skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"No one has been displaced."

This is a false statement. Any single example is enough to disprove the statement.

Consider this: "There are 36,659 people employed in the Coal Mining industry in the US as of 2023." [1]

Coal mining is in effect a displaced industry, that is hardly anyone actually still doing coal mining. The machinery does the work of 1000s of people. Same thing for farming. The displacements can happen.

Which comes to: "but no serious displacement is happening."

Citation needed. The entirety of the screen-writers guild would seemingly disagree with you based on the longest strike in their history. Given that evidence, I do think it is more plausible that you lack empathy and data for your comments compared to that entire group striking for no reason. Otherwise, can you clarify how you are correct and the entire union representing screen-writers wrong? Why are you are right and 200k other people wrong, about their own industry?

[1] https://www.ibisworld.com/industry-statistics/employment/coa...:
Have you read Infinite Jest? Barely any of the book is really about it (the actual theme being a study of addiction is many forms), but the ostensive premise is that a video clip has been created that's so compelling that it's impossible to stop watching it.

Some of the asides are also hilariously/terrifyingly prescient. The passages on the evolution of video calling are some of my favourites.
What if the AI is manipulating those sources you're researching? Comments like this come off as completely lacking in imagination imo. I don't understand why you need specifics because the world is already full of things trying to manipulate you. Have you never made a bad purchase?
Hey man you'd be surprised how much they stretch the "honour" part in Brazil.

There have been multiple accounts of comedians, podcasters, and YouTubers being fined or even arrested because of their opinions or jokes. Often these jokes wouldn't even target anyone in particular.

It's batshit crazy.
Is the typo (decado) in the title of an article about attention to detail a late April Fools joke?
German government just reflects the German society, which is happy to come up with an incredibly bureaucratic non-digital process on any random occasion. I was once told by a lawyer assistant in an email, that I need to call them to make an appointment for another call to discuss a billing issue. Needless to say, the matter could be clarified in a few emails, and those are the people who charge 150-200€ per hour. This is the essence of how the things are often done here by businesses which are supposedly rooting for efficiency and profit margins.
S3, yes. Litestream doesn't store the backup as a single DB file - rather, as snapshots and WAL segments that are streaming in, so it's unfortunately not so simple.
I think Clojure absolutely does live up to the hype but during Clojure's peak HN hype days all the people upvoting the posts and commenting in the threads never actually gave Clojure a proper try or a try at all. Rust on HN might be in a similar boat.
There are also many examples of the opposite - many more, in fact. Why is it important to you to ignore all that in order to believe in such unhappy things?
Blind internet users struggle with error-prone AI aids
Based on an extremely quick skim, this appears aimed only at projects that are using autoconf purely for portability across standard Unix environments. It admits up front that it drops features that people find valuable about configure, like --prefix et al and the entire feature selection cluster of options (now you have to edit Makefiles, which has various issues), and it appears to have nothing for projects that need their own checks for additional features of the environment (OpenZFS being an extreme example). If I was being unkind, I would say it's an autoconf replacement for people who don't need autoconf to start with (and don't care about --prefix et al).

There is an ecological niche for 'you don't need autoconf' (and don't care about aspects it gives you for free), just like there's an ecological niche for 'you don't need Javascript', but I don't think it's a significant one.

(I am the author of the linked-to article.)
You can purchase GitHub copilot and use it (even for corporations) and not use GitHub.

My company buys copilot for all devs, but doesn’t use GH or GHE
The two best TV's I've found at thrift shops are Panasonic Viero. One is a 32" in the bedroom and the other was 37" for daytime use in the lounge (for big pictures we use an old Mitsubishi HC7000 projector).

Both have great pictures, no dead pixels. The biggest issue with thrifted TV's is that they don't come with stands so you need to get a wall mount or contrive a stand of some sort.

I would heavily recommend against anything Samsung. There always seems to be something wrong with any Samsung being sold 2nd hand.
AI is driving a future of autonomous warfare – DW Analysis
People often forget marriage is also a legal contract (in Germany it simplifies so many things, eg. health insurance, joint income tax filings, etc).

I think most immigrants who get married in Germany are doing it for legal reasons primarily.
It costs a lot of money to an individual, not to a corporation. Estimates are that it cost Facebook around $20 million for LLaMA, for example. This is less than 0.1% of their annual revenue.

It's slightly weird that some of the companies doing this are VC-backed startups with no obvious business model, but that's hardly the only way to create them. Companies like Facebook could continue to release them purely for the PR. The cost is within the range of what could be done from donations by a non-profit organization. It's the sort of thing you might build a business model around in the same way that IBM or Intel does with Linux -- an obvious candidate here would be models released by Nvidia/AMD/Intel/Apple/etc. You might also build a business model out of consulting services rather than hardware sales, e.g. here's a free LLM and now you can pay us to integrate it with your company's systems.

