skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The tech world might not be as empathetic as some other human endeavors, but it has a unique approach.

We need to consider whether we should foster more empathy or simply adapt to the existing landscape. Being practical and discerning, sometimes to the point of discrimination, has proven effective in areas like space exploration, business, and even the natural process of evolution. And tech, too. Over the past 30 years, the tech industry has achieved remarkable feats, feats that would seem magical to people living a century ago. This success stems from swiftly testing new ideas and people, and discriminating between those who can deliver results and those who cannot.

However, such judgment or discrimination can pose problems. While it might be beneficial in natural systems, facilitating improvement, it isn't perceived positively in our society. We aim for fairness and equality for everyone. The term "discriminate", even though integral to nature and many productive systems, often carries a negative connotation in sociology. And indeed when we look at examples of unfairness and inequality in history, they are generally seen as immoral. But I wonder if that is because the inequality was often means to an end for someone else's decadence.

Here's a difficult question: should tech become more empathetic or continue to discriminate based on ability? If we become less judgmental of skills, we might not achieve as much. If we continue to be unempathetic, that will cause social friction. While I don't have a definitive answer, it's certainly worth considering.

In my tentative opinion (since I don't feel particularly adamant about it), we should continue assessing individuals based on their technical understanding in the tech realm, but within reason. We need to maintain humility, recognizing our limited knowledge and potential to misjudge others. Our critiques should be measured, and we should avoid letting our assessments of others' technical skills cloud our perception of their worth in other areas. After all, one can possess excellent personal attributes yet lack technical skills or be unfit for a specific tech project. In that sense, I lean more heavily towards the fundamentally non-empathetic approach. But that's just N=1. The important part of my message here is that we need to acknowledge the equity/empathy-effectiveness trade-off and be conscious of it.
This is why the "legislating from the bench" criticism always fell flat for me. America's legislative branch has been deadlocked for 40 years. History abhors a power vacuum. When one exists, the neighboring institutions will bend and stretch to fill it, distorting themselves and the whole power structure in the process.
Well that's why these entities have a constitution, to define government's prerogative. So to answer your own question you need to read the EU constitution.
Honestly, is it just me or do I find Javascript unnaturally difficult? I've learnt Python, C++, MATLAB, heck, even picked up some Rust and LabVIEW on the way. But I found Javascript (and Typescript) hard to pick up.
At least they're still improving their old IPs and keeping them fresh, while Blizzard lets their IPs rot but keeps stocking them on the shelf.
The pioneers and the people who start doing something later, when it’s safe, are not the same people.
I mean, honestly you can count me into that group of people who didn't care; I had been using Bluetooth headphones for years at that point already.

I actually didn't know that business Dell laptops were easy to repair...I'll need to look into that.
Boeing had a patent 20-ish years ago for making engine interchange simpler on models that were certified for multiple engines. IIRC, it was originally implemented for 757 and 767. Might have been part of DCAC/MRM, but I’m not 100% on that bit.
>I know, sorry, too much of a rant.

Yep, these sorts of comments and threads degrade the HN experience quite a bit for me. You didn't actually say anything about the subject, or anything tangential but still interesting or relevant. You're just angry at words and that's not interesting at all.
My personal privacy bogeyman is Google --- and if you'll notice, they are involved here too.

Google = Privacy Invasion -- synonymous for all practical purposes.
Is it possible to stimulate? Do you need a beefy setup
The software is on the same quality level as IoT devices and shitcoin projects
BT has been downsizing for years, it is a shell of its former self already.

What strikes me as odd is they're viewing 'modernisation' efforts as one-time activities. Come 2030 are they saying they won't need to invest in their network as much or upgrade things? I think that's what they are saying, and I don't think they're going to be right.
As somebody who went through the MBA education for defensive reasons (i.e. acquiring skills to protect me from managerial BS), I would say you can extend it to most business jobs excluding accountants and quants.
Last I heard, there was a "per use" fine for usage as well. Honestly, I haven't looked at this farce of a bill since it was first introduced.

EDIT:

S1: An entity violates this prohibition when any of the following occurs within the territorial jurisdiction of Montana:

(a) the operation of tiktok by the company or users; or

(b) the option to download the tiktok mobile application by a mobile application store.
There's also the third issue, which is much more problematic to fix with regulation: short-form video is absolutely killing youth attention span. I know students who will ask another student a question, and then lose focus and zone out within literally 3 seconds and not hear the answer. This was not nearly as prevalent a decade ago.
Fascinating concept

I wonder how humans decode these symbols, because it doesn’t seem to be 10x more “costly” for a person to natively learn one of those languages vs another

Also, supposedly, independent of the language, humans communicate at an aprox constant rate (39 bits/second according to this: https://www.science.org/content/article/human-speech-may-hav...)

