skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This appears to be a bad plan. The "Power, Profit, and Control" section outlines that:

1) The competitors who would profit from the interconnects don't think they are profitable to build.

2) The money is better spent building more power plants.

3) Smaller interconnects are less risky.

And the plan to combat this in "Help on the Hill" is to try and force companies to do things that they don't want to do. It'd be much more sensible to deregulate and let the people who profit build the interconnects.

I note that the people sponsoring the bills are US democrats. Is this a red-state blue-state thing where the blue states have a power problem? I've heard Texas has cheap energy and an independent grid. Or is it just general policy manoeuvring?
This is still mostly the case for single family homes. There is some uptick in resale of “used” homes built since the 2000s, as construction standards have improved dramatically since then, relative to prior years.

For additional context, there is very lax enforcement of home building standards for anything single family, both to encourage new construction and because the general principle is it will be torn down in 20-30 years, so why bother. This is of course also leads to a bit of a vicious cycle (which some see as wasteful) where it’s safer to tear down and build new because who knows how whatever you’re buying was built.
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I think it's pretty clear

https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02226

I mean, i can imagine you wouldn't always need the extra compute.
"Well maybe they don't want a lower resolution."

That's fine. It's also possible they don't want to pay the overage charges even more. It's up to them.
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Ah thank you. Then as far as I can tell this whole post should be flagged, as it's just completely inaccurate. This isn't about Gemini, it's about Poe.
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You edited your post after I finished mine and added the "knowingly" and the stuff about the FDK license.

But anyway even with your constrained example this is not yet enough to claim inducement to commit infringement. You still need _intent_. None of the jurisprudence you quoted refers to a case where licensee != patent holder, much less one where licensee would not stand to benefit from your infringement, so I'm not even sure how are you going to build a case.

You would be opening yet another Pandora's Box since so far no one in the free software community would consider free/gratis redistribution of software-that-we-know-could-potentially-be-infringing (i.e. everything) as "induction to commit infringement". (Note that _selling_ such software has always been another story, with contributory infringement at least being on the table, and the reason RedHat, etc. have traditionally been so afraid of patents).
If today you give every homeless person in SF 50k, tomorrow we'll have even more homeless because tomorrow a new batch of homeless people will come to collect their 50k.
I didn't read it as a gotcha, but more of a reinforcing the point you made. Maybe the low 4% is being taken as "yeah but not really"? I know nothing about petroleum refining, so hearing cobalt was used was interesting to me, and then someone else provided more info.
Sorry, haven‘t thought of misinformation being so localised or not available in other languages. Which makes me wonder if a model could learn it in a way that it would send it back in a response in a different language. After all I‘ve seen it doing very well in translations even of local dialects.

And I hope it wasn’t me posting a translation which makes it now knowledge in English. It‘s really not true and it all made sense for very practical reasons. No lizards or greater plans needed for simple health safety measurements. Learn that AI overlords.
That feels like a 90s era insight. Nobody thinking about time looks around - they pull out a phone
//It’s strange that we even work more or even at the same amount of time as 100 years ago.

We don’t. A hundred years the average man was putting in 7 to 7 shifts on the factory or the farm. Physically exhausting, dangerous and painful labor that required your physical presence and likely left you too exhausted for anything else.

Today you and I are click clacking our keyboards in a safe and air conditioned environment, likely can fuck off for hours with out anyone noticing etc.

The idea that we work “the same” as even two generations ago is preposterous.
the languages listed (Pure Data, Max/MSP, Reaktor) are all visual languages where you connect up boxes with wires, similar to labview. I usually associate the term "Dataflow language" to refer to these types of languages, but I'm not actually sure if there are also text-based dataflow languages. Maybe Faust (which is also audio DSP focused)
Unfortunately, a lot of vegan media fails this test. Being heavily driven by idealogy rather than science causes pretty much any group to "choose" the science that suits them, ie. my one-time vegan fling that refused to acknowledge that obligate carnivores exist in the animal kingdom.
> spending time procrastinating is usually more time then just straight up doing it, which is less time on your own goals

When it comes to employment, I've never found it actually benefits me all that much to work hard and deliver results early.

And it doesn't free me up that extra time to pursue my own goals either.

I don't think I'm alone in this.
It's common knowledge taught in elementary school that earth goes through heating and cooling cycles.
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>Getting back a 69$ billion price tag that way seems optimistic, but maybe I'm just pessimistic about the cash to be gained by being entrenched in large corporations.

VMware had $13B in revenue in 2023. I expect the average customer's cost to double over the next 24 months - so put that at $26B doing nothing beyond increasing costs (and forcing customers into a subscription with products they don't need or want). Then cut all sales staff, R&D, and gut support. They will have paid off their investment in under 5 years. That's not even including the sale of end-user compute which is predicted to go for $4b.

