skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The reason the app store is full of freemium apps stuffed with ads and microtransactions is because that's overwhelmingly the thing that consumers choose

But that's the problem with a generalist store. They're leaving too much money on the table to exclude those things, so they include them, and then the store is full of crap and you can't trust anything.

If anyone could start a store then you could have a store operated by a tiny startup with low overhead who only has to pay one or two salaries and can therefore be sustainable with only a tiny fraction of the market, because they have a niche. Which enables the quality store to exist, and serve all of the customers who prefer that.
There's a special place in hell for Substack writers that regurgitate other people's journalism under flashy headlines without contributing anything new.
Anti-trust not anti trust
He now have the perfect opportunity to write an story of sentient book souls being devoured by evil AIs.
HashiCorp switching to BSL shows a need for open charter companies
Finally I will never again be fed with the content by the creepiest and weirdest social media influencer.
> This basically reaffirms my belief that Stephen King a midwit

Good argument against training AI on his books then, I guess.
PM is not the boss of the executive according to the constitution*. The fact that traditionally and more recently the President follows the whim of the PM does not negate the text that identifies the elected President as the head of the executive.

* https://www.mea.gov.in/Images/pdf1/Part5.pdf
Walk Paris in August when the weather is good, the days are long, and it's empty, for enhanced experience

I once had a long train 'connection' from Gare du Nord to Gare d'Austerlitz, early in the morning, which I decided to walk. Magical.

I took a photo of the Arc de Triomphe in the sunrise without any cars on the Place d'Etiole. Literally zero. I walked across to the Arc.

I have treasured photo, blown up to a poster, which hung on my wall for many years as a student.
Mullen’s First Production Vehicle Rolls Off Assembly Line
This was still a problem in the 80s after mandatory seatbelts came in and cars got narrower. Some people say that 3 across is too hard with a normal car but I’ve found that even with a small car you can get 3 in without much trouble if you just get narrower seats.
I use Nanazip which is a version of 7zip with modernization (although its development seems to have slowed considerably so I may switch back to regular 7zip) because I do run into compressed file other than zips. When windows 11 support for rar and 7z comes out I may stop using it.
It certainly is a high margin item, but I think that soda is still the reigning king of high margin items.
The important point here is long distance on soft ground.

Don't run on a road or asphalt path or other hard surfaces. Your knees are NOT built for that, at least not without degradation you will regret in a few decades.
Did you look at other groups which have done something similar? Im curious to see how this type of project works even if not all of them are for me. So many people bemoan the structure of news and media businesses but I wonder if there needs to be more of a cycle of business destruction and creation to keep things from getting ossified and having the wrong priorities.
Seeing this reminded me of https://escapecollective.com/ which came from the implosion of Cycling tips after being purchased by Outside.
its a list with each prime index contains a one/true value
With this event being, what, the tenth time?
And even worse, hardly any nutrients compared to other leaf veggies.
Steven King writes "I have said in one of my few forays into nonfiction (On Writing) that you can’t learn to write unless you’re a reader, and unless you read a lot. AI programmers have apparently taken this advice to heart."

Reminds me of: After his father angrily asks him how he learned to use drugs, the son shouts, "You, alright?! I learned it by watching you!" As the father recoils from realizing the error of his own ways, a narrator then intones, "Parents who use drugs, have children who use drugs."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_learned_it_by_watching_you!
Putin had nothing to do with this, I'm sure...
I second this recommendation, but I also was coming from a vim background, not a modeless editor like textmate or vscode ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4vIBijzg4w
- your critique is both vague, but at the same time touches a sensitive area, implying a wrongdoing by the tool authors that can't be refuted or fixed easily. What specifically bothers you? Consider that active Twitter discussions uncover and point out troublesome issues almost faster than the general public can understand and digest.

- assuming you found an egregious issue, do you also double down on maintaining that the tool is 'deliberately designed to make negative uses easy'? How so?

- I disagree with the 'safety catches' metaphor and would offer the 'hammer' metaphor instead.

- Actually, with the rapid development in this field I expect that anyone will be able to locally prompt for any content, even movies, soon, limited only by people's taste and imagination; with this realization I don't think I will follow up on this discussion that will surely be outdated in a minute.
As a consumer, I couldn't care less.

As a software developer who interfaces with Twilio API from time to time, sure, okay I get it. It makes the pitch easier to whoever needs to sign off on the project that requires an AI service. I do feel like the nutrition label metaphor is a bit _much_, however.
I think bacon, cheese, and tomatoes are generally included as well
I've got plenty of stories about tailwind not scaling if you have the time ;)
Server-side has the best chance of providing an ideal experience in the worst case situation: The user's very first visit to the website on a mobile device in a crappy network environment.

Information-theoretic, there is no way you can beat SSR in this scenario. You will not win against a machine that returns a complete HTML document on the very first request if your users only receive hints regarding where to actually find the princess upon their first request.

