skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something I run into a lot is a JSON-like blob of text I'd like to be formatted as JSON (new lines and indentation). Most JSON formatters choke on improper JSON (understandably). It would be great to have a tool that was more lax. Like browser support for terrible HTML lax haha. If I could paste JSON-like strings into a text area and have it fix and format it as best as can be, that would be great. Some examples of non-JSON syntax to handle would be like single quotes instead of double, arbitrary JSON nodes (not necessarily wrapped in `{}`), some pre or post text (some non-JSON text at the beginning or end), comments amongst the JSON, etc. Another JSON aspect that would be useful is something to escape/unescape JSON (specifically double quotes). I deal a lot with JSON that includes escaped JSON in values and it would be great to have some better way to visualize and process those blobs. Sublime Text has a nice plugin to handle some of the escaping/unescaping[1].

[1] https://github.com/Nadock/json_stringify
Maybe we will end up with rich company owners buying nfts
from ordinary people who use the money to buy the rich company owners products.
Want to unlock your car with the keyfob? Want to use the heated seats? Subscriptions. Anyways, please drink a verification can. Consider also reading "Unauthorized Bread".
100%.

Even before you need language models, though, there's an insane amount of "digital manual labor" that involved people shuttling files around and validating / cross referencing data in ways that would be done far more correctly and efficiently by software. In my opinion, low code tooling threatens many more jobs than AI does in the short term.
I would have loved game pass when I was younger for the sheer number of games. Now personally it offers me the ability to try things out and not regret dropping money on those games. I don’t play nearly as many games as I used to, but paying $15 and playing Back 4 Blood with friends was great. And I didn’t care when we all got our fill of it because I got my moneys worth. Personally it’s a great alternative to pirating.
It's easy to say "Encrypt everything," but how do you go about it? For folks looking for an "easy" cross-platform solution to encrypt your sensitive bits in the cloud, check out Cryptomator [^1].

[^1]: https://cryptomator.org/

(no affiliation)
I'm curious what the enforcement pathway will look like under this bill, if signed into law. Does it start with someone thinking "hmm, this ad is suspiciously specific to me?" How do you even know if you're being targeted via one of the exceptions (like what state you're in or keywords you've searched) versus banned info (like zip code)?
Microsoft uses AMD for their Xbox consoles, not Nvidia.
Ask HN: Metaverse – hyped fad or get serious?
fedguy.com, if you are interested in monetary policy or economics. I also recommend the book by the same author (Central Banking 101).
the card itself does, but how do you value the time you spend on research and doing the replacement? I bought the windows version of that laptop when I was a student, and replaced the card myself. that made sense then, but if I bought it today to get work done, I'd gladly spend $200 extra to have it ready to go out of the box and not think about it. just my two cents, feel free to do whatever works for you.
My answer to maintaining a minimal set of photos on a local machine isn't great unfortunately. The desktop holding all the photos acts like a file server and I connect my laptop to that when browsing images.

There's a way to do it that I find somewhat risky: pay a bit extra for permanent storage. Normally Backblaze will remove deleted files in 30 days (I pay for a year). If you do permanent then you can delete your originals from your local machine and Backblaze will keep them presumably forever. That approach makes me nervous personally :)
>No need for a round of pedantry.

Ah, well if we can divorce ourselves from facts, then yes, we can believe anything.

What legal way am I locked out? There are exemptions in US (and other law) for copyright, patents have not changed, trademarks don't stop me.

There are zero items in my house (and I have all sorts of tech) that I cannot take apart (and routinely do) and fiddle with and hack on and change and repair if I feel so inclined.

Sure, the average person with low tech skills and low tech tools has a harder time, but the things being worked on are simply much more specialized and complex. I bet the average person has been unable to repair a fine watch for a century - that's needed a specialist, since it was high tech a century ago.

Or do you mean repair has gotten more complex as technology has gotten more complex? That has been and always will be the case. Repairing an axe is always going to be easier than repairing an iPhone.
The supreme court has also held that growing crops on your own private land to feed to your own animals is "interstate commerce." They're a laughable institution who's opinion should be promptly shit-canned.
I will go to great lengths to avoid funding Microsoft or Apple even if it costs me money. That and It's a way for me to signal interest in Linux support to a hardware vendor (whatever that's worth).
Can we stop pretending like Pegasus is not virtually everywhere?If it's not Pegasus is another tool, worse or better, foreign or domestic, from NSA,CIA,etc.Who exactly cares which entity does it as long as it's happening and laws & principles are being broken?

Vault7 was the first leak de facto proving these things existed, why the f#ck are we still surprised now, almost 5 years later, that these things are being used and there is a market here opened for politicians,private individuals, governments, etc.?

Awareness is good, but who(or better said: what institutions, what parties, etc) are you seeing advocating for more privacy, security, transparency in software and hardware, etc?

