skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm talking about the guys that live and breathe everything CS/SWE related. The guys that will continue to work on hobby projects at home after work, the guys that are extremely invested in every part of the tool-chain, and are passionate about all the stuff I found boring.

Because it’s just absurdly important. I can’t say anything about the projects you’ve worked on, but I can pretty much guarantee that the projects I work on will descend into an immediate free for all without the toolchain.
Why not just run it on the Hercules emulator?

https://sdl-hercules-390.github.io/html/
> But once cigarettes were banned, prisoners needed a replacement currency and the 'mack' was deemed to be the best choice because it was worth roughly $1 at the commissary and pretty much no one wanted to eat it.

> As one prisoner notes in the Wall & Broadcast video below, the 'mack' was also "inherently inflationary" because its supply was limited to 14 macks per week per inmate....
Stupid question: but how do you search for something along a specific route? The search nearby thing never quite works for me, it keeps zooming out / clearing, I never got the hang of it.
Today's engineers will be the future "middle managers", trying to translate the "specs" they get from up above into actual specs that the AI can process, and then reviewing the code the AI produces (which always looks perfect but may still contain egregious mistakes). Fun times...
What alternative are you moving to? What features does this alternative have?
Related:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36002817
Show HN: Skip All YouTube Ads with Safari and the Touch Bar on Mac
I noticed a while ago that Safari's built-in media controls on the Touch Bar make it possible to skip ads on Youtube by swiping the scrubber to the end. It's very convenient, especially in the current circumstances :). No 5-second slowdown or whatever!
BTW, I'm running macOS Ventura 13.6.2 beta and Safari 16.2.
That's not the endgame.

Eventually each ad has an embedded AI that must be run to see the content after the ad. That AI evaluates whether there's a human who looks and behaves like you watching the ad. The endgame requires your AI to do a convincing impression of you to the ad AI, and to hide other signals that would reveal you doing something else, like the sound of a flushing toilet.

When your AI is pushed by more advanced ad AI to be very convincing, it has to start purchasing things occasionally, just like a typical human. It occasionally buys the things in the ads, the way humans are expected to, to avoid revealing it's not you.

This spirals out of control when your AI has to buy more things than a human would, because the ad AIs co-evolve with your AI to expect that. It won't be possible for an ordinary human to watch content unless they run a highly-evolved adblocker AI that buys enough of the things shown by the ad AIs to satisfy the ad company.
Is it a competition at Google on who can come up with the brightest and lowest contrast map colors? Maybe it’s like a rite of passage…

This is also how a map could look:

https://postimg.cc/fVZvw8qJ
'hold package' option may help. Dunno if is implemented in Ubuntu, but you could take a look
How do you go from basic via 6 years of working to 2023?

Regardless, start your own company, luckily you're in the right place.

edit: or do like my friend and code in the forrest :) https://thomasbacklund.com/blog/index.html
Something else I don’t love from looking at my neighborhood is that Aldi gets its own pin/emphasis. Not the important municipal buildings, parks or school.

Her most basic point about the water and parks says it all. There’s a lot of existing visual language around this stuff that could be drawn from. Things going back hundreds of years. But I guess a fucking pin for Aldi speaks volumes about where the real priority is for this „product”.
It's not just Google here though. Creators also rely on ad revenue to make money.
You consented by using the service. You don’t have to use YouTube.
There are inexpensive headphones with the entire MP3 player built in, so I doubt a little RAM would make much difference.
the median contributor to Linux is an overworked driver developer (who may not have much software development experience at all) who is throwing stuff at the wall to try to get something to work on their machine, often with inaccurate or incomplete documentation (even or especially if they work for the company making the hardware they are writing a driver for). It's a swamp of subpar C code once you get outside the core subsystems. And yes, there are a lot of people throwing various analysis tools at the kernel to try to catch these, but the tools are quite noisy, and proper testing is hard without the relevant hardware.
I can't believe the number of people here that think YouTube has some right to access my eyes and attention.

