skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In hindsight, yes, but just because a specific technology is leading an industry doesn’t mean it’s going to be the best option. It has to play out long enough for the market to indicate a preference. In this case, for better or worse, it looks like CUDA’s the preference.
if you get out Dallas or Austin... where are the jobs?

the number of people working remotely, even now, is still comparatively small.

doesn't matter if the housing rates are 50% lower if your only options are minimum wage at some chain (dollar general, chik fil a, etc.), or scraping for one of the few non-wagie gigs.

that doesn't fix the problem, that just means you're getting paid less, while house prices may have roughly the same ratio of income-to-cost that you'd find in DFW or ATX.

and in exchange now you need a car, need to drive constantly, and have fewer amenities and choices (maybe save for access to churches or walmarts).

shit, even far flung burbs of Austin like Taylor and Hutto are getting pricy compared to when I was last out there. Hutto Hippo oughta make a reappearance and start eating the carpetbaggers who keep moving in around there.
I refer you my earlier comment about how this model unlocks value that would be much more difficult without a subscription model.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39346050

But I would also dispute this as "rentseeking". Am I taking something from the commons and putting a paywall around it, or am I working hard as a producer of value, and trying to find a way to be rewarded for my labour? To me it feels like the latter. I'm not sitting back on the spoils of capital, I'm working for a living.

Well, to a point. I wouldn't have been able to attempt this without a certain amount of privilege - for instance not being rent-burdened for the last few years due to my partner owning her own home - but I'm not exploiting workers or anything here.

I wish I didn't have to spend so much time thinking about how to make money from my work. But that's Capitalism for you. But if it makes any difference, I described how I wanted to run my company (if it ever starts making enough money to support a team) by paying everyone the same here: https://goodtohear.co.uk/changes/modal/social_enterprise (direct link to a modal which usually sits on the product page).
I can attest to this. 100k in Brooklyn… especially the nicer areas is barely enough honestly. Especially now in 2024.
> I'm not going to just live with it because it is the builder's fault and so I'm not going to spend money to install gutter guards or have the trees removed.

No, you'd complain to the builder until they fix their fuckup.
According to to stat.gov.pl [1] the average Polish household uses ~24.6 GJ of energy annually per 1 inhabitant. That's 6800 kWh annually per 1 inhabitant.

According to eia.gov [2][3] the average US household uses annually 56.6 million BTUs of natural gas and 10500 kWh of electricity. 56.6 million BTUs is 16600 kWh. That would bring the total to 27100 kWh.

But wait...the Polish data is per inhabitant. The average number of people per household in the US is 2.6. Dividing 27100 by 2.6 gives 10400 kWh. Alternatively, the average Polish household is 2.47 people, which would give Polish per household usage of 16800 kWh.

The US does appear to use more energy per household (total or per inhabitant) than Poland, but by a factor of about 1.6, not 5.

[1] https://stat.gov.pl/en/topics/environment-energy/energy/ener...

[2] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=57321

[3] https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/use-of-energy/electricit...
> Patent troll companies file patents and then sit on the patent until they can sue another party for infringement

Many of the patents asserted by trolls were not actually filed by the trolls. Most often the troll company simply purchased the patent from the original owner (or, often, a bankruptcy court) and then they proceed to go about suing others using their newly acquired weapon.
To be fair, I was taught exactly what this paper claims in my Physics degree. Although I was also taught what they call the "myth" in other classes.
> I struggle to think of any collective project that spans centuries, that isn't fundamentally a religious enterprise.

Certain parts of mathematics and science may qualify.

Yes they have practical outcomes (as do certain religious projects - building a cathedral will employ craftsmen), but isn't the pursuit of 'pure' mathematics a collective project which serves no purpose apart from intellectual satisfaction.
That's a terrible situation unique to US - but lack of children is not unique to the US, so there must be more to it.
LLMs can learn useful guidelines from their own mistakes
In context, learning and chain-of-thought have long been popular. A new paper proposed LEAP that demonstrates LLMs can learn useful guidelines from their own previous mistakes. Instead of prompting using only correct few-shot examples, we intentionally make mistakes, and then learn "principles" or "lessons" from them.

paper: https://huggingface.co/papers/2402.05403
twitter: https://twitter.com/urialon1/status/1757038257550807436
The actors and writers guilds moved to protect their interests against studios abusing AI.
This alternate universe already exists. Many companies out there writing software in Microsoft C#, deploying on Microsoft Windows, querying Microsoft SQL Server.
The website shows certificate error.
That’s because it’s a liability issue. Better to let someone steal a $100 item than get sued for $1000000 because an employee chased them into the parking lot and got stabbed.
> I really feel we are at the beginning of a mass extinction

Presumably that extinction would take place several generations from now? One great way to avoid or slow extinction would be to procreate.

