skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> what? that’s just shy of 32k a month. enough to save for all your retirement, pay a mortgage, support a family, go on holiday, do whatever you want.

Really? Houses here cost $3M, and since you can't afford that you'll be paying an arm and a leg to rent from a greedy landlord. You'll take 20 years to save up that 3M, by which time you're too old to enjoy life, and houses will cost 8M at that point in time. Good luck if you plan to have kids, that $32k/month won't be enough at all for daycare, schooling, afterschooling, insane medical expenses, fixing all the shit they break, and all that.

And no, taking out a loan to buy a house doesn't mean you can afford a house, it means you're spending money that you don't have. This should NOT be the norm. People should be able to afford basic shit, like a roof.

This tech geek actually COULD have afforded that roof if Apple and the government weren't stealing all of her money.

> and if this supposed dev did $999,999 he’d only pay 15%.

No that's not how taxes work
Sigital marquees, especially old ones, are hilariously expensive to fix or replace. A client of mine has one like that and was quoted over 300k to replace it when a control software failed.

Luckily, we fixed the controller (which is IR based) but I fully understand why one of those signs would stay in that state now.
ah yeah fair point. it's the screen recordings I'm worried about leaving my computer
You misread. He is saying that he owns his knowledge. This is about what appears to be AI generated content that got his name put on it. You can generate stuff with AI all you want, but you should be honest about what you are doing and not steal the names and identities of others in order to make sales.
> I won't hire or work with or for googlers or any DEI people ever.

I’m sure they’ll be very sad not to work with you.
I think they give a very good answer in their own blog: https://remix.run/blog/not-another-framework

Summary: Learn Remix, Accidentally Learn the Web

> It is an explicit goal of ours to design APIs that are high-level enough to help you just get the job done, but close enough to the web to backfill your fundamental knowledge of Kung Fu the web.

That's something I really like about remix.
so what is the reason he was fired for? certainly not because of his years of experience?
Windows 11 has a fun feature where it will potentially deactivate if you update your bios.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/15/23958751/microsoft-windo...
They should have named the capsule Scoop and the antiviral Andromeda.
“Today is the day” and sometimes it just is.

It’s nice to tell yourself a story as to why this is the ideal moment to have a reset.
I tried it with a place I’m pretty familiar with.

The problem with large language models is that they don’t actually KNOW anything. They can produce very plausible outputs though, which is what I got. If you were visiting for the first time, the itinerary would look good, but trying to actually do it would be stressful to impossible.

Travel agents can relax for a few more years.
Better to restart the discussion than trying to ask for corrections, the context window gets filled with confusion.
Oh man, he'd been on our (Xfce) mailing list for a while, sending a ton of merge requests for various cleanups to our window manager and other components. While I wouldn't say what he was doing was completely useless, it was generally not super helpful, didn't really need to be done, and mainly just caused code churn. On my less charitable days it felt like he was just trying to get his name out there and into the commit history of a lot of projects, but the time and effort he was spending was probably too much if that was the motivation.

Several of his MRs ended up becoming out of date and full of merge conflicts because of other work that was being done, and it just seemed like a waste of time to me.

Someone downthread posted a link where Linus Torvalds himself excoriates this guy for posting anti-vaxxer nonsense to the lkml. That... really takes the cake.
Also not C-Suite, eh?
How quaint.

You humans think that the AI will have someone in charge of it. Look, that's a thin layer that can be eliminated quickly. It's like when you build a tool that automates the work of, say, law firms but you don't want law firms getting mad that you're giving it away to their clients, so you give it to the law firms and now they secretly use the automating software. But it's only a matter of time before the humans are eliminated from the loop:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrIf0oYTtaI

The employee will be eliminated. But also the employer. The whole thing can be run by AI agents, which then build and train other AI agents. Then swarms of agents can carry out tasks over long periods of time, distributed, while earning reputation points etc.

