skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you nailed it in your last paragraph!

I have about five ideas I really want to write about, that I know would be really great future PR for myself in the niche I'm interested in right now. They wouldn't need to be long, but they would still be hard for me to write and edit to a point that I feel good about having them out in public attached to my name. So they don't get written. (But maybe they will someday.)
Staying outside of SF itself is probably the easiest way to save money. Somewhere that's either close to a CalTrain or BART station. It may be a hassle getting in and out out the city depending on where you find a place, but much more affordable. Start there, then look into co-living in the city while you're here—that's usually a longer-term commitment.

This makes me feel a bit old and out of touch—when I came to the city ~10 years ago, I remember knowing a few larger houses (e.g. Negev). But haven't heard of any since then—beyond private houses set up by friends with a smaller number of people. Are the larger houses still a thing?
Imagine that your likeness as an extra is sold for $250, used in future films via AI deep fake, and you never get paid again.

That's my understanding of why they're striking.
> But do those scenarios impact the quality of the product for other users?

Absolutely. Anything involving internationalization is an open invitation for very weird edge cases. Some languages (Hebrew!) are written right-to-left, some require more than one byte to store (Japanese, Chinese), time formats and time zones vary, some write currencies with the symbol in the front (US dollar) and some at the end (Euro).

If all your testing was done by Americans speaking English, the only thing you may stumble upon is timezones. If you're in Europe, timezones won't be much of an issue (as almost everyone is on CET), but you may find out that, whoops, Windows localizes certain path elements like C:\Users.

On top of that, a constant pain point in support is displays. Most Windows users are on a 1080p screen on their laptop, but may plug in their new 4K monitor and notice that your UI is completely illegible because it doesn't respect DPI settings. Or you thought you supported variable DPI, but never planned on a user stretching your window across two screens with different DPI settings. Or monitors use different color profiles or gamma settings and users complaining about that.
For a great, cheap day of sightseeing:

Pack a picnic lunch from items from a grocery store.

Rent or borrow a bicycle at the wharf. Ride it across the Golden Gate Bridge into Sausalito.

Read up on and take reasonable precautions when locking up the bike.

Bum around Sausalito and take the ferry back. Good times.
The sort of Shadowrun/Snow Crash/ancap future you're talking about is what Cory Doctorow is calling technofeudalism[0]: one in which the primary driver of economic activity reverts to passive income scams[1] instead of active economic activity.

[0] https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/

[1] Economists call these "rents", even though they're more general than just rent paid to borrow some real property
I assume the logical conclusion to this is to allow kids access to all things we find addictive but have put behind an age gate, like cigarettes, booze, and car rentals
What is anti-vax about it?
Whoa, this takes me back to 2nd grade when I did almost nothing but daydream during class. My daydreams were elaborate science fiction. I got in a lot of trouble for it, both with my parents and the (substitute) teacher. The teacher ended up paddling me for doing it, which was a terrible punishment for being so far ahead of my peers[0] that I had to find a way to compensate.

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[0] I need to be very specific here: I do not think I was smarter than my classmates, or some special genius. I had just been afforded more of an educational foundation by that point in time.
Very good, but that doesn't answer the question.
Physics doesn’t make a claim one way or the other.

Statistics makes the claim that aliens are more likely to exist than not.
But credentials alone don't prove anything. So sure, let's listen to these guys... but their credentials only get them in the room. After that, it takes actual hard evidence to support these extraordinary claims, IMO.
> Isn't this exactly what happened?

No.

> My understanding of history is that up until like the 16th century North Africa, the Middle East, and India were global leaders in science and industry.

If anyone were 'global leaders' back then it was probably india and china but both were predominantly tea drinking societies. But there were no real global leaders of 'science and industry' back then because 'science and industry' didn't exist as we define it today and nobody had global influence. North africa hadn't been a leader of anything since the fall of ancient egypt. The middle east had it's moments of glory but far more moments of embarrassment ( european, mongol, turkish, etc conquest ).

Arguing coffee was behind the enlightenment is as silly as arguing tea is why britain conquered the world.
The vast majority of humans can only dream of that mythical superabundance you keep talking about. For if they were to experience it, even briefly, the endless consumables you seem to enjoy will disappear before you know it.

It's depressing reading willfully oblivious stuff like this when the planet is being ravaged. It is a zero sum game.
Is it still slow for you? Have you tested it recently?

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35458746>
We made many of the changes you suggested. Thanks again
My comment is responding to the parents comment about hydrogen fuel.

https://www.hydrogenfuelnews.com/hydrogen-fuel-odorized/8550...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36365511
We could not make every change, but we made many. The Hacker News community is a valuable resource for startups. Thank you all for giving back. montgomster
"Suffering" is a nonsense word. It can't be measured or detected. There is no scientific theory of what it is, or even how we might go about somehow detecting its presence or absence some day. I mean, the word might have some use in poetry, but otherwise it could be stricken from vocabulary without any real loss.

