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Tell HN: We Need Robots.txt but for AI
The web is filled with posts where people have poured heart and soul into their writing. Just because they post on the internet, doesn't mean that other companies own it.

We do this for search engines with robots.txt. We should do the same for AI.
Journalism is the same
But Bitcoin has "exploded" in the past, crashing 70%+ several times, yet each time it had a higher and higher floor. How do you explain this?
This is absolutely possible, alongside difficult to test and disaggregate for realities of post-Covid and long/chronic Covid sequelae that aren't even on the health quant analysis radar for the most part, despite the wealth of mechanistic and stochastic dots that remain unconnected, at least in official public utterances.
I live in a rural area and before amazon had their own trucks I got almost all my packages from UPS. I got to know the driver, nice man, and my guardian dog got used to him. Well that was many years ago because now Amazon delivers their own packages now and it’s usually a different person every time. There delivery process is so rigid with regard how they consider the package delivered , meaning if they don’t physically occupy a certain location it won’t be considered delivered and that can’t be altered. I had to contact support and tell them to move the drop point at the gate and life was better. Unfortunately when I do get the occasional UPS package it is a woman who is always talking on the speakerphone the entire time.
Copilot is calling out to OpenAI's Codex, so they don't really have anything on their own
I mean an actual API.

Something where you say: open up the default camera app on the system and give me a stack of pixels at the end.

Hopefully the CameraX thing you linked can be used as a base for all Android camera apps.
Still not enough for GUI / graphics coding versus compiled managed languages, including those in the ML family.
Author here: I guess this is gonna be one of the most requested features. It will come sooner than later, but it's not a feature I use very often, that's probably the only reason it's not implemented yet.
Having used all three I'd go with Clickhouse/DuckDB over Arrow every time.
I can only speak for my own company. I recently (6 months ago) hired a junior web developer. He’s now a senior, and the highest paid engineer in the company.

If you’re a junior developer, and you want to make good money at it, you no longer have hobbies or a life (don’t worry, you get them back when you get good). Instead, all your free time is now dedicated to hobby projects & studying. Of course, only a small % of junior developers want/are capable of that lifestyle (the 10x engineers), and if you’re not one, you’ll just have to suffer making only 80k a year + benefits as a regular junior.
... an indefatigable, perpetually nice adversary out to screw you over.

So you've met my ex.
Porsche: But Why?
I sense some FOMO from your post. If it works for you without having these accounts and engaging in getting more social online, then why bother with getting onboard, but it really feels you don't want any of this.

> I just want to focus on the things we're collectively doing to be successful.

What's preventing you doing it?

I personally have a bunch of social media accounts and post stuff regularly, but only stuff I care about, so I can get behind them 100%. Sometimes it's deep stuff, but mostly rubbish shitpost, it just entertains me.

I don't think it's required to land a job to have these accounts. A LinkedIn one is the only one that's good to have, but only to get discovered more easily. You don't need to contribute to the cringefest that's 98% of the content there.
Whoops, my bad! I stand corrected.
Is it not more likely that this bojo character has photoshopped himself into the photo?
Find target keywords in YouTube videos by transcribing them, generating timestamp URL, and saving results to CSV. Streamlit,, SerpApi, PyTube, Whisper.
Blueprints isn't C++ as such.
your tummy sees the light more (summer, beach, etc) than the other part you refer to. So if you care about cosmetics I'd wage people would go for something that does not leave a huge scar over their guts.
But that's what I mean! If a typical behavior for humans is, to lie in a certain context / question. ChatGPT would lie too!
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Off topic, but thank you for introducing the word "synecdoche" to me.
> [...] that have over hired during the low interest hype [...]

Well, in a sense that's exactly what low interest rates were supposed to accomplish: get people in the economy to spend.
I thought that was disproven. There was a single study that mentioned hair loss in the 1000's for creatine.

It's often held up as one of the most studied supplements around and again, only a single study reported it as a possible side effect.

if hair loss is a side effect then there should be some proof of that somewhere.
Smoking has dropped from around 55% of the population in the 60s to around 13% now. It was always one of the biggest killers, and as smokers died out and smoking became unfashionable life expectancy - unsurprisingly - stared to improve.
Financially you always got two to four times the resolution with B/W or single colored phosphor than with color monitors.

They were also less fuzzy. Its not just more pixels but less fuzz.
From the wikipedia article:

"Michel Foucault argued that it is intolerable
to assume that a child is incapable of giving
meaningful consent to sexual relations."

The action of the french intellectuals or the German Greens was very clearly not just about equating the age of consent between homosexuals and heterosexual, but also about enabling sex between adults and prepubescent children.
Pretty sure that is NOT what the parent comment was talking about. The US system has all the problems of a government run health system (which it basically is at this point) but none of the benefits. There are absolutely zero market dynamics at play in the US Health system any more.

