skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They could be engaging in a form of market making, where they buy tickets that are near certain to be sold so that sellers feel good about listing on their site. I don't know about their customers' behavior, but I imagine many buyers buy at the last moment, and sellers feel anxious wondering if they will be able to sell, making them look for other platforms.
"every dev" = every JS/TS dev

I'm not sure when it started, but I feel like there has been an recent increase of "for every dev" or "for everyone" in marketing copy of tools like these. Though, if you look into it for just a minute it's not a polyglot tool that at the core exposes e.g. a REST API that could be talked to in any language, but a "library + SaaS" for a very specific subset of developers (though not a small one).

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To the founders/team: Sorry for the rant - you are not the only ones doing it. Congrats on the funding!
When importing/opening a ZFS pool, ZFS traverses the last few transaction groups written to the ZFS pool as well as the intent logs as a verification step to make sure that the ZFS pool is in a safe/consistent state before continuing (which could otherwise corrupt a ZFS pool even more and make the pool unrecoverable if something were to be wrong).

I'm not sure if this is the main bottleneck when opening a ZFS pool during boot, but I wouldn't be surprised if it were.

And if it is, personally I'm willing to sacrifice some boot time for some assurances that my data will be safer, but of course, not everyone's priorities are the same as mine :)

(Also, for the record, for me the pool import/opening process is nearly instantaneous on SSDs/NVMe and takes 2.4 seconds on a 12-year-old Intel Atom machine with a single HDD pool).
Cool. Add this to "Yet another reason why I pirate".

Nobody EXCEPT the parasitic data miners/advertisement class want this. I'm certainly never going to entertain hooking up a internet connection for continual adverts and data mining to a TV tuner. Fuck that, no way.

Torrents, Usenet, and DVDs have everything I could ever want. And that list is also decreasing.
Honestly, I was thinking older than that, like the S&L crisis in the 80s. What I remember most from the crash you referenced is that the Dodd–Frank regulations getting rolled back not long after. An ounce of prevention, ya know.
Leapt at what exactly? There's zero information on this page
That number just seems high. My (obviously very anecdotal) evidence from everyone I know sits at 0%. Even the ones who don't have cable aren't using OTA.
Given that your example uses neither namespacing nor explicit typing you seem to preach do as I say, not as I do.
Yes actually. If you believe that your management chain is ignoring you, in a public company you’re looking out for the shareholders by making a case for ineffective management.

I’m not saying that’s happening here. But you asked for what purpose does making this public serve.
Were there other choices then?
Well, hopefully it doesn't go the same way as "Open"AI, also started by Elon.
Coming from someone that uses Linux all the time at work and for personal projects. It's amazing, but the main user experience isn't there yet.

For example I tried Ubuntu Unity on a fresh install for a week or so recently and it was popping up with unknown errors randomly. It also lacks any hotkeys. Software centre seems to have improved but is still buggy. Also there are still occasional issues which make the machine not bootable and hard to sort without stack overflow and some reasonable Linux knowledge.

Ended up swapping back to i3 and just using my old confs.

Which I think is the main issue. There isn't really a good, reliable, simple, predictable desktop experience yet like you get on Windows or MacOS.
Ask HN: What's the current job market and sentiment like for outsourcing shops?
I'm thinking primarily of the Indian and Eastern European shops that try to hire junior devs and then pass them off as seniors and charge accordingly for simple outsourced web work. I got curious because much of this market seems like it was driven by cheap VC money for MVPs that has now dried up.

A few weeks posted an ad for a freelancer for a simple Node.js project on a few of the freelancer aggregators. It was to update a simple app to the latest Node versions and add a page. When I posted something like this just 2 years ago, I got maybe a dozen low effort replies and it was hard to get anyone to even agree to interview. Now I have received 100% quality applications from individuals and dev shops practically begging for the project. Some have even offered 1 or 2 weeks free work.

