skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tech is part of a web of industries that provide to each other. What phones without the rare Earth metals a traditional combustion machine digs up?

As far as you or I go specifically, reality does not need either of us to actually exist. Plenty of folks still around without the two of us.

For numerous health metrics a slower pre-internet life was healthier. All the technological churn has had long lived impact on environment that will make life worse in the future.

Keep cherry picking.
What new evidence.
I certainly feel like my brain is in charge when I wake up, long enough to get my clothes on and out of the house on the school run and back, at which point my stomach resumes control for the rest of the day.
That was my thought as well. Right now the vast majority of respondents are in some way startup adjacent, but that seems unlikely unless HN is way more niche than I thought.

The company I work for was founded in the 60's and I don't have an entrepreneurial bone in my body.
> I tried getting it to generate a Red-Black tree in Java but it cuts off half way through.

I tried similar prompts on various data structures. If you reissue the request sometimes that completes.
Back in the day, it was the "Power Amiga".

Today, it'd be a RISC-V based machine that's 100% open hardware throughout.

And it would run a multi-server OS based on seL4 microkernel.
The future of the global economy is being actively shaped in emerging power centers in Eurasia/BRICS+, not by idealistic libertarians in the West.
Better for manufacturers to focus on clear, multichannel product registration, error messages that can be decoded and referenced online, and provide a usb port if necessary for updates.
It's a little weird that there are not past tenses in Poll.

I've been in 3 different start-ups and each has had a different trajectory, but I didn't quit just because we went public (my definition of not-a-startup) so I've got no answer unless I guess the future.
Does anyone have any experience with Astro and Sveltekit? What would you choose over the other one in which situation? Is Astro only used for websites that just display content, while Sveltekit can be used for more complex webapps?
Not to mention health risks related to chloroform:

https://dhss.delaware.gov/dph/files/chloroformfaq.pdf
Amazon launches RxPass, a $5/month Prime add-on for all-you-need generic drugs
I guess I really don't get the sentiment here. Layoffs are inherently bad and not just reflective of the market changing focus from growth to profits? Why is it clear that layoffs should have repercussions?

What does it mean when almost every big company's management made the same mistake?

I'm all for worker protections and good severance and unemployment benefits and its not great to be laid off but these takes just don't resonate with me.
Might be easier to get someone on the phone for support, one corp also wouldn't have all that profit sloshing around to go and unfairly dominate other markets.
If I recall, a lot of that was because VAC was extremely paranoid. Many people who ran Python, AHK, or even client-side Source engine scripts would get banned for various reasons without a transparent excuse. I was VAC-banned from CS:GO despite never playing on an official, VAC-secured server in my life. No appeal, no reasoning (I was even using Windows back then).

It seems to be a bit calmer now, but VAC is kinda a perfect example. Apple is over-implementing something in a way that prevents legitimate users from legitimately using things. Yes, their efforts here are valiant, but they're also glaringly imperfect. The thousands of unusable MDM-locked machines are evidence that Apple's process here isn't working as well as it should.
Have you seen Firehydrant [1]? Not affiliated with them, but met the founders here in NYC and they seemed like great people.

[1] https://firehydrant.com
This is the crux/TL;DR:

"Perhaps the most compelling reason to believe that Zaharie hijacked his own plane is its simplicity. It’s the only explanation that doesn’t rely on a series of independently improbable events: given a desire to do it, everything else falls into place as a reasonable part of the plan. In fact, from the timing of the transponder failure to the specific locations of the turns to the flight path into the Southern Indian Ocean, it would be harder to come up with a better way to make an airliner disappear. Why believe that this is a coincidence when it could well have been the goal from the very beginning? Furthermore, whoever was flying the plane had extensive systems knowledge and excellent hand-flying ability. Who else on board had those skills but Zaharie? Indeed, it’s by far the easiest answer."
I wondered how to phrase this and I think I’ve done a bad job based on the downvotes.

