skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that reasonning is correct. There is nothing inevitable about the dollar store putting the grocer out of business. The grocer doesn't have to insist and try to sell the same things the dollar store does. There are many other things that need retailing, and there are many other services that need providing. For example everywhere I look, farmers markets are doing great - while surrounded by megamarts. For another example, the alleged king of megamarts is doing a truly shitty job and giving a free ride to Amazon. It's not that Amazon or Target are winning but that it was Walmart's opportunity to not win and they are valiantly going at giving everyone else a chance. The grocer can absolutely "not even try" but that doesn't prove a whole lot. Granted that once that grocer has let both the dollar store and the online marketplaces take over, well now they have to get truly creative and adapt to two generation steps at once. And then again, surrounded by megamarts and free advice web sites, stores dedicated to wine with advice, or dedicated to cheese are all over Europe. Their job is retail and they found a need and a customer base that neither the megamarts nor amazon could manage.

You mention the web designer and that's again a good example - but not supporting the direction you want, I think. Web design is a field that's easy to enter (because does not require tens of years of experience or expensive in house server farms or expensive tools or license or large corporate team). It's not obvious for a busy small business to find a not-sold-out but good web designer but only because of near full employment. Probably that web designer should be more and more aware and agile using lower level tools (including generative AI and lower wage countries), but there is no reason supply and demand can't still meet each other in web design. Even in the age of Wix and such. They are different kinds of offerings which do compete with each other so that the boundary fluctuates but do not replace each other. Wix only displaces web designers that only do what Wix does. And even then only marginally so: a web designer can use Wix - just better than the customer - and have a service to sell.
> This rings a little hollow to me because as a consumer, wouldn't I have noticed a lack of non-amazon options?

You haven’t? What sorts of products do u typically browse/shop for?
This seems to be some sort of process executor? I guess like "parallel" or "xargs" but...

- With no documentation

- Closed source, not even source available (not "free")

- Requiring license keys with expiration date (not "forever")

Why on earth would anyone want to touch this?
Funny how they introduced WEI using an unknown dev in the UK. It seems dirty. Like something that wouldn't be ethical to have a person do, even if that person agreed to do it. They still haven't gone and officially claimed it, months later it's under the developer with a rubber duck for an avatar and 26 followers on GitHub.
Well, someone did claim this during the 2020 cycle, but in a quite bizarre and totally unsubstantiated way: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/06/arizona-repu...
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I cannot remember them telling that unlimited photo storage wasn't unlimited?

I was also burned, in my case by the "free forever" or something "high quality photo storage" (as opposed to full quality).

I understand nothing is truly free, but I expect when a large scale company offers something for free they have thought it true and aren't planning from the start to weasel out once you have uploaded a few thousand images using their solution?

Well, I have learned my lessons:

I don't trust Google anymore.

As some said it took a while to stop trusting Google because they had to burn through a mountain of goodwill, but here we are.
This is a classic antitrust case. Like the film studios in Hollywood controlled talent, finance, production and distribution, Amazon controls too many parts of the process giving them undue market power with which they abuse their so called partners. They should absolutely be broken up.
I personally have not used Tinder, as I've been in a long-term relationship (that eventually turned into a marriage) since before it even existed.

But from what I've heard, I get the feeling that the majority of men think it's a hook-up app, whereas the majority of women think it's a dating app.
Huawei and HarmonyOS? I know, rather unpopular ouside of China.
Counterfeits: In August 2014, I purchased from Amazon, shipped from Amazon (just checked my order history to verify), an Apple MagSafe Power Adapter. It was clearly counterfeit.

I contacted Amazon and told them it was fake, without hesitation they told me to throw it away and they were sending me a replacement.

It would be hard for me to believe that they didn't know exactly which company shipped them that product.

It would be easy for me to believe that they didn't notify every other customer that received that product from the same shipment.
Agreed. Who doesn't want Apple to be more open?
Possibly, the examples I chased down are usually patches to the gnome userspace stack.
Steam cannot distribute apps on ios.
Some local curry restaurants in the Bay Area use goat for recipes that call for mutton, and sell it as mutton curry – but I assume that's because mutton is not an option...
Tv and Hollywood writers in one of the most culturally exported countries in the world striked for several months with specific anti AI demands, which were then capitulated to today.
I think these new slated rules are actually more taking a leaf out of the Western democratic book: it's a distraction. It's a loss-leader. Yes, a small sacrifice that makes you (the gov) look ridiculous. But the gain? Immeasurable.

Because you essentially get people obsessed over trivialities, content-free but emotionally compelling non-issues that are guaranteed to channel energy but not move the needle.

It's a key tenet of democratic stability: you need to pump the media full of innumerable social debates that partition the market, so you get people fighting themselves over trivialities rather than focusing their considerable energies on change for real issues.

