skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Similarly, using a true Roget’s Thesaurus is liberating. Grouping words ontologically instead of alphabetically adds a layer of indirection, but as we know from computer science, just one layer of indirection can make all the difference in the world.
The story that will get any clicks though is about the pending Burning Man disaster. Of course no one wants to read about reality and how this is not a big deal.

No one will even remember this was a story by Thursday.
I've heard of it because of the Squirrel Nut Zippers song La Grippe, which for a long time I (indirectly) supposed was about the Spanish Flu (https://americanahighways.org/2020/04/06/video-premiere-squi...):

There's a flu bug getting passed around
Spreading like fire through this town
There's a virus holing up inside us
Each one that I know is coming down
There's an Asian influenza
Infecting us all by the scores
And it's turning into pneumonia
We must go out once more
There's a fool moon howling at the night
And each bark is much worse than each bite
So we must go out and dance around

Yes we must go tonight
So the doctors came on the evening train
With their flasks and their caskets and vials
Mass psychosis was their diagnosis (yes)
So we all cashed our checks and went wild
There's a fool moon howling at the night
And each bark is much worse than each bite
So we must go out and dance around
Yes we must go tonight
La Grippe!, Salsa!
While it’s bad that the ambulance was blocked for 90 seconds, the title makes it seem like the person died because the ambulance was blocked- which is uncertain.
Kerosene paraffin contributing 50% of the carbon from a wood fire in the first 15 minutes. Roughly. I only really use them to light the barbie a few times per summer… to cook meat. So a triple whammy, I guess.
This sounds like the usual covert anti-drugs post that comes up every time, with sloppy claims and a total absence of facts.

> or that you simply over-indulge in them

duh. What isn't dangerous if you're stupid.

> They're not something you do for a giddy high

Weasel words 'giddy'. And I do use them precisely for a high.

> One thing people need to do is integrate the various lessons they've gained from tripping into their daily lives.

what does this mean and how do i do it? (serious question)

> All too often, trips are like dreams, they fade and we suffer amnesia after trying them

who is 'we' here, the entire user-base? And I've never heard of this effect, ever.
I recall seeing men with rings, piercings, bracelets, etc. Also, while somewhat bland in comparison, the men's section at tiffany's does exist [1].

[1]: https://www.tiffany.com/jewelry/shop/mens-jewelry/
Yeah financial crises wouldn't be as bad if more of people's economic activity was more embedded in a family or local community with people they know personally.
When Wizards and Orcs Came to Death Row
Sleep Paralysis
My feelings stems a bit from what I experienced a while back.

I was helping my friend with his project (a Java project with a testing framework, forgot the name of it).

I told him to try vscode because it's lighter and flexible!
While trying to setup his environment, we could barely get the whole project up and running, the tests could barely run and there was always some kind of hidden issue with the environment and he had no idea how the tests worked under the hood because his IDE did all the work.

He just had to press a green play button to run the tests and the IDE did everything.

I don't want to experience that, I want to have full control and know what does what.
What is the best AI refactoring tool out there?
I'm looking for something that works at the project level, figuring out, for example, where repeated (or very similar) functions could be spun off and re-used in several places. Basically making things cleaner and more modular. The tools I've seen so far work at the statement level - small patterns.

Or is this something we still need to do manually?
> As an industry we're surprisingly very behind in normalizing this.

Given the fight we’ve seen over WFH, I’m very inclined to believe that this is intentional by the industry. By focusing on paying top dollar for FTEs and demanding incredible amounts of time and energy from them, companies maintain a level of control that they wouldn’t have by working with a fractional engineering team.
AI.

AI!

Did I mention ai?

Srsly go into ai.

Start learning what is already here (so much) learn to use it, learn to fine-tune it and if you then still not busy enough: learn to really understand ai architecture.
I think SFFD is rightfully worried about robotaxis but this doesn’t seem to be the case. When cameras are recording everything, you can’t just make up facts.

