skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> capitalist system will ensure wealth becomes concentrated in fewer and fewer hands. The only way this can be counter-balanced is with government regulation

I'd argue government is just the same. If you look at who holds office right now, it's predominantly the older generation [0]. They achieved that by becoming career politicians. Deng Xiaoping introduced capitalism which lifted generations of people out of poverty [1]. It has a good track record of doing that. The rich companies lobby the government to make competition for the little guy impossible and solidifying their concentration of power -- crony capitalism. I do think there should be a push and pull, but both sides are human and power hungry.

[0] https://theconversation.com/politicians-are-getting-older-sh...
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/20/world/deng-xiaoping-a-pol...
haha.. that's hysterical. Maybe NY Mag should actually read 'American Prometheus' and then create a headline. Oppenheimer got a degree in Chemistry first, then decided to go into Theoretical Physics.. (what??).. then he did some of the most seminal work on early Black Hole cosmology.. oh, and then spearheaded the entire Los Alamos project (including dealing with the politics, the engineering, ballistics, and theory divisions). Sam Altman dropped out of a computer science program (after a year), and then became a VC.. yawn.
Greetings to the Universe in 55 Different Languages
Can you explain further what you mean by backend functionality? The API itself is fully built out with authorization and stuff. But right now it is very manual, as in, you would have to generate the secrets and tokens via command line.
A lot of "rich" tech CEOs don't have massive amounts of cash, they have big equity stakes in their companies. It's paper wealth strongly tied to their company's share price.

Many of these companies' share prices is heavily influenced because a handful of hedge funds own a majority of the shares. For example, look at Pinterest: the general public makes of 11.7% of share owners while institutional investors make up 74% of share owners.

Source: https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/with-75-ownership-of-the-sha...

If those hedge funds all decide they're unhappy with the "rich CEO's" decision, they can dump the shares all at once, it will tank the price, and the CEO's are no longer rich. Most of these tech companies also have compensation structure where employee income is also significantly in stock, a price dump could cause mass attrition which can trigger a death spiral.

If you look at activist investors letters to Twitter, Pinterest, Google from hedge funds like Elliott Management, their pressure to cut employees compensation, employee perks, etc....this isn't some conspiracy theory. Wall Street hedge funds absolutely have massive influence on Silicon Valley tech companies because ultimately they do still control the purse strings.
They could send over ChatGPTed newsletters. Marketing bullshit is one thing ChatGPT excels at.
I'm a Gen-Xer, so I'm kinda Switzerland here, but I have to admit this is not without some comedy value:

2015:

Millennials: The rent is too damn high!

Boomers: Stop whining, you entitled babies! I bought my first house when I was still in high school! You just need to work!

2023:

Boomers: The rent is too damn high!

Millennials (and Gen-Zers?): Ok, boomer. Just stay away from TikTok.
But you still allow outright trolling on this platform:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37646378
Here's some context for this article:

https://gist.github.com/animetosho/d3ca95da2131b5813e16b5bb1...
You can't get mad at someone and think that will get them to agree with you. lol.
> We already have the Multiplatform stack that is mature and truly Multiplatform: HTML+JS+CSS

And that translates to Electron on the desktop environment and a webview on mobile devices I guess?

How is that better than Flutter for example? With Flutter, I am able to write once and compile to all platforms.
GitHub is an unfiltered firehose. The job of something like ASF is to curate. It used to be that an "Apache project" meant the same as "solid, popular, vouched for, safe to use".
I'm surprised they didn't just shoved it in SQLite and called it a day. It's public domain.

NIH I guess. Or maybe some old fart in company doesn't want to let go off their abomination.
I already use ChatGPT with voice. I use my mic to talk to it and then I use text-to-speech to read it back. I have conversations with ChatGPT. Adding this functionality in with first-class support is exciting.