No one is forcing them to stream me free data. What I do with the data they send me is none of their business. I've never consented or given them permission to access me.
Even better than that, it's just regular art.
Tesla should get rid of the relics of the UK and USA 'bitter enemies' negotiations.
Came from the old UK Lords versus commons where both sides acted as cancerous growth whose goal was to extinguish the other.
Germany and many in Europe have board seats occupied by union members = full financial over sight as well as other secrets.
It leads to better relations, sadly, it also leads to feather bedded companies who eventually die. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Featherbedding
So Elon needs to share his bed and get union men on the board to act as a restraint to excess waged demands = could kill the company.
To the point, I completely agree that snap seems to work quite well for server software.

Which makes it additionally frustrating that Canonical is insisting on forcing it on all the desktop users.

No one is installing server software through the Software Center. So why does that have to prioritize Snaps?

Canonical could very well have promoted snap as an option to package server software and used flatpaks or even debs for desktop software. There is no reason the 2 couldn’t exist as primary options at the same time for different use cases.
Ads are only meant for certain groups of the population. That's why you never see ads for good products that you would actually want to buy – because people who buy those kind of products make informed purchases by comparing price, features and quality.

We could dream of an internet where companies would advertise their products on relevant videos and be done with that, but they probably won't increase sales that way. Because the audience would buy their product anyway if it fit their needs.

In 2023 there are two methods of marketing:

Method 1 is competing on price, features and quality. Customers will buy your product if it fits their wants and their budget.

Method 2 is advertising, where the product itself has little to no influence on sales. Certain groups of people will buy your product because you've made them feel they should.
god that sounds so nice. lol. I've been tortured by Tikz and that just sounds like... peace.
No feature: a careful response to the challenges we face with AI
Ask YC: tracking events platform and no-code workflow
Hi -

I have an app. Certain stages of the funnel require some action, like send text, send email, call certain endpoint.

Instead of building everything in code, and for the sake of quicker experimentation (changing copy, adding notifications, etc), I'd like to use some "out of the box" solution:

1. A platform that I can send events to. I anticipate about 1,000 events per day.

2. Be able to create workflows, that would, based on incoming events and conditions, perform some actions.

It looked like Segment is one option, but much more expensive than I anticipated. And it's unclear whether it supports workflows.

Re-tool seems to be another option, however also at $75 per each 5,000 workflow runs, would come out expensive, easily over $500/month.

I'd prefer open-source solution, or something affordable and in cloud.

Thanks!
Anecdotally I’m way more likely to care about a grocery than any of the locations you’ve mentioned.

The goal isn’t creating a historical representation of where things were.

It’s supposed to be functional.
People have, but you’re paying a premium for monitor features you cannot use and losing TV features.

For example HDMI ARC and CEC, speakers, a remote, antenna tuner, et al.

I think it may be more rational for smaller sizes.
Agree, it is crazy how Americans are falling for Israeli propaganda. I dont even mean evangelical crazies but also normal human beings who I talked to seem to still view Israel as a democratic state that has right to commit genocide. In Europe it is way less common to support Israeli crimes now, even my baby boomer colleagues are more pro Palestine than before.
Ah, thanks - will get that fixed up shortly.
With the hypothetical AGI, the answer is "most non-manual forms of human labor"
> Or for stealing from large supermarkets?

This isn’t the right analogy. It’s more like someone opens up a shop where you can walk to the counter and ask for some food, and they stick a sample of some product in the bag when they give you the food. It’s not immoral to throw away the sample if you don’t want it, just like it’s not immoral to not play back the ad you get served along side a video you request if you don’t want to watch it.
What do Apple, Meta, TikTok have in common? Fighting Europe's antitrust rules
You could've started paying almost a decade ago. I've had Premium for as long as it's existed, even when ads were "tolerable." (It was never tolerable enough for me to be able to keep a few bucks.)

