skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I read up on this a bit as I was very impressed by the quality. It was shot on widescreen film so they could just rescan (if that’s the term?) the film at widescreen HD resolution. I think they had to retouch or adjust the crop in some scenes because there was stuff off to the side which you weren’t meant to see, which was out of the 4:3 area but inside the 16:9 area.

Some of the special FX shots look bad because they were digital and so they’ve just had to upscale them, but overall I was really impressed too. It’s nice because it lets you enjoy it all over again without being distracted by how “bad” it looks on modern TVs
> All they're saying is that the existence of third party software compromises Apple's ability to make blanket statements about the security and privacy of this one specific platform.

We’ve also got examples of Apple making misleading statements about the security and privacy of their platform, as a result of government gag orders.

That recent disclosure makes me suspect that every vector that they do not disclose explicitly as being private, is very much not private. To that end, the platform is clearly neither private nor secure if you value privacy from the government.

…so I’m not particularly concerned about third party software being a cause for concern anymore.
One of shroom’s saving graces is that it builds tolerance real quick. Yes, you can decide to take breakthrough dosages every single day for weeks on end, but it likely won’t get you anywhere. Unlike weed, where a common route of abuse is to get high every single day, with stronger and stronger weed.

With shrooms, you can try that, but realistically you’re at most having a real trip every 2 weeks, or microing every other day. However, it’s uncertain if tolerance means the mushrooms are having no effect on the body and mind.

I’m seeing most weed around here at 30% THC / ~0% CBD, and it’s just not fun. Completely unpleasant when you accidentally OD, because you’re not a regular smoker and take a bit too long of a drag on the franken-weed.
As far as I understand, every user must know the trust network of all other users, which 1) doesn't scale much 2) has terrible privacy implications.
Great Read!
When Google Chrome came out, what made it stand out for me was their impressive developer console.

This lead developers to switch from IE/Firefox where you had to install a plugin for developers, into using Google Chrome that had a native and more advanced tool for debugging.

*For me this is the key*.

If you provide a browser that greatly improve the developer's experience, they (the developers) will move to use it, making it the best compatible browser to use, which will then make the rest of the crowd to use it because the overall experience is better there.

I just hope the team at Firefox will realize this before Google ...
Are you suggesting submissiveness to be an expression of strength and independence?
It has little power to legislate but he has colonized all institutions with people of his own.
I think you are not really understanding what is going on. It is not purely as chamber representation the problem.

It is about colonizing every corner by finger-naming positions from government.

The state has never been as partial in so many of its institutions as it is now...

No, it is not ridiculoua. There's been a massive wave of protests like never in 40 years. Socialist positions get insulted in the street, they cannot go anywhere, with words such as betrayor and others, anywhere randomly. This is totally abnormal in Spain.

I can tell you, as a spanish, that for this to happen a lot of red lines must be crossed. Even in a new survey 46% of socialist voters are against amnesty. And that is the socialist: all right wing is against it also... they are doing an illegal law to get a government against more than 70% of the population.

This amnesty hides the first step for a change of regime. I hope they are not successful.

Wait and see if you do not believe me. I hope I am wrong and things get broken on the way. But what this guy is trying is obvious to kany of us for years. Now it got worse.

About being fragile the government: you underestimate what this president is capable of doing to maintain the power: he just put 15 billions of debt from Cataluña into the rest of spanish besides the amnesty. Probably there is more to come.

Also, if you are not spanisj, the lists and representatives do not work per district as in England. The power is accumulated here by the head of each party and once you vote you are in the hands of the party no matter what they do (this was always like that).
The irony of seeing this, after Linus remarks how serious and thorough the file system kernel developers are, versus the other device drivers developers.
Are you under the impression that articles posted on HN are all written by one singular “Not Me” entity of a single mind?
Actually not quite. iMessage is the protocol/service used by the Messages app to communicate between two iPhones. Conversely when you send a message between an iPhone and any other kind of device it uses SMS.

It’s possible that the GP is unfamiliar with iMessage because they don’t live in NA. I have neither sent nor received an iMessage for several years. I use the Messages app for receiving SMS OTP codes only and pretty much nothing else.
This has very severe drawbacks, so it's not unambiguously desirable.

Windows APIs are probably a mess because of this (also ignoring the fact that only company with extremely deep pockets can afford this approach). There is at least one extreme case where Windows had to keep a bug, because a certain program relied on it, and couldn't be made to work otherwise.
Wealth taxes generally only apply to the wealthy. The current proposals kick in at $100 million net worth. The restaurants you're concerned about are going to be fine.

The idea is to tax people who make their money through asset appreciation at the same rate as the folks who make their money by selling their labor.