So I see this as more a proof of the "coming of age" or new sophistication of the Chinese "psyop brigades" as you call them, rather than an indication of incompetence that you seem to think.

Small caveat that I haven't decided about yet is: some of this could be to create such an overly oppressive "rules based" atmosphere that people are so afraid of tripping over any law they just toe the line more generally. But I'm not sure, this is directly non-Confucian:

In governing, don't try to force issues or you'll turn away from what is right. The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. The more weapons you have, the less secure people will be

And anti-Lao Tzu:

"The more laws and restrictions there are,
The poorer people become.
...
The more rules and regulations,
The more thieves and robbers."
> And how is the limitation of LEGAL liability relevant

It sure as hell matters when a guy comes here posting about how C programmers need to be sued for negligence. Can you imagine some asshole suing you because you started a project on GitHub but didn't use one of the approved languages?
Do you support custom LLMs?
I worked on a very high-performing software development team for several years. We never talked to each other. We only communicated via email.

I lived on the West coast of the United States. The team lead livid in New York City, The other two team members live in Russia.
There is no rational. The government will try to tax every way possible and as much as they can possibly squeeze out of every tax payer. It's just how governments work.
Etymologically, English uses different words for animals than the meat, and the food word comes from the french (cow/beef/boeuf, pig/pork/porc, sheep/mutton/mouton). Looking at goat in french, Chèvre, that is used quite regularly to describe goat's milk cheeses, but I've never heard it or a derivative to refer to goat meat. Typical dishes I've seen are things like "curried goat". Wikipedia has some more info, but notably, the article title is "goat meat".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goat_meat
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Knowing how many people are home, when they are home, and what rooms they occupy is data that can be sold and is sold for several dollars a month. The point is to stalk you and manipulate you.
> These same people writing books about the evils of AI sat back over the last few decades as [...]

What makes you think so? People in eg their 20s or even 40s writing books today, haven't been around long enough to do much of anything 50 years ago.

And hand-writing about automation stealing jobs does have a long and storied history.
Nope, Apple has been saying this for years.
To me this is the cleanest and most efficient solution to the problem.

Tbh, ever since voice assistants landed I’ve wanted a handheld mic with a hardware button. No wake command, no (extra) surveillance, just snappy low-latency responses.
Google raised prices by 10x or 20x a few years ago, if I remember correctly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17570029
>It doesn't make much sense to claim that real numbers are abstractions from quantities that exist as finite, quantized integers in empirical actuality. But if it's not an abstraction from something that clearly can be physically realized, then it is meaningful to ask whether a real-number quantity can exist in the physical universe.

Real numbers are absolutely "physically realizable" (in the sense that you are defining it) in the Physical World. If you have 3 litres of water and you give me half, you have just "realized" the Real Number 1.5 from a "quantized integer" 3. Incidentally even integers are just an abstraction of attributes of collections of things i.e. cardinality of a set of things. This is why i tell people to look at Mathematics as a Formal System+Domain of Discourse in the Real World. You do all your symbol manipulations in the former and at the end map it to the real world to see whether it is valid.
>So what? How is this even relevant?

Because when the luddites were kicked off their fiefdoms, there was no social safety net to ensure they didn't starve.

This is the point the gun ho capitalists tend to completely forget about while bitching that taxes are too high. When people are given the option of 'starving in the street' or 'burning your factory to the ground' they'll choose the later. If you setup a society where losing your job is not losing your life, for example by providing retraining, you the rabid free market fiend will have a safer life.
Asianometry has some very interesting videos on history and landscape of Semiconductors. https://www.youtube.com/@Asianometry
damn, hue was the only smart home thing that wasn't total bullshit and now they've changed the deal
Can confirm Ventura runs great on a mid-2015 MacBook Pro 15 inch (MacBookPro11,4). Mine has 16gb of RAM and an i7 which probably helps (also added a modern 1tb NVMe drive via an adapter). I use it for a dedicated music production setup and only ever hear fans when installing something or during updates.

My only advice for someone new to OCLP/unfamiliar with Mac boot loader in general (like me one week ago) is that the OCLP boot screen during setup looks very similar to the native MacOS boot picker and went through four different flash drives trying to follow the instructions thinking it wasn't booting properly from the drive. Look closely at the instruction screenshot to distinguish them.
I don't have any qualm with eating animals but that was still stupid to read.
I fell in love with Google when I used their first Gmail beta version (Google search was the beginning of the affair). It was a fresh new outlook (pun?) to how email should be. And Google wave was a jaw dropper for me. It did not succeed but the tech was solid for its time. Eric Schmidt did an absolutely wonderful job. Then came Chrome and Android and YouTube. Their knack of creating/acquiring the best products and making them world class peaked in 2013 I feel. When Larry took over, I was overjoyed since he is the quintessential nerd. But alas it was Elon Musk and not Larry Page. The Google Glass demo was stellar too but again failed to commercialize. Their early thoughts on high altitude internet balloons and self driving cards enthralled the crap out of me. I always wanted to work with Google.

