skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't really think so. Omicron is what did it. I think in Africa only 24% received at least one dose, and Africa is not a giant heaping pile of covid19 bodies.

If I recall correctly (its possible I do not), the latest booster is for BA-5, which was effectively extinct by the time the booster came out. Why its extinct is important: the existing variants had immune escape over BA-5.
From a practical standpoint, who is hurt? In my day to day job, I would have Google, StackOverflow, ChatGPT (as long as I didn’t paste proprietary code or business logic), prior code samples from my previous job[1], etc.

But this is theoretical, I haven’t had a coding interview in over a decade and then only once and not for the prior decade before that. Even though I’ve always been a hands on keyboard coder.

I can’t imagine subjecting myself to a coding interview at almost 50 years old with the types of jobs I would be looking for if I left my current job (enterprise/cloud architecture + leading application development/cloud )

All of my prior jobs have come from just talking to people in charge of hiring (usually director/CxOs) and using my network.

My current job in cloud consulting (cloud app dev/“DevOps”) at $BigTech was all behavioral even though I have developed in 4 languages in the last three years.

[1] Future me: my company has a very straightforward open source process where we can get approved to put our code on our open source GitHub organization with an MIT license as long as we write it from scratch and doesn’t have any customer identifying information or business processes.
ahh sorry should have specified - one-click functionality is available for iOS 16 and later, since that's when the ScreenTime API was integrated. if you/when you do upgrade to iOS 16, you won't get the new version of clearspace automatically, you'll need to delete your existing app and then re-download. (you'll also want to turn off that shortcut that you set up when you do that :)
The problem is modern homes are for the most part hard to divide. Homes in the 30s often had very defined rooms connected with hallways. Modern homes include mostly open spaces with a few discrete rooms.
Generating money by forcing ads to be shown on someone else's device, using the power and internet connection that they pay for, is also stealing if you really think about it.

Very similar to cryptojacking malware.
Oops, I'm sorry to hear that...

Now I'm afraid my comment came as rather insensitive... my apologies...

I was speaking about Putin's Russia, to clarify.

I think it's fair to get justice for any war crime, and any crime against humanity, be it from Russia or from US. I just honestly feel that the crime bucket of Putin's Russia is fuller than US' one during the same era!
By this kind of hypothetical assumption, you shouldn't pay for anything, as the other party might change the terms in future, or in your parlance, "pull a switcheroo"
In my country a publisher is liable for anything they say unless they have a license, and the license require that they abide to local laws. Youtube do not do this since they think they do not need to follow those laws, nor do they take responsibility for anything they publish (including advertisement). They don't even pay value gain taxes when selling this content in return for the service of me watching the ad.

I will respect their expectations when they respect mine.
I switched because of battery life and better camera. The better camera is mostly for fun. However, it also really helps with pictures on Tinder. I just got into a relationship again after a while. If I didn’t have the iPhone 12 mini, it might be the case that I had less traction on Tinder. Given my experience with it, I am fairly sure I’d have 20 to 50% of the matches I’d have now
If you want to solve math problems, LLMs are very useful for this. Exactly how trained professionals are.

You make the model write code for you to solve it.

Would you ask your dad to compute the correlation matrix between 40 thousand vectors? No? Then don't ask an LLM to do it.
More cheddar for Musk.
When I came up with the idea for finl, I was not entirely surprised that finl.com was squatted, and given that finl is unlikely to ever make money (since my business plan is to not be a business), the asking price of $53,000 is entirely out of line. I maybe will switch to a different tld than .xyz at some point in the future, but for now, barring a lottery win (which would require buying a lottery ticket, I suppose), I’ll never have the .com and that’s fine.
I ran my own peertube server for a while.

You can configure your server to download and mirror videos from other instances, but (iirc) only if the remote instance allows it, and if it allows your instance to "follow" it.

The fact that you haven to follow other servers as a server is insane. It also really fucks up federation, because some instances do not allow follows at all. Tilvids does not, which was a major factor in me shutting down my instance.

That said, the mirroring system is really nice. You have all sorts of dials to cache only the x most popular videos for y days and up to z GB. You can have it mirror videos from user subscriptions in a similar way, and right next to the 'download video' button is one that says 'mirror' that does what you think.

P2P as a client is a whole different matter, and I also have never, ever seen my client uploading. I think this is purely a function of how few users are actually on peertube. The chances of you watching the same video as another person on the planet is incredibly small.

I really, really want to like peertube, but it really is completely unusable. Discovery is abysmal because there's no global search. You can't rely on federation to find content because federation is opt-in and has a crazy nonsense mechanism.

Peertube is not fit to run a single-user instance like mastodon unless you only want to publish. It simply doesn't work at all if you only wish to consume video. The only real way to use the service at all is to sign up on the biggest instance you can find and hope they have interesting videos.

