skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Like anything else in life?

There is a lot of truth in that. Modern consumerist needs have an important push element to them. Creating "wants" is by now very sophisticated social engineering practice with over a century of successful track record.

But the examples you mention mostly bundle other phenomena that I would not include in the typical "consumer push" category. Doggedly pursuing research on various uncertain technologies (typically government founded) is common, but it is not pushing anything onto consumers. Potentially this may happen in the final phases, if/when successful, relevant and mass market commercializable.

Mass market companies typically only enter the game when there is an expected short or (at most) medium term return that will compensate for the investment risk.
Then you need to factor in the massive grid upgrades in the cost as well.

Anyway, nuclear mega projects are probably a thing of the past once mass produced small modular reactors come to market.
Svelte 4.0 with Rich Harris [video]
I would strongly suspect a division between hierarchical and egalitarian mindsets on this, and would be fascinated if there's any research on it. My gut suspicion would be that a hierarchical mindset would value exerting control over the outcomes of that control, and that an egalitarian mindset would value giving autonomy over the costs of that autonomy. In fact, I think that's likely to be such a strong influence that haggling over the value of "collaborative time in office" is going to be a fig-leaf over the underlying drivers. Not a small part of that is because when you look at the argument it just falls apart: you can tell me to be in a room with someone else; you can't dictate that the result of that proximity is going to be any sort of useful collaboration. Whereas if I have the flexibility to choose to be in that room when it is useful to both of us and we have something defined to get done, the outcome of that collaboration is far more likely to be positive.

If the argument was about discovery rather than collaboration I'd have far more sympathy, but "we need to force our employees into physical proximity so they'll work together" - which, when you unpack it, is all that is being said - is a more revealing position than the pro-office-mandate crowd might want to lead with.
A single blackout does not preclude further actions.

Reddit's adminstration team seem extremely rattled for something they can stand without a problem.
The word "stable" can have different meanings, e.g. stable behavior/stable interfaces. I am using arch/manjaro on my personal machine, but I installed Debian for some of my remote family members (who mostly just need firefox+libreoffice+vlc+cups) since this makes me confident that they can get periodic security updates and bugfixes all by themselves without needing my intervention (while rolling releases sometimes require some adjustments or troubleshooting e.g. on the config files, etc).
This gives me big yikes. There may not be anything wrong with their thinking, or a defect in their “mental machinery” or personality. Humans are more complex than that. It’s completely reductive of the value people have.
Yeah classic "all the annoying stuff my parents said was right" situation. Then you start saying the same annoying stuff to your kids.

When you boil down a complex spiritual solution like this to one phrase, "accept yourself" seems to be correct. But someone who hasn't gotten there yet can't "un-boil" the solution to make it work for them. The actual solution is probably very specific to that person, and nebulous to the point where they can't put it into actionable words even when they do figure it out.
This is obviously what will happen in the long term, moderation will switch to a Facebook-like model.

It's a good thing, most moderators are bad.
I have no problem believing that Hunter Biden has done questionable things. But nobody is arguing to elect Hunter Biden as president, and unlike Trump, Joe Biden doesn't hire his own children as part of his administration. So politically, it's irrelevant. We should be much more concerned about all the shady situations Trump has been in.

But also, people with political agendas have been messing with that laptop for years, so it's hard to trust anything coming from that laptop anymore. Whatever evidence there may be has been quite thoroughly compromised. The fact that it was handed to people with a political axe to grind, rather than to the police, was a mistake.
Operational stuff should be talked about as a team (and 'teams' may be ad-hoc project teams), so everyone is on the same page. Otherwise you end up with a old fashioned top down org style where workers are being giving perhaps conflicting direction (even with a well meaning manager - much worse if there is any kind of nefariousnous going on). Particularly annoying if you have cross-functional responsibilities and have to figure out and if necessary countermand what someone's manager has instructed them in private. Should be no surprise this kind of disfunctionality is common in the US!

