skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> plus a SaaS which automatically vets pages on-the-fly to guesstimate the chance they're AI-generated,

the problem is that would create another SEO like arms race. If it takes off everyone will be working 24x7 to defeat the vetting process and gain entry to the walled garden just like they did to gain entry to the first page of Google search results.
Very cool. If you like this you will like ZenTrails on Steam also.
Another example is open world games. They have to keep world coordinates centered on the player because for large worlds, the floating point inaccuracy in the far reaches of the world starts to really matter. An example of a game that does this is Outer Wilds.
Car rental firm Hertz to sell 20k EVs for gas powered vehicles
Hahaha I remember this. There are some missing from that list I think.

Bus shelter 59 (or similar)
Hitler
Benson & Hedges
"Nice straw man!"

Not strawmanning, some people actually belive this. In some limited scenarios or with a limited differences, it can work. Providing there are controls in place to correct any runaway effects.

" and have predominately bought by rich people."

I wouldn't say predominantly. There were times in the recent past when middle class people were the primary builders/buyers of new homes.

"It's the overall quantity of new housing being build that's important."

I understand filtering, but it does have limits. If you have too many rich people building houses that they don't need to sell, or want to keep as investments or vacations homes, them you can end up with problems. Likewise, if the percentage of rich people goes down significantly, many of the larger homes may not be economical for middle class people to live in depending on things like tax or utility costs.

"And I do agree that the US is not building enough for various reasons."

It's not just that they aren't building enough. Population distribution and vacancies are huge problems. Who or what type of entities owns properties, especially in higher percentages in a given area is a problem. But even when they do build, there is still a problem of the new single family housing being almost exclusively larger. There are very few affordable units in most markets for starter or empty nester homes.
There absolutely is ageism, but it's not as widespread as many younger devs seem to think. It also tends to be concentrated in a particular segment of our industry. Big picture, there isn't enough ageism to lose sleep about it.
This and all the other food additives combined together, in our modern Western diet. Yes, discovered while trying to make an insecticide.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/a-chemical-found-i...

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10937404.2023.2...

Article about Sucralose:

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/goings-on/sweet-nothings

"Over the next year, Hough and Phadnis worked with the British sugar company Tate & Lyle to make more than a hundred chlorinated sugars, finally settling on one that had three chlorine atoms and was about six hundred times as sweet as sugar. “It isn’t of any use as an insecticide,” Hough told me recently. “That was tested.” But it has proved useful as a food. In its pure form, it is known as sucralose. When mixed with fillers and sold in bright-yellow sachets, it’s known as Splenda, the best-selling artificial sweetener in America."
With all the garbage in the western food supply.... not surprised.
I fully believe that the future of the internet is going to small invite only enclaves of a few hundred people, because everything else will be unusable because of AI generated trash.
I did know about the Nimbus. I should have included that. D'oh!

And the BBC Master 512, of course...
Was curious what chatGPT would say:

The result of subtracting 9999999999999998.0 from 9999999999999999.0 is 2.0. This result is due to the limitations in the precision of floating-point arithmetic in computers. When dealing with very large numbers, the precision can be lost, leading to such unexpected results.

I suppose this must be in its training set.
> The same buffer concept can be simultaneously a terminal, a code editor, and a REPL.

On the technical side, VS Code can do the same, and does it to some degree. I mean, it's a Web-browser in disguise, it can show anything you want. But overall there is indeed not much awareness for this and not many features and plugins supporting this. It simply has more order and control on this level.

But I guess it's also just one plugin away on changing this.
Agreed. I don't make enough queries a month to need a pro account but would gladly pay if needed.
Not everything has a spell checker. Even when it exists, my dysgraphia means I often cannot come close enough to the correct spelling the spell check can figure out what the right spelling is.
That's crazy that only because of GDPR they expose how nasty Microsoft is selling your data or allow an opt-out, and particularly NOT anyone else including the US. I do hope more mainstream media picks up on this.

