skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> all this while the productivity they generate is at an all time high

I see this claim repeated a lot but you didn't say where it comes from so it's a bit hard to discuss. In particular, you are making a claim about the productivity of low earners but I don't think this is something that is measured in the US? My understanding is the BLS computes industry-wide productivity measures, ie mean productivity (as opposed to say median productivity), and one would expect this distribution to be significantly right-tailed and the mean to be mostly influenced by the right tail.

I haven't seen any data that breaks down productivity growth by income, so if you have a source for your claim I'd love to update myself. When I search for "productivity growth by income" I see versions of your claim but again they are all about population _means_.
> ... I don't remeber ever having a case of covid, but I do suffer from the same symptoms. I'm 66 now (2021/2022) so I don't see myself getting a job anymore, and consider myself retired.

Really touching to persist with this. Hopefully this work does not all suddenly disappear when mortality takes its inevitable toll.
You are correct that the key need not leave the HSM to transact, touché. However it is an essential property of valuable keys that they can be extracted for backup or replacement of the HSM, and often for availability. At least the various HSM systems I have worked with.

As I understand it, people have lost their wallet contents due to trusting email, Discord, DNS and SSL protected websites. So if there is no basis for trusting the other parties in an online transaction, it seems any action whatsoever could lead to financial ruin. Even moving my assets to cold storage makes the scenario that my heirs forget how multiparty sig recovery works or just some eager relative throwing away the box of USB drives away.
Your rebuttal is wrong. The number of drivers exploded by 100x or more after Uber showed up. Before Uber, the taxi industry had a monopoly on rides. Uber destroyed that and orders of magnitude more drivers showed up and then more customers showed up.

So the supply increased, there are less jobs there are orders of magnitude more.

Educate yourself.
> Here is a PDF showing its entire lambda term, which is 42 pages long:

Elsewhere, Douglas Adams smiles.
Hey,look, I am not saying reason and justice are being applied. I am only stating the very obvious which is contradicted by US law. Going beyond specicific government and legal systems, the rule of law itself has no authority to rule in a manner that contradicts basic reason and logic. You cannot have the law declare bees are a type of fish, which (a court in california did this recently for environmental reasons), but no one has the obligation to follow that law because its claims are demonstrably in conflict with reason and logic as any reasonable person would see it. They can declare corporations have certain rights but if those rights depend on corporations being a person of any kind, unless you can also claim and prove that regular reasonable people with no conflicts of interest in the subject matter can also agree with you in that asserion being reasonable and logical, then that law is based on something that exceeds the boundary of the contract between the rulers and the ruled under the rule of law.

Now, if we were ruled by the decrees and judgements of an individual, the rule of man that is, this ruler can declare rocks are people, the sky is actually not blue but a hint of pink, babies are delivered by storks and anything else and we have to go along with it.

The very premise of the rule of law is that the ruled can understand the rules using reason and logic so that they can follow them. Otherwise, you are not following the law but the decrees and will of the rule makers blindly. You don't have to like or agree with a law but it needs to make logical sense for it to have authority and for the ruled to say anything other than "fear if punishment is the only reason we are doing this, even though it makes no sense at all" which is no different than the rule of man except you noted down the decrees on paper.
You can't really rebut the idea that in our society people are forced to work to live with "that is not the scenario described"

Parent was making an observation about the mandate of working in our society, and you replied that you weren't talking about people who have to work... :/
I've looked at IHP briefly a number of times and the thing that always turns me off it is the fact that it's perhaps _too_ batteries included.

When I read the pricing page on IHP's site, and see something like "Email confirmation" (for authentication) having a price associated with it, it makes me assume that IHP is sufficiently locked down that I couldn't just build that feature myself. Either it's not, and I can do, and I've got the wrong impression, or it is, and I worry that IHP having that much control over my codebase will make other things that it doesn't support much harder than with other frameworks.

I'm all for the business model of well integrated, well supported plugins for the framework, but a closed, tightly controlled development environment that I can't break out of as I feel is necessary isn't something I'd bet a company on.
We can talk about it, provided you can be civil.

As I said, this was a new growth industry. Taxis do not have a supply/demand dynamic because (for example in SF) the industry is artificially constricted by the medallion system or other controls. There have never been unallocated taxi medallions in SF.

As I also previously pointed out, taxi drivers were already independent contractors prior to Uber -- so if non-employee work is inherently immoral then this doesn't represent a change from the status quo.

It's difficult to see how Uber's system of allowing people to work if and when they feel like it is worse than the city's system where people would have to finance up to $1 million to buy a ticket allowing them to work within the regulatory system.

> Right back atcha.

