skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That also seems to not get timezones right, has a confusing search function...?

More seriously, todo apps are about productivity, not just about becoming a huge bucket of tasks. I've always found that the productivity comes from getting context out of my head and scheduled for the right time. This release appears to be more about that big bag of tasks and less about productivity. I'm all for AI in products, I think it can be powerful, but I've not had a use-case for it in my todo app.
> Societies are far more complex now

Exactly: we have a superior moral compass. Complexities of society aside, other comments rightfully point out that sales tax has a higher burden the lower the income.
Yeah that is a thing for sure, was just commenting on why it was created :)
I have for some time considered some of his decision making and community leadership skills a bit suspect. But like you, I am impressed by this move.

I wonder if he's been watching Mullenweg and WordPress's recent drama?
tire your body and mind.

more intellectual stuff, more physical stuff.
Morph into a federal sales tax? This bill literally proposes one
If I’m able to put my 2ct in as well, have (at least) two, fairly close together. You’ll have arguments to mediate but there will always be someone to play with around. Friends are not the same unless they literally live in the same house.

Having someone with the exact same life schedule is critical.
The solution was always: provide several algos on top of chronological order, and let people choose.

Client side Algo cannot be implemented because the API does not give you enough controls (I know, I have written Mastodon clients)
> they are primarily produced by the mallard reaction

Hmm, I wonder if the propensity to poach, velvet or steam meats aligns with some of the discrepancies we see in diabetes and longevity among otherwise similarly-eating populations.
> is the snapshotting integrated into the package manager.

some linux distros have that by default with btrfs. And usually it's a package install away if you're already on btrfs.
That belief is at odds with the mechanics of how LLMs work. It's not a question of more effort/investment/compute/whatever, it's just a reality of how the underlying systems work (non-deterministic). If you can find a way to make the context window on the scale of the human brain, you may be able to mostly mitigate this.

People want us to be at "Her" levels of AI, but we're at a far earlier stage. We can fake certain aspects of that (using TTS), but blindly trusting an AI to run everything is going to be a big mistake in the short-term. And in order for the inevitability of what you describe to take place, the predecessor(s) to that have to work in a way that doesn't scare people and businesses away.

The plowing of money and hype into the current forms of AI (not to mention the gaslighting about their ability) makes me think the real inevitability is a meltdown in the next 5-10 years which leads to AI-hesitancy on a mass scale.
I feel like "passive" income is anything that takes under 10 hours a week once it's up and running. There's rarely any opportunity that can be considered passive if your definition is 0 work ever once it's going. The only thing that [might] fit into that slot is investment dividends.
ironically you want better quality of sleep, not quantity.
Maybe you should apply HN comment etiquette outside of HN.

>Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

The strongest good faith interpretation of "the CEO must die" is that it is not a call to action for murdering "the CEO". But we'll let the author clarify:

>“The CEO is more than an individual it is a figurehead of the capitalist order,” he wrote. “When we say the ceo must die, we mean the structure of capitalism must be broken.”
So you think if the law was removed from the books people would simply choose not to have racist public establishments in 2025?
> The US didn't win World War 2

The USSR would like a word.
Worked out great for Sonos when their timers and alarms didn’t work.
I ran into this when implementing OIDC at work. One of my teammates wasn't able to login even though he just linked his google account. Turns out based on which browser session he was using, the same google login was giving a different sub. Super weird behaviour.
Not gingerly, just reflect the correct profit/loss = since the house wins, it is a defacto double tax
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I'm on year 13 of running businesses of one (I built an audience development platform and an educational/fundraising platform, plus a handful of smaller ones). On the plus side, I'd say that it has been pretty easy to maintain margins and keep cost under control. It's also easy to stay under the radar of larger competitors. On the downside, I think acquisitions would have been easier if I had a team in place and higher revenue, even with lower operating margins. Last year, my revenue fell a bit and I've considered looking for a more traditional job, but it has been harder than I expected because I believe my experience may not fit a traditional job description. Still, if you can swing it, I would very much recommend it, but good to consider the downsides as well.
I'm on an NVIDIA Jetson, so I guess I'll just have to wait before this stuff becomes practically usable for me ...
The Forgotten Employee would make a great addition:

https://sites.google.com/site/forgottenemployee/
ZFS has been in production use for almost 20 years now. BTRFS is not fully fit for production, according to BTRFS: https://btrfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/btrfs-man5.html#raid5...

