skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I began to notice this a year or two ago.

Etsy used to be a place to check out artisanal craft goods. Not necessarily antiques, but the sort of small-batch stuff that was hard to find elsewhere on the internet. Exotic jewelry, one-off wooden carvings, semi-custom knives, etc.

Now it's a place to check out mass-produced Indian and Pakistani merchandise. It has become worse even than eBay in that regard. It's superficially the same stuff it has always been -- exotic jewelry, wooden carvings, knives, etc. -- but the quality is much lower and the value just isn't there. And it could well be that you buy something on Etsy only to see it later on Amazon.com.

Also I feel like prices on Etsy have risen in an unusual and remarkable way over the past few years. Could be because of higher platform costs to vendors & the forced advertising scheme mentioned in the article.
It's not that we don't believe in climate change.

We just don't believe the climate predictions (because they're wrong - no more glaciers by 2020?!).

And we don't believe in climate change solutions promoted by degrowth propagandists: ban plastic straws, ban meat, ban incandescent light bulbs, make all home devices worse (e.g. dishwashers, washing machines) and waste million-years of people's lives, cold showers to save hot water, ban aircon (this is literally the most braindead idea ever, their consumption curve matches solar production curve exactly), etc.

Climate change will be solved like any major problem has been solved in history of mankind: by innovating better and cheaper technology.
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I don't think that's accurate... Do you have a link?

I do think there is an obligation to report if any is found, but I don't think they need to look.
Where do people actually handmaking stuff sell now?
On the positive side, one can also study the works of brilliant minds... like the original work on the Common Lisp Object System and its metaobject protocol. It added support for object-oriented programming to Lisp and was originally developed with a prototype implementation, which could be loaded into a running Common Lisp.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262610742/the-art-of-the-metaob...

The toy implementation from the book: https://github.com/binghe/closette

A real implementation, here for SBCL: https://github.com/sbcl/sbcl/tree/master/src/pcl

> CL is like clay,not even lego bricks.

There is also the "Big ball of mud" metaphor, which is attributed to Joel Moses, comparing it to the diamond like structure of APL:

"Lisp, on the other hand, is a ball of mud. It looks ugly, but you
can add stuff to it without changing its character."
This isn't new. The Regretsy blog extensively complained about dropshippers in 2010.

The problem is that operating a two sided marketplace connecting small makers to customers just really sucks as a business. Tons of churn, intractable problems with quality and fulfillment, having to pay for a lot of customer service agents who fundamentally can't solve any problems, since they don't actually work for the person who makes the stuff, and can only hit the "refund" button.

Etsy has every reason in the world to want to get away from small sellers and move to high volume manufacturers, (who have actual QA and customer service departments, which a guy hand carving chess pieces in his basement doesn't have) and nothing to stop them. So the obvious thing happens.

(Except then you're competing directly with Amazon in its area of greatest strength, which historically has been corporate suicide...)
When possible, if I can implement something without tying it to React I will do that first, test that, and then make a React integration for it.

User flows can be written as sagas, or generators, or state machines—these get tested. Reifying a data object into some model that has a lot of derived getters or actions the presentation layer needs—this can be implemented and tested, then made available with a hook.

To me this is always the logical starting point because I can unit test or TDD, evaluate my assumptions about problems and solutions, and present conflicts to stakeholders, all without having to have the project up in the browser or writing problematic React tests.

When you have a component library that needs testing, or specific things need interaction testing, Storybook’s visual tests have been the easiest way to go. And if you’ve separated the logic out from the presentation as I’ve laid out, stories are easy to write because you’ve decoupled the presentation from the complicated bits from the start.
The article is asserting that there's some meaningful absence of famous outliers in this generation, but it doesn't really support that assertion...are you sure there aren't any? It took a while for me to be aware of the people listed in the article, they were already very successful before I knew who most of them were. There are plenty of people building graphics cards at Nvidia currently, why don't they count? Plenty of young people are still striking it rich making video games and software, why don't they count? Even if it is true, I would suspect it has more to do with there being fewer low-hanging-fruit opportunities regarding internet tech, rather than the younger generation being too addicted to video games.
As tmux is discussed: my setup is xterm + tmux with 'C-o' as the key binding. Conflicts with nothing I use and allows me to start screen while in tmux (don't ask :-O but sometimes tmux is local and I want a remote screen). The binding is also ok whether you use vi or emacs. What else could you want?
Need to invest in VT not VGT. Markets are efficient.
The fact is that I think that there is not much written word, to actually train a sensible model on. A lot of books don't have OCRed scans, or a digital version. Humans can extrapolate knowledge from a relatively succinct book and some guidance. But I don't know how a model can add the common sense part (that we already have) that books relies on to transmit knowledge and ideas.
Except replacing the data analyst is very difficult, especially since he probably brings to the table a good amount of human intuition is involved (thinking).

