skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Chinese are willing to work harder for less money to produce higher quality goods. A strategy that involves the US taking its ball and going home is likely to leave the US looking silly. If this line of thinking takes hold in the US government you'll have poor US families looking at poor Asian families in envy because the Asians have a car and a few other bits and bobs (maybe some extra food, air conditioning, a TV, whatever) where the US family has only the car.

I'm not even against jingoism, but couldn't it be channelled in a slightly more productive way? The US was at its peak when US nationalism meant the US enjoyed higher living standards than everyone else.
Providing faster service would provide value to their customers.
Thanks for pointing this out!

Did not realize it was so simple and easy to download high quality video files and watch them full scrren with great performance and hardware acceleration (and no ads!) This is awesome!
> * Isn't the US the great bastion of the free market, rugged capitalism, entrepreneurial spirit etc etc etc? I mean at least that's what I see all the people on here claiming vis-a-vis why SV is better than everyone else.

I'm fairly new to US point of view (as in, I witness it only since like 10 years ago), but I feel like this has evolved, and the actual theories of "free market" (which include not having roadblocks, promoting SMBs because of diminishing returns , the need to inform the consumers, the integration of externalities in the taxes) are getting more and more support in the US, especially in SV. I think this has been severely pushed by US' Healthcare sector, where there is no obvious blatant anti competitive behaviors, but have profound negative impact on US society.
I think conglomerates killing small useful services by providing the same for free (but bad and without any further innovation) have also had impact there. I'm sure most people on HN has a service in their mind that used to be great, that got killed by Google doing the same for free, but that got enshittified and they are sad the original service is dead.
> Typical FOSS person never reads my point clearly

No, what has happened here is that I have understood and rejected the framing of your point. Open source 2d plotters are trivial to find, as are open source printing presses of all sorts. By narrowing your framing to the one part of the market that is demonstrably broken and anti-consumer to try to score a cheap point, you're actually proving mine.

The reason you don't see open source inkjets and laserjets is because the technologies are patented, which is exactly the problem the open source 3d printing aims to defend against. Not because nobody wants to do it, or because it's a bad idea: it's because HP will sue you into the ground if you try. And that's the situation Bambu are actively trying to create for themselves.

> Thats all well and good but again it does not change the fact that it is not something you can rely on to just get the job done. That was my point.

So what? Buy crap, get crap. Again, the problem here is not the existence of a product that does not satisfy your personal needs. Why pick on your personal experience with the SV06 to tar the entire open source 3d printing sphere with the same brush? Why bring up the SV06 at all? Why bring up open source printing at all?

> I hope that the X1c or something like it eventually reaches a price point where it is accessible to the mass market and becomes the bare minimum standard of quality and ease of use.

It hasn't. That proves precisely nothing either way about open source vs closed source.
Quick question, how do we know this extensions are no spying on us?
That Copper Knickers guy has a lot to answer for too!
What email do you use for your domain registration?
I've been using iCloud since they announced support for custom domains. You can have up to 5 custom domains, catch all and 3 aliases for each domain as low as $0.99/mo
This is true in my experience as well. Business needs and expectations should be fully aligned, and there must be commitment. Business/Product can't expect devs to do an unsupervised 1:1 rewrite that magically includes all features. You gotta treat it as if it were new software: do it incrementally and watch thing closely, test and approve or ask for change. Business must also learn to adapt and modify their workflow.

To me this is where a lot of rewrites fail. Not only rewrites, but even implementations of off-the-shelf systems. The company (both management and other workers) is so entrenched in the current processes that they will keep pushing for the time and money available to be spent on constantly tweaking the new system until it exactly what it was, and then all the old problems come back again. I've seen companies blowing millions on consultants because of this.

But this also happens for new features. The current system I work at is in its 4th permission system, for internal permissions. The problem is not so much that requirements change, but that nobody in product/business really knows them. So each permission system starts alternating between being too malleable (and then it devolves into chaos in the settings) or too rigid/simple (and then it then devolves into people asking for too many permissions).

You gotta fix the business before fixing the software.
and enter passcode how?
Intel's DAOS 2.4 Storage Engine Released
The original description sounds like it’s about subscribing to buy/sell signals. Your response here still sounds like a more carefully worded version of that.

Reacting to real time trades easily leads to emotional decisions and that’s one of the biggest things traders struggle with. It just goes against everything I appreciate about trading so no I’m not interested.
Gems like this make all the time I spend on HN worthwhile. Thank you so much Jeremy Howard, you are a legend!!
'Hei-hei' here where I live in Norway. Or 'God morgen'. Or more likely 'morgen-morgen', which is pronounced something like morn-morn. Much like in England where we might say 'Morning!' with a smile.
If you have to search to see if the Devil’s Advocate alternative you’re trying to gotcha OP on, who is being presumptive? Maybe you could’ve searched first?

