skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've noticed Bunnings (like Home Depot, but in Australia) adding "Marketplace" listings for non-store things to their website. I assume that there's either an internal push to become more like Amazon, or consultants pitch this approach to them and it's hard to resist.

I wonder what the numbers are for supermarkets and the way they prioritise shelf placements? A friend had a big contract recently going around and hi-res photographing shelf-positioning in a massive supermarket chain. Every aisle. And then eye-scanning tests and analysis on legibility meant it was all used to upsell brands fighting for premium positioning.
The retail and ads portions here seem inextricably linked. It does not seem possible to treat those as separate things.

What's more, if you tell amazon "no more retail ads", surely they can just do what normal stores do, and charge a slotting fee (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slotting_fee) instead.

If right now the first 10 results on amazon.com for "mattress" are all ads because those companies paid $1000 to be advertised first, how is that meaningfully different from amazon only carrying 10 mattresses at all, and instead of charging ad fees, charging a $1000 slotting fee to the mattress companies?

I am not particularly arguing for or against anything, just speculating that breaking it up would, in practice, be hard. Perhaps some other regulatory action would work better.
Doesn't Z still own a controlling amount of voting shares?
Am I the only one shocked their commercial legal contract systems had zero way to trace that back, even with track changes from an old contract version with their name or approval logged somewhere?
Yes, the question of self-determination is almost always forgotten.
> But if means of production that don't require workers to operate them become dominant

if this happens, then production of the goods become even cheaper than before. Therefore, the availability becomes higher, and therefore, those who are not redundant would become richer, as they can now afford more, or pay less for what they consume, leaving extra for luxuries.

This would generate demand for new goods/services, which become new opportunities for those who have become redundant. And the cycle continues, until one day, every possible piece of work to be done is automated (ala, star trek).
I will say what I feel like I say whenever this comes up: Discord could contribute to a solution here, even partially, by making Discord Forums search indexable. It would (theoretically) help with the "has my question been answered before" and it would (theoretically) make (some) archival efforts simpler.
That's why I mentioned "incoherent and probably useless other tools". Apparently, they launched some sort of no-code tool for stringing APIs together but still not ready with their GraphQL client.

For reference, another company that sells developer tools, JetBrains, has around 2000 employees.
I like Jira. I'm not a SWE, different kind of engineer.
Who does, besides the Taiwanese?
I wish the `@mention` `!mention` distinction become more widely used. I'm looking forward to checking out Linen once I find a group using it.
TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access) isn't a thing anymore.
Not the best option honestly, a lot of services offer a crippled experience through the browser or on desktop OSs in general. Not to mention HDMI copy protection and the ever-evolving requirements to circumvent it.

For the moment I'm happy with my Apple TV and Plex/Jellyfin, but the situation feels a bit precarious.
Plot twist: the layoffs are managed in Jira and the Jira admins spend so much time fiddling with Jira settings that they never get around to actually firing anyone.
Found that the quality of content in the auth space was really poor so decided to create a single content hub. There are ~30 different guides in there now and I want to create a bunch more but would appreciate some requests.

Feedback on the design of the content hub and quality of the content would be awesome too. To some extent, it had to be designed for SEO (we're trying to compete with monoliths like Auth0 and Okta), but I'd love to turn it into a super valuable place for developers to access auth related content.

I'm also going to create some more for our future products (Feature flags coming this month, billing in q3 hopefully) and a more general one for SaaS founders.

It's turned into a bit of a passion project for me so hopefully you enjoy
What I want from a streaming box: I click a button, it wakes up, I can play whatever I want including stuff I downloaded (Plex). This is exactly what the Apple TV gives me.

What I don't want from a streaming box: Install updates, have a bulky laptop stand next to my tv, install an ad blocker, have a browser, add dongles to then use some control with many buttons.
At least from my recollection, commercial rail has an incredibly high amount of regulation and union involvement.
Which means a minimum 2 person onboard requirement.
I can’t imagine it being an easy market to break into, despite all the technology being there.
Wabtec, the locomotive giant, today has TripOptimizer which is smart cruise control, which might be all you really need for most situations.
Barring release of sand and operation in the rail yard.
The better way than to waste everyone's time with comments like this is to start a company that competes. I bet you don't get very far. If you do, good for you, maybe you'll have a company in 20 years that people on hacker news says "Keeping a shitty company alive with bad management in place just for the workers isn't good for the market in general." while you roll in your gold sheets at night.
> maintain a ring-buffer that listens for its "wake word" and then immediately discards any audio that doesn't match

Thousands of Amazon Workers Listen to Alexa Users' Conversations
https://time.com/5568815/amazon-workers-listen-to-alexa/
https://indieweb.org/
Hard disagree. I ran various HTPCs over the years, including Windows, and they're untenable with streaming. No remote control is any good at any web interface. Many services block surround sound and the highest resolutions on any full PC experience (Windows, Mac, Linux, whatever).

