skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s an interesting way to look at it. For a certain generation like me though, I’m over 40 but under 50, all the new technology coming out is trivial. Appliances. The desktop PC era from the Commodore to DOS and Linux and even Windows with a complex set up, is far more challenging than anything coming out today.

I think there is a generation of technologists that are the prime era. Not too old to have lived the simple life. And not too young to be living the simple life of the iPad. At least in regards to technology.

The modern life is very challenging if you’re doing it right. There is a lot to research and be responsible for unless you just run around signing your life away on paperwork without properly educating yourself about mortgages, real estate, housing. That on top of learning a trade is pretty tough. For the average person at least. And it takes a lot of effort out of everyone. Most people just sluff off though and settle for less. Or blame the system for their condition, since no one is making $50 an hour out of high school anymore, like how it was for decades. One of those two.
It is our duty to yield for more vulnerable road users, since they are naturally more at risk.

If a cyclist hits a pedestrian, they have failed in that duty.

If a car driver hits a cyclist, they too have failed.
These are the growing pangs of globalization.

Abandoned cities will be everywhere over the next century. Especially after the population collapse in Asia.
> Economic growth is stagnant because energy production and energy import are stagnant. This has little to do with policy.

I can't think of an area of the economy anywhere that is more policy based than energy.
I've heard coyotes make a sound like a crying child (I was in a nature preserve and went to the source until I saw it) so there is some cross species commonality in sound for some reason and there is evidence for recognition of crying baby primates by crocodiles.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/nile-crocodile...
I worked at what was supposed to be a "SaaS", and the founder was always promising custom features. He sold the product to one customer where it was not a fit at all and had to cancel the contract. (Their use case would've required an entirely different product.)
>> The original network trained for 3 days on a SUN-4/260 workstation.

This is exactly why I didn't start experimenting with this stuff back then. I read some articles and had the interest, but having no access to existing training data or "fast" computers was really a show stopper. This article really convinced me that the amazing results today are mostly due to hardware advances.

I will add my own view that 1) hardware will not be advancing anywhere near so much in the future. And 2) training and inference have to be done together like real brains do. Then the AI will learn from experience while deployed and you can clone the best ones later.
Entertainment (memes). Trying out a new hairstyle matching your face.
We avoid using obsolete deprecated terms for the same things here in webdev. It’s neither amazing, nor awesome.
No he shouldn't but he is between a rock and a hard place. He could of course continue to fight them legally but that has already put a significant toll on his health. He of all people should know what that does to the endocrine system. That energy would be better spent on being an influencer in my opinion. In effect he could win the battle without a single fight. Or a way I like to think of these situations is, if they strike him down he would become more powerful than they could possibly imagine. Not being a clinician would free him up to speak unbounded
this is one of the very few apps where i don't even bother to install a distribution package. since it is a single script it is not difficult to install anyways. just download, run, and update occasionally.
The US Constitution does not authorize delegation or re-delgation of right-granting or selective-right-limiting to law enforcement (or to physicians). The US Constitution serves to specify dates and times, values, and specifically what the government may not do.

Write a function to determine whether a given person has a given right.

What attributes of the person are constitutionally relevant to determining whether a person has a given equal right? Which conditionals are acceptable in a function that equally protects equal rights?

Then, Write a function to determine whether all persons have Equal Protection of Equal Rights.
Very interesting. One cat I lived with responded very strongly to bonito flakes (common Japanese food ingredient).

The cat I’m caring for now turns her nose up at it. Go figure.

She likes land animal pate
So this is why my previous company had taken us to a retreat where we tried to brainstorm how to build AGI using post-it notes. We were given 5 minutes and then someone did a crude clustering and picked the biggest cluster.
https://archive.is/P1cUy

Archive link because clickbait can die in a fire.
Yet, birth rate in USA is significantly higher than in Finland for example
A more accurate translation can be found in Wiktionary: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%A1%9E%E7%BF%81%E5%A4%B1%E...
Spotify algorithms are complete trash.

There was a period when, for some reason, it would recommend playlists related to getting "tarted up", "makeup on", being a "powerful woman" etc and recommending lots of music it thinks is for women.

Though I do listen to a wide variety of music, there's nothing notable I'd say could encourage it to believe that.

Generally I play metal and rock, grime, rap, hip-hop; but also classical, some pop and indie, occasionally "UK Top 50", "Coding Mode" and "Jazz Vibes" playlists and lots of children's bath time songs.

