skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think this discounts the fact that people are not mindless automatons following the path of least resistance.

That is nowhere implied or required by what I am arguing. I am just saying changing incentives is more effective at a broad societal level than nagging people. This is plainly observable and undisputable.

For example, add a mortgage interest deduction to the tax code. Doing so in no way reduces or discounts the ability of every person in that jurisdiction to make financial decisions based on a million factors that are weighted uniquely by each individual. But behavior of the market overall will inevitably change, because the incentives have changed.
Banning RISC-V is like banning a programming language - more specifically something like banning a dialect of C or Python.

It's something that IP is composed of, not IP itself.
> College will not prepare you for the job

no, it will not, it has a completely different role, the other name "University" gives you a very strong hint about it: what you learn in university is a universal way of thinking, of acquiring knowledge. The dirty secret is it doesn't matter at all whether you learn this by studying human anatomy or the stars blinking above. By the time you leave aside from very basic stuff your specific knowledge will be outdated anyways for multiple reasons. And your assignments are irrelevant to any job you will take, the primary criteria for your teacher when choosing assignments is the ability to grade you fairly and easily on a task with a known complexity.

And there's no fast way to do this. We do not know how. There are a few, extremely few people who seem to be born with a mind honed to this but most people are not Terence Tao :D and actually need the five years of university to get there.
Effective to what end?

"It's illegal to talk about certain things, but only if you know Chinese nationals are listening" is an insane position to take, especially in the context of the US's otherwise extremely liberal approach to free speech.

Or are we arguing that people's private work is in fact some kind of state secret?
Aaaaaah OK. So it's a bit more like a certified distribution. Sounds similar to how we handled FDA/CE certified versions of Open Source software.

Thanks for the clarification, it's very useful!
This is pretty common in media, much more noticeable in a lot of political contexts where the author cites something like “concern from the public” when we really it’s just the author and her pals.
Seems to me that you're praising Apple for the worst excess of capitalism, turning phones into status symbols, encouraging consumerism and vendor lock-in.

Granted, I got a Pixel 8 this year, but mostly because my old phone was falling apart at the seam. I planned to design my own skin if only to incentivize me to not take off armoring from my phone.
Ask HN: Do HN have information about poe and open AI ChatGPT outage
I cannot use any of the two.
> There is no such thing as neutrality or unbiased views, we are humans, everything we do or say is filled with bias.

Meh, there is a scale.

> Claiming for Wikipedia to "stay neutral" is a bias itself.

Yeah, everything is relative, truth doesn’t exist, yadda-yadda.

> They do as good of a job as any of us in trying to stay neutral.

They don’t.
Great analysis. I wonder if Spanish town planners have different powers than we do in the US. Town layouts are generally historical, you get to today by the sum of decisions potentially made decades or centuries or even millennia ago. It's very difficult to change a town layout drastically.
Most people are faking it. Being able to spend your time on something that both significantly improves humanity and pays the bills is a rare opportunity.
Not surprising. Phone upgrades in the last 5 years have been barely worth it. I'll be to first to criticize and mock The Google, but I've been plenty happy with my refurbished Pixel 5 that I not only plan on running it into the ground but getting another one if it finally croaks or loses too much battery capacity. Yes, I could just get the latest Pixel when that happens, but why switch from a phone that I know intimately that does everything I need?

Perhaps another contributor to the decline may be that the olds who didn't own a smartphone either have one by now or they're dead.
Yes, it was very beautiful.

As someone up in the dark pre-wintery Sweden, it would have been awesome with some floating photos of each neighborhood too, to convey the feel of each a bit better.

The 3D maps were initially very impressive, but photos would have made the various housing forms come to life even more, at least for me.
WAT? Seriously? Career change?

Your parent post is on-point. You can be passionate about your job and still do the things that he said he does.

You're gunning for absolutism while parent's post is realist.

I love my jobs (yes, all of my employers) but there are few meetings that IDGAF but have to be there because of many reasons. I muted myself and do something else.

I used to be an idealist but I slowly changed my approach because I realized at the end of the day, I'm dealing with human beings day-to-day.
This came up the other day. I decided to tease everyone with an 'I told you so' about using some third party hosting service instead of the offline one I had developed years prior.

The offline service was still working, and people were doing their job.

The online service was not working, and it was causing other people to be unable to do their job. We had 0 control over the third party.

The other thing, I make software and I basically don't touch it for a few years or ever. These third party services are always updating and breaking causing us to update as well.

IB4 let me write my own compilers so I have real control.
You really should look up the meaning of "claustrophobia"
This. I've learned that I can't optimize for income, because typically it means I'll be doing work I dislike, or working for a company I dislike. For me, there is no amount of money that can balance that out. I'll prefer a position that pays a bit less but that I enjoy over one that pays excellently every time. To do otherwise ensures I'll have a miserable life.

