skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's amazing to see. The last ten years, the galvanizing project of every european city has been calming cars. I didn't really realize it until I was there the last few summers on vacation, and the difference is night&day with 10 years ago (Brussels, Paris big examples, many smaller ones too). Unreal, a truly positive transformation. It's one of those things, you just can "feel", although maybe hard to explain, I certainly couldn't imagine "the feel" about 10-15 years ago. Hope US cities can marshal that same gumption eventually. This takes top-down courage. It can never resolve bottom up, especially with how fearful and short-sighted americans can be.
I know there's some limits to the surface of this... but it seems that could precisely be triggered by certain types of security software, ironically designed to protect such systems. Eww...
Trex also has the unfortunate long term habit of sagging as if it’s getting softer, which looks terrible and causes water to collect on the cupped surfaces.
Good luck - I have a friend in Utrecht and he's happy there but IIRC he's renting and will do so for the remainder of his life.

I was priced out of the city where I grew up, so going somewhere more expensive is out of the question.
For being America's flagship city it's insane how car-choked and human-hostile NYC is.
Carmack strongly hinted that a lot of the research going on wasn't productive. How much of it will go anywhere versus being another "stupid thing" which takes forever to kill?
Further afield, but may I also recommend the Pinball Hall of Fame in Las Vegas and the smaller but also great Silverball Museum in Asbury Park, NJ.

http://www.pinballmuseum.org/

https://www.silverballmuseum.com/asbury-park/
It was refreshing to see Greta delete her "were all doomed in five years tweet from 2018" last week. They also took down the signs in Glacier Park that predicted the glaciers would be gone by now near where I live.
Oakland's downtown recovery is nothing like San Francisco's. Here's why
There is a proven correlation between prostitution and poverty. Are we observing a similar effect?
I’m not the person arguing against echo chambers. I actually am completely fine with echo chambers because people can freely move between them if they want. I can go watch cats and I can go watch ballet and I can go have significant discussion on a technical topic and it doesn’t have to happen all in one feed.
No. Non folding bikes are not allowed on most tube services in central london. The lines that do allow it don't allow it during rush hour.
> Engineers, programmers, hackers on the other hand are gonna be just fine

and yet this is exactly where the layoffs are happening...AWS, ad tech, twitch
It’s not about the food. It’s about trust.
Ultimately, ASML will lose either way.

ASML IP is already and will continue to be stolen by China, exporting machines to China just means that it will be stolen much faster.

To export or not hinges only on whether the problem matters from a short-term or longer term perspective. Either way, the Chinese will ultimately win.
I mean all the code that you run on your computer. Not just generated by AI. I think parent meant the same.
there were a lot of decent AAA adaptations on iOS in the first 3-5 years. In-app purchases ruined consumers' expectations of app/game pricing; then subscriptions doubled down on that.
Yeah, unfortunately it seems very much like we're heading the opposite direction. People largely congregated in cities because of proximity to work, but as remote work increases that's becoming less of a factor. As people try to find cheaper property and more land, they're going to end up in places where bikes are a whole lot less practical.
1.5 degrees is commonly talked about because almost every country on earth pledged to "pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels" [0] in the Paris agreement. We won't hit that anymore, but it makes sense for scientists to compare the taken measures with the original goal. Every degree matters and aiming for 1.5 and missing by 0.5 degrees is better than aiming for a "realistic" 2.5 degrees and missing by 0.2 degrees.

[0] https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/the-paris-agreement
Related submission:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35232150 (CNBC)
This has been true since at least June of last year, and has obviously accelerated and expanded.

I’m not sure why they think it’s a good idea. I’ve now got a pretty hefty list of companies I won’t work for, will recommend people I know don’t work for, and will recommend against doing business with (as customer or partner) based solely on disrespectful and deceitful practices like this.

I guess that’s irrelevant to most of them, but that’s the world I suppose.
Given an emphasis on internalized documentation, these could be significantly better, especially over time than a lot of automated support in place for a lot of companies. As long as there is some kind of escape hatch for escalation.

That said, the reality is closer to the "Johnny Cab" from the first "Total Recall" movie.
> What does it mean to do it all as one step / how would I got about doing that with ChatGPT?

Wait till they make the image input available via the API, I guess
My point was that you are strongly judging a group of people whose behavior is not that unusual.

If you genuinely have a bad conscience about the things I outlined, then you are in the vast minority. 99% of people in developed nations don't care about the sacrifices made for their lifestyle, they feel no compulsion to give back or prevent the abuse of others in the name of profit. They may pay lip service, but they won't sacrifice anything to practice what they preach. Reading about modern slavery in cobalt mines will make them feel bad temporarily, but within days they'll be right back shopping for a new smartphone.

