skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hear this a lot about Clinton, as if it is a condemnation. Seems conveniently forgotten that it was a Republican Congress, and Republican's were the ones pushing globalization, to help big business with all that cheap labor. And Clinton went along with it to be 'bipartisan'.
But then I'd also want to be running a normal OS, so bring the MacBook Pro/Air.

Maybe I could work in a cloud dev instance so then all I need is this $3500 client and the keyboard+mouse.

The VR air keyboard seems terrible for much typing. Lack of the keys springing your fingers back up means you have to pull them up using the muscles on the backs of your fingers which is very quickly tiring.
> competent software engineer

Interesting term to conflate with "developer".

You don't have to be a "competent software engineer" to be a developer, and in fact, we were never talking about being a "competent software engineer".

These developers do not get jobs as "competent software engineer"s, do not train to be a "competent software engineer", and do not care about being a "competent software engineer". And yet they make things that work perfectly fine! I'm sorry that you think handling PII or having a career (ooo) has anything to do with being a "competent software engineer".

> But we're talking about career software developers here.

I don't remember the name of this fallacy but it sucks, knock it off.
Not after burning 40B USD. He had no choice but to present a strong facade.

The Apple device looks impressive and the use cases presented seem plausible. It is expensive no doubt, but if they can convince the jet set crowd to wear it then it will catch on.
No, you could see what the_donald was pushing. They were constantly manipulating things to be as over-represented on the front page as they could. This is why they got canned.
The "right move" if there even is one will likely depending on 1) where that other income stream comes from - W2 wages, investments, wholly-owned business profits, partnership profits, etc; 2) separately from 1, whether you have other forms of income coming in; 3) are you married and are they part owners? explicitly or via marital property? 4) is anything securing the bootstrapped business that might be affected by paper losses? And I'm sure half a dozen things I'm not thinking of because I'm not an attorney or accountant.

Even if you can generalize a lot of these, this seems like exactly the sort of thing that should be outsourced to professionals who do it every day rather than wasting cycles becoming an expert in the minutia of state and federal tax laws.
Really like the idea! I can see the benefits finding connections between different knowledge pieces I've collected. Does your platform support any sort of integration with other apps like Obsidian or Notion?
Related:

MLIR: "Multi-Level Intermediate Representation
Compiler Infrastructure" (2019 European LLVM Developers Meeting)

https://llvm.org/devmtg/2019-04/slides/Keynote-ShpeismanLatt...
Weird taken given that it was a resource provided for people to use that benefited Reddit to offer.

Are shipping companies leeches in your worldview?
Be careful, for smoke you want a N99. A N95 will help, but don't be fooled that it is adequate protection.
> Good, evil, depends on who is counting.

I'm gonna use that statement from now on.
>> "Reagan also jacked up the national debt pumping $$$$ into defense technology and hardware development"

That sounds like manufacturing jobs to me.
Does anyone have the least bit of business experience? This is outrageous. I have not followed this at all but how can everyone here be so biased against Steve?

If you listen to the call this Christian guy literally said:
"if your opportunity cost is really $20 million, you cut me a cheque for $10 million dollars and we can both skip off into the sunset"

A joke, seriously? Why on earth would you say this in what was audibly a very tense, high-stakes call and negotiation for both sides? There is no excuse whatsoever.

Very funny, because one week later he dishes reddit and Steve the biggest shitstorm in the entire history of the site - which it would be even without all the blackmail call drama. Hello? Costing and causing surely 10s of millions in damage.

Can we appreciate that even if this Christian guy is just so genuinely ignorant, selfish and toxic without intentionally meaning any harm that at least Steve certainly was fully aware of all the implications, the seriousness and non-funny nature of the conversation?

He had and has every reason and right to feel blackmailed. The only interpretation one can take away from Christian's behavior now is that Steve had better taken him up on the "joke". Clearly, the PR disaster could have been avoided by paying up instead of accepting the cost and reacting exactly as Steve did - in the call Steve rejected the offer and notion of doing any deals. The way he apologised is what you do to save the other person's face and keep the door open for the relationship. It's not what you literally think and mean.

Steve was never going to go back to his team and say "silly me! I'm such an idiot for getting this idea into my head. That he's threatening us because he's about to shut down, cause maximum damage on the way out and stage a user revolt. When he was just trying to entertain us with a funny joke about us buying him out for $10 million. When we have no legal or moral obligation to do so. I love him, he's so funny, glad I apologised on the spot.".

If anything, one should pay some respect to Steve, not taking up the blackmail and steering head on into this mess. Good luck!
They say always keeping $10k in cash is recommended.
For what it’s worth, Wikipedia is currently referencing a 2009 study which had previously tested 1000mg/kg in humans.
Excellent advice. Lots of technical stuff on there already, but you're right, a blog would be useful. Maybe content stuff like "Stupid SSH tricks" too.
Anyone wanna take bets on if this will take the throne as the new most downvoted thing on reddit?
Two ex-coworkers were laid off, got new jobs about 1 month after, and then were promptly laid off 3 months later. The good news for them though was that they got 3 months of severance, so they were actually pretty happy with that and ended up traveling on their old company's dime...

