skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Posting anonymously as I have made some investments in the design tooling space.

Overall I don't see Penpot being a realistic competitor to Figma, and I can't see this as being something that was done as a knee jerk reaction to Penpot's social success.

First, why it isn't a realistic competitor. While building everything out leveraging SVG as its main rendering engine allows for parity with code as an advantage, the inherent disadvantage it has is handling large files. For larger design teams, files often have thousands of designs and pages. Sketch has an advantage here over Figma primarily because it has a higher upper bound on possible memory that it can allocate to each file. Penpot not only has the memory restrictions Figma does (since it operates in the browser), it's also tied to the browser rendering performance of SVG, which simply wasn't designed for the scale designers operate at. It tends to get extremely slow once you have 50 or so pages in a single artboard. This means realistically, Penpot is competing for the casual design market, rather than the larger enterprise-scale design market. Figma's approach for this market has always been to use it as a top-of-funnel expansion opportunity, which is why their free tier targets these users. In general it's very hard to compete with something that is both industry-standard, and free. Penpot theoretically offers more functionality than the Figma free tier, but since it can't support the scale that Sketch/Figma does for larger files, it greatly narrows the market they're targeting. The market for users who want to build extremely advanced designs, but who also want to create extremely small files, is a narrow group.

Second, with regards to this being a knee-jerk reaction to Penpot's dev tooling, the dates just don't line up. Penpot really exploded in reaction to the Adobe acquisition announcement in late 2022, but Figma acquired a YC company known as Visly in 2021. Visly was apparently working on some design->code elements, which was really the first inkling that Figma was exploring this. It seems like this was being worked on / thought about long before Penpot took off. Given the submitter of this story appears to be Emil Sjölander, one of the Visly founders, I suspect that it's a fair assumption that Visly turned into Figma's Dev Mode feature: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/visly
A paper from 1976 claims to have detected ESP in its participants. The paper appears to have only been cited twice since, both in 1979, one to explain the 1976 results as experimental bias, and the other to report failure to reproduce. I wouldn't throw out my walkie-talkie just yet.

>If a model of physics supports the idea of remote viewing, so be it.

Okay. What's that model? Are brains RF transceivers?
> I still don't understand why people think in 2023 that Android can not be a viable alternative to an iPhone.

I don't think most people -- even iPhone users -- hold that opinion. In the US, at least, the iPhone is still a status symbol. People have iPhones because they don't want their iMessage bubbles on others' phones to be the wrong color. They're locked into that ecosystem with various purchases and don't want to throw that away. They use a Mac and like the integration.

On top of that, I (as an Android user) am constantly uncomfortable running a mobile OS built by a company that exists mainly to track people's behavior and invade their privacy, with the goal of selling ads (and I am more vehemently anti-advertising than most people). As much as I don't fully buy "Apple's commitment to privacy", they are in a much better place in that regard than Android is. I lock my phone down and give nearly every app (including Google's) zero permissions, and only enable (and then immediately disable[0]) as necessary, but I'm still convinced my privacy posture would probably be better with an iPhone. But I don't want to live in that walled-garden nanny-state, so that's that.

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.samruston....
> multimodality of GPT-4

Is there a multimodal GPT 4 model in the wild? All I saw was that one example at launch.
PESD: Easily diagram web flows right from BurpSuite
What is stolen is information relied on for authentication, but using “identity” with that meaning is common, even in technology.

That is, after all, what an “identity provider” actually provides.
Tech jobs market normalizing as July unemployment dips
Had to do it just yesterday when Bluetooth just stopped working, and yes I tried everything else I could think of first. And I do software restarts (iisreset etc) all the time.
Mind you I also tried restarting my phone(s) a couple of times recently when it started exhibiting strange behaviour. In neither case did it work - one phone I gave up on entirely (no internet when on cellular data, but it had other issues and had been planning to retire it). The other I had to dig around to find some obscure option ("reading mode") that had been activated somehow.
Showing someone ads for products in a category they recently purchased from is one of the most effective things a store can do, in terms of focused advertising driving sales. We can wonder why, but the data is exceedingly clear.
> think you'd have to be pretty dense to not understand the intention of the KPI: set lofty goals and try to get there.

So, hypothetically if I busted my ass for three months straight to hit 100%, just to be told "Oh, your goals were set too low, so here's more work", what incentive at that point do I have to work even harder? The new target's 80% was my last target's 100%, which I struggled to hit (because as you said, these goals are lofty). So if I bust my ass even more, do even more overtime, what do I get then? "Your goals were set too low, so here's more work." Do I just continue this until I burn out? Or do I hit 80 of my target so my workload doesn't spiral out of control, and I get exactly the same bonus?