I will go one step further here beyond the simple "more privacy, security,etc." rhetoric, which i'm sure every HN user has heard to the point of ears bleeding, and I hate to say this but one cannot fully understand something until either s/he makes it, he hacks it(for the purpose of at least understanding) or becomes subject to the tool's effects.Far too many times people use something without even reading the TOS, let alone understanding the mechanisms behind the technology.At this point i have little sympathy for people who do not take the time and putting in the work of understanding a technology >for their own benefit<.

Because nobody who is at least semi-literate in this field was born with the knowledge, and while arguably it's our duty to point less knowledgeable people to inform themselves, we cannot tire ourselves to death by promoting (or allowing others who promote) this "usable-first, hussle-free, happy jolly" tech ecosystem and then also act surprised when the masses don't have a f*cking clue what's going on, because effectively we trained humans to become dumb monkeys with a smartphone, arguably worse.
https://archive.is/ODgL0
The taxonomy I personally use is:

* Every computer program has algorithms, it's an extremely general term for "the idea behind how the computer will solve the problem". Advanced algorithms are typically those that took a lot of human effort to come up with.

* Machine Learning refers to a specific class of algorithms where the computer automatically figures out (part of) what it should do based on data.

* Deep learning is the subset of ML that uses deep neural networks.

* Artificial Intelligence is a marketing term, and is actually about the _problem_ being solved, not the technology being used to solve it. In particular, AI is any computer program that solves a problem people would previously expect can only be solved by a human applying creativity and/or intelligence, like playing a game, understanding natural language, or creating artwork. This definition is obviously a moving target as expectations change.

Deep learning is currently the most powerful and general toolkit for solving AI problems, so the concepts tend to get mixed together pretty frequently, but I personally like using the definitions above to keep things straight.
Let's talk about realilistic stuff. Do you think that minimum wage workers are suited for being astronauts? Maybe a small subset can be trained for it, but many probably cannot.
I think he's saying something approximately like: there are likely jobs we can't think of yet that will pop up. They always have.

Imagine if you went back in time 200 years and explained how current farming and current manufacturing work, and explain that's how it will work in 200 years time. A reasonable person would likely assume hardly anyone was working in this future state, that there would be no jobs.
Sure, but you wouldn't pay any alcohol taxes, and the alcohol that's taken out can be used elsewhere. So production costs really ought to be lower. Volume might be lower too though.
COVIDtests.gov is receiving 10x the traffic of any other US government site
Maytag was sold in the UK too although distribution was limited. UK urban and suburban homes, especially, have more space constraints than the US. The market was limited to commercial and larger homes (built by owners, mansions, etc.)

We got a Maytag top-loading washer around 1996 and it was still running fine in 2020 when my mother moved out of our family home. I wonder how far away from UK and EU energy and water use requirements it was.
Comment from duplicate submission:

Some of the companies in the field, in contrast to NSO, do have ethics committees to filter out obviously bad clients.
Once when guidelines were described to engineers a question was asked: Would Israel itself pass the ethics committee check?

The answer was "No. But..."
Should we expect a Steam Xbox?
High thermal mass is definitely more energy efficient in the summer, when you can "store the cold" from the night into the next day.
Intel to join Bitcoin mining ASIC market with new chip
I really don't see how else a system that encourages infinite growth can evolve.
None of those issues have anything to do with you not being vaxed. While I agree the responses by the State are a problem, this is not the issue at hand. The issue is that you are walking around unvaxed, and proud of it. Do not conflate growing authoritarian with your own selfish desires to infect others.

The antivaxers are not, and have never been at any time in history, on the right side.
That makes sense.

With these treadmills, gyms can simply keep their NordicTracks locked to prevent people messing with them.

And if you buy one for yourself, you can watch Netflix.

All at the owners’ risk. Treat adults like adults. I like it.
This doesn’t make much sense at all.

Excel is a great example of how new technology created more jobs than it destroyed.
Ouch.

For a "just works out of the box" experience, this is why I never went back to Windows after switching to Mac. I did actually wipe a Windows pre-install once to install Ubuntu, but that took forever to setup and fix drivers regularly.
yep, thats why they let you watch netflix on tredmills at the gym!
Microsoft's "looming problem" seems to be the $130B+ in cash they're sitting on, and finding something to spend it on?
As far as I'm concerned, all advertisers can go to hell. If a majority of advertisers had behaved themselves we would never have invented ad blockers[0] in the first place. This industry has proven time and time again that they are the scum of the fucking earth and cannot be trusted. I for one am tired of giving them any chances.

[0] pop up blockers, originally
You don't think everyone is entitled to a living wage?
Reading books lost the competition long time ago.
It very much does seem to be a week of 'throw it all at the wall and see what sticks'.

