skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't think it adds a lot of value. One, the instruction-following models do not create high quality q&a pairs, chats do it by default. Two, at the time the usage was very low compared to ChatGPT. I am fairly confident, one month of people trying all sorts of things w ChatGPT gave them a lot more data - both in quantity and range - compared to API usage previously. Third, they always maintained they do not train on API inputs, and I think it's fair to assume that. They do not get feedback whether the output was any good, so it's always dicey to feed that directly to a model without those signals.
I feel that the Honda Element design was prescient since so many other quirky cars have taken on a similar shape/design profile.

I'm surprised they haven't relaunched it fully EV with an updated style. It seems like the right vibe for it.

Prologue is also a weirdly antithetical term for an EV car coming after gas.
"Pay for what you use" is an arbitrary billing rule? Come on now.

OP was ignorant, and got tossed a lifeline. Also “just make everything zero dollars bro” is a ridiculous proposition.
Many such cases, public-facing roles pay in "exposure". Getting your name out there, etc.
But you still have clusters, why not everywhere… ?
Sure, but every technology has its own problems. It just depends which tradeoffs you want to make.
Apple is attempting to leverage its position as a platform holder, as it always has, by threatening the open web. It's APIs to support the web platform are shockingly, even purposely, terrible and it uses it's app developer licence to ensure that open development cannot happen on its closed OS. Worse, it doesn't even play on an even playing field, as it ensures that the WebView that developers are required to use is less up to date than the already poor Safari browser on iOS. This is anti-competitive and is the way Apple has always operated.

The EU has enacted its laws to protect users and developers working with the platform from these limitations. PWAs are just a part of it (see per install charges, WebView limitations, Apple malicious compliance). It's pretty obvious that Apple will not allow its AppStore cash cow to be tampered with so they will need to be strongarmed.
No wonder those people were so angry and anti-capitalist --their own publication they worked for apparently thought they ran a socialist cooperative news org. where you work for the greater good and not yourself but you're still upset people who chose a different career, even a highschool job like Quiznos would do better.

A publication with an anti-exploration bent exploited its own.
China's Electric Vehicles Are Going to Hit Detroit Like a Wrecking Ball
Its a two sided marketplace and companies only care about the conversion they get from different channels. If demand dries up, it will be reflected in more attractive pricing - I don’t think it’s likely that the entire market pulls out.

FWIW - it seems like the campaigns are working. You seem to be familiar with the brands and someone below chimed in on how one particular brand is great. Multiply that by the viewership - that’s definitely a win.

Some quick (unverified) research tells me that YouTuber marketing pays somewhere in the range of 30-70 CPM. You can pretty easily calculate that against google AdWords with reasonable conversion assumptions to decide if it’s worth it.
There is zero censorship of the websites (and there is only Safari on iOS at the moment). For apps, there is definitely a censorship. Without web apps, it's indeed very impactful.
This so unexpected. I thought gaming and in particular Sony were doing great.
There was a habanero watermelon beer out of NZ that was pretty good. Real crisp, cool, watermelon flavor up front, pretty fruity in the middle... then the heat hits. You want to cool it down then you take another sip and it repeats.
More galling than the company getting acquired for half a billion dollars is the fact that they never even said "thanks"...

> I searched my mailbox for emails related to that company and found a single complaint about a feature. No pull requests, no donations, no nothing.
Facebook Prophet for Time-Series Machine Learning
Ask HN: Books about the little guy beating the big guy?
I've been looking for inspiration recently as I'm working on a hardware project that could well turn into a startup, but the market we're in is very competitive, and it would be nice to get some inspiration on how we can win as underdogs.

I'd love to see your recommendations. They could be fiction (even analogies such as David and Goliath) or non-fiction.
Really impressed by how many highly profitable companies have turned themselves inside out to arrive at this same "extremely hard decision." Either those words are a bit empty or you just have to admire recent levels of corporate bravery.
The older you get the less you learn and the less new things you learn. Days are becoming repetitive. Looking back at last year contains the same information as 1 week when you were young.
The PS5 is selling above PS4 at this time in their respective console cycles.
There is a ghost road I reported on Google and was ignored. It wasn't just any road, an impossible road.

