skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems clear that if you achieve increased productivity by ensuring that 90% of the population worked, say, 60 hours a week, with no maternity leave or PTO, no large amount of time to spend outdoors or with loved ones, you could have a productive economy full of miserable people. You can have scenarios where the quality of life is very high for 10% of the people while it is very low for the vast majority.

> It's very hard for a country with half the per capita productivity of another country to match their quality of life.

A very easy thing to say, but unsupported by the facts. According to Wikipedia [1] the GDP per Capita for the USA is roughly double that of France ($80k vs $43k) but according to happiness index levels[2], France is at 97% the happiness of the USA.

Notably France’s culture focuses on time with people, which is free and makes people very happy.

Certainly productivity matters to a point. You can’t be happy if you can’t even eat. But beyond a certain point, grinding for additional productivity, especially when the gains are not going to those workers, does not increase happiness. And in fact it is clear that you can have half the GDP per capita and be just as happy.

I should note that “GDP Is Not a Measure of Human Well-Being” is such a well discussed topic that it is easy to find articles on this point [3] and Wikipedia has a section on this fact. [4]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...

[2] https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/happiness/

[3] https://hbr.org/2019/10/gdp-is-not-a-measure-of-human-well-b...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_domestic_product?wprov=s...
White House urges devs to switch to memory-safe programming languages
Mistral Remove "Committing to open models" from their website
From an outside perspective (I have always been a macOS/Linux guy) it was another attempt at deprecating the juggernaut that is win32. They have plenty of good reasons to do so, but they failed at making it something devs actually wanted to use. It was kinda like Wayland where functionality devs needed for some apps wasn't available. It didn't help that they quickly abandoned UWP after efforts to make mobile windows a thing failed. Everyone is making cloud-native and cross-platform stuff these days, so why make another platform-dependent app that isn't even pleasant to use?

Apple pulled off SwiftUI because it was legitimately better, and Apple made it clear you either get on the bus or it's leaving. Maybe Microsoft needs MAUI to do the same, but that would sacrifice the one thing that makes enterprises continue to use Windows.
> Which is what happens, many restaurants now close earlier, open later, close during the afternoon, or otherwise reduce hours.

And the hours that they remain open are not being subsidized, so your initial assertion that off peak customers are being subsidized was not true.

> Yes, that is called business.

Since you so accept acting purely in your own self interest, then surely you feel the same righteousness on behalf of customers responding inline with their own self interest, right?

You continue to conflate this announcement of time of day pricing with just about every other influence on pricing, even those working in the opposite direction. Prices already change all the time, the new thing is just the surge pricing. There are many ways to deal with surges, from dynamic staffing to streamlined kitchens to additional locations to what’s presumably the current strategy, all of those plus sometimes making people wait. Wendy’s seems to believe surge pricing might sometimes be the most profitable option, whether that’s true depends entirely on specifics that we don’t have and customer response.
This is the exact problem Thoreau was trying to solve when he wrote Walden, and arguably did solve. Figure out what is actually important to you, and ruthlessly eliminate things from your life that don't contribute towards that.

I get disappointed by seeing how many intelligent, motivated, and energetic people mindlessly put all of their energy into these culturally prescribed goals. Once they achieve them, they will eventually feel disappointed, because it isn't really aligned with them.

Whenever I'm doing something I really enjoy- like exploring nature in a tiny sailboat together with my kid, there is always this nagging narrative in the back of my head that I shouldn't be doing this: I need to be starting another business or working harder, making more money, etc. Then I could be exploring nature in a giant yacht a decade from now! But wait, I don't want that. I can afford a tiny sailboat, and what I want to do is explore with it right now, which I already can do.

I think a deeper aspect is that people also want to feel connected, accepted, and admired by others... and perceive that this requires social status they can only get by winning at some pre-defined life plan. But it doesn't really work that way- the people you would impress by doing your own thing are only the ones you would actually be able to relate to, whose opinion really matters.
but where's the scifi-ness fun of that?
A while back I wrote up an explanation of the MH problem using code: https://github.com/DeegC/monty_hall_paradox
I don't need to rebut you, you're stretching the definition of "terrorism" to feel right. There's no question to dodge, "so what happens if this activity escalates into terrorism, would that make this terrorism?" The discussion was settled 2 comments ago. "Terrorism" is clearly defined. Breaking things to inconvenience your enemies in warfare is not terrorism.
> Agile fails to take into account the realities of corporate politics and human (i.e. manager) psychology?