I have a server with tons of free disk and a big fat fiber line, and the idea of mirroring peertube videos of small creators sounds like a perfect use for my spare resources. I would love to mirror tilvids to help reduce their server load, but I simply can't because they choose to disallow it.

The only alternative is LBRY/Odyssey, which is vastly more popular, but has some serious issues with violent/extreme/illegal content and is fully wrapped up in blockchain bullshit.
Isn't Linus Tech Tips an ad, though? The only times I've looked at it all I've seen is sponsored content with breaks to talk about sponsors and maybe buy some merch. Oh, and exhortations to use their affiliate links. And that's using Premium, I expect that without it the sponsored content would be broken up by youtube's ads.

Maybe my expectations are biased by subscribing to Nebula? And for those who do, Medlife Crisis just posted a fun video on the placebo effect featuring great (fake) sponsor callouts.
-google ads before the video
-google ads after the video
-google ads DURING the video, if it's too long.
-At least one "this video sponsored by our sponsor, sponsor sponsor".

There's a limit to how many ads I'm willing to sit through to watch someone tell me why Harbor Freight tools are [The Greatest Thing Ever || Worthless Garbage]
What a pile of nonsense. Yes some dumb jobs will go away, but more will be created and people will quickly adapt.

Leaps in productivity never lead to increased unemployment or reduced standards of living.
As stated near the beginning of the article, there aren't a lot of options. Designs add inertia to changing parts. If a part is available on Mouser, but not Digikey, what should the author do? These realtors cater to people and small business who can't commit to the order quantities needed to buy direct from manufacturer; they have leverage.
It’s a pain to having to prompt everything. People still want to see certain identity when browsing, for example browsing CNN or wired. Prompting “show me some interesting tech articles”, and you know a lot of that is Ai generated, it feels stale
Try youtube-dl or one of the clones.
Doors 17 secret club preview now shipping with Mold at the center.
Once it reaches critical mass it is appealing because the value you receive from the community is far greater than what you have to give back.
MacOS has infinity issues in my opinion.
For the initial variants, sure. But those have long since been replaced with much milder variants, closely resembling a mild cold for most. How are you able to attribute the reduction in deaths for this winter compared to the previous winter to vaccines? We had vaccines in the previous winter too.
There are ads in every video content nowadays. Did you miss the past 10 years or something ?
For anyone who wants to see the logo in action, I'd like to recommend checking out the SVG Playground link. It's a great tool for exploring and manipulating SVG code, and it makes it easy to see how the logo looks on different backgrounds and at different sizes.

https://svgplayground.com/#encodedsvg=PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMTAwIi...
What do venture capitalists do? [video]
I wish there was an electronics supply company as good as McMaster Carr. Those guys also have a huge inventory but are always fast and on the ball.

Is there anyone with a decent inventory on the east coast so I can get ground shipping faster?
I wouldn't describe TDD as captive or abusive.
Nuclear war isn't really that big a deal thanks to MAD. No one would be stupid enough to nuke a nuclear armed country, so at worst you end up with a consolidation of countries (a trend we're already seeing, with the EU becoming more and more like a singular sovereignty, expansionism by the Chinese, and the East African Federation). "Total ecological collapse" is overstated: We could make the world a lot shittier to live in before it completely topples civilization. And water shortages are basically the same way: as long as energy is (relatively) plentiful, it's more matter of "making civilization more expensive" than "the endtimes".

Again, I'm not saying we shouldn't address these issues. I like a better future rather than a worse one. I'm just saying that we're not sliding into the dark ages anytime soon.
I think that may be wrong. PaLM was 540B, but I don't think PaLM2 is near that. Perhaps 120B like Galactica large, but afaik they don't say.
Me neither and, because UPS/Fedex is stupid expensive to HI, I always send it USPS. Never had a problem.
Oh that ship already sailed. Click on the "parent" link. Notice that it breaks your browser history now because instead of being a link to an element in the document it runs some javascript to scroll the page… commence teeth gnashing.
Yes, exactly. Brand loyalty is a thing.
Well it's integration, improved UX, and features that no other product has. Most companies don't have the time and money to implement all the feature requests businesses come up with, but that's literally Microsoft's bread and butter. You can do more with their stack than with anyone else's, guaranteed. (As long as you are using their stack)
ITT plenty of posters love their folding phones they've had for years.
illegally? is Google going to take us to court by blocking the ads? please mind the use of the word
Yes those won't transfer to the chrome extension yet - they'll just apply locally to your phone. For whichever app you added them to, they'll be restricted when that app is restricted, and when you unlock that app via breathing exercise, those sites will become unlocked as well.
How does subscribing increase their spying? Beyond the obvious that they now have your billing address.
At least for me those are different sizes.
I personally know people spending 6 figures at the minimum on SEO, because they see huge conversion rates for their own businesses (which are not web-based stuff by the way, more of a niche in person technical services).
Not open in Brazil
While I upvoted you, I think there’s still a lot of room in this world for human created content. In fact, I wager it’ll be more important than ever. People will be actively seeking out human-attributable information so there’s someone to hold the buck on where information originated from.
The woman (why "girl"? that's weird.) who was the Apple Employee, was allegedly the sister of the person who leaked it publicly. I think a lot of people have different boundaries between things they might share in their immediate family vs. with Twitter. The woman broke her contract, but her sibling broke common-sense norms.
...though it’s possible that someone without personal exposure to these issues could mistakenly think otherwise.

