skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I subscribed, the humor convinced with the execution here is what I could do with more of!
This is fun to listen to for all its counterintuitive observations like not wanting to meet the founders.

But like a lot of angels, it just ends up being a fish story without any real hard numbers or company names.

I don't doubt what he is saying, it's just hard to learn anything from angels when you have no real data.
Well, I mean, good. Let that be a lesson to you!
The casting occurs for both operands that have same type, in narrower type space, with non trivial rules, behind your back, is really acid level of a surprise. The kind that would make the removal of the "==" operator reasonable.
That’s not quite the spirit.
> Think about an app where you can watch a live game with a friend who is 5000 miles away, feeling like you're together at the stadium. That's the opposite of isolating.

i suppose - or you can watched live stream together over video chat, and not have something over your face. you can do that today and not have to pay hundreds of dollars for hardware too :D
What's even better than unmoderated speech for the masses? Unmoderated speech for racist nazi bots, of course!
Do you actually need much starting capital for those? I was under the impression that anyone could in theory create a new cryptocurrency (or -product) from their proverbial basement and start selling it to gain (real money) capital.

I mean Bitfinex did it with Tether, in two directions as well; they pre-minted loads of this currency, then sold it for USD while at the same time allowing people (and themselves) to buy BTC with Tether, artifically boosting the value of BTC and the BTC that they themselves held, which helped them pay off the debts from their various breaches.
Most washing machines will use more $ in energy in their lifespan than they cost to buy. That means it is usually worth replacing an old but working one with an energy efficient one merely for the energy savings.

A modern EU machine will wash a large (10kg) load of clothes for 0.5 kwh of energy and 50 liters of water (13 gallons).

An old 1980's machine might use 4.5 kwh of electricity, and 180 liters of water.
Depends, at planting or harvest time not working on planting or harvesting when the weather allows costs a lot more than $500/hour. However in the middle of winter there is plenty of time where the farm has nothing you need to do and so the value of your time is zero.
> Almost nobody cares about the value to the user anymore. Value to the owner/seller of the product is what matters.

I think the situation might be different if the expectation for software wasn't that it cost nothing.
Not sure why this is downvoted - I also have the experience that Linux on the desktop now vs 10 years ago is a much better experience, both UX wise (at least in general, though it's a bit subjective), but also in terms of stability.

From what I've scrolled through so far, most examples people give of software that got worse is by Microsoft, though I wouldn't say it's limited to them. There seems to be a desperation for profit in commercial software right now like nothing I've seen in the past. There's usually alternatives worth a look though!
This is great news! Everyone who doesn't use PHP increases my hourly rate ;-)
I would think working at Meta at all would be a morale crisis.
Learnt about this 8 years ago when it was on top of HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9484757
Can a coating on the outside of a material really have an appreciable impact on heat transfer from inside to outside, at night? I get that a coating can block or admit light or radiation coming from somewhere else, but surely if the material itself is hot then thermal conduction within the solid will make the coating itself hot, and shed heat, too? Wouldn't you need some sort of "heat shield" offset from the outer walls for your approach to work at night, if at all? Or if not, why are we still covering homes with big chunks of styrofoam, polyurethane and mineral wool?

Among architects, I'm seeing a lot more hype about high thermal mass, e.g. sand-lime bricks and woodfiber insulation, to design houses that respond very slowly to outside temperatures.
I tried to launch the links, but when Google Play Store comes it says it is for older versions of Android only (I'm on the latest, 13 )
Show HN: ChatGPT and 3D Talking Models
Hi everyone. I’ve been playing around with a little experiment, trying to see how a 3D talking model would look like when paired with ChatGPT-generated messages and text-to-speech.

