skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The conductor wages over the system as a whole are a large part of operating costs. Another issue you can have is a lack of conductors, which is a big issue in the Netherlands apparently.
> but I don't love waiting for program startup.

Question for curiosities sake, how many times per day do you start this program?

I've moved most of my tiny CLI utilities from Clojure to Babashka (with it's handy "cat together bb + your script" workflow) but all the rest is still Clojure, as I don't restart them very frequently.
Is bluesky safe to invest in? Do we have long-term guarantees regarding the protocol etc?

I'm thinking about it if I were a developer making their own clients and ecosystems to interface with bluestky/atproto
> this technology is a blocker for people who might otherwise be interested in an electric powertrain vehicle.

This surely isn’t a large group.
Oh, no, are people being _uncharitable_ to the billionaire?

Like, there are limits. There’s only so much assuming of good intentions that it is reasonable to do.
I mean I don't expect you'd have much of a quality explanation anyways when you're already resorting putting false words in their mouth...

The person you replied to didn't call it useless, they said "The ability to make anything interesting with the Spotify API just got flushed."

Seeing as "several interesting but free APIs" were deprecated (your own words) it's a very reasonable take: most applications of the Spotify application that did anything more than present a basic music player interfaces relied on one or more the deprecated features.
Krita works well for me on linux, but I get a lot of random crashes and weird graphics issues on Mac, It’s not worth it there for me. Not idea about windows.
But not discussed here, it appears.
Yes, 2019. Without any insider knowledge, I remember a Google update at the end of 2019 where they really went to shit, gone from "don't be evil" all the way to evil

It was actually later than I expected it to happen but it seems like distinct enough event that it's had reverberation all the way to the present.
You should be able to click at 75% on the scroll bar and immediately jump there, no grab and drag needed. MacOS still offers this option, but apps that reinvent the scroll bar never respect this system-wide setting.
It’s not something I’d find useful, and it wasn’t particularly amusing.

I will confess to enjoying bad AI _image_ generation, mind you. Look at the images on this website! https://theonlineaccountants.uk/file-company-accounts.htm

AI generated text generally just makes me cringe, tho.
I’m not precisely sure what problem the author is talking about. Is it the fact that some sites have built a business model around search results or is it that Google changed it search algorithm and they don’t like the way they are prioritized or is it something else?

It seems kind of unreasonable to expect Google to never experiment with their algorithm; and unfortunately at its core it is a zero sum game. You might be a winner today but a loser tomorrow.

if your concern is about revenue, sharing or referrals or ad placements or ??? then I would point out that it’s very unwise to build a business whose success is based entirely on the whims of another business.

I think search in general is becoming a very poor way to discover content as it is slowly getting planted by LLMs and also for years has been gamified by SEO.

I think that the right model for content discovery is either crowd sourced by a like-minded community, like hacker news or curated; if the curator or community drifts away from your interests, then you have to find a new one, but oddly enough, this can actually be done within the same framework.
Kagi. Used it and it is useful.

What is nice, is that it is small enough user base that it is not worth it for sites to spend a lot of effort on SEO for it.
Most vanishing scrollbars only show up if you mouse over them or use some other means to start scrolling; simply moving the cursor when it's over the content doesn't make them show up.
At the systems level it seems like a stable outcome. Workers don't want to be put on PIPs so if they react in a manner totally opposite what the manager wants and treat them as being fired then they cease to be effective. Managers now have to address performance problems without them or just fire them.

The kind of professional stoicism being advocated for actually makes you easy to mistreat. I feel so bad for my Gen X coworkers who seem to be conditioned that this is the only way to be and seem to have no concept of when they deserve better.
I’d like to believe I have at least an average IQ and I can’t pass half the google captchas.

Whether or not a square is part of the motorbike when it’s either the rider or a few pixels of the wheel is subjective and fuzzy. Fuck google for not making these questions clear cut enough that answers aren’t disputable.
There's lots of higher level libraries that can do this nicely. But there has to exist the low level socket API which actually allows all the weird options to exist. Like protocols without ports.
The federal government suppressing contract liberty in the name of consumer safety has no constitutional basis. It's only established because the constitution has been routinely ignored since the FDR administration undermined SCOTUS's independence in the 1930s.

And freedom to contract is a critical component of freedom of association. If you think living in a free society with your contract liberty intact is "kooky", you reject the foundation of a free society.
The complaint is that it was designed for lesser brains and lacks many features professionals expect, and that's pretty much an objective truth.
Pretty sure my 2018 Leaf doesn’t.
Nowadays I use ChatGPT to search the web. I am very impressed.
I do like Asian metro systems I use with screened entry to trains. But I also like seeing staff. Porque no los dos?
The interstate commerce clause was essentially a requirement on states to allow free trade across their borders with other states.

