skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That line made me stop and think. At first I thought it was an exaggeration, but then I realized it was exactly true - however, I don't think the author understands it fully.

If someone offered to sell me that pill, I wouldn't say, "Ah, but you were kind of brusque, I don't think I'll buy it." I would say (well, think, actually), "I don't think I trust you that it's this easy and safe, so I won't buy it."

The key is trust. The insight the author missed is that we more easily trust people who make us feel good, among other things (attraction, social standing, etc.).

> Shelly in Wichita is not going to buy what you’re selling, no matter how good the deal is, if she can clearly hear in your voice how much you hate your job and, by extension, her.

I think this again misses the point. Shelly doesn't necessarily think you hate her, but she has no reason to trust you. If your product was good, and people were better off for buying it, you probably wouldn't hate selling it so much.
I have been wanting a Morse Code keyboard for years (I was a wearable computer hopeful around the turn of the century [1][2]). I've built a couple morse code keyboards in the past. One with a scavenged ps2 keyboard, a giant messy hack. One with an Arduino, sort of worked but not great. I would like to try again but using bluetooth (does none know of a good beginnerish reference for HID bluetooth dock).

This project looks nice. Thanks for posting.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wearable_computer#1990s
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann_(inventor)
Farmers markets are in no way cheap. I live here as well and they are luxury
Exactly. Identity politics and victim culture is everywhere right now. Different sides of the same coin.
Yes, but having used both in that time period... tools on the mac were graphical and easily explored (open a menu and see what was available). People made plastic keyboard templates for WordPerfect and WordStar just to remember the commands. On top of that, you could easily task switch on a Mac. There were some tools for doing that with DOS, but they were awful by comparison.

I worked in a lab that used PCs while I owned a Mac Plus. There was no comparison.
Of course, if you were trying to save money, you would get a chest-style fridge where all of the cold air doesn't fall out every time you open the door.
Justin Trudeau promises to resign as PM
I'm not sure, they've been revolving around "AI" stuff for ages; Siri, photo manipulation, identifying people and things in photos (but on your own device), all of which are widely popular. This feels like a logical next step for the path they were on for ages.
This is the same argument that was used for decades to suggest that NSA was not hoovering up all voice communications though.

It is technically possible. There is adequate motivation by capable parties to do so.

Apple would be negligent if they did not make a serious effort to validate the hardware.
> You, as a human, probably have more productive uses of your day.

Much like a cow, I don't think about my digestive system -- I let the parasympathetic system take care of that :-)

> Of course, eating a single product all the time is unhealthy, no matter what product — every living organism requires variance.

This is a very different statement than "the simple answer is just fatty meat," which is what you originally claimed.
But, of course, it would be better if we could generalize and let users describe in conversational language the specific things they don't want to see.
SpaceX to test vehicle upgrades and payload deployment on next Starship flight
That's something I wish I had when I started looking at einsums. It gets interesting when you start thinking about optimum paths (like in the opt_einsum package), sharded/distributed einsums, and ML accelerators.
Tons of gooners out there with pockets full of cash waiting to be siphoned off. Nothing wrong with redistributing wealth.
Microsoft and OpenAI have a financial definition of AGI: Report
Try Thailand. People will just make up whatever romanisation they want to. "Fookoosheema" would definitely happen there. They also sometimes randomly throw in an r, not exactly sure why (maybe hypercorrection, because casual speech tends to drop rs).
> I actually see it quite often here in the Twin Cities at small stores, bars, restaurants. A 1~3% discount for cash.

For reference, I have a card that gives me 3 points back for all restaurants and another card that gives me 2 points back for all other purchases.

Doing the simplest thing possible and transferring those points to Delta for flights nets me 1.3% for each point meaning I will at least get 2.6% back on general purchases or almost 4% back worse case on restaurants.

If they have to accept cash or credit cards, yes they will prefer cash. But there are reasons that some places don’t accept cash at all. It’s because of employee theft. But it’s harder to steal cash at restaurants and bars because everyone gets receipts.

The usual theft from bars come from bartenders pouring more expensive liquors and charging for cheaper liquor and then accepting larger tips.
Kim Jong-un bans hotdogs for North Koreans, cooking them an act of treason
>LLMs are awesome but I haven't felt significant improvement since the original GP4 (only in speed).

Absolutely disagree. Are you using LLMs for coding? There has been a 10x (or whatever) improvement since GPT4.

I causally tracked the ability of LLMs to create a processore design in a HDL since 2023. I stopped in June of 2024, because Sonnet would basically oneshot the CPU, testbench and emulator. There are another substantional update of Sonnet in October 2024.

https://github.com/cpldcpu/LLM_HDL_Design
At least Engineers are trying to create something of value. Salespeople are just trying extract your value.
“The fundamental issue is that in almost all larger companies, upper management does not trust that their employees are either intrinsically motivated to do a good job, or are smart enough to determine what "a good job" is.”

