skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll float a few reasons.

The indolent and ignorant who dreamed they'd create an NFT and become a multimillionaire overnight rapidly pivoted to AI when ChatGPT came out and that left a bad taste in people's mouths.

I hear duckspeak where people use "AI", "Blockchain" and "5G" in the same sentence and I inevitably roll my eyes. (I felt a little dirty writing that sentence)

The Google economy was always exploitative and unfair to content creators but the use of the web as training material for AI has woken people up. Mostly I want to say "where were you 10 years ago?" and see it as the same kind of bandwagoning as the people who say AI-Blockchain-5G as if it meant something.

One of the most hated characters on Mastodon is the "Midjourney Artist" who posts blocks of 9 images they got straight out the AI without any selection or editing. As a photographer and inkjet printmaker I've learned the hard way that people don't want to see my unfinished work whether it is the photo that almost worked (e.g. this morning I took a photo at a picket line but didn't get the demonstrators to stand together to make it look like a lot of people were there, I gotta go back..) or the collage where the color temperature of one print is different from the others or the borderless print that the printer didn't align quite right. To look like a serious amateur or a pro I have to only post my best result.

Some people think "Midjourney artists" are a threat to art no matter what they do. I don't buy that. I have a print right above my workstation with an A.I. edited photo, if I post that photo I don't want to talk too much about I had Photoshop draw me an extra line of bricks because I don't want to get mistaken for one of those "Midjourney artists".
I'm also interested in the answer to this.

OSMand does an OK job of editing things on OSM, but whenever I use it I wind up hitting brick walls of things that aren't supported (like editing ways/roads).

Streetcomplete is good for updating data while out-and-about.

https://osmand.net/docs/user/plugins/osm-editing/

https://streetcomplete.app/?lang=en
84369534

I mean it was basically your phone number for chat. I'm sure many people remember their childhood phone number as well.
Family photos/videos and genealogy documents of multiple generations of family makes up the bulk of data I hold dear.

While a scanned copy of something like a birth certificate or deed might not often work in place of a physical copy they're nice to have on hand. Plus they're a part of a family history.
Because we're in the hype stage of the cycle. It is there, but still flawed, yet business people keep throwing money at it. Also, it can create _some_ content but it's a race to the bottom situation. Certainly not good enough to fire all editors of a publication and "substitute" them with AI.

TL;DR the problem is not in the technology but those who own/use it.
Sorry, I have toomuchtodo buildingjets to start a Youtube channel, lol!

But there are probably a ton of videos out there from people with better video production skills and a more pleasant presentation style than mine. I really taught myself HVAC installation from YT videos and reading the equipment manuals a lot.
TIL that going on a diet (any diet is a restriction on what to eat) is hacking.
Why would that be relevant to their behavior while alone?
https://archive.is/uKsta
> Have you actually looked into it?

I’ve had three kids go through the early grades with it. I was on the fence at first. It turned out to be awful. The kids hate it. We hate it. There’s weird unhelpful bullshit vocabulary everywhere (“let’s use ‘number sentence’ in kindergarten before we’ve taught kids what a regular sentence is, that’ll surely help!”). Solving the same problem five ways which is infuriating to a kid who “gets it” already and has been very harmful to their opinion of school in general. Their deeper mathematical understanding doesn’t seem to be any more advanced than mine was in elementary school, which was supposed to be the point, and we’re having to supplement the “bad” stuff like multiplication tables so they’re not lacking the very most important math skills in every day life and needed to make actual progress on wrapping one’s head around even simple stuff like, say, algebra involving fractions.

Terrible, way worse than even my more-pessimistic guesses would have been.
4089460. No idea why that number is stuck in my brain.
I have similar sentimental memories of ICQ.

One highlight was being able to connect to it from my phone for the first time; first on my first smartphone (Symbian), then from my "non-smart" Sony Ericsson that succeeded it, via some Java Jabber client and a Jabber-to-ICQ bridge! (Unfortunately nobody else that I knew had it on their phones, so I could only reach people in front of their PCs at home.)

On the other hand, it is and always has been unencrypted (not counting the OTR OTT encryption layer I've been using on it with the few friends that were also on Pidgin or Adium :), didn't support offline messages or even being logged in on more than one client, and was entirely proprietary (not sure if it was part of the "chat wars" [1] too).

Ultimately, the only constant in life is change. Instant messaging is alive and well on other platforms and networks today, let's remember ICQ fondly and be happy that we have so many good alternatives :)

[1] https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-19/essays/chat-wars/
spooky, only last month I was trying to recover my password, oh for those simpler days on the internet. 36063000
Sounds like you and the Hare people have different definitions of success. As for "languages either snowball or fizzle out," I feel like that's pretty dismissive of a lot of languages that have been steadily marching on for decades even without this rockstar status.