Please do not mistake differing opinions for ignorance.

My father grew up in a time and place where they were persecuted by the KKK for being Irish. I have a half-brother on that side who lives on a native reservation. My half-sisters on the other side were half-Chinese at a time when public opinion absolutely condemned interracial marriage. I have close friends from many different cultures, who have arrived in a wide variety of difference circumstances. Including my wife, who was a refugee from the Soviet Union.

All this has taught me that the more real the problems that you face, the MORE important it becomes to focus on that which remains within your control, while trying to shrug off that which isn't. You'd absolutely be in the right to go around being upset at the world for being unfair to you. But your justified outrage amplifies your problems, and makes your life worse.

The positions that you put down as "suck it up" are therefore the best advice that I know of to improve things. To the extent that individuals and groups do that, they make their lives better. Both in the short term, and the long term. I have seen the truth of this, both for my family and for my friends.

I hold this position based on experience, not ignorance.

If it still sounds crazy, I highly recommend reading https://www.amazon.com/Subtle-Art-Not-Giving-Counterintuitiv.... In particular for its "backwards law". Which says that trying to hold on to a good thing is a bad experience, and accepting a bad thing is a good one. Nobody wants the bad thing to be true. But if the bad thing is true, the act of consciously recognizing and accepting it is far better than the alternative. (The rest of the book is full of other good advice that flies in the face of common preconceptions.)
Commenting from Materialistic on Android, it's a great app ime.
i don’t think it’s weird, but i signed up for the premium trial a few weeks ago and it is simply astounding how much more enjoyable it makes things. i didn’t realize just how awful things had become until i tried youtube without ads.

i know some other folks are complaining about still getting tracked or whatever, but i think the simple truth is that youtube without ads is a vastly superior experience.
Free to be harvested and monopolized by a few giant corporations..
Mostly just amused that this gets 50+ comments
Not an expert but:

The lag compensation is, more intuitively, just allowing the client to move on its own without needing server verification yet. The server maintains the authoritative game state, but (assuming no cheating is going on) the clients are able to move as they think they will. In the background, the client is actually sending its inputs to the server, and they technically haven't happened until the server verifies them (however many milliseconds later), but we allow the client to move on its own regardless.

The yanking back only happens if the client's new state (position etc.) don't match the server's state.
I'm pretty happy with Kagi's results since they down-rank sites with loads of ads and tracking scripts. It feels like the era for ad-funded information is ending and only paid services will be able to provide a useful noosphere.

(this isn't a sponsored comment. I'm just a machinist who likes good search results)
What has Helion promised that physicists say is impoossible?
I hope they succeed.

For years I've had an ad-blocker installed and that's the only way I can stand YouTube, in which I spend WAY too much hours on.

It would be nice of them to help me overcome my addiction and make me quit.
It’s kind of related because AI tools are for better or worse going to eat up a bunch of these question/answer responses from tools like Stack Overflow for developers, particularly for trivial things.

Like “how do I create a list of HTML Bootstrap cards for my whatever app” can get someone either the correct answer or close to 90% much, much faster than Google -> Stack Overflow -> Reading through mostly useless comments as most of the answers are either outdated, better answered via docs, or just flat out wrong and not useful. It’s exceptionally rare to get a “human SME” to answer a question and solve a problem, and though such things definitely provide value they don’t pay the bills.

I do agree on principal that getting some sort of high ranking in Stack Overflow by using these tools is pretty lame, but then again maybe hearing that this is possible stings because it really cuts through the veil.

I’m really excited for the future. I’ll have a lot of fond memories telling future generations that when we ran into problems we had this tool called Stack Overflow and other people would sometimes help and give you useful information. Something akin to Stack Overflow where you keep your org’s knowledge base can be useful, but then again maybe you just have an AI tool that does that instead?
Stop doing this. It's monumentally stupid to ask an LLM about any direct factual information it has not been trained upon.
That comes at about a 25% premium over salaried employees. For shorter term work and trying out a market it makes sense but if you want to build a long term presence salaried employees with excess cash for severance is more economical.
If it is wisdom you seek, you're gonna have to close your laptop my friend!
I was saying the same thing until one fall proved it wrong. You can be unlucky and break the back with what looks like a minor fall.
Few things do I read day-to-day that prompt me to physically say aloud "oh fuck."

