skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Compare with the USSR where there was minimal environmental destruction, no bullshit bureaucratic jobs, and of course, no poor people.
It's a popular subculture. A few years back a guy built his own "forge" and burned down a chunk of the town (upstate ny).
FAA still have ample time for feet-dragging but fingers crossed.
Being a blacksmith is literally still a job, with a union, apprenticeships and everything[1].

[1] https://boilermakers.org/about/structure
> This isn't a bad thing.

It's a bad thing when someone can't explain what the word means but also declares that its existence is self-evident and impossible to deny.
Ask HN: User interfaces that have withstood the test of time?
have you encountered any?
i wanna say tally.so,hackernews, stripes navigating menu, libgen(could be better)
--video game character movement in general mouse and keyboard
>> makes you feel connected seamlessly or almost
Same thing at my company, only it was a former Microsoft employee who brought along all his buddies. They screwed up a bunch of stuff because they didn't understand our market or customers, and then all slowly got let go before having to contend with the full consequences of their bad decisions.

We're now in a multi year recovery process.
You can type that comment, but perhaps if you were in someone else's shoes you'd have a different opinion.
I recommend studying metaphysics. Scientism and its presumed mechanistic metaphysics are not coherent.
People said the same thing about computers playing chess. "They will never play creatively, like humans, because they simply calculate by rote". Then along comes Alpha Zero and produces amazing, "creative" games that redefine the nature of computer chess. All of a sudden, such moves don't require human ingenuity any longer.

Humans always place themselves at the center of the universe, until the final moment when reality absolutely proves the lie of such self-importance. It's impressive how creative we are in creating such arguments, until that inevitable moment is upon us.
I find it too mind boggling. But it isn't intelligence as you might find in a child, it's transactionally applying a corpus of knowledge and deciding what is best to say next, throwing in some randomness which makes it appear more human.

In many ways it simulates the human brain, shockingly well, but a dead human brain.

I'm really concerned about AGI now, when I see how much ChatGPT really is "knowing" more than I will ever do.

If a system with actual sentient feelings, needs, curiosity and eventually self-doubt was to go online, and never need to eat or sleep, it's only a matter of time until we become its pets.
The irony of using intolerance of anti-Semitism as a defense of the virtues of intolerance while so many here are trashing the sincerely held religious beliefs of the conservatives[1] should not be lost on us. If "intolerance against assholes is often virtuous", perhaps it the intolerant left as well as the intolerant right that the rest of us should not be tolerating, arf arf.

[1] beliefs I do not subscribe to, by the way
If you are comparing non-Nix image build performance, Nix is comparable to BuildKit in that it’s able to parallelize a build graph and cache intermediary outputs. Nix doesn’t require a Dockerfile to build, and constructs the layers directly like in the article.

In terms of image size, since it’s dependencies are explicit (all the way down to glibc and lower), the Nix image is comparable to a scratch image with a single statically compiled binary.

Comparing to the existing Nix built images, we are moving image build performance from O(n) (n is number of Nix packages) to ~O(1) because the build process becomes just constructing a JSON referring to already built Nix packages.
I don't want to start an argument, but I don't get the animus about things like this. They're selling an expensive entertainment product in a sea of entertainment products. It's not like they're selling food, medicine, housing, or something like that, and even then, I encounter far fewer people rankled by the existence of, say, high-end restaurants they'd rather not pay for. Why not just vote with your feet?
But the solution for this is a rate limit, not captcha. The real reason they care about "human traffic" is because bots don't buy stuff.
DIY haptic input knob (2022) [video]
Didn't Ryan hire him?
I joined my current company at the height of the pandemic. So did at least hundreds of other people, many of which joined as their first job. I am a top performer at the company, and I also can't tell how other people who joined around the same time and worked fully remote the first two years would have been any better in their career had the pandemic not happened. I don't see any young employee's career killed. This is all just empty talk.
Harvard getting a low "freedom of speech" score from The Fire might as well be a commendation. Harvard is focusing on creating inclusive spaces and refusing to platform hate speech, and that is a good thing.
Agreed -- when I talk (and I don't think I'm alone) words seem to spontaneously tumble from my mouth without any effort. I'm learning what I'm saying at the same moment the person I'm talking with hears it. Only when I've painted myself into a verbal corner, or there is some complex concept that where I need to rehearse the phrasing before I get my idea across, does consciousness enter into it.

That is all to say: 90%+ of what comes out of my mouth is about as sophisticated as ChatGPT.
What gets me is that they have no idea how awful they are at what they do.
Short-term rentals are cancer to communities and should require proper zoning.

I’m not completely against it but I don’t want a short term rental next door.

