skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I did see that, or at least people who claimed to be seniors online, plus some mid-level friends and yes, a junior friend. Admittedly, it's just anecdotes, but it's very difficult to get hard facts, even from perusing bls.gov.

But something changed in the past 4 months or so. I used to see the two things you described, but now I see seniors repeating the same thing juniors (whom they ridiculed) used to say. Look at this very thread, for example. People are starting to realize that even if these AI startups are making ridiculous promises, the tech might be way more than just hype/smoke and mirrors.

I've read quite a few comments in HN, and right here in this thread, that say something along the lines of "I'll be fine... It's the juniors I'm worried about".
Just looked this up for myself and it's indeed partially correct (mostly webp, jpg, png, etc though).

You left out an important part which is that they're proxying these requests through their own servers to avoid the source being found.

This way they could be placing the files on servers that actually require some sort of authentication such as a login page and once that's done the sky is their limit as you could even be hosting files on Discord and it would be very difficult to find the source.

User -> Pirate proxy server -> Github (or some other site)
We insiders pronounce ICCNCIDC “ick nick id”. The trailing C is silent. Please don’t reveal this to the uninitiated.
I just move my old drive to the new machine, wonder why that wasn't possible here.
Was going to loop in Jesse over on DirectX but they're already on the case!
The MAU of the internet continues to grow. How is it a corpse when it hasn't even reached its peak yet?
You can handle the onblur event and use it to clear all pressed keys.
Many having this issue, unfortunately. Also discussed in this thread and on Reddit:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39687192

Edit: Fixed; confirmed as of 13:37 GMT+11, March 12, 2024.
You see much lamentation from older technical folks who came of age in the 80s and 90s and fondly remember the old internet. It is odd because all their complaints are almost entirely just about a couple social networks. Certainly facebook and twitter are dying. That seems like a really good thing to me but perspectives may vary.

I find myself wishing more and more that AI would hurry up and kill facebook and google, then we could get back outside and start guiding the growth of the internet as a global community as opposed to a couple silicon valley megacorps deciding what everyone sees every day.
I was responding to the parent comment.

Also, substantive due process was not invented for reproductive rights. It was invented in Dred Scott v. Sandford, to prevent “free” states from depriving slave owners of their “property”.
Wait you told me you were already doing it
Consider stating opinions as opinions, and not as facts.
You don't even need to do that, just get the video to start playing and then press F12 to open the dev tools as the video will keep streaming and you'll still be able to see the network requests despite the messages.
As a human, I can tell you that I suck at predicting exponential growth.
Metas backing itself into a corner with its admirable commitment to open source. Unfortunately, at some point when they decide to monetize their billions spent and try to release a closed source model, the level of vitriol they will deal with will be an order of magnitude above what even OpenAI is experiencing. I don’t think they realize that!
Imagine using YC as a corollary for consumer demand (or hell, corporate righteousness).

> I don’t even care

> This is simply an amusing situation, the grandstanding is simply funny.

Wait till the Commission delivers the punch-line.
UAE has the advantage of being tax-free too, which adds ann extra 30%ish to take-home, although many people work very long hours. Also the weather is phenomenal 8 months of the year (although unliveable the rest), and your employer is on the hook to pay for exceptional health insurance. For a professional couple without kids, it can be a great way to save money, although costs are comparable to London.

I was doing well living there and doing contract work out of US EST.
Yes it is, and bootlickers -- the kinds of jerks who shadowban people -- cheer it on because they're bitter when they see others being creative or thinking originally.
> How do you preserve that density during expansion

You don't. We aren't in a particularly dusty universe right now. It's also not completely clear. There is dust. This dust is dilute. If our universe is expanding, at some point that dust was denser.

Now run the numbers from known estimates of how thinly dusty out universe is now. Given the rate of expansion, You might get a somewhat dusty universe at some time after the big bang, no?

I don't know how to say this in any plainer English. Your comments are full of lots of words that are muddling the point.

> I'm not aware of any published or even serious attempt to do this

That's too bad. I would want to see it done, if only to confirm that the CMB can't be intergalactic dust from a denser era
A Happy Meal doesn't include a Sundae because you believe McDonald's is morally obligated to include one.
I dream of a parallel universe where browsers took the lead in crafting innovative UI’s for standard web forms, with things like password prompts behaving intelligently, dropdowns supporting advanced autocomplete, excellent date pickers, caps lock reminders on password dialogs, etc etc.

Websites could have been simple to make with basic markup, leaving UX niceties to the browser vendors.

The world we live in is about as far from that as you get, with the stock UI for <input> elements being about par for 1992 UI toolkits, if even that.
Totally not the point here, but after reading this, I'm going to start adding cinnamon to my oatmeal. Thanks
Samsung to use chip making tech favoured by SK Hynix as AI chip race heats up
> "Dying" is an appropriate analogy because if the decline gets far enough, it may as well not exist to those people who are affected.

