skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Worse, it appears to be justifying the new fee in a dubious way, saying it's "simplifying" the system to bring a "more consistent and straightforward experience for customers." In other words, you'll no longer need to wonder if you'll get soaked for the charge or not — you definitely will.

I love this line.

Honestly, if someone were in a situation where constant connectivity were not necessary, I feel many people could get the absolute cheapest phone line available and just use one of the major communications tools on wifi. WiFi is so ubiquitous in most places, and with some planning everything you need can be cached offline.

I only suggest a phone line at all for authentication to signal and Whatsapp, etc. and perhaps emergency calls.
The irony of capitalism. Free market is great, but corporations do everything possible not to have a free market.
Europe’s climate warming at twice rate of global average, says report
The context OP setup was “when grey beards retire.”

The ideas being demand is low as the senior EEs stay put.

Mom and pop shops could use Excel and did successfully for years. Big banks even ran on gigabyte sized Excel sheets before the 2010s hype bubble (Source: direct experience working in fintech 2010-2015)

Anyone in tech believing the last 10-15 years was about anything but the US government juicing its economy to stay relevant, titillate, and ingratiate itself on now 30-40 something college grads is fooling themselves. All those students are now bought in to keeping the dollar alive.

Software has gotten so over thought and bloated given a “too many cooks in the kitchen.” situation. Templating a git repo with appropriate dep files given mathematical constraints is not rocket science. The past needed to imagine software as out of this world to gain mindshare. Correct and stable electrical state is what really matters.

We are entering a new era of tearing down the cloud monolith for open ML libs that put machines to work, not people.

Behavioral economics has been running the US since before Reagan.
It's all about the Benjamin's
I guess you didn't get my point which was: those industries died apart from specialists keeping them alive today and that's just the nature of the world.

The same thing will happen to human generated creative content whereby it becomes something that people are involved in because they want to be, not because it's a necessity/it's the only way to do it.

Yes the potential for future art work done by a human today will be erased in the future when it can be performed by a machine, but that has always happened & yet somehow it's surprising to people.

An artist being indignant towards machine generated art yet using mass produced tools, eating food farmed by mechanised equipment, wearing clothing woven by automatic looms, taking a digital photo themselves instead of hiring a portrait painter, owning a car instead of a horse that supports many sub-industries, sending emails instead of letters is just hypocrisy.

Technology has always brought us forward and these new AI powered tools will assist us as the tools we produce have always assisted our species. And as always those who refuse to change will eventually be left behind.

And yes, if this was happening to the industry I'm in I would currently be going through the 5 stages of grief about it, too. But then I'd just have to change up what I'm doing to reflect the changing times. As she herself said, it still doesn't capture what she puts into her art & so there is still that avenue to pursue.
this is grimly funny to me because where I work, software is a literal line item in the manufacturing BOM, each release gets a part number and is physically shipped to the factory

it makes some sense, but the company mindset about the role of software is very clear
Same as a business you would run. It's usually a fools errand to compete on price and race to the bottom. Compete on something else.
Apparently it's called the "reduceron"

https://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/reduceron/
https://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/reduceron/jfp-reduceron.pdf
A fascinating and hilarious conversation:

> SS: I know, but this is a problem for me because "porno" has no meaning, it's an empty gesture. This is the whole problem today. Okay, so tell me, what would it be like to have sex with a robot? Because in a way you are already having cybersex if you log on onto the Internet and watch all these movies of people screwing and so on. Now obviously you don't get the real thing, so you are totally abstracted but I think that for some men it is a new form of sexual enjoyment. So, again, we will encounter new problems: What are the limits? Will it be accepted that in a relationship with a human being, you can have sex with another person who is not there and so on?

> WH: I don't know. There's something I want to say to you first. We are both filmmakers, so we are working with images and with what lies beyond them. But you are more of a philosopher, so you are more abstracted than I am. In my films there is always something that lies beyond the images. Yes, there are always new difficulties, in particular with sexuality. I'm not saying this because of the invention of new media like the Internet but we are heading in that direction anyway.

> SS: I hate movies, but I love to watch porno. I cannot resist it. Yes, why not? It's far more interesting than these old-fashioned procedures.

> WH: I don't want to be too abstracted, so let me ask you a question: Is it good that young people are watching so much porno on the Internet?

> SS: No, it's terrible. This is my problem with the Internet: it delays my work. I don't have any time because, you know, as soon as I sit down to write a book I just open a window, and there are all these amazing things. So the problem with the Internet is not that it's too tempting. It's the opposite, I don't work. I have a problem avoiding opening windows. Yes, this is my big problem. Anyone who wants to learn something about the history of philosophy should watch porno. This would be a great way to get rid of all this bullshit.