This ought to be classified as adware itself now by malware detection. Obviously Windoze "Defender" won't have a problem with this I'm sure, no conflict of interests there.
Despite? Because of.
if you put your state in the front end, you will end up tracking state on the front end and the server
With everyone burning fires for heating and cooking, factories spewing out smoke, and no one testing chemicals used to colour everything from clothing to food to toys? I wouldn't be so sure.
While at the same time adding ads / $2.99 per month additional fee for video.
Writing with AI (2023)
Same in northern Germany :(
I’m the CEO of HTMX. This is correct.
> No one, and I mean no one wants to pay for email. So here we are.

This Outlook risk hangs over my client's head because they opted to pay. Last year they moved from self-hosed Exchange to hosted-Exchange + Office 365 + all the recurring fees (and support costs).

Paying rent to reside in MS's surveillance hydra isn't a terrific bargain.
Yes but the content from the web flows into social media, news, “books” (now e-books) in an intangible cyclone of fabricated information.

If sewage gets into the water supply no one is safe. You don’t get to feel better for having a spigot away from the source.
obesity?
This feels like projection.
Link is dead. Did you happen to save a copy?
They want Nazis to play nice and follow the rules.

Which is of course behavior that Nazis are well known for. /s
People react poorly to it, and in situations where it is unnecessary, it’s just cruel.
By any reasonable metric, Google SWEs are "the rich man" in American society.
As the song says: More human than human. Why do they have to kill those animals ? Invasive species how ? They came by plane ?
Because the primitive and irrational need to hurry all the time for no reason is what takes 99% of the satisfaction of building software while making software worse.

Remote work is the future, and irrational environment-ruining offices are the past.
Welcome to the fold! I've used Thunderbird since it was released. It's always been a great product imo. The whole time I've had outlook provided by whatever office or institution I was associated with for comparison. Given the choice, even almost 20 years ago I'd have taken t-bird head to head.
I think there's actually some deep insight here into why we tend not to like too much AI in our art.

Consider: TimeCube.

Created by a human? It's nonsense, but... it's fascinating. Engaging. Memorable. Thought-provoking (in a meta kind of way, at any rate). I dare say, worthy of preservation.

If TimeCube didn't exist, and an AI generated the exact same site today? Boring. Not worth more than a glance. Disposable. But why? It's the same!

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Right or wrong, we value communication more when there's a human connection on the other side—when there's a mind on the other side to pick at, between the lines of what's explicitly communicated, and continuity for ongoing or repeated communication that could reveal more of what's behind the veil. There's another level of understanding we feel like we can achieve, when a human communicates, and expectation, an anticipation of more, of enticing mystery, of a mind that may reflect back on our own in ways that we find enlightening, revealing, or simply to grant positive familiar-feeling and a sense of belonging.

What's remarkable is this remains true even when the content of the communication is rather shit. Like TimeCube.

All of that is lost when an LLM generates text. I think that's also why we feel deceived by LLM use when it masquerades as human, even if what's communicated is identical: it's because we go looking for that other level of communication, and if that's not there, giving the impression it might be really is misleading.

This may change, I suppose, if "AI" develops rather a lot farther than it is now and we begin to feel like we're getting a window into a true other when it generates output, but right now, it's plainly far away from that.
> want to make sure that my/the next generations will not receive a bunch of SP500 that is worth $0, so do I start NOW to buy "China", "India"?

Neither country distributes spoils through public markets. In both, though China far more, what matters is political currency. In India, wealth is broadly held through politically-connected industries and real estate.
It reduces the potential for human error by automating part of the process and therefore reducing cognitive load and human err.

What is it automating that a digital torque wrench doesn't?