Heather was an amazing writer, always humorous in the face of adversity. Sometimes, over the years, I feel fortunate that we had a few e-mail exchanges too. She was always so open and honest, and appreciated random readers of her blog writing in and appreciating her pictures of putting objects on top of her dog, her other more artistic photography, and her ability to share an honest and strong approach to the world. My thoughts are with her family. Depression is such a silent, damaging disease. Such brilliant minds lost way too early.
Yes, since the X I only get the cheaper iPhones. At least I know I can get 7-8 years of support for my phone so the price tag isn’t such a shock overall. But for a device that will be dropped in 3years?
Our New Project Starline Prototype – Google [video]
YouTube premium perfectly showcases why ads dominate the internet, because even when there is a paid option for a service much cheaper than any alternative, people do not want to pay (And I am not talking about too broke to pay cases). Serving an infinite video catalog is very expensive in terms of all resources (And yes Netflix is not comparable, unlike YouTube, Netflix can highly leverage cache boxes at ISPs). Vimeo is one alternative for video hosting, and HN is surely not gonna like that model (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28547578).

So what is the alternative? (Peer to Peer for streaming doesn't seem a reasonable alternative at any scale, since most people own phones and then laptops, and much fewer desktops).
Well they did just add some JS scrolling crap. Come on HN I thought you were better than that.
Not many people. But I'm using an iphone 8 from 2017 and it's still going strong. It was €800 when I purchased it. It probably has another 2 or 3 years in it.
You understand other people can read and learn, right?

>And stock does go up. It's Microsoft. Otherwise you can... just not use the option.

And lose the equity portion of your compensation, unlike stock grants. You don’t seem to get the nuance but you are so desperately trying to dismiss my point.
What I think can happen is that a lot of sites will become plugins for the LLM to get info, and Google will become a sort of conduit to the web.
Vote buttons look different too (on mobile at least)? Slightly darker & bigger?
People are still in conflict with each other for property ownership, so it's not solved

The ownership, with heavy taxes on that ownership, pushes towards making sure people benefit from the land.
Hey all, I wrote to dang a few months ago -- the non sharp upvote button was bothering me on mobile (and desktop when zoomed in), and I felt like the Y could be sharper too. These were the only elements that were fuzzy - everything else is text, and scaled perfectly!

We collab'ed on it together (more praise for dang as if he needs it -- he was incredible through and through) and I'm so happy to see it live!!

I built two micro tools to help nail it down if anyone is curious (aka make it visually seamless):

https://gregsadetsky.github.io/yc-logo-svg-comparison-editor...

https://gregsadetsky.github.io/yc-vote-button-editor/

(check the top right of both pages to see the UI controls)

Uh... AMA? Suggestions? Thoughts?

Thanks for the support -- so far nobody hates it? Does anyone hate it?

Cheers!
Can you list some of the amazing content you like?
Are you saying rural people are becoming NAZIS?

I work with many that live out of the city. They're good people.
Meh, people were saying this in the late 19th century as power tools made intricate carving and woodwork available to wealthy people and nit just the ultra wealthy. The types of homes they built were thought to be gauche and without pure style by those ultra wealthy and the usual critiques of “new money” (success envy by failures) being uncultured rang through.

But a funny thing happened - those homes are now praised and lauded over by people like the “McMansion Rheee” lady.

I agree a large home made of cheap materials with no landscaping and in a shit location is pretentious. But most people on Earth would trade their homes for one. I don’t want one but I get why people would rather have a huge house and a big car than a small apartment and public transit - it’s a better way to live for many people.
Well, I expect they will block this too…
Ugh TLS certificates are such flaming garbage. There is zero reason for them to be in a machine-first protocol like ASN. Here we are with billions of computers spewing human-first protocols like JSON at each other and we can't even use it for human-only info like TLS certificate fields.

But of course the complete incomprehensibility of TLS certs is a feature, not a bug: creating and signing your own is so difficult and arcane that it generates business for certificate vendors, even for certs for private use.
Yeah this costs as much as a MacBook Pro.. absurd
Local payment solutions like iDEAL, Bancontact, Prezelewy24, PayU, AliPay, Klarna or something like PayPal. Or through your mobile phone bill.

Credit-cards are not that common here in Euro-land.
And if you squint a lot then Helion is continuing a development process that started in the 1950s.
That's about the number of pixels in a 2-hour movie at 4k. Not too common yet, but once it's possible we're going to want to feed this amount of data into neural networks.
Stronger protections hurt better workers, likely more then it helps. It means companies are more apt to keep marginal workers and expect the higher performers to make up the difference