skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference is that PE is just one of many kinds of buyers, but the one that has a particular tendency of doing trades with nasty externalities. It's this pattern of buying that is a problem, and I don't see fighting it any different than fighting factories dumping toxic waste into rivers. Factories, in general, are not a problem. Actions that have destructive impact on people at scale are a problem.

Startups are a bad example because I absolutely would stop startups from being acquired as a general phenomenon. The pattern of startups seeking an exit is one of the worst economic innovations that happened to the world. They at best just waste time of their users/ customers before inevitable rugpull, and at worst, they actively disrupt whole market segments - not creatively disrupt, just in the "blow the whole thing up with VC money, disappear when it's clear the business was never sustainable" kind of way.

And again, it's not the acquisitions as a concept that are the problem - it's the pattern of startups being created with acquisition as the goal that is a problem.
Pollution!=climate change from co2
> But we’ve been hearing “just x years left until catastrophe” for decades now

Sure; and every year that number as been getting smaller.

Just because you ignore it doesn't mean that it will go away magically.
> And think of the sheer number of libraries - one for each language adopted - that need to be supported to provide common functionality that all services need, like logging.

This is the #1 reason we quit the microservices game. It is simply a complete waste of mental bandwidth to worry about with the kind of tooling we have in 2023 (pure cloud native / infiniscale FaaS), especially when you have a customer base (e.g. banks & financial instutitions) who will rake you over hot coals for every single 3rd party dependency you bring.

We currently operate with one monolithic .NET binary distribution which is around 250 megs (gzipped). Not even the slightest hint of cracks forming. So, if you are sitting there with a 10~100 meg SaaS distribution starting to get nervous about pedantic things like "my exe doesnt fit in L2 anymore", then rest assured - Your monolithic software journey hasn't even begun yet.

God forbid you find yourself with a need to rewrite one of these shitpiles. Wouldn't it be a hell of a lot easier if it was all in one place where each commit is globally consistent?
I am cautiously optimistic that this is indeed possible.

But the kind of AI that can achieve it has to itself be capable of what it is helping defend us from. Which suggests that limiting the capabilities of AI in the name of AI safety is not a good idea.
I don't know the timeline, but Apple has committed [1] to adding WebTransport support to WebKit.

[1]: https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/18#issu...
You are comparing the dirty real world with an idealized “only pay those at risk” scenario. Anyone over 35 had a pretty high death rate - as you said due to comorbities but how many of those were clearly identifiable?

Additionally, imagine the optics of “anyone fat can stay home while the rest of you have to go in to work.” How would that work in practice?

And finally, populations did not fully isolate. How much more quickly would things have soread (and overwhelmed the healthcare system) if folks just went about their business? How likely is it that the “not at risk” population (now with higher likelihood of having covid do to freer movement) would stay away from those at risk?

I’m not disagreeing with some of the ideas you put forth, but your comment comes across as absolutely certain. The world doesn’t work with that kind of certainty - we can’t all even agree on what did happen/work. Heck - lots of people don’t think the vaccine itself is necessary!

I can tell this subject frustrates you. One way to help yourself be less frustrated (and more correct!) would be to think more probabilistically and accept that all of the options are bad ones, and your preferred intervention might have been better but it also might have been worse. The world is dynamic and we don’t have any counterfactuals that we can use as comps.
Sounds like the "codetermination" concept in Germany: for corporations over a certain size, the workers elect some significant fraction of the board of directors.
The link is https://t.me/jobboardsearch
Covid-19 Vaccination and All-Cause Mortality
> They should partner with qualcomm, not broadcom.

lol, are you unaware of how qualcomm treats all of it's customers, including megacorps?
Color changing escape codes in build and server logs are so obnoxious.

And also progress reports using cursor motion, like pulling multiple docker layers in parallel, that hyperactivity update a hundred times a second.

Docker has a -progress=plain parameter that at least suppresses the cursor motion, but it still spams the logs ridiculously, and google cloudbuild and server logs don't use it.

I bet cloud providers make millions of dollars charging their customers to log and store that kind of voluminous worthless crap.

And then I have to spend hours every month slowly scrolling through that crap page by page to traverse the server and cloudbuild logs just to see what happened after docker containers finally downloaded.
It was an interesting problem indeed! I had some write up about it (and the whole project) in a link I have in the comment above, might gives more context.

> I bet with FlexFEC [0]

The previous draft (1) of this was my basis when I did the FEC sender. I didn’t manage to have it streamed 4K into the browser though, my client was OBS with gstreamer as it was far more performant than a browser in my tests, have you/any demo you did that I can try to stream it into the browser? That would be really major improvement! And appreciate the help, O would definitely give it another shot!

