skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Young people should probably know that (as far as I recall) Joel more or less invented tech blogging as a form of advertising/recruiting for your company.

Namely either listing out the process/perks that a good engineering team should have and how conveniently his company has it. Or describing interesting and challenging problems they solved and how you can join them and solve problems like that too.

I don't recall anyone popular doing it before him and it's pretty much industry standard now. (Although, feel free to chime in if that's wrong. But popular being a key word here),
PayPal was not about micropayments though. And its transaction costs are higher than banks (at least European banks, not sure about US). They were never the solution.

I have to admit I use them a lot now but it's mainly because my own bank has a really retarded SecureCode implementation that I need to use their ridiculously horrible app for. So I tend to ignore it and just use PayPal where I can simply use my Yubikey for auth.
X11 didn't even exist when NeXT was founded and its contemporary predecessor wasn't available under the MIT license.

It was often used in the early days of OS X before it had native applications because the X11 version was often better than using Classic, especially after the Intel transition basically killed Classic but not X11.
Someone ping gumby :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gumby

He's likely to have something interesting to say here.
20 years ago for me. I learned about the sleazy business tactics of Oracle when I started to read Slashdot at the university.
So essentially a startup in this context has a small number of people and a large amount of money for training clusters. The article describes many operation leasing servers - that you assume to go many startups (or existing firms).

So it seems like you have the various LLM creators all doing roughly the same sort of thing (training with text and image data) with similar hardware and similar data. Each of these naturally has their own brand of "secret sauce" for distinguishing their venture. The various secret sauces can make a difference in the quality of an LLM's output.

Yet overall, this seems like a massive, energy intensive exercise in redundancy.
I'd say given the startup's shutdown being offered a signing bonus and a job at another company was the best outcome for the employees.
"In addition to expanding the use of drones and limiting desk time for officers, Prop E allows for use of body camera footage to satisfy reporting requirements and allows the installation of surveillance and facial recognition cameras without approval from the police commission or board of supervisors."

and "The bill was also supported by the San Francisco Republican Party. It was opposed by the San Francisco Democratic Party and the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California."

They tied reducing overtime with the tradeoff of an Orwellian nightmare.
Google Will Pay You $5M to Figure Out What the Hell Quantum Computers Do
Are you using the SAT/SMT solvers to feed training data into a transformer or integrating the solver logic into the model code?
The previously existing competition should have competed rather than completely fucking up. Both Apple and Google started as complete underdogs in the phone market.

Many current Android manufacturers used to built phones running their own platforms or Windows Mobile. Symbian, Windows Mobile, PalmOS, and BlackBerry all died not because Apple or Google somehow hamstrung them but because they sucked compared to what Apple and Google were selling.
> The benefit is the science, nothing else matters, and having OpenAI decide what matters for everyone is repugnant.

OpenAI gets to decide what it does with its intellectual property for the same reason that a whole bunch of people are suing it for using their intellectual property.

It only becomes repugnant to me if they're forcing their morals onto me, which they aren't, because (1) there are other roughly-equal-performance LLMs that aren't from OpenAI, and (2) the stuff it refuses do is a combination of stuff I don't want to exist and stuff I have a surfeit of anyway.

A side effect of (1) is that humanity will get the lowest common (moral and legal) denominator in content from GenAI from different providers, just like the prior experience of us all getting the lowest common (moral and legal) denominator in all types of media content due to internet access connecting us to other people all over the world.
I'm guessing it's the creepy "notetaker" that these companies have join and listen in on you. It used to be fun to join a meeting on time and have a random moment with someone else, and discuss something interesting, before the late stakeholders arrive.
Still being used, in Cambridge at least:

https://www.cambridgema.gov/cfd/News/2024/02/firealarmboxes....
It has also been established that vendors cannot be trusted to refrain from bundling unwanted feature changes (and sometimes straight-up malware) with their security updates, so it's no wonder that users might be reluctant to install such updates.
I think people pay these companies for providing them with information about their DNA, which is quite different.
Tampermonkey itself is a browser extension and closed source, so you have the same problem if the ownership changes.
How would the architecture in the OP mesh with master-slave postgres setups? If I write a cache item how can I be certain the freshest entry is read back from the read-only slave? Can/do I pay a performance penalty on writes waiting for it to be synchronized? Is it better, when it comes to caching, to ignore the slave and send all read/write cache related queries to the master?

All of these questions go away or are greatly simplified with redis.
> Do you think this looks maintainable?

I guess that depends. Compared to what?

Again, show me the equivalent widget implemented some other way and we can have a useful discussion.

Having spent a little time experimenting with tailwind for prototypes in the past, I can understand what that snippet is doing pretty easily. Having spent a lot more time writing vanilla HTML/CSS, I can immediately imagine all of the ways the vanilla version would be a nightmare, or at least take far longer to build “properly”.

