skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How would anyone control it? That's more than kinda Big Brother. And the inverse issue with legalization, or even just legalization for medical use, is that it drives down the price, thus increasing the accessibility of the product still being sold illegally...you know, the totally unregulated stuff.
Org mode cannot be overstated. I started using Org Roam for personal and work note taking in the middle of last year, and besides my daily logs, I have taken literally thousands of notes. Lots of which I actually use as references at a later time.

Org has been transformative for the way I think. I spend much more of my time reasoning instead of recalling now.
Yeah, but parent is saying if you zoom out. We don't know what will come next; it could be dramatically different. Nobody saw industrialization and its attendant social order coming.
The GP post already explained it - rising expectations are one of the causes of falling satisfactions.

If I expect $500 and get $600, I am satisfied, but if I am expecting $1000 and get $900, I am not, despite objectively being better off.
> Being able to be at a friends house and just check my email on his laptop without carrying a special device seems beyond reasonable.

That is exactly what MFA is supposed to protect against: other devices being unprotected.

Anyway you could look into a physical device like a yubikey that is easier to carry around and harder to break.
I suspect we all will have a tough time as I read about Duolingo layoffs while pivoting to AI, Amazon flooded with shitty AI books, autonomous drones, predictions of animators having three years left on the job market and so on. I can’t wait to unload on my AI therapist.
Big tech has always been laying off, firing, even in the best of years.

And today, right now, they're all still hiring.
> GUIs and proprietary protocols have killed Emacs.

They've tried, but I have been happily using it for the past 15 years.

They're trying to kill computing in general. I'm just thankful there seems to be enough people like me who won't give it up so easily.
They've had one ongoing since Q3 2022 in my org.
Then see the wikipedia page on that or on Hasbara fellowships.
This sounds complicated. I should grab my robe and wizard hat.
s/will/may

It may be aspirational on my part, but I do hope that HTML can evolve. JQuery isn't a good analogy as it's not extending HTML.
I don't understand this argument. Meta makes its money from selling adverts. Meta grabs bucketloads of personal data from us. Meta shows us adverts when we access their systems. NOYB is objecting to Meta grabbing bucketloads of personal data from us. This doesn't stop them selling adverts or showing adverts to us, therefore it doesn't stop Meta making money. There's no reason for Meta to disappear - just for them to stop violating our fundamental rights.
GPU Optimization for GameDev
There are purveyors of artisanal organic bullshit now, but it's pricey.
The idea is fine, but the inevitable outcome here is that Apple and Google do the same thing in their respective smartphones and this device (if it's even good at all) is obviated.
I recently rented a car from Hertz. I knew I wouldn’t need more than a single full tank of gas for my trip (and if I underestimated I could just stop at a gas station). I wasn’t sure what might happen with the (cheaper!) Tesla. So I opted for the ICE vehicle.

(Where could I charge it? The hotel? Do I need to find a super charger? Etc. Just more headache than I wanted on a vacation).
Wait, if you disable password authenticated SSH, how do you log into the server?
AI can do anything (eventually) but it will never take responsibility for it. Irresponsible like a genie in the lamp.
I'm a bit confused by this comment. The assembly instructions[0] clearly show screw holes on the back of the unit and it appears to even include a template for putting the screw holes into the wall you're mounting it to. It doesn't look like the holes would be suitable for mounting under a table though, they'd probably prefer that you replace the table with a STARKVIND.

[0] https://www.ikea.com/ca/en/assembly_instructions/foernuftig-...
I really meant it when I said that AI will kill Emacs. In the future every application will be connected to a backend inference engine to act as the primary or close to primary interface to the application. A calculator that can't run prompts is going to be like using an abacus in a few years. Same thing for Magit/regular git.
But tracking tool health in safety-critical applications (think bolt torque on an airplane door plug) could benefit from automated tracking. Generally this is solved by regular inspections and calibration, which is cheaper and avoids the security issue. There is some benefit to automated tracking and fault identification. Doing it on an air gapped network means you have to be on site to check status and errors, which seems reasonable to me.
> No, that's never happened before. You're crazy.

Start filling up Discords with insane AI-generated garbage, and maybe you can devalue the data to the point it won't get sold.

It's probably totally practical too, just create channels filled with insane bots talking to each other, and cultivate the local knowledge that real people just don't go there. Maybe even allow the insane bots on the main channels, and cultivate the understanding that everyone needs to just block them.

It would be important to avoid any kind of widespread conventions about how to do this, since and important goal to to make it practically impossible to algorithmically filter-out the AI generated dogshit when training a model. So don't suffix all the bots with "-bot", everyone just need to be told something like "we block John2993, 3944XNU, SunshineGirl around here."

