skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I helped build a billing system for a smallish family business. It had cost overruns and was way behind schedule. A year or so after planned release and after bringing in some more senior leadership it was a huge success for them. Integrated their customers database with their new SaaS products and facilitated very unique workflows that a legacy business needed to get through a digital transformation.

Very unique circumstances but huge undertaking.
Zero non-technical users actually care about PWA support.
If you want to split hairs about exact terminology, then /reasons/casus belli/. I hope we don't disagree that their "denazification" story is bullshit.
I'm putting my tinfoil hat on but this is my theory as an American.

Post 9/11, the Western world became obsessive over a sense of security and we've accepted it as a fact of life. To the point where we accept the TSA at airports without complaint, we accept nationwide surveillance, we operate on the internet with an innate understanding that "someone" at the government is watching everything we're doing. We accept these because we've been conditioned to believe that these tactics keep us safe.

As a lot of the population grows up and never experienced a pre-9/11 world, the government, police unions, etc have to ensure that these overbearing "security" tactics have a reason. Therefore, we highlight these "in your city" local crimes to provide validation for what they're doing.
Do you mean feathr? Welcome PRs!
"Also, none of these basic tools handle compressed files."
Actually, zgrep can search on compressed files, this is should be part of the basic sysadmin toolkit.

But otherwise this tool seems very useful, will give it a try.
Tea is from the same person who was using AI generated descriptions in their package manager the other day. Probably best to put your old grift to bed before starting your new one?
Austria: A Fearful Country in Need of a Vision
Over-simplistically, I might have commits like:

* Add new field to the database

* Add new feature to API

* Add new feature to front end

* Add new feature end to end test

Each would make sense on it's own from a code review point of view, but the full feature doesn't exist until they are all included. You don't want to merge them one by one because QA would have to test every step doesn't break something else, but wouldn't be able to test the feature itself until later. Splitting it up means code reviewers can consider each part without the clutter of the others, and git blame may be more helpful in the future (although maybe not in this over simplistic case).
Designing a Floppy Disk Drive for the PDP-8
Just looked into it recently, internet is full of stories like

https://www.kiaownersclub.co.uk/threads/warning-to-kia-owner...

Here is one paper describing how shit is car security

"We discovered that Kia and Hyundai immobiliser keys have only three bytes of entropy"

https://tches.iacr.org/index.php/TCHES/article/view/8546/811...

It literally takes <1 minute to steal the car

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQPMbYUOrwk
You build things yourself because A: you really like doing that (that is a hobby thing, not something to run a business on); B: you are really good at it and so have made it a core business item you use to make money (you are selling your system to others) C: you can't trust anyone else to do it.

In finance C is a big one! A bad billing system can kill you, and so despite the complexity it might be worth doing just because you now are in control. If you choose to buy a billing system anyway, you still need to understand how it works in enough detail to audit it. A corrupt billing system can hide how it is siphoning your money away and the numbers seem to balance and so you don't realize it is at fault. A bad billing system will not apply some tax it should and when you fail an audit the government will demand you pay - the unexpected bill will kill you. There are many variations on both of the above. You need to audit your systems to ensure they don't happen to you.

Despite the above I generally would suggest you buy a billing system not build your own. However that doesn't absolve you from understanding billing in enough detail to audit yours on a high level. You also need to select one that your independent auditors (which might be too expensive to have but you really want) can audit in whatever detail needed.
Looks like open-source is just a marketing tool for AI companies before they have a good enough model to sell. I guess we have to look for what Meta is going to do with LlaMA 3.
But transparency is not the reason they spend time and money on microLED. MicroLED solves real problems that aren't "this screen lacks transparency".

The transparency is just a cool show piece that happens when you don't package the panel with a frame and an opaque backdrop. What they did spend time and money on is giving some of their marketing people a presumably small budget to show that useless but cool thing r&d stumbled across to the public. It would be stupid not to.
>FSD is mostly still missing. Mercedes officially surpassed Tesla in this regard.

Here's FSD in public hands 5 days ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBVeMexIjkw

Any video of a Mercedes car doing something similar, or anything a Tesla cannot 10x better?
> As someone who's been involved in both building and integrating billing systems, I can say you speak from a position of blissful ignorance.

As someone who has worked on exactly the same billing code and running system as the GP, I can say that you have dramatically underestimated their experience in this area.
It's funny that we don't say "covering a [program]" but "porting..." when recreating something in the spirit of another's work.
> the difference between revenue and profit is irrelevant for the purpose of this argument

Why?
That meta post is very helpful. I thought dang had to email you for the second chance slot.
Injections can be done at home, after you do some at the office and you get your doctor to agree. My wife gets it shipped to our door each month.

