skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why? They weren’t laying people off because they were bad at programming. And in fact they were likely hiring so aggressively in the first place in part to keep top engineers away from competitors.
The problem is the only car that could drive around Mars to take street pictures is in a heliocentric orbit instead. There was some sort of requirements mixup.
I bet the military would love/hate it (depending where deployed), because all that stray illumination would make for a perfect bistatic radar source. Suddenly many radars can be passive, and stealth techniques take a serious hit.
A recent piece in The Economist argued that China is doing more to combat global warming than is any other nation, and if America is going to do better then we'll have to become more like China. I agree on both points. And I think that will be the outcome eventually.
First of all, you are wrong. There are new fossil fuel projects in North America and Europe as well (though Europe is building significantly less than North America).

Second of all, why does that matter? Increased CO2 in the atmosphere will heat the climate everywhere (albeit not evenly). The fossil fuel market is global, meaning these projects are overwhelmingly built and profited by publicly traded international fossil fuel companies. (just like the rising temperature) The money to be made is distributed everywhere on the globe (albeit more in some areas than others), regardless of where these new projects are located.

No, the climate disaster is a global crisis, and needs to be handled globally. If we were serious about minimizing the harm of climate change (and we should be; but we aren’t) than green infrastructure would be paid for by the wealthy countries even when it is rolled out in the poorer, where the rich countries won’t see any of the benefits (other then you know, saving the world from impeding doom).
> How do other industries do this?

There's lots of other ways, but some of them suck.

Some fields attach a lot of weight to your alma mater, maybe they only hire people who studied law at Yale or Harvard.

Some fields require not just a degree, but also years of study under an industry veteran. Sometimes that also involves hazing like working 70-hour weeks, for some reason.

Some fields require work-sample tests where you show up at a given location and demonstrate your abilities on demand.

Some fields require not only a degree, but also years of working for free in order to break into paid work. And the paid work is far from guaranteed, that free work only pays off for 10% of people.

Some fields don't offer permanent employment, instead hiring people for much shorter periods - so bad hires can just not be rehired for the next project.
Did you know a locksmith can unlock your car, too? You should add cars with physical keyed entry to your list too.
And companies won't learn! For how quickly most small companies seem to (or be forced to) learn on other facets, they've learned nothing about attracting and hiring the kind of engineers you want and how to keep them happy.

I still see the same mistakes, the same mindset, the same process and the same result with very very few exceptions.
> In fact the amount of vegans I've met in life who didn't look like they were suffering from some illness has been very rare, only solidifying my position on this.

I would push against this sort of anecdotal view. The circle of people we eat with (and therefore know the dietary restrictions of) tend to be quite low compared to all the people we meet with on a day to day. Additionally, "looking sick" is a vague enough assessment that simply knowing someone is a vegan may very easily cause you to be much more critical of their appearance, and vice versa you may see someone who looks sick to you and then pay more attention to their dietary habits than you ordinarily would. Another thing to note is that all dietary restriction lifestyles is subject to a noticeably higher rate of disordered eating or intestinal issue that leads to the person participating in the dietary change and therefore it may be important to first determine if the disordered eating or gut issue caused veganism vs the other way around.

That is to say: even though I am neutral towards veganism itself, your logic as to why meat is good reads to me as quite flawed and poorly reasoned around.
This is somewhat hilarious because the Economist is famous for its unsigned articles and IIRC lacks citations, such that you have no way to verify whether the person writing them has any expertise in whatever they’re spouting off about. It’s effectively a middle-brow subreddit in print.
Fair enough.

I don't think it really matters to be honest, Americans are not moving into even something like my ~1500sqft terraced house en masse. You may as well ask half the country to learn Russian.
An argument is that those who would pirate aren't going to pay regardless. I think a software for a niche industry has a lot less flexibility for the customer to do that than a piece of entertainment like game or movie.

Piracy definitely has a negative effect on sale. But whether that effect is worth the effort to implement DRM solutions or not is a different issue.
You can be right for the wrong reasons. You can be wrong for the right reasons. You can be right for the right reasons, you can be wrong for the wrong reasons.

The problem with being "right for the wrong reasons", is that your logic fails to apply to future situations.

The "wrong reasons" in this case, is the obvious ego-tickling / ha ha the other people were wrong that's obviously intrinsic to the gambling / meme stonk trading culture. I'm sure it feels good when you're right for the wrong reasons, but I don't think it leads to long term success. ("Royal You", not you in particular, if you don't mind).

But yes, it does feel good to be a contrarian and win due to dumb luck. But I'm not sure how many times "Hertz" situations will pop up in the future. I think this ego-tickling / contrarian mindset is at the root of this behavior, at least based on the discussions I have in my social circle / meme stock traders I'm aware of.