If we work together, maybe we can turn AI (or at least LLMs) into the next blockchain.
Returning your data in html which is coupled to your frontend html and css sucks.
I mean that’s just life. Why is this a bad thing?

You go through periods of time and when that chapter ends you move onto the next chapter.

Expecting a band of misfits to stick together for 40 years is what is atypical.

When I was in college I had a great group of friends but after we all graduated we went in completely different directions, industries, and live vastly different lives. The friendship was perfect in the moment but now I’m in a new one.
"Shakeup" is generous.
RIP to all the startups this just killed.
One of my all time favorite sites on the interenet, I am glad there is an archive version.

IRC and being ASCII only had their benefits. These days, Discord displacing IRC, for most people who even have PCs, there is a much different vibe of re-posting meme pics and gifs, or even youtube videos.

Yet, I don't know if this is because of the higher production requirements, or not, but there isn't a database of spontaneous funny moments.
Yeah, that sentence surprised me too.

While I generally would also consider React more a library than a framework, I think there are arguments to be made that it's a framework.
If we go by the common "your code calls a library; a framework calls your code" distinction, then you definitely have to structure your components in a very specific manner so that the React internals can "call your code" to e.g. render one component from it's parent component.
This application is written in C++.

It has no accessibility features because nobody has ever figured how to do that with a virtual modular synthesis environment that is absolutely intended to be (a) extremely skeuomorphic (b) extremely visual. The same issue exists in the native world too, and isn't going to be solved by somehow connecting a DOM with the canvas.
But these are carrots, not fingers. Carrots naturally break clean.
You can still find terminal interfaces for a lot of these things, including Slack: https://github.com/jpbruinsslot/slack-term. I don't use Emacs but I imagine you could integrate that somehow if you wanted to.
The author mentions difficulties with HTTPS and trying stuff locally.

I've had some success with mkcert [1,2] to easily create certificates trusted by browsers, I can suggest to look into this. You are your own root CA, I think it can work without an internet connection.

[1] https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33383095
It's also pretty similar to the constant belief that crime is rising regardless of whether it's actually falling:

https://news.gallup.com/poll/404048/record-high-perceive-loc...
What point did you think GP was trying to make? I'm confused by your comment
Maybe the tone used by journalists in newspapers isn’t equally representative of the satisfaction of all Americans.
Show HN: Choose or create a chat room and chat about programming
There is a nontrivial chance that the author is aware.
If we're judging by things I've seen at profitable companies the past, present and future is php.
Oh, I'm from eastern Europe myself and of course you can have quite comfortable life there for 80k gross. The counterpoint to that is that 80k is not nearly close to average salary of a person "developing web sites from their sofa" in that region.
>Was that adjusted for population size?

Yes, I should have said per capita.
It feels like there's a place for an semi-intelligent browser that consolidates and filters all this crap content to get to the point, wikipedia style. Includes images and you read it like a page, not chat interface. "WebGPT", etc.
I dislike and object to the scope of this device as much as the author.

It's not a popular view, but I hope Teenage Engineering is acquired by a very large company soon so that they can be relegated to functioning somewhere as a harmless novelty devision.

This way they will get a big pay day and be treated like a prize, while their influence to create proprietary devices for the landfill is effectively quashed.
I'll try:

For BTC to absorb all stored value in the world, it would need to be the only currency in the world. That is the only way all assets in the world are bought/sold with BTC.

But that alone is, IMO, a non-starter. It assumes that all countries in the world would more or less give up control of their own currency and economy - if BTC is the only currency worth anything, why would anyone own or get paid in anything other than BTC? Which brings me to the next point...

This is not directed at you, but I think the BTC maxis severely underestimate the power and control that governments hold over these things. They can (and will) force you to pay your faxes, fees, and whatever they want in their currency, and have to power to use force if you chose not to.

If crypto poses a legitimate threat to that power and control, it is much easier to remove the threat than to adapt your system to it.
People used to email each links to cool websites!

And there were services like Hotline!

And bookmarks. You bookmarked everything!
No. Good attempt, but that's not the right answer.

At least it was better than "because you can make jewellery out of gold and it's got some industrial uses".

Let's look at it another way. Why did the people/government choose to make bank notes legal tender, when they already had gold as legal tender?

Why was gold legal tender in the first place? Why not beads?

I wonder when you'll catch up with bitcoiners?
Public transport is radically worse than a car because I have to share a space with the other passengers.
I don't think this thing is any more evil than a hammer. It's a tool. If it's not useful to you, don't use it. If it's not useful to anyone, it will quickly cease to exist. I don't think it's going to do anything to erode the concept of morality. I don't have to trust it with my money any more I would trust anyone else about my money.

This kind of take, which is common with AI, always assumes this odd state of blind trust. As if I can't read and reason about the output like I would anything (or anyone) else's output. Are there people I trust more than AI? of course. Do I trust AI more than some people? also true. Would I blindly trust a person or AI without doing some of my own reasoning at some point in the process? no.
I'd say it's an indicator.

