skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi Mokshith, we talked about releasing a project using the Sieve API and Revideo before! This is definitely something we still want to do. I'll reach out!
I wonder if this is still true once population growth reaches zero or negative. It seems like the baked in assumption of housing is that someone else is going to need it more tomorrow than you do today. I think this is an experiment the U.S. will begin running in earnest in the near future.
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A Swift program for a particular distribution will dynamically link some system libraries from the distro, and these libs might change on every distro update. They mention in the post that dynamic linking can cause versioning issues.

> Say my Linux distribution distributes some Swift runtime

That runtime would need to be compatible with the Swift program. Nowadays that’s not a big issue due to ABI stability (https://www.swift.org/blog/abi-stability-and-apple/), but this would close the door on new features that need runtime support (need an OS update then, or the OS must come with multiple runtimes).
Genuine question: is there any reason to use Swift without iOS/SwiftUI? (Outside of devs who are primarily Swift developers that want to use something they already know for a small project or similar.)
I guess this means it can compete with golang on ease of distribution.
Pushes all the complexity away from the end user
> I'm curious about why nobody from Chiquita went to prison for financing a terrorist group.

That's not how democracy works. /s

Companies do not have to obey the law and, when they are caught, nobody goes to jail. They just need to pay some protection money.

Want to be a criminal without fear of prosecution ? Join a company, preferably on a management position.
I didn't mean bootstrapped in terms of funding but in terms of building the product. Like how do you get the data to build the product that makes the product worth buying in the first place?
Yea, OP says it doesn't meet their requirements, but Alfred does every requirement they list. It is paid, but I paid 12 years ago and my license key is still working. Great dev(s?).
lol

For reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistral_(wind)
It's not the world that's changed, it's you. Objectively that kind of trip is a lot safer today than in those days (although the specifics may differ; Afghanistan and Iran are doubtless more dangerous for a westerner today than in the seventies, but Eastern Europe and a lot of SEA are now safer).
Those prior ones are binary lifestyle classifications whereas your exposure to microplastics is ubiquitous and the results are probably dose-dependent.

I personally use stainless lunchware and cotton clothing but if we’re to run an analysis of variance on my ingestion the effect is likely nil compared to walking on office carpet or drinking from aluminum cans or brushing my teeth.

Like refinery operators and gas station workers are exposed to benzene at different levels. But what about people who buy or lease new cars every two years.

There’s too much noise vs signal for insidious risks like these not well understood factors.
A few of the links to the 5 other times this has been posted:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16078059 on Jan 5, 2018

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19817584 on May 5, 2019
Mistral's open models are not large. If Mistral were to shut down users could easily find another provider to run inference or bring it in house. I think even their commercial models are relatively cheap to run (at least compared to flagships from the big houses), so even if Mistral were to increase the usage prices to reflect true costs it is unlikely to bankrupt most users. My 2c.
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Why does it scare you? Why do you think it's dangerous and bad?

It's a well-established, economically rational business model to subsidize prices in order to gain market share.

Uber has been very successful at it. Amazon has had great success. It's standard.

Investors know what they're doing and know that some companies won't be able to sustain it and will go out of business. It's a calculated, known risk.

And users don't really need to be concerned. Just enjoy the low prices while they last. If the service you use goes out of business, it's pretty easy to switch to another.
It's a beautiful language that's a joy to write. It's safe and ergonomic, and has an extremely powerful type system. I'd say those are good reasons to use Swift.
Show HN: I made an LLM powered resume generator using Htmx AlpineJs and FastAPI
I felt like I needed to change jobs a few month ago but I’m so incredibly lazy that writing resumes is a major pain for me. So the perfect solution was to ask chat gpt to do it for me. But how do you take the output from chat gpt and format it into a nice resume?

That’s how I embarked on a 3 month journey that went from a simple resume generator, using python and jinja as a template generator, to a fully fledged website, integrating MistralAI and GPT-4o to tailor resumes to a given offer.

First step was to create a simple code editor where you input your LLM generated json, and you print it as pdf. Crude? Maybe but it worked ! But I didn’t stop there. I won’t deny the feature creep but it is now a fully functional project with :

- Templates that you can choose from
- Resume tailoring with Claude opus (will switch to gtp 4o, once I reduce hallucination on this side)
- Export as pdf
- A nice editor

It was also a learning opportunity for me so obviously I had to choose the latest flavor of the month tech stack i.e FastAPI (and Jonah), htmx and AlpineJs for on page interaction and mongodb as it interacts nicely with Pydantic models. Also thanks to gotemberg a api based on chrome that handles pdf generation with a locally exposed api. Neither wkhtmltopdf nor weasyprint played nice with the css.

