skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People have pointed out numerous examples of conservative groups acting against contraception, and you have dismissed them all.

Nobody has pointed out any examples that are for contraceptives like condoms or birth control pills, but don't include abortions. All the examples have lumped in abortions as "contraceptives," which is a fallacy of composition (contraceptives is a much broader category than abortion is). Yes, conservatives are generally speaking very much against abortion because they believe it is murder. They do love to restrict murder. They do not (at least not that I've seen any evidence for) love to restrict condoms or birth control pills.

> You seem to be implying that conservatives support contraception.
> This is not what evidence shows. Should you have some showing otherwise, though, please provide it.

No, I'm not claiming that at all. I don't think (at a public/policy level) most conservatives give a rats ass for or against condoms or birth control pills.
30% is just too much and they don’t give anything near enough value for devs or App Store consumers.
Seems to only affect Firefox on Mac and it appears like a slightly different editor is used then in Chrome or Safari. It could be a feature flag or a browser specific implementation.
Because it's divorced from reality. In no world will volunteers maintain parity with a trillion dollar hardware and software company covered by a multitude of patents.
Yeah, I expected this to be an article describing how we can get more bang for the buck from 1080 TI GPUs.
I put it to you that the web browser and the operating system are the two most sophisticated applications ever built.

No doubt it’s possible to build a simple web browser that gets some 50% of the job done and could serviceabley display some websites.

However there would a very very long tail of detail and nuance and edge cases that would be very very hard to catch up.

This is why you should use Firefox and we should never lose Firefox.

If you don’t follow it closely, the pace of new feature development in web browsers is stunning. There is a huge amount of new stuff going in constantly.

I’m not knocking this project….. developers can build whatever they like. I’m just observing that the web browser is already the Pyramids of Giza or some other such gigantic human endeavor.
Because it’s not the same thing? One is a thin band of moisture pulled up from the tropics and the other is a high altitude fast flowing air current. Sometimes atmospheric rivers are also called a “pineapple express.” That was more common 20-30 years ago than today.
I guess it has to do with the no social connections. I am introvert but not because of looking at the end of life I start to change myself. Internet devolopment are already taking toal on people's mental health. I got ridoff of Facebook and Instagram long back because of this as well
OpenAI Hits $2B Revenue Milestone
I recently gave this a go as I’d not had a windows desktop for a long time, have a beefy Proxmox server and wanted to play some windows only games - works shockingly well with an a4000 and 35m optical hdmi cables! - however I’m getting random audio crackling and popping and I’ve yet to figure out what’s causing it.

First I thought it was hardware related in a Remote Desktop session leading me to think some weird audio driver thing

have you encountered anything like this at all?
You mean it would bring the price of licensing the patent down? I don't see the downside.
They're living well in NYC: no roommates.
Liquidity ≠ value.

There are plenty of highly liquid investments that are quite speculative, like gold, but you can at least make some reasonable assumptions and say "Would people still pay for a gold ring if it cost $1,000/oz? $10,000/oz? $100,000/oz? There's a natural feedback because of the underlying value of the object.

How do you do the same with Bitcoin? People point to factors of the technology as having some inherent value, but if things like divisibility or the distributed ledger were what give cryptocurrencies their value, then any crypto currency should be just as valuable as any other. There are other intangibles that help explain why Bitcoin out-values other coins, like the brand recognition, or the network effect, but there's no explanation for what those are worth. The problem with this is that bitcoin goes up _because_ bitcoin goes up, and bitcoin goes down _because_ bitcoin goes down. There are no other levers to move the price other than sentiment.
It is easy to retrofit many simple stories onto science.

In this case the "smart guy who figured it out" usually didn't understand the discovery in the same way that we do today. Something was figured out, but typically not in the modern glory that we explain it with today.
(Mostly jokingly) Paranoia tells me they were trying to get more of your personal information to crack security questions on your accounts.
Engineers don't do stuff for fun, they do it for money.
Yes but lose a ton of functionality docker isn't a replacement for helm.
> I'm not really sure what your goal in this discussion is.

My goal in this discussion is to make the case that AI assistance for science research writing is much like the use of mechanical fonts and layout engines for that purpose.

> Are you really trying to convince me that humans can't take credit for their writing?

A scientist was accused of using ChatGPT to help write up their research and wrote an article about it. In my mind the novelty and usefulness of the ideas matters when you publish research and the use of AI assistance to help you write is useful much like mechanical fonts and mechanical computation and layouts are useful.

You agree with this view yet you think there is inherent value in writing without AI assistance whereas I feel our energy is better spent on the ideas being communicated. My time / energy is finite and when I allocate it to X I can not allocate it to Y.

