skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's how much is installed when you do `pip install django` currently:

122370 django python=103934,javascript=18407,xml=29
2734 sqlparse python=2734
1110 asgiref python=1110

This will probably change when `django-tasks` gets merged in.

Here's what installing `flask` + `sqlalchemy` pulls in:

141314 sqlalchemy python=141314
11464 werkzeug python=11159,javascript=305
8934 greenlet cpp=4993,python=2729,ansic=1092,asm=120
8606 jinja2 python=8606
5842 click python=5842
3907 flask python=3907
2036 top_dir python=2036
644 itsdangerous python=644
487 markupsafe ansic=278,python=209
349 blinker python=349

Looks like the same order of magnitude to me, which is surprising. I had always thought of `django` as being heavy weight and opinionated, while `flask` + `sqlalchemy` was light and modular.

All numbers generated using David A. Wheeler's 'SLOCCount'. :-)
https://www.apple.com/v/macbook-pro/ak/images/overview/close...

https://www.apple.com/v/macbook-pro/ak/images/overview/close...

https://www.apple.com/v/macbook-pro/ak/images/overview/close...

Those don't look like squircles to me. If they are squircles, they're so close to simple rounded rectangles that there's no meaningful difference left.

The keys could, maybe, be squircles, but I'm having a very hard time seeing the outline, the touchpad, the outline of the keyboard as anything other than rounded rectangles.
Speaking is 150 wpm
Doubt it. If you go to market with Black-Scholes you will lose money.

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&d...

"Why We Never Use the Black Scholes Equation" - https://youtu.be/UoGlUZPNouM
"Your culture shapes who you become". Agree. Culture molds individuals' identities, influences their values and behaviors in so many ways
Last week it was social online networks. Maybe someone asked for status report on his work so far.
Very well written, please keep doing this.
Lightbulbs are probably not the best thing to compare against, they're famously high in energy consumption and terribly inefficient. Even LEDs are absolutely awful and barely crack 30% total efficiency, most of what they make is heat.
You usually need to work hard to even be in the pool of people for whom such luck could strike.

So yeah, it's both, but I don't think anyone becomes a billionaire without luck.
Migration of 6M antelope in South Sudan dwarfs previous records for biggest
Old MS was evil but at least they were intimidating and impressive. New MS is pretty pathetic.
When Is an Embedding Model More Promising Than Another?
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There Are 63 'Problem Banks' and $517B in Unrealized Losses: FDIC
Any enterprise install I've ever used has the annoying stuff removed. Small businesses are most likely the ones suffering though.
I encourage everybody to check out your local magazine rack. Many music publications (Rolling Stone, Uncut, others) are putting out "book-a-zines" or "Ultimate Guide to Band X" style compilations containing original photos, interviews and reviews from the magazines ' archives. In a world where anything online is link-rotting or pay walled, or copyrighted by Getty images, these are a way to build your own collection of non-404'ing information.

I have a few of these: Nirvana, Joy Division, Pink Floyd, Uncut Guide to Shoegaze. For $15 or so each, it's not a bad deal, about the cost of a CD. Full-size colour pictures look way better than the low res images found online too.
Can we start labeling [rossman] in the submission title
Gofundme has become support backbone for many Americans, but why not? every campaign makes a ton of money for the service provider and easy to start one.
Repeating myself, that's the status quo.

Companies already are doing what they say they are doing, even if it's unenforceable. The profit from doing so is more than the liabilities from any lawsuit might be receiving.

History shows that creating more legalese text won't add any more teeth. A specific example is how 90% of websites[1] are in violation[2] of the GDPR already.

The manifesto raises a good point about data not protected by copyright; but one can argue that models created from copyrighted content, what most artists I see are complaining about, are already in violation of copyright due to being derivative works (IANAL), yet already-existing copyright laws aren't helping[3].

