skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree - nice interview with him on the NYT book review podcast

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/15/books/review/how-to-tell-...

The fact that they managed to get everyone out of the path of the fire successfully impressed me given the circumstances
Heck, even restaurants were invented in ancient India.
They have the original DNA so at least it would be very easy to determine guilt or innocence?

If someone is under arrest can they refuse to give a DNA sample? Can cops take some hair left behind?
If you're lucky they speed up the playback. If you're not, they cut to commercial on a schedule, damn the content. Doesn't matter if you miss the punchline of the joke that was being setup this whole time.

Of course, it's worse with online tv with ad breaks. The online ads cut in 2-5 seconds before or after the program break, so it interrupts the content, and if you skip back to try it again, they play another ad, also inserted incorrectly. To make it even worse, the ads are usually at a different framerate and resolution from the content, so you get a new resync and a new hdcp handshake, so there goes another few seconds of content; unless you set your player to fixed resolution and framerate which isn't ideal.

I'm in prime circumstances to be a couch potato in front of the tv, but it's so damn frustrating, it's not worth it. You can't even channel surf, because tuning a new channel takes too long, so you've got to plan your changes.
I'm pushing into my mid-40s and it's the same story here. I won't do it. I've pulled 90-hour weeks in my career. Weeks on end. Literally working > 12 hour days nonstop for over 30 days. Because someone else fucked up, lied, didn't properly manage the situation... The why isn't even important anymore. I see the why every single day at every single employer. Nothing seems to be changing on that front. Regardless, I'm done with heroics.

Right now, I can still whip systems into shape. I am still massively effective. But if I squint I can see the horizon where I'm not effective and I'm slowly coming to terms with it. Maybe the economy and industry will be right at that point in time and I can pivot to my own thing. Maybe it won't and I'll be forced into early retirement. I'm planning for the latter but hoping for the former.
13 comments 3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39092994

16 comments 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39106224
I don't think (b) is really fair. You still call them "pieces" even if you are playing chess on a device/screen.
The new WhatsApp client for macOS is native, tho.
Salesforce Laying Off 700 Workers in Latest Tech Industry Downsizing
The law calls for this choice, the law doesn’t prohibit Apple from offering their preferred option.

That said, if you have a an article of the DMA that says otherwise, I’m all ears.
It’s a bit hard for me to prove no such thing exists, other than to provide you with the full text of the DMA of course.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELE...
Ref:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39100961
Could you describe the types of projects you worked on?
This is not assuming anything, Chrome has the market share it has because it's an better browser than any alternative.
Oh for Christ's sake, someone pry Baldur off his cross again.

> Blocking network assets is a setback for format adoption

People are standing here telling him that _allowing_ network assets _is a setback for format adoption_ and he's just going to keep pounding this stupid, obnoxious drum of his until he runs everyone off.

> almost all of the problems described would be solved by getting OS vendors (Google, MS, Apple) to invest more money in EPUB

That's back-asswards. Google, MS, and Apple don't give a shit about EPUB, they never will, and it's arguable that we're better served with them not buying a seat at that table considering how poorly their "help" has helped web standards, as much of the rest of his dismissive thread helpfully notes.

If he wants money for EPUB standards he should shake the cup at IDPF members who rely on it, and particularly Amazon, to whom he quite vocally abdicated the publishing space 12 years ago.[1]

Barking at operating system companies is nonsense at best and how we wind up with another, even more avoidable situation where the space is held hostage by them at worst. At least Amazon can chuck some goodwill money at EPUB development while continuing to kick its ass up and down the market with MOBI.

(Aside from all this, his dismissals of the "clunky" reading system complaint, citing how EPUB has "too many divergences", only further proves to me how tunneled the vision is of the people involved. To hell with forking or improving EPUB, then, because it can't be improved if that's the attitude of the people most involved with or influential within it. What bloody point is there in the customizability of a format that _nobody_ can effectively build tools for or consume?)

