skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The “folk model” of automation is that it throws humans out of work — today you had a job performing some sort of valuable work, and tomorrow you’re on the welfare rolls. This is not how things have worked out in the past — we’ve been deploying automation technology for centuries, and as of 2023, pretty much every human who wants a job has a job.

Do they have the same sector and same quality job as before? Or they got thrown out of a nice job by some technological development, and now they're forced into a much worse job, in one of the few available domains left for them?

It's easy to be nonchalant like this guy about AI job replacement until it affects you personally. "I went from X industry employee to a Walmart greeter" still counts as "having a job", but is a much worse deal when lived through.

And that's even before we deal with the fact that AI (especially if it gets closer to AGI) wont be the same as just taking some old agricultural or whatever job to replace it with an office job. It will come for office jobs.

"There will always be room for unique human creativity". Gee, thanks. How many more creatives the post-AI economy will need though? And what if one is not "creative" like that, but still has a job today with something more menial (so like millions do)? They will be liberated into homelessness?

>If one job is destroyed by automation and two more are created for higher wages, workers obviously won out.

Yeah, I'm sure that would be the case. Plus everybody will get a free pony.
AFAIK it is just the literally word for "pervert"
Before those, I’d start with Chlorophytum, commonly known as a “spider plant”. Works on particulate matter.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11869-014-0285-4
Ask HN: What are some resources on CTF competitions?
I am extremely interested in eventually joining a CTF team and want to begin really hitting the books. Any sites, forums or media I could leverage to practice, learn and hopefully join a team to compete would be greatly appreciated. I just began my x86 journey but I figure there are some veterans here with some good advice. Thank you!
Bubble is a solid platform, but we definitely saw lots of opportunities for enhancements. We’ve talked to lots of users of low-code tools before starting to build and lack of performance was a common complaint which is why we designed Fastgen with a strong focus on performance, UX and scalability.
As for the debug mode, while it doesn’t yet show execution times for different steps, that’s an excellent suggestion - we’ll explore!
Addressing the bonus question: we don’t currently support custom code/scripts, but rest assured, it’s on our roadmap as part of our commitment to having as minimal restrictions as possible :-)
The 13" M1 Macbook Pro is a thing. You cannot infer M1 Pro/Max just from that.
And I'll add 1 to the number of people who say, "because I can't guarantee the outcome of a political process, I'll go for brute force, because I can't guarantee the outcome of this, as well." Where is the logic to this?

(Isn't this even more at random? How does this contribute to the articulation of the will of the people? Isn't this, why we have such a thing as a political process in the first place? The only thing guaranteed will be slaughtering en mass. Also, if "peace" is just exhaustion, the next round of the conflict will be just around the corner, probably at an even larger scale, compare WWII following WWI. Where is any answer in this? Enforcing treaties – there had been the Minsk agreements, there had been Turkish diplomacy early on – and armistices and following through on this, is, however, at least some answer to the problem. On the other hand, if you reserve for strategic action "beyond politics", this is what you will get eventually. The answer, if there is any, is in removing the strategic option from any armed conflict.)
If it weren't for all this freely licensed software, maybe the paid alternatives would be more attractive. Proprietary UNIX was all well and good, but ultimately a cancer to businesses and users. Businesses and users funded an alternative, and the people selling proprietary UNIX all gave up the ghost.

In any case, if you're trying to get developers to pay for your software, you're targeting the wrong crowd. Developers know the per-call cost of your service, they know that you're scamming them at some level of your product. If you sell a fart button app for a dollar, you better believe someone will make their own version out of spite. If you want to get paid for your software, sell to the business and not their employees.

The frugality of software developers is ultimately just a force of good, giving less fortunate developers better tools and keeping the paid options honest.
With your statement you could justify any evil. Eye for eye, teeth for teeth. This, eventually, will never ends until a last survivor. But somehow, humans still live and coexist together. They could be even nice to each other. Until someone decide otherwise. And that is a decision I tough about.

