skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You say that as if these events are unfortunate accidents instead of lack of technical leadership.

I’ve met quite a few “unlucky” people in my life and what nearly all of them had in common was the inability to connect their actions and inactions to consequences. They were blindsided by predictable outcomes over, and over, and over again. Eventually the people who could actually help you get tired of your drama and move on, and then you’re left in an echo chamber where your narrative makes sense.

I’ve spent a lot of time on this job thinking about the thoughts and plans of the people who have left. If our vertical were more compelling I believe we could make a better product with the people who have left than with the people who stayed. Even considering the lack of depth in domain knowledge. There’s a lot of things that don’t change because they were the right thing to do ten years ago. That’s an explanation for how we arrived here, not a reason to stay.
In separate news, sf chief economist is saying that everything is great [1].

Why is there such strong denial among city leadership and many individuals?

[1] https://sfist.com/2023/07/06/san-franciscos-chief-economist-...
Capitalism is just a system where industry is own by private entities and is for-profit. Corruption or laws have nothing per se to do with capitalism.
> it was Apple’s policy that apps cannot punish users or exit() the app in retaliation for them denying a permission.

Sounds a lot like EU's GDPR: you must show a cookie popup but if the user denies it then you must still serve the content.

(When companies grow large enough, they become suspiciously similar to governmental regulators.)
If zoidberg can be a doctor, pretty sure my worm can too!
I respect your insightful approach. I think it’s possible to make that argument, but I’d love to hear why you think Elon’s is even comparable. What’s your insight there?
Content aside for a second:

I have been trying to find your magazine again for so long. This scratches an itch. Thank goodness.
Couldn't they run two races concurrently on the same roads, ranked separately? Moot point if the women don't actually want this though.
Yes.

The same way that review sites are good because they help people buy products without doing work. Or Hacker News is good is because it finds news stories that interest us without us doing the work.
> and try to focus more on local and more genuine interactions

It's amazing to me that people expect one of the largest companies on the planet to be capable of doing this with any measure of success.

Meanwhile, there's tons of groups of people who meet under the banner of shared interest, probably right now, right in the town you live in. You can just go do that if that's what you _actually_ want.
it didn’t, they’re full of shit.
Spanish and French teams still haven't embraced the science like in England, central and northern European countries where the training is very monitored and using modern findings.
Looking at Frances most popular recent riders in the Tour, Voeckler supposedly just used to basically just go on long rides to train and was drinking Coke during races a few years ago. You never see Alaphilippe looking at his wattage and going at a steady pace when the race picks up instead he'll always be attacking, dropping off or catching back up.

At some point they'll embrace the 21st century and have real contenders again
Your case is special, but think about a maps app that requires login and location, when you want to simply measure the walking distance between two points.

I believe there’s a special publishing mode for yours, but not sure how it works irl.
if you go the threads from twitter, it’s likely gonna ng to be a worse experience content wise, but most don’t care because they are there to pull the middle finger at Elon. When that wanes it will be back to twitter
Is it that big of a step to assume that old school Lispers know about Genera and have been influenced by it?

>But the idea of Java being Lisp influenced is questionable. Though they had Guy Steele, who said something about bringing C programmers halfway to Lisp, pretty much the the only Lisp idea in Java is garbage collection.

Java also has some dynamicism through classloaders and reflection.

>The JVM is hostile against the efficient implementation of Lisp-like languages; it doesn't let you pack tag fields into pointer values.

It's a good trade off for Java, pointer coloring is used by ZGC for example.
I wanted to build a PC for a while but was a little anxious about it. This Christmas I really did it, got a heavily perforated case with a glass side, the top of the line AMD processor, liquid cooling system with lots of RGB and I settled for a 4080 GFX card because I couldn't find a 4090.

I hadn't done anything like this in years but it went together with no problems and I'm very happy with the machine, so I say go for it.
> A tankless electric water heater could use that much I suppose. I wonder if that is what Germany uses? Tanks take up more space, but they need a lot less power at once so they are kinder to the grid.

