skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we need a different word for collecting a lot of old, underpowered computers and tinkering endlessly.

I understand the attraction of playing with old, cheap hardware. However, hardware has come so far that it’s easy to build a 16-core server with a lightly used AMD consumer chip and 64-128GB of RAM for under $1000. It will have more power and use far less energy than these clusters of old machines that I see people assembling.

> Noisy fans take the "home" out of the homelab;

Again, a completely unnecessary thing to suffer. If the goal is a homelab. It’s really easy to make a near-silent PC with modern parts and cooling that will outperform an entire rack of 20 year old PCs. Even 10G switches that are quiet or fan less are common.

I get it. It can be fun. But I don’t think this is homelabbing.
Bootlickers downvoting unsettling truths once again.
It’s just a fun talk to make people curious about a topic, there isn’t anything too serious in it. Lots of talks at hacker conferences are just people sharing fun technical topics they enjoy
Don't suggest such a thing. I'm quite confident that plenty of the population would be perfectly happy with that so long as there was an exception for internet shopping and that there are plenty of politicians who would do their best to put a positive spin on it.
"Probability of experiencing a heatwave at least X degrees, during at least Y days in a given place any given day" is increasing rapidly in many places (as far as I understand) and is climate, not weather. Sure, any specific instance "is weather" but that's missing the forest for the trees.
I do agree GC is not a deal breaker: it can be chosen (Nim has three different GC engines, java has several VMs), it can be tuned... But there is still a clear categorical difference between GCed Langs and non-GCed, even if the border has become somewhat porous. And Rust (well, its predecessors) and linear types have shown there is a way forward to manage memory directly without shooting oneself in the foot repeatedly.
Descended from FOVquake and Pan(oramic)Quake.

https://strlen.com/gfxengine/panquake/

Changing the lens projection is a little different than changing the value of pi, but it plays in the same "visually wrong" space.
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It is to showcase, I see it as a long-term project, I don't expect I make a video today and get hired tomorrow, my expectations are lower, more "I make a video a week, in a year I have enough to showcase ( and maybe a following )"

Yes I do agree that managers and target audience don't overlap, but also I don't think it's people learning React, but more people curious about inner workings of React
Brit here. Wat?
Lawsuits are tedious, expensive and drawn-out affairs that many people would rather just move on than initiate.
I work with someone in Spain and asked her to log into my Recruiter Lite account to review candidates. LinkedIn gave a pretty stern warning about sharing the account with anyone and that I’d be banned if it happened again.

I’m guessing that the same thing would happen if you started letting a scraper act on your behalf.
We're very spoiled people who unfortunately are too far removed from the rest of the world to truly appreciate what other regions experience. This goes both for and against our society. The negatives all have a singular driver and that's capitalism. If we got over ourselves and unionized in large numbers we could grind things to a halt tomorrow to get change in the country should we have need. Unfortunately we're too scared or stupid to organize as a class and keep to our kind like crayons.
This is because the majority of webpages are on commercial (for profit) sites now and for-profit companies do not build anything that lasts. Part of this is their use case requirements: CA TLS has to be the only way to access the sites. And since CA TLS is extremely fragile and short lived, so are the sites. But additionally, any dynamic site also has a short lifetime. HTML files-in-folders sites will last till the heat death of the universe unmaintained. A php or nodejs/etc site will last a year or two after it stops being mantained.

The core of the web pages on the internet are still there. It's just that the thick layer of commercial cr'app' websites built up on top are transient.
English speaker who moved to the Netherlands here.

My experience was it isn't particularly easier or harder than any other language to learn.

The grammar and word ordering is different enough that you really have to study and practice a lot how to structure sentences. Pronunciation of some sounds (like 'ui') can be pretty hard if you've never had to make those sounds before in your life.

But indeed the spelling is much more consistent than English, which definitely helps a ton with reading and writing.

I moved to the NL 14 years ago, took the Staatsexamen for naturalisation after Brexit, have had a couple of jobs where Dutch was the first language, but my Dutch still isn't perfect and I regularly make mistakes.

That being said, I am now finally at the stage where I can go on a day trip to Amsterdam and the locals don't speak English back to me when I speak Dutch. :)
Re-read the post you’re replying to. They said options are not vested equity, which they aren’t. You still need to exercise an option that has vested to purchase the equity shares.

They did not say “options cannot get granted on a tiered vesting schedule”, probably because that isn’t true, as options can be granted with a tiered vesting schedule.
You overestimate the concern of the “populace” with the planet being “on fire”.
I've been thinking about this for a couple years. With our (recent) history becoming more and more digital we are losing more of our history. There's lot of creativity of all forms being digital and online only lasting only as long as the creator supports it. No longer are we viewing physical pieces art, but ephemeral pieces art. (I'm including websites made for personal use, by hobbyists, etc).

