skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Current website says:

"Those experimental payloads have helped the company improve its overall latency, so now it can guarantee latency at under one hour (meaning a Swarm satellite passes overhead any given point on Earth at least once an hour)"

A lot of the use cases are interesting. There's e.g. automated weight tracking of cows in pastures as a use case.
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Same old song… We aren’t dumb pipe, we want a share of added value.

How this is not racket? Your customers are paying you for the service, that they are using whatever they like. If you cannot provide it, someone will.

Requesting content providers to subsidize your business is anticompetitive in some single provider case and cartel in industry wide
They substantially lower the costs of generating and distributing misinformation. They also enable use cases like individualized misinformation like never before.

I totally disagree with you.
> NJ was pretty bad; I had to wait for 2-3 minutes _at a crosswalk_ before I could cross because cars just wouldn't stop.

Grew up in NJ and just recently moved back. This checks out. It's pretty bad.

> At least the infrastructure was relatively good.

This is relative I suppose but we have a lot of stroads... I wouldn't say our infrastructure is good, though it depends on where in NJ I think.
Physical machines still needed many people to physically make them and run them.

This isn’t the same with thinking. Just look at how startups can have millions of customers and 20 employees.

Also last time we had mental labour to fall back on. This time we don’t.

It’s different this time.

Also most western countries which have given up on manufacturing are going to be worse hit because their jobs are more easily replaced.
It's a bit complicated, but heat is expressed in several ways: in the form of kinetic energy of a system (which is measured by a thermometer), and in the form of infrared radiation emitted by hot objects (which is measured through radiation).
This time I remembered enough to get to it. Other times I don’t and the website remains unvisited. Or the person asking for a recommendation gets one for the competing service whose URL I can recall.

If you’re going to be sarcastic you may not get many answers. If you’re not interested in other perspectives and instead wanted to make an assertion, a “Tell HN” might’ve been more appropriate.
This is awesome, thanks!!
You might be able to handwave some things in politics. They're either too old, too lazy, etc. They're just politicians trying to find a nice box to put everything into because otherwise you can't make laws. It's the fundamental problem with legislators that take a salary and are not volunteers for a short period. When you need people to justify their pay they start finding heuristics, no matter how awful, to create more laws.

The problem is the precedent, globally, of killing encryption is well documented. There is no good solution that doesn't harm everyone. Here in the states, the Clipper Chip [0] was the textbook example of politicians trying to legislate mathematics. You wouldn't even be able to do something like "give us a copy of your private keys" because then you'd go down the path of playing wackamole with every distribution, every slightly recompiled GnuPG, etc. It's an intractable problem. We, in the US, would've gone a long way by stripping Dorothy Denning's CS PhD from her [1] after her outspoken support of such measures. Instead she has received many awards for her "work" in the field of rights erosion.

The US seems to have settled on making attempts at Clipper 2.0 every decade or so. In the meantime encryption is considered a weapon legally which is how the DAs get their fill. Germany appears to have flat out opposed it...but it's only a matter of time. The EU will force them to bend the knee because historically they always have. It's a fantastic effort. Unfortunately, done by one of the biggest pushovers in Europe.

There's no hope for the technical among us. The people with power who do understand, the technocrats, are behind these efforts. The people that don't understand are behind these efforts. It's only the intractability of the problem that makes legislating it dangerous. Once someone clever enough makes it tractable there won't be encryption anymore. Pre-crime is the way the world has worked since 9/11 and encryption is #0 on the list of things to legislate to death. In the US, there are likely hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars being spent to store every last bit of communication in Utah for this eventuality.The EU has a similar program. Those tax dollars have to be justified somehow. So when you ask "who would support this"... just follow the money.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_E._Denning
Housing prices only matter if you're significantly changing your situation. Entering, exiting, upsizing, and downsizing.

Even then, entering and upsizing is generally a long term play where price differences are distributed.
I suppose yes, if you disregard the state changes at the recipient.

Also, from the point of view of the caller it can be considered just a function call.
SMT is synonym with multi-processing and applies to full cores as well as shared cores. AFAIK, there is no non-marketing term for Hyper-Threading, it's a very specific architecture.
I _thought_ I knew a lot about capital gains taxes until filing my own taxes this year.

After firmly boarding the tax-loss harvesting hype train, I had fallen prey to the intuitively appealing idea that short-term capital losses could offset gains from the sale of a rental property held for less than one year. It turns out that short-term gains from the sale of business property flow (Form 4797) directly to your Schedule 1, without an opportunity for Schedule D losses to offset them.

