skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nah, now you are re-writing history. Flash apps could be very lean and mean or they could be resource hogs - depending on the amount of bling one put in. They could be used to develop sophisticated, lean apps using a very productive toolchain. They were an extraordinary danger to the Apple apps paradigm. And they thus needed to be terminated with extreme prejudice.

And the fact was that Steve Jobs had a history and long habit of forcing walled gardens on consumers - something well known in that era.

In fact I would call it the "widely established" fact
https://www.infoworld.com/article/2627117/iphone-developers-...

Of-course most of this depends on whether you had personal experience developing productive flash apps and whether one suffers from the Apple propaganda effect - where Apple's position is King and all other positions are null and void. I happen to see the latter quite often on HN.
A project can only be as reliable as its compiler. Zig currently suffers from a number of miscompilation [0] that is quite higher than for a more mature compiler.

[0]: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue...
Why do you use tiktok on a phone and expect privacy. Your phone spys on you.
Brave just shifts the spying from one company to another, it doesn't actually enhance your privacy.
In this case, it's the "application programmer" who is asking the "infrastructure programmer".

Also, there's a difference between limiting scope and rejecting it. People are going to walk across the street whether you paint crosswalks or not. If your infrastructure fails to accommodate a present need, people will just work around/against it.
Why Most Your UX Ideas Are a Waste of Time but You Might Wanna Do Them Anyway
Senate confirms FCC nominee Anna Gomez
Senior FAANG engineer (me) gives opinion nobody asked for about why UX improvements often don't measure with statistical significance and what to do about it.
> One Bun enthusiast even wrote a plugin that lets you import Rust files into your JavaScript.

Oh wow, that sounds amazing. I would love an easy to way to use Rust crates from JS projects.

EDIT: I haven't been able to find that plugin or how it works, though. Looks like it's based on the esbuild pluing API?
English learning game – built with AI
A few years ago during the 2016 Democratic primaries, Bernie Sanders was roundly mocked by mainstream media for saying NK was a top threat due to their disengagement from the international processes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M4CoEodUTI
Oh that's too bad, as a consumer, I would have loved to have been obligated to pay for that feature in perpetuity.
I’ve been playing with Rust as a web backend, and while I still feel really unsure about it, I’ve been surprisingly productive. With that, I occasionally run into some issue with async or lifetimes or pinning that really slows me down, though I’m unsure if that’s partly being a beginner.

Clojure is fairly interesting too, and it uses a similar async model to go.
Recent Advances in Inflation
Isn't this extremely gamable? Find someones IP, split the gains.
This also serves as a reminder that code hosted on github might be malicious and we shouldn't blindly trust those just because the author seems to have similar interests.. I've done that multiple times :(
Awesome! Now do Chamberlain MyQ who want you to charge you to open your own garage door!
...because I wasn't sure if this was just nostalgia or fake memories so I went down the rabbit hole of trying to refresh my memories about why I switched from AltaVista to Google

I had some memory of AltaVista being full of SEO (as I recall it was mostly a keyword search engine) spam.

And that was probably true, but I also came across this Quora page https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Altavista-search-engine-lose-g... and it reminded me about two other things stand out to me as true

1. AltaVista was slow and you needed to know your syntax to find things
2. AltaVista was cluttered. Google had very clean results.

I think on 1 google is still fast, but 2. not so much. Google's results are far from "clean", instead it feels like the main goal is showing you as much ads as possible and preferably getting you to accidentally click on one.

This in and the fact that Kagi results are as good or slightly better (and much more customisable) than Google is probably the main reason I'm so happy with Kagi.

After all, Kagi sources results from Google so it's no surprise the quality is similar https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.htm...
It seems they only pay if the metered usage shows a reduction.
20%ish seems high though, especially for file transfers which are probably almost all full packets near 1500 MTU cross WAN.
As an investor, this is exactly what I want to see the CEO doing, at least occasionally.
> think that workflow patterns like Test Driven or Domain Driven Design will make their code inherently more secure

But this is exactly the type of mistake that government bureaucrats always make. They focus completely on procedure. There will be a whole bunch of boxes to check, including "this project uses TDD," "this project uses Domain Driven Design." Check them, and you are declared "secure." This is why such regulation will fail to provide any security, and will just slow down development.

And the max government salary is around $170K, no bonus, no equity. It's not like they're going to be able to hire any competent engineers to write these rules. They even had to build the US Digital Service, which is basically a charity case (for the richest most powerful org on earth, lol) to even get their house partially in order.
Say, i'd like to listen to music produced by Brian Eno. Or composed by Max Martin. Or performed by Masayoshi Takanaka. Surely artist/track is not helpful there
Apple IAPs are highway robbery. They charge ~10x the industry standard for card processing (30% vs 3%) and they only get away with it because sideloading competitors is impossible.
I will not pay extra for heated seats. I will also not be paying for heated seat hardware that is deactivated behind a paywall.

