skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a good way to think about good design is the Einstein quote on mathematical models, that they should be "...as simple as possible, but no simpler." Normal mode in vi/vim is necessary for that program's goal of keeping your fingers on the center of the keyboard as much as possible: forgoing the use of arrow keys means that navigation and editing have to be separate modes. It's more complex, but only because it has to be. CSS on the other hand seems to introduce a whole lot of accidental, unnecessary complexity.
> I think a central reason is that CSS was originally intended for laying out text instead of laying out web applications.

Not just was. Also is.

"Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a simple mechanism for adding style (e.g., fonts, colors, spacing) to Web documents."
https://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
How is sprint boot + java thèse days? I have a client that wants to pick it up for a suite of services (and Java) but my experience with it 5+ years ago was that it was an overengineered painful thing to use. I would much prefer they use a Kotlin + ktor/vertx + jooq combo but I have a hard time convincing them.
We are living an mining just the skin of our planet. If we achieve technologies to extract interesting resources out of magma w could have boundless resources.
> you reap the benefits by having a much, much larger pool of applications and talent to sift through

Interviewing/hiring is incredibly noisy though. If SF engineers have a much higher average skill than the rest of the world then you might still end up with better people if you just hire from SF rather than the world in general, even if the latter has a much wider pool with more top people in absolute numbers.
WFH / Remote

This is a direct consequence of people wanting WFM but not understanding the implications.

Going into an office gives employees pay leverage due to cost of living in that locale (assuming they live in a top pay market, SF/NYC/etc).

But if you have an entire Remote company & culture, now - companies can hire in any locale and pay lowest common denominator (even if that locale is half way around the world).

Remote work turns everyone into effectively an independent contractor competing against all other talent from all around the world.

In office means you’re mainly competing against other people in your locale.
Show HN: Snowflake Data Quality Checks in Python
nonsense. even if you were to replace middle management, surely there would need to be human leadership. some things just can’t be automated.

(this message has been approved by human leadership.)
Show HN: LLMWare – Small Specialized Function Calling 1B LLMs for Multi-Step RAG
Hi, I was a corporate lawyer for many years working with a lot of financial services and insurance companies. In practicing law, I noticed there was a lot of repetition in the tasks I was working on even as a highly paid attorney that could be automated.

I wanted to solve the problem of dealing with a lot information and data in a practical way, using AI. This motivated me to start AI Bloks/LLMWare with my husband, who had a deep background in software and is a very early adopter of AI.

We have been on this journey with our open source project LLMWare for the past 4 months, producing a RAG framework in GH and about 50 models in Hugging Face. https://huggingface.co/llmware

Our latest models are designed to re-imagine the way we use small specialized models in multi-step RAG workflow (SLIMs). I would love for you to check it out and give us some feedback. Thank you!
Agreed. The spec needs changing to !!important. Much more logical! P;
Building an efficient server-grade Arm NAS
>they'll talk about the "structure" of the position, and then confirm the structure via some amount of search

Yes that's sort of the point of the approach. Imagine when the board is any position, you have a list of all possible moves which are ranked based on how good they are (i.e., how likely they are to lead to you winning). In order to make this ranking you've "flattened" the future outcomes of that move into a single number which is used to rank the list. Then, you can play optimally without search: simply pick the best move at every board position. (Richard Bellman showed that, for the right definition of "best", this gives the optimal strategy for playing entire games, not just single moves.)

Now the question is, how does one actually calculate this sorted list of the best moves? The straightforward answer is essentially search and various techniques to make the search computationally tractable. What Deepmind's approach is use such a list computed by Stockfish (which explicitly searches) to compile a dataset which is then trained on in order to approximate the function that produces this ranking (called the Q-function). But the point is that search is just an algorithmic strategy to estimate the Q-function, mathematically speaking it is merely a function of the current board state and therefore in theory could be determined without any search. So, maybe a deep neural network could learn how to do this?
"Best" depends on who you are. I suggest just jumping in and starting. Find a real problem and build something to address it. Make yourself an audio amplifier or Arduino robot. Start fiddling with blinkylight GPIO on a raspberry pi. Build a one wheel skateboard.

you might find ideas here: https://hackaday.com/blog/
Hang on your seats while Chief Economist becomes an outdated skill
> for instance you simply can't cross-compile Metal shaders from a Linux host

Why not? Doesn't that just mean that nobody has implemented it yet?
>But the vast majority of people who go to programming bootcamps don't get rich quickly, or rich at all. Same with most people in the world who practice medicine or law

but they do get a reasonable shot at a middle class lifestyle with potential to do really well at some point.

That's better than a lot of career paths give you nowadays.
Probably limited as far as prions go. This particular advancement is in proteins that have sought-after mechanical properties like spider silk.
My boss recently called Keycloak "the gift that keeps on giving", but he was actually commenting on how there's a new ticket in jira for figuring out how the f*?k to do something.