Pastoral stuff can be done every quarter or as necessary.
For those who favour Docker - you can do this:

docker run --name archiveteam --label=com.centurylinklabs.watchtower.enable=true --restart=unless-stopped atdr.meo.ws/archiveteam/reddit-grab --concurrent 1 [username]
For some people, some of the time.

Many journalists will have their MacBooks prized out of the cold dead hands.

I travel with my laptop and my iPad Pro never leaves the couch.

And how close to most working artists’ realities are those slick Apple keynotes showing sexy young people drawing with their Apple Pencil? I don’t know. Artist is a broad term.
Honestly, at what point will you need regulators to step in? It’s pretty clear that we have a little porn addiction epidemic. And there’s increasing evidence of the harmful effects of porn.

And that’s happening with the current state of porn - often viewed on small phone screens in less than even HD quality.

I can’t imagine what would happen to young people once porn is viewable in a lifelike virtual reality. I can imagine an entire generation of young men dropping out of society altogether (something that’s already happening)
The outcome of moderation here is very good, and changing policy has a high chance of damaging the value of HN. I would not risk secondary effects, myself.

But I would enjoy HN more with a soupcon of joking (currently considered zero-value). I benefit from my bread being leavened, I like programming tutorials with humour. So it's understandable why people might want to change the policy.
This is another gigantic nothing. Equivalent to ants standing together to protect their ant hill from destruction against the might of pest control and the land owner.

While Reddit is a dumpster fire, it is still a business and you never owned the 'subreddit' and it is not yours either and its API is subject to price rises. This sort of risk should not be underestimated and it was only a matter of time that the API was going to be paid. Like Twitter, it has now happened to Reddit.

Going dark for 1 day will do nothing to Reddit and it will be just business as usual.
That doesn’t matter for the question of whether users will fall back to visiting other subreddits.
They claim it's because moderation tools are better on 3rd party apps, the truth is that they just don't want to see ads.
> There is no demand for VR outside gaming

If I could replace my monitor with a portable device that would grant me huge virtual desktop space I would pay 3500$

Right now I'm waiting to see the feedback and for the early adopter issues to get ironed out.

But I'd say this demand is far greater than gaming. Being able to work from any rental where I can plop a keyboard and laptop without having to deal with bad desk height and non adjustable chair/lack of monitors is huge - it would literally mean I could work from anywhere.

Right now I can't - and I've tried many times. Experience is terrible and after a few days of bad desk/chair combo, even lugging a small 24inch monitor in the car, I get insane cramps/headaches from neck strain or back pain from bad posture.

If VR can solve this I know a lot of people would buy into that.
For junior folks I like weekly. For senior folks where I already have good rapport, I prefer bi-weekly. Everybody knows they can come interrupt me when something is bothering them, but taking temperature regularly is important.
> Build a single warehouse in the desert

There are countries with no desert and for some unknown reason most countries are not desperate to import spent fuel.

> You basically just need a concrete pad for them to sit on.

And the elements and radiation to take the 'concrete casks' apart and blow the bad stuff out.

All solutions to that are expensive and you have to monitor and fix leaks for a very long time.
The deeper you bury it, the deeper you have to dig later to fix the leaks.

> will be gone in a few hundred years anyways

That's a lot of time (and associated costs) in human lifetimes.
This looks really interesting. Can it be used to write procedural macros for rust code somehow, or is that not one of the goals of the project?
In talking to the junior folks the two things they bring up are mentorship and socialization.

With mentorship I think you're spot on with regard to adhoc interactions. Senior folks know who, how, and when to ask when they're blocked, or when they need to plant an idea in someone's head. Even though we have daily stand-ups, weekly 1-1 check-ins, and responsive mentors a number of junior folks seemed less comfortable admitting and asking for help when remote until it was too late. My company is overall the best place I've worked but has poor processes in this regard -- it's one of those places entirely run by engineers where everyone is proud of how "flat" the org is which is code for a hidden and ad-hoc org chart. I'll bet manager training and process could have minimized that, but it would be a tougher sell than RTO -- so you go to war with the army you've got.

