skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
almost as unpersuasive as the original claim that it has, and they do - a loud minority opinion if I ever heard one, and one that deserves no more effort refuting than you spent proving it in the first place (none)

open to hearing evidence of that claim of yours, because the article disagrees with you
Ok, but that's a completely different argument than it being free.
Sincere question: what paid search do you have in mind?

How conceptually could a paid search engine solve the problem of SEO and spam? (Curation seems economically infeasible?)

Is what you're actually proposing ad-free search results? (I'd be willing to pay Google approximately $0.01 per search for this. I suspect this is probably more than they get from anything but the most expensive ads (pharma ads that confused old people will click on).)

What I would really love is a browsing-assistance agent based on something like an LLM that can summarize and de-cruft search results for me and show me content extracted from web pages in a standard format without any Javascript. (I don't need an LLM to be the arbiter of truth, I just want it to be good at summarizing documents.)

(Because Google is so wedded to the ad ecosystem I'm not sure I trust them to be the steward of technology that is basically about removing ads from my life.)
Same as Deno, Vercel, and many others; Oven will host your backend JS code for you and run it.
What makes your situation exceptional?
It was already a feature in Windows 1.0 to let you customise the colours of the UI elements, and it lasted (with gradual improvements) until Windows 8 where it was removed completely.
But how many people who would want the additional features they could get with web components over strict HTML aren’t already using a framework?
Curious why you chose Zig and not e.g. Rust.
It's not plainly known and no sources claim this.
Yes, we have use cases that can't leverage GPT-4 for data privacy reasons. I was curious if any self hosted models would suffice and could be integrated.
The crowd that is blocked by sanctions, values privacy/freedom, has certain accessibility needs third-party clients could provide, or doesn’t have powerful enough hardware or a big/fast enough internet plan likely hasn’t been able to participate even if they wanted to. It’s a bad choice, and we see users get banned for weird, non-project-related reasons & they lose access to the community due to the whims of the Discord corporation.
Yep, basically “cattle, not pets” in code. There should only ever be “what runs and production” and “the best imitation of what runs in production” dynamically spun up. Anything else is going to hurt you in the long run
He was also a _big_ supporter of crypto(currency), as I recall.
Because they simply can't convert all of their js code into either go or rust for a forseeable future? Even providing they actually find those languages desirable, comparing to typescript.
It seems to be indicated in the subtext of your wording, even in this comment you stated "eggshells"/"breathe easy"; if your natural behavior does not align with your workplace policy wrt not devaluing someone of the opposite sex, then yes you should seek some behavior modification.

Edit; to address the original comment

>Similarly, I wouldn't expect my employer to allow me to work for eight hours per day under such risky conditions.

Is the implication "such risky conditions" = working with e.g. women?
A stock buyback trades certainty of wealth transfer (you're not sure the price will go up, or by how much!) for flexibility in when the investor takes the gains for purposes of fiscal planning.
Ask HN: Why isn't there a Node.js SQL core module?
I understand that database drivers need to be installed as dependencies, but I'm wondering why basic relational database connectivity, querying and other mechanisms such as transactions are not part of core modules. E.g. java.sql.*, database/sql in Go.
Figures. After seeing those numbers I couldn’t imagine custom components being more popular, so I figured it must be some popular library that people are using that uses them underneath.

Of course it’s ad-tech.
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Yeah, there is no world where Nvidia grows into this valuation. It would have to be bigger than the entire semiconductor business today by itself. If you think AI can bring that much growth, well then it could happen, but it seems extremely unlikely to me.
The point is that 8% is volatile relative to the market cap. That's a massive amount of (paper) wealth being created.
Unrelated, but, IIRC, Tolkien (whom one could perhaps regard as a language connoisseur) had a peculiar taste for languages, and Welsh was in fact his favorite?
In some countries you can't even receive some types of registered mail unless it is addressed exactly to where you are staying at that moment.

This makes good sense to me in countries where you need to register you home address with the local govt. Then registered mail delivery becomes a form of ID check. This is normal in Japan and other places.
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You should be able to pass objects or functions as properties (at least at the dom layer). I have not personally tried it with react, but I know angular supports this.
Steve Jobs would disagree https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QplyFXgIx7Q
Constantly monitoring FSD is no where near as much work as driving. It's also 5x safer than just a human.
Because you could use your offers against each other as a leverage, dropping any of the offers decreases your leverage. Most people want more leverage when negotiating, not less.
Hermione’s been in the restricted section again…
I use and like Web Components. But yeah this ratio doesn't bear out in articles and conversations with devs.

