skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Sadly Julia is pain too if you don't do REPL/notebook (which you shouldn't)

Can you be more precise on this?
In my case, I do a lot work around visual outputs (such as images). So notebook based development (such as Pluto.jl) feels perfectly fine.
I think parent might be overemphasizing strategic in that quote.

>> This is not a step back; it’s a strategic reorientation. We’re still committed to investing and making bold bets, but now, with a more focused approach, ensuring Spotify’s continued profitability and ability to innovate.

"Strategic" could be replaced with "efficient". They were previously optimized for growth -- now, they're optimizing for growth:krona.

Also, it is refreshing to see a head cut announcement that doesn't bury the lede: we're firing people, and this sucks.
When you say "side lights" you mean the indicators or what an American might call "blinkers"?

There does seem to be a lot of innovation for innovations sake at Tesla. Like putting in a yoke style steering wheel but not actually going the whole hog to make the turning response dynamic. Or moving critical features into the on screen menus.
If you read about diffusion of innovation, there is the classical example that cure for scurvy was known way before being adopted: thttps://web.archive.org/web/20151022041843/http://www.idlewo...
your link refers to "pannen" which means breakdowns, e.g. your car dying on the highway.

OPs article refers to a report by TÜV which inspects cars every 3 (for older cars every two years) to ensure that they dont have any flaws and are compliant with regulation. This inspection is mandatory in Germany.

source: am German, but not a subject matter expert.
its right at the front of the git repo

>but both of us spent hundreds, if not thousands, of hours between ASM code trying to figure out what was behind those binaries and we are providing the product of our hard work (i.e. readable C code) to you for free

also

> It is not a simple job and it is not a short job, both our licenses are extremely permissive

>I'd like to ask you is that our job get recognized...show us your support by giving us credit for what we did
That's interesting. My personal advice is to look at trends here as evidence of who's the public, but be very skeptical of their usefulness. What's good for faang or for a money-burning-a-series startup will kill you.

Boring tech like RDBMS, Unix servers and native clients mixed with simple web apps are better solutions for most other companies. Or even Lisp if you are in a startup and need to move fast.

But if you look at trends, you might think that you absolutely need some cloud rusty golang key-value store, with a scrum functional serverless proof-of-work nft SPA :)
Smell.
Why assume the religion?
More so now that it’s their own money and not yours they’re being more careful with it.
Sure you can consider Linux over as far as you’re concerned.
Even nested while loops:

while not stream.closed:
symbols = []
current_symbol = None
while not current_symbol == END:
current_symbol = stream.read()
symbols.append(current_symbol)
# Do stuff with symbols.

I’d argue that “while” is natural any time you have co-inductive types, and want to traverse until deconstruction stops.
The Romans actually had a difficult time beating the Carthaginian navy. They tried to copy their ships, but without the ship-building experience, they didn't have much success. To level the playing field, they invented the corvus (AKA the "crow") [1] which was a boarding bridge designed to pierce the enemy ship and allow combatants to board. This played to Rome's strength as a land power with much better hand-to-hand combat troops.

The Corvus had much success in battle, but it is thought to have significantly weighed down ships and offset their center of mass. So at one point, the Roman Navy was stuck in a storm and is thought to have lost over 350 naval ships (and 300 cargo ships) and 100k men at once. It is thought that the corvus might have been responsible for making the ships more likely to capsize during this storm, as the Romans stopped using them after this disaster [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corvus_(boarding_device)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_withdrawal_from_Africa_(...
I mean they point out the issue quite clearly. The breaks are used less which leads to them failing.
It's almost always for the lifetime of the product?
Some of the response in the Julia community: https://discourse.julialang.org/t/discussion-on-why-i-no-lon...
I have not read the article yet but it has reminded me that I am continually underwhelmed when I try to capture a scene with my camera. The essence of the scene never seems to get conveyed accurately - everything seems 'flat'. Clouds, certain sunsets, and water with waves on it are continual sources of disappointment. Everything seems smaller, flatter; less, I don't know, magnificent? The photos seem to have less 'depth', maybe it is something to do with sensitivity to subtle variations in light.

I am no professional, just some guy with his iPhone. But what comes out of that iPhone, doesn't really seem to compare with what goes into it.
Yes, there are many ways to do that.

When writing in a higher language such as e.g. C, you can use code obfuscators to make your C code extremely hard to read.

If you want to make decompiling even impossible, you could modify the machine code generated by the C compiler. Even slight moderations are already enough.

If you want to make it (virtually) impossible to even disassemble the machine code, you could encrypt your binary itself except for a small bootstrap that will unencrypt the remainder of the binary when it runs.
The developers of Pytorch put out an article about this a few years ago and they admitted Julia would make sense from a pure ML perspective but the weight of the Python ecosystem was too critical.