It is a straight line from the base of a mountain right to the top, all while gaining thousands of feet in elevation. I haven't checked it out in person, but I'm familiar with the area, and I'd place a large wager that it doesn't.

Anyone who copies this road will have a map that screams "I copied Google!"
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows calls it 'Zenosyne' [0], or the sense that time keeps going faster. I quite like it and have found myself coming back to rewatch it every couple years.

[0] = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNgyEmYyQF4
> you’re going to have a bad time

Have a good time and use any of the other options available. Vue, Solid, Preact, Svelte, Lit, Vanilla.
Melange for React devs book, alpha release
Hey HN, at Ahrefs we have been working on an online book that hopefully helps React developers get up and running with Melange, an OCaml to JavaScript compiler. You can read more about Melange here: https://melange.re/.

There are still a few chapters that we'd like to add before considering it "complete", but it might be already helpful for some folks out there, that's why we decided to publish it early.

The book uses Reason syntax to implement React components using ReasonReact components. You can read more about both in:

https://reasonml.github.io/
https://reasonml.github.io/reason-react/

Please share any feedback or potential improvements for the book, thanks for reading!
The one thing I want, that doesn't exist, and won't for at least 10 years: immutable infrastructure.

Oh, the concept exists. I can make some infrastructure mostly-immutable, myself. But the cloud doesn't give me it out of the box. What the cloud gives me are APIs. If I write software to call those APIs, predict what the allowed values are, predict the failures I might see, write about 5,000 lines of code to handle the failures, attempt to reconcile differences, retry, store my artifacts, reference them, after implementing a build system, etc, I can get one or two things to be immutable. But for the vast majority of services it's actually impossible.

Take an S3 bucket. Can you make an S3 bucket immutable? The objects inside it might be versions, sure. Can you roll back all the objects in the bucket to Version 123? Can you roll back the S3 policy back to revision 22? Can you make it also roll back the CORS rules? Can you diff all these changes and see a log of them? Can you tell the bucket to fix itself back to the correct expected version of itself? Can you tell it to instead adopt 3 new changes, as part of a version of the S3 bucket you tested somewhere else? The answer is "no".

You can fake it, with a configuration management tool like Terraform. But that's as immutable as a file on your filesystem. Any program can overwrite your files at any time; you have to have Puppet configured to monitor your files, and constantly fix the files when they get changed, track the Puppet code in Git, keep your own log of changes, etc. That filesystem isn't immutable, it's mutable! If it was immutable you wouldn't have to use Puppet (or Terraform). And the sad thing is we're all stuck on Terraform, which is actually terrible for a configuration management tool, because it mostly refuses to reconcile inconsistencies (the way every other configuration management tool in history has). It just bombs out and says "Oh shit, that wasn't a change I planned, and you didn't write this HCL code to handle this weird condition, so I'm just gonna bail and not fix this. Good luck getting production working again." Puppet wouldn't stop working if something other than Puppet updated a file. But nobody seems to mind that we literally regressed in functionality, because a company made up new marketing terms for their tools.

Sadly this desired built-in immutability, and the declarative nature of it, won't be built into S3 or other tools for at least a decade or two. They would need to effectively build something akin to K8s just to manage their own components immutably and expose an entirely new API. So we are doomed to do Configuration Management in the cloud, until the cloud starts implementing immutability out of the box.
Why is that important? If you go to a Michelin star restaurant, the input costs are lower than what you pay. But the value is in the creation. The experience itself is valuable. There goes a lot into building a device. More than its parts.
It’s not a straw man at all. The main motivation according to people on HN is creating a PWA helps avoid the “Apple tax”.

