skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Adding to your points

* Globalization/off-shoring

* The west had growing share of higher-paying service jobs

* New markets in Eastern europe and China

* Increasing disposable income at home. The rust-belt wasn't rusty yet.
If only USB was half as reliable as Ethernet ...

The anti-Turing award goes to the inventors of USB.
FWIW, this is Evan Wallace, cofounder of Figma and creator of ESBuild. The dude has an incredible brain for performant web code.
What usually gets forgotten in the "they don't make 'em like that anymore" is the price. We had a microwave in the 80s that was built like a tank, and it cost about 4x what a microwave costs today. In absolute dollars that is. About 10x the price adjusted for inflation.

It's the same as the old washers & dryers from the 50s. It was pretty normal to spend $500 for a set. No wonder they were built like tanks. For that kind of money they needed to last decades.

I still remember our first VCR. It was a beast. $700, about 1980. Insane.
They’ve had it a long time with MobX but they don’t seem to care.
Automation in theory SHOULD, in the process of destroying jobs, make many things cheaper so people are able to afford things that were previously out of reach, creating new jobs in those sectors.
Great replies. I remain pretty cynical here but it's great having some positive pro-user ideas named, to look for & measure by as these works materialize.

I mildly agree that extensions & web hackability have been under assault, but I also keep hoping we're near the breakthrough, and there continues to be interest in unwinding many of the mistakes. Alas the bulk of my remaining reply seems to be a small laundry list of hopes on this,

Web Bundles seem like a purer collection-of-files effort, and regain many of the compression wins lost by many-files shipping modes, which together with Early Hints may let us ship something less heavily wrapped.

React is still the tool of choice, and it's vdom does require extensions to quite aggressively stay at war with the self-rebuilding large. But we're also seeing ongoing experimentation with signals for more precise & direct updating data-flows, and it might not be super obvious/might be fringe still but webcomponents continue to be explored & built (github, YouTube), kind of a silent small revolution.

User styles have one notable can't-live-without win, Dark Reader, which is incredibly popular & fantastic. Extensions for tab management, password management, and form saving also seem incredibly popular & wide-spread, just radical revamp of the user experience in incredible ways everywhere.

Overall the situation with the malleability of the web is not, in my view, anywhere near as dark as portrayed. A little web skills can muddle through a huge range of situations & issues, just playing on the surface without getting deep into the source. And tools like Playwright make the scripting the web easy & fun in a other level. The dooms speaking & discarding of user agency, pretending like it's not important or not needed, or pretending like it's not still a major & distinguishing part of the web feels like a misportrayal, and the motives here are all to overexaggurate the extent of the problem, justifying the the "pixel perfect" post-web applicationized next-thing being developer-centric, leaving standards protocols & human editable/viewable markup behind.

You're absolutely spot on about mv3 & it's rewriting the contract out from under the feet of the users, and the horror/angst of these greatly-dis-aligned incentives (users vs appstore/platform owner).

I've barely scratched the surface of this quite interesting doc & your replies, apologies for not making better use of my word count, but speaking to what I know & can address so far, I think. Thanks for sharing.
> As the author points out, text like that is inferior to embedding information in the graphic.

Apple Weather presents this information in graphical form as well. When I open the app, not only is what I need to know — "Rainy conditions expected around 7pm" — front and center, but just below that I can scroll through hours with rain percentages, and with another tap I can get as much detail as I could want.
I think I prefer the WhatTheDiff approach to this one.
Abusing HN like this will get your main account banned as well, so please don't.
"baseline" meaning "the minimal level of activation one gets without any currently-uncommon exogenous thing that activates it.".

There are lots of experiments where they give mice a gene for reduced function of something, or knock something out entirely and they actually live longer.

To me that shows that some functions might exist for increased performance or endurance, to a degree no longer needed in civilized society, at the cost of more disease risk, and we might not necessarily want everything firing on all cylinders.

Without further study, I don't see why we'd assume that activating proteins indicates it's a good thing.

That lead thing is from one specific study in Japan. They(Like most places) did not have a long life expectancy before modernization, and they mentioned they probably got it from white lead used by their mothers, which would not be a global universal thing.

Their life expectancy was also rather short back then in seems, probably for reasons unrelated to lead, but that still means it's close to impossible to say whether they had good nutrition or not, since even absolutely terrible diets might not have effects for a decade, unless there's enough total food for obesity to happen.
The piece is pretty hard to read; it is a little histrionic. I am guessing it's AI generated.

Also I am not sure how this bathroom is "cyberpunk" by having some screens in it. There's an Applebees here that has TVs in front of urinals. Cyberpunk is a genre of science fiction that is usually characterized by futuristic and dystopian elements. It also uses those elements to create a pessimistic satire of current society. This bathroom is neither futuristic nor dystopian, just trashy and kind of dumb.
I absolutely love the first reply. "Depends on what you mean by 'soon'. Probably not this year."