(1) https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-payload-fle...
I quit my full time job to focus on building MVP's
Hi All,

I am a solo founder with a decade of experience in front-end, backend, recommendation engines, observability systems, infrastructure setup etc.
From October 2023 I started working full time on my dev agency to scale it.
Given there are many dev agencies, to pick a niche and stand out from the crowd is no easy thing. One thing that we have did consistently is to push content, refine our target audience, change our landing page to focus our niche.

Marketing is something which takes up a lot of my time.
At oohalo.com I work with founders to get their apps out to the market fastly.
I felt there was a need for something more specific and started building out MVP's for clients. makers and solopreneurs. jetspeedstudio.com is in that direction.. Here, I build MVP in flat 2 weeks at $999. Of course if you have a complex app, that varies.
This journey is going to be interesting and I look forward to see how it goes.
"Up to" $180k for expertise in a field that is as technical and in as much demand as AI is low. For experts in AI, I wouldn't be surprised if their total comp in larger tech companies is around $500k-$1M.

You can expect to find some experts with a stronger sense of civic duty willing to take a pay cut to work for the government, but when you're talking about multiple multiples of your salary, you're going to be left with people who are not top talent or those who are already so wealthy from other jobs that they're willing to work for much less.
I believe the government had one “Oh shit!” card where they could require dramatic changes for the good of the people and they used it on Covid. I cannot see the general populations accepting the changes needed for climate change.

(I’m cynical of peoples behaviours but do know climate change is real)
From my somewhat limited perspective, unions in the US and in Sweden are two completely different things.

I've heard some horror stories in Sweden about small local unions that act like the US ones, but that's pretty rare.

Sweden has a system that is based mainly on negotiations between the employers and the unions. This has worked fairly well for 90 years now.

When the big Swedish companies like Volvo, Ericsson, Skanska, SAAB etc have to make drastic cuts, this is normally done with the union on board and few strikes.
I know of an intern (with a master mentor) who did a one char change and saved our company many millions - the change was to update the threshold of data size of when to not compress small messages - this threshold was updated after many many years - old threshold was based on old compute and network costs.
Are any of Orange Pi boards mainlined?
this is the real thing. this looks like it's gov't legislation, but we all know that it is corporate lobbyists that actually provide that legislation.
That sounds like a very nice and theatrical outcome, but in reality nobody wants to believe they've been horribly wrong about their understanding of things, which means the higher-ups are going to be talking directly to the managers to get their side and figure out how they can show you've misrepresented the situation. They're not going to fire managers en masse because the new guy said "Everyone here is dumb and cowardly," even with evidence.
I’ve also been hearing “we have x number of years left to abate catastrophe”. My observation is that X keeps getting smaller
The US unions are also plain weird. There shouldn't be a New York Times Tech Workers union, that makes zero sense. There needs to be a "software engineers union" or "Programmers Union", which covers employees from multiple companies. Part of the leverage a "normal" union would have is that if, say the New York Times, don't improve working conditions or act increasingly hostile, then the union can call on members in other similar companies to strike in order for their employer to put pressure on the New York Times.

The small hyper localized union are silly and I can't imagine that they work all that well. The membership cost is also insane, but I suspect that's because they are tiny. Ideally the members at a company the size of the New York Times could be on strike indefinitely, being supported by the members of thousands of other companies.
it's really https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox, normal people impact is lower, but they are more numerous, we are sand grains
Also brings to mind http://recursivedrawing.com/, which has been discussed here previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19680149

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16728049

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3951255
Such good news that unions are getting more legitimacy in the US. Keep it up!
Because my GitLab self-hosted instance is up currently and theirs isn't.
You can't just multiply by 3 (it's smaller than that), but yes, you need to adjust both.

https://planetcalc.com/7044/

(Just to be clear: this is the wrong model. An annual rate of cancer (X%) at a population aggregate does not mean that you have X% independent probability of getting cancer per year. But even assuming that was true, you couldn't just multiply by 3.)
Go interview somewhere else. Go drive an uber. There are lots of other places to get a paycheck. :)
Chrome based web browsers censures gazari radio stations on radio garden. On Firefox and Safari web browsers this radio station it's showed.

This blatant censure it's horrific. It's another attempt to hide the genocide happening now in Gaza.
FWIW Apple Photos is even worse. There is no mass export mechanism for Apple Photos, and it won't let you sync an album on MacOS to an external drive. I had to make a MacOS VM on my server and attach a large internal drive. Then, after syncing my 900 GB of media, I connected the drive to a Linux VM and extracted the media from the Photos library.
For those people who don't want to rely on "Scientists" in the Media: Some materials from the ground contain carbon. We dig it out, use it for some purpose, and the carbon is now in circulation. Each year we bring more carbon into circulation, there is no process for bringing the carbon out of circulation (in less than 10 million years). So for any negative effect that CO2 has: Its going to get much worse, and halting all carbon digging will stop it from getting worse, not reversing it.
Just that in this case, the wolves have been true the whole time.