I'm forced to agree with the article's premise - everyone's gotten worse. I loved my NVIDIA Shield, but Google's UI refresh made it into another adfest like all the cheapest devices so there's no point in paying for the premium experience. I tried to use an XBox Series X which works fairly well but its apps are all neglected - Paramount Plus had subtitles broken for a long time, the back button works only half the time, and Plex will randomly flash static on the screen when streaming plain old h264 from the local network.

I've recently ordered an Apple TV, which is my last hope. If that's garbage, perhaps it's time to stick to my new year's resolution and stop watching things on the TV.
Are there gateways to access bittorrent resources from https:// ?
I would say the LLM output may resemble the speech of the fictional character Spock. But it does not and can not simulate Spock, because Spock does not exist, never did. Spock is fictional.

To produce something that resembles the output of the fictional character Spock is straightforward, just take the texts that are parts of the fiction where fictional Spock speaks, and reassemble then using probabilities that can be calculated by statistically analyzing those texts. That is what LLMs are doing, right? And results can be quite surprising. I assume people were similarly impressed when they first saw movies.

But LLMs are not simulating anything, just like a movie or a photograph are not simulating anything, even though they may PROJECT the visual appearance of their subjects.

Are movies AI? I think it is clear to us they are not even though the characters on the screen seem to behave very intelligently. Movies are about representing and portraying the appearance of real or fictional events in the world. Similarly LLMs are about portraying texts on the internet. LLMs in my opinion are more like interactive movies than simulations of intelligence.

I do believe "true AI" will come eventually, and LLMs can give us an impression of what it might look like when it arrives, just like movies can give us an impression of Spock, who doesn't exist.
retail stores have been charging for shelf space for decades.
I'm no expert here — but I find the Chromecast box excellent.

Maybe that's because I'm comparing it to a laggy Samsung UI with squishy remote buttons?

Even so, it feels well-designed and well-executed. And cohesive, unlike some of the other Google Home / Nest products...
The thing is that Alexa doesn't really solve anything important. Another device to ask questions? My phone is closer. A system that can turn lights on and off at the sound of my voice? Not without additional work.
Second this. Imagine a future where AI capabilities are as entrenched as internet or electricity today, except it's controlled by just one or a few companies, who reserve the right to deny you access, this time rather effectively because of advances in AI. At any moment they can deny you the ability to perform your work.
The error means CloudFlare wants you to verify you are human again, just reload the page and you can continue talking to it.
Google should be nervous about all of its ads system because their search engine is becoming increasingly trash
From the end of WW2 to the end of the Cold War the US foreign policy was primarily focused on stopping communism. In some cases they supported dictatorial governments because the alternative at the time (at least in their eyes) would have been worse.
Yeah, all specialty subjects are like this (or math that's sufficiently different from its learned text - have it square a very, very large number with a bunch of random digits and compare that against the actual answer from a calculator).

To actually solve this, we need AGI.
Lots of these companies need to be broken up.

Facebook in particular given that their erroneous metrics literally put several media companies out of business. Not only did they charge for nonexistent engagement, but the BS engagement numbers they were providing were so enticing that it created a huge push towards expensive-to-create video content.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/17/17989712/facebook-inaccu...
You could probably also use fluentd to do the same thing. It can process the logs locally and sent alerts instead of forwarding logs to a central source.

How to grep the logs for errors and send an email

https://docs.fluentd.org/how-to-guides/splunk-like-grep-and-...

The slack plugin you could use instead of email:

https://github.com/sowawa/fluent-plugin-slack
I'm terrified of AI, but not for the reasons you think. I'm not worried about a Skynet AI, and at the same time, I am.

We aren't going to see an AGI in a while, so it's too premature to worry about that. I'm not even sure a true AGI is possible, yet... kind of like how flying cars are possible. We do have flying cars, sort of? Not the way we all envisioned though. So it is for AI.

My worry is that AI will become too trusted. We know the failure rates of humans can be higher than what is deemed acceptable, and AI could fail in unpredictable ways. I'm concerned that now it can be all-too easy to manipulate people en masse.

- Say we entrusted an AI to be our early-warning detection system and trust the output of said AI to mount a counter-response. Turns out it was a false positive, and we started WW3.

- It is used to manipulate people's identity online.

- It can be used to replace people's livelihoods (i.e. book-writing, art, maybe programmers to an extent).
I keep clicking on the "ha-ha made you look" button when I want the start button. My professional opinion is that we should tie windows 11 to a burning wagon wheel and roll it down the valley.
You got me. What are the movies?
If there were ever two apps I had the opposite feelings about, they're Pidgin and Teams.

