skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
nah, density and scale go hand-in-hand, but broken ass-backwards governance prevents adoption of techniques appropriate for the density to provide the services at scale.

it's ridiculous that we are still not building housing and transportation at scale. the automotive industry can churn out complete series of vintages faster than the construction industry sends an email.

housing is still this "my house my castle", which is fine until everyone starts to fight for, conquer and eventually annex the neighborhood.

the same sorry ass techniques are used to build housing as half a century ago, when total population was a billion less, when not 70% of the population lived in cities, and so on.

keeping housing density very high leaves space for other things around housing, eg. hospitals, schools, or ... ugh. parks. makes a lot of mixed development suddenly becomes economically worthwhile.
Ah yes, obviously that one, thanks!

Black marks for Google and Kagi, both of which found "The Witches" instead of "Three Witches".
> or worse "what, you've got something to hide?".

It's ironic that people use that Nazi phrase when it comes to actions of Tory government (and their faction called National Conservatives often use moniker Nat-C - try to say it loud...).
I am profoundly anti-advertisement because I believe in the pull model: if I want something I ask. So I think about 95% or more of advertisement today is annoying if not outright evil.

But your comment got me thinking. Is there a world where advertisement is, um, just simply good?

In other words, what makes advertisement bad today and how would these superapps make advertisement good?
Well that is rather sobering.

It reminds me of Covid and the stockpiling of toiletpaper and telling my family how the sewage plants depend on people and power to run , wiping your butt is going to be the least of our problems if this is the end.

So long and thanks for all the fish :).
Release engineer here.

- Support Digital Ocean: We are always looking to add more integrations!
- Read-only access to user data: You are welcome to check on the policy and/or adjust it. We default in the recommended case to Read-Only, but you can improve on that with a permissions boundary
- How is it better than gathering output from AWS, copy/pasting it into a browser, reading the answer and copy/pasting back into terminal? Well, it's all in one place and it allows a tighter loop between gathering, analysing, and giving responses in one place. It gives lay people better access to data they might not know how to or be able to access, and it gives advanced users smoother, tighter loops on data and access they might already have. Hopefully that gives you some ideas.
Is AI the dawn of a new era in technology or the evolution of human ingenuity?
Factorio remains the only game where I had to purposefully set it aside, because it was starting to negatively affect the rest of my life due to late nights and blown sleep schedules.

I say that with praise and admiration, but also as a genuine warning to anyone who hasn't yet tried it that might be reading this. For a certain kind of mind, it is digital crack in the purest form that I've experienced.
I suggested it increased in popularity over three months and provided the evidence.

There was a separate link provided which said nothing about whether it increased or decreased in popularity over any timeframe.
This would be very operationally complex (publishing a package means you now have to maintain a website and a TLS cert) for relatively little immediate gain (as an end user, I'm still blindly trusting `coolcrates.biz`).
A tool every person uses daily can be worth anything from hundreds of millions to trillions of dollars. The issue, as always with AI, is overselling it. Pre-Revenue startups raising at billion dollar valuations is certainly not going to end well. Hence anything that looks like it will prick the bubble is worth talking about to a certain segment.

On the other hand, the finances of AI are only loosely correlated with it's utility to individuals. If OpenAI went from being worth 10 Billion to 500 MM, it wouldn't make too much difference to people who use OpenAI products.
Indeed, that is what the parent is referring to when they say this:

> Ideally signing and enrolling in the UEFI the key to a signed Unified Kernel Image (UKI) makes more sense

(It's much more useful to have a link to it, so thank you!)
> then you don’t get to tell me what I’m allowed to do with it

You also can't sell your kidney even though it's totally yours.

For very similar reasons.
this seems like a self-correcting problem, doesn't it?

according to science, cow farts cause climate change, climate change causes temperatures to rise, high temperatures kill cows, dead cows can't fart (well, after their last big one, anyway).
> It's not like people don't care. People I know deeply care about this, but there is nothing you can do about it.

If Brexit hadn't happened, I would've tried to keep campaigning against the Investigatory Powers Act (that lets the Welsh Ambulance Service see which domains you've visited without a warrant).

I figured Brexit would make it impossible to undo; I think in retrospect I was right for the wrong reasons — I thought the rhetoric of Brexit would only be satisfied by also taking the UK out of all international human rights courts and treaties, rather than it would require 150% of all available political focus from basically everyone in the country.
Please don't cross into personal attack. You can make your substantive points without any of that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I've recently been trying to make something similar, mostly for fun, but I hope something cool comes out of it as it borrows many ideas from SmallTalk

The backend is written in Go and can run locally or on a remote server; Go is just the only language I've used recently that has nice http frameworks and can be compiled to a statically linked binary, which means that running the program is as easy as downloading a single binary, and that a running instance of it can possibly upload itself via ssh on another linux machine the user wants to access.