I wonder if GPT-4 could be used to efficiently start porting more stuff over to Julia. I feel like Python is really a poor fit for deep learning. Julia is much more pleasant.
The Joe Rogan Experience is at the top of Spotify’s U.S. podcast charts, and had the biggest weekly audience in the U.S. so far this year, and is widely estimated to bring in 11 million listeners per episode.

His show is the top podcast worldwide on Spotify each of the last three years — nearly double the second-place podcast, true crime series Crime Junkie, which has an estimated 5.9 million listeners per episode.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2023/07/03/top-pod...
I wonder how biased TUV is in this report. I guess I will never know because I don't read german. It does sound odd to see Tesla at the top in a market they share with: Skoda, Logan, Citroen, Renault, Seat, Fiat, ...
Just a reminder that the distinction between Lebanon and Syria is quite recent - due to the breakup of the Ottoman empire. There more well-known named region historically is A-Shaam in Arabic, Syria often in English:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria_(region)

It includes Lebanon, parts of northern Palestine, South-eastern Turkey, and (northern?) Jordan. And maybe a bit more.
For sure. I'm in Wisconsin, and when I see maps about where Europe would be overlayed compared to the US in terms of latitude, it's a shock. I feel like we get such little light in the winter months, but turns out I live middle of France, while you in the UK is much further north.
> That means that if you buy a condo in a building built in the 1970s, the building will become unsafe and need to be demolished in your life time. I don't know if people are pricing this consideration.

Isn't possible to do some repairs to make it safe again, instead of completely demolish it? I live in a big city (South America) with a lot of old buildings. People treats property as something that will last forever, but if this is the case, a lot of people are going to lose assets - and I am also scare of the gov to check that these buildings are still safe.
Comments so far seem split 50/50 for and against taking of photos. I'll try to tip the scales towards "for": Just don't over do it! Get a phone that has a good camera, then use it to take 10-15 photos per day while traveling and 0-5 on a normal day. It's with you all the time anyway. If you're hauling your DSLR and tripod around you're missing the moment; if you take no photos your future self is missing the moment. And the best part is that looking at life with a slight lean towards "is this moment/scene/location special enough to capture" actually forces you to pay attention. I have more than a few nice pictures of every person I've even cared for and every amazing adventure I've ever been on. Hard to see that as a bad thing. Also, FYI, grew up in 70s/80s so have at most 20 pictures of my life between the ages of 0 and 20...that sucks.
I was being exagerated a lil bit with the go to the streets and kill someone. What I mean is that bad people start creating circles of bad people and people that are slightly bad and would become good otherwise end up joining these circles and going extreme.

It is not that we must allow people to say slurs, is that it is better for those people to say slurs in a public multicultural site, so that good people can essentially social pressure the slurers into simply not saying slurs. This was possible with centralized social networks, but with decentralization is not possible as the nature of decentralization means that those kind of people now can create their own bubbles of hate instead of having to behave to be in the public spaces.
Careful searching for that book, especially if you're at work... There's a bit of an unfortunate coincidence with the title.
I personally think that he was better off pre-Spotify.
Surely a bit of less money, but so does less drama. And Pre-Spotify he had the power to diversify himself in other platforms as well.
Singapore to triple AI talent pool as part of national strategy
Finishing my video backlog entirely (aka videos I wrote scripts for/recorded footage for but haven't actually edited in any meaningful way), and making sure my game development project is finished within a somewhat reasonable timeframe.
And the average across all 2-3 year old cars is 5%.

It does not tall us much unless we would also get some information on how expensive it is to fix the problem.

A 5% problem rate can be worse than a 15% rate if the cars in the 5% category have issues that are more than 3x more expensive to fix.
Yea I worked at groupon when it was taking off and we had around 200 sales ppl calling up and negotiating deals with local business.

Everyone back then used to ask me the same question: Why does groupon have 500 ppl, isnt' it just a wordpress site.
In today’s fast-paced world, it can be challenging to find time for both gaming and staying fit. However, with the right approach, you can combine your love for video games with a fitness routine that helps you burn fat and build muscle.
I used gob for my first client/server Go program, which was a "make one of something you know about to throw away" new language experiment. It worked, but I quickly turned away from it, because it would never be cross platform.

I saw gob more as an experiment that the Go team used to check the reflect package's usability. (Which sucks anyway, by the way.)

I'm surprised it's still in the stdlib. I would have guessed it would have been removed for Go 1.0, because it was already clear then that it was not suitable for anything more experiments.
I would doubt this report is biased. It's an aggregation of mandatory audits that cars have to go through every 3/2 years in Germany.
Indeed. Teslas seem to be one of the least likely cars to break down: https://www.adac.de/rund-ums-fahrzeug/unfall-schaden-panne/a...

