skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a perfect answer, and one can "not participate" in more ways than one. Also, it depends on the individual and what makes sense for them and their family.

It's also a case of "picking your poison". So if the recent war wasn't happening, I'd be moving straight to Russia as right now it seems to be the sanest when it comes to these specific things. But that comes with dealing with some of the "negatives" as I'm sure you all can imagine.

If money wasn't a problem, personally I'd fund some sort of island or floating-island community to promote self-sustainable practices whilst staying as far as practically possible from the craziness going on in the west.
This is part of the trans Atlantic trade agreements. They have a certain responsibility, having negotiated them, but they clearly feel they are beneficial in some way.
It boils down to giving people freedom but the world is being destroyed or communism (it has its own problems).
I would point out that the original Dwell article cited by the author as unequivocal evidence of the decline of sofa quality is entirely based on the opinion of a single upholstery guy.

This whole idea of “most new furniture suddenly sucks in the past 15 years” is somewhat suspect to me. Maybe it’s survivorship bias or something? Because cheaply furniture definitely existed more than 15 years ago.

I found a vintage ad for a “genuine leather” sofa for $799. I.e., the worst kind of leather, the kind with the cracking plasticky texture. I don’t think that sofa would have even reached the upholstery guy, it would have ended up in a dumpster. (Search for Gardner White Vintage Ads on Google Images)

That $799 couch in 1990 would now cost $2,000 after inflation. So $2,000 is your baseline for a mass-produced cheap couch (this lines up pretty closely to the $1500 IKEA leather couch I own), which means something more “buy it for life” is going to bring you into that Restoration Hardware territory. And, really, most people aren’t willing to pay that.

The second thing I would say is that this idea that modern capitalism wants to stamp out this family business is not supported at all. This whole situation seemed to make their services even more valuable. It’s also a fact that in the US 99.9% of all businesses are small businesses and they employ almost half of all Americans. Yes, you heard that right, it’s really 99.9%.

Small businesses are where you’ll find a lot of quality furniture too! Like, you can buy solid wood furniture at good prices from Amish-owned furniture businesses.

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/business/small-business-stati...

The third and final point I’d make is that particle board isn’t bad. That isn’t what causes your furniture to fail prematurely. And it has major benefits like being lightweight. My sofa from IKEA is 100% manufactured wood, but that part is totally solid. I’ve owned the couch for a good 10 years now. The weak points of the couch are really the foam, which you don’t really need a complicated upholstery job to replace. It may also even be possible for me to buy the cushion covers from IKEA directly (that’s certainly an option from modular manufacturers like LoveSac).
Celerons could be overclocked too; much cheaper than a Pentium III back in the day.
A mix of about 5 parts domestic dishwasher detergent to 1 part commercial dishwasher detergent ought to work.
This is a strong reason to, either: Write your examples as Compiler Explorer links (or to some other playground tech, Rust has one to itself but it's easier to remember rust.godbolt.org) so you can see when your example doesn't work

Or, write in Markdown and use tooling to perform tests the same way Rustdoc does, if you wrote what claims to be code, just scoop it up and execute it, if it doesn't compile then we find out before we publish.

I'd say 80% of the time when I write more than one or two lines I write a bug, often it's a minor typo that the compiler would catch but sometimes it's a larger mistake and means I should re-evaluate my entire premise.
i think you need to prompt it to use statistical analysis. it will then run python to figure out the result.
"We kill people based on metadata"
> I think the idea is that Asqi should treat `sig {}` sort of like a comment: prefix metadata attached to `def main`, rather than as an unrelated imperative call (whereas `attr_reader` would not have this behavior). Do you know whether Sorbet continues to work if you alias `sig` and any of its other definitions? For example, can I do this?

No, it doesn't work if you alias
> So, how often do you eat at McDo?

Just because you want to "'just' get a sofa" it does not follow that you "'just' get some food" as well. Or at least not always: sometimes you may 'just' want to, and sometimes you'll want something more that 'just' calories.

