skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is a YouTube version of a Scott Alexander post that gives me hope, and is well worth watching

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bbwp4PbWYzw
Meanwhile in Canada we have yet another lawyer failing to double-check what ChatAI hallucinates up.

At least - so far! - these issues are being caught by opposing counsel or judges doing fact-checking themselves, and utterly failing to find the cases cited. But still. AI might be “cheaper” than a good research assistant, but so far it’s failing rather publicly at the job.
The file tree is just a way of discovering endpoints to the API. You still need an encoding to read/write to those endpoints.

The same is true over a "real" API with one big difference: there's not a small set of syscalls to access the endpoints and read/write binary data to them. Thats more stable than any FFI or encoding scheme.

I'll take "everything is a file" over "everything is an object that has a special mechanism for querying interfaces and dispatching to handlers" or "everything is RPC" or "everything is REST" because it has the smallest surface area.
Beauty unshared is lessened
It took me a few years to realize that it isn't a rainbow on the case it's a "spectrum of light" (as you'd see from a prism).

In my defense I was 11/12 when I got mine.
Hmmm... our corporate firewall is blocking the connection as it says the SSL cert is "insecure". Something tells me this is BS, but anyone got any ideas why it might say this?
And exogenous hormones.
yeah, only a few dozen developers
We are. I guess given the number of machines sold there are lots of us!
None of that made any sense.
Helix doesn't have a plugin system:

https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/122
Literally called out in the article that they'd be exempt.
Ben explained in the piece. It's likely due to netflix's feud with apple where apple is essentially stealing 30% of some users revenue by forcing netflix games to allow users to sign up on the app and charging their fee.
There is plenty of computing related stuff that Google doesn't do, has stopped doing or outsources nearly all of, whether it be ceasing to be a Domain Registrar, providing voice & texting services (Google Voice being just another Bandwidth.com frontend, Google Fi being an alternative onramp to the T-Mobile network, with identical roaming).

You mentioned social media, what social media happens on Google's platforms? Google Wave is long dead, Google Talk was broken so badly everyone I know stopped using it. Google Groups is a wasteland that just spams up Usenet, so everyone ignores it. Where is Google in action when it comes to social media?
> svelte

based. I helped start Svelte Society. please let me know if you need anything from the Svelte community, not sure how far along you are in the rebuild. prob can get a few volunteers for you.
The executive equivalent of a rice cake.
Small warning. If you click the "more" button at the bottom of a list of results, it silently does another search and deducts that from your remaining free searches.
> So .. how many actual body bags definitive linked then?

Several hundred, most of them in the days and months immediately following the incident.

The remainder are based on the UNSCEAR estimates over the fullness of time including people who commited suicide because they fear they're somehow contaminated. The majority of the deaths are derived the statistical projections of death. They estimate the impact of the fallout using the linear no threshold dose-response model (itself, contested for being too conservative).

Suffice it to say Greenpeace is out to lunch with their projections.
what kind of goals would you set if you be Pichai?
if their best software engineers designed MCAS, gotta wonder at the skill level of the folks designing the internal tooling that does qc checks.
You'd think they would say that.

Crawling on a floor also has a risk, but that's acceptable. You could read the article and think it's like dirt exposure part of being a baby.

Not that babies or kids should be eating pure sugar like honey anyway, but they were using it like whiskey as a medicine so I get that.
I have been working on something similar to that in Msty [1]. I haven’t announced the app anywhere (including my friends as I got a few things in pipeline that I want to get out first :)

[1]: https://msty.app
For the client API it's pretty clear:

from ollama import Client
client = Client(host='http://localhost:11434')

But I don't quite get how the example in "Usage" can work:

import ollama
response = ollama.chat(model='llama2', messages=[
{
'role': 'user',
'content': 'Why is the sky blue?',
},
])
print(response['message']['content'])

Since there is no parameter for host and/or port.
I would 100% rather pay a fee. Also for those ads to make economic sense, the gym would be packed wall to wall.
> what social media happens on Google's platforms?

youtube/youtube shorts have a lot "social media" going on
Why is this post decaying in HN placement faster than older posts with fewer upvotes
If that SEO means removing ads and tracking from your page to get a higher rank, I'm cool with it. :)
I'm left wondering who the hell is driving all of this corporate theater? What is this reality distortion field that makes us feel like it is an inevitable fact of life that these leaders can only communicate in banal, unactionable platitudes?

At risk of shilling a bit, Whatifalthist posted an interesting video today "Understanding Modern Civilization" [1]. It's a longer critique of modernity, but I particularly liked the discussion of why the managerial elite came to power. In modernity, the lack of life or death pressure, social mobility, plus the gameability of metrics / systems used to determine who has power (ie. ivy league and big 4 consultancy pedigree vs inherited power back in the day) has made our leadership subject to the same foibles that affected Chinese mandarins historically: corruption and a focus on appearances over the details of actual execution.

