skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Adobe co-founder, U alum, John Warnock dies at 82
Oh so we're just ignoring the fact there's tons of different types of these glasses, many of which only filter UV but some that actually do filter blue light, and ignore all the anecdotal evidence from people like myself who say yes, it does actually help, when wearing the right type... alright then! I guess we're all just gaslighting ourselves out of having our eyes hurt 24/7
Portugal to India on a 30-year old Honda Dominator 250cc – 80 days and 15000 km
Sure, it's a common problem with freemium. When freemium products fail, it's often for that reason. But there are also countless examples of freemium/open-core products succeeding.
Ringing protons give insight into early universe
That's the big difference in this round. Before you had to have the ML expertise and the expertise to understand the implication of say a MNIST classifier example. Now anyone can "get" it because you're prompting and getting inference back in English. Underneath the fundamentals aren't all that different though, it has the same novelty factor and the same limitations apply.
This naturally happens when engineering orgs are feature rather than result or quality oriented. As another random example, Apple shipped autolayout in iOS 7 with greater than quadratic performance as the number of constraints increased. It wasn't until iOS 12 that they made it simply linear, a well known optimization of linear algebra systems (autolayout is largely a simultaneous equation solver).
Chess is featured in Peter Norvig's "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach" dating back to the 1st edition (1995) and at least up until the 3rd edition (2009). Algorithms such as alpha-beta pruning were definitely considered AI at the time.
Some tools, with git integration, require the newer versions. For example, newer PyCharm requires newer git.
I know much more about this. You'll have more luck building relationships with VCs that focus on dual use military tech, with partners that have prior military service experience, or you'll need to find a consultant that knows how to get you into the SBIR process, knows how to look up grants, write for lots of grants, and apply for grants.

It's a small world, prior military experience gets you far since everyone would rather pull someone up like that, not necessarily just the tech.
This is the most techie social media site I use, and I see constant complaints about the other techie social media site, StackOverflow. Why doesn’t someone test the theory and come up with some competition?

I think this is normally an unreasonable ask (when we’re complaining about, like, cars, clearly that’s not in this site’s aggregate wheelhouse). But I mean this is a website about start-ups, full of techie web-devs complaining about a website that they all use.
Git seems like the wrong tool for this. He appears to be using it for backups and syncing. There are better tools for that when you don't need version control.
Very long take-home assignments, I was interviewing with a startup for a backend position. they gave me 5 days to build a Cinema Ticket Reservation API, this by itself was long since it required managing 5 to 6 tables with it corresponding crud and business logic of each one (and also tests) but apart from that they wanted to see complex data structures, design patterns, caches strategies, be able to "scale", a design diagram, and as a bonus if I wanted add a CI/CD pipeline.

I did only the core app, but none of the others stuffs beacase that looked like way to much unpaid work just to "prove" my ablities.

I should have known better becase they rejected me because the project was to simple, wasn't going to "scale", and did'n used any complex design patterns, a day an a half of work wasted.
> Do I need to purchase a CD, then rip it myself? If so, are artists generally still pressing and distributing CDs?

Ideally, yes and yes unless you can find it in a lossless, DRM-free format.

For best accuracy, use something like EAC or dbPowerAmp to rip.
There was a while around release for Elden Ring where Valve was able to rapidly deploy fixes that resulted in the Steam Deck running without stuttering issues that were effecting powerful Windows builds. https://www.techradar.com/news/steam-deck-plays-elden-ring-b...

I'd hope that those issues eventually got resolved on Windows too...
> AI lowers the bar for how talented a graphic artist needs to be to produce professional work

I think it's a different kind of talent, and not automatically a lower bar. The key to being a professional artist is being able to offer variants based on given direction. Either way, it's much much more than pushing a button or holding a lever in place for a period of time.
Oh wow, we didn't expect p2panda to pop up here (I'm adz, one of the core contributors). Let us know if you have any questions :-)

This week we're wrapping up a long development phase for a new "aquadoggo" version (https://github.com/p2panda/aquadoggo/) - our p2panda node reference implementation. The release will come with a dynamic GraphQL query (filtering, cursor pagination, text search and ordering), blob support, a better configuration interface and a full p2p networking stack (QUIC) with NAT traversal techniques and relays based on libp2p.

Next steps in our current funding period is a showcase app for Android (built with Flutter and Rust FFI bindings from our core libraries), a bee sighting database for scientists in the Brazilian Amazon (in collaboration with https://www.meli-bees.org/).

Further down the lane we're continuing our integration of MLS - as some high-level APIs are still missing - and a capability system. We're definitely not out of ideas yet!
Same here. "Split brain," logical, analytical person. We aren't even a rounding error in market numbers. If I like it it is probably the superior product providing the most value...rarely ever matters.
Here's some more comprehensive data from the US: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/02/02/key-findi...

