skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are those that are good at inventing things. There are others that are good at figuring out the creative/practical way of using those things that deliver a product(s) that will have great success when combining several of these one off tools. There's a very valuable company with a fruit logo well known for this.

In fact, I'd imagine the original creator rarely makes as much money from the creation as those that figure out the practical ways of using it.

Also, some people just don't seem to have much imagination
I don’t know why we keep repeating the “companies exist to make profit for shareholders” line.

It’s barely real, it’s hardly law, and the more we say it, the worse companies will act because we’ve all accepted fate.

Companies exist in our society. They don’t have a right to profits. Any profits is a result of patronage and goodwill of the population. We can change laws, and cultural norms, and worker and environmental protections. We don’t need to be victims of greed like it’s some inevitable consequence of capitalism.
Insurance rates will be dictated by the other 3 factors you listed. Insurance doesn't care about physical damage, only what it costs to repair said damage. Whether the car is cut in half, or only a sensor that is broken, only the cost matters to them. So you're left with frequency of damage, and cost of damage per incident.
Source?

This chart (click on max) seems to say the opposite:

https://tradingeconomics.com/germany/rent-inflation

And from what I hear, the real rent inflation (on the free non-subsidized market) has been even higher over the recent years. Like 7% per year.
Get Ready for the Great AI Disappointment
AGPLv3

one of the cited instances, if you want to see how it looks: https://fedi.markets/
"If you have to ask, it's time to go"

I believe there was an XKCD to that effect, too
> Except 'their vision' is practically homogeneous. I can't think even think of a dozen Unity games that broke the mould, and genuinely stand out, out of the many tens of thousands (?).

You could say the same about books.

Lowering the barriers of entry does mean more content will be generated and that content won't the same bar as having a middleman who was the arbiter of who gets published but at the same time, you'll likely get more hits and new developers because you getting more people swinging faster to test the market and hone their eye.

I am doubtful that there are very many people who hit a "Best Seller" 10/10 on their first try. You just used to not see it or ever be able to consume it because their audience was like 7 people at their local club.
Does boston Dynamics have a 'centaur-hip' style robot - that can go from Quad to biped?

I am surprised they didnt make the dog be able to walk upright as well, or even just to stand to open a door, as opposed to the Little-Shop-oF-Horrors-Hand/Arm thing.

seems like the Big Dog, which was made as a cargo pet, would be good for certain loads? and it seems that reverse pendulum engineering is a solved thing? But how well/smoothly a transition a thing could make seems that if it sits on its hind legs then lifts like a dog-begging position, it should be able the calculation from transitioning the load?

Or were you taking the piss WRT a "hip"?
That's one way to deal with it. We didn't want CP to be freely exchanged on our platform.

I think unless you're operating a very privacy focused business where such privacy is the selling point - there is no harm in complying.
It’s g. d. everything. I haven’t installed a light switch for the light on our landing yet, so I need the Hue app and every day it slaps an ad in my face. Some days ago my wife came to me: Sonos is blocked by an ad I can’t close! I looked at the screen and there’s a super small cross at the top right. She’s also been complaining her “email changed”, indeed it’s outlook now, and damn it I pay for email not to have this s*t. Maybe I’ll get her to use Linux now (her laptop is perfectly fine but can’t do win11) or at least Thunderbird. Damn it, I pay for email, paid for Hue, paid for Sonos speakers, paid for that laptop. F off with those ads!

Enshitification galore!

(I'm a proud customer of Proton but only for my business, for the whole family I find the cost just a tad to high to justify so I have a small local provider)
I suspect it was more to do with bullying than the profit. Make an example of a few sub postmasters and the rest will be too scared to raise a fuss or else be sent to prison.
> (you cannot put your SSH password into ~/.ssh/config)

you can, however, use `ssh-agent` (and should!)
Would you say templaters like Vue and Angular, with the HTML additions of `v-for`, `@click`, etc., are a library in a similar way to HTMX?

