skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Advertisers have far more options for their advertising dollars than most people think. If they're not advertising on Twitter/X then they're putting their dollars somewhere else and getting the same return.

The amount of trouble necessary for an advertiser to put most of their dollars somewhere else is vanishingly small. They don't need much of an excuse.
I'll grant that it's a bit of a pedantic response, though I do genuinely think that it's better not to misuse terms. It also affects what you appear to be calling for as a response -- just because Apple-and-Google are the two major players in a market doesn't mean that antitrust/monopoly laws are the right things to use.

Re: Google, given that you're privately distributing software to a private organization, couldn't you just sideload it onto the Android devices in question? It seems reasonable enough to for them to want you to have a developer account if you're using their infrastructure to distribute these things. But my (minimally informed) understanding is that, unlike Apple, Google doesn't force you to have a signing certificate from them or anything for the software to even run on a device.
I'm trying to imagine why anyone would feel the desire to write such a comment. Is that you, Elon?
> Signal is competing with for profit companies for talented engineers and their

> talented leaders.

In Bay Area? I'm quite sure you get great people all around the World, or in USA, by much less.
So basically the influencers would get paid for doing fan service, while not actually having to interact with said fans. Makes sense that there was so much demand coming from that direction.
But in the Netherlands, an employer is not allowed to hire scabs/strikebreakers.
I'll consider that advice. Thank you!
Neat! I've never played a Zelda but that makes me want to try one the next time I'm at my friend's house
The latter is simply genius.
Is Dota 2 not actively developed?
"Apprehension toward containers is a red flag."

This is a garbage take. There are obvious security considerations that a firm may or may not be ready to take one that come with container use, much less organizational knowledge.
You'd be fired. In many countries, you could not be fired legally.
Pythons threading and GC model has always been problematic on multi-core architectures.

It shouldn't be anywhere near time-critical and or low-latency use-cases.

Python is functionally the modern BASIC, and included many of the same design trade-offs for usability.

Don't get mad, it is true... and we know it. =)
The article mentions lower cost of raw materials, but the other factor driving this is more efficient batteries. CATL is starting mass production of 500 Wh/kg batteries, about twice as dense as the ones used today, which reduces the need for rare materials as well.
> I believe so many people think they have ADHD because of a lack of discipline

People don't want to hear this because it's incredibly biggoted.
A PCIe Coral TPU Finally Works on Raspberry Pi 5
What kind of recourse do the banks have, in practical terms? My bet is that taking any action is just going to materialize their loss, and inaction and cutting X some/a lot of slack will allow them to perhaps not lose as much in the long term.
> So all the programmers who work there should live on thin air?

We are talking about C*, Engineer Manager, getting almost 700k/year. Not developers.
Used to do groceries with a regular bike and two ortlieb panniers (you can leave the top open to use their full capacity)

For extra space a front "Porteur style" rack is nice (you can carry a pizza or takeout), or a rear rack with a set of lower mounting rails allows carrying stuff ontop of your rack without interfering as much with the panniers.

nice front racks: https://www.passandstowracks.com

nice front and back racks: https://www.tubus.com/en/products/

some people also really like the topeak rail system, which has for example a little wheely cart you can pull around the store with you, the "Topeak TrolleyTote"

Over the summer I bought a used (not electric) bakfiets on craigslist (and only recently did a mid-drive electric conversion) it's been really great for doing more with a bike because it doesn't take as much "how am I going to carry this home" planning. I've picked up groceries, dog food, filing cabinets, my wife, my dog, friends, lumber, tools, etc. It's quite an amazing bike format.
Thomas J. Watson is rolling in his grave.
Except it's actually more nuanced than that, and this is important... the client actually has a contract with a brokerage, where their agent is actually a sub-agent. The commission fee goes to the brokerage and in many cases the agent doesn't have the ability to negotiate it with the client (despite being an independent contractor). When the commission is paid, it is paid to the listing brokerage and then split out according to the agreement - some to the listing agent, and then in many cases to the buyer's brokerage who then splits it with the buyer's agent according to their agreement.

This is all important because there's a layer of legalities and agency relationships that the public completely ignores, but is relevant if we're going to have a conversation about commissions. It's also relevant because some states have begun to change their laws to be more in line with what the public thinks happens, which has its own weird twists.

*Brokers and lawyers in the audience will probably say I'm still handwaving away some nuances here regarding agency laws. Mea culpa, I'm trying to keep this simple.
Well done. Now that I've seen your getting started video (https://aiconfig.lastmileai.dev/docs/getting-started) this seems obvious. I feel really silly that I copy & paste from the browser back into a file just so I can save different prompts and results to see what I liked best. Thanks for sharing and for open sourcing!
Over 80% of the US population lives in an densely populated area and RE-establishing public transit is not even remotely an insurmountable challenge logistically.

