skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the shortage of skilled construction labor is a huge problem in the US too. I have heard from general contractors and tradespeople that the trades have a big shortfall in the talent pipeline that is getting worse.

I can only imagine the situation is worse in Canada since the immigration system favors people with tertiary degrees.

We need to figure out how to incentivize people to choose skilled manual labor as a career. As it is the rewards don't compare with a career spent in an office even if the pay in the office is lower. That's because the office work is more pleasant and the career likely longer due to less wear and tear on the body.

Public safety employees (police and firefighters) have early retirements because their jobs are physically demanding. If we don't figure out a way to guarantee early retirements for people with physically demanding jobs in the private sector, young workers with options will continue to avoid them. And the houses that everyone knows we need most of all won't get built.
> What they don't realize is the good times happened due to geopolitical good fortune and having a ton of natural resources. But eventually the time comes when you would have to make sure that entrepreneurship is respected and encouraged and is the main way of creating societal wealth.

Have the natural resources run out or something? I mean, I get that some will eventually, but Canada's pumping and digging more out of the ground than ever.

Crude production has doubled in 20 years: https://www.statista.com/statistics/265182/oil-production-in...

A lot of the "entrepreneurs" are mostly solo professionals/trades rather than tech startups. Increasingly, more now go into a firm environment instead. The firm might create more societal wealth than entrepreneurs for professionals/trades.

A plumber joining a firm should get more plumbing done when appointments, invoicing, marketing, etc. are handled by specialists. And if 20 plumbers co-owner-operate the firm, are they all entrepreneurs or private sector employees?
https://docs.timescale.com/use-timescale/latest/continuous-a...
The implementation of many types of computation are not 0 entropy, but it’s just an implementation detail. Sure, if you truly want to erase memory, then you can’t do that without an entropy cost. But if your goal is to store information X for use in computation, then you can conceive of a reversible way to do that, or at least conclude that such a reversible process may not be impossible. In this way, Landauer’s limit is a sleight of hand. The conditions under which it is true does not encompass all possible conditions.
> The dev experience for building/debugging/troubleshooting distributed functions/lambdas is atrocious.

Address this part, or you’re just deflecting. Comments? Suggestions?
I’m curious what incentive will remain for people to render facts about the world into AI-consumable form. It seems to me that the same incentives that motivate this supposedly-$68bn industry are the ones that motivate people to write what we think of as high-quality content: some degree of financial compensation, some degree of prestige or social capital, some degree of influence over consumer or voter behavior. If anything, what we’re stripping out is direct compensation and authorial prestige, leaving only crass commercial/political incentive.

Why would I want to share what I know about the world, from my position of hard-earned expertise and original research, if it’s just to anonymously make AIs sound smarter? And why would I be more motivated to do this than, say, entities with products or agendas to push, who hope to motivate AIs to influence consumer behavior or political beliefs—same as it ever was?

I’m reminded of the eternal example of Wikipedia turf wars, where true subject matter experts try a few times to correct stubborn self-appointed editors then eventually give up and return to the more important things they have to do.

I can only hope smart people are thinking about ways to equip the AI-based approaches with something of the same techniques we train into would-be scholars: consider the source, check your references, cite your work, ground everything in the real world.
For some reason, like a reverse ASMR video, the sound of so many helpless hornets buzzing was heeby jeeby inducing lol

I do like how it's supposed to be all hornets from the same nest, so it's not like it's indiscriminate in attracting hornets that aren't attacking honey bees.
Believing stupid things about democracy is a problem for democracy.
Could you expand on what's "completely broken?"
It is hard for me to understand why anyone would build so many individual functions. Just build one function, put a router in it and then call out to as many individual handlers as you want. Then you're just deploying a single function to the PaaS and everything is simple.
That's an intensely bizarre discussion.

These "moons", or whatever, don't seem to have any connection with real world economic activity, and so are intrinsically worthless beyond the value that those involved in trading these notions give to them.

I wonder if there are any economic studies into the value that people place on assets and goods according to their direct connections with human wellbeing, e.g. food, housing, and clothing, vs capital, vs derivatives of capital such as shares etc, vs the crazy world of crypto.
Lumberyard was still heavily CryEngine based though, this version looks wildly different.
HN RSS feeds per user no longer available
Not sure how long these feeds have been broken, just noticed today. I used per-user RSS feeds to follow a few posters who generally write on subjects I'm interested in, but now they aren't resolving.

Typically used this format:
https://hn.algolia.com/userfeed/<username>

Is there an alternative available or is the RSS option gone permanently?
Nice to see the Matt Jones post on Jason Bourne vs James Bond linked here. Very appropriate, on Bond as a well equipped foreigner wandering through fancy action sequences & villains lairs, while Bourne is equipped with a sharp recall of the local train timetables & ability to steal cars and parkour his way through complex urbam settings.