“The video captured by Cruise showed that the ambulance parked behind the Cruise and did not attempt to pass the robotaxi in the rightmost unblocked lane. Instead, responders moved a firetruck to allow the ambulance to pass on the left. The video, which Cruise declined to share publicly, indicates that 90 seconds elapsed between the patient being put on the stretcher and the ambulance leaving the scene.”
What are the usual problems that you see?
Basically correct, although it wouldn't actually happen unless sound in movies became cost prohibitive (which is what we're discussing.)

However in video-games this is even more true. 'Talkies' crushed silent movies, out-competed them very rapidly in the span of a few years. But in video games this didn't happen, video games with voice acting have existed for roughly 30 years now but video games without voice acting still frequently find commercial success. In fact the most successful video game of all time, minecraft, has no voice acting despite competing against innumerable contemporary games with voice acting.
It was a super easy year to get tickets, there were tons on craigslist in the Bay Area
Interesting to hear such a report from a San Francisco news site. I don't want to imply anything but perhaps they aren't the most reliable narrator in this case.
> Will they be allowed to?

Well, I cannot answer that, but I believe my hedge "if the burners are at all dedicated to the cause" still applies?
Honestly, the lack of USB-C charging on thr iPhone was one of the things that kept me on Android. Everything else I own has USB-C, and I didn't want to support a whole other port type just for that.
so your main problem is that they were able to reach a conclusion fast?

is there an empathic approach that also accepts reality?
China’s new map outrages its neighbors
https://archive.is/NxlUj

Apple September 12 Event: iPhone 15 Charging Port Change to USB-C From Lightning
Gold is the least bad currency option when compared to all the fiat currencies.
Thank GOD. Please stop moving here then. And if you hate it, leave and take that annoying attitude with you.
I agree that firing people based on delivered story points is probably wrong. I disagree that measuring the amount of story points someone delivers has no benefits. In this case, it surfaced a very interesting dynamic in a team that apparently the company wasn't aware of, and now that it is surfaced, it can align that team better to the goals of the company. I would really wonder, for instance, how Tim was evaluated on performance, if the expectations of him didn't align with the role he was doing.

I think the part in the article where a manager wanted to fire Tim because he delivered 0 story points, and the teamlead (?) refused, is made up for dramatic effect. I can't imagine any manager seeing those type of results and instead of asking the teamlead what's going on there, jumping to the conclusion that Tim should be fired.
A few more comments here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37358174

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37366823
Just rebuild what you're missing, and share. In the journey to do so you will discover some of the most interesting primitives out there, and everyone gains, instead of a few unrepentant Gatekeepers.
Thanks for the note. I haven't used the configurator in years. I didn't even think about it. I'll take a look.
Which, again, Valve cannot verify.
Why not also tracking eco-anxiety?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eco-anxiety
If you have Nix and want to test this without python versions, pip, whatnot you can use `nix run github:figsoda/nixpkgs/shaq#shaq -- --listen` or `nix shell github:figsoda/nixpkgs/shaq#shaq` and use `shaq` in your temp shell.

Or, once this @figsoda PR[0] gets merged and it gets in the nixpkgs unstable you can use `nix run nixpkgs#shaq -- --listen` or `nix shell nixpkgs#shaq` instead.

[0] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/253135
FWIW, I've used MaraDNS for a while, about 10 years. It works nicely for my small domains. It is missing some things that require I do some workarounds, but for the most part, it does what it says on the wrapper. Its not hard to configure, no messing around with multiple/many backends and backend configuration. Just simple db files, easy to keep in git, easy to deploy, easy to manage and change.

If you are running a large SaaS this might not be the right package for you. But if you are putting together a small site (blog, single page webapp, etc.) this is a great, simple, and easy to deploy tool.
> if AI generated background/voice actors are actually better than non-AI ones on net

For now there's certainly no risk at all of that, unless you've seen something I haven't?

