skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Meanwhile, boring old stuff like manufacturing was starved for programmers, and eventually gave up trying to get them.

If you wanted to be fully honest, you would have said that they couldn't pony up for programmers, they were only “starved” by their own penny pinching ways.
> He is fighting everyone's 30% fees.
>
> Perhaps, just perhaps, they are worth it because if they weren't the it would be easy to create a platform.

Perhaps. And perhaps its monopolistic behaviour. If so, we all stand to win by challenging it.

> WTF???? So if you lose money, the he isn't going to sue you, but if you make money, then he will sue you.

Sounds like Sweeney is suggesting the hardware itself is sold at a loss, not that console manufacturers make no money.
> Just stranded without dignity or purpose,

Perhaps dignity is seeking value that is scalable to entire humanity, hm? Isn't it dignified? If we cannot find value for fellow humans we can relax I guess?

> We have outsourced art to computers, so people who don't understand art

Ok, I am seeing a lot of bad faith arguments. Just because somebody doesn't have time to learn to craft and cruft of some very tedious discipline, doesn't really mean they don't understand it.

You don't need to throw rocks all day to get an understanding of physics. But people had to do it in the past, now we calculate, simulate and then just do one throw.

Also I am speaking as part time designer/artist. New AI tools are great, I could achieve similar results, but difficult bets were made, when i started. Now I just roll in images, some of them finetuned on my work, some are mix, some are completely nuanced. Many artists after initial sobbing(I was enthusiastic from getgo) started to learn and explore this tools.

People bring amazing things to life, that just were impossible with their limited resources (take a look, anime done with very small crew https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWZOEFvczzA).

I much dislike the mindset of "they took our jobs".
Here I'm referring to assembly as mnemonic for machine code, but yes it would have been more correct to say machine code instead.
Is it also unreasonable that brick and mortar stores can't sell pornography to children? Should they be allowed to let children view porn for free as long as they look at some ads first?
CEO of data privacy company Onerep.com founded dozens of people-search firms
I couldn't find the context so, given the tone of the article, I think it's a safe assumption that the author isn't being charitable and is trying to mislead.
Easy solution. Just stop selling new devices in Oregon.
Europe is passing age verification laws too: https://apnews.com/article/porn-websites-age-verification-di...

The UK was in the process of requiring age verification for online pornography in 2018. One of the reasons the law fell through is because MindGeek’s age verification system (which news reports claimed to already be in use in Germany) was going to end up becoming a de facto monopoly, with all the privacy concerns that implies.
Naming things is hard.

At a previous employer, I saw several cool-ish open source projects instantly doomed to obscurity by picking a name that either completely duplicated the name of an existing OSS project or were guaranteed to have terrible SEO for another reason.

However, Microsoft seems to have a unique crossover of fragmented business units and centralized marketing. That's why you end up with Azure -> Subproject -> Actual Product/Service word soup. Perviously, they did this with the Windows Live brand from 2005-2012, and "Xbox" for a wide range of gaming projects (many of which were on PC).
With all the solid state gizmos we have today, is it really that difficult to make a blackbox that can survive serious impact G-forces, especially if it just needs to work and doesn't need to be safety rated?
The goal of computing is, and has always been, controlling the behavior of machines the same way or easier than we do with other agents in the world toward some measurable end

So, to what level of granularity do you have to specify a system task in order for it to do the thing you want it to do, at the level of accuracy that you wanted to operate in?

That all depends on how accurate you can specify what you want to do

which means you have a sense of all of the systems that interact with, and impede the successful task of the set of systems

We can build abstraction layers we can build filters, but at some point somebody has to map a set of actions with a set of inputs and outputs, in order to sequentially build this set of tasks, which rolls out into the function of a physical manifestation of some sort

Add to that the complexities of mobile actuation complex environments and just the general state of power, computing, routing, etc. and you have a 15 body problem simply to have anything that someone would look at as benefit to humanity

Only a couple of disciplines can totally encapsulate all that and none of them are available to study anymore primarily cybernetics, and all of the interactions necessary to fully build a human machine symbiotic system
It’s shorter than plenty of reasonable sedans? Just because there exist smaller vehicles doesn’t make it “not small”.
> We have no HSAs

Health savings accounts?

> no three or four layer tax systems

Many European countries, like Spain, have multi-level tax systems, but have a single tax return. In the US, you have two tax returns.

> no governments trying to legislate really bizarre religious issues

Many European countries still have official churches! The UK is constantly trying to ban porn. Italy enacted a law similar to Texas’s last year: https://cne.news/article/3884-italy-blocks-porn-access-for-m...

> no paranoid militarised police

Let’s see if that remains true after a century of immigration from the Middle East.
You are correct that ops does not provide any sort of orchestration framework today, but it's also not necessarily needed in a lot of cases because the end artifacts are vms not containers.

