skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course it's tough, and regulatory capture[^1] is no accident. These "consumer protection" acts to "open" markets are written by the consumer exploiting adtech incumbents.

Legislators and media fail to understand the systemic consequences of user-hostile "open" language, so do things like (a) force users to deal with 'must have' apps becoming only available outside of pro-user curation so adtech can exploit them (b) force genuinely user-friendly subscriptions management to be "opened" so billions more dollars can be pulled from user wallets without users realizing or understanding or having the willpower to overcome barriers to cancelling.

The knock-on consequences to device security, performance, reliability, and user privacy, are not understood or discussed, and if understood, would not be wanted by normal users.

This is all beautifully orchestrated by black-is-white named foundations and interest groups funded by surveillance capitalism[^2]. It's dystopian.

[^1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture

[^2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_capitalism
> Maybe your installation is different, but usually the electricity meter uses normal GPRS to talk to the electricity company. They literally have SIM cards inside.

Where? In France the devices, called Linky and manufactured to a common standard by a few different companies, and mandatory, communicate via the grid itself over the CPL protocol. There are no SIM cards inside, and thankfully, lunatics have been suing to refuse to get their meter upgraded to Linky "BECAUSE WAVES 5G COVID CHIPS" bullshit which doesn't have any basis in reality.
That's true. The YAG laser I used in grad school had the flash lamp inside a water jacket, and the light went through the water.
At least in larger construction, it's the pathway to the secondary stair that takes up an exorbitant amount of space, hamstrings the layout. Also, code compliant fire egress stairwells are surprisingly expensive to build, costs more than the unit cost of a living space.
Indexing iCloud Photos with AI Using LLaVA and Pgvector
Would you respond to the unabombers manifesto if he posted it on HN?
BK should pull out of Earth.
But it is difficult to fire them which is a big problem for tech companies where hiring and firing are common
> If you’re in the Netherland you can get something like a “slimme lezer”, plug it into the p1 port of your energy meter and it will pop up in Home Assistant with the right sensors.

If only the meters had ny power nearby or offered a 5V USB port on it so you could plug in your reader and forget it. But no. Now I'd have to keep a small Li-ion battery living in -20C since the meters are typically outside and there is never any power nearby since they are in a closed cabinet. Only the people who have indoor power meters (I know zero cases of that with detached houses, I think the power companies require the meter to be outside in a cabinet they can access without access to the house.
They would if it was called a Hitlerwagon
This line is absolutely madness when you look at who is behind the current AI push.
New projects can run just fine using ruffle, provided you use the APIs that are currently supported by the project (IIRC it's not feature-complete yet for ActionScript 3 and such).
you can't just call whatever you're doing progress, the progress ought to be demonstrating improved outcomes by some metric

is multiplying the speed we can spam each other with marketing copy and deepfakes a good measure of progress?
Incredibly talented people complain when technology lets talentless people make some of the beautiful things that they imagine but never had the talent to make real.

It's like rich people saying money does not matter. "Easy for you to say." I can't draw. But now I can take the talent I have and extend it to make images.

Is it art? I don't know. I don't care. I was not able, now I am able, and the people who are able complain.

Screw 'em. This is what tools are for. The strong should not tell the weak they cannot use props.
The article is still link here, so I say the hacker part is very much alive.

That the comments aren't 100% all aligned is great, I come here for vigorous respectful debate. It helps me reflect on my position on topics.

What's the problem?
If you have mobility issues that prevent you from exiting your building easily then you can move somewhere else. We don’t need to make every apartment building in the country more expensive for this extremely specific scenario.
There is a way around this: discretize your values. That's how analog calculations can be a basis for digital calculations.

That's why I think the original comment was about a specific, limited meaning of "analog computation" that does not allow for emulating anything digital. But I struggle to come up with one that doesn't throw the baby of being universal out with the bath water of emulating digital computations.
If TMSC fabs go down, the world silicon foundry output would drop by a significant chunk. That could have an effect but the majority of the worlds silicon use is in less advanced nodes which many companies produce, it would slow down the state of the art sure, but it probably not be as catastrophic as some people imagine.
And not just that, bypassing restrictions put in place by Spotify, and where they make money from removing such restriction is a great way to get their attention and either receive a C&D or them adding further restrictions to break this bypass, making it a cat and mouse game.
I've been very sensitive to the upvotes my posts get. I don't think any of my comments have been negatively downvoted. Doesn't it seem like a fair measure?

I also always reply when I have something relevant to say, related to the conversation. Specifically, in this thread, this note-taking app (VNote) is built using Qt C++. Same tech stack as my note-taking app (Plume). So I think it's very relevant to share another app built with the same tech stack but offer a more performant/advanced way of rendering the underlying markdown/plaintext without using webviews.
ps: long dead thread, but my memory just chimed in with the suggestion that express might have already been available, but only that command line version did not have all optimizations disabled.
I'm trying to remember what service we considered, when an organization that wrote a book self-published (I was on the committee to write the book).