For instance:
You may hang out with a crowd who is inclined to engage in dangerous criminal activities.
You may live in a place with high crime.
You may live in a place where most people are left alone, but there are a few families with Montague/Capulet style feuds that the police have chosen to leave alone while they kill each other lol

So if I have no other information, I would say someone who has a lot of family and friends who get murdered is more likely to be murdered than someone who doesn't.
To be fair - I work with humans who I feel the same way about. We will be able to use these devices when we've seen they work over and over. Trust is only ever earned.
The actual list:

https://support.google.com/assistant/answer/13971691?visit_i...

Some of these seem useful. I personally find Google Assistant unreliable for the one thing I actually want, adding things to my shopping list. (I discover I need items while my hands are busy cooking.)

It may be because of my legacy workplace account. I'd love to think that the recent change to Keep will fix it but I haven't tried.

Regardless it seems like an arbitrary mishmash of features.
> "a job is not your identity"

This is so important.
That's a tricky law to have on the books. In general, I would agree that computer testimony (e.g. log records) is usually trustworthy, but that's with relatively simple processes such as writing information into a log or recording times and events. However, it shouldn't be applied to larger systems with more complicated functioning such as accounting software unless the results can also be backed up with detailed logs that can be verified to produce the stated result.

The fact that the Fujitsu employees had complete and un-audited access to all the remote terminals should have made the computer testimony unreliable, but of course the post office lied about that and denied that anyone had remote access.
I don't think I've ever seen that one done correctly.
Also, as well as in practice exercising control over the Post Office as its owners, the Government is responsible for the Crown Prosecutors, the people who usually carry out criminal prosecutions. For a long time now Crown Prosecutors have been able to seize any existing criminal cases (prosecuted by somebody else) in order to terminate it. They could have stepped in, taken over the case, said "This seems like bullshit" and terminated the prosecution. That's still awful for the postmasters, who have faced a threat of prosecution, but it means none of them would go to jail. Governments of the day did not do this either.
> Google etc. will notice it in their bottom line if there's suddenly a lot more "engagement" or traffic in some area but none of that converts to humans spending dollars.

Google might notice but has no incentive to spend money to stop it because they're not the ones the humans stopped paying. The companies that advertise with Google might notice a drop in ROI on their ads, but it will be a while before they abandon Google because most of them don't see any other option.

I dread what the internet will look like if we wait for this this to hit Google's bottom line.
BMI is really a tool for helping to give indications of risk factors. If you have a BMI of 15, it's likely you have risks of various diseases. It's not a slam dunk, but a risk. But if you've chatted with a health professional and you're both happy that you're outside of the risk factors, then you'd not need to worry much. Some people are fine at BMI 26 or 17, some are outside of their healthy range at 24 or 19. It's a guide, not a rule.

The people who DO fall outside of the model are not that common though, especially if you're white. And these days the model accounts for more minorities, so even though it has issues, it's still worth listening to as it can highlight potential problems before they actually become problems.
Related: https://nopixel.fandom.com/wiki/Vivek_Ramasquamy
I've found LLMs really good at helping with porting from one thing to another.

Since it's fairly mechanical work, they help speed it up - as usual YMMV.
> If prices crash the Fed is likely to lower interest rates which makes construction profitable again, because the prices are lower but so are the construction company's borrowing costs.

The Fed? Not everyone lives in the Empire
People had a 'links' page on their page with links to pages they liked, and if you liked the page you visited you clicked on the links and bookmarked relevant ones, and then sent them to your friends and put them in your links page.
Similar issue with Reddit's privacy "settings" last I checked. I'd uncheck everything. Then I'd go back. Some stayed unchecked. Some didn't. Go figure.
GIMI was quite impressive as well, also including its own programming language, but also getting some heavy-lifting weight from a handful of tools written in other languages: https://sourceforge.net/projects/gimi/
In terms of economics specifically, in what way have things "gotten better"? Purchasing power has collapsed, the poor sentiment here seems the correct sentiment to me.
Yes htmx is an augmentation of the browser, specifically through enhancing HTML by way of JS. The idea is that JS frameworks became popular due to the lack of additional hypermedia controls which are the basis for how agents (users) interact with websites through hypermedia clients (browsers).
At least one thing has stayed constant: bash brings up both the kube cluster today as it brought up the prod server in the 90’s
Their chart actually seems to show both economic and non-economic sentiment trending down at the same time.
The good news is that for most of those Korean forms the limitation/validation is only on the frontend, so a quick "inspect element" and some HTML editing solves it.
That's disappointing given the effort to even generate the ROM directly from the pak file of the original game to avoid asset related issues. I'd have thought the N64 had a non-Nintendo SDK by now.
Isn't it a bit like making an app that uses Qt and start its name with a Q? Without giving any real name, I can invent "Qnotepad" which would be a notepad implemented with Qt.

