skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The result of tech in construction so far seems to point to a future where there's gonna be a few high skill people supervising a lot of people who passed a drug test and did 8hr of training/on-boarding.

Things are already steadily marching this way this way. Drop $5k on tools and the dumbest rock in the pile can assemble propress or pex fittings leak free every damn time. The capital investment that the business owner makes pays for itself in short order by taking cheaper labor as an input and getting results you didn't used to be able to get with that input. In the electrical world they are always coming out with new fancy connectors and fixtures that you literally can't screw up no matter how dumb you are. Internet comment sections of non-electricians love these, electricians don't like them as much because they often trade off flexibility requiring more parts kept in stock though sometimes they make up for it in speed of install.
not to make light of the crappy parts about the JS ecosystem, but I have seen the nightmares of python, Java, Go, C and C++ tooling

Give me JS tooling madness any day before C++ linking issues, JNI crap or fucking pip (python package manager), go.mod direct-to-git deps madness, Android SDK madness and random XML files, fucking Cocoapods

Library version compatibility with runtime/compiler? What a joke, there is not a single language environment I have used that doesn't have this problem

Face it, IT ALL SUCKS. It is made by humans, only way to avoid this problem is top-down industry enforced language and practices and 5-year release cycles for new language features. Nobody wants that

On a small note about JS code bundling for browsers: it is a REALLY hard problem. If browsers could run, say, python, you would still have bundlers and bundler configuration galore. It is akin to video game engines building process where you need to merge all sorts of assets together, the main difference is that there is no IDE to press play button to do it for you (unity, unreal)
I do not condone Russia's invasion but this is a simplistic take. One could also make a case like this: In 2014 a revolution overthrew Ukraine's legally elected government. The victorious revolutionaries then attempted to force the supporters of the overthrown government to remain part of the same country with them rather than letting them secede. The supporters of the overthrown government turned to Russia for aid.

There are many contentious issues related to this situation, many inconclusive arguments over who started the violence during the revolution, over the extent to which the overthrown government was a Russian puppet, over the extent to which the revolutionaries were NATO puppets, over whether or not the revolution was justified despite it having deposed a fairly elected government because the government was corrupt, and so on, over Russian hypocrisy in supporting Donbass separatists even though Russia would not permit one of its own territories to secede, etc. I would not say that it is an open and shut matter.

The way I see it, at the very least there is not some cartoonishly good side in this war that is covered only in honor.
I see this line about kids wanting to be influencers. Is there a credible source? And is this any different than them wanting to be a rock star, movie star, etc.? Most who have this hairbrained dream can fail quickly and hopefully with minimal cost or embarrassment and move on with their lives.
Who do you think unloads the pipes from the truck, carries them up the stairs or drags them into the crawlspaces on their knees? I've never met a plumber over 50 who didn't have chronic pain in their back, shoulders or knees.

> My opinion is that younger generations have been brought up in a world where they don't need to take personal responsibility or ever get their hands dirty.

An opinion as old as recorded history at least. It wasn't novel or insightful when Horace said it in 40BC and it isn't now.
So the interesting thing is that he massively toned down his public/online presence, was that a part of the deal or what else has changed?
Pretty crazy that the IRA bill subsidized large vehicles up to a purchase price of $80k and small ones only up to $55k. Crazy until you realize that the main purpose was to bail out domestic union labor car manufactures (ie. the big three and not Tesla) not promote electric transport (plug-in hybrids with 20mi range get credit).
You can't be serious. It's great it works for you. An ebike isn't a serious replacement for cars used by families in most of the world.
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Such a bill could make it through a Democratic Congress with a large enough Senate majority. Unfortunately we don’t have that right now.
Maybe so, but how does that make any of this a "big deal"? Nothing new has been revealed, let alone any wrongdoing. Of course people aren't going to give a shit about the Twitter Files if their biggest revelation is the same one we dug up years ago.
I have a mixed experience. Sometimes I got an insulting answer, and sometimes a throughout one.

My personal baseline for a toxic community is the Golang one on Stack Overflow. So far the AHK form is better.
Yeah I feel the same way. Though I've yet to be truly scammed by their regular storefront as others have claimed, their catalogue is becoming increasingly useless to me. Way too much crap from Alibaba being sold on there under fake sounding brand names (OFTEN IN UPPERCASE FOR SOME REASON) and with thousands of reviews that don't sound legit. At this rate of decay, I don't see how Amazon isn't destined for some kind of correction.

Same goes for YouTube, despite being a very different kind of service. Their search is now virtually useless, everyone is using codewords to get around their draconian content policies, the number of ads that appear on the YouTube smart TV app is completely absurd, their web interface is full of bugs, old content is now difficult if not impossible to surface in many cases, and the overall kind of content now is repetitive and PG rated in all categories. Though I doubt that YouTube ever made a profit (or at least a sustained one), it just seems like the status quo is neither a good one nor one that can be sustained even by The Google.

