skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like a great and interesting engineering problem to work on.

The corporations still will not work on it though, for the exact reasons your parent commenter outlined.

I for one I am not convinced that we have to choose between swappable batteries and water-proof devices. I say we can have both -- but nobody in the business wants to figure it out, for obvious reasons.
>You are rewriting history here. Most NYers have a story about a cab that either tried to take them for a ride and take a shitty route

I've had Uber try to go through the Throggs Neck Bridge, over to the Triboro in order to take me to LIC from eastern Queens. Of course the Uber driver, who only spoke Chinese had no way of understanding why this was incredibly and obviously stupid.
Second time he gets overlooked (after turing award)
Some of these wagons only managed to move because they were hitched to someone else's horse.
What I meant is that by changing lambda each attention head is able to put its outputs in a subspace that is different than that of the other heads. This means that the outputs of different heads do not mingle with each other, and it's easier for the following layer to pick them apart. So I was thinking at increased expressiveness because the attention output can in principle cover a larger volume.

Maybe expressiveness is not the right term, or not the main consequence. I could imagine that having different subspaces like that also introduces a degree of robustness to out-of-distribution inputs, as this would make it harder for the outputs of one attention head to shift towards the in-distribution outputs of another head, and thus for the following layer to confuse them.
I have a 2014 macbook that I still use pretty regularly.

The only longevity issue is the battery, which is a limited lifetime part no matter what, and no support for the newest Xcode, which is unfortunate, but not a real limitation on what I use it for. It's something that I could probably work around by using opencore.

Its kind of crazy TBH. A 2004 macbook (powerbook?) would have been genuinely outdated in 2014, but in 2024, my 10 year old laptop is... fine?

Same thing with my phones. I went from an iphone 4, to a 5, to a 6 to an 11. And there I have stayed. There are a few features that would be nice to have, but not enough for me to fork over the cash. And my old one still does everything fine.

The real limitations are the incompatibilities with new APIs. I fixed up an old macbook air I found at a recycling center for a friend's kid (2011?) and getting it setup took some time since the imaged version of Safari incompatible with modern HTTPS. Once I cleared that hump, though, it was a great machine for youtube, browsing, etc...
That sounds great, but also for an app that interacts with > 10 services and companies it's not really a good advice.

> Only use open source components, and only run my stuff on Linux

Most people don't have the luxury of never having to interact with Google Drive, MS Teams, Slack etc.
This is a great article posted a while ago on this country and breaks down the region in a really easy to digest way:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40741068
Mary Hubbard New Executive Director of Wordpress.org
Without the decentralized discovery service; though, you have nothing; one might as well say that hard disk drives are a decentralized storage solution, as everyone who has a copy of a file by definition has a copy of the file... but, obviously, this is meaningless if there is no way for me to find who has a copy of the file to request the download.
I think that was true during the age of the blog, but far less so now.

Comments and discussion of a post are to be found on third-party communities like Reddit, HN, or even Facebook. How many of us scan the list of comments under, say, a Substack post vs. will scroll through a page or two of HN comments for the same post?

IMO it's a foregone conclusion that a discussion on HN will be higher quality for a tech-related post than a comment chain on a specific post, since HN has already attracted a wider set of readers than 99.9% of all blogs.

The main advantage of commenting directly on a blog post is that the author is far more likely to see it vs. the ephemeral state of the post being on the HN front-page.
daemonization is the process of running a process in the background and without being attached to a terminal. Many applications exit when they are detached from the terminal they starter even when they yield no output. Maybe that is why it's still there.
Of course back in the day fork() was all about creating background processes that were running quietly in the background were screen didn't exist yet and terminals were actual machines, not just one more window.
Today System D doesn't like daemonization. IT prefers a process that can be attached somewhere.
U+1FAE5
GDPR mandates the ability to delete the data.
Because they don't care about security, it's compliance-checkbox-driven policies.
MOCAS is still going from 1958... Hardware has been updated a few times and it currently runs on a IBM 2098 model E-10 mainframe (2008?)

https://www.technologyreview.com/2015/08/06/166822/what-is-t...
Ask HN: What's holding your startup back from using Discord instead of Slack?
Curious to hear from founders of say, sub-100 employee count companies what concretely Discord is missing that makes you use Slack instead? I'm more curious about the things beyond the very obvious (no SSO, lack of enterprise plan, the gaming focus).