No, as I've shown you simply did not read carefully. Please be civil in your response and please take some time to consider what's already been said.
removed characters from my name until HN let me register.
He founded the lead author’s employer. Am I misreading that?
I think you hit the nail on the head. I think people on the whole are, consciously or not, lonely as hell. I had -some- community as a child, family and neighbors who all were at each other's house at any time.

It's all gone for me today, and I find myself wishing for it and missing it. People seem more insular and isolated than ever.
Yeah, and donations go towards sustaining the Executives and Staff of Wikipedia more than they do the servers, but without any staff Wikipedia as we know it would cease existing. A like project could replace it and its data, but that wouldn’t be Wikipedia anymore, that would be something else. Maybe better, maybe worse? Dunno, and I’m not sure I want to find out.

Getting back to YouTube: when I pay for a service, it’s called a trade. $11.99/month or $143.88/year nets me a service I rely on. I don’t particularly care where the money goes to after I pay it, but the correct answer is probably a revenue account owned by YouTube. Where that money goes after it lands on their Balance Sheet isn’t my business, because money that has left my hands is not mine anymore. I walk away feeling like I’ve gotten a good deal, and I never have my time wasted by Google Ads anywhere in the service on any device I control and some that I don’t, and I’m not limited to a specific browser setup. Your inability to see the benefits to my life does not make it irrational, nor wrong to do so.

That’s true for every service or product that you or anyone pays for: you got a product or service. You didn’t maintain any equity in the dollars or euros or yen that you paid in exchange. Nor do you possess equity in any items you barter away.
This is a reference to: https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/09/14/us/iowa-teen-restitution-...
Most philosophers also publish quite a lot even while doing this. Kripke dominated the field while publishing almost nothing publicly.
We don't have a comparable ecosystem yet, but IHP uses many popular Haskell libraries under the hood. So many normal Haskell libraries integrate very well, as the underlying data structures are always exposed. Functional programs compose well in general due to it's stateless nature, that helps as well.

IHP also comes with a lot of things you'd typically use external packages for (e.g. Auth).

In general the IHP experience is very different from other Haskell web frameworks and much more batteries included, so a lot of apps typically don't need any external packages at all.
For me at least, I realized that a lot of what I liked about static typing was, one way or another, pattern matching. When you match on type, all of a sudden it's explicit in the code what you're working with. It doesn't capture anywhere near 100% of the value of static typing, but in effect you do wind up with functions which dispatch once and component functions in the interior that don't need to worry about getting passed something nutty. So the library boundary will take lots of logically equivalent inputs, but the output will pretty much always be regular.
Facebook is effectively a "super app" already.

* Friends' posts

* News

* Pages (manage your business and engage with customers)

* Discussion

* Marketplace -- huge for some people

* Groups -- huge for some people

* Probably other functionality I've no idea about

(Of course, I happen to think it does a terrible job of its original purpose, which is friends' posts, but clearly lots of users use it anyway...)
https://users.monash.edu/~damian/papers/

Scroll down to "A Modest Proposal: C++ Resyntaxed".
There isn't any optimised diffuser on m1 yet most of them are just running basic MPS graph or even mix of CPU and MPS ops and ofc it is extremely slow I dont have time to test this implementation but author just use some other implementation with simple UI. So I would be surprise if it is faster than 10s per img with 20steps and probably more close to 25-40s and around 40s-1min per classic 512x512 50-60 step setting as are other models.
Second dumbest at most.

The dumbest idea is blowing CO2 that was sequestered during millions of years into the atmosphere within a couple of decades.
Have you ever watched a Soft White Underbelly video?
Your wording sounds like you're posting this as a "gotcha". Would you like to elaborate further?

And as a response to your perceived "gotcha", no, they do not need to be illegal. Even a refugee with a medical degree in their home can arrive here and can fall through the cracks in our system just because they aren't able to master a second language fast enough. Not every immigrant is illegal, no matter the pearl clutching.
Will Truth Social be complying?
Dublin would like to have a word with them.
Yeah relative to Uber especially markets like Fiverr are really just job boards for actual contractors to set their own fees and offer their own services through a facilitator. Fiver exercises no actual control over the people using their website other than choosing what types of content are allowed and ensuring order delivery. If anything Fiverr is an independent contractor for both of the other involved parties.
In the second half of the 16th century, Britain plunged into an energy crisis
Mercantilism definitely is NOT a kind of capitalism. Adam Smith and other thinkers during the Scottish Enlightenment were specifically arguing against mercantilism. The Cron Laws in England were even successfully repealed by on of Smith's students.
Also probably because reading something is much faster than listening it. It takes just a second to visually read a sentence that is on the screen, instead of waiting for 2-3 seconds for the actor to actually say it out loud. Probably because we humans recognize words and word groups instead of letters (as how that Oxford study a few years back found out), and that's much faster.
“ If the US had full employment and decent unemployment benefits (like it used to) jobs like these wouldn’t exist.”
I think that’s the “utopia” gp is referring to.

