skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's remarkable how often I get pushed some form of content in my YT weekend algo, and then at the beginning of the week the same thing is on the top of HN. We are all in the same funnel.
So, is the current recommendation to create such a backup to an external storage and then restore it on a new device? There is currently no direct device-to-device transfer feature using this, correct?
Caring about spoiled rich people = Intelligent Discourse

Caring about marginalized and needy people = Cynical Loser.
I feel like this is just correlation at best. How are other similar retail stores like WalMart doing? Or what about regionally? Is the drop bigger in more left-leaning areas? Is it actually up in right-leaning areas?

Is this just economic jitters or are they really getting punished for dropping DEI?
Kristi Noem, the one who shot her own dog? I'm afraid clown-ish behaviour doesn't even begin to describe her sociopathy
It's not about order of operations; there is simply no linearization of sRGB happening or mentioned in the article.

I.e. it's not ordering of operation but absence of an operation that is the issue.

> ... -> linear perceived luminance space -> ...

"Perceptual" luminance is not a concept used anywhere. Luminance is, by definition, linear [1].

When we talk about color, something can either be linear or perceptual. Not both. "Perceptual" refers to "how humans perceive something" and the human visual system is non-linear.

Relative luminance [2] (what people refer to as grayscale) and what we're dealing with in the post, is still linear. So the order of operations is:

sRGB non-linear -> sRGB linear -> grayscale -> dither

After the dithering no conversion back to sRGB is necessary for the case at hand because all pixels are black or white and the sRGB transfer function for the inputs 0 and 1 has the outputs 0 and 1.

See also [3]. You only would re-apply a sRGB linear -> sRGB non-linear transform if you didn't dither to black and white after the grayscale conversion. I.e. in the case at hand: if you dithered the 8bit grayscale to n bit grayscale with 1 < n < 8.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminance

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_luminance

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grayscale#Colorimetric_(percep...
It may not be that Kotlin is declining in general but rather mobile development using it (and Swift) is declining which is the dominant case. If we could see non-mobile Kotlin use that would be an interesting trend to see. I imagine some of the adoption and familiarity could carry over to backend uses.
C++ for one - it has atomics with well defined memory barriers, and guarentees for what happens around them.

The real answer is obviously Assembly - pick a random instruction from any random modern CPU and I'd wager there's a 95% chance it's something you can't express in C at all. If the goal is to model hardware (it's not), it's doing a terrible job.
Carbon sequestration!

I grew up in an area known for coal and logging. Ever since I heard of sequestration brought up I thought the area sounded perfect for it. Fell (maybe mulch) the trees, kiln dry to remove weight/moisture, and toss them down a mineshaft.

It always felt a bit peotic to 'reseed' a coal mine
Val Town has a free tier that's easily enough to run this project: https://www.val.town/pricing

I'd use a hosted platform for this kind of thing myself, because then there's less for me to have to worry about. I have dozens of little systems running in GitHub Actions right now just to save me from having to maintain a machine with a crontab.
The entire point of a home is not to escape traditional finance. It's by design not compatible with a simple "thief breaks into house" comparison, otherwise the entire enterprise is a scam and they should be criminally prosecuted for fraud the second they ask for legal dispute resolution on transactions that happened on ledger.
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On a similar note, my family eschews Hobby Lobby for similar ideological reasons.
Especially because it wasn’t like target came out to say “we hate DEI now”, they just realized that any corporation that had a DEI program was going to open themselves up to legal issues so they just can’t say things out loud anymore.
I think the point of the person you are replying to is that you are in a very, very small minority. So small that a decline in foot traffic at Target is likely only correlated with a decline in foot traffic, and nowhere near a cause of it.
tl;dr "we had our vLLM fork and it's unmaintainable now; guess we are going to rebuild it, in the public this time"
The comparison with Costco is right there at the top of the article.
Unreal. Great achievement!
> One universal law is that if you steal from people with more money than you, you're screwed. And the more money they have, the worse off you are.

