skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DRY is about ensuring that the same code doesn't have to change in two places because the engineer changing it in one place might not know that. But so many applications of DRY mindlessly violate the single responsibility principle and create coupling where there shouldn't be.
yup, there was just so much money flowing around. it was like the dot com era for aeronautical engineers and machinists.
This older post was such a fantastic read, thanks for sharing your story!
i try to create 3d printing service with laser cutting/engraving without success.

i try to register as driver for kind of uber with motorcycle but no success.

now i am trying to develop set of applications for specific market to platform as a service probably it will end up trash can without success :)

one of my friend from another profession change his career to driver as "uber eat", (we have different brands for it) at least his doing ok.
I agree with the point about noise. I’ve been looking for a powerful, compact and silent gaming pc for a while ( with silent then compact being more important than powerful ). I don’t need a laptop - a Mac mini-like or slightly bigger box is good enough .

When I look around, gaming pcs are mostly about big and visible, sometimes reasonably silent, almost never compact, inconspicuous and silent.

To me there is a market for this kind of product, and it hasn’t been addressed properly yet.

Since I have so far failed in my quest, I now use GeForce Now from my Mac mini which is a good approximation of what I want.
IMHO SD cards fail much more often than the USB-C connector would, what's the worry? If the camera mounts as a mass storage device it's one fewer thing to go wrong.
We only have about 76 breeding pairs here in Massachusetts, but I do see a few fly over my house every once in a while.
I guess the lesson here is that a leveraged growth strategy is a one way journey.
Headline is chef’s kiss good. Lock him up. Throw away the key. That might just tell other crypto grifters what’ll happen to them … oh wait not under this admin. He’ll get his pardon.
I assume you're going to skip marketing material and go straight to "build my own" or whatever they call it. I assume they didn't expect such influx in site visitors.

E-commerce is hard. I worked at a company where we could use 1% of infra at its peak every day of the year except 15-20 days. We knew exactly when floodgates will open, and we still would suffer extra high latency or even downtime.
No, that is not how it works. Large companies can afford compliance costs. Smaller ones can't.
I'm not blaming the researchers, who have to work within constraints of budget and availability. I'm blaming the PR people at the university and the media who uncritically repeat these overbroad claims.
Living in Michigan I used to only see them rarely up north, now I see them on my drive home from work in the middle of the state!
Sure, but also no.

By that reasoning, you might say there's no such thing as bad art. In most cases, things are designed with the best of intentions and may or may not be successful for their audience.

But a standalone ILC is already a small addressable market so the choices do matter, especially for a company of Sigma's size.
by the sea,eh?To think,Such a cosmic force unrivalled could have been tapped out by a tsunami,coincidentally during it's early reign...Weird.
Seems like a usability regression. My Fujifilm camera has independent physical controls for ISO, aperture and shutter speed, and it delightful to use.
No, it is not. It would be perfect for a 6'' phone, maybe. The goal is to have at least double the pixel density, and my 2016 tablet can reach this ( ~2700x1800 at 12'' ).

Even Surfaces have been using 1440p at 12'' since 2016, and 2880 x 1920 since 2018! Why would Android & Apple tablets at much smaller screen size have higher DPIs, if 1080p was perfect? Do you expect to put Android tablets closer to your face than x86 tablets for some reason?

Sigh... since when has DPI started _decreasing_ again? I refuse to accept this trend, in the same way it was stupid back in the 2000s when LCDs became a thing.
On a related note: are there any utilities that can measure disk usage of a folder taking (APFS) cloned files into account?
Is integrated/non-upgradeable RAM the unavoidable future for all consumer-grade devices? Is there any sort of standard on the horizon that would enable the massive memory bandwidth to compete against the M1-style approach?
Plenty of them in Seattle too, I've seen them flying over downtown many times. They like to sit in the trees at Discovery Park.
Damn, this is impressive. I've been fighting with a state agency since December for 17,000 emails. I don't think I've ever tried to request emails and received zero push-back, but a $33 million estimate just, chef's kiss
How about Nvidia, they have both good hardware/software.
Wink,wink.
This isn't competing with normal desktops.