This got me very curious about the sentiment in these areas and how the devs are currently feeling. I know in SF the market in big tech companies has dropped off somewhat with the layoffs but most people I know found new jobs pretty quickly. Is it the same in India and Eastern Europe or has the drop in VC funding had worse effects? Just curious to get thoughts from anyone in that market on the general sentiment.
They do cite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_Communication . A "toxic relationship" by most definitions you will find contains mostly elements of emotional and verbal violence, which have a broad range of definition.

Pervasiveness of violence, literally thousands over thousands of studies: https://apps.who.int/violence-info/

WHO definition of intimate partner violence: "Intimate partner violence refers to behaviour within an intimate relationship that causes physical, sexual or psychological harm, including acts of physical aggression, sexual coercion, psychological abuse and controlling behaviours. This definition covers violence by both current and former spouses and partners.", of which they say 26% of all women have been affected of at least once in their lifetime.

They call it "devastatingly pervasive": https://www.who.int/news/item/09-03-2021-devastatingly-perva...

"An average of 24 people per minute are victims of rape, physical violence or stalking by an intimate partner in the United States — more than 12 million women and men over the course of a single year."

"1 in 4 women (24.3%) and 1 in 7 men (13.8%) aged 18 and older in the US have been the victim of severe physical violence by an intimate partner in their lifetime."

"Almost half of all women and men in the US have experienced psychological aggression by an intimate partner in their lifetime (48.4% and 48.8%, respectively)."

https://www.thehotline.org/stakeholders/domestic-violence-st...

Europe:

The Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (the Istanbul Convention) (Article 33) defines psychological violence as “any intentional course of conduct that seriously impairs another person’s psychological integrity through coercion or threats.”

"An estimated 37% of women living in the poorest countries have experienced physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence in their life, with some of these countries having a prevalence as high as 1 in 2."

https://eige.europa.eu/newsroom/news/almost-1-2-women-eu-hav...
The alternatives to dropping the atomic bombs were:

1. Blockade Japan until enough of the country starves to death that they surrender

2. Invade Japan and end up killing Japanese civilians who have all been brainwashed to rush invading troops with grenades and improvised weapons, as happened in Okinawa.

Additionally, both Hiroshima and Nagasaki were military targets. Hiroshima had an army HQ and Nagasaki was a major naval base. Yes, they wanted to select a secondary target that hadn’t been bombed before to demonstrate the power of the bomb to the Japanese, but if terror bombing was the sole intention, they would have hit Kyoto.

In the final analysis, dropping the atomic bombs was the best long term outcome for both Japan and the allied powers. Was it “honorable”? War isn’t about honor; it’s about making the best out of a choice of bad decisions. Maybe the Japanese should have considered that before they invaded China to start the damn war in the first place.

Also,

> the U.S. should have been disbarred from holding nuclear weapons after that

“Disbarred”? By who, exactly? And how?
Lead paint harmed a lot of innocent third parties, as did smoking near other people. Not sure I see the analogy.

When MacOS killed 32-bit libraries, it didn't save me from harm. It just made MacOS incapable of playing old steam games, and therefore my macbook air was no longer an acceptable laptop for vacations. I'm not saying it was a crime for Apple to change it -- OSes change. But it wasn't a benefit to me, and I took my business elsewhere.
Musk tried but probably couldn't make it in Texas.
Huh? The HST is a consumer end-user tax. Any HST that businesses pay is fully refundable.
And there are even more when you factor in the many other services speaking ActivityPub.
Are you sure you really want a Digital IDs as China does?.
The total deal was at 43 Billion. 13 billion is on twitter books. He has pledged to spend 20bills through sale of tesla stock, got a loan of 6.25bills secured by his tesla stock and ~7 bills came from other investors.

His tesla stock has appreciated considerably since the acquisition and while he has pledged to refrain from selling any more stock till(I am hazy on this detail end of 2024) he can still secure a loan against his stock to purchase hardware he pleases.

