skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The company offered a six month severance. Nobody in their right mind would leave that on the table and wait to get fired.
I offer no opinion whatsoever on this project, except to say that I've been paying attention to development goings-on for over two decades. Early "renderings" have always been non-sensical. They aren't supposed to be accurate or realistic, they're just there to try to get you to occupy your brain with their project for a brief moment. So in fact they succeeded!

This article would be better if it simply deleted the two paragraphs about AI-generated "renderings"
You're right; I got them mixed up. My mistake. I had already seen Postmarks on HN when it was first posted, I guess. It looks like it was originally submitted two days ago and got put on HN's second chance shortlist, which makes it look like a new submission (shown as "8 hours ago" as of this writing, though the correct timestamp from 2023-09-05 doesn't get scrubbed).
46 minutes later and it’s still on the front page.

Does that change what you consider “telling” or not?
Did not know that, thanks for mentioning. This fixes probably a big problem for me.
That would be hilarious, actually - but impossible, because it would make it the second biggest cost.
Though in common with the golden age of VC, there's the same erroneous conflation/confusion of dumb luck with a presumption of vision.
Arduino is not a cool little company. If you start reading about its history you will learn about some Italian dudes running PCB manufacturing for Arduino stealing trademark and registering US company with it. https://makezine.com/article/technology/arduino/massimo-banz... Poor Massimo Banzi got taken advantage of, right?

If you dig even deeper you will find http://arduinohistory.github.io describing how Massimo Banzi stole open source project from one of his students.
Yes, it is a reason to trounce on Texas. Texas wouldn't have to go around paying bitcoin miners not to mine if it was integrated into the rest of the power grid(s). But Texas is gonna Texas. Lifelong Texan here.
Have you ever browsed, say, the Nigerian or Arabic-language internet? Those people, too, are indeed largely family types who don’t want dick pics or users trolling for giggles. However, those populations hold different views on things like LGBT people or different ethnicities, and they want to air those views, it is a fairly popular subject of conversation. The particular moderation approach chosen by many Western-owned tech services or Mastodon censors those discussions that those populations feel are normal. Certainly one might hope that those parts of the world will come around to one’s own views on certain social issues, but the short-term effect is essentially making whole regions of the world feel like second-class citizens.
> I think it fundamentally changes what you should expect from one and not the other

Not exactly. I want my kids to become great people. I genuinely care about them and their well-being.

This is the same thing with the people that I work with and for. I care about them and want to them to get better.

> And I'm sure you won't address your son not taking out the trash the same you'd deal with a team member that don't release the features on time.

Maybe, maybe not. Did they "give the finger" or did something just happen that is a learning experience? If it's a communication problem, these are fundamentally easy to address.
Point went right by you.

Most people do not count calories and calorie counts aren’t accurate anyway. The people sitting around counting calories because they have to are afflicted with the same thing that obese people are, they’re just putting in. A bunch of effort to manage it (or more likely actually aren’t).

The issue you are missing is that the real question is not “can we create a totally artificial situation where one of the outcomes is managed” but instead “why isn’t the system that manages this in healthy people working?”

In the counting calories example, it’s like saying the answer to diabetes is an insulin pump. People who d think this way are missing the point and basically are engaging in the shallowest of thought.
Probably because they have an axe to grind and can’t stop themselves from souring every discussion by turning it toward politics. I see this happening more and more on HN and I hate it because this is one of the places I like to go when I need a break from the constant culture war bullshit.
> That is capitalism though and has the same problems as capitalism.

No, capitalism is not “when there is a labor market”.

Capitalism is a system of property rights, of which an essential one is proprietary control of the means of production. Having a labor market is a feature of many economic systems, not just capitalism.

Insofar as some of the problems of capitalist systems are endemic to markets and not specifically tied to proprietary control of the means of production, any system with markets may share that subset of the problems of capitalism, sure.
Bun 1.0 announcement [video]
They are selling software to users through monthly subscriptions.
Wayland is the downfall of the Linux Desktop and the FOSS desktop ecosystem in general. It is actively developer hostile, overly complicated and the technical merits are questionable at best. It has the wrong philosophy about absolutely everything. Not only are simple and trivial things hard to do. Most things can't be done because standardized interfaces don't exist. The "process" of standardizing even the smallest features, no matter how essential through the "Wayland committee" takes literally multiple years.

