skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found the concept of redux - a single source of truth for the state of your app - compelling. But the implementation cost was horrendous. As a developer I am constantly aware of the cost benefit of tools, libs, etc. The benefit of redux was very high. It reduced the theoretical complexity of my apps tremendously. But the cost of implementation complexity was even higher. There was too much additional code, boiler plate, and implementation complexity.

Later, I started using one single context wrapping the whole thing. This provided most of the benefit of redux - all the code was in DataProvider.js - at the cost of one file. I found that the organization provided (ha ha)less need to go down the whole immutable path. This was just a practical thing, but it has worked extremely well for me.
It really shows that Microsoft doesn't hold themselves up to a high standard. They make all this noise about AI PCs and a new (!!!) Copilot key, only to deliver... not much. Where are the adults in the room who have the guts to say "let's have a cohesive story and do this the right way?"

I suspect they think their customers are so dumb that they'll be wowed by the same Malibu Stacy doll with a new hat (!!!).
It isn't though it's not really even one industry. It's used by every industry and some of that is a cesspool and some solutions/products are purely tech based cessools.
A Hindley-Milner typed language with rigorous semantics for targeting native platforms? Amazing! Pity about the syntax.
Maybe it's simpler to learn quantum physics from scratch.
Most trails I like to go on have cell coverage, but I usually don't find it a problem to just put my phone on silent. That option will always be there!

I realize that some people don't have that luxury due to work or family obligations, but for these, doesn't affordably connectivity actually open up the possibility of spending extended time outdoors that they just didn't have before?
How did it work in the EU? Almost the entire planet uses Chrome including the EU.
There’s a good lecture about this, called “The Normalization of Deviance”:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ljzj9Msli5o&pp=ygUZbm9ybWFsaXp...
All industries that involve huge amounts of money are moral cesspools. Tech are saints compared to the “defense” industry, or healthcare.
I think LangChain basically tried to do a land grab, insert itself between developers and LLM's.
But it didn't add significant value and seemed to dress it up by adding abstractions that didn't really make sense.
It was that abstraction gobbledygook smell that made me cautious.
The last good vibes social media platform
They do, there is just no top-down initiative that says "use WinUI with C# or lose your job, make sure to throw out React Native and WebView2 by the end of this quarter". That would at least cover Windows. Or they could force everyone adopt MAUI internally instead, despite its flaws (if you dogfood something heavily, bugs get fixed fast).

I find it funny that, unlike OneDrive, iCloud desktop client uses WinUI.

But I'm not holding my breath and think that whoever could make this reality was pushed out of the relevant teams or the org as a whole by the time W11 shipped - just look how they killed great OneNote UWP variant. Salvaging the situation would be an improbable miracle.
There is no way, literally a 0 chance 72,000 is near anything to average. Just an exception. That's years of salary in those countries and no you can't even save that in a decade there
I wonder how the process even allows this. An approval from the executives of the company shouldn't be worth anything.
Avoiding the use of AI is just going to get you lapped.

There’s no benefit to your ideological goals in kneecapping yourself.

There’s nothing morally wrong with using or building AI, or gambling.
There's a fixed supply of how much network capacity is available per km^2 and the demand differs globally, so the price does as well.
If you're addicted to your phone and you want to quit it maybe it's a good idea to use a dumbphone with a shitty UX. Otherwise you're going to get addicted to your dumbphone.
That is the key line from the whole piece.
The problem is the job market isn’t there yet. That’s what drives React, that and many people already know it and don’t want to change
I shipped the Jeep in a shipping container from Colon in Panama to Cartegena in Colombia.

I documented the whole enterprise here http://theroadchoseme.com/shipping-across-the-darien-gap-pt-...
This sounds like an issue that's still around.
This was one of my rare projects that was as fun to use as it was to build!
> Same can be said about (illicit) drugs, why not just not do drugs? Simple!

It is actually simple. Just not easy. Same with losing weight - consume fewer calories than you burn.
I've found some places require an ID scan to sell alcohol. No exceptions even if you're obviously 65 years old.
Teslas are very stale inside. The "tablet as 99% of the interface" is horrible and should be left in the 20teens. Physical buttons for the most important interactions with the car are in all ways better. I understand why they do this, they are going all in on autonomous driving, so sure. I recently purchased an EV and when I sat in the Tesla, I hated it. I don't want to play the iPad driving game.
Faster Redis Query Engine, and our vector database leads benchmarks
Keeping up with an already built browser is too hard so we’ll create an entirely new browser that takes even more work?
You demo the result in GIMP (with a Wasm runtime linked(?)) and in the font viewer FontGoogles, and there's someone else who is playing around with it in gedit. There's no way to make use of this in, say, Firefox, yet, even though it ships with Harfbuzz, right?
I mean there are pros and cons of each. Why svelte over solidjs for example? It depends on your usecase. React for all it's flaws is the most widely used... so if people are aiming for a job it is still the best bet.
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If wind will be enough, why build solar in UK at all?
> Flock

For the benefit of those not in the know: FLoC https://wicg.github.io/floc/
That'll probably remain limited to very low bandwidth data for the foreseeable future. Non-directional, small device antennas just don't provide for enough SNR to support more than a handful of devices per cell.