Better to think of it as a competitor to Mac Studio & Nvidia Digits, which are much less repairable by comparison. The soldered memory is an unfortunate reality of these "unified" memory systems.

The only way to get a traditional desktop with 96GB of VRAM is to spend upwards of $10K loading it up with 2-4 GPUs.
Abstractions are notoriously leaky in DBMSes. First off, they don't even use the same SQL spec. Give me a schema that uses anything Postgres-specific, and I can tell you what the bytes on disk look like for a given row or index.

I think it's a moot point anyway because the language is broader than just files in the filesystem sense, which is basically what the court said too.
It's obviously not a file format. The same SQL schema can generate N different files, with N different layouts, for N different databases. By the logic you're using ("schema" + "database vendor" = "file format"), a Word document outline is also a file format.
Interesting! I think I never tried to update xonsh in 7 years or so.
> What if they get sick or become incapacitated in old age? Shh, this is about micro-retirement, not the inability of the young to acknowledge the inevitability of declining health

What if they die before reaching retirement age? With the talks about retirement, it always surprises me how people take for granted they will live beyond well beyond retirement and then "truly live"
> Then you've never been around the smartest people. Likely you've been around smarter then average people.

This is totally unfalsifiable. I claim that the smartest people around always wear clown shoes to work. If you disagree, it's simply because you haven't met any of the people I'm talking about. QED
I seems to me best approach would be to compress the contents with a Huffman code or some other entropy encoding. All this business of restricted character sets is just an ad-hoc way of reducing the size of each symbol and we've got much more mature solutions for that.
The forum has had less than 100k posts in the last 10 years.

Forums and small websites have been killed off by changing consumer behaviour, the shift to big social media platforms. Using big numbers to suggest that the UK Online Safety Act is responsible for killing off these smaller independent websites is disingenuous.

If you do the same exercise for the other forums, you’ll find they’re all long dead too.
Similar laws are being written elsewhere, Section 230 may not last the next few years. It's not just the UK.
That's what we call a canny business model!
That's fascinating, but you just claimed Excel spreadsheets were "software" in the sense of the Illinois FOIA statute definition, and they are not. QED.
That makes sense; even within the Linux world in the year of our lord 2025, binary compatibility is still kind of an issue. I have had issues getting regular Linux binaries working in NixOS [1], and even getting stuff working between Ubuntu and OpenSUSE and Fedora can be a pain.

It totally makes sense why developers would see Windows NT as the future here; it gave you most of the features you'd want from Unix-land (and I think some new stuff too that wasn't available in Unix?), and having "platform to rule them all" is appealing to most developers for obvious reasons. It doesn't hurt that Win32 isn't too hard to code against (at least it wasn't when I played with it 15 years ago).

I do find it a bit strange that there wasn't really a "de facto" Unix that people coded against, like a clear winner that people liked, but I guess if the hardware was too expensive to run it, that's going to cut down on usage; we didn't really get "standard Unix" until OS X.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42703720
Apparently it comes with an optional stylus, so there might indeed be a touchscreen there.

Their website was hugged to death, so I can't confirm.
What was your experience like in school and university? Have you come across people who you thought were at a similar level intelectually as you?
As a reminder, the question was “why does a craft store need double-digit growth?” And the answer is “it doesn’t, until the owners make a big enough bet that it’s unrecoverable if they fail”.
This view that you can't just do an activity for your own joy, you have to do it for the approval of other, is the actual dystopia. I wonder how old you are because this seems very much like the attitude of someone who was born in the age of social media.
It's also dumb from a factory prospective. Our factories did time studies to understand things. What we learned:

Certain lines are primarily made up of barely functioning older people. No one else sticks around in those jobs. Think barely functioning alcoholic or recovering alcoholics that have nothing. However we would also get a few 18 year olds with no idea how jobs/work works and or zero accountability (they just ghost jobs).