For now the frontend is web-based, written in Preact, and talks with the backend via some JSON endpoints, although I'm planning to add websockets sooner or later, for instance for double binding text input values.

The motivation behind this project is to try and build an alternative to terminal with tmux+ssh for accessing multiple different linux machines at the same time, while being able to easily monitor and manage them.
The airline industry safety people are one of the groups of people I respect the most.

The do stuff nobody else does. In fact people just laugh if you suggest them.

A single incident, near miss, or even discovery of something likely to be a problem in the future is enough to prompt changes. Something that affects 1 in 10k flights is still something they try to fix.

Meanwhile everyone else seems.to actively want MORE danger in the world.

Way too often time regulations are written in blood because nobody tries to fix stuff till long after people are already dying. They don't even care about their own safety.

I think it's just a basic human instinct to be biased towards action and hate anything that gets in the way of action. For a long time doctors used all kinds of stuff without even really checking if it works, and even with science, there are STILL medical errors and even ineffective treatments fully accepted.
I think, unfortunately, the insulating effect of wealth can explain some of the individual-level decision making. If we assume these companies are relocating professional, full-time staff, it's very possible those folks are making much, much more than the locals. When I lived in Texas, I made several times more than the median income for my metro area, and that's while still being paid less than my coastal peers. Someone in that situation may not agree with local policies around housing, or healthcare, or transportation, or whatever; but they're also likely to be able to spend their way out of any problems that they encounter with those policies.

Likewise, a professional couple relocating from New York may not agree with state or local policies around schools, or gun control, or air quality; but they can probably afford private schools (which they were probably already using in New York, even if they largely agreed with NY's public school policy), and a home in a secure neighborhood, and an electric car. They may have delayed having kids, or had fewer kids, or maybe they don't have kids at all and live the DINK life where there DI goes much, much further.

Cities like Austin have all the amenities that a "lifestyle leftist" would want: local stores selling local goods and produce; farm-to-table restaurants; a vibrant arts scene; plentiful EV chargers; etc. Such a person will probably live near like-minded people, with whom they will lament that Abbot has to go and that it's unfortunate that the state government is so hostile to teachers, or the environment, or trans people; but they're not going to take meaningful action that might bite the hand that feeds, like pushing to reduce corporate subsidies or increasing financial or environmental regulations.
Controller support landed in June, a long time after that blog post.

https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?p=586148#p586148
A range that spans 2-3 job levels is not useful at all except for telling me the company is completely unserious & should be avoided.

If your salary range for, say, a senior staff engineer includes what you should be paying seniors: you’re wasting everyone’s time.
Photosynthesis [Interactive]
> It was totally dysfunctional, but a lot of people got promoted. All while we didn’t have a single customer!

At Amazon, really? :-)
On the other hand I think ars's point is good advice: The way you do the work is, by doing the work.

So many people I work with these days are constantly looking for tricks, or secrets, magic tools, or whatever they seem to think I'm doing to consistently outpace them, just to avoid writing code (/ reading code / thinking through code). They take 2-10x longer and their result is invariably worse. When you ask why they do it, they answer "you'd have to do so much refactoring", "the algorithm would be hard to implement", "I'd have to replace dependency X", and so on as a list of things that actually aren't so hard or time-consuming if you sit down and just do the work. But my only "trick" is that I write the code.

Just sit down and do it! I'm reminded of Harlan Ellison, commenting on why he wrote in public,

I do it because I think particularly in this country people are so distanced from literature, the way it’s taught in schools, that they think that people who write are magicians on a mountaintop somewhere. And I think that’s one of the reasons why there’s so much illiteracy in this country. So by doing it in public, I show people it’s a job.

Wipeout was asses in chairs writing code. This cleanup is an ass in a chair writing code. Yes soft skills are important blah blah. But if you want to be good, to learn to do this stuff, there's no way around putting your ass in the chair and writing code.
I have no idea what's driving this but it's a repeated pattern on HN and we need it to stop. No more of this, please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34675866 (Feb 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34675665 (Feb 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34669045 (Feb 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34439732 (Jan 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34138064 (Dec 2022)

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37246288.
'Dead Cows Can't Fart' is actually a pretty good band name.
More often, yes, but not continuously in any one area. The planet is a big place and while I don't doubt a lot more of our resources will need to go into dealing with the costs of increased natural disasters including reduced capacity to produce food, it's hard to see this affecting everywhere all at the same time. More likely is that entire areas become gradually unable to support a modern economy and comfortable lifestyle forcing mass relocations (some of which may well be to areas that are currently "underpopulated" due to currently inhospitable climates or even reserved wilderness parks etc.).
This might be more realistic statistic among programmers, no way it applies to all Americans.
> but no one is being forced to scroll a feed they don’t enjoy

On what do you base this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomscrolling
It’s functionally the same. Salary Comp data will give you a better range than that
I think the answer is as always nuanced. There are good/proactive/available and bad/lazy/overworked doctors, just like there are smart and less smart lay people..

