skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> seamless and just works

Just say “better.” Gnome and KDE are decidedly not perfect, but they are both quite usable even by casual windows-only non-techies.

FWIW I’ve been using Linux as my primary desktop OS for more than 20 years—it does no one any good to oversell it. Touchpad scrolling rate is still broken on Gnome/Firefox. Angels have to sing (or use xorg) to make s3 suspend work. Fedora auto-update can break if there’s “too many” packages to update. Touchpad scrolling can be misinterpreted as swipe-left or swipe-right by KDE on some hardware.

The point is, if you bang against any of these sorts of issues in Windows, you’re frequently stymied. On Linux, you can either fix it, or at least route around the damage with an alternative.
> This is the only way to offer the high quality of service we have

The other way would be to make drivers pay for the advantages that public transportation provides them: Significantly less traffic congestion, etc. Per-km, per-kg charges for cars could be calibrated to completely cover the cost of transit, since many people are too snobbish to ever ride it no matter what the financial situation.
Another big impact of Uber/Lyft was safety of getting around in poorer foreign countries, particularly ones where you don't speak the language. It's much more safe and consistent to take an Uber at night in Colombia as a foreigner
This is the big part:

> Little Boy had around 140 pounds of uranium, Fat Man contained about 14 pounds of plutonium and reactor number four had about 180 tons of nuclear fuel.
Only tangentially related, but when you have (a) a company that might want to lay off a percentage of workers and (b) don't want the negative press of said layoffs, then a return-to-the-office policy is an effective tool in the corporate toolbelt.
But ByteDance has actually churned out one wildly successful product after another — among them its initial hit, Toutiao, the most popular news app in China, which today has 320 million monthly active users, and Douyin, a short-video app that preceded TikTok. Respectively, Toutiao and Douyin account for 20% and 60% of the company’s total advertising revenues.

Harvard Business Review did a case on how ByteDance operates: https://hbr.org/2022/02/how-bytedance-became-the-worlds-most...

They make a lot of apps. Most don't work. They move on. When one shows signs of working, they pour resources into it.
> We've all seen capable drones from Amazon's marketing

In fairness, if you've only seen it in marketing materials, you haven't seen it.
I feel a bit similarly. I'm torn these having very cool and interesting security properties but this way of using computers, for a lack of a better description, is just not what I'm after.
Just unfortunate that it does not work across windows for the window hoarders :)
I remember a HN post where someone used git history to make pictures out of their github tracker. Seems like a silly thing for companies to pay attention to. I'm pretty sure you can make up old history if you want, too -- just turn yourself into a commit rockstar!
Data was the new oil, and now AI is the new plastic. Get ready for the rush of cheap mass manufactured plastic content.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but the amount of code you write bears little on productivity. Planning, strategy and understanding the work that needs to be done is way more important.
Basically this. So, fair that I shouldn't just be calling for moderating the language. I'm more wanting specific language with a distaste for unfocused skepticism. I say this as a skeptic. :D
There is heptaood, https://heptapod.net/, a friendly fork of gitlab that supports mercurial. PyPy and others are using the free instance at https://foss.heptapod.net/public
They do share a theme slightly. Surrender to the state of the world, stoic acceptance and such.
> Do you think that people go to jail or even get anywhere near the DAs desk for a parking ticket?

A parking ticket has an identification system via a license plate (or VIN number); so they can be identified later.

Jumping a fare, you've not given any identifying information until detained.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fare_evasion#Civil_and_crimina...

But it is criminalizing the poor; Someone who isn't paying $2.50 may not have $50, unless they're doing it for the fun. At best you block them from the transit system which stops them from their job, a place to sleep; at worst, it's another fee when they get arrested for something else
A few days ago I was searching for some information about a CSS problem I was having. I saw a promising result on a reputable looking webpage. As soon as I started unpacking the example code a little modal window popped up saying this was AI powered and touted it as some revolutionary assistant.

First things first, using AI to generate CSS advice is probably the most false positive laden use-case I can imagine. Especially because mistakes in CSS aren’t always readily apparent.

But more importantly, there’s really nothing stopping folks from omitting the fact that the content on the page was AI generated. It’s the new hotness right now, so I can understand why they say so, but I can’t help but think they’ll start hiding this fact.
This! But also check out sidebery, in my opinion is much better in every way to tree style
Are you suggesting that flatMap is used all the time in JavaScript?
I wonder what will happen when all those OSS forges ran by non-profit organizations will crumble under the load.

In the end, only for-profit businesses remain in the race, Gitlab, Github, Bitbucket, ...
Interesting angle. This kind of robotic tracking has also helped me with personal aspirations (exercise a key one). I suppose it is all in how you use it. In fact, I even stopped using it at one point for another activity because it was making it feel like a chore. For that one it is more satisfying to allow myself to skip it.
Cloud-Nomad Architecture: What You Need to Know
Anything that does not have to be constantly and continuously pumped with more energy in order to not immediately crash is going to be more efficient than the alternative.

