skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Purchasing power has collapsed

But is this actually true, or just something that declining economic sentiment in the newspapers has led us to believe? People are consuming more food, more education, more square feet of house, more travel. My sense is that is surprisingly hard to find a quantitative signal that purchasing power has collapsed.

Maybe it is just that positional goods (access to the best neighborhood in the best city) get harder to obtain as the population grows?
Notice I purposedly used "reasonable" and "in the middle of a function". I know where this rule comes from. It's how it evolved into a blind prescription that is a problem.
You don't need AI to commit advertising fraud; publishers already do so. Detecting fraud is usually about checking what IP range does a request come from: one allocated to consumer internet, or one allocated to cloud providers like AWS. All the ad bidder usually sees is a JSON payload with information about the user agent and some demographic information about the user. You can also look up user ID info against a user graph you bought from a data broker and if you've never seen them before decide that they may be fraudulent. Ad fraud isn't particularly sophisticated. I used to run queries against our bidder and would find many hundreds of requests coming from a single AWS IP within a given time frame
You waste less energy? Ethereum seemed to figure this out despite being entirely dysfunctional.
> I resent AI. Not AI itself–that’s just code, despite what tech guys with flashlights under their chins tell you.

What this based guy doesn't realize is that recognizing that complex neural networks are "conscious" is precisely the way to stop companies from abusing them for everything.

Also, is it just code? Can you show me the code that lets an LLM reason in the way it does? You'd have just as much luck pointing to the neurons that let a human do that. If it WAS just code, it'd be GOFAI (Good Old Fashioned AI) -- a literal algorithm. That's code. And that'd be better since it would be something we could understand and troubleshoot, not a magic black box of brute forced insane computing power that megacorps and nation states can monopolize.
The worst case scenario is something like Kessler Syndrome for information.
Wikipedia is a mile wide and an inch deep, especially as you get to the more obscure topics.

I instead recommend picking up a complete encyclopedia set like the Britannica. You'll learn more and the information will be far more trustworthy.
$2.3B in Bitcoin trading volume only minutes into the open
Is India Done with Crypto?
Thanks for sharing, that is a pretty cool tool. Seems like it'd lead to more meaningful discussions. It'd be nice if there were more roles available but it seems like it might have a higher bar of entry in support of higher expected quality.
Generally brings them down, too.
Oh how I yearn for the days when people's life stories were written into recipes -- by what I'm told were actual people.
For IOT think swarm technologies.
From the same site as this air purifier article:

"The case against ultrasonic humidifiers."

https://dynomight.net/humidifiers/
> Pretty sure that if you have glowing perf reviews, your job is safe.

No, because when large corps want to reduce head count/payroll, it often comes as a top down directive for every group to trim by X%...

In this type of environment being good at your job doesn't help - after a few cycles of these types of layoff all that are left are the better people, and the next X% layoff will be them.
Anticlimactic, partly unpacked moving box. I was mostly surprised it was able to re-join the mesh while being in a completely different spot, something that a lot zigbee chips struggle with.
I think it's correct to say it is Luddite like to complain about a worse interface to the pocket computers we all already carry. As the article correctly states - what's the point? Why waste resources building these weird little AI gadgets that could be reduced to an app on all the devices we already have.

I mean, I get it, someone thinks they're going to be the AI iPhone and become the next Apple. What I think they're missing is many people enjoy using their phones to watch cat videos on Tik Tok, and very few people want to use their communicator badge to sell bitcoin.
This has already become self-evident when trying to find images on google. I have seen whole pages of results which were AI-generated. At every level it becomes so hard to understand the motivations of my fellow man in regards to these problems, it quickly invites almost conspiratorial thinking. How could anyone be so stupid, how is anyone benefitting, from the obvious and apocalyptic poisoning of the well. Especially when in the case of AI-imagery, if I really wanted the amalgamized paste of generative output I could just make it myself. Some part of me actually finds it offensive, that someone would have the gall to waste storage on this easily replicable digital refuse.
It's "funny"... In a way I feel like AI is always stated as the problem here but isn't it people that are the problem?

I mean, I get that you can't control what the entire population does but, AI is a powerful tool that enables a lot of incredible things we may have never imagined being possible before. And it's not even out of its infancy yet. But people are ruining it.

Similarly, a decentralized currency or decentralized ledger is a pretty great idea for a lot of things. The execution could use work but there are a lot of benefits to that. But it ended up being a way for a bunch of bros to scam a quick buck and now it's a joke.

I'm not here as some jaded blind fanboy or crypto bro. I legit just hate how people ruin everything for the rest of us. I want to be able to enjoy cool new tech and interesting new ways of achieving things or learning. I want to see innovation. But what we get is "everything is trash because people are trash and will do anything to get money"
Biggest Linux kernel release welcomes bcachefs file system, jettisons Itanium
At a certain point on the realism continuum, just get rid of the gamey parts and deliver someone a set of VM images that they have to boot up and break into.

