skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Self taught artist, and I learned by copying my favorite comic books and painters.

Went to art school and a significant part of my art history class dealt in remembering the name of art "movements" which is a veiled way of saying a period when everyone was copying each other. Then of course you learn about the influential artists who heavily borrowed from xyz. Another funny one is "revival" which just means "straight up copy"

This is why I have limited sympathy for the uproar about AI art. It's just cutting through the boring part.
What the hell business of mine would it be to ask a question as nosy as that?
"Is this a modern day nationalization? Essentially forced to sell at a 50% discount."

This is "modern day nationalization": "In March 2022, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the G7 countries froze around €260 billion ($280 billion) of the Central Bank of Russia’s reserves held in Western currencies and securities, including €210 billion deposited in Europe, mostly with Belgium’s Euroclear (around €159 billion). The remaining funds are deposited in France, Switzerland, Luxembourg, the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan (although specific values have not been given), the US (around €4.5 billion) and other countries." [0]

[0] https://www.osw.waw.pl/en/publikacje/analyses/2024-05-24/eus...
This is the first percentage-over-decade overview I’ve seen; it’s interesting to learn that the US’s immigrant makeup was higher for over 50 years (1870s-1920s) than it is currently.

Demographically, it’s worth noting that Pew is dealing with a pretty limited source of data: “German” was a generic bucket for all kinds of nations and ethnic groups that we now consider distinct, but were bucketed together because of Prussia, Austria-Hungary, etc. By modern standards this would be like the US identifying Guatemalans as “Mexican” due to the former’s proximity to the latter.
They understand best whatever was used during their training. For OpenAI's GPTs we don't really know since they don't disclose anything anymore, but there are good reasons to assume they used markdown or something closely related.
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I've found Debian Stable to be extremely stable, especially in recent years, I honestly don't think about system restore as much as I worry about a drive crashing or a laptop getting stolen. I assumed Linux Mint LTS was similarly stable.

Folks who have run into issues, what was the root cause?
These are the 2024 CNBC Disruptor 50 companies
> is far from “being it” as a definition of the concept of entropy in physics.

I simply do not understand why you say this. Entropy in physics is defined using exactly the same equation. The only thing I need to add is the choice of probability distribution (i.e. the choice of ensemble).

I really do not see a better "definition of the concept of entropy in physics".

(For quantum systems one can nitpick a bit about density matrices, but in my view that is merely a technicality on how to extend probability distributions to Hilbert spaces.)
>I couldn't think of something more unfriendly.

A punch to the face. There you go.

Asking a young folk if/what are they studying is not unfriendly at all. I am the kind of person that engages in conversations with people around me and I have a never had a negative experience from that, quite the opposite, plenty of times I ended up having a joyful conversation where we both learn things about each other's.
Where's HTMX?
Definitely there are. I got an email from Stubhub the other day advertising $500-700k for a staff iOS position. I'm pretty comfortable in my current setup, but it's nice knowing the option is there.
Until I switched to Postgres 8 years ago I knew a lot about MySQL. I barely know anything about Postgres
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Author here- it's a good point to have some benchmarks (which I don't have..) but I think it's well understood that minimizing noise by reducing tokens will improve the quality of the answer.
And I think by now LLMs are well versed in Markdown, as it's the preferred markup language used when generating responses
I agree that the number of stars has no link to income generated by a SaaS platform and many consider this a vanity metric. However, my understanding is that investors do consider this metric closely before making their decision.
Fastmail has Masked Email, it even integrates with 1Password so you can generate a new email as you're registering for a new site.

It's easy to unsubscribe from a shitty service or a newsletter, just delete the email and that's it.

They also have custom domain names, you do need to do the requisite DNS magic, but they give you step by step instructions where you just copy-paste stuff. And I think you can have them host the domain so they'll handle everything.

Fastmail labels ("tagging") works pretty well too, you just need to write the rules yourself, there is no fancy magic doing it automatically like Gmail.
Showing duration is helpful but so is the exact end time. Visually as a user I would like to see the exact time when the appointment ends instead of calculating it in my head. While it is not that hard to process when an appointment with a duration of 4:15 ends after starting at 2:30 but still.

As for API it makes a lot of sense to expose end time. If you for example are creating a calendar widget then it has start and end datetime for all events. With only duration available in the API output you know how to calculate the end time. More lines of codes for you.

Fetching from the API you would in most cases limit it to certain dates, for example next week. So now you suddenly do have to deal with start and end time. Not having it otherwise makes no sense.

Never had any developers ask for outputting duration in our scheduling API. It would be useful to include it but since no one have asked about it then I think having end time is more critical. https://developer.makeplans.com/#attributes-1
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StubHub. There you go.
IIUC think the article is saying that the assumption is the issue. That the default is to assume that working in the service industry is only a stepping stone and therefore less valuable.
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>How fast can a human possibly run 100 meters?