Tailwind is a fascinating project because it seems to either make sense to people or it seems to deeply offend them. For whatever reason, I’m able to build things with tailwind after just a few hours of use that I could never accomplish from scratch (or with some popular CSS frameworks for that matter) after years of hacking on HTML/CSS.

15 minutes getting familiar with the class naming conventions makes all of this seem far less scary.

And it’s worth considering the variety of use cases a framework like this is useful for. Maintainability means very different things depending on context, team, and what kind of thing you’re building.
The problem is that it completely ignores the correct solution, which is "use types; we invented them for a reason".

HTML fragments should never be stored in strings.
If I can't install an app for more than a week, I can't install an app.

Also: since I don't have a Windows or Mac machine, I literally can't install an app.
> Since our enemies "used" that word, you are only one if you also live in the past tense.

Kindof like the English speaking people of Japanese descent in the Western US circa 1940. Stripped of their property & sent to internment camps. I hope history does not repeat itself in present & future "propagation" efforts. But hope & reality are two different things.

I would love to meet the "we" or "us" that is doing the propaganda. To propagate what I think about their efforts of course.
We want to migrate to it:

"Okay cool! We'll sign you up! Good luck!"

vs

"We have a migration strategy, and partners who can help you lift-and-ship or at least consult to get you a lay of the land. Try these companies and see if you're interested, and we'll help you along the way."

Google is -- thanks for reaching out, you can certainly sign up and figure it all out, here's a few books!

Amazon -- things are complex, and here's a few books to read, but I know you don't have a few years so here's some people who know how to do this, and we've ironed out how most companies succeed in migrating. Also he's a ton of incentive to move to amazon-exclusive services.
"it happened via operation of private contract so it is thus presumptively fair and non-discriminatory" is not how the DMA works, at all.
Orbstack can destroy your Time Machine backups
This has been an ongoing issue with Orbstack for almost a year now. It's a great project, but this issue is quite destructive.

Orbstack creates a 8TB sparse file disk image. If you have a Time Machine disk that is not formatted as APFS, Time Machine will interpret this as a full 8TB file, and it will happily prune all of your snapshots to try and make room for all 8TB. In my case, the resulted in almost six years of backups wiped out, and a Time Machine disk that cannot complete any backup now.

If you use a backup service like Backblaze, it will try to back up the entire 8TB as well, which causes additional problems with backup and restoration on their service.

There have been a few suggestions made on how this issue could be resolved, but nothing has been implemented.

The maintainers of Orbstack should not be harassed, but this issue definitely needs more eyes on it, to see if any better solutions could be found.
I tend to agree. "All nontrivial abstractions are leaky" reminds me of other slightly-too-cute rules, such as "full rewrites are a mistake" and "never parse JSON manually".

I wouldn't call TCP leaky because it can't deliver data across a broken network cable, for example. It's abstracting away certain unreliable features of the network, like out of order delivery of packets. It's not abstracting away the fact that networking requires a network.
How much better is going with option 2 usually?
I'm assuming things like internet, work computer, equipment would be something I can write off but if it's not a huge cost, is it worth the hassle?
They are targeting financially challenged kids in malls, with 100 euros worth of coin for associating an iris scan with their personal information. It is opportunistic mass data collection.

Even if lawful it is very much unethical and weaselly, on a par with loan sharks.

They have done this all throughout south america and have now reached Southern Europe.
At which point would mathematicians become obsolete? Something like this seems like it could automate a lot of mathematics research, no?
android can sideload
> What makes Postgres' cache so much worse than a dedicated Redis?

It's not worse, this is just a cheap way to increase performance without having to scale the main instance vertically.
Not willingly.

Theres plenty of uproar and lawsuits around that one too.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/hp-sued-again-for-bl...
Pathetically abysmal. Somehow someone convinced themselves that this was the way forward. I feel that it’s self-defeating though; folks worth the time are gonna hit this interview and end the call unless they’re desperate. In the end the recruiters end up with worse candidates because the good ones left the process. I know that if I join an interview and it’s a robot voice, I’m out.

Fuck everything about the folks calling themselves recruiters that use this. This is nothing more than a shitty filter with a coat of cheap paint. I guess not much different to the average LinkedIn spam recruiter though.

Someday we’ll struggle to identify if the other participant is human or not. Even if there’s video.

Money and the endeavor for ever-cheaper solutions destroys so many good things. If you’re reading this and feel that using AI in this way is a good idea, perhaps take some time to wonder how you got into this mess and why you’re willing to do it. You’re hiring humans. If you still don’t care, I hope that the next time you look for a job is met with an AI voice. You will certainly enjoy the experience I assume.
> Or are you saying Apple should develop the APIs for Windows and Linux as well?