I'd love to hear about things like unintuitive UI, the way notifications work, Slack channel integrations required from 3rd party vendors, Slack bots, permissioning, etc. - the actual business logic that's holding you back I suppose.
I think the idea of international law is very appealing, but the reality, at least when we're talking about war crimes, seems to be that IHL is a way for the winners of a conflict to punish the losers. The political and military realities of trying to hold existing bodies accountable in international courts seems... difficult.
HN also hates when you point out their logical inconsistencies
Apple has been extremely slow about getting important features into Safari. They're about a year behind Chrome and Firefox on some WebAssembly things, too.
Sounds similar to what iA Writer are going through: https://ia.net/topics/our-android-app-is-frozen-in-carbonite
Salacious claims like this should always be backed up with verifiable info. In the absence of such, it is reasonable to assume inaccuracies from chains of communication or even deception–especially when coming from an anonymous source. Did you even know the guy?
I have a feeling that it's also quite a difficult problem past some scale of infrastructure.

If I ask Google to delete my data (EU citizen), I have trouble believing that they actually go through all of their cold storage backups where it was stored and make sure it's erased. At best I could believe that the process is designed in such a way that my soft-deleted data is unlikely to be recovered (intentionally or not) and maybe unlikely to be possible to link to my account.
> And so, while we software engineers enjoy free hosting & custom domain support with GitHub Pages / Cloudflare Pages / etc

Oh come on! You don't really expect that to last, do you?

Learned back in 2004 that it's better to pay than to rely on free services. I pay for source code repositories, email, web hosting, etc.
I think the point the author is making is why choose Les Miserables, even in an abridged format, if the kids would respond better to something more contemporary. There's no shortage of phenomenal writing from the past 50 years. So many of the books in the "canon" they teach kids are so boring that I have a hard time believing anyone isn't lying when they say they sat through something like "In Search of Lost Time".
Fluoride in drinking water poses enough risk to merit new EPA action, judge says
Why would we want to bury high voltage electric cables?
Vbasic is Turing complete hah
If someone asked for a dinosaur fossil and you showed them a small winged thing embedded in a rock they likely would be confused too. Wind the clock back 65 million years to before the Cretaceous extinction event. The first bird like dinos appear in the Jurassic, ~100 millions year before the extinction. The time of the dinosaurs was full of small and large dinos adapted to all sorts of niches. In the end the flying therapods were the survivors.

We clearly have different view points, but I've enjoyed the discussion.
A whole lot of things are tuned optimally by rotating an analog dial until things look / sound right.
I was under the impression its simply best practice to not drink water from the shower/hot faucet. I've never tasted salt myself, just something I'd been told over the years.

Good to know, thank you.
Probably lower priority with radio getting ever better.
Duracell PowerCheck [video]
Hi HN— I’m Andy, co-founder of Cove and designer-slash-engineer. Today we are launching Cove, a new way to think brilliantly together with AI.

Cove started with a gut feeling that we are still in the “command line era” of AI. Instead of a chat thread or document editor, we need a new user interface to unleash the full range of LLMs' capabilities.

Cove is a visual workspace that scales up to an infinite canvas when you want to think big, and snuggles into your browser’s sidebar when you want to work alongside your favorite tools like Gmail or Docs. You can think of it as a place to work multiplayer together with AI.

To realize our vision for Cove we needed to solve a number of difficult design, engineering, and prompting problems, for example:
- Allowing the LLM to make targeted edits to the workspace rather than restreaming entire answers
- Anticipating users' needs and making instant suggestions to take them to unexpected places
- Balancing responsiveness and quality incorporating faster vs more advanced models

Under the hood, Cove uses Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, and Perplexity.

Cove is brought to you by a small team of hackers who formerly brought you Google Maps, Uber Eats, and more. I'll be checking HN all day and would love to hear your thoughts/feedback!
> A failure to do so means you serve some other end, perhaps one you do not realize you are serving.

What do you mean here?
What’s the worst that can happen when using free hosting? As soon as they start charging money, you just leave for somewhere else. And I say that as someone who is paying for a VPS for hosting (and some other stuff).
Or Commander Keen
Passkeys on Windows: Authenticate seamlessly with passkey providers
He gave 4 examples of how it's done incorrectly, but zero actual examples of doing it correctly.
Man, since the departure from OpenGL/OpenGL ES, graphics programming is such a pain in the butt. It's totally unfun and ridiculous.
Every once in a while they dig one up by accident in Boston. Many ~ancient cities don't even know where all the pipes are, or how they're connected. It'll be a colossal project.
It's true that the solution is more complicated than "just eat fewer calories", but it's also true that some people just need their baseline to be reset.