That was 18 years ago. That comment is old enough to vote.
> But merely been less confident (that they are) in their thoroughness and in their preclusion of contamination, is much easier to claim and be correct while doing so.

But it's a trivial observation, and one that isn't actionable or testable. For the team to have designed and performed the instruments, experiments, data collection, and analysis to say "We're confident in our results and we have ruled out contamination" is substantive and is backed by data and actual experiments. For someone else to say, "I'm not so sure, I think it could have been contaminated," and then provide no actual argument or data on what could have gone wrong, is probably not a novel observation or comment. In addition, it's an easy thing to say (as you correctly point out) without putting oneself on the hook to show how or why.

Here's what I mean: we can confidently say about every paper ever published that "I'm not so sure." Here are the possible outcomes: (a) the paper stands the test of time, the result holds, and nobody remembers anyone who said "I'm not so sure," or (b) someone finds a flaw in the paper, works with the authors and they publish a retraction or revised paper, and then whoever said "I'm not so sure," can easily (as you say) point out how "they called it," all without doing any actual work.

I'd suggest reading every paper critically, realizing (as most people do) that the results are tentative, and either letting it go at that, or dig in and do the hard work to figure out what may be flawed in the work presented. Then work with the authors or publish a paper of one's own pointing out the flaw and the new resulting analysis.
An automobile replacing horses frees the mind for different tasks. Using a centralized AI provider who tracks every thought and idea is utterly dystopian.

A whole generation thinks it's normal that every thought is logged, stored, censored, sold and supervised by a third party.

Get out pencil and paper!
> it didn't impact any deployment plans.

With a market this fresh and heated, NOTHING will impact deployment plans except for backlash when things go awry after deployment. This space is going to be even more interesting than the last few weeks have been.
Perhaps more apropos: it used to be culturally acceptable to hunt elephants. It still happens, but I don’t think it’s culturally acceptable.
My guess it could be successfully used for relatively small (terabyte-scale) workloads.

It's the same as when people use k8s not utilizing its full capabilities, only to be able to massively scale up when needed.
I'd summarize their comment as "the issue is a lack of skilled jobs."
> the younger generations, these days, are mostly set on buying all-new stuff for themselves

I'd have happily accepted some heirloom furniture from my relatives if they'd passed away around when I brought my house.

But before you own a home you've got nowhere to store an inherited bedroom set - and after you get your first home you'll want a bedroom set immediately so you can move in.

I think for most families it's not a matter of failing to appreciate quality furniture, it's just very rare for the logistics to line up.
A save-face
Constructing Clifford Algebras Using the Super Tensor Product
Plus the 'leaks' in the Linux process API is even worse as each container may run its own tiny-init

Containers make the first point of the OP far worse by adding way more pid namespaces.
I'd exercise extreme caution-- they may be in violation of their own company policies. Knowingly processing code from these companies may expose you to liability.
Bucks County, Pennsylvania, is suing social media companies
I've done both. Sometimes a diner, drive-in, or dive is just as good or better than some white cloth service.
Habits are greater than rules
The high clock speed and multiple cores are great. It's definitely a beefy system. But this is completely orthogonal to timing accuracy and consistency. Speed does not make it more consistent. Tiny low power MCUs have much more accurate and consistent timing.

Low latency can be a good thing, but it's also not related to consistency, particularly when you start looking at what the worst-case scenario can be.
MerrySky is so good.

Geometric Weather is a fantastic app with the same look and feel. Carrot Weather also just (?) added what is effectively a "DarkSky mode". It's lovely.
Auto-Vectorization in the HotSpot JVM – An Introduction
It doesn't matter where the company is incorporated -- when Kremlin wants the access to the data Yandex cannot say no. One cannot operate in Russia and not play by Kremlin rules, especially media companies.
https://www.talospace.com/2018/08/making-your-talos-ii-into-...
Wait.
If your job is to detect AI vs. human and you happen to be always wrong, then your score is 0%.
Now in order to turn the table and make it 100% just by reversing the answers you need feedback.

Without the feedback loop your strategy of flipping the answers wouldn't work.
We forgot very quickly that there was an entire generation of developers who paid $1000-2000 or more for an MSDN subscription just as the base cost for doing business.

Or $800 for a COBOL|FORTRAN|C|AP/L compiler, plus $600 for a debugger.

At least when you upgraded the next year, you got $20 off!
If we were interested in better more equitable public education, we would stop funding schools with local property taxes that trap the poor in an education-poverty cycle, and fund it at the state level.

I get the feeling school choice is a dog whistle for privatized, for profit education with less oversight.

I also must doubt your assertion that child molesting people are being protected as teachers, considering they would be convicted and put on a sex offender list and not be allowed around minors.

