skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, half the point of agents is to insert middle-men who won't get emotional about the deal while wringing as much value for their party out of it as possible.

If you're talking directly to someone about buying their house and you go, "your house is a piece of shit, everything is broken, knock $XX,000 off or I walk", they're going to tell you to go fuck yourself. Once you filter it through two agents they hear "well, the buyer is concerned about X, which is very reasonable, but Y is just being picky, we should come back to them with an offer for $ZZ0,000 and I think that's very fair." Sure, they're not happy about selling their house for less, and maybe no agreement can be reached, but the agents take a lot of the emotion and confrontation out of haggling so that you don't end up hating the other party before you can reach an agreement.

So it goes with all negotiations.
Not particularly amusing, this has been a risk all along : see what happened to OS/2...

P.S.: I am starting to suspect that Steam now doesn't show which games are Linux native, and which run through Wine, am I getting this right ?
It's more complicated because he's one of the latecomers : by the point he was asked to do this work Minecraft had already been released and was already a massive success.
So it's actually worse than a real commodity. It's got an expiration date. For system that's supposed to be 'currency', that's just stupid.
We put every kid through factory schools and are surprised at the result.
Anecdote from someone in their mid-30s:

I've spent the majority of my professional life fully remote. The few years I have spent in an office, I've really appreciated. These days, I do miss the meat-space office and having in-person interactions with coworkers from time to time.

Pros and cons for sure, and I guess the factors that tipped me to still being remote again can be summarized as

* country and location where the lifestyle suits me

* stimulating and rewarding work where I feel I can make an impact in something I believe in while working with skilled people

* not moving every couple of years

* not spending half my free time in commute

If my current work magically had an office in town tomorrow I'd 100% start going there.

My guess that it'll come down a lot to the people you'll be working with.

Anyway, sounds like you made the right call! Good luck and hope you found something that brings you joy!
There is also the problem, that they continue to show the ads. They need to stop the ads.
If there ever was a Christmas game, it is Doom!
While I take your point, mostly is doing a fair bit of work - SAR can be a dangerous job. Get swept out to sea and you might be scooped up by a Coast Guard rescue swimmer. Repelling or jumping out of helicopters might be their day job, but it's not exactly risk-free.
Nobody tell Paul Graham but I rebuilt his site to be beautiful
It really needed dark mode on desktop, I've saving eyes here Paul.
Reaction: +1...but there is still an "on any public road or bridge" weight limit for trucks, buried somewhere in Norway's regulations for trucking & highways.

The stereotype would be that the law-abiding Norwegian truckers are always careful to keep their trucks below the legal weight limits...but stereotypes aren't always true.
> Acronym for "frequently asked questions"; a list of answers to frequently asked questions that can be presented to a community (be it a forum, Usenet newsgroup, or software user base) so that the same questions need not be asked over and over again. In the entire history of their use, not one has ever been used for its intended purpose.

From the BonqQuest glossary https://www.jerkcity.com/glossary.html
I think in general, in regards to human companion and aprentenceship, yes.

I think however that with these conveniences, we're able to achieve much more satisfying things though. I certainly couldn't do half the things I do if I didn't have those convenient guides online.
You pick the good parts, some pick the bad parts. Just because modern life bring with it some bad aspects doesn't mean we should reject it all together. We are ourself responsible for identifying and avoiding the elements of a modern lifestyle that we find troubling. Sure some companies makes that needlessly hard, and tries various tricks to make us feel bad, and in some sense actively hurt ourselves, at least emotionally, but we need to learn to identify those tricks and shun those companies.

No one is complaining that their bills are paid automatically, saving us from standing in line at the post office everyday or that we can avoid the Christmas hassle of endless lines in stores after a busy day work. Technology is a tool, how we use that tool is up to us and a good way to start is to view your phone, computer, car or TV as tools. You put them down when the work it done.
PHP has been pretty good for a long time now. PHP 7 was released in 2015. It's a vibrant and living language that now has a very nice type system and a super-fast JIT. Most of what people hate about PHP is from PHP 4, even 5.6 was pretty solid. Let this horrible meme that PHP sucks die.
South Koreans set to become younger as traditional way of counting age scrapped
It's quite noticeable how homogenous the world is when you get there, too. Anywhere that isn't tremendously dangerous or closed to outsiders is copying Westerners and their brands as much as possible.
> I thought it was pretty common knowledge in 2022 that systemd is fine.

You thought wrongly.

> The vast majority of people have gotten over the drama of change.

Implying the only reason to object to systemd is "the drama of change".
null itself isn’t the billion dollar mistake, it’s that literally every object can be T|null. Undefined or null is actually quite useful, as long as you’re expecting it.
I definitely get the dangers of kayaking in extremely cold water. Whether or not ads should be held accountable to only promoting safe behavior is another conversation.

