skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If said policy change is a radical departure from status quo that allowed humanity to flourish since the start of the Industrial Revolution, then quite accurate indeed. People can't just bandy about phrases like "abolish fossil fuels" without justifying it with strong evidence.

Most climate advocacy, I find, focuses too much on the doom and gloom of what will happen if we continue down our present path, and not enough on the number of lives that have been and will continue to be enriched by easily and cheaply accessible energy from fossil fuels. I am aware of the downsides and by no means think we should pollute for the sake of polluting, but I remain unconvinced by the current alternatives proposed by the overall climate movement.
I had to scroll all the way down just to read the damn thing. It's the last thing in that article, even below Results and Caveats, under the title "The Cognitive Shuffle strategy".

I think that strategy demands a lot more cognitive effort than the usual relaxation exercises that meditation embraces. If you focus on your breathing and keep bringing your attention to it while laying in bed you are going to observe the same effect since the message to the brain keeps being the same.
If they wanted to increase risk/return, why did they buy T bonds in the first place?
I have video proof of a car ramming me when pushing into my lane. Police declined to investigate because there “no proof of deliberate action.”
Liberalism in most places other than the US is considered centrist or conservative.
I mean the reality of it is that cars are damned convenient and it's way easier to drive, even for three minutes, than walk for 15 minutes, especially if there's a suburban parking lot at the other end. Getting people out of that habit is an uphill battle, and I'd be lying if I said I've never driven those three minutes to Safeway vs walk. Especially if I'm grabbing a months worth of groceries for the whole house.

What's different now is ebikes/related which allows those three minutes to be done via bike. Dean Kamen claimed that cities would be redesigned around the Segway. He was too early, and only half right, but I think his claim was more prescient than we give him credit for. Ebikes, as we're hearing about here in London, really are enabling a new kind of city design that takes advantage of this semi-new technology.
> An Apple replacement for my current notebook would cost over $5k and I spent a fraction of that.

What if you price out a replacement with the full RAM and SSD capacity you want from the OEM rather than as an aftermarket upgrade? I think the problem usually is not so much "Apple over-charges for upgrades" as it is "all OEMs over-charge for upgrades", with a side of "Apple uses non-upgradable storage".
It's definitely going impact simple frontends that don't need complex app logic. Arguably that is already the case with so many of the existing frameworks taking over, but now if you don't need a framework chances are it can be easily generated.
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Portland has been having success with Street Response program. 911 dispatches teams of EMTs and mental health specialists to deal with mental health crises.

I have wondered if could have separate organization or non-armed police that deals with administrative issues. Like taking reports or investigating crimes. I think it would be fine doing noise complaints or traffic violations. These are all things that the police have been ignoring recently. I think it would also reduce the problems with having armed police dealing with everything.
> Like I said, the companies are more likely to open offices and hire in other countries than to keep raising wages in America. By arbitrarily preventing the smartest from coming to America, we are encouraging American companies to go elsewhere.

I see. I think your previous comment could have been clearer because I don't think you actually said that, and I didn't see anyone else include that avenue as a part of this conversation.

This is a fair point, but I don't see how it ties into incentives to create ghost job postings. (Whereas with the H1B angle, ghost job postings would seemingly allow you to skip the timeframe where you have to say you tried to find someone.)
I was in tech during the dot com bubble. It was the same then as today. In the early 2000s, there were two open tech jobs for every qualified person. Businesses like Microskills (no longer around) sprung up to teach basic network administration and other IT skills and do job placement. When the market contracted, a lot of people who were treading water or were making more than their role could afford got pushed out. It's no different now. Instead of network admin bootcamps it's coding bootcamps. Lots of people have been building a lot of dumb stuff (more than usual) for the last several years and the market is correcting.

The good news is that what came after that contraction was a huge wave of innovation that became known as Web 2.0. Most of the unicorns you're familiar with today came out of that period. Keep your chin up and you'll see.
> So many people don't seem to realize that without suburbs you don't have farms.

This strikes me as a bizarre take. What do you consider a "suburb"?
Still waiting for a polished multi-monitor replacement option for macOS that would allow me to travel with a headset and a laptop and not have to worry about finding a large external monitor to plug into for my dev work. Please someone make this a thing.
This!

Also, from experience, going with a "smaller" cloud provider and opting for a dedicated machine can already reduce the bill by a huge amount.

The position of power of the big 3 - AWS, GCP and Azure* - gives them almost 66% of the market - that doesn't seem right.
Joe Biden and Jerome Powell Drop an Inflationary Neutron Bomb
Long term trends that aren't part of a fixed seasonal or cyclic pattern.
Wait, how many employees does Twitch have (there are no numbers in the linked articles).
Here's a loony thought: what if the VCs just exited the whole Valley 'cause they saw the handwriting on the wall in re: ChatGPT et. al. dropping the floor out of the startup industry?