I'm not arguing that the dating apps are particular good or successful. I wouldn't be complaining about Match Group if they were. In fact, there's been a rising share of people who are unpartnered: https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2021/10/05/rising-...

In another comment, I talked about societal changes that have resulted in more social isolation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37213625 I think it's a problem is that we've become increasingly dependent on dating apps. Nonetheless, I don't think "just don't use dating apps" is really a solution, as if they were "strictly optional", because we can't magically go back to the good old days where everyone met their partners in person. The world has changed, and the old world doesn't exist anymore. In many cases, the alternative to avoiding the apps is singleness and loneliness.

We might all be better off if we collectively decided to abandon the dating apps. Short of that, however, it's kind of like "unilateral disarmament".
Educational Codebases
> LLMs will be like expert systems

No. LLMs actually work. Expert systems were a flop.

I went through Stanford CS in the mid-1980s, just when it was becoming clear that expert systems were a flop. The faculty was in denial about that. It was sad to see.

We're at the beginning of LLMs, and systems which use LLMs as components. This is the fun time for the technology. Ten years out, it will be boring, like Java.

The next big thing is figuring out the best ways to couple LLMs to various sources of data, so they can find and use more information specifically relevant to the problem.

And someone has to fix the hallucination problem. We badly need systems that know what they don't know.
What do you mean departing from jurisprudence? Are you saying that overturning precedent is a departure from jurisprudence? If that is the case, then you would be incorrect that it is a departure that has been understood for decades. Here is a list: https://constitution.congress.gov/resources/decisions-overru...
Seems like a bit of a nothingburger, now you have two ways to verify your binaries came from google and are unmodified instead of one way, doesn't change much.
Erm: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/appdev.112/e41502/adfns...
You could also expose MSSQL from IIS (what a great idea! /s). In one edition of MSDN Magazine an author combined this with XSLT to make a website.
I just stab them in the eyes and then say "now you'll care about blind people," then calmly walk away. Works every time. /s

In all seriousness, I ask something similar to the above: "Would you feel the same way if you got in an accident that left you blind for the rest of your life?" Sometimes this moves a few people to your side. I don't want to be the only one, but I do care about accessibility. I care a lot, for personal reasons. But like you said, you don't want to be the minority trying to support minorities.
That sounds like a business/value problem not necessarily an open source problem. People won't pay for something if the free /OSS version meets all of their needs. That's why an "open-core" business model works so well. Open core also allows you specifically target businesses with specific features.
In your opinion how does Pop!_OS it better?
The elephant in the room, for Google and Microsoft, is verifiable security is worthless if no one actually trusts the organization that released the verified firmware.

Android should be have been split off from Google a long time ago.
Reading this is enormously frustrating. People have been shouting at the top of their lungs, that this will be the inevitable outcome of policy in Germany. Energy policy in Germany has no chance to accomplish its stated goals and is costing people a fortune.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78ntekFBE4o
I totally know. I started as an illustrator:

https://radleymarx.com/work/elemental/
Perseverance Mars rover spies big sunspot rotating toward Earth
Doomed to failure. How come none of Microsoft's bad products ever die? RIP Windows Phone.
LOL. Line 1268 of that CSV file [0] has a negative height. And it actually is in the visualization [1].
Wonder what kind of device reports a -2000 height :D

[0]:https://viewports.fyi/data.csv
[1]:https://viewports.fyi/all/
I'm not sure what it is supposed to do?
> First, I don't see "abuse" of the system being a major problem that needs to be defended against. If someone wants to destroy their future health by Homering, let 'em. They aren't extending their life by eating themselves to death.

Absolutely. No one should have to pay for it, though.
A lot of engineering has gone into GCs over the years to avoid the need to stop the world when copying objects around, and no hardware support is needed for the pointer chasing. You do need support for atomic swaps and sometimes some MMU tricks but other than that you’re good.
Given that it's McKinsey and given the current times theyre almost certainly looking to sell their "developer layoff consulting package" to provide nothing but the finest steak dinners, strippers and ass covering justifications for executives looking to cargo cult big tech.

Their highly sciency formula of number of commits divided by SLOC of the average pull request plus average response time on slack will scientifically segregate your company's developers by productivity.

I do hope we see a follow up on Hacker News - how to game the fuck out of McKinsey's top secret developer productivity formula.
Makes sense.
Still painful to read, we didn't cut fingers because hands could transmit and kill covid, but I understand this analogy is not in the same ballpark.
> Often literally hundred of pixels wide.

And 16 pixels tall...
"I don't see how this helps anyone" is my gut response to anything related to the m-word
I'm going to charge organizations a monthly fee for using the hosted SaaS service.

