skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
* Fast -- in what way? How can you even measure the speed of an environment?..

* Declarative -- as a developer, I don't care... Why is this important? Also, declarative means there's a bunch of imperative code hiding behind it. It just makes it harder to debug when things break.

* Composable -- in over 25 years of being a developer not even once did I want my dev. environment to compose with another...

And the article opens up with:

> Simple JSON-like language

Why on earth?.. And things down the road that announce "features" like "run processes"... Is this some kind of April 1st joke that is meant to be funny because its two weeks too late?
If it's a non exclusive deal then of course they'll take it.
Mozilla embraces low-code generative AI prototyping toolkit Gradio
How to unfuse it?
"Joyous" probably should not be in your username.
Why is it suddenly called fraud and abuse when the "immigrants are taking our jobs" but from the upper middle class?
No such thing as an "unbiased search engine"

And that is not a knock on Bing, DuckDuckGo, Google, Qwant, etc

It is a fact - every search engine is making some kind of decision about `"what is" on the web`: they have their own crawling cycles, internal rankings, ability to reach content, etc

I use Qwant most often on my personal MacBooks

Bing on my iPhone and iPad

DDG on my wife's iPhone and iPad

Google at work (because we are defaulted to Chrome with limited ability to change defaults)

Do they all return "the same" results? More-or-less ... ish

You could run something like the meta search engine searX yourself, and give it the list of other search engines to hit and then return results to you (I did for a little while ... but decided it was not yielding better enough results (for me) to keep going vs just hitting the underlying engines
Why not just check then lock the toilets during takeoff?
It's read-only after you create the image. And then you can use overlayfs on top of it as others mentioned -- useful for playing with live Linux distributions or embedded systems where you never want to change the root bootable image except when you are actually updating the firmware.

...Or, in the author's case, when you have hundreds of directories that have only small differences compared to each other.

As other posters in the bigger thread mentioned, this is also very useful for big arcade game collections.
I mean that I'm surprised that there was a fuss over boarding at the wrong gate.

If you had a ticket, regardless of the name on it, you could walk into the airport, go to the gate, and get on a flight. It's a different situation, but things were generally pretty casual, and I just don't recall there being anything dramatic about a simple gate mixup.
Seems quite good, how come I have not run into it yet?

Even for someone who just want a quick feature look up it seems pretty useful.

Search has two "magnifying glass" buttons, and could probably use a suggestion popup.

A nice showcase of Svelte too, the thing is refreshingly light and fast.
Lots of rust software has dependencies on non-rust software and build scripts that need various things to be in the path or in other environment variables.

For example, anything using bindgen needs libclang, and to make matters worse, doesn't look in the conventional LIBRARY_PATH but requires a special environment variable LIBCLANG_PATH.
You're still imposing industrial agriculture problems on smaller scale local ag.

The contaminants used in industrial farming generally come down to two main areas, poisons and fertilizers for the growing period and preservatives for the shipping/warehousing process.

Local farmers wouldn't be at the same scale and may very well not need to spray their fields with the same chemicals during the growing cycle. At a minimum, they're local and anyone buying their food that cares can come right out and see how the farm operates, meet the farmer, etc.

All of the preservatives and packaging could be skipped entirely if you as buying local. When the food doesn't need to handle weeks or months of storage and shipping you simply don't need all of that.

> You mostly purchase products from national or multinational brands

My while point is they if consumers cared we could just story doing this. Sure, it'd be less convenient and we wouldn't have products like iPhones or modern cars, but in the context of getting rid of the use of plastics and PFAS those kinds of products go away anyway. It boils down to the fact that we care about the idea of PFAS but we aren't actually willing to give up the novelty and convenience of all the products those chemicals allow for.
Yeah, it's kind of like forgetting to report winning a $5 scratch off lottery ticket to the IRS.

Boeing had nearly $77.8 billion in revenue last year.

https://investors.boeing.com/investors/news/press-release-de...
Just question.

For software jobs.

Why is there a demand that can drive abuse.
When there are so many people that can't find jobs?

It seems like right now there should not be enough demand for H1-b (for software) to justify abuse. Like it shouldn't be profitable enough.
If i'm using ridewithgps, how do I contribute? is there an easy tool, or maybe it's something these tools could integrate? I know I ride trails thatdon't always show up on OSM views.
I am not 100% sure of the use case for this ... though it looks kinda interesting?

I run my servers in UTC (as everyone should (and some (many?) products require)))

Everything else handles timezones "correctly" (in my experience)
I'm pretty sure that for Google a "multi-million" sized venture is considered a complete waste of time; they probably don't consider it worth pursuing until it hits the hundreds of millions. The scale they operate at financially is beyond comprehensible.

