skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure, that by this logic, if you combine all the "$15/month" things that someone should have money for, they'll eventually be left without any of that money. Every goddamn website wants $15 per month, and even after they get it, they still show you ads. Even youtube, if nothing else, there are the in-video ads ("this video is sponsored by,...") that an adblock skips.
I wish my ide would type correct the llm. When the funchion doesn't exist look for one with a similar name (often case is differnt or someother thing), also show me the prarmeter option because the llm never gets order right and often skips one.
This is a great design!
Ah, that explains why there aren't thousands of years worth of dead penguins down there.
> Modern cameras have made people focus more on the technical and less on the art.

It's not modern cameras that have done that. It's the fact that technology reduces the relevance of human experience, so that the only way for people to feel a sense of relating is by talking about gear, and that sense is superficial indeed.
As far as I know the engineering standards within Yamaha are excellent
and consistent. From what I've heard DX9 patches sound perfect from
DX7 but without velocity, and TX7, TX816 and other modules sound
identical. Also DX7 patches import perfectly into later Yamaha FM
products.

About variance; I'm talking about the design of emulators. There's
quite a lot of VSTs and other plugins (that all sound amazing) but the
same patch doesn't necessarily sound identical on each. Two classic
voices to test from the original ROM presets are Tuberise and
GrandPNO2.

BTW these are digital oscillators so temperatures and component
tolerances are not a factor.
:hide: thanks for pointing out this embarrassing plunder. No excuse, just feeling silly especially after being so careful throughout the rust base. It's fixed now. Please keep yelling if you find more issues
Yeah, this guy’s an asshole.
Please do yourself a favour and download a proper podcast client. There are so many great ones out there, they’re often from independent developers, and podcasts are one of the last parts of the modern web that actually work how the web was supposed to work: decentralised* and open access. Don’t let media giants turn it into a closed system.

* the elephant in the room being that the iTunes podcast directory is the de-facto standard index. It’s freely available, but the fact that it could be withdrawn at any time is not great. Projects like https://podcastindex.org/ are trying to address that.
Don't Go with the Flow
I don't think remembering the meaning of icons is easier, because in order to think about it you have to be able to pronounce it inside your head.

And code isn't just linear, it can be spread across multiple files in a directory tree, functions can can each other, etc.
That's the 4000, essentially.
Yep. Elephant in the room of media economics.

Look at ads on daytime broadcast TV and it is: medicare advantage, something you can get from medicare, a medicare scam, personal injury lawyer, some drug your insurance might pay for, personal injury lawyer #2. Ads for something you spend your own money on are few and far between (maybe you will get a car ad because if nobody bought a car who'd get hit by a car and call William Matar?)

People in that demographic don't have money to spend so they get subprime ads.

In the day newspapers and magazines thought about the balance of ad and subscription revenue a lot.

On top of (1) people have money for a subscription being better qualified than people who don't, (2) people who are motivated to get a subscription are qualified because they care about the topic (you can get a free magazine about construction equipment but you'd better convince them you are really in the industry) and (3) in the current era, subscribers give up their name and other personal details and will be more definitely tracked.
As long as I can enter my Zalgo[1] username, I'm fine with your suggestion.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zalgo_text
Once you've set up the plugins and private browsing API keys there's no more friction is there? I found the iOS Safari extension buggy for a bit, but I haven't had any issues for quite a while now. The price does make me wince once in a while though. What are you using instead?
It is always possible to have several tiers of subscriptions, a cheap tier with some additional feature and ads, and a higher tier with no ads at all.

I am perfectly willing to pay extra to support a website or service that I'm using, but only if it removes all ads.
> HR had politically captured every department

Could you elaborate if you can?
As has been belabored, these AIs are just models, which also means they are only software. Would you be so fire-and-brimstone if startups were using software on healthcare diagnostic data?

> Very few are paying any attention to the 2-10% of safety problems when the AI probability goes off the correct path.

This isn't how it works. It goes on a less common but still correct path.

If anything, I agree with other commenters that model training curation may become necessary to truly make a generalized model that is also ethical but I think the generalized model is kind of like an "everything app" in that it's a jack of all trades, master of none.
Over-planning often comes from a place of management wanting observability and predictability. They want to be in control and know all the risks.

This ends up
inversing all of the agile
Manifesto.

* Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

* Working software over comprehensive documentation

* Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

* Responding to change over following a plan
For me it's a small issue with full screen (including borderless iirc) games causing the display to black out for a few seconds.

I don't think it's an issue until you notice. I only noticed because I toggle HDR for some games and at 1440p240hz, the difference is just enough to not need DSC
Show HN: Prompt Engine – Auto pick LLMs based on your prompts
Nowadays, a common AI tech stack has hundreds of different prompts running across different LLMs.