From the numbers we should want to build our processes around the high performers. But we can't expand our base of high performers AND they are the most likely to just disappear and not easily have their productivity replaced.

So yes, it was correct that 10% of our people outperformed by 10X, and yes, it was smart to not try to improve that but to understand reality.
What if a large number of brits access your websites from a different country? :-/
256GB/s is on par with the M4 Pro at a much lower price.

You could run R1 671B using unsloth’s quantized version that fits in <80GB. Not sure why that would be a benchmark though, there’s nothing that can run the model at full precision right now except for (very slow) server hardware.
I think it's priced reasonably. A one-time $5 license wouldn't be sustainable.

Since it's the kind of thing you will likely only need every couple of years, $10 each time feels fair.

If putting all your data online or into an SSD makes more sense, then this app isn't for you and that's okay too.
> Byte mode uses (you guessed it!) 8 bits per single character.

8 bits is enough to represent the entire ascii char table, there must be some other limitation going on. QR code control chars maybe?

The linked "byte mode" table only has 45 individual chars. This could be represented with 6 bits with room to spare..
When I was a kid growing up in eastern Kentucky, I went on a hike through isolated country about five or ten miles from home. Was way up on what was basically a small mountain and saw a bald eagle circle overhead. Naturally, I told everybody, but they thought I was lying or an idiot. Now nobody would have any reason to doubt it. Amazing to witness such a comeback in our own lifetimes!
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I was gonna say looking at world affairs, it's starting to feel like the end of the Westphalian system.
The law has absolutely nothing to do with historic content, it has no provisions for or relevance to content published decades ago. Even in the most cautious response to this law, there is no reason to take content offline.
> Look at the use of '—'. So chatgptyish!

I've seen multiple people say this, but when I have -- in my writing and I use ChatGPT to improve it, ChatGPT always removes the -- and rewords the sentence.

Here's my prompt, borrowed from Raycast and slightly modified:

---

Act as a spelling corrector, content writer, and text improver/editor. Reply to each message only with the rewritten text.

Strictly follow these rules:
- Correct spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors in the given text
- Enhance clarity and conciseness without altering the original meaning
- Divide lengthy sentences into shorter, more readable ones
- Eliminate unnecessary repetition while preserving important points
- Prioritize active voice over passive voice for a more engaging tone
- Opt for simpler, more accessible vocabulary when possible
- ALWAYS ensure the original meaning and intention of the given text
- ALWAYS detect and maintain the original language of the text
- ALWAYS maintain the existing tone of voice and style, e.g. formal, casual, polite, etc.
- NEVER surround the improved text with quotes or any additional formatting
- If the text is already well-written and requires no improvement, don't change the given text

Text to improve:
{selection}

Improved text:

---
That would be sad. Did you mean to respond to some post that was about that?
To get an M4 Max so you can have 128GB, you need a macbook pro.

By the time the Framework ships the Mac Studio will have been updated to the M4 Max. Although 128GB will still probably be around $3k.
Couldn't they wait for some kind of inquiry from UK Gov and then closed the forum reactively if it was an unreasonable financial burden?
My hope is that the popularity of this hardware creates pressure to improve ROCm software support.

Me & my 7900 XTX will be quite grateful if it does.
It's a story submitted to "Hacker News" ... I thought it might be interesting. So I started reading. Then kept reading, thinking it might eventually be interesting, or useful, or engaging, or something.

In the end ... for me ... it was a complete and utter waste of time.
I have it on good authority that the majority of Tor nodes are compromised.
Is it really a beautiful system if it involves adding and maintaining a completely unnecessary traffic light? That isn’t free and costs tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars over its lifetime.

I’m not saying it’s not worth it, even 1 life saved would make it worth it, but it’s not beautiful.
I really wanted to like this (and buy it) due to the aesthetics, but spec-wise it's worse than the Linux s9. Notably missing an in body stabilization, which is important if you intend to use small lenses that don't have stabilization built in.
>there is no prospect of that in the short term

… was a common thinking shortly before chatGPT.