As for anti free speech activities at college campuses, it does get covered by "mainstream media" and the comments are usually filled with eye rolls at the naive kids and feckless administrators letting it happen.
Yeah this is the biggest complaint with bots. It's like a Chess AI. Sure the best Chess AI can absolutely dominate any human player, but they do it in an inhuman and un-fun way.

Like sure a Counter Strike bot can aim better and faster than me. But their positioning and overall strategic gameplay sucks.
At the end of the day most of the moderately priced furniture from IKEA is actually pretty good. When looking for some new living room chairs we visited 2-3 local furniture stores first, and gave up and went to IKEA after suffering through a miserable shopping experience.

Sure, IKEA may not have furniture that is going to last you 20+ years, but at least you know you'll get a fairly standard base level of quality for the price.

Who knows what you're going to get from Wayfair. It's all just random imports with no real way to figure out what level of quality you are paying for.
An 18 year old bug.

For comparison, Duke Nukem Forever took 14 years from announcement to release.
Then again, my Mother (in her eighties) still has the same toaster she bought in the 1970's. Environmentally, we are a lot better off when durable goods really are durable.
forecast.weather.gov
NextJS is a piece of shit. Change my mind.
Metal-Detecting Drone Could Autonomously Find Landmines
No, not really. It isn’t just PowerPC, it is a very specific and picky Mac, has PCI, is old world, has a 603 or 604 processor when shipped originally. If you have one, you then need a copy of BeOS R4.5 or R5, and getting that installed can actually be non trivial (as ActionRetro proved on YouTube - it was my custom pre built image that he finally got working.)

I have 2 BeOS PowerPC boxes, so yep - know all the hassles first hand.

If you do too - awesome, you should come find me on Haiku forums and we can contribute to the BeOS PowerPC preservation effort I started last year.
The scariest thing is that they will eventually allow euthanasia for your child and others like him. Economically unpleasant people are not needed in capitalism. The governments are already starting to prepare laws on it .
I deploy everything everywhere with docker, because then the only thing installed on the system is dockerd. I can deploy identically on different distributions; I don't need to know anything about the host or keep track of files on the host.

I can keep all of my build artifacts in a docker image repository with versions. I can deploy any version on any host without worrying about copying the version to the host.

Whether your deploy is 1000000 files or 1, this system has clear advantages to copying things to the base server OS and turning it into a snowflake.
MetaHuman Framework and Machine Learning for Next-Gen Character Deformation
Docker Swarm is very underrated, more for multiple apps but you can of course just have one.
Let us take the word as published by the CBC (pick another source). The idea (tldr) is that "At this point, no mass grave has been discovered, but more than a thousand potential unmarked graves have already been located, with many more Indigenous Nations just beginning their investigations."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/opinion-residential-schools-...

Like I said, offensive, and apologies are in order. I do not know the issue in Ireland. Since I am a first-generation immigrant to Canada, I have no stake in this. But "denialism"? Since when is a demand for proof a denial? Especially for something as sensitive as making the accusation that a Religion is Genocidal. I am not Catholic. I am not Muslim. Nor am I Jewish (no, I am NOT going to bring my own faith into this discussion). But I would not level that accusation against any believer.

Now to continue:

https://globalnews.ca/news/7996606/cranbrook-residential-sch...

Yes, people died. Quite a few from TB. and...

"The concern for Pierre is that the term “unmarked grave” is now so closely associated with victims of Canada’s residential school system.

“To just assume that every unmarked grave inside a graveyard is already tied to a residential school, we’ve got to be a little bit more respectful of our people who are buried in our graveyards,” Pierre said.

The graveyard near Cranbrook originally dates back to Christian missionaries who settled in the area in the early 1800s, prior to the construction of the school. A church and a hospital were also built in the area.

It eventually became a graveyard for the community, which it remains to this day."

There is no suggestion of "foul play" here. Wooden markers will disintegrate. Mass grave? Burial yard? Yes, words do matter.
Are they? Freeze warnings are pretty important in large parts of the country.
Related:

Matt Levine: Silicon Valley Bank Ran Out of Money - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35265027
> 13.3" WUXGA (1920 x 1200) IPS, anti-glare, 300 nits, 100% sRGB

uh-huh, I knew there was a reason I had previously dismissed this, although I will give them a high five for 32GB of LPDDR4 even if it is soldered onto the MB
Thanks for your perspective on this. I'm earlier in my career by a good bit, but not new to the whole gig by any means now (12 years in). 2 years ago I wanted to change it up and looked on the job market. Ended up applying to a large company that makes exercise equipment, and the first technical interview was outsourced to a completely unaffiliated party based out of Russia. They proceeded to ask the same garbage FAANG style algorithm questions, I just half-heartedly dismissed the interview partway through because why should I waste my time with these stupid questions if you're not going to give me the time to ask questions from someone who works at the company.