We ended up actually commissioning normal printing, and selling the book, ourselves (it was quite successful, if I say so, myself. We made our money back in about a month), but we did consider a service that allowed you to sell print-on-demand. They ran the store, and the printer. You could also move eBooks through them.

This was many years ago, and memory fails me.
"Supermodels complain about plastic surgery letting ugly people look better" type headlines abound in AI
The title was supposed to be “138 lines of code”, not sure what happened.
BPF Opens a Door to Linux Dynamic Scheduling (Maybe with Rust)
>Many of us suffer with social skills but we don't murder people for it.

And what should he do? Just go die? He apologized, he went to jail and is serving out his sentence, he worked on becoming a better person, what are you expecting him to do after the event?
Um. You corrected the word "whitelist", not "blacklist".

Ok, here's where I think we are. Correct me if I'm wrong.

"whitewashing" is ok, because its etymology has nothing to do with race. It's just about painting something over with whitewash. Just an analogy.

"whitelist" is bad because... its etymology has nothing to do with race? wait, what?

You can see how I'm thinking "this dude's ideas aren't totally fleshed out"? Honestly seems to me that "whitewash" is in the same etymological bucket as "whitelist", and it would be consistent to move away from both of them.
https://nitter.net/LBC/status/1738152668537696670

"A mum whose kids attended a school where a protest was held after claims that a boy was punished for wearing a Palestine flag badge, says the school threatened to contact Prevent if they heard of parents sharing info on the war in private WhatsApp groups."

Those are the actions of a police state. You can thank Tony Blair's government way back in 2000 for starting this. The laws enabling this should be repealed.
Apple did once sell 1U server racks [1]. I assume the reason they no longer sell these is because the market has spoken.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xserve
With some luck they end up blocking their own troll farms.
Can you elaborate? What kind of jobs are you looking for? I’d like to think that there’s still tremendous demand for software engineers, and I’m curious how the market is shifting in terms of skills and experience being sought.
They used to refer to the smallest features, but they haven't had any real meaning for a long time now. The names of the nodes don't correspond to any physical feature of the actual transistor anymore.
The effect is that, at least for 90% of my music listening, I'm looking for new music, with a few genres that I really like. Only occasionally do I queue up a classic that I know well. And I am completely uninterested in the people making it.

My wife is the opposite. The person is hugely important.

So there will be, in our household, a 50% (45, I guess) decrease in the need for human artists. But I am happy to pay someone to generate that music for me, like a Spotify.ai or something! What I don't want is a destruction of any creation and shared experience.

It's been the same for mid journey. I will spend an hour generating imagery for posters or desktop or game art or ttrpg etc etc. I don't even bother image searching most of the time. But I still enjoy sharing with the game crew or friends.
Especially since it seems like you can spread it out over 15 years, 3 times as long, if you have overseas devs.

>These costs have to be capitalized and amortized over 5 years – or 15 if labor is done outside of the US.

I’m not an accountant so maybe I’m reading that wrong, but if so that’s insane.
If this isnt a joke, 2nm=2 nanometers.
Well, at least he didn't ask anyone what was the event, which is quite proper since they had not been introduced.
LLMs don't paint.
Mullvad has a Wireguard obfuscation feature you can enable. Does that work for you?
I disagree that it's not intuitive (reason comes to mind pretty easily, no?), but it is still a great and interesting thing to write about!
> Europe, US, Canada and Australia is your whole world?

Of course not.

> I’m in Asia btw, largest continent of the world.

Those were only a few examples from the top of my head. We also had sales in S. Korea and Japan.
You have exceeded your weekly sarcasm quota. Your internet license has been suspended pending review by the serious committee.
I don't believe it is true. They might block commercial solutions, but i'm using Wiregiard with exit point in Netherlands right now, works fine (although on certain providers, I've seen some throttling, but that could just be coincidental)

UPD: I asked some friends, some of them have faced probmes. I guess it is not protocol block, but instead combination of protocol and "suspicious" server. Mine has stuff other then VPN running on it, so it might have flown under the radar.
Why? The talk is about F#.
>As evidenced by the article, the problem is that some of these devices within less than 10 years can become essentially bricks.

>I think these devices must be required to send the data to the utility company and the utility company must be forced to make the data easily accessible in a standard format so that independent analysis is trivially possible.

