skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure how apt the cargo cult metaphor is in this case, but the article seems to strike in the general target area of our current malaise.

Interesting observation about a complete lack of economic growth (as corrected for inflation), but I'm not convinced that the Service as a Service industry is to blame; I think it's more of a symptom than the cause.

In this (some would say terminal) stage of capitalism in the West, we no longer focus on creating value -- the main objective seems to be extracting it instead. If every organization's goal is to turn their capital into more capital, what they actually do to achieve it is incidental. One could argue that a company of five thousand paper pushers milling around performing ineffective rituals is at least not causing any harm on balance (as compared to, say, arms manufacturers). Nevertheless, the current trend is to reap everything and sow nothing - somehow without the foresight to acknowledge the absolutely desolate desert this is creating.

One observation that caught my attention was the mention of the OODA loop. Access to information is a prerequisite for power - even if you don't have leadership privileges, being well informed empowers individual decision-making. All this corporate obfuscation disempowers people at all layers of the hierarchy. It makes for really ineffective organizations - sadly, this is absolutely acceptable now, because they don't need to be effective at anything other than temporarily grouping resources as an entity in the big consolidation shell game.

This has a lot to do with the scale of an organization, I think once a company grows beyond double digit headcount, things go downhill [1]

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39172505 (I guess I like to harp on this subject)
Yeah. Cache is really useful. When something shows up as a search result but not on the page, you can look at the cached version to find it.
> For each football player or musician or influencer or artist who makes it big, there are thousands of people spending millions of hours who fail. The same is probably true for developers and entrepreneurs. That time and those lessons really can't be re-purposed, and have no economic value.

I played college football, you're all sorts of wrong.

Athletics teaches you discipline, teaches you how work in a team, teaches you how to properly exercise/be healthy, ad nauseum. I could go on and on and on.

Your fuckup is thinking the only thing you can get out of athletics is being a pro who makes millions.

Look at me, the failure who went to college on an athletic scholarship for football and walked away with a degree in CS & Math. I should be so ashamed...
It's just spam. There's no way to tell whether a human is involved in the response, or if it's just a bot someone let loose. Anyone who wants a response from an LLM can get it at little/no cost.
Visa on arrival forms have a reference to a URL or something attached and mention that you acknowledge their visa rules by applying for a visa. It's like a prechecked privacy policy checkbox.
Until one of us does the actually maths and builds a model of the probability of intersection I guess our intuition on this being different is fairly irrelevant, either of us could be wrong. I didn’t really think much about my comment, maybe it was patronising I don’t know. I try not to treat the comments I write here (or receive here either) with much seriousness, often you can take most things I say here as me thinking out loud rather than some planned sarcasm or as you say Reddit type posting.
I think you're going to see people start leaving Reddit as the IPO approaches and many will be coming to HN or other reddit-clones.

Half the comments on Reddit really do seem to be made by bots, you can easily tell when you look at their post history.
There is a cool study that says that the likelihood of your startup suceeding does not peak until your late 50s.

https://hbr.org/2018/07/research-the-average-age-of-a-succes...

I think the public debate is so skewed towards young founders because it is so centered around extreme outlier founders and companies.
How to get humans, i’ve been trying for like an hour. I have been able to get Jesus before getting humans.
This is not necessarily a good solution to duplication problem, because you're still forced to keep each endpoint isolated, and can't efficiently combine data acquisition from, say, a database. A much cleaner logic reuse is to do it in your programming language. Build an endpoint that returns exactly what's needed for this front-end view, and build another, generic API for others to consume, but reusing a lot of the logic under the hood on the backend.
Or that you asked ChatGPT how to write scikit-learn code.
Thanks. Yes, I am aware of the origin and its implications, but was hoping the OP had more to it. I agree that it feels a bit manipulative, this "god number from the heavens".

Here is the BLS' report: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
350M-year-old tree fossils are unlike any scientists have ever seen
> It's entry-level construction work; AKA a shit job

This was historically true for construction [1]. Yet their wages are on a smooth curve upwards [2]. The entire cohort of construction workers is currently seeing high real wages, and their data almost completely hide Covid.

I’d also argue that commodity and skilled painting are different. The 50-year old commodity painter who honed his craft can charge a premium because he can smooth my drywall and put on a finish someone with zero training cannot.

[1] https://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/the-public-cost-of-low-wage...

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CES2000000003
'magnetic anomaly' discovered deep below New Zealand's Lake Rotorua
If anybody was as confused as I about all the plausible-sounding-yet-opaque terms like HSL/HSV, Luminance, etc.:

https://bottosson.github.io/posts/colorpicker/
Locking kids out of a device is what Family Link excels at. You go in, you select the kid, you select the device, you click Lock.

