skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In both cases, I ended up just junking the backend system and replacing it with something boring but sane. In both cases getting that done was easy and fast.

This kind of rewrite is usually quick and easy not because of the boring architecture (which can only carry the project from terrible velocity to decent velocity) but because the privilege of hindsight reduces work: the churn of accumulated changes and complications and requirements of the first implementation can be flattened into one initially well designed solution, with most time-consuming discussions and explorations already done and their outcomes ready to be copied faithfully.
That's a vision of a potential future, not the world we live in right now. Right now, there are a couple hundred million people in Asia and Africa making things for the Western consumer, mostly for pittance wages.
No work, no pay Samsung warns striking Indian workers as row escalates
DSPy: Develop a RAG App Using DSPy, Weaviate, and FastAPI
Surely we can't guarantee a really trustable system, in the end even Linux or Gcc aren't really audited before use. BUT still having open design, FLOSS code published from the first commit and developed openly allow to trust the people instead of the product.

An example, some (Handala crew) observed that Vidisco (an Israeli company) produce the vast majority of airports and ports security scanners, and they are proprietary devices running closed source software, so potentially they have some code to allow not seeing things the Mossad marks as "not to be seen" with some kind of "tagging" or even remote commands. Could their customers trust Vidisco or John Smith llc doesn't matter? If their design it's open and their code developed FLOSS openly in the wild maybe. We can't be sure the code we see from it's start is really running inside their devices, we can't audit entirely BUT it's still much better than now.

Similarly in an open world innovation inevitably happen mostly in public funded academia, meaning it's perfectly possible to infiltrate but it's still the best option we have to ensure trust and interoperability, as long as we have normal interoperability the possibility to keep something really hidden is far, far less than now.

Aside, obviously States must produce in house all their critical gear, at least for some "not constant" productions (like weapons) with domestic partnership with industries normally doing other things (like automotive). A corporative world is a savage, unsafe world and probably can't be stable as well.
Sure but none of this poses a latency or bandwidth bottleneck.
All infrastructure please.

I'm currently wrestling a stupid orchestration problem - DNS external from my domain controllers - because the architecture astronaut thought we'd need to innovate on a pillar of the fucking internet
And other way around, you generate a image that you explicitly prompt to be under age but to appear adult. By definitions this would also be illegal image to store or spread. And anyone not immediately destroying or reporting it on receiving it could be prosecuted.
I use Element X every day. On the phone it's very buggy and doesn't get push notification for the latest messages sometimes.
Ask HN: How to hire a freelance electrical engineer?
I opened a KiCad project for the first time and realized that I'm going to need help with PCB design. My objective is to design and order a small number of boards from Eurocircuits/PCBWay/JLCPCB.

Are there any places beside the usual Upwork and Freelancer? How does one vet an electrical engineer? What is the ballpark price per hour or per project? What is a typical working relationship, expectations, and deliverables?

It would be great to hear any advice, personal experiences, and stories from the community.
Dethrace 0.8.0
I totally forgot about the Apple TV devices and the screens. Yeah they also need SOCs .
we got paid to fix someone else code, whoever invented wordpress has made a million jobs
I've never understood the comments on all of the posts like this advising people to never book via a third party. Is it an American thing?

I've probably been on around 250 flights in the past 7 years in Europe and I can't remember one time that it was cheaper to book directly than through some third party. Sometimes it's the same price to book direct, but it doesn't matter either way: the support you're going to get is the same, and the insurance or whatever depends on... exactly whatever you've paid for already.
Data Science Weekly – Issue 565
The short answer is that neither runs on my chosen Raspberry Pi (the Zero).
Yes but...

Still make some effort to build as if this were a professional endeavor; use that proof of concept code to test ideas, but rewrite following reasonable code quality and architecture practices so you don't go into production with lack of ability to make those important scaling changes (for if/when you get lucky and get a lot of attention).

If your code is tightly coupled, functions are 50+ lines long, objects are mutated everywhere (and in places you don't even realize), then making those important scaling changes will be difficult and slow. Then you might be tempted to say, "We should have built for 1 million users." Instead, you should be saying, "We should have put a little effort into the software architecture."