From what I've seen, it depends on how soon the train or plane is going to be leaving the gate . . .
If a person goes on eating mango fruit in the seasons his bones get stronger and that calcium harmones are triggered
>We wouldn't treat a 5% swing in unemployment as a rounding error, would we?

If unemployment keeps hovering around 29% +/-3% over basically a century, that variance is a rounding error.
Basically a modern form of company town?

Instead of being indentured by spending company scrip at the company store you're staying because of health insurance that would otherwise be unaffordable to you.
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Thanks for the article; it's an important checklist.

I would think you'd want at most one certificate authority per customer rather than per database. Why am I wrong?
It pays dramatically lower than actual FAANG-type companies and has a lower hiring bar to compensate. Senior positions are around half the TC you'd get at Meta.
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That's nice! It works quite fast.

I did something similar, as a Swift module. I use it for one of my apps.

https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/RVS_RetroLEDDisplay
Yeah the employers side of hiring someone in UK/Ireland is far more expensive than in the US, plus we have incredibly strong workers rights and mandatory 23 day paid leave + 11 other bank holidays/national holidays a year. Not to mention redundancy pay. Downsizing ain't a knee-jerk thing here, it's a costly process.

In France its basically like they don't want a tech sector. Employee's rights are skewed so far to the left that Employers are often hamstrung and startup-culture is completely stagnant. Even running a Cafe you can end up paying an employee for a year or two who literally can't or won't show up for work.

In short though, Ireland/UK/Belgium are the highest paying areas for tech in Europe outside of a few select Financial/Banking enclaves in Geneva and Zurich, with the majority of non-FAANG Seniors capping out at €120k or thereabouts without going into the niche areas like SRE or Algo or Cloud Architect.
That's not much better, being blogspam of the original source but it's also, as you point out, a dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40791829
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Keeping Production Observable with rising costs
While you have valid points, from a dev perspective, desktop UX is just as much shifting sand and land mines, which fuels the move to the browser for better or worse
There's one thing that matters a lot: on modern Android versions you have to give the permission to install APK files separately for each app, which makes this exploit even less likely to work.
This should be obvious by now --- Everything Google does has privacy invasion baked into it.

This new "Privacy Sandbox" is no exception. It's a laughable attempt to limit invasion of your web privacy exclusively to Google.

Apparently, it took Google's legal team some time to wake up to the anti-competitive implications.

This is just the latest in a long, long list of reasons why if you value your privacy, you should just say "No" to all things Google.
Most of what you mentioned exists in Obsidian.
I would hope that high value target sites such as banks would implement CSPs to prevent that or make it more difficult though.
only on localhost
I think Clickhouse runs its own database server, though, so you can't just use one of DigitalOcean's database products (like Postgres). You'd have to spin up a VM and put it in there.
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> We live in societies quite tightly controlled by corporations.

That's right. No need to cheer on the tightening control though. That is a form of fanaticism - you think you know what is right and everyone ought to do it. One should do things according to one's conscience. But, other opinions are available! Who has the truth to know right from wrong? Is it ok to have a different opinion?

You do realise, that even science opinions are purchasable? If you have the money and need scientific support, you will get it.

You possibly have a lot of disposable income, are quite young, live in a city, etc. But what of people with different life situations, with 'legacy' heating systems, ovens, etc. Do you want them to be penalised to do 'right thing'? Perhaps they should scrap their old but serviceable car? Pay more for their electricity? Is that progress, or just a trick to get people to pay more?
Why do people seek to argue like this on this site? The guy isnt lying.
Vaguely related: Apart from £ and €, a typical GB keyboard has a couple of non-ASCII characters printed on it: ¬ and ¦. The key labelled ¦ is usually mapped to |, but the key labelled ¬ often gives you an actual ¬, though I can't remember many occasions on which I've wanted one of them. Apparently the characters ¬ and ¦ are in EBCDIC.
I prefer to track Larry's personal projects by the companies he gutted to fund them. Which one would this have been?

Maybe Cerner will be the one that he uses to build the sacrifice altar on the volcano on his Hawaiian island.
No. Nerds love to hate any notion of their hardware spying on them, especially if it’s Intel. Computers need to work exactly as they did in 2004. But let’s also ignore the management functionality we had in ‘04 :)
How is this different than any other HTML to markdown library, like Showdown or Turndown? Is there any specific features that make it better for LLMS specifically instead of just converting HTML to MD?
I haven’t found any specific research, but I suspect it’s actually the opposite, particularly for models like Claude, which seem to have been specifically trained on XML-like structures.