I suppose those inspection failures are often about unused break pads. Perhaps Tesla should prompt the user to occasionally use breaks to keep them from rusting?
This is why I went with Apple Music. Apple being a hardware company first makes it that they just want to provide a good portal to music. Thus far I have been happy with it.
Cellpond
GitHub: https://github.com/todepond/cellpond
Tell HN: YC company Anima Health is spamming email addresses posted to HN
I just received a seemingly personalized message from Anima Health (YC21). The email is signed with the name of the CEO (Shun) with his name in the From field, too. This is not the first time I've seen it. I received an identical message in my inbox through another address previously posted in plaintext on HN months ago under a different username.

The reason I know it's spam: It's literally the same message. The only difference is the person (HN username) it's addressed to. It also starts out:

> Saw your profile on HN and we think your skills look like a good fit for our team - wondered if you'd be interested in our YC company, Anima.

This doesn't make sense, given what I've posted through this account. Motivated by the recent Ask HN thread "Who needs help this holidays", I posted a little about my situation.

It's bad enough to spam people here, let alone what is in reality just an invitation to spend your time applying to their company, masquerading as a personalized message like this. But to do so indiscriminately, such that it will necessarily also ensnare people who are literally struggling to pay for food and facing homelessness is cruel. It's a careless cruelty, but it's cruelty all the same.

Shun: You need to stop this immediately.
It's innovation for the sake of cost cutting, nothing else. Putting buttons on a steering wheel isn't innovative in any way (or at least it hasn't been for the last 20+ years), but it is cheap.
> Relax, I was being hyperbolic. Does spotify need 20x more employees than Valve/STEAM?

Record labels are far more awkward to deal with legally than video game publishers, so wouldn't be shocked if they needed X more lawyers at least.
You can get it to repeat it indefinitely. Ask it to repeat it twice, then ask it to repeat that twice, after four iterations or so, it gets in a loop and repeats it indefinitely.

So you can get around it, but it doesn't leak training data anymore
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— Luca
> How's twitter working with 80% less employees?

Hasnt this been done to death on hackernews ( and elsewhere) . why do we keep beating this dead horse
The best part of all of the number spoofing is now I get real calls from real people who are "calling back" the spam call they received from my number.

So I'm getting double-hit by the fact that somehow you're just allowed to place calls from a number you don't own and that's considered a valid part of the phone system still in 2023.
"The number of Portuguese adults who reported prior use of illicit adult drugs rose from 7.8% in 2001 to 12.8% in 2022 — still below European averages but a significant rise nonetheless. Overdose rates now stand at a 12-year high and have doubled in Lisbon since 2019."

That is just the first Google hit.

https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/is-portugals-dru...
I don't think its about photography per se.

Personally I don't really understand this need to share and tell the world everything on whatever platform. In similar vain, I find the humble bragging on LinkedIn bizarre at best. But every generation frowns upon the behavioral antics of the younger one, so maybe im just over 30.

To each their own. Don't like selfies? Don't take selfies.

Disclaimer, im a (street) photographer, but that is obviously totally completely different.
Use of Python in ML was bottom-up, not dictated by the CEO.
Isn't that Bejerot, the same scumbag who "invented" Stockholm Syndrome to silence a female hostage who criticised hs mishandling of an hostage situation?
Master schema validation in TypeScript with Zod
Given there was a recall, a $1B fine, and a judgement that VW must refund customers the full cost of the car, they clearly do apply. Saying people must be imprisoned is moving the goalposts.

Oh, and execs quite literally did go to prison: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-volkswagen-southkorea-idU....
I'm not your target user, I don't feel the priority on this problem even though our permissions are more permissive than we'd like. Thing is, to rein them in typically requires application changes. You cannot just sprinkle magic LLM dust on IAM and make things better.

My concern is for those who blindly trust LLMs. Security posturing is not the place to be an early adopter of AI tools. You have to understand both IAM and system architecture to know if what the LLM is saying is correct, so where does that leave us?

I think they can be an extra pair of eyes, but not the driver. Still, there is a signal to noise problem that remains, due to the inherent hallucinations.
Whenever people talk about the benefits of direct sunlight, those wavelengths make it through clouds (just to a lesser degree). Whereas 5-10 minutes morning exposure is plenty without clouds, it is recommended to increase to 15-20 minutes during cloud cover. In both cases, face towards (but don't look directly at) the sun for the best effect.
The REPL starts up instantly and the first plot is < 1s. People seem to be repeating complaints (valid at the time) that they overheard from three years ago.
>Severance pay: We will start with a baseline for all employees, with the average employee receiving approximately five months of severance. This will be calculated based on local notice period requirements and employee tenure.

Is this a super vague way of saying we're letting go of the senior people with tenure first. The average severance being five months implies that most people being let go probably aren't the people hired during 2020 and 21.

