skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://stillstream.com
Thank you. I can't say I've been keeping up with my memes n that. The damn kids must have grown up or something!

I have to say, it is quite fun watching words, phrases and ideas being made up on the fly at a prolific rate these days. I can still remember reading about memes in a Richard Dawkins book and a few years later the concept was coerced wholesale by the internets. I still remember thinking "what the fuck is a roflcopter" and then suddenly achieving enlightenment. My granddaughters were born with thumbs that can doom scroll.

Nowadays are properly weird and will continue to get weirder. Despite that it will also continue to be normal.
I have a curated playlist of thousands and thousands of songs, but I don't listen to instrumental music. I like stuff that pulls me into a rhythm and makes me get into the zone, so mostly rap.
Is Zoom only dominate due to the network effect
Me and my friend recently switched to Pop, it's a better experience in every way.

Completely free, for now.

Several cheaper , better competitors exist. Discord too.

But we had a bit of friction. My friend had to install the Pop application for screen sharing.

No one knows what Pop is. I feel like if I was hosting a class with strangers most people would refuse to use Pop and insist I buy a Zoom subscription. At the point I'm hosting a class, I can find 15$ a month for Zoom.

All of this despite Pop being a better experience.
Actually, they are mostly web developers https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#developer-roles-dev-ty...

In case you are seeking anecdotal evidence: does your company employ offshore devs? Try and ask them what do they use. Outside of the few countries where most people can afford Macs, things are different.
No and this post will hopefully be flagged soon.

A quick Google search of the author would also show that they have published several similar proofs before [0] which were also wrong.

[0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.12546
I’m not sure, there might be some misunderstanding here. The discussion tends towards marxism because marxist theory uses the same term heavily. That does not mean marxists are the only one using it (social psychologists do as well), nor does it mean marxists rely on it (they don’t, but it is helpful). You could say, marxism is a corollary discussion to this article.

The post this spun from is actually a really good comment, as it states clearly how this article relates to us tech workers, despite mostly belonging to upper class (or at least the upper-middle class):

> "upper class" tech workers (many of those who browse this site) who are still bound by IP and trade secret laws and are effectively insulated from the fruits of their labor.

This is a comment on the worker-boss dynamic which marxism describes in detail. And the realization is that the same dynamic extends even when the worker belongs to a social class not usually described in marxism.

What political party a member of the working class tends to vote is largely irrelevant to this discussion. Though it is fun to ponder. The democratic party is in essence not a worker’s party and in theory it is not in the interest of the average worker to vote for them. In fact, I would argue that most voters in the USA never voted for them en masse (with the exception of the great depression when F.D.R. advocated the new deal). Most workers have historically remained non-voting, and those that do vote do so for different reasons then to further the interest of the working class. That is, if they do vote democratic they do so despite their capitalist agenda, not because of their pro worker agenda.

Now I actually do like this tangent—even though it is irrelevant to the post this sub-thread spun from—because in the show, one of the worker’s “outie” is actually an advocate for the ruling class’ political party, who’s interest align with the business elite. She treats her “innie” with nothing but disrespect and is willing to let her suffer so she can exploit her labor. The struggle between her innie and her outie is a nice allegory for class struggle in general, and the fact that she is tied to a political party is a nice statement on how our political system tends to align it self with the owning class, and against the workers.
Same for STIHL:

> A majority of STIHL products sold in America are made in America of U.S. and foreign materials.

--https://www.stihlusa.com/stihl-made-in-america/
If the average ownership of a car is 12 years, that doesn't help for the next owner.
Of course - they can iterate much faster. I know firms in the US that would have to wait 3 months for a prototype to ship for testing. 3 months. Think about how much time is truly wasted?
I am so confused when people say this. Microsoft Windows Professional allows you to configure any such things. I have almost all telemetry off, all permissions off, all notifications off, all ads off. I don't see this ad riddled Windows that people speak about.

I am not surprised when I hear 'normies' complain about this, because they mostly run OEM Windows Home which the vendors of their devices decided is OK, but on a forum such as this one, I am surprised to hear these kind of complaints.

* Everything is configurable from the Privacy Settings with an on / off toggle

* Whenever a new invasive option gets pushed with an update, there's an update screen which allows you to disable it and is disabled by default, so by skipping, you don't enable it

At least this is how I perceive my machine.
One of the things I like to do when I go somewhere new is try to drive (or often cycle) back home without using my phone. I get lost sometimes, but I feel a silly sense of achievement when I make it back home without checking my phone. I enjoy the challange and I also learn a lot about my local area. There are many businesses in my city that I discovered only because I was trying to memorise a route.
I was born, and I haven't died yet. What justification could I possibly need?
What's stopping me from sending fake data to the signing chip along the same route that the image sensor uses to send real data to it?
Hmm, while it is in all likelihood not true it doesn't look like your average crackpot and it doesn't look like the proof was posted in bad faith.