The core problem is that these devices are garbage, and nobody cares. I don't mean that scornfully, I'm saying these devices are way over-provisioned and yet are unreliable anyway because they are very carelessly designed, and nobody cares because 1) they have no economic incentive to care, and 2) in the software world it's normal for cheap devices to fail within 10 years, and the people who refuse to accept this norm have no recourse except building their own piece of electronics (i.e. take up a hobby).

Demanding they provide the data 'in a standard format' lets us put lipstick on the pig, it doesn't actually solve the core problem of the device being a piece of shit.
here she comes, state programs
the tech would not exist if not for the talented people you are screwing
In FF reader mode works fine without any 3rd party extensions.
Nobody expects the Russian deep packet inquisition!
Reiser is a convicted murderer. Stallman is a non-convicted non-criminal. I'm surprised seeing them discussed as 2 somewhat similar cases
You'd think if they are able to reliable set up a contribution scheme that works at scale that they could set up a system to ensure they only pay out to individuals that are still alive.

The possibility of impersonation isn't limited to pension pay-outs but many other things as well. A once-per-year on-site visit would work and would just be a cost-of-business item, and that cost could be lowered substantially by collaborating with other entities who take an interest in such information (banks, governments etc).
Allocation can be, as it already is at small scale, algorithmic. Then what next?
Right now a lot less than usual as I'm living in an apartment for the time being. So far, "Come to Yugoslavia" [0], "Belgrade, Serbia" [1], and a masonic patent [2]. I've got a traditional belt and a little mystic eyeball embroidery motif as well! Ah, in a little while I'll have some more space to put my art up again.

[0] https://www.etsy.com/listing/704127419/come-to-yugoslavia-vi...

[1] https://www.etsy.com/listing/1120665361/belgrade-travel-prin...

[2] https://www.craftsmansapron.com/products/tca-traveling-maste...
Do your builder developers build the same thing over and over again like builders who build identical houses over?

I get the point but software really is different. Rarely ever are you building the same thing over, both from a “structural” or “architectural” perspective and from a functional perspective.

If your builders are creating a brand new blueprint for every house /structure and designing everything from scratch then I think it’s more similar, probably closer to commercial property builders with large structures.

Now under that perspective, I still don’t exactly understand why you’d treat labor cost deductions differently. Maybe the fact that these more complex products and services being built have higher return potential? I don’t know, I’m searching for a rational reason.

But, I do disagree treating software like something as commodified as many forms of labor. Someday we may get to that point with simple principles and procedures to follow, albeit technically, but we’re not there yet. At higher levels that may not be much “research” that’s needed but where the rubber meets the road, your engineers are checking to see what exists and doesn’t, designing new solutions to fill gaps in between, testing things, digging into previous things that don’t work and trying to fix them… it’s research.

As we continue to move more professions to an intellectual economy, many roles are becoming more and more like this, not just software. I’d say loading more roles and expectations on labor is also creating this situation where we’re asking more people to do more things they don’t know or can’t possibly know everything at a proficient level and the things we’re asking them to do don’t have solutions that can be written down and quickly referenced when needed as a simple recipe to follow. If you make the recipe general enough (e.g if a problem arises, find a solution and fix it at a low cost) then one might point to such highly generalized solutions and pretend it’s a solved problem but it’s not, it lacks any useful concretization. “You're not doing research, I told you ‘if a problem arises fix it’! There’s nothing to research you just do that!” doesn’t cut the muster.
> Hopefully they fired the moron

As you say things happens, so who are you going to fire? It mostly is just a bad coincidences that make these things happens, it mostly is not the guy committing the error who is at fault. I do not want to live in a society where you treat the administrative clerks like you imply.
Also, people may simply not remember him.

We are all the center of our own worlds.
It's also a blatant lie, the system is broken and the government allows social services to be so bad because it wants to spend as little money on them as possible.
I had to write an expression parser recently and found the number of names for essentially the same algorithm very confusing. There's Pratt parsing, precedence climbing, and shunting yard. But really they're all the same algorithm.

Pratt parsing and precedence climbing are the same except one merges left/right associativity precedence into a single precedence table (which makes way more sense). Shunting yard is the same as the others except it's iterative instead of recursive, and it seems like common implementations omit some syntax checking (but there's no reason you have to omit it).

Here's what I ended up with:

https://github.com/Timmmm/expr

I had to write that because somewhat surprisingly I couldn't find an expression parser library that supports 64-bit integers and bools. Almost all of them only do floats. Also I needed it in C++ - that library was a prototype that I later translated into C++ (easier to write in Rust and then translate).
They did some of the engineering behind the fundamental tech but later dissociated from it, then later didn't invest in buying and integrating it (EUV machines) when it was on the verge of production and missed out. I believe their first in-house fabbed chips with EUV only released within the last month or so, Meteor Lake.