Payment is not live as I still need to activate my stripe account, so for now everyone get 3 free credits ... Until I run out of funds on Anthropic.
It's due diligence to understand your cost of goods sold using open source models where possible.

Don't actually spend the business effort to use them if it's not worth it, but have a business continuity plan to be able to switch over, especially if a "single source provider" going out of business or changing it's pricing could represent a existential thread to your business.

It's the same as any other tech vendor.
He paid 54bn to have the run of a web site where he creates his own reality, surrounded by sycophants.

It cost a third of that for Boston to do the Big Dig.

To each his own.
I don’t think this is a derailment. You’re asking how you might raise your kids in a way that promotes their well-being, probably contrary to the achievement culture discussed in the article.

A nice model to consider for well-being is “PERMA” from Marty Seligman, a pioneer of positive psychology. The letters stand for five foundations of well-being: positive emotion, engagement (including flow), relationships, meaning, and accomplishments.

From this model, I would explore questions like these:

- Are there schools near your family that focus on mastery rather than performance, and approach education more holistically?

- Do you and your SO have a community of friends that live nearby and have similarly aged children?

- Do you and your SO already find a higher meaning in your lives in ways that can be modeled and conveyed to your children?

I’m a developmental psych guy, so if you want more detail it might be helpful to know roughly how old your kids are or if there’s a developmental stage you’re more or less concerned about. Anyway, maybe this gives you something to chew on.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1800265431078551973
Ah now Elon's freakout about iOS's upcoming ChatGPT integration makes a little bit more sense now.
The main reason is that Apple has effectively deprecated Objective-C for ios/macos development going forward. It's not going away for probably another decade+, but all documentation is now in Swift, new APIs are written with Swift in mind, etc.

Think of it this way: in 5-10 years, ObjC will be the python2 of Apple development.
This piece, about a Lawyer with a Ph.D in economics who bounced back and forth between (and often working at the same time) for the Government directly, as a professor at the Antonin Scalia School of Law at George Mason University, and as a private practice lawyer while simultaneously harassing women who are his students into having affairs with him and then getting them jobs in one of the many places he works so they will be quiet (and he can continue to threaten their livelihood) is bad for one's blood pressure.

His house of cards ends up collapsing because he gets one of the women a fellowship at a different university, that was supposed to be paid by Meta and Google (who used Wright as a lawyer to ward off Government anti-trust challenges) and the money never actually got to her- apparently because of an administrative mistake at the tech giants. So after months of her not getting any money she files a Title IX complaint with his university and the end result is he loses all of his jobs, all but one of his mistresses (he is apparently engaged to one of them!), and his wife.

Just a real piece of excrement all the way around.
Thanks for doing this. I'm a huge pgvector fan and user... After trying a number of different options (Pinecone, ChromaDB, FAISS + memory stores), I felt like pgvector offered the best value and project maturity. Performance was my biggest concern, though much of that was based on blog posts that might be FUD rather than real benchmarks.
Those safety regulations don’t seem to have worked very well in the case of Boeing.
> EU secures 40M doses of bird flu vaccine as cases rise

And how much has vdL secured ?

It looks like a deja-vu.
Back a few years ago, due to chip shortages I was forced to use the RP2040 on an industrial project. No option really.

The first problem with the chip is that it has zero security. Not important for hobbyist, I get it, however, for professional applications, this can be very important.

Not, it isn't always about not wanting people to read your code. The application in question was a networked industrial controller with a thousand nodes. At a minimum, there's a need to ensure that the code and data cannot be altered. External memory does not allow for this. Our customer understood supply chain issues and agreed to accept the RP2040 design provided we replaced all nodes (at a cost) once a non-RP2040 node could be manufactured.

Before I talk about the other problem I have to admit not having looked at the RP2040 ecosystem for about two years. No idea if this has changed.

The other problem is that the RP2040 team was --again, don't know if this changed-- down-right hostile about Windows. They would respond to requests for better Windows support with moronic statement like (paraphrasing) "Just switch to Linux. It isn't that difficult".

These statements were both tone-deaf and ignorant of realities out there. When you start dealing with non-trivial, non-hobby designs, there's a need for practices such as PLM (Product Lifecycle Management). When your entire engineering organization is using CAD, CAM, EDA and other tools rooted in the Windows ecosystem, you might not have the freedom to switch to Linux just because you bought a little $0.50 chip. It doesn't work that way.