Hope you find this project interesting. Would love to hear any feedback or suggestions you may have
I'm reading a lot of comments saying before it took them 1 week to get an offer and now it takes 4/5 months... that's not a lot. It is basically the same time it used to take me to get an offer for a non IT job in the past.
The one I've enjoyed watching more than once: Death with Shelly Kagan, Yale

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2J7wSuFRl8&list=PLEA18FAF1A...
Investors: Dude! How about "IoS"? Internet of Solitaire's! (sound of cash machines)
Meaningless enough to engage a global-level conversation about the meaning of it.
Massachusetts was remarkably homogeneous for the first 100yr and they ran the kind of authoritarian theocracy that the Taliban would be proud of.

I guess they voted for it in the same way that there are plenty of dictators that always win an overwhelming vote but it kind of begs the question what is democracy? Is it possible to consider a society in which the elites (clergy rather than landowners in this case) tell the peasants how to think and what to think and the peasants then turn around and vote for "yes we'd like more please" a democracy? Can it really be a democracy if the system all but precludes bottom up grassroots change? I think such a society is not a democracy. It's just a well run theocracy. It only "works" so long as the elite don't become out of touch and do things to run it all into the ground.
I wonder how brands like Nike manage to stay “cool” for generations but basically every social tech brand has a shelf life.
There was indeed data when facebook started.

It was called myspace.
I know, it's awfully handwavy, but it's at least one possibility that would 'make sense', and I haven't really found any others, though I've thought about it quite a bit.

Interesting side note though: If you accept the possibility of the simulation hypothesis, this 'maybe' almost seems like an inevitability, since us being possibly just computer simulations would imply that simple information processing indeed turns into consciousness just by virtue of it 'being self conscious'.
I suppose this obligates Ann Druyan to hunt her down should she violate her trust.
Bitcoin is the OG cryptocurrency project. How exactly is it not accurate to limp it in with crypto?
You want to tell that to the Advanced Auto Parts, Pep Boys, Autozones of the world? That their business model in a few years is going to be rotating/changing tires and topping off wiper fluids?

ICE cars (including modern ones) require so much maintenance they have entire franchises dedicated to the maintenance of those cars.
It's pretty silly to compare metaverse to crypto. Crypto is a solution looking for a problem where as the metaverse exists in many forms today with the question being whether the tech and userbase can evolve fast enough to sustain Meta.

They could both fail but I don't think you can predict one from the other.
The code isn't wrong, it's platform dependent. It's the assumption that it that is wrong. The code itself if is fine.
But when Facebook was created, they were a scrappy little startup with nothing to lose.

The Facebook of 2023 is not a scrappy little startup with nothing to lose.
Five years after this, the Lisp iterate package [1] was published. Some find it to be an excellent compromise, having readable pseudo-English syntax which is also Lispy and being, as a result, easily extensible.

It still has a few rough edges but I've never found one I couldn't work around.

[1] https://iterate.common-lisp.dev/
"Because no company would ever lie about their intentions, or at the very least pivot to the exact opposite of their original point without a second thought."

No business would pivot to a dying monetization model unless it was their last option.

Advertising is not a solution for Substack; but rather a Trojan Horse.
“we have just declined selling haxx.se for 600k Euros.”
> Whoever puts thousands of dollars into a game and then leave it seem to have no sense of responsibility or value of money.

The monetary value associated with Eve Online things is a bit arbitrary, as it's usually the accumulated value of people's efforts in game; we can't be sure if real money was invested in this heist.

That said, it's easy to underestimate the value of assets and property in-game in eve, as it builds up over the years and for a lot of people it's just a video game.
Software becomes better but not for user?

Alarm which can track someone seems like more advanced kind of alarm software from some points of view.
One benefit of this will likely be an acceleration of understanding in how LLM actually reach their conclusions with a clear breadcrumb trail of the decision making to allow better compliance with the directive.

Alternatively they may just run the result through some sanitizer but that's definitely a worse experience, likely akin to Bing's Chat reluctance to do anything you ask that's even a bit difficult, with blanket "I'm sorry, choose a different topic" refusals, which will be suspicious and infuriating all its own. Especially for queries that have to do with culture and history.
I can ping my aws hosts from a VPC on a different hosting company, so it's unlikely to be all of AWS.

