skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Athena is a query engine, not a data store. It’s actually built from Presto (or maybe it’s Trino now, I’m not sure).
Comments are different from posts. The comment needs to have content to be valuable. With a post, you don't need to add any editorial; it's the thing being posted itself that needs to be interesting - but not to everyone.

If no one finds it interesting, people won't vote for it, and it'll never reach the homepage. But given that people did vote for it, obviously a number did find it interesting.
If the axe head is a gun, then the yellow handle is smoke. Just turn the image sideways and squint. Trust me, after a while you will see it.
Just to clarify, I'm not bashing wkhtmltopdf. I think it is a great tool (or at least it was), for what it was initially designed for. I've used it myself several times, to great effect. Albeit mostly long ago (about a decade or so).

I'm not even concerned all that much about the code's state itself, rather that it still shows up today. In situations it was probably never designed for. Adding to that, it now often appears wrapped inside some interfacing layer/code, binding it to whatever other software it is embedded in. But then only exposing part of wkhtmltopdf. Case in point, the --dpi option you mentioned (which indeed might fix the mentioned bug), was simply inaccessible through how the framework interfaced with wkhtmltopdf (which was a design cluster-F# in its own right).

However, the bigger elephant in the room for me is that the HTML/CSS support has changed considerably over the last decade, with wkhtmltopdf pretty much stuck in time. It's just pretty much a random hit or miss when it comes to rendering any modern web content. Only for carefully crafted (legacy) content does it still make a good use case.

I won't blame wkhtmltopdf for that though, but I sure haves questions for those who apparently still consider it a valid tool for integration into modern web frameworks. I guess part of that comes down to unintentional ignorance, not knowing what they are actually integrating. Another reason might be that I've not seen much of a better sort-of-drop-in replacement for wkhtmltopdf, so people stick to it far a lack of a proper alternative. Maybe some of the people who integrated wkhtmltopdf elsewhere are even very well aware of all the limitations/dangers. Still, little use of that if that knowledge is lost on those who subsequently end up using it, primarily just as consumers.

Puppeteer is a very different beast in its own right, regardless which engine/browser you end up using. But if more modern html/css features are required, it can be a valid replacement (regardless of numerous downsides nonetheless). Still, I (also) doubt that it will work as a good replacement for all of wkhtmltopdf's use cases.

If nothing else, I got some free entertainment out of it all .. watching the shocked expression on the faces of top-level suits, when I explained to them what they had been blissfully unaware of. They had good reasons to be worried, because this exposure should have been caught by their rigorous technology-review procedures. However, it had been an ad-hock dependencies that was introduced as part of a legit feature request. The dev had probably never even noticed, because it appeared as a native framework functionality (hiding any obvious reference to using wkhtmltopdf under the hood). Anyways, wkhtmltopdf is certainly not to be blamed for that.

Still, it does illustrate the dangers of modern-day software integration. I think especially in (web) frameworks, where the name of the game often appears to have turned towards a popularity contest (with competing frameworks) and "making things as simple as possible". Something about a road paved with good intentions.
Breaking up with Slack and Discord: why it's time to bring back forums
This is excellent news, especially since processors have been powerful enough for a while that we can easily expect most phones should be usable for much longer.
Every single human has abstractions that are unique to them. Your world model isn’t the same as mine.

It’s just that usually these abstractions are fuzzy and hard to formalize, so they aren’t shared. It doesn’t mean that they don’t exist.
They are optimizing for Nature papers, not general usability.

Not even one thing they did was without an associated Nature paper, and the paper was always first.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/13/human-be... | https://archive.is/ek0dz ("Human ‘behavioural crisis’ at root of climate breakdown, say scientists")

https://www.ariababu.co.uk/p/beliefs-that-kill-birth-rates ("Beliefs that kill birth rates")
Hopefully the judge isn't like that. Bit of a silly character trait for a judge.
Director at Google is a 7 figure position. I have no problem if Google demands extraordinary performance from someone making that kind of money, and decides to lay off people who don't meet that bar.

This is very different than say, if an L3 engineer got hit with a layoff a year after joining.
In the ever-evolving workspace, keeping employees engaged and maintaining their wellness is key. What unique strategies or tools have you found effective for this?
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Excited to hear your thoughts!
Is there any more info on the technicalities of the various measures? The one about phosphorus and nitrogen in particular - are we running out, or is it too much of them ending up in water and causing algal blooms?
Appreciate the reply. Hope you get it out soon since many /g do not read documentation and synchronized semantics changing is a ‘surprise’, specially since this one of those bugs that is a nursery for heisenbugs.
A good first step. The next one I’d like to see is a one-tap toggle that disables the bulk of Samsung OS customizations and “me too” apps/ecosystem cruft, as some other vendors have. Yes it can be removed manually, but with one of Android’s chief selling points being the choice it affords users, I shouldn’t need to do that, particularly on expensive flagship devices.
Link to the actual Consumer Reports report:
https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics/privacy/each-fac...