We've known that climate change is a problem for more than 50 years now. Just because we chose to ignore it doesn't mean there was no climate change.
> GPS data: ~~from JSON to Exif - Thank you @DalenW still thank you, but it~~ is now missing in the Dart version

It seems that it doesn’t parse the GPS data anymore.
The eBPF programs handle passing the context through the requests by adding a field to the header as you mentioned. The injected field is according to the w3c standard.
That's so exciting! I had no idea you were working on this :)

Here [0] is a link for anyone that is looking for it.

[0] https://github.com/w3c/webrtc-rtptransport/blob/main/explain...
Responses like this and how we handled the pandemic are why I think billions of people are going to die and some folks will still insist it’s just El Niño.
After reading Thomas Piketty's theories on "Capital in the 21st Century," a lot of these issues have really come to light.

Capital grows about 2-4% each year in real terms, while the economy (labor) in general grows 1-2%. i.e. if you own stuff (shares of companies, property (real or intangible), land, etc. etc.) your worth grow twice that of a working person. Compounded over 60 years (time after WW2), capital has grown ~100% more than labor. There is real generational wealth in America & the rest of the OECD world, and this wealth is growing at absurd rates. I'm not to lobby or claim that I have a solution or that wealth should be distributed. All I'm saying is there is a giant monkey in the room. And this isn't just and Elon or Bezos or Ivy League elite problem. There are even small $1-$10M blue collar businesses that no one could possibly start today even if you had the skills & knowledge with how money it would take to buy equipment, have a shop space / real estate, cash burn in the first few years, etc.

I do think it is worrisome that businesses and its capital are largely going private. Public companies have much more scrutiny with the SEC, big labor, and has more checks & balances. It's also a vehicle for normal folks to invest money into a retirement plan; you can throw tens of thousands of dollars and actually own parts of major companies.

I also think the economy of scale for PE is very worrisome. Many folks here have talked about Vet clinics, medical clinics, etc. When PE gets together, they can buy buy buy and bleed bleed bleed money until the competition is out, and then they can jack up prices to make the difference up.

Thoughts / 2 cents.
Yeah, sorry for that! I'm planning to move away from Obsidian Publish once I have more time.

For now I'm trying to focus on writing and sharing (sometimes half-finished) work, rather than polishing the site template, which is a huge temptation for me tbf.

PS. I'm also writing a mini-review of Obsidian Publish. I might use your comment if that's ok with you.
And for decades the response has been to double down and increase production of GHG's and extraction of more oil. But at some point, someone does have to pay the bill for the mess and higher taxes are not good or evil but a tool. I doubt it means fewer freedoms as we already control the vehicles/uses of oil and this is just an extension of that, just like we don't let people use dynamite for stump removal anymore, common sense. The crisis has never been addressed.
Global CO2 Levels
Woot! Thanks for the DataDryad info. I am lodging a tiny test data set with them now...
I'd be interested to know your opinion on space-time algebras. They seem like they would provide a nice way of unifying spatial rotations and Lorentz boosts, but that may be blind optimism as your last sentence seems to have been written to describe me specifically...
Bias eh? lol

"Alexander Joseph Epstein is an American author[1] and climate change denier[2][3] who advocates for the expansion of fossil fuels." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Epstein_(American_writer)
First cars vs horses would be an apt comparison here. Automation had been slowly displacing human labor... the question is when, not if.
> higher taxes, fewer freedoms

I would be interested to hear how freedom (presumably personal liberty) have been in recession due to climate change discussions.
Going to be rough for supporting virtual threads then?
weird question - I remember hearing that pre-writing societies have 'memory objects' that use a series of symbols to help prompt memorization of an epic poem or the like when held in one's hands. Might cuneiform been intended to be 'read' more like braille, by touch?
I think it's realistic to expect this to be the work of decades! Great talk by Bjarne.

Will attrition make a decades-long timeline viable? I'd never touch C++ myself, I'm too scared there will be a long period of time where I'd be actively dangerous and introduce security holes. I am learning Rust, because that type of low-level systems programming seems like a valuable thing to have.

Are there young devs who aspire to go through the C++ learning curve? I'd love to hear about your experience!
ANSI vs. ISO Keyboard Layout: Which One Is Better?
Approximate Nearest Neighbor Oh Yeah (Annoy)
Even if it wasn't already used, putting putting official government stuff somewhere that's under the control of a different government is maybe not the best of plans.

I'm even mildly annoyed that the website for the city I live in is under .org rather than under .${STATE_CODE}.us where it should be.
> One thing to note is the quality of Apple’s storage is above and beyond anything else you can buy.