What people really need is a "desktop protocol" not a "display protocol".
All software rots but some software rots much slower than others.
What makes tech execs worse mini gods than the crop of lawyer mini gods who generally run for office?
you can't use landfill as compost because its really quite contaminated
From the article, two words which are common to all languages are -

1. Coffee

2. Chocolate
To my naive mind, this model seems strongly aligned to how Quantum computers work. A QC can simultaneously perform operations on all possible states, which makes them exponentially faster. But working with them might as well be like working with alien tech. Weird sounding gates, superposition of states, it’s all hard to wrap one’s head around. Counter intuitive to everything we know in the macro world.

This model feels a lot less alien and could provide a much better starting point for programming on them. I can envision a compiler that will take an interaction net as input and spit out a quantum circuit.
Project Mars (1953)
SEEKING WORK
Location: WorldWide
Remote: Yes

I do not have some specific use case in mind. I am a backend developer who has spend around a decade mostly working on command line backend tools in Python and a bit in Go. Tools like scrapers, bots(Discord, TG etc), automation of trading strategies for both crypto and stocks, APIs integration and making its webfront in PHP and Python. You name it. Besides this I also have published my own Google Chrome extensions like Currently Reading[1], CryptInfo[2] and ProducTab [3]

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/currently-reading/...

[2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cryptinfo-ticker-f...

[3] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/productab/himaonfn...

Having said that, I am looking for some interesting project(regardless of technology) that is both fun and challenging...well atleast fun.

You may learn more about me at https://adnansiddiqi.me

My email is: kadnan @ gmail.com

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kadnan/

Sounds interesting? Let's talk!
Take the state monad : state -> (a, state). I think one would only count that as a wrapper by squinting really, really hard.
>In the context of this thread, apparently some of it will be from people who pay parking meters for the next 70 or so years. Is that what the plan was when this cash flow was promised to voters and recipients 20, 30, 40 years ago?

I don't know about the City of Chicago but most pensions were pay-as-you-go til the 80s or 90s, so the voters then probably agreed that they should pay benefits for retirees then and future citizens and taxpayers should pay for benefits now. The advent of the pension fund means that it's now more common for taxpayers today to set aside a separate fund from which some or all future benefits will be paid. Just a different way of doing things.
That Grusch guy says there is, and he's as honest as the day is long, according to other people, none of whom are willing to present hard evidence to corroborate his claims. Scout's honor, though.
Parking is a subset of transportation and transportation is a core competency of a city administration.

There needs to be deeper questions asked of why can't Chicago fulfill one of it's core competencies. And why is that that a outside, private investment firm can do a better job than the city itself.

The answer can't be "well they just can't do it, so go ahead and outsource it". What next? we outsource elections and schools? Lord knows we already outsourced criminal justice in the form of private prisons). Where does our society end in 100 years of this path?
Indeed. Our elevated trains are excellent (even though everyone complains) but even with recent expansions they don't serve huge swaths of the city.

https://www.transitchicago.com/assets/1/6/ctamap_Lsystem.png

If you're on the NW or SW sides in particular, you're going to need a car.

We're getting more and more bike lanes but they're also very unequally distributed and biking is...not great for winter.
Climate crisis poses greatest risk to people with respiratory illnesses
Where are you thinking of? I live in West Town right along Chicago Ave and nobody parks in the bus lanes there.
By selling people products based on AI risk.
In the age of wifi the man in the middle included someone sitting in the same coffee shop as you. ISPs turning into jerks came on the heels of that. Depending on where you got your news, it might have seemed like you heard about ISPs and hackers around the same time, but from my perspective the ISPs learned how to be bad from security experts explaining how much mischief a person could get up to and deciding that sounded like a swell idea.
If you go this route be sure to grab evidence now. Screenshots, logs and anything you can to show the product similarities and IP issues. Before they change stuff and try to erase it.
That’s an interesting insight. I had no idea they worked that way.

My local repair shop isn’t connected to any kind of hub; when we need to try new parts, we wait until it’s ready and then wait for it to come in the mail. The guy working on my display also has to wait for Apple engineers to crawl through diagnostics because he and Apple have no idea what’s wrong, and he doesn’t have access to documentation which would allow him to really dive into it. It’s an amazingly inefficient system for a company pushing towards a 3 trillion dollar market cap.
Location: WorldWide
Remote: Yes

I do not have some specific use case in mind. I am a backend developer who has spend around a decade mostly working on command line backend tools in Python and a bit in Go. Tools like scrapers, bots(Discord, TG etc), automation of trading strategies for both crypto and stocks, APIs integration and making its webfront in PHP and Python. You name it. Besides this I also have published my own Google Chrome extensions like Currently Reading[1], CryptInfo[2] and ProducTab [3]

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/currently-reading/...

