skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The folks that I'm referring to as normies in this case, even though they might be technically literate, suffer from a lack of creativity. That's what makes them normies.

Personally, I'm fully against promoting crypto as an end all be all solution to economic problems the way that many scammers do. I'm even against trying to onboard the masses.

However, I see in crypto and smart contracts a green field of opportunity to experiment with unique forms and formats of human interaction using the medium of programmable money.

For example, I like how NFTs (despite many shortcomings) play with the concept of digital ownership. I also like how defi brings us unique financial instruments like flash loans, etc.

I think draconian regulation in this space will effectively squeeze a lot of these experiments out from under legitimate actors. It's a technology that is worth playing with. I think it's better to punish bad actors rather than raise the barrier to entry for the tech.

Of course you are right that enthusiasts of the technology would have a confirmation bias, but the opposite is also true. The confirmation bias here is that this is de facto bad.
What uninhabited land do we light up? Not familiar with what you’re referring to.
"Going dark" is a scam - https://crimesciencejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11... for instance found that there was no difference in conviction rate for cases involving E2EE encryption vs those that didn't in the Netherlands. The government just wants the halcyon period of surveillance from late 1900s to the early 2000s back but these supposed tech savvy criminals almost never turn out to exist.
Every user would need one.
> that's literally what you did, but go off sis.

No.

Your quote does not support the assertion.

An average does not mean that individual data points can have different values.

I’m not a woman. My username is my own name. I’m not sure what you were trying here.

You should probably read the HN guidelines.
"Wonder how the new normal of wildfires will impact that population"

Well, if all the forests burn this year, they can't burn again next year...right?
The thing about the economic cycle is that it's a cycle. This too shall pass.
This is actually well documented. There has been a notable increase in prices couples with an increase in women working (instead of staying home). It’s not a 1:1 increase of price to household income, but it’s well documented, and geographically correlated to rate of double-income households.
> Literally, every cloud provider will give you an endpoint address that does not require port-mapping

Try running a real server. But even in the cloud you'll quickly run into it as soon as your stack becomes even mildly complex.
I too suspect the phones are probably a co-factor. I just don't think they're the root cause. It's an interesting observation we adults use our phones to take a break from the real world. Kids are too. We can turn this question on its head and ask whether the phones have enabled a higher level of stress? Maybe we're all having problems but as adults we're better experienced to cope?
This would never be feasible. To start, forget underground magnets and radios. If you just started with properly painted lines, always-functioning traffic signals, and correct street signs, autonomous driving would be much, much easier than it is now.

But the vast majority of the difficulty in autonomous driving is simply dealing with the messiness of the real world. For example, many of the most serious and notable autonomous driving crashes have been the result of faulty road conditions (e.g. https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/25/21153320/tesla-autopilot-... - in that case, the driver wasn't paying attention, but the fact that lane markers were worn down is what caused Autopilot to lose lane tracking, and the fact that crash attenuator in front of the barrier was damaged and not replaced contributed to the driver's death).

Government can't even keep decent lane lines on the roads, and thus I think an autonomous driving system that had to depend on magnets or radios (that failed if those were out) would be even more of a non-starter.
It seems to me that part of the argument is people will charge what they can get away with rather than what they actually need to cover costs and a reasonable profit. Key bottlenecks become an opportunity for price gouging, causing ripple effects.

Money is impacted by human choice and human psychology. You can't neatly separate it from human behavior and impulses like greed.

It's grounded in history and historic success and the details make more sense to me than the less nuanced usual explanations that seem rooted in a damned if you do, damned if you don't mentality.

/not an economist
Good thing it doesn’t take 20 years to build a house or apartment building.
I've come to the conclusion that science needs to be just another form of religion (without the theistic element). I don't have the time or the energy to go through the research to determine if climate change is real. I put my faith in the scientific process, which is probably the most successful thing we've ever come up with as a species. I'm not sure why I should believe some random dude, whoever he might be or what credentials he might have, on the radio/TV over the scientific community. Sure, they've gotten things wrong, but their success rate and their usefulness to our species is infinitely better than some politician being a climate change denialist just to appeal to voters. What process does he have and why should I trust it more than the scientific method?
So you didn’t read the article?
>Record corporate profits are the key indicator here.