It's not true, I think, but it makes for a neat movie plot idea?
Either it’s a “small JS app” or it’s “~65k lines of code, but not both :-)
Paul Berg (1926–2023)
You're probably not good at interviewing. That's pretty normal especially if you don't job hop frequently. The good part is you're not being resume screened.

I wouldn't worry too much if I were you. Worst case scenario you can spend time intensively prepping for interviews. :shrug:
> but do you really think a jury would convict?

Would you bet your life on it? Or on the officers in question not gunning you down for your troubles?
That's actually a great idea for a niche app. Could probably work for seasickness and carsickness as well.
This is true. Horizons is so polished and manicured. I don't want that. Plastic life is not fun, VR is better when you can explore the rough edges like on other platforms.
What does the FDIC do when your bank fails? (2009)
World Happiness Report 2023 [pdf]
It should be noted, Marcan has said that the ultimate, eventual goal is for Asahi to no longer have to exist as a distro. That may be a long way off however!
How does your device overcome the barrier of the mains power frequency being different (50 or 60 Hz) in different regions? Since brain gamma waves are 32-100 Hz you would need a high attenuation notch filter at the correct frequency.

Although for your sleep application, you may only be working with delta/theta waves.
I assumed this was possible - it was when I was working with very early VR prototypes.

I think what is going to end up being big is the setup where you have a camera on top of a monitor or TV that just does head tracking. As TV's get larger and cheaper (and projectors better and better) having no headset but nice head tracking is a great middleground to VR. Plus other people can easily watch you play (and it is easier for noobs to get into). Most games do not really need full 360 degree head movement - you can just turn around with a keyboard or controller as you normally would.
> It sounds awesome to think about being in VR and being in the FPS

Yes. This is one of the things that leads to the counterintuitive truth that if you want a fully immersive and fun game (defining "immersive" as "the player is no longer aware that the game world is not their actual reality), you don't actually want too much realism.

What you want is an "effortlessness" -- the ability for the player to trigger an action without effort or conscious thought.
No, that's their business model.
> I'm saying society should be aware that a tipping point exists.

Why do you believe such a thing exists in the U.S.?

I personally find the arguments for mutually assured destruction very plausible.

Whether it's between countries or between factions within a country with WMDs, a real fighting war will practically wipe nearly everyone out.
Dunno how the author came to his conclusion. It is kinda backwards.

It is Dockers paying costumers that benefit the most from one way stop images of FOSS projects since they are locked in to a greater degree.
I can agree with that - also I think it answers to the 'forced' aspect better, instead of a law making marriages permanent, incentives that made people more willing to stay in them seem less intrusive (though personally I am unconvinced that would make individuals happier overall, or be an obvious social good).
Thinking about those still trapped the metaverse is giving off Bioshock vibes
Tech will always be on top. The only thing that will vary based on broad factors is what kind of tech. We've been in computer tech the past twenty years and are only starting to get to the interesting places biotech will take us next. Similarly, we're due a step change in materials sciences, not to mention energy generation & storage, and transportation. Envirotech will continue to thrive, and receive more investment as climate change becomes more extreme. Etcetera.
It's far easier to find 0-days in antivirus software than in common-used operating systems or servers (IIS, Nginx, ...). The attack surface is huge, the software often very old and written in a memory-unsafe language like C and C++ for performance-reasons.

I reverse engineered some antivirus products myself and the quality of most AVs is pretty bad. AFL (American Fuzzy Lop) without a custom mutator crashed some of them in less than 15 minutes at the most trivial parts like parsing a PE-file.

Also snakeoil-features like "anti-rootkit scanner" just compare hashes (sometimes MD5-hashes) of installed drivers. In past a rootkit could circumvent such scanner with IAT-hooking. In 2023 those scanners are obsolete anyway.

Also antivirus 0-days are far cheaper than for other software.*

* https://zerodium.com/program.html
The (wrong) conventional wisdom is that cloud is easy, simple, cheap and requires no investment in complex systems management. This is what your CTO likely believes.

In fact cloud is often complex, requires lots of highly specialsed systems management, is under powered and very expensive.

9 cents per gigabyte out if you’re lucky - that’s a startling price.

Machines are old and out of date and left behind.

Vendor lock-in is a real problem .. you probably can’t exit even if you want to.

And worse, clouds often don’t even have the computing resources you need with “requesting quota” and waiting for your “quota” to be granted some time in the next 24 hours, the opposite of elastic and scalable.

And if you need GPUs then the news for you is that gamers have vastly more powerful GPUs at vastly lower cost (even with Nvidia and AMD fleecing consumers on their next generation cards).