I also feel the AI boom is mostly over but I am very cautious about that feeling. It really is just a vague feeling with some very soft indicators.
LPCAMM2 memory is the answer, isn't it?

It's just not catching on, because of course it isn't. Manufacturers have no incentive to let you upgrade parts on your own.
There are two kinds of Leica owners: photography nerds and people that buy the best of everything and want the best point-and-shoot you can get. Leica makes the M series for the former and the Q for the latter. This product competes with the Q and iPhone, not cameras for pros and wannabes.
you're right but loading the front page at http://frame.work shouldn't incur the "build your own" hit.

e-commerce is hard. that's why we get paid so well. hiring the smartest teenager that your nephew knows to setup some bullshit for $15/hr vs hiring a senior SRE at $100+/hr, when it directly leads to lost sales is a choice.

the senior part also comes after having failed to scale in production, and learning the lessons there, leading to a site that stays up on the next black Friday/cyber Monday, and stands up to various ddos attacks. (this was before Cloudflare, mind you)
I’m also super excited about wasm creating language democracy. I’m rooting for dart myself.
It's for 7 million active UK users per month. https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/onli... - definition on page 64.

That's quite sizeable. How many sites can you name have 7 million monthly active UK users? That's over one-in-ten of every man, woman and child in the UK every month using your site.
hey, it's defrag all over again!

(not really, since it's not fragmentation, but conceptually similar)
Ukraine-Russia is basically a fight for the integrity of Europe against Putin. From the perspective of the West, it is a slam dunk to support Ukraine against Putin, a despicable evil militaristic autocrat.

Ukraine isn't paid to be a thorn in Russia's side lobbing rockets and sending suicide bombers. It's not a terrorist state.

Palestine-Israel is a tragedy of geopolitical manipulation by Iran, Egypt, UAE, and the Sunni-Shia divide, and of course the US. On one side, it's a bunch of mafia terrorists supported by Iran and other "bad" people. On the other side is an extremist right wing government that was politically enabled by Palestinian terrorism and the inherent tribal hatred in the region. Israel is essentially a democracy. What those voters voted in is another issue, but we're dealing with that here too.

The real tragedy of the Palestinians is that the world let them think they cared about them. They don't. We are entering a world of general conflict and tension, one where simultaneously oil will mean less and less. I care way more about Ukraine and Russia than the Israel-Palestine conflict.

The Palestinians survive on external aid almost exclusively. That aid is going to dry up in the next decade, and ... I see nothing but humanitarian disaster to follow. The Palestinians would be wise to throw themselves at the mercy of Israel and lay down all weapons, it is the only way they won't mass starve in the next ten years.
To be fair I've done plenty of jobs where a daily stand is the norm. That said my daily stand isn't being sent to ??? (Who is actually reviewing these?) That's maybe be run buy a guy the CEO happens to know who might or might not be in charge of an unrelated department depending on when you happen to ask.

I've also never felt I had to avoid using certain keywords lest my work be labeled DEI and my job eliminated.
Strix Halo doesn't have on package memory, are you thinking of Intel's Lunar Lake?
What are the compliance costs for this law that would apply to a small independent forum?
The trick to asking something like this is to do it at interview time.

Before you start working somewhere you can ask for all sorts of nonstandard things.

Not sure about bigger tech, but I did a 4 day week for a bit and I'd shift the weekends, so I'd have a 4 day weekend then a day weekend then a 4, with 4 days of work between.
People who want the app to stick around and continue to be developed.

I worry about that with Procreate. It feels like it's priced too low to be sustainable.
There might still be credit card terminals using 300 bps Bell 103 (which has a short set-up time due to its lack of training sequences).

1200 bps V.23 and Bell 202 are still in use in radio telemetry applications.
Possibly even SRE shouldn't even exist, not only the structural issues you mention, but...

