skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A company could put a top man at every position and be swallowed by a competitor with people only half as good, but who are working together.

I don't disagree, but I really hate that it's not wrong. It keeps me up at night, frankly.

The seemingly most successful companies I have worked for have had tons of the most incompetent people doing the most bureaucratic bullshit. I'm not sure it can be blamed on "synergy" though as much as bureaucracies liking to give money to other bureaucracies making the whole thing a self supporting bureaucratic ecosystem.

I'm not sure if it should be taken as something to reach for as the article implies or a cautionary principle.

Given the choice I'd certainly rather work for the first company.
Synthetic data absolutely does work well for code.

While Moore's Law probably doesn't strictly apply to GPUs, it's not far off. See [1] where they find "We find that FLOP/s per dollar for ML GPUs double every 2.07 years (95% CI: 1.54 to 3.13 years) compared to 2.46 years for all GPUs." (Moore's law predicts doubling every 2 years)

https://epochai.org/blog/trends-in-gpu-price-performance#tre...
I developed the isometric engine for this[0] video game in the 90s. I remember trying to figure out the algorithm to determine where the cursor was (converting screen x/y to position on tile, taking into account height of tile stack and the fact the tiles could be transparent) was a monstrous headache for some reason.

The sort of thing you'd solve in 30 seconds with Google in 2024.

The 2D tiles were rendered out of 3D Studio Max, and the characters were meshes exported from Max.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UOYps_3eM0
Can you get the profiler to do anything useful? Even comprehensible?

We tried and tried but there was nothing we could use amongst the blinking lights and wonderful graphics.
China's deserts are reasonably far north (latitudes of 30+ degrees), so I doubt they get a capacity factor that high
> The drug is based on a molecule he discovered while working at Pfizer

I can see Pfizer lawyers salivating uncontrollably after reading that phrase. Extremely unwise of him to mention this.
I was in China around that time and I don't remember the incident leading to Twitter being blocked. In fact, I think Twitter was blocked earlier than pollution incident. I do remember everyone getting pissed off that the US Embassy reading was so different than the local one: https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/sensing-our-planet/craz...
A good companion video to this might be The Psychology of Extreme Rhythms from Adam Neely's channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRLTjESyuQk
There is a photo with a guy in the "crowd" whose neck is at least 18 inches. So you're saying that was fabricated?

Snopes was nowhere near as positive as you are about the Detroit Metro picture:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/harris-walz-crowd/

> Isitai.com, another detection tool, described the image as "somewhat likely human generated," estimating a 58% chance that it's not AI.

can't reply so I'm editing this instead:

I didn't say that 18 inch neck was in the Metro photo. Read it again.

As for "cherry-picking": so did you.

"reasonable doubt" is a perfectly legit thing to raise. If it were a jury, that would be enough for an acquittal.
To be fair, software and technology is so magically transformative that even with warranty disclaimers like “this software comes with no warranty, and we limit our liability to the purchase price”, every company in the world still lines up to buy it. Because for them it’s effectively magic, that they cannot replicate themselves.

No individual software developer, nor corporation, is foolish enough to claim their software is free of bugs, that’s why they put the risk on the customer and the customer still signs on the dotted line and accepts the risks anyway. After all, it’s still way more profitable to have the potentially-faulty software than needing an army of clerks with pen and paper instead.

Most software has to be this way or it would be exorbitantly expensive. That’s the bargain between software developers and the companies that buy the software. Customer accepts the risks and gets to pocket the large profits that the software brings (because of the software’s low cost), because it’s better than the software developer balking at the liability, no software being written at all, and having an army of staff every airport writing out boarding passes by hand. There are only a few softwares that aren’t this way - example the software in aircraft or nuclear power plants. That software is correspondingly extremely expensive. Most customers that can, choose to accept the risks so they can have the larger profits.
Review of Maritime Transport 2023
Yeah.

You can't do it with everything but, for example, I tend to have a stocked travel kit that I don't need to raid (for the most part) for everyday charging gear. My laptops live where they live and I'll bring their chargers with them; they basically don't move unless I'm traveling. My office has some tools and my garage has some tools. I may need to raid one or the other but not for routine stuff.

I certainly don't need to bring a downstairs charger upstairs to charge my iPhone at night.
That's not a good reason to post flamewar comments!

Btw if you mean https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41206866, that was itself a flamewar comment of exactly the kind we don't want here.
> Banana republics (which the US continues to uphold and profit from) are using a lot of energy "per capita" but all the wealth from that is stolen so it's senseless to assign that consumption to the nation exporting rather than the nation importing

Ten "facts" or so in that one statement. Would be great if you can cite any one with a modern reference.

Which banana republic with high per capita is US upholding and profiting from? Who is stealing their wealth?
Why is that country a banana republic?

