skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I too used the "disks by post" service (in the UK) that the article describes, I've mentioned it before on HN too, but my investigation hasn't turned up the name of the company/catalog either, but I am fairly sure that it was a franchise operation based on the work of the ASP - "Association of Shareware Professionals" which was a US based organisation formed by a collection of shareware authors in 1987, and produced such a mail order catalog of software that you could order bulk shareware from.
In theory. Show me one example (not service or support, but selling actual software). You have a better chance of winning a lottery, happens every day.

In theory, I can just walk through solid wall, using a quantum tunneling effect.

The closes thing you will find are things like blender release under GPL (i.e. pay me a money to release my commercial software under GPL, but that's not selling GPL software),

This whole line of thinking is disingenuous.
Yes, in contrast to storing the board (which can be a fixed size), this depends on the length of the game of course.

That said, there are some optimizations you can apply that will compress moves even further (for example the order of the moves as explained in the Lichess blog post is important). In the end it's a tradeoff between (de)serializing the game fast and reducing the size (even more).
Some shameless self promotion. I wrote about this exact idea back in 2021: https://www.williamrinehart.com/2021/big-tech-regulation-spe...
Why do you assume that 565KB even matters?

I've been building loads of financial software, both back and front ends. In frontend world it, sadly is quite common to send that amount of "data" over wires before even getting to actual data

And in backends it's really a design decision. There's nothing faster than a Cron job parsing echange rates nightly and writing them to a purpose designed todays-rates.json served as static file to your mobile, web or microservices apps.

Nothing implies your mobile app has to consume this zip-csv_over_http
> the people were programed to actually follow the law. It fails every time on the real world because real people aren't.

Is anyone working on the problem of programming people? Or are we just hoping for a solution to that to fall into our laps?

> and why forced price-fixing bankrupts countries.

Ah ha! On this one I paid very close attention. No secret libertarians hiding in woodpiles, and sneaking out at night (or any other time) and stealing from the people. The only rational conclusion is that the simulation was set up to fail as some sort of propaganda.

Besides, only a few people died anyway, which for any socialist country is miraculously impressive success. So maybe not propaganda.

I'm beginning to think these simulations don't offer any insight into the real world at all.
I would hope "import" in this sense means it gets pushed to your personal git[hub,lab,] repo, and forked from your work account.
The public know the difference? I bet many people on HN don't, let alone the general consumers. Would you rather them ignore it than doing further research?

There is such as a weird bias for Apple on HN, unlike any other tech companies.
But sugary cereal is heart-healthy!

Oh wait, that's horseshit that even Kellogg can't get away with anymore.

https://thecounter.org/kellogg-sugary-cereal-healthy-label/

Breakfast cereal, namely corn flakes, is a mass psychosis. Have them sometimes if you like as a treat, but even then you might as well eat a bowl of ice cream. The idea of eating cornflakes was invented by a guy who gave his "patients" yogurt enemas. Why in 2023 are we still taking his advice?
Not a subject matter expert here, but how does this square with the fact that all iPhone 15 models support native 4k DisplayPort via USB C?

Is a fast controller only needed for specific types of data?

This reeks of segmentation
Big projects are ditching TypeScript why? [video]
Agreed. The article mentioned duckdb and I'm her to thumbs-up the use of DuckDB wholeheartedly. If you like the world of public CSV files as data sources that you can query or cross-query, duckdb is the tool for you. Just follow the demo on the duckdb website and you'll be wow'd for sure.
That was a fun little project. It looks even better in person!
wow, I was not expecting to fall down a hole of the creator's work for 15 minutes. This was especially fun:

https://textures.neocities.org
Ah looks like the EU is going to start taxing China as well.
recently they made cinder public…
this is a JIT’d version of cpython
Unfortunately, this is not true. You need to grab all the DB files (WAL, etc.) in a consistent manner. You can't grab them while writes are in progress. There are ways though. Look at what Kanister does with its recipes to get consistent DB snapshots to get a sense of the complexities need to do it "right."
We use TypeScript not based on preference, but because we want to make money
The eyesight I wouldn't complain at all. Until recently I didn't need glasses, except for reading. Hypermetropia is also called far-sightness for a reason. Worst period is when I only used glasses for the screen. Someone would come to interrupt and talk, I took the glasses off, then we were commenting on the screen contents, I put it on again, then back to talk and glasses off...

At home I use a 27'' screen with the regular glasses. I fear that if for a next job at some office they don't provide a similar one, the situation will repeat, now with regular glasses vs reading glasses :-m

I much prefer reading paginated media, and if at all possible, fixed-layout media (e.g., PDFs rather than ePub)

ePub didn't grow on me and I couldn't put my finger on why, I guess that's the reason.

