skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Places with far weaker car culture and world class mass transit and which have stronger "third places" culture are still phone and social media addicted. See Singapore, Japan, or South Korea as an example of this.
Can you please stop haranguing people like this? If your arguments are as strong as you clearly feel they are (for instance: you have responded to people challenging them by simply repeating them verbatim), you should be able to make them without this kind of incivility.

A casual survey of the site suggests that, if one is forced to distill the conflict down to two simple sides, "Israel" and "Palestine", the side you fall in enjoys majority support among commenters on HN. You do that side no favors by writing so shrilly about it.
I think that's a case where a good author has chosen the publisher for some reason. They are good enough to be published by someone else but went with Packt possibly because it was an easy onboarding.
I love how an education in moral philosophy did not interfere with piracy.
Fewer people are buying electric cars in the US
It depends on where you live.

Texas disagrees that -9 F is almost room temperature, though my freezers get that cold sometimes.
Don't forget about HTMX as well.
It's not going to cover loud sounds, but this something I wondered why it didn't exist.

Definitely needs the battery version. In my country, theres no outlets in the toilets.
> As for "possible", the behind-the-scene post makes it clear it is false modesty.

It's not false modesty to withhold a conclusion that is unwarranted without more evidence. The last time this happened there was also "possible Meissner effect" that turned out to be diamagnetism.

There are no downsides to being conservative until more evidence is acquired.
It's not zero context; this thread is about using AI to augment human productivity vs Ai to replace humans.

The supporting evidence is just the math. (A) If I sell you a product that makes your employees twice as productive then my revenue scales with your employee count. (B) If I sell you a product that eliminates your employees then my _maximum_ revenue is your current employee count. With (A) I have a unlimited revenue cap while with (B) it's cap'd at your current employee count. I also didn't invent this approach so there's other people that think this too.

It's not that (B) is bad; it's just that (A) is better. It's similar to say selling people a cable subscription without ads; it's just better (more revenue) to both sell them a subscription and give them ads.
Fossil fuels have done that trick, long before gridscale wind and solar ever existed.

So really you're the one being disingenuous.
If this comes after the close of the company’s fiscal year then the employer is doing their employees a favor, taking a hit for the team. A completed fiscal year means the employer must wait yet additional quarter to claim the savings from trimming head count and allows those employees a bit more time under their employer provided benefits and compensation.
> "Let's pay 3x as much for rent [and other things that more expensive with density] to save $300/mo on a car payment" is certainly an interesting life choice.

Try $1000/mo on average:

* https://money.com/owning-new-car-cost-total-2023/

If you're making >$100K that may not sound like that much, but the average/median US salary is lower.

(That probably doesn't include externalities either: health, climate change, commute times when you do have to go into the office, etc.)

Cars can be convenient, but it'd be better if they were option for living your life rather than a necessity.
This showed up in my google news feed last night and I immediately searched to see if it was posted to HN, which it had not. So it's interesting to see this reach the front page this morning.

There's a youtube video linked from the github that goes into some explanation into the "why", e.g. we should minimize deps, use standards instead of framework silos, avoid frameworks which have monopoly on dom, easier debugging, onboarding, etc. I agree with most of that in principle, I just don't know if this is the solution.

When we had larger component frameworks built on vanilla JS, like ExtJS, they had their own problems, e.g. framework code which alternated reading styles and updating styles from DOM causing reflow, or DOM listeners that were not properly cleaned up. But with those older frameworks, when something went wrong, it was trivial to debug the entire codebase including the framework, because it was all basic JS.

These days with something declarative like Vue, there's far less need to reach for a debugger and usually stuff just works, but when something does go wrong it's often a bit perplexing and you feel you're stuck because everything is happening in the framework black box. I still like Vue, but I must admit even if it's one of the simpler frameworks, there's a bit of an onboarding issue. I still see our devs making mistakes like doing side effects in computed variables, or modifying props state in children, even after a few years of experience.
I don’t see what that scheme could be, it’s not like they can avoid state taxes by doing that.

The only benefit given by the state in exchange for “headquarters” is employing a certain number of people at a certain income. But if all your payroll stays somewhere else, then what could possibly be the incentive for tax breaks?
You can use many other frameworks for that like Svelte (with SvelteKit), or Solid (with SolidStart)
If you worked at Xerox I'd be amazed if you weren't already interviewing around, they've been on life-support for a while.

