skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm more than a little worried about the following all being `Coming Soon`:

- Cursors & carets

- Two way sync to your DB

- Video presence & calls

- both the Group and BinaryCoStreams

All of these are the key reasons I would be evaluating this framework to handle my data. All of these are not fully implemented yet.

It is these key topics of live reloading/updating data that make or break an app. In my opinion, if you haven't concretely solved these problems, you haven't really built a viable state framework for 2024.

I really like the patterns they've implemented though, looks a lot like the same framework I just built on top of MobX, websockets, and React for a recent project. They're headed in the right direction, but I'm not sure they realize how much more work they have to go before this is fully fleshed out.
That's another instance of quantity beating quality. It's the same type of thing.
why don't I just collect the money and filter the emails to spam?

why don't we all do that?
FPO Deanery Preference Optimiser (UK Medicine)
Meta has had an active part in the genocide of Rohingya, though:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebo...

It is also responsible for a rise in hate crimes:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3082972
A serviceable pulp novel is in line with my definition of mediocre literature, personally.
Everything with power is political. Tech is extremely powerful, and even if not directly inflicting harm it does in reality inflict harm, if not by intent then by carelessness or omission.

Tech hasn't pursued wars like the oil or food industry but enabled hybrid warfare by omission, it hasn't killed people directly but has created even more leverage for elites to dehumanise processes, e.g. customer support, setting rental prices, showing ads, etc.

There's no way for tech to not become politicised, it's wishful thinking, and wishing it away doesn't change the reality, the further tech embeds into our lives the more power it has, the more political it becomes.
But their delivery mechanism may well be.
JPEG-Clear? The guy "reinvented" progressive JPEGs?
Well don’t leave us hanging, what did the documents reveal?
Amazon's "favoured nation" policy stipulates that vendors can't sell an item anywhere else for a lower price. This policy seems designed by them to put a moat between them and retail.
Next, EBay should be allowed to use Amazon warehouses and their distribution network.
You got downvoted because the people here can't handle the truth.
I live in a hurricane area, and in my “emergency kit” i have a small am/fm radio that runs on 4 AA batteries, i did a mod and soldered a USB cable so it can be used with battery packs.
What percentage do you think is fair to allow for a quality code review?
Thus ‘ramping up’ is a problem. If they want to replace 5% of their electric grid per decade with nuclear then it’s not an issue but that’s not going to solve short term issues. Go a lot faster and they trade short term problems for longer term issues.
The framebuffer idea is used in this wasm doom port: https://github.com/diekmann/wasm-fizzbuzz/tree/main/doom

WASIX already does all the other stuff you mentioned, including in the browser. The one thing it's missing is GUI, mainly because there's no standard GUI interface in POSIX.
Glad to see you here swyx. I think the issue you outlined is acknowledged by the htmx's authors and addressed in the Morph Swaps documentation: https://htmx.org/docs/#morphing

What is ironic though, is that the morphing algorithms are similar to what modern SPA frameworks do, except that it can be addressed without introducing new concepts such as vdom, zones, signal etc.

I agree that the island architecture is limiting when it comes to large scale application with state shared across multiple areas in the UI. I'd be curious to hear others finding success in building apps.

p.s. I appreciate the smol island :)
No, not in my experience. They usually have less external ads but a lot of other cruft is still there.

Enshittification (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification) is getting so bad, I'd be willing to pay for sites that actually work. So far, paywall offers are just to remove external ads and that's only part of what I want. The rest of what I want is for the fucking site to actually work. For example, both Google and Amazon search have been seriously degraded and de-featured in recent years and it's been done very intentionally and systematically to optimize for their ad or sales revenue.

I suspect this degradation has crept deeper into their stacks than just at the top layer where it could be easily turned off with a flag and sold as a paywall upgrade.
The idea that we aren't allowed to sell limited purpose electronics seems pretty novel. A lot of the things I own have processors in them nowadays, are you suggesting the courts should require them all to create methodologies for us to run our own code on them?
Glad you asked!

This system contains measurements and state of physical devices (time series). It’s designed for both heavy write and read, with slight emphasis on write.
Each table is one type of device and contains 1 to 5 different measurements/states. But here’s the trick: because data is queried with minimum bucket size of 15minutes I figured we could just create a column for each measurement + quarter of the day (i.e. measure0000, measure0015), so that’s 100 columns for each measurement (96 quarter + 4 for DST), include the date in the key, et voila: excellent write performance (because it’s mainly UPDATE queries) and good read performance.

Okay, the queries to make sense of the data aren’t pretty, but can be generated.

