skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s a reason droid parts in OG Star Wars looks like they were pulled off Apollo space suits or something. Practical special effects people raided all the surplus parts after the end of the program.
this. they could easily swap out the controller for a western made product and stop using big words to justify their trade war.
Marketing snippets are rarely implemented by devs, they get dropped into a text box or added to Google Tags by marketing/SEO peeps.

If it is put in by a developer, the budget for that is like an hour to copy paste the code snippet in the right spot. Few are going to pay the hours required for an in house data collection layer that then has to integrate with the third party if that's even an option.

At least that is my experience through agency work. Maybe a product owner company could do it.

Not to be rude to the industry either, but I don't see why the assumption would bet that an in house dev has the chops to not make the same mistakes a third party does.
> some so enthusiastic about her posts that they pay $9.99 a month for more photos

I have absolutely zero sympathy for someone that decides to sell photos of their 11 year old daughter for a monthly subscription fee of $9.99
Show HN: Experimenting with LLM's, Poetry, and Math [pdf]
I was watching Dark Side of the Ring on Vice TV the other day (a vice of mine by chance), and despite the fact that their eponymous block bold letter design language was intact during the promo commercials for upcoming shows, it was clearly all for Vice-adjacent syndicated TV shows that felt more at home on HGTV or worse. I was pretty shocked and figured they just suffered the same fate of The Learning Channel, may it forever rest in peace.
As a counterpoint--from another potential user who looked at Retool first but landed on a competitor's product because Retool was too expensive--another way for me to avoid that outcome is to choose a tool that's open source and self-hosted. That's precisely what we did. If/when the company goes out of business, we can keep using it; this already happened to us with RethinkDB and we continue to run that in its community-maintained form. I'll likely want to find a new platform for new development but I won't have to rewrite my existing apps by a deadline.

You're right that it's a big concern, but it's a pretty tough sell to solve this problem by just charging so much that it's clear you could not possibly go out of business. I had to go pretty far down the list of your top competitors to find a good one that was open source, but I did find it.

All that said, Retool's pricing at that time was MUCH worse than it is today. This is what Retool was offering us at the time: https://web.archive.org/web/20230315060042/https://retool.co... -- no distinction between developers and end users! No access controls until the $50/user/month level! That was totally out of the question. The current pricing looks a bit more reasonable, but it's too late; we already committed to the competitor offering an open source solution.
Oh, the irony, so one of the flagship Flutter app rewrites is now gone?
Man wait until they find out where all my stuff is made.
This is a slippery slope, IMHO. It can easily get you to be the next "tactical tornado" of your team (cf. John Ousterhout, A Philosophy of Software Design).
Maybe you could add support for Gitea? It’s a pretty handy way to slap an API in front of git and it’s much simpler to self host than GitLab.
Yes, it takes a few years or decades to replace all of them and change the engineering culture. How long has it been since MD aquisition??
If you were talking about the science mission directorate you’d be right on. They’re doing good work with the money they’re allocated.

The exploration directorate, on the other hand, with their billion dollar rocket to nowhere…
That’s an example of regulation - not of a central bank providing anything.
Python 3.12 has replaced 3.11 as the default on macOS and Homebrew
Yes, I hated that Youtube felt the need to compete with TikTok and went this route. Short-form video is the worst medium to ever exist.
Our grandfathers underestimated the steel manufacturing craze and a century later, it is busted.
Looks like the typical offshoring development experience to me, thanks for sharing your history.
Intel CEO Hopes to Make Chips for AMD
Nvidia RTX HDR Brings AI Powered HDR to SDR-Only PC Games
I watched M3GAN last weekend and I would say electronic toys should be the US congress' next focus.
But I don’t like video or podcasts. My brain doesn’t learn that way. I like reading
What's the chance they can install cameras and black boxes that will document the re-entry and breakup in a way that can be recovered for video playback ?
Spc-kit: A toolkit for statistical process control using SQL
I’m very much a believer in informed consent. The astronauts will tell you, to a person, that they’d take that risk. Who am we to say otherwise?
i lived in a trailer and had spotty wifi via at&t hotspot. i also have starlink but trees made it unreliable. You realy don't understand how bad js bloat is until you have a shitty internet connection.
I wouldn't look for hidden reasons. Recent image generators are already too good with face generation (thanks to CelebA-like datasets and early researchers).
And now the emphasis is on the multimodality of the model within a domain. There, almost every picture demonstrates some aspect of it. Somewhere there is text on the picture (old AI used to output bullshit instead of letters), somewhere there are humorous references to old images (for example, a cosmonaut on a pig).
"- Rendering too many DOM nodes at once - virtual lists help"

Yup, despite all the improvements, the DOM is still slow and it is easy to make it behave even slower. Only update what is necessary and be aware of the performance bottleneck forced reflow. Every time you change anything and then get clientWidth for example and then change something else - you will make the DOM calculate(and posibly render) everything twice.

