skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I support gun rights (but also abortion rights), support criminalisation of homelessness, and support border walls/some other "hard" ways of regulating migration (simply put, illegal immigration should be punished severely enough to make people even from the most rundown places too scared to try). I don't think "asylum seekers" should exist (and government should be hard - "one bullet each" hard - with those trying to sneak in), unless it is in the interest of the country to invite them (e.g. Ukrainian refugees). "Choose your refugee" policy. I think it makes me pretty much right.

And no i am not at all against family unit. I only accept the objective fact that sustaining population through natural procreation is no longer possible in any halfway advanced society and that measures should be taken to do it otherwise. Anything that gives a chance of doing it through natural procreation will go way beyond acceptable for any Western political entity, no matter far left or far right. A simple proof to that is that it doesn't happen in any rich country anymore - except Israel because of a large chunk of their people bent on religion a lot more than any other free country could accept.

Most people who criticise immigration, housing or other policies in the view of demography, usually have their perception confined to one particular country and come to logical conclusion: "things are bad and getting worse and politicians seem to be moving them even further into wrong direction". If they looked at the world at whole they'd stop blaming their politicians, because same shit happens everywhere - and it is in fact mildest in Western, rich, Protestant, liberal countries.
Emphasis on "long", as in long time ago, as in before many of us were born.

Modern IBM isn't what it once was.

Edit: to clarify i mean on the software side. I don't know enough about the hardware side to comment.
Can you point to any archived material with that claim? Many of us have been around to remember everything from that time period, and they never made such a claim in my memory. When Gmail launched there was a very prominent bar graph at the bottom of every page that told you how much storage you were using and how much was available.
So third world countries need to deal with out ewaste?
In the early netbook/Chromebook years there were some nicely built devices available. Sure most were a bit underpowered but still. Now it's mostly garbage with even worse chips and more case flex than a rubberband or the premium d vices are as expensive as a MacBook air or a decent windows laptop. I just don't get the target group...
Board Issues Decision Announcing New Union Representation Proceedings Framework
The weird notion that unpaid volunteers are some pure force for good is falsely perpetuated by internet greybeards who only say it because they themselves were those people

that is an interesting argument, but i don't understand how it is relevant here.

as far as i can tell the moderators were acting with good intentions as a force for good as it were. if anything the problem was not that but that the company seemed to think that they can dictate what volunteers do. but really, they can't. reddit is doing the same, and if they don't listen to the volunteers they will eventually pay the price.
The soldered-in SSD is worse, though. The SSD WILL wear out, so then you get to throw away your Mac?
Love them or hate them, the current Chromebook market allows schools to afford to put a computing device in every student’s hands.

A close second reason is that managing ChromeOS devices is pretty easy and doesn’t require highly-trained people.

To crack the market, you’ll need dirt cheap hardware and dirt cheap and easy management. Doesn’t sound too profitable.

But yes, stuff gets thrown away way before the hardware goes obsolete, due to the limited ChromeOS lifecycle.

Not a lot of schools are going to spend much time trying to get Windows or Linux going because that requires more FTE money than just discarding and buying a new Chromebook. I know this from experience (n= US state level)
Create your own meta-circular evaluator: https://www.buildyourownlisp.com/
Nagano firms produce leather from apples, mushrooms
That last bit is my understanding: the typefaces are public domain, but the font files that describe them are protected.
How about contributing to the opensource
I upvoted your comment for the comprehensive reply, but I think @marginalia_nu[0] would laugh at you for putting him in the same category as Yahoo/MSFT...

From my understanding he's very much indie just like Marginalia is.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=marginalia_nu
Because it's the norm for their community, which you would also be expected to follow if the necessities of life put you inside it.
Four trends are shaping the gun industry
It looks like[0] as of the start of this year, only works made in 1927 or earlier are in the public domain. Copyright terms have regularly been extended by Congress and they are astoundingly long now.