Here are things you cannot do:

- Create a global screen time limit across all devices regardless of how that time is used.

- Create a PIN for Google TV that prevents kids from switching to an adult account in order to access more apps. Right now it's the other way around, you can set a PIN that prevents a kid from accessing their own account (again, because supervision!) but that kid can easily switch over to the adult account if they want.

- Require that when an idle Google TV exit to the 'user selection' screen after a timeout. Right now a kid can just walk up to the TV and start using my profile and apps because I was the last one to use it.

As for nostalgia, I think that's overthinking it.
If you want to use Word, then that's great, but when you start saying what other people 'should' be doing then they're going to speak up.

> writing should happen in "word processing software"

Writing should happen where you are comfortable editing text. I am comfortable in same editor where I write code.

> To people who say "Word sux", I say "That just means you don't know how to use Word properly". Writing any markup or markdown syntax in an IDE is a disaster for the creative process.

To all the people who say "Writing markup in an IDE sux", I say "That just means you don't know how to use it properly". I can write in a flow and apply/change formatting easily. I can jump around and rearrange documents with ease. And it is in a format that can be opened and read by native software on almost any computer.

If you think that Jack Kerouac would prefer MS Word over a much simpler plain text editor, I don't agree.
I think this is an unnecessarily uncharitable reading, that the author assumes HN is a hive mind.

Replace "HN users" with "most HN users" (it's common to use general language when one's intention is to point out a trend in a population) and, as another person tired of AI/LLM news, I would also be surprised given how much popularity (upvotes, comments) HN users tended to give to those stories.
In a radio interview Matt Berry revealed Brian Eno's full name is:

Brian Peter George De La John Sieur LaBaptiste Roger Farfisa Schweppes Lea Bernard Fancourt Richard Peter Loonhouse De La Salle Eno
Next salad could be grown just for you: custom-grown, greens are coming
This is an interesting dataset. I suspect the main things that get removed are A) politics B) duplicates.
It's dubious that HN mods think that way of Altman though.
Exoplanet Spotted with a 350k-Mile Long, Comet-Like Tail
I don't disagree, but the actual situation in America does not match this ideal at all.
"Apple good Google bad"
HSLuv is integrated into my workflow, so I keep using it, but the OKlab colorspace is very good too.

https://bottosson.github.io/posts/oklab/
My country has been colonized by Spain for 333 years, as far as I know my kind did not go poof. We just inherited all the colonizers language and bullshit.
Location: Houston, TX, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Typescript, NextJS, React, Python, C++, Bash, Postgres, Linux, AWS

Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-walker-079174a9/

Email: andrewg.walker@outlook.com
The tracker is for client connections to Google. To impact that graph AWS customers would have to, en masse, decide the $1/m charge is worth losing half their current users over and then the users and ISPs would have to scramble for IPv6.

The more likely story is places using AWS pay 1$/m for a public address and use private/IPv6 internally. I.e. an incremental step, not a revolution in the chart.
You can simply run "glasskube install cert-manager" or in the future "glasskube install [your package]" and glasskube makes sure all the dependencies get transitively installed.

In addition our GUI is served locally from the client and just creates package Cars, which then will be picked up by the package operator.
How do they deal with it now? An AR/VR rig is more obvious than a smartphone and not nearly as ubiquitous, so usage should stand out more. Seems like a sign or other notification would be enough to stop all but the most obnoxious assholes and influencers.
> Validate demand first;

Some people just don't want to have a boss/want to solve new problems every day even if it isn't the most "efficient" thing they can do with their time in terms of ROI
You don't actually need ssh tunnel here though, you can just connect directly to the proxy server?
This feature was suggested here: https://github.com/spliit-app/spliit/issues/14

It doesn’t look like an urgent feature to implement, but it’s on the plan ;)
As a society we're going to have to have a come to Jesus moment about all of these estrogenic chemicals that make up the plastics we consume.
If you're an Australian, or Australian adjacent, it's not something you'd feel the need to provide citations for, tbh. Could ask for expansion on the point.
I don't expect to see many people using these things in the streets, but if I do, my plan is to avoid going anywhere near them.
Guy trained a bot to swipe on Tinder profiles
I also hacked my car
First time posting here on HN, I hope you find my latest hacking adventure interesting.

Inspired by another post here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32447650
Imagine reading an article and missing the subheading AND the first sentence.
> Using the official HN API, the service fetches 90 Top Stories every minute and makes a comparison with the first 30 Top Stories (i.e. the Front Page) fetched the previous minute. It logs all missing Stories here. The assumption is that a Story cannot go from the top 30 to a position higher than 90 in a single minute, without having been explicitly removed.

The OP's hypothesis is that, if rank drops from top-30 to below top-90 (I think "higher than 90" is a typo?), in less than a minute, then it must be due to moderator action.

