skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To clarify this further:

The employer is already a collective, "A business", and the hiring manager is operating with the full power of that collective in hiring/firing negotations.

A union is a collective to balance power against the business (collective).

A cartel is a collective of collectives (ie., a group of businesses) operating to defeat free market competition regulation, in this sense the cartel is balancing power against the state -- which is the only permitted "collective of collectives".

Cartels challenge states (power to create free markets), whereas unions challenge businesses (power to hire/fire).

This is why unions are permissible and cartels are not.
The key engineering point here is about failure modes. If the failure mode is a brick, then the engineering and design team behind that switch has failed.

The failure mode for a smart switch needs to be a "classic" switch. This applies equally to garage door openers, showers, door locks, and the rest of the smart devices.

Note: I'll give a bit of a pass to smart window blinds as a selling point is lack of strings and cables and the therefore look cleaner.
Nice detail. I really enjoy the movie scene for scene and it had to be pointed out to me that it makes no sense.

I suppose that is the magic of movies. The suspension of disbelief.
The easiest way to understand the issue is to consider cooking.

A chef can’t sit around and think up recipes and file thousands of patents. We explicitly agree in the law that it would be incredibly backwards negatively affect society if chefs got exclusivity on recipes and could sue home cooks for being creative. And chefs are still thinking up new recipes and using them in their restaurants because unique meals and flavors offer a competitive advantage. The reward is that you can keep your profits in our capitalist society. See Coca Cola and KFC. You have to use your knowledge in a novel invention to benefit.

In the same spirit, it’s not wanted to have people sit around and ideate about which instructions, and in what order, when fed to a processor machine, make it do useful things. Thousands of people program processors every day and we don’t want them getting sued because someone else figure out an efficient way to reverse a linked list. You have to run a software service that provides value and get people’s money that way.

Even if we concede that patents are useful in their intended purpose to protect actual manifest inventions, not just ideas (patent office is supposed to require a prototype invention to be registered with your patent), that’s certainly not what patent trolls are doing and that’s not how the majority of software patents work.

For the purpose of discussion, to get close conceptually to some sane type of sane SW patent scheme you’d have to 1. make a linked list reversing library, 2. register the complete prototype source code with the patent office, and 3. be actively maintaining and selling your linked list reversing library for your patent to even start to hold water. But even then you’re running up against problem that software is purely algorithms (just like recipes) and those aren’t even originally patent-able.

Apple can’t patent an “object oriented operating system” unless they’re offering that system in isolation and as a whole to consumers for use, which they’re not, but someone at the patent office got tricked into granting them a patent. Patents are supposed protect the inventors of complete products, not tiny building blocks of knowledge (algorithms). The “patent hate” is because despite the arguably good initial conditions, the patent system has been abused by greedy people who are not benefiting society in any way whatsoever. And you should be infuriated by that.
I think I've made this clearer on the website now but you know you can download the whole thing without even creating an account on the website. The only limitation is the number of cards you can create, but it's more than enough to figure out if it's a workflow you like.
Sure, next release I'll add a version that removes the operator ligatures
Microsoft could do that because they had the Operating System monopoly to leverage and take out both Lotus 123 and WordPerfect. Without the monopoly of the operating system they wouldn't of been able to Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...
> we’re evolved to cohere around a shared system of belief and the appropriate mental machinery will kick in as part of becoming embedded in a religious community

So brainwashing-lite? Man I'm glad whatever "appropriate mental machinery" that was in my head kicked in and got me the fuck away from communities like this.
If it's only useful to a few companies then it must be niche IP and therefore valuable.
>> Hundreds of bookmarks I'll never re-visit.

It is like the books on our shelves and the proverbial pictures in our parents shoeboxes. I recall when I was very very young, my parents would break out the shoeboxes at holiday gatherings (usually Christmas and Thanksgiving) and rummage through the pictures with family members. Other than those times, they were just boxes in the back of a closet.

Perhaps we should do that with our bookmarks... break them out once a year and see if there are any ones left keeping, and ones that just need to go to the back of the closet.
> its individual choice, to go all in, to decisively steer your career path for a post-AI future, ..

I believe this number will be < 1% of all workers. Most of the remaining will adjust to new reality with little bit of persuasion/force and understanding.

Last month I traveled to my home country and found people seem very happy and well adjusted in extremely polluted city where I was staying and even claimed since they moved to little less congested area (equally polluted!) life has become so much better. I found most people do not care or understand and some were fatalist in sense "this world has become a nasty hellhole anyway and if it ends along with them it will be all the better".

