skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The cat will sit on your keyboard to get your attention. If you don't like that, don't let the cat do it. Just know that the cat will find another way to get your attention.
Are they finally letting the legacy ZZT staff go?
> Profit, not usage, is a measure of success

99.999% of SaaS start-ups need to hear this
(Parent comment was dead, but I vouched for it, even though I disagree with it. It represents some not-unusual beliefs, and I think we'd be better off if those beliefs were talked about.)
The very real leaks that I’ve very really seen suggest it’s a bit like HAL-3000 with an upgraded bezel-less Retina display red orb that goes all the way to the diamond-cut chamfered edges, but when you ask it to do something instead of saying “I’m afraid I can’t do that, Dave” it starts playing latter-day U2 albums.
I wouldn't expect Target to carry bare Raspberry Pi-- how many people walk into a Target wanting a Pi with no accessories?
Sure...but it might take me a while...how about this, I'll name...as of current, 385 under $100 all with free shipping:
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=mini%20pc&_sa...

The Pi5 is slower than a Core i3 6100, does not support upgradable ram, does not support Pci Gen 3 let alone Gen 3 x16, no actual Sata 6, no upgradable sockets, etc.
There are a TON of uses cases for a Pi 5...but only really if power consumption and size is critical for the application. Almost anyone doing a Pihole, Home assistant, or the like is better served by a used miniPc.
I've had some remarkably forthright[0] comments in the past[1], so now I just assume that most people will hate it. But personally I find it indispensable for following complex discussions, and finding corners that I hadn't seen.

[0] British[2] understatement;

[1] They depress me, so I'm not going to look them up[3];

[2] I'm not British, but I've live in Britain for over 40 years and have picked up the habit;

[3] Many were deleted after others pointed out how negative they were.
I remember them leaving out some resistors for the USB C port that were needed for some chargers or cables. Wasn't too big a deal if you just used their official power supplies.

https://www.scorpia.co.uk/2019/06/28/pi4-not-working-with-so...
Cloudflare loosens AI from the network edge using GPU-accelerated Workers
> Would be great to have a way again to simply share links to podcast-episodes which work regardless of the used app.

There's nothing stopping this from happening today except for app developers not putting any UI for it in their apps. HTTP has a Link header (which servers should already be sending, whether apps actually do anything with it or not), RSS has a field to link to pages, HTML has `link` elements (and the `rel` attribute for `a` elements) to link back to the file, and audio file containers of course let people include metadata.

So linking to a podcast episode is as simple in principle as giving someone a URL directly to the file or the associated episode page. (It's a URL. That's it. Done.) It's getting application authors and server operators to do their part, though, which is another matter.
I found that my Fairphone 2, even after I considered it obsolete for my usage, was an easy trade-in at a price point that could only be explained by the person caring about keeping it around for a good while.
Mistral AI makes its first large language model free for everyone
>The Mistral 7B model is available today for download by various means, including a 13.4-gigabyte torrent (with a few hundred seeders already). The company has also started a GitHub repository and Discord channel for collaboration and troubleshooting.
Intentionally putting employee health at risk is illegal where Tesla Grünheide favtory is. Doing so through negligence as well.

All you do is advocating for exploiting people in the name of profit by finding some bogus excuses.
But it becomes significantly easier if Cloudflare performs this cooperation; most ISPs are required to maintain such data as well.
I find it humorous that the Windows developers felt the need to put add a "trustworthiness" section in the struct.
"one of the big ones" = epic? big what, departments?
> Am I reading this right? Are you saying that it's regular acting to be subjected to such a high level of verbal abuse at work that you might take your own life?

Ah, no - that the work depicts the individual taking abuse for extended periods until they take their life, the actor themselves is alive and well. This is as contrast to the verbal aspect of abuse in these works.

> It feels like a movie script that leads to fatal actor injury would surely be illegal also in the US? Or do you mean accidental injury/death?