I disagree with your OP, a union's power isn't derived by its most powerful members, it's derived by solidarity against a large amount of people. If it's strong enough you can force the industry into union only contracts which makes even the powerful members of your profession need to maintain solidarity - SAG-AFTRA is the perfect example.

As for American studios outcompeted, I think that's an oversimplification of the videogame market. People buy terrible games all the time such as all the buggy AAA crap that's been coming out of certain American studios. Not to mention the awful mobile games industry which is worth billions... Quality of voice acting alone doesn't seem like something that could make or break an entire nation's game industry.
I really wish I could just take these sort of results at face value the way I used to. But the replication crisis was real. It happened. No doubt its still happening. How could we ever read something like this and not just dismiss it out of hand?

226% boost in cognitive capacity? From a scent, delivered to a population which is old enough to be experiencing subtantial age-related smelling loss?

Is it just me? If so what am I missing?
They seem to be specifically referring to the compiler error (as in, prevents compilation) for unused local variables. See discussion here: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/335#issuecomment-10011...
People with “a guy” always think he’s doing something super clever. In reality, the best ones are just investing your money in index funds. The best they can do is help to save you from yourself, like avoiding selling stocks and moving to cash in 2008 or 2020.
Isn't it directly related to it's being an investment than to hire staff? You can't expect inexperienced people to do work that an experienced person has to do. So to train means you need to have the main work carried out by an experienced person, you have extra training capacity, and over on this you have funds to hire new graduate to train. You also would not expect a return on this investment quick.
The housing is still comparatively cheap though, so while it might slow it wont stop
I'm not sure what your point is. Many software engineers blatantly pattern-match and copy-paste code to try to get their own stuff to work without understanding what's really going on. This is a long-standing complaint in the industry.
Manufacturing MRP. Every other manufacturing company has their own way of doing things and none of the MRP solutions on the market are flexible enough to work for these companies.
The funny lesson I got from SVB was why bother putting cash in a bank when they're just going to put it in treasuries, MBSes, etc. It's not exactly insured, but a short-term government money market fund seems safer, or a state muni fund if you're worried about the federal government defaulting.
> but does that mean Mexico cannot solve its problems without an American Savior intervening?

No

But it’s a shared problem as most of the drugs trade targets the US

Mexico has a much more limited budget to deal with interdiction efforts

A weed or powder suddenly being very valuable creates a lot of problems in a poor country

In the 80s Rafael Caro Quintero offered to pay off Mexico’s foreign debt from drug proceeds

Mexico attacked drug producers and in turn they responded by arming themselves

Drug money buys a lot of guns, guns buy power, rinse repeat
USA only and with caveats but the US Department of Agriculture operates the National Agricultural Imagery Program:

https://naip-usdaonline.hub.arcgis.com/
Shouldn’t they start with the actors in their union then if that’s what they really care about? Some of the people protesting make crazy amounts of money themselves, if they want to show equality matters to them, should they start by redistributing the big actors’ income?
The UN report on the Attention Economy says 0.5% of content produced is consumed.

No other industry works like this. And thats without any AI involvement.

In that context this entire fight between creators and content publishers/distributors is a gigantic farce.

We are already drowning in an ever growing ocean of content. These people want to be rewarded without doing any single thing to reduce the size of that ocean. They think the ocean will alway expand. Its just as absurd to watch as the sub prime crisis.
> One company’s product lead pointed to thick traffic and unreliable public transportation. Another transplant cited the city’s 100-plus-degree heat, in what was one of the city’s most brutal summers since 2011, when only two days in July didn’t hit triple digits.