Me on the other hand, took me 6 months to find a new gig. I did find my job on HN Who's Hiring in January though! Ever since I've been working on https://hnresumetojobs.com to make it easier to find jobs from HN. Maybe it'll help you?

Best of luck OP. Keep your head up. You'll find something soon, this is just a transitory period. It's hard not to internalize the negative emotions that come with being laid off, but the reality is it really has nothing to do with your performance at work or worth as a human being.
Opportunity cost essentially means lost revenue. They (Reddit) aren't referring to server/egress/cloud/etc. costs. Eliminating lost revenue = new revenue.
Problem with this policy is that it will prevent poor countries from ever getting up the ladder. It also ignores the fact that many advanced human right respecting countries got there not without plundering less fortunate for generations.
Philips Warm Glow.

They seem to be obsoleted, all I can find for them is new old stock anymore. Which I've bought up a bunch of, because the damned things keep failing on me. I've had a set of 5 in service for about 6 years, and so far I've had to replace 4 of them for various failures. They're facing down in a hanging lamp with glass globes around them, and I guess that's close enough to "recessed or enclosed" that they fry themselves. I have them in a few places, though I've also purchased... "some" incandescents, before they went out of availability. I should be good for the rest of my life at this point, especially since I run my incandescents dimmed. The wiki article on bulb rerating is informative - as you reduce power, lifespan is "fraction of rated power" to the -12 or -16 - it's some stupidly high exponent, and it's why a lot of people empirically noticed that "bulbs on dimmers never seem to burn out."
But like.. He asked if they had any plans to change it. And they said no. I can't imagine the hoop you're expecting him to jump through - get a seat on their board covertly?
It took us way too long to react to this
Well change all future `cargo.toml`s.

If you want a more complex solution, then you would need a more complex index of ownership for cargo. E.g. alias or transfer ownership. It could be as simple as displaying "This crate is deprecated use org/crate instead". Or as complex as what crate is no longer valid.

One needs to know what exactly are cargo namespace requirements?

> Yes. For example, the semver package has lived in these places:

Sure, and squatters squatted over many crate name extorting bribes to release them.
You can have conventional good multiplayer games with resources that are tokens on the blockchain. That way you can leverage the existing smart contract ecosystem for free. Ppl can create futures, auctions, binary options, arbitrarily complex contracts depending on ingame data that you make available on the blockchain.... without you being responsible for it.
I happily paid for Premium for years, I've gotten a lot of value out of Reddit and I wanted to make sure that they got money even though I blocked all their ads. I cancelled when they announced these API changes since it's the only leverage I have.

A paid ad-free version of their site isn't really good enough though. To keep me happy I need to be able to keep using third party apps on mobile, maybe something like 'exempt requests from Premium accounts from API billing'.
Crypto boosters need to transactionalize absolutely everything and anything because every transaction, by design, incurs a tax to the miner/validator/magic oracle machine owner. Since you become that person by buying lots of physical hardware with real money, or buying lots of <token> with real money, it by design is someone who already has a lot.

Crypto is people who see the tax that credit card networks are on all transactions, but their problem with it isn't that it's wealth redistribution from those with bad credit to those with good credit, but rather that they aren't the ones collecting the tax.
What’s the Difference Between the Binance and Coinbase SEC Lawsuits?
4chan was very close to making a loss for every single year m00t was running it. It actually still might be; the only revenue stream is a "4chan pass" that users are actively derided for purchasing and a few individually-funded ads.
Welcome to spatial computing: it has the same problems we’ve always had, but now you’re wearing the computer on your face.
I would say federation is a must as it will spare us from the next migration (there is a rule: centralized or proprietary services *always* get worse as time goes by).
Have you seen the US army lately? Lots more programming socks and yiffing, even in the upper ranks, and not so much of the high physical requirements any more. I understand it's a great honour for Americans to die advancing Israel's interests in the region though so I must be missing something.
Coming from someone where AI has not been one of my top interests for the last 30 years, what specifically should the focus be?

That's tough to answer. I have some specific areas of interest that I've cultivated over years and decades of maintaining a somewhat passive interest in AI, and only starting to really work on more serious research over the past few years. And even then, my list of "stuff to look into" is somewhat speculative, so I'm not sure how much value there would be in going into it in detail.