All this will do is force people to spend time and money forming corporations so that the uber corporation (for example) can contract directly with another corporation (most likely a one-employee s-corp) which will “employ” the driver. Same economic effect, but just with extra friction and cost for people who in general don’t have a lot of money to spare
As someone that has lived in both the UK and [redacted], I have to say the [redacted] medical service is several levels above the UK NHS.

Even during the pandemic I had excellent care. Compared to a friend of mine that had gallstones and was in terrible pain and was told the wait would be a year. He ended up paying to go private as he was in such pain. Had his gall bladder removed.

I had a few health issues myself over the past two years. I never had an issue getting a same day doctors appointment, never had to wait more than 5 days for a scan (MRIs) and no more than two weeks for a procedure (gastroscopy under GA).

Really opened my eyes to how bad things are with the NHS right now :(

Of course the [redacted] system is not perfect, claiming so would be stupid. But when all of my friends and family back in the UK complain about getting GP appointments or month long waits for scans I can't help but think they're doing something very wrong when [redacted] has a similar population size, GDP, etc. and my experience has never been anywhere near as difficult or slow as in the UK.

Even before the pandemic getting an appointment with my doctor in the UK was a pain. So much so I had sort of conditioned myself into avoiding do so unless it was something important so I avoided it the same in [redacted] when I first moved here. But seeing how functional the system is it really changed my attitude towards visiting my doctor. I am far more proactive now getting anything that hangs around more than a week checked out without question.
This is a minor thing, but why is the file extension .cpp2 and not .cpf or .cp2 similar? Why make it longer/uglier?
Thanks for pointing out that terrible wart. Codes of Conduct are typically warning signs in themselves, but many of them - including this one - are markedly repressive and authoritarian: Criticism is forbidden except to the extent and in the forms which illustrious project leadership decrees (and is of course determined ex-post-facto), and it is the duty of leadership to excommunicate/cancel people who act in ways they don't like, for the greater good of the community. Naturally, I've phrased it in unforgiving terms, but it's all in the text.
Thoughts on the Talk Show by John Gruber
It seems like in terms of subjective productivity, memory-unsafe languages have going for them a lot. Otherwise how do you explain so many programmers still willingly choosing them?

I know that in the domains that I'm interested in, I would be way miserable programming in something like e.g. Java, because I've figured out certain patterns that I know will work in a memory-unsafe language with very little friction, but that cannot be simply be translated to Java because of e.g. reference semantics.

The same probably holds for other approaches to safety, like Rust. I'm not interested anymore in tight opinionated approaches to problem solving. I _love_ void-pointers and memcpy'ing stuff because these let me do abstraction with very low friction. Getting the job done very quickly, with very very low rate of bugs, and those get quickly fixed. (I'm not making a statement about multi-million line projects in corporate environments. This is about the situations that I run into, personally).
Well I guess the companies have nothing to worry about so.
> NHS is due to Tory mismanagement (the cynical would say purposefully)

They aren't mismanaging it. They are 'strangling it' in order to be able to 'save it' later. If you did not hear that phrase before, its privatization. That's how it is done anywhere. If you people don't stop it, you will end up seeing the entirety of it being sold.
In the US most states (37/50) don’t have sales tax on groceries. Also food bought with SNAP benefits (food stamps) is exempt from sales tax in all states.
You absolutely can, because the question is specifically regarding people who are already not working, and who would not otherwise be working.

I think you should re-read OP's original comment more carefully.
I know quite a few people that make a living building desktop applications. They aren't doing it solo, but they have some interesting things. I know people working in making Airtraffic Control software, which they do with Java Swing. I know people doing vague defense industry things that they say are desktop applications, and I suspect the Defense industry and government has a lot of this.
No, like you said, everything CAN be a political statement but, more often than not, everything is not, by default, a political statement
> Its comments like this that have caused me to really lose faith in the quality of conversation on Hacker News.

Wow, quite tone deaf for a response that doesn't actually address any single topical point, but just offers a very poor strawman.

Nobody is arguing that slavery is bad. People are asking how driving for Uber is remotely like slavery. And so far, nobody has answered.

Instead of mud slinging, how about being the change you want to see on HN.
I doubt it. Do you really think Uber could get away with employing undocumented people as drivers without getting found out?
Please choose to be part of the solution instead of part of the problem. Parent comment offers you a more reasonable way to think about it; the right thing for you to do is to provide verifiable evidence against bogus claims, otherwise it's just yelling at each other on the Internet, and nothing of any value happens. This isn't what HN is for, and it sucks for everyone else having to wade through such drivel.

