skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I have spent more time thinking and exploring a different approach to building software that is more minimalist and handcrafted.. I have become more interested in developing smaller software tools that do fewer things.

> To a large extent, I’m leaning towards the “Less is More” or “Worse is Better” philosophy, and I find stoicism and the wabi-sabi concept very appealing.. This philosophical change of mine is not only about software development, but also my daily life.

Perhaps this shift in philosophy is somehow related to their leaving the company. Even if it's not, it does sound like a guiding principle toward the next step. I relate to this in my personal and professional life. As I get older, I observe myself getting more bare, gruff, less tolerant of bloat and waste.

I did laugh when first read it though, that they aspire toward smaller tools that do fewer things. I don't know about other industries or the arts, but it seemed like something a wise battle-worn software developer would say.
Ugh, more telemetry.
The strangest thing about AI is that a lot of it's value comes from the fact that it's better at using the tools that we designed for humans than we are. It's essentially an admission of failure.

I'm not sure what conclusions to draw from this observation however.
> fossil fuel companies stir up pro-nuclear propaganda in order to deter renewables,

Source?

Nuclear power plants replace coal plants. Renewables on the other hand can coexist nicely with fossil fuels as backup power for days without wind / sun.
I legitimately despise the thing.
The AAA gaming economics are a different issue: budgets have ballooned so much that it's near impossible to hit breakeven.

The games you mentioned are extreme outliers (no one expected BG3 to do as well as it did), and there have been a number of studio-killing bombs this year.
Can't speak for other places, but at Meta everyone effectively has a free GPT4 subscription.
Someone was maintaining a MySQL build for OS/2 up until 2019!?

https://hobbes.nmsu.edu/?path=%2Fpub%2Fos2%2Fserver%2Fdataba...
Why not? Musk has a history of direct personal attacks against people who criticize him (he just recently purged a bunch of people from twitter today, no less) as well as a history of directly pump and dumping shitcoins for him and his crony's personal gain.

It seems so likely that it should probably be assumed that this is the case imo.
You can't show female-presenting cleavage, for one. They change their "attire policy" on a near-weekly basis.

Is it exploitative? Empowering? Toxic? Who knows! Everyone argues about everything.

Twitch is ban happy with anything even remotely controversial. Things that can be suggestive or comments that can be interpreted as offensive will garner a ban. And they hate anything even remotely sex-related.

Honestly, this stuff needs to move P2P. Platforms are indecisive and fickle. Just a month ago, they flip-flopped on their policy in just two days [1]. And it happens time and time again.

I don't blame the ad networks (after all Twitter had all of the world government and news orgs plus sex and nudity). I blame the Twitch leadership.

If you follow Twitch, the entire leadership is embroiled in the kind of drama you'd expect in a middle or high school.

The community is moving to mostly Kick [2] and somewhat to YouTube Gaming.

[1] https://decrypt.co/209998/twitch-walks-back-changes-after-su...

[2] https://kick.com/
Regarding the SEC: how much help did the “hackers” get from inside X?
Or maybe a tandem? ;0)
That is true for some teams, not true for others.

I've never seen a layoff actually care about what team they're removing from when it comes to ENG.

In this case it's probably 500 across twitch, which for some teams is going to be devastating.
My Miele Washer/Dryer [1] has plenty of ‘smart’ features (which I consider to be more than just network connectivity - it’s also computer enabled features, rather than simple mechanical operations IMHO):

* Touchscreen or app control

* Notifies me thru the app when a wash/dry is complete (my appliance is in a utility room, so this is really useful)

* Predicts when it will finish (and showing the time and which stage it’s on in the app)

* Monitors its own progress and will inform me if it needs more time (like if the drying needs longer due to increased load size)

* Allows pausing a wash so other items can be added

* Has detergent dispensers that are monitored and lets me know when they’re low. It also works out the right amount of detergent to use based on size of load and other info you give it (see next item)

* Has a ‘washing assistant’ which is like an ‘install wizard’ where I select the types of clothing in the drum, its level of soiling, whether I want it dried or not, and various other features - it takes all that and works out the correct programme for the items (I can do this from my phone too - which is actually more useful than it sounds!).