We have record GDP. We also have record amounts of M2. If there were NOT record amounts of profit i'd be considered. Looking at absolute profit not charted against other metrics is embarrassingly stupid. Maybe profits are driving inflation to some degree, but saying 'record corporate profits are a key indicator' is just wrong.
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Because they're all making record profits by all raising prices. Why stop the gravy train?
Are there still games that only come out on PC? I thought most big titles are released on Xbox and Playstation as well?
I don't actually find Apple software to be any better.
same as the main thing that stops housing everywhere: the people who already own homes want the value of their own investments to continue rising uncontrollably, and building more houses has the potential to threaten that.

the stated reasons are usually that building more housing outside of existing urban areas is bad for the environment, and building more housing within existing urban areas is bad for the "neighbourhood character". but the reality is just that a housing shortage is good for a lot of people's bank accounts.
Almost like those annoying neurosurgeons taking 18 hours to perform a brain surgery that could've been 30 minutes.

Network configuration changes are the reason for 90%+ of domain-wide multi-hour outages.

You can remote-reset everything but if the network breaks, you have to physically get there. (OOB/LOM notwithstanding)
At least Vancouver is expanding the Sky Train. You can get pretty far away from downtown at this point and still be one train away. But I haven't looked into housing costs, so maybe that just makes everything anywhere near a stop just as expensive.
> Part of me wonders why they haven't done so yet

I’ve wondered if they know that they’ll lose numbers of users, which is an important metric for selling space to advertisers.
> Believe what you want. But if they aren't crashing they aren't crashing.

Yours isn't crashing (yet), but that doesn't mean they aren't crashing. https://www.tesladeaths.com/ shows a lot of crashes. Last year most crashes involving automated driving systems were shown to be teslas (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/15/tesla-us-car...)

Worse, both Tesla and the NHTSA have been caught covering up safety problems too so it's even harder to say what's actually happening on the roads.
So it works as a superoptimizer of sorts.
In large part because we've been sitting on our hands with regard to real antitrust action for the better part of the last 40 years.

This lack of real choice is hidden behind a plethora of brands all owned by the same large corporations.

And it turns out when there are like 4 large corporations that are responsible for almost everything produced in a market it's really easy to do de facto price fixing (in the sense that they [usually] aren't officially talking to each other but have unspoken ongoing gentleman's agreements) allowing all parties to get a nice share of the price gouging with no party triggering a race to the bottom.
If only that how housing prices would have worked, take the number of homes in the country, divide by the number of citizens and if that results are greater than 1 then everyone should have no problem affording to own their home.

But that's not how it works in our current reality. In the real world housing is a speculative asset, so every free home doesn't go to the homeless person who needs it, but to the financial institution who has bigger piles of money that that person, like BlackRock, who will added to their ever increasing portfolio and you will continue to be homeless because their piles of money will be bigger than yours and they can make more money renting that house to you.

Aint that great? /s
Would have been nice for somebody from Apple to chime in and say they intended to support it.
> I use Macs to get work done

Ok, uninstall Steam then, I guess? Games do currently exist on Mac, both in the App store and on Steam. It's just that there's a big swath of games that haven't been ported to Apple Silicon in particular, due to difficulty. I grew up playing games on the Mac, so I'm not sure what your point is.
> Except actual accident statistics, you mean.

I thought we had gotten past that statistic? AP, in particular, gets used in what is already the safest driving situation there is. Those statistics can only be compared to human drivers in exactly that same narrow circumstance. If we were talking about FSD, then we'd need to see statistics where the human never touches the wheel; saving the car from it's own mistakes is cheating ;).

> Now you've digressed into navigation choices and not safety.

I think I understand what you are saying but I'm not sure I agree -- incorrectly navigating across the lane lines, especially when the car indicates it sees them, is definitely a safety problem in my view.

I expect that it's kinda like the silly wipers. If you live somewhere with the right kind of rain, you think "what is everyone complaining about?" but if you live in the PNW where we get a lot of misty rain, you end up cursing at the car regularly during the winter months. Some places have just the right roads for FSD, and those people think it's pretty great. But then other people get constant failures and wonder why the heck they spent 6, 12, or 15 grand on something that doesn't deliver.

I'm glad someone has a good experience with it, even when it doesn't match my own. But I also didn't buy it outright, so I just cancel the subscription after trying it again to see how things stand.
"Record corporate profits are the key indicator here."

I am open minded to the notion that corporate profits indicate the direction of "pain flows" in this economy dominated by inflation concerns.

The first question I would ask is: are current corporate profits breaking records in real terms, or just nominal terms ?

I don't know the answer to that.

It would be disappointing, intellectually, to learn that corporate profits are simply up in absolute, nominal dollars ...