Just goes to show what happens when MBAs run a product-centric company.
Great to see this, but also a big bummer tucked in there:

>I'm also not thrilled that 63 percent of all new vehicles built in MY2022 were truck SUVs, pickup trucks, and minivans/vans, which are subject to less stringent corporate average fuel economy standards, as opposed to the more stringent light-duty regulations. The EPA says this is the highest percentage of trucks since 1975, and it's only going to get worse for model-year 2023.
Just Launch It
Ask HN: Does Reddit monitor IP address and provide content
Hello,
The strangest thing has started happening on reddit.
I have an account but 99% of the time I browse not logged in to enjoy random content. But recently its been spamming me with subreddits I would never go to and have never gone to. One or two posts in a feed would be fine browsing r/home but this is getting bad. 20 or 30 of the some subreddits that I do not interact with at all.

I live in a duplex and share the internet with everyone. I'm wondering if someone in the house is on those subreddits so its spamming me with them too?

....
RTK is exactly what I was referring to.
I suppose you can just fork it and rid yourself of any lewd or unsavory or otherwise, uh, repulsive to your person content?
National security is the cover story. The real story is about economic power.
Where do Apple have a reputation for strong security?

Compared to other mainstream operating system, they seem to constantly be the last to introduce things like stack canaries, non executable memory segments, and all that which is considered best practice now.
>sniff out BS

Reminds me of the "Bill Gates Excel review" story - https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev...
He said if you use it within your org, not if you ship it. Hell, you can even modify coreutils to whatever the hell you want. So long as you aren't distributing the binary, you are under no obligation to provide source or a source offer.
Amazing how this game have influenced my generation and the next generation of people and games.

Beautiful
Firstly, 1.2 GB RAM or more is not 'nothing' if you have 8GB of RAM or less, which is still a lot of people these days.

At that scale the difference 500MB to 1GB RAM wasted by your DE could mean a few extra apps or browser tabs you can run before you hit the swap meaning a great usability boost.

Secondly, you haven't answered my question on what Popos does extra to justify the extra resource usage, you only justified the resources waste with the argument that 'RAM is cheap'.
The thing is when I read more books, I’d pull out a book if I had a dead 15-30 minutes more or less anywhere. Nowadays it’s easier to default to Facebook, random links, etc. in those sorts of slots.
It seems so obviously bad to have to write your CSS and HTML in javascript.

I don't get why people keep coming back to it.

I mean, I get that the point is to add something that plain CSS and HTML don't do on their own, but it seems so much better to start with regular CSS/HTML and enhance... keep the standard syntax and semantics everywhere you possibly can, so that the dev only has to deal with framework-specific syntax and semantics where it's needed.
And while you will see success for a time, the scientific literature I referenced points out some significant long term studies that show calorie counting only leads to temporary success in weight loss. In every study, the original weight was gained back in 2-4 years because underlying eating choices never really changed. So, yes, if you are looking for short term success, sure, cut calories, but doing it that way will never lead to long term loss unless you change the quality of food you eat.
Why would anyone actually expect for any crypto company not to be a total scam, and for any of the people running it actually using their real names in the first place, or even exist?
Navigating the Dotnet Landscape: Learning C# After Years of TypeScript
Prop 13 has been modified several times since being passed; its not impossible that it would be modified in a way which would increase overall property tax revenue, but procedurally its basically impossible for that to be relevant to the short-term funding shortfall.
The lessons are:

1. Low barriers to entry drive down prices

2. Be first (Banksy)
RE ChatGPT: I think it's a clever joke highlighting that it is a product that often needs no further integration (to make blockchain powered self driving social AI clouds, or whatever sells best on private equity markets these days).
Your value to your company is also not a linear function of your time there. There are high fixed costs to training, liability, insurance, etc. They are paying you to always be available, etc.

With that said, I think it's very possible to find a much more easier development job with a lower salary. You should be able to meet performance expectations in very little time.
This, and even if it maybe does not change much it is not nice as the employee to get that as Christmas present and to take home over the holidays in late Q4.
“decentralised metaverse platform with infinite possibilities”

He lives in the metaverse....
I lived in Davis, CA for a while and I feel like they had the right balance of suburban and urban development. I felt like it was extremely fair to cars despite being super walkable and one of the most bike friendly cities in the country.

They embrace mixed zoning, where homes and apartments mix with low density commercial, even in the same building. You can own a single family house if you need that, walkable to grocery and restaurants. Portland does this at a greater scale and it’s fantastic, unfortunately zoning and public transit won’t fix the other problems the city has.
Why would Poland and Scandinavian countries become friendly with Russia? Poland's massive military build up is specifically to counter Russia.
> I don't think I've ever seen an argument for why "everything is a file" is a desirable thing.

A file system is a tree of named objects. These objects are seamlessly part of the OS and served by a program or kernel driver called a file server which can then be shared over a network. Security is then handled by file permissions so authentication is native through the system and not bolted on. It fits together very well and removes so much pointless code and mechanisms.

