skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also see LLMs primarily as a better search engine. Stack overflow gave us code snippets and was a huge step forward. Now we can find those snippets and explanations much faster.

The secondary use is as a duck to bounce ideas off. A duck that is not as smart as a human but always available. And I can ask stupid questions to check my understanding.

The final use is for code generation. If I’m super tired it can do trivial coding for me. Or if it’s boilerplate, which is very little code for me. Generally it doesn’t help a great deal within the IDE, and I’m not completely sure it’s a net win there yet.
Postgres.ai Bot. Towards LLM OS for Postgres
I think qbittorrent still uses that for its web ui
Makes sense

While everybody is looking at the SOTA factories, manufacturing is still constrained at the bigger nodes, and bringing the cost down at older processes looks like a worthy goal
Around the Corner – How Differential Steering Works (1937) [video]
It might help you to look up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimeograph and possibly other copying techniques. More approachable examples include CD / DVD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_disc_manufacturing or earlier vinyl record production methods.

For the case of chip lithography they'd probably make source masks, copy the first generation a time or two, and use those secondary source masks to produce consumable 'stamps' for production.

Hopefully the stamps maintain sufficient quality across at least a couple batches (50-100+?) of wafers.
To me SQL is better for MVPs. It is transparent and clear, easy to debug and can do easily whatever joins, filtering you want to.

ORM is more for future, because it abstracts away the database implementation, so you could in theory change the db or change some behaviour more simply.

E.g. if you add something like deleted_at column, ORM can have a single place where to configure system to use it, but if you have SQL queries lying around you may need to find all spots to add that to your where clauses everywhere.

But otherwise SQL is easier to work with in my view.
> I was surprised to discover that even with a backup battery, a typical solar install is not designed to power your whole home in the event of a power loss.

Might even be illegal, depending on jurisdiction. For good reasons, you could kill electricians working on the local grid or firefighters working on your house if you're not careful with the install and adding local shut-offs.

My battery turns off when the grid goes down, but it has 3 outlets directly on the body of the battery, and those always work. I run extension cords from those when the power goes.
How we crowdfunded $750k for a giant book about keyboard history
> continuity of spacetime is a convenient approximation

I disagree, and there's no evidence for this. This is computer science leaking out; physics has no formulation of spacetime in discrete terms, and indeed, all of physics presumes continuity.

In QM, the space of wavefns is infinite-dim continuous, and if wasnt, QM wouldnt be linear.

Cognition is discrete, but the world is continuous.
RMS is not at all mean.
So many products would be better if they just used a Wemos S2 mini or similar $5 microcontroller board.

I understand why everything uses custom designed stuff for cost, but I don't get why people think it's somehow the better or more "professional" approach to do everything yourself.

Modular stuff with common high level modules is just so much easier to repair, modify, and recycle.

We need an ISO standard for these little modules so we can get back to vacuum tube era level of repairability.

Nearly all modern gadgets(General purpose computers and phones aside) could be made from a common set of 30 or so modules plus minimal custom stuff.
Incorrect, please get a hybrid with the auto-islanding feature. I literally have a whole-house UPS and barely a blip when I get a power outtage.

So unless there is something magical about electricity in the USA, I'm not sure where this scare story is coming from.

I have one of these https://www.sunsynk.org/ourinverters
It’s a shame home owners can’t find cheaper ways to buy and install systems without doing it themselves - we’d have a whole lot more roof top solar.

I’d do it if the return was better, but it’s pretty meagre return unless I do it myself (and that’s not something I want or should do)
What risks and complications do you worry about with a roof install? Unless you are maliciously incompetent as an installer there is no risk of destroying anything. And while it's easier to access and service on the ground, the roof is often perfectly tilted towards the sun AND lets you have many square meters of panel without sacrificing any area you could use for anything else.
> The direct-syscalls-inside-the-binary model used by go (and only go, noone
else in the history of the unix software does this) provided the biggest
resistance against this effort.

