skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fascinating technology - it's good to see good ol' Swing and Graphics2D being used to target browsers in the same way React Native has gone the other way and allowed swapping the DOM renderer for a native renderer. I have a couple of questions, though. What is the pricing strategy? (Programmers who'd use it will grumble that its not FOSS, then those same programmers will grumble when the maintainers quit maintaining it. I suggest ignoring the grumbling entirely.) It's also a bit awkward in that my sense is that most (enterprise) UI programming is done with web tech, and has been for at least 10 years. Where are these Swing programmers going to come from?!
It would help avoid these issues, but if you're a payments startup then you probably want to actually keep some control over your core business instead of just being a reseller intermediary for an actual payments company which holds your customer's money, has all the leverage over what features and policies "your" product will have and gets most of the profit.
> it will destroy the search engine

This is massively overblown. There is Search the product and there is the Search Engine. How could an LLM get access to latest data indexed to allow looking up by using keywords from a prompt, and with sorting? A Search Engine.

LLMs are only changing the Search experience, not making Search obsolete.
I often like to think that, at a basic level, all a [edit: indexed] db "does" is move our O(n) search of an unordered text file to the O(log n) search of a tree
Unless you need filesystem features, object stores are probably a better target.

Or possibly a document based data store.

The monolithic persistence layer is an anti pattern unless you have specific reasons to support it.

ZFS is quite nice as filesystems go but it is still a filesystem.
Like OpenAI, it's not nearly enough to break even.
Because penguins can't be kept where most humans live due to temperature.
You don't like being plastered with ads and news articles about Trump every time you open your start menu??
This might be useful for this: https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines
Cloud Intelligence at the speed of 5000 tok/s – with Together AI
As opposed to? FWIW the author has many Python tools, including a popular ORM (https://github.com/coleifer/peewee)
I've never 100% understood it either, the only steelman I've been able to come up with over years is most people are like me and lose or damage the wireless earbuds every 6-12 months. I'm lucky enough to be a yuppie tech nerd with disposable income to treat it as a fact of life. Whereas for them it feels like a forced march to spend $150 every year.
I’m in my 40s, how would you expect to court a partner without a phone?

There is already plenty accounts out there that even the relatively small barrier of iMessage -> SMS is a large enough of an inconvenience to stop a lot of casual relationships from moving to the next level or even continuing.

Having no phone means you are basically unreachable for most of the day. A much more significant hurdle to get over. It’s possible to find another like minded person but that is a very tiny minority of people looking for a partner. It’s not the 90s anymore and people are accustomed to living in this constantly connected world. Look at most sitcoms from the 90s so many of the situations they find themselves in just aren’t relatable because of the easy communication we have with everyone at all times.
I find that most nice resources are paywalled unfortunately...
(commenting to hopefully get pointers)
Any Google service with a chat-like feature is 100% guaranteed to have weird splits, joins, and renames like this.

Don't worry, it will get worse.
Yes, it's super interesting when systems move into the regime where stale information becomes worse than no information at all. Part of what makes best-of-2 interesting is how long it resists falling into this pit, but it does eventually happen (as, I suspect, it must with any distributed placement/load balancing algorithm).
Finnair is now weighing passengers to update weight and balance calculations
It's mostly that. I don't think I'm more skilled or something. Also, using a smartphone while driving is illegal, but somehow using a 17" touchscreen that mirrors your smartphone and shows incoming texts is OK and common in newer cars.
My suspicion is that that there is no iPad 11 and the iPad Air 6th Gen (with an M3 or something, maybe an M1 still) is the base model going forward.

iPad 10 is still A14 Bionic, not Apple Silicon.
> Swerving is not legal and it's not legal because you might hit something you can't see.