The actor taking on intentional and planned mild injury, with very real and non-zero risk of fatality. I did not imply intentional death, maybe poor wording on my end.

> But under French law people can not consent to be harmed,

How does that law apply to violent sports where the goal is injury - preferably temporary - until the other party becomes unable to continue, such as boxing, MMA or even classical martial arts sparring? How does such law deal with martial arts movies where multiple actors take on implicitly harmful acts, that at the very least causes bruising and pain? Old Jackie Chan works might not be what comes to mind in the context of this discussion, but being beaten for a semi-realistic effect by a fellow martial artist is planned and consented harm.

Is consenting to be repeatedly kicked and punched with a certain degree of intensity (higher in older works and with younger actors) in action movies different than consenting to be slapped in the discussed type of work? If a slap is unacceptable, why is being knocked and kicked unconscious in violent sports acceptable?

> But can you see the difference in acting out ...

I immediately think of Nymphomania as appearing far more degrading for the actors than at least content of the discussed type that I am familiar with, and yet that movie is considered by many as a "work of art".

(I never liked that movie myself, but that is not particularly relevant here.)

> Maybe if all the slaps and the ejaculate were faked?

The latter usually is in most works, but for the former I believe it is a matter of intensity and consent. Is the slap only as strong as needed and as agreed to act out the role - like with a kick or punch in early martial arts works - or is it full force with the intent of injury? Are we in full on slap competition or boxing match territory, and if so where is the distinction?

The way I see it, the terms are what matters, and in particular how and why the individual agreed to them. While I won't find myself in those works, there are definitely exists terms where I'd willingly agree to a possibly significant degree of verbal and physical abuse on video. I do not know how one would evaluate what terms are acceptable though - few would worry about me if I was paid 1M USD in such video, but if I accepted 10 USD or felt threatened one might be concerned if my position in life was abused.
Your link is over two years old, lol. Almost as old as Tesla's plans to listen for sirens [1]. Now, I don't know if they actually wound up going that route or if they just got so damn good at vision that it works even in challenging situations, but work it does, and that's the important thing.

[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1414436167639093248?lang...
We don’t even have to recruit. We can just fix the catastrophically broken skilled worker visa program.

Attach it to a person not a company.
Advanced degree or comparable skill and a job offer should be sufficient.
Simplify it so a person can do it without resorting to $10k in legal fees.
Remove the cap, actively police and slap down companies abusing of the system instead.
Find the program properly so it is fast.
I’ve got a friend with an advanced degree in comp sci. I referred him to a FAANG company. He got an offer. He had to leave the country and wait a year before his H1B came in. And he can’t switch companies without a lawyer and permission.

Catastrophically broken is not an exaggeration. Any smart ten year old could invent a better system.
So that we can go back to the Steam monopoly?
> I wonder also how much of a driver new programmer productivity tools like copilot and ChatGPT are factoring into this. If your top 10% productivity workers just got a 30%+ productivity boost, that means you can easily shed the bottom 20% productive workers and still be ahead of the game.

I can confidently say that this factors in 0%. Layoffs were happening in the industry even before the LLM craze.

And a 30% overall productivity boost for a "top" developer is a massive overestimate. Your best developers aren't spending their days writing boilerplate unit tests.
Anecdote coming up, but when Google laid off a bunch of people those that I know that worked there said the most critical people on their teams were the ones let go.
Anecdotally, GitHub Co Pilot is barely a 5% performance boost. Still useful, but I think a nice coffee machine does more.
They do sell a USB-C to headphone jack adapter. I got one, barely ever use it.
It’s Too Easy to Block a Wind Farm in America
Those micro chips are people!
FPC is used in billions of devices with perfectly fine robustness. As long as it isn't part of some flexible mechanism (e.g., a flex display, or something folding), it should be just fine. If you toss it into a box with the FPC flopping in the breeze then I'm sure it would be terrible, but... don't do that?
If you had invested $1B in each of those 5 companies, you would probably still have made a great return, now that Tesla is at $770B.
> There's no reason why editor couldn't inline those things in YAML to help see what's going on locally.