> this messed up world

As bad as things might be, aren't they way way way way better than they were in previous generations? Before Russia invaded Ukraine we were on a really great streak of very little warfare on Earth (relative to decades and centuries before). Fewer people are facing malnutrition and disease from centuries before. Many countries are much more egalitarian and less corrupt than they were centuries before.

I think maybe you are taking too many things for granted that are really quite good in modern times.
I don't see hostile comments and I'm not pro-children. I do, however, see strong opinions on this matter which is expected.
becoming more and more impressed at the number of devices being crammed into each home clogging up the already decimated ism bands
Right. I stopped tracking my applications. I only put a note when I get a rejection or invitation for the next step. Most applications get sent into a void. You may get an automated "we got your application, thank you...", and still won't ever hear from them again.
> Lispers say that I could use specialized tooling to compensate for poor ergonomics

Well, in input- and tooling constrained environments I have preferred Lisp for its syntactic simplicity. I wouldn't call it poor ergonomics.
Cuz they ugly

The dribblization of UI lead to a bunch of people trying to make things pretty for their own benefit. Then they look at it in Figma and it looks absolutely stunning. Never mind that actually needs to be understood and used by someone, that’s irrelevant.

Just today I saw a HSL color slider on Twitter that was a single hue slider with two half-arc sliders on the main slider’s handle: one above for saturation, one below for lightness. It sounds like a joke but…

https://twitter.com/jh3yy/status/1756429165803246028
I think it’s interesting that the labeling and the observed behavior of the system really do match.
I think you're getting the wrong takeaway from OP's comment...
An underlying motivation to this new power-mongering in school district politics is that education is typically the 2nd largest budget item in most US states. The "troublemakers" despite their theatrics also as a category tend to overwhelmingly support schemes that divert education funds to private entities, e.g. vouchers, tax-credit scholarships.
Common API means being replaceable, fungible. There are no margins in that.
I have kids and I actively tell people not to have kids if you don't really really really want them. It's not a pleasant experience most of the time. You do you. I'm not judging you at all.
Yes, 100%! This is my second most frustrating UX gripe with the Tesla trunk UX - the first being the super long animation you have to wait through in order to open the trunk after putting the car in park. Overall tesla UX is miles ahead of other cars, but the little things like this are so frustrating!
Voters decide things too. But that's not just a hot-button issue for any voter I've ever met. Why not?

It actually wouldn't be too hard to implement without wage theft in either direction -- mandate some kind of escrow functionality by law, built into direct deposit.

In other words, if you work daily, the money is deposited in "escrow mode" at the start of your shift, and you can verify it in your banking app. But it's not released until you clock out. Or if your salary is every two weeks, it's deposited in escrow mode at the start of the period. At the end of the business day each day, a day's proportion is automatically released unless the bank is informed that your employment has been terminated.

But the point is that businesses could never try to save money by not paying their employees, because they couldn't get the money back anyways. If your boss doesn't approve that you completed the day's work when you actually did, the money stays in escrow until it gets settled by a court.

So I don't buy that it's just because business owners and politicians "decide" things. If voters wanted what I just described, it could easily happen. But I just came up with this proposal on my own -- I've never heard it described by anyone. It's not something voters seem to care about. Why not?
Apple's seeking to comply with the letter, rather than the spirit, of the law in order to maintain their ability to extract rents from the App Store. It's user-hostile (particularly given that they've now hobbled PWAs) but not surprising. Their behavior won't change without additional regulatory action.
Local message boards are gone because they end up becoming dominated by weirdos and the people who don't have anything else to do, so end up posting constantly. Think of the comments section of a local newspaper website.
Putin might want to invade Poland but he cannot because of Article 5. He invaded Ukraine because he believed he could get away with it (lacking Article 5) and that "Russia" (he) was "entitled" to it. Just another corrupt, strongman, megalomaniac dictator. Nothing new.
That is not the definition of slavery. Slavery is being forced to work.
Yeah, they can be, so its more vauge than i've made it out to be. The underlying problem is that employee-employer is individual-collective; so in some sense, there "has" to be a union option if this becomes too one sided.

But a cartel is never required, since businesses competing with each other is the goal of a free market.

I would agree that if unions become more powerful than businesses, so it ends up single-business vs "union-of-unions" you can get the same effects.

Hopefully the asymmetry is clear though. Cartels are never permissible in a free market, but unions often are because of the need for labour to compete "on the same terms" as business.

ie., the mere existence of a union isnt a sign the market is non-free; whereas the mere existence of a cartel is.
> And those empires change a lot over the course of their existence; they weren't effective vehicles for a collective effort at, say, colonising Mars

Completely agree!
> First world problems.