>> leaves millions without any access to healthcare

Absolutely, 100% completely false.

>>can result in bankruptcy as a result of an illness or accident

This is true, however contrary to the social stigma bankruptcy can be a good thing for many. In the US Medial Bankruptcy is often made inevitable by various government regulations that prohibit creative solutions by providers.
Orchestrated Objective Reduction (Orch OR)
The thing about austerity, though, is that by reducing spending you also shrink the wider economy, reducing tax receipts. The "nation's credit card" rhetoric the government has used to try to justify this is just misleading.

Oxford prof Simon Wren-Lewis explains it better than I could: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v37/n04/simon-wren-lewis/the...
Sweden has no excess deaths in 2022.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/525353/sweden-number-of-...
Show HN: I gained 50k users for my app with NO marketing
Hi Hackernews,

Last year around February, I found myself having to pay contractors for various services that they provided me as I completed my new home. An occurring question that kept coming up with each conversation was - how do you want me to pay you or do you have “X” payment app on your phone that I can send the cash to?

I realized that some preferred Venmo, others preferred cash app - some had neither only relied on PayPal. Being the software engineer that I am, I figured why not build an app where a person can just list all their payment apps and then I can pick which ever worked for me. Similar to linktree but ONLY for payment apps

So I did just that, built the app - [https://paylinkz.app/](https://paylinkz.app/) and released it to the store without any fan fare - I didn’t even tell my close relatives because I could care less whether they used it or not. I also didn’t want any high expectations from anyone so did it in silence

10 months later we have 50k users with $0 spent on ads. It is worth noting that the initial audience that I had in mind were not even the people who used it the most. Today some of the use cases I have seen on the app are people using it for fund raising, mariachi bands, barber shops, landlords and Uber drivers for collecting tips, fantasy leagues...

FWIW - this is not my first rodeo at building an app and I think luck must have favored me this time around. It also helps that it is something that the market needed but never had. Although I was lucky in 2022, my goal is to put some effort into marketing to see where this goes.

Would love some overall feedback!
Absolutely this! In case anyone isn't aware of the insane thematic naming in Chef:

Chef = a configuration management tool

Recipe = an individual Ruby script that makes sure something is installed and configured correctly (e.g. a mysql recipe)

Cookbook = a bundle of recipe(s) and basic metadata (what do these recipes do, who wrote them, etc.)

Supermarket = a community site with common cookbooks, what others would call a "hub", "central repository", "marketplace" or "store"

knife = a command line tool for managing your chef installation

Test Kitchen = a test suite runner

Cookstyle = a code linter

However, now that Chef has gone full Enterprise (never go full Enterprise), the names are now all enterprisey-sounding: everything is "Chef XYZ", e.g. "Buzzword you know + Buzzword you don't", harnesses the CxO's FOMO. Chef Habitat = write declarative rules for applying cookbooks to machines. Chef InSpec = auditing/compliance. Chef Workstation = what you would have normally installed anyway, the development kit and runtime tools, but now it's EnTeRpRiSe, ...
Show HN: Makesh – a user-friendly Bash task runner
Sleaze gonna sleaze.
> Normative statements. You should be asking what are the incentives.

This is itself a normative statement.

I’m of the opinion that incentives aren’t the only thing worth considering — there’s something to be said for enshrining ethics into law (if only because it can adjust incentives).

Another thing worth considering is our mediocre track record of identifying incentives ahead of time.
I've had good experiences with AirBnB I several countries as well. VRBO was trash for me, also with last min cancellations and the corresponding company inaction.

But really, I expect to be let down by airbnb at any point, and always plan for a hotel as plan B . Unregulated services have never been dependable in my experience .
I understand D&D is the "Windows" of RPGs. I understand the market- and mind-share it enjoys. (Those movies: not many people remember or know about them though!). Obviously when Paizo forked D&D 3.5 and started Pathfinder, they were riding on the popularity of this particular RPG. Also evident is why there is a cottage industry of third-party modules, campaigns and gadgets for D&D: it makes sense to make these for the most popular system.

The thing is, it's much harder to implement "vendor lock-in" for RPGs than it is for hardware or software which has business uses. The cost of switching to another RPG system is very low: all it takes for a group of friends to start a new RPG is for the geekiest of them to buy a rulebook and evangelize it, there's almost zero cost (but the rulebook(s), of course).

