skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup. I'm in the techpubs systems business, and I tell everyone this: no matter how much you're spending on the tool stack, you will be wrenching on it, and probably quite a lot. So if you need to pay someone else to wrench, you have to keep that cost in mind; if you anticipate a metric buttload of wrenching, make sure to use something you can wrench yourself. You're going to run out of money reaaaaaaaal quick if you're paying a dozen PTC/Adobe consultants to come visit you once or twice a year. Not to mention when you need an emergency change yesterday - good luck getting an actual real English-speaking PTC rep to return a call this financial quarter.

Nothing irritates me quite as much as the usual "Open Source Isn't Cheap!" people. Mostly because of the cognitive dissonance: of course it's cheap, it's free. You're trying to gaslight the English dictionary. Cheap doesn't mean cost over time, it means cost right now. A 1998 Kia Sedona is cheap. Now, does it cost a whole bunch? Well, maybe it will, and maybe it won't[1], but that doesn't make it not cheap. Goddammit.

[1] Although, with the Sedona, probably it will. I'm more of a "grab a farted up old Lexus or Infiniti" kind of guy.
Of course I think that education matters and is the important thing here. But employers require a degree (i.e. the piece of paper) so that's the thing they are using as a proxy and so that's the thing that may decide whether you get a job (or even an interview).
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I’ve tried Retool a few times and can’t get into it. I simply don’t feel comfortable in a web UI… I’m primarily a Django/React dev and I would love to see the Django Admin panel philosophy in the React world: quick to build, but editable code all the way down (and in the same repo as my core apps!).

I totally see the appeal of this, I’m bookmarking it and I’m eager to give it a whirl.
This - burns are actually more common than projectile injuries but a well run facility should have very few or zero of either.
Not just retirement systems, economies function on the assumption of growth.
Many companies are not throttled by server language performance. Performance in many cases will depend on your database, geolocation, and caching techniques over nodejs vs go. Nothing wrong with prioritizing developer experience.
I wonder how long before they will things like Discord -> Matrix bridges. Thats gotta be coming soon.
Within my lifetime the population of the planet has doubled, from 4 billion to 8 billion. That was a dangerous, sudden surge. If we take a break, and maybe lower the population a little, that seems like a positive thing. "Population doubles in one lifetime" is something I expect from bacteria, not complex mammals that use much of the planet's resources.
I can't believe AWS is considered boring technology now.

I don't know whether to feel old or cry on my dedicated servers.
> $1.7 million is 1-3 employees

Good lord. You hiring?
> What if the version has uncommitted changes

How is knowing the filenames going to help with that?

> What if the code is compiled from multiple repositories? I should now clone them all?

Presumably you already have a CI script that does this. If not, invest a few minutes into making one.
Some companies will use a contract manufacturer to produce their cars for them. For example Fisker (about bankrupt) used Magna Stehr in austria to produce their EVs.

When you talk about a base platform I assume you are meaning an entire drive train? Most pieces of a car are going to be produced elsewhere and then assembled. Canoo isn’t making their own batteries or motors. Those come from battery and motor manufacturers. Canoo or a similar company might even buy structural battery pack built to spec by CATL.
Mental in your body is nearly always fine.
(Cloudflare Workers tech lead here.)

I disagree about V8 not being optimized for edge environments. The needs of a browser are actually very much aligned with needs of edge, namely secure sandboxing, extremely fast startup, and an extreme commitment to backwards compatibility (important so that all apps can always run on a single runtime version).

Additionally, V8 is just much better at running JavaScript than you can hope to achieve in a Wasm-based JS implementation. And JavaScript is the most popular web development language (even server-side).

> On it's current form it can add up from ~2-5ms in startup just by initializing an Isolate

So, you and I seemingly have a disagreement on what "cold start" means. Wasmer advertises its own "cold start" time to be 50ns. This is only remotely possible if the application is already loaded in memory and ready to go before the request arrives. In my mind, this is not a "cold start". If the application is already loaded, then it's a "warm start". I haven't spent the time to benchmark our warm start time (TBH I'm a little unclear on what, exactly, is counted in this measurement), but if the app is already loaded, we can complete whole requests in a matter of microseconds, so the 5ms number isn't the correct comparison.

To me, "cold start" time is the time to load an application, without prior knowledge of what application will be needed. That means it includes the time to fetch the application code from storage. For a small application, we get around 5ms.

Note that the time to initialize an isolate isn't actually on the critical path to cold start, since we can pre-initialize isolates and have them ready to go before knowing what application they will run. That said, we haven't implemented this optimization historically, since the benefit would be relatively small.