Even worse, if we did that, we would be forced to store a full VM with the working Linux distribution and RP2040 toolchain with every single release of the design. Note I did not say "software". I am talking about mechanical, electrical, optical, multi-board firmware with different processors, tests, manufacturing, manufacturing testing, etc.

In other words, the ill-informed "just switch to Linux" attitude simply revealed that --at least at that time-- this organization did not understand the professional/industrial embedded world in the way companies like ST and others actually do.

The net result was that, as much as the chip was super-interesting, we dropped it like a hot potato as soon as we could and moved back to the STM ecosystem, where the chip provider doesn't think that asking us to upend our entire workflow for single chip is a sensible suggestion.
Interesting stuff! Which use cases do you think developers will use you most for?

There could be really interesting abstractions that people might build on top of this. Like automatically creating and animating infographics, making background sounds, or video cutting and recycling. If you spin this 100x further an entire video creation studio might emerge.

Which parts of Video Infrastructure do you want to build first? Which other higher-level parts could be built by you or users? Where could this go?
Because they were working in the vein of manifest destiny/US gov’t interests.

The CIA helped them, by overthrowing at least one gov’t. [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%2527%...]

Money has always been a national interest for every gov’t everywhere.
The Spanish civil was between anarchists, fascists and communists.
thanks, this is super helpful – reminds me of Stripe Connect / Stripe's pricing model. Love it!
Yes that's the database on the server for storing encrypted notes and syncing. My experience with SQLite has been very positive. It really is rock solid.

Also, wanted to mention that Unforget doesn't use browser's localStorage. LocalStorage has a low limit and the browser can nuke it when it wants. Instead we use IndexedDB which has much higher limits and persistent.
If you define a "move" as a piece moving from one square to another, which I think is the correct definition, then the rarest move is probably an illegal move. Like black king jumping from b4 to h8 or something. Or a piece moving to an already occupied square of the same color. In over the board chess illegal moves happen all the time in bullet chess, but not online of course.
You _can_ write in Java that very interface you claimed could not be written.

interface ThrowingRunnable<E extends Throwable> {
void run() throws E;
}

Only, hardly anybody writes it that way, so people forget that it's possible. Why don't people use exception polymorphism in that way? I am not sure, but I believe it would make code too verbose, since every function containing a virtual method call to something that might throw would have to be parameterized that way.
This writing has a lot of parallels with the writings of men who are scared of women after the metoo movement.

Anyway, you're conflating fear with disgust. I haven't seen much fear, if at all; what I have seen a lot of is, hate that looks the exact same as before trans activists had any platform.
That sounds like an example to demonstrate the concept
One wag noted that in principle a high GNP might be based entirely on nothing else besides divorce lawyers and cancer treatments.

This article indicates there has been progress in this direction.
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Still not getting the joke
I think he feels bad for leaving OpenAI and is now jealous of what they accomplished. He probably just wanted to cast legal doubt over OpenAI's ability to profit from closed-source models. Which he managed to accomplish. If this hurts OpenAI's prospects to raise money is yet to be seen. I hope not...
Given that Microsoft and Google are already giving away huge amounts of compute to AI companies, Oracle must be outright paying them to do this.
> That allows things like individual threads to take locks, which is a pretty big leap.

Does anyone know how those get translated into SIMD instructions. Like, how do you do a CAS loop for each lane where each lane can individually succeed or fail?
What happens if the lanes point to the same location?
Nowadays the longest regular bus trip is from Rio de Janeiro do Lima, Peru. It's 6200km and takes 5 days to complete.
> it is somehow NATOs fault.

NATO continued to expand right up to Russia's doorstep despite repeated promises not to, and refused to rule out expanding to Ukraine. Russia clearly called this out as a problem for years. Whether or not this is "NATOs fault", it's clear that the Ukraine invasion was motivated, in part, by NATO expansion.
> If you're going there, you could consider just going to wasm as the binary format on all architectures.

There are several reasons why I do not want to use wasm as the binary format on all architectures, although the possibility of emulation means that it is nevertheless possible to add such a thing if you wanted it.

> Kind of like qubes?

Similar in some ways.

