skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> You might also be wondering if there is an excel or a google sheets version, unfortunately there isn't one yet.

>> It is simply because the whole pipeline is too large and I need multiple tables to organize everything, and only numbers can do this.

>> I will see if I can recreate this in excel in the near future.

I am not familiar with Numbers. Can anyone explain what's missing from Excel that is coming in the way. I would love to see an Excel version.

PS: I had implemented some classical computer vision demos in Excel [1, 2]. Excel worked surprisingly well for it. Hence am doubly curious.

[1] https://github.com/amzn/computer-vision-basics-in-microsoft-...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22357374
This person gets it. Been in the room for many years and it's never the conspiracy people think it is, it's never that deep.
I think you _can_ make an LLM 'have' curiosity, for all practical intents and purposes.

I'm e.g. thinking of the 'have the LLM research a topic' task, such as the 'come up with suitable search terms, search the web, summarize the article, then think of potential next questions' cycle implemented by Perplexity, for example. I'm pretty sure the results would vary noticeably between an LLM that was trained to be 'curious' (i.e., follow more unusual trains of thought) versus not, and the differences would probably compound the more freedom you give the LLM, for example by giving it more iterations of the 'formulate questions, search, summarize' loop.
I've wanted to make my own browser by forking chromium. But then I got confronted with the reality of hacking on a Google scale c++ project.

I've tried doing it by embedding webkit which is much more doable but I've found that many sites I use don't work my embedded webkit.

So now I think if I want to make my own browser it would be better start making my own versions of those sites first and make sure those are good and popular. At which point I'll just make native clients for them and forget about html/js/css.
Agreed. There's a lack of justification, and moreover I would expect the opposite.

With all the recent layoffs, right now many companies might be OK with some attrition. It's one of the least ugly ways to reduce payroll costs. It's not as bad for PR or morale as layoffs would be. And you don't have to pay severance.

And if you lose more employees than you wanted to, it should be easy to hire new people because of laid off people who haven't found new jobs yet.

Sure, losing valued senior employees will have a negative impact. But they're also usually paid a lot, so I doubt business people will cry very hard about it.
Yeah, but that's because of Nvidia, not Linux. Also the reason I got rid of my 3090 in favour of a 7900XT, and went all in on Ryzen mobile chipsets. Amdgpu on wayland is divine.
This is a very welcome counterpoint to a lot of the cryptocurrency hate that tends to be promoted. I think this is more along the lines of a "strong man" argument for cryptocurrency.
As far as I know a native Chromium port to iOS is well under way. Whether Google will release Chrome is a different question, but I think it's likely. I think Google would love to bring Blink Chrome on iOS everywhere and there is a decent amount of momentum with developers and regulators to pressure Apple into allowing third party browser engines even outside the EU, but that completely goes away, if no actual engine get's ported to iOS.
Blink Chrome on iOS probably gets a lot of enterprise web apps to drop WebKit support. That would probably that Chrome gets way more market share on iOS and with it lot's of telemetry for Google and also less money to Apple for default search engine placement.
It's not great for the web as a standardized platform, but it will probably happen anyways.
Hmm.. the government effectively owns the network, the land, and the police force. The idea that the government cannot stop a monetary transaction is woefully naive; the only reason they haven't in the case of BTC is that it isnt money. If it came anywhere close to rivalling a state-backed currency, you'd be undermining the monetary and financial ability of a democratically elected government to exercise its economic policies. You'd be thrown in prison.

Aside from the obvious ease with which a government can undermine the network, it's participants, and so on -- there is also the lack of incentive for anyone not ideologically committed to interpreting a blockchain as currency, to do so.

A database, of any type, is just a set of numbers. The meaning of those numbers is a social and institutional practice. Contracts enforcing that meaning is a legal and political one.

This article displays the same extraordinary naivety of tech libertarians that I'd assumed had now past. Money is a social institution. Social institutions will not be replaced by anyone's preferred system of rules.

This is a common flaw in all utopian thinking, that necessarily and forever, all people will have more incentive to listen to them and follow their rules, than to ignore them or kill them. There is no evidence for the former, and daily mountains of evidence of the latter.

The final incentive to accept the dollar is the threat to your life, and all people you'd conspire with, to undermine it. This is the only known solution to forming stable contracts and society-wide reliable institutions.
“F** you I’ll get mine any day now” can be even stronger.

Inconsistent rewards foster addictive patterns like nothing else.
AMD can offer distinguishing features, such as x86-64 acceleration.