Having said that, I have terraform that creates an EKS cluster, deploys Keycloak , creates clients (SAML/OIDC), adds external identity providers, sets up an AWS IAM Identity Provider for it etc. That makes it extremely easy to use once you've figured out (a) what it can do, (b) how to do it in the ui, (c) how to get mrparkers Terraform provider to do it for you.
Techrights Faces Legal Consequences for Roy Schestowitz's Transphobic Content
It's definitely unclear, but there's also no evidence from the article that the armed police were not among the officers that "stormed the address," as the article states. They were also visible outside, and it would be unusual to see police with rifles in the UK (or the US, for that matter) so it makes sense that neighbours noted that, but the article title as you said points in the direction of armed officers raiding the home.

To be clear, my point is not to draw a false equivalence between armed police raids in the UK and the US. I would, however, say that the problem of appropriately responding to a potential armed threat isn't exactly solved in either country, if that's even possible.

Here's yet another example on a quick Google search, if you're still unconvinced that this occurs in the UK: https://www.hertfordshiremercury.co.uk/news/hertfordshire-ne...

> "No action will be taken against the occupants of a Hemel Hempstead home that was raided by armed police after a mystery phone call."

> "One witness described armed officers going inside a home shortly before putting two people inside the home in handcuffs and in the back of a police car."
So if CSS had a property named Text-Color that set the font size it would be logical, because it's all based on logic? CSS isn't a mathematical construct based on first principals. It's a spec that was created to layout print-media style webpages in the mid 90s.
That's an in vitro study, in isolated cells, which used a totally non-physiological dose of lidocaine.

It's not even a mouse or rat study. It's less valuable than that.

Lidocaine, taken systemically, is associated with serious side effects. It's the only known "cure" for tinnitus, but its side effect profile is so nasty that pretty much nobody uses it.

Don't give irresponsible advice.
My French is weak, but I can passably order and do routine tourist comms. In a cafe in Paris, I started to order and the waiter stopped me with the very amusing, “Monsieur, please. We do this in English; it’s easier that way…”
Cloud network egress costs is one of the reasons why increasingly infrastructure vendors likely to incur high data transfer costs (database / data warehouse services, message buses, machine learning, etc..) are moving to introduce BYOC or "Bring Your Own Cloud" deployment model (Data Plane runs in the customer VPC - original Databricks deployment model), instead of only pure SaaS (Data Plane runs in the vendor VPC - e.g. Snowflake) in their cloud offerings.

Databricks now has fully hosted too, but Snowflake still did not go the other way to introduce BYOC. Newer entrants, however - RedPanda, AnyScale, ClickHouse... - are going the way of providing both BYOC and pure SaaS options in their cloud. There are many other reasons to prefer BYOC, legal, security, data privacy, but network egress costs is one of them.
ServerWitch: Grant a custom GPT shell access to your machine in a single command
That might be part of it, but far and away the main reason for that is to offset the state’s ability to tout about having no income tax.

There’s a list floating around by some personal finance blog that ranks the states based on effective tax rate across most taxes citizens are subject to and Texas consistently ends up remarkably high on that list due to the other taxes being relatively high.

Texas is essentially the personification of a low sticker price with hidden fees (e.g., “starts at $0”).
The only reason that we can't replace the executive class with AI is that Boston Dynamics has yet to demonstrate a robot that can navigate a golf course.
A fire drill where we don't pretend it's real but do take the drill seriously, is fine.

A fire drill where the Health & Safety guy insists that we pretend it's real - yes, most people find this cringe-inducing. For more on this, see Dwight Schrute.
Although this is a bad take overall, there is some truth to the idea that tech skills become obsolete faster than skills practiced in other areas of the market, and likewise tech assets become obsolete faster than a lot of physical assets.

People construct buildings to last for a hundred years or more, but a lot of developers assume that within 10 years, most of the stuff they're building now will have to be re-built with more up-to-date technology.

But that is simply a result of a high-growth segment of the market. It doesn't mean that software engineers are any less valuable. It simply means that in order to continue to remain in the business, they need to be able to adapt to frequent changes.
Is the backquote before the 25 the Tetris block version of a comma that has yet to fall down?
Wireless Charging for Electric Vehicles
Arduinos or Raspberry Pi's are both fine. I'd definitely pick up some motors and figure out how to do precision control. Lots of good info online for that. :)
True, but this "logical" spec was not created by computer.
You tricked it into telling the truth
Read one of his other posts, no family history, no tobacco use, not a heavy drinker.

Live every day, folks. That promise of finally getting to do what you want after you retire is cheap and hollow.
Funnily enough, LLMs are a lot better at producing good-sounding economic analysis than at coding. Software will continue to eat the world --including finance-- and that requires good coders.

