skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I’ve pushed some trash tier code over the years because it worked just well enough to drive growth/revenue

With all respect, this summarizes everything I’ve come to hate about our industry over the years.

I understand why this happens, and I’ve also been the person churning out crappy code at points in my career. But I think it also highlights how backwards the incentives have become, and we’re constantly seeing the real world impact playing out as the next zero day, the next botnet, the next Boeing scandal, etc.

I’m not saying there’s never a place for bad-but-working code, but I’m increasingly convinced it never belongs in customer facing products, and that we have a major task ahead of us collectively to correct the mindset behind this and fix the incentive structure that enables this.

Software runs the world now, and a frighteningly large number of software companies do not take their position of power seriously.
Wow. I think sometimes you just don't know how things are going to turn out until you use something "in anger", as they say here in the UK. "Let's try using this fancy type-checker in a production language" is reasonable. "Let's overload + so you can combine things easily" is reasonable. "Let's allow you to express different kinds of types as a string" sounds pretty cool too. How could you know the combination of all of those would change a simple expression with an invalid type in it into a 42-second compile time with a cryptic error message, except by actually doing it?

EDIT: Meanwhile, over here in go-land, I just got annoyed that adding a new external authorization library took the average compile time of my 20k project from 7s to 9s.
Once you provide value, you have a product.

The higher the price, the more you filter out price sensitive customers. That's a good thing because price sensitive customers have the same demands as price insensitive customers, but leave you with less money to service those demands.

The higher the price, the more likely customers are to partner with you.

Features are over-rated to the degree the Unix philosophy is appropriate. The Unix philosophy is appropriate more often than not. You can deliver a more reliable product and higher levels of service the fewer features you have to support because fewer features means fewer misunderstandings about how your product works and what it will do.

Good luck.
A former colleague of mine had a good way to describe it: technical debt is like financial debt, too much will kill you but if you don’t have any you will be outgunned by those that do.

The trick is how to manage tech debt properly, and the widespread scrum fake-agile in use provides no means for ever tackling tech debt once taken on. This is one reason for the explosion in SRE teams.
> and some of the most popular extensions are only available with VSCode, not with Codium

Which is an artificial restriction from MS that's really easily bypassed.

Personally I don't care whether the telemetry is identifiable. I just don't want it.
When I took omega-3 in addition to duloxetine, I got terrible brain zaps the whole day.
k9s is easily my favourite k8s util
Edit: I just found this. I'll give it a try today: https://github.com/0ssamaak0/SiriLLama

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Open WebUI has a voice chat but the voices are not great. I'm sure they'd love a PR that integrates StyleTTS2.

You can give it a Serper API Key and it will search the web to use as context. It connects to ollama running on a linux box with a $300 RTX 3060 with 12GB of VRAM. The 4bit quant of Llama 3.1 8B takes up a bit more than 6GB of VRAM which means it can run embedding models and STT on the card at the same time.

12GB is the minimum I'd recommend for running quantized models. The RTX 4070 Ti Super is 3x the cost but 7 times "faster" on matmuls.

The AMD cards do inference OK but they are a constant source of frustration when trying to do anything else. I bought one and tried for 3 months before selling it. It's not worth the effort.

I don't have any interest in allowing it to run shortcuts. Open WebUI has pipelines for integrating function calling. HomeAssistant has some integrations if that's the kind of thing you are thinking about.
I spent ages looking at this painting, and I still can't find commander vimes.
With 64GB can you run the 70B size llama models well?
Not really. I run ollama on an AMD Radeon Pro and it works great.

For tooling to train models it's a bit more difficult but inference works great on AMD.

My CPU is an AMD Ryzen and the OS Linux. No problem.