> Imagine if property tax was %10-50 of your property value vs. the %0.5-%2 it is today. Nobody would own their properties anymore in a span or a year or two.

I'm not sure if this is a disingenuously hyperbolic argument, but on the off chance you literally believe the government is trying to charge recurring, annual, double digit percentage taxes on the entire value of the assets, that's not how it works. The tax is only on the appreciation. If the asset doesn't appreciate, no tax is owed.
I really like the README for this code on github. I wish more papers code explained how to replicate the results.
I'm just not going to use it, yes, i felt like it was only fair to say why
Usually I like to just read comments, get a feel for where society is. I love the comments in this, it can be summarized as "throw AI at it" and "more tax dollars will fix it".

Lets all forget that we have put the airline industry on government life support through regulation and bailouts, thats turned the biggest companies into tumors that survive off their (literal) monopoly rights. We can all pretend we didnt dehumanize the staff on/off-board with vaccine mandates that simultaneously violated their human rights and failed to stop infection or transmission (as they were promised).

Yep, fat, lazy, unprincipled american voters to the rescue, throw in some rhetoric about how we are going to tax the rich (then tax poor/middle class people who dont have their own LLC), replace the workers woth AI, and incoherently froth about your political opponents.

Or, you know, we could start privatizing it. Calm down, its OK, I was a nuclear reactor operator in the navy, I can assure you it will only ever get worse.
At least where I live, legal tender means that you cannot refuse cash for settlement of an already existing debt, but you can definitely say you don't want to accept cash for transactions that haven't yet occured.

So a "card only" announcement at a shop is perfectly legal.
I do believe that it is possible, at least at the API (cli) level.

While git is good under the hood, then it has not really user-friendly interface.

Also git heavily benefits from GitHub's success, which locks us with git :(

I wrote about it here https://trolololo.xyz/github - GitHub is really good, but there's a small problem with that
QuickBasic, not QBasic.

They weren't the same, those that only experienced MS-DOS 5.0 QBasic keep mixing them up.

QBasic was a stripped down version of QuickBasic.

Not sure about you, talking in general.
Taken to its logical conclusion, companies offering WFH would then be morally justified in replacing US workers with cheaper third world options. UK salaries in tech for example are about 1/4-1/3 of US levels.
Yes. From the creators of Sqlite, you got Fossil.

One of the most amazing things about Fossil is how you can track the history of a file not just backwards, but also forwards, something which is pretty whacky with git.

https://www.fossil-scm.org
Korean "homegrown" apps have incredible government support and/or come from one of 3 or 4 BigCo's
Perforce.

As for DVCS, the best one I've used is Darcs: https://darcs.net/ There are some sticky wickets (specifically, exponential-time conflict resolution) that hindered its adoption.

Thankfully, there's Pijul, which is like Darcs but a) solves that problem; and b) is written in Rust! The perfect DVCS, probably! https://pijul.org/
Technology is stealing your time in ways you may not realise
This feels maybe possible with QT. Since the inputs are all defined in code.
> There are a number of reasons that bottom up programming in the style PG seems to be advocating for is not popular in industry.

I think another reason is that it’s just more work for another programmer to grok a bottom-up written program written with its own DSL then a program that’s bent to fit the existing (more rigid) language since they already know the existing language.
> If it were a battery break through it would take 10 years to turn it into a mass producible product

I think it really did take approximately that much time for LLMs as well. first transformers paper came in 2017, almost 6 years back.

text to code came almost 2-3 years before ChatGPT: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/video/intellicode-c...

so even for software with the same underlying tech i.e transformers, it took almost 5 years to get to a breakthrough that can be scaled.

I really like paulg's observation that "knowledge grows fractally". If you put the scope of chatgpt as all human jobs, it would still seem that its we have only scratched the surface, same in terms of throwing money at it, we are only throwing a very little fraction of the money

> We need to value readable code over DRY, or Design patterns or what ever the next FOTM is. We need to laud people who make systems simpler, who reduces costs, who reshape and extend existing things rather than build new ones and pile more on top because it's "easy" or looks good on the resume.

not just in tech, its always been hard to quantify and reward people based on non-functional attributes of a system's output.

> I am part of the problem too, and I need to stop. I need to stop reaching for that next shiny bit of tech, next framework, next library. Because acting like a schizophrenic ADHD child finding candy hasn't really served anyone.

referencing paulg again, I think this reach for next shiny bit of tech should still happen, but reaching fractally i.e in context of everything that you do, reaching for new tech should be a small part of it but still an essential component to grow
That sounds like efficient market allocation of resources. There is no inherent reason you deserve to live in luxury as most do in the West unless you've contributed to society.
hcli
Yet another hackernews client for terminal written in Go.
> I don’t think the fact that Google, Amazon, and Facebook were built in the US i

I'd say that even more importantly, they were born in very specific places in the US

It's not like Amazon could have started in Atlanta for example.

