skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right. They throw away their documents, so EU countries have to document and fingerprint them again and also keep a database, preferably a shared one. Otherwise they just conveniently move from one country to another as there are close to no border checks in the Schengen area. Probably why Germany has reintroduced "temporary" border checks after the Solingen stabbing attack. Sweeden still has checks in place at the bridge to Denmark.
Another one here working with microservices and almost-hating it.

Also

> By starting with microservices you get everyone used to developing in separate small teams from the beginning, and having teams separated by service boundaries makes it much easier to scale up the development effort when you need to.

Nop, not for my team at least, most features require touching several microservices, so now you have either as many merge conflicts as edges (if one team is responsible for fixing what breaks in the other sides, yes, that happens) or need to have twice the meetings with twice the people to make sure each side is doing what the other expects.
just got through the credits for BiK; Urgant's father plays in it — small world.

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njHNHbK9jDI&t=75s

EDIT: well, the cops are obviously not Starovery; I was a little disappointed that Ivan Grozny (when with Shurik) was not obviously one.
If you're counting on this for a recovery, you're in for a bad time. Remember, the drop is quick, the recovery is slow as molasses. It's going to take so so so much more for things to turn around and I doubt we will ever see the 2020-2022 days of high salaries and full remote again. I hope and pray I'm wrong, but after nearly 20 years in tech, my gut says we are in for some hard times ahead.
>If you're bored, why not reach out and say hello to every one of them?

Because that's not how social media works and you know it. People want to connect with people they know either personally or via media.

The majority of Brazilian users aren't using it by choice.

Using social media shouldn't be some philanthropic effort, that's how you end up with the desktop Linux. Linux is successful because it made all those commercial Unix vendors obsolete, what does Blue Sky or any of these fediverse things have to offer other than a refugee camp? They don't have important users, therefore they havent made Twitter obsolete.
In my country any transactions are reported using sms. So implemented a system using Tasker to catch these sms and store it in a CSV file. This CSV file is put inside a folder which is synced using SyncThing to my desktop.

I had plan to process these data and add to an accounting system, but didn't get a chance, and then my mobile crashed and I lost the Tasker action. Now I'm not getting any motivation to implement it again
I remember Slashdot arguments from all the way back in 1998 about the Qt license--over 25 years ago! Kind of astonishing to realize that controversy around licensing has been with this company for most of my adult life. To the point where when I see "Qt" the first thing that comes to my mind is "License Tomfoolery."
The whole comment was about how much you love the Discover algorithm because it just shows you "nice things" but ok
Glad they're finally taking the mask off. Hope the IRS clawsback as much as they can
and it's definitely inferior to Qt. Sure, for 80% of things thy are mostly on par (provided you can bear the 90's look). But after that, there's a world between the two.
No, you can't. The article even says that Cloudflare provides WHOIS redaction.

But you would know that if you actually read the article.
Anecdotally I can name 2:

https://slint.dev/success/sksignet-evcharger#story

https://www.qt.io/blog/2015/12/15/ableton-push-qt-in-music-m...
Thanks. I understand your position much better now. Your examples of non-brute force are fair enough. But it begs the question. Is it even possible to build/create a self-learning system (that starts from scratch) without brute force? Like we can get a calculator to perform the algorithms for addition but how would we get one to learn how to add from scratch without brute force ? This isn't even about NNs vs GOFAI vs Biology. I mean, how do you control for a variable that is always part of the equation ?
Almost twenty years ago I worked on a project where an external unnamed “big four consultancy” had written a very long document titled “statement of works” that had about 130 pages.

It described a LOB application for a corporate customer in minute detail. Every form was described with the order of input elements, fonts and font sizes to be used, grouping of fields, you name it, it was there.

We just followed the instructions exactly and after 15 months we delivered the finished application.

These kinds of projects did exist but the specification and requirements phase was long and expensive.

However it required the client to take the time to understand their current business processes and more importantly what they should be and how they wanted them to work.

It was one of the most mundanely boring projects I ever worked on.
Big companies like Autodesk and Tesla are using the LGPL version of Qt without paying a cent to the Qt company.

It was a business mistake by the Nokia in 2009 to offer the non-commercial version of Qt as LGPL. They should just have continued using GPL.
Amazon CEO Vows Leaner Teams Amid Bloat, Ends Work from Home
Linus Torvalds muses about maintainer gray hairs and the next 'King of Linux'
I don't think this assertion stands on its own. There is more local corruption in the US than at the federal level for example. Way fewer eyes on your activities. Practically no one is going to notice you getting kickbacks for approving zoning changes for a business or other sorts of "low stakes" corruption.
Each transaction uses a tenth the energy of a credit card, confirmed in milliseconds. It's decentralized. It's secure. Isn't controlled by a shadowy entity working to hoard wealth and power backed up by military threat. Etc.

