skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking at etsy or the long list of artists on Spotify putting out music without hitting the mainstream radio, I'm not convinced the world has converged everywhere. I have far more variety that appeals to me available to me than ever before - and so does a person with opposite tastes.

Expensive to build or change things have - houses or cars - but art or more commodity products have fractured.

The people/media one is the author's biggest blind spot here: there is still a dominant mainstream that people are chasing, but it's audience is smaller than before. I think this is why they chase the same thing more aggressively. So your "bestsellers" look alike, but more people are reading random shit that would never crack that list in the past either. Selling to a niche is precisely the opposite of what gets you in the bestseller list, but the niches I like have SO MUCH STUFF available now. The non-mainstream has fractured, making the remaining mainstream look more similar to chase a narrower segment. The most watched TV shows now have a far lower percentage of the country watching, and also have more variety in what the cast as a whole looks like, whether that's hairstyle or tattoos or piercings or whatnot.

EDIT: here's an experiment to try to demonstrate. Tell me how many of those lookalike movie and book poster/cover images you've watched. And how many you'd watch more of.

Movies: I've seen 0 of those (I'm not a horror fan anyway, but I've seen a couple in the last five years, Hereditary and The Invisible Man, and they didn't look like those posters).

Self-help books: I've read 0.

I haven't been reading any Danielle Steele, John Grisham, Kathryn Stockett, or Stieg Larsson in the last 15 years either... but Grisham was much more common in my circle, and I read some, in the 90s. I had less fewer options! I read over 30 books last year, and none of them popped up in this article...
> are there really hours worth of travel in the netherlands?

By car, yeah. By bike? You're crazy -- but totally doable.

If you wanted to hit all the major population centers (Maastricht, Nijmegen, Enschede, Groningen, Amsterdam, Den Hague, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Eindhoven), you'd be driving for about 10-12 hours ... with lots of boring farmland in between.
The fastest way to get started is to watch Blender Guru's excellent beginner donut series.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjEaoINr3zgFX8ZsChQVQ...
I recommend starting right out of the gate with a modest project goal in mind, such as something neat to 3d print, or a simulation of interesting gears turning.

The period where you feel like you’re progressing the least and struggling the most is actually when you’re learning fastest.
I haven't and maybe I should, thanks for the tip. I love Django (and have proudly contributed a handful lines of code!) but unless I'm doing simple CRUD type admin-like apps, I probably won't go there again these days.
> just edit that dang config file under /etc.

Using syncthing as an example do search here instead first:

https://search.nixos.org/options?channel=22.11&from=0&size=5...

Or say you are using home-manager for something like neovim, use this options search:

https://mipmip.github.io/home-manager-option-search/

and search "programs.neovim".
One a scale of 1 to 10, how much did good timing with regard to equity play into your overall comp?
the push towards homogenous zeitgest has always existed. I think what's more accentuated in the modern times, is the world-wide convergence because we have made communication across vast geographical areas instantenous. with modern phones, and internet, everyone everywhere pretty much has visual access to the same things. Now convergence is not just local, it's global in scope.
you certainly make an interesting point about fact and falsehood and how they interpret language; however, I disagree that this is relevant and completely disagree that personification has any relevance to the most immediate dangers

the danger here is that we make extremely powerful tools extremely available and people use those tools to hurt people, possibly a lot of people, possibly even by accident

the scary part is that hacker news is full of the exact people that have the knowledge and capability to do this, and look at the reaction to this post: a resounding fuck off
You don't just develop existential dread about climate change out of nowhere. First comes awareness, in this case the younger generation grew up being educated about climate change.
Then you get exacerbation/increased attention - in this case social media and traditional media which have fuelled doomsday rhetoric and alarmism in general. Not to say that it isn't a big issue, it's massive; but doesn't help that we're feeding young minds with constant negative stimuli about how we're all going to die and there's nothing we can do about the problem.
I'm poor. Please don't sell me things.
Notably, though, the charts start showing massive growth in depression around 2012, which was long before Dobbs.

