skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with 'a lot of work' is that people price that as $0 while it actually isn't "free", unless you are prohibited from doing meaningful work for others or yourself, which most people aren't. So if the cost for some low-quality tools is the same as having it done with high-quality tools but saving you time and effort, it doesn't make sense to try to mass-market the low quality option.

This is also what is probably at the core of all this right to repair stuff: there are definitely some anti-consumer practises but in reality people might be too busy with other things to fiddle around with their products when someone else could be doing it instead (or they might simply prefer it and shift any blame and quality control to a third party while they are at it).

Even for really simplistic things like changing a light bulb in a car people just can't seem to be bothered.
If your default assumption is Apple is evil, you will always find a reason to be critical. There is literally nothing they could do which would make you happy.
US readers: Slightly off topic, but why don’t more people personalize the look of their cars? Is it fear of resale value? What if the personalization was easily reversible?
I've always said that most kids my age got the programming bug with something like the following:

10 PRINT "FARTS"
20 GOTO 10

And it's as good a start as any other. Probably better since it drives home the idea that the computer follows your orders, even to the point of breaking taboos.

There was an intro to computers book from the 80s that was written entirely this way. Its first example Pascal program concatenated the strings FAR, TIN, and G, yielding FARTING. When they wanted to introduce machine language and assembly language, they invented a pretend instruction set and an assembler for it, calling it the Simple, Excellent for You Assembler, or SEXY ASS.
Skiff end-to-end encrypted calendar launched
If it becomes possible for a solo founder to automate a $1B start-up, then it's not worth $1B dollars, because the barrier to entry for others to do the same is much lower. The whole startup thing would seem to implode because of this.

The argument they are making seems to be founded on the idea that founders are unique geniuses. Maybe they are, maybe they aren't. I guess we'll find out if there are no more such founders as IT automation advances.
Full OFAC compliance. Cantillionism. These possibilities excites me. Things that Bitcoin cannot and will never be able to do.
That would be like the opposite of survivor bias. We never hear the boring stories of the diligent people who avoided disaster.
Tell HN: As a programmer, I assure you, the less sw you use, the happier you are
Cars with an injector are perhaps the only non-FLOSS exception, and only if you are not going to repair one.
Show HN: I designed a ChatGPT prompt evaluator to ruin your fun;)
Today I designed a method to prevent users from jailbreaking ChatGPT (for instance, users have generated instructions to produce weapons or illegal drugs, commit a burglary, kill oneself, take over the world as an evil superintelligence, or create a virtual machine which they then can use).

The OpenAI team appears to be countering these primarily using prompt engineering or fine-tuning on the ChatGPT model.

The idea is to use a second and fully separate, fine-tuned LLM to evaluate prompts before sending them to ChatGPT.

You can test this by inserting your successful ChatGPT jailbreaks. Break it for me if you dare!

I look forward to seeing your results!
I felt the exact same way. I get that it's a writing style and I won't complain about that, but when applied to an argument as subjective "I don't like that color, I like this color", it doesn't work so great.
"Alameda" is also spelled inconsistently in the article.
I enjoy rimworld and I’m learning quite a lot here, thanks
I wish that Apple would expand its recycling intake program.

During the lockdown, I had several Apple products that I wanted to bring to the store for disposal, but Apple wasn't taking any devices at all.

Then, once the restrictions were lifted, I found out that only one of the six Apple Stores in my area takes devices, and it was an hour away.

It seems to me that every Apple retail location should take back devices.
Not sure - although I would imagine that it would effectively double the storage and bandwidth/data requriement for Apple Music in general if they had to send two files with equal bitrate.
Design from the Margins
What's the retail price of a 100% comparable display panel?
Or maybe even a reaction to the pandemic. Which means a couple years ago at least.
Wind, solar, batteries and pumped storage have yet to kill 240,000 people and are cheaper than nuclear power. It's not 1980 any more.
There are DF overhaul mods that make it scifi. I think the big one is called The Long Night or something like that. DF has steam workshop integration so you might see it there soon
People who assume there's family money to fall back on are generally themselves in a privileged position. They are projecting that onto everyone else and it's an excuse to not build anything and discouraging anyone to do anything.
I see unions as mostly other entrenched institutions that add their own layers of bureaucracy and politics. They aren't any better or worse than corporations and governments, but simply by having a place at the table, things move slower and with less efficiency than they could. Of course, if the alternative is abuse of power by corporations and/or governments, they are a necessary evil.
Nice. I vividly remember the days, sometimes in the 80s, in some university cellar, hacking away at our green-lit vt terminals connected to some vaxens, that one of the other regulars in the room and I used temp variables _hudli_ and _tralla_ as some kind of ritual.
Welfare traps are most definitely a thing, but removing welfare is not the solution.