What they should do is provide open source implementations of their APIs for Windows and Linux, i.e. make them standards.

> Why would they do that?

Because then people would use them instead of using Electron.
Either I pay a performance penalty waiting for my cache entry to be synced to the replica, or I risk reading stale data from the replica, no?
I'm not an expert, but I think in the Blizzard v Glider case the courts decided that if you've violated a program's EULA it becomes illegal copyright infringement to duplicate the bits from your disk into RAM
It means to run the back-prop algorithm to train neural networks to solve the problem(s) of AGI.

Dude.
In this context (Elon v. OpenAI), I don't see how this seems like a lame PR stunt. They are defending their stance against Elon's BS. He's been spewing BS over the past couple of years saying he funded them to make the open source while he's always wanted the tech for his company and always meant to make it a closed tech with the intention to compete against Google. Elon literally mentioned that OpenAI should merge with Tesla and use it as a cash cow. After reading all of this, you think OpenAI's response is a PR stunt? What about Elon's lies so far? If anything, this drama just details out Elon's hypocrisy.
Because they think that some people are still dumb enough to trust Putin/Russia?
You can install any store (ex: fdroid, aurora, etc) on Android already.
Why, sure. And I'll bet you prefer to do your own vehicle maintenance, too.

But automatic updates aren't for you or me, or any of the other geeks here.

They're for everyone else.
The quality of life for a planet with 1B total population would be much better than for 7B or 8B. More clean water, air, food, better views, less crowded beaches, more lithium, copper and oil available per person, etc.

Allow those who are willing to not crowd it all up to have a fun and positive life, reduce the population without war? Should be a no-brainer.

Although, note that this was specifically about Jewish religious tradition. That demographic group is feeling pressure, and has strong feelings of group survival.
I can learn almost anything. So, I have to put values on what it is I'm learning, so I don't waste my time. My estimation is that learning how to interpret my health data so that I can spend a lot of time gathering and then continually interpreting that health data is not going to evince any additional value in my life.
In some places they may in fact be high school dropouts. Just like naturopaths, it's important to be aware of the laws and certifying bodies in your state / country when seeking health and medical advice.

My state at least requires a 4 year education in an area approved by the state board of dieticians to call oneself a nutritionist... but that's a far cry from the 8 year education requirements plus board certification and testing required to become a registered dietician here. IIRC they are even developing something akin to residency requirements going forward.

But in some states there are literally no legal protections on the title of nutritionist. I wonder if any aspiring dietary health bloggers (who perhaps became experts in nutrition via facebook posts) have moved residence to capitalize on this situation...
They care about their own accounts being deleted over some disagreement. The risk of having your account banned changes how you invest in the platform.
This seems like two hefty accusations to sling out as a matter of fact.
No. A phone.

EDITED to add for context:

Here's my deal - we're locked into 2 basic choices. The choices are fine, but it's like a Ford vs Chevy thing - boring.

I really want someone else to com into the market and make a phone feel special. Like when Air Jordan's first came out. Nobody thought about a shoe as being special before that.

Red had a phone, but didn't execute as well as I would have expected. Image what a phone would be like from Epic - fantastic UI, great feel in your hand. Like Fortnite? cool, they have one that looks like it came right out of the game. Like Rocket League? Cool - they have one for that too.
Very nice! Thanks for the link.
Show HN is for things that are ready to try

From https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs.
it didnt work for google, who is also in the sights of regulators despite having a considerbly more semi-open OS
Is this satire? It really reads like that one infamous post on the Dropbox HN announcement...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

For every one person who'd want to do it the better DIY way, there are 10000s that can't (or won't), but would still find value in the service.
As an Airplane customer, Ben was the man, always super helpful when we had questions.

When we heard Airplane was shutting down, everyone's first thought was "can we hire that Yolken guy?"
That's an interesting thought and makes me think, because of declining birth rates and an ageing population, Apple will have fewer and fewer people to sell phones to as time goes on.
ah shoot, yes I meant vLLM, sorry for the confusion, lots of comments to reply to :)
Prevention of diabetes or even of pre-diabetes is well worth the experiment. At least for folks in the US, where metabolic syndrome is hanging over the head of a huuuuuge percentage of the population.

Hiding information from people because they might misinterpret it is not a successful medical strategy, the better strategy is to educate, see if the information will be welcome, then provide the information in the context of what it means.

I wasn't technically pre-diabetic, but did have a few higher-than-expected resting glucose blood tests, and the CGM showed me that I'm actually really close to pre-diabetes.

That was the kick I needed to clean up my diet (specifically eat less), exercise 5-7 days of the week, and I'm feeling better than ever.

