skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Again I have to question: why do you feel like most of these experienced, skilled white-collar workers

I worked at a tech startup in NYC that employed many local people in several different non-technical blue collar roles. They were some of the first to go when things weren't even over but sudden changes started occurring. Last time we ever saw the cleaning ladies was at a holiday party. All the developers still had jobs (me included) but the other team yeah we are moving what they do to another state. Ok now switch everything to mongodb and we have to decentralize our API because it's gotta run over there.

Unprecedented fad layoffs are having downstream implications on the job market, my experience was almost 8yrs ago. Yes most of the developers will be fine but the people that are on the margins will suffer first.

> The only alternative to having layoffs be a fact of life and business is for companies to provide “jobs for life”

What I want is less "thank you for your sacrifice" and more "this happened on my watch. I made a bad call. I am doing X so that the remaining hardworking people can continue the mission with/without me"

Was it just a bad luck / market forces, or was it an unplanned / risky bet?

That to me determines with/without. Sunshine cures all.
There's actually multiple arguments with zero proof there.

- they didn't prove that Yuzu contributed to piracy (and since the amount of piracy tools on the Switch itself that's far from obvious that Yuzu is a first choice)

- they didn't prove that the leak itself lead to a loss of revenue. And that's also very hard of an argument to make considering that this game was a huge commercial success.
This feels similar to arguing that the Flipper Zero is a car theft tool because people went out and bought one after a video explaining how to use it to break some common car's lock was posted.

I mean, yes, they presumably turned a larger profit correlated to people going and buying it for something illegal, but it's not solely or even primarily used for that, people would be doing this without it, and they didn't have any involvement or encouragement that people do anything criminal with it.
Of course, it doesn't make sense. But Nintendo has infinite money and infinite lawyers compared to these people. That means they can do whatever they want with the law.
Show HN: Gemini assistant won't work when screen is locked
Here I would love to visit IMAX.
I'm surprised that puppeteer uses that default window size. Last time I did a scraping project, I assumed randomizing the window size would be table stakes.
"Ugly syntax" seems like a weird kneejerk reaction. It's text on a screen, if you look at it enough it'll seem normal.
I'm going to assume the encryption is not custom. If it is "off-the-shelf" then they'll have a real hard time proving that without making every browser on the internet a "copyright circumvention device."

But regardless, if they "distribute" (ie, can be freely read off the device without special tools) the keys in the clear, it isn't used to protect anything.
I bought a standing desk here in the Bay area - saw an ad on FB marketplace and went to this warehouse - they had tons of office stuff, got a really nice standing desk for a fraction of the price, this was during covid when lots of offices were going remote.
If anything this lawsuit makes it difficult to morally justify purchasing Nintendo hardware and supporting them. Having really enjoyed the first Zelda game on an emulator I would otherwise have really considered it.
In my early and mid 30s, as a result of visionary experiences, my experience of "lived time" changed. In general, moments lasts a lot longer.

This doesn't really have to do with the brain becoming a better prediction machine so much as how mindful and present you are in the moment. While it is true that doing the same things over and over creates habits (ruts) of the mind, the practice of mindfulness reverses this.

These days (in my early 40s), when I spar with swords, time stretches out by a lot. Especially during tournaments.
I think the author is right about some things (e.g., MELPA, killer packages) and less right about others (e.g., GitHub, Clojure, Maintainers).

I personally suspect that the big reason behind Emacs' resurgence is the feeling lately that computing is no longer responsive to user needs. That it's all about designing, and redesigning, and redesigning again, interfaces to make pretty screenshots, with the user being totally downstream and hardly even a factor in the minds of whatever designer has been assigned to work on the product most recently.

Emacs by contrast gives you an ugly interface that cares about function almost to a fault, that you can then make your own. It gives you the tools to look inside what the program is doing and change its appearance, its functionality, how much or how little information it shows, what that information is, etc.etc. All without constantly shifting under your feet, even with the significantly accelerated development over the last few years.

I do have some concerns about that last part to be honest, with Emacs seeming a little too eager these days to add features that seem to violate its underlying philosophy or design, but it doesn't seem like big, breaking changes are happening on the regular, so for now it's still a platform you can develop atop of as an individual, and feel like you understand and can at least partially map out in your mind.