Another thing I noticed that in a world far away from intellectually challenging work in machine learning / AI etc a lot of workers' lives are already controlled by lot of simple computer programs. Computers are arbiters of truth in large part of third world where trusting people is hard but computer has no reason to lie. If computer tell someone how long they worked, how much to be paid and so on it becomes amenable to most parties.

Depending on economic status of countries I see government are already preparing for jobless future of most workers and looking to provide free ration/lodging/medicine etc. There will be mismatch of expectation between what people think they deserve vs what governments can provide. And thats where I believe AI etc will be greatly used identify those who wouldn't take to easy path of agreeing to what's given. This could go until population collapse or reach to level where it is just enough to support then prevailing economic system.
Not all the actors. David Prowse, who played Darth Vader had no idea. Only Hamill knew. There were only four people who knew at that point. Lucas, Kasdan, Hamill and Kerschner.
That's not what democratizing means. It doesn't refer to regulation or oversight, but rather to worker ownership and organisation of the group or business in question. Collectively owned / horizontally managed businesses do exist at scale, from farm cooperatives to the Brazilian industrial giant SEMCO.
But MS controlled the underlying OS. Letting them both throw money at the problem, and (by accounts at the time) frequently tweak the OS in ways that made life difficult for Lotus, WordPerfect, Ashton-Tate, etc.
"Metro" is what suburbanites use to make it sound like they live somewhere more interesting, know anything about that city and its lifestyle, to people who don't know where, and not some suburb outside of it. So, no that doesn't matter. It's not your city.

People who live in BFE an hour or two north of Dallas, that isn't Dallas, love to say they live in Dallas, then you go further, "dallas metro." Nah. Then they find out you actually live downtown because you're asking for neighborhoods IN the city and call you a downtown pretty boy who probably has to fight off muggers daily. Christ, Fort WORTH is in the "Dallas metro" and it's literally it's own city that NOBODY in Dallas ever visits and has NOTHING in common with Dallas. "The Dallas metro has 10 billion people!" Yeah who never interact with one another and live an hour away.

So they love it till it's actually, you know, big scary city stuff. And that's a huge reason why WE don't claim them back. Hearing someone from Plano (rich af suburb) say they live in Dallas to someone from Texas themselves is so cringe. Because I absolutely know they actually hate Dallas, the city. It's different if the person has no idea where and you're just giving a general area.
Meh, that sounds like mindless cynicism. They understand the problem because THEY are often the ones getting death threats.
Zwave devices definitely seem to be "sticky" - you have to unpair/pair each device. At least that's been my experience using Zwave with a Smartthings hub.
A right? Like the right to live in peace, the right to liberty and security, &c.?

We should also drop blankets and food to Russians right? You wouldn't want them to die of hypothermia or malnutrition

It's a fucking war, what do you expect?
Because language works through association and analogy, you don't actually need to know the etymology of a word or symbol to use or understand it.

Any English speaker can understand perfectly well the words manual, manufacture and manicure without ever reflecting on the fact that "manus" in latin means "hand".

We clearly haven't needed to rename these words "handual", "handufacture" and "handicure" for these concepts to be understood by people who aren't fluent in Latin.

In much the same way, even a person who has never seen a floppy disk will associate its likeness with the action of saving if it appears next to enough save buttons.
Why not just use a checkbox? Is anyone here a designer with a serious answer to this?
I like how he didn’t explicitly request 22. It was more like “anything 1-255 would be great... oh, by the way, I happen to be using 22...”
Oral and gut microbiota at the root of atherosclerosis?
That's interesting. Virtually none of my friends in the Boston area (all 30+) have kids lol.
I've been using zigbee for industrial applications.

The security angle is particularly appreciated by a factory that wants to control their vents from one button without running tons of copper wiring. They're not going to put that on their network.
show an arrow from Now to Next state

kids: get off my lawn. lol
Yep. I've learned the hard way that it's a bad idea to try targeting a mass market audience as a solo founder.
I never said you did.

I questioned how you can tell if the cops are telling the truth for this case when you know the cops have a long history of exaggerating the danger they face, and have long used identical tactics on cases which did not involve domestic terrorism (like a marijuana warrant).

Experience tells us these regulations are not being written with the blood of innocent babies in mind, because it's easy to find news reports where babies were injured by flash grenades in early morning raids, when you would think the regulations should change after the first one .. or three.

Nor is experience written with the blood the other residents of these households, like the death of Breonna Taylor during a midnight raid when her boyfriend thought the police were robbers, and the actual suspect was her ex-boyfriend who hadn't been there for a long time.

Why should it change when the officers involved face very few consequences for their actions?

No, it's only written with blood - often imaginary - of the police in mind, because they are the ones who write the regulations.