There's no reasons why an editor couldn't present either YAML style (block style or the JSON-like flow style) that the user prefers, and save in whichever one is preferred for storage.
Shell CEO comes under pressure from within on renewables shift
And make sure your project plan includes milestones for explicitly aligning all stakeholders on definitions otherwise you'll have a big hot potato game the first time the outputs show something unfavorable.
Online shopping is terrible. AI is here to fix it (FastCompany)
Improving Unit Test Efficiency: Leveraging Assert and Expect for Type Safety
Musk ditches X’s election integrity team ahead of key votes around world
> The young man, whose name has been lost in the swirl of subsequent events

Not a man. Her name was Diane Hartley.
The multitude of IDE plugins and editor modes cannot (and my God should not) solve for the fundamental weaknesses of a data specification format.
Industrial buildings are supposed to have drainage systems for this.
Yes. That's what is the cost for a complete mini PC. Barebones are cheaper. $189.00
> I did not realize that some gay men also watch straight porn. To make matters more complicated, I also know straight women who watch gay porn.

I'm sure there's a lot of crossover, I simply meant to point out that (taking the top estimates of all our sources) roughly 10% of men are gay, 20% of gay men watch porn and 50% of straight men watch porn. That is thus 2% of all men in the gay porn category and 25% of all men in the straight porn category. With the market for straight porn being more than 10 times bigger it would surprise me if gay porn made up 10% of the total.

> There definitely are harmful misogynistic norms in gay pornography, too.

The more you look out for it, sadly the more such norms are perpetuated almost everywhere. It's increasingly becoming an elephant in every room. Thanks for recognising it!

> I wasn't able to find any stats and am surprised no one has researched this.

Same, let's hope more will be done.
Keep in mind companies planned like it was sustainable and hired a lot because from a business perspective, its much easier to overhire and lay off later than it is to be understaffed during a period of potential unprecedented growth. It doesn't fully rationalize many companies actions but its just an application of a regret minimization framework.

I personally don't believe its a massive function of Generative AI (although it could be), I think the major contributing factor is that the projections that companies made in 2020/2021 and the hiring they did to resource more projects to take advantage of those rosy projections ended up falling short of real expectations. i.e instead of needing to take advantage of a potential 20% yoy future growth in their target markets, they only really need to staff for a 10% yoy growth.

Also probably a bit of "monkey see monkey do" where a company that actually needs to layoff (meta) lays off a bunch of people, and other large companies that may not "need" to layoff (like Google) follow suit since now its "socially acceptable."
What about the greek scriptures with the prophecy in Rev 21:4 for example: "for the former things are passed away."
Meh, it's nothing to do with that, it's just a layoff round.

Epic went from 2200 employees in 2020 to almost 9000 in 2023. They are now basically shedding 1 out of 6 hires they've done since 2020. That's not really about sustainability, it's just a way to drop the ones that didn't really work out.
It depends a lot of what you do with your phone tbh, I'm on a pixel 3a and still see no reasons to update, the fairphone 4 is better spec'd than that
Israel and Italy have cheapest mobile data out of 237 countries
Why are people still reading tech layoff news and trying to attribute it to specific problems at a company? Remember that Google, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, Salesforce, Shopify etc. laid off large chunks of their workforce while collectively making hundreds of billions of dollars in profit. Companies lay off people because they can, simple as that.
That's a bit disappointing. As a user I just want Bandcamp to be owned by someone who gets it and leaves it alone. As far as I could tell, Epic barely touched Bandcamp. I'm unfamiliar with Songtradr but they have more incentive to integrate the core product into their services as they're in the industry and a smaller company (more need to make the acquisition work for them.) I hope it goes well.
If he wanted to destroy irreplaceable trees, all he had to do was come to Canada and he’d get paid to do it.
There is zero chance this was a mistake, it’s the only tree in the area and to say it’s iconic in the North East is an understatement - this was a deliberate act, the only thing in doubt is their state of mind.
Question for you -- how do we protect enormous telescopes on the moon's surface?
Free-falling antihydrogen reveals the effect of gravity on antimatter
Software development also requires:

- Not leaking your company's IP out on the internet

- Not plagiarizing code to produce your solution. Most people have no idea how bad it is about this, at some point ChatGPT plagiarized code is going to legal issues.