I find it really cool how effective this is for time-series data without Postgres extensions (we’re on RDS).
Yes and no -- obviously I can build for no_std targets like esp32 and atmega128p in rust but not go (haven't tried tinygo), but the proportion of targets that successfully built and ran IRL has been higher for me with go. On rust, the dynamic linking of libc (by default) and failure to include a linker with the toolchain have repeatedly been stumbling blocks, go "just works."
And their gateway was an extremely expensive but very mid range product.
The development of Chez Scheme [pdf]
The cerebellum is not, afaik, relevant to intelligence in any way shape or form. There are case studies of people with more or less complete agenesia (=lack) of the cerebellum who didn't know about it until they went into an MRI for unrelated reasons. Iirc they mostly had below average motor skills but that's it.
I can't claim to have BTDT, but I did get the T-shirt. That's how I learned them :)
> Would that be more "fair?"

Having the second ruling be consistent with the first? Following precedent? This is terrible for competition where two companies in the same market can live under different rules in the same jurisdiction.

Apple's monopoly is effectively blessed now.
Biscuit: Lightweight, fast and extensible code editor in Python
Perhaps, but they do seem to like me. Should I warn them? Tell them I'm dangerous?
Any source for the "not any better than the work of open source intelligence" part?
> In the near future, a significant portion of YouTube videos and podcasts will likely be AI-generated

It's not helpful that you're making a binary distinction here.

As an example, as much as 10 years ago, I would find Youtube videos where the narration was entirely TTS. The creators didn't want to use their own voice, and so they wrote the script, and fed it into a TTS system. As you can expect from the state of the art at the time, it sounded terrible. Yet people enjoyed the videos and they had high view counts.

Are we calling this AI-generated?

We now have better TTS (without generative AI). Way better. I presume those types of videos are now better for me to watch. You may still be able to tell it's not a human because the tone doesn't have much variance. You'd probably have to listen for a minute or longer to discern that, though.

Are we calling this AI-generated?

Now with generative AI, we have voices that perhaps you won't be able to identify as AI. But it's all good as long as a human wrote the script, right?

Are we calling this AI-generated?

Finally, take the same video. The creator writes the script, but feels he's not a good writer (or English is not his native tongue, and he likely has lots of grammatical errors). So he passes his script to GPT and asks it to rewrite it - and not just fix grammatical errors but have it improve it, with some end goal in mind ("This will be the script for a popular video...") He then reviews that the essence he was trying to capture was conveyed, and goes ahead with the voice generation.

Is this AI-generated?

To me, all of these are fine, and not in any way inferior to one with a completely human workflow. As long as the creator is a human, and he feels it is conveying what he needed to convey.

I would love to take a first draft of a blog post, send it to GPT, and have it write it for me. The reason I don't is that so far, whatever it produces doesn't have my "voice". It may capture what I meant to say, but the writing style is completely different from mine. If I could get GPT/Claude to mimic my style more, I'd absolutely run with it. Almost no one likes endless editing - especially writers!
OpenBSD 7.6 Released
I am an Android user for a long time (since Android 2.2) and used pretty much every version from then on. Google devices (from Nexus to Android One devices and now Pixels) pretty much always allowed unattended updates for a long time (you may be right about Android 12, my memory is fuzzy here). And I never remember having scary warnings for sideloaded apps, sure, Android made it more difficult to install them (by having a permission per app instead a global permission, but I would say this was a very welcome change), but it was never convoluted or difficult.

But yes, non-Google devices make this way more difficult, e.g.: Xiaomi devices actually has a scary warnings and they trigger at each reinstall. Also, they messed up something in the install APIs so you can't update apps unattended, needing to trigger the popup to install at each update.

So yes, in general, this is not the fault of Google but third-party companies.
Is it a copyright problem or a capitalist problem or why do we only get nerfed dumb chatbots?

Would be interesting to really try hard and create a llm that can write novels in the style of an author. And skip the chat functionality!
They will be when there are AI controlled aircraft/drones that can exceed the G-force limits that humans require and can thus out maneuver any human controlled fighter.
They launch all the new fun toys there!
I don’t know what you mean, and currently do not agree with the idea of parse tree size being a bad mentality or making it harder to grow, and I don’t feel like you’ve provided any objective evidence to back up that claim. Parse tree size seems like a better metric than terseness, for the reasons I and others have already mentioned, despite the fact that sometimes tight small code has some advantages that might be invisible if your only metric is AST size. (Neither parent nor I made such a claim, but your argument depends on that assumption.) K specifically is unreadable by most people, and somehow examples never seem to come with comments or error handling. Is it the best poster child for programming progress as a whole? I have my doubts, even though it might be very useful for some people in some situations.

I would be willing to bet that Excel spreadsheets are running more of our economy than K code, likely by orders of magnitude. I’d also be willing to bet that COBOL exceeds K use by similar multiples. Business/economic use doesn’t seem like a very good metric for what you’re talking about.
Between that, F-22, JSF, Hind and A10, we had some great great games that decade. Still miss Fighter Ace on MSN Gaming Zone.
The author swyx is the founder of https://smol.ai/ It's either a typo out of habit, or an intentional reference
I think the empire has already fallen at that point.