We used to take pride in the letter shapes our hands create and we still teach children hand writing however in practice handwriting no longer matters. We use mechanical fonts and machines for writing. The legibility of communication for all has greatly improved and our time is best spent on aspects that do add value.

> This is such a bizarre "debate".

We are sharing our views and explaining them. I do not see a debate.
I'm imagining a dialog in which I ask, "So why does it all exist then?" And you reply, "Well, I'm not sure, no-one is. But it's not God." To which I respond, "My brother in faith!" and embrace you. After that we ponder the ineffable over a few pints.
Looks like you've just taken the first step. TopTal is possibly a good service to get your name out there.

I'm currently in search of a full-stack engineer to work on a project part-time. If you're interested in hearing more let me know.
I worked for one of the largest firms in the US, and they required us to report our hours worked every week, docking us if we worked less than 40 hours.
This seems like a foreign world you're describing - lots of income, huge pay bumps, lots of takeout, unable to keep up a house without kids...
Corp. The Foundation doesn't make products.
> You can't legislate that someone lose more money than they gain with access to your market.

What? Of course they can. That someone will then just leave the market, or maybe change their product more. But there is absolutely no reason why they can't.
I don't know what you mean by "Static typing is not webscale".

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39159481

Bugs exist in all code written in all programming languages and you will find bugs in programs written in statically typed languages too as you know. Programming languages are rarely chosen for the absense of bugs alone though or we'd all be using SPARK Ada or something.

> spitting out code as fast as your keyboard works, or is is not having features do weirdo things

This is a straw man. No-one has suggested that "spitting out code as fast as your keyboard works" is what Rails allows you to do, or that Ruby code results in features that "do weirdo things".

In reality engineer productivity is important and Rails enables it in a web environment.

> I have more than once tried to contribute fixes to GitLab's codebase, and every time I open the thing in RubyMine it hurpdurps having no earthly idea where symbols come from or what completions are legal in any given context.

Yes, I prefer writing statically typed languages and I would /greatly/ prefer Ruby to be statically typed for a number of reasons, but it will likely never be so in a way I consider to be usable (see https://github.com/ruby/rbs). Not being able to definitively tell what a method returns or where one is defined is a total PITA, but it's one of the array of up and downsides to Ruby, with each language having a different set.

> I trust JetBrains analysis deeply, so if they can't deduce what's going on, then it must take an impressive amount of glucose to memorize every single surface area one needs to implement a feature.

You don't need to know how all of Rails works to write a Rails app, as I'm sure you know, so this seems like another mis-representation of the truth, just as you don't need to know how the compiler or CPUs work to do a lot of (most?) programming.

> That or, hear me out, maybe "it works on my machine" is a close to correct as the language is going to get without explicit type hints as a pseudo static typing

You seem to be suggesting that Ruby on Rails applications behave unpredictably on a machine to machine basis but that's not really how Ruby works in practice, or matching on my experience.
Here is a migration guide: https://proton.me/blog/migrate-skiff-to-proton
> Weeding out poor candidates is not possible with 10-15 minutes informal chats.

You do realize you’re replying to a comment showing it _is_ possible right?
Why can't they build it?
> software users are the customers of the software developers

Yes, but the users are also customers of the owner of the software platform that the developers are developing for. And the owner of the platform gets to set the platform's rules. Microsoft's standard practice for many years was to watch for which third party Windows applications were becoming popular, and build those features into one of their own products, thus cutting the market out from under the third party developer. I'm actually surprised that Apple hasn't done more of that.
End of General Avalailability of the Free VSphere Hypervisor (ESXi 7.x and 8.x)
Show HN: Bucketeer a Web UI for Exploring S3 Buckets
Oh, I'm a photographer, I get it. But I also feel like there's a reverse-GAS - Gear Disappearance Syndrome? - after rich folks overspend and discover "way more than I need" is also "way more than I want to learn how to use".

I got my D500 that way, actually. Used, but in perfect condition and with a shutter count below 5000 - per the fellow at the used counter, the former owner had said it was 'too much camera for him.' Considering his error got me an effectively new body at 2/3 the new price, I hope rich folks go on making such mistakes for a long time to come!
It doesn’t matter how bad some tool was if the replacement is non-existant or even worse, even less used, etc…
I'm not saying Apple is good, I'm saying IBM was also utterly terrible for independent developers and might have been worse.
Now think about this scenario: the parent approves installation when asked because they didn’t realize it was an open ended financial commitment, and because like most people they associate app stores with curation which prevents abuse.

