skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is weird that the Apple angle in the article is basically "Apple isn't changing store rules immediately and retroactively to block a company who we don't like"
> It weakens belief in our system of governance as a whole.

Accurately
This is incredible. Thank you for sharing.
Also, not all ads are the same from an ethical standpoint.

Displaying an app ad in the appstore upon searching for a similar term is very different than displaying ads based on your whole life, collected in malicious ways.
When will Bun open up to libre and/or federated chat options instead of requiring users sign up for and agree to Discord’s ToS?
My guess is that handling bots, spam and abuse is one of the harder parts of the app at this point. It's a constant moving adversary that only gets worse the more popular your social app is, and not handling the problem can really drive users away.
There was some criticism yesterday about bun being stable using a language (zig) that isn't considered stable. Do you care to comment about it?

Ref: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37422894
https://effectiviology.com/brown-mms/ could help solving the reviewing a proposal problem.
I'm sure I've heard of Waterfox before, but this is the first time I have checked it out.

Some constructive criticism, if you're open to it: The web page is just a bunch of standard marketing fluff with about 5 download links scattered around. It looks a lot like every other "product" website out there screaming, "trust us, it'll be worth it!"

If you really want to attract people like me to it, you can't just _say_ you're awesome, you need to _show_ us you're awesome. In your blog (which is hard to find), you express great gratitude towards your users and community. Where is this community, exactly? I might like to join it but I can't find it anywhere. I had to scroll all the way to the bottom of the page to find a link to the source code (which just says "GitHub," mind).

I had to search pretty hard to find out that it is open source and apparently actively maintained, so I will check it out after all. But I was seconds away from just closing the tab out of disinterest and not looking back.
> Apple has always had an advertising business, remember apps with ad banners in the early IOS store?

Remember what their advertising clients disliked about Apple's ad platform compared to the likes of Facebook and Google?

> A new report on Advertising Age has revealed what advertisers think of Apple's arrogance when it comes to its mobile advertising platform and its tight grip on user data.

"One person familiar with the situation exec said Apple's refusal to share data makes it the best-looking girl at the party, forced to wear a bag over her head," the AdAge report read.

https://www.techtimes.com/articles/3568/20140222/apple-cares...
Incorrect. Apple actively screws us. Just a couple of years ago, launching apps became incredibly slow for some time. Diagnosis: Apple's telemetry web service was having hiccups: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/mac-apps-not-opening-or...
You weren't the only one. I was thinking it would be something like this: https://awaytogarden.com/creating-living-willow-structures-m...
Eh, the problem with social hierarchies beyond who's the cool friend is that they reproduce beyond one generation. People will delude themselves into thinking their position is a god-given right and violently defend that.
One issue is the lack of domain expertise. To really understand a problem you need to be a domain expert. Young people, who are a large part of the tech world, don't really have a lot of that.

You can also learn what problems are worth solving by talking to people (ie: customers). How many customers have you talked to today?

That's why so many startup books talk about customer focus, customer acquisition, erc. Someone needs to buy it. Who is that someone?
Interesting. I wonder if this is also true for available/existing commercial/open-source PyPI mirroring solutions [Edited].
> They have money

And much more of it after crypto gained popularity. Darknet Diaries went through investigating some of their hacks. Amounts from one can be more than entire GDP of a small country. Some crypto is washed through Macanese etc banks but most is just used to pay for weapons and stuff directly.
Nice! I was looking at du(1) output on macOS which appears to indicate all files are duplicated. It probably just can’t tell the files are clonefile’d.
The Brown M&M’s Principle: How Small Details Can Help Discover Big Issues
You can save these and import them into WhatsApp via some sticker creation apps.
This is fun
I prefer AppStore.
If the app is not on there, I'll check their website, and download from there.
Lastly, I use brew.

The exception is command line tools, those I usually install with brew. (pyenv, ffmpeg, etc)
> They also ship closed source DRM in the browser which infringes on software freedoms.

I thought it wasn't shipped with the browser but the browser asks if you want to download it when you first need it.
Two out of three of the things listed are akin to the analogy used. RTO isn't (except to the extent that it's being used a shitty way to drive voluntary attrition, but I think those cases are far more rare than merely being accepted as a negative side-effect).
Looks nice. Too bad they won't develop for Android.
> It's as if the efficacy of a business isn't completely positively correlated with the coolness of its tech stack.

Hard reality to acknowledge by an industry that takes the term 'software is eating the world' at face value.
[Limiting scope to western economies...]

The problem is that a purely innovative technological change is usually tiny and incremental. Most existing technology is more than good enough for most people most of the time.