In short, it presents a philosophy and experience of computing that you don't get very often anymore, even in open-source, especially if you're not a fairly advanced programmer already.
do you have some thoughts on how sdv-dev type projects can be used to start populating, say, a database (eg: mysql running in a container)
i've looked into this space a bunch (eg: Gretel, Tonic, etc) and there doesn't seem to be a good solution that works end-to-end
Privacy Dynamics is quite cool but ideally I'd like something super lightweight that can get pointed to a source db of some sort and then write to a sink (maybe applying a transformation layer in the middle)
Emacs is an operating system that people say it’s a text editor.
My personal experience has been that people dramatically underestimate how easy it is to bs and simultaneously overestimating their ability to tell if someone is bs’ing vs just being nervous/forgetful. Which leads to some hilariously poor outcomes…
I agree that sticking with an unmaintained house of cards isn't a great idea, and I agree that fully self-hosted email is pretty likely to be jank in one way or another - I'm just trying to push back a little on two ideas floating around in this thread:
1) any deviation from the fully-hosted happy path is necessarily a house of cards
and
2) the fully-hosted happy path doesn't have risks of its own

Specifically, I have a domain prepaid for a decade pointing at a mail host prepaid for a decade. I've had this setup for decades and it has literally never broken. In this timeframe I and many friends and family been locked out of Google accounts for one reason or another. If I had to bet money on a family member's ability to access this setup after I have an unscheduled meeting with a bus, vs. their ability to maintain access to a Google account, I'd bet on my setup, not least because that setup involves actual (pre)paid support.

So yeah - house of cards bad, but some degree of control doesn't have to mean house of cards.
I think we're mostly in agreement - just wanted to try to outline where I'm coming from a little more specifically.
What do you mean they just need to show that it made it worse ? What are you basing that on?

I don't know of any similar cases where an emulator or say, a video player (for example Kodi) was held liable for increasing demand?
It's impractical because residential internet speed is very asymmetrical and behind NAT. You will still need external service to get around the NAT thing and the fact you don't have a static IP.
This is such a tired internet trope.

They recently switched their entire product line over to their own silicon resulting in life-changing performance and efficiency improvements. If you're already an apple user, have you forgotten what even the last generation of Intel pros was like? Hot laps, 2 hour battery life, and fans spinning loudly. I have barely heard my fans or felt heat on my M2 Max laptop since I got it. And have the battery life to actually be away from a plug all day. Their software is just good enough. I can't remember the last time the entire OS crashed and had to be rebooted. They manage to freshen up the UI just a little each year with fairly minimal changes that require relearning how to do basic things so often. That's probably why my 75 y/o grandma can text and FaceTime me completely by herself, the phone UI has remained consistent enough she was able to memorize it and use it without help

Even today I'm eyeing a new watch because their materials teams are killing it with Titanium. My old watch is about 4 years old without a discernible scratch on its face.

Apple is making great products, and it's really cool if other companies are catching up, that's what apple needs to compete harder.
We should ditch the word piracy; unauthorized copying might be illegal and maybe even immoral, but it has nothing to do with stealing a boat by either killing the crew or threatening them into submission. It was a dramatically over the top and silly comparison to have made.
Can't unsee this
I really can't just play the pirate game on a software emulator either. It needs an operating system to run on, hardware to run the operating system on, etc.
funny you mention blazer being a target for removal by big co. happened at instacart too! As the company scales, teams bring in the stuff they know. Like tableau. Tableau seems so terrible, ungodly slow, and stuck in 1990. i must be missing something as a non-data scientist.

anyway, same as you said, blazer was in constant threat of being "phased out". It's a hollow wish by the powers that be. blazer is too useful.
I don't see LLMs as the thing removing people. It will take a good 5-10 years for LLMs to be fully integrated everywhere- from code that makes simple decisions, to code that performs more complex crap. The only thing LLMs will do for the first 5 years is cause more hiring IMO.

No, I think what we're seeing is everyone hired by DEI (the DEI directors themselves, as well as a variety of servicy, accounty, publicisty, supporty roles - that were basically hired during the COVID boom (huge piles of money injected via quantitative easing).

Now that QE is over, loans are hard to get, companies have to have profit or very close to profit - to justify anything "fluffy". So its a doubling down on tech roles, but ease off on almost all soft roles.
The latter are often first in the chopping block and you’ll spend quite a bit of time trying to validate your own team’s existence. The aggressive product teams will probably have better career opportunities. Both paths are fine, it’s a trade off
It’s a very tough space to enter but compare it to the iPhone 1 which launched with no App Store, no GPS, 2G instead of 3G, etc. because the pricing was just too hard to hit with those features at the time.
U.S. Kale Contains "Disturbing" Amounts of "Forever Chemicals," Research Finds
I'm reminded of Balk's Law (Everything you hate about The Internet is actually everything you hate about people.)
There isn't a similar carrier aircraft in the inventory that could have been used, as far as I know.
I think it's different when the brand started out as a car company. As grim as it sounds, the public is aware and mostly unconcerned with the idea that vehicles made by the Ford Motor Company are sometimes involved in accidents that kill people.

I don't think that awareness is built in to every consumer brand.
It was not an issue of refining the content on one site, you make a good point though.

It was more of an issue that they had a bunch of clients on an old CMS system, and they did not want to make any changes the way that the sites were built or hosted.