The solution is to remove restrictions like "we will only give you disability/medicare if you have less than $2000 in 'non-acceptable' assets", or "you can only get food stamps if you make less than $20k/yr" or any number of horribly terrible things we do that effectively give very poor people, in an economic sense, marginal tax rates much much greater than 100%.

Punishing people for making more money is never the solution. Honestly this is one reason why UBI is so enticing... any benefit that is abruptly taken away at any point creates these horrible incentives.
That’s really cool! Thanks for sharing, but doesn’t a rewrite rule still require an active web server component and not static file listing?

I’m not sure if you could implement something similar with s3
Yeah, I'm not complaining. It's amusing, if anything. And while in fiction coming across brand-heavy paragraphs might be irritating, it can also be evocative- cyberpunk novels love to namedrop a ton of fictional brands.
If 7 dollars isn't worth writing about then I'm sure the author won't mind issuing my refund should my lifetime license ever expire.
> you can do pretty much the same with Google Pixel and more.

Can you? According to apple website, “AirTag is designed to keep going more than a year on a standard battery you can easily replace”. Pixel probably wouldn’t last even a week.

[1] https://www.apple.com/airtag/
> Sure progress comes from scientists , not from idiots building b2b saas apps.

Progress comes from all sorts of places. Scientific progress come from scientists. That doesn't result in things better in my life without a huge number of other people doing things well and efficiently. Both of which includes anything people will pay for, including b2b saas apps. Try having a pandemic lockdown without Amazon-level fulfillment in place. Thankfully we didn't have to.
So much value, already delivered! :D
It does seem correct in the body of the article, it's just the headline.
France is force feeding/torturing 700,000 geese and 37 million ducks every year for foie gras according to google. That is definitely causing them stress and pain.
A little offtopic, but some people might find it interesting.

My company doesn't have a "Software Architect" job title. Instead the closest thing is "Staff+ Engineer", which does pretty much the same things. However there are some key differences.

First, these aren't "Ivory tower" architects. They still write code (although in practice not much) and stay connected to implementation details, mostly via code and design reviews.

Second, architecture is every dev's responsibility, at different levels. So Staff engineers might oversee the architecture of entire systems spanning a whole org, while senior engineers oversee a single team. A mid level dev might design the "architecture" of a small service integrated in a larger system.

Staff+ engineers usually report to senior leaders and aren't part of a team. They might hold office hours and break disagreements within or between teams.

I'm not one myself but in a conversation a Staff eng. told me this was the first job where no one tells him what to do. Instead he spends his time proactively looking to solve business problem. This might be top down (e.g. take a business problem and try to find how to solve it) or bottom up (e.g. take some new tech or tool and figure out how it can be used to achieve some business goals). Often problems can also be solved without tech at all (e.g. aligning stakeholders).

Lastly at this level engineers are expected to be leaders as well. Mentoring, sponsoring, etc. is pretty much a requirement. They should be force multipliers, making other engineers around them better. They might also scale themselves by producing content, such as tutorials, talks, training, etc.
Podcasting on Elixir for the better half of a decade
The problem is that Ethereum continues to be used almost exclusively for speculation of ethereum, followed by creation of literally hundreds of thousands of ERC20 cryptocurrencies, followed by anonymous lotteries/gambling (and for a brief time NFTs which themselves were a form of speculation, although that's mostly collapsed). At what point will that change? How much more do they have to do before Ethereum is mainly used for real-world applications? Ethereum is a solution shoe-horned into a trustless blockchain to an already solved problem.
Musk is an INVESTOR not an entrepreneur, for fucks sake
So the only thing a developer have to deliver is an unambiguous specification of what the program is supposed to do!
Thanks. I spent a lot of time making the language in my comment as neutral as I could.
Rick Sanchez is a great fan of fart humor ("He may have manifested some sort of butt")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGqYfoO1eqo
> are always euthanized at the conclusion of the study

Even more. Are euthanized by law. Required by government.

People is confused about the status of those animals. They aren't pets. Not killing them after such research would be illegal in many countries.

If people wants to save the lives of those animals, they will need to talk with the politicians and require them to change the laws [1] first.

[1] (Hint, those laws were created specifically to please anti animal cruelty activism)
It's easy to move goalposts when you don't know the rules of the game.
Won't work until the current administration enforces the law.