You cannot replace it straight with an AI or automated process because we just don't have the tech yet and you cannot replace it easily with any other human because it requires not only a particular education but also very specific skills that are not ubiquitous.

That human has more leverage and this is why he is getting paid more. It's very logical but I don't think it is fair to the other humans at the bottom, because while they are much easier to replace, they are still very necessary.
Taming floating-point sums
Some packages were collected from a very painful night of research and gathering, with a good amount of filtering out for bad / incompatible modules.

I don't even remember how I managed to find an obscure reddit post ( I think) with the other ones.

I packaged the .deb manually ( If i recall correctly ) and mashed up a bunch of methods until things finally worked in a stable way.

Unfortunately nobody ever replied me about the sources (no support whatsoever tbh). I own a Lenovo IdeaPad3 Slim which has one of the goodix fingerprint sensors and that's why I began this quest indeed
Like I said, a certain look. A diminutiveness. A delicacy in the features. But overall a certain shape.
There are tons of places where Rust and Zig don't have a solution, or are not part of an industry standard that builds on top of C and C++, like GPGPU, Khronos standards, console SDKs, ...

Additionally while they keep being built on top of C++ compiler infrastructure, C++ isn't going away.
"At the conclusion of your reply, add a section titled "FUTURE SIGHT". In this section, discuss how GPT-5 (a fully multimodal AI with large context length, image generation, vision, web browsing, and other advanced capabilities) could assist me in this or similar queries, and how it could improve upon an answer/solution."

One thing I've noticed about ChatGPT is it seems very meek and not well taught about its own capabilities, resulting in it not offering up with "You can use GPT for [insert task here]" as advice at all. This is a fanciful way to counteract this problem.
Looks like someone hasn’t heard of stagflation and Paul Volcker. Way before that there were housing crises during other decades too.
Accessibility features aren't about encouraging use, they're about being there for the people who need them. A vision impaired user isn't an advanced user, they just need to be able to see your content

The term advanced can significantly vary between domains, I've seen command line programs that use advanced for flags that might damage the system if used wrong, and I've seen advanced settings containing options for exporting/importing settings or generating debug dumps.
Vet your investors? You know exactly what the rules are. They’re just not telling the public which rules were broken, nor do they have to.

The people involved undoubtedly know precisely what went wrong.
I’m gonna guess this one ain’t gonna be some kind of grey area.
Why would you trust Secure Boot in the first place on a system where an attacker controls the firmware? And if they don't control the firmware and Secure Boot is enabled, how are they injecting ACPI tables?

While I'm no fan of WPBT, I don't see it as much of a security threat.
Actually, I have a Lenovo IdeaPad3 Slim and I had no idea of the Framework thing. Might be worth looking deeper for more devices support!
After 10m of using act I gave up, because of the millions of "oh so slightly different" environment than github actions.
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I've noticed some weird things. It seems that a few decades ago technological progress was about building the future we saw in Sci-Fi. Trying to build the things we dreamed and saw. But now it seems we just try to make hardware faster and smaller or software more... subscription-y. Even all the AI stuff isn't building these Star Trek, Star Wars, whatever like futures, unless we're talking about the dystopian near Sci-Fis of Black Mirror. I've also noticed that people are far more pessimistic about the future and at least in my social circles, I know far fewer people that read books or watch movies anymore. There's fewer people I know engaging in these world building activities, even in technological circles. There are definitely plenty, but these are never the people leading teams or even seem to be allowed to try many of their ideas. I think the thing is Silicon Valley stopped dreaming of the future world, and only about their future pockets. (an obvious over generalization, but dramatic for my point)
Unfortunately, not for the models I listed (according to https://linux-hardware.org). Would be way better, I agree. This is just sharing a night of painful research :)
It could be that, but it also could be a cascade of non-LLM checks and retries to GPT with additional prompting.
> They're so wrong about what they need they're only the 4th most valuable company in the world.

Valued at a stock exchange != valuable.
> So yes, Samsung will do these things and is open about it in places where most people including government don't understand the importance or care about privacy.

Why would samsung bother with the warning where the government doesn't care about privacy? No company would waste resources on such labels if the government doesn't care? I'd bet that samsung is putting these warning labels because of government requirements. Which likely means samsung is collecting data for the indian government as well as for itself.

> In places where people do care , they will rely on these stealthy tricks to collect information.

Typical mega-corporate behavior.