1: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/amazon-wins/, in which he also admits that he has no idea how to work with IDPF, which is a really great sign of how long things have been going this badly in this space
I think the competition can drive the standard to improve.

People can see improvements in alternatives that still align with their principals and adopt them.

So in that regard, I don't think they are disjunct ideas.
Are you sure? It's pretty common for small tools like this to skip HTTPS certificate verification because of space constraints (typical CA trust root collections are around 100 KB in size). Since this is doing certificate verification of the downloaded file, HTTPS verification is usually redundant. If the HTTPS certificate verification is skipped then MITM of the HTTPS connection is trivial.

I took a quick look at the code and I'm not seeing the usual steps for certificate management, although I may have missed it.
Any data that exists on servers that are not owned directly by you are subject to warrantless surveillance by way of the Third Party Doctrine in the United States.

It's not only reasonable to assume it, but to assume otherwise would be negligent.
Discover how 'Sports Photo Edits' is changing the game in post-processing
Their innovative approach ensures your sports moments are captured and enhanced like never before.
Wow. Back in the day, I had to do cosine similarity indexing with pg-cube. It only did euclidean distance, so I had to store a separate column with normalized vectors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang_Observer

They're already planning for something like that!
A non peer reviewed, non validated method. I wouldn’t want to be picked up as a suspect because of that, then have the police (lawfully) lie to me about what evidence they have and try to pressure me into confessing.
DOJ and SEC Investigate Cruise
Chrome's market share it's not because Youtube does not work in Firefox/Safari(it works) or because of any scare tactics Google uses.
Not really a roast, but I have no idea what you actually offer. Even your testimonials are vague and don't really mention what kind of project was done and what you did for them. Having a portfolio of some sort would be really nice, either in terms of specific technologies or at least how you helped the customers.

I can't tell if you just use something like Zapier or Autohotkey, or maybe you write custom enterprise integrations, what scale of clients you typically work with (are these mom and pop shops, agencies, other companies...?) No idea what your normal project timelines are, what you charge, etc.

What you have just seems like a business card and booking calendar, not really a landing page. If I were looking for "automation" (which is itself very vague), I probably wouldn't want to spend a call with you just to find out the basics, instead of just looking on Upwork for specific skills and experiences.

But I dunno, you already have 40+ projects and 30+ clients, so maybe your method already works fine and I'm just nitpicking!

What did you want to accomplish with this (presumably new or changed) landing page?

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Side note: Your page is a bit slow to load. I'm on gigabit and saw a spinner for a bit... that shouldn't be necessary for such a simple site. This is probably a good example of the kind of site that could be written in simple HTML with just a sprinkle of JS, or at least statically built with the JS part (the calendar) rehydrated in after the main content.

I'd also look into removing the "Koalendar" branding if you can (paid plan? not sure). That calendar is also kinda slow, taking a few seconds to load between pages that end up just showing one available date.

Maybe this is because I'm from the USA and you are in the Netherlands (lucky! I'd love to visit someday), but even then, you should be able to CDN most of that (not the calendar, maybe, but at least the static stuff).
The pav is actually pronounced as pao sometimes.
Curation is the action or process of selecting, organizing, and looking after the items in a collection or exhibition.

Google selects and organizes websites that comply with their ad infestation guidelines. Looking after them is arguable.
> there is an underlying logic. The trouble is, until we positively identify that logic, we can't know if it exists or not

First you exclaim there is an underlying logic, then in the next sentence you say we don’t know whether it exists, which completely contradicts your claim.
How about a fight between members of the crew causing the mission to be cancelled, and one of the member left for dead after a violent interaction with another member who then lie about it.
Just don’t use color. Put a a distance subscript
what kind of psychopath has a two line prompt?
The thing I hear again and again is that once money is no longer an issue, people realize time is the real asset, and people look to spend their time how they want to spend it, as it is the only thing they can’t buy more of.