[2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cryptinfo-ticker-f...

[3] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/productab/himaonfn...

Having said that, I am looking for some interesting project(regardless of technology) that is both fun and challenging...well atleast fun.

You may learn more about me at https://adnansiddiqi.me

My email is: kadnan @ gmail.com

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kadnan/

Sounds interesting? Let's talk!
People like Rotten Tomatoes. It's a trusted source of information. If you know of widespread review manipulation then that IS news because it affects how people perceive the site and it's trustworthiness. In this particular case, RT's response is commensurate with what you'd expect of an organization that takes their reputation seriously. There's nothing here that indicates this is the normal state of affairs
https://operations.nfl.com/the-rules/rules-changes/nfl-jerse...

Linemen are required to wear higher numbers so it's no surprise that people automatically associate higher numbers with bigger people.
Yeah, I totally get the longevity argument. But that precludes any useful new tools, and I'm personally never happy with the status quo; I don't think the software developers of the 60s and 70s discovered the perfect final set of useful userspace tools. And none of them would have thought they had either, and would have scoffed at the idea of being stuck indefinitely on a static set of commands. Their whole philosophy was about making it easy to make and cobble together little tools like this!

But in practice, the tooling for making those tools never got very good. (That is, in my opinion - there is at least one commenter here who replied to me about actually liking autotools, which is fair enough, just not my opinion.)

So while fully recognizing the value of the old tools that will always exist, for new useful tools, I'm very happy to see this renaissance of writing them in rust. In my opinion, it is much easier to build them, dig into their implementation, and contribute to them (especially without introducing security vulnerabilities or data races).

Where I do absolutely agree, and what I do wish for is that more of this were being done under the auspices of an organization, like how the `ls` most of us are using is likely maintained by either GNU or one of the BSD organizations.
> vs by improving model architectures to be more efficient?

or data quality, you get more from small models if you use high quality data
I'm not sure I agree, but it would be worth studying empirically. The film Strange World, for instance, bombed, but has a 72% on RT and is certainly politically correct. It was quite poorly marketed.[0] While studios aren't in the habit of sharing marketing budgets, we can safely say the marketing expenditure was low.

This is a single datapoint, but my hypothesis is that political correctness does indeed account for a measurable (beyond noise) portion of a RT score. Marketing spend probably matters more, and genuinely excellent non-PC films (say, Oppenheimer) can succeed without PC, but PC does contribute.

[0]https://fandomwire.com/theyve-been-barely-advertising-it-unt...
Very cool concept!!
Mojo SDK Now Available
> This of course assumes that the employee has no stocks in the company

I'm grateful that I get to work for a company that encourages growth and promotes heavily from the inside. Not all organizations are like this. But Servant leadership and companies growing quickly go hand in hand.
> As a Dutch citizen it's scary to watch our government and the rest of the EU go against it's own best interests. We are vassals of the USA and it would appear our elites are completely captured.

I'm in the EU too. I don't like US hegemony either, but what's the alternative? We are not strong enough alone to avoid being under the influence of either the USA, Russia, or China. We could tell the US to withdraw from Europe with all their military bases, but I don't know if you would prefer Russians in Holland or their influence over the US. This is the untold price we pay for security. If we want to change that, we would need to divert a lot of money from social security nets in the EU and allocate it to the military. Then we could achieve independence, but I don't see the political will for that in any country besides Poland at the moment (which will have the strongest military in the EU in a few years but is still under heavy US influence).
Privacy Not Included: Cars
The FCC censors radio because they prohibit certain speech on the radio…

https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/obscene-indecent-and-pr...
They still hire SDETs so I assume it's not true, however I did have a manager who said his whole team were laid off from Microsoft so I imagine they had some substantial downsizing from these days [0].

