skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks great. As a note I don't count credit card rewards as revenue, but rather I count it as an offset to expenses. In this way, rewards don't add to the top line, but rather improves the bottom line. Basically I consider it a way to discount my expenses, or as a negative expense. The reason is because those rewards are linked to expenses. If you spend more, you get more rewards. Spend less, you get less. You can't increase rewards (generally) without increasing expenses. So I see it as a way to discount or reduce expenses vs. increase the top line. Long story short, if you see your rewards increasing 10x that means you've increased expenses some factor of 10x which isn't so great. You could list rewards under the "Everything Else" line of expenses as a negative expense in red. The result will be the same on the bottom line but it won't be misleading the top line, which should be driven as high as you can.

Also those cloud expenses look significant. That looks like an 80% increase year-over-year which is substantial. Is there a way to shave off a significant amount by moving to a different method for architecture? Or will that break your system? I worry about rapidly growing cloud expenses especially when you're not that huge of a company.

Finally I'm curious about those dividend earnings! Living off them is great, especially as you were doing so in the lower-interest rate years. Can you share insights in the high yield dividends you're earning that are also low risk enough that the underlying investment value doesn't erode?
Yeah, tell me your thoughts on Israel.
The automation is a large part of the offering of course, and when you're good at writing specific prompts, you can use that as it supports separate custom instructions for the newsletter analysis, the SEC filings, and for generating trading ideas. The trading ideas generation is also fed real-time economic indicators from FRED for added context. Another benefit is the fact it is all stored in a database that can be used by the model to add context information, and you can search it yourself too, of course. The next version will have an API and a way to measure the accuracy of the trading ideas.
Meanwhile, some Russian emigres are actually returning because the sanctions, and general public distrust, are making life quite hard for them in the West.

As a Russian emigre myself, I can say that when you are calling for sanctions, you're calling for people like me to get screwed. Putin and his cronies don't seem too much damaged, on the other hand.
True. If I'm only using it for git though makes sense to keep the config there IMO. But certainly that's handy when you're sshing interactively or doing other things with that host.
In an ideal world, housing wouldn't be built immediately on major transit lines, but a (walkable) short distance away. Alas, city planners seem dead-set that new construction must _only_ happen within a block of major roads or train lines. There seems to be a lot of urban malpractice that prevents us from making good choices.
1994 was still pretty early on for the web. This timeline of web browsers, which is very well done btw, illustrates the clients that were available at that time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_web_browsers. And I'd say the timeline does not tell the full story, since many of the early browsers were on hardware that was not common (e.g., the original launch was on Next and other early browsers were on AIX).
AI causes the supply and demand to change by creating additional supply of pieces through increased productivity.

It's cold comfort to someone getting fired to tell them "If demand had also increased 10 fold you wouldn't have to sleep on the street."

The actual living human being who has had their livelihood destroyed probably isn't any less scared of their fate because you cleverly tut at them and go, "In actuality the AI didn't do anything bad to you, it just created a glut of supply and the market demand didn't keep up."
I'm not a lawyer but the Voices terms from ~2017 [1] seem similar. It feels like the Spotify terms are clearer (e.g., what does "to use" really mean?).

> [...] Voices shall be free to use or disseminate such Content for the purpose of promoting the audio recordings of its works either by Voices, its affiliates, or its partners, and you grant Voices an irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, nonexclusive license to use, reproduce, distribute, transmit, display, distribute, and market such Content (including in digital form). You represent and warrant that you have proper authorization for the worldwide transfer and processing among Voices, its affiliates, partners, and third-party providers of any information that you may provide on the Site.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20190115070453/https://my.findawa...
So do it that way.

Don't start off with a $12,000/year UBI, eliminate SNAP and instead give everyone a tax credit in the same amount. Adjust the tax brackets to make the math work out. Then do the same thing with housing subsidies, and Medicaid, until all the largest programs are gone. At which point you can see the results and start asking why we shouldn't just do everything that's still left at once.
I haven’t used it for a while as I stopped using low code tools since ChatGPT’s release, but I remember:

- the final application is a bit slow to load, there is a lot of code.

- it uses mongodb internally. I don’t like having mongodb on my stacks.

- the docker and kubernetes deployments were not following best practices. They ran everything, even mongodb and redis, in a stateful container with a process manager inside the container.

- version controlling the apps wasn’t trivial.

- some features weren’t open source so I had to quickly hack them again.

I found retool, proprietary, to be better if you can afford it.
The comment I replied to wasn't advocating for either of that. It was essentially an excuse to support Apple's decision to remove/break a feature because their OS isn't capable of handling a different rendering engine.