Rent a bare metal server from a second or third tier player. Or buy a couple of fast fiber connections and buy some 16/32 core machines with 128 gig Ram.

And honestly it’s not hard to run modern Linux machines, that’s an old crones tale.
I left Twitch not so long ago (May 2022), not surprised at all by this.
>What kinds of interactions can we let our guard down and fully trust as authentic? Face to face interactions will be there for a long time.

Oh man are you going to be pissed when you learn about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidence_trick
My experience is that Wall Street loves a 1st round layoff, interpreting it as cutting fat. Anything after that they interpret as cutting into the meat of the business.

They may or may not also see multiple rounds in the same light many of us do: as incompetence in the management team.
I appreciate your honest response
You won't pull yourself up by your bootstraps with that attitude! You can learn to play the violin and be homeless( Typical slacker complaining instead of just being willing to multitask).
Living 5 adults to a house in San Jose might genuinely be better than living in India. I wouldn’t know. The point is if you have moved to Wisconsin or whatever, it would be foolish to move back to San Jose for that.
Silverball in Asbury park is $25/day and always packed out. If you play for even an hour or two you'll be well ahead of where you'd be paying a buck or game or whatever pinball in the wild goes for these days.
This is a similar model to the KDE Neon distribution, which upstreams basically everything but gives some benefit to developers working on the KDE project.
This is actually an interesting question that I also see in the AI art and artist debate. The trope is that "people thought AI would replace mundane jobs leaving room for creativity, now it's automating my creative job, why even bother making art?" The answer is the same as why anyone does any hobby at all. We still run despite making cars, ships, planes, rockets that go at hundreds of miles per hour. We still play chess and Go even though an AI can beat every human on the planet. We will still make music even if AI does simply because we want to.

Now, to expect to do a hobby as a job, forever (coding, art, music, whatever), that is a very privileged position to be in and most people in human history have not been that fortunate.
I'm a dev using ChatGPT and CoPilot. I work more efficiently as a result.

Currently I don't think LLMs represent a risk to my job in that I work for a small company and personally handle many aspects of the development process on my own. However, at a larger company where those roles are spread out I could see some of them going away soon.

I work on a large WordPress theme. If an LLM were trained on that theme it could possibly have the global scope I need to make changes and understand their impact. It won't be long before we have software that allows you to easily train an LLM for your use. That could threaten my job. But then, my company would still need someone to manage and QA the results.

So I see fewer jobs, but not the end of the profession.
That's an anticompetitive move. If you need to switch senders for some reason, the inspector is the only clean way to get an email's HTML into another ESP.
You're exactly right: This isn't a situation to jump to conclusions.

However, when the junior product managers are proposing things with terms they don't even understand then something is clearly wrong. Imagine joining a meeting where a product manager is trying to explain their own document but can't understand what "they" wrote when they get to various bullet points. Or the document is correct, but their understanding of their own document is incorrect.

Have you ever seen a student caught cheating? Someone who has the right answers on the paper, but can't explain why or remember why they wrote it down? It's exactly that.
One has to wonder whether these decisions are based on logic or on what Wall Street(investors) demands. Now is a high time for unionization among software devs irrespective of their pay scale.
Population declines on the other hand are expected because birth rates have been dropping for hundreds of years. This is a good thing you can’t support infinite growth on a finite planet. Suggesting global warming is the cause completely ignores these long term trends.

Peoples quality of life globally has been consistently improving and that’s unlikely to change with global warming. China had one of the worlds largest famines in living memory 1958-1961, it’s simply been the norm for most of human history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famines
This news comes after the CEO of Twitch announced that he is leaving the company [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35184011
The problem is that a lot of people will jump to a random side if you ring. Another large fraction will yell at you.

Something that worked comparatively well for me it so shout “I’ll pass on your (left/right)”
One area where I think AI would be super useful is interpreting enterprise data dictionaries and companion guides, for example:

https://www.cms.gov/files/document/cclf-file-data-elements-r...

Currently I have to write validations based off of that definition and then write code to transform it to another standardized claim format. The work is king of mind numbing and it seems like it would be possible to use AI to streamline the process.
Ok on one side he spends a million dollars and loses it because Bitcoin doesn't go to a million. On the other side he breaks even on the Bitcoin but doesn't feel bad about buying 37 because…someone creates an internationalized recognized country on the internet?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35108813 is another recent data point
It's pretty common as an account hijacking vector, right?

Hackers tell non-techies to paste things into the console, which can then share cookies or access tokens with the attacker.

