skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Humans kill far more birds than feral cats. Agriculture, pesticides, deforestation, destruction of fields and grasslands, the use of mice and rat poison, car traffic, wind turbines, ... it all adds up. It makes feral cats look like amateurs showing up on a gun fight with a pencil.

In the EU, a 2021 study of 378 bird species estimated that bird numbers fell by as much as 19 percent from 1980 to 2017. And that's not because of cats, feral or not.
I can't speak to individual situations. Many tech companies grew with unsustainable business models, over-hiring, and a focus on growth over sustainable profits. That was obvious over the last decade, the only question was when would the bubble burst. Now we know.

I've been through a few boom & bust cycles and layoffs during my career. Some companies care about their employees, and some don't. Employers -- especially in tech -- know their people will jump if they get a better offer, so they treat them accordingly, as interchangeable cogs. Many employers don't value loyalty or their people despite their phony values and mission statements, nothing surprising there.

Senior people with 10+ years still have options, the contraction will mostly hurt more junior people. But even seniors will have to reset their expectations: the adult day care/resort spa workplaces will disappear and people who want to get a job will have to look outside of the tech-oriented Silicon Valley sphere. I always fell back on enterprise logistics during tech industry busts -- boring compared to a hot startup, but reliable and profitable.
If Apple's Vision Pro succeeds in dominating this new market, there will be competitors like there always has. Let's say the Vision Pro is #1 in terms of market share--they might not be, but Apple certainly has some obvious advantages. I find the question of who will be #2 in the market more interesting.

Meta has positioned themselves as either #1 or #2 so far, but that position could easily vanish just like the Blackberry. It requires great execution of both the hardware and operating system with their current strategy, and Meta doesn't exactly have a history of producing either. I'm surprised they haven't gone the Android or Windows way of just producing the software and licensing the OS to OEMs. It greatly increases their attack surface area on either the hardware or the OS from another competitor other than Apple.
I agree this is a good thing, but what would be fantastic is if EA could start making chargers with NACS. Until that's possible, it's not going to be comfortable.
I admit, I don't know if that's possible now or not.
There's an Open Source version: https://github.com/netdata/netdata

I don't know if it has the same features or not, but it looks like you can set it up yourself.
That is a quote from https://twitter.com/goodside/status/1666609934635606017.
I'm not familiar with all of those but simde is afaict lower level than the others. It doesn't attempt to build any higher level abstractions, just translate between the existing standards and instruction sets.
You need to take into consideration the fact that this person had already created a large amount of negative press around this API issue. This means that people at Reddit were already feeling defensive, so when someone said something very similar to a threat then it was more likely to be perceived as a threat.

The reason why this is so alien to so many people is because they refuse to have empathy for a CEO. Reddit is filled to the brim with populist rhetoric about eating the rich. CEOs are profit robots, they don’t have emotional states of mind, duh.

All of this makes complete sense.

I couldn’t care less what happens to Reddit but it sure is interesting to watch everyone get so bent out of shape about a fucking website!
Autocomplete: The Only Reason We Know What A Trie Is(tm)!
Long term would be recognizing that almost every authoritarian nation is poorer than almost every democracy. Mexico's gross national income is higher than China's on a per capita basis.
Vorbis was ubiquitous on the Web way before Google had such influence over it as it has today, and MP3 was absolutely nowhere near universal. Firefox did not support MP3 for a while, and even once it did it relied on system codecs - and many distros didn't ship with MP3 support by default until its patents expired a few years ago.

Choosing non-patent-encumbered codecs for open standards is as much ideological as practical.
But mechanical watches are so much more fun to...watch
The vast majority of people don’t care enough to pay for it.