I'm perfectly capable of maintaining my weight at ~160 lbs, but losing a large amount of weight to get there was difficult enough that I didn't try. A friend did pretty much everything to lose weight after she had children but couldn't, went on GLP-1 agonist for a few months, lost it all and kept it off since.

People always lament that, like most drugs, the effects of a GLP-1 agonist stop when you stop taking it. What I'm saying is it doesn't necessarily matter. Some people will need continued support, some won't. Taking the drug isn't a "life sentence" and you aren't guaranteed to re-gain the weight after you stop.
We’re implementing Discord for our community actually.

Right now Instagram is our Bread and butter for communicating with the community but there are limits.

Truthfully, I want to migrate more Folks to Fediverse
Let’s be clear that what you describe is absolutely not gdpr compliant, so it would be illegal if you do business in Europe
The footnote #3 in the article (called as part of your quote) covers the different ways to uppercase ß with more detail.
Bevy?
10-Year Narratives
When you ask a company to delete your data, you're actually asking them to pretend they deleted it by making it invisible to you. There's too much $$$ sloshing around for them to behave ethically.
> The author thinks that value come from realized utility.

For the majority of the world, Wordpress indeed does provide more utility than an SSG. Wordpress is famous for their 5 minute installs, and then everything just works.
This is the case in my area; our service is almost 100 years old. You just need to run the water for minute if you haven't used it recently, since the leech is very slow.

Another issue besides tearing up the whole front yard (our line is 8' deep) is it would likely destroy the ancient ceramic sewer line. An upgrade can get expensive quick
I would qualify that "tech companies that don't know what they're doing wrt IT". Apple does have some features to allow a bit of flexibility, but unless you do all of your work via VDI or similar, I'd consider non-MDM devices to be a huge red flag,
You'd be surprised. Many places, including my neighborhood in New Jersey, don't have any access to drinking water at all. We are cooking with and drinking bottled water for the foreseeable future.
> It patches a reward center in your brain

Notably it also slows digestion though, so you feel full earlier and for longer.
It's literally the perfect house surveillance device though. Camera on a moving robot which is connected to a network, ha
I talked with this guy Mike Coryell and this is an interview he had recently.

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6362916358112
What, you mean sending your DNA to a random startup to have them analyze it for you was a BAD idea? #surprisedpikachu
Location: Linz/Austria/EU
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Willing to relocate: NO (Except NZ)
Technologies: LLM (Open-AI), Typescript, React, Next13+, Node, Firebase, Supabase, Postgres, GCP, AWS, RAG
Résumé: brandstetter.io/Resume_Brandstetter_Jurgen.pdf
Email: j@brandstetter.io
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/j-brandstetter
Salary: ~USD140k / year

I'm a senior full-stack developer with an aspiration for team/product lead or CTO-like position. For ~7 years I was co-founder and CTO of an ed-tech company called: amy.app . My co-founder and I scaled the company to about 25 employees. Before that I gained a PhD in Human Robot Interaction in NZ. Currently I'm exploring how LLMs, in particular vision, can be used to automate back office jobs. I'm very product/customer focused and pragmatic. I like to move super fast. My dream environment is an early-stage/full-remote startup.
PS: I have a family, that means the main compensation via shares isn't an option for me. PPS: to demonstrate my speed: Here is an LLM project I fully(!) developed within 48h. It even got some traction on HN: https://www.line-items.com/
There was: https://www.inflationtool.com/rates/portugal/historical?utm_...

I have heard a few stories about those times in the 70s and 80s where people were selling their properties and putting the money in the bank which was paying 20% interest.

A bitter lesson on the difference between the nominal Vs real value of money rapidly ensued.
Isn't the standard AI doom position that the government taking control just kills everyone a few years later? The money would be for research, not welfare or whatever the government would use it for.
> and about learning from our five senses

You can be born without 5 and still learn very well. If sound and vision are both missing before a critical age (e.g. Helen Keller lost hers at 19mo) it can affect cognitive development.
That's true. I think I still like the limits of an iframe as a design constraint, compared to web components where you have to explicitly make those decisions. But really what tips me into iframe land is when using a backend for the HTML page can unlock something you can't do otherwise.
I wonder if it's a hangover from its time in the Soviet bloc. This article seems to suggest so:

> As in the other former Soviet republics of Central Asia, the government of Tajikistan is fiercely secular while the people are mostly Muslim. The influence of Soviet communism on religion in the region should not be discounted, and fundamentally influences the relationship between people, their religion, and politics. In a paper published by Chatham House last November, John Heathershaw, and David W. Montgomery identify the claim that political Islam opposes the secular state as one of the six myths of post-Soviet Muslim radicalization in Central Asia. Myth or not, the worry that political Islam could challenge the establishment, persists.

https://thediplomat.com/2015/04/tajikistan-no-hajj-no-hijab-...
I'm always frustrated coding and debugging cause i'm next level :

(seriously though, liked the read and it makes me feel a bit more sane when i struggle to debug my own code! kind of feels weird that can happen but this puts a positive twist on it which i feel is likely quite true :))
They might delete it from their database, but it doesn't change the fact that it's been sold and shared in a way we can't also follow up and remove that information. There's no transparency. It not only implicates you, but your relations and future generations.