That article got submitted too, and was fun to re-encounter! After living in my head so long & being something I'd orally relay along (and having forgotten the original source)!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37957558 https://petafloptimism.com/2008/12/12/the-bourne-infrastruct...

I could have sworn the pieces was like 4x as long!

I'm on mobile so it's not easy to see post times, but I assume the discussion here lead to The Bourne Infrastructure getting submitted. Thanks all. This is wild stuff.
You're missing the big the picture and predictably falling back into the oppressor and oppressed false dichotomy. There are toxic ideologies that spread like disease and at some point you are too far gone. Anyone who understands why winning WW2 was important understands this.
A decompilation of Super Mario 64 was only completed a few years ago; before that romhackers were indeed using assembly. The homebrew scene makes fully original games from scratch in C, but romhacks are alterations of existing games (although decomp blurs the lines between the two communities).
Show HN: A Chrome extension to transfer graphs between Notion and Excalidraw
For the row-locking example, wouldn’t it be better to include both A and B in the SELECT, so that the FOR UPDATE can lock both records? Even if using strict serialization, I wonder if FOR UPDATE-ing both rows would help stop (or delay) other conflicting transactions.
I'm concerned about the quality of an article written by someone admitting they don't know how to listen to FM in their car.
Of course he can sue, whether he has evidence enough to make it worth it he should ask a lawyer.
I don’t think the author fully understands IPO pops. For one thing, the beneficiary isn’t necessarily the company, but rather the groups (often large institutions) that bought the initial shares. In a lot of ways, an IPO pop represents the company leaving money on the table.
Additionally, they aren’t caused by some magic market mechanism that increases a companies price by x% when it goes public - they’re caused by the underwriters under-valuing the company (either deliberately or accidentally).
You are forgetting to measure. You are saying something to the effect of "if I fry potatoes for too long, I get coal, therefore it's best to eat potatoes raw".

How much to invest in design vs how fast can things be done w/o such an investment is a difficult problem. Very similar in nature to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-armed_bandit .

Sometimes the program you are writing is so worthless, it'll be thrown out tomorrow. Sometimes it may outlive you. The later is rare, but not impossible. Eg. my former boss has some of its code flying on an satellite, circling the Earth some 30 odd years.

My personal oldest code that is still alive (that I'm aware of) is some minor stuff in cl-gd library (Common Lisp bindings to GD library). It's about 15 years old now.

For my day job, I work for a company whose codebase was started some time in late 90's. While things have changed over time, some, and especially design decisions are still there. A lot of them are painfully wrong, and have been a burden on this company for the last 20+ years.

Oh, and should I mention the 32-bit sized IPv4 addresses?

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How much should one invest into design? how often should cornerstone ideas be revisited? -- Definitely not nothing and definitely not never. But how to know when it's the right amount? -- I don't believe anyone has a strategy for finding out. Good (or lucky) project managers will have a good guess about the timing.
i like this model, but i think the goal was to enforce a constraint (non-negative balance) and fail the operation, reporting that result to the requester. how do you do that in the monotonic style?
It's been a solid daily driver for me at work and home for the last 4 years. I would also be interested in knowing what you feel is completely broken. The window tiling system they came up with is really quite good.
Her, but thank you for rereading the comment, I appreciate it.
Resin-bound wooden tableware is banned in the UK: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/oct/21/warnings-ov...
> Have they announced a potential release date for Cosmic?

In May of this year, System76 announced that Cosmic DE would be released in 2024, possibly to be included in the next LTS version of Pop!_OS.

> As we develop COSMIC DE for its 2024 release, Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS will continue to receive updates, such as the recently released system76-scheduler-2.0. Development efforts will be focused on COSMIC DE in lieu of 23.04 and 23.10.

https://twitter.com/system76/status/1658935658642284546
The reason seems to be the same than France. I think in the OECD only the US managed to avoid it yet (probably a mix of net immigration, retirement age being really weird, and life expectancy 10year lower than the average
), but most of the increase is in Healthcare, specifically elderly care, and in the administration, also caused by the population being older: the overall population grow, but the number of 'active' do not, or do it slower.

Education, research and policing growth slower than all other ministry (although police funding seems to be catching up).

There is also administrative bloat, mostly due to more rules, but it seems quite contained here to ecology and urbanism (except in the education ministry, which employ now more administrators than teachers)
Probably I am paranoid but showing battery and network status together with the rest of widgets (even configuration icon) seems like a security thread, no?
Conceivably we could get some kind of Wine/ReactOS thing couldn't we? Something that recreates the APIs well enough to play most games?

