skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ya you are right. It's actually something I wanted to do and planned to, but ran into a bug that I basically have been putting off cause nobody ever mentioned this except you.

Thanks for pushing me on this!

The existing bug: https://github.com/DustinBrett/daedalOS/issues/70
It failed because they did it exactly in reverse of how it should have been done. First they assembled the team, then they outlined the product then marketing and then only then they realized nobody would pay for that. You're supposed to first sell your product and then build it! I wonder whether anyone raised this issue in the early stage...
I have often thought it would be great to have an idea marketplace, where someone could put up an idea and their 'cost' for giving it to someone ("just give me a lifetime subscription to its use and you can have all the profit").

There would undoubtedly be hundreds of issues to be thrashed out, but it could conceivably do a lot of good as well.
> thinks it’s a good idea to require touchscreen interaction for nearly everything

I use voice control for almost everything that I adjusted with physical controls on my previous car.

If voice control isn’t your jam, then I humbly suggest that the screen is very easy and fast to use once you get accustomed to the different UI. There definitely is an adjustment period, but it’s not long, imho.

> would give them a little more credit if they didn’t use the ridiculously misleading name of “autopilot”

I think we agree that it is inappropriately named. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t do some things extremely well (it does).

> for something that will readily steer the car straight into danger

This has happened to me approximately never, and I use AP a lot.

It will turn off if it can’t see the lines, which is why I think it is grossly misnamed, but that’s why you are supposed to be ready to resume control at any moment. This is what the user manual tells you to do.
Yes, you're right -- it's likely he's always been a childish ass. My impression of him before this was neutral to positive, probably because he hasn't been drawing as much attention to himself. Your defense I guess is that he's always been a narcissistic sociopathic inept moron, and since you have supported him then you are unable to back out now?

> Do you ever think that maybe you are parroting what the media wants you to think?

Back to the same arguments people make about Trump, that a liberal media is somehow making it impossible to accurately gauge this childish narcissistic psychopath's behavior. I can see his tweets. I can read the things he says directly. I can see his behavior. I won't be easily swayed by someone trying to put a layer of spin on top in either direction.

> And, why is the NYT writing puff pieces about SBF?

I don't care? It's irrelevant to this? It's a bizarre thing to bring up?

It's increasingly apparent that the attacks of "media made you think" are outward projections from people who incapable of processing basic information on their own; they seem to assume everyone else is equally incapable.
> where it's easy to harvest

Are we already capable of harnessing enough to power anything actually serious and industrial, rather than a small household with some consumer electronics and lightbulbs somewhere like California, where heating isn't even an issue?
Apparently the new COD doesn’t even have a career stats page.
You must work to resolve the prerequisites to the outcomes. Academic success comes from exposing children to a consistent viewpoint (from role-models, usually parents) that values knowledge and education, and insists that those children spend their time on such pursuits.

Attempting to correct for those missing prerequisites at the point of college admissions presupposes that getting in is the only thing needed for success. It isn't.
Nate is the same as he always was. It's just that other people have become more tribal and don't like when any of his output doesn't support their bias.
While rates are rising like this? Yes, absolutely. However, tech isn't the only industry in trouble from rising rates. Soon, some entity somewhere will collapse and trigger financial contagion, threatening to bring down the global economy. The Fed will pull from the same playbook they have always pulled from to combat this: lowering rates (and now, QE too) [1]. And once that happens, well, the party's back on.

That being said, I think this coming recession is gonna be pretty harsh because we're gonna have whiplash from 2 years of easy money falling from trees turning into the most restrictive environment in 40 years. I'd expect significant layoffs from every part of the tech industry. Unprofitable startups will likely die. Megacaps will likely revert to somewhere in their 2015-2019 levels in terms of stock prices and employment. I unfortunately was hired in 2019 and I work on a team that isn't exactly critical so I'm expecting to get laid off at some point, although damn if I won't bust my ass to try to stave that off as long as possible.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS
Loads of devs I’ve spoken to, from junior to principal level, absolutely love Github Copilot though. Don’t know who is paying it for them, nor if Kite was significantly worse, but I think that at least Copilot has a brilliant future ahead of it.
I think the burden of proof is going to have to be on you here because I don't think there is any way to bend definitions to make this true.

You might be able to say the things you listed are IOUs, but they aren't ledgers, they won't scale and they can't be used without a central authority.

There have been a few examples of people creating a centralized currency before bitcoin though. One was liberty dollars which was a single company that printed bills and claimed they could all be exchanged for gold (which was probably true, they went down from the US taking legal action and not any kind of default).
I never cared a lot about Kite. But oh boy, suddenly it's the only product in a category I do care about! Thank you!
There was no enthusiasm for this past Winter Olympics in the English-speaking West; the engagement numbers were pretty clear on that.