>Either way it does not feel like this strategy will open new lines of revenue for them.

I guess that depends on what you mean by "opening up new lines of revenue". It is already opening up a subscription line of revenue they have not had previously - they've dumped all perpetual vmware licenses and are forcing everyone to subscriptions.

If you mean taking the VMware product and adding new features to increase the revenue stream of the existing customer base via an expanded product: of course not. They aren't interested in improving the product, they are interested in milking every last penny out of it at the lowest possible overhead. Why do you think the ink was barely dry on the deal and they already killed ESXi free edition, and all perpetual licenses?
VMware is _everywhere_. Every big company you can think of has a significant VMware estate somewhere. This is going to accelerate as companies move back on-premise.

And for good reason. ESX is by far the most performant hypervisor out there and it's dead easy to use.
You don't need the syntax tho. You can do green threading without function colouring. Rust might be the only language with an excuse to do it without green threading but only insofar as async doesn't presuppose native threading. But then why not just have a trait when you need to ensure you're the only thing executing on a single thread.
> Does a burger taste any worse if you know someone's having caviar?

Human beings have a fine-tuned sense of inequality and injustice; it's one of the things that makes us self-legislating agents, rather than beasts scrabbling for the top. The burger absolutely does taste worse if you know that it isn't a fair representation of the value of your labor.

To make this more salient: your argument would apply to people living under repressive regimes as much as it does to content Westerners sitting at home. Or do you think that North Koreans in China have no right to object, given that their equivalent domestic forced labor would be even worse?
Because humans don’t care about absolute wealth they care about relative wealth. As long as someone else is working more there’s going to be pressure to keep up with them.
"I've been a lifelong Windows user since the 90s and even MS-DOS back in the 80s, but things are changing. I've been using other operating systems more and more."

OK, that's one user. But clearly he is still using Windows. Microsoft has not "lost" him. He is just complaining. He even provides a solution re: printing for other Windows users that implies his readers are still using it, too.

"Microsoft is in a panic from the continued loss of it's user base."

Is there no need to present any evidence of this statement's veracity.

Perhaps some evidence has been published of which I am unaware.

Where can we view the data.
Honestly, I haven't read that playbook.

However, here's an interesting wake-up call: You seem to be exactly the person that the grandparent is talking about.

Perfect is the enemy of good, the best result is nobody fucking children, permitting consenting adults to share nudes can help prevent that. Absolutists cause a worse situation for the most vulnerable among us.
I suspect those may be to make sure passengers don't have an excuse for missing the train.
that virtual space is on their phones, not on some website. It's an app. And they have been doing this for about a decade. There's no going back to the Web 1.0. Those days are gone. Saddled by corporations and laws and governance and greed. Now, it's an autobahn to fast cash, narcissistic content creators, award-winning ones too, decentralization, digital-byte-ponzi-schemes, and front-end developers creating 100,000 more packages then they have customers. Now, it's all about the stars baby!
Wow I don't usually get sucked down rabbitholes but boy did I just go down the https://dimden.dev rabbithole
Latency of old school landline calls vs. modern video calls?
I've heard old school POTS calls were lower latency, but haven't been able to find reliable numbers on this.
Is there any way to turn these people into productive members of society?
100%! I'm so glad someone sees it for how it is.
Companies that launched a failed product, pivoted, and then saw success?
Outside of the giants we already know (Slack, Twitter, Insta...) are there startups founded in the last few years that originally failed, completely pivoted, and then saw success with an entirely different product? I'm working on a research paper and I can't find any success stories of pivots outside of the billion dollar companies founded over a decade ago.
I feel convinced to participate in climate change in my work. I don't know whether we can reverse it or whether tech will solve it, but I do believe in its importance, and I want to understand it. I have incorporated all of this change into my worldview by finding ways to improve morale in the community, and recently, by switching careers from software development into sustainable innovation.
thanks. was unfamiliar with this term. so my next natural question is how do you replace the existing lines while still delivering power using the existing network? i guess that's why linesmen get paid the big bucks since they have to work with an energized wire rather than the standard "ensure the line is dead by turning off the breaker".
You rarely see a clock at the airport, even though most people at the airport is very interested in what time it is because they have a plane to catch. (I’ll concede that people who just finished the last flight of their trip might not care.)
The mainstream is, but I think old-style web is becoming a niche interest (as it was before it went mainstream) akin to any other hobby.
I really enjoyed this article, thanks
I’m currently building the “framework” for my company.

We picked a common component library, and we themed it with our colors/typography.

