skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might be right that it is ripe for lawsuits, but a properly designed low distraction overlay seems much better than what most people currently do, which is alternate between looking at their phone and the road.
What fields do you see this in? I read a lot of social science-y academic articles for research for a nonfiction book I’m writing, and I would be very frustrated if a date wasn’t included at the front of the article.

Though I’m not sure if I’ve been lulled into a fall sense of security by finding the date on the cover sheet of the PDF (prepended by the article’s publisher/distributer, I imagine).

In no way am I disagreeing with you, more sharing the fact that I’d be surprised and frustrated to come across this omission. Author and publishing date are arguably more important than the title, in my opinion - which now that I think about it is probably why these are the metadata we use to index citations.
Any ANY website that needs an accurate location of me is a crap website.

There’s pretty much no reason why 99.999% of any apps in existence need my precise location.

It’s not broken at all.
I think synchronized bookmarks/history, which didn't exist back then, would be reason enough for many people to switch. So maybe more like 1%. ;)
It has generated some controversy, but one of the Ars Technica car editors has been saying for a bit now that every car is starting to be a "computer on wheels" and EVs are especially a "computer on wheels". With an EV even things like "driving feel" are less the domain of mechanical engineering and more the domain of firmware-described software curves. Software stability and update processes matter a whole lot more for EVs (especially if that sort of firmware that defines acceleration modes/curves or in this case battery management is itself updatable). The software starts to matter a great deal more than just how it mechanically drives in a test drive.
This is super interesting. I am particularly curious whether the resultant series correlates with any other know series arising in other areas...
So the tactic is stock market manipulation and PR?

You can't do it, but you can fool idiots on the internet that you can!
Things work but all too often the page renders differently. On top of that Safari only supports the part of web standards Apple agrees with. It may look like Safari supports something and then you get into it and they support like 10% of the standard, or the full standard but only on Tuesdays. It is rather annoying.
As I understand it in most of the United States zoning is controlled by City governments which are under democratic control. If enough of the people didn't want the zoning, the zoning wouldn't be happening.
not if you smoke weed
FYI the assistant is currently working for pennies per second. It costs a few cents of compute (I think including training) to respond to the average query. There are a few orders of magnitude to go.
Alright, here's my anecdote in kind.

I biked for over a decade without incident for leisure.

Then I started bicycle commuting. Within one year I had not one but two occasions where I was knocked unconscious by angry rush hour drivers. I no longer could plan my destination but rather had to fight the entirety of traffic trying to get downtown at the same time at once. I still have trouble with one arm and the other time I believe I got a concussion after the driver destroyed my bike hitting me broadside and drove off.

I have about 3-4 years of biking as only transport including working as a full time professional bike messenger. I have never been hurt outside of rush hour. I have never been hurt on a planned leisure route. Only when I cannot pick the destination.

The hostility in my experience is like 10x dealing with angry to/from work rush-hour traffic headed to a dense job-rich area, especially with folks like soccer moms desperate to pick up their kiddy from daycare in time, etc.
Agreed. And they know it's important because thier references usually includes the dates of the works cited.
> People prefer Electron because it gives them a consistent environment across operating systems

People don’t prefer an application that takes up more memory, drains battery life and that’s not consistent with their other apps. Developers may prefer it.

How many users are switching back and forth between Windows and Macs?

The same applies in the other direction. When I was a Windows user, I hated the iTunes interface because it felt like a bad Mac port. I was a former Mac (and current) Mac user so I could tell.

Even before that, the Windows QuickTime Player felt like a bad port.
OP replied in case you didn't see it: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/177152.Dan_Carlin_s_Hard...
I haven't seen the show nor the segment in question, but won't this only serve to amplify the popularity of the show instead of mute it?
As a user, if I am asking this question to a search engine, I definitely do not expect to need to fact-check the results.

And this stance seriously hasn't bitten you in your life or career to date?
Wow! 28 cars dumping onto a tiny road. Hard to see this idea ending well...

https://www.google.com/maps/place/11511+Summit+Wood+Rd,+Los+...
I'm convinced that's more that games were very overpriced for a long time. Or at least they were expensive because sales were generally lower. Games used to be ridiculously expensive.

Big publishers like EA, Activision, Take Two, etc. All still made/make killer profits on games. Development costs more today, but games are also selling a lot more plus there's other revenue streams like microtransactions and subscriptions. They really aren't struggling for cash.

