skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From my point of view, Uber and DD were always going to head in that direction because by any objective measure, they are worse than the solution that already existed. The introduction of a middleman created new costs for drivers, customers, and restaurants alike, yet it's actually worse at delivering food than the conventional "drivers work for the restaurant" model. Sure, you get one website where you can see all the delivery options in the area, but the cost is making all of those options shittier. I could rant about how stupid that industry is for hours, but I digress.

What Amazon is doing is different because they're actually doing something that adds value, and they're solving a problem that actually exists. Maybe I'm naive for believing any of this matters.

To be honest, I never thought much about how the whole system worked. I've only been in an Amazon Fresh twice. It had the "just walk out" thing but I don't have a Prime account so I never used it. I just figured it was UHF RFID. Seems like an obvious solution, but I'm not the engineer responsible for figuring out what to do if you put two exits next to each other.
no compensation/salary listed on any of these openings
Genuinely curious - what makes it stupid?
You can’t, gpp is wrong.
when the entire building shakes you really can't prepare for that
> Being the "senior developer" who spend their whole career working with a technology you're very junior at. No matter what you do and how long your programming career is, you're inevitably going to run into one of these sooner or later. Whether it's build scripts, frontend code, interfacing with third-party APIs or something else entirely, you aren't an expert at every technology you work with.

Neither is the LLM.
Great feedback, thanks!

We mostly shrunk away from pitching the AI because we thought people will find immediate value in the starter and be able to use it (like our existing users/customers), but in hindsight that was a mistake, especially considering the AI is already decently valuable.
I'd rather say that the distinction between disciplines of learning is an anachronism before the early modern era (and even through much of it). "Philosophy" included what we now call medicine, natural science, theology, astronomy, astrology, and even music theory. There wasn't a question of "trumping" in the sense that they weren't thought of as different things.
He’s mistaken. Not all people can down vote. I’m not totally sure of the criteria, I believe it’s old timers or karma points related
this is the first time i've ever seen this person. how is he received in non youtube audiences? is this fringe level stuff, or is this accepted science? i have a hard time wrapping my head around a planetary alignment with Neptune affecting Earth. I'm not dismissing it, but my knee jerk is this can't be real, yeah?
ChatGPT could not provide any, fwiw, but it's an enticing idea.
Intel has been making a few outside chips on and off for years.
Hot Wheels creates a car for children with autism
Whenever I see large attacks like this, I always wonder exactly which ransomware is used by the attackers. It's interesting to see if it's an old tool or something new.
“65 participants (Mage = 21.40, SD = 3.21, N = 42 females) with an average of 35.20 (SD = 27.01) days of observation per participant.”
This surprises me. I regularly get in line and fully complete self-checkout before anyone who was there when I started scanning, even though I'm typically checking out with more items. What's causing the struggle? Every one of these works the same at every store - scan barcode, place item on the weight plate. Repeat. Press pay button, pay with card, whatever, tap/insert.
Let's dispense with the fiction that there is some "need" or "business reasons" for 99% of CEOs except a very small number of examples like you mentioned to fly private. They do it simply because they can. Private jets are probably the last frontier of conspicuous consumption, and small time CEOs flying private lets them feel big and important.
In that case, feels like the current trend is unsustainable and should reverse once the intermediates eventually revolt? WDYT?

Have both your companies explicitly stated that the freeze on entry-level hiring is because of copilot?
Actual paper which is actually open access: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28017605/

On a seperate note, at some point university PR departments should take a moment to reflect on just how much responsibility they bear for public distrust in science considering cases like this article, with an absurd title that isn't at all justified by the research conducted. This is very cool research hopkins, were the two extra clicks this got in 2016 worth continuing to erode public trust in science? The answer is obviously no, the public is quite powerful especially considering how much research is taxpayer funded.
My understanding of the project here (Renderlet) was it allowed direct embedding in other non-wasm projects, which I didn't fully wrap my head around, allowing for injecting this engine inside of others? Or something to that effect?