Others can and do differ, of course. We all optimize for what's important to us.
Thanks, updated the title.
If you want to compare abilities, in the 90s you also didn't have Internet-connected cameras on every corner, or in public transportation, also able to do face recognition even with masks on, you couldn't use Wi-fi to see through people's walls, or to monitor the IPs a home connects to, etc.

As for iOS, there are always vulnerabilities that state-level actors can exploit. Not long ago simply sending a message to someone via iMessage could have compromised an iPhone. Which is why iPhones now have a "lockdown mode". Criminals are either dumb enough to expose themselves via insecure devices, or competent enough to use an extra layer of encryption, which can't be prevented. Even if you outlaw general-purpose computing, people can just send encoded messages with custom algorithms, WW2-style.

If you target someone specifically, and have access to their location, there's no way they can protect themselves while also keeping a communication channel open. Let's be honest, this isn't about targeting someone specifically, but about fishing for wrongthink.

> So what do we do?

As a citizen, not my problem. Law enforcement should do their jobs without encroaching on my privacy. Or my child's privacy for that matter.

If scientists invent a way to read people's thoughts, what next? Mass surveillance for people's brains directly because there's no other way?

If the question is mass surveillance, NO is always the answer as far as I'm concerned.
I bought refurbished iPhone SE 2nd gen from eBay for ~$130 in July 2023. Looks brand new. I use Chargie to extend battery life and a magnetic charging port adapter to eliminate charging port wear. When battery will wear out I’ll replace it with the one from iFixit. Let’s see for how long I can make this device last.

https://chargie.org/
Oh wow, what a pain in the butt.
Same here! Although USB-C seems enticing, I think i will hold out one more year, since that alone is not really worth the € 1k upgrade. Other than that, I dont really see any innovations.
I just got the newest iPhone and I am struggling to notice any difference in capabilities from my old one. I know they exist on paper but when actually using the device it’s hard to tell.

It feels like it’s been this way for a while. I have friends that have very old smartphones, like 3 or 5 years, but they don’t mind.

If this was 10 years ago their smartphones would be practically unusable from a lack of processing power and battery life.
Luckily, I just have to live with the nagging box about creating an account, but it continues to work without doing so. I just lose that screen real estate.
I see all that, but there is a sizable market that just can't afford an iPhone that's worth looking at. Though maybe if used iPhones are usable for longer time periods, that eats a little into Android's dominance of the low end?
"once God crapped out a 3rd caveman a conspiracy was hatched"

You can't have large groups of people making decisions without politics, and anyone saying otherwise is kidding themselves. You either play the game and pick a side, or someone picks it for you and you get what you get.

Keep in mind this is entirely separate from ruthlessness or backroom deals; this is just the way of things with large groups of people.
Johnny GPTeptonic, apart from being hard to vocalise, would suggest something else entirely.
Yes, I'm also facing an issue
Apple's Mac business is doing poorly and the iPhone business is not doing particularly well. It's one of the biggest losers in this upgrade cycle delay, with Nest/Pixel being the only manufacturer growing.

Being bullish on excess capitalism during a slow down doesn't seem like a no-brainer play to me.

But to each their own.

Realistically, I'm just not sure how much growth Apple has left unless India becomes a gigantic market and pulls of a China miracle of its own.

It's already by a large margin the largest private company in the world...
The iPhone 15 doesn't have 3.0 USB-C because the silicon was only introduced in the A17. Hardware revs are set in stone many moons before so being able to push USB3 support a generation later allows engineers to focus on other tasks.

Again, all speculation but the point is how a defined end point allowed teams to receive clarity over tradeoffs and move quickly. It's very typical of how Apple works (which you can see in Vision 1.0 where certain things were wildly overspecified and other were wildly under for that reason). The exact details may be wrong but the logic of how they got to this place feels right.
And a local integration can be hostile if it's not publicly documented and they can update it / make it go away with an over the air update.

What matters is that they provide proper documentation for their APIs, encourage devs to use them, and don't have a history of breaking old clients with new firmware updates (without very good security reasons).
Renaissance has a very effective legal dept. I'm sure their math stuff is also great, but I was struck a bit reading an old story about the other side of one of their lawsuits/investments regarding a small town. Part of the business is definitely squeezing out an extra 5-10% from distressed exotic assets bought at discounts.

The mythology focusing on math/quant I think is a feature, for them.

Apologies for not finding the original; my $SE appears to be dominated by a recent tax deal instead.
Phones are feature complete. No huge compelling reason to upgrade. If you work for a living then it makes no sense to spend money on upgrading if you already have a relatively newish phone
I know a number of people, myself included, who have been waiting for the return of decent mid-range phones before getting a new one.

