skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's true. In fact, in the US they even lobbied congress to do so:
https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/28/house-vote-sj-34-isp-regul...
A reason that I can think of is it's a result of the hiring that happened during COVID. First you had Amazon saying they were going on a massive hiring spree. The other tech companies (except for Apple it seems) said to themselves, "Oh no! They're going to snap up all the talent!" so they ramped up their hiring too.

Interest rates were at record lows so there was a lot of available money and nobody (except for the scientists) knew how long this COVID thing would last. These companies are used to short-term thinking because they're public companies and the public markets won't think further than six months from now.

Now that interest rates are back up to where they were 20 years ago, and Amazon has gone through a few rounds of layoffs, the rest of the industry is doing some belt tightening as well.

I predict several of these companies will be a shell of themselves in 10-15 years for this and many other reasons.
Of course 2.3% Y/Y energy production growth on Earth is impossible. That means it won't happen. The question is how it won't happen.

Malthusians assume it won't happen in a destructive, collapse kind of way. They assume there's a wall and the system will mindlessly accelerate toward it and then, on impact, will die.

Malthusians deny the existence of intelligence, more or less. They model life as a non-adaptive physical system.

So how else might it not happen? Two possibilities, both of which could happen: decoupling of energy growth from GDP and continuing of growth off-world.

Efficiency increase could go a long way. We are not even close to efficiency limits for... pretty much anything.
>Medicare -- don't ask.

Let's take it one sub-section at a time, starting with Part D:

The most insane "free give away" of younger tax-payer money, which the first decade of beneficiaries effectively contributed <10% of received benefit (prescription drug subsidization, but only if you're retired/disabled).

I am ALL FOR SINGLE-PAYER HEALTHCARE SOLUTION — I dropped out of a US medical school over a decade ago (realizing the system then was broken, most-obvious-then with the passage of medical student / resident ~80hr/week MAX scheduling (ha ha ha)). Obamacare was doomed before it even passed, and I personally paid the IRS "fine" for the few years required.

Your wall of text is absolutely spot-on, breath-taking!, and yet I recommend to many to embellish their lives in facts, starting with the greatest book [1] on Modern US Retireeism's Upper Crust [certainly there are numerous more impoverished Boomers]; those that did from the "I got Mine!" Generation absolutely are detached from the reality of modern US Decline [opportunies aren't there, folks, for massive segments of population].

Some common examples I see in my part-time philanthropy work (medical focused, for underserved populations within US):

Rich, Well.Meaning Donor: "Yes, but I'd rather donate mother `internationally` because there is SO MUCH OPPORTUNITY FOR US CITIZENs to work and they `just aren't` working."

Donor coordinator (not wealhty; work is matching tax-writeoffs with approved local charities): "That is JUST NOT THE CASE, Friend [2]. I am happy to discuss the complexities of any of a variety of hindrances which keep the majority of Americans impoverished, renting, and unable to develop their own Generational Wealth — pick any topic"

Rich Phil./Legal Tax Avoider: "Why doesn't anybody want to be a non-traveling nurse anymore?!" [==contract nurses that rotate positions and are very. well. paid |VS| full-time staff nurse]

D.C: "Because working staff at a hospital doesn't pay very well, for all the emotional and physical BS that nurses have to deal with -- and the hospital gets gutted by some MBA/JD that works quickly to make each Fiscal Quarter more profitable, to the ultimate doom of the healthcare of patients and well-being of employees. By being short-term traveling contract, only, the MBA/JDs [at first] appear to be saving money [i.e. more shareholder value!] until ultimately the cost of mismanagement/lawsuits from overworked staff and misunderstood wards ends up destroying the entire healthcare system."

Rich Donor, less gratuitously: "???" "But USA has `best healthcare in the world!` ... `wait times` ... `yada` ..."

Me: "...if you can AFFORD IT."

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[1] book "A Generation of Sociopaths" A+

[2] e.g: RAM (Rural Access Medical?) started out as an international charity started by a US Physician... who then realized that underserved/uninsured US Citizens oftentimes face 3rd-world-like health crisis, particularly in rural Appalachia (for just one 5M+ example!).
Note that there's an opposite convention that I think originated with the BSDs, where -ofoo is equivalent to -o -f -o -o
Banking in the modern age is a compliance business.

It is strange and horrible that it is become like that, but that's where we are.

More sectors than one would think are primarily compliance businesses.
More accurately they suffer defects and die.

Then there is Chernobyl which now has healthier and more diverse wildlife than much of the world because humans have evacuated.
Ask HN: What do you feel about ditching Steam for GOG?
I was deeply troubled with the fact that Steam does not really offer any options to get older games running on very capable computers, and with them stopping Windows 7/8 support early this year, and Windows 10 support going away in a year, people will add their computers to the landfill soon.