This is also assuming that nobody ever figures out how to train a model using distributed computing. The second that happens there will be arbitrarily many free models because there are a zillion people willing to contribute a day's worth of consumer GPU time to a free model project.
1W of continuous power consumption is not great. To put it into perspective: that’s 1x24x365Wh, almost 9kWh per year. A kettle (1.8-2kW) can run for 4-5 hours for that amount of energy. If getting a kettle to boiling takes 5 minutes, that’s almost 50-60 kettles. That’s two month of boiling one kettle a day.
Which is to say, they don't trust 3rd parties to build the software without backdoors. Can't say I blame them. Allowing for 3rd party clients opens Signal to backdoored clients. I know you think that people would only make 3rd-party clients for good, and not do bad things with that power, and no one would be foolish enough to download Definitely-not-backdoored-Signal-client from hackers.ru, but I'm pretty sure that's exactly what would happen. An APT could exploit a Pegasus-like zero-day in iOS and install a replacement, backdoored client on a victim's device. Not allowing 3rd party clients doesn't totally protect against that, but it goes a long way.
I agree "sanitized" is the only accurate term for this.

I think the reason they bother using any other word is the assumption that some web developers aren't familiar with the term, or maybe to score points with pointy haired bosses that absolutely should not be working in the industry in 2024.
Crypto mating will eventually be a human endeavour
Tech folks the baddies for improving tech? No.

Tech leaders the baddies for abusing tech? Maybe.

Government leaders the baddies for allowing the above free reign in all instances and allowing the sheer monetisation of the tech+data siphon? Yes.
we were wrong about certain aspects

I think the wrongness of popular perception tends to go in the other direction. People often misunderstand just how badly the Soviet bloc lagged in high technology, precision manufacturing at scale, etc. This makes sense because they remember and have read about the military parity, the brief period of (very roughly) comparable middle class standard of living, etc. But Moore's law (among other things) dramatically exacerbated the technology gap - you can have, say, a steel or oil industry that's a couple of decades behind the state of the art. An IC industry that far behind is barely a meaningful IC industry at all.
Also possibly of interest: rePalm, a project to run PalmOS on ARM microcontrollers like the RP2040 - http://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=27.%20rePalm
PGP as an ecosystem has always suffered from toolbox-itis: when a tool (especially a cryptographic tool) tries to be everything, it ends up doing nothing particularly well. This got ossified in the form of OpenPGP, and has basically remained the status quo for the last ~25 years.

More generally, the OpenPGP world is in a bit of a double-bind: they can either fix things by breaking compatibility (at which point someone can reasonably observe that there's no good reason not to ditch OpenPGP entirely), or retain compatibility and accept that OpenPGP will never get much better than RFC 4880 and whatever smattering of drafts the GnuPG maintainers agree to implement. One way essentially results in an entirely different tool/standard that happens to be wearing PGP's skin; the other means keeping around misuse-prone and outright broken cryptographic primitives (and bad formats to boot).

(To answer your actual question: email is just a bad substrate for attempting E2EE messaging. Latacora has a great explainer post on why[1]. TOFU is a mostly adjacent concern; trust/identity negotiation is hard, but the thing that makes WhatsApp, Signal, etc. actually work is that they eliminate manual key management and make cryptographic right choices for the user, rather than expecting the user to hold the tool correctly. In other words: they're misuse-resistant, where PGP as an ecosystem has historically not been.)

[1]: https://www.latacora.com/blog/2020/02/19/stop-using-encrypte...
How does this compare to H2 in postgres compatibility mode?
With Kollabe, you can now quickly and easily import tickets from jira to estimate with a team. The winning story points will be synced back to jira as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martians_(scientists)

There was an incredible cadre of scientists from Hungary in the early 20th century. Sadly they were exiled by fascism.
I was thinking more about it being filtered by firewalls.
I remember when played a lot of DotA 2, trying to climb the ranks. < 6.5 hours of sleep == significantly more bad plays I wouldn't have made otherwise: forgetting about some important aspect, mistiming an action or reacting too slow. It was a level where I was often matched with competitive players and one mistake often changed the result of the game. In hindsight, I would've been better off just stopping for the day the moment I noticed my performance is garbage, but well, the game was addictive. It was almost always a bad decision to keep playing, but again, I was prone to making bad decisions on such days.
From the article, it sounds like they are using Claude? Maybe there's more than one possible supplier. There probably will be more.

Edit: looks like the autocomplete provider is configurable in the VS Code plugin settings. Not sure what the default is.
Sadly, deterministic ux code is unable to do everything. So typically we hire people to do the things computers can't do on their own. Those people have a user interface (speech and text), and a tendency to not perfectly execute your instructions, because the prescribed task is often under specified.