A paraglider drone with a tiny parachute would be more efficient than any 3/4/6/8 motor drone copter
This makes no sense unless you're going to redefine what management means.

> If one tech bro can organise a thousand CPUs globally, what is his manager organising?

A programmer leveraging distributed compute is nothing like coordinating an organization.
Whitewater Rafting on the Selway River in Idaho
> ML is the most natural application of dod principles, no?

Yes, the principles are helpful and natural in implementing the code that will execute the ML model pass with no unnecessary overhead. But in terms of writing the code that configures and defines a model and the pre- + post-processing, and to some extent dataloaders, it's natural to use objects + inheritance. Now I don't actually think using objects and inheritance are antithetical to DOD but it seems that DOD often gets presented that way.
Tabs are the RAM of my TODO list, my README bookmark folder is the disk. Every so many months I purge the README folder, while regretting never really learning Blender, GIMP, SVG, d3, Godot, Rust, Julia, React, Svelte, CSS, shaders, machine learning, wavelets, Ableton, ....
What is your measure of stability? If its divorce rates then yeah countries where divorce is harder have lower rates of divorce.

The obvious conclusion is just ban all divorces and now we have perfectly stable marriages.
> I think the most effective argument against Wansley and Weinstein is that the markets may reset after the companies involved collapse

The point they are making is that even if the companies fail to corner the market, the VCs can (and do) exit with a profit before the collapse. Therefore, predatory pricing is a profitable strategy for some actors. This line of argument essentially defeats the claim that losses needs to be recouped for the strategy to be profitable, and therefore, is rare [1], as the FTC claims:

> This strategy can only be successful if the short-run losses from pricing below cost will be made up for by much higher prices over a longer period of time after competitors leave the market.

[1]: https://www.ftc.gov/advice-guidance/competition-guidance/gui...
The incentives often don't line up. And there can sometimes be a sticky status quo that resists change. You may also get politically subverted or just plain lied to. It's hard to predict these during a job interview.

The incentive problem started when it became better to change jobs for higher compensation. Working less intensely for the same pay while you secretly manage life problems or just play around is also appealing. Your earnings are also typically soft capped as an individual hard worker. And then there's no real security to back you up even if you decide to get invested - you can still be let go for no fault of your own.

The economy can't keep asking people to stay in these kinds of jobs while also eroding their standard of living at their mostly-static income levels. It's too easy to feel like a sucker being a hard worker and this is a recent cultural shift (within the last two decades IMO).
A History of Artificial Pets
AFAIK, Firefox Developer Edition is currently just a repackaging of Firefox Beta and doesn’t have different devtools. It used to be a rebranding of Firefox Aurora (an alpha release channel between Firefox Nightly and Beta, now retired) with a different theme and a few different devtool setting changes.
"The name Adam is derived from adaptive moment estimation.", https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.6980
The goal of spy satellites is to count hardware and look at infrastructure, etc. The goal of hiding a camera in a public restroom is prurient behavior. Two very different purposes and goals. But both are spying.

It really doesn't matter what motivates opt-out or mandatory telemetry; it's spying. It's wrong because it violates user privacy, regardless of the motive.
One thing I didn't see discussed anywhere in this entire thread is how impossible it was to get a cab at night (at least in Boston). On a Friday or Saturday night it was absolutely impossible to get a cab past 11:30pm. When I would rarely find one, they would ask for $50 cash to go to the destination, which would have been a $10 ride if metered. I frequently walked 5 miles home from a party at 1am. I have even heard stories of girls sleeping over at random guys apartments since it was likely safer than walking home alone. All of this completely disappeared when ride sharing appeared.
> If a program can’t pay for itself

The problem is that the most valuable benefits of public transit, such as reduced congestion, reduced pollution, saved lives, etc., aren't priced in such a way that the transit system can charge the beneficiaries.

Instead, the way we run things, transit systems are stuck having to recover their operating expenses from the kind people who volunteer to ride them and thereby create all the real benefits.
You do! But it offers quite a fluid API making it pretty simple.
You can see my attempt at a torchesque API here: https://twitter.com/fleetwood___/status/1679889450623459328
There's also this site which has a few different README templates: https://www.readme-templates.com/
Maybe 'Image Quilting for Texture Synthesis and Transfer', Efros and Freeman [0]?

There's some neural / patch blends from 2016 that I always thought were interesting (CNN-MRF) [1], and I think there's a renaissance in those approaches recently (combined with other generators / prompts etc.). You can also argue ViT is "patch based" in a major sense... I am still a big believer in patch + combinations + warping (non-parameteric synthesis) generally, some cool older work from Apple on that in speech land [2].