Edit: github.com has matches for both "react\b" and "customElements", and I expected that because I've read about Web Components on their blog.
CPU's are cheaper adjusted for inflation before even considering performance. Ram and SSDs are much much cheaper than they were 5 years ago.
I agree with what you're saying, but I think it's not stretching too hard to say that gameplay also matters for games. Romances, storyline, and so on are fine and dandy, but at some point you have to have some gameplay. Or not, if you want to make a visual novel. And that's fine too!
Where is your home country? Is the situation better or worse?
And just who do you believe is the leader? You've never [recently] been in a Tesla with FSD, have you? Tesla FSD is amazing.
> and this can kill others, that it gets to be a concern for the law.

As this is the crux of your argument, please provide data showing how large motorcycles are so much more lethal for pedestrians compared to cars. Because all the statistics I'm familiar with (and I do take issue with them) show risk for the riders themselves, not for others.

I don't deny that, of course, if you hit a pedestrian in a 500cc motorcycle going 50 km/h then the pedestrian will certainly suffer major injuries if not death. The difference is that the rider will as well, unlike a 4-wheeler that wraps its driver in a roll cage, seat belt, and airbags. This mutually-assured destruction, I argue, causes motorcycle riders to generally be safer on the roads vis-a-vis pedestrians, and that this should hold true regardless of licensure.
I also doubt that Kenny was having to do daily scrums and explain why the web ad wootigulizer algorithm hadn't had any progress since Monday. Long since in executive management, is my guess.
No scummier than a candidate that's not seriously interviewing for a job, and is instead just fishing for counter-offers.
Basically no one can afford a 4080 let alone a 4090. Even 4070 is out of reach for many.
FPS of one specific game isn't a great indicator of GPU grunt.
To tackle highest housing costs, hawaii's gov declares YIMBY martial law
I worked extensively with Windows 2 back in the day.

Possibly even with Windows 1.0 I can't quite recall.

It was a constant battle to get enough RAM for applications to run. Futzing around with himem.sys and moving around network drivers and stuff in high memory.

Windows applications had to run within the first 640K of RAM. In reality, around that time most corporate machines were 80286 machines and as I recall a high specced machine usually had 2MB RAM.

Kinda weird to think that working, useful Windows applications ran on systems with that little memory.

Ugh I'm glad those days are gone.
It's like Shadow of Mordor, you kill one Orc captain, another rises from the hordes.
The altitude was trivially in range of Pantsir systems, of which Russia has many. The Pantsir-fired missiles are fragmentation weapons that basically shoot out metal rods like a hand grenade, and take the target down by catastrophically damaging the control surfaces and engines, rather than turning it into a fireball.
It's using real physical cartridges, but still running emulation underneath. Which is unfortunate. Maybe recreating the actual 6502-based hardware would be infeasible at a large scale (although WDC is still making 6502s at a small scale last I heard) but an FPGA could provide a hardware-perfect experience that no emulator could match.
It sounds like we are getting a thin slice of the full story. What made your spouse's situation unusual such that she could not get a bank account. I am finding some of these posts hard to believe.
Unconfirmed reports have suggested a Chinese nuclear submarine has crashed
File sharing sites where you would download 13 .rar files and get yourself a .zip through to .z12 from the set.
The point of a storage locker is that the contents are private so it is not on the record. Much easier to track transactions rather than things.

Road pricing will come in so there will be a tax on every mile you use a bus or use a motor vehicle.
Whatever you do don't take all those long prompts that include (((aesthetic))) and such and put them in the negative prompt with "human" in the positive prompt.

It's not nightmare fuel it's a nightmare engine
Very nice! I added a similar feature to https://sitespeak.ai recently that allows my users to connect their virtual assistant to a Sqlite database to retrieve data to answer visitor questions. Initially this was just a way around the difficulty of "chatting to a CSV" so the solution was to convert any CSV to a Sqlite database and using that, but it's proved very useful.

Will definitely look at using Dataherald for adding proper SQL support!
Well that's a bad criteria. A lot of people get hooked on "snake oil", and will even try to seek it out. Astrology, alternative medicines, crystals, vibes, etc., cults and other such religious beliefs, various social, economic, political and other beliefs that aren't supported by evidence. Lots of them aren't "zealots", they're pushed by fear, misconception, misinformation, desperation, FOMO, hype, etc.

Also, even if some people in some usages get benefit out of it, does not mean that fuels hype and snake oil to try to sell it to uninformed people to use in inappropriate places. Baking soda is good for making bread, lots of people use it for that with great success. It is snake oil for curing cancer, however.
It's amazing that the article's author talked at length about the hype decreasing yet didn't realize that this is just the Gartner hype cycle in action [0]. We are currently on the downward slope towards the trough of disillusionment after the huge peak, but over time we'll equalize towards the new status quo of using AI everywhere and not even thinking about it, same as we do with smartphones now.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle
A bank checking your credit score just because you want to create an account would be a huge invasion of privacy.