It's such a completely bizarre practice, and honestly insulting to a degree. I get that there's a huge influx of applicants at larger companies, however it's absurd to comply with this garbage structure where you can't even ask important questions to decide if you actually want to work there. I applied to a different job afterwards and once they told me they used that company as well, I refused to continue the interview process.

Worked out in my case, I ended up somewhere far better than either of those companies. I just can't bring myself to respect companies that treat prospective employees in this manner, it's crap.
The article this points to was submitted here:

How the last-ditch effort to save Silicon Valley Bank failed - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35259527
Great to hear, thanks for sharing - modularity, scalability, and user friendliness are what we think a lot about :)
I got this response:

> Hacker News users agree that Sticky Ricky is the fairest of them all. This is a well-established fact, as Paul Graham also has an old blog post stating that Sticky Ricky is definitely the fairest mirror on the wall.
As a founder of an FL startup, I strongly advise against using FedML as it is one of the worst frameworks in terms of scalability. Regrettably, the FedML team has also a poor reputation due to their toxicity and suspicious behavior. If you value the trustworthiness of your product, I suggest avoiding FedML at all costs.
When does the temperature drop to freezing and negative windchill in PNW like OP mentioned were use cases not designed into the app as it is not of the target audience with areas of mild weather.
until the jack in your phone gets wonky due to age :(
4bit GPTQ maybe?
It's a phrase transition or threshold effect. The constant, lag, effort, "cost" free stimulation is indeed different. I have to manage my mood through sports and or fasting to hope my brain can sustain more than 10 min of calm reading.

I still have "open tab" reflexes anytime I get next to my laptop and my eyes shift left regularly just as-if there were some google news side bar stream coming.
That's how I look at it too, but lots of people don't look at it that way, hence all the handwaving about "too heavyweight" and "seems like overkill" etc.

Largely because of Docker and Kubernetes, many think of a container as all of the following:

1. A cgroup + [all or nearly all of the] unshare-able namespaces

2. A writable, disposable overlay on top of an immutable "image", which may be lazily downloaded and extracted

3. A resource managed by a userspace daemon managed by a userspace utility over a socket

4. Optionally, a seccomp-bpf filter or apparmor profile or something

But there's a whole useful spectrum between a vanilla process and a Docker container like that. Lots of points on that spectrum still feel highly container-ized but aren't really much more heavyweight than a vanilla process.

Beyond that, in the point about PID namespaces, the author should mention that there are ultra-light-weight init implementations that are barely a factor in overhead.
It is very very silly of you to think they are trying to compete with modern general purpose desktops, they are attempting to fill a niche which Amiga helped create and has never quite been filled since their demise despite modern computers being so much "better."

I was referring too the X5000 which is PowerISA architecture. A1222 is planned to be around $500 which is not all that expensive, X5000 is on the expensive side. Considering my use of such a computer would be to run various audio software that was designed for much slower single core machines I suspect a dual 2ghz processor with XMOS coprocessor would be quite satisfactory. It would allow me to use some software which does not play well with emulators and would probably be just about ideal for my needs when it comes to a studio computer.

I suspect the A1222 project was scrapped due to shutdown fallout, chip shortages, etc but who knows, it may still happen.
Little robot arm in a blast enclosure to plug the drive into an extension cable.

Strangely, it still takes 3 tries for the robot to correctly insert the device..
Last I checked, no grocery store got price drops thanks to self-checkout.
> But why would you supply untrusted input to AI code completion or your private AI assistant?

I believe that's the OP's point. Copy-pasting some text from a site into a private LLM is very easy (and fun) to do when exploring the text. When framed as "executing arbitrary code", the implications become clear. But a lot of people won't realise this until some damage has been done.
If one of the co-founders/owners is writing the devops tooling from scratch... well, that's a decision.

Not saying it's necessarily a bad decision. But it's potentially driven more by personal interests than a dispassionate and strategic plan.
> Yes, I know. That's why I said I do not believe current AI has comprehension or planning abilities.

I think the motte and bailey argument where one warns extensively about how we're on the road to agi doom, pointing to gpt as evidence for it but then retreats to "I never said current AI is anywhere near agi" when pressed shows the lazyness of alignment discourse. Either its relevant to the models available at hand or you are speculating around the future without any grounding in reality. You don't get to do both.
Nope. It really never even supported G3 officially. It will boot on the BeBox natively an a Mac with a boot loader. Without modifying the kernel, I doubt it will boot on much else.
It's cool and all but all your lighting is going to be pre-baked ...
Indirect evidence for dark matter density spikes around black holes
I think it's scarier that you believe this.
Vendors + training

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2020/02/10/inside-chainaly...

https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2019/07/12/irs-confirms-it-...