When I buy a physical object, that is my object. If they want to charge subscription fees they can do it on something they own. If they want to charge for new functionality they can do it own something they own.
As an enthusiast but not an expert nor a person with unlimited time and money, I found that while hitting 1gb/s LAN on ethernet is easy, moving up to 10gb/s has been hard.
I have 2 networking cards and a router in between them, all 10gb capable. Yet, it's really hard to get them to do that. I started with reliably getting 2.5gb/s and managed to move up to 5gb/s through some tweaks, but actually getting the full value of the hardware seems hard.
The bottleneck could be anywhere as far as I know, and I don't have the hardware to swap out in experiments. I don't think it's a drive bottleneck, but even then its not clear.

So, I'm all for faster, but it seems faster comes with some headaches if you don't know what you're doing. It's just surprising that consumers are still pretty much limited to 1gb/s after all these years, and my attempt to do otherwise hasn't fully paid off yet.
> the railroad industry literally made this argument

No, they didn't. The article you cite misdescribes the situation (for ideological reasons that are old hat to anyone familiar with the history of socialism). The railroads didn't argue that they should be able to spend zero money and make all the profits. They argued that they were paying money: they were paying employees fairly and adequately for their efforts. And having done that, they, as the owners of the company, took the profits that were left after meeting all company expenses, including paying labor fairly and adequately for its efforts. That's literally what owning a company means. An employee is not an owner. Profits are what the owners get after paying their employees.

A much better argument against the railroads in this case is that the railroad routes that their companies have exclusive rights to are granted by government regulation, not in a free market, so the revenues that are available to them, and which determine what their profits are after paying their employees, are not due to their sound business acumen, but to their ability to buy government regulations that favor them. But the article you cite does not say that (again, for well known ideological reasons).
For improved maintainability, I have attached pebgoards to a metal backing with threaded magnets[1] and wingnuts. You can then just pry it off the backing when needed.

I've also used 4 hasp-staples and appropriate sized dowels; if you align two of the staples with each other then you can remove the other two to hinge it out.

1: e.g. https://amazingmagnets.com/product-category/cupm-series-m-th...
> The question then becomes do you pay the value to the landlord, or do you pay it to the community?

This is the precise point, and thank you for elucidating it. With an LVT, the value of a highly-desirable piece of land inures to the community as a whole, and not whoever holds the title to that land. If the landowner wishes to come out ahead of this taxation, they are forced to improve it, whether in the form of tilling the soil, mining the minerals, or (most relevantly to our discussion) building a house or apartments on it.

As a side effect, it prevents the absurdities you see in many North American cities where there's a huge surface parking lot smack dab in the middle of a dense downtown area.
Different flag. A little less land. Fewer people occupied.

Same people in charge. Soviet government officials are now Russian government officials.
Ok, a warmer Mars is desirable. But is Mars, in earth’s orbit, but on the opposite side of the sun, really closer?
I don't think youtube supports ad-exclusion from content within the video. The creator doesn't have any space to declare a list of the names of companies or products they are endorsing. They merely have a checkbox to declare that the video contains paid product placement (required by UK law for example).
You're perfectly right, I'm conflating quality with business success.

I would disagree with the loose correlation point. Although it's just one component of a restaurant's broader strategy for success, quality is undoubtedly crucial. While in Times Square, I would doubt you would blindly choose any restaurant without considering food and service quality.

Also, I would say that while a restaurant owner can correctly evaluate another, it's not necessary implied that specifically an award winner has proven that the unbiased opinions of others put them in this position.
https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics-computers/privac...
Building an entire new city in Solana is better for California than 3-4 townhomes in Atherton.
> which was actually not true, but perception is reality

This is beyond stupid.
Memories of Molly
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pDY6bWT5oTM
Extreme heat poses heightened risk of death for those with schizophrenia
Many (most?) technology companies manufacture and sell physical products, and have dramatically different cost structures than a pure software company like Grindr.
aren't the pc, the internet, the browser and webserver, the gpu and more all incremental improvements too?

(not speaking about silicon valley)
What about the ADL itself? Here’s their call to action against Facebook. Why wouldn’t they go after twitter… Oh wait they did barely one month after acquisition.

https://www.adl.org/resources/letter/open-letter-companies-a...

https://theweek.com/controversies/1018137/one-month-after-it...

https://forward.com/news/556095/adl-twitter-advertising-boyc...
The only reliable system is, unfortunately, a lot of work and generalizes very poorly. You need to pay close attention to individual critics so you understand their tastes and how your own tastes intersect with theirs.