> I mean, this company literally failed (from the sounds of it) and people here are blaming the CEOs KPIs versus the employees who intentionally work less to game the system. Strange.

Employees gaming their KPIs is a reaction to and a direct result of the CEO's "if you hit 100%, you didn't work hard enough" policy. CEOs using constantly moving targets and increasingly unrealistic expectations to extract every last drop of productivity out of their employees is met with an equally maximizing reaction: employees find a maximum amount of time and energy they can spend such that the status quo is preserved and the bar doesn't move as high next time.

I would bet KPIs were not the main reason that company went under. Obviously we don't have specifics, and companies rarely fail for one reason. I didn't blame the CEO for the company going under either - I simply pointed out the perverse incentive.
No one has to engage with the BBB.
+1 for Kanary.

The amount of time/effort/rage that goes into dealing with a stolen identity makes paying for this a no-brainer.
If you count "there is no record of this person making a late payment or defaulting on a debt" as a credit rating then sure, I do have one.

Other than that, the only other information a lender will use to decide whether to grant me a loan and under which conditions will be information that they will ask me to provide, such as age, proof of employment situation, and my last 3 payslips.
From the article:

> Early tests have shown a fine-tuned version of GPT-3.5 Turbo can match, or even outperform, base GPT-4-level capabilities on certain narrow tasks.

It sounds like it really depends on what you're doing.
That's quite unfortunate, it would probably be easy for them to add support for matching all domains, but I doubt anyone asks for that.

IIWM I think the benefits outweigh the cons of dropping the monitoring, but others may have different situations/priorities.
have'n't seen this since 1999. it actually makes me feel nostalgic
Logback has structured logging. I think log4j has it as well
And here I was thinking I wasn’t hyperbolic enough!
Have a nice day
That's likely more a reflection of the software you run (and update over time) than of the hardware itself, no?
Is imposter syndrome worse for tech workers?
Thanks, didn't realize Verge was also paywalled these days.
:) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:United_States_copyrig... OK, sure, internet guy / gal.

All I'm doing here is turning the knobs and testing the variables here. I realize it might be crude, I apologize for that. You're probably a lawyer, and you probably hate this.

The line I'm trying to understand is this: Mockey has three buttons and was generated by an AI, and looks similar to Mickey. I can copy that art and become the human owner of it (my hands are the 'spark of creativity' mentioned in our Wikipedia article), then sell it. Disney will claim that selling this art can infringe on its copyright, but nobody earns copyright to the AI-generated art itself. I own copyright to my physical, hand drawn copy of it. Okay;

Taking that apart: Disney's copyright is infringed when? The sale? The second I drew Mockey? Or the second the AI created it? Or is it when the AI was trained?

I'm assuming -I- am the violator of the copyright. At least, I'm the guy who gets sued. So now, let's remove me from the equation.

If I train a model on Mickey and all permutations thereof, sell the model, and when the user prompts it, it hallucinates none other than Mickey in his enigmatic circular perfection, who copied it and when? Who violated Disney's copyright? You might say the AI (nobody) copied it, and nobody (the AI) violates Disney's copyright until some human tries to ctrl+c/ctrl+v the file from the AI's 'electronic threshhold' to a file on their desktop, and it's the viewer who copied it.

So let's extend that 'electronic threshhold' in the following scenario: a sufficiently impressive AI makes a video game world simulation and incidentally hallucinates a Mickey Mouse character model. I sold the -game-, is there a violation of copyright? Absurd.

Sorry for being facetious but, throughout the history of US case law, I'm not finding good refs for these cases. You think maybe tech outstrips law? :D It just seems to me: if AI art can't be copyrighted as there is no human source, then there is no human responsible for incidental copyright violation either. "By golly lightning struck that tree and it looks like Mickey Mouse! Sue God!"
Good cookie banner system. Basically text at the point of needing a cookie instead of a popup regardless.
Yup, I've pretty much become a hermit because I can't be bothered to keep up with the ever-changing social norms (which if you breach, you get the harshest consequences including social exclusion, public shaming and "consequences"), ever-changing popular culture and ever-changing everything.
Chocolate and coffee both contain theobromine, which is a laxative.
It's always the people. They suck.
It should not be obvious. When measured on consumption data, the poor did indeed become richer under Thatcher.

https://iea.org.uk/blog/thatcherism-and-poverty-did-the-poor...

Second, Thatcher specifically created a lot of disruption which lead to a lot of people becoming poorer. But the trend she discussed is generally true. Starting with the Industrial Revolution (which is still spreading in third world countries) we've seen a rise in general prosperity over and over again be tied to a rise in inequity. And documented rises in equity are generally tied to large disasters that destroy wealth.

But third, my comment was a general one about psychology. Many of us respond negatively to rises in inequity. Even if it is tied to a general rise in prosperity.
To convert CO2 back to propane you have to put in every bit of energy released when burning it and then some.

