skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I don’t think the younger generations will just roll over if you offer them cheap TVs, iPhones, or cheaper Big Macs.

That's actually why I think @caprock has it right. The younger generations are building on doors that Gen X opened for them in the workplace. They are the ones demanding climate solutions. They are making it clear they aren't going to limp along until retirement when they can finally get Medicare. The political left is likely going to go through a moment sometime in the next decade where we have a political crossroads much like what conservatives have undergone, but my guess is that we will be better for it politically and as a nation. I'm expecting a reinvigoration of American industry unlike anything in my lifetime, and we'll see real movement on the major political issues.
Oh! I would like to know what sort of reliability and headaches they had out of different types of memory! Drum, core, film memory etc.
More like, incentives for non-competes scale upward from fast food restaurants (close to zero incentive) to 3 Michelin star restaurants (higher incentive by an unspecified but nontrivial degree). My previous comment in the thread expressed the sentiment "close to zero incentive is not zero", and abduhl correctly pointed out that I was getting sidetracked from the main topic of the overall discussion, which is that noncompetes are generally bad in principle, not because a few outlier businesses who definitely don't need noncompetes use them anyway.
It’s an extremely poor example. It’s a multi phase project and for many years government didn’t provide any funding as it was not a priority. It’s not like they were actively trying to build it for 47 years, they built multiple small parts of it through multiple phases but they were never trying to build the whole thing. It was just not anything important to complete.
I fear Consumer Reports is having their lunch eaten by Wirecutter, and while they seem attached to a very dated organizational model & visual design aesthetic, CR is SO much more rigorous and honest an organization. I pay for a sub on principal.
It doesn't need to be all or nothing. It's possible to acknowledge that the 50s had a better economic outlook for the middle class in developed countries than it does now, despite the incredible advances in computing. And you might still prefer to live now, for social reasons or because you prefer the computing advances, despite it not delivering economically as much.

Either way, it does highlight a serious economic concern as computing continues to advance. The majority of the wealth is increasingly being concentrated by our tech overlords.
> For the remains of the Pyrex casserole that shattered when I removed it from the oven,

Noteworthy example. Current Pyrex-branded kitchenware is no longer borosilicate glass.

I shattered a Pyrex casserole dish with what I guess was probably thermal shock, by moving it out of the oven, into a stainless steel sink.
All of what you said is true.

That is why I want the industry to self-regulate with professional licensure first.

If we let politicians do it, they'll do it wrong. If we do it first, and push hard to have politicians adopt our system when they've decided that regulation will happen, then we have a chance that it won't be awful.

As for consultants, yes, that could be a problem. However, I think professional licensure would minimize that because requiring a Professional Software Engineer (PSWE) on a project means having someone there for the long term, dedicated to the project, which is antithetical to consultants game plan to run either short projects or many projects at once.

As for Big Tech monopolists, yes that could be a problem. However, I think professional licensure, with a Code of Ethics, would actually give the PSWE at such companies the ability to say no to such monopolization. And they would, if we could actually threaten loss of license.

So you are correct that my proposal isn't perfect, but I do think it minimizes the risk of bad things happening among the others.
I have read Euclid in Greek (and Proclus' commentaries on Euclid) and I'm a big fan of math history in general. My formal studies were tied in part to Greek mathematical history and axiomatization though more related to Plato & Aristotle, earlier stuff than Euclid. The issue here is your value judgments themselves, positive or negative, about Rome of the Greeks are actually stupid. The content of your thoughts outside those could be fine, but it's clearly very shallow, and until there's sufficient content there, your judgments are pointless. Once you reach that point that you have read widely in the Greek and Roman authors and read widely about the domain from scholars who are domain-experts, then you'd recognize that value judgments are not the point, and drop both your fetishization and your bashing, those are both stupid, and you're being stupid loudly here, you should be embarrassed. Rome is what it is, it's worth understanding, but turning it into some kind of historical foil for your bloviations is simply mindless and you should work to grow out of that.

