skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The small market share of old device isn't a given. There aren't few of them out there because we, the developers, make them unusable and people have to switch.

Most people don't care about having the latest specs, they want the latest features. If new features only ship to devices that are < 2 years old (like Android updates), older devices will quickly become obsolete. The hardware is still fine - I'm writing this on an almost exact 7 year old OnePlus 3 running a barely year old version of Android and the vast majority of things perform perfectly fine. Even the camera is perfectly fine even for modern standards now that I've switched to a modern camera app by tricking it into thinking my phone is a Pixel.

If we stop making old devices obsolete, dealing with old devices will be a lot easier.
PhotoPrism: AI-powered photos app for the decentralized web
For me I am using PhotoPrism + PhotoSync - it's an absolutely great combo.
The USPS is "loosing" money because it was told to prefund it's Healthcare having to set aside $100 billion in 10 years (unlike any other company) . Moreover, it's much more a service than a business, e.g. it can not really set its own prices.

https://www.barrons.com/articles/usps-louis-dejoy-post-offic...
CEOs have almost no competitive pressure. They are mostly recruited within the upper class.

Paying more won't net you a better one.
The cost of studying is amazing in the USA. I did three degrees and I think it cost me around around $2.300 per year. I do think the prices differ between foreigners and local students.
> Isn't that the whole point of privatisation? By introducing a profit maximisation goal you (supposedly) create a more efficient operation.

Right, but efficient at what? The answer is almost invariably 'efficient at making money' - that's the whole point; competition normally forces alignment of incentives, wherein 'better' service (for some value of 'better') results in higher income. Thus a business that provides better service is more efficient at making money - the free market hypothesis. When there is a captive audience, as in the case of public utilities, there is no incentive to provide a better service, but the company goal is the same - make the most money - and they are freed up to do it in the easiest way possible, usually by cutting costs across the board and paring down the services to a bare minimum. This is still efficient in the sense that they maximise income for minimum outlay, but it's not in any way desirable for the customers who are forced to use the now crappy service.
It's funny that rms started the whole Free Software movement and the GNU project because he was pissed with lousy printer drivers. Somehow, all that multi-decade effort didn't improve the printer drivers' quality in any significant way... and in retrospect it kinda feels strange that he thought it somehow would. Huh.
Hmm, you need an alarm clock which only stops once you solve the cube.
Why prefer a private non-profit to the government?

I like non-profits in some cases. They're great at funneling money into specific causes that people care about. Especially small ones (a local theater group is the go to example) or politically charged ones. But "the trains running" doesn't seem like one of those. Why not have the government oversee it?
> I believe the best way to make this work is by keeping the network itself in public hands and then having a competition of contributors to the network

Even then it doesn't always work out - UK rail services have that system - the infrastructure is maintained by a public body [1], but the operators are private. UK rail is quite expensive, and mediocre in quality compared to our EU counterparts.

One of the issues is that it's basically impossible to have competition on a single rail journey joining two large cities - there's aren't enough tracks to support it without making it unprofitable for operators. So rail networks bid every few years on sections of the rail network, and then have no competition for their term. Again the incentives that make the free market efficient are just not there. A nice video that summarises this mess here: [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Rail

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlTq8DbRs4k&t=1077s
Don't want to argue against you, since the term is definitely misused for signaling a lot of things, but in a stricter sense, software engineering is not about the puzzle, it's about the whole pipeline surrounding it.
Ask HN: In the middle of my fundraise, LinkedIn decided to restrict my account
… and I have no idea why.

I logged on from a public wifi yesterday and got hit with a captcha, it said something about a suspicious login. Then it was followed by ID verification and told me a CSR would be in touch (one day). I had an ad campaign scheduled, maybe it's related?

Meanwhile, I'm stuck with my profile just missing, whereas it's the primary contact via which I've been reaching out to investors.

10 years on HN, I didn't think I'd write this post but… can anyone help?
Why? Because “Red Hat bad”? Can you explain a valid reason other than “Red Hat bad”?
I will not sugar coat this and say that failure on so many levels screams gross incompetence.

From this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36674671 to this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36663735 there's no other way to describe it.

The fact that InfluxDB has been around for 9 years at this point, and raised over 100 million dollars in the process, only makes this even more baffling.
You would think they would publish the srpms of SLES so there could be a RHEL type clone but based on SUSE and fill that void.
They don't "own" shit. They have been granted a temporary monopoly, nothing more.
> and its motivator is profit extraction, not quality of service and encouraging more people off the roads on to the trains

Which station? Or which TOC?

> Also comparing trains to cars and busses as a positive competition is missing the point that our roads are over capacity

Which roads? I had no problems driving the kids to school this morning, never are. Well that time fro about 2 weeks a year that the cows cross the road at that time of day after milking which adds a few minutes onto the trip.