This is why the pre-internet system of reading your local newspaper and seeing what their film reviewer thought worked okay. From long experience you'd know that the reviewer e.g. loved anything with anti-war themes, had really high standards for romance subplots, and couldn't stand fantasy. Thus you could fit their review into your own standards and perhaps wind up interpreting an intensely negative review as a recommendation that you'd love that film.
https://archive.ph/b40Jq
Installing toolchains on Windows is a huge pain, and installing the a consistent version of toolchains across platforms is also hard.

Platformio is a package manager for embedded systems
It used to be "Embrace, extend, and extinguish": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...

Now it is "Train, Task, Transform, and Transfer":

Train - Feed copyrighted works into machine learning model or similar system

Task - Machine learning model is tasked with an input prompt

Transform - Machine learning model generates hybrid output derived from copyrighted works, but usually not directly traceable to a given work in the training set

Transfer - Generated output provides the essence of the copyrighted works, but is legally untraceable to the originals
> I don't think I could even get sign-off for using a new closed language for a work project...

Not with that kind of honesty, but call it a product/framework/partner for automatically optimizing in-house python code or something like that, and it sails right through.
You need someone to open the doors. And close them. And reopen them. Cats have a hard life!
What’s 83% on Rotten Tomatoes mean?

I mean, just to be silly, if we translate it to typical US grade scale… that’s like on the B to B- cusp which seems reasonable for the show.
They already know where you parked your car. The fee would be for sharing that info with you. But then the sheeple would wake up to what BMW tracks, so it's a classic espionage dilemma.
i don't know why people downvote, but writing highly performant gpu code across multiple languages is still in the realm of only a few people with a lot of the right experience can do well, and while ai can help assist those people it's not a problem that can be fully solved by an ai at this moment, maybe a few years with a large feedback loop of iterating, testing, benchmarking, repeating. i guess one day but not now
If you are concerned about animal welfare I suspect there are much worse things going on in the dairy and meat industries.
> Who would risk using a closed-source language?

Who doesn’t want a 68.000x speed-up!
> in the real world

I've worked at FAANG companies before making the standard X00,000$ total comp on projects with millions of users. I know how development at top companies "in the real world" works.

> the frontend is the most volatile part

Ok, whatever. Fortunately there are more things out there in software dev than just the one specific usecase you brought up. And its useful for that.

> I guess you're advocating

No, I am saying that as of right now, AI is a tool that speeds up development process significantly. And I am not talking about just generating a lot of stuff at once.

There are hybrid approaches that a human can use, to use AI, as well as code themselves that are useful.

And one specific example, would be that you can instantly look up an error and take suggestions for fixing it to get ideas.
Or just don't use their services? I don't need government to do this for me.
Maybe if we stop slaughtering millions of them for bacon we can think about the organ growing ones.
It's not like there's no precedent, almost any significantly complex analog design will include a bunch of hardware that is disabled on the customer chip even if it's there, commonly GPUs and CPUs. There's more gadgets like this where it's cheaper to produce the same thing for everyone but price them differently.
Probably a good idea, I pretty much eliminated them from the list of possibilities when shopping for a car this year because of this. I’m just one data point but I’m pretty sure im not the only lost sale.
I think their ML teams built a decent copyright filter and now they "productise" it.
I'd love to see some more examples!

This seems like it could be particularly useful in restricting the domain of the LLM. I.e. ensuring it outputs specific values and few-shot training these steps.

I think there may a really powerful integration here with LMQL. Has there been any thinking about doing so? LMQL seems quite powerful in constraining values and limiting the number of tokens used. This could be a great option for some steps. I.e. a categorization "is this task type X or type Y" before continuing in the logic flow.
Why Not Matrix?
If she’s flying every fortnight, she’s probably learnt how to avoid all those extra fees airlines loves to charge. And she’s probably not catching the train during rush hour.

Agreed about the carbon.
I used to leave turbo off during normal usage, just turning it on if I really needed to get something done quickly.

Obviously I didn't really understand the point of the button.
Hey I'm on the team at Retool and this is a place we're spending a lot of time right now. We're still working through the challenge of showing the depth of the IDE while balancing the goal of a lot of new users to maybe just get an admin panel or support dashboard that connects to their existing db or salesforce.

I'd love to hear from you (or anyone else reading this) on how your getting started experience went, particularly if you found yourself wanting to just eject into writing a script or app elsewhere. I love to pair on apps whether it's moving existing code into Retool or starting fresh to see the hurdles. My email is my HN username @retool.com

BTW just sent a twitter DM, thanks again for the feedback.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37421831.
Well... I did more than I've described in the post (I'm the article's author). It just became too large, so I've decided to stop and publish a second part once I run more tests and fix some problems.