I know real projects that follow this pattern, and it never really bothered me that it was not connected to the Qt project (other than by using Qt).
AI is generating content, not consuming it. If people are easily duped by fake or bad products with advertisements or content generated by AI (which, they are) then this will continue to drive revenue for Google. The only reason Google dislikes SEO manipulation is because it's a way for sites to get top real estate on google without paying for the promoted results; the quality of the product doesn't matter to them

It only becomes a problem when it results in a collapse of trust; when people have been burned by too many bad products and decide to no longer trust the sites or search results which they used to. Due to my job, I get a lot of ads for gray market drugs on Instagram. I know, however, that all of these are not tested by the FDA and most are either snake oil or research chemicals masquerading as Amanita Muscaria or Delta-8 THC, and so I ignore these ads.
> Take their fucking money, build a big emergency fund, save, invest, and focus on the rest of your life outside of work.

That will lead you back to the same place when the fund runs out.

Invest in yourself instead of Google. Especially as a SWE. It's never been easier to start your own company.
I understand it might make sense for specific managers who meet some goals and get bonuses, etc.

But I'm asking for an explanation of why it would be reasonable for the organization as a whole and for its shareholders (the ones who understand what's going on).
Inevitably someone will respond claiming that if you don't like the current ball of duct tape, it is because, "you haven't wrapped this weeks hottest flavor of duct tape as yet another layer on top"

There's something seriously wrong with modern front end tooling when the norm is downloading hundreds of dependencies to display semi-interactive text in a browser.
Agreed, it's highly recommended if even for its great cinematography of Wales (in sunshine).
My relative and I have asked about a name change. They can't see the problem. :( Their marketing is so bad.

I have asked about expats before (I thought about living abroad). She says it is on the roadmap, but it isn't very lucrative, so it is low priority. They do implement new stuff every year, but they only have so much time to fo so.
I guess you are aware, but Godot can be compiled to JavaScript:
https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/export/expo...
OpenAI trains GPT on their own Discord server, apparently. If you copy paste a chatlog from any Discord server into GPT completion playground, it has a very strong tendency to regress into a chatlog about GPT, just from that particular chatlog format.
I never said the crews were easily rattled. I can see you're more interested in argument than discussion so I'll leave you with this thought: software engineers can throw features into a product and A/B test it. When aviation engineers throw features into a cockpit without thinking through EVERY side, accidents happen. You're technically correct that, when skies are clear and the crew is idle, adding sounds and buttons is no big deal. But that's obvious, and not the scenario you need to be thinking about.

EDIT: I thought it was obvious from context but maybe not... Imagine I said "overload an already heavily loaded crew." An unloaded crew isn't normally worth worrying about.
Do you see when the last commit to that project was? Slack really did murder IRC and open chat protocols. Allowing an IRC bridge for a limited amount of time was a genius trojan horse.
I'm not a libertarian, but since there are many people here tempted by its simplicity and claimed intellectual elegance [1], I want to share "The Libertarian Argument for Unions":

> This essay examines the arguments that many self-proclaimed libertarians make against unionization. It examines whether unions could be expected to arise in a libertarian utopia; whether we could expect them to arise in both the private and the public sector; what limits, if any, we could expect to be imposed on union organizing and behavior; and specifically, whether rules that make the workplace a union shop – that is, a place where all non-management employees are required to be members of the union and contribute to the cost of collective bargaining, or whether rules similar to those embodied in what are typically called “right-to-work” laws are more likely to prevail and be thought consistent with the demands of libertarianism. Finally, I close by examining the relationship between libertarianism and some popular conceptions of liberty a little more closely and argue that, while many people who think of themselves as libertarians believe that maximizing individual negative liberty is fundamental, this is actually a mistake. Libertarianism actually rejects that concept of liberty in favor, I will argue, of a more republican conception, under which liberty is defined as an absence of domination, and a high degree of unionization and this form of liberty are totally compatible.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/in-the-name-of-libe...

[1] I personally reject "elegance" as the driving first principle when weighing ethical and normative theories. There are higher standards to seek: most importantly, a rejection of dogmatism and the embrace of continual learning. Any calcified definition of "elegance" cannot stand the test of time; what is elegant to one generation may be deeply immoral to the next. To be clear, I don't mean to say that notions of ethics must be left ambiguous. I certainly do not defend ethical "systems" which amount to little more than evergreen debates over weighing contradictory principles. Rather, I mean ethical systems must improve as our intelligence and awareness improve.
How about 'internet content which is dependent on ad-revenue inevitably turns anything associated with it to dogshit'?