Obviously the browser is "owned" by the client, so a sufficiently motivated techie could bypass this any number of ways. But it prevents some number of non-techies from security issues.
Even with the discounts, savings plans, multi-year commit discounts, etc., the cloud costs are absolutely absurd if you are running stable applications where you understand the future growth, use, and demand. Yes, the cloud is the right place for 99% of apps out there, but the market is sending a clear objective out to all tech companies: become profitable and build a sustainable, high margin on your products. Every maturing company with predictable products must be exploring ways to move workloads out of the cloud. AWS took your margin and isn't giving it back.

https://a16z.com/2021/05/27/cost-of-cloud-paradox-market-cap...
amazon in total is laying off 9K people

https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/20/23648348/amazon-layoffs-j...
" One-third of the managers who said they advertised jobs they weren’t trying to fill said they kept the listings up to placate overworked employees."

"placate overworked employees". Thats a funny way of saying "lying to keep exploiting overworked employees". But is the Wall Street Journal, what could we expect?
Ask HN: What's Your Uptime?
Informal survey: on your primary machine, what is the uptime? And what apps do you typically keep open?

For me, M1 Macbook Air 2021, 16GB RAM. JetBrains IDEs, Firefox, Chrome, and miscellaneous other apps.

19:22 up 109 days, 14:24, 7 users, load averages: 2.75 2.67 2.76

Side note - this laptop has been on 4 continents since last reboot.
> as rising greenhouse gas emissions push the world to the brink of irrevocable damage that only swift and drastic action can avert.

Well like no one knew that :) But the official report I am sure details all the background to prove that statement. It is too bad the people that can do something will not only ignore the report but probably will double down.
Have you tried doing "VR" with a large monitor or TV and a simple webcam on top? There are apps available that let you do this. Basically it just adds some basic head tracking (limited range of course) using off the shelf hardware you probably already own. I have yet to see anyone in my personal life (limited anecdotal evidence of course here) get sick from this type of "VR" and it is also much easier for your computer to run (basically just requires as much compute as the game without head tracking) since there is only one screen instead of two. Also allows you to make sure to keep a very high framerate which is the most common cause of motion sickness.
if they have $$$money$$$$ they are welcome to purchase on open market, as many shares as they would like.

problem is most retail investors never even vote for annual shareholder meetings and never bother to read proxy statements and shareholders' meeting agenda.
According to the LinkedIn company profile, a little over 13 thousand. I don't know how reliable of a number that is.
But it came with strings attached: you put all your companies' money here, far beyond FDIC insurance levels, and don't go anywhere else, and for that we'll get you a nice rate on this unrelated private deal.

Sounds pretty close to an investment where the investor shouldn't be made whole.
I did not expect the coding live streams of GPU engineering to be presented by a virtual anime persona with a squeaky voice.
On the other hand, "smart" companies move their on-prem to cloud :face_palm:

https://www.db.com/news/detail/20201204-deutsche-bank-and-go...
The interesting plot is SPM.5 on p.23 of the summary for policymakers. There the emission scenarios are plotted and the thing is, the scenarios that limit warming to 1.5 K or 2 K assume actively putting greenhouse gasses back into the ground starting in the late 40ies or the late 60ies respectively. If anybody has a idea of to get the kind of policy buy in that could do something like that, I would be very interested -- otherwise fig. SPM.3 suggests Seattle should be one of the nicer places even at the more unpleasant scenarios.
He linked the definition to it on the page. It's a Hypertext. That's the HT in HTML. This is how it was meant to be used.
sorry, yes, I know. they shipped 2.7 for years, but it's not a "first-class language". you can kind of do gui with tk. There's really no scripting language (applescript isn't really what I would call a scripting language, and really just not that good).
About 90% of Excel spreadsheets contain errors according to some evidence:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/excel-errors-microsofts-spread...

I have seen this multiple times. Got called into a corp. audit once because CFO's spreadsheet didn't match reports from database. His SUM() function was missing some rows, ZIP Codes got converted to scientific notation and he didn't know why, that kind of thing.
Thanks for posting this.
I see kids in my not too distant future and while I personally don't believe this I see lots and lots of comments on the internet saying that having kids basically stops everything else dead in its tracks for ~2 decades.

There are so few people with experiences like yours that it's sometimes hard to not let that get into my head.

So it's refreshing to see a different opinion.
Assuming none of your friends are visa holders. Otherwise trying not too hard case wouldn't be there.
Why are you trying to yada yada a bank run?

If First Republic bleeds depositors (especially HNW depositors where they're concentrated) then it is going to go out of business. It doesn't matter if the bank run is "justified" or not -- the perception of fear is enough to scare depositors away, which would make it a self fulfilling prophecy.

That said, there are good fundamental reasons to be bullish, which is why (full disclosure) I am still long $FRC. But I'm feeling increasingly unhappy about it.