In her case, this doesn't cure anything, but manages symptoms of MCAS. Not ideal, but way better than life without it.
Why would a particle physisist know anything about the economics of running power generation
> If you set up some bait cars and catch some thieves, they will probably just be replaced with other low level men

This is a maddening learned helplessness. In some cities the majority of crime is done by less than 100 people. You can find dozens of examples of this, eg purse thefts in the 90's being one person, or 90% of bike theft being attributed to 11 people. Both anecdotes: https://twitter.com/AnechoicMedia_/status/176177303735813354...

Claiming that new people will magically spring up to take their place is nonsensical, so long as the punishment is not letting them go 5 hours later, as it is in some cities. There is no reason to believe that prosecuting crime will not lower crime and it is fabulous to believe that.
I encountered this recently when I set up dolibarr for my restaurant in Taiwan. We have VAT in Taiwan but I feel like nobody actually knows how VAT is supposed to work. Sometimes a shop will charge us VAT, sometimes not, but what never happens is seeing VAT on your bill as a consumer, which means that every B2C in the country, other than Uber Eats, is eating the VAT. I assume. Or everyone's committing tax fraud all the way up the chain. Honestly both are just as likely.

If dolibarr didn't have auto handling for it I would have encountered it for the first time in my own program and instantly thrown my hands in the air and just done paper ledgers. I can't even imagine coding around it.
I suspect that if we wanted to find an environment for kids to do simple shape programming, we can find something like that.

The difference seems to be that there's been a greater divergence between "professional" tools and "kids/intro tools" whereas Turbo C++ (or Turbo Pascal in my days) were kinda both.
> That’s not how any of this works lol

How does it work?
Also LLMs.

IMO this is why newspapers are so afraid of LLMs, they're competing on the sense of authoritativeness.
Satellite images can be taken on a dependable schedule, but the weather doesn't always provide a clear view of the ground.
In 20 years we went from drinking and smoking weed being the worst things a teen could do, to those being the drugs you would hope your teenagers are doing if they're doing drugs while you're not around.
> if the sun is always directly overhead everywhere [...] Apply whatever multiplication factors you like about what percentage of the year a given real solar cell will generate power

A simple but useful back-of-the-envelope estimate would be 25%. Half of the day, there's no sun, so you have 50%; the other half, it increases gradually until the middle of the day, then decreases gradually until the sun sets. Simplifying this to a linear increase and decrease, if you plot it into a graph you'd have a pair of isosceles right triangles, which cover half of the area, so you have another 50% over that first 50%, and the end result is 25%.

(IIRC, the real result for the single-axis trackers you'd find on grid-scale power plants is something like 30%, showing how good that simple back-of-the-envelope estimate is.)
You can download osm and satellite datasets for thousands of square miles in a few GB. If you need very high resolution satellite it's gonna be on the order of 1GB per ~10sqmi depending on what you're up to.
You’re exactly right, but unfortunately HN is not the place to have such a discussion.
Tl; dr thing you should keep in mind(and this will happen to every SaaS): 1.5 mio in revenue per employee.

Your SaaS vendor will hike prices or fire people until they get to this number. Why ? Because VC/Wall Street told them that if they want a Meta/Apple/Microsoft like valuation or a good upround they need to hit this key metric.

Over the next 2-3 years every SaaS that is priced by some sort of market(so not passion projects/ projects run by guys who don't look at comparables) will at least try to hit the above metric. Whether that is massively laying off people(ring any bells?) or massively hiking pricing depends on the product in consideration.

The era of "profitable customer" is over. Now it's all about how profitable he is, and 1.5 mio in revenue per employee is the benchmark.
My Logical Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Yeah, and people shouldn't learn to read and write, they should leave it up to AI.
Depression must have had some survival value or it would have evolved out.
On the other side of this, understanding usage based consumption billing as a customer is very tough. First got exposure to this working on https://ec2instances.info.
This argument is already refuted by the article; building is currently less expensive (often by more than half!) in Western/Northern Europe (excluding UK/Ireland) than in the US, and you can certainly be sure that air quality, labor laws, security and so on are not inferior in any way in Sweden or Germany compared to the US.
just mount the laptop screen 20 inches from your face with helmet mount
What is local breakout?
Le Chat
Well, there were both.

Punched cards were used in computing centers for preparing batch mainframe jobs for submission.

Punched tape was more a hobbyist thing, as form of program storage and sharing, used in the era of early machines such as the Altair 8800.

You can still buy a copy of Microsoft BASIC on punched tape if you need it!

https://www.ebay.com/itm/196212300301
>This is rather self-contradictory: you insist we can't make progress with wishy-washy conjectures on vague and fuzzy concepts, and yet your entire argument in this thread for your claim that machine understanding of the real world has been achieved is based on exactly that: your personal subjective assessment of LLM performance!

No it's not. I based my argument on a concrete metric. Human behavior. Human input and output.

> I regard this as merely waffling on the issue.