All of these companies seem in trouble long-term, really. The one thing Amazon really has going for it is AWS. Yeah, The Google has their own cloud stuff, but let's face it, enough people have learned their lesson that anyone in their right mind wouldn't be hosting a new web service through them.
Sorry, my dumb-ass brain somehow pictured you walking in a supermarket, buying a bunch of TI calculators to rip off the interesting parts and ship them. Totally misread the conversation.
What joke? I don't see anything in that description that's attempting to be comical.
They aren't. As far as I can tell, Nvidia does this to be able to double the number of TFlops they put on their website. (this might be a little unfair, the real reason is that in ML it might be possible to train a NN such that your matrices have this structure, but I haven't seen anyone other than Nvidia use it)
Regardless of how much of an enlightened centrist you may think of yourself, there are behaviors you do or don't want to associate your platform with.

GitHub doesn't seem to have a problem with Automatic111's arguably racist Rimworld mods but it does seem to draw the line at linking to repositories containing suspect hentai that may come close to violating the law in some countries GitHub wants to provide its services in.

It's a business decision. Making fun of Black people is iffy but clearly not a deal breaker. Linking to pictures that bear a striking similarity to prebuscent (or at least blatantly underage) girls in the context of porn understandbly is.
That was the rationale for why they planned on not actually allowing leases of the Model 3 to buy out their lease at the end. Since robotaxi was right around the corner...

Not sure what ever happened there, but I think Tesla managed to hold firm on that stance and won by luck since the used market bubble happened...
It's not even clear that a language exists, as we know it, that doesn't bitrot.
"People talk glibly about science. What is science? People coming out of a university with a master's degree or a PhD, you take them into the field and they literally don't believe anything unless it's a peer-reviewed paper. It's the only thing they accept and you say to them 'But let's observe. Let's think. Let's discuss.' They don't do it. It's just, 'Is it in a peer-reviewed paper or not?' That's their view of science. I think it's pathetic.

Gone into universities as bright young people. They come out of them brain dead, not even knowing what science means. They think it means peer-reviewed papers etc. No, that's academia. And if a paper is peer-reviewed it means everybody thought the same therefore they approved it.

An unintended consequence is that when new knowledge emerges, new scientific insights, they can never ever be peer-reviewed. So we're blocking all new advances in science that are big advances. If you look at the breakthroughs in science almost always they don't come from the center of that profession, they come from the fringe. The finest candle makers in the world couldn't even think of electric lights. They don't come from within they often come from outside the bricks. We're going to kill ourselves because of stupidity."

— Allan Savory, Zimbabwean ecologist, research biologist, livestock farmer, and president and co-founder of the Savory Institute. He originated the Holistic management of agriculture to fight desertification.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkXZ3_ZmKzw
I'm not suggesting someone take control over Automatic1111's repo; that's absurd not to mention illegal.

> So, concretely, what do you feel should be done?

I'd rather see a more professionally maintained competitor, like InvokeAI, surpass.
> Come on man... When has prohibition ever worked for this kind of thing?

Yes, "prohibition" of actions and items does work. There are numerous activities and purchases locked behind age barriers as well as items which are completely illegal. There is a false idea that prohibiting or limiting something means you expect it to be completely, 100%, wiped out but that's not the case. There will always be people violating rules and regulations, that is a given for anything, the goal is to limit and discourage access.

> edit: looking at your blog.. everything makes sense now, coming from the most backwards environment imaginable

This is not an argument nor is it appropriate. First, my beliefs and arguments elsewhere are irrelevant. If I argued that the sky was blue it wouldn't make the sky red because you don't appreciate my other beliefs. Second, you haven't substantiated the claim that I come from "the most backwards environment imaginable" which is a pretty serious claim, which seems to be a major exaggeration since I'm sure you could conceive of a potentially worse background from your point of view.
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The median income for a plumber is $50k, only 10% make above $91k. https://insights.workwave.com/industry/plumbing-electrical/p...

6-figure incomes for plumbers are rare.
you're not automatically entitled to use or benefit from the IP developed by others and then disclosed to you just because you signed a paper that promises to pay you for work. maybe it makes more sense where your opponent is a horrible but huge company like facebook but this move can kill development of sensitive or novel tech by underfunded entrepreneurs. it is a mistake for the USA. maybe you guys should downvote me more while you ride around in your teslas powered by slave labor batteries.
This is both true and not true. Cash is notionally untraceable but try moving $10m in cash illegally for less than 10% fee, and good luck buying anything if that cash represents a sizeable portion of your legitimate net worth.
This is a very natural consequence of the higher difficulty of maintaining one's career in academia. What is a natural consequence of the increased competition for those jobs.
The historical development of texts and how they are doctored is informative.

