skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nah, the workers will exploit each other. Win / win!
Three on the page:

> If you’re looking for guidance on the correct use of apostrophes, …

> It's free, so why not join today!

> Do please have a browse and see if there’s anything you want to purchase.

I’m genuinely disappointed at this inconsistency: the first and third use curly quotes, the second uses straight quotes. They should pick one style (which, for such an organisation, should I think fairly clearly be the curly, unless they go bizarre and decide that U+0027 APOSTROPHE’s name is enough to warrant protecting it despite its inferiority to U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK) and stick with it assiduously.

They’ve also got a pair of double quotes on the quotation at the end, and they’re straight.
Looks like they can just get away with it, so what's the incentive to change that?
The problem with licensure is that there are many markets where the number of licensed professionals is zero. My wife reminds me of this--she grew up in rural Idaho, where many things I take for granted (e.g. electricians, medical care) growing up in the Chicago suburbs, weren't available.

Let's consider the choices of a homeowner in this market, who needs electrical work done: (a) pay a licensed professional to travel into their market (expensive), (b) have someone unlicensed do the work (or DIY it), or (c) just don't do it.

This is why I think certification (not mandatory licensing) is the way to go. It's not clear that criminalizing economic activity when it's someone's only real choice--and there may be major health/safety hazards if the work isn't done--is beneficial.
Google was certainly completely caught of guard. Then they said there version was more powerful and released it and it was certainly not. Then they said they had a more powerful version coming out soon that would be much more powerful, and they released Bard which was far behind ChatGPT. Now they are saying Gemini is going to be as powerful but now until early 2024 and of course by then presumably will be behind what ChatGPT is so they are also now touting there is Claude coming someday that will be even more powerful, which seems as unlikely as their past attempts. ChatGPT was able to gather so much data without restrictions and now companies late to the party will have many more restrictions and their tools will be much more limited presumably. Any secret sauce Google can develop ChatGPT presumably will be able too. Apple’s may be the most limited as they may want to be the most cautious and privacy orientated but Siri can’t get any worse so excited for any improvements.
In Sweden most of what you would consider basic labor law/protection is left up to negotiated contracts. Almost all sectors all unionized.
If you can use a small car. I have a family, so I need a larger car (minivan, but typically they give me a large SUV). $100/day. A used minivan amortized over years is pretty cheap.
> In order to be able to meet the schedule that is required, as well as managing boiloff and so forth of the fuel, there’s going to need to be a rapid succession of launches of fuel

20 launches in rapid succession
I tried to watch Star Trek DS9 on netflix. Video quality was absymal. Same for Valerian.

Audio quality is even worse. To be able to underestand spoke english you need the volume at 60% (everything else working at 20-30%).
And was played (and playable) by almost no one, sadly.
More content for their Steam Deck handheld?
I was just posting this to see if Hacker News automatically put titles into title case — for an article I'm writing. Looks like it does.

Which in my opinion is a bad thing — but not worth getting upset about.
how did Xerox invent so many things, that's crazy
And at 10 times the cost!

So glad we’ve “saved” so much electricity.
Well, i have something you might want to hear about. It's called investment funds and weirdly competition between companies started to fall as investment fund rose up. They also are present at a lot of different director board or committees.
I disagree, it illustrates the current betting market. It doesn't have to do anything with the company as long as the company isn't striken off the market.
Isn't it a bit audacious to assume the parent lives in a suburban home with a yard and drives a car? Many people don't. And it'd often a choice of values and principles. Of which the parent shared theirs.
Legislative majority doesn’t mean government.

Why are you trying to justify occupation?
Alyx was really good (though I'm a wuss and couldn't finish it) but not a continuation of the cliffhanger that we've been sitting on for 16 years since episode 2.
> I don't know the lesson to be learned here, but wow, it just makes me want to give up...

Its like they always say: the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.