If someone has more money than you, you're screwed. Period.

This is how it works in the fascists world order, which is increasingly dominating these days.
https://transformerlab.ai/docs/resources/Uninstall%20Transfo...
Target had been pandering to the LGBTQ community for a long time, they released many shirts and ads that tried to present itself as inclusive and forward thinking.

But the very second things change on the top, they flip.

Yes quite a few people are upset at this. They concretely damaged their brand, ruined trust, and pissed off a bunch of their target market. There is an intentional boycott now and it is clearly affecting their stock
As the article mentions a couple times, costco is doing great. Sales increasing every week for months, stock at an all time high.
Because if you look at the 5 yr chart, you'd see that Target wasn't doing so hot to begin with, and the recent decline is just a continuation of a long term trend rather than a reversal caused by "DEI" or whatever.
Strong types are not orthogonal to dynamic types, but I'll assume you're referring to static typing instead. My opinion on this is static type systems are great and provide amazing fit when you can model an entire system (e.g. a compiler). I think they are overrated for typical business software subject to change over time. IMO this is because business data tends to outlive any particular code base, or compiler version.

The way I see it is there's a spectrum of ways of handling this, from type systems, validation code, documentation, integration tests (validating runtime behaviour), and static analysis tooling, but I don't agree that a static type system is the best (and is often only barely adequate) way of integrating modules. The optimal solution is going to vary based on each project's requirements: e.g., is the modular code going to be consumed via networked API or as a library, and is it internally controlled or third-party? How many teams are going to be working on it? How much care has been taken with backwards compatibility? If we break the interface of some random minor function every update, a static type system may help, then again if it's just for our team: who cares? I'm sure we've all seen updates make internal modifications that break runtime behaviour but don't alter data models or function signatures in a way that get's picked up by a compiler.

Even in the most extreme type systems, interfaces are eventually going to need documentation and examples to explain domain/business logic peculiarities. What if a library interface requires a list in sorted order? Is it better to leak a LibrarySortedList type into the caller codebase? The modularity starts to break down. The alternative is use a standard library generic List type, but you can't force the data to be sorted. To encode this type of info we need dependent types or similar. A different example would be a database connection library, every database supports different key/value pairs for connection strings. If the database library released a patch which deprecated support for some arbitrary connection string param, you wouldn't find out until someone tried to run the code. Static analysis tools may catch common things like connection strings, but IME there's always some custom "stringly" typed values in business applications, living in a DB schema written 10+ years ago.

We also have to consider that the majority of our data arrives serialised, from files or over the wire. It's necessarily constrained to generic wire protocols, which have lower fidelity than data parsed into a more featured type system. Given that this type of data is getting validated or rejected directly after deserialisation, how much extra value is derived from having the compiler reiterate your validation code? Non-zero for sure, but probably not as much as we like to think.
zhank you
Yet for example the auditory/language processing part is almost always located in the same region for all humans.
Most of the US Constitution doesn't even differentiate between citizens and non-citizens.
> Does your average consumer actually care?

Yes. This is an anecdote but I personally know people who are boycotting Target and a lot of other companies that backtracked on DEI and LGBTQ rights. I think these companies are all posturing and will say what they think will get you in the door but other people I know are taking this personally and changing their spending habits to reflect that.
Of course, ships sink all the time.
Ah. This post counts for one, or 0.000173% of the 1.56 billion customers (annual).

- Demographics https://www.numerator.com/snapshots/target/

- More demographics https://www.contimod.com/target-statistics/

What might be interesting is to sample your persons more broadly (across country) and in more quantity?
The US has highest rate of pregnancy-related death among high-income countries
I have stopped shopping there as well, but continue to shop at Amazon. Amazon is clear that they are a corporation who only cares about the bottom line. I can respect that vs Target who is pandering.
Handle iOS Deep Links with Async Algorithms
It was probably a joke, because this site is quickly turning into reddit 2.
> Dubious” charges against Lula? — He was convicted of accepting a seaside apartment as a bribe for helping the OAS construction company get lucrative deals with state oil firm Petrobras.

