skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a great write up, thanks for sharing. I had never heard of these before, and would usually be totally against a subscription based product like that. But the idea of totally bypassing their "drm" for 1/60th the cost? Much more intriguing
That’s not fair, at least this actually works.
Just like how (it used to be) that writing good content would rank high in search results. But writing good content is hard. So we'll kid ourselves into writing good content for LLMs. Which is equally hard, but we'll feel like we're getting a leg up over everyone else -- who are all also doing the same thing.

It's unfortunate that people are more motivated to write for LLMs that are then used by humans than write for humans to begin with. Especially when the reason to use LLMs is because, on average, content is subpar making it difficult to find the good content.

Another case of Tragedy of the Commons Ruins Everything Around Me.
> Why must everything be done as a function call? You can’t change anything without recompiling the code.

Emacs Lisp supports dynamic binding, so you can dynamically rebind function definitions at runtime.
Uncertainty and a precipitous decline in WLD prices were also caused by the announcement.
Worldwide Coin’s iris verification program was the center of attention.
Another roadblock has emerged on the issue of “breaching privacy” for Sam Altman’s Worldcoin. The project has been directed by Spain’s data protection authority, the AEPD, to cease collecting personal data in the country and to cease using the data it has already gathered, according to Financial Times. Uncertainty and a precipitous decline in WLD prices were also caused by the announcement.

Participants in the program scan their iris images in return for digital IDs and a free cryptocurrency. These claims, however, based on worries about data collecting and privacy, are not new.
African Telecommunications Infrastructure in 2023
The prospect of screwing over their customers and becoming an also-employee at Airtable is much better? Something isn't quite adding up.
True, Grammar has been around with Llama.cpp since the early days IIRC. Microsoft had Guidance as well & now TGI supports it as well. End game for Langchain/Llamaindex if just guarantee or structure adherence was the only reason to use & beg the LLM for usable output.
There are two companies and multiple teams involved. It sounds like this is a process gap. One company has a process that states to remove and reinstall the doors but doesn't mention checking torque. Second company takes over and their procedure states to check fitment but not torque.

Something like that is likely what's happening here.
> Too bad just Internet Archive isn't enough, we also need anarchists like ArchiveTeam to actually mirror all the things, not just the things that agree to be mirrored.

No? This is wrong? The site owner is the person who morally decides whether their site should get mirrored or not.

It's stuff like this that makes me actively cheer forward otherwise-harmful things like Google's web attestation efforts.
Thank you! Will definitely go through the feed and try to add it to Command Jobs :)

As an aggregator it’s true that finding salary ranges is quite the challenge

As an applicant, I’ve settled for just only applying to the positions that have a range

If Im really curious about a company without ranges in their listings, GPT/Google sometimes give decent estimates

But also, after seeing 100+ listings, I’ve noticed that for the positions I’m looking for, there’s a pretty standard range, which doesn’t vary too much, unless it’s a FAANG or super hot company

In any case, using Command Jobs I only get 5-20 job matches, which are also pretty easy to check manually, and it’s not too annoying, given that usually the matches are very interesting and also it’s not 100s of jobs to r
What you are saying is that software industry is a mess, and Apple just happens to be the poster child of many things that are wrong with it.

I agree. Let's deal with all the other extortion schemes while we're at it and make the free market actually free.
I would settle for major booking sites to provide a clear filter for Airbus. Not everyone will use it but it'll go a long way for those of us that do care
> This is the fundamental problem of Jin’s mayor economy: The mayors, while busy picking and choosing business projects, neglect to provide and strengthen essential public goods such as education and health care, a duty only a government is responsible for.

I felt that it was a low point in the US when early on in the pandemic our politicians said that we should let people die in pursuit of economic growth. I agree with the author that public health is ultimately the government’s responsibility. We should expect more of our leadership.
Maybe they know the information has already been compromised.