I recall every tesla has a gpu on board(dont recall the spec), and for their computer vision models their staff is potentially already has access to gpu's that could be dedicated to x.ai's research.
> The best practice for installing software on Linux is to use the package manager

Bingo. In Windows and even MacOS, it is normalized behavior to download and run software with your web browser. Want VLC? Google for VLC then maybe end up on a website like sourcef*rge that adds malware to the installer. On Linux, this sort of workflow is possible and permitted, but not encouraged. Instead users are encouraged to only install software through their package manager.

I can leave my dad with a Xubuntu install and trust him to not download malware because I taught him how to use the package manager, and warned him against trying to download software with his browser as though he were using Windows. 15 years like this and he still hasn't messed it up. With Windows he had new malware every week. Downloading and running strange software off the web is normal windows culture and windows scarcely even provides a better alternative to it.

(The "Windows Store" is an improvement to this situation I guess, but from what I understand most software available through it isn't free. This means windows users are incentivized to fall back on old habits and go scrounging around on the web for free binaries to blindly run.)
HFT is relative. But here's one thing that is actually used in many firms: https://github.com/Xilinx-CNS/onload (and correspondingly these network cards: https://www.xilinx.com/products/boards-and-kits/alveo/x3.htm...)
There's also the dishonesty of Reddit's explanation for the money-grab.

They claimed it was to curb the large-scale harvesting of content for AI models, but then they abruptly demanded everyone everywhere pay excessive fees regardless of identity or purpose or usage patterns.

In contrast, the big and significant actors in that space could have been dissuaded by a terms of service change combined with some rate limits.
It's enforced by insurance, employment, and health regulators with fines.

The insurance industry as a whole is relatively familiar with the law, but some employers at large are less familiar and find themselves on the wrong end of enforcement actions with EEOC: https://www.eeoc.gov/data/genetic-information-non-discrimina...
I used pg_vector + Open AI api. Worked great!
My money is on shipping the OpenAI API, wrapped with a prompt like,

"Below is a conversation between an intelligent AI assistant which deeply understands the true nature of the universe, and a human."
The problem is users are addicted to vanity metrics. For this sole reason, Threads will probably beat the shit out of both Twitter and Mastodon. There is good reason to suspect Tiktok faking views (viewcount is only people who were shown the video, including those that skipped it) played a major role in getting users to create so much content for nothing. It would be a lot harder to fake those vanity metrics on a more open platform.

The people you followed on Twitter who faded away from Mastodon after an early signup, those are the ones who are there for the vanity metrics (which at some scale do translate in to commercial value but for the vast majority do not.)

I believed the opinions of how bad Mastodon was from a user experience standpoint, and a sign up process, until I signed up last year. It's all bullshit. My feed has multiple people I followed on Twitter, it's cleaner, and the people who just posted for engagement are gone. The signup process was painless. It's arguably easier to use than Twitter.
Linux security will never stop feeling weird to me. Like when I try to do something that needs to be started with sudo, instead of warning me and just asking me if I want to run the command as root, I have to go back and input it again with sudo. Then some programs like VLC just straight-up refuse to run as root.
> Real wages are lower than their pandemic highs, but higher than they've been at any point since late 2019

This description is self-contradictory. I think you mean “before” not “since”.
Those small islands surprise me. Crete was an important airbase too (and a nazi propaganda film of a fleet taking off from Crete was the inspiration of the famous "Ride of the Valkyries" in "Apocalypse Now")
Hah, I get it. We actually have an alpha Go SDK out, and an Elixir SDK in progress. The cool thing is you can switch languages and clouds, deploy a new endpoint, and function state carries over for zero downtime migrations.

https://github.com/inngest/inngestgo

https://github.com/darwin67/ex-inngest
I wish I could watch OTA TV. Still the cheapest way to watch local market sports.
Yeah..

And in his later years, he developed cancer in his throat, which he blamed on either the few vegetables his parents forced him to eat as a child, or performing cunnilingus on a girl in the 60's who was "clumpy" down there...
Compatibility with what or who though is my main question?

