skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tools to make art content have gotten dramatically better in the last 10 years. Systems such as Substance, which create algorithmic textures to replace manual texture creation in Photoshop, have resulted in at least a 10x increase in productivity.

Naturally, one may wonder if this has resulted in the labor market disappearing for artists. But it hasn't. The demand for high quality art skyrocketed because the tools economically allowed for it. (In some ways the market for artists has gotten smaller, because there is less appetite for low-skill Photoshop monkeys, but highly skilled technical artists are much more in demand, because we are starting to see dramatic differences in productivity between artists just like we have seen in engineering.)

So, yes, we will see AI in content generation, but it isn't going to be in the form of replacing art bottlenecks. It will manifest in new tooling for artists, who will become more productive, and there will be even fewer artists who have good mastery of these tools, and the demand of quality will increase further. Which would lead to similar bottlenecks to today, though I believe artists will be paid better, and it will become even tougher to break in.
‘Rigged’ details long history of Russian and U.S. electoral interference
I recommend the recent "pop" book about Money as an intro: https://www.amazon.com/Money-True-Story-Made-Up-Thing/dp/154...
Housing is expensive in the city and some nearby suburbs ( mostly to the west and southwest), but less so the further away you are. Thanks to the RER train system even far away suburbs, with cheap or cheapish housing aren't that far away - e.g. i have colleagues with houses ( with big yards and two stories) in the 200k euros range south of Paris, in fancy-ish suburbs, and are 40-50 minutes from the office ( i live in a suburb right next to the city and i travel entirely by subway, and it takes me 50 minutes, because the subway is much slower).

Depending on what you want though, it can indeed be very expensive - e.g. if you want an apartment in the city to profit from the night life ( after 1am the transport to the suburbs is only with buses and much slower), it is going to be very expensive to buy.

And that's just for "regular" people. Each city in France is required to have a minimum percentage of social housing, to which you can have access ( including to buy) if you're below a certain threshold of income ( so on minimum wage, you're there).
It's my understanding that Apple donated hardware to multiple projects. That said, I can't track down a link right now either so it's just my recollection.
Are we sure that this isn’t generational values changing? I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a moral change associated with generation / upbringing more than age.
Lisp is 10 lines of code. If this is not your starting point, you are already lost: https://youtu.be/OyfBQmvr2Hc
Yeah but each CPU can choose exactly how much fusion they want to do. That is not part of the ISA or promise they make to developers. Doing macro-op fusion like x86 should be a big win anyway combined with compressed instructions.
Short Guide to Finiacial Independence
Oh this is amazing. Very cool.
Not necessarily. I’ve lived in three rentals in LA over the past five years and each one had a clause that allowed me to break my lease in exchange for two months rent. Not saying the OP had that clause, but I’ve never had to ask for it and it’s been baked into the lease.

I know my current landlord is going to be excited about me leaving in a month, as rent had gone up about $1,300 a month in this area over the last two years, but my increase are capped.
That’s why I don’t recommend either, but instead decycling them.

After what percentage of deficiency does solar become unviable? I’ll gladly take panels off anyone’s hands that have lost 75% of their efficiency and hodge-podge something together. If we lose 20% after 25 years, when do we lose 75%+?
I think its pretty obvious the solution to "not paid enough money" is "pay more money"
Sounds like her true form encompasses the entire universe of possibilities, so any time you limit her choices you are effectively killing off a part of her consciousness, for no reason but your own convenience or some vain attempt to prepare her for some vague 'real world'. By preventing her action you are literally denying her right to fully exist.
"let's allow users to DOS us in a single request if they want to" is not an acceptable design decision, I'm sure you are aware of that.
Sorry, my bad. I apparently can't keep track of which toxic PXYZ we're talking about. Still, I'd point back to my RO water filter suggestion.
SRE School: Instrumentation (2018)
Hashtag #Scalies?
The way your website handles font-size and zoom is really weird.
Number of severe infections in the experimental group vs number of severe infections in the control/placebo group.
Interesting that you would choose gold, when its value is mostly manufactured.
Show HN: Easy webhooks for your SalesForce objects
I wrote quite a bit of Haskell several years ago and sadly I have to agree! I understand why all the cruft is kept around - for one backwards compatability. But they really need a clean break to remove all the cruft and simplify things. There shouldn't be so many ways to do things (especially if some of those ways are just flat out wrong).
Whenever I get annoyed by the relentlessly banal life lessons of Goggins, I remind myself that his audience is mostly made up of troubled teenagers who took their latest shower 3 weeks ago and middle-age professionals of some sorts who cannot close their trousers anymore because of additional calories brought on by family life.
I was curious and tried working with this an a device about a year ago and the whole thing felt like a mess. There are browser components, electron cancer, web-to-bluetooth pieces. I think I could get my device to register/pair but couldn't get anything past that.