[0] https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/wh...
Actually it does not seem to be related to the China news as SMIC has suffered a similar loss in Hong Kong trading today:

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/0981.HK?p=0981.HK&.tsrc=fin-...
> In Its First Monopoly Trial of Modern Internet Era

The first one, this week. /s
You innovated the hell out of Hernando Barragán.
What does you being female have to do with the issue at hand?
Tried Wayland, has horrible fractional scaling support (Not that X11 is much better) and went back to Windows. If the Linux guys still can't make high-dpi displays work after them being the norm for 10 years I'm not sure it will ever happen.
I’m just waiting for nvidia drivers to be supported fully, for working with blender. Iirc some work was being done there, but I don’t follow it closely after some wayland dev(s) seemed hostile to nvidia users. .. somewhat understandably, but still.
your point is that of course they were lying and it's the congressman's fault if he wasn't expecting lies?
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Bottomline, I am passionate about building software that people love to use. I’m looking for someone who shares the same mindset. I’m not in the business of running a feature factory in order to drive revenue. Our platform helps real small businesses operate on a daily basis. We’re not revolutionizing the world, but we still care immensely about what we develop and the people that use our products. If you think you would make a good fit, shoot an email (in profile) and we can set up some time to discuss.
Bad comparison. NK is a nuclear state with nuclear weapons that is constantly threatening its neighbors. Cuba flirted with the idea but they didn't really materialize any nuclear or military capabilities. This was also a long time ago.
I use kde x11 for 3/4 years and Linux more and this problem is not related to x11 but to the dependencies it has you system, the updates it makes and the combination of the version of different packages.
Changing the bodywork is one way to remove the scratches you make, but it doesn't mean the problem is the body material.
Thanks for your advice :)

I should improve the graphic design.

If I tell you the process of designing it, you may laugh at me.

The situation is when I am not sure about how to design some graphic,
I just put a square button at some corner to bear the functionality :p

I think I am just start learning about graphic design,
I am reading a book called "Graphic Design Manual: Principles and Practice" by Armin Hofmann
(a book first published at 1965!)
Looks perfectly aligned with corporate and especially government IT practices. There the user is by far not the owner.
The issue is that well-being is relative and subjective

You can’t “objectively” look back and say people “have it better” now

Sure, you can look at all sorts of data and metrics, but that doesn’t mean people feel like they are better off now, which is what matters in the end

So the real question we should be trying to answer is: are people feeling better now than how they felt 200 years ago?

We could talk about it forever, but ultimately, it’s impossible to know
This was my favorite rabbit hole for years!
They are saying two thing simultaneously:

1. "I don't hate people because of their race, I hate them because of their culture."

2. Subtextually, "I think people of a certain race are so likely to have a certain culture I hate that I have a word for it."

Arguably, the first point is not racist. The second point, which is not stated but is certainly understood by both speaker and listener, clearly is.

If you didn't grow up in the area, the second point might not be obvious as a dogwhistle, but it's definitely there.
Being a FANG sort of removes the "cool" factor that lets a NEW social network really take off imo. Sure they have tons of users and resources so they can actually get off the ground, but then they stagnate, like we're currently seeing with Threads etc.
What do you mean? Hibernate works out of the box. There nothing to "fix" in the registry for that to work.
> You can't assume losing half of staff is a downside.

Said Elon Musk about Twitter. How's that working out for him?
Ask HN: Is Mountain View Dead?
I had a very pleasant experience in Mountain View back in 2019 when I was flown out to interview at a FANG company. Almost everyone I saw out and about was a software engineer or worked in high tech in some capacity. When I went to watch a movie the night after the interviews, there was some corny joke about algorithms in the movie and the entire theater busted out laughing. I really enjoyed that.

After the movie I went to get some dinner and walk around at shops and the park and heard people talking about tech and discussing ideas and having fun doing so. I was just by myself since I was only there for two days but I enjoyed taking it all in and came away from that experience yearning for longer-term immersion in a culture like that. Making new friends and being steeped in a rich tech culture in a tech hub seemed like a cool thing and I was definitely leaning towards relocating there if things worked out.

Unfortunately the interviews didn't pan out due to hiring freezes and then covid affecting everything shortly afterwards. Is this experience gone after covid and remote work? Mountain View is the only place I've seen so far that I'd be really excited to relocate to for a tech job. I've checked out Redmond and Seattle and San Francisco and didn't like them as much. Mountain View left a really good first impression on me and even seemed like a good place to both enjoy an expansive tech culture and also eventually start a family in a good environment. (Redmond second). I also saw a lot more cute tech girls when I was out and about in MV, whereas SF in my experience was mostly dudes. Redmond was really nice but I mostly saw families rather than singles, so my plan would be to relocate there after having kids in MV, when they're old enough to enjoy outdoors activities.

So is MV still about the same as in late 2019/early 2020 before covid happened?
Very possible! I only went there once, and only went into a couple cafes in the main buildings.
This Politico article has a summary and additional commentary from the study's authors:

https://www.politico.eu/article/car-manufacturer-data-privac...