skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Japan is also trying to take a stab at Apple with app store anti trust stuff, but I wonder how these things will play out. Will they just pay some fine and continue to go about their day or will some big change happen, even just for the Japanese market?

I seriously doubt the Japanese government having any power when it comes to opening up the app/play store, or enforcing something of that scale. Europe has been whining a lot, but I don't think there's anything radical being done yet.
Mva/Tcljc: Tiny Clojure Compiler
>It's not like there's some fixed pot of utility in the world, and the more one person has the less someone else has.

There is quite literally a finite amount of resources on this planet. Land, gold, oxygen, lithium... These things are limited. The more land one person has, the less there is for others.
Here in a flyover type state in the US:

It never served a a cheat-code, or a skip-the-line or any such goodness. What it did was serve as a conversation starter, “I see project Y in strange language X. What is the story there?”

That’s your cue to sell yourself, your skills, your experience, etc.

I could never know, but perhaps having it also got me on the short-list for an interview to begin with?

I would say GitHub has featured in at about half of my interviews.
People are misunderstanding the source of Apple's advantage.
Anecdotal, but if I switch off uBlock Origin I get ads for weird inventions and stuff that looks like 1$ store gadgets. Definitely no big names.
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> or you can use a tool like objcopy to make them separate

which is how Debian generates the -debug packages [1].

[1] https://github.com/Debian/debhelper/blob/master/dh_strip
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> Here's a prediction. Microsoft will look at Windows 11 and realize that the gig is up. It can make all its money by just licensing generic Windows Desktop with a free five-year security update promise.

LOL, I wish. Here's my prediction: Microsoft will make Windows a subscription, and still shove ads down our throats, as many as it can legally get away with. The only hope is maybe a more expensive "Premium" version on the horizon where they cut down on the ads a little bit.
What's behind the fresh round of tech layoffs?
No I have a better plan which guarantees full 100% safety for children but doesn't require verification or identification: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37991197
Traction control systems also use accelerometers and gyroscopes, so the scenario you describe is not possible.
Historically, human survival. No other animal can cover ground the way we can. We've evolved to be highly efficient, one example; we cool ourselves better than any other animal we can maintain a fairly high power output almost indefinitely due to sweating.
You are supposed to argue over minutiae of means-testing and bankrupting the economy when it comes to social programs for the poor/average person. However when it comes to taxing the rich, nothing short of the Perfect Government is good enough to administer such an increase in tax revenue.
alway wonder why browsers don't keep at least a text version of the pages for search

nowadays I expect browsers to incorporate small LLMs like Mistral out of the box
I find myself (as a professional software dev) trying to break that mindset frequently, especially on GitHub, when looking at libraries to use for a task if there's more than 1.

What I try to focus on now is more so the commit and release cadence / frequency since in my mind frequent activity means it's more likely to have bugs fixed and security issues handled.

Would love to hear other's input on this.
Sorry, which part of that 47 pages document debunkes my assertion? I thought you were gonna link me to a video of a Russia nuclear weapon detonating... oh wait that hasn't happened in 70 years...
Apropos nothing: I HATE endnotes (aka footnotes). If you have something to say, don't break the flow. If you want to add a comment, use parenthesis. If you're not writing a scholarly article, don't use footnotes. They're an indulgence that detracts.
https://archive.ph/kEuu4
SoM: Set-of-Mark Prompting Unleashes Extraordinary Visual Grounding in GPT-4V
Have you factored in property taxes, impact fees if any, landscaping, HOA fees if any, school district fees/changes/bonds, fire protection fees/bonds/changes, Home owners insurance, sewer or water treatment bonds/fees/changes, utility bonds/fees/changes, and more?

Have you factored in a terrible neighbor? A halfway house or care home next door?

Rent may be going up or down or sideways... you have the option to move if you don't like it. I could realistically move in less than a week and I have a full blown wood shop in my rental garage, two teenagers, wife and a dog. It would be messy, but we could do it with basically zero consequences.

If you care about your credit score, you are not going to just walk away from your mortgage. We can jam out of here if the wind blows a direction we don't care for.

With all three cars paid off, I truly have zero debt. A few of my friends tell me they have "zero debt except for the mortgage"... I am like that is a giant ball and chain around your neck broham... Nothing about that says "debt free" or "freedom."
Why would an inherited-billionaire be at the top of anyone’s mind?
That's it, total scifi stuff. Every day when I get output from these models, at least once I tell myself "man, this is so futuristic, how do we even have this", and that's after 3 years of working with gen AI. Even if it never makes another dime, I still have some local models to play with, and that makes me happy.
Didn't that movie end with the explosion of the Palace of Westminster?
My project to end multi stage tech interviews
REQUEST:
- I would like to receive constructive feedback and

- get tips on how to reach out to businesses in detail.

