skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely. I think there are two business behaviors that underly this phenomenon: growth culture and fear of being outcompeted.

The culture of growth-at-all-costs has been condemned plenty in other threads here, I won't restate how/why. It's the problem that brings about, for example, "your A/B testing gradient descent" as the gravitational pull towards enshittification: the idea that robotically optimizing for greater growth/income/engagement is the right thing for a business to do. This ignores the huge range of ethical, profitable businesses that inhabit the space in the size/growth spectrum between "lifestyle boutique that pays the employees' bills and not much more" and "virally growing global superphenomenon". The presumption that those two extremes are the only inevitable outcomes for a business is poison. Unfortunately, sustainably inhabiting that middle ground requires a resistance to extreme greed on the part of a business's leadership/leadership culture--and again, the presence of some greed is just fine in non-hypergrowth businesses! There are loyal, lucrative, and sizable markets for carefully targeted products whose focus doesn't drift; "niche" is not a pejorative, and many niches are wide enough to be worth absolute shitloads of money! Unfortunately, continually resisting the extremity of greed is not something humans are good at.

There's also the fear of outcompetition: the idea that a Marl-serving competitor will grow so large that they extinguish your non-Marl-focused business. That's sometimes true, but not inevitably so--and enduring the risk of that "sometimes" is one of the grit-your-teeth-and-stick-to-your-ethics behaviors that distinguishes beloved minority members of a market from self-immolating enshittification chasers. Remember, Apple was a beloved minority player in personal computing, staying (and generally performing well) within a luxury/loyalist niche, for more than a decade. Enduring risk in the face of the fear of outcompetition does require bravery from leaders, but can yield benefits both in the form of profits/loyalty and--rarely--by converting Marls into non-Marls by showing an example of how much better things can be.

Short version is a cold take: the intersection of hypergrowth-legend-induced greed and outcompetition fear, applied across large groups of people with communication impedance, leads to crappy outcomes. As usual.
I've never appreciated the need for Spring. I'm told it is something enterprise-y. The typical response here will claim that for anything other than a hobby project you need it.

The JVM is still a great platform for web backends. Most everything I need can be accomplished with a few libs, the base Servlet api and JSTL. The rest of the front end stuff can be handled by providing JSON versions of the same Objects used in the project. A little vanilla JS to re-populate the relevant elements isn't a big deal. Yes, there is a little duplication here if you want the JSP/JSTL version of the page to render directly. As an alternative, you can render from JS with the inlined JSON blob of the page state.

Like this I can consistently deliver performant sites which are 1/100th to 1/10th page size of the latest hype framework. Resource usage is tiny. Time to first byte is instant, even from the DB. Context reloads are fast and there's no mile long Spring stack traces.

It is unfortunate, because many people equate Spring and Spring Boot with Java webdev. Overall it has given the tech a bad name. Jetty is less of an xml config hell than GlassFish as well. KISS principles avoid most of these problems.
> For Church & Dwight (Arm and Hammer brand manufacturer) to not only increase the price by at least 35% with shrinkflation, I wonder where the extra profit are going toward.

That assumes there's extra profits. They also have to pay for materials, labor, etc. which have also gone up recently. Perhaps they're making the same profit (amount or percent) they were 4 years ago at that size/price?
It amazing to me how much premium “health” food has all the fiber removed and is then loaded with salt and sugar. Those are the main health issues with cheap processed food.

At the same time, finding food that is high fiber, low salt and unsweetened is nearly impossible. Such food is literally made of precursor ingredients and subsets of the stuff added to the unhealthy stuff.

I switched to eating more of the latter, and feel much better in multiple dimensions. Also, most of what I eat now tastes better and is more filling. My weight is slowly going down too.

My current litmus test is that the fiber % daily value should be more than the carbohydrates %DV and the salt %DV should be less than it. I try to buy stuff with zero salt added (I have a nice collection of salty condiments at home already), and no sugar added (though that metric is already being gamed by manufacturers).

Simply avoiding all processed foods would achieve a similar effect, but that eliminates staple foods that are often loaded with salt, sugar or worse (e.g. yogurt, bread, peanut butter) and making them all from scratch is too time consuming.
Yikes.

> Most of us suck at using software.

It's so weird to me that you'd use this as logic for NOT teaching tech in schools.

If only there were some mechanism society had to convey knowledge about how to interact with society and common, everyday things, like some sort of centralized location you can go to where you're given the opportunity to gather and explore new information. Ideally, we'd work this concept into society in a way that the younger generation would gain these skills as soon as possible in their lives, and we'd put effort into making sure the individuals conveying that information possessed the skills they are teaching (again, through some sort of societal mechanism to instill basic knowledge)

Can you think of something like that?
I dunno, I think that might be overly cynical. You might as well complain that a brain surgeon only removes tumors because they get money for it.