Not every band has to hit the Billboard charts to be worth listening to.
If you do it the other way around you may have to backtrack if subtracting a less significant digit from another worked out to <0. You will also have to be careful about alignment, since in one number you start from the first digit, but in the other you may start from the middle. It's slightly more complicated than just starting from the least significant digit.
I love niche software like this. I wish I still had my QuickTake but it vanished in a garage sale long ago :(
Hare looks like an interesting language.

Though this limitation will limit its adoption in this multicore age I think:

From the FAQ https://harelang.org/documentation/faq.html

....

Can I use multithreading in Hare?

Probably not.

We prefer to encourage the use of event loops (see unix::poll or hare-ev) for multiplexing I/O operations, or multiprocessing with shared memory if you need to use CPU resources in parallel.

It is, strictly speaking, possible to create threads in a Hare program. You can link to libc and use pthreads, or you can use the clone(2) syscall directly. Operating systems implemented in Hare, such as Helios, often implement multi-threading.

However, the upstream standard library does not make reentrancy guarantees, so you are solely responsible for not shooting your foot off.
I'd be afraid that if somebody tried to move it they might move it in the wrong direction, even if there is 5% chance that it screws up and causes a fire that may be too much.
I used Eye-Fi for several years and enjoyed it. There was some opensource software to use it on a private LAN.

Searching 'wifi sdcard' and I found several vendors still making those cards, but I haven't used any of the newer ones.
https://sharedsystems.dhsoha.state.or.us/DHSForms/Served/le3... page 20. They don't show a picture, but with enough density and exposure time it kind of looks like frosting.
You could just ask them respectfully.

Everyone involved should already be fully aware that any deception in employment application would be grounds for instant termination forever.

If not make sure the awareness is there.

Bring them in for an interview and ask this direct question so they can provide a written answer while you watch.
And while you're at it you can do a live fizz-buzz to maybe hone your own sense of bullshit detection to keep up with emerging challenges.

If they are actually doing this, learn from them when you have the chance.
> I would say he had a conman's ethos. He didn't hack his diet, he concocted a narrative and conceived of a guise he could sell it under. And all the problems he reported having due to his diet neglected a very large part of that diet, namely the vast quantities of alcohol he consumed.

No. The euphemism then isn’t “hacker” but “disruptor”.

Move fast and break things.
I think this way of looking at it is valid, although I don't personally like it very much because it generates a large amount of e-waste.

Regardless, using your model on this device: it costs $725, and if you buy now, won't ship until September. So if you assume 2 years from the device starting today, that's about $35/month.
Google AI Overviews under fire for giving dangerous and wrong answers
"Shift left" is a relatively hot, relatively new catchall bizterm that typically makes one visualize pushing a workload "upstream" from its current place in the flow. In this context, I think TDD is close to what it means.
I believe you're right on this. The original ICQ number accounts got merged into AOL Instant Messenger, and for a while you could log into AIM with your ICQ number. I think the original ICQ died when AIM got shut down.
The sun is a misama of incandescent plasma, by They Might be Giants for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLkGSV9WDMA

A 2009 follow-up to their original song from 1993, the sun song, in which they erroneously claimed the sun is a mass of incandescent gas, to weigh the follow-up song is a correction.
I get about 32 per day:

notmuch count date:-100d..-1d
3248

And I have more than 100k emails:

notmuch count
267584
Related by same user "Ask HN: Why are comments here overwhelmingly critical?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40430263
4125222

I still remember it but not the pass
> Getting some results with the help of infinitely-patient GPT may motivate people to learn more, as opposed to losing motivation from getting stuck, having trouble finding right answers without knowing the right terminology,

> ...People who want to grow, can also use GPT to ask for more explanations, and use it as a tutor. It's much better at recalling general advice.

The psychology there doesn't make sense, since the technology simultaneously takes away a big motivation to actually learn how to get the result on your own. It's like giving a kid a calculator and expecting him to use it to learn mental arithmetic. Instead, you actually just removed the motivation for most kids to do so.

I think there's a common, unstated assumption in tech circles that removing "friction" and making things "easier" is always good. It's false.

Also, a lot of what you said feels like a post-hoc rationalization for applying this particular technology as a solution to a particular problem, which is a big problem with discourse around "AI" (just like it was with blockchain). That stuff is just in the air.

> ...and/or being told off by StackOverflow people that's a homework question.

IMHO, that's the one legitimately demotivating thing on your list.
i was able to sign in with my number and password just now, had to click link in the upper left to get around the phone number request
Good point! I was only thinking from the client side/perspective, and not server side. :-)
Thank you! I've been itching for a product like this. Hate the strain computer screens give me. Kindle, and Remarkable felt too restrictive. Building on Android is a good move.
Might not be a good idea for people not security aware: https://vulcan.io/blog/ai-hallucinations-package-risk/#h2_4
I love freedom and I love open source, but the problem is that Libre Office is too far from MS Office in terms of UX and functionality.