I imagine its frustrating to be working on these projects which would mean untold riches to any individual or small group but having it get shut down because it's not making a half billion or so.
> You can say its 'the real benefit', I guess, but that feels like circular reasoning. Its pretty much the definition of what OOP is, so calling it a benefit feels weird.

It's a benefit compared to how people were writing code before it became mainstream (for polymorphism: by jumping to data-defined parts of the code and hoping for the best, and for encapsulation: subroutines working on global variables).
2008 collapse full steam ahead:)

In all seriousness, I agree that beauracracy is a big problem and the red tape is almost certainly a drain on the economy, but letting unstable systems just do what they will also isn't a solution if the American taxpayer is going to have to bail these companies out once they do super risky things.
Glad to see that geohot is back being geohot, first by dropping a local DoS for AMD cards, then this. Much more interesting :p
Set the thresholds using a countrywide baseline (1.0 = countrywide median household income) and adjust according to the median household income of the city the job would be located in. Also adjust thresholds based on the profession.
> If by genuine you mean "they really do feel entitled to this behavior", then maybe.

No, by genuine I mean genuine.

And genuine is best not conflated with entitlement, I find
The era of having startup founders both immediately accessible on social platforms (X/Twitter, Discord, etc.) and overly willing to share their opinions is a messy one.

It's hard enough in a small startup to prevent CEO "commentary-driven-development" , let alone have their random thoughts driving investment insight and user acquisition/attrition.
The frost icon is likely freezers, and the spiral is laundry washing machines
You might want to bookmark this: https://www.badcaps.net/
Functional & Free.
Present day TSA doesn't check boarding passes when going thru security just scan your license.
That seems like a crazy stretch to me. Not a lawyer but the rights courts typically don’t let you sign away are things like your freedom. Signing away your right to profit or control a video you created is super common already.

Content licensing is really well established and already allows for licensing for specific use and different royalty structures based on usage. An example of this is streaming vs theater vs syndication.

So, now there is a new venue to take into account and have the lawyers add a few pages to their contracts moving forward.
Foxdie obviously
Or you go the functional package management route and strip out these global paths entirely. nix and guix do this. Every package that needs python is built against a specific version of python (where a "version" is defined by its source code, compiler flags, toolchain versions, bootstrap toolchain versions, etc.; basically anything that can make the build result behave differently) and will only ever use that. Different packages can use different python versions. A system configuration can also choose to make a specific version available in the PATH, but it doesn't have to. A user environment can do the same, as can a project specific environment. All in one package management system.
Do you have a particular in mind or does the general number bother you?

It's a very ambitious project, so a lot of issues are related to either Nix or general support for each language/service.
Insane the universities get away with selling a broken product and just get away with robbing tax payers to fund it.

And makes the people who paid theirs off look idiotic for even bothering.
Can you share what you use for the HA integration?
That is not different from any other very powerful dual-use technology. This is hardly a new concept.
What does the code in this repo actually do, and how does it use DwarFS? The README just explains how to install it.
Subsequently: https://hackers.town/@lori/112255132348604770
(Roughly) where in the world are you?
China to Build More Coal Mines to Feed Surging Power Capacity
> state stored in the durable KV store that each object gets is persisted indefinitely.

So zero durability one can rely on then.

Making me much doubt the value of this "it allows you to retain in-memory values (as class fields) across invocations"

Thanks.
[Hi from Argentina!] I was going to ask about words that have too tanslations, for example from Spanish to English you have "vino" -> "wine" (noun) or "come"(verb). But it looks like you are not allowing any combination of languages, so I guess you are doing the tranlation table with a lot of curation.

(It would be nice to read more details, just for curiosity. Idiomatic examples are difficult. Do you have more than one example for each word?)

I expect a bigger market in "Something -> English" instead of "English -> Something" that is described in the landing page. Wait a minute, is it bidirectional? Perhaps you can edit the description to highlight the most common case or explain that it can be used in the other direction.

You are using the British flag for English. Do you support American English too? I don't remember all the differences, but an example is "color" vs "colour".
I don't know the app, but a generic way to do it would be to import your GPX trace on osm.org and add paths that are missing.
So are we just going to let OpenAI, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and others to just steal the whole internet, including videos on YouTube, and train their models for free without compensating creators? Or will they get away with it because there were no laws that prohibited their behaviour?
My thoughts exactly.

It would 100% fit in with the interviews I've had in the past year.
I would like to archive every web page I ever visit. Something like this sounds very useful but it would need to be updated periodically.

I’m thinking a hybrid approach could make sense here. Historical data is thrown into a big archive dwarFS while new data of e.g. the current day is kept in a simple normal folder. Every now and then this would be merged together.