I have to admit - I was expecting Brexit, Trump, and a massive Tory majority at the last GE (not rubbing it in - good lord I wish I had been wrong about all of these), but I really don't know how much road Johnson has left to run. I really think it's getting shorter now every day. The (liberal) press have made a big deal about everything else so far, but the lockdown parties (sorry, meetings) I think are the first 'real' big hits to him that people will actually care about. It's genuinely going to get bumpy for him, but he was smart and filled his cabinet mostly with people who just aren't that clever and are dedicated to him - I don't think there's anyone who knows when to make the first move. I think he can only really be removed when there's someone ready to replace him.
Privacy concerns
The complexity of modern supply chains is in my opinion the strongest case for government regulations and against a lot of libertarian economic ideas.

It is impossible for the end-consumer, and even a lot of producers to know the provenance of every component in the supply chain. Even if every American consumer is against the destruction of rainforests, connecting the dots to palm oil cultivation and understanding the scale of ubiquity of palm oil in supermarket products is impossible. The only way out of this is government regulations.
Not harsh. Sounds reasonable to me.
Maybe companies don't want to get sued and end up in the American justice system clown world. Personal responsibility seems to go right out of the window when people smell money...
So whats the issue with marginal difference in cardinality estimators? Both queries seem perfectly fine speed-wise.

Just splitting hairs, again most of the time developers fail to notice the significant data distribution drift, and dont rearchitect their data models then blame the engine for developers omissions and invalid assumptions
Turns out I'm wrong, at least in Germany and France.

Authors have "moral rights of integrity" over their work, which means you can't modify a work without permission of the author, even if you own it.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikilegal/Moral_right_of_int...
I don't know if it is purposeful or the name is genuinely confusing, but Autopilot is basically adaptive cruise control and lane assist. Updates that happened after this crash took place always stopping at stop signs and red lights for properly equipped cars.

FSD or Full Self Driving is the thing that drives the car all by itself. If you are not in the beta, it can only be activated on highways.

So basically this guy plowed a red light and cruise control and killed someone.
Like HRW_14’s comment [1] and yours it’s quite staggering all the investments China-based gaming companies own or own stakes in such as Tencent [2], let alone your GitHub example. What also concerns me is a similar relationship playing out in Hollywood with China-based corporates buying stakes in American film studios and movie theaters in the US [3]. Even before this large amount of Chinese money flowing into the industry, there was still a competition among studios to insure no content could accurately portray news in China such as the Uyghur Genocide or even portray China or a Chinese company as a villain [4]. Fortunately some filmmakers have fought back against calls to censor or change their films to appease the CCP or Chinese audiences [5] [6] but as you stated I imagine it would be near impossible for an indie filmmaker to distribute through a major studio or theater chain without making such changes without a lot of clout. Scary times for free expression or even reporting news and the truth about ongoing genocides accurately.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29984784
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent#Foreign_gaming_investm...
[3] https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/09/how-holl...
[4] https://pen.org/report/made-in-hollywood-censored-by-beijing...
[5] https://www.indiewire.com/2020/01/sony-tarantino-edit-hollyw...
[6] https://deadline.com/video/judd-apatow-hollywood-censorship-...
I've never used it but their is a postgres extension called pg_hint_plan [0] for query hints and I am guessing it is pretty decent because it is even mentioned in the AWS Aurora documentation

[0]: https://pghintplan.osdn.jp/pg_hint_plan.html
Remember that the cloud, is just "some other guys computer"
probably an optical disk is a more long-lasting solution
Most receivers these days get that information from the internet so there is no need to wait minutes for the data transmission.
>It would seem many would be disincentivized to work

If you want Netflix, eating out at a restaurant, playing Games or any sort of entertainment? If you want a life, you need to work. There is nothing disincentivized against work unless those people want to live like zombies.
The problem by not using a framework is that you're going to reinvent one. Will it be better than what's available depends on your talents but one thing is sure: you're going to have to maintain it and won't have as many eyes on it.

I guess your mileage may vary so it's a case by case decision.
The pre-installed software is the ad. The software manufacturer hopes that consumers will buy their subscription or full priced software.

After all, people believe they need antivirus software to stay safe (the fact antivirus software can be worse than the virus doesn’t change people beliefs) so why not buy the one that’s already installed on their PC?

Or another way of looking at it, Google pays Apple billions each year to make Google the default search engine on iOS, because Google recognises the power of defaults i.e. people are lazy and will use/buy whatever’s in front of them to avoid doing any work looking for alternatives.
Yes, una pietra == a stone == ein Stein. Very cute.
The Great Dictator speech slowed down 1024 times – slow pattern sounds random
> Not all of these have direct analogues with HTML5 (in fact, action buttons could even run shell scripts!) and some of their core conceits are rather different. Indeed, its most pervasive and interesting navigational mechanism is the concept of replacement: embedding the content referred to by a link ("replace button") directly where it was referenced.