> WH: I totally agree, because the more abstracted the physical contact between people becomes the more the inner life comes to the fore, especially in terms of eroticism. Sitting in front of a computer, you don't have physical contact with anything, it's all virtual. And yet, the eroticism that appears is enormous. It's parallel to the disappearance of physical contact. Yes, I think you're right.
They aren't mutually exclusive. I think you and I both have enjoyed the happy coincidence that we like programming more than most things that pay equally.
Rust is solving for the wrong problem. Null and dangling pointers aren't the main problem in building financial trading systems (I built a financial trading system).
Not that you should have to do this, but you can tell Siri (using your own voice) how to pronounce your contacts’ names. She’ll transcribe it into IPA or something.
Cool stuff, but more likely useful as a primary filter or search tool rather than for detailed understanding of protein structure and function. See this quote:

> "Sergey Ovchinnikov, an evolutionary biologist at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, wonders about the hundreds of millions of predictions that ESMFold made with low-confidence. Some might lack a defined structure, at least in isolation, whereas others might be non-coding DNA mistaken as a protein-coding material."

Understanding of how these proteins function requires high-resolution information about bond angles and atom-atom distances, particularly for non-structural proteins (i.e. interesting catalytic enzymes). Hence, wet-lab work and protein structure characterization via X-ray and NMR methods aren't going anywhere.
Would be nice to have a functional language to construct images for something like midjourney
Thanks for the explanation of the difference.

To be fair we don't know the physical curvature goes to infinity--the math says it does.
I'm curious about the background. Is psilocybin legal? Prescribed by someone? In what country? Where would someone start?
For long time working in the tech industry was what I _loved_, heck I made my hobby (coding) to my job, what more could one want! But 20 years later and my love for coding was being drained by working in the ad-tech industry or building software to have people being replaced by a computer.

Thankfully stepping out of the tech industry has given meaning to what I do. I now do what I love but for something meaningful - coding for my own projects, be they good, bad or indifferent, for me they are meaningful.

An no the money does not follow but I can make others smile and occasional happy with what I do.

I accept that I have to make the money last and sized down: no more fancy restaurants nor expensive electric toys; instead more supermarket queues and eating at home. But life is no longer the rinse and repeat of a 9to5 office job.

> Rarely does a life leave time or energy for child-rearing, a paid job and a fulfilling avocation.

I could not imagine living a world where this becomes the norm. The norm should be "It's rare for a person to have a shitty job, a mortgage, student debt to pay off and no financial possibility to have children until they are 65".
It might be hard to quantify the positive/negative impact each of these have had but you have to agree they all had major effects on society.
Except that even adding a case isn't sufficient any more. The camera bump on the iPhone 14 Pro is so tall that it still extends beyond the standard Apple cases.
Fjita: A half-working FPGA controlled low level DVD burner
The final step, you've unified the two sentences: "Chinese people are docile and weak or are evil, greedy liars."
Is there a link to the 100 pages so that the rest of us can be forewarned by your testimony?
I have written maybe one binary search that went into production code in 20 years of software development work. It is absolutely an under the hood concept.

But knowing how it works so that I can leverage the concept efficiently is super important. Having a sorted or unsorted list/array/tuple/whatever-linear-thing and an functions that search them and then knowing what the performance characteristic will be like and how I should put those two things together is not something that can easily be googled.

I agree it doesn't need to be a first year thing, but it does need to be part of a robust computer science education.
> The labor analogy for me is "there's no labor shortage that salary can't solve".

Perhaps not in SW, but there are plenty of labor shortages that salary can't solve. Some positions are simply not economically viable in certain markets - the pay required to get people to do them is more than a given business can afford. And I don't mean in the "cutting into the compensation of the business owner" type, but "not enough revenue to pay such salaries".

Try living in countries with very different economies (1st world, 3rd world, etc) and this becomes obvious. You'll see jobs in one country that simply cannot exist in another.
They are. Rockets using Raptor are still in testing and occasionally explode. Starship uses 6 Raptor engines. The Super Heavy booster uses up to 33 Raptor engines. SpaceX is going to need a lot of Raptors to advance Super Heavy testing where some of them will likely be destroyed.
I think "no managers" approach can work only for tiny organizations. Rigorously hiring self-motivated people might delay the need for managers somewhat but at some point they are inevitable. Once managerial layer is in place, it is looking to grow itself and eventually that growth becomes detrimental by slowing down the project delivery. Different corporate cultures and initial trajectories affect the speed of this evolution, but it seems like every org more or less follows this path if we're looking at the span of decades.

> most organizations have an appropriate amount of managers.

technically true, but what would be the measure? if only we could check the alternative timeline with less managers.

