skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If your searches are this descriptive then yes, I'd expect useless results everywhere

Y'all have a hard on for knowing specifically what I'm searching for, for some reason, don't ya?

I've been a software engineer for over a decade. I'm self taught. I've worked at some of the largest websites in the world. I owe my entire career to my ability to search for shit I don't know and finding results that literally teach me how to program. In a way, I owe my entire career to Google's search results that used to be top notch. The point is, I know how search used to be, and I know now that it sucks complete ass for me. I know how to search for the proper keywords because I wouldn't have my career without it so you should trust me when I say it's not user error, it's the search results, and stop asking for specific search terms when I'm guaranteeing you 100% the issue is not me. If I sucked at searching I wouldn't be on this site typing this message right now, I'd still be working in a factory.
Tip: Magazines are not part of the scientific process. It is a parasitic industry riding on the back of science to make money. You can do as much science as you want, and not publish it anywhere. Or you can publish it on your own website if you feel the need. But publishing is NOT part of the scientific process.
This is a myth; Japan was not in denial that the US had atomic bombs, it had its own atomic bomb program (though incredibly in-advanced), and was aware of Germany's program as well. It just didn't care.

What caused Japan to surrender was not the a-bombs, it was the USSR declaring war on them.

That aside, that still supports my point, which is that they should not ignore things that exist, while they can ignore things that don't. Like AGI.
It's in their profile - https://github.com/jaredkrinke/sic1
This reminds me of Firefox Send.
They also have the advantage of the rights to create and use derivatives of D&D content, which unlicensed competitors don't.

Which somewhat limits the room for disruption in that (D&D-specific, not RPG VTT more generally) market.
I think you can be highly passionate about solving complex problems without being highly passionate about the product
Just asked my SO and I actually got it wrong. It's a producer, not a director. The $$ is about 500-2k per head and he made about 10k in total. The beauty is that he had a training side business for this :)
thank you!! So glad to hear that. I hadn't thought of doing that, but will definitely consider it!
Except that eventually the mugger will run out of fingers (and/or reattaching them will eventually start not working out), so the mugger will be forced to stop mugging. Well, ok, they could start cutting off toes, or threaten some other form of bodily mutilation.

But regardless, giving in to the mugger enables the mugger to continue mugging indefinitely. Not giving in -- assuming the mugger goes through with whatever self-mutilation they've threatened -- will eventually cause the mugger to stop mugging. This would be a net positive, better than allowing the mugger to mug indefinitely.

On top of that, I was disappointed that, in the story, Bentham does actually bring up the idea that capitulating could encourage copycats to run similar schemes, but this rationale for not cooperating is hand-waved away. This is pretty standard "don't negotiate with terrorists" stuff. Giving in just tells the mugger -- and other potential muggers -- that this strategy works. Surely it's more utilitarian to stamp this out at the source, even if it costs the original mugger some fingers.

(But I guess this is in part the point of Bentham being an act utilitarian in the first encounter, as he wouldn't consider the larger implications of his actions, just on the specific, immediate result of the action in front of him.)
There's a constitutional question. Congress does not have the authority to create new forms of intellectual property. Copyrights and patents, that's it.
That's why the US doesn't have database copyright.

States can go further. States have a "general police power" - they can make almost anything illegal.
Fast compilation,
Fast runtime,
Easy to learn,
Easy to distribute,
Easy concurrency.

ps: I wrote a data processing benchmark[1] and go is currently leading the charts. I ported it to c++ but it's not performing as expected. Take a look if you have the time.

[1]: https://github.com/jinyus/related_post_gen
> I’m baffled by your comment. This wouldn’t benefit the government at all. They just want their money and wouldn’t want to collapse a major American enterprise over money they will collect by any means necessary.

