skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The relationship to minimum wage vs cost of living has also changed since the 1950s.

The minimum wage was originally designed so a single earner could, working 40 hours/week, support a (very modest) house, spouse, and kids. That, plus the GI bill (providing college for returning military) set a floor on earnings scale, and allowed a great middle class, where people could actually live, save, and send kids to college on one income. The Republican Party Platform in 1956 was to raise, and continue raising the miniumum wage [0]

Since the minimum wage has stagnated while inflation increased, it is no longer possible to remain above poverty on one-income at minimum wage.

It might also be worth noting that it was not until 1974 that women could get a credit card without their husband's signature [1], and that is just one example of where women's rights have changed.

So, it was both societally and fiscally practical to have a "tradwife" arrangement, and it was similarly impractical to not do so.

If people actually want to go back to running a society where that is the norm, they must not only make regulations forcing it, they mush ALSO make regulations ensuring that it is possible, i.e., boosting the minimum wage to the point where one income will support a whole family and send kids to college. I'd expect if only the income were raised, it would cause more traditional arrangements to happen without restricting rights.

[0] https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/republican-party-p...

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2014/08/07/living/sixties-women-5-things...
In most local elections, the majority voters are often homeowners, despite the majority of eligible voters often being renters in cities. It’s not even a money issue but a political apathy issue.
Unfortunately, we know that most people who aren't in tech, are terrible at reading and understanding URLs to begin with, so I'm not sure that there's any point to be gained here.
Ask HN: Whatever Happened to WSDLs?
About a decade ago (give or take), it seemed like WSDLs were incredibly popular for defining API accesses to network-enabled platforms

What happened to them / why do they [seem] to no longer exist?
There is a very important teaching in the Bhagavad Gita that's related.

Lord Krishna says in Bhagavadgita:
Karmanye vadhikaraste Ma Phaleshu Kadachana,
Ma Karmaphalaheturbhurma Te Sangostvakarmani

Meaning : You have the right to work only but never to its fruits.
Let not the fruits of action be your motive, nor let your attachment be to inaction.

Interesting link if you want to read more: https://vivekavani.com/b2v47/
No. It makes no sense to down sample the resolution you send. What matters with video is the Bitrate you are actually sending. What AI might to is allowing you to further decrease the Bitrate while still maintaining similar quality, but this is what every video codec does anyway.

It makes no sense to retroactively apply this and expect client up sampling to make it look good.
Why should they bother making a specific release for FreeBSD if a port maintainer does the job well?
Yeah, I've used protobufs in production for at least a decade but haven't ever used gRPC in anger. It's come up a few times over the years and each time I look at it I just shudder and think "nope, that's not a level of complexity this project needs"
One example is the calendar that keeps getting worse release after release, so much that I had to switch to macOS calendar.

Global Inbox also got broken several years ago and never fixed, since it seems all their energy goes into making things prettier at the expense of making things work.
Usually it’s a case where a data provider gives you data that is necessary for a business but _also_ includes data you don’t want or need.

Some process will ingest and index the valuable data and throw the original file into non-indexed storage in case it needs to be re-run.

Ideally you filter that data at ingest time but even that is building a capability that feels against the intent.

But let’s say you didn’t even know to build the filter. Now you need to go in and scan all those files to remove the personal data. A capability that requires you to read data you hadn’t prior.
Ah, British press. It's a bit sleazy the way the quote was placed in a headline above a photo of the CEO of Palantir, who is certainly a douchebag but did not compare himself to Oppenheimer. That was some other douchebag.

There was some useful stuff in the article itself.
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I'm very puzzled at your comment, but anyways here: Bureau of Labor Statistics release about American National Average salaries for Q1 of 2024, with quite a lot of breakdowns for demographics

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/wkyeng.t03.htm
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It's not a strawman at all. The parent claimed "The typewriter is them dealing with it" and I am listing all of the different ways a can typewriter impair you personally.

