skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO: There are plenty of people dissatisfied with our labor practices, from activists and union organizers to everyday people experiencing burnout and career ceilings.

But one, they're not usually on HN very much. This is a forum funded by tech startups and financiers. That sort of discussion is softly discouraged here, especially once it crosses over into politics (and how could it not?). Plus, well paid engineer types aren't typically the ones to suffer the most from general labor issues and even recently with the layoffs, people getting several months of severance at their already high salaries are way better off than most workers will ever be. Maybe if the tech recession goes on long enough that'll change, but for the time being we exist in a separate class -- and maybe bubble.

Two, even people who are strongly passionate about labor are by and large pretty powerless in our current economic and legal system, which are both strongly pro-corporate (as in owners and capital) compared to the E.U., offering relatively less worker and consumer protections. The people working on this stuff day in and day out spend their time trying to make small wins here and there, instead of debating endlessly and pointlessly with internet strangers (though to be sure, there's plenty of that too if you look for it in social media).
Relevant to this: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/international-student-cap-i...

“Canada is on track to host around 900,000 international students this year, Miller said in an interview that aired Saturday on CBC's The House. That's more than at any point in Canada's history and roughly triple the number of students who entered the country a decade ago.”

There is a perverse incentive to attend what amount to for-profit scams in Canada owing to their immigration policies giving preference to folks with Canadian degrees.
This has already played out. Most consumer software specifies that it cannot be used in medical devices, or for nuclear energy production. So some version of this already exists. But should this apply to video games? Horoscope websites? Random number generators? I'm just pointing out that it isn't a universal argument.
Yes, Outside of US. No, not using Firefox. VPN has little to no effect, when it happens. I even tried their own product cloudflare-wrap. It makes things worse sometime, which is an irony.

Privacy pass needs to be configured/enabled on the website's end or zone, no? I'm somewhat skeptical on using such extensions, I would rather avoid going to the websites unless it's a necessity.
Yep, I’ve had a couple issues over the years too. Their support wasn’t always great, but I was not left stranded at the end of the day.
Well in Toyota's, DCM modules were recently moved behind the nav screen, have to pop the dash and remove the fuse itself to cut power to module until replaced. There's videos on youtube to help, as well as included in car manual[0]. Before recent, DCM was clearly marked in the fuse box, easily pulled there.

[0] https://www.toyotanation.com/threads/disabling-the-dcm-in-my...
Yes, you are an investor. You do not live in the home you purchased. You rent it to earn money, i.e., an investment.

This creates a huge problem. Rental properties have different regulations in different places. My brother-in-law was not given a lease renewal amnd was forced to move (within 30 days) while, where I live, that is illegal unless there is cause for eviction. It creates instability. Also, my rent increased $550/month in just two years. Who can afford that? This creates a tenuous housing issue. Thankfully, I was able to move and buy a very small condo so I have a set monthly payment and no longer need to worry about losing my home every year when my lease ends.

There is a huge difference in how I can plan for the future knowing I am not going to be, potentially, homeless every year.
Yeah. Many of the most popular games released in recent years have contained an ARM chip. As it happens Atari Age have removed many of those games from distribution (in readiness for this takeover by Atari) because they weren't properly licenced. A good exception to this rule is LodeRunner which has been licenced and uses an onboard ARM.

If the market for this product is people who only want to play the older ROMs on a HDTV then I'm sure the 2600+ is a fine product.
> If I buy a second house, do it up, and rent it, I am an “investor”?

Clearly yes.

Under-occupation is a separate issue; it's tempting to argue for an unoccupied homes tax, and politically attractive, but it has to be fairly small otherwise at the margin some houses in poor condition get demolished so the land can sit empty and accumulate value.
Unless something has changed. My h1b salary has always been close to if not more than my peers.. not saying it doesn’t happen, just never did for me.
It's not a guy... it's OP but his reply to binance says everything we need to know to flag this thread.
Do you think that non-anonymous confidential information should be exposed on a public site?
This is a great read about plastics from an engineering perspective. Also this: "and, famously, LEGO makes most of the tires in the world, by number if not by mass!"
I think it's viable as a service business, like car stereos or tinting.
Do you think this is related to the fact that they only sell hardware (i.e., no subscription costs for the software)?

Shouldn't they already factor in the cost of app support for the next X years when selling the product?