Anecdata, of course, but there is no single intervention that has been discovered to improve people's weight and metabolic problems in the US (except perhaps the new GLP-1 inhibitors). Adding a CGM, at least for people interested in it, can be very effective, and we should use all the tools we have to improve the population's health.
Oh nice, TIL. Another push for me to switch to ff
Is anyone actually surprised by this? You buy something with benzene in the ingredients list, it's gonna to have benzene in it.

The labels list benzoyl peroxide. Nothing is hidden
In the context of escape analysis (which would place many objects on the stack) that should have read: mallocing every _heap_ object
Or stop living in normal apartments and move to dedicated bomb-here Hamas barracks?
I believe this is how firefox behaves.
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, 2nd Edition
You’re missing a key point by calling this a “competing app store”. That’s not what it would be. It would simply be Epic’s app store with Epic’s apps in it, the purpose being to maximize Epic’s revenue on Epic’s games. Apple, in case you haven’t noticed, isn’t a game company — they don’t compete with Epic. Microsoft does. Steam does. Apple doesn’t. In fact, given that Epic games haven’t been on iOS in ages, there’s literally zero competition even there.

It’s kind of silly to think that other companies that actually compete with Epic would choose to publish via the Epic store, since they’d just be giving money to their competitor. Either they’ll build their own stores or they’ll continue business as usual, using the device manufacturer’s stores.

To your other point, while a US court judgement is unlikely to have direct relevance to EU regulation, it does help establish a pattern of behavior on Epic’s part.

It’s also important to note that the provisions for establishing an alternative app store are designed to protect the consumer. Repeated violations of contractual agreements is clear evidence of a company’s untrustworthiness, and it would be irresponsible for Apple to do anything other than exercise the termination clause as a result..
> Unfortunately, it's been established for a long time now that users cannot be trusted to perform updates by themselves, no matter how naggy you get about it, even for the most critical of security fixes.

So let them not update. It's not your device, it's theirs. Mind your own business.
Thanks! We have some kinks to work out with the intro meeting and its associated action items. Everything associated with the intro meeting is stored client-side hence why action items being marked as complete don't persist. You shouldn't notice any issues like that with real meetings (let me know if you do).
The average Apple fan hardly cares, they happily believe that a walled garden “protects” them from malware.
How does one take over a co-founder role? Is it a job title now? If he took over for you he didn’t actually found the company, right?

I’m not asking this sarcastically. Trying to understand how this works because I’ve always taken “co-founder” to mean “I was one of the people that started this company from day 1”
IMO, little column A, little column B. EU is good about bringing lawsuits, but because of how law works, judgments are delayed, appealed, reduced, etc. Eye-watering fines are watered down and don't end up meaning much. Viewing the Big Tech names as nation-states by virtue of the sheer power they hold cuts through a lot of BS when people wonder why they do any action that might seem mind-boggling. It's because they think they can get away with doing it, and how often are they proven wrong?
> permissions are firmly controlled

Not meaningfully. A tampermonkey script has complete access to the information in a webpage it runs in. This is necessary for its operation and not something I have a problem with, but I'd never say its an improvement in terms of security.
I think it would be wise to reflect on whether the next logical step from "I think fines are not effective enough and decision markers should face jail setences" is "I think we should set people on fire as punishment and public entertainment". Do you genuinely believe that a person arguing for the first, would agree or would be close to agreeing with the second?
Do people not care, or do people not believe? My take on that movie wasn't that nobody cared, but that nobody believed the crazy-sounding man yelling weird-sounding things in public.
I was waiting for Chinese food and watched as a Left-Turn light went green for cars at the same time the Pedestrian crossing light turned "OK to cross".

The waiting car sped up, made it's left turn right into the crossing pedestrian. Pedestrian died in the hospital and I never ate my Chinese food.

How can that sequence of traffic lights even happen? For the pedestrian to get the OK, she must have hit the crossing button - system knows a person is there, why give cars the OK to turn right into her, leaving the responsibility on the driver to see and yield?
Hello, author here :)

Thank you for the kind words! I had hoped to do a more in-depth feature comparison and review, but it is an incredible amount of work and I'm afraid that I will totally botch it – I've only gotten _so far_ with other tools because of the various pitfalls and workflow/devex show-stoppers that I've hit for me and my teams.
We know and work with Israelis and former Palestinians, and it is difficult enough to navigate the stresses without the added complexity of each side reading totally different news outlets and never talking about it in the same forums. I always try to handle this stuff at work (and political issues are absolutely part of the lunchtime tapestry that impacts the cohesion of engineering teams) by sticking to the facts, but we need to agree on some shared reality for the facts to be a safe "home base" for diplomatic answers to the tough questions we can't avoid... I think it is very important for some amount of news to leak into the common spaces, as long as we can keep from arguing about it on a level higher than its veracity or importance.