[0]https://copyrightlately.com/public-domain-day-2023/
> Much of their earnings go back to Monotype, which takes a 50% cut of every sale on its site. (Creative Market similarly takes a 50% commission fee, while Etsy charges 20 cents per listing and takes a 6.5% fee for every sale.)

This is an aspect of one (if not "the") major issue for capitalist economies in this century. A functioning capitalist market must have effective and fit-for-purpose anti-monopolistic measures. In the era of the web, this means:

- separating content distribution (i.e. stores) from platform development (i.e. OSes, but also font-making tools, etc) and content itself (i.e. apps, fonts, movies)

- capping distribution fees. Anything above 10% is obscene.

Businesses should not be allowed to turn content-acquisition sprees or platform development into market-making distribution channels that result into self-reinforcing monopolies. Businesses should not be allowed to arbitrarily held entire production sectors effectively to ransom, imposing fees that in every other sector would be called exploitative and illegal.

Amazon, Google, Apple, Monotype - they are all aspects of the same problem. Anyone serious about ensuring a lively competitive landscape in modern economies should try to fix this problem. Otherwise, by 2050 the economic landscape will be dominated by immovable rent-extracting giants that will hoover every cent and limit innovation.
Then be the carpenter or the ironsmith.

Assemble a frame in wood or in metal enclosing the iPad with a splitter like these ones:

https://www.amazon.com/Headphone-Splitter-Female-Perfect-Dev...
Another wrong thing - virtually ALL school board elections have no political party affiliation. There is currently a crazy movement by the right to institute that, but for the most part it is not true.
Curated list of favorite underrated movies:

#1 pick for HN Crowd: The Man From Earth // must see, especially if you like philosophical movies (don't recommend the sequel by the way)

Runner's Up:

Being There // absolute classic and must see for every person, at least once

Peaceful Warrior

The Lion In Winter // one of the best dramas ever made, and unbeatable cast with young
Anthony Hopkins

Predestination // incredible drama about time travel paradoxes

The Interview // Hugo Weaving

Vitus // amazing story about a piano prodigy who fakes losing his talents to have a normal life

The Perverts Guide to Cinema // documentary, Slavoj Zizek's tour de force psychoanalysis of cinema as an art form; addressing the philosophical and psychological question of whether cinema (and other art forms) fulfil your desires, or rather teach/train you both to desire (and what you should desire), thus the sensationalistic and polemical invocation of it as "perverted"

Le Professionnel (French film, not to be confused with the one with Natalie Portman)

Revolver // Guy Ritchie's quote "It took me three years to write this film whereas Snatch took me three months". It is a masterwork metaphor about the ego, ego death, consciousness, meditation, spirituality, and the nature of reality. Recommend reading an interpretation of the film either before or after viewing to better appreciate what is happening in the story as it is most metaphorical.

Rest of the List:
The Big Kahuna, Tao of Steve, Crazy Stupid Love, Megamind, Eyes Wide Shut, Dead Poet's Society, Before Sunset, Gambit, Five Minutes of Heaven, Temple Grandin, Croupier, The Good Guy, 3 Idiots, Limitless, Drive, Whiplash
They measure performance in microseconds.
Speed of light.

They actually want to locate their servers inside the market buildings, to gain those precious nanoseconds.
i386 will die, and so will x86-64.

RISC-V is inevitable.
This is even more true today, because Apple Silicon Macs are able to store twice the amount of information in the same amount of memory, meaning that a paltry 8GB configuration can store 16GB of FizzBuzz boilerplate, 4 Google Chrome tabs, or 20% of the average node_modules.
Daniel Tunkelang wrote a book on Faceted Search that is pretty good, turns out he's also on Medium https://dtunkelang.medium.com/facets-of-faceted-search-38c3e... not sure if he's on HN.
Come to think of it, there are entire human careers--or at least subtasks--based around the same concept.

It also describes certain forms of advertising.
It is virtually guaranteed no one will use domain names or web browsers or blogs or websites in 100 years.
No one will let you play with a mainframe. I’ve worked for finical services companies and toured a data center with large IBM mainframes I wasn’t allowed to get close to much less touch the software.