I assume the same principle applies when you purchase an iPhone.
Though in this case, DJI may not see Virtual Flight as core software for their product.
One thing driving this bubble is that we just don't build enough houses compared to the number of immigrants we accept. The liberal government is just starting to accept that fact. Kinda ironic that for years the the rest of Canada told Quebecers they were racists because we were pushing back against immigration and now it's a mainstream view.
I have childhood memories of the M1. We spent summers at unlikely places like Camp Perry, Ohio and Quantico, Virginia. My father, a civilian, was an instructor and shot for the state team. I ran around the bases and spent time in the 1000yd pits. I wish I still had the unofficial "pit pig" t-shirt. Later as a teen I didn't have the patience to strap myself into a shooting jacket and bake in the sun so never developed the skill he had.
That does sound like overkill even for Google. But they've been quick to exhaust the benefit of the doubt.
The same way we have catch-all email addresses, we need catch-all phone number redirects.
Self driving cars will be the worst offenders then.

You will have no choice to move freely once all cars are self driving.

You will be tracked even more than today with these cars.

Personally I think cars and freedom of movement are very important. And I do everything in my power to oppose self driving cars.
Dennis and I overlapped at Tandem Computers in the early 1980s, but we didn't meet until 2003, when we were both members of a small private club of computer geezers. In addition to being a great software designer he was one of the nicest and most thoughtful people I've ever met.
related, 4 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37396726
Housing would be (much) more difficult if nobody could rent and everyone had to own the homes they lived in, not easier.
It's really all down to your tone and attitude. If you're hostile, demanding and negative, you will indeed get pushback, but that's human nature.

Some people feel that they should get to act like a prick, while everyone else should be humble and courteous.

If you act like a decent person person, there's no problem pointing out weak points in Julia and request help to work around it. If your only input is "Julia kinda sucks", what kind of feedback do you feel that you are owed?
Hello, I'm planning to participate in this challenge. I have experience training/prompting and building products from LLMs, I've also participated in a few CTFs.

sumo43@proton.me
I wouldn’t expect an LLM to get this right unless it had been trained on a solution.

Am I wrong to think that? Are LLMs in the future going to be able to “think through” actual logic problems?
Fifth Circuit: Some Federal Officials Violated 1A via Social Media Censorship [pdf]
I disagree, actually. I have found microbenchmarks to be very informative to understand why a language is fast in some cases and slow in others.

It's not only the actual benchmark numbers though. Its understanding the code that reaches those numbers: Can Julia do explicit SIMD? How awkward is that in one language or the other? Are there idiosyncratic bottlenecks? Bad design decisions that needs to be worked around in one language but not the other? And so on.
Both qualify for writing tiny web servers, cli/byte-manipulation scripts, server automation jobs, in-house GUI applications, and other small stuff. Could technically argue that these are a "relatively little overlap" depending on what you do though..
Yes.

Even before the adoption of visas, the traveling experience for a first class passenger on a ship was very different from third class getting routed via Ellis Island in the US.
A pithy response to be sure, but is it true? Every Kubernetes object type exists within a well-specified hierarchy, has a well-specified specification, an API version, and documentation. Most of the object families' evolution are managed by a formal SIG. Not sure how any of that qualifies as ad-hoc or informal.
The incentives are hilariously broken. 60-70% of the population owns homes and want to restrict new construction, while the federal government wants to solve economic problems with 2.5% immigration.
Randomly disturbed muscle masses on like your liver and wrapping your kidneys doesn’t seem like it’ll win many competitions
I am a citizen of the United States browsing from with the United States.

When I view the boundary between Ukraine and Russia, it shows me the dotted line around Crimea. I think it should indicate that there are at least two governments that have different ideas here and let me see their representation of the border. It should show me that it shows other people something different and make it easy to see what it shows them.

This is something a politically neutral Google would do. A Google that wants to get advertising money from both jurisdictions has no choice but to self-censor, as Google currently does. Google has made an understandable decision to put profit ahead of principles.
Man I love puppeteer
But they're only firing humans in specific cases where LLMs can compete with them. LLMs aren't equally good at all tasks.
These companies do business all over the world (read: take money away from other companies in those countries). I'm not sure why Google having a lot of people from other countries is bad if it makes money from those countries).

(Btw, I see your point and am not necessarily criticizing it. However, you do see that these companies operate globally and having the workforce reflect that should be considered ok?)
It's quite an outlier for having 500k immigrants per year, with a population of 39m. That's 1.25% per year. In 20 years, less than a generation, 25% of the population is entirely new. There's already a housing crisis and they're set to add 10 million people in 20 years? Build the housing first, otherwise you're just playing musical chairs and jettisoning people onto the street.
The fact that it's big doesn't matter. Building a million homes in North Dakota won't help anyone.

People need to live near cities, where jobs are. Outside our privileged white collar world where remote work is easy, others need to live in metro areas.