Starlink has indeed tested a video call to one phone, but you can probably do about 10-30 of these per cell until you max out the capacity (single-digit Mbit/s for everybody in a 15 mile or so radius).

For more, you need active steering and more powerful antenna arrays, which are also larger. Fitting that in a phone will probably take some time, and it might end up being awkward anyway (and slowly cook your hand/ear).
> they are placing a lot of trust on reliable state-level geo-IP

Trust that could be contractually guaranteed, no? “We believe in our database so much that we’ll pay the fine if we’re wrong.”
Obviously children viewing hardcore porn on Pornhub’s sites.
> magic AI automatic payments feature

Today in things that _nobody bloody wants_...
> I don’t exactly remember the rules though so it’s a best approximation.

What?
> unless Musks words aren’t to be taken seriously

I mean, come on, obviously they are not.
Why do you think those 13% found the experience very bad? They might have moved to an area where there are no superchargers, they may want to try something different (which people do, even if they like what they have today), they might want a different body type (sport instead of the family), there may be many other reasons.
Interestingly, we're still testing SLS SRBs[1] horizontally.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-wqAbVqZyg

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1. In case anyone doesn't know, they use the actual recovered Shuttle casings on SLS, but use an extra "middle" section to make it 5 sections in length instead of the Shuttle's 4 sections. In the future they'll move to "BOLE" boosters which won't use previously flown Shuttle parts.
> Some of the most beautiful mountain scenery I've ever seen

based on the pics in the article, it seems pretty similar to Himalayan regions of Pakistan, India, Nepal. What was so special?
Why Accessing Web Pages Using LLMs Hurt
Microsoft has never had a cohesive story, they've had a cohesive brand. From 'Windows' to '.NET' to 'Azure' to 'CoPilot', it's always been about slamming the new buzzword trademark onto everything, regardless of it's relation to the prior thing with similar name.
Or anything in manufacturing or food/beverage (see Nestle and water rights) production. I think most of tech has it pretty good. Tech has the potential for incredible amounts of bad, but this is limited to the handful that dominate social media (see Facebook and the civil war in Ethiopia) or, I don't know, the ones selling surveillance software to governments and law enforcement.
Exactly the concept why you don't want to let whatever dashboards/alerts/etc you maintain on your systems have a "normal amount of reds/fails/spurious texts".

At some point you become immune.

It's a lot harder to notice theres 4 red lights today than the usual 2-3 vs noticing 1 when there are normally exactly 0.
I no longer work as a software developer because I feel that technology is ruining normal human interactions by substituting them in incomplete ways and making everyone depressed.

I think we'd be better off making things for each other and being present and local rather than trying to hyperstimulate ourselves into oblivion.

I'm just some dude though. It's not making it to the headlines.
As a technologist, this is an incredible development.

As a backpacker and avid hiker, no thank you. I go outside to intentionally avoid screens and the internet/connected world. Fortunately I can just not buy this and it won’t have an impact on my life.

Another interesting thing I’m curious about is if this would provide any benefits to SAR crews over traditional sat phones. I could potentially see some benefits there, maybe, but I guess time will tell.
Have you ever wondered why Switzerland is the world's second largest exporter of processed coffee, despite never growing a single bean? [1]. Germany is 3rd, Netherlands is 4th. Hmmmm.

Have you ever wondered why all those poor countries around the world sell unprocessed coffee to Switzerland for pennies rather than telling Switzerland to take a hike, processing it themselves and making way more money?

Have you ever wondered why many very poor countries around the world sell their raw minerals for a tiny fraction of the globally accepted price?

After three years on the ground in Africa, my eyes were very wide open. The multi-billion dollar loans from the IMF and World Bank have these countries over a barrel, and if they try to change the status quo, they will be sent back to the dark ages instantly. Spending time in Sudan was very educational, though it means I can never get a visa-wavier for the US. Why do you think that is? (Hint: gas in Sudan was 6 cents a liter..., diesel was half that)

Also very educational to try at get a visa for Ecuatorial Guninea (it has a TON of oil, and a TON of multi-national companies ripping it out). A foreigner can go to the island where the capital is no problem, but try getting permission to go to the mainland - you can't. Even with a valid visa you can't get in. (I camped in view of it here [2] )

Why? Because they don't want you to see what is happening there.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1096413/main-export-coun...

[2] http://theroadchoseme.com/cameroon-closes
In the early 2010s a ballot appeared for new users on Windows [0], though the legal requirement expired only a few years later.