However, being able to run old applications and games, whether from Archive.org or GOG.com could prevent it. Even an ESR version coming from Valve could really help mitigate this issue.

How do you think people could prevent/slow down this disaster from happening?
As long as you're including long-term negative externalities in the "affordable" portion of your analysis, sure.
It is. Just tell chat gpt you want to do one and it'll come up with one. It's very polly-anna-ish and eager to please though, so don't expect a lot of drama or tension.
I suspect this is conflating wells with flaring, which can be a pretty big problem across a huge area. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-scotland-54435653 (Mossmorran flare, Exxon-Mobil)
Delivery slot allocation is bit more complex than deviding order book by monthly deliveries. Also, custumers cancel orders, freeing up delivery slots for other airlines.

The A320 order book is approaching ten years so, and wont decrease with sales exceeding deliveries.
But those companies still have to "finance" their projects
I think you and the parent commenter are using different scopes for the word "we" in this case. There are some great programs in places to manage feral cat populations, but in many areas they are no where close to large enough to help fix population-level impacts on birds.
What’s surprising about that? Seems about right for a distilled model.
The decisions that allow flexibility are usually macro-level decisions.

The overall architecture defines the limit of the solution's scope.
Aren't we already seeing rent prices going down?
The centralization of power in a super app leads to:

- consolidation of data, which are vulnerable to hackers

- consolidation of power, which leads to abuse

- monopoly position, which leads to enshittification

- easy target for government surveillance (it is not your data, it is our data)

- limits innovation

- limits competitiveness

- limits ability of users to express freely. For example: if you are not nice you will be banned not only from social media, but from banking, etc.

- arbitrary decisions of tech billionaires will have huge impact on the user base

The monopolistic nature of a super app can ultimately undermine the principles of user empowerment, variety, and security that are essential for a healthy and user-friendly digital ecosystem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Canard_encha%C3%AEn%C3%A9

Satirical papers aren't always about fun and jokes -- the good ones often break important stories before the serious papers.

They often use code to write things they would otherwise be sued for:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tired_and_emotional
Maintenance is probably an even bigger issue than crew.
Startup behind first hydrogen eVTOL eyes 2025 takeoff
I know what would be a killer feature: the ability to turn it completely off and delete it and never have to see it ever again.
In this case it's not. It seems to be the removal of a bunch of useful features.
And use it regularly. It's a great solution to test applications out before installing them, or run "portable" applications from removable media or a remote server.

But as another of those bundled-runtime solutions, like Flatpak, it suffers from the same issues, including high complexity and poor cohesiveness with the rest of the system.
Popular AI chatbots found to give error-ridden legal answers
This is what Apple has been attempting to push for years. They want a nice juicy reoccuring cut of publisher revenue.
After 5 years of this law being in effect, will the numbers balance back out to pre section 174? That is, does that deduction from year Y carry over into year Y+1, Y+2, etc.?

I mean, this probably still matters a lot for startups given their shorter lifetimes, but it seems any large company(I'm thinking of, e.g. Apple, who has plenty of cash on hand) that's been around for a while could just wait it out? I am not familiar with corporate tax law and how deals are structured, but could you also defer revenue in the same way to offset(e.g. customers with a 5 year contract paying progressively more but keeping the same total $ amount to sync with your deductions)?
Understanding Generative AI: Part Two – Neural Networks
What does "got access to" mean exactly? Do you own it permanently? Or just have it to play around with? For how long?
Let's just take a step back and realize this article (the blog post) is not peer reviewed and uses generally emotionally charged or accusatory language towards the authors. Even if it's correct, it does not meet the same publication bar as the original paper. We also have comments from the original authors which challenge the claims made here. The two pieces of writing are not on the same playing field.

Honestly, that's enough red flags to dismiss this blog post as "not convincing enough, more work needed".
She was CEO from 2012 and started at the Post Office in 2007 as group network director. She may not have started the miscarriage of justice, but she certainly doubled down on it.
> The packages "VLC for Unity (Android)", "VLC for Unity (UWP)", "VLC for Unity (Windows)" have been deprecated.

This is not deprecation. This is removal and banning.
It is tricky, as was explained in the comment you replied to. Maybe you could explain how it is not tricky instead of just making random statements without contributing anything
For those who want to read about this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSeries_dumping_petition_by_Bo...
We’re working on a tool that “screen shares” with AI and allows both looking at what is on screen when you’re sharing and acting on it (simulate clicks and other). What’s your use case? Happy to share more about where we’re at with the project. It’s quite a lot to build to get right for many kinds of apps and to be multi-os but we’re pretty close. No CLI though, would love to hear more about your use case there. Feel free to email me diamond@augmend.com
RIP ... So many gems from IRC! I definitely think the siteowners should have an archive copy of it. Just zip the bash.org files and put it on Archive.org or something
I disagree in general (although I agree this article isn't clickbait).

the internet runs on clickbait and HN's insistence on reflecting the title of the content itself means a lot of things that are posted are legitimately clickbait.

