skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree to an extend that you shouldn’t focus on bad only, but as the old saying goes “so much is lost for the lack of a little more.”

What my experience has taught me is that you have these 80% things that are good, but there is the one person or thing that ruins it for everyone. One person, one manager or CEO who pushes something through because he wants some gain, or one selfish move that is born out of short term profit or thinking.

From climate change, to wars, to ill-willed software, history sometimes get bend by those bad decisions sometimes stemming from a comparatively small but powerful group who yield too much power. Google is for all purposes a monopoly which makes all their decisions at least suspect since they aren’t competing on the same level as a Mozilla, or name any other search engine. This is bad for any ecosystem.

I wish I was still seeing the early Google that was optimistic, people focused, approachable, but that time is at least some years in the past. There are probably good people working for Google still with that ethos, but it gets overshadowed by those nagging decisions that are suspect.
Yes, I've heard similar things, that a lot of PC motherboards were basically slightly modified reference PCBs from Intel. The high-speed portions of the boards were really difficult to design.
> and $10,000+ of compute hardware per inference session.

What hardware would you need to run it at home?
I have a feeling* that this is another case where Google's internal politics and promo culture rears its ugly head. I don't think the team behind this effort talks to the team responsible for BeyondCorp. Or maybe they do, but the person who came up with this idea wants a promotion so much that they decide to ignore BeyondCorp with some half-heartedly written doc.

*: Just a feeling. I have no proof. Just speculating. Take it with a huge grain of salt.
Israel is also monocultural.
Why would fixing the visa system push US tech salaries down?
> 6 bolt CV joint

I was referring to the wheel bolts.
He is currently polling at 20% amongst democrats and has a higher favorability rating than either Biden or Trump in some polls. All this while facing an unrelenting smear campaign by powerful media interests.

Despite his voice issues, his message seems to be resonating amongst Democrats, Independents and even Republicans. He is the only candidate who seems to be gaining support across the political spectrum.

I think his message of peace and diplomacy over endless interventionist wars and healing the divide are gaining traction.

Let's just hope the powers that be don't decide to give him lead poisoning like they did his uncle and his father.
Book Summary: Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps
That’s a word
This is pretty great. Of course it only has 1 camera angle perpendicular to the character but it’s amazing to see how far tech has come.

To the people who consider this unethical, do you consider fan-fiction unethical? They both rely on the likeness of the characters.

Tech like this can add visuals and audio to make more immersive experiences. It doesn’t take away any revenue from the show runners because who would watch show fan fiction without watching the show itself?
I had a suspicion that phishers were using LinkedIn to build an employee directory to attack at work (using names and guessing our email address pattern), so I created a honeypot to test that: a company email along with a LinkedIn profile for a fake employee. Sure enough the honeypot mailbox started to get targeted by the same spear phishing emails our employees get pretty soon after.
As another compiler developer, there are few mistakes more damaging than self-hosting too soon. A language will be a net benefit for small and medium programs long, long before it's a net benefit for (and has the tooling for) a project as big as a compiler. I'm glad they're not rushing it.
I suspect your reasoning is also motivated, though I don’t know by what.

There are things I’ll give credit for. I suspect the “community notes” feature is overall beneficial (though I haven’t seen it much firsthand because I use a very outdated version of the application, which doesn’t support it.). Also, making the code for the recommendation algorithm publicly readable was very cool, and I appreciate it.

The way that verification was replaced with the current system, was, I think, rather poorly designed. That’s not to say that the critiques of the previous system were illegitimate. But the way the change was done threw the baby out with the bath water. Ideally, the system should work as follows: paying-users and associated features, should be independent of verification. Anyone should be able to pay a one-time (unless they change display name too much) fee to have their account verified, where this verification should be an actual verification, not just “did this person pay money”. (This might have to cost a fair chunk in order to be viable, due to labor costs of verifying, but I think it could still be reasonably cheap..)
There could be an option for paying subscribers to have some icon display by their name, like the checkmark does currently, but this should be optional, and should be distinct from the verification icon.

Also, there’s all the stupid stuff, like blocking links to competitors, and seemingly not having a competent rollback system for updates when they break stuff, etc.
If intelligence in humans can allow for such behaviour then the same can be said for machines.

It's not suddenly un-intelligent because it faces issues people also face neither is the driving function "wrong".

Sense data prediction and fabrication isn't some trivial side note thing either. It's an essential part of how we process the world.
First order differential equations generally govern diffusion where energy spreads out over an area. Second order are often waves where energy propagates but does not diffuse.

Is pretty much everything described by those two classes?

Any third-order differential equations in physics?
Source::

Colin McCarthy @US_Stormwatch

Persian Gulf International Airport in Iran reported a heat index of 152°F (66.7°C) today at 12:30 pm.