This is my final statement on these matters, I have no interest in "debate" or conversation with someone who has no idea about what they're discussing and clings to strong value judgments over reason.

As someone who has studied these things for a very long time, perhaps longer than you've been alive, I have tried to help, but it is tedious.
The 'popular' qualifier is important, because these are the ones that important infrastructure are reliant on. These are the ones that should meet professional standards. And by most accounts, they are being developed by professionals who should be subject to such expectations.

I think it's okay if a hobby project is unsuitable or unreliable for important tasks. They should also not be used in critical infrastructure or commercial products.
I can only assume that by "the" entrance they meant West.
Some iOS 15 phones like the 5S/SE have no newer comparable phones which makes upgrading difficult. Oh dear, I suppose not browsing the web is another option.
Our few year old kitchen aid has been a nightmare of broken plastic internal parts. I will weep when my mother passes, but I will be taking her mixer and ditching mine.
I run my FF in deny everything mode, and then run uBlock on top of that. With that, the site was totally usable. For the lulz, I disabled uBlock. With a refresh, I could now see all of the space left by all of the elements, but even FF's deny mode prevented the ads from showing. It just left gray boxes covering up the content. First time I actually did that to see what FF was doing natively.
How does Amazon, Google, and Microsoft come out as the little guys being bullied by... Mongo and Elastic in your worldview?

And who is generating the open source code in your world compared to who is getting paid for it?

It just doesn't make any sense unless one is principally funded by big tech companies... like the OSI is.

(Intriguingly, the corporate sponsor link is basically impossible to reach through navigating their site now, but here's who the OSI works for: https://opensource.org/sponsors/ Nice group of little guys.)
> The first thing Eisenhower did after taking office was to cut the defense budget.

Yes. But aren't you forgetting something? Like the fact that the US was exiting the war in Korea?

> because nukes are cheaper than conventional weapons, pound for pound.

Yes, they are. Pound for pound. But when you get to 20000 nukes, and thousands of megatons, it stops being pound for pound.

> I doubt 5% of today's politicians, let alone citizens, can explain the difference between fission and fusion bombs I'd be amazed.

I think you are right. If they knew, at least a few would realize that the US could downgrade 90% of its nukes from thermonuclear to fission bombs without diminishing their destructive power. The most numerous warhead in the US arsenal is W76-1, with a yield of 90 kT. It is obviously not know how much comes from the fission core, but it's unlikely that the core is smaller than the core of Fat Man, because of the lower limits of the critical mass of plutonium. The efficiency of the core is certainly much higher than the efficiency of the Fat Man, so it would not surprise me if half of the yield of a W76-1 came from the fission core. And since the destructive power of a bomb is ridiculously sublinear, the difference between a 45 kT and a 90 kT bomb is not that high. The US could retain about 300 fusion bombs, and convert the other few thousands into pure fission bombs and it could be able to fulfill whatever nuclear war goals there were to fulfill. And reduce the stockpile stewardship budget. And gain some moral high ground in the process. And, why not, move the world a bit closer to a world without nuclear weapons.
It's not a belief or logically derived claim, it's as close to empirical fact as we're going to get. We have zero evidence that intelligence without physical experimentation is possible because we have no other examples of intelligence except humans (and nonhuman animals), all of whom learned experimentally with a physical feedback loop. Even the most extreme cases like Helen Keller depended on it - her story is perhaps far more useful to grounding theories about AGI than any philosophical text as Wittgenstein himself would likely argue (Water!). His contempt, for lack of a better word, for philosophy on those terms is clear.

I'm excited to see how LLMs scale but it won't reach AGI without a much richer architecture that is capable of experimentation, capable of playing "language games" with other humans and remembering what it learned.