Looking at their examples, this seems to be directly analogous to collapsible disclosure elements in HTML5 using <details>: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/de...

(The later part about linking to different states of expansion is not, although I suppose you could record the open/close state of the hierarchy & stash in a cookie/local-storage and replay it with JS.)
>This is more of a description of math than science.

But it is description of both (after all, all our science is based on math). But it comes even in more basic forms: with any scientific endeavour you take a lot of things for granted and do not validate them. If you try to validate them, eventually you get stuck (as an exercise, try to devise experiment determining curvature of the Earth from the first principles). On top of that, fundamentally, theories cannot be proven, but only disproven.

All this requires tremendous amount of goodwill and consensus to make any progress. You laugh at flatearthers, but they are just a fringe example of how entire system works. At the edge of physics essentially everyone is in the similar position. Many, if not most, substantial physical advances were done by heretics working against the status quo. Of course, I think flatearthers are wrong, but I would rather have flatearthers than all alternatives from mainline eliminated.
Were they even planning on hiring more workers? And if the robot job scales to 2 robots, isn't it also possible that the other job scales to 2 humans?
People used to quip that Prussia is an army with a country rather than the other way around, it seems like if you add the modern intelligence sector that describes Israel. With all the concerns about 'Military-civil fusion ' as it's called in China or Russia I always found it funny that Israel might as well be the country that has merged both spheres most successfully but nobody really seems to care at all.
Yeah, I've received quotes for replacing the control board on a Whirlpool double oven that basically equalled getting a new (10 years newer) oven.

That's just for the part. I was willing and able to do the labor - would have been a fifteen minute job.
> The more I have seen of big tech companies, the more I think they need to split up from time to time.

This is somewhat true of every industry. Industrial companies in particular are always playing the game of conglomerization vs. specialization. But I agree it will definitely be interesting to see this play out in Tech in the near future
You could always just wait. I'm only now working my way through the PS3 library and I could look up which games were considered the best on that platform, each title was ~$10 on average, that price often included a bunch of DLC, and every game is as patched as it's ever going to be. I'm playing Uncharted 3 right now which I picked up for $4. The box says that it includes $45 worth of DLC and on install it downloaded over 500MB of patches (which the internet tells me were very badly needed). I get all the fun and none of the frustration at a tiny fraction of the price

Once I run out of PS3 games I'll pick up a PS5 and work through the PS4 games that were actually worth it.
I am the solver programmer mentioned in the article. I think it came out pretty decently. Maybe not all the details are right (I was late answering fact checking email) but I think it's a decent read and the author has done a good job!
It is absolutely real and the biggest cliffs are for those already working full time.

Here's an example showing how someone making 31k per year needs to find a job making 80k a year to increase their net income.

Regarding who this impacts:

Approximately 35% of Americans make <31k and would see their quality of life go down if they took a job paying >31k.

Another approximately 40% of Americans earn between 31-80K and would be better off financially if they took a pay cut to 30K (at least in the short term). They get to see those making less living better.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_trap#/media/File:Welfa...
Amazing work on this btw Yousef!
With the UX/Communication, I kinda see this as similar to tombstoning (with or without envelope-encrypted data), and archiving (eg. to permanent storage).
I'd imagine this would also be necessary for GDPR compliance.

Additionally, exposing the CRDT stream would allow for reactive index building for searches on the data (ie. timely dataflow operations to aggregate an index).
>Anyone who has "engineer" attached to their job title should at have a general understanding of this

The fact that the interviewer finds so many candidates who don't answer the GPS question to their satisfaction, while companies complain about difficulty finding software engineers, should tell you all that you need to know about the question's relevancy as well as the bizarre assumptions that some interviews hold.
I would call it maybe vageuly similar, but it is by no means a subset. It has some features in common and many that are completely nonsense in a posix context.

The most pressing problem for implementing plan9-like semantics in a POSIX system is the permission system. In particular, setuid as a mechanism for privilege escalation. This is a big part of why users can't make their own namespaces on linux without help/intervention from root-owned processes (like dockerd or systemd).

Think about it: if you can make the file namespace any shape you want, and then run `sudo`, which is a setuid process that looks at /etc/sudo.conf to decide whether your escalation is allowed, how do you secure it?

How do you even begin to do distributed permissions if everything's looking at /etc/passwd and /etc/group in the current process' namespace to decide who you are?

POSIX is very much built on the idea of a canonical view of the filesystem, and plan9 is built on a vfs that may as well be sand.
You might want to look at the stats for whatever sites you work on. For the Mac users of public sites I work on Safari is roughly tied with Chrome with Firefox about 1/5th of either one.