I use OpenWebUI as frontend and it's great. I use it for everything that people use GPT for.
Yes, please leave it alone. Nothing prompts me to leave a service I've been with for a long time than a UX "refresh" after I had years of experience and setting everything the way I liked it.
Yep, what works for one may not work for others. Some people find L-theanine supplement helpful for reducing anxiety. For me it kind of worked, but then gave bad anxiety as a withdrawal symptom.
How did we live like animals in the dark era before such innovative financial products?
The moving-data-around cost is conventional wisdom in GP-GPU circles.

Is it changing though? Not only do PCIe interfaces keep doubling in performance, but CPU-GPU memory coherence is a thing.

I guess it depends on your target: 8x H100s across a PCIe bridge is going to have quite different costs vs an APU (which have gotten to be quite powerful, not even mentioning MI300a)
Yeah, the data managed by cupy generally stays on the GPU and you can control when you get it out pretty straightforwardly. It’s great if most of your work happens in a small number of standard operations. Like matrix operations or Fourier transforms, the sort of thing that cupy will provide for you. You can get custom kernels running through cupy but at some point it’s easier to just write c/c++.
The 2nd generation of starlink satellites is worse than the first one: they leak radio spectrum energy at a massively higher level than the 1st generation.

Why have sympathy for anyone trying to do something stupid? Why do we need autonomous taxis? What problem is this solving, other than helping the already richer get a bit richer?
Chipmaker Qualcomm Is Said to Explore Takeover of Intel
who/what can only charge from a 20A circuit?
To be candid, I couldn't think of a polite way to say you'd have to be credulous to believe that's what the quote was about, and irresponsible not to double-check before posting about it.
From my understanding, the part that triggers the addiction is the possibility of winning money, so removing that seems to remove entirely the incentive.
Doesn't he have kids?
Well this was my experience...

User: Hey, how are you?
Llama: [object Object]

It's funny but I don't think I did anything wrong?
It's at the end of the article in one of those "card" links.

https://gitlab.com/leogermond/python-dbc
I remember these things called taxis. But I'm an old, and I think they've been replaced by something called "Ubers" and "Lyfts". But don't mind me ...
This is a big reason why I switched over to credit cards. I don't throw away my coins, but they end up in a plastic container somewhere.
China specific. So not really mass market. Though I am glad to see that there are cars entering the market with sodium ion batteries. That does give me hope for the long term future of EV.
> creating power in the compression phase

Other than the potential energy of either the heat or the compressed gas, what "power" is created in the compression phase of a normal four stroke ICE?
> I'm young enough that smartphones were just hitting the market when I was in high school, but old enough that using your phone in class was still totally verboten.

When you were in high school, none of your teachers had grown up with smartphones. Today, many have, maybe even a majority depending on the teacher demographics at a particular school.

Not saying this is the entire explanation, or exactly what it might explain, but it seems likely to at least be related somehow.
This might be hard for you to believe but some people actually want their work to be more than just an exchange of their time for money.
True but try to find a 96GB GPU.
Turns out that 10 million Brazilians flocking into BlueSky is an argument much more solid than any "free speech" bullshit that Elon posts.

In case anyone believes this is about "free speech": the jurisprudence for the Brazilian Supreme Court decision is American, in fact. It is a doctrine known as "clear and present danger" and was established by the SCOTUS in 1919, by Oliver Wendel Holmes Jr in "Schenk vs. United States"[1]. The U.S. Supreme Court already applied it a couple of times.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/clear_and_present_danger
Their numerical results with GPUs, compared to Gurobi, are quite impressive [1]. In my opinion (unless I'm missing something), the key benefits of their algorithms lie in the ability to leverage GPUs and the fact that there’s no need to store factorization in memory. However, if the goal is to solve a small problem on a CPU that fits comfortably in memory, there may be no need to use this approach.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.12180
Visual Studio Code August 2024
Bay Area food bank move blocked by lawsuit citing 'historic parking lot'
When I visited I think I spent more time looking at the architecture of the building than the collections. It's very nice. Similar story with the Louvre I suppose - I never went in, but enjoyed walking past the pyramid exterior in the evening
Life is too short to be left with regrets, and such adventures are easier done when younger for many reasons.