And there are some trends in the opposite direction - iirc hormonal birth control used to be much harder to get (telehealth has made the prescription requirement much less onerous), and anecdotally nowadays it seems a lot easier to get info on sterilization or methods for intentionally changing menstruation (ex. skipping the placebo week).

I'm not saying Dobbs doesn't matter, only that I both 1) doubt it's a central driver of the trend, and 2) think [outside the world of news/social media] most women can still expect more rights & a higher quality of care in most US locations than they could a decade or two ago.
There’s a forbidden meat conspicuously missing from their talking points… one that contains every nutrient needed by the human body… the perfect food…. The… most dangerous game…
Replacing applause with Jazz Hands was a remarkably big topic a few years ago.

https://globalnews.ca/news/4512283/jazz-hands-to-replace-cla...

For one example.

I don't think it ever got to the point of "we aren't ever allowed to clap at events", but it certainly seems like there were people who were pushing for that
Vanilla is comfort.

Ads are more like the smell of old cigarette smoke and urine.
I disagree with this bitching that rich states are “subsidizing” the poor “handout” states through federal progressive taxes. This is how progressive taxation is supposed to work, and it would be clearly insensitive and arguably incorrect for a rich individual in the rich state to complain that he is subsidizing the poor person in a poor state. Rich states collect rents from winner-take-all markets that serve the nation, and it is good pro-equality policy to return some of the wealth back with the rest of the country to reduce inequality and promote opportunity.

Edit: to respond to the comment below: I’m not arguing that local taxes should be low; in fact, I think property taxes should be much higher and fairer in California. My point is that the federal government should not provide a federal tax break for local spending e.g. on education. The coasts already do too much opportunity hoarding.
I didn't, but my next OS won't be Ubuntu for the same reasons.
TLDR convergent evolution is a thing.
The race to the bottom has taken a lot of brightness out of the world, its quite sad imo.

Anecdotally, my home town replaced a three way intersection with a nice roundabout and then put up a little art piece in the center of it. People complained to the heavens about a minor expenditure on an art installation when the money could have gone to, who knows, resurfacing a half block of sidewalk? Not everything needs to be so drab and utilitarian, yet despite the supposed massive output of the economy we've built, we must scrimp and pay bottom dollar for every last thing.
Before there were good times and bad times. The 40s saw the worst destruction imaginable, practically apocalyptic, while the 50s were all sunshine and automobiles (depending on who you ask of course). Now we live in a world of constant low level turmoil, never disrupting the flow of information and goods, but seemingly irresolvable too.
The workflow difference starts to matter more than actual features, where for me the workflow for modelling in Blender is miles ahead than what you get in something like Unreal Engine.

Secondary and more technical, not everything has to or can be real-time rendered, and for that Blender is probably still king of the two, where Unreal Engine is optimized for real-time.

There are things you can only do in Blender, and vice-versa, so what the right tool is will as always depend on the job.
Thank you for quoting this passage. My mind is spinning after reading it.
Many of the names that come to mind when mentioning Linux-native laptops like system76 and Tuxedo Computers use Clevo as their ODM. They make some tweaks to the hardware and might change the firmware, but at the end of the day, they're still Clevo complete with aforementioned warts (like 16:9 screens and questionable build quality). There are exceptions like Starlabs Systems and Purism, but they're the exception and not the norm.
It always made sense to me as a subsidy to states and local municipalities, who would otherwise might rely on a much more inefficient process of asking for federal funds to make obligations to their citizens like schools and infrastructure a reality. The rich people can (and often do) move for tax reasons, so I don’t see it as a handout to them. I do see it as a subsidy to states who want to run more of their own infrastructure and function as the “laboratories of democracy”
If Linux only works on Linux only hardware, then Linux enthusiasts should stop preaching to the Average Joes that it's the year of the Linux and everyone can easily switch from Windows to Linux and everything "just works(TM)", if that isn't completely true, or just be openly honest about the caveats from the start, as most people switching to Linux aren't going to buy new machines just for Linux, but will most likely seek to reuses existing ones they have.

