skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't think the problems we're seeing are limited to capitalistic nations.

We don't really have any non-capitalist nations. Maybe NK or Cuba, but I don't think that was what you were thinking of.

China's economy is certainly driven by market forces, even though it is steered at the top by a dictatorship.

> Rather, that it structured incentives so that consumers would benefit from the selfish pursuits of industry.

Yes, and enshittification is the result of those incentives not actually being aligned in practice.

You seem to be rebutting me by saying the same thing.
It is particularly helpful if the team answers using a text format that is easily searchable (e.g., Slack). Long-term written communication is better for building a team's institutional knowledge than verbal communication. I have saved hours of work just finding URLs and documents that I had posted, let alone others.
After reading this Twitter thread and watching the talk it was referencing I can't help thinking that a chat/text interface to AI is lazy product design.

https://twitter.com/transitive_bs/status/1646778220052897792

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd-J3hmycQs

Features like their "AI Fix" feel much more like the direction things should go. Providing context-based actions without requiring user input.

E.g. use the database schema, existing code, etc as context to suggest actions without a user having to type it out.
Which we can all now browse at our leisure thanks to the efforts of Jason Scott:

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5543

Previous HN discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36206526
While most of it is probably sincere, it's also important to keep in mind that some people do the "overly patriot American" as a joke.
Firefox with a few extensions is an insane memory hog. ThinkorSwim, TD’s brokerage app, will easily get to double digit numbers in 3-4 hours.

The thing is, I was using the same exact software, doing the same exact tasks on windows 7 with 16gb of ram and I rarely had issues.

Not to mention windows 10 has completely borked my network stack. I can’t get a single WiFi card to work.
Yes. It must be that and not at all the fact that Twitter is unavailable at worst or degraded at best if you don't have an account. There's something uninspired and tiring but I don't think it's people avoiding Twitter.
16th century European artists shifted their focus from power to peasants [video]
Rome was not build in a day. Let’s not expect scientists to do so after a draft publication.
Their tech hubs are not based in Brazil.

> We are continuously growing globally, with more than 7,000 employees of over 46 nationalities. We are present in 7 countries: Brazil, Mexico and Colombia, also where we have operations, and Argentina, Uruguay, the United States, and Germany, where we have our tech hubs.

https://international.nubank.com.br/careers
There is a higher hurdle to setting up a zoom call than there was to waking up to a colleague who was at their desk and didn’t look obviously busy. Solve that, and you probably solve a lot of low-grade communication challenges that are made worse by being remote as compared to in-same-office.
My understanding is that EWR doesn't have the flat rate because it is outside of NYC (and is also so far away that I cannot imagine how much a cab would be for that destination)
You can’t control who buys your mortgage from whatever bank you originally got a mortgage with. Even if you refinance to another bank, they can just resell it again. I assume this is true of other kinds of debt. Not all their customers are people who don’t know any better.

Also, I think people probably have some systemic trust that really bad actors will be eventually removed, but unfortunately that seems not to ever happen to Wells Fargo despite what is at this point hundreds of years of bad behavior.
Yeah your logic makes sense. It just doesn't seem to agree with what I see among people I know, admittedly a small section of the world.

> I strongly suspect the ladies man, statistically, is more likely to cheat during marriage.

The weird thing is that the cheaters I know of are all guys with weak game. It's the opposite of what common sense would suggest, and I'm not sure of the mechanism, other than what I proposed. Perhaps another way to say it is that if you've had enough, you don't think it's worth the risk. I mean to be quite honest, it often isn't even worth the bother when you're a free man.
This is it. If we just all gather around some pet HN public intellectual, chant something about a real thing in fact just being a narrative, then that real thing will disperse as the mind-goblins that were giving it life let go.
It's interesting because we came to a different conclusion with Autopilot[0] - context and learning is incredibly important for result quality, and gpt4 doesn't (yet) support fine-tuning but will soon, and we'll definitely be taking advantage of that. Not just for quality, but also for speed (less time spent gathering context and processing input tokens).