The "problem" story is much cleaner in Qatar though: the migrant worker abuses are alleged in building the venues.

In contrast, China and Russia have complicated problem stories about camps in places people can't visit, or about graft and murky military movements. Tougher for the public to get into. So maybe that's why you didn't see all the stories and posts about them.
> This seems like a spectacularly bad idea to me, but presumably it made somebody's awful hack work at one point.

but elsewhere you say, "You are welcome to build a type which has this property and declares that it is Eq". This is exactly the difference between double and Double in Java. double has the `==` operator that isn't reflexive and works as required by IEEE-754 and Double has Double.equals, which is documented[1] to be a reflexive, transitive, symmetric, consistent, and substitutable relation.

[1]: https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/docs/api/java.base...
Yeah, I was very confused by that paragraph. Copilot is not perfect, but it's "good enough" that I'm happily paying $10/mo.
I just tell people that I get distracted by facial expressions and I look down or away to really focus on what they are saying.
Your anecdote is trivially rebutted with another. I tried Github Copilot _more than twice_ (gasp), and now pay 10$/month for it. Happily.
You can pick all three in three different drones
since no one has mentioned it yet I would say that Vim documentation is top notch.
> I write TODO for something that would be too disruptive to do as part of the current change but nice to have done.

One more reason to not have a TODO item and instead track work on a ticket. Sneaking fixes/changes as part of other tickets mixes up the rationale for tickets and makes changes harder to track. If all you're doing is a cleanup then all the more reason why it should be in an independent PR tracked accordingly.
You can have the seat heaters back on the screen again.
> It's as if investors in the tech stocks would bet that a single company with an innovative trading solution would come to replace a substantial part / all of the stock market.

But there was a single company with an innovative trading solution, and it did come to replace effectively all existing stock market settlement, at least in the US. It's the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation, and it was founded in the 70s.
The most reputable spokesman the crypto space has managed to cough up was a fraud and a thief. Maybe has something to say about crypto.
Boomers, few of whom are presently toddlers, pre-teens, or even adolescents, seem as prone to screen-addiction as any other age group.

This is unlikely a result of bad parenting brought about by an extant technological environment in their own youth:

"Baby boomers can’t stop staring at their phones" November 12, 2022

But there is another demographic that is struggling with putting down their devices: Baby boomers. Smartphones came into their lives late, but they were quickly won over. Now some of their children say they are hooked, staring at their screens constantly, even when they should be paying attention to their own grandchildren. Two-thirds of boomers own a smartphone and about 6 in 10 are on social media, according to a 2019 Pew Research Center survey.

<https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/12/boomers...>

Archive/paywall: <https://archive.ph/Tz5Lj>

The Pew study on which that article is based: <https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/09/09/us-generati...>
Next steps toward mimmutable (OpenBSD)
> I don’t see why we should be discouraging commercial air travel while allowing individual automobiles to emit so much.

How fortunate that nobody is actually suggesting that.
This is absolutely not the case for me and seems more individual to the person than a general fact.

Since as long as I can remember I have added #TODO: notes throughout my code / scripts with comments on what could be improved.

Have I fixed all of them? Of course not. Have I fixed or replaced most of them? Yes!

These days I have some automation that checks through my code repos and logs issues for any #TODO: comments with the link to the line which helps me keep track of them. It works well.

I know of people that aren't interested in fixing their code after the fact - generally in my experience they're either: A) Not motivated / interested in or energised by the idea of optimisation/performance. B) Not "allowed" to work on non-features (by a product owner / managers etc...). C) Simply forget about it due to lack of a tracking system or related exposure.
In the past I've used airbnb at various ski resorts. I now only book directly or stay at a hotel. A few reasons why I do not use airbnb:

- Cleaning fee and nothing is clean. Quite often owners are banking the cleaning fee.

- Chore list. I'm paying $1000's to stay at these locations... I'm not going to do chores for you.

- No customer service.

- Camera's in common spaces. Just feels like your being watched.
The EU set up a mastodon instance a while back (essentially in a publish-only role; you can't _join_ it or anything): https://social.network.europa.eu/about

At the time this seemed... maybe a bit odd. Now, well, I expect other governments will follow.
> Our diagnosis is that individual developers do not pay for tools.

Throwing salt on the wound here but that’s just false. I mean, there’s copilot and it’s alternative that I can’t think of the name right now. more broadly there’s Jet brains ides, visual studio, Productivity apps, etc. look at product hunt or appsumo or popular show hns. Devs pay for tools, just not Kite.