If you doubled the passenger mileage on rail, you would reduce passengers on the roads about 10%. Rail isn't going to be a fix for general capacity problems.
B2Developer Marketing, Is it even a real thing?
B2Developer Marketing, Is it even a real thing??

Yes marketing to developer is a thing. But it tends to be quite complex: developer do not like to be advertise too.
It is important to focus on informative content and avoid being sales pushy.

There are few channels which work well with developer:

- Reddit

- Twitter (organic rather than ad as developers heavily use ad blocker)

- Product hunt (Just use "developer tool" as one of your launch topic)

- dev.to good for content distribution

- github you can list yourself in repo
The ground is deforming, and buildings aren’t ready
Windows shell extensions such as context menu handlers. Along with my GPU driver I have injections from LibreOffice, 7-Zip, and Notepad++ to name a few.

You'd think they'd only need to hook into Explorer.exe but alas no, they show up in every process. I guess because of the file picker dialog which is an embedded Explorer window running in the host process.

And perhaps a reason why Mozilla wants to hurry and get off of Windows 7.
> it's not "just" a network rpc, even technically

Except is is. Microservice doesn't mean distributed setup. For the first problem, yes service running in multiple pods causes issues, but even monolith could face the same issue. Statefulset based microservices not only exists, but is a pretty common setup. Also I would even call multiple container on the same pod as microservice, which basically solves all of the problem.

There are many ways to solve second problem. Some folks create different API version. I prefer different deployment.

Last is a problem for monolith. I know of big companies where compile time is in order of an hour for monolith, even for small change.
My mom uses an iPhone 7. She took video of us brining out the cake to my child’s birthday. Let me just say, I won’t make that mistake again. The video quality is terrible.
same, in Siem Reap
You will need a software engineer to argue in your favor before the court ;)
exactly. Free markets don't work in situations where there is natural monopolies.
With btrfs, interestingly enough never lost data, but got volume stuck to read only mode (fsck didn't help) multiple times over the years.

On sad note qgroup qouta (it is fancy qouta - you can limit disk usage per subvolume basis https://btrfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/btrfs-quota.html#perf... sounds much more positive than real impact :/ although didn't test with latest kernel ) starts struggle when there are load using 5 users (using docker containers with jupyterhub) and when load goes near 10 docker instances, new docker container creation literally crawls - start taking minutes
Well I guess I'm a gullible Kiwi living in the UK that never travelled to Eastern Europe. And never will, because of the volatility and the general stance towards gay people (mostly that we should be dead).

As OP followed up, doesn't change the facts that Russian soldiers pillaged the crap out of Ukraine as soon as they got there; Russia may be resource wealthy but corruption means that only the boys at the top get the cream, seems like everyone outside of Moscow gets the shit end of the stick.

Regardless, no amount of success excuses the slaughtering of innocents, slava ukraini.
I think one should just use GPT to generate the prompts so as to reduce the human input further still, a kind of gpt-gpt-prompt-engineer-engineer.
TearFree was only recently added to modesetting. But there's no release yet. In any case, the fact that it hasn't been in Xorg for so long looks like sabotage.
The AI startup outperforming Google Translate in Ethiopian languages
If you're using OAI function calling, you can define a json schema with boolean values. If you have a handful of values, you can use an enum with a list of possible values.

Unless your prompt seriously conflicts with the schema, it's pretty consistent.
Very cute! A related trick—which I believe has been used by at least one gc's read barrier—is to turn a branch into a load from an address which will be unmapped iff the branch should be taken.
Right, time doesn't slow down for them, but it would appear so for an outside observer. So would the "experience" of a particle sent in to be that it circles closer and closer for some time on the order of years and at some point when it is arbitrarily close to the center it just pops out some billion or trillion years later once the black hole has evaporated? Assuming it isn't destroyed and somehow can experience it's own time.
It's preferable to having a gap in your resume as I recently discovered
Whales are ramming boats – but are they inspired by revenge, grief or memory?
Oh no! They went against the PHILOSOPHY OF UNIX SYSTEMS. Please tell me why that’s even relevant to the conversation.
Can't lose what it didn't have in the first place.
It's interesting, I haven't looked into the full history of it so I may not have this quite right, but from the museum's I've visited (Kempton steam museum for example) a lot of London's infrastructure seems to have been built by private companies.

I suspect though that when clean water was a new thing it probably cost a much bigger amount of people's income than it does now.
Margaret Thatcher of all people didn’t believe privatising railways would do a darn thing and always refused to do it.
I think actually competing with meat will be exceptionally difficult. I don't understand why startups don't start smaller: how about a soy bean with a full, balanced profile of amino acids for humans and very little else? Taste can be manufactured after.