And many people in many markets don't have easy access to buying linux specific laptops. A HP, Dell or Lenovo is much easier to find around the world, and most importantly, easier to get service for it when it breaks versus boutique Linux laptop makers like Slimbook, System76, Framework, etc.
Nice, glad the link was helpful!

I’m similar, webdev since the pre-jQuery days, and hate framework churn. Tailwind is kind of like jQuery in that it gives a consistency layer that CSS was missing (just like jQuery gave a better way to interact with the DOM).

Either way you find it, glad you’ll be giving it a shot!
The more struggle Linux users have with snaps, flatpaks, appimages, and whatever their native package management system's quirks are, the more they will appreciate switching to NixOS one day, which IMHO is "the only sane Linux" as it's already definitively solved this problem. Join me in shaking my head at all this from the finish line...

And honestly, I get it. I avoided it for years (it's 20 years old now!!) mostly because the nix language and words like "derivations" scared me*, until a year ago after hopping distros for quite a while (hmmm Elementary, Pop_OS, Ubuntu, Manjaro, Arch...) and after a month where I had both a bricking AND a seemingly-unsolvable interdependency build problem, I got mad and decided to take a deep breath and check out https://nixos.org/

* here, let me immediately solve that fear: Nix interactive language tour, it's like JSON with syntax sugar and pure functions: https://nixcloud.io/tour/ . And a "derivation"? That's basically a "lockfile" for a particular package, if you know what that is (and you probably do). Except it existed before the concept of "lockfiles", so it got that name.
Salem kids formed the first ever Mickey Mouse Club in the nation in 1929
That weird chart, with the "Environment/Resources/History" inputs and the "Transformational Process" of "Culture/Work/People/Structure", is called the "Nadler-Tushman Congruence Model" and it has, like, actual papers written about it for places like the "Journal of Organisational Transformation & Social Change": https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=nadler-tushman+congruen...

I lack the awareness of the field to judge whether it expresses something profound or is absolute bullshit.
This is not quite correct. If you receive a large cash gift you may be subject to income tax on that money. This is a separate issue from The Gift Giver claiming a deduction on their taxes. The gift tax is a transfer tax, and my understanding is that it could be paid in theory by either party.

Most people don't want to pay income tax or a windfall tax on the gift so it makes more sense for the Giver to pay the transfer tax

https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...
As I said 5 days ago about ChatGPT plugins:

> Now just one step away from charging businesses for access to the chatGPT users.

> Instant links from inside chatGPT to your website are the new equivalent of Google search ads.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35278539
I bought my first EV by trading in my Prius and writing a $27 check. Had I paid cash, it would be have been about $7k (for a 2017 Fiat 500e in 2020).

I bought my second EV for $39,995 out the door, and then got a $7500 tax credit, reducing my net cost to $32,495. That one is a 2023 Chevy Bolt EUV.

I'm not sure which is the best car I've ever owned, but they're in positions 1 and 2 in some order.
Degrowth is about structuring the economy to meet the needs of humans instead of the needs of spreadsheets. Our current economic motivation can be best described as 'line go up' where we make an enormous pile of shiny stuff but kill everyone in the process.

Supporting the status quo is itself a firm and irreversible decision about the fate of current and future humans: there is no place for them on dead planet, and corpses have no "standard of living" at all.
Not masses, size. The article says size.
Then you do you. I am not convinced that an animal killed for food is morally wrong, and I will continue to eat some meat, in moderation, and enjoy when people in my family hunt and fish and eat the things they get. I don't think we have to treat animals as equals to people.