Cities/villages should designate areas for short term rentals and tax accordingly.
I'm curious what you find troll-y about my post but obviously you don't have to respond. I've been posting on HN for many years. The post fluctuated quite a bit score-wise, so I'm curious what about it came across as such, just for my own feedback. If you don't want to respond have a nice day.
> “So… is that all there is to it?”

"Well, almost... we just need to improve its throughput by a factor of a bajillion and--for a fair-comparison--it should only draw something like 10-20 watts of power."
Same problem as communism, no? "We'll need a preemptive stage where we have a few guys, "the party", calling all the shots for the entire population, but once we get things straightened out we'll return the power to the worker, pinky swear"
The US light duty vehicle (GVW under 7 tons) sales are in the 14-17M/yr range.

The average price is just over $46K.

Multiply and you get around $700B/yr. $21T is 30 years worth, which doesn't match my usage of "coming few years". (That also assumes that all new vehicles could be replaced with transit, which is obviously false for most delivery and service/construction type vehicles, many of which fit into the light-duty segment figures above.)
Excellent , job done.
I cycled to work for 3 years in Paris. Cycling on fresh snow isn't so dangerous, but on ice it is as you won't be able to brake. Also, cycling by -20°c is a very uncomfortable experience and increases a lot your chances to die if you fall and pass out.

Last, cycling, especially in winter, is good if you're able-bodied, but it leaves out people with disabilities, which makes a sizable amount of the population if you take aged people in the mix.

I agree with OP that in general, a good public transportation system is the first step toward better cities with less cars. Bikes can play a role, but can't be the solution for everything.
God bless internet
Sure. This is based on US unions, I don't know if they operate differently in other countries. Germany seems to have better unions but I not very familiar with them.

I had some limited business dealings with them that were super shady.
Weird nepotism rules where people get their sons/nephews hired.
Generally pay based on seniority not skill.
Makes it really hard to fire bad actors or people bad at their job. (see teacher's union/police union)
Leads to incredibly weird inefficiencies about who can do what. If unions were in software a dev couldn't update a Jira ticket except under very specific circumstances.
Generally makes it harder to get a job.

If it just increased pay that'd be awesome, but it tends to have a lot of knock on effects. If the U.S. was completely unionized I think we'd all be poorer for it. I think there are better tools in the policy toolkit to make sure people who are struggling in the economy are taken care of.
The matter of its legality is only relevant to the government or public universities, etc. So, normative.
Microsoft still dreams of bendy phones, judging from 360° folding screen patent
> I keep hearing this, but then I’ll see the opposite

Depending on who you talk to you will get wildly different assessments of the same information. Follow the money. Most of the people telling you its an employers job market are doing so because they want to hire you at lower rates and get your expectations down.

The right company matched with the correct skills and person can make both parties happy. The fact that we've been chasing this ghost for years doesn't mean it doesn't exist... its just really fucking difficult.

We were luckier before, I don't know how else to process it currently.
After banging out code all day, I really really really pine for a physical trade like smithing.

My logical side tells me that after a few months of that I'd be pining for a "cushy desk job."

But man.

Doing something physical and tangible. You just don't get that very often in the tech world.
who the heck requires someone to own their own forklift
This is necessary but not sufficient for there to be no tension. For example, if you have 12 curved pieces, all curving in the same direction, and one straight piece, there will be tension.
I have the book (memoir) that this article is about. It's a fun read (yes it mentions the Seinfeld episode about how incomprehensible some of the cartoons are); my favourite part is the chapter about the New Yorker cartoon caption contest, which mentions difficulties judging it, things that don't work, and the first/only celebrity to win it (Roger Ebert, https://www.rogerebert.com/roger-ebert/the-new-yorker-no-the... https://www.rogerebert.com/features/yes-i-won-the-new-yorker... https://www.rogerebert.com/features/many-of-my-losing-entrie...)
> simply be what that conscious thing experiences when a set of neurons is activated in a particular way?

That is what it is, but that's totally independent of whether they're physical. One is a sign pointing to the thing, the other is a claim about the characteristics of the thing.