Also, he claims it is illegal to drink alcohol while kayaking in all 50 states. I don't believe this is true. In most states you're allowed to drink and operate a boat, you just can't be intoxicated (usually 0.08% BAC).
> The plant will operate two 9 1/2-hour shifts per day, down from two 11 1/2-hour shifts currently

Isn't that more likely to be a measure to improve employee retention instead of a sign of a possible demand issue as suggested in the article? 11½ hours shifts don't sound very sustainable and would even be illegal in many other countries.
Worship by Other Means
> their floatation vests are loose
> wearing shorts

Oh, my. Wait till he sees the Youtube product review videos with girls in bikinis trying to compete for views.
> Toilets in most of the rest of the world are saner. They also typically have a proper seat

Rest of the world? What about the places with squat toilets? Those are common in many places in the "rest of the world", and they don't even have seats!
iirc, copyright law only applies if you defend your copyright.

That's trademark law you're thinking of.

Copyright always applies and is automatically assigned at the time of creation. Belongs to the author by default unless created in the context of some other agreement (e.g. work for hire)
That would make sense, I think you're right
I think happiness with remote work depends a lot on whether you live with a family / roommates who you see regularly.
what details do you need? i just wanted to remind people about sleep apnea
If anyone else is curious what’s inside… Article says this is a Game Boy Advance port running on an ESP32 dev kit with an upgraded flash chip. Speaker is connected to a GPIO and display is using the serial line.
Kinda reminds me of the exercises in this very strange book

https://www.amazon.com/Structure-Magic-Vol-Language-Therapy/...
I take it you've seen PCIe riser cables like this one:

https://www.amazon.com/Zer-one-7-5Inch-Extension-Flexible/dp...

If that sort of thing can work at PCIe rates I don't see any reason why that M.2 card can't. It's a lower bit rate plus theoretically a more resilient encoding for long distance as opposed to PCIe.
Never. The nasal cavity warms, moistens, and filters the air before it enters the lungs. It also produces nitric oxide, an important gas for the body [1]. The mouth does none of these things.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_functions_of_nitric...
Yeah except it's nonsense, because it doesn't happen in countries where everyone is a donor by default. No one working at the emergency department has any kind of access or knowledge to donor lists, the idea that "we need to let this guy die so we can get his kidneys" is something anyone would do is insane not because of how immoral it is, but because it's physically impossible for your normal doctor/nurse/emergency responder to even know that this guys kidneys would be a match for anyone needing them. It's not a test being done when your life is on the line, healthcare workers are overworked as it is, no one is checking your organ match when you came in from an accident.

>>People would opt-out in mass to avoid that danger.

So surely, if we assume what you say is true, the same risk exists if you are on the donor list voluntarily. Why would anyone be on it then? /s

>>If is forced, it also destroys the image of "each donor is a hero", that can be a small drop of comfort for his family.

I fail to see how it destroys that image. Your organs go and save someone else - you are still "a hero" to the receipient. Whether it was voluntary or not, doesn't change that(and if it does in your opinion change it, then surely witholding your permission must - by necessity - be one of the most evil acts you can do, no?)

>>Even worse, it opens a door to turning young people in minorities with a compatible body into a target.

Well now that's some complete dystopian sci-fi nonsense. What, doctors will go out and hunt young minority people on the streets to get their organs, to get that sweet emotional reward for successful transplants? Or who will do that, exactly? Please explain.
It definetly has to do with screens and the virtuality of living. Is not just plain old nostalgia. I agree it's a paradox of choices and "individual liberty".

Obviously new generations won't notice, they probably won't complain yet or add nostalgia to their experiences, but there's a lot of thing that without effort there is no purpose in doing, and thus no joy in it. Remember when something cost you a lot of efforts? that was the real important thing, and when you achieved it or passed it, remember the joy you had? now with so many experiences, options and things within a hand's reach, theres no fun in doing anything, because it doesn't require your effort, and I think our brains weren't developed for an easy, overjoyed, overstimulated life.
That’s why I have such contempt for my fellow voters.
PHP 8.2 released, with read-only classes, new stand-alone types, and more
This is talking right past the important higher level message in the post. A lot of it is a rejection of the entire way of thinking you present here.
I think in France we had some interesting propositions for press funding based on this idea.

Everyone paid a tax each year and gets token that they can attribute to the media they want. The fund are redistributed according to the tokens.

I don't really like the idea of an automated measurement of merit / popularity. Let users decide and choose few projects they want to sponsor each year. Maybe show the current number of sponsor so big projects don't get all the votes.
The best thing is to consider it feedback on the content.

There's not much meat at the end of the link, only an abstract and a paywall.
>But, that €20k did not cover the copyrights to the work. Just the creating of it.

