skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a valid way to look at this, and I appreciate that perspective.

However, I think you may be missing the point that the advertisement is specifically meant to elicit, or create, those feelings of guilt or shame. Maybe I feel just fine about the amount I drink, but the wording of the ads subtely implied I should feel guilty about my drinking. If the question was "Do you feel like you could use help with your drinking? Then try Reframe.", then I'd agree with your point more.

But maybe a bad example, because in that case perhaps the end result of the targetted ad could in fact be a better outcome for everyone, as you point out. To pick a bit of a hyperbolic example, what if instead the ad had instead said "Tired of being the the ugliest girl in your class? Try BetterMakeup!" (with all the appropriate imagery the targetting provides). Is advertisement like that truly good for anyone but the seller?

As a bit of a side note, everyone knows ads are targetted now, so there's an implicit assumption on the viewers part that the seller must know something about them. And now advertisers are using that to their advantage.

I think the larger point though is that many of us simply do not think its ethical or healthy to give companies the tools to manipulate our emotions and tap into our insecurities in the pursuit of profit. The seller doesn't care about the buyer, they only care about convincing the buyer to buy their product, even if that means making them feel shitty about themselves.
You could, but the advantage of quitting is that it's on your terms--you can potentially line up another job prior to quitting.
What Naval was talking[0] about is that you start to know whom to trust when playing the long game, and people start to trust you in return. Which is exactly what causes those quiet exceptions to be handed out.

While it does not seem to be ‘fair’, this is how long term game actually looks like.

[0] - https://nav.al/long-term
What's actually happening is that the SDK doesn't expose the system calls necessary to do it, but I can guarantee that if you can get a native binary to run on the device, you can have it do whatever you want. If that wasn't the case, the few apps that do support JITting wouldn't work.
Well that and you also need a fair bit more space for the KV cache which can be a bit unpredictable. Models without GQA, flash attention or 4 bit cache support are really terrible in that regard, plus it depends on context length. Haven't found a good rule of thumb for that yet.
rePalm: Towards the first unauthorized PalmOS port
Because you can fit more information and vertical scrolling is easier (you also have a bigger area to scroll in), so navigation is also more convenient
Show HN: Multilspy – Cross platform framework to develop Language Server Clients
multilspy is a cross-platform library designed to simplify the process of creating language server clients to query and obtain results of various static analyses from a wide variety of language servers that communicate over the Language Server Protocol. It is easily extensible to support any language that has a Language Server and currently supports Java, Rust, C# and Python. We aim to continuously add support for more language servers and languages.

Language servers are tools that perform a variety of static analyses on code repositories and provide useful information such as type-directed code completion suggestions, symbol definition locations, symbol references, etc., over the Language Server Protocol (LSP). Since LSP is language-agnostic, multilspy can provide the results for static analyses of code in different languages over a common interface.

multilspy intends to ease the process of using language servers, by handling various steps in using a language server:

* Automatically handling the download of platform-specific server binaries, and setup/teardown of language servers

* Handling JSON-RPC based communication between the client and the server

* Maintaining and passing hand-tuned server and language specific configuration parameters
* Providing a simple API to the user, while executing all steps of server-specific protocol steps to execute the query/request.

Some of the analyses results that multilspy can provide are:

* Finding the definition of a function or a class (textDocument/definition)

* Finding the callers of a function or the instantiations of a class (textDocument/references)

* Providing type-based dereference completions (textDocument/completion)

* Getting information displayed when hovering over symbols, like method signature (textDocument/hover)

* Getting list/tree of all symbols defined in a given file, along with symbol type like class, method, etc. (textDocument/documentSymbol)
I see a business decision here.
Arm cores have licensing fees attached to them.
Arm is becoming more restrictive with licensing and wants to capture more value [1]:

> The Financial Times has a report on Arm's "radical shake-up" of its business model. The new plan is to raise prices across the board and charge "several times more" than it currently does for chip licenses. According to the report, Arm wants to stop charging chip vendors to make Arm chips, and instead wants to charge device makers—especially smartphone manufacturers—a fee based on the overall price of the final product.

Even if the particular cores in the RP2350 aren't affected, the general trend is unfavorable to Arm licensees.
Raspberry Pi has come up with a clever design that allows it to start commoditizing its complement [2]:
make the cores a commodity that is open-source or available from any suitable RISC-V chip designer instead of something you must go to Arm for.
Raspberry Pi can get its users accustomed to using the RISC-V cores—for example, by eventually offering better specs and more features on RISC-V than Arm.
In the meantime, software that supports the Raspberry Pi Pico will be ported to RISC-V with no disruption.
If Arm acts up and RISC-V support is good enough or when it becomes clear users prefer RISC-V, Raspberry Pi can drop the Arm cores.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/03/risc-y-business-arm-...