Likewise, humans have used animals to extend their capabilities for millennia, and, like other people, animals have their own sets of capabilities, needs, and shortcomings.

What they have in common, and I think ai will be like this as well, is that to get stuff done well you need to understand the capabilities and strengths of the mind you are working with. Working with minds requires some level of relationship with those minds.

If you have use cases where a CRUD approach is plenty, then you don't need a mind in the implementation, and that's totally fine! Let a mess of JavaScript do what a mess of JavaScript is good at. (though you'll certainly need a mind to implement it).

But we already work with minds that are experts - and smarter and more experienced than we are - in medicine, law, and so on. We are used to knowing that good results in these areas are built on building a bridge with another mind.

I'm curious why you would expect that we would ever want to replace, say, a psychiatrist with a button press? The expressivity possible with deterministic software is simply insufficient to the complexity of the problem space.
The hacker subculture there is incredible; closest thing to late-1990s bay area (before the flood of money killed everything) that's still alive today.

But yeah, there are a lot of negatives counterbalancing that.
Wouldn't you use tools like clang-tidy for that use case? wouldn't it be more flexible and general? Also does this project let you rewrite code or only run queries?
It’s always funny when Microsoft explains how important telemetry is for quality control, but their os is worse than ever.
You’ll need to share more info. Number of episodes, traction, topics, …

If you’re comfortable sharing a link I can reach out and setup a review.
I'm not saying the diagrams the OP is using aren't useful, but I would argue that they are not ER diagrams.
This might be a stupid question, but do you know how this might be used with a Prisma client?
No. Only obscenely large ones do so. It's not really required unless you are taking in huge amounts.
I read this, came back and clicked on the wrong comment section. Funny thing, it wasn't much less entertaining.
This is one of the best, funniest pieces of writing I have read in months - The utter detachment and cynicism displayed around this borderline Hunter S Thompson acid trip is breath of fresh air.
I can't really give much advice but I can tell you a master's degree will not add to your job prospects unless you want to change your focus. Employers in tech are looking for your ability to do the job not advanced degrees.

I do know that looking for a job in tech is a never ending struggle unless you are lucky and land in a growing successful startup or a stable large company. Good luck.
I agree, and prevention can't be a one time thing. In the 1930's if you were against using coal to produce electricity you would have been labeled crazy. Seems like what is needed is constant re-assessment to determine if new harms have been noted, along with ongoing research and testing to look for toxins, environmental effects, etc. As you state, preventive strategies. For example, ConsumerLab.com is testing herbal supplements, not just once, but regularly for lead, potentcy and more. This is something that should have already been ongoing for decades, not just started as a business in the last few years. Another example is national security as it relates to imported products. If we're not testing imported foods and other products (kids toys) reliably for lead and other poisons then a hostile country could poison your population before you know about it. Impaired people = impaired soldiers. Managing this in a cost effective way is difficult, but it seems possible.
The quote says why you should care about it. Without categoricity the axioms of a theory don't define a specific structure.
This assumes that implementation diversity stymies an attacker, which isn't really true in cryptography. Cryptographic errors have well-understood "shapes," frequently present even when the raw algebra of the implementation is correct; adversaries are delighted when they discover yet another hand-rolled RSA implementation that's susceptible to BB'98 or BB'06.
> I wonder why the insurance and real estate markets are not responding at all to all ocean-front property soon becoming worthless?

Insurances are already reacting. Just a few days ago there was an article showing how home insurances are cancelling contracts based on drone and other aerial surveillance, yeeting people for the horror of having a trampoline in their garden. And beyond that, insurance companies are pulling out of risky markets... and of course, people are crying foul and want the government to bail them out [1].

Edit: Seems like you've been downvoted to grey - I don't get why, because (other than not being aware about recent developments in insurance markets) you are raising a legitimate question.

[1] https://eu.palmbeachpost.com/story/opinion/columns/2024/03/1...
> My favorite Berlin anecdote is when my wife (then girlfriend) and I first arrived in Germany, she was unemployed for the better part of a year as no-one would give her a chance. She actually got quite depressed about it, and reached out about state sponsored integration courses as the language lessons she was taking were expensive and she wanted to do something more holistic. The authorities told her in no uncertain terms that they didn't care and that there were no places available.

Honestly, as a native German this anecdote rather sounds like your girlfriend saw the good side of the German bureacracy (and life) (you likely haven't seen the bad side ... ;-) ): the girlfriend asked for something and got a direct honest answer. This is German directness, which I would rather consider a German virtue, but often confuses people from other countries where answers tend to be more sugar-coated.
I have a friend who got married “on emergency” because her visa was expiring and she would have to get back to her country of origin if she didn’t find a job in a few weeks. So .. yeah.. could happen. And it’s also not just about the time .. it’s also about the amount of documents, forms and all the offices you need to contact.
Is there a particular purpose you're pursuing with this obvious pedantry or is it merely performative?
I have seen little consideration made to the carbon cycle which produced this result of methane output in landfills.

