skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Putting money into a nerdy trivia night would have 100x the impact with 1% of the headaches.

I agree - we'll do a fair amount of that stuff. From trivia night to the knitting club, I'd like to be a 'Third Place' for people to have fun.

I just wonder, if I host the monthly Python meetup, will anyone care besides me? I personally don't shop or eat at places that don't accept cash, require an app, or only allow online takeout orders - but that's not everybody by a long shot.

I'd assume the average person, even one who cares about data privacy, would never expect a brewery to also be mindful of this stuff. I do wonder (hope, irrationally?) that some of the local (NC Triangle area) tech community will at least find it to be of some note.
In other news, they're human
Yes, well, we keep making people read Shakespeare during our most impressionable years.
Genie is what I heard. I haven’t deep dived, as I’m going to get along with Ratgdo. But if I needed new ones that’s where I’d start. =)
Though I'm not a Facebook user, I noticed this option a while back when helping my wife with some setting, it's the last service I expected to have such an option yet to date the only one I'm aware of besides some personal hobby projects.
Their financials show a budget of about $25M a year last three years, with $17M in assets in 2022. So this will be an enormous one-time increase but presumably spending will be spread out. Nice chunk for an endowment.
Welcome to the new world where AI compute is a scarce resource. Sorry guys, 3nm chip factories don't fall out of the skies when you click a few buttons on the AWS console. This is so different from what people were used to when compute was trivial and not in short supply for CRUD apps.

I was listening to a podcast, I forget which, and some AI consultancy guy said they don't have the chips to do all the things everyone wants to do with AI, so they aren't even selling it except to the most lucrative customers.
Some product categories are nearly monopolies too:

- Garage Door Openers. Chamberlain (also Liftmaster). They have like 80% of the market. Its them or Genie. Almost everyone else got out of the market. Decent products with OK prices. Competition would bring prices down some but not by a huge amount. However they are desperate to generate MRR and so despite originally having openers with WiFi and local APIs they've locked everything down to MyQ so they can force everything through the cloud and charge both you and 3rd party integrators money.

- Sink Food Disposals - Insinkerator (part of Emerson) has almost the entire US market. Three product lines for the low, middle, upmarket segments.

- Luxor. Owns basically all retail eyeglass sales in the US. Charges literal 10x-100x markups on simple plastic frames. Also the easiest slam-dunk for anti-trust action even under the super high bar used by the government today... but no one seems to care.

For everything else we have a missing middle situation. You can't buy a "decent" TV, microwave, toaster, etc. There's only bottom-feeder dreck or high-end. Everyone else disappeared or doesn't want to serve that market.

A lot of the products are objectively worse than they were 20+ years ago. We have a restored Sunbeam Radiant toaster... besides automatically lowering and raising the toasted items it also makes toast about 2x as fast as anything you can buy at Target/Walmart today regardless of price.

Kitchen appliances are similar. Your standard GE/Whirlpool/etc ovens, fridges, washers, and so on are uber cheap, not as repairable as they used to be, and are intended to be used for about 10 years then thrown away. To get a well engineered appliance that has proper service manuals and are designed to last you have to make a huge jump to something like Thermador, SpeedQueen, etc.

TVs? The only way to get one not jammed with ads and tracking garbage is via "commercial signage" which is what I ended up doing. I bought a Sony Bravia "commercial signage" display. It runs Android but you can reject Google's license agreement and the TV works as a display anyway. It also has a documented API I can use to control it. Oh and it has a higher brightness rating than equivalent consumer TVs and is rated to be on 24/7. The extra money was worth it to me.
Displaylink really doesn't work well on a mac. Even with intel there was a time period where it flat out stopped working and currently when you connect it, it enables screen recording which doesn't allow you to use certain hdcp functions.

It's like Apple re-enabled displaylink, but only begrudingly after they didn't allow it for a few generations of the OS.
If you run a "freight brokering company" and you are just posting the jobs you get on Craigslist, what are you even getting paid for? Then, you end up getting scammed by truckers, not once, but twice!? What kind of a brokering company is this...are there no rules or regulations?

What's worse, this broker has been doing this for two decades according to TFA...in all that time they've managed to remain stuck posting on Craigslist and (presumably) have no trusted contacts or partners.

Also, nit: I wouldn't call these "rare", they are just imported. You can find them easily if you know where to look.
Currently I just have a wifi security camera in the garage, but at some point when I'm feeling less lazy I'll install some sort of Zigbee door sensor.
People said that about virtualized code, but then computers got 100x faster and now we're running 10 megabyte web apps in a 500 megabyte client to display a simple page of text, and it still loads acceptably fast.