Tankless water heaters are much more common in rental apartments, and Germany has one of the highest quote of people living in rented apartments. And if space is at a premium, of course tankless heaters are preferable. Apartments are also the reason why electric stoves (again, using 400V tri-phase) are so popular in Germany.
I mean, there are badly designed brownfield projects with tight coupling, bad documentation, and, where you have to spend half an hour to figure out why a simple change broke everything.

Funnily enough, personally, I can handle badly designed projects as long as I was part of the team designing it. At least then I understand it enough that changing things isn't too much of a pain, and I can pretend my refactors will eventually make the codebase look good (or if that fails, I can write enough documentation to at least mitigate the problem). It's a pain in the ass for new maintainers though.

But goddamn, working in a good established project where other people have done the hard work of figuring out non-coding project management stuff is a fricken breeze. No arguments there.
Of course that’s off the record. Because the questions arise from that would place blame where it belongs, on whoever told you that.

Their vision? Like from a dream they had? That was the end of their contribution? Share the vision and play no role in managing anyone building it out? Nice. That honestly sounds like someone that needs kneecapped.
I've had some conversations with neighbors about it. In fact, most of my neighbors have had the same conversation with one or two of our neighbors. The muffler on this guys WRX, which is always on the street instead of inside of his empty garage, vibrates our window frames. He used to make a habit of getting into his car, starting it, and then fucking around on his phone for 30 minutes. It's completely mental.

Thankfully, for our neighborhoods collective sanity, after at least a dozen interactions with him, he's stopped idling in front of his house.
I've been to tech conferences in San Francisco (Moscone specifically), Vegas, Orlando, Chicago, and Boston.

While I'm not ordinarily a fan of Las Vegas, it is hands down the absolute best place for conferences, logistically. It's a 10 minute Uber to get from the airport to the strip. Tons of hotels on the strip. If the conference is at one strip hotel and you are staying at pretty much any other strip hotel, you can walk to your conference in 10 minutes or less, and you can complete the entire walk underground. Tons of food, cafes, etc. along the walk. Entertainment venues everywhere (obviously, it's Vegas).

SF/Moscone is the absolute worst for getting around. The other cities are ok-ish but only if you're staying at the hotel where the conference is being held.
What makes you say Meta isn’t doing well now? 2022 was rough on them, but 2023 seems to be treating them well.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/META/
The hyper commercialization of the internet has turned people into spam bots. That’s why todays internet, with billions of users feels less populated than what we had in the early to mid 2000s.
Factor (a modern stack language) has assemblers for x86 and PowerPC (last I checked), and should be easy to also incorporate ARM.
You should probably not mention it by name on a resume anyway, but emphasize your actual skills, experience, and familiarity with the lower level technologies and APIs that underly it.

This hype train isn't going to last forever, and it's probably better to advertise sustainable, evergreen skills rather than being an expert in the flavor of the week. With that much experience, you shouldn't have to feel tied to any one company's software.
Someone had that on Android a decade ago. I saw it demoed. Whatever happened to that?
Pressure from Google?

I myself removed that feature because the effort to have it was more of an hassle than anything else.
Fast Fashion Emits 10% of Humanities' CO2
The fact that this is necessary is wild.
All apps seems like not very useful
Oh, this is new to me. It's not recommending create-react-app, it wants me to use Next.js or something. Yeah that seems like a bit much. I was even doing a React project recently and went straight to create-react-app, bypassing all this, haha.
Why use Pascal?
Intellectual junk food like this is exactly why those in academic/PhD circles have lost the trust and respect of most of mainstream society.