I am also terrified of my job prospects in the near future.
An analogy for the desperate looking for employment, colluding to suppress wages across the industry, skewed supply-demand ratios in their favor. Take your pick.
Same. Buying a car is a significant purchase for me and I only do it when I'm able to get a deal and mainly buy used. 2020 was ridiculous. I basically named my price.
I did 2CE a few time in the 2000s, and it was the harshest teacher. On 2CE I had incredible hallucination in ritch technicolor but if there is anything remotly looking like a problem to be addressed in my life, I would mentally suffer until I made a plan to adress it. There was no way to ignore or rationalize away the problem, like I usually did.
Chronicles of the Cores, Peripherals, and a Sneaky Vulnerability
The second blog in the series where we uncover various issues in SMM implementations
Unless you consider 30-40% of the US to be rich this isn't about the rich. Although it is nice how you foist the blame onto the rich instead of all of society.
not an expert here, but there are thousands of variations of this.. the amount of effort and unique-whatever'ness that it takes to bring a product line into profitable maturity includes lots of people, places and things.. most of those are costs. If capital and their attorney buy the entire operation, with all the layers, the focus changes to the accounts and balance sheet, where lots of happy positive things are mercilessly cut. An unpredictable second part is, willing buyers for some of those parts. What happens from the consumer point of view after that, may or may not appear to make sense. Communicating to the customers costs money and risks reputation. Quite a lot of what happens in decision making is business-secret, some of the bad parts are forever hidden. $0.02 in America
Yes. I think they would broaden the definition of hate speech until they found some, and then ask for donations to make the problem go away.
A 501(c)(3) is a non-profit organization that exists to serve the public good. A 501(c)(6) is a non-profit organization that exists to serve its membership. So like a bunch of businesses in a city get together to form an organization that works for their common good. The business organization doesn't make a profit, each individual business makes a profit and pays their taxes.

A 501(c)(3) has a lot more restrictions than a 501(c)(6), so you might wonder why a 501(c)(6) would want to be organized as a 501(c)(3). Well, that's because donations to a 501(c)(3) are tax deductible and donations to a 501(c)(6) are not. So basically, tax avoidance by the people contributing to the organization. If those same people are the ones that created/run the organization, you might even claim that it is criminal tax fraud (I am not making that claim - I don't know enough about the ASF to have an opinion). But keep in mind that the amount of money that ASF brings in and/or spends each year is basically nothing compared to what WikiMedia or Mozilla deals with. I'm not sure that these corporations would go to the effort for such a tiny amount of money.

Maybe it started out with good intentions, and has slowly evolved to be worthless from a public good standpoint.
Just have the lottery entry application ask a name. Then check IDs on the door
> I can see this going the route of us having a Disney AI, Sony AI, Discovery AI, Amazon AI, etc. where you can generate stuff using models owned by the studios, but only those studios and any public domain stuff they suck in too.

As entertaining as it would be to have a model where you type "photo of an astronaut riding a horse" and it defaults to Buzz Lightyear riding the horse from Tangled, that's not really what people use these models for in the main.

You don't actually want derivative works. The interesting training data isn't Hollywood movies, it's all the junk people post on social media. What you want is thousands of generic pictures of astronauts and thousands of generic pictures of horses. Pictures of Tom Hanks as Jim Lovell aren't any better (and may actually be worse) than actual public domain photos from NASA.
> Can you not find a real computer that's comfortable to use in bed?

Real computers are not made for that. I don't think there's a comfortable way to use a keyboard and mouse while lying down.

I had better luck trying to find a bed for use with computers instead of the other way around. Even that was extremely difficult. I'd need an over bed or zero gravity workstation that's more expensive than the computer itself. I can't justify this cost for my recreational programming.
Living Off the Land Binaries and Scripts
But are they web scale? (/s if that isn't clear)
One of the comments on the video says:

“according to Google you are actually allowed to land in places that aren’t airports or airfields as long as the landing is done in a safe manner. And if the property you’re landing in is private, you must have permission from the owner.”