I go as far as arguing BPE / wordpiece / sentencepiece / tokenizers in general are key for modern approaches (as were word vocab selections in the earlier days of NMT), because they find 'good enough' patches (tokens) for a higher level model to stitch together while still having some creativity / generalization available... but we focus on the model details rather than the importance of the tokenizer (and tokenizer distribution) in publication many times.

[0] http://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~efros/research/quilting.htm...

[1] https://github.com/chuanli11/CNNMRF

[2] https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/siri-voices
Just say No!
But they have to make up that data! Because the work they are doing now was based on a other trial where they made up data, so you have to fix this data to match what was expected from the previous studies. Of course we need to protect their right to make up data. /s
Show HN: A multi-protocol, event-native edge/service proxy
Not everything that matters can be measured.
If we have to solve the problem of homelessness before we can have decent public transit... we're going to be waiting a very long time for decent public transit.
You think Microsoft did this "to put OSS into the hands of everyone"? I think it's despicable that so much OSS is on a Microsoft platform considering how hostile Microsoft was towards OSS.
Okay, I'll go burn some money on bad investments. You shit in a diaper 10 hours a day (because if you go to the bathroom too many times you get fired) for the privilege of sliding further and further into debt in an attempt to live on $15/hr. We'll see who the bigger loser is.
Doom Grub Theme: A Grub2 Theme in the Style of Doom
fyi - there's an option in Gmail to change it back to text instead of icons.
The Pulp Magazines Project
>All these “I work better from home” folks never mention how they prove it to the company.

How do those in the office prove it? Are you looking at their screen/output over their shoulder? The only physically noticeable measure of "productivity" in an office is time spent at your desk. Any other measure of productivity has absolutely nothing to do with being in an office or working from home.
Quite frankly I was happy with the arbitrary html part more often than it annoyed me. E.g. when I had to add a table that was just slightly out of markdowns comfort zone (merged cells).

Those who read my readmes were always happy with the content and never complaines about the html.
I think the Whisper example is your best bet! https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/tree/master/example...
There'd be much to say about your points, but... you're missing the entire point of the article and rhapsodize on the title instead. Because the article isn't, at all, using the word "theatre" in a derogatory sense.

It's specifically talking about "performing" work is important, how to avoid it from sliding into bs-ing instead, and how consulting work is related to improv theatre.
Honestly, it's probably a better idea to keep the repo synced in multiple places, not including local/dev
I actually think the reputation of early Bosch FI systems being horrible is pretty overblown. I haven't had a hard time diagnosing L-jet issues (I haven't touched D-jet). It's pretty simple and while you can't plug a scan tool in, you can use an oscilloscope to see what's going wrong. Also it's so simple, there are really only a handful of things to check. Some friends and I do endurance racing in a Fiat with the original L-jet system and it has been reliable.

I can understand a shop not wanting to touch them because you'll likely lose money tracking down issues as opposed to plugging in a scan tool, but for a hobbyist it's really not that hard.
In my city, the dominant user of the rail service ate homeless people getting out of the weather and into a climate controlled space other than the library.

Free fares will probably simply add more of those and add a few ticket checkers into the mix when they lose their jobs.
Even this is probably an over exaggerated example. Although to your point with thousands of hospitals, medical centers and imaging centers in the US there are enough to consider it a common occurrence at a community level.

Another example would be systems setup for CAD. Certain levels of CAD require certified video drivers in order to unsure tolerances are met. Error introduced at this level destroys product and possibly people.
> You don't always need multi-threaded programming but there are times you do!

Are you a working web developer? If so, can you give a concrete example of a web application you've worked on that required multithreading on the web server?

I've needed it client-side to avoid freezing the UI with heavy computations, but in all my years working on server-side code (in PHP, Java, Ruby, JavaScript, and Python) I have never wanted to manually create a new thread on the server, even in Java where I could have!

> I've also noticed that devs that understand how to do multi-threaded programming are the most proficient.

Knowing how to do multi-threaded is different from insisting on using a language that supports multi-threading on a project that will never require multi-threading. I've noticed that devs that understand their project requirements and don't engineer for problems that the project will never face are the most proficient.
Imagine a programming language with the YAML syntax. You get modern CI/CD.

Though, Gitlab CI is less powerful than Github Actions. With Gitlab CI, you can only have one pipeline per repository, and you have to play with conditional includes based on some CI variable to implement multiple pipelines.