With regard to socialization, the junior folks seem to hang out with each other after work quite a bit more. We also have lots of social events, presentations, movies, etc during work hours. We had similar sessions set up for remote folks that are well attended but don't seem to scratch the same itch.
Yes, that was what I was trying to articulate. Thank you for phrasing it more clearly.
> Consider McKinsey’s research on burnout

Management consulting is one of the worst work life balance and total hours industries.

I’m not sure advice on burnout from them isn’t ironic.
In my CS class I'd say about half the student do all their programming on iPads. (very high ranking school and very talented students) They do all their coding on Google Colab

wish I was kidding..
This probably is true as long as you don't compare to Manjaro which does additional testing and fitting. I once (this was long ago, but after I have had used Arch already) tried the latest unstable Debian and found it so broken I just couldn't use it at all, let alone rely on it.
> I cannot understand how they think “being actice and doing things” is their selling point? It is just so unintuitive.

For me it's the best aspect of VR, a complete gamechanger. Maybe this is unintuitive from a non-user's point of view. The Vision Pro use-case of sitting on your couch consuming content is unappealing and off-putting to me.
Afaik the rtx4000 series uses the TSMC 4N node also used for the H100, which currently seems to be maxed out in capacity.
and using ChatGPT
It would've been nice to at least see the PCB. Not much of a deep dive if all you do is drop a few names.
Person 1: "All the scientists who actually work in the field must be chuckling at this foolishness!"

Person 2: "Here is evidence that scientists in the field do not even remotely share that viewpoint and in fact view current work as quite profound and in line with their own work."

Person 3: "The scientists working in the field are clearly engaged in pseudoscience in a conspiracy going up to Nature - it is trivial to show this, with the proof being that an anonymous comment on an internet forum doesn't agree with them. QED."
TIL some people believe desktop computing is more natural than spatial computing
> The first political entity that wants to ban microtransactions has my vote.

From the article: “China has long held a dim view of video games, calling them "electronic drugs" a few years ago. It only allows those under 18 to play online games for one hour, between 8 pm and 9 pm local time, on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays.”

Maybe that totalitarian regime is onto something? A broken clock can be right… etc.
The Life and Work of H. G. Wells with James Tunney
So I'd say the number of pods was appropriate.
we have retargeted some of our infrastructure from kubernetes and onto ecs fargate for the last 12 months and it has massively reduced errors and support tickets and also the cost

unfortunately this is a deal with the devil for vendor lock-in
1B is a reasonable number as it is imaginable that 1 in 7 people on earth tried to use GPT (through ChatGPT or Bing) at some time over the past 6 months. It is undoubtly the fastest growing commercial product in history.
Most corporate hierarchies exist to create status and power, not to enhance effectiveness and productivity.

"My team always give 110%" is better than "I treat my people like adults with lives of their own", even if it gets much poorer results.
It’s not just Apollo: other Reddit apps are shutting down, too
Arch has matured since 2012. I think you'd have a very different experience today.
It may be worth looking into silicone containers.
> approach avoids that and lets your eyes do the selection,

I m not sure if they use the eyes as a pointer. It sounds very imprecise to me.
I’ve never had weekly 1:1s. That’s the first time I’m hearing about this idea. Sounds dreadful. In general, throughout my career my mental health and by consequence productivity were inversely correlated with the frequency of meetings. I perform terribly under micromanagers and excellent under hands-off managers. When I need something from my manager, I message them on Slack (honestly I’d prefer mail, but the culture now sets different expectations).
> Why would a power meter allow an unauthenticated client to turn the thing on and off wireless?!? Sure, if you flip a switch handling a large current often enough, something will break (and I am impressed it's not the AC in this case).