We need to build in and near cities, and improve the transit infrastructure.
I think this is not specific for the Anglosphere.
I’ve met lots of engineers living in vans in the Bay Area. I can’t imagine how the lower income people remain housed.
This forum is run by moneyed corporate interests. It's part of a startup incubator. Many here are running or starting their own businesses, so it's in their interest to maintain an imbalance of power.
Bonus: a table of the brightest currently (and recently) observable comets:

https://heavens-above.com/Comets.aspx?lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspec...
Lots of ever-richer-and-richer people.
> It’s beyond silly to still argue in 2023 that the vaccine prevents Covid.

This is a unthinking semantic misdirection.

It is clear that vaccination does not prevent every case of covid in the vaccinated. No-one is seriously saying that, and you don't seem stupid enough to actually think that this "all or nothing" reading is the intended meaning.

it is equally clear that vaccination lowers the risk of catching covid. That is to say: it prevents some cases. As well as reducing the risk of serious illness and hospitalizations.

Vaccination prevents covid, a percentage of the time. It is not perfect, but gives you better odds no not catching the infection. Therefor: Vaccination prevents covid.

As the parent poster said, "you should stop spreading misinformation". Are you usually prone to simplistic, conspiratorial thinking, or do you just have a poor diet of sources of information?
Yes, 100%. In places where they get software residuals (agriculture and enterprise, via FlightHub and other services), development is constant because a team stays assigned to it.

I do think that in recent years DJI have gotten way better at budgeting for after-sales support on mainline products. The Mavic 3 series have gotten consistent and meaningful updates for quite some time now. This Virtual Flight app was always kind of a joke and I’m not really surprised it’s abandoned.
How come you construe more housing as being a government responsibility? That is strange, especially when your government is causing these issues in the first place. Housing supply normally gets built to satisfy demand. If the regulations are too stifling for construction to be profitable for builders and workers, you won’t have houses. Period. Magic funny money only works for so long before the house of cards comes crashing down.

Interesting that some in Canada respond to the problem by expecting the government to do something all the time. They serve the poison and you want their antidote too? Canada’s leaders are doing a pretty great job of setting the stage for a housing takeover so they can conveniently come up with a solution that makes them more central and more powerful.

Do they overly regulate construction and make it hard to do business?
The UK had this system (council housing) and then basically dismantled it in the 80s. Then imposed some even more stupid rules. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41324305

Woking council managed to make some terrible investments and is now bankrupt: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-65920223
That proposal aims to allow type annotations as part of JS, but to do that the parser needs to know when a type annotation starts (easy) and ends (hard), the only realistic ways that can be done at the moment is explicitly supporting all of the syntax TS introduces (which is bad for other type checkers) or restricting to a limited subset which would mean a lot of what TS supports would not be allowed, negating the usefulness of the proposal.

What I'm saying is that if instead we said that all type annotations must follow existing JS grammar rules, with perhaps a couple of small additions, then we'd be able to support all sorts of complex type annotations in JS directly, using existing syntax. This would mean that TS's grammar would end up changing a bit, but that's a small price to pay for ongoing interoperability.

For example, instead of

type UserProperties = keyof typeof User;

which is tied to TS's arbitrary syntax, and not supported in Flow, use

type UserProperties = keyOf(typeOf(User));
I’ve been at a company running swarm in prod for a few years. There have been several nasty bugs that are fun to debug but we’ve accumulated several layers of slapped bandaids trying to handle swarm’s deficiencies. I can’t say I’d pick it again, nor would I recommend it for anyone else.
As soon as WASM is able to draw to the canvas, we can stop using the DOM for anything and everything and pick up where we left off with GUI development in the 1990s.
PowerPoint is where I first understood the concept of image editing as a kid - dragging and dropping. And clip art was before it’s time - imagine how much people would love that exact same thing copypasted onto a reel or a TikTok. RIP Dennis.
San Francisco tech salaries are not representative for the entire US tech industry. And on top of that, San Francisco salaries drive up housing prices, so i'm not sure if working in SF results in a higher discretionary income.
First you cultivate benign mass, then you harvest that mass.
You could achieve thinking though logical problems by adding chain of thought or tree of thought. Then the LLM will try to break stuff down into logic it’s already seen.
> realize that, when you restrict supply in the face of rising demand, prices rise.

Everyone knows this, so as long as there's a majority of homeowners who benefit from pushing values up, the problem is going to get worse.
If you miss it you can wait for this one next year: https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/anticipating-come...
Recommended reading if this topic is interesting.

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/17573655-trees-in-par...
More likely sales guy is just saving headaches from complaints about advertised features not working if running without account
So something's changed about DJI's API as well.

In the past, you could use 3rd-party apps that extended features, and offered new ones. One popular app is Litchi https://flylitchi.com

However, DJI seems to have stopped updating their iOS API, so 3rd-party iOS apps won't work with any newer drones and Android stuff seems to be available only by side-loading.