If I'm driving down the road and someone pushes a kid in front of my car, I'm very likely to swerve, even if I'm not 100% sure if there is someone next to me. If I hit a car next to me and cause damage/injure people, there is a good chance that a jury would find in my favor because a "reasonable person" (the relevant legal standard in a civil case) would seek to avoid the certain death of a faultless child, even if it means a chance of injury to passengers in a vehicle that might be nearby. I wouldn't swerve if I thought a bicyclist were there, but I would likely swerve into a vehicle, which affords occupants significant protection.

And I certainly would not be found guilty of a crime ("beyond a reasonable doubt", the standard in a criminal trial) because it is not criminally negligent to swerve when faced with the certainty of killing a child. Under the "defense of self/others" doctrine, you can do many things that would normally be illegal, if you are doing them to prevent the imminent death of yourself or someone else. (These analyses are not super detailed, but IAAL.)
Eh, you can’t really guarantee that internal actors can observe things in any meaningful fashion that requires data storage. You can’t guarantee that you’re actually experiencing anything you believe yourself to be from the perspective of an outside observer.
I think it's rather to do with the fact that the Dutch language corner of the Internet is relatively super small when compared to the other well connected European nations like Germany or France. We tend to mingle with the English language platforms more.
I meant without the browser as its own client.
How can you be sure the page won't change and upload your db the next time you use it?
You take traditional non-distributed systems and push them to their limits in some regard.

"Singularity" systems are an abstraction afforded to us by the grace of the hardware we run them on. If you start pushing their performance hard enough, however, you inevitably get distributed behavior.

This is also a good potential career reason to try to make software which is as performnt as possible - you'll get all the tasty edge cases and complexity war stories to talk about.
I’ve been using GPT4 so much recently. Like all day long in chatGPT and the api making other services, and to all intents and purposes, it seems to be able to reason and think things through that other LLMs cannot. I have no idea why or how that is. But it feels that way to me using it all the time. 3.5 want like that. Bard / Gemini does not feel like that.
You might like this talk fwiw: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RuOvn4UqznU
Currency abstracts abuse into a neutral system of value and capitalism/industrialism enables this at a massive scale.
Not really, especially if they are left in offshore tax evasion accounts
Well I was thinking more along the lines of the price of a good is x, plus y taxes, reduced by -z tax. Subsidys might effectively be similar, but it won't be calculated the way "positive" taxes are.
I’ll take that as a no…
I do, although I use an older version. I used it to play the local music files I've accumulated over the years (I don't always sub for spotify and it doesn't actually have a lot of that stuff anyway).

Even on win10, windows media player is still garbage. iTunes has the column browser which, although disabled by default, is superior for navigation. Its also better for editing file metadata and managing playlists. You can automate iTunes via COM and I have my own command line music player program that uses this, to get playlists and similar metadata.
https://docs.paperless-ngx.com

Nextcloud also has OCR. You can use a scanner with either.

Avoid touching the receipts. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5453537/
Julia was named because it was a "pretty name" (https://www.infoworld.com/article/2616709/new-julia-language...)
Here's Tom Scott quoted on MKBHD's channel where he literally says "this is my dream job"

https://youtu.be/GQAvce3MA44?si=deP0GG1hICPp9jr8&t=93
Plus reliability-wise it's more a sort of 초딩 :-)
Simulation theory is the Flat Earth Matrix,
its far more likely we're manipulated and have
limited understanding of multi-dimensional reality,
with some aliens in another dimension running
the show with reality itself being more malleable than
we like to admit:
imagine that time travel and
timeline manipulation outside of 3D universe would
look much easier and appear as 'miracles' to people
who don't understand the technology.
It's not exactly dinner table conversation, and average internet-users probably wouldn't care much about the implications of such a company and situations, sure. The misgivings aren't justified among many who are aware of the details? Shouldn't non-profits deserve some scrutiny when they're seemingly being mishandled?
Software Bill-of-Materials documents are now available for CPython
> The foraging made it a hobby and intellectually stimulating

Funny, I get a far superior foraging experience exploring radio stations based on obscure artists and other people's playlists.