> This seems to stem from a viewpoint that animals are fundamentally different from humans

There is a fundamental difference. Humans are humans, and non-humans aren't. And being the practical organism I am, I (along with most others for the last few ten thousand years) have decided that it is socially and politically convenient for me to treat other humans well. When I do, you all agree to chase down my murderer, for instance, to the best of your ability and punish him. That deterrence effect is valuable to me. You agree that there are some basic inviolable rights. Etc. The reciprocity required on my part is a bargain for the value I get in exchange.

Non-humans are incapable of the reciprocity. I get nothing for extending any of these courtesies to a chicken. I (and most others) have therefor not extended these courtesies to chickens. Or cows, or hogs. Or, for that matter, any other non-human species. You don't get to re-negotiate these things unilaterally either, it would require the some super-majority of humanity, of human cultures, to extend this to a non-human species. Maybe you should start a petition.

Do you even know why you believe the absurd things you do? Can you trace the meme back to whom and whence it originated from? Do you even know why you accept it as true? Do you understand its implications, really?

> show signs of consciousness,

What's that, exactly? There is no such thing as consciousness. Not even in humans. It's the secular word for "soul", I think. At least "soul" is more honest. There is no such thing though, no matter what word you use.

> The concept of treating livestock ethically is not about equating animals to humans

Funny. You just spent your entire comment doing that. You told me they weren't different when it came to consciousness, emotions, or suffering. You claimed "numerous scientific studies" that they have complex behaviors similar to humans, that they experience pain and stress as we do. I mean, it's like just 1 or 2 sentences above this claim. Did you lose track?

> but about acknowledging these

I can't acknowledge that which isn't real. If at some point in the future you manage to prove empirically that these invisible, imaginary qualities are real, I can acknowledge them then... but I won't hold my breath. Or pretend with you in the meantime.

> It's not an 'absurd premise' but a logical conclusion

Nothing you've said indicates you are familiar with logic.

Please note that if torture pigs made the bacon even 3% tastier, I'd be calling my senator right this minute to demand that he allow farm workers to tasering them for shits and giggles. Their pain has no moral weight whatsoever. You should rejoice that you live in a universe where it actually ruins the flavor.
And yet, Elon has decided that a term used in academic medical research for nearly a century, “cisgender”, is a slur and banned from the platform. Funny how he wants to protect objectionable speech that aligns with his political view while restricting “objectionable” speech that doesn’t.
Sophistry will get you nowhere. There is an objective truth regardless of whether you choose to participate in seeing it.
The logical conclusion at the end is ... www.observeinc.com ? Nice :-)
OK? That has nothing to do with what the parent said, which is that the issue tracker should be flooded.
Just leaving another comment to warn that there is a lot of “don’t believe your eyes and ears” argumentation going on in the other sub threads to this comment.

I’m not sure this is something you can flag comments for, but I don’t think that type of argument, regardless of how eloquently stated, is appropriate for HN.
If you hate to be that person, consider not being that person.
The only thing you need to understand about people that make comments like that is that they don't care about anything unless (or until) it affects THEM personally.

The second it affects them, now it's real, now it's "OH this shouldn't be legal".
Those people lack empathy.
Will a fire department be able to put out a gasoline fire on a boat? A diesel fire on a boat?

Chance are, electrical fires are much more self contained than gasoline fires
I don't know how we've managed to so severely nerf teachers' authority to conduct their class and deal with troublemakers. I've got a daughter now, and the classroom is like Lord Of The Flies now vs. how it was when I was her age in the '80s. My kid reports that one or two kids act out basically all day (maybe trauma from growing up in a broken home?) and the rest of the class barely gets through classwork. So they all get tons of homework to make up for basically chaos during school hours.
Even that won't get your uncle or aunt to speak up.

"Google wants to block any devices you repaired yourself" might get some traction.
It hasn't been long ago where there was news about right-wingers being kicked off of platforms and then the response by the HN public was "they're a private platform, they can kick people off for any reason they want. Nobody owes you a platform". Why wouldn't that same argument apply here?
Flutter is the second nicest platform I've found for developing for Android (losing to Jetpack Compose) and best one for cross-platform. As a user though, I hate using Flutter (and non-native) apps for simple things. They often look totally different from the rest of the OS. For products that exist as something other than apps, it's fine, but I still prefer native Material You apps.

The best Android app for a product I've used is the AnonAddy app. It's stylish Material You while feeling very custom and tailored.
So reverse Reddit?
> I don't know how different that would be though from if they sold physical products

I mean that's the literal point of this website, no? In the real world, a sale is a sale. Imagine going into BestBuy, leaving $100 at the front, telling the clerk to put it all into Sony (because Sony is 4 cool kidz) and then just grabbing a nVidia graphics card and Apple AirPods.

