skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As if… Firefox’s popularity and then decline stems from consumer perceptions of functionality and general availability (i.e. marketing)
They found out about the failing transistors via colleagues at a conference. Have any of you learned of something of this magnitude in the same way? It got me thinking that I need to interact with my fellow devs more often.
In all fairness all the missus does on it is watch Netflix :)
A cheap ass android tablet could to that of course.
Especially since "My Voice is my Passport" was defeated in that movie with a tape recorder and technology at the time. It was never a good idea and even the movie didn't seem to think so.

Yet my bank just turned this on for me as well in 2024. Now I have to figure out how to disable it...and will it really be disabled?
> Thanks Google

I have to ask because you never know: was this sarcasm?
While I don't think AI will replace anyone in the near term, I find it interesting how many people react in IT field to any attempts to automate code development to a certain degree using AI.

This reaction is quite harsh and emotional. "If you think you can be replaced by AI, it means you are a shitty developer" is quite popular). This talks more not about LLMs, but about our own insecurities.

Yes, you CAN be replaced by either AI, or any other technology shift, or by younger more productive developers, or simply by market forces rulling your skills out of favour. It happened before, it'll happen again.
It isn't perfect if you are the wifi owner and people who have credentials then give it away to people you'd rather not give credentials.
set -euo pipefail; N=0 while read -r URL; do curl "$URL" | jq '.data[].someProp' | grep -v "filter" > "$N.data" N="$((N+1))" done < ./links.txt
I was active on a channel called #digi in the late 90s. A few years ago, I downloaded an IRC client on the remote chance it was still around.

Not only was it still active – many of the same people were still in the room.
> If I WFH I’ll spend the evening ducking back into my home office to send that email or check that document etc and my mind will be 50% thinking about work all evening

If you can resist checking emails after your commute I'm sure that with some self discipline you could also do it without the commute. You're basically admitting that there is no good reason or expectation for you to be working after hours anyway.
Hi - thank you for trying it out! These are both definitely real issues with the current approach. I've tried to reign in the "selecting an overly specific table" issue in the final "LLM-selects-from-search-results" stage but clearly have some work left to do there.

As far as the second issue - when people search for things way outside of the available data - I have not done much to address this, but really should. This happens for more plausible queries too, e.g. "Crime Rate" seems like it could be cataloged by the Census, but is not part of the tables indexed by the site (ACS Detailed Tables). It selects variables somewhat randomly here when it should really say something like "no relevant results found"
>yet it went bankrupt because companies prefer to buy new plastic which is both cheaper and more convenient.

I would say that should make plastic recyclers a fair target for government subsidies since they're not making a financial profit, but are a net social benefit.
Based on my understanding, the cost-quality ratio of most higher education in the US isn't exactly great either. Students from poorer families taking massive student debt to study something that doesn't even get them much better income is not a good outcome, yet it's a reality for many.

In addition to that, think in most fields there's an increasing need for education that is more flexible than multi-year degrees, simply because requirements for skills change so fast these days.
https://archive.is/M04ez
Torrent trackers are the closest I’ve found to an old-web style community. That and hn
https://venturebeat.com/ai/microsofts-new-ai-system-spreadsh...
Synthetic fuels are a killer app. Especially for transport and home heating (where we have storage and delivery infrastructure nicely worked out).

Like you say, price is an issue, but we could opt into it as a society by restricting use of extracted hydrocarbons.
Lots to dismiss in this, but I was pretty impressed by the bit about psuedo selectors! I had no idea this could be done, and it's pretty awesome! Can't think of when I would use it, given that you have to publish your implementation details for it to be useful (even if you only publish them for your internal team). But for personal projects, or well-moduled projects, I might reach for that little trick in the future.
This is why a lot of projects use other tools for bug tracking and merging, e.g. bugzilla, youtrack, atlassian etc.
Ten Profound answers about the math behind AI
Wouldn't this just result in my digitalid getting lost in the next equifax breech?
> Even if you're burning half your CPU cycles on busy work waiting for user input.

Of course then you slam into a wall when people want it to run on battery-powered devices.
Yeah this is what a $60k fine gets you. It’s a silly law to try and prevent metal detecting.
You can use structural HTML and CSS inside components as their content is already structured and should not change on whim. Same for the first "master" layout layer.

Applying styles with "form" classes like card still is semantic too!
Ask HN: Alternatives to IEX Cloud API
In a context of stock-trading as a hobby:

IEX Cloud offered a very reasonably priced, credit-based API access to real-time US market data.

In particular, $19/mo got you an access to minute-resolution non-delayed data on a hundred or so stocks/ETFs.

Furthermore, they supported API call batching, so retrieving last-price for 50 symbols required a single API call.

They are killing this API in September [1] and suggest migrating to Intrinio, which is very funny because a comparable tier there is $500/mo [2].