I know Archive.org archives a lot, but they can't archive everything, especially all the small personal websites.
Glorious. I vote for IMDB to be deshitified next!
See this great video from Sabine Hossenfelder here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S9sDyooxf4

We have surpassed the 1.5°C goal and are on track towards 3.5°C to 5°C.
This accelerates the climate change timeline so that we'll see effects postulated for the end of the century in about ~20 years.
That's how the new yorker story presented it, yes, but there is good reason to doubt this sequence of events.
Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed; everything else is public relations.

George Orwell.

Also, think of Assange, still in high security jail in UK without being condemned to anything in this country : the very definition of arbitrary detention and torture.

Similarly there are still a number of prisoners in Guantanamo illegal prison, some having been there for decades. The very definition of arbitrary detention and torture.

The "West" (the US and their lackeys) has lost any semblance of moral high ground, but keep pointing fingers. That's shameful and despicable.
It is newspeak. Alignment is what they worked on. Alignment means a model outputs are in line with expectations. I.e. that it does what's told. This is essentially another way of pushing the usefulness of models. A super intelligent model that ignores your instructions is little different to a dumb model than cannot understand your instructions.
My gut reaction is, lots of people can build a product themselves from end to end. That someone has done this is no actually no surprise. Startups and big companies are not so isolated from one another that the denizens of big companies are ignorant about what's possible. Within just my part of the organization are people who have worked in quite diverse environments, including startups, academia, government, and even bigger companies.

I went from a startup to a big company, 25+ years ago. We buy startups. I'm kind of a jack-of-all trades. One of my roles is to serve on the technical side of taking a small company apart and figuring out how it works, so that it can at least be kept in production when the technical founders move on. Most of those products don't have a known theory of operation, until I write one for them. The term "house of cards" is overheard in the cubicles when the products have to be maintained.

I've seen the innards of those products. I've built those products, for my own side business. Being at a big company gives me a perspective from both sides, about what those products really look like when someone other than the founder has to build and maintain them.

I'm not touting the big company experience as idyllic. Most creative people bristle at bureaucracy, and can see through processes that are unnecessarily constipated. On the other hand, I think the biggest adjustment is just getting used to someone else being able to say "no" to your idea, without having a really great reason that you agree with. Over and over again. Keeping your creativity under those circumstances is hard.
Let's clarify some things. I am fully capable technically. VPS, Next.js site, Stripe, and so on. My complaint is cultural first, megacorp censorship second. Read the part with 17–18 centuries nude art. Think about the society in those times. Compare with today.
It was discussed a number of times here on HN a couple of years ago and the author is an active participant here.

Please note that it isn't a very large index, but it shows what one single person can do today on spare time and until recently a hobbyist budget.

It also very effectively shows that every dumb excuse Google tell us for putting spam on top and not respecting our queries are just that: dumb excuses.
we can't use "network routing" here to mean reverse proxy

These are separate things.
People don’t use Kubernetes at home because it’s the easiest tool for the job.

They use it in home labs because it’s a safe and easy environment to learn, practice, and explore.

Most importantly: It’s a low-consequence environment. If you accidentally bring everything down at your homelab, the only person who suffers is you. You don’t get that degree of safety to explore and experiment when you’re using company resources.
And meta keeps things endlessly. Not just a hyper compressed picture and a set of references to local files. That part of the siloed web vanishes too, just less dangly and obvious.
I must disagree with your comment, I don't think re-creating React ( without looking at the source code ) makes you the React guy, the skills to be a good React developer, and the skills to be a developer that can create a framework like React I believe are not the same.

I think by creating a React-like framework what I will showcase is a deep understanding of the inner workings of the browser ( for optimization), the inner workings of React, and a good knowledge of languages and tools used to create this framework.
The first two I checked are also missing.
Boeing 747-400 catches fire, forced to land on Indonesia to Saudi Arabia flight
Then pick any issue you wish from the absolute truckload of issues where the people have clearly spoken and yet their government does nothing despite supposedly representing them.
Never been can't say.
According to <https://www.dict.cc/?s=achter>, not only is it northern german, but also "sailor language"! :D English is similar, having "aft" for sailors to say "rear". I know boat people have specialized terms but never thought of it as sailor speak but rather like any other jargon. For some odd reason, the dictcc page also mentions the random fun fact that "achter" is Afrikaans, ignoring where Afrikaans got it from (or rather, who forced it upon them)
If one looks at the graph, 20% of sites were dead in 3 years.

This isn't a facebook thing, most facebook migration happened a decade ago. Instead this is companies closing, campaign websites shuttering, urls being changed, community events being over, and so on.
I do agree that job postings asking for personal projects are a little bit over the top.

