skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a given that "the actual function of government responsible to the poorest people" should be the true purpose and focus of government.

I would assume that your discontentment is a result of misalignment between what you think is the government's role and what those who make government, think the government's role should be. Which one of you has a more legitimate claim to the truth?
What Happened to the New Internet?
A personal and macro history of what happened when a young scene of technologists attempted to reform the internet.
It's a transparent BS argument. If Tesla provides better terms then what harm would come from signing an agreement to not provide worse terms than the industry baseline?
Heck, I get food misdelivered to me at times! I might as well be a last mile delivery service
Well yes, that's exactly what the article says. The point is that these musical notation symbols have an objective, mathematical relationship, which could be mirrored in their graphical design ... But isn't. That's a missed opportunity.
I don't have one, but I was under the impression cellular versions of Apple Watches can be used independently from an iPhone. You can take calls, send messages, stream music, etc. miles away from a phone, as its connectivity isn't through the phone its through its own onboard cellular modem. Now, do you have to have some kind of iPhone somewhere for it to do things like route messages through iMessage? I don't know.
If the budgeted range is 200-400k (it's very likely not) then it's an accurate post. It also shows the applicant that they can get 300k or more if they have a good argument for it beyond "I want it."
A chatbot either wrote this or could have written it. Move along.
Discussed yesterday at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38166098
They are afraid a potential partner will use the automation meant for customers.

This is just more enshittification in order to exploit revenue channels other than direct sales.
The problems with tiered support are back to where all problems come from. Humans.

As someone that's managed technical teams for 3+ decades, I've seen the deterioration, first hand. It's all about costs/profits.

C-suites view support (IT in my case) as a cost-center, without seeming to understand that our infrastructure is what all revenue travels over. We are a cost, but a cost with a purpose. In the pursuit of ever-higher numbers, they continue to replace local staff with 3rd party entities who are incentivized to close calls, not solve problems. These 3rd parties often have wholly unqualified staff. In some cases, the staff is qualified, but doesn't have the access or the information required to address the issue.

Let's not go to paid access to support. With humans involved, in less than a decade, there will be 1 person answering the "poor folks" line, that you'll wait for 2 hours to speak to, while being told every 30 seconds just how important your call is. The rest of support will be "generating revenue" by resolving problems for better-heeled clients.
I don't actually think americans have a distaste for flats in general, but that some of them felt the need to impose their distaste for flats beyond the borders of their own land
According to Wikipedia, the "Sweden Democrats" party is a nationalist and right-wing populist party, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_Democrats
Actually, this would be cool for say a fridge in a mudroom...
Yes, I was just thinking of an acquaintance's similar cancer situation in the UK. The NHS denial of the more effective but more expensive treatment was intractable, and so they paid for the treatment out of pocket through a fundraiser and saved her life. Their fundraiser was successful enough that they were able to give some money to other UK residents in the same situation. In the US I think they could have at least switched jobs to get it covered if they couldn't hack the appeals process.
> That structure is likely to change during the lifetime of your software.

I don't understand this sentence. If the structure is going to change over the time, it means you will need to regenerate the whole system, plus you will apply the changes that you made on the generated code to the newest generated version. So it isn't a valid case for generating code.
In my philosophy 101 class, we were taught about Kant, Hume, Descartes, Hegel, and Nietzsche. Then after we had pored over all of those works, the professor brought out Socrates and Plato. I have discussed this with other friends and this seems to be a common pattern for philosophy courses at University.

I wonder if because it is taught last, even though it is an older philosophical method, it is looked at as "best" purely due to an order of teaching?

There surely appears to be a "stoicism is best" and "stoicism is ancient and wise" popularity spreading across YouTube right now.
Are a bot? You copy paste the same text 5 times. Do you want me to prove Russell's teapot?
This was midweek in the autumn after the bars had all shut & everyone had gone home. It might even have been a bit later! Either way, my point is that it was the worst possible time to be upending bins full of glassware in a residential area. That noise was far louder than the people in the bars had been an hour earlier.
I complain because the impact I can have on people's lives now is far greater than when I was working fast food or picking orders in a warehouse, but the people I work with either don't give a shit or are incompetent. Then we wonder why dealing with various companies is so irritating and they create so many problems in our lives.
> question then becomes whether 24+ hours in jail is worth ultimately being vindicated in court

With a pattern of violations, a civil case for damages emerges. (With an arrest, there is particularised harm in a way parking violations do not tend to create.)
I mostly agree with you. But I'd guess that at least 10 of those 100 developers might say something like "business logic belongs in framework-agnostic pure functions, unless you have a good reason not to." And many of the remaining developers would say "what is a pure function?"