So most of the data provided is probably coming in via the FB tracking pixel. I think the references to FB's "custom audiences" is a red herring - it's a very manual process and very few companies use that feature in any sort of scale. FB hashes the data that gets uploaded and specifically throws out extraneous data that does not help it make matches with its existing data set: https://www.facebook.com/business/help/2082575038703844?id=2...

Love this note at the bottom: "Editor’s Note: Consumer Reports has a business relationship with LiveRamp and another data broker, Acxiom. Consumer Reports shares data with each of these companies in order to help support its mission."
Something I really appreciate about Obsidian is that they seem to be keeping the core application constrained and clearly defined. I worried they would adopt plugins into the application and have things kind of bloat out of control, but they've maintained a clear separation (even now with many plugins not working with Obsidian Publish). That can be a hard line to maintain and protect when you have paying customers and they're doing a great job sticking to what they're good at.
How are those mall leases doing these days?
Oh hey this is my site, I’m glad you like it!
The main argument that you buy Apple because you can trust the payment system doesn't really go against the anticompetitive argument Epic is making.

Re Android:

* Android has the same 30% fee
* Android controls the Play Store IAPs (dark patterns) almost identically to Apple

- Mobile dev of 3 years
I understand what you're saying but the original metaphor still stands.
In-app purchases are like other related products produced by your company, which you are still selling through Walmart -- it's just that you're not using Walmart's payment system for purchases.
I've been told of all the muscles in your body, your tongue is the most resistant to developing repetitive strain injury (RSI).

When I was in school I prototyped a simple tongue switch using a flex sensor (idea is it would be coated in a biocompatible, foodsafe material) to replace the mouse button.
Is being hostile to “feminism” a good business decision? The wealthiest companies on earth practice the same form of feminism as Sandberg.
FWIW, kdb+ is not that extremely performant - there's a lot of things that could be faster, and a lot of limitations that mean that you often would be better of not using a DB at all (or to use another DB and just pull everything you might need into memory). There is/was a tradeoff in that many things that would make it faster would require more code, and a cool thing about q/kdb+ is that it takes so little code you don't have I$ issues, but I think that's a tradeoff that doesn't make as much sense anymore in 2023.

What it's really great for is that it's really neatly integrated into the q language, which is great for exploratory programming, and it's fast enough not to get in the way.
My wife doesn't want a general purpose computer in her pocket. She wants to be able to download and install an app with near-complete confidence that it won't steal her credit card. That desire is at odds with having a general purpose computing device.

This is why she (and millions like her) chose an iPhone. Are you seriously saying that Apple providing that as an option is anti-consumer?
It's not a really really badly drawn ax with a weird wavy yellow handle, it's yellow paint coming out of a paint pot. The reason the "ax" looks nothing at all like an ax is that it isn't supposed to be an ax.
What corners are being cut?
I was thinking more in terms of something like secret or private :)
The developer has to agree to allow Apple to audit them.
Blame Google, not Notion.

IIRC: See and download your orgs GSuite directory is required to read contacts in your org's directory, and perm delete calendars is required to edit calendars. https://developers.google.com/calendar/api/auth

It doesn't help that documentation for anything related to Workspace APIs is unbelievably difficult to find, outdated, or both outside of their HTTP REST docs.
The actual Consumer Reports piece has exactly the information on how to do this:

https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics/privacy/each-fac...

> Facebook users can browse through the list of companies that have sent their data to Facebook by going to the Accounts Center and clicking on “Your information and permissions.”
Especially since they aren't the biggest mobile OS as Android fans like to point out. It's only a problem because iOS has most of the mobile profits.
Is that very different than the distillation and amplification process that happens during training? Where the neural net learns to predict in one step what initially required several steps of iterated execution.
Other than the fact I spent 1'000$ on my iPhone?
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/01/valve-dont-recommend-ubu...

Snaps are not "fine."

They're generally worse than debs, and worse than alternative "all in one" package formats like flatpak or appimage. And when coupled with "not packaged by the original devs" leads to issues where people have issues and then raise bug reports to the wrong people, but beginners don't know that the snap is packaged entirely by Canonical, and not Valve, and just results in a poorer experience.
My kids were able to make complex 3D games at 9yo with very little help using Roblox Studio. It’s free.

https://roblox.com/create

Disclaimer: I work for Roblox Corp.
Saw it. Very sad. Almost cried.

Still would do it. And so would most ppl.
> So why are you pushing for everything to have to be a general purpose computer?

They are already general purpose computers that have been locked down.

I strongly believe users should be able to own their devices no matter what kind. While users should be able to keep those devices locked down if they choose, they should also be able to unlock them and run any software or OS they choose.