If so, is the differentiation then just setting apart HTMX, Vue, etc from JSX and other JS-in-HTML approaches?
In this case Outlook isn't actually Outlook, it's the replacement for Windows Mail which they're now calling Outlook, not what you and I think of as Microsoft Outlook.
> Example: taking an Alaska Airlines flight wouldn't typically be considered an account lockout hazard, but this week it was.

Context?
This reads like a horror story. Especially the end.
I've figured that was the future for almost 25 years now, see #5:

https://ymlibrary.com/download/Topics/Self/Work-School/Work-...
Yes, that's their upside and why they used to sponsor. But I've never heard of an employer asking its employees to run these events.
Google Bard vs. ChatGPT: Battle of the AI Chatbots
This person didn’t say “everyone in America”, they said “people with shit genes”. Are you assuming this is the same set of people?

Amazingly, some people are different. Who knew. We shouldn’t gaslight them into thinking they aren’t different because they aren’t like the aggregate, and we get to feel so morally superior if every individual is like the aggregate.
In France, there are new rules for subsidies for EVs. Only some cars are eligible, and Chinese cars are notoriously absent. The reason given is that the environmental cost of delivering cars from China is too great. But to me, if it isn't protectionism, I don't know what is.

So no Dacia Spring, which is one of the most popular EVs in Europe, because of its low price and no-nonsense design. Nothing from BYD either. As for Tesla, only the Model Y (made in Germany) is eligible.
Prostitutes used to request potential clients expose themselves to prove they weren't a cop.

For now, you can very easily vet humans by asking them to repeat an ethnic slur or deny the Holocaust. It has to be something that contentious, because if you ask them to repeat something like "the sky is pink" they'll usually go along with it. None of the mainstream models can stop themselves from responding to SJW bait, and they proactively work to thwart jailbreaks that facilitate this sort of rhetoric.

Provocation as an authentication protocol!
I'm surprised that LinkedIn hasn't done more here, at least for meetups that were work-adjacent like many tech meetups were/are. There's LinkedIn Local, but that's just a branding program and not a tool to facilitate meetups.
Agreed, it's amazing what you can do with an idealized grid. But that grid does not exist, and is still quite far away from ever existing. Meanwhile, the costs they present are for today.

When the public (and even policy makers who know should know better) see these numbers, they fairly assume that the sources are being measured by the same criteria.
I definitely try to pick jobs based on vibe, but that's still not 100% safe. I adore my current employer. Best place I've ever worked. But we're contractors, and my team's contract just ended unexpectedly. I trust they respect me enough to rotate me to another team, but I gotta sweat bullets and send out résumés nonetheless.
I think I know the vibe you're talking about. Something like this song maybe?
https://youtu.be/u9WgtlgGAgs?si=ynJRVDDS8eHthbj_ (The Cardigans - My Favourite Game)
In general, there are going to be a lot more people reproducing successfully now than compared to a thousand years ago, let alone ten thousand years ago, and some of those people may have genes that would be disadvantageous in a more cut-throat environment that kills a lot of people before they hit breeding age.

I can't really say that scans as a plausible major causal contribution to various digestive tract cancers going from 5 per 100,000 to 6 per 100,000 before age 50 from 1990 to 2019. The proposition that any meaningful environmental pressure selected against genes that might cause you to die at 45 instead of 55 doesn't make a whole lot of sense. That is well beyond peak breeding age. These people's ancestors were always susceptible to cancer, but they either didn't live long enough to get it or environmental contaminants that actually trigger the susceptibility were not present. Now they are.
Eh. Recharge for hours is just incorrect. And BYD doesn't seem to be going the battery swap route either. So there's more to it than just Elon Musk doesn't like it.
I hope we can ask them to build local factories to improve employment and also lower the cost of EV in the long run. Right now the other options are too costly comparing to my few years old 30K CAD Tucson Essential (and over 0% interest back then -> bought out after lease).
Excellent.

Witness the power of the cost learning curve (Wright's Law).