And you may not care about sofas as compared to other things: you may 'just' want a sofa, but if you're really into cooking then you may want more than (say) 'just' some random knife, perhaps going for hand-forge Japanese steel.

Further, the cost of making a mistake with food (a few (dozen) dollars) versus a mistake with a sofa (hundreds/thousands) are on two different levels.
Successful people's currency is not money but networking and working with great people is one of the best part in life as the last point of Sam Altman's list is probably the most wise of advice from the list [1].

>17. Working with great people is one of the best parts of life

I think this is why teleworking proponents are missing the important point. Meeting in person for example having lunch with co-workers can create eureka moment that online discussions hard or impossible to replicate. The game changing Transformer early concept was discussed and proposed in Google cafeteria. The legendary AT&T cafeteria environment as mentioned by Hamming was a prime example where many of inventors and Nobel Prizes recipients gathered, is now very difficult or nearly impossible to replicate in the industry [2].

[1] What I wish someone had told me:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38728172

[2] The Art of Doing Science and Engineering:

https://press.stripe.com/the-art-of-doing-science-and-engine...
Hmm, grön lid is Swedish for "green suffer!", message unclear.
Scents and memories at the hospital (2019)
If you make a marketing claim, the government can sue you for not selling what you say you are.

This doesn’t apply to puffery claims though, which is why Apple could have said ‘the new M2, with the best number of cores ever!’ And been fine with whatever.
Yeah, the ant pushing the elephant..
Good question. But essentially because things started out small and then grew from there.

Going forward being able to have seamless integration between the scripting and rest of the editor is a key differentiator and value added. For example being able to jump to the right API documentation relevant for the function call under the caret, or being able to open and jump to the game asset from the script.

I'm not sure how well a LSP type of integration would work here. As far as I can tell it'd need to evaluate the script in order to have best possible diagnostics and analysis and that won't work without the interpreter having the native game engine code available as well.

Of course my "solution" was mostly about slapping components other people built together.

- Qt already has a text editor component with components for doing stuff such as syntax highlight quite easily.
- I use tree sitter to extract symbol information from the Lua code.
- I use an open source code formatter someone else built.
The problem is that they haven't even defined AGI, so how are we supposed to research and engineer our way there?
Perhaps a bit controversial in the first instance, but the purpose of business is not to have a positive impact on society. Businesses are vehicles to make money and with that comes a logic and a set of tendencies that has nothing to do with anything else than making money.

Please note that making money is the stated goal of businesses and has been from the time first businesses emerged, so what I'm saying above isn't really controversial.

Perhaps consider first:

- Where in society do you want to make a positive impact?

- Why do you want to make a positive impact?

- Why do you want to start a business?

- Why do you think a business is a good vehicle to achieve your where/why of social impact.
The biggest impact for AI in terms of employment will be in the customer support (Call Center) and employee support (IT Help Desk and HR Support) functions.

The second biggest impact will be at the lower levels of the software development functions (QA Engineers/Testers, Technical Writers, Business Analysts, Junior Devs).

Outside of those areas, minimal impact over the next 5 years. Even within those two areas, I predict 30-40% productivity gains but it will not all lead to reduced headcount, more than half of it will lead to increased expectations as all innovations do.

One other observation is that what's leading to much of the recent angst is CEOs engaging in mass layoffs to meet Wall Street expectations and publicly attributing it to AI when in fact the work is just being moved offshore or not being done at all (until there's a big public failure and it resumes).
I've found that there's lots to be gained by splitting the difference and anchoring mission statements in money. Forget team spirit and shared purpose and whatnot; craft a sentence that says exactly how you beat the competition. It gives you a broad target to shoot for.
You don’t understand, it can’t be MBA types because it’s just the natural progression of the world to become worse and worse. Obvious right? Now sit down and consume.
https://archive.is/gOdBL
X11 is still there if you need to use it.
Labor costs don’t rise tenfold with proper wood though. It’s the same wooden board they have to cut and mount. US wood-based markets are notoriously ridiculous.
Curious minds want to know of where you speak…
"My product is amazing" - Man who is responsible for hyping product
I think the fact that you have to use a MacBook once or twice a week for specific tasks says everything.

