skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
see also: Jim Baen's work.

"New SF" taking over in the 60 and 70s had a lot of ideological baggage come along with it. Suppression of disagreement was the most pernicious item. Before then the roaring flamewars over any and all subjects were part of the fun. Read the letters columns in "Astounding Stories" magazines.
Is this still true, considering how the Supreme Court has decided a similar case against patent trolls[1][2] in the past?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octane_Fitness,_LLC_v._ICON_He....

[2]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielfisher/2014/04/29/patent-...
> and would also act as a disincentive for NVIDIA to make breaking changes to CUDA

I don't know about that. You could kinda argue the opposite. "We improved CUDA. Oh it stopped working for you on AMD hardware? Too bad. Buy Nvidia next time"
This is tangential, but part of the reason why I dislike talking to servers about the tipped minimum wage. Because it seems they deliberately don't want to understand the full context of the law. Or fully the type of work they are in.

What you are describing is typically called "side work". Basically work that is not directly related to waiting a table. Folding napkins, putting up chairs, moving tables, etc. Even in cases where the restaurant clocks in their workers for every minute they are doing work, servers complain about doing side work because "it costs them money". And they want the federal minimum wage during that time.

Which naively makes sense. But that's not at all how tipped wages work under the law. The formula is basically: (([hours worked] * [tipped minimum wage]) + [tips earned in pay period]) / [hours worked] = [hourly wage over pay period]

So if you work 10 hours in a pay period, that's $21.30. If you collected $51.20 in tips during that time, you made $72.50 or $7.25/hr (based on current federal minimum wage, obviously numbers are different for different areas where the minimum wage is different from the federal). The restaurant is in the clear. Even if you worked 5 hours doing "side work" and 5 hours waiting tables where you got $51.20 in tips.

Servers want to essentially prorate every minute they are not physically collecting a tip it seems. Worked an hour and every table stiffed you? They want $7.25 for that hour. Regardless of the fact that the previous hour they took in $20 in tips.

Serving is more akin to being an independent contractor. You need to make hay while the sun is shining. The fat sustains you through the lean. You look at your per hour over the aggregate, not counting every hour. It's why contractors charge the rates they charge. If you are only billing half the year, those billings need to support you through the other half.

Now, in your case, the reason they don't want you to clock in isn't to save $7 over a week. It's to up your average. Which is still wrong. Let's say at your current rate of collecting tips, you totaled $225 over 30 hours. That's $7.50. Restaurant doesn't owe you anything. Now, $225 over 32.5 hours (your low end over 5 days), that's only $6.92 / hour. The restaurant is short, not $7, but $41.28

And true, If you instead made $300 over those 30 hours, the extra 2.5 hours don't even matter to you. Your check wouldn't have been that different. But, it's money that's not coming from their pockets and it's really to push people near the bubble over their limit.
Awesome job! Thank you cloudflare.

maybe this is the path to kill the trolls. tech companies could fund an insurance-like mutual scheme to defend instead of pay off the trolls and then drive them out of business. it can also research and invalidate their ridiculous patents.
The main thing I've learned from this smarthome stuff is make sure your light switches also work when damn near everything but the power itself is off.

Really annoying not being able to turn the lights on or off because something (doesn't matter what) is not cooperating on a software level.
> no stealth in space (unless you can somehow mask heat)

I know two things.

1. We are now already using heat mask measures, even when we are very young civ in terms of Kardashev scale. We already use simple slit heat emitters in military tech (many Stealth planes have slit nozzles and for example, Leopard tanks also use slit exhaust for same reason).

2. Even we now know about possibility of laser heat, which could emit heat directly with very high focus.

In conclusion, idea is, to surround whole civ with heat mask blanket, and make all heat exhausts directly focused on directions, where now observer expected.

Second, looks like our development now is very slow, because it should be on early stages (Kardashev scale), and old civ's should know this.

And I now support theory, that we are fortunate to be far enough, so stronger civ's are not interested in spending resources to limit our development.

I even consider might be exists some preservation pact between Big civ's, to avoid touch young civ's, for some purposes like scientific, or arts. So yes, basically, I support Zoo theory.
It depends on the industry. What you say about not knowing requirements (or at least 95% at the start) isn't true in many industries/situations. They know exactly what they want. And I have worked at those places. I have also worked in agile environments and they are usually organized chaos right up until release. I just code, and I don't care if I have to erase things, I get paid as much to erase as I do to create. I figure it's all part of the process. I do my best for 8-9 hours and go home and let it stay at work, it's the only way I've stayed sane doing the thing I love for many years. I'll do a "push" for a couple here and there but I take that as a sign of trouble when I work someplace if it happens often. So yeah real life does work that way sometimes, some projects do have 95% of the spec at the beginning, just probably not in Silicon Valley.
It doesn't even matter if it is slop and you don't want slop. A huge oversupply of slop creates a market for lemons scenario. It is so hard to find the good stuff most people stop even looking for it, assume it is all slop and adapt to that reality. And then non-slop isn't created at the same rate because they're can't get through the noise anymore.
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I agree, this is a bit like shareholder's ownership in the UK and the antiquated leaseholder setting.