Does Nike want me to run and jump less, to participate in sports less, to work out less often? No, they run expensive ad campaigns encouraging me to make exercise a regular part of my life. To sell apparel, yes, but they aren't telling me to eat more cheeseburgers or drink more booze like other corporations.
Person 1: I have a problem. Suggestions?

Person 2: Here is a suggestion.

Person 3: How dare you offer a suggestion when someone asked for suggestions!
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it's Futurama, I really really loved the show.

ref:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K7o-bSLCHk
I have a suspicion, just a suspicion, that it had something to do with COVID. For me, alcohol flipped to unpleasant right after I got it. Might just be a coincidence of course.
I doubt the non-nerds will want to join.
WFH introduced during covid really tip the scales of power dynamics between employees and employer.
I left Reddit after the API changed and Apollo died.

Last week I realized I still kept doing a bunch of reddit searches so I went back and tried the app.

The app is not that bad, hope the users stick around
This is outdated crap from 20 years ago. Virtually all of the problems of dealing with hydrogen have been solved. Even GWP has been known for decades (note: It is all about indirect methane emissions, so it is not particularly real).

The main point is that hydrogen is vastly cheaper and less resource demanding than batteries. You can expect hydrogen cars to be as cheap as ICE cars. Something BEVs can never hope to achieve outside of short-ranged vehicles.

A very plausible scenario is that efficiency of fuel cells and electrolyzers improve to the point where BEVs become obsolete. It's arguable we've already reached that point, and this conversation is just the "solar/wind power is impossible" phase of the conversation.
> we may unintentionally consume other developers' time

this isn't a correct statement - using software is neither unintentional, nor are we responsible for "consuming time" of another for using software.
If you're interested in or already comfortable with Rust, Amos (fasterthanlime) has a nice long-form series that goes into this, basically building a custom ELF loader in the end. The writing style isn't everyone's cup of tea, but maybe you like it: https://fasterthanli.me/series/making-our-own-executable-pac...
Bizarre does not mean not understood nor uncommon; it means strange/unusual. When it comes to the behavior of a metal material, this is unusual.
Only if they have both a different alphabet and a different design culture.

See for example Chinese websites, apart from the obvious different alphabet even the top websites are completely different than Western ones in terms of design.

You'd be fighting an uphill battle that can only be won with a mix of intangibles, patriotism and personal attacks against the character and validity of competitors which would let you hit because why the hell would Zuck or Musk care about some founder insulting them from Burma or Myanmar or Ethiopia .

You'd be running a much smaller operation compared to legacy social media but you'd be the King of that operation, both in terms of decision and equity ownership and speaking about that your exit (several years down the line) could be selling to the largest domestic ISP.

But I don't think it can be done if you yourself don't know the alphabet, culture and design culture of Myanmar, Vietnam, Ethiopia, Namibia, Tanzania etc.

Be ready to immerse yourself and go there, because you gotta go there if you want to do it.
Is that why iFixit rated the iPhone 14 repairability as 7/10?

https://www.ifixit.com/News/64865/iphone-14-teardown
A lot of the time it's not that simple to donate to the smaller projects, even if you wanted to. And when you can, donating "one dollar" often isn't an option - many platform have minimum donation amounts (often $5), and because small transactions have (proportionally) much higher processing fees, donating $1 would often result in a large chunk of that money just going to the platform instead

And if you're using the code in a commercial setting then it's even harder, because very few finance departments will be willing to allow and process small donations to various projects.
Not to me. Cursive writing has changed significantly over time. The formal flowing cursive from previous centuries was already unreadable to students from two decides ago.

Ballpoint pens removed many of the advantages of cursive, since you didn't need to worry about how the ink got from the pen to the page.

Today, typing has already largely replace handwriting.

History matches on. Some of the traditions and methods of the past really aren't as long lived as you think.
If they are strays why would you want to force them to be inside? I really don't get you.

We can have both desexing pets and letting them roam free. No need to force them to live inside.
I sadly don't have experience with either, but I'm curious what you decided on and what your experience has been so far.
The Subtle Shift in Perspective That Changed How I Lead
The Raptor lake refresh doesn’t seem to add much onto the 13900
what, like all of the palm oil that's now in chocolate?
I think you're wrong about the "deflationary spiral" as not being the central argument as to why deflation is dangerous. You can see it featured predominantly in the Wikipedia for example.

As to no one investing, nominal interest rates are based in part on expectations and the risk free rate. Kind of like two years ago my savings account was paying nothing and now you can get close to 5% risk free just to park your money. So in a deflationary environment you can think of money appreciating in real terms ($1 would buy you more a year from now), so required investment rates would have to adjust.