I’m sure if I wanted to move to the team it would’ve been possible to play with z/OS.
Will try this! Sounds like a good strategy to roll over to 200 once you reach 0. In the past when I tried the "endless counting" strategy that was still too much brain activity.
We're not talking about personally upgrading devices, these schools can easily switch to a linux distro if they want. It's about software support, so in that same sense, Microsoft wouldn't support you for updating on hardware that isn't in their support list.
The font files themselves are copyrighted. The underlying typeface --- the shapes of the letters themselves --- are not, so you could I suppose draw your own Helvetica. But you wouldn't be able to call it "Helvetica", because that's a trademark.
Satellites mean you are eating round trip delay times to orbit and back, encode and decode on both ends, signal strength competition, etc. It's a bad trade. Speed of light limits are a big limiting factor, which is another way of saying you want to minimize your total transmission distance.

Going into orbit increases your total transmission distance. If you can afford to put in the infrastructure, you never want to go into orbit.
The browser will generally be relying on the system font renderer, so they kick that particular can down the road.

For a time, Microsoft had a package of "core fonts for the web" that they made some deal with Monotype for:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_fonts_for_the_Web

Those are still out there because the licence for those specific files remains legitimate, though a 21 year old typeface is not necessarily a useful thing anymore.

That package was used as the basis of "nonfree" packages in various distributions, that would download the MS archive file and unpack/install it.

I also wonder about how much Monotype charges Microsoft.

Ubuntu of course paid for their own system faces to be designed (which I like but not enough to use on my desktop). And Firefox has its own core font family (Fira), for example, that it can use in its own products as an alternate (I think it was designed for the late not-much-lamented Firefox OS)
This. Main point here: "this is not at all the failure of the West/Libs/Rich people/democracy/Jews/whoever else you want to blame. it's everywhere. don't look for culprits: it's just the natural process of economic growth and productivity improvement".
I often default to one of the Iosevka variants.
https://typeof.net/Iosevka/
https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka

I use a customized set for terminal/IDE and like Aile for documents. Etoile is neat. Feels typewriterish. All covered by the SIL Open Font License.
That's the point. When you're that one person who wants to, you're swimming against the current.
Iosevka is a fantastic open-source font that's fully customizable. I have replaced the fixed font on all of my devices and apps to a custom Iosevka build I made, and I don't think I'll ever turn back.

https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka
Not OP, but a quick search found this, which is apparently not free: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fontmaker-font-keyboard-app/id...
> that's the way things will be for the long time.

There are some changes coming where application developers will have to explicitly acknowledge that libraries they're using are using native code: https://openjdk.org/jeps/8307341 (the new, soon-to-be-stable FFM API already has this behavior).

It doesn't change the distribution mechanism of native code, but it's some sort of step towards better security.
I thought the same thing until I tried it ;)
When you slice a list, you get a list.
When you see there is nothing inside the returning list, you know that means end of list, contains zero element.
Slicing and indexing return object at different level.
my experience migrating from win98/2k to linux was totally the opposite.

linux distros were some of the first to use proper LCD hinting and anti-aliasing on the fonts, so they always looked buttery smooth and polished when compared to the Microsoft offering at the time.

Funny how things shift around.
In truth, it's something that the majority of people will never feel the need to use. So it could realistically be hidden/unlocked upon request. In fact, it would probably be better UX/UI to have it as a directive in an Advanced Search interface.
Hey layoff Markov chains! They may not be SOTA for NLP, but they're still real to me dammit.
The website doesn't work on Firefox at all. It can't even be scrolled up or down on Firefox mobile or desktop, or any variant of Firefox.
# Topic 3: New Zealand is a small world

I noticed from your profile that you're currently based in Dunedin and seem to quite like the place. :)

Your location, interests & a mention on your site about the local Makerspace makes me think it's probably quite likely you know https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=Taniwha / https://github.com/MoonbaseOtago ? (Who I haven't caught up with for ages but I see is doing some RISC-V related things apparently?)