Some simple use-cases are arguably production ready with BTRFS, YMMV.
> Your social status as a pre-adult doesn't really matter at all once you join the real world.

The way you feel during that time does though. It decides who you are as an adult.
> the abundance of blocking in the 'verse in lieu of adequate spam controls, which ActivityPub fundamentally lacks

Bring your own algorithm can tackle spam (like adblocks). ActivityPub is flexible enough for Mastodon to build up references to algo-providers.

I've been frustrated by Mastodons slow movement on this, I considered approaching the popular clients to implement this. After all, ad-blockers run entirely on the client. A basic standard can be drawn up that governs how to boost or penalize toots' visibility based on keywords, author or instance, based on an updated list is viable today amd can run entirely on the user's device. Web-based clients are more complex, and require patching the standard Masto server or running in a sidecar.
This is a useful tool for any homeowner, not just those threatened by wildfire. Good luck and godspeed to those currently in harm's way in California.
> The tax burden in the US already is mostly on the working class.

not really

https://www.federalbudgetinpictures.com/do-the-rich-pay-thei...

https://taxfoundation.org/research/all/eu/taxing-high-income...
My desktop environment does exactly this: https://github.com/sabrehagen/desktop-environment
> Prior to the federal income tax (1913)

Also during 1862-1872 and 1892-1895.

> covered by duties, tariffs, and levies

Which come with an equally long history of demonstrated problems, like being economically-inefficient and prone to corruption.

That last concern is particularly relevant given the criminality of the Trump administration: How many suitcases of cash does it take to get a special exception for/against your friends/allies?
Another way to look at it is charging what the market demand dictates. If you charge your normal rate, rooms will sell out and only the lucky ones who booked early will get a room. If you set a rate that leaves 5 or 10% of rooms vacant, someone who needs a room can get one (though it will be expensive).

I've seen this advocated many times here for how cities should set parking rates. It never seems to be called predatory in that scenario.
Additionally, in most countries, crimes that carry a monetary penalty are also highly regressive (such as traffic violations like speeding).
Hey, publisher here. We tend to look at our competition and do half or less the number of ads. That means there's an ad unit every sixth node, not every two paragraphs (so three paragraphs, two images an embed or five paragraphs or whatever). The video player doesn't stick if you're a member, because we are partially member-supported. If you'd like to see fewer ads you can become a member!
This runs with on all hardware with no X server on the host: https://github.com/sabrehagen/desktop-environment
I have a similar experience with my Hyundai Kona Electric.

Even the automatic headlights are by far the worst I have ever used (and that includes a 1996 Ford Taurus). They only reliably stay off for a few hours around noon on overcast days, where the illumination is bright and diffuse. Otherwise they toggle on and off while I am driving through shadows (including self-shadowing when I turn away from the sun).
Nice ! Is it possible to connect to an in browser DB like WASM DuckDB https://duckdb.org/docs/api/wasm/overview.html or https://github.com/babycommando/entity-db ?

That would be most useful imho !
> No exec that killed the spending on better/more sensors for more profit will be punished, certainly not jail.

Nor should they.

These are not self-driving features, they're an assist to make up for shitty drivers and shitty pedestrians. These features basically only exist for the occasions when two dumbasses meet: An inattentive driver meets a pedestrian that doesn't check for oncoming traffic before crossing the road.
We need more poor, unemployed, disenfranchised people to get better at detecting threats at scale.
They are using infinity compute and can’t do simple notifications. How will changing the architecture slightly or ingesting more data change that?
You don't need a whole chain of custody, you just need to know that the current owner is the one you care about. TXT DNS records or magic URLs can do the trick.
Yes. It's ironic that I've never been 100% qualified (as per job desc) at any job I've been hired for, but never hired for something that I am fully qualified for.

Most places are fine having you pick things up for the job. Some just don't have any better choices.
Also, it needs to be framed properly. I propose to name it: value based pricing.

How much value does this room provide you? If you can pay 2x, then it implies value you get is also 2x.

Third degree price discrimination is not as catchy. https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/042415/what-are-dif...
I don't think this is driving away talent, tbh. They have scooped up tons of experienced big tech devs during the layoffs of the past year, and now they can replace expensive, seasoned devs with the fresh blood
That’s good for you. I’m the same, but… we’re here puttering around HN aren’t we? The ones that are not can’t really weigh in to offer a contrary opinion.
I hope all these planned economic measures don't cause another great depression.