"This is a question mark: ?"

versus

"A question mark is a punctuation mark that indicates an interrogative phrase."

versus

"A question mark is half to three quarters of a roughly circular shape, open at the lower left, with a small line segment at the bottom followed by an open space and then a dot."
Things become cliched through repetition. The _first_ occurrence by definition _isn't_ cliched, since it's the thing all the others were repeating.
Of course this isn’t really monumental, but it can be hard to understand history if you’re looking at it through a modern lens. Humor was different, and this phrase was not in the lexicon like it is now. It was fresher then.
It's selling it at the one-time price that may have long-term consequences. So it sounds great in theory and gives investors a chance to feel like they own it, but subscriptions are better in the fact that they are continued support for the product. I guess it just means not every product can be sold for a one-time price, though there is software out there where it works just fine to do so.
Americans Are Losing Faith in the Value of College
I guess it boils down to how much you trust the leadership that owns the API. In this case it seems like the leadership suffers from paranoid delusions, and may therefore not be trustworthy in the long term. You will have to make that judgment for yourself though. https://www.wired.com/story/what-openai-really-wants/
Marx has some concept of "socially necessary" labor, but it doesn't really make sense because it wants to treat skill as some kind of simple multiplier as if we can assume that a modern doctor's labor is some simple multiple of a random medieval peasant's labor in diagnosing an illness, which is just a silly and oversimplified model.

Honestly it reminds me of like Marx's non-rigorous "eh whatever" approach to dividing by zero in his mathematical work. While one can define division by zero in non-standard analysis, that involves some actual rigor in how your treat it according to your definitions, not just shrugging your shoulders and doing it.
In other reporting: https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2023-02-27/us-departme...
I’m at the start of my brio journey. Haven’t picked up a set yet as we are immersed in magnatiles.

Curious if anyone has milled their own brio tracks. (Maybe to allow some unusual shapes not afforded by standard types)

I’ve made a single brio track compatible banana car but haven’t had a go at making any track yet.
Interesting, 'wiele' seems to be a distant cousin to the dutch 'veel' by way of 'viele' (German). More so because 'w' is pronounced as 'v'.
The last decade of web dev can be summed up as:

– A bunch of smart Facebook engineers with unlimited funding decided to mess around and see just how much they could upend all the existing web paradigms, before finally concluding that conventional wisdom and the traditional server-side rendering model exist for a reason and make sense.

– The entire software industry decided that every new experiment by this above group was worth ripping out and rewriting their entire codebase over, whether it made sense for their needs or not and whether it actually made their product better or not.

I have not been too deep into the weeds of it myself but have been interacting with FE teams at my company enough to see what a charade it all is.

"This React thing is cool, and everyone is talking about it. Let's move some of our existing JS components over to it and see how things turns out."

"We need to do a top-down rewrite of the entire app in React."

"We're going to need the infra team to set up a GraphQL API layer for us. It can't be that hard, right?"

"Hmm, initial page loads are too slow. Hey infra team, can you set up a render farm of Node.js servers so we can do SSR?"

"Whoa, functional components are cool! We need to do another top-down rewrite and get rid of all the silly classes."

"We have a small team dedicated to investigating server components, and if the prototype looks good then we'll switch over to Next.js and rewrite our FE + API stack."

I'm sure my company wasn't the only one that caught this virus. I shudder to think just how much money and productivity has been wasted industry-wide over the obsession with this framework.
I’m guessing it also makes building variations of images much quicker because you only need to build the “difference” between the images?
A bucket is filling with water at a rate of 3 drops per second.

However, the bucket has a hole which is releasing water at a rate of one drop per second.

The water level is nonetheless rising. If we plugged the hole, it would rise more rapidly.
Super interesting. I can clearly see how this improves the caching story compared to vanilla Kubernetes+containerd, and therefore the potential this has to improve autoscaling performance.

Of course, it understandably requires the host VM to be NixOS, which means my Kubernetes cluster needs to be running NixOS, which means I would need to abandon the ease afforded by EKS/GKE... which is a tall ask. It would be great if there was a way to more easily add this into popular managed Kubernetes distributions, to play around more with running "Nix images", simply by adding nodeSelector and/or node affinity to the Kubernetes manifests.
Another way: just write some R, Python, etc. - plenty of GIS there too.
> Technically, 0% unemployment would mean that you can't take another job, as you transitioning into another job would create frictional unemployment

Transitioning to another job only creates frictional unemployment if there is a period where you are out of work but looking for work. Otherwise (e.g., if you find a new job before leaving) if you have a break from work as part of transition, it creates a frictional exit from the labor force, not frictional unemployment.

But 0% unemployment is hard to imagine if employers can terminate workers without first finding them acceptable replacement employment.
Not everyone has wealthy parents willing to front their early career..
I've used cligen before, and it's very elegant. But if you are used to more declarative ways of writing your cli, it can be a bit of a learning curve. Best advice I can give is look at what you are actually trying to do, not "how do I make it work like <other tool>"
Disney heiress leads call to address a ‘rise in extreme inequality’
How are character controllers built upon complex gameplay systems?
There isn't a conspiracy against hiring people who are going to make you money. Anyone who adds value to a company and is going to generate more revenue than their labor cost is likely going to be hired over someone who does not.
What people would want to do might look different if you took away all the bullshit jobs and jobs tied to peddling endless consumption on people. Both my Grandfathers were janitors, no one looked down on them, they enjoyed their jobs and took pride in it, they both got paid a decent enough for lower-middle-class wage.

