skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you anticipate the losses are due to people with aging machines upgrading and using a different browser? As a very happy Firefox user, I have a very hard time believing it's because people find the experience to be poor. I feel as if the losses you are describing have to be losses to defaults on new devices and people that fairly don't care enough to change them.

The desktop is virtually dead for any "normal" user, and their Android or Apple tablet/phone don't prompt them with a choice (other vendor constraints notwithstanding). It's not remotely a fair fight. You are guaranteed to lose users for reasons totally outside your control.
According to their career page, DocuSign has 77 open roles in engineering. That's feels like a lot, but given they have identify verification where each country has nuances, maybe there's a lot going on behind the scenes.
On the Mac, a folder can have a "/" in its name, but a directory can't. Don't believe me? I bet you $10. Paypal my winnings to don@donhopkins.com please!
It wasn't mentally healthy and it was on illegally obtained anti anxiety medication.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chimp-was-drugged-with-xanax

"It's been well known in primate circles that giving valium to monkeys and apes, particularly if their adrenaline is up, can have a very different effect and not be sedating,"

"Humans who are aggressive or unstable can get worse under the influence of Xanax, said Dr. Emil Coccaro, chief of psychiatry at the University of Chicago Medical Center.

"They just have more frequent and severe outbursts," Coccaro said.

It had basically been living like a human being since they took him from his mother at 3 days old in between acting stints and when he got stressed as with many actors he took drugs. I wonder why that didn't go well.
Go tests are fantastic. Fast, easy to write and just works. Another reason we moved to Go when moving off of Common Lisp.
Talk by the author in EuroPython 2016 on the same topic: https://youtu.be/LZ7THTB88AE?si=BQPgp-rxg32bTPMK
This just sounds like blogspam to me. Why not just share the link and let it speak for itself, if you're not actually putting any original thought into what you're saying about it?

But going back to the question in your post, I suspect the reason you aren't getting paying customers is that people/companies who are reposting content across social media already have established patterns to do it and there's not a value add of switching that to your service.
I doubt it. The laws are written by corporations to protect corporate interests and you may find industry sympathizers all over the place (see https://www.wired.com/2009/04/obama-taps-fift/ and https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/03/riaa-lobbyist-be...)
Conntent reduces a step or two in generating content. I felt a need for this product for myself so I made it.
If it has ethernet for updates, they can add cancer at any moment.
> The guys who are trying to make Messenger an everything app are probably some random MBA grads who have done nothing of significance in their life and real world.

The head of Messenger when this happened was literally the ex-president of PayPal.

https://time.com/2850224/paypal-david-marcus-facebook-messen...
It was made to be small out of necessity. The US government put extensive export controls on many inter-GPU connectivity products last year and expanded those controls recently to include anything above an A100.

Page 9 of this recently published paper[1] is a strong indicator of how far non-US firms go to formally analyze and factor in these bandwidth constraints in building large models.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.15786v2.pdf
editorialization. you know as well as anyone that restricting your feature development to your own platform rather than doing a retarded design by committee helps one innovate faster.
I wouldn't say Street Fighter 5 put out an update with malware. It did put out an update that opened up a kernel level vulnerability to unprivileged programs which is extremely bad and worth requesting a refund for. But I wouldn't say Intel sold me malware because my CPU was susceptible to spectre and meltdown.
The problem isn't the users. It's usually the management. Since these public infrastructure problems always become political weapons those managing try to appease the largest amount of people possible from the start instead of scaling back scope to a workable base that can be expanded on later. They're terrified of any backlash or criticism because the actual project works on a much longer timescale than the news cycle. People will hear about one setback, rabble rabble at whoever's been set up to be in charge in the public eye, and then that person has a stigma about them for the rest of their career while the wider public forgets about what the issue even was within three to five years. If it's an elected position that could cost them said position. If it's an appointed positing whoever leads the appointments will not choose them out of fear regarding negativity by proxy.

I have seen so many good projects that would benefit a ton of people get added onto until they die before they're even out of the planning stages. And then the projects that do get greenlit are the easiest and fastest way which will cause a ton of damage both short term and long term. Like adding more lanes via narrowing the sidewalks and removing the buffer zone between the lane and the curb instead of fixing an intersection because it would mean negotiating with property owners. Or an activity park that changed prospective location so many times that sponsors abandoned it before it was even built, had so many additions and removals during planning that at one point it was closer to being a convention hall and business park, and once it was built it ended up in such a remote location that nobody goes there and they're thinking of closing it because of lack of funding.
Yes, thus the term base load power.

