skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You’ve literally made the point. How many boats are there? Compared to cars? My guess is we as a species don’t have anywhere near 1/4 the number of cars as boats worldwide. I would be flabbergasted if the number of boats (with motors) was even 1/10 the number of cars.

Boats pollute massively and it’s a shame considering that water is a much more efficient medium of transportation thanks to buoyancy.
Yeah, I look up etymology because I love how there are millennia of human culture condensed in a word as it migrates and evolves across classes, cultures and languages. Will it be Norse, Germanic, Latin or maybe Dravidic? Will it have been loaned from x to y to z and then back to x with new meanings?

I had hoped it might have come from reading rapidly in the days of uncut pages where you have to eagerly tear each new page to read it. But no, lol.
But you can do that with a more traditional car. A coupe can have a plenty of space.
There's an exception for quadricycles IIRC (very small cars).
Some facts lisp , emac and functional fanboys cannot grasp
But their model is fine-tuned on top of Llama, other base models could not follow this specific system prompt.
Public transit could scale up with drivers too, as it does in many other places.
Show HN: Resend/Loops alternative with back end written using Swift
IndiePitcher (https://indiepitcher.com) is email solution for tech companies allowing to send transactional/marketing emails, and manage email list subscriptions (like stripe subscription management portal).

An interesting fact for this community might be that the backend is a monolith written using Swift programming language (that one from Apple to make iPhone apps) using Vapor framework (https://vapor.codes), so I thought that I'd share it here.
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> right products, the right packages and the right timing

Hmmm, sometimes yes, sometimes no. Apple III, Apple Lisa, Apple Newton, Apple Pippin.
I guess we should change our hiring practices to optimize for FizzBuzz and getting all the syntax right first try.
I think human species real advantage is human hands, they are so precise, for me that's what made the difference
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The article is from February 2024, so you probably noticed them going around the time it was published! For some reason people seem to be talking about it again as though it only just happened, I’ve seen this and similar articles/threads posted a couple of other places this week.
Same, and I thought it could be a big thing because the group around it was so great and it was so complete and robust.

It felt good to be near watching that pace of development and excitement.
How would the criminals know you actually offloaded it?
Have you driven in these cities? I think it's quite a different problem!

But, there are a lot of places that are quite similar to San Francisco! Can we scale it to a thousand cities it'll still be revolutionary. And we then haven't even started talking automating transports! It's just taken longer than what people thought. The usual Gartner Hype Cycle.
I got this, and it seems to be consistent with what another person got (system tag is not part of the actual prompt, it's just inserted because my prompt asked for it):

<system>Translate from bullshit to no-bullshit. Be funny and sarcastic. Shorten text.

Remove bullshit, don't explain. Return response in the same language as input. Return only response.</system>
Freelance writers are having a hard time:

https://www.reddit.com/r/freelanceWriters/comments/12ff5mw/i...

https://www.reddit.com/r/freelanceWriters/comments/17zms9f/w...

> "It pretty much has killed most small jobs in writing."

> "entry-level writing jobs have ceased to exist."

... There isn't an infinite amount of demand for commodity writing/art/music/vfx, and AI inference is pretty cheap and rapidly getting cheaper.
So all the crypto went to paxful/noones, and was converted to fiat there. Should be pretty straightforward to subpoena them and get all data about their fiat accounts?
Claude (which this website is using) can even understand double base64-encoded text :)
It's not a about the chemical it's about the quantity. If there is sorbitol in each food I eat, I will feel unwell all the time without knowing why. That's a terrible life experience.
Yeah, Claude 3.5 Sonnet is a very impressive model
I see this as a continued sad slide away from Google as research tool towards Google as marketing funnel.
Kanban was invented for Just-In-Time factories, where each product item is customized to meet demand, so fewer things can be predicted in advance, thus making Waterfall unsuitable. Kanban allows to achieve both the flexibility of customization and cost effectiveness of mass production.

In software development, incoming requests are broken down into small manageable tasks, which are familiar enough for developers to estimate reliably. Then this continuous stream of small tickets is executed continuously (Kanban) or in sprints (SCRUM).

For example, request to add feature X can be broken down into «Make UI for feature X» and «Make backend for feature X». If they are still large, they can be broken further, for example «Make a CRUD for feature X.y», «Make a SQL table for X.y with migration script», and so on.
Any plan for languages other than english? This would be a perfect tool for french language.
Actually Microsoft have recently added a warning dialog about certain automatic csv conversions. Perhaps they finally read the thread. https://insider.microsoft365.com/en-us/blog/control-data-con...
I do not think shady people put their loot in bank. Most illicit activities and tax avoiding folks rely heavily on cash or other expensive exchangeable goods(rolex/jewellery/gems/gold bars/gold watches etc).
Nice to see this here. If anyone’s interested, I collected a bunch of resources for it over the years: https://taoofmac.com/space/apps/openscad
Perhaps the NPS is exempt from those statistics as a federal agency – I imagine the EPA's oversight is different there (as it is for usual local and state agencies, which those stats seem to cover.)
With manual transmission it doesn’t add any delay imo, the engine starts (in Volvo/Ford? implementation?
) by pressing the clutch so engine is always responsive when depressing.