ChatGPT does both those things right now. The author has no idea those are even a thing.

It is a head scratcher a publication like The Atlantic lets a journalist who likely has zero understanding of software development write an article like this, but then the editors must be just as clueless.
I also think Jinja in YAML is an antipattern, but I think that due to them using the default block and expression characters of "{%" and "{{" both of which are yaml characters and thus every single such occurrence needs to be quoted, versus the very sane "${{" used by GHA or even "<%" and "<<" (running the risk that, yes, "<<:" is a yamlism but is not legal jinja)

If you meant that having any executable inside yaml (e.g. not just picking on jinja, but "a yaml document is not code") then I fear that ship has sailed because people realized that inverting the literal parts and only sometimes having executable parts makes for a great way to ASP/JSP/PHP up some content

If I wanted start a sibling flame war within this thread, we'd talk about HCL and for_each :rolling_eyes: (but, for clarity, please don't talk about it, or at least not here, submit your own noHCL.com link)
This got buried impressively quickly from #1 to #80 in <5 minutes and less than half an hour to rank #160+ https://hnrankings.info/37689959/
And yet there has been no operational impact at Google since the layoffs...so maybe they weren't so critical after all?
when i had to used python i felt like copy pasting anything was out of scope due to indentation errors.
> Ideal would be an URI like podcast://

No, that would be far from ideal, for the same reason that the feed[1] URI scheme was flawed (cooked up by very confused people) from the beginning. And among other things, a podcast:// URI would now mean I can't open the thing in my browser unless my browser vendor adds support and I download the new version.

The file is served over HTTP(S). Just use the http or https URI. Podcast players need to do their part[2] in dealing with them.

1. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed_URI_scheme>

2. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37691360>
I always love reading myopic technology takes on this site.

Based on the article, it sounds like they're in exploratory talks to figure out what that "AI device" could be. I agree that it's likely we've already figured out the right form factors for such a device, but it's not a leap to imagine a significantly better UX than what we have from today's computing devices.

The movie "Her" seems like a decent blueprint for a post-smartphone "AI device".
Did you try YR [1] by MET Norway [2]?

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=no.nrk.yr

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_Meteorological_Insti...
I wonder how they make money. This sounds like grifters living off of government grants. I wonder how widespread the problem is of grifters taking government grants for fake green projects. Perhaps the country made the right move by not doing a green new deal after all. It looks like paying grifters to do science doesn't work very well.
Ubuntu and Fedora betas compared: who wears GNOME better?
Planet 9 is Pluto.
I could not find a source from 2009 but the following is from 2010 and it already mentions Servo.

http://venge.net/graydon/talks/intro-talk-2.pdf

The Wikipedia article about Rust says:

"Mozilla began sponsoring the project in 2009 as a part of the ongoing development of an experimental browser engine called Servo [..]"
Semantic whitespace /facepalm. Clearly willing to burn some karma here in an attempt to remind people of the tragedy at hand.
That is almost incoherently delusional.
Elon is going to do it himself with a block feature only he can use.
ytmnd?!

Now that's a site I haven't seen in a Long time.
Yes it’s a big smell that developer experience isn’t important as checking an arbitrary box that supposedly helps security. Sort of like passwords expiring every 30 days.

Invariably something is broken in the flow you describe. The VPN is down. Some service I need to login to isn’t cooperating with my single sign on. It can feel like there’s 5 minutes a day where the planets align and work gets done.