We need to start saying it the way we feel reluctant to do:

The Internet is getting exponentially shittier.

SEO-prioritization and poorly-regulated access to AI content generation are some of the emerging methods that help it get worse.
Most platforms would offer the core libraries and services for free as an incentive to attract developers to the platform/make development easier.

This is how it used to be, until Apple got too large and instead of being beholden to developers it flipped the other way around, and now releasing an app for Apple's platform is a supposed privilege.

Take the games industry, where developers and publishers are often given huge incentives by a platform (mostly consoles) to develop for that platform; because games developers are providing value for the platform owner by making the platform more attractive because it has more content options for the consumer.

Why is it so hard for people to wrap their heads around that concept.
Demo felt super complicated. Make it dead simple. The whole appeal of this is that I don’t have any time.
> For the least tech-savvy users, I cannot believe it will benefit them.

My parents are in their 80s and use Android with F-Droid (I set it up for them). No scams. No account or password. No ads. Simple apps. They have definitely benefited from having more choices available to them, specifically a repo of software built with something other than profit motive in mind. Apple's not very good at offering that.
that makes no sense. google owns android and the default browser on android and so they'd have all the same users using their search and saving some of that cash for any that switched to the Android VM. how is that a bad deal for google?
Genuine question - this isn't some "gotcha" sarcastic comment - but what search engines do you use that are an actual improvement? The only one I know is Marginalia, which I love, but is more of a discovery tool for old sites than for actual relevant information.
Seems like creationist sensationalism - obviously origins of life are a field of complex debate but this guy is just a religious believer who is pushing agenda

A response to this video in the video here (summarized) https://www.summarize.tech/youtu.be/sYfOA5FR6gg?si=xlzgFAq-X...
Humans were made second class netizens when ISPs made self hosting very difficult for individuals. While self-hosting doesn’t solve everything (and introduces its own problems) it does place control of content in the hands of people hosting it.

Facebook, reddit, and the rest should be protocols that your server can speak. You can allow/deny access on your terms.

But instead we ended up putting our stuff on other people’s computers and they went and blabbed it all over the internet.
Location: Uruguay, UYT timezone ~ ET

Remote: Yes, B2B/FTE/part-time

Willing to relocate: No, at least not right away

Technologies: Scala/Java/Python, classical data engineering stacks Spark/Beam/DWH stuff, IaaC w. Terraform, AWS/GCP

Résumé/CV: linkedin.com/in/gemelen/

Email: hn at gemelen dot net

I'm working mostly as a backend engineer or a data engineer, however may touch any other area of a project if required at the moment.
I prefer to work in a functional paradigm language if possible, otherwise I follow the rules, giving a system I'm responsible for all the care I may provide,
starting from the design phase through all steps of development towards the maintaining it in production.

I'd consider both a full-time position or a B2B contract with a specific set of requirements.
Google created the situation, but it's not the reason why data is held behind login/pay-walls everywhere across the net.
I'm thinking of creating a site where user signup is limited to specific top level domains, like edu, gov mil, to stop bots and low quality content
I decided to use LUKS with TPM autodecryption to ensure data security without affecting normal remote connections after Wake on LAN and other functions. However, I quickly found that although the Debian installer provided methods to configure LUKS, there were still some minor issues during the TPM configuration stage after entering the system. Here, I will briefly document the configuration process for future reference.
Those MITM attacks could only block the Tor circuit, at which point, why run a tunnel just to block it?
https://digitalcreative.cn/blog/top-chinese-app-stores
You might find this hard to believe, but people buy products based on a number of factors. For smart phones, the number of factors is dizzyingly complex, and yes, the effects it has on smoothness of communication with the people in your life is one of those factors. Sometimes a specific feature is one of those factors.

What "doesn't make sense" is reducing a complex decision down to a specific factor, and then trying to create the narrative that your specific chosen factor is the sole reason anyone chooses a specific product.

It is completely fair for people to prefer iPhone and also argue for Apple changing their policies.
If I wanted to try my hand at this hobby, what’s the best place to get started?
Action Button Reviews Tokimeki Memorial (2021) [video]
You know what was great about the early web.

You had to have something going on between your ears to contribute. The gate was kept by brains.

X, FB, Reddit... prime example of what happens when you let monkeys loose with typewriters.

There are plenty of good parts of the web. There are still forms and communities where smart people are doing their own thing. GO look at communities around Home Lab, Home automation/Home assistant... The Linux kernel is still getting built on the back of a mailing list, and there are plenty of rich communities around the whole eco system.

The web is still great you just have to look for your corner of it.
I'm looking forward to the AI-generated content, which was modeled from mostly AI-generated content, which was modeled from mostly AI-generated content...