Plus, they face almost no consequences for fabricating the severity of the dangers they face.

Plus, they get more funding if they exaggerate the danger - a "safe" warrant execution justifies that that amount of force was needed to keep things safe, so we need to keep pouring money into our militarized police force.
When the wind isn't blowing, no wind generation. When the sun isn't shining, no solar. So these guys come in with a "gap" filling idea of using tidal, yet their own marketing says this "kite" parks itself when there is no tidal flow. So how is this continuous power generation?
What's Wrong with This Rental Listing? The Furniture Is AI Generated
>He seems a little fixated on calling everything he does "boring"

Isn't that the whole point of the post? To give an account on the "boring" tech (which is a notion older than him and his post, which has been covered a few times on HN over the years) he uses?

And he's right in describing what he does as boring, when compared to what is seen as "standard practice"/cool/sexy/cutting edge/modern stacks nowadays.

That's one or two RDBMS servers, a regular old-school web application server (Django). That would be very "boring" (that is: older, tried and true) tech bets in 2024.

>even when uh... using an IDE?

IDEs have not been "exciting new tech" since the era of Symbolics and early Smalltalk IDEs.

What he says is that he doesn't use some "latest cool" IDE/editor, but an standard IntelliJ offering, like millions of enterprise programmers.
Discord is worse. Their buttons for mute-microphone and turn-off-camera are inverses of each other.
What compounds this issue is that most of the graybeards don't actually get paid that much money to come out of retirement to fix code for mainframes, and the incentive simply isn't there for new programmers to learn COBOL and mainframes. It's not even enough to learn COBOL and mainframes because the graybeards are getting paid not just for those skills but familiarity with the quirks of particular systems. Financial institutions want COBOL programmers with experience working on financial systems. There's no way anyone born in my generation can even get started in that realm; not without training or mentorship, which firms seem completely uninterested in providing.

The question is what happens when all the graybeards are dead. Are the institutions that are refusing to replace their systems banking on future AI being able to solve all their problems single-handedly? Or are they going to offer a pittance to any one who chooses to learn COBOL? Maybe it will be something in the middle; they will only hire senior engineers with specialties in developing AI/ML models for legacy systems. That is until those seniors become obsolete by their own creations.
No, that's not how it works.

And thank goodness. In the same way, if you go to a restaurant and walk out without paying, but you've been there before and paid with a credit card, they're not allowed to go back and charge that credit card by the amount you stiffed them.

If you want your money, you need to go through the courts. You can't just take money you're owed, no matter if there's a debt or not. Not until a court says you can.
It's so interesting. This isn't the only paper written about this, because I actually came across this same idea last month in a much older paper. Here's an extract from it:

> It might have been thought, by some scientists in the 1890's, that refined mathematical analysis of this kind would play a role in resolving the fundamental problems of classical physics associated with the apparent failures of the equipartition theorem. But that is not what happened.

> Although the quantum hypothesis did dispose of the paradox of specific heats of polyatomic gases, and eliminated the possibility that ether-vibrations (having an infinite number of degrees of freedom) would drain an indefinite amount of energy out of material systems at any finite temperature, these were not the anomalies that provoked the introduction of the quantum hypothesis in the first place. Max Planck was not one of the physicists who worried about the validity of the equipartition theorem before 1900, and the myth that his distribution law for blackbody radiation was concocted merely to escape from an "ultraviolet catastrophe" predicted by the Rayleigh-Jeans law has now been thoroughly demolished. It was Paul Ehrenfest who invented the ultraviolet catastrophe (eleven years after the publication of Rayleigh's and Planck's papers in 1900) in order to dramatize what would have been the consequences of the equipartition theorem if it had been valid for all classical dynamical systems (though neither Rayleigh nor Planck believed that it was).

I have this saved as a note, but can't find the exact source atm. Here's another source though, from the 60s:

https://sci-hub.ru/https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00327765
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Being a software developer today feels like constantly dealing with a bunch of bullcrap. Honestly, how are you folks doing? Are you alright? Frankly, I feel so exhausted. Job searching is such a soul-crushing activity. Sending applications is time-consuming, needlessly cumbersome, utterly Sisyphean, and essentially feels like a complete waste of your life. You don't learn anything useful, you're not building anything practical, it doesn't improve any aspect of your life, and there seems to be no good, proven way of automating it.