SUMMARY:

- Connect business and data professionals via pre-recorded standardized video interviews.

PROBLEM:

- The madness that companies requiring 5-17 rounds of interviews for tech professionals (currently in AI, data field only, but later other IT fields).

- This was simple few years ago companies had max 2 rounds of interviews. Today many companies try to act like FANG companies to have 5-17 rounds of interviews and takes months.

MY RESOLUTION:

DATA PROFESSIONALS PERSPECTIVE (DS, ML engineer, DE, etc.):

- Data professionals can record their pre-recorded standard video interviews

- Than you just 1 click apply for jobs /OR/ just receive actual job offers (not just outreaches to start interviewing 5-17 rounds with a company)

- Than you just negotiate the salary in messaging if you are the chosen one.

BUSINESSES PERSPECTIVE:

- Create a job post

- We find the top applicants to apply

- We support people with the interviews

- Get applicants in

- Watch video interviews

- Choose the best

MY STARTUP STAGE:

- MVP 2nd iteration

- Pre-revenue

- Pre-investment

- Solo bootstrap

- Quit my job to do it full time

- Looking for 1st B2B customer to do a pilot with

- https://www.applyscript.com/

Thx for the feedback ;)
Thomas Stevens in Japan (1886)
Yeah as we have seen in Syria, where Assad is still president, thanks to Russia. The US and its vassals (the bulk of NATO) actually lost the conflict in Syria (and Afghanistan).
Keep in mind that Russia is not alone. There is China, most of the middle eastern countries, many south American countries, some European countries that will stand on Russias side. NATO is a meaningless, empty shell. At his point, they can't even provide enough ammunition to Ukraine. Additional, NATO and the US do not have the military industrial capacity required for an all out war with the BRICS alliance. NATO doesn't have any military combat experience, which the Russians have now. Just think about the experience Russia and China have regarding drone and robotic warfare, neither US nor European armed forces have anything like this at this time.
Who produces all these drones? Right, China. It's all about resources and indrustrial capacity, Russia and China have both, which they can scale massively.
I want to get somewhere faster with portable tools. Used to skate, but annoying to take skateboard everywhere. I live in SF, so bike gets stolen. Currently use Lyft e-bike rental but ideally have similar speed but backpack-able portability.

Honestly, maybe I wear cooling vest and just jog to work. Walking too slow: 15+ min / mile.
Correct. I’m an aviation geek/disaster post mortem junkie and the only incident I’m aware of is Germanwings (obviously) and potentially MH370 depending on which scenario/theory you subscribe to.

There have been a few other incidents that essentially boil down to CRM (crew resource management) issues regarding pilots with clear and obvious personality issues that when combined with the wrong crew members has resulted in loss of life.

Basically, combine someone on the flight deck with seniority who’s an asshole with a junior and impressionable crew member and it can be a problem:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Airlink_Flight_571...

Either way aviation is remarkably safe generally speaking and I’m not sure I’d put mandatory therapy, etc towards the top of the list in terms of approaches to make flying even safer.

Of course pilots have a tough job and are responsible for hundreds of lives at a time and their needs should be looked after. But the incident rate just isn’t there.

“Aviation regulations are written in blood”.
>The reason "lila" wasn't used to describe the cabbage is that the German language lacked a word for it.

This is totally it, some people just decided to name it the way they saw it, and depending on the region were they lived.

Rotblaukohl was probably the middle ground, but there's in German a rule to join two colors: das blaurote Kleid (the blue-red dress), in this case it would mean the dress has two colors blue and red.

I might be very far from my area of expertise TBH.
That's not work unique to exponential back-off. You'd have to do all that for any back-off, which is why I said it's more complex than no back-off. Exponential back off literally is about a line of code difference (change "x += a" to "x <<= 1" (ok, a different radix isn't so silly easy, but anything is better then no back-off). All the rest, maximums, wrap around protection, reset events, all needs thought in either case. Actually the pathological cases in a linear system are perhaps sneakier as they could creep up on you ("it won't overflow, right? That would take months!")

But I think we all know what actually happened here was a rush to release and then a failure to follow up with "the update that actually does it right". The Jira ticket is probably still "open - should do, version: next" somewhere. And there's a "told you so" email chain linked in there somewhere.
will happily run this on several hundred highly starred GitHub projects if someone ports the approach to code...