So yeah, Sundar is one of our modern mandarins.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SjMVJrmhh8
I didn't mean to nitpick. I couldn't tell from the comment if OP was referring to the technical achievements of the Chromium project or was referring to the end-user application (Chrome).

The technical achievements don't really matter as much as the value of having whatever 70/80% market share Chrome has. I'm not saying it's not impressive technically, just that they could've skinned Firefox and called it Chrome and put it on their google.com homepage and gotten a (multi)billion users as well in theory. As long as they could use it for the purposes of driving revenue, that would be a win as well, again in theory.

Same argument could be made for Android Open Source Project (AOSP) vs Android.
Because he is supposed to be in control. It's fine for the software to warn him of things. It's not fine for the software to enforce filter changing policy as if it was his boss. He can ignore and dismiss the warning if he wants, simply because he's the human and the machine is supposed to bend over backwards to conform to his will. There really is no need for any further justification.
45kb (zipped!) for document.createElement() with a babel transpiler build process.
The Boeing that lost its hull plug was how old? A month? Boeing deserves to be dunked on for the timing of this, even if it’s delta’s inability to complete regular maintenance that causes their planes tire to fall off.
I work in a very large organization with 50,000 people. It's painful and discouraging listening to the person at the top, or their close deputies, because the documents they publish for mission goals are so abstract and boundless. Nothing I want ever seems directly addressed in these documents that get passed to all of us.

However, I've learned that the middle managers below C suite are looking at these objectives and justifying their own plans in alignment with this. Whatever the people who actually "do" want to do in 2025, must be in support of this abstract crap that frustrates me.

I've had more success in the last 2 years aligning my wants and interests with those of my middle managing-leadership, as they orient toward the executives.

Executives are often trying to enable with vapid bullshit, and really it just shows they shouldn't talk to the people who "do". I think a better way of approaching the workforce and inspiring loyalty to the org, is to trust a deputy to read you into their particular program area so the high-level executive can come in and speak "to you" at an unexpected/encouraging moment. I've seen that done well, but not all hands messaging - ever.

(All blanket statements have exceptional circumstances where they should be disregarded.)
Google would not be revoking API keys for Chromium to nerf its functionality if this were not a real issue: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/mo60q5/psa_you_can_e...
I've had some gripes with Comcast/Xfinity in the past (as many have) but I feel like they are in the lead as far as residential IPv6 deployment (on by default), and I was originally using their own gateway, which as you mention just works with IPv6.

When I switched to my own modem and router (Arris and Ubiquiti/Unifi), I really wanted to dig in and understand IPv6 thoroughly. The modem acts as a bridge and the router gets a single /128 address, and then uses IPv6 Prefix Delegation (PD) over that link to request additional address space for clients (from a different subnet).

The Xfinity gateway only has one local network to support so it requests a single /64 PD, and then clients can use SLAAC (and optionally the privacy extensions) to acquire one or more addresses out of the /64.

When I switched to the Unifi equipment, through some trial and error I found out I could request up to a /60 from Xfinity. Some ISPs will do more, some will do less. No way to really tell, just request larger prefixes and see what you end up getting. Anyway, my /60 gave me 16x /64s to play with. It is wild that my address space is 68,719,476,736 times larger than the entire IPv4 address space.

I have a few VLANs, each of which gets assigned a /64 out of the /60, but even if I'm not using all 16 of them, Xfinity's routing table will send the entire /60 to me. So beyond my VLANs and directly-connected devices, I have the rest of the /60 to use for VMs, Kubernetes pods, etc. and I can add routes to direct that traffic to its next hop. It was a learning curve and a little unsettling that every VM or pod has a publicly routable address. But NAT != Firewall, so unsolicited inbound connections are still blocked, and not having to deal with NAT is very cool! Even though many networking people have it ingrained that private devices should have private addresses.
That sounds pretty silly.

Shouldn't gifts and similar things come after the business is properly sustainable?
Were that it were so. In the last 20 years, just about every jazz club everywhere has shut its doors. There’s only one good one that I know of now, that plays live jazz every single night (like a jazz club ought): the 1905 in Portland, OR.

If you care about the arts, get the fuck out of your house and go support the arts. Jazz clubs are hanging by a hair. Maybe a city doesn’t need more than one or two, but most cities have none.
We haven’t switched because electricity (37 qBTU) is only a third (100 qBTU) of our energy production, and we don’t know how to triple the electricity grid.

Of our electricity production, 60% is fossil fuels (coal, gas, or petroleum).

We have zero clue how to replace our total energy consumption (100 qBTU) with our renewable production (15 qBTU).