I find videogames are a red herring as an argument for D&D, since most people playing CRPGs based on D&D don't even need to understand the rules; the computer does everything for them. And people will buy a flashy CRPG regardless of the underlying engine, all that matters is that the game is fun, hyped, has nice graphics, and friends are playing.
I'm imagining a dystopian future where everyone wears a legal advice headset that is constantly whispering to them about things they are doing, or need to change to avoid a lawsuit. Kind of like a continual game of twister where if you misstep, all the watching legal AIs jump on you, immediately serving you electronically, with court dates pre-scheduled and all the evidence they need to win the case already submitted.
Tim Romero (author of linked podcast) misses the point. Paul Graham has a far better take on this topic: http://www.paulgraham.com/usa.html

The problem isn't that Japanese companies "missed" the opportunity to do software at X point in time--the problem is that they are culturally Japanese. Japan is about consensus-based design, there is a high penalty for making mistakes, and individuality/creativity is not valued. 出る杭は打たれる - "The nail that sticks up will be hammered down". Certainly you can develop software this way, but the Silicon Valley model of rapid iteration, "if it doesn't work rewrite it", "move fast and break things", etc. gets you there sooner.

But what about Matz and the Ruby core team, you say? Certainly they are a zany, free-thinking bunch. I attended Ruby Kaigi last year and noticed that most Ruby core team members are hired by domestic Japan-focused tech companies, think Cookpad, Tabelog, etc. They are kept for their HR value to attract tech recruits and allowed to spend all their time on whatever open source project they want. Meanwhile the peons work on the actual product.

Source: I've worked in software in Japan for 15 years; 5 at a Japanese bank and 10 as a CTO of my own company. We run circles around our Japanese competitors.
Decentralised systems have a horrible truth: they tend not to optimize for the problem they are set up for but for the thing that creates the greatest feedback loop. In case of a healthcare system inside a capitalist society, the system will optimise for profit maximalisation, this automatically means that a large group is cut out of care because:
1) they require too much care
2) they cannot bring enough money to the table

Its a simple fact of how markets work. A free market is just an ideal, just like democracy, open borders and justice. It is not some law of the universe. In fact: countries that profit most of their markets are countries that highly regulate them. These countries include the US, China, South Korea, Zwitserland, Norway and Dubai. But not: Mozambique, Venezuela, Sudan, Russia, Haïti. <-- these countries dont have functioning markets because there is too much unregulated behavior, too much corruption.
I wouldn't change a thing.

For me, life is about quality and not quantity. There is no value in 200 years of life spent sitting on a couch.

In a more scientific sense, I would imagine that any world where we've cured aging and disease would have significantly better trauma care, car safety, and so on. I like my odds being out in that world.
The more I read about this topic on HN, the more I have a strong opinion that I should not have a strong opinion on this.

(I'm for cute AND descriptive though)

(and somewhat not against anything, unless things too generic like "Web" or "Internet Explorer" for a browser or "File manager" for a file manager)
>"Python backed by uWS is crazy fast, but is not an direct comparison to uWS to Go."

Correction. It shows that uWS is crazy fast. Sure if python us used as a thin glue between something like "select username from user" and uWS or send file over uWS then the result is fast. Do something meaningful in Python itself an it will be slow.

This is not to diminish your work. Python is mostly glue anyways so in average the end result should be quite ok
Yes, I like to live and not wait to die
> I think the idea is that if big institutional holders like Coinbase subsidize mining at a loss, the for-profit miners become less necessary.

I suppose it's one possible future, but I'd be shocked to hear a bitcoiner say it, since it would effectively turn a decentralised chain into a chain run by a consortium of large financial companies.
Education is always expensive, in every country, because it takes time. US-Universities are just exceptional expensive for whatever reasons. But time is something that this technology can remove for this cases, so I would say it still remains an economical problem.

Though, the ability to use the technology might come down to a social problem. Because it still needs a certain level of education and competence to use the technology. Just significant less than visiting a university for a whole decade or so.
Pipe that into bash (ie: the user doesn’t know if they’re loading malicious state)
And it all makes a certain kind of sense, in a twisted way, when you realize that they owe it to the investors that they spend what they raised. Investors don't give money to pave a seemingly infinite runway, they give money because they want to see that money put to work. An army of employees enthusiastically throwing unrelated stuff at random walls would be one of the least bad possible outcomes, because an army of focused inefficiency is so much worse, so much more likely and so much harder to recover from. Occasionally someone seems to notice and try correcing course, by burning off excess funding through the emergency vent of a ridiculously lavish ad campaign. Remember that time when almost everyone made fun of those Peloton ad interiors?
He probably photoshopped the rocket into a photo of himself, and now we have gone full circle and removed him from it.
I don't really understand this criticism nor why it's "clickbait". I have 12 "unpure" python packages in production. If my app ever needs WSGI, I'll have 13.
> aka you’re 50x more likely to experience heart issues from catching Covid than getting the vaccine.