Its good that you recognize the problem. Welcome to the other side. That just makes you more intelligent and ready for the next event. If you know what is moral and just, and if you have the capabilities to see the future thanks to your experience... you now know how to handle these events in the future.

For now, support the rise of interest rates and ignore the cries of the SV elite to have the Fed cut rates back down. We all know that crappy projects make less sense when money costs 5.25% / year rather than the 0%/year it cost throughout the 2010s decade.

Beyond that? Hard to say. Depends where things go.
I'm in an east coast city. I've visited big west coast cities numerous times. I feel our problems are very different. You have policies that support the homeless and people with drug addictions so people facing those challenges flock to cities like yours from all over the country. The nations problems are then dumped on places like San Francisco, Portland and Seattle. It's not fair and it's not right. We need better federal safety nets to prevent people from getting into these positions to begin with and if they do safety nets that allow them to stay in their hometown.
> average folks get fired immediately for not doing their job. A job that they agreed to do.

The point of a union is to be able to push back on your employer, so that fighting for better conditions isn't a special privilege.
You should try the Brave New World mod for FF6, if you ever feel like revisiting it. Vast QoL improvements, among many other welcome and interesting changes.
It's a coin flip with Earthbound, IMO. If we're talking specifically about kids playing through a game, Earthbound would be more relatable though. I think this goes even more so for kids in NA considering Earthbound's cheeky localization and western references.

source: played both at ~10-11 years of age.
For the vast majority of people who sell their time for a living, their time doesn't actually have value because they are either on salary, and cannot exchange more time for more money, or their manager controls their schedule and they do not get to choose how much time they get to sell for how much money.
Is a resume "personal data"?, Honest question, I want to evaluate if I'm crazy, I've always treated my resume as a public advertisement of my abilities. There are copies of my resume floating around on linkedin, monster, my personal website, and probably a bunch of places I've forgotten.
Is this what the downvotes are for?

I don't think someone has to necessarily be wage earning to be considered middle class.

Middle Class is a fairly broad and ubiquitous term used in the USA to refer to a group of the population who doesn't necesarily live paycheck to paycheck or is on government assistance and whose definition probably varies person to person.
Here's an example: I've got a house under contract and in the title report it shows that in 1906 (!!) the then owner of the land (prior to the house being built in 1946) signed away mineral and timber rights. Unclear at this point who those rights belong to, but doesn't appear to be the homeowner. In another case, I had a seller client who had been a victim of title fraud on a piece of scrub land. Title insurance is something you hope to never need, and admittedly it mostly involves family esoteric scenarios, but it really is there to protect buyer and seller in their ability to convey property.
I have to object to the recommendation to fix an error that results in a "corrected" form that reads

> 1000s of bargains here!

The problem with a sentence that says "1000's" isn't just the presence of the apostrophe. "1000" is not a substitute for the word "thousand". It means "one thousand". "1000s" therefore is a nonsense construction, apostrophe or not, unless you're talking about years or other number ranges. The same goes for "millions", etc, as well as "hundreds". (This doesn't apply to 10; "10s of thousands" is acceptable and correct.)
Interesting. How is this in Norway? I assume tesla fights union's there also. The culture and value system where union employers and the government is working together is standing really strong in Norway. Could this spread to the Norwegian Market? How big is the Norwegian Market for tesla now? Some years ago it was significant, but I assume the rest of the world is catching up and that its not that important anymore?
Didn’t work :( wouldn’t connect to stranger
Recent blog post about unions that I found interesting:

>Let’s say a nation is concerned about poverty. So it passes a law that says the rich will have some of their money redistributed to the poor. But instead of a progressive income tax used to fund cash payments to the unfortunate, the government decides that wealthy people who happened to be born in the spring will give their money to poor people whose birthdays are in the summer. Moreover, this redistribution won’t go to anyone who is too poor. You have to already have a job to qualify, and a certain kind of job at that. In fact, you are going to make the poorest of the poor worse off through the policy. Finally, instead of cash payments that they can spend on whatever they actually need, the recipients of aid get gift cards to Bed, Bath, and Beyond.