Sophie's choice is made up situation by someone, who decided do serve the evil.

If you don't believe in humans free will, what's to point of living for you?
Treasury’s $1T Debt Deluge Threatens Market Calm
In short, using a Vision Pro is only going to be reasonable if everyone in the room has one and is using it.
Maybe we should regulate clinicians more so they don't change their practice as they please and so that healthcare is standardized across the country?
With respect, the height of the bar to getting what you want is your problem, not mine. The gist of your post seems to be that your right to what you want is a forgone conclusion and if you don't see a way to get it legally, then I have to find some other way for you to get it.

The truth is that if you can't persuade me to give you what you want and the law is not on your side, then you don't get to have it. And that really is the end of it. That's what it means to live under the rule of law.

It's a good thing that repealing the 2A is nigh on impossible as far as I'm concerned. I don't see it as an obstacle. I see it as part of the bedrock of the American social contract.
I love seeing this instruction pop up in disassembly. I've seen it come up when growing a dynamic array, with some C code like...

if (is_pow2_or_zero(len)) {
int grown = len ? len*2 : 1;
ptr = realloc(ptr, (size_t)grown * sizeof *ptr);
}

compiling into this sort of disassembly to calculate the value of grown:

lsl w8, w19, #1 // w8 = len*2
cmp w19, #0x0 // is len zero?
csinc w8, w8, wzr, ne // w8 = (w8 if len != 0) or (0+1 if len == 0)

Pretty clever to create that 1 constant using csinc on the wzr zero register.
Ask HN: Is there a way to search HN comments by username?
I want to find one of my old comments about a specific topic.

I tried google with site:news.ycombinator.com "tikkun" "topic"

I tried algolia search, there doesn't seem to be a way to do username:{username} {query}

Is there a tool for this?
You can separate the target audience into three main camps:

Technical people at startups. In smaller companies that can be the CTO, in larger companies it is usually individual contributors. They are using Fastgen to extend their existing product or build the backend for small internal/external tools.

Solo entrepreneurs or small bootstrapped teams that are using low code tools to power most of their business. They would use a Frontend builder like Webflow or WeWeb for their Frontend and Fastgen to power the backend.

Freelancers and Agencies. They are enabled to quickly prototype and build projects for their clients. The visual nature of Fastgen makes it easier for clients to understand and provide feedback on the processes.

Before our launch today, we were running a private beta for 3 months. We had users from all the categories above participate and worked closely with them to improve the product
Will the turtle of carbon sequestration win over the hare of positive feedback loops and the cheetah of big oil emissions News at 11.
found the Eve Online player
> One big issue with Reddit is that it is mismanaged. With the revenue they are generating ($456 million USD), it should be more than enough to run a site like Reddit.

So who gets fired? How many people are you willing to make unemployed? What services get removed? What improvements stop? Realistically, the reason they don't make a profit is they're aiming for growth and they're getting the growth.
If you haven't watched the movie Primer yet, you may enjoy it.
Congrats on the launch!

I really enjoyed the simple demo on the landing page. I think this has great potential to be a better alternative to Firebase/Supabase for frontend developers.

Especially if I never have to worry about what is happening under the hood or integrate a cluncky SDK into my project. I look forward to trying it out on a side project!
The most used languages on the internet
That applies to databases as much as data lakes.

I don't know why it's so hard to get across that data expires in the same way that language changes.
yeah, bro.
Exactly so. I mean look at it this way: You and I both know that the frontend of Reddit isn't exactly a complex machine. Even poor developers could make it work. Everything that happens is a choice made at a project management level or higher.
It isn’t an especially historic term. It certainly isn’t contemporaneous to the time period people associate with the term.
If people can't grab the source and use it to run the service, where is the incentive to improve the source? So this may be "open source in name only" - it has an open license, but it doesn't actually build an open ecosystem around it.
Yes I think a co op model could be good.