Some battles need to be fought, as writing a check to solve all the problems can lead to people taking advantage of a person who has that reputation. But I’d wager billionaires are sending their lawyers to deal with those small legal issues and aren’t showing up themselves, unless they really have to.
Britain Starts Design Work on a Digital Version of the Pound
https://archive.ph/7vAfO
> I'm no expert - I don't know what happens when they come across a gap, the proceedings are suspended until legislators full it in I suppose?

No, the judges rule with what they have, based on the case’s specifics and the "legislator’s intent" underpinning existing law.

Although it does not become law, their ruling can be used as precedent in later similar cases, until the legislator catches up.
For the people who weren't aware... https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/orz
We're at the peak of blog posts listing vector databases.
Britain's Posy Simmonds Wins Top Prize at Angoulême Comics Festival
See also https://kitschprompt.com/docs/intro
Irony is that an average person you could hire to resolve mentioned issues would f*ck them up even more.

The only solution I come up with is to become a shitty executor yourself.

Just stop caring about anything that much. You don't have to be perfect to be successfull.

Take inspiration from those brilliant 10x developers ruining google search quality, whatever...
Why are you lying? It's not view access. It's only dev mode
Running machine learning on device.

Context: I'm working on an e2ee alternative to Google Photos[1] where we have to cluster embeddings (for face recognition) and run similarity searches (for semantic search[2]) on device.

[1]: https://ente.io

[2]: https://openai.com/research/clip
The limiting factor on speed at large companies is not "time to write code".
How about this?
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-ruined-tesla-techn...
So what? That's entirely irrelevant to the point being made.
The homepage is somewhat misleading, you can use it without Nerd Fonts and there's actually a preset config listed for it mentioned on the Presets page [0] with the note:

> This preset will become the default preset in a future release of starship

It also links to an open issue on the GH repo about it [1] (although that issue is 2 years old and doesn't seem to be top priority.)

[0]: https://starship.rs/presets/#nerd-font-symbols

[2]: https://github.com/starship/starship/pull/3544
Amazon, Anker are good

Paypal has gone to trash

Uber (eats) has no support whatsoever
That one virus on the App Store was one of, if not the biggest known instance of a virus on the App Store, and your article gives a number four times smaller than half a billion. From your [1]:

> But now, thanks to emails published as part of Apple's trial against Epic Games, we finally know how many iPhone users were impacted: 128 million in total, of which 18 million were in the US.

> "In total, 128M customers have downloaded the 2500+ apps that were affected LTD. Those customers drove 203M downloads of the 2500+ affected apps LTD," Dale Bagwell, who was Apple's manager of iTunes customer experience at the time, wrote in one of the emails.

> Apple also disclosed the apps that included the malicious code, some incredibly popular such as WeChat and the Chinese version of Angry Birds 2.

Still a huge deal, particularly in China, but considering all the virus really did was collect some device info (less information than most ad networks) (and maybe it was able to open URLs and popups on command)[1] and it was the biggest virus on the App Store ever (that I can find), maybe not as awful as you suggest.

The scams on the App Store, yeah that's pretty bad. Though, can you point me at a marketplace as big as the App Store without loads of scams?

[1]: https://www.lookout.com/blog/xcodeghost#what-does-it-do
Seems like you could upload to Dropbox and use a shareable link from your phone, no?
No. I'm refering to remote desktop softwares. Thank you for your reply though!
Maybe it can turn into the default prompt as a library dependency after the Rust rewrite, but the rust rewrite needs to rollout before thinking too far ahead.
Most important thing - if he likes to engineer (like most of developers regardless of experience) or solving the problem (rare kind at any seniority level).
I wonder why they only sent one? Why couldn't they send 3-5 identical helicopters so they still had a few more to spare?

(The hover weights ~1000kg, the helicopter ~1kg)
If a person has skills, but isn’t already wealthy themselves, taking that 1% of a large fund is how they can generate wealth.

Building wealth takes money and time. The money needs to come from somewhere.