This is all using official EIA numbers:

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/

Also, gasoline is 13 MJ/kg; normal batteries are < 1 MJ/kg. That’s a lot of density difference.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density_Extended_Refe...
"We tweet malicious packages detected on NPM in real-time"
The people above have their tech chops perfected on day 1 of their professional employment.

They get the economics, politics, staffing, real world design constraints polished while most juniors are learning about algorithms, design, and unit testing.
What is the cost of a $50,000 at 10% interest vs the cost of $50,000 at 2.5% interest over 10 years?

Money is not free. Solar is now expensive:

[1] https://www.cnet.com/home/energy-and-utilities/high-interest...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-11-03/invest...

[3] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/solar-stocks-get-hit-as-risin...

[4] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/05/climate/renewable-energy-...

[5] https://www.woodmac.com/news/opinion/high-interest-rates-imp...

[6] https://www.ft.com/content/07443afb-b935-492d-8711-8c47e4353...

[7] https://time.com/6281021/renewable-energy-interest-rates/

[8] https://www.fool.com/investing/2024/01/13/why-solar-energy-s...

[9] https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2024/01/high-interest-...

[10] https://www.newsweek.com/high-interest-rates-impact-solar-en...
> Several hundred.

Okay, for Part Two .. is that a high number or a low number when compared to a dam burst or a Bhopal type chemical plant accident?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster

Point being, are we globally casual about all manner of destructive events and relatively over sensitive to OMG! nuclear!! accidents?
Deploy Google Fiber everywhere?
Thanks. I was going to rebut your point but I re-read the article and while one of the headings seem to rebut it, the actual content does not contradict anything, so I'll agree with your argument :)
More interesting than SillyCon Valley VC, perhaps?

These firms have to do their homework. They have to do their _own_ homework; they cannot just copy someone else's. Failure, i.e., being wrong, comes with a high cost.

Whereas VC will piggyback on others' investment choices. VC are wrong more than they are right, by a large margin. Failure is low cost. It's like playing the lottery. There is no skill involved.

Who has more skin the game. Who takes bigger risks. Questions for the reader.
I just wanted to say thank you for being communicative and approachable and nice.
When a reporter asked Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, “Won’t the laws of mathematics trump the laws of Australia?,” Mr. Turnbull reportedly responded “Well the laws of Australia prevail in Australia, I can assure you of that. The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia.”

Excerpt from: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/no-the-laws-of-australia-...
Make the public trust Google more than any other FAANG again. People like Microsoft more than any of those companies now, which is a hilarious flip from how people felt about them in the late 90s early 2000s.
DRM as you used it. There is no DRM AFAIK that works on AC power. It needs binary and that needs at least a transformer.
no system is perfect. People with a lot of karma decide what to be seen
hopefully what will happen is no single search engine will be dominant, ensuring that problem can't happen (we'll probably have other problems instead)
Sorry, I'm not the person you were replying to, I suspected they wouldn't so I wanted to share the research I did earlier on. I agree with you, and to me these numbers seem rather low relative to the known harms associated with other generation methods. To steelman, it could certainly have been a lot worse, but also, it wasn't, and much was learned that has been incorporated into modern designs.
Is Android a win for Google? Does it make any money, lock in anyone to their proprietary hardware? No.
Once you have a custom `client` you can use it in place of `ollama`. For example:

client = Client(host='http://my.ollama.host:11434')
response = client.chat(model='llama2', messages=[...])
Excuse me, I forgot that react-dom also ships with an implementation of document.appendChild()
I think this is something with low reward/risk ratio for google, given where they have moat and expertise.
Kafka-on-Pulsar Got Archived
Doesn't this sound like a substantial distraction?

The process from here involves setting up a business entity in Germany, so we can
import the t-shirts, store them in a warehouse, connect inventory logistics and ship
them all over the world. This includes building a website and connecting it to a
back-end database. So, we basically ended up owning a merch production operation
end-to-end, just so that we could ensure premium quality of these t-shirts!
tl;dr;
You forgot Ads.

(Fixed that for you…)
Interesting, didn't realize it was weighted like that. Thought the points were objective measures.
In investment banking, for one example:

0-3 analyst
3-7 Associate (mid) to Vice President (senior to staff/manager)
7+ if they're good, Managing Director (staff to senior staff/manager to senior manager)
I'm confused. How do you send the request URL, and how do you receive the encrypted secret?

If the answer is "email, chat, text, Whatsapp" or whatever, them why not just send the secret plaintext?

If anyone can get into any of those systems, then they can easily get your secret from the two urls, so why bother with the encryption?
That's because they used Bard to write it!
I don't think that's quite fair. The stackoverflow survey shows a large number of developers have made the move to Mac. Certainly not the majority, but a very healthy share. https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#section-most-popular-t...

