skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've developed a mobile-friendly version of a classic French academic dictionary, addressing the major usability issues of the original http://atilf.atilf.fr/tlf.htm and the company's subsequent, yet only slightly improved, version https://cnrtl.fr/definition/laid .

My version has been thriving for several years, reaching an impressive SEO peak of 30k visits per month. This is a significant achievement considering the hundreds of hours invested in web scraping and data processing, while the website itself only took around 20 hours to build. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to maintain it recently due to time constraints, causing a gradual decline in traffic. Nevertheless, the site remains free for everyone to use.

For those interested in the tech stack, it's a combination of React, Racket, and Rust.

Check it out at: https://www.le-tresor-de-la-langue.fr

I welcome any feedback and suggestions!
Hello HN,

François here!

As a data scientist working with geolocated data most of my time, I found really painful to create maps from data. Even more to create an aesthetically pleasant map.

Maps created programmatically with Python+Geopandas look the same and are horrible to customize (like any matplotlib plot). QGIS is amazing but overly complex for simple choropleth maps. And it’s always a real hustle to find geometries that match my data.

If you want to create a map nowadays, you either need to be into design (you pick your SVGs, then you manually add colors, titles, etc… and redo everything each time data gets updated) or into Data Analytics / Programming (but in this case, good luck with customizing the title position, label size, etc.). Or at least that’s my point of view.

So this tool is not a replacement for high quality maps made with QGIS by professionals, or not made for analytics. MapFast is made for communicating data maps online, easily.

I created it with an unconventional tool for this : Dash plotly for backend / frontend, with mixed Python and vanilla JavaScript. I use the really cool library Fabric.JS for the graphic canvas / manipulation.

It is my first release to the world ; so I really need your feedback.

It may be buggy ; imperfect ; laggy. Any feedback or idea will be appreciated!
> better than the upside of industrially grown meat.

Sure, besides ending the suffering of many millions of animals, wood is nice.
It is exactly what this is, pleasing the shareholders. From Tim Cook himself: https://youtu.be/pMX2cQdPubk?t=146

> It became clear that people wanted to know our views on generative AI. So we decided to embrace it and call it Apple Intelligence.
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What do you mean - if US government cuts taxes, value of USD goes down?
I miss tweetdeck... maybe not $8/mo miss, but maybe 9.99/yr miss it
Because you want to recruit talent that also believes the same thing?
Yes and for this exact reason, many argue for better gun safety regulations. I grew up before mass shootings became a daily occurrence (this is not hyperbole), but I still had at least one classmate in Junior High and HS die every year from gun related deaths. Either being shot and killed intentionally by a friend's parent or from suicide using their parent's gun.
What about using 302?
The only thing it made me realize is how much I am happy I don't have to listen to public outcry. The nastiness people showed was pretty disappointing.
Correct. I just wasn't aware that non-English resources with translated titles were allowed, that's all. Maybe they had an English version available depending on the country or something.
I am not American, and I don't know all the finer details, but weren't a lot of the inflation issues post covid a direct result of Trump's unrestrained borrowing even in a growth economy, all in the name of keeping the stock markets growing as your primary indicator of economic success a big factor?

Certainly looking at the UK economy, I can trace back the source of our current problems well beyond the current election cycles even if the incompetence of the current government has not helped.
Ohh, I've done this. I bought some titanium bike parts and I was suspicious if they were titanium. I measured the weight of the bolts then dropped them in a graduated cylinder to get the volume, mass divas by volume is density, I then looked up the density and it was the same.
Unfortunately not :/
A 3rd party blog summary in case you're not keen on diving into a PDF:

https://reneweconomy.com.au/conservatives-and-incumbents-hav...
Such an interesting read! I wish they also invested in cross-platform compilation.
> Siri’s Generative AI upgrade (which is how I think of this whole Apple Intelligence thing) might be significant enough to change the smart phone as a segment.

Why? Most play with generative AIs for a few days and then abandon them.

The actual gamechanger would be making an AI assistant to be, you know, an actual assistant maybe?
Some very cynical comments on this thread. Maybe, just maybe the older hardware isn't really capable of running these features properly and it's not some evil conspiracy to "force" users into upgrading?
Also, DisplayLink makes hardware that will allow adding more monitors to Macs and PCs that don't usually allow them. I have their addons for both Mac and Dell laptops at home. https://www.synaptics.com/products/displaylink-graphics
What double standard are you talking about? Are you suggesting that you have to pay for recent hardware for local privacy otherwise you use ChatGPT and its not private?