I'm not claiming that FP is always the answer, but it's a great technique that somehow is still very under-utilized despite being enshrined in popular frameworks like React (I think). I don't mean to criticize developers who are unaware of FP - I graduated in 2008 but didn't learn FP until 2014, and I still can't believe that I was ignorant of it for so long. And I can't believe how many developers are still ignorant of it. Unless I'm wrong and FP actually sucks, there is an education problem.
Rotation Programs: Build empathy by thinking like an intern
What if a private organization set up cameras observing everyone walking every street and avenue, and stored facial eigenvectors of all the people walking there.

It could then set up shop as a service, and given a picture of someone's face, tell you when and where they went anywhere on foot in NYC.

It's all public, right?
The Dark Side of Antarctica [video]
signs, locked doors, public ability to go into an area. Generally publicly accessible foyers, hallways, are ok.
5 problems stacked diffs address
What's the core benefit in comparison to all the other existing open-source audio/music programming environments (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_audio_programming_lang...)?
They did not mention that it would not make you rich and protect against the flu, either. And yet it does not! So unconscionable.
I'm only learning to play correctly in mid-career. No amount of being good at technical stuff will get you promoted in most orgs—maybe to mid-tier dev levels, but not much higher. Being hyper-social, will. Not the normal amount of social you need to be to do a good job as a developer, but spreading out your "footprint" on purpose so you're known by and often interacting with a lot more people, even if those interactions are actually a drag on overall productivity. I've learned from observing others who are good at doing a lot of talking in meetings, and who eagerly start adding shit to people's calendars and stuff their first week. It fucking works. Reliably. Be bold, and be noisy. Get promoted.
> The user doesn't know how the codebase looks. The user just sees what features that product is offering. So don't get overly attached to your clean and elegant code. Focus on shipping the feature on time and bug-free.

This is a slippery slope. True, the user doesn't see the code. But they do see the feature set (or lack thereof), and the speed at which you're able to update that feature set to suit your customers is a function of how easy the code is to change. In turn, that ease of changeability is a function of how easy it is to read, maintain, and reason about.

Focusing on "shipping the feature on time and bug-free" is good, but at the extreme it can lead to the mentality of "I'll fix the tech debt later", with "later" being indeterminate. Which is when the old saw about tech debt being like credit card debt starts to bite one in the ass.
Nvidia Is Piloting a Generative AI for Its Engineers
compared to japanese, yes, definitely, 100%

how much piss and shit and trash and grafitti do they have in their public transit system
it's not a worst-case scenario, it's a very obvious loophole that should be closed — private gun purchases should require waiting times and background checks

"not technically an assault rifle" doesn't matter in the slightest, no one's impressed by this constant pedantry... yes, yes, it's an ArmaLite 15 and isn't technically an assault rifle because it's only semi-automatic. This changes absolutely nothing, mass shooters are essentially cosplaying during mass shootings with this thing because it looks like an assault rifle and it's easily accessible.

the proliferation of modern small arms is one of the worst things to happen in human history
I've always wondered Android manufacturers copy the wrong things from Apple and not the cool things like the LiDAR sensor.

The LiDAR on the iPhone is faster but produces less detailed models. Photogrammetry is slower but produces higher resolution models [1].

I don't know if I would drop $1000+ just for that though.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN_4BnzzRj0
I assume it's the mobile version of the website so probably has slightly different stylesheets.
How is a Chinese company building some cars in China relevant to unions in Sweden? Geely also still builds plenty of cars in Sweden.
Who here claimed it was, they literally said it was “ill conceived”
High speed USB-C cables work fine with low speed devices. Just at lower speed.
Is thin or non-existent. But still VERY glad that these individuals do what they do. It's just one example of what can be done, besides voting, to uphold civil rights.
Yeah, there’s only like 130 of them
It's the aborted branch of western thought that most closely converged upon the truths found in eastern philosophy. And for the same reason those ideolgies have risen in the last 50 years, stoicism has gained ground. The West has become so thouroughly materialistic, both physically and culturally, that the disconnect between the inability to achieve that material happiness due to income inequality and the reality of modern wage slavery has driven many to find solace in those ideas. The alternative is to resign yourself to mainline western thought, and more than likely end up in a state of ressentiment from the above https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ressentiment.
How much do you make in Stockholm that you pay $80k in taxes though? I've paid that much in the bay area!
We can look at "prosperous" (let's find some happiness index) countries that have seen declining population for a while. Japan comes to mind.

It's not like Japan deteriorated into some extreme poverty because of it, right?

So maybe it's not that bad, "to be in decline" (in population number, or related GDP), as we are meant to believe?
If we scope to the past year, Wasm’s garbage collector integration shipped in Chrome a few weeks back. It’s a solid step towards memory-managed languages running reasonably-efficiently in Wasm. There are still some unknowns to work out, but I think this is a bigger deal than it’s currently getting credit for!
For a while the "a" versions of Pixels didn't have wireless charging. The 6a does not have wireless charging, but the newer 7a does.
Show HN: AI robots battle in complex topics
> Do other careers have such a vast gap between the platonic ideal and the actual lived experience?

