skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would like something like this that helps me, as a green developer, find open source projects to contribute to.

For instance, I recently learned about how to replace setup.py with pyproject.toml for a large number of projects. I also learned how to publish packages to pypi. These changes significantly improve project ease and accessibility, and are very easy to do.

The main thing that holds people back is that python packaging documentation is notoriously cryptic - well I've already paid that cost, and now it's easy!

So I'm thinking of finding projects that are healthy, but haven't focused on modernizing their packaging or distributing their project through pypi.

I'd build human + agent based tooling to help me find candidates, propose the improvement to existing maintainers, then implement and deliver.

I could maybe upgrade 100 projects, then write up the adventure.

Anyone have inspiration/similar ideas, and wanna brainstorm?
I figured operating losses were to be expected in this field right now, but this part was surprising:

"The unit had revenue of $18.9 billion for 2023, down 31% from $27.49 billion the year before."

Why would revenue drop so dramatically when chip demand is at an all time high?
If we think plastic is bad then wouldn't banning any of it be better than banning none of it? Wouldn't the answer be to ban more, not less? What's wrong with incremental improvements? We don't have to hit a home run on our first try.
Which only made sense if you wanted to conquer a frozen, iron/oxygem-heavy planet[0]. Or, I guess, if you are a Krytonian.

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[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_the_chemical_el...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptonian
> One important thing to know if you're considering buying a Mac Studio is that, like the Windows Executive, XNU does a really good job keeping your desktop stable, and that means protecting your system from you. It takes me 45 seconds on Mac Studio to compile the Cosmo monorepo, due to all these safety features; but if I fork bombed it, I'd be surprised if Netflix skipped a single frame.

Clearly nobody actually tried this, because on XNU if you fork bomb the system it reliably goes down every single time. There are no "safety features" here but extra overhead when spawning processes.
Sure, I see Riverside CA had over 6000 last year, though I doubt if someone who moved there two years ago would say they've "been through" over 10,000 quakes since, depending on their sensitivity, they might not have felt any of them, or maybe a dozen of them or something. I'm interested in specifics!
I don't think xz makes a difference here. The perceived likelihood of problems, malicious or not, is pretty much the same. As far as this discussion goes, it's just another example in the pile of examples, not an event with meaningful before and after epochs.
The malicious .o is extracted from data in binary test files, but the backdoor is inserted entirely in the build phase. Running any test phase is not necessary.
On the contrary, it’s worse than useless. If it could fix 12% of bugs (it can’t — it only fixes 12% of their benchmark suite), you’d still have to figure out which 12% of the responses it gave were good. So, 88% of the time you’d have wasted time confirming a “fix” that doesn’t work. But it’s worse than that. Because even on the fixes it got right, you’d still have to fully vet it, because this tool doesn’t know when it can’t solve something, or ask for clarification. It just gives a wrong answer.

So you didn’t save 12% of your effort, you wasted probably more than double your effort checking the work of a tool that is wrong eight out of nine times.
Nice of TSMC to be willing to help them out. For money.
As tempting as it is, according to food safety guidelines you shouldn’t leave rice in the rice cooker for more than 12 hours, even on “keep warm”.
I haven't worked with stereo setups with this codebase yet, but as it is just wrapping underlying platform-specific GPU APIs, it should be a similar performance profile.

On average, running the Wasm guest code is about 80% of the speed of a native build I use. That is both dependent on what is running in Wasm and not a very scientific measurement - wander needs better benchmarks. We think that performance profile is sufficient for anything that needs a GPU except the highest-performance 3D games.
It seems to be manually moderated by one person so it might take a while.
What's wrong with enshittification[0]?

