skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it’s a reference to the Steve Jobs quote about the computer being a bicycle of/for the mind.
Dan Olson also made video on the topic, because of course he did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biYciU1uiUw

It was a bit before the AI boom, back when the bedrock of the scam economy was mostly gig platforms.
Google cuts jobs across engineering, hardware teams for efficiency
Lots of people are suggesting self-signed certs or a local CA; why not wildcard certs? I have a homelab with some public stuff, some internal stuff, and for the internal stuff I just have a certbot post-renewal hook that scps the wildcard cert from my public reverse proxy to the services that need it. Yeah, not as easy as not needing certs, but once you have it set up it's not too bad
The drama was brilliant. I knew that this scandal was brewing; really, everyone in Britain that kept up with any news at all knew it was coming. The drama brought out just how much suffering was caused by the Post Office's lies; and just how much CYA bullshit the Post Office got up to.

I'm waiting to see a bunch of Post Office senior management in court on criminal charges.
It's pretty disgusting Disney supports the school shooter flag.
I feel like Google's SEO and advertisement game have cornered the entire internet into being mostly a useless gamification and parody of content.

Automation can now shove even further content to search engines and keep lowering the quality further.

I think that websites as we knew and searched for them started dying a long time ago, but AI will unavoidably make this whole matter worse.
That’s pretty much the definition, yeah. Otherwise it wouldn’t be “work”.
Probably Mobilizon: https://joinmobilizon.org/en/
> Now we have Visual Studio Code which a lot of people seem to use, even those that judged me for using emacs a few years back. But... IDEs are better, right?

VS Code is not an IDE, it's more like the evolved GUI-Version of Emacs. And it's now 9 years old, so I would think it has established itself well for this decade.

> We also have Sublime Text 2

It's now at version 4, still in development. But being a commercial app, which is also not that cheap, you will naturally see not too many people using it. But considering they are still developing it, they seem to still make money from it, so enough people are using it I guess.

> Once in a while (in the last 15 years) I see the odd vi or vim user. They continue to exist like me with emacs.

That's a very strange observation. There are significant more (neo)vim-users than emacs-users around. They are probably the second biggest crowd in text-editor-space, only beaten by VS Code at the moment. It's far more likely for emacs to die, than for vim.

> Point is - emacs will be around for many years to come.

That's true for all of them. As long as someone maintains them, people will use them. Software will only die when they don't start anymore or the users left them. And at the moment Emacs seems more at the position where users will slowly die of old age, than Emacs not starting anymore. So another 30, 40 years, and Emacs might have a real problem.
> Maybe they upgraded to Sublime Text 4?

Didn't know it passed version 3, being honest. Says a lot. Point still stands.
I've never seen anyone complain about the security of USB sticks (not at the firmware level anyway).
For all the numbers from 1 to 10 there are 2 series of numeral words because one series is of native Japanese words while the other are Chinese words in Japanese pronunciation.

After the adoption of the Chinese writing, all the signs have been taken together with their Chinese pronunciation, which has introduced a huge number of Chinese words in the Japanese language. The Chinese words are used mostly in the compound words that are written with 2 or more kanji, but also for some simple words.

For example, 4 is "yon" in native Japanese and "shi" in the Chinese variant that has been included in Japanese; 3 is "mi" in native Japanese and "san" in the Chinese variant, and so on.

There are contexts where the native Japanese numerals are preferred, but the native words for 4 and 7 are used more often than the others to avoid "shi" (Chinese death), as others have already mentioned.

The native Japanese words appear quite different from the Chinese words that form a large part of modern Japanese. The native words are usually much longer, with many syllables and with a large proportion of vowels versus consonants. Many native words seem structurally more similar to the words of the Austronesian languages, like those of the natives of Taiwan, who inhabited the Southern neighbor of Japan before the migration of Chinese into it during the last half of a millennium.
Very nice! (and AGPLv3 too!!)

I have been working on a similar project for actual filesystem/OS interaction (heavily abusing OS.execute (https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/classes/class_os.html)) which is actually a sub-project of a much bigger project (only working part-time now so I can spend half my day on it as I near alpha). My favorite part so far has been in my attempts at using Godot to recreate fsv/fsn (3d filesystem representation).

Is there any reason you haven't tried to turn it into a real desktop environment given that Godot provides the mechanisms to do so? I know I've been nervous that I might have a bug that does something destructive and that is why I've been working on my ci/cd pipeline and unit tests but am just curious.