That'd ensure they're the ones picked, for a few years as the world transitions away from the legacy, unclean, proprietary ISAs.
> caffeinate

https://keepingyouawake.app/ I use this for a "GUI" version
if I haven't used msoffice in 20 years nor my relatives is thanks to them.
Personally I do not see such thing as effective altruism, but what companies think they can get out of our pocket, one thing at a time.
I don't see a change in your profile. See here: https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/users/jstanley I can't see 'jstanley.at.hn' in there at all [..?]
> Negative ions are short-lived and cannot make it to orbit. This is why the European scientists needed to operate their instrument close to the lunar surface – an unprecedented mission for a particle detector.
George Carlin said it best
Smartphone Cameras Owe Their Power to Astronomy
I was also momentarily confused by this, but I assumed they meant 4 days in the office.
There are many venues to gamble your money. You could also go for meme/penny stocks.

I personally have only Bitcoin and some small amount of ETH. I don't consider myself a gambler and think that these smaller cryptocurrencies are very far away from Bitcoin, which is very stable and safe these days as the toolset is quite developed.
I tried to use AI on (intentionally?) badly formatted bank statements for a family member. Tried Apple, Google, various startups. Nothing could do it. The easy stuff is easy (raw OCR) but the hard stuff (layout recognition and reformatting) is not yet doable.
They must've been really pissed off at Barney the Dinosaur.

(for those who haven't had the (dis)pleasure, this was a television show that was enjoyed by toddlers, but extremely annoying to anyone over the age of three: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_%26_Friends)

I agree that it'd be concerning if junk images wound up in textbooks, but, you know, ensuring that textbook illustrations are accurate (within the limits of current scientific knowledge) is part of their job.
> That depends. Does the government website have the answer to the question in the query?

Dodgy site that appears so correct you enter your private info < legit gov portal.

True even if gov site could be better designed.
I feel like Google was respectable for a good amount of time after Sun vanished, though as of late they have lost any semblance of respectability.
21bitcoin completes Funding Round of €2.1M (2023)
They get papers for free, that were funded by the public, or other entities. Then they charge people obscene amount of money to let them download the PDF.

This is dictionary definition of "parasite".

Nobody funds most artists. Buying artwork isn't funding. They produce art from their own funding. Then a company leeches them off and trains models without compensating them.

I am okay at training models on arXiv papers. The authors consented to spread the knowledge publicly.

With such dumb-logic comments, you make it hard to take your point-of-view seriously.

Edit: The copyright of the paper _authors_ isn't being protected. They are being blood-sucked. And, before the Hub, if you emailed an author for a free PDF, if you couldn't afford it, most, if not all emailed you a free PDF.

Harvard famously said that they couldn't afford Elsevier anymore. [0]

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/apr/24/harvard-univ...
> Curiously this ¹ is not the case in Norway. Pretty much everyone returned ot work as they did before Covid. A majority enjoyed getting back to work and back to the office.

The headlines that imply that companies in the US are decimated by employees leaving after RTO are clickbait. The job market here (and everywhere) is very tight. Even the people upset about RTO are forced to do it.

The RTO topic is a hot button issue. Journalists know they can get a lot of clicks by writing articles about companies suffering high attrition after RTO mandates, but if you look closely they use a lot of “weasel words” to disguise the actual numbers and let readers assume the worst.

Read this article, but closely and click the links. The article plays tricks like saying 36% of seniors are leaving their jobs due to RTO, but then you click the link and realize it’s from a survey where people claimed they planned on leaving their job, not that they had or were actively doing it. It’s also just a self-reported survey, and large numbers of people always say they’re going to leave their job when you survey them.
Well, the configuration of thumbs on the scale is set when you’re born. You could be born in a poor/rich family, healthy/disfunctional family/country, you are inheriting some generic material that may play well or not in the environment where you grow up and so on. Yes, some of it is up to you later on in life but getting there in the first place is not a given.
It's helped me a lot to move to a small town that is thriving near a big city, then volunteer on ambulance and firefighting. I see my neighbors every day when they most need help.

I get to show up and give them a helping hand. In just two years I've met so many people and made so many friends.

It helps to feel like I'm doing something valuable to society and not just fixing the validation on an input form for the 1000th time. I feel deeply connected to my neighbors now in a way that I never would have imagined.

It also breaks up the day to get to run down for a call, and not just be stuck behind a keyboard all day. Sometimes I'll go work from the station, which has great AC and WiFi.
> Also, the single most nonsensical reason that people give for doing microservices is that "it allows you to scale parts of the application separately". Why the fuck do you need to do that? Do you scale every API endpoint separately based on the load that it gets? No, of course not. You scale until the hot parts have manageable load and the cold parts will just tag along at no cost. The only time this argument makes sense is if one part is a stateless application and the other part is a database or cache cluster.

I think it really matters what sort of application you are building. I do exactly this with my search engine.

If it was a monolith it would take about 10 minutes to cold-start, and it would consume far too much RAM to run a hot stand-by. This makes deploying changes pretty rough.