That is the unfortunate reality - our intuitive sense of injustice is strongly biased towards locality. We care when something bad happens to the people near and dear to us, but suffering that is far away or somewhat hidden doesn't really register.

We need to face this reality and work with it, instead of getting heated and self-righteous. Sam Altman's soul is neither worse nor better than the one of your average middle-class American.

Instead of assuming evil intent, assume ignorance. Make convincing arguments, highlight the suffering, offer possible solutions - these are the actions that likely lead to improvement.

And to just add a small reminder: AI isn't all bad. It's a disruptive technology, with great risks and great rewards as well.
Yes! Can't believe we thought car-clogged city streets were actually aspirational. Truly mass delusion.
The sockets API is a Windows API, and Wireshark does not use it. Instead it uses Npcap, a custom kernel driver.

A raw socket allows creation/consumption of bespoke packet types (i.e. not Tcp/Udp). In this case ICMP.
Worst and most psychopathic offense I've ever seen- in a coworking space- someone is reheating some leftovers in the microwave- another person stops the microwave, takes out the plate and puts it on top, then puts their stuff in and starts it.
I think it would be pretty much the same as the way it is now.
Fond memories of "Cursor" magazine from the very dawn of the personal computer era. The earliest issues still had the reversed upper/lowercase from being targeted at the original PET computers. The games and demos were so cool for their era with their cute PETSCII graphics animations and such. And nowadays the whole thing is only a click away...

http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/magazines/cursor/inde...
Now Everyone Hates Bankers
It's not stated whether the roles are engineering ones or PMs.
> I never said the "totally not a coup revolution" was an act of war

So what did you imply by (snarky) question "When do you think the war started?" followed by "Do you remember what happened right before he annexed Crimea?"? It seems we are in agreement that first act of war was occupation and annexation of Crimea?

Also, why are people like you are so hung up on this "coup vs revolution" thing? What exactly are you trying to achieve by playing with words here?

BTW you might want to consider listening to observers and insiders who actually experienced events directly. Like, you have actual Ukranian who was living nearby to Independence square during both 2004 and 2014 events and yet instead of changing your opinions based on my input you double down on lecturing _me_ about events I have first hand experience with. This makes you look like either a shill or just a person with poorly developed critical thinking.
not minimal but lightweight:
https://lowww.directory
> > "[whatabout cyclists who break the law]"

Your attempt to classify my post as whataboutism is in incredibly poor faith.

I'm very pro-cycling, but it would be foolish to ignore the very real and observable safety concerns that occur because of factors such as poor behaviour (and also, although I didn't mention them originally, issues like infrastructure and quality of road surfaces).

You cannot simply assume that within a particular context or location that more peope cycling equates to greater safety. There are too many other factors at play, and those need to be addressed in order to ensure that cycling is a safer option for everybody.
I wonder if "road accident" includes incidents on the pavement? Not clear from that document.
Thanks for the link! Looking forward to dive into it.
Just a Mac app? It doesn't even say anywhere on the page that it's Mac-limited. I wanted a Linux version...
There's another reason for these "ghost jobs" that isn't even mentioned here: bypassing employment regulations against wage dumping.

For H1B (US) and most of EU worker visa, employers have to prove that they had open positions for domestic candidates that they couldn't fill in a reasonable time - so they keep up these postings and reject/frustrate domestic applications for long enough to hire someone from overseas at barely above minimum wage.

On top of that... some companies have burned the bridge so far by exploiting their employees that they legitimately can't find anyone willing to work there any more.
Gross. If this is how you think, maybe DEI is needed for more than just legal cover.
Probably not to the degree that law is bimodal, but there's certainly a different distribution of salaries in the big tech and venture capital companies than there is in "everywhere else".

If someone got an offer from Facebook and puts it on the table, there is no way to compete with that as anything other than another big tech company. There's no way that say... Jack's Links ( https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/JackLinksProteinSnacks/7439... ) can compete with working at a big tech company.

This also goes for interviewing. I've seen new grads (back in the boomier times) say "I have an offer with {big tech co}" part way through the interview and say "ok" and stop the process since there's really no point in going on - the smaller shop better uses their time interviewing other candidates that may accept.
Not necessarily. A lot of people other than engineers work in AWS, ad tech and twitch.
I think you and me are different people frankly. I’ve never had to worry about being called a racist, or a fascist, or a nazi, because I’m receptive to feedback. I earnestly think social media feeds are a really low stakes way to be informed you come off as a nazi to a large enough group of people that they decided to ban you instead of talking it out. And frankly it makes no sense to me that if someone informs me I come off as a hardline, non-negotiable nazi that I shouldn’t at least take 0.02 seconds to ensure I’m not the asshole.