(Amazon does sound like the one that was the most distant from the academic and valley world, but MS was in Seattle first)
Islands Far Outside the Black Hole Horizon
The demo video is using ChatGPT.
What can't you do with argparse exactly?
This is funny because in PR oriented development I started treating commits in the same way as "save" in IDE,

it's just backup of current state with irrelevant commit message. Everything is described at the end of the work in PR's description and squash merged.
Modern language models refute Chomsky's approach to language [pdf]
The law does state that "an intentional or unintentional radiator must be constructed such that the adjustments of any control that is readily accessible by or intended to be accessible to the user will not cause operation of the device in violation of the regulations" (https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/47/15.15 )

So if the manufacturer makes a device where changing the firmware is "readily accessible" to the user and there is an open source firmware available that can circumvent the FCC transmission restrictions (for example, change the power limits or channel limits for wifi physical layer), then that could be grounds for FF refusing to certify that device, as it is not permitted to make, import or sell general unrestricted transmitters to the general public (there are certain exceptions for licensed operators, ham radio, experimental use by manufacturers etc).

It's similar to other clauses that prohibit manufacturers from making it easy for the user to modify the equipment - e.g. 15.203 (https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/47/15.203) "the use of a standard antenna jack or electrical connector is prohibited." so that the user can't easily replace the antenna with a different one from what was certified.
history has wonderful guides but unfortunately none of them have “split the atom” in them
That doesn’t mean much and wouldn’t be particularly useful when picking a limited number of people from a lineup (certainly not at at 90% accuracy)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_deviation
Spelling this out slowly for the reflexive downvoters, ACT test scores began their decline well before any widespread use of mRNA COVID vaccines which would make them extremely novel in their endochronicity if they had an effect before they were used.

Otherwise, as pointed out by lostlogin, mRNA vaccines have been used in humans since 2013 and studied in animals since 1989 which makes them less novel than widely claimed.
> The lesson is "goodbye to over-applying a rule without considering context-specific trade-offs",

I think the problem is the rule itself. A rule of thumb is fundamentally broken if it does more harm than good. The heuristics to drive a decision need to lead the developer to a good outcome if they apply it without overthinking things or have meetings, because that's what rules of thumb are for.

Time and again developers tie codebases into contrived knots by mindlessly repeating the mantra "duplicate code is bad code" because they fail to realize that code that looks the same is not the same code at all, and sometimes should not be the same code at all for a number of reasons. Developers need to think hard about whether a refactorization helps simplify a project, and shoving code sections into multiple unrelated code paths is surely a way to do the exact opposite. Moreso when a mastermind developer opts to add conditionals to force similar code blocks to fit other code paths.
No, I'm implying that the autopilot code has not been as thoroughly tested as it should have been.

Example: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/22/tesla-aut...
Reminds a lot of Kal by https://kal-store.com/
I am not sure if we will ever be able to replace git with anything else. It is so ubiquitous and just "good enough" for most developers, that the pain of switching to a completely new system would far outweight the benefits. Therefore the only solution that I see is a versioning system that is fully backward compatible with git, maybe just a better API layer on top of git. Facebook tried something similar with Sapling.

For a new versioning system we do not need twenty different choices. We need one free, open, and solid solution that everybody uses.

What the main leaders of the industry should really is to found a groupo that defines that standard. This would be their chance to really make the world a (slightly) better place.
Agile Coach Meets Manager
> A desire for the EM energy to not interfere with licensed communications bands, in the event that the oven is "leaky"

I'm not sure how deep a desire this is, given microwaves operate at 2.45 GHz wideband, which is bang smack in the middle of 802.11n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth...
Sure, but very few business tools are doing that, they are playing the old Gutmann game which he himself has walked away from as not reliable anymore. Filling up the drive is certainly getting you somewhere compared to some of the snake-oil out there. Drives are only getting bigger though and rarely filled up, done some of this stuff in my time and if cost is no barrier then you'd be surprised how much can be reclaimed. Degauss and destroy is the only real method we have now and that's probably not changing in future.

>but are manufacturers really doing that and are not mentioning it in their marketing materials

SSD manufacturers have been caught out repeatedly with their in-built deletion API claims. Recovery of a significant % of files is possible nearly always without tampering having occurred.
You cannot convince a people to give up on generational existential struggle with "might is right".
Speaking of, how is Texts able to send iMessage messages (at least on their website, they have the Apple Messages app icon)?
Subversion was really good. It wasn't perfect, but it was relatively painless.