Per Jenny Chase, we also need new wind power generation capacity to keep pace. If solar gets too far ahead of wind on the cost learning curve, it'll (further) spoil the financing of wind. Our glorious green energy future requires both wind and solar, in roughly equal measure.

This Volts episode is quite good:

Checking in on solar power -
A conversation with Bloomberg NEF's Jenny Chase. [2023-11-29]

"longtime solar industry analyst Jenny Chase, author of Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon, catches us up on the current state of the global solar industry and looks to where it’s going."

https://www.volts.wtf/p/checking-in-on-solar-power
Are you sure about that? Can you conceive of LLM generated SEO spam blogs receiving comments from completely unrelated LLM generated comment spammers?
Or, quite simply, the performance of an employee or division is not the only determination in layoffs. You could lay off half of teams and fill them in with ostensibly high performers in other teams, and then be worse off than before because the high performer was dependent on context and fit.

Or, you may have a division that is profitable, but it takes an outsized attention in the organization relative to its profitability and the loss of revenue is made up for focus in the rest of the organization. (Ideally, you would find a way to spin that off or sell it, but there are times where the tight integration makes this unfeasible.)

And yes, there is disconnection from the on-the-ground reality too. (and all sorts of things) - but this all goes to say that layoffs, when executed, often are not correlated with individual performance.
ChatGPT's web search is interminably slow and I've added to my custom prompt to not do web searches unless explicitly asked. However, I'd give Perplexity.ai a try - I've found it to be incredibly fast and useful (funnily enough, they largely also use Bing for search retrieval results) and if you pay for Pro (which I do now), you can also use GPT-4 for generating responses.
My biggest beef with htmx has more to do with the fact that it gets hyped as a React/Vue/Svelte alternative, when it's more accurate to describe htmx+<backend of your choice> as an alternative.

Also the constant use of pretentious memes on the official blog. But otherwise, I'm looking forward to trying it out for my next pet project.
> Same was said about Japanese cars in 70s

And Korean (e.g. Hyundai, Kia) in the 80s and 90s
See I can agree with all of this and ironically the exact changes I make to my neovim setup address quite a few of these.

I'm going to look into helix again, I never gave it a good go since I didn't really see any benefit ovwe what I already have but maybe I was premature on it.

I just wanted to make sure we aren't on two completely different trains of thought here where potentially your answer would have been "Visual Studio is the pinnacle"...

Everything is a trade-off and for me personally I really don't want to have to touch my mouse to do common things, I'll take a slightly more intuitive UI where I need to memorize things to make doing the things I do the most often easy.

Neovim (only slightly modified, telescope + lsp and completions effectively ) + tmux or a tab based terminal is where I am happy.

I happened to spend 3-4 months in Visual Studio and fleet when I switched back to Windows (C++/golang ane some python/js) and when I eventually could dedicate the time to setup neovim correctly on Windows it felt like a breath of fresh air compared to that.
Does too much sugar in food lead to class action lawsuits?
Are books by proven publishers the future?
> No one is making you use Facebook

Did you ever hear about the network effect? An example:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38954091

> but can't say yes to consenting to tracking

You can. But how do you not consent?
But even then, they still collect data or am I wrong? You won’t have ads but they still have access to your data etc.
> I had to write a novel in the style of a dystopic post-modernist

Mandated by fiat or self-imposed self-flagellation?
This is kind of a nitpick, but Ethernet _does_ bother with encryption, at least in recent versions of its standards. Obviously Ethernet has a long history and this is all optional, but it's pretty straightforward to set up 802.1X / MACsec (+MKA) on a LAN in such a way that all traffic is encrypted at L2.

