skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I built Userdoc (https://userdoc.fyi) a requirements management system for software projects.

After running a development consultancy for 8 years, I wanted a dedicated system for gathering and confirming requirements, and only syncing them with project management tools like Jira when they are ready (but keeping them in Userdoc as the living documentation and source of truth.

Things are going well, we have some large enterprise and government clients - and a two week experiment with AI back in January has lead to infusing AI into most aspects of the platform, which has opened up a lot of doors.
Not fully open source and run by a tiny startup that last raised funding 3 years ago means it's way too risky to use in a real product. Firebase and Cognito have issues, but for something as mission critical to a product as auth and identity knowing the service won't be killed or acquired is too important.
Where are you getting this information? My understanding is that Vitamin D production in the body is correlated with the directness of the exposure to the sun - therefore the most D is made at solar noon.
GitHub's own status page does that, too: https://www.githubstatus.com/
Right, the people have spoken, but not with their money, just yet.

Last I looked ChatGPT is a loss leader, so users might love it, but the judge is still out if people are willing to pay what it actually costs to produce the experience. It seems Google is betting on an ad-supported ChatGPT experience, which seems like the natural step to keep up.

But then there's the data side to all of this. Case in point, this Google search, https://www.google.com/search?q=chatgpt+losses, awesome I got a snippet and didn't have to sift through a bunch of sites to get the $540 million figure. Great, but who fed this data to Google ? Many sites of course, and what's their incentive ? To make money through ad clicks & sign-ups or some other form, so what's their incentive going to be now if Google keeps users to themselves like ChatGPT ?

There's going to be little to no incentive for news orgs, consultants, developers, cooks, trainers, you name it, to publish the most recent story/analysis/algorithm/recipes. If the data is going be commoditized by Google/ChatGPT or whoever, they will need to feed/pay for the most recent data themselves.
The study was an internet survey with no verification and they mixed the data between a wide variety of types of remote gigs, including upwork and fiverr and the further mixed the idea of “waiting for work” which falsely decreased the average wage.
Writing is thinking. You do it as much for yourself as you do your readers and having to put effort into it is how you realize gains. Like strength training.

Use tools, of course, but don't let them do the hard part for you. It'd be like buying a robot to go to the gym and move weights up and down — sorta misses the point.

(Before I get the usual sorts of replies: I'm not talking about writing boilerplate or marketing copy or canned responses to e-mails or just generating reams of prose so you can slap ads on it and make money or whatever. I'm talking about writing with the purpose of getting your personal thoughts and ideas out into the world.)
> Go with "PHP"

And articles referring to Golang could read

> Go with "Go"
"Researchers find major storage capacity in metal-free aqueous batteries"
https://www.inceptivemind.com/researchers-finds-major-storag... :

"The role of the electrolyte in non-conjugated radical polymers for metal-free aqueous energy storage electrodes." (2023) DOI: 10.1038/s41563-023-01518-z

"A sustainable battery with a biodegradable electrolyte made from crab shells" (2022)
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/09/220901135827.h... :

"A sustainable chitosan-zinc electrolyte for high-rate zinc-metal batteries" (2022)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2022.07.015

Chitosan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitosan :

> Chitosan /ˈkaɪtəsæn/ is a linear polysaccharide composed of randomly distributed β-(1→4)-linked D-glucosamine (deacetylated unit) and N-acetyl-D-glucosamine (acetylated unit). It is made by treating the chitin shells of shrimp and other crustaceans with an alkaline substance, such as sodium hydroxide.

Is there a sustainable way to produce Chitosan, which is an electrolyte?

https://westurner.github.io/hnlog/ Ctrl-F "anode" :

> Here's a discussion about the lower costs of hemp supercapacitors as compared with graphene super capacitors: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16814022
> It is hard to say that Java or any other imperative language is OO after seeing Smalltalk/Pharo.

This.

It so frustrates me to see people trash talk on "OOP" in HN and other forums, where I know people never really got to really realize what it could really be about. Just hacky approximations.

I'm sure that functional silver bullet will avoid this cycle some how. /s
> JavaScript was treated as the sidekick to Java and still has that stigma.

Does it still have that stigma?!
That comparison seems quite cherry picked. Unlikely that it is generalizable. In my tests with Mojo, it doesn’t seem to behave like Python at all so far. Once they add the dynamism necessary we can see where they land. I’m still optimistic (mostly since Python has absolute garage performance and there’s low hanging fruit) but it’s no panacea. I feel their bet is not to have to run Python as is but have Python developers travel some distance and adapt to some constraints. They just need enough momentum to make that transition happen but it’s a transition to a distinct language, not a Python implementation. Sort of what Hack is to PHP.
I’d pay to be able to select candidates based on their political opinion, like blue-hair people do all the time. It has a huge impact on the way we see work. So I ask questions about work, which are a proxy for political opinions. Like, what’s your stance about “non-violent communication” at work.
Some fraction of internet socialists are also regularly defending Russia in the Ukraine war. The Ukrainians are Nazis and the Russians are somehow not imperialists and NATO and the US are to blame, etc.
I bet AI-reliant developers are going to be more reviled than PHP developers way back during peak PHP-hate times.
I look around sometimes and see digitized/software-ized products I wish weren't. So the number can be negative.

