skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes I've had plenty of experiences with orgs that self host everything, I don't think it's a minority it's just a different cluster than the one most represented here.

Still I believe hosting is somewhat different, if anything because it's something established, known players, trusted practices. AI is new, contracts are still getting refined, players are still making their name, companies are moving fast and I doubt data protection is their priority.

I may be wrong but I think it's reasonable for IT departments to be at least prudent towards these frameworks. Search is ok, chat is okish, crawling whole projects for autocompletion I'd be more careful.
Ahhh, I interpreted this as an oblique reference to accidental overdoses from impure/laced drugs which is a huge problem in the US and probably a real deterrent.

I realize now from the other responses this was maybe a reference to exploding pagers, which is dependent on (I suppose) the view that raves in Europe are heavily attended by people of middle eastern descent?

That’s not really the “known-as-ravers” crowd here in the US so that reference may have just flown way over my head and I injected the top-of-mind US issue which is drug contamination.
In the last 12 years of employment I've pretty much received all my jobs through the friends, friends of friends, and former colleagues network. There was one job which I actually applied for on their website and had a standard interview process for, but I had former colleagues already working there, so I include that.

I am in Game Development so it is a much smaller community than the overall tech industry and you're more likely to know people in different companies as people slowly disperse after completing a project.

I think as you get older you kind of have to find jobs in this way, relying on your network and reputation, rather than doing a fresh cold application each time.
Sometimes you have a scalar instruction but not a vectorized one, or it doesn't match the 'lanes' you want to operate (ISTR weird holes in AVX where I could find a specific instruction for 8, 32, 64-bits lanes but not for 16). Always good to have an escape hatch there, especially a highly pipelined (or pipeline-able) one.
Heavy is the head that wears the crown (or offers mitigation services advertised on a cybersecurity website)

If Akamai can't (or won't) serve Krebs, I'm not sure I would want my business to pay them.
> Is that so? Sounds very wrong to me. If we want to go the monad joke way, monads have to have an operation (a -> m b) that composes, but those are just normal functions, and there’s nothing curried about it. It’s a statement that one could bend enough so it’s kind of right, but what it really does is raise eyebrows.

I can see where they’re coming from, but they certainly haven’t set the stage for it to be a something you could deduce without already knowing what they’re referencing.

So to me, it seems they’re referencing the Free Monad, recursion schemes and a little of HomFunctor/Yoneda Lemma.

The free monad gives a coproduct of functions, where the value is either a recursive call or a value (branch vs node). To get from a set to a free monad, you need to define a Functor over the set, and given most things are representable, this is trivial.

Given this free monad, an algebra can be formed over it by providing a catamorphism, where the binary function would indeed be composition.
> Social media are not publishers. They are way more public squares, but online.

I'd believe that if they didn't promote or suppress content - in my view as soon as you get into that game you become part of the publishing process.

> On top of that, even when publishers usually curate content, there is no obligation to do so. It's just something that has been done, because publishing used to be expensive.

Eh? Publishers take care of what they publish because they are responsible for it in law - if they publish a lie about somebody ( even if it's a quote from somebody else - ie somebody elses 'content' ) - they are on the hook for that.

In a similar way, if I defame you and then a newspaper/facebook promotes that around the world, most of the damage actually comes from the promotion of the original defamation - the publishing/amplification.

> If you end anonymity and public squares, you end a channel for democratic feedback.