Seems like a lot of economic Jenga blocks being removed, with potentially very bad consequences.
Tell HN: Potential example.com outage on January 15, 2025
example.com, example.net, and example.org are currently served by EdgeCast CDN (now Edgio).

Edgio went bankrupt and the CDN will be shutdown on January 15 [0].

As of January 14, the example domains still resolve to 93.184.215.14 which is an EdgeCast IPv4 address [1][2].

I'm not sure who in IANA or IETF manages these domains [3].

If you have scripts, tests, or infrastructure that reference these domains, you might get errors or outages if these domains are not updated by January 15.

Disclosure: I previously worked at EdgeCast and remembered that we were serving these domains.

[0] https://docs.edg.io/applications/v7/release_notes
[1] https://www.nslookup.io/domains/example.com/dns-records/
[2] https://ipinfo.io/93.184.215.14
[3] https://www.iana.org/help/example-domains
> Gorilla in the room are other f*ng parents

That's why some people prefer home schooling
They aren't anarchists. They absolutely believe in the state and the monopoly on violence, and the legitimacy of their own power. They aren't even eliminating taxation - they just want to replace everything with a sales tax.
As the U.S. has done to our closest allies and their leaders, would be shocking and incompetent if they have not done much more in Russia and China and vice versa

There is no equivalence intelligence gathering or gaining the capability for sabotage (which everyone does) versus actual active sabotage which today only Israel executes like with Stuxnet or with the pagers.
What issues specifically? I'm a long time REI customer and a long time (since it was called Firebird) Firefox user, and I've never encountered any issues.
can't wait for the https://jepsen.io/ report!
There is more information in these twitter threads:

https://x.com/karinanguyen_/status/1879270529066262733
https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1879267276291203329
Interesting, I didn't realize that that was an option.

As a fellow daily driver of NixOS, you’ve just summed up my biggest problem with it. You can do almost anything, and once you’ve figured out how and why you do it a certain way, that way often makes a lot of sense and the NixOS design can offer significant benefits compared to more traditional distros without much downside. But NixOS is out of the mainstream and its documentation is often less than ideal, so there is a steep learning curve that is relatively difficult to climb compared to a more conventional distro like Ubuntu.

The shared object problem in particular comes up so often, particularly if you use applications or programming languages with their own ecosystem and package management, that I feel like having nix-ld installed and activated by default with a selection of the most useful SOs available out of the box would be a significant benefit to new users. Or if including it in a default installation is a step too far, many users would probably benefit from some HOWTO-style documentation so they can learn early on that nix-ld exists, how it helps with software that was built for “typical” Linux distros, why you don’t need or want it when running software that was already built for NixOS such as the contents of nixpkgs, and how to work out which shared objects an application needs and how to find and install them for use with nix-ld.

I haven’t yet felt confident enough in my own NixOS knowledge to contribute something like that, but one nice thing about the NixOS community is that there are some genuine experts around who often pop up in these discussions to help the rest of us. I wonder if there’s scope for sponsoring some kind of “Big NixOS Documentation Project™” to fund a few of those experts to close some of those documentation gaps for the benefit of the whole community…
Ah, the notable figurehead Daniel Hatcher, who used to work as an attorney in Maryland, I suppose.

> I haven’t heard anyone say our justice system is primarily profit-driven, and certainly haven’t heard any notable mainstreamers taking that position.

I suppose you can find someone to say any ol' opinion on the vast Internet. I'll consider clause 1 to be disproven and clause 2 to stand.
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Why do you think that would solve the problem?

Keep in mind stucco is very common in Southern California. Basically a 7/8” thick layer of concrete on all the exterior walls. It is fire resistant. Many such buildings burned down.

This isn’t the three little pigs where the brick house is the solution. And that wasn’t the moral of the story anyway.
Isn't that something socialists would actually champion?
I just wish it had columnstore support.
Actually, I do. There's a lot of very bad design weirdness in Windows. Beginning with a multiple root filesystem. I know you don't have to use drive letters, but it's common. Magic device files, LP, CON AUX regularly trip people up. Having file names make them executable causes all kinds of problems, especially when the file browser hides that detail. Never documenting which file types make something executable has caused problems, too. The tradition of single user systems mixes data, config and executables. I'm told you can avoid this, but it's often not the default. Even things like Win32 call design. There's often buffers passed that have caused troubles when they're on page boundaries and segfaults happen. This got fixed, I think, but it's evidence of pitiful foundations.