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Here’s the Twitter thread about it from the same author:

https://twitter.com/yenniejun/status/1653791622197579776?s=4...
I've looked for ISO 10218, 12100, 13849, and IEC 60204, and they're $29.76 to $36.23; $138 for the set. That's a lot better than $183, $207, $230, and $575 that the original publishers want, almost $1200 for the set. The former is likely in the discretionary shop tools budget for most clients, especially if you spread it out over four pay periods, but $1200 would trigger lots of restrictions. But you're right, it's still not free.

These are documents that should be on the laptops of every shift lead, maintenance tech, mechanical designer, manufacturing engineer, robot programmer, and controls programmer at industrial plants worldwide. These documents being free would not just make websites easier to use, they'd make human beings safer and reduce the number of industrial accidents that occur. And yet in the hundreds of facilities I've been in and hundreds of customers and vendors I've worked with, I can count on one hand the number of people who had a copy of even one of these documents. The vast majority, in practice, makes do with the regurgitated Powerpoints from various "safety training" presentations that have screenshots of a few tables and critical language.

There's an enormous river of prosperity flowing through society. Everyone involved just wants to dip out or siphon off a little bit, what they imagine to be their fair share, or what they think they can convince people ought to be their fair share, and unfortunately, that includes people like the standards bodies. If they published their standards more freely, the total volume of that river would grow enormously, but they would get less of it, so they selfishly don't do that.
>Countries have the right to ban foreign adversaries

This is the same logic that China uses to ban all western apps. Fortunately in the west, countries don't have rights, people do, and citizens generally have the right to run whatever software they want on the hardware devices they own. Governments that violate such rights get challenged in court.
It's just Nintendo hellbent on the 30fps

Maybe this is just comic exaggeration that's flying over my head, but I find it very strange to interpret Nintendo's intentions this way.

TOTK is clearly very very ambitious in terms of physics simulation and interactivity -- it very clearly feels like a case of "we are stretching the limits of this hardware and we just can't pull it off at 60fps" and not "lol who needs 60fps."

Are there 60fps games on Switch that are actually doing this level of ambitious interactivity?

That said, it definitely feels like there's some room for optimization e.g. the Ultrahand effect. I wonder if Nintendo will address this in a patch. This game was clearly a large and ambitious project that surely had an internal deadline to meet. As engineers we know how that goes... you have to balance completeness, correctness, performance, and actually hitting your deadlines.
Convert any API into a ChatGPT plugin
Right after the ChatGPT plugin announcement we started building our own plugins and identified a few flaws that we think, a dedicated product could solve.

We identified, that apart from the creation of the manifest and openapi files, developers will need support with versioning, monitoring their plugin and most importantly (automated) testing.

So we started to built a tool around this, and we're going to open source it soon, so that everyone can host it individually and doesn't need to give us access to potentially private data.

Would love to get your thoughts and feedback.
Detect deauthentication frames using an ESP8266
I was using that as a shorthand for "geniuses who found multi-billion dollar companies".
> Kids these days want to build games

Raylib supports over 50 languages.
I usually see similar sin in both parties. But it's notable that not one Democrat Senator is standing up and demanding e.g. the Green New Deal or disbanding ICE in exchange for their vote on the debt ceiling.
Isn't the startup landscape inherently commercial?
What is with this "handful" of jobs line that he seem to be pushing about tech in Ireland?
Does he not realise what a small population Ireland is?

Tech is a massive employer in Ireland, it also creates a bunch of other service related jobs.

Fighting an uphill battle here I guess. Tax haven Ireland, taking money from the "poor" EU.
The article claims "...will not impose any penalties on individuals using the app". A commenter elsewhere in this thread links to the law itself, which could presumably disambiguate, though I've not read it.
The description of this interaction in the article makes me sad for the author - they criticise and belittle another. Imagine instead what they could have learnt if they opened themselves up to another persons perspective.

It’s notable how little this article actually discusses the delivery of any form of value. The tech is not the end in itself, it’s a means to an end - and we live in an age with so many well matured and valid options that for many of the problems we seek to solve what tech we use isn’t necessarily a critical decision.

The author answers their own question - where have the hackers gone? We are getting on with it and building stuff. This kind of language flame war stuff just isn’t as important as it once (debatably) was. It’s a dying trope.

Thinking on the initial mistake our author made - framing the conversation rigidly through their own frame of reference - I’ve personally found Matthew Syed’s work on cognitive diversity helpful in understanding and addressing this. [1]

[1] https://graphic-designer-richmond.co.uk/2021/01/business-boo...
Might help matter. If China blows up part of Apple, they are going lose all of Apple Business. That’s a big cash cow China would lose.
I don't care much about the Adobe bullshit any more, but after having used Photoshop for almost 20 years, I switched to Affinity last year and I cannot recommend it enough!

Coincidentally, I just finished a session with Affinity Photo 2 before reading your comment.