This movie btw is highly recommended, I just can't find it anywhere anymore due to copyright. If you think about it, it's just a bunch of guys talking in rooms for most of the movie, but it's a lot more suspenseful than Terminator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyOEwiQhzMI
(just to point out what ought to be obvious, this is a vastly lower risk than opening a web page in a browser, in the sense that remote code execution vulnerabilities are found in browsers at a much higher and constantly increasing rate)
Plus the sales tax on the hot app to begin with. Plus all the paperwork for all these various fees, cuts, and taxes. Plus all the start up costs. Plus full responsibility for the (relatively high) risk of failure.

What incentives are we setting up for people looking to start new tech businesses? No wonder the average start-up plan these days is 'don't bother with sustainable profits, just make a splash, cross your fingers and hope to "exit" on the back of some VC with more money than sense'.
What kind of lockpick can you build out of legos?
I used to have histdb set up really well with r-i-search etc. but recently I can't get it to really do that any more. It's a pity. Does anyone have a histdb + fzf r-i-search solution that works well for them?
One difference is that we can expect models to improve, become more reliable, cheaper and need less hand-holding.
iMessage gets a major makeover that puts it on equal footing with Signal
My money's on some of the optics.

https://www.zeiss.com/semiconductor-manufacturing-technology...

https://www.trumpf.com/en_US/products/lasers/euv-drive-laser...

https://www.cymer.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Cymer_SPIE_...
Having never had a shitter account, I’m apparently unable to load the tweet. If someone can repost a screenshot somewhere and link to it, I’m at least curious even if it doesn’t sound useful.
> outside of the XWayland scope given the diminishing developer interest and lots of talk but little action by those anti-Wayland holdouts in the community to actually contribute to X.Org Server development.

I don't know.. maybe they're actually rising to this "challenge."

Although, I've never understood why the presence of Wayland means X.Org needs to disappear. To me it seems part of our modern churlish desktop software cult that is perennially annoyed that their new systems, while slightly more visually appealing, have actually removed more useful features than they have added and fail to be a compelling upgrade on their own.

So, instead of making anything better, they focus on destroying what already exists.
Byron was a monster, not a sexy “mad, bad, and dangerous to know” character. As one data point (out of many) consider his treatment of his daughter Allegra: https://darkestlondon.com/2012/10/19/the-short-tragic-life-o.... After being transferred from family to family, little Allegra was dumped to a convent. From there “…four-year-old Allegra wrote her father a letter in Italian from the convent, dated 21 September 1821, asking him to visit her (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegra_Byron):

My dear Papa. It being fair-time, I should like so much a visit from my Papa as I have many wishes to satisfy. Won't you come to please your Allegrina who loves you so?”

She was strictly disciplined by the nuns while there. Seven months after writing the letter she died of a fever, five years old. You can see the letter in Allegra's handwriting here: https://x.com/JedPumblechook/status/1734513882360594640?s=20.

Byron never once visited her or responded to her letter. In the back of the letter he wrote "Sincere enough, but not very flattering - for she wants to see me because it 'is the fair' to get some paternal Gingerbread - I suppose." (https://www.nytimes.com/1983/10/13/arts/notable-children-s-l...)

"Caro il mio Pappa" indeed!
> There's probably a body controller ECU that ties into engine ECU and driver's key systems. So theives would just generate and flash a new key/cert, that'll be certainly possible.

This sounds like the old desktop mentality you mentioned. You can’t just reflash things to bypass a secure boot process – the entire point is to prevent things like that! You’d design the driver’s key to pair with the various onboard systems and those systems to do a challenge-response cycle during the boot process so someone can’t easily drive away without the key or resell those parts, with both sides using a private key which never leaves that component. Yes, that kind of design can still be attacked but the goal here is to make it more expensive than it’s worth: needing a flatbed to take it somewhere for a rogue EE to work on it, for example, just isn’t going to make sense except for the most expensive luxury vehicles.

This brings me to:

> Infotainment? That's almost literally an aftermarket parts.