Ah America the land of rule of law*

*Only enforced if small and/or poor, wealthy and powerful only need to give Government their cut("fine") and no one is held accountable(often even without admitting any wrongdoing). It's rotting the justice system because people see this and no longer care to abide by any of them(cops won't catch vast majority of criminals, for various reasons so fear of punishment isn't a thing). Including cops that have no obligation to enforce any laws, and they don't, so they can play Pokémon Go in peace(but they can break your rights as long they don't know it's a right and it's not widely enforced by courts).
I may not have made my distinction clearly enough.

My city’s school district total proposed budget is $245M for next year. Enrollment is just shy of 7K.

One framing is “that $245M is for running the schools”

Another framing is “that $35K is for the education of each student in Cambridge”

The first leads you to conclude “of course we wouldn’t let a parent take even a dime of that money to put their kid in private school”

The second leads you to “of course they should have the choice to use at least 50% of that $35K allocated to each student to attend a school of their choice”

Of course the public schools are there for the education of students, but the difference in framing is whether the money starts there or rather ends there for students who choose to attend it.
Yes, that's true. However in practice most deployments that I've worked on are a relay which maps all requests to a gateway which maps all requests to a target. It's not an inherent property of the protocol, and I expect that to evolve over time.
Because it requires placing trust in someone who does not exhibit enough stability or rationality to justify that trust.
I have to say that it's beyond funny that Adobe is currently parading the same feature as the groundbreaking new thing in Photoshop and then Microsoft just goes and puts it in paint.
Our parent is almost certainly a Devonian. My mum was born in Dartmouth. I went to school in Newton Abbot. I understand why using the term Riviera might look a bit naff for Torbay - hence the cringe.

Riviera is still an Italian term, regardless of where it is applied - France or Inglaterra.
I haven't bought either a PLB or an InReach Mini, but seriously considered them while more actively adventuring all over the U.S. earlier. Here's what I think:

I really don't want to press the PLB emergency button unless my life is in danger and I need to be rescued by helicopter. PLBs are not good at all for "my car has failed and I'm 15 miles down a forest road".

An InReach Mini 2 will cost you $130/year more than a PLB over 10 years of ownership.
Pretty nicely done! Making the VTT easier to use is so much more important than hundreds of features…
There are other providers of the second hop proxy for iCloud Private Relay, Fastly is one of them.
I guess you're right, this has to start somewhere and it won't ever happen if the tech isn't being developed. I guess I just wish this were publicized a little more honestly. It's always "life changing tech is here!" or at least "right around the corner!" when the reality is we've got a lottery system where year after year and decade after decade a lucky few get some great cyborg tech in exchange for marketing while most people who need them only have prosthetics with utility limited to being a hook or even just a cosmetic assuming they can afford to get any kind of prosthetic at all. History tell us that things aren't likely to be any different 10 years from now.
awesome! Thanks for the info, I'll look into this
Not even motorized vehicles could cross the road either, mind you. I'd argue that in artery roads, there are much more people that use the road through it rather than crossing it. In those roads, by democracy, ones crossing it should give way.
I'm not American but wasn't CIA the primary suspect of the assasination of Kennedy?
https://muso.fm

An internet radio aggregator & player featuring music radio stations organised by genre rather than location.

There are tonnes of great music focused and specialist stations out there. TuneIn or RadioGarden don’t really make it easy to find the best stations for a given genre though.

I wanted to build it as a web app that’s usable as a PWA on mobile but have had lots of issues streaming audio reliably.

Also had issues with audio cutting out on web.

I’m currently rebuilding as the web audio API has improved things. Not enough hours in the day as usual!
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/flexport-to-launch-eastern...

The leasing or contracts on the air freight must be a bit of a problem if shopify has trimmed their business to flexport. Probably needs to free up cashflow to cover the expenses.