As for this UBS chief economist, maybe he's ready to replaced by an LLM:

> In the fourth quarter of 2023, UBS's investment bank made a loss of either $169m before tax, or $280m when "items that management believes are not representative of the underlying performance of the businesses' are added back in."
Computer vision based SLAM definitely has use cases and you can definitely make money applying it at the right companies to the right set of problems. Building a whole career around a single technique, any technique, probably is probably not gonna work. You need to be broader than that.
I am not sure I understand why we can't walk and chew gum at the same time. Like with everything else, life is complicate and housing is not that different. Remote could absolutely lower some of the pressure in the cities.

Unless, naturally, there is another objection to addressing something as quickly adoptable as remote for a good chunk of workforce -- no reasonable person would dispute that not all jobs can be effectively done that way.
Day and night light exposure are associated with psychiatric disorders (2023)
"if you feel a need to be aggressive, it means you've done no deeds that will speak for you"

How about that?
This isn't the case; look up "credential spraying".
Just for my own understanding, why was it obvious that it has to be a basic hash? At least it wasn't obvious to me, but I have very little experience in this area.
Same idea I had when commenting - this just needs some good old explicit reference (can be optional)!
What app or service login did you crack with your clients in these meetings?
0-click Android Bluetooth vulnerability to inject keystrokes without pairing
Huh? I absolutely do not want proprietary drivers tainting my kernel. I barely tolerate firmware blobs. So far only nvidia has required such drivers.
Mm yeah you can definitely do it now, but consider the trivial task of putting two independently scrollable pages side by side.

It's actually very fiddly in CSS, whereas with something like Qt or Flutter or whatever it's completely trivial - just add a splitter and then two scrollable views. (And good luck if you want an actual movable splitter with CSS.)

Flexbox makes app-like layout possible, but still not easy.
Green Subsidies More Wasteful Than Previously Reported
Make this alias for whatever log viewer you use now.

alias tail='echo "use toolong instead"

Now using tail to view logs will print that reminder instead.
LLMs are not capable of replacing developers anymore than Google Translate is capable of replacing professional translators.

It's also much more dangerous to replace developers with an LLM than to replace your translator with Google Translate. Code that is close to correct often doesn't work at all. A bad translation can still be (mostly) comprehensible even if it makes your company look unprofessional and incompetent.
Organ will play John Cage's "ASLSP" for 639 years – 2001 to 2640
The Blood of Exceptionally Long-Lived People Reveals Key Differences
> I frankly, fully agree with the grand-comment here: It's trauma if you think it is. This experience is entirely, 100% subjective and isolated to the inner world of every given person.

I keep seeing this, but then nobody actually ever updates based on this position. The position doesn't jive with the way people actually behave.

If "It's trauma if you think it is" holds, isn't the optimal solution to start trying to convince people it isn't trauma? No expensive therapy required, just convince them it isn't trauma and suddenly you have one fewer person experiencing trauma.

And it seems like the worst thing to do if you believe this position would be to have open discussions about trauma, because you would get a bunch of people re-examining their past experiences and becoming traumatized after the fact. It seems like this can only result in a net increase in people experiencing trauma, which basically nobody wants.

The way people behave is only consistent with trauma being a thing that exists independently of belief status.
I definitely agree that the president has a huge affect on US image on the world stage. The critism of the analogy I laid out is fair. Trump arguably regularly carried himself in a way that aligns with the narrative we're discussing.

Props for citing evidence via Pew. Just FYI, that Israel poll arguably became obsolete in the weeks following the 10/7 terrorist attack. Not sure where things currently stand.

I do wish there was a bit more nuance. The discussion of favorability is complex. I was speaking specifically to the comment regarding the US being perceived as a 'loudmouth how great they are compared to the rest of the world'.

As far as Europe broadly is conencerned... I would probably agree that public perception does include
a component resembling the aforementioned perception. I'd speculate that this probably has a fair bit to do with many European nations exceeding the US in various metrics surrounding healthcare, happiness, safety, income distribution ect. Those critism are fair ofc.

I suppose the distilled point of my comment was that there is a lot of nuance to US image from nation to nation. Myself, I didn't realize just how respected the US is amongst so many nations. Even arguably adverserial nations often respect a great number of things about the US. I find it regrettable that the US domestic population often has very unfavorable views of their own nation, without giving adequate and nuanced consideration to our many accomplishments. Often less developed nations focus more on some of the bigger picture factors which are worthy of full consideration.
What are the top 5?
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EvoMerge: Neuroevolution for Large Language Models
I deleted the line with `sed -i "4d" sqldump`. The duplicated disk space comes from sed writing a temporary file out to the current directory, it does this in chunks as the command runs.