It feels like security theater, and lack of empathy for people doing their work than anything else.
I mean, you answered your own conundrum here. Profit is an overlay of Revenue, minus some other overlay. In this case, your profit is 1:1 with your revenue.

But you certainly have profit.
There is a curious phenomenon in decent sized companies where the more money they have the more problems they have. When flush with cash the middle managers love to overspend and grow mini empires in the promise that one day the product will be finished, but it never will because the warring empires require it being unfinished to justify their ongoing existence.

Things have to get amazingly bad before such empires are dismantled and the product fixed, generally something existential for the company as a whole.

The Epic Store almost certainly could not be fixed without simply rebooting with a whole new team with the incentive structure setup to make it work.
So at $90, that is 270 results on ebay, many have more ram, I'm filtering on free shipping only. https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=mini%20pc&_sa...
Aren't gungames fun at a beginner level? Or custom games also.
> In the world of high interest rates

It's worth pointing out that, historically speaking [0], we're not an in era of particularly high interest rates yet, just not absurdly low ones.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS
You think the top 10% of workers are getting, at a minimum, a 30% productivity boost? You think they're getting in an extra 1.5 days worth of work a week because they're using Copilot?
The successor, Fairphone 5, has OLED. The Fairphone 4 is about 2 years old now, and AFAIK it has real 5G.
everyone looking for any reason when its obviously a massive recession due to govt. spending
I'm an Alaska (relatively) frequent flyer. That airline offers a free "messaging" plan, that lets you send and receive messages on apps like iMessage, Facebook Messenger and Whatsapp. Though, it somehow prevents images/attachments from coming through on those platforms.

I've always wondered how this is implemented technically, and if it might be possible to setup some kind of protocol/wrapper to send data that looks like it's being sent over those protocols, but offers access to other parts of the internet.
> It's a full time job, and most parents weren't in a position to quit their jobs in order to focus on it.

Exactly. Women fought for their equal right to work. The lost time is made up with places to stuff kids into, instead of parents working both 50%.
You're missing the most important type of work: writing glue code.

Somebody has to take all these disparate pieces of technology and glue them together to create useful stuff. Programming has an endless list of useful libraries and yet programmers are as much in demand as ever, because it's not easy to glue different libraries together. The same thing is important in every other type of business.

You want your AI to do manual labor? You better figure out a way to glue the AI to a robot and make it understand its environment and goals.

Want your AI to make music? It might be able to come up with a great composition itself, but you're still going to have to pick out the best one out of the 10,000 you generated. Then you've got to title it, publish it, and spread it around.

All of these are things AI could conceivably do, but it will require an enormous amount of work. If there's not enough scale there then that work is not worth it. Ie it's going to be left for humans to do.
Yes. I was unimpressed by GPT 3 as well. 4, on the other hand, is VERY useful.
Correct. I wrote about Github, not git.
My sunglasses are prescription glasses and I do that.
It's from the OG PRISM slides. Previously Google's internal production network didn't use encryption, SSL/TLS was terminated at the perimeter. So the NSA simply tapped their dark fiber between data centers.
This feels like Cloudflare using the strangler pattern to continue their march into established cloud provider territory.

Their serverless implementation is outstanding - AFAIK, they're the only ones offering true scale-to-zero compute with no cold start delays. I've used it successfully to host an SSR app that hits an external API basically at no cost. If I'm reading this correctly, I can now move the API code into Cloudflare Workers as well, and just leave the database at the old provider, with the promise of much lower cost-for-performance for compute and better database performance. Sounds compelling and helps to move chunks of infrastructure to Cloudflare, who will undoubtedly introduce hosted relational databases in the future to complete the picture.

I'm unclear about the security implications though. My current database is in a private subnet, it would be unfortunate to have to open it up to the world to take advantage of this. The other downer is that Workers don't natively support .NET, so I can't make that move yet. But it's certainly intriguing!
In context, it isn't awful. You can get a J4125 machine in that price range often times and that is not far at all from a Pi5.