(I'm fairly certain of my views given my experience in neuroscience but it's fun to talk Wittgenstein in the context of LLMs, something that's been conspicuously missing. Sadly I don't believe discussions of AGI are fruitful, just what LLMs can teach us about the nature of language)
Get ready for the next evolution of “this website is not available in your country” except it’ll be GitHub repos, huggingface models, etc. The internet became worse with the gdpr/cookie warning stuff and this will continue that trend.

Insane tbh. EU is all about safety to the extreme and it’s nauseating. Pretty soon you won’t be able to fart there without getting a permit and sign off from some kind of council.
From personal experience it seems relatively common in the embedded-esque software space, although not always quite as sophisticated as seen here.

> Is there some kind of whistleblower law that would allow someone with knowledge to come forward?

Depends on where you live, unfortunately anywhere with 'stong' IP laws you aren't allowed to patch anything. Usually reverse engineering analysis is still fine, although if there is a contract saying you're not allowed to you could be screwed anyway.

In the train case the locks were specifically for anti-competitive purposes, and so they can whistle-blow for that; and I think in the general case you can sue for misleading dealings/false advertising/etc but not for anything specific to the software locks/traps.
A toaster in 1951 was $21, which is about $250 today.

I would argue that a $250 toaster today is still not a "buy it for life" item, but it would certainly have a lot of bells and whistles and almost no user-serviceable parts.
Nah I think the negative aspects of living there aren't apparent when you're vacationing there. The working culture there and making friends is very different.
So this article implies that a number of things that we buy previously were built to last longer, and indeed did last longer. The first few examples are kitchen appliances. In this case I don't really know, but I'm at least willing to listen. Ultimately the evidence is people responding to a thread on Twitter where he solicited complaints. Not so compelling.

But then he mentions a "hybrid sedan". Here I'm aware of the data. It's not close. Modern cars are much, much more reliable and durable than ones built at any time in the past.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/automobiles/as-cars-are-k...

[1] https://www.jdpower.com/business/press-releases/2021-us-vehi...
Show HN: I implemented a minimal Vue3 model based on TDD and TPP
It is also important to be aware that there is huge sampling bias. All the 1950s artefacts that were fragile went to the junk heap a long time ago.
Typst with Polylux (inspired by Beamer) is a nice alternative.
Nope. My mixer, which I put off buying for years, came out of the box much worse than my mothers 50 year old model.

It doesn't actually move slowly at the stir speeds and sounds atrocious.
> Know why you are creating your docs
> Know who your target audience is
> Know what their pain points are
> Improve your docs over time

I think the biggest problem I've seen with docs is that we tend to overload docs with multiple, sometimes changing audiences in the hopes that fewer docs = less complexity and organizational debt to maintain. Unfortunately the result is that the doc is either too long or too high level to be useful to anyone. This is one of the areas where I actually think LLMs could deliver an actual paradigm shift (once we figure out design patterns that go beyond the suboptimal "ask your docs a question" implementations that exist today).
Some plastic parts are intentional / sacrificial. Even so, the old mixers were definitely built to last.
Also don't buy anything that has a gibberish manufacturer name in all caps.

https://www.readingeagle.com/2020/02/12/all-your-favorite-br...
I think the AI safety people are saying that whatever benefits LLMs bring to the masses might be outweighed by the costs. We've seen this with social media. And on the extreme end, there's the existential concern. If we do ever get to AGI, all bets are off from where we stand right now, because nobody has the faintest clue how a human-level (or beyond) intelligence will play out in society.
At least as far as coffee grinders go, find a reputable company that will repair them. My Baratza Encore stopped working after about a year or two of operation, and I sent it in for repairs. It was probably just a small short somewhere, but I'm not an electrician. They sent it back to me after a week or so, cleaned inside and out and working better than new. I keep saying I'm going to replace it with the one from Fellow (the Ode), but for the past 4-5 years I've been finding other things to spend money on and the Encore just keeps going.
It does take a long time to find quality items. I'm glad to mostly have all the items I want, at least those that already exist.

I don't care too much about some of the things the author talks about. A suitcase not able to stand up when full is annoying, but also well within my ability to fix. I guess I'm just conditioned to junk.