I'm also wondering if we might actually have run into each other when you lived in Christchurch around the quake times (as I did) because I do remember meeting someone who did Antarctic neutrino-related things at one of the regular local end-of-the-week tech gatherings... If so, it'd be an even smaller world. :)

Finally, I don't suppose you've got another of those Rust + firmware + NZ remote jobs/contracts lying around do you? :D I'm currently "exploring available work opportunities" but have almost given up on finding a role with even one of that trifecta let alone the whole bunch!

If you do decide to be "up for a change" with the eye-tracking thing feel free to get in touch if you're looking for someone to continue your current work. :D

Anyway, thanks for reading all my verbiage & I hope at least some of it was of interest. :)

Enjoy the cold Dunedin winter!
The trickiest part of decoding protobufs blind is how embedded messages and strings have the same tag type, but that's pretty easy to handle.

You can write a simple protobuf decoder in a couple hundred lines of code if you don't want to pull in the full protoc dependency: https://github.com/kubernetes/test-infra/blob/master/guberna... https://github.com/kubernetes/test-infra/blob/master/guberna...
I had much the same points of confusion when reading this. It's not like the design principles behind Protubuf are a secret. This is all documented plainly.
Brief lessons from using LLM APIs in production
Agreed. Twitter had achieved the novel recognition that so many companies kill for: universal verbification (I.e. I’m gonna tweet this).

Destroying that kind of brand equity over a personal obsession will go down as an all-time failure in tech marketing lore.
Honestly this is really not a solution for anyone making a living off apps, or working on apps in a professional setting. You simply reach much fewer people and certainly a different audience too.
Another concern for him is the controversy it generates.

When hiring for a job or a project, managers are going to search for Sam Lavigne and see this. Although depending on the business and project, that might be good or bad.
It may be a big download depending on your bandwidth (which you're already doing if you are streaming the video), but it's not big in terms of a CPU trying to parse a protobuf. If you are decoding streaming video from YouTube, the extra CPU power needed to decode a protobuf of that size is barely going to qualify as a rounding error.
>No longer will private tutors be restricted to the rich only.

This is probably the number one thing that excites me about AI. Throughout all of history, when you look back at famous scientists, there's a clearly obvious pattern. Almost without exception they were children of enormous privilege who were given the opportunities to study and be tutored individually throughout their life. Unlocking that for every child on earth is going to accelerate human progress faster than anything else.
How do I get a PM job in the Generative AI space
I am looking for advice on getting a Product Manager role in Generative AI.

I have 15+ years of Product Management experience in big tech and I've also done a startup. I've worked in very technical areas and have had no trouble ramping into the product management for these areas in the past. I was hit by layoffs and am looking for a role in the Generative AI area.

However, it seems like most such jobs require a few years of experience in AI / ML products/services and some even screen for a formal education in AI/ML.

I don't have any work experience in the AI/ML space. However, I have been reading up on space, understand how transformers work and concepts like quantization and Lora. I have also built some RAG apps using Open AI, Langchain and ChromaDB to query sources of information too.

I'd like to hear from prospective hiring managers or similar folks on how I can make my application pop when I apply to a product role in the generative AI space.

One idea I am working on is to create a generative AI app that I can share a link to on my resume so that recruiters and hiring managers can see firsthand my experience in using AI to build something and compensate for the other check boxes.

Before I go too deep though I want to check if that approach resonates with the audience I am targeting.

Love to hear opinions and also suggestions for alternatives.
Linux uses free fonts like Open Sans, Roboto, etc.
https://www.eyecontrol.co.il/ was founded exactly to solve this problem
Try to correct people to say, "What a beautiful earth rotation" instead of "sunrise".