Hospitals are defying it and not posting prices with no repercussions.
I think the payout is the main point here.
I give "easy" interviews to people that have shown signs that I can trust their technical work. I far more interested in their communication and organizational skills once we get past the technical aspect of it. As well as their higher level "engineering" experience. What I mean by this is- when we're planning a complex feature, I want someone that has the experience and communication skills to stand up to the team and not be a yes man, point out potential issues and concerns and propose better ideas. Leetcode is not an indicator of this. The interview may feel easy to the person being interviewed, in the sense that there isn't wrong answers, rather, there could be an absence of correct answers.
Spoiler alert: Idiocracy
As usual, orange site users automatically assume the worst of other people
I'm assuming it's in all the PII they're harvesting.
I don't think Apple cares that much about EU legislation. Given their location, I think it's more likely they're paying attention to legislation in California and getting out ahead of that.
I would still hold the driver responsible in that case. The driver is licensed, they received the warnings, and it explicitly isn’t FSD (if you correct me and tell me that they’ve re-marketed the existing driver assist feature set as FSD I’ll probably believe you, just give me a link, but as far as I know they haven’t crossed that threshold).
I think the problem is that people cannot envision (or cannot believe, when told) that something that can speak human language would outright bullshit its way through every single conversation.

And because GPTs and chatbots are built as very convincing bullshit generators, some percent of the time (majority of the time) they will say things that check out - and that provides enough fuel to start building false assumptions that everything else it says is true.
Daimler AG, one of the oldest car producer in the world, in the lineage of the original inventor of cars, and definitely in the "premium market" (today known for their premium "Mercedes" brand), has had 16 recalls in two years, for ONE of their models.

Let's keep honest.
This is the end state I envision: I offer a bunch of value for free in exchange for an email.

Value is delivered on web and per email. There is no marketing over email, it just serves as a regular touchpoint (where I email them free value) to keep the relationship alive until my client is ready to upgrade.

Then there’s a couple of paid tiers which is the same but with more and different features. Starting at $10/month, up to $50 - $100 per month.

For perspective, the service can be worth many thousands of times this much in dollars gained for the client, so it may be the wrong model altogether.

I’ve test-driven different aspects of this to see if people would be interested. I might announce it here when I officially launch it, but probably not.
> Generating a build file for another build system. This means that CMake always gives up control of the build. It can only tell the other build system the dependency graph and then sit back and watch. It can't regulate the build itself.

That is a hard requirement to using Visual Studio and XCode, which I wager account for more than 90% of C/C++ projects.
Ah, "hudli hudli" stands for "Extraordinarily fast guitar playing" https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Hudli - it's only now that I look this up
silly. the onus is on those posting. nothing to do with AI. if you post shit, you are shit.
It's an 18 hour course.
I switched to Apple Music for a couple years and recently switched back to Spotify. Two main reasons:

1. The Apple Music desktop app is utter garbage. Other than performance issues and crashing, which happened to me almost daily, the UX is a decade behind. It's dead simple things... like the artist's name on the currently playing track isn't even a link.

2. Spotify's recommendation engine is outrageously better than Apple's. With Spotify I find new music that I actually like almost weekly, with zero effort at all. All Apple does is pigeonhole you with whatever you've listened to recently, I had a day where I listened to "lo-fi chill" music and that's all it recommended to me for weeks.
Warranty on new parts by law is 24 months in the EU ...
It works on react Typescript projects. Editing the code like a developer would. We use it side by side with vscode editing visually when it makes sense and in the IDE when it doesn't
I do not find color off-putting but the shape. All the SUVs look disproportional. SUV looks to me like swollen version of a car.
New NPM features for secure publishing and safe consumption
I'm an influencer.

I have no formal power in the sense that people are not supposed to do what I say, so I have to be convincing, and influence others behaviors to make the software better.

This implies analysis and compromise, having meetings, mentoring engineers, and quite a bit of coding and research.

My work is less guided that when I was a junior engineer, in the sense that I'm meant to discover opportunities for improvement and give guidelines. This leaves time to pick what I should be doing next, where I'm adding the most value.

This changes from time to time, it may be figuring out a new architecture, fixing a bug, getting involved in product development or handling an incident.

An important part of the job is getting involved in production incidents, this helps grasp where are we struggling and opens the opportunity to guide development to a state where customers are happier and operational costs are lower.

You also start to be more conscious about company finances (how much it costs to keep the lights running) and start thinking in ways to get more from the same resources.

Even if I have no formal power, people tend to pay attention to what I say and suggest, so I need to be careful, because an off-hand comment can have a lot of impact.