Yes, and those cost money. The entire point is that you don’t need to make it perfect, just expensive. If someone has to replace the display and speakers, that means they’re making less profit on the sale and making it more obvious that the vehicle was stolen which increases risk and reduces the number of buyers, especially for the most valuable vehicles.
What is the intended use for this ?

Notes app seem like an odd place to ask Google like questions.

Is it supposed to help me with writing long for text?
Am I supposed to use it as a spell/grammar checker ?

This is not directly a question for your integration, but more of a general question for using local LLMs for long form text.
I have one. The keyboard is quite comfortable, even with my large hands. The screen is both high resolution and almost square, making it quite comfortable to code on. The touchpad is a comfortable size and responsive.

I think the size and proportions are ideal for a small, thin laptop. Conversely all of the large tablets I've tried have had uncomfortable detachable keyboards and OK at best touchpads.
The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs
Edit: riquito is totally right here, I'm wrong. I'm leaving this for posterity, but this is all incorrect: stdout buffering by default will allow the "yes" process to write a lot of data even if you do a naive loop of printf calls. Writing to stdout will not block just because nothing's reading from it, the writes will be held in a decently-sized buffer by default, so even the naive approach will be wasting energy. I'll leave this for my own shame:

It prints them as long as the receiving process reads them. That’s how pipes work. When piping to a process that only reads from stdin once (you know, like the original purpose of the command, to respond “yes” to prompts from processes that are asking for confirmation), it will only write once (because stdout is line-buffered, so printing a string with a newline will block until something reads it.) Filling a buffer with 4,000 instances of “y\n” on the off chance that the receiving process will actually read all of those, is doing extra work that may not be needed.

“Maddening research for performance” in this case is coming at the expense of energy expenditure: you’re always allocating that memory and always filling a buffer with thousands of “y”s even when it’s just going to get thrown out. That should not be applauded. People should be just as concerned about energy usage as they are about wall clock time.
I have used Playwright to write tests for my website. It was so easy and the code is so readable. I can wholeheartedly recommend it if you need to control a browser from your code. I'm now using it to write a crawler for a dozen websites, because anything else would be too tedious.
Maybe. Until we find there’s a better way to encode the information and need the unfiltered, original context so it can be used with that new method.
> Nasa doesn't hava another Voyager probe in their lab floating around in zero gravity to run unit tests on before sending the SW patches, they use simulators.

JPL keeps a working duplicate of their Mars rovers on Earth and tests software updates there. So if the Voyager zero-gee environment prevents a useful duplicate, that means testing software in simulation is considered inferior to using a (massively expensive) physical duplicate like for the Mars robers.

https://mars.nasa.gov/news/8749/nasa-readies-perseverance-ma...
i hate that people can get a mortgage with as little as 5% upfront at the moment, it's a terrible financial decision

but to say that any mortgage should not be the norm i think is clearly wrong. history doesn't repeat itself, but through the past 100 years, the extra leverage you get from putting, say, 25% down on a 20 year mortgage has made it an amazing investment.
if thunderbird doesn't support maildir, either you can't store your email in a maildir, or you can't use thunderbird. maildir has some real advantages, and so does thunderbird, and it would be nice to be able to combine them
Depends what you mean by unilateral. You can have a Nash equilibrium and also implicit collusion, for example if one player is playing GTO, that is they are playing optimally under the assumption that all other players are acting independently, and two other players are implicitly colluding with one another, you can still have a Nash equilibrium so that none of the players stand to gain anything by changing their strategy, and also the player playing GTO will have a negative expected value.

Imagine a situation where the collusion was explicit, you are playing GTO against two opponents who are colluding with one another. A Nash equilibrium will still exist in that situation but your EV will be negative. Now explicit collusion is considered cheating but you can imagine a scenario where two players play in such a way that even though they are not explicitly colluding with one another, they behave the exact same way as if they were. This happens among a group of loose players where their actions as a group rewards the group as a whole against players who are acting independently.