"Regulate" had a different meaning in 18th century English than it does today.
I bought a used van a few years ago at a strange time: I needed a particular kind of vehicle right away, and there broadly just weren't any at a reasonable price (because chip shortage, mostly). I spent a long time (several weeks) looking, and became increasingly frustrated with what would have normally been a simple process.

When one showed up at a good local dealership, I bought it. I barely looked at it first.

Unusual? Probably. But those were unusual times.

Anyway, it had a small metal toggle switch mounted under the dash. The old-school kind, with the metal tag painted with red and black On/Off silkscreen.

I never did figure out what it was for.

I had a peek more than once (of course) to see what it connected to, but it was just a Siamese pair of wires that drifted off to unseeable areas.

The only other modification I could find was a very neatly-installed remote starter.

And that remote start box did have a switch input (for valet mode, whatever that means), but it was not connected.

(It all got ruined in a crash a couple of months ago and the purpose of the switch shall thus remain a mystery.)
As an independent developer or author, every bit of time or money put into superficial things like a book cover is time or money that isn’t used for the content itself.
And another one:
https://worotyns.ovh/simple-scheduler-api-and-webcomponent-w...
Care to make it interesting?

What do you consider "dead" and what do you consider a reasonable timeframe for this to occur?

I have 60 or so years and $50.
Reference counting very much incurs a runtime cost; it's not just a compile time abstraction, like borrow-checking in Rust.
Is that why?

I get up to multiples of that on a push bike every day. The kids that rip past me do too.
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More to the point, staffing isn't setting the price of transport, it's subsidised almost everywhere. Sure. It's a cost. The cost:benefit here is more than just apparent budget impact because public transport is a utility function.
> keep the annoying captcha, but don't show one again for the lifetime of a cookie

This is already being done, there's a cookie and heuristics in place that will give you an easier captcha or occasionally skip it entirely. But 4chan really does have a couple (and I truly mean a small amount of super super dedicated users) of bad actors who constantly spam and try to work around any roadblocks given to annoy the rest of the userbase. You cannot give them a reliable way to spam no matter what. That's why there's now many country and region blocks in addition to your standard VPN/DC IP range blocks. Plus the Cloudflare check added a couple years ago.
We'd like to land initial BSN features within the next two cycles (obviously sooner is better than later).

We do have plans to upstream a physics plugin, but we aren't yet in a rush to do so, given how great the 3rd party options are. Once visual Bevy Editor workflows start being viable, the pressure to bless a physics plugin will go up I think.
Kagi. It’s completely replaced Google for me.
not the op here.

I don't, generally, disagree with you--there is no way every single one of them deeply identified as a Nazi--especially when coercion is involved.

However, as for the comparison with American slavery...many people stood up, said no to slavery, and lost lives because of it--they didn't just stick their head in the sand nor did they continue those ways since "everyone" else did, otherwise we would still have slavery. Maybe because this did not seem to happen in WWII Germany, or at least on a large enough scale of division within German loyalties, (as happened with American slavery), it bolsters the view of/comes across as WWII Germans full buy-in
No, you can get an M4 Max MacBook Pro for $3900. You guys keep quoting M4 pro as the M4 max, they aren’t the same chip. M4 pro MBP starts at $1999. Again, M4 pro != M4 max.

The page you linked to said as much.
The Everyday Traders Riding MicroStrategy's Furious Rally
>At a specific temperature, using specific materials.

The temperature of incandescent bulbs is directly related to the light that they give off, and tungsten is the obvious best material, there's no other materials on the horizon giving an improvement for the tech. It really is a pretty well understood tradeoff surface on a very mature technology (which was then displaced by completely different ones).
If there's one place on the web I would apply anonymity with great diligence, it would be posting any article that might put me at odds with the good people of 4Chan.

mostly kidding! mostly
> She is also full of praise for the country. “China is so advanced in roads, tunnels, buildings, infrastructure, and ports,”

Another Musk in China's pocket.

Elon Musk is full of criticisms for many governments. But has he ever criticized the Chinese government? Even once?

If there's a single example I'd like to see it.
Most automotive A/C compressors are either on or off, with the engine ECU commanding an overriding “off” under hard acceleration or when fuel economy or other situations require an interruption in cooling.

Some older temperature dials actually mixed the cold A/C air with the hot air from the heater core to make those in-between temperatures.
>>Never heard of it

Neither had I.

It sounds like a major part of their plan, to just behave as a silent process that can always be re-booted through whatever changes the device goes through. Best to keep that sort of thing obscure.
I'm also interested in this. They seem to have very similar UI
Or do the sensible thing, which is a proper active confirmation from customer's device. It's more convenient too -- you just scan the payment qr code with your bank's app and click confirm instead of entering any numbers.
The extension mechanism for the magnetometer looks amazing. Godspeed little probe.
Why Isn't There a fork of Signal?
Signal requires phone numbers for sign-up.