There is a terraform provider that we ended up writing for one company but only because they were a (large) hashicorp shop and nothing went to prod unless it was in tf: https://docs.ops.city/ops/terraform This doesn't really do much though. It's only there to check a box and fit into an existing paradigm.

A lot of the orchestration bits that k8s provides is because when it was initially adopted there wasn't a great way to attach networks/storage/etc. to various containers like people had for on the clouds with vms. OPS just re-uses the same primitives you'l find on every single cloud out there. If you need more advanced functionality like auto-scaling that also can utilize the clouds ASGs.
> there's no way for PH to verify the age of users entering the site in the way the legislation demands

That's not true.

It's onerous, inconvenient, whatever.
Epic doesn't build any hardware, and charges Devs 12% to build an add-on for Fortnite. [0]

Why 12% ? That's not cheap for what is essentially basic ACH billing service.

If I go to get a service like that, I have several vendors to choose from and only pay about 1/4 that price. [1]

Maybe someone should sue Epic for unreasonable pricing.

[0] - https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/9/23630864/epic-games-store-...

[1] - https://quickbooks.intuit.com/payments/payment-rates/
> Starship matters. It’s not just a really big rocket, like any other rocket on steroids. It’s a continuing and dedicated attempt to achieve the “Holy Grail” of rocketry, a fully and rapidly reusable orbital class rocket that can be mass manufactured.
It's good to know how to specify what you want to a chef, but also good to know how to make dishes for yourself.
Reddit didn't start to attract the critical mass until they became the top result in Google though nor it was able to keep its servers with its own profit. Until they squash all possible opponents, such social networks has never been profitable.
I don't hate IKEA at all, but I've found that a lot of their furniture doesn't last more than a couple of years. I consider it "temporary furniture".
That would fall under the "automation" category: a very specialized customized application of robotics, doing the same set of tasks over and over, this is the kind of application where we can really see the power of robotics, but rest assured that countless hours were spent testing/improving/optimizing/safe guarding these workflows and after every section in an assembly line there will be manual inspection to flag for bad / missing weldings and potential service of the machinery involved.
It's definitely not a solved problem in general, especially in realtime.

It's a lot easier to get started on something interesting and maybe even useful than it was even 10 years ago.

A lot of the "ah we can just use X API" falls apart pretty fast when you do risk analysis on a real system. Lots of these APIs are do a decent job most of the time under somewhat ideal conditions, beyond that things get hairy.
Table 2: Classification of activities and average number of calories expended on them by the 152men (Basal metabolism is included, the allowance for it being 1.1 Cal./min

Sitting, including time spent at meal 1.6
Light games, such as darts and billiards 2.5
...
Sleeping 1.0

Light work in factories in 1950 included sitting down at a conveyor belt and removing defective items. 130 ish per hour works.

200 calories an hour * 8 hours isn't lite work by most definitions. That's someone walking constantly for the entire shift.
(I've lived in Texas for uhhhh five years now, in Austin.)

You have to understand that Texas is a big place. Like any big place, there is significant diversity. The stuff you've said is what the government likes to project, but isn't really representative of the population as a whole.

(Furthermore, this is confounded by certain issues playing out very differently in Texas than elsewhere: the left is more likely to like guns, for example.)

For example:

> * Personal liberty is highly valued.

This is what they say, but not what they do. The state is constantly passing laws that restrict the freedoms of individuals.

> Pro individual ownership of guns, as well as self-defense.

This one is complicated. Certainly more people are pro-ownership of guns, but that doesn't actually mean they have them. Texas has the most guns in the county, but adjusted for population, it's 37th in the nation.

> * Oil is a big part of the economy.

It surely is, especially historically, but Texas has also generated more green energy than other states for a long time. Solar is huge, wind as well.

> * Socially conservative overall, with exception of some enclaves of more liberal or progressive values.

You're right in a certain sense: if you look at a map, it's mostly red. But a lot of that land has basically nobody living there, and the "enclaves" are large cities.

It's tough to track political affiliation, but most reports show it to be very evenly split. "When will Texas turn blue?" is a question people have been asking for a long time, and the details of why it has not are complicated. But winning elections is different than sentiment, and the sentiment is at least very closely tied.

> * Large percentage of people identifying as Christian.

This is true; it's about 75%.

> * Centralized editorial influence over school textbooks, for not just Texas but the nation.

Not just textbooks, but see also the fights over vouchers and trying to privatize the school system.

> * Aggressive anti-abortion push.

This is true from the state, but that doesn't mean it's popular: a 2022 survey said that 78% of Texas voters think abortion should be allowed in some form, and only 15% think it should be completely outlawed.

