skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just wanted to drop in and share some love for Danswer. We've been using it as our go-to doc repository for a bit now, and it's been a game-changer for us. Not naming names, but let's just say it's powering some pretty key projects.

What really blows my mind is the LLM capabilities. We're pulling out some seriously amazing answers from our knowledge base, making info retrieval a breeze. And yeah, I've been hands-on with it for the last 3 months, even tinkered around developing some custom connectors. It's been a fun ride.

The team behind it? Absolute champs. Super responsive, and the product itself is rock solid. It's not every day you come across a tool that genuinely makes your workflow smoother and smarter.
I've discovered thanks to them also Vespa, and it's our Embeddings de facto DB now.

Big shoutout to the Danswer team. Keep up the awesome work!
Modern Veterans pubs seem to be something similar.
Ah! Yes, indeed. That was a strange, even frustrating, experience — though not as annoying as the times I failed to get deeper explanations from a teacher or a line manager.
If we're getting technical you don't need to jailbreak to sideload on iOS either. AltStore automates the tedium but you can side load just fine on iOS too (for now).
You should only need a reboot if you change the kernel.
or you could just check env for a special variable and load a file once if the env var exists.
Discord runs in the browser, same as HN. And the HTTP APIs they use aren't officially documented (except HN's read-only ones via Firebase and Algolia) (though both are easily reverse engineered and OSS frontends exist). There's not much difference.
But also, Microsoft's "SQL Server" is officially pronounced "Sequel Server", so a lot of devs who grew up working on Windows systems will pronounce "SQL" as "sequel". For them, it's not entirely wrong.
No. Why would it be? It is just not practical for commercial flights to overfly it, but it is not restricted otherwise.
>Given that the state-of-the-art literature on AI containment answers in the affirmative (AI is uncontainable in the long-term)

That's orthogonal to the simulation case, and doesn't extend much insight there.

Said AI is not an entity in a simulated world, it's a simulated intelligence (let's say) in the real world, with means to reach the real world like access to the internet, talking to people back and forth, and so on. The AI we make needs those in order to be useful to us, and those are the things "AI containment" checks.

An entity in a simulated world (in case we're that) could just as well not have access to anything like the above. E.g. the simulated world normally would not have access to facilities in the "top level" world. Say we are in such a world, we surely don't know of any way to dial into the "top level" equivalent of the internet, for example, nor do we have any back and forth talk with the "top level" users.

Assuming we're in a simulation, in our case, we developed our bodies and thought through evolution in the simulated world (one of many species), whereas our AI was explicitly made to produce human like thinking output, and was trained with our own thoughts and data. This automatically makes it more compatible to create arguments "in our language" that persuade us.

We? At best we could put up some kind of signs that we don't know if anybody in the top level ever checks, plus we don't know their motives, modes of thinking, or anything like that - or even if it's anything close to ours to be influenced by our level of arguments.

And communication (already doubtful) is our surest best - for a program in a simulated environment can't really materialize as a physical actor in the top level we need to add too many assumptions and problems to solve. And they could always patch up any glitch as it appears, like we do in our code.

Worse: the simulation code could be fully functional and pure, with nowhere the equivalent of a buffer overflow or other such means of escape.

Worse: the simulated world could be at a totally different, much higher, and impossible to us, with our simulation-level intelligence to even comprehend - same way the simplistic code of an NPC character in a game has no bearing to us.
A small team managed to implement relocalisation (the technical name for this) in 24 hours is reasonably interesting.

If you want to try yourself you can use colmap (https://colmap.github.io/faq.html#register-localize-new-imag...) to do the same thing. I suspect that colmap not only does lat:lon but gives you a heading as well. (well I know it does, thats how it )

Now, had they made it happen _on the drone_ that would be more interesting. It looks like it was a simulated flight, especially as there is no rolling shutter wobble. Moreover, if you want real time, you need a monster GPU, unless they've done something clever.
> To-day, the inventions of the scenario-writer go out from Los Angeles across the whole world. Countless audiences soak passively in the tepid bath of nonsense. No mental effort is demanded of them, no participation; they need only sit and keep their eyes open.

Wow this is exactly true today, more than one hundred years later.
Using double-@ user identifiers for actor discovery is not an ActivityPub feature. It's a bastardization of webfinger resource search added and popularized by Mastodon.

In ActivityPub URLs are the identifiers, be it for actors or anything else. And the URL can be just of a domain, therefore it's perfectly possible to have domain named identifiers.
> And if you argue it from a mathematical standpoint, that is quite likely

What???
Not an IPhone user: but honesty I'd rather have things open an actual browser tab, as then I can interact with it via all my standard extensions (e.g. adblockers), rather than be opened in a webview.