US per capita is falling while China's is rising.

https://www.iea.org/reports/co2-emissions-in-2023/the-changi....
> Comparinging by volume produced/consumed, I think it's reasonable to pretty much ignore all non-borosilicate glass

Soda–lime glass accounts for about 90% of manufactured glass.

~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soda%E2%80%93lime_glass

The implication being that borosilicate glass accounts for at most 10% of global production.

It's the dominant type for thermal | bakeware where expansion factors matter, but overall not the most common glass type in production.

> And the snark doesn't add to the discussion.

Please advise the user that stated "Pretty sure your source is shit given .. {false statement}"
Action matters more than speech. "Democracy", "freedom", "equality", "justice" and the "rule of law" are also Core Socialist Values of the CCP.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_Socialist_Values

Fortunately, unlikely democracy and the rule of law, the CCP appears to actually care about cheap energy and rolling back obvious pollution in major cities.
Or someone can't read. No where in article does it state Coal capacity is flat, just coal growth has flattened significantly per 14th five-year plan (2021-2025). PRC peak coal is expected this or next year, and phase down / decline starting 15th five-year plan (2026-2030).
I used to feel a lot more excitement in 2000 than i feel now.
https://what-if.xkcd.com/imgs/a/90/ygg_ask.png
No layoffs! You’re conditioned by mainstream tech euphemisms to think that from this post. geohot is straightforward type.

> We’re growing the team by ~5 people to help solve autonomy, improve the product, and scale up production. You’ll hear more about each team in the following posts from the head of each team.

> Check out our new leaderboard and jobs page. It’s got some fun programming challenges that also happen to be hiring challenges.
Not directly related to the article, but it seems to be they are the way they are is because they are dancing around regulations.
The big difference is that these apps would be cross-platform, where all of your listed solutions only run on one platform.
All licenses are only as useful as your individual ability to enforce it in a court, possibly against a megacorp.
> As if nobody has considered these drawbacks already

There is a real and consequential lack of attention to detail in this regard, though. Energy is a tricky and subtle topic which is very commonly oversimplified in the press, in politics, even among the technically literate, likely because we have a clearly identified problem (the consequences of hydrocarbons) and what seems to be an obvious solution (renewables).

It is a dangerous fallacy to think we can simply swap wind and solar into global industrial civilization and carry on happily into the sunset, but that is how many well-intentioned people seem to understand the situation.
Much of nvidias marketing material covers this if you want to believe it. They at minimal claim that there will be a million fold increase in compute available specifically to ML over the next decade.
You've been lucky in that case. Or you simply visit mainstream programs and never had to deal with not-ads-but-still-intrusive elements that you make custom domains to filter out. Google is doing A/B tests going to war with ads so it may be a bumpy few months.

>There is no contract with me at all. It is not theft.

Hence my wording:

>Indirect contract are those where there is no direct contract between parties but the law presumes that there is a contracts between the parties and such could be enforced.

>is preventing others from misappropriating my computing resources,

You chose to access their servers, I don't see how YouTube is "misapproiating your resources". You're basically getting a service and refusing to pay for it. That's theft.

It's like I said, I don't care if people still from a trillion dollar corporation. But people who really only think software can't be stolen really shouldn't be considered a software "engineer", as many here claim to be.

>in fact the US government recommends citizens use ad blockers. It's

1. The fbi is not the government. For good reason given their history.

2. Their context was for malware, not for getting around undesired ads for an otherwise "free" service.
I’m not looking for a job, but out of curiosity, I looked at their jobs page and saw that one of their benefits was two meals a day. Umm—I’d prefer not to work somewhere where I was eating two meals a day at the office.
I think they’re being a bit facetious, but the underlying point stands.

You need a DIY attitude. And not just a we renovated our bathroom DIY attitude you have to be really willing to dig into understand how and why this works and where it’s gonna not work correctly with your particular vehicle.

It’s already an expensive device that goes in an expensive vehicle driving on public roads where you can get cited tickets or possible liability if the thing really misbehaves and getting an accident with it.

I consider myself extremely DIY/hacker and this is one of the things that I’ve really struggled to get past the mental hurdles.
It doesn’t explicitly say insurers but it’s a pretty small logical leap from the wording (the timeframe is also c. 11th-12th century so could be before formal insurers)
you couldn't see yourself eating breakfast at 8 or 9 and lunch at 12-1 every day? two meals is a perk at my job and it's great.

one of my friends at another job with same benefit doesn't have kids so he goes to work at 11 and eats lunch and then stays for dinner too.
But it would have the advantage of working in a proven model, whereas flatpaks are notorious for causing breakage for so much that uses it.