Whether you want to put a lot of effort into it is your call but it's still interesting to see what kind of approach they chose.
Yeah you'd almost certainly be better installing electromagnets in yards to help get the train up to speed somehow ...
I think a condition needs to be inserted between a) and b) :

x) require preexisting conditions not present in the Universe, or
Yes they are, and by far not just barely.

1: People in fact do routinely successfully modify or wholly replace the ecu code in other cars.

2: And they even only do that for fun (tuning). Most vehicles never give people any reason to even want to mod the software since other vehicles haven't had nearly as much history of being as invasive or caprcious. They are starting tonadopt these undesirable norms lately, but that is because of Tesla leading by example and making it at all thinkable.

A Toyota firmware from a few years ago had very little capacity to harm or offend or frustrate since it simply wasn't in control of very much, and didn't change or do anything different after purchase, and ultimately was at least replaceable by replacing the entire ecu if not by hacking the stock one, and also the stock one was hackable. Not officially or by design, but people do it anyway.

If you thought you were conjuring up some ridiculous idea, in fact it is a very common thing, and yes Tesla is by far absolutely ridiculously worse than everyone else on this front.
I am practically incapable of navigating without GPS/Google maps.
* A fuse filesystem for Linux that mirrored another directory, except for files that were marked as executable. When you tried to access those files, my program executed the file and let you read from stdout.

* A KDE plasmoid that let you drop executable files onto it, and when you did the files got executed. Very simple, although I was proud of the name--dropkik.

* An alternative to markdown that has an ANTLR grammar, so it's easy to generate parsers in many different languages. It's not as nice as markdown though. Also it supported direct export to PDF, so it didn't require a LaTeX install.
Well - I am kinda saying "don't use Discord" - at least except for specific cases where it's ephemeral nature isn't a liability. I personally wish I wasn't so tied to it.
Adding “PhD” and other credentialed titles is standard SEO practice these days.

The thought is Google sees the article as from a “credible source” and ranks you higher.
That's amazing, care to shed light on how you transitioned from tech to manf? What kind of things do you do?
Ben Horowitz talks about this somewhere near the start of his book "The Hard Thing about Hard Things“. If I remember correctly, he said that it was very difficult for him as a CEO to load the problems he had onto his employees because handing the burden over felt bad. He was responsible for the burden. It makes some sense if you think about it like that. Later he did turn things around and share his worries and to his surprise the employees weren’t to worried and actually started to solve some of the problems.
Sounds right to me. When you look at markets where reliability is important, you see appliances that are the same. You can get good quality commercial washing machines.
Which almost proves the point.

I've never seen anything good from intense pressure from above—it barely even changes the timeline. You take the pressure away and you can still solid work in an orderly fashion.
Show HN: Site Visits a VR and screen-based installation series
Site Visits took its initial inspiration from Mozilla’s discontinued Tilt [0] dev tools feature.

I remember using it more out of curiosity than as a practical tool over a decade ago.

During a deep dive into what our [1] next work would be, Tilt came up again. We became inspired by the perspective it provided via the shape of DOM hierarchies across the web.

Using this shape we started to find ways to merge the tangible structure of the site with aspects of the sites cultural impact.

The project wants to create an alternate perspective on the web, by layering world-building elements on top of the 3D geometry of the site’s hierarchy.

Trying to draw inspiration from the shape of this landscape, and let it influence the concept throughout.

A deeper dive into the two current Site Visits is in the submitted link.

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The stripped down process for those interested:

* A very simple browser plugin was created for Firefox that exports an untextured GLB file of the nested DOM hierarchy.

* This is then brought into Blender, and combined with a full page screenshot to create the base landscape model.

* Entirely in Blender and in a largely manual way all the world-building elements are created, explored and layered onto the landscape.

* After the dust settles an optimized version of the model is created and used as an asset.

* For VR we built out an experience via Unity or through stereoscopic 360 video, depending on the exhibition.

I hope that this crowd finds this as an interesting take on the web, and am happy to answer any questions in the comments here!

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[0]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Tilt_Project_Page

[1]: https://instagram.com/loooop.studio
You cannot audit and pin all your transitive dependencies. The amount of churn tge lockfile goes through is insane.
I built a simple flight calculator with the goal of being fast and easy to use. I use it quite often myself.

https://flightcalculator.net/
There's nothing weird about it. During the 2020 presidential campaign, Joe Biden promised to shut down new oil drilling. Thus the domestic oil companies cut their investments in new production capacity.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/mar/20/facebook-p...
I am all for moving away from GitHub, but GitLab is dogshit:

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/22578

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/556

I think Codeberg is a better option:

https://codeberg.org
I think this is the wrong question actually. Say I wanted to learn machine learning. It might be counterproductive to Google “what language/toolkit is used for ML” because then I would just be an expert in Python/SciKit/etc. It might be more helpful to narrow down the area first - neural networks, ML ops, voice assistant, etc. - and the language/tools will naturally follow.