There also is a comment that says “No, but I had permission to land in that lot :)”

Andi guess it varies a lot, and not only by country. I doubt you are allowed to even fly over the White House at low height, for example.
Since you have severe problems with "whataboutism" and scope creep to idiocy; my rates to answer your questions are $150/hr , payable as a donation to the EFF.
Maybe the real problem is that the ASF has been adopting too many abandoned projects that have been “donated” by much bigger entities (e.g. Google donating Wave).

This is the right thing to do from a helping the world perspective, but it’s clearly hurt ASF’s reputation.

They should simply start saying no to some of these dead/dying projects. Or at the very least brand them differently.
Absolutely. Some things go into bugfix-only mode because their code has reached perfection for the 99% use case.
This is a good reason for the new King of the UK to override that territory’s law
Doomsday author: We ruined our ecosystem, now awaiting civilization's collapse
It needs at least a stable set of users, but maintaining a set of users is essentially managing the set of people onboarding and the set of people migrating off.

If you're shrinking then a competitor is providing better options, or your problem space has shifted.
Anyone know of decent modern keyboard phones?

And no, the Astro slide is not one of them.

Better yet: modern phones with really good desktop docking functionality ala Samsung Dex?
"Inability to commit"? More like, companies treat employees as disposable, don't give appropriate raises or promotions, and through their incompetence force employees to move on to obtain the market salary for their efforts. If anything, their existing company should be willing to pay MORE because they're already familiar with that company's systems and have useful knowledge built up over time.

Many employees would love to "commit". When's the last time anyone offered a software engineer a 2 or 3 year contract, with a 6 months salary severance if they're terminated before the end of the contract? Who's afraid of commitment here?
The hacker news title is also the opposite of everything we want: nothing to do with the article's title.

Which is:
The first Android is 15 years old, and it is the opposite of everything we want in a smartphone today
> This art piece held a mirror to all of societey though, not just the men.

The irony here is that you're continuing to focus only on the men despite what I read. I say that there's a huge gender disparity in the sexual violence that was committed against the artist. Somehow you've read that as me saying the work is a mirror of the violence men commit against women? But it's equally a mirror of the women who chose not to commit violence against her. Shadow or light, a mirror reflects it all.

> Was that act sexualized violence?

What is this argument? You're taking one example that you can question the sexual nature of while ignoring the multiple cases of literal sexual assault.

Can I ask you a hypothetical question?

Let's say it was a male artist and the audience was 50/50. Now say that almost 100% of the violence against that man was committed by women and that much of it had a degrading sexual nature, and that these women all laughed amongst their friends while the man they groped and stripped was reduced to tears, before one of these women eventually held a gun to his head.

Would that gender disparity stand out as worth mentioning to you?
Seattle is actually quite sprawly already for how small it is, by European standards. Bellingham is 140km away, just not a commutable distance in general.

Seattle has quite a lot of room to densify. Density could double, and it would still be less dense than Queens, NY, which still has plenty of homes with garages and yards.
Maybe not explicitly when traveling but when picking a place to live, sure.
Nice. Before this, I was using BreezeWiki[0], which is frontend for Fandom.

[0]: https://breezewiki.com/
That's kind of a high fantasy trope. "Blood and ashes!" from Wheel of Time comes to mind. It's like how they like to use different measures of time and distance. "It took him a fortnight to travel all those leagues." Helps take you out of the real world.
The point is that the majority did question it. It's a very uncertain proposition which is why they sought after the advice of people they trust with more life experiences and knowledge.
Elevators tend to be restricted to a specific group of people (inhabitants, customers, employees, etc.) in a way that public transport is not. If an elevator smells like urine, has suspicious stains or trash, chances are I'd look for an alternative. But it just so happens that the elevators I come across tend to be clean, unlike the public transport.