So the index is partitioned into partitions, each with about a minute start time. Thus, to be able to upgrade the application without long outages, I upgrade one index partition at a time. With 9 partitions, that's a rolling 10%-ish service outage.

The rest of the system is another couple of services that can also restart independently, these have a memory footprint less than 100MB, and have hot standbys.

This wouldn't make much sense for a CRUD app, but in my case I'm loading a ~100GB state into RAM.
And are you prepared to respond to GDPR and other jurisdiction requirements of data collection and management?
Author here:
Note that the 4 hours per bisection is the time to ramp the server up and down and re-image it. It does not count the time to actually do the bisection step. That's because in our case of following head, the merging & conflicts were trivial for each step of the 3 week bisection. Eg, the bisections we're doing are far simpler than the bisections we'd be doing if we didn't track the main branch, and had a far larger patchset that had to be re-merged at each bisection point. I'm cringing just imagining the conflicts.
Vlc media player instead of QuickTime player. It's hard to set defaults in Mac, you have to manually do for each extension.

DaVinci resolve for video editing.

QuickTime for recording.
It is meaningful but it is often pushed to artificial extremes and used to replace more meaningful things that we once had.
Right, this must be the reason why Germany is back to coal these days after decades of heavy investing in renewables.
Email deliverability in general is difficult, and many governments, especially small local ones, struggle with IT. You can check the email headers to see if DMARC, SPF, DKIM are configured correctly and how your email server is evaluating it.

It's also possible their constituents don't really want their emails. For every important voting reminder, the same system probably also sends out boring old reminders of the latest council meetings and whatnot.
> Intrinsics are preferable if the functionality you need is at all possible with those. But I'd be surprised if you could easily clear the BSS with those.

You can do that with a plain memset.

They are just using inline asm because they don't want the compiler to use stack/globals before they've had time to initialize them, which is very risky.
Whoops. Yeh I'm working on the encoding thing atm. Thank you for flagging! EDIT: I'm relying on the 'marked' npm package for markdown and it is handling the linkification of URLs, sometimes badly. Shall work on it.
Urggh, just a pathetic article blaming 'Capitalism'.
I'm probably prone to this, with every single predisposition you listed.

I can't overstate how much getting fit helped me. I absolutely still get burned out, with the same depression, anxiety, and existential malaise, but the lows are never as low, and it is always much, much easier to bounce back.

I don't know how much of it is a purely psychological sense of resilience you build up by regularly putting yourself through difficult physical stressors in small doses, and how much of it is from physical changes that (presumably) improve your autonomic function and balance... but whatever it is, it's been life changing, going on about 10+ years now, depending how I count it.
Depends on battery life. A significant upgrade to battery life from the AMD board, something on the order of 16+ hours on a full charge, would do it for me.
Sun software was for a long time closed source, their turn to open source was more like a hail mary rather than some deeply held belief.

I'd say that 1990s, 2000s google was pretty cool, but it turned evil quite quickly.
And only £750-1500 more a month on the mortgage for a bigger house. And those increases to property values will stick around for a long long time

(Even if you personally didn't move, lots of other people did and made houses more expensive for you. Yay)
Absolutely, it's like any other worsening of the working conditions. When I've had a conflict of sorts with my direct manager, I also started looking elsewhere for job opportunities. Obviously in those other potential workplaces the same thing could happen, but in the current job I already know it has happened, so a coin flip is a (perceived) improvement.

(Also when negotiating a new contract with a working-from-office company, there's a better chance of getting a hybrid model than if you're already an employee.)
Baking (bread, pastries, cakes, cookies, etc) definitely requires precision. A scale, thermometer, precise timing, following the recipie carefully.

Cooking (meat, veggies, soup, roasts, quiche, etc), is much more forgiving and works well free hand.

With that said, I certainly use a thermometer whenever I want to be sure, I wouldn't want it any other way.
No. If you're happy with USD, then use USD. If you are Argentinian (or Venezuelan, or Iraqi, or Zimbabwean) and your currency is getting devalued to nothing and the government is restricting access to your funds and preventing you from holding USD, then Bitcoin or Stablecoins are a pretty good option.