The AI algos will get 100x faster through a combination of hardware and software optimizations. Then, deterministic vs AI will mean the unnoticeable difference between displaying some info to the user in 0.001s vs 0.1s. Then, AI will become the default.
Mutual consensus among multiple - say, at least 5 - nations chosen for maximum mutual hostility, that leads to proportional reduction of military spending by sum of 10% of world's total military spending, done honestly and in a way that doesn't alter the balance of power.

I.e. the kind of coordination game theory decrees as effectively impossible. Were such event to happen, whatever mechanism drove it could be used to reduce emissions and implement effective climate change mitigations pretty much on the spot. And if it generalizes as solution to coordination problems, it would literally solve all major issues plaguing humanity to date.
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I don't think Jetpacks are even in step one. Tech's been there but I don't think any are commercially available. They've certainly been hyped for decades, but more in the same way most sci-fi concepts are glamorized in general. Worldwide instant communication was very much a sci-fi concept 50 years ago, and today it's definitely not all rainbows and butterflies
Does Java have a solution for such things where both libs can use their own version without them conflicting (unless they hand out Guava types to others, of course)? Custom class loaders?
There are much more niche-centric ERP, CMS, POS software companies out there. Something must exist? I find these opportunities fascinating, but industry knowledge is clearly key. I will try to think of some examples I have seen. Anyone else have some they can share?
I can think of something even more evil. What if ad networks allowed the advertiser to SUBSCRIBE to events generated by the ad viewer. For example, XYZ Toothpaste Inc gets a web hook that Targeted Consumer 123 has just started streaming TV Show "Foobar".
Does the standard library have a function to parse IP addresses without querying DNS? InetAddresses.forString() was the main reason I used Guava in the past.
The original post cites direct data from the original studies. Both studies found that an increase of around 300 ppm leads to cognitive decline of ~15-20%.

Outdoor CO2 ppm is projected to increase by 300 ppm to 2100.

> If indoor CO2 levels rise by the same amount, we can expect a 16% decrease in average brainpower — for every single person on the planet.

What part of this is negligible?
I’ve noticed the Office and OneDrive web apps now make it subtly harder to download your files. All part of their lockin strategy I suppose.
Billionaire John Malone Rings the Alarm About Big Tech's Entrance into Sports
The study concludes that your first sentence is not accurate

> we do not find a strong correlation between “looking the part” and job performance

https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/mksc.2022.1425
That was the point behind AdNauseam, I think.
That's just more of what the OP was pointing out: why are you assuming overcoming those limits is good?

This is just natural selection in action: only people who are good at slotting into bureaucracy and being well-behaved cogs in the wheel will thrive in this environment, and other types of humans will die out. This exact same argument suggests we should not tolerate indigenous people who live separate from civilization. Adapt or die right? But this conclusion is typically quite abhorrent to the same type of people who advocate for your position. Can't have it both ways.
Agreed. This is like blaming the user for your bad UX. Nope, the solution increased the complications of a very complex problem set (scaling software development).

There are no silver bullets that can solve this. Only well-designed systems accommodate for the flexibility of human error and hubris can do that.
If DNA didn't allow for code "greater than the sum of its parts" we wouldn't be here.
It’s another one of my projects, holocron wasn’t ready when I made the blog
Pennsylvania's fracking boom is hurting its oldest residents
This is why I wear blue light glasses to all my interviews. Glasses bias is a real thing!
What an amazing read. Now I know why my pip installs are failing in 3.12 but we now have a brighter future ahead.

Also while I love Python it’s helpful to understand why Python packaging is a (manageable) mess. It’s because of non standardization of build tools for C/C++/fortran and the immensity of the ecosystem, nothing to do with Python itself. It’s part irreducible complexity.

It’s a miracle it works at all.
So this uses an OpenAI assistant, then? This is really cool!
Fortunately it should be slowing down now. The big transition was getting everyone on board with PEP 517, especially converting legacy Setuptools projects.
Incrementing a URL can (and has) get you prison time.

https://www.wired.com/2012/11/att-hacker-found-guilty/
Yes I understand all that. My point is that both supply and demand are low right now because you can't trade up in this market unless you can pay cash. But low supply eventually leads to increasing demand which pushes prices back up. It leads to increasing demand because it takes about a year to build a new house and it's likely that developers will start fewer homes in the upcoming year due to increased rates, which mean they can't make their required profit unless prices go up.