I hope it returns to "Don't be Evil" mantra and create/acquire some world class products again.
> If a medical professional testifies that this is the only way, what qualifications does a DA have to question him?

Questioning witnesses is literally the DA's job. That doesn't magically stop being the case just because the witness is an expert. The DA is indeed qualified for this. You could even say it's one of the main reasons the DA exists.
I’m surprised the first result today for “how to cut a pineapple” isn’t an SEO optimized recipe with a wall of nonsense to scroll past before the actual instructions

How much tuning did Google need to do for that?
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> By replacing labour with robots and not compensating them, you're sending a clear message that you don't respect people and the value that they bring.

Huh, what? When you get a glass of fresh water from your tap, do you send a dollar to the displaced water carriers of yesteryear?
Bloomberg Outlines Succession Plan for Bloomberg L.P
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Because that “protection” is not going to be free, it will come (if it isn’t already), with a lot of strings attached

Having their own protection could potentially buy them a little more independence
from a maximization point of view, it's clear that there is some kind of maximum point in human welfare graph. It doesnt go up and up and up forever. At some point, we'll reach (reached?) the maximum and furyher progress will lower rather than increase the human experience. It's no surprise. But I think it's ultimately just local maxima. I dont see how this tech wont benefit us in the grand scheme of things.
> ...Not sure the 2 incandescent lightbulbs I use in my living room are really causing climate change...

They're not. Longevity, small profit margins, ease of entry, and bedding-down with electric franchises, all rolled into lobbying that changed politician's minds.

What happens when the electric companies here in the US see reduction in use? Profits lower, but that's okay, because they'll just petition the boards that run those energy monopolies, and our rates go up.
what if the answer is a high dimensional vector as the problem space is also in high dimensional space? Our brains are only adept at 3D space+time. all our metaphors are time/space. trying to compress answers down so we might understand them is there real problem.
Side comment, I have some ZWave bulbs and they pair the same way.
You don’t pay for HW specs. You pay for the whole package, with software and their continues updates.

And they take compatibility seriously. I’m a refugee from home assistant from 5 years ago, when each major update would break part of my automations because they deprecated some API. No such thing with Hubitat.
Likely they use Android, but are upset other people are using their devices wrong. So, to them, what downsides?
Getting more bang per buck is exactly how material progress works.

Reducing costs is really, really important, and nothing to be ashamed about.
Can you provide some sources about the flood destroying military forces and Hangzhou government raiding temples?

About Huawei stores being empty, some seems pretty crowded at least on the first day. https://youtu.be/YFeE2xHQVRI?si=2-tqnqXj8aF8srN6
AI is already here. Advancements in the next 5-10 years are going to be unprecedented. Will we be able to spin up a safety net at the same pace?
Well then they have to work with Amazon to stop it.
My sprinkler system is automated and internet connected. It’s on a schedule but I can override it when I’m not home. So if it’s raining, I can turn it off when away. It also knows the forecast and is quite good about skipping watering. Water is expensive where I live so I appreciate this.
What am I missing out on here?
> Why does this happen only (mostly) in the US though?
> That’s what we should be trying to solve instead of just endlessly escalating

I think this culture consists of many components: culture of violence (movies, games), people accept it as given, aggressive capitalism and social segregation. It is hard to tell how much effort it will take to rebuild American society, and if it is achievable.
Amazon owns one of the most sophisticated logistics networks in the world. They own warehouses and robots and trucks and planes. All of that adds up to a meaningful, valuable contribution to the world.

I buy tons of stuff on Amazon. I buy from them rather than from eBay or an independent online retailer because I know it'll actually get delivered to my house on time. For me, the marketplace is basically irrelevant - it's the promise of fulfilment by Amazon that I care about.

I sometimes reluctantly buy from an eBay seller or a random e-commerce site when the item I want isn't available on Amazon. Those retailers tend to offer "FREE DELIVERY", but they also tend to be very evasive about how long it'll take and which company will do the delivering. Sometimes they'll advertise next-day delivery, but take two or three days to actually dispatch the package. Sometimes they'll use an ultra-cheap delivery service that takes 3-5 days, with no prior warning of which day they'll actually try to deliver on. Sometimes their terrible delivery service will decide that they just can't be bothered to deliver to my house, so they'll lie about having tried to deliver it and tell me to collect it from a warehouse. Sometimes they deliver to somewhere random in the vague vicinity of my house (a neighbour, underneath a parked car, behind a bush) and I get to play a fun scavenger hunt where the prize is something I already paid for. These bad outcomes literally never happen to me when I buy from Amazon.