Doing research means believing works written by old dead men who held power. Sometimes, they are proven false. Other times, they were right all along.
They look incredibly cool. Not being a musician, are they actually useful or just fun little novelty gadgets?
Our average in the Play Store is about an hour. Our average on the Apple side is a bit longer, but we've been blocked by them on multiple occasions for over a week while we turned out to be in the right.
In the US, many (I think most, now) votes are just voice vote. This makes sense when many votes are simple procedures with overwhelming support.

IIRC, any senator can force a roll call on a vote. I think the House has a similar rule but requires a minimum number of House members to support the motion.
I would love an e ink slab in a4. Especially if I can easily push over whatever media vs some proprietary nonsense. Anyone sell one?
Article was unreadable on iOS, constantly reloading.
Also known as the Mickey Mouse Protection Act - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act

Thanks to Disney, this aspect of our economy and culture is completely broken.
That's really weird, the author of the bandwidth tool has line graphs with >100GB/s on weaker hardware.

https://zsmith.co/bandwidth.php

Make sure all power saving stuff is disabled in BIOS, that XMP is being used, and Linux is not booting with some weird ACPI/APIC flags. Try ganged/unganged mode (DCT) in BIOS.
Microseconds matter to them; even with a satellite in low-earth orbit (~342 mile), you’re looking at a round-trip time of 3.68ms, on top of any packet latency introduced by the satellite itself.

It’s always going to be faster to go point-to-point than pay the light-speed cost of bouncing all the way out to orbit and back.
Yea baked in ads are actually against YouTube TOS but I've tried to report one of the most obnoxious bad actors (they run 90 second TV-style ad breaks made up of 4-5 premade ads with nothing to do with the presenter)

YouTube legal basically told me to kick rocks.
The short stories and journalism of Ernest Hemingway.

Of course, The Old Man and the Sea is not underrated, because it is explicitly mentioned in the Nobel citation.

Anything longer (all the novels) were overrated and now out of favour. Anything shorter will reward your time.

For example...

Fiction: A Clean Well-Lighted Place and The Capital of the World.

Non-fiction: coverage of the Greco-Turkish war (1919-22), especially Refugees From Thrace and On the Quai at Smyrna.
Microsoft is. They actually made them available for anyone to use everywhere because they wanted them to be standard on the web.

See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_fonts_for_the_Web
I believe Node-RED (https://nodered.org/) is the way to go. It's just an NPM package to install and you can run it how ever you wish (even on Windows). It has a friendly and helpful community with even the main developers tirelessly answering even beginner level questions. In fact the community forum its THE friendliest forum I've ever been a member of by a large margin. Node-RED's development is supported by the JS Foundation and it's completely free and open source. It's widely used in the industrial automation industry and even integrated by some PLC manufacturers such as Siemens.
If you target SDK < 31 then you’ll see reduced availability on the store. That means users with phones running Android higher than your maximum targeted version won’t be able to newly acquire it. Existing users are unaffected.

If you target SDK < 33 then you need to update to SDK 33 because you won’t be able to make releases with the old target SDK anymore. (Existing bundles are fine). If you miss the deadline it doesn’t introduce further enforcement than that but it might mean if you had an urgent update you’d need to update the target SDK at that time. So sooner is better.

Both have extensions available to Nov 1.

Wear has different thresholds.

Hopefully https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/thre... helps clarify too.
That's a little like saying Wikipedia has more knowledge than every teacher on the planet combined. It's being able to bring the relevant knowledge to bear on the student's understandings that matters, and that depends not only on the prompts the student provides the teacher/tutor/LLM, but on the teacher/tutor/LLM's understanding of the domain, the student's point on the learning curve, the student's level of frustration and receptivity, how people learn, and probably a dozen things that aren't coded into how LLMs respond.
Because you're not buying Helvetica, but a digital variant of it. It's like a performance of classical music. Also Helvetica specifically is from 1957, so it may not in the public domain yet (depending on location).

There are actually several variants all named Helvetica, which is why it's a really bad font to put into your CSS font stack if you're not delivering it yourself. Newer variants tend to use other names (e.g. Neue Haas Grotesk).