What does direct-syscalls-inside-the-binary mean ?
The hierarchy isn't a series of steps to be achieved sequentially, it's a hierarchy of needs everyone has at all times that are more or less fulfilled. Nobody goes to therapy because they lack self-actualization, they choose a more fulfilling job, have hobbies or have other forms of self-expression.
The site[1] claims that every time you log into a Google property, like Gmail for example, Chrome will automatically sign the browser into your Google account for you, and that means that Google Chrome can track everything you do.

Does every Hacker News Chrome user know this? Are you OK with it?

Do the millions of non-technical Chrome users know this? Would they be OK with it if they knew?

As far as I know, Firefox doesn't do this. At least I hope so.

[1] Under the heading "Google Chrome Browser Login Scam"
Whatever humans do to earth (based on current technological capabilities) it will still remain more habitable than Mars by a magnitude or two
It seems like what we really need is implants to monitor our vitals continuously. These could also be really useful for detecting big problems (like a heart attack) long before they become catastrophic.
You wrote exactly what I was going to. The article only focuses on shady loans, but nothing about state-specific programs like in CA with PGE's NEM (aka net metering) for solar customers.

Those under NEM 1 and 2 get a lot of the electrical export back to offset import consumption, but those under NEM 3 are heavily penalized where export gives only around the wholesale rate that the only way a PV system makes sense is to pair it with battery storage so that export can be used during the night instead to offset generation during that time.

It just feels so backwards that NEM 3 discourages people to want to install a system.
A Wanderer in the Perfect City
Underfinancialization also sucks. In Czechia there are tons of empty or uninsulated buildings that their owners could put to good economic use if only they could borrow money.
What matters to artists is how much the artist is paid per stream.

Spotify pays artists the least per stream.
The problem is in the "whole home". I'm pretty happy to have my lights/wifi/induction cooktop/etc. running when the power runs out.
We have a lot of rooftop solar in Australia, and I’ve never heard any arguments regarding risk the roof or roof related maintenance costs.

Can you provide any more details regarding your scenario? Is it a specific style of roof? Or material?

And what are the significant costs regarding roof vs non-roof installation?

In our situation the only suitable place to put panels was on the roof, so it wasn’t an option. But I’m keen to understand the factors.
Yeah any startup that pitched me with equity always note that it can only be liquidated during vesting or whatever it is. Though in paper it sounded fair, in my opinion it gives the decision power to CEO too much that I always decline it.

And also the equity that they give is based on some valuation that's not even real, it's hard to hold that value of.
I joined a company where my friend joined as CTO. I lasted less than a year.

Truth be told, I hadn't fully recovered from my burnout from my previous role, and the new role wasn't particularly thrilling. But that wasn't the only factor. I'm best in product-oriented companies, but there's a tendency where I am for product companies to be thinly-veiled development agencies for larger B2B corporate clients. That type of work I find soul draining, because I refuse to be at the whims of bad corporates with big wallets.

I had also wanted to put more effort to improving the developer experience of the project as it was poor, but could never quite slot in enough time or motivation, and felt it went unappreciated.

Eventually the higher ups pulled me in to effectively put me on a PIP. I showed some improvement for the next sprint, but they felt it was better to just part ways.

Got my first true holiday in years after that, then went off to start freelancing.

My friend is still at that company and he's doing great. I think we've just diverged in our work styles and preferences of company. No bad blood between us, but of course there's disappointment at both sides.
Didn't like the whole world stop during covid? It should be equivalent to 50-100 years of climate activism, and what? didn't even make a dent?
> the vocal majority of Rust users present themselves as being inexperienced programmers

No they don't.
What's plenty of space? I have perhaps 3-400 sqm of lawn. I'm not going to use 50-100 of that for solar when I have that amount of roof that is otherwise wasted space. I agree that perhaps domestic installations might not be the best idea because you need the same equipment repeated at every home, that could otherwise be centralized at a plant. But for resilience it's pretty neat. If I had more than say one power outage a year lasting more than an hour, I'd definitely be looking at it. I can see why South Africa is a big market (lots of sun, frequent power outage). Perhaps the middle ground between massive scale and domestic scale would be community sized plants serving (say) 100-1000 households.
I’ll push back on everyone here: if you’re looking for a stable living wage, you’re a fool — especially in tech.