Right now, there are very few options for people who want a reasonably sized phone, offering reasonably good performance, at a reasonably low cost, with reasonably good durability, with reasonably long software support, from a reasonably trustworthy manufacturer.
Mass homeownership works for like 2 generations, maybe more with 0 immigration and no population growth. That's a bad bet.
I get Bash, but for jq I found that my small fusillade of Anki flash cards was more than enough to get a fingertip feel for its syntax. Amazing what 50 flashcards of jq (or awk, or sed, or regexes, or any DSL really) gets you in the long run.
It is possible to detect CSAM in end-to-end encrypted messaging by doing it on-device on the client side before it is encrypted and/or on the receiving client side after it is decrypted. iMessage already does this in the latest release. Most smart phones have AI-enabled chips that would be able to run images/videos against classification algorithms. The tricky part would be enforcing that users use clients which do this, so the task becomes regulating allowed messaging clients, which might be impossible. That being said, one could probably knock out 80% of the problem by legally forcing the hand of all the major platforms to do client-side scanning. At that point, only the truly dedicated would move their comms to another platform. Mobile users are very susceptible to nudges.
You have it backwards IMO, the only reason Apple is able to achieve this effect is because their phones are heads and shoulders above the rest in hardware quality and integration. Build it (well) and they will come
Heavy-seed origin of early supermassive black holes from a z ≈ 10 X-ray quasar
That's fair, but in the article I also store local variables relative to %rsp, so I wouldn't want it changing at all

You only need to keep track of how much you've put on the stack (which can be a single counter) and adjust the offsets appropriately.

But then you'd have to explain that too...
I found Jq to be difficult to use which is why Oj, https://github.com/ohler55/ojg is based on JSONPath. There still are a lot of options but it only takes a couple of help screens to figure out what the options are.
Make pdb faster with PEP 669
Do you write your refrigerators firmware?
I've been doing half of yours and I found that the advise is more realistic and I'm doing exactly all the points he listed but still love my job.
They do not need to hijack this process, in a way as is said in article, or in comments, there are different methods already in use, successfully. So there is absolutely no need from anybody to be doing this in this way ( even if it works like they write in that article ). if they need it for state security then it does not need to be this OVERT, there are legal provisions to do this covertly IN US OR IN EU. They are even cooperating between jurisdictions. So UK is sending data from US citizens on uk servers to US, EU is sending data about US citizens on Eu servers to US, etc. And no GDPR does not cover this.
"how can we make it so that 100.0% of the code I type is shipped in the final product?"
This would have to be a "load up a wallet and 'pay'" sort of thing, where the website owner gets the money in aggregate minus a transaction fee when they request it.
I disagree. Science faces a similar problem with homogeniety, specifically in regards to funding usually coming from the state and in general state influence in research.

To take an obvious example, the debate on the impact of sex and physical ability. It's obvious that males have an advantage over women on most physical tasks. I can't find a single event with an objective comparable scoring (e.g. how fast you finished, how high you jumped etc) where males don't outperform at every level by a significant degree. For instance, high school boy records beat pretty much all female world records in track [0]. And this is fine. We adapt societally by having women's leagues. And every scientist would admit this up until maybe 5 years ago. But now there is a growing "scientific consensus" that really it's some other societal effect.

Humans knew this to be true for thousands of years, but in the last 5 years we're beginning to upturn that for some reason. So maybe some deference to the past is warranted. If thousands of years from now the "consensus" still says sex doesn't really matter, then I'll grant you that. But for now the "scientific consensus" doesn't make something true

[0] https://boysvswomen.com/

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/to-understand-sex...
GPT4 turbo now tops AlpacaEval
Upgrades these days have become so incremental that it doesn't make sense to upgrade as often.

I got my current phone (S23 Ultra) for the stylus and due to a preorder sale, but otherwise it's just as usable as the previous one and even the camera improvements aren't that meaningful nowadays, with the existing quality mostly being squandered by compression in messaging apps (especially in WhatsApp). I don't see myself wanting a new phone unless this one's screen gets damaged enough.

The only interesting development in phones to me is folding devices, but I think they're still a bit immature.
JavaScript on Fiber
That site seems to have a captcha issue.

Wikipedia editors shouldn't have more say in someone's gender than the person themselves. I guess that seems obvious to me.

And yea being inclusive of trans people and accepting current theories of psychological and medical treatment is a Western bias.

But I don't think any other angle would make sense, people are the gender they say they are seems to be a very simple policy.

Other discrimination against women seems to be a separate issue that should be addressed
Very nice visualization, bit slow animations but overall it was informative and looked well!

