skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The short story is that Good Enough has put a handful of (hopefully) delightful things into the world: https://goodenough.us/

Putting things into the world means getting emails. Being a team means juggling said emails about things amongst several people.

Enter the Shared Fastmail Account.

"Oh! A new email. Click. Oh, this isn’t really for me. Mark as unread. Or did someone else already read this, mark as unread, and think it was for me? I guess I will go talk to..." And, you know, two dozen variations on that theme. It sucked as a way to work together.

what benefits does this provide over something like Slack or Discord for small teams?

We use Slack at Good Enough. It’s nifty. We even have a Jelly + Slack integration (and we use that too)! That said, the problem I described isn’t really solved by Slack. (Maybe Discord if you’re in a space that can funnel interactions there, but obviously there’s a lot of businesses who aren’t, and there’s a lot of drawbacks to using Discord as your only communication medium.)

Email is still widely used and wildly useful. We think being able to collaborate on emails as a team, with clear expectations about who is handling what and visibility on all the back and forth, is really helpful. We’ve been using it to scratch our own itch from day one, and we suspect it will be of interest to others as well!

Let me know if any of that didn’t make sense or you have any other questions.
You don’t press it very often and this makes it harder to press accidentally (eg putting stuff on top of the computer or a curious cat). I very rarely use the power button on a computer but maybe we behave differently.
> a homework help company called Chegg uwu

That's a very charitable take on that site. I'd call it a site where people pay money for solutions to assignments they can't be assed to complete themselves.
Assault an beatings. Most people I know wont take BART through Oakland. It is fairly common to have to deal with mentally ill or high people threatening to gut and kill you.

If you have ever been trapped in a box with an angry psychotic, you would want to avoid it.
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cooklang is very nice but not all parsers seem willing to display comments or metadata. Eg there are two plugins for obsidian but neither seems willing to display the recipe description or anything else that isn’t a step.

You might also want to consider why you want your recipes to be machine readable. I loved the idea in theory but unless you’ve integrated this with your smart larder/fridge or something it might not be useful.
> Or why no EU company came up with an OS that could fight Mac OS or Windows.

They sort of did. For a while Symbian had two thirds of the smartphone OS market. And the real winner in the global OS marketplace today is Linux (I'm including Android here, though you could debate that), which started out life as European. But I do agree about investment opportunities.
It says "over $100/m", but these addons are all $10-20 USD each, and it implies more than the list. With just a few of the common ones it's easy to reach $125/m and the approach seems to be to get all of them. Up to $200 is quite likely.

That would be 72k USD which is a salary. Admittedly not a software engineer salary, but a significantly above average US salary. Selling the idea of getting another employee is a big deal for most businesses of 30 people.
> There are, of course, tons of “processed” foods that people have eaten for a very long time without getting sick. The French Paradox is just one example, people used to eat white flour, white sugar, butter, heavy cream, and fatty meat, and combine them all.

> If you can’t explain why those people were thin & healthy, there’s a hole in your theory.

Because they don't eat a lot? Sure a croissant is just butter and white flour, but if you eat only one with a bit more butter and a black coffee that's like 250 calories for breakfast.

Despite the (frankly approximative) "excess" section, in my opinion that's truly the crux of the issue. If you eat smaller portions you get fewer calories. I never tried it but I would bet that you can eat fries every day as long as it's in the McDonald "small" format.
Thanks for your kind reply. In my occasional explorations over the years, that, too, is basically the gist of what I've gathered.

F#, being based upon the .NET compiler and runtime, allows specific targeting of both int size and signedness. I'm surprised that OCaml doesn't also allow that, seeing as its compiler has a long pedigree with respect to both programming contests and real-world hardcore software systems (such as trading desk software). I remember first learning of it around two decades ago as a team used it to win the ICFP contest. I guess that such specificity is just outside of the concerns of the OCaml folks.
I'm going to guess that this was at Google, sometimes they structured visiting faculty as interns (Geoff Hinton was Jeff Dean's intern).
> Clearly, humans need energy. If there is a certain amount of energy we need daily, why would it matter if we consumed a calorically dense food (say, butter) or if we consumed the same food + a bunch of non-food with high volume or mass?

Because hunger isn't just caused by the calorie bar maxing out, it's caused by your stomach's sensations.