I also note they carefully avoid referring to these are what they are GMOs or any references to concerns around soy intake (though I think those are mostly unfounded?)
I've used it for personal pics for years. I wish the UI were faster but the self-hosting of everything & automatic storage management is excellent.
quite, some aspects of emergent behaviour are exciting, others must be a painful learning experience.
Personally, I think ICs complaining about bad Managers is acceptable. The latter have actual power and direct control over the individual’s career and life. It can be a tough job that comes with a lot of responsibility, but lots of us have faced the worst sides of this.
Thank you for that! The only major division I was aware of among Muslims was Sunni and Shia, but I guess that's a bit like someone being startled by cultural and religious differences between Roman Catholics and Protestants - they all acknowledged the same religious authorities until about 1500 or so, have the same holy book and their worship services are pretty similar (there are more differences among Protestants than there are between some of the Protestants' and the Roman Catholics' services)
Subscription with 5TB storage = $250/yr. 10TB = $600/yr.

I can buy a 4TB HDD for ~$80. Assuming I need more storage, this saves money.
I dont get this approach of (temporary) storting CO2.
How does it help at scale?

We start mass producing these fungi to have them store co2
put then in a warehouse, repeat?

Give the amount of CO2 we need to remove that would quickly fill all
available storage space.

Trees store C02 as they grow.
Then they contain CO2 until they burn or rot.

In order to exploit the absorption and storage we need to
cut the trees at the optimal time and then store it all
to contain it.
Quickly filling up all available storage.
> See the link below, data centers emitted 300 MTCo2 in 2020, similar to the number you mentioned.

Wow, I didn't realize there were so many datacenters. My comment about corporate action still stands though - there's no reason why companies running those data centers cannot switch to renewable sources for even a portion of their usage.

I'm no fanboy but I was impressed to see how Apple's office is 100% powered by solar (75% through rooftop, rest through an offsite farm) :

https://www.solar.com/learn/apples-new-campus-country-larges...

According to Renewable Energy World, the campus will run entirely on renewable energy. It will generate 17 megawatts (MW) of solar on rooftops and also be supplemented by 4 megawatts of Bloom Energy fuel cells. They’re hoping that this onsite generation will cover around 75% of power requirements during working hours. The remaining energy needed will be supplied by a 130-megawatt off-site solar farm in Monterey County.
Sourdough
China to lay down AI rules with emphasis on content control
https://archive.is/gbBHF
> from every parts vendor for the servers we built for them that they would keep making those parts for at least a decade

and do main vendors (amd, intel, nvidia, whoever build motherboards) provide guarantees that they continue production of specific version of product for the decade?

> They also demanded RHEL exclusively. It's a great example of how extreme stability

is there evidence that rhel is more stable than debian?
I once worked for a co-operative, and it was by far the most poorly run company I have ever worked for or with. The control of the company was so far removed from shareholder control that the management was basically only accountable to their creditors (i.e. banks). The company had every corporate pathology you could imagine and then some. It was orders of magnitude worse than a Fortune 500 dinosaur I also worked for.

The cooperative was performing poor profit-wise while middle management lined their pockets. If it was not a cooperative, their share price would have been in the gutter, and someone would have bought up enough shares for cheap to fire the leadership and replace it with people who are competent, and then benefited from the increasing share price of having the company ran competently.
Let’s take a look at nearly failed state as a counter example is pretty incredible. There are plenty of other examples you can pick vs SA.
> My theory is […] that developers which participate early in this process will be able to make decent money by selling apps

I don’t see the market grow fast initially. Depending on your idea of ‘decent’ that could make it hard to make decent money.
I think people don't remember what services were like in those days - the weeks you'd wait for a phone installation etc.
TU Delft Students Set New World Record with Hydrogen Car
Well, yeah. It would essentially be punch cards in fabric form, in a way. I'm sure someone's tried it before.

If you're not familiar with core memory, then look it up (it's cool). The industry borrowed a lot of women from the textiles industries to thread the tiny wires through the iron rings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic-core_memory
The TFL works very well in london but I’m not sure about its structure
All true! Been considering a media server for some time now, I'll probably end up doing this. Curious though: any other apps you self-host that you couldn't live without?
The big question is IMHO why.

Are people fleeing the Windows as Ad Space direction?
Are they fed up with Mac OS oddities?
Do they use their Steam deck more?

Or are they just enjoying the Linux experience....

I know that after years of Linux usage I can't stand Windows in-your-face Ads and "use our accounts". And I can't stand the locked down Apple ecosystem either. But what drives others? Are there any good sources on that question?
Well, a Docker file is just a list of commands. You're free to look at it and repeat them manually, or simply copy them to a script.
How Ahrefs Saved US$400M in 3 Years by Not Going to the Cloud
Company: "Use the app" / cut back front line staff

People: "ugh, I will use the app"

Company: "Look, nobody uses the front line staff"
What hosting providers have you looked at so far? What’s your actual budget?