... but I've been disappointed before.
I'll often read through the studies in an argument but it is very unfeasible to keep up with these people because they can just keep throwing crap at you, and if you disagree with the study, they'll throw another at you until you give up. I remember reading through one 80 page paper on how a public option for healthcare would bankrupt us, but if you actually read through the thing, it never accounts for all the money saved by not being spent on private healthcare (which would fund the entire thing). My local power company had a similar situation where they posted a huge study explaining why solar was costing them a bunch of money, but if you actually read the study it explains that it considers lost income from solar as costing them money (in the same way that moving to a more efficient AC system would "cost" the power company money). It's all bullshit, and it's too easy to abuse studies to defend your position.
Switching keyboards takes at least 2-4 weeks, in my opinion, to get to somewhat 80% speed of what you would expect.

Personally, switching to a "columnar" keyboard (Moonlander keyboard) took me about that time, but afterwards I could switch between keyboards without too much confusion. (I don't type faster, but I feel less pain from typing)
This is good. I learned some stuff.

At risk of sounding like those old CGM-Is-The-Only-Real-Vector-Format[0] guys, I'm coming down hard on the SVG side as well.

SVG's got problems - not gonna lie, I fight blown up SVGs every day, particularly those with thousands of parts - but those implementation problems (which are largely just bad design decisions) shrink in comparison to the basics.

The DOM visibility and the accessibility issues are the dealbreakers here.

I do want to underline a systemic limitation of hooking up your content to the Canvas train.

Both SVG and Canvas use primitives - boxes, dashes, etc - but if you are making publications with vector art, how much visibility do you have into whatever defines those primitives?

The SVG primitives are locked down to various issues/revs of SVG - you can at least say how different SVG dashes will be from, say, LockBoNorthRay's Mandated Official Sanctified Dashes (.1mm space/2mm dash or somesuch). And then you can design accordingly[1]. The Canvas primitives, I can't even figure out where their geometry is defined to even tell the difference so that I can get a grip on the problem. There's nothing I can point to when presenting a solution to homo executus. I have a funny feeling that Canvas users wouldn't even try and build something for a company that whips out rulers to measure dashes on a printed page.

[0] Who strangely all work for the same two software companies. What are the odds?

[1] Regardless of what the old crusty CGM guys say, yes, you can lock down SVGs and get full reportability via the DOM or, hell, via xquery. Waaahhh no SVG doesn't have an ISO WebCGM profile, oh no what do you do <concerned_face_pikachu>. Yeah, you check it in the DOM, like everything else.
For sure- the issue though was that I was almost completely unproductive. I had work to do :)
During the long period of unusually low rates and consumer-price inflation, we had massive asset inflation. We also had unusually low unemployment and rather sticky wages. The populism was driven (at least partly) by this state; assets going up while prices and wages staying flat leads to a "rich get richer" which pisses off everybody else.
I've copy pasted some of his rationale for not accepting donations (with links to the originals), in my comment on this thread at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36230210
The trick is knowing which feedback to listen to. If Dropbox listened to the negative feedback from HN on launch, they'd think there wasn't a market and it was a dumb idea. HN was (famously) wrong, partly because HN isn't the target market of the service.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
The auto industry does, but would Apple operate the same way?
And what happens if there is a child on the road? Or are we going to need implanted transmitter chips in the future, so we can safely go outside and are not overrun by „smart“ cars?

Even if every car is required to be part of the network, there may be badly maintained cars that don’t work properly, or even malicious cars, that send wrong data on purpose.
Surely this sort of sharing and access techniques violate most Terms of Service for any email I can conceive. It would be difficult to pull off a 100% legit service in this vein.
It's weird how much worse google is at code generation when AlphaCode was already so much stronger than gpt4 today at code generation a year ago:

https://www.deepmind.com/blog/competitive-programming-with-a...

https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/99566

(alphacode achieved a codeforces rating of ~1300. i think gpt4 is at 392)
Most people want to live in or close to bigger cities. Canada is big, but ~85% of the population lives within 100 miles of the border. Once you get far enough north, which is not that far, there's much more limited infrastructure (and everything else).
> It's not unethical to talk about anyone publicly.

If you’re a manager, it most certainly is unethical to talk about someone you’ve managed publicly. I’m hardly the first person to say this. There’s tons of information out there coaching managers on how to talk about ex-employees. Maybe it doesn’t bother you, but I assure you a lot of people care about this and don’t want their ex-boss chiming in on their new projects.
> monetising any type of software is actually hard and getting harder

When you model things from first principles, this is how it ought to be.