For those who are good, who have been doing it for a long time, and are wealthy, it gives them something to do and a reason to get up in the morning. There is a lot to be said for that.
Elisabeth is the author of the article they may have been unknowingly quoting: “Better Testing, Worse Quality.”
https://developer.apple.com/support/alternative-browser-engi...
> Laws are made when some group with sufficient political power wants them to be made, and such groups are often driven by tradition, what they perceive to be tradition.

This can certainly be a motivator.

In Europe, and the EU in particular, many individual member states as well as the EU itself have the tradition of including an explanatory memorandum when passing new laws.

The function of this is to explain the mindset of the legislators and the motivation behind a law. It is sometimes used by courts to gain clarity on laws that might be a bit more ambiguous in their intent.

Below is a link to the explanatory memorandum of the DMA.

I wasn’t able to find a reference to traditions on regarding licensing fees, or monetization of IP.

But you’re welcome to point me in the right direction.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELE...

> Some readings of this law I've seen forbid Apple from charging fees for distributing apps outside its store and from using any legal workarounds to circumvent that prohibition. It remains to be seen how EU regulators and courts will interpret it.

Could you point me to these readings, or better yet the specific articles that these readings are based on?

To the best of my knowledge the DMA has little in the way of price regulation. So this is news to me.

> Your comment makes several references to "IP", but isn't clear about what IP is involved.

The IP in question would be code written by Apple provided in the form of frameworks, SDKs, APIs and the like. There’s also the use of software like Xcode, but for the sake of simplicity let’s stick with code written by Apple.

Creating an app by definition makes use of this IP. IP I’m sure will have cost a considerable amount to develop by Apple, so I can see why they’re eager to get payment for it or, alternatively, strategically decide who can use it for free.

Trade secrets aren’t really involved in this and neither is copying, at least not in most cases.
But then the state is telling someone what to do with their body.
This anti-circumvention against DRM-loving companies is great, give them a taste of their own medicine.
Zathura[0] has a dark mode[1], it works pretty well.

[0]: https://pwmt.org/projects/zathura/

[1]: ^r Recolor (grayscale and invert colors)
Ask HN: How to deal with constant interruptions at work (with ADHD)
What are some strategies that have worked for you?

I find new input in slack more stimulating than my difficult
tasks at hand. Going offline on slack is probably not an option.
I don't see this as a left- or right-wing issue. Not least because it's manifestly obvious now that relatively illiterate people (and especially children) of all views and walks have become totally warped by "a little knowledge" passed in sugar cubes along with the stick of social ostracizarion if they fail to conform to algorithms that encourage extremism.

Social media firms should be held liable for the massive social damage they've inflicted and externalized. The entire paradigm needs to be reduced to dust just as much as Hamas does. It's an internal enemy and a time bomb for our civilization.
"it's just..." is kinda demeaning.

People want something easy to use with good defaults. If that wasn't the case, shells wouldn't have a hundreds of plugins dedicated to customizing the prompt.
It’s been a long-held opinion that tech companies laugh at the out-of-touch Congresspeople at these hearings. Recall Mark Zuckerberg’s incredulity when members of Congress had to ask him how Facebook makes money.

And as if that isn’t enough, tech companies are only loyal to their boards of directors, who are only loyal to quarter-over-quarter growth, and nothing else.
That's one sharp jump... I wonder how many unknowing developers will get a real scare after receiving the bill for something they don't even use.
It's such brazen, inexcusable rent-seeking. Apple wants to insert themselves into everyone's personal business and demand a cut, like some mob boss. "That's a nice app you got there. Be a shame if something were to...happen to it."