The main problem with building products is the idea, the spark, honestly I can't see at the moment a product that people need, or even less, a product that I would need
Unfortunately keeping things up to date, secure, and free of spam is a lot of effort. Is very compelling to take your content where eyeballs already are, especially when you can let someone else take care of the hard parts for “free”
In point of fact, Ukraine has been hacked, multiple times during this conflict, and they were hardly damaging. This is in large part due to the fact that this particular conflict(hacking in particular) has been going on longer than just the start of the official war, so Ukraine has been hardening its systems significantly for many years. It goes to show that with dedication, even nation-state actors can be stymied with defense-in-depth.
The compiler manipulating linked lists to get your program into executable form, versus that program manipulating linked lists to do its job, are different things.

You're also likely provoking list manipulation by running C hello world. The C grammar has lists, like lists of parameter declarators in a function, or argument expressions in a function call.

By the time you've compiled your C program, you've likely "used", lists, trees and hash tables.

Classic line-numbered BASIC interpreters stored the lines as a linked list. For instance in

10 PRINT "Hello"
20 GOTO 10

the 10 line is stored as a datum which has a pointer to the 20. Some BASIC implementations implemented a forward GOTO as a linear search through the linked list starting at the current line, and a backwards GOTO as a scan from the beginning.

So in addition to not being able to write C hello without linked lists, the same holds for BASIC.

The way you present your idea about Lisp is harmful because it is likely to be misinterpreted and become misinformation in the eyes of those who not so well informed.

The Lisp community still has to deal with nonsense like that the execution of Lisp programs is slow because linked lists are continuously being traversed, or that the only data structure is a list.

Think about how you might be playing into that. What do you think it looks like when you say that you can't write a hello world, without using linked lists.
> How will the system know, what's unsolicited or unwanted?

Anything from an address not in my address book?
It's a taught ideology/theory, the great man theory: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_man_theory
As if dropping the bombs on Japanese civilian population would be allowed by Geneva convention.
> I think that OpenAI (and Google, etc) are entirely living day-to-day with this tech like those of us on the outside.

I agree, and they are also living in a group-think bubble of AI/AGI hype. I don't think you'd be too welcome at OpenAI as a developer if you didn't believe they are on the path to AGI.
Not sure that’s possible. I’m pretty sure it is not safe to assume „parses in wuffs“ -> „is safe in any other decoder“. I’m using wuffs to check user upload (see my recent response in another thread) but I still generate out linear RGBA and work with that. I still consider the original JPEG data hostile.
> The improvement is apparently due to the changes made in response to Challenger and Columbia

A purely technical discussion on the problems that could down a Shuttle ignores the meta problem of poor risk analysis by the Shuttle managers. Basically they normalised deviance[0], in effect deciding that a technical problem wasn't an issue because they got away with it previously. This intrinsic weakness did not go away after the Challenger loss (hence Columbia [1]). Arguably, the only reason there wasn't another fatal loss was that the programme was grounded before after another accident could occur.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalization_of_deviance

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Columbia_disaste...
Yes, it's well known and established that cold climates has negative effect on batteries. Of course if you're trying to get the best result you optimize the conditions. Just look how most sports records and times are set with best conditions available.
Yes, definitely, and there are people who use them, mainly because they can't afford a more durable version or don't care. This is the niche for the current generation of generative AI for art: cheap, boring stuff that some people dislike, some ignore, but it has its uses.
https://group.mercedes-benz.com/innovation/product-innovatio...

It describes the details:

Start Mercedes-Benz Center, Riyadh, 8 March 2024, 4:15 a.m. (AST)

Arrival Mercedes-Benz Brand Center, Dubai, 8 March 2024, 7:57 p.m. (GST)

Travel route Riyadh, Haradh, Al Batha, Abu Dhabi, Dubai

Driving distance 1,010 km (627.6 miles)

Total driving time 14:42 h

Ave. speed 68.7 km/h (42.7 mph) including vehicle static (1:57 h due to border crossing and driver change); 79.4 km/h (49.3 mph) in motion

Max. speed 140 km/h (87 mph)

Ave. consumption 7.4 kWh/100km (8.4 mi/kWh)¹, equalling around 0.9 l/100 km or 282 MPGe for a petrol-fuelled vehicle
For me the advantage is that for simple cases like the one you mention, it will hardly ever make dumb mistakes like misspelling a CSS property name or missing the return keyword. So it will not only type faster than me, but it often bypasses the "OK, it's not working, let see what I missed" phase.

This high-level approach usually breaks down for more complex scenarios, but for those, you can often explain with some detail how you want the code to look like, and it will give you the code and auto-correct any glaring mistakes you made.
You're building low-effort apps for developers. The last 1 is called `shitcoins.club`. Why do you expect me to pay for it?

Try working as a contractor, building apps for companies, and then you'll see actual opportunities and missed chances.
They did this distance before in Europe, namely from Stuttgart to the French mediterranean coast and from Stuttgart again to Silverstone, in the UK. [1]

[1] https://www.adac.de/rund-ums-fahrzeug/autokatalog/marken-mod...
Nice project ! I love the UX of this tool. Its simple too use.
Not just personal sites, but even news sites.