One example: restaurant menus. Second example: car audio volume buttons/knobs.
There is a time-tested concept of noblesse oblige that our neo-feudal lords (Elon et al.) have never been trained to understand. They lack class.
Shingles, also known as Zoster or Herpes Zoster
It's random, with a mean that is correlated to the parents IQ. Just like height or any other number of other genetic traits.

> Are they abnormalities?

Yes.

> the average IQ of the world is increasing, how is that explained?

There are many different explanations. The biggest is that environmental factors that lower IQ such as malnourishment are decreasing. Another is that IQ is now more highly valued making high IQ individuals more fit to reproduce.
> No proper health care etc for people cleaning their flats or flipping their burgers...

That seems FUD. There are safety nets like Medicaid, Obamacare subsidies and EMTALA for poor.
It's a shame how far Asus has fallen. They had such a strong reputation in the past for the most stable boards. I'm not sure when the transition happened, but they seem to have been coasting on their age-old reputation for some time now. Do any brands have a reputation for stability these days? It seems like all of the focus is on overclocking.
> tend to skew a bit more towards the "Ayn Rand" libertarian economically

perhaps much less so in the UK (where i am) as we tend to value public services (such as the NHS) and realise they have to be paid for.
> The value is derived from the labor being done in the context of a system created by someone else.

When property ownership is indefinite and transferrable between generations, then capital accumulation becomes about whoever did it first. Yes there is occasional disruption, but a guy like Micheal Bloomberg did the labor 40 years ago and has had people working for him ever since.

I think the idea is that we ALL stand on the shoulders of giants, and rather than holding all of the gains ourselves, they should be spread so as to give other people the opportunity to make something of themselves.
wait till chatgpt folks realize how much the opportunity cost is of not monetizing their page views (yes, even for paid folks).
I used the word "nearly" in my sentence, which is not the one you put in quotes. Also, that a given person may experience side effects at a given dose, does not mean that they will experience those same side effects at all doses. Any given person who benefits from amphetamines, would also begin to experience some side effects if given too large a dose. Given this, my original comment could have been more clearly stated as: amphetamines have a calming and focus-enhancing effect on nearly everyone, given a tolerated dose.
Show HN: Teach-O-Matic – create instructional videos with GPT4 and Replicate
So if you build more housing in cities, there will be more wide open spaces left for the people who hate cities. Of all the anti-urbanist talking points, this one is easily the most nonsensical.

Most people who do leave cities complain about noise, crime and school quality, not density per se.
Sure, under pain of starvation people will do this if gig work is the only possible work, but we try not to let people die in the west this way and as a result people have a little breathing room to try to choose better options. Even just being your own childcare is an activity with much higher returns in your example than 60 hours of gig work. I would not expect 50-60 hours to be the norm when it pays so little per hour.
I'm not particularly well-versed in the technology but is there any reason the UK isn't utilising tidal power more? We have areas with some impressive tidal ranges including the Severn Estuary which has the second highest in the world. There was lots of talk about building a tidal lagoon in Swansea back when I lived in Wales but I've not heard anything about that since I moved away some years ago.
> I don't think startups get invited now just for using new Google tech

You're right about I/O. The once-fat "invite adopters to conference" coffers seem to have been transferred to their Cloud Next conferences instead.
Thanks for this. This is something I kind of knew but would have been hard pressed to articulate, especially on the spot. Seeing it laid out like this is very useful.
We have the audacity to color our hair. "It's just not natural, I tell you! Why, in my day..." is the usual response by folks who've forgotten they once were young too.
Thanks! Gitolite doesn't offer any UI for what I see. Also to set it up is too complicated.

I just found about "git instaweb" (developed by Git authors, but it's extra OS package) - it works locally, probably what I was looking for (minus the 100% width page layout).

BTW There's Gitblit is someone's fancy hosting Java app.
Yeah. My worry with Fusion eventually being solved is it will make energy so abundant that we will find novel ways to waste it. Ideally it is used to solve things like our climate crisis - but who knows.
They’ve built a set of framework-agnostic loaders to help sort out which tiles to request for any given viewport https://loaders.gl/docs/modules/tiles

All of the data loading and parsing can be done in loaders.gl, check out the repo 3D-tiles examples for a good place to get started.
Yes the innovation came from pooling enough money that you don’t have to follow the law
Correct, unless you store it solely in a HSM like a Yubikey.