Granted, Tease and Squeeze has a nicer ring. Then again, the enshittification neologism became standard langue in no time and is understood by everybody.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
I think it’s a lot less than 10 years out - EVs being pricey has some connection to the technology but mostly due to the manufacturers choosing to focus on high-end luxury vehicles trying to maintain the much higher SUV/truck-level profit margins they’ve been enjoying rather than dropping down to traditional sedan levels. There is a fair chunk of people who don’t have easy access for charging and a smaller group who really need greater than 200 mile ranges, but there’s still a ton of ICE sales to people who don’t have those problems (especially suburban 2 car households where even 100 mile range is overkill for taking the kids to school on the way to work and overnight garage charging works fine) but they’re looking for a $20-30k car rather than a $40-70k luxury truck. It’s not a coincidence that GM is easily selling every Bolt they made and the Mach-E started moving after lowering the markup - people aren’t willing to overpay so much when interest rates are twice what they’ve been for over a decade:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/290673/auto-loan-rates-u...

The thing which has me bullish on EVs is that the rest of the world isn’t so skewed towards massive vehicles and their corresponding markups. Some of those models are going to be offered here, too, and it looks like BYD is going to be moving in slowly, which will mask pressure on the established companies to offer affordable options.
If you really are doing this for yourself, Flutter has the best development efficiency and you can use animations and such pretty easily to make a slick product.

But no-one hires Flutter developers at least in the US and Canada. It’s pretty popular in India and China and some other parts, but you’ll struggle if you want to find work doing this, or if you try to hire someone to do it (although the latter wouldn’t be terrible, and you’d be hiring someone who’s choosing a tool for its virtues, not just its market share).

If those considerations bother you, then Electron or something lighter weight like Gluon or Electrino.

The other major alternative is React Native. You should look at that also.

But if this is really just you, Flutter, no contest. Desktop, mobile and even web (although it is not ideal for just a web app, but it would let you offer a web version with minimal extra affort, and it’s improving in this area rapidly).
It's not. Operating loss is when expenses are greater than the revenue.
This is the future. I think that in 3-4 years we'll all be able to generate our own TV shows, share them with friends, and collaborate on getting new seasons done, maybe even sell them. Personally, my entire digital shelf of show would be bleak dystopian sci-fi.
Yup. This isn't news. This site has a hateful obsession with all things crypto. I think it's driven by a mixture of frustration at the irrationality of markets and bitterness about missing the boat.
New York seems like a pretty obvious counterexample to that prescription, though. High density, high taxes - so should be the ideal city, no? But according to this very article, New York’s finances are even worse off than Houston’s! Does that imply that every American city is destined to fail?

My overall impression from this piece was that someone really wanted to get something off his chest about cash accounting and unfunded liabilities. Lots of sound and fury around those topics but seemed pretty skimpy otherwise (and not terribly well informed about the facts on the ground in the specific example employed here).

Btw, I’ve got to imagine that I’m perfectly within my rights to object to the particular tone an advocacy piece employs and/or the solutions it proposes (or does not), and to find that piece more or less credible based on those factors. Not sure why you are linking me to wiki and stackexchange articles?
Browserbase – Headless Web Browser API
In his book Cage said "notes are sounds the composer intended and rests are sounds the composer didn't intend". As somebody who does algorithmic and aleatoric music the question of intent in art is something I think about a lot.
I´m an outsider, but most demand in the last months have been GPUs and AI accelerators. And Intel foundries are not making them yet, only the ARC that are not very strong.
Thank you, great tutorial on SDF and ray marching!
I think it’s reasonable to assume that it means what you described on this site.
when the bubble bursts, there may be (world) war
I thought one of the marketing lines was that Amazon was so confident/comfortable in their implementation was that they assumed all liability for mistakes (though as I type this I realise they may have worded it to encapsulate only honest mistakes rather than people trying deliberately to break the system).
That's a very good question. Likely depends on the circumstances. I don't quite know any ways of using untrusted sources safely. Maybe something where you can use temporary credentials (say 2FA), or the the likes of using AWS's EC2 Instance Connect, but there's always a problem of _something_ has to be on an untrusted location, I guess?

