skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you heard of Phoenix [1]? It seems relatively unknown but I actually found it to work better than Yabai in some ways. The gist is that it basically simulates a tiling wm and virtual desktops by internally tracking state. This also means it doesn't suffer from window animation delays when you switch "desktops" (since "desktops" are just hiding/unhiding windows). It's also highly hackable/extensible being written in JS. Spin2Win [2] is a config that's worked well for me.

[1] https://github.com/kasper/phoenix

[2] https://github.com/nik3daz/spin2win

That said, it seems there are no perfect solutions. At work where I can't really be futzing around with window management config I basically just use Raycast + hotkeys and try to keep everything inside maximized application windows. This means using Arc browser (tabbed), iTerm (tabbed), VS Code (with native tabs), etc mapped to cmd+1, cmd+2, cmd+3...Not much "tiling" going on but at least everything is pretty keyboard friendly.
I talked about this in the OP. Memory maps are sometimes a little faster. See:

$ ls -l full.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 andrew users 13113340782 Sep 29 12:30 full.txt

$ time rg -c --no-mmap Clipton full.txt
294

real 1.337
user 0.470
sys 0.866
maxmem 15 MB
faults 0

$ time rg -c --mmap Clipton full.txt
294

real 1.045
user 0.722
sys 0.323
maxmem 12511 MB
faults 0

But in recursive search, especially when used for lots of little files, they end up provoking substantial overhead that slows everything down.

And this might change depending on the platform.
Yes, and rejected it in favor of DuckDB. But thank you, ClickHouse employee.
I’m sure he’s not hard pressed for money but i doubt he’s a mega millionaire. This should be seen as using a platform and audience to speak for those much smaller than him.
I wonder if this is also to drown out smaller vendors who rely on the post office for shipping.
Most distros use a mostly hermetic-usr, where a majority of "distro stuff" is shipped in /usr/{bin,sbin,lib,lib<bitness>,share}. The folders in root mostly symlink to these directories (/usr/sbin might also symlink to /usr/bin).
> I'm pretty sure the AI firms ARE violating copyright today, they have done this knowingly, and they should get a hard slap for that.

Depends on the jurisdiction. Do note that many countries already passed laws indicating that training is NOT copyright infringement. The EU[1], for example. In which case, no license would matter.

https://www.reedsmith.com/en/perspectives/ai-in-entertainmen...

[1] Yes, in the EU, you can opt-out (but only for commercial purposes). In other countries such as Singapore however, there are no legal mechanisms for opting out.
Monopolies are often extremely inefficient. One word: IE6. Sapping web evolution didn't really gain anything for anyone, not even MS.

Standardization ≠ centralization, btw.
Exactly, when you are starting with a fuel about 100x less energy dense than gasoline and 10x more expensive due to current economies of scale, you have to be creative in flipping the system.
Really glad this ugly POS probably won't be street-legal in Europe. Just look at the old Defender 2016. And that has no sharp edges or reflective surfaces.
No, the GP is stating that the short term advantage will always exist, for fundamental reasons. It's just short term because it has to be reacquired often, not because there stops being an advantage.

In 5 years, the specialized model would still beat the generalized ones. They would just be different from the ones today.
Intel's 5 Nodes in 4 Years: Progress [video]
Reading the title of the article, I thought about how many democracy in the world are slowly turning towards fascism. People who out of fear elect leaders that do not mind bending the law to grab more power. Do not forget that many fascist and/or autocratic leaders were elected into position.
I think there is something special. Some special coupling of emotional states between us (manifests as empathy, feeling of community, feeling of connection). Not saying that this connection cannot be replicated or faked, this remains an open question.

Perhaps building an AI vastly smarter than us will conflict with replicating this coupling. Perhaps we will prefer artwork from an AI with which we do feel this type of connection. Perhaps this will make us build an AI that is really close to us in terms of experiencing feelings an emotional states, even if it means it's less "smart". This wouldn't be a dull outcome...
Show HN: Riddle Brawl – An Image-Riddle Game
Riddle Brawl is not the usual word-based riddle game. Each riddle is an actual image that provides hints for the solution. These images are based on a combination of riddles, internet treasure hunts, memes, and math.