Hence this post - anyone can suggest from their personal experience any good real-time US market data APIs for low-volume personal use?

Not looking to do HFT trading, nor do I need historical data, just real-time pricing on few dozen symbols with a minute resolution.

So far I found Finnhub, MarketStack, Alpaca, Polygon, TwelveData, Finazon. The first two appear to have required API, but at 2x the price and with no call batching. The rest is either way more expensive or the API is just not there. It's also possible to scrape YFinance, but I'd rather not go that way.

Thanks in advance!

[1] https://iexcloud.io/product-bulletin

[2] https://intrinio.com/pricing
I was on this exact same journey, so our taste must be similar. Love his stuff.

Just in case our taste is VERY similar, I have really enjoyed every book I've read so far except the middle book in the Orthogonal series.

The first was great, third was back in form. I would recommend, if you are reading the second one, and start to wonder why you should press through, just skip to the third one.

I'm not really qualified to make any judgements about the overall quality of it, but it's moreso the tone of it that I am talking about. I wonder if he was going through something when he wrote that one or something.
Is there anything Python does that Bash can't do?

There are many reasons to use either. Probably about as many as there are to use the other. Choose wisely.
Probably. If only there were some way to align the incentives. Oh well.
Interesting how the article says they're puzzled why he decided to be anonymous, then proceeds to mention that what he did is highly illegal in Ireland. It seems pretty obvious why he wants to be left alone...
Discussion is from this year, try reading for context
I assume there is a kind of permit system, given the "unless you have written permission from the government" part
I love your idealism, but allow me to be your data point. The place where I work just fired our CTO because he was doing exactly that, to "speed up" the software team, after I complained to other execs that this was massively slowing us down because of all the time we spent trying to figure out what the nonsense code he was shotgunning into main was supposed to do. (Not the only reason, I'm told.)
most of the good parts of the internet are here bc of ads too (look at newgrounds. Still a bastion of weird creativity)

It’s a double edged sword
When you have a great product, you can get away with mediocre or even bad internet presence. Take Starbucks, visa, Mastercard, Walmart etc who have at best average presence on the internet but their physical products are making them a lot of money because they are simply that good. Improvement to their online presence will only improve their product growth and sales.

The fluff you see on the internet is for bad products. The products themselves are generally nothing special and hence the whole marketing, analytics, social media presence is whats required creating this wave of websites and social media presence that is nothing but people trying to sell you stuff you don't need.

Take doctors for example. Good doctors can get a few bad reviews online but people will still go to them because the good reviews generally are a lot more than bad ones. Most great doctors don't even have a good online presence. On the other hand average or bad doctors tend to spend an awful lot of time improving their online presence to get new patients all the time because old ones tend to not stick around thanks to average patient care.

The web is what you make of it just like everything else. People looking for quick cash have existed for decades. With the web, it's become easier for them thats all. You can chose not to fall into this trap.
>XZ backdoor story – Initial analysis

Here are parts 2 and 3 (weren't discussed on HN):

>Part 2: Assessing the Y, and How, of the XZ Utils incident (social engineering)

https://securelist.com/xz-backdoor-story-part-2-social-engin...

>Part 3: XZ backdoor. Hook analysis

https://securelist.com/xz-backdoor-part-3-hooking-ssh/113007...
From my experience, more junior devs don't have the skills to use LLMs properly. On top of that, most people in general aren't up to date on the latest updates and will try to use free ChatGPT and form an opinion based on that. It will take some LLM education for them to be more productive, and some serious "you shouldn't use it to generate anything you couldn't write yourself" talks. But I can see the potential in the future.

I kept on top of what's happening in this space and found ways to improve my work, but I doubt the improvement crosses 10%. This place will have a skewed statistics of people who can use LLMs efficiently - outside, in real world I don't think the impact is noticeable at all yet.
There were certainly universities that were "Apple shops" fairly early on. Probably mostly at the tail end of your date range and beyond though. Here's the story at Dartmouth: https://www.cs.cornell.edu/wya/AcademicComputing/text/macdar...

In 1980, Dartmouth actually had pretty democratized access to computing but it was pretty much exclusively on the timeshare mainframe.
I am the founder of an industrial edtech company, with some prior experience in the K12 space.

Your analysis of the market structure and the challenges is consistent with my experience - I'd like to add 2 points though:

1. Building on what you've said about VC-level returns, while edtech (and industrial edtech) may not necessarily be fields where VC funded unicorns can actually form and then survive to profitability, I believe there is sufficient need and space for companies that are investable and can grow into profits / valuations in the 10s /100s of millions - they can follow the startup format, etc.; just not VC investable, as you've noted.