Wonder how the % of business shopify was for flexport.
In general, I am not a fan of the updated design, but I'm not seeing the same behavior. I have everything muted (no notifications, badges, or sounds) except for key channels and direct mentions. In the desktop app I stay focused on the Home tab so that my channels and DMs are right where I want. I ignore the new "Activity" modal and just glance at the sidebar to see what's lit up.
I am almost ready with the music app that I have always wanted; a fully featured app for those of us who love to buy and listen to our own collection. Here is an introductory blog post: https://sakunlabs.com/blog/muziqi-intro/

Some of the features I am including in this version:
- import music from the Music app (downloaded locally), from Files app, via a web server
- a music visualizer, with three presets
- waveform views
- mark and store segments of a song
- bookmarks
- an equalizer
and a bunch of smaller features, like pinning music to the Home view, remembering playback for an album or playlist.

TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/7WsEOF6u
My neighborhood was built pre-cars, and it shows. The sidewalks are narrow, so everyone walks in the street. If you’re a lucky motorist, we might move over and let you pass. If it’s dark, or snowy, or raining, or the pedestrian is wearing headphones and doesn’t notice you behind them… forget it. You’ll have to drive slowly until the pedestrian reaches their destination or turns out of your path.

I wouldn’t have it any other way.
How would you do it for a simple webapp? Genuine question
Ah, good to know. I immediately turned off the monkeypatching and didn't spend too much time playing around with it.
I baked the first half of this little web game years ago: http://kerrick.github.io/dot-popper/

It’s playable, but in order to consider it complete I’d need to add instructions, a start button, a game over screen, and a replay button. And I’d want to add a color blind option, sounds, and a way to share your result (score & a screenshot of your final state).
REI is Laying Off 275 Employees
These services are implemented in different parts of Fastly's production stack, but they share the same global infrastructure footprint and a lot of the same people/teams are involved with both.
This is absolutely genius. Could there be a way to upload your own fonts and icons and add your own elements to the page (e.g. a social media handle)? I love the design and simplicity.
Dropbox has been the biggest name who did the whole “cloud repatriation” thing, which was all the rage at the beginning of 2023, with claims that the cloud was soon to be dead—but cloud revenues are supposedly expected to be in excess of $1T by 2026, so whatever.

Some random survey from ESG found 60% of respondents repatriated at least some workloads. Who knows what the N was though.

Source: https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/thinking-about-cloud-rep...

Frankly, it makes sense that companies are deciding what works best and where. But the death knell of cloud providers is simply not happening.
Much easier, for many of the kids I know, than keeping track of a key!
Show HN: Elelem – TypeScript LLMs with tracing, retries, and type safety
Elelem is a simple, opinionated, JSON-typed, and traced LLM framework in TypeScript.

It's a proof of concept but has some nice features:

1. Caching (with Redis)

2. Tracing (with OpenTelemetry)

3. Generated examples of JSON output (using FakerJS), which results in more stable output types.

4. Type-safe

5. Has retry logic baked-in

I'd appreciate any feedback on the interface and would be happy to answer questions for anyone interested in trying it out.

Thanks.
The Relay doesn't know the requested URL or the request body -- but it does know the next-hop destination (the OHTTP Gateway), and by virtue of the way most OHTTP services are currently deployed this tells you the destination service. It does not tell you the specific details of what is being asked for / returned by that service.
>Hardly life changing.
Maybe your life is pretty good already then.
:) Thanks for the words of encouragement! Cheers
The 'illusion of endless progress' is the knowledge that built the internet in the first place. Many of the concepts were first established from the 1800s, and 1920s-1980s.

I am so, so tired of the constant ragging on the past as if it was another planet. And the persecution of brits and agnostics.

If the old world guys were geniunely a dangerous impact on the world, we wouldn't be so unknowing by default.

There's a constant thread of fate spun from The Past to today's technology and to say otherwise is a catastrophe.

You're going to get the complete removal of old world zombies, there's no choice. And it's going to create a vacuum that sucks you down with it.
Sorry not sure if I'm missing something obvious but isn't a VPS gonna be hosted by a cloud provider? How would that be an alternative to using the cloud?
> how do I do that?

The only good answer to this is 1) don't raise more VC money than you really need, and 2) don’t raise money at a valuation way above what your company is actually worth.

The problem in the scenario here is that they sold for below the valuation of their last funding round, and the size of their last funding round was ginormous.