Having some emergency access certs in a password manager might be a good backup (and rotating it after using it on an untrusted source?).

The best way is, however, removing the need in emergencies to access a machine (e.g. more of the "cattle vs pets" way of thinking). But that's hard for sure.
Microsoft offered FFmpeg small one-time payment instead of support contract
If you're in the region -- please stay safe.
7.2 earthquake strikes Hualien, Taiwan
While I generally agree with you, the claim that trade joes entered into negotiations in bad faith and cost the other brands money be asking them to make changes to recipes is a bit beyond just competition. Presuming that claim is true.
Yea, I pretty much turned off notifications off across the board. It's gotten to a point where I don't want anything pushed to me, only pull, because there is no granularity in notification systems.
The paper is probably lined with plastic to keep moisture out.
Like any completely new area. I'm exploring my options, connections and hacks that will help me to skip the muddy parts quicker. Mostly clueless and anxious atm, but it's been only a couple of months since the idea became an intent. Whole last year I was doing nothing, restoring from burnout.
Decathlon (a sports brand) has this thing too.
Decathlon stores have the same self-checkout experience. Worked flawlessly the few times I've used it.
Related - I’ve written a Flutter package to wrap the Filament PBR rendering package and I hacked together a WASM implementation so I could build 3D apps in Flutter for web.

It’s still just experimental (I’m waiting for some upstream Dart fixes to land around WASM FFI, and shared memory support would be nice in Flutter too) but I think it’s promising. Bundle size is a bit of an issue at the moment too.

https://github.com/nmfisher/flutter_filament
This reminds me of a hilariously unaware post on reddit a couple of years ago. A guy found a "hack" to Whole Foods sandwiches to get them cheaper... by walking around the store, getting the ingredients to the sandwich, buying them and making the sandwich himself.

Some people are so domesticated by advertising it just doesn't occur to them to do things themselves.
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan: San Francisco's 'Twitter Menace' or True Believer?
If you have done extensive research on a topic, or have years of experience on a topic, and you focus for even 5 minutes on a quality answer, that will already generate a long answer. On a website with as many users as Reddit, there’s bound to be a user with those qualifications to make a comment on a topic that relates to their interest. That topic will likely get upvoted to the top (generally speaking).
"In 1949, Campbell worked closely with L. Ron Hubbard on the techniques that Hubbard later turned into Dianetics. When Hubbard's therapy failed to find support from the medical community, Campbell published the earliest forms of Dianetics in Astounding."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_W._Campbell#Views
Stealing trade secrets (read: copying source code) is a whole different ballgame from trying to inject backdoors into ubiquitous pieces of software.
Apple Eyes Perplexity Acquisition; We Built a Competitor with AI in 30 Mins
Now you can use ChatGPT without an account
OpenAI will no longer require an account to use ChatGPT, the company’s free AI platform. However, this only applies to ChatGPT, as other OpenAI products, like DALL-E 3, cost money to access and will still require an account for access. “We’re rolling this out gradually, with the aim to make AI accessible to anyone curious about its capabilities,” OpenAI said
It won’t be quick but I would bet that they could make fairly big improvements quickly if they had a less chaotic leader: someone who acknowledges the problem and makes it their top priority instead of chasing impulses or being obsessed with something which would be cool if it worked but doesn’t. I guarantee that there are people in that organization who know how to improve reliability but aren’t empowered in a culture of intimidation.
I know a handful of computer science academics personally, and each of them has founded at least one startup. They can go on sabbatical easily, do the startup, then come back once they sell it or it fails. It's a pretty sweet safety net.

If I was an AI professor, I would go get a $1 million comp package on sabbatical then come back. The bubble will likely burst in 1 to 3 years, so you need to get paid now.
The small floppy disks were still floppy disks. Thick plastic does not make a hard disc!
I significantly prefer the Mac user experience over Windows (it’s bad, but Windows is abominable).