Those are intolerable conditions for human/animal life.

https://twitter.com/US_Stormwatch/status/1680700765265072128
this only works when your honest thoughts are palatable
Why? People leave an enshitified platform for less shitty pastures, and the audience can follow them.
What motive do you see for them releasing these models for free, especially with the massive increase in cost associated with catching up?
I stopped using online dating roughly 15 years ago because most people have no intention of meeting, and only use it to pad their ego (much like instagram). Everyone else on there is a scam.
Thank you for confirming my point?

> At the end of the day 99% of the confusion comes from people using the web interface, which undoubtedly does change much more often than the API versions they share.

The API does not offer any browsing features, that's the web app.
> Interops with C++

Doubt. I simply don't believe any other language out there is capable of interoperating with C++. Even C++ compilers have broken binary compatibility, different versions of the same compiler even.
It's clear to me now that the message I intended to send and the message that was received were very different. My original comment was made half in jest, along the lines of "I always knew my wife was mad, but now I have proof." The other half of my comment that was not meant to be humorous was simply acknowledging that similar jokes would likely not be told if circumstances were different.
Solving problems with policy is common in all companies. It’s programming at the organisation level. Every policy is either a good candidate for automation or an indication of automation limitations.
Freelancer here. I'm just a data point of one, but I work on all kinds of projects, both product-side and customer-visible. For the "invisible" (to the customer) work, you can always add a description of it to your CV (along with some suitable graphics to show, for example, performance or positive outcome).

Occasionally I'll show the front end of the project, even though I didn't work directly on that part, simply because it's what potential customers understand and identify with. I try to make it clear what part I worked on, but when I'm using it in a portfolio I sometimes leave that to the imagination of the viewer, until I'm actually speaking with them about their potential project.
Exceptions to the rule doesn't mean it applies generally. At least if we're going to be using Tesla's shitty behaviour to critique businesses as a whole. If anything being honest about why things happen in practice is valuable if you're attempting to change them, even if the ball game often plays by different rules in the higher end / niche old boys club. If your goal is to simply punish those people it's often best to not make rules that apply generally but target that specifically.
Well, this is is not guidelines for an app or a website. This is guidelines for how the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation, the Ministry of Culture, the Swedish Institute, Business Sweden and Visit Sweden and the different agencies they use, should use typography when representing Sweden abroad.

I don't think the type section is unusually large, but I worked at a company for two years that exclusively made design manuals, and the well made ones tend to look like this.
Interesting biz ideas and success stories. More next week.
You're being downvoted for not liking Quanta, but if your original point was that Quanta is not a good reporter, you're right.

They frequently make subtle but impactful misinterpretations, or more outrageous redirections, such as the Quantum Gravity fiasco from earlier this year. To excuse that is to participate in Gell Man amnesia, in my view.
Let me know if there are any issues getting it fully working- I had lots of "works on my account" issues when trying to get this through Google's approval system.
Jai alai peaked in Tron (1982): https://video.disney.com/watch/jai-alai-4be38642b8814a0e1266...
News flash: technical worker thinks more resources should be diverted from non-technical matters to technical matters. Film at 11. ;-)

The people who design interfaces and the people who do branding and identity work are rarely the same people. I've done both (and was developer all over the stack for a decade,) but never at the same time. Branding and identity work is usually done by specialized agencies, and they're usually the ones who make decisions about the type stack.

What you and most other developers don't realize is that these things do actually matter— just not in ways that non-designers consciously pick up on. When looking at an individual website, most folks might not see much difference between a poorly kerned system font and a really expensive 'pro' font painstakingly hand kerned over months or years. However, when people are encountering a brand on a whole, having a uniform, polished look across media dramatically affects how it comes across, and that is hugely consequential. Think about how differently car dealership websites land than car manufacturer websites? And they're selling literally the same fucking product! A knowledgeable designer could write an essay on the difference in the two designs while a layperson would likely shrug and say "it looks... smoother I guess?"

It's really no different than performance for developers. Most people don't consciously notice the difference between a website that's really really streamlined and optimized and one that's just kind of okay... But the meh site will not inspire positive feelings about the experience. If your competitors do better, you likely won't be the one getting their business even if the customer didn't consciously reject your business because of it.
This reminds me of a contract I did. End users had complained that they were getting more spam after signing up for an account. I thought it must be a coincidence.

I jump into the firebase console and look at the security rules.

allow read, write: if true;

Turns out that the whole customer database was wide open. After fixing it up, I tried to work out how things had ended up like this. The entire system had been written by an intern...
Ask HN: Any tech lawyers up in Toronto?
I'm a U.S. citizen [who happens to be in Nicaragua] and worked for a Toronto-based cryptocurrency company (for 1.5 years), who recently underwent a merger and I got laid off. No big deal, we saw it coming.

