skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
America has this too. It's homelessness. The drug abuse and mental illness makes it worse though. Unlike the comparably docile hikikomori, drug and alcohol use leads to erratic and aggressive behavior and makes accommodations and treatment impossible, hence homelessness.
The sellers at craft fairs I trust most and purchase from most often are those who are sitting there making things. It's easier to match the quality of things there making against those they're selling.

It's pretty much the only way I can be assured they're not (exclusively) selling dropshipped items.
If you sell your goods at fairs or cons it’s not uncommon for the site to go dark for a few days while they haul all their goods to man a booth. Anything that doesn’t sell goes back up.
As I see it, the problem of a robot in a workplace is that it's hard to integrate into a processes built around humans. But once you manage to bring some robots in, that factor will revert and now there will be much more straightforward to add more robots - a human will now be seen as a misfit that needs completely different scheduling.

The actual difference is that robot usually does only one thing, and any limitations and deficiencies will need to be taken care of by human workers.

Whereas a human needs all kinds of breaks throughout the day, needs conditioned workplace, unreliable in terms of durations and frequencies.
> It's a miserable experience by-design.

I believe we aim for a dehumanising experience in New Zealand, although I am mostly unfamiliar with it. Certainly our current government wants to crack down: https://assets.nationbuilder.com/nationalparty/pages/18418/a...
The takeaway they don't say: When you tire of your goldfish, kill them instead of releasing them.
If one wire in the pair is still connected, it's not really working because of capacitance (which is ~nil at 5mm), it's working because diff pairs are amazing. The remaining signal level on the single wire was probably enough to keep the receiver happy (at ~10kBaud in the Reddit post, versus the design ~100MBaud), and so, you win.

Any time you can spare the pins & wires to go differential, and have the slightest hunch you might need it, just do it. Diff pairs work!
Shopify did very well connecting small makers/vendors to customers. Granted, to your point they are now trying to go for big vendors, thinking they can somehow unseat amazon. Probably won't work out well for them either.
Xi Jinping's Recipe for Total Control: An Army of Eyes and Ears
I don't reflexively gag at the thought of some redistribution but I think that redistribution of money is a medium-term bandaid solution for this scenario.

I've been meaning to read Chokepoint Capitalism for a while but from the name alone it sounds like government or public intervention ought to be focused on preventing the creation of such chokepoints. Not just near-monopoly like Microsoft has over lots of PC bootloader signatures, but also avoiding duopolies like Android-Apple. In very vague terms the most sensible option would be that it should be possible for any size party to create a minimum viable product so that market forces could actually work - such as open-sourcing a "minimum viable" amount of IP that a competitor can ship a product and let customer experience and market forces come to the fore, instead of lock-in, walled gardens, regulatory capture, standards burden etc.

Personally I also would like to see standard education include something akin to "How To Get Away With Murder" except it's "How FAANG Gets Away With Fucking Everybody". Bring the technical and economic literacy of the general populace closer to the average HN level, basically. More tinkers, more hackers.

And, in a broader sweep, a comment I made recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40461326
Conservatives plan to bring back mandatory national service
> While I'm sure some of you would love it if we just packed it up and deleted Kubernetes

Appreciated that.
Only really works for some types of goods, though. Someone selling e.g. end-grain wooden cutting boards would require a very spacious booth to demonstrate their particular skill. Someone selling stained-glass pieces would require a fume hood to make any permanent progress! Someone making scented soaps? Legally, you need PPE to be within 50ft of the process!
Milk that enters the food supply from a diary farm to retailers should absolutely be pasteurized, but farms shouldn't be raided by state police if someone wants to accept the risks and come purchase raw milk for whatever reason.
> Ok, so why don't you build things for fun that affect the real world outside of your office job?

> And before you tell me you are too tired of coding from your day job, which is the cliche response to this question

For the first point: I do, but this does not change what you consider a cliché responses that

1. I am often very tired from my job

2. I can only invest little time (at night and at weekends), which is far too little to affect the world around me. I nevertheless invest these precious little ressources, but the reasons lie in my personal convictions.
If food manufacturers could sell less for more, they'd already be doing it. Why would they wait?
I think there's some other mechanisms that wake CPUs?

This is just saying, if something decided to idle the CPU, don't wake it just because there are tasks waiting to run (let something else decide to wake it).

E.g., if the system is overloaded for some period of time maybe it will wake a cpu in response to that, but a short burst in tasks won't result in waking up all the CPUs.
I've only used tiling window managers for over a decade, so for me screen is only for detaching, vim usually only one file at a time, and the window manager lets me tile/stack those and the web browser, zoom, etc.
Show HN: Sum (algebraic) types for C in one 100 line header
I've worked in big tech, my side projects and hobbies are not in any way equivalent to work in a job while on the surface they both involve coding.