Why am I doing basic research for you?

These aren't "pie in the sky" "claims", they are statements of fact that can be verified by trying it out yourself. I already linked the docs if you want to know how it works, what the upcoming milestones are, what work has already been done, etc.

One example of a great use case is Nano-gpt(.com), where you can try the latest AI models straight away and pay by the question. The bottleneck here is your imagination.
En.wikipedia.org/wiki/constitutionalism
No one owes anyone else ideological consistency, so it's certainly possible Musk is just some dude musing on the world.

However, it's also possible that there are finite families of ideas in the world which all have similar flavors and consitencies, and when we have seen many of them we can start to draw conclusions both about their obvious and more nuanced features.

We might consider that no one really has a "cohesive philosophy" into which our thoughts congeal:

we might not need someone to write a manifesto in order to draw some reasonable conclusions about their thoughts.

And, further, when the conclusions we draw about those thoughts (less so about being-of-people, if you will, but about thoughts) are validated, we might take that as data for how well we are listening to what folks are saying.

In the case of Musk, since I had been exposed to a lot of ideas about technology in the 90s and 00s, what he has been saying over the last 15 years or so has seemed both very clear and, to my ears, very consistent. And very authoritarian and very anti-humanist.
> Scaling a monolith is almost always cheaper than migrating to microservices and scaling that.

No - it depends on capacity needs and current architecture.

> When you split it into microservices you are adding a bunch of infrastructure that did not need to exist.

Unless you need to scale in an economical manner.

> Your app performance will likely go way down since things that used to be function calls are now slow network API calls.

Not necessarily. Caching and shared storage are real strategies.

> Add to that container orchestration and all sorts of CNCF-approved things and the whole thing balloons.

k8s is __not__ required for microservice architectures.

> If you deploy this thing in a cloud, just networking costs alone will eat far more than your $20

Again, not necessarily. All major cloud providers have tools to mitigate this.

To clarify: I'm not a microservice fanboy, but so many here like to throw around blanket statements with baked in assumptions that are simply not true. Sometimes monos are the right way to go. Sometimes micros are the right way to go. As always, the real answer is "it depends".
Crypto's legacy is the globalization of the black market for consumers.

Thanks to crypto currencies, the average person can use a dark web marketplace with reasonable confidence to order illicit goods from all over the world, when previously they would be too worried about it being a scam or too worried about the transaction being traced by law enforcement.

The actual anonymity of cryptocurrencies is besides the point. What brought dark markets closer to consumers is the idea that it's anonymous and safe, and seeing their peers use them successfully.
dup?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41559051
One thing that popped into my head recently — Model weights aren’t perishable, but our brains are! That means the Lindy effect applies to AI but not to humans. That’s not a good sign for long term human dominance of the cognitive niche.
Same ish pattern for me on my Pixel Watch (2 mabye?) unless I forget there's plenty of time to keep it topped up for a day and change of use with just a quick charge in the mornings. There's plenty of time I don't need a watch on to give it a quick top up.
I was a paid wedding photographer in the 1990s, and I used a Rolleiflex TLR with 120 Roll film. I recently attended a friend's wedding, and took with me a Fuji GFX100 series camera, effortlessly shooting pictures I could never have taken with a Rollei from terrible angles at like 5x the resolution with far, far more dynamic range than 120 film ever had.

30 years after I gave up the Rollei, I'm not obsolete as a photographer, and when there's a quality diffusion model that could take a few of my photos from the event at 100 megapixels, and get prompted by me as to what I want to see out of them creatively, I will still not be obsolete, even as a photographer, but most certainly not obsolete as an artist. In fact, I'll have more tools available for my art, with new skills needed, and different workflows.

As to abandoning 3D art -- your call. If you love it, why not see how these new tools open up your art? If you don't love some of the new tools, no problem, don't use them. I still shoot medium format film some times. If you were planning on a long term creative career without staying on top of technical advances in your field, that has not been possible for at least a few centuries.
I keep reading comments like this, and it makes me feel terrible about the way Mac users are treated. I hope Apple reverses their stance towards Vulkan so your insecurity doesn't have to manifest as hatred towards superior solutions. Your comments in this thread obviously come from a frustrated perspective, but as a Linux gamer I also know they aren't true or important. Nothing you just said is a prerequisite for a successful gaming platform - Linux is living proof. DXVK and Proton make Bootcamp look like 90s technology by comparison (mostly because, it is).

