skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless they can somehow turn "use" into money, more use does nothing to help X as a company. And the prior method of turning use into money, advertisements, has been dropping like a rock due to the inability of the company to keep ads away from toxic content no advertiser would ever want their ads near.

Can't cut costs to profitability if you are cutting revenue faster than costs.
I would assume it's mostly optimisation and bug fixing. Improving their ability to read files globally, improving availability, etc.

Plus internal tools will probably be a major thing too.
That's not wrong, but they also hired-up for a new podcast business that wasn't as successful as they hoped.
I love stuff like this. You have the space, you have most of the parts already, take figure out what is commonly used in proximity to the thing you're making and see if you can converge them.

I see a lot of keyboards with OLEDs, one with force sensitivity, USB hubs, and stuff like that. There's some real potential

Perhaps one day I'll have to get into mechanical keyboards!
Gabriel? Trabajamos en un proyecto común en 2007 para un proyecto de robótica para una empresa americana... otro uruguayo acá pero yo me tuve que subir al avión :(
Software trends seems to repeat themselves as we forget the lessons learned a decade ago. It’s more like fashion, in that sense.
Along similar lines, there's Saint Javelin of Ukraine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Javelin

...which itself is a development of Madonna Kalashnikov: https://chrisshawstudio.com/2022/03/madonna-kalashnikov-2022...

So, not at all obscure!
Mostly issues with plumbing it all together. So far what I've accomplished is using blackhole to create a virtual speaker / microphone, so system audio is available as a microphone input device. Then, take that input and feed it into Whisper. Out of the box, Whisper seems designed to work on wav files, not a stream of audio. There are some "hacks" that chunk 2 or 3 seconds of audio and feed that into Whisper. Of course, it needs to be more advanced than just chunking audio, because what if a word is split in half? There are some projects that are attempting to do this intelligently (split chunks between words). So far this is as far as I've got, besides feeding that into seamless m4t, which also doesn't seem to support "streaming" in text and instead wants a txt file or a command line argument.

Of course this is all before the new seamless v2 drop, so I'm hoping it will become easier! There's a lot of interesting things in this new seamless release, among them ggml inference and the streaming model. Poking around the code, there is even some whisper binding in there too, so it seems like a possible integration is already in use (I haven't had time to really dive in).
It's a shame this has to be done by uBO.

Filtering options should be a feature here, so users could categorize and mostly clean out pages from content they don't like or find useful, or to fight spammers.
- Features have to keep being deprecated because once they degrade it's too hard to fix.

- Use is only up when measuring metrics like "we hit our peak user-seconds" which only measures short term usage spikes and not longer time-scale sustaining metrics.

- Lack of diversity of users, instability of ads performance, and a CEO making antisemitic and anti-Palestinian claims has led to advertisers pausing Twitter ads at a high rate. Valuation has dropped to $10s of Billions instead of $44B.

- Small bugs never get fixed (on Firefox mobile if I accidentally hit the "Views" button on a tweet, the pop-up modal is inescapable and breaks my back button and tab state, so I have to open Twitter in a new tab.
>You like mentioning vim and emacs for some reason. I wonder why that's important to you? Many macOS users nowadays use VSCode or a JetBrains IDE, which are also available on Linux. And, others use editors like vim and emacs.

It's important because you fit a stereotypical archetype in which that person displays exclusive usage of these editors. At the very extreme these people rarely use the mouse, there entire interface is a terminal. You don't have to tell me certain attributes about yourself and I likely can guess those attributes because it fits a very typical profile. Predictable is the best way to describe it.

Although cliche, people who fit this profile make up a small minority of the overall developer population. It's cliche because people fall for similar traps all the time. It's basically the same psychological profile as a religious fundamentalist. It's quite obvious what your religion is.

>If you work with remote development environments at some point you'll have to use a terminal-based editor, and even if your primary editor choice is not vim or emacs you might yourself using them, because they come either preinstalled or packaged on many systems.