The one thing that pisses me off the most is how the swiffer (mop) handle isn't strong enough for mopping. We've broken over a dozen of them in the exact same spot. We have taken to repairing them ourselves with a plastic welder.

They already have a freaking subscription model built in with their stupid pads and incredibly overpriced fluids, at least the mop could be really well-built and a pleasure to use.
21?
A consumer report subscription will save you money.
The irony of course is that they deliberately make some parts out of plastic so they break before the rest of the machine does when you're misstreating it.
A lot of the high end stuff is crap too. You get a toaster with wifi and a touch screen and an app instead of something that works.
BTW, there is also a subreddit called r/BuyItForLife, looks like this is inspired by that subreddit.

I personally like the idea of the subreddit, though unfortunately it seems to be pretty USA-centric. There are brands that just doesn't exist in my country, personally.

Also, there seems to be advertisement? Personally it's better for website like this to stay away from advertisement... almost defeats the purpose
Which 10 year old phone is more safe / secure?
"(keep scrolling ...) "

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"(was that far enough?) "

oh man, i was hoping this was going to be one of those tricks of no matter what your window size was, this would always be just below the fold with CSS. i just got lucky for it to line up. after trying it again with a smaller window, it was just in the scroll. =(

then again, looking at the site's layout, it does not really suggest heavy use of CSS. at. all.
> > The first thing Eisenhower did after taking office was to cut the defense budget.

> Yes. But aren't you forgetting something? Like the fact that the US was exiting the war in Korea?

No. The Eisenhower cut of the defense budget occurred in spring 1953, right after his inauguration. It was not known then that the armistice would occur that summer.
>Hardware security very often relies on “security through obscurity”, and it is much more difficult to reverse-engineer than software, but this is a flawed approach, because sooner or later, all secrets are revealed.

The later works when you are not as big as Apple. When you are as big as Apple, you are a very hot target for attackers. There is always the effort vs reward when it comes to exploiting vulnerabilities. The amount of effort that goes into all this is worth thousands of dollars even if someone is doing it just for research. If I was doing this for some random aliexpress board it would be worth nothing and probably security by obscurity would mean no one really cares and the later part works here. But I wonder what Apple is thinking when they use obscurity cause people must start working on exploiting new hardware from day 1. You literally can get one on every corner in a city these days. Hardware Security by obscurity for example would be fine for cards sold by someone like nvidia to only some cloud customers and those are then assumed obsolete in a few years so even if someone gets those on eBay the reward is very low. iPhones on the other hand are a very consumer device and people hang on to their devices for very long.
I somehow ran across this trivia twice today. It stings; Pyrex was a brand I still trusted.

The other thread mentioned that they license rights to use "pyrex" (vs "Pyrex") to pretty much anyone, but the capital-P brand should still be the OG company. Maybe that was relevant in your case.
You want to make sure you're using PYREX, not pyrex. They're different![1]

[1]: https://www.allrecipes.com/article/what-is-the-difference-be...
Interesting but tangential to Gibson Island and other Fortescue Future projects as they're not attempting to sequester carbon or use biomass.

Andrew Forrest [1] has laid out plans to dramatically increase global green hydrogen production on the back of western australia's mining of close to a billion tonnes of iron ore per year (ie. experience of industry at large scale).

https://fortescue.com/what-we-do/green-energy-research/green...

The aim is to do whatever required to directly fuel existing mining truck fleets and bulk carriers.

[1] https://youtu.be/h1Y22iC90Xo?t=331
Yeah sure. Just a Russian IT company owned by Russian billionare who stayed in Russia after 2022 and kept his business in Russia after 2022. Sorry, but everyone who is big enough and are not working for Kremlin has left the country already.