I loved Pidgin when I was a kid, and really admired its developers. I remember it as a reliable, flexible, unobtrusive, lightweight app that simplified my life. If I could run Pidgin instead of Teams at work, I would be so, so happy.

I don't want most of Teams' embedded Office widgets. I'd rather use the full fat Office apps, or the web browser versions, where at least I can hack in my own 'dark mode' to help with contrast issues I have.

I can't think of anything built into Teams which I don't remember Pidgin having that I would not gladly give up.
They do have other tools with the word API in them but I kinda doubt their usefulness because of gems like "it will move you left on Gartner quadrant" all over Postman "Labs" website. Another reference point - WhatsApp had around 50 engineers when it was sold to Facebook.
What? Name one product better than JIRA.
Most of German immigration information and advice is locked into private Facebook groups. This information is not good nor reliable, but it's the only way to tell how things actually play out at the immigration office, for example.

That information would serve a lot more people if it was available to them with a simple search.
The premise is that they all suck because of things like universal search that isn't universal. That's a pretty minor complaint.

A laptop connected to your tv works pretty well, but its a far more fiddly experience than any of the streaming boxes. If it works for you that's great, but if you were to try and sell it as a competitor to apple tv or Roku you'd be laughed out of town for the terrible UX.
Facebook poached people from all across FAANG for the last 2 years with INSANE offers - easily 50% higher than the rest.

I'm guessing they may have realized these people aren't worth that much.
I have a question that is tangentially related to the OP, but not based on the irrationality of the housing market. What I want to know is: given the way things are today, how do you identify and locate neighbourhoods, towns, and cities where housing will appreciate in value the most? IOW, what is the data you need to make a good "buy low, sell high" decision?
Remember that all of this research is done on mouse strains in highly controlled lab environments. Many of these results won’t even apply to other strains from what they were tested leave alone mice in the wild.

PS: strains means stable inbred clone producing animals.
AI: Hello there. I'm here to roast you.

Me: I'm a web developer

AI: Oh, a web developer? I see, so you're a professional procrastinator then.

Me: Yep.

AI: Well, I hope you at least got around to making a good website for yourself. Or did you just leave it empty like your soul?

Me: Should I use floats or flexbox?

AI: Ah, the age-old question of web development. I'd say you should go with whatever works for you and your team, since nobody really cares about code structure as long as it gets the job done. But if you really want an answer, I can tell you that floats are a bit like your career prospects: outdated and steadily sinking, while flexbox is the new hotness, just like me.

--

Floats are like my career prospects! That's a good roast.
Damn, my magic 8 ball can't give me probable outcomes! How good are chatGPT's by the way? what are the odds I fart in the office tomorrow?
I tried the new PS5 VR2. It’s definitely better than Oculus Quest.

Makes you wonder what Facebook has been doing with all those billions spent on VR when Sony is able to produce a better product with a fraction of the investment.
Does a Raspberry Pi with LibreElec/Kodi count as a streaming box?

Cause it's absolutely excellent.
Last month I read an article saying they were still hiring big in R&D. I don't know what their financials are like but it still seemed odd for them to bucking the trend.
Compared to any normal company I'm sure it was a fantastic Q1. Tech is just addicted to 25%+ profit margins and the market apparently considers it a failure when they "underachieve", which is objectively ridiculous.
I think everyone knows the deadlines that are set for phasing out fossil fuel vehicles are not going to actually be enforced. They are nothing but virtue signalling from politicians.

If those things are actually enforced, you can expect a blowback that will make the election of Trump look like a minor detail compared to the insane populists that an angry population will put in power.
Why is it that in the gutter of every HN post there's some schlorby shlub desperately trying to seem cool?
What's far more unsettling is knowing that Discord's sysadmins, as well as their acquirer (which for a minute looked like it might have been MSFT) have the complete plaintext logs of every DM conversation. Every private link, every NDA'd product info, every insider crypto tip, all the passwords and credentials, all the sexting, all the nudes.... and all linked to your real world identity via the non-VoIP phone number you have to add to your account to join most channel groups ("servers").

The trove of blackmail and extortion data alone is worth a few dozen millions. The insider crypto trading that Discord makes possible is worth probably $20-50mm USD each month.
Neat. How did you find the experience? Can you code and wanted to try it out via prompting?
as a programmer, i would be happy to automate myself out of a job. Because it means that the work i do is infinitely valuable, and i would have been rewarded correctly for it, in a functioning employment market.
Jira products are not there to make developers happy, they are to make them work so that project managers are happy.

I haven't heard 10% as many complaints from project managers as I have from developers.
I’ve bought and run around 10 Alexas across 2 properties so they must be doing something right.

I don’t use it for much, but for around $250 I can get Spotify through an entire house.