My point is that you can leverage the advantages of a network connected wrench

What are the advantages?
in a world where XHTML 2 was widely adopted, would HTMX have been necessary? it seems like it was the (failed) attempt at evolving the hypermedia aspects of HTML
Are you guys and gals checking your grocery receipts? Eggs have doubled over the last two years. Milk, meats, fruits and veggies... I can't think of much that hasn't gone up at a higher rate than before the pandemic.

I applaud the Fed for hiking interest rates, free money can't go on forever if you want to avoid the fate of Argentina, but c'mon, the economy is not good. It's not bad, but it's not good.

Laid off people and those fired are finding it harder to find equivalent employment like they did before.

I would bet a good roll or money that if the opposition were in the whitehouse, we'd be hearing about how shitty the economy is right now. It may not be shitty but it's not rosy like they pretend it is.
A Technical Dive into PostgreSQL's replication mechanisms
This is a guide to logical replication in Postgres where I break down some of the internal components of the database to explain CDC. If you've ever wondered how WAL buffers work, or what happens when a transaction is executed, check it out!
Do you remember when email first came around and it was a useful tool for connecting with people across the world, like friends and family?

Does anyone still use email for that?

We all still HAVE email addresses, but the vast majority of our communication has moved elsewhere.

Now all email is used for is receiving spam from companies and con artists.

The same thing happened with the telephone. It's not just text messaging that killed phone calls, it's also the explosion of scam callers. People don't trust incoming phone calls anymore.

I see AI being used this way online already, turning everything into untrustworthy slop.

Productivity boosters can be used to make things worse far more easily and quickly than they can be used to make things better. And there will always be scumbags out there who are willing and eager to take advantage of the new power to pull everyone into the mud with the.
Rented a car from hertz for a work trip, the travel platform called it a medium suv.

Hertz apparently doesn’t use standard classifications and it was actually a sub compact suv - the Chevy bolt euv.

Their counter person was strangely gleeful in explaining how I would not be able to find a charger for it.

I get the feeling hertz and car companies just hate electric vehicles
People who think this way are blinded by their own worldview. A large number of the best engineers aren't in the business to become wealthy, and they don't leave the industry if they become wealthy.

The ones who are in it just for the money rarely become the best engineers.
Ask HN: Do Fellow women/non-males of HN feel the need to dumb themselves down?
I have been noticing some women dumb themselves down if that makes sense to not offend male colleagues in the work place. Have you witnessed this behavior?
Seems like those investigators should be the target of public prosecution
> IBM took an early lead in production of non-PC compatible machines when it introduced the PS/2 series of computers

Kinda sorta, ish.

I loved the PS/2 range. I still own 2 of them, a top-spec Model 80 and a Model 55SX.

But they were PC compatibles. They ran DOS, Windows, OS/2, and NT 3.x no problem at all. They were highly compatible... just with a totally different expansion bus.

If one said that a modern PC with PCI-e slots was not compatible with a decade-old PC because the old box had PCI and the new one has no PCI only PCI Express, I think most people would unhesitatingly say that was wrong.
yeah it doesn't seem much of a hurdle to take the output of an LLM and feed it to a device that mashes the buttons on a keyboard and then presses enter.
I don't get your point, but, if you enjoyed the summary that's great.

In fact, it seems like you actually agree with me: how something is written is important, not just what was written. We're like-minded with that!
Seems like putting a cloudflare tunnel in front of each of these services would just have solved the problem instantly?
I Am a Strange Dataset: Metalinguistic Tests for Language Models
Strictly speaking, we don't need it.

But there's real demand in the industry to use networked IoT devices wherever possible and harvest the data so you can do things like QC (hand an audit trail to your customer that all bolts have been tightened with the exactly right torque) or preventive maintenance.

No one wants to fall back to non-networked ways of manufacturing.
My upvote is simply because is something that I like. In HN I guess because it is programming.
It will be like salvaging pre-1945 shipwrecks for their non-irradiated metal.
The appeal courts in the UK hate overturning decisions of lower courts; you have to have a pretty rock-solid cased to get to appeal. I'm not aware of an appeal court ever overturning a whole class of convictions.