The only thing standing in the way of mass transit are congressional representatives from rural areas representing counties that have less population than one square mile of Los Angeles.
No, the main problem is that these projects were grossly mismanaged and didn't really have a concrete purpose. It would've been possible to build something incredibly useful without LLMs, I just don't know why they didn't. Though the top comment I feel answers that question quite clearly. These assistants were never developed to be useful.
With virtually unlimited money, there are very few rules that apply to you under capitalism.
When I built my house I ran both coax and ethernet to all my TVs.

It was worth it. Even though I have an HD Homerun, the fact that my TV's menu's and remote work as-designed for live TV helps make things run much more smoothly.
The linked documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbZ3HzvFEto
Your analysis of the problems is interesting. Do you work in DoD?

IME such internal politics is unavoidable in large organizations. Nobody likes it but it's the ocean in which everyone must swim. You can alter it to some degree, but there's no way for a structure that large to work without it. How do you manage million(s?) of people without middle management?

Also, it's not Meta. It's an organization that is responsible for life and death of hundreds of millions or billions, and national and global security, so control is essential. As a simple example, you can't lose track of the grenade launchers or nuclear weapons and have them end up in the wrong hands.
Millions of people actually use it? Or keep it as a paperweight who's sole job is to "Alexa turn off the lights" once a week?

If it's the latter then you probably don't need to keep thousands of highly paid engineers since that's what Alexa could also do 10 years ago and what vehicle voice commands could do 15 years ago without internet connection and expensive data centers. Drops mic
Has it ever been harder to make a living as an author in the Anglosphere?
Those are some especially confusing labels since the classic subgenre called "CRPG" correlates to "pc style rpg" as opposed to "console style rpg"
It is 2023 and not 1945 anymore - whataboutism at its finest.
The execs were. They've been paying millions for a top-tier AI devteam hoping for something like ChatGPT, just to find out that their devteam made and freely released the transformers research that ChatGPT is based on (derp)

As always, Google has incredible ideas and promise but lacks business execution
I did not make my point clear, and that's my bad.

Torotno exists, so of course car dependency is somewhat feasible in real life. The impossible part is travelling in the sprawl with relatively short time, as limited by the road's speed limit. The real limiting factor most of the time is traffic, because of the space inefficiency of cars.

I made this point because I seem to recall a city simulation game despawn cars (literally physically impossible) to make car dependent designs "work".

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> you can reach enough of a city to consider it all the advantages of a city

With enough people driving downtown you lose most of the advantages, and it makes the lives of those who didn't choose this lifestyle worse.
Yet more evidence that removing the GIL really ought to bump the major version to Python 4.
Google was so busy milking its search lead it forgot it needed to be outstanding to win consistently in the long term.

As far as I'm concerned, Google's key, meaningful homegrown products are Search, Maps, Gmail and Chrome.

Those products (and everything else they have acquired, including Android) exist for one single purpose: selling ads. Funnily enough, those products have also degraded in quality over time as their ability to sell ads has increased.

Unfortunately for Google, it is hard to imagine a GPT chatbot that is aligned with that One True Objective, so the organization can't help itself. Sure, it's a quote-unquote "tech company", but it's far from nimble. As it scrambles to come up with a response to ChatGPT, it looks more like GE or IBM than it looks like OpenAI. Changing course of such a massive ship is damn near impossible.

I don't think the decisions made by Alphabet today are as engineering-driven as they were in the early days. I'm sure the talent is still there (or was there, pre-pandemic), but maybe it's just not calling the shots.
As e-bikes and electric cars multiply, managing the sustainable repair and total lifecycle of their batteries is going to become a lot more important.

Currently we treat e-bike batteries as disposable. When a battery dies, you are invited to throw it away in a designated way, and maybe if you're lucky it will be sent to a recycler that takes apart the casing, throws it away, melts down the cells and rebuilds them. If you're lucky, the e-bike or scooter has a standardized interface that takes a new battery.

This is wildly wasteful and unsustainable. Lithium ion batteries have a limited lifespan and are sensitive to being left discharged for a long time. When they break, it's usually a single cell out of a hundred that takes out the whole pack. It is entirely possible and safe to replace a pod that comprises 10% of the pack and prolong the life of the battery for several years, if the other pods check out.