My view is, everyone has access to chatgpt and github copilot, and so the idea is to provide value in excess of what chatgpt/copilot can do. Part of that is embedding it in the UI, but (especially for internal tools, which tend to be shorter) the improvement isn't huge over copy/paste or using copilot in vs code.

However, beyond UI integration, we can intelligently pull context on related files, connected DBs/resources, SDKs you're using, and so on. And that's something chatgpt can't do (for now). The quality of response, from what we saw, dramatically improved with the right docs and examples pulled in.

And yes, gpt4 does much better on JS (React specifically) and Python. It's just whatever it's trained on, and there's a ton more JS/Python code out there.

[0] https://www.airplane.dev/autopilot
It is as unreal for most people to turn to veganism as it is for cats to become vegetarians. You are asking for genetic changes, it could happen if there is a major genetic bottleneck and all people who cannot subsist on a plant based diet die off and only the survivors carry on, but it would involve billions dying and is likely going to be unpleasant.
It appears PyInstaller is much more portable. Briefcase seems to make an .msi installer on Windows and an AppImage for Linux. Both of those require installation to use. PyInstaller can create a single executable that you can just run (yea sure it extracts itself to a temp dir, but the optics are very different).
Steering wheel doesn't matter, despite the cute mnemonic.

Level 4 cars need a steering wheel to be generally useful. But a limited vehicle like a taxi doesn't need a wheel, no matter whether it's 4 or 5.

I agree with the rest of what you said. Geofencing entire continents isn't about driving ability, and blizzards are an acceptable human-level restriction.
> As it combines the durability of gold with the usability of money.

But these two things are mutually exclusive. If it's durable, you don't want to use it, because it might be worth more in the future.
> because hackers are people

> finance

It "only pays the equipment".

> politics

It "only affects the operating environment".

"Little things".
The argument is that it is U.S. companies that are insanely competitive at making high-fructose corn syrup, and that the EU has largely banned it as a shield to European companies making other sweeteners (e.g.: sugar).

I would argue that the ban on genetically modified organisms (GMO) is a cleaner example of European protectionism (not that all other countries, the U.S. included, do not also practice protectionism).

You can find lots of sources for the fact of this near-ban, but this one is nice and pointed:
"Because of its low cost and long shelf-life, HFCS is used widely in manufacturing many food products, including candy, throughout the United States. However, due to strict EU regulations, HFCS is banned in much of Europe"
https://www.sugarjoy.com/pages/hfcs-gmos-and-trans-fats
I thought shaken/stir was going to do just this. Does anyone have inside knowledge as to why this hasn't fixed things yet?

It isn't a hard problem. Once we can trace where the call originates, blacklists should be able to snuff this out pretty quickly. Once phone operators start getting penalized for this sort of thing, the problem will get much better.
What would be worse, being one of the Chosen and knowing all your friends and family are going to die, or being unChosen and knowing you and all your friends and family are going to die?
I wish Canada would be this effective.

Unfortunately, our telecoms control the regulators, instead of the telecoms living in fear of the regulators.
Click on the die a couple times and it speeds up
99.89%?
I never understand why people ask questions like this. A lot of people will give you anecdotal responses to this. "I use XYZ and have never had problems".

None of this advice is meaningful or relevant because for every one who has had a good experience, there is going to be someone else who hasn't. It all depends on who responds and isn't a large enough sample size at all. It is about as good as reading reviews on Yelp.

It is generally known that some banks are better than others, and WF is accepted to be on the worse end of the spectrum. So the correct answer in this case is really "any bank except WF".

Until we come up with a solution where you actually control your own funds (or at least it has been put into a DAO, which has its own set of issues), you're always at the whim of whatever bank you choose and even more importantly whatever government you're under, since they can empty your bank account at any time anyway.
In Poland cashless payments thrive, more than in Germany.
Nvidia Has Practically Stopped Production of Its 40-Series GPUs
They should have maybe looked into fixing the anti-aliasing first.

