skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That makes me wonder at what point does a business lose the ability to think?

You and your friends in the garage are nimble and hard working, thinking of some way to make it, but at some point a company crosses a transition line and stops being capable of autonomous thought and becomes a machine both greater and lesser than any human.

I would hazard a guess that this transition happens at the point where the company would continue to operate even if all of the founders suddenly died.
requiring a telephone contact (SMS verification or code from robocall) would provide enough sufficiency in scaring the perps to probably solve 90%+ of these.
> up around Brussels

That's not how it works though, they represent people in their EU member states, posters should go up in every capital because those clowns were elected by people everywhere.
Great! Now solve production data being destructively edited by management opening random files in Excel.

Mine was one of the early COVID test results lost when someone ran medical data through Excel. As expected, the account numbers didn't survive.
Why do people continue to buy poorly-engineered vehicles?

-- Slick marketing.

Always pay attention to Consumers Report ratings.
>grape juice "purple juice"

That I have seen
I remember needing 8MB to run a graphical web browser with Linux/X11 (I believe it was Netscape Navigator). 8MB was sufficient, 16MB a bit more comfortable.
My more positive take on this: our runtime environments are bloated because we have ways to enable trust, stability, and iteration speeds that people wouldn't have dreamed of in years past.

Your Notion desktop app and Google Chrome both support embedding & displaying multimedia content that's controlled by people that you may not trust, but they can draw on decades of engineering to sandbox that content. They can independently be updated without worrying about a centralized `flexbox.dll` that may or may not be the right version. They do not require building a new executable to make the vast majority of UI changes. And the cost is simply storage space and initial download bandwidth.

We can look with rose-colored glasses at an era of "every byte of assembly has been hand-crafted." I, too, look in awe at what was achieved with such things as https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/tree/master/Luminar... . But that software, per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer#Softw..., took 1400 person-years of work.

We have to compare apples to apples - the abstractions we have today would not prevent such a piece of software from being built, and indeed would allow us to build that exact software, even bit-for-bit the same, much more easily due to abstractions on our tooling itself. We have not departed a world where, given a nation-state budget, one could pay for 1400 person-years of work and create the AGC (though one might make arguments about the distraction levels of modern society, but that's a different thing entirely).

But we also exist in a world where I can build and ship a cross-platform video chat application in an afternoon (well, not counting app store approvals) and be reasonably confident that my app will be compatible with, and secure on, practically any computer or mobile device sold in the past half decade, regardless of how many other apps may have been installed on each device. I'd venture to say that Apollo engineers would, and do, find this aspect of our world fascinating, too.
Hmm.. Not sure if I'm already becoming hardened to the violence and stuff, but upon finishing the book I actually found it less difficult than both Consider Phlebas and The Player of Games in that respect. I found the Eaters chapter in Consider one of the most disturbing things I've ever read...
> Hell, I've seen knowing how to use the Windows file explorer at a very low level of competence put a person in the top five percent by computer ability in an office. Within the last couple years.

This is a really interesting point, phrased in a way that I wouldn't have thought to vocalize but that resonates with me. Tool-based and infrastructure-based changes that vastly improve efficiency and output based on competency with the tools/infrastructure are common; there's a lot of low-hanging fruit that is nevertheless uncommon for people to grab and use.

Assuming current AI generation improves in exactly the way its proponents are expecting (which is it's own separate conversation), it is still probably worth spending a little time trying to figure out whether it's a tool that will actually see mass adoption or whether it'll end up in the same category as many of the other excellent tools that exist today that have remained inaccessible or unattractive to most people.

Some tools do get mass adoption and people become competent with them at a mass-level. But only some, and it doesn't seem to strictly map to the quality of the tool. I'm not sure I can easily tell/predict the difference and where a theoretical future AI would fall; I would need to think about it more. But I just wanted to chime in and say that it's a good insight.
> prices are still quite elevated

Or dollars are devalued since there's ~40% more M3 than pre-pandemic: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MABMM301USM189S

Only time will tell which is the case
Tools do not exist in an ethical vacuum. The design of tools also encourages people to act in a certain way.

If we call ourselves professional software engineers I think we should also consider the potential negative impact of what we build.
i'm in socal and I work at FAANG, what are you interested in?
yes, m.2 slot when?

same for network
I'm not suggesting that the Fed could do that. But the Fed isn't the only entity with tools to fight inflation. In fact, it has some of the worst because they take so long to take effect, it's brute force, and it almost always overcompensates.
> Nor are they a “exiled Russian media”. They were founded in Latvia.

Founded by Russian journalists in Latvia after one of the founders were fired from a Russian media outlet for work unpopular with the Russian government, initially staffed by former employees of the same Russian media outlet.