However, while a 1GW nuclear power plant is only ~6,000$ an hour in fuel costs that still adds up. So, curtailing nuclear in favor of solar/wind with zero fuel costs is still a net gain assuming it’s not going to cause other issues. Further the massive ramp off of these sources is becoming a serious issue for the nuclear industry.
> "I thought your movie was kind of trash but I got some amount of enjoyment out of it so here's a cup of coffee,"

For me, this is a rental.
Oh man, I would love to compare notes.

I pivoted in the reverse direction from:

https://github.com/pycob/pyvibe

To

https://github.com/vanna-ai/vanna
Your mistake is imagining that piracy gets legally persecuted for more than one in a million cases.

Sure, they make an example of some poor guy every now and then and they cross their fingers hoping that this scary PR turns people away from piracy, yeah. Which is wishful thinking and they know it.

99.9999% of everyone pirating though? They are never going to be persecuted.

Turns out, if you ask people to pay and can't even withhold a fair bargain from your side -- as in, don't delete stuff from people's libraries -- they stop caring about the legality of it all. Especially with the extra context that this legality is a table that's severely tilted in the favor of the vendors and is not consumer-friendly.

The truth that the copyright holders don't like is this: people, even very technically illiterate people, are not as stupid so as to pay ownership but get rented goods license in return. It ain't happening. They coasted on the public's indifference for a long time but it's visible that the public's perception is changing.
Recent and related:

Playstation removing previously purchased Discovery content - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38492747 - Dec 2023 (174 comments)
Why are Korean network costs so much higher? In the aughts Korea was famous for its internet infrastructure. How do other streaming services survive there?

EDIT: I’m guessing this is related https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-netflix-under-scru...
How else do you punish them if not by affecting their revenue?
>Did a bug fly in your mouth yesterday, and you spit it out on the sidewalk in view of a camera? Better be extra obsequious when Officer No-Neck with "You're fucked" written on his service weapon pulls up to the gas station you're pumping at. If you don't show whatever deference he deems adequate, he's got a list of petty crimes he can issue a citation for, entirely at his discretion.

>> HN crowd (upper middle-class, suburban family) who have zero problems in their life must create imaginary problems of privacy / surveillance like this

I'm glad you both could agree with each other.
I'd love for my banking app to be completely isolated from the rest of my phone OS, in case I get malware. I'm sure journalists at risk of targeting by NSO and its ilk would appreciate isolation or their messaging apps
I'm one of the people helping to run Michigan TypeScript (we meet in person monthly in addition to doing the YouTube channel) and I also ran a React meetup in Detroit in 2016-2018. This article has lots of great stuff in it! I especially liked the parts about knowing your reasons for organizing a meetup.

There is one thing that I was expecting the article to cover, though, that it didn't: finding speakers. From talking to other organizers around the country, this seems like something that's a consistent point of stress. I think with MiTS we've found a good system, since only one month out of last year did we actually have to really "look" for a speaker, which is really great, but also not something that you can always expect to continue.

So on that note, if others have ideas to share on this topic, I'd really love to hear your thoughts.
Any positions available for intermediate level ML Engineering experience?
No one has a right to a business model or customers.

If they don't like that people can view public things and decline to view other public things, they have the choice not to display the things in public. That is the entirety of the choices they have a right to.
yes, i primarily use an android phone. nearby share is janky and terrible. additionally, the fact that it's not built in everywhere is a ding from the standpoint of an end user.
If what you're saying is that people who don't watch ads and don't pay for Premium will leave the platform, that seems like a desirable outcome to Google.
I work on a Bioinformatics team, so we are a bunch of programmers, but not fully-fledged software engineers. We know Python well but have no front-end experience.

Some examples:

- Another non-technical team needs to know if our test covers specific genetic variants. The code to answer this is 10 lines of Python + a 100 line CSV. We can solve this with a CLI on our local computers but to serve it to the other team was a huge blocker until we started using NiceGUI. Now its 10 lines of Python + 10 more lines of NiceGUI Python and they have a website to go to so they can self-serve the answer to that question. All done in a 2-4 hours.

- More complicated, we have a workflow where we want to select data from a database via a series of filters, run some automated algorithms on it to generate new data, denormalize and view the data, manipulate it using an Excel-like interface, and then update the database with the edits that were made. NiceGUI + their AG Grid integration let me build an application that has all the great GUI features of Excel when it comes to grid-based data manipulation but is fully programmable with 99% Python (and like 1% JavaScript).

- I also built a data hub that integrates and displays data from a bunch of our different data sources and displays it based on some queries. If I can write a tool in Python to do something, I can now easily deploy an internal app that does that too, without knowing any front-end code. It even has the flexibility that when needed I could dive into a bit of HTML with the help of ChatGPT to embed iframes of PDF files getting served directly from S3 links.