I received this in an email, "In accordance with your contractor agreement, your final pay will include a 14 day notice period payment. "

Now, I haven't received any sort of last payment from the company and they aren't responding to emails.

So I'm under the impression that the money isn't going to just show up in my mailbox or bank account without me doing something proactive.

I've also received a number of shares into this new arrangement they have, but not sure if I can even redeem them.

I also had a Bonusly account through the company, that I never was given access for, which was worth a few hundred bucks I guess.

All in all, I guess that the value of what I'm owed is a bit over $10K (checks combined w/ stock shares), so I'd like to figure out what I can do.
This was all the rage back in 1999. ISPs we’re giving away “free” eMachines with the purchase of a 3 year MSN dialup subscription.
They kinda did already. A portion of one of the latest season's episodes (aptly named Deep Learning) had the script of the final 5 minutes prompt engineered by Matt and Trey.
Often reading HN. Not kidding, I spend down time surfing sites containing everything from news to coding advice. At any time I'm either developing, learning more about development, or learning more about industry happenings. Once in a while I'll check in on something like Facebook, but that's only about five minutes a day.
It may be well designed etc etc etc...but I actually found it a bit hard to read. Maybe the letter spacing is too wide? So it's fractionally too hard to distinguish spaces from intra-word spacing.

Also...look under "Type usage" - they are using an image of a table instead of a table? Good lord.
> JS framework written in Rust

This isn't far from reality these days
The right meeting decisions in a few cases can make or break. The hard part is determining which those are, and validating it years later.
The key is to use an external SSD via USB. Much better bang for your buck than Apple’s storage pricing.
Beautiful
, clean and definately a complete body of work. However I cannot say I like it. It reminds me of the text governments use on informing rules and regulations, visa rules, duty free information and so on.

For publication, Garamond Premier Pro is my favorite of them all: https://fontsgeek.com/fonts/Garamond-Premier-Pro-Regular
Absolutely this. I don't think I've said an honest two sentences at work my entire professional career.
I think using biofuels is highly likely to be a net detriment to help climate change unless your fuels are synthesized in very specific conditions. Most likely outcome is marginal changes in emissions and large increase in starvation. http://theoildrum.com/node/3495
I was waiting for a conspiracy theory to be woven in there, and you didn’t disappoint.
The tail on the lower case "a" is even worse imho. Really hurts readability because it barely looks like an "a" any more - more like an upside down "e".
+1 for BeeLink stuff. I was surprised how tiny they were and yet still powerful!
People said that about VR/AR, and then Apple came up with something ridiculously bad compared to the Quest.
Having to spend $200 per 8GB of RAM and $200 per 256GB of storage like it's still 2012 pretty much destroys any value proposition from Apple.
Masters of Doom is a great a book on this topic.
I'm not going to comment on the downvotes as that would be boring. Instead, I would like to ask for feedback on my comment above.

What specifically do people disagree with?
I find it easier to write the documentation first, mark it as "not implemented yet" and then do the code. Added benefit if people accidentally stumbles on the documentation and have suggestions before the code is written :-)
I agree, the only thing that's still better is google maps reviews for restaurants, just because of the sheer amount of users compared to yelp (worldwide). But I really dislike google maps reviews UI
I remember as a little kid, watching the Miami Vice television show introduction, seeing the Jai Alai players. It was exotic.
If, let's just say, every little (feature of the checkout software) helps — if you follow my drift — the architect of that system is a mate of mine. I've never worked with him (I know him through music stuff, not tech stuff), but he's a deeply thoughtful guy.
Most work from the Tribler team I remember really enjoying & being excited for. Forget specifics now though. A lot of interesting advanced ways to use & enhance BitTorrent, since mid 2000's.
“Real” tennis I think it goes by
Google also gives (gave?) employees root access on the work machines (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32307102) and an incredibly fast internet connection. As a non-employee, you only need to walk into the lobby, sit on a couch meant for visitors, connect to the unsecured GoogleGuest Wi-Fi network and enjoy that absurd speed. I live very close to Google offices and I occasionally bring my laptop there since my home internet has terrible upload speeds.
In operations and supply chains it is not hard to find *A* solution. Operators literally make these decisions manually every day without the need for any computer.

The main challenge is to optimize these decisions. With optimality guarantees. Consistently. Day in, day out, with various uncertainties.

That is what math optimization has been doing for decades.

And no, RL is nowhere to be seen in production, except from some consulting projects that are abandoned.
I think I can fix that by shipping a bottle release - "brew install simonw/llm/llm" currently attempts to compile Pydantic's Rust extensions, which means it runs incredibly slowly.