[2] https://gwern.net/complement
My kids have no idea how good they have it with parents who understand “hold on, I just need to make it to the next save!”
Langchain is a spaghetti rabbit hole. In our consultancy, we've basically switched entirely to Haystack, and keep the abstractions fairly light, really only use it to give the pipelines some structure that applies across projects. Very easy to add custom components with pretty straightforward interfaces. The way you assemble the components isn't everyone's cup of tea (string references), but it does make it very easy to understand at a glance what each pipeline is doing and when. Worth checking out if Langchain isn't doing it for you.
Have a look at MareNostrum [0] then. It's in the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, in an old de-consecrated church, and looks awesome!

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MareNostrum_4_supercomput...
I'm doing exactly this at the moment. I'm in Europe. My lawyer says that there's probably not going to be any gain in it for me unless the company will cave and agree to some sort of severance. I don't have my hopes up, but I'm willing to take them to court just to expose their bullshit in front of the other people still working there in good faith.
Leadership at my former place publicly despised remote work. Only senior engineers were allowed to work remotely, and the rest had to work at one of those nasty startup coworking spaces 4x per week.

During my tenure, that policy didn't have the effect the CEO desired, and it led to the tech department shrinking, despite the headcount more than doubling. It was tremendously hard to find good engineers that were willing to put up with the CEO's antics, despite offering them above market average comp.

If your startup is uncool, one of the first few things you should review is your remote work policy. Some really crappy businesses might be having an easier time hiring competent employees just because they allow WFH.
could you be more specific on what's so hard to follow? it's quite literally just the implementation of the GRPC interface [1].

[1] https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/blob/main/client/v3/kv.go#L3...
I mean, the first problem isn’t just the view on the small portion of people that actually check out.

It’s moreso the majority than continue to suffer. It affects their own health, their families, happiness, life, society. I think macro now because the US work life is declining exponentially and no, I don’t mean the stock market.
Unfortunately, this simply does not hold up in reality, wherein police routinely stalk and harass individuals, to the point that the police decide to fabricate criminal evidence just to prove themselves right.

I would know, this is exactly what happened to me, as I mentioned in another comment.

An example of police organizations surveilling groups of people who are against a gas pipeline running through their lands:

https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/surveillance-state-des...

Are they criminals for organizing and petitioning the government to relent?

Example, from my own city, of how police organizations routinely fabricate evidence, typically against minorities and those the police have decided they "do not like" and "could be criminals". Unfortunately, my own hometown was not included in this investigation and my conviction wasn't overturned.

https://www.wbrz.com/news/nakamoto-how-corruption-in-brpd-le...

What you fail to take into account is the average academic and emotional intelligence of the type of person who finds themselves working in a US police force, given the low pay, high stress and allure of wielding soft power. There aren't just a few bad apples; The entire bunch is rotten and we find this corruption as far back as we find State police forces. Now it's just more apparent because we also surveil the police.
HTML in its basic form is a technical task for many.
I think neuroplasticity is well known to have a physical basis. We can probably extend the neuroplasticity of young adult and early middle age into longer and longer timespans, but all you have to do is watch a teenager or young adult for a few days to see that the extreme neuroplasticity of very young people definitely comes with some drawbacks.

I don't think I would want a future immortal billionaire with access to accumulated generations of power to enter a new adolescence with the brain reset that comes along with it.

We need young people to be stupid and brash and occasionally fearless and brilliant and unburdened by the lessons (or scars) of the past to keep society moving forward but those can't be the same people in charge of the world. There are roles for both.
> Over time, as both Spawn and the underlying models improve, it will be able to build more complex software.[^Citation needed]

It seems to me that with the transformer model world we now live in, utilities like these are excellent at generating things that appear in many tutorials/posts/etc. However, there's little-to-no evidence that they are able to generate anything truly custom. For instance, any application requiring any significant level of domain-specific knowledge (your last point), and given the model's architectures there's no reason to believe that will occur. What is it that makes you so confident that will become a possibility?
Videos showing how to beat every single game really helps as well, much easier to learn how to play a game by watching someone play than reading a guide in a magazine.
Highly durable goods generally require a lot of energy input, because to break the thing you have to exert more energy than was used to construct the item. Or you can think of it that you use a high-energy state when you want it to be malleable, so it is far from that state during normal use. In ceramics, for instance, when you fire to a higher temperature you can create a more durable piece. (Of course you can make a flawed item that lacks this durability.)

The very thing that makes an item durable also makes it hard to recycle, something that is hard to break is also hard to decompose and recompose into a new item. Also you should only invest all that energy into creating something if you plan to use it for a long time.