I had to have a purge and its much better now but I still avoid the auto-playlists.
NY Times response: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/our-response-to-nextdesk/

Very naive of the desk manufacturer. Affiliate programs can drive sales to you, without much impact on your margins. I assume the GP is fairly large for these high-ticket items.
South Korean Scientists Unveil AI Pilot, PiBot
I literally can't remember the last time I took a laptop out on a train or a plane. If it's a short trip, I may get by with just my phone (or phone + Kindle) but for longer trips I like the iPad as a media consumption and note taking device even if, to the OP's point, it's not really a laptop replacement.

That said, I'm going on a few week--mostly recreational--trip in a bit and I'll just take my phone and my iPad. It will be fine for note-taking at the conference I'm attending and I really just want media consumption and a browser on something bigger than my phone for everything else.

An iPad is probably one of my more optional devices but I've gotten almost 10 years out of my current model so it doesn't feel like an unreasonable luxury even if I mostly use it when traveling.
This is likely a regional thing. I assure you this is not the attitude in the Netherlands and other central European countries. Legally speaking it is also completely incorrect here.

But different regions will have different laws and public opinion.
I bet you it's the children's bath-time songs that did it. Very mumsnet-on-the-razz.
right to forget, gdpr, now this. it’s a clusterfuck.
Nobody is pretending anything, and I don't care about changing your mind. We are donating engineers and funds to an independent project, whose value is entirely independent of what you think about Spacelift as a product or as a company, or any other argumentum ad personam you can come up with.
I would like to read another article on this with perspectives from Albanian. I don’t doubt that gangs/etc are taking advantage of immigrants, but the language used to describe innocuous things (rather than “growing cannabis” it’s “adding chemicals” etc) feels like they’ve exaggerated on points.

Additionally, though clearly unfair - 1-2 years of labor with pay seems like a reasonable trade off for the rest of your life to be significantly improved? Making immigration legal or at least legitizming parts of it even if the immigration remains illegal seems like it’d be a huge step.
For an early stage start-up I don't believe that matters. If you have success after the first couple of years, you have the luxury of time to decide what gets built to replace it. If you don't, well, at least you didn't waste time on code that wasn't the core of your business.
Japanese is still a great language for business. Obviously if one learns it then joins an industry that doesn't benefit from it that's one's own fault.
I’ve tended toward this viewpoint myself as I’ve grown older. Just this week, our AC went out for 3 days (I live in Phoenix), and I got a pretty nasty head cold at the same time. My past self would’ve been so bitchy and moany about the situation, but my current me was more “what can ya do?” I did what I could to try to keep my family as comfortable as possible and we got through it. Turned out to be a pretty incredible week by the end of it.

Side note: I truly do not mean to be flippant or victim blaming in any way, but honestly, OP, how did you get hit by a car? I’ve never even come close to getting hit by one, and I’ve changed tires on a freeway during rush hour. I mean to receive a genuine explanation here, because my children are young and I want to teach them how to be safe around roads. (I’m assuming this was a pedestrian-vehicle incident because the article is light on details)
Thanks for extracting that interesting tidbit. I was in the same boat, but now I can put a check mark next to "learn something new today."
I find it a little strange that xdesk is so staunchly opposed to affiliate programs. I can see now they would see this as a "kickback" scheme though I don't know I personally agree with that view, at least if the program is provided universally (like Amazon's).

Brian was understandably not in an enviable position, it's hard to operate a business with no income.

I guess the biggest thing for me is it undermines what Wirecutter is all together. It's one thing to ask for an affiliate program. It's another thing to stop accepting review models and lead your readers astray with not actually attempting to provide the best information.

I feel like in the last few years Wirecutter has gotten worse. Less empirical, less thorough in their product line surveys. What can you expect if you try to review the best of everything, I guess?
> Humanity has collectively decided cars have more utility than bikes.

No, humanity has collectively definitely not decided that. Bikes have utility, so do cars. Their domains of utility superficially overlap ('transportation') but both serve well in different contexts. Where it goes wrong is where faulty reasoning such as this is used to prioritize one kind of traffic over another, which especially given that it is nearly impossible for a cyclist to kill a car driver but trivial for a car driver to kill a cyclist (or indeed any other user of the road) is kind of bizarre.

The road is a shared resource and traffic rules and infrastructure should be 100% based on inclusivity and safety for all participants. And if one class of participants routinely endangers the others then they should be held accountable, no matter what the perceived utility.

To speak for all of humanity is ridiculous, humanity isn't that homogeneous and besides you can be a driver today and cyclist tomorrow or the other way around.
Very strange article.

> This was the first time our company had ever been asked to pay someone for reviewing our product. We thought it was odd, and had to research what “affiliate program” actually meant.

