skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My partner does: he’s in the DIY punk scene and Had a distributor but no label, but actually makes small but consistent money off merch he screenprints himself. Especially since the margins are around 50% (and pay-what-you-can too.) Joining multiple bands to rent out a venue is very cost-effective too.

The Bandcamp is there for people who don’t want a Spotify-mediated experience.
The people who find it more convenient to steal GPL software are not the same group willing to do the work of obfuscsting that fact.
Dec- Personal Challenge (1982)
"This corporate documentary produced by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) chronicles DECs two year odyssey to bring three personal computers, the Professional 325 (PRO-325), the Professional 350 (PRO-350), and the Rainbow 100 to market a year after IBM launched their personal computer. DEC's strategy was driven by the fear was that if they did not immediately create a successful product that the Japanese who were already producing low cost IBM PC compatibles would capture the market.
The narrative follows the challenges of the CT Program Group - Avram Miller (project manager), Michael Weinstein (merchandising), Ron Ham (software), Art Williams (hardware), and Vah Erdekian (manufacturing), as they race to develop a personal computer to show at the June 1982 National Computer Conference in Houston, Texas. "

A view into "what might have been" - DEC was 68k employees strong and 2nd only to IBM by volume of new computers sold when this was filmed.
> In the US during ww2 many Japanese business and land holdings were nationalized and then auctioned off to local business people.

Not just in the US. Canada has its own shameful history of that sort of thing during WW2.
Next will be the rise of small local ad blocker llms whose job is to strip out product references while leaving the rest of the text unchanged.
I think the logic behind faster inference is that the LLM is unlikely to get it right the first time regardless of its intelligence simply due to the inherent ambiguity of human language. The faster it spits out a semi-functional bit of code the faster the iteration loop and the faster the user gets what they want.

Plus if you’re dealing with things like syntax errors, a really really fast llm + interpreter could report and fix the error in less than a minute with no user input.
Are coffee shops just the answer to having social spaces that aren't alcohol fueled like bars and clubs? For quite a while I have had a rough idea that there could be something along the lines of a bar but with no alcohol and some kind of structured activities for breaking the ice.
Fewer than 25% of people in Quebec speak French fluently. Less than 1/10 use French as their primary language.
This should be a choice between "recommended experience" and "advanced experience" when you set your phone up. If one selects the latter they get all the prompts. It should then be possible to toggle between experiences at any point.
Even if we say 1M people pay $20/month, that's only $240M/year. That's not enough to continue to grow and support the free users sans-ads.
You're right. It is very hard for men/leads. Most follows/women I know are incredibly judgy and won't dance with new leads. This is a big difference from a decade ago when saying "yes" was the norm. This is also a reason why I think it's falling off. Social dancing used to have a strong emphasis on the "social" part. It often now is completely organized around the actual dancing - not socializing. Socializing is a nice secondary effect whereas it was the primary effect before.

I have a lot of thoughts about dancing overall since I spent so much time doing it from organizing, DJing, teaching, and traveling the world for it. In general, I'd say dancing sucks in the US. It's not a welcoming atmosphere for men/leads anymore.

With the rise of dating apps, I don't see a reason to go out dancing for most men. Yeah, apps are terrible but very few women who go out dancing are of typical dating age and, more importantly, single. Most women who go out are in a relationship whereas most men who go out are single. I've done a lot of polling - the ratio is bonkers in the US. Relatively few men who are in relationships continue to dance once partnered. You will have as much competition at a social dance as you will on a dating app. I'd branch out.
> but my understanding is the majority of international students are returning home

Your understanding is outdated
The ARG has been started. The ARG really has been started. Oh wow.
He's had a lot of starts and stops on making a next game. I think the pressure from fans that think he has a midas touch has prevented him from getting very far in anything.
How did you just argue both that companies need backup plans to keep wages low in a supply shortage and also that immigration, which solves supply shortages, does not keep wages low; and not see that those claims are contradictory?
Did it found it before the HN comment?
O1 has access to the web so I'm just asking
Perhaps the remaining 48% just want to be employed.
As a Canadian, the idea of becoming part of America makes me absolutely sick to my stomach.

Our country has problems, yours is broken.

It's been broken since its inception. Giving every state an equal representation in the Senate and an outsized representation in Congress meant that it was ALWAYS going to break.

I the 70s a few people tried to change this by abolishing the electoral college and ensuring you vote directly for the president at a 1 to 1 ratio. Unfortunately, that was shot down by some selfish liberals who thought they'd get more representation in particular situations (they won't for anything more than shilort term). There hasn't been a proper chance to fix it since.

Now Democrats simply do not have any power whatsoever. If Republicans don't want to let something pass, they just hold it up in the Senate. Something Mitch McConnell has done relentlessly.