Most developers don't do this. They use the remote development features of vscode. Or they just build locally and the local build is isomorphic enough to the remote build that they can just do most development locally. Vim at most is used for quick edits.

>Well, what can be said about the rest? The most skilled, knowledgeable developers who have done "greater" things than most, and make more money than most, rarely fall into the description of "web developers". And if what you seek is money, there are more efficient ways to become wealthy than web development.

I use linux, I got into development because I liked it. But I'm not delusional about the reality of how most people operate.

Now instead of deriding someone who doesn't use your preferred operating system you're looking down on "web developers". 99.99% of all development is web based now. The highest paid jobs are basically web dev. FAANG is basically an acronym for the highest paying companies in which Most of their developers basically do web dev. Apple is the one exception to that.
Twitter doesn't have to pay the huge content fees as Spotify does.
great job, looks neat :)
their moat is exploiting the copyright system with monopolistic contracts with record labels
Spotify Will Cut Headcount by 17% to Confront Slower Growth
Because of money? Quite the opposite, the problem is that Spotify is not making enough money.

I think Rogan was paid a ridiculous amount of money due to fantasies of some executives, maybe influenced by bad politics or something.
Super good time to announce layoffs, at the start of the month where everyone is preparing for time off and holidays.
Also. £900 is negligible and pocket change compared to the price of an EV, even in the second hand market.
After May 7, 2025, the US will require a Real ID to fly domestically. What's the point of prohibiting facial recognition then?
Good enough to bring in $200M of revenue through subscriptions or ads?
Would you say that about any other type of media/culture/art you dislike?

"I don't get why people like the Mona Lisa, the painting is neither original nor particularly well done"

Is just as much a subjective statement. JRE is, by most released figures the top interview podcast on the planet, his interviews regularly move Charts of third party media like Book Bestseller Lists and Music Charts.

There obviously is a huge audience and value there and I can only assume their agreement over 200M was based on some pretty solid math.
This is my view as well. However, if you are a young and healthy software developer, you can earn much more money in the US.
YouTube Music still only has a tiny fraction of the music available on YouTube.
Not all of it, but real estate does very strongly correlate with income, and for lower income quintiles it can eat the surplus.
but is it growing? they have the privilege of maintaining an amazing product
I guess I wanted to say "because of the promise of money"
Ask HN: Transitioning from Industrial Research to Starting a Company
Hello. I’m a computer science researcher working in an industrial lab. What made me determine to pursue a research career was feeling inspired during my high school and undergraduate years by researchers at Bell Labs and Xerox PARC and their work. I wanted to follow in their footsteps. However, the pressures of “publish and perish” are real, and moreover I want the freedom to set my own research direction. I have come to the conclusion that I won’t find the research environment that I want in either industry or academia, and that I’ll need to do my research on my own time. My research interests don’t require expensive equipment, just a computer and access to publications. The challenge is how to make the time, since I’m not independently wealthy and it’s difficult balancing a side project with a 40+ hr work week. It’s also very difficult to find part-time software engineering work.

One idea that has been on my mind is to find start some type of business that allows me to work 10-20 hours per week, giving me more time to pursue my research ideas independently without having to answer to management or tenure boards. Ideas that I’ve been thinking of include freelance software development, consulting, writing books, and selling software. However, I’m a bit at a loss regarding where to begin with this whole process, and I’d like to evaluate my options, as well as learn about options I haven’t considered. I’m not looking to become a tech billionaire; I want the freedom that comes with being my own boss.
Soviet school system had school cleaning too. And city cleaning even.
Spotify paid $200 million… to tie a podcaster to their sinking-ship podcast platform (and this plan only works if they know and intend for their platform to sink)… just to get him from a big spotlight to a small spotlight?
> Blocking servers makes as much sense as blocking a country on Twitter would.