In other words, just because a strategy is optimal does not mean that it results in a positive expectation. You might be in a situation where playing perfectly just minimizes your losses, but you will still lose anyways.
Great and inspiring story, who is your buyer/audience would you say?
Be cautious, the meds can make it worse in the long run as your brain seeks homeostasis and now demands even more dopamine than before to motivate.
Yes anyone who doesn’t have the knowledge/time/motivation/cynicism to prevent themselves getting taken advantage of is basically asking for it, nay “deserves” it.

/sarcasm
I use an ubo scriptlet to enable zoom/download on instagram but my setup is rather exotic, maybe there are other extensions for mobile firefox
Commercially, I struggle to see how this fits in to the most natural application, a contact center.

For example, take Amazon Connect pricing:

There is an Amazon Connect service usage charge, based on end-customer call duration. At $0.018 per minute * 7 minutes = $0.126

There is an inbound call per minute charge for German DID numbers. At $0.0040 per minute * 7 minutes = $0.0280

If I were to bring retell into the loop, I'm changing my self-service per minute cost from .018 + .004 = .0184 per minute to .1184 per minute at the cheapest setting. And from that, I don't have a clear case for the impact on deflection, and because of that I don't have clear ROI.

This isn't saying that the product isn't great -- but at the current price I struggle to see how anyone at scale can use it without eating the double whammy of LLM + Retell costs.
Great work here! Enjoyed poking around the github repo. I see you do a lot of work with Clojure, would you mind sharing why you chose Haskell for this project?
Wow, it's good to see he swung the xorg guys somehow.
No Simple Answers in Stereo
I can use Signal with people not using Apple hardware, can I do the same with iMessage?
>Houses here cost $3M, and since you can't afford that you'll be paying an arm and a leg to rent from a greedy landlord.

Where is this?
Sure. I clicked the docs demo URL[1] linked from the Sidekick page, then typed in the search box `what is Sidekick`, which returned the following:

> Kagi Sidekick is a helpful and cheerful assistant that assists users in finding the information they want on the Kagi website. It is a product feature backed by Kagi Search and large language models. Kagi Sidekick is currently in open beta and is only available to Ultimate plan members. <link to Kagi Assistant page>

The page it linked to was this[2], which stated similarly to the latter line above, except 'Sidekick' swapped to 'Assistant'. I had assumed from this that Sidekick had been renamed sometime recently or something.

> Kagi Assistant is currently in open beta only available to Ultimate plan members.

[1] https://help.kagi.com/kagi/

[2] https://help.kagi.com/kagi/ai/assistant.html
Fair point, I've been using atuin for a few years on a few machines but never once felt the need to set up sync. I forgot sync was even a feature! It's certainly over-emphasized on the web page.

I use it mainly because a) it stores data about command history in a proper database that's easy to query (what century is this? How do other tools justify dumping what should be structured information into some god-awful mess of semi-structured text files?) and b) it makes a clean separation between SESSION, DIRECTORY and GLOBAL scopes which means you can explicitly use a recency or a locality filter (I don't want irrelevant commands cluttering my history).

Even without sync, atuin is a gem.
Rewind AI
thank you,
busy founders who have websites with over 20 pages
Or wouldn't COPY from CSV be much faster?
FWIW, although it's closed source and pre-alpha, I've written a poker server (and proof-of-concept client) in Rust. A few people gather together at 5:05pm Pacific and play a tournament a day at https://craftpoker.com The outdated Players' Manual is at https://ctm.github.io/docs/players_manual/friends.html

It's free, no ads, we don't sell (or even collect for the most part) your information, etc.

Back in the day I did some work on fast hand evaluators in C and wrote in Objective-C the first software to deal multi-table poker tournaments (on IRC) on the internet.
Is this the stuff that’s also a great lube?
Huh, that's a good term. Thank you
> What is the bottleneck?

Zeiss
So I take it you're also an advocate for this?