The really important problems that hold back progress, or oppress people's lives, cannot be solved by a quick-fix startup.

There is bureaucratic bloat, regulatory capture, crony oligopolies, over-regulation, vested interests, rent seekers, oppression by crisis, cover-your-ass management, negative sum legal action, nimbyism, planning quagmires, hyperactive enviromental zealots, bad zoning laws, silent majorities, corruption, luddite unions, private equity rape & pillage, dysfunctional politics at every level, propaganda, people that fervently believe propaganda, arrogant elites, useful idiots, incompetence as a badge of honor, capture of education/media, unaccountable globalism, sociopaths in power, aspirational victimhood, hypocracy, too much debt, economic obfuscation, government intervention, lack of common sense, too much individuality, lack of community, family breakdown, sustained irrationality, consumerism, distortion of the property markey, printing money, government setting interest rates, too many laws, too much surveillance, too many taxes, executive orders, two-party systems, deep state, military-industrial complex, nanny state, poverty trap, atomization of society, drug addiction, opiate deaths, over-incarceration, prison-industrial complex, war on drugs, espionage, excessive copyright protection, intellectual propety theft, nepotism, extrovert dominance, urban decay, litter, noise pollution, light pollution, modern architecture, processed food, particulate pollution, crumbling infrastructure, advertising billboards, did I mention too much debt? ...

... profit over truth, efficiency over beauty, feelings over facts, posture over competence, cheap talk over real commitment, do-what-I-say over watch-what-I-do, abstraction over practicality, focus groups over philosophical coherence, partisanship over leadership, and championing failure over success.

More fundamentally, there is the doom loop of democracies voting themselves more printed money for social welfare, while distracted by hedonistic bread and voyeuristic digital circuses.

Startups can't fix that.

P.S. Except maybe, er, bitcoin :)
IMO, yes. And you can also trespass users - prevent them from ever coming back - even as you provide a business generally open to the public.
That right there is why I used the scare quotes. :)
That's a heck of a URL.
The Turkish justice system is a joke, between good behaviour and prison overcrowding, I bet he won't even serve 1% of his 11,196 year sentence.
Same!!!! I still have it knocking around somewhere in the basement. Wild to think about where we’ve all gone since that era. Amazing ride.
I remember watching this documentary a few years ago and thinking

1) this concept had so much promise but man they could have made this docu better

2) those are some famous names before they became famous

3) we need more such docus that capture forever the daily office life at a particular point in time
Your first option is part of my first option - the problem developing recently is a possible explanation for why people lived without a solution in the past, but you still need to convince people its now a problem they need to spend their money on solving. As we can see specifically with handling climate change, that's easier said than done.

Your second option is part of my second option - some new technological development may allow you to do what no one has done before, but you must still convince people that you have this capability. As we see with self driving cars, many have claimed that hardware had reached the point it was achievable only to realize the problem is harder than they thought.
Squeezing Blood from a Stone: Overcoming LLM Limitations
Hello readers! Our team has built an AI/LLM-driven code review tool that significantly helps improve dev velocity and code quality.

We are sharing a blog post covering our journey to build CodeRabbit, how we worked around AI/LLM limitations, and our vision to see CodeRabbit as an AI-first developer tools company.

Please look at it. We will happily answer any technical questions regarding the sophisticated prompt engineering we did for this project.
I would be hard pressed to call a transient operational issue of their service "actively screwing" you.
I work at a DSP and directly manage a few million a month in ad spend. I talk to digital marketing managers, vps of marketing, heads of analytics, etc of household e-commerce and cpg brands weekly. All of them have extremely strict vetting practices to ensure their vendors are not fingerprinting or using any mildly questionable tactics. Literally all of them want privacy focused advertising, some of them are even requesting audits of environmental impacts of our server usage/etc.

Their is a world that is privacy focused and gives advertisers what they need - that’s what the privacy sandbox is trying to achieve. My employer works with Google directly on topics and other solutions to achieve what we want and create privacy.
Consumers are treading water financially. Creditors are also incentivized to continue to lend, due to the profit structure. Increase limits, capture as many fees and interest as possible, charge off and ship the debt to a debt buyer.
I’m fairly sure there are many forms of advertisement that works without tracking.. like a billboard.

Displaying an ad next to search results based on the search query for example is similarly benign.
The awkward semantics of Facebook reactions
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It's more of a loaded term than meant literally.