> One important thing here is that there is a limit to how many subscriptions one developer can sell.

Definitely interested in seeing how this will play out. Sounds like a recipe for either (a) a super cool, tightly nit community with high quality contributers who care about their software or (b) a dump for software which woudlnt cut it in the real world market.

>Also, they would probably sell the subscriptions for a higher price than other developers, since they can, which would mean that people who don't know about that person would buy from someone who is cheaper.

My game theory senses are tingling. Why would I incentivize people into buying other people's subscription while gaining access to my stuff?

>That means there has to be usage statistics collection in all software.

You could always implement it on your end, right? Could be download based, or whatever. A one time thingy.
Ha, I think this is a pretty classic description of unconscious bias; you have warm fuzzies about people with robust public profiles, without having given much thought to whether it's a strong signal of performance.

Edit to add: I feel like this came off as harsh, but it really wasn't intended to at all. We all have this kind of bias. I have a bit of the opposite bias as you, for what it's worth, because the best people I've worked with have been essentially silent in public, and I tend to see people with robust public profiles as having spent time on marketing themselves that could have been better spent on other things. This kind of bias that we all build throughout our life experience is why hiring is extremely fraught.
FWIW, I'm certainly not advocating for any kind of racism, or any kind of philosophies that support the use of force to achieve any political, social, or economic goals, so fascism would be firmly out were I the webmaster.
Sony is a company, a corporation, a conglomerate, a machine to generate wealth for shareholders, whatever you wanna call it. Not a human. Decisions humans make on behalf of the company still lead to company != human.
We don't typically use multi-user systems, actually

Isn't pretty much every "cloud" nothing more than an elaborate multi-user system?
I have to imagine someone who is following this as closely as you seem to be would know that most "UFO news" originates from public statements from people at the Pentagon, and that government are promoting it, not burying it.
People pay for scarcity, not utility. In economics, this is expressed as the water-diamond paradox. Software makers simply need to find ways to make some piece of what they sell scarce (managed workloads). Everything else depends on the conspicuous consumption of idealists; ie it doesn't scale.
Isn’t it concerning that short domain names and handles are generally the weapon of choice of people who have literally zero money to spend on promotion?

It’s something people who are just starting out do in the hopes that the ability to quickly find their username/website would help them go viral.

Make your company into a verb and or a noun is much more valuable , Twitter has all that, at least until last week.

‘President Trump tweeted’ was the most frequrntly repeated newsflash story 2016-2020
The headline is drawing all sorts of misleading conclusions. There's a PM posting for an ML team with a $300-900k market range. Nothing to do with actors striking.
Sure, yet we have picture evidence of any variety of bird you can think of.
That's not really surprising. Limited attestation of device state has been a thing for a long time and it's why Chrome is used at so many companies.
The movie Simone [2002] follows a fading director creating a virtual actress to star in his films and the attempts he makes to keep her non-presence a secret as she becomes more famous.

Life imitates art imitates life...

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_(2002_film)
The point is you cannot know which days are the worst days ahead of time.

Also uncited and unpublished papers aren’t worth the ink they’re printed on.
> I'm also intrigued by how many very wealthy people are unwilling to pay $10/mo to stream music/video and/or share passwords, when I recall paying $20/CD at the record store in 1998 dollars.

Because everything is a recurring automatic charge to my credit card, and one more thing to try and keep track of and continually reevaluate if it's still valuable enough to me to continue paying for it.

When you bought a CD you didn't have to from that point forward continue to think about if you want to continue paying money to have access to the CD.
Agreed. UFO sighting have an analogue on the religious world where devotees witness miracles and in many cases sincerely believe them and official bodies recognize these miracles. But also in many cases these miracles are concocted by someone with a particular agenda (often commercial).

This UFO/UAP stuff reminds me of that.
I think it’s fair to negotiate the use of actors’ likeness without consent. And given this isn’t the only grievance they have it makes sense to put it on the table with everything else because why not?
Paying for it makes sense because it establishes that the company agrees that accounts have value, and that the company will be even-handed in managing that value.

Appropriating it with an offer of some laptop stickers or a Twitter coffee mug says "this is all crap and anyway we can take it away anytime we feel like it, so you'd be a fool to invest any serious effort or resources into this ecosystem."
In a field like acting where stars make millions per year, and the critique of this job is that somebody amounts to "this person is making too much money," the critiques run a bit hollow.