Edit: I should clarify, enough devs pay for tools to make the market sustainable. Not all devs pay for tools.
Kite made me a very good (for a startup) job offer a few years back. They had a very friendly and welcoming bunch of people, and even Adam, the founder, came off as a typical human being in conversation. Easily the best job I've ever turned down, even knowing that Copilot would eat their lunch a year or two later.
FTFA:

> "If we continue to burn diesel the way we have for the past seven months, the cost would be astronomical. But we do not have the cash to spend. We would be able to pay if the *municipalities were paying us*,"

That, right there, is a pretty big reason for the current blackouts: The masses refuse to pay, and the cost of keeping society afloat falls to a minority who cannot really be squeezed any further.

Last I checked (2007), each taxpayer was supporting 4.3 people other than their dependents or themselves.

It is not a sustainable situation, and the state should have been doing everything it could to encourage foreign investment. Instead, empowered by the voters, they repeatedly loot the coffers.
I <3 you, Hacker News.
Apple charges 30%! That's an even bigger scam for a typical app store user than the bink single camera upcharge.

At least with Bink you get a service for that. With Apple you still need to pay the remaining 70% for the apps themselves.
Toyota now is with the bz4x. Honda, Mazda, Subaru, and Chrysler are not.
You'll find that the abstract makes the explicit point that Alpha0 lends itself to more interesting findings as it had no exposure to how humans think about chess.
Coindesk owned by DCG which also owns Genesis. Adversarial reporting more like
This might be a promising step, but you still have the problem of a) the data exists b) people are highly incentivized to get the data. Ban selling it? They'll share it. Ban sharing it? They'll form byzantine corporate structures that make it not-really-sharing. Or they'll just do so informally.

If you want it all to stop, that means banning the collection of data. This of course won't eliminate it altogether, and it will wipe out a lot of the tech industry, but it will go a long way, and proving someone has collected data they weren't supposed to is a lot easier than proving they shared it inappropriately.
You're assuming that flash storage is the only thing to be concerned about in a secure boot scenario.

Assuming that the platform is even secure boot capable, you'd blow a fuse or similar at the factory to put it into production mode.

However even then, secure boot isn't infallible. Either they're implemented shoddily, or you end up power glitching past verification.

(I've seen a certain vendor who's name starts with Qualco... fail because they didn't remember that u-boot was... configurable.)
What category is that? Open source code generation?
> I'm a bit confused. What you said is factually correct, but you're coming off as though you disagree with it.

It is factually correct, and I also have an issue with it, yes. “There can be no bug in a smart contract by definition” is at the same time true and ridiculous. My problem is using this as contracts, which are agreements between two faillible human beings. In reality, mistakes are everywhere and we have fairly robust ways of dealing with mistakes in contracts. In contrast, what would be a bug in any other situation becomes the truth, with no recourse. This is typical of 2 fallacies in some tech circles: every problem has a purely technological solution, and we don’t need those old fashioned real-world institutions.

Smart contracts are a very fancy hammer when we’d need a screwdriver.

OTOH, I don’t have anything against willing participants having fun with smart contracts.
Even for people who think eye contact is important during a conversation - please, you don't want to do this while driving a vehicle. Keep your eyes on the road and have a normal conversation without looking at the other person. It's a major safety hazard, as bad as texting and driving.
I'll defend him a bit and say that I actually did want to do this and have a bug report out to do just this (https://github.com/DustinBrett/daedalOS/issues/70). But I also see what you are saying about inconsistent sorting. That being said I do have a desire for the site to be a version of Windows 10 customized to my styles, such as the desktop icons being sorted the way they are.

Also happy to see you noticed that sorting does indeed work manually still, but on load it's not behaving.
Piers Anthony was born in 1938, quit a bit older than the other authors you listed.

His science fiction is much more golden age in style, robots and bug eyed monsters, though he often made fun of both tropes.
How much of that is paid for by devs and how much is paid for by their employers?
Sounds like you had a workflow that you felt and still feel good about,
why did you stop doing it?
Tax and regulate the everloving heck out of the field.

Prior to the 1830s, Britain had exorbitantly high tax rates on advertising, I'm given to understand. (I've found relatively little material on this fact, and forget where I picked up the information.)
The concern for me is, the user interface can wildly change again because some PM somewhere needs a raise and a bonus. I don’t like the idea of not having a say in things like the heater functionality being arbitrarily buried, and I find out on some random weekday morning that everything is different.

This is the opinion of someone that doesn’t own a Tesla and hasn’t had this happen to them, can anyone weigh in on this from experience?
Given the countries that travel the least also often are the countries most likely to trigger a war, I'd say we might want to leave that one alone for now and focus on other creators of CO2.
I'd start by looking at the esp32cam.
I'm reading these comments and I'm remembering Ted Nelson's famous quote:

"Everything is intertwingled"

google it.

The point being that everything is connected, meaning: (In my view) trying to argue distinct components in some massively connected universe may not be all that helpful.