In a thread about modern cellphone technology is _hilarious_.
I assume you’re on the team if you’re saying “we”

Can you say why you had to change the name?
Let's not forget the Fahrenheit maneuver by Microsoft that left SGI stranding and not forward OpenGL.
They answered this question at the end of last week. Gemini access does not carry across family members. Only the family "master" subscriber gets access to Gemini. So yeah, not gonna happen [in my household].
Bitcoin Breaks $50K for First Time Since Hitting All-Time High in 2021
overpriced ux designers
I tried that and gave up. Get ready to spend a lot of moeny, sensors and devices are still very expensive compared to the ZB counterparts. Most Matter devices go with Wifi rather than Thread which makes your wifi network implode if you plan on installing a large number of them.
For that reason I decided to go with what's cheap and works today, which is Zigbee.
Oh man that's hilarious. Your tour group hornswoggled you into being the token Westerner, and you paid for the privilege!
As the author of a current and many past Menu Extras, holy crap! Why would anyone have so many menu bar apps!
This has happened to me! In a programming job, no less!

Is this something which could be addressed through the use of a specialized AI assistant?

The biggest barrier to uncompensated workers is the cost of litigation. If the worker could represent themselves effectively, then this would stop.
> [...] but to widespread public concerns about the risks posed by the tech industry at large. Effective accelerationists worry that these concerns have become so entrenched that they threaten to extinguish the light of tech itself.

Those "years of gloom" (which aren't very many years -- has everyone forgotten when the tech industry was widely seen in optimistic terms?) have been brought on by the behavior of the tech industry itself, in large part because of the misapplication of the idea "move fast and break things" (which is, unless I'm misunderstanding, the very essence of e/acc that this article discusses).

Our industry has been breaking a lot of things that people don't want broken, then tends to shame people for being upset about that. The problem isn't some inherent fear of tech itself, it's a (supportable) fear of the tech industry and what other things it may damage as time goes on.

If the industry wants to assuage these fears, the solution isn't to move even faster and break even more things, it's to start demonstrably acting in a way that doesn't threaten people and the things they hold dear.
Thread is based on Zigbee. It functions fine without the internet.
are hackernews commenters legally obligated to chime in with intense pedantry that is completely irrelevant to the larger point in order to feel like they are smarter than the person theyre responding to?
Thanks for pointing this out. I did it in a hurry and thought I'd made it only load third party js if you clicked Accept.

But I think it's correct now?

That said, I'm still too scared to look at the damn hotjar data so I don't even know why I'm using it .
I can't help but observe that the majority of these sites linked are very ordinary looking sites. I don't see an abundance of "fun".

In my opinion, if you don't think people are still out there having fun on the internet, you're looking in the wrong places.
have you tried to use spotify with a screen reader lately?
As I recall, the entire US aviation industry was locked up for decades in patent conflicts, and were as a result way behind the rest of the world (where US patents were not valid). The only thing which could fix this quagmire was a miracle, which actually did occur in the form of WW2, causing the US government to nationalize the entire thing, allowing people to actually innovate again, which the US air force desperately needed.
I wouldn't measure difficulty of a design problem by the complexity of a solution. "This is so much simpler than I expected" is some of the highest praise.

(About this particular problem I have no idea.)
In my circles it is called Resume Driven Development.

My favorite case was when someone moved a single component from ground into a lambda.. that called back down to a ground webservice anyway.

But hey, they were able to add AWS Lambda to their resume, right?

I came on board after the guy left, got props from the business by 'lowering our cloud spend' when I ripped the lambda back out.
> "However, because our reader runs with a local account, there was no Microsoft account to helpfully record the earlier Windows 10 activation" [with a Windows 7 key]

Which is a deliberate decision of Microsoft, a self-inflicted problem: They activated Windows 10 previously with the Windows 7 key using a internet connection, so their activation servers were made aware of that action.

They decided not to whitelist that key for Win10 in general, but only when linked to a online Microsoft account.

The cost-impact on their customer service will surely outgrow the possible gains of this decision...
I think both sites required you to write actual HTML, with no WYSIWIG. I salute the efforts of the regular people who tried.
True. This is the big advantage of an open standard instead jumping from one vendors walled garden to another.
I sold a M2 MBA and bought a M1 MBA because of the notch.
Legibility isn't clutter. We moved away from hieroglyphics a long time ago because alphanumeric characters are objectively better.
Blackburn College is also a work college and was established in 1837. My dad was an alumnus back in the Great Depression. It was all he could afford...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackburn_College_(Illinois)
In the Netherlands the city of Hoorn has a statue celebrating J. P. Coen, the man responsible for the near total genocide of the Bandanese people. The familiar discussion about removing it or leaving it has recently flared up again.

Personally, I'd go for contextualizing: adding information to the statue, explaining how he was an important historical figure, but that he also did things things even the VOC itself frowned upon.