The great thing is that this is all done in Python, all version controlled in the same repo as the rest of our codebase, uses open source software, and can be deployed easily within our VPC using terraform+docker. So it's a very maintainable dev ops experience compared to most other no-code/low-code tools, while at the same time enabling people who have programming (but not really engineering) experience and are subject matter experts in other areas to build fairly complex and customized GUIs.

It's also using FastAPI under the hood so you can implement some things at that layer as well. I know that's how they suggest implementing Auth, but I haven't dabbled with that as well.
First they require email and personal info. Then they tell you it's a monthly subscription. Felt like a terrible onboarding experience and a bit of a dark pattern.
Do you have a Manifesto I can read?
I’m really interested in an implementation of this that adjusts for something like pitch. So it could tell when someone is mimicing a speaker, and could even grade them on how well they did. Or even a celebrity voice matcher that tells you which celebrity you sound most like. Does this exist?
i am not, nor have i ever been, employed by apple. i use none of their products as my primary devices. stop breaking the forum rules.
With the recent price hikes I’ve decided to cancel and start buying 4K blu rays. Better quality and then I own a physical copy that won’t get yanked away. Max in particular has troubled me with their decision to withhold classic HBO content because it is apparently cheaper for them (e.g. Westworld).

Unfortunately, this has turned into a full blown collection hobby, so I’m likely not going to save any money. But there’s nothing wrong with a new hobby I guess.

Fortunately the local record store has plenty of cheap used disks.
>Well, I haven't seen these "HN users who refuse to use ad-blocker". Can you point to some example posts? I think you might have seen one or two and you're misreading the true sample size.

I'm not going to do your research for you. These people post every time there's a big discussion about ad-blockers, and there's more than one of them. Perhaps they're a vocal minority, but they really do call everyone else here a bunch of thieves for not watching ads. Of course, there's no way to do an unbiased survey here to see what percentage of HN users they really are. But given how many tech workers work for ad-tech companies (Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc.), I don't think they're some vanishingly small percentage.

>So a relatively small percentage of users using adblock, as long as it's the right percentage of users, could have a huge effect on Google's bottom line here.

That's a very good point. But if your business model depends on annoying your most tech-savvy users and hoping they don't find technical means to avoid your annoyances, and then fighting with them (by trying to out-tech their technical measures) to annoy them further, you need a better business model.
Does the fact someone asks you not to do something inherently make it the right thing? Especially when what they've asked is hypocritical?
In Korea, broadband consumers only pay for the size of the pipe (100Mbps, 500Mbps, 1Gbps, etc.) and not for transfer. It's been like this for the last 20+ years. Even mobile carriers have "unlimited" plans. Short of outright collusion, nobody would dare comes up with a different pricing structure. Everyone would flock to a competitor! Moreover, the population is shrinking. The ISPs have little hope of increasing revenue from the "pull" side, which probably explains why they keep trying to pile charges upon the "push" side.
I think it makes sense for existing restaurants with a large takeout business to operate from a separate kitchen. But it needs to be a similar menu and same quality.
I’m not going to pick a random pizza place because it has an Italian sounding name. I will either order from a usual place or do a bit of research before ordering something special.
dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38526877 from 4-Dec
Whe I was in Greece I also saw a lot of buildings that seemed incomplete, often with apparently a floor missing. I was told it was something to do with tax and by not "completing" the building some tax was avoided.
Just helped a junior setup dockertest on a new service, interested in checking this out. Are you familiar with test containers or dockertest? How would you compare pgtestdb. We use postgres/pgx.
I wonder if they ever considered evacuating the village of 800. Seems like default human behaviour is to subjugate rather than run and think.
Rental works just fine there, it’s just a different time period. Media companies don’t want that because they know people immediately understand it’s not worth as much as a permanent license, which is all the more reason to restrict “buy” to things which convey a lifetime grant with the ability to resell it.
I'm LARPing
Hanson thinks brain emulation will be real. In this, he is extremely incorrect.

To the best of my understanding, "Lena" is written as a warning that we should not WANT brain emulation.
> capitalism

not dismissing other points your making or questions you're asking, but what happens with search results is a phenomenon that's more or less related to monopoly power - so as they (Google) control more, the classical theories behind capitalism no longer hold. For example, they provide worse search, but there is no close second. Even if there is a close second, that "other guy" is unable to afford the 60+ billion Google is paying to other companies to make them the default.
It shouldn't be legal to market a "sold" license that can be revoked at the sole discretion of the licensor. Sony can't sell you a license unless Warner Bros. has given them a license to sell you, and if Warner Bros. can pull the license it's not legally a sale. There's no confusion as long as Warner Bros. and Sony are acting in good faith.
A whole article for to say that researchers found a ZT of 3.1 for certain temperatures.