My point had to do with the extreme accusatory nature of the post, without data to back it up.

My post was absolutely the reverse of presumptive, for I asked is someone was being so, not asserting that they were.
>. The economies of scale of the software industry allows excess central bank printed money to flow predominantly towards software companies and VC backed mega startups.

I don't know why people keep saying this. The central bank doesn't do this. It doesn't hand over money to investors. I don't like saying it but this sounds too much like a conspiracy theory to me. I mean, the pathway for why exactly this is supposed to happen is not explained at all.

In reality commercial banks create the money and they don't give a damn about small or medium sized companies. The central bank is just there to make sure the money system doesn't collapse in either direction. This means they do tend to support commercial banks with excess reserves but those banks make the decisions based on the expectation of getting that money back, which is in stark contrast to the free money rethoric. If someone is doing something it's not the central banks.

Have you tried working with hardware by the way? Anything related to hardware has a huge capital intensitivity and this means more of the money is going into paying interest or capital returns to investors instead of employees. If the earning potential of a software and hardware developer are the same but each hardware job requires $400k in capital then just the usual 8% return expectation would cut the hardware developer's salary by $32k.
Meanwhile the software guy needs a laptop and monitors on a desk in an office. None of this has anything to do with central banks. If anything cheap central bank money would disproportionately benefit the hardware guy.
So glad I moved to proton mail so I don't have to deal with these shenanigans
Nice episode

> The conversation shifts into a question of how can we decide what to
trust and where. It’s a very strange problem we experience now.

This was the most interesting part of the discussion.

In light of the principle agent problem and the extraordinary perverse
incentives that infect all commercial software now here's my take;

https://cybershow.uk/media/episodes/cybershow-ken-tompson-tr...

Trust is still a decision in reality, but the idea that people can
be "forced to trust" is out there amongst sociopathic devs and
big-tech.

Also the trust-cost curve is discontinuous. For free (as in beer)
Free Open Source software trust is very high. And for expensive
commercial products (like business-grade video displays instead of
consumer "smart TV"), trust is very high. It in the low-end consumer
grade products and "free" cloud services like gmail where trust is
lowest - because all the money is made by screwing you out of data
and control.
This page gives a better introduction: http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/Bus_Pirate

Basically a tool to interface with whatever IC you might have. Flexible input supporting many protocols, just hook it up to a random chip or serial debug pins on a board you are reverse-engineering and you can figure out the signal mapping and protocol decoding in software.
"I read him McNamee's reply: "I buy the basic thesis. The US kept interest rates at near zero from 2009 to 2022. This encouraged business models that promised world-changing outcomes, even if they were completely unrealistic and/or hostile to the public interest (eg the gig economy, self-driving cars, crypto, metaverse, AI). This came at a time of no regulation of tech and an accepted culture in business that said executives should maximise shareholder value at expense of everything else (eg democracy, public health, public safety)... had rates been at 5% the past 14 years, I doubt very much that the gig economy, self-driving cars, crypto, metaverse or AI would have gotten even 10% as much funding.""
You put the condition that is most likely to be met first, not the least likely.
> Testing over a heavily throttled connection that drops packets should be a mandatory part of usability testing for anything intended to be used over the Internet.

And this is actually easy to do, as Google Chrome Devtools can simulate this environment with a click.
> We should definitely not climb into computer-controlled steel murder cages

… That describes pretty much any new car, not just EVs.
This take is widespread and it's just wrong. Most artists are hired by organizers and just paid a flat fee for performing, the company then selling and promoting the event. Can you imagine what it'd take to organize an international tour otherwise?
Some huge names may also run their own operation (Pearl Jam where notorious for this) but still just some of the time, they'll still do some shows in festivals or different countries where they are just hired to perform and not selli ng tickets themselves.
NCAP criteria change, if the Zoe platform didn't, that's neither a surprise nor does it mean the Zoe isn't save.
https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-settled-lawsuit-womans...
... this has to be sarcasm, right?
The last I used a Windows XP PC, I've found it's near impossible to browse the internet.
Most websites require a modern browser.
Modern browsers don't work with XP.
Unplug and try a different mouse.
Unplug and disconnect any other peripherals except the mouse and try that.
Try a new user on windows (user space apps)
Try a fresh install (system stuff)
If you have spinning rust try another hard drive (an app doing stupid blocking exclusive stuff with writing or reading can pause input stuff).
I bought a full fast mail account to try it out. It seemed pretty insecure coming from protonmail. They require location data for example. No need for that I can think of for the user. They also don’t do E2E or even what passes for e2e. I wasn’t super impressed at the time. I’ll have to log back in and see if any of it changed.
The short answer is protectionism and import restrictions. And that's not just limited to cars. But it is starting to get a bit awkward as it seems that domestic producers aren't really stepping in the void created by these restrictions when it comes to EVs. The opportunity is there but nothing is happening. Why is that?