I think it's ridiculous that people are only now coming out of the woodwork saying things like "I would pay if they weren't forcing me into it" or "I would pay if it wasn't so expensive now" or "I just want to pay for ad-free and not YT Music".

It's been out for years, and it was cheap before; they even had Premium Lite for a while.
The threshold for starting monetization isn't very high though.

* 500 Subscriber

* 3 'valid' uploads in the past 90 days

and either of

* 3k public watch hours or 3m shorts views

https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/more-ways-for-creators-...
Google maps have been terrible for years. (The actual map part and UX interactions.) Lack of detail is astonishing. At this point it's just a glorified car navigation, where the road is everything, and anything else is just for show/illustration/gray/green blur, I suppose. (I don't drive.) Green color means absolutely nothing useful. It can be a forrest, field, or a pretty much anything.

UX consists of annoying forced zooming around during menu/UI navigation. I often just want to exit a search context, but not change the map zoom position, and select something else on the map. I constantly struggle to keep context, when this auto-zoom/sift happens. I mean if there was some checkbox to decouple menu navigation from map control, that would improve the experience 7fold. Show me a fucking arrow on the screen edge if the POI is out of the viewport, but don't shift the map to a supposed "better view".

I have quite a bit of pent up rage towards this stupid app, that I sometimes have to use because local public transport relies on it. UX right out of hell.

These changes don't even register for me as significant degradation of UX.
I loved Dayton.

We finished the first big hangar and my said how cool it was and that we’d seen it and ut was time to go.

Then I told her about the other 2 (3?) hangars.

We got our 10k steps in before lunch, but it was amazing, and I’d go back any day.

Putting the kids in the flight sim was cool. I told them it wasn’t that bad then my daughter promptly flew it fully upside down and we heard the screams from inside. Mostly fun screams. They begged to ride it again. We did it a bunch. My daughter got competitive so we had to fly together to get the days high score.
The ESP32 has 448KB of ROM that embeds most of newlibc as well as wireless drivers and part of the bluetooth stack.

From past experience I can say that tinybasic can go down to about 3-4KB in size.

So it was probably "free" in that they had already decided on a rom size to embed and they had some space left.
I also tend to advise people not to write so many services -- a generation of developers has entered the workforce thinking "cloud native microservices" are the only way to factor software of any kind -- but I also caution people not to make everything a library either. Libraries have maintenance costs that have to pay off overall, and I consistently see people underestimate those costs when first making a library.

Any library used by more than one project faces friction making almost any kind of changes, especially if the ideal form of the change breaks backwards compatibility even a little bit. Even if it's used by only one project (an unfortunate antipattern some teams fall into), it still introduces friction to individual changes, which is worse in some languages than others because even just testing against a WIP version of the library might be a whole tangle that everyone seems to reinvent "workspaces" to try to mitigate even a little.

I now urge people to keep closely related projects in a single repo with purely internal libraries, so you can make backwards incompatible changes because you fix them for all consumers within the same commit that made them. This is like a monorepo but only for closely related projects.

It cuts out a lot of the friction of updating shared code, so it's a good way to avoid tech debt and keep both the library and its users evolving. This was inspired by working in an actual monorepo for years, but avoiding the size of repo where you can no longer make every related change in the same commit.

When an internal library's API surface has proven to work well for several projects and for long enough to be considered stable, then it can be spun off as a standalone library, and whatever warts slowly form there are probably acceptable in return for the wider reuse.
yeah, an update I think about 2 years ago created zoom levels where some highways appear disconnected because the connections stop rendering too early.
In a repo with unstaged changes, running "git checkout ." will checkout files from a specific commit into the worktree and clobber your unstaged changes. By default it probably uses HEAD as the commit to checkout from.

You can checkout files and directories from completely unrelated commits and even unrelated repos!