Also, given how often you need to change phones (given build quality), if I have important data and you're a web app, I rather the server be the source of truth, and the phone a cache (so I don't loose data when the phone breaks).
Feelings are completely irrelevant when it comes to investments in the tens to hundreds of millions. Those things are extremely well defined and unserstood, that's why people in accounting, finance and business development are crucial and have rather high paying jobs.

The back of napkin maths I do for household level purchases and investments do not scale to those levels. Nor do they to company level finances.

Following those practices are, obviously, no guarantee for success. Not following them on the other hand is a near guarantee for failure.
Enjoy them!

I’ve fallen into the trap where I was building a side project with a glimmer of hope that it will turn into a viable venture. I really enjoyed building them, but did not appreciate how much I enjoyed it at the time. I now try to be more aware of how much I really enjoy them while I work on them.
Your assessment is correct. But it really comes down to what type of shell that's running. For an interactive shell (one you open yourself in a terminal), the run-com file (.zshrc) will be loaded, so anywhere you put it, things will seemingly work. But if you start doing some task scheduling etc, that would fail if you have set your PATH in a run-com.
> I guess the EU will fine Apple for such behavior. The question is how soon this will happen

Too late, I'm afraid. Apple has pulled a really smart trick against the tons of paper written by EU commissioners.
Making profit is always a goal you achieve while doing something else: selling local seafood, writing software, designing chips, mining ores, whatever. So making profits and doing something else cannot be harder than just making profits. Also, companies receive and pay back loans all the time, it's quite a common procedure. Why should it be any different here?
Thank you! I hate when articles use acronyms and never actually expand what they mean - I read the entire article without any clue what PWAs actually are.
There are too many articles that preach dumb code, KISS, etc. I think the issue is overemphasized, especially in the modern age of bootcamps and whatnot. Who is writing all that "smart code" people are complaining about? If code seems too smart for you, maybe PEBCAK. That seems far more realistic nowadays than ever before.

> Look! I replaced this recursive function with a for loop and it still does everything that we need it to. I know it’s not as clever, but I noticed that the interns were having trouble with it and I thought that this change might help.

Recursion is not clever, it is not a trick. It's a basic technique kids learn in high school in Advanced Placement CompSci A. I do not want to work with people who know less about their professional field of choice compared to kids. And if the educational system has failed interns, at least let them learn what recursion is on the job! Isn't that what internship is for anyway?

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.
I wonder if anyone has modelled the energy impact of users flocking to alternate platforms as popular websites are shutdown. Seems ripe for abuse and unintended consequences.
Like with the GDPR, the DMA had a long lead-in time in which the law has gone into effect but the EU wasn't prosecuting anyone for incompliance yet. The designation took place half a year ago but you can't expect companies to act on a rough draft and unmade commission decisions, so while the right EU people got started, nobody needed to comply yet.

Of course Apple could've acted earlier out of the goodness of their hearts and to serve customer interests (lol), but like with the GDPR, companies tend to prepare longer and only launch their changes right when they're about to see any real risk. The end of the fair warning period is the final deadline.

Microsoft and Google are doing the same thing, I think it's to be expected with regulation like this, and the regulation was designed for this.
Has hiring slowed down lately?
Excuse my naivety but I've not been looking at the job market (EU) lately. I started looking again a few days ago and my impression is that compared to 2 yrs before it has slowed down a lot.

This or my CV lost a lot of its competitiveness in these 2 yrs.

What's your impression?
Sports are the metaphor. Regular people intellectualize the game and are derided.

No one needs to fight, we can all see the game happening. We incorporate all the functions of pleasure into our identity.

Huxley cant recognize the social progress, calling it dumb. Smug enough to be funny, oblivious to the irony.
I have gotten into the habit of asking myself of any company "What is their actual business?". This is invaluable in the IT world, but a useful tool in the real world too.

I know nothing about the car business in the states, but it seems to me after reading these comments and the article that the actual business of car dealerships is most probably - selling financing, and the cars are the 'vehicle' for this.
Why not take a look at the book? It's an easy read, and there's far too much of interest to quote here.

The religious angle is not relevant to this discussion. It's about the emergence of free markets in the Netherlands, and the results.

As for China, China invented a number of things, but failed to apply them like the West did. For one take on why, see the book "The Triumph of the West" by Roberts

https://www.amazon.com/triumph-West-J-M-Roberts/dp/076070850...

In modern times, China adopted free markets with spectacular results.
1972? So, after the sexual revolution, the pill, emancipaction, the beginning of urbanization (which really started in the early 60s), the rise of automated agriculture, the beginning of women having real career opportunities as part of the work force and both, a rise of the industrial and service sectors of the economy.

All of which, across the globe, drive birth rates down. But sure, it was male fertility that caused all of that...
Highly loyal party members are being "sent" for work in Poland?
> Creating your own app is actually pretty easy on iOS.