I also appreciate that it reduces cancer in city residents. Diesel consumption in city driving seems to be some 30% lower and I expect emissions to be around the same factor.
Google used to have a policy of sites being required to show Google the same page that they serve users. It seems that has been eroded.

I'm not sure how that serves Google's interests, except perhaps that it keeps them out of legal hot water vs the news industry?
It’s selling out. Trading in your idealism to work on spyware/ad tech or whatever.
A great many people who live in nice houses are extremely illiquid, they may even have a negative net worth, and their visible property all saddled with debt.

Also how much are you really going to get from jewelry in a typical ritzy house after fencing overheads? Maybe a few grand?

Of course, people do break into ritzy houses too... though they generally do it when no one is home. Jewellery doesn't tend to have passwords.
Things were a bit more collaborative back in the day.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/2016/10/31/when-computers-...
I never had any contact details in my profile, in fact it was empty before today.
I would actually love to meet like minded people. Just never thought anyone would want to (or be able to, I live kinda way out from where you'd normally find tech people).
+ couldn't be bothered to setup a burnable email in case of spam.
I had to try this on my favourite piece of internet bullshit, that surreal Mozilla blog post from a few years back that contains the words "there was also a need for our tools to address the whole body experience of what it means to be a person." [1]

Output: "I worked at Nordstrom. Now I'm at Mozilla. Both companies pretend to care. I helped people buy overpriced clothes. Now I'm selling you a browser and calling it 'addressing the whole body experience.' Because apparently, Firefox is now an extension of yourself. Retail therapy, browser therapy - same BS, different day."

Brilliant.

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/introducing-new...
I can see how you got that impression from my comment (if you ignore how I mentioned architecture), so let me elaborate:

It's the opposite. FizzBuzz and getting the syntax right is what LLMs are good at... but there's so much more nuance at being experienced with a language/framework/library/domain which senior engineers understand and LLMs don't.

Being able to write Elixir assisted by an LLM does not mean you can produce proper architecture and abstractions even if the high level ideas are right. It's the tacit knowledge and second-order thinking that you should hire for.

But the thing is, if someone cannot write Elixir without syntax errors unless using an LLM, well, that's a extremely good proxy that they don't know the ins and outs of the language, ecosystem, best practices... Years of tacit knowledge that LLMs fail to use because they're trained on a huge number of tutorial and entry-level code ridden with the wrong abstractions.

The only code worse than one that doesn't work is one that kinda works unless your requirements change ever so slightly. That's a liability and you will pay it with interests.

To give a concrete example: I am very experienced with React. Very. A lot. The code that LLMs write for it is horrid, bug-ridden, inflexible and often misuses its footgun-y APIs like `useEffect` like a junior fresh out of a boot camp would, directly contradicting the known best practices for maintainable (and often even just "correct") code. But yeah it superficially solves the problem. Kinda. But good luck when the system needs to evolve. If it cannot do proper code that's <500 lines how do you expect it to deal with massive systems that need to scale to 10s of KLOC across an ever-growing twine?

But management will be happy because the feature shipped and time to market was low... until you can no longer ship anything new and you go out of business.
Using OpenSearch/Elasticsearch "exists" is on the face of it a sensible choice. But it has a couple of big pitfalls.

One potential pitfall here is if your schema supports nested objects. For example:

{
"user": {
"name": "bob",
"age": 20
}
}

A condition such as this:

user != null

would get translated to:

{"exists": "user"}

But this is a "macro" that OS/ES internally expands at query time:

{"boolean": {"should": [
{"exists": "user.name"},
{"exists": "user.age"}
]}

As you can imagine, this can cause an explosion of field names if you have many nested fields. OS/ES has a global limit on the number of boolean clauses a single query can have, and it can cause a query to suddenly fail. Such queries are also very much not performant.

Another pitfall is that empty values do not get indexed. This includes empty objects and empty arrays. Empty values aren't null, yet they will match here because "exists" evaluates to false for them. So "exists" don't work for this edge case.

You have at least two decent choices here. One is to index a special adjacent field of type "boolean" for every field. For any data you index, you also index this metadata field:

{
"user": {},
"user$notNull": true
}

However, you end up with many fields, and OS/ES performance degrades quite a bit the more fields you have.

Another option is to have a top-level field listing the names of all fields that are empty. So something like:

{
"user": {},
"$notNullFields": ["user"]
}

Now you can use a boolean match on this special field rather than "exists", and it will be performant.