Skimming through the docs I can’t tell if it will be possible to recreate a new dwarFS by taking an existing one and adding just a few more files, or if I would need to create a completely new one which also means I need to temporarily have enough space for twice the archive size
Idiomatic quick-protobuf is much faster than non-idiomatic rust-protobuf: https://github.com/tafia/quick-protobuf/tree/master/perftest
On one hand I'm strongly against letting that happen, on the other there's something romantic about the idea of smuggling the latest Chinese LLM on a flight from Neo-Tokyo to Newark in order to pay for my latest round of nervous system upgrades.
Messy, but valuable imo.

It’s good interacting with the real people that make software.

IMO, The fact that it’s so detached from the customer is part of why MBAs fit in to leadership so nicely.

None of the customers see it coming, because they don’t interact with employees.
>I tried to explain how it used to be easier to find information from good-faith experts, but I don’t think I really got the point across. Let me try again.

It's shocking to me how quick this changed as well.

>Back in 1999, few people had figured out how to take advantage of search engines that way.

Even basic rules like "mandatoryterm" or -dontshowterm were super powerful but don't even bother with that today. It'll just make your results worse.

>Worse, the weirdo specialists have a harder time finding each other.

The trick now is to use a better search engine. It's rare that I use google for search.

>What I know for sure is that when I read academic work published in 2014, I’m pretty likely roll my eyes and mutter about how no serious person would even bother with this crap and set it aside,

Author doesn't know about the 2005 conflict of interest legislation; infringing on freedom of speech technically but nobody is arguing for anything else. Medicine and social sciences has gone through a massive upheaval over this. You dont hear much about violent video games activists anymore because after the social science had to start declaring their conflict of interest the movement died. Entirely because better science displaced it.

Cholesterol being a bad thing is also a shocking change since 2005. It turns out a great deal of the science that said it was bad was pre-2005 and now since conflict of interests must be declared, dietary cholesterol basically doesnt matter. It turns out the cereal companies published false science to blame cholesterol for what they were causing.

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/dietary-cholesterol-doe...
which spikes the electricity demand from the grid and puts it under the most strain when its most critical for the grid to stay up, which means the grid has to be overdesigned, which means that the air based heat pumps are a poor choice for a reliable grid.
Seems horrible. That would not be specific to street mappers though, would it?
... or the stowaway has found an empty seat (not likely nowadays).
leetcode hard++
Edit: I did a bit more reading and had a look at an trans group’s reaction to this report: https://transactual.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/TransActual-Br... . Certainly not as clear cut as the article makes it out to be. It seems like a decent amount of the evidence regarding puberty blockers was excluded for dubious reasons.

Interesting article. I have to say I was shocked at the lack of evidence re puberty blockers. I was not shocked that the nhs was trying to hide any true measurements of the effectiveness of its treatments.

At the end of the day we all want kids to have a good, happy life. If puberty blockers are not some easily reversible intervention with few side effects then maybe we should not give them out. Although I’m not sure that it has been proven to be harmful, more research needed?

I am a bit conflicted with the authors opinion that we should not offer full medical transition to adults. I mostly believe adults should be able to do as they wish if they are not hurting anyone (seemingly in accordance with the authors liberal ideology). But we all have to agree that at 18 we were not always capable of making the right decisions for us. I know trans people who transitioned in their late 20s and they are the most happy they have ever been.

Thankfully we have true scientists happy to do the hard yards of creating reports like the one described. Brave and difficult work.
Elon Musk Leads Far Right Propaganda Blitz on Brazil's Democracy
Itanium was a case study in just how badly Intel could f*ck up - at $10-digit scale, and year after year after year after year after... But their old 32-bit x86 product line was such a cash cow that they got away with it, instead of dying as they richly deserved to.

In hindsight, that was also the era when HP's management obviously transitioned -from being pretty-awesome successors of the founders, to being just more PHB's.
I think a lot of this can be ascribed to "startups don't always do the right thing" and you have to learn a lot over time.

That's said, I've been a customer for a while and the t-shirt debacle is one of the dumbest things I've seen a small company do. Even if you try and call it marketing cost (no name on the shirt makes that hard), there's no way it was the most efficient use of money for marketing.

And setting up infrastructure for it wreaks of "I'm bored with search let's do t-shirts." it completes goes against "do one thing really well" and just seems like a waste. If I were one of those investors and my money got spent on that I'd be really upset.
The title has since been changed, it was lowercase now it's uppercase.
What we talk about when we talk about 'root cause'
Vlad's interpretation of GDPR is both horribly wrong and very concerning.