So, “exiled Russian media” is (if somewgat awkwardly phrased, “Russian exile media” would I think be more natural) reasonably accurate.
I don't agree. I'm London, UK and rents ante rising at an insane pace.
They are trying to undo their mistake of their over participation in the mortgage markets.

Mortgage rates were too low for too long because the Fed was buying them up. Home prices went way up because payments were low and supply was somewhat constrained. Now, the Fed has pulled the rug out and is no longer buying mortgages. People with low rates are sitting still and you'll only see people selling who have to. So, supply is heavily restricted keeping prices higher even with the higher rates.

Only a large tick up in unemployment will create more forced selling and a maybe some downtrend in pricing.

The alternative (but much less likely scenario) is Congress eliminating some of the very generous tax incentives that exist for owning residential real estate as an investment. I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for this one.
Tom Scott goes from 0-100 in 1.4 seconds [video]
The expression fine line is used to mean a subtle distinction. And as you said, the distinction here is not subtle at all.
If you click through the link to the survey itself, it's to a Life360 survey of 1200 adults who use the app.

It's technically true that some of those 1200 respondents may be 18 or 19, but the survey was limited only to those who have actively chosen to continue using the app after they reached adulthood.

The voices of those under 18, and of those adults who reasonably said "hell no" to location tracking by their parents after they reached the age of majority, are simply not reflected in these results. This makes the survey hilariously biased and not in any way reflective of general teen sentiment towards location tracking.
Anyway to get a non-paywall ?
Sure, but that had very little to do with software.
It's also not so great a leap to think that supporting a country means supporting its citizens. Your interpretation is valid, I don't understand why it would need heavy moderation. Perhaps hiding the post and asking it to reword it to be clearer?
Parent here, I’m also surprised by this. I would have been horrified at my boomer parents tracking me by a wearable device. My daughter, on the other hand, gets anxious when she leaves her Apple Watch at home, because without it I can’t track her.

I will say that it started when there was a gun scare at her school. She used the watch to text me that they were in lockdown, and I used it to track her as I rushed to school. So I guess it’s a lifeline connection for her? That’s something my generation didn’t have to deal with (Columbine was during my last years in school).
https://archive.ph/sxYwn
What's the scale is not clear. It says 0 is perfect but what about 5?

While comparing it shows typical scores as -(large number) to +(large number).
What is wrong with NanoPi? I was thinking of getting an R6C to use for RK3588 development.
So use the same techniques you’re decrying?

If you’re suggestion for a moral quandary is to fight fire with fire then most people are going to choose the side they find more morally “good” and you’re going to find that free speech gets limited more and more as you hold up groups like kiwi farms as someone to protect from non government infrastructure and services.

You’re not solving the fundamental mismatch between letting people/orgs do as they please with their property and simultaneously wanting to let other private actors do as they please on the same property. “Free Speech” as a concept only aligns with “Free Speech” as a right when it comes to interactions between the government and private actors. It doesn’t line up with private-private interactions because you are inherently infringing on others rights when you want to use their property in a way they don’t want it to be used
A statistical rule moves you into the realm of deciding what rate of false positives and false negatives you'll tolerate. Based on data from exactly two incidents in this case, which is obviously a bit fraught.
What are your problems with workspaces? For my use it works pretty well:

* Deduplicates versions of packages across workspaces (desirable for some projects)

* No-configuration linking between workspace modules

* Doesnt force using a specific structure

* Top level module can be used to specify shared versions
Heh. I nearly got squashed by a van in Amsterdam.

On a “happier” note, a girl I met cycled me home but we hit the tram lines on Leidseplein. We both fell off and I landed square on top of her by the tram stop.

Oddly, I never saw her again.

So many anecdotes…
What would it take to make an 'anti-candida diet'. And do foods have this candida fungus in it?
Even between Google and Amazon you have different streaming support (Amazon is RTSPS, Google is WebRTC)
This is totally incorrect for the case of the Hamas and is overused as a statement. It gives a terrible name to actual freedom fighters.

The Hamas isn't an organization with freedom as its goal. It's goal is strictly holy war (Jihad) and it considers the Palestinian children it kills along the way as martyrs. It has been a cancer on the people living in Gaza and has physically stopped the peace treaty (Oslo accord) from proceeding.
> Is this what counts as "terrorist" supporter these days?

Yes, when you're standing in the way of Israel and US ravaging a country by supporting those people, you are a terrorist.
And yet you developed the functionality to enable them to manage in an aggressive manor. Doesn’t make you come off any better.
This is similar to what Rich Hickey suggests in Spec-ulation [1]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyLBGkS5ICk
i just bought an apartment. it made sense for me for a few reasons...