Either way, it has been awesome watching the explosion of creativity happening in Godot land. I compile daily and watch the commits and see such vast improvements being made all the time. It's a great engine with first class c++17 support with GDNative and modules, and I truly believe the future of gaming (and many other things) is FOSS. My only meta-wish is that the engine was GPL instead of MIT, but luckily that doesn't stop me from releasing my stuff built in it as GPL.
Yep, those tasty formation and travel budgets are also being squeezed in the quest for profits, reducing the market size for these tech events...
There's shorter, handier terms for those two types of people:

"naive", and "realistic", respectively.
this, best news for me for the day.
Reading the first part of the book [0] featuring the concepts behind hypermedia systems has helped me to really understand the goals of HTMX. I would highly recommend it even if you don't experiment with HTMX yourself. I bought it as an ebook to support the author but it is also free to read.

[0] https://hypermedia.systems/
They don't have to, the fandom will do it for free.

EDIT: Also, the odds are close to 100%.
ChatGPT for Kids™
What is with tech bros resenting art? If an AI generated book is better than any book you've ever read, you've probably only read garbage books.

I'd be surprised if the book can follow a consistent plot rather than hallucinating characters halfway through.
This is well-stated and appreciated positivity. It is disheartening to see the detractor/logic-leaping replies that followed. Thank you for writing it.
> They knew the software had many bugs but decided to use that to bully their employees and steal money from them.

I don't really see how this argument fits. In my understanding the amounts in question were in the range thousands to tens of thousands. It seems implausible that those sums of money, while life changing for the individuals involved, would ever move the needle at all for any of the companies involved. In fact the only people who made money out of it are likely the lawyers.
"If you want to argue that real wages have stagnated, you need to argue that real GDP has stagnated."

What I can argue is that median real wage has stagnated. Distribution matters, unless you truly believe in strict trickle down economics. The vast majority of the increase has gone to high earners.

"Have you checked any statistics?"

Plenty of stats out there if you want to look. One easy one is that median home income requirements exceed that of median household income by more that 25%. Most new houses are significantly above the median in cost and size, pricing out the middle class even farther.

"There was probably never a time since at least the Industrial Revolution when global consumption was as equal as today, and the situation is set to keep improving."

I'm talking about the US domestically, as were most of your comments. There's still massive per capita consumption differences between the US and most other countries (fuel, food, etc).
For a lot of reasons that is a significant difference (e.g., despite 70mph average, there are also many drivers going the speed limit and that is a speed differential of 10mph or 18mph, nearly twice as much) but I'm not sure it matters at all as far as Germany vs US automotive safety.
Hopefully it’ll get just too much to stomach (although that point should have been reached a long time ago).
> Marc Z Jacobsen has some fairly detailed studies for going 100% renewables. He doesn't generally assume any improvements in technology, so his estimates are conservative. I don't remember seeing anything about seasonal storage.

He was a coauthor on a recent review article on 100% RE energy systems. One conclusion of the review article is that e-fuels are very useful, and that with e-fuels costs are similar to those of energy systems based on fossil fuels.

E-fuels (like hydrogen) inherently provide very long term storage.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9837910
To me the most interesting comment I heard on the "practical ai" podcast[1]. One of the guests pointed out that 2021 might be the last year we can have AI train off of, because the internet is about to explode in AI generated content which means it will just become a self-reinforcing loop.

[1]: https://changelog.com/practicalai
> in the coming brave new world

I think you're making a lot of assumptions about how all this stuff works out, tbh. I'm kind of assuming it'll be like the last three AI bubbles (that time in the late 90s when voice was going to be your primary interface to Windows vNext, the self-driving car/CV hype early last decade, and the brief chatbot mania of 2016 that was killed off with extreme prejudice by Microsoft Tay); much sound and fury, but probably rather limited lasting effects once the dust settles.

Like, it seems rather unlikely to me that that main way people book holidays in a decade will be by talking to a machine and having it select hotels and 'cool SUVs' (trick question, no such thing) for them. If nothing else, it is unclear how this would be meaningfully different from just choosing the first hotel from Expedia/whatever matching the search filter.
I had hopes it would be a good series, but (spoiler alert) it isn't.

It seems they relied too much on "data" from other series and got it all wrong. Has elements of Homeland and the most cliche conspiracy theories, but not in a good way.
It's great. I find Google better when I'm actually looking for products, though that's partly it's not as good as localizing results. The nice thing is you can just whack g! in front of the query and it'll bump you over to Google. It's fast, nice, no ads.

Lack of history is a pro or a con or both depending on personal preference.
I pay for proton mail and am quite happy to do so. In fact I pay for everything I use on the internet if I can. Kagi, proton, etc, unless there’s an open source option. I even buy the family versions and share with my parents.
The free Internet was only free because corporate interests didn't see it as an avenue worth pursuing, yet. It was a niche curiosity full of nerds talking about their interests, in boring text of all things, and nobody was shopping. Now that's flipped. Now everyone is on the Internet, and everybody's got built-in payment methods, so corporations have leveraged their power in the space. And like every other third space we had, it's been commodified to piss and back so you can't so much as walk down an e-street anymore without being screamed at by 900 assholes selling drop-shipped watches, pills to make your dick hard, mobile games that are 90% softcore porn by volume, and of course, weight loss drugs.