In the event that something did go wrong with a delivery, I'm confident that I could just contact Amazon and they'd make it right; when something goes wrong with $OnlineRetailer, I often find myself refereeing a dispute between the retailer and the logistics company, both of whom deny responsibility.

There are plenty of alternatives to Amazon, but from a customer's perspective they just suck.
Yes it was a serious flaw in the protocol design and made the whole ecosystem worthless from the day it was launched because some short-sighted product designer prioritized quarterly growth over making something actually useful.
They have chosen to. It’s a big difference!
Never use untrusted usb devices without protection.
They eat it in the Navajo Nation so it there are some places in America that its a predominant meat
Your idea of parental controls does not address the case where the parent is prone to spy on and do an honor killing of their own child, to state just one example scenario. This happens in some cultures. Apple can’t prevent all abuse obviously but it doesn’t want to be on the side of helping the abuser.
> Given that price points exist, the benefits of lowering costs of production are captured by increasing profit margins.

Historically, that hasn't held true for long: competition catches up.
For my fellow unfortunate HomeKit users, there’s always Homebridge, I guess. (Is siri better yet? i haven’t been home since ios17 has been out)
People find things to do.
It is erroneous to call a tax break a subsidy. They are not getting any money from the government, they are simply paying less to the government.

> a problem of small inefficient businesses

Would it be better for these people to be unemployed? Or that the money they would have put into their business instead goes into VAT payments to the government, where there of course is no kind of inefficiency?

The questions of efficiency and competitiveness are frankly only the business of the person with the business, not something for other people to stick their nose in – unless you have a better job offer for them.
> Australia and New Zealand have Western traditional aesthetics, Lamb and mutton are common here. What changed here ?

In my personal experience, mutton is not common in contemporary Australia. My local supermarkets (Woolworths and Coles) stock lamb, but I don’t remember either of them ever selling mutton. Maybe some specialty butchers might stock it, I don’t know, there isn’t much culture of eating it among the younger generations. That said, I imagine if I went back in a time machine to the 1950s or earlier, it would be much easier to find mutton in Australia.

Only time - that I can recall - ever eating “mutton” was in India - and I’ve been told that a lot of Indian “mutton” isn’t actually mutton, it is goat. You can buy goat meat here, most supermarkets don’t, but I’ve seen it in specialty butchers
> but mostly positive.

For now. But I see they are working extremely hard to change that.
> And lord knows actual governments, even the EU, aren't going to enforce consumer protections.

Ah yes, we don't trust an actual elected government to enforce consumer protections, so we'll trust a private monopoly instead. In a thread about said government enforcing said consumer protections, no less.
Writers striked in 1988 and 2007 too. Don't think it's something new.

Also even this strike doesn't demain to ban AI.
"Die a hero or live long enough to become the villian"
> Imagine if we were all working 18 hour subsistence farming jobs now just to survive

Pre-industrial workers actually worked less than people who have 40 hour work weeks do[1].

[1] https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_...
I've watched this being built and it's been really cool seeing how well SolidJS works. I was initially dubious ("No one gets fired for picking React", right?) but it seems like it made for really easy development.

How hard would it be to add a choropleth view showing metrics such as 1-year 24-hour depth across the globe?
I wish docker could be used more easily with graphic cards and other hardware peripherals (speakers/mic in this case). It would solve a lot of these issues.
I didn't say Chrome would actually make it work better. The fact that MS decided not to maintain their version of Edge is a little frustrating, because more competition would be better. Indeed, that's why I want Safari to remain.

But even reskinned Chrome isn't safe from nag messages to switch to Chrome.
I can't address the hype part, but just wanted to signal that for folks with some disabilities (including some older adults) these connected lightbulbs are very useful. Until, of course, Philips (and others) decide to screw with their customers. And Philips - a company, which manufactures medical devices - should know better, especially after losing so much goodwill after their CPAP equipment recall and creating a crisis in that market.
The music example is another good one: you can muddle through doing your own with free tools. Or if you want to get stuff done, you can hire session musicians. Does that mean there is a smaller market for session musicians? Yes. Does it mean the session musician job is now different? Yes. For one thing probably they can't be on autopilot. But there is still going to be a demand. Could it be that it's harder to make a living as a session musician. Probably so. Especially so during the period when there are too many legacy session musicians and already the future's fewer jobs - during that time offer exceeds demand and prices plunge.

The historical luddite example comes out - it seems - because the mechanization benefit is so massive to the owners that they convert very quickly. And an entire region relied on one industry. Little chance or time for the workers to convert even if they saw it coming, and they didn't.