Nintendo has the right idea. They just basically never drop the price of their games. Whereas most other publisher's reduce prices by 50% within just a month or two. Big games often have long tails.
I fond it to be pretty buggy, often the address bar will disappear and not come back when scrolling. Also they really need to add pull to refresh.
The problem is that it's easy (very easy) to get stuck in local maxima with regards to happiness. Once I'm in the flow of programming, it's definitely more fun than whatever fidget videogame I'm playing while watching Netflix. But getting started is significantly more work, so I procrastinate to the point of not doing it at all. Or like how having an athletic (and thus conventionally attractive) body type opens up far more oppurtunities for greater happiness than being more rotund, but achieving it requires an ongoing sacrifice of short-term gratification (eating less, working out).

In a fantastic quote from Antony Bourdain: "I understand there's a guy inside me who wants to lay in bed, smoke weed all day, and watch cartoons and old movies. My whole life is a series of stratagems to avoid, and outwit, that guy."
I wonder if and, in case, how these new ai-powered search engines are going to change SEO status quo.
At the moment, i think, this is only used to better understand user input, but could it be trained to extract content from text in a better way than we do today?
Good to hear, but it's still a huge stretch to call skills capital - what does any of us gain by redefining words in free conversation?

When arguing for or against communism (as is the theme of the article and thread) we need at least to have some common understanding of what a word means. "Capital" is generally understood as exclusive ownership.

> In the sense that most of their pay is return on capital, not "labor"

No, most workers earn their pay from labour. Applying your skills is still labour.

I think the pandemic was a happening that made more people than ever realize they can and should change their life course to better suit their needs. So many people are changing careers to get a better return on their skills and effort. There are whole industries now that are starting to have a hard time getting enough labour, because they can't find anybody willing to be exploited even short time. And sometimes that's not deliberately by the individual business owner, some sectors are just not lucrative enough to continue - unless they change profoundly.
The distinguishing factor I've seen is servant leadership [1].

They believe that supporting and developing their people is their main job. Execution is just a prerequisite to being able to do the rest.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servant_leadership
> If these projects are important, why can't they be funded directly via city and state taxes? If I want safer roads, I can call up my state rep, who is much more likely to listen to me than my congressman or senator.

Your state rep can listen all they want but they won't have the means.
The designer mantra as I learned it was “Get it done. Make it beautiful.“

Designers will futz with kerning or whatever for hours.
This all assumes it’s even a good idea. Google is always extremely careful with their brand. We harp on them for canceling projects but to most people google is a search engine. And yes the quality of results has steadily declined for a long time, but deploying a large language model in google search has the potential to cause serious negative outcomes unlike slowly degrading search results.

I really don’t see it as a race, which presumes that moving first is an advantage. OpenAI is building their brand and wants to be known as an AI company, so it makes sense to release early versions of their system. Google is a well established company that can easily deploy this technology when they think it’s ready and eclipse OpenAI in users overnight. But even then it’s not about having the most users, it’s about building a new platform for the next 10+ years of search. Google is already the default. They can take their time and still do just fine.
I felt the same way about the gym. Now I go 3-4 times a week and are in great shape.

There's a few things I've optimized that make it real easy and sticky as a habit:

1. No cardio. I'd always procrastinate going to the gym because I'd always row or run on a treadmill to "warm up" before lifting. I dropped the requirement to "warm up" and just get straight into lifting. This was probably the single most impactful change that made me go more.

2. Wear clothes to work that I can go to the gym in. Have a few sets of pants that are gym-ready, wear a t-shift, wear shoes that can be used at the gym. This removes another element of friction "damn, I have to go change, etc." Now I just walk in, drop my bag, and start lifting.

3. Use Strong App with 3 x different workouts I created myself and have iterated on over time. Can't recommend this app any more strongly (pun not intended). I couldn't find a workout app that fitted how I wanted to track my progress and sets. I sat down and wrote PRD for the perfect workout app. I then stumbled upon Strong, and it satisfied all the reqs in the PRD + many more useful features.
The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) recommends a speed study, setting the posted speed limit to the nearest 5 mph mark of the 85th percentile of observed speed. Safety is not the primary design consideration when it comes to roads in the US.
Why does it matter whether project is shipped or not? I work for money. I don't have income cut from this project. Whether it's shipped or not is outside of my interest. All that matters is whether it's good enough to ship.

I'd even say that shipped projects usually are less interesting because they're filled with mundane but necessary tasks and bugs, dragged by compatibility.
One other possibly is due to the lower density in many areas.

For the higher density cities, cost is a major factor. I remember seeing a study or article comparing cost and time to build a subway in the US vs a European country. If I remember correctly, it tooks years longer and cost tens of millions more for a similar route even adjusted for local cost differences.