Clearly not the brightest bunch it seems.
Show HN: DJ Phonetic – Beatbox with historical speech
Is this something that is available to purchase?
https://extinctionclock.org/#show
My grandfather lost his mother when he was 10, in 1919. Despite going deep into family history research for decades, and talking about so much of it with him before he passed at 97 almost 20 years ago, I only learned in 2021 that she died from the Spanish flu, offhandedly from a family member. What a strange black hole of recollection.
>>Sure, but that is not the common situation. <<

-- when prompt attention is available.

falls are not the only cause of bone fracture.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2700578/
No one gets killed by a car or sued by a pedestrian if an AI generated episode of "Love Death and Robots" underwhelms the 17 year olds that put it on while looking at something on their phone. This will spur studios to try to make it work even though it'll probably say no time and money and result in worse outcomes for their catalog of media.
Despite this being clickbait, its a nice space to have this discussion

I also find this to be a losing battle, and its kind of rich too, since Hollywood only grew by disregarding all the entrenched interested in NYC. To think the same won't happen to Hollywood or this current incarnation requires being stuck in every stage of grief, specifically bargaining and denial.

Its not apathy if some of us can skip straight to acceptance of the terminal illness of being superceded.
Did ambition die, or did founders encounter a populace that believes in work/life balance?
I'm imagining something like a "software choice" act which requires all network connected devices to be able to, in principle, have their bootloader unlocked and an alternative operating system loaded in with relative ease. No specialized tools, you can't say "well just unsolder this chip" but you can display a prominent warning that the bootloader is unlocked. Basically do it like android does it, but by law.

There are obviously some specifics there, like if the camera on my phone has a firmware blob, does that need to be able to have the firmware updated? A lot of little caveats like that make such a law difficult, but I think with hardware access the open source community can flourish on devices like smart TVs, etc.
No I wouldn't concede that.

I took some precaution and made sure to not mention an estimate of what that portion represents. I think it fair to call it significant given it isn't breaking news.

Blame me for not providing references proving it is based on some interpretation of reality not only I, have.
What does 0.5% of content even mean? Are you referring to content people are actually paid to produce?
The [E0C6S46](https://download.epson-europe.com/pub/electronics-de/asmic/4...) still powers the 1st and 2nd gen Tamagotchi!

4-bit (!) 32KHz MCU with 6,144 words of 12-bit (‼) ROM, 640 words of internal 4-bit RAM, and a 160-word 4-bit frame buffer for the integrated LCD driver (enough for double-buffering)!

The thing is a beauty! I wrote a Typescript emulator for it, a year ago or so, though for whatever reason I haven’t pushed it to GH yet (but I will if anyone’s interested! It can run unmodified Tamagotchi firmware.
i would prefer not to
Juche necromancy?
There's a ton of interesting things to do and important problems to be solved in information security. Think of this as the ecosystem of safety in software and systems.
You don't need AI for that. It is already filled with low-effort engine tutorial level junk.

I was attacked for saying that entry barrier of 100$ was too low, but clearly that would have been only reasonable way to remove some.
The Rolls Royce Silver Mist got a rebrand to Silver Shadow because German.
Awhile ago, our support group leader discussed with us the benefits of essential oils and aromatherapy. She inspired me to purchase an essential oil diffuser, and so I picked one up, along with a small collection of oils from the Farmers Market nearby.

Lately, I've been switching between pine needle and eucalyptus, only because I don't really have to clean out the reservoir between runs. I also have jasmine and "peaceful sleep" scents. Now, as soon as I loaded the jasmine, I felt regret, because it immediately smelled like a brothel or something. Not a "guy scent". It was also nearly impossible to remove the permeating scent from the plastic reservoir. The "peaceful sleep" scent is a melange of a few oils, and it smells rather orangey, and not entirely pleasant.

But I do enjoy the mood set by the pine or eucalyptus; just a gentle pleasant background of something nice, like I remember from Christmas Past, or soothing my throat. In fact, once the diffuser gets going, I hardly smell it at all. I like to run it while I work. Currently, it's in the living room and not the bedroom, so I'm awake during runs.
> “The video captured by Cruise showed that the ambulance parked behind the Cruise and did not attempt to pass the robotaxi in the rightmost unblocked lane. Instead, responders moved a firetruck to allow the ambulance to pass on the left. The video, which Cruise declined to share publicly, indicates that 90 seconds elapsed between the patient being put on the stretcher and the ambulance leaving the scene.”