I think this applies to consoles just as much as it does to smartphones and tractors.

Allowing companies to prevent users from owning their devices puts less tech savy consumers who don't understand the risks at the mercy of the giant corporations.
> I'm personally impressed by this, but wouldn't be surprised if it contributed to the burnout.

I think that people who contribute to languages are of a certain psychological type. They are generous, nice, kind, they want to contribute and are not interested in the social and people drama. They are a special breed of people whom I admire.

At the same time, and as you point out, that makes them more vulnerable to burnout because the social / people drama always creeps in, and they seem less well equipped to deal with it (though I've known of very impressive exceptions).

Personally I found out that bottling up negative emotions is futile; they inevitably erupt and the longer you have bottled them up, the more violent the explosion and the worse the ramifications for your mental health.

That's my main reason for not mincing words anymore. I prioritize my mental health. I am OK if that means I part ways with people and companies. I was a victim of FOMO for most of my conscious life; I want to live my remaining years being more at peace.

> Maybe the better play here, especially with asynchronous communication, is to expect people come back to their message draft when they are not so pissed/emotionally triggered and then snip out tangential emotional crap.

Obviously that's best but I can bet each and every one of us has been in a situation where they knew they had to do that and still didn't. :D Myself included, not proud of some of my comments on HN during Corona time...

But expecting most people to be like that? Super tall order, turns out. :(

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> We probably won't get much further going back and forth on this.

Likely not, but I am grateful that you entertained it as much as you did. :)

> For what it's worth, you seem very reasonable, I've appreciated your comments for a long time, and I'm sure we'd get along fine if we were to work together.

That's an extremely surprising and very warm message that I couldn't predict if I lived for 1000 years. Thank you! Still very surprised and your message is definitely the highlight of my day now.
There’s another answer suggesting this if you scroll down on the source link. I personally disagree though.
I sort of expected as much out of someone who characterizes the issue as you do, so I'll offer you a contradiction: Why is climate change "our" fault when the number one, single biggest emitter of greenhouse gas in the world is the US Military. Where does my personal responsibility factor into the motions of Arleigh Burke-class destroyers? Is there a letter I can send to make a difference? If you believe so, I've got a bridge to sell you.

The reality by my reckoning is that my choices and actions exist almost entirely separate from the goings on of geopolitics, and that's why the situation is more complicated than "We are just too lazy." That's just one face of the shit die we are rolling.

The video I mentioned is a deep dive on another face of this poopy-d20: The face that says "Climate change wouldn't be an issue if we just had fewer people to deal with." I won't summarize the two and a half hour long video because it deserves to be watched and commented on directly, rather than given the internet hot-take you request.

And for the record, I think your attitude is lame too. I wasn't saying anything about my snap judgement, I was saying the documentary doesn't deserve _your_ snap judgement. My judgement is that the video challenges people who think personal responsibility is _the_ driving factor in climate change. Furthermore, I'm not looking for a conversation, but rather I'm hoping you stop talking and start gaining some better perspective on that which you comment. But you do you... I'm not trying to tell you how to internet.

P.S. Rate limits on posting in this space is one more reason why we can't have a conversation here.
Also forked from something Apple made (Webkit)
They feel emboldened because the judge specifically called out that this was the most likely outcome from them being forced to unbundle their payment processor:

> First, and most significant, as discussed in the findings of facts, IAP is the method by which Apple collects its licensing fee from developers for the use of Apple’s intellectual property. Even in the absence of IAP, Apple could still charge a commission on developers. It would simply be more difficult for Apple to collect that commission.

> In such a hypothetical world, developers could potentially avoid the commission while benefitting from Apple's innovation and intellectual property free of charge. The Court presumes that in such circumstances that Apple may rely on imposing and utilizing a contractual right to audit developers annual accounting to ensure compliance with its commissions, among other methods. Of course, any alternatives to IAP (including the foregoing) would seemingly impose both increased monetary and time costs to both Apple and the developers.

https://casetext.com/case/epic-games-inc-v-apple-inc-2
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>Apple must allow alternate payment modes without imposing a gatekeeper tax.

And I want to put my product in Walmart for free while Walmart pays for the warehouse, staff, marketing, returns, and product inspection.
I don't believe anyone has ever received a copy of their "shadow profile". Nor do I think folks can see all of the data associated with their FB account (or Google account, even). I think it would really creep folks out if they could.
So, you're totally discounting the work of Terravision

"The Billion Dollar Code" is a Netflix series about the lawsuit of Google trouncing the little guys. [0] is a brief bit from its creator about the impetus for the show. If you haven't seen it, it's pretty good. In the [0], they compare it to The Social Network being from the Zucks point of view, aka the winner. This story is told from the view of the losing side.