Tried the Telstra and Vocus Looking Glass services - both can ping my AWS servers.

List of Looking Glasses: https://www.ausnog.net/tools/lg

(note: Optus' Looking Glass doesn't seem to be returning results)
>Putting aside any worries about connecting a high-speed rotating device to the internet

lol, stuxnet reference? Although I believe the Iranian uranium centrifuges weren't actually connected
Thanks, I thought it had only the first meaning:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/willy-nilly
This article is saying "the FSF should change it's leadership, it's message, end it's support of GNU, and ditch the GPL." At that point, why call it the FSF?
Reminds me of Julian Jaynes theory
I'm not talking about papers, I'm talking about a product offering, ala ChatGPT. Even Segment Anything isn't a real product. It's a glorified tech demo. Is it integrated into say, Facebook photos? no.
Literally nobody has done this

This is exactly what the Fisker Karma was doing 10-12ish years ago.
Has any company’s “lifetime” license lasted more than, say 5 years? 10? (I mean for software that is updated or requires a server of course).

I like the jetbrains model well enough.
You've mentioned “concepts, analogies, and metaphors of that era are now of no relevance to the common happenings of the present day” before you edited your comment. I think it is the grave error that results in the rest of your conclusions about “malfunctioning brains” (which is one of the hopelessly obsolete “concepts, analogies, and metaphors” still so common in the present day).

It totally possible to post the same quote as some kind of proto-Anarchist slogan. “Never let any earthly power control what you should do”, and so on. Whoosh, and Bible becomes hip. Of course, it would be incorrect, but who cares?

The paradox is that most actual is most often most transitory, and most ignored and overlooked is most often the most solid. “Philosophy is untimely”, etc.
VR is as useful as the whole movie industry and the game industry. Yes, it is important for entertainment. With all the streaming services the movie industry is moving from central cinemas to your home.

So VR will be in competition with all the other entertainment industries. But is that useful in any sense just besides entertainment? I doubt.

It started all years ago with Google Glass. Even at that time I doubted that there is value in this. Now, we are here and Google Glass is finally dead. I know it is in the rumors that Apple will bring its VR headset soon. But really? Will that make it better? I doubt.

VR will be in competition with all the other forms of entertainment. It is something, you can't just do besides. It will need your full attention. I doubt that there is some real usefulness.
It's too easy / lazy to joke about Meta and their bet on a future AR/VR world.

But what I don't see is people willing to do the same with Apple who has also invested billions in the space and will be showcasing their Reality platform in the next couple of months at WWDC.

Do people really want to bet against the company that has had so many consumer product successes even ones for which there was widespread doubt e.g. Apple Watch, AirPods etc.

And what if it takes off ? There will need to be another platform similar to iPhone/Android and isn't that the type of bet Meta should be making.
I get it now. I'm somewhat pun-impaired. An autistic trait.
Ah, yes, Mi Hacienda at 895 2nd Ave. It is a particularly colorful location as there is a bar in another unit in the same building that often gets cops called to reel in the brawling. This is one of the few food places where I have ever had staff mess with my order. I ordered a plate of three basic tacos from the top of the menu and they laughed and exchanged rude jokes in Spanish which they assumed I did not understand and then served me a single taco with a strange mix of ingredients and no meat. Really do not recommend this place unless you are into local color and are prepared to order in Spanish and come across as the sort of person who is worthy of a plate of three tacos whatever that might entail.
Staying ahead in this game by pivoting to metaverse was very silly. Even if there is no growth in Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp, it could remain a stable cash cow for years.

Not to mention that Facebook was a perfectly fine and popular social networking platform until Facebook itself poisoned it with the engagement algos that put politics and fake news on top, and drove people away.

All of Meta's current issues were self inflicted.
I've considered them! I joined Eve University for all the classes and free skills. The next thing is I want to join the wormhole community to get a feel for multiplayer wormholing because I've only done solo.
Wondering the last few years how long my Plex lifetime pass will last now.
Plastic recycling is generally rated by Lifecycle Cost Analysis as a good thing. It's cheaper and better for the environment and saves carbon, compared with incineration (which is okay if it displaces fossil fuels and filters pollutants) which in turn is better than landfill.