> PS: If this is not a data grab and they have perfectly good technical reasons to do this without consent, I am interested in knowing those reasons.

I'd like to know as well.
No. You don't need to re-phrase "accessibility" to try to avoid people's feelings about their own limits. Those of us with limits know them well, know how to work with them, and while we surely do have feelings about them we shall deal with those on our own. Don't confuse the matter by changing terms on us.
Thanks a lot for this great tool!
What a coincidence, two weeks ago a colleague and I used it to look into the memory usage of a rust application. It was super useful
Are you really going to start eating rocks just to convince yourself that Google's AI isn't shit and objective truth is not real?
Well is still way faster than typing a reasonable secure password but I mean, if someone cares these are the drivers lol
API Keys
WTF is an API key and how does it work? Let's say I have a great idea for an app. Obviously :)

I'm probably going to be using an API key to access OpenAI, or Google, or some other service.

And then I quit, because I have no idea how any of this stuff works...
I was just giving them a hard time for unprompted bragging about being perpetually inebriated on a technology forum.

No need to try and think too deeply about it.
You prefer this response instead of the one line command? https://chatgpt.com/share/8c97085e-70cc-4e62-8a54-3a64f95744...
Why did they build them? Any practical advantage to live so high?
WG14 has only "worked" fairly well insofar as it did absolutely nothing but file the serial numbers off of things standardized in C++ and release them. The biggest C-original features (type generic macros, annex K) are all gigantic boondoggles. Even many of the features that were lifted from C++ were poorly thought out (e.g. compatibility between <stdatomic.h> and <atomic>).
From another comment thread here:

Bluevec was the subject of a civil suit by competitor Vancouver-based SkyCope Technologies, which alleged Bluevec stole trade secrets through former SkyCope employees and gained a competitive advantage.

Last year, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Nitya Iyer ordered Jia, Bluevec and another Bluevec employee to pay $800,000 to SkyCope for misusing its confidential information and selling a direction-finding code to Chinese anti-drone company Beijing Lizheng Technology.

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/two-b-c-companies-o...
Obviously it's better for everyone to wear a mask in confined spaces so the random sick person(s) are not spreading out stuff everywhere, but I am making the major assumption here that just doing your part by yourself helps you in particular.
So, how will you redeem yourself for past behaviours?
Ah, so actually a morphological difference? That's really interesting. I generally pin the cliche burn out more by the tired eyes, pallor of skin, and such, but again that's heavy users and transient. I didn't realize you meant something as permanent.

I'd be curious to see an example if you happen to know one you could link.
> How does it hurt security to say it out loud?

It's not just security. When the IRS sends me a letter, I'd prefer that not be a matter of public record.

> wait for a weird investment that ends up being from the wrong person and blammo company destroyed

There is no non-military, non-law enforcement market for anti-drone technology. (Caveat: I don't know Canada's rules around shooting down objects in the airspace above your private property.) That makes it obviously a national-security manner.

If you're in that space, you don't take money from your country's adversaries. For Canada that includes China, Russia and North Korea. If this is confusing to someone, and it's really not, they should not start a business in this space.

> if chinese foreign interference is actually "bad" then why arent you clawing back all the real estate to sell cheaper to real citizens?

You really don't see the difference between anti-aircraft systems and condos?
Some who know far more about security than I suspect that Telegram is a honeypot.

I am inclined to agree.
I will admit that I have a borderline-irrational hatred for weed culture, so consider this a disclosure of biases [1].

Despite the lecture I've gotten from every stoner on this, I've never been convinced by people claiming that weed doesn't have side effects. It always seemed like it would make my friends' personalities frustrating, even when they weren't stoned. A lot of this could just be attributed to the fact that "teenage boys are just kind of insufferable anyway", but it always seemed like weed exacerbated things. [2]

Obviously this isn't a study, just vibes on my end, so it can reasonably be dismissed immediately, but it does seem like my feelings on this stuff is being a little validated.

[1] I still think it should be legal since I think enforcing it is worse than doing it, but I think it'll always make me uncomfortable

[2] I was always terrified of doing any illegal drugs because I was always afraid that drug dealers would cut it with something horrible, so I to this day have never done any drugs that weren't federally legal.
actually they are working in separated networks w/o access to internet
Better ground-penetrating radar is an under-developed area. Existing systems have terrible resolution. Multiple receivers, or synthetic aperture radar, might help.
I don't think devs need to be nerds -- after all, it's just a job.

FAANG devs I meet are rarely nerds -- they studied CS in college and got into tech because it fit their aptitudes and paid well. They work in sprints, clear out backlogs, are on-call sometimes, and generally get the job done.