I can imagine an appeal court ruling that some accounting system produced unreliable evidence; but each affected case would then probably have to go to appeal.
I'd much prefer a TV that was transparent when switched off over the giant black rectangle of doom in my living room. I find myself switching it on to have the Apple TV screensaver instead, just because it's so imposing otherwise.
I just tried to watch season 2 of Reacher - the one with the steroid bodybuilder guy.

A good story may be hard but a bad story as bad as what I tried watching is not easy either. I am waiting to find out if this whole show was written by a ChatGPT instance fed cliches.
I can only see very limited market uses like possibly store window displays or some theme park attraction.
I don’t know how that can justify the R&D expense.
I don't understand what you mean. Hotwire uses javascript internally just like htmx does and neither require you to write your own javascript.

I'm not aware of django including a similar library, so if you want to take this approach with django I think you need to use htmx, but my impression is that hotwire and htmx are fairly equivalent.
Kyle doesn't have a large enough staff to use fingers for door testing.
Fujitsu execs that released this buggy software causing untold harm need to be brought to justice.
> Once I understood that htmx is explicitly trying to move the boundary of the hypermedia client a lot of that discomfort melted away.

What do you mean by "moving the boundary of hypermedia client"?

HTMX tries to claim that hypermedia to only applies to HTMX because something something browsers and html.

Simply put, anything that talks HTTP and understands responses from a server is a hypermedia client to an extent.

You can create a client that only accepts base32-encoded cat gifs, and that will be a hypermedia client (in its infancy).
Then I'm super unlucky because my last phone interview there 3 weeks ago was definitely Leetcode.
There's pretty good voice input for chat gpt built into the iOS app.
I had to learn how to use an automatic when I rented a vehicle in Texas. That was the first time I’d ever driven on the wrong side of the road which was also interesting.
If you've ready Anathem ... as Ita it's our job to filter the crap from the Reticulum anyway so let's get to it. :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anathem

https://anathem.fandom.com/wiki/Ita

https://anathem.fandom.com/wiki/Reticulum
It's a language paradigm thing. You can implement anything, from HTML to CSS, in pure imperative JS, but the result would be extremely verbose and virtually impossible for machines to interpret on the fly (i.e. little accessibility support).

There is concrete value in stating unambiguously "this is a <form>" versus "this is a blob of imperative code that I swear acts like a <form>".
> The idea that you must retire from tech before 50 is so incredibly false I have difficulty believing this view is even shared here.

Must retire? No, of course not.

I worked through most of my 50's though and definitely saw "the writing on the wall". I don't want to scream "Ageism!" because I think people are often too quick to pigeon hole a thing that has much more complex roots.

For example, because of my white hair, beard, I'm probably not the guy you would go to and ask a Swift question to. And I don't blame anyone for having that ... instinct.

But it was a combination of things like that began to inform me that my better days in the industry were behind me.

Believe me, I tried to act as mentor when I knew I was probably within a year or two of heading out of the industry but I found the young'uns didn't want a mentor either. Oh well. I think I would have at their age but not everyone is the same.
The employees used to ask employers to allow usage of office space and to sponsor food.

It's not the employer who's asking for a task to be done.

Why would you expect the employer to consider this work time that should be paid?
I was able to have literally months of logs from a dozen servers streamed to a single app running with 1/256th the memory I have in the laptop I'm writing on, and it was both more responsive and had more features. And you didn't need to deal with anyone's custom emoticons or gif spam. That is a serious loss from my perspective.

Hell, just today I was trying to figure out how to use native emoji in Discord. Turns out, you can't, and they just force you to deal with those god-awful cartoony ones. Ugh. One day someone will come back around and reimplement basic text chat as a "minimal", "sleek", or "uncluttered" experience and we'll come full-circle. Maybe it'll even use XMPP this time....
I wish we could ban this kind of argument on HN. It is so short-sighted and absolutely ignores reality for everyday folks who are totally uneducated about tech (and don't care to be).