This seems to show the fundamental misunderstanding, and this is followed by a series of emails asking if they offer an affiliate program, followed by "we refused to pay."
If you take government contracts, you have to follow government regulations.
Literally not, physical does not have the density of digital.

You can download all of Wikipedia (text) in 5gb. 5gb was a lot in 1980, nothing now. So we need revolutions in storage that would allow at least some backups of archive.org and such outside of the 1 Internet Archive charity.
Is your position that organized disinformation campaigns, from any and all sources, should not be quelled?
I agree with all this. I would also add that you should avoid complexity. If you can't explain it to an engineer or you need a lot of arbitrary branching logic (the engineer will tell you), its probably not a wise decision. When engineers complain about complexity, it's not because they're lazy, it's because they know complexity is a liability and usually un-intuative in the UX. This is related to adding features as different features may interact with other features or add complexity as to what it is your product actually does.

Also something engineers should know: no one cares about your stack. Apply the minimum technology required to perform the task. No customer will go with a product just because it has a particular stack. Make it as simple as possible, but no simpler. Sometimes engineers push over-complicated technologies they are passionate about or want to learn for their own sake. You should be somewhat aware of the technology being proposed and get the input of other engineers when its something that is non-standard.
OpenStore is doing something similar for small e-commerce businesses: https://open.store/
- Software is usually more complex than you expect it to be.

- Software complexity is proportional to the number of engineers working on it. Hiring more people will increase complexity. So, hire as few engineers as you can get away with to solve the problem.

- There will be bugs. It’s inevitable. Blaming people will only make things worse. It’s possible to mitigate the problem with process (and that process assumes that there will be more bugs but streamlines how you resolve them).

- Programming languages, tech stacks, and other areas of engineer preference largely don’t matter. Let engineers pick what they want. Remember that the good solutions are often free and have stupid sounding names.
I would say that the US/EU plugs which are symmetric are more resilient than AU plug: with AU plug, an electrician can connect wires the wrong way, yet with EU/US plug there is no wrong way: devices handle either polarity because the sockets and plugs are symmetric.

US plug has a drawback that there could be a live connection with exposed prongs, similar to two pronged EU plugs: both apply with flat sockets (eg. you may touch the exposed pins).
Without a sales and marketing budget your product is doomed. There are very few exceptions and very few companies with the funds to burn on a product that is not marketed.
Armed with traffic cones, protesters are immobilizing driverless cars
This. Software are there to solve problem. Not to create more problems. If there's a problem, try figuring out a way to solve it without software first. Only use software as the last resort.
If we reported on traffic violence like anything else like we'd have headlines about kids dying in collisions with bullets.
that’s exactly my point. they took that power that those companies gave them and used it for their own goals. they’re infinitely worse than any company just by the power they yield. the abuse part is the cherry on top.
"Only" 3 gigabytes.

The lambda calculus (a system we know is capable of infinite self-complexity, learning, etc. with the right program) can be described in a few hundred bits. And a neural net can be described in the lambda calculus in perhaps a few thousand bits.

Also, we have no idea how "compressed" the genome is.
> Why should I be able to control what someone else knows about me?

Why should companies be allowed to relentlessly spy on everything you do without your consent?

For instance, Google literally buys a copy of everyone's credit/debit card transaction data.

> as Google said in a blog post on its new service for marketers, it has partnered with “third parties” that give them access to 70 percent of all credit and debit card purchases.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2017/05/25/242717/google-no...

I fully support a requirement that citizens must give consent before a company is allowed to invade privacy to this extent.
I'm sorry but this just sounds like some propaganda piece. First it talks about Valve's "issues with diversity" without establishing a clear link between the flat structure and that. Then the article tries to apply guilt by association, by basically saying "Theranos was bad, so flat structures are bad".
It also implies a company being diverse is a mandatory thing, and non-diverse firms are somehow inherently bad or non-desirable.

In the end, I don't really see any real arguments against flat hierarchies in the article, it's basically a propaganda piece made to convince those who don't read beyond buzzwords.
Quartz: A fast, batteries-included static-site generator
rights are a type of regulation
I recommend reading Fred Brook's Mythical Man Month.
It's old but still has relevance and has been republished this century.

My favourite:
"It takes nine months to have a baby no matter how many women you put on the job."

His failure on the OS for the IBM 360 mainframe led him to believe software is like that. It's worth the read.
I am not sure that's the case here.

Also, has there ever been a time without censorship. Please keep in mind I am not interested in shallow right wing ideology crap.