So they way I understand this manifesto is, they are not adding anything new for copyrighted works (AFAIK, IANAL), but they are taking away rights from public domain works (let's see how that plays out with Disney, for example).

Hopefully this additional context clarifies where I'm coming from.

[1]: I'm making up that number but I'm probably lowballing it anyway.

[2]: Example: https://pkg.go.dev

[3]: But I bet if someone made a model from TV shows, now suddenly the already-existing copyright law would magically work for those specific cases. So basically, these randos without power are making a law that will only be enforced by those with power.
When you look at GitHub, Visual code, and OpenAI, Microsoft looks like an innovation powerhouse who gets it.

Then you put Windows on a new machine and you remember that that Microsoft still exists. The thing is riddled with value-squeezing bullshit, like a stupid homepage in your browser filled with clickbaity crap, ads, requirements to sign up for an account just to use your own damn computer, etc.

I guess one of the benefits of Microsoft being able to operate with different cultures within the company is that, for example, they haven't killed GitHub the way that Google killed so many acquisitions. The problem though is that there not getting any culturally beneficial benefits back into their core and keep pumping a very crappy OS.
It's almost as if our brain is optimized for taking in more signals than just words on a page.
Because this is not bundling of features, but of market products. Here the bundling merges two markets which are not related, while it might make sense to bundle word and excel for example which are parts of an office suite while teams is totally different business solution.
Yeah, all previous attempts at making such a language lacked two things:

1. They didn't have a big, well-known, company name with good enough reputation to attract contributors.

2. They didn't have brackets.

Success was because traction, traction was because appeal, and appeal was mostly because those two things. Nothing else was new AFAIK.
yeah, getting hit by a marco-economic event is sad because you also feel powerless
so luck is a part of it
Don't worry; a function blocking indefinitely (i.e., there is some point where it stops giving off side effects, and never returns) is also UB. C++ attempts to guarantee a certain amount of forward progress, for now.
It is very sad, but also a rational response. Mozilla still has a better reputation than most, but the industry overall has been punching people in the face for a long time now.

That people's instinctive response to pretty much anything coming from the big players is mistrust and backlash is entirely understandable. It's the result of learning from experience. On the whole, the industry has burned a significant amount of trust and benefit of the doubt.
I believe luck is a much larger component than most people realize, but I don't see it as the "luck" of when you were born.

There is all sorts of business luck that occurs. As one example, in a startup you get some early customers in a vertical and the government changes the rules to make you're tech necessary for the vertical. And then no one else recognizes or competes with you on that vertical for awhile. So there is a giant don't f it up component as another comment pointed to, but you also don't get run out of business by a slightly better execution from a bunch of competitors.
Pinecone Assistant in Beta
100% on board with this.

It's vexing how many tools just assume always-on connectivity. I don't want a tasks-and-notes tool that I need to run in a browser. I want that data local, and I may want to sync it, but it should work fine (other than sync) without the Internet.

This is also true for virtually every other data tool I use.
People notice hard work, and hard work pays off -- it's just that it's just one piece of the puzzle. Personality matters, even where it shouldn't, as do luck, credentials, networking and more. Hard work important-but-not-sufficient. (And at a good job, it might even be necessary-but-not-sufficient.)
As a proud owner of multiple Apple™ products I can assure you this report is totally trivial. Apple™ has never and will never do anything wrong!
You've just reminded me that I learned about Texas Chainsaw Massacre when I was 8 or 9 from a girl in my class describing the ending.

I've never seen it and have no intention ever to do so.
Manufactured goods can hit arbitrary cost/kg ratios. It's also easier to launch for Mars than it is from Earth. (The Moon would probably be even better.)
What would be the reason for choosing a browser width wider than what you can comfortably read?
> - don't do what you want but what society/religion tells you to do (Simba is happy with Timon and Pumba, but then they send other animals including the monkey shaman to tell him he has to fight his uncle)

Interesting interpretation. I always saw it as being more about justice (i.e. don't live a blissfully ignorant life while your own kin are suffering when you can do something about it) Although maybe that's actually what you're saying too - the message is "don't do what you want" - but we disagree about whether that's insane or correct :)
ESM3 – a multimodal generative protein language model
Plainly said, the Russia story was mostly for gullible people to be distracted from the failings and sins of their own government.