The more relevant question to ask is why American car manufacturers, with the exception of Tesla, struggle to export in volume and seem to have largely withdrawn from the international market.

I think it is simply because they are no longer competitive enough to survive without a lot of protectionist measures keeping superior products off the market. That works in the US of course. But it has also killed the export market.

The European perspective to this is that (Tesla excepted) you don't buy an American car because of performance, cost, efficiency, build quality, etc. A European might buy one because they are big, loud, and a bit obnoxious though. Seems to be a thing with some of the rich people here in Berlin certainly.

But you just don't see a lot of American cars here. When you do it's either some old sensible Ford model from when those were still being made; or an imported muscle car with some large engine making a lot of noise and smoke. I even saw an actual truck in Berlin a few months ago. These are very rare in Europe. They just aren't very practical. You can't navigate small streets with them. And nobody in their right mind would use these commercially because the fuel cost would be a big overhead. They are expensive toys but otherwise not competitive. Not even close.
It's a microblogging site to see what others are buying and selling, and to learn from their content, not just blindly copy each trade in real time trade. You don't have to "react" to any trades.

But I totally understand, not a problem ezero :)
I am happy with mxroute.
Effective strategy, you are right. It's not. For the thing that was to appear, we can't know if something else would have filled that functional void. The world might have been much more proprietary without Linux.
This is way cooler than I expected:

was interested in investigating the changes in surface weathering as the moon passes through Earth's magnetotail, an area that almost completely shields the moon from solar wind but not the Sun's light photons.

We already know there is water on the moon. That's not really "news" at this point.

I wonder if the polar regions are rusting in part because they are relatively temperate. They hover around the freezing point of water. With an oxygen tank and quality sleeping bag, you could practically camp there.

Unlike, say, the Moon's equatorial region, which experiences extreme temperature swings, or anyplace on Mars which is insanely cold in spite of having an atmosphere.
Yeah that restriction isn't immediately apparent when you look at the documentation that mailchannels link to on their site.[1]

However, it is mentioned in the openapi schema.[2]

I suppose they intend that people send up to 20M with just text/plain and text/html. (Send all the base64 encoded images I guess)

[1]https://api.mailchannels.net/tx/v1/documentation
[2]https://api.mailchannels.net/tx/v1/openapi.yaml
How does ostree compare with the A/B partition scheme used by Bottlerocket for updates?
Ah, so that's how it works, thank you for the clarification.
It can be used as a TTL serial adapter (ex getting a command line on common hardware/IoT devices), JTAG (debug, dump firmware), reading flash memory chips, etc
Ask HN: Is anyone looking for a last minute Y Combinator cofounder?
Hi, Y Combinator's deadline for on-time applications is October 13, is anyone looking for a last minute cofounder?
The US GOV aren't idiots, either.

A car is in fact a good example here - specifically, an ICE car. It's a contraption powered by repeatedly pouring explodium into a chamber and making it go off, then using the boom to both spin wheels and pull in more explodium for another run. More explodium means more power means faster car means better, right? On the contrary, an ICE needs just right amount of explodium, and is designed to ensure that; pour more, it'll stop and/or set itself on fire.

Same is with the market. Let it run completely free, and it'll collapse into bunch of tribes led by warlords, producing little more than suffering and death at scale.
Huge fan of Kraken.

Looking back, is there anything that you would have done differently? I find that half or more of the rewrites that I have dealt with have been driven by all the wrong motivations. You get inevitable turnover and at some point people dislike code that they didn't write themselves and push for a rewrite, maybe changing the stack to something trendy, justifying it with thin arguments. Once the rewrite starts the company ends up treading water for years while incurring a ton of costs. For me, I think only 1 rewrite that I was part of was a good decision in my 15 years in tech. If I could go back in time, I think I would kill all rewrite discussions the moment that someone first whispers the idea.

How did you guys enjoy switching to Rust? I assume the safety and performance benefits for the trading system are a huge plus (didn't Kraken trading go down for an entire week a few years ago?). Did you also rewrite the webapp backend in Rust as well? How has staffing and budgeting been affected? I would assume that the supply of Rust developers is much lower unless you train them in house. Rust sounds fun, but I can't imagine trying to justify a rewrite of a legacy system, a major tech stack change, and training/building a new team all at the same time.

Sorry for the onslaught on questions. The "rewrite it in rust" fever has spread to my work and I'm fighting myself on how to respond.
I think it's sometimes argued that you can def cook food using microwaves... But yeah I agree - the "lack of evidence is not evidence" is often used by quacks.
>Is the user data encrypted when the maintenance mode is on?

Yes, the primary device user data remains encrypted. The temporary user functions in a sandboxed state.