Like I said before I would rather learn it off a github pr than my boss firing me or my partner divorcing me or my child enstranging.
>> it's probably too bad to drive safely in.

Ya, well one still has to get to work. "Safe driving" is slow but unless the roads are actually closed then most of us still have to get to work.
Frankly, because most CS graduates don't actually care about CS. This was even the case when I was in college nearly two decades ago. After the 90s, CS programs grew very quickly at pretty much every institution across the US, because CS programs were a great way for the school to make money and for students to get jobs that made good money, which is the primary motivator for most of the people involved. My experience in college was most of the instructors were not all that gifted in the topics they were teaching, and the rest of the students just wanted the paper so they could get the job so they could get paid, hardly anyone at any layer of the CS program were actually interested in computers.

I doubt that this situation has changed much in the intervening time, if anything it's likely gotten significantly worse. So, it stands to reason that most CS graduates actually don't care about programming, computers, computer science, or anything related, but see this as a pathway to get ahead in life via a decent paying office job that has a high probability of remote work in their lifetime. There were 3 people (including myself) out of around 450 people in the CS program I attended that seemed to actually care about knowing how computers really worked, and all three of us went on to have pretty lucrative careers, I have no idea how the other 347 people ended up, because I didn't associate more than required with folks who thought college was mostly about getting black out drunk and still getting the paper at the end of the experience.

At least for me, my observation has been that the folks who actually cared all did quite well, and these were often the folks who actually put in the effort to do internships and co-ops or contributed to open source software during their time in college. If you are concerned with the skills of intern candidates, I'd suggest either things have degraded far beyond expectations from a few decades ago, or alternatively they have strong skills in areas of CS that you aren't looking at. I know a lot more about at least one topic than anyone I meet, and I presume anyone I meet knows a lot more about at least one topic than I do. CS has become a much broader field in the time since I was in college, and it's very reasonable to believe that students now who care deeply about CS also care about different things than I did. I spent a lot of time messing with network programming and getting interested in information security, these days I imagine someone might be more interested in things like optimizing web-assembly or building cross-platform applications using react-native, and learning these more "front-end" things deeply, vs focusing on systems programming concepts. For many people, the browser basically is their operating system.
So any default services bind to raw sockets?

I can't think of any... Which in turn means that most systems probably aren't vulnerable. On windows I think you need admin rights to open a raw socket, which means that only admins can pwn the machine...
From my experience from years ago, once the ad revenue reached certain threshold, it was limited or reduced afterwards to never reach that threshold again.

For instance, website of someone I know was growing and at one point got £1500 from ads in a month. The next month it has dropped to £500 and never gone over £600, no matter how big of the traffic was hitting the site.

That was revenue for about 500k monthly unique users (EU, UK, US, no dodgy traffic).

It's like an artificial cap was placed on that account.

Finding companies to advertise directly was difficult, because they already used established platforms and were reluctant to deal directly.

And so small business eventually died.
> What do you think about "world leaders" flying jets to meet at conferences and events to agree that commoners have to reduce emissions, when they could have used a telephone and video camera?

I believe we don't require complete elimination of air traffic to hit climate goals and would be restricting it LAST for government use anyway.

So this might be an indicator of too few incentives against air traffic at the very most.

> In any case, the environment doesn't care who emits what ton of CO2 or what humans might be hypocrites about it.

The environment does not care about where the CO2 is emitted, but WE need to if we want to reduce it effectively.

It is VERY obviously MUCH easier and viable to save 1 ton of CO2 per year for a single American (with a baseline of ~15tons/year) than it is to save 200kg each for 5 Indian rice farmers with a baseline of 2 tons/capita. Because for the rice farmer, that might be "no heating during winter", while for the rich westerner it means "a smaller second car for children/wife instead of another SUV".

As long as EU/US emissions are higher per capita they have absolutely ZERO moral standing to argue for harsher regulations in developing nations, and this is pretty much already clear to everyone involved.

> They're absolutely trying to boost population numbers, they explicitly out and say it.

Pretty much every "western nation" has close to zero or negative population growth pre-immigration. This makes the governments job harder because they have to deal with demographic change (=> pensions) and second order effects (like cultural rifts from compensating immigration). That is already more than enough motivation to keep population growth somewhat up, CO2/capita considerations never even enter the picture.

It is also EXTREMELY doubtful that boosting the population in EU/US would help with CO2/capita numbers in any significant way in the first place, because CO2 emissions mostly correlate with WEALTH much more strongly than population density or somesuch, which governments are typically not in favor of decreasing for highly obvious reasons :P
I thought programming was outside the scope of CS - you know, they're the theory guys and programming is implementation. I've worked as a developer for 25 years and have never even heard of relational algebra. Also only use concurrency at the language level as an absolute last resort - if there is a performance issue, I can usually solve it in a way that is simpler by splitting the program up. I've hired 2/3 of my interns for the summer and wouldn't expect any of them to know this stuff.
Perhaps the creators have better things to do and ran the service till it was no longer viable.