When you raise hundreds of millions at a $1.5b valuation, you’re expected to sell above $1.5b at some point in the future. Any less and you didn’t live up to the opportunity that you pitched investors (and the financial outcomes for everyone deteriorates when you sell for way less than your valuation).
Wow, amnesty international was a signatory before the backlash. Really speaks volumes of them.
Toshiba was really pushing the envelope in the laptop department in regards to how thin it can get, and on the other end how much hardware they can pack.

That came at the price of a lot of custom drivers that would rarely make it to the windows defaults, complete lack of backward (sometimes forward) compatibility, and abysmal linux support.
Browsers are absurdly well-optimized for performance. If you know how to tap it, you can make screaming-fast apps of various kinds, with top-notch graphics, font rendering, accessibility support, audio, video, etc. They also have really solid networking capabilities, as long as you don't need raw TCP or UDP. In particular, HTTP/2, HTTP/3, WebSockets, and WebRTC allow for a lot of advanced things.

By now, you also have WebGL and WASM, if JS's JIT is not fast enough for you.
Rather than spew a giant post, here's a list of mitigations and specific examples I do to reduce e-waste and excessive spending: https://pastebin.com/uksGTRq5
Ouch, after a prior 20% cut in January.

https://www.flexport.com/blog/flexport-co-ceos-note-to-emplo...

Layoffs suck, they drain the moral when things are already hard and negative feeling. This is why it's critical to celebrate wins as often as being transparent about disappointing news.
I'd say treat the mental health first. What tech do you like?

I started my career from 36 and I'm working as a data engineer right now. I didn't have a CS background either and before I launched my IT career I worked as a customer service for a telecom. And before that I worked as a cleaner for some sushi shop during the afternoon and a phone surveyer during the night.

But I was lucky to catch up the post 2015 IT frenzy gravy train. Right now they are throwing people out of the train so I'm not sure what's the opportunity out there.
The price for all units sold is set by the highest producer at a any one moment. This led to windfall profits for generators with fixed costs like wind. It's not a functioning market. Imagine if the price of a beer everywhere in the US was set by the highest seller. Every beer sold would be immediately dearer, not cheaper, as it just takes one seller to push the price up.
Where do you see $2.50? https://www.findmespot.com/en-us/products-services/spot-gen4... says $11.95/mo for basic.
I wonder the difference between SDL or other native app dev VS webview and html for accessibility.

I'd assume webview apps could be more accessible rather easily, and it would take care and attention to make a native wasm app accessible.
The major red flag to me appears to be the fact that they couldn’t beat Amazon to a logistics contract with Shopify.

It seems a lot of these actions followed that failure.
You get portability. Which the functions do not provide. Open source solutions have a longer career utility than proprietary offerings. I remember when NetWare certs were all the rage. Useless now. I remember msce. But if you learned open tools 35 years ago instead... You get the picture.

You can scale from 1 thread 512MB RAM, to 500 threads and 12TB of RAM (off the shelf). Which is good enough for almost everyone who isn't planet scale.

Auto scaling also comes with auto billing. Oops, your accidental infinite loop spawning functions has bankrupted your company. You don't have that risk starting with a VPS.
I remember reading this site so much when I was eight years old. It's been around for at least sixteen years. Glad to see its still up, looks exactly the same too.
Love the site and the idea, but struggling to understand the criteria needed for a +EV bet. Would one site need to have a positive moneyline bet on team A, then another site have a positive moneyline bet on team B... assuming team A & B are playing each other?
That happens. I’m kind of bummed at the situation in general, but no one owes me to prioritize my convenience over theirs.
> if a company is being investigated by the SEC, and knows it, that is material information that must be disclosed to the market

In 2016 the SDNY ruled that issuers do not have a general duty to disclose the existence of an SEC investigation or a Wells Notice. Because "the securities laws do not impose an obligation on a company to predict the outcome of investigations".

https://www2.law.temple.edu/10q/sec-investigations-disclose-...