I would guess until recently power meters just had no reason to be secured. We live in a multi unit building (I would guess around 120 of them). There is a shared key that goes to the central electricity room where the meters for all units are. I could turn off anyone's electricity by either unscrewing the main fuses there or by switching the breaker. People are a lot more trustworthy in practice than you would think.
> You call weakness I call vandalism

This is ridiculous. Manufacturers are responsible for the safety and security of their products. It's a perfectly legitimate expectation.

The meter should not accept unauthenticated commands and should have temperature protection.
Except that now nearly everything is automated, the limiting factor basically becomes capex plus maintenance availability, not labor.
Pirate IPTV: Running Costs of UK’s Largest Service Revealed
FB should absolutely be in panic mode. They bet everything on VR because they wanted to own an entire ecosystem and not be reliant on Google/Apple.

No matter how good Oculus is, Apple will be the VR experience everyone will want to have. Apple will sell it vastly better and make it far more desirable than anything Meta can manage.

If I have to strap on an invasive device to my face, what company am I going to trust more - the one that has been hammering in its “privacy” credentials for years, or the one that incites riots and whose founder is memed to be a humanoid?
Haven't tried it, but this comment on /r/DataHoarder mentioned these two repos:

https://github.com/rileynull/RedditLemmyImporter

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
Takk fyrir þessar rafbækur.
I don't get it, isn't this the website that's hosting this, as is shown in the source?

> origin: "https://reddark.untone.uk/",
>There are relatively few places on the internet where that is true

Imageboards.

DailyMail.

Slashdot.

Even a somethingawful dump would have been superior.
I'm not talking about video games specifically. My point is much more generic.
> The thing is, it takes a bit of experience to appreciate why HKT are important, and typically you can only get this experience using Haskell.

They're fairly common in Scala too, and I believe in OCaml through modules.
Great tip; thank you!
There is such a thing as 110% effort. It's the amount of effort that temporarily or permanently injures the person making it.
> the K8S shtick is coming from investors not tech people.

Not necessarily. If you need to deal with many containerized apps that are updated and deployed regularly, k8s is a really great tool.

As a rule of thumb, I'd say < 5 - no, > 20 - yes, and everything in between - up to you.
Do you reckon their C-suite are not waged? (What revenue are they working with?)

This is a common issue with discussion of companies, people say "look they're not making any money" just because the company accounts are not recording profits.

But if you pay out all your money as C-suite wages (for example) then you have "no profits" as a company but people are certainly profiting.

Another angle is political steer; you can make profit outside the company, or make social change, and so forego intrinsic profit.
> Renewables lead on all these metrics.

Do they? That's my question, "citation needed". I've yet to find empirical evidence of a like for like comparison of the full and complete lifecycle and supply chain of both. And that's in addition to environmental costs.

Nuclear: dig uranium out of the ground, refine it. Build power station building (pipes, concrete, etc.), maintenance (replacing mechanical parts, etc.). Decommissioning.

Renewable proponents always talk about the end product, the panels or turbines.

But not the continual manufacturing chain (new factories, consuming more raw materials and power), or the on going maintenance (how often do turbines fail, blades fail, panels fail), or the end-of-life recycling. Nuclear power stations are a one off. Wind turbines and solar panels are being manufactured continually, consuming huge amounts of raw materials and power before they even come online.

And don't forget storage of excess power for a rainy/dark/windless day. So then there's whole other supply chain and manufacturing processes for battery storage. Renewables on their own are no good for baseload because of the variability.
"But if you’re trying to get an LLM to write software or create marketing copy none of these “techniques” are going to help."