This is what since several years ago many researchers are obtaining (those ZT=3.1, that is 20% of efficiency? for eventual temperatures) with a mean of ZT=2 as much. Peltier effect cells remain inefficient, they are electricity guzzlers.

I don't understand then the article's purpose.
I find it odd that twitch would rather shut down their service than simply stop offering a free tier. They already have an ad-free service called Twitch Turbo, surely enforcing usage in Korea wouldn't be prohibitively difficult.
This makes me think that they are trying to spark outrage.
> and thus neglect their main product

Neglect would be a step up. It feels like they are actively trying to antagonize existing users.
Asked it to write code for two python programs (one of them tricky) and it got both of them right in the first pass. Looks promising.
> Keep in mind that heating with natgas is way cheaper for most Americans so the HVAC guys know that you have money to spare

Where natgas can lose its lustre is on delivery/standing charges. And sometimes transmission and distribution charges (those usually scale with use, but can make cheap gas expensive).

On smaller/well insulated homes, the fixed gas connection cost can really improve heat pumps economics if you're already on electric grid and can cutoff gas entirely. Or have an aux source like oil/propane/wood.

The fun part is that utilities are generally a regulated rate of return business, so as users disconnect, the base costs go up on the remaining subscribers. Pushing more subscribers to disconnect from the gas grid, pushing cost up on the remaining...

I wouldn't invest in natgas distribution companies in mild-moderate climates.
I'm not sure I follow. My criticism is in trying to value projects in term of engineering time. I don't think that's valid at all. Free time is worthless, except to the person spending it. It's not like I'm going to spend my free time doing more work for my company and make that much more money at an hourly rate: I'm salaried, so extra time spent is just a gift to the company with the vague hope I'll get some bonus or promotion. Plus, for mental health I have to take breaks from work and do something different, which could be reading a book, watching a movie, or working on a personal project completely unrelated to work. Either way, I'm not counting that time in terms of an hourly rate; I think that whole concept is just insane. I don't think of the time I spend on the toilet or making dinner in terms of an hourly pay rate, so why would I do that for a personal project? The only cost to me to pursue a hobby is in the materials needed.
I mean maybe you could. Who knows. But you are correct. Read in haste. But you did frame it in a hero as one person. I'd think it could maybe be lead by someone. But would require cooperation.
I think protectionism is probably the reason.

According to this article, on of the proponents is SK Telecom, of “SK Terran” fame.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-netflix-under-scru...
But you know the parameters of your telescope at least. If openai wants to update all the time, fine, but then they should be like how every other piece of research software works, where you can list what exact version of software you used and pull that version yourself if need be.
Looks like you fixed it!
From a user's perspective that is incredibly hostile. They push digital goods as more convenient than physical media but don't make it clear that you lose the right to download it after a certain time. That functionality is sold as a benefit but the limited time isn't made clear.
Hi - sorry for the random note - but would you mind chatting about this?
> The move comes after a Seoul court said Netflix should "reasonably" give something in return to the internet service provider for network usage, and multiple South Korean lawmakers have spoken out against content providers who do not pay for network usage despite generating explosive traffic.

Why not charge the end user? That seems like it would be more fair, easier to implement, and require no regulation. Makes it seem like they have other motives.
Also, writing benchmarks that report time, memory, and allocations is just as easy as writing a test. A huge win for Go compared to trying to accurately benchmark memory or cycles in TypeScript or Java.
I like the txtar file format mentioned in this video. (Described below.) I’ve worked with teams who would have rejected this idea from a junior dev because it might sound too simple. It’s easy to forget the inherent value of simplicity, which is at odds with impressive-sounding features, or demonstrating hard-won coding sophistication.

This is the complete txtar file format: One or more comment lines followed by zero or more virtual files. Each virtual file begins with a line like “-- filename --“ and ends at the next such line. Specifically, these filename lines are those beginning with dash dash space and ending with space dash dash. That’s the whole format.

It avoids the need to have multiple real files all over the place when you want just one real file but you want your code to think in terms of multiple files. (Eg have one txtar file that combines different blocks of test data.)
Exactly, and the additional safety concern too.

As others have said, there are already wireless switches, some using battery-free ultrawideband.

But even if you prefer wires, it makes no sense to have the actual load-carrying wires routed to the switch - have a separate two-wire switch/control network.

Or have it all run on single-pair ethernet - which can carry enough power for lighting too, with PoE/PoDL.