That’s what i have concluded a long time ago. Upper management has a deep distrust of their employees and acts accordingly. They will hire consultants or external people before they will listen to their employees. I think part of it is that a lot of them don’t really believe in anything themselves and only blindly try to fulfill goals set by their CEO or board of directors.
Nicely done! The output for my profile was accurate, scarily so.

What's behind the veil powering the tool?
Love the app icon :)
Helix is getting so much better every release, it's been a pleasure to use. Honestly, the biggest things that it still needs to be "feature-complete" is a file tree, and a plugin interface implementation.
it's way easier (for some people) to go to the ATM once a month and then have a physical pile of money you're using, ams physically see how much you're spending and adjust habits. A digital card that looks the same all month when you pull it out of your wallet has no such quality and is a basically scam on certain kinds of people to get them to spend more money.
BYD, "Slave-gate" and the soul search about China's cutthroat industrial model
Just last year everyone was saying they were “behind in technology” because they didn’t “understand AI”.
Part of me was hoping the guy with the offer that fell through would receive the product on the mail at the end.
I hate that we have spent the last 20 or so advancing digital cameras to the point where a everyone has an amazing DSLR in their pocket and now we're at the point in history where we have to define what a photograph is, because everyone is trying to shoehorn some shitty AI image gen thing into our cameras for a quick profit
The organizational / social capital starts decreasing and then a few quarters later people see the costs of not having enough organizational capital. Boom/bust.
Cool idea! I had something similar for using LLMs as an intermediary not for spam but for "boring" local news matching to your profile. Court stuff, town meetings on youtube, that kind of thing.
Some good observations here but I disagree with the conclusion.

> Shipping features from the roadmap is a chunk of our core job. It shouldn’t usually be in our OKRs.

First of all, your roadmap shouldn’t be static. You should give teams flexibility to change it. When/why? When they see a better way of achieving the teams objective. Ideally you can set up your KRs to also be flexible WRT implementation.

People loose sight of this, but it’s one of the two big value adds from OKRs.

The second big one is legibility outside your team/org. OKRs are about making your goals and work easily understandable, because the alternatives don’t scale as well.

So vis. the article, you should start with the question of what you want to make visible to the org, and make sure you craft your OKRs to highlight that part of the roadmap.

Concrete example, I plan with two buckets: new features, and bug fixes/ops/quality.

The customer for new features is users, and the org cares about this. You need OKRs to make your impact legible to your CEO, who (let’s be real) is not going to log into Jira and read the full backlog.

Bug fixes and ops need to happen, and they should be groomed and prioritized ideally, but in the ideal world nobody outside of the owning team should see them. Internal tooling should be on the roadmap but not OKRs, unless you are in the red and your CEO wants to know that you are improving after, say, a business-impacting outage.

So the roadmap is going to have a bunch of detail on the current delivery plans, sequencing, etc, but it’s downstream of your objectives. You should align your objectives with leadership first, then make your roadmap and propose KRs.
To my understanding, papers on arXiv are NOT reviewed, which is the primary purpose of the platform. The idea, as I see it, is to allow papers to be published more quickly, at no cost, and freely accessible to everyone online.

I don't think this is a bad thing, because even with peer-reviewed papers, there are cases where they can be completely fabricated but still get published. You shouldn't rely on a single paper alone and should do further research if you have doubts about its content.
This was not my experience. Many of the high paying tech companies were actively hiring senior/staff in London for most of 2022. OK, maybe not Google. This very suddenly changed late in the year.
...and now that Ebay listing says "477 viewed in the last 24 hours!"
People were nonstop talking about him prior to being involved with Trump and Twitter and it has only gotten worse.
If cars were constantly 3d-printing themselves from the inside to replace every single part with a new one every day (as living multi-cellular organisms do), I'm pretty for them consuming other running cars as a source materials would be best (as cars would contain the necessary rubber and steel in proportions that are perfect for cars). You don't even need to consume fuel separately — your car would re-cycle fuel from the consumed car's tank — sorry for continuing your metaphor.
IIRC, all the Google/Samsung phones had keyboards because they copied the Blackberry. Once the iPhone was released with the screen keyboard, all the Google phones changed to that.

They didn't clone everything, but they cloned a lot in the early days. Rounded corners was another one. Now it seems like Apple is cloning Google/Samsung more.
Any JSON-compatible data (and even some JavaScript data formats beyond strict JSON types) can be converted to an XML representation, have real XPath queries run on it, and the original matching data returned as the results.

We use this to great effect exploring and sifting through data in web browsers, where many different pieces of software may be storing various things globally, but you don't always know where to look.