If PWAs are good enough on Android, why wouldn’t developers be motivated to avoid the “Google tax” even if they couldn’t avoid the Apple tax?

On that same note, since most companies create a website anyway, why not just tell Android users to use a web app instead of also creating an Android app?

And as far as games, most game makers make money from in app purchases of loot boxes and coins for pay to win games (this came out in the various Epic vs Apple trials). As much as they whine about the “Apple tax” they love having direct access to whale’s wallets via in app purchases.

And no they aren’t just going to get users to fork over their credit cards to random sites and there are plenty of people especially kids who have access to the in app purchasing mechanism who don’t have access to credit cards.
I was expecting cuts at Naughty Dog once the Factions game got canceled. But the other ones here are more concerning. Guerilla too? Is the Horizons multiplayer also in jeopardy:/
I mean, social media is pretty much an inevitability once mobile phones/internet became mainstream. Just like the invention of the gun and gunpowder, I think we are still debating if it was good for society right to this day.
My understanding is that PlayStation’s big hit games have had particularly low margins. Despite selling well, they have generally been extremely expensive to make. They’ve helped them beat Microsoft in the console war, but I don’t think it was ever sustainable.
Maybe if companies stopped kneeling before the almighty alter of the shareholder, they might actually care what happens beyond the next quarter.
The KPIs are all good though.
So, if someone says, billionaire is bad, that is an informed opinion, but when someone else says, billionaire is good, it is uninformed? Thanks for the fish.

You pay for stuff in the supermarket, you get a product. No strings attached. I would be surprised, if people like the idea, that if one buys a piano, that for each song being played, one has to give a dividend to the piano manufacturer. Usually the transaction is closed. Though, such deals can be made. Maybe you get the piano for free.

You pay a worker that what you think is needed to make a piano. If one worker makes a billion pianos, you pay him a lot. And if you sell pianos a billion times, you become a billionaire. And if your worker can buy stocks, he will also get dividends.

The idea that billionaires have to give a share is nice and good, definitly good for hackernews stories and their socialistic readers, but that the billionaire has already given societies wealth manyfolds, well, afterall people bought their stuff to improve their lives, that made him a billionaire, that is silently forgotten.

As usual, it is play with envy and greed, how dare someone has more than me!
Thank you! I think the idea is very cool.
LSD can put you in a childlike state, increasing neuroplasticity.
Drowning is the leading cause of death for 1-4 year olds and 2nd after car accidents for 5-14 year olds

https://www.cdc.gov/drowning/facts/index.html
We’re still doing internet petitions? I’ve been seeing these since 1995. Any luck with them working, ever?
Battlefield Earth
Agree. Maybe the mods can update it please?
My problem with this specific article is it is paywalled and so I'm not going to read it.

More generally my complaint is that noting that Japan's birthrate being down is that it is like observing the sky is blue. The globe has been seeing declining birth rates for 60 years. There are a large number of countries where birthrates are hitting record lows (picking some from a theme; the UK, US, Canada and Australia).

It isn't news, focusing on Japan isn't interesting and picking a country where the official documents aren't in English makes it harder to research the truth if there is a disagreement on a point of fact.
Ham radio is kind of the only (legal) option for any kind of range. Everyone should get a license and practice up.
Indeed. The only optimization I see in this industry is optimization for billable hours.
I was thinking something similar. Yes, a lot has happened. But which metric can we use to determine whether this was a successful decade?
This argument doesn't make sense: the US military is also too big to fail, yet apparently reasonably competent.
How close is the FAA to detecting that safety is not a business model?