If I could take a 2000 calorie pill and never eat, it would be uncomfortable for weeks and months, and I doubt it would ever be comfortable (though my stomach would adjust and shrink, this has its own negative effects).

I don't know a ton about nutrition, but I know for certain that when I eat foods that are less calorie dense, I feel full for longer, which helps me avoid cravings

I also fail to see the author's evidence against CICO, at least when it comes to weight loss. Sure, I won't go defining it as good or bad circularly, but I can say with certainty that calories determine your weight change, and if you eat fewer calories than you expend, then you *will* lose weight.
Exactly. Homework is one of the best areas for ChatGPT. My daughter uses it for French -- and while I'm sure its probably sometimes wrong (I actually don't speak French), it has helped my daughter to a 99% so far in her class. She considers it her own private tutor. It generates quizzes for her, explains not only what the answer is, but why she probably answered the way that she did -- the number of times my daughter has said, "Oh, now that makes sense!" has been plenty.
They are saying there is safety in crowds.

>It's hard to coordinate, say, 20 people to rob you (one guy).
> We could dig a big further and ask why computer were able to handle alphabet characters before hiragana for instance.

JIS X 0201 was released in 1969 and widely adopted on mainframe systems in the 1970s. It supports a modified form of Katakana (“half-width”) as well as the Latin alphabet in a 7 or 8 bit encoding. 8-bit encodings supported both, for 7-bit you could switch between Katakana and Latin using control characters. So, by the 1970s you could already do Japanese language computing if you limited yourself to katakana and romaji.

Kanji took longer because there are too many characters for a 7/8-bit code and their visual complexity required more advanced display hardware, but already in 1971 IBM was selling their “IBM Kanji System” which contained specialised software, printers and keypunches to support Kanji on IBM S/360 mainframes. In 1979 IBM added support for 3270 terminals (with additional Kanji circuitry) to enable Kanji in interactive as opposed to batch mode punched card computing.

Early systems without kanji support generally used katakana rather than hiragana, because if writing everything in katakana looks weird to Japanese speakers, doing the same thing in hiragana looks even weirder. Also, the “blockier” shape of katakana makes it more legible than hiragana on low resolution displays.

> Or why no EU company came up with an OS that could fight Mac OS or Windows.

In the 1990s, Oracle licensed RISC OS from Acorn in the UK, and sold it in the US as Oracle NCOS (Network Computer Operating System). But the whole “network computer” thing was never as successful as its backers had hoped.
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I meant he pronounced it two different ways when he was too angry to fake it. Was that not apparent in the post, or were you just being a prick?
> As a dev, I shouldn't have to care about responsive designs or tech stacks or accessibility or versions of node libraries, all to provide a website.

This sounds like, “As a carpenter, I shouldn’t have to care about types of wood, or saws, or cuts, or ergonomics, all to make a chair.”
But can you play Doom on them?
I don't think it is at all, it is just shaping into different forms. A lot of AI solutions are trivial still and we are long way from sophisticated ones.

I think people affected, which is most of us, are really hurting and want this to be true.
> Japan simply missed the opportunity to develop a globally relevant PC software industry.

The PC software industry was organized around American operating systems that couldn't even display Japanese text without having your path separating backslash turn into a yen symbol.

Pretty much nobody outside of the USA or USA-based multinationals developed a globally relevant PC (no non-PC) software industry.

There are only some rare exceptions to this like SAP (German).

All the American software was developed for English speakers, with internationalization as an afterthought. Not for the global market at all.

You could not take this approach in Japan, like oh, I'm gonna write a word processor for people here in Japan and then we will throw it over the wall to an i18n team to internationalize it and sell it everywhere else.
The problem is that there is a misalignment of incentives. In this scenario, the execs wanted the hire done, so seeing the long odds on that happening motivated them to do the hire, and it got done and they were happy. But from the point of view of the bettors, they just lost their bet! The next time they make a bet, they will remember this and avoid betting on markets like this (ones where execs can read the market and change course) and so those markets will have fewer informed bettors.