But even corporate work can be fun if you approach it in a detached way while understanding (accurately) that it doesn't really matter. This is a privilege you have when you don't have children or debt.
The solution is always the same: pay people off and keep it under the radar.

What stops the vendor, or other vendors, from creating more gnomes with sneakers. Easy money from customer with billions of dollars to spend on payola, fines, legal settlements, etc.

Maybe they made the vendor sign an NDA.
> You have no way to know for sure if the human you ask the same question, does either.

The human might lie, but they generally don't.

An LLM is always confabulating when it explains how it reached a conclusion, because that information was discarded as soon as it picked a word.

The limitations are not in the same ballpark.
Oh definitely, for a mostly idle system like using a browser it won't matter much and the energy savings are nice. But it would be great to know the trade-off because if you have 50% energy saving, but have to wait 2x the time, you're just wasting time.
why the wireguard step?
ESP32-C6 does not have 5GHz, only WiFi 6 at 2.4GHz.. ESP32-C5 has 5GHz but its still in beta :)
In the same way that "I" isn't part of the first line of "I am the very model of a modern Major-General"? That "I've" isn't part of the second line? That the first "and" isn't part of the line "And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium", even though the other three are? That only the second half of "in short" belongs to the line "in short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral"? All of these are in metrically identical positions.

You really think a poem in which every line begins with an identical anacrusis, where the "anacrusis" is required without exception, is properly analyzed as using anacruses?
HN post and discussions from yesterday

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40464558
We live in the time when there is sharp decline in trust of public institutions and academia.

What is considered 'safe' to use, or 'unsafe' -- is debated at the level of a layman (a person without specialized knowledge in chemistry, biology, immunology, etc).

We cannot all be specialists in human biology, finance, internet security / etc.
And that's being exploited by powerful organizations.

When the above happens, and we feel taken-advantage-of we tend to 'default' to our 'localized' experiences and instincts.

For me, and I am sure many others I do 2 things

a) I trust the NIH positions and articles before 1994 or so, much more than the most recent ones (on the topics that rely on observational statics)

b) I tend to do research on these topic across countries (especially if I can translate, of non-English speaking countries).

Forums like this one, may amplify just one side of the view (recently publish observational stats, English-speaking ).

My suggestion, if I may offer one -- continue to be cautious and use information sources that are 'balanced'.
Shopify has implemented much of Etsys value as a selling platform, though it doesn’t serve as a marketplace for discovery. Social media (TikTok and Insta) can easily offboard to a website shop, and lots of product creators sell there (and some use TikTok’s Shop, which admittedly is competing more with Etsys garbage dropshipping than anything else). Clearly there are gaps here, as not everyone can create a Shopify site, and social media isn’t exactly an e-commerce marketplace.
> You don't get [...] civil projects without dealing with the worst kind of politics.

But this does not need builder skills, but robber baron skills. :-(
I heard a funny quote that "today we have a new generation of developers who learnt how to pass interviews but don't know how code, and we have an old generation of developers who know how to code but forgot how to pass interviews. Or maybe never knew".
It really doesn't matter much if you agree or not with the usage, it is a shame people need to go for drugs so often.
I can see a reason for a weekly beer or so or even for other party related stuff. But daily usage of any drugs is a way to dope yourself from the world.
What are the “regular skills” that everyone develops if they don’t use substances?
The female pill is 93% effective (as used). A male pill will still help prevent unwanted pregnancy
https://archive.pagecamp.org/p/nTx04
So far I have not seen it ever in either Firefox or 2-3 Chromium-based browsers, on a handful of computers in multiple locations.

I don't see a way google can make this work. As I understand it LLM confabulations can be reduced but never eliminated owing to how they're built. Google could try and create a fact-checking department to make queries reduced to falsehoods or bullshit but then they face the problem of appointing themselves arbiters of the "truth". The only way to win is to not play the game, as I see it. I wish the collective AI fever would break already.
the thing with search is that a human has to use reasoning on the result, while with AI the expectation

Thus when a human sees a suggestion to use glue on pizza, it would question the result. While AI can't.
Ask HN: Any tips for juniors and new grads in this job market?
Would it be a terrible idea to pursue "unskilled" labor until the market improves, while attempting tech side hustles and building portfolio projects in my areas of interest? I only have a year of combined experience (including an internship) mostly in "full stack" web dev, which I'm not really a big fan of at this point. I'll take whatever I can get though, even if just temporarily until I'm able to switch domains.