Will the SAG put a cap on actor's compensation? What makes an AI job worth inherently less than acting?
Jokes on Netflix, if AI can generate shows why pay for Netflix when I'll eventually have a personal AI (provided by an open source project, because anything novel in this space is leaky) that generates an entertainment bubble for me?
How expensive is the public transport? If I'm going back and forth every day, feels like it could quickly add up?
So as far as you view it, there is no heightened risk with EV fires in closed quarters on a ship at sea? They're all packed in tight, with gasoline cars and other EVs.
I respectfully disagree. If OP wants to experience SF, you've got to sleep in and wake up in SF, too. Just like any city. Hearing the sounds of the city at night is an important subconscious memory. For that same reason, also no need to get a car. SF has MORE than enough to do for a decade let alone a tiny trip.
I keep saying this, but maybe primates who evolved in a world with ~240ppm of CO2 aren't cut out for even 410ppm of outdoor CO2, and there is a cognitive side effect to the recent nearly-doubling of CO2:

https://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/24/graphic-the-re...
Lisp has that cool hacker feeling because it's how software development should be done: a relatively minimal core of concepts exploding into endless possibilities, the code you write itself expressed in terms of a runtime data structure which can be traversed and manipulated, the immediacy of a REPL and directly changing a live system.

It never took off because developers are modern Sisyphi, who when freed of their burdens immediately yearn for the feel and heft of the cold stone boulder in their hands. That's how we got Java: enough of Lisp to be tolerable and familiar to C++ programmers.
Generative BI Capabilities in Amazon QuickSight
Stop blaming AI for the last decade of insulting and attacking your customers while offering quantity over quality. You've also diminished all your IPs to the point that fans don't care. Any criticism was shouted down. But the rot was there and audiences have moved on.
Near as I can tell, it offers no actual advantage to do so, and creates several serious disadvantages.
There are definitely super-high end phones where the telephoto lens can see better than the naked human eye[1]. The average person might not be in possession of such phones, but the technology is definitely there.

[1] https://www.dxomark.com/samsung-galaxy-s23-ultra-camera-test... scroll to "tele" section.
My research group in 2004-ish bought a couple of DEC Tru64 Unix boxes on the basis of their fast CPUs and the high availability features. We discovered fairly quickly that the OS was pretty awful compared to the Linux we had on all our other machines, and in particular the JVM was seriously crippled (which was unfortunate given most of the stuff we were developing was in Java).
Considering how many people would do shows/movies for free in the start of their career, answer would be ∞
Discussed 2 days ago: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36846242>
It's almost like we live in different world, I could not disagree more.

* Software is extremely expensive. Software engineers are expensive, and for a good software project you need a tech lead, a manager and probably a few developers. These are all people you need to pay tons of money for.

* Software is constantly changing, something that worked 2 years ago can be broken beyond repair today. You need a team that can keep up with this.

* Software needs maintenance. You can't just build an app an call it a day, you need to employ a team to maintain it continuously. You can build a massive, gargantuan bridge and maintain it maybe every few years/half a decade to keep it safe for 30+ years, you cannot do that in software.

* Unlike what outsider think, software -- even "boring" CRUD/web software -- is still very much a research project. If you ask a civil engineer how to build a bridge, they'll tell you about all the techniques that were developed over the many many decades. What a developer focuses on while writing code is mostly ideas developed in the last few years. Although you think you're building a simple app with 3 devs, what you're missing is you have your own tiny research lab studying how to develop this simple app the cheapest way possible while making it maintainable.

* Software by its very nature is hard to make money off of. Its complexity is opaque to most people, they're not willing to pay. You'll always have people pirating it, eating away from your bottom line. Moreover, each new software means changing workflow, so even if you have the best product on the market, decent amount of people won't switch from the industry standard.

* Modern software engineering methodology focuses on, among other things, time to ship, feature richness and maintainability. It does not focus on correctness -- partially because our theories on software correctness are lacking (even if you decide to use novel/extreme approaches such as Dependently Typed Programming, formal proofs etc it's unclear/unknown if you'll reach a significantly better correctness metric). This makes your product inherently frustrating to the customer. No matter how much money you spend, you'll always have a product that's a little bit buggy. This means the product is very sensitive to the amount of money you throw at it. If you throw Apple level of money, it'll be less buggy, if you have a barebones team it'll be more buggy.
Incredible journey, Wajiha! As a fellow empowered minority in tech, your story resonates deeply with me. Keep shining and making a difference! #WomenInTech #AfghanTech #CodingJourney
Moralism Is Ruining Cultural Criticism
Really, what isn't there to get? The studios want to be able to pay an actor once, have them come in and scan them and say some lines, and then use their image/voice in perpetuity without paying them again. If you're a working actor, that means you no longer have a viable career.

Plus, this is exactly the type of thing that really union solidarity (or legislation) can prevent. AI still needs people as input. People can very rationally say they don't want to give it to them if it means it will destroy their livelihood.