Three key problems:

- Choices, picking from 100s of LLMs the best LLM for that 1 prompt is gonna be challenging, you're probably not picking the most optimized LLM for a prompt you wrote.

- Scaling/Upgrading, similar to choices but you want to keep consistency of your output even when models depreciate or configurations change.

- Prompt management is scary, if something works, you'll never want to touch it but you should be able to without fear of everything breaking.

So we launched Prompt Engine which automatically runs your prompts for you on the best LLM every single time with all the tools like internet access. You can also store prompts for reusability and caching which increases performance on every run.

How it works?

tldr, we built a really small model that is trained on datasets comparing 100s of LLMs that can automatically pick a model based on your prompt.

Here's an article explaining the details: https://jigsawstack.com/blog/jigsawstack-mixture-of-agents-m...
> That’s why newspapers had classified ads, even though they charged a nominal fee to subscribe.

My assumption is that the salaries of reporters, editors was paid for by ads.

The nominal fee for the paper was to pay for the pulp, ink. I mean if you just printed up millions of papers and gave them away, people would pick them up simply as raw material for lining their bird cages, for papier-mâché, to insulate their cardboard box home on the corner of 12th and Main.....
Good luck bringing everyone together. There's still a ton of Microsoft software that relies on the presence of the BOM [1], despite practically everyone else not using it. And bidirectional rsync between practically everything else and a Mac still requires `--iconv=utf-8,utf-8-mac` to avoid problems because of homographs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark
I actually suspect the opposite. If you get access to or steal a large LLM you can potentially massively leverage the talent pool you have as a small country.
I'm not a big believer in this. It simply doesn't scale. So I might donate chunks of income to 1, 2, maybe 5 or 10 people like this. What about everyone else? It's not a fair system. I engage with lots of youtube channels, read lots of things on dozens/hundreds of websites. Add a few podcasts to the mix and it starts adding up to quite a lot of mouths to feed with individual donations. It's not reasonable for all of them to expect something from me.

At least with Spotify and Netflix there is some kind of rev share thing in place. It's not very fair of course and a bit biased towards rewarding content creators that I don't necessarily like (or are in need of more money). But it's better than having to cherry pick creators. Somehow publishers have resisted creating such a thing for written media. We have this broken model of ad supported media and media outlets taking most of that revenue and paying really shitty wages to journalists, many of whom are working on a freelance basis and get paid pitiful amounts per word. Why do we have all these middlemen?
> But if it was retaliation I’m sure it would be ok.

I certainly wouldn't cry over some Russians in Moscow feeling the impact of their own war. But unfortunately, Russia's trolls would instantly spin even an immediate reaction to the bombing of an UA power plant in a negative way.
By the letter of the law these cookie paywalls are actually illegal. I assume the news sites are intentionally taking the risk till there is legal clarification/precedent.

I wish them that the EU comes crashing down with a hammer and demands all ad revenue of that time back.
True, but I bet you lift that for loop many times a day.
First one is due to me asking it to return a 4 tuple instead of a list for the rgba_255 specifically, I guess it didn't update Readme or other return values.

The second is an artefact of a test case failing, which it tried to fix it using this check. Thankfully not a correctness failure, only optimisation issue.

You're right though it's not worth publishing for general public.
> He had a legally enforceable mandate to maximize shareholder value.

[citation needed]

There is no legal basis for this:

* https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2012/06/26/the-shareholder-v...

* https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/09/09/how-t...

* https://evonomics.com/maximizing-shareholder-value-dumbest-i...

It is simply one view that just happened to become popular during the Reagan years and has continued on:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedman_doctrine

And while we're at it, shareholders are not the owners of a corporation:

* https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2021/12/who-actually-own...
I mean... You'd think? That's definitely the motivation behind a lot of bombers.

But one of the more resilient findings of 20th century warfare is that terror-bombing does not work to pacify a people's will from the bottom-up, only their pulse. It strengthens resolve in some people, in AT LEAST equal measure to weakening it in others.
You still can't copy a picture out of a teams chat and paste it into an office document without jumping through hoops. It's utterly horrible. The only thing that prevents people from complaining about it is that it's completely in line with the rest of the office drone experience.
But GitHub enterprise is not a great product. So the other around, I wouldn't want to call Github a credible competitor to Gitlab.
It isn't. Targeted ads are much more valuable, to the point that fully random ads have almost no value at all. Btw. you can tell. If you regularly delete cookies you get much fewer ads. They like to say that if you don't allow/keep cookies, you get the same amount of ads, just less relevant. But that just isn't the case.