I, too, recommend Affinity Photo as a Photoshop replacement for many people. It's probably good enough for 80% of people out there.

I switched to Affinity because I don't do subscription software. But I'm still up to speed with Photoshop because I have to use it at work.

Photoshop is still better than Affinity in a lot of ways, and for all the confusion in its interface, it's still more polished than Affinity.

One of my biggest problems with Affinity Photo is that it can't save files in the background, which wastes a lot of time when you're working with multiple large images.

Worse, though, is that Affinity Photo is just buggy. Affinity Photo 2 is better, but many bugs persist. Things like images loading, but simply not rendering on screen. Or selecting a tool, but the tool has no effect, and you have to quit the program and restart for it to work again.

Unfortunately, Affinity's official forum is not what it should be. I'll be polite and call responses from official Affinity people "brusque." Also, be very gentle in your criticism and reporting of bugs, because they're quick to delete even minor complaints. More than once I've been following a discussion where someone is having the same problem as I am, and I get an e-mail notification containing another person's response. By the time I get to the actual forum, it's all been deleted by the admins. Not a good look.
I grew in the 80s 90s. The culture of phrack, 2600, Fravia, phrozen crew, etc was absolutely phenomenal.

My take is a bit worse than the GP: Theres people interested in that but nowadays they sell their skills for money. That's why you see lots of ransomware, darkweb sells and whatnot.

Even the torrent-ing has shown the change of culture: back in the Napster, kazaa, imem days, people (layman) shared just because. Now theres not that much interesting material, and a lot of it is behind private trackers that make you jump through hoops to get in the club.
Alibaba plans to list its cloud division
It's not a "Tangential remark" if your tangent is 10 times longer than your commentary on the article!

> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.
You can kinda view ARM and TSMC as their babies. They founded ARM and financed all the node tech in TSMC that made TSMC competitive.
Yep. Quantum chaos, at least insofar as I was involved with it, is about semi classical analysis of quantum systems which would have chaos if they were classical.

Remember quantum mechanics started with the Bohr atom which was an approach that would generalize to any system that has quasi periodic (solar system in the short term) dynamics. Circa 1917 Einstein wrote a paper that said that this approach wouldn’t generalize because Poincaré proved that chaos is generic, soon after that we got Schrodinger’s equation and similar approaches. (Although that Einstein paper killed a line of development it barely got cited for 50 years)

Later on there were mathematical developments in quantum chaos such as Gutzwiller’s trace formula and also numerical work where people discovered various properties of the quantum levels of systems that were classically chaotic.

Linear operators in quantum mechanics don’t precluded observing chaos in the real world because the true “long term” is very long indeed. That is, classically or quantum mechanically if you wait some really absurdly long time (say much more than 10^120 years) the universe is expected to come arbitrarily close to the state it is in today. See

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poincar%C3%A9_recurrence_theor...
What article? Seems quite unlikely given that it apparently is too hot to do the opposite anyway.
Are you serious? After Effects can still do a ton that DaVinci cannot. It's awesome that Resolve exists for sure but Adobe is still by far the industry standard.
Yearly productivity increases are finite. States have demonstrated a remarkable ability to out-debase and out-spend productivity increases, well across history, geography, and cultures.
These addiction apps rely on the activation energy to keep slurping on the dopamine straw be ~0.

I bet if you forced a 10 second boot time to the app you would reduce usage by 40%.
Apple use to directly manufacture its computers at is own factories in the US (and maybe elsewhere).

And if I recall correctly the last two generations of Mac Pro systems have been built in their own plants.

Of course that only says they have experience with making cases and motherboards, not down to the level of chip and screen components
Does a state even have a right to do something like this?

Somehow, I feel like if California tried to ban Fox News - it would not fly.

This doesn't seem that different, though I personally find it amusing that it's coming from a conservative state.

I do agree TikTok is toxic trash - but I'd say the same about Fox News - and it just doesn't seem like something a state has the ability to ban.
You can emulate it on a Steam Deck
Low stakes deadlines, in my mind.
It's a very recent thing, from players liking to go against the grain for the sake of it. No one would have assumed that in the 64 era. In fact Majora was pretty unloved, which lead to the "for those who knows" phenomena about it.
Bat lands worldwide are besieged, seeding risk of a new pandemic
Slightly off topic - I'm not sure I've heard the gov stating it plainly in the recent years: "the People's Republic of China is an adversary of the United States" (from the bill). Did I just miss it / glance over, or is this out of character for officially released gov documents?
Well, either you were there in the 90s and had a very different experience than I did, or you weren't there in the 90s and are romanticizing what you have read about UIs back then. I mean, you can strip out a vast amount of functionality from a modern UI and get back to the simplicity of the 90s, but you'll hardly get anything done.
> They'd still be there

Unfortunately.