Yes, since nobody yet proved that the apartment was Lula's apartment. And tt was discovered several problems with Lula's charges, which was judged by a person that later was rewarded by Bolsonaro with a job as minister.

> Also Bolsonaro was termed “far right,” but Lula not called “far left?”

Lula is not far left, but center left. He is a social democrat at best, not a communist.
One of our app devs built this recently, but for swearing:

https://youtube.com/shorts/FthRCwn1JuM?si=lC3eWAUI7sV-LL-r

A wearable speech coach would be awesome, though. Detect filler words and give you an alert on your HUD when it detects "uh" "uhm" etc.
Not everyone is cranking out boilerplate web services/web apps
It's highly specific to the country (and also to the social media where the community was once established), so I doubt it is relevant to you.
But think fandom non-english space with historical empathizes on female and lgbt members under antilgbt government.
Any social media on this particular language that wants to grow large will swiftly remove half of the discussions we can have there. Keeping separate from opinionated socially-aligned people is also a plus
>Bolsanaro was already in power when this happened, so there is little reason to suspect him of wielding power over the courts or anything like that.

Bolsonaro had only made one appointment to the Supreme Federal Court at the time of the judgement in favor of Lula in 2021, while 7 of the 11 had been appointed by Lula or Dilma Rousseff. Yes, Lula was not in a position to pressure the supreme court as president but I don't think one should assume he had zero influence either. I'm not intimately familiar with Brazilian politics though and wouldn't want to unfairly imply any of the judges were in any way corrupt so I'll just leave it at that.
The daily briefing prompt is here: https://www.val.town/x/geoffreylitt/stevensDemo/code/dailyBr...

It's about 652 tokens according to https://tools.simonwillison.net/claude-token-counter - maybe double that once you add all of the context from the database table.

1200 input tokens and 200 output tokens for Claude 3.7 Sonnet costs 0.66 cents - that's around 2/3rd of a cent.

LLM APIs are so cheap these days.
Git-remote-HTTP is linked against incompatibly licensed OpenSSL
We might get multi-line macros in C2y standard: https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n3524.txt
isn't it translated to microcode before being executed?
A HTML-CSS-JS quine that syntax-highlights itself
It seems like he simply faces a very wealthy existence in countries that don't give a shit about US laws.
Where were they from? As a South American I'm having difficult figuring out which country is socialist in this continent. Venezuela?
This seems a case of extracting a lot of information from very little data.

The economy is in a weird situation. The situation is extremely fluid. And people who can afford to buy groceries, partially with a subscription service, are also the kind of people who are less likely to be affected by the economy.

There you have it. There is an alternative explanation that fits the same data. In fact I'll argue it fits a little bit better since the other chain's foot traffic was up only 0.3 percent. If people had fled from Target, you'd expect this one to go up quite a bit more.
OMG, the difference between tabs and spaces is so tiny that it's generally inconsequential in modern IDEs.

In our case, where we use .editorconfig and a reformatter, if someone makes a case that we should change, it's trivial to do so.

> Oh, being stuck with incumbent decisions.

I think if you feel that way about tabs vs spaces, the problem isn't "incumbent decisions," the problem is your attitude.
OT Q: What are the mesh bags made of? They always leave a detritus of orange (citrus) or green (avocados) on the counter; we're definitely ingesting this stuff.
For what it's worth, he did carry a satellite phone. But I do agree - this felt like a wildly optimistic decision to make :P
Functional Programming Lessons Conclusion
Walmart is an interesting case. I have no data to back this up but I feel Walmarts are typically the only big box store in their area while I have never seen a Target that didn't have another viable alternative within a few miles.
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What will the LLM use to call out to an OpenAPI system? Will it use a shell command like curl? How will it bind to the shell? How will the LLM’s host orchestrate that on the LLM’s behalf?