As many have already pointed out to you, its most likely the earlier hardware simply wont run their local model.

The partnership with OpenAI includes an agreement that they will not track/log apple users, and even then it is a fallback option (after apples OWN cloud model) that users must specifically agree to.
Frankly, if in a rare life-or-death situation you care about your hand luggage, I'd recommend carefully reflecting on life choices and priorities.
> It's not the phone itself that they issue, it's the content."

I don't think that's true, at best it's both. It's the phone that enables a more frictionless access to the content. Having a speed bump to access the same content would make a large difference which is why the alternatives in the article are proving effective, the act of accessing something is less mindless, and more deliberate.

I think the point they're making is that not everyone has the discipline or motive to evaluate and remove things.
Their solution is graphql, but I believe that the backend should have data for each component ready.

Example social network.

/api/pagedata/FrontPage

returns a big ass query result, all posts with comments, comment count and reactions, all the data you would ever want in your front page.

/api/pagedata/UserProfilePage

returns all the relevant data regarding the user's profile page.

Yes, if you change or extend a certain page, you will have to change the backend query. If you have 2 different teams for frontend and backend that's not straightforward, so there should be something where the frontend team writes the detailed expected json response and the backend team transforms that into queries.
Or, let's be real, the queries get generated.
One could even imagine a middleware that translates expected json to graphql queries.

Why not directly graphql? Because it's a major pain in the ass, because of relay. Graphql is Facebook. And instead of having the simple structure you can easily query, they added this stupid node relay structure which makes everything overly complicated.

I could imagine a Go backend or Rust where you have a comment with the expected JSON, and you type go generate and boom generated queries with search and pagination.
Tesla's Optimus robot will do it
From the summary, it is unclear if this study takes into account human behavior vs a dummy when the hands are on top of the front seat back. While a dummy may not hold the front seat with a tighter grasp with its hands, a human during impact may or may not change the outcome through either pushing the front seat out or pulling it backwards which can directly alter the outcome of the study.
Right but this initial release is in English.
> The consume more tripe (including written tripe) on the internet, not more books (physical or of the e-kind), even when they do buy them it's mostly self-help and other low-brow stuff.

People consuming tripe is nothing new. Nor is buying self-help books.
> what was a good alternative?

Not support coups d'etat against democratically-elected leaders?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27%C3%A...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Brother_Sam#Developi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...
You haven't watched or read what they announced then. Almost all queries are processed locally or in the "Private Cloud" on Apple chips in Apple data centers. For queries that are better answered by ChatGPT, the phone will explicitly ask you if you want to forward it to ChatGPT.

"Bring ChatGPT to Siri" is extremely misleading. It's less integrated with Siri than Google is.
I just hope they move lidar sensors to the non-pro models soon.
What do you mean, I can definitely doom scroll my banking app!
For sure but I am talking about this initial release which is in English.
The situation you describe has been happening for most of humanity.

IMO society is worse now with dual income + strangers raising children.

The only major benefits I've seen are 1) Woman have access to birth control 2) Women have equal rights. Everything else is debatable as "better".
Property taxes and property ownership are fundamentally at odds with each other.

Fundamental rights should never be taxed and the government should never be able to take them away from us. If either of those are true then it's a privilege not a right.

As soon as a government can tax me just for owning a piece of land, rather than for the original purchase of the land or the produces I make and sell from the land, I no longer have a right to property ownership. At that point I am effectively renting the land from the government.

That landlord can take the land back if I don't pay my taxes. They can even kick me off the land if they decide they need it, graciously throwing some money at me based on whatever they think my claim to ownership is worth while they send me packing.
IANAL but: you signed a contract and you're not providing your part of the deal if you don't work. Simulating keystrokes and being caught is just proof enough.
One company I worked for was always „in recession” especially when you asked about salary increases.
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Where’s the source of this info? I can’t find it in the article.
What skill are we offloading to the AI?
In the US the term recession has no specific definition. So whether or not we’re in one doesn’t mean much.
I wonder how many of those companies already operated on the brink of insolvency before COVID.
The allegation is described in the article:

> SIO and its researchers have been sued three times by conservative groups alleging that its researchers colluded illegally with the federal government to censor speech, forcing Stanford to spend millions of dollars to defend its staff and students.

This is the government investigating whether the government colluded with this private entity to take actions that violate the First Amendment. We have seen a lot of that lately, with government agencies leaning on private entities to avoid scrutiny and limit legal relief when it comes to 1A cases. Stanford's involvement is peripheral, the oversight is limited to their interactions with the government.