Oh, and since the senate has to approve Supreme Court appointments, they've taken control of that too. McConnell blocked Obama's picks, using the excuse that it was an election YEAR. That handed the pick to Trump. That evil little man then let Trump have appointments much closer to an election.

Now your Supreme Court is fully stacked with Republicans. Some of which engage in open corruption.. And they're wiping out decades old rights. Anything is on the table.

Youre living in a country that has fallen into fascism and don't even know it.

Also, states being able to run their elections has allowed for an absurd level of corruption. Some states specifically design their voting districts for a particular outcome.. Like come on..

Anyway, I'm hoping for a CANZUK alliance or joining Europe. I will reluctantly flee the country if our sovereignty is threatened by the US.. Which is unfortunately looking more and more possible.
Not clear on the problem.

In Rust, each struct type, to be serialized, must have a serialization and deserialization function of its own. There's a macro to generate these by calling the appropriate serialization or deserialization function for each field.

For the common types, there's a set of standard serialize and deserialize functions. Here's the list.[1] Those handle the special cases around Vec, Mutex, and such.

The author doesn't make a strong case for reflection for other purposes.

[1] https://docs.rs/serde/latest/serde/trait.Serialize.html
Claimed two abandoned storefronts after covid killed our downtown. Also more yuppie primped clientele, compared to most other coffeeshops in my area.
They need the economies of Germany and France.
With any luck, middle managers will be replaced by AI within a few years.

The dumbest chat bot provides comparable advice and is less demotivating.

Not that most middle managers are worth more than a bucket of spit, and many are actively harmful to a companies bottom line (e.g. see Board disagreements about Intel layoffs and the role of risk-adverse middle managers in tanking the once mighty Intel. Undoubtedly, a similar phenom tanked Nissan).
A solar process would have to compete with nitrogen fixing plants as well.
Congrats on the launch. Very polished.

Is there a way to track the price across time for a given model? This has been something I've been wanting to track for a while.
Yes, kids should come into school a month early, form self selected groups to, unsupervised, build their own desktops and re-cable the entire school network following instructions on the internet, on their phones.

The end of school term, they carefully disassemble everything.
My family and I have no issues growing either of these on the island or lower mainland. This sounds like a you problem.

You don't want to believe a stranger on the internet? Take a cruise through Delta sometime in early summer.
I have not seen this in my career. Its usually PE or cost cutting causes US roles to be split into mult off shore roles because the pay per engineer is less outside the US. Like everything else the talent is a bell curve.
In general, do you really get work done in a coffee shop or any kind of public place like that?

I find myself needing a very quiet and orderly environment if I really want to deeply focus and get work done.
I enjoy your thinking and your use of analogy. We agree more than is evident, but you think on an horizon that eludes most, myself included unfortunately. As you say, the psychological torture of mere lifestyle survival overshadows the rational concern for true survival. To some extent, we live through chaos, but don’t have the wherewithal to accept it as such and cling to a normal that is increasingly not normal at all.
BTW I think most the ecosystem has settled on https://github.com/twmb/franz-go being the best and highest performing kafka client for Golang (purego)
The arity check in clojure sounds like a nice balance between runtime and compile time errors.

Having runtime errors is the point - that's real dynamic typing for you. If not for the possibility of runtime errors, you'd have to do more to have the code run. A lot of junior devs who prefer static typing don't get it. Senior devs who prefer static typing at least understand that some have a different preference. Of course you don't want a lot of runtime errors to make it to production, but in development, yes.

There are those who think that the IDE should provide feedback at every keystroke. Most IDEs have this opinion built into them. But I don't like it very much. It's gotten to the point where there isn't an IDE I really like. I miss Atom.
What does this do that other similar tools don't? There are millions of video editing apps out there. What's your moat?
Youtube ads are less moderated than youtube videos. They know where the money is.
Yeah wouldn’t want it on your menu in….America?
More accurately, I'm an advocate of freedom, yours as well as mine.
There is lots of cool innovation happening in game tech still. Look at games like Noita, Dreams and Teardown. Or for an even more recent game, look at Tiny Glade. There’s a recent tech talk about it which is full of wizardry: https://youtu.be/jusWW2pPnA0?si=IE-6W0Z1VCBld0AT

There is also lots of cool tech happening at the more foundational levels in engines and frameworks, for example Epic’s Nanite/Lumen/MegaLights in UE5.
Huh, I hadn’t drawn that connection - I’d noticed a bunch of new Yemeni shops opening, but I hadn’t tied it to the civil war. That makes sense.
Yeah, on most cars, changing the oil consists of: loosen/remove one bolt, drain oil, unscrew oil filter, put new filter on and bolt back, fill with amount and type of oil specified in manual. (Some also have a little plastic shield you have to remove first.) And yeah, you’re likely to care a whole lot more about your car than some average lube tech. (This is why I change my oil now: I found out how little they care when the lube techs at two different places reattached the plastic shield wrong causing it to fall and drag on the road. Saving money was just a bonus.)