I also understand that current sales will sell for less because there is less demand. That's why I mentioned that sales comps will be pegged to the few transactions that occur. But you have to look at the number of transactions, not just the most recent prices. In real estate you have a price cycle but also a volume cycle. Fewer transactions occur at low prices because sellers don't want to sell when prices are low. The exception would be if many people are forced to sell because they can't make their mortgage payments, but that doesn't appear likely at the moment.
My private hypothesis here is that we're doing a better job as a society of encouraging "disconnection" from being "always online," which is documented to aggravate mental health issues[0].

It stands to reason therefore that the people who remain online to comment may have lower levels of mental hygiene by virtue of their ongoing exposure to the internet and social media, thus resulting in a gradual decrease in sentiment over time.

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7364393/#:~:tex...
If you care about reducing rates of teen suicide, you will not support exclusive messaging platforms like iMessage.

Apple is ok killing children because the policy underlying that outcome sells more phones. That's all there is to this story.
And you might go and hire the person that makes sure they always look like they're working over the person who can actually get the job done without breaking a sweat and clock out early.
I think we were able to remove 99% of usage of Guava and Apache Commons Lang/Text by porting the remainder of our code over to Kotlin. Kotlin's stdlib has most of what we used from these tool libs built-in. The remaining 1% + removing the deps is on the backlog.

We may at some point go with Kotlin's Arrow lib (an FP specific tool lib), which may be akin to underscore.js in JS.
Get ad nauseam if you want to scale this
This is why I hate the term "AI". Ai pathfinding, ai upscaling, and generative art are completely different pieces of technology that falls under the same marketing term. Strictly speaking, the decades of machine learning that's been going on in acedemia is also all "AI" as well.

we need to drawn more disctint lines.
> Finder does not support Cmd-X

It does.
Let's agree to disagree.

Sure, it is everyone's job and they should certainly openly talk about it, but no manager can go and do it for an engineer.

A great engineer can find an incremental value with any refactoring they do: otherwise, they are extremely likely to refactor for the wrong future. I've seen this play out a number of times.

And the root cause is always exactly the same: engineers can't design code for the future that's not here today or at most, tomorrow. When they think they've done it, a new future comes and that code is even harder to refactor because it prematurely catered to cases that never materialized.

But that's exactly why managers need to understand and accept that refactoring is software engineering, and engineers need to do it continuously and keep delivering value while they do it.

And while CTOs, Eng Directors, architects and technical leaders might be "managers" in a sense, to me they are still all engineers, and they are the ones ensuring technical direction enables a healthy project while satisfying business goals.

Non-technical managers are there to bring clarity to business requirements, but they don't need to know exactly how sustainable technical excellence (or at least health) is achieved, the same way engineers don't need to know how user research or user testing that proves something works or not, is performed.
Xi may have fanned the nationalist fan too hot during the last diversion campaign.

A trigger happy CCP imprisoning business workers has reduced rates of investment (which hurts more as the CCP dumps treasury bonds in anticipation of a Taiwan conflict).
Bullshit. I've been to several of these protests, and I saw plenty of people holding signs indicating that any Palestinian action was justified because of Israel, pretty clearly being okay with the initial attacks.
> Technical people have a blind spot where they think technical competence and expertise is what helps someone up the food chain.

Being a technical person myself, and working in a small company most of my life I was blissfully unaware and then shocked. I guess it's true that closeted existence did leave me blind. But I don't think that is a consequence of being technical or an engineer - it was just because the smaller companies I preferred to work for would go broke if they made dumb decisions or failed to learn. The shock came from the small company I worked for being taken over by a huge, word wide company. And then watching that huge company roll over all their internet links to Optus.

All technical people get to know what it's like to deal with the big two telco's in Australia. They all eventually figure out the smaller ones provide much better service and a sharper price, and then avoid the big ones like the plague. So we knew what would happen when we went to Optus, and it panned out pretty much as expected. That's perhaps an exaggeration, as them leaking most of their customer credentials onto the internet wasn't "expected", but then level of engineering incompetence that lead to the leak wasn't a surprise either.

What was a shock was seeing first hand how Optus won the business. All the rules that engineers live by, like basing decisions on empirical data, "trust but verify" and so on weren't part of it. Instead it was smooth talking salesman, mandatorily weekly meetings with implementation teams who contribution seemed to be to presenting spreadsheets proclaiming how much progress that had made, paid trips to holiday destinations for upper managers and cases of wine being sent to lower managers. Later came the lies, and when we called out the lies and dug up older versions of spreadsheets to prove things weren't going a planned white anting. The white anting worked - we were threatened with dismissal.