And I say this as someone who still takes public transport a lot, but it's increasingly less comfortable.
> REALLY fucking sucks at being database, and slows down quickly with sizing up.

This is over 20-years out of date.
I'd say that even in a family meeting, is somebody keeps saying "we are your family", that's a pretty strong red flag.
This isn’t a fair comparison, and you have to be arguing in bad faith to say this.

I have never seen someone pull out a gun, tweak out and rip out the hair of the girl sitting in front of them, or shit themselves, on an elevator. I have seen all of these on public transport in Seattle.

From another city, my younger brother was on the L in Chicago when a gun went off. Someone shot into the ceiling, no one got hurt, but holy hell idk if I could ride after that.

I still like the light rail in Seattle and am a massive supporter of public transport, but I understand people who won’t take it because of the psychological threats.
I’m a developer and I still rely on paper to do some of my best work
> I can't copy paste an entire book chapter and have flashcards in 30 seconds.

If that's your bar for whether or not it changes the job outlook for software development over the next DECADE, I think you need to recalibrate.
Not GP, but I certainly don't look forward to them. They are also much shorter duration experiences, and I can probably count one one hand the number of times I have shared an elevator with someone tweaking or shitting themselves, vs. the every day experience of seeing that on the bus.
Hi, I’m curious, can you elaborate on the language features that you think Kotlin ignores?
> Should we be worried about white men? In the twenty-first century, white men are both symbols of illegitimate power and indexes of social failure.

Perhaps the category "white men" is overbroad and too vague to make any kind of meaningful characterization. One day we may abandon such facile categorizations of each other in favor of something more substantive and relevant.

Alas, I could not read the whole article because apparently I have no more free articles available despite my never having even heard of TLS before.
I'm not claiming I know the long term negative side effects on MDMA use, but like any powerful drug why would I not suspect something that floods your brain with serotonin would not end up in a situation where your brain anticipates the drug and creates an dependency situation where your brain does not produce serotonin in normal levels without it? Anecdotal evidence from long term users in MDMA forums suggest lots of frequent users don't ever feel the same without it.

Bizarre we have gotten to the point where the default is "take powerful drug because no scientist has proven not to in a century long twin study!!"
Will be interested to see how this first(ish) gen of Intel's disaggregated chips pan out. I've been needing to replace my laptop and these seem like they have the potential to be extremely nice for a mid range machine with long battery life. The new scheduler hierarchy is especially interesting given how much of the physical chip they can avoid powering on at all for most simple tasks. For a lot of light use cases the entire "real" CPU and GPU parts of the silicon can be completely dark since the SOC has two tiny cores to run things and other necessary parts things like the video decode silicon were separated from the GPU.
I think you have too much samples in your databas. I think it's better to sample a much smaller range like 4x4x4x4 in the CYMK space, and interpolate the other values. (Perhaps 4x4x4x4 is too low, and you should use 16x16x16x16, or sample using an uneven grid because the easy grid will probably be full of dark brown versions.)

Anyway, it looks like someone else gave a better hint and you were able to solve your problem :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37643761

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If some day you have some free time, it would be nice to read a blog post explaining the problem and the solution. If you add some photos it could get some traction here (or not, nobody is sure what gets traction).
So this means that royalty rates for lossless streaming will be double the royalty rates for lossy streaming, right? (/s)

Since mastering for Spotify is usually optimized for earbuds and cheap speakers (i.e. more compressed) instead of a decent set of speakers/headphones that try to give as much soundstage/detail as possible, this is likely going to just be a huge waste of bandwidth.
That’s for a fine-tune of an existing SD model that has already trained on a mountain of data. Training from scratch requires a mountain of image data and a lot more compute, so you would need a 100% clean base model as well, but then yes it’s totally doable.
> Apache is the place OSS goes to retire/die

Fortunately many of us in the world disagree with the dystopian warped view.
While I agree the public transit in the US is abysmal at best, I'm not sure the UK is a good measure anymore.