You are already assuming we live in a society where people are too afraid to say what they think in public . And I would also argue if you stand on a soap box in a public square then you are not anonymous - you are public. You are confusing a public square with people whispering behind masks.
Assuming I know roughly what it will generate, I usually prepend my chats with previsions against this kind of thing

"Add tabs here, assume the rest of the page will work with no futher modification, limit your changes so that any existing code keeps working"

I also do stuff like
"Project is using {X} libraries, keep dependencies minimal

Generate a method takes {Z} parameters, return {Y}, using {A}, {B} and {C} do {thing}"

I'll add stuff like Language version, frameworks or specific requests based on this, but then I just reuse the setup , So I like to keep the first message with as much context as possible, ideally separating project context from specific request
Marreta, a new paywall bypass Firefox extension
Factchecking is often very difficult without hard and often very dangerous journalism on the ground. And now that large swaths of the population don't believe the journalists on the ground anymore (saw some post of some journalist standing somewhere in isreal and the commenters said it was AI generated; it wasn't as you can still see that, but INDEED in the future that will be impossible to know) or any proof that goes against their belief system.

I find myself more and more disappearing in software & math; at least these things I can factcheck and I happen to like them more than anything else anyway. Build stuff; test andor prove things. Discuss with others without the vitriol of politics.
operator + is overloaded even in plain C: it will generate different instructions for pointers, floats, integers, _Complex, _Atomic and the quasi standard __float128. Sometimes it will even generate function calls.

I suspect zig might be similar.
Looks like they're targeting "civilian" products as well https://www.vergemotorcycles.com/
Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2024
Someone asked this at the beginning of last year [0] and the year before [1] and I got a lot of great ideas from the comments.

Thought I'd continue the tradition especially as its getting harder and harder to filter signal from noise using traditional search.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38585109
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34272687
Unless the crusaders are also payed by someone to push their crusade.
I interpreted this as a poorly written reference to accidental overdoses from laced drugs deterring consumption (and most rave-like events ultimately suck if sober). It’s sort of the elephant in the room.
or 'plus' could be a macro...
My Connect app (Android) still shows current steps, heart rate data, body battery etc. Only the online portions are affected.
You might be a supertaster and have extra and more sensitive tastebuds. The extra sensitivity means they tend to prefer sweeter (and/or salty) foods and stay away from bitter food/drinks to greater extent.

https://www.healthline.com/health/food-nutrition/supertaster...
I've actually never really had much issue with switch bounces - I think many modern microcontrollers have built in gpio circuits which seems to help with this.
He's gay, his mother is on his side, and BPD people make up lots of false accusations. There's good reason to suspend judgement.
Platform teams also need to make calls where the experience might be worse for some but collectively better for the company.

This is normally where you see the product engineers start to freak out.
Tangential: I'm looking for a handheld Linux computer that's the approximate size and shape of a GameBoy Advance SP, but with a QWERTY keyboard and wifi. The old Zipit Z-2 would've been perfect. All it needs to run is git and Emacs/org-mode.

It's a surprisingly hard form factor to shop for—anyone have any recommendations?
> Her comments came as Linda Yaccarino, the head of X, welcomed Meta’s decision, saying: “welcome to the party” during an appearance at the CES technology show in Las Vegas, hours after Zuckerberg announced the policy shift.

That's not ominous at all... Reducing moderation and prioritizing "free speech" have been a great success for X, right? Ok, in a sense it was a success, after all it helped get Trump back into the White House and Musk become one of his (currently) closest advisers, but for X as a company the prospects are not so rosy...
SETI Through Dyson Sphere–Like Structures Around Primordial Black Holes
Working on a farm and only fans both are effectively selling your body.

Which one pays more?
I don't know how old you are so I may be very young but I'm in my 40s and was on the internet in the early 90s and it was covered in ads then. It was about as early as you could get on the internet and not be part of a university or government contractor. You believe the glory days of the internet were the 70s and 80s?
But it's not like you can choose in China either :)
I’m sure Meta now also starts permitting nipples on its platforms. No? Oh right, that’s totally different.
Not sure why I would want a handheld computer. But I still need a phone (calling, SMS) occasionally. So I use that also for browsing and messaging, too. GNU/Linux would be a great plus. What are my realistic alternatives? Realistic meaning not a huge amount of work and/or unreliable/buggy system.
Looks like one of many "shovels for gold diggers" unitized motors for robotic dogs and humanoids. There's been a lot of such compact all-in-one motor units from China lately.
Yes, I agree. It was more decided to go from Product Team -> [Product Team, Platform Team] and then everyone deep tech wanted to leave the Product Team, so it reversed again later. Guess if it's from the start, you can say indeed you should not work for a company building products. Anything thing is; platforms in themselves don't really sell. The products built with them sell, so what do you work for if you want to just build platforms (want to build game engines, not games as a comparison these days).
"Goat-herder sure beats office drones and depressed doom-scrollers, which is what we increasingly produce."