I don't understand how the friction of having to build programming tools made your music experience better.

And I truly don't understand how making things easier leads to you losing touch with music. Maybe it's more just a function of getting older and having other, new priorities enter your life?
I was thinking more along the lines of my purchase price is x + y tax + -z tax. A return eventually isn't quite the same, but maybe it's effectively the same.
This is one bit of software I've always refused to install.
Is alien space travel limited by the speed of light?
It's ok. It can be like wagyu. Imported fresh baby penguin meat straight from the north pole.
The Seattle aquarium had a weird issue with fish going missing for some time (weeks? Months?), the culprit was their octopus letting itself out at night and returning before morning.
Jim, my house keeps telling me you aren't brushing enough. Can you start doing that so my home stops sending me notifications? surreal
iPhones dropped in price as demand increased. Demand isn't as important as marketing, and this is probably supply limited rather than demand.
Praising Brave is an unpopular opinion on HN. Yet many of us myself included (silently) use and enjoy Brave.

I too lost interest in Firefox a long time ago, about the time they evicted Brendan Eich revealing internal politics.
The balls-into-bins problem comes up often in distribute systems engineering, and so it's super important to have the right intuition. I think a lot of people come in to the space assuming that random balls-into-bins is much more even than it really is (and so underestimating the value of better-than-random placement).

Another interesting example is hash-based partitioning of data. It doesn't spread data out nearly as evenly as one might expect!

(I wrote a blog post about that too: https://brooker.co.za/blog/2018/01/01/balls-into-bins.html)
Better - but it has not understood the message is for the person on the other side. It thinks that it’s actually mirror writing intended to confer the opposite meaning than written. And then waffles of about door safety for ages.
Yeah, I have 0 accidents, so nobody is going to convince me the AI is safer. Meanwhile my car's ESC has tried to send me off a cliff before.
Do poor countries need a new development strategy?
Ok, let’s follow your line of reasoning a bit: Why will Apple bother to even continue shipping their own browser engine?

You claim they only do it protect the App Store monopoly… so if users will just download something else, what would be the point? The things you want them to add (what you claim makes them uncompetitive to Chrome) completely defeats the alleged purpose of supporting their own engine. So why would they pay engineers to work on that? It’s nonsensical, magical thinking.

I seriously hope you will reflect on the real negative consequences of what you are doing to the web. This isn’t one of those times when you can just stick your head in the sand and repeat the mantra “I’m just typing code”.

Once Safari is killed, Google can really start ramping up the war on Firefox because the collective market share of non-Chrome browsers will be too small to matter. You are killing the open web that you claim you want.
> While you are doing toy schematics, maybe.

How many boards have more than 100k elements? (I'm reasonably certain that they can handle more, but ....)

Your assumption that Python necessarily results in an "unmaintainable mess" is "interesting," that is, wrong. More to the point, unmaintainable messes can be written in any language, no matter how "modern."

Not only that, but it's irrelevant. When I was a young engineer, I pointed out that a given system wasn't scalable. The person in charge of the project said "Yes, but by the time that scalability matters, I won't even be managing the person whose problem that is."

As to whether their choice of Python is fatal, feel free to do it better in a "modern language."

If you're right, you'll do well and good. If you're wrong...

What? You're not going to step into the ring?
"Sentient" is ill-defined, you can apply it to almost anything you want. From its Latin ethnology it means: able to feel or perceive.
I can't stand for more than a couple minutes before my back hurts.

I propose that whoever is talking must stand. This punishes people who get into details of their task, and nobody else.
> Its main reason to hire is to deny talented programmers to its competitors.

Maybe they think that they don't really have competitors at this point, or rather, no competitors that can meaningfully reduce the market share in key areas, or competitors that are in a position to hire the laid off employees.
> I never paid for Netscape and I used every single version of it.