Which seems entirely reasonable for a free service?
> might be impossible depending ... children

Bakfiets[1][2] FTW!! I lived with my two young (under 10) children in Amsterdam for one year without car relying 90% on Bakfiets and occasional Uber rides. After a brief period of teething issues it worked out perfect, even in winters/rains. I used the non-e-bike version as I didn't want to splurge on Urbanarrow about which I kept hearing raving reviews.

[1] https://www.bakfiets.com

[2] https://urbanarrow.com
>Sometimes I feel guilty about using an ad blocker on sites I like

Put it differently, sometimes you feel guilty about not allowing the sites you like to abuse your computer.

That feeling doesn’t seem healthy to me, tbh.
I can't speak for gold, but in 1942 the Treasury lent 14,700 tons of silver to the Manhattan project; they only lost about 3-4 kg of it.
You sound like you’ve never worked in recruiting or spoken closely with someone who has.
this inevitably turns into an argument over the definition of "realistic" that then in turn becomes an argument over hope/positivity-vs-doomer that then inevitably turns into an argument over values.

with that caveat out of the way, here are some examples from other people you can mull around as you ponder the scope and scale.

#1 the IPCC themselves. As part of AR6 one of its reports is on mitigation options: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/sixth-assessment-report-working-g...

#2 - Bernie, if elected, wanted to start a 'green new deal' jobs program that would re-direct most of the military budget as well as greatly increase federal spending such that somewhere in the vicinity of 1.5T/year would be spent on the transition. The hope was that in de-escalating our global military presence he could also entice china into a grand bargain that involved them putting more of their military budget into it as well. Again regardless of your opinion on the realisticness of it, its worth recognizing as one of the only people and plans that got the scope and scale correct.

#3 - https://drawdown.org/ Drawdown isn't a policy so much as a menu of options that have been explored, studied, modeled, quantified and ranked.
"This, this and this are bad so the topic we are discussing doesn't really matter. Just deal with being excluded and demonized" It's disturbing that people excuse this toxic pattern of online disenfranchisement that repeats itself over and over again.
In a world before the web, and when a modem cost more than a computer, it's hard to overstate how important these tapes were for getting access to new software. They were horribly slow to load from and barely contained any data, but wow they were exciting!
> Not in Sweden and we have less accidents than Germany.

I don't think you got the memo where everyone seems to think getting blind drunk and then getting on an electric scooter is totally ok "in Sweden".

I've had a few near-misses myself with crazy drunk riders on pedestrian streets in central Stockholm; I once interviewed a job-candidate with a cut-up face who laughingly told us he'd crashed a scooter with two(!) friends on the back after a drink night; a friend of mine smashed their hip after a night drinking and then jumping on a scooter.

The rules may be there. The actual reality is different.
Is your point that sometimes people get predictions wrong?
Internally Windows 2000 was WinNT 5.0. The marketing name doesn’t have to reflect software versions.
I know this goes against everything, but why not monetize using the proven subscription model?

With 45m visitors a month if you converted .5% of those to stay at $5 a month you're making $1.125 million a month.

It seems like there's a pending backlog of lawsuits that the founders have likely maintained their distance from the platform for. Nobody, no matter how rich you are, throws away a golden goose.
Seems the halcyon days in tech are coming to an end pretty quickly. Maybe when the inflation starts dying down faster + the AI craze will continue to even greater heights then we'll see it coming back in full swing.

Either way it is almost certain that a large amount of people working in these companies don't contribute much to the generated income and now the executives have been given an excuse to perform mass layoffs without scaring off the shareholders.
> Bad manager isn't an excuse you get to use for not working. Coworkers are depending on you.

Correction: Unless you're working in some kind of cooperative, which you almost certainly are not, it's actually the shareholders who are depending on you. Your coworkers only depend on you to the extent that they're also dedicated to serving the shareholders.
It probably would have been in worse shape. SJ needed the time to mature.

Don’t forget that as late as 1993, Apple was worth more than MS and it was going back and forth with HP to be the number one PC seller. Things started going south around the time of Windows 95 - only two years before he came back.
Do they not know or are they bad at interviewing? Twenty years out of college and I still remember my first interview (it was that bad). Where I went to college Databases was an elective, but I did take it. Interviewer asked a real softball "What is a Join?", I froze and couldn't answer it.

Needless to say I didn't get that job. I still do poorly at interviews, but I have gotten a little better.