It doesn't come from nothing. Methane is a compound generally produced by the breaking down of organic compounds in the absence of oxygen (anaerobic decomposition)

Organic compounds generally gain carbon from the atmosphere. So where is the extra carbon entering the system?

Should the focus not be on disposal methods but on ensuring sustainable regeneration of farmland in this case?
I bought a Hakko FR301 to desolder a few thousand microcontroller based boards that had a through hole battery holder that needed to be changed out.

The FR301 literally saved me days. As mentioned it needs regular cleaning (not surprising) and I also went through a lot of filters with it.

Not sure I could justify one for the odd desoldering job but if you're working with a lot of parts, they are essential. Great product.

I would also add you need an extractor fan to go with it, as the fumes will give you a fierce headache. Hakko make those too.
I’m a full time software developer, the lead programmer actually, but I don’t have health care. I have important unfilled prescriptions because of lack of money. So how exactly does a lack of health care not affect people?
Neurons in the brain appear to follow a distinct mathematical pattern
I always wanted an Indy. Preferably the WebForce one with all the extra software.
I think I’d argue that the models are still a limiting factor for these kinds of tools - but there’s still also plenty of competitive space outside of models. The context you gather, the way you gather it and your prompting matters.
This PumpkinOS project is pretty incredible. I can't imagine how much effort it would take to be compatible with all the system calls that the average Palm app would expect. I remember Palm did some truly weird things with memory: anything moderately large would need to be put into a special memory block that the OS could rearrange at will, and one would need to lock the block's handle to keep it stable while accessing it. Stuff like that must have been challenging (and fun) to implement in PumpkinOS.

This brings me back. I used to make little games for Palm OS, and I was so excited for the next version of the OS which would let one use the (then new) Palm OS Development Suite to make programs. It was also the last OS I've used where an app had a central event loop. Everything else today has UI frameworks that handle it for you. Things are easier now, but I still miss it.
Checking in as an American who really loves vegemite and butter on toast in the morning. Thankfully I live in a large city where it’s easy to find.

I generally like strong flavors (Matcha, fermented foods, heavy garlic, didn’t hate Durian) so it was a welcome find!
And if you're not an asshole, those directions will actually be right. But we're surrounded by assholes, and what's funnier to them than telling the idiot tourists to go the opposite way and cause them some inconvenience.

The unfortunate reality of human psychology is to group people together and penalize the group for behaviors the group itself deems extreme and appalling. The asshole behavior of one tourist paints all tourists the same color.
I hear what you're saying but foundationally this is a bullshit argument. The entire debate evaporates if you simply shift the burden of proof where it belongs and state that Things must comprehensively prove their safety before being released onto the market or otherwise into the wild.
Optimizing the timeout issue in Geth using key-value storage as a caching layer
Isn't it Brood XIII, not XII?
i think we’ve seen repeatedly that his reasoning for loudly preaching to us all about “free speech” was never genuine or even realistic.

the first clue was the “public square” argument. a privately owned space by literal definition can not be public. the second clue was obvious to anyone who has ran a large online community or worked in real world gathering spaces: it’s impossible to allow all behaviors yet expect people to want to spend their time visiting.

he has shown his disingenuousness repeatedly.
https://noticias.uol.com.br/colunas/leonardo-sakamoto/2023/1...

https://agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/geral/noticia/2023-01/manif...

https://www.estadao.com.br/politica/blog-do-fausto-macedo/de...
If not that, the bottom popup informing me "We noticed you're visiting from Switzerland. We've updated our prices to Swiss franc for your shopping convenience. Use United States (US) dollar instead" must be. It switched to France the second time I loaded the page. (I'm in the US.)
> This is the eperience from two dicatorships on German soil in the 20th century of which one ended less than 25 years ago

In comparison to the NSDAP and SED, I think calling the 15 years of CDU government under Helmut Kohl (which actually ended a bit over 25 years ago) a dictatorship is a bit too harsh... /s
A lot of blue screens were caused by unstable graphics card drivers. Thank Microsoft for moving a lot of the graphics stack to userland in, I think, Vista -since then, GPU driver crashes don't take the entire system out as well.
How is this supposed to work, exactly?
From a USA perspective, I find that usually when a bureaucratic process is hopelessly broken, it is because a small portion of the population actively hates the people that would benefit from the process and want to harm them. However they cannot legally or popularly discriminate against them so instead they destroy the processes that benefit the hated group. Do you get that impression where you are too?