Just this morning I rolled my eyes when I saw an article titled "Airbus shatters record for jet orders as demand soars" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38967262).

I didn't even bother clicking on it.

people are getting oversensitive, but not without good reason.
Halve/quarter your downsides, double your upsides, and you get a more accurate reflection for the Consumer/Small Business side of the house. IB/Commercial have a higher starting point but I am not familiar with the dynamics there. IT/Corporate is on par with Consumer/Small Business.

That said, perceived poor performers really don't get paid well or get bonuses, and that's usually the only clear signal you get.
Anything else that allows me to set alarms and timers without having to touch my phone?
They must be signed to be on the store, but I don't think it's impossible to run unsigned apks on the device (maybe you need the developer mode, though).

But even then, wouldn't that count like tivoization? LGPLv3 says you need to provide instructions to replace the lib, but LGPLv2 does not. Couldn't I say "I honor the LGPLv2, because it would be technically possible to update the library, but unfortunately for you it is behind some tivoization that you would need to break first"?
Wow that's a big list of surprisingly useful features being ripped out.

I'd already noticed my new phone (pixel 8, I fucking hate it) had trouble setting a simple timer with a voice command ( last time I tried it gave me a shitty youtube video result of a 10 minute timer!?!), but this list of removed features goes further, removing other basic functionality from voice assistance.

If all a voice assistant can do is google my "command" and read me the results, that's a terrible experience. The whole selling point (to me) is the ability to do something magic with what I'm asking.
Where do Germany and Texas rank in all of this?

A decade ago their economies were similar size/scale...

I imagine immigration plays massive rolls in these economic projections (however local to larger Unions).
Which is also why I don't see any reason why we'd need a new "language" to use ternary computing. I'm not even sure what a library would do; if you have arbitrary precision ints and/or floats, that's basically all you need for an adapter. For instance, a ternary computer might be able to store a tri-state value more efficiently, but you'd still have the exact same code to resolve it ("case 0: {} case 1: {} case 2: {}"), and it's not like it suddenly mandates that all your binary conditions grow a third clause lest the hardware combust. A trit having more room than a binary value requires isn't news when a lot of our binary values are already consuming a full byte, if not at times a full machine word, as it is.

I've seen one other person in the past many years who A: believed ternary computing was very important and B: was absolutely impossible to convince that there is literally nothing a ternary computer can do that a binary computer can not.

But there is literally nothing a ternary computer can do that a binary computer can not. The reasons why it may be interesting relate to being one possible avenue for squeezing one last drop of hardware performance out of a system that has otherwise reached its limits, but it is minimally interesting from a software perspective.

I think no one is particularly interested in it at this time because there's no step after that; there's no "super ternary" you can go to after that, and for various mathematical reasons stepping up to 4 is much, much less helpful if not actively a step backwards (it turns out that in many ways, 3 is the optimum; actually it's e, but 3 is the closest you can get to that). An optical computer might go faster the next generation, a quantum computer can add more qubits, transistors can be cooled and stacked and built out of graphene and all sorts of other things, but a ternary-ness is a dead end. It's the last thing you do when all else fails.
If employees were to do ruthless "business as usual", people would join a company, not work much, jump ship to another within a few months. Wasting everyone's time, energy and money. How does that sound?
ICL originally had contract AFAIK. It seems to me that the disappeared funds could have gone to people with access to the system and not just a result of accidental coding.
International Computers Limited existed as a commercial entity and brand from 1968 to 2002, it was finally and completely absorbed into Fujitsu.
Unfortunately its intractable to separate oblivious rubes from willing accomplices.

Thankfully we have common carrier protection laws that people can argue they're protected by or not.
Between your comment and the one you replied to, I'm starting to think this is a good exercise. It shows how modern language can be used outside of its usual context, i.e. spoken by modern speakers. As a slightly older person than them, I can understand what they mean better, and remind myself that language evolving is a natural part of life. For them, it can make older works more accessible too, not just by translating them, but by showing to them that there's a mapping between the way they express themselves and the way other people do, and that they don't need to be intimidated by older works with different ways of speaking.
ClickOps doesn't have to be terrible
Another step in Android's steady progression of become less and less useful hands-free. It's incredible to me that my experience with my Nexus One in 2010 was better than it is today with a Pixel 7. The fact that it arbitrarily decides to not recognize some contacts on some days. The fact that it can't handle me spelling out a street name when it insists on replacing the street name that I'm saying with something completely different. The fact that YouTube Music would always play "some driving music" that it chooses over my playlist literally called "Driving Music", when I would say "Play my Driving Music Playlist on YouTube Music". And now the assistant is getting even less personalized, which means it will care even less about what you're literally saying, and just send you into a swamp of generic assumptions.