Perhaps there's something in the newer APIs that neither Apple or Google like? Sending back too much data to DJI?
Yes of course. That is an investment property; the sole reason for ownership is generating a financial return.
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There's nothing about LLMs that is inherently nondeterministic. Sure, if you're using some API you have no control over, anything could happen. But if you run it on your own hardware, you can make it as deterministic as any classic NLP approach.

And whether you always have to check everything is a separate question from nondeterminism. You could have a deterministic heuristic that is often wrong in a domain where mistakes are fatal, or you could have a nondeterministic model that is almost always correct for a task where errors cost next to nothing.
A thought came to me after reading all the comments -

Say there's a country which wants this from Google, but they're are not sufficient users of those maps there. Does Google then overrule that country's request?
Sweet! An Armatron for adults!
Yeah. Here in Vancouver you need 250k+ yearly household income to afford a very average detached single-family house (3 bed, 1 floor) anywhere in the metro area. A typical senior engineer salary here, for a local company, is $200k/year on the high end. AWS/MS might pay a bit more but not significantly.

The larger houses in "nice" neighborhoods are going for 4/5 million, so they're not getting purchased by anyone in the working class, by which I mean anyone who relies on regular employment income to live.
I dunno, it's a little hard to trust a website is up to date on present day tax law when the entire site design came from a 1990s reject bin.
> "And secondly, even if it were massive, it's not massive per-property which is the only thing that matters in terms of transactions here. Database sharding in this case is incredibly straightforward, compared to many other types of websites. And in both cases, just use standard database transactions."

This is such an important point that a lot of software devs don't get. If you think about the shape of the data, you can often find ways to naturally partition the data so that you are dealing with much smaller scale.
Obviously not. "Seriously" and "absolutely necessary" are subjective terms, essentially matters of personal opinion, and plenty of Americans argue that the limits in the US are either too loose or too rigid (see the current debates around social media, Section 230 and whether or not private platforms should be forced to act as common carriers.)

Meanwhile, cultures differ, and people outside of the US may well see their own governments' drawing the lines elsewhere, for instance banning of hate speech and Nazi propaganda, as "absolutely necessary."
You can secure another job before leaving the old one.
Yep. Take a look at Parrot's support for the Disco and Bebop drones. As of a few months ago, the FreeFlightPro app[1] no longer connects to Parrot servers so that you can login to your account on their servers, and only then connect to the drone a few feet away from you.

All this obsolence, just so that they can sell you the new Anafi drones (which will be similarly obsolesced).

Thank god for the Ardupilot community[2ŧŦ] stepping in to open up their drones for at least some semblance of autonomy, so that people can once again control the devices that they've purchased...

1: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.parrot.fre...

2: https://discuss.ardupilot.org/t/controlling-parrot-drones-us...

ŧ: admittedly some ex-Parrot developers helped port some stuff over.

Ŧ: Andrew Tridgell (of "reason for chaging VC in Linux from BitKeeper to Git", and other true-coder fame) is pretty active here. It's a very talented community.
It’s a shell game. A less informed population won’t notice that the political dynasties continue to live luxurious pompous lives off everyone’s backs, and the informed will be too busy in an unfair competition over scraps. Unless there is a huge surplus of housing, college space, and well paying jobs…your leadership is selling you out in a gambit to take in people who will gladly keep voting for them in return for 10% of the typical Canadian lifestyle. You need new leaders who put citizens first, not last.
Who Should Eat the Cost of Pricier Delivery Menus?
What part of "I haven't made up my mind, I've only just learned he exists" are you failing to grasp?
Show HN: Video demo of “go on rails” framework
Been working on this framework for a few years. I like to call it the "go on rails" framework. I use this in production for several clients. It runs so nicely on the google compute free tier VM. You get a 30GB hard drive, 1GB ram, and two AMD EPYC 7B12 2250 MHz processors which is plenty for a little golang program that just serves rendered HTML from database queries. I run postgres on the same VM to keep it free. Still plenty of space memory and cpu wise. (I also use that 30 GB hard drive as a "bucket" to avoid any cloud storage fees for images, etc.) Here is a 3 min demo of the framework:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU6-BTxQoCA
The real estate market in the US is one of the cheapest in the world relative to incomes. Perhaps real estate is actually more valuable than you’ve been lead to believe.
Where censorship is occurring, I think it would be better for Google to show that different representations exist and allow the user to pick from them. I realize they they cannot implement such a feature without losing out on revenue from at least one of those jurisdictions.
That's my understanding, too.

> Bun can run .js, .ts, .cjs, .mjs, .jsx, and .tsx files, which can replace:
>
> tsc — (but you can keep it for typechecking!)