That being said, please manage your expectations, what was a wonderful profound experience for me may end up being a very different one for you. The best is to go there 1) physically prepared for long hikes with some backpack (not heavy but not just daily pack neither); 2) have your mind open to handle everything that comes your way as part of adventure, both good and bad.

Plus careful with hygiene, mostly using hands sanitizer before touching any food, eating just freshly cooked meals. Some folks I know ended up with subpar experience due to catching nasty stomach infection which made it too hard to enjoy it. Using consistently hand sanitizer before any meal may be common stuff now but in 2008 I raised some eyebrows. But 3 months of backpacking in India and this and no stomach issue with such approach, that's pretty rare.
Music Meets Smart Contracts
Minecraft Revenge but Its Played with Kazoos [video]
Unsupported Operating System Detected

This is a waste of your time and my time. People have more than one computer.

Please switch to a compatible operating system to continue.

This is just plain irritating. I can click on the link below it and go here on my Windows machine and on my phone: https://phx.tools/linux

Phx.tools is a shell script for Linux and macOS that configures the development environment for you in a few easy steps. Once you finish running the script, you'll be able to start the database server, create a new Phoenix application, and launch the server.

is all you need to say.

Good luck.
More from the official docs: https://docs.python.org/3/reference/simple_stmts.html#index-...
that ship sailed 13 years ago dude.
How is it bypassed?
I'm interested, but I can't find any documentation for it. Can I give it local content (documents, spreadsheets, code, etc.) and ask questions?
Maybe the Franks, according to one Roman author:

> they had a small body of cavalry about their leader, and these were the only ones armed with spears, while all the rest were foot soldiers having neither bows nor spears, but each man carried a sword and shield and one axe. Now the iron head of this weapon was thick and exceedingly sharp on both sides, while the wooden handle was very short. And they are accustomed always to throw these axes at a signal in the first charge and thus to shatter the shields of the enemy and kill the men.

But this is probably wrong.
Show HN: GeoGuessr in Real Life [video]
Hyperloop Company Has Successfully Propelled a Vessel Through a Tube
I think your last sentence is it: those track for American vehicles. Longer driving distances, worse road conditions, and people buy unnecessarily large SUVs/trucks so most parts are 30-50% more expensive.
People need to learn because resources are scarce, so we can't keep up using big buildings for less than 12h/day, to move between them, just to consume services (from collective transport to ready made food, wasting money in fast fashion, fast tech status symbols (like wearable smart devices) in the meantime only to get exposed to physical ads (from shop windows to maxi-screens). Long story short we can't keep up the office as we can't keep up the paper model behind the office.

You find the experience as a hit and miss because most companies and most people as well are not really ready to WFH, so the paradigm they follow it's dysfunctional. Zoom and Slack are good example of this dysfunctionality: chats are somewhat good in certain context to quickly ping someone, to pass a link, nothing more, chatrooms and co are waste of time from another era where VoIP was not possible for mere bandwidth availability. Video is almost never needed, screen sharing it's often needed, ability to sketch quickly is often needed and actually we do not have that much good tools for that but most people do not even realize they use bad tools and paradigm because they can't organize themselves for effective remote work.

Even if individually we might find a good way to work until the entire company have found a way anything is hard.
Concord didn't even sell enough for "people aren't buying it because it's woke" to be plausible lmao
Anything supported by openstreetmap should work now.

I tested with 船橋市 and it finds "Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture, Japan".
But you can also type "Funabashi" or "Funabasi" and results will still show up.

If something is still off, please don't hesitate to send a feedback on meet.hn/feedback
seriously, how do you smell yourself? People who have BO don't even know they have it until somebody tells them.
If the monthly payment pays for the device in full, what's the problem with a customer ending the service contract while continuing the monthly payments?