You are one of the few people in the world who has a job that allows you to research whatever tricky or interesting problem you want; and you choose to nitpick a childrens' television show?
the consistency and conventionality of the methods in the langchain library are very sporadic, imo
I was astonished at the amount of ink, or pixels wasted by this ridiculous and completely manufactured distinction on the part of inept tech "journalists" and bloggers who had to find something non-technical to identify a pecking order among phones in order to attract readership who didn't understand the more subtle distinctions between features that affect actual usage of the phone.

The only other ridiculous argument that had an even worse effect on the net usability of phones, as well as the indistinguishable limited variety that we have today, is the ridiculous obsession with thinness. And then everyone puts a case on it anyway.

Thin, thin, thin, and a glass back on top of that. I'm not usually sympathetic to conspiracies but it sure seems like the interests of phone manufacturers ( especially one in particular) who want to sell a new throaway device every year were suspiciously well served by both of these absurd abitrary obsessions of the tech press.
Quick aside: This should have a (2020) tag.

The keyboard and mousepad on my Thinkpad have died twice. I've replaced it twice for 30 dollars each time. I would have had to buy a new laptop if I had something else. The conclusion about this being a hack and not a new economic model is why I'm hoping Framework seems success. Unfortunately I think my Thinkpad is on the way out for good and I plan to replace it with the Framework 16 when it is available, which I hope will last me just as long as my Thinkpad
Our big unanswered questions about the switch to Tesla-style EV plugs
> When I last checked, the mainline kernel support for the 8cx was EXTREMELY limited.

Is that the case? I would've thought the devices present in 8cx are similar to the other Snapdragon 8 series which would probably be well supported upstream? Or do they linger in a GKI tree before landing upstream?

Maybe the exclusivity between QCOM/MS is mutual and they'll be able to partner with vendors like Canonical in the future.

Personally - I would love an XPS13 ARM linux laptop, hopefully Dell decides to jump on the bandwagon. I have owned i5/i7 XPS13s for several years now and am looking forward to ARM if they can make one that performs well.
I believe it’s just a thread with “Ask/Show/Tell HN:” in its title.
There was a chatbot I dealt with recently, where the only way to get a human being was to type in graphically vulgar language repeatedly. Unfortunately the human who does eventually join the chat is then usually subject to this language as they "review the chat log" :/
I am and could, but can't make the time for the inevitable support issues that pop up. If there's a COTS system available, I'd rather spend my time in the mountains :).

The upside of a home-built system is truly serious logging, something that seems to be a nonexistent priority for any commercial option I've yet encountered.
Ubisoft sees ‘major reduction’ in cheaters thanks to XIM detection
> You have to be some kind of madman to make a game in straight C.

....why? A significant chunk of commercial games released were done in C (maybe not 'straight", as they might plug into Lua or Python); and probably the majority of open source games were.

C is fairly straightforward to develop games in, and is one of the realms it excels in; so I have no idea why you'd feel this way.
Hasn't RedHat been headquartered in Raleigh since its inception? I knew a few people who moved out there for RedHat from the Bay Area.
That assumes you and everyone you work with want to use that tool... you can write COBOL in any language, you won't always like the result.
In a language with a sound (or even sound modulo escape hatches) type system, I would agree. But Typescript can and will lie to you at compile time, and it's much harder to guard against this than it should be.
The Whatsapp app could easily let you assign your own locally saved aliases to those phone numbers, when you're not sharing your address book. "Frankie" is a more usable moniker to me than "+12822745113". They could give us that ability in an afternoon. But they just won't. Because they want your address book. ALL OF IT.

I wish there were some kind of "modern tech" technical review panel on board in, say, EU and US regulatory institutions. Not to impose or forbid certain changes, but to curate an evilness score. Publicly.

And then if a monopolistic company consistently enshittifies things, when the time comes to apply a penalty (for some anti-competitive legal reason), the regulators will apply the reputation ("evilness") score as a multiplier (or divider, if you will) on the sum of the fine.

Evilness can't be measured and expressed fully objectively. So citizens should be able to override a reputation score mutation (remember, they're public) through a referendum.