I can make arguments for and against either side of this idea, it all depends how you want to run your business.
What AI thing (I can't think of a single one) does Apple excel at?

Waymo and Baidu can credibly claim they have the people and track record to do this thing. Apple isn't anywhere close.
I wonder if it would be possible to develop a Switch emulator without the ability to decrypt any games. Users would be expected to bring already-decrypted games, which they could decrypt via an "unrelated" program.
I hope they put a laser on every shark.
Free Software Foundation Europe is a lobbying group: https://ec.europa.eu/transparencyregister/public/consultatio...

There are tons of (non-rich) lobbying groups like this, for things like climate action, labour rights, consumer rights, etc.

Of course, it's probably correct that lobbying is probably skewed towards the rich. And maybe we need to correct for that. But then the question becomes "should we correct the influence of money in lobbying, and if so, how?"
At the time Zelda leaked, it didn't work correctly in the release version of Yuzu. The lawsuit claims that the Yuzu team released a patched version that fixed the issue before the game's official retail launch date, but they have some sort of exclusivity period (looks like one week as far as I can tell) where new releases are exclusive to their Patreon before they become freely available. Nintendo is arguing that the large boost in Patreon subscribers was due to people wanting to get access to the patch so they could play Zelda early.
This is non-sequitur to my comment:

- GDPR doesn't require it be a convenient export. Users want to paste a link on my site, a click a button, and have it magically appear. Not fill out a form, dump their entire account and sift through that.

- I never opined on the validity of blocking bots

- I never opined on if it's breaking their TOS

Abuse implies a harmfulness. Giving users a quick import option from already public data isn't harmful.
I'd note that financial markets driven reorganizations are antithetical to elements 1-4 and this explains how Boeing managed to have a culture of safety but lose it (it's often put as MD management took but an article a bit back showed that this was part of the Boeing CEO seeing the financial writing on the wall). Uh, and that happened "under the watchful eyes" of the FAA.

The opposite of 1-4 could be described as the "culture of lies, ignorance and fear". Fear is a good strategy for getting people working hard (if not always well) and lies make fear universal. Compartmentalizing information is needed to allow more and more functions to be subcontracted. If the company is extracting maximum value from it's assets this year, it has no incentive to report problems that will only appear in the future - by the time the future rolls around, the share holders have their and the shell of the remaining company can be tossed away. etc.

Also, another HN commentator mentioned how eliminating a culture of lies and retaliation is once it's in place. There's never a guarantee that those revealing a problem won't be punished once regulators turn their backs.

And 5 is only useful once 1-4 are in place. Otherwise, it's a culture of flexibly hiding your shit in different places.

Edit: This article was on HN a while back.
https://qz.com/1776080/how-the-mcdonnell-douglas-boeing-merg...
Key quote: These decisions, made by Boeing CEO Phil Condit, were made with a close eye on the company’s bottom line ahead of a hotly anticipated commercial-jet boom. An ambitious program of cost-cutting, outsourcing, and digitalization had already begun.
Doesn't this use case fall squarely in the realm of the exception for the purposes of interoperability?
Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t Nintendo caught using an open source emulator for the switch, without any sort of credit to the authors after suing? If so, I have no empathy for them.
I don't think it's likely that software developers can be sued on the grounds of "some people use it for illegal activity". Can IP rights holders sue any torrent tracker on that basis? Not to mention that playing backups of your own games is explicitly legal in many places, and I'd be shocked if it isn't in the US. Lastly, one can make an argument that the purpose of Yuzu isn't playing "Switch games", but emulating the Switch hardware stack, which is legal. For example, writing your own Switch homebrew and running it on Yuzu is permitted.
Actually, performance of GA-based approaches tend to be worse than classical vector algebra. The general multivector in a geometric algebra over an n-dimensional space has 2^n components. The general geometric product is a 2^(2n) components!

In theory a sufficiently smart GA library can optimize away the zero components, but this is yet to be demonstrated in practice. And if you do it by hand, you'll end up with something very similar to classical vector algebra anyway...

What GA excels at is conciseness of notation. Although, once you consider all the different product types (inner product, exterior product, dot product, scalar product, left contraction, right contraction, regressive product - did I miss anything?), it can be a bit intimidating. Some of it feels a bit like APL to me.
They have like the best processors ever. Literally leading.
What are some sites that have good bot detection? I'd be interested in just seeing how my scraper holds up against them.
Is it possible to put my Netlify site behind Cloudflare DDOS protection?
Puppeteer is not created for scraping per se right. I mean it could be, but isn't puppeteer created/maintained by google? So it's not meant to fly under the radar and avoid detection, it's just a naive tool for automating websites that would never try to block it.
> The two executives told staffers that the project will begin winding down and that many employees on the car team — known as the Special Projects Group, or SPG — will be shifted to the artificial intelligence division under executive John Giannandrea. Those employees will focus on generative AI projects, an increasingly key priority for the company.