This is why people balk at the price of Apple Vision even though Apple managed to miniaturize a Macbook into a visor and added LiDAR, two 4K screens, a separate depth sensor, several other cameras, and even a 3D camera to it

That said, Mark’s devices aren’t bad for the price. They’ve been the best overall VR headsets for the past 2-3 years.
If you have more money than you know what to do with, there’s always this: https://www.exquisitetimepieces.com/watch-brands/h-moser/swi...
It's because we only build them one at a time, and after 40 years of hiatus. At which point nearly all of the expertise for building them has retired.

The problem is that environmentalists are fundamentally unserious about climate change. They pander to wishful thinking as hard as those who reject the existence of climate change. If we were really serious about it, we'd build 500 nuclear reactors all at once and demand they get built as fast as possible.

And it isn't even that expensive once you get down to it! How many nuclear reactors could we build for the price of the F-35 program? We could easily afford thousands of them if we really needed to.

So no, the problem is lack of willpower and seriousness, not cost.
Learning the cartesian coordinate system from shopwork may work for some but my experience is the majority of tradespeople, even very skilled ones dislike STEM and academic subjects and see their trade as a body of facts and hands on skills not something systematic from which to learn abstract mathematical principles. The few who can are well equipped to be actual engineers.
Similar to how people here downvote antitech comments
Yes, you are right. But he is also reddit customer, uses reddit api and legally obligated to follow terms and conditions, and they have confidentiality clause about communication there: https://www.reddit.com/wiki/api-terms/

I guess they can now sue him and request to pay damages, which likely will be large.

Also, according to random article in internet, California law requires him to ask consent too:

Generally, if both parties are within the same state, the state law will apply. When one party is in California and the other one is outside the state, the two-party consent rule applies to actors outside of California, if they are communicating with people in California who have not given consent. Essentially, California protects those in the state from being recorded without their consent even where the out-of-state actor is in a state which permits “one party consent.
In the game of Apollo vs No Apollo, agreed, the game is played out. Even if there's some eleventh hour agreement, reduction in API fees etc, the direction is clear - Reddit's killing these guys, just a question of when.

But in the game of Christian vs Spez/Reddit Corp, I wonder about the wisdom of posting these recordings and going this nuclear on Reddit's brand. I suspect Reddit's got some good lawyers, whether you're in the US or Canada.
Perhaps this will protect them from the lies and misinformation spread by legislators.
What prevents this story from going to the hn front page? I assume it is some kind of moderation.

But how does it work exactly?
Please don't post generic flamewar comments. We're trying to avoid this level of discussion here.

You can find "some people" on HN to match basically anything.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This seems really good for standard Saas reporting pages. Looks like it's missing two things that seem to be pretty common: funnel charts and a drag n' drop layout where users can self organize the cards / add new ones. Any chance that's coming?

Would love to sponsor this project!
Great comment.

I think supply chain risk through peak COVID is also a huge factor giving this shift momentum. Supply chain shocks were comprehensible and visible to most Americans and impacted practically every business owner. It kickstarted renewed calls for localism and reassessments of worst-case scenarios for business continuity. Bringing up the home industrial base is a necessity for shortening those supply chains and bringing that risk under control.

Reducing risk from suppliers based in countries where government policy is less predictable or west-aligned was also highlighted by the pandemic. Shanghai locked down in May 2022, for example, and I am sure many Americans were surprised and annoyed at the time.

The one-two of COVID then the Russia-Ukraine war seems to have knocked us into a new alignment. Remains to be seen how it plays out against our current, difficult social backdrop.
Their post recently telling everyone to just get over X and use wayland really bugged me and did not come across as a dev making their pitch to convince everyone why it would be a good idea, nor a dev apologizing that they don't have time to do everything and they're picking one thing to spend their time on, rather a dev saying we don't care we're only working on this and if you don't agree you're backwards and wrong.

And then this.

Ok.
I never used Apollo, but does it use only one single API key?

Many OpenAI apps or services ask you to config your own key. Does this solves the API price problem?
Did a tour on some business of Vogtle-3/4 several years back. You have no idea how big or complex these things are until you see it up close. It feels like watching the pyramids go up. Just the amount of rebar on the ground was impressive. So happy to see it going into operation even with all the delays!