That said, I acknowledge that that would take a lot more work, and it might not be economically worth it for Analogue or the MiSTer people to bother with it.
> It’s time it leans on immigrants

Uncontrolled immigration without assimilation can have disastrous consequences. And assimilation is a polite way of saying "give up your culture and adopt ours."

Unfortunately, without assimilation, all the politics and problems of the homeland will follow the diaspora to the new host country. It has been seen time and time again:

- Italian and Irish emigration to the US

- Migration from the Indian subcontinent as well as Muslim countries of Africa and the Middle East into Europe and North America

If you cannot solve this but still want immigrants, the numbers have to be reduced massively and some kind of pause between waves will be required so that gradual assimilation can be achieved.
It's extremely unlikely that NASA will ever return men to the Moon.

NASA just doesn't have the immense funding and infrastructure that it had back in the 60s. And the US no longer possesses all the infrastructure required to support NASA in its manned voyages to the Moon.
Ask a pilot to recite Navier-Stokes from memory. They won't even know what you're talking about.

Building a gas turbine engine without training? Forget it.

The only electrical engineering a pilot needs to know is the difference between volts and amps, and what it means when a breaker pops. The EEs who design the avionics are not so fortunate.
So... not pointless? Sorry I get confused. :)
Recommend you cite your data source for your statements that the government is falsely reporting data. Otherwise, it's just brushed off as conspiracy (I'm not saying it's impossible that a conspiracy exists, I'm just saying that for your comment to hold any weight on HN, supporting citation is needed).

As a two-decade resident of Baltimore City (and roughly semiannual tracker of Baltimore's crime stats), this prompted me to look, and to my surprise the homicide rate is indeed low (1). We used to get at least a murder a day. You can literally feel the tension walking down the street. I know that's a qualitative remark, but recently I've felt those subconscious tensions ease up (I remarked to my wife) - and damned if the homicide rate isn't lower.

My uncle is a cop and we have another friend who is a police officer. At least in Baltimore, myself being curious, they've assured me that all homicides are reported. The driving force is quite the opposite from the politically-motivated homicide deflation conspiracy picture you paint. Instead, fewer murders (asside from showing poorly on governance) means less demand for police which means less funding allocatio. And you can't easily artificially inflate murder stats. They regrettably admit due to the volume of crime, a random subset don't get the investigative attention needed to bring murderers to justice.

1. https://homicides.news.baltimoresun.com/
> where it's somehow acceptable to be surveilled by drone so people can see what you're doing in your own yard, so they can fine you.

You're saying this on an article documenting how this is likely illegal.
A large part of the population growth is from adult working-age immigrants. So the employable proportion of the population has gone up.
Node 12? That's cute.

We have an application that runs on Java 6.
Man captures 'weird anomaly' of Storm Babet lifting forest floor in Scotland
I know a lot less about the homebrew community but it's also very cool! Do you know of a big project that would be an interesting entry point for getting into the community?
Linus Torvalds also wrote a dive-computer app with maybe a few thousand users.

That doesn’t detract from his other successes!
> just one order of magnitude off, on a 12-digit number

Doesn't matter how many digits are involved; a factor of 10 is pretty significant.
Because only one person in a million is capable of taking the source code of a commercial software product and modifying it for their own benefit in a useful way.

When you start a new job, do you look at the codebase and immediately think "Ok, I get this, all I need to do is..."?

It's fantasy and wishful thinking to believe that it's even possible for someone to build Windows, MacOS, Photoshop, an AAA game, Chrome(ium), or even a commercial mobile app without a huge learning curve and likely quite a bit of commercially sensitive support infrastructure - never mind make useful changes to them.

Adding some custom features to a car is trivial in comparison.
This worked for me.

https://web.archive.org/web/20231021224156/https://www.theat...
> obsession with reminding us how flawed and comedic our checks and balances are

Literally on an article documenting the state being checked. A corollary to those who choose security over freedom deserving neither is those who choose nihilism over truth and activism are choosing a weak form of mental security.
There are seven members with magnitude +5 or brighter. Pleione is close to Atlas (+3.6), making it difficult to distinguish with the naked eye.
It was way worst than that.
The notion of inter-plant communication isn’t especially new, but this fluorescence-based visual and the prospect of “hijacking” the signaling pathways to preemptively induce protective responses, those are new to me.
Which pales when compared to the sin of overriding scroll behavior.

I disabled smooth scroll on my browser because I hate it. Yet the page somehow brings it back.
(heard from probiotics researcher)

Probiotics can potentially be highly effective, but you must eat some specific probiotic that helps you. The science of figuring out what type of probiotic you need is not very advanced.

Pharmasies sell probiotics for consumers and there are also foods that claim to have benefits, but they don't usually work, or work only by accident.