The main input for plastics is currently fossil fuels so there's a lot of misinformation about it, as there is for anything else that would harm fossil fuel sales.

Ironically, they seem to have just given more momentum to the push to ban single use plastics and reduce its use generally.

Propagandists that used to say recycling plastic didn't work are now promoting it to fend off outright bans. The only thing that remains consistent in their approach is "what benefits fossil fuel interests?".
My Plex lifetime pass is still going strong
I'm not sure what you mean. Why should I settle for less performance than my hardware can deliver?
You can buy them: https://rawlite.com/olpf-for-blackmagic-pocket-cinema-camera..., https://www.grassvalley.com/products/optical_low_pass_filter
Fair is a research powerhouse but Facebook doesn't really commercialize AI outside of (assumed) advertising algorithms. I think that was the upstream point.
For true Sims and LLM you would need an open source unrestricted model, Sims games simulate life so you have mean,evil,criminals sims and you also have adult stuff. ChatGPT is defective since I can give it same prompt 10 times and 2 of 10 will refuse to show it's output because it thinks it is too racist and created bad content while 8 of 10 times he did it.

So with a safe prompt there is always a chance the AI will go on a bad direction and then refuse to work, and make you pay for the tokens of his "I am sorry ....long speech"
Their metaverse sucked and nobody wanted to use it.
Everyone was getting so rich on their stock grants. Once in a lifetime opportunity perhaps. Why risk that when the only bad outcome for you is to be cut off at that moment? Regardless of if the Metaverse destroys the company, you’ll have gotten rich in that time. The more enthusiastic you are the better.

Misaligned incentives.
Mexico was the original China in the 80s and 90s. In fact, Mexico even hit the same economic and developmental metrics as China did today by the mid-2000s and even hit the same precipice to become a high income country (like China c.2022) in the 2003-2009 period.

But it began losing manufacturing to China due to cost pressures in the aftermath of China's WTO assenscion [0][1]. Then the Great Financial Crisis happened as well and Mexico saw a lost decade in the 2010s.

It's unsurprising that we're seeing manufacturing leave China now that incomes have reached around $400/month for skilled manufacturing [2][3][4], a similar amount that caused similar manufacturing to leave Mexico for China in the 2000s.

Thailand, Malaysia, Brazil, Russia, and Turkey all had similar stories as well in the 2000s-early 2010s. Poland. Hungary, Czechia, Slovakia, Croatia, and Romania almost faced the same issue as well but were lucky to be within the EU and neighboring Germany so pricing remained competitive.

[0] - https://www.voanews.com/a/a-13-a-2003-11-12-33-mexico-s-6729...

[1] - http://international-economy.com/TIE_Sp03_Rosen.pdf

[2] - https://www.inegi.org.mx/temas/ingresoshog/

[3] - http://www.stats.gov.cn/english/PressRelease/202201/t2022011...

[4] - http://www.stats.gov.cn/english/PressRelease/202202/t2022022...
Government worker accused of sharing private data for alleged kidnapping
You are going to love https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/
They are tools you can use to signal status because they are expensive. You can't do that with Facebook etc.

Social media is ultimately not selling status though, they make money by reaching as many people as possible and you have to lower the entry fee to achieve that.
Isn't this just breach of contract, plain and simple? Change of ownership should have little to do with it.
My dyndns perpetual tokens lasted 15 years or more. Sadly they got acquired and it finally stopped.
You're right, perhaps I phrased that poorly. What I meant was that it's par for the course for the reactionary US political party. Definitely a bad thing
It's in the paper.