And who will define the credentials? And what is the URL? Oh, those are in the environment variables? How will the LLM get that info? Do I need to prompt the LLM all that info, wasting context window on minutia that has nothing to do with my task?

…if only there was a standard for that… I know! Maybe it can provide a structured way for the LLM to call curl and handle all the messy auth stuff and smooth over the edges between operating systems and stuff. Perhaps it can even think ahead and load the OpenAPI schema and provide a structured way to navigate such a large “context blowing” document so the LLM doesn’t have to use precious context window figuring it out? But at that point why not just provide the LLM with pre-built wrappers on top specifically for whatever problem domain the rest api is dealing with?

Maybe we can call this protocol MCP?

Because think about it. OpenAPI doesn’t help the LLM actually reach out and talk to the API. It still needs a way to do that. Which is precisely what MCP does.
My company does this, but they are a very large company that is known to aggressively sue people that try to poison the well, so no one tries.
Costco is a membership store with a very different much higher income clientele who is less sensitive to economic jitters.
Show HN: Zero-codegen, no-compile TypeScript type inference from Protobufs
Appreciate the kind words!

I see ActorCore as picking up on PartyKits vision where they left off after acquisition by Cloudflare. Here's a few of the few things we've added to ActorCore:

- Full TypeScript type safety for calling actions on actors – PartyKit provides raw WebSocket messages instead

- Streamlined state persistence – PartyKit requires using low-level storage calls for persistence

- Flexible scheduling API – PartyKit exposes the single alarm from Cloudflare instead

- Simpler "functional" API – you might prefer PartyKit if you prefer using ES6 classes

- Upcoming SQLite features & deep integrations for features like auth & local-first sync will make it easier to ship quickly

- Not vendor-locked to Cloudflare

PartyKit already has a few integrations that is on our roadmap, such as Yjs

Curious to hear your experience using both.
The beauty of kotlin is they don't need to.
I use kotlin on the backend (never did android development). It's amazing. Better version of java than java. Use any and all java libraries transparently (there's nothing to change or do), heck you can even have the java and kotlin in the same codebase (something I haven't really done, but tried it for fun)

Java and Kotlin both compile down to .class Java bytecode.

To the JVM, there is no difference
Emdashes are for embedded asides not deserving of relegation to parentheticals. You'd need text to follow; it's not just for pausing.
I like when phrases get reversed. Like "better sorry than safe" or "look both ways after crossing the road".
I don't think switching to an LLM is exactly in line with what GP was trying to say :)
> When your computer is a PDP-11, otherwise it is a high level systems language like any other.

Describing C as "high-level" seems like deliberate abuse of the term. The virtual machine abstraction doesn't imply any benefits to the developer.
It's not that small a minority within the market segment target has been successfully focusing on for two decades.
Surely? But she was ethnically a Swede.
While all the major retailers are down (due to economic "uncertainty"), Target is certainly hurting the most.

Costco, who pushed back against the calls to end DEI is doing the best.

> Target lost 9% of its foot traffic year over year in February and 6.5% in March, according to Placer.ai research. It even lost traffic during Target Circle Week. That’s more than Walmart, which lost 5.7% of traffic February and another 3.8% in March. In contrast, Costco gained 2.2% in traffic in February and 7.5% in March.

https://www.startribune.com/target-walmart-foot-traffic-decl...
Yes. I've loved not having to do some of the boring busywork tasks of coding. Basic CRUD pages, simple frontend stuff, general glue between existing services.
Yes, running transactions for asymmetric benefit allowed by code on a platform underpinned by a technology whose proponents espouse "code is law" is at all comparable to a man picking a lock on a bank safe. Very astute.
Enough drops of water eventually make a puddle. Target was already second fiddle to Walmart so alienating a consumer base they spent years deliberately tailoring marketing for is not a good idea if the boat is already leaky.
Meta faces antitrust claims at trial over Instagram and WhatsApp ownership
>I'm still looking for a systematic approach to make a hybrid search (combined full-text with embedding vectors).