I suppose a liberty-minded individual would suggest that a private entity should not collude with the government, if it wants to avoid government oversight.
100%. It is likely that they will. The current on-device stuff is going to (obviously) be gated to the fastest devices presently.

I imagine they will roll out to other languages and devices relatively soon after. This article assumes too much about the future, and seems to be pushing an “Apple wants to sell you more hardware” narrative as if a hardware company wanting sales is somehow scandalous.

Despite that, I don’t think that is what is happening here. I imagine server models will be available across all/most devices not long after they do the initial launch.
> Many companies, especially those supported by ads, apparently can't help themselves, they will exploit any weakness in human psychology to make a quick buck of our attention.

The world has a rich history of regulating advertising. Maybe it's time to dig out the old stuff again - treat hyper-personalized ads or services entirely financed by ads like we do with gambling, alcohol or tobacco.
How brave of a company to say they will only hire those who will contribute the most to the bottom line!
Calling people who disagree with you "fanboys" doesn't help elevate the conversation.

That said, whether you think me a fanboy or not, your openAI criticism is wide of the mark. The chatgpt/openai integration is apparently going to be 100% opt-in and you will be prompted for consent every time data leaves your device. So much so that the economist said it risks becoming "ChatGDPR"[1].

[1] https://www.economist.com/business/2024/06/11/hey-siri-help-... (requires a subscription)
> what you pay for is sync.

You also have to pay for commercial usage. And may choose to pay for early access to updates.
Yeah obviously? They only started shipping hardware for that from what, starting with the iPhone 15?
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> imply that the government taxes your money to do welfare only

No - this is in the context of the constrasting "trickle down" theory (also derogatory). I took that to mean that instead of trickling down, we should be taking from people who produce the most value and giving it to others. Not we should replace trickle down theory with infrastructure spending - those are not related.

> "people making transactions between each other on what they find valuable" are looking only for their private benefit, society be damned.

Those people are society. Babysitters earning some pocket money; local tradespeople doing jobs; actual community things like churches and running clubs and schools and game cafes; local produce creators. Stuff to spend on locally. That's what makes up society, and those transactions are how it happens.

Society is not a bureaucrat allocating some funds to spend on a committee to decide how round bananas are allowed to be, or whether all children should learn new math or old math, the teacher's opinion be damned. The state is not society.
My hot take: a meritocracy will never fully exist in a workplace so long as there’s a hierarchy of power and therefore politics.

But I’m not advocating for removing a hierarchy.
I order to not go soggy so quickly many paper straws are pfas coated. Then this ends up in the environment.
Definitely. There would be more dollars in circulation for a start. Ultimately the government is the final "sink" for dollars in the system. That and loan repayments (but unlike taxes, loan repayments could be made in any currency).
Can you point to some of these benchmarks? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26934854 suggests that in at least one synthetic benchmark (with a 7.5KB protobuf message which expands to a 17KB JSON payload), protobuf parsing at 2GB/s would be comparable to JSON parsing at 5GB/s.

Meanwhile, simdjson's numbers (https://github.com/simdjson/simdjson/blob/master/doc/gbps.pn...) show a peak parsing speed of about 3GB/s depending on the workload. Of course, it's not clear you can compare these directly, since they were probably not run on systems with comparable specs. But it's not clear to me that there's a 5x difference.

Perhaps my experience differs because I'm used to seeing very large messages being passed around, but I'd be happy to reconsider. (Or maybe I should go all-in on Cap'n Proto.)
I initially assumed the title meant the location of your seat on the plane and thought:

oh boy, that's one more thing that (1) passengers will irrationally fear about and spread hearsay about "safest" seats on a plane and (2) airlines will try to charge a premium for those safest seats :)
Their own 404-page.

https://pillser.com/engineering/2023-06-10-website-without-4...
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> Hiring on merit will be a permanent policy at Scale.

Isn't this what everyone tries to do?

> A hiring process based on merit will naturally yield a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and ideas.

It might, but probably not because you have found people who have 'merit' whatever that nebulously defined thing might be.
>For example, while my mom might struggle to use Apple Photos to search for specific pictures, she would have no trouble asking Siri for all the photos of her granddaughter dressed like a princess.