Really cool timelapse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSEv_K9861E
Apple didn't coin the term spatial computing. It's been used in the industry for a long time. They are both copying other's visions.
> Do we have a federated Mastodon-esque system to replace Reddit yet?

Yes we do! It's called Lemmy - it's built on ActivityPub, is Mastodon compatible, and people actually use it!

https://lemmy.ml/post/1147770

Knowing HN users, I don't know why Lemmy hasn't been all over the front page. It works brilliantly.
Migraine sufferer here. Been to the emergency room for bad headaches about 8 times. I get a cocktail of toroidal, benedryl, an caffeine by IV w a morphine chaser. Works.
That's great that you found actual information, but that doesn't seem to back up this person's bizarre claims that 'nothing beats heapsort'.
Hey, my 81-year-old mother actually absolutely loves her Apple Watch (although I had to show her the setting so she could have the crown on the opposite side because she wears it on her right wrist).
Good. Bringing jobs home is a good idea. It might be cheaper overseas, but making things here where there are stricter safety regulations will get rid if some if the ethical quandaries around buying from a sweatshop.

Not to mention that also means that we will hold more power and ensure longer stability...why buy from China that could go to war with our allies and restrict our access to their manufacturers when we can just ask a factory in the next state over to make it?
My guess would be... patents? (Apple's got all the good ones?)
Third-party Reddit app Apollo shutting down because of new API pricing
> or it’s too small a papercut to trade in their device and buy/research a new one.

Most of the time they don't notice at all unless its truly atrocious or truly mind blowing (and whilst I can firmly say the macbook trackpad is the best I've ever used, lets be honest its not mind blowing). They might notice things don't feel as smooth as it did on their macbook (assuming they even had one last, if not how can you tell something is worse if its all you've ever had), but they're unlikely to narrow this down to the trackpad.
I’m certain old.reddit will be next on it chopping block
Show HN: CreatorKit – self-host OSS alternative to Mailchimp and Disqus
Why do you prefer Tidal to Spotify?
Carmack also pushed for more affordable headsets to increase adoption of the technology.

imo it is a technological marvel but the size of the demographic willing to spend $4k on a headset with no proven long term value is quite small.
Wait what - people should be able to unplug other peoples cars? Why? The car will still be parked in the charging spot
Look for supplements with the NSF Certified for Sport mark. Order direct from the manufacturer instead of Amazon which is full of counterfeit products.

https://www.nsfsport.com/
> The value for users is that Reddit exists.

Reddit as we knew it is on life support. We see them phasing out third party apps, they already removed np.reddit.com, and undoubtedly old.reddit.com will be next. Once they go public there is no turning back, and their decisions will be solely powered by investor greed.

There is no value in a Reddit that doesn’t cater to the users.
You're being overly optimistic. I wasted half a day trying to dual boot arch alongside my existing windows 10 install on a dell xps 9700 a few months after it got released in 2020. I could not even get a DE working because of some issue with my dGPU driver.
I had my fair share of driver issues with manjaro as well but it was much easier to get going than arch despite the rich wiki.

I can imagine it's easier to install on older~ hardware with no dual boot though.
Agreed. Actual buttons have to be many times cheaper than what's essentially an entire laptop.

My local parking garage has put screens on the ticket machines on the entrance and exit. What do they have on the screen? Nothing at all important. Something about 'touch here for a ticket' and it's not a touchscreen. You press a metal lighted button to get a ticket. All the screen does is...I'm not sure. It's entirely pointless. And they added it.

The exit is similar. Tiny words that have no bearing on what you have to do to get out. Something about putting your ticket in a slot, but instead you have to wave it in front of a sensor about 6 inches from the machine. They had to have actual people stand there for a couple of days and show you how.