It's not even needed to mention his KGB ties.
Curtailment from solar is a real thing that happens predictably: https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2023/10/31/california-is-curtail...
Right, in this specific case the problem is that "burr coffee grinder" became widely known as an indicator of quality, which meant that cheap products proliferated to take advantage of the prestige. The high-quality products that earned that reputation still exist, you just have to find (and pay for) them.
It can make a big difference who reads the ticket. I might see something come in and think oh yeah that'll take me 5 min to fix and I'll just do it, but if someone else unknowledgeable about the feature sees it, or a PM... it might get closed as won't fix at best or just rot for 10 years.
> yeah, I’m wondering the same. Maybe they can’t point a finger at who did it, but there were no clues on the exfiltration?

From the articles at the above link...

C&C domains

Using the forensic artifacts, it was possible to identify the set of domain name used by the exploits and further malicious stages. They can be used to check the DNS logs for historical information, and to identify the devices currently running the malware:
addatamarket[.]net
backuprabbit[.]com
businessvideonews[.]com
cloudsponcer[.]com
datamarketplace[.]net
mobilegamerstats[.]com
snoweeanalytics[.]com
tagclick-cdn[.]com
topographyupdates[.]com
unlimitedteacup[.]com
virtuallaughing[.]com
web-trackers[.]com
growthtransport[.]com
anstv[.]net
ans7tv[.]net
The SSPL is notable in that it effectively forbids hosting the software to be used by other people.

To comply you must provide 'the Corresponding Source for the Program or the modified version, and the Corresponding Source for all programs that you use to make the Program or modified version available as a service'

A plain reading of this means that for a standard web app you would need to release not just the application code, but also code for the web server you are using, the os you are using, its drivers, device firmware, the os/firmware for your routers, your deployment stack, and probably more I'm missing. You better not trigger a deployment from a Windows computer using Chrome!

Even if I'm using open-source stuff for all of that it would need to have licenses compatible with SSPL such that I can relicense and release them all under the SSPL. I believe GPL is incompatible so that counts out most software I would use to host a webapp.

To me it seems like a fundamentally unreasonable license because for all practical purposes it is entirely impossible to comply with section 13.
You don't need to change regions anymore.

And I think recently when you look up directions in Apple Maps, it even suggests adding a transit card if you don't have one!

Here, under Transit Cards in Maps.
https://www.macrumors.com/guide/ios-16-maps/

It would be a _fantastic_ feature if I wasn't a control freak and didn't add one before I even boarded the plane, but still a very nice touch.
A toaster in 1950 would probably be closer to $250. Also, I don't like this counterargument because it holds that we should expect to be no better at creating high quality appliances today than in 1950 despite 73 years of advances in engineering and technology.
Do you know if there is another borosilicate glass cookware company now?
Toasters are an interesting case study. I went on a tear last year after being fed up with every toaster doing the same bad job. I thought maybe someone made a proper toaster. What I found is that when you pay more the coat of paint gets nicer and maybe there's an MCU+LCD, but the guts and logic are identical. There is no good commercially available toaster today. It's sending a very loud message about how markets operate, and it's not pleasant.
I was also surprised that he brought up Burr grinders, I don’t think I’ve ever had even a cheap one die on me? I doubt they’ll last 80+ years but the quality seems fine.

Hand grinders are getting better and better too, so if longevity is a concern you’re in luck.
Author neglects selection bias: antiques that stopped working after 1 or 5 or 10 years have been in landfills for a long time.

My grandfather (1922-2006) opined: "Some folks say things aren't made like they used to be. But I remember those junky old cars that would break down every 50 or 100 miles. I remember that unreliable crap. I'd far rather have a modern car, even if I can't fix it." (He was more of a carpenter than an auto mechanic, built much of his own house)
So Apple won?
> Modern cars are much, much more reliable and durable than ones built at any time in the past.

Forget "durability" - safety is paramount. Those old cars were tanks, simpler, last longer and easier to repair but absolute death traps and dump smog.

[Edit]

Guess they didn't last longer, either way I'm happy to leave behind the cars of yester-year... even the 90's a bit sketch (though WAYYYY better).