This is completely false, because it cherry picks the data from people who were hospitalized with severe COVID cases. Most people who recovered with very few symptoms after COVID did not end up with any heart damage.
If you mean Aseem Malhotra, he is an idiot and nobody in the entire region of London that he trained in thinks he has an IQ above 100. Pre-COVID he was unemployably bad as a doctor, and has never had a formal job in the NHS since he completed his training. He has latched on to vaccines hoping he can make a quick buck that way.
No, Unity has already replaced a few C++ modules with HPC#, their C# subset for low level coding.

They also plan to eventually use NativeAOT as part of the .NET Core migration to further go down that path.

Unity has been one of the reasons why C# has gotten so much better for low level coding since version 7, alongside feedback from Midori experience and wanting to win Techempower benchmarks.
Thank you so much for that!

It's something that I'd love to do, especially as there aren't many people using it in production, or at least talking about it, and I think that showing people it's a viable language could be important.

It's a shame that we as a community still throw around the Grammarly article as proof of people using it, I wish we had more recent examples.
Average EV fast-charging costs soar above petrol
Right? It's like having to "google" to find out how to use your "apple" to interface with "postgres" that's running on "linux"! It should be "global-web-searcher-1", "computer-vendor-17", "database-18" and "open-source-operating-system-derived-from-another-operating-system"!
Not necessarily: my understanding is that in the US a few people probably get more healthcare than the optimum, and many get less, all on an extremely large budget.
Funny trifle.

I too like cute names at high levels of abstraction, because descriptions or explanations shouldn’t clash with the named bits—particularly in documentation.

But when a named thing doesn’t escape the code files, then it has to be descriptive. My projects take too long, and coming back to a too cute name is a PITA.

The exception is I use
verb+cute name for command line script names.

Naming is hard, but also fun.
Exactly, both systems are imperfect, but I'll take the half functional one over the inhumane one that also discriminates and ruins people while making excessive profit.
There won't be any monetization of the free version we're all using now. There are no paying customers for that.

ChatGPT will be sold as a way to work with proprietary data that belongs to a single company or industry and is not available to the general public. That's the paid use case.
Compaq's early lunchbox portables also had a lovely red plasma display.
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Now imagine you'd had to pay thousands of dollars for that trip to the ED. Otherwise that doesn't sound any different from an experience with the medical system in the US. One of the first questions you're asked is if you have insurance (in Texas it's not assumed), so they can determine what class of patient you are.
The Kwasi Kwarteng tax cuts were all reversed by Jeremy Hunt, I thought?
old exchanges do have their own challenges [0]. I don't know if their dealing in crypto gave them any particular insights into how the broader set of technologies could enhance market-making. there is at least one major busted stock exchange blockchain project that suggests this is not trivial [1].

just scrapping the bottom of the barrel here :-), hoping that as this crypto-decade draws to a close, it was not a complete waste of time for all these people and a major distraction from more meaningful pursuits in digital technology. even if one does not participate, these pervasive hypes, whether crypto, AI don't leave anybody unaffected...

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jun/06/london-meta...

[1] https://www.ibtimes.com/australian-stock-exchanges-blockchai...
We call that journalism
Fees are a more honorable way to keep the lights on than the FTX ‘take the money and run’ business plan.
But tears say more than real evidence ever could
It could be that people are just holding on. The question is: why is it worth anything at all?
It is strange, that so far Coinbase has not took any steps towards supporting the Lightning Network.

If the Coinbase app supported it, that would allow all of the Coinbase users to do real decentralized micropayments.

Any theories, why they don't do that?
Yea this is what decriers don't explain. I may not view at as a strong currency for which it was intended but it's undeniable it has become a store for speculative value that isn't going away anytime soon.

There's a lot of trash in the crypto world but also some valid projects.
> It's amazing then how much writing of both code and prose I and many others did on machines that were much less capable than today's.

Sure, on machines with low resolution screens with simple fonts and no anti-aliasing. I'm not saying accelerated graphics are necessary for text editors today, just that the context has changed considerably so the comparison isn't obviously fair.
> At scale, you are SRE'n something someone else wrote, because no one can be on call 24/7

My teams had dedicated on-calls; we were platform teams for other teams. So — perhaps it makes a difference if you’re talking about that situation?

> DevOps people wanting to feel like they are programming. Their are better places to spend programming effort in the DevOps / sre job

Yawn.

You’re implying bad morals because someone has a different view than you — and such ad hominems are inappropriate.

You also clearly are ignoring the experience of the many, many people migrating this way — purely out of hand.

Maybe that’s why you don’t understand: you’re too stuck up.
I'm happy to see them pushing this boundary, even if the end solution has a very long way to go.