No offense intended but I disagree. There is a difference but that difference is trivial to me. To LLMs talking is also unpredictable. LLMs aren't machines directed to specifically generate creative ideas, they only do so when prompted. Left to its own devices to generate random text does not necessarily lead to new ideas. You need to funnel got in the right direction.

>You entered this debate saying "I think we are way past the point of debate here. LLMs are not stochastic parrots. LLMs do understand an aspect of reality", yet your post here ends with "in the end there's a human in the loop making a judgment call", explicitly acknowledging that your strong initial claims are matters of opinion, rather than established facts supported by hard metrics.

There are thousands of quantitative metrics. LLMs perform especially well on these. Do I refer to one specifically? No. I refer to them all collectively.

I also think you misunderstood. Your idea is about judging an whether an idea is creative or not. That's too wishy washy. My idea is to compare the output to human output and see if there is a recognizable difference. The second idea can easily be put into an experimental quantitative metric in the exact same way the Turing test does it. In fact, like you said it's basically just a Turing test.

Overall AI has passed the Turing test but people are unsatisfied. Basically they need to just make a harsher Turing test to be convinced. For example have people directly know the possibility that the thing inside a computer is possibly an LLM and not a person and have the person directly investigate to uncover the true identity. If the LLM can successfully decieve the human consistently then that is literally the final bar for me..
Those two organizational models are fundamentally different. The PPT is a top-down approach which sets firm company values with little room for deviation, ensuring consistency but limiting individual input (admittedly mostly executive/company officer input).

In contrast, the co-op is a bottoms-up model which empowers every employee to have a say, making the company dynamic and responsive to collective decisions.

While both might aim beyond just profits and share goals like amplifying employee voices, their execution is markedly different. For example, in an employee cooperative, major changes can happen quickly through collective decision-making. Conversely, in the PPT model, even unanimous agreement on change could be denied.

As a thought experiment, imagine what would happen in both scenarios (co-op vs PPT) if every single employee (including executives/company officers) decided they didn’t want the business to buy local fish anymore.
I’m suggesting that TBI’s and sleep deprivation probably make things worse instead of better. Would you seriously argue the contrary?
Dinasours were flourishing in an era where atmospheric CO2 was 3x or more compared to current levels
With BTC and ETH pumping again expect to see another tidal wave of scammy "web3" garbage.
https://archive.ph/9ThuC
Next stop: Different traffic tariffs per time of day & credit rating.

I really don't see how esim is beneficial to ordinary citizens.
There is a plethora of downsides that can't be evaded. :/
...It is actually the NCAA regional semifinals, but again - not the topic of this article.
Groq API Publicly Released
its kind of like AWS. with them, some customers are spending $20M+/month, while others (me) spend close to zero.
The underlying quote from a driver is even better:

> And you’ve got to remember there were elevated lines on Sixth Avenue as well as Third Avenue and Second Avenue and Ninth Avenue and all those el pillars and all the trolley cars underneath and the chain-drive trucks breaking their linkage and horse-drawn wagons and electrics that needed a charge
Qualcomm Unveils the Most Advanced 5G Modem-RF System
Unsurprisingly, RISC-V.
If you have nostalgia for this, check out Free Pascal. It's an open-source Pascal/Delphi clone, and includes a clone of the blue DOS Turbo Pascal editor that will give you the vibe you crave.

I used it for a few of the Advent of Code days this year, but man the nostalgia wore off. Both the limitations of the IDE and the verbosity of Pascal weren't "fun" to operate in daily coming from the modern world. But definitely sweet memories.
> Therefore, we highlight these "in your city" local crimes to provide validation for what they're doing.

Except time and again they seem
To only be highlighting their own ineptitude at keeping anyone safe. Their budgets keep increasing yet it doesn’t seem to lead to any measurable improvement in KPIs.
Is there some kind of graph of HN activity which shows the highs and lows? Sounds liie it would be wise to post during the lower traffic periods.
At research stations you are likely close to skiway and would be unlikely to get permission if you asked, I think. Not sure what official NSF policy is, since I didn't have a drone the times I've been in Antarctica, but I was able to get permission to fly my drone near Summit Station Greenland (by asking the camp manager).
Doom is actually quite easy to build with modern tooling because the source code is already structured to keep the platform-specific parts isolated and the source is mostly vanilla C89 (Doom was developed on NeXT workstations and then 'downported' to DOS).