If your usecases are not complicated, Libre office could work well. Otherwise your efficiency will be behind those that you can achieve with MS Office.
Yes, but Conway is not wrong
831364 but suffered an account takeover. ICQ shutting down mildly eases this long torment of losing the 6-digit account.
Marie Antoinette's biography by Antonia Fraser.

Masterfully written, a tidbit of how sexism played a role on making her a historical villain while all the men around her, even the beheaded king, passed on as much less dangerous people.
A lot of people (domestic but especially foreign axis of evil countries) want us to feel discouraged this way so we'll stop voting and let MAGA win, because they aren't going to stop anytime soon.
A few weeks ago I shut down my self hosted znc bouncer that I still logged in every few weeks to download logs, see if I got pinged somewhere and catch up with some low traffic channels.

I then switched over to https://www.irccloud.com and it's such a improvement as I can use it on my phone, now I'm pretty active again and I kinda missed it.
https://archive.is/NNmGI
Agreed. It is harsh.
No, the usual case, where the minutes aren't printed on the clock itself, is that you've memorized the positions of :00, :15, :30, and :45, and you report the time by reference to that.
The mask thing was all theater and political logrolling. Beyond it being anti-science, three other concerning factors:

* It decreased trust in government by backing a policy that most now understand wasn't science-based.

* It increased the partisan divide in the country for no benefit by encouraging people on both sides to label those on the other side as "nutters."

* It probably caused some amount of real harm by causing people to think that, if they wore a mask, they were protected. This probably meant some elderly and immunocompromised people put themselves at risk when they could have avoided the risk by staying outdoors.
The diet wasn't the hack. The data collection before, during, and after, while changing the diet was the hack.
Even during the course of the documentary, at the end his doctors were saying his body was seeming to adapt to his new diet so always found it unsatisfactory that it just ended right there.
Yes, but always in a less intuitive way than just having a second button.
I think the promise of utility and ease of use of AI will bring people back. They will see it get better and better, see other people using it effectively, hear from friends saying "it's gotten even better".

Sure, they might continue to have a bad experience here and there and be turned off of it for a while. But I am certain people will periodically come back to try.

The promises of AI are too tantalizing to ignore.
I don't see how domains going away would suggest Google suite is near the chopping block. I doubt many major customers of GSuite even bothered with Domains. It was such a a small and bare bones business, pretty unrelated to the rest of GSuite.
What makes you think it wasn't a social network?
"The goal of Hare is not to achieve the broadest possible reach, but to be a part of a broader system which effectively achieves Hare’s goals."
Deck: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11bBUP8gBekmI7GkwvGdr...
> I've never had "repairability" raised to me as an engineer.

What kinds of hardware do you engineer exactly? Tons of companies have repair technicians on staff. I'm sure every datacenter in the world has individuals frequently swapping faulty parts out of servers, and those servers are often designed to keep that kind of maintenance from being a chore.

It's one thing if you're talking about board level repair, but part swapping is something that end users do by themselves all the time. I've certainly swapped phone batteries before. I've helped friends replace their cracked screens.

In fairness however, for products that are being engineered for portability first there is certainly a case to be made for keeping things compact at the expense of reparability. That certainly doesn't explain away the behavior of companies that deliberately hinder repairs by blocking replacement parts, or making replacement parts impossible to obtain. That NEEDS to be illegal, and that is a big part of what right to repair is about.
Because we've seen the consequences of order-of-magnitude mismatches between {executive understanding of technical capabilities} and {actual technical limitations}.
It sounds like they are just two different unions?

> That’s because after 48,000 graduate students, postdocs, and researchers in the University of California system went on strike in 2022 and won pay increases and expanded benefits, some TAs are now earning more than the instructors in their own classes. The minimum academic-year salary for first-year teaching assistants, for example, will increase from the $25,000 they got in the spring of 2023 to $36,000 this fall.
Surprising supernova scars cover the Earth
GAO Agile Assessment Guide (2023)
I was surprised to not find this submitted here yet. It will have implications for those seeking government contracts in the future.

As ITIL/CMMI/TOGAF all had to make drastic changes in the past few years and with 18F directly targeting state legislatures saying that Gantt charts are incompatible with Agile, is the scurge of Taylorism and 'strategic planning' finally going to be addressed in software?

I would expect external benchmark engagements for private companies to leverage this soon.

As Organizational change takes a long time, it is probably good to start looking at potential impacts sooner than later.
> If you had two space stations like the ISS with ascending nodes 180 degrees from each other it would be about as expensive to transit between them as it is to launch a rocket from the Earth to begin with.