As much as it's a lightweight DE, we're way past the point of CPU capability to render these basically for free, but it seems to be all over the place
> the younger generation is more skeptical

i.e., the first generations never to experience it, and the least knowledgeable.
https://www.lifewire.com/turn-off-cortana-in-windows-10-4165...
This is what happens when lawyer/MBA executives fire technical workers to take those salaries for themselves. Mozilla, like fish, is rotting from the head.
If the mainstream discourse was "yes, whites are underrepresented, but they deserve it because they're dumb", that would be progress compared to the current "there are too many whites in the Ivies due to white supremacy (and the SAT is racist)" narrative. Sources:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36992516

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36992739
Probably right directionally but I’m a little sceptical of their scale showing various markers above human 100%.

Even simple things a kid would manage still trip them up.

Eg if it takes 5 shirts an hour to dry in the sun how long would 10 shirts take?

I’ve yet to see one get that even remotely right.

Admittedly a bit of a trick question (for a machine) but that to mean means they’re not yet at 100%
They would really be doing nothing more than what Google is doing with Chromebooks.
I've been pretty happy with Schwab as well. Free wires and ATM fee refunds if you meet a minimum balance requirement, and their customer service has been solid.
Dang has mentioned before that he doesn't use any scripts for his HN posts. He likely refrains because it would go against the intended spirit of HN - interesting discussion and genuine interaction.
This is cool.

I didn't even know GNUStep was being actively developed or maintained. I'd love to be able to use GNUStep as my primary workstation environment. Does anybody have any recent experience with attempting such a thing?
> You made the claim by listing it as a source for a prior claim that gays were pedos.

My exact claim, which has been consistent and clear, is that they are at higher rates. You're the one intentionally dodging context. Of course given their much smaller number they can easily be much more predisposed to such acts and still make up a minority of those who actually commit them. Why do you keep trying to muddy the waters like this? It's a pure strawman, a hallmark of bad-faith argumentation.

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> This paper was published in 1992. Back then, societal attitudes towards homosexuality were far worse. Given that, I don’t buy the argument that this was any kind of standard deferential nonsense towards liberalism. Even many liberals didn’t like queers back then; you didn’t need to walk on eggshells.

Academia is very different from real life, especially the fluffier "sciences".

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> In the preceding section you say that posting a link doesnt make a claim; and now you say it does make a claim.

More rhetorical nonsense. I've never said either. I have personally made claims, and posted a few links related to said claims.

> Did you have any comment about that?

Cool. This is your one actual substantial criticism.

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> I’d be happy to read a textual version of that information and respond to it.

I'll summarize. The humor unfortunately gets lost in the process.

Foucault, who provided the philosophical foundation for Queer Theory, wanted to abolish age of consent laws all the way down to infants. (Not mentioned: his alleged rape of Tunisian boys).

Gayle Rubin, author of the founding text of Queer Theory, Thinking Sex, dedicated half of said document to defending pederasty and compared pedophilia to a preference for spicy foods.

And Queer Theorists ever since (he specifically provides examples for Pat Califia and Judith Butler) have consistently reaffirmed this defense of pedophilia.

Aside from Queer Theory, which the video focuses on, on the more conventional gay rights side of things, you have celebrated poet Allen Ginsberg, Harry Hay (mentor of Will Roscoe, inventor of "two spirit"), David Thorstad, &c. all involved with NAMBLA. That's quite a resumé. But I know, as I'm sure you do, how frankly such topics are acknowledged and discussed internally within the gay community. How commonly such things as nonmonogamy and pederasty are understood to be inherent to the condition, how much trauma is widely acknowledged as a contributing factor, how well it's understood that the "Will and Grace" pop culture personas and the "born this way" slogans were just pretty lies that were necessary to placate those evil Others.