Also what kind of a deterrence is this if the enemy doesn’t know about it?
Putin's "Special Military Operation" Became a People's War
Hm. This logic seems lacking to me. Should Google no longer remove horrific imagery from search because users could draw those images themselves?

If a tool is being marketed to the masses, it seems to stand to reason that it shouldn’t produce appalling things.

The examples listed in this article are not particularly compelling, though.
it depends.

If you want to seek meaning in your work, then yes, cubicle farms will not give you fulfilment. But if you're just after a steady paycheque, and don't give a damn about the business, your work nor its purpose, then this is fine. And it gives you free time to live outside of work too.
I'll admit, the launch messaging could have been better.
No
Yi LLM models are from [0], Kaifu Li's LLM startup.

[0] https://www.lingyiwanwu.com/
And Boeing of course knows this, and this is exactly why they're so brazenly ignoring NTSB requests.
Something about this narrative doesn't make sense though.

Why would Airtable go through all this trouble just to get a product owner for something unrelated?

Did Airtable even pay anything for Airplane.dev or was this just a face-saving maneuver? I don't understand how the Airtable board would sign-off on this if they are just tossing the tech AND all the users. Outside of those assets, acquihires happen with the aquirer wants the same tech built into their offerings. They are hiring a proven team with existing domain knowledge to reduce the risk of adding this tech. But none of that is happening.

Why not find a way to do right by their customers if Airtable truly isn't interested in the product? Open source it, or find a company willing to take the product and customers on?
My A1c is right on the edge of prediabetes, so I wasn't as concerned about the spikes as I was about my baseline, how long spikes last, etc.
The FAA grounding all planes Boeing planes (of this model) would be a more practical path to the same, executed through proxy collective action.
I love my iphone more than any other tech device I own. Can you elaborate on "The experience on iPhone is shit"? Seems like hyperbole to me.
Just curious given their role in the world economy, are they above sea-level there?
No Javascript; works where archive.ph is blocked:

https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?d=3455596728470&w=0v8ZAGhfc5...
I guess my favorite thing is that Google now uses GraphQL, but error code 13 is still "INTERNAL".
What on earth is "U.S. Copyright Reg. No. PA0002342355" I tried searching that string as well as the number itself on copyright.gov and in a search engine, but didn't find anything relevant. The web search did lead back to this set of comments though.
It looks like the current code does. But this provides little assurance as the new owner could update the code to behave differently. Since the checks run after the update is installed, you can't rely on it.
I'm pretty sure it's because they integrated some google thing in order so show that rating and reviews right below the search result. It has the highest rating/amount or reviews ratio so it feels like this logic is putting it to the first result. Will be not surprised if most of these comments and reviews are some language models talking to each other, it's a bit uncommon to see THOUSANDS of comments, ratings and reviews on a recipe site, probably SEO optimisation.
> Running on Windows/macOS was also the context in which I meant to ask about filesystem mounts.

That's not an issue because the mounts are within the Linux VM. At least as long as you're not trying to implement volumes.

> I understand this is not something that's implemented yet, but I'm wondering about your goals.

Make a better alternative for all the projects that suggest using `docker run` in their READMEs. Something that's easy to setup (re-use existing Dockerfiles) and something that doesn't depend on pre-existing setup from the user (which docker does).

> The much larger hurdle I see for Windows support is that I don't think you can setup virtualization without Admin privileges in the general case. If Hyper-V is not already present and enabled you'll need to install some hypervisor. Even QEMU needs Hyper-V for proper virtualization.

That's good to know. I didn't know that. I guess it will need to use emulation in some cases then.
Not something I need, but a really excellent sales pitch.
> Easy solution here is for every traveler to refuse to buy seats on a Boeing plane

Most travellers don’t care about this. (I’m a frequent traveller and have aerospace engineering and pilot training. I barely care about it from the perspective of a flier.)