A highly durable glass cup is great... but only if you use it for a long time. If you recycle it you've failed. The literal mass of the finished glass is trivial compared to the energy invested in creating it.
To generate better unit tests you must first generate great software mutants
Looks nice!

I'm on an older phone though and your landing Page murders it. Animations stutter and scrolling is pretty janky. Not sure I'd that's an issue with the components or something else?
Show HN: Open-source GraphRAG Application with your own data
Hello. This is an easy-to-use application for exploring your own data with retrieval augmented generation (RAG) backed by txtai.

txtai is an all-in-one embeddings database for semantic search, LLM orchestration and language model workflows. txtai has a feature to automatically create knowledge graphs using semantic similarity. This enables running Graph RAG queries with path traversals. This RAG application generates a visual network to illustrate the path traversals and help understand the context from which answers are generated from.

Embeddings databases are used as the knowledge store. The application can start with a blank database or an existing one such as Wikipedia. In both cases, new data can be added. This enables augmenting a large data source with new/custom information.

Adding new data is done with the textractor pipeline. This pipeline can extract content from documents (PDF, Word, etc) along with websites. The website extraction logic detects the likely sections with main content removing noisy sections such as headers and sidebars. This helps improve the overall RAG accuracy.

This RAG application is open source with the code available here: https://github.com/neuml/rag
>To be fair, running a huge megacorp is really hard and there seems to be no easy answer to getting thousands of people to perform optimally, together, over the long term.

It's only hard when you're constantly trying to squeeze more money out and trying to cut wages and make people work multiple peoples' jobs.
> Between my wife and I we kind of agree that the one who goes first is the lucky one.

My wife died. I get to live on with our children, smell flowers, listen to music, even fall in love again. I’m the lucky one, despite the pain.
The other aspect that was/is remains "funny" is how the C-suite often makes uneconomic decisions for the company that make their own commute comfort.

Notable how many companies opened HQ2 near where the CEO decided to buy a second home for tax purposes. Funny how the business case for HQ2 perfectly aligned with their personal interests.
The law can be whatever you want when money is speech
Weird way to approach this... since its a critical business decision, wouldn't you like a formal professional opinion? Seems like it would be worth the $500/hr for a week to get real information that you can use to get a decent view of what your options are...
Senior Engineers able to WFH but nobody else sets a nasty "rules for thee but not for me" kinda vibe.

I can imagine legit situations where the Senior Engineers work well from home, but the vibe doesn't change...
On top of the sad state of the job market, there is a trend now on companies posting fake jobs:

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/27/4-in-10-companies-say-theyve...
Everything I can have in Mate
New memory tech unveiled that reduces AI processing energy requirements by 1000x
> Why should anyone read this book if it presents the subject in a wrong way? What is particularly done “wrong” in the book?

Does he ever answer this question? It's posed at the start of the book, but then immediately ignored.
Vivaldi has this built-in, they call it Workspaces. It's the #1 thing I like about the browser.

Firefox had this to back in ancient times, it was called Tab Candy, Panorama, or tab groups, depending on the release number. Then they killed it because "nobody used it."
Is it not hostile that they wanted a significant % of those they asked to no longer be employed there, spurred by the deliberate intentional actions of the company?
Fraud is closer but still a massive reach.
I hope I get to live a life as full and rich as he has… a role model for these troubled times.
The majority of water is used in ways that none of it would be drank. Even just looking at homes, only about 20% of water in a typical home is used in the faucet (and I expect that's primarily not for drinking).

You'd almost need to set up an entirely separate distribution system for it to be more efficient than doing it in the home.
Class action on what basis? Unless you were hired with explicitly work from home clause, I don't see reasons to sue.
It's often preferable to find a new job when you still have one than to be randomly dismissed and need to scramble.
i wonder much less if they can versus how much exposure to high fidelity AAA games and movies is enough to not be able to enjoy or connect to the classic games i loved. i hope i will find out one day.
Unfortunately I'm old enough too :)

Yes, it's true that things were pretty grim. I remember being embarrassed when a colleague from Norway travelled with me in a filthy, worn train carriage stinking of piss :(

But IMO that doesn't excuse the lack of poor management since then. Things could be much, much better.
Which country in Eastern Europe doesn't have national healthcare anymore?
Scientists drill record 1.2 kilometers in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
How much does bacteria in a microwave impact the food that is being microwaved? Is there enough aerosolized bacteria in there that it would land on your food with enough effect?
Time Blindness
> This suggests that these departures are not just numerical losses but also qualitative ones, affecting team dynamics, institutional knowledge, and overall performance.

No crap Copernicus.