* When the cycle is complete and it’s waiting for you to empty it, it goes into a ‘slow turn’ mode, where it just turns the clothing over every 5 seconds or so to stop creasing.

* Notifies me when I should run the maintenance cycles to keep the machine clean

* Notifies me when it needs a software update, which I can manage from my phone.

Do you need all these things? Of course not, and I thought I’d never go for a smart appliance, but I am absolutely a convert.

[1] https://www.miele.co.uk/product/11576550/wt1-washer-dryer-wt...
This is never going to work for me because I don’t want to talk to my computer. When I’m in public my voice is noise pollution at best and is telling everyone around me what I’m doing at worst.

Call me weird but I don’t want everyone around me essentially hearing every thought I’m looking up in real time. Feels creepy.
That was an interesting read, thanks. I'm not convinced that the "cost" of a b-ary digit is appropriately modelled as exactly b in all circumstances, though it is in the example of minimising the average length of time a caller must wait when using a phone menu system.
The TAM on homeless friends who need fast cash internationally on Sundays is probably huge.
Farmers protested the enclosure of the commons, Luddites protested the industrial revolution, trade unionists protested for a 40 hour work week.

It's not foolish to imagine the world could be better.
The author quips at the fact no one will learn a new language. I'm just waiting for my babble fish
The problem is people misunderstand how this works, so none of that happens. Instead the competition goes to 11 while work is cut by upper managers, leading to "non-business decisions" made by lower managers to cling to their bit, leading to less productivity both in absolute & unit terms.

Also, I think A) is a little bit of red herring designed to create agency and opportunity where there is none. If we mean "negotiate" in an airy high-minded vague sense of "negotiate but don't", sure. At the end of the day these moves, whether intended to or not, leave less room for negotiation.
It's a bit hard to imagine this doesn't get eaten by Siri and the like. The main issue with bots like Siri is they are very stupid. But w/ ChatGPT, the tech is now available to fix that.
Nope.

I couldn't even find an acceptable text to image youtube thumbnail generator.

The only real use-case I see so far in my experience is a chatgpt used as time saver instead of google to explain a new exception or comment complex regexp, or cobble up simple bash script.
Might as well ask you. I’m toying with the idea of a zachronics style game about analog computing. Building the circuit sim currently. But I can’t tell if it would actually be fun, or if i can find a way to make it fun.

Digital computing has the benefit of abstraction. You don’t need to know Ohms law to think about logic gates. If I commit to analog computing, then I absolutely have to find a way to teach the math. The operations are no longer Boolean, they’re a combination of a bunch of different electrical equations. Even if it’s simple math, it doesn’t have the same ethos a programming game typically has.

Does this even sound interesting? Would you play it?
Based on the keynote or something else?
This project has been around for a long time. I made a few contributions in like 2014 or 2015. It is a great distributed stack and a semi-comfortable alternative to things like RabbitMQ. Did something new happen?
Survival Manual – The End Is Just the Beginning
Even Bitcoin SV is at $90 per coin, for a 90 thousand percent gain.

$1,111 of Bitcoin in 2010, would net you $1M today in Bitcoin SV alone, even if you gave away your Bitcoin, Bitcoin Gold, and Bitcoin Cash.
> Why does it have these?

Because people want them, and more.

> My oven doesn't have these, just an LED that lights up when the oven is on but yet hot enough.

I’m glad you have that option, but I’m not interested in using appliances that are no more advanced than what my great grandparents used.
The article here isn't about how psychedelics can help with ptsd, which is a well understood fact.

It's about the results of a new treatment. "One month after ibogaine treatment, the veterans reported that TBI symptoms such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression had decreased by more than 80%, on average."
If they had done this in December, people would be outraged that they're laying off right before the holidays. January is fine (if one thinks layoffs are fine in general).
Maybe it's unfair on HN, but I'm a bit skeptical about some of these claims:

> The muscle memory required for shooting at all requires an inordinate amount of daily practice.