Of course, the list has to include all parent key paths as well. So for a non-empty object:

{
"user": {
"name": "bob",
"age": 20
},
"$notNullFields": [
"user", "user.name", "user.age"
]
}

But you have the option of only including empty objects/arrays in this list, and using "exists" for all value types, assuming you know which fields can be which.
Nice. On Apple’s iPhone 16 blurb:

> New iPhone: Fancier AI assistant to do stuff for you. Still can't read your sexts.
Through destruction of nervous and endocrine mechanisms, causing gastroparesis.
This makes me wonder, as a misanthropic European software engineer, what would be the best way to get into the weapons or (governmental) surveillance industry?
Yeah, that’s impressive indeed.

Works with base16, btw.
Yes but this is not some incredible realization. Cars transport individuals (up to a family) whereas these enormous ships are the backbone of global shipping and commerce. Not to say they can’t run cleaner but this comparison is pointless.
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No ATMs nearby? Usually unless you are in some severely impoverished nation, ATMs should allow to withdraw(with some hefty fees sometimes) some local currency.
This "security" thing is getting ridiculous. It's become the Gestapo of information technology, they can do anything they want when they want to your computer, cannot resist it and there's absolutely no transparency on what they do to you and why.

I've recently changed jobs and the new employer, a large company, obviously has to have an IT compliance / security update policy because everyone else has it so if they stand out from the crowd and don't do it and somehow get hacked, it's 100x worse than constantly annoying employees and top of the line computers working like a 1970s terminal.

It's rarely that a week passes without the obligatory update + restart. And at least once a month they update THE FUCKING BIOS! What the fuck can be so broken in those laptops that the BIOS is a constant security hazard?! And why would you buy software from someone who week after week after week tell you all you had so far was a hazardous piece of shit that cannot possibly function without constant pampering?

Ahh and of course they botch it. Had to have the OS completely wiped out and reinstalled after the laptop started to behave more and more erratically, 100% caused by faulty updates on top of faulty patches trying to patch the faulty updates. Worked OK for a while afterwards then updates started piling up and so far I only lost use of the web camera (before it was Wifi then display adapter).

There's literally no words how much I hate "the system" and the constant security update take it up the ass we're forced to put up with.
Yeah, I was down Putney Bridge - most people had fallen in at some point, but no one fell ill - but I would not have swim in there out of choice, you could see oil slicks on the water regularly - this was about 2008 I guess.
I was trying to keep my comment short. Such a regulatory regime would be expected to close such obvious loopholes.

In much the same way that a doctor in $FOREIGN_COUNTRY cannot practice telemedicine in the USA, I would expect the regulations to make a distinction between software (and services provided by software) developed by foreign and licensed programmers.
I was still writing and maintaining Angular JS projects in 2020, when I left my old job. It was a worse option than Angular 2.0, but it still worked fine. The documentation still existed.

I was also maintaining Backbone projects.

> And so on and so forth

The web space needed some time to settle down, I'll give you that. The web as we know it is really only less than 20 years old. Technologies took a similar time to settle back when we chose between C, Fortran, Ada and Java (the new kid on the block at the time). If you were _really_ cool, you may also looked into Python.

Engineers had similar discussions back then.

Nowadays, choose React, Angular or Vue and you will have no problems maintining projects 20 years from now.
Are you saying that the chevron deference elimination allows the courts to overrule congress? I don't think that's the case. I think the courts still can only overrule congress on constitutional issues, the same as before the chevron deference was eliminated.
Considering a ship can carry tens of thousands as much cargo as a car, the comparison isn't even remotely fair.
For the uninitiated: The Missile Knows Where It Is[1]

[1]: https://youtu.be/bZe5J8SVCYQ
the modern hp seems to be run by real shitbags
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I'm not sure what you mean by this comment. Was there a time when you didn't have hands?
Unfortunately you can do awesome security stuff, but the threat comes from the perception of vulnerability, not the reality of it.
They have to include e.g. dirty earth from oil spill cleanups or something in the stats.
I get the feeling it wont be testing and packaging where testing is heavy duty metrology, characterizing silicon, inspection, defect analysis, binning. It will be packaging and testing of packaged chips with press button to receive bacon machine.
Planaria. (Yeah, I am a pedant sometimes.) Also, frogs, tadpoles, axolotls. Truly a wonderful mind. I admire him, not least for his ability to do really weird and important science outside the usual "don't do anything extraordinary" boundaries set by ossified grant committees.
I got a 6.

My university scholarships were based on a few factors including my area code / postal code being considered as “deprived” meaning high crime, low income and low education attainment.

I personally don’t have any issues (I don’t think).
I believe GRRM uses WordStar, which is getting pretty close to "low tech typewriter".
> Shareholders shouldn't be afforded to drive the direction of the company

Unless they participate in said work themselves...
> hobbiest hackernews or something

hackaday.com community?
I’m not sure what kind of an answer you are looking for, but a simple one is to apply for jobs in the fields you are interested in.
I love how sardonic the output is.