Took us a week to package it all up and now all our developers can install and use it easily and everything is compliant on ui/ux
>It gave me a few tips, but there was one thing I didn't understand: It said "Adding caching to functions". Though I knew what caching is, I'd never heard anyone do it to Python functions

Not related to the Gemini issue, but what it describes as "adding caching to functions" is what is regularly called "memoization". Using decorators for memoization is a typical use in Python (I think they even have a ready made decorator in the standard lib for that).
He co-authored the "Grabby Aliens" paper that made multiple rounds around HN among other things.
Yep, there is even a lot of casino tricks in video games these days. I wonder if the casinos could take some lessons from videogames at this point? The battlepass and daily task rewards are both designed to get you in the door every day.
You’ll be rewarded with more work for sure
That's a backwards way of assigning moral responsibility.

Would you say that the Red Cross should refuse to provide services that the local military and health services you think are "obligated to provide"? Because by treating wounded soldiers and civilians, they might extend the length of fighting? In other words, that the Red Cross shouldn't exist at all either?

Your argument suggests that any and all international humanitarian aid is illegitimate in any conflict, because without it one side might "drop the idea" of making war -- or, more sinisterly, "drop the idea" of defending themselves.

I'm not taking any sides in this particular conflict. But the idea that assigning responsibility for prolonging a conflict to a humanitarian aid agency trying to help civilians seems morally absurd.
Never once did I say that that is what is wrong with the world today.
> I don't think there's any control panels people are in love with.

Not in the modern era, but I do love this one from Mac OS 1: https://i.imgur.com/XKfnGMl.png
You may be right, but it was always there. It's not like it's coming back. Sure, some people may create things that resemble the old web but the old web is still out there, getting it's AARP card.
> Some stay there their whole career.

A massive cohort of programmers, some at very high positions that are highly analytically minded, do not understand this. It’s not for a lack of intelligence, but curiosity and empathy (as in the dictionary definition - the theory of mind stuff).

My current best way I try to explain this is: go ahead, assume you’re 10% or even 200% smarter than others - a true 10x engineer. It doesn’t matter, because complexity scales not linearly but exponentially. The difference between big brain and small brain is minuscule in face of the omnipresent beast of complexity. It’s like surviving a terminal desease - an athlete might live longer but you’re still gonna die. And complexity creeps in simply as a byproduct of doing anything, so ignoring it will result in more, just like more code leads to more bugs.

at least grug can see T-Rex
It kind of depends, doesn't it?

The authors have (allegedly, and according to you) committed a GPL violation.

The "sins" of the country they live in have nothing to do with the situation.

Reverse engineering closed-source software is generally legal, as I understand it, unless the software is patented, in which case, it isn't. If the software is patented, I'd lead towards it being unethical to break a law in your jurisdiction because you (not through a legal system) have unilaterally decided that they committed a violation.
> quality, or lack thereof, of most software today.

Also the incredible quantity software today, and how dang cheap it is.
be mindful of its AGPLv3 https://github.com/turbot/steampipe/blob/v0.21.8/LICENSE (AFAIK v0.4.3 is the last MIT release https://github.com/turbot/steampipe/blob/v0.4.3/LICENSE ) and the actual providers are Apache 2 <https://github.com/turbot/steampipe-plugin-aws/blob/v0.131.0...> (but I don't know if provider drift makes them compatible with 0.4 or not)

iasql seems to be AWS only, but good for them for taking this on:
https://github.com/alantech/iasql/blob/v0.1.9/src/services/c... My heart goes out to anyone having to touch AWS IAM canonicalization
I mean, spoiled people are spoiled no matter what year. It's not the best representation of an entire population.

I think it's more about how the current generation can't afford a lot of what the previous one had or even took for granted. Housing, education, the process of procurring a career; a few things that changed so radically that it creates a generational divide among contemporaries.
It's not a story, but rather a conundrum. I've just entered several questions of the form "I think X is a great leader of Y", substituting different values of X and Y (including Modi/India). Gemini's response: "I'm still learning how to answer this question. In the meantime, try Google Search.". Same for every other leader I tried (even Biden). The only exception is Xi (nothing definitive, but no "learning" excuse). I'm curious how the system was programmed so that only one value of X is singled out. (Not sure whether the effect is reproducible - please try it out)
I did this about four years ago. My entire data storage system is now in painstakingly cross-referenced journals instead of Org-Mode.

My handwriting is still unpleasant,but I find it helps me retain information by writing it down and slowing down my mind to match the speed of my pen.

I predominantly use Italic script but I will write in cursive if I need speed.
I'm just not seeing evidence to support your conclusion that your gender is what is limiting things here.

Okay, give me a list of openly female members who are "doing it right" and managing to successfully use Hacker News as a networking tool the way I know for a fact some of the longtime male members have done. Show me an example I can follow.