There are two languages that start with "P" which seem to often end up in production like this.
> The middle approach would be implementing the infrastructure

That's great if you're implementing but it doesn't really work when you're coming in to an existing infrastructure (or codebase) that other people manage.
It’s good in a corporate setting, you don’t want to suddenly have to deal with a new file format for which you won’t have an app installed on your company PCs to view them.
How is that cheating? The prof isn't creating the questions to certify their own knowledge.
I think it’s the anti-clickbait thing removing the exclamation marks. (Personally, I’d just leave “Element X, Call and Server Suite are ready”)
And here I was wishing it would go away and trying to find a way to hide it because on my phone it was always covering text. Firefox reader mode worked.
> With almost identical population sizes, the UK has under 30 million homes, while France has around 37 million. 800,000 British families have second homes compared to 3.4 million French families.

I'm not sure that's a fair comparison, France has double the area of UK, and more of it is usable.
Social media and online video firms are conducting 'vast surveillance' on users
v2 is 2012 and I think some of the other books linked are more recent.
Atrial fibrillation estimated to be 3 times more common than previously thought
You may be waiting a while. APNG and animated WebP are already widely rolled out, but haven't replaced GIF.
They never can yet complain all the time based on the perception of the brand and people complaining - same thing as those on Twitter/x
By default all iPhones stop charging at 80%
Sorry but what are you talking about?
On the other hand, this is pretty impressive:

aug 25 5:48pm: got initial contact over signal (encrypted) with arc co-founder hursh
aug 25 6:02pm: vulnerability poc executed on hursh's arc account
aug 25 6:13pm: added to slack channel after details disclosed over encrypted format
aug 26 9:41pm: vulnerability patched, bounty awarded
sep 6 7:49pm: cve assigned (CVE-2024-45489)

Four hours from out-of-the-blue initial contact until a fix pushed is pretty good, even given how simple this fix probably was.

EDIT: Oh, the date changed; so it was 28 hours until fix. Still decent; and half an hour from initial contact to "Join our slack channel" is incredibly fast response time.
It's not sufficient, of course, but it's still the best we can do now, not only for mere safety but also for innovation, interoperability. In such an open world there is little room to purposefully sell crap to sell after fixes for instance, and that's very bad for some business but very good for the society and for nature, much reducing waste. After a certain amount of evolution even swapping component became harder, because anything is really transparent enough you still have margins, but with higher risks than now and more important much bigger reputation damage, which hurt much in such society (remember the Internet Manifesto for reference).

Beside that the guarantee does not exists in nature, but the likeliness of an event have a really big impact on our life.
FYI, you can get most of the same effect on your 13 Pro Max by plugging your charger into a smart plug, and using Shortcuts to make an automation that turns off the smart plug whenever the phone battery goes about 80%.

I use that on my 10th generation iPad and used it on the iPhone X that I had up until about two months ago when it got replaced with a 15 which does support the "charge to 80%" option. It works great.

The only minor annoyance I ran into was that the phones where the OS supports the 80% limit it will occasionally go to 100%, which they say is necessary to keep the battery level indicator calibrated. With the smart plug method you'll have to handle occasionally disabling the shortcut (or charging with the charger plugged straight into the outlet).

Just make sure to pick a smart plug that can be turned off from Shortcuts.
“To replace programmers with Robots, clients will have to accurately describe what they want.

We're safe.”
EV Batteries Can Outlast a Vehicle's Lifetime with Minimal Degradation
nice. will probably try it in the future.

but the for-some-reason-not-obvious revelation that it's just a product that some team somewhere is working on and the fact that a browser is an important piece of software brought me back to safari (not sure if joke's on me, but in this case I trust apple engineers to do a more thorough job in ensuring my data is secure).
founder mode activated
Earth will get a second "mini-moon" for 2 months this year
> Putin absolutely 100% does not do that kind of bombing in Ukraine. Even contested cities do not look 1/10th as bad ad Gaza.

Yes they do, contested Ukrainian cities are literally reduced to rubble, cease to exist: https://x.com/nexta_tv/status/1632070651170410496

Ukrainian forces abandon these cities in the East one by one as Russians completely flatten them with artillery and massive glide bombs, leaving no place to shelter. They're just open wastelands by the end of it, as if a nuclear bomb had gone off.
If the fairphone had a better camera, I'd buy one. It really is the only thing holding me back unfortunately
FWIW, pricing here (10 EUR/user/month, min 100 users; self-hosted apparently also supported): https://element.io/pricing
I have had similar experiences, but not on professional context. Random E2EE key issues (not often) that maybe sometimes resolve themselves or with some additional action like bringing all clients online. Matrix is still the best choice for me, though, and I expect it to improve like it has over the years.