Do you speak from experience?

Goat-herding in a state of constant food-, water- and physical insecurity, with zero amenities or healthcare, might be enjoyable for some (though maybe less so at the age of five), but "sure beats" sounds like a hot take from the social media.

It is still possible to move to South Sudan or Niger and start a goatherding career there, but few office drones have walked the walk. Quite to the contrary, there is a significant outflow of economic migrants away from such conditions, into the richer parts of the world.
I don't believe that is the case. Bitwarden works very unpredictably on a bad internet connection. The failed sync attempt can hang the whole application (or browser extension). I have this issue occasionally when Bitwarden shows that my vault is empty after a failed sync attempt. If sync will be not possible, then I don't have an offline copy of my passwords.

Also, your local copy (if it works) is read-only. You can't edit anything without an internet connection. So no, it's more like you have a read-only local copy, but it's an internet-first service - this is my main issue with Bitwarden and the reason I'm migrating back to KeePass.
> I invent a new term for iPads and say “well actually when people say iPad they mean ECMApad which is technically the same just a different branding of it” that doesn’t give me grounds to have Apples trademark on iPad discarded.

The point of a trademark is to protect Your brand.

Oracle doesn't make any product called JavaScript nor do they use JavaScript as a trademark in anything.

Your example with Apple is wrong because Apple makes devices that they call iPads.
Ok? So his platform, which encompasses all of the things you mentioned and more, is still popular across a wide variety of audiences. Got it.
The human experience is all about controlling your urges. I also like to eat until I feel stuffed and sleep 12 hours a day, but I don't because I value my long term health above short term pleasures. Sadly for us modern life is all about short term pleasures and convenience, if you're not careful you can lose yourself real quick

Try sparkling water, home made water kefir, herbal teas, &c.
Snapshot Isolation vs. Serializability
Highly agree. I've done quite a few large refactors of unnecessarily complex systems that resulted in significant improvement - from lots of bugs to nearly no bugs, incomprehensible code to simple straight forward code, no tests to great test coverage.

I did have one bad experience where I ended up spending way too much time on a project like that, I think I made some mistakes with that one and got in a bit too deep. Luckily my team was very supportive and I was able to finish it and it's a lot better now than it was.
And community note participation will be guaranteed to be politically neutral, right, Zuck?

And I want to re-iterate that not everything should be politically neutral:

Stance A: "A certain group of people should be gassed with Zyklon-B."

Stance B: "No group of people should ever be gassed, you not should be saying that!"

Political neutral stance: "Maybe we could agree that some subset of that group could be gassed? I can't take a firm stance on this sensitive political matter."
Why Oblivion Refused to Settle for Green Screens [video]
All wearable devices should implement local-host functionality and capability by default, failure to do so it's not acceptable from the perspective of Murphy's Law [1], [2].

[1] Local-first software:

https://localfirstweb.dev/

[2] Murphy's law:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy%27s_law
SFPDIF
Yes, I feel the same way, but then I started making music to get away from the computer, rather than finding even more things to spend time on with the computer, maybe that's why.
This happens on my Gmail all the time.