I have used this to checkout specific useful files from other projects. It's a little nicer than just copying them in, because you can keep the repo tracking branch updated and keep checking out updates, and you can easily compare your file to theirs, and see what changes they have made to the file.
Related hit piece: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38070432
The social contract has broken down so yes all of that is now okay.
I happily paid for YouTube lite until they cancelled it.
ChatGPT totally changed the way I create software
I’ve found using FlatSeal eliminates my issues with flatpak. And that’s despite me running flatpak on an Ubuntu install which I try hard to de-snap (yeah, I should switch to another distro but I’ve been using Ubuntu off and on for 2 decades and old habits die hard).

That being said I don’t see FlatSeal as a solution to the permission issues but merely a bandaid until a proper first citizen solution is developed by flatpak.
I'll steal a comment from another website:

"Microsoft bought ThreadX to compete with Amazon buying FreeRTOS. Microsoft didn’t realize they had an immensely better RTOS until they basically lost to AWS in the IoT front because of straight up dumb reasons.

Meanwhile Bill Lamie left and founded a new firm with a new rtos (PX5) and lo and behold everyone working for Microsoft’s Azure RTOS in San Diego left.

And that’s how a commercial RTOS gets handed over to eclipse. Good for us - probably pretty shitty for whoever managed the purchase at Azure - talk about negative return."

Microsoft is putting all their bets on AI and IoT, backend or node, is out. Never been a good fit anyway. And that's all. IoT at the FAANGs will never be big enough.

ThreadX is pretty awesome and this is actually really good news...as long as the project gets the proper stewardship going forward. The ecosystem that MS is letting go looks WAY more attractive than FreeRTOS is or Zephyr will ever be. I plan to play with it over the holiday break.

Sure, my title is a bit bait-y but whatever. Nobody is paying much attention to this stuff anyway.
I understand put options and short selling, but how on earth can the price of a commodity sink below zero? How can you make a „sell“ order that is negative? Can someone explain please?
While I don't follow 'great' hackers, here's some names. I haven't actually checked to see if they held C-level positions so some might have.

Yukihiro Matsumoto, Satoshi Nakamoto, Linus Torvalds, Jeff Dean, Aaron Swartz, Richard Stallman, Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Guido van Rossum, Yann LeCun, Andrej Karpathy
Chimps have a much better working memory than humans. They can also count 100 times faster than humans.
However, the area of their brain responsible for this faculty is used for language in humans... The theory is that the prior working memory and counting ability may have been optimized out at some point to make physical room, assuming human ancestors could do it too.

Lookup the chimp test. the videos of the best chimp are really quite incredible.

There is also the measured inflation of map traversing parts of the brain in pro tetris players and taxi drivers. I vaguely remember an explanation about atrophy in nearby areas of the brain, potentially to make room.
I don't mind the widgets, but agree on the colors. The water being teal and non-built areas being mint looks both unnatural and has worse contrast, at least to my eye. It's like they wanted to go for a pastel theme but didn't dare go all the way.

At least there's always the 3D globe/satellite view, which I still think is a marvel. Especially if you're looking up walking directions to somewhere unfamiliar, since you can rotate around and see all nearby buildings, landmarks, etc. hope they expand the coverage!
Less a criticism of the map itself and more of the product, Google Maps overall keeps getting less and less usable.

On iOS it’s possible to tap down into several layers of menus and options to where it becomes impossible to get back out. (For example restaurant -> suggested places -> restaurant -> review) From the lack of well designed navigation it’s clear that the app is a messy collection of UXs thrown on top
of each other.

Don’t even get me started on the desktop browser UI where there seem to be competing google place and google map place products.
You can pass a flag to the commands to hide them.
I don't consent on every other site that uses google analytics? And last time I checked, consent isn't implied.
> though we all know how touchy engineer-types can be

I am unfamiliar with this
It's HN. People's time and effort are not valued unless it's to make rust compiler run on gameboy.