>I think, regardless of how they feel about the redistribution of wealth, most people would find this to be a pretty stupid policy for reasons that are self-evident. Yet this is similar to how laws protecting organized labor function, which in effect involve the “right” of workers in an industry to form a cartel that prevents other people from being hired by an employer...

https://www.richardhanania.com/p/why-labor-unions-are-evil

I wonder if the highly unionized Swedish economy is part of why Sweden has trouble assimilating immigrants. Native Swedes enforcing a cartel to prevent new arrivals from competing in low-wage occupations.
For what it's worth, all I ever wanted it to do was to be able to reliably turn off lights and play the right music.

Nearly a decade later, when I say "turn off the music", it'll pause Netflix on the TV I'm actively watching (and talking to it through) while the speaker in the other room keeps playing music. Or if you ask it turn off the light, the whole house goes dark.

I don't need it to read minds, but it sure would've been nice for it to understand the difference between a TV, a music speaker, and a light bulb.

I don't know how Google works (or doesn't, apparently), but I often wished they just sat down with a few interns and manually went through the top 100 most used commands and made manual command chains for them.

The assistants are annoying not because they're not AGI enough, but because they can't reliably do the simple tasks that we actually want to offload to them...
Maybe 720P, but I've got 4k Blu ray movies that have peaks of over 200Mb/s when streaming and my device always stutters over those sections.
He's very thoughtful, though.

He got where he is by being diplomatic and not stepping on anyone's toes. No surprise he would continue behaving that way in the job.
You can choose not to turn up, but in the UK at least, you may not encourage anyone else to do the same.
This is happening a lot.

Silence of the lambs and Lexx come to mind.
ChatGPT on Steroids
Ever noticed that you can't search through your chats in ChatGPT? Yeah, me too.

This problem sparked the idea of creating a dashboard that improves the ChatGPT experience and does much more than just adding a search bar.

Enter GPT Unbound

It currently has the following features:

GPT-4 Access - No need to pay $20/month to access the latest and greatest GPT-4 model. Just load credits on to your account and use as much as you want.

Unlimited Usage - You are only limited by the amount of credits and rate limits you have on your Open AI account.

Chat Search - Search through your chats and save time when trying to find something. No need to spend 30 minutes trying to find the snake game you asked ChatGPT to write.

Plugins - You can now generate cute cat GIFs or funny memes in ChatGPT. (and much more)

Prompt Library - No need to think about what to ask ChatGPT, the Prompt Library will do the heaving lifting for you.

I am currently running a Black Friday Sale. I'd love to receive feedback, so please let me know if there's anything I can do to improve the product.
> What about Blackrock?

This is actually a good point, and is detrimental for similar reasons: concentration of power, reduction of competition and increased fragility of the whole system ("too big to fail").
A time honoured tactic in Scandinavian labor relations

https://mattbruenig.com/2021/09/20/when-mcdonalds-came-to-de...
An affection for containers are a green flag in some sense. Management probably has really low expectations if they accept “works on my system, let’s just ship my system” at scale as a solution.
I’m afraid the real problem is that Google engineering is just lame. Case in point, Google’s vaunted spam filter marks emails from Google as phishing attempts. As I understand it every engineer at Google has the access to fix this. None of them do it. Not even having 20% time is enough. Being a leet coder is one thing. Having an ounce of initiative and giving a shit is another.
I agree. No issues in exposing your IP. What exactly would be the "fear"? You connect with someone, then they use your IP to file a request with law enforcement to go get your address then use that info to "stalk" you?
Its possible, but I don't think thats the only thing, the reason being that they are listed via Realtors (usually) and I can sometimes find them on other websites (e.g. Redfin) or in the local real estate flyer booklet, but it simply isn't on Zillow for some reason.