But regardless, what's the alternative and how is it immune to similar actions?
First, I want to point out that I've never written a single line of Julia code, so I'm no expert on this. I could easily be wrong about some of what I just found out by reading a small amount of Julia documentation.

However, that's not a parsed data structure; it's a Julia expression to construct one. Though I don't have Julia installed, apparently you can just as well write that as :(a + b*c + 1), as explained a few paragraphs further down the page than I guess you read: https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/metaprogramming/#Quo.... That's also how Julia represents it for output, by default. What you've written there is the equivalent of Lisp (list '+ 'a (list '* 'b 'c) 1), or perhaps (cons '+ (cons 'a (cons (cons '* (cons 'b (cons 'c '()))) (cons 1 '())))). The data structure is as simple as Prolog's, consisting of a .head such as :call and a list of .args. Prolog's, in turn, is only slightly more complex than Lisp's. From a certain point of view, Prolog's structure is actually simpler than Lisp's, but it's arguable.

How this is different from having a tree-sitter parser is that it's trivially easy to construct and analyze such structures, and not just at compile time.

Possibly the source of your confusion is the syntactic sugar which converts x + y + z into what we'd write in Lisp as (+ x y z), and also converts back? I would argue that such syntactic sugar is precisely what you want for constructing and analyzing expressions. That is, it's part of what makes Julia homoiconic in a more useful sense than J. Random Language equipped with a parser for its own syntax.
-- modified version of the game.

Well that really makes this less interesting tbh.
You're likely reading the quote wrong, since it reads completely differently out of context. He was referring specifically to how beneficiaries of the government are incentivized to vote for policies which provide government benefits to themselves, thereby continually maintaining or increasing the size of the government. His implication is that as the government grows bigger, as it does with continually increasing beneficiaries, who vote in order to increase their benefit as the system allows, the freedom of those who are not advantaged by a growing and naturally increasingly regulatory government will decrease, due to a higher tax and regulatory burden.
From GLSL to WGSL: the future of shaders on the Web (2021)
Agree to disagree, then. I think the direction of the trend has been pretty clear and I'm an avid reader of the news, but it is a difficult thing to quantify in the aggregate.
Replaced by MECHS. :)
> The plant was not upgraded (as recommended) to meet new safety guidelines, because, as if a mega tsunami would actually happen, right ?

And others on this same thread are trying to use the same disaster to paint nuclear as expensive.
I can get root with only a spoon!

However, I'm not sure the kind of root you want unless you're into horticulture.
On the charge of just wanting to break up big companies because they're big, I plead not guilty on the virtue of this not being a crime. The whole point of breaking up large companies is because their size renders them unaccountable quazi-governments. To properly regulate them requires making the government even bigger with ever-more-complicated regulatory apparatus, compliance departments, administrative rulemaking, and "special understandings" (read: giving up) for the largest players.

I'll put it to you another way: if you want smaller government, you need smaller corporations, too.

> There was no alternative to Google search because no one had built a better product for reasons that have nothing to do with anticompetitive behavior.

I would first argue that Google's unparalleled superiority in search is overblown. For one, there's ads in it. As Google's founders themselves stated, ads are a perverse incentive to ruin the search experience in favor of advertisers and I can point to several examples[0] in which this happened.

There are paid search engines that do not have advertising (e.g. Kagi) but they themselves have complained about the struggle that is competing with Google. For example, on iOS, there's only five default search engine options, there's no way to add a different search engine as default, and Google pays $$$ to Apple to be set to the default and for that search engine option to be buried in Settings. I don't see how that isn't anticompetitive.

On a technical level, Google has a supracompetitive advantage, too. A lot of websites have restrictive policies that forbid scraping except for Google and Bing. This means only those search engines can actually return results for those sites.

[0] Product ads in web search, every programming search query giving you four or five ads before the actual StackOverflow answer you're interested in, image search becoming a glorified product search with actual functionality being removed, Gemini
> Your friends deserve better.

Maybe they don't.
Poor Disk Performance: dust edition
Stallman literally buzzing with excitement at the prospect. Honestly if you're gonna go, you should probably go all the way in the manner you describe and level the playing field for everyone.
You've applied to independently-owned/family-owned small business that needs help and not just corporate wanks like McDonald's? People having no work experience tend to fare better with such businesses.

Also, most job applicants are having to send over 100 applications before landing a job, and that's non-professional jobs like you're searching for. Professional jobs are requiring several hundred applications. It's a grind.
I'm interested to hear what you think! I haven't finished reading it yet. It's a bit repetititive.
Yes, that is the disturbing element that made me stop reading twice. I pushed past that eventually and came to appreciate the story as a whole. This does not mean I or the characters in the story condone it or forgive it.