But it's still true today with technology. If I raise money for an AI startup today I would be using the money to buy GPUs, but if I wait a year from now I'll be able to buy them more cheaply (or buy better ones). But people still raise money to buy quickly deprecating assets. Or if someone wants to start a Laundromat and buys quickly deprecating machines. Or any industry that requires capital investment in a deprecating asset

Of course you have to consider the deprecation of the assets you're buying but the world doesn't stop because prices go down and it's actually fairly healthy. And the benefit would be the opposite of the dangers I listed before about inflation. Imagine everyone getting a raise every year because of technologocal progress. Imagine spending less and less on groceries because we improve tech to deliver cheaper food. Instead that's all masked by money creation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deflation
I agree this happens a lot, but isn't this an area of financial life that is regulated, governed, and monitored by states today? I am not familiar with the policies or regulations in play here but this seems very addressable by the institutions and regulatory bodies that exist today in most (all?) countries. A solved problem, in other words.
I'm migrating all the codes from my research team to using fpm. I love how easy it is to compile and run Fortran codes with it. It also helps to ease up the process for research assistants that are new to programming and just need to either run a program or modify a couple lines

Thanks for all the hard work! Fortran is getting more and more easy to use!
A lot of office workers have jobs that are mostly talking on the phone plus data entry. Lots of those are, if anything, even easier to do remotely than most tech jobs. And much easier to measure productivity!

Those employers also tend to be pushing RTO.
This guy has written cool stuff for Vectorworks.
Minecraft was officially playable in the browser from the website back in the day!
I guess the first question that comes to mind is what exactly are you trying to back up that can't work with iCloud?
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There is a huge overlap between the later Paleolithic stone industries on the order of tens of thousands of years so it’s safe to assume there was also a significant variation in artistic ability between tribes.
Nice understated sarcasm (e.g. "It remains to be seen which chip-making firm attracts which fabless clients").
... This really should have been obvious to me before replying to him, but I didn't check the post history first.

Maybe I should start doing that for such blatantly-obvious poor-faith throwaways.
Doesn't Lazarus address at least some of these concerns? (I don't think it's a drop in replacement though.)

https://www.lazarus-ide.org/
$10 retreads sound great.

Until the makers notice that people who'll buy $500 tyres will tolerate much higher prices for retreads.
My indoor cats: "challenge accepted".
Yeah if Godot stops being maintained, at least I have the source! At least I’m allowed to fork it and move forwards.
You're in California or Washington I'm betting. I'm in Texas, in a part of the state that definitely leans towards being "fly-over" more than it does towards being the title of a well-known 1980s prime time soap opera.

We could definitely do that, and not receive any local applicants for a week. Maybe longer. The few we might receive would be woefully underqualified.

If they're in (or just outside of) some minor midwest city, the same's true for them too.

Everything I've said is true a hundredfold if there's no university in that minor city.
I learned mechanics from the Ford Motor Company training camp and got a good job when I was 16. Fancy decorative writing means nothing to me.
> I think the only reason Unity went this route is because they don't want to be seen to publicly break the promise of no revenue ...

Not quite. Unity merged with a company that sells mobile ads: ironSource. They are direct competitors of AppLovin, the dominant player in that market. The terms and backroom deals that Unity is offering devs will waive these fees if they use Unity's ad products instead of AppLovin. This is clearly an attempt to abuse their position in one market (game engines) to bolster their position in another market (mobile ads).
Hacking my Roomba (to play Doom)
That all hinges on a motley combination of rationalizing, squinting, guesstimation of intentions and projecting future behavior of unpredictable third parties. One could have with equal plausibility made an assessment that Unity would not proceed with self-inflicted wounds, yet here we are.

Just like the "I've got nothing to hide" argument fallaciously depends on assumptions about the coherence of motives on the part of people violating your privacy, "I've got nothing to worry about" depends on assuming reasonable motives from private actors. It is a lot less strenuous to reason from a place that is agnostic about future intentions of third parties.
> We might also need to think about not having one term for all things. There's no reason the copyright term for software should be the same as that for a song or a movie or a book. Books, songs, paintings, basically art should probably have a copyright term in the 25-50 year range. Certainly no longer than 50 years.

Of course there is no reason, but 10 years seems about right to me for all of them. You create something, you get revenue for it for 10 years, now that's enough, stop hogging the art, invention, standard, whatever from the society.

I think it is a fair amount of time, I don't get the arguments that they 'deserve' more.

Also please notice, that the current copyright laws are made by the society and not by God, not a law of Nature, not a Human Right or such. We made the laws to support artists and research, but I think it restricts both culture and both the quality of life too much.