It makes sense for sed to write a temp file even with `-i` because what happens if your power goes out mid-way through the command without the temp file? You'd have data loss. To combat that sed will write a temp file out and when the operation is completed the last step is to move the temp file to the original file to overwrite it. You might not notice this unless you monitor the directory for changes while sed runs. You can spam `ls -la` as sed runs on a decently sized file to see the temp file.
I'm kind of curious to what degree lifting weights is actually beneficial. I like lifting weights. But more than once, I've seen very red, almost inflamed looking people that lift weights. not sure if its the meat diet, or if they self select.
My cousin died of a Brian aneurism, from a vein that popped due to high blood pressure. He used to get very red in the face. So I think I recognize that look now.

There's a youtube channel called Boho beautiful. It's a couple that does yoga videos, and are fit vegans.

I would be curious if you did blood work on them, vs a fit weight lifter who would have the better results, and possibly life expectancy.

So if you were to chose one life style (meat eating weight lifter) vs Vegan Yoga Training. Which would be better for you. I suspect the vegan yoga would be better.
AR and the (Possible) Return of Skeuomorphism
Taking the CoL in NL, particularly the Randstad area, that salary is not outrageous. Especially, if you're a new expat on a single income, without any social net, and with any hopes of owning property, within a reasonable commute distance from your work.
> people decided perl was bad

Like any programming language, you have to get good at Perl to write good Perl.

Python has clean notation. It's a juggernaut that has changed people's expectations of language design.

But even so, Python has not decreased the amount of bad code in the world. Not even within Pypi.
In VC and finance land Copilot is going to make all developers 10x more productive and any company not using it is going to fall behind. If CTOs are not buying Copilot for all their developers they are going to get fired.

There is a huge bubble brewing and the only beneficiaries are MS and nVidia. Billions spent on ventures that do not make anyone money. Dotcom bubble 2.0.
I had to go back and reread to find the mistake, because when I saw his mention of 225 I automatically thought "2 plates".

My goal when I was lifting seriously was to get to 1/2/3/4 plates on my overhead press, bench, squat, and dead respectively. The middle 2 numbers are easier than the outer two - it's surprising how much harder OHP is to increase than bench. And the 4 plate DL is attainable for sure, I was up to about 365 at my best, and had hit the 315 target for squats - but it takes a long time to build up to 405 incrementally.

I've just recently got back on the wagon and it's been interesting to see how much strength I lost - where I was usually squatting in the 225-240 range at my peak, i started back up w? squatting 135 and it was surprisingly difficult. Crazy how much our bodies can change with a little stimulus.
>> "How is a poem not documentation? How is a photograph not art?"

I'll just stop you there. You've either misunderstood me or really want to get into the philosophy of recording ideas, and I do not. I have a way of recording memories that works for me. Let's leave it at that and move on.
What kind of robotics? It's a pretty wide field.
I've yet to use CMSs and I hear that content and publishing is what they excel at. I have been using Astro for a while and have found it to be a great way to build websites, at least at the small scale that I am working with.

This post marks a stepping stone to my journey toward more streamlined publishing using Notion and Astro.
Practical Electronics for Inventors by Paul Scherz is pretty good, but hard for me to tell if it is good for a complete beginner as I come from a non-electrical/electronics engineering background and we still get taught the basics in first year and have the fundamentals.
There wasn't something that needed covering up. If he'd reported the methodology in the paper there would have been no issues.

It's likely that this was omitted from the paper as an oversight; such imputation likely wouldn't have affected the outcome of peer review.
There are corps who pay SF salary globally and reap the rewards, GitLab isn't really able to compete at that level imo.
“Since FORTRAN should virtually eliminate coding and debugging…”

FORTRAN preliminary report, 1954

http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/FORTRAN/BackusE...
I feel like you're espousing advice for how you wish the world was rather than the world we actually live in, which I see as unuseful.
Or that the "right way" to do things have changed several times over the years, and you have to figure out if that's the "old right way" or not, because they both are still available.
They can and already are suggesting this is not a real threat. And annoyingly, the jobs that could be outsourced, were already.

And that is with corporations playing with the existing visa system AND illegal immigration.

In short, remote addresses a lot of issues for an average worker. It does mess with existing system for corps.
Rich coming from a job that is basically just marketing, and where being wrong 49% of the time is acceptably good.
This is a good point:

"The fact that European and American manufacturers have concentrated on the premium market of early adopters has left them vulnerable. Chinese manufacturers like MG haven’t been so reluctant to address affordability, and there are other brands from China waiting in the wings to steal market share, such as BYD, just like Japanese carmakers did in the 1970s and 80s. While traditional European and US car companies might see EVs as a threat, the Chinese ones see them as an opportunity to get a bigger foothold in Western markets."
I don’t understand, what is the joke in the tweet he made about Norm Macdonald. Is it funny?
But what about if the "parent" is the body tag?

https://jsfiddle.net/6fmu2z8s/