Those tactics only work for so long of course, and eventually the exec's that threatened us with dismissal ordered us to get rid of Optus, at any cost. Fawning turned into literal hatred. They could away such displays of corporate disloyalty only because by that time all the managers who championed the charge to Optus had gone.

But despite that experience, they moved to Telstra. Telstra is the other large telco in Australia, and is just as bad. I had left by then, but I assume the decision was made by a new cohort of managers who will also be gone in a few years.

At this point I'm no longer blind, just flummoxed.
General practice and primary care are all about what's common. It's designed to soak up all the easy stuff that makes up 80% of the cases so that the specialists can deal with the hard complicated 20% stuff. If a doctor can't help you, they should still know who to refer you to.

Can you give an example of a slightly unusual symptom that stumps doctors?
ah yes, the mythical good hiring process.
I happened to watch Contact the other night. God bless the S. R. Haddens of the world.
I would say that's a bug in the RNG, nothing to do with any determinism issue
I did this and am very happy with it. Android TV doesn't make it easy though.

The only thing remaining is to disable certain buttons on my remote, especially the huge google assistant one. It's easy to hit accidentally, and then suddenly the content gets obscured by google begging me to set up an account and configure the voice assistant. Haven't found a great solution for that yet.
Hum, the governments of the member states convene in the European Council, actually. (The Commission is more like a civil servants organisation, second rank to this and in delicate balance with the European Parliament.)
Languages need to evolve because the needs change over the time. It's either evolving or the users will have to switch to another language eventually.

The goal of my language[1] is also to be unchanging after the 1.0 version. However the language is extensible in many ways therefore not hindering the ability to evolve while still getting the benefits of the super stable base that you can build everything on.

[1] https://www.fixscript.org/blog/introduction
Wayback Machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/20231108011026/https://store.ros...
For me, it's that such a high traffic site can operate on a budget and infrastructure that is so much less than the mega-sized websites full of other peoples' work product called "Big Tech". Those "Big Tech" companies then turn around and use Wikipedia's work to capture their audience, e.g., in search results. It cuts through any myth that it takes a trillion dollar company with tens of thousands of employees to run a high traffic website.

[Accessing Wikipedia from command line I never see the nags for donations.]
I'm not upgrading from my Pixel 5A. It has a fingerprint reader and I can unlock it from my pocket. It has a headphone jack. Every new phone has taken these things away. Very disappointing.
I get simulator sickness :(
Ouch Peter. Massive offense taken.

> In our research, we've found that editing is usually serial or asynchronous.

Medium-to-large-size company with a town hall = many people editing a document at the same time. Workshop at a company or a university with a modest size classroom = many people editing a document at the same time. I can't tell you how many times our web-based collaborative code editors would fall over during talks with small audiences we would give back in the days when I led the Scala Center.

Just because one of the benchmarks you have seen (of a multitude of benchmarks) breaks automerge by stressing it in what we believe is the most stressful scenario possible– multiple concurrent users, which is sort of the point of concurrency/collaboration frameworks, does not make it artificial or worth so flippantly discarding.

> long-form essay with Automerge and that the end-to-end keypress-to-paint latency using Codemirror is under 10ms (next frame at 100hz)

Not at all what we measured.

I'd just like to register here that Yjs is the framework most widely used "in real usage" (your words) and not automerge (for many reasons, not just performance.)
I guess that depends on source and destination countries, because I am able to wire money between different EU countries without any special paperwork. It is no different to domestic transfers or transfers to the same bank. Why would I want to use crypto for that purpose? It seems more inconvenient and risky.

I remember that in the beginning people were dreaming about self-contained crypto economy where exchanges would not be needed - that didn't really work out.
> House-sellers are generally also house-buyers.

House sellers are generally those who have gone to meet the saints. They move from one place into another yes, but where they go they don't play any part in the housing market – I hope!
Ask HN: Should AI companies get free use of copyrighted materials?
Putting the insane logistics of actually identifying all of the copyright owners of various images/articles/content/etc. and then paying them aside...

Do you think it's fair for the AI companies to effectively use all of the world's published data for free?
Obligatory: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/15/133
"But companies will emerge to compete!"

Maybe someday, we can hope.
Will they be able to buy though if they lose their job? Rate cuts usually come with a spike in unemployment, so...

That said I still don't think there will be a collapse unless there is like, worse unemployment than 2008. But - prices could still easily drop 10-15% if this is a more mild recession.