My hunch is that the fact that HTML has explicit matching closing tags makes it a bit easier for an LLM to understand structure, whereas markdown tends to lean heavily on line breaks. That works great when you’re viewing the text as a two dimensional field of pixels, but that’s not how LLMs see the world.

But I think the difference is fairly marginal, and my hunch should be taken with a grain of salt. From experience, all I can say is that I’ve seen stripped down HTML work fine, and I’ve seen markdown work fine. The one place where markdown clearly shines is that it tends to use fewer tokens.
> But at $145 (the equivalent of $12.78 in 1947) it’s more affordable than the LCW was when it was first manufactured and sold.

The article isn’t explicitly dated (afaict). Using an inflation calculator leads me to believe it was written in 2019 [0]. The same calculator indicates a material deviation from the quoted number: “$145 in 2024 equals $10.16 in 1947.”

Amazingly, the chair is listed on Amazon now at $118.53 [1] (at least for my login/cookies/tracking; price includes shipping estimated at 6 days), the equivalent of $8.31 in 1947, a 60% off sale.

The cost probably has some externality tradeoffs however. Was the wood clear cut by children from thousand year old forests? Was the chair manufactured by prisoners using chemicals known by the state of California to cause cancer?

0. https://www.saving.org/inflation/inflation.php?amount=145&ye...

1. https://www.amazon.com/Modway-EEI-510-WEN-Fathom-Mid-Century...
Isn't the reverse also true? If you have start & end you can just calc duration.
UBI doesn’t need to be a “left” idea.

See the Libertarian angle f.ex
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geolibertarianism

Or read John Lockes argument on how land, as given by God to all, must be shared fairly.

Expanded a bit upon by Thomas Paine
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrarian_Justice
I'm ruining that trend by charging my E-Transit in nice places and dressing poorly.
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I'm still not sure it works. If I end up paying for your domain after a malicious move I coukd as well try to milk it out and may recover my cost by burning through your brand image. If I actually got more from it than expected, I'd rince and repeat making people's life miserable. Same way if an attacker got tesla.com by pushing enough, they might extract more value from it than a flailing Tesla could, and the customer base would be worse for it.

As a society I think we don't want to encourage adversarial pricing on taxes, the same way property tax isn't just based on raw demand (or even linked to it at all depending on the country) and has elements of controls to prevent too much gaming of it.
What about a hosted Docker instance of it, where the provider manages the underlying VM infra, and you're just responsible for the Clickhouse inside the container? Is that any more affordable?
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Just the thing for HN, then. Everyone can share an opinion!
This to me ascribes way too much to mustache-twirling villainy at Microsoft, but to me fails to account for the fact that engineers surely make many of these implementation-detail decisions. These engineers aren’t incentivized to create lock-in. I think it’s more likely that sometimes for a feature to play well with other existing parts of the Windows ecosystem, compromises are made to the standards-compliance. Microsoft may have shipped those related interfaces before this standard had been hashed out, so they have a choice to break everything or to not perfectly follow the standard.

Note: I’m not a Windows dev so I can’t speak to specifics of anything like your Kerberos example. I just don’t believe MS is full of evil engineers, nor that Satya Nadella visits cubicles to promote lock-in practices.
That would be as if your client asked you, a professional freelancer, what you are doing for a living.

The question carries an assumption within itself, namely that your work (quality, kind of work) can't possibly sustain you.

Aimilarily if you ask staff that your assumption is that this can't possibly be a work that anybody would ever like to do voluntarily.
I think what you're getting at is the construction of the sample space - the space of outcomes over which we define the probability measure (e.g. {H,T} for a coin, or {1,2,3,4,5,6} for a die).

Let's consider two possibilities:

1. Our sample space is "incomplete"

2. Our sample space is too "coarse"

Let's discuss 1 first. Imagine I have a special die that has a hidden binary state which I can control, which forces the die to come up either even or odd. If your sample space is only which side faces up, and I randomize the hidden state appropriately, it appears like a normal die. If your sample space is enlarged to include the hidden state, the entropy of each roll is reduced by one bit. You will not be able to distinguish between a truly random coin and a coin with a hidden state if your sample space is incomplete. Is this the point you were making?

On 2: Now let's imagine I can only observe whether the die comes up even or odd. This is a coarse-graining of the sample space (we get strictly less information - or, we only get some "macro" information). Of course, a coarse-grained sample space is necessarily an incomplete one! We can imagine comparing the outcomes from a normal die, to one which with equal probability rolls an even or odd number, except it cycles through the microstates deterministically e.g. equal chance of {odd, even}, but given that outcome, always goes to next in sequence {(1->3->5), (2->4->6)}.