From my point of view, I don't benefit if 1) Apple removes this option in my region and 2) there's no good reason for me to be against iOS handling better permissions of web apps and other rendering engines, like it already does for all other apps (and something that Android handles without problems).
Considering the ruliad consists of all possible rules and their applications, you could say that. But it's oh so much more!
That’s the thing though, it’s a Google engineer’s market salary, and likely the author’s as well. But the OP was drawing the conclusion that whoever’s running the business has to be paid the same amount, that’s what I wanted to address.

> I would agree that most people would take some job flexibility/autonomy in lieu of part of their bigco salary

This is one of the point the author has repeatedly stressed the importance of and I very much agree as well. The chance to chart your own journey and the excitement a business could bring is anyday more valuable than the predictable path of employment for many (including myself)
I do know that tunnel boring machines can disturb the surface, and that substantial effort goes into minimizing this. (That is, minimal surface disturbance isn't automatic on account of the fact that you're boring.) I believe it sometimes has to do with how much pressure they need to apply to the tunnel face; the ideal pressure for cutting can lead to sink or swell on the surface. Presumably this is less of an issue the deeper you go. I don't know much about this stuff though. This is maybe relevant:

> This thesis summarizes and evaluates the performance of Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) construction in Singapore's MRT network. Surface settlement induced by the tunneling process can cause damage to underground utilities and foundations and buildings and/or disrupt daily life by damaging roads and pavements, and is used in this thesis as a measure of performance.

https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/82809
Indeed "master" comes from "master copy" which is the version of the "teacher" (magister) from which students copy a work
Protect against 'GoldPickaxe', the first iPhone trojan
If the robots are doing everything why does the concept of "paying" need to exist?
The Dark Side of the Screen
This is vaguely offensive. I think perhaps you didn't actually look at my project, which includes this warning every time you run it.

Additionally, it's open source, so you can check.
> if it can throw and,

noexcept.

Granted, it may not have the annotation but still not throw in reality, but a Rust function can also declare a Result return type but never actually return an error.

> if it can, not know what it can throw

How do you square that with backward compatibility?

If you declare what you can throw, what do you or any of your transitive dependencies do when they want to change their implementation in a way that makes a new error a possibility? Either you shove it all into an UNKNOWN error that you hopefully declared from the get go to be future-proof, or you break all your downstream users every time. So either no compatibility, or over time your API converges to a meaningless UNKNOWN error code for almost everything and a bunch of legacy error codes that are never used.
Seems like a good reason to bash the agency. Why wouldn't he name and shame?
You can request this via https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/StorageMana....

If the browser reports that the request was granted that storage should not be cleared except by explicit user request.
> Sure, but there are hundreds of thousands of people in this industry who are dealing with data problems on a scale that certainly will not be handled on your laptop with sed and awk.

Yes there are, but those 100k's of people doing that are working in a small handful of megacorporations.

For 99+% of the companies out there, they don't need the complexity. But it gets shoehorned in because resume.
It is quite hard to think about things knowing that countries can hold multiple contradicting ideas simultaneously. Nothing is entirely correct or incorrect.

for example, true or false: The US started a war against Europe and Russia by blowing up the pipeline. If we look at it like that it is a great success?

Why would that perspective be entirely wrong?
Somewhat unrelated but, I've been doing a ton of frontend coding past few years (coming from a backend/infra background).

I think browser development is an underrated difficult problem. With a lot of crappy half-assed solutions that don't have solutions at depth that the backend ecosystem has.

Like if you get to the essence of it you're syncing two local event loops -- the JavaScript and browser renderer, omitting the JS async queue and webworkers. Then you have a distributed system on top connecting to your backend. And sometimes you have a distributed system across the same local instance of the app, e.g. multiple tabs of the same app.

All this with neanderthal grade tools. At every layer of this there are half-thought tools with inconsistent data models that try to connect different layers of the problem (component rendering, data fetching, event loops, background jobs, etc) without any great way to do so. Straight glue.

Sure most people call some hook with refresh loop or something and call it day, but the problem still hasn't been solved well for building ultra-rich apps.
If you "doubt" it, please provide a specific example of what you believe is inaccurate in the document rendering.
Identification of loci conferring resistance to 4 foliar diseases of maize
The strategy seems to have gone 0-2 with Russia and China; can you name an instance in which it succeeded?
Ask HN: Will SWE jobs become minimum wage positions in the near future?
I frequently browse Hacker News and other tech-focused platforms, where I constantly encounter new AI tools supposedly designed to simplify technical tasks for the general public. It's reasonable to assume that these AI tools will continue to evolve, potentially rendering various jobs (including SWE roles) obsolete. Therefore, I'm curious: Is there a chance that SWE positions will soon become minimum wage jobs, similar to how ATMs largely replaced human tellers at banks?

Or do you think software development is a lot more specialized and, although AI will replace some of the jobs currently done by humans, it will also create new roles similar to how the rise of online retailers like Amazon or the advertising companies we're familiar with like Google and Facebook created new roles like "Network Engineer" or system administrator.