Is that true?
> Tesla is recalling almost 2.2 million vehicles — nearly all of the cars that it has sold in the U.S. — because the font size is too small on its instrument panel for its brake, park and antilock brake system warning lights. [0]

[0] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tesla-recall-2-2-million-cars-w...
Forgot Factorio!
Coalescence: Making LLM inference 5x faster
It depends on how you measure IPv6 adoption. Is it about your ability as consumer to use only IPv6, or your ability to offer a website reachable only via IPv6.

AWS charging for IPv4 will help with the former, because companies now have more of a reason to care about IPv6. But it might delay the latter, because fewer IPs wasted on internal servers means less price pressure on useful IPv4 use by ISPs, giving those that still hold out less financial incentive to change anything.
They should be required to replace all machines. They offered to give me $50 at one point because
my machine is old.

I require a bipap with ASV machine due to having complex sleep apnea, and it costs at least a couple grand.

I ended up scrambling to get a replacement. The old one works perfectly fine, but I can’t safely use it due to the recall. Even after insurance I had to pay a grand out of pocket because they make you rent it at first.
You are not comparing apples to apples.

“Normal” meals in Thailand are food stalls, $2 per meal if not less.

If you’d eat out twice a day in Switzerland, you’d go bankrupt.

Same with renting. Short term leases in Switzerland would be astronomical in price.

The way you air-quoted “super cheap Thailand” implies that it isn’t cheap to live there at all. It is, as long as you don’t go out of your way to spend extra.
And in the year before there was a 100 billion dollar windfall in the budget during a pandemic no less while still hosting this healthcare program. State spending is a good thing, it really amounts to making investments into either the infrastructure of the state or its people. Its too bad headlines and therefore sentiment seem to miss this fact, and equate a spendy state to a ditzy college student with terrible credit card habits.
We have different schools of thought internally. Some prefer to tailor the backend API to the needs of the frontend, others prefer to have the backend API super generic so that changes in the frontend (say, a redesign) didn't require changing the backend. The latter is easier for backenders but harder for frontenders. It's vice versa for the former. So, the complexity stays the same, it influences which team (the frontend or the backend team) gets more complexity. However, when desiging the backend API, we always involve at least 1 frontender so that there were no "surprises".
I’ve wanted something like this for years. My top requests would be to offer this as a standalone separate site, with sorting in reverse chron order, and an easy way to click into the comments for each story. Right now I can click into the info for the link, and to the outlink, but there doesn’t appear to be a one-click path to the HN comments themselves.
The real folks already know what they're doing, but the majority of "attacks" aren't real folks who are determined to hit specific targets; it's people who just throw everything at the wall to see what sticks, and this is what the honeypots catch.
It's great that they offer the source code so you can modify it and run the program on your own hardware to make sure stories aren't being removed from the stories removed from the Hacker News front page list.

While the above is me joking, I appreciate the extreme transparency that showing code and explaining methodology provides. This adds more credibility than any other single thing the author could have done.
Hoping this lights a fire under other AWS wrappers like Heroku and Vercel to support IPv6. Currently dealing with the fallout of the Supabase IPv6 change and frustrated that two of my core vendors still don't support it.
And some dude's out there just planning to sell pots of honey.
Nope. It’s common and can be an indicator for apnea etc..

Normally sleeping on your back maximizes airflow instead of creating an obstruction (snoring)
That seems unlikely given that the vast majority of users have no clue what the underlying service provider is for the web services they're using, and those who do know are savvy enough to understand the difference between an AWS issue and a configuration issue.
Loved Valheim!!! Forgot about that one too.

I wish my friends enjoyed these games, as I'd have double the hours in. Playing solo does put an upper bound to how long I enjoy them.
>expected to bring $1B/year

Yes.

>and speed up IPv6

Fucking lol. It's still not enough of a financial hit for people to want to deal with IPv6.

Should have just come up with a better protocol in the first place. That's what really would have stimulated adoption.
s/mods/users? everyone can flag stories.
Your employer can read your Slacks too
CGI looks expensive because of the nature of how it is billed: one big cost to a CGI studio. But in television a much greater expensive is on-location shoots. A few thousand or tens of thousands for a CGI sequence is nothing compared to keeping a hundred people fed and working at a remote location.
My mom used to work customer service at an insurance company. They had a mainframe app that they logged customer and incident data in. It was all mashing F keys to get to different screens typing in and tabbing between fields. As soon as she memorized which F key brought up which screen, it was easy for her to use and navigate.

Then they "upgraded" to an all-new, all-shiny Java enterprise app. And she was completely at sixes and sevens.

One of the things I learned about the corporate world was this: Management reserves the right to give you conflicting goals which must all be fulfilled as a condition of employment. It is the duty of the line worker, to resolve the conflict to the business's satisfaction.