That's not really the case. Blocking a user is done when the user is mallicious, blocking a server is done when the sysop is malicious, the server is host to bad behaviour, used for spam, etc. Domains and IP's are blocked in SMTP all the time, and the fediverse is just email with social elements attached to it.
What revenue do these listeners bring?
Is it possible to check it somehow? Did Lufthansa just had a spare pilot in/around Oakland?
I run a 48 TB ZFS pool (Z2; 24TB usable), and an offsite, offline 48 TB ZFS pool (mirror).

My primary server is Proxmox, where I have 8 unprivileged VMs with Docker nested inside (since ZFS 2.2.0, Docker on unprivileged ZFS works now without detours).

My backup is ZFS-send plus Borgmatic as a fallback, until I trust the ZFS-send approach that I just added (I usually have "migration phases" for new features that may last 1-2 years).

I run Gitlab, Nextcloud, Funkwhale, InfluxDB, Graphana, Homeassistant, Mailcow-Dockerized (as an email-management and collector solution) and other things. All of this not public, but on local VLAN and VPN. The good thing with Docker + Watchtower is that I only have very little (<30 Mins) administration work per month, most of this is also testing new features. Has worked reliably for the past 5 years.

For connecting households (my brother's family etc.), I use OPNsense and pfSense boxes.

My server is powered by a 90 kWp solar array - I don't have a (house-) battery yet, but that will be added in 1-2 years. Current energy consumption is about 250 Watt - but I also have an old Xeon from 2013.

The main cost (after initial investment) is harddrives and (of course) learning time. It pays off in other areas, too. I just got a job that I think I only got because of my report of self-hosting.

The biggest convenience is that I can sync all devices and all data (e.g. Nextcloud auto-upload from phones, DAVx5 for calendar/contacts) to a single, secure and private place that is then automatically backed up. I don't know the correct word, but maybe "liberating" describes the feeling best.

All of this does not require super-secret knowledge, just some motivation (and you should not be completely broke). I started in 2017 with the plan to learn Linux and get away from FAAN(M)G and I am happy I started this endeavor back then.
for doing what?
See also: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67056987
I wonder what amount of money will be saved doing these layoffs and how that compares to the overall spending of the company, given that the content streaming rights are probably a huge (the largest?) expense for the business.
https://www.benkuhn.net/lux/ maybe?
Ok. So now your house is on fire. How do you retrieve your datas from the melted local NAS ? Or a buglar come and empties it.

Don't get me wrong, I'm full "move away from the cloud" in the "proprietary cloud" way.

But getting some drive space on a different location is important if you care about your datas.

Could be in a relative's or friend's place (so almost no per month cost) or on a cloud drive (I personnaly use the Hetzner 10€/m 5TB drive), depending on your choice of backup solution.

But it's important.
which is why the _option_ of working in the office is the best :)
As a scientist working in public health, this decision burned my faith in Spotify. They were taking down conspiracy theory podcasts daily while bankrolling Rogan to provide a platform with insane reach for cranks like Robert Malone. I cancelled my subscription for a few months in protest.
A more suitable comparison would be between the book contents and the paper and fonts of the text. I don't know how much you would enjoy a book on bad paper and bad, barely legible text.
> Wayland supports FreeBSD so it must not be that bad.

FreeBSD has adopted evdev/libinput and, if I recall correctly, mostly comparable KMS/DRM APIs to Linux, which makes it the only BSD currently reasonably capable of running real Wayland stacks that are actually useful to day-to-day users.

Outside of FreeBSD, the story deteriorates rapidly: see this article about what it's taking to get even the absolute basics, like Weston (which ~nobody actually uses as a daily driver), running on OpenBSD: https://xenocara.org/Wayland_on_OpenBSD.html
I used this website to learn D: http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/
It worked out pretty well for me.

# Starting OCaml Batteries Included.

(that and my academic research) got me my job at MLstate, no interview.

# Contributing to Firefox

Got me in touch with Firefox devs. One of them suggested I applied to Mozilla. I worked 9 years at Mozilla before moving on.