The economy is cyclical. Tech runs on speculation and (used to) on lax tax rules. Likewise, hiring is based on asinine processes, asinine vogues of fashion, and asinine practices. At any moment in time you could be made persona non-grata in tech.

If you joined tech for the passion of if, and you’re not independently wealthy, I think that is a foolish thing — no different than doing a physics PhD while inhabiting the middle or lower classes.

The most logical and rational path is to make as much money as quickly as possible, and enter the capital class. After that, do whatever you want. Anything else is just sticking your head in the ground.
Bullshit. All "hybrid" inverters nowadays (grid tied + battery backup), auto island themselves when the grid is out.

That misconception is now 15 years old
(Hyper-)Capitalism for you again... What would be wrong in building a life-long business that sells and installs solar panels and has normal margin on each sale/installation, without the crazy financial "products", companies themselves running on investor money, chasing huge growth and all beautiful things current way of doing business involves?

It's like everybody is racing to the top, while being in a landslide going to the bottom.
I think the address they have for the original Frys (where I bought chips in the mid '80s on a Sunday) is wrong - they were originally on the corner of Lawrence and Oakmead Pkwy
Do we know how to resolve modern authorization challenges?
Leave your job, it's obviously a problem.

Interests and hobbies have ups and downs, don't stress about it.
That's not a bad definition of GOTO.
I think labeling others as inhuman and deploying aggressive rhetoric against them is what fuels these horrors.

I get that your intention is to oppose injustice, but when you do it this way, you actually contribute to the violence.
Yeah I admit this is pretty situational - the U.S. I don't know much about - but NZ, Australia and most of Europe, consumer sentiment is that we are getting slugged - I don't have a survey to hand but I'm confident I could dig something up (EDIT: e.g: https://www.energymagazine.com.au/energy-survey-reveals-risi...)

In the last 5 years, has your kwh price increased? By more or less than inflation?

If utility scale solar takes off, do you expect that future prices will reflect a) capital and operating costs plus a fair margin or b) whatever the market will bear?
Do you mean the class << self pattern?
Google Is 2B Lines of Code–and It's All in One Place
I haven’t tried via the API because it’s too expensive for what I’m doing (hundreds of pages of high-res scans of old Japanese books), but I should test out a few pages in ChatGPT.
For me I know what I want to write and it seems that Copilot also knows what I want to write, so as an auto complete it just works out for me. Most of the time code I want to write is in my head, I just need to be able to quickly vomit it out and typing speed is the bottleneck.

I am also able to intuitively predict that it is going to vomit out exactly what I want.

E.g. I know ahead of time what the 10 lines it will give me are.
Ask HN: Looking for Beta Users for My First Mac App, TextQuery
I wanted to build an easy, fast, and offline way to query and visualize raw data (usually CSV files). The existing solutions were either web-based, involved code or multiple commands, or juggling a bunch of different tools. So, I came up with TextQuery. It's a Mac app to quickly import CSV files, run SQL on them, and create charts based on those results—an all-in-one tool.

I am pretty happy with the first version, and I was looking for some beta users to try it out.

YouTube demo for v1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7TUx8i3WeI

If it's something that sounds useful, please share your email here: https://tally.so/r/mDzR0N
> ... like I said, your view is just porno ...

If it makes you feel any better, the Buddhist monks take vows of celebacy and swear not to discharge semen. They really are the best for counterexamples. Unless you have very odd tastes in porn.