I would like additonal funding for many things. I would first like to explore efficient use of the money we do have in order to make it all more effective.
Doesn't really tell us anything. It's a lot easier to port an engine vs writing a new one from scratch, especially if the new system is also just an ARM64 processor with an NVIDIA GPU.
AI-Generated 'Seinfeld' Show Banned on Twitch After Transphobic Standup Bit
I wish xmpp would be as wide spread as matrix. It is so much more lightweight (prosody vs synapse) and doesn't make requests to anything else than the people i chat with.
That makes absolutely no difference to my point.

"Just use a" implies that it's easy as picking it up and using it.

The fact that a funnel has to be bought and brought into the equation means it's not as easy as just [using] a water bottle.

Please, next time your wife needs to go to the bathroom, give her a water bottle and tell her to just use it. It's ok, someone said it's just that easy.
And probably a fair number asked "what is this weird bent line thing and what does it have to do with searching the internet?"
I suspect the point was more that those who write articles like this one are borrowing heavily from communist ideas. If you aren't a communist, there's a good chance that you don't think that skills are capital and the rebuttal was along those lines.
Indeed it may be a shrewd business decision to effectively cut prices. But no other industry is expected to cut prices due to economies of scale.
Office towers above a certain height tend to be excessively wasteful, needing significantly more resources to build and have big energy footprints: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/jul/11/skyscra...

The point is that San Jose might be getting it right with more modest skyscrapers than San Francisco. 91m is not that low, and could accommodate a fairly decent downtown sector.
There’s been a bigger push towards the whole Indy/kickstarter thing, several developers in the past year slipped out from under their publishers to take control and let fans directly fund their games.

Otherwise that was a selling point of nfts. Having a digital supply chain that could trace assets back to a creator for compensation. Before the market imploded, many game companies were jumping in to try and rush out nft projects to squeeze people
Public exposure convictions/registration from people who are innocently peeing somewhere they shouldn't is vanishingly rare. As in, I've never seen a report of a conviction that I found credible, but if I did, I'd bet lots of money that you couldn't find a second one. What I HAVE found is lots of people on the registry for indecent exposure who tell their friends "I was just peeing in alley, I swear", but I do not count those as credible.
Game devs are the worst paid devs of any industry.

Japanese salarymen are worse paid than FTEs in almost any highly developed economy.

I wouldn't really expect that after this raise, Nintendo employees end up being paid particularly well.
I'm sure but housing situation is out of control. Paying 2K a month for a 1 bedroom apartment where your roommates are mice and roaches.
I biked and bussed to work for years via a transit center which was lovely, but my new job is local and a bike was just plain unsafe. I almost was hit by an oblivious car or malicious truck (seriously I was a bicycle doing 10 over the speed limit, theres no need to blow a diesel cloud at me just so they know they are faster...) every single day.

Without separate bike lanes like I had doing a more normal commute to the city, hecken nope! I love my EV.
It's good to work for money, but even better if you can work on something meaningful, too.
Three quarters of highway and road spending is done by state and local government [0]. I'd be interested in seeing if rural spending has a higher ratio of federal spending than urban spending, but unless data is provided I will doubt your claim.

[0] https://www.urban.org/policy-centers/cross-center-initiative...
This is going to be so fun to watch
AAA video games have been jumping on the microtransactions bandwagon. Raising the entry price may not make financial sense anymore.
safari has been implementing new spec faster than firefox in some cases! they’ve really gotten their act together
I seem to recall that this was supposed to be a reason Elon didn’t want Twitter.
I don’t buy Samsung anything anymore. Everything I have owned that is Samsung—TVs, computer hardware, kitchen appliances, etc.—has broken in some way within a year or two. Usually not so much that it is unusable, but in a way that a core functionality simply does not work.
Agree, sometimes it's fun and relaxing to have really clear, well-defined goals to work towards.
Same; I saw an interview with Steve Jobs in the 80s or 90s where he used it. I was surprised.
American Express is a US-centric company, their rest of world market penetratiom and acceptance rates are much lower than in the USA.

Your use case isn't large enough to be a priority to American Express.
I still do not see how this makes any logical sense for Google.

If:

>Short term profits over long term profits are favored by Wall Street.

Then: Why did they spend so much money inventing tech that so far has pretty much only allowed Microsoft to take money out of their pockets?

I’m genuinely trying to figure out a perspective where Google doesn’t look like a clown car.
A better idea is not to use “web technologies” to create a native app
You can install both Firefox and Chrome plugins in the Orion browser on iOS
> if your data can fit into RAM, what exactly are we talking about Big Data for?

That's a fantastic point, and I keep mentioning the COST paper to anyone who cares:

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/hotos15/hotos...
Working for someone else's company means you are a tool to generate profit. That does not mean you cannot enjoy it, and your team, and even make some friends. Still it is vital to understand the business itself is not a family. Companies that pretend to be families seek to build stockholm syndrome which will make you unwilling to look for a better deal for your talent.