A great example is a old uni demo where a system was built to control X10 outlets and switches (early home automation gear). Each device was a file in a directory tree that represents a building with sub directories for floors and rooms - e.g. 'cat /mnt/admin-building/2fl/rm201/lights' would return 'on' or 'off' (maybe it's a dimmer and its 0-255, or an r,g,b, value or w/e, sky's the limit, just put the logic in the fs). To change the state of the lights you just echo off >/mnt/admin-building/2fl/rm201/lights.

Now you can make a script that shuts all the lights off in the building by walking directories and looking for "lights" then writing off to those files. Maybe it's a stage, all your lights are on DMX and you like the current settings so then you 'tar -c /mnt/auditorium/stage/lighting|gzip >student_orientation_lighting_preset.tar.gz' and do the reverse over-writing all the archived settings back to their respective files. You could even serve those files over smb to a windows machine and turn lights on and off using notepad or whatever. And the file data doesn't have to be text, it could be binary too. It's just that for some things like the state of lights, temperature or w/e can easily be stored and retrieved as human readable text.

That is the beauty and power of 9p - its removes protocol barriers and hands you named objects seamlessly integrated into your OS which you can read/write using regular every day tools. It's a shame so many people can't grasp it.
> Made initially with Bash, I wrote another version with Ruby language because I love Ruby and to show Ruby is not dead! :)

Ruby, only 231 Sundays remain.

How are you gonna spend those Sundays, Ruby?!
Power's not the issue, labor is. Untill you can replace roughnecks with robots, it's not likely to change.
You can always just open a new terminal and then quickly hit ctrl-L to clear. Gives an opportunity for them to ask if they care, or to just move on otherwise.
> Just goes to show what happens when MBAs run a product-centric company.

This is what happens when all you think about, all you focus on, is returns to investors. You spreadsheet the shit out of everything.
> We need context addressing and pub/sub, not server addressing and request/response. It's going to require a pretty big conceptual shift. Sadly, I don't see that shift happening until some disaster convinces us that it's necessary.

Just my 0.02$ but I don’t see this happening. One, the content rights of media would preclude meaningful distribution and content addresses of commercial media, which is what most care about. After 2023, I think it’s far more likely that generalized human knowledge is captured in an LLM to (somewhat accurately) spew out. That LLM would be distributed and localized - Google already wants to ship a small LLM on each phone.

I also don’t see global pub/sub - I think that’s just too many trade-offs for real use cases. Latency/partition-ability etc. I do see everyone’s smarthome/phone ecosystem providing a basic and localized event service.

The pendulum does seem to be swinging back to local-first, but I think that will mean personal-scale not web scale.
Unfortunately discovery still usually comes down to some manual sleuthing. It really depends on the genre, but I think you'll find that many ebooks on distributors like Amazon, Kobo, etc are self-published, so we're pretty easy to find! Check out the top 100 category in your favorite niche and you'll _likely_ find a good number of self-published titles there. If you come across an author you really end up liking, most have newsletters and/or a social media presence.

You can also sign up for ebook deal sites like BookBub, which send out deals for books in your preferred genre. They often feature self-published works. BB tends to be quite selective with what books they work with, so hopefully you'd find some nice quality work there (but of course it can always be a bit hit and miss).
Agreed, it's everyone that treats you better not just potential mates
I wonder how much longer this will remain true. Audiobooks and translations seem like near-term target for AI.
For one, robustness. Grid power may not be available due to environmental disaster (particularly relevant in Japan), targeted attacks or any other outage, so it's functionally the greener equivalent of any traditional backup power source.
I'm... confused by the question?

In the browser: a dozen or more things by Google: sheets, docs, gmail, keep, and so on. Jira, Asana, et c. Several graph or diagram-making apps. Notion. There are tons.

Outside the browser: Everything that runs under Electron or is otherwise webtech-based? They're ubiquitous. Slack, Discord, Postman, VSCode, Etcher, and on and on.
Agree that its concerning regarding the lack of attribution especial given the complexity.

If I had to guess...and this is a wild guess and in no way based on hard evidence....but I think the true value would be using this as a vector to bypass 2fa or MFA for attacks on a supply chain. Chaining exploints isn't a new concept...hell I had a similar idea years ago regarding chaining cve's to create a better more fluid escalation of privileges. The concerning thing is these were 0days from the brief reading I did, and exploited hardware vulnerabilities.