Frankly, if somebody else uses my address for a service and I'm receiving anything other than email verification from that service, I'm reporting it as spam on both Gmail and Fastmail because that's what it is.
why not zipit z2 (if you can find it)? i remember the keyboard not being great but it was completely usable.

around the same time there was also ben nanonote, but the z2 is probably preferable to it.

not a lot of clamshells since then (and generally not enough pocket qwerty computers).

for something slightly larger, consider gemini pda or one of its succcessors, or a keyboard case for a phone, e.g. pinephone.

or a bit larger still (but the same 6" screen diagonal), you get an actual pc with gpd micropc.
Another way of seeing this is: whatever way people are using JSON, over a fleet of all the machines running the parser (or serializer), reducing the execution time (a good enough proxy to energy consumption) on the whole fleet is worthwile. Especially if it has zero impact on the code calling this parser/serializer (so, no second-order energy spent because of the change breaking some API or contract).
Illegal drugs.
"Remote viewing has demonstrated it is of value and has a high rate of success... We do not evaluate our product. All evaluations are done by the professional intelligence analysts who assign the project. Collection of intelligence through remote viewing is not an experiment. It is a successful collection method. The army effort is not research and development, it is operational collection..."

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00788R0011002...

Obviously people lie but a compelling report.
> The Garmin Connect app seems to be completely useless without the Garmin Connect servers being up. It is not even possible to see local data on the phone.

Yes, I think it was so obvious from their UX/UI because it has lags when you use the application which is very common on basic UI front-end consuming remote APIs as its where local. I would say that it even feel slower than great web apps that also depend on remote services.
EyeTap
> In practice Rust is mostly used by web people to gain clout

Complete hogwash.
From the article linked: "The 40-year-old billionaire said that, starting in the US, Meta would “get rid of factcheckers and replace them with community notes similar to X” "

You are right this does not apply to Europe where you guys have strict laws that you actually enforce. But here in the US heaven forbid that the "Free" market has any sort of regulation that might make multi billion/trillion dollar companies have to work a little harder to not destroy the lives, health, or environment of our countrymen.

This is just the beginning and i sadly dont see it getting any better for several years. Large companies will have more free reign to do what they please in the US even more so than the current status quo
Fired from Meta After 1 Week: Here's All the Dirt I Got
I wonder if ideas from the embedded steno community [1] [2] could not be used, as this type of chording/key stroke replacement is the basis of how it works.

[1] https://github.com/jthlim/javelin-steno

[2] https://lim.au/#/software/javelin-steno
I spent a number of years designing outer-runner direct drive permanent magnet motors for industrial equipment and I've got some questions.

Cheifly, bearings. They're not shown in any of the oh-wow images, but these will likely be the most expensive component of each motor. Big bearings are expensive, and to accept the loading of normal wheel operation, these will have to be pretty beefy. That's not even discussing operational life and maintenance.

After you've stuffed a pair of angular contact roller bearings into this "wheel", you're going to want to keep salt water and road grime from entering those bearings, so what do you use as a seal? Whatever you use is going to be big, expensive, and suck up huge amounts of power due to the large contact surface.

Finally, once you've got big ass bearings and big ass seals, how do you have enough room to put a decent amount of copper in there? Power in these things always amounts to maximizing the amount of copper in the space, and I just don't see room for it.
Somebody in rural Africa once told me, "one advantage you have living in a colder area is that you don't have to run your fridge for half the year!" I honestly didn't have any good answer for him as to why I do anyway.
> but wouldn't that get annoying in contexts where you don't want it?

It would get dangerous if such a keyboard was used by your doctor or pharmacist. Auto-incorrecting names or dosage of drugs? No thank you.
If you haven't tried yet, PowerToys' keyboard manager allows shortcuts for single character outputs.

That's what I do for accented characters (e.g. Alt+Shift+C -> ç) and currency characters, it works pretty decently (found it more reliable than AutoHotKey for instance)
I completely agree, and I'm baffled that so many miss the point, and/or subscribe to the original outrage. This is the same as someone uploading a photo, adding a filter, and later the application itself suggesting another filter, with a preview.