I look at every client-side argument along the axis of "well now that the universe is already here, we can get started". Server-side explains how that universe got into existence in the first place. Your fancy incremental update shadow DOM system cannot work until it is already bootstrapped via some means.
Same here. This poor site is getting pounded. Any alternatives available in case archive goes down?
Totally agree, and it’s actually trivially easy to do now if you use Maturin and GitHub Actions. Whereas I think it was much more arduous a few years ago (although I can’t say I tried then so I’m not sure).
I use it to summarize things and ask questions, find better variable names and to quickly diagnose errors in an area I don't have experience in.

That's it
They just want to sell a bunch of houses quickly, not to create perfect houses. Good enough is quite literally good enough for them.

There will be compromises because they build for average buyer, not for you.

And people that are looking for a house usually want to move there as soon as possible, doing custom not only means you need to pay more but that you also have to wait longer and pay for the place you're currently living extra year or two.

Ideally all would start from some common plans then architect would customize it based on the future home owner input but that's frankly expensive.
The main issue is that when you start a new project almoust any approach is "simple enough". The problem is that an approach that is good long term will look like an overkill complexity on the first stages of a project. I have my creations like SwarmESB and swarm communication idea as a good example... could make the microservice systems simpler but only after a level of complexity and then it is too late to invest in a new approach. Therefore such technologies will not be addopted instead other complex workarounds become succesfull..
> So you are saying poor people should only eat bad, cheap food? What's your point exactly?

1. A bunch of the stuff on that list is literally garbage junk food.

2. The issue isn't "what people eat," it's "what taxpayer should pay for." I think what he's saying is that the government shouldn't be paying for unnecessary luxuries for people who can't afford them. If you're on food stamps, they should be good for healthy but modest food.

There are obviously complicated systems at grocery stores designed to check for food stamp eligibility (like they have to determine what food is subject to sales tax). It would be very good PR for the program if the government had a list of foods that were ineligible to be purchased due to their high-end/luxury nature.

3. I don't know what the typical food stamp benefit is, but my intuition is that if you used it to buy crab legs you'd run out of food before the next benefit period, because they're expensive per calorie. That then implies that this person who was using them to buy crab legs doesn't actually need the benefits.
Yes, there is some over-hypeness, and it is winding down. But winding down graph doesn't equate to demand shrinking. It could also be a self-correction temporarily and go back to its true demand and resume climbing. For a product like chatGPT, it is normal to fit into this pattern. The number is merged from two sources: hype traffic and real demand traffic. I believe the real demand is going up.
Good training makes a huge difference. Ditto experience.

Hard to quickly judge: How much applicable good training/experience does the law officer who is giving you directions (in an emergency) have? And ditto for the command structure behind him, which is most likely where the "direct people to go $This way, not $That way" decisions are coming from.
> trusted, close relations: family members, old friends, life partners, dear neighbors, etc.

Can we reasonably assume that somebody who pours themselves into open-source to the point of being visibly emotionally upset over the fact that somebody else made a package/service that goes in a direction you don't agree with most likely means you're sacrificing time otherwise spent in exactly what you mentioned: maintaining/having relationships with family members, old friends, life partners, etc.

How can you maintain a healthy social life + fitness life + professional career life if the bulk of your free time is spent caring so passionately about open source you're willing to argue/dedicate a ton of your free time to it?

I'm willing to bet people who operate at this level don't take care of themselves in at least one other area, whether it be non-PC-related relationships, fitness, social life, etc.
"they expect one of us the the wreckage, brother"))))
The (2022) in the title refers to the date when the article was published. I didn't add that (2022) so it must have been the HN mods.
Prigozhin will either be dead or there will be a second coup
The argument that 'simplistic' technologies don't scale is dismissive of the robust, enterprise-level applications that have been successfully built without heavy frontend frameworks. It's not the tool that scales; it's the architecture and the development practices.
Stormfront has had its domain name taken away by its registrar, and I believe kiwifarms did as well (cloudflare says they provided ddos protection but not hosting, but other sites I see claim that cloudflare was also their dns provider)
A guarantee is just another promise. So, you have a promise from the bank and a promise from the government.
Listened to a news story at some point over the last couple years, as there were lettuce shortages in North America due to the drought in the US Southwest, and one quote stayed in my mind:

"Lettuce is perhaps the most expensive way to transport refrigerated water from farm to table."

Iceberg lettuce is the worst, as it has almost no nutritional value.
Its like nutrition facts but for AI /s
Yeah, no.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m very unhappy with the state of today’s JS ecosystem but if you’re building a project of any complexity ditching absolutely everything that can help you along the way is not going to work out. Nor is it going to work out for the person taking over the code from you.