Which is quite different than a renderer that targets wasm/webgpu. I think super highly of, and have used wgpu a fair amount.

I just interpreted Renderlet to have different goals.
Hahahahahaha. I use this naming scheme sometimes too. Also like "__IF_YOU_USE_THIS_YOU_ACCEPT_DEATH__X". If anybody will ever see it or you don't know, DO NOT USE IT. In most languages, you have "private" but sometimes you have to negotiate with your fellow programmers!
I, too, have had days like that
not easy to find good devs in taipei, so shameless plug: for folks living in taipei, who want to find a good english speaking dev community: https://join.taipeidev.com
Humans are part of nature, like trees and foxes. Property rights are necessarily part of nature too, by extension.
many people have commented, bun is all the tools in a single dependency: a test runner with in-memory db included? Shell support for window? Single file executable packaging? with macros? Code scratchpad that auto-installs dependencies? Programmatic APIs for transpiling/loading jsx (not tsx)? ... so on.
Location: Pakistan
Title: Software Engineer (AI/ML), MlOps Engineer
Timezone: I can work in any timezone, no issues.
Remote: Open to remote, hybrid, and in-person
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Python, FastAPI, Celery, AWS, Docker, Kafka etc.
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1w4MMYzhWcV_JXeh2S7EAv_-jhiijLIPX/view?usp=sharing
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/syehussain/
Email: syedhussain9655@gmail.com
Intro: Hi, I'm Hussain. For the past three years, I've been deeply involved in developing AI/ML solutions, tackling everything from building APIs to creating ML pipelines for training/evaluating/deploying models in production environments. My experience spans several technologies, including Python, FastAPI, and AWS, to name a few.

I'm eager to bring my skills to a team that's pushing the boundaries of what's possible with AI. Whether working remotely or onsite, I'm flexible and ready to adapt to any team's schedule. Let's build something amazing together!
yeah that would be pretty cool.
I mean it becomes a myth when you define it out of existence; I normally don't like semantic arguments but you're arguing against an idea of "underpaid" that means something different than what the people who say it are trying to convey. The notion of underpaid isn't weighed against the value of one's labor, it's weighed against cost of living and the value of one's time.

We've generally decided it's unreasonable for someone to need to work more than 40 hours a week so the minimum pay for 160 hours of labor had better be enough to live on without being on welfare or other government assistance. It might not be a glamorous life but you at least have to be able to make rent, pay for heat, AC, food, clothes, water, toilet paper, health insurance, a cheap cell phone, transportation to and from work, and some basic possessions like a bed. And if it's not then you're being underpaid. I think that's a pretty fair measure, it roughly represents the cost of a person's undivided labor.

And I think it's fair to say that for almost all Americans that cost has gone up and not insignificantly over the past 5 years. Folks that make good money by can take the hit but people on the bottom rung have nowhere to go. And people will given the opportunity begrudgingly sell their labor for unsustainable prices because it's better than nothing but that road leads to the record scratch in the economic game of musical chairs we're playing when money stops moving.

And that's when Socialist-inspired policies we have kick in and gov't has to forcibly redistribute wealth through higher taxes and even greater government spending to start the motor again. We've done it before and I'm sure we'll do it again. But I'm of the opinion that a little regulation to keep us out of the death spiral and letting the market allocate resources is better than when the government has to step in and do it.
I did consider the term when writing my post, but they only partially overlap.

First, the issue of intent and overall history. Tease and Squeeze implies it was the plan all along, but an "enshittified" product doesn't have to be that way. For example, a company could have been successful without any "Tease"--no predatory pricing or monopolistic behavior--and then taken a nosedive later when the founder retired and sold it to a new owner, meaning it's Squeeze-only.