What is this world coming to.
I hope this trend is real and will continue. Manufacturing is so important to a country. It creates jobs. It builds talent. It stimulates innovation. It improves the lives of millions of people. It keeps a country's defense strong and sustainable. Without a robust and comprehensive manufacturing sector, I don't know how the US can proper in the future. I pains me to see that BYD could produce millions of masks in days in spotless and fully automated factories, while GM workers labored at those manual machines that looked like the scraps from the Soviet Union. Oh, and the $20K toilet? The $200M+ fighter jets? The inability to manufacture the screen of Kindle even if we want to? The list goes on, and I truly want to see the current-day version of the US manufacturing of the roaring ages: cheap, innovative, best workers in the world, full domestic supply chain, and etc.
VW should be sued again by the US government for providing that garbage of Electrify America.
Sure, plenty of work. PHP powers a large majority of web sites. Almost all of my customers use PHP to some degree, often exclusively.

A big portion of the PHP stats (number of web sites using it) come from WordPress. While WP sites need less development than sites built from scratch, or with Laravel, they still need maintenance, custom code, and system administration. Someone who can keep a WP site humming and enhance it can find plenty of work.

If you can't find suitable work that has very little to do with a programming language. Businesses don't need more PHP code. They need people who can add business value and deliver on requirements. Programming languages are almost incidental in the big picture. My advice is to focus on selling yourself based on the value you offer to an employer or customer, not on a language.
It lists not having “New Reddit” as a con, but I see that as a plus. It’s super slow and has worse UX even though it looks better.
Interesting take, I thought he would be pretty excited a major player is entering the space he's been working on since they acquired Oculus. Apple would have done research to validate this product and market before entering it.

Edit: he did acknowledge this a bit on Lex Fridman podcast https://youtu.be/C_fpCVtGR6I
They're probably thinking of syphilis (although even its origin is debated via yaws)
That’s an often overlooked factor. The mods that do all that free work for Reddit especially need good tools—which the official app is not.
Comptime on its surface is such a better alternative to macros, the fact that you don't need to learn another DSL is huge (and all the tooling works at is)

Would it be a major challenge to add it to Rust?
Prove that the dynamic instability that causes a speed wobble is the same thing that causes a high side.

Here is an article on the physics of wobble:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_wobble

A high side happens when the rear tire breaks traction at lean, and is no longer able to hold the arc it’s trying to turn on. The forces in the tire, suspension, twist and deflection in the swingarm and the frame of the motorcycle rapidly unload, and the bike turns around the z axis if x and y are the flat plane of the road surface. Then catches traction, and that z axis rotation and gyroscopic forces becomes a violent flick to stand the bike up straight.

These things are totally different.
PHP, thanks to Laravel and Symfony is thriving nowadays, especially within startup communities and not only.

Yes, it's still a good choice, but you have to build yourself a nice resume with multiple projects to present yourself.

I have noticed more and more companies are not advertising the traditional way, but do so via their own websites.

A couple of minutes ago I found the following website https://uppbeat.io/ which at its footer you can find a careers section, which leads to https://musicvine.com/

They currently have a senior backend developer position open which happens to be a Symfony!

https://musicvine.com/careers/senior-backend-developer

Give it a try, you have nothing to worry about.

Good Luck!

P.S.: You can follow another route if you like: go to https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/pl-php and look at the websites listed in there; check them for careers or how else they name it, be it jobs, vacancies, and so forth; you cannot imagine how many Laravel positions exist out there!
Show HN: Walk and Talk
I'm building a site to talk to people. What you think?
If you spend enough money marketing something, it becomes cool.
All true ... 50 years ago.

Today factories in the US are built automated. No jobs, not for anybody but an accountant, an administrator, a couple of engineers.
Uruguay as well
My understanding is VCs prefer Delaware C Corp because it's what they understand and are familiar with. Everything else is "reinventing the wheel". It's the De facto standard.
Was the full call released somewhere? As i've only heard the 3 minute snippet.
> Alternatively, maybe anti-virus software can phone home to get on-the-fly advice.