I think because we are software engineers, we think some novel technology will fix this issue. But the real problem is that companies take on too much money and are then distorted by it.

There has to be a change in software away from VC funding outside of where it’s actually necessary. You don’t need 30 million dollars to build this idea. You could take out a small business loan instead.

We need to stop thinking of small businesses that create and sell software as “startups” and placing them into a special category in our heads.
CNN Chairman and CEO Chris Licht Is Out
I was pissed a few years ago when I tried to open a Binance account, but was utterly unable to convince the site that I was me. I moved on and never did get around to making a crypto investment.

In retrospect it might have been my best UX interaction ever.
Sorry, what "culture" do crypto bros belong to exactly? The culture of crime?
I think everyone can agree that artificial locomotion can be motion sickness-inducing. Which you can quite easily do a lot in Google Earths. The faster the worse.

Incidentally Google Earth has comfort options exactly due to that reason, such as the option to narrow the field of view when moving around. I wonder if that option was enabled?
This has more to do with where and when someone grew up. Indicates nothing about trustworthiness.
See https://hn.algolia.com/help
It's obviously possible and people have done far more complicated things. It's all a question of much much you're willing to spend on the front end in terms of transistors and engineer-hours.
Yeah, with https://ydb.tech it would have been much smoother too.
I would suggest looking at jooq. It's a great orm.
That's too broad of a generalization. p2p is AWESOME for latency since every server added adds latency.
What you are talking about are probably p2p networks with multiple users (based on your shooter reference) and the problem is of home connections and bandwidth since multiple users that all need to connect to everyone doesn't scale.

So for your example:
One on ones over p2p are optimal, but p2p matches with more than 8 players are suboptimal (I pulled the number out of my ass it depends on the protocol and usecase)
We'll make cars so cheap only the rich can afford horses.
We'll make air travel so cheap, only the rich can afford travel by ship.
We'll make AR/VR so compelling only the rich can afford travel.
I'm guessing bc "hentai" is only "pervet/weirdo/weird person", "ero" or "ero anime" is used for that in Japan, although I'm almost certain if you walk into a shop that sells it, and refer to it as "hentai" they'll know what you mean.
It’s a tough product to monetize. Sadly many of the most important, highly-technical OS projects (like this) are hard to monetize, while many less-important, yet highly valuable to some niche (e.g., a job queue) might make money.
But isn't making awful business decisions part of the human condition? They happen so often that I think they're not exceptions but the norm for almost all large companies.

Its almost impossible to name any company that has not created at least a handful of major flops. And there are plenty of companies that continue to bungle and make multi-million dollar mistakes almost constantly.

What boggles my mind is that there are so many companies that continue to thrive while blowing millions of dollars on stupid decisions. Must be the power of having cash-cow products (and maybe some monopolistic traits too).
To be clear, I do not object to the concept of abortion. I welcome it, in fact, because I don't generally like other people and I don't expect them to get better. That being said, I still consider the practice to be barbaric. The very same practice that I support, yes. Does that make me a barbarian? I think it actually does. If that is what I am, then I have accepted it.
See, this is what the privilege of someone that has the resources to defend themselves sounds like.

>if you’re allowed to contest that yellow light fairly and efficiently,

That's a pain in the ass already in our current system and there is no alignment in our politics that will make it better. If you have money and don't care, you'll pay the ticket. If you have money and do care you'll spend a lot of time with records requests, and resubmitting records requests and pushing trial dates because the system won't give you the records you need in time.

The legal system does in no way work in ideals. It's not until you're on the wrong side of the law you realize exactly how fucked up it can be. It is then you realize how many laws exist that are unenforced until you bring too much attention to yourself.
Not sure why you ignore that a lot "regulation" also came from the private sector because they didn't want to deal with stuff going wrong all the time so they self-regulated. People on their own do decide that there is stuff they don't want to leave to chance.