Honestly think that’s very debatable he was contracted by the company he can’t just rugpull because decides there is an extra different secret ownership he never handed over and has never mentioned during the transaction and never brought up till years later when he got bitter. Don’t think his claims would stand up at all of lawyers were involved.

He needs to take the W, he’ll never have his work in anything as large as MC, he got paid 20k for something no one else would pay for honestly things could be worse, his poem could be removed.

I mean it’s now time to ask if he actually even has the rights to license the poem at all.
West europe uses a separate disabled toilets, typically much larger, have plenty of places to hold and grip, larger toilet seat, a "help me" cord to pull, friendlier taps, etc.

An example: https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VQ-IG8pFfcs/WQYWuWexVmI/AAAAAAAAd...

No, too much work? Instead just infringe on the privacy of everyone else.

Honestly...
The Goldstar memorial bridge over the Thames river in Connecticut is the same type as that I-35W bridge that failed in Minneapolis (only Goldstar is older and higher). I worry every time I cross it..

https://bridgehunter.com/ct/new-london/3819/
While you spin it negatively, for a 20 y/o especially that is valuable life experience. I think they are wise for making that change.

You aren't going to like everyone you meet, but you need to cooperate with them. And some can't be cooperated with, and you need to handle THAT.
Hes correct. It should be "verbal exam".
You forgot to mention the best part, no Electron! Native macOS app
It seems there's often a need for languages to evolve towards sanity rather than being sane out of the gate.
im getting 40 mins of deep sleep a night and apparently it should be at least 80

also quite a few straight up “awake” moments
In judging GPT, we should be drawing a line in the sand between a poor writer (e.g. a college student) and an excellent one (a professional, ideally a domain expert). GPT is impressing us now only because we have very low expectations for a computer to write like a human. But when judged against a capable human, especially when you focus on the _information_ that's conveyed, GPT sucks.

Few of us would want to read a book written as flaccidly as GPT does, a wandering narrative that cannot connect the semantics of one sentence to the next. GPT is capable only of writing _sets_ of sentences, not a progression of them where a concept is introduced and subsequent text tests and contrasts a convincing set of complements and alternatives. Given LLM architectures (and inherent black boxes), that's likely to never change since they don't understand logic or dependency, sufficiency, or necessity. Without those skills, no LLM will ever be able to _develop_ an idea or expand on the implications proposed in an introduction. Have you ever seen GPT conclude a paragraph with a bang? And you never will.

You'll note too that GPT has not attempted to write dialog. I think there's good reason for that. Talk strips away all the excess verbiage. Humans say only what's essential to convey our message. Pointless blather that leads nowhere is maddening to listen to for long. But without a clear focus, that's exactly what I'd expect from GPT: wandering speech that's totally disengaging. Surprising the reader simply is not in its DNA.

So if you're happy reading narratives that wander, that don't lead anywhere, with characters lacking personality, and a narrative style lacking the essentials of every engaging tale (exposition, conflict, suspense, climax, resolution)... then perhaps GPT is for you. But if that's GPT's great promise -- to generate businessspeak that's "tolerable" but even less engaging than the marketing schlock that immerses us now -- then thanks, but no thanks.
There is a cost to pay up-front in having null safety in your codebase, but the savings come back over time. Can we easily measure whether or not it truly makes a difference? Maybe not, but I'm jaded enough to gladly pay that cost, knowing I can think about whether or not something is null once, versus having to forever wonder if the complicated code I need to interact with is going to bite me later.
Is this some theater? There's tonnes of metadata on everything that's E2E encrypted available to Apple, including raw checksums, creation and last accessed timestamps along with access counts - that would be more than enough for metadata crunching three letter agencies. It also seems that every file is encrypted with it's own checksum as the key (only way I know they can do de-duplication).

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303#advanced
I've come to the conclusion that in the generic business software world, removing null would be a trillion dollar mistake.
Instead of applications simply crashing, millions of hours would be wasted trying to clean up bogus values (e.g. "changeme", empty string, etc) from databases and calculate what should have been there instead.
I'd like to hear from the Centre for Steel Science.
Twitter Blue will reportedly cost $11 in App Store so Musk can avoid Apple fees
What about icloud.com? Will I still be able to view photos and browse files from it?
Everything these days seems to come with some monkey paw-esque catch to it.

You can log into amazon and order millions of items to your home without getting up off the couch, but amazon only shows you the same products over and over and what you get is probably counterfeit or broken because amazon doesn't care about quality and they've made reviews useless.

You have endless entertainment for free on youtube, but it's all data collection and an algorithm dedicated to amplification of the worst aspects of your psyche. It'll entertain, and recommend you toward extremism. Don't even ask what it's doing to your kids.