Not saying Russia doesn't engage in propaganda attempts, but they are more or less irrelevant for any domestic discussion then and now.
Its both, its where perspiration meets opportunity.
The single largest expense in the US budget is healthcare which makes up 29% of total federal outlays. All federal employees have paid maternity leave.

https://www.kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/faqs-on-health-spen...

https://www.commerce.gov/hr/paid-parental-leave-federal-empl...
Isn't what you describe using your own capital to use as an investment instead of paying down the mortgage?

How do you use the leverage (debt) from the mortgage to put in a 5% investment?
Lots of people have work ethic. But, many of them don't have focus or tenacity.
Enterprise customers aren't dealing with this BS. They get good Windows, not available to the rest of us :(
Ask HN: Which Manual Work to Pivot To?
Between AI and reading “Let My People go Surfing” by Yvon Chouinard I’m starting disliking working for a multi trillion dollar company but I still need to pay the bills

Do things like manufacturing outdoor gear or working as a guide make a decent living income in the US? Do I need to improve my welding? Start a mowing company? Who has moved to real world jobs?
The Grasp – a weekly robotics newsletter [#002]
Marion Stokes recorded tens of thousands of hours of broadcast TV from the 80s to the 90s. Without her efforts, a huge chunk of US TV history would have disappeared.

HN discussion to an article about her from a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40702546
The very same. As mentioned in the article, it's going to be distributed with the newest version of Django.
I took the critique as being against OP, not the paper.
I'm curious about the specs of the FPGA used - I imagine fairly high-end?
There's more to this than just googling for a basic definition.

When he provided tools and direct guidance to Chelsea Manning to access classified information and when he and others breached the Congressional Research Service to leak documents from there he went far beyond what any professional journalist would do and lost the associated protections.
First of all I absolutely believe that the crafter has (and should have) the right to do what he did.

That being said,

> without any LV logos or representation that these are a LV product

the LV logo is right there in the center of the product.

https://youtu.be/zDAg1aVnnH4?si=PjVRhwyMVl34akj2&t=646
Fashion Empire Shein Has Filed for London IPO After US Difficulties
yeah me to.

The DSA and the DMA doing what they are designed to do (in Europe)

It's unfortunate that the regulators and legislators will have to fight over every one of those services individually for a while until mega corps get tired of their games and retreat to making train- instead of boat loads of money.
And some people work really hard but in the wrong direction, or lack the talent. Just go on game dev subreddits, it's full of people that dedicated one or multiple years to making a game nobody wants to play.
https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/fashion-empire-shein-has-...
"but where do I get music files?" try https://archive.org/download/MusopenCollectionAsFlac

Might use microphone input as a source, too?

see also, one of the Ur-visualizers: https://github.com/djandruczyk/eXtace
Corollary: Luck wins in business (a.k.a. it ain't just about hard work)
Louis Rossmann has a successful cult of personality.

His brand is the pinnacle of “righteously angry IT guy who suffers injustice” and a lot of people vibe with it.
That's the part that boggles my mind. Who are these people who rail against telemetry on HN threads?

Are they

1. Gods who simply ship bug free code and can't understand why mortals like us need telemetry to do the same.

2. Non-software people who've never shipped software to devices they don't control, just posting on HN for fun.

Valuing privacy, I can understand, I'm on board with that. It's when they take it to extreme, weird lengths, where they say that telemetry could allow the VSCode team at Microsoft to deanonymise them and then ... what exactly? It's gotten to a point where software like VSCode can't even be discussed on HN without the entire thread just being about telemetry.
If you haven't already I highly recommend reading "Introduction to Cybernetics" by Ashby, it's got the nitty-gritty formalization that later "Second Generation" et. al. cybernetics drifted away from.