I am OK with flatpaks in theory, but there are years-old bugs with flatpak permissions that simply aren't getting resolved. Something is off with the feedback loop.
Good old Isaiah Berlin.
I am not sure if I like the font or not, but I do like the corpus of text used to demonstrate the character rendering. At first glance, I thought it was Quenya or Sindarin, but I am not too sure.
> care about CO2 at all

They care about smog (or really the protests/health externalities), which is caring about CO2 by proxy, hence peaking coal by 2025 (end of 14th 5 year plan), and phasing/reducing coal starting 2026 (15th 5 year plan).
China imports nearly all its oil and most of its oil comes from the middle East. This means solar/wind/coal is preferable because it can be created locally. Oil can easily be stopped with a Naval blockade by either of USA/India/Philippines etc.
i took the leap and it's been more than I could have wished for. i don't have a ton of miles, maybe 10k miles but no issues. it's just level 2 driving which is better than anything OEMs offer.
Does anyone have experience applying these models to rendered content (PDF's, webpages, etc). Seems like a really promising area of research to achieve LLM agents.
Instantly Turn Any Webpage into an API
I've been working on a tool called InstantAPI.ai, designed to help developers quickly transform any webpage into a working API. It's particularly useful when you need to extract data from a web page or automate interactions with websites that don't offer their own APIs.

Here’s how it works:

1. HTML Fetching with ScrapingBee: We use ScrapingBee to fetch the HTML content from the target webpage. The tool handles dynamic content by rendering JavaScript, which ensures we get a fully loaded page.

2. Custom HTML Cleaning for Efficiency: After retrieving the HTML, InstantAPI.ai cleans the content internally to remove non-essential elements like scripts, styles, and metadata. This cleaning process not only helps to focus on relevant data but also increases both speed and cost/token efficiency when processing the content further.

3. OpenAI API for Structuring Data: The tool leverages OpenAI to interpret the cleaned HTML content and format it into a structured API response. It identifies the implied API method, processes any relevant parameters, and ensures the output aligns with the user's requirements.

4. Customizable Parameters: Users can specify details like API method names, response structure, and even the country code for web requests, offering a high degree of flexibility.

5. Built-in Error Handling: We've included error handling mechanisms to ensure reliable operation, making it robust for various use cases.

6. I also built a no-code solution which integrates the API through Google Sheets. This will be released over the next week.

The tool is built using a combination of custom functions and libraries to handle everything from sanitizing inputs to managing complex API interactions. One of the challenges we focused on was optimizing the processing speed and reducing costs, which we managed by refining our internal HTML cleaning process.

For those interested in seeing it in action, I've created a demo video: https://www.loom.com/share/9691221bb05347a298cc36b1bd8e0c8b?sid=2e5d70e6-ddbb-4f5f-9b84-3fab6963e885

I’d love to get feedback from the HN community, especially on how we can improve the tool’s accuracy and functionality.
my car keys cost $350 each
My holding pen would just end up overflowing with stuff.
Looks like this person is fake and got banned on Reddit.

Now trolling here

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1enuhw5/commen...
Something interesting that I think will come of this is that Google will no longer be able to pay companies like Apple for their default. The $20B a year they pay Apple accounts for about 20% of their net profit. I'm confident Apple will find just about exactly that amount in their books to replace that loss.

On a separate note, does this mean the end of Firefox? almost 100% of their revenue is from google paying to be the default. Will Microsoft pay anything close to that if they don't need to bid against Google for the space?
I have such a hard time relating to this in the same way I get deeply annoyed by sloppy code from coworkers. Any advice?
I've seen smallish, stiff cloth baskets with handles at Daiso that would be suitable
It's possible to manufacture stuff without emitting CO2, so what matters is who is in charge of the choice of how it gets manufactured, because that's who has to change it.
I think the users of these licenses would either have to have a CLA, or have the license explicitly name the company that gets the special rights to make commercial products from it. Otherwise contributors might be able to claim the company isn't complying with its own license.
A high density of "things that Hacker News people dislike" in a single comment - bold!

(FWIW I personally really like Cloudflare and think that a lot of their hate is unjustified. Warp is probably a good place for a new-to-programming person to start, but doesn't offer any functionality that makes me want to transition away from my already-customized shell)
Indian boundary spans multiple time zones, but the country only follows a single +530 offset (Asia/Kolkata, IST). Assam has been attempting to switch to DST, but it isn’t approved/in-use yet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_India
Yeah, therein lies the real problem, America doesn’t do it mostly because those with political influence don’t want to; everything else is face-saving excuses/Americans thinking they’re morally and culturally superior to everyone else despite getting our asses handed to us.

But I’m optimistic that if the federal government could wrest control away from (selfish) local governments and set a national agenda people can get behind, progress will happen. The CHIPS act demonstrated some amount of this, but it can go much farther, both into other industrial verticals but also in reversing dumb local NIMBY policies.