"The YC of Pittsburgh" for instance wouldn't attract the best talent worldwide, but SF and SV is known globally as the center of tech. If someone replicated YC in the global center of tech, they'd have a big advantage over YC.
Hi I'm very interested in this, do you have an email I can send a resume to?
Let me guess. You like crypto.
It's been on my mind lately as well. I was trying out `symbolics.jl` (a CAS written in Julia), and it turned out that it didn't support symbolic integration beyond simple linear functions or polynomials (at least back then, things have changed now it seems). Implementing a generic algorithm for finding integrals is hard, but I was expecting more from that CAS since this seems to be implemented in most other CASs. The thing is that every single CAS that covers general maths knowledge will have to implement the same algorithm, while it's hard to do it even once!

I feel like at least a large part of the functionality of a general purpose CAS can be written down once, and every CAS out there could benefit from it, similar to what the Language Server Protocol did for programming tools. They also had to rewrite the same tool for some language multiple times because there are lots of editors out there, and the LSP cut the time investment down a lot. They did have to invest a large amount of time to get LSP up and running, and it'll have to be maintained, but I think it's orders of magnitudes more efficient than having every tool developed and maintained for every single (programming language, editor) pair out there.

Main problem is like you said how to write down mathematical knowledge in a way that all CASs can understand it. I've been learning about Mathlib lately [0], which seems like a great starting point for this. It is as far as I know one of the first machine readable libraries of mathematical knowledge; it has a large community which has been pushing it continuously forward for years into research-level mathematics and covering the entire undergraduate maths curriculum and it's still accelerating. If some kind of protocol can be designed to read from libraries like this and turn it into CAS code, that would be a major step towards making the CAS ecosystem more sustainable I think.

It's not exactly what you were talking about, as in, this would allow multiple CASs to co-exist and benefit from each other, but I think that's better than having one massive CAS that has a monopoly. No software is perfect, but having a diverse set of choices that are open source would be more than enough to satisfy everyone.

(I have posted about this before [1] on the Lean Zulip forum. It's open to everyone to read without an account)

[0] https://leanprover-community.github.io/
[1] https://leanprover.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/113488-gener...
TPM provides zero practical security
Not sure it applies to twitter specifically, but if you are scraping websites you should check robots.txt. The intended purpose is to direct you to where the content actually is, so you're not wasting resources spidering through contentless pages, just because they're linked from somewhere.
"Full-time jobs that offer cash-plus-equity are celebrated and positively symbolic of Silicon Valley ethos... But seeking both from a single opportunity has real tradeoffs. Instead, what if you unbundled cash and equity? Seek both, but from different opportunities."
Heirloom Carbon: Absorbing CO2 from the air using crushed rocks
I love the irony of the “sign up with google” button at the end of the slideshow.
LLMs/transformers are a breakthrough on the level of convolutional neural networks — significant, and one that opens up lots of new interesting applications as well as invites lots more R&D — but like the neural net it’s not gonna fundamentally transform society or industry.

(And as far as I can tell this current craze is entirely predicated on LLMs/transformers.)
> Thodex was one of Turkey's largest crypto exchanges before it suddenly went offline in April 2021 and Özer went missing ... without access to deposits of $2 billion in cryptocurrencies.

A billion is a thousand million.
5.5 years per million stolen isn't that much.
Cool data. Now for the real-life implication and meaning of those nice numbers, for the SW industry :

- low unemployment + high employer demand for new positions + high wage growth = hot job market

- where the market was in 2016-2021

- low unemployment + low employer demand for new positions + low wage growth = lukewarm job market

- where the market was in 2022

- low unemployment + medium employer demand for new positions + low wage growth = warm job market

- where the market is currently
Notice "EARLIER understanding". Archaeology was a thing back when witch trials were all-too-common, and the Divine Right of kings was still mainstream thought. Howard Carter was ~done excavating Tutankhamun's tomb before British women had equivalent voting right to men.
It’s not uncommon to have a nodejs library take like 10-15 mins to go through building and testing in GitHub actions CI
Yep, if there was compelling, rigorous data to show a major productivity boost from RTO - evidence strong enough to shut up the opposition, at least some companies would've revealed it by now. We've seen zip, nada, zilch.

The RTO mandates are a pure labor/capital power play. It's really not much more complicated than "we want to remind you we're in charge, and to show you just how we're in charge, we're gonna make you do something you don't want to do"
I'd imagine also a highway with traffic would act as sort of air barrier when there is traffic zooming thru it whole day making noise and wind, even if we ignore pollution.
Very cool. Congrats on getting this launched @gogwilt!
that sucks for the victims, as crypto was attractive because of the crazy inflation in Turkey
What features are you looking for? Just an online office suite?