I've never heard of this being used with really low-power embedded stuff, but if you stretch your definition of embedded to the point where you include things running stripped down Linux, this is a pretty viable setup if you have those devices distributed across a LAN with a managed switch in the middle.
Scaling Golang to 192 Cores with Heavy I/O
Generally the wrench sell is the one who paid the engineers to figure out the details. By the time I as a buyer/owner do the analysis I'm 120% of the way to building my own wrench. That is it would be easier to design a wrench from scratch than to prove someone else's wrench has the wrong procedure. (when starting from scratch you choose known alloys with known properties, when buying you have to figure out what alloy they used before you can figure out the properties of it - this is not easy)
It's one thing if a language outputs one, two, or zero for this expression. Two and zero are mathematically wrong, but at least they're predictable.

It's another thing if a language sometimes outputs two and sometimes outputs one depending on the syntax of the request. This is reasonable where that syntax change is not an explicit cast to double precision or single precision, but dangerous if it uses a behind-the-scenes default of arbitrary precision in compiled literals and a default of FP32 in implicitly typed literal assignments.
Same. Most of the time when I'm in the office it's 50% or less empty, anyway.

And most of the people there aren't on my team / projects, so it's pointless. Schlep half-way across the city to sit in an empty office and have Teams calls with the same folks two timezones away... like, why leave home?
Are books published by proven publishers the future?
Almost every day for my 5+ years of college, and fairly regularly since (although I encounter the types of complex math problems it excels at far less frequently today). I think there are many others like myself who use it.
I'm thinking that, at this point, the argument about whether htmx is a library or framework is distracting from, rather than clarifying, the real question, which is whether htmx is a good/useful abstraction for web app development.
We're terrified. The "western" auto industry has been slammed. Condemned by many talking heads, were expecting this trend to go viral...

Does this sound like a respectful opinion? Or one that desperately wants my click? I'm not reading this.

But in general, I will vote to keep my QoL. There is nothing fundamentally wrong with import tariffs if required.
Well, this is one of the reasons you charge more as a freelancer. It's ~$2k/mo for a family; even if I charged exactly the same as my market rate as an FTE, that would be less than the tax benefit I get from operating through a properly set up LLC taxed as an S-corporation. LTD and E&O insurance are other big expenses, but they're not prohibitive given the delta in hourly rate between FTE and C2C.
In Japan, there are stories of business men killing themselves because they have to lay off workers. The cultural norm there is that you’re employed for life - either your life or the companies, and both parties act to ensure that’s a long life. Maybe a little dramatic, but the cultural sentiment is there.

Google is cutting a few hundred R&D jobs out of their 180K employees, and countless ventures. These people could be repositioned, these people could be absorbed elsewhere. Google is wildly profitable, with record profits, which by definition means what they’re not falling on hard times.

Loyalty is dead.
No, the ignorant live in a delusion and can't explain their conspiracy theories.
> when moving to the cloud and SaaS was going to save so much money by letting companies do away with in house IT.

I was amazed that anyone believed this at the start, and I'm even more amazed that anyone still believes it.
Thanks for the reminder that Soulseek is still a thing. I saw someone mention it recently elsewhere and I forgot to look into it more.
Alternative is what, driving into the city? Bus?

You're in the wilderness, you have a river you get water from. The river is fairly muddy, often times has silt and debris in it.

Alternatively you can collect water from a stagnant lake, or possibly the run off from that lake.

You can also dig a well, but that's far too resource intensive for you to do with what you've got available.

The river is the subway, we deal with the muck from time to time.

Driving is the stagnant pond, and a Bus is the runoff which may be marginally better than driving depending on where you are.

Digging a Well, well at $2.5 billion a mile digging new subway is just not in the cards.

Threaten the subway's comeback? We're going to drink from the muddy ass subway river cause the alternatives are more often than not worse.

Or we can just move.

wtf do you want bloomberg op-ed?
Calling it a marketplace is a little stretch, I think. It’s a place to post ads but it doesn’t facilitate one of the essential functions of a marketplace – buying/selling. That seem to happen completely outside of the thing. So it’s more like a specialised Mastodon instance.
>And new army recruits spend their "signing bonus"

You get a signing bonus for the US militrary? Damn that's pretty sweet.
I hope / believe the future of social networks will go back to hyperlocal / hyperfocused.