"We don’t ‘sell’ safety; that’s not our business model." -Boeing CEO

ref: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2019/10/30/when-compa...
Where are the vandals when you need them?
My comment does not say what you quoted, so I'm not sure which claim you are responding to because it appears to missing most of the context in my comment. I don't necessarily disagree with the text you quoted.
I also do the same. Spent a bunch of time scaling a B2B company, and now I'm doing a consumer app intentionally for an intentionally different challenge.
Yes? https://www.change.org/impact
This is super cool, thank you. One thing I couldn't figure out is how to press "Y" to accept Nightmare difficulty.
Maybe. Some of what you're advocating for sounds more in the category of bad capitalism. The typical libertarian denial of the existence of second order effects and negative externalities. It's hard to tell whether "more private property" is really a euphemism for more inequality or if "better green solutions" is really a euphemism for cancelling renewable and accelerating climate change. Which would be a recipe for social unrest and millions of climate refugees fleeing the equator leading to authoritarianism and lower prosperity. That's bad. There are some interpretations of your words that I'd agree with, though.
Why would we call Twitter something else?
This would be claiming that it is a false flag:

The US blew up a Russian-German pipeline and then blamed Russia.
And pg is saying this type of commenting is making HN worse.
You’re calling this “just an abstract example”, but it’s actually pretty easy to be incredibly slow if you get your ideals from medium articles.

The ESB team I have to work with, for example, has a hard cap of 8,000 lines (of XML) in a single file due to their shit performance. Why? “Because recursive, immutable code is ‘easier to reason about’”

For starters, I don’t even buy that recursive and immutable cause ease to reasoning, but forgetting that, if it’s causing computers that should be capable of processing files that are millions of lines long to suddenly come to a crawl after just 8,000, we maybe should reconsider this approach.
I’m seriously looking at this vehicle as the first EV myself and my spouse purchase.

Pros:

- CarPlay

- Pricey, but not insane like other vehicles on the market

- Doesn’t look like a spaceship, interior or exterior. The fact that it has real handles and a single smaller console to me is a huge plus from both an aesthetic and UX perspective

- it’s Honda who are pretty reputable when it comes to building durable vehicles (technically half GM, I can’t tell if that’s good or bad)

Cons

- It’s one off run for Honda to stay compliant until they release their own vehicles. So support might be tougher 10 years later. It might not.

- this is more a generic knock on EV but charging network being built out still. Charging on longer trips UX still feels like it’s not there yet

- the interior trim options feel kinda cheap for a car at this price

I am also looking at similarly priced or slightly lower priced PHEV so any other recommendations in the space would be welcome
I live in a region that apparently has Pawpaw trees that grow natively and until last year had never even heard of the fruit!

This year I'm hoping to try one of these for the first time :)

I figure it's a pretty unique experience and helps me appreciate some of the local agriculture that's hard to find elsewhere.
For anyone who's genuinely curious about why the pricing ramp, here's the [an internal doc with some of the debate about the pricing plan](https://multiapp.notion.site/Pricing-What-should-we-charge-f...).

Link expires in 6 days. Most of the discussion is in the comments.

For anyone who doesn't want to load a ton of JS, in short:

# Free

Mostly pairing features. Free because we think that collaborative pairing functionality should be available to everyone, whether or not you can pay.
If you're an individual contributor, you should just be able to sign up. Our closest competitor charges $30 a month for just pairing functionality, and as a result many small teams can't afford to use it.

# Standard

Mostly features to help with async communication and documentation. We think that distributed work in it's ideal is "Pair often, write a lot, and minimize meetings."

We think it makes sense to draw the paywall here because a/ The async features cost us more to run, and b/ This problem is something that team leaders or managers care about. And those are the people with credit cards.

We support teams having a mix of Free and Standard seats. Just pay for the power users.

# Enterprise

There are some features that cannot be per-seat: They have to be the whole team or nothing. For example, SSO (yes #ssoTax), API access, bespoke security review etc. For these, we can talk to the team about what their usage will look like in deciding the price.

Hope that helps. We're very open to feedback on this. DM's open at @embirico on Twitter if you have thoughts privately.
20 years ago nobody thought there'd be a another US automaker beyond the big three (Ford, GM, Chrysler)... yet today here we are with Tesla and a list of others.

Are there any other US companies today that could ostensibly be viable alternatives to Boeing's spot 20 years from now?