Genetic testing done through the hospital for a completely unrelated procedure can impact your life insurance. ( Example genetic testing for a child) Minnesota State Law prevents health insurance from changing. Laws need to protect right to know, not just right to use genetic information.
Did you read the whole comment? They say there was a batch script to comply with legal requirements.
Man... this stuff sucks. If I were panic, I would do the same... but I also wouldn't want to be the one at google to navigate this.

With Google Drive now being at the center of so many companies for storing business data, I am certain it is a juicy target, and third party access with full access to read and write to that big hard drive full of proprietary data is one that I would understand want to lock down... but not like this?

I don't think the market is anywhere near to shifting where business are going to dump google drive en masse, but as the ecosystem shrinks because so few companies can afford the cost to play in google's backyard, it does make me wonder how many companies are going to absolutely resent google, comparable to the way they resented oracle.
There are a few California towns that would have benefitted from buried power transmission lines in recent years.
Totally! The magic of using your print menu word doc as the website is its so little work to keep the site updated. No one really cares that a family restaurant in a Toronto suburb has a visually stunning website. You just want to see the menu, hours, address and phone number. It's always going to be updated, exactly the same content as the print menu that you actually pay from, and they already knew how to make things look legible in word.

It's actually even more charming than any solution we ended up providing because this particular restaurant (sadly closed now) was run by a 60-70ish year old man, who's cropped portrait photo was their logo, `float:left` in the header of their index.html exported from Word. I don't think you can buy authenticity like that.

I of course thought that was hilarious because I was 19, an idiot, with my first tech job thinking I'm such a professional cranking out CodeIgniter-based contact forms and static About Us pages.

Looking back, I'm pretty sure we did them dirty. Whatever solution we sold them on (IIRC, they got a wordpress site with a custom theme) was probably less useful. Which sucks.
Anyone who uses their personal iPhone and/or iCloud account for work is a moron.
Imagine how people would react if their operating system was so hilariously incapable of managing its responsibilities.

But when it comes to the management of the majority of our lives (the system we conduct our lives within, and according to), right thinking people insist on mediocrity.

There are many paradoxes like this in the world, but for some reason it is not possible to get minds to focus on them. I wonder what the underlying cause of this is...perhaps there is a causal relationship between the two phenomena in this case?
Car brands are collecting and sharing your data with third parties
> Taking GLP-1 meds without a program around them is like taking psychedelics without support/setting.

That's not really my experience. For myself, and the ten or so people I've persuaded to start taking them, nobody has really done much different other than listening to their body. I'd strongly encourage people to count calories to make sure they're eating enough, but I'd strongly encourage that of anyone who can't trust the hunger signals their body is throwing out in either direction.
The [sources] section in the Project.toml is one of my favourite features. It's so nice.
You're going to find 'health problems' with every pipe material. Even stainless steel will contain trace amounts of lead or another toxic metal.
Ordinateur in French, still.
> Even as a programmer, I've fallen into the static site generator trap a few times.

> It's annoying to start a side project with a static site generator and then realise I want to add a small feature and suddenly I wish I'd just started with a simple Rails or PHP app.

Hard to discuss without examples. I started using Pelican over a decade ago, and am still happy with it. Every once in a while I write code to customize the behavior, but it's once every few years. It's simple and just works.

There are things I miss from dynamic sites, but I don't see how a simple folder of HTML files is in any way superior to Pelican...
>Now the words are the same, but still determined completely arbitrarily.

That's the point it's not arbitrary under the new law. 'Best by' will mean peak quality and 'use by' will mean the last date safety is guaranteed. Previously 'best by' had no relationship to quality and was just a made up date to convince people their items were spoiling faster than they were. I suppose 'peak quality' for the best by date might feel arbitrary, but at least will need to be somewhat justified now.

I understand that the linked article is paywalled, but it's pretty easy to find other sources that aren't by googling words from the headline.
For me it is more Plato less Prozac, I read it at 14 and it really influenced me.