Why does Wintel 'deserve' several hundreds of billions of dollars, just because they managed themselves into a rent-seeking position and we must pay them to run any software? Why there is no gold standard of microwave oven or a washing machine that everyone can produce, so a competition could push down the prices, and you could buy replacement parts for it? Why can't I pay very talented writers to write my little pony stories? I want to. Also why is it illegal to live on writing of my little pony stories? Why can't I buy a T-shirt with a custom my little pony image I like? Or why is it illegal to maintain and modify a 10 year old version of photoshop? Sure, then their own 10 year old versions would appear as a competition to Adobe, and that would hurt a lot compared to the current situation, but then it is their job to be better. Etc. How do all of this benefit the society?

Copyright laws were created originally by the society to support artists and research, but they are way too long, mostly are just used for rent-seeking, and they restrict our lives. I don't think creators 'deserve' anything, but I think a hard 10 year period is about okay to the original creators or the publishers to monetize the product, then move on to an another product, or do whatever they want.
the chrome browser's history is synced among devices.
Slangy (like liker), I prefer it since it's obvious what it means and it does not get confused with the Anglican Church.
My point is stop eating highly processed garbage and start eating whole foods from local sources.
A CEO under who EA introduced lootboxes. A person that proposed that when player runs out of ammo could make an easy instant payment for a quick reload.

Unity engine seems to flounder under him, despite rather insane headcount (7,703), acquisition spree laden Unity Technologies with significant debt...

I am not impressed, not with his ideas and even less with his results.

For comparison, Larry Elisson (Oracle) has distasteful business practices, but very profitable.
Indeed I guess it depends of the size of the house.

> Feral AND domestic. There are laws introduced in Australia that mandates cats to be kept indoors for this reason.
I didn't know about the domestic one.
Yeah, I'm left wondering the same thing. The project page says that there isn't a survival mode, nor will there ever be.

Uhm... why not? If I contributed a Survival mode, and submitted it as a PR, then it would be rejected? If the goal of this project isn't to recreate what we loved about old-school Minecraft, then I don't know if this project is for me or not, and then I don't know who it's for.
Yes, there is an often overlooked unit 1 at the heart of dimensional analysis.

It counts discrete things that combine as integers, but are not convertible (commensurate) between different instances of the unit, like apples and oranges.

A hen lays 3 eggs a week (1egg/T), and a car factory makes 4,000 cars a week (1car/T). Dimensional analysis says they are both 1/T, but we know they are really not commensurable.

P.S. Things that do not combine as integers: water drops (1+1=1); rabbits (1+1=2^t for some time constant t).
so that team knows all future hire? I work on code bases that were written 15 years ago by a plethora of people in different imperative styles. where business requirements changed a lot over that 15 year period.

There's a lot of spaghetti code.

we found There's a strong correlation between method/function size and bugs.

There's not a lot of confidence because there's implicit mutable state and side effects all over the place.
Yes, seriously. Pick a characteristic and someone out there says it should not exist. I've walked past people with megaphones saying my race should not exist. I've loudly been told my religion should not exist by employers. Having your existence questioned is normal and probably unavoidable whenever humans with different values bump into one another.
Makes for an underwhelming tip-to-tip ratio though.
It's just https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_the_gaps

anything you can't explain must be aliens.
>And, insofar as such an obligation to “maximise shareholder value” might exist, that obligation doesn’t necessarily translate into “maximise profit”.

And even where it does translate into "maximise profit" because it's what shareholders of a particular company may want, there is no timeframe for it, and there is no way to tell whether any particular decision by the CEO runs contrary to the goal of eventually maximising profits.

Companies can spend all their revenues plus a constant stream of new capital on growing market share or revenue, on charitable activities or the happiness of employees, on huge research and development projects or on restructuring after restructuring and still credibly claim that all of it is ultimately meant to maximise profits.

The point where CEOs and CFOs have to be careful is when the company faces solvency issues. That's where legal limits of freewheeling decision making kick in, because it's where it's no longer about shareholders but about creditors.
Less sophisticated is a penile implant for men who can't get it up. The device has two shapes it is stable in. Down, and up when ready to get it on.
Maybe, but backend seems more squeezed at companies I've dealt with TBH. Not AI related, but startup I was at introduced Hasura (GraphQL on top of Postgres), and eliminated most of the work the backend folks were doing (even though they didn't like mapping frontend API calls to data all day)
I have occasional tinnitus and I really got a lot out of https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/whiteNoiseGenerator.php which has a wide range of noise generators and lots of knobs.
I thought it was Disnep as a kid. Even as an adult now the 'y' looks much more like a handwritten lowercase Greek 'phi' than an English 'y'.