Do you mean, at a professional level? Lots of people shoot the ball without daily practice. I know people who have picked up a ball and shot decently after many years of not playing at all.

> everybody who is decent at free throw shooting uses whatever shooting mechanism they're good at normally.

From what I know, coaches teach a specific free throw shooting technique, including what is done before and between free throws.

And finally I want to say: Steph, it's really cool that you like BSD and contribute to HN (a hometown forum!). But stop exaggerating.

NBA Free Throw % All-Time Leaders:

* Career: Stephen Curry: 90.9%

(Or is it José?)

* Single season: 1. José Calderón 98.05% (2008-09), 2.Calvin Murphy .95.81% (1980-81), 3. Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf 95.6% (1993-94)

https://www.basketball-reference.com/leaders/ft_pct_career.h...

https://www.basketball-reference.com/leaders/ft_pct_season.h...
Supernal's 120MPH Flying Car Is as Quiet as a Dishwasher and Designed Using Bees
Hyundai Motor Group’s air mobility offshoot has finally unveiled the S-A2, its passenger eVOTL aircraft. It’s not the only electric whirligig trying to soar at CES 2024.
The 2023 Chicago mayoral candidate, Paul Vallas, did very similar. He was found to have liked a bunch of posts and claimed it was hacked. It was clear almost immediately that he was lying about it, since it kept happening on his other accounts.
Wow I absolutely love that. The cost of the larger ones has been prohibitively expensive for all the stuff I want to do. I did make a small weather display with one of Waveshare's 6 inch screens, then I 3D printed a stand that gives it a nice frameless look.
Walmart is bringing drone deliveries to 1.8M more Texas households
> they take a large cut from subscribers

I'm surprised they don't have a 'choose your own revshare' setting, allowing the creator choose how much to pay twitch.

Obviously twitch will recommend more profitable creators, so you get a kind of 'race to the top', with creators offering twitch a larger and larger revshare, knowing that unless they do, their audience size will dwindle.

It also encourages creators to come in from other platforms - if you already have an audience and just want to extract money from them, then you don't need to be in twitches recommendations and can choose a low revshare to milk the subscribers.
Or, rather, they are paying what they think are some of the best people in the world not to go out and start the competition.
Put this way, $199 seems overpriced!
Bitcoin Price Plummets Due to Hacked SEC Tweet
Basically, it's the theory that capitalist economies demand continually increasing growth, even increasing rates of growth, in order to remain stable enough to stay hegemonic. The industrial revolution, through most of the 20th century, exhibited this growth, driving capitalism to be the dominant (eventually only) economic system on earth.

Unfortunately, growth is hard, and it slows down. Over time, providing meaningful improvements to the lives of the participants in the economic system fails to keep up with the demands of growth, and you start to see the system going full ouroboros, consuming all the positive impact its created in the lives of its participants in a downward spiral of exploitation and value extraction until there's nothing left. The period of time after the inversion from "making people's lives better" to "making people's lives worse" is "late-stage capitalism", equivocating it to cancer or other terminal diseases.

Personally, I'm more of a "threshold events" theorist, and that enshittification is just reversion to the mean, but that's the pitch.
There’s a good chance someone already had this idea, explored it, and found a reason why it can’t work.
The first states on the territory of Russia were established by steppe nomads, similar to the Mongols - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rus%27_Khaganate

Many historians today dispute the hypothesis that the sacking of Baghdad was the main factor in ending the Islamic Golden Age.
Why does every post about nuclear have to end up with comments about how great solar and wind is? It is like a religion they simply must preach.
Except the ACC calculation used in CA is absolute nonsense and deliberately uses monthly averaging so you don't get a fair cut.

Utilities always want to have their cake and eat it too. They want to pay you almost nothing for power sent to the grid ($0.02) that only considers generation using the most optimistic figures. Then during the worst summer peak times when the spot price for power hits $0.20, $0.50, or even $1.00/kWh you don't get to reap any of that benefit. Thanks to the averaging you still get paid $0.02 and PG&E saves $0.96.