However, with Pyodide this changes a bit. We can pre-initialize Pyodide isolates, before we know which Python app needs to run. Again, this isn't implemented yet, but we expect the benefits to be much larger than with plain JS isolates, so we plan to do so.

> Ideally you should be able to pin any Python version that you want to use in your app:

Minimizing application size is really essential to making edge compute inexpensive -- to run every one of two million developers' applications in every of our hundreds of locations at a reasonable price, we need to be able to run thousands of apps simultaneously on each machine. If each one bundles its entire language runtime, that's not gonna fit. That does mean that many applications have to agree to use the same versions of common runtime libraries, so that they can share the same copies of that code. The goal is to keep most updates to Pyodide backwards-compatible so that we can just keep everyone on the latest version. When incompatible changes must be made, we'll have to load multiple versions per machine, but that's still better than one copy per app.
Yep growth, a state of permanent, must-have growth. Or put another way, a world built upon the notion you must never be satisfied.

Not to go all Agent Smith on everyone, but he had a point.
The Prius driving experience is excellent. I’ve had two gen 3 prii (one a plug in) for 10 & 6 years respectively and can’t find anything to dislike apart from the lack of acceleration above 45mph. Regular cruise control, buttons for everything, excellent economy, zero road tax, huge cargo capacity for a family car.

I kind of like my flip phone thank you very much.
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A clear look at blurry image placeholders on the web
man that's complicated
How does the sandboxing help if the compiler and/or build scripts or whatever modifies its own output?
This is absolutely great and Riley Testut deserves a medal. However, I'm fully expecting Apple to pull some bullshit along the way, like either demanding Riley stop supporting AltStore Server[0] or demanding he not distribute unsigned binaries period.

Apple is hellbent on "containing" third-party distribution by any means necessary. They implemented frameworks for region detection specifically so the iPhone can stop complying and shut off your third-party apps if you travel. They tried to kick Tim Sweeney out of the app distribution market before he even began, for the crime of... opening his mouth[1]. Riley hasn't been as insubordinate as Tim, but he has actively been involved in app distribution, and that is even more of a threat to Apple than mean tweets.

[0] A Windows/macOS application that resigns applications for sideloading and makes remote debugger requests to enable JIT on-device. It notably requires your iCloud password to get your signing certs, which almost certainly already violates something in Apple's terms even if it's otherwise entirely legal.

[1] Casual reminder that the entire tech industry is opposed to freedom of speech, except when it's far-right radicals like Elon Musk trying to redefine freedom of speech as freedom of slurs.
The exciting thing will be a real open source repository. An entire app source with no dark patterns of any kind.
Mature products don't have enough scope for Google engineers to get good performance reviews.

Maybe you could spin up a lower tier of engineers who aren't on the same career track and exist only to maintain mature/deprecated products, but that could come with its own set of problems.
This is a ticking time bomb with greater impact that climate change...the social and financial institutions in the US assume a large, young working group supporting a smaller, older population - once this starts to reverse the result will be upheaval as gov'ts will attempt to "quickfix" this by taxation. “But above all he [the prince] must refrain from seizing the property of others, because a man is quicker to forget the death of his father than the loss of his patrimony.” I predict euthanasia will become more socially acceptable as people realize that they cannot support their elders.

There's so much more to this issue but one question i'd like to raise is that before birth control, people were "oppressed by nature" as it were in that they would have children whether they wanted or not (unless the baby was killed). Now, people can choose whether or not to have children - this is unheard of in the history of evolution and with profound consequences that our society has not grappled with seriously. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VAtXBEt0Ws
Not everything needs to grow constantly, most of the time you don't need more people, the people just need more money.
They can do whatever they want. We will still be able to download them from Russian and Chinese mirrors.
Tech is moving deeper and deeper into each field, stop looking for "tech news" and start looking at Materials Science news - there you will find amazing discoveries in superconductor research, new materials, small molecule chemistry, all of which are being driven by advances in tech.

If you're into astronomy go there, biology go there, geophysics go there, every field has many advances caused by tech, if you are complaining about lack of depth, then you need to go narrow.
we're being asked

Are you an anti-natalist? I've been seeing hordes of y'all popping up on reddit recently.
I would agree with what I'm saying, because what you are saying is simply not true.

While not everyone in the strike remained peaceful, Debs himself was very firmly a believer in peaceful protest. From the link you posted, Debs said:

> Strong men and broad minds only can resist the plutocracy and arrogant monopoly. Do not be frightened at troops, injunctions, or a subsidized press. Quit and remain firm. Commit no violence. American Railway Union will protect all, whether member or not when strike is off.