I never understood why being a developer has to be so wearisome. Why is it expected that any software dev has to have encyclopedic knowledge of Java, Javascript, Python, Go, different dialects of SQL, along with scripting stuff like bash and awk; ansible, chef and terraform; has to know 50 different AWS services; tons of different database types and their implementations; need to know common vulnerability types and understand how DNS, TCP-IP, http, websockets, and other protocols work; must know how to invert a binary tree in zero-gravity; their GitHub activity graph should look like an aerial view of the Amazon forest; they must maintain a blog; speak at conferences, and once in a while write a dissertation paper. And all that still is not enough because they have to excel at interviews. At several different types of them - algorithms and data structures, language-specific, framework-specific, pair programming interview, design systems interview, product interview, company and industry-specific, take-home project interview, tech talk, and personality interview.

Why is it that even when it feels like "you've made it," and you finally have a job at some big company, you still can't feel safe? Why do you constantly have to be in "finding a job mode" instead of building stuff and fixing problems? Sigh...
That is really out of touch. ROCm is garbage as far as I am concerned. A drop in replacement, especially one that seems to perform quite well, is really interesting however.
Doesn’t this just mean trolls will sue everyone except CF going forward?

Seems like a valiant stance but still short of what is needed something industry wide - something to invalidates this “business model” entirely
Is it consumerist to prefer going on a long trip yourself rather than having a kid?
Hell, you can buy beautiful, updated small mansions in the heart of many small midwestern towns for under $200k.

The trouble is:

1) no local jobs to speak of (unless you want to clerk at the farm & feed or assistant-manage the McDonald’s out by the highway)

2) nearest hospital that can do more than stabilize you before shipping you somewhere better, is over an hour away.

3) the schools are really, really bad

4) no local services or amenities. Hope the nearest state park (if any) is really good. But if it’s a midwestern one it’s probably not.

Remote work, being young and healthy and willing to take a little extra risk, having no kids and planning to have none, and being kinda a home-body (or being really into readily available rural midwestern outdoor activities like hunting and fishing), can make it a viable way to go, but that’s a lot of qualifiers.

In our medium-ish sized midwestern city there are smaller slightly-run-down houses in the low $200Ks, but universally in bottom-half school districts for the city. Solid choice if no kids, though. But also local tech jobs pay at most 50% of big-city equivalents.
> Except for the razor my grandfather brought from Germany in 1945

Hah - I also have an old razor. I inherited it from my Dad. He seems to have bought it in about 1935, from a cutler in Cambridge, where he went to University. It was made in Sheffield, but is engraved with the name of that Cambridge shop. He would have been about 20 when he bought it - perhaps his first razor.

I've tried to sharpen and use it; but it was pretty rough. I find that modern razors from the likes of Dovo are much better.

> I've never really met my grandfather

My paternal grandfather died before I was born. My father says he was sitting in his chair; then he just coughed and died. I hope I am lucky enough to die like that.

I knew my maternal grandfather quite well; I used to visit him when I was 13 - 15, most Sunday afternoons. He was a pacifist, an atheist, and a hero: he was head of education in Hong Kong, when the Japanese took over. The story is that he stole a truck, and drove around the rich neighbourhoods collecting mattresses, medicines and - whisky. He liked a wee dram. He drove the truck to the concentration camp, blagged his way past the guards, and delivered the truck to the camp medical centre (minus the whisky, I imagine).

I'm also an atheist, and spent most of my life as a pacifist. I'm no hero, though.
But at some point, there is and there will be saturation.
Plenty of websites have similar usability issues today. Most sites will refuse to load content without Javascript. I stopped keeping bookmarks because most pages I had went to 404 Not Found.

For all these disadvantages, Flash had something modern webdev can only dream of: permanence. A Flash file from 2004 will work almost perfectly in Ruffle, 20 years later; video, audio, images, animation. A dynamic webpage or dataviz (the only interactive things made today) won't load on anything that doesn't have a full NodeJS server on a Virtualbox VM and untold number of npm dependencies.

Flash was not the problem, it was how people used it. Same as today.
> > not only would they fire you but they'd call up all their industry buddies and you'd basically be on every other restaurants no-hire list.

An interjection: Under GDPR this is illegal. (Just a reminder that "tech" legislation sometimes also improve on broader levels)
I know this is not the same thing but there is another form of what I consider wage theft that is totally legal in my state. That is the ability of an employer to pay almost half of minimum wage based on the fact that the employee gets tips. https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/state/minimum-wage/tipped

In my state...Idaho...employees can be paid as low as $3.35 (if I am reading that correctly). I know many people local who worked under this law for many years. The town I am in it costs approx 2x the average "renters salary" to afford to live. We currently have constant "now hiring" signs on almost every building. One of the largest employers in the area uses this law to pay their people peanuts. The only ones who can afford to stay in this town are the ones who already had houses before the "doubling" that happened over the last 5 years...and often they are on edge too.

But you know..."Go ruthless capitalism".