Second, "Squeeze" doesn't require a quality-drop, it can include purely a price-hike, but "enshittified" products almost always mean a drop in quality, regardless of whether prices rise or not.
Ambidex robot arms by Naver[video]
The site is manually moderated. I made the mistake of posting it over my lunch break and had to go back to work which caused a significant delay. I'm back on processing things now.
You got it exactly right. Academics have the freedom to pursue avenues and interests that have no clear immediate application nor profit.
Let’s just hope that this time around the they don’t intentionally hold back innovations in favour of slow-dripping a predictable fixed X% gain per year like they did 2014 to 2020 in the absence of competition.

Amazing how quickly Intel suddenly started leaping in performance/$ between releases once AMDs 5000 series came out.
Nope, just collecting them to listen to :)
Ask HN: Child toilet (potty) training tips
Experienced parents: any tips, go-to tricks or materials to help out a less experienced parent?
I don’t think there’s going to be much change if any in the next 5 years. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills when I see people say LLMs can replace software engineers. Maybe if you’re writing basic CRUD web apps, but most systems have enough complexity that an LLM cannot currently ascertain. Not to say they’re not helpful - ChatGPT is jawdroppingly good at pointing out bugs in code. They’re going to make people more productive but not enough to impact the labor market and remove the need for junior engineers.

People aren’t hiring juniors right now because of the hiring freezes that are only beginning to thaw. Teams are understaffed after having to do more with less and need to hire people who can hit the ground running. The headcount for juniors will come.
Cloud anything is also a huge red flag for preservation.

On the other hand there is a game I played on PowerPC macs but the developer released it on github and now it's been updated and compiled for ARM and x86. As long as source is available it's usually not very hard to port to a different architecture.
is there such a thing as running TS natively? Even tsc doesn't do that.
I don't really know yet. My provider charges by the minute, so it's heavily dependent on usage. I'd imagine the post to HN will cause a nice spike on my bill though lol
Stop using a Mac. I still run Windows 95 apps on Windows 11 without issue.
I wonder about this too.
Vividly | Fully Remote | Full Time | Full-Stack & DevOps Engineers
We’re a Series A start up looking to transform the efficiencies of CPG finance and sales teams by getting them out of excel and into the Vividly platform. We’re looking to hire 4-5 full-stack engineers to work on our projects in the product roadmap. In the upcoming year, our team will be focused on adding new features to the analytics portion of our product, and includes lots of exciting work around generative AI and pricing optimization.

Our tech interviews are conducted in React, Python and or Rust/Node to ensure candidates are comfortable in both the frontend and backend. Our careers page is here: https://www.govividly.com/careers

1. Full Stack Engineer - https://www.govividly.com/jobpost?gh_jid=4099665004
2. DevOps Engineer - https://www.govividly.com/jobpost?gh_jid=4576568004
It can be waxed paper, accomplishes the same purpose.

I have an issue with disposable plastic food containers. So obnoxious. Some processed food has more packaging than actual food. Like plastic sushi boxes with the stupid plastic grass between the pieces.

A recent plastic bottle and aluminium can tax was introduced in my country, thanx to the EU, which has led me to change my behaviour from avoid to avoid at all costs.

Scientists found microplastics in clogged arteries. Soon we won't have just high cholesterol, but also "high plastics" in our bloodstream, as if plthalates that were linked to high cholesterol were not enough.
Xers.ai: Revolutionizing Twitter Engagement with AI-Powered Tweets
Hey Hacker News community!

Today's a huge day for us - we're thrilled to announce the launch of Xers.ai on Product Hunt! I'm genuinely excited (and a bit nervous) to hear what the Product Hunt community thinks. Their feedback means the world to us - it's a big deal for me and my team.

Let me introduce you to Xers.ai: it's your new AI sidekick designed to help creators like you and me whip up tweets that get people talking. My journey to creating Xers.ai was fueled by my own struggles. Despite my love for expressing thoughts and sharing insights, my tweets barely saw the light of day. I'd see these viral tweets everywhere and wonder, "What's their secret?" That got me thinking - what if there was a tool that let creators pour their energy into their message, while an AI takes care of making it viral-worthy?