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There's also "wrong for the right reasons", which is my preference in general. You generally want to be wrong today, if it means that your logic holds for most future cases.
The biggest problem I have with Ocaml is not the language, but the tooling and the libraries. The library ecosystem is not even remotely comparable to go or even rust. Jane street core is mentioned as a good option, but that library is the most popular undocumented library I have ever seen. There is not even some normal default structure every library follows (e.g go io.Reader).

Compare this to languages with supposedly "worse" type systems like Java, which has a library for everything and high quality well documented libraries like guava and apache commons. I find it fine to use ocaml for a random weekend whim project, but wouldn't touch it with a 10 feet pole for professional work.
I liked Workflowy a lot, but the idea of paying $60 a year for drop down lists inspires a deep, deep revulsion.

I wouldn't even pay that for the full app to own for life.
Same here. Though it’s hard to blame them since some people quite obviously didn’t do the takehomes themselves.
I've used 1Password since 2014 -- almost 10 years! And my company uses it, so I'm both personal and business user.

Product quality, especially with 1Password8 has deteriorated significantly. A big bag refactor to electron with no telemetry is probably the root cause. Not necessarily poor strategy, but certainly poor execution.

Telemetry is actually a good thing for 1Password users who see product quality decreasing bc it gives the PMs there some information to go off. The product surface area is huge now, and it's natural to lose sight of the most important stuff.

If I was in charge, what would I do?

1. Introduce telemetry and get data into hands of PMs + Designers

2. Pause all new feature development until table stakes features are working flawlessly: 1Password opens under 200ms for most users; auto fill in Chrome + Firefox actually F*king works like it used to before v8.

3. Trim down product surface area by killing features. E.g. decide is the default UX for auto-fill based on interacting with a button inside form inputs OR simply hitting the keyboard shortcut to autofill? Kill the other bc the interaction between these choices is painful.

I'll give them a year to figure this out. In the meantime, a Copilot / ChaptGPT enabled bootstrap founder will come along and build out a trimmed down version with just the basics and start eating their lunch.
I would love an invite. I am not HN famous, but I have been here for a while as my account page can attest.
That's pretty sad, as there is some great content on Mises.org. Some of the editorials/writers are lousy, like with any magazine, and others are quite great. I'd love a discussion on any Jeffery Tucker article on HN.

I've never met a more openly communist group than the tech industry though. It makes sense; we're engineers. Engineers think like engineers, and default to seeing other people as cogs in a great machine. "Social Engineer" has the correctly negative connotation, but still doesn't get used as the insult it truly should be. "Techno-Karen"?
Similar situation here in Brazil. There are little markets selling random stuff in pretty much every city, including counterfeit physical items and infringing media of all kinds. Sometimes the US screeches loud enough for police to mount operations against these things but it doesn't seem to do much more than temporarily disrupt their operations.

> Great majority of Poles were poor as shit and buying original copy of music or video cassette was a very distant thought. Piracy was "normal".

Yeah, I know what you mean. Minimum wage here in Brazil is about 256 USD. People who make minimum wage can barely support themselves. Very few people will purchase video games at $50+ price points.
There are additional, similar, issues that come with using smartphone apps as well. Just using Librem doesn't resolve the overall issue for me.
Turned out to be excessive? The countries that were actually successful averted the deaths of millions of their own citizens.
100% agree with you. There are two things driving my work with this demo:

(1) A lot of researchers are bad at writing code, but they can audit it. This is true for sociologists, psychologists, etc. so I'm hoping something like this can help.

(2) Philosophically, I disagree with the debates that LLMs can't produce new knowledge. I think there's merit to this if we're talking about whether the LLM neural network itself synthesizes new knowledge via its weights... However, why can't we have an LLM try and merge multiple data sets, analyze them, and report back to a human?

To your point + concerns, I think a human still needs to be very careful and actually revisit the analysis for any promising findings, but at least some of the grunt work can be taken care of!
It's a really cool area of putting AI in a feedback loop (langchain-like) with its own tools, which I think is where the magic happens, and where we'll see much more happening in the future. This should really super-charge engineers doing stuff in areas where they're not super-comfortable in, but comfortable enough to verify the AI isn't doing anything stupid.

I made something vaguely similar for your local terminal[0] and other locally-available tools.

The idea is to give you a chat with an assistant that can use these local tools. Here it's Python for data analysis, in my case it's more "give it access to your terminal, so it can answer questions / do tasks on your local machine" which is something web-based options can't do right now.

I.e. ask it about your system details (processes, wifi) or to do things (configure something). Have it automatically run the relevant commands, analyze the output, and respond either in natural language or i.e. plot a chart.

AutoGPT[1] is another very interesting project in this area.