What worries me about this move is getting stuck and the potential gap in my resume. I've met so many people who "temporarily" became Uber drivers and ended up stuck in the gig economy for years. If none of my side hustles work out, I'm assuming I'll need some impressive personal projects to make up for the gap in my resume. That or just lying and hoping I get away with it. But if I don't find anything in the next ~6 months, I won't have much of a choice, will I?
Etsy is just an alternative storefront for Aliexpress at this point. I rarely find something on there that I can't also find on Aliexpress. It's cheaper to drop ship it myself.
> Regular vfork() handles this by updating thread state.

It doesn't, though? At least not on x86 [0] [1]. Stuff like this is why I'm inclined to regard the libc rules as fictions of dubious utility.

> And it's not just libc. The kernel devs are imo a bit too lax when it comes to their API specs. E.g. I recently ran into an issue around the specification of the close() syscall. Unlike write() its manpage doesn't have the "other errors may occur" caveat, and yet FUSE can cause arbitrary errors to be returned from close(), including EBADF. When I requested clarification[1] they were neither willing to call the FUSE behavior a bug nor update the docs.

I mean, FUSE is by no means the only offender with syscall return values. Before execve()ing your program, I can install a seccomp filter that makes any syscall return any errno. Even infallible operations like sched_yield() can be made to return an error. So I operate on the principle that the results I get from a Linux syscall are whatever the environment wants me to see: it's the environment's responsibility not to do something totally schizophrenic.

(Well, except for the possibilities where a less-privileged FUSE mount could confuse a more-privileged process. But the others in that thread want to see specific scenarios for that, which makes sense to me. In any case, if you have a privileged process that you don't want less-privileged filesystems to blow up, you likely want special isolated handling for all syscalls accessing it.)

[0] https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=sysdeps/uni...

[1] https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/src/process/x86_64/...
> catching fire, deteriorating the capacity, replacing the pack in a few years and you can top your fuel within minutes and literally anywhere

The media have done a great job at convincing people of these myths.

* EVs are much less likely to catch fire than ICE cars: https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/electric-cars/how-much-fi...

* Deteriorating capacity and replacing the battery after a few years? Most batteries have long warranties. 8 years is standard here. If we look at NMC batteries lasting 1,000 cycles then that would be 400,000 km in your example. LFP is 2 - 3x this.

* Filling up in a few minutes? I don’t miss that at all. I charge at home. Time spent: 0 minutes.
This would be a minor inconvenience for drop shippers but kill small businesses by drowning them in fees and paperwork.

Etsy already charges fees, even just to LIST items, regardless of whether they sell or not.

I've been wanting to sell some of my 3D printed designs, but I'm not paying a buck a piece for a listing that will earn me 5 to 10 bucks if I manage to sell.
> What's the difference between a counter-drone tackling an attack drone, and a human bodyguard tackling a hitman?

Tackling someone doesn’t rain debris. We regulate airspaces for a reason.
It definitely is sad to see people not want to deviate even a little bit. I've seen at least 3 instances on Twitter where someone launched a product and they had the same landing page as another popular app even where certain components don't make sense.

A classic example is the rotating globe that you can click and drag. That was usually meant for showing sales happening across the world, but now people are just throwing it in a card with the header: "Innovative new features".

Like there's just no thought put into anything and what bothers me is how popular low-effort is becoming in tech. Startling.
Provocative proposition: what about search engine that bans everything with ads and affiliate links?

Wikipedia won over competitors because it has an anti-business-model. Only the passionate write for it, which paradoxically ensures quality. My favorite content on the internet is always non-profit, sincere stuff. Like this comment thread :)

That's a scary prospect for creators that live off the internet, but if the ecosystem is already doomed it may be the last option.
Since it is by definition a low (sales) volume process, you'd only need to keep one or two of each thing in stock at the Etsy fulfillment center. Items in stores run on "tight logistics" would just have their items constantly going in and out of stock as they alternate between 0–2 copies in stock at the warehouse.

Of course, if things were constantly going out of stock, then you'd want to create a system to allow people to put down a hold on their card to reserve a copy of something, waiting in a virtual line to be the first to get it when it does come back in stock. (Which would actually work much better than Etsy does today, as it would give makers the ability to know how many of each thing to target making as a batch to attempt to satisfy upcoming demand — without money already captured forcing them to work to a potentially-impossible deadline.)
> not being able to read git errors (or most errors for that matter),

It would be interesting to add an interview question to the tune of "here's an error message; what's wrong?" (Where the message spells out the problem.)
Documentation and specification are not the same things.

The intuitive distinction is that the second one is for compiler/library developers, and the former is for users.