No, it does. Each of the 12 principles calls attention to what developers need to be thinking about when there are no managers. Agile is, in effect, a framework to help you operate without managers. If you already have managers, and they aren't willing to let go, agile was never on the table.
Thank you! Based on the feedback I saw here, I'll create some diagrams and more details about how things work under the hood. Will also work on the privileges issue.
I think this could go on for pages and pages more, and we can't get the entire industry to agree on the importance of any particular bullet point yet. I'd love to sit down face-to-face sometime and debate this endlessly, but I've done that with a lot of people on all sides already and there is no easy answer that any conversation has come to. It is never as easy as one side of the argument ever wants it to be.

> If I need some namespace for my open source project, I can go and register a top level domain

One common question here is: if you have an open source project, why do you need a TLD? Why is that special? the TLDs are designed into the DNS space and exceptions aren't cheap. Registering a domain under .org, or .horses is cheap compared to the $185k. And using something under .alt is free. Justifying the need for a TLD is difficult when there are other options.

>> The real thing is: why are alternate spaces even caring whether or not they look like the DNS and have a TLD?
> Because they want to be supported by existing software.

That's exactly the point I was making: the goal is to get the cheap way out trying to register part of an existing landscape rather than inventing a new universe. If the new universe is that much better, then everyone will want to deploy it anyway. As the web browser market will tell you, their applications (the only ones that most people care about these days [not me, mind you]) update ever 3 months. Getting them on board with a new universe should be trivial! In fact some browsers already support alternate spaces. Green-slate designs are often much cleaner and better when people aren't trying to do a mix of revolutionary and evolutionary approaches.
Yeah, I'm really curious to see how the SMR thing shakes out over time. It does make sense to me that the costs between large bespoke reactors and smaller modular reactors would not necessarily be a linear scaling by MWe. Another factor that affects the price significantly is whether or not the reactor is being built at an existing site that is already licensed or whether it's a scratch-build at a new site.

https://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/8... talks about the Shin Kori 3 and 4 reactors (brought online in 2016 and 2019) costing $6.4B USD for the pair (after a 32% cost overrun), if I'm reading correctly. Those ones are 1416MW and 1418MW, or $2258/kW which is right in line with GE's estimate of a next-of-a-kind SMR build (spec sheet says $2250/kW)
Thanks for Homebrew, it helps keep my Mac in line.
Not OP. I’ve personally never read Moby Dick — been meaning to at some point — but I don’t see any purpose in continuing to slog through a book that you find interminably boring. It’s just a cargo cult mentality of becoming “cultured”.

My world expanded quite a bit when I realized that not all the classics were worth anything to me, and that some works that people turn their noses up at are far more valuable culturally.
You would be surprised how many people do correctly understand the problem (that the host must open a door and must not reveal the car) but still get the resulting probability wrong.
Thanks for sharing this great project! Randomly browsing through the first page results, I ended up reading some of the ideas.

Reading that someone else, somewhere else, has a similar idea, has made my day. Cheers.
Use the system default browser engine (which would require system browser engines to support PWAs).

You could let people customize it per-PWA, but that's extra complexity for a small niche. Just let people pick a system browser.
It sure could. If you're sharding by id and have some per-shard resources, they could definitely get permissions to only accounts 12345*. (I'm not saying it's a good idea, just that once you're in that situation, you would pattern match on partial IDs)
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/Aline

Down the page: British dictionary - a rare spelling of "align".

The garment is apparently A-line, not aline.
Yeah, that's kind of what Standard Ebook's whole deal is -- they have only a small fraction of the number of books Project Gutenberg has, but they spend a lot of time making the ones they have pretty -- often better than even commercial e-books.
Taco Bell already has "Happier Hour" for their drinks, which are all non-alcoholic, so near terminology is already in play. I'm curious if Taco Bell would try to claim ownership over the term. In light of them opposing Taco John's owning a trademark on Taco Tuesdays, it would be difficult for them to justify.
Agreed, and I think there are a number of... over-enthusiastic executives with dollar signs in their eyes who are in for a rude awakening about this. It might sound great to replace your artistic staff with an LLM subscription, until you realize that you laid off all the creative vision with them. That isn't to say I think it'll go away though, I wouldn't be surprised if art students in the future are taught how to wrangle LLMs to supplement their own designs.
I was looking to see if it has contextual search, but didn't see anything.
It's what I said in my comment: if I'm not going to use it, I don't want to have to pay for it.

If it exists but doesn't cost more money, doesn't increase complexity, energy use, etc., then I don't care one way or another.
NVCleanstall: Customize the Nvidia GeForce driver package
Head tap meme. Can't have bugs if there's no software.
Thank you! I've been so busy trying to build my idea that in this early stage, AI safety hasn't been top of mind. The comments here show that this clearly needs to be a top priority moving forward.
I'm a fan of lihaoyi's response to similar tracking accusations.