< <(curl http://...) command -option

Because that's what you get if you address the actual argument and still insist on input redirection.

Input redirection is inconsistent with every other command to retrieve data. Not only does it not have the same syntax, it's combining two actions into one step of the pipeline.
> "...Celebrating 25 years since the original release, version 15.0 is now available."

That's remarkable persistence. Apparently this is the main/only product of the company. Good news for those who still use it.

Yet it's hard to validate a rationale for adopting a Fortran based GUI toolset for new projects.
Yea, I think we're in kind of a vicious recursive cycle of imperfect-metric-reinforcement (reward-hacking I suppose, though often implemented in economics as well as code) rather than one of recursive self-improvement in a more holistic sense. Optimization is really good at turning small problems of this nature into big ones more quickly
How sure are you? I do joke a lot, but in this case...

The slave trade formally ended in Britain in 1807, and slavery was outlawed in 1833. I haven't been able to find good statistics through a cursory search, but with England's population around 10M in 1800, that 99.9% value requires less than 10k non-white Englanders kicking around in 1800. I saw a figure that indicated around 3% of Londoners were black in the 1600s, for example (a figure that doesn't count people from Asia and the middle east). Hence my request for sources, I'm genuinely curious, and somewhat suspicious that somebody would be so confident to assert 3 significant figures without evidence.
https://Rewind.ai is the macOS equivalent
With current tech, adding a "Kamikaze-cam" feature to M2 rounds would probably be pretty easy. And if the fins on each round were slightly adjustable, to provide a bit of guidance...a quick barrage of 60mm starts to sound more like a super-fast, cheap drone swarm, doesn't it?
Anywhere in the bay area. (Except maybe Oakland, though you probably not live very long if you live there, so I guess you could get away with less retirement savings.)
Look at the Shopify Functions platform
Strikes me as a "if we call it a tip, we can get away with it" situation.
I keep seeing this, and keep thinking that we’re going to end up with some really stupid AI if that’s the training data.

There are some subreddits that are real diamonds in the rough, but the vast majority of the subs are full of people spewing nonsense.
very simple.
as you see in this post, 3 products used to grow the main products are also my products.
So basically I build products to solve my own pains and problems.
Every day I get new problems, I solve them manually first, then I turn this solution into a product, use it for myself, iterate, once Im happy I let other founders try it and that's how the new product is being born
To be fair, you can use a custom server with Next.js too.
I think this post and others reactions and then your comment this far down really encapsulates where we’re at with this technology.

Nearly 90 percent of comments on posts about LLMs are people talking about how the near future is about to boggle our minds and that general intelligence is near, but all my experiences with these LLMs show they’re capable of making the most basic of mistakes and doing so confidently and that’s just the tip of the iceberg in terms of their problems.

I’m having a hard time buying into the hype that these will be able to competently replace nearly any job anytime soon. They’re useful tools but they all come with a big asterisk of human hand holding.
That sums up a lot of workplace disfunction. Proactively pushing new ideas and then getting blamed for failure, not applauded for them attempt. It’s why corporates can’t innovate internally.
Wait, what even is the threat model here? I can't come up with many scenarios in which this makes sense
That’s a very interesting idea, that the layoffs and hiring freezes -and the resulting reality that morale is at an all-time low among every one of the dozens of engineers I interact with on a frequent basis- is a consequence of leadership banking on that they can run their humans into the ground and then replace them with automation.

There used to be the tiniest bit of restraint when the only available replacements were also sentient meatbags which would need to be trained.

It makes sense that this rampant, gleeful, wholesale exploitation has been enabled by the idea that AI can replace folks faster than attrition brings things to a halt.

Sick, but feels truthy
Seems regressive. Continuous glucose monitoring is a game changer for weight loss or performance gains.
macOS:
https://www.rewind.ai/
It’s Zeiss specifically. They’re a fun company.
So, with the paid version, under support, you get the CEOs phone number. Not sure I’ve ever seen that….