Why isn't there a fork of signal without phone number sign up?

That requires only a username for texting?
On the other hand, cars are much less limited in terms of sensor size (allowing you to determine location and acceleration more precisely, for example), power and permissions. In theory, root permission on your phone would be better, but a normal app won't have this amount of far-reaching permissions, but the manufacturerers have full control over hardware and software on your car.
Even if that were the law, you could disconnect the cameras or cover the lens.
> But I also self-moderate, deleting my own comments a minute after posting them if, seeing them in place, they seem too stupid.

I thought it was just me doing that.

I need to do it more. :(
How’s retirement? Stress levels?
David Marcus: How Libra Was Killed
> I'm a designer considering selfhosted Google Analytics alternatives

I wanted to ensure that you saw this currently on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42270389 (Show HN: Vince – A self hosted alternative to Google Analytics; 66 comments)
After Gonzales v Raich*, I don't think the interstate commerce clause has any practical limits.

* - https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/545/1/
It will probably still be fine. It's like that old joke about two guys walking through the woods who encounter a hostile bear. One of them starts looking for something to use to defend himself. The other tightens the laces on his shoes and is getting ready to run.

The first one says "Are you crazy? You can't outrun a bear!".

The second guy says "I don't have to outrun the bear. I only have to outrun you!" and takes off.

A large fraction of the people leaving X for Bluesky were OK with staying on Twitter when it was at the level of shit it was in 2021. All Bluesky needs to do is limit its shit level to that and it should do fine.
No, but you also shouldn't romanticize Bell Labs _too_ much. It was not exactly a fun place to work. You got a 2 year postdoc and then you were out, and those two years were absolutely brutal. Its existence was effectively an accounting fluke. Nothing like it really exists now because it would largely be seen as an inefficiency. Blame Jack Welch, McKinsey, KKR, HBS or whoever you like.
You think china is using uncensored news articles from western media to train its AI models?
Perfect trend on our speedway run to Idiocracy...

I guess it is just lacking having students drinking Gatorade at the same time that they "PDF to brainrot" study to ensure that they will be well educated. Because, as you know, "it gots electrolytes"...
You're either going to need to have a Digital Id, such as the Australian Govt myID, or something else to prove you're over 16. A burner email doesn't prove age, and that's what AusGov says they want to do.
You can still do it, you just need to do it in the EMC test chamber :P
Kagi has been mentioned a a half dozen times in this comment thread.
I’m just a dev, and don’t hang around parties in the Bahamas. Like I said, I’ve never met a single person who’s a grifter.

Calling out FTX is like doing background checks on the company you work for’s VCs, their LPs and then their associates. Nothing to do with crypto on the ground
Are they unaffected by the efficiency of London food supply chains?
But they won't be able to use YouTube to learn about their hobby or programming.
You may have heard of under the LoJack name, basically an anti-theft measure for laptops.
It usually comes with increase of active series and churn rate. Of course, you can scale Prometheus horizontally by adding more replicas and by sharding scrape targets. But at some point you'd like to achieve the following:

1. Global query view. Ability to get metrics from all Prometheis with one request. Or just simply not thinking which Prometheus has data you're looking for.

2. Resource usage management. No matter how you try, scrape targets can't be sharded perfectly. So you'll end up with some Prometheis using more resources than others. This could backfire in future in weird ways, reducing stability of the whole system.
What's Bolt? A search claims a ride sharing service, a Disney movie, and some shopping thing.
The simple answer is that you cannot do so with the LLM itself, which does not follow any instructions at all but just predicts, one token at a time, what an answer that looks like following the instructions might contain. That's very different from actually following instructions!

What you need is a "wrapper" application that audits and controls user input before submitting it to the LLM itself, and also examining and controlling the output before it is shown to the user.

You've just discovered the real "moat" in building practical LLM apps that go beyond chat.

You might like this article [0] that I wrote about how LLM models are built and why this is necessary.

[0] https://medium.com/gitconnected/something-from-nothing-d755f...
I am in as well, I have 50 or so years and $60 (though would gladly put $600k on this… :) )
Worth taking into account that a lot of Gen Z responding here are probably not very far in their career. It would be interesting to see how the other generations would have answered if they were at similar points in their life
> My wife is a professional translator and spends a good deal of time picking up the steaming wrecks that LLMs have left after someone went for the "cheap" option first. And we're talking best of breed stuff like DeepL here.

Just so we are clear, for Japanese to English translation, DeepL is hot garbage compared to a top class LLM with the right prompt. DeepL translations are basically unreadable, and regularly just cut sections out entirely! So I wouldn't call DeepL "best of breed" by any means, it's not even at the starting line. Can't comment on English <-> French/Spanish/German/etc though, never tried it with those.