So again, it wouldn't work because as you note: the electric power available is less than the gas.
American Council on Education: Too many ‘old, white male’ college presidents
In Jan/Feb of 2020, I spent a lot of time "preparing" for the Coronavirus:

- I built a pantry and stocked it with foods for storage. Beans and cheerios and powdered milk, etc. It turns out that in addition to these, I eat perishable foods, so I routinely had to go to the grocery store anyway. And while I was there, I bought regular milk, because eww.

- I bought a bunch of 5-gallon carboys and filled them up with water in case, y'know, the apocalypse. Never had a water problem (thankfully).

- I stocked up on bleach, masks, and other PPE. And of course it turned out the bleach wasn't super useful because the virus spread mainly through the air. The masks were the only effective prep I made, but then I felt extremely bad about hoarding them from healthcare workers and old people and ended up giving them away.

My point is, there's a wide range of scenarios between public health crisis and full-blown Mad Max. Not preparing for a specific one of these is preparing for none of them, and preparing for a specific one is not preparing for all the others.
https://innovatorved-whisper-api.hf.space/docs

Just visit the swagger create account and then gettoken to grab a token
And worse, when you do, something loop back.
Meanwile no one offers Nomad managed service, so who create those clusters, who operate them, who keep security / upgrade on...?

You go to any cloud provider they all offer managed Kubernetes solution.
So is "real time" translation a thing yet? I've long wanted to be able watch non-english television and have the audio translated into English subtitles. It's doable for pre-recorded things, but not for live.

An iPhone app that could do this from the microphone would also be amazing. Google Translate and it's various competitors from Microsoft/Apple are nearly there, but they all stop listening inbetween sentences. Something that just listened constantly, printing translated text onto the screen, would be amazing.
My policy is that I don't sign a noncompete for anyone. They serve no legitimate purpose. In at least a few US states, they aren't even legal. If you're in one of those, then it's a bit of a nonissue.
Have You Ever Heard of the Fernet Encryption Algorithm?
Is this good for a content creator? I know it sounds logical to spread your content, and maybe companies would enjoy this, but for "core creators" who drive a platform, I think focusing on one is better than focusing on all.
Practical experience shows - consistent effort does indeed deliver results => agreed

leads to improvement in capability => agreed

but the assertion that those who struggle the most become the best is not proven - and I disagree with it.

"Stress as an indicator of skill/resource deficits" is also not proven
I think a key point that a lot of people miss is that meditation is just a single practice. The goal is mindfulness.

This is to say that you can meditate mindlessly, as you can meditate mindfully. You can also be mindful without meditation, although it's a lot more difficult to do so.
I didn't say you cherry picked anything.
> the victims are also individuals because banks passed the reputational risk of fraud to the customers

In that case I am not a victim of the fraudster, I am a victim of the bank.

The banks do not have sufficient incentive to improve their identification methods, so long as we tolerate the concept that we bear any responsibility for a transaction that involves only themselves and a fraudster who knows the answers to a few trivia questions about me.
In e-commerce space you might take a look at: https://theheadlessclub.com/. It's exactly what you're looking for. Quote from about page:

"Most directories tend to put emphasis on shiny and showy hyper-animated web experiments. Unfortunately, many of these projects fail when criteria like performance, mobile, usability, and accessibility are considered. It’s hard to find one single resource on the internet that would combine both the technological excellence and highly polished design in ecommerce space. The Headless Club started as an internal agency tool to foster ecommerce best-practices across our development team. Now we’re sharing our findings with you."

Disclaimer: I'm the co-author (with folks from commerce-ui.com agency). We'll soon make it not specific to headless but to all e-commerce stores.
Hitler with a pocket phone. Great.
If you don't care about the notifications anyways....then turn them off/silence them. Switch from an event-based model to a polling one, since you're treating it that way anyways.

I couldn't care less how quickly someone responds to their phone. I do care about sitting somewhere and hearing someone's phone buzz and ding-a-doop constantly. Especially if they don't seem to even care about what those notifications are for.
They didn't create that wealth, they were just in a position of power that enabled them to take a portion of the wealth created by many others. The wealth actually created by the contribution of these men doesn't have much to do with how much wealth they were rewarded with. If a king sees some unworked land and orders some servants to grow food on it, does the king create the food?
No 22 year old is getting a $200K mortgage with no income. Dude's mom bought him a farm. Yet another story of some rich kid having something bought for them being spun as pulling themselves up by their bootstraps.
Your brain on emoji
It has it roots from the 20's/30's, but was reinvigorated into what is it now in the 60's/70's as a lot of suburban America was becoming desegregated and redlining was made illegal (redlining is a real estate tactic of marking a red line around an area of town that is the "black" neighborhood, and only showing black customers homes in that neighborhood, etc).