This process should not be done by consumers. It requires local repair shops to be able to get training and certification in these repair procedures. We need "right to repair" laws for standardized swappable battery connectors and modular battery internals - this will make a huge difference in our future transportation carbon and resource footprint (of course, cars and overweight SUVs should be charged proportionately to their footprint too).
For anyone with any type of handicap, we should definitely still build our world with them in mind. Building our world more around walking, micro-mobility, and public transit would surely help those who might be in wheelchairs, scooters, etc.
The solution is that folks have to put effort into themselves instead of being given a no-effort solution that helps trap them in a depressed state by making that depressed state slightly more comfortable. I say this as an ugly, uninteresting (not poor though to be fair) person with depression.
Data is data, it's not information until it's organized meaningfully. That has to come with some kind of plan or purpose for the data
Terry Davis was systematically bullied to death by a dedicated mob online. Some extraordinarily cruel people realized they could manipulate him into going further off the deep end, and thought it was just an absolute blast to do so. RIP Terry - you suffered much more than you deserved.
>Yes, and the linked paper shows that this is a reflection of your existing bias about him, and not whether he is being truthful. It means that the clip of Elon tells us nothing at all about why he’s making the statement, even if judged by experts.

Except I told you I'm not a fan of elon. I cited him because he's both vocal about his opinion in China. And unlike you both Elon and I have experience with China. You likely don't and have never even set foot in China.

>I don’t see how Hollywood is evidence of anything. They want their movies to have the widest audience possible, so their movie content is made as inoffensive as possible.

That's every business on the face of the earth. Even in the US they have to do that. So your own statement is basically destroying your point that Elon is pandering to China when he's just pandering to everyone. But here's the thing. In that statement he made, he said, he basically stated China is superior. So that would be pandering against the US. That's Bad for business in the US.

>Elon’s cars are not movies.

So? Both are business products sold for money. It's evidence of Chinas policy of only allowing products that don't criticize China. It's consistent and it's evidence. The statement I made was about products in general, not cars. So I can easily use movies to prove my point as movies are products. QED.

>For a counterexample, Tim Cook praises China, even as reports suggest that Apple and its shareholders are afraid of their dependence on China and are seeking to lessen it.

True but is Tim Cooks praise not real? I'd argue his praise is true AND he wants to lessen dependence on China. You shouldn't view China as a single negative entity. They are superior to the US in many ways both from a moral perspective and a technological perspective. From the otherside of the coin, the US is also superior to China in many ways both from a technological standpoint and moral standpoint.

The problem with bias is that you can't see this until someone brings it up. You used Tim Cook as an example but at the time of stating that example you couldn't even consider the possibility that Tim Cook could both praise China truthfully and want to sever their dependence on China. These two concepts are orthogonal. That is unless you're biased and can only view China as something that is either black or white.

>Elon has never behaved like Hollywood, and has a long history of saying whatever he thinks people want to hear. I see no reason to think that this is any different.

What he said in that link I posted is what Americans don't want to hear. What person in the US wants to hear "There are more smart, hardworking people in China then there are in the US." ? Nobody wants to hear that. He's speaking to an English audience and saying things people don't want to hear.

This is evidence for the fact that he's saying what he believes is true.
"Manufacturing is low value commodity work."

Some manufacturing, yes. But most manufacturing is highly complex, starting with t he suppliers, supply lines, workers etc. And manufacturing often brings in itself innovation.

"of low value commodity bodies to screw things on"

Most manufacturing is not so easy. Stitch some shoes in Africa? Maybe but even this is hard to scale in this environment. Try to assemble a complex product there. Hell, you might not even have reliable power and have to start building your own power backups there.

Not talking about military dependencies. What if Taiwan returns to China and does not deliver Chips anymore? How much of the world market do they supply? 70%
It's part of Emacs 29, so it's in Emacs out of the box now.
depends what does 50/50 refers to?

If it is the probability of having it stolen after one year I would say it is pretty accurate in big metros like San Francisco or Denver.
Thanks for the feedback! I'll think about what you said about the buy me a coffee link.

The vibe of the website is intentional though; I wanted the website to feel like a weird little hole in your computer that someone was staring at you through. You're totally right that there's a different version of this website that produces a very different vibe (and I am probably going to experiment with more ideas in this space), but this one is supposed to be disconcerting.
I do. It's rare to be confusing.

And if it were, I would not do Jameses, I would go traditional and say James his pen (since 's is a contraction of his)
But also not at all surprising considering the platform’s trajectory and Elon’s personal amplification choices over the last year.
Related ongoing thread:

Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38307889 - Nov 2023 (62 comments)

(Normally we'd prefer this submission but it seems like there's more going on on that page)
Also, not only is it possible, but many countries have in fact chosen to default on debt denominated in their own currency, rather than subject their citizens to wild inflation and/or break norms around reserve bank independence. So, it could happen even if US is not forced to, I agree.