About WAP phones, this was the one the company provided:

https://www.reddit.com/r/vintagemobilephones/comments/gefgsm...

Not bad, but not much I could do with it and they took away when I resigned.
You'd be surprised. I could very easily see former McKinsey alumni sprinkled through the industry slurping this stuff up.
Give the time and labour you're paid for, don't give emotional energy.
Simplicity Wins.

All. Ways. (TM)
Anyone have context as to how the name came to be? When I think of inverse vaccine, I think of something that gives you a disease. This is suggestive of erasing memory instead.

Super exciting work nonetheless.
It is very very rarely case (at least in my limited years in corporate world) that the leadership is more evil than the board (atleast for public for-profit companies. Even more rare is the board not having this chat with leadership before the announcement.
I just looked for three movies off the top of my head, 'xyz full movie' filtered for > 20 minutes

Every one of them was available on the first page of results!

Non-exhaustive, sure, but plenty of people use YouTube for piracy

Not really here to beat a horse, I think we're way off course. This is probably not that bad of a move, Hetzner auction servers are a major piracy hive.
The worst part of shrinkflation is restaurants who have reduced the sizes of their meals, in my opinion. I’ve seen this quite a lot in everything from fast casual places like Cava to locally owned establishments.
Potassium chloride tastes a lot like salt, but not exactly. Which I think means that it's some sort of 80/20 ratio.

Also one of my favorite science thought experiments from the last few years: What ~~does hydrogen~~ do protons taste like?
Artificial Inroads: Science gets down to business (1986) [pdf]
Hey, CSV is hard, guys.

I've found template injection in a CSV upload before because they didn't anticipate a doublequote being syntactically relevant or something.

It was my job to find these things and I still felt betrayed by a file format I didn't realize wasn't just comma separated values only.
Which would be a great solace to someone who just spent $10k or more like 2-3x that responding to a lawsuit. But that's also why I agree the odds of actually getting sued are near-zero.
It sounds like you're wielding "job marketplace bargaining power" and/or "structural strategic bargaining power" to pursue the same goals that unionized workers without those assets to leverage pursue via "associational bargaining power."

> Contentions about the state of world labor are based on assumptions about the impact of contemporary globalization on workers' bargaining power. A useful starting point for differentiating types of workers' bargaining power is Erik Olin Wright's (2000: 962) distinction between associational and structural power. Associational power consists of "the various forms of power that result from the formation of collective organization of workers" (most importantly, trade unions and political parties). Structural power, in, con- trast, consists of the power that accrues to workers "simply from their location... in the economic system." Wright further divides "structural" power into two subtypes. T h e first subtype of structural power (which we shall call marketplace bargaining power) is the power that "results directly from labor markets." Thee second subtype of structural power (which we shall call workplace bargaining power) is the power that results "from the strategic location of a particular group of workers within a key industrial sector."

> Marketplace bargaining power can take several forms including (1) the possession of scarce skills that are in demand by employers, (2) low levels of general unemployment, and (3) the ability of workers to pull out of the labor market entirely and survive on nonwage sources of income. Workplace bargaining power, on the other hand, accrues to workers who are enmeshed in tightly integrated production processes, where a localized work stoppage in a key node can cause disruptions on a much wider scale than the stoppage itself. Such bargaining power has been in evidence when entire assembly lines have been shut down by a stoppage in one segment of the line, and when entire corporations relying on the just-in-time delivery of parts have, been brought to a standstill by railway workers' strikes.[0]

0. Beverly J. Silver, "The Forces of Labor"
> What I don't get is why there are no readily available online macroeconomic simulators with real world data that make these sort of predictions.

Are you high or what?

The problem is so complex that people don't even agree how to take a measurement, let alone how to simulate the system. If nowadays people disagree when looking at the same numbers, imagine if each one could point to the numbers in his own simulator.
Is this a thing in the US? Here, if the code was written of your own volition outside of work hours then it's yours.
Probably. Though they can also change their settings.

While I agree with you, at the same time I think we need to recognize that most people are very uncomfortable with switching platforms. There's a lot of opportunity costs to most people. People tend not to be long term thinkers and aren't considering the consequences of their actions. For example, look at how many people here on HN -- where tech literacy is high as well as capabilities -- complain about Google's domination of the internet yet at every turn are quick to go after Mozilla and Firefox. The main alternatives are still Chromium based browsers. Same is true about Apple's walled garden. The sad truth is that things won't change unless we can convince the __average__ person, not __a__ person. Hell, I can't even get the most paranoid big brother boomer to use Signal despite it being rather trivial. I just don't know anymore tbh.
Well... doesn't that circumvent the point of backups? Backups in my mind are supposed to be like read-only, can never be modified so that the system that was corrupted can't do anything harmful to the safe previous checkpoint.