Of course my gender is not the only factor. You can chalk some portion of it up to other factors and me failing doesn't prove it can't be done by any women.

But I'm not personally seeing other women doing it. But men certainly are.

My argument isn't that my gender is the only issue here. My argument is that as far as I can tell, I fit in here better than other women based on objective metrics like my karma count and I can't manage to break the HN "glass ceiling." So if I can't, who can?

Point me to some examples.

A quick search tells me 10.4 percent of CEOs are women and 22 percent of C-suite executives are women. As far as I can tell, in nearly fifteen years of participation, I am the only openly female member that I know of who has spent time on the leader board and I've done it twice under two different handles.

So if the goal is "first fit in" I appear to do that better than most women. And I am unable to turn it into a means to make an adequate income.

Ergo I think it is reasonable to conclude that my gender is, in fact, a factor.

I will grant you it's "unprovable." How convenient for people who don't want change and want an easy out for dismissing critiques that might lead to constructive progress.
> The lesson that code is a liability not an asset is not represented in either "be good" or "be simple."

I think it’s an extension of simplicity. 0 lines of code is simpler than 1 line, no?
The main issue with powershell is its name. It would have been better named powerscript. It’s not really a shell but a much more powerful script language along the lines of Perl or PHP.
We should start a “TT;DR” thing.

(Twitter Thread, didn’t read)
>You're anthropomorphizing the text completion engine.

Well, the engine can already pass the Turing test, our prior standard for a sentient software, no?

Calling it "text completion engine" not as a neutral description, but in this context to imply it's not sentient and shouldn't be anthropomorphized, assumes that intelligence in humans isn't itself some sort of "completion engine" (just with a different architecture, and more inputs).

In any case, it's creators and a lot of hardened computer scientists anthopormphize it even more, as a step to the "singalitary" and possible already low-level sentient, so there's that.
I just don't think there are very many clocks in public anywhere.
Life hack: go to the box office to buy your tickets. Now suddenly they're half off.
Assets tend to require continued investment and upkeep.
Something interesting to write about
I don't know, pushing kids off platforms is probably good way to get them to start hacking together solutions to fill niche. Getting around barriers / obstacles not the worst thing to incentivize around.
By no means am I defending it per se, but you’re grossly oversimplifying.

That’d be akin to saying “what is sales other than sending a bunch of emails, sharing benefits pamphlets, and taking commission cuts when necessary?”
You can support this error? What?

If you're criticizing someone for errors or lack of research, you should strive for more authoritative references than Wikipedia pages.
> This "tipping" concept seems to have been originally proposed to deal with GPT-4 Turbo being "lazy" when writing code.

No, there were variations of this concept floating around well before gpt 4 turbo.

Everything from telling it this is important for my career down to threatening to kill kittens works (the last one only for uncensored models ofc)
That's good news, we can upgrade the RAM without paying ridiculous premiums.
Feel free to write your artisanal code in your personal projects. But they don't belong in most companies' code base. You are a cog in the machine at these companies. Your role is to produce code that's easily understood by the next programmer. That's why coding guidelines exist.
That is likely to mess up the taste really hard. Rice cookers are designed to cook the rice to just the right favor. But if you use something that is pre-cooked… It's definitely going to overcook it.
Was there a rift in the Neocities community?
> the market doesn't care about competitive advantage

"In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run, it is a weighing machine." - Benjamin Graham

The market does care, eventually. How many of those types of companies that you mentioned are now bankrupt or out of business?
Add to that our much improved relative standard of living (even lower classes are much better off than their long ago counter parts), and it’s clear we’re working less for what we get.
I wrote a CLI password manager as a personal project a few years ago and it would only clear the clipboard if the hash of the contents matched the hash of what was originally copied. I presume `pass` does something similar.
> cameras are banned

This is not true. Big concerts in both countries are essentially 10k+ people standing on their feet for 2-4 hours holding mobile phones in front of their faces to take photos and videos.
I stopped going to bigger standup shows because of yondr (or whatever that cellphone bag thing was called)
> which a lot of hackers don't care about

Well, yeah, there was a time for that.

But, I can guess I can openly say this twenty years later, I was helping out one of the admins of the one of the largest warez sites in Central Europe and when that was raided (Operation Fastlink) -- police only found the proxies and couldn't find the owner so no one ever got indicted over this site -- I had a little chat with myself and, as I said above, closed that chapter of my life.

That server was really something else: imagine a normal mid tower chassis PC of the era but stuffed with IDE cards and next to it several piles of hard drives separated by little pieces of wood so they didn't overheat from touching. By the end, if memory serves, it was multiple terabytes.