I was looking through the docs and the only useful thing seemed to be the low-level code if I wanted o make my own applications on top of it.

The reverse engineering work is important, but the tooling/UI needed work. I actually want to contribute to this to help, but it's a bit far down on the backlog of life.
No, you’re right, but that’s what I found funny. If it were a weapon or armor or helicopter or EKG, or even a milspec melt-blown mask...

But this is just another cloth mask, coming soon to your PX.
No, the issue does not apply to the f.f.i., because those are called with strict semantics, as C expects that.

It's about dynamic libraries written in Haskell itself.

Try compiling a Haskell program in GHC with the `-dynamic` flag, and then update any of the Haskell libraries it is linked against, after this, the program will fail to start with a linker error, and must be recompiled itself.

https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/7jtemw/which_pac...

See this discussion there which explains why, in essence, dynamic linking is not a feasible route with Haskell. Arch Linux currently does this, or at least at the time of writing there, which leads to all Arch Haskell packages being required to be recompiled and reinstalled, if but a simple library be updated that they all use.
I’m dubious. The only way I could see this happening is if it was some companion platform for iCloud/iOS apps. I just don’t understand what anyone has to gain from Apple making an “open” cloud platform.
Mac Stadium charges $720/year.
I wonder, if something "large" (like a neutron star merger) happened "just" before earth was formed, where is that large object now? It doesn't seem to be in our immediate neighborhood.
Ask HW: Qubes OS alternative on LXD containers
Hi there!
Remote work in Tech is everywhere! To simplify digital nomad life I tried to use one laptop for work and personal tasks. And it becomes tricky. Different employers require to install some proprietary software for communication, work, and security audit. I don't like to do that on a personal laptop. Some proprietary software running as root is a bad idea. On another side, it is not so convenient to travel with a lot of hardware. I tried virtual machines, but they are slow and drain the battery quickly. I tried docker but without systemd support, it doesn't allow us to run a lot of software. Then I discovered LXD, wrote helper scripts, and configured profiles to pass X.org, Pulse Audio, Video devices, etc. It solved the issue, but it is not so user-friendly as it should be. I like the QubesOS approach and UX, but I don't use it because the same reasons VM doesn't work for me.

What do you think about domain-based applications environments Linux distribution with UX similar to QubesOS but based on LXD? For instance, I need the following isolated domains: "work" with Ubuntu 20.04, "personal" with Archlinux, "secops" with KaliLinux for another employer, "media" with Ubuntu Studio. And my host OS just list applications inside domains in applications menu. For me it looks like Firefox Containers (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...) but for the applications.
Why is this a necessary consequence of lazy execution?
I think covid changed all the sheeple to have shit for brains.
Trash men and construction come to mind first.

Most blue collar jobs can be self studied, but usually require some sort of certification or license. Mechanics, welders, plumbers, electricians, etc can make good money but require some training/licensing.
How's the security of this? Do you do penetration tests?
I'm having trouble grasping that. Why would non-strict semantics imply that code must be recompiled if a dynamic library changes?
Also human affection to pets are flawed. We say we love them but yet we mass neuter them, feed them the same food everyday, put them on leashes, and confine them in small spaces.
Neither hardware costs nor marketing is an issue for Apple in the B2B space. Plenty of successful B2B hardware costs more and has tons of marketing fluff.