This line really excited my PR-spin senses. The set of people working on automobile R&D who are good candidates to work on "generative AI projects" is so small that it's hardly worth mentioning. "Many employees" will be moving to jobs within Apple only insomuch as ~5% of 2000 people is arguably "many" (or whatever the size of the autonomous vehicle software team is).

I understand this line as a large layoff announcement that reads more like an internal team reassignment.
> Say you have a situation like X; how would you approach it

everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face

that’s why you ask what happened historically vs. what you would do

if you ask me what will i do if you put a cookie in front of me when im on a diet, id say id turn it down

historically, ive never turned down a cookie
I didn't have much issues with angular 1, especially in the later days of it.
That's a pretty strong statement, maybe expand on what's false, incorrect, or misrepresented?
The leaders of Boeing are clearly fumbling the ball, paying themselves more than ever, shitting on their labor and supply chain sub-contractors, all while costing ME as a taxpayer and occasional user more money and stress than ever.

Such a small group of leaders extracting maximum value for themselves at both the cost of the company, greater economy, AND the US Taxpayer sounds, I don't know... criminal?
Big discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39516927
You may have shone a light on the real point, here.

For as long as they're not taxed, robbed, or otherwise, people will continue to take confidence in the security of the protocol.
During the hayday, we saw new companies come up with new cars all the time!!! And then they slowly went belly up. Part of me thinks that the endless number of regulations prohibited new car companies from entering.

You can import a car from china in a crate that fits on the back of a pickup. But it won’t be legal on roads until it gets things like a DOT approved windshield.
> Even though cars increasingly look like laptops on wheels, the actual computer bit is relatively minor and the user interface is mostly the wheel and pedals, not so much the screen.

Ha, it seems like that to you because you are obviously a car person! For someone like me ideal Apple car would be something without any kind of wheels or pedals. Instead, I should be able to crawl drunk into it, mumble "Siri, take me home" and pass out snoring loudly on the back seat. I guess several years ago when it seemed that (true) self-driving cars are just around the corner Apple had something similar in mind.
This is why I stopped using PayPal. My credit card company allows me to issue chargebacks with typically very little friction because of my credit history. PayPal once put me through the wringer for an order I cancelled and never received a refund for. After that I deleted my PayPal account and decided to never use it again. In this case, I would take my site off Netlify and never use it again.
That's when you go to the judge and ask for a summary dismissal on the grounds that it is ridiculous (they should be suing the power companies instead!). Maybe they say yes and you walk away.
Yes, Pure is a term-rewriting system, similar to SymPy. Transformation rules define patterns to match in expressions, what bindings to capture from the match, and what to transform the matched pattern into. This is also how the XL language seemed to work.

The major difference between a term-rewriting system and a general-purpose functional/declarative language is that you don't need to define everything. Expressions will be transformed until they can't anymore, and then they're left alone. So you can e.g. implement symbolic differentiation as a set of rules, and take the derivative of a symbolic expression, because the variables (or even entire functions!) just don't need to be defined.

The king of all term-rewriting systems is (imo) Mathematica. It's extraordinarily powerful, capable of matching subtrees and variable arity expressions and it's perfect for doing card tricks with algebraic identities. Unfortunately proprietary.

Sadly, term-rewriting languages are languishing. Even Pure is pretty dead.
Speculating here but it feels like part of Nintendo's beef is the popularity of PC form factors that look like a Nintendo Switch. Most notably the Steam Deck but there are loads of them.

In 2022 Nintendo starting taking down Youtube videos showing Steam Decks running Switch games: https://www.resetera.com/threads/nintendo-started-blocking-v...

And last year went after Dolphin (GCN/Wii emulator) as soon as they announced plans to be listed on Steam: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36090755 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36100732
That's valid, and it varies on a case-by-case basis. You might want to track user behavior on your landing page but not on your provider-facing internal application. Flexibility, configurability, and proper risk assessment is key here.
> As a result, Nintendo ... is demanding that the Yuzu emulator is shut down.

When corporations like Uber violate multiple laws, do they get shut down? When Amazon treats its employees poorly, does it get shut down? When Google forbids manufacturers to pre-install competitor apps, does it get shut down? Well, it seems that as long as copyright is not infringed, everything is ok.

Also it seems to me that Nintendo might themselves violate antitrust laws by using their monopoly power on market of Nintendo-compatible games, and not allowing enough competition there.
That makes sense to me.

Also, if you think about memory recall, it takes a second to recall a memory.

So you have the ability to traverse time at a rate of (Your Current Age - Age of Your Earliest Memory) / 1 second

So maybe it’s also the feeling that looking back in time feels faster (more time has elapsed relative to the speed of memory recall) as you get older.