Any NGO worker or nonprofit probably has this. Nurses, doctors, and veterinarians also.
All theories are wrong. Some are wronger than others.
What do you consider 'trans rights' to be?

From what I've encountered, the main principle of this activism seems to be around reorganising society by 'gender identity' in place of sex, and redefining language to further this aim. I'd be interested to hear your perspective on this.
I have an Apple Watch and as someone in the using it on the go category it's not sufficient. It either doesn't serve my purposes and/or is worse for most of what I use my phone for.

I'll catch up on emails, msgs, social media, HN, etc while walking to my next thing. I *could* do *some* of that on my watch but it's objectively worse experience wise.
Seems like they already did… and profit was more important.
You can but it’s not the most ideal experience. Calling, maps, and health stuff works fine; texting is alright; other apps are going to be hit or miss, mostly miss. You also need to get the more expensive LTE version, and to have a provider that will sell you an esim for just the watch without an attached plan for a phone.
In the Navy if people weren't complaining, we knew something was wrong.
Here's the question addressed by a historian of philosophy.

https://dailystoic.com/the-transformation-of-stoicism-over-t...

https://www.exurbe.com/stoicisms-appeal-to-the-rich-and-powe...
I may not support that party but it is huge; it’s not a fringe party. I’m surprised unions don’t allow them, it’s the second largest party and 90% of workers are in unions. I’m skeptical of the original point
Advertisers also have the option of paying for clicks. Paying for impressions is also pretty valuable, this isn't a secret advertisers understand how impressions work.

https://www.bluewinston.com/dictionary/ppi-pay-per-impressio....
Google's been using ML in ads long before LLMs were invented.
If you think car dependency is an imaginary problem (bugbear), I would invite you to walk or ride a bicycle more. You may find that the bugbear is just a bear.

As for housing affordability and wage suppression, these are just established facts. One visit to Zillow to look at a place you used to live is enough. My old apartment that cost $800/month is currently going for $2400/month 8 years later. Minimum wage hasn't changed since 2009 and is currently $7.24/hour.
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It's the same bullshit argument used by Spotify and Klarna. If the companies are already providing better terms then there's even less reason to not sign a collective bargaining agreement: the CBA only sets the lower bar, anything over that the companies are free to provide as they do right now. Nothing changes if that's the argument.

What they are trying to hide is the argument that a CBA will give power to employees during major reorgs with layoffs, a CBA doesn't set an upper bound to what employers can offer as benefits, just a lower one.
Norway will not issue a work permit for immigrants, if their work contract pays less than is typical in the industry. So this loophole is accounted for. Once an immigrant has permanent residency (or arrives due to marrying a Norwegian) then this could become a problem, but by then they have hopefully integrated enough, and will no longer work for peanuts. The cost of living being so high here probably discourages that anyways, and the things the sibling commenters stated also apply.
Tesla has factories in China too.
Trying to report any crime where the victim fears repercussions. Organized crime, crime by an employer, etc.
nquake streamlines a modern install to a normal installer

https://nquake.com/
Speaking of, I don't understand why camera quality is the selling point that so many people glom onto.

I get why it's useful to some. But I have to imagine we've crossed the point where "better camera" stopped being noticeable to the masses?
Bilibili is forcing big VTubers to reveal their identities to stay monetized
Different strokes indeed. As a very happy apartment/flat/condo dweller, the suburban home life feels to me like being trapped in a tiny deserted island (the cartoon ones, with a single coconut tree), just a tiny personal plot surrounded by endless nothingness, with nowhere to go within reach. When in the suburbs I end up just staying in the couch all the time, because I can't be bothered to face the big journey necessary to go places, feels very isolating.
The article frames it as "the number is too high because people don't understand inflation on an emotional level", which seems condescending and wrong, to me.
Iceland also has very bizarre "union" structures that more resemble professional associations than unions in other countries. When I worked at a software company in Kópavogur, on my team of 7 there were at least 4 different unions represented.
I'm pretty stoked about Frore Systems' "solid-state cooling" tech. The operating parts are micro-electro-mechanical systems created with the lithography tech typically used for manufacturing integrated circuits.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsPzEEBNAxc

https://froresystems.com

Enormous gains in heat transfer efficiency, per unit of volume or power, relative to traditional air cooling with fans. We should see this hitting the market pretty soon in phones and laptops.
Completely agree. It's the equivalent to keeping a tidy workspace with others in mind. Teams should spend time narrowing down coding styles, naming conventions, and general rules together over time, and stick to them.