The USA can do this in a more fiscally responsible way than China did if they can get corruption under control. Anyway if there’s anything the USA has a lot of, it’s money.
FWIW I enjoyed your original comment :)
It is though, you can build AOSP without any of the Google Play store services and it will work just fine. Download some apps from F-droid and you will have a fully functional modern smartphone.
I'm running a LineageOS based ROM on the phone I'm typing this out on with no Google Apps or services installed. Newpipe for YouTube, Waze for maps, MicroG for open source implementatiom of Google Services APIs. Works great
1.2 billion and falling. For not the change in standard of living pushes consumption net positive, but I wonder about in 20 years or 30?
My coat is the only place for my keys so I can’t leave without them.
My approach is to have separate “take-off” points near the entrance/exit of each room.

Example: If I’m in my home office and find that some things need to go to the living room and some to the kitchen, I simply queue them to take off instead of taking a trip every time I realize an item needs to go. Then when I take a coffee break, I’ll grab all the items; drop the living-room items off on the way to the kitchen, and drop the kitchen items off when I arrive. I get my coffee; grab anything queued up on the kitchen take-off point that can be dropped off on the way, and drop them off on my way back.

As it works out, everything is almost always where it ought to be; and when it’s not, I know where it will be instead.

The key is that I always check the take-off point every time I leave a room.
Anyone know why this happened -> "Changes in the earth orbit around 18000 BC cause the ice caps to melt"
It's not the members of the nation state, it's the government. If one government is emitting more CO2 than any other, that government is the one that most needs to change policy because a policy change there is the place it would make the most difference.

Suppose there were only two countries in the world. One had 99.99% of the world's population and the other emitted twice as much CO2 per capita. Which one is most in need of changing if you want to make an impact on the problem?
back then I chose prism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Prism because the user wanted a local app and I only wanted to work with the most ubiquitous UI. was lightweight and wish it was still available
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest-running_script...

I think just like TV, very few creative endeavours can keep even fans entertained for more than single digit "seasons". Even the biggest pop stars can only keep their parasocial relationships lasting so long. People grow up along with creators, and sometimes creators stops being the kind of person you are invested in following at new stage of life. And like TV, production value of earlyTube is not great, very few worth revisiting, and most are filler "content" not worth remastering.
If this reflects a goal set in the 13th 5 year plan, I am pleased their intent is both stated publicly, and being achieved.

From the plan:

> Key objectives of China are to: Increase share of non-fossil energy in total primary energy consumption to 15% by 2020 and to 20% by 2030. Increase installed renewable power capacity to 680 GW by 2020. Increase installed wind capacity to 210 GW.

https://policy.asiapacificenergy.org/node/2837
yes, according to Google, that's the split. But you are relying on Google to correctly report the revenue and correctly report which videos it should be attributed to. How sure are we that Google is being honest with how they are handling things? They have been proven to be quite the liars in the past.
Ask HN: Internationalization Tooling?
I’ve been tinkering with an idea for internationalizing apps (my side project is inherently international so I’ll need to provide it in basically every language soon enough).

The sketch of the idea is that you provide repo access and directions to your internationalization dicts and some context to help translation. When you change the source language copy in a PR, the service runs some llm based translations and puts up a PR against your feature branch updating your target languages’ copy.

I haven’t run across anyone doing this yet and was curious if people were interested/what you’re doing now for apps with hard i18n requirements.
It's only 2x if you consider the annual emissions, but the CO2 stays in the atmosphere. If you consider cumulative CO2 emissions, the US was around 3 times as high as China (with data up to 2015)

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5...

But with more up-to-date data, it could be even 8x

https://goodlife.leeds.ac.uk/related-research/atmospheric-ap...

(Depending if you count cumulative emissions from 1960, earlier or later)
I can't see trying to get to work without a breakfast first. But having two lunches isn't the worst idea.
I applied this rule to tape measures, because I found I never had one when I needed one, e.g., out in the car. So my new rule became: if you can't easily find a tape measure when you need one, buy another one at your earliest convenience.

Now I have one in my work bag, at least one in the car, one in my main toolbox, a few hiding around other places in the garage, one in the kitchen, probably one upstairs, on in my desk drawer, etc.

No regrets. Life is better now.
Right.

The books and video scripts also differ amongst Burke's various series. I'll see if I can find a copy of the text to compare.
Also, charm's bubbletea framework if you use golang.

https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea
Sort of—the limits are separate by battery chemistry, but I don’t see any type of battery where TSA in the US allows for greater than 100 watt hours

Ex https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/whatcanibring/...

But also wet batteries in general, https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/whatcanibring/...
> Go’s String is a char* that behaves like a char[] when copied.

Uhh, no. A go string is (effectively) a pointer to an immutable string of characters. When you do a = b, both a and b point to the same string (i.e. each is its own string struct, containing a pointer to the exact same array of character data).

But if you try to get a byte[] from it, THEN it makes a copy.
I think it is not even arguable, haha. It clearly ignores correctness completely.