Electric-first-and-only was the differentiator for Tesla vs big three... what differentiator will it be in the aero industry?
Is this greed, or a struggle for them to survive?
Good link.

“Nearly every hour, a petition on Change.org achieves victory”

That’s encouraging — I guess there’s no causal data though. (Ie what percentage of those would have happened without the petition)
MA State Troopers Used a Phone App to Make Hundreds of Illegal Recordings
> This also helps distributes traffic as a side effect.

I'm not sure it's "distributing" traffic so much as amplifying it.
He was reading an article about how chemicals we're dumping are triggering a frog species natural ability to change sex. The frogs normally do it when there's too many of one sex, to even it out, but the chemicals were making them switch when there was balance and were causing an imbalance.

Truth is stranger than fiction: it would have been more accurate for him to say "they're turning the frogs trans".
Ah, more layoffs!

Setting aside the things I'm feeling when reading this, I'm trying to piece together a picture, for my own curiosity, of this trend, and I'm left with many questions, among those:

* Are all these layoffs meaningfully based in some hard economic data (e.g. end of ZIRP and some real analytical assessments of the direction of the economy)?

* Or, is this some form of corporate herd mentality?

There's no malice in my comment, but I often teeter back and forth between "these collections of smart people are surely doing some data-anchored homework before making these decisions" and "nobody knows what we're doing and the easiest thing is to immediately increase profit, like my friends at that other company!"

I just want to form a more realistic and objective image of how these massive companies operate, whether or not that image may seem optimistic or cynical.
Well, first it came out in the Epic trial that 90% of App Store revenue comes from games and in app purchases. Those companies aren’t going to move to the web because they want the direct access to users wallets that they get from the in app purchase mechanisms.

People aren’t as willing to put their credit card on random sites and people have access to pay via in app purchases that don’t have access to credit cards.

But you still didn’t answer the question, if it were just Apple, then why aren’t companies abandoning the Google Plau Store in droves and just creating PWAs that will work on Android devices and PCs and avoid the “Google tax”?
This joke, that the Germans or the Swiss have no sense of humor, I never found it funny. But maybe that's just because I'm Swiss.
Well I like what Valve is doing with Proton, but all the fiddling around and the fact that Proton was designed ONLY for Steam games and does not really play well with other games SUCKS! Lutris has their WINE + DXVK and stuff and removed Proton as a runtime for this reason. There still is no good one-stop shop that "just works TM" for games on Linux.

And I like to play AAA games and would, lose performance in many cases on Linux, so I happily bite the sour apple to play the latest games easy and fast without any issues.

The gaming industry is so heavily focused on DX12 instead of natively building for Vulkan for some reason, even though this matter less and less with Wine/Proton getting better and better. It still makes more sense to me to just boot up Windows 11. It's a dream for me to one day delete my windows partition, and I think it will actually happen in my lifetime, just not in 2024.
Most rockets don't have fuel filters, but this requires their tanks to be kept in a much more strict state of cleanliness, and any failure to do so would result in mission failures.

SpaceX has long had a very different idea about FOD than most other rocket companies, famously Merlin engine qualification testing contains ingesting stainless steel nuts.
Good news, these 900 employees that were collectively terminated can now individually bargain the terms of their layoff! ...Right?
> In Japan, we will implement a next career support program. Details will be communicated separately.

> In other countries, we will begin conversations with those who are potentially at risk or impacted as a result of this proposed course of action.

what is a "next career support program"? Is it something specific to Japan/required by Japanese law after a round of layoffs?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_Is_a_Harsh_Mistress
If you live in the EEA you'll soon be able to get a de-crapified Windows 11 direct from Microsoft: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/europeans-can-soon-s...
It's great to hear journaling helps you reflect on actual passed time.

For me, I never get around to revisiting old entries regularly. How do you motivate yourself to do so?
what gets to me is how anyone would hire the fired CEO given the reputation.