I do think Windows is something of a "dragon king" of malware due to its design.
> (The worst are SF's 2-way stops at intersections between equally-sized roads that show up randomly throughout Sunset. Worst of both worlds.)

If you think that's bad, Seattle has 0-way stops at intersections in residential. AFAIK, the rule is if you have a stop sign, you must stop; if you don't have a stop sign and other directions do, you have right of way and should proceed if safe; if you don't have a stop sign and neither does anyone else, treat it as an all-way stop. But from my observations, common behavior is to make it through the intersection about half way before realizing there are no stop signs and then just continue through because what else can you do at that point?

Here's a particularly challenging example: https://maps.app.goo.gl/gmuFk8jbo4GMJ1Ru7 where five roads come together with no signage.
If you're using cosine similarity when retrieving for a RAG application, a good approach is to then use a "semantic re-ranker" or "L2 re-ranking model" to re-rank the results to better match the user query.

There's an example in the pgvector-python that uses a cross-encoder model for re-ranking: https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector-python/blob/master/exam...

You can even use a language model for re-ranking, though it may not be as good as a model trained specifically for re-ranking purposes.

In our Azure RAG approaches, we use the AI Search semantic ranker, which uses the same model that Bing uses for re-ranking search results.
I have been wanting to buy a typewriter, but quickly found myself lost in what to buy. Ideally I'd like something for which acquiring ink/toner/tape/etc is not overly difficult or expensive, as I intend to actually use the thing. Does anybody have recomendations?
On the personal interest level? It kind of snowballed. I was 13 when I finally saved up enough allowance money to purchase copies of Minecraft for my sister and I. I can not understate how sad I was when I couldn't find any emerald items, nukes, or clay soldiers to make civilizations for in my creative inventory. This was where I learnt all of those were mods, and not in the base game. I was too young to understand how to use forge (let alone make my own mods), so I got into adventure maps and minigames using command blocks and redstone. I made friends and we worked on each other's stuff. I panned out to have a knack for the command block side of it while others could utilize building skills to make the levels pretty and well designed. It was a lot of fun. When I started taking programming classes in high school and found out the command block work translated over to me doing well with coding, it was pretty set in stone that game programming was what I wanted to go into. I went to a well-ranked college with it as an available major.

> heard horror stories about what the industry is like now...

There definitely are. You have to remember to value yourself and who you are outside of your work, or else you can be taken advantage of. If the amount of work you're doing is so much that you can't do the other things that make you "you," it's too much work.

I graduated at the same time this never-ending wave of layoffs began, so it has been stressful at many points. Some of my best friends have been a part of those lay offs. Some of us pivoted to a new career because there wasn't a chance to even get started. I made do for some time by going to indie game developer events in the city my family lived near. I built relationships, found in-person community, and landed enough contract work as a Unity programmer to pay my student loans until I could find something long-term.

I now work at a small company where we do a mix of Unity and Web development. Sometimes it's our own products/services, but until those are successful enough we do contract work regularly to build out our runway. I enjoy what I do at work a whole lot, and it's been great getting critique from senior programmers with loads more experience than me. Very thankful about where I am.

In the future, I think I'd be okay with changing over to something else in SWE for my career, so long as it was to help people. I know that I love working with others on games enough that I'd still do it in my free time, just like I did when I was "mapmaking" as a kid.
You'd think Open AI's dev velocity and quality would be off the charts since they live and breathe "AI." If a company building ChatGPT itself often delivers buggy features then it doesn't bode well for this whole 'AI will eat the world' notion.
It may not cause ADHD but it is certainly not doing anything good to their brains
Yeah, I remember the kids who were not allowed to watch TV, although they missed out on some peer-discussions, at least there were other stuff that everyone was involved in. And the kids that were not allowed to do anything (no internet, no TV, no games, no running outside around), well, I genuinely don't know how, as a kid, I could find anything in common with them. I really hope they're doing well, but I wouldn't want to be them at that time.

I agree with your second point, the problem is there is one and only one avenue of doing things, and that's online (for most of the kids at least).
I loved AI Dungeon for generating funny/stupid fanfiction style adventure/action/fantasy/scifi stories. It could keep track of characters and settings, have them return with motivations. And then something unexpected would happen. Provided me with a lot of entertainment.

But my problem with using it as a DM is that you have to police yourself. I could just declare that I did something and it would automatically succeed. There were no rules or antagonism in the system. It was more of a collaborative storytelling tool than a game.

To be fair I haven't used it in years so I dunno how it works nowadays.