When they get a huge bill 6 months later, or after the game company is acquired, etc. the first thing they’re going to ask is why nobody warned them. That’s the point of these dialogs - to make the importance of the decision harder to miss.
Either path seems like a maintenance nightmare. Are the client requested customizations primarily chrome/look & feel or functional changes to the product? Are these customizations features that could or should be merged back into the mainline product? If the underlying app or plugins change who pays for validating the changed code in re-deployments and fixing any problems caused by the updated code?
So the solution that you propose to this "security problem" is to make sure all software is downloaded through the app store.

...the app store that requires AP devs to pay Apple 30%. That's... convenient.

There is nothing wrong with using a package manager to guarantee the source of your software. That's what every major Linux distro has been doing since forever!

The problem is that Apple gets to play dictator with their package manager, and vainly call any alternative (that doesn't pay them and cater to their politics) "a virus".
Traditionally, when faced with something that isn't a good deal, you don't buy it.
If I'm not mistaken, we are the only country which has a founding document enshrining chattel slavery. Many of the issues in the USA stem from this, amendments notwithstanding - it's a stain on everything, arguments in the top legal court, the Supreme Court, frequently bring up the historicity so we are constantly enmeshed in very old and sometimes medieval thinking, i.e. recent abortion decision referenced many legal arguments that preceded modern biology or medicine.
With the technology of the time I do not believe there is a solution.

Modern technology might be able to turn the car couplings into something that can actively manage their tilt relative to each other, thus allowing them to propagate the balance beyond a single gyro car, but there's a lot of PID-controller-type [1] math that would go into determining if this was even possible with real, physical objects trying to control things the size and mass of train cars in a train track environment. The computations are probably not that difficult in 2024 but trying to actually deliver the correct forces in a timely manner may be difficult if not impossible. There aren't always solutions, or practical solutions, to the PID equations in the real world.

Plus, I'm sitting here imagining the size of the electric motors we're trying to torque the cars against each other with and it's hard not to say that we're better off just having two tracks and putting those motors on the wheel themselves. (Which then collapses to having a locomotive setup like we have now.) In the "power/control/price" triangle we're basically forced to take the max on power and control, so these are going to be ferociously expensive if they can be built at all.

And there's some bad failure cases that I just don't know that you can mitigate. Having 30 minutes after power loss to evacuate passengers is generally going to be enough, but cargo can't be evacuated on that timeline. And that's not the only failure case. A seized gyro is going to be catastrophic and even a single one could take the whole train down, even with that PID control system (which is going to be a stretch even without also having to build in buffers for failed gyros).

The fact that a 2-track-train can just sit there for extended periods of time with no power is one of those advantages you don't even think about until you try to take it away.

Guy was a genius though. It's basically an analog computer that keeps itself upright that you can ride.
The final design is amazing with its judo-esque approach to using physics against itself. But I don't think it can be scaled up much beyond "neat tourist attraction". I'd ride one as a tourist attraction, though.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional%E2%80%93integral%...
Two things:

1. GitLab (as with most other companies with geo-dependent comp) pays based on Cost of Labor--not Cost of Living. So if a market has crazy-expensive real estate but salaries haven't caught up (somewhere like Vancouver), you're out of luck.

2. GitLab is NOT encouraging team members to relocate to HCOL areas at all. In fact, while they encourage hiring in LCOL areas (there are target "location factors" for teams, so there's a bias toward hiring in lower-cost areas), the Handbook ( https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/people-group/relocation... ) states that "Relocations resulting in an increase in compensation must be approved by the team member’s direct manager, and location factor changes that are >.2 will require direct manager, VP as well as an eGroup Member approval."

TL;DR -- don't get hired in Iowa an expect to bounce to SF right away.
Thanks for your suggestion. The title has been changed to your suggestion :p
Adobe Animate, the descendant of Macromedia Flash authoring tool, still exists. It is Flash Player that went away.
Consensus is a distributed systems problem. And in that space there are only two hard problems:

2. Exactly-once delivery
1. Guaranteed order of messages
2. Exactly-once delivery
Issue is that modern UX designed moved away from this type of 3D buttons. There was a big transition from UIs using heavy skeuomorphism to a more flat and digital look.

To achieve hat you're showing you need some depth to the button. Hard to accomplish with today's design trends.
Then do a party. Or 3. It will be still cheaper, because anything in context of wedding makes the cost increase 5 times.
This is why I worship the stormlord.
> If this is true, why does Android not set their pricing at 5-10% or less, get more developers and outcompete apple?

You have discovered duopolies. It's not like Google isn't being sued for anti-competitive smartphone behavior right now.

Okay to be fair, that's a somewhat dismissive answer, it is slightly more complicated. Google uses Android more as an advertising platform than as a product on its own. Their goals are slightly orthogonal to Apple's and taking full market share or capturing high-paying users (especially users who are advertising-adverse and prefer to pay for apps) is not necessarily the most important thing in the world to Google.