I built a bottle for it which installs much faster, but you currently have to download the file from https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2023/llm--0.5.arm64_... - I've not yet figured out how to get that to install when the user runs "brew install simonw/llm/llm" - issue here: https://github.com/simonw/llm/issues/102
Butterfly Is the First U.S. Insect to Be Wiped Out by Humans
Energy Startup Says It Has Achieved Geothermal Tech Breakthrough
The first rule of programming is make it work.

The last rule of programming is make it secure.

At least this appears to be the case from observation.
if you don't care about having it all fit inside a case, then the NUC isn't really doing anything for you. just grab any motherboard you want and build yourself a heap of parts like my NAS: https://ibb.co/6W7MkL4
Both a highly capable app like I described and a hotel staffed with friendly and hospitable humans can coexist to accommodate any type of guest.
The people leaving Twitter want:

1. Both high quality and high quantity posts instantly available

2. Reasonable API access, maybe not directly but they want their niche workflows to be supported

3. Clear and consistent moderation. Eliminate disruptive content while giving reasonable people a clear understanding of whether something will be removed before they post it.

Threads has made vague promises to these three but not yet delivered.
IMHO the customer specific stuff should have been forked out into a separate repo instead of cluttering up the main one
The scammers play into longing for easy money and a fantasy of jet-setting life.

I got contacted by a scammer via text message and trolled them for many days before tipping my hand. It was a very slick and sophisticated soft sell, a continuous invitation to ask the scammer about the opportunity to get in on their supposed inside tips and big wins.
The move from Meta is pretty obvious, they just want to attract the best AI researchers, they know that this generation of AI is not it, and they know that the best AI researchers want to work on open sourced stuff.
So the simplest most common email scam for anyone with a work email. It's not sophisticated or targeted, if anything you do matters to anyone you will get an email like that.

It's really on you for not checking the email instead of replying to basically a horny single in your area that could maybe give you a promotion.
When gasoline was priced in dollars per liter and the stations all jacked up the cost compared to price in gallons, the citizenry interpreted the units as a scam. Of course it's the people who scam not the numbers but US business will always take the opportunity to rip you. And we will be back to English units for a couple more generations.
Good question.

First & second order covers most cases, third order applications include things with 'jerk', sticky flows through small channels, ..

There are other examples offered here:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Are_there_examples_of_thir...

https://www.quora.com/Why-dont-differential-equations-of-phy...

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2167292/are-there-e...
Adrien Brault on Twitter gave me this recipe, which worked perfectly: https://gist.github.com/adrienbrault/b76631c56c736def9bc1bc2...
I’ve seen so many of these on Twitter since chat GPT came out.

> Look at this amazing capability, it gets it perfectly! (screenshot of interaction with clear flaws/outright wrong answer)
>90% of people watching it only care because it's something to gamble on.

This is now the raison d'etre of the vast majority of esports (especially the non-tier-1 events/leagues)
Proposed law would require “country of origin” label in app stores
Why Windows is still better than Linux (2021)
if you're using these in any sort of volume, then the $4-500 of savings is significant.

also, if you're not using MacOS then having hardware that's actually compatible with your OS is nice. all respect to the asahi linux folks, but i'm not going to give that to my customers.
Please share, what is the conspiracy theory you reference?

Did you know the term "conspiracy theory" was literally invented by the CIA to smear anyone who dared to question the official narrative about the JFK assassination?

There is ample evidence in recently released documents on the JFK assassination that Lee Harvey Oswald was working with the CIA before the assassination. [1][2]

Does anyone honestly believe that Oswald acted alone? Do you still believe that we invaded Iraq because they had WMD?

[1] https://theintercept.com/2022/12/19/lee-harvey-oswald-cia-ls...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/16/us/politics/biden-jfk-ass...
You speak of parents who have landed themselves in prison and become addicted to drugs as if they have no responsibility for these things. "Parental involvement" will always be waiting right where they left it if ever those parents can manage to stop doing drugs or going to prison.
You... don't?

You use Arduino for their super good support and documentation while you're building your device. It's only for prototypes.

You can buy $4 boards off Aliexpress, but then you have to deal with poor documentation, clone boards, buggy code, etc.

I lost 4 days trying to make an SPI screen just "work", until I realized my clone board was outputting the signals offset due to a hardware bug.
I had to work in an environment like that. It sucked. Then there were the corporate internets the blocked certain sites to prevent employees from surfing the internet too much. Those were annoying as well. Did they really add any security, tough to say because those places I mentioned also didn't tend to hire and retain the best and the brightest. Most of those types of people wanted more autonomy.