What client in 2023 is asking for uncompressed content and why?
> In music, commercial success, more than any other factor, comes from making music that is liked by large numbers of people.

Most bands never have a chance to see if their music is liked by a large number of people because they don't have that kind of distribution. Through the 20th century the labels created a distribution network into which they pump hand selected artists (that match their marketing channels demographics). They, like you say, have roughly a 1 in 10 chance of success with this model (like vcs). Most bands will never know if their music will be popular because the won't get signed to find out.
How is it a monopoly? He made it cheap but others are also trying to compete, they're just not as good as SpaceX yet.
This mirrors my current feeling. Just wanted to be sure and not biased.

I will say from the perspective of the reviewer he is likely to not be aware of this. Likely he thinks his pet preferences should be standard practice as do most programmers think of their own.
The Barbie-Oppenheimer Double Feature Is Happening, Data Shows
Apologies, I thought your original comment was referring to the housing market, not to curbing inflation in general.
Are you implying the union is loyal and not just looking out for themselves?
One of my newer talking points is that logs are for new problems, existing ones get stats.

In theory logging should be more efficient than stats, but in practice, we use logging frameworks that are fractionally as complex as our stats frameworks, and at any rate nobody reads logs and probably haven't for at least ten years. Once your cluster size is more than about 3 servers you need aggregated logs. What we read is the output of log aggregators, and log parsing libraries are doing a lot of work. Way more than the ingestion side of a telemetry service, which is parsing a very simple message schema.

I'm always a little surprised how much engineers undervalue graphs until they see one that catches problems. I'm not entirely sure where that comes from, but I've known a few who have trauma from bad graphs causing drama. There's a lot of human factors around charting and most developers are largely blind to human factors concerns, even as they catch themselves making category errors with bad charts.
> Case in point, you mention the PPP loans, which were signed into law by a previous administration.

The CARES act passed 96-0 in the Senate, and in the House was an overwhelming voice-vote. The large majority the house members and senators which voted for it are still in office, and Biden signed the PPP extension act of 2021. To pretend that this was a choice made by people no longer in government seems misleading.

> Today with a new administration and a new situation, it doesn’t make sense to complain too hard about that. We should point it out the next time PPP-like loans are suggested ...

Because a large majority were forgiven, these were mostly effectively grants, not loans. And after a bunch of people take your money, of course it's to their benefit if we all stop talking about that fact. But I don't think this is any more appropriate here than if a mugger tells you that their misdeeds are in the past and you should just move on and focus on other things despite the fact that they still have your wallet.

> So yes, governments that are good at cleaning up messes are competent governments. Ideally they should also be good at not making messes, but the us government is an incredibly large entity, so messes are going to happen.

I don't think this is more convincing than when a large tech service has a major outage and their ops team is competent in investigating and resolving the incident -- but that fact doesn't on its own mean that the organization is especially competent.
I think you need to take a closer look at the list. ;)

For 1995 there's 9 or so Macs but there's also: Amstrad PCW 9512, Apple IIGS, Apple Newton MessagePad 100, Commodore 64, 4 Compaqs, DEC VAX 11/780, IBM AN/FSQ-7, 6 IBM PCs, two SGIs, a few Toshiba laptops, and a Zenith Supersport.

That's nearly twice as many PCs as Macs in the list.
Your point about transportation is key. Many of our cities are un-walk-able, un-transit-able, and sometimes even un-drive-able. If we can't easily provide multiple options for getting from A to B in a city, there is little hope of providing viable housing options.

We already have the "must own a car" requirement for most of Canada, but even that's becoming not enough thanks to the fact our roadways are under-developed and the price of gas (and owning a vehicle) is rising rapidly.