The leverage is with the regulators and airlines. Calling your elected is orders of magnitudes more meaningful than complaining to the gate agent or silently re-booking. (And from what I’ve heard, barely anyone is calling.)
Thanks to OP for the candid view. I was confused by Airplane.dev since it seemed like it was taking Temporal and putting SaaS + UX chrome over it. Temporal seemed like the hard part. It also made me wonder why Temporal wasn't doing something end-user friendly in parallel with their Cloud offering. I do enjoy Temporal and have shared my OSS related to it (Terraform modules and a half-baked Terraform Provider).

Regarding that service orchestrator, even before seeing Airplane et al, I've wanted to take my Terraform + Nomad + Temporal + Ops experience (coupled with all the other diverse HPC + UX stuff on my GitHub) and make a nice OSS PaaS out of it.

But I didn't because Nomad is "Business Source Licensed" -- so once I put all that work in and try to make it customer-supported, HashiCorp could shut down any commercial hopes once they finally decide to put Nomad on HCP (why not yet OMG?!). But I get why it's licensed like that, no shade on HashiCorp, any of the big clouds could otherwise host Nomad and crush them.

I much prefer Nomad to K8S for what I do (HPC on-prem + cloud-edge). And HCP itself runs on Temporal!
Macbooks are years ahead of the competition though. I doubt you can name one laptop that comes even close in terms of build quality, performance and battery life. There’s just no alternative.
A corporation is not a person, though. It is a "legal person", which is a really unfortunate term precisely because it confuses the matter of natural rights and freedoms.

Now, I would agree with you if we were talking about individuals. In that case, yeah, I think you should be able to refuse service for any reason or no reason at all to whoever you want. But if you go and get a corporate charter from the government that, for legal and fiscal purposes, creates an entity that is distinct from you-the-actual-person, then I don't see any problem with the same government telling that distinct entity what it can and cannot do. That entity has no natural rights.
> The foundational purpose of the Flat Earth movement was not to disinform or to pursue misguided science. It was to demonstrate that 100% objective proof is impossible, because all evidence is weighed by subjective humans.

Wait, in addition to convincing people that the earth was flat? Or did they intentionally pick something they thought was so absurd that people couldn't also accidentally take their example as true, and instead just learn the lesson about 100% objective proof being impossible?
The article mentions needing to sign some paperwork about equity in passing, but I think being asked to sign new paperwork (a new IP agreement, etc.) is a sign all on its own. Like the focus on security, it is suspicious if it happens without any other motivating reason.
These all seem accurate and I'd add even moreso than security (which can be prioritized for other reasons) a focus on buttoning up open source licensing / IP ownership is a dead giveaway that a sale is close. Also the hiring and retention thing is probably less about distraction and more about not taking on additional expenses in the middle of due diligence - generally the acquirer will want to have more of a say in staffing strategy.
it depends on if you’re looking for an accurate calculation of atoms and the number of atoms. if you’re just interested in how a lattice of spheres interact, force field software might be your best bet. if you’re interested in electronic properties of real materials you will need higher levels of theory such as DFT or beyond
Thanks everyone for a great Show HN! This turned out much larger than expected, thanks for all the comments and github stars. We had a fun time with it.

Lots of takeaways, blogs to read, things to implement, issues to address. On it!
> How would you label information that is objectively false? i.e. someone claiming the Earth is flat?

As being "false".

"misinformation"/"disinformation" labels aren't about things that are false - they're about things that are true, but the propagandist wants to portray them in a bad light, e.g. by claiming that "there are more details that you need to know" or "true but misleading" or "not true in all cases".
We have really good efficient gold recovery. The problem is that its socially and actually toxic: socially because it destroys poor economies to turn them into recovery stations littered with PCBs and bad stuff, and actually because gold recovery typically involves burning things, like associated plastics, and use of stuff like Cyanide which winds up in the waste water stream, peoples body fat, you-name-it.

So this technique may well be less "efficient" but if it's less toxic, and uses another waste stream, it can be worth it.