If this time comes where AI made SWE jobs a minimum wage job, what is your game plan, then?
In the event of regime change, going back will absolutely be a non-issue. Hell, some of us are preparing for it right now [0].

[0] https://firstflight.today/
2 Thumbs Up - Doctorow speaks truth to the power hungry.
>My LaTeX files from 35 years ago, on the other hand - they just do fine.

Yeah, because they're plain text. A fairer comparison would be whether they render pixel perfectly as 35 years ago, which I doubt.
Of course, any video could be a fake, it's a question of the cost, and corresponding likelihood of that being the case.
Wow I had almost forgotten those names, thanks!
That's just the first counterexample that was proven to exist. The smallest counter example is less than 10^10 (in fact smaller than 10^9).

> The Pólya conjecture was disproved by C. Brian Haselgrove in 1958. He showed that the conjecture has a counterexample, which he estimated to be around 1.845 × 10^361.[3]

> An explicit counterexample, of n = 906,180,359 was given by R. Sherman Lehman in 1960;[4] the smallest counterexample is n = 906,150,257, found by Minoru Tanaka in 1980.[5]

EDIT: rephrased because despite having a maths degree I can't count.
Although you’d think the application/platform itself would be a totally solved technical problem and there’d be complete COTS systems they can implement, and then you experience using the binge app on your Apple TV, phone or via browser and it’s a dumpster fire
How I got the O-1
Does TSMC produce the pure silicon themselves from silica or is the refinery done by a supplier? I suspect it's the latter, but idk. It's a very energy intensive process, and huge source of CO2 emissions as well because you use coal to provide carbon in order to reduce the silica and get silicon + CO2.
I mean, it's an Easter egg. These things aren't known for their practicability. If one were to object to this, it's because it pushes unnecessary computational costs on every single end-user device that has to render that CSS since the comparison and branch now happens client-side at page styling time. I wonder how many billions of CPU cycles that's wasted.
100%. This is why RAG and "classical search" will converge for non-trivial use cases. The folks who are doing RAG well still rely on many tried-and-true tricks of the trade: combining semantic search with keyword-based search, using graphs, doing re-ranking, etc. etc. Yet most discussions of RAG on the internet seem to promise consistently awesome query output by just jamming together some embeddings and an LLM, which doesn't pan out in practice.
The situation in Ukraine is not very comparable with the US occupation of Afghanistan. The US captured all of the major cities in Afghanistan in a matter of weeks, after which the Taliban were pushed into a sliver of southern Afghanistan and into Pakistan, which borders those Southern regions of Afghanistan. The issue, as the other commenter mentioned, was in holding the territory. This issue of maintaining stability was worsened by how the US both ignored the Taliban's attempts to negotiate early in the occupation and ignored the fact that the Taliban were being harbored in Pakistan (which was considered an ally), allowing the Taliban to regain strength. Had the US targeted objectives in Pakistan in the early 2000s when the Taliban were weak, rather than waiting till 2011, history may have turned out differently.
2 years before Russia invaded Ukraine, you had Obama quipping like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0IWe11RWOM
I would support this!
Name another enfant terrible in EU who undermines democracy but does not go too far to be expelled.
It is on Groq's LPU units iirc.
Yes the day you find out that in GNU Emacs, the "u" key is actually bound to (self-insert-command) and thus can instead be made to do anything ... well,it's quite a day.
I understand the changes to Gitea pissed the community so much. But at least it appears they are not resorting to a "bait and switch" with the open-source license, and remain committed to retaining the MIT license.

Offering a managed service and paid support seems like a reasonable move to me, and would certainly benefit many small and medium organizations. The profit gained from business could also provide funding for contributors and maintainers.

I like the approach of taking money from corpos to make FOSS stronger. Hard-forking an already MIT licensed project for just another one is really bad for both side.
Sorry maybe this is completely obvious, but why is it called "d53"?
See also https://mathoverflow.net/questions/95865/examples-of-conject...
Let's get the facts straight

https://www.ifw-kiel.de/topics/war-against-ukraine/ukraine-s...

Military help from EU countries is higher than US, humanitarian help is multiple times higher and so is financial help.

If US passes the bill then it will somewhat catch up. IF it passes. Perhaps it decides to degrade its international standing even more instead, who knows.
Not really a fair comparison but children learn to speak with barely any training data compared to LLMs. I’m hopeful a large training corpus will not be so necessary in the future.
Perhaps you missed the context in which it was made clear that this imperfect solution was still less bad than all other options.

It seems the point resembled: 'this device doesn't support printing, don't return obscure, unhelpful or crashing errors; return something that makes sense so that the user can figure out and move on'. I.e.: Fail gracefully.
> Go gets far more credit here than it deserves.