That said, I've alluded to this briefly in previous HN posts, and it's not any kind of secret or anything. My interest areas include a heavy-dose of focus on "neuro-symbolic" systems: that is, integrating neural networks and "symbolic computing" (aka "GOFAI" or "Good Old Fashioned AI). To drill down a bit more: the idea is to use neural networks where they are really good at pattern recognition: image recognition, speech recognition, some language understanding tasks, etc., and then integrate that with more purpose built systems that work at a "symbolic level" (or you might say "knowledge level") to do things like deductive reasoning, abductive inference, temporal reasoning, inductive inference, common sense reasoning, etc. One of the tripping points for this is how to translate between the representations of "knowledge" across those different modalities.

In the last several months I have used ChatGPT for things like thought experiments and churning out code faster.

Yeah, I think for anybody who maybe isn't interested in diving into AI research per-se, doing stuff like that is very valuable. At the very least, learning to use and manage and work with the AI tools/platforms that are put out there will probably be an increasingly valuable skill over the years to come.

The only thing I'd add to this is to say that I think it might be a mistake to focus only on LLM's. Don't get me wrong: I'm amazed at what LLM's can do and I think they are - and will continue to be - very important, but I don't know that I think they are the "be all, end all" of AI. It might be worthwhile to look at the suite of AI/ML offerings being provided by cloud providers like AWS, Azure, GCP, etc. and at least get familiar with working with some of those things.
The complaint was not with the audio call itself, but how Steve had paraphrased the audio call to others not in attendance, specifically saying:

> Steve: "Apollo threatened us, said they’ll “make it easy” if Reddit gave them $10 million."

> Steve: "This guy behind the scenes is coercing us. He's threatening us."

In the audio call Steve apologizes for the misinterpretation after clarifying, but then goes off and still makes claims of threats.
And everyone else is well within their rights to call their decision what they want. So what exactly is the point of stating this?
Ask HN: How would you improve software development to ensure success?
Lately, I've been thinking a lot about how I would improve the software development process to ensure success. The specific areas I have in mind are requirements gathering and testing which typically take the longest amount of time to get right. Rethinking these areas and others in the frame of what's possible with AI integration with close human oversight and guidance seems like a fantastic strategy. I'm also aware that changing priorities, org changes, etc. can wreak havoc on a project but seem almost impossible to mitigate.

Share your previous software project failures and reasons why you think they failed. What would you have done differently?
I’m curious what the threat here is. Is the implication that they can pay 10 Million and he shuts down the app quiet or he shuts the app down revealing the cost of the API?
There is nothing foolish about all of this. The developer saw an opportunity based on the platform's free access, and built a business on it. Wise decision. Then the platform is no longer free, so the original business case no longer exists, and they decide to shut down. Another wise decision.
> Surely there are other, more reliable ways, to keep a space heated during winter months?

Sure, there are plenty of other ways to keep a space heated.

They're all radically more expensive, and radically more failure prone, than a 60W or 100W bulb burning constantly, back when the bulb was $2 and the trouble lamp cord was $10.
When I worked for government the team I was on lost members every couple of weeks. Eventually I was the last developer on the team joined by 4 managers. I also gave notice and on my last day they held sprint planning talking about the devolpment work they wanted to complete in the next sprint, they shuffled the tickets around asking me how long I think they will take, after a while I asked "As you all know, today is my last day, wouldn't it be better to look at this once you've hired someone?" and the presenter of the meeting got red faced and quiet and started typing rapidly and loudly. After an awkward silence the meeting abruptly ended and I never heard another word.
Los Angeles Times op-ed: "Forget the metaverse. For $3,500, Apple offers a new way to be alone"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36245865
Until 2020, the US was part of the Open Skys treaty, which was specifically for allowing member states to fly unarmed spy aircraft in each others airspace.

China was never a member, so wasn't covered under it, but Russia was until they withdrew in 2021.

The only reason the US responded at all was internall politics. Geopolitically, we already assume that anything with line-of-sight to the sky is observable, and that this is probably good for geopolitical stability.
Exactly! As we continue to iterate through the visualization side of the metrics, I think this will become even easier to see. Another benefit of the time tracking is that it helps lessen negative emotional responses when receiving a lot of comments - if you see that someone has spent 30 minutes of their time to review, it helps put it in context and show the effort they're putting into you. Without the time, its easy to feel that someone just quickly dropped a bunch of comments and doesn't care
This is exactly correct.

It is always amazing to me how easily people will accept however an issue is framed for them on social media.