It always strikes me as a 'caveat emptor' argument (Latin for "let the buyer beware") and smacks of condescension.

"Fuck yeah I'm ripping you off, why are you so stupid as to let me do it?"
Probably trying to juice operating margins to distract from the capex they are doing that might not pay off for a while (in warehouses etc).
Boeing 737 Max's aren't full of pressurized air anymore.
The refill charge is nuts anyway even for ICE vehicles. Put an 1 m³ construction site tank+pump for diesel and one for regular gas on the site and that's it - these things cost about 1000€ [1].

From the start, refill charges have been an utter scam.

[1] https://www.geratech-tankanlagen.de/tankanlagen-diesel-adblu...
Part of the problem is that the scale of aircraft manufacturing is small. Cessna has produced fewer 172’s since the beginning of time (the most-produced civil aircraft in history) than Toyota sells Corollas in a month. So everything is expensive because of NRE.

That means nobody wants to pay to add another box to the cockpit. Now you have a game of prisoner’s dilemma: unless every aircraft is equipped with the safety technologies HN is proposing, you get little benefit. Until everyone has the little box, the controller still has to say everything over the radio (so unequipped planes can hear what everyone else is doing). “So what’s in it for me if I upgrade?”

So things like ADSB don’t happen until the FAA mandates that everyone spend $10k for parts and labor on cockpit upgrades and offers a new free digital weather service and a bunch of other sweeteners. And still some aircraft are exempt from the ADSB mandate.
I was thinking of tape outs when I wrote it, though again I think all those are true in the short term.

I guess we can argue semantics of what counts as "ARM", but Cortex-M sure isn't RISC-V so for the purposes of this conversation I'm inclined to unambiguously include it.
Does the change in incidence rate predate 2020?
if we go by precedent, every single thing that we were told was good because it was a trend has lasted less than a year and had to revamp and mutate itself out of a supposed position of streamlining and simplicity.

A lot of the supposed positives of certain "technologies" that we were told were key factors to embrace several tech have been proven to be false, and yet the cultists of the endless rotation of frameworks want us to stop listening to anyone asking "huh, isn't this like... super dumb?"
I've personally seen transparent OLED displays in museum displays. So the market is definitely closer to that of video walls, than of 85-inch televisions made for the living room. I could see it coming to controlled conditions like supermarket freezer window panes, but not something architectural.

Sure, the signage business might not be high volume relative to consumer electronics. However, engineering entire new use-cases to target larger markets might not be worthwhile, if supply and pricing cannot meet market expectations due to yield constraints.
Disclaimer: An opinion, beware.

There is going to be a lot of spam, but the power of AI will provide unique curated content to each user.

So websites, mostly gone. Content, mostly on social media and then provided to AI through API services.

Each person will have this curated content along with all the intrinsic components to refine it, similar to how most email providers have built-in spam protection & categorization.

So spam will be plenty, but it will be stuck in it's own messy cesspit, being artificially kept alive by other bots.
NYC's Back-to-Back Train Derailments Threaten Subway's Comeback
That Amazon wrench has no control over the consistency of the torque applied by the user. The user can simply just tighten bolts to any value, at any speed, every single time it is used. The automated wrench does all of the work. The user presses the button and it torques exactly the same, to the spec, every time. Manual torque wrenches are easy to misuse. Multiply that by thousands of bolts and you have a decent probability that you have a couple of bolts that were manually tightened a little too far past the beep, or was torqued too fast and beeped before it was properly torqued.

Factories do not spend huge sums of money on automated tooling for no reason. Automation in factories decreases human err and increases the quality and speed of output.
This feels very cynical.

Grifters taking advantage of a problem for personal gain doesn't mean that the problem doesn't need to be addressed, does it?
Those cyber lobsters are our only hope!