If you don't care about the way people perceive you, how productive you are, how accessible your work is or how error-proof your product is, maybe a typewriter is for you. I cannot imagine a practical application (even casually) where you would benefit from a typewriter over a word processor and inkjet printer. I say this as someone with a typewriter not 20 feet away from where I'm standing now; they suck.
The article as I read it seemed less about being fun or not or regret / wishing etc. It seemed more about the economic toll on their business and the lack of backstop for the beekeeper. I was frankly surprised there was no government discussion of this - it seemed more rationalizing why the regulation exists rather than acknowledging the lack of insurance or assistance. I didn’t hear them wishing they didn’t have to destroy the hives, but fear of what it’s going to do to their business to lose millions in equipment then millions in revenue in the next season. The discussions of “why can’t we do X instead” were rooted in that economic concern. It seems like a pretty legit concern. A reasonable government response could be establishing a government backed insurance for beekeepers against hive loss.
Cool to see some alternatives around! I didn't like React Router's bloat either, and wrote my own. Besides having no dependencies, my router also focuses on making it easy to handle common SEO requirements like generating a sitemap or handling open graph tags. Routerino: https://github.com/nerds-with-keyboards/routerino
Yes. Post Office OCR is pretty good, but deliverabilty of hand-addressed envelopes is not as good as with typewritten addresses.

If you have really neat block printing it might be a wash.
BC parents say major mistakes were made the night their daughter died
Chapter 28. USB Device Mode / USB OTG
Basically they were employed as futurologists.

Perhaps the mental model I should use is academic security researchers. Did they publish?
Why yes! This is how I got into software development in the first place! I wrote all kinds of silly programs. First ever "serious" piece of software I wrote was for my parents, to help them calculate their taxes. In Borland Pascal, no less. Another time I had an old keyboard where one key stubbornly produced two key press events every time I pressed it - wrote a piece of software to intercept those and translate into single key press events. Slightly more recently, a program to parse my bank statements from PDF to QIF, because my ** bank doesn't have a QIF download (not even CSV). Etc., etc. And this is the kind of stuff I was/am truly passionate about!

Was lots of fun. I still do write "personal productivity software" (never call it that way, though). But the truth is - most of these issues are either already solved today or don't exist as a problem in the first place, provided you can afford paying for a solution and value you time more. Which is a good thing, but slightly less fun.
Effort seems to be a quite malleable kind of experience. It can be enjoyed or despised depending on how you've trained your impulses around that certain kind of effort. This further speaks to using the "it would be cool if ..." narrative.

Trying to build upon "it sucks that ..." seems to create a bunch of weird self sabotaging behaviours in my experience. Since I tried moving away from that I've found it easier to motivate myself to do things that aren't immediately rewarding. And perhaps more importantly, the journey there seems more enjoyable.

And I think it makes a lot of sense that using a carrot instead of a stick on yourself produces more consistent behaviour. You move towards a carrot and you flee from a stick. You can flee in most directions.

Changing the way you think about yourself takes a lot of time though. Impulses are deeply rooted.
Penguin are the paperback publisher of my favorite author, Graham Greene, and most of my copies of his books are the orange-spined Penguin Paperback editions. That color branding (which was phased out in the early 90s) was a brilliant way to make their books stand out on bookstore shelves. I discovered other authors in the 80s by means of picking up random orange-spined books from the fiction shelves at bookstores back in the 80s. Should my novel ever find a publisher and be printed in a paperback edition for which I have any influence in cover design, I’m going to request that the spine be Penguin paperback–orange.

The covers of the first Penguin Paperbacks, with their austere Gill Sans typography are, of course also iconic, to the extent that they are often mimicked in products like notebooks and other book-like products offered for sale.
It's not limited to photos. I have a work-issued iPhone and I had all my deleted Voice mails show up again.
- "Philippe Gomes, the former president of New Caledonia's government, told POLITICO the decision aimed to stop protesters from "organizing reunions and protests" through the app."

This is near-identical to the Arab Spring revolts and their leaders blocking Twitter, and with identical motives.

- "‘The people of Egypt have rights that are universal,’ Obama said. ‘That includes the right to peaceful assembly and association, the right to free speech and the ability to determine their own destiny. These are human rights and the United States will stand up for them everywhere."

- "‘I also call upon the Egyptian government to reverse the actions that they’ve taken to interfere with access to the Internet, with cellphone service and to social networks that do so much to connect people in the 21st century.’"

https://www.latimes.com/archives/blogs/technology-blog/story... (2011)

(It's not as if "but violence" is some fundamental distinction here: Obama's same speech expressly addresses the problem of violence in the Egypt protests, and that article adds context that there were several deaths in the days preceding his remarks).
If this does not explain why property taxes are the Devil's own handiwork ... nothing does
Think of it like the industrial revolution. No environmentalist, shouting for analysis, regulation, or transparency would have survived that era, they'd've been steamrolled. Now we're left with many long-term problems, even generations downstream of that focus on profit above all else.