(The advantage to this approach is that both XML and XPath are specified standards)
yeah amazon is rly weird. did had prime and cancelled it but the cancellation was retracted 3 times in the background and i had to pay 3 months more prime… never ever.. now its only expensive aliexpress and some netflix
I used to be a fan but now I think his world view is much more "Whatever suits me for the moment." There maybe times when that matches up with whatever others might believe or want but it is not to be relied upon.
Major implementers are definitely over-complicating things; making perfect the enemy of the good in a way that's hindering adoption. They want to make phishing impossible, not just "really hard", and doing that requires portability features to be ridiculously over-complicated and somewhat at odds with user freedom. In my opinion they should give up on that for now and just let users export a plaintext database the same way they can with any other password manager.

Regarding b) it's extremely simple. Passkeys are private keys (like SSH), stored in a password manager, accessed via JavaScript.
> The problem is that this risks antagonising the everyone in arts/humanities

I don’t anticipate this being a problem. Have you used generative fill in photoshop or lightroom? It’s a complete game changer. In Egyptian mythology they weigh your soul against a feather when you entered the afterlife, and with professional tools I think moral hangups about AI are going to get about the same weight. It’s just too good not to use.
Where's the museum with wine? This is missing from society. Where do I find this?
OWC USB4 40Gb/S Active Optical Cables
> In the average tech case (maybe not Kagi but definitely a lot of others) by managers fighting for dominance by increasing their departments head count

Sure, that can happen.

> And generally speaking, aren't you supposed to charge what the market will bear? What has that to do with costs?

Because if you can't recoup your costs you're in the red and will have to close down soon?
One thing I need to work on is the hook. I'm wondering if including 'Fibonacci' on the landing page and in all my attempts to share it is scaring people off.
I love the story that a French building recently (2010s, I think) renovated and discovered back rooms wallpapered in very early American money and plenty more stuffed inside various walls as essentially insulation. There was no surprise as to why that might be because most of the bills had the obvious signature of Benjamin Franklin and there was one notorious French bordello in his diplomat days that he had been alleged to spend a lot of self-invented money at. It was mostly only good for wallpaper and insulation, but being a diplomat he certainly implied it was good American currency at the time. There's something to weirdly admire about Ben Franklin paying for apparently a lot of French services with money he just kind of made up himself, and they mostly accepted it because it did make interesting wallpaper and decent building insulation.
China Built an Underground Orb to Find the Ghost Particles Haunting Earth
Consumer printers were dot matrix at the time, and they were not adequately high density to print fonts. That's correct.

But the AppleWriter printer was high DPI and could render fonts.

And then of course the Apple LaserWriter came a few years later.
Zola is fast, simple, and quick to get started with.
"KR #3: the amount of bugs reported by users must not increase from our baseline"

Solved :)
If you have labelled data, you can try linear discriminant analysis (LDA; also known as canonical discriminant analysis), which maximizes the between-class variance while minimizing the within-class variance to best separate different classes by projecting data onto a new space that maximizes class separability (for whichever classes help your specific use case).
MacWrite was released in 1984. 7 years before comparable graphical, WYSIWYG competitors.

WordPerfect for Windows was released in 1991. Prior versions were MS-DOS and not graphical.

WordStar for Windows was released in about 1991. Prior versions were MS-DOS and not graphical.

What made MacWrite special, is that it was graphical, highly WYSIWYG (especially when paired with an Apple printer), had a lot of great fonts, and the software was intuitive.

Of course Apple didn't invent any of it, but they made one of the best word processing products at the time.
See also Bubsy 3D: Bubsy Visits the James Turrell Retrospective.

https://bubsy3d.com/

From the creators of Sonic Dreams Collection!
Another commenter already said it; closest to you is other humans, so simple, eat other humans.
You are not wrong! An entire subclass of anomaly detection can basically be reduced to: forecast the next data point and then measure the forecast error when the data point arrives.
He does seem to have gone a bit nuts on some of the details. The latest is a survey:

"America should liberate the people of Britain from their tyrannical government"

which passes over the fact we only elected the current lot with a huge majority a few months ago.

Most of the stuff he goes on about, people in jail for social media posts or the investigation of rape gangs happened under the tories or their coalition who were in power from 2010 to 2024. But Musk/MAGA and similar are so anti lefty they were blaming everything on Starmer before he even took office.

It's also odd that he's going on about Starmer for not prosecuting the grooming gangs when he was actually the first to do so around 2013, a decade before Musk noticed this stuff and started ranting on about it. Also back then Tommy Robinson was doing occasional jail for headbutting he colleagues and fraud and the like rather than campaigning for the rape victims.
That is so cool. I'd not heard of this "phenomenon" before.
-p exposes the port from the container on a specific port on the host machine. -P does the same, but for all ports listed as exposed in the container.