Maybe the answer is to charge a profit margin on the device rather than an ad driven model?
> Many services block surround sound and the highest resolutions on any full PC experience

I have 4k streaming from Netflix, Disney, Prime. I don't know about sound, but as far as resolution is concerned, I'm fine here.

> I'm forced to agree with the article's premise - everyone's gotten worse.

I also agree. Windows has native apps for most of the streaming services - have you tried that? You get full 4k, audio and all the usual bits (as far as I'm aware, but I haven't tested).

> Plex will randomly flash static on the screen when streaming plain old h264 from the local network

I have not experienced this.
Who decide $N? And what if the needs are not uniformly distributed? Do people get to trade their credits in secondary markets?
In many cases, knowing what to do in very diverse environments could be harder than the physical control of the robots. I've read somewhere that the physical manipulation of robot body is not as hard as understanding multimodal info (linguistic/visual/auditory), esp in real time.

> Our evaluations show that PaLM-E, a single large embodied multimodal model, can address a variety of embodied reasoning tasks, from a variety of observation modalities, on multiple embodiments, and further, exhibits positive transfer: the model benefits from diverse joint training across internet-scale language, vision, and visual-language domains.

The last clause is important and suggests there might be further advances from such joint training, incl from interactions in the real world.
Company announcement: https://www.atlassian.com/blog/announcements/atlassian-team-...

SEC filing: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1650372/000165037223...
As a second thought, I think the move from .NET Framework to .NET 5+ could be considered a rewrite, and that has been rather successful on many fronts.
I feel like I’ve never met a single person not running a dedicated Plex machine.

I also wonder if having a dedicated machine would have avoided this.
Mostly when people think they want a Discord server (ie. not a server), what will
actually solve their problem is a Discourse server (an actual server).
That's interesting but unfortunate. To me, the goal would be to do just that: live in Wyoming but work for a coastal tech employer.
> if you were to try and sell it as a competitor

I never claimed it has the superior UX. It will never be, probably. As a product, it's not a HTPC - it's a laptop.
Whenever i read these ipv6 discussions, i cant help to think there is a huge disconnect between users and designers of ipv6:

- Designers think globally routable internet is a huge achievement

- Users just want to hide their devices from the hellscape that is modern internet, with all its threats

These are fundamentally different approaches
Yeah I agree that domain names are great.

I think we should make some new TLDs that come with some validation guarantees. Ie john-doe.nation.citizen is always a person who has an Id with the same “John Doe” issued by some government. The registrar is responsible for validating that. Once issues the domain is never revoked- it’s yours forever, even after death. Maybe you subscribe to something for extra features, but the core identity can’t be recycled.

People don’t always want really strong ID like that though. So make other TLDs for other categories and give them different validation rules. Like .human could have some kind of biometric ID but no name. .blob could be a free for all, whatever.
Not surprising really. Cultural problem.

Sony = decades of experience on gaming hardware and games (and everything else)

Meta = decades of experience running a/b tests on a website and copying features to sell ads (and acquiring few mobile apps to run more a/b tests)
Remember when Amazon listed private label brands, like every retailer has done for decades if not longer, and there was a collective freak out?
Android is the worst Linux. On 99% of devices, it's TiVo-ized garbage.

The history of Android is a story about the exploitation of 'open-source', not the incorporation of the benefits of software freedom into society.
> because it gives them more negotiating power

Correct. Because they're not tied to a job for income, and leaving said job does not endanger their livelihood - they're capable of forcing Walmart to pay them proper wages.

I think we agree.

> Of course the real problem with trying to solve everything with wage increases is that it doesn't help non-workers like children and elderly people.

Why should they be any different? Just provide teenagers with a fraction of what an adult would get, and increase it every year. Elderly people ARE people, right? If not, I have some serious concerns for myself in the next few decades. :)
I think you’re confusing your opinion with reality, the truth is Jira (I presume this is your real complaint?) is fine and works well enough for most people they can just get on with it.
Whatever he says, it must not disagree with US pronouncements, else this post would have been flagged and removed.

That said, I believe he could end the war in one day, and probably even help end Nato, which most of the world wants.

Main problem is he would also bring "retribution" against many of us, and that whole thing about ending the world thru accelerated global warming is still a concern.

I'll take my chances with nuclear war, thanks.
>We're complaining about a problem that was no different in the heyday of IRC.

so the death of lore happened essentially when textual knowledge moved from the printed, physically stored version to the electronic version that has no easy way of going and getting the verifiable source of lore for reference when needed?

sounds about right.
Chevy's small truck grew some years ago from the S-10 to the Colorado.
But is it really? Or did a combination of COVID-tech-mania and low interest rates just boost stock prices well above what was actually reasonable?
The AppleTV works great, and you can switch the Home Screen from “grid of apps” to “TV Guide”. The only service that doesn’t seem to participate in Apple’s aggregation among the services I use is Netflix.

Also the Emby app is decent.