Charge developers at-cost for hosting/distribution. Want more compensation for producing the hardware/platform? Here's my $1,000 receipt. Now go away.
> I also think these sort of behaviors are damaging their brand

I have a lot of Apple kit, and the Vision Pro is hugely tempting. Unfortunately, Apples’ shenanigans the past few years, starting with “we will scan all pictures you want to send to iCloud on your phone” which signalled to me that Apple feels fine about unilaterally altering our agreement whenever they feel like, have increasingly soured me on their brand to the point where we as a household and as a business were discussing to stop purchasing new Apple products and services. Their recent actions, both in terms of their Epic situation as well as their reaction to these new EU regulations, have cemented that decision.
I don't want my interactions online to be like a contract negotiation... or have to be litigated like one.
Apples rules make it clear you can't bundle Chrome. Your alternate browser has to be fundamentally a browser, not something else that happens to have a browser as an extra feature
I feel like they could have spun it off separately (especially given what's going on with Carta).
I'm quite convinced that the person who wrote that code of conduct is entirely happy with turning people who take issue with that rule off the game - see the linked Mastodon thread and it's linked thread giving the advice about any community management to "remove the people who don't like being there", and it would seem that in this case would include turning off people who are unable or unwilling to figure out the community norms without a detailed set of explicit rules that leave them plenty of room to push past the community norms by exploiting ambiguities or loopholes.

Would you be happier about it if they didn't try to explain how they operated? Because most places mods finds way of "working around" the rules for behaviours they don't like but that may not technically violate rules. There's slack and ambiguity in any wording.
> That's a very U.S. centric perspective. It's somewhat less common in the EU than in the U.S. to involve courts so readily.

For people, yes. For businesses, absolutely not.
There is no other reliable way than to go where your intuition and excitement leads you to.

Choose whatever you like doing the most (the process itself), or at least hate doing the least.

Trying to guess the most profitable or less "ai-scary" niche is a 100% road to eventual frustration.

Don't listen to those toxic people scaring you with "paying the bills", while you're wihin the IT realm (and not playing ukulele for living) — you will not end up on the street as long as you're really good at something (anything).

And the only way to become good - is to enjoy it, because it takes time, willpower alone is a very limited resource.
https://archive.ph/rYF2K
I'm happy I'm not you child
> I never understand why playing at wrong FPS for these old-time footage is a thing. It was so obviously wrong.

Old-time footage isn't always at 24 fps, but once the film industry standardized hard on 24 fps, not standard film becomes very hard to use correctly, even in a projection environment --- projectors were engineered around 24 fps all the time, and likely can't be adjusted.

Tv of course was fixed at 60 fields per second (or close enough) or 50 in Europe. Even today, a US market tv is going to do terrible things with a 50 fps signal (although I gather EU market tvs work at 50 and 60 and probably 24). If your old-time film was shot at 22.3 fps, you don't have good options to show it, except on a computer with a VRR display, and even then, I don't know if the whole chain will actually be fine with it. Options are: pretend it is 24 fps and it plays a bit fast and you can use your 24fps pipeline; show some frames twice and have nasty judder; interpolate 24 fps from the data you have which is kind of terrible and only recently a real option.
Apple's new extortion regime to keep big app makers
The problem is there are a whole lot of completely clueless people in Congress who ask profoundly stupid questions demonstrating they know nothing, and we expect them to govern.
Open Source Kubernetes Native Tool for API Mocking and Testing
Caching stream responses across LLMs is hard
Type certificates are for the whole type, but you are right in that I got it wrong that airworthiness is done by the manufacturer: it’s actually done by CAMOs. In any case, FAA just gives the paper, but does not go around checking bolts and nuts.

Delta has its own CAMO (Delta TechOps), which I assume has done the maintenance of this aircraft, but it is yet to be seen whether they followed everything to the T or is there something missing from Boeing’s part.

As I said in another comment, I doubt everyone here (which is not bad, it’s just not assuming by default that everything is well done everywhere) and will wait for the FAA report.
Spidey sense is picking up all sorts of Minority Report x JBIG2 vibes on this one.
There’s “making some false claims” and then there’s consistently and repeatedly lying for nearly a decade.

https://motherfrunker.ca/fsd/