Same thing happening now.

And you don't have to be a doomer screeching about skynet. The web is already piling up with pollutive, procedurally-generated smog.

I'm not catastrophizing; its just that history is the best predictor of the future.
This is awesome! The comment filtering feature is a nice touch. Do I need to sign up to try local inferencing?
I don't particulary appreciate harmony which may explain why I listen to so much of John Cage's music.
The Natural Selection of Bad Vibes
Yup. When I last looked into it the overwhelming amount of fire deaths were squatters lighting fires in derelict homes, and were not in a state of mind to escape.

Better homeless shelter policies & mental health support would be wildly more effective at preventing fire deaths than code enforcement.
I agree that in an ideal case the data wouldn’t be collected or stored.

My concern is once it has, is it better to build a capability that can specifically be used to identify personal data to remove it or to let it lie.

I’m glad you have moral certainty on that. It’s certainly never been that clear to me.
The doctor certifies whether the patient is of sound mind when making the decision. In practice, both the doctor's history with the patient and the relatives may influence that certification in edge cases.
The ads are definitely coming given their pitch deck for the data partnerships https://www.adweek.com/media/openai-preferred-publisher-prog...
Other than "cream loaded", I still don't know what butter chicken actually is.
> After 13 years you have found the password to your account

Subtle :)

> logged in to call OP a bot for some reason?

Why did the Persona call the Kettle black?

Unsee!
I want the polar opposite of this. I want an electronic device with local-only apps+browser, not a walled-garden panopticon that's constantly phoning home to let OpenAI know what I'm up to.

Unfortunately the version of capitalism we ended up with ensures that corps won't build anything like this lest it kill off opportunities for "services revenue".
I see someone arguing that this is useful because orientation affects real pens, so being able to see the rotation of the fake pen is useful. But... does the program actually utilize the imagined rotation of the pen in this physical way? I would guess no because that would not work very well with the apple pencil that is irl geometrically not the same.
I did use demineralized water!
And the Pearl Harbor attack was an attempt at a saving throw as the US had blockaded Japanese oil supplies as the latter's imperial expansion threatened the US colony of the Philipines.

(not trying to portray the US as the aggressor in any way, just agreeing that the author's model is utterly broken)
Completely agree with this. Everyone doing AI has to do AI that is both valuable and responsible. You can't have an org structure where the valuable AI and responsible AI teams are in some kind of war against each other. It will just never work well.[1]

Imagine if vehicle manufacturers[2] split their design and R&D teams into a "make the thing go" team and a "don't kill the passengers" team. Literally noone would think that arrangement made sense.

I can totally see when we are at a state of significant maturity of both AI and AI regulation that you have a special part of your legal team that are specialised in legal/regulatory compliance issues around AI just like companies tend to have specialised data privacy compliance experts. But we're not there yet.

[1] If you're serious about long-term AI risk and alignment research, sponsor some independent academic research that gets published. That way it's arms-length and genuinely credible.

[2] If you like you can maybe mentally exclude Boeing in this.
Worse, the fees reduce new construction, thus limiting supply and raising rents on existing units. It's bad public policy regardless of its legality.
For those wondering, this is a reference to an older video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngZ0K3lWKRc

So, not hyperbole.
I believe he's talking more about external 2.5" drives. Their low power usage means they can be run off a port with no need for an annoying wallwart. SSDs are definitely encroaching into this space but 2.5" HDD still have a cost advantage.
Disord's TOS used to say "we may sell all your convos, including your private ones". Then some time later, they suddenly they changed it to noooo, we would never sell aaanything, and didn't even update the "last changed" date. I deleted my Discord account and stopped using them immediately after I noticed the TOS, but them sneakily trying to cover it up later completely ruined any lingering trust I might have had in them.

And this is just one of many, many problems associated with the platform.
I read the linked news article and the related paper and it just says that they're struggling to figure out what one of the light sources that's orbiting the hole is made of. The article doesn't really say much that isn't mainstream understanding of black holes.
C syntax is only better than Rust's because of its simplicity. If C were as semantically rich as Rust it'd be more of an unreadable mess.

That said, C's syntactic missteps appear to be accidents, while Rust delights itself in being ugly.
The purpose of the risk team at OpenAI was to prevent the destruction of humanity.

I think you definitely want people who have that responsibility to "wield their authority like a whip without regard for business value".