For example, early Canaanite texts assigned territory to tribes according to their number of gods. In a later text, it was by their number of tutelary angels. In current texts it is unspecified why they got their allocation.

Oldest Canaanite texts have a goddess Asherah, equal to YHWH in importance (and always shown with a cake), involved in important rites. Nowadays they use a stick in her place, which appears to suffice. They clearly would have preferred to do away with her entirely, but weren't willing to abandon the rites that needed her.

Religious rites were indistinguishable from magic spells, and the ancients didn't care who they came from, if they seemed to work. They were swapped around like coleslaw recipes. You can see how they were thought of particularly in Numbers, where it clearly doesn't matter who uses them: if you say it, it works, priest or no.
As a C-level executive, HR does represent you. You are the company (in part). If you are on the board, even more so.

For a rank-and-file employee, the interests are divergent. HR represents the company. Even for those who have the ability to hire and fire, HR is only aligned with your interests to the extent that your interests are the interests of the company.

(However, fun fact: at many companies, only the CEO has authority to hire and fire. All such personnel decisions go through an HR-mediated process, and the CEO makes the final call.)
Most likely HN kiss of death, their backend [1] returned 500

[1] https://gptduck-production.up.railway.app/query
My iPhone 6 was released on September 19, 2014 and it received its last OS update on September 17, 2018 with iOS 12 so it received only 4 OS updates updates. It continued to receive minor security updates until June, 2021 so about 6 1/2 years. Although, the security updates it received after 5 1/2 years were minor and not comparable to the full updates non EOL devices received.
SBF, from the same article: "Basically everything I had was just tied up in the company." Of course, he's been dissembling all the way down.
And yet I've been trying to find $$ for one of the most disruptive agriculture technologies that could propel to sustainable ag to acreage unheard of. Nobody wants to take a chance.

shrug
This is not experimental particle physics, where CERN just publishes everyone in CMS or ATLAS.

Apparently the most recent ones just mention the * Collaboration, but I distinctively remember seeing papers with hundreds of names in the author list.
> "We have to recruit people to do these things or else our bridges are going to fall apart," Iversen said.

already happening and has not much to do with labor shortage.
Maybe. I was fat. I believed various things I heard parroted about, “starvation diets don’t work,” and “it’s not healthy to skip meals.” There are too many of these to list.

I noticed skinny people tended to eat less and skip meals. I noticed bariatric surgery worked, for awhile.

I tried fasting. I’m now quite healthy. Exercise doesn’t help lose weight, but it can be a better way to change your biochemistry than eating tasty food. People should be told these 2 simple things, and none of the other stuff that doesn’t really help. It’s simple. Eat less.
When the years of jail time start racking up you usually stop talking as much.
More than 10% of tradespeople are addicted to painkillers. I suspect your weekend warrior projects do not qualify you to understand why.
From the perspective of addressable market opportunity, personal vehicles are a steady size and satisfied market. There are cars that you can buy from $500 junkers to $500k monstrosities, and there is little opportunity to 10x the addressable market size.

Electrification of cars, while critically important for the climate, does not open an entirely new modality of life in the way that cars initially did. It's not transformative as a business model.

Therefore, unless they cause a major behavioral switch that is monetizable, EVs will just eventually replace the current car market. Tesla's potential growth as an EV maker is directly proportional to traditional automakers' car market loss, to the extent that happens. Does that justify a 10 or 20x valuation? Only if you think they will reach dominant global market share of all cars. To do so they would have to have an non-replicable comparative advantage, which they have failed to demonstrate.
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All cars need to be EV for net zero and < 2 degree global warming to be achieved not just a subset, there can't be any fossil fuel powered cars on the road by 2050. As hinted below though you could hit 2 birds with one stone and focus on a great EV ride sharing network, guess it depends on how well EV prices can come down and whether cars owned outright will become out of reach for the average person.
I don't think they're saying journalists are any more responsible for it than anyone else. It's more like a "do as I say, not as I do" situation.

As in "I'm not going to guide my children towards the trades, but you definitely should."
> The fact that they are essentially illegal in California, and California's economy works shows that they are unnecessary and also don't hinder technological development.

That's no argument. Parasites work as organism taxon, doesn't mean all life can become so.
I'm not sure what you mean by 'sexual confusion' unless you mean the gay version of me trying desperately to make myself like men? Or something like my sister who thought she was bi for a while because I was the only decent role model she had and I was gay. The reason I mention how young I was is because having romance shoved in my face constantly made me aware by the time I was a kindergartner that something was 'wrong' with me. Now, you do say 'he' and male kids get more of an opt out there, but as a girl child? It wasn't great. Also, what do you fear about the sexual confusion? Do you think your child will be hurt/taken advantage of?