In my case the epub was technically a replacement for a fan translation I was reading, which was decent enough, but with a simple script and instructions to keep the vibes of a light novel, it got very good, I remain impressed. Next I plan to convert it all to markdown to see if I can help encourage it to structure paragraphs properly, the html tags have so far limited it to line by line translation.

When I've experimented with officially translated works, meaning cases where I've translated the raw and compared it to the official, it's still not up to par, but good enough in my opinion. I'm not aware of any payed service that streamlines this yet though, not sure why. It's nothing like traditional MTL.

> As for the other points, I rather like to spend some time thinking on them personally. If you're not connected to the decision yourself, what are you?

What? It's a dialogue, a conversation, I bounce ideas off it and ask for advice to help guide the direction of my thinking, have you ever even used an LLM? I do this with my friends and co-workers too, do you not do this?

This comes off as a bit presumptuous, an LLM lacks executive thinking, if I'm not directing the conversation then the LLM has nothing to give.
I'm assuming by "significant" you mean an attack on critical infrastructure.

That's a strategic capability that very likely requires multiple attack chains, not a single exploit. For Western countries, cost is probably the least significant factor in deciding to use it.

One would want to be certain that option is available, but only when absolutely necessary. Using it on a random Tuesday would take that particular option off the table forever. Best case scenario, Russia discovers the means by which the attack was carried out. Worst case, they retaliate with nuclear weapons.

Globally, I believe there are only a few countries capable of executing such a plan.
Devika
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> Could a manufacturer placing this on a PC be considered material support of terrorism?

No.
In a sentence, the theory is that as search added optimization layer based on ML, after optimization layer based on ML, it's nigh-debuggable.

Put another way, Google launched 1000 experiments that got +0.2% CTR and seemed innocuous, and now they have a system that only wants to give out Reddit and Quora links.

I've seen this story on Google's private Blind section multiple times. Usually, coupled to discussion about a more cautionary approach taken by the pre-2020 head of search, who was worried about this outcome.

IMHO they're feeling out the same outcome without the benefit of the above knowledge. I don't see this theory well-understood outside Googlers, modulo a pair of popular blog posts, whose name I can't recall, that hit the nail on the head.

(disclaimer: xoogler as of oct 2023, didn't work on search)
> it’s very unwise to build a business whose success is based entirely on the whims of another business.

Show me a business free of dependencies and I'll eat my hat.
What exactly does “financially successful” mean? Is this just a vibes thing? By all accounts, making 600k/yr is wildly successful. Very few people who are Gen Z would be making this, as the oldest of the Gen Z cohort is only 27.
For once the article is more interesting than the HN discussion.

Note, though, that this is only about engineering. “The science comes later.” The probe is still months from Mars on its way to Jupiter. Wait for 2030.
There's a class of conservative troll who asserts that despite gender having a well understood definition, they have their own dialect where sex and gender have the same definition and everyone else who doesn't share that is wrong. They stick their heads in the sand and assert that theirs is the only truth, just as in the example you posted. There isn't a "both sides" thing here, words have specific definitions and "gender" is one that people decided to make a political statement of by aggressively pretending to be ignorant of it.

Having a problem with the above is frequently conflated with being a purity test or having some sort of ideological bend, but it's really some anti-social people trying to start fights about definitions. The people posting these things know exactly what they are doing, and the rest of the world has zero obligation to tolerate them doing so in public.

These people have no motive or contribution beyond attempting to tear down community and start fights, and therefore should be removed from places that want to have communities and not fights.
i hope this is ai generated...

but anyhow, the part about the lame personality (they are prompted as branding now) were the main focus of the current AI renascence, which everyone likes to lie to themselves started with attention paper, when in reality is started with a new wave of companion bots, which ironically were praise for adapting their personality really well.
Wouldn't it be a beautiful world if wine could keep Europe alive in case of an all-out war
A book's cover is a strong signal of its content and quality. You absolutely should judge books by their covers.

This isn't an accident. Publishers put a lot of effort into ensuring covers send accurate signals about the contents of the book. A book with a garbage cover didn't come through the modern publishing process, and it didn't get made by someone who cares enough about their book to put actual effort into the cover. The percentage of books that will be worthwhile with a bad cover is vanishingly small. To a first approximation, it's 0%.

It's very reasonable to judge a book by its cover these days. It's an intentional signal; covers aren't chosen at random. If you intend your book to be taken seriously, you need to keep up with modern standards.
Also the article did a terrible job by confusing LLM and AI query results with Google’s not-LLM search engine.

And yes, like you alluded to, search engines aren’t the only way to acquire your readership or regular customers. Some media outlets basically don’t even use search engines to drive traffic, like so many social media based businesses out there. There are hundreds of thousands of businesses that barely have a linktree page.