It seems they're getting the data from the catastral (official goverment data), I wonder how accurate this is? Not sure how it is in other cities around in Spain, but in Barcelona there are a ton of illegal atticos and other addons to buildings, which would add more height to the building in real life compared to the visualization.

After a quick look, I could see at least two buildings I know are taller than what the visualization says (the building next door is the same height in the visualization, but has one more floor when you see the building in real-life).
The F-35A was fine, it was mostly the B that clusterfucked the project. Again, if we're talking about incentive problems, those are just straightforwardly co-ordination problems.
Grok is going to be awesome
I have been doing software professionally for nearly 25 years.

Even if the points the author lays out are very true, don't you ever take them in as being true for you.

One thing I have learned in all these years is that you can rule your own narrative in your job. And when patient, factual and not backing down when demanding answers on 'why', you will find out fast if you are made for being part of an often labour heavy workforce.

Fact is that what the authors lays out, is not at all special to software engineering jobs. All industries are like that. We are not special in any way. And it starts by telling yourself that you are not special, but that you differ yourself by having a qualitative integrity - though that will take many years to get and always be in process.
I wonder if Barcelona's "ventilation-oriented" architecture from the cholera period had a measurable effect on the spread of covid. Of course the article itself notes that a lot of the architecture was "speculative", and that modern-day Barcelona is very densely populated, but still.

IIRC Spain was also one of the first countries during the pandemic to publish research on the importance of keeping rooms well-ventilated, so now I'm wondering if there is a connection to history there (meaning: more likely to look at the importance of ventilation due to cultural history).
Maybe isolated is a better word then, for me they feel just about the same.
Ask HN: Best way to "complete" an unfinished book using GPT?
I wrote a ~200 pages book, many years ago, and I never completed it. Probably another ~90-100 pages or so to do it properly.

What would be the best way to use GPT-4 (I have a pro account) to try to see how it would complete it?

I am not familiar with doing something specifically like this.
The Anglosphere is more car dependent and more prone to NIMBY policies and housing shortages than continental Europe, because continental Europeans are more comfortable with density. Density is the solution to many land management problems.
> Anyway I ended up removing a safety wire on the garage door, to then remove a bolt, then used a rope and a pulley of sort to create leverage to be able to lift up the wide sectional door.

There's usually a rope hanging down you can pull on to disengage the chain lock, then the door will be loose to move.

http://www.thedoorco.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Garage-D...
depends on the small org. large orgs have a lot of people and a lot of personalities, processes, HR handbooks, you name it.

small companies have a handful of people, and if there is a clash then you're gonna have a bad time. in some ways this is good since you have only to lever or negotiate with 2-3 people, and can get facetime, but if you're on the shit-list it's not gonna happen.
I'm amazed to read this. I'm pretty sure that I've never seen a reasonably accurate estimate for a nontrivial task in my entire career.
Of course, it is difficult to compare jobs with respect how hard they are. One could easily argue that every job is hard. Jobs can be demanding in various areas, such as: physical, emotional, psychological, mental and intellectual.

Some thins, I think, make software engineering hard, is because it is not very visible from the outside. Another reason is also that it is different from other forms of engineering, where the product of the engineering is outside the engineering and where it is often easy to add a margin. With software, a very small bug can have big consequences.

I also think that software developement is a very creative profession, while often not viewed as such, where you are often judged on the basis of your creative output. In a sense software developers struggle with similar problems as artists, where there is often not an objective good or bad. Discussions about coding styles are frequently found here on Hacker News.
That chargie device is interesting!

The latest versions of Android and iOS have finally built in battery management that does basically the same thing (they will not rapid charge over night, and will sometimes limit charge below 100%).

I'm curious to see long term how much these changes will help.
I’m having trouble remembering, but that was the predecessor to finastra phenoix right? I’d love to grab you virtual coffee and talk - chris@prelim.com
Two causes spring to mind:

Covid lockdowns - people actually were lonely for a long period.

The decline of traditional news media - more extreme headlines are essential for more money to appear.
+1 for gron. Breaking a JSON field like { "foo": { "bar": ["baz", "bop"]}} into a greppable stream like

foo.bar.[0] = baz

foo.bar.[1] = bop

and then copying and pasting the results into jq makes the whole iteration loop much much tighter.
Might be an age thing.
This is a positive spin, and I agree.

But the stress does eat away at health. It can be fun, but it is not 'comfortable'.

Maybe it is different if you are writing some mission critical code. It can be fun when you are dabbling with web sites, but not so fun if a bug will cause someone to die. So stress levels, and having a blast levels, can very a lot.

And thus the stress levels over time, can cause health problems.
And you are ignoring the many competing interests within and throughout the federal government. Source: me, with 20 years inside DOD/IC.
It absolutely might be too late for a career change. If you're paid well, and have come to rely on your income, staying put is likely your only realistic option.