I wish I had a recent example, but I tested this theory multiple times when I was house hunting, and I don't think I'm hallucinating the issue.
Thanks, I guess I read too much local doom news. I also underestimated that intel box from hetzner - it's actually twice as fast as the small AMD server but I guess the idea was clear.
That’s a pretty broad brush you’re using. My experience is mostly with the IBEW and so won’t be applicable in all cases. But, the employer gets a flexible, locally licensed work force. They can hire as many people as they need off the union book (no need for lengthy recruitment, skill assessment, and compensation negotiation) on demand and they can lay off electricians as a job winds down. Each local contract will be different, but I think it’s common for benefits to be handled by the union as well. Moreover, the union runs its apprenticeship program so they handle a growing and evolving workforce.
if you're not already, you should advocate for the infrastructure in your city. these things do not happen on their own, we must push for the future we desire.
> Rhetoric surrounding "banning cars"

Which I never engaged in. Banning cars is nonsense and is counter productive.

> The global population growth rate is going to stall

If we give every person a car to drive every day, today - that's enough to make it unsustainable. That's the whole point. We don't even have to have any growth in population.
Sadly, I believe this is just one more step in the inevitable outcome for Twitter. As a business, it's value prop. is an advertising platform. Like all social media, the value to advertising companies is to mix-in those ads alongside engaging user-generated content. There will always be associations with _other's content_ on such a platform. Advertisers don't want to do anything that would alienate or otherwise put-off their population of potential buyers. They want to avoid other strong emotions because they're trying to cultivate a specific emotional reaction: "I want to buy that thing!" No one is going to want to do that if they see extremely inflamatory content.
Not surprised - I have voice assistants in every device I have owned in the past 10 years and have never found a good reason to use them. ChatGPT on the other hand I use several times a day.
Special kind of privilege to have a union?
Living in sky scrapers sucks and is not enjoyable. Same with living in suburbia. The sweet spot is densely packed urban areas that are built on the human scale.
The whole industry is a con, and only the music/performance is real.

Disputes about Fiscal and Promotional gains from content duplication go back to before Johannes Gutenberg. Up till very recently, there was a clear distinction between the act of duplication for profit, and monetizing peoples gaze.

Indeed, the copyright industry has had a windfall due to successful lobbying, and no one dares mess with Disney. The criminals were just late to the Securitization of pop-culture.

The main tragedy is most companies no longer respect the mediums or content quality. Ripping off Mark Hamill with ML technology CGI was just the final insult to the profession, and a ludicrous perversion of Copyright law.

Have a wonderful day =)
The fun thing about a local LLM is you can tell it you love it and would do anything for it and then you can turn it off and laugh that was just something you did cause you were horny and having a fantasy and nobody is around to even witness it. It's just your own internal mindfuck that's between you and your sexy GPU.
People should expect it, but it’s a fool’s errand. Misinformation has been used as a tool of war forever. Russia especially has been known for it.

The problem is that there is no trustworthy source of truth, so you’re forced to pick who you trust.

Just think about the Palestinian hospital. Is it a Hamas stronghold? Hamas says no, Israel says yes, the US says yes, some doctors say no. Some past doctors said yes. Hamas has used hospitals and human shields in the past (depending on the source you follow), so it’s possible they’d do it again.

Looking beyond the hospital story, this plays out everywhere. Countless stories are manipulated or have contradictory sources. You have to pick a source. Should US citizens believe their government? Maybe the “terrorist organization” that’s seeing its people massacred? The government that is currently mass bombing a city?

The media doesn’t even have reliable information because the truth is not apparent. Everyone has an incentive to be the truth-teller. Unbiased news only exists for unimportant news.
Rust uses a sum type for most errors (Result<T, Error>) and there are common macros such as "error-chain" that apply a monadic approach to binding/combining them (or chaining them, as the preferred nomenclature in that case).