An advantage of this approach would be that it could increase citizen awareness that things don't have to be this shitty.
I'm occasionally amazed by how friends and colleagues put up with being pushed around by their OSes, their apps, their phones, sometimes to the point that cognitive dissonance makes them into apostate apologists.
Some theories of mass propaganda rely on the fact that people who are complicit in it are merely acting on the nth higher level of incentives for themselves, and the end results we see reflect the pileups of these incentives. Its much harder to deincentivise an industry from certain behaviors they’ve organically grown into, than it is to even turn over the entire executive staff. It almost doesn’t matter who or what the company is if the incentives are still in tact, they will fill the untapped niche like a new species in an environment.
https://github.com/facebookincubator/cinder

Instagram (and presumably threads) runs on Cinder which is Meta's fork cpython with GIL removed.
Nice. Now try to do the same as (some types of) programmer or 3d modeller or video editor. The newest MacBook with an M2 chip compiles and runs my projects drastically faster than the 2015 Dell XPS Skylake-i7 laptop I used to have and the GPU on the M2 is so ridiculously more powerful it's like going from 3dfx voodoo to a modern GPU.
> Be open to training people in Elixir

My last few jobs have all been on teams writing primarily in Elixir, and I was always surprised at how quickly new hires with no prior experience in it were able to pick it up. Junior engineers and even interns who had never been exposed to concepts like an actor model or pattern matching were usually able to be productively writing idiomatic Elixir after only a short period of self-study and mentoring.
For example, Gaia Maps. It's just a navigation app using publicly funded USGS or crowd sourced base maps, but by switching over to a user account requirement, they can con people into paying a monthly subscription for map "updates".

If you're going to rip people off with "software as a service" then you need to require an account.
At Futel, we believe in the preservation of public telephone hardware
The point is in 99% of use cases no one will ever swap OpenAI or vector storage db for anything else. All Langchain does in these cases is introduces useless abstraction that takes longer to implement and makes things less transparent.

And when you need some customization instead of taking you 10 minutes it takes an hour to work around this abstraction.
If a tool can access a url, does that not make it a browser?
I was only assaulted once at my last conference there

I was only assaulted once the first time I was in Vancouver, BC.

What's your point?
People keep proposing this as if federated key distribution is easy, and as if iCloud could with sheer force of will can just do it correctly.

There is a reason nobody serious is trying to make email encryption work: secure messaging is already incredibly hard when you control every piece of the system; with email, you control absolutely nothing.
I think I replied to the wrong comment. My mistake.
It's Nacker Hews, obviously.
Denial. No one's going to be honest about not having events there.
Definitely not true that you can walk the length of the entire strip in ten minutes. The strip is not super great for pedestrians because you have to keep walking up, around, and through various escalators/bridges/casino entryways. The strip would be much more pedestrian friendly if they closed the main street to cars and let you simply walk at ground level in a direct line.

Anyway, it takes over an hour to walk from one end of the strip to the other. You really do need to pick a nearby hotel, not any strip hotel. And no idea what you're talking about re: walking underground. That's not true for most strip hotels.

But yes, on your overall point, I agree that Las Vegas is a good spot for conventions.
It's impossible for the OS to know the intent of the app requesting location with certainty. That being said, android at least has options for "Approximate" and "Precise" locations and locations in the background or only when the app is open.
I don't disagree that Python's place in the ecosystem ("generalist" - i.e. load-bearing distro fossilization in everything from old binary linux distros, container layers, SIEM/SOAR products, serverless runtimes...) leads to much packaging complexity that R just doesn't have

However, Python (1991) is only 2 yrs older than R (1993)
Does anyone know of an open-source alternative to this?