I don't believe you. I believe that you probably left out some crucial detail, such as having to own a Mac first.
Put them up on github with an Open Source license.
> Chimps are generally considered more intelligent than gorillas.

And chimps are genetically more similar to humans than gorillas. A chimp brain is more similar to a human brain than a gorilla brain.

> So more than scale. Glad we agree.

We absolutely do not agree. Notice how nobody suggested that a human brain is a scaled up version of an axolotl's brain? Yeah, that didn't happen. I do wonder why?
I didn't think so, and I've also not found that in practice, having definitely run out of it before
> What happens to mine tailings and slag from other smelting operations?

Dump it in the nearest river.
I guess it's more that it is difficult to ensure freedoms when people stay 'voluntarily' and don't speak out. There are similar stories about Chinese clothing factories based in Italy (thus: close to Chinese prices but "Made in Italy" labels). Workers without any locally relevant language skills are brought there, housed in Company housing, eat from canteen/company shops with produce they know, etc. Hard to fight if all the formalities of labour law are respected and the employees do not speak out against abuse/actual reality of implementation. Very similar to how U.S. companies, in particular the slaughterhouses are known to work, with often irregular migrants employed for their wonderful exploitation potential. You won't speak out if you think you'll be deported and can't suppor your starving family back home... And of course even much worse is known from the seafood sector, where notably Chinese vessels essentially enslave south east asian workers - where are you going to go when locked on a tiny boat...?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/16/the-chinese-wo...

https://ww.fashionnetwork.com/news/made-in-italy-by-chinese-...

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/16/the-crimes-beh...
While I don't know the scope and possible impact of the projects, I'd tend to agree. Maybe wait a bit before making up your mind, see how much time and energy you actually still have when working a full time job. Letting your side projects rot to death sounds like the saddest choice, if you cant find a way to monetize them on the side.

If it helps you rationalize the choice to open source, or "give away for free" as you put it, maybe go through the list of open source software you daily drive, or that has repeatedly helped you out, and consider this "giving back". I did this a few years ago with a dozen mostly unfinished, smaller projects. Nothing blew up. The most successful one has 8 stars. Zero comments or issues. Still, maybe someone found some part of it useful, copied a class or two, something along these lines. I know that it has happened to me before that some weirdo on GitHub somewhere solved a problem I had and I just sneakily copied a couple functions and bent them into shape for whatever I was doing at the time.
Sure it is and this trend is depressing.
Where do you run the ads? And how did you set it up - how specific your targeting is?
Probably because people here think that support requests are not always wrong. When I use a public open source project and I run into a bug, yes, I will request for a fix. I won't insult anyone for not doing it, though, I know I am not entitled to anything, when I did not pay for support, but I do not want my time to be wasted by talking to an AI. Just say no, if you don't want to fix bugs and maybe just make that plain on the project page. And those idiots who demand things can just be ignored/blacklisted (they often assume btw. that their company is paying for professional support, like they are for proprietary software).
I think this is one of the few cases where the framing of the article is an understatement rather than an exaggeration.

A lot of what is mentioned there could be described more strongly as: "attempts to accelerate COVID research actually side effects that may have slowed down COVID research"
This isn't just about how acceleration attempts lowered research quality as a side effect. it's about the paradox that trying to accelerate research may have been counterproductive.
Sure in physics there is definitive reality. But you weren't using the word in that context, and I wasn't responding in a physics context.

As I mentioned, experience is on a spectrum, and so you can find someone with any experience you like. It's dangerous to generalise from experience.

And no, there's nothing "free" about the free market. A completely free market would abuse customers in the name of profits. Regulation is the tool consumers use to prevent the market from leveraging its position in negative ways.

When parts of the govt are determined not to govern, to prevent regulations being enforced, to prioritise company, party and profit over country, then you get an environment which is ripe for exploitation.
The actual origin of kindergarten were 4 years old running the streets alone - while BOTH parents worked 12 hours a day in a factory. Maybe excluding Sunday, I am not sure now. Industrial revolution was brutal on people.

Ford could introduce 8 hours long day only because 8 hours a day was far from norm at that time.
That wouod be the first time the government took the cheapest option available. Agencies writing their requirements takes care of those low-tier, cheap, COTS options very efficiently.
> Have you tried to ask what makes people think you are not doing enough?

It's complicated. For one, the culture is such that 1 out of N people need to be kicked out every year, by policy, even if all N people are doing great work. So people largely end up just clawing at each others' scope to try to not get kicked out, and stealing other peoples' work to be the first one to put their name on it. Yet others team up and protect each other, excluding other team members from meetings (which results inevitably in those team members being accused of not having done work). There is no real teamwork, nobody wants to be helped, everyone wants to be the hero so that they don't become the one that's kicked out.