In my mom's case the conflicting goals were "find the time to train on the new app" and "do NOT, under pain of termination, log into the system before hours, after hours, or during lunch or breaks".

It was only a few months after her retirement that the dementia started setting in. I blame that stupid insurance company, their stupid app, and their stupid policies for breaking my mom's brain. She spent the last few years of her career feeling like an incompetent idiot for not being able to do an immiserating job which, for all its warts, she could do just fine before. And once that was over and her pension was on lock, her brain just said "that's it. I'm done."

I don't have empirical evidence to know that this is the case. But it feels that way. And this is why I get assmad every time some BigTechCo completely flips the table and changes the UI on some app of theirs, "just 'cause".

(Fuck Instagram and their little popups: "We've moved/hidden that feature behind another menu. Check out the features we want you to use this month, because fuck what you want to do, we have KPIs to hit!")
> There are a lot of comments in this thread thanking “the mods” and I didn’t realize there was a mod team cultivating the front page. Can anyone attest to this?

https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/th...
The Altman story was likely a dupe (or triplicate)
Possibly dups too.
See, this is a great example of how carefully selected data causes a false perception. The increase you cite is charted on https://ncvs.bjs.ojp.gov/quick-graphics. It looks like this: https://imgur.com/a/6dgFRrp
Japan seems conservative compared to New Zealand, which limits immigration for those with a range of disabilities - including autism spectrum disorder:

https://www.immigration.govt.nz/new-zealand-visas/preparing-...
I have every right to object to being surveilled and to avoid/prevent it to the greatest degree I can.
Don't forget that if corporations are people, then this might be grounds for the corporate death penalty.

The way that would work is the Philips name would be retired and all patents, copyrights and trademarks would be released to the public domain. All ownership would end the same way as when someone dies, and assets would be distributed to next of kin. The company might be broken up and sold at auction, with the proceeds donated to shareholders and any other owners/investors. Or parts of it could be sold to other companies to pay for lawsuits and other costs, like when splitting up a company under antitrust laws.

Looks like Philips has a market cap of just over $20 billion. Shifting that intellectual property to the public could start an open source revolution in medical research. The ripple effects of that are hard to predict, but might put more of a focus on cures than treatments.

We could see gene therapy for the primary inherited conditions arriving years earlier than expected. Conditions that at least 10% of the population have to deal with every single day that affect quality of life and aren't being addressed by for-profit corporations. Imagine the relief for mental health that would come through these cures, reducing the isolation and alienation for the people who have been forced to internalize their situations because the larger population is oblivious to their experiences.

Gene therapies start around $1 million per person. But the main cost lies in research, not application. Why are we performing medical research under a for-profit model? We didn't use to.

Recent trends show that large corporations are focusing on profits over the health of their customers. If they've abandoned their charters, then maybe it's time for alternative approaches. IMHO the priority today should be large epidemiological studies to provide big data for AI to spot the correlations which lead to cures. But the astronomical profits of big pharma have diverted those funds to the point that those companies are slowing progress and increasing costs for all of us.
That’s fair but is that the only possible way for new businesses to arise? Couldn’t the same be accomplished with the income received from the sale of resources? The revenue would still be there, the money would just be more widely distributed amongst the owners of the resources that businesses purchase to make more of their goods and services.
I wrote something similar, it's a simple Python tool that estimates what a story's rank should be based on the score, and compares it to the actual rank. It's rough and only tested on Win 10 so far:

https://github.com/calibas/hacker-newd/blob/main/hacker-newd...
> It's not hard. Go build the thing you want and moderate it.

Does the source code include moderating tools, or is it just a bare bones aggregator with a default ranking algo?
ViroReact popped up on Hacker New recently. https://github.com/NativeVision/viro
We really need a concept of scale when it comes to branding a chemical "toxic". Small amounts for particular purposes are not harmful. Being everywhere may cause some problems.
Spammer wonders why stories are being "removed".

How can you complain about your submissions getting hundreds of upvotes and a bunch of discussion over the last 4 months only. That's a decent amount of eyeballs.

Other than the blatant offtopic/spam ones, most of them are just ones that have drifted away and are old news, or flagged, or dupes. It's driven by the flow of the site and its users.
> I don't want to see Altman's fearmongering and hyperbolic statements

His statement wasn't even hyperbolic or fearmongering.....?

He just extrapolated based on current amounts of compute and estimated a possible model size that could be equivalent to AGI (based on current architecture).

Training a model of that size would require too much electricity.

That was his point.
Wall Street is going to wake up pretty soon and realize that strong economic numbers means no rate cuts. And eventually the rate cuts are going to bite into loans which are hitting their maturity dates and rolling over.
The revenge of the nerds...