One of the critical parts of "something you have" is that it is something only you have. If you can copy it, there is no longer a guarantee that you are the sole person possessing it.

This is also why Google Authenticator did not allow export for a very long time. If you want multiple TOTP tokens, you should enroll them separately, so that it is at all times possible to determine which exact token is being used to authenticate and revoke them individually if required.
I don't have the numbers with me, but I've seen convincing discussions that it can work with some caveats. The main issue being that spot prices are extremely volatile, so it's possible for a player at the utility space to get very high prices for electricity for very short times. But daytime-pricing schemes, while they follow the general trends of this volatility, insulate the consumer from the worst of this volatility enough that simply arbitraging the difference probably won't pay for the wear on a Tesla. But a fleet of Teslas paying the same rates as the utilities could make it a profitable enterprise.

Reading between the lines of Tesla investor meetings it sounds as though they have the software but haven't implemented it because it would hurt their brand as a luxury good.
> How about talking about how AI can empower a single developer to do the job of 10 people?

I think you missed some of the nuance of the article.

You’re talking about how many jobs there will be, and they’re (also) talking about how many people will qualify as “developers”.

Will the number of jobs go up or down or stay the same? Who knows? Probably down.

…but that’s only half the story.

Will the number of “developers” able to do what only “developers” can do now go up down or stay the same?

Well, since my mom told me she put some php on her Wordpress site from chat-gpt last week, I’m gonna sit in the “a considerable number more developers will materialise” camp. I.e. a huge glut in the number of people competing for that (probably shrinking) pool of jobs.
Deepfake porn, election disinformation move closer to being crimes in Minnesota
Yeah, Google hopped on the bandwagon. Glad to see a PaLM API.
Uh, we don't have the "spice" so we don't have "mentats"?
> People who just vaguely know how to program

This is a very absurdly small minority of people.
I hold a center position on this. I think PHP is great for a lot of things (especially these days). I even agree about Swift. Love that lang.

But for web, I personally prefer Typescript frontend and backend combos. It's amazing to be able to write everything in one language. I largely tune out the arguments and new flashy frameworks, but I get why people call the JS ecosystem a hellhole. There are a lot of options out there. That being said, when your team is competent and balances functionality with new shiny stuff, it can be a real treat to have access to npm for frontend and backend.
I don't think you are accurately critiquing the point made above. It is right that founders have a vastly different risk/reward tradeoff to employee engineers. I don't think that is the socialist engineers' argument.

Suppose there are 3 people involved in a startup: the founder, the engineer and the investor. The engineer gets $300,000 for 2 years' work. The founder gets $200,000 for 3 years' very intense work + $10 million if the startup succeeds. The investor puts in capital, does no work, and gets $40 million if the startup succeeds.

It is arguable that the founder and the engineer are getting a comparable amount but with a different risk profile. The socialist argument is that the person who only provides capital is overpaid for doing that. Whether that argument has an economic justification, or just a political or moral justification, and whether you believe that argument, is another matter. But it is clear that, if the investor got less, there would be more to pay both of the people who contribute work.

Perhaps a source of confusion is that successful founders often go on to become investors with the money they have collected, for example Paul Graham or Marc Andreessen. You could also argue that someone like Mark Zuckerberg, while still nominally 'working' as CEO, has gone from being a founder in Facebook the product to being an investor who provides capital for various Facebook the company projects, and that perhaps much of his wealth was accumulated in the second stage.
This is actually answered in the article, if one bothers to read it. Quite a long text, but not bad at all.

> All that matters is the total net sum. For example, imagine that there are 1 trillion people who have lives of value ‘1’, meaning that they are just barely worth living. This gives a total value of 1 trillion. Now consider an alternative universe in which 1 billion people have lives with a value of ‘999’, meaning that their lives are extremely good. This gives a total value of 999 billion. Since 999 billion is less than 1 trillion, the first world full of lives hardly worth living would be morally better than the second world, and hence, if a utilitarian were forced to choose between these, she would pick the former. (This is called the ‘repugnant conclusion’, which longtermists such as Ord, MacAskill and Greaves recently argued shouldn’t be taken very seriously. For them, the first world really might be better!)
> NTAPI doesn't count, because it's undocumented in the first place and you're not supposed to use it in the userland at all. Yeah, we all do, but...

In the context of developing something like Wine that is irrelevant - you need to deal with what people use.
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It's not a matter of if resources are available.

Suppose there is some work which has a maximum value to the employer of $9/hour, e.g. because that's how many more sales they make if they have an employee stocking shelves in addition to checking out customers instead of having one employee do both, because then there is less time when a product isn't on the shelf. So they might offer to pay $8/hour, if someone is willing to work for that. If you set the minimum wage at $10/hour, they aren't going to pay that for this, even if they have a billion dollars, because paying $10/hour would cause them to have $1/hour less.