Why does management insist on believing that their workforce is made up of interchangeable cogs is it because the reality is just too uncomfortable?
If what the article says is true, it seems they rolled back about a decade and a half of diversity in tech initiatives. It also speaks to how little power those organizations have.

Since I can remember there have been nonstop “women in tech” clubs to encourage women to advance their career even if it’s not easy. And it’s not easy if you have to take care of a child. The company might have a monthly zoom call and schedule a female senior manager to give a speech about her career. Wonderful.

And then RTO hits. And some of those same senior managers are requiring their teams to commute to an office and sit at a desk for vague, unspecified, or otherwise underjustified reasons.

The result is predictable. People resign. But some people are more likely to leave than others. Single men with no other obligations are less likely to mind leaving at 8:30 and getting back at 6:30. Women may not be able to.

It turns out, those zoom calls were largely useless. It’s not a mindset issue. It’s a labor issue. Women in tech initiatives were tolerated as long as they positioned themselves as mindset or career growth within the company, and didn’t encourage organizing or asking anything of the company. But a truly effective movement would have gave employers pause before mandating RTO.
How come no severance? Despite of how you're being fired, you should be entitled to severance right?
As a long-time resident - I'd say that most of Wayne Co. (Michigan) government has had a well-deserved reputation for self-serving rot, for >50 years.
My not-very-new 2018 Toyota Prius Prime also has a heat pump (for the same reason EVs do - though it's a PHEV - if it's running on battery it doesn't have any waste heat to dump inside the car for heating the humans).
RTO, means Return To Office, which means it's applying to people who started out working in the office. And by your definition, when jobs changed from the office to WFH, it constituted constructive dismissal, since it was a significant change; but that is just silly.
Imec Successfully Demonstrates High-NA Lithography for Logic and DRAM Patterning
I got stuck at the age of 6 in Link's Awakening for the OG Gameboy. I convinced my mom to let me call the tip hotline so I knew how to progress.

I was stuck just before the seventh? dungeon where you need to revive the rooster to fly over the pit to the entrance. I had the revival song and level two bracelet but for the life of me couldn't figure out what to do next. After about 5 questions where I answered yes to all of them the gentleman on the line directed me to the town satue.

I remember my mind being blow when I discovered GameFAQs.
What's overlooked is that today's workforce is not ruled by a cadre of hardcore company people any more. Work from home is generally enjoyed on every level of the hierarchy. Likewise, even your boss's boss will have a family and share childcare responsibilities, which creates strong demands for flexibility and autonomy that are hard to argue against. This means, leadership doesn't want to, and can't really enforce return-to-office all that well.

So, unless I am missing something big, heavy-handed measures mandated from the CEO ultimately won't change modern workplace culture.

(If you like WFH though please do your part: Be productive and communicative from home and argue against return-to-office at any occasion to the full extent of your influence within the organization)
then the taxpayers can foot the bill
I can't speak to anyone else's experience. But I've been signed up with Optery (YC W22) and have been pretty happy with them. They got me off all the "people search" sites that I was aware of. I am sure I can still be found in some fringe sites but I am still happy with the result from Optery.
Single-Serving Sites: Single page and dedicated domain name serving one purpose
> For decades, environmentalists said “We shouldn’t talk about sequestering carbon! This will be an excuse to keep burning fossil fuels!” And they succeeded. For decades, it was a taboo

I'm fairly certain this never happened, which casts doubt on the rest of his argument.
Kubernetes Security: learn and practice in your local environment
So you define yourself as energy? Not your conscience? Because your conscience and sense of self is what most people would describe as gone when you die, and that's where the fear comes from. Energy has no feelings, no conscience, no self...
You’re both correct. Absolutely you need to start small and build confidence over time. However, it’s important to know early if you plan to eventually make the product a profit center. You can establish legal and technical foundations that will make your life much easier down the road.

Another option is to consider building in the open. If the technology is not a differentiator in your industry, then maybe you build it open source under GPL. That way you can build a consortium of similar firms to build a genuine alternative to the status quo while preventing lockout.

You don’t have to decide about proprietary vs open source release now… but you should consider taking steps to preserve those options down the line.
Hey! We also went through the some process, and in the logistics space. We ended up developing a solution in house. Because we fully understood the problem we were able to build the best product for us at the time, but it did took considerable investment from the company (and while the product was great, still questionable if it was the right investment to make). On my side specifically: I ended finding that what we built could be generalized for similar verticals, and now we have a SaaS product based on what we had built internally.
It's a catch-22 because if you stop innovating your UI for 20 years and alternatives come up with something people actually like then you will lose users to them and slowly fade into irrelevancy.

Firefox succeeded because it was a fresh take on the entire browser UX at a time when Internet Explorer had been stagnant for half a decade.