1) i've been screwed over by too many landlords and have become so exhausted with renting (i was forced out of my last apartment for complaining about not having hot water. i know this is illegal, unfortunately there is nothing you can do about it.)
2) the apartment i found was _perfect_ for me. it had everything i wanted...quite rare
3) i was not thrilled about the idea of waiting for mortgage rates to drop, home prices to go up and then ensuing bidding wars bringing you far over asking, like what happened in the early covid days.
4) rates will drop eventually and i'll refinance

maybe it doesn't make all the financial sense in the world, but it worked out for me.
Yeah, my major foray into Yarn was to create workspaces for a monorepo without adopting other larger libraries with significant buy-in. I was glad I did it, and my team was, but it was a super-hairy experience trying to get all of the tooling happy within workspaces. I'm sure it's all a lot nicer these days.
It's just annoying to see, like when people write "less then" or "should of"
High cost of capital is high cost of capital-- whether you're borrowing or foregoing other returns on capital to use it for real estate.

(Not to mention the not fully internalized effects of interest rates on other buyers' and sellers' behaviors-- prices have not nearly moved as much as one would predict from interest rate changes).
> It's called empathy.

I suppose it's just hard for many to feel empathy for someone who would go to such great lengths to avoid the consequences of their own actions. The timeline of events is just insane: Dr. Duffy consults with psychics about a romantic partner, gets upset when the psychics don't guess the true outcome, proceeds to lie about her friend's wife committing suicide due to the psychics, has a few posts about her stalking these psychics published on some no-name website, then spends 12 years getting upset at Google for indexing that website and autocompleting search terms instead of getting upset with the authors of the defamatory posts?

Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another, but it's hard for most people to see that chain of events and understand them.
All of these articles only matter if you want to live in places that people don't want to live in. That's why rents are so cheap. If you're in London, SF, New York, etc, it doesn't really matter. Also some of these cities have low averages (like New York given the size of the boroughs) but don't reflect the reality of where people want to live.
A distinction is this wasn’t automated once a human looked at the complaint.
Thanks, I get it. I guess I lost track of the naming after Office 365 arrived, vs Office 2010/2016/2019. Still not sure I can explain the order. Or the Mac versions.
How about we make suburbs pay for the infrastructure they use? Most suburbs have urbans level of infrastructure with a tax base that is not enough to maintain it due to the lower density, and end up being paid for by city centers. Is that also fine?
A lot of that is learned..

However, there are people who are tetrachromats, have cones most sensitive to a fourth frequency of light in their eyes, and those people are also overwhelmingly women.
Awesome! Would love to hear if/how your experience changes
Is there a link to antibiotics as well?
The irony of the dark triad sociopath trope is that it justifies the very malice toward the bad people that it affects to predict or explain in them.

The point I'm emphasizing is the dark-triad trope misdirects from the less interesting, low-cunning of most psychopaths, and arguably that of just the banal people you see trying to survive in institutions who are much more common. When you see someone motivated genuinely by malice, there is no difference between them and these more abstract ideas about psychopaths. None of the criteria for psycho/sociopathy are necessary conditions for behavior (like malice) that is objectively equivalent either.
The only word that best describes this is “dystopian”. I’m sure some middle managers will love this but I’d run a mile if this was ever forced on me.
Not in Redmond, WA. Haven't read TFA yet (getting to it), but the houses I see for sale are priced as if interest rates are still 2.5%, which is why they're sitting for over a month. Two houses down is for sale, and has been listed for (checks Zillow...) 46 days, and they've cut the price. Since I'm two doors down, I get to observe the dearth of traffic to that house. Zillow says "pending", but we'll see. Unless it's a cash sale, someone still has to get approved for a >$1MM mortgage at 7.5%.

At least in our area, if I had the cash then I'd let houses sit for six more months, let reality hit a few folks in the face, wait for those prices to drop.
The way all politics works - by applying political pressure. How? Depends on the sensibilities of the country you live in.
JWST spots enormous jet stream faster than a Category 5 hurricane on Jupiter
Cutesy, but I guess the problem with anything defined along aesthetic lines is that it averages towards the same standards or definitions of beauty, so ironically they all look the same, i.e. their looks have underlying elements which are unvarying, and I think you can evaluate this with mathematical precision. But I guess that's just a human problem, i.e. as much as we like to say otherwise beauty magazines or "the media" did not condition us to like certain physical characteristics, though there are splits along different cultures. The point being that the transhuman beauty represented here is uninspiring as it mainly conforms to what we're used to previously in fashion, media or the zeitgeist. It's okay if it's pretty, but I question that it's novel. I think if one examines what designers have been presenting as avant-garde during the various previous fashion cycles, one would fine more inspirational transhuman beauty examples there, and ones that are more "alien" to the norm.

I guess the other question is what's the point? This seems like an attention-seeking mechanism to keep up with the times/tech elites.
So my $0.02 from being on both the hiring and trying to get hired side of the fence. Also I can't do a whiteboard interview to save my life, never could. I mostly think the process everyone is running makes a bit more sense for entry-level applicants. You are dealing with a candidate pool exactly like what you describe above. However, for anything above a junior dev it is horribly inefficient.