It helped other browsers gain market share. Sadly it's not enough alone. Major web players can promote their own browser and sabotage others, even if only by neglecting to test them. IMO a permanent ballot law is needed alongside restrictions from major web vendors pushing their own browser's and relying on their own browsers non-standard features.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrowserChoice.eu
> The second, serving migrants from India, offers charter flights to Central America and overland transfers to the U.S. border for between 6 million ($72,000) and 8 million rupees ($96,000) per person – in many instances with full payment due after arrival in the U.S, according to Indian court documents and K.T. Kamariya, a deputy superintendent of police in the western Indian state of Gujarat investigating illegal migration.

Not every undocumented migrant is poor - especially those coming from Asia and taking the Central American pathway, which is what this investigation by Reuters is about.

This is the Reuters investigation into the India-Dubai-France-El Salvador-Mexico route that was disrupted by French intelligence recently - https://apnews.com/article/france-indians-plane-grounded-hum...

Destitute Asians immigrate illegally to the Gulf, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and Malaysia - where salaries, living standards, and protections for the poor and undocumented are horrid. They don't have the funds to fly to and get a visa to much of Central America (at minimum a $4-7k endeavor with an additional $6-8k to go donkey from there to the border). That is middle and upper middle class money in a lot of Asia.
Do you have any evidence that this was a problem?
Thank you for providing these examples.

I asked GPT4o, and it has no trouble with understanding 1a:
https://chatgpt.com/share/daea469f-d823-45e2-9d6b-f6bea82a26...

As a side note, my instinctive reading is on the telling frequency. Sure, one can make a garden path sentence, but (for my own ESL eyes and ears) it would be more straightforward to say, "Did you tell John how often he should take out the trash?"

2b does not feel right on its own (and I am not an AI). I can understand it, but it feels like reverse engineering rather than reading a normal sentence.
> Yet society is absolutely, in no way whatsoever, becoming more compliant.

I'm not so sure. People are putting up with a lot of bullshit. Not saying that is due to social media though.
Iranian Linguist here.

Persian is correct. If you want to go by what Iranians call it themselves when speaking English, you can even call it /'perʃijæn/.

If you want to call it as an educated Persian speaker, It's Parsi. "Farsi" is recent result of a lenition of starting /p/ in "Parsi", and is originally an informal way to say Parsi (starting in 13th century [Solar Hijri calendar]). For a source, if you go to https://ganjoor.net/ (A good source for all classical Persian poems) and search "فارسی" (Fârsi), the oldest Persian poem with this word you'll find is from 13th century [Solar Hijri calendar]. Literature teachers have recently started to address this in their teachings so the next generation will be calling the language Parsi again.

Both Persia and Iran are correct names (As said by son of the guy who renamed the country internationally). So Persia does still exist.
Unfortunately that is not how it works. The only way to get different browsers is to get absolutely every single OS project with some traction to force installation of them, to show advertisement everywhere, and to couple it with the installation of any piece of software, and to set it as default, plus import silently everything.

Anything that is not a dirty tactic will not work.

Also, the moment a user got an error they dont understand in certain browser, they blame the browser and change. How do you think firefox got out of business?

Have you tried using Firefox to request an appointment with the Spanish Drive and Vehicle License Administration? It wont work. The civil servant will tell you use chrome.

When a user get 2 or 3 use chrome to work, they will just use whatever it works.
They won the browser war, adding ladybug to steal from firefox, is also not going to help either.
I don't care what people stare at (I'm there to stare at nature, not other people), but blasting music loudly has been a thing on some trails in the US I've been on. People don't need internet for that.

On the other hand, while this is less common (in my experience) in e.g. the alps, and people will probably reprimand you if you attempt it, I've heard some mind-boggingly loud, annoying conversations between hikers shouting across switchbacks in a large group so that everybody can hear as well. That doesn't even require a battery!

It's a social problem if anything, not a technological one. But realistically, the outdoors are pretty large – you can almost always just wait a few minutes and let people that bother you pass by.
ShotSpotter seemed (in Chicago, at least) to be a huge source of graft. Before word got out of the cancellation there were some nodes installed in the more right wing or blighted wards last minute.
Scope is really important when people sign a contract. All ShotSpotter did was generate overtime hours for CPD without having any noticeable effect to crime. The amount of money ShotSpotter gives to Ald. Napolitano or the media to stoke anxiety about the city saving on SaaS bills is insane…
one of the purported justifications for the shot spotter system is that, in cities where gun violence is prevalent, people don't call the police when shots are heard.
Frustration with LangChain is what led us (ex-CMU/UW-Madison researchers) to start building Langroid[1], a multi-agent LLM framework. We have been thoughtful about designing the right primitives and abstractions to enable a simple developer experience while supporting sophisticated workflows using single or multiple agents. There is an underlying loop-based orchestration mechanism that handles user interaction, tool handling and inter-agent handoff/communication.