Now as a result I'm sitting on a 5-figure tax bill and 6-figure capital loss carryforward.
Yep. More boredom is the answer. Bored teens in the past created punk. Today teens are too busy to even play all the games in their Steam library.

Phones aren't even the problem if you use them well. The problem is the apps that try to make you "engaged".
They can be shorter.

"I am sure some postcodes only contain one house number, in which case you could use just the postcode as your address, which would be quite cool. "

Indeed.

There are 55,540 full postcodes in England and Wales that contain only one household.

This would mean you could just send the letter to the postcode itself.

Source: https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/transparencyandgovernance/fre...
I don't get the jump to conclusions (i.e. this entire opinion). Tesla is far ahead as the king of the EV market. Short of cracking FSD, the only news they will have is "bad news" or "no news".
Not for a long time. I think LLMs can be as good as humans at coding and humans will still have coding jobs. Business people have to trust that the system being built is upto spec, that it will not break randomly because the machine took some instruction too literally, and more importantly, when shit hits the fan, they need actual bodies in the war room.

Will there be as many jobs as there are now? No idea but my guess is even if there is a shrinking of the market, AI will not be anywhere near the top cause. It will be more mundane reasons like the market itself stabilizing/shrinking, commodification of software skills etc. Said another way, the world does not need 1 million distributed systems experts. With or without LLMs, the bubble will pop someday and a lot of them are going to be out of work.
Yeah.

The great wealth transfer, the estate of dying boomers transferring to their grandchildren, is only just starting. It's not going to be a windfall, it's going to completely flood into real estate. It's basically what happened in the more densely populated Western European countries already, a ratchet up. Americans are in for a rude awakening.
Reminds me of http://motherfuckingwebsite.com and http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com

But the key, underlying point to ALL this stuff is that you do NOT NEED TO WORRY ABOUT PRESENTATION until you have the CONTENT.

A huge temptation is to spend hours and hours tweaking the presentation as a way of avoiding actually creating the content; this is the real danger.

(should mention https://thebestmotherfucking.website of course)
Fine, but that Quariplegic person shouldn't then be the gate that opens the door for this kind of experimentation to happen on all manner of desperate people, especially those on the steep lower tail of capitalism
You're probably thinking of SMP or CMP? SMT is specifically about multiple threads on a core.
In a forum like this, though, it's appropriate. Does anyone really want to wade through a bunch of replies to a comment that just say "I agree" without adding anything?

That said, I'm guilty of the occasional "I agree" reply like that, and it typically gets downvoted -- as it should.
> I left with the impression that Florida would be under water by now unless we made massive corrections in path.

Yes, and those were absolutely lies then. And they knew it. No one but the people selling a tax plan seriously said that stuff.

It’s silly in retrospect.
Indeed; and I was talking about the Javascript "object model" as it existed at the time, not the ES5 thing that adds classes back in after we failed to teach JS developers what "this" is. Those little dynamic effects were, after all, working almost exclusively with the Document Object Model.
Show HN: Conversation card game with endless AI-generated conversation starters
Hi! I just finished the proof-of-concept version of the game and would love to get some feedback. I love conversation games but I don't like that you know all the cards after some time and then they lose their appeal. This conversation card game will keep generating new cards using AI :)

Some tips for playing:

* You need to create an account and log in to get the AI experience

* After you click "Like" on 20 cards the next cards will be a 50/50 mix of pre-existing cards and generated cards.

* The generated cards will be based on the cards you liked, if there is little variation in those cards all new cards will also show little variation
Why is a citation needed for something that's logically obvious? Why do we need to provide links to an "expert" telling us 3+3=6 when we can just use a calculator?
Oh definitely! Sending/receiving large packages used to be rare. Mail ordering has existed for a while, but didn't really explode to replace nearly all of retail until the rise of webshops.

And I've seen lots of discussions about whether it's wasteful to have things delivered to your door instead of buying it at a central shop, or that it's actually efficient to have a single van deliver all of that stuff instead of having everybody get in their own car to drive to the shop. I guess it depends on whether you need a car to go to the shop or not.

In any case, there's lots of experimentation with ever larger cargo bikes in order to try to keep city deliveries by bike. Still, we do get a lot of delivery vans in our street.
Somewhat subtle, but: Yes and No.

I'd say HTML for itself just gives us a way to give meaning or imply how something should be styled "headline of first order". In the end it's a markup language, not some magic styling tool.