I mean, shit. Who is buying a Mac for gaming when a Steam Deck costs half as much and plays better games? The simple fact at the end of the day is that Linux is a no-brainer for gaming, MacOS hasn't been a serious option since Quake II was sold in the big box at Walmart. Anyone that's tried gaming on both platforms knows the score. MacOS is the single worst desktop OS in terms of supporting games and creating an attractive and profitable platform for developers to ship to. Apple tried bluffing with their consumers as a collateral, and lost. It's time to get over it, 2024 is a sorry era to be butthurt over Metal's failure to entrench itself.
Is there a large enterprise that exists in 2024 that isn't currently building new software?
>Clause 11.3.2. The developers must also delete all installed copies of commercial Qt tools and Qt libraries. Qt customer can keep some developer licenses to continue the support of their End Customers. Bug fixing is OK. Adding new features is not OK.

Jeez I'd hate to be the engineer who has to explain in court that my change was a bug fix and not a feature improvement.

Why do people even buy QT Commercial? LGPL is a very easy license to comply with. Are there better tools for commercial users or something?
If that's the problem, you just say "this person had lax security" or "their computer was compromised." In the absence of real proof that will be the default expectation anyway.
> so you end up losing your best people to companies

Management probably thinks they don't need the best people anymore, as mediocre employees + ChatGPT (or whatever they use at Amazon) will suffice.
Can you go elaborate on this concept of baristacore? I'm guessing you mean something broader than Legends and Lattes?
> Hire leaders, not managers

Previous employer bought this line and was drowning in an excess of leadership. Turns out you do actually need good managers.
IETF 2029: The HTTP ASK Method

IETF 2034: The HTTP TELLME Method

IETF 2038: The HTTP WHATIF Method
So a POST with different semantics?
Out of curiosity, does your health plan have an HSA? After learning about these I decided that FSAs are a total rip off. Why would my money expire?
There's a funny workaround where mask parts don't require a subscription. The ones I've seen on Amazon are usually selling parts, perhaps a kit of parts, and not a complete mask.
wxWidgets is an abstraction of different presentation layers, QT is a presentation layer. They focus on completely different layers.
The largest barrier by far is actually starting the process to get a diagnosis. It's often a family member that notices and raises the alarm.

Note that you can be diagnosed with sleep apnea based on the home study alone, you don't always have to go to a sleep clinic. If you are really sure you have sleep apnea (and you can be pretty certain with a home sleep study + symptoms) you can just go online and get a prescription for free by talking to a doctor at one of the companies that resell CPAP machines. At least in the US, other countries can be more bureaucratic.
> Adze is universal. This means that Adze will "just work" in all of your environments

I'm not sure what this means. console.log is also universal (at least for the platforms mentioned), do you mean that client side logs are shipped to the server?
Tangential Qt rant:

After having worked with Qt (QML) on a daily basis (and quite in-depth, from using the scenegraph api to creating controls that with complex touch interfacing) I have to say I wouldn't pay a dime for the stuff you get with Qt. And even what they sell is almost never even close to worth it.

The underlying technology is pretty good, so the Qv4 engine, the OS-abstractions (sockets, networking etc) and so on. But all the library code ontop can be very hit or miss.

For example, they introduced new ways of handling touch events (DragHandler, TapHanderl, PinchHandler etc. etc.) which work GREAT! But they lack any way to stop propagation of events leading to them becoming utterly unusable if you have any custom "popup" things. There are also a lot of bugs with them which haven't gotten fixed in years even though they cannot be worked around. Paying for the product doesn't seem to even get you any further in that regard.

Using the open source Qt is the best option in my opinion, worst case you buy support sessions to adress specific problems but that's about it.
Gated development cycles were/are common, regardless of what you call them. If the target is not moving too fast, the process can work. If computer time is vastly more expensive than programmer time, working 'offline' writing/checking specs is time well-spent. If you take the standard SDLC steps, apply them to the smallest useful piece of functionality, replace written specs with automated tests, you get a single-piece flow model which strongly resembles agile practices (but says nothing about agile philosophy).
Ah ok, that makes sense. Over loopback, you can roundtrip Redis at least as fast as double-digit micros. Intra-DC, your network latency should be somewhere in the triple-digit micros. I'd say if you're not seeing that, something is probably wrong.
But at least some microservices architectures turn into macaroni - far too many small, isolated things, with no connection between them. It can have all the disadvantages of an overly-OO design, just at a larger scale.
I don't see why people lose their minds about the "tomfoolery". It's very clear what the Qt company wants, and how that's good for everyone. If you want to use Qt, you have to support the free software movement either directly (by making your code foss) or indirectly (by paying for the non-LGPL use and supporting Qt).
Same here. Made the money working for my home builder dad in the summer. I still have it - need to check if it still runs.
> Most of them play advertisements while you fuel up