If browsers had the functionality to only preserve cookies that are needed to stay logged in across sessions, that would be quite powerful. That is all the cookies I need.
I can't think of any other product that makes it to the HN frontpage so consistently. I guess Kagi really hits the bullseye in terms of HN as a target audience.
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That doesn't really address the question they asked, which is more about whether or not it should be illegal rather than whether or not it is consistent.

Your earlier comment justified it being illegal on the grounds that US companies bribing foreign governments is anti-competitive against other US companies that do not do so.

That's an economic justification, not a moral justification. But if we are considering it economically rather than morally then we do have to consider what happens in the case of a foreign country where bribery is common and there are companies other than US companies that are competing there.

In that case not allowing US companies to bribe does indeed level competition among US companies--they all lose equally to non-US companies. Is that actually a better economic outcome than allowing US companies to bribe (and thus compete with foreign companies) in countries where bribery is normal?

That's a complicated question.

It also might be a national security question if we continue heading into a new cold war kind of world. Is it better to have US companies operating in countries the US would like to influence even if those companies have to bribe to do so, or for US companies to stay out and cede influence to companies from countries on the others sides of that cold war?
A phenomena so common it has a name:

https://medium.com/geekculture/the-dead-sea-effect-d71df1372...
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"It's terrifying," the article ends.

Yes! Even without vigilantism, when society places a great deal of trust in you you are supposed to live with a certain level of fear that if you abuse that trust society will impose upon you life-destroying consequences.

It feels like it should be terrifying for Silicon Valley too, another group of very rich and powerful people who tell themselves that everything they do is for the benefit of society while actually most people make their bread and butter on technology whose benefits to society are quickly consumed by anti-competition and that familiar attitude of overwhelming negligence towards human harm where it is caused.
The Future Is Private Compute Through Homomorphic Encryption
The National Security Agency and the EC-121 Shootdown [pdf]
Scientific Breakthroughs of 2024
I sincerely hope it's not Broadcom. A 10x price increase would scare away a lot of customers.
Samsung is in TX too
Good point. I suppose the theoretical utility of advertisement is to supply information to consumers about what the market offers so consumers can seek out suppliers that fulfill their demands. Supplying that kind of information to consumers provides utility for both the supplier and the consumer. This goal can also be accomplished without unsolicited advertisement but using directories where consumers can look up suppliers based on their needs.

Unsolicited advertisement tries to induce a sense of demand in consumers which they didn't have to begin with. This is done using many different tactics, e.g. by disguising the true cost, exaggerating the benefits or simply misinforming. This tips the utility in favor of the supplier while making it harder for the consumer to navigate the market.
There will be quite the aftermath in the Israel/Palestine conflict for that. No matter what, the ICC investigation is here to stay - and both sides will have to face justice.

For Russia/Ukraine I'm less certain that anything will come around because even if Russia gets driven out of Ukraine in its entirety, there is zero chance any Russian will be held accountable by anyone on the world stage.
Zero-Based Regulation [pdf]
I've been a dev for 20 years. I recently watched a YT video of a non-developer putting together an iOS app, from scratch, using Cursor Composer. I can't vouch for the legitimacy of his claim at not being a dev, but some of the language used to describe things definitely suggested they were not.

Anyway, it was pretty impressive. I decided, having never used Swift and having never built a 2D iOS game, to give it a go myself. In just a couple of evenings, I have a playable prototype that I confidently say would've taken me weeks to get to on my own.

And I'm learning Swift. Reading open-source projects or Swift tutorials is one thing , but seeing code written to satisfy a prompt request - that provides an entirely different level of early comprehension.
I worked at a number of free tabloid newspapers in my day (one small-town exurban, one mid-sized car-centric metro area, one metro area where most people took public transit) and I will say that most people did not do this. Usually they just left the papers on the train or at the coffee shop.

Nonetheless, the first half of your point—the ads usually paid for all the reporting—is correct.
> in order to think about it you have to be able to pronounce it inside your head.

I'm not sure this is universal.
The problem is: advertisers will argue that if you're offering a tier of service that removes ads, that's specifically going to be the most appealing to the group of your user-base that has the most money to spend and whom is most ready to spend it, evidenced by the fact that they have subscribed to your ad-free tier, and is therefore worth the most in terms of reaching with ads. Those people are self-selecting as the most responsive to being appealed to to buy things, which is what your advertisers want.

This is why the "subscribe to remove ads" thing never took off in a big way. Users love it, but advertisers hate it and it craters the value of the ad space you sell to whomever doesn't think it's worth it/can't afford it.
Show HN: Pages CMS 1.0.0 – Open-Source CMS for Static Sites (Next.js, Astro...)
Back in March, I launched Pages CMS [1] on "Show HN" [2]. It’s a user-friendly CMS for managing the content of static sites (or apps) on GitHub.

Some people liked it, so I kept working on it. A couple of months in, I hit a wall as the initial version was a simple Vue.js app with a couple of serverless functions.