Modern antivirus software already does this, more or less. It's usually called something like "cloud scanning."
No kidding, especially for programs that aren’t that big.
Embarrassed to say, this article was wrong. The journalist had found an unsigned proposed order, which was linked in the body, and misunderstood who wrote the document and its meaning. Apologies for posting it, was not aware it was factually incorrect.
What about all the nuclear powered submarines and carriers? Don’t count?
1970s campus librarians foresaw our world of distributed knowledge and research
Starting a software business as a SWE requires almost no investment
For the LLVM document they are talking about dead code.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead-code_elimination
i am not familiar with the underlying architecture but feels weird that we are talking about AI models like a blockbuster movie. Does it mean they have the model architecture ready and just not training it?
So exactly which “market” does Apple dominate by market share ?
This is an abuse. And it’s one of obligations of web browsers to protect users from abuse.
I'm totally fine with at-home cats. However, cats that roam outdoors are, by definition, an invasive species. Australia acknowledges this problem and kills outdoor cats to protect native species.
Seems pancake but you can place them anywhere in ‘space’. As I use VR/AR only for productivity (more/bigger monitors, less irl space), I would really like to have all android apps from the play store hanging in AR/VR space as pancake ‘screens’ I can organise. Now that Apple announced support for all iOS apps and games, I cannot see the rest being able to just sit and not follow for android.
We’re both arguing (albeit politely)

I’ve made a clear argument. If you can’t a see a connection, then I don’t see any value in continuing this thread
Seller protection does cover bank initiated chargebacks for fraud/charge not recognized and item not received. As long as you have proof of delivery to the address provided through PayPal.

It wouldn’t cover item not as described, like a buyer saying you shipped a box of rocks.
Cool, but ugly. I won't wear it, but I'm glad it exists.
>it kinda feels like I wandered into the country club after getting lost in the woods and nobody's asked who I'm here with or why I'm not fetching them a bowl of nuts

The tech genius hobos, burnouts, and weirdos come here to rub elbows with the Patagucci vest crowd. The guy who manages this place ("dang") seems to tolerate us unwashed types, as long as we don't post polemics. You're not necessarily in the wrong place, but I can see how you might feel outnumbered.
No one has ever proven a direct causal relationship between (unprocessed) red meat consumption and poor health. The studies which purport to show a link are all low quality observational studies that suffer from the healthy subject effect and failed to control for some confounders. If there is a real effect it is very small, much less significant than total calorie intake.
Be careful what you wish for. It reminds me of the Four Pests campaign in China around 1960, especially the extermination of sparrows, one of the causes of the Great Chinese Famine.

500k feral cats: that's a lot of mice, pigeons and young rats! Without predators like feral cats, NY's rat problem could become even more, well, interesting.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/08/google-to-crack-down-on-hybr...

Sorry, I mistook this topic for the one referencing the CNBC version of this story.
He's an (ex?) intelligence guy who's come forward saying the government has retrieved craft of "non-human origin". Whether that means Grey Aliens, dolphins, or Sleestaks, I don't think we know.
I think the average person does care about and notice quality, its just a question of if they can afford it. When I look around the coworking space, its almost universally macbooks. And these aren't tech people mostly.

But the uni student with a budget that only buys half a macbook doesn't get to care about trackpad quality.

Normal people don't say things like "The trackpad is unresponsive and the wifi drivers unreliable" They say "I just don't like it" "It feels kinda crap"
Blaming environmentalists for the complete and utter failure of nuclear power plant EPCMs to actually build nuclear power plants seems pretty misguided.

Edit;

Environmentalists didn't bankrupt multiple international conglomerates and blow their construction schedule and budget by >100%. What part of this did Greenpeace influence; https://www.reuters.com/article/us-toshiba-accounting-westin...
there's also a third much more likely possibility: VR is still a novelty/gimmick experience and neither apple or zuck or any other company will make it mainstream, no matter how much money they burn on it.