It also makes it hurt more when you are laid off and the illusion is broken.

You only ever work for yourself. A single employer means you have a single client. It also means you only have one source of income. That is always risky, because work done for others is always temporary. Honestly full time employment is way way -more- risky than being an independent contractor with a few small predictable retainer contracts.

Also key to remember is that no matter how rewarding and interesting the work is you will eventually lose access to that too unless you fought hard enough for it to be open source.
Probably, market growth has sustained it. I do expect it will saturate at some point, but it's not clear to me that has happened yet. Though the growth of the market has been non-constant—probably sigmoid-ish, and it is certainly on the decline now.
In a larger sense, it's a challenge to throw away stuff, just as it's difficult to trim big data.

As I reach retirement, our attic, bookshelves, and cabinets must be trimmed -- and each item requires attention and a decision.

Some things in the attic are obvious liabilities (what to do with a mercury barometer? A radium dial pocket watch? Old electronics?) Disposing of other stuff requires time, insight, and a sense of the future (should we keep those fingerpainted scribbles from when the kids were 3? How about those cheesy trophies from chess club? Computer books from the 1970's? Betamax home movies? Record albums?)
I think my read for the reasoning is more like ‘meta made managers out of ICs in expectation of continued hiring. Hiring is not expected to continue so much so now they need fewer future managers enough to have some managers go to being ICs’
While I understand her worries, isn't it a bit too early to speak out publicly about this even before she talked to the company itself and before the new office opened? If she has important reasons why she can't work from an office, they just might accept that and make an exception for her?
You seem to be the one who is uninformed, considering you've never heard the term IC.

Yes, everyone knows there are two tech giants based in Seattle. What this person was saying is that other large companies have also opened/grown Seattle offices in the past decade and vice versa, which has caused usage of corporate vocabulary to merge.

Maybe you should reflect on the fact that you don't seem to understand what people in this thread are talking about and stop acting like you do.
so a blue-green deployment for docker-compose, neat
We had someone try to use hundreds of stolen credit cards on our nonprofit's donation form to test them. What a nightmare! I really hope these fees don't get charged to nonprofits.
You got it fam. https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/complete-guide-grid/
If Apple wants to position WebKit as an important independent implementation of web standards it needs to run on more than just Apple hardware. I shouldn’t have to own a Mac an an iPhone to test my code on Safari.
And digital cameras were a worse business model than film.

If someone is going to do it - even though it might be a worse business model - it might as well be you.

But yeah, some of the chat responses will have to be ads. How they handle it will be key.
North American goods actually make most of their way through water and rail but the "final mile" costs are much higher and therefore still significant. In places like Africa this effect is probably more magnified as rail system is far more limited and you must drive from the port.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squircle
> ... Google could overreact and launch a half-baked product

There's very low fraction of Google products that were sufficiently baked on release and just a few that weren't abandoned and killed after their half-baked release.
There are issues other than just speed, but it's not a matter of bad decisions, unless you mean bad planning decisions. The autobahn is a great example: it might be really fast, but how many pedestrians ever have to cross it? How many entrances and exists are you finding per mile? The autobahn is pretty safe, so the speeds can be high. In a similar fashion, pedestrian deaths are rare in US highways, because it's unlikely you are going to find a pedestrian in the highway.

But compare this to, say, any of the deadliest roads in the US. They all have a pedestrian use case: People need to cross them. And yet, their lanes are as wide as highway lanes, are often at least 4, if not 8 lanes across, and so straight that, once you take away pedestrians and traffic, the design feels like an autobahn. They are often rated as 40mph streets, where people might do 50 or 60. A street like that will kill people if they try to cross, as many forms of failure lead to a 4000 pound vehicle going fast colliding the pedestrian, and that's often fatal. If there is a real pedestrian use case for the street, either the pedestrians need an easy way to just never step on the asphalt, or affordances that lower the risk need to be added in.

Again, basically every lethal mile of road in America has the same design characteristics and use cases, which aren't shared by safer roads. So it's not that no road can let you do 60mph: It's that too many American roads let you do at least 40, while pedestrians have to cross them. You might as well say that deaths in a very narrow bridge with spikes at the bottom is a matter of lack of education in funambulism.
Enterprise value is market cap + debt.
Most people that live in a HCOL city cannot just move to a LCOL city and get paid the same - you think they've never considered that?

The point of using the national average is that we can compare it to other careers. If we compare game devs to other software development positions they get paid significantly less on average. The BLS puts software engineers at an average of $109k for 2021 (couldn't find 2022 stats, not sure if they exist yet?)[1]. That means game devs make 20+% less on average compared to their non-game counterparts.

1: https://www.bls.gov/ooh/Computer-and-Information-Technology/...