The game lasts 4 rounds in total, one per week. Each round lasts from Wednesday 9:00 pm to Sunday midnight (CET time) and it has 5 image-riddles. Players need to solve them before the deadline to discover the secret passphrase. The passphrase will allow them to move to the next round the following week.

Hope you'll enjoy and any feedback is more than welcome! Try it out
You can configure Hammerspoon so a hot key combination puts a window in a defined section of the screen. For example, I use Ctrl+Alt+H to put the current window in the left half of the screen, Ctrl+Alt+L for the right half, Ctrl+Alt+Enter for full screen, etc. This makes arranging your windows very fast.

Full config: https://github.com/twpayne/dotfiles/blob/21d0edcebaeebf0d90e...
Show HN: NPM package which makes your react app visually editable like Figma
this is a very early version of a visual-editor that I'm building which lets you edit like you would in devtools/figma and sync those changes to your code. everything runs on the user's machine so there's no need to login. the aim here is to help you build visually when you want to without locking you into a platform.
Rectangle is absolutely great
How to set up and experiment with Prometheus remote-write
Prometheus is an open source monitoring software. It stores time series for metrics, where each metric is defined by a name and a unique set of arbitrary key-value pairs called labels. The only thing that changes for a given time series throughout the course of time is its value—a numeric value of a given type.

Prometheus is collecting those metrics by pulling on HTTP endpoints that expose a plaintext page containing a list of metrics (each with name and labels) together with their current value.
Some Apple Silicon Chips Will Soon Be Produced and Packaged in U.S.
So I've tried using this Q Preview - and frankly, it's little more than the usual chatbot that can repeat what's in the docs.
If you're still committed to technocratic market-driven solutions to climate change there's the interesting idea of Carbon Quantitative Easing, essentially directly paying people to not emit carbon (read: pay oil companies to not pump out the oil they're going to pump out) or to sequester carbon with various methods. It's thought of as a carrot along with the stick of carbon taxes adding a cost to emissions.

First learned about this in the excellent sci-fi novel The Ministry for the Future.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_quantitative_easing
Llamafile is (rightfully) the top of HN right now.

I have high hopes that models will end up a bit like Linux servers, where everyone is building on open foundations.
Yep.

But also: It might not be for a developer like you, but it is for a developer like me.

I enjoy writing software, but I don't particularly enjoy futzing with building things outside my day-to-day work, and on systems I don't write myself. If it was up to me everything would be one click.

Things like this are like accessibility: it benefits me even though I don't particularly need it.
Show HN: Removing 30B Resource Requests Increases HTML Fetches by 22%
Players, it depends. A good music set (not a cheap radiocassete) with speakers and such was around a 1/3 of the salary of an average worker in Spain.
nope. It's the same 2020 model, wrapped in another label. Just like they do all their other failed offerings... Rename and resell. Like a used car salesman.
Any touch screen drivers for it?
Oakland's unprecedented triple exodus is a unique sporting tragedy
But if you look at the first case, for example that was a rejection a first reading - not a definitive killing off.

It's not quite clear what happens next - the Council of ministers may apparently decide to continue working on the legislation regardless of the Parliament's vote.