[0] https://variety.com/2021/streaming/global/netflix-the-billio...!
I'd pay good money to watch a cinema verité documentary capturing the moment when the graphic artist encounters the StackExchange page and reads each comment in turn, while the camera slowly zooms in closer and closer on their eyebrows as they alternately furrow and rise up in surprise.
I'm getting a certificate error hitting this site: https://image.non.io/a2349bf1-faba-49e4-85f4-4ef2ddbd9aa4.we...

Anyone else seeing this?
That's not true in the slightest, though. Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, and Steam all take 30% for distribution and hosting, same as Apple. It's not artificially high if it's in line with the rest of the tech industry and if you want to try and claim that it's because of some monopoly, vertical or otherwise, then you have to explain why the other storefronts are also monopolies.

It's not a monopoly. Other phones and ecosystems exist.
“the big reason for Florida's population surge is increased opportunities for remote work”
So just normal job in bigCorp?
There are hundreds of millions or billions of us, though, depending on how broad a brush you use. Any given issue or value is going to have someone, in fact quite a lot of someones, on every conceivable side of it. Even if you limit your scope to the people who have a substantial voice in the culture.
Then there was the case of Eduke32, were distributing binary builds of the engine it's tecnically illegal as it's a GPL violation.
I know porn owners go after seeders in the US, I've seen news articles from torrentfreak.com to that extent.

But the fact that they're not being sued is a weird delineation to make. They're not being sued because they can't afford to defend so are settling. It's not a case that IP owners aren't enforcing copyright, they're just not escalating to actual lawsuits because they don't need to.
>Sadly I never got to work on this when I was at Apple (interviewed for it though!), but hearing about this a few years ago sort of made me realize something that should have been obvious: there’s not really a difference between a database and a file system.

Many years back I came to the realiziation that a database is just a fancy data structure. I guess a file system is too.
Why can't you simply download everything from the App Store and avoid sideloading?

If enough people refuse to sideload, developers will continue to provide the App Store as an option. Then you can pay Apple for their curation services if you find those services valuable, and other people won't be forced to pay.
I love this. Do you have a blog or only videos?

I started off creating a 2d focused GPU out of an esp32 for use with microcontrollers to accelerate graphics for resource constrained, and have "faked" 3d by drawing single color shaded triangles.

Ive been ping pinging between creating software 3d rendering support and learning digital circuits to graduate it into a full fpga based system.
I don't think you replied to the right comment. Or you forgot to read and comprehend mine and just answered some phantom you were arguing with in the shower.
While testing internally, Mistral worked well. But these models are just starting points. Will add support for the models WaveCoder-Ultra-6.7B, WizardCoder-33B, Magiccoder-S-DS-6.7B, etc soon.
I guess FB tracking pixels will no longer work when third-party cookies are removed from browsers. That seems like a massive hit for them if I understand it correctly (and a big W for us)
Yeah, and the media outlet selling ads and subscriptions is out of Florida.
Considering this case is in the USA, iPhones have a >53% market share and iPads >55%.

But regardless of that, they have no competition in iOS app distribution.

Keeping my fingers crossed that the EU will help solve that problem.
3. Was caused by epics work. And it’ll continue to grow.
Manufacturers in other areas regularly have to recall tens of millions of units. I see no reason this should be different.
Weirdest damn paint pot I've seen.
LMAO

MICROSOFT played the hugest part in Windows Phone demise. I still had a Palm Pre at the time and was waiting for a particular yellow Nokia Windows Phone to release for Sprint. My recollection is muddy after that but Windows Phone was no more so I got an iPhone.
That's a lot of literary devices.
His vision is a “survival zombie game where you have to find and repair cars to escape the zombies”

Yeah I know, that’s how I started as well. Got some old 8086 and zero instructions on how to use it.

But he’s not curious in the same way I was, maybe it’s the time right now. Kids expect immediate gratification, or maybe he needs a bit of a push.

I looked at Roblox studio, that looks promising. Thanks!
Does not look like it much different from default weather app on ios.
> Vertical integration is illegal.

Is it? The only related info I could find is https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/012615/what-are-leg..., which says it _can_ be illegal (in the USA) if it is achieved through a merger.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_integration mentions quite a few examples of existing vertically integrated companies, mentions a few court cases, but doesn’t say it’s outright illegal.

Also, if vertical integration is illegal in the USA, somebody should tell Musk he should split up Tesla and SpaceX.
To derail us even further: You know, I just realized, I think the dagger symbol marking dead people is usually shown at full size, while the dagger symbol marking a footnote is shown as a superscript. Maybe the commenter got confused by that.
No, you can't just declare a word redefined when it is still in common usage in its correct meaning, which includes both GOFAI and deep learning/neural network approaches. AI is effect defined, not architecture defined.
Finally !!