Get rid of all the jobs that don't directly benefit your community and what people would want to do for their community would change drastically.
> If you aren't already starting in a server component, then you don't need to do anything to use client features.

This is a deceptive reply since the only RSC implementation in existence starts from a server component.

That means that having React State, a basic building block of React that's leveraged massively across the ecosystem, is broken by default until the user adds a "use client" directive.

They're 100% right that "use server" should have been the directive, and more specifically it should have been something like "use non-interactive". Server vs Client is already widely understood to be tied to SSR in a completely orthogonal manner.

RSC has a much narrower value proposition that shouldn't have gotten muddied by all this.
Yeah I mean this argument seems to preclude anyone but me being conscious (bad news for you other commenters).
I don't know where you live, but in most Western countries the capital required to become a business owner (i.e. start a legal business entity) is within reach of most people.
I saw this <https://infosec.exchange/@fugueish/111016439686006893> yesterday and had a good laugh because it's true: Craigslist. It just works. It loads fast. The search isn't even that terrible. It's probably running on an old Thinkpad under someone's desk
Prediction: This has no affect on rents, unlike what is commonly claimed.
I love exs scripts, and I've largely replaced postman with LiveBook notebooks. Elixir all day every day
The era-defining aesthetic of “In the Mood for Love”
Lines up with the sentiment about Flexport being a tech retirement home
> If capitalism worked, then prices would get lower over time

Or alternatively consumer surplus would increase: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_surplus

Talking about prices is almost meaningless - since the worth of $1 changes (especially as individuals).
Is this a purposeful DDoS or just bots trying to scrape results? If this is a DDoS on purpose, what's their financial gain? Did they demand payment?

If you're talking about bots scraping content, then the question is also why. Perhaps by letting them do so, you indirectly provide even more human beings?

It's entirely possible that these questions are absurd, however, since scraping using headless browsers is not free, then there must be some reason for scraping a given service... and it's usually something that in the end benefits more human beings.
We're subjectively experiencing our own set of qualia, but who's to say machines don't experience a completely different set? Since we don't understand what causes qualia, we don't know where it will arise or not or even what it looks like when it does.
But the people who donated that money to the non-profit can't receive any profits?
And the expected tax benefits of donating a dollar are always less than a dollar, so that doesn't make any sense.
Robots can operate on a scale much higher than humans. Flawed self driving software can potentially cause havoc in a way that a single bad driver could not.

It’s natural to expect robots to be several times more safe than humans if we are to let them into dangerous situations with us.

Also, I think people are rightfully concerned about a future in which self driving cars result in more cars on the road as opposed to fewer. An unbounded congestion potential!
not for bikes
"640k ought to be enough for anybody"
Definitely alive and well in other places too.

Our local one is Santa Barbara Forge and they have nice series of carbon steel pans: https://sbforge.com/
I don't think this is true, I think it only requires the host system to have nix installed.
Metrics can only measure one or more aspects of performance, assuming they are well crafted. And, metrics rarely cover all aspects of work that is being done. Take a few abstract metrics for example:

* X SLOC written / unit time
* X Bugs resolved / unit time
* PRs turned around in X unit time

Those represent a significant portion of the work that developers do: writing, debugging, and reviewing code. However, targets for these metrics are going to vary depending on experience of the developer and a number of other factors that may be out of the developer's control. Further, several of these metrics are in conflict with each other:

* A developer can't write lots of code if you are fixing bugs -- bug fixes often result in very few, or even no lines of new code being written.
* Big or complex PRs will take longer to review than short/simple PRs.
* Fixing bugs (reading code) takes significantly longer than writing code.
* Refactoring code for simplicity, supportability, or clarity takes significant time and may result in little to no new SLOCs--but it can be highly valued work.
* Not all bugs that affect a codebase are the result of problems in that codebase. It could be that some dependency changed requirements or is providing data in a way that "shouldn't happen" according to the design requirements.
* Time spent boosting one metric is opportunity lost to boost another one--unless your developers are significantly under capacity.
* A developer can sling lots of new code without adding significant business value which looks good on the metric, but is bad for business.

Hopefully that shows how metrics can be misleading. Metrics are like rulers: they are good at measuring things, but they can't always tell if what you are measuring is the right thing. You will still need to have subjective evaluation in addition to the metrics to properly evaluate a developer's overall contribution to the team.