Rail strikes and engineering work are happening with such frequency that getting around seems to take longer and longer. A 1+ hour commute to just travel 10 miles is pretty absurd.

Insane cost overages and years of delays aside, the Elizabeth line has suffered from nearly 10% of all services being canceled in August.

At one point I was needing to take the Northern line from Clapham and would have to wait 3-4 trains before I could squeeze on. The max I waited was 10. Then I moved away.

Add to that infrastructure issues like Hammersmith and Wandsworth bridge closures and commuting becomes a soul crushing prospect.

I don't know what the solution is but with such a high tax rate in the country you'd expect much better. Other European countries seem to have it figured out.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-66754481
It's good management from certain perspectives.

Whether we actually do something about companies constantly introducing volatility to our social livelihoods, abusing workers, and eroding our buying power is really up to us though.

You have to make it heinously unprofitable, since that's really the only mechanism in capitalism that would course-correct this behavior.
The original (I think):
https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

First improvement:
http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/

Later iterations:
https://thebestmotherfucking.website/

https://perfectmotherfuckingwebsite.com/
Are there so few bugs and issues in OpenOffice that, for months, the most pressing matter is to fix the incorrect use of "its" in comments?

I mean this person is German (their Github bio). Even if they're not a programmer, why don't they instead take the time to translate some of the many german source files to english, like Libreoffice did back in 2013[1]?

[1]: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2013/02/07/the-docu...
This should be posted to /best. Nice - and I'll definitely add it to my list, should I ever hunt for jobs again!
The comment I replied to said: "The family of the murderer must go through the same anguish and pain that the murder victim’s family went through".

So that's the explicit goal.
Thanks for sharing! I haven't come across this podcast yet and it looks like some great content.
A table with a eg handsaw “that one can use on me as desired” is very different from a hunting rifle on a wall. The sign explicitly encourages people to use the items on the artist. It’s really not far off from literally spelling out “please attack me”.

Of course that doesn't excuse people who do so in any way, they’re still the perpetrator. But I think your hunting rifle comparison isn’t very good.
> things like getting stabbed, spit on, confronted

Also how much fentanyl and methamphetamine smoke do you inhale/touch everyday in your car? Compared to public transit

https://www.washington.edu/news/2023/09/07/uw-assessment-fin...

>> Researchers detected methamphetamine in 98% of surface samples and 100% of air samples, while fentanyl was detected in 46% of surface and 25% of air samples.
Who said anything about a war between genders? Can't we talk about real issues raised by art without it being framed as a culture war? I'm a man and I don't feel in any way attacked by this discussion existing.

If the artist was a black man and the audience was 50/50 black and white but all of the violence committed against him was by white people, often was explicitly race based overtones, would you not find that notable?
Glad you stay busy.

Guess we’re all better off, then.

Have a great day!
Don't strawman me. I just pointed out your link relies on a totally flawed study.

I recommended nothing, and I didn't say there were no negative side effects. See HN guidelines please.
I remember reading that Starlink routes traffic via base stations in the subscriber’s own country, in order not to anger regulators.

If you think about it it makes sense; otherwise governments could just ban the sale of Starlink equipment for violating the law.
If you prefer watching a video, this is Marina talking about performing Rhythm 0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTBkbseXfOQ
> KSP2 is made by TTWO, who is a publicly traded AAA studio of notable fame and decades of legacy and domain expertise.

KSP2 was made by indie devs (Star Theory) hired by T2

They just... failed.. they negotiated budget, failed to deliver, negotiated another bigger one, failed to deliver again, and T2 said "fuck it", took IP from them and created studio to develop it.

ST actually wanted to sell out to KSP2 after that disaster but they basically chose to poach ST developers instead, because why you'd buy a company where management now failed to deliver on promised goals twice.

My guess is ST either bite more than they could chew or purposefuly lowballed T2.