Why isn't the video shared if it proves they're innocent? Smells strange.
> which is equivalent to itsycal which is entirely free and open source?

> Why should the users perform free labor for the creator, while the creator gets to keep all of their paid version's revenue?

It's clear you have no desire to use this at all, you've mentioned many times in this whole parent thread that you would rather use ItsyCal even over this because it has more features... So what exactly is your goal with these demands? Just to make Sindre do something you want?

> It is not on the user to add it to Homebrew, it is on the creator.

No it's not. The creator has no obligation to do anything for anyone, paid or free. Stop being entitled.
KDE did implement tabbed windows IIRC but it was removed for KDE5 due to lack of maintenance. I think they are trying to bring them back.
There are several reasons to this.

"Arbeitsbeschaffungsmaßnahme" (job creation) is a one. Amount of people employed has higher priority than efficiency. So instead of having 5 people doing everything efficiently companies hire 50 to do everything manually for food. If the company wants to do things efficiently, the other reason kicks in: psychological inability to pay competitive salary, so most of the companies in Germany don't have access to competent engineers and management.
Because one is confirmed and the other one is fantasy

Cartels have no nation-state level power
I don't get what exactly this is and couldn't find an explanation
Remember when Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone and its own appstore? And how developing mobile apps is now its own field?

A new interface is ripe for development. Once a user is used to such a clear and intuitive UI, they can't go back. And GPT technology is exactly that. ChatGPT is the herald of the new era UI.
We could start talking about what we should do in general when the value of human labor has dropped to pennies across multiple industries.

Or we could talk about how we could leverage this new technology to the benefit of the voice actors, by reducing their working hours, improving their working conditions, and giving them a large cut of the new profits the new technology unlocks.

Buuuut those conversations under this system have been DOA since the luddites. It seems profits and benefits for workers must be extracted at the gunpoint of government regulation and unionization. I agree that it'd be great if that wasn't necessary.
I think powerful AI programs and models running in the browser has to be a promising area to work on, especially with technologies like WASM and the Web APIs for using it becoming prevalent.
They probably figured if they went somewhere that wasn’t big city and could just not have big city people in the way, everything would be better.

Then they realized same shit, different flavor, albeit worse in many ways, and many of their problems/issues were within themselves all along.

Tends to kill some of the enthusiasm and drive.
I share this sentiment, what do you think should be the first part to improve?
But what is it? Is this like Grammarly? Maybe LanguageTool? I paged through most of the docs and I’m still not entirely sure what this does or why I might want to use it.
I found it funny that the situation was romanticized.
Awesome job! Here's a similar tool specific to a location, based on ERA5 data (https://explorer.oikolab.com) so going back only to 1940. Been thinking it'd be great to show both global & local context somehow.
Unless you’re ridiculously well paid I think you’re considerably underestimating what many independent contractors end up earning.

I can only speak about my anecdotal network but everyone that I know who went the independent contractor road is making around a million or more a year. They didn’t start out like that, and I’m not sure how easy the road would be in the current economy, but the people who started out 10-15 years ago have it made for them. They did work a lot more than us who went into the corporate mill, but they are frankly going to “win” anyway considering some of them are basically set for retirement at age 40-45.
The Chips act is going to have a huge impact on soft-hardware interfaces going forward. Anyone who can work at the lowest levels of abstraction is going to see opportunities that most others will miss.
It can also just be some sort of partitioning. I would be really surprised if there was no partitioning of some space.
The submitted URL [0] appears to be reporting on a longer article by Business Insider. [1, 2]

[0]: https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/california-transplants-...

[1]: https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-workers-moved-to-austin...

[2]: https://archive.ph/tK8iE
Thank you for this prime example of shilling behavior.