Per your actual question, you can’t go wrong with enterprise Java systems in web dev (backend/ops). I would caution against Rust for web dev at this moment because the trendier stuff will have very few offerings compared to legacy stuff, just by nature. Once you can consider a technology “boring,” it will probably be stable enough to be the default stack in a lot of shops.
I used to overthink when working in the office.

- I am 5 minutes late again. People look at me. I wonder who keeps a diary of me coming late.

- Can I use the same excuse, my train was late?

- I wish I had spent more time finding a T-shirt. Probably wearing a T-shirt with a cat and "Not today" underneath wasn't the best idea.

- Oh someone commented on my t-shirt, are they being sarcastic or do they like it?

- Only I have a big coffee today? I should have gotten an espresso on the way.

- Oh no oh no oh no I have brown shoes and a black belt. How can I get rid of it. They already noticed!!! going to toilet quickly pulling the belt oh noes my pants are too lose, I need this belt! Ok maybe I'll pull the T-shirt out? Oh no it's all wrinkled! What am I going to do? Stand up is in 10 minutes!!! going back to desk

- Oh my laptop looks so dirty I forgot to clean it last night. They think I am filthy, of course they think that.

listening to co-worker complaining about builders dropping his travertine tiles

- Was I looking interested and sympathetic enough? Oh thank god someone calling me for stand up.

and so on and so on...

Remote work cuts all that cr*p away.

That being said, seems like BBC has not marked it as a sponsored article. It just reeks of commercial property owner panic.
Yep, some are so shitty that the whole product category becomes garbage. We went on an adventure with blenders:

1. We bought a Bosch hand blender (maxomixx) because it looked sturdy and was priced near the top at the mall -- thought that the brand and the price tag would guarantee that it would last. It broke after 8 months, turns out that the coupling between the mixer and the body is made of plastic that wore off. I called the Bosch service hotline, they told me that the whole body is one "part" that I can buy for ~80% of the original price.

2. Went back to the mall looking for one with metal coupling, turns out there is NONE. All of them are garbage with the same fault point. But luckily there is a wide selection of standing blenders, where some of them had much more massively looking, metal gears. Bought one from Electrolux. It broke after 3 months, this time the bearing on the bottom of the blender cup started leaking the grease into our food...

3. Gave up trying to get a blender from the mall, bought a Vitamix for 7x the price, which we're happy with for the last 3 years.

Yes, there is plenty of planned obsolence out there, and one of the greenest things you can do is buy premium stuff that will last you a lifetime (if you can afford it :/ )
By that same metric, the same holds true for violent protests.

Some protests are doomed regardless of if they are violent or not. Some can only succeed if they are violent, some can only succeed if they are nonviolent.

I am not aware of any successful violent protests. I know of some violent revolutions, but if you go there, you better make sure you can actually compete with the opposition.
First, those are the ages of those men at the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

The Constitution was not ratified until nearly 15 years later.

Second, none of the people you listed signed the Declaration.

The average age of the Declaration signers was 41; only 3 were younger than 30.
seconding as someone interested in your transition.
Which oil company has capacity? And what sense would it make for them to restrict supply?

The only organization that has enough market power that it makes sense to restrict supply is OPEC.
Pick a popular base system. Node.js, python (flask or similar), maybe .NET core. all of them are easy to learn for a C programmer. The real learning curve is the surrounding deployment systems and package managers. npm, pip and nuget etc.

IMHO you'll be better off not just learning the language and libraries but do a deployment as well.
Interoperability

How do you figure? Google and the carriers are implementing different feature sets.
re: fridge, hisense is a tv company

re: laundry, did you ever consider getting a second whirlpool? either way, what about the paykel outweighed 20 years of reliability?
Lo-fi mostly, with the occasional sprinkle of Synthwave and Retrowave
What ads ?
Indeed, I had one of those - absolutely lovely piece of machinery, as most dewalt tools really.
One of the big wins of Acela was it got the route north of New Haven electrified which saves a good often 30 minutes off the pre-Acela regional train run because an engine switch is no longer necessary even for the non-Acela runs. Would have been nice for Acela to be higher speed overall--it's usually not that practical for a Boston to DC run especially given that both cities have pretty convenient transit links to their airports.