[0]: https://github.com/cube2222/cuttlefish

[1]: https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT
I agree, I mean the human geography, not the size of the country, sorry if that was unclear.

A bit like how London couldn't turn into LA now without demolishing half of it. We tried to build a couple of freeways in the 60's and failed.
It would have a hugeeee impact, but definitely not everything.

Especially useful would be having excess energy for renewal which thermodynamics says is a must.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35507322
SaaS software is not the same type of product as entertainment media.
We expect too much of 'interviews', so we've built an entire structure around them: 'behavioral' questions, whiteboard exercises, resume keyword scanners, long, tortuous lists of 'qualifications', elaborate processes of multiple interviews, etc.

After many years of sitting on both sides of the table, I've have come down to this: "hire lightly and fire lightly". In practice, this means beyond the (very) basics, hiring is not algorithmic; it's a crapshoot.
You don't really forcefully lucid dream, you learn techniques that help you determine whether you are dreaming or not.

Some examples are not being able to turn a light on or off (because lighting in a dream is often fixed) .. or trying to focus on text (often in dreams you will read words or numbers, but it's your brain telling you what something says .. if you actually try and focus on text it often is just squiggles)

Once you start to apply these techniques in dreams, the real trick is not waking yourself up once you realize you're dreaming.
It is mostly a matter of raising less animals. No other factor or approach or combination of them can address these things alone, reduction is a necessary step.

Defining any of this as "sensible" is an error imo. In a sense it's certainly sensible to have the goal of providing accessibly-priced meat to every member of a large country. Each step along the way is sensible, I'm sure.

But then we end up here and there is nothing sensible about it. The sheer scale required to provide all that flesh is nearly profane in its own right. There is simply and frankly no way to do it responsibly at the scale we've chosen to do it.

It seems meat will either remain built on human, animal and ecological exploitation at an incomprehensible scale, or it will revert to a rare and expensive luxury mostly available only to an economic elite. I haven't seen a compelling vision of any alternative.
First look: RNC slams Biden in AI-generated ad
I would guess that a lot of the folks who suddenly needed licenses might not have ever used your software if they hadn’t pirated it first. In other words the piracy acted as marketing that eventually converted to sales. Hard to know for sure.
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I am not willing to live in a state of eternal outrage. It's an incredibly unpleasant place to be and what's the point? My outrage changes nothing, and I don't need to be outraged to do whatever is in my power to change things.

Not giving these bastards money is a good start.
If one spouse stays home, it’s not much more to have multiple from a day to day perspective.

If you put in the effort to teach kids to manage age appropriate chores, the workload can be kept sane.
My last name is pronounced "Collé" but when I've tried other whisper demos it always spelled it Cole or Coll.

This is the first time I've ever seen it get the spelling actually right (missing the accent is forgivable) ;)
Before the sun goes red we need to understand and categorize the interactions of life on earth, preferably including extinct animals as much as possible, and using that knowledge, we need to attempt to recreate it elsewhere. 2000 years ago the earth was covered with tribes and nations that had an intuitive understanding of these things, built on analogy and language. Even dredging that level of understanding up would help us today. Investigating the observations contained in that folk wisdom is often how science works. We haven’t been doing the work because industrial Ag and transportation have their own solutions which sound more appealing (as is often the case, doing the wrong thing feels easier and more fun).
I disagree with your disagreement. 10 years is too short, 70 years is too long. There should definitely be a reduction but 10 years isn't it.
>Note that platforms are still allowed to block for any reason regardless of the outcome in this case.

What's to prevent the politician from just using social media run by a company who is friendly to him and will block people with opposing viewpoints even without him telling them to?

(Aside from the fact that social media companies like some politicians more than others, which just makes the problem worse.)
It seems that many firms have an extractive relationship with their employees, and adding a Deming loop to that makes them hellish. The US auto companies had a famously difficult time adopting the Toyota Way. Many cultures have this, but the current in the USA runs especially deep.
… and its answer is wrong, for reasons discussed in the very many other threads on this post that suggest this same snippet.

(On my laptop, this kills stern, Chrome, Slack, Firefox, and 1Pass…)
How about we aim for an achievable goal instead. What’s the point of setting ourselves up for failure?

That’s part of effective goal setting. Anything else is fantasy and counterproductive.
I understand the concept of serverless as in AWS Lambda, but my first impression reading the title is serverless as in no backend. That would be a lot more amazing.
It's sort of humorous that "rule against perpetuities" is a fundamental legal concept [1] [2] but copyright just sidesteps that and allows for locking up culture for almost two centuries.

[1] https://youtu.be/j1jkilao3MQ?t=903

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_against_perpetuities
Population growth is peaking and will begin to decline within the lifetimes of people being born today.