It's going to be shit trees dropping shit apples exposing the next generation of shit seeds into the soil to generate more shit trees. And every reddit or HN or etc account that does not require actual ID verification will actually be AI bots.
The general public doesn’t care. Only developers.
Japan's Space One rocket explodes seconds after liftoff
I was going to correct you, and say the DX had a coprocessor, but the SX did not.

Apparently, that’s incorrect, and the difference is bus width.

However, at the end of its life, my 386 motherboard was running one of these at 100MHz, with a coprocessor on the daughterboard in the main CPU socket:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreen_Technologies

(I think I had an IBM 486, not a Cyrix, fwiw.)

Sadly, I’d moved to Linux at that point, and the processor needed a special MSDOS binary to flip into 100MHz mode after boot.

Even with the handicap, it booted into X11 + enlightenment at 25MHz (or maybe 33MHz) faster than it could boot into Windows 3.11 at 100MHz.
Dude, the patriot act expired back in March of 2020. Trump threatened to veto it and everyone kinda just shrugged and let it expire

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act#Reauthorizations (scroll to the bottom of the section)
Meta blocked news from Facebook and Instagram in Canada – what about Australia?
"Dying" is the correct word, because living people are being replaced by bots, both on social networks, and as content creators. Live people are being replaced by dead computers.

Last presidential election, I'm convinced I wasted endless hours arguing with knuckleheads who were actually bots using weaponized early LLM tech. This presidential election the tech will be perfected.

Machines can spit out so much content/chats/post so quickly, anything written or created by living people will just be swamped out. Eventually web search engines will just be so swamped by the automatic machine-gun-like production of content, that the probability of you being able to find anything written by a living person will be indistinguishable from zero.

Life will have been squeezed out by lifelessness; the internet will be dead.
> Time to adjust the laws (which requires a functional Congress, which we don’t have).

This is the thing that frustrates me the most about the current state of USA politics. The inability to functionally govern and reach bi-partisan support for a lot of meaningful issues renders us helpless to improve bad systems. Meanwhile, corporations continue to dilute the value of their products and services or jack up the price beyond the rate of inflation and no real regulation seems possible.
tl;dr

Bayes'
I don’t see the option in the section that is referenced, only the privacy policy. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> There are of course some Australian birds

IIRC that's more like a Australian media stunt from one single source, never verified or replicated.

There's this one guy trying to explain why there's wild fire and it's not any human's fault, which inadvertently caused a great debate "animals can utilize fire".
There's always someone married to their petty objections. When release comes around, they want you to add modals to inform the user of irrelevant info related to their concerns. Another variation is the "feature showcaser". This guy wanted a new feature added. It was easier to appease him by adding the feature. Explaining why the feature was silly would take more repeated discussion time than just building it. Now he thinks these features should be showcased in the tutorial.

I put it down to too many cooks in the kitchen. Users can't README.TXT. There's no box with the software, so there's no helpful chart of hotkeys either.

The easiest, most palatable solution will always be adding the stupid tutorial and allowing it to be dismissed with a "Never show me this again" checkbox.
My state is not in the pilot, so I can't try it myself. Have anyone here used it yet? How was the experience?
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver just covered this topic on Sunday.
To provide an opposing opinion which might help you understand why you're getting downvoted (though I didn't) - the reason this doesn't ring true to me is that none of your source-of-truth is actually hosted _on_ Cloudflared (they're just a proxy - you still control your own content), and the switching costs are minimal (especially if you're brave enough to raw-dog it on the public Internet without a CDN). That distinguishes it from all the other cases you listed, where either a) they could just disable your account one day, and you lose access to all the content that you stored on "their" servers, and/or b) anything that you built using their proprietary language/tool (Azure, CDK, etc.) doesn't translate easily to another provider.
And yet, the top result for "Bitcoin wallet" on the play store isn't a scam. And on it's definitely not a scam on F-Droid where I would personally look for a Bitcoin wallet.
The lawyers in the NYPD that signed off on the subpoena should face ethics charges. There seems to be no gray area here on multiple levels. The NYPD knew it wasn't a valid subpoena and they told X not to inform the account holder.
Apple markets their offering on its privacy and security. In effect, they act as a bargaining agent on behalf of their users which says no to a lot of the tracking Google, Meta, et al. want to do. Due to Apple's marketshare and the nature of this arrangement (the walled garden), these trackers are forced to bargain with Apple as a unit. The DMA seeks to put an end to this arrangement and allow the trackers to bargain with users individually.

So, to answer your question: no, I do not believe it will empower individual users. If we really want to empower individual users we should be looking to inject more competition into the social media markets as well. More "app stores" that do nothing but offer the same apps while bypassing Apple's protections will not benefit users. And if the 30% Apple tax is the real problem then why not legislate against that directly?
With taxes, office space, laptops, offsites, insurance, etc a rough rule of thumb is $250k for an engineer. $250k * 3 = $750k, and over 3 years that's $2.25M (doesn't include software, hosting, lawyers, contractors, marketing, etc).