So far, I have yet to figure out all the problems and settings with Netronome (or give up on it). Still, it is Netronome-specific as I can easily get line rate over TCP single stream with Mellanox cards, and the CPU doesn't even break a sweat (however, I have relatively simple routing rules).

I want to try out programmable NIC, and as far as I understand, Netronome has some support there; I just wanted to get a simple setup running first and then optimise/improve it. I tend to perfect the setup, and if I let myself do more and more and more - I will always need more time to finish it.
Paywalled features really cheapen a brand. Nothing about a monthly subscription to activate existing services really screams "premium" to me.
Well, cars are noisy, dirty, expensive to both individuals and taxpayers, they clog up roads, and are inherently anti-social.

We have a climate crisis, an obesity crisis, and also a mental health crisis, and bikes serve to alleviate all those things.

Stuff like morals and good citizenship: people just don't seem to value these things anymore. That's tragic, and also catastrophic.
> Will you indemnify those that follow your advice?

I strongly feel that this is a terrible metric for comments on the internet.

First, the person you’re replying to has nothing to gain and a lot to lose by saying "yes".

Second, it invites silly corner case nitpicking. Their comment is written in reasonable plain English for other users reading plain English. It’s not a legal contract, and so leaves lots of loopholes. Sure, you could create a likely non-transformative LLM by training it on nothing but the text of Harry Potter with fitness measured by how accurately it exactly reproduces the complete text of Harry Potter, but that’s not what reasonable people are doing with LLMs.
Yep they're already "going pro" with new pro dev boards. Arduino hasn't been relevant since the release of the original mega.

Now it's doing more damage by continuing to push an "Arduino" ecosystem separated from the realities of building production grade software.
I proposed a preference for systemic solutions over a soft dependence on white hat hackers who operate identically to black hat hackers right up until they have a vulnerability to exploit and decide what to do with it.

In this thread I expanded the detail to include the system to do this could (and imo should) be a legal framework that creates effective communication between companies and researchers.

I also try to adapt my language to try to parallel what the person I'm speaking with is trying to say, rather than telling them they didn't mean what they are telling me they meant. I apologize if created a misunderstanding with my word choice.

Yes I did mention requiring consent from the company as the ideal goal of the model. I am not suggesting the implementation of the model full stop at that just that sentence. In other areas of law, if you can prove a message was received by a company that can sometimes be considered implied consent if they do not respond to it.

We can also require that companies cannot simply refuse for no reason, but leave legal room here for any legitimate reasons to deny should they exist.

And so on and so forth.

It makes the intent of the researcher very clear.

Declining is obviously less pressure for the company in this situation, I agree. But it is not less pressure compared to the current situation. Companies currently have no obligations at all to researchers, and they certainly do not build security out of concern that white hat hackers will out them. They fear black hat hackers. Those are not going away, and if a legal framework exists for companies to work with researchers and better arrange fair conditions for both sides, I would bet companies will be MORE willing to allow research than less.

Because right now they company gets the research for free and then gets to decide whether or not they want to throw the researcher a Starbucks gift card or not. Or just press charges because they are assholes.

I dont really care what the market decides to do. The point of this is to protect the researchers regardless of what the market does. Because to your point, the market has already chosen poorly which is why we have issues on this subject to begin with.

Does this clarify my stance?
Sniffies. It’s far better than Grindr in almost every way. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sniffies
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37421730
Tiny details that are not relevant in the big picture though.
I buy this general argument, at least to extent that 'good enough' LLMs get commodified.

What are some of key aspects about scenarios where this commodification happens? Where it doesn't?

Speaking descriptively (not normatively), I see a lot of possibilities about how things will unfold hinging on (a) licensing, (b) desire for recent data, (c) desire for private data, (d) regulation.
> work with Congress and the private sector

The "private sector" here will be FAANG and other huge tech cos. They will argue for massive liability. Congress will agree because it makes them look tough and decisive. They know that only they can afford such liability. Smaller companies will be crushed by the liability insurance they need to cover these requirements.
Invest in platformio and other independent projects that actually advance the embedded world.
It seems quite exciting and all but I cannot figure out why they choose to impress people with marketing posts like "it is a billion times faster, oh no it is actually a zillion times faster" while their actual potential user base is waiting for license issues to be clarified.
Supported on macOS, Linux, and WSL
I think that Grindr is pretty solidly a software company.

Unlike most other dating apps (Tinder/OKCupid/Match/Bumble/etc.) there is no actual “matching” mechanism. You are just displayed a grid ordered by distance of the X closest people to you, which requires basically a chatbox and an app that can interact with location services.