A specification can not leave any room for ambiguity or anything up to interpretation. If it does (and this happens), it is treated as a bug to be fixed.
Easy for him to say. Part of what drives achievement in people is the notion that there has to be meaning and lasting value in the things they pursue. And a lot of us just can’t turn that off even after we realize that what constitutes “meaning” is very contextual and fleeting. Meaning of 10-15 years ago looks very much like a ridiculous waste of time to me today, and with the dubious benefit of this “experience”, it’s also hard to convince myself that other pursuits are meaningful. I suppose this could be why people turn more towards religious/spiritual side later in life. There meaning does not require any proof, it’s postulated and immutable
If it is not provided by the distribution, those things shouldn't go in /usr/bin|lib|share but in /usr/local/bin|lib|share
Ask HN: How do you manage personal+work projects/tasks?
I'm a developer, scaling up at work, as well as in my life recently (trying to be more present for my partner, fitness, social circle etc).

I'm having a hard time keeping it all together.

What are some worfklows - software or otherwise - you use to stay on top of tasks/goals/projects? I have realized I spend a lot of time trying to keep managing projects rather than doing the project itself.

Do you use JIRA for life, or Linear, or Obsidian, or pen and paper? Yearly goals, monthly+weekly breakdowns?

How do you know you're making progress on house repairs, chores, as well as work? Keeping on track for any administrative processes like taxes, courses, travel (or other) visa's, driver's license etc?

Thanks,
An overwhelmed person
I don’t want to jinx it, but I was just watching Stargate SG-1…
"users would pay someone else to do the search."

My notion isn't a rehash of Google Answers. Google pays the "someone else", not you.
Recommendations for San Francisco Bay Area Event Newsletters?
Not just tech but a range of events.

So far: DoTheBay, Foopee, Eddie's List. Others?
Since it will never be economical to hire a human legal team to vet every generative output, that is equivalent to banning generative AI from general use.
When your asks are things like "treat us as people equal to you" and "stop the secret police arrests and detention and torture of our children" and "give us self determination" and "stop genociding us", the world is unsurprisingly receptive to your asks. Hence, the world's current support for Palestine via the UN.

Religion is a red herring here. What must be done first and foremost is Israel, the party with all the power here, treats all people equally, with equal rights. Doing so will take the wind out of the sails of Hamas. If Israel's goal is genocide, an independent investigation of Israel's actions will show that they are different*.

* - An independent investigation of Israel's actions shows that they are different.
The string is dry.
Isn’t that one of the cornerstones of the Mechwarrior universe, that thousands(?) of years in the future, there is a guild(?) that handles all the higher-level technology, but the actual knowledge has been long forgotten, and so they approach it in a quasi-religious way with chanting over cobbled-together systems or something like that?

(Purely from memory from reading some Mechwarrior books about 30 years ago)
A Speedy History of America's Addiction to Amphetamine
Agreed. We run one in our bathroom 24/7. Bonus is that it dries the daily towels too.
A good start. Now do apple, amazon, facebook, intel, amd, and most of the rest of the s&p 500 and make the remedy an actual remedy like breaking the companies up.
How many scrolls await discovery?
I tell my grandkids that vocational school is a perfectly decent and honorable way to get into a trade that pays better than retail.

I also tell them that a good university is a perfectly decent and honorable way to begin a life of the mind. It's not the only way, and a life of the mind isn't the life everyone wants.

I also tell them that the purpose of a university education is mostly not about training for a job.
Getting kicked out at 16 or 17 is (or used to be, when I was a young adult) pretty common for gay youth, and tends to be glossed over. This is in the US, though, where toxic fundamentalism is unfortunately prevalent.
Yes. My mistake.

I’m surprised people are low key defending these groups, even people on the right. This isn’t conservatism. It’s totalitarianism backed by new age woo.

I guess I shouldn’t be that surprised. Totalitarianism is back in fashion lately. Feels like we want to LARP the early 20th century.
Damn that last sentence is depressing. What keeps you going?
sigh I really hate autocorrect. It was supposed to be "meta", not "meet".

It's bad enough that most of the content I read these days is being generated by LLMs. Slowly and inexorably, even the content I write is being written and overwritten by LLMs.
>This is not the case. It's two's compliment overflow.

Okay, here is an example showing that rust follows LLVM behavior when the optimizer is turned on. LLVM addition produces poison when signed wrap happens. I'm a little bit puzzled about the vehement responses in the comments wow. I have worked on several compilers (including a few patches to Rust), and this is all common knowledge.

https://godbolt.org/z/r6WTxGjrb
Indeed. He shared it here: https://x.com/jeremyphoward/status/1689464587077509120
chuckle thanks for this heroic effort to charitably interpret me as actually being able to type in a coherent sentence :-)

But, alas, I was just trying to type in "meta" and it was auto-completed to "meet". I really, really, hate autocomplete.
+1 for dtach. That plus mosh and emacs works extremely well with no fuss.