As a point of reference, we're all fighting over the app store, but Google pays Apple more per-year to be the default search provider in Safari than Apple makes from the entire iOS app store in a year. All of the noise Apple has made... over less profit than they make with a single transaction from Google. This should tell you something about where Google's priorities lie and about whether or not the company really cares about seriously competing with iOS. Google is willing to expend enormous resources and to spend enormous amounts of money... about things they care about.

Google gets enough developers to compete with iOS in general, they don't really need to do more. And because of that they'll charge what they can. Sure, maybe Google could do something radical and transform the market, but why would they? It's not what Google is here for, they're here to get your data and then advertise to you and Android is just one mechanism out of many that Google has to do that.
The top answer references About Face 2.0 which I read at the time and it's still probably the best book on user experience design. I think there's newer editions, but the principles it laid out were really the fundaments that I still live by.
Thanks for the link! I went in search of a product like this to read about it's development, but didn't find one in my short search. This was super convenient!
Authors can license all of their rights away. They can sell their copyrights - I don't see your point...
Who created the checkbox widget? System 1 (1984) had check marks on the menu and "x boxes", which are equivalent, but not checkboxes afaik
"Times are tough" is a refrain I've been hearing from employers since the 2009 recession. Somehow the economy is never good from an employer's point of view--just varying degrees of bad--so they can never afford those raises they promised.
There is already a work-in-progress implementation of HIP on top of OpenCL https://github.com/CHIP-SPV/chipStar and the Mesa RustiCL folks are quite interested in getting that to run on top of Vulkan.

(To be clear, HIP is about converting CUDA source code not running CUDA-compiled binaries but the Zluda project discussed in OP heavily relies on it.)
That's a good example, but I wonder if people now have more options and are more career-mobile. 700 years ago masonry was a family profession. Now it would get brain drained by AI.
It's legal for companies to make hiring decisions based on the results of personality tests. It's legal for them to make other personal decisions, such as promoting, firing, giving raises etc. It's legal to make these kinds of decisions based on personality tests that have poor scientific evidence in their efficiency. It's legal to ignore the tests and not make decisions based on them. Largely companies use this as a cover-your-ass tactic. The employer is buying ammunition for future legal fights over employment.

There's really only one set of personality traits (The Big 5) that has a strong scientific backing. Of those only being high in conscientiousness is a signal for being a good employee. Employers screen for that all the time via proxy, such as having a college degree. They don't need to test for it directly. There are however many not-big-5 popular personality tests that are sold to companies. I don't want to call out any specific one, but you should be highly skeptical of their validity.

At best these tests are management by covering your ass. At worst these tests are actively filtering against populations that it is illegal to filter for. For example, the IQ test was once given as part of the immigration process for the United States. Considering that the tests were administered in English they were mostly used as legal justification to turn away non-English speakers.
For example some E-VTOL systems have six quite independent systems, each with a battery, motor and propeller. I think it helps the design to be more fault tolerant. Helicopters are allowed many things even when they are noisier and don't have similar redundancy.

There was a scheduled helicopter between Helsinki and Tallinn. It was somewhat expensive but not unreasonable. Much faster than a ship of course. It crashed, everyone died. They continued later but stopped eventually. They are complex mechanical solutions with very high maintenance requirements.
So instead of helping the vulnerable groups get education, they will try to divert as much funds as possible from that goal?

I alao thought that getting education outside of public one-size-fits-all school was a conservative thing (religious schools, private schools) - especially if enabled by a voucher. Is that is what politics are about?
I really hate it. I lose menu bar applications and application menus behind it literally every single day.

I don't mind that it exists and that some people prefer it to large bezels... I just wish there was a way to say "claim my screen is -X pixels and show me the full menu" like before. Without both requiring one app to be full screen and that crazy scaling mode that makes everything fuzzy.
All because Jack Dorsey wore a Satoshi Nirvana shirt at the Super Bowl?
I had a similarly inspired idea recently but more deeply git/vcs-based https://github.com/MichaelBelousov/forkage, which would use arbitrary git providers for a registry and encourages editing your dependency's content but then you can promote your edits to a fork and search/diff other forks of packages.

fyi there's about 0 progress in that repo besides the README laying out the hypothetical CLI and file structure.
Those are very good points, and totally agree that large-scale farming today of nearly any food source is perverted to the point of being awful. I'd like to see a balance between clear regulation for humane treatment of animals _before_ abuse becomes rampant, and security for new food sources to be developed as we inevitably need them in the future.
100% agree.

Pretty sure the original idea of patents was to protect the inventor while they brought a product to market or licensed the patent to others to improve their products.

Holding a patent without even attempting to bring the idea to market should invalidate the patent after some reasonable amount of time.

The whole system as it is today needs a hard sanity check.