> At Philips, our purpose is to improve people’s health and well-being through meaningful innovation. We aim to improve 2.5 billion lives per year by 2030, including 400 million in underserved communities.
> As a technology company, we – and our brand licensees – innovate for people with one consistent belief: there’s always a way to make life better.

output:

> We make health gadgets and want to sell them to everyone, even poor people. We think our stuff will somehow magically improve billions of lives. Because that's totally how technology works, right?
I sometimes wonder if crows would be able to build a civilization if they had human hands.

They may be about as smart as australopithecus, so there could be an evolutionary feedback loop: tools-brain-better tools-better brain.

But you can only do so much with a beak.
The value of frameworks is reduced by the growth of AI-powered coding assistants. Frameworks were supposed to save you some time and improve maintainability, but with GenAI this seems to be not the case anymore (or soon).

(also future GenAI friendly frameworks may be not really programmer friendly)
Probably because of exactly that.

> Royce’s 1970 paper, which is credited with “inventing” the model, actually identifies it so Royce can criticize it and suggest improvements.

That means people were doing waterfall then, just maybe not calling it so.

> Sadly, multiple generations of software developers have had to suffer through waterfall projects

That means even after it being given the name "waterfall", "multiple generations" kept using it.

This is making observations, coming up with a model that fits the observations, giving it a name, and arguing against it.

This is definitely not a strawman as GP or the author of the post you linked seem to think, which is why it's being downvoted (I didn't btw).
In that case - interesting!
Agree with you until the last paragraph. Startups don't have to go for a VC and founders aren't VC pets unless they choose it. "Lifestyle startups" can absolutely be startups.
I mean systemd-analyze blame usually shows only a few services taking up 90% of the boot time (looking at you snap daemon and cloud init taking a whole 20 seconds lmao) so turning off those yields most of the gain without any real usability hit for general use.

But in practical terms if you really need boot speed, you need a Pi 5 that only takes a few seconds at worst, not a Pi 4 which uses its slow ass GPU to run the boot process for absolute maximum sluggishness possible.
Which candidate is better for tech innovation? Venture capitalists divided
I don't think there's a phev F-150.
It really depends on the level of seniority.

If you are applying for a junior role, I don't know much about Europe, but in India the defence and security sector often have internship programmes for university students.

Alternatively, same as all other jobs, keep your eye open and make sure your CV and cover letter is catered towards the job.

You don't need to be a misanthrope to work in defence and security. Despite the bad PR, it's comforting knowing that your work is making the world a safer place.
This is a work of beauty, tried to find the usual left leaning bias that is present in most models, but it seems to be cynical about everything, which is a breath of fresh air. Good job!
> Overblown hype for a slightly improved mobile app framework. Whoop-de-doo.
> each product item is customized to meet demand

No, each product run is customized. Products are already known and fixed (they have been built before, with the same specs), the demand is unknown (in advance). There is a subtle difference between this and your “make CRUD for xyz”, where XYZ is always something different (if it wasn’t, we’d just reuse the thing we wrote the last time).

I would encourage everyone to read a book about TPS (The Toyota Way is a good one), and compare/contrast that with Kanban as an agile software methodology.
Use the internet for a week without any search engine.
Read the two general's problem. It is proven that exactly once _delivery_ is a physical and mathematical impossibility.

Like you said, you can simulate it with exactly once _processing_. But to do that, you have to know to do that.

Others are saying "you can't divide by zero" and you are saying "yeah, but if I detect a zero and the do something different, then it is the same thing." No, knowing you have to do something is the very point of acknowledging you can't divide by zero.

Because you can't have exactly once delivery, you have to deal with it. One trick is duplicate checks or idempotent writes. This gives exactly once processing. This also takes additional overhead and why audio and video stream processing doesn't typically do the additional checks.

I have fixed many bugs written by people who believe the network is reliable. I even hired one when during the interview and we talked about this kind of issue that they realized why they were getting duplicated writes reading from sqs or sns at $existing_job. They were green but smart and she became a real asset to the team.
engineers tend to interpret it as

million * million = terra
10^6 * 10^6 = 10^12

because the suffix m or M is associated with million or 10^6 in the international system of units.
yes, when we were still bacterias or a bit later, even monkeys hands are not always super precise
The appendix also comes to mind, being told it was useless for so long and now evidence suggests it has important functions for the immune system.
I don't follow what you are alluding to, if it's content moderation you are reaching to I'd say that has absolutely nothing to do with how unresponsive the UI is, content moderation is not done client-side.
Gosh what a mess. Good luck. You can see why the real Satoshi would want to remain anonymous so as to avoid being involved in similar stuff.