Of course, a lot of serious spiritual types do similar things. I'm not as sure what the specific vows of the Catholics are.
Where did you get that number? I initially just looked up WHO's estimate which turns out quite the lowball compared to what everyone else is listing, but most sources I can find seem to say something around 5-9M. I suppose it most depends on just how much China is fudging their numbers since they had the most people exposed at the worst time.
Can't reply to the GP as they are (rightly) flagged, but this engineering mindset that anything which adds elegance or beauty is frivilous really limits the ability of an 'engineer'. Look at the works of the great 19th century engineers like Watt and Brunel, or for more recent examples, the work or Cecil Balmond. There no reason why the elegance of the solution employed in these examples of civil and structural engineering shouldn't translate to software 'engineering'. In fact, take a leaf out of industrial designers book; solve problems as elegantly as possible. Thinking of typographers as 'layout engineers' may help...
Good point! Then:

2036: Due to increasing amounts of deepfake CSAM, the US's Congress passes a law against unconsensual deepfake porn, requiring "websites of sexual nature" to be POR-compliant or be shut down. Porn web companies, ISPs/hosting providers, and credit card processors alike are legally liable.

Pornhub welcomes this change with cheeky 'PORnhub' branding, but the reality is that change is necessary or they will be sued out of oblivion.

Prosumer platforms like OnlyFans welcome POR-validation with wide arms, because it bolsters their image of authenticity. Exploiting the ban on deepfake porn, "softfake porn", where celebrity look-alikes create porn, becomes mildly popular.

2037: Eventually, ISP / hosting providers / credit card processors that instigate the change. Much like SESTA/FOSTA's impact on sex workers in the early 2020s, payment processors and ISPs refuse to work with POR-unvalidated porn sites. Eventually, porn sites shift towards POR-compliance, and create new niches.

Of course, underground deepfake porn still exists, if you know where to look. But by now, its associated reputation with CSAM makes it very inaccessible and disdained.

Gone are the days of rampant deepfakes in the late 2020s and early 2030s. Mainstream media and politics call this a success, but a minority are angry, saying that deepfakes are a creative act, and the effective ban on POR-noncompliant material is a further restriction on creative liberties. ..
Not only are you shown content that you react the strongest too, people create content that they react strongly too, continuing the cycle.

A user with a balanced interpretation and somewhat neutral feelings about a topic generally won't feel like they want to add something to a discussion. A user with strong opinion will more likely engage with someone with posts with the opposite viewpoint or the same viewpoint.

HN is a bit of an exception because the community is reasonably high quality. But major platforms? The people who bother to write out long and neutral posts learned there is nothing to gain from doing that years ago.
>> Noreligion...They have new gods

Kind of contradictory, isn't it?
By the way, who are they?
Flathub: One million active users and growing
Inline links to make it easier to check them:

- Demo Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7TUx8i3WeI

- Beta Invite Form: https://tally.so/r/mDzR0N
> In my opinion, the individual is best off ignoring all of it, _and dealing with their actual lives_, rather than taking any of the distracting and manipulative stories seriously.

Yes, yes, and yes. And now observe how many clickbait and fear-mongering articles people tend to react to.

Don't gey sidetracked by topics pushed by other people.
It's very sad, but you're completely right.

The Dan Ariely scam (reveal) changed everything for me. But it's clear, he's not special at all.

A good moment to remember Gell-Mann Amnesia.
Oh yes, that's it. Thanks for posting. I think its so beautiful. It is one of those things that have pure artisan value. Of craftsmanship. Whether it is used widely or not, I wish this backend to be there.

Back then, I did run Open Office in Firefox and it amazed me.
It's certainly scary, but it's on the skin, so it's easy to spot, and when spotted early, it's easily cured. Lots of qualifiers there, so check those moles.
>Think about it. The utility company commissions a solar farm (lower cost than roof top solar), but surely hire a 3rd company to operate the farm ($), and then the utility company wants to make $ for their shareholders, therefore, we end up paying a lot of € to cover these.