While with Github Actions, you can simply have multiple workflows, listening to different kind of events (webhook, issues/pull requests events, ...)
Show HN: Practical Hacking Inside VR
Hey guys, I've been working on a open source VR editor, that is an editor that you view in VR (not a mirror of your pc) while you interact physically live with the 3d objects you create and use your keyboard, mouse, tablet and so on for input (plus the headset controllers of course). I've made a video where I try using it to create a few things without much preparation as you will see [0]. I've been meaning to do this for a while and I think it turned out not half bad. It's in a very early stage so quite a few things are broken and a few are quite ridiculous hacks but I decided to show it to people now that is kind of usable instead of polishing it for a long time like I usually do. Here are a few details of how it works, I created an emacs/chrome-like window in VR as an editor and send input to it from an electron app running on my laptop. The editor sends the code back whenever I evaluate it and it gets written to a file in the src directory of the project, which uses webpack's hot module replacement to update the program live. I also integrated a basic version of copilot code completion (using the ridiculous hack I talked about above) and to minimize the times I have to remove the headset it also has a draw mode so I can write and doodle with my wacom tablet since I need to write and sketch when solving problems. It's open source like I mentioned [1] so feel free to experiment and contribute if you like. Any questions? I'm happy to elaborate.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2uiSF48bNY

[1] https://github.com/felipereigosa/kairon
The resolution to burning it down is replacing it with something that works.

Quality, human curated, perhaps niche, search is what we should be encouraging and paying for with actual money, and not by renting our brains out.
>selling vaccines

To the governments, who have no money but from tax payers.

This I think was the most egregious marketing lie in recent history. That everyone who was jumping up and down for their vaccine was under an impression it was free.

The same people rabbling all day about "transfer of wealth" saw no issue there.

I don't have a stance on covid or vaccines that is terribly unique. But that most people overlooked the massive economic reasons to move in the direction that it did, annoys me.
Replying to my own comment instead of editing it...

There seems to be a common statement of it would be a nightmare if two people are spending out of the same account. This is were a budget comes in. My wife and I have been monthly budgeting for most of our marriage and I think it is an essential tool for a few reasons:

1. Unless you plan what you are going to spend (even with one person) how do you know you'll have enough in your accounts to handle both mandatory and discretionary spending?

2. Spending it all on paper, together, before the month starts lets you have money discussions without the stress of already having or wanting to spend the money immediately.

3. It gives you an overall picture of your spending vs savings vs charity.

4. It helps you remember to pay those occasional bills, like property taxes (for those like us without mortgages where you pay them yourself instead of paying into escrow).

Not having a budget is just as strange to me as having separate finances.
Bitbucket dropped support due to to few people using it. Might be better to be agnostic about client tools?
I see the browsers they use.
Yes but that same service can be provided by taxi+website, which exists and functions acceptably in some places (Rome, Paris).
If they get a keyboard option with proper TrackPoint (including the design and positioning of the buttons), they can convert some ThinkPad devotees.
I moved from Azure to AWS.

App Insights, DevOps pipelines, and WebApp slots look like future tech when compared to codepipelines and x-ray.

DevOps in particular feels so close to being a really great tool. Not having to jump between 8 different UIs to deploy something is magical. If only they'd polish the rough bits and invest a bit more into it.
> getting the vaccine basically led to people not getting symptomatic covid. Folks got what they thought of as a bad cold.

Am I mistaken in thinking that "bad cold" == symptomatic? Doesn't symptomatic just mean had symptoms? It sounds like you're talking about severe covid.
Except people really do internalize lag as "normal behavior". Back when PC monitors were stuck at 60Hz, people would unironically claim that "the human eye can't see more than 60 fps". Of course they changed their tune after experiencing lower input lag
Crumble under the load of.... Storing text? That everyone has a local offline copy of everywhere?
https://archive.is/zQ4EI
> Goodbye reimbursement from the train company because he's also not printing a receipt.

He can write a receipt. Did you ask him to?
Gita: Manage multiple Git repositories with sanity
That's just a scam.

My first job was working on payment systems in taxis. The biggest issue we had? Taxi drivers ripping them out so they can charge cash.

I'm 20years out of the taxi industry but I wish Uber and Lyft would kill that industry completely. It's what I call a scam industry. Like car dealerships the entire industry is focused on squeezing every dollar they can from every transaction. It's horrendous. I also can't believe anyone would defend taxis here. Naivety I assume.
Meow: A viewer for Mastodon export files
read back what you have written here in a couple of days with a clear head, you are talking total nonsense man
Adding my anecdotes: on an M2 mac mini

- chrome 114: 472 ± 30
- firefox 115: 390 ± 22
- firefox 117: 420 ± 12
...and still not available in the Nordics.

I'm still waiting here, money in hand, Framework. Could you please let me give it to you?

(Directly, I don't want to use a dropshipping middleman)
The documentation for DBNull [1] seems to have some idea that DBNull represents something entirely different.

> Do not confuse the notion of null in an object-oriented programming language with a DBNull object. In an object-oriented programming language, null means the absence of a reference to an object. DBNull represents an uninitialized variant or nonexistent database column.

For all the explanation though, I couldn't fathom what its talking about.

[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.dbnull?v...
By that logic why make any laws? Why make murder illegal if some people are going to kill anyways?