# Contributing to Rust

Contributing to the Rust compiler and stdlib got me in the pipeline for a few other jobs. I declined most of them (not a bit fan of cryptocurrencies and how they're used).

Also, generally, I find that coding in Rust is good for clarity of mind and purpose. In other words, having solved a problem in Rust helps me write code that both solves the same problem in other languages and has clear, explainable, invariants. YMMV

# OpenBerg

A long time ago, I started one of the first e-book software readers, called OpenBerg. Jim Gettys [1] got in touch with me by IRC to offer me a job working on it full-time for one year. I already had a job, so I declined.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Gettys
For context on how bad this acquistion is, here are 2 apps currently published by ZipoApps:

Speedometer: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.digitalspe...

Material Status Bar: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.treydev.ms...

Both of which have and I know this sounds insane, contain a $16 a week subscription fee.
SFO has published ILS approaches for 28L and 28R. They have NOTAMS indicating that the ILS is available except for certain dates. ATC is 100% in the wrong for prioritizing throughput over safety. At some point their luck will run out. If ATC does not want to make ILS available then they need to communicate that explicitly and not waste everyone's time with a penalty hold.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4cewwhcL5c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrRGde5J8mo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3yKf7NgYv8
there are lots of options online. just search for "happy light" or ironically their proper name, "SAD light"
Monopolistic how?
From a federation standpoint, it arguably is. If you try to host your own private email server from your garage, you're going to struggle with the big email providers not accepting your emails in fears of spam. And trying to debug your way around this is extremely tricky because the email filters are black boxes, again in fear of spam.

I wouldn't be surprised if Mastodon also went the distrust-by-default route if it gains in popularity, at least for the big instances. Looking at the server moderation for mastodon.social, there's 256 different Mastodon instances which are completely blocked from reaching mastodon.social.
Created a financial markets tech project, put it on sourceforge. Didn’t even get to the second commit. A hiring manager from a nyse group co emails me: “can you implement this for us to completion we will give you money”. I go “sorry I am busy building a startup [in some unrelated area]”. Startup grew and then failed, and I became poor, temporarily.
I got a "Happy Light" for my desk that is 10k Lumens. could that be damaging my eyes?
Right, I'm not going to apply for office jobs anyway (I don't live near a tech hub, for personal reasons I can't move, there are almost no tech jobs locally, and I'm not going to spend hours commuting just to do Zoom calls from the office) and nor will I accept another pay cut -I had to take a lower-paying job earlier in the year because there were no other options.

I don't know if your company genuinely needs be office-only or you just have management who thinks they need to be office-only, but it sounds like there are applicants you are leaving on the table.

So yes, there are jobs, but not ones that I would apply for. Not being picky, but just for practical reasons. Even so, taking that into account, the job market is pretty terrible this year.
A comprehensive biometric database has the potential to be both important and deterimental to civilians in the inevitable Minority Report esque future: https://medium.com/@BlackHC/why-autonomous-weapons-are-inevi... / https://archive.is/OIowV
I should clarify: the average Joe rarely forms a cohesive block opposed to state surveillance. Quotidien privacy issues are more front and centre.
Nerd snipe: Will the sequestered carbon from a grass and dung hut make up for the CO2 expended in manual labour to build one.
> The severance package seems quite generous as well.

I guess it depends a bit what they mean by `the average employee receiving approximately five months of severance` (and also where you are seeing it from, maybe its seen as more generous when seen from the US). In Sweeden the notice period for the employer is between 1 and 6 months, depending on how long the empoyee has worked there. If they count that period in as part of the severance package, it could wery well be "the legal minimum" or "the legal minimum + 2 months", which sounds less great than 5 months :-p

If its "the legal minimum + approximately 5 months" then it's generous.