If utilities want "fairness" then let them pay the spot price in realtime or to the average of the nearest 15 minutes on a daily basis. Then I could choose to drain my batteries when the spot price hits ultra high marks which makes it worth my while, incentivizes storage, and helps grid stability.

This also means you pay for distribution on inbound power but don't get credit on outbound. Even though that saves the utility a little bit on distribution that seems fair. If utilities want to get paid for maintaining grid access then let an independent entity run those numbers and bill it accurately. I don't mind paying a grid access charge if it weren't pulled out of PG&E's ass as a backdoor attempt to kill solar.

I agree that making them buy power back at the full retail rate is not sustainable but NEM3 in CA (and the upcoming income-based monthly fixed charge) are nothing but utility scams.

Last but not least as a matter of public policy I strongly believe encouraging energy independence is a social good. In emergency situations having a few neighbors with enough solar+batteries to keep the lights on is a good for society as a whole. We are in that situation and plan to run a cell phone charging station in our driveway if it ever happened that the grid was down for more than a few hours (eg earthquake/storm/grid collapse). Having an EV also means if we are careful we can charge the car enough to make short or medium trips every few days. Not being beholden to gas tanker trucks or utility operators is great IMHO. I just need to add Starlink for backup internet :)
Not mentioned in the article but definitely the elephant in the room: The rise of TikTok streaming [1]

TikTok doesn't focus on gamers, but attention is finite. TikTok surpassed Twitch a while ago in revenue and it's accelerated since then. TikTok + Youtube (very profitable) makes Twitch at best a flat third place. Not a great business to be in when ZIRP ends.

> Nine years after Amazon’s acquisition of the company, the business remains unprofitable, according to the people, who asked not to be identified discussing private information.

This ... is wild, I had no idea Twitch wasn't profitable. If you're pushing that much live video you really need to find a business model that works, especially when Youtube arguably does it better. Kind of surprised it took this long to start to wind it down.

[1] https://appfigures.com/resources/insights/20210924/amp?f=4
Twitch just announced a partnership with Nvidia at CES to allow streamers to encode multiple versions of their stream on their own PC and push them to Twitch. Previously, only partner/affiliate streams had transcoded streams at various levels of quality. That might cut back on the amount of transcoding Twitch has to do server side…

They also said they’ll be supporting AV1 and NVENC codecs soon which can help reduce bandwidth costs. They currently only support h264.
It’s far more likely your repair damaged it in this situation than any pre-existing water “damage”.
Whoop delivers personalized fitness and health coaching with GPT-4
I would argue it is. I've got a Quest 3 sitting next to me and I think it's great.

I can't speak for the deranged expectations, hype cycles and back-lashes over the last 5 years. And I think Meta's R+D budget is pretty hard to justify. But I don't think that reflects on their current product range (which could have been matched with a much smaller budget - and to some degree has been)
> The amount of time it takes for a wash cycle is predictable.

Not on my machine. It’s generally +/- 15 minutes for a given cycle, but it does more or less based on load size, which it somehow determines on its own.

Sounds like this isn’t a feature you would like, but I hope how you can see it is certainly helpful to others.
Yes, but I’ve literally never heard anyone say that.
Bless you my sweet summer child.

(OP, in some of the longform pieces written since The Event they touch on this transition being a mystery too, but I think it's a tale as old as time: earnest, smile on their face, performs work and passion, team player, right place right time and asked.)
How do we get China to stop? It's impossible. It's completely to their advantage to have drones get better. They can mass produce them way better than us. The CPUs don't seem to be that advanced up to now, so they can probably make them. If not they can steal/buy them illegally.

Russia is a slightly different case because they can't make many of the parts but they can cobble them together using other CPUs. So they are hurt, but possibly helped.

We just have to work on defensive measures.
The British Post Office Scandal
In case I'm not making sense, imagine if OpenAI made an iOS/Android app with subscription, what chance does a new piece of hardware have to compete against that low-friction install base?