Not sure the concentration of Zuckerbergs and the concentration of hackers is particularly related, except maybe the latter attracts the former.

Zuckerberg's no genius, he was in the right place at the right time near the right people. He's competent, but no more than most of the people here. His morals (or the flexibility thereof) were what made him rich.
Are you saying Amazon modifies prices for items based on which user is logged in?
One reason, but to be fair MBA types can have the same lack of empathy. Their interactions can turn into (actually kind one of the things the author complains about) treating people purely as capital and relationships as means to financial end.
It’s about subscription, but not like you think it is. This is about users who started paying the subscription years ago, continued paying the subscription through the present day, but some time between then stopped updating one of the apps because the update would remove a feature. But that version of the app used a third party module that Adobe no longer pays for, so Adobe doesn’t have the right to let the users use it anymore, so Adobe is demanding they stop using the version that includes the module.
Affinity is amazing. It's like the old Photoshop you remember, before it became totally over-bloated.
Millions or not, it's pretty contentious. That said, I'm probably wasting my time fighting the tide, as with complaining about misuse of the word "literally".
I Switched to Open, Uncensored, API-able, Local M1 Mac ChatGPT Alts
The squatters just need to start saying that "seven.zip" is the new home page and 7-zip.org is deprecated instead of redirecting.

It only takes some SEO to make it look plausible for many users who trust Google and see "seven.zip" as the first search result.
Definitely the culture has changed as tech has become a mainstream career path. Also I think there used to be a sense of the "wild west" where you could push the boundaries while hacking and get away with it. Now someone smart enough to hack is probably smart enough to realize how much of their activities are logged somewhere.
The "G" in "GDPR" is the same as the one in "AGI": "General".

As I understand it (not a lawyer), every country in the EU unified their data protection regulations to match it, and the penalties for non-compliance are the same in all cases.

So, even maximal enforcement shouldn't cause any company to relocate. So long as the companies accept this as reality.
I have used ChatGPT in a variety of ways with Anki for language learning, as well as just learning stuff in general. I wrote about my experiences here, maybe you’ll find it useful:

https://neurotechnicians.com/p/generative-ai-and-anki-part-1...
Apple for long time tried to buy JBD Display, they sent their due-diligencers, which inspected everything millimetre by millimetre, and then poached their process head.

JBD then armed itself with lawyers, and for long tried to frustrate Apple from reproducing the technology.
Or you could just not even need to go to another state. People will learn to use a VPN.
Why do you need to use PPPoE? Is that an ISP requirement? It seems uncommon nowadays to need PPPoE.
That’s fair, I was comparing the prices I was paying.

That said, as of this writing Netflix’s premium plan is $19.99/m. YouTube’s is $22.99. While they are comparable, they are not equivalent.
I imagine that they will go after the source. Basically Apple, Google, Samsung and Microsoft will have to hide the app in their respective stores for Montana users. That is, if there isn't an injunction before it even goes anywhere.
Cable-style news bundles are spreading across Europe
I still don't understand why China would possibly want to try and invade Taiwan? The chip foundry's would immediately be scuttled, and whatever would be left would be a nice, but simple island.

In exchange for taking that land mass, their entire international trade business which mainland china is extremely reliant on, would be in jeopardy.

It would almost be political suicide to invade as far as I see it. But I'm no expert.
Without a modern society around them, providing universities, technology, communication etc, these geniuses would just end up being the best farmer or handyman in the village.

Also, human population was very small in the old days: https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-growth#world-pop...
NextJS 13 extremely slow with a >=32KB payload in getServerSideProps
The problem is that they prevent any joke about gay individuals, not just jokes that are demeaning or derogatory. Joking about things you encounter in every day life normalizes the subject. What this treatment does is say these categories are not normal, which, I thought, was not the outcome we should be looking for.
Don't you worry. Most (all?) companies in smart TV space are also making their own mobile phones, so of course they'll offer you a special service that mutes the ads when it detects you're close to the TV and are picking up a phone call.

There is no problem adtech creates, that cannot be solved by more invasive telemetry.
Ask Apple to remove it from devices with billing info in that state. Fine Apple until they comply.
Make sure to visit the Hokusai Museum and the Gansho-in temple in Obuse, if you are near Nagano. There are quite a lot of attractions nearby, so it worth spending a weekend in the neighborhood.
I don't think the political situation has changed that much since 1949, except for minor updates in 1971 and 1992. Besides, as the sibling commenter mentions, Apple (and every other consumer electronics manufacturer in the world) is in deep trouble if war breaks out.

If they de-risk by doing this in the US or India, what are they going to use the screens for?
Until recently Circle were parking their cash in uninsured deposits [1]. Moving to repos may be about the debt ceiling, but it's more likely that someone hired a treasurer.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/7c9b2234-c298-4508-b59a-fce49f6bc...