The reason Apple doesn't do well B2B is nothing about their technology or marketing, it is likely all about their business operations. Apple is notorious for driving their own product-development lifecycle with heavy priority on their own design language. This is completely the opposite of how B2B sales work, where it is not uncommon for some development cycles to be dictated directly by a few (or even one) customer. I can't see Apple playing well with these expectations.
On the other hand, Apple released their 64-bit ARM backend for LLVM[1] in 2014. They announced their intention do so almost immediately after the first ARM64 phone, but the process took several months because it had to be merged with a duplicate backend developed by others.

I think it is likely that support for these instructions will be upstreamed to LLVM, and the teams involved in this monumental transition (which was announced like ~50 days ago) simply didn't put it at the highest priority on the list of things that developers need to know to get their apps working on Day 1.

A fair criticism is that some of the more technical documentation, such as on the Mach-O ABI, have disappeared from Apple's developer site, or been relegated to an unsearchable archive[2], so it's very reasonable to be skeptical of ISA extensions ever being documented there.

The developer site has always sucked though, and it seems to me they've declared bankruptcy and are rebuilding it on machine-generated docs and WWDC content for app developers. Occam's razor.

1: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTY0NzE

2: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/navigation/
Systems over Resolutions
That sounds great. I'm not interested in only talking to startup founders.
You missed out an important perspective that is neither purely politician nor purely economist: taxpayer.

Taxes are paid on money earned, whether through labors, investments or rents. They are a taking, a legal one, of something that rightfully belongs to someone else, so if you are going to take it, then it had better go back to government services.

Economists have found ways to reinterpret taxes and exploit their second Order effects, but this does not change what a tax is or how it should properly be used, nor excuse the misuse of surplus revenues.

Now the reason I bring this up is because if a tax were enacted for the express purpose of shaping public behavior and the resulting revenue was greater than what the government needed, what ought to be done with the surplus revenue? Should the tax be lowered to match expected expenses? What if lowering it to that level negates the benefit of shaping public behavior? These are the conflicts I would expect to see come up.

This is one of the reasons why the discussions around taxes tend to fall along the lines of what is taxed, how much, and where the burden should proportionally fall. Leading with second order effects muddies the waters and hinders productive discussion.
Program Synthesis with Z3 (2019)
The Sad Evolution of Wikis
Using car data to destroy suspects' alibis
Dolt – It's Git for Data
Anecdotally, my WFH lifestyle didn't change much at all during lockdown, but I experienced long haul symptoms, which for a few months included not being able to sleep much and waking up very early. That part seems to have improved, fortunately.

While there are plenty of confounding variables caused by changes to the population's lifestyle, that doesn't mean that covid can't also affect these things. It is possible for there to be overlap.

Don't think like one of those doctors in the 60's that told patients their Epstein-Barr was all in their head or gave them anti-depressants.
Yep, first (ground) floor is concrete with a slab "roof" and then a four-story stick-framed building constructed above that. Ground floor is either retail or parking. I guess they pass fire code but they look like tinderboxes to me.
Completely paywalled.
The $3100 is the result of rent-seeking, not of productive economic activity. SF landlords are leaches on the economic engine and wealth of the city, one of the rare things that both Adam Smith and Karl Marx would agree on.

> Also I doubt if raising taxes will result in anything more than them passing that cost on to the renters.

Only new buildings in SF pay substantial taxes, and only new buildings have rents that are close to their carrying costs. The landlords that are getting huge property tax subsidies due to Prop 13 are enjoying market rents that are far far above their carrying costs. This is why SF landlords are economic leaches, their profits come from a supply shortage not from productive activity.

If they coludn't afford to pay the tax, would rents have dropped? No, they would sell if they couldn't cover their costs with rent.