Personally Identifiable Information includes anything that can be used to uncover a person's identity. An email address is PII, as it can be used to identify which person their data relates to - and they do have data, at the very least a user account and settings but likely also logs.

Full names, phone numbers or IP addresses are also PII - if you have a server log with source addresses, that's PII under both GDPR and CCPA. Why you have it, and whether I can take steps to hide my identity is no excuse - you need to follow the legal process for PII under GDPR and CCPA, need have data controllers in place and ways for any individual (registered or not!) to make the appropriate data requests and removal requests as applicable.
There are some around my neighborhood in San Jose, CA.
Embrace Silence
The title has been completely changed since I made my comment. My comment no longer applies but I can't edit or delete it.
In the UK they were heavily used for voice and text and were almost ubiquitous circa 2002
Unit Tests Considered Harmful
Adobe is pretty much banking on the "scrape everything" approach getting too bogged down in legal problems to be commercially viable in the long term. They're going out of their way to only train on licensed material so they (and Getty Images) will be the last ones standing if the worst case scenario happens for the companies who thought they could just take everything, and in the meantime they get the business of risk-adverse customers who don't want to chance it until it's settled one way or the other.

It's a decent lobbying tactic too - companies like OpenAI claim their technology can only exist with unrestricted scraping, and requiring them to license training data would kill the whole industry in the crib, but Adobe and Getty can point to their own products as existence proofs that it can be done but OpenAI just doesn't want to.
Can you clarify what you mean by "no information processing advantage?" Does increased speed or memory capacity provide such an advantage? Or would you also claim that 2024 silicon has no advantage over 1994 silicon despite several orders of magnitude more speed & memory?
This is not about borders. It is about the rules of the air company. Any place where the ticket is nominal can (and in my opinion should) ask for an ID. At least to prevent for example people hording tickets and reselling them.
... after regulation, court orders and fines have failed. Which under the premise that AGI is an existential threat would be far more reasonable than many other reasons for raids.

If the premise is wrong we won't need it. If society coordinates to not do the dangerous thing we won't need it. The argument is that only in the case where we find ourselves in the situation where other measures have failed such uses of force would be the fallback option.

I'm not seeing the odiousness of the proposal. If bio research gets commodified and easy enough that every kid can build a new airborne virus in their basement we'd need raids on that too.
I guess it's without the pictures then ?
Because if I compare with the zim file format (which is optimized for this use-case) https://kiwix.org/en/what-is-the-size-of-wikipedia/ I read
"As of October 2022, the Full English Wikipedia (ca. 6.5 million articles), with images will use up 91GB of storage space (German and French, the second-largest: 36 GB). (...) If you can do without the images (what we call the nopic version), then you are down to 46 GB."
I'm sorry that you've been a dev for 25 years and you've never worked anywhere where microservices and distributed systems are the norm, being able to modularly combine and recombine systems can be invaluable for rapid development and testing.
You absolutely can chose to not add any if those chemicals into your life. Of course you can't control the rain, though you can control your food to a great extent.

If people care enough to decide not to use products that contain PFAS, the environmental exposures would disappear pretty quickly. More importantly, if its even possible for governments to effectively coordinate a cleanup process that job would be much easier if consumers pitched in by first using their individual power to drastically reduce the contaminants being added into the system.

> I'd say lets have a vote. Do you want to risk autism, cancer, infertility and whatnot for nonstick pans and all the other wonders of PFAS? If the majority doesn't, it will get a global ban.

That doesn't require a vote at all. Bans are only useful when we have to leverage the power of the state to force people to do something they don't want to do. If consumers agree that nonstick pans have all those risks and they aren't worth it, they stop buying nonstick pans and companies stop making them.

Even if we wanted the ban route, who enforces it? The UN? Some new global government? Or a unanimous agreement by every government in the world, including those who's economies are partly supported by producing the nonstick pans?
By "atom boxes", are you referring to the ATOM Echo or something else?

https://www.home-assistant.io/voice_control/thirteen-usd-voi...

https://shop.m5stack.com/products/atom-echo-smart-speaker-de...
Nono, let stealing the internet first, generate synthetic training data, and then outlaw it to ensure no one else catches up.
Did not know this about Sweeden but in most other cities I flown they did a quick look at the id as well (ok, sometimes they did not pay attention but the intention was there).
We use a distiller now that is all stainless into a glass carafe. It has a small paper/charcoal filter that sits in a porcelain housing just before it drips. What is left over is gross. Not what it looks like, that is just minerals. But it smells like things I shouldn't be smelling. I'd like to build a glass only solar still to save all that power, and to avoid the high temps that I suspect are causing some reactions that release VOCs. Not all of which might be getting caught by the charcoal.