I guess to me the defining line is how are you treating straight romances? Because tbh my thought is that children's media in general goes way too hard into romance and I agree with you that in general prepubescent childhood shouldn't be the time for that - I get major ick from all the het stuff we push on kids and I don't think the answer is 'push our (queer) stuff onto them too!' Like why does The Lion King need a romance? (Also do you worry about things like that turning them into furries?) Basically, are you consistent or do you single out homosexuality?

(Also thank you for engaging; it's hard to have conversations about this that don't devolve into name calling. There are pretty legitimate reasons to not want a kid to turn out gay if there is a nurture component: It severely limits their partners and/or opens them up to abuse from culture around them. It's obvious why a parent wouldn't want that for their child.)
The title of the article is "A single Iranian attack drone found to contain parts from more than a dozen US companies." The concern therein expressed is the perception that US companies are helping Iranians provide weapons to slaughter civilians. I think people understand that Iranians can buy their toys from other countries.
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There are two ways to measure the "strength" of the dollar.

One is comparing it to goods and services (consumer prices). The other is comparing it to other currencies (DXY). I guess these two factors have varying influence on imports and exports, but I suspect DXY is the more relevant in this case.

So, I suspect my focus has been wrongly on the money supply, as opposed to the supply relative to other currencies, with DXY having almost reached the 2002 maximum in October 2022. So, I thank you for insisting.
> Your employer definitely got legal advice on anything they put in front of you, why shouldn’t you do the same before signing?

Because it costs $700/hour
>This means Iran (and Russia) does not have the capability to build these things without western components.

Not necessarily - could just be cheaper to buy them from a middleman in China.
Seriously: what about seagulls?

- or even better: Scopoli's Shearwaters (Calonectris diomedea)?
They make the the funniest sound :)
We still had those at our aircraft model building club in the 90s as "that old thing" with the then new (at least for us) glow spark engines being all the rage. ;-)
Can you please send me a link to your story? I started looking through your comment history and the first thing I noticed was this comment doesn't show up (probably because it's a descendant of a flagged comment), and rather than go looking for something that may have already been hidden on HN I figured I'd just ask.
Haha they have a lot of spam to cleanup then.

A frequent discovery of mine is a new foothill of the mountains of spam text dumped onto GitHub. No idea what half of it is there for since it’s not even connected to a GitHub pages setup most of the time. Usually I’ll find them a few pages back for a code search where the spellchecker has helpfully ignored pluralisation and punctuation and I’m getting lots of generic results but for a long enough string of words to narrow down GitHub to the long tail of noise…

Lots of txt and markdown and html and textish formats filled with keywords and phrases, some of which are surprisingly suggestive, arguably outright pornography…

Oh and there’s the matter of all the code on GitHub related to adult websites and the pornography that they contain, heaps of web scraping scripts to harvest videos and pictures from “tube websites” … the flip side of the coin as well, the content moderation tools like perceptual hashing tools and ML models for adult content or nudity detection that need to include sample images as part of testing and training data…

This feels like an area GitHub really shouldn’t be fucking with with respect to the whole “what counts as acceptable”, it’s one thing to prevent people using GitHub to host a free porn site via GitHub pages, it’s another to start policing the definition of acceptable discourse on the topic of adult content and machine learning models, particularly given that machine learning is a highly technical topic and the state of the art is an evolving field full of deeply technical people.

I’m deeply unimpressed by the results from stable diffusion but I do see other people having success with it. For me even the most basic things seem to come out mutated and the same efforts to improve non pornography related human depictions from stable diffusion type models will also be applicable to porn … if the hands on my “18th century porcelain doll of a cowboy“ look like some kind of teratogenic mutant out of a bad hyper realistic cartoon, then the porn version can’t be much better and while rule 34 exists the majority of “pornography consumers” looking to ML model based content probably don’t want that either which leads to a sort of “dual use technology” style stand off between the “pornography” and “non-pornography” uses of the exact same technology.

GitHub are walking a thin line here and it’s not going to get easier for them.
After you took the FAANG job did you still receive money for the non-compete?
Finding people's use of /usr/bin/Python with the Linux audit framework
Then, it means I would need to flash my keyboard firmware, or a SDcard loader firmware.

I guess this is a "standard" flashing protocol over usb, enabled by the right button pressed at power on (plugging the USB cable). Would I need to including the flashing support code into my keyboard/SDcard loader firmware or is it handled separately by a different piece of hardware?

Any specs on the format of the firmware image, to know which core will run the real boot code?

Erk... soooo many questions in the wrong news :(
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