Emphasis mine. Also notable, none of the things Debs was charged with were violent crimes.

Don't link things that don't support your point as if they do. At best that means you didn't read it, and at worst you're being intentionally dishonest.
The non-tech founder needs to do the sales/marketing stuff.

Managing social media, meeting with prospective users, translating feedback into product requirements. They should be taking every little thing we work on, whether its a napkin sketch or a working MVP and putting it in front of people so we can steer the product as intelligently as possible. If they do all that they are more than lifting their weight. That would make me almost feel like a slouch just doing the coding.
Ah, I see, that's a much better explanation actually, thank you. Somehow I missed that part in particular.
I recently saw a Tesla that had a “No Elon” magnet on the back. (Red circle over white background, with a diagonal red line through the word “ELON.”)

I talked to the owner who said that his wife had custom ordered it.
Nodejs backends are not "as performant as you build them" nodejs is slow! This is an undeniable fact. If you ever have to do anything computationally intensive, which every backend at some point will nodejs will become the bottleneck.
Sure, but that's fine. You're only collecting high-rank data for a short period of time, and the massive trove of historical data lets you identify what's causing those anomalies quickly.
It’s a classic make vs buy decision. What base platform is offered by GM/Toyota/Kia/etc?

There are some examples where car makers (both EV and ICE) will sell components to competitors but in general this is pretty rare. Most companies want to control key aspects of their supply chain.

Rivian did use motors from Bosch but is now in the process of using their own internally designed motors. This allows them to build exactly what they need and avoid relying on Bosch for a key component of their vehicles.
CEOs get all kinds of compensation. Business jet travel, security, etc. This line item could be just tax optimization for this guy.

I am not trying to defend him, he is getting paid a lot:

"On May 5, 2023, the Board granted Mr. Aquila an award of 6,884,682 RSUs. These awards vest on May 5, 2024, subject to continuous service." [1]

At current stock price it is ~$20M. Getting outraged about additional $1.7M that was negotiated several years ago is strange. It does make a great headline, but would it change anything if he is paid $22M and pays for the jet out of pocket?

[1] https://ir.stockpr.com/canoo/sec-filings-email/content/00016...
An A.I. Researcher Takes on Election Deepfakes
You don't need more people to tackle social security etc. You need money and we have enough just badly distributed.
Glad to hear this could be of some use :).

Haha, for the data types we internally have a goal of bringing all the different faker libraries data generators over to ours with mostly matching APIs. If I remember right faker-ruby is where the Tolkien quotes come from.

As for brining over custom data type we plan to launch the ability to add your own custom datasets and use them for generation this week. As for getting them anonymized, could you elaborate on what you mean exactly?
That can't be the reason. Not all states have CON, and they're not pure regulatory capture. From TFA:

"Competition is a good thing except when one of the competitors is free from the onus of being required to service everyone who walks through the door."

"states that have repealed CON laws have had other consequences, including doctors over-prescribing services because they're being forced to maintain a bottom line."

Also, other countries exist.
Ask yourself - what problem are you trying to solve?
After you've defined it, you'll quickly learn that there's much simpler and cheaper solution than 6DOF robot arm in almost every case.
And if you actually do need it, in those cases you'll find that 10-20k is actually pretty cheap all things considered.
Is this the return of third-party stores we had back in the days? Remember Tutuapp, Altstore and many others for non-jailbroken devices?
"30.1K BTC of Silk Road funds controlled by US gov is on the move "
I want to be convinced because building internal tooling is hard.

But I sense that your solution should actually be an open source repo starter and not a $30/month plan based on number of users. That seems absurd because we are still the ones building most of the tool.

auth - why do I want to use your auth over the many tried and tested auth solutions for Next.js? Where are you hosting the user data? Or are we hosting the auth data ourselves?

Components - there is a hundred dashboard component UI libraries. Some of them are very extensive and good. Why do I have to pay for this?

Group permissions - this seems fairly straight forward to implement. Some auth solutions also have this built in.

White label deployment - what does this even mean? Next.js deployment is easy enough on Vercel.

In terms of AI offering, it’s not much different than asking ChatGPT and I already pay them $20/month.