Last time I tried the threads-feature (with Element) maybe a year ago, it was still in beta.

Anyhow, if you're ok with Slack, then you probably could have just not use E2EE at all and avoid issues related to that?
I once held a British passport, I'm glad I now hold another.
> I’m not quite sure what you mean by YouTubeisms

The unending barrage of memes, the animations, floating emojis, the music constantly changing pace, the bright colors, "Youtube-voice", etc. etc.

Compare it with Ben Eater building a video card: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7rce6IQDWs (of course the level of detail is higher but just focus on the style, voice, lack of animations and memes. He cracks a joke here and there, but isn't full of Youtubeisms.) And yes, it's a different genre. And yes, some people hate the genre that youtube is filled with these days.
This is what is happening...How good are you at taming cows?

Canada: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IHLIDXCATPSOFTDEVE

Australia: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IHLIDXAUTPSOFTDEVE

Germany: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IHLIDXDE

UK: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IHLIDXGB

USA: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IHLIDXUSTPSOFTDEVE

Tech Hiring...

https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2023/03/was-there-a-tech-hir...
The UK was, and to some senses still is, a culture that strongly values who your parents are vs what you’ve personally accomplished. The head of state is the child of the previous head of state. The House of Lords is still a thing. Prestige based on family lineage is considered a big deal.

In the US and other parts of Europe it’s very different. People value you a lot more because of what you’ve done vs who you are and, with some exception, nobody cares who your parents were. If you have a rich daddy most people don’t care. If you’re rich because you inherited wealth vs earning it that’s see as “less” than those who are self made. While there are certainly exceptions, most of our richest people are in the self-made category and that’s a source of pride. “The American Dream” while a bit of a glossy story is generally a very real thing.

Passing off wealth and prestige by lineage has long been shown to be a bad idea. The next generation typically just screws it up.

Until the UK truly does away with its still quite hereditary ways and focuses a lot more on valuing individual achievement it will likely only continue to stagnate against other economies that have long since broadly moved on from such archaic mental models.
That's not right either, you're both wrong. Federal agencies are still allowed to make up regulations not explicitly found in the letter of the law, and courts are allowed to strike down those regulation if they think they're too far outside the spirit of the law. It works the same for both parties, not the nonsense you said.
Again, I am talking about things internal to that specific person just as much as you are. Not external anything.

You are trying to focus on what they believed in that moment, but I see no reason to use that in an analysis of whether their actions fit their own morals. Sometimes people make mistakes even by their own rules. If we only care about what someone thought right in the heat of the moment, that category of mistake would be impossible, and it's not impossible. Saying that mistakes are possible is not overriding agency.

The core of it is in this line "the choice was what they seemed to think was right, for them, at the time. Thus it was the right choice for them". I don't agree with that logic at all. Humans are not good enough at following their own motivations and principles. They are impulsive and bad at analysis. You can't assume that their choices will always be consistent with their personal parameters of right and wrong.

Also, saying I think someone made a mistake is not denying agency. Don't be so melodramatic. Nowhere am I claiming to have the final say. I merely have the right to an opinion.
I've seen this insane take frequently, and I think I've found an explanation:

1. Almost NOBODY, I mean literally nobody I've ever met that uses LLMs besides myself, uses the paid version. It shocked me to learn people are actually USING the free version. These people are commonly of low intelligence, exactly the sort of people who cheat. Cheaters are using the shittiest models lmao, and many of them are using some knockoff on data-harvesting websites whose models are even worse than the free ChatGPT.

2. AI skeptics are frequently old people, and in any case are so skeptical that they formed an opinion about all AI services based on extremely limited experimenting with the free ChatGPT a whole year ago. They don't know about Claude 3.5 Sonnet, they've never compared it to GPT-4 (may 2024 version, API not the chatbot) let alone to GPT-4o. There's absolutely no way they know about Gemini 1.5 Pro 0826 via AIstudio.

These people have no capacity to recognize that AI services are making huge leaps in capability and the quality of outputs (ESPECIALLY if iterated on and hand-held). They say things like "the thing about ChatGPT is that it's not very good at producing essays".