Also, your proposition means people need to be able check out of society proper - good luck with that. Otherwise someone else will need to pick-up the tap for those "own decisions".
And still no Miller columns. What a ripoff, I'm going back to Xserve...
There actually is something preventing gross imbalance from forming. Slightly different choices in federation for large instances with regards to extremists are a big one, and since power-users tend to be central to the content and won't move instances from the beginning too easily, there is strong inertia against communities forming exclusively on one instance.

IRC was never federated. Usenet was, and it did die out - but so is email and it's working far longer than it had any right to.
I also think it is a great way to learn from reading the code without noise and overhead added
+1 on this. For a while Dell had a nice sweet spot. It was cheaper than the aforementioned brands, roughly equal price wise to the likes of Gateway but much more configurable and better customer service, and only a bit more expensive than unknown to me brands back than found in computer shopper. Only way to do better in same budget was to build your own
> A new working paper finds that borrowers whose loan payments were paused actually had more debt at the end of 2021 than those whose loans were never paused.

Yes, my student loans are the same as they were the day of the paid. Why on earth would I pay money toward a 0% interest loan in a high-inflation environment? My pay has jumped more than 50% since the start of the pandemic and the dollar’s value has decreased, I am guessing, by 20%. So, yes, the nominal value of my loans is the same, but the government has been kind enough to inflate a large amount of it away. Very bad conclusion drawn.
It is in inherent of a good engineer’s thinking to always consider the worst. Problem is sometimes, it can come across as a boast, or out of touch. It’s neither. It’s really the manifest anxiety of the whole thing shitting its pants and falling over.
Seeing people hunched over watching the news isn't honestly that much of a stretch: https://twitter.com/HistoryInPics/status/411376204231753728?...
Aside from the buzzing rotors, wouldn't wind noise be a big issue too? When recording your flights, what noises do you want it to pick up?
Asimov kind-of wrote about this phenomenon in 1956's "The Naked Sun", the second of his Elijah Bailey series. I won't give plot spoilers, but the main connection is that a group of people on another planet have grown accustomed to virtual holographic "viewing" being the main mode of interacting with other people, while physically being in their presence is deemed unwholesome, embarrassing, or otherwise uncouth, causing people to go to great extents to avoid it.

I don't know that Vision Pro is necessarily taking us on that sort of path; I'll probably hold my judgment until they've proliferated enough that I actually know someone who has one. But your point that the virtual world is becoming where we go to interact with other people while physical spaces are used for individual isolation is a good one, and my contribution here is to tie it to a book that is over 65 years old to show that it's not even a particularly new idea.
So at this point we got the following rendering paths for DX12 on wine:

- Mainline D3D12 implementation on stock Wine;

- Proton (Which in theory should be just the "unstable" channel of the wine reference implementation plus some Gallium/VKDX/Valve specific stuff) plus a bunch of branches floating around (proton-ge, lutris custom builds, etc) ;

- Crossover (on the other side, this should lean on the safer side compared to reference wine, with just a bunch of explicitly whitelisted games);

- And now, the Game Porting Toolkit by Apple.

I wonder if there's some serendipity between those projects or we're gonna end up with some games running on some specific branch of Proton DX12, others stuck on mainline wine, and others for a reason or another working correctly just on Metal.
I doubt they’ll do anything to Asahi. They went out of their way to add third party OS support to M-series Macs after deriving them from the famously single-OS iPad architecture. They’ve also said that they’d welcome Microsoft porting Windows to M-series Macs and wouldn’t do anything to stop it.

They clearly see the Mac a bit differently than they do the other iDevices.
> And my point is simply that google docs is explicitly designed to prevent any of these sort of issues from being noticable to the user.

I’ve demonstrated one place where it very obviously failed at this goal, and I know enough about variation in shaping to confidently state that others do exist, though the most obvious are almost entirely historical. But there are variations that can change glyph advance, which will affect layout.