Some options: Fly.io, Heroku, AWS Fargate. Or just a VM on DigitalOcean. If you look further there are providers that have even cheaper VMs than DO.
This is otherwise known as "industry standard".

Changing an industry standard isn't impossible, but it will be a paradigm shifting challenge akin to moving mountains.
The difference is that you can reason about why it didn't work.

With deep learning models not so. They are too big to reason about in the same sense as your BST algorithm.

Hence, you need a scientific approach to construct them. I.e., with lots of experimenting, hypotheses, etc.
I think it's exactly what they do here
Well, part of the reason Linux documentation often isn't very good is that Red Hat doesn't treat documentation work as something that should be submitted upstream.

Their incentives favour creating Red-Hat-specific documentation, and this then reduces their users' incentive to improve upstream documentation.
Cryptography Dispatches by Filippo Valsorda.

https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/
Are there any examples in modern economies? I know banks were temporarily nationalised but that wasn't a long-term plan.
Seems to me like an incentive issue. I can't see why it'd be impossible to recreate a good incentive structure for employees in the public sector so that they'd perform similarly.
Yes, congratulations on finishing the game! Also, thank you very much for sharing the story of making it. I'm more inspired than ever to keep dev logs for the little side projects I work on. It's important to keep track of progress, reflect on where you were early on, and see how far you've come.
I'm not your average user (as most in this forum), but I've recently migrated to Linux as my daily driver because of Windows as Ad Space :)
Well it was just a matter of time, the martech industry need that flow to work to make money
Is bottled water by better? If so from where? What about an RO filter (I have a Water Drop brand)
I'm surprised that TC39 hasn't adopted JSX into ECMAScript. It wouldn't need to be React, but just the syntax. It could even bypass React.createElement and "output" (execute as) document.createElement (with attribute properties and children) for you.
Is Scotland benefitting from it somehow?

Truly astonishing that nothing like the Norway model was done. Those oil reserves could’ve transformed the country, surely?
Prompt "engineering" is just writing prayers to forest faeries.

Whilst BASIC/JavaScript/etc are all magic incantations to a child, a child will soon figure out there's underlaying logic, and learn the ability to reason about what code does, and what certain changes will do.

With prompts, it's all faerie logic. There is nothing to learn, there are only magic incantations that change drastically if the model is updated.

Worse yet, the incantations cannot be composed. E.g. take the SQL statement "SELECT column FROM table WHERE column = [%s]". For any given string you insert here, the output is predictable. You can even know which characters would trigger an injection attack.

With prompts you cannot predict results. Any word, phrase, or sequence of characters may upset the faeries and cause the model to misbehave in who knows what way. No processing of user-input will stop injection attacks.

Whilst it's dubious to call current software development practices "engineering", it's utterly ridiculous to do so for prompt-writing.
I'm with you, apple stans, but it's worth pointing out it's not the apple devices we're talking about here. That iPhone 7 can run iOS 15, which is out of date now, but only by two years. No letsencrypt certificate troubles.
Isn’t that what this codebase is doing? I haven’t grokked it 100% yet.

Recently I’ve been trying to engineer a prompt that I intend to run 1k times.

Noticing GPT4 bug out on several responses, I’ve talked it through the problem more and asked it to rewrite the prompt. So an automated approach to help build better prompts based upon held out gold data is useful to me.
I still like Tumblr because they let me have HTML, the new restrictions on iframes are annoying tho
Not really, it works really well for truly free markets like cosmetic surgery and vision correction.

The “free market” healthcare in the US isn’t free at all, there are a ton of regulations many of which make it worse, not better.
Profit is extracting money from customers.

Shareholder returns can come from profit, or selling off assets, or taking on loans, or underfunding pensions, or probably other ways financial experts can invent.
I'm guessing they don't because the application requires 8 services to run...

I really love the idea of this project but I feel like it is grossly over engineered.
Unit 8200: Israel's Elite Cyber Command
So far I have mostly used ChatGPT for problems where I could neither find clear documentation nor good blog posts. Examples: PAM, using SQL in Go.

Edit: So in this way of working, the focus is less on having ChatGPT spit out a working application and more on explaining how the component works.
I have a hard time getting developers to follow this type of advice and a lot of developers will "clean up" and "optimize" the example code in introducing_variable_version by eliminating the paid_today variable back into a single if statement.

I recently had a developer "improve" a security sensitive series of checks (think a series of if statements: if logged in, if not inactive, if in required group, etc.) by merging the statements into a single if statement that, unsurprisingly, broke the check and left a security hole.