If what you want to do is tax the rich and give it to the poor to make sure everyone has a minimum amount, that's a UBI, not a minimum wage.
As someone who participated at the periphery of the IETF, I resent the association with the ‘whatever goes as long as it only takes two weeks’ software planning movement. They did understand their limitations, and had a huge focus on practicality (running code), but otherwise they really did try to do the right thing. And aside from some obvious warts, I think they did an amazing job
The benefit of AI is it will make workers more efficient and free up workers and thus businesses to focus on additional projects and problems, create new tools, grow, etc.

One real issue I hope we resolve is to then see workers benefit from their increased efficiency in regards to their compensation.

Pay has not kept pace with increased workers efficiency historically. The efficiency gains technology produces tend to go to the top (C Suite and shareholders). While I, like many, am a shareholder of many companies (so I do benefit as equity markets go up) - the vast majority of Americans own very little if any equity in any equities and this is what leads to absurd wealth disparity.

It'd be nice if this time were different and we could create a system that avoids all the extra cash this generates from being funneled up like regulatory capture - I suspect it won't be.
It won't remove ALL barriers obviously, but AI can explain quirks, significance, reference, and cultural trends in speech. An AI can dive deep to further comprehension, which will facilitate more cultural understanding through linguistic relativity.
Prety hard to be wrong on a "prediction" like that
I wonder if it was a deep fake
A lot of founders have worked for free or have already invested a lot of money in their company. If you want a salary and external investment, you better be prepared to part with much of the stake in your company.
Can't tell if this is a serious question, but the answer is: yes, obviously. Without the decades of research the death toll would have been orders of magnitude higher. Consider the platform technology revolution in how vaccines are made (and the highly effective vaccines). Structure-based immunogen design, that also helped with the rapid development of antivirals. Consider for example that there are zero recorded deaths from an individual who was vaccinated, got infected, and then was treated with Paxlovid. The use of highly effective PPE in hospitals and other settings was also a result of decades of research into the spread of respiratory infections...

Also when you say "organically and naturally spontaneously jumped to human hosts", you do realize that every virus in history has done exactly that?
I don't buy the mojo hype.

The concept of compiling python has been tried again and again. It has its moments, but anything remotely important is glued in from compiled code anyways.
As far as i can tell, fractal doesn't have a definition. The closest it ever came was the one you roughly gave.
Thank you for sharing. Based on that description I can see why you doubt its usefulness. I've been a part of retros that cover the whole spectrum of usefulness. Some feel like going through the motions just so we can check a box whereas as others have helped transform our team dynamics.

Did you you always a scrum master running the retro?
The Epic Stack
Such a day never existed in the US
That's true. My thought was they're still 'open', in an important way, even though it's not the open source way. If they were smart they'd adopt my interpretation in their PR materials.
> The lockdowns went on far longer than the "flatten the curve" phase.

Did they? Is the table on wikipedia wrong? Outside of California (which I feel no desire to defend), it looks like the actual lockdowns were 0-3 months.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_lockdowns

0-3 months doesn't sound nutty to me. Perhaps 3 months was a bit on the high side, sure, but it's also on the high side of actual policy. What does strike me as nutty was the extreme rhetoric around extremely basic Rt reduction measures. Washing hands, social distancing, wearing masks, taking temperatures, installing spit shields etc just don't deserve nearly the same level of vitriol as the lockdowns themselves, but people seem awfully keen to fudge the distinction. Next time we should start those measures out of the gate but I am worried that people will jump right back into the game of pretending that basic public health measures = extreme oppression, sending us down the exact same path as 2020.
Silicon fertilization shown to increase wheat yields and water availability
No one is banning unproductive work. You still have to pay for it though.
Something something pnpm, yarn, jfrog
I feel anxious looking at the multitude of windows. Do you get used to it?
I get the impression from others who have worked for Japanese companies that even tbt 12 hours at work aren't super productive; the long hours are a performance to show loyalty to the company.
Reminds me of this spray I have specifically for cleaning the kitchen. In small print it says "warning don't use surfaces that will have food"
My bet is that this is probably the first evidence of indeterminate growth [1] in the species. Increasing skeletal size is a pretty tell tale sign. With all the conservation programs working, they’ve started to get old enough that we can see enough of a difference to overcome individual variance in their growth cycle.

Many fish used to be much bigger than today because they survived for much longer since they had no predators. Within years, the average fish size of those caught at any popular vacation destination fall precipitously as can be observed by vacation photos [2]. If a mammal were to acquire this adaptation, it makes sense that it would be a marine one - I think whales and dolphins exhibit it too

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indeterminate_growth

[2] https://psmag.com/environment/fish-stories-the-ones-that-got...