(of course if Microsoft let me opt out I'd have no reason to)
Ask HN: Was the job market this bad back at the WWW Bubble in 2001?
The title says it all. Those who were alive and working back in the day, how was it? It does look a lot similar looking from the developer job perspective.

Also another question: How long it took to stabilize? 2, 5, 10 years?

Tks :)
> It means no one ever ran those instructions and checked the result.

That's not really true. It means they produced wrong values with some input. They may have tested but not hit the pathological input case. No one is going to sweep the entirety of the domain. You really need a formal proof to avoid these bugs.
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It's not really a good trend when you want to know exactly what is being installed.

https://hpc.guix.info/blog/2021/09/whats-in-a-package/
IIRC the bigger component was the time issue. When the flight is an hour and the train ride is 3 hours it makes a big difference.

But I would imagine it's seat density (more seats in a plane fuselage vs a train car) and sold seats vs empty seats (airlines have a pretty efficient system for filling seats based on dynamic pricing, due to the fact that the flight departures are timed and gated).

I'll try to find the article, it had numbers.
> Otherwise how can you tell if there are multiyear cycles in Twitter's engagement or if the trend had begun long before Musk's takeover?

If you have access to SimilarWeb (where the data came from) you can see it's a new trend. I can't share that but they do a free trial if you want to check it out.
No one discusses how with new releases old code breaks. I can compile C code from 40 years ago. I can't compile code in Rust I wrote from 4 months ago. I feel Rust will always be a moving target. I am getting very discouraged.
I agree that tech companies have nonexistent support because they refuse to hire people to do it, but the DMCA is a terrible law and enables people to do this way too easily. It should cost money (or something) to file a DMCA claim to prevent copyright trolls and people from abusing the legal system.
Trying to look at the bright side:

Raised barriers of entry means there will be improvements for services which can "help lift smaller companies up". For example, for finance, AML/KYC companies. Now I guess, for some internet services, "age verification" companies. This way age verification services may have some competition between each other and that can make it easier for people to do, and also cheaper for everyone to use.
melting icebergs don't rise sea level. Water is denser than ice, even if the iceberg melts, water just fills previously occupied space
The reason for that of course is that DOS stopped changing almost 30 years ago. But, yes, Dosbox and other DOS emulators are great virtual machines if you do not want to have to rewrite your software every six months because some API changed, and they run almost everywhere.
You can just have LLMs rewrite all communications to follow the party line as part of an image and reputation management thing. Saves time. Campaigns can run leaner.
The problem with your solution is laws/regulations are not really enforceable internationally.
I get your "standard".

It's why my recommendation is to actually go look at Toyota's tech. It's not hypothetical or in development. Their solid state batteries are known to exist and be ready to go.

"I think I found Toyota's battery" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36980630

Which refers to " https://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-022-01421-z"

Maybe some patenting stuff under way? I don't know.

Toyota did predict this for a few years ago but things were shut down for the pandemic.

Fun reads: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=toyota+battery

Older teslas driving features are more reliable than the current ones. It sounds like training the AI driving systems with synthetic data is helping speed up progress. Another fn area to read.
But that surfaces to the human layer as a precondition, just because the reason for the precondition is based on the physical layer doesn't necessarily mean it breaks the abstraction. I still need no knowledge of the how the dishes actually get cleaned.
It's not about code Generation amigo. This is for images
Naturally yes. Glue this to WEI and you have a perfect funnel into the forthcoming verification wars.
I have a better plan which 100% protects kids but doesn't require any verification: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37991197
What are those simple use cases, and where do you see Retrieval Augmented Generation fall over?
I know it's an unpopular opinion but hear me out:

1) Now the lists are prominent feature, pick accounts that specialise and put them in lists. I find it especially useful if I want to keep an eye on stuff that I don't necessarily want to engage everyday. For example, I have a list of conspiracy theorists and misogynist who are quite influential but I can't stand to see their BS all the time. I also have a list of economists that I would like to be able to glance over when there's some developments.

2) Community notes, which was developed as "birdwatch" pre-takeover but never released, is actually super useful.

3) Seeing the number of views is very interesting to have an idea about the reach of something. It's probably very inaccurate considering what constitutes a view but its useful to compare one content to another

4) Removing the headlines of link previews makes you click it before forming an opinion. IMHO headlines are harmful.

5) I love that Musk was exposed as free speech NIMBY. His position is now cemented, can no longer claim being free speech absolutist and be takes seriously.