Some people do good research, some people do bad research. Generalize at your own risk I guess.

All I know is that when it comes to my own health, I don't leave things only in the hands of my doctor. If I can bring research or information - or even just questions about potential treatments I may have seen advertised - to the table about my own situation, why wouldn't I?

I absolutely trust their professional capacities, but I certainly don't assume they are able to give me dedicated attention or put in the research I can if there's something I need to sort out.

I know for a fact I am one of thousands of patients at my local clinic, so I am realistic about the level of care I receive. You may be in a better situation than me though.
https://whatever.scalzi.com/2010/06/16/the-failure-state-of-...

> 1. The effectiveness of clever on other people is highly contingent on outside factors, over which you have no control and of which you may not have any knowledge; i.e., just because you intended to be clever doesn’t mean you will be perceived as clever, for all sorts of reasons.

> 2. The failure mode of clever is “asshole.”
for what it's worth KDE3.5.x is available as Trinity Desktop for FreeBSD.
Sure. This will be a possible add on to home water filtering solutions for paranoid stay at home moms but will not be used at a large scale. Lakes and seas will get filled with more and more microplastics which will enter the foodchain from there.
Stepables
Sure, you're saying that it won't be as performant.

And that' true. IDK if you noticed, but there's no JIT either.

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> can we please stop pretending C and C++ are in any way close?

If we also pretend we don't know why it was named C++.
How about applying good old fashioned bean counting?
"do more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing" - R Buckminster Fuller
Exactly what has been enacted to reduce anyone's quality of life? Electrifying appliances and transport? Most of the alternatives are literally strictly better than the fossil powered equivalents.
> I don't have a slightest idea why would I choose HelloSystem or HardenedBSD for my laptop instead of FreeBSD.

I haven't actually tried HelloSystem on real hardware as a daily driver, but I can clearly see why people would find it valuable (at least according to their stated goals).

The reasons are the same as why you'd choose Ubuntu over Slackware: the base install is intended as a fully functional desktop OS. Focus on the OOB experience, vertical integration, accessibility, polish, simplicity, etc. Even if you're a power user, there is still value to having all of these things: your energy is probably better spent on something more useful than figuring why basic, random stuff isn't working. (Assuming HelloSystem delivers on their stated goals!)

It is true that these are all "merely" downstream projects, but I wouldn't dismiss them on these grounds alone. As long as any improvements can be ported back to FreeBSD, it's a win for everyone involved.
A 100k range means they don’t even know what they’re hiring for, or have no idea the demands of the role.

Or at least, that’s what it tells me as a 20 year veteran of this business.
I've lived in Austin for about a quarter century. All of my extended family are from upstate NY (parents/grandparents from there originally).

Totally agree with what you've said about upstate NY - it's pretty depressing to visit these days. Taxes and regulations aren't the only aspect, but they're a huuuge part of it. Have seen some valiant efforts to turn things around (e.g. SUNY), will have to see how that works out.

With regard to Austin and TX, will be interesting to see how that plays out. Austin has always been more liberal ("The People's Republic of Austin" was a nickname), but now essentially all the major cities in TX (not to mention everywhere else) are liberal. TX State Leg and Austin used to fight a lot, but things have gotten decidedly worse recently with the state trying to neuter all local control (and even doing some particularly gross things like passing voting legislation that only applies to Houston). See https://www.texasobserver.org/death-star-hb-2127-democracy/

I used to love Austin, but not so much anymore, and it's not just a "back in my day" story. When I first moved here, I thought "yeah, it's smack in the middle of Texas, and it doesn't have anywhere near the amenities (arts, sports, architecture, transit connections, etc.) of a larger coastal city. But it's so much cheaper than those cities, so you can actually afford to take a lot more advantage of the things it has. And from a weather perspective, sure you've got 2 months of super hot summer, but then you get 10 months of great weather."

Those tradeoffs have started to go rotten. Austin is now expensive as fuck (with the traffic to match) but it still lacks the amenities of a larger city. The state government has really started negatively affecting the day-to-day lives of citizens. And from a weather perspective, this is not just a hellish summer - we've never had anything like this continuous onslaught of 105+ days, and it's only going to get worse.
> definitely not something you can do alone

Counter-citation: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dhW4XFGQB4o we could argue about how useful the output is but this is a clear demonstration that one can, in fact, do it alone.
Anyone willing to share opinions on BIMI?