Big boys/gals always censor. Otherwise they wouldn't be big
EU's tough new laws on social media content have officially come into force
In my opinion this is impacted heavily by the average career length in the room. This isn't an age thing, but more of an expertise thing.

Once a person approaches and crosses that 10,000 hour mark, they no longer struggle to articulate their motivations and needs the way that a person at the 2,000 hour mark would.

I find this type of design playbook to be very useful when the average experience in the room is on the lower end. On the upper end of the experience spectrum (30,000+ hours), I've found it tends to turn more into facilitating a group therapy session. There's still room for activities and exercises but I use them sparingly.

I should also mention that I prefer to approach the extreme ends of the experience spectrum in separate engagements.
I’ve been hit by a half dozen cyclists (all in SF, despite having spent more time as an adult in more biking dense Europe) and never by a car.

I’m probably not going to attempt to draw any policy or broader conclusions from this.
Pragmatic Superintelligence
Isn't this contradicted by "do things that don't scale"? If you have a product and product market fit, I agree. But when you start out you should basically be a consultancy and build the product around the actual needs of the customer.

I'm reminded how the Airbnb guys would fly to New York and personally take photos for customers trying to rent out their location.
First, as others have noted, this article is a decade old.

Second, That doesn’t matter because the wider context is affiliate advertising. Brian Lam, then editor of Wirecutter, emailed xdesk asking them to work out an affiliate advertising relationship - something that Amazon had been using to great success by 2012. It’s a bit disingenuous of xdesk to claim they didn’t understand the request.

This isn’t news in 2023, and it was barely news in 2012 - xdesk clearly was spinning the narrative in their favor. Affiliate advertising works, Wirecutter has _always_ made it clear that is their business model - I’ve been following them since Brian Lam moved from Gizmodo - and this has always felt like sour grapes to me. Essentially, Wirecutter found a cheaper desk 95% as good as the xdesk product, and recommended that. That is how Wirecutter works today and how it worked back then.
with caveats. the biggest being that it’s just the EU.
I’ve got a fair number of family members who use them as their routine browsing devices. They don’t have laptops tho.
Huh, wow. Though the issue with this statistic is that it is counting in dollars rather than units, and you know how disproportionately mobile games seem to rely on microtransactions, and isn't that income heavily weighted by whales ?
2 weeks out. That’s arguably a reasonable timeframe in the business world (at least, pre Xi-mageddon).
“Build it custom,” should always be the last resort, when off the shelf tools have failed. Don’t be penny wise and pound foolish: $200/mo for some tool or service may sound like a lot at first, but that’s 1-2 hours of developer time.
Good.

An environment where only "allowed" narratives exist _even if_ they are correct is not a healthy environment. It is non-free.

WaPo has peddled disinfo before. They are in no place to be flinging mud or playing the censor.
I hope nobody you love gets injured by a distracted driver.
Ironically, the swipe at Elon in the title is itself disinformation, since he’s doing nothing of the sort.

He is however allowing real people to have free speech as defined within the bounds of law (and the rules of the platform obviously), so that different viewpoints can be aired in the light of day.
Two drivers crashed into each other head on (but offset, corner-corner) and the wreckage slid into us on the pavement. Not something you could realistically blame me for or avoid.
Apparently their supposed research resulted in a fundamental misunderstanding what an affiliate program actually is, i.e. not the same as "paying for reviews."
> society is crumbling … many people struggle with survival every day

What locations are you talking about? Even from the article above in a remote poor town in Albania that sounds pretty bad, their society is definitely not crumbling and while poor, not struggling to survive every day.
If I want to watch a Wendover Productions video, I might as well read the wikipedia article myself and have a few tabs of stock videos open in the background.
People here don't really get upset about trains being even ten minutes late. That's normal.

And as far as safety is concerned, when every seat is full and there's already very little seat-to-seat distance, the aisle is crammed with people face to back with nothing to hang on to, and the vestibules are all full to the point that people are standing with nothing to support them if the train brakes hard, that is a crammed train. Dangerously so -- indeed, often illegally so.

And this is quite normal, routine and unexceptional at commuter times, and that is not talking about the underground, where it is routine to be packed in to the point that someone's nose is against the window (mine was, yesterday).

I'm sure there are trains elsewhere that are worse. There's nothing I can do about that; it doesn't really change my observation.

(I'm not sure there's a really good point about gratitude here, either, when the people paying for these services where they don't get a seat have to take out substantial loans to afford the annual ticket, whereas you can travel from Cape Town to Johannesburg, with a sleeping car berth, for about 20% more than the amount it costs me to travel an hour into London at off-peak times. But that's a separate point.)