We have companies using Langroid in production.

[1] Langroid: https://github.com/langroid/langroid
since you like it so much, you should check other 4GL languages...SQL is not the only one

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth-generation_programming_...
What Good are Warfare Models? – Hemibel (1981) [pdf]
> I am certain that Pornhub isn't doing this because they actually care about PII

> They don't want the work to do the verification to be their problem, and to be legally responsible when (not if) it goes wrong.

That's literally caring about PII. Quite a bit more than the state legislative sponsors of and "think of the children" advocates for these laws, too.
In a word: yes.
I'm not going to provide links. There are many already in this page.

I've been always a Firefox user (never switched to Chrome). And everything works fine for me (on both Linux and MacOS). I remember when they disabled on purpose the Google Meet background feature in Firefox (yes, it was working in the beginning). After nearly 2 years they put it back on Firefox. It was never a Firefox bug.

The thing is that by pushing people to use Chrome / Chromium browsers they have more control on us (even was fined 5B for tracking uses in Incognito Mode: https://www.npr.org/2023/12/30/1222268415/google-settles-5-b...)

So yes, even in Private mode, Chrome / Chromium were spying on users without notice, which is unacceptable.
I think it is, but perhaps I read the grandparent comments that way because I was curious about it too...
I also refuse to work on the war machine, blockchain, or gambling.

Unfortunately it looks like that might also be refusing to eat right now. We'll see how much longer my principles can hold out. Being gaslit into an unjustified termination has me in a cynical kind of mood anyway. Doing a little damage might be cathartic.
My understanding is that it takes orders of magnitude longer to develop native Windows applications than it does to develop webapps. I think that your suspicion is right and that some PM along the way was able to make the business case that we could ship 75% of the product using 10% of the engineering resources.

It's a drag, though, because as everyone will immediately see, having a shortcut on your keyboard to open glorified GPT-4 isn't really a killer feature.
I assume besides being good marketing, this list is also meant to serve as a salve for rejected founders.

It's a "It might not be you. I could very well be us." message.

If you are getting rejected by 99 VC firms, it can beat you down and something like this could be soothing when things seems grim.
They're a sacrifice at the altar of biased decision making.

I think Tesla is somewhat reckless with self driving, but we all need to agree humans aren't much better and don't generate any controversy.
Words beginning and endings are learned too because people raising young kids are spending a great deal of time decomposing and telling them simple words. Repeating "cat", "cat", "cat" with pauses.

Statistical learning --and there are studies about this-- is also obvious when multi-lingual kids make up words that do not exists.

They'll use words from one of the language they know to come up with words (or words beginning / ending) in another language. These words, statistically, could make sense. And they'll pronounce them "properly". Yet they don't exist.

So it's not just the words: it's the pronunciation too.

As the father of a fully bilingual kid (french / english) that was fascinating to watch.
Starch based biodegradable packing peanuts have been available for many years and are in widespread use.
> Where are the adults in the room who have the guts to say "let's have a cohesive story and do this the right way?"

Buck stops at the CEO.
I also believe advertisements are useful! However, by this definition, the ad industry is not engaged in advertisement.
Interesting that all but two of the listed startups were software companies (FedEx, Tesla). I imagine the costs of fixed investments required to scale a company not based on software can reduce the potential max returns quite substantially. Can a non-software company achieve the kind of returns a software company can?
I've always wondered why so many different culture know some notion of a dragon. Is it possible that these are based on inherited memories, patterns, insticts of dinosaurs? I know this would be a wild leap but one my wonder.
I was impressed how quickly they were able to dilute their copilot brand. A new personal record
I see some nice parallels with Wikipedia. Makes me wonder if anyone's yet developed a theory of "foundation capture" where you find some marvellous free thing that is made for and by humanity at large and extract/redirect money from its market share/good will.
It's great that we're faced with an explicit choice here in the EU, but I don't think it really done much in terms of affecting Chrome's entrenched market share. Most people use whatever tools they're already familiar with. Almost everyone I know uses Chrome, including the majority of my tech circle.

I think people are only going to switch once the Firefox user experience is noticeably better for the average person. Google is on track to make that happen after they finally disable Manifest v2 extensions and as they continue their crackdown on ad blockers.
Show HN: An accommodations aggregator for remote workers (incl. Starlink)
Nearly 4000 listings and growing, all with tested internet speeds for remote workers to travel the world. Includes Airbnbs with Starlink internet.
Compared to being in LTE coverage and only needing a smartphone with 2-3W power draw (around 10% of the Starlink Mini).
> (in?)famous -stan suffix, coming originally from Persian

Does it come from Persian or some common Indo European language, Sanskrit has something similar as well.