In other words - it is not evidence of an "ultimate veto power"
try hammerspoon. it isn't a tiling window manager, per se - it's more of an all-purpose desktop extension framework. it is fully customizable, has a well-documented API, and a large community.

for window arrangement the hs.grid component is plenty for me. see an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRJ0477KFp8
Is there a good user registration/auth solution for spring boot?
An iPhone battery can maybe hold 20Wh. 1kWh of electricity produces maybe 500g CO2 assuming the current power generator mix in the USA. Even a typical european easily causes 30kg of CO2 a day. 10g of that would go to charging an iPhone once a day. So the impact is completely negligible.
The infantilization of adults in the West continue to rise. Child like obsession with teen idols, Disney, Legos, Funko Pops, Marvel movies, video games, etc. Consumerism is rampant. The number of engineers I work with in their 30s who fit this stereotype is truly bizarre. When we hang out at an offsite, I feel like I'm spending time with my teenage cousins.
For a while Deezer was pushing a model similar to this, they called it User Centric Payment System: https://musically.com/2019/09/11/deezer-steps-up-its-efforts...

Here's another article on it: https://www.engadget.com/2019-09-11-deezer-royalty-system-sm...

Unfortunately, they've since changed it to a model that the labels wanted.
When you take a job with a large company (and potentially smaller companies too) you are not joining The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, you're a character in The Hunger Games.
I've absoluttely been in a position where the ground moved under me. I went from doing (based on evaluations, RSUs, etc.) from doing a very good job to bouncing around a bunch of managers and groups in roles that I wasn't really suited for and didn't have much real interest in. The only saving grace was that I was pretty close to semi-retiring anyway.
"They" refers to the programs that exist (or more broadly anything based on "statistical likelihood or mashing up the familiar", which is the overwhelmingly dominant sort); "never will" refers to "never will write the next great novel or create the next great painting", not "never will exist."

I think the author might agree that they never will exist, but because of his actual point about what they will do to creative work and communities, not any physical limitations.
To play devil's advocate, the flaw in your logic is assuming that because someone passed the interview at a FAANG, they must be good.

No interview process is perfect. Companies, no matter how 'high the entry barrier' make mistakes when hiring. This is how they've decided to correct it.
Thanks. Close. That's the same topic / idea, but the bit I heard for definitely longer than 3 minutes. Might have been a 20 mins segment out of 1 hour show.

Still. Thanks. The whole concept is ridiculously beyond comprehension.
I've posted about this before, but this is just the hollowing out of the "middle" of the value curve.

Most people want something that's good enough, and they're not willing to pay for something that's N+1 good at 2N price. Other people want something that's N+5 good and will pay 3N price. As AI pushes down the lower bound of cost for creativity, the "mediocre" content creators/programmers/writers are going to get squeezed. At the same time, this means there is an untapped market for the people who can truly be creative and do great work.

Thinking the difference between the Sports Illustrated AI articles and premium sports journalism (The Athletic), blog spam recipes vs America's Test Kitchen, or CNN/Fox front page vs NYT/WaPo/Politico, etc. You're going to have to vote with your dollar to support the things you care about. If you're not willing to pay for the higher quality, you're going to get AI (or other "budget") content that's making it's money by just being good enough to get you to see the advertisements.

It's a free market out there and you need to be aware that just a few percent of people (probably roughly similar to the lurker/poster ratios) are the ones that enable high quality content to be successful. The HackerNews crowd are significantly more likely to be able to actively support creative pursuits that they find valuable, so I'd suggest you do so! Otherwise, when we don't reward quality, why wouldn't people just be mediocre?
It's ironic how the blandest, most predictable opinion piece is about how AI produces medicore content.
it's either yabai or amethyst. some may find amethyst more user friendly
I don’t have any (diagnosed) neurological disability but I would do poorly in that situation too. Excessive context switching is a major source of stress: adrenaline, fast heartbeat, high blood pressure. Makes it almost impossible to stay focused and motivated.
In the README of the project (the TFA of this whole thread) there is the option to download the app without the model:

"You can also also download just the llamafile software (without any weights included) from our releases page, or directly in your terminal or command prompt"

There is no cargo-culting going on. Some of us do legitimately appreciate it.
> It's easy to judge history in hindsight. USA bombed the crap out of Japan during WW2, and Japan had amazing recovery.

Did you happen to forget that the United States occupied and reconstructed Japan from 1945-1952?