>Can thiefs access it and make phone usable?

The expected functionality prohibits access to the primary user data. Even if they were able to break from the sandboxed space somehow, the primary user data maintains an encrypted state.
Definitely. Apart from smartphones, my Roborock beats my parents' Roomba across the board for the same generation. Price, UX, and cleaning ability. There is no intrinsic advantage to buying American*

* shipped from China
[tangental] two accounts created 3 days ago stating how wonderful the bus pirate is?

Cmon, surely you know better than this. And the BP is a great tool, it doesn’t need painfully obvious astroturfing
I think that new software bloat far outweighs the benefits brought in by new hardware as well.

You would also need to ask how many people here actually use Raspberry Pis as their daily driver to claim the power benefits that they should be realizing today.

I think that viewing this as a pure power consumption exercise is very reductive at best. Then, in that spirit, you should also be going behind the people running the H100s today and asking why they aren't running their model training on a RPi 4 yet.
Yeah I got itchy fingers today and am currently playing with Rocky Linux desktop...
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/feb/22/problem-sho...
Show HN: SquadGPT – chat interface to LLMs for teams
A few months ago, I was working with a couple of interns to build some forgettable CRUD app.

Then ChatGPT blew up and when we got stuck on some obscure bug, one of the interns suggested asking ChatGPT Plus for help.

Since buying every intern a ChatGPT Plus account wasn’t on the cards, we decided to “solve” this by building a chat interface to the GPT-4 API and allowing multiple people to participate in any chat with the LLM.

Eventually, the benefits of this approach became apparent - more visibility into AI costs, I retained access to their chat sessions even after they left the project, better insights into what they needed guidance on, and so on.

So, I decided to productise this as SquadGPT - GPT for teams - at https://squadgpt.ai.

It’s very barebones - all it does is to let you talk to an LLM (GPT-4) for now. No plug-ins, no web browsing, no REPL.

I’ll add those features and others based on what users say.

In future, I’m planning to integrate with more LLMs so that this “mixture of experts” can reduce hallucinations and improve reliability.

I’m putting out this Show HN because I believe we’ve built something unique in the LLM space and want to get that presumption validated through actual uptake from users.
Do you have an example in mind?
Not aggressive and their venom isn't harmful
This is literally their entire site. I am so depressed right now.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8" />
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="./favicon.ico" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
<title>Karektar</title>
<script type="module" crossorigin src="./assets/index-f8e9a3f5.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="./assets/index-90296a42.css">
</head>
<body>
<div id="root"></div>
</body>
</html>

edit: I'd rather look for similar offline tool, written in C and working not just in latest browsers.
But it's a Java issue: Java relies on Heap Objects way too much. C# and the CLR behind it has a much better support for value types and stack allocations, where some optimization can even be done by the JIT compiler.
>> I would assume this is the direction WASM is trying to go?

Yes, that's it and more. WASM is runtime idependent so it can run on cloud platforms or(in theory) even on bare metal interacting with the host through WASI
could you clarify what you mean?
Some of the world’s biggest tech firms have built rival for Bluetooth AND Wi-Fi
slap on the wrist
First Transcontinental Railroad
Because America is not a free market and never has been
The problem is finding a new job where you don't have to work on legacy systems.
Four requests per day seems a little low to verify the quality of the responses before shelling out even a few bucks.

That said, I've already gotten great quality formula and VBA generation directly in ChatGPT (GPT-4.0), with only a sentence of prompting, so I'm not the target customer.
The only reason most do that is to enable branded tracking links.
harder to develop and ~6x more expensive (DE10-Nano vs teensy + pico)
There's a lot of reasons, but for me, it comes down to safety. I just don't trust Chinese engineering.
Which compositor are you using?

If it's Gnome, the very recent release 45 has improvements running the cursor in a separate thread.

I personally run KDE and agree that you can feel a difference between the X11 and Wayland session but it's not terrible.
PowerQuery and the built in data model do a lot to make Excel better at handling joins in a sane fashion, but are relatively recent features that some are still realizing are there in the first place, particularly for the Office365/Mac crowd. Nice way to keep your basic tables basic and still maintain the full depth of your relationships all inside of Excel. Throw in some calculated columns and measures using DAX and it's a pretty darn powerful tool.

That said, in the data science world, there's a LOT of crossover when it comes to functionality, between tools like Excel, Tableau, and *SQL in particular. And the crossover seems to be growing by the day, especially with Python functionality being built into Excel in the near future.
Teams can change and learn from their mistakes.

Or perhaps the problematic people who made the code too rigid already left.

Using different languages and frameworks will also affect the outcome.

Maybe the Product/Business side is more mature and will account for malleability in the requirements.

Also, perhaps they already know how to do it, but "malleability" wasn't a goal for the previous version.