Implementing billing and setting pricing is next on my TODO list!
setting just the toolbar to not zoomable should have been the obvious solution.

(In stead I have to disable zooming in on images to preserve the next/previous/close buttons and implement zoom from scratch. wtf?)
Your statement was a weasel word packed claim. They do not "pack as much as they can manage" for any civilians definition of manage.

Restaurants use as little salt in your food as they can manage.
That sounds like a nothingburger. The bootloader always shows a warning if the image isn't signed by Google.

Google itself should be able to sign whatever code they want and mount whatever attack they want.

Could someone explain if this provides any value over signature check in the bootloader?

I believe that the bootloader can't be updated with a non-Google-signed version. And if there is a vulnerability and a malicious actor does that there would be no way to safely get the hash to verify against the log.
Fix, or just understand.

There is "documentation" and there is documentation.

And the real documentation is always the code.
Insightful, agree with the fact that AI will help to fill up the "furniture" more easily, faster and for a cheaper price than any human could. Regarding transparency of training data, this is where I see huge opportunities in AI for the near future.
>In short: The people you’re talking to aren’t the people who are doing the actual work, The people who are doing the work have no industry experience And the numbers they’re basing their analysis on are probably whatever they found on google.

this has always been the most mindboggling thing about consultants. I have a few friends working as consultants and occasionally when they discuss cases, I always think to myself, "who on earth are you to advise them about so-and-so management when you literally just graduated college a year or two ago?"
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37210650 (144 comments)
"Sorry boss, I can't make it in this week, that would change the conditions of my employment."
They’re not, but there’s non-zero probability most R&D below a deep learning framework gets fully vertically integrated (or even aggregated in the short term) to just the big cloud players.
I believe that would be toast toast.
The historical (and present?) default is to use the local character set, which on US Windows is Windows-1252, but for example on Japanese Windows is Shift-JIS. The expectation is that users will tend to view web pages from their region.
And I answer with both. Let's do both.
Apparently nobody noticed that the link at the bottom of the page is an video about the pressure the former us-president made against georgia reps.
Hypothetical: Computer owner modifies software to make it more secure. Google falsely declares computer is now less secure.

Who should win the argument and why.

(Note: Google is not the owner of the computer in this hypothetical.)
It’s over in the sense that new projects don’t get started in C++ unless they have huge dependencies on C++ libraries, like video games. And they shouldn't, it would be irresponsible.

Obviously, legacy code - and so the job market - will remain present for a while. Although it already pays less than other languages.
Yes, it's been a pleasure to work with OpenMLS, they consulted us with the integration into p2panda! As mentioned in my other comment: while most low-level parts have already been written, we still need to work on our high-level APIs, which should allow for easy integration of data encryption when using our SDKs. We aim at doing this in our next funding period.
> Google IO

You mean marketing party?
> company.com is going to object that they would lose the domain they've had for 99 years or be subject to an extortionate price increase

Then do a perpetual lease, or 999 year lease, or pay every year, or [...]

How would you enforce a prohibition of leases? Plus, the tricky bit here is there are lots of reasons for a domain owned by entity A to be used by entity B (companies might be related, might just be allowing a friend to use a domain, etc.)

I don't think it's defeatism at all, by my estimation it will do very little or nothing at all, while creating a hassle for everyone. I guess I could be wrong about that, but that's what I'd expect.
I agree with your perspective but let me try to formulate an argument against that.

1. Trust over a product or platform can be formed in many ways. Opensource is an irreversible way of doing that. I have often seen people equate opensource to free usage of the product, it is great for adoption but very bad when it comes to monetization. Even if your project is available as OSS if you don't have community around it, disappearance of the org is still a threat.

2. If there is no market, you don't any incentive to maintain it forever. Google fusion tables is probably that case. The market perhaps was not large enough.

3. I do buy into incentive to opensource for building an eco-system

4. I do buy into the larger impact argument but question is - will you keep maintaining it if there is no incentive for you in the process?

I have seen lately, lot of VC backed orgs posting OSS as a differentiating factor than their competitors. I am not sure if I would buy into that argument.
> Giving prompts to AI not enough for human authorship

If, as some predict, everything is soon done by people feeding prompts to AI, a great bonus would be if it all became uncopyrightable.

Shame neither is really going to happen.
I think this view, that present day AI is something absolutely new, is actually the dominant view.