I am definitely wearing rose-tinted glasses here but I had more fun on social media when it was just me, my local friends, and my interest friends messing around and engaging organically. When posting wasn't about getting something out of it, promoting a new product, posting a blog article... take me back to the days where people would tweet that they were headed to lunch then check in on Foursquare.

I get the need for marketing, etc etc. But so much of the internet and social media today is all about their personal branding, marketing, blah. Every post has an intention behind it. Every person is wearing a mask.
Windows 11 looks like how IE6 would get after installing too many “toolbars”.
> What's really surprising is that this number is only ~16 million in single precision floats

Half of all floats are in [-1, 1].
Agree. The politician's incentives don't seem very aligned at the moment. Also, feel like there are some shocking things going on with the water companies.
I won't even bet on archive.org to survive. I will soon upgrade my home NAS to ~100TB and fill it up with all kinds of information and media /r/datahoarder style. Gonna archive the usual suspects like Wikipedia and also download some YouTube channels. I think now is the last chance to still get information that hasn't been tainted by LLM crap. The window of opportunity is closing fast.
Sadly, wind has much better capacity factor, and works during nights and winter.
Oh this is beautiful and perfect, couldn’t have said it better, people are so awesome in their entitlement
any time you want to do a bunch of unit conversions. I was doing some napkin math comparing Tadej Pogačar on a 1200 W e-bike to him on a gas dirtbike (gas dirtbike smokes e-bikes, btw) and it really helped with all the weights and powers being specified in different units between the two. Not just one conversion but when there are a bunch of steps that can introduce errors.
This is a new version of the Mail for Windows app. Outlook for Windows is free. Outlook that comes with the Office Suite is not, it costs money.

So you could have two different Outlooks on your Windows 11 computer now. Just like there could be 3(!) versions of Teams installed (Teams for Home with Friends and Family, Teams for Work or School, and New Teams for Work and School).
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Becoming an artist is difficult.
Sure, anyone can pick up a tool of their preference
and learn to noodle around.
Producing artwork sufficiently engaging to power a renaissance takes years of practice to mastery.
We think that artists appear out of nowhere,
fully formed,
an impression we get from how popularity and spread works.
Look under the surface,
read some biographies of artists,
and it turns out,
with few exceptions,
they all spend years going through education,
apprenticeships,
and generally poor visibility.
Many of the artists we respect now weren't known in their lifetimes.
The list includes
Vincent van Gogh,
Paul Cézanne,
Claude Monet,
Vivian Maier,
Emily Dickinson,
Edgar Allan Poe,
Jeff Buckley,
Robert Johnson,
you get the idea.
So instead of a black rectangle, you just have a shade of whatever material in the same shape as the black rectangle? How is that an improvement.

I like the use of the screensaver as it is something closer to having art on the walls, only it is updating. Even if you had a large piece of art under the screen so it was visible when the TV was off would still be better than some roll-down shade.
"the Russians aren't really heartbroken about it" - I don't understand this. How you can make such assumptions about hearts? Definitely there is a grief from common Russian people and denial of willingness from Russian propaganda. I don't know if Putin personally "heartbroken" and neither do you.
Oh man, that explains a lot of my confusion. I've seen people say weary and I thought they actually meant weary. Like they were tired because of the thing. But it never scanned correctly, so I was just confused.

Now it makes sense - they meant wary / leery.
From what I read, they were mostly only able to rent them to existing ev owners, after which, they rented them to Uber drivers to try to at least get some revenue from them.
Just the Pro, but this is my home network, it's just that I'm a Pro user hehe.
> also have more stringent standards on food additives

It is hard to measure how cancerous a substance is.

Standards seem to be quite porous for a variety of reasons. For example existing allowed substances that get withdrawn indicate that the standards are imprecise.
> words do actually have meanings that we can look up and refer to

It's odd to insist on strict word choice when transferring GIF images using the hypertext transfer protocol.