FWIW, I agree that the GP post you first responded to is trash.

Take a moment, breathe deeply and try to relax ;)
Today we reject the idea that corporations have a freewheeling First Amendment right to censor what people say," Judge Andrew Oldham,

1st amendment

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, ...

This doesn't apply to people or busineeses making their own rules
> In trouble as the NHS is due to Tory mismanagement (the cynical would say purposefully

It's not cynical, it's just good business. If you're a private corporation wanting to get into some market, you're going for pressure politicians to kill off the government competitor so you can take over. This is how it works in countries all over the world, under pressure to privatize government services. Many governments, such as the US, fail at withstanding that pressure. And so we have awful stories like this.
Not available in my country. Is there a way to watch this? [edit] VPN.
I've not touched Python in a couple years, but Pandas/NumPy used to be the defacto libs for anything to do with data science, are they considered "wonky" now?
There's no shortage of phosphorus. As prices go up extraction from human waste becomes profitable and all municipalities just do it. We invest in closed loop systems we stop having to think about energy and agricultural inputs as extractive, there is minimal possibility of "shortage" it's just a closed-loop system that occasionally needs to be topped off a bit.
At least Germany is not importing US pellets as stated in the thread.[1]
Indeed, Germany is producing more wood pellets than it consumes [2]

Wood burning (pellet burning to a lesser degree) can be detrimental due to the small particles, not an issue on the countryside, but in big cities.
Germany requires pellet heaters to have particle filters by 2025 (incl. old systems)

[1] Last Image of https://depv.de/p/Deutschland-europaweit-bei-Pelletproduktio...
[2] https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/171887/umfrag...
On the top of my head, for large open source C codebases that are not system/kernel/controller I guess Python, Ruby and Redis would be good examples.

I do myself fall in the category of people sticking to C over C++. I used to love C++ back until c++03, then completely hated the whole "new generation c++" orientation that started with c++11 and pretty much decided to not touch c++ anymore.
I used CC for the same reason as many. Speech audio is of poor quality, back in the old days in my CRT television it wasn't a problem. Speech was clear. Now for whatever reason it's too loud for comfort if I want to hear the words. My tv has speech clarity options but it is marginal at best.

I'm using a Roku streambar with a couple of wireless speakers. Still poo audio. And I'm not convinced a system of higher cost and quality would solve it.
Yeah, true. I guess the un-intuitive part is that minimum wage is _supposed_ to act as a national / state labor union. It's just that, when working as intended, the effects feel wrong.

In this "minimum wage makes the government a union" metaphor, if you find a way to work for less than minimum wage, even if it's your only option, you're crossing the picket line and you're wrong. You're supposed to make a worse decision for yourself, so that everyone together avoids a race to the bottom.

So it is working as intended. But I don't like the intention, because it means, if the market can't price your labor above minimum wage, you just can't work. You have to find some other way to work for less than minimum wage, maybe working under the table, or getting qualified as disabled, or making YouTube videos.

Are we really asking poor people below that labor price floor to be on strike forever, to protect the jobs of other poor people who are barely above that price floor? It seems like a bad solution.

The alternatives are things like UBI or NIT or wage subsidies, which are not politically popular.

And maybe I'm committing the Golden Mean Fallacy, but I think if we had some combo of UBI and wage subsidies and then just let the market work itself out (and keep stuff like OSHA, of course), it would be better than setting price floors on labor.

Disclaimer: I became interested in UBI a few years ago after seeing SSC (Yeah, I know...) rail against basic jobs programs in this piece: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/05/16/basic-income-not-basic...
I'll have a look at reviving the project now that Nextcloud seems to be stabilising a bit. While the official Mozilla PDF reader has gained the capacity for 2-page viewing like Reader had (I sent them a patch, maybe it helped?) there is no equivalent of the "near-native" look Reader has.
New code can be written in the new syntax, with full access to existing libraries.

I could easily see a company like Meta adopting this. They have both a huge amount of C++ code as well as actively developed guidelines and internal libraries that make use of cutting-edge features.
Nothing you couldn't fix:

Every time the private interests increase their pressure to privatize things, vote for a more left-wing party in proportion to the pressure that the private lobbies are putting on the government. If they go full postal Ayn Rand, you go full communist in voting.

As historically verified by the experience of many countries, nothing less than this fixes that problem. If they pull the rope one inch, you pull it two inches.
These AI tools are going to be built into professional tools like Photoshop someday, but until then it's sort of a hackers paradise. I think Charl-e lets a new cohort of hackers play with the technology without becoming python command line warriors