> What? USB is extremely high utility; just this makes me think you'll never get traction. By all means lock down what can talk to devices

I had clarified my message, since "USB is no good" does not mean that it cannot be used by adding suitable device drivers. However, it means that the rest of the system does not use or care about USB; it cares about "keyboard", "mouse", etc, whether they are provided by PS/2, USB, IMIDI, or something else. However, USB has problems with the security of such devices, especially if the hardware cannot identify which physical port they are connected to, which makes it more complicated. Identifying devices by the physical ports they are connected to is much superior than USB, for security, for user device selection, and for other purposes; so, if that is not available, then it must be emulated.

For distributions that do have a USB driver, something like USBGuard could be used to configure it, perhaps. However, USBGuard seems to only allow or disallow a device, not to specify how it is to be accessible to the rest of the system (although that will be system-dependent anyways). (For example, if a device is connected to physical port 1, and a program has permission to access physical port 1, then it accesses whatever device is connected there if translated to the protocol expected by the virtual port type that is associated with that physical port.)

Even so, the system will have to support non-USB devices just as easily (and to prefer non-USB devices).

> Also on the note of things that will impede uptake, throwing out POSIX and a conventional filesystem are understandable but that's going to make it a lot harder to get software and users.

Like I mention, a POSIX compatibility library in C would be possible, and this can also be used to emulate POSIX-like file systems (e.g. by storing a key/value list in a file, with file names as the keys and links to files as the values). Emulation of DOS, Uxn/Varvara, NES/Famicom, etc is also possible of course.

However, making it new does make it possible to design a better software specifically for this system. Since C programming language is still usable, porting existing software (if FOSS) should be possible, too.
human rights in spirit are not. but in practice (see the the argument below) they are used more as a rhetorical shield. they are toothless paper tigers, they are extremely easy to co-opt and corrupt the spirit. (eg. see how Putin loves harping on about self-determination of people in the annexed regions; how proudly democratic North Korea is.)

I hope my extreme summarization is not completely useless.

https://www.philosophizethis.org/transcript/episode-191-tran... // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiE5rBLrIgM
Open source is the natural conclusion of "barefoot development".

Sure, now a days there are lots of big professional projects, but the core of open source/Free software, is people making stuff for themselves and their neighbours.

Linux didn't start with the goal of taking over the world. It started as one guy's amateur project.
So Chewbacca is a Wookie, and he lives on Endor with the Ewoks? Even though he's much bigger and they Ewoks are cannibals?

(Non-requiter aside -- I get that there are explanations as to how "HBO" became "Max", and I was vaguely aware that Max and Cinemax weren't the same thing, but it's still an example of "watch me juggle burning tires while gargling gasoline and standing on a mound of bunker fuel" curation of a brand. Unless they're getting big tax write offs for brand destruction, Warner and Discovery would have been smart to rebrand one of the other or both "HBO")
I see your parallel with laws. My point is that laws force behavior in a society that we are obligated to share, whereas online games are a choice to share with certain people. The level of intrusion applied to protect a game seems over the top. Especially given many ways to enforce laws are often considered over the top, despite protecting more importent matters.
If the match includes cheaters, it's a bad match.
GM gives Cruise $850M lifeline as it relaunches robotaxis in Houston
I am responsible for the Firefox Translation feature (with my dev partner Andre Natal) and I'm proud to have introduced a great "AI" feature. Firefox Translation is powered by small language models (and a transformer architecture) that gives you 100% local translation with a minimal of hassle. It's the opposite of AI-hype and when I was at Mozilla building this, everyone was on the same page as me with using AI only where appropriate and not as a hype mechanism. I left Mozilla about a year ago so perhaps things have changed, but IMO you don't have to worry about Mozilla treating AI as $$$ (mostly because it's actually a huge cost center, I couldn't even get budget to train up beyond about 10 languages when Firefox is available in 100 languages.)
are those miracle filters what the DeLorean used for power in Back to the Future?
Given that it's just another -ism, brain farted by some random french aristocrat in the eighteenhundreds-something if I remember correctly, and like all other -isms designed to control the population and steal the profit. All of them?

The core ideas are awesome, but then the same could be said of Democracy; any idea force fed from the top is going to have the same kind of shit sandwich quality, the rainbow madness is just the latest example.
> Why does it scare you? Why do you think it's dangerous and bad?

> It's a well-established, economically rational business model to subsidize prices in order to gain market share.

Because once they have the market share, they raise prices and/or make the product worse in order to get their money back.

> And users don't really need to be concerned. Just enjoy the low prices. If the service you use goes out of business, it's pretty easy to switch to another.

Well that's the question, isn't it? If the market stays healthy and they don't take the oxygen out of the room and kill the competition and switching costs stay low, then yes by all means enjoy the free ride but plan for its end. But... do plan for it.