You can get a free PDF of the book here:
http://pcp.vub.ac.be/ASHBBOOK.html

> This publication has been made possible largely through Mick Ashby, the author's grandson, who has convinced the copyright holders (the Ashby estate) that they should allow us to produce an electronic version.
That is a great platform, but I don't get this acquisition. What's the gain for openai from this?
The Macedonian Fake-News Complex (2017)
The '90s MTV animated show Daria suffered from a re-release without the original music. All the MTV-era specific music was replaced with stock instrumentals, which frankly takes a lot away from the atmosphere of the show.
This is where I am landing as well after a long time with XFCE on Debian. You have to take some time to set panels and applets up and get some Spice applets and you are all set.
This is exactly it.

They know that their home users have likely used and learned about Windows through work. These users see it as the only professional, best in market option.
Yeah, snaps are really shitty.

And in general, desktop Linux is just as buggy and maybe even more half-baked than it was when I started using it in 2007.

But, I own my machines. I don't need to ask permission from a company to be able to log in to my machine. I can install or uninstall whatever the hell I want.
Shaanxi cuisine is dope - biang biang, liang pi, yang rou chuar - tasty.

Business opportunity of the century though? A salad chain in China. Spend more than a few weeks there, you might find yourself craving a Caesar.
Huh: my browser is always maximized (the width of my monitor) as are all the other apps I regularly use -- similar to how an iPad worked before iPadOS introduced multitasking -- but then I'm scaling the UI by a factor of 200% and its not a HiDPI monitor, just a humble 1080p one, so the effective horizontal resolution of my browser's viewport is 960 pixels. At that resolution, line of text on danluu.com and in comment sections on HN are longer than
I would prefer them to be, but they're not so long as to be a significant annoyance.

Back when I used an OS that didn't let me scale the UI, I'd occasionally make the browser window narrower to make the lines of text on a site more reasonable, but I definitely appreciated it when sites made it unnecessary for me to do that, by specifying body {max-width: 45em;} or something.
Give Sponsorblock a try :)
It auto-runs all the time.

I've got a work laptop with a teams for the work domain which I want.

There's also a completely different copy of teams, "Microsoft teams (Personal)" teams, which I have to close.

Not just every boot, even after I close it manually, I still find it running constantly.

I've no idea what triggers it, but it doesn't seem to obey any startup settings.
Love Django, but the issue we’ve had with tasks isn’t with performance, scalability, or devex - it’s with operations. Django-tasks afaict has the same issues as Celery/others in that there’s no Django Admin-like tool that reliably allows you to manage task execution, specifically failures. Without this, I can’t use async tasks for anything that’s important to the business or data consistency generally - which means I don’t use it at all, favoring “normal” queuing backends.

Is Django-tasks the solution that would permit this to be built?
> User hostile abuses like this is what has finally pushed me off the Windows spyware/admil after 25+ years of using Windows as my primary Desktop.

Security issues with the XP/IE/ActiveX axis of evil made using Windows feel like taking a shot to the groin on a daily basis. Then they brought out Vista. If you survived that, you must have been dedicated.
As someone who is actively pursuing entrepreneurship for the past year, while doing it on-off pretty much from the beginning of my career (about 15 years), as well as following other solopreneurs/indie-hackers on social network--I move closer and closer to the realization that it's majorly luck based. Let me explain.

Yes, it's humbleness to say that it's all luck, and I think it's egocentric to claim that you know how entrepreneurship work, once you succeed, let alone build frameworks/coaching programs around it.

However, based on my observation, as well as my experience, luck plays a major role in success in entrepreneurship/business/work. You could get lucky because your manager likes your personality, or you can be a hard-working asshole that no one loves and/or respects. The same goes to other aspects. You could get lucky because YouTube/Twitter decided to pick up your content and show it to millions of people, thus earning you customers/followers/brand.