Want to point out Google photos has been able to do this with a voice command for close to(?) ten years. Just tried it with "[person name] in a dress"
The solar panels to run an air conditioner are a similar cost as the air conditioner.
Only for the A17 processor sold in their Pro line.
To be fair, anyone that wants to know where you live can go to your website (that you put not only in your bio, but even in your nickname) and visit the "about" section. But I doubt parent did that.
Not for RAG and Automation applications
But for Fixing Hallucinated code that written by Non Software Engineers.
Lift weights, play video games, and smoke weed. Not simultaneously, though.
The problem with 'the content' on 'the phone' specifically is that you always have it with you so (a) it's always there for a dopamine hit at a moment's notice whenever you're bored and (b) creates the societal expectation that you're always online. You don't take TV with you when you leave the house.
> You can dynamically link with Rust

Do you have experience with that, or do you say it because you believe it's possible? Genuinely interested, because I have been looking into it and my conclusion was that it does not really do what I expect from "dynamic linking".

See e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40665343 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40661874
What LLM are you running on your Mi 11 ultra?
The discriminant is the following question: what if everybody behaved like me?
From the intro of your first link:

> While conversion from a string into an integer value is feasible with SIMD instructions, this application is unpractical. For typical cases, when a single value is parsed, scalar procedures — like the standard atoi or strtol — are faster than any fancy SSE code.

> However, SIMD procedures can be really fast and convert in parallel several numbers. There is only one "but": the input data has to be regular and valid, i.e. the input string must contain only ASCII digits.

There definitely are some benefits and speedups available with SIMD, but that intro doesn't inspire a whole lot of confidence in its relevance to JSON parsing, where the only case where you might have this regularity is if you definitely have an array of integers. (JSON strings are not restricted to ASCII, as they can and do include Unicode.)
It's fine. I'm not where the money and news coverage is. Go help those quadriplegics.
Nah. I suspect that rising regulation and energy/manufacturing prices cause a big sweep. The real estate market is getting fucked pretty bad right now, as well as everything relying on lots of energy. Simply put: the runway ran out for a lot of folks and new regulations bite into their margins like a fire in a papermill
In reader mode, the article in AI slop.
There are multiple seats per row and only the first person of that row may benefit from the concurrency, as each person gets into the isle for that row they will add those seconds and that is sequential not concurrent.
Also you likely haven't been in a trampling crowd situation, bag on a chest doesn't occupy zero space.
Out of curiosity, are you implying that "no hierarchy" is possible? And would "no hierarchy" somehow mean no politics, as your statement seems to imply?

I'm personally convinced that "no hierarchy" or "flat hierarchies" mostly means that hidden hierarchies will form anyway, and thus the situation you end up with, while different to traditional strict hierarchies, is still extremely hierarchical in the end.
I don‘t get what they really complain about here? I mean first it’s Apple. They didn’t introduce a new paid service but a service which will be free to iPhone users this fall. And I strongly assume it will be iPhone 15Pro, iPhone16 and iPhone 16Pro by that time. So people can either upgrade to an older pro model or get the newest hottest device.

Second: When VW produces a new car nobody complains that the million drivers won’t get an update automatically. And even if we would say VW introduces a new AI parking system or whatever would it mean everybody would get it. I think the server side solution could work on older devices but that is rarely what Apple does. Also they specifically split the whole AI presentation from all the others features coming to iOS, macOS etc. not like millions of users won’t get anything with the next update.
It feels like the two dumb ways to customize an open LLM are fine tuning and RAG. The former is expensive and complicated, the latter adds complexity to your queries but doesn't require up front compute for retraining.

I couldn't tell how expensive this is up front, or what complexity it adds to the setup. Anyone know?

It's definitely an interesting idea but if you have to pay $100k for all that LoRA, what margins are left over?
For all we know, Spirit could have had sufficient testing, and the titanium actually pass all tests. That doesn't preclude fraudulent certificates.
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I think it's only really 80% of the companies that deal with anything having to do with money.
Microsoft competes with existing OSS in the .NET ecosystem
Nothing is a meritocracy. If you believe your workplace is different, there's some obligation to provide evidence of why that is the case.
I like your way of thinking :-)

A CD as a reflective coating to distinguish the pits, I don't know if that's mandatory though. Very thin gold foil is edible though (it just passes through the intestines, being chemically inert), so maybe a sugar disc coated with gold could be made to be playable, and still be edible?

As for the base material, I'm pretty sure that sugar has the better mechanical properties compared to chocolate. If you get it perfectly round and spin it up slowly, there shouldn't be too large forces acting upon it.
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The point was about Germany where the pet theory of failing bidenomics simply does not apply. Recession or not, call it as you want but the prices for the regular guy did increase a lot lately.