2. In the space of skill development (i.e., adults / professional learning), I would like to add that for many skills, as industries get more sophisticated (I am taking of manufacturing, automotive, energy, oil & gas, infrastructure, petrochemicals, infrastructure), there is value for the company in upskilling their staff - simply because that does directly convert to profitability if done well; and at least puts a floor on issues that poor or absent training may cause - like safety, quality, etc. So even if it is a cost, it is a cost that can directly affect their topline / bottomline, and I believe there is an opportunity here.

/off soapbox
Interesting idea. How much shared experience is there though - for example between poor and affluent people of the same race? What about immigrant groups who look similar but have very different culture and experiences? I cannot imagine an affluent black African immigrant will have much in common with a poor black American. I know that (in the UK, but it would be just as true in the US) that I do not have much shared experience with other people who look like me (South Asian to Western eyes) but come from different cultures types of area (urban vs rural is a big difference) and family backgrounds.
> Setting up first-party mode may help your tag setup perform better, resulting in recovery of lost measurement signals, in a privacy-safe way.

Does Google explain what "privacy" means in this context? I'm unfamiliar with Google jargon, but I'm sure it's completely different from the dictionary definition.
As it is, I do not disagree.
But this is still pretty deep in strange territory.
Those advantages don't appear on metrics and therefore don't exist. If the benefit to the business is in two years and isn't measurable, the benefit it would bring will be misattributed to whoever happens to be around afterwards using it
I don't think it's working. It's showing 20 users for all channels.
+100 for "Please, Just Work More Examples, I Swear It Helps".

I don't have nearly as impressive a backstory as you do here, but I did apply spaced repetition to my abstract algebra class in my math minor a few years back. I didn't do anything fancy, I just put every homework problem and proof into Anki and solved/rederived them over and over again until I could do so without much thinking.

I ended up walking out with a perfect score on the 2 hour final - in about 15 minutes. Most of the problems were totally novel things I had never seen before, but the fluency I gained in the weeks prior just unlocked something in me. A lot of the concepts of group actions, etc. have stuck with me to this very day, heavily informing my approach to software engineering. Great stuff.
Access your AWS data as a single-file downloadable archive
Llama-3-Groq-Tool-Use Models
Your comment made me reminisce, I read the story a few years ago and its one of my favorite short stories by him. Such a simple concept. One beautiful piece of sci-fi horror.

> You come out thinking that the procedure was done to yourself after you're done reading.

In my interpretation, Egan is trying to say that _this is already the case_.

I understood the story as a description of epiphenomenalism, only layered with sci fi concepts to make it more straightforward to digest.
No mention of DICOM which is the de facto medical image format. It also supports ECG.
Yes, but this is not about the PR, it is about the discussion. The dates are shown very clearly in many places too. ffs
I thought the OP said the opposite: meanies on the web are calling you a bad person for using React and Tailwind when all you wanted to do was create something.

Anyhow, from my standpoint I just like to be able to make sense of something when I look at its source, and I like it not to freak out because I have a chrome extension or two.
I mean this without any derision: who cares? There’s nothing wrong with building something for a niche audience. Yes, if we were evaluating it as a business or government website, we could point out usability and accessibility issues with the design. But it’s not any of those things; it’s OP’s personal homepage, and they seem pretty happy with it.

See also: An App Can Be a Home Cooked Meal https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/
This is just election rhetoric. There is no scenario where the US does not defend Taiwan, this is acknowledged in both US and PRC wargames.
Climate change, location and topography contribute to flood events in Vermont
Right now, nvidias valuations have made a lot of people realize that their CUDA skills were being undervalued. Anyone with GPU or ML skills who hasn’t tried to get a pay raise in this market deserves exactly the life that they are living.
Data Contracts in Action: Testing
sone people value their time
I created a couple of gag emails and Proton locked all my accounts for abuse
I'm relating this experience because I find it troubling. I'll try (poorly) to summarize.

- Months ago, I opened a free Proton account to use with an auth provider for my family's photo site.

- Recently, I opened firstname.lastname@proton.me, migrated all my gmail, and paid for Proton.

- I hadn't anticipated some missing features, so I opened a support ticket to downgrade and park the account for later.

- Proton downgraded and refunded, but UI bugs the support rep couldn't solve stopped me from deleting my imported mail, so my account was over the free limit and hosed.

- I was feeling zany and created about three joke accounts transposing the first and last initials of tech executives, for example pundar.sichai. You can't check if a Proton account is available without creating it, so I created a few and deleted a few. Should I have done that? No. No. It was dumb.

- The Proton abuse system locked all my accounts and I started the appeal process.

- The abuse rep said he'd restored access to my firstname.lastname account for 48 hours "as a goodwill gesture" so I could get my data. The context was literally: "We're de-platforming you, here's two days to get your stuff." But, the account was still locked.

- I replied from my (non-Proton) professional email, as a business matter. I soberly pointed out that the account was still locked, that an account used for my family photo site had been caught in the crossfire, and that Proton's response was rather excessive.