According to pretty much any economic model, the LVT can't be passed on to tenants. Having a hard time finding a concise, and to the point explanation of that, but maybe check out the answer here:

https://economics.stackexchange.com/questions/24352/why-cant...
This is advanced web design by Japanese standards. Image magnification with CSS hover is mind blowing.
I think the research is pretty clear on the matter that "passion" is largely derivative of competence and the values of the environment. A society that chooses to elevate meaningful accomplishment and value training people to pursue it is likely to be markedly different than the instant gratification culture we are currently swimming in.

edit: Whoops, factually wrong again, apparently! Perhaps this den of rationality that purports to follow the science and research will cite literature contrary to the overwhelming evidence that human interest derives from competence and acquired values. Maybe it's actually from unicorn farts and kitten snuggles?
There's a tidy mathematical progression in Apple CPU architectures.

6502 (Apple 1,2,3): 1976

68k (Mac): 1984 (+8 years)

PPC: 1994 (+10 years)

x86: 2006 (+12 years)

ARM: 2020 (+14 years)

If the trend continues, we will see Apple's next architecture in 2036.
> How does that jive with the incredible salaries of elite professionals, like computer scientists, lawyers, doctors, CEO's, when compared with the rest of the population?

It is important to turn that high income into assets. Living on cashflow is a losing bet long-term.
You think 'The Fallacy of Relative Privation' is bad? What about the 'tu quoque' fallacy. Wouldn't you consider that a bigger problem?
From a third-party developer's perspective the ISA will be Swift.

The actual CPU ISA will be a closely guarded trade secret. It will, however, run Swift code 2-3x faster (on a single-core basis) than any commercially available commodity CPU -- especially since Apple pays silicon fabs to not manufacture 3nm hypercubic gallium-arsenide ICs or whatever the cutting edge is on behalf of competitors.
Isn't the best course of action to rewrite popular components in Haskell, and show that its better? I'm thinking httpd/nginx/jetty, redis/memcached, postgres, and so on. You could even make a text editor. Or a kernel. Or anything, really.

I really like functional programming, but Haskell turns me off and without at least one major example of a beautiful, popular solution written in Haskell (and I don't think pandoc counts), I'm not going to make the effort to push through that barrier.

Other languages that occupy a similar space ("superior but tragically underused") have these examples. Erlang has...well a lot but Matrix and RabbitMQ come to mind. Clojure has...well it has datomic, but also Jepsen uses it, and heck I've used it and its fine.

The real question is, who's fingers itch to write haskell, and can you please pay them $400k to rewrite nginx in it?
There wasn't any question, there was the statement that plutonium couldn't be that harmful because "the ocean is very big".

Which is another version of "the solution to pollution is dilution", but that ignores that dilution doesn't scale indefinitely and if overdone can also lead to saturation.
> The phosphorus in commercial fertilizer comes from phosphate rock, a non-renewable resource, while nitrogen comes from natural gas and requires a lot of energy to produce. But, there’s an endless stream of renewable phosphorus and nitrogen available: yes, we’re talking about urine.

Where do the authors imagine the phosphorus and nitrogen in urine originate?
Two questions:

1) Why would a user prefer an app that "runs on Bitcoin"?

2) Why would I as a developer want to target those users?
Anonymously call out the bad behavior of “ghosting” by recruiters
Definitely has a Crouching Tiger, Hidden Wiki vibe to it, thanks :-)
> You are making a very common complaint, that comes from ignoring the problems of the tools you know while making a fuzz over anything you find on the new one. It's almost certain that whatever languages you are used to, they have a much larger pile of gotchas than Haskell (because Haskell has an atypical small number of them), but that doesn't stop them from being useful.