> It's on by default. If you don't like that, turn it off. Or stop using Ammonite if you want to make a philosophical statement. I don't make any money off any of you, so I won't be particularly sad to see anyone go.

https://www.reddit.com/r/scala/comments/6irnix/about_ammonit...
When the instructions begin with "Install Authy desktop app, version 2.2.3 (the more recent versions won't work)"... ok, good to know!
Ray-Tracing Validation at the Driver Level
Benchmarking Experiment Tracking Frameworks
Ask HN: Alternatives to Chat Interface for AI Startups?
Why are most AI startups based on a Chat interface? Are there any alternative to this? Any examples of a startup/company using a different interface that's working well for them?

Thank you.
No news here.

For more on Niklaus Wirth (RIP):

Lots more discussion and anecdotes at the start of the year when the news broke:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38858012

And two late obits recently:

https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/niklaus-wirth-compute...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/technology/niklaus-wirth-...
I find this ironic because you could say many of the problems with modern Windows (& Linux) GUI stem from distancing the design from the traditional desktop paradigm and seeking to mobile-fy everything, specially with large click targets.
That's a lot less feasible for a physical device seller. It's much easier to block importation of a physical device than it is to have country-wide/continent-wide firewalls.
> What do we think of the "friends" that hang around during the good times, and then abandon you when you're down?

I deliberately didn't use the word "friends"; I'm well aware that neither the users nor the corporation really care about each other in this situation. That doesn't mean that you can go back on your entire claim to fame without consequence. And it's not that the company is "down" in some "did nothing wrong but suffered problems" sense; this situation is entirely of their own making.

> But like you pointed out, it's a corporation and it's just business. If their next model is better but isn't made available, companies will still build an AI product on top of their model and give them money for a license or API access.

Well... on the one hand, yes; just business. On the other, a sensible company wouldn't build it per-se on their API (especially now that they've shown how happy they are to change little things like "core values" and "entire business model"), they would build on a standardized API (probably OpenAI; that seems to be where the ecosystem is right now) and then... well, if this company happens to be competitive then good for them. But when they aren't, as you say, it's just business.
Well, as someone building something similar I have been looking around at how people are tackling the problem of varied index approaches for different files, and again how that can scale.

I haven't read the code on your github but the readme mentions using qdrant/pgvector. I'm curious how you will tackle having that scale to billions of files with tens/hundreds/etc? different indexing approaches for each file. It doesn't feel tennable to keep it in a single postgres instance as it will just grow and grow forever.

Think even a very simple example of more indexes per file: having chunk sizes of 20/500/1000 along with various overlaps of 50/100/500. You suddenly have a large combination of indexes you need to maintain and each is basically a full copy of the source file. (You can imagine indexes for BM25, fuzzy matching, lucene, etc...)

You could be brute force ish and always run every single index mode for every file until a better process exists to only do the best ones for a specific file. But even if you narrowed it down a file could want 5 different index types searched and ranked for Retrieval step.

I want to know how people plan to shard/make it possible to have so many search indexes on all their data and still be able to query against all of it. Postgres will eventually run out of space even on the beefiest cloud instance fairly quickly.

The second biggest thing is then to tackle how to use all of those indexes well in the Retrieval step. Which indexes should be searched against/weighted and how given the user query/convo history?
"Public pressure" and "we demanded" meaning a small group of angry, chronically online, outrage-addicted Twitter mobsters. Which in no way represent public opinion.
AWS account ID == Your IP address. It may be sensitive, but someone needs to know it to get s*$t done.

Illustrative example: I had to deal with a third party that we needed to integrate with because of anti-money laundering procedures a year or two ago. I wanted my team to setup a privatelink with the organization because that's generally more secure than an open sftp port. The company refused citing security reasons to hide their Account Id (it's needed for the role ARN used for reciprocal permissions to PV endpoints). So what did we do?

We ended up whitelisting a range of public IPs they use for inbound port 22...

Moral of the story: you may think you are a genius for obfuscating your IDs, but you can't really run a business unless people have an address back to you
> Honestly, I don't even get the sentiment. Many problems are naturally formulated in terms of recursion. And rewriting them as loops would be considered an optimization technique that obfuscates the reasoning.

It's not an optimization so much as it is non-pessimization. You have a lot less control over how your runtime's call stack behaves, which means that basic things like error handling, memory usage, observing intermediate state, etc. all become much more inconvenient (if possible at all).
tbh i wanted to try it. But there's not even a privacy policy. And you asking for access to a lot of stuff (public and private)
"He was poisoned."

Should say

"He poisoned himself."

People have been overdosing on drugs for the entirety of written human history and probably before.
I hope they keep tweeting magnet links for model releases :(
Nope.