1+1 = 2 2/2 = 1; technically halfway.

To interpret “halfway to anywhere” that way is missing the point. Going from LEO to LEO wasn’t the point of “halfway to anywhere”. Yes a bit exuberant but not far off.
Masks and respirators for prevention of respiratory infections
This narrative review and meta-analysis summarizes a broad evidence base on the benefits—and also the practicalities, disbenefits, harms and personal, sociocultural and environmental impacts—of masks and masking. Our synthesis of evidence from over 100 published reviews and selected primary studies, including re-analyzing contested meta-analyses of key clinical trials, produced seven key findings.

First, there is strong and consistent evidence for airborne transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and other respiratory pathogens.

Second, masks are, if correctly and consistently worn, effective in reducing transmission of respiratory diseases and show a dose-response effect.

Third, respirators are significantly more effective than medical or cloth masks.

Fourth, mask mandates are, overall, effective in reducing community transmission of respiratory pathogens.

Fifth, masks are important sociocultural symbols; non-adherence to masking is sometimes linked to political and ideological beliefs and to widely circulated mis- or disinformation.

Sixth, while there is much evidence that masks are not generally harmful to the general population, masking may be relatively contraindicated in individuals with certain medical conditions, who may require exemption. Furthermore, certain groups (notably D/deaf people) are disadvantaged when others are masked.

Finally, there are risks to the environment from single-use masks and respirators. We propose an agenda for future research, including improved characterization of the situations in which masking should be recommended or mandated; attention to comfort and acceptability; generalized and disability-focused communication support in settings where masks are worn; and development and testing of novel materials and designs for improved filtration, breathability, and environmental impact.
1. What has happened to us that 16M people is something we just laugh at as an inconsequential number, wtf.

2. SNR on those 16M people is probably well above average in the vector of most interesting people on the planet.
Been looking for something where I could do this all locally without doing a bunch of wiring. Will check it out.
https://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/bignumbers.html
It's been dead a long time, it just had a brief afterlife in Russia.

Chat apps aren't cheap like the old days, now they require a large moderation staff. Maybe AI will change that?
as she should
$3B secret program undermining Biden's tech policy
Alas poor Kabosu. Still her $23bn memecoin will live on.
> I've never had "repairability" raised to me as an engineer.

Yeah, that sounds like the real problem from the engineering side of things.

If the business types did decide it was a priority, and told you to figure it out, I'm pretty sure you would. :)
If the issues is TAs went on strike for more pay, clearly the answer is for the professors to strike as well. It seems to work.
Yet another weird parallel: Scarlet Johansson did a cover album of Tom Waits songs in 2008
Seriously. I wish people would stop signal boosting anything this clown says or posts.

He smeared Signal messenger with zero evidence, has yet to produce any evidence for his lofty claims, and yet tons of news outlets ran with it.
Bye bye WarSheeps
My account was taken over with one of the hacks, I remember shaming the person who took it into giving it back to me. 756331 signing off
Its interesting to me to think that when Steve Jobs was still around, the iPhone was always on the cutting edge of design and tech features. You constantly heard the tech media saying how far ahead Apple was of its competitors in terms of features and camera specs.

Once Jobs passed and Tim Cook took over, everything changed. Now they're years behind other companies in terms of features and specs. It took them years to have wireless charging, even longer to have simple widgets - stuff Android phones had as standard features for years.

I've stayed away from them for the reasons you pointed out and the fact they just seem so far behind, even on features that have become standard on every other manufacturers handsets. Now its painted as "Apple sees what other companies are doing. They sit and wait and let other companies vet features and tech before integrating them into their handsets - its a very smart approach."
While you’re not wrong about people’s motivations, or the market’s sentiments, I do think this isn’t the right take on globalised industry. There’s no need to close US factories and move workers - it will happen naturally. For example, nobody closed US auto factories to move production to Japan - the Japanese out-competed the US on price and quality. The same is just starting to happen with electric cars now. Greed may have accelerated this transition, but it was inevitable.
Oh man. It's the end of an era. I still have my ICQ number for 1998 memorized (62125812). I was a bit late the the internet game, ICQ was the first real platform where I met people who, still to this day, I consider friends.
Sounds like the professors and lecturers should form a union (or push their union to do better)

This happens in other professions too where non-unionized folks manage unionized folks. The managers can make less because they don't have collective bargaining.
So, they blew up a huge rocket to find out that they need better filters for some engines and valves. This really doesn't seem like something that couldn't have been found out on the ground, or handled with better tolerances, without having to waste a huge rocket like this.

I really don't get a sense that this "rapid iteration" approach is a good replacement for better engineering and more care.
Right, but isn't the expansion increasing? So if they don't merge into one big galaxy at some point the expansion would out run gravity?