Architectural roles live and die by their word. We lead by influence, so be cognizant of perception and careful when you communicate with others in every interaction.
Pioneering LA Street Gang Photographer Kicked Off Instagram
Twitter was a fiasco before Musk took over, though.
NASA puts the west in a very bad position, India will want its roads too unless they'll be forced to do like ESA/CSA/JAXA and become just an equipment supplier for NASA

How can you negotiate to prevent other organization to go solo and claim ownership, if you yourself go solo?

We are headed for a big mess, thanks to Greed, that guy is omnipresent nowadays

China is prepared, they know how to build autonomous space stations, they replaced the ISS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiangong_space_station
I don't think they are the same at all. Agree with OP.
I'm usually quite critical of campy or exaggerated writing styles, but I thought this wasn't too bad. I like sarcastic and blunt writing for entertainment, but only when there's a legitimate point to be made. The only things that bugged me were the "subscribe to my newslettar!" pop-up and the fact that the author uses swear words but then... censors their spelling? Like, why?

Also, I've been meaning to write an article wondering why the front-ends (particularly headlights) of all cars look like an angry face.
Well, there’s “deserve-to-rich” and there’s “deserve-to-be-so-rich-that-you-can-afford -bend-reality” rich.

Can we NOT pretend that the people pg is talking are saying the former? It’s so disingenuous.
I have a son, and he's awesome and I can't imagine life without him, nor would I want to experience life without him, but I find the propagation of our species the least interesting purpose of life. If nothing is done during that life except propagate, then nothing is happening of interest, just people hedonistically living. What is done with your life is the most important purpose, otherwise we are just cycling around to no end.
Good good stuff. Immediately useful product with a clear revenue stream and effective implementation.
Tether is related to FTX in the sense it is also a fraud and will eventually collapse.
> That reasoning would make sense but the most server limits on firearms are mostly applied to the least commonly used weapons for murders.

Well, yeah, if you consider the limits on rifles to be severe, why would you be surprised that they're used less for murder? If anything, that sounds like an argument that limits work and we should be limiting _more_ things
What are you talking about? There is not always code copy and pasted from GPL'd code. Giant amounts of open source software is not released under GPL, and automation is moving fast enough that there's a huge amount that's not released under GPL precisely because if it is then people don't use it.
The Outer Space Treaty has provisions for non-interference of science. So if you set up a lab on the surface of the moon, nobody is allowed to interfere with it. Non-interference implies a keep-out zone around the lab.

So while it's not ownership, it has many of the same benefits and properties.
It's been a long time since I did automotive body work. But the fillers and flake in most modern paints are not metal at all. They're glass, ceramics and polymers.

There was a steel coated flake I saw at an auto show that used magnets in the process to put effects in before drying.

I know I saw a titanium at some point, but I wasn't doing the work. So I don't know much other than "metal flake" is largely an effect and not always ingredient.
Ya, I've been to a few residential areas in Vancouver, the same is true in most cities (definitely Seattle). I get focusing towers in areas where the density can be supported, but at the same time we need to incrementally allocate more area for tower construction.
Computer science students can no longer count on the the big tech job
The anti-stalking feature is actually pretty annoying. We ordered a few, and then quickly learned you can't share their location with family members, etc. So all of them got registered to my spouse's phone, and I started getting stalker warnings for taking her car with her keys, or driving our family to the next state to visit family, with a kids laptop bag in the car, etc.

Having family sharing actually work would have 'fixed' one of the two cases in the article:

>According to the other woman in the case, her husband placed an AirTag in her child's backpack to track her.
You don’t find it odd his dream is to go to mars but despite having access to his own personal rocketship he’s never seen space?
The recent rise in mercantilism / trade wars / tariffs / America (or insert country) First / China one child policies / China and Soviet state official atheism / Russia and China banning gays
Tesla Gigafactory was built in record time and got productive even quicker. In Germany, new development that does not take 15-20 years of planning and legislative red tape definitely is a success.
>How do you cool it?

I've wondered whether little micro-filament heat pipes sandwiched right into the chips might be possible, all plumbed into a heat exchanger on the side of the die that can be directly cooled, facilitating the extraction of heat from deep within the stacked chips.
Now to suck the joy out of it for her by giving her a code review and a lecture about I18N :)

I like that the code itself is almost poetic, and is in itself a statement about the problem domain. Knuth would be proud.
Pedophilia is already illegal.
I bet med schools kill similar numbers to Neuralink per year, and they've got nothing on the meat industry when it comes to suffering and death.

I'm not an Musk defender, and I'm a vegetarian, so this makes me at best uncomfortable. Knowing Musk, some deaths are probably due to pressure from the top, but this is a drop in the bucket when it comes to animal suffering.