I've been looking for a piece of software like this for a while, but I'm not gonna run software with full, unrestricted root (and internet) access unless the source code is available, or it's at least highly trusted.
I found that you need to dig into the actual code and debug it while it is running to see what is going on to actually use the library (both with Langchain and LlamaIndex). That's unfortunate, but it does show a path to get you to where you want to go and is probably faster in the long run than writing your own code because you can swap components (e.g., which LLM or which vector DB) in and out.
Fully agree.

It's such a pain to Uber back and forth multiple times a day to Moscone (can never get a hotel close by since the prices are beyond insane during large conferences), plus that's about 100 USD of Ubering daily if you do the back and forth twice
There’s a lot of (admittedly warranted) shade been thrown on SF here over the past two days.

But putting that aside, I feel sad that remote work + the tech downturn means that employers have slashed all conference travel budgets. Conferences were a great way for me to meet professionals outside of my workplace. Even if it was just an excuse to get drunk and party, I think the industry benefitted as a whole from the networking.

Conferences in 2023 are just sad. The vendor/prospect ratio is way off, and you can really feel the tension on vendors’ faces. Some of these today make RSAC and BlackHat look like stodgy academic conferences.
Out of all this, i can really object just "preventing risks". Risks are a normal part of business and are a necessary element of development.
That’s what it feels like if you’re not interested in politics. A lot of the threads on programming also consist of people repeatedly making the same points back and forth (see e.g. about 5000 threads on Go and generics). Most discussions are like this, really. New ideas don’t come along very often.
> > Mr Achter said he used it only to indicate that he had received the contract, but not to indicate his agreement.

Yea, he said that. After the spot price of his commodity nearly tripled compared to when he accepted the contract several months earlier. And after half a decade of accepting similar contracts with similarly-terse replies.

> I also frequently have fat finger emojis in Slack, Discord or WhatsApp, now it's legally bounded?

I imagine that if he had quickly (within a day or so) followed up with "oops, fat-fingered that", the contract would have been voided.
In this thread: Software engineers also love to point out when their counterexample has been glossed over by an intentionally simplistic thesis.

(In this comment: Software engineers also love to sass one another)
> You can join the web and AI communities’ discussion by signing up on our website and we'll share more information about this process soon.

> I accept Google's Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that my information will be used in accordance with Google's Privacy Policy.

Why is this being done through a Google mailing list? Why does Google want any public participation anyway? They usually just implement their new gee-whizz scheme, and start strong-arming web publishers into using it.

Like, why would I trust a process that is run by Google, to create a new mechanism for controlling search engine behaviour? Fox: meet henhouse.
ThinkPads are absolutely magic. Here's one I built for travelling: https://maxrozen.com/replacing-my-macbook-m1-with-thinkpad-t...
I agree, Mx laptop are still miles ahead in term of performance per what. But i would venture to suggest that a lot of it is more about the platform (OS, BIOS,chipset etc... etc...) then the CPU per-say.
That's just it, I don't think you can do that. The equivalent of acute treatment for an MI in homelessness would be coralling them elsewhere or removing them from the city and replacing them with known good humans harvested from elsewhere.

Probably how NYC recovered from the 70s and 80s is instructive, or the decades long overall decline in violent crime in major cities. SF for all the crap it gets is still near an all time low in violent crime. Was it acute treatments, or did general conditions just change?
it's not like they tricked you into using it, and then changed the algorithm to make it harder to "stay up to date with things happening in your followees lives".

this is clearly not a platform that caters to that use case, so if that's what you want then you shouldn't use it. if you're infuriated because the entire world isn't designed to specifically cater to your expectations, you're going to spend a lot of time being infuriated
Thanks for digging it up.

Sometimes I can't comprehend how people come up with that stuff when it was already publicly explained how/why it happened :/
Not only that, but let’s face it, a popular Java framework is going to be far more stable and long lived for years to come compared to what someone grabs off GitHub. A business sticks around for a long time. Some guy building with the flavor of the month is a big problem.
Laos struggles with unexploded bombs 50 years after Paris Accords
They still have smoking though.