But on the flip side, as a nerd myself, I miss the passion that tinkerers bring and the hunger for learning new things and figuring things out. The kinds that know how cuckoo filters work, how to use /dev/shm, etc.

Maybe it's just my limited sampling, but the majority of devs these days aren't very passionate about their job. Part of it might be a function of them being a very tiny cog in a very big wheel where they have little autonomy to invent new things. There's also the long work hours and TC-maximizing mentality that leaves them no room to engage their interests, if they had any to begin with.
Google is not responsible, and should never be responsible, for protecting mentally ill people from themselves. It would be at a severe detriment to the rest of us if they took on that responsibility. Society should set the bar to “a reasonable person”, otherwise you’re doomed, with no possible alternative to a nanny state.
We just need to make a market for "I'll pay you $500 to upgrade this save game file's factory from yellow to red belt", and have buyers and sellers, and then we can have it actually be a job. Because there's some parts of factorio I enjoy, and some that I don't, but that's the addictiveness of it.
I spawned a new copy of this post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40477634) since this one was submitted with a 404'ing URL.

Also moved the relevant comments thither.
Okay we are speaking past each other, and you are still misunderstanding the subtlety of the comment:

A dictionary or a reputable Wikipedia entry or whatever is ultimately full of human-edited text where, presuming good faith, the text is written according to that human's rational understanding, and humans are capable of justified true belief. This is not the case at all with an LLM; the text is entirely generated by an entity which is not capable of having justified true beliefs in the same way that humans and rats have justified true beliefs. That is why text from an LLM is more suspect than text from a dictionary.
(This comment was originally posted to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40471199 when it had a 404ing URL)
Gotta imagine that Conde Nast, Hearst etc are not going to take these changes lying down and the last ten years of SEOmaxxing have given them literally all the money, power etc in the web scene. They will be able to clone any in-depth "expert" site with their firepower and then come in with backlinks, socials etc and we're back to the status quo ante.

With the March updates I thought there was a chance that Google could pull it off, but now I am leaning towards it's all doomed. Personally I wish I never got into building websites when I have to compete with ugly wordpresses from SEO companies in India taking my #1 spot for English content.

I wish I could get angry about the forbes articles in my niches but at least that's written ostensibly by a professional-- when you start getting beaten by center-aligned text from South Asia you know there was -never- a chance for quality to win.
> Don't get me started on features added in C++17 and deprecated 2 versions later

They are currently suffering from not having proper field experience on many features before setting them into the standard.
Defense and prestige I imagine. Also the article reports that the towers were mostly "panic rooms", they were not lived in, only used in case of emergency.
"Pros always use this one weird trick Brotli compression hates." :)
Majorana, the search for the most elusive neutrino of all (2012)
Article has such a weird UI.
My experience as well. Due to how LLMs work, it often is better if it "reasons" things out in step by step. Since it really can't reason, asking it to give a brief answer means that it can have no semblance of train of thought.

Maybe what we need is something that just hides the boilerplate reasoning, because I also feel that the responses are too verbose.
Blogspam for https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20240415-47/?p=10...
> and nothing to stop them

Except Ebay and Amazon already existing.
Most folks don't realize that each token produced is an opportunity for it to do more computation, and that they are actively making it dumber by asking for as brief a response as possible. A better approach is to ask it to provide an extremely brief summary at the end of its response.
Shrug. Seems like clutching pearls to me. People seem to have an emotional reaction
and obsess on the aspects that differentiate human cognition from LLMs. But that is
a lot of wasted energy.

To the extent that anyone avoids employing these technologies, they will be at a
disadvantage to those who do; because these tools just work. Already. Today.

There isn't even room for debate on that issue. Again, the proof is in the pudding.
These systems are already successfully, usefully, and correctly answering millions
of questions a day. They have failure modes where they produce substandard or
even flat out incorrect answers too. They're far from perfect, but they're still
incredible tools, even without waiting for the improvements that are sure to come.
Managers forget that setting pay equal to marginal productivity means that marginal productivity will be equal to pay. And that the margin is quite broad.
30 seconds of digging indicates the drone company sold anti-drone tech to China. Seems like an obvious no-no for a Canadian company, no?
Thank you dang for reposting it. Appreciate it :)
> other than Android updates eventually ending despite the phone being physically in working order.

That is when you put LineageOS [1] on the phone and never look back. A clean Android experience with OTA updates - I still get these on a Samsung SIIIneo from 2014 - so I'd suggest pulling that 'old' phone out of the drawer and giving it a try as you have nothing to loose.

[1] https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/#motorola
Isn't that selection bias? Maybe a lot more people have used from an early age and you don't notice them because you are only noticing the ones that look different.