Average good experience of other users doesn't make a guy having a failing SSD feel any better. The absence of easy repair/replacement just adds an insult to injury.

> They do wear-leveling so the larger the drive you buy with your device the longer the device will last

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like a description of an average modern SSD. Heck, I was reading similar things about wear leveling regarding USB drives, like, a decade and a half ago.
You have essentially laid out the tech company playbook. In so many cases, hyper-growth is subsidized by investors (or another part of a giant business). The product is offered to the public at FAR below cost in order to gain a monopoly-like market share. After they have successfully killed all viable competitors, they ratchet up prices (and/or ad-delivery), decrease spend on customer service, etc. and rake in profits. This is why the “growth mindset” is so ingrained in SV tech culture.
Except the wolf is measurably real and so far has behaved as predicted

Oh how I wish you were right about it being a false alarm
These rebuttals are kind of missing the point. For example:

> Claim 18: "The psychiatry services were limited and could only serve patients who were 'not too severe,' which meant that many patients were being sent to the already overburdened emergency rooms for suicidal ideations, for self-harm, and for inpatient eating disorder treatment."

> An outpatient clinic does not provide emergency inpatient care. It is normal for patients whose symptoms are severe enough to require emergency treatment to be referred by such a clinic to an ER. The NYT found patients from the Center were referred to the ER. That the ERs were overburdened, and that better options weren't often available for youth in severe crisis, is a sad reality of the U.S. mental health system. It is not something that can reasonably be laid at the feet of an outpatient service for a vulnerable group of young people that everyone agrees is at a higher risk of suicide.

But what the New York Times article (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/23/health/transgender-youth-...) actually said was:

> At the trainings, E.R. staff shared concerns about their own experiences with their young transgender patients, which Ms. Hamon later relayed to her team and university administrators.

> The E.R. staff, she wrote in an email, had been seeing more transgender adolescents experiencing mental health crises, "to the point where they said they at least have one TG patient per shift."

> They aren't sure why patients aren't required to continue in counseling if they are continuing hormones," Ms. Hamon added. And they were concerned that "no one is ever told no."

That is, the ER departments were getting an unexplained increase in presentations from the clinic's patients despite the treatments supposedly working well. Which really does bring into question the idea that affirmation-only treatment significantly improves mental health.
So where's "the costs of monoliths" post? They don't show up here, because everyone is out there cluelessly implementing microservices and only sees those problems. If everyone were out there cluelessly implementing monoliths, we'd see a lot of "monoliths bad" posts.

People don't understand that these systems lead to the same amount of problems. It's like asking an elephant to do a task, or asking 1000 mice. Guess what? Both are going to have problems performing the task - they're just different problems. But you're not going to get away from having to deal with problems.

You can't just pick one or the other and expect your problems to go away. You will have problems either way. You just need to pick one and provide solutions. If 'what kind of architecture' is your biggest hurdle, please let me work there.
I mean, HN probably has a bias on whether the world is flat, too. I’d certainly hope so, anyway.
I am using a Micro USB to Ethernet adapter on the original Zero that didn't have wireless. It's been working for years with no issues at all. That's "almost" wired.
not true, it gives you more of what you engaged with

if you looked for a few seconds longer = engagement

if you read the comments in disgust = engagement

if you commented in disagreement, even to reply to another comment = engagement
Literally billions have been, and are being, spent on electrification. Solar, wind etc have had a ridiculous amount of investment.

Yet the one technology that could actually solve this problem (nuclear energy) is off the table for some reason. We have unlimited clean energy at our fingertips. But instead of discussing it as a solution we’d rather resort to doom and gloom emergency language.
by paywalling other articles?
Maybe, but tell that to the individual!

I’m cynical against peoples behaviour, I truly believe we won’t change and funds/research should be directed to mitigation than prevention.
He did it like that because thats what he was asked to do, metrics-wise

His boss is happy with it because it looks good for him too

The company is happy because it allows them to sell milestones to themselves and or customers.

Customers are happy because the sales-people took the right person out to a fancy dinner.

I don't feel like I could fault anyone acting their part in the play.
Evidently, your friends are clicking on those ads, as they are getting scammed. It's unlikely they just clicked on scams.

It's true that a lot of people essentially never click the ads, but it's also true that seemingly smart and educated people can be extremely dumb about these things.
is this larping?
> Nothing you just said disputes any of what Peterson has said

I thought it addressed it fairly directly:

* gives mediocre-at-best self-help advice
* goes around whining about wokenes
* saying hateful things

I suppose we should add add that he claims to speak authoritatively about subjects well out of the areas of his expertise.
> Consumer devices with ARM cores can be had for as low as 2 USD (sensors, breakout boards).

Yes, and that is the market where RISC-V is actually appealing. Once you go higher end, the appeal of a no license cost ISA rapidly drops off and stops being a significant factor.