For a starting point, see https://www.bankofcanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/BoC-B...
That would be easy, but if you have an app with localization then it's not useful. And also it's impossible to make the formatting consistent with other formatting in your app.
Oh, I didn't realize Valve did that! I remember it as a Warcraft mod, and didn't realize Valve acquihired them.

Edit: maybe just acquired
Start clicking on stuff, You'll find it :)
So they were caught of guard, maybe not from a research pov but certainly from a product pov. They are behind and are just playing catch-up for over a year now that it's safe to say that they don't have any competitive advantage over microsoft/openai anymore
From where I live to where I work is 8km. That takes somewhere between 19 and 23 minutes. 23 minutes on the days when there was more than 3-4cm how snow on the road. I occasionally take the scenic route to work. About 14km and a little more than half an hour.

I do this every day. Regardless of weather. It saves me a lot of time for the simple reason that this both represents a mild workout and getting myself to work.
> Apprehension toward containers is a red flag.

Maybe they have been burned before? If your workload does well without containers, porting it to a container-based infrastructure and operating that is a huge sink of person hours with no business gain.
I don't know. Twitter has been pushing the subscription model a lot and I suspect that will likely be the long term solution.
It's my impression that the skilled trades unions (electricians, ironworkers, steamfitters, etc.) are different from e.g. the UAW. UAW is not running an apprenticeship program for autoworkers. UAW members are not employed as needed on demand by the auto manufacturers. Unions like the UAW exist almost completely as a collective bargaining organization for employment contracts with big automakers.

Is this incorrect?
As a user of Twitter/X, Instagram, and to some extent TikTok, I can say that, at least for me, Twitter/X is much cleaner and more aligned with the people I follow.

In contrast, Instagram Reels are annoying; even after reporting certain content, the same or similar Reels reappear. We don't even need to discuss TikTok. From my perspective, it tends to have far more hateful content.
Use things you need and don't use things you don't. If someone makes a general statement that you need something for everything - that's a flag more red than Soviet Union's.

> Is everything glued together with a few bash scripts

The whole GNU/Linux world is glued together with a ton of {ba,}sh scripts (typically - there are exceptions, of course). Sometimes, all you need is another small one. And, of course, sometimes (and quite frequently) it's not a great idea. Depends on what you need to do and what it could evolve into.

> Apprehension toward containers is a red flag. With tools like KubeVirt, even VMs can now be run on platforms like k8s.

Same principle applies. Extra technology to set up and maintain is a liability. But if adding something helps you to remove a need for something more complex, then it's logically best to make smaller sacrifices than bigger ones. Unless, of course, you shift this liability to a contracted party and you're happy about it - that also works.
> makes me question my s/e belief system

That's a good thing! Models are fit on data, data doesn't fit to models. This is like when people learn elementary music theory then go analyze some actual composer and it doesn't fit the model at all. Well kiddo the problem is that "music theory" is simply a model, a model people created after training some very limit set of musical data, everything outside of that data will probably behave different and you'll have to change your models.

If your software engineering model predicts Python would be unsuccessful, but there is evidence that Python is successful, this simply means your software engineering model is unpredictive and therefore must be revised.
That's not how authority works. Whatever you would choose to implement, you will need to have enough buy in from those middle managers and fiefdoms otherwise you will end up with heel-dragging or, worse, malicious compliance. If you've been in any kind of organization that's tried to impose completely top-down edicts, you should have seen the kind of destruction of morale it leaves in its wake.
It appears not. It seems they didn't do anything for the Mac version with this release.
I played it fine on my PC. But I have a VR headset for my PC. I'm not sure that makes it not a PC game.

In the 90s you might have needed to buy a graphics card or sound card to play a game, but it was still a PC game.
Sorry, I just find the perpetual meltdown from the left that they dont control twitter anymore to be fascinating, a bit hilarious and sort of pathetic. Just move on. The hyperbolic and seriously stretched stories of antisemitism just comes off as desperate.
> I don't see copyright or a record label as artificial scarcity

It's allocating resources towards preventing distribution. Maybe you'd agree that it's "direct" artificial scarcity, but believe without that necessary artificial scarcity we'd soon become worse off overall?

> I think the artist should have every right to profit from their work.

Sure - but you see that is not inherently the same thing as the specific method of profit extraction through requiring payment per access to the book/image/music/..., right? An artist receiving donations or public funding for releasing their work to everyone under a permissive license is still profiting from their work, for example. I'm not necessarily saying you have to agree that alternative methods are currently feasible in all or most scenarios.