I do think that the only formula for success is when preparation meets luck. As cliché as it sounds, if you put in the work, but get unlucky, you won't succeed. If luck finds you, but you have no product or your videos suck, you won't succeed. It's only when you work constantly, improve your craft, and continue to stay *active*, then, when luck finds you, you might succeed.

And this is what I am going to teach my kids, and this is the answer I'll provide to a random person on the streets.
Silk Road 1: Theory and Practice
Google was just forced to introduce mandatory choice screens for browser, and search engines on android.

The DMA also forces them to make all of these apps uninstallable.
Let's not forget the hassle when you don't have one source of truth. Life before Dropbox and the like wasn't super fun.

I think this is an underestimated factor at play. It's super nice to not have deal with that issue, and be able to switch between computers seamless without worrying about whether your data is accurate/up to date.

Lock in and recurring revenue is not something new for SaaS. Most ERP systems and similar business systems was sold like this way before. But with the added hassle that you had to manage a server locally yourself.

Sometimes I think people just go straight to "corporations must be evil" because of ignorance/it feels good to blame the "Big guy" one can't relate to.
This is a cynical, nihilist, and "loser" mentality. Tell that to my mom and dad who are immigrants, worked their tales off and are now millionaires. Tell that to my cousin who is also an immigrant and went from concrete laborer to owner of a concrete company. Tell that to one of my best friends -- also an immigrant, who started as a framer and is now has his own home building company.

Hard work works especially for those at the bottom. And if you're located in the USA and you have that perspective, then you are not well traveled or have never lived in a third world country. I have.
Why do Windows users try so hard to keep defending their OS's shitty behaviors? It's always "you can disable it" (but it might come back automatically after an update), and when you can't disable it (one drive), it's "just don't use it".
> when the alternative is total obliteration you can crush video down to 1MB per minute and have a tolerable VHS-like experience

That's still pushing a terabyte a day[0] on YouTube alone. What about TikTok as well?

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/259477/hours-of-video-up...
Especially in Xi’an lol
Man, I always wanted a Psion. Never got around to it.

Back then I was a serial adopter of electronic organizers. Plenty of them were neat enough on their own, but only a few of them were smart enough to allow for easy backup, or (better yet) desktop access.

Interestingly, the Newton did this really well AT FIRST, and included a "Newton Desktop" tool that ran on Windows -- but abandoned that with the rev to 2.0. You could still back up to your computer, but you couldn't use the data there. It was a wild misstep, since just around the corner was Palm with its connectivity-first handheld that was also half the price and could fit in your pocket. Oops.
This post is well written and accurate except for the salary numbers.

As someone who's done a number of startups I do make fun of friends of mine who refer to mutual FAANG employed friends as "wage slaves" making quite literally $10k bi-weekly.

As I'm getting into my 30's I totally see the appeal - becoming less materialistic outside of experiences and my personal financial stability is also making a "huge exit" given the emotional energy input less and less appealing.

Guess Paul Graham was right about naive young founders after all /s
Can this work build some easy-to-use apis? So it may be easy to apply in diffusion on other model.
Well, isn't it by definition that the likelihood of a Fat Chance is slim?
Just eight years. And validating everyone's concerns all the years preceding that it was necessary to anticipate.
The story's pretty clearly borrowed from both Hamlet and Moses, so I bet that's where that sort of thing slipped in.
It seems like their issue is that DOS is available for use, underneath everything. I wonder if they'd apply the same restrictions to, say, a Commodore 64 or Apple II emulator that provides BASIC access?
[dupe]

Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40786640
Thank you for the summary. Now I can instantly tell this is a garbage proposal.
From what number of strokes on do the common hanzi dictionaries have at most one entry?
It wont make any diff cause most people dont want to think. And those who feel like thinking, love to think about very different things.

As problems get more complex this is the main headache -keeping everyone in the same boat rowing in same direction.