I guess this must be a US thing. The only thing my gas pump shows is how much money I’m paying and that’s it.
I haven’t bought a new game for myself for years. Most of what I play is retro emulation, and what PC titles I do play are ones I already own and have a lot of replay value. Indie titles are far cooler than AAA, but even they don’t speak out to me as often. Why spend $60 on a flop like Hyenas, or even $20 on a game inspired by Harvest Moon, when I can actually play the original games for free? Especially on mobile, where most games are idle timewasters looking to lock me into a microtransaction loop. I‘d rather boot up a GBA game and spend my time on that.
No true Scotsman - Joe Biden is old, but plenty of young conservatives are far, far less likely to enact any progressive legislation. People age in lots of different ways, some people will face dementia in their 60s, others will be lucid into their 90s and beyond.
About time! Hopefully there's a path to immersive-ar support somewhere down the road.
Textbooks Are All You Need: Creation of Synthetic Textbook-Quality Datasets
I don't know of any broader essay about it. You you'll get per-country folklore if you ask specific communities. Probably some will chime in here.
One factor in the emphasis on role-playing is that "kill monsters and watch numbers go up while navigating a mostly linear narrative" is quite well addressed by video games... We go to the table to do things we can only do at the table.
Guess you never met sam altman
That's what I found too (minus the nose part).

It's low pressures that feel suffocating (because there isn't sufficient airflow). High pressure feels great... as a life long asthmatic it's the best I ever breathe.
> Can Apple do something about eliminating all these bureaucratic barriers that hurt the health of so many?

I sure hope so, because my experiences with sleep apnea made it seemed very quack-ish. I keep on hearing ads on the radio by a company called ADVENT with a catchy jingle promising that surgery is the solution to snoring. At the time I had my study (2013) I did not have an in-home test and had a sleep test (which was an awful experience). I was prescribed a Phillips CPAP machine and was very good about adhering to it and keeping up with regular doctor visits. During the 3 years I had it, I lost a significant amount of weight and each time my doctor re-programmed my CPAP SD card so it was a lower and lower setting. I always had very little face time with the doctor, I wish I knew about Sleepyhead earlier as I could have done this myself. The practice I was referred to would always try to sell me stuff like new masks, tubes, etc. when everything I had was in good condition and frequently cleaned. I even used distilled water in the CPAP itself. Eventually I went on a long vacation and didn't bring my machine and been off it since. I'm glad I did, it turns out Phillips was negligent about foam breaking down in their CPAP machines and even the replacement devices have this issue as well. At this point I don't know who to trust, and with something with Apple's name on it would give to some more legitimacy.
iOS 18 is available today
Then there’s also people opting to watch gaming streams or videos to experience a game, instead of playing themselves.
> Most sleep apnea is caused by weight issues after all.

Citation needed here. My understanding is that being overweight just narrows part of your airways and will make any existing flow restrictions worse. But given that most sleep apnea patients don't get off treatment even when they lose weight (although the severity may decrease), I'm pretty skeptical of this claim.
Same. I still check ~yearly https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25554912 to see if Robigalia is progressing (sadly it seems the website has casino spam on it now, cmrx64 in case you look for mentions) or someone else has taken up the mantle.

I haven't looked much further but some indication https://d3s.mff.cuni.cz/files/teaching/nswi161/martin-decky-... Huawei is doing interesting work.
This reminds me of a meme where there are two people shown side by side in a debate about euthanasia, the young dude is enthusiastically for, and the old dude against. The person who wrote this is quite obviously young and he thinks he will be able maintain his motivation to work indefinitely. That is not the case for most people in my observation. Sooner or later you'll want to down-shift at least, if not exit the rat race entirely, if you have such an option.
Yeah they've run shitty ads for years now.

And it seems like the one time they did face consequences for their fake ads four years ago clearly wasn't enough [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24761349
That's precisely why I got one.
What does your product/service do?

Ad tech

How did you develop and launch it?

New features for an existing product. Most of them were switched on globally when we launched them.

Which LLM(s) are you using (e.g. GPT-4, Claude, open source models)?

We started using language models before ChatGPT and friends came out. We built our models from scratch, and still use and update them.

What's your revenue model?

Saas

How much are you making (if you want to share, ballpark figures are fine)?

We don't charge extra for features that use ML, it's an implementation detail that our users don't care about. So, I am not sure what % of the whole they contribute to. Its not the majority.

What challenges have you faced?

"mlops" was a real challenge in the early days, and we built so many bespoke distributed systems to figure it out. Eventually we did, but finding the right balance between building a performant system and a system that doesn't explode in cost was tough. There is off the shelf things that do this these days, but they can be expensive.

Any advice for others looking to enter this space?

Solve problems customers are willing to pay for. Some of the features we have dreamed up have been total flops. Many of the features we have developed (ml or otherwise), while the add value for the customer and add to the moat, they aren't valuable enough that our users are willing to pay extra for it as a standalone product.
So people can change their viewpoints from their youth?
Well, they keep making the commercial license worse, so if Qt were GPL, companies would probably just use something else.
Treated sleep apnea is not a disqualifier.