I’ve notice people seriously overestimate how complicated really simple maintenance/mechanical tasks are generally.

I remember hearing an NPR story about a plumber shortage where the person being interviewed had just paid some thousand dollars to have their PVC drain line repaired. I was shocked. They could have done it themselves with a shovel, a hacksaw, and $5 worth of PVC and glue in maybe 10-25 minutes, well within almost anyone’s capabilities if they had thought to look into it before calling someone.

We really are very rich that we can not think about these things.
Nobody wants to be a middle manager. I’d be concerned if anyone ever wanted to be a middle manager.

If you’re not C level and somebody reports to you, you’re a middle manager though.
The middle manager, by some corporate career paths, is the top of the IC food chain. Ergo managers are usually paid better than the top IC. This is, of course, stupidity at it's finest, draining top IC talent into PHB mediocrity. A few companies don't do this, they are the smarter ones. My impression is that this is not typical.
Obviously by creating a culture that celebrates gay people before throwing them off roofs.

Which isn’t terribly far fetched - apparently some gladiators were basically sports stars, with death.
It’s in the works from my understanding. I helped build the Redpanda Connect one and it’s quite easy to use
I always generate a unique username (and email address) every time I sign up. Except in places where I have to use my real name, like LinkedIn.
I started as a developer at the age of 21 and in the next few years moved up a few levels until I wasn't developing any more. I decided I didn't like it and so left the company for a dev role somewhere else. Same thing happened again until I realised that I just want to be a dev. I'm 52 now and loving being a dev.
There's a lot we don't know about Perplexity's costs, like the cost of supporting free users, the difference in usage between free and paying users, and whether these ads fully offset the cost of free users.

From what I've seen, it's typical for startups at this stage to be generating minimal revenue. Perplexity has raised close to $1 billion, so they likely aren't under pressure to be profitable just yet. Bringing in tens of millions in revenue annually would actually be quite a strong start.

It may sometimes seem like “no one pays for anything”, but clearly a lot of people are paying for Perplexity Pro. It’s their business, so they can run ads if they think that will help them grow, but it’s not because no one paid for the Pro tier.
Well, it not exactly a research paper, more an overview of the problem and suggested techniques, but it'd still be interesting to hear some criticism based on the content rather than the (admittedly odd) omission to run it through a spell checker. I do wonder why it was written in English, apparently targeting a western audience.

Two of the authors are from "Shanghai AI Labs" rather than students, so one might hope it had at least been proofread and passed some sort of muster.
Clearly the workforce couldn't support a situation in which almost half of everyone was a manager, so...
Starbucks also plays very loud, irritating music nonstop now.
I'm not sure they could even define ethical.
But why wouldn't they aspire to be upper management?
Curious how this works. I generally don’t drink coffee late..do people come in for coffee and stay a while? I never really thought through the business model.
You don’t need a lift, Walmart sells cheap ramps and many cars are high enough now you don’t even need those. Of course you can also use a jack and jack stands too, and almost every car comes now with a jack.

Used oil can be disposed of at almost any of the super abundant auto parts stores. You take it in, walk to the back, and dump it in the giant tank.

Are those really your reasons?
Lisp Is Not an Acceptable Lisp
A younger me would get it. The older me wonders why people can't be content alone. Do I really need to go socialize at 2am? Probably not, and even less so without alcohol. But I get that others are different.
What does it mean to you?
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There is still a lot of wizardry going on in modern AAA video games. In fact, the video game industry is one of the few that actually care about performance, often more than safety and correctness.

It is just that it is much more complex and much less obvious. Before, an advance could going from flat triangles to textures, using a clever maths trick. Now an advance is better shading in the corners of a room, using a clever maths trick. The difference is that people will be able to tell immediately how an improvement the textures are, but unless they are in the field, they won't be able to point out the shadows in the corner of the room. These shadows are not useless though, it adds up to better graphics overall, but it is not as impressive.

About the AAA gaming industry, the thing is that this is big business, these games are awfully expensive, financed by investors who want to see a return on their investment. Usually, it means that they study the market, see what sell, and do something along these lines. Not very original, but less risky.

The indie game industry is the opposite. There are thousands of studios, they can't beat AAA on content and polish, and they need to come out of the pack, so they need something else, like original ideas. But overcoming technical limitations is usually not the driving force anymore, as there are not that many limitations anymore. In fact, they usually underperform compared to AAA productions because it would be unaffordable otherwise.

I don't know much about the PICO-8 scene, how much of it is about overcoming the (artificial) technical limitations and how much is about using the platform "as intended" and focus on gameplay.
do you count frontend engineers as software engineers (I dont)
Many (most?) of those community college international students don't have a path to permanent residency. If they didn't already have a Bachelor's degree before coming, I don't think they will ever have enough points to stay permanently.
I'm quite surprised by the impression in the first place, since "dancing events" as a way to meet others and connect seems more ubiquitous than ever to me.