Businesses paid for it. It was free for non-commercial purposes.
In my school, my district had an elementary school, middle school, & high school. So yes if you live at the same address the whole time, you and your friends would all go through each school together.
'Super El Niño' is here, but La Niña looks likely.What's in store for the coming
> The current El Niño is now one of the strongest on record, new data shows, catapulting it into rare “super El Niño” territory, but forecasters believe that La Niña is likely to develop in the coming months.
I OP just finished telling you that is _is_ a stretch to their imagination. Thats great that you understand it though.
Forum participation is a bit different than social media in that it is first and foremost about the discussion and not so much about 'you' which seems to be the main focus for social media, furthermore you can't follow people and there are no push notifications so it is impossible to create 'an audience' other than whoever is there.

Those are distinguishing factors that are strong enough to differentiate otherwise the BBS I used to hang out on would have been social media and IRC would be as well. I don't buy that broad categorization. Facebook, TikTok, Youtube, Instagram, Twitter -> social media. Reddit not and HN definitely not.

Though the quantity of 'meme' content may have to factor in there somewhere and then we have a continuum of online participation with on one end personal messaging and on the extreme other IG, TT, FB etc.
The new apps seem to take more advantage of the open source collaborated cross-platform version of Foundation rewritten in Swift that uses as much of Windows' WinUI and other native libraries as it can get away with (via more direct WinRT/Swift bindings), much thinner than the Objective-C Foundation the old iTunes was built on that used very few Windows native libraries. The apps themselves are still closed source so we don't know for sure, but overall they seem less bloated and more "Windows native" than the old iTunes, while apparently still sharing a lot of Swift code with their Apple platform relatives.

It's a fascinating new version of the old stack that works much better on Windows, if those things are true. At least in my usage so far, the Apple Music and Apple TV apps feel much better on Windows than iTunes ever has.
Yes, I recently had to compile some stuff on Windows (I'm on an AMD Linux host) and VirtualBox just wouldn't start Microsoft's Windows dev VM (the one they provide for free for Virtualbox). I ended up learning how to use qemu and it works great...and as a bonus I was able to run a hackintosh (via https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM) and it works near flawlessly, which was something I was never able to accomplish with Virtualbox (granted I haven't tried in a few years).

I'm pretty happy with Qemu now, even if it's jsut a CLI interface. I was tempted to try the virt-* stuff, but honestly it seems like one more thing to learn so I'm going to hold off until I need something like copy/paste between VMs and can't figure it out in qemu direct.
Why don't they call it GoogleGPT?
It is weird that Haskell (programming language) is named after Curry's first name though. That isn't generally how you name things (other than people). About the only other thing I think of that works that way is America, named after the explorer Amerigo Vespucci. "Vespuccia" would have been a more logical choice.
And don't forget OTA updates

"Don't die during reboot"
It's a slippery slope. Mussolini defeated the Mafia in southern Italy. However, his gov't did it in a brutal manner. Lots of innocent people rounded up too.

"The hand of Vengeance found the bed
To which the Purple Tyrant fled;
The iron hand crush'd the Tyrant's head
And became a Tyrant in his stead."
--The Grey Monk, William Blake
There's a whole area of math in "optimal stopping" which aims at exactly this question: how many dentists should you try before you pick your favorite?

For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem
That's the practicality for why thing are the way they are.