I don’t mean that Apple allow a third party to contact anyone directly, I agree that that would be terrible.

Instead I could see Apple themselves contacting the last known owner to ask permission to wipe and open the laptop for reuse.

If that’s not what you want then you tell Apple the once and that’s the end of it.

Reuse won’t always be what people want but if a laptop can be repaired and securely reused then that’s much, much more energy efficient than recycling it.
I spent an hour trying to get Ark Survival Evolves server trying to run on wine a while ago. But gave up after a while. I used to host a service providing ark servers :P

I've got some fixes in for wine. But debugging Wine can be quite a challenge, you need a lot of low level understanding.
Hipster engineer :)
It doesn’t actually matter what that thing said. Most everybody uses the term “dynamically typed” when referring to languages like Python, Lisp, etc. and this is the first time I’ve heard the term “unityped” – is not a term in common use.

And (bringing this back to its origin), using terms which actually are in common use, Python does allow storing types as values in variables.
if it's different people making the comments, then they don't need to be consistent.

and if the same, then if their outlook has class struggle leanings, they're being entirely consistent, capitalist class bad.
Fascinating read but for some REAL fun Jeff Wise's "Russian Hijacking Theory" is pretty awesome....

http://jeffwise.net/2019/03/09/the-russian-passengers-aboard...
That seems ahistorical. "Shareholders are stealing" is a modern idiomatic expression of the rightful ownership of surplus value, which is an analysis going back to the 1770s at least.

You can have different perspectives or ideological relationships to this concept, even make an argument for the role envy could play in this expression of it. But there is literally centuries of analysis of this you should catch up on before you try to simplify it so completely.
And that they only hire people who grew up in the US.
https://archive.ph/vJYU2
So its a thought experiment and so this AI is very smart, like even better than Microsoft's Tay. And maybe it not just on the person's behavior but also family wealth, living location, history, convictions of family members, and so on. Lots of things that are hard to manipulate or would take generations to do so.

If you are convicted of a crime even if you had this free money, then likely you are doing crime for fun and not out of necessity, so jail is the best place for you.

Cities may actually decline to convict because jailing people is more expensive, so maybe this would be a counter-effect.
Salaries for most of these Tech CEO's are irrelevant. This gesture from Cook is all about the PR and will have nearly zero (or zero) impact on his daily life and compensation from running Apple. It looks really good though, and makes for a great headline.

For these folks, it's all about the stock.

By making this salary cut into a PR event, Cook's long term compensation is likely to skyrocket as shareholders reward the company's direction.
Google's ad space is far more valuable than its cut in ads, I'm pretty sure.

But in any case if it's anything like the breakup of Ma Bell, stockholders would wind up with separate shares of both 1) the products and 2) the ads. Which one calls itself "Google" is just branding. (Although obviously the search engine would keep the brand.)
Me too, albeit an unlicensed one, and I truly wish I shared your enthusiasm.

I'm aligned with your perspective in principle, but in practice the low wage (in a high cost-of-living city) has been financially disastrous and has led me to reconsider the viability of continuing. I like problem solving and working with space, but I spend every day on the computer, completely alienated from the physical reality of what I am designing. 75%+ of the projects I've worked on will never be built.

I often think about switching to tech to close the gap between representation and output; if I am creating digital content all day, I would prefer that to be the end in itself. Much faster, too. Lack of feedback loops from unbuilt work, or projects that take 3-5 years to complete is a serious detriment to learning, progress, and innovation.

I suppose my reply is off-topic, given the title of the thread, but I am curious to know if my position is at all relatable, and if not, where your experience might differ. Is it really worth the sacrifice?
> it means you have enough control of the market to artificially affect/set the market price for something

Does it? Then why isn't every App Store's 30% developer fee a much more obvious monopoly?
To be fair, and I don't agree with this, the word monopoly appears in the complaint 66 times. The NYT is reporting the story, but the FTC is the one "misusing" the word.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vaed.53...
You'd judge a grown-ass adult based on... ...being a bit of a dick as a teenager?