I would not want to be a part of the endless meetings required to determine the final text of that patch plaque though...
My point is more theoretic that an actual reflection on what will actually happen, because I'm not better than the next person at predictions. Simply put: just because a species needs to change in order to adapt, doesn't mean they do. Geologic strata are littered with species that no longer exists.

As for culture, it is not a static thing, or indissociable from individuals. My grandmothers had 6 and 8 kids, most of my cousins have 0-2 kids. So considering my grandmothers' behaviour and my cousins', Are they from the same culture? Will people that reproduce more today convince their children to do the same?

In either analysis, it's really hard to use natural selection as a predictive tool.
> It has to play out long enough for the market to indicate a preference

By what measures hasn't that happened already? CUDA been around and constantly improving for more than 15 years, and there is no competitors in sight so far. It's basically the de facto standard in many ecosystems.
In the 1950s the world had gone through two (2) gigantic world wars, one recently, which completely collapsed multiple global empires, killed millions -- especially the young, fit men who are the backbone of the economy -- and devastated multiple countries, many of which were big developed economies.

the US, and certain parts of Europe, were mostly spared this, and as a result could make crazy money because they were the only source of advanced labor around.

it wasn't like that in the Guilded Age or Roaring 20s or Great Depression -- there was a reason all of those labor movements and riots happened then; wouldn't have happened if a one-income mailman could buy a house.

that was a one-off, a time when half the world blew up a few years before.
This also happens just in general; the staff of the funeral home often attends the service just because they'd have nothing else to do and need to assist with transfer to the hearse, grave, etc.

It's only really noticed when it's a small service.

In the USA if you're a veteran or veteran associated the local VFW will send out a color guard to attend.
Looks like fun! FPV [1] and drone footage [2]

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo28x0CYBaA
2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehN9c7WfLMI
This seems an unnecessary and sadly pessimistic view of humanity...
It is.

Who will buy your products and services 20-30 years from today?

If the question sounds ridiculous, trust me it isn't. You can look at demographics of China, or if you don't particularly care about that but care about finance, long duration government debt.
> But currently this is NOT a legal requirement

It is in California, Oregon, and Washington. And probably a few other places in the US.
> Ownership is not affordability, which is the point of the parent poster that you're ignoring entirely.

Exactly....it'd be hilarious if figuring out this abstract phenomenon is the key to figuring out the object level phenomenon.
For those without kiddos:

Hold a 10lbs weight on your arm for three hours (simulates an infant trying to fall asleep in your arms). Do this for six months, three times a day.

Lift a 20lbs bag of rice off the floor to your hips once every 20 seconds for two hours (simulates a toddling-walking child wanting up). Do this for a three years, six times a day.

Get up off the floor in a hurry once every five minutes for two hours (simulates the toddler-child doing something they shouldn't). Do this, I dunno, forever.

Lift a 40lbs bag of dog food over your head every five minutes for 4 hours (simulates an older child wanting to play). Do this for 10 years, five times a day.

There is a lot of other 'cardio' like things mixed in too. But the above should give a sample of the physicality of child rearing. It's a lot of low weight, very high rep, long workout, long interval, isostatic exercise. You're mostly holding things near your center of mass for very long times, adjusting between arms. And you have to get up off the floor a lot in a big hurry.
From: Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>
To: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority <iana@isi.edu>
Subject: request for port number
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

Was "Organization" a common email header at the time? This is the first time I see it.
The only difference between the paid version and the free download is that you can only create three cards per document.

I have made the comparison table link a bit more prominent on the pricing page so hopefully it's less ambiguous now.
> Patents are property and we need taxes/fee on it. $500/year per patent

Those 'taxes' already exist (at least in the US system). They are called "maintenance fees".

See https://www.fr.com/insights/ip-law-essentials/everything-abo...

Failing to pay the fee causes the patent to expire, and be unable to be used to sue someone. So these troll firms must also be paying these fees to be able to sue based on the patent.
Current resident of deep springs college, happy to answer any questions.
I don't think that's true. SOTA open source is still much worse than eleven labs and requires a dedicated modern GPU for any kind of speed of generation. Certainly can't on-demand, on-device on an iPhone.

Apple already is doing very high quality generated audiobooks, but you do it for your book as the author.

https://authors.apple.com/support/4519-digital-narration-aud...

"Mitchell" sounds exactly like a very popular narrator "Ray Porter".
How far does this human responsibility extend?

I agree don't steal and let's prosecute those who do. What about those in Mexico that steal from the the people who are fleeing violence?

Why stop there, how about we do something about the violent dangerous environment?
Would you support military action in Mexico and South America to try and fix the problems?
gotta flex on that EBITDA
Maths has a constant "next step" which makes it very iterative though whereas a pyramid or a cathedral is only complete or not-complete, and it's not-complete over these decades/centuries.

> religious

Probably the most enduring meme.
> but how do my personal decisions affect society?

You don’t live in a bubble. It does matter.