Every now and then I’ll be putting together a tiny landing page type thing and write it all in vanilla JS and it’s bliss. But as soon as I start dealing with non-trivial state you’d better believe I’m reaching for a framework.
There were no barricades...

There were downed power lines in the roads, blocking traffic. Many of these power lines were in the outbound lanes.

The AP article cited for the claim that there were barricades shows officers directing evacuees around a downed power line while utility workers try to remove it from the road.
You mean the zip feature built into Windows that will refuse to compress if there’s any file with non-Latin1 character in its name, and will garble Unicode filenames compressed on other platforms? No I’m not talking about Windows 2000, it’s the same in Windows 11.

For ~half of the world’s population it’s literally useless.
what are the odds this is a faked death so prigozhin can chill on a beach island somewhere?
I'm strong to the finish, cause I eats me spinach, I'm Popeye the Sailor Man!
Or perhaps Apple has really good lawyers, and whenever a case looks like it might set precedent they settle out of court?
Perhaps more to the point:

All these AI content generators are still early stage. So it's kind of wild west for the time being.

First cars were what? Horse carriage with an engine duct taped onto it? Only when they became more numerous, things like traffic rules, reliable brakes & steering etc became important.

We're in the engine-with-wheels stage. Have fun, be happy.
Black Hole Recoil: What Is the Maximum High-Energy Collision Kick?
Who promied what exactly. One president onetime said it was gone be "to cheap to meter" so now it can ne er be used because of "overpromise". Who gives a shit?

It delivers plent. And if we actually developed fission technology beyond the 1970 we could do so so much more.

Nuclear projects in Western nations done as low priority "keep the industry alive" individual projects are often late.

But historically when large amount of investment is made, you get very large amount of energy quickly.

Lets not pretend that every renewable project is perfectly on time on budget either. Its just that those are smaller and on project being late isn't news worthy.

India just finished reactors very cheaply. UAE and South Korea just showed an amazing buildout of nuclear that could be scaled to much larger easly.

Finlands project took a while and was expensive but now they have great reactor that produces lots of power for the next 80 years or more.

Frnace literally made its grid green in 20 years and they have had cheap energy since.

Fission is amazing, fusion is totally unneeded. Not using fission more is one of the dumbest things humanity ever did.
Iceberg absolutely has a flavor to me, and I enjoy it. It's slightly sweet, slightly grassy (in a good way). It is very mild, though, and easily hidden if you add other flavors to it.
Yes, like military strategy.
Wow. Stephen King wrote about my work. I’m a little star struck.

I didn’t have this on my 2023 bingo card.
That was known as a weregild. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weregild
The 2015 macbooks had a problem were certain battery batches were bad, and it was basically just a matter of time until it ballooned and became hazardous.
Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.00018
Could Sculptor Be Better, or Cheaper?
Chakras are real so as Kundalini [0]. However, these aren't physical in nature, rather, they are on subtle body of consciousness. Now, that's not possible to prove scientifically yet, but with your dedicated regular practice, you can experience them yourself as this guy on HN did [1] which inspired me to start my own exploration (back in 2014) and have intense experiences which remains with me.

0: https://www.amazon.in/Kundalini-untold-story-Om-Swami/dp/818...
1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6910041
> The decompression algo is free

Is the algorithm itself actually available somewhere? IIRC 7zip had compatibility issues with some RAR files out there that opens up just fine with WinRAR, so I assumed they had to figure out the algo themselves.
Just a wild guess, but If I were trying to find illegal immigrants, seeding a social graph with legal immigrants might be a good place to start. (This comment is in no way an endorsement of the methods or goals of ICE.)
nah

We can take bets, but I guess a spark plug must have gone jammed after clogs weren't oiled, so the diesel wouldn't ignited and the plane crashed.

indeed, the mechanics was on vacation in the UK to check out cathedrals in small towns.

These plane things are terribly unreliable.
Congrats on the slick design!

Ethnicity: American

What does that mean in latent space and does this mostly represent training bias?
Of course you're not doomed! Don't worry. You could always do a side project that uses containerization and cloud hosting.

My first dev job was over 15 years in bare-metal hosting (RHEL) and this was one of my biggest weaknesses too. I didn't get penalized too badly for it in the end. I even got an interview with a company that specialized in some kind of Kubernetes based product. I didn't get an offer from them but I did get an offer soon after that from a 100% AWS-hosted product company. It probably helped that I had so many years of development experience and had learned the basics of docker and containerization tech generally, so I understood what it can do for you and I was able to talk about that stuff intelligently. I had run into all the usual pitfalls in bare metal devops over the years so I was looking forward to moving to docker/cloud based stuff.

Over a year later I'm still a bit more rusty than most of my coworkers on AWS stuff. But you can pick it up. If you teach yourself how to use containerization (e.g. docker) and get a feel for what the advantages are, what problems it solves, to the point where you can talk convincingly about how you're exited to get a chance to use it, I think you'll come across ok.
Super Normal by Jasper Morrison and Naoto Fukasawa (2006)
You can also (in the UK at least) buy a second hand 'good brand' for about £20 from Facebook marketplace, or free if you're lucky.