Just no. The solution isn't to make home ownership an even more complicated topic but to increase the stock, within the parameters of building regulations.
> He seems a little fixated on calling everything he does "boring", even when uh... using an IDE?

I think he means PyCharm is not as "sexy" as VSCode but he uses it nevertheless.
A bit of story telling here:

IBM and Microsoft made OS/2. The first version worked on 286s and was stable but useless.

The second version worked only on 386s and was quite good, and even had wonderful windows 3.x compatibility. "Better windows than windows!"

At that point Microsoft wanted out of the deal and they wanted to make their newer version of windows, NT, which they did.

IBM now had a competitor to "new" windows and a very compatible version of "old" windows. Microsoft killed OS2 by a variety of ways (including just letting IBM be IBM) but also by making it very difficult for last month's version of OS/2 to run next month's bunch of Windows programs.

To bring this back to the point -- IBM vs Microsoft is akin to AMD vs Nvidia -- where nvidia has the standard that AMD is implementing, and so no matter what if you play in the backward compatibility realm you're always going to be playing catch-up and likely always in a position where winning is exceedingly hard.

As WOPR once said "interesting game; the only way to win is to not play."
Not really. Ben Franklin died at 84, for example. Jefferson died at 83.

Being poor, however, has always sucked. Being wealthy always meant you lived longer.

The difference is that wealth concentration was much more strongly localized and concentrated in the past. And the famous people, who you have heard of, were generally the more wealthy people.
This seems like clickbait, but I do not want to label ideas prematurely.

I understand the point that the author is picking a pretty narrow window of potential benefits from Open Source software.

For me personally, having access to open-source software made it possible for me to learn and apply data analysis and visualization techniques when reasoning about incarceration data. I used the Seaborn Python library (open-source) to help me complete my final project and get my bachelor's degree. With education being a provable form of climbing the social ladder, and open-source software helping me, hopefully, the author can see the value for developers (who will likely go on to work at a company).
I don't know why, but this pseudo-argument made me chuckle.
I was thinking about your comment when I responded to [this one above](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39346050)

This reasoning obscures the huge overhead of creating a distinct "version 2" next year. I can do a much better job on the software if I don't have to spend 70% of my time marketing the next version or sectioning off this or that feature for commercial reasons.

But I take your point, I don't love subscription software either, but most of my current users are pretty comfortable with these so it's good for now while I'm working alone. And my hosting / API access fees are not _zero_ so there is a vague justification there too.
> The problem with effectively supporting CUDA is that encourages CUDA adoption all the more strongly.

I'm curious about this. Sure some CUDA code has already been written. If something new comes along that provides better performance per dollar spent, why continue writing CUDA for new projects? I don't think the argument that "this is what we know how to write" works in this case. These aren't scripts you want someone to knock out quickly.
That article proves nothing of the sort. Shutting down stores that have too much theft is a cost cutting measure, and keeping stores open that have more theft but far more sales doesn’t invalidate it.
https://youtu.be/5DlTexEXxLQ?si=pFtIMz5UKdA91aFb
This is exactly it. People are lamenting the bygone days of having to think a lot about your software before you wrote it, but the truth is that, today, the same programmer would have been able to iterate his way to the same program in perhaps half the time.

I remember an assignment in my university course, where I had to write a (simple, admittedly) OS kernel. I didn't know C very well, and I didn't know what kernels did beyond the theory, but we had to write a few hundred lines of C code to manage tasks. I knew that there would be absolutely no way I could debug this program if it didn't work, as it was all parallel code and a bug would mean mysterious race conditions.

I reasoned about the system as a whole, and I spent a few days writing small, self-contained functions that I thought a lot about. I then compiled and ran it, and, after the obligatory "missing semicolon" compilation errors, it worked first try.
I think you're saying that salaried employees are exempt from overtime, which is not true (in the US).

Everyone is eligible for overtime if they're paid hourly. Certain classes of jobs are exempt from overtime if they're salaried. For example, an Amazon warehouse can't make a picker salaried and then demand free overtime hours.

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/overtime/fact-sheets has the breakdown of can be overtime exempt. As a couple of examples, blue-collar workers and first responders can not, in general, be overtime exempt.
I'm not sure how much is current system effective today when biggest world producer's just can decide they are not going to respect that.
Embracing the future as if culture has a directional arrow...:.

hint: it doesn't
> stropped keywords come to mind; as visually hideous as they are unpleasant to type

It's pretty common today for people to voluntarily put SQL keywords in all caps.