How it is actually styled (in absence of CSS) is in the hands of the default rendering of your browser. That might very well be a very bad rendering, due to lack of knowledge/time/engagement of the people building/maintaining that renderer.

Also those renderes might come from a time and system where technical limitations where different, markup was different, lots of things were very different.

So I don't think we should expect HTML alone to "look nice" or work well in regards of readability.
Assuming all other factors are almost identical, how would you want to prioritise amongst similarly qualified staff members?
Thank you for the feedback. I will build this for you.
> "This website used to be hosted by asmallorange. When I became dissatisfied, all I had to do was to open an account on hostgator, upload my html files, and change the DNS entry"

At the risk of being pendantic, asmallorange and hostgator are owned by the same entity[0].

That said, I like the premise of just writing and producing content and not necessarily worrying about setting up tooling. I think devs, and "geeks" in general, tend to enjoy tinkering with tooling, but it can be daunting for the less tech savvy. I suppose that's why things like Wordpress.com exist.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endurance_International_Group
Maybe this is why I thought Maddeline Madden from Wheel of Time was South Indian when I saw her, as I hadn't paid attention to cast names, only to discover she's Australian Aboriginal
That is legitimately spectacular.
Australia’s Superannuation concept is a reasonable model imho.

Not only must employer contributions be mandated, but it must be very hard to get access to the funds before retirement. Otherwise, they’re just cashed out. You also have to have strong guardrails around fees and fiduciaries so it’s not a big pot of money for finance to leach off of.

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

Also agree with Retric’s sibling comment.
I paid my bills for many years with music production, I made LOTS of music and I must say that tool could be a curse and a blessing.

But I can't avoid the feeling that we gonna get replaced, really really soon.
Presumably, you aren't doing anything special in those ARM builds, so you can use an x86 build just as easily (or a non-Amazon ARM chip) depending on cost.
Money doesn't have to come from anywhere - see the record levels of corporate UBI that have been handed out in the form of quantitative easing for the last few decades, PPP 'loans', and tax hacks formatted to save these entities money. There isn't some bag that money comes out of and once you run out of it it's all gone.

There are certainly consequences to be paid when you do that, but so far we seem fine with those consequences when they benefit the most powerful among us.
This seems like an unnecessary stereotype to state in a comment on Hacker News.
"Blind ourselves to our own privilege"

I'm gonna be the asshole here, the article clearly states she adopted 3 children. Now because it isn't a particularly good article we don't know if maybe she adopted her nieces or nephew or whatever, but probably not(based on the video).

That decision alone is a very big red flag that (coupled with the ominous "I have a live-for-now philosophy") that we are looking at a person that made some questionable decisions in her life.
Not sure how anything I said contradicts what you said, as I'm not even talking about "not dancing in a minefield." I am more so talking about this:

> I am currently working with a designer, on an app. He can't believe how quickly I'm implementing his vision.

That's good, because my point is that most people don't even try building their own products yet somehow want to have a successful company.
Did sites proposed to show you a list of hot singles in your postal code?
You've never found McDonalds of unknown age under the seat of your car?
I have very bad experience trying to run windows VSTs on Linux with wine - since then (2011) i switched to windows. Is it better now?
Strava CEO quits AGAIN after laying off 15% of its workforce
I'm pretty sure this will work 95% of the time or more.

Most mail is sorted automatically in the UK, and I think the automatic sort machines would understand this (they look for a postcode, and can understand handwriting).
They do not need the trucks to work in the most extreme cold and rural routes. A lot of low hanging fruit in electrifying easy targets: urban delivery in warmer climates. For instance, a delivery truck in LA might only ever go tens of miles per day and never see cold weather. At the scale of USPS, this could bee hundreds of thousands of trucks.
I used to live across an abandoned building that was falling apart; one day I forced the door to have a look inside (the place was already beyond salvage) and there was all sorts of stuff inside; some furniture, bunch of magazines and newspapers, empty bottles. Today's refuse, tomorrow's archaeology. Lots of boring mundane stuff gets interesting hundreds of years in the future.

Or the owner burned the place down after a tourist from a faraway land sold him a polly sea for some inn sewer ants.
Theres a term for this kinda of "supply and demand" profiteering and its called price gouging and its explicitly illegal in many states so in times of emergency so you aren't suddenly getting absurd %1000 percent up charges buying basic necessities before a hurricane.

https://www.ncsl.org/financial-services/price-gouging-state-....
I always try to maximise postal information rather than minimise, to reduce chance of error, given in my case I have many opportunities for people to make mistakes, e.g.:

- I have someone with the same first name and same last name at the same house number on the adjacent street.