Anecdotally, Mac has become very popular at my workplace, with a growing number of developers choosing Mac for their primary device. We mostly target Linux, so regardless of workstation we're usually remoting into a Linux box or running some VM/Docker setup locally. When I can work on projects locally without a VM, the interactions on Mac feel a lot more natural compared to Windows.

I don't think I would switch back to a Windows machine any time soon, although if I was offered a Linux laptop I'd be very tempted.
another example is that all youtube ads are out right scammay but its employess are happy as long as they could get big payout.
HN crowd may be not trusting google, but I am not so sure about general public. You probably don't have any hard data in your hands.
Hmm. I will say from past experiences I've only found the 'valley girl' accent to be in certain parts of California, and not representative of Californians. Growing up I remember when my sister and her friends adopted this style of speaking for a time. Usually at school, this was (from my perception) to project an air of being disinterested in bored in conversation toward authority figures. I also found it when someone wasn't capable of demonstrating a deep knowledge of something (where the bias comes into effect). I know it's incorrect, but I have many friends that think Californians don't have an innate accent and I've often thought this about how I sound when going elsewhere.

I think your comment makes sense, and I appreciate the way you detailed this.
EpicMafia was seriously amazing. 13 years later, I still have friends I met on that game.

Thank you!
No, you misunderstand me.

You can build a proprietary product on top of MIT/BSD code. You can not revoke someone else's license. You CAN put MIT code in a proprietary product and not share it. But you can NOT tell someone else that they are not legally allowed to share code that they have been given under an MIT/BSD license. The MIT license is permission to share the code.

Nothing would prevent this project from building a proprietary product with MIT/BSD code in it and not sharing the code or sharing it under a different license. But if they say, "here's the code it's being given to you under an MIT license" -- then I don't see how they can add on top of that "subject to this NDA". If they give you the code MIT licensed, it's MIT licensed. If they give you the code with a bunch of other licensing restrictions, then they're not giving you an MIT license, they're giving you some other weird hybrid license that is not Open Source.

We don't have a licensing mechanism that I'm aware of for allowing companies to say, "here's a legal document outlining the terms of this license, and also pretend that these terms aren't binding."
Youtube is currently full of attention-bait, rage-bait, spam, scams, and AI noise.

It takes work over months of time to find youtube channels with value and a few more months to vet their worth.

While it IS a social media network, the majority of user content on the website is low-value spam comments.
Interesting that HN is pinned way more than stackoverflow.
>You probably don't have any hard data in your hands.

Okay? I bet you don't either.
Do you think it should be five, or one, or 47?

It is kind of arbitrary, there's nothing so magical about it. Two or four would be just as good or at least not a whole lot worse; one seems overly harsh, and five seems overly lenient. Social policy is not an exact science, and we make these decisions democratically; most people seem to have a sense that people should get a few chances, but there should be a point at which they get the book thrown at them. Better to try and draw the line in a place that makes sense, and tweak it if necessary, than to be paralysed by indecision because you can't decide exactly where the line should be.
NuttX Online Demo
The difference between quality grinders is super easy to replicate. Buy some freshly roasted beans from a specialty coffee roaster, then have the shop ground half and grind the other half at home on your home grinder of choice.

High-end (specialty coffee standard) commercial grinders produce a tighter variance amongst the ground coffee particles which leads to a way more even extraction, i.e. a more pleasant and balanced taste in the cup. Perhaps the most common model is the Mahlkonig EK43S, which is a ~$3,000 grinder.

Home grinders are far cheaper, in the range of ~$75–300 or so for popular ones, and tend to produce a broader variance of particle sizes which leads to big particles ("boulders") getting overextracted, thus imparting bitter flavors; and small particles ("fines") getting underextracted, thus imparting sour flavors. The higher quality and lighter roast your coffee is, the more noticeable the impact of the grinder is.

You don't have to take James Hoffmann's word for it at all, this is standard issue coffee grinder theory 101, which any specialty coffee professional would agree with. It's also easily testable at home, even if you haven't experiencend it in an experiment context. I took a short class on the theory of coffee once and the major experiments were comparing the same beans ground across different grinders (and then with or without use of a coffee sieve for further refinement) and the same beans across different brewing methods and techniques. The particle size distribution from the grinder is one of the most important variables in the whole process.
If you don't know anything about any wild berries, beyond some are poisonous, it might be a safe bet to never eat any of them.

If you know something about berries, like this species is definitely poisonous, and this species is definitely safe, and this species you don't know anything about, then it is perfectly safe to avoid the first and third and indulge in the second.
The funny thing is that I’m sure NK is very democratic, it’s just that voting wrong probably gets you killed
The jobs of the few hundred data scientists that actually work on improving AI at Google/DeepMind are very secure. But in a few years (as LLMs continue improving and people figure how to use them effectively) a significant part of the other employees will very likely become redundant.