. Now that I have a steam deck, I play a lot more games. It's also by far the game console I fight the most over with my wife. She loves playing with it.

I don't mind the ergonomics. I find it comfortable to hold. Battery life is not great but I mostly play at home and I don't mind.

We also have a switch but don't play it that much. The steam deck is just more convenient because of the steam integration and the fact that games on steam are much cheaper and there are a lot more games.
I thought both alpha go and its zero ver. retired. Is that an issue only with KataGo?
Malcolm Lowley writes on The Literary Situation (1958; first published 1947):

"Aside from the hard-working authors of textbooks, standard juveniles, mysteries and Westerns, I doubt that two hundred Americans earned the major portion of their incomes, year after year, by writing hard-cover books".

This was before television took over.
Is there a list of these domains?
> the security argument is moot anyways

Sorry, I’m missing something, what security concerns are you referring to?
https://www.lab6.com/4

The latest issue of my blog, which is a PDF file that is also a Factorio mod.
Laws of Learning (2021)
Monads (and Other Functional Structures)
It's probably for "managed firefox", which is when your IT department sets firefox as the default browser. It lets them, for example, disable adblock on the internal company portal
Aren't there libraries everywhere already (in developed world at least)?
Hey, I read your blog after you commented in another topic that was created with a link to my blog.

I didn't have the right context then to mention it, but now I do: I really enjoyed your topics on Bazel and especially the "A persistent task queue in Rust" post which I learned from.

I went back far enough that day to the point that some of your posts looked like they were taken from twitter threads, and I wondered how that worked.

If you're ever looking to work in GameDev (in Europe), hit me up.
https://emphaticallystatic.org/

So many years old!
A name chosen largely as it's not in any one of the four official languages of Switzerland: German, French, Italian, and Romansh. A political compromise.
Yeah, but for retraining to be worth it then in the future your people have to be better or more productive than they would be with Excel and it'll also impact every new hire you make that needs to do the same retraining. Just as good is not good enough. That the tool is free is rarely a strong enough reason especially if there are licenses around already.
This title sounds like, “How writers can survive-and thrive-in a spell-check world”. I imagine it will sound absurd to you in time if it doesn’t already.