Still, I use Electron apps that UI-wise are fine. Well-known examples include Discord and Slack. They’re big and a bit slow, but they’re fine and I appreciate the uniform user experience when I use those apps on other platforms.

Flutter is just better, provides something close to a native experience, and slick experiences at that (really slick animation is easy) while being an efficient cross-platform development solution (for mobile, also).

But electron etc are a fine choice. The heft of the Javascript ecosystem, if nothing else, is a serious consideration.
I've noticed the same phenomenon myself. On days when I don't go to the gym or engage in some otherwise exhausting activity in the evening, I get much lighter sleep. It also fits my personal wacko hypothesis as to why so many retired old people have so much trouble sleeping, which I continue to recklessly propagate despite a complete lack of solid evidence: they just don't work hard enough.
paywall link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20240330012137/https://www.nytim...

Possibly a PR puff-piece to rehab Garry Tan's image after fallout when he told San Francisco supervisors "Die Slow, Motherf*ckers" while drunk a few months ago.
Prompt engineering will become an important skill -- i.e., finding the right words and ways to harness the power of generative AI.

Learning to stitch together AI tools (using the output from one tool as an input into another tool) seems like it will be in demand as well.
I think 804k is the number of new temporary residents and 550k is the number of net temporary residents. I think it's reasonable to care about the net change in population from immigration because people are going to strain services in mostly the same way whether they are temporary or permanent. I think many temporary residents do strain housing in similar ways though, Canada has seen a massive increase in demand that seems larger than the 1% number you cared about.

Also I think you're just willfully misinterpreting me at this point because the 2.1% number for Australia included temporary residents. The number for Australia based on only new permanent residents is 195,000/26M = 0.75%
iDataRiver provides telegram bot for merchants, it can be used as account management and trading.
At some point, I need to dig into how good a general UI environment I get with Godot. There appears to be something at least usable there.
> And I'm dismayed by the cavalier dismissal of lost jobs for teenagers.

The way Geneva handles their minimum wage (almost $27/hr) is to have exceptions for apprentices and au-pairs under 18. That au-pairs will eventually become older than 18 is obvious; what is less obvious is that companies taking apprentices share responsibility for their education, so I believe if too many of their apprentices fail the final exams, the company loses the ability to take new ones.

https://www.eda.admin.ch/missions/mission-onu-geneve/en/home...
There's actually some interesting visuals that illustrate this showing the difference in ground velocity between the two earthquakes :

2010 Quake:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA5m5PZ5p8E

2011 Quake:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJW7tkTwqXo

And a good explanation vid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaA1nxYVi6k
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I have 4 years of experience as a backend developer and now looking for a remote job in small or early startups. My expertise includes developing web and CLI applications. (ping me on email, I check my email every day).

I used to maintain codeef.com (tech: DigitalOcean, Go, Redis, Lemonsqueezy), similar to ChatGPT web but pay per usage (not monthly subs). It has several paid users. I also care for profit not only code.
I remember the one time I went to a just walk out store, I bought a chocolate and got the bill the next day which felt weird but now makes complete sense if they couldn’t get the Computer Vision to work but just relief on humans to identify this stuff.

I’d contend that even if a much more capable company like OpenAI tried this, they’d get much closer, maybe good enough for a product but this a really ill defined problem where even the best results may not be worth it.

Putting cameras on the roof doesn’t let you see everything a person grabs, there will always be weird occluded angles. On top of that the cameras need to be super high resolution and zoomed in to detect some of the smaller stuff in shelves. This is just for the trustworthy customers, now consider the thieves, they’re gonna have a field day with this, it’s not going to be easy to prevent a determined thief from not fooling the systems. A self checkout cart honestly makes much more sense, still prone to thieves but it at least lets you skip the line much more reliably.
I don't even mind having an account, but why do they sign me out of it nearly every day? This is consistent across different devices.
This is like measuring your active calories vs your total calories in a workout. Turns out that a meaningful percentage of calories are burned just by being alive, not from the work that was done.
Hopefully they were made of something nonferrous to prevent pooling by pesky Kouriers.