Those are some pretty massive road blocks in the way of home ownership for an average person, I can't imagine developers are keen to keep adding to the problem.
This is just combining broadcast with internet-based streaming into some weird convoluted mess for the purpose of "targeted advertisement". Which as a concept just needs to go away.
For Instagram, an ad is essentially a post from someone you don't follow. It seems you're suggesting that they'd make an advertisement and pretend that some friend of yours posted it. They never do anything like that on Instagram and I doubt if they would try it, it could be a huge legal risk making it appear that some person with a big following is endorsing a product when they haven't.
That is the ugliest, scariest, most wonderful hairball I've ever seen. [1]

[1] https://media.beehiiv.com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=scale-down,forma...
No, it was irresponsible for banks to shove so much money into long term fixed rate bonds when they should've known inflation was likely in the wake of covid. They surely knew that inflation will lead to the fed raising rates and that raising rates lowers the value of bonds, nothing here should've been unexpected at all.
My guess would be PR and myth-building for Elon, et al
Let people choose what kind of housing they want. Don't assume everyone wants to be in high density housing.
Show HN: Floneum, a graph editor for local AI workflows
Floneum is a graph editor for local AI workflows. The project focuses on ease of use and community made plugins. The application is a single executable with no dependencies you need to install. You can extend Floneum with WASI plugins that run in a environment that is issolated from your system so that you can use untrusted community plugins without worrying about malware. It uses llamma.cpp to run large language models locally, and wasmtime to run issolated plugins.

If you are interested in the project, consider joining the discord, or building a plugin for Floneum in rust using WASI

Download: https://github.com/floneum/floneum/releases/tag/v0.1.0

Join the discord: https://discord.gg/dQdmhuB8q5

Build a plugin: https://floneum.com/docs/developer/index
> Why launch such a teaser without announcing the (actual) goal ?

We're talking about it, right?

Musk has all the money in the world, but it seems to me that what he really wants, if he cannot have your love and respect, is your attention.
> Nuclear weapons are humanities biggest extensional threat

I'm not sure about that. A biolab takes only a few tens of thousands of dollars to setup to start dangerous experiments.
Follow #hashtags that you are interested in to get a broad slice of miscellaneous content, and also check the "trending locally" page from time to time (showing posts that are popular on your instance).

#bookstodon #rust #programming #go are some good ones. #maths is excellent (but I'm in maths grad school). There's a growing number of sharp wits and interesting bots to follow. For sure the content exceed my time budget for entertaining social media. I haven't tried getting targeted answers by asking Mastodon, so I can't comment about that.
I don't know very much about HFT, and these books are old, so take this with a cow lick of salt, but I've seen these mentioned on a blog I found here on HN (by 'yummyfajitas), and I found them illuminating:

Algorithmic Trading & DMA by Barry Johnson

Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners by Larry Harris

You might also be interested in 'yummyfajitas blog:

https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/hft_apology.html

If people have up to date replacements for these books, I'd be super interested.

If you keep asking around, people are gunnuh recommend Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, and it's an enjoyable book but keep in mind that it's basically the fictionalized biography of a problem gambler who happened to operate in the stock market, he traded recklessly and died destitute (by suicide - when you reread it, you start to notice how he never mentions enjoying anything, or talks about the people in his life in more than passing). Don't take it too seriously.
Is the African referenced from samples from Africa or from African-Americans?
Convert Python Functions into OpenAI Functions
I am so so so glad people are seeing this human shitbag for who he is. I've been telling people for years he is an egomaniac bastard with a cult of personality.
I don't understand the purpose of package managers in general during the development where you have the total ownership of your code, 3rd party dependencies and whole build process.

I had a privilege to use conan on semi-large codebase - what a clusterfuck that is. I can't imagine a single scenarios why I would be using it.
Firefox too, and they show up as annoying extra files with weird unicode names if you download directly to a WSL drive.
Indeed, it was bought then shut down. As someone also working in the scheduling space, they seemed like a competitor but it turns out their service wasn't as good as they hyped.

I wonder why Elon didn't use his x.com domain though, it's still sitting there.

https://www.bizzabo.com/blog/xai-sunset