Start off with ES or Vespa, probably. ES is not hard at all to get started with, IMO.

Try RRF - see how far that gets you for your use case. If it's not where you want to be, time to get thinking about what you're trying to do. Maybe a score multiplication gets you where you want to be - you can do it in Vespa I think, but you have to hack around the inability to express exactly that in ES.
„Code is law“ isn’t a thing. Go tell a judge that your hacking is legal because the code allowed it. That’s not something that’s allowed by law.
Twitter was the experiment. Elon showed up and started cutting headcount left and right. People were even encouraged to just walk out. On paper this was supposed to lead to the immanent collapse of it's service.

That didn't happen and instead every other tech CEO started to wonder about the amount of fat in their org.
Ages ago, I proposed that the best CMS for a company would be one which used e-mail as the front-end:

- all attachments are stripped out and stored on a server in an hierarchical structure based on sender/recipient/subject line

- all discussions are archived based on similar criteria, and can be reviewed EDIT: and edited like to a wiki
Any quick way to make a PDF out of this?
I think my definition of "most" (11 of 14) and your definition of "most" (4 of 14) differs here...which is fine. We live in the "days of Perky Pat" anyway.
Is that because of DEI, or because Costco offers better deals and people are stocking up because of economic uncertainty? I know people who ahve stopped shopping at Target including me, but anecdotes don't prove anything.
It's like 10-13 weeks of data that directly corresponds with a new US administration, how long should we wait?
No, it just makes it inconvenient to try to protect yourself from stubbing your toe in it.
Northeast USA, maybe NY or NJ?
Where I worked last the dress code was super relaxed, unless a bigwig or customer was expected. Made a co-worker laugh once by describing us as "Dressed to the ones".
"It’s very useful for personal AI tools to have access to broader context from other information sources."

How? This post shows nothing of the sort.

"I’ve written before about how the endgame for AI-driven personal software isn’t more app silos, it’s small tools operating on a shared pool of context about our lives."

Yes, probably, so now is the time to resist and refuse to open ourselves up to unprecedented degrees of vulnerability towards the state and corporations. Doing it voluntarily while it is still rather cheap is a bad idea.
It is the same level of fragility compared to HTTP because most HTTP connections now are stateless keep-alive connections. The solution to this fragility is to open a new connection after the prior connection breaks. You will know when the WebSocket connection breaks in both the browser and Node because there is an event exactly for that. That new connection request can occur via timed intervals or as needed at next message, depending upon concerns of directionality and urgency.

Transmission is not a function of state. Your application gains greater durability when those two qualities become fully independent of each other.

Transmission jank is a concern for web servers that come down and then back up with restoration of many concurrent connections. The solution to that is stagger connection establishment in batches and intervals. This is not a normal operating concern though, because how often does your web server crash on you in production if you have 10,000 or more active connections.

As for CDNs leave static asset requests to HTTP. For performance these files should be consolidated to the fewest number of requests balanced against initial rendering concerns in the browser. This should also typically be limited to initial page request.
If a language is unpopular, people won't want to work for you and you'll run into poor support. Rewriting a library may take months of dev time, whereas C has an infinite number of libraries to work with and examples to look at.
As a counterpoint, I don't think I've worked at a company in 10 years that didn't at least require fizzbuzz.
I've build adaptive agent swarms using email, mailing lists and ftp servers.

If you don't need to have the lowest possible latency for your work and you're happy to have threads die then it's better than any bespoke solution you can build without an army of engineers to keep it chugging along.

What's even better is that you can see all the context, and use the same command plane as the agents to tell them what they are doing wrong.
Am I tripping, did your comment not specifically wonder about costco a few minutes ago? Did you edit it?