If the monthly payment doesn't pay for it in full, why not just make the monthly device payments $n more, and the cellular service payments $n less? That way you don't need to worry if the service plan is cancelled, because the device payments would still be due (or a lump sum payment would be due).
Random trivia about Ramses 2 (from memory, might be wrong): died at the age of 90, his 14th or something son inherited at the age of 70.
There's a whitelist identifier that you can add bundle IDs to, to get access to the more sensitive APIs. Then you can download the extension file and install it manually. I don't have the exact process right now but just Google it :)
Processed fish products are a bit different from a large chunk of a single fish, in terms of the promises that can be made.

The problem with large, wild-caught fish, is that different fish are going to be living in slightly-different regions, or migrating through given regions at slightly-different times, and so eating different things; and so will have more or less of any given nutrient coming from those things in their bodies.

If you're catching large swarms/schools of fish, all the fish in a given school will be mostly identical in their nutritional content. And so, if you're doing some bulk operation like canning or drying, and you're doing it on fish that swarm/school and get caught as whole swarms/schools (such as sardine or mackerel) — then, for each catch delivered to your plant by a fishing vessel, you can take a few samples from that catch to get a sense of the average micronutrient values of that catch; and then you can store these catches separately, titrating together the different catches into each processed mixture, to achieve the a steady nutritional value in the result. (This is roughly the same thing that e.g. orange juice companies do with the truckloads of oranges they buy to achieve a consistent output juice product.)

But if you're just buying e.g. one salmon, then it came through an entirely different logistics pipeline to get to you — either an "independent" one where a small-time fisherman sold some fish directly to a local fishmonger, who then sold it directly to a local grocer, a few fish at a time; or a "big chain" one where a stream of flash-frozen fish from fishing vessels is being just-in-time streamed out to various grocery stores. (This lack of a fan-in processing step for raw large fish is also why grocers end up with so much mislabelled fish; the guy who works at a fish processing plant near the fishery will recognize all the fish that fishery tends to pull out of the water; but there's no similar expert in the meat department of a random grocery store in Idaho — in fact, that person might not even know which fishery the fish they're receiving came from!)
>In the lawsuit, Hickman and Sheehan argue that the warehouse would destroy a portion of “an in-use, historic parking lot” and called the proposed 35-foot tall prefabricated building “historically-offensive.” They said the city violated CEQA laws by not analyzing the project for its impacts on “noise, historic resources, water and quality, impacts to adjacent uses, traffic, and safety.” Hickman has also argued in public testimony that the food bank would be better off at a different location “down the road.”

Also see "Community Input Is Bad, Actually" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/04/local-gove...
No, because you probably haven’t bothered to find said CVE. There’s a strange refusal to understand the simplest market considerations here. I understand it sucks and you may not be able to afford it, but the consequence, regardless of all the reasons you can give, is that you will get less of the right kind of attention (security researchers). Now, you can hope that you will also get less of the wrong kind of attention too, and if you’re lucky all of these will scale together. Or, alternatively, you can for example not start by introducing features like Boosts that have a higher probability of adding security vulnerabilities, counter-acting the initial benefit of riding in Chrome’s security by using the same engine. Browsers are particularly sensitive products. It’s a tough space because you’re asking users to live their life in there. In theory using Chromium as a base should be a good hack to be able to do this while plausibly offering comparable security to the well established players.

Long story short, there are ways to creatively solve this problem, or avoid it, but simply exclaiming “well it would be too hard to do the necessary thing” is probably not a good solution.
Jumperless V5 is launching September 23rd [video]
it's always popular to blame the corporations when the end users fund these corporations
Pumping losses are greater in a Otto cycle engine due to the increased resistance in compressing the whole stroke. In an Atkinson-cycle you get a longer power stoke than compression stroke and thus are more efficient. There is always another cylinder that get does i take during the short time when valve is open during compression in another cylinder. Thus that cylinder get some free assistance during intake.
when your ellipsis elides whole sentences and glues together phrases that weren’t tied together in text, that’s bad faith
By what metric has VW failed? It's second largest car manufacturer in the world. Similarly, Intel has 80% of global x86 CPUs market share.
And it wasn't Earl Tupper who did the marketing. It was a woman (of course I now forget her name), who invented the Tupperware Party and was basically the face of the company for many many years. She was then fired by Tupper and basically erased from the company's history until recently. There's a good documentary on it, very interesting.
Both are in their early stages:

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/ai

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/AppIntents/Integra...
I don’t think this will make any difference—SIM unlocking is totally separate from phone firmware
10 million Brazilians flocking away from Twitter into BlueSky is an argument that even Elon can understand.

In case anyone believes this is about "free speech": the jurisprudence for the Brazilian Supreme Court decision is American, in fact. It is a doctrine known as "clear and present danger" and was established by the SCOTUS in 1919, by Oliver Wendel Holmes Jr in "Schenk vs. United States"[1].

The U.S. Supreme Court already applied it a couple of times.

De Moraes argued (correctly, IMO) that Musk's non-compliance was a "clear and present danger" to Brazilian democracy.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/clear_and_present_danger
DHA and EPA have distinct roles in the body.

Both are necessary for most people, especially for males and for older people, because the inter-conversions between the various omega-3 fatty acids are done inefficiently by humans.

The other omega-3 fatty acids do not have known functions, except as sources of DHA and EPA, after an enzymatic conversion.
I can't think of a UI/UX iteration in the last 10+ years that felt like an upgrade.

Reddit, Gmail, Twitter, Windows, Android, touch screens replacing actual buttons, etc. they all used to be better but big companies seemingly can't help themselves from making their product worse.
> he’s still legally beholden to investors

Unless you have seen the contracts signed you can't know that. Xitter is no longer a public company and as a private company has absolutely no such requirement.

While Burwell v. Hobby Lobby might be controversial it is still remarkable coming from such a high court to include this:

> While it is certainly true that a central objective of for-profit corporations is to make money, modern corporate law does not require for-profit corporations to pursue profit at the expense of everything else, and many do not do so.
I was recently looking at keydb due to the licensing move and well I also liked the fact that the data can be encrypted at rest, but it looks like there hasn't been any activity on the repo in 5 months, anyone familiar with it or have good alternatives there?
Albania Plans to Create a Muslim State in Tirana as Symbol of Tolerance
> anti-“imperialist west” (cough cough America) sentiment

There's a difference between fringe rhetoric and actions.

The only countries more pro-American than Brazil in polls are America and India [0], and ironically, the Anti-American rate is higher in America than in Brazil (where there's a large neutral/indifferent cohort in polls). In general, pro-American sentiment is somewhere between 63-73% in Brazil [0][1]

Most political "anti-American" rhetoric in Brazil is due to agrarian protectionism - the same as India - as regional BigAg are major political player in both countries.

Most Brazilians in the diaspora who can immigrate will immigrate to the US.

American companies and Brazilian companies have very close relations with each other (ever had a Budwesier, Blue Moon, Burger King, or Popeye's? They're majority owned by Brazilian PE funds).

Finally, most of the underlying support for Lula comes from his "Bolsa Familia" program in the 2000s.

This lie of Brazilian or Indian anti-Americanism only went into overdrive on Reddit and then HN because of their indifference to the Russia-Ukraine war, as they have investments in both sides.

[0] - https://pro.morningconsult.com/articles/united-states-favora...

[1] - https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2023/11/06/comparing-view...
> De Moraes argued (correctly, IMO) that Musk's non-compliance was a "clear and present danger" to Brazilian democracy.

Democracy is when the government censors free speech, got it.
A wonderful little machine. So, so much better than the PCs of its time.
2000: Javascript is webpages.

2010: Javascript is webservers.

2020: Javascript is desktop applications.

2024: Javascript is AI.