When I said it is kind of the anti-Lisp, I wasn't thinking of it as credit...
This isn't so much the old argument of (say) Next.js v HTML(x), but of the different degrees of state complexity required in a typical business app vs an actual game (at least to my mind).

To me, it's a lot clearer how to deal with a traditional ecommerce database setup like Northwind Traders (https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Database_Examples/Northwind). I've had to do that many times and know how to model such a thing.

I have no idea how to start modeling the state for a game like Wingspan (https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=wingspan), much less something more complicated, like Magic: The Gathering, where any of several tens of thousands of cards can interact with each other in novel ways, maybe even leading to infinite loops and such. In my mind it's like a giant if-then flowchart with a billion flows. I wish I could see the source code for the rules engine of such a thing, but with a step-by-step tutorial...
I'm more worried ChatGPT is going to replace the CEO.

Your teller example is interesting because it reminds me of this great novel

https://www.amazon.com/Remember-me-God-Myron-Kaufmann/dp/B00...

where the protagonist is a Jewish person trying to work is way into Harvard and one of his friends is a WASP whose family runs a bank that managers to get him an entry job as a teller and he learns quite quickly that a bank teller is a dead-end job where you can get in trouble for doing things wrong but never get rewarded for doing anything right.
Suppose you had cancer and could roll a die, and if the die came up six, it would tell you with high certainty you had cancer, and if it came up as anything else, it would tell you nothing.

If the test is very cheap, it’s probably a great test presuming you get to see the dice roll itself.

The cost and invasiveness of the test is important.
Just wait for the US election, it's gonna be a fun year
That can happen, it's just that it's mostly a game of luck more than skills.

I've seen redesign fail spectacularly and deliver incredible results - and they were done by the same people.

Sometimes following the best practices makes things 10 times worse.

Even when you throw AB testing and pretend you are following the data, the sample size changes so much you can't be sure off anything.
I've seen A/B tested changes winning in the benchmarks perform terribly in the long run.

So would you have the same chance to hit the needed changes to triple your revenue by hiring a developer for 20$ per hour on freelancer? Absolutely, yes.

I'm not spending a penny on agencies, let the big companies do that
I mean it's a nice platitude, but I've gotta say, if this realization didn't help anyone thousands of years ago when someone extremely influential said it, I don't think it is going to help today, either. It's clear our political systems have systemic issues, and we can even identify them and measure some of them, but nobody really has any pragmatic solutions, so it's all going nowhere.

If I take this to the logical conclusion, though, basically the takeaway is "Clearly, you should just become a politician yourself." Well, I think that's not really productive either. Telling people "It's actually partly your fault our society has systemic issues for not helping to fix it somehow" is silly--not really false, but silly in the sense that it doesn't really provide much useful insight--and telling them "You should just be a career politician" is even sillier. At this point, being a career politician is basically a privileged position. (e.g. people with more wealth and connections will always have a default advantage over the commoners. People with 'cleaner' backgrounds have more luck campaigning for more important offices. Not really surprising a lot of politicians are related to other politicians.)
It is my understanding there is no way to objectively or programmatically tell if any of this stuff is correct or doesn't obfuscate some dire error. These tricks don't give me confidence that we're headed in that direction either.
Unless you have a mortgage, or your city reassesses property taxes, or...
I'd appreciate any feedback on this blog post!
Agree. (1994, not 84 tho.).

Add to your learning list: Usenet reader, Gopher, and Archie.
My point is CC licenses don't even require the original author to release the source code, you can technically release software using that license as binaries. So as a license it can be used for both open and closed source software.

It would be rather pointless, other than giving people the right to binary patch and redistribute the file. I'm mostly just splitting hairs because seeing CC licenses used for code annoys me.
A file from 1997? Maybe if you get lucky, but there's also a good chance that it will simply look wrong in any office application you try. With Word you can't even guarantee that reopening the file on the same computer & version won't change its formatting. That was the reason I learned TeX.

And games? Microsoft broke numerous games by shutting down GFWL. I had to pirate Dark Souls as my original copy wasn't playable until it got re-released on Steam.
PDF is done via an internal plugin. Standards compliant web browser doesn't have to do anything with PDF. Major browsers have internal type handler for PDF.

Similar type handler is engaged with XML. Unless you can utilize W3C standards to implement a custom markup language using XML/XSLT and have it work across browsers without plugins.

SVG is vector graphics.

For another full markup to be even considered there would have to be one that's widely adopted and realized through plugins. Nobody is making interventions in standards to open up venues for easy implementation of custom markups when those markups are used by 0.001% of publishers.
I think this has backfired enormously then. Wouldn't this case set a precedent?
Yes, I felt seriously nauseous. I feel like I just took off early gen VR goggles. Still feeling gross after 30 minutes.