You can use social media to stay in touch with everyone you love, but mostly it will make you depressed, and you'll need to self-censor and craft your social media profiles to best promote your "brand" to satisfy the future potential employers who will google the shit out of you before hiring.

You can have a tiny powerful computer in your pocket but it's designed primarily for tracking and media consumption. The engagement it's designed to extract from you comes at the cost of disengagement with the loved ones around you.

We have more choices in our grocery stores than at any point in history, but that choice is largely an illusion since every brand is owned by one of a handful of corporations. Those corporations can be caught literally and knowingly poisoning you and your children and they'll not only stay in business, but they'll stay very profitable.

It's really not the convenience of things that are the problem though, it's that none of the things we have are designed to serve us. Everything you buy* or use is working for someone else (often against your interests) and companies are dedicated to delivering the barest minimum required to sucker you into forking over your money, your data, and your control.

Give me something that works great and works only for me and I'm perfectly satisfied with it.

*it isn't yours.
I remember in 2008 or thereabouts there was some controversy because one vendor rendered some things at a higher quality than the other. It was a relatively small thing like the edges of alpha textures or texture filtering or something. There was a period of time where some video card reviews would include a visual quality comparison because there could be noticable differences between the two.
Reality Begins with Consciousness by Ed Close and Vernon Neppe

God talks with arjuna: the bhagavad gita by Paramahansa Yogananda
but the test costs half the cost of the machine and im pretty sure i already have it?

someone just reminded me that its needed for the formal diagnosis for insurance to cover the cost tho so yeah
So You Want to Have an Energy Transition
Yeah, the `InternalFrameInternalFrameTitlePaneInternalFrameTitlePane
MaximizeButtonWindowNotFocusedState` jokes get a bit old.

Non-java devs think of java as Java 6 when in reality it has pretty significantly evolved in the last decade. I dare say that it's one of the most rapidly evolving mainstream languages on the market at this point.
after reading it's not a python compiler but a compiled language based on the python syntax
Canadian North retires last jet that can land on gravel
Never want to get called out by a paddling group.
Elon Musk hints censorship docs may have been hidden or deleted
This seems like an eminently reasonable thing to do, with the difficulties of supporting self hosted for a product like this on the infinite variety of customer setups. I can't imagine the time sink it must have been trying to support them all, it can't have been profitable.

It sounds like the dedicated version essentially lets enterprises run in on their own accounts while letting gitpod manage everything, which seems like a reasonable middle ground to me. Also sounds like you can still self host, they just won't support it directly as a customer, which again, seems reasonable.
I thought I had to replace all my mysql code in a massive overhaul to upgrade from 5.x to 7.x.

Then I read a little closer, and realized I pretty much just had to add an "i" onto all the underlying mysql functions ("mysql_" to "mysqli_"), at least for the ones I was using commonly.

I'm still in the process of migrating that project, now on 7.4, to a modern Symfony framework, but I tested it out in 8.1 the other day, and it needed...1 change to work apparently perfectly.

I'm still going to need to do more thorough testing before I put production on 8.x, but with 7.x now unsupported, that has become a priority.
Its not sterile at all. Why do you think they test it for bacterial cultures when you've got an infection?
Karl Marx talks a lot about alienation as capitalism advances. Alienation from our labor, alienation from our society, and eventually alienation from the self.

Independent of how you think of the rest of Marx's work, I think it's useful to examine this specific concept in the modern era. What you are describing is a classic example of alienation from society - as our society turns increasingly to machines to create and deliver entertainment it's easier for us all to just... stay separated and isolated. Machines tell us marvel movies are profitable, so we get marvel movies, etc.

And I know hn is not a fan of Marx, generally, but this concept I really think is applicable here.
NPTv6 is different from IPv4 NAT and doesn't really have the same issues.

A different solution I've seen proposed for networks with multiple ISPs is to advertise both public prefixes to the network and let each client endpoint figure out which egress to use. This seems like a worse idea though.

The most official approach is to get your own public IPv6 prefix and work with your ISPs to BGP route that to you on both links. However, home and small business ISPs generally don't offer this.
I’d believe this, and almost want to commend the ones you know for leaving.

I’m not quite jaded enough (barely) that I still believe that people can grow up in decent environments, somewhat sheltered from the world, thinking they can go into policing or politics and “do some good”. I don’t know that I still believe that they actually can do any good… but if they started off naively optimistic and then realized what it was like, and left? That takes a degree of character, and some guts knowing you’re leaving a profession. There’s opportunity cost.

Now… this particular guy at RPi and 15 years to figure it out? Eh. And generally unsure why this is being flagged, except for “drama” maybe. It’s a bad look from an organization that lots of people know about and respect(ed).