> the SEC will not disclose that information in response to a FOIA request

Not /intentionally/, of course.

> Such behavior would provide no useful information about the state of a company's financials

Some hedge funds have done very very well for themselves by making inferences from parking lot data. You don't need to be right 100% or 75% of the time for the strategy to work, you know.
I am a 68 year old child of a navy family. Mostly far east, all over the USA, and some Europe.My advice from my life is combine your uniqueness into a single unit. Take your background and create an opensource project that can be done quickly 2 - 3 months max and after that is done use that to promote yourself if you want to be a developer/software engineer. If you are into DevOps or DevSecOps do challenges. Pursue what interests you. When Tensorflow and Pytorch were open sourced I started learning by reading Abstracts and posting those articles that interested me and provided code, to encourage more authors to provide code. Now there is paperswithCode, Neurohive and other such sites, but I still learn, and lots of public GitHub and GitLab repo's

Take what is unique about you, what interests you and
I was talking about this with a colleage today who does benchmarking. He was of the opinion that the os scheduled generally does a better job than manual core pinning, but would be interested to hear more on your experience.
> little reason to expect it.

there's one huge reason to expect this: it's cheaper than real people (no salary, no royalties)

only looks expensive because it's new. but it won't stay expensive because it's all software so it has zero cost of distribution (given the internet)

> And its disruption applies to film, illustration, music, coding, writing, etc

just keep going, this stuff will disrupt THE LAW. the foundation of civilized society as we know it!!!

this goes beyond markets, markets are based upon the law!!!
You bet, many of the most interesting brands in photography now are Chinese companies like 7Artisans and Kandao. 7Artisans makes lenses that are manual focus and lack anti-shake (though my camera can provide anti-shake for them if I enter the focal length manually). You can find a $7000 Japanese lens that has all the bells and whistles and better optical quality than a 7Artisans $180 lens, but I had just had to get one when I saw a photo gallery that had me thinking (1) I’ve never seen a photo like that before and (2) I can easily afford that and I couldn’t say anything like that about a G Master lens. (Though Volleyball did teach me you have to pay to play.). Here is another example of a nice 7Artisans shot

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/111077882869934997

that shows how it laughs at low light conditions.
InstantDiffusion – Run Stable Diffusion in the Cloud
InstantDiffusion is the fastest way to run Stable Diffusion in the cloud with Automatic1111 user interface and extremely powerful hardware. With InstantDiffusion, you can load any image model from Civitai, enjoy features like 100% privacy, lightning fast image generation using dedicated GPUs, and much more.

Features:
- Complete Privacy For Image Generation
- Lightning Fast Image Generation Using Dedicated GPUs
- Top 50+ Ranked Image Models
- Load Unlimited Custom Image Models From Civitai
- Mobile Compatibility
It looks like some of the omissions you mentioned are instead included on a separate page for the OEM Service Release 2 version of Windows 95: https://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/win95osr2
This might count as one of the most extreme stories of data recovery I've seen. I wonder if in another 2000 years we'll have a "first file discovered on discarded hard drive platter".
If you add a known fixed mass of preservative, then it's just some math back on earth...
So their customers will have a difficult time figuring out that they should put a fish in their ear?
I mean it's also frowned upon for a car to cross red light, even it's "inherently safe" currently. Unless you thought that drivers can use their own judgement to cross red light (I also thought so, mind you), it seems consistent.
Howdy HN! We're a movement empowering individuals and communities through curation. We've been working diligently to provide y'all with the tools you need to share your world the way it deserves! The first piece to this puzzle is our toolkit, which provides developers with a stage that enables them to transmit their passions like never before. This is just the beginning, and we can't wait to see what y'all build :)
This, along with the way the Antikythera mechanism [1] fragments were decoded [2], always brings to mind the ending of "A.I.: Artificial Intelligence", where aliens far into the future managed to recreate part of human civilization from remaining artifacts and a barely working robot child.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Wp3wL8g2Eg