- The abuse guy unlocked my family photo account, but the account with my old gmail was still locked. I pointed that out.

- The abuse guy told me he would only restore one account "due to my actions" (despite having previously told me something else) so I'm stuck with ~4 GB of un-deletable personal data in Proton's cloud at firstname.lastname@proton.me.

I'm sure that data is quite secure, but that's... really crappy. Now I'll always have to worry that the old mail on that account will get out. Am I very sorry I created joke accounts on Proton? Yes. Yes I am. But, I don't think I'm nuts to say Proton's abuse team screwed this situation up and tarnished the Proton brand. As a final note, the number of emails I've ever sent from Proton to anyone but a Proton support rep: zero.

Ironic.
Railroad syntax diagrams, not railroad error handling
Demand for math data annotation in AI
As AI continues to grow - do you think there will be an increased need for math data annotators/math data? How important is annotated math data for the advancement of AI and machine learning models like LLMs and more? Are we experiencing a shortage in this area? We're doing a study on AI datasets, any feedback is appreciated!
For example, Cohere posted a job: Data Annotator - Advanced Math: https://jobs.lever.co/cohere/c10114ae-9ba0-4ddd-a4b0-7117deb5abc9
just make it conditional: 21 hours of study and/or social work/field work per week.

- high school style tests, milestones and road maps to test study progress, good for citizen science but can be any subject, fugees start easy with the ABC

- social work including agriculture & farms, where the first year or two can count towards apprenticeship if combined with studies

solves low wages short-, mid-, long-term, increases buying power, creates jobs and tons of admin, org, bureaucracy work for those who dig it :)

make it enough to afford rent and healthy food and some culture per week.
in Germany, that would be 1350 - 1500 per month, which is covered already, but the conditions are nonsense and lax.
It was looking fine when the link was posted a few hours ago. Maybe a temporary hickup.
I’ve been back on IRC over the last year or 2 and been enjoying it. It’s obviously not as wildly active as it used to be, but you still find very smart people to answer questions and/or chat about random stuff, and most of the big open source projects have large channels which can be interesting to hang out in.
That's insulting, factual and hilarious at the same time.
It's unreadable on my phone. The font is microscopic, like 0.5pt. Dark mode is awful. Light grey on black makes it even worse. Firefox Reader mode is disabled. The pop up keyboard takes up half the screen and obscures most of the content. And forcing a commandline interface on a phone user seems truly sadistic.
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That would be a boon to the company tho, because they can cut off more dead weight and lower OpEx.

I think it’s more basic. Many cities rely on business/commercial real estate taxes to generate funds. Many of these governments also give tax incentives if businesses are working in the city. If the companies aren’t doing this they lose out.

Most cities cannot make up the loss of funds through residential taxes so the pressure of RTO can help ease it.

Boston is a good example of this, residential property taxes are quite low but the city has a hard time making up the difference with the loss of commercial property taxes. So there was a big push to get companies to RTO.

It’ll probably take a good 20 years before city governments are able to adapt, hopefully that means more mixed use buildings in the city core like Chicago (commercial store first level, condos/apartments above it) rather than why you commonly see across US cities (entire buildings dedicated to business).
> ... trying to magic Rust into existence

What do you mean? Rust does not exist? No useful projects have been built in it?
Access Control and Permissions done right
Important to note that HexChat was discontinued a few months ago though, and it seems like there's no official follow-up project yet (even though several people have forked it to add their own experiments and fixes).
I think that we wear different hats during the day. As a product manager of a SaaS Enterprise application, I value data to improve the product; as a person outside the work environment, I value privacy.

Tough call.

On the other hand, I believe that browser tracking is only a small percentage of data being gathered about us, aggregated, and processed.

There are so many ways to track us, and being clever ain't really a way to get out of this system. Too late, too sophisticated.
Mario Zechner: Two years in review
"So far, the issue hasn't affected von der Leyen's candidacy as she quickly became the consensus nomination among the main political forces in the last mandate – EPP, S&D and Renew Europe."

So much for consequences lol. Her entire career has basically been failing upwards with the unanimous support of everyone around her despite being incompetent every step of the way. It's as if there's an agenda here to get her to power and make sure she stays there.
You can't be everything for everyone. I'd imagine you'd still be using less power than the average JS hot mess today though.
If you talk to anyone who has worked for Musk, they will tell you that he most likely woke up, saw the news, and decided to move HQ without talking to anyone.

The employees, including the ones who would have to plan all the logistics, probably found out from his tweet.
It's a shame that Gitlab isn't profitable. Maybe it's just because I have to use it for work and am therefor familiar, but I've always slightly preferred it to Github. I also never really saw Github enterprise server being viable in the "we have to self host for security reasons" space, but maybe someone else has a different view.