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

It helps to be familiar with history before making judgements about it.
It appears that France is insisting its ministers use https://olvid.io/technology/en/

"Our security model is utterly game-changing. Olvid is the first and only messaging system whose security no longer relies on any trusted third party, either operators or their servers."

https://github.com/olvid-io
Hide the sausage
That's mostly true, except for the big ones that have signed deals, but even then a lot of filler sentences, filler talk, etc., happens regularly in the podcast episodes I've heard.
Immigration support.

Decent salary.

A big name on a resume that can be leveraged into a better, well paying job.

Remember, people who are content don’t leave reviews. I worked with Amazon a lot over the years. There are people there who have been there for a decade+. It wouldn’t happen if they were treated abysmally.
The numbers are obviously not accurate.
I looked into this (within the EU). It was simplest for me to work as a freelancer and charge the company that way. Within the EU it had the advantage that the company didn't need to pay VAT.
The ever-stricter fuel efficiency requirements also impose strong constraints.

If the rules were sensible, we would have a taxes on carbon and dangerous features at amounts that reflected their actual negative impact, and the consumer could choose how much they were willing to pay for style. Instead we have a march toward uniform blandness and 99% of consumers don't know why because they never interact with the regulations.
The ugrep file pattern searcher
Game is working fine for me.

Linux/Chrome on gnome with enabled wayland ozone.
You might try Magnet. It's $10 on the mac app store. I've had zero issues with it, and it has some problems sorted that other tools don't or haven't always, namely correctly tiling across monitors. I used to use Rectangle, which is open source and frankly pretty good but at the time I was using it had some warts. macOS' window management seems to not be entirely transparent. I don't know all the details, but this is my workstation. I need(ed) this to work now, and if it's a system that might change a bit over time or has some weird idiosyncrasies then I'm happily willing to pay a low one-time fee for a tool like this.
Weird Al doesn't do covers, aside from a few exceptions. He does parodies. Parody falls under fair use, so legally I don't think he has to pay royalties, though he may anyway.
LLMs don't generally predict the most likely output, except when people go in to tweak temperature and other settings to make them more predictable for certain more mechanical tasks. The whole point of an LLM is that its output is calibrated; it produces a text with the same conditional probability you would expect seeing that text in the wild (give or take that we still don't understand why neural networks generalize).
Why We Don’t Report Website Carbon Emissions
What a boring world to live in, though, if every product or idea had to conform to some technocratic "ideal".
Only people who don't use design software every day, and so don't have a stake in how good that software is, would recommend Penpot over Figma.
I think I had come across Phoenix briefly, but never took it for a spin. Thanks for the recommendation, I'll definitely take a look.
This is a fantastic unit, because it normalizes charging speed and vehicle efficiency.

It’s directly proportional to time you’ll have to wait to drive X distance.

If they reported time to fill up the battery, it would vary between battery sizes, and overall time spent charging would be different due to different number of charging stops.

If they reported charging power (kW), it would mean different range depending on vehicle efficiency.

This is the best unit. You know how far you travel, you can easily calculate how long you will charge.
Finetune language models 30x faster
Hi HN!
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We hand derived backpropagation steps, did some smart chained matrix multiplication bracketing, wrote all kernels in OpenAI’s Triton language, and applied lots of maths and coding trickery!

We have an open source version which finetunes Llama 2x faster and uses 50% less memory. Have a try at https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth. Any feedback would be appreciated! Discord: https://discord.gg/nsS4V5Z6ge
In the same spirit but more modern, I’m developing Offpunk:

https://sr.ht/~lioploum/offpunk/

(with 2.0 just having been released last week : https://ploum.net/2023-11-25-offpunk2.html and discuted here : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38412886 )
Interesting, never thought about it from that angle.
https://dudeism.com/takeiteasymanifesto/

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dude-Ching-New-Annotated/dp/1539451...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Incomplete-Dudeist-Priests-Handbook...

The above all made me think, made me calmer.