Exception-based languages don't look monadic at first blush, they definitely aren't Sum types, but try/catch is one of the earliest and oldest of the monadic binding/combining approaches, even if it isn't often thought as such (and is barely considered more than goto/switch). It's far more obvious when you start to realize the intersection of async/await and try/catch is a working monad (and how that is reflected in Task/Promise monad instances).

Golang is the obvious odd one out where every other line of "best practice" code is `if err != nil` and the only other advice is "well you could just ignore errors". try/catch doesn't ignore errors, it just looks like it. Rust error chaining doesn't ignore errors, it just looks like it. Golang gives you the choice between micro-managing errors or BASIC-style "ON ERROR RESUME NEXT" and I cannot get anyone to convince me why this isn't either a practical joke or an intentional throwback to writing code like it is the 1970s all over again (even VB6 had better options than "ON ERROR RESUME NEXT", even if they maybe weren't used as often as they should be in some legacy 1990s/2000s codebases).
When/if HL3 is announced, I actually believe it might break parts of the internet.
MoCA is really expensive. You're better off just hiring someone to wire the house up. Id
Good at keeping the lights on but not so good at pushing the business forward.
> big Home Depot plastic storage crate into the bars

Nice! That's such a simple solution. Thanks for the tip.
> Does prod hang on by a Perl script someone wrote in the early 00s, or is there an active drive to address technical debt? Consider a push toward web apps a green flag.

A script being in Perl is is not "technical debt". There is nothing wrong with Perl. On a personal level I don't especially like Perl, but it's a perfectly functional language that's fit for purpose and I would never claim there is something with with a script just because it's written in Perl.

Of course there can be plenty of good reasons to replace such a script: if it doesn't work well, if its too hard to adapt to new requirements, or something else. But merely "it's Perl" is a complete non-reason.

And such scripts don't need to be "old" in the first place; maybe people actually like Perl and is something that works well for them? So the assumption is some old crufty script is wrong in the first place.

This entire list is an enormous red flag of "I have one preferred way of doing things and anything else is wrong". These are the sort of people that will join a team, spend 2 years rewriting perfectly working systems to ... other perfectly working systems, and then leave after two years with a far greater mess than when they arrived for everyone else to clean up while they can spunk off keywords on their CV.
In the future, when people will be comparing Google's (lack of) corporate governance and SBF's shenanigans, the former will be considered more outrageous by a lot.
a really incredible VR game though
In favor of the neutral single quote (')? Are you using a typewriter?!
Just a few days ago I downloaded a Half-Life PS2 ROM because it looked like the only way to get decent analog stick support for the game.

After purchasing a Steam Deck earlier this year, Half-Life was one of the things I was really looking forward to. It was pretty disappointing once I realized the gamepad support wasn't quite there.

The update claims they've improved this and verified it for the Steam Deck. So excited to give this a go later this weekend.
It is at most as dangerous, probably less, as any other software I install on my computer. Why should I be allowed to install arbitrary PC software but not extensions?
He's turned Google into Microsoft. The kinda CEO you get when you decide to sell out, stop innovating, and milk your captive audiences for all you can before it all explodes...
Funnily enough, Sweden came close to doing this in the 70s, forcing joint ownership of firms by employees. Unfortunately, it fell apart, and the whole country went down a more neoliberal path after the assassination of Olaf Palme and the collapse of the Soviet Union.
At the bottom of the page is a crowbar... maybe you should see if it's useful!
snaps are horrible and a big deterrent. I stopped recommending ubuntu because of them. Total dead end.
congresspipples "from the river to the sea" posts didnt generate this much press
> A union should not have that much cash in the bank.

Why not? They've clearly been able to leverage it to negotiate better terms for their members. Their members are better off for the union having the warchest.
I've been happily using the laughably cheap Direct-TV Deca adapters for years now to get 100Mbps ethernet to my detached garage (where of course the previous owners needed coax TV :P), for my smart garage door, wyze cam, and streaming music while mowing. Works like a charm for $20!