> I'm interested in whether there are conventions over how conflicting values are reconciled

To be blunt about it, the current conservative movement in America isn't really interested in ideological consistency. They just don't see it as a problem.
Yes. hehe. Mixed feelings on that. It's fun to dunk on his forgeries, but they all have risk.

I very much did not enjoy having to read a large amount of handwritten nonsense on a short fuse during the trial... and in some sense he was successful with them in that he wasted an enormous amount of time that could have been spent on something else, an they likely won't weigh against him substantially if at all since they didn't get used.
I bet it gets you further than you imagine. Entirely depends on the backend services and what they touch but in this scenario you would be deploying/scaling that service based on the customer seat size. I suspect that even for large enterprise customers, the users actively touching Figma are not reaching he thousands but I am happy to be wrong.

After all, Stackoverflow is running off of a handful of machines.
I do use Playwright’s codegen a lot and I have found it most valuable when I mentally predict what it should generate and then look to see how it differs. This often highlights incorrect assumptions. I would say approximately 1% of the generated code ends up in the tests, but about 30% of the generated code informs how the tests are written.
Millions in France affected by new data cyber attack
And verifying age is hard/impossible.

So we should serve alcohol to minors.

/s
As well as the cost of the food you ate to remain awake and conscience while viewing, as well as water (or whatever liquid one chooses to consume). The cost of the clothes possibly being worn during viewing, the cost of furniture being used, the cost of the abode hosting the furniture.
Shocker! </sarc>
Texas: "Prove you identified that user."

Pornhub: "Uh... we promise? The database says we did."

Now what?
Yeah we used filters to search for just solid wood (no MDF), but apparently even the "solid wood" stuff is still pretty flimsy.
I want them to sympathize and understand why I feel that way

yes, exactly. english is not my first language, so maybe i am not applying the right terms. either way i think is easier for the therapist to understand their patients if they themselves feel that there is something different about them.
Yeah, if they wanted to massively violate their user’s privacy. Fuck that.
> I see some comments here saying that people would still find a way. But would it be the majority? I don't think so

The majority of creators? No. Many would quit, many others would tease and lose money, most adult sites would collapse while a few adapt to said teasing, pushing the line.

The majority of consumers? Yes. Especially in a world where dating is more of a roulette than ever in the US and social spaces are collapsing. Even if it just means taking and consuming the past 50 years of porn underground, people would find a way to relive their primal urge

>Banning search engines from showing porn would be a quick way to achieve this.

Porn is the one exception that has very high demand and extremely effective word of mouth. By default (and even more so with parental controls), search engines try to avoid showing you adult content as is. Banning it outright will, again, just make people search and curate underground.
The Moomin books by Tove Jansson
The story shows one of the facets of the value of sovereignty what countries and nations have over the history been fighting for. In this case the indigenous people invested into their sovereignty countless lives and suffering, and 2 centuries later it starts to pay off (similar to many other countries/nations in today's world who had been fighting for their freedom for decades and centuries until finally achieving it).
Nothing really lost here. I might actually be able to get some work done.
Huh, I would have thought the opposite. Companies at Figma size are easily able to hire talent to maintain a core part of their engineering stack. On the other hand, they retain no control of Citus decision making. Those tailwinds could easily have been headwinds if they went in a direction that did not suit Figma.
I do agree that we need more public benefit companies; not every company needs to be a multi-billion dollar enterprise. However, I disagree that Silicon Valley “lost the plot.” In fact, I believe this has been the plot of Silicon Valley since at least the 1970s. While there were companies that focused on good products, sustainable business markets, and great business-employee relations (Hewlett-Packard when The HP Way ruled is a fine example), there’s also a very long history where companies and businesspeople focused on growth and profit over other concerns, and where employees had the potential for a big upside (through some combination of high salaries, big bonuses, stock options, RSU grants) if they were willing to sacrifice work-life balance. The Macintosh team circa 1983 had “90 hours a week and loving it!” T-shirts. This led to many innovative products, but these companies were clearly about growth and profits, with innovation being a means to an end (Scrooge McDuck piles of money) instead of the end itself, even if these companies did employ dreamers who cared less about money and more about their technical visions.

After having worked in Silicon Valley for nearly a decade, the area to me isn’t about building future Hewlett-Packards or In-n-Outs or Costcos, as wonderful as this would be for our society since we definitely need companies that are rooted in serving their customers and society. It’s about building future Apples, Microsofts, Googles, Facebooks, etc., where they went for the gold and ended up with tons of it as a result of their success.
What are you going to do? It's an aristocracy, very difficult to remove short of revolution.
That is correct.

California cannot prevent someone in Arizona (even if they are a permanent resident of California) from buying a firearm from someone in Arizona.