Yeah, they probably spent less than that (esp the founders salaries), but my point is that $2.2M isn't as much money as it seems.
> Most platforms would offer the core libraries and services for free as an incentive

Right, as an incentive. That's exactly right. Makers of other platforms chose a particular funding model to suit their commercial strategic environment, not because they were obligated to. Why should Apple be obligated to follow other (or even their own) prior business models?

> This is how it used to be

It really isn't. In fact this expectation of free full-featured developer tools for mainstream platforms is relatively new. https://www.itprotoday.com/windows-78/microsoft-sets-pricing...

> Take the games industry

Sure. Remind me where I can download the free developer kit for the PlayStation 5? Remind me who I need to pay in order to distribute a PlayStation game?
Isn’t HN pretty open to (reasonable) self promotion? Show HN stuff is often quite popular. Plenty of people submit their own blog pieces and they gain traction.
Who doesn't love applying frozen butter on a cold bun using plastic knife in an area sized 20x30cm..?
>The emergence of the state probably could not have happened without writing.

Empirically speaking the opposite is more likely - writing emerged from state accountants keeping records of grain etc. Writing was independently invented by several states across the globe, in fact.

>Steam engines and machine tools could not have happened without the printing press.

Why's that?

This is a very hard subject to discuss, because steam engines and the industrial revolution (I mean precisely the shift from an agrarian economy to a mineral economy, i.e. the switch to using non-living energy sources) happened exactly once, in the UK, and spread worldwide from there. It's hard to extrapolate from a dataset of one.

However, from what I understand of the industrial revolution, it didn't strictly require the printing press - the core driver was of needing to extract coal from a deep coal mine that was flooded; because the coal mine produced a bunch of low-grade coal that was disposed of onsite by burning it (because it was too crappy to be worth the transport costs of selling it) the efficiency of the steam engine didn't matter because the fuel was free.

There were a bunch of implicit requirements (the obvious one being the demand for coal) that are extensively debated, and while we could speculate the printing press was helpful in some way, I don't see any reason why a printing press would be a hard-requirement.

>Networking (telegraph) was the predecessor technology of computers.

The Antikythera mechanism predates the telegraph by millennia. Computing was orthogonal to networking for the majority of its history.
No

Meta's commitment to Open Source is well under calculation.

OCP is a way to rally lower-tier vendors to form a semi-alliance to keep up with super-gorilla like AWS & Google.

LLaMA has already gained much more than its cost (look at the stock price, and the open source ecosystem built surrounding LLaMA, and Google's open source Gemma models which is a proof of Meta's success).

IMHO, Meta's Open Source strategy already covered at least 5 years in prospect. That's enough to finesse a 180 degree turn around if necessary (i.e., from open source to close source)
Pretty similar but it's a bit more jagged, at least for me.

I never heard of it when it happened to me for the first time so I nearly freaked out as I thought I was having a stroke.
Can I buy a property, rent it out for six months, then re-sell it to this other, totally independent corporation I own?

This seems both obvious and difficult to prevent.
Eh what if we just make piracy legal for individuals given its unenforceable already, but illegal for businesses
> but they don't contradict any of this.

Sure, and I agree with what you've said. But as you pointed out, you have to be very particular/exact with language with these things. I just wanted to emphasize that there are many constrained settings (but still practical) where Rice's theorem doesn't apply.
> Business class is rarely worth it

If you manage to buy it at 2x price of economy it's absolutely worth it, hands down. At more typical 6x it's not really.
They said tire dust, though, and I don't see an "edited" note there
I don’t think you made the point you think you made here.

It’s possible to not care about something and still submit an opinion. Or maybe it’s the degree of caring that is confusing you, I care enough to comment and have a viewpoint, but I don’t care to the degree that I am upset or will lose any sleep over it.

There you go, hope this helps you understand what I meant there so that you are no so hung up on it so as to feel the need to quote it.

Please do save me the suspense and share the punchline now!

It’s perfectly reasonable to use YC here as at the end of the day they’ve helped launch of ton of companies that are popular with consumers.

Regarding the irony in using them as an example of corporate righteousness, well you did get me there and I agree with you.
Same for me, second result. I've never had anything crypto-related on my phone.
“One could” indeed:

https://www.fractint.org/

From wikipedia:

> The name is a portmanteau of fractal and integer, since the first versions of Fractint used only integer arithmetic (also known as fixed-point arithmetic), for faster rendering on computers without math coprocessors. Since then, floating-point arithmetic and arbitrary-precision arithmetic modes have been added.
If there are outliers you can't make an absolute statement.

I would also add that with LLM assistance, one person being able to create a "significant" app is actually more likely today than five years ago.