Your point is a red herring.
Super simple and good starting place.
I've heard this, but in practice it is hard to fully decouple the interface from the logic so experimentation with the front end usually involves work on the back end. Even simple changes like "we want to change this drop down to a set of radio buttons" ends up requiring changes on the back end most of the time.
I’ve seen my fair share of web-apps where the subscription check is entirely client side JS and a simple self MITM is enough to bypass payments. Not saying this is the case in this particular instance but it’s definitely something I’ve seen more then once.

I’ve brought it up as an issue with some companies but I’m usually met with a shrug and a response in the realms of “our users wouldn’t know how to do that”. I’ve even seen car charging poles with entirely client side JS to validate account/login to charge for the electricity.

I too have grown up, playing games with a hex editor in one hand and tcpdump in another so I have a habit of poking around to see how stuffs made.
0.2% of all emissions just for banning private jets?

That's... incredibly good. I doubt private jets are actually key to much economic value creation.
Have you spoken with any Polish people lately? No one is more anti-communist than the Poles in my limited experience. Warsaw makes San Francisco look like Moscow.
The question is: why didn't the previous person document stuff and hand it to the next person, after all you need proper documentation for institutional continuity?

The answer is as always: a messed-up workplace, people wanting to make themselves indispensable or important, and as the new guy you are not going to change that. (Me? I've actually been looked at funny and then written up for asking the gatekeeper's bestie about processes!) Man, that place of employment was messed up.
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Spotify’s CEO is “disappointed but not surprised” by the Apple–Epic ruling
Of course there are. I've hired a person once because I had known him 20 years ago and he knew his skills were top notch. (And to be clear, we haven't been in touch for many years since.)

But I don't know that many people. Properly conducted live coding is the least worst alternative out there for complete strangers.
If only Apple Notes would just bring in drop down bullets.

I'm a little baffled that they still haven't - it would be such a huge quality of life improvement for such a tiny effort.
Yes that’s because they could share same production lines where other products containing gluten could cross contaminate.
> I think you might be a tad idealistic

Agreed :)
That's fascinating, especially considering the source - do you have a link by any chance?
The diversity of systems Andy covers is quite impressive. I've subscribed to his (CMU Databse Group) videos for quite a while, but to be honest, I haven't been watching many. This post was a good reminder to look around again, and wow, there's just so many databases covered, & many of them are very modern & new. It's impressive range.
I didn't get to choose it either. It's what happens when money is power. If you want to fix it going forward, you've got to divorce the two.
Natural gas is a fossil fuel.
Net zero means that the over-all result is zero. There will still be fossil fuel operations ongoing after net zero is achieved, until the economics of it don't make sense anymore. For projects that were already in the works, this makes sense. Those are already financed on the order of decades and planned long in advance.
These issues have to be solved one by one. Giving up because there are more fights ahead is unwise. BTW Librem 5 is my daily driver.
pretty bad for me: https://hf.co/chat/r/jg1HAum
Absolutely can get into all that, buybacks definitely are better for tax purposes, but saying "buybacks are taxed at capital gains rate and dividends are income tax rate" is not correct
What happens when we can't find a solution. In a lot of ways we're lucky b/c every major problem that has come along we more or less have found a solution to. I suspect climate change may be a little different. Not sure if you saw the movie Up but the basic plot is an asteroid is going to crash into earth. They devise a mechanism to blow it up but it doesn't work and everyone dies. Not everyone is going to die from climate change but it's very possible we don't "solve" it and life as we know it is fundamentally altered.
> all the interested parties and advocates to align behind a standard

This is the thing that will never happen, because all artists are interested parties, and as I said, they are not a unified bloc. So whatever solution big companies come up with for themselves, we all know ahead of time that they will 1) overwhelmingly benefit big corporations and 2) but insufficient to address artist concerns. When they coalesce around whatever standards they end up with, artists will still largely be making the same complaints.
My election bingo card did not have an official governing body of a party to be the first to use AI images of their opponent in an attack ad.
At the moment I don't buy the trade off for EVs. They take a lot of carbon to make since most of the chain of mining through construction is still consuming fossil fuels and buying energy from the grid is still quite carbon intensive.

You can save more money and be more helpful with solar on your roof especially in the warm areas of the US. At some point hopefully the carbon cost of the vehicles will come down and they will make more sense, they just don't save enough currently compared to a Solar array which typically pays back its carbon cost in about 90 days a vehicle is more like 5 years.
I should have qualified that as "I don't see a plausible path..."
It is low hanging fruit to get every country in the world to agree to outlaw private jet travel!? How ridiculous.

The US can't even pass basic legislation to stop schools from getting shot up once a week, but this is low hanging fruit??? Ok...
Fun with Kermit and ZMODEM over SSH