Update: his other magnificent sci fi series, "The Gap" also deals with extreme abuse. His works are not comfortable, but they are great stories.
All of the federal counts move forward, some of the counts relating to specific states who joined the lawsuit are dismissed.

> Last week, before the order was unsealed, some of the initial coverage called it a “partial victory” for Amazon, but as it turns out, the portion of the ruling in which the company was victorious was relatively slim.

> The areas where the judge granted Amazon’s motion to dismiss were related to specific aspects of state claims, including elements of allegations brought by Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Oklahoma, and Maryland. Eighteen states and one territory, Puerto Rico, joined the FTC in the lawsuit against Amazon.

https://www.geekwire.com/2024/unsealed-order-in-amazon-antit...
> may well be

Another way of saying this is "may well not be".
They've since updated it:

> Oct 8, 2024
There are a myriad of points which make this metaphor a insufficient argument at best (at worst intentionally obfuscating the nature of digital publishing and digital marketplaces as having similar physical analogues) in favor of the current app store landscape:

1. AFAIK anyone can manufacture and distribute CDs

2. The argument that anything below the cost to manu CDs is acceptable only holds water if you have an inefficient market that doesn’t reflect the actual cost of digital distribution.
Well, with enthusiasm like that it is no wonder China and Russia banned all western social media and are actively trying to replace these services with homegrown. China was first, Russia late to the party, but working on it.
ehh.. LI on routers has been (at least on one major vendor) designed to not be visible to end operators in the course of normal operation. there are ways to see it, but it involves either the actual LI mechanism or some esoteric debugs. And it probably wouldn't be obvious to SOCs if the implemented LI was legit or not.

So, the question of competence or otherwise may be mooted by virtue of simply not having proper visibility.
> Jazz Mesh is currently free — and it's set up as the default sync & storage peer in Jazz

How difficult is it to run my own backend?

Edit:

> Completely DIY Mesh.

> Build your own network of sync and storage nodes. Handle networking, security and backups yourself.

> Costs:

> N × instance cost for your sync nodes.

> Very high self-hosted egress costs.

> High self-hosted storage costs.

Compared to Mesh Pro at $79 for 30,000 sync-minutes (“Sync-minutes are counted on a per-connected-device, per-minute basis.”) per month… I bet the cost of self-hosted storage and egress is very low, actually, of course assuming you have the competence and time to DIY it.
> One obvious direction is predicting the next video frame.

This is being done. There are incredible generative video models...
disclaimer: I don't work on big codebases.

Pylance with pyright[0] while developing (with strict mode) and mypy[1] with pre-commit and CI.

Previously, I had to rely on pyright in pre-commit and CI for a while because mypy didn’t support PEP 695 until its 1.11 release in July.

[0] -- https://github.com/microsoft/pyright

[1] -- https://github.com/python/mypy
so a few days back, I discovered that with the new Flux v1.1 pro image gen model, if you use a prompt like "IMG_XXXX.HEIC", you get some extremely realistic images.

I spent a few hours playing around with it, trying out a ton of combinations. Ended up with a very large library of images and decided to make a quick website to share it.

Some notes and observations:

1. Using a prompt like "IMG_XXXX.HEIC" tends to yield the most realistic images, but most of these tend to be rather mundane images of landscapes, flowers, poorly shot cityscapes

2. Adding "IMG_XXXX.HEIC posted on Snapchat in [year]" yields more realistic, casual images of people. However, a lot of these look like screenshots, complete with the Snapchat UI. Most people also tend to be attractive.

3. Adding a [year] in the prompt yields some interesting images. Like [2017] will yield blurrier images than [2023]. Adding [2021] in the prompt got images with face masks and face shields

4. The prompt "[firstName] [lastName] selfie" gets real-looking selfies of real-looking people. You can use Indian, Hispanic, Chinese, European, American, etc. names and get realistic images of people with these ethnicities. Example: https://d1l4k1vcf8ijbs.cloudfront.net/fakeimages/pc5JnhNRUEq...

5. There is a decently high failure rate. The ~750 images on the site are hand picked. I had to delete around 220 images for not meeting the criteria (not real enough) or being just bizarre

6. If this model is any indication, its soon going to be impossible to tell what's real online
https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/
Yes, exactly! I am hoping some restaurants will signup because they can really control their marketing spend by only mailing to people they deliver to. Although with Uber Eats does anybody order direct anymore?
Wetlands are highly protected. Hillside (which a road currently resides on) is expensive to “fix”.
Yes, I use an API to print and mail. There are a few of them available
It is already persisting and syncing data (fully encrypted) between the cloud and other users. You can think of Jazz as a distributed database itself.

The coming-soon badges are about interop with traditional systems and higher level features we will add later.

The fundamentals are solved and you can build full multiplayer, local-first apps with it.

Does that make sense?