Incomplete or coarse sample spaces can indeed prevent us from inferring the underlying dynamics. Many processes can have the same apparent entropy on our sample space from radically different underlying processes.
> Its too late in the game for most major distros to get away from systemd.

Oddly, this is the same rationale for keeping the established setup that was dismissed when systemd was introduced.
Smaller footprint. Faster reboot. Runs on more processors.
Since Kurtz was the CTO of McAfee when they did the same back in 2010, we now have two points in time. Those two points define what I propose we call the Kurtz Line.
> Those who like to complain about the delays in getting their decaf skinny lattes during the Saturday morning rush might appreciate their arrival a lot more if they had some experience in making them for other people.

I think no, because in plenty of cases it's their value system that's the problem - they believe in a world where some serve and the others are served and that these groups should not mix.

Their work experience changes little, as being the former they assume they're just the temporarily embarrassed latter and that is what drives them to do more.

In our industry I've seen this attitude displayed towards front-end developers. Somehow for some, if you're doing this as a senior dev, there must be a problematic reason behind it.
You're expecting too much from a fan award. It's a popularity contest like the People's Choice awards.

Look at juried awards like the Clarke award if you want something that isn't just a popularity contest.
ECC support wasn't good initially on AM5, but there are now Epyc branded chips for the AM5 socket which officially support ECC DDR5. They come in the same flavors as the Ryzen 7xx0 chips, but are branded as Epyc.
I wouldn’t get my hopes up
I wouldn’t be so sure on reducing tokens. Every token in context is space for the LLM to do more computation. Noise is obviously bad, because the computations will be irrelevant, but as long as your HTML is cleaned up, the extra tokens aren’t noise, but information about semantic structure.
That's not true. Democracy is an end in and of itself, a system of government that at its best accurately reflects the will of the people. Preventing tyranny is a means to an end (preserving democracy) not the final goal.

And democracy is most certainly not a sociopath shredder. It runs on the power hungry. There are just supposed to be enough checks and balances to prevent any one person or minoritarian cabal from amassing too much power.
Because someone actually did the work that provided what people wanted and needed.

which so far no one else has done
Some kind of academic CRM where you can start a new 'project' with some keywords and it assembles highly cited works and the authors of the works.

From there you can recursively search through the bibliography of the seminal works and the works that cite the seminal work to build a research map.

When researching different fields you often end up finding a) who the top researchers are and then you want to go read all of their stuff. b) who is currently working on the thing in $current_year who you might want to contact and talk to.

for example, when it comes to internal combustion engine research, Heywood is the man: https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=JB...

(most cutting edge research is locked away in the automotive company's sadly).

Or in computational fluid dynamics the 'entry point' to the field is basically JD Anderson.

In both cases you're like 6 degrees of separation away from the cutting edge in several micro topics of active research.

> synthesize them into a coherent mental model to inform your own research

For the mental model there's no real way around sitting and reading a bunch of papers, I basically taught myself how to read papers efficiently and then read papers every day (often dead ends which can be quickly discounted.)
See also https://aresluna.org/segmented-type/ for a bunch of segmented displays of varying complexity.
How about earning your own money?
you're talking about xerox parc in the 70s

xerox parc in the 70s invented the laser printer. the laser printer has been almost all of xerox's business since last millennium. their current revenues are 7 billion dollars a year, almost entirely from laser printers (mostly in disguise.) so i'm not sure it was 'too little, too late' or even 'failing to convert'

(right now i think xerox is unprofitable, but that's an issue of profit margins and management, not an issue of not having revenue)

this article https://spectrum.ieee.org/xerox-parc has this pullquote:

> From a purely economic standpoint, Xerox’s investment in PARC for its first decade was returned with interest by the profits from the laser printer.

and that was in 01985

you could posit an alternative history where xerox wasn't just making billions of dollars a year, for generations, out of laser printers, but also owned the entire market of laser printers, semiconductor foundries, guis with overlapping windows, ethernet, wysiwyg document editing, page description languages, and object-oriented programming, because all of those were indeed invented at parc

the article does in fact implicitly posit that alternative history. but it isn't clear that it was ever a possible history. centrally planned economies are not good at innovation; decentralized ones are. the most significant invention on that list, the semiconductor foundry, isn't even technical; it's a business structure that decentralizes chip design

very possibly they've made more money from their early stock in apple than they ever could have made by trying to exclude everyone else from the overlapping-window-gui market
I've been using them for years and did not realize they don't allow automated emails. At some point I was sending some automated emails from one inbox to another, but they were very infrequent, less than 1 a day. If you're looking for email-based notifications, I'd recommend Pushover [0] anyways. It's more flexible (can do email, curl, etc.), free, and won't violate ToS.

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