I wonder when, if ever, it will be viable to grind up chips and things to extract gallium and other trace elements which represent high cost supply chain risks (most viable rare earth mines are chinese because the west is lazy about maintaining their own sources)
what other sweeteners did you try? Can't get allulose in canada (unless you buy it from a shady importer) because Health Canada says there isn't enough data to say its safe, so its not approved sweetener.
> What would be useful is a historic example where another approach has worked.

Sticking to quite recent examples: South Africa, Basque Country, Ireland.
Who is going to pay someone to look for problems months down the road?

Ultimately if malware doesn't think it's a VM, then test taking software isn't going to either. Malware is trying to resist analysis by trained professionals. Test taking software is just trying to sell to the next test; the sale is made by the company that takes the testing committee to the best sportsball game, not by how well they detect being in a VM.

(Interesting corollary; you should probably ALWAYS run inside a VM. There is so much malware that tries to detect it that it actually helps you; the malware will just shut itself off out of fear of being analyzed by a security researcher.)
Cognition changes before dementia hits
One sign that wasn't mentioned is the sudden exodus of higher team/product managers. I've seen this happen twice in my career. Suddenly, the individuals who were once fully committed to the company are leaving to "look for greener pastures." Sometimes, they hold meetings with everyone and their behavior is odd – often, these meetings are pointless and a huge waste of everyone's time, much like meeting with an ex.
I agree, with this and see that objection as stupid consequentialism. Policy that actually improves wellbeing[1] can probably only be developed by accepting and working with the facts as best we know them.

1. For the target groups, not for a subset of the elite that creates a cottage industry of wringing its hands over inequities and therefore seeks to perpetuate them. Ivy league policy wonks are best deprived of income and a voice, in the hope that they will do something socially useful instead.
> > would you knowingly hire the same maintenance engineer who installed a door that failed

> Yes. Assuming that it wasn’t an intentional act of sabotage, my answer is yes. We don’t get good results by assuming that nobody makes mistakes.

And in fact that's the whole point of these interviews. A safety system that fails if a single person makes a mistake indicates a failure of the safety system, not the individual that actually made the mistake. The design of the system is meant to be such that even if one of there was a mechanic that was trying to intentionally sabotage the maintenance it would not result in a safety issue.
Heard that United has been charging fees for carry-ons. Not sure if true.
Google: $5M QC contest solving real-world problems?
That's quite plausible, but at some level in the hierarchy, there is someone who has the responsibility of not letting things fall through the cracks - if no-one else, then it is the CEO.

If outsourcing is a de facto means of avoiding responsibility, then guess what the consequences are.
Most companies don't own market-dominant platforms so locked down that large economic blocks pass special legislation to address the matter.
Airbus can’t meet demand as it is, but it seems like a golden chance for an aircraft maker in Asia to enter the market more strongly.
Just like Juicero, I’m sure you could squeeze the detergent out of the cassette with your bare hands and wash your dishes by hand.
Echoing same thoughts here too and was even going to lay some kudos for any tool looking to provide some improvements to the more mundane day to day aspects that we still have to deal with because of a lack of much innovation.

Meetings, emails, and other mundane stuff like documentation generation and such would be really prime things I'd love to see tackled. Sadly, its not sexy enough to expend resources on unless you throw in some AI or other trendy hook.

Email in particular is the bain of my existence. Our tools around it suck (Outlook), provide no real management features (gmail) or seem to be stuck in the early 2000s (Thunderbird).

Particularly I am desperate for more developer friendly ways to script, automate and manage email correspondence and chains because I feel 80% of my day is wasted just reviewing wtf is in my inbox.
Of course, writing them in Go would solve all of these problems while producing packages which are much smaller.
Why does it need to contact an external service? I thought the extension ID changed when the owner changed, so you'd just need to locally track extension IDs and flag any new ones that appear. Or do I misunderstand something?
Additional context: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2024/03/06/japan/jap...
It is hell. Every time. Many men who return with PTSD do so not because of what they saw, but because of what they did.
Article title is "The Arctic could become ‘ice-free’ within a decade".
After several near death experiences in daylight crossing with a green light in a crosswalk from left turning cars and a city bus across four lane arterial roads, I now have a high intensity blinking flashlight that I aim at the driver.