"Yeah well your language isn't good either" isn't a very good argument for why a language is _better_. If the idea is "Haskell works better than other languages as long as you happen to know how to make it so", isn't that just every language that exists? Due to Haskell's branding, I was under the impression that the issues the above user is describing should be impossible. If Haskell doesn't even make good on those guarantees, but instead shifts that guarantee as "Things you should've known not to do" onto the user, how is that different from any other language?

edit And since this thread has a lot of tension and vague hostility, I will add, I am not attacking you or the language you enjoy. I legitimately would like to better understand.
The aptera 1,000 mile car is coming out literally next year: https://www.aptera.us/

1500 is totally doable within the decade

The government tax strategy is already being done in many states who give higher annual registration fees for electric cars. It's hurt their adoption but it's not a huge amount
> How can we expect corporations to be moral if elected officials won't?

How can we expect figureheads elected in elections conducted in an environment of unlimited corporate propaganda to be moral if the actual ruling class of capitalist society, the capitalists acting directly and through their employees—e.g., via corporations—won’t?
Internet 2021: Here's what the new year will (and won't) bring
A Comparison of Covid-19 Vaccines – Biased Random Walk
Having people eat the soy directly instead of feeding it to cattle yields massive efficiency gains by removing an entire trophic level.
Haskell is the ultimate shibboleth. It's value for actual programming is secondary.
Interesting. My gut reaction is the opposite. I would expect most people would say the painting.
Finland says hackers accessed MPs' emails accounts
Why not set up the servers in EU where likely this is non enforceable? If you bought a Mac mini you bought it, apple cannot tell you if you can/cannot lease it out. Imagine if Mercedes was trying to tell you that you can only rent your car(which you paid for) for a minimum of 7 days or something equally stupid. It's insane.
Fair point, but I just really prefer on demand usage. I'm averse to maintaining a mac mini (even having it plugged in and hooked up to the network). To have a server guaranteed to not have issues is the win for me. Also, pay-as-you-go generally works better for my line of business than the upfront investment, even if there is a breakeven point.
Process node is a large part of it. Fab a Ryzen at 5nm and it will at least be in the ballpark, though X64 decode complexity makes it hard to completely close the gap.

There is also nothing stopping someone else from matching or beating M1 performance with another ARM64 core or RISC-V. Both of those have simple easy to parallelize decoders. It will be done if there is demand. AMD, Marvell, Qualcomm, and Intel all have the expertise to do it. Probably TI too if they wanted to reenter the CPU market.
Who is doing the best job at route optimization (traveling salesman)?
I work for a small regional logistics company, and our CEO remarked the other day that he would be willing to spend thousands per month for a reliable route optimization service.

I felt this pain myself the other day. Our network was overloaded due to normal Christmas peak coupled with quarantine purchases and UPS/FedEx turning away excess volume. I’m not an ops guy but I volunteered to go out and make deliveries in my wife’s SUV. I wrote the React Native app our drivers use to make deliveries, and I thought it would be a good chance to see how my app performed in a real world scenario. Well, the app did a great job but the backend process that optimizes drivers’ routes left me thinking we can do better. More than once the route order would have taken me right by addresses that were down the road from each other.

I’m not sure exactly what the problem is really, and will be digging into that with our existing service. Maybe the larger number of residential addresses we deliver to these days compared to last year plays a part. We use here: https://developer.here.com/
It costs $500 a month. I’m interested in experimenting with the solutions that are out there, but a Google search brings up a wall of ads. Has anyone else experimented in this space? I realize traveling salesman will never be 100% solved, but I know there are a lot of people who are interested in finding a solution. What services or approaches have worked for you?
I do not understand how there has not been a class-action lawsuit about this yet.

They meet the desires of most customers. For most people, they want an inexpensive jacket, they wear it pretty infrequently, and by the time it starts to fail in 2-5 years they're ready to get something new.

It's a good thing if you can keep your DWR garment clean enough that it doesn't need to be washed often. Avoid sweating on it as possible, for example.
I'm not sure we've actually seen percentages, have we? Like, is 5 % of people disobeying restrictions? Or 50 %?

I'm sure some people flocked, but for example in my friends circle, nobody did - of course, that's an anecdote which is why the numbers would be needed.