You missed the largest reason home solar can be competetive and that is taxes. 11 cents per kWh and 3 cents sustainability charge and then 21% VAT over the cost price + taxes.
And then the government mandates the energy companies have to buy your energy for the same price they sell you energy.

So as with many thing here it only makes sense because the government has completely distorted the market.
Their map showing distribution of English speaking people is just terrible - I am fairly sure that there is at least one percent speaking English in India, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Russia and China.
Calling it a "HTML renderer" is a bit of a strech. Atleast in GTK3 it just streams pixel data into a canvas element, effectively being the same as VNC with a web viewer.

https://imgur.com/a/2EDZ2Ti
i have tried to transform the pdf into a presentation with AI, may help you read faster
SRE Deep Dive into Linux Page Cache
German companies test 4-day work week to fight labour crisis
What ORMs/languages do you usually work with? Dynamic language ORMs usually let you very easily add filters, work with relationships, etc.
Bypassing libc and its header files, which are generally the up to date source of truth about things like enum values and struct layouts.
I was developing mostly PHP, some bash, some Java and kinda liked ruby but could only partially feel it.

Until I read "why's (poignant) Guide to Ruby", from start to end, I completely fell in love with programming. Everything before was just getting to this point.

The documentation and community is what has drawn me into Ruby. The language and now very major ecosystem is why I still stay :)

Hello Ruby by Linda Luikas is one of the sweetest 'programming books' I've ever seen.
Will the 3D printer manufacturers cry about "piracy" then?
Being from the Netherlands originally, I know _their_ "Teletekst", not as much the BBC one. I couldn't possibly imagine it being of much use anymore. Similar to how the article started in past tense (before continuing in present tense):

> Before the Internet, if we wanted to read up-to-the-minute news or weather, we had Teletext.

I read this article from four days ago (link below, it's in Dutch) about how the Dutch broadcasting had recently made a significant investment to upgrade the old system, which was running on a local Windows 2003 machine/server, to a cloud-based solution that integrates with their other content-management system(s). It surprised me how many people still use this system. From the article: "the service still reaches a few million people per week through TV screens, and another 800,000 daily users via its app". (For reference, population of the Netherlands is 18 million.)

https://tweakers.net/reviews/11700/hoe-werkt-het-vernieuwde-...
If you think that "Identify the inputs and outputs and reverse engineer it which isn't hard" is all that's needed to re-create some bespoke piece of software then I hope you will never-ever have the chance to put this in to practice for this sort of safety-critical stuff.

"Oh yes, we missed that one output that only happens under these specific conditions and now the train crashed – oops!"
Not strictly an answer to your question regarding the math, but the video I linked above does mention an estimate for how long the period might have been.
This makes me wonder. How much have non-US tech jobs been affected by layoffs? Is this a US phenomenon or a global one or a Western one? Off the top of my head, I'm primarily aware of Embracer Group in Europe doing layoffs, but that seems to be tied to how their deal for funding with the Saudis fell through (at least that's the common narrative).
>people don't want equity as much as they want a living wage.

I'd add the caveat that equity is worth more than it isn't so limited in usage for those it is distributed too.

1 year cliff, 4 year vest, but company likely to just retrench you? Worthless. Developers don't stay that long on average, and the sale terms are basically handcuffs waiting for an exit event. Constant promises of revshare when profitability is reached? Worthless.

Cash is king because equity is not only a lottery, but a lottery that you can't even control when you play or get rewarded for it.
'Scalene' offers efficiency suggestions for Python coders
Impressive. Web was very primitive back then compared to how it is today. I think there was no flex, no grids, no ESM modules even.

It might not sound impressive in 2024 but back then, it was a huge deal. Very daring to even attempt something like that IMHO.

It was a time of YUI, jQuery, ExtJS, script.aculo.us and such.