It may not look much like typical social dances performed with a partner, but I'm definitely thinking of clubbings, raves and festivals as happenings were "dancing connects people" - and it's one of the primary ways almost anyone I know has been socializing, at least throughout their 20s and 30s.
Middle manager is not a precise term so opinions on what is and is not a middle manager differ but in larger companies there are definitely senior managers and executive management.
One meets people who are really trying to look important by having more reports than the other managers. People who use Linkedin, say “best practices” without irony, and like to tell stories about what programming was like 25 years ago when they were a junior engineer shipping Windows software.

Then, mixed in with those folks, are a few people who are good at working with upper management, understand how the machine works, and build a pipeline of projects.

And a few rare people who fix departments, create long-term programs, and know how to train managers. You don’t meet many in this last group, though.
It really sounds like you’re part of the problem.
They're dying because we all saw the lying for the last 4 years. Morning Joe said Joe Biden was sharper than anyone he knows. Not much needed after that to shut off the TV and go on YT from here on out. Lately I might be switching to TYT to get a more middle of road view of things.
Unrelated to the above, except in the mix of sustainability and agriculture - there are a bunch of companies working on bacteria to fix nitrogen for crops without requiring separate fertilizer similar to how legumes do it. I think Pivot Bio is the furthest along in the space - they’ve got a commercially available product - but it’s an active area of development in the industry right now.
It's all one big party and you're not in it. There is only one party and it's color is green.
They go for the $. Or else they figure that they'll "be their own boss", get to push their opinions on others (not realizing that this is a difficult position, and you might have a bias towards your own answers even if they're not the best outcome), and get paid more.

Even if "they are the most effective managers" initially, it won't last.

As the pressures to sit in endless meetings, tow the upper management line, create endless spreadsheets, they become less and less knowledgeable in their domain. I've had great managers who were "hands on" domain experts, and some who weren't. Luckily, the corporate trend seems to be towards so-called "flat hierarchies" and to fire these chair warmers.

I for one welcome our AI middle manager overlords.
Yes, coffee bars were popular back in the 1990s. One of my CS professors opened one up. In "Friends," they often go to a coffee bar. They had couches and comfy chairs to chill in. You just went there and had coffee and hung out. These were mom and pop shops and probably all got eaten up by corporate behemoths like Starbucks.

Just goes to show, when a company goes public, you are no longer the customer, the shareholders are.
USA used to be quite a bit more mosaic before the advent of national television.

Most of that’s left of that is place names and weird foods in some areas.
I’m shocked the “What’s a computer?” Apple ad is only 8 years old?
I'd be shocked if you can't find qat at these places. It's worth a try; I'd describe it as amphetamine salad. It's at about the midpoint between a strong cup of coffee and adderall.

An odd thing about qat is that despite being a stimulant it fills the role of alcohol in Yemeni culture—it's what men blow their salaries on, go on benders with, sometimes even destroy their families over. It's fascinating to see a drug with completely different physical effects exhibit so many of the same social pathologies as alcohol.

Don't chew it too often or it will stain your teeth.
> information sought by government customers from these programs, to which the above data refer.

Those numbers aren't described with the level of rigor needed to be considered evidence. No examples, no methodology, etc. We don't know what "usable intelligence" means. You have taken the liberty of interpreting that in a particularly generous way.

> You can, right now!

I mean under controlled conditions. Why didn't any of these people in /r/remoteviewing sign up for the JREF $1 million prize? Or at least contact parapsychologists (e.g. Dean Radin or Daryl Bem) who would have been happy to facilitate rigorous public experiments? The best we have from experiments is statistical effects, e.g. guessing a coinflip correctly 51% of the time over large numbers of trials. Not the kind of large, obvious effects that "50% useable intelligence" or "85% accuracy" is hinting at.
We're, uh, solving that problem
> But that's what racists are, people who think the race of a person has predictive power with regard to their nature, culture etc.

I didn't think that's how the term racist is normally used. A definition:

a person who is prejudiced against or antagonistic toward people on the basis of their membership in a particular racial or ethnic group

Big difference.
>do you really get work done in a coffee shop or any kind of public place like that?

Yes, definitely.

For me it's that despite the noise, I have complete confidence that none of it is relevant to me, so I can ignore it completely. In offices, tons of things are relevant for me because I'm a popular random-problem-solver. At home, anything could be relevant, even though most of it is not.

The noise isn't the issue, it's the brainpower spent on triaging the noise.
Typically “middle manager” means you’ve specifically got managers reporting to you - you’re a manager managing managers reporting to a manager: “middle manager”
Great job, love seeing new desktop apps!!