"What is needed is an electronic payment system based on cryptographic proof instead of trust, allowing any two willing parties to transact directly with each other without the need for a trusted third party."

https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
MIRC https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33864660
I used to have my laundry machines in my attached garage, outside of the living space and separated by sufficient insulation that I couldn’t hear the buzzer go off. Those machines had WiFi, and I’d get a push notification when the cycle was done. I never used any other “connected” feature, but that one was nice.
AI Can Write a Song, but It Can’t Beat the Market
You can say a writer is writing for someone. When I read an intro like this in a book, that’s says to me the writer is targeting a community of go getters who might otherwise be driving for Uber.

But when I read this in a blog, I’m really turned off. Now I think the writer has no friends, doesn’t know how to make friends.

If this was a book about mechanical engineering, I’d say fine. What I know about ME I can stick in my eye and still see good.

If I find this picking up yet another book on a programming that I’m trying to brush up on… grr I’d have to read it non-linearly.
Visa partners with PayPal, Venmo to power interoperable digital payments
Curious how popular and effective these docs are. Massive abundance and higher standards of living mean people who write these things don't have to settle for financial reasons, so the docs get pickier and less attuned to the realities of life
Cis/hetero-normativity is sexual ideology though. And there's a big difference between "pushing" and "accepting."

I've seen a parent shun their 3-year old for playing dress-up -- "I can't love you if you do this". That's pushing gender ideology. My kid's grandparents started asking him if he has a "girlfriend" at around 4. That's pushing a sexual ideology.

You don't need to be religious to buy into dogmatic misinformation campaigns, no.
All of those things can be done through other mechanisms without distracting engineers with a dog and pony show.
Sounds like a study that wouldn’t replicate.
Fastmail.fm also pulled this one, although I got a good 10 years out of it plus 3 years free subscription after it was announced. Whichever way you look at it, that's plenty of time to move, or indicator of a good business model that means the company will remain in business and I won't lose my mail (and as long as they don't jack prices when it runs out).
The mounting human and environmental costs of generative AI
This is totally an aside, but Im not into crypto and have a fairly negative connotation with it but I don’t necessarily think crypto is bullshit. I think the problem with crypto is that it misjudges the world, or is at least positioned for a very cynical version of the world that doesn’t currently exist.

Is crypto kept alive on evangelism? Yes.

Not really that useful at the moment (and maybe never will be)? Yes.

Has lots of pump and dump, scams, bad people doing bad stuff? People who have no clue what they’re talking about spewing bullshit? Resounding yes.

But I don’t think it’s bullshit because it does solve a real problem - verifying transactions independently. But of course there are trade offs with this, such as bitcoin’s power consumption. The disconnect comes from crypto people misjudging the world. The current financial system simply isn’t so bad to require all the weird trade offs of crypto.
I've been a Jetbrains customer from the very first release, introduced the product in every company I came into. Switched to VS and then switched back. I do think Jetbrains does a lot things right, they also honored past licenses and helped when I had license trouble. So now for some years im on an All Products Pack license and it's nice to just install whatever you want.
I think both of those lose out to the discussion of "grammar in the context of time travel".
Warren Buffett says we’re not through with bank failures
NFT has entered the chat.

In all seriousness though, I think the only lifetime licenses that come to mind are probably ones like JetBrains and old software where you had the install medium on a disk and a key to install it with and it required no software updates, assuming the software doesn't need the internet to verify, you're pretty much guaranteed what you paid for. Don't you miss lifetime ownership of software licenses? :)
Using more water is a feature IMO. I want clean clothes. I don't care insane people decided to live ten million a city without enough water to use, there is more than enough where I live. Why should I be uselessly frugal with abundant resources and suffer as a result.
Lifetime software license is quite ok: you buy a version, you can use that version while it runs.

What is a real scam is lifetime services (storage/backups/emails/...).
The problem with such betrayal is, that companies names are all but smoke and mirrors by now. The reputational damage should be tracking with the leading employees. One customer betrayal travels along with the manager who caused it, to whatever company s/he touches. No matter how the company is named, no matter how much branding, one linked in api roll call later you know what you got.
Mass layoffs have hard-to-measure second- and third- order effects? Wall St. wouldn't reward something that was bad for a company in the long run!