- There is another street with the same name in the same city (although it is a different postcode).

- There was someone with the same surname and first initial in another flat in my block.

On that last point, it has been a particular bone of contention that the Post Office insist on identical postal addresses in their Postcode Address File (PAF) for different flats which share the same letter box. I always specify my flat number where I can to ensure I am uniquely identified (which is important for identity documents, financial information, insurance etc.), but in systems which use the PAF with no manual override I can't, which has led to all sorts of issues over the years, e.g.

- Unable to transfer an ISA because my old and new details didn't match.

- Had a former neighbour successfully set up a postal redirect for all flats in the block not just their own, meaning all my post, including bills, bank statements, a renewed driving licence which I happened to apply for at the time, basically everything you'd need for comprehensive identity theft, was redirected to someone else for several months with no-one able to do anything about it.

Apparently the only (absurd) workaround to get a unique entry in the PAF would be to physically install another letterbox in the same door (leading to the same floor).
"Working a job?"

What do you think the readers of this space do? What is your vision of this "non-working" hacker news reader? I legitimately can't imagine anything here but a 90's era stereotype.
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It’s not UBI but Social Security is filling that role for the disabled and elderly.
Cloud attack pivoted from K8s to Lambda, pulled IAM keys from Terraform
Unrelated, but this blog is difficult to read for a few reasons: bold black text highlighted with a gray background is too intense, line height is too small if they insist on using the highlighting, fully justified text for no reason.

Also, the navbar at the top of the page might as well be invisible.
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that sounds like iron oxidizing bacteria, did it look like this?:
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Most journals completely re-do the layout in some desktop publishing software and only copy over the text and figures. It is a fair bit of work to make everything consistent, for example formulas and references. I have only seen author-submitted PDFs in very low-cost publications, for example some conference proceedings.
> And then wages stagnated

This was the problem, not lack of defined benefit pensions. With the advent of near zero cost target date retirement funds and equity and bond index funds, there is no need to be beholden to one employer and have to trust the pension plan
trustees with your retirement.

Best case scenario is the trustees invest in the same index funds you would, and worst case is they misappropriate the funds or take wild risks. So why not cut out the unnecessary middleman?

If you really want an annuity, then buy it from an actually regulated insurance company, rather than a DB pension plan that is doing who knows what.
Leadership as a Decision rather than Skill or Ability
Why would an EV stop at a gas station? If you need a road snack, you can stop at the local grocery store, for a better selection and better prices.
Phones are not the problem. Social media is.

Just don't install twitter or Facebook or whatever, and use the phone as normal. You do not need to use Instagram or tiktok or whatever to use a phone.
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These models are uncontrollable because they're simple black box models. It's not clear to me that the kind of approach that would lead to human-level intelligence would necessarily be as opaque, because -- given the limited amount of training data -- the models involved would require more predefined structure.

I'm not concerned, absent significant advances in computing power far beyond the current trajectory.
Deno is an alternative to node and npm. You can have a Deno http server serving content to a browser. But the browser won't care how the server runs, as long as it can speak HTTP.

You can also use Deno to run your bundling tools, but again, what happens in Deno stays in Deno and does not reach the browser.
Remember the State Department asking Twitter to delay maintenance to not interrupt the Green Revolution? Boy would Congress be pissed about that if the shoe was on the other foot.
It only targets big "platform providers" not startups. It even levels the playing field for those startups. People get so ideologically tangled that they just knee jerk.
It sounds nice in practice but there are desperate people out there. A strike provides those people with opportunities. Prisoner's dillema keeps them from sacrificing themselves for a union that sees them as the out-group.
> the utterly pointless "door open" chiming sound

Ha, that's a good example. My neighbor has a new F150 and I can tell every time he gets out of it to run back in the house to get something he forgot. Ford's chimes have been a meme for many years, and the newest ones are the best yet. And by 'best' I mean somehow musical and pleasant but also terribly irritating.
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I don't think I can agree.

OO feels like a tax, where payment is more coupling and layers of indirection in the codebase (and this is the happy case with good OO practices) but no benefits out the other side.

Stepping back, an important set of question to ask when introducing any abstraction into a codebase is "What does it get me? What does it cost? Is what it gets me worth the costs?". OO says implicitly says "objects are always worth the cost" and I just haven't found that to be true.

(keeping the metaphor going, this is obviously not so great a tax it's going to kill companies, hugely successful companies the world over pay it with out issue, but it irks me!)