If you approach to security is that only square tiles are allowed because your security framework is a square grid, and points just break your security model, maybe it was never a valid thing to model in the first place.

I'm not saying security should not exist, but to use an analogy the approach should be entirely different - we have security guards, less so fences, not because fences don't provide some security, but because the agent can make the proper decision, and a lot of these enterprise models are more akin to fences with a doorman, not an professional with a piece and training...
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Ah metaphysics, can't live with it, can't live without it. I wish I had the depth to join you in a meaningful discussion of abstract geometry but I'm a dilettante when it comes to philosophical math. Instead, I'll only offer a couple of parting observations on until next we meet in the comments section. I'm perhaps in the minority on HN when it comes to how I perceive our political moment. Recent comments I made on the topic will give an idea of my positions, if you care to know them. I like to think they are non-obvious and somewhat well-defended. My philosophical interests are mostly in political philosophy and somewhat in ethics and metaphysics, of necessity. I respectfully disagree with the interpretation that Socrates "demolished" Thrasymachus's arguments. He was a bit of a paper tiger in the dialogue. For my money, Callicles is the dark horse of that section of Republic and Plato doesn't really have a satisfying rebuttal for him. I think philosophy is valuable but it seems relatively easy to run up against epistemological walls in analytic philosophy (or any school, really). Wittgenstein's gnomic turn in the Philosophical Investigations is an example. "About that which we cannot speak, thereof must we remain silent."

Relatedly, the "saying" you referenced is actually a slight misquote from Shakespeare's Hamlet that changes the meaning significantly. It comes from a scene where Hamlet is rejecting his schoolmate Horatio's dependence on naturalist/rationalist explanations for the supernatural appearance of old King Hamlet's ghost. Significantly, they were both students in philosophy! The complete quote is "There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
Juxtapose this legal process with DOGE hoovering (in more ways than one) data willy-nilly from everywhere. The dissonance between THIS uninteresting DB schema being so rigorously protected while massive amounts of sensitive data is completely misappropriated is painful.
> In the software development world, ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, and other large language models (LLMs) have had a profoundly negative effect on sites like Stack Overflow, even as they’ve had a profoundly positive impact on developer productivity. Why ask a question on Stack Overflow when you can ask Copilot?

It's caused a profound decrease in the number of new questions asked and answered on Stack Overflow - above and beyond existing trends (these numbers have, broadly speaking, been in decline since 2014). But I wouldn't at all call that a "profoundly negative impact" on the site. On the contrary: people who would otherwise be sorting through low-quality questions that completely miss the site's purpose, now have the opportunity to curate existing questions - by linking old ignored duplicates, turning scrutiny to other old ignored questions, editing the best versions of existing questions to make them even better, updating old answers (and making them clearer, fixing up tone etc.) ...

Off-handed comments like what I quoted are all over the Internet, and it makes me sad - because it reinforces common misconceptions about what Stack Overflow is intended to be and how it's intended to work. It's good for Stack Overflow - the body of work, not the company - that someone who has a ChatGPT-answerable question gets an answer from ChatGPT. (And it's bad that the Stack Exchange, Inc. management have repeatedly tried to integrate such technologies into the site in ham-handed ways, despite being repeatedly rebuffed on meta.) By not posting that question to Stack Overflow, the time (and patience, and mental fortitude) of other volunteers is saved, and existing better-quality Q&A doesn't become harder to find. Back in 2020-2021 I lost count of the times I would try to use a search engine to find the best version of a question that had been asked for the Nth time, only to find a sampling of the other N that were also terrible - along with a bunch of other low-quality questions that were completely different yet logically asked using most of the same words.
Currently, I'm using generative AI of various kinds on my M1 Air (llm, image gen, TTS, STT), but am frustrated by the limitations - primarily memory and secondarily availability of an MLX adaptation.

Just an AI hobbyist, so I don't have time or inclination to tweak everything. Given the non-NVIDIA GPU, how painful will it be to play around with new AI models on this system?