Remember the whole "news" part of HN works because people are allowed to link to "unpaywalled" version of paywalled content. It's what HN is about -- stealing premium content. If these kinds of links are banned HN will lose a lot of traffic.
It’s not fear. I just don’t really believe in opening up scabs.
Call me when Windows gets proper HIDPI support lmao.

As for HDR, that's here or coming in the next couple months.
And this is precisely why the law is so toothless in WA. It was intended to kill non-competes for low-wage workers (McDonald's workers, etc), not for tech workers. That's still a good thing overall, but techies don't really see the benefits of it.
That’s a strange thing to claim. Don’t they usually lie in their eye sockets?
I meant to say bandwidth.
better is subjective
Perhaps more people actually search for the Aldi because they're passing through and don't know or remember where it is, or because they're looking for operating hours and other information. Most people go to the same schools & parks, nearest their homes, on a regular (daily/weekly) basis, so they don't need directions.
The cool thing with commoditized ai is, you don't have to pick.

Everyone can create the perfect mix of stimulai that guy is looking for at that instant in time.
The three remaining crypto bros in Finland will finally make money mining for Bitcoin.
Are we using different apps?

I have no trouble distinguishing between land and water, including greenspace. Train lines are much easier to see. Roads have been better broken down and are easier to understand for a pedestrian. The lessened contrast between different types of terrain makes it easier to tell how to get to locations and where locations are. They pop out more. The functional requirements for maps are discovery and navigation, both of which seem improved in this ui update.
Reminds me of the old portable CD players that would advertise the capacity of their anti-skip buffers.
> nor would I know where to find one

Surface Go is available in eMMC version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpkT8JwgnAI

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=laptop+emmc

Basically anything under $700 has a chance to be an eMMC laptop.

Most? Nope.

Many? Yes, especially cheap and not so cheap ones.
Disable third party cookies.
Agreed. Some people just have corrupt minds disconnected from reality. Seriously I don’t see the point of explaining any more.
I think you are exaggerating a bit, but tbh I had a very similar attitude towards macs before, because at work we were forced to use some mac computers which I found insufferable at the time. Hardware-wise we had some pretty much ridiculous iMacs with HDD bought in like 2019 - internal HDDs as main drives should have been banned at that point. Software-wise, issues with OS updates, library versions, and too bloated interface.

It was only once I got my M1 air that I realised that macos was not the problem, but rather how the computers were configured, shared between people and used. Eg I just share my shell configurations and tools with my linux systems, iterm is great, homebrew is pretty fine for me, tools like rectangle making the window interface much more usable. There are occasional issues, annoying security restrictions that you have to manually waive all the time, OS updates that break things, but at least it does not force you to update in the middle of you having to run something important like windows do. And the default macos office apps are lightweight, and decent enough that I do not need to some bloated office software. Work-wise, all the computational software I use runs fine, and only if I need to use intense and long parallelised computations I may use my desktop (or cloud). I am pretty sure an ipad or an iphone would run a lot of stuff pretty ok, if they were not limited by their OS and peripheral support.

In any case, the main reason I got into macs anyway was the lack of fan noise. I do not think I can go back to any other laptop that makes so much noise again. I share my office with others and get constant reminder how it sounds like. Heck I am playing BG3 on my M1 macbook air. I can't do that on a chromebook, and neither anywhere else without a fan. My friend has a laptop with rtx 3070 and it sounds like a jet engine when we play together.
Probably the best take so far. I lost my job earlier this month and have been noticing that the advances in AI are going to be taking away what I would consider my day-to-day. While i'm in the market still for a new gig, I'm slowly coming to the realization that it might take me much longer than i expect. The increase in CS graduates and everyone wanting to do software is also not helping much unfortunately. I feel like software engineering as a career is going to go along the wayside due to AI. Unfortunately, im unsure what to be upskilling in to stay relevant.
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