After writing this up, I did stumble across a transcript of the video here: https://borazansesli.com/2020/12/16/queer-theory-pedophilia-...
Ask HN: How to get AWS IP info on hacker
I was hacked by someone who keeps getting into my accounts. Yes, I've changed my passwords, and account names. The original hack over 3 years ago happened through some sort of security flaw in a chromecast stick.

I filed a complaint with the police but they will not help.

Is there some other way to request the information about the AWS IP address account owner?
Nature is not the same magazine it used to be. After the "Proximal Origins" paper especially.
Congrats Rich! You've been a big inspiration to go off and try new things, and to not be afraid to explain and explore the nuanced underpinnings of your design.
> The problem, it seems, is trying to "manage" the land, which has not worked in the past and seems unlikely to work in the future.

Money, as always.
Water Intoxication
> Today I was looking in the wrong devtools tab for a token value. Because we've worked hard making our team a safe place in which to ask questions, I felt comfortable asking what I was missing. Heck it's give and take, I know way more DevOps and Linux-y stuff, the devs know more about their job.

That's easier to do when you're more or less on "equal footing", but if you're a junior, it can take months to years to develop knowledge that seniors don't (depending on several factors). That's the problem, it takes much longer to reach a point where you have knowledge that is equivalent to that of seniors if the culture doesn't lend itself to frequent and high-quality communication and you have to learn about internal tools, processes, code bases and such largely solo. If you share a physical space with seniors you'll at least have some common downtime like a coffee or water break to "bother" them and it can save minutes to hours of tedium each time.

So either you end up being "that guy always asking stupid questions in the chat and interrupting my work" or you spend a lot of time spinning your wheels pointlessly for months/years on end. The first approach leads to unhelpful and delayed responses and the latter makes you so inefficient that you favor lower quality work so that you can actually deliver something.
> natural disasters

Infrastructure does not fail only because of natural disasters.
HN autocapitalizes the first letter, so dang or another mod would have to fix this manually.
Knowing what I know about how software is actually developed in real life, I'm surprised it's taken so long for this to happen.
Sorry I can't understand this comment.

> Still surprising to see a poorly written piece of text.

What's the subject of this sentence fragment? Are you relying on a colloquial implied "It" (as in "It's still...") or perhaps you are talking about your own surprise, e.g. "I still find it surprising..."?

> Nubank's comm leadership

Is this some slang for PR department? Or maybe Communications Team leadership?

> would have an extensive language background in English

I'm sorry, I don't follow at all. Hazarding a guess by rearranging the words a bit - do you mean: "would have an extensive background in the English language"?

I'm not sure how you can determine the background of someone by how fluently they can write a language - particularly when the piece in question is written better than what most college students in the US can produce.
Corruption and attempts to control markets are everywhere and if you don't fight them they will win.

In Switzerland fiber needs to be accessible to all providers which results in many places having fiber run by the local power providers and the large state owned telephone company. This is what allows providers to offer 25gbit synchronous for under 70 USD per month.

However this did not stop the large state owned communication provider to attempt to kill competition by no longer running p2p (1 or 4 fibers directly from a home to the local exchange bulding) fibers but p2mp (1 fiber to a splitter in the street with a backbone to the exchange) which requires active splitters (the environmental impact of this was completely ignored). This automatically limits any other provider from offering a faster service than the phone company.

Even after a court case and then an injunction they spent millions to expand this network thinking they can somehow perswaid the courts and use people complaining that they can't have fiber because of an injunction (they told customers on the phone that fiber is available but can't be connected due to a court case). In the end they however back peddled and it appears they will loose the case now.

Thanks to the small provider that took this to the courts (init7) it appears we will keep a network open for competition and future proof.