Edit: the Hagerty story was a nice read, thank you for linking to it
No big deal, it is going to be essentially covered by government (taxpayers'?) money as usual

https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/20/white-house-proposes-up-to...
more like $30-$35
Wait, It's All Token Noise? Always Has Been: Interpreting LLM Behavior
From all across the internet, a chorus of "welp" rose up
I agree with most of their content, but I've never been able to figure out a solution that didn't cost "all the money".

Of course, I'm biased since I desperately want walkable neighborhoods far from street traffic, but the developers bribe their way into creating more ginormous parking lots, strip malls, and standalone fast food restaurants near the sprawling McMansions on postage stamp lots.

Town planners have no vision and/or balls to build communities.
Christchurch quake had 10's of thousands of aftershocks. A few people I know were rattled to the point they were shell shocked and just had to leave town - every tremor triggering off "could this be it" all over again.
They're heuristics, but failure on them is extremely predictive, and for the n>25 ventures I had personal experience with, have a fitness of ~99% predictive power.

What inspired that question?
> government (taxpayers'?) money

The question mark makes me think there is some uncertainty here and I am irrationally upset about the ambiguity. Of course it is taxpayers’ money! What is possibly unclear about the situation?
I never realized I had misread _The Time Machine_ or _The Magician's Nephew_ as being about red giants, rather than heat-death! Goes to show how easy it is to seriously misunderstand aspects of 'science fiction' when the science changes...

OP missed a good historical example before Thompson, however: Isaac Newton himself had a cosmology with the Sun being renewed by periodic comet impacts. Unfortunately, we would all die when the Sun flared up after impact, but at least aliens on other planets would get a renewed Sun: https://gwern.net/newton
...or you could just use the GitHub API to find projects that match certain criteria (e.g., no pyproject.toml). I'm not sure what the stochastic parrot adds here, besides making noob mistakes that you'll have to find and fix before you can submit PRs. You'd learn a lot more by trying to actually automate the process yourself.
From what I understand (I used to live in the main city for that), even the vibration from local trains are a factor
build.rs is a thing FYI
One way to address that is by picking an analytical DB that works well with joins without needing to denormalize data. StarRocks claims [1] to do better than ClickHouse in that regard.

[1] https://www.starrocks.io/blog/benchmark-test
I think that perhaps what you’re missing is that most of those tools charge for the runtime in some capacity. We took a different approach. The Rive Runtime and file format is free and open source, the editor is how we monetize. Users can have confidence that they will forever have access to the runtime and their files. Anybody can build an editor.

Regarding file limits, stay tuned for some announcements there.

Regarding Flash, yep that’s where we’re headed (and most of the use cases on the site should support that). We have some big features launching this year like audio, fluid layouts, and scripting. The banner was added because we’ve been attending game conferences and the game ui market segment is something we’re highlighting right now. Game UI is in dire need of better tools and it’s a market segment we can quickly lead with our current feature set.
Agree. No Electron stuff will be run on my Macs.
The VC industry is like Hollywood: both smart purveyors of a popular, highly value added service to begin with, both driven by nepotism and inertia via far more scope for capture than your average line of work, and both with a cost structure mostly about the lifestyle of the executive class.

when it’s just starting out in something, you get instant classics.

when it’s out of ideas but still has the levers of access tilted all the way to “got mine bitches”, you get the late MCU, Uber for X, and OpenAI Larry Summers Edition.
That’s too bad. They should live stream it so they can allow performance after earthquakes, a testament to successful engineering.
That is not how accounting works.

However, it is true that a company can report a loss on it's P&L statement (due to non-cash expenses like impairments / write-downs, reserves) while they in fact did generative positive cash flow in that same period.