(Maybe that's actually what Hack the Box is, mentioned in the sibling— I hadn't heard of that and only looked briefly at the homepage for it.)
The loss of deep reading: How digital texts impact kids' comprehension skills
"American cheese" is specifically a type of processed cheese: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_cheese

(I guess "cheese food" as you call it - I'm not familiar with that term, but also not American.)
> And new EVs are pretty expensive, compared already paid car...

My family has neighbors that just buy and repair older cars and sell them pretty low cost. The quality of their work has been considered very good by third-party mechanics. My parents recently bought a 2005 Pontiac with a V6 from them for about ~$4K with 135K miles. One accident (deer sideswipe), only body.

Do you know what a 2013 Tesla Model S with 135K miles goes for around here? About $17K. If we're lucky, we could maybe negotiate it to $15K-$14K; but that's still almost four times the cost. And sure, the Tesla is eight years newer, but I make a similar comparison because it was very much a 1st-gen product... My money is on the Pontiac lasting longer.
What prevents this from becoming a game of cat and mouse? I mean, AIs can pretend to be high quality users, too, right?

I won't pretend to be able to look into the future with any kind of certainty, even if the scope is only a couple of years, but it wouldn't surprise me if we have created a way to make the dead internet theory real.
To prevent the impending total enshittification of the Internet we'd probably need e.g. something like cryptographically signing human-generated content with some way of proving humanness.

Although nothing like this (or other solutions) is probably gonna materialize. The world, and especially the Internet, is driven by short-term commercial interests, and not-enshittifying things doesn't seem to make enough return on capital.
Lots of homeless people in industrialized countries beg to differ how great their life turned out to be.
That would be a better timeline than this one.
I believe that's exactly it. An exception to the single return rule to allow for guard clauses. Wording is maybe a little too obscure though.
Google Ends Cloud Switching Fees, Pressuring Amazon and Microsoft
Search has been steadily headed this direction for a long time, but recently (in just the last couple of months) I’ve started to notice a big uptick in obvious ChatGPT content in places that have otherwise been less egregiously SEO’d: StackOverflow answers, a real person’s personal Medium blog, comment sections on blogs that have good discussions, Github issues, etc.

Unfortunately I have to imagine this is only going to lead to more closed communities and less free sharing of knowledge.
Breakthrough Alzheimer's Discovery Reveals Five Distinct Variants
Wouldn't it just become an arms race between the two? I.e. the ad companies trying to identify human/legit users the best they can, and the AI actors trying to mimic high quality users?

Having interacted with some bots, it def feels like we've gone from the stone age, to the sci-fi future, in only a couple of years.
Tech companies sell tech. Advertising companies sell attention. Most big tech companies are just high tech advertising companies. They don't like to say this because it doesn't carry nearly as much prestige to admit that the culmination of their life's work is to get people to buy more crap rather than making the world better in any measurable way. I say this as someone who works for an advertising company
We are getting more abstractions, not necessarily better ones. I much prefer working with people who figure out how things work under abstractions rather than relying on them blindly.
It's always good to have a backup email account with no 2FA/geolockouts for emergency use. I keep a backup Keepass file stored in that account which contains my TOTP secrets and other passwords to bootstrap myself if the worst happens.
> has been written to reverse the sign of a number

This is the software equivalent of a The Onion article.
I wanted to love Emacs. It’s open, it’s kind if cool, apparently it does everything, Randy in the novel Cryptonomicon uses it.

But I soon spent more time and effort optimizing and working out the kinks in my personal org-roam than doing actual work.

Now I use good old project management software (Merlin for Mac), Obsidian / Apple for notes, and a written to-do list.
>Yet people with type 1 diabetes tend to be thin.

People with type 1 diabetes need to be conscious of what they are eating in a way the rest of us don't. I'm not sure you can draw much inference from them.
The last time I rented a car (2 months ago?) if you returned it less than whatever you receive it at, you get charged for an entire tank of gas with the $3-4/gal markup. So receive it full and return it at 15/16ths and you're looking at a $80-100 bill easily on the larger vehicles.

It's likely similar where if you receive it at 100% and return it at 98% you're getting charged the full $25. It's just another revenue source for the company.
Managers are basically never consulted on layoffs. At a high enough level in the organization, you might find out a week or two before everyone else and mark some people as critical, but that's about it.

Basically every company I've worked at can be roughly divided into the finance side and the business side, and IME all the important shots are called by the finance people. The business side has to justify itself in terms the finance people set, not the other way around. As for how it makes financial sense, I can't speak to that, but things do tend to work out the way the CFO predicts. That's hardly surprising, because the other finance people working on Wall St. are looking at the same spreadsheets and following the same economic theory.