I found the chrome dev tools to be really helpful with spotting those and other stuff. But sure, if you update EVERYTHING anyway, including waiting for the whole data transfer, with any click, when you just want some tiny parts refreshed, you have other problems anyway.
Not in the strategic competition sense though.
You can theoretically have a somewhat fast enough large JS app but it's going to be an uphill battle.

You have to make regular bundle analysis otherwise the cache won't work if you deploy too much and package updates and new additions are likely to break the performance analysis you've just made before.

Less JS = better performance is a simplified model but very accurate in practice in my opinion, especially on large teams.
The USA operates on the theory that mutual exposure will modify their hearts & minds more than it modifies our hearts & minds.

This applies to cultural contacts in general too. Every time the US decided to "punish" the Soviets by cutting back cultural contacts... breathtakingly stupid (IMO).
Hey David! I love the sustainable work you are doing for developer tools.

We were emailing back in 2021 about one of the many products you and your team have built for developers. Exciting conversation, for sure!

If anyone is interested in reading about my experience with ReTool's approach to developer tools, I have a link: https://marak.com/blog/2021-04-25-monetizing-open-source-is-...
Paywall. Link to article?
The ChatGPTs of this world will solve that. I like to believe that I know a couple of things about a couple of things regarding technology and sometimes I ask ChatGPT or Gemini "how can I do so and so, list/name five pieces of software or technical solutions to do so-and-so".

I use it/them as a search engine on steroids. Maybe it is time more people also do so.
NASA has spent more on real dollars on Artemis and its dependencies and precursors than the Apollo program costed, and yet it is no where near comparable in return.
I have never been able to get one of the Pay apps to work. One of them fails (on I think phone verification actually, funny) and I've never been able to resolve it even with Google One support.

Then I've always been able to add cards and use tap to pay.

This might explain my confusion.
If they don't pay you to fix those problems then don't fix those problems until they start paying you for it. You'll have to deal with the psychological torture of watching things go horribly wrong. So it's up to you how to deal with it.
With time dilation, wouldn’t you die of thirst/starvation before getting crushed by gravity?

I think I read somewhere that due to relativistic effects, you would be falling forever?
... the webpage is the opposite of what you're describing. Stock photos are not useful substance, it's flashy sizzle and no steak.
Sorry I didn't link to a Dynaboard email. Here's what an (unhappy) customer of theirs sent me: https://imgur.com/a/qTGpgbQ. They were unhappy because they're a) losing all their data, and b) losing all their applications.
I never really understood why SPAs became so popular on the web. It’s like we suddenly and collectively became afraid of the page reload on websites just because it’s not a wanted behaviour in actual web applications.

I have worked with enterprise applications for two decades, and with some that were build before I was born. And I think the React has been the absolute best frontend for these systems compared to everything that came before. You’re free to insert Angular/Vue/whatever by the way. But these are designed to replace all the various horrible client/server UIs that came before. For a web-page that’s hardly necessary unless you’re g-mail, Facebook or similar, where you need the interactive and live content updates because of how these products work. But for something like pornhub? Well PHP serves them just fine, and this is true for most web sites really. Just look at HN and how many people still vastly prefer the old.reddit.com site to their modern SPA. Hell, many people still would probably still prefer an old.Facebook to the newer much slower version.
That works too, but there is something to be said about a turn key solution friendly to corporations who are willing to just throw some money to make a problem go away. Plus archive will get a bit of extra money for the Wayback machine!

Just pay some donation, redirect your DNS to the way back machine and bingo.
In very large black holes the tidal forces are gentle, so you wouldn't get spaghettified. It's the little black holes that tear you apart.
Go(lang): Robust generic functions on slices
you should have sympathy for the child, not the mother
How about pausing surveillance as well.
Thank you, I might be searching for the wrong things, but I don't see any independent servers. There's clients, libraries, bots, but no servers, am I missing something?

My question was motivated by the fact that from the outside the AT proto ecosystem looks pretty monocultural, and personally I don't trust that. :)
https://archive.is/20240223070924/https://www.wsj.com/politi...
Even decently powerful phones can have issues with some of these.

Substack is particularly infuriating : sometimes it lags so badly that it takes seconds to display scrolled text (and bottom of text references stop working). And that's on a 2016 flagship : Samsung Galaxy S7 ! I shudder to think of the experience for slower phones...