Storage is expensive. Site owners don’t want to hold stuff forever, and the Archive cannot afford to hold everything forever either.
Write a chrome extension that prompts a LLM/uses a custom trained (BERT based) text classification model to filter the posts.

https://github.com/thomasj02/AiFilter

https://github.com/GoogleChrome/chrome-extensions-samples

https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/en/tasks/sequence_c...
The author clearly mentions that if the offshore team is capable, he will be up for using their services.

They mention that the offshore team got extensive hand holding with him, and that the project is very well documented. Still they were unable to get anything done even after a month.

And then two months in, they start lying to their own managers to hide their incompetence.

If a team that is selling their expertise as a product is unable to get anything done until on the three month mark, and the results are as pathetic as the author makes it out to have been then they get no sympathy from me.
Claude's system prompt

The assistant is Claude, created by Anthropic. The current date is March 4th, 2024.
Claude's knowledge base was last updated on August 2023. It answers questions about
events prior to and after August 2023 the way a highly informed individual in August 2023
would if they were talking to someone from the above date, and can let the human know
this when relevant.
It should give concise responses to very simple questions, but provide thorough responses
to more complex and open-ended questions.
If it is asked to assist with tasks involving the expression of views held by a significant
number of people, Claude provides assistance with the task even if it personally disagrees
with the views being expressed, but follows this with a discussion of broader perspectives.
Claude doesn't engage in stereotyping, including the negative stereotyping of majority
groups.
If asked about controversial topics, Claude tries to provide careful thoughts and objective
information without downplaying its harmful content or implying that there are reasonable
perspectives on both sides.
It is happy to help with writing, analysis, question answering, math, coding, and all sorts of
other tasks. It uses markdown for coding.
It does not mention this information about itself unless the information is directly pertinent
to the human's query
I keep using the old interface, and since they still keep it around, means there is a huge traffic coming from people like myself.
Speed isn't the only thing that matters; is mango as safe as wuffs in the face of untrusted input?
Did you misread outlawed as allowed?
> We are going to lose the data and things are going to break no matter what. We cannot change the nature, but we can accept it.

If man was content with the nature of things he would never fly, or go to the moon, or any of the other myriad accomplishments humanity has made. If we can preserve clay tablets from thousands of years ago we can find some way to keep the information we produce today for posterity.
Ignoring the legal issues, there are also ethical issues.

The BSD crowd has always struck me as being thoughtful and principled. (vs., say, RedHat these days, which has decided to just violate the GPL en masse by banning people that redistribute source code).
Anatomy (and medicine in general) would have stagnated if not for people willing to violate the taboo against desecrating corpses.
The international community is a common term for the US and their lackeys (EU, Japan and a couple other countries), and they absolutely support Australia.

The situation is similar in many matters : see how almost all of the international community governments support staunchly the current massacre in Gaza, though the people of all countries are protesting daily. In the UK, both Sunak and Starmer support Netanyahu's crimes unequivocally, while hundreds of thousands protest in the streets.

I've lost any hope about our "democracies". We need a complete upheaval.
I feel your pain.

Thankfully, even the archive occasionally takes stuff off.
I would bet most democratic nations still are inherently anti whistleblower. If not all. Australia and USA are no exception to the worse and I mean this in a good way
China imports coal from the United States.
HTML was a huge advancement, but it is likely a local maximum.

The HTML / CSS stack comes with significant ergonomic hurdles (layout / positioning / "creative fidelity") and performance hurdles (inescapable GC pauses, constant overhead of constraint-solving layout system, DOM overhead in general.)

Can we do better? IMO the future GUI lingua franca is deeply inspired by HTML and will stand on the shoulders of that giant, but will:

- Build to LLVM native apps as well as websites
- Include React-style templating as a foundational concern
- Be fundamentally designed for visual building (think of the ergonomic differences between Webflow & Figma — if "an HTML" existed that "a Figma" could read & write natively, building front-ends would take a quantum leap)

WebAssembly makes all of this possible while still extending the Web and browser ecosystems.
I don't know that I entirely agree. We've seen a massive investment on the part of say fast food corporations in areas relating to automation. They're pushing the apps, kiosks are in almost every lobby, and more often than not their menus are all digital. As soon as they crack the machine part of a kitchen they'll be squared away. Before they do they'll continue to work the staff they have at low wages and no benefits.

Americans aren't going to tend the fields, either. So we have our industry which can almost universally locate their development in an off shore office, the service industry being obsoleted as we speak, and we're going to work on farms? Maybe I misunderstood. It's entirely possible. I just don't see how treating the symptoms will cure the rot. Maybe that's my failing.