I do think that Meta, and others should be grilled to hell and back - but this particular situation is not noteworthy at all. Goes to show actually, how important PR is - the thing, and its public perception are completely separated, and so, needs its own management. Even if the thing in question is a tech thing on a tech forum.
About AI (Coding) Assistants
...which appears after you search for "google" on Bing.
Same for me; "completely useless" is a bit exaggerated. Workouts can be recorded and synchronized, they just don't end up in the cloud.
Unlike the Apple Watch, or Fitbit (Google), the Garmin watches function properly without being tethered to a phone.

You can setup a watch without a phone and without ever activating the online services.

They are here only for backup and additional features like social sharing. You can also backup locally with open source software if you want.

That's why I chose one and it's one of the best products I ever had.
What else can you do for money as a solo developer besides freelance? Selling solutions to people?
How to calculate my RAM footprint? Just calculate the one of my running machines and AWS purchases? But cloud services should also be counted.
Hear me out but... this could have been a high-speed serial interface instead, much less stressing. And a breakout board for when you want GPIO.
interesting, when I first checked the app I got all panels as "no data available" but after reading your comment I checked it again and indeed content showed up.

I guess it might need second refresh to properly fallback to local mode
Can you point to an assessment by a meta fact-checker that you disagree with?
Likely they are, likely it "shouldn't" matter, as all their advertising says: "Not FAA approved [wink]"

...like, in an emergency it's cool to be able to click a button on your watch and see the closest airport, but you're supposed to have paper maps, a flight plan, a checklist, etc, etc.
Even if not optimal for every condition, army clothes are designed to be a pretty good all-round compromise, they have to be for obvious reasons so considerable thought goes into their design.

Incidentally, some years ago I bought between 40 and 50 pairs of army pants at a military/disposals auction, some were brand new the others in very good condition (they're of Vietnam vintage). At the time it wasn't my intention to buy them but they were bundled together on a pallet with what I actually wanted, namely 50V telephone exchange type power supplies—and I had to take the lot. Seems, as is so often the Army's wont, pants and power supplies begin with 'P' so 'logic?' dictated they should be auctioned together!

At the time I was a bit pissed off at being landed with dozens of pants that I didn't want to be seen dead in (having been drafted some years earlier and being forced to wear them). Anyway, my reticence eventually faded and I wore them for everything, fixing the car, hiking, etc., etc.

In the end it turned out to be a bargain purchase, a really good deal. I've now just about worn the lot out, perhaps there's a half dozen good pairs left. Now I wish I had more.
Even my antique vivoactive is doing fine. I wouldn't know anything was off if not for the announcement.
Nigerian atheist freed from prison but fears for his life
I’d rather say it’s an observation of real behavior. Customers of yours don’t buy code (unless it is your product) - they buy solutions to their problems. Thus, management and sales want to sell solutions, because that gets you paid.

Engineering is fulfilling requirements within constraints. Good custom code might fit the bill. Bad might, too - unless it’s a part of requirements that it shouldn’t be bad. It usually isn’t.
Anything Elon Musk owns?
PowerSchool hack exposes student, teacher data from K-12 districts
I owned a Z13 Gen 1 and it was a horrendous piece of crap. I constantly had crashes, hangs, faulty suspend, keyboard problems, dock problems, audio problems, and so much more from the very beginning.

I very reluctantly purchased a X1 Carbon Gen 12 and am much more satisfied with the Linux implementation.
I wonder if this is another ransomware situation
Thanks, that's an important caveat!

> Meanwhile xsimd (https://github.com/xtensor-stack/xsimd) has the feature level as a template parameter on its vector objects

That's pretty cool because you can write function templates and instantiate different versions that you can select at runtime.
People are very unaware just how much better a gaming laptop from 3 years ago is (compared to a copilot laptop). These laptops are sub $500 on eBay, and Best Buy won’t give you more than $150 for it as a trade in (almost like they won’t admit that those laptops outclass the new category type of AI pc).