My argument is about starting up a baby penguin slaughterhouse in the north pole right now and how much activist resistance you will get versus a crocodile meat slaughter house in Florida.
> censorship is more annoying (have to ask multiple times about medical topics)

I think there's a chance for some country to become a center of healthcare simply by allowing AI that gives medical advice. Especially if a country already encourages medical tourism, this might be the next level.
We Finally Have an Official List of VPG Verified CFexpress Cards
FWIW I don't see mention of incompleteness on the book's site http://book.dtornow.com/
As someone from the US - does this mean there are places where students are free to go to any high school they wish? Could this result in overcrowding if all the students want to go to the same school?
Clojure: closure [0] + Java

[0]: To finally find closure with the old Lisps /jk Closure in Lisp has as different meaning. It's arguments that are waiting for their lambda.
According to the HN FAQ, you can't downvote comments until you've gained a certain amount of karma.
No exit but racked up 10s of millions of dollars in increasing salary since 2017 while laying off 250 employees
Eruption on the Reykjanes Peninsula
Gnome Boxes is an attempt at a similar interface, but yeah, it's not quite as polished.
People that tend to procrastinate do not need a reason to do so, and the things they get addicted to are not necessarily engineered to be so. Social media is strongly engineered to be addictive, HN is engineered not to be addictive (though it still is, as I should definitely be aware by now).
How are they getting the prices for these? Is this run by Trader Joe’s? I hope someone isn’t manually updating these.

Also won’t prices differ by location? So many questions.
Widespread Medicaid estate planning would require boomers to confront their own mortality, so that's unlikely. Really it's going to be more like a lottery of those who are "lucky" enough to have their parents die without using long term care, reverse mortgages, squabbling siblings, etc. Most of those lifetimes of accumulation are just headed to the bankers' grindstone, as per the Faustian bargain that created all that on-paper "wealth" in the 80's and 90's.

The houses themselves will for the most part exist - flippers have become adept at putting new builder-grade beige lipstick on the pigs. But they will most likely be corporate rentals, and businesses have become quite proficient at deniable price fixing through the use of software. So even if there is an ultimate lack of demand, I don't expect that the move the needle much.
Call it a conflict of interest, if you may.
3M Records from Credit Unions Exposed
> don't see why it needs particularly rare skills

I don’t either! But apparently they’re rare. One pays dearly when trying to go cheap, or broaden the pool in seemingly innocuous ways, in executive recruiting.

> lots of people do really hard jobs

Fortitude is necessary, but by itself insufficient.
For your regular public schools yes. However some districts also have more specialized selective enrollment schools you can apply to get accepted to, which may be based on academic performance/testing/demographics.

Sometimes people will use a relative's address to get into a different school/district.

Other than that, charter schools and private schools are also an option of course.
> Bring back multi-row tabs.

I can't live without multi-row tabs but it's totally doable in current Firefox. It's now possible with just CSS. It still breaks every so often when they make big UI changes but it's manageable.

It's the reason that Firefox is my main browser.
A movie you made, a book you wrote, an article you wrote -> content.

A comment you wrote, or a link you posted -> meta-content.
But we would still be code, we could not escape our "non-corporality" I guess.
Or if you want to have a theological take, we could not become god(s).
I found and fixed the major FireFox issue and put out the update. There is still another issue I'm tracking down, but it's much better.
EDA Platform "ACE" from Circuit Mind
ACE helps electronics engineering teams to save time and resources by automatically selecting optimised components and suggesting candidate electronic schematic design options in seconds without errors.
US venture capital firms accused of funding blacklisted Chinese AI companies
Wolfram: Named after Stephen Wolfram, by Stephen Wolfram

Does anyone else think it's a bit too much to name something after yourself? Even in math and physics, scientists often don't name it after themselves—their colleagues do it to give credit where it's due (e.g., Colomb's law, Planck's constant, etc.)
It’s a document scanner, a document-signing device (we did basically the entire house search, offer, and closing process all on our phones, last time), flashlight (I use this daily), camera that can do “live photos” (they’re magical, I have zero interest in a camera that doesn’t do that), a check-depositing terminal, a tape measure or level (in a pinch), a note-taking device, and so much more. Music player. Alarm clock. A credit card.

My phone is without a doubt the single most-useful electronic gadget in my house, and it’s not a close call. My desktop machine and laptop are nothing but toys unless I’m building stuff for computers. (My tablet is the second most-useful, and again, it’s not a close call)