6) And the Nazi stuff that Evans mentions, IMHO is harmless because it's challenged. I'm much more free speech absolutists than Musk and I don't believe that de-platforming people, making them congregate in specialised platforms helps anybody. They just get crazier and crazier and then shoot people or conspire to do things. It's much better when this happens in open and they BS is called out.

I don't know if Twitter pushes that many nutjobs to everyone or I end up seeing so many because I have a list full of them but I think it's important to be exposed to all kind of trends in the society - even though some of those are extremely unpleasant. Every now and then, they have a point or they are the only ones that address a pain point of concern and can get lot's of supporters when that happen. If you keep eye on these issues you can act before its too late.

And if some those people actually attempt do something harmful, that's the law enforcements job to take care of it.

Maybe it's bad business but it's a better product and I don't see any point of leaving it. A cesspool you don't see doesn't seize existing. An anti-vaxxer trend, for example, will end up effecting you even if you don't have a Twitter account because there are people actively working for it and leaving a platform will simply make their job easier.
You can't get the IDG's back but couldn't you still start the APU using battery power? Also, the disconnect seems to be only for the IDG's, wouldn't that still leave you with bleed air and hydraulics?
I am not sure how how hashing would help here? A hash would only be useful to see if someone tampered with data you already have and tried to swap your stored images for poison images.

This is intended to deter scraping of images.
See links above.

I don't disagree Toyota drags their feet updating their existing cars, let alone new ones.

One big move is they did sign that deal with Tesla to adopt the supercharging standard for electric. Hopefully that speeds things up.
There's an easy solution to "protecting" children on the Internet. Let people and not companies decide what to view on a platform. Like Youtube can provide an option to whitelist channels or let users programmatically define rules on what kind of content they want in their feed. The downstream effect of this is that if some parents want to control what their kids see, they can just setup an account with rules on what content is allowed. Google doesn't need to appoint itself as a nanny.

But then, such super easy technological solutions come in the way of selling people to advertisers. So here we are.
is there any evidence of this that you can share?
Yes, pretty sure that is how it will always be with such attacks. cat-and-mouse forever.
I don’t agree with what I expect.
I like it when Excel parses and recreates a HTML table into a spreadsheet. You could possibly paste it as text and split to columns, but I doubt it would work as well.
The Likud party supports the expulsion and killing of all Palestinians. We should make supporting them illegal next.
Do not allow accessing foreign websites (from countries which did not join the convention) when "safe content" setting is active.
This solution is the lowest cost solution and I am in favor. Will OS developers (because their market power is obviously more relevant here than the viewpoint of web developers) see it the same way?
I'm confused, isn't it just openstreetmaps? I must be missing something.
Cloudflare: 100GB hosting is $1 and $.36 for 10 million requests.

If you read the Protomaps docs it explains how to cache the requests on Cloudflare CDN so you only have to pay for each tile request once per cache period. It's quite cheap.

Edit: previous submission title for Protomaps: Serverless maps at 1/700 the cost of Google Maps API
How to gain insight into your project contributors
Well TBH the open internet provided a ton of benefit, but has metastasized into a force of misery and evil.

The near collapse of democracy in the United States, the various nasty impacts of social media, the death of professional journalism, the emergence of automated propaganda bots, etc are all negative impacts of open internet that are destroying society.

This may not be the answer, but neither is that status quo. We can't go back to 2003 or 1993.

The older people here live like it's 2003. It's not. HN is a throwback to those days, but we live in a world shaped by anonymous actors performing in bad faith.
> That isn't equality if you have to have a really good way to hide.

It's still better that they were forced to hide, than a world where they couldn't hide.

> I feel like anonymity is just a band-aid.

The norms of a society are nether stable over time nor across members at a single point in time.

There is no stasis point, there is no right answer. There is only entropy.
Absolutely. It's a battery pack though, not a car.

Does Toyota have cars with battery packs this battery could be swapped into? That run only on electric for some of the time (Prime).

Maybe it's closer than it seems.
It's better than @! @tptacek isn't me!
the year is 2024. all consumers have an iphone. some consumers have gaming pcs. applications are not installed on the pc, but instead booted. there is no os or internal drives. usb-c drives are flashed with images via iphone, and booted on the pc. they boot directly into the application via modified archisos.
I haven't seen any direct attacks on general purpose computing, but it sure seems like its enemies are starting to surround it.
> These results suggest that mitigation of greenhouse gases now has limited power to prevent ocean warming that could lead to the collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.