Hoo boy.
I think that Robert Zubrin proposed an atomic engine to go to Mars early in the 1990', that would cut the travel time from one year to several weeks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Zubrin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_salt-water_rocket

An astronaut, Franklin Chang Diaz, proposed Vasimir, a ion engine that would take 39 days to go to Mars.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48912458

Zubrin criticized the Vasimir proposal:

https://spacenews.com/vasimr-hoax/

But it seems development on Vasimir is still ongoing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_Specific_Impulse_Magn...
So, like the already available VisionFive 2 (I received mine already), except a little faster, but way more expensive (we don't know how much exactly).

It doesn't have V, and we need hardware to work with V. Emulators can only get us this far.
For anyone who is wondering why the prison costs 560k/year a big portion of that is the cost per inmate quadrupled due to a dropping prison populations.
I use hckrnews.com and everyone else should too. Not seeing those ads is a nice side effect
You hade me until the “until”.
This was an instant buy for me for that reason. Tapbots has a long and well-earned reputation for being a great company. I'm so happy that they're bringing their expertise to Mastodon, and think it lends credibility to the whole fediverse. "Oh, there's even an official Tapbots client? Maybe I should get around to checking it out."
It's exacerbated by the rich heavily relying on cheap labour and fresh credit to keep wages low and the GDP growing.

Lots of companies rely on the Temporary Foreign Worker program to fill menial minimum-wage jobs, often paying those TFWs below minimum-wage and abusing them. Similarly, the student visa program is a backdoor for lots of companies (particularly delivery & logistics). I also used to work at a government-sponsored employment centre where I met hundreds of skilled new-immigrants who gave up everything to emigrate, only to arrive in Canada and realize they'd been deceived about their prospects (e.g. the barriers to recertification).

I am not against immigration — both my spouse and I are children of immigrants — but it's important to differentiate between reasonable immigration policies and excessive ones designed to prop up a failing system by constantly injecting new bodies. Canada's immigration system is the latter; it predominantly benefits the rich and nobody else.
Tim knows his employees are not stupid. That's why he hired them- they are smart, smart enough to know when they are being led to the shed out back. And Tim also know that that frightened cows produce bad milk. So he makes the smart move to keep his employees close, even at the expense of some short term loss, and as a bonus, he looks like a saint in comparison to all the other CEO's who shed their workers like dead weight.
Tesla Heat Pump
A Canonical dev in the replies offhandedly mentions that they read every one thoroughly whether its "3 or 30 pages" which is certainly an ask when you have people submitting an autobiographical novella as the first step in your interview process.
hckrnews.com is exactly what you are asking for, I use it exclusively
So if your mom got raped you want her to be imprisoned with the rapist in order to make sure he has a nice time?
Hardware lifecycle process may vary but it still needs to be accounted for.

The activation lock removal is hardly an obscure hack, this is a process failure. Good on Apple for making these machines take their secrets to the grave.
Guessing that's why OP qualified it with "more than"

Unless you graduated from HS by 1982, you can't say you've been out of high school for 40 years
Square peg, round hole. Has nothing to do with credit bureaus.
Are people not getting that this is a fun project and clearly tongue-in-cheek? Like, come on. The top comments in this thread are debunking gpt backend like this is some serious proposal.

Listen, you will lose your jobs to gpt-backend eventually, but not today. This is just a fun project today
What does "refreshing" even mean?

What would be refreshing is an adequate social safety net. Not mega rich getting slightly less megarich.
I would have used it to run Macromedia Director 7 but had to resort to running Windows 98 through UTM (qemu) because I'm on an M1 Mac.