(And Substack also manages to slow down to a glitchy crawl when there are a lot of (text only !) comments on my gaming desktop PC.)
> Every other phone in its class had the same problem

Very wrong.
Do you often feel unsure about transitioning from a local application to a cloud-based setup? In this installment of Implementing, I discuss my preferred deployment tool and provide a detailed guide on deploying your application. Share your thoughts and insights!
really? i've definitely done it before on my local as a quicker alternative to cleaning up the docker container/volume, doesn't seem that bad

ofc i'd think differently if i was also putting write-permission prod credentials into my machine, but luckily i haven't been in many places doing that
Back in the early days, Vice had some really good content - I'll always remember Shane Smith's trip on the Siberian railway on his trip to North Korea. It's a shame the management have decided on the scorched earth approach here.
> The website said the “software conducts local processing of digital image maps derived from the USB optical sensor in real-time,

Is the "USB optical sensor" really a hidden camera, and "digital image maps" is images from the hidden camera?

If so, then are they also being weaselly in the rest of the sentence?

> without storing such data on permanent memory mediums or transmitting it over the Internet to the Cloud.”
The vanguard of that just isn’t in FAANG anymore. That’s why you’re not seeing it.
Because the FSF is a software freedom advocacy group, they do not do software development. The FSF also doesn't "manage" the GNU project, which is a entirely volunteer project that is managed by it self (https://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-structure.en.html); they do provide critical infrastructure for both GNU and other projects but that is then manage by volunteers.

GNU hackers do what they want, when they want it, sometimes they get sponsored or backed by a company, but that is a rare thing ... question should be why aren't software development companies sponsoring developers to work on GIMP, GNU, and other free software projects?
If they don't just re-controller them and replace the entire structure, we've gone insane. China wouldn't care that they're not following contract protocol. Just nationalize them. Really this should have never happened in the first place.
Given the optimizations applied to SDXL (comparing to SD 1.5), it is understandable why it outputs blurry backgrounds. It is not for safety, it is just a cheap way to hide imperfections of technology. Imagine 2 neural networks: one occasionally outputs Lovecraftian hallucinated chimeras on backgrounds, another one outputs sterile studio-quality images. Researches selected the second approach.
Hi Marak! Let me know if you think this response is fair: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27252331. I'd summarize it as "we used a MIT library to generate some data, and unbeknownst to us, this MIT library linked to proprietary data. We then immediately removed such data once we found out."

If you don't think that's a fair reaction, would love to hear your perspective and buy you a coffee next time I'm in NYC. I'll send you an email now. :)
Smart home device manufacturers want you to use their apps. Over time many have become increasingly hostile towards open source solutions such as Home Assistant.

I was an early adopter for Smart Home products. Some early products could be made to work with Home Assistant and my in-house server. But more recently devices are harder to make work. I have ripped out many of my early attempts.

Most certainly I wouldn't trust any of the smart locks. Exploits are being found and published.
Best LLM for simple code completion with large context window
Here's what I'm trying to do - this is _not_ for use in an IDE.

Imagine you have a SaaS and you want your users to be able to completely control the SaaS with natural language.

So you reduce all of the SaaS functionality into a set of typescript types (including function types), will documented, with every parameter accounted for. And then, when a user types a request in natural language, you ask an LLM to produce a set of function calls to be executed, and after confirming with the user, you run them.

To do this you need to pass the entire typescript definitions for the entire SaaS as well as all of the user's data relevant to their query into the context window. And the LLM has to be particularly good at writing (simple) Typescript code.

What's the best for this? Using GPT-4 Turbo for now, but really not up to date on the latest models and versions.
None of your examples are commercial.
Did InfoPath have any other workflow/automation/integration things available besides BizTalk (which is the one thing I saw InfoPath with)? Because if not, then it's no surprise that it didn't catch on.
Legitimate reviews are also becoming harder to find. There are a lot of bots and high ranked searches that interfere with the end user getting the information they need. YouTube reviewers often don't disclose their sponsorships.

Obviously it's not impossible but point is this is getting worse over time not better. Remember that early online stores...
I believe it's just the usual issue of mistakes in generations being easier to spot in humans, by humans. Usually not a good sign for model quality.
Show HN: GPU Prices on eBay
Howdy!

Keeping with the trend of being influenced by https://diskprices.com, I wanted to make a resource for GPUs on eBay that also take into account a performance metric I tend to look at when checking GPUs.

It's still a work in progress, but it's at a state where I think some of HN might find it useful!

There are a few things that I have planned to add in the coming day(s):
1. Filters for compatible slots and connectors
2. Expand for different eBay regions, rather than just US focus

Let me know if you have any questions or want more / different filters on the page or if I missed something important.
You would see the end of the universe. Due to the extreme time dilation you would see nothing interesting in the black hole itself (things in front of you would appear frozen in time and unmoving), but the universe outside would experience its entire lifetime as you fell in.