I hope it doesn’t come off mean because I do want something that is more powerful than retool but easier than coding from the start. I just don’t see the value at all in this.
Agree. I was coming here to make the same basic comment. It's tough both ways for the same reasons.
The alternative to this is to buy an expensive rice cooker like a mug (me) and after a few months realise that the last 20-odd minutes on the display go down much faster than 20 minutes. Fuzzy logic indeed.
Sam Bankman-Fried is going to prison. The crypto industry isn't any better off
give them a single crypto account with a max limit of 500 million. No way to utilize another account, it's tied to verified identity using verifiers. Have a tax rate that's calculated daily based on usage and holdings... people with less money have essentially no tax because they probably spend more faster and keep less savings... you'd need separate business account system for payrolls and expenses for large corps.... there's a lot more to this idea, this is just simple overview.
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Do Large Language Models Have a "Reasoning Gap"?
presumably that is the right place to start for a datadog competitor because ddog is not going to care about smol instances that arent at scale that they can’t charge a bajillion for
Recently the functional MATH() dataset was released, along with the claim that “more than 50% of the reported reasoning abilities of LLMs might not be true reasoning”, calling the observed discrepancy a "reasoning gap". This blog post explores that claim, and looks at how fine-tuning can improve LLM reasoning capabilities.
Google answered this. The cost is higher than leaving a sour taste in people's mouths.
I do agree with this, but I'd argue the developer experience of nodejs with Typescript is far worse than that of rust/go
Sounds like the BSOD screensaver included in XScreenSaver, which you can still install today: https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/screenshots/

It actually fooled me once when it happened to choose a MacOS crash screen while I was in the bathroom.
Yup. My point was that I can understand if someone rejects a 750 in 1987 because it is fairly slow. I think home computers like the Amiga and Atari ST had at least that much raw CPU power?

But VAXen in general in 1987 weren't yet hopelessly slow, right?

I can understand if people didn't like VAXes for personal reasons. I had a pick of both a fast VAX and fast Sun workstations in 1987, the Suns were clear winners for me.
I was building a very similar solution two years back after seeing the struggle of managing the assets for the design teams. Mostly people were using google-drive to share/collect/update the assets which was not very systematic. I envision my solution to fix this with the similar insiparation of VCS and proper integration with existing design tools, but after some time realized that the solution was not good enough and it quickly became too technical for the design folks.
Younger folks may not realize one of the reasons this is discussion-worthy is because previous generations had to (and still do) contend with Malthusians and Neo-Malthusians arguing the end of the world was coming from overpopulation.

Hans Rosling and other scientists showed clearly with data that this wasn't going to be the case mostly because when the childhood mortality rate when down so did the fertility rate, but, well doom-sayers going to doom-say. Now the doom-sayers are flipping sides and saying underpopulation will be the end of the world.
An attempt to not be a wall of text. Absolutely agree they are bad, especially when relating to real people. I need to spend time here for sure.
I call my stack GETHAS:

Golang + Echo + Templ + HTMX + Alpine.js + Supabase
Yeah, but the false positives are a separate issue to solve. That would be like saying the introduction of the car has led to thousands of deaths by automobile — accurate, but not the whole story of why we keep them around.
People flock to Delaware because it's the most corporate-friendly state, especially regarding regulations and court cases.

Washington and California are two massive economies, so it's no surprise that rich people flock there.

If this CEO wanted to register a shell company to dodge taxes, he would have done it in better places than Southlake, Texas [1]. Anyone can register an LLC as long as they have valid identification and pay the $300 Texas filing fee...nothing nefarious.

Talking about the Panama Papers will be a long story, but notice how relatively few Americans are on that list. It was mostly people from developing countries with weak rule of law and high levels of corruption...the type where rich folks hide assets to avoid the government or rival business goons coming for it, and it's much easier to cheat taxes in those countries because of weak law enforcement.

1- https://pitchbook.com/profiles/limited-partner/232176-79
Thanks for bringing up Refine, we are closest to them in terms of product.

Unlike Refine, we are highly opinionated on what you should be using, including component libraries, NextJS etc.

We think there's value in constricting the scope of what you can use because with our AI (which is live today), you can prompt for the tool you have in mind and it's going to give you something that looks good out of the box, which cuts down feedback time by a good chunk.
I have never seen a glorified CRUD backend suffering from array or math operations. What kind of backend are we talking about?
Being GPT compatible seems to be another major selling point.
We don't need an auto-generated summary LLM-spam on every post. I'm not saying you do this every post, but if every post got this it would be fairly obnoxious.
What kind of application are you talking about? I agree to a degree but we haven't run into performance issues with say 100k users, what traffic did you handle, what was the business case?

Again sounds like you are running some complex math heavy operation like say a weather service, national taxi service with lots of pathfinding, a global gaming platform etc?

Curious to know what exactly you are talking about here? Because normally you just outsource the "heavy stuff" to some remote API, service, etc. you can write in a hyper efficient language anyway.