You can't get one from eBay or a charity shop because ridiculously they're not allowed to sell them in case they're unsafe (eg they've been in an accident), but I imagine the actual risk to the child of gambling on a second hand one is miniscule.

We've had all ours second hand, 5 in total including ones bought for the grandparents cars, and we've spent less than £80 in total
> I’m something of a skeptic myself.

'AI skeptic' has changed meaning. It used to describe someone skeptical of the technical capability of AI or some aspect of it like LLMs, for example they were skeptical that it could do things like natural language or reasoning or whatever. Now it doesn't mean that anymore, and instead 'AI skeptic' describes someone who thinks that AI should be regulated, subjected to legal challenges, and should not be allowed to make medical or legal decisions, and that it would be bad if it takes jobs away from people.
Also the British news when money is spent on the poor: "Scamming Scavs with 17 Kids Showered with Tax-Payer's Money".

Most British news outlets really are a scourge on our society.
One of my favorite quotes is, "When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger." So pertinent, but also with so absurdly much imagery, symbolism, and metaphor packed into just a few words. But perhaps the most remarkable thing is that that quote's 2500 years old. Technology changes so much, but we largely seem to be the exact same people we were even thousands of years in the past.
Is this all just FOMO and jealousy?
"The management question, therefore, is not whether to build a pilot system and throw it away. You will do that. Hence plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow."

Fred Brooks.

Edit: Now I'm sad, I hadn't noticed that he died last year.
for big companies a lot of salary/comp data is out there. I didn't discuss comp at all for the last 4 companies I interviewed at, since I knew they'd all beat my current comp by quite a lot.
The problem is that LLMs aren’t very good at reasoning, needing constant guidance and double-checking.
This wreaks of foul play. Have they confirmed it was an anti-aircraft missile that brought down the plane and not a bomb? Why the delay killing him? Why was Prigozhin even in Moscow I thought he was exiled? Wasn’t he just in Africa and made a video yesterday?
At any given time we have 2-3 different types of lettuce in the fridge. But I lean a lot more towards iceberg these days than I used to. It keeps the longest and is the most versatile (maybe save for Romaine). And yes, that supreme crunch. There is no amount of spinach you can put on a sandwich to make itself noticeable.

A lot of what you buy in a grocery store is grown hydroponically, so it really doesn't matter for flavor what you buy - you just pick how bitter of a green you want. But if you can pick up a fresh iceberg from your local farmer's market, it might surprise you how much flavor is in that bad boy.
I'm just learning too, so one question: why wouldn't you just consolidate and use ZFS for root? Even with just 1 disk, I understand it's still beneficial for its corruption detection and other such features. Just trying to understand that about going the btrfs way.
SpaceX has spoiled us...
Can we take "nutrition" out of this?
No it's not de facto but what can be defacto? It's pretty well followed by the community and I think that's about all you can get.
Flash websites were bad much like web apps in phones are bad, it doesn't feel native
The article just avoids that problem.

> very few companies pay so much below market that it would be a nonstarter

I don't really agree with that statement as my experiences have been different.
This article paints an overly negative picture. It's fairly obvious that AI is only going to improve from where it's at today, and the hyperbolic language about no one caring makes me less inclined to believe that the author is attempting to paint an honest picture. I derive immense value out of Gpt4 as an aid for coding, a search engine replacement that accepts open ended questions, a writing aid, etc. I know someone who has poor writing skills and used Gpt4 to improve their resume / cover letters.

He links to an article stating that ChatGpt use is down 10% in June as the source for the doom and gloom, but this is orthogonal to whether usage is low. The drop likely was due to school ending for the summer.

We're talking about an app that was the fastest growing app in human history prior to Threads launching. Decreased usage numbers implies that not everyone is deriving value from it, but there are a lot of people who are, it really depends on what your job is and your personality type probably plays a role too. There's also probably a backlash because people overstated what it could do, but what it can do is still extremely useful. I think stating AI is a fad ignores all of this, and again, ignores the massive increase in AI capabilities that we're going to see over the coming years.
What typical engineering course covers the design of reliable systems which work mostly autonomously in environments with huge temperature variations, vacuum, inaccessibility for repair, significant radiation, mass constraints, sensor limitations etc?

Designing stuff for space involves a lot of challenges that typical engineering does not.

Plus, while the US and USSR may have done the necessary technical work, India doesn't get most of that knowledge and thus has to learn the lessons itself.
I ask the recruiter what the salary range is. If they refuse to say, I tell them to get back to me when they know what the range is.

I'm not going to waste my time if they want to play games like being secretive about the pay.