The execs will then end up with lightly-traded, inaccurate markets on events they control, but probably still reasonably accurate predictions on events that they can't. That is maybe still useful, but it means you will have to think hard about the nature of each market before offering contracts on it, which may not really be easier than just doing the forecasting some other way.
The problem with BCNF is generally that you're enforcing a generally fairly complex and subject-to-change relation at database level rather than application logic.
A recent report had OpenAI and Athropic's API revenues as roughly equal, but OpenAI having considerably more chat subscriber revenue.
I won a science fair when I was a kid doing this with a 286; it worked great except for all of the condensation :D
Several years ago I had a similar situation: Company was discontinuing a product that sold poorly except with enthusiasts. Some of us wanted to open source it.

I don’t know how or why, but after pushing on legal for months the only solution they came up with was for us to post the code on an unattributed GitHub account. If asked about it we were supposed to shrug and imply that it was a leak without saying anything.

I do now know why legal came to that conclusion because nobody wanted to ask for details before they changed their mind. This legal department was very conservative on most matters so the decision surprised us.
The purpose of our work wasn’t scraping - we were building a unified UI where our users could trade with any vendor of their choosing. Kinda like Plaid but specifically for retail stock trading. So the goal was to implement their trading API.
This vulnerability CVE-2024-50252 is about IPv6 parsing in linux

Edit: Not about nvidia drivers like OP posted, but has since edited.
It’s two decades of experience speaking. I didn’t speak about managers though. I was a manager for a couple of years before my undiagnosed ADHD made itself know when I had my first baby. Management has nothing to do with project management. I’m solely speaking about the horde of pseudo jobbers who work as middlemen between developers and whatever it is that developers are supposed to do. I’ve never encountered one which wasn’t a waste of resources except for business process and lean consultants who would actually do change management on the business side before anyone attempted doing any form of digitalisation.

I probably should have said “won’t code anymore” because that is what I meant. It’s the developers who become project managers, architects, agile whatever. Luckily I don’t have to deal with that anymore because I’ve become specialised in helping startups in-fuck their chaos as they transition into enterprise organisations. Many of them never make it because of how their internal processes are hindered by all sorts of “best practices”.

This doesn’t mean that there aren’t excellent project managers out there. As I said, I’ve worked with some myself. Far too often project managers don’t actually do anything. I recently worked a team which has 1 PM, 1 Manager, 3 IT business partners and one architect in front of two developers. Today they have two developers and one IT business partner, who’s really an accountant that got into coding because he liked it. But is now capable of explaining the business to the developers.

It’s obviously not like that everywhere and I’m happy for you if you’ve had a better track record than me. I would argue that it is perhaps you who lack the experience that you seem to think I do. Because it’s not just on SWE you’ll find an abundance of bullshit jobs once an organisation reaches 100-500 employees.
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NO!

Thanks for the heads up! We’ll crack open the CSS...
Yes, I would get bored of using the same stack for many years straight.
You're making the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy. Posh coffee didn't become a "thing" because of starbucks. Starbucks became a "thing" because of emerging posh coffee trends, which created a market for starbucks in the first place.

The thing you're missing is that, you go to a starbucks, which promises to sell you posh coffee, but it may be good, or it may be crap, and it's all down to luck whether the barista gives a crap about your "posh" coffee. Whereas if you go to a small business owner whose business is posh coffee, you can probably expect a great coffee (or if they don't, then you expect the place to soon go out of business)
I do like the 'adding friction' method they outlined - much easier than the willpower method which I have tried many times and failed with.
I love Tesla, I own the stock, but I don't think they can be considered comparable until they have a live autonomous taxi service that regular people can call from their phones and regularly rave about.
> Fake hearing aids, or dangerous ones, would get rooted out quick.

Ah and here I think we disagree the most - because in everything else you say, I think we are in agreement.

IMHO, the only thing keeping Alibaba and their dropshipper "friends" on Amazon and eBay scamming off elderly people with worthless junk is the legal protection. The scam problem is massive enough that it's gotten really annoying to shop on Amazon, and I say that as a "digital native" - remove the paperwork and you'll get the digital equivalent of ambulance chaser lawyers in less than a month. Scam "hearing aids" would not get rooted out - they'd infest the world.
Frankly telegram is the easiest to integrate with bots… I know, I’ve been down the same rabbit hole
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Maybe for a little server or something, but with the hard to upgrade 256GB storage.. I don't get the appeal. Also 16GB of memory is extremely limited these days. Again, perfect for a little server, but not for a daily driver.
If time is money, how much would it cost you to play with those configs vs getting the MacBook? Every time I've done the math, I end up leaning towards the MacBook.
When do you turn it off? I have a Mac M1 Studio and I just let it sleep. If things get weird I reboot. I think I recall using the power button about a year ago after returning from vacation after I had shut it down.
Definitely exploded in London, especially post-covid. Source; used to work for a supermarket. Shrinkage has exploded and staff are rightfully told not to intervene because some of them get quite stabby.
You could say that RAM has had diminishing returns. My laptop has 26,214x the RAM of my original PC. It is certainly way more capable, but is it 26,214x more capable? After all, diminishing returns are still returns.