Really? How else can a bank decide how much credit to extend you? Please bear in mind that allowing someone to have a bank account is part of the credit relationship.
Currently the US, but formerly Australia, Ireland, Scotland, Germany and Canada.

I've never had to register my address anywhere unless I have a drivers license.
Me, too, the bonus must be just enough for them to fill the ranks. They must send that brochure to every graduating electrical engineer. One of my uncles did that in the 1970-80s and ended up working at a nuclear power plant for the rest of his civilian career. It's a living, though the number/location of civilian jobs in the USA probably is not great.
Admittedly knowing nothing, I’m going to assume that a great deal of the advantages of the latest generation aren’t going to improve performance in a decade old game since the engine won’t touch them.

How does a 1070 fare versus a 4090 in Hogwarts Legacy or another modern game at 1440 or 4K?
i would think they would want a visual to exclude any sort of mistake but maybe I'm overthinking it...
I deserved that curl snark. :o)

Web browsers are mostly free and don't try to upsell you to a Pro paid version. The MacWhisper author deserves to be compensated for their work, so I'm not objecting to the existence of a paid version. This feels like yet another relatively low value freemium/upsell wrapper in the Mac shareware ecosystem to me.

I'm probably wrong and there's a real population that benefits from this work, clearly some folks perceive it as useful enough to pay for it and I'm just not in that audience to see it.

I think part of what rubs me the wrong way about this is that it feels to me like commercial freeloading due to the thinness of the commercialized wrapper around a free/open core in this case (whisper model + code); it feels ethically questionable unless the author contributes back some portion of the proceeds to research in some way -- I didn't see evidence of that. I'm probably being naive here, happy to have a less snarky discussion about it though.
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I don't see how license changes that don't adversely affect the vast majority of users break trust, especially when the noops are effectively communicated. Hashi did a much job better job there than its predecessors.

I don't see what locking corporations into future open releasing does to solve the general problem.

The problem is fueling and operating maintenance and development for as long as those costs remain worthwhile. There are no perpetual motion machines. We have multiple data points from companies suggesting the rules of the game being played today create an inflection point away from universal permissive licensing. Restricting an organization's freedom of operation might maximize the time it holds out in forlorn hope on a pure, doomed model. It might also grind it to a halt when it could have kept going by compromise.

A project steward going bust can send a clear signal to former free riders that they need to step up and organize or switch off. But in the meantime, what's to stop some other firm, without charter restrictions, stepping in to try the model the restricted firm wasn't allowed to? What's to stop the engineers at the restricted firm jumping ship?

On the level of implementation, I wonder at the need for public benefit corporation structure, with all its vagueness, expenses, and complications. Are the feel-goods really worth the complication?

You can put corporate-powers limitations in a "regular" corporation charter. That's a key part of how we turn C-corps into tax-exempt charities and business leagues. The restrictions we put in, say, 501(c)(3) charters also read vague, but they're statutory language we've been fighting about and refining by law over time. Conversely, putting eight novel, vaguely worded restrictions into a corporate charter, with or without line-by-line statements of intent, is putting a whole lot of fluff in the very beating heart of a governance structure. Who settles interpretation fights there, a judge in a shareholder derivative suit? I think the hullabaloo of the OpenAI Charter might be instructive.
> Update, August 23, 2023: This story, originally published in 2017, has been updated several times as new feet have been found along the coast of the Salish Sea.
Does anybody have a source (CJ or traditional) that is unbiased?

It seems that everything from mass media to small tiktokers are so biased, I can't believe anything they say.
because I can hire more JS/TS developers than I can go or rust (especially rust) developers AND I can pay them less... No $400k for a crud app here.
It's a learnable skill that just takes time and effort.

I recommend the book "Drawing on the right side of the brain".
It's really interesting how many people see a product/service with an impressive result (previously seemed impossible), albeit with flaws that humans find funny/obvious, and then are unable to imagine how it might be once improvement leads to the issues being ironed out.

A few years ago generating images like many of these was unimaginable, and now this does it, but perhaps 50% have some silly flaw in the image. Unless there were some reason to believe that further improvement isn't possible, as you say, it is likely to become indistinguishable from reality in the relatively near future.
Didn't OpenAI get a ten billion dollar infusion from Microsoft for 20% of the company?
I mean... How is VC a Ponzi? Obviously I'm using a very loose definition, not a technical one, but I'm using the same one Chamath used.
"You're letting a bunch of people who aren't really that important to you, or qualified to do the job, be the content curators for you." This hits
fn tail<'a>(s: &'a [u8]) -> &'a [u8] {
&s[1..]
}
...
fn main() -> Result<(), std::str::Utf8Error> {
let s = std::str::from_utf8(&[240, 159, 141, 137])?;
println!("{}", s);
Ok(())
}

Sorry, `|::|&(_Rust!){}?`. I know you're sexy. But I'll prefer my eyesight and sanity over you.
> Discord has been decent for a while. I suspect enshittification will commence soon, so we should be on the lookout for an alternative over the next five years.