Back in the day, I used it to run Halo: Combat Evolved for PC on my Ubuntu installation. Now I have no need for this, but Wine improved over the years to a point where the game actually ran pretty well. Apparently the 1.0.10 patch for the game from 2014 now has a Gold rating on WineHQ.
Thanks for sharing all these! I'm in total agreement with you that there's an insane amount of cool stuff and innovation happening in the OEM laptop/tablet/hybrid space.

But I'm still really concerned about the consistency of hibernation and sleep so I'm not taking a searingly hot machine out of my bag at 1% battery life. Or the weird quirks of some new hinge or keyboard design that I have to live with for 4+ years of owning a machine.

I'd honestly take half the specs and double the thickness/weight if it meant that my keyboard felt like a keyboard and that I can confidently close the lid at any time and re-open it back to whatever I was doing.

I don't _like_ Apple. But they can do that. And I don't even have to compromise on anything except using macOS (which I can tolerate).
So which side do Republicans fall on Section 230? For large corps?
In the United States, this is absolutely not true.

> The Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) forbids age discrimination against people who are age 40 or older. It does not protect workers under the age of 40, although some states have laws that protect younger workers from age discrimination. It is not illegal for an employer or other covered entity to favor an older worker over a younger one, even if both workers are age 40 or older.

https://www.eeoc.gov/age-discrimination
I believe the British Airways site still does something similar to this, or it did until very recently if it's been fixed. Add a password that is too long, it gets truncated and the truncated version saved with no warning or error.

It took me several password reset attempts to realise what was going on, as my literally just set and password manager-saved password didn't work.

I think in BA's case the password input also had a character limit on it, which is ultimately how I realised what was happening, even though there was no info anywhere that such a limit existed.
> the form is much more focused on "things that look good on paper"

What more could you ask for from a form?
As a company PagerDuty is negative in both Income and Cash Flow. Do you suggest they maintain velocity in the death spiral until ground contact?
Valve's interest is in selling the Steam Deck handheld, which is an Arch Linux PC that just defaults to a friendly console UI, playing Windows games transparently through Proton. It's probably the best example of average consumers using full-blown desktop Linux.
Proton is both a friendly fork of Wine + a wrapper around Wine + forks of libraries and tools used by both Wine & Proton. Some of the forks are more blessed & tested versions than forks.

Source is here: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton

Notice that includes a lot of git submodules; the big one is Wine, but it also includes forks of dependencies such as ffmpeg.
One previous job I had a part where our application was being used to track court fees and restitution. The anonymized (names & addresses were, the rest was not) data used in the development environment was heartbreaking.

Many of the fees are set by state legislators. If you got a $50 fine for "whatever", there would be close to $1,000 added in fees for misdemeanors (things you cannot be imprisoned for more than 365 days). Felonies (things that you can get more than 1 year in prison for) were not handled by this level of court.
All of their businesses that display ads could display ads from AdWords/DoubleClick, Facebook, Microsoft, and Amazon, just like any other website that hosts third party ads.
Think of it as an investment not a job. Plenty of people do startups and take zero salary early for the upside later on.
I call this "leveraging the open protocols". Very smart people wrote very details specs that other very smart people implemented. Leverage that for robustness, instead of fighting the sisyphean server management issues.

As far as hobbies go, self-hosting is very rewarding. But if a hobby is not the end goal, then don't do it yourself.
Microsoft Lays Off All Its VR, Mixed Reality, and HoloLens Employees: Report
"N/A" is far more succinct and creates an air of mystery.
I thought that labor was baked into the cost of the smoothie? Are you supposed to tip on a takeout order too since its the same work?
This is the only live one I manage to tune into on a regular basis.
In court, Elon Musk doubles down on 'driving factor' for 'funding secured' tweet
Do we have any programs that have good, replicated evidence they reduce recidivism?
All of what I mentioned (except maybe international user support) is table stakes for an alerting system regardless of whether the company size is 1 or 100,000. A system that works 99% of the time is useless because it is only really needed for the other 1%.
I don't think you understand the US political system in a nuanced or realistic fashion.
CEOs are too rich to ever have skin in the game. It's a meaningless exercise.