It's true that reductionism gets us some grand theories, but, what are the ways we could structure vastly more holistic conversations on these matters?
It is useful for fighting. Allows you to see what your opponent is going to do early. If you look at their hands instead e.g. you’ll see their movement well after it’s already started, and you won’t be able to react in time. That of course assumes your opponent is well trained. Amateurs’ moves are so inefficient you might as well look at the ground and you’ll still probably be able to defend yourself.
Value generation in software doesn't equal profit generation. Is it a flawed business model to pursue growth first and profit later? No, as long as there is a good plan to get that future profit. If the 500k developers weren't driving business spending decisions enough to pay for Kite, either it isn't particularly useful or it's a sign of the times. I'm guessing from the rest of the context it's the former, no one seems to be crying out that this is a great product that will be widely missed. This sort of failure is good and a good decision by the business leaders. It keeps our economy healthy, you want the real winners to win, and not every bet works out.
What's the significance of 539? Form I-539, "Application to Extend/Change Nonimmigrant Status" doesn't seem to be a relevant reference.
I've just seen your other comment:

> 1. Fear of meritocracy 2. Fear of countries not negotiating an equalitarian deal 3. Fear of the awful science of “that camp” (and I know exactly what 3 arguments you’ll oppose, so, don’t bother with the direct answer, please assume everything you want to answer is already understood and incorrect, and go straight to a second level of answers).

1. Meritocracy is a way to make you feel better for having more than others. In a finite world, having more than other means stealing from them. Nobody merits more than somebody else. At least not at the scale it is happening now. And don't assume that you work more than others.

2. I don't understand what you mean.

3. What is "that camp" ? What scientific studies are you talking about ?
The trouble is, the news industry (including the likes of AP) does kind of use Twitter as a sort of low-latency wire service these days. If a government department tweets, the relevant journalists will likely see that before they see the press release.
I think any reasonably well engineered system of this scale should run fine for a few weeks without ops, barring any weird Murphy's Law madness. Staying up for two days is not much of an achievement. Perhaps the real test is still ongoing.
Can I ask why?

You have every reason not to want a smart speaker that learns about your questions and prompts to give you better targeted ads.

You also have every reason not to want to buy a piece of hardware fundamentally dependent on a server-side service the company could choose to turn off at any moment leaving you with a brick.

But people seem to treat these smart speakers with the kind of suspicion that would only be appropriate if you actually thought the speaker was listening all the time to your everyday conversations to truly INVADE your privacy.

Which - maybe you would think about a random piece of junk from a disreputable company (if you ignore the monumental amount of bandwidth this would involve that would likely be infeasible).

But I feel like you can probably trust weirdly enough companies like Amazon and Facebook NOT to do this because of the colossal news story it would be.

The other reason I can imagine technologists on here to not trust smart devices is that they might be used as a weakspot to hack into your network. Again - I can see not trusting that from a random 3rd party, but Amazon knows how to create strong secure systems. If you trust Cisco or Asus or 3Com to buy a router from them, it's really no different.
> I don't need a screaming firefox window blaring "ThIs SiTe MaY Be InSecUrE"

So your problem is with your own choice of browser? This is not related to IRC or web links.

> Until someone creates a drag-dropable image uploader to the client

Create one yourself, then? IDK, I don't feel the need for it. I use IRC with a web client and it satisfies my needs.

> IRC is dead.

It's definitely not dead. I use it daily, as do lots of other people. Just because it doesn't have certain features that you want, it doesn't mean it's dead. It just means it's not for you.

> there is no connection to hyperspace.

I think you're mistaking Star Wars for the Internet.
Thats interesting. That theory seems to fit with my experience at least. I will read that book cheers.
That's why I tried it twice. I've been hearing people say they liked it. But I haven't found it very helpful, and often distracting, so I ended up turning it off. I'll probably try again next year when the models are improved to see if I feel any differently then.
I am just surprised no one questioned the partnership between Alameda and FTX. The equivalent would be something like if a large HFT firm like Citadel, Virtu, or one of the others had the same ownership with a brokerage like Robinhood or Charles Schwab or even formed a partnership. I think the financial media would be questioning the incentives.

I read in the WSJ today that Alameda had indeed done price arbitrage trades on the FTX exchange. The closeness of these two firms should have raised questions I think. I really don't know a lot about it because I was never involved in either FTX or Binance. But I think most financial journalists are trained to spot disincentives and corruption that come with marrying trading firms and exchanges. So I am surprised that did not happen leaving aside other questionable items.
Getting my manager to spring for an IntelliJ license instead of a free Eclipse was the easiest thing in the world.

(That manager getting the purchase order approved through corporate took months and months, but that's neither here nor there.)
Either you (possibly backed by new investors) buy them out or they buy you out.
"Truffle flavoured fries"

Would be accurate and descriptive and makes them distinct from fries with actual truffle.

Gives you the same differentiation as whipped cream vs edible oil
Frankly I don't pay for tools. Money is tight at work and at home, so if it's not free it ain't happening.