If you just run a container, it will expose zero ports, regardless of any config made in the Docker image or container.

The way you're supposed to use Docker is to create a Docker network, attach the various containers there, and expose only the ports on specific containers that you need external access to. All containers in any network can connect to each other, with zero exposed external ports.

The trouble is just that this is not really explained well for new users, and so ends up being that aforementioned foot gun.
Maybe try to used version? Cost me $50 from a 2nd hand used bookstore.
> Apple... doubled down on privacy and protections of the user

You mean like is documented on https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/apple-intelligence-an...?
You've pointed to a stub document that basically explains Python packaging and why pip comes with Python (which, notably, distributions are fond of breaking).

This doesn't somehow imply that Python has a top-down authority structure where the PSF dictates the development flow of PyPI, pip, or any other official/semi-official/blessed tooling or infrastructure. That's not how Python works as a community.

The PSF is also not complaining here about pip's shortcomings. I'm the only one here and I don't represent the PSF, nor am I complaining: I think pip is great. I'm trying to explain (apparently unsuccessfully) why pip (and PyPI's) behavior isn't always 100% congruous with a single stream of development thinking. As mentioned above there are more optimal structures given different kinds of governance and community, but this one aligns with the (IMO good) values that the Python community espouses.
> U.S. public companies have cut their middle-manager head counts by about 6% since the peak of their pandemic hiring sprees

Haven't there been pretty big, well-known layoffs in other areas as well in the last couple years? Lots of engineers have gotten laid off, and the article also points out a 6% reduction in HR. Might it be that they're just laying everybody off across the board? I'd love it if this article considered management layoffs compared to the base rate of layoffs.

I'm a designer, and what I tell people is that you can't avoid having a designer on your team: if you don't have a dedicated designer, design is going to get done by everybody else. Probably by people who don't want to do it, aren't good at it, or may not even know they're doing it as they make unconsidered choices that shape your product forever. I think the same is probably true with managers. You hypothesize: ahh, managers are probably dead weight, let's get rid of them to save money. But then it turns out that all the individual contributors have to split the work the managers used to do. Or, more likely, your lead IC has to do it along with their main job. And in most cases they are not good at it, and do a poor job, and when it nets out you've got a less productive team. My manager quit a year ago, they didn't backfill for his position, and it's been an utter shitshow ever since.
And some don't even require you to log in. For example, Proton VPN has a completely free and anonymous tier.
The thing is for a product to fail means the failure is widely accepted, like how Stadia failed or how AirPower failed. The verb "to fail" is simply wrong in the case of a product when you really intend "to be bad". It can't be established yet if Apple Intelligence has failed.
This is insightful and mirrors my understanding of corporations. New bets are too risky but existing bets need to be maintained for the sake of customers.

Thus, new managers are not necessary as new teams are not necessary. Folding teams together also starts making sense. Fewer layers also starts making sense.

Ultimately, management is overhead and administrative. Less important than individuals who are actually building, maintaining, advertising, and selling.
I'd love to hear more about your experience with Coral. Sounds like that'd be a good fit for a tiny GPU to run models with conv2d?
When you use a debit card, the amount is immediately deducted from your checking account and you can check to see how much you have left by logging into your account.
India Plans About $3B Aid, Tariff Cuts for Electronics
For #2, most proposals I’ve seen aim to put domestic products on a level playing field with products from countries without an equivalent tax with a “border adjustment”, a sort of tariff that’s based on the carbon intensity of the product (with a pessimistic estimate if they don’t know). This has the side effect of encouraging other countries to adopt similar carbon taxes.

The EU is implementing something like that, and we’re seeing an uptick in appetite in the US to implement a border adjustment here, partly as a result, there were a few bills put forward in the last Congress, though nothing has gotten very far yet.
Early word-processing software changed very little of that. I maintain that this kind of software was like typewriters on steroids, with a screen.

WYSIWYG software was an entirely new paradigm, and changed everything.
Consider a homeless person stole from a food bank to sell the food to make money - and nowhere acknowledged where the food came from or that others can get the same food for free; and moreover claimed "this is fresh food I have meticulously sourced myself!"

Everyone from the foodbank to other homeless people would justifiably be furious at this scam artist when they learn more. That's the morally repugnant situation we find ourselves in with Honey.

Copyleft infringement is perhaps better thought of as stealing from a foodbank than government corruption.
I use C in my side projects it TBH I'm very new to it even after using it for a while.

The reason to pick C is simply because those are all small system programming projects so C is naturally the top pick. I also like C for its simplicity.
I'd call those two "styles" of the same font family.

The Macintosh system software shipped with about 12 distinctly-different fonts. Most of which also had italic, bold, outline, etc styles.

These fonts could also be rendered at different point sizes.