How about this? I have a 4.0 in college. I never cheated because I don't need to. I've taken some intelligence tests (and learned that some standardized tests are essentially a proxy for intelligence testing) and learned that I'm kind of smart—OK whatever, this is to establish that I don't need to cheat. Even when ChatGPT was new and not very good (albeit, the original GPT4 which was decently capable), I was able to use it as a writing aid (you give it the assignment and it generates an outline, but then you feed it back the assignment and its outline, and have it generate the first section, then you iterate on that section, then you do all the sections, then you feed it the assignment and the completed essay and iterate on THAT, then you change a lot of the parts so it seems like a human wrote it) and earned an award for the best essay the department had seen in a long time. Again, that was when the AIs were shit compared to now.

People who think AIs are not capable are just a little out of touch, they're using them wrong or uncreatively, or they're not using them at all, or they're using the free version, or they're judging AIs by the results of low intelligence people who use the free version.
SwiftUI only/iOS 16.4 requirement excludes a lot of older devices.
No geolocation is needed. And even if it was, these are technical problems, inherently solve able.

So far, we are building walls and replacing mortar with a new one, while attackers bombard us with complete impunity. This is never going to work.

This would of course need new extensions /protocols (even simplest would require authentication envelope around encrypted traffic).
If element x doesn't have threading on Android yet, and I checked last week, it's not ready compared to the default element app.

My co-op uses matrix as our primary communication method, replacing slack because it was too expensive, and we're very happy with it, but I was always surprised that element x was even on the app store considering how primitive it was compares to Element (the first app).
The problem with this argument is that 1) bifurcation often still isn't available on enthusiast-level motherboards which are filled with features catered to hobbyists, and 2) all motherboards are using variations on the same handful of BIOS firmware images.

Same-slot bifurcation controlled by the BIOS requires basically zero additional testing. If it works on one board, it's pretty much guaranteed to work on another. After all, it's nothing more than a feature flag toggle.

They have already invested the money into developing the software feature, because some boards do have bifurcation. So why isn't it available on on all enthusiast-level boards? Or even worse, why are they spending extra time and energy into disabling it on cheap motherboards?
Yeah, that was my first reaction. I'm really surprised they were cheap on this
Unfortunately, that isn’t enough to mitigate identity theft. Someone leveraging the recent National Public Data breach opened a checking and savings account using my identity (no credit checks are performed in doing so) then committed wire fraud using accounts.
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A possible confounding factor which leaps to mind is the notion of register: almost all language instruction is in a utilitarian register, and daily L2 use is also commonly utilitarian; indeed, emotional surprise tends to cause people to fall back* on their L1.

If we could find people who learned an L2 in an emotionally charged environment (at an orphanage? in a teenage gang?) but never subsequently used it for work or leisure in a utilitarian environment, would they show the opposite results?

* I've heard that in WWII, a standard counterintelligence ploy was to suddenly stomp on an interviewee's foot to observe if they reacted with "Ow!" or "Aua!" or "Aie!", etc. (this reaction is trainable, of course, as the number of french who say "punaise" [minced, like "gosh darn"] when they hit their thumbs with a hammer will attest)
Starting from zero again is a beautiful thing
Long essay.

TL;DR the UK planning system is too restrictive and is stopping investment.

However, some of the comparisons made don't really stack up.

Yes. France has a better housing supply, and roughly the same area. But France has over twice the area, and under half the population density, even before you account for the almost uninhabited mountainous areas in Wales, Northern England and Scotland. So our populations are squeezed into smaller areas.

There are some good points made though. The gold plating of a lot of projects is ridiculous. And don't get me started on the Elizabeth Line. I get it, it is clearly hugely beneficial and I have no doubt it pays for itself. But then you visit places like Maerdy in the Welsh valleys, devastated by the closure of the coal mines, and it seems obscene to spend all that money in so small an area.
Do you have facts to back up this claim?
The list of issues that the article list seems very ad hoc. Some are compared to EU countries, but apparently only where this makes the UK come out worst.

It also ignores the fact that the UK might do better in some area's than other countries, it would be fair to lists these as well. Otherwise you could make a list like this for any country in the world.

Also some issues seem irrelevant. E.g. the crime rate was given, and it was mentioned that this had been actually going down in the recent years. But then it was compared to the crime rate after WO2, and yes, compared to that it went up.
> Do people really fall for scam like that?

I routinely get people opening issues on my projects asking where the source code is or how to fine tune their models on different data or even how to install pytorch.... There's a lot of people on GitHub that don't know the first thing about coding. There's a lot of people on GitHub that don't know how to use Google... This even includes people with PhDs...
That's a lot of peanut! Cool. We also used peanut oil when cooking... didn't seem to help us though.