That is all completely tangential to this atrocious law from an actually fascist government however. Banning animal-less meat is stupid, backwards, does nothing to protect the meat industry, and they shouldn't be artificially protected anyway. If animal-free meat companies can sell me a tasty steak for slightly cheaper then I will 100% purchase it and enjoy it, but I will likely still not be in favor of banning animal farming.
The article has a point, but there's no proof for cause & effect.

A completely different explanation could be that our societies are so advanced by now that we can finally listen to mental illnesses and take them seriously - while in the past people just had to 'function', no matter what.
Probably the time Musk feels he needs to develop his own Twitter AI:)
You just freeze the minimal CSS file generated by Tailwind (it tree-shakes out any class selectors for tailwind classes you're not using) and remove all tailwind dependencies; you don't have to make any more changes to your code, you're just left with the classes you've already added to your markup, which still work. You can gradually change those out however you want, at your own pace.

Also, using tailwind doesn't mean you can't use CSS the way you're used to in addition to the tailwind classes, though it's possible you could end up with specificity issues if, for example, you've added a tag selector, like `div {...}` which is overridden by a class you've added to a specific div in your markup. This is pretty straightforward though, and if you've been using CSS for any amount of time you'll still find you have to think a lot less about specificity than going all-in on your own CSS
Show HN: Neural Radiance Voxel Viewer for WebGL
I'm working on streaming voxelized NeRF to a WebGL viewer that runs everywhere (hopefully).

I'll appreciate testing (mainly on mobile devices) and comments.
Just like in Alpaca, the answer lies in the LLama dataset where the focus is on instruction following. GPT-J knows all the answers but just now was taught to understand the questions thoroughly before writing the answer.
They'd lose trust being so overt. A more subtle influence is that your suggestions would include sites nearby a McD at the expense of ones that don't. After months of gathering sales data from McD they'd ring up Burger King to see if they'd like such suggestions to be tweaked. It would also suggest departure times so that you'd pass by the real target at typical feasting hours.
and then Jobs released a teal-colored computer

so maybe no taste isn't as bad as awful taste
Well I'm not anymore. Didn't think I would ever leave windows, been using it since 3.1 but sometime in middle of windows 10 I finally got fed up and set up dual boot Linux and some months later found myself not having booted the windows side at all. My current laptop (second hand) doesn't have windows on it at all except the sticker that I should probably peel off.

I haven't touched windows 11 at all beyond some idle poking of a display computer at Costco.
I don’t have an opinion on it is or not but layoffs do have a significant impact on that and it’s generally something that’s pretty impossible to study.
I have a 2017 Fiat 500e, and it's fantastic. What a great car!
Although even in this example it does say some things that are simply wrong:

"Some programming languages like TypeScript and Swift use a colon for both variable type annotations and function return types."

This is incorrect for Swift, which uses the same arrows as "TenetLang" for function return types. Actually the first thing I thought looking at the example code was "looks swifty but not quite as well designed."
Pcodetest is more about validating the implementation of the instruction, sure it has to decode, but the benefit is most a base level set of logic that can be emulated. And definitely not a fan of the setup to get it going (also only helpful if you have a semi recent C compiler)
They're Good Dogs Brent
There's an important difference between a Chinese company and a company controlled by the CCP.

Unfortunately, as long as the CCP rules China all Chinese companies will fall under the supreme control of the CCP.

Note how the article doesn't mention the CCP, it talks about China and the Chinese "government" like if we are dealing with Canada or UK and not with an authoritarian regime, supporter of pariah states like Putin's regime and hostile to America and its allies.

The argument that TikTok is not doing anything worse than any other American social media app is tiresome.