By the way, I don't think this is a good way to run companies. But it's the way I think almost all of them are run.
With the updated Model 3 on the market and these starting to get sold en masse, there will be some great bargains on used Model 3 soon.

Interestingly, they seem to be selling off more of the 3 than the Y too.
If we are only referring to the cost of any media placement, I can't really disagree. My assertion is fully on ROI of this.

Take my challenge. Plot their subscribers and revenue over time, hiding the year/month. See if you can spot any sort of inflection where this happened.

It /could/ be that they would have seen declining numbers absent this. Such that this prevented a bad inflection on the chart. I don't know that I find that compelling.
The latter is a weird reaction. Do such people look at a beautiful park and say "How awful! It isn't USEFUL! AHHHHH!!!"

Burn all the landscape paintings, why don't you. And why stop there. Burn all the landscapes!

What an bizarre and narrow mindset.

Maybe the purpose is beauty? Pleasure? Contemplation? Maybe a little fun? It's like this person has some specific end in mind that they happen to care about, and anything that isn't it must be pointless.
I can think of a few reasons for this besides the reason that life has genuinely become worse:

1. Profit-seeking news orgs: it's no secret that negative and controversial news sells significantly more. With all the destruction of locally run papers in favor of the national consolidation of news by a lot of private equity investors, there are increased expectations to make a profit and therefore increase the amount of negative-sentiment news over the recent years.

2. 24-7 news cycle: people are also much more aware of all the bad news around them with smartphones and social networks. Readers' sentiment will just bleed into the papers over time. Ignorance is bliss.

3. Sampling bias: which kind of papers did they measure sentiment for back then versus now? There could be a divergence in the sources they use and different sources could have different sentiment tendencies. (I don't have access to the actual paper)

4. Rising expectations: humans are many orders of magnitude more powerful than our ancestors. We live like gods compared to them. Yet there are so many people who still aren't happy. Why? It's because our expectations also rise endlessly. Things may be better than before, but maybe it's not better relative to our expectations.

Point is, this isn't necessarily indicative of life becoming worse. There could be other plausible explanations.
This is giving me flashbacks to Web 2.0. We won’t need web sites anymore! Everything will be an API and we can have our own custom front-ends to all these services!

It sounds great on paper. If I were selling widgets, I might want an API so people have yet another avenue to buy widgets and put money in my pocket. But at that point I’ve lost control of the widget-buying experience and I can’t collect as much data on the audience of widget buyers.

Public APIs disappeared as quickly as they showed up and companies focused on partnerships. You can’t ask your voice assistant to order you a pizza from the local joint, but if you say “I want a Pizza Hut pizza” we’ve got you covered.

I expect this product to go the same way. People will find a way to block their browser automation and the universe of things it can do will shrink until it’s a glorified timer and to-do list. But if you want a medium stuffed crust and a side of wings, we’ve got you covered.
It's far superior.
Next you're going to tell us that rental companies don't change ICE oil on time.
We shouldn't. However a style guide that requires Title Case for a digital element that is very clearly a title (made clear by the various web design in which it appears) is outdated, and sentence case is more appropriate
I tend to agree for Audio; this is why I did write the Launch button. For the Gamepad API, if the browser does not want to expose model information, it should either:

- expose the buttons as sent by the OS, and let the OS to the mappings

- or build its own internal game controller db for mappings.

Right now it's doing neither, and that's an issue.
Runs-on: 10x cheaper GitHub Action runners
> Real wages have stagnated or declined.

Wages as a proportion of GDP, ie the so called 'labour share' has been relatively steady. If you believe that real GDP has increased, then real wages have increased.

> Workforce participation is extremely low.

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/labor-force-parti... says it's about 62.5%.
Videocard Benchmarks: Price Performance
none of that is relevant when somehow magically every major media company spun up a netflix competitor in a couple years
It doesn't seem to do anything smartphone voice assistants couldn't soon do - i.e. it provides a voice interface to apps that currently require touchscreen.

Examples: ordering an uber, playing a song on spotify, ordering a pizza.
Short answer: Yes!

Long answer: I recommend Godot for rapid prototyping and creating desktop applications, but not necessarily for web app development. The biggest blocker is that Godot 4's export size is quite big compared to web standards, roughly 35MB uncompressed and 7.5MB compressed. The web version of GodotOS is 7.8MB, which may be too big for professional use.

Godot is fantastic for making quick prototypes though. The editor is very quick & intuitive once you understand the core concepts. It's also a fantastic tool for creating cross-platform desktop & mobile applications, some professional apps have been designed with it.[0]

[0]: https://alfredbaudisch.com/blog/gamedev/godot-engine/standal...
"Things are getting better yet sentiment is falling."

Have they? By what measures?