IMO hardware is the best target because few people are going to rip apart the device to look at chips...and even if they did they would need a metrology or lithography lab to find a backdoor in a part of a CPU or other component. Just because the part was shipped from the factory and the factory made it correctly, if someone could compromise a basic part of the chip then its all over and you really have to spend your time looking for these things. Example would be the BMC on your dell server gets backdoored or editing a snippet of microcode that these chip makers do not publicly document.

Seems unlikely that they would blow so many 0days so recklessly just to infect the iPhone to get data....when it could be used for so much more.

If this is a nation state actor....chances are they can just buy the data via third party or could have forced apple to turn over the icloud data or just caught it via intercepting the undersea cables and the their 1 isp's

Unless I'm missing something.....and this was used go after a really critical target that was hard to compromise and as a result, once they got the Intel they wanted they might have just used it willy nilly or have considered the 0days as lost if they had compromised a foreign nation state or person of interest and figure since they used the exploit....their advisary will discover it sooner or later
it's crazy that Wozniak would participate in such a service. Is he running out of money?
That does not seem like a bad business decision to me. Actuators are used often in rocketry, and SpaceX obtained the necessary know-how to build them in-house for a cost of mere 9 man-months. One fewer external dependency.

Starship gimbals its Raptors electrically as well. Those actuators aren't probably identical to the Falcon 1 ones, but I would guess that there is a lot of inherited knowledge in them.
Hell yeah man, get after it
I doubt the submitter is the author of the games or this guide.

The original author is also Japanese which might explain the slightly odd prose better than it being AI generated.
IMO, it's only nice to the extent that any severance payments and UI would start later.

If a company is going to lay me off with N weeks of severance starting on Jan 15, 2024 or N+4 weeks starting on Dec 18, 2023, I'd way rather learn about it on Dec 6th than on Jan 3rd.
It's had good support for a couple years now, but only Mozilla is lagging for some reason. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Expected profits are part of the function of share price.
I kinda agree with this, especially when it comes to people who are not just still alive but also actively involved in the writing of the book and dictating what can and cannot go in it (like it was with Elon Musk and Walter Isaacson). At that point you aren't reading a biography but a PR puff piece.

On the other hand well-researched biographies of historical figures who have been out of the public limelight are among the most interesting books you can read, which I'm sure will be the case for Musk as well maybe 30-50 years from now.
The number one most systemic difference going forward is population. China already has hundreds of millions living the equivalent of a middle-class US lifestyle. That is a massive prosperous population to draw scientists, etc. from.
> Biden’s interventionism about human rights and democracy

In whitepapers I've read, American opposition to Sheikh Hasina isn't about Human Rights and Democracy. It's about how Hasina is viewed as being too close to China, especially in the aftermath of the Padma Bridge fiasco, BRI, and the String of Pearls initiative. India is fine operating with Hasina because of mutual history and fear of the JeI, but the US is less interested in compromising with her due to the China factor.
Really cool idea, I think this could open up a lot of possibilities. I'm just not sure what yet..

As for storage what is the plan/expectation for preventing the DB from blowing up? After running the app for 30 minutes the DB was 32mb in size. Not huge but over a days worth (16hrs) or so of solid use it begins to creep up (~1gb).

(32mb * 2) * 16 = ~1gb/day

Not sure how this would be feasible over the course of a year or even several months.
People will bet on literally anything. That's their own problem, not mine.
> Nobody has to look at the code to violate the GPL though

Accidental identical implementation of something trivial aren't covered by copyright, see the Oracle vs Google lawsuit.

LLM completions are something else entirely.
> You'd be surprised how many banks, electrical grids, oil rigs, and large ships run on old hardware. If ain't broken, you don't replace it.

That attitude has got to die in an age of everything being exploited by bad actors. Anything that has any form of networking should have regular replacement at least of the control plane components budgeted in from the start.
It's refreshing to hear this take. Thank you!

I've worked with countless younger junior engineers who know React reasonably well, and largely think Rails is old "legacy" crap they don't want to deal with. And to be fair, using Rails as a dumb JSON api does disrupt much of the convenience of using Rails. But I never understood how people could so under-appreciate the tooling and structure that Rails provides.
https://0x0.st/H62J.ora This is not a permanent link, and it's not my server so please don't hammer it.

Well, it turns out I can't mouse-draw, even when I'm tracing, but I've given it a go. It's supposed to be a cat walking from the right to the left of the image. The first layer has a better head, and the second layer has a better front leg and ears. Note that my lines obscure the recognisable features, so you'll have to switch the layer off to see them.

I traced dark shapes in the first one, and light shapes in the second. If you compare with the flowers layer, regions I identified as “better” in each trace correspond to amplification of the flowers image: the "good" leg outline in the second (light) layer lines up with the (light) stem of the flower, etc.