But I suspect the cost delta compared to Acela as realized would have been huge given how built up most of the corridor is. And it's still pretty competitive with flying unless you have an early meeting and can't/don't want to go down the night before from BOS/RTE to NYP.
Yes. Or at least 3.5% or your nation for national policy
Yup, very much also a thing, and very much also an obstacle to doing a lot of other work at the same time.
Supposing this was even possible, that enough people banded together and said "enough with cars" and decided to change the way of life, it would take several decades, maybe even a century, to turn a town that is primarily driven to a town that is primarily walked.

It's not practical and everyone knows this. The utility of cars is too much to be simply tossed away. Imagine how hard visiting the mountains would be without one. Perhaps a more metropolitan person could live with just seeing pictures but I am an outdoorsman and this idea actually causes significant existential concern.

The solution is to make obviously anti-consumer behavior illegal in the same way we make monopolies illegal. Companies should build usable, fixable things. Planned obsolescence, subscription car services, etc are all a way they exploit this position they have. The free market would ideally fix this but given that it's very well known every car manufacturer is in bed with each other once one adopts this exploitative behavior the rest will surely follow. MRR is extremely desirable. Since it's not tenable for at the very least our generation to experience a less car-free life why not try to fix the thing causing the problem and THEN solve the greater problem?
pipe and representation of pipe are both called pipe but they are not the same thing. their sameness is a trick of language
It's not that it's seen as merely shameful in other countries, it's that it's seen as fraudulent and illegal.

Trying to play fraud off as a cultural difference and misunderstanding is frankly bullshit victim blaming.
There is no justification for existence. It just is.
Any chance of an client side app?
The other commenter said that it's a joy to read and that's certainly true. If you're interested in software folk tales and such, it's worth getting.

I still see it recommended as a practical book however and indeed the book bills itself as "the second book you need on C", the book that will cover topics that other C books don't explain or explain poorly. But it's much too outdated to serve that purpose. In practice it means chapters discussing differences between K&R C and ANSI C and deep-dives into details of SunOS and MS-DOS compilers.

Some of the material has become misleading because the C language has evolved. For example, there's a lot of discussion about pointers and arrays, as can be expected. But there's no mention of strict aliasing and pointer provenance (these rules existed in C89, but compilers at the time didn't exploit them yet for optimization). And of course no variable-length arrays (introduced in C99). So you're not going to learn what you need to know in today's world.

The book also has almost no discussion about safety. The Morris worm is mentioned, but just as a piece of historical trivia. Browsing it now, I don't even find any discussion about buffer overflows.
I built a trailer sized heavy duty hard drive shredder that could shred drives down to 1mm aggregate in about 1 minute.

It is acoustically silenced down to about 70db and doesn't need any external power sources/connectivity

I actually did do a bit of marketing but honestly it's not a service Australians want to pay for and the opportunity cost and risk of pushing it further isn't worth it.

Might dust it off again when/if regulations change to require destruction of other people's data on drives at EOL.
The market works fine. For any category of good you can think of there will be producers that make a high quality version of it. Consumers who care about that quality (according to however you’re measuring it) will make their decisions accordingly. Consumers who reveal a preference for caring less about that quality will make decisions based on other criteria.

If your complaint is that this requires effort from the consumer, then that’s not something any market could fix. The consumer will always have to consider what their preferences are and how the offerings in the market align with them, if the want to end up purchasing goods/services that align with their preferences.
It's true, but how does one deal with it?
If we're being real then let's acknowledge that in the space of two comments you've gone from FCEVs begin "total failure of mass production" to FCEVs being "2% of market share in trucking". And your claims jump around between FCEV being 1%, 2%, or 5% of the market.

All I see here is that you're overexcited and you desperately want your "team" to "win". It's not very rational.
The phrase "The fact of the matter is..." is only ever used dishonestly. If I had a talk show, any guest who used this phrase would immediately have his/her mic cut and out the door they go.
I can only guess:

In certain cases, you know what the neural network should do, for certain inputs, and you have a quite clear idea how each component of the network would solve this, and this should be doable, and with a bit of work you could also construct the parameters by hand, such that it works at least for non-noisy constructed toy input data.

Actually, I think for more complex tasks, having such intuition would anyway be a good idea.

Now, you could use a SAT solver such that it does the work mostly for you. You formulate some constructed inputs/outputs, maybe some other constraints, and let it solve for the parameters. This would be a good parameter starting point for real world data. And if the SAT solver fails to find any solution, maybe your neural network is actually not powerful enough.
I enjoy navigating without gps. I can always memorize most of the way there as it is usually just following main roads. It is the last portion that can be hardest. I like to think of directions in terms of "topological complexity". If it is just off a highway or off of a road off the highway it is easy to navigate to. Has nothing to do with how far away it is or how familiar I am with the area.

Similar to this is the fact that it is always easier to navigate home than to a new place. In the former, you are aiming for the web of roads that you recognize. In the latter, it is a specific point.
>Don't drive like my brother!
That was a shockingly poor article. What has become of the Economist?