Of course this was a threat. It wasn't a language issue. And the post-hoc explanation was nonsense. It was an obvious and indisputable threat.
I think it's generally better to take the short-term productivity hit to train the new hire than it is to leave them to the wolves for your own work. Two heads are better than one and all that
https://www.youtube.com/live/GYkq9Rgoj8E?t=6729
It depends on what we want to do collectively, which seems largely undecided. If we want to look at addressing climate change as a way to stabilize the environment in a way that we see fit, then there may be more ways than just CO2 in which we could do so. Unfortunately, a lot of more environmentally-minded individuals, including politicians, speak as if their beliefs are that humans should have no impact on the environment whatsoever and that the environment of the mid-to-late Holocene epoch is the correct one. Neither of the latter is accurate or possible, but superficially it would seem compatible with the view that we should tweak the variables so that the environment suits our needs.
Not sure what you mean by "trackers". Reddit knows exactly what you did in the 3rd party app via the API. The app tells the API who you are.
I would look at companies that use a company blog for marketing and generate large amounts of content (e.g. "content marketing")

https://www.pinecone.io/learn/

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=pinecone.io

https://www.uber.com/en-SE/blog/engineering/

which I think is completely positive. Less positive is the kind of spam where you get other people to blog ads for your product, for instance TripleByte sponsored endless blog posts with "hiring is broken" as a major theme to the point where it was outright annoying.
Is a 2020s factory in any significant way similar to a 1970s factory?

Given a factory from each era that produces roughly the same product and quantity, how many are employed at each? What are their inflation-adjusted wages?

It seems difficult to believe that modern factories can employ enough people for your blue collar middle class dreams to become reality. The difference in population alone is 200M vs 330M. And even modest improvements in automation has the modern factory at something like half the personnel of the 70s-era factory for the (roughly) same output.
I’m not advertising but we do offer that service on our site if you look.

Also check the blog for lots of my advice for free.
>Hell you can't even browse Reddit without an account anymore!

Yes, you can, via old.reddit.com.
It is a symptom of congress not doing its job.
I've been laid off only once this year (thankfully?), still no offers after 4 months of interviewing. I am a mid level engineer and I feel like I am getting knocked out because of experience. It's just stunningly competitive. Summer 2020 was a better market than this.
Reddit is an advertising company. Of course they're going to get rid of it.
"Imminently" reasonable and rational? What does that mean?
Agree with the commenter above, I encourage you to read the original post we are commenting on. All of the calls were recorded and transcribed.

You are right that there is no agreement of course, but the way they're treating the dev sounds, in the most charitable explanation, extremely disorganized and a bit rude.
There's a breaking news blast on at the moment with the uap whistleblower. Thoughts on the following? If anything, whatever that's happening this time really does feel different.

https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/144a9xz/abcnews_house...

https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/143tj5x/us_has_12_or_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/aliens/comments/143zpak/interview_w...

https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/143v66e/las_vegas_fam...

https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/143xcjp/excerpts_from...
The Sea of Cortez looks rather sparse. How about there?
Reddit has expectations of what moderators are to do, and has expectations of what they are not to do, and will remove them from roles if they fail to meet those expectations. That set of expectations would make them employees if compensated.

As for liability, the Ninth Circuit in Mavrix v LiveJournal held that if an agent of a user-content-hosting ISP (social media) has the means and opportunity to moderate, they also have the means and opportunity to interdict reasonably known copyright violations, and failure to act on those would jeopardise their DMCA Safe Harbour.

And there’s a lot of registered copyright holders that will 100% line up to be a creditor on statutory damages.
That's a bold claim. Coming out of WWII the US had virtually the only operational factories in the world. Arguably protectionism caused incumbents to become moribund and fall behind foreign firms. The steel industry is a great example. By the time tariffs came down US steel plants were half a century out of date and producing steel that was either too expensive or too low in quality compared to competition. For another angle on just steel, the Chinese industrial policy caused such a glut of steel that they were frantically searching for things to do with all of it, and ended up doing a bunch of stupid and wasteful projects that diverted funds from more useful endeavors.

The US also protected furniture and garment production into the 90s. Had that not been the case, the transition int hat industry likely would have been much smoother and no so apocalyptic for workers.

Underlying your claim is the notion that technocrats can or could ever know what an economy as large and complicated as the US "should" be producing.
The call wasn't with Steve, and it was clear to me listening that he wasn't making a threat at all. He was talking about the API chatter, it was obvious to me.
Didn't TSMC say that its new US factory would be 30% more expensive. US labor being the problem.
"We'll just design things and have people elsewhere do the building" is one of the dumbest ideas. How do you think you learn how to build things without building things? Who's going to build the next big thing? Oy!
Given I'm a developer who uses PWAs on every device, my opinion probably doesn't mean much compared to the general public.

But this means I'll never use YouTube in Web App.app, and just sounds like it's going to be annoying using my password manager (though to be fair, Safari alone makes it a pain to use my password manager)
Sending your data to Apple is not privacy.
I think you're entirely wrong about this. Using the term AI or artificial intelligence directly invokes several centuries of cultural baggage about golems, robots, Terminators, androids and cyborgs and Matrix-squid.

Saying "large language models" does not. Saying "giant correlation networks" does not. Not to be too Sapir-Whorfian, but the terminology we use influences our conversations: terrorists, guerillas, rebels, revolutionaries, freedom-fighters.