It takes ~3 years to stand up a fab and has only been 5-6 since EUV was proved out with first mass production.
More like, "some people try to commit fraud, so banks are required to implement AML/KYC processes to make the attack more difficult". Repeatedly asserting one is not dead is, if you think about it, more or less analogous to the documentation requirements for managing a large account at an investment bank.

Is it the best solution? Likely not. But the problem is real and does demand a solution of some form.
Rationing is ridiculously inefficient.

People's desire for heavily carbon consuming things vs lightly carbon consuming things varies massively. If you're worried about the poor don't ignore the externalities of their consumption but subsidise them directly via UBI or somesuch.

Rationing is a very worst of all possible worlds solution, losing you all the benefits of trade.
I couldn't find any other reason for that article to be referenced mostly. Seems like you're probably right though.
Use international contractors ? Or is the deduction for local devs only ?
Firebug was one of the worst offenders, despite being a very nice tool.
I was wondering what it was. I only worked on Proviso out of Massachusetts so I never even touched anything that was Netcool proper.
After the post office scandal you'd think that entities like these would think long and hard about their responsibilities towards the people they interact with.
> Now I just wish I had something as convenient for monitoring water consumption.

You can set this up non-invasively with ultrasonic flow meters like the TUF-2000M. It isn’t cheap, but it does work quite alright if you don't want any of the risks associated with cracking open your pipes.

(There are also cheaper options if you don’t mind opening up your pipes too.)
The Vast Extent by Lavinia Greenlaw review – a cabinet of curiosities
I hear this a lot and it's difficult to reconcile with my experience. Every US company I've worked at (and that's always been in at-will states) has not made it easy to get rid of people. Even people with woefully bad records of losing money every year and having multiple harassment complaints filed against them were kept for nearly a decade. With one exception (I personally got fired from a tiny startup because I refused to commit timesheet fraud for the CEO), the stories I've heard of the lengths that European companies have to go through to fire someone sound exactly the same to the processes I've seen at all of my employers.
As an employee, if I hear my CEO/CFO saying how this law makes it hard to employ SWEs, I will be likely to worry about my job.

I pay attention to news coverage and interviews of my company execs, whatever they’re talking about. I don’t pay attention to all other company execs talking about tax law.
> However, my CPA said software engineer salaries are only categorized as R&D before the product is launched

I wonder how this one will pan out.

Let's say you build out a landing page with a way for folks to input their email address which demonstrates interest in your product. You've released it and people can sign up.

Did it launch? You could make case it did and now you're iterating on the product from here on out. You've launched phase 1 of the product which is probing for demand.
In line with the laws of nature there's no real choice to be made any more than a rock can choose it's path when rolling down a hillside. I don't see how the two concepts you've provided are in opposition.
Ehhhhh. It’s just my experience but everyone I have encountered quoting Watts in the last two or three years follows someone like Naomi Wolf or James Delingpole or Russell Brand or Tucker Carlson on Twitter. He’s the alt-right geek’s alternative of choice for Chopra.
Through Bandcamp itself, social media, music blogs...
> People asking for disk prices probably have looser standards in terms of UX.

Perhaps the opposite is true. A site like this works because Amazon is poor at finding products, never mind for comparing prices. Even e-commerce sites that filter data in a similar manner (and typically do a better job since they have more complete product details), this site is both faster and makes product comparisons easier.

While it is probably possible to tweak to UX to make it better, I would suggest the success of this site is due to providing a better UX for its target audience.
> We live in a knowledge economy. What you know—and your ability to bring it to bear in any given circumstance—is what creates economic value for you.

And for the first time the thought occurred to me that AI might in fact make actual artists even more in demand. To be sure it may well end up only being wealthy patrons but we may come to prize a thing demonstrably created by human as more "genuine" and therefore more valuable.
Hatsune Miku is playing Coachella this year, no joke
Anyone know what Amazon's policy is on allow api access?

They shut down shucks.top.
Japan is Japan [1]. What is your data point for European and American countries?

[1] https://hansondoremus.com/2014-4-28-there-are-four-kinds-of-...
you never heard of anything like this? I have heard of much worst.... death sentence for example.
It would be trivially easy to fake a free github account as being from the US. Not hiding the fact that they're Chinese makes me trust them more.
Slice the Camembert horizontally and put it in the wooden container it comes with, add garlic, olive oil and thyme, bake for about 15min. Goes great with a lot of stuff.
“hello_stranger.txt” feels like something I would’ve written as a 11 year old pretending to be a mad scientist.

I’m going to start leaving those files on every system I touch. Thank you Nikita.
Today's AI is not making art. It's finding a well fitted solution to a set of contraints.

Maybe in the future AI will create art. But we'll be distracted with discussion about rights for AI around that time.
that's kind of my thoughts too, but in the spirit of HN wanted to leave that part out