But I am going to leave this to someone else to explain. I'm tired out now.
Noooo

It is not the fact that a goat is behind the door. It is the fact that a goat door would always have been opened! These two facts are not the same!
Not sure how accurate these stats are -- https://www.businessofapps.com/data/apple-statistics/ but in 2023 Europe was about 25% of its overall revenue (america was about 50%).

I think investors would be pretty unhappy if their revenue went down by 25%.
Everyone knows what it will take: cheap vegetable alternatives to meat that can be made at a small factory level or at home, don't have an unfortunate association with xenoestrogens, provide the right macros/amino balance/B vitamin supplementation, and are easy to cook.

I'm not convinced eating meat is an inherently evil act. Possibly most factory farmed meat from the US might be evil (depending on how you feel about chicken barns), but the assertion that raising and slaughtering your own animals is evil relies on the unproven assertion that animal deaths are inherently wrong even after a good life. That's not a universal belief and it's certainly not supported by these charts about industrial scale factory farming.
> People will happily spend $5 for coffee but have an existential crisis when asked for a $1 app.

Well, coffee does literally contain an addictive substance that needs frequent replenishing. Perhaps this is why companies like FB and TikTok try so hard to make their products addictive too.
Morality is a tricky subject.

Are you willing to entertain the idea that your way of life might be immoral? How would someone go about proving so, how would you go about disproving it?

For some people, an industrial farm has the same moral implications as a labor camp. Implying, that you as a beneficiary from said labor camp would be open to talk about improving the food options in the camp, might seem quite beside the point to them. They oppose the mere existence of the camp.
> Profit vs. loss has no relevance when one is providing a public service.

I beg to differ. While profit shouldn’t be the only indicator under consideration, when you are operating a state owned enterprise under a fee for service model, profit is certainly a valid metric to consider.
Pipelines Support Vectorized, Point-Free, and Imperative Style (2017)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grOpvXBmTx8
You aren’t interpreting this correctly, they are indeed eliminating all tuition, not just the fees.
A movie theater near me is now charging more money to see Dune than other movies. The "cheaper" movies are certainly not at a price point I'd consider discounted. It's just an extra fee to see Dune straight up, like the other fees you pay if you want to see it in their premium screen format.

Wendys has raised prices already, and they will raise prices again at the time this launches for whatever they consider their premium hours.
Mad Max locations would be a good addition to this article.

The "Halls of Justice" and the underground parking at Melbourne Uni come to mind.
Thank you!

Reach out to them and make the idea a reality :)
you are misunderstanding me - I am saying the act of being traditionally conservative - that is embodying the traditionally conservative values of not lying cheating etc - that is counter-cultural. "conservative communities" do not necessarily embody "traditionally conservative values".
I have not seen increased reporting on the effects of solar flares. I closely follow space weather as someone who uses the ionosphere to bounce radio signals.

Instead, we're on the upswing from a solar minimum, so we'll see more solar activity. Notice on Google trends the last time the news got excited about solar activity, which was at the predicted height of the last solar cycle.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=s...
No, enshittification as proposed as a term for marketplace operators or platform providers who slowly degrade the experience for dependent users in order to capture more of the value created. Mistral is not a platform; it's a technology vendor. You can apply words however arbitrarily you want, but it just makes them meaningless.
This is a rather long post, I'm genuinely curious why you did not describe the problem that you want to solve. Is it too complex for even humans to understand?
> "Happy Hour" usually implies alcohol, which obviously Wendy's doesn't support.

Many, many restaurants have "happy hour" menu pricing to encourage people to come at off-peak times, without necessarily having any correlation with alcohol. I don't think anyone would question the naming.
i think you're overlooking iOS instances with "neural" accelerators in the pockets of the people in those corporations.
I don’t agree with your comment.
I see 2 scenario based on your assumptions:
1 - The companies are making way too much money in the EU and are willing to go through “fines and fees carefully engineered” (which by the way are called laws and regulations). I take for example the case of China where laws and regulations are more tricky and we see Apple or Microsoft thriving there.
2 - Let’s say that the companies are saying “fuck this shit” and actually leave EU. Then I go back to the example of China where you have local players emerging (Bilibili, Baidu, Weibo or Wechat etc…) to bridge the gap and meet the need.

Overall, I support these regulations, I believe that Apple reached a size and a central position in the life of too many people, at some point it needs to be controlled, coerced (or dismantled) to make sure that it doesn’t spin out of control. Same applies for the other companies targeted by the DMA, their size is just too big to allow smaller players to emerge.
The world's largest intact historical armoury is located in Austria. Included 32k objects from 15th to 18th century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Styrian_Armoury