I guess it has to have some method of what you mention then. If someone wants their data deleted, yes, what about the backups?
Because the city teams were in China, we didn't have this luxury. Everything had to be behind Uber's beyondcorp equivalent, and there was no real way to auth folks from the Chinese mainland. Our only surface was the browser.
Someone has to refer them to a professional, and certainly it’s unlikely anyone else will. I looked and there’s already a nice selection of replies as predicted, so I’m still comfortable with my contribution here.

> Honey,

Is this an autocorrect typo for something relevant in this context? I wasn’t sure how to interpret it, so apologies if I’ve disregarded something important in my reply.
Where does one even acquire a VPS that makes this worth it? Most VPS pricing I've looked at is significantly more expensive than something like BackBlaze or IDrive. So what even is the point of rolling your own backups if you can't get cheap terrabytes in the cloud? And no I'm not going to consider something like S3 because Amazon's pricing is obnoxious and confusing. Edit: $70 / month for 3TB of S3. Significantly more expensive than all of the managed SaaS backup providers.
Hi, I created the diagrams using Figma.

The retrieval process consists of three stages. The first stage retrieves small chunks from multiple documents to create a document filter using their metadat. This filter is then applied in the second stage to extract relevant large chunks, essentially sections of documents, which further refines our search parameters. Finally, using both the document and large chunk filters, the third stage retrieves the most pertinent medium-sized chunks of information to be passed to the Language Model, ensuring a focused and relevant response to your query.
Yeah this is it. I want to have full knowledge over who has my data and for what purpose. I think we'll get there eventually but it'll take a while.
> The environment is plenty competitive

the environment is not competitive enough. There is no further proof required of this than that google can abuse its users and make products worse for years, perhaps decades, without experiencing market punishment for it

the end determines the sufficiency of the means: if the end is that google can do that, the current means are insufficient, because that is bad

> Organizing people to make and distribute things takes unimaginable time and energy.

it absolutely does, far, far moreso when you're going up against a giant like google

solution: slay the giant. We've tried not doing so, and it brought us here, to this failure point.
Depends on your VPN provider.
Also on Amazon you will see the prices if you are logged in.
i have never seen this before. now, i want to see it for the earth-moon, or the planets with a 3:2 relationship, or the..., or the....

thanks! i needed a new hobby related rabbit hole of projects for when we have cloudy skies, but still want to do something astro related.
I worked for a company that used TSV for huge datasets. It was extremely efficient, far more so than any database.
The only other place i have seen this being discussed is the french sub-reddit

https://old.reddit.com/r/france/comments/16jjgzo
It's easy in Javascript. I struggled to do the same thing (for citations) in Latex back in the day!
I'm confused about the circular reference thing. Like, was there a reason to do the linear regression that way? Is there a secret story in a story where next week, in a spinoff / sequel episode, the data scientist responsible will explain why they took the weird/surprising choices they did?
Short term yes, but long term, life's too short. Pursue FI, especially if you're a craftsman, so you can work on what brings you joy, without an expiration date.

"Cattle, not pets" may be a good way to run a business, but not your life.
No, bad faith commenters are here trying to make it political. Like you, right now. Reframing socual issues as political just hurts us all and precludes critical thinking around issues.
> that it has a standard library that is world class for building a worldwide ads serving network

What does the golang standard lib have for that use case that Java doesn't have, or do better?

> but the argument is that forcing programmers to use a quite limited set of abstractions makes code more readable

There's a good balance. Sure you can probably argue that Scala opens the door for many different ways to write a program. But golang took the extreme opposite approach, resulting in very verbose code that is difficult to decipher. Java has a very solid middle ground here.
Jimmy Buffet
I just inherited a code base written by somebody in that exact same situation. Saving a single file associated with a model in 27 steps instead of about 4.
This sounds very much in the spirit of Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz[0]

[0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AfKZclMWS1U
Those are all a part of (but not the complete reasons) /why/ there is this segmentation in the market, but the segmentation is clear. Apple offers a superior product, treats their customers better, and is so expensive it is out of reach for many many people. Android offers a cheaper product, offers sometimes no updates at all or any assistance to customers, and is available to the masses.

Vines' theory doesn't try to analyze /why/ things are the way they are, it's an observation of the higher cost of being poor. I am simply pointing out that the allegory extends to mobile phones, apparently, because there is a higher cost to being poor when your device gets security (and other) updates for half the length of time or less, or is made with lower quality and less powerful components, so has to be replaced more often.