Discord's fine for what it is, but it's also a fundamentally different thing than social media or forums or a support-site. Projects that try to funnel everything onto Discord are (a) losing anyone who thinks joining an 800 person chatroom doesn't sound fun, and (b) always seem to wind up being very irritable at people who join and immediately ask all 800 people their common question, despite Discord being extremely poorly searchable.
Jesus. I asked for a woman in the jungle wearing "hiking attire" and got a woman wearing...uh...a denim g-string, denim stockings (?!), and a kind of evening-wear top. With her boobs out.
Any highly advanced economy: yes, there will be fraud protection built into the system. Do you live in a place where this is not true?
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> You claim that if the employer calls the number first, the final number will magically be higher than if the candidate called the number first.

No, I claim that, on net, you will end up with a better final deal if you do not give any number until after you have an offer and you are ready to respond to it. See further comments below.

> In your model, if employer said 200 first and you, using your strategy responded with 250, and while the employer is thinking or negotiating further, you've got an offer for 260 from another company

My strategy would be to not respond with a number to any offer until I have all of the offers I expect to get on the table (either that or those companies have told me definitely that they are not interested in going any further, so I can cross them off my list of possibles). My only response to an offer before that point would be to say "Ok, thanks very much for your offer, let me do some thinking about it and get back to you".

> I think you are personalizing things too much, nobody really cares.

It's not a matter of "personalizing", it's a matter of recognizing that, just like you, the company is trying to get the best deal they can. I'm not saying they will always try to negotiate you down if you give them a number before they've made you an offer. They might, as you say, decide it's not worth it to do that and just write you an offer at that number. But if they do do that, you are almost certainly leaving money on the table that you could have gotten if you had not given them a number and waited for them to make an offer.

And if, in that scenario, you then come back and tell them you want more because someone else made you a higher offer, you're, as I said before, reneging on what you already told them, and you're now saddling them with additional work they didn't even think they would need to do--they thought it was just a matter of writing you an offer at the number you said and you accepting it, boom, done. If you expected that you might get a higher offer, you shouldn't have given them the lower number in the first place.

> The HM has a vacancy that needs to be closed ASAP

Yes, but "ASAP" doesn't have to mean "as soon as you give them a number that's within their range". They might prefer that, but that doesn't mean you should. If they are genuinely interested in hiring you, they will be willing to negotiate if they have to. And it will be to your advantage to make them have to by not giving them a number up front.
I saw nothing about either of those people in that post. He also trashed Mastadon for the same reasons as X. I think maybe you’re reading something into the post that’s not there.
The more problematic thing is that Reddit took a read-only group, assigned a random, completely unknown new moderator, and re-opened it.

The maw must be fed.
This exists, there are 3.7v lithium rechargeable cells with buck converters tacked on so they act like 1.5v alkalynes. They still have poor performance because the converters aren't perfectly efficient and rechargeables don't have the density of primary cells, but they do work
Tesla is paying $20k a year to be on Elon Musk’s X, and it’s not clear why
back to the irc
There's an old Dilbert comic that said something like "We want to hire engineers who are really good at what they do, but cannot compare two salary numbers and identify which one is larger"
It doesn't fit, direct payment for an article fits that use, not an expensive subscription you'd have to remember to cancel
Hello Infinisil! Your contributions to Nix are very appreciated. I am sorry you had to defend yourself against baseless speculation like above.
I'm almost hoping for some enshittification. It's so depressing seeing how many skills and jobs have been instantly devalued. Take a look at the artist communities and it's total depression that peoples life passion and source of income has just been deleted over the course of a few months.

We aren't talking about burger flipping and checkout scanners. This is a creative pursuit which takes years of grinding to become proficient, just wiped out.

Right now the current models and tech aren't quite enough to replace real humans, but the rate of progression feels like they will soon. If it all just halted here for a while, that would be quite comforting for a lot of people.
> Discord has been decent for a while. I suspect enshittification will commence soon, so we should be on the lookout for an alternative over the next five years.

For folks who want to move their communities to a publicly accessible Matrix server, I'm building Shpong [0]. Heavy WIP obviously.

The trend of moving to closed-off spaces is bad for the open web. I'm hoping we're able to reverse it, despite everyone wanting to close things down due to AI panic.

[0] https://shpong.com/shpong
I designed[1] a similar solution at Life360, and presented AWS Summit Toronto back in June. Slides here if anyone is interested [2].

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/id/blogs/containers/life360s-journey-...
[2] https://d1.awsstatic.com/events/Summits/torsummit2023/KUB302...