I don't believe the "absolutely new" view is very enlightening very often. Notably, it seems like "the dawn of a new era of tech" offers little insight to the process of change (but much hype). Even something like the explosion of the Internet is usefully compared to earlier technologies and what gave it's uniqueness wasn't incomparability but an explosion of scale.
Maybe should have waited to post until I made a writeup haha. But, basically the primary hardware is a modified hand-held inkjet printer (princubestore.com). Modified in that the enclosure is removed to allow more space for a foot. It's still not the roomiest, but it is wearable. The base shoe is a converse mid-top sneaker. The sneaker is basically a plain white chuck, but I've added custom vinyl to make it feel more printer-like. The colorful tubes are purely aesthetic, I wanted to give the shoes a bit of a hype-beast sneaker-head vibe. The concept is really around the idea of creating an absurdist fictional brand collab that would never happen IRL. In this case a shoe company and printer company :]
>The most insidious belief is that the system is some how rigged against you no matter what you do. It just isn’t true.

The system IS rigged against you, aka the working class, and in favor of the asset/capital owning class.

Moving up from the former category, to the latter, considering the wage stagnation and the interest rate and CoL increases, is very VERY difficult, so scoffing it off as if it's something trivial that anyone can do and if they don't the it must be their fault, is just laughable.
Presumably there's something special about ro.boot.vbmeta.digest that would prevent a malicious ROM from lying about it? As in the ADB protocol being served by literal ROM code?
> All names are completely arbitrary. Having a unique one seems pretty practical to me.

Oh wow so you're just going to stand by this outrageous statement then
Of course the cost goes up. Densification does not lead to lower prices, because it increases wealth. People in denser areas make more money, because businesses in denser areas are more productive, because density is efficient and causes people to be more productive.

This is a good thing.

Affordability is not cost. The problem that we have now is that supply of housing is artificially constrained by bad policy, which allows some groups to capture the surplus. It is broadly not a coincidence that the groups that capture the surplus are the very same that set policy.

It seems to me that "some forms of densification are allowed pretty much everywhere" is doing a lot of work for you. Can you elaborate? How easy is it to build an apartment building "anywhere?" [1] is an example of what I mean, but you can google "housing supply shortage USA" if you want general statistics. The conclusion is pretty much unanimous: it is immensely difficult to build anything, anywhere, which has caused a massive shortage in the supply of housing. Again: density, solution.

If we allow buildings to be built, a developer will gladly come in and build buildings. Someone building a house for someone else to live in is, in general, a very good thing. Everyone participating in this conversation lives in a house that someone else built for them and made a profit in so doing, and it's a good thing, because that allows us to work and create value.

[1] https://twitter.com/cafedujord/status/1692713611683066073
No offense, I had to try that..

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/LARGE_el...

Look how fast and responsive it is!
I made an open source license that you may be interested in. It's basically the AGPL + copyleft for _services_ that are dependent on your service, as well as build tools. You can check it out here: https://github.com/candiddev/cpl.
> This is the humor page at the end of the economist.

Isn't this just a Bartleby article? Their column on management
Interesting! From my view the responder came off as attacking unnecessarily and very angry. Honestly not sure how else to relay it though. Maybe it's all just how I'm reading it. Have a great one!
Free Pascal has fcl-web which should provide a HTTP/HTTPS client (among other things, it can be used to make web apps), though it comes with libcurl bindings out of the box so you could also use that too. fcl-json provides a JSON parser. FWIW "fcl" means "Free Component Library" which contains various tools (mainly exposed as classes).

The packages[0] directory of FPC contains a lot of stuff that come out of the box with the compiler and they often have an "examples" and/or "tests" directory with code you can check. There is some documentation[1] but sadly FCL is really not that well documented - you just have to check the sources for most things.

Note that this is for Free Pascal itself. Lazarus builds on it (LCL, the "Lazarus Component Library", is built on top of FCL) and adds a bunch of additional components of its own. Though usually for non-GUI stuff you just use the Free Pascal classes, Lazarus has some of its own "wrappers" that integrate with the IDE and the form/object designer. The "weblaz" package (it comes with Lazarus but you need to install it manually from Package -> Install/Uninstall Packages) provides a bunch of components for working with the web (mainly for making web apps), including the "TFPHttpClient" component which can be used to make HTTP requests. As a simple example, if you throw a TMemo (multiline text editor) control in a form, throw a TFPHttpClient component and then doubleclick on the form to edit the code to execute during the form's creation you can type "Memo1.Text:=FPHTTPClient1.Get('https://news.ycombinator.com/');" and it will put the HTML code for this forum in the memo (note that you may also need to add the opensslsockets unit in the uses section at the top of the code). Of course that is a very simple example but if you browse the properties and events of the component in the object inspector as well as the available methods by typing "FPHTTPClient1." and pressing ctrl+space in the code editor you can find most of the other functionality the component provides.

[0] https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/fpc/source/-/tree/main/pac...

[1] https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/current/fcl/index.html