A base model iPhone is $800, a typical base model Android phone is around $200. That base model iPhone will get full iOS updates for 6 years, and security updates for 8 years, and is made of high quality components, and apps on the app store will generally work on that device for its entire lifespan (~8 years). That base model Android phone may never receive an update after release, but is generally guaranteed at most 1 year of updates, it is made with the cheapest components available as a low-margin device, and there are many apps on the play store that won't work on the device on the day its bought because it's not powerful enough, it will require replacement in roughly 1 year when it can no longer be updated (or more likely becomes broken, with no support). Over the same 8 year span that the iPhone base model user spends $800, the Android base model user will end up spending $1600 to maintain a phone with updates.

Of course, there are flagship Android phone models as well. But even in that case the story is worse for Android, because you'll spend $1000 on an Android phone instead of $1200 on an iPhone, and you'll get 3 years of updates and no support, vs ~8 years of updates and support. In time-adjusted dollars, the iPhone is actually cheaper than Android, but it has a higher entry cost in the general sense than the Android phone. It's matching nearly identically to the allegory, which is why I pointed that out.

The fact all modern devices, technologies, and our society in general is going to hell in a handbasket doesn't really matter in the context of what I am saying, but yes, I agree, enshittification ruins all.
Not all bread has

* added sugar

* preservatives

* texturizers

Cut these out and you're on the right side concerning processed foods.
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AFAIK rclone is a sync tool. A backup tool is not the same as a sync tool.
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Cool -- if one of the companies wants to issue a takedown request, they're free to make the case for it.

It's funny there's this idea that a company _might_ be potentially injured over code they do not want or know they had being made open source by its actual author, even though many of those companies will gladly use open-source tooling without ever contributing anything back.

Perhaps more soundly, though, in California – where Uber is headquartered – IP/Copyright for code is a huge legal question that the state and federal Supreme Court has no clear answer to. Sure, you obviously can't secretly clone Uber's entire stack, slap a new company logo on it, and start up as a competitor. But if you, as an author, wrote some code for a company under an IP agreement, then no-longer worked at said company, and then later adapted and expanded upon that code (or even started over, with the knowledge of what you learned from others' work): are you, at the originator, not legally allowed to be inspired by your past work? That's not something you, me, or even the company could decide.
> He simply couldn’t believe that I’d written a full spreadsheet engine that ran in the browser.

I can't believe it either, and I don't mean this in a good way.

Apache POI lets you run headless Excel. You import and interact with sheets programmatically in Java. We used this in my old workplace for exactly the same reason (functions, cell references, the whole thing), it worked great.

You found the ‘circ’ problem with a bit of luck. What about all of the other hidden little quirks of Excel that you would ultimately run into down the road? Are you really going to build and maintain a full blown Excel clone in JS? Is this really the objective of the frontend team?

It seems to me like a bit of googling and >90% of the work here could have been avoided. As an added bonus it would have been done by the backend team instead.
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I disagree. Programming allows for so much freedom and flexibility in how you approach problems. I find that a large portion of the job is following your gut feeling and putting it into words.
I've been reading through vintage computer magazines in my spare time - this is from Unix Review, February 1986 issue. I was just struck with how this could almost be talking about GPT-4 or copilot, 40 years ago!

The technology must have seemed just around the corner...
TL;DR - things only look bad because measurement got better.

Just create a throwaway account, complaining won’t change things.
I meant during the study.

The LLM is capable of instantly recollecting all the information it was trained on when prompted with a question. Human memory and processing are far less capable.

So the results of this test depended on a) whether humans were "trained on" relevant information, b) their capacity to recollect it, and c) their capacity to produce new information, i.e. creativity.

The only fair comparison would've been to allow humans to consult the same information the LLM was trained on when asked the question, give them time to process it, and come up with an answer. Otherwise, this "study" is only proving that machines are better at processing data than humans, which is undisputed, and not anything related to creativity itself.
The availability will be the biggest problem for the next decade, unless governments force it with huge subsidies.

The EU has mandated that every "major highway" must have a H2 depot every 2-300km, can't remember exactly.

But still you need to get it made somewhere, preferably not from natural gas, because that's just stupid. It needs to be transported to a station, by truck, on a regular schedule or it'll stop working.

Compared to EV chargers which are, in essence, glorified power outlets.
I've definitely experienced this with colgate toothpaste and sure enough it's on this list!
Did they get smaller or just fewer in the pack?
How many managers have you had? Seems like an odd generalization.