I would not be surprised if quantity of managers in any org is asymptotically approaching the maximum number possible while the org is still able to produce any output.
I found myself in the analytics
> However smart those people are compared to me this still makes no sense until a significant chunk of the Linux kernel is written in Go

I'm not much of a runner, you want to catch those goalposts before they get away?
Mothers who spend more time on motherhood social sites experience higher stress
Python and Ruby are general purpose computer programing languages. Is there anything they do extremely well that erlang/elixir, can't?

From the following:

https://www.erlang.org/faq/introduction.html

1 What is Erlang
1.1 In a nutshell, what is Erlang?
Erlang is a general-purpose programming language and runtime environment.
Erlang has built-in support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance.
My Pixel phone has largely solved this for me. The built-in Call Screening is stellar and I don’t get bothered by robocalls much anymore because of how well the phone handles these.
No, it was not a price point only problem.
I bailed from T-Mobile to Mint, an MVNO running on the same network. Downside is that if there's network congestion you'll be deprioritized behind T-Mobile's direct customers, but it hasn't been an issue for me.

Plans from the major carriers are insane, the price structure is always like $80 for the first line plus $10 per additional line, so unless you have four phones on your plan you're really getting screwed.

In comparison, Mint's plans are $15 to $30 per line if you prepay for a year at a time, and there's no extra activation fees. It's been working well for me.

If your phone has eSIM support you can probably install their app and run a free week trial alongside your current phone service if you want to test it out. For older phones they sell a $5 test kit with two SIMs, one for the trial and a second to activate a real account, and it includes a $5 discount to pay back the trial cost.
I'm working on a mvp (using speech recognition and NLP) and would like to have someone to work on it together.

The ideal partner would have linux skills (bash/compile things) and some experience with speech to text.
Y'all should enjoy drawing pictures and making mediocre music without worrying about how that relates to success or money. Your career is important, but it's only one part of a good life. Things that are enjoyable but unproductive often have a way of building skills and character that can later help you in unexpected ways.
You could schedule the transfer if you are "undecided". Why would you want to rely on unknown bank timmings?
> Everything that can get offshored gets offshored, which isn't actually that much.

Eh, there are some moats. For example around Law.

Imagine how much members of the US could save with offshored and outsourced law?

But lawyers have a strong guild protecting them. Software developers do not.
RStudio changed its name to Posit today
> The excavator does not owe its creative influence to the hole diggers

But it does. While not as complex as AI art generation, the excavator is mimicking the hole digger. It takes a human action, generalizes it, and offers it in a more efficient manner.
Elon Musk reveals Trump’s Twitter ban, others to stay in place for ‘weeks’
Recent discussions:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=fal...
it's "simplifying" the system to bring a "more consistent and straightforward experience for customers."

This is true. It's simplifying things by imposing the same upgrade fee that AT&T does.

Competition is messy. Tacit collusion makes things simpler for customers.
Real talk though, the only furry i know (that i know i know), i know from a C++ Slack.
Show HN: A site where you watch an animated landscape pass and draw in the sky
Aurora is a project I built that was designed to be something meditative, delightful, and tactile, since so much of what I do on my devices is not! Here's a bit more on my process building it (tailored to be mostly non-technical): https://medium.com/@shri.khalpada/the-story-of-the-meditativ...

I hope you enjoy it, and am eager to hear any feedback or ideas you all have.
Wired headphones or nothing. I know they're connected because I can see them physically connected. They're charged because photons can move through wires. It's the right protocol because they fit in the device.

Apple gets props for making it break less often than everyone else but it's a fundamentally broken UI and broken protocol.
"The original server" should also show relevant posts from other servers, unless they are blacklisted.
Gmail client on Android lets you change profiles by swiping up/down on the profile icon which is probably one of the best discoveries of my week (its been a slow week)
That is your choice, but sunrise and sunset is always nice)
I'm in a technical kind business consulting where I work with owners, management, and some employees.

One thing I've noticed that the owners' or CEO's personality tends to permeate throughout the organization, for better or worse.
5 years sounds good enough.
Ubuntu does that too with LTS unless you go extended 10 years support.

People freaking out because their free candy is no longer as tasty as one could hope, it looks quite funny they have zero willingness to pay for such a long support effort.
I find that's true in a broader sense. Smaller communities are almost always better. Huge communities are just loud at best.
What was used to do the voices here? It's very well done and according to the FAQ it's using only open source tools.
So it sounds like we need to do more of nothing but employ a lot of people doing it and we can be carbon negative AND have full employment.