You'd have a hard time seeing any of it with your eyes though because light would be dramatically blue (the outside) and red (the inside) shifted. Additionally items on the inside would be so dim as to be invisible (the time dilation means the light emission also slows down, so you would see nothing). The universe though, would blast you with all of its light at basically the same time, and would be incredibly bright.
No Javascript:

https://writing.exchange/@ernie.rss

https://writing.exchange/@ernie/111977450241144169/embed
They still sit at roughly 50x PE Ratio though. You'd have to expect such high growth (way more than even they forecast) to make sense of buying into that if you're not reliant on making money on hype and brand awareness, which is brutally fickle.
Nice! Yes that final O was a bit idiosyncratic, I forget the reasoning for it. I listed my BBS in their directory.

My memory (a little misty) was that they started as ByteBuyer and then renamed to ComputorEdge. At least in 92 they were called ComputorEdge.

I did have a stash of them somewhere but haven’t seen them for a long time.

Nice to reminisce!
Aspects of the API look fairly similar to GitHub actually. I'll look into it.
After all, we might be in a very large black hole, without noticing.
If they’re small then you can see it happening where someone was logged into prod using some environment variables to sort out some issue - probably didn’t even update production, just a few queries - and then went back to work.

Hours later they run some script that does DROP DATABASE from that same shell they used to troubleshoot, which takes a little longer than usual…

Anyway I can totally see it happening to me in my little one man shop, but now i think I might look at removing some privileges from my prod account :)
I really like my pinetime. It has way better battery life than android wearos watches - 2 weeks! - and does the few things I actually need, showing the time, alarms and notifications.
Same here, but there is a difference between cluttered and dense. Cluttered sucks, but dense is incredibly empowering.
But everything is relativist. There is and can't be any absolute privacy. We need to find the biggest gain we can have in privacy with minimal impact to economy. And making laws for online ads is the worst in terms of ROI. It impacts economy and millions of people could work because of ads and it offers very low benefit.

> you haven't been put on trial for your 'crimes' yet

I know someone who has been put to trial.

> They aggregate and sell data to Palantir

See here we are going to speculative domain. If there are companies who I trust not to do that, it would be big tech not because they are good, but because they know the value of data and are the ones which can extract highest value. And in any case it would require breaking TOS as companies list out their partners. And if we are entering illegal, anyways laws won't help with this.
*Gemini
Show HN: Pg_road – PostgreSQL Table Access Method for Read-Only Archived Data
Don't even remember when I opened Stack Overflow, won't miss that condescending place.
Rookie move having the cat on the desk while ssh'd into prod...
SEPA is roughly the same as FedNow, which is has been live for almost 8 months now.

It's not comparable to VisaNet.
I'm curious what's the generated sql for the table with grouped rows ?
This is much better than expected. Switching to chat is also making it feel better for me. I will compare it to GPT-4 in coding tasks over the next month and may switch after that.
Yes, the actual image data doesn’t get sent, but all the information gained from said image data does.
To an outside observer, yes. But from your perspective falling in, your watch would seem to run normally, even though 1 minute passing on the watch might equal 100 years of time far away from the black hole.
Does APL have any advantages in data-science/analysis over R/Python-Pandas ?
Yes that's correct. Get a quote for your use case, if you are already running on higher numbers. Pricing might not fit all cases, that's why there's also an Enterprise tier.
OT: there's actually a ≔ symbol, so you could write MLE ≔ DS if you wanted to.
Don't help anyone too much until a manager asks you to help. If someone is really pressing help, tell them that you are busy, but they can ask the manager to tell me to help. This way, you always get maximum credit. Every single manager that I have worked for claimed they were "different" and did not suffer from it. Usually, I give them many chances to see my value. After I am overlooked too many times, I revert to this selfish mode explained previously. In all such cases, my recognition from the manager improves. Sigh.
AI Timelines (2023)
Are you the author? GO you have an oficial English translation?
Could they (or a for-profit company) bid on it? Do liquidators in the US have to consider any offer, even if it was unsolicited? Does it vary from state to state?
I firmly believe that if they think their only option is to shut down, they aren't fit to do their job. If they don't understand how the internet works they should let someone who does do the work.

If you are a business built on top of the web you need someone who's tech savvy in-house.

Maybe they deserve their faith. But it's sad that the next generation will miss this insightful content because they gave up.
> it wasn't a crime, and the average marriage age of women around the world was still 14

That’s just as outright false as it gets. Average marriage age was never that low going back to the middle ages (ancient Rome/Greece were different). Of course it varied a lot. e.g in Northwestern Europe back in the 13-14th centuries (specifically in Britain, although IIRC Northern France wasn’t that different)it was the most common for women to marry somewhere between 18-22 while in Italy 16-18 was more usual (which is why I assume Romeo and Juliet made any sense to English audiences).

A few centuries later mid 20s became a lot more common in Britain (and I think in the US). In fact the average marriage age in the 1960s was lower than it had ever been in centuries:

http://www.wivesofjosephsmith.org/Age.htm