Add on top of that forced RTO where if you don't badge into the office 3 times a week the system creates a ticket to your manager requiring them to explain to your skip why you weren't there. This system causes people to go to the office sick. I got COVID once and colds multiple times from the stupid RTO policy. When I was beaten up from COVID, in bed for several days, absolutely drained, unable to work, and informed my manager, the VP a few levels above me accused me of not contributing to a paper that some coworkers wrote that week, to which my manager did nothing to explain the circumstances. Meeting rooms are hard to get, and I often have to take meetings from storage closets, copy rooms, or my car in the office parking lot.

> Also, have you started looking for other jobs so you can run from this place as fast as you can?

Yes, I am doing this, thanks!

> If you can maybe take holidays. A good break.

Yeah, after taking no vacation days for a whole year (and not even having the desire to) I took 2 weeks off at the beginning of this year. Hopefully once I lock in an offer at a place with real teamwork I can take a longer break. Or maybe go funemployed for a while and take a 2nd shot at building a startup but I'm nervous about the current state of the economy.
Why buy car on credit? Is there no 'cash bonus' to be had by foregoing the financing?
Reddit has hurt its own business. It really is on the way out. But feel free to spend your money on Reddit shares if you have enough to spare.
How he made this font glowing? Which tool/IDE?
https://robbowen.digital/assets/img/articles/lietvards-code....
> It is it an object, or not an object.

It is always an object. Strings, arrays, paths, the registry—everything can be manipulated as an object.
Well.. Yea. Sure. But saying "you cannot" is very different from "you need a mac".
By your reasoning, any backend that’s not accessible directly by the user is proprietary. HN would then also be proprietary, because it relies on a third party (HN) and uses a nonstandard closed protocol (this comment section). Any website that stores data and exposes it via their own UI is proprietary (I leave this vague on purpose, as it is up to interpretation). Discord can be run in the browser and is accessible via APIs. I think it’s as open as any other web app by a company that has a commercial interest.

Services like Discord have lowered the entry barrier for non-technical conversation and community-building online. It certainly seems to be polarizing. I’ve noticed a lot of my friends and colleagues either embrace it or despise it. I wouldn’t mind an open-source alternative to it, but with the extensive features that it offers that’s hard to achieve.
Pleasure and pain are not different directions along the same vector. They are two entirely different vectors.
> Apple has gamely sent $1600/yr lawyers

shouldn't this be "$1600/hr" ?
> We don’t. A hundred years the average man was putting in 7 to 7 shifts on the factory or the farm. Physically exhausting, dangerous and painful labor that required your physical presence and likely left you too exhausted for anything else.

Historically, that is an anomaly that only started with the industrial age [1].

[1] https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_...
Just a thought: if someone (like myself!) has a long list of repos of unfinished projects, this could an accrued realization that one has no time to do side projects; they have to choose business (as in having a life outside of coding) over tech. :D
Ask HN: Why do things almost everytime break when scaled?
files, photos, user interfaces no longer become practical, hoarding i mean do you even really need any of it?
> The fact that you can't install apps from your own xcode

...I do right now. So that isn't a fact. It's a myth.
Remember that Poland has been caught red handed recently handing out schoengen visas(to the tune of 200k visas issues without proper checks) for cash, so I'd expect the enforcement of law around this to be very lax.
I set $PATH in ~/.zshenv. If you don't, you can't use any of your "extra stuff" in your zsh-scripts, as they do not use login or interactive sessions. And then I unset GLOBAL_RCS so the system configfiles don't override my settings.

In your guide, under ~/.zshenv, you mention that "macOS overrides this for PATH settings for interactive shells", without mentioning why or how. What's happening is that macOS sets your path in /etc/zprofile.

It seems your guide is missing a few global configfiles :) This is the order for an interactive login shell [1]:

/etc/zshenv
${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zshenv
/etc/zprofile (login)
${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zprofile (login)
/etc/zshrc (interactive)
${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zshrc (interactive)
/etc/zlogin (login)
${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zlogin (login)
/etc/zlogout (login - loaded on logout)
${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zlogout (login - loaded on logout)

In fact, the configfiles you mention are only loaded the way you've mentioned them, if the option GLOBAL_RCS is unset. And if GLOBAL_RCS is unset, macOS does not override your PATH, because/etc/zprofile is not loaded :)

1: <https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/Files.html>
We are in the mess we are in to a large degree because of the historical emissions.
Really though, What would you expect from a a company that managed to lose Tom Hanks for nearly 5 years? Even after that, he had to rescue himself first and they still screwed up his "welcome back" buffet meal.
I actually quite like my organization and the people within it. They are all decent people that are mostly try to make the project/thing good and don't fight silly fights.

The reason I wrote what I wrote is because the need to consider more of the communicative context is something inherent to all communication, not just to (bad) workplaces. Most people would profit from recognizing this, even outside work, e.g. in a relationship.