They use the browser’s shaping, so they’re subject to its quirks. In order to obtain absolutely consistent layout, they’d need to do the shaping themselves, but they have chosen not to do that (and I think they’re right not to).

Google Docs has clearly been pushing for non-pagination in more recent times, and paragraph layout largely doesn’t matter once you’re not fussing about pagination.

They reimplemented breaking paragraphs into lines, but gained literally nothing thereby in terms of actual functionality or behaviour, since the browser offers absolutely everything they wanted from it, and they still rely on the browser for the shaping.
That's already true of the M1 Max. At maximum power from CPU+GPU it will barely last an hour.

Edit: I wrote Ultra, but I meant Max.
That's not the same, because it's gradual, as opposed to a beep / notification.

When things change gradually, I tend to ignore the change.

To put it in a different context, I've had the fadeout brush heads for years, but I had to get in the habit of changing my brush head when I went in for a dental cleaning because otherwise, I'd just keep using it forever.
How a Chatbot Went Rogue
Show HN: Sqrte Tasks – A Task Management App – Local-First and Privacy Minded
I have surveyed many personal task management applications but have always been left wanting. Of the ones I have tried, I appreciated the dashboard view style of Google Keep the most, but I'm not a fan of big tech owning my data and using me as a product. So, I set out to create something I could appreciate using. It solves my own problems so I'll appreciate wherever it lands, but hopefully it will solve others' problems too.

This has been a pet project I've chipped away at here and there for quite a while. I believe I started even before Local First software was a thing. However, it turns out that if you're passionate about privacy and performance, you end up self-discovering many of the Local First principles. I found out later that Local First was a thing and that what I had been doing lined up with it's principles very nicely. See "Related Reading" below for more info on what Local First is if you're not familiar.

The Sqrte Tasks front end can operate independent of a backend when running on a single device. Your data is stored locally in the browser and can be exported at will. I decided to open source the parts required to run standalone like this. The "premium" parts required for syncing across multiple devices (with e2e encryption) remain closed at this point but many of these parts reside in the public repo (under a different license) so that people can still see how it all works.

Check out the brochure page for more info:

https://tasks.sqrte.com/info

Launch Sqrte Tasks Here (no account required):

https://tasks.sqrte.com

If you have ideas, feel free to reach out on Github:

https://github.com/SqrteSoftware/tasks

I hope you like this take on what todo lists can be. I would love to hear any feedback you may have. Have fun!

---------

Related Reading:
Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21581444

https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/
Vitess – Scalable. Reliable. MySQL-Compatible. Cloud-Native. Database
Show HN: OpenPC – One-Click Installer of Google PlayStore on Windows 11
Can you talk more about this source of error? When I google this, your post is the main thing that comes up for the term…
People who want to browse /r/all can just stay on reddit.
3 things you should stop doing when server-side rendering UI libs like React
> Wearing a VR helmet at a family event is a big NO.

Imagine how that scene with the dad filming the kids playing would look if the kids had the Vision goggles on, too.
This is a bit of a chicken and egg problem and too abridged.

It is like arguing that for free speech to work everybody has to write newspaper articles or that you personally need to be a programmer for opensource to be useful. These can be different people and for a free market (/free(dom) speech/free(dom) software) to work you need a sufficient number of qualified people.

So I wouldn't blame the consumers (btw this term always sounds like slur to me as compared to customers) for using price as a proxy. You can't expect them to get loaners, purchase testing equipment etc.. That should be tech journalists' job and then consumers can make an educated decision, which in turn ensures that price indeed is a good proxy.

Hence, blame the sorry state of tech reviews in the American market. What even are the reasonably good sites still left? I know of wirecutter (mixed), rtings, tftcentral and maybe prad.de. What are consumers supposed to base their evaluations on in your opinion?
How is this different from chatbase.co ? (not affiliated)