Instead I'm always surprised more places don't rely on references and prior experience. Yes people lie, but in my experience its relatively easy to tell the difference with a simple glance at their LinkedIn. If I look at a candidate that spent 2-3 yrs as a Software Engineer at some company that I'm relatively familiar with, and they seem to have 2nds and thirds to people I know in the industry, then pretty good chance they aren't lying. Same for people taking the time out to write recommendations for them. Even bigger signal if they want setup some calls with their prior co-workers who can vouch for them, to me that means they stand by their work and reputation.

I recently went through about seven rounds for a senior role. During that time I repeatedly offered to setup some time with my prior coworkers from those I directly managed, to peers, to those I reported to (executive team). My thinking being that they could hear from the horses mouth how I lead a team, my work ethic, etc. They did not take me up on the offer, which to me was crazy. Yes, I could be running some machiavellian scam with 2-3 people who also made a fake LinkedIn, I also could have put up fake articles in PR Newswire announcing my last position, could have spoofed all those blogs I co-authored from the company I worked at 2 jobs ago, etc. But really, wouldn't it be a better signal for a candidate to offer and have all these things?

Instead you see an industry that puts someone with ~10 yrs experience through a whiteboard interview. It makes no sense.
For some products it is a horsepower/memory problem, depending on the device you're building.

If you work for traditional thermostat company that happens to also build connected ones, adding Matter on top of other things required a lot of memory and microcontroller improvements that we just didn't have the space for previously. Especially when half your company does nothing but drive cost out of the BOM.

So, it's net new product.

Now a security panel on the other hand should be a little easier.. the modern ones are basically linux boxes.
Whoa, that's really neat!
> And since when does Israel avoids civilians?

Always? They have been very clear about trying to avoid civilian casualties. Saying they are not always successful doesn't prove anything when you are fighting an entrenched enemy that is using human shields.
Not necessarily. Nominal prices may be down slightly but the opportunity cost is still high. With higher interest rates, you're foregoing a higher return in the bond/stock market in order to purchase a home.
FTA:

"A spokesman for LinkedIn said the company determined that the site had used automated programs to extract content from the platform, a practice known as scraping, which is a violation of its rules. "

Whether there are underlying reasons, this is the cover that LinkedIn is using for the warning.
I assume that the benefactors of a patriarchy do rather well. It naturally confers many advantages that translate into longer lifespan.
Those “freedom fighters” are still holding 200 Israelis hostage.
From the EU's own EDPS with a damming comment:

"In its current form, the CSAM proposal would fundamentally change the internet and digital communication as we know it, and that will be a point of no return." https://edps.europa.eu/system/files/2023-10/edsp_briefing-no...
Hands waving, no points made, got it.
Similar in nature:

3, 3, 5, 4, 4, 3, 5, ...
Big advantage of Raspberry Pi is that they are available everywhere for similar price. At least now that the shortage has ended. They have resellers all over the world which means can shop in local language.

My guess is that most of used PCs come from the US. A lot of companies have refresh cycles where buy new hardware every five years or so. There are a lot of support employees that get cheap mini PCs.
The issue is foreign commentators can do it in an unneccesarily divisive manner that causes blowback.

Plenty of Israeli Arabs (eg. A few who directly report to me) have denounced Hamas on LinkedIn but also voiced public criticism to the heavy-handed response that the IDF is doing. Heck, several of the survivors from the Nova Music festival were saved by Bedouin nearby, and plenty of the ongoing shelling in the North is impacting Israeli Arabs. Heck, a Chechen/Circassian mosque was hit by a Hamas rocket.

Western commentators are making it a black-and-white issue where you either support the Palestinian cause or the Israeli cause with no middle.

The 2nd/3rd/Nth generation Jewish and Arab diaspora have both been posting some vile comments about the other.
3D Gaussian Splat Viewer (top item)
Presumably that £3.6K ish is repayment, not interest only.

Try working out how much you need to save over 30 years (while renting) to buy a home. Don't forget to account for inflation in any assumed investment return.
Note: depending on the language, you might have to do more work to ensure that the original data is in a format that base64 encoding will support.

For example, in JavaScript, that involves making sure it's a well-formed string. I did a write-up of that here: https://web.dev/articles/base64-encoding.
Because at the end of the year your assets line for home will be -$25,200. In the mortgage case it'd be -$36,000 for payments but probably like +$25,000 for home equity bought so if cash flow isn't a problem you're better off.
MSPUS is not a great metric.

People are buying smaller houses because that's all they can afford. Prices are not coming down per square foot (yet): https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEDLISPRIPERSQUFEEUS

Prices have stopped sky-rocketing upward. Considering housing is ~40% of the inflation bucket - this trend (if it continues) should slow down inflation soon.