Here's where Xers.ai shines:
It scours Twitter, picking up tweets that are getting love and sorts them by keywords.
Drop your thoughts into Xers.ai, and bam - it lines up four viral tweet templates that match your vibe.
Choose your template, and Xers.ai remixes it with your original thoughts, crafting a fresh tweet that's ready to go viral.

The magic of Xers.ai lies in its ability to keep your message at the heart of the tweet, while dressing it up in a viral tweet structure. It's about making viral tweets accessible, saving you time, and skyrocketing your Twitter engagement and follower count.

We built Xers.ai hoping it would empower creators to focus on what they do best - creating. Let's let AI handle the rest, boosting your creative output like never before.

Join us on this adventure into the unknown. Your support has been incredible, and we can't thank you enough!
Painting something you dislike as “against nature” is the lazy way out and not a real argument.

Humans are part of nature. Property rights are necessarily part of nature too, by extension. It can’t go “against” the flow of nature when it is the flow of nature.
Navies are obsolete, but no one will admit it
Semiconductors are pretty cyclical in terms of demand, and 2023 should have been a bad year for them. This result may have been surprising in that the magnitude of the dip was worse than expected, but on some level this should have been priced in.
Presumably because it's cheaper to pay intel to set up a foundry in the US and allow them to keep all the money that results from it, than it is to pay them to set up a foundry and demand a % of the revenue.
Tor is notoriously slow and bandwidth limited. That's not the reason.
Thanks for the perspective. Any predictions on how long before junior roles open up again / what are you seeing at your employer?
That's exactly it. With renderlet, the goal is to compile the "frontend" code that's driving the rendering pipeline to WebAssembly, and provide a runtime that embeds that in any app, with the host app providing any configuration necessary to connect renderlet modules and use its canvas.

On the "backend", we will switch fully to wgpu as we retool around wasi-webgpu. I explicitly don't want to rebuild a project like wgpu, and everybody should commit upstream to that - we will likely have stuff to upstream as well.
We are at least getting a 40k series with Henry Cavil I believe
It can tell you if the answer is wrong, but it can never tell you if the answer is right.
This is the start of the end of a public social media - as many have predicted.

Soon, people will find less value in something like X, Facebook, Meta due to automation by AI.

People will move to private social media such as Whatsapp groups or Discord groups or a new tool that verifies and continues to verify that you're human. The first company to solve the last part will be the next Facebook/Meta.
Everything about this is so wrong. From the "Is this ridiculously clearly named and comically scary name safe to use?" to "Why don't you provide stable API for some internal state of React itself?"....
his track record indicates this is not a random reinforcement but something worth looking into. I also didn't know what this planetary alignment is but there have been papers around it.
also quoted in the linked paper :)
You would have put some tape over the window to keep that from happening.

Also erasing takes like 15+ mins, it wasn’t quick.
That factor is driving the virtual restaurant (ghost kitchen) trend. There are commercial kitchens set up purely to service delivery orders. They use a single facility but have multiple different restaurant brands with different menus (burgers, Mexican, Italian, vegan, etc). These ghost kitchens have no dining rooms and you probably can't even directly order food outside of a delivery service.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_restaurant
No embedded software as an option?
You browse youtube with Emacs? How do you see the thumbnails (or don't you care)?
> Is this worth it? I like playing with gadgets - so yes.

It is only worth it because it lets you play with gadgets.

Otherwise, one can only have so much attention span. I would go nuts if my home appliances started sending me push notifications. This is just a dumb trend in my opinion. Just because you can does not mean you should.
I'm imagining increasingly catastrophic variable names ("__SECRET_INTERNALS_DO_NOT_USE_OR_YOUR_SOUL_WILL_BE_CONDEMNED_TO_HELL_FOR_ETERNITY") followed by increasingly comical workaround requests ("OK, yeah, so if I'm Buddhist, and we don't believe in hell, can I access this property?")
Hydra: A hybrid runtime for x86-16 and Aarch64
Wow, I didn't realize that older versions of Android (and possibly current versions?) didn't let you install root certificates without rooting it. IIUC iOS does let you install whatever root certificate you want with multiple confirmations/password prompts and it doesn't require authenticating every time it's going to use it.
National Toxicology Program: Cell Phone Radio Frequency Radiation (2019)
> Seems to me that adding humans to the mix greatly increased the complexity and risk of the mission.