> Lisp de-prioritizes [...] concision

Really?
Maybe for some, but most people don't get college degrees, for example. Most people worked heavily competitive jobs from an earlier age before, and often far harsher work.

E.g. my grandmothers half brother worked in New York Harbour from he was 9. Most of her uncles and aunts worked from early teens, and often moved from home at that age because their parents couldn't afford to keep providing for them and needed them to get employment. Often in backbreaking work that ruined their bodies, and in some cases killed them young.

People might well have a subjective experience that they have it tough, but if so we're failing in teaching people history.
> We convinced ourselves that it was only physical working class jobs that would be automated through self-driving cars and robots. That may well turn out to be true but a more immediate fact is that their jobs are rock-solid and safe.

This was the main delusion. The reason robots don't do the jobs of "essential workers" is because they are far more expensive at the same quality. A machine getting sick or dying costs a business tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars, a person getting sick or dying is discarded into the gutter and a replacement is brought in.

A lot of people are getting paid for their opinions, though, or more specifically as the article puts it, their "text production." They are paid an amount far outstripping their usefulness for superstitious reasons: it's hard to predict the quality of the opinions of a future hire, so we just pretend that more expensive is better. To balance this out, society already made that class the most heavily taxed, and kept their existence precarious through surrealistically expensive health care, mandatory education, and homeownership (and in the US, I'd add dental care specifically.)

I don't see how they aren't all trivially replaced. Capitalists act like ownership is a job that deserves compensation, rather than a wager on what is usually a sure thing. It's not. Owners buy people to make decisions for them, in fact they overbuy and overstaff (creating bullshit jobs) and pit those people against each other to guarantee the best outcomes. The losers get sick, lose their homes, and their kids can't get into college; the winners get another day in suburban paradise with 60-hour weeks and two-hour daily commutes.

I can't imagine that 90% of high-status middle class jobs would survive properly-applied generative AI even at current quality, and techniques are getting better literally hour-by-hour.

At least we'll still need doctors, although at greatly reduced responsibility. Will they also cut hair?
You can't disagree with statistics. You are living a very unique lifestyle, that is highly paid in HCOL areas with high standards for housing. That is not the norm whatsoever.
This is mentioned in the third sentence of the article.
For me the reason for the covers is not to prevent bending (a problem with too thin devices) but to prevent scrapes and cracks when the phone falls.
Yes! I was just driving a borrowed Tesla this weekend and several times I had a moment of confusion/panic because I thought the trunks were both open.
What would be an example? Like you invent a new compression algorithm and nobody else should be able to use it for a year or two?
That's not guaranteed at all. One could make the same argument about Linux vs Commercial Unix.

If the put their stuff as OpenSource, including firmware, I think they will win out eventually.

And its also not a guarantee that Nvidia will always produce the superior hardware for that code.
> but those measures are clearly warranted if the search warrant is for a residence inhabited by suspected domestic terrorists with an animosity towards law enforcement.

What evidence do they have that this is the case, and that other approaches - like a 9am raid - don't have better outcomes for everyone involved?

How many raids like this result in a finding that such a raid was not necessary? How does that compare to raids carried out during normal working hours?

Even if a 6am raid is warranted, why didn't the authorities have gowns or robes or other means in place given the high likelihood that some of the people would be naked or half-naked, in order to protect the detainee's sense of decency and humanity?

If no guns or explosives are found, and these people are never arrested, never tried, or never convicted, can we retroactively say the raids was needlessly harsh, and thus casting doubt on the reasoning the police use to justify this sort of raid in the first place, or do we always give the benefit of doubt to the police? (In the same way we are told the police sniffer dogs are 100% trustworthy when they indicate drugs, and cannot be assumed to be following a signal from their handler.)
Sorting recyclables on conveyor belt using hierarchical neural network
Rather than speculate, let's just wait a few months.
> "it is no longer breaking the vehicle rule, though it is now likely breaking some other rule about littering in the park."

Why isn't the WWII tank breaking the littering rule? Again your approach is leading to more and more pedantry instead of clearer rules.

> "My fundamental disagreement is that if you allow for rules to be enforced in terms of what they were intended to say rather than what they actually say..."

So let's make the rule actually say what we collectively intend it to say, then that problem goes away. We're in this stupid situation where the rules "cannot" say "ambulances are allowed" but you haven't given a reason why the rules cannot say that. "Emergency services are exempt from park rules". If there comes a time of an epidemic of off-duty emergency service workers driving WWII era tank shells modified with blue lighs and sirens and electric unicycle propulsion through the park at high speed on their commute to their second jobs, that's a bridge to cross when it becomes the next most pressing issue in the park.