Unencumbered symbols are strictly better for most people than enchained symbols. The exception is there is a certain class, the "Royal" class, (who receive revenue from royalties either directly or via stock ownership greater than the royalty taxes they pay others), who have historically derived great monopoly profits from software.

But I think it's now gotten to the point where there is no denying that open source, freely distributed software is strictly better (in the long run). No one is clamoring to put Windows instead of Linux on their phones or deep space satellites.

So the question is: do we continue to make ideas worse for 99% so 1% can have monopoly-level royalties, or do we change the laws?

I used to work at Microsoft and it was fantastic. But I couldn't help but keep in mind that the utopia in Redmond was made possible only because of the Microslavery that IP laws put on everyone else.
Have you ever tried to build a house or apartment building in Canada?
Gulf states spending big on AI: Opportunity or oppression?
Used to work there and this is so true

They talk a lot about being data-driven and then in reality its like some PM just cherry-picking random customer anecdotes to justify whatever they want

So many features I would think "literally 2 people are going to use this" but we need to build it to get those promos and expand the org empire

Worst was the alexa org
I've heard folks that work at Chainalysis claim that they can track monero better than zcash.
So, so many reasons that it can’t simply be summed up, as there is no simple answer, though “big cities have network effects” is close enough. Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal, those are the tech and oil and finance centers, and people want to be near there.

But also: yes, Canada is big. Canada will also kill you real good and hard in most places. There’s a tremendous amount of land, and a lot of it is very very cold, and you really, really don’t want to live there.
That's true, I forgot to add the time. I'll update! Thanks
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/iJLVa
SAIL: Search-Augmented Instruction Learning
You’ll be posting a relevant resume then?
I didn't know about CastleDB. The fact it uses JSON to store the DB data and schema itself is a nice feature. I've been using Sqlite for a similar purpose to store structured data and load configuration, but the biggest downside is having configuration in a .db file that's a binary blob doesn't play nice with Git or other source control.
So, in other words, software engineering is lacking a whole lot of engineering?
As a general rule the problems of misbehavior among criminals are not actions that in the courts would be seen as criminal matters but rather things that would be seen as civil.

Despite what one sees in the movies the general problem one has is not some guys running up with masks on ripping you off of the money you made selling drugs, but rather the people you have fronted drugs to not giving you the money they owe you or the people you are buying drugs from ripping you off (using drugs because it is the most generally distributed type of organized crime but similar situations apply to other forms of organized crime)

The problem then is that you have people who have taken from you, there is no system to force them to pay, you must assume the state's monopoly of violence to get what is owed or decide to write it off. If you write off too great of losses you cannot stay in business, if you write off losses too frequently you cannot stay in business, and in writing off losses you may give other people the idea that they can steal from you as well.

Thus as you get to a certain level of organized crime you have to punish the people who do not fulfill the contracts they have undertaken with you.

This is sometimes also described as the actual origins of the mob, because they were the guys who could enforce contracts among the various criminal factions (by using violence)
>What would be a non-exclusive VR game that can be played on a VR headset?

VRChat, Superhot, Simpleplanes, Flight Sim, Ultrawings, Phantasmagoria, Htiman, Nearly all VR compatible racing games, Rec Room, Euro Truck Simulator, Most VR compatible horror games like Phantasmagoria, etc etc etc.

Did you even try to look it up?
Yes. This simply makes it legal for the Dutch government to hack their citizens. It doesn't matter what the intentions or purported rules are, if they are self-regulating then there are no limits. The publicly stated intentions and rules only give some naive people peace of mind.
Thank you for your insights & appreciate the suggestions!

We absolutely agree that a large part of the value prop is about the ease of the project setup and deployment rather than just simplifying the coding process.

That said, we do believe that the visual aspect brings benefits to backend development as well. While traditional coding requires a level of abstract thought to envisage data flow and logic, visual tools offer a concrete representation that can make this process more intuitive. This can help developers to better understand and manage complex workflows, data relationships, and API structures, which in turn can boost productivity and reduce errors.

Additionally, our hypothesis is that it offers a way for non-technical team members like PM & BI roles or even clients, to contribute more effectively. By visualizing workflows, logic, and data models, people can improve communication, minimize misunderstandings, and contribute to a better final product.

However if you still prefer coding, we have a Custom Code Action on the roadmap that will let you do exactly that and still benefit from some of the guardrails we provide.
Yeah I had heard they had something in the pipeline, particularly on the Y, wasn't sure if it had actually rolled into production yet, and on what models.