As new people are onboarded, stick with those rules but have periodic moments where you solicit feedback from your team on the approach and make changes.

It really does help to have a team agreeing on these things collaboratively, and ideally having a more senior person enforcing it during code review where it's reasonable.
I wonder if stoicism was promoted by the ruling class in back in the day in order to prevent uprisings.

These people should read Gramsci.
Collectivism vs rugged individualism and exceptionalism with a serving of low empathy self interest institutionalized.
This is why I go out of my way to praise good work loudly and publicly when I see it.

If everyone merely accepts good work silently, but talks about bad work all the time, then political focus within the org will shift to bad teams and bad people. At the extremes I’ve seen this result in the worst people getting promoted to the highest positions because they were infamous. That’s the same as being famous.

Think about Trump: he got elected because nobody could shut up about him, so to a lot of voters didn’t know anything about any other candidate. They voted for the one they recognised.

“He may have his flaws, but he’s not that bad.” is something I’ve heard at work and in the public sphere.

You’re immune to this effect, you’re about to say?

Name five good things that Hillary has done.
I agree that immigration is a quick fix for a low fertility rate. But the people worrying about fertility rates fear cultural displacement by immigrants. They want less immigration, not more, and instead see a return to family values as the answer to the fertility rate problem.

Anyway, the problem is not the current decline in population, it is a fertility rate that remains far below a replacement rate. That means there is no bottom to the population decline. The immigration solution would need to be applied again and again.
I see lots of people saying something different, which is the current state of prices doesn't match the rate of inflation we had the past few years.

I'm way more disheartened by people talking about inflation like it's the end all be all of prices. We know what price gouging looks like.
> The real problem is that "clean code" is completely arbitrary and if you ask 10 software engineers you'll get at least 5 different answers because this really boils down to preferences.

I disagree. I'll take a bet that given 10 experienced software engineers (we can define what this means -- title, years of experience, familiarity with language idioms, etc.) they'll mostly agree on samples A, B, C, ... of code if it's "clean" or not.

Code doesn't have to follow my preferred design pattern to be clean. The bar is don't be shitty, and I'll know shitty code when I see it[1].

1 - https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-LB-4558
Contemporary societal culture is biased against old folks—little respect, not valued for their wisdom and experience—but the problem with more older people is higher costs for retirement, healthcare, and a smaller pool of tax payers.
But what are your thoughts? They’re pretty legitimate
Accurate estimates are impossible, but you can get better at them. Getting better at them mostly entails increasing your estimate to the point that it feels absurd, and then doubling it. To become a true expert, double it again. Another approach is to always bump it up a unit of time. So an hour becomes a day, a day a week, a week a month, a month a quarter, etc.

Really, you just have to be a pessimist. Instead of saying what people want to hear (it's simple and can be implemented quickly), you need to imagine the long-tail worst-case scenario where everything that can possibly go wrong goes wrong, then give that number. If people don't give you a somewhat incredulous look when you give an estimate, you probably were too optimistic. Just remind them that you're imagining a worst-case scenario and say that you hope to have it done sooner, but don't back down on your estimate.

Another thing to realize: at the business level, deadlines are often picked arbitrarily to create urgency. The specific date of the deadline is usually less important than just having some deadline, any deadline, to motivate everyone. Business people will pretend the deadline is Very Important, but it's all an act, more or less (arguably it's a necessary one). Remember this when giving your estimates.
> Why invest in a Paris-based accelerator for AI, considering how hostile the government is towards AI and keen on regulating it into obscurity?

Do you have any example of this? In particular any example that goes beyond "saying that companies can't use as much AI as they want all the time without restriction no matter the impact on people"?

Because "intent on regulating AI into obscurity" isn't how I'd describe the French government.
The way that official inflation numbers are calculated is a weighted average deemed useful for policymaking.

However price increases are inflation, and inflation in one area of the economy can occur simultaneously to deflation in another area. The net result will be the official inflation rate.

In the US, the Fed and the Treasury both do things that can impact inflation/deflation in broad AND targeted ways. However these policy instruments sometimes have effects that were not strictly intended, and sometimes non-policy-related economic factors create inflation/deflation.
It has?
I totally believe this if the vehicles have similar initial costs, and I can imagine that if the EV has higher re-sale value used, it might help too.

But I have a hard time seeing how you can make up the price difference between a relatively reliable compact hybrid and its EV version - take a Kia Niro (just because offhand I know it comes in EV and Hybrid): Hybrid is like $27k, EV is like $40k (though hybrid used to be more like $24k). If you own for 10 years what's going to eat that $13k difference? Just better resale in 10 years? Oil change once a year, a few medium repairs, and cost of gas vs electricity don't get you there.