Instead everyone switched to a "distributed" version control system that is such a pain in the ass it is all now hosted by a single company.
The fact many armies use this (including my own country's) is mind boggling. Didn't they request the technical details of the encryption and the source code and have it vetted properly before awarding the tender for these devices? /sarcasm
The anxiety for regulating absolutely everything in EU is starting to be harmful.

We see mountains and mountains of regulations, some of ehich are really harmful (especially in the primary sector) and that I think are not well-intentioned.

There is a full agenda of control-everything that I do not find healthy for the average citizen.
Besides the frontend problems with git that everybody talks about, the backend could be improved. It's now line-oriented. It would be more useful if it knew about the semantics of the language you were writing so it could show you semantic differences. That might also provide a mode for binary files which git doesn't handle very well now.
Before looking at technical problems, we need to look at organizational problems. Is the tech there to solve a business problem, or is it there to solicit the next VC round, an invite to a cloud provider conference, an expensive dinner paid for by some vendor, or to perpetuate a career based on flawed technology?

A lot of the problems, associated tooling and "best practices" you mention arose as a result of the VC bubble from the last decade, where the primary objective was not to solve the business problem but to manufacture complexity so the next VC round and large headcount could be justified.

Sadly, this is not limited to VC - either collusion or technical incompetence is rampant at the executive level, which means crap vendors can nevertheless get their "solutions" into companies and lock them in. Do this long enough, and entire careers start relying on these "solutions" so you get a guaranteed supply of people who can collude with you to bleed their company dry.

See also:

* cloud computing

* blockchain

* microservices

* resume-driven-development
Yes we all know about the USSR and its vast expansion post WW2. The USSR no longer exists. Russia is involved in regime change in Ukraine right now, today. But it's obviously not a covert operation.
Have you... actually played ToB to completion? At the end it shows you the epilogue explaining _exactly_ what happens to all your companions (spoiler alert: Minsc doesn't become a statue in Baldur's Gate). Cameos, forced tie-ins and straight up alternations of story lines of previous games doesn't make it a sequel.
Thanks for your response. What have been some of the success-undermining exclusionary habits you've observed?
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Ask HN: Essays and blog posts you recommend
My favorite types of posts on HN are not news articles, but rather essays and blog posts. Sometimes a whole book feels like too much of a commitment to one topic, but a good long post to dip your toes is perfect.

On any topic really. If you have any bookmarked, please share. A short description will help all of us.
while I agree that there is a half-life to certain type of knowledge but I think it would be overstating to reasonably apply to all knowledge.

its very easy to retain a significant portion of the knowledge by building mental models. sure you will forget about the API surface of a technology, but you would surely remember the underlying knowledge models and you would surely apply it in many other contexts.

like remembering the REST API inputs and output data types is also a knowledge whose half life is much shorter. but building mental models of those would stay for a long time. the point never is to remember and include REST API input and output data as part of your skill set, the point is to include their underlying knowledge. and you can't treat the API surface of a library as knowledge, its essentially a volatile memory and supposed to be cleared away
You could probably do better, yes. But if someone is to do better, I'd hope they actually learn git first.

A lot of alternative tools come up because of people writing them being unwilling to learn git. There are a handful of concepts and a few handfuls of commands and thats it.

And once someone learns git throroughly, they usually come to see that it is actually good enough, and dont bother making something new.
Please, Github is so much more than git hosting. If all it offered was source hosting, no one would care for it.
Closely related: discussion of the Milk-V Pioneer workstation employing this chip [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38553647
> Wouldn't everyone just prefer a secure, modern texting app that could message literally anyone with a phone number? Without having them download a specific app? Then we could all text together without the headaches.

https://m.xkcd.com/927/

I’m not sure what messaging standard you propose gets adopted, because the flavour du jour of most non-iMessage users is RCS, which as an open standard, is unencrypted and insecure.
My first job used SVN and it limited workflows compared to git. Branches are more expensive, so people adapt their workflows. I used git-svn on that job, which allowed me to refactor locally; not a feature available to me or others once pushed.

My colleagues evaluated git and thought it was too complicated. A few years and a lot of employments later, they’re all using git. I don’t know if it was peer pressure from enough young recruits, but the verdict is clear: git is better than SVN.
I’ve been running Orca 2 13B on M1 Pro with 32GB of RAM with LLM Studio and GPU acceleration quite nicely.

https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Orca-2-13B-GGUF
Same at my current job
Actually, it’s not the backend which is line oriented, it’s the front end. The backend doesn’t dissect files, it stores the entire new file when even one line is changed and relies on object compression to find the similarity in the rest.
Before we can get a vcs that understand semantic diffs, we need a way to communicate semantic diffs. That way each file type can have its own “semantic differ”. Similar to how language servers help abstract away the differences for IDEs