I hate the way we ruin everything.
It's interesting (to me) in this specific example because it generates a favicon using SVG + emoji. I wasn't aware that could be done. Favicons can't be simple enoji/text, they have to be an image.
And tracking tool health is something that precisely doesn't need to be done on a minute-by-minute basis. Doing it once at the end of every shift seems more than enough.
I hope they won't be able to infect network-connected toilets, or that would be a disaster!
Early pitch decks and presentations by Google, Tesla, Figma, Uber and others
Often it was possible to tell these apart on repeat interactions.
Men don't do stuff at home which is evidenced by marriage rates and fertility declining. There is no home to do work in.

> An investigation of median wages can be interesting. The comment only talked about wages in general

Looking at it I find my claim is false.

Median real wages have gone up (excluding the last 5 years or so). I could make an argument from inflation being wrongly calculated (due to stuff missing from the basket, or housing excluded, or shrinkflation, pick your poison) but I'm too stupid for that.

Comparing CPI (which includes housing) to median nominal wages over the past 5 years, it shows cost growth has exceeded wage growth. This though doesn't hold further into the past.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CPIAUCSL

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881500Q
They won't ask you to do the same amount of work....they'll ask you to do more work. See, it wasn't a lie!
j/k
I'm always torn when I see a site like this. On one hand it's a cool effect, but on the other hand it's pretty distracting and hard to use.

When I think "good web design" I mostly think "usable and invisible", not "in your face". But guess that's why I'm not a designer, lol.
We have enough fissile material to support the planet for 10s of thousands of years, so the nuclear proponents can speak in theoretical maximums and still beat you. You don't have enough raw materials on planet earth to continue making solar panels for the next 10s of 1000s of years, given that you need to replace the panels every 10-20 years (optimistically).

Commercial nuclear fission is completely viable for anyone not allowing it to become unviable with lawsuits. See: China.

Downvote me all you want, but you'll live in poverty when there are no factories in your town because the lights turn off during a snowstorm.
Obviously, you need to start the application somehow. But when you initially setup a rails project, do you write the code that bootstraps the application? Or do you just run `rails server` and the application figures out what to load, and starts the application for you?
True, but there are many also many scaling factors. First among these is the 24-hour news cycle, requiring filling 1440 minutes of every day regardless of quality. Another is the profitability of rage-farming and engagement.

It's one thing for a person to buy a newspaper and get his chain yanked every morning, then go about their day, typically either ignoring the stories or discussing them with other live people in person.

It's another to have the rage-farming TV source continually pumping moving video and sound into every space they enter (home, lobbies, bus/train/airport stations, etc.), and programs deliberately designed and tuned to coerce viewers' attention, and they can keep interacting with the story every day with only the announcers.

The same thing at different scale is different.
Or simply if you have a hard time staying awake after lunch.
What a shame. IRC is one of the few protocols left of the early Internet that hasn't been aggressively commercialized and colonized by corporate interests, and this is just another nail in the coffin.

Often times I wonder why basically _everything_ must be on the Web, and if all that historical baggage and complexity is really necessary, or even worth it at all.
Could just as easily be malicious or just bad developers.
Everything you’ve written is factual and if you wrote it about any other country there would be an outcry. Instead, writing this under your real name will get you fired and could genuinely destroy your life. Isn’t that a bit strange?
Well I would not dare going through the hassle of moving from React to something like HTMX if the former is already well-established in the company, except when everyone is on board. So I totally get that.
[dupe]

Lots of discussion earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38918643
The cost of each product must include a host of costs that fall outside of the simple manufacturing cost of each. These costs are myriad: R&D, engineering, tooling, maintenance program development, documentation, testing, re-designing, etc, etc. Thus the only fair assessment of the cost of each aircraft must be calculated as COST_OF_PROGRAM / NUMBER_OF_AIRCRAFT.

This phenomenon has been discussed ad nauseum when pricing the development cost of a new pharmaceutical drug. ALL of a pharma's annual corporate research and development costs must be divided only by the number of new drugs that year. Only THAT accurately accounts for the actual cost of developing each drug, given the number of drug candidates that fail during gestation.

Military hardware is no different. Many bids on new contracts fall through. That expense is part of the cost of doing business w/ the military. In fact, if all of Lockheed's many expenditures (productive and unproductive) were divided by the number of its shipped products (w/ cost proportionate to sale price), the actual cost of each shipped product would be substantially higher than is reported. This is an age-old game played by every government contractor to hide the true extent of how much each of their products finally cost the taxpayers. (Not to mention the practice of hiding the high fraction of cost-plus contract overruns in that business.)
I stay away from Twitter for my mental health, so I'm not well versed with their systems. Do you not have to select the reason you're flagging sometihing? Is flagging something that you don't understand or just don't like abusing their reporting system?
They should have made everything available as a torrent or something
$25 flat fee is reasonable. $25 + the cost of a full charge isn't. I'm not sure which the OP experienced.
How many people have you interviewed with this technique? After how many applications will you need to change your exercise, such that it becomes expensive to put that much structure into it? How do you deal with applicants knowing each other and giving each other the challenge and tips on how to solve it / what your reactions and probes were?