If you have been taking antibiotics, your biome is likely out of order. Fecal transplants can help.
> Most people have no option other than to live in an HOA neighborhood

Where?
Can the public sector add net jobs, or were they cancelled by losses of other jobs due to the new tax burden?
The days of pining for the highest geekbench score are over.

It's all about utility and how much I can do with my phone. I don't care about how many cpu megarams my phone has. Can I fix a picture I took of my wife and kids as they passed by on the Hulk rollercoaster?
Before the pandemic I had an officemate that didn't take sick days when he was clearly sick, it would be January in the Northeast and he'd say it was just allergies. Then the next week I was sick with the flu and TICK'd! I think it is now far less acceptable to show up sick to work and infect your coworkers.

In terms of mental health days, I worked at one place for a long time and had enough vacation days that I could use one as a mental health day. Then I changed jobs and the new place gave so few vacation days that when I thought about a long weekend to visit family I'd have to wonder whether that family member was worth spending the precious vacation day on. If the company vacation plan is sufficient then you don't need to use a sick day for a mental health day.
Please check my reply to one of the comments above
I remember a time when it was an honestly-debated question whether it would be TCL or Scheme that would become the universally adopted extension language for all software, particularly for this new interesting technology known as the World Wide Web.
What evidence do you have that there is a causal inverse relationship between public sector growth and private sector growth? Isn’t it entirely possible that private sector growth has lagged because some third process has produced fewer entrepreneurs and fewer entrepreneurs results in less private sector growth? It’s possible that the relative difference in public and private sector growth is caused by fewer entrepreneurs, not the other way around. Basically, your argument is a classic case of assuming causality from a correlation.
> I have never seen an HOA that does any of that

My HOA does. It mows lawns and removes snow. That's almost it: the rules are largely about not storing explosives in your house, which is apparently a thing in Wyoming.
I really wish the ML researchers would have stayed with Vulkan or OpenCL instead of standardising on CUDA. Everyone must have known how it would end.
Why do they go through the trouble of providing a .deb package if they're going to chuck FHS in the bin and dump their install in /opt?
Lambdas trade developer experience for operational simplicity.

And they suit use cases where they are independent from each other and can be tested in isolation eg transcoding.

In the early days of AWS Lambda I saw teams trying to apply older techniques to lambdas and get stuck with things like distributed transactions but industry has learnt a lot since then. So as always right tool for the right job.
I can see where Stripe is coming from. At best this lands in some kind of gray area, but really it seems pretty clear why this is getting a no go.

On an extremely fundamental level, people give you money and you give them drugs. The fact you only administer the drugs in your office doesn't change the basic premise.

I don't know your specifics, such as if the patient's money goes straight to a pharmacy to pay for the drugs which are then shipped to you for in-office administration (which would probably impossible to explain anyway). However, even if that's the case people are still giving you money (for appointments, treatment, etc.) and ending up with drugs in their body.

You'd likely have to split the medical CE conferences off from your practice and run it as a seperate entity before Stripe would be willing to take payment.
> I have never seen such a product before that is so popular, and yet many of its users are also rooting against it.

This is basically what it looks like when there's a product people feel locked into because of network effects and lack of options. People want something different but know they can't move en masse unless everyone is, by definition. So they root against it because they want the whole thing destabilized to a point where people are incentivized to make and try alternatives.

If any of this worked like a healthy competitive ecosystem, people would have just switched to a different service or whatever.

It's the classic chicken and egg problem in networked technology.
google says: The latest data indicate that 39.6 percent of U.S. adults are obese.

332M x .396 = 131M

I think we’re losing the War on Obesity
If it doesn’t work for the developers, then eventually it won’t work for anybody.

Trading developer experience for just about anything does not scale - up or down.

It’s a false economy.
Ogre was a huge part of my learning how to program when I was a kid. Makes me happy to see it still going
> largely on account of the victims being unsympathetic.

the crass bullshit that people on HN say astounds me every day. the victims here are literally the people who need protecting the most
The one that follows shows what they call "incorrect" is just 2X larger.

When I read the article I determined it was basically some folks on a hobby horse trying to promote their view and saying other people are wrong.

I don't have a problem with debunking absolutely made-up (no original source) numbers, but if you're sying people are wrong with a factor of 2 or 10 difference, you're just being overly pedantic.
It’s because cars are programmed differently I default to radio.

No matter what. My car turns the radio on. There is no mode to turn it off and not have it turn back on the next ride.
Angle? To make money. What else? They are adtech.
That's possible. I have a Minosharp sharpener which I use frequently so I don't see it as a real problem. My knives are still sharp enough to shave hair!
Thanks that's clear! I'll get the PC version. After all I'm lucky to have a 4090. I think I would prefer the more atmospheric realistic look.