I still think that Anthropic's latest mini model performing better than their best model from 12-months ago suggests that we are far from meaningfully diminishing returns.
It doesn't matter if some company turns a profit. AI is out of the box. I can run llama at home on a 3070 and it does a pretty serviceable job. It's not going to go away and it's not going to get any worse. Whether or not X company survives isn't relevant. There are plenty of auto companies that didn't survive idk 1910 but cars didn't go away. Tech doesn't go away if it's clearly useful.
SheerID already exists and can differentiate between alumni and current students. Apple just needs to decide it's worth it (thus far, they haven't).
Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is an LLM that can code well that runs on my Mac
Indeed, your post has no meaning either way.

You can be coy all you want, software named BIGFATCOCK isn't going to be used in K12 setting or government/corporate environments in English-speaking countries, and neither is GIMP.

To get things out of the way: BIGFATCOCK does not mean anything offensive in languages other than English, and there's nothing wrong with big, fat cocks.

It's just a bad name for e.g. spreadsheet software, as the established meaning of the name has nothing to do with the functionality of the software.

Same with GIMP. You can stick fingers in your ears and scream "la la la" all day long, and wonder why GIMP isn't picking up steam like Blender did for the next 20 years — your call.
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Can't wait for them to move up to Seattle. We're basically San Francisco with slightly easier hills and more rain/occasional ice, so seems like a good candidate.
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Author might have had a point but it's lost in the overly antagonistic and try-hard to be funny writing.

Reading this kind of stuff is so tiring.
Stories about Qwen2.5 haven't managed to get much traction on Hacker News so far - here's a thread that got 20 votes and 6 comments the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42096027
I might be missing some crucial context, or maybe it's because I’m not well-versed in the diet and nutrition world, but it seems like the author is creating straw men to easily tear them down.

On the other hand, I do agree with the author that there’s no clear consensus on the basics. Saying that “everyone knows what’s healthy” either shows a lack of knowledge or plain dishonesty.
I prefer lower case for my personal legibility reasons and it seems like a prettyfier should be able to adjust to that user’s preference. It’s not a team sport for me so I never had a conflict of styles other than converting public code samples to match my way.
At the end of the day, AI is integration.

If it's not grounded in the right, updated contexts or provided tools to interact with the apps a user cares about... it's a glorified chatbot.

I expect what we'll see in the next 5 years for enterprise adoption is progress on both those fronts.

And by progress, I mean "supports interactions with that VB 6 app that's still a critical piece of a company's workflow." (Or SAP, Salesforce, Epic, etc.)
How do they live without ID? You need ID to open a bank account, cash checks, collect benefits, get a job...
NAND card is replaceable in a proprietary socket. So you don’t have to worry. It probably is not upgradable but you can definitely replace it.
That's a valid concern but I personally avoid going into this rabbit hole just for the sake of my (already fragile) sanity.

Speaking of issues, the other one with these low cost mini PCs is low-quality SSDs. The one that my UN100D was supplied with was pure garboleum in terms of speed so it had to be replaced.
Or just use it in Australia. Or Antarctica. Etc.
I would say Oakland BART. I'm a 200 man and not particularly fearful. I couch surfed through the arab spring revolution, but I avoid that part of BART. I have like a 50% rate of hostile homeless and mentally ill people screaming and threating me. I would not send a 12 year old daughter on it.
I think if you work in an analysis of the exception to the rule - the success of Japan's outsize piece of the gaming industry - you'll have something really, really compelling.
While I am sure there are performance differences, I picked up 128GB of DDR4 a few months ago for ~$200. That is some wild margin.
Eight million in the labour force, that's quite a number.