Only after getting the users should smartphones be replaced with a bespoke device. The only need for doing the device first is if the service is effectively commoditized so need to differentiate somehow.
Did they miss that part where OpenAI fired their CEO and almost every employee threatened to quit, and all Microsoft could do was hope Sam Altman would make it back to save OpenAI or hope that they all wanted to take new jobs at Microsoft (which apparently the employees mostly didn't want)? That would really suggest that they are pretty independent.
Twitch will run preroll ads on your stream unless you elect to run at least 3 minutes of ads per hour. These preroll ads have a huge effect on viewership because new viewers who tune in to an immediate ad will typically just leave. So, these "elective" ads are not very optional. But, this is a lose-lose situation, because these elective ads are very disruptive to viewers too. They are often implemented as a 90 second ad every 30 minutes. If this doesn't sound bad, remember that this is live content. If you're watching an ad, you're missing out on content, and when the ad is over, there's no way to wind it back to see what you missed.

Besides the ad policies, the Twitch revenue split for subscriptions has been changing over time. Historically it defaulted to 50/50 and most streamers of any decent size audience would have a contract to be granted 70/30 split. However, the 70/30 split has been phased out and today nearly no streamer on the platform has it anymore. This is a huge difference for streamers. The CEO of Twitch was handing out 70/30 split "coupons" as a prize in a live event[1], it's a big deal.

Besides subscription revenue, Twitch is constantly battling to reduce other sources of income, like branded sponsorships. Last year they announced significant restrictions on streamers displaying branded content with sponsors.[2] While these rules were soon reverted, it suggests Twitch is in a fight for its life. All indications point that this is going to continue to be a problem in the future. In short, streamers need to deal with the ads because their revenue from other sources is constantly at threat.

1: https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/twitch-ceo-surprises-s...

2: https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/7/23752437/twitch-new-ad-rul...
Boeing supplier that made Alaska Airline's door plug was warned of "defects"
> more likely to make good contact off the tee (because of ... more loft on the face)

How does loft help make good contact?
Not quite - more that there’s a UI on that index.

The LKML [mirror][] has a page with links to the various lists, but if you dig around in those links, there doesn’t appear to be a way to post new items or reply to existing messages in a browser. It’s just text - The mechanism of action is still sending emails to various handles to perform these activities.

[mirror]: https://subspace.kernel.org/vger.kernel.org.html
This isn't really correct.

While yes, so called "anti-work"[0] movement (or if you're from the early 2000s, the occupy wall street movement would be of similar philosphical values, for example) uses this term rather often, it derives from the work of the Ernest Mandel[1][2] based on his work in which he used the term to describe the latter stages of capitalism post WWII as he saw it, and how it inevitably would end up in deep inequality and power concentration, to paraphrase the thesis.

As far as "its always been that way" goes, I can't speak for all of the past, but there are clear models in the present that show it doesn't have to be that way. Norway & Sweden come to mind, for example.

[0]: Orewellian term at its best. The movement isn't actually anti work, much like luddites weren't anti technology. This label is attached by and large to people who are centered around ideas related to equitable wealth distribution in society & more worker rights, namely. They don't actually profess to be against work, as far as the movement goes. Individuals may vary. Never the less, its clear doublespeak.

[1]: Notably, a socialist. Wrote the book Late Capitalism (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/931838)

[2]: The term was then popularized by Fredic Jameson, another socialist, though his critique was centered around the culture of post modernism and capitalism intersections: https://jacobin.com/2023/04/ernest-mandel-marixism-late-capi...
If we're just talking percentage changes, that can already happen with other commodity ETFs. I'll concede to the point that Bitcoin has historically been more volatile and could have a higher frequency of halts, but I personally don't think that should impact the formation of the ETF.
Bitcoin != Web3

Bitcoin == Web5
I've been trying pretty hard for 4 months now making it the longest I've ever been unable to get a job. I have until end of March so it's looking dicey. Had to file unemployment.
I somehow suspect that the poor contrast and readability are part of the aesthetic he's going for.