It should be that we can get past the easy cases "ambulances allowed" and we should be struggling with "what counts as loud and annoying music?" or "are flying drones more fun or more noisy and dangerous?". But instead we're falling over at "are ambulances really vehicles?" and "are statues vehicles?" because of ... bad question design.
It depends on the person. In the general case I consider them men with female reproductive organs.

I've already said I'm not interested in the dictionary. That's what the word female means in the simple definition, yes, but reality is more complicated. Some women are born without ovaries, or they later have them removed. What sex would you assign to them?
There are plenty of cases where this defense is used.

It's always treated like bullshit because it is. You don't get to decide how I settle my debts. If I owe you $20, you don't get to confiscate whatever you want of mine of what you deem is of equal value.
Thread and matter are a mess from both technical and consumer angles. Yes, they are both good technologies...but the players in the hub space have made an utter mess of it if you have multiple hubs or, like most Americans, use an iPhone but have Nest or Echo devices. Then you have the lack of adoption of thread in general. And finally, Matter support being always 6 months away for everything or just straight up not working. It is mind blowing to me that it was easier for me to set up my Wiz bulbs to work in Homekit via HA than to get them to actually frickin work over Matter...seeing as the Matter logo was on the box when I bought them.

Honestly, I'm kinda shocked that no hub company has shipped a Cheap Zwave/Zigbee integrated HA hub. Sure you have HA Green and Yellow and all that, but you could get that price way down with a simple partnership and purpose built hardware that is elegant.
Are you a British Postmaster?
Yes, but app maintenance and integration is what has always kept devs employed.

Anyone can arbitrarily define what a v1.0.0 release looks like. It doesn't mean anything of value was really created, nor can we cut humans out when requirements need to be added.
> to foster a meme+

So, I guess, pyramid-building; that's a collective project spanning a few centuries. I struggle to think of any collective project that spans centuries, that isn't fundamentally a religious enterprise.
The answer is in the name of our economic system:

Capital -ism.

We basically put a big flashing sign right out front saying whose interests are the top priority.
Owning a house is a ton easier without kids.
Sure, think what you want
Only if you can prove the conversation happened which is almost never the case.
Saying software engineering is like woodworking is overly reductive in the same way, point is that humans tend to see too many patterns and similarities even though they aren't really more similar than other things.
Intel embraced Amd64 ditching Itanium. Wasn't it a good decision that worked out well? Is it comparable?
Besides the freeware/shareware issue, I'd like to limit the number of various little tools running on my computer, often with effectively full access to my data (since software that provides that type of quality-of-life improvements for core OS functionality is often hard/impossible to sandbox).

I can't even use most of these on my work Mac for the same reason (it's outright not allowed/possible by policy).
Surely you know that the history of using "monkey" as an epithet is extremely charged? It is not a neutral term.
I have. The other interface is better, but unfortunately still uncomfortable. The weight distribution is also an issue for me; the entire unit is a literal pain on the neck.

Another issue that I haven’t seen commented on is that the fixed arms on the headset make getting a comfortable fit tricky. Other headsets’ arms pivot a few degrees so that you can better align the headset with your face.

It’s a surprising result, because comfort is basically solved with other headsets. For example, I can wear the Quest 3 with the elite strap as long as I’d like, and the original PSVR was remarkably comfortable. I suspect the issue is that Apple wanted a ski goggle form factor rather than a rigid halo to make the device seem more futuristic and approachable, and the tech just isn’t there yet for the headset to be light enough for that form factor to work.
Maybe it's every industry. My wife was told she needed to be sitting at her desk ten minutes before clocking in when she worked at Accenture "so the computer could warm up"
At the risk of sounding like Jeff Ballmer, the reason I only use NVIDIA for GPGPU work (our company does a lot of it!) is the developer support. They have compilers, tools, documentation, and tech support for developers who want to do any type of GPGPU computing on their hardware that just isn't matched on any other platform.
There are research companies who only do research and get money by licencing their patents. I mean, I really would like to live in a world without patents, but currently those companies do provide value, but cannot exist, without guarding their IP. Yet they would cease to exist, with your proposal.
But it's moving around through some larger area.
Are you seriously telling me they shouldn't invest into one of their core markets? The necessary investments are probably insignificant. Let's say you need a budget of 10 million dollars (50 developers) to assemble a dev team to fix ROCM. How many 7900 XTX to break even on revenue? Roughly 9000. How many did they sell? I'm too lazy to count but Mindfactory a German online shop alone sold around 6k units.
May their future noble side quests be successful.
just abolish the patent system entirely. at minimum, for software
What's Wrong with C++ Strings?