We don't need to deny the fact that American social media companies are abusing loopholes in our justice system to harm American citizens, to recognize that a massive surveillance system deployed by a dictatorship, geopolitical adversary and military power like the CCP on American soil via social media platforms like TikTok represents a much greater thread to our institutions and national security than anything Meta, Google or any other American company could be acussed of doing.
Certainly that is the current Tesla PR spin that their vision stack is good enough to not need it, but it is hard to see why LIDAR wouldn't be useful for defense in depth against the situations like people tricking Teslas into painted tunnels like Wile E. Coyote. Especially when we all know the reality is that LIDAR is extremely patent protected and expensive to buy because of that and Tesla dropping LIDAR was pure cost cutting.

(Self-driving seems to me to be somewhere you absolutely want as much defense in depth and redundant sensors as possible.)
Check this, his vids were the best for me (and then his stuff on ArtStation, but paid :| )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2U0MiZSV9A
If I type in "password" I get a bunch of results that aren't what I need

My wife asks me weekly "honey, what's that word I gotta type to see my passwords again?"
Yeah I use both Fedora and OpenSuse (Tumbleweed) and it's a really stupid easy no-config setup on both distros.

Ubuntu is just maddening.

Pop OS is nice out of the box too, but I just don't want to use Ubuntu derivatives at this point even if they've removed snaps
I'm a digital nomad. I've lived in a lot of Airbnbs, and I love the Airbnb look. You know why? Because when landlords are trying to get creative, the result is usually horrible.

Getting creative, if you're not a specialist in the field, would yield horrible results 95% of the time. Which is okay if you're doing it as a hobby, of course. But as a customer, I really don't want to be subjected to this.

And Airbnbs where landlords have actually hired a competent interior designer usually have "Luxe" brand and are clearly targeted towards people in a completely different tax bracket.
I'm not trying to be annoying, but I genuinely don't understand what you mean by huge expectations of "having it all" for women (at least insofar as it relates to any trend starting ~2012, when the large growth in depression and self-harm among teen girls seems to have started).

The only "revocation of rights" I can think of would be Dobbs - which also does not fit the trend (see my response to the other comment).

If (white liberal) teen girls are supposed to actually see their real lives getting worse, I still don't see any reason for this to have become a problem in the early 2010s.
Microsoft owns a pretty big chunk of OpenAI. They are going to make a lot more from that investment than the nickels and dimes that their search engine generates. They can afford to pay for chat.
A non-rhetorical A to a rhetorical Q: Narcissistic anthropocentrism.
Well they had to come at some point..
Non-fungible tokens for the management of health data
> The cat is out of the bag.

As GPT-4 puts it "the confetti has left the cannon."
> It’s just not something most people ever learn.

They don't?? If that's true, it's a pretty sad commentary on software engineering these days.
Interesting video!

I tend to dislike the term "planned obsolescence", because to me it implies that it is done on purpose: "I will ask my engineer to make sure that the product fails right after the warranty". Which of course sounds evil and unlawful.

But most of the time, I think it's more "premature obsolescence": "I will ask my engineer to make sure that the product works (most of the time) AT LEAST until the end of the warranty".

There is a difference between the two: planned obsolescence means that you make the product worse than you could. Premature obsolescence means that you make the product as good as you need (to sell it), though as a society we should agree that this is not long enough/sustainable.

And that's all there in the video: companies don't purposely make shitty products: they optimize their profit. If that means making shitty products, they will (and they do). The solution to that is to make it such that it is more profitable for them to make good products: as a consumer, by buying good products and boycotting shitty ones (though we are not always competent to judge what is a good product). And as a government, one can pass laws (e.g. making it mandatory to have 4 years warranty, or preventing Apple from saying that the warranty won't apply for the microphone because there is a scratch on the screen).
Can't this just be the effect of teens being more aware of their own mental health issues and reporting them more?
Yes, as anyone can make AI systems, so we need to know what they can do. Imagine if Saudi Arabia were the first to create AI that could detect gay people.
Apple keeps the OS current on it's devices for twice as many years as most Android device makers. Are we pretending that the sort of person who keeps the same device for up around ten years is the sort of person who constantly loads new apps?