Assistants were SO much more usable when they would require strict trigger language, and interpret it literally and formulaically. Yes you would have to learn its language, but once you did, you could actually accomplish what you wanted to accomplish, unlike today.
Not to challenge anything you said, but rather expand upon it.. git just followed a grand tradition of software version control systems in general (sccs/cvs/svn/..): https://lobste.rs/s/dnazns/contextual_clis#c_b7rl9k
I am fine with valve and have more of a grudge with Projekt Red and the abuse of their employees in Poland. So I wouldn't.
Networking isn’t my thing but could this be used to create a VPN in order to federate a bunch of servers? I’m thinking something like Tilde servers that would benefit from running on their own subnet along with other trusted servers so they could provide services similar to the way they worked on the early net e.g. email, news, finger, etc?

Might be a stupid question and I could be way off base but worth asking.
I have no expertise in the matter, but largely agree "realization" should be when "value is assessed and used for gain" and not a strict sale. That being said, I don't want the Pandora's box of redefining "realization" opened.
Great. One more way for snobs to look down on people, and one more thing for trolls to weaponize.

But maybe it can be recursively destroyed. "Naw, only plebs think that's a pleb filter."
Are there non-profits that could benefit from these? Something like Wikipedia or Internet Archive?
There's Mathics, a subset of the language implemented in Python, but unfortunately after the main author of that was hired by Wolfram, the project seems to have basically died. Still fun for what it is.

https://mathics.org/
Medical AI falters when assessing patients it hasn't seen
The Arrow backend does allow for lazy eval.

https://arrow.apache.org/cookbook/r/manipulating-data---tabl...
I agree with that paleo approach to diet, and your conclusions. In my case my gastroparesis prevents me from eating any significant amount of fiber and diabetes II from eating many carbs. Meat is what's left. I tolerate beef best so eat it the most.

I think that the ease of digestion and my health improvements are evidence that this is an eating pattern that we're well adapted to.
Color me skeptical cookies are going anywhere this year.
I should have said lease instead of buy, yes.
I think that is a good question. It could be the queries were not very amenable to using indexes. In the article they also mentioned the query was taking 'minutes' which seems to indicate it is not an issue due to DB load or because the database is under resourced. I can understand that even if you have everything properly indexed if the DB isn't big enough or you are receiving too many queries then PG can still struggle with queries hitting 28 million rows. We have at least an order of magnitude more rows in one of our biggest tables and are doing paging queries against it and never receive timeouts. We use RDS which I guess is not super great for PG performance and are not even close to using the biggest instance.
Airbus A320 and Airbus A320neo family final assembly for all North American airlines happens in Mobile, Alabama.
Wouldn't have been easier to just dredge from a boat? Surely they had 100 foot long ropes?
Security? Maintenance? 24/7 ops?

It's not a crazy claim; here's a NASA article on fracking wells being very visible from space at night. https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/87725/shale-revolut...
>wouldn't there be problems with the speed and cost in electricity

proof of stake blockchains don't have those issues
Open-source space debris model
Oof, my heart goes out to them. My very first week at [large popular public code forge], we were attacked by [state level actor], probably for hosting something that [state] didn't like. In a way, SourceHut and Codeberg getting this kind of attention is an encouraging sign that these alternative forges are starting to gain traction.
Indeed, for you this seems to be the case. For many, it's a royal pain to charge an EV. Maybe your apartment doesn't have plugs, for whatever reason. You work from home. You have to go somewhere to charge, and then wait.

For such people, and there's a lot of these people, h2 is less work (quicker fill up) than electric charging.

Right now, electric cars are targeting the wealthy. Wealthy people tend to have houses. That could certainly change, but even if it starts to target those with less fiscal fortitude, many such live in apartments with no charging infrastructure.

What then?
That’s not what transmitted in plain text means. Transmitted in plain text means unencrypted on the wire, which is not the case here. Proton definitely knows that, and deliberately worded it this way for maximum scare factor. If they’ll be deceptive here, where else will they be?
That implies that the Post Office didn't know about the true situation, but they most definitely did know about the issues, but continued to lie and fraudulently collect money from the sub postmasters affected whilst collecting bonuses for each successful prosecution.
You speak as if this is a hypothetical thing that literally no employee is doing? What it sounds like to me is how a certain segment of the employee population is already behaving, so you hardly need to hypothesize about how it sounds when you can just consult reality.
Did he supply a crucial missing piece of the puzzle then?
Alphabet (Google) publishes revenue for YT, but profits only for the whole company.