I’m wondering if it is worth it for most medium-large organization or if this is specifically worth it if you are doing a lot of commerce and sending e-mails to customers etc.

Furthermore, (stating the obvious) DKIM, SPF and DMARC are also implemented by malicious parties and only authenticate that the server was allowed to send using a particular domain name. BIMI seems to require a VMC (Verified Mark Certificate). Is this verified and is it effective in preventing unauthorized parties from BIMI verifying their domains using stolen brand logo’s etc.

Also, is Microsoft Outlook (still) not supporting/adopting BIMI?
I was sort of exaggerating. I do get how it can be a useful process but it does seem like the author had blind faith in that type of organization without understanding the pros and cons of it, and I do think that the cons are way bigger than people seem to think they are. Some of my more rambling voice memos approach a “daily note” style of chronological organization. I’ve tried to create outlines for them but it’s pretty time consuming. Someday soon I’ll try to use ai to create summaries and see where that takes me.

My point was that I think the authors problem is the daily note rather than the note taking app.
Indeed I gave up almost completely alcohol. Will enjoy a few beers at gatherings every 2 months or so but in full consciousness that I’m sacrificing the following night.
fully agree - I'd like to know all the details
Jasper.ai (formerly Jarvis) was a YC startup that launched and reached a billion dollar valuation 18 months later.

They were using AI to do copywriting/SEO, and most importantly they were doing this before ChatGPT came out.

GPT-3 wasn't approachable for lay people, and relatively few people were building on it: So a lot of marketing people were seeing generative AI for the first time through this single tool. And obviously it was earth shattering for them.

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The problem is ChatGPT made outputting what Jasper does extremely trivial: I hang around random SEO FB groups and at least once a week someone asks if Jasper is worth it, and a bunch of people chime in saying no ChatGPT output is just as good.

ChatGPT is also incredibly easy to use: a grandma could use ChatGPT to write an SEO friendly recipe post.

That all leaves Jasper an awkward spot. I don't think they'll die, but to stay competitive they'll need to shed a ton of dead weight. They obviously can't keep all the machinery they built around GPT-3 running if it's no longer adding value, they now have to work 100x harder on positioning, etc.
That's not the question. The question is: If there are no marbles in a bag, are all marbles in the bag black?
I've had similar experiences after getting CO2 monitors as well. I suspect 80+% of people are sleeping with CO2 levels that are negatively impacting their cognitive function.
Fair, but at that point they’re not hiring for a role or need; they’re hiring to get butts in seats.

That’s a strategy, for sure, but not a great one.
Yes, you are right about it. It can happen to anyone. We need to cautiously develop AI models related to healthcare.
I suspect you are relatively young? Because this concentration of ownership of news and journalism into fewer and fewer hands is a new-ish thing, at least in the last few decades.

So on the timeline of journalism, it is not rare for this to happen, it's just increasingly rare in recent times. And I think a correction is coming, with for example this kind of more independent and self-funded projects.
That won't change anything and it will only get worse with Russia's invasion of Ukraine. They don't want to catch pedophiles primarily, but instead shut down Russian propaganda channels, dissidents and whoever is otherwise a nuisance for 10 Downing Street. Back in 2010 it was the terrorists, then it was pedophiles, now it's basically the Russians, as the anti vaxxers were also a ruskii propaganda driven phenomena. But Russia and Ukraine are too far away, hence pedophiles.

Your friends and colleages concern themselves with their next paycheck, the mortgage and which pub they'll have a pint at after work. If the government wants to bother with these details they should suit themselves. I'm not saying I support this line of thinking but it is what it is.
Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37266251 above and please stop posting about this to HN. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

You said you didn't want to bring it up again (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34675866). Please don't.
Excellent idea, we do internally feed the answers back to the system to improve its own inputs and outputs. The funniest part of some of this experience has been to find cases where even humans were hallucinating: "Hey, I thought this was shutdown?!" or "I can't find the bucket!" Even on a bad day, the humans are still ahead though.
Antibiotic from microbial 'dark matter' could be new weapon against superbugs
It makes it functionally less useful than Glassdoor. Which means it’s lacking utility
Put on a Bluetooth headset and go to sleep. The breathing sounds you make while sleeping will drown out the mosquito buzzing.
https://archive.is/82bd4
Nazis were in favour of surveillance and they even coined the term "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear".

But pressure for surveillance, withdrawal from ECHR, scapegoating "illegal" immigrants is just one part. Another is fascist policy when it comes to economy - drive out small and medium business and give preferential treatment to big corporations while reducing workers' rights to zero.

I am pretty sure you would also find staunch Nazis in the 30s who were also against surveillance.

This is mostly because they actually have something to hide.
They spent only $15M of the nearly $500M in VC they raised to get to a $500M+ ARR business. Let that sink in.