The pair programming part is not that different to how algorithm interviews are conducted at least in some places. You can definitely be silent for 1h and expect the best solution, or you can collaborate with the applicant and see whether their communication is good, their thinking is structured, etc.

> In that untimed challenge the candidate submits their code and email.

I expect you can't do that in companies which are highly sought after because it's too easy to cheat, and the stakes are high enough that people will do it. Yes the pair programming part lowers the chances, but people already cheat on live coding through various means, it'd be even easier if parts of the challenge are untimed.

Overall I think the difference here is that of scale: if you hire a few people in specific positions, then fine. If you hire thousands (and you can rightly question whether that makes sense in the first place but that's the assumption for many of these companies), you can't have a specific interview for each and every position, you can't reuse the same interview question after having used it for 500 times, such that you can't invest that much into it in the first place.
Chromium 3646633: Allowing VA-API on Linux Ozone/Waylan
The problem is, even when email is paid for, like an O365 account, the clients are still forced into being the product.
> You seem to be saying that storage can be done away with. It can not.

You're putting a lot of effort into missing my point.
>Want fuzzing finding? That's a package

No, it's built in. Want non-default fuzzy finding? That's a package.

>Want git integration? That's a package

No, that's built in. Want non-default git integration that's fancier? That's a package

>Want LSP? Also a package

No, that's built in.

>Want to have sane defaults? Go look at 20 different init.els online and cargo cult a bunch of elisp.

No, read the tutorial or install a starter kit if you must, but really the defaults are fine -- just old. You can do almost everything you want in Emacs with just Alt-x (M-x) and running commands. It's what those new editors call a "command palette" except Emacs has had one for decades.

> The big difference is as a Vim user I only had to configure my editor, you had to configure your entire operating system including Org mode.

lol what? This must be a troll post. Org Mode is not required in any way to use Emacs, and it actually has pretty decent defaults because it's actively developed.
Isn’t it of 2018, not 2021?
I've been to one or two tech related meetups and they sucked. I've been to many many other meetups and had a great time. Still going every week or two.
Okinawa specifically is one of the poorer areas of Japan especially for the elderly and had all of its vital records destroyed in WW2. It's also allegedly a "blue zone" where people live especially long.
Not that much actually if you don't mean as a full WM/DE replacement and instead as an on top layer; Godot 4.2 window management on linux is working quite smoothly for me, including multi-window support. From there what you do within the windows is where the magic happens. (see my other post)
What does "cite?" mean? Citation, as in you want a citation for this?

Wikipedia is a community-operated website that is directly manipulated by people that have real-world incentives for doing so. It's not inaccurate, per se, but commits a lot of "censorship by omission."

Britannica or another academic encyclopedia is written by professional academics that specialize in their field.

It's honestly a bit scary to me that people think Wikipedia is the be all and end all for information on a subject. There is a lot of information out there that isn't remotely mentioned on Wikipedia.
You can build a monetary system atop Bitcoin using convertibility. I don’t see what’s so crazy about that. I mean, right now I get paid in fiat controlled by septuagenarians that’s guaranteed to lose value unless I use it to buy assets they own. Plus they tax half. It’s a pretty bad deal for most people.
Cancers existed in ancient times. Besides, even if all harm was done by humans the God would still bear the ultimate blame because he created humans and the universe in such way that those things happen. The only way you can honestly believe in omnipotent God is by concluding he is malevolent. It resolves all contradictions very neatly.
I'm aware. This just further makes my point. Twitch develops IVS. The internal accounting is that numbers move around in a spreadsheet to "pay" for that. Amazon then moves more numbers around to "charge" Twitch for IVS, AWS or both.

You can select one set of numbers that makes Twitch look highly profitable or highly unprofitable with zero bottom-line (to Amazon) difference.

Why I bring this up is that Twitch uses it's unprofitable status to both justify layoffs and to reduce what they pay to creators. They've cut the sub split. Who knows what the ad revenue split really is. AWS is a huge profit center for Amazon. The fact that IVS continues to exists strongly suggests its profitable. If not it would be cancelled. But that profit is being attributed to AWS not Twitch even though its Twitch IP and Twitch employees who work on it.

My point is a completely fabricate narrative is being used to cut costs and thus increase profits.
Nobody prices the cost of discrete products by the number of years of production. That'd be insane.