I suspect that these drivers are NOT looking across the entire crosswalk and are focusing their attention on oncoming traffic.

In the case of North American city buses, the low mounted side mirrors block view of pedestrians and pedestrian fatalities are frequent because of this. In Europe the side mirrors are mounted from the roof allowing visibility of pedestrians.
> Fuck over their customers?

Yeah, I'm sorry you can't see that.

> There are so many reasons it's not easy or straight forward to open source the software of a startup that failed

I'm guessing zero effort was made to continue service for existing customers. If there were efforts made that failed, they would have mentioned
it for PR.

> All that said: please, don't use new software or tools, avoid startups and steer clear of emerging technology, you'll feel less betrayed.

Doesn't change what happened.

> *I'm not a founder, never have been a founder, and never could be a founder.

Apparently you don't need to be to have a founder perspective.
Im surprised no one mentioned that the program the unstable ranter wants is essentually a social media stalker app to find people on all social media sites.

Perhaps some barriers to use are good sometimes.
Ah okay, thanks for telling me that; I thought you keep recharging the battery every week from the description.
> For scientists, an ice-free Arctic doesn’t mean there would be zero ice in the water.

> Instead, researchers say the Arctic is ice-free when the ocean has less than 1 million square kilometers (386,000 square miles) of ice

I really really dislike this. This is going to be the next global warming shenanigans where people latch onto the term and are confused, and point to the "falsehood" to discredit the science. It really hurts the message and mission to use such terms.

Give it another catastrophic sounding name that isn't easily twisted to being false.. "artic ice season collapse" or something that doesn't suggest there's no ice... But rather a change in the status quo
> Zompist

That's a name I haven't heard in a long, long time.

This website has the best guide (afaik) on how to create a conlang[1]. Or at least it was the best guide back in the 2000's, probably something better has been written since but I've been out of touch with the conlang subculture for over a decade now so I have no idea anymore.

https://www.zompist.com/kit.html
This could lead to a large amount of helpful preliminary signals that eventually pan out into some new knowledge.
I hadn't heard of Apptainer/Singularity before but it doesn't seem to provide the ability to create standalone executables.
So, I lied. I actually have two models. One model I can do that in, but the other model has a mesh bottom over the heating element in which a fan blows the hot air. Thus, the mesh bottom one would be a bad, bad time if I put anything in it lol.
https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?d=2218497678306&w=jy407NESzz...
in cali the power company says "you can use this cost structure or that cost structure, your choice!" - so it's this vile little game where if you choose incorrectly they scalp you, and it takes a bit of arithmetic to compute expected values, power usage at various times of day, etc - something the average joe may not be able to estimate easily. in an ideal world, they would automatically pick the lower of the two.

to a degree I have seen AWS plans work this way, where you choose from options A/B/C and buyer beware if you end up getting scalped.
100%, same here. Are there any similar modern css layouts out there that are this minimal (and also work for printing)? Anything you know of?
When I see articles posted where the title is changed, for example from 'could' to 'will' it almost exposes the bias of the poster and I look at the article from the viewpoint of someone with a bias towards what its saying so almost balance out the view.
True; I was thinking about abstract algebra, set theory, and number theory when I wrote that.
So that’s what happened. I was wondering why they were having so much trouble. Their wording was evasive and I thought I til now that it was Covid closures related somehow without really understanding how covid would have that impact.
If the language looked more like type set mathematical notation it would be much more approachable.
I think mine is stainless steel or some kind of steel, but I could absolutely see that being true.