We figure out how to turn atmospheric carbon into cheese. Take CO2 -> C12H22O11
It's also the companies that use C++ in my market (Embedded, Germany): They are either "old" industries (cars, car-parts, industrial machines, military equipment, embedded stuff) or consultancies working for these companies. Very few of them have any real flexibility nor do they care about their employees' wishes much. I have been looking for a 20h/week remote job (I have 5+ YOE) in this field for a few months and basically all offers were crap in one way or another. Negotiating your contract beyond salary and vacation days is extremely non-standard. Working remote is not a thing - best you can do is work from home, often with clauses allowing them to cancel this agreement any time, or with very weird restrictions around your workplace. There is tons of red tape in every single bigger company. I'm still deciding between two offers, but it is very likely I will leave the C++ Embedded field and work in the python market in the future.

I am at a bit of a loss here. On the one hand these very companies cry publicly about a lack of skilled workers, on the other hand you have to fight hard to get your market price and they will not budge on downright immoral clauses (such as not getting paid for x amount of overtime per week) or remote work.
Show HN: Quick Look Fix when Mac shows you a thumbnail
>understanding why sms otp is popular

Exactly this. I bet you'd have less than a 25% success rate of getting the average user to even know that SMS and "texting" are the same thing. Now try to get them to understand what "OTP" is.

Having to register a phone number with a service is bad enough. Forgetting what weirdo password you were forced to come up with--"a capital letter, a special character (but not % or *), and a smiley-face Unicode character"--is bad enough. But for those people who just get a new phone and phone number for whatever reason, now you have to get that changed as well.

The big problems with SMS is 1) it is insecure, and 2) it does not have any sort of guaranteed delivery mechanism. These are problems that are readily solvable with a combined technical/governmental solution. Develop a standard, say "all mobile companies must adhere to this in 12 months," and then use that. Even if it isn't perfect, i.e. somebody finds a small flaw in the implementation, it's better than it is now.
Pressure groups target top Twitter advertisers [pdf]
Ask HN: How to Work with CA DMV?
Recently a bill was signed in CA that allowed for alternative license plates subject to DMV and CHP (California Highway Patrol) approval.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB984

I was wondering how I could work with the DMV and CHP to start developing alternative license plates.
a bit of a tangent, but, this “digital commons” marketing strikes me as a bit hilarious.

there is nothing “commons” about a privately owned space owned by a billionaire.

and even worse, elon is trying to make us believe one can meaningfully discuss anything in 280 characters?

this whole “digital commons” really reinforces my concerns that hes just doing more manipulation and relying on the fact that few people stop to actually think how ludicrous the idea is from the ground up.
I get that people hate Google but Google Fi is a nice change from all the scummy tactics that I remember dealing with from traditional carriers.
As someone who has some first hand knowledge in the area, Your claim is not correct.
Is this output or manufacturing time? The article makes it seem like it is output, would like to know start to finish how long does it take.
That is wrong. Its not the result that matters but the intention.

I can say whatever I want and you can claim it direly affected you or your business but you need to prove malice/intent beyond reasonable doubt.
There mere fact that an accusation was false is not enough.

Beside that no statement (false or not) justifies a physical attack so there is no legal responsibly for such an actions. Even if the attacker says he did it because of the person who made a statement.

Exceptions are ofc increment/blackmailing someone to do it/offer a bounty for the violent action/hiring a hit-men/etc. All of these obviously have malice/intent which his what matters.

Consequently hiring a hit-men is a crime even if the hit-man fails do to any damage or never had the intention to do anything and just steals the money. Because again the result doesn't make the crime its the intention that does.

Obviously all of the above is intentionally simplified and not legal advice.
My point wasn't about demand though. I'm well aware it flags behind SW companies by a staggering margin. A small team of SE's with enough money to buy some laptops between them can create multi-million dollars worth of value in a few years. It would take a team of EEs 5x the time and 25x the initial investment to create the same. Of course there are going to be 100's of SE companies for every EE one.

My comment was regarding supply. EE is an art that blossomed in the 80s and 90s in terms of practicing engineers, and has shrunk per capita since. This is largely driven by kids getting drawn into SWE over EE as people look at salaries and modern day billionaires, and figure it to be a no-brainer. Today EEs are a small fraction of the total engineering disciplines, despite being essential for the communication, power generation, distribution, consumer electronics, aerospace, automotive, and of course, the computer hardware industry on which the software one is built; amongst many other growing sectors like robotics, medical, and IoT.

If there are a legion of EEs are set to retire in the next 5-10 years, and all the would-be EEs are now designing web apps, surely at some point the supply/demand scales start to tip one way? Many of the above industries are abstracting everything to software platforms as time goes on, but no amount of money can make a SW dev design a power-train for a car, antenna for a 5G device, or program an FPGA for silicon verification.