So I bit the bullet, rewrote the whole thing with Next.js, and got sucked into the React/TypeScript rabbit hole. I finally got around to releasing the new version.

It's a complete rewrite, so I thought I'd post it here once more:

- Built with Next.js 14 (App Router), shadcn/ui [3], drizzle [4], and lucia [5]. I'm also using Vercel, Turso [6] and Resend [7].

- 100% free and Open Source [8], even including the "Pro" features I was working on (e.g. ability to invite users by email).

- Better security and fine-grained GitHub permissions.

- Improved UX: Notion-like editor, better repo search, etc.

- A hundred other things, big and small, have been added or fixed.

Hope some find it useful.

And maybe a few even feel like contributing. There is a list of features on the roadmap that I could use some help with (e.g. 3rd party file storage, analytics and build integration, etc).

---

[1]: https://pagescms.org/

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39467132

[3]: https://ui.shadcn.com/

[4]: https://orm.drizzle.team/

[5]: https://lucia-auth.com/

[6]: https://turso.tech/

[7]: https://resend.com/

[8]: https://github.com/pages-cms/pages-cms
The Lichess database is now on Hugging Face
Airlines could also make it policy that you have to go through a secondary non-security screening where if they see anything of yours they like they can just keep it. After people get used to that, then if you fly then you sign of TOS that allows the airline to come directly access your bank account and make whatever charges they want to your credit cards. De-regulation is awesome.
Interesting forensic report on Pegasus from Amnesty International (2021):

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2021/07/forensic-...
> why would Gitlab be worth $8billion?

I wouldn't buy them for that myself, but Gitlab made $200 million in revenue in Q3 2024 [1]. So $800 million a year in revenue.

I've seen worse purchases.

[1] https://ir.gitlab.com/news/news-details/2024/GitLab-Reports-...
Software Engineer Pay Heatmap for the US
> why targeting civilian infrastructure is a war crime

Remind me, who was tried for this?

>> NATO planes have attacked bridges, oil refineries and other targets in raids that have affected civilians. But until Monday they had refrained from striking the electrical system. The alliance has repeatedly insisted its fight is with President Slobodan Milosevic, not with the Yugoslav people.

>> "The fact that lights went out across 70 percent of the country shows that NATO has its finger on the light switch now," said NATO spokesman Jamie Shea. "We can turn the power off whenever we need to and whenever we want to."

>> "We realize the inconvenience that may be caused to the Yugoslav people, but it up to Milosevic to decide how he wants to use his remaining energy resources: on his tanks or on his people," Shea said. While NATO sought to downplay the effect of the strikes on civilians, the raids remain politically sensitive.

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/world/eu...
I'm completely on the opposite camp, the quality of life I get from using Kagi instead of Google is definitely worth $120 to me. I spend more on some video streaming service and that's purely for entertainment, a search engine is my portal to finding information on the web, that's much more valuable than watching some films and series.

I regularly compare results for the same query between Kagi and Google just to check if still makes sense, 18 months in and every single time I do this comparison I feel more validated to pay for it.

Of course, totally personal experience but I've got so used to the quality of results from Kagi that Google has become almost unusable in comparison.
I'm happy with the price but Firefox randomly logs me out in private mode (maybe after an update? too infrequent to be able to spot the pattern, but it's there), which is a bit annoying.
I would be surprised if at any point in time there are more than 5 LLM providers who are widely considered premium (close to SOTA in my interpretation).
I find them both equally bad just in different ways.

Compare the gitlab UI with phabricator for example. The workflows are mostly a strange mixture of whatever github made up on the back of a napkin and Stakeholder-consultant slop.
Supporting the Future of Rust: Spotlight on Teaching Initiatives
I'd say that the range of actual consumer behavior is quite wide on this. I wonder if anyone has actual public numbers from any kind of similar situation (which, yes, isn't going to be comparable anyway, but anything even remotely close would be interesting.)

From my personal bubble, I know there's a bunch of people that won't even consider a subscription that still contains ads; it's antithetical to their (and my) expectations. Whether they'd subscribe to an ad-free The Verge I don't know either; personally I don't consume The Verge aside from occasionally getting sent a link or two, so I wouldn't. I will also say that, were I interested in any Amazon Prime Video show that has ads, I'd rather torrent it.

(I do pay for Nebula and Dropout, so no, I'm not a "would never pay for any subscription anyway" person.)
There is also fischertechnik, how popular is it outside of Germany?

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischertechnik
In that year I finally migrated from a Timex 2068 to a 386SX PC at home, I could have bought a PC with OS/2 and decided against it.

It would have required additional 1 000€ in todays money on the bank credit, to get a PC with OS/2, instead of one with DR-DOS 5/Windows 3.1.