We spent the last few years watching robots with state of the art 21st century technology and software crash on the moon repeatedly, and yet, in the 1960s a few hot shot test pilots could stick a landing on their first try. Given the choice between robots and humans, I’ll take the humans.
if the goal is to be an alternative runtime (which it is actually claimed to be), I don't think I like these non-standard APIs.

I however find Bun more useful as a Swiss army knives, to use with nodejs, to reduce the number of development dependencies.
It's true that delivery services add a middle-man, but you don't seem to be considering that they add a lot of value in some important ways:

1. The single website/app is not just useful for discovery, but also to provide a consistent ordering experience. An individual restaurant might take orders over the phone, via their website, or via their own app. Those options will vary from one restaurant to the next. Not great for customers.

2. In the old model, restaurants would have to decide how many drivers to have on hand at any given time. During quiet periods they would have to decide between not offering delivery at all, or having a driver sitting around doing nothing. A delivery service that aggregates demand & supply is very useful for restaurants & drivers. Pooling of resources & layering on surge pricing creates a lot of elasticity.

I would argue that what they should have done is tried to at this value at minimal cost to customers, drivers & restaurants. If they were leaner businesses the overall proposition could be a lot better.
I’m a fan of irrevocable confirmation dialogs with scary and non-mistakable requirements like “type I HEREBY ABANDON THE FILE IMG0123.PNG AND WILL EAT SIX LIVE RATTLESNAKES IF IT EVER OCCURS TO ME THAT I MIGHT WANT IT BACK to continue”.
More like, above water navies are vulnerable to attack and are tools of politics not war. This has been known for a long time.
I never realised until now that The Wandering Earth and The Three Body Problem are written by the same author.
Beware of the Nirvana fallacy! While banning plastic bags isn't perfect by any means, it's at least a start.
OK, so this is an android problem not an overdrive or letsencrypt problem
Same, also what types of systems did it affect? Windows, Linux, Public Cloud... private cloud? All you ever hear is "Ransomware"
We just used https://www.getunleash.io/
Python Project-Local Virtualenv Management Redux
Basically, if you're getting shipments (I understand this situation was caused by a lack of a shipment/rocket), and you might need to dump stuff, you'd send some "disposal rocket".

But I get it, until Starship changes the game, every kilogram is precious.

As for people discussing breakup uncertainty or inability to target the Pacific, I mean, the pacific ocean is 12,000 miles wide. I get that reentry isn't a perfect parabola/piece of cake with all the sci-fi hooks about "bouncing off the atmosphere".

Anyway, they "jettisoned" it, which to me implies some sort of delta-v, some awareness of its vector/orbit, etc.
its usually white labeled generic kits at this point, the hackers dont know much about what theyre doing and rely on support from the creators

the hackers can focus on target selection
The concept of "underpaid" and "fair" wages is fundamentally subjective. Is a burger flipper underpaid because he cant raise a family a buy a house on that wage, "underpaid"? Or is his labor simply not that valuable? Is a techbro making $300k "underpaid" because his employer is making $500k off his work?

On the other hand skilled vs unskilled labor, as well as the concept of human capital are well recognized concepts in economics.
Venture capital reckons with the end of 'megafund' era
The number one source of both professional services revenue and production incidents at one of my previous companies were from users who would completely remove or invalidate anywhere between 600 and 60,000 records from our system EVEN AFTER typing:

reject sixty two thousand four hundred and six records

into a modal with paste disabled and a red background.

You can't fix stupid, even if they're paying customers.
If you want a good read that (to summarize it quite tersely) takes the idea of 3- or n-body simulations and goes very far indeed with it (i.e. why there is something rather than nothing), I highly recommend checking out Julian Barbour's The Janus Point.