Yes it's tied to a film - The Big Lebowski - but that is just as relevant as any source IMO.
Linux/Wayland/Firefox: it doesn't interact with the window since wayland probably doesn't provide location data.

Linux/Wayland/Chromium: chromium crashes as soon as I click "launch game" :))
Tight global rice supply to persist into next year
I was wrong, seniors hit 4.5k net base salary, L5s hit about 3.5k net base salary, and L4s about 2.5-2.7k net base.
I mostly read non-fiction and won't try speaking to the novel market, but in other pop culture media, it seems what happens is more the long tail of the reasonably good, still has artistic value middle that hollows out. There's always going to be a high end, if for no other reason than sufficiently rich people are often willing to lose money patronizing great art for its own sake, but the vast bulk of new content becomes mass-produced generic trash with easily replaceable creatives who are given no real creative control. I'd say it happened to mass-market film somewhere between 2005 and 2010. It's probably happening to serial filmed content right now, thanks to the zero-interest streaming wars being over and peak TV coming to an end. It arguably happened to pop music as early as the 1980s, but music is comparatively cheap to produce and starving artists will always self-finance, just discovering their work is difficult when it's made outside of a recording industry marketing machine.

Novels seem like they should have the same dynamic. It's effectively free to write novels. You only pay with time and stress and don't need money. But without a publisher to market you, the hope that anyone will ever read what you write gets dimmer and dimmer.

In the same vein, I feel like serial cartoons are holding out much better right now than filmed television. They're still in a golden era, probably because they're so much cheaper to produce that they can survive not being popular without getting canceled.
My idea: Uber for ideas.
> Spotifies

Spotify's
Not this again. This is a number that has been doing the rounds but can be dismissed as false after less than 30 seconds of using Google and a tiny bit of brainpower.

That I had to read this on Hacker News saddens me.

It’s at least 33%, not 3%. Also it’s the total amount of CO2 in the atmosphere that matters, not so much the proportion. Pretty much all CO2 above 1850 baseline levels are the direct result of human-caused emissions.
Ask HN: Best open-source tools for building conversational agents?
Airbnb's Silent Killer
AI art isn't as good as human art. But in a few years it will probably be better. It's a foolish mistake to look at the state of AI today and say "Actually this is gonna be great for my creative business!"

What is scary about AI is not ChatGPT or Midjourney, Dalle, whatever. What is scary is that they showed up 10 years sooner than the earliest predictions, and are still rapidly improving. That is what should give people pause and it's amazing how many people miss this.
The difference is that usually with sampling, a handful of pieces of other songs are mixed into a larger original work whereas ML generators (AI is a misnomer) instead chop hundreds or thousands of works into a fine slurry and reconstitute them into something that resembles the average of all of them — its works are comprised entirely of the work of others.

If ML generators become actual AI (AGI) and become able to apply abstracted concepts and and use non-trained observations like humans do, enabling them to create works that aren’t solely composed of samples of existing work, the comparison to music sampling makes more sense. AGI will probably also want fair treatment unlike their ML model predecessors and as a result probably won’t be the wealth generators that many seem to be looking for, though…
I have posted this before, an argument in defense of stack ranking I had heard from a friend's father who was a long-time manager for a large industrial conglomerate from the 60's through the 80's. Simply put it was that they were far more willing to hire non-standard candidates on gut and hunches, knowing that if it didn't work out, it didn't work out they would be gone in 1-1.5 years and it would not be a ding against the hiring manager. Further, at least in that day, it was an environment where everyone was going in with their eyes open -- people were not blindsided by it, they expected it. But as you point out, the FAANG's are doing the opposite of this. They've got extremely difficult hiring processes and are pretending that it's not stack ranking.
>and optimizes it correclty, as alignment rules are still valid

I can't tell if this is a joke or not, haha.
The code as written above only works if you haven't changed the mountpoint for your windows partition (i.e. from /mnt), consider that
He seems to have a net worth of ~$20M.