Now, whether you buy OpenAI's hype about the potential danger (and value) of their products, that's up to you, but when the company says, "We're getting rid of the team that makes sure we don't kill everyone", there is a message being sent. Whether it's "We don't really think our technology is that dangerous (and therefore valuable)" or "We don't really care if we accidentally kill everyone", it's not a good message.
There are several languages which are motivated by providing a better experience than C in C's native domain. Rust is not one of those languages.

Rust has an innovative, but highly opinionated, memory model: the premise is writing high performance memory safe programs, with 'zero cost' abstractions and so on. You might write a program in Rust rather than C in the way you might write a program in Go rather than C: because the application is better modeled in a language which isn't C. For programs which pertain to the domain where C should be considered on its merits, if you try to write them in Rust, you may as well start each module with an unsafe block.

But no, C is not fine. It has a stunning amount of own-goals making it pointlessly difficult to write a program with a fine-grained memory policy that is correct. C also doesn't have a syntax at all until you've run CPP, and then you have a context-sensitive parse. Neither of these are mere technical formalities, they actively inhibit understanding a C program.
Elitism.

You need to keep the quality of discussion high. That means prioritising individuals with critical thinking skills over emotional hot takes.

I disagree with political opinions on here a lot of the time, but the individuals expressing them are usually at least able to articulate logically why they make sense from their vantage point.

By contrast, somewhere like Reddit is obviously made up of far less inquisitive individuals on average which makes everything a "hot take", often using buzzwords.
Greenpeace sued successfully to make it illegal. It's hard to imagine how anything can be a greater obstacle, regardless of whether there are additional obstacles- it's a brick wall.

The additional obstacles you've listed all do seem less significant and more surmountable than not being allowed to grow the crop at all. And I can't find any evidence of the yield or drought tolerance actually being worse.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-82001-0
I assume you mean United States won the WWII together with Russia? or are you including other countries as well?

It is important to also highlight that Russia was invaded while USA was far from the conflict.
They're saying it's not an informative measure in discussions about affordability or lifestyle because no individual lives some national average life, not that it can't be calculated or used in policy analysis.
GDPR got that covered, now it just needs to become global, and enforced.
No, this just puts the fox in the henhouse. Systems of checks-and-balances between independent entities exist for a reason.

Without them internally, it'll just fall to regulators, which of course is what shareholders want; to privatize upside and socialize downside.
> Rather it was essentially solid, being a carbon ribbon with a mylar back.

And produced the most crisp type imaginable. I'm not sure any laser printer can compete.
This isn't "insane attention to detail" — it's the basic functionality of the new feature. It's not just a shadow to look cool, it's literally the shape of what you are going to draw, if you actually touch the screen with the stylus.

Since they can't yet physically morph the rubber tip of the physical stylus to the shape and size of the brush or marker, this is a kind of clever workaround; the best they can do with today's tech.

(And it is indeed one of the two significant new features of this new Apple Pencil stylus, coming from the old one — the first and more important one to me personally being able to find the insanely expensive stylus when my child (or, OK, me myself) misplaces it.)
BTW, I think all but one of my startups would fit the pg essay, but when you read articles like this one, the evidence is not that pg style startups are going crazy, but rather self-employment and small business is growing... mostly self-employment.
Something that could be pretty cool to do with this is generate a `og:image` based on the state in the URL. This way, the actual game would render in iMessage & all rather than having to screenshot it.
I’m so grateful for the author having written and shared this piece. I have similar thoughts - at what point is money to extend my life better applied to others? I don’t know how to decide that, but I know it’s a decision that is being made irrationally.
Back when long-distance calls cost real money per minute, yes. You got the occasional telemarketing call, but it was local and in most areas there wasn't much of it happening.
It's a really interesting open problem to get the cost of these down so that they can be used to heuristically select the variable order for worst case optimal joins during evaluation.

It's somewhere on the back of my todo list, and I have the hunch that it would enable instance optimal join algorithms.

I've dubbed these the Atreides Family of Joins:

- Jessicas Join: The cost of each variable is based on the smallest number of rows that might be proposed for that variable by each joined relation.
- Pauls join: The cost of each variable is based on the smallest number of distinct values that will actually be proposed for that variable from each joined relation.
- Letos join: The cost of each variable is based on the actual size of the intersection.

In a sense each of the variants can look further into the future.

I'm using the first and the second in a triplestore I build in Rust [1] and it's a lot faster than Oxigraph. But I suspect that the constant factors would make the third infeasable (yet).

1: https://github.com/triblespace/tribles-rust/blob/master/src/...