Tim Cook will never feel the pain of a layoff like someone at the genius bar.
> And absolutely nothing came of browser bundling in the US.

But that has much less to do with the merits of the case, and much more to do with the fact that just before any action could be taken, George W Bush was elected president and began our current trajectory toward unbridled corporate governance of America.
The AI is very smart and can't be gamed. It's a thought experiment, the AI is amazingly accurate. That neighbor earning $25k a year would rightfully be upset, minimum wage is a joke.
Yeah, also thought so, but here it says "and file:// URLs are also considered to have been delivered securely." (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Secure...). Am I missing something?
It's not quite the same thing if you take into account taxes. If tips are cash only and missing from the bill, the worker gets more money. There's no sales/VAT tax, no income tax, no social security tax and so on. So instead of getting something like €5, the worker gets €9. This is how things are most of the time in Romania.
It's interesting to note that the bare bones sites of Craig's List, Reddit and HN have some of the lowest costs and longest staying power. All content supplied by users and curated with care. (hello dang)
Yeah, the arrows could be a bit bigger, and have more gutter. I agree.
I try to think positively. It successfully landed on the beach in North Sentinel Island, where all the passengers and the crew still live happy lives away from these pesky newfangled life we call civilization.

edit: satellite data needs to be bogus though, so my theory makes perfect sense
There is a reason why anesthesiologists are paid well. Knocking someone out safely is not a joke.

(Not only in US where everything health-related involves big money, but also in the countries which underpay other healthcare professionals.)
A whole company of people dedicated to "Making Fetch Happen"?
As someone who generally enjoys using LaTeX, who spent several years maintaining a LaTeX CV and who switched to Scribus a couple of years ago, this is bang-on. The content–styling separation is very intuitive in Scribus (and, I assume, other DTP tools): define the bounds of your text boxes (and link them if required for your intended document layout), then edit the text in a seperate box and instantly see how it flows into the defined area(s).

Of course, most of the jobs I've applied for in recent years have required me to enter my experience section-by-section into a Web form, negating the purpose of the CV entirely. Once or twice I've seen tools that allow you to upload your CV PDF and then attempt to extract as much info from it as possible. It's never gone very well, so it does make me think that LaTeX vs DTP vs Word is a less pertinent question to debate than ‘how can I produce a CV that can best be automatically parsed’. Absent any sort of structured CV data standard, I assume that means using the most widely-used tool to produce it, i.e. Word.
Do we have any silver bullets? My understanding is most social services show very small effects once replicated.
Elephants Never Forget
Yeah, it's not cheap but there are a lot of places who don't manage their datadog bill at all because they either don't understand the pricing models like metric tag cardinality, or they use logs/APM/rum for something they should be using metrics for, or using metrics for something that should be logging etc etc.
When hosting technical interviews, I deliberately lead with this type of question before we get into high-effort questions. Many candidates will immediately reveal knowledge gaps which set the tone for the whole interview.

Frequently experienced candidates with interview practice will simply ramble for many minutes - listing extensive contributions in excessive detail. Unfortunately when this happens it’s usually pretty awkward for everyone.

The ideal candidate will answer this question very gracefully and enable us to proceed directly into problem solving questions.

Gotta agree with your point about good/bad interviewers. I want to add that good interviewers/interviewees know how to manage the “risk” of such open-ended questions leading to a pointless interview.
I am saddened that 50% of users are idiots enough to give their data away for free like that. We need PSAs about this...
Japan, a country famously known for lacking innovation?
Depends on your use case. Maybe simple rsync and cron would be viable.
When that gets implemented then we can reevaluate the complexity of the web.
Related:

Astro 1.0 – a web framework for building fast, content-focused websites - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32401159 - Aug 2022 (249 comments)
Irregardless of that fact, if enough people misuse a word or grammatical construct long enough, it becomes de facto correct