California can prevent someone in California from possessing a firearm (insomuch as federal/constitutional law allows).
>Almost like the denser the population, the less regard people have for each others' lives.

The problem with this is that Louisiana, Mississippi, and other rural states follow DC on the list. New Hampshire is no more or no less densely populated than those states.

The best single way to identify a US state's placement on the list is to look at the percentage of blacks in the population <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_racial_and_ethnic_d...>, then by urbanity. It's not a 1:1 correlation—nothing is—but it's pretty close.
It doesn't matter how far down it is. It has some constant index independent of the problem size, so for "large enough" problems, it's just a constant factor on the time required.
> power over lands that they never legally ceded to British Columbia or Canada.

Actually curious about this concept of "unceded land". If it's not Canada's land then can I come in there and break laws and say Canadian law doesn't apply because it's not Canada?

Seems like this "unceded land" concept is only applied selectively?
haha I had this same exact thought while reading it. "Oh sweet summer child..."

To me it seems like a miracle anyone ever had the budget to create this kind of website to begin with, let alone to "keep up with the times" :)
Looks fascinating, but the only place I can find to watch it here in the uk is Prime Video. Does anyone know of legal options for those who don't want to give Amazon their money - still less sign up for a Prime subscription?
It looked to me like a good portion of the debris was in fact tiles. It also seemed to me that there were significant attitude control deviations, both of which might have been significant factors in the unplanned disassembly event.
Picotron is a Fantasy Workstation for making pixelart games
Really there are three problem in robotics: Perception, Funding, and Cables :)
Well... For me sometimes reviews matter for adding infos vendors omit, infos from someone who have bought something I'm interested in, so probably someone who have something in common with my interest and so add valuable insights a neutral vendor haven't even thought about. This kind of review might be both positive or negative, they are just informative, a thing some reviews totally fails to be.
The GFlowNet Tutorial
How can this work in practice, though? Wouldn't acknowledging indigenous peoples' sovereign rights over their lands require the formation of entirely new nations with their own borders and laws and military and courts etc etc that would cover the entirety of canada ? If they are have the right of a sovereign over these lands then can't they just tell everyone else to leave?
Imagine repeating the same day as a Hillary '16 campaign staffer over and over for eternity
Thanks, that's fascinating. Ar least in my recollection, the expedit I knew was comparable to a Billy in wood density, but I might be mistaken - it's nearly twenty years.

Funnily, the most sturdy piece of furniture we own is from Ikea. Two massive desks build from solid steel frames and a plate made with wood furnishing. Totally indestructible, weighs a ton and was made by Ikea in the 99s or so. Funnily enough, we didn't even know that they where from Ikea. We inherited them from my father in law and were cursing their weight like "man I wish Ikea made this, than it would be easier to carry". After dismantling them for transport we discovered various Ikea stickers. Sadly we don't know the model, just that they where manufactured by Ikea.

The most endurable piece of furniture I know of is the kitchen of my mother in law. Made in the 70s or so it uses resopal finishing and the counters itself looks like new, despite years of heavy use and non stop smoking.
I didn't realise this was an assertion scoring debate rather than just a discussion, but here goes:

* I have experienced what software development was like 25yrs ago, when it also took a lot longer to gain seniority and responsibility.

* I started my career in a different engineering field. I saw a very different age<->seniority progression than the quick one in software. In fact that was why I switched to tech even if software was slower back then than now.

The combination of both those was the basis for claiming that young software devs have been in an extraordinarily privileged position in recent years. Do you have any idea what it's like outside software?

You're going to have to make a better case that young software engineers these days experience ageism at a similar level to other professions or time periods. It is now an industry that skews young and quickly discards age. You'd also need to distinguish between lack of experience and just being young to claim it's ageism.

And the age groups you were deriding were the ones that broke down those barriers for younger devs in the first place. Did you consider they would've experienced worse and sought to change it?

Your non specific comment seemed like an extremely self centered view of the wider industry that lacked perspective and contradicted a near universally understood situation. You were the one making the extraordinary claim that needed backup.

Your incredibly broad generalisation got a necessarily broad reply which you're now complaining about just being an empty assertion. You did nothing to elaborate about your experience was - what did you expect? Maybe if you'd been more specific about what you've faced you would've got different answers.
Which begs the question as to what 'support' linux needs given that I believe EFI does the job of entering protected mode these days.
Those aren't robots they are industrial automation. :)

As soon as it gets practical it stops being robotics.
What Is Extropic Building?
I wouldn't say "infinite", its still susceptible to read hotspotting; and while fine-grained locking enables generally higher write throughputs, you can still get in a situation where interconnected updates end up being pretty slow.

That said, its way better than anything else I've used in my career.
This is a really good insight! The key is to say yes to the good ideas and no to the bad ones.