In the other developer-downscalings I know about here in Scandinavia (Norway if it matters) the most common deal has been 6 months, either "work for the remaining notice period, then 6 months pay" or "6 months pay, you work out the current month". I say "deal", because its a deal where the employee gets that pay, and then resigns voluntarily. If they don't take the deal they only receive the legal minimum, but they can then fight the firering, which can get expensive and complicated (I have never heard about anyone not taking the deal).
Elon paid vastly more for Twitter, seemingly primarily as an act of activism.

In this incredibly divided world, politics has started to come before profit.
mind sharing a bit more of your process on how I could make one?
I contest the use of the word "native" in that regard.

People have immigrated constantly throughout history from place to place. Many palestinians bare the names of their 19th-18th century origins. Last names such as "Al-Masri" (The Egyptian), "Halabi" (Of the city of Haleb in Syria) are very common, to name a few.

The tragedy here, is the continued refusal of the palestinian leadership during the 1940s to accept any partition of the land, which led to a catastrophic result on their part. Had they accepted the 1947 partition plan, Israel and Palestine could have been a free, peaceful countries.
It's about appearing efficient to the investors and therefore bumping the stock price and giving a payout to the few big stockholdets, rather than real efficiency. They go through a round of this routinely now, it seems, the letter is more or less the same as what he sent during last year, only percentages of laid off are different. That new version that ChatGPT generated made it more fluffy than last time.

If they were worried about efficiency, they would not have grossly over hired during covid. That's why we need unions.
All the way in paragraph 6:

> One of the drones on Sunday “was headed toward Carney, although its specific target is not clear,” Central Command said in the statement, adding, “we cannot assess at this time whether the Carney was a target” of the drones.

The New York Times is a rag.
Hey! Just wanted to clear things up – as a contributor to this project, I can confirm we're not using the data for LLM training.

Feel free to dive into the open source repository on GitHub to see exactly how things work: https://github.com/typehero/typehero
Before trialing the iTunes franken-nightmare that is Apple Music, I would have probably agreed with you.

However, after that experience, I'm starting to think there's no way in hell a massive multi-product conglomerate like Apple/Amazon is going to overtake a single-product music streamer like Spotify.

Apple/Amazon are clearly stretched too thin, and in a worse strategic position on audio due to the way the licensing agreements shook out. In music, everybody basically has access to the same catalog on every platform.

And given that songs are 4 minutes long (vs 4 hours binging TV shows), you spend wayyy more time interacting with the software in audio vs. video. So in audio, it's purely just deciding which UI/features you like best.

Spotify seems to be trying its best to screw up the UI, but no way it ever gets as bad as Apple Music given that's their only meal ticket.
A comment mentioned that the dialog is not really what what said. Here's a recording https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rdapQfJDAM&t=0s (haven't checked)
Explain. Because as far as I'm aware all of the record labels have deals with all music distributors (it doesn't make sense not to, they are in the business of showcasing their copyrighted properties), you can even distribute instantly to all streaming services through labels and distributors.

I don't think you know what you're talking about...
Towards Accurate Differential Diagnosis with Large Language Models
By the way there are cheap and easy to use quartz delay lines used in old TVs.
Another visualization I would really love would be a clickable circular set of possible prediction branches, projected onto a Poincare disk (to handle the exponential branching component of it all). Would take forever to calculate except on smaller models, but being able to visualize branch probabilities angularly for the top n values or whatever, and to go forwards and backwards up and down different branches would likely yield some important insights into how they work.

Good visualization precludes good discoveries in many branches of science, I think.

(see my profile for a longer, potentially more silly description ;) )
I wonder how they do that. There's only one SFO-FRA flight per day flown by Lufthansa, so if a pilot gets sick, you don't want that delaying the flight and causing a rebooking headache.
PDF is the worst document format, apart from all the other formats. When developing software to read or process PDFs the PDF spec can always deliver a jump scare like no other spec. But to give it credit it broke Microsoft's stranglehold on documents, not completely, but back in the mid 2000s organizations no longer required you to submit things as word documents anymore.