There are fines pending but those are a 2 edges sword. The tax payer effectively pays it since the majority stake belongs to the tax payer. So a large fine is bad and a small fine is bad because it's not a deterrent. The executives that caused the mess's are already mostly gone (hence the back peddling) but the correct action would be to claw back their pay and bonus or something like that so the next "hot shots" don't try such shit again.
Very interesting, and I generally agree. In other words, how much is enough? If the drug works at 320 but works but works even better at 220, will you succumb to that pressure?

What's troubling is the resulting distortion field. I would love to unpack the brain of someone with disordered eating to hear their thoughts for myself. But also the guy at the gym that's devouring supplements, taking selfies, and wearing a skimpy gym tank to stare at and show off muscles. What's going on in that guy's head?

That said, it is a real and meaningful accomplishment to lose 100 pounds. To that guy, do what you need to do to feel healthy, happy, and confident.
No one is cowering in offense by "enshittification," nor is anyone afraid that using the word will bring the wrath of deities.

If you're going to argue for normalizing this word, you need a better reason than it being edgy to the straw pearl-clutchers living rent free in your head.
I’m a designer and barely ever write production-grade code (coz I suck at it), but Rich has been my inspiration for years and I shared his talks available online across pretty much all design teams I’ve ever worked with, because they’re just full of invaluable experience and wisdom. Excited about Clojure future!
LK-99 with Varda – This Week in Startups [live video]
I found my comments getting more guarded as people have poked holes in my comments for a long time, and I find myself writing more carefully. Also I've learned various phrases and terms I never would have learned elsewhere in other communities. In other words, my writing has gotten better, and as we know, writing is one of the best forms of thinking.

In terms of my career, sure, I've found many a useful resource on HN over the years, although, many of the URLs I've collected are left to rot in my bookmarking service, and I need to revisit them. But every now and then a game-changing tool comes out that revolutionizes my workflow, and for that I am thankful for HN.
Minecraft EULA and Commercial Usage Guidelines Updates
> Facebook, Twitter/X etc. all can be grabbed by Western courts

Have we tried to (whether for TikTok or the western equivalents)? As far as I know there is no political will to meaningfully rein those companies in because the politicians in power also rely on their misinformation potential and don't want to bite the hand that feeds/brings votes and misleads voters towards them.

TikTok has local subsidiaries in most jurisdictions through which they run their advertising business, which is just as vulnerable to court orders as its western competitors. If push comes to shove, their ability to accept payment from the West can be significantly curtailed which will put a major damper on their advertising business.

The concerns around TikTok evading western law enforcement is FUD that allows to divert the conversation towards a convenient scapegoat (China) instead of addressing the root cause that there's incompetence/unwillingness to actually act on the harmful effects of social media platforms, Chinese and Western.
Are businesses allowed to defend themselves in all states in the US these days? What will happen to thieves -- will they be released by the courts? will the police even bother to come and collect them if the businesses have caught them?
H100 GPU Instance Pricing on AWS: Grin and Bear It – The Next Platform
I think it’s because of these 2 reasons

1. GPU’s are expensive and difficult to get in quantities that microsoft would need.

2. Given (1) I would expect microsoft to use their GPU’s where where its easier to monetize or its of strategic importance(bing, M365, Azure)

Building a GPT4 based cortana could be a much lower priority right now.

Disclaimer: I’m a microsoft employee, the opinion is my own.
Well...okay, some good points, +1.

OTOH - for people making real-world decisions, the difference between "$Networking_Technology sucks" and "~all available implementations of $Networking_Technology suck" is pretty meaningless.
> There is no way to go to a gay bar (or another place loaded with consequences) without a trace. And this is needed for human dignity.

We should remember that this is also true about phones.
Agile environments are much better at this. Its inherent frequent touchpoints and "fail fast" mindset can help to ensure the juniors are getting as much information and direction as required.
And a stronger culture of "calling party pays" outside of North America.

VoIP rates to call a euro mobile number can be $$$. Meanwhile in Canada, it's the same cost as a landline, and available for fractions of a cent to any nobody like me.
Pet Keys – Series 2001 Edition