The attitude I see a lot (mostly by Americans and Western Europeans) is that "Crypto is not useful to me, therefor it is not useful to anyone" - forgetting that it's a global network open to everyone and anyone. And that other countries exist that are difficult places to live at times.
How does crypto solve any of that if its future is just more regulation pressing it into the molds of already established systems? I can’t pay my moving guy in crypto, I have to convert it to cash and all that “protection” is easily surmountable.
Absolutely, it is a little crazy how omnipresent technology is in shaping society and yet the average worker has one ethics class in college, tops.
And what makes it worse in phpBB and other forum engines is the waste of vertical space. 4 messages on your screen seems to be the maximum despite using smaller fonts than web average nowadays.
Environment. You seem to be missing the "natural selection" part of evolution. The optimization process works like this:

- Life reproduces; between imperfections in reproduction and environmental mutagenic factors, there is a certain amount of random mutations;

- The churn happens. Organisms compete for resources; winners reproduce, losers starve. Environment throws curveballs - spills, seasons, volcanos, radiation, oxygen, and a million different things. A lot of organisms are killed, some survive and reproduce. Now, mutations can make organisms better or worse at surviving the challenges. This is the asymmetry you're looking for, the driver of evolution. Helpful mutations propagate, unhelpful mutations die. Where "helpful" means, of course, "helpful locally, at a given moment".

Rinse and repeat. The randomness isn't the driver - it's just jitter preventing evolution from getting stuck in a local minimum. The life cycle of birth and death is what drives evolution, specifically because it depends on both how the organism is built, and on the environment.
Until we, as a culture, stop requiring everything to always be going up and to the right, we will continue to see these trends.

Maybe shackling everyone's retirement outcomes, executive compensation, and economic policy to large private corporation's stock price isn't the best way to manifest the world we want...
Mitigate WebSockets DDoS Attacks with Cloudflare API
Zig doesn't have to have it, but in Zig's specific case it can offer a surprisingly innovative implementation of it. The grandparent post mentioned how async/await infects languages (it does) and Zig is in a unique position where this would be not as true. Note that async/await has to gain a lot by being "built in" as opposed to a pure userland thing, as it basically is used to rewrite function bodies and mess with calling conventions.

As for the correct level of abstraction of async/await I believe that it's actually a very low-level primitive that should only be offered in low-level languages as it's very footgunny to use in high-level languages and generally worse than actors/csp.
What's more easy to learn Python or JavaScript?
Is Python beginners friendly? Can I start it from scratch as I don't have any programming knowledge?
Adapt Your Coding Style to LLMs or Get Left Behind
Skills can be acquired through proper training. Maybe even in the job. We used to do that…
Maybe there's some drama/changes that I've missed since I'm not really focused on their area, but in my mind Stripe is still pretty respectable.
Very probably. It was the only tech company I have ever worn the logo of by choice.
No I agree, that was exactly my point.

It's not like iOS users care anyway, or they wouldn't use iOS in the first place.
Are we getting x86 emulation, or is that stuck being windows only?
> Snapdragon X Elite won't be shipped for ~6 months

? Dell XPS 13 Snapdragon current ship date is June 20, https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/new-xps-13/spd/...
Analyzing Binary Size Bloat in Tock
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40624563
You've given me a lot to research and explore here. Thanks!

What is hypermobility in this context?
You’re making it sound like there’s a uniform blob of unreflected hate, when it’s really specific criticisms for many different aspects.

I feel like a steelman argument for Bitcoin specifically is somewhat easier to make than one for NFTs or quasi-investment share tokens, in that it’s at least not a transparent Ponzi scheme by its issuers (one might argue it is one by its current holders, though).

The problems of Bitcoin are largely different to those of stablecoins, NFTs etc.
I never claimed that only 1% of people are happy. You are reading my comment far too literally. People can find meaning in their lives independent of their work, even if they hate their job. Nor do I think that people are happy because they are lucky, or that people who are happy are true propagandists.

I only meant that not many people can find true meaning in their work only, and that this phenomenon is far from a theoretical optimum. Of course, people that find meaning in their work aren't literal propagandists. Only, their efforts and enthusiasm is promoted as propaganda as an emergent property of the system that needs their efforts in order to support a pathological system.
Let’s hope Valve never goes public
See my reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40633347
I've had two little apps published in IOS store that both required accounts (paid account) that had to be created outside their universe.

They let me in, after a few hoops. This was in 2016-2019 (but now they are PWA)
Likewise, I’ve become a parent and moved into a small community and it feels a lot better for sure. Im still ball tied to a corpo for a living but even that seems to have got somewhat more bearable by being part of some community.
Urggh, just a pathetic reply doing a drive-by snipe without engaging with the article's arguments.
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I don't think they ever collected any user data from a customer off a server or workstation.
Saw a discussion on threads recently about private equity buying things like Red Lobster and ruining it, and there was some general head scratching over the general theme of, why is "private equity took over XYZ and ruined it!" such a theme right now, whereas it was not a few decades ago? Less aware folks felt this was some new thing that could somehow be regulated. How do you regulate private ownership of things? Even this article talked about "regulation". Nobody is more pro-regulation than me but in this case what are we regulating exactly?
> Would you agree that in Gaza Israeli did let the Palestinians "meaningfully control Gaza"?

No.

> What was the outcome of that?

Impossible to say because it has never happened.
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