Office 365 and Zoho are two others.
It's also a short, clean and easy to read shell script.
:( Everyone really needs to clean their data
So they basically want to disappear from every search engine results?
>We could be producing concrete that's 30 percent stronger by processing and adding charred coffee grounds to the mix, researchers in Australia have discovered.

LOL

Of course it was Australians... Coffee and Concrete. Its what w're building our mines on.
So, a clickwrap User Agreement?

Those are generally accepted as legal and enforceable. Though enforcing a pants color might be hard.
That's probably the least of their worries. Bees need flowers to exist to find flowers, and their native resources have dwindled. Bees can also not travel that far without refueling, so they need distributed flowers to be successful.
At interviews managers are asked "how many reports did you have?" not "how much value did you deliver to the company?"
AI models and their biases are reflections of the biases of society. I don’t like them, but it’s hard to argue with the fact it’s just math producing the semantic best likelihood based on publicly sourced training data.
Definitely part of diplomacy effort of netanyahu with the despots if the world. NSO CEO travelled with him to Saudi t among other places.
It's software there's economics of scale by default.
Mercurial is still available in a lot of places. If you want to use it, I say more power to you
I think they've opened up GPT-4 with 4k tokens for a month or so now, and I wasn't in the preview. I still don't have access to the 32k token model.
> Yeah, radioactivity that harms everyone around the material

But that's not true. It can be handled safely and radioactivity can be used for medical treatments! Besides there is radioactivity in lots of things. I swear you people are so anti-science and propagandized about radiation, you're afraid of radiation lurking around every corner. It even occurs naturally from the sky! Are you going to ban the sky? Since banning nuclear armament has clearly failed people like you are really just enabling state actors who traffic nuclear materials.
oh was it compression? i think thats the most technically apt comparison?
>how often Saint Jobs of Steve made unbelievably stupid, bad decisions

"Visionaries" are like this. Nobody is going to mistake RMS for a saint, and he's a very odd man, but his wacky devotion to user freedoms has accomplished a lot.

Jobs had a lot of crazy ideas and a lot of good ideas, and he had the drive to make both the crazy and the good happen. Sometimes you gotta take all of it to get some of it.

BTW, I agree with you. Old school printing is superior in so many ways. There are a few businesses still doing letterpress printing because it is so... human. It's visual, it's tactile, and people respond to it. Cheap and easy never looks as good.
Could you propose a way to do this? Looking for anything that resembles PII on-screen and cutting off network access, perhaps?
Cyanobacteria. Those morons almost killed everyone. They are still floating around https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanobacteria I think the total weight of Cyanobacteria is bigger than the total weight of Humanity, but I can't find hard numbers.

I guess it's possible to send a container with them to Mars. The biggest problem would be to get enough water so they don't disécate. Also preventing them freezing may be difficult, but I guess it's possible.

Anyway, for now people is trying to not send bacterias to Mars, just in case there are some bacteria-like things living there. It would be very interesting to have a second independent example of life to investigate and compare.
Looking at Apple's latest reports, their services and App Store revenue has become the main vector of growth. Considering this includes App Store ads, gambling apps and the bulk of it is in-app purchases, I don't see Apple having a moral high ground.
Stackoverflow is very much the exception not the rule. Most of your top tier software companies have server fleets that scale well past the 10,000's of nodes level, and for container based workloads I don't think its uncommon to have even medium sized companies running 100k+ containers.
It has experimental support as of this release: https://bun.sh/blog/bun-v1.0#bun-more-thing
You're jumping to conclusions: I just tried the package.json below, and bun's node_modules folder is smaller than pnpm's (3.9M with pnpm vs 3.4M with bun), and as a sibling noted, bun is also deduplicating globally.

That, coupled with the fact that bun installs twice as fast when no packages are cached (634ms compared to 1.3s) and 100x as fast when all packages are cached (6ms to 639ms), I think it's fair to say that bun can replace pnpm.

Here's the package.json I tried:

{ "dependencies": { "express": "^4.18.2" } }%
I would love to watch someone who's never heard Beethoven's moonlight sonata try this.
> does that counteract your point

No because the word "All" only requires one counterpoint to invalidate.

> It’s a statement about the job as a whole not the individual

A cop is an individual.
https://twitter.com/FAANews/status/1700150312764375383

> We have closed the @SpaceX Super Heavy mishap investigation. The final report cites multiple root causes of the April 20 mishap and 63 corrective actions SpaceX must take. This does not signal resumption of Starship launches at Boca Chica.

https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/faa-closes-spacex-starship-mish...

https://www.faa.gov/media/70901
You could probably randomly turn to just about any page in BNW or 1984 at this point and find a sentence that applies.