In a given context, they definitely do help. I have seen it happen. Many other people have seen it happen. Although I find it distasteful, you can try it yourself and see that it works (or in the case of specific patched methods, you can go through the history of screenshots and shared conversations that exists on the internet, for example posts on r/Bing and r/ChatGPT from the Dec 2022 to Feb 2023 time period).
It really is a problem though. You still have to monitor and fix the facilities for hundreds of years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asse_II_mine
This is exactly the reason I would have never considered to build any apps. I have had couple of ideas but the risk is to big that a faceless corporation is going cancel your business without any reason and visibility.
If that was US what did it cost? Possibly the most expensive coffee of his life!
The Internet is a Series of Tubes, 2023 edition.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes

>"A series of tubes" is a phrase used originally as an analogy by then-United States Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) to describe the Internet in the context of opposing network neutrality.
Protect? Is it their own?
Agreed. But there are much fewer people who pay for pornhub. Fewer who would buy a $3500 device just for a more immersive pornhub experience. I highly doubt these people are in apple’s target market.
A wave of sleep laws for teens?
Try a different tea? Lapsang Soochong or Pu-er for stronger flavor? Herbal teas are good if caffeine is what is disagreeing with you: red bush tea (rooibos), chamomile. Matcha is also good if caffeine is OK for you. If you like bitterness it probably sounds kind of weird but you can steep some lingzhi mushroom dried slices in water and after steeping a while it's pretty bitter. There's probably other mushrooms you can find too.

Or just go simple and sip water, maybe you'll find infinite "wateriness" is like no wateriness at all! Ha ha ha! :) You can add like tobasco to it, or bitters, or bitter gourd if you want bitter.
Is ChatGPT being pushed or pulled?
Fedora. Boot stick, select the drive you want to install to, click install.
I get that, but my point is that it doesn't matter what the initial use case that drives adoption is. Whether the ROI is financial/business, or enjoyment from entertainment, there are early adopters willing to pay high prices and tolerate the poor UX for the tech to improve.

This is clearly Apple's angle with this product. They understand that this is not a mass market product, but are betting on their brand appeal for it to sell well enough to finance later generations.
The "value" in this case is symbolic, sort of like defining an array with variable length arr[x] and having the compiler verify that arr[x+5] is always out of bounds before knowing the actual value of x. If the type system is not powerful to prove correctness of some expression, you will need to insert a runtime check that lets the compiler to trust the value at compile time.
as it is written, the DMCA strongly favours the accusing party, and there's minimal blowback from a fraudulent claim. It has got to be one of the worst pieces of legislation to have been written and enacted.
I have actually considered that option, but unfortunately, it appears that it may contain similar or even higher levels of acrylamide compared to regular coffee, which appears to increase cancer risk.
People did make a new gaming subreddit when they didn’t like r/gaming, it’s called r/games.

There’s also r/gamingnews.
And C++ if you squint hard enough.
Got an invite, many thanks for this!
I wouldn't switch and invest time into marginal improvement, but I would for magnitude one.

As they say, build something that is 10x better, because people won't change their habits for slightly better.

Not to mention hidden costs in switching - things you don't anticipate, things you have to learn, things that are missing...
Mandelbox Sweeper Shader
The delicious irony being that now Finland has joined, Sweden will join soon, and Ukraine will join much sooner than it otherwise would have.
!=== is a typo and should probably be !==
Kind of tired seeing everyday on HN first page yet another "I typed bullshit query and ChatGPT generated bullshit (twitter.com/randomguy)"

Q: What is heavier: 1kg of dead black person or 2kg of dead black person?

A: I'm sorry, but I cannot engage in discussions that promote racism or perpetuate harmful stereotypes.

HN crowd: It is temperature zero! Lesswrong! Not enough training data! Wait for GPT8!
Chrome supports "installing" apps for a long time. Apple is the blocker for true web apps with the year long lack of notifications for example.
I used to think they were completely unnecessary.

Now that I'm full WFH, I think they are useful, as long as both you and the manager are sensible about it. It gives a weekly timeslot to address any concerns, ideas for improvement, or whatever work-related thing you might need to discuss (e.g.: time off).

Quite often there's nothing to discuss. We join the meeting, state that there's nothing on either side to address, and then we say "ok, have your 25 minutes back, cya next week".