For instance here's my WASM port of the Doom shareware version. This is a fork of doomgeneric, which itself is a fork of fbDoom - but midway through I noticed that all the abstractions added by fbDoom and doomgeneric are actually not very helpful for a WASM port that should run in browsers, and that I probably would have been better off forking the original source code instead):

Github repo: https://github.com/floooh/doom-sokol

Hosted version: https://floooh.github.io/doom-sokol/
Lago co-founder here, although we have an Enterprise plan (which, by definition, is for Enterprises), we invest considerable resources in the open-source and free product, used by a lot of early stage companies/bootstrapped projects, let me know if we can be helpful.
LoanDepot Cyberattack
There is also https://apps.sentinel-hub.com/eo-browser/ that regroup landsat and sentinel under the same interface.
There is not a lot of advantage to releasing this on Azure where you are directly competing with GPT-4, which will beat you on most tasks.
give it 3-5 years, tops. probably not a big player directly, but a 2nd line aggregator or value-add company.
Navalny was close to being freed in prisoner swap, says ally
Using Gemini in a Go application: limits and details
People usually don't care about flying drones over areas where there is nothing to look at.
The problem is there are a lot of detail that is different just for the sake of being different and those will suck your soul. There are interesting problems in billing. However most of the issues are another government has a law that is essentially the same as every other government, but some small detail is trivially different so you need to figure out which subset of customers that government covers and then apply those details correctly to them. Nothing hard about this, just the same old tax but the details are annoyingly different.

Note that you need to get the above details 100% correct in all cases. They can put you in prison for mistakes (almost always they will just fine the company a lot of money, but they have the right to apply prison and you never know when they will want to make an example of someone)
This one https://fabiensanglard.net/Game_Engine_Black_Book/index.php ?
Looks like it's not out yet, is it?
Same here (France). Apps Script gives ERROR 500 from both sheets & direct access links
You didn't mention what I believe is the true reason nuclear power got its bad reputation: nuclear weapons.

(Tough you could argue that it's your item 3, since nuclear weapons and their open-air testing would be the reason the left/environmental/peace movement started to hate the concept.)
> their methods are unacceptable and, when understood, are likely to be explicitly rejected

I agree, but not for the reasons you've stated.

The methods are unacceptable, because they cut into profits. The reason anything at all is built in the US isn't because of some intrinsic good it will provide; it's because someone will profit off the building. If the finished product provides some value / service, that's entirely incidental.

If you look at it this way, the problem simplifies greatly. It becomes easier to explain why we have failing infrastructure (too costly to maintain = no profit to be made off maintenance), why a lot of new builds seem cheaply done (more expense put into design, materials and execution = less profit), etc etc.
Facebook pushed us out because it had scrabble. It had little to do with UI polish.
They're Programmed to Work, but What Happens If They Stop? – Op-Docs [video]
The US appears to be 50% road due to sampling bias because you travel everywhere by road. The US also also has far more freight rail per capita than the EU.

It’s less a matter of who is better at building rail, than it is prioritizing freight over passengers.
To be honest that question has several answers. It could have been Ukraine, the US, UK, or several other NATO members (although I think one or more of the first three is most likely.)
> I jumped on bun before they hit 1.0 and it’s been life changing.

Oh, is Bun that good? :-)

Anyway, I'm using Node but considering trying out Deno for a new side project. I rejected Bun because I'm concerned about the stability and matureness. I don't care about runtime performance, but DX. I find Deno has such a nicer API than Node. I guess Bun is similar. I find tooling much simpler as well (Deno).

How is your experience with Bun so far regarding stability? I've heard there're issues as they've been rushing / hustling along for years?
You can swap the Ctrl & Fn keys (as you always could) via BIOS, and I'm guessing the copilot key can just be rebound in software. (If not officially I'm sure someone will make a utility)
Does this not work for you?: https://archive.ph/BUjPI
You can charge customers by direct debit (bank to bank) with an API. You can create your own pdf invoices and email them. You can charge customers with paypal or use credit cards or any of the EU specific online payment methods.

There is no EU directive or law prohibiting this. You don't need any kind of "special data collection" authorization. Most SMBs just print their own invoices with MS Word or some generic software package.
> Historically the planet has gone through all sorts of things before.

Since this is thread under XKCD post: https://xkcd.com/1732/

Isn't it bit naive to exclude rate of change in this argument?
I was born in the early 80s. When I was in school- maybe in second or third grade, they told us we were learning cursive and we had to use it for the rest of our lives. This was untrue, I never learned cursive well and never really used it. I even remember a teacher in sixth grade remarking at one point that one thing she doesn't approve of is the fact elementary school teachers lie to kids about needing to use cursive from then on when teaching cursive.

I do recall one weirdo typing teacher in middle school who didn't realize the "need to use cursive the rest of your lives" rule wasn't a real rule and was scolding some kids for turning in material in handwriting, but I think that was literally the only time it happened, ever. (I don't recall why a typing class had a handwriting component, I think she probably usually never received written material from kids and was greatly confused as to why it wasn't in cursive on that special occasion, maybe she was filling in for another teacher?)

I've always struggled with cursive (Reading cursive, that is, I only use it to sign my name) and have never bothered to learn it from a book- I've read Gen Z may never have learned it or may be bad at it- so I may have been ahead of my time.