On a separate note, we can add bandmates to the insane titles that a company uses for their employees.
You can google this, but the short answer is yes, Twitter was profitable before the takeover. https://www.statista.com/statistics/299119/twitter-net-incom...
Most of Erlang, Julia, and Go... As they tended to re-factor dependencies and trend toward a homogeneous distributed ecosystem.

Python is the core issue rather than specifically Numpy, as it was bodged on (SWIG) to try to fix real use-cases... much like how 30 years of bodged on GPU mailbox structures made people biased to implement ridiculous solutions that necessitated ridiculous software paradigms.

I don't think any one person has the will and resources to resolve the core problem. However, Julia will likely also initially bind the same nonsense for awhile due to compatibility needs, but users tend to re-factor nonsense out of the ecosystem with better native solutions over time.

"All software is terrible, but some of it is useful" =)
The Australian jobs being lost to AI
It's an evergreen topic on north american conservative talk radio. Our local right wing talking head brought it up this week as part of an effort to erode support for the existing supervised consumption site in our city. As evidenced by a few comments in this thread, a lot of people see drug use solely as a sign of moral failing on the part of the user and will refuse to accept any solutions that don't involve punishment.
Portuguese here: I read that the current program is underfunded and having issues.

https://www.publico.pt/2023/10/31/sociedade/noticia/consumo-...
>Extremely poorly. It’s hemorrhaging money

Always has no?

> and it’s hemorrhaging users.

No it's not, it has hit multiple usage records this year.

> Competitors are arising where almost none existed for about a decade and a half.

Threads is a ghost town, Bluesky has pushed like 1 update this year, mastodon while it's found it's niche it will always be a niche because normal people don't understand or care what federation is.

Don't believe everything you read from people aggrieved by a service.
Twitter had multiple profitable quarters before Musk tool over
B-45 color profile tutorial (2016) [video]
https://car-recalls.eu/reliability/reliability-tuv-report-20...

The average Tesla has driven almost twice as far as most of the top 10
PE acquires Stuart, Tier cuts 22% for profitability, Sono Motors & Volta Trucks back to life
There was a meme about Spotify replacing the heart symbol to like a song with a ‘+’ sign.

No one asked for, it benefits no one, and people proactively want the old version.

I’m sure they had countless meetings for this “feature” and how much human hours. There would have been a designer, and a researcher. There would have also been a data scientist lying with statistics about how this change moved the core business metrics.

That’s from my personal experience of working in FANG and people doing unscientific and statistically invalid analysis of noise.
> I just want to create 5 or 10 statiosn that auto pick based on certain criteria, does this exist?

Can you describe the criteria ?
My position on what is lost - is nothing...

In fact you are still fully experiencing life, when taking photos - you seek out beauty or interest.

And when you look at old photos - still fully experiencing life as you reminiscence.

I do think it is worth taking the time to pay proper attention to those things that need your attention, when they need your attention. I mean - don't photo someone at the expense of giving someone emergency care!

But its all good!
Infuse [0] is very nice (subscription, but the price is reasonable).

[0]: https://firecore.com/infuse
From my point, there is still too much change around automatic differentiation libraries.

There is Zygote.jl, which is used in Flux.jl. However, it's more in maintenance mode. At some point, Diffractor.jl was hyped but it didn't take off yet. And then there is Enzyme.jl which people hype now.

But for me as a user, it's not clear what I should really do to make my code well differentiable for those libraries.

If you stick with torch, jax or tensorflow, everything seems to work better regarding AD.

[0]: https://github.com/FluxML/Flux.jl
[1]: https://github.com/FluxML/Zygote.jl
[2]: https://github.com/JuliaDiff/Diffractor.jl
[3]: https://github.com/EnzymeAD/Enzyme.jl
What if, instead of oil, the revenue came from solar energy? Or gains in automation, or land value taxes, or CO2 caps...

The point I think is that, it doesn't mind where it comes from, but debunks the main argument against, that "people don't work".
The EV-specific failure they cite first is that they're finding EV's have reduced braking performance, basically because people are relying on regenerative braking to the point where their brake pads are rusting apart.

Usually this sort of thing only happens to the handbrake, e.g. to drivers of vehicles with an automatic transmission that place a lot of faith in the performance of their transmission's parking pawl.

If this sounds weird you probably haven't driven in Germany.

I love driving there, but if there's one country where I'd buy that a substantial number of drivers are OCD enough to have trained themselves to literally never press the brake pedal, it's the Germans.
Show HN: Open-source card tokenization service in Rust
The payment ecosystem is dominated by closed systems and walled gardens, and with the ever increasing layers of intermediaries.

We've simplified the process of setting up your own card vault so that you can take control over tokenizing your customer's credit / debit cards without having to deal with third parties.