Real wages have stagnated or fallen. Workforce participation is at a low. We can't compete on costs with much of the world. Population is mostly stagnate. It's hard to see how a system built on consumerism is not in trouble when our products must be subsidized to compete on exports (ag), the population is mostly stagnate, and a large portion of the population is either not working or is making just enough to survive. Looks pretty bleak to me. I suppose it looks better if you wrap assets in multiple layers of derivatives.
That's awfully harsh. People's brains work in different ways, and for some people separating movement from editing makes a lot of sense.
One metric is the amount of red in cppreference.

Apple and Google are perfectly fine with C++17 for their purposes, which is the version used by LLVM to compile itself.
It's very straightforward to interpret, Meta simply doesn't like the interpretation since in any reasonable interpretation of GDPR there is no way for them to be permitted to keep tracking all their users legally, no matter what they write in their terms&conditions or do otherwise.
It is a transformation issue. However EV's are being promoted as a viable alternative to ICE vehicles generally speaking. The reality is that this is far from true.

For many people/families, an EV could be viable. For an even larger percentage of people or families with 2+ vehicles an EV could be very viable. Still, in most scenarios the ICE vehicle is the safe choice, with the pros and cons well understood.

IMO some of the EV pushback is from people (like me) who have nothing against EVs, but feel they are still a solid decade away from being a no-brainer choice, with much of the holdup being infrastructure related.

I'm all for saving the planet (note: I don't believe that EVs overall are as net environmentally positive as they are portrayed), but I'm not going to do it while stranded at a charging station.
It's enlightened ludditism.

Think of the ophthalmologist who wears glasses but sells you LASIK surgery. (He's skeptical of it due to an intimate understanding of the risks.) And now they're complaining that a type of LASIK surgery is being inflicted on everyone, as all consumer devices shoot beams at your eyes to auto-correct your vision.
> Sure, that's because a good piece of jewelry shares the same property of a good money: its scarcity.

That is absolutely FALSE.

Good "money" requires a tiny bit of inflation, otherwise there's no incentive into spending, but hoarding.

When people start hoarding money, rather than spending or investing it, economy starts freezing.

Cryptocurrencies are a living example of that: there is absolutely NO incentive into using them to trade, only to hoard them. Why use them today if price goes up? Non sense. Indeed nobody uses them to trade, ever. There's less people spending Bitcoin for goods today, than there was in 2016 when the amount of people in the sector was a magnitude lower.

In fact, even the narrative on websites like Bitcoin's have long moved from the "currency" to the "store of value" argument.

You're compounding many wrong and false information and building an absolutely distorted idea of how money and finance works.

At the end of the day, that's history repeating itself. As wealthy people accumulate real wealth, poor people chase pieces of paper or ridiculous blockchain hashes.

If you're happy, why stop you.
Pg_query for Postgres 16
Fine then. You don't want to find out your family the love you have for Roman empire. But you are a programmer, yes? So make an app that's just a wrapper for ChatGPT API's you're paying for and distribute that to your family phones. They'll use your OpenAI API key and each will have their own little ChatGPT 4 to query to. Have fun.
>What would you do instead?

Encourage a competitive market environment where there aren't just a handful of polarized "make it" companies that everyone is applying to regardless of fit or career objective because landing a job there is a golden ticket?
Why the action button? You know the power/lock button does that, right?
> "The internet does not forget" is such a massive lie.

This is a warning, not a guarantee.
The Early History of the Channel Tunnel
CAN Bus is more like a layer 2 bus, so it should not really bother with encryption, just like Ethernet doesn't provide it. It all comes from the layers above it, and there has been proposal to add encryption or authentication to CAN. The big issue is that in normal CAN you only have 8 bytes to work with.
qī and sì sound nothing alike in any dialect of (Mandarin) Chinese I can think of, to Chinese speakers. Shi and shichi literally contain the exact same phoneme.
I empathize with the author and found the post to be a interesting and concrete example of what it's _actually like_ to try to publish a blog to Mastodon, which is something that I have thought about and read about in abstract. So, thank you for writing this up.

One thing to consider would be to try to use Caddy [0], or a tool like localias [1], as a local https proxy. You would be able to run both the mastodon server and your blog software on the same computer, addressable via local-only urls like "https://blog.test" and "https://mastodon.test" and have everything work. These tools manage the certificates for you transparently and you don't need to worry about anything being exposed publicly.

I'd be curious to know why the author didn't try this, they seem to be quite knowledgeable of other web technologies so I have to assume there's a problem that I'm not seeing here.

[0] https://caddyserver.com/

[1] https://github.com/peterldowns/localias
Clinical Trial Data and IP
I happened to watch this video last night, which goes into some of the details of RIMCAS, the Runway Incursion Monitoring and Conflict Alert System, and how it failed to alert to a dangerous situation a few years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj7nG6gJqsU
> I have TOTP basically everywhere.

Not on HN, though.