As redlining and segregation had a lot of old white people shaking in their boots complaining about property values, old white people who worked for local government (who were also largely landowners) began implementing zoning regulations that effectively banned any sort of housing being built that was affordable to many citizens. Such as apartment complexes, townhomes, quadplexes, smaller homes, etc.

In today's world, we're now dealing with the continued effects. Wealthier areas of town that do not allow ANY multifamily house. Less wealthier areas of town that do not allow homes to be built off-site, or to have under a certain square footage, effectively ensuring homes there are more expensive than they should be. And then the poorer areas of town only allowing multifamily housing right next to industrial/commercial zoning areas. Effectively preventing anyone (outside of property investors) from affording to own a multifamily property, let alone even be able to legally build a single-family home.

As the separations between middle class and lower class begin to blur, it makes the situation worse for everyone, outside of the financially well-off who either made it big with a business, or have owned property for decades at that point.

Zoning was redefined from a health and safety perspective, to a legal, local government tool to artificially inflate property values by unfairly limiting the types of homes that could be built, and putting the poorer workers and "undesirables" in unsafe communities full of industrial factories, low-wage jobs, and no vertical movement for the community to grow.
From my skim they are incorporating a new-ish release of python. I wonder how long until (and if) MS forks python to add some functionality (extends it) and what happens next. Is it that farfetched to picture corporates running MS python with dot net integration or something and the ecosystem getting all screwed up.
Any plans to add Langchain support? Another thing for OSS LLMs could be adding support for the like of Replicate or Baseten as well.
Question about privacy: OpenAI doesn't use API calls to train their models. But do they or Microsoft still store the text? If so, for how long?

Overall, I think this is great, and can't wait for the 16k fine-tuning.
Ugh. I can't imagine having phone notifications on for email. To me, the whole point of email is that it isn't an urgent matter.
>An individual micro-economic transaction on that day may be zero sum, but the whole economy overall isn't unless there's no growth.

As I said, the economy is neither zero-sum nor completely not zero-sum. It exists somewhere in between. If you can recognize that individual microeconomic situations can be zero-sum, you should be able to recognize that some macroeconomic situations are zero-sum.

I'm not arguing that these guys didn't create any wealth. I am arguing that their wealth is not equal to the value they created. Some of their wealth is wealth they captured from other people. I think it is pretty obvious that stockholders of other automakers would have more wealth in a world without Tesla. Musk now captures that wealth for Tesla stockholders.

The same situation plays out for other people in Musk's orbit. The rest of the automakers are now producing fewer cars due to the presence of Tesla, therefore they are employing fewer people. Musk is extremely anti-union while many of his competitors have a unionized workforce. This allows him to treat his employees worse off. His wealth is therefore effectively coming from workers who are now in a worse situation than they were if Tesla didn't exist and those employees were working for another automakers.
WarGames (1983) – Behind the Scenes (2007) [video]
Designing a new concurrent data structure
I'm intrigued by this. I'm typing this one-handed on the MacBook with my other hand resting on the trackpad without interference of any kind. The hinged trackpad on the P14s takes between 5-10 minutes to be useable from a cold start (these happen often due to the combination of an anaemic battery and power-hungry Intel processor); it's as though it needs to warm up. It is a pile of overpriced junk not worth the value of the parts it's made with. I've had other ThinkPads and generally disliked them - even the X series, but that boiled down to personal taste - not a fan of the aesthetic - and a crap trackpad. This P14s, though, is unmitigated shite.

My experience of the P14s says that either I have a dud (other colleagues complain vociferously about them, too), your MacBook is defective, or both. None of which are ideal!
I was impressed that the base of my bell held on. I used a crooked screw (patent pending) to make up for the plastic threads being cross-threaded…
Looking for a Technical Cofounder
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Through this journey, I learned the crucial skill of distinguishing startup ideas with genuine potential from those that may look appealing on the surface but crumble when you delve into the details. This learning led me to my current venture, Alt-Wallet.

In my previous startups, I assumed the role of the business lead. This involved tasks such as customer discovery, establishing investor relationships, creating financial projections, crafting pitch decks, and various other activities inherent to startup development.Presently, I'm in search of a talented full-stack developer who shares my passion and can commit to taking Alt-Wallet from its conceptual stage to a full product launch. In addition to my own experience, I have access to a network of industry experts who can serve as valuable advisors. I'm also collaborating with another skilled business lead.

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What is a MUP? Not familiar at all with that acronym, believe others might have the same issue as me.
If the ride I'm on has the court asking Richard Stallman what he really meant in his heartest of hearts, I want off it.
Not to be confused with

Whisper – open source speech recognition by OpenAI https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34985848