The iPad Pro has been literally as fast as a MBA and supported KB/M input alongside touch and pen for years but you still run into weird edge cases where it's either too janky and time consuming to do on the iPad (e.g. file management) or some really basic app is just missing.
"Person who works at 'AI' firm hypes up 'AI' for no apparent selfish reason". Nothing to see here.
If you sell your keyboard as a service to people in questionable lines of business, then yes, you will need to comply with these laws. You can probably also expect a visit from three letter agencies. Which these targeted platform companies also do.
You're describing userscripts, which is what site focused web extensions essentially are anyway. Install the Grease/Tamper/Violet monkey extension and you can find scripts from Greasyfork.org, or author your own. Each script defines a scope listing the sites it's allowed to run on.
It's a bit ironic that knowledge work will become obsolete before blue collar work. I disagree with the author that it will become completely obsolete in the next 20 years (although certainly in the next 200), but it will change significantly and there will be a massive downward pressure on knowledge worker compensation as the barriers to entry have been decimated. On the other hand, good luck getting your AI to unclog your sink, remodel your kitchen or fix your AC any time soon.
See also: Agile, the word “political”, Big Data.
I didn't think about it before I got the router. I found it a bit annoying because I had to think about things like port forwarding. Previously everything just worked without any configuration (like P2P file sharing or running a game server). I'm not sure I really understood it even then, though. Just followed instructions parrot fashion.
Give evidence instead of just random opinions masked as facts.
I think most people are buying into the hype because search for information has just become baaaaad due to uuuhm ... incentives and the current crop of LLM provides a good view into all information available (also behind paywalls...) on the internet in any language.

That way it works great if you want to solve programming problem X for which there is a library and it also works if you want to know which companies built bicycles in Poland pre-1990. It also was very confident in answering what happened to the factories. Just that some of the factories didn't exist and some of the new companies it mentioned came very close to what google search would return... (aka unrelated advertisement)
"It does seem that, overall, unemployment makes people sadder, sicker, and more anxious."

This is such a perfect description for how rich people view the rest of us.
I don’t need 20 peer reviewed papers to call out something being a fad - when I get loads of replies calling out it is not a fad on a small comment and YouTubers advertising it on almost all videos.
The problem is all the shadiness and sloppiness. Hopium of Optimus isn’t worth $50B. Maybe $2B. And even $50B may not be enough to compete with Sammy and chatgpt.
Drone dogfights: Ukraine's novel strategy to counter Russian reconnaissance UAVs
Ukraine: Attack of the Drones

"A Ukrainian military technology device called Tsukorok detects if Russian drones such as ZALA, Orlan, or the kamikaze Lancet drone are above a soldier, prompting them to disperse or get out. However, as of now, Ukraine lacks a solution for the penetration of long-range Russian reconnaissance drones into its rear."
Show HN: Tunnelling TCP through a file
This program can be used to tunnel TCP connections through a file.

People have used it for interesting things:

- Bridging connections which would otherwise be blocked by a firewall

- Tunneling through RDP (similar to an SSH tunnel)

- Exposing a localhost web server to others

Key features I put effort into:

1. The shared file is restarted every 10 MB, so it doesn't grow indefinitely.

2. Optimisations for latency & bandwidth. (800 Mbps on a Gigabit LAN. 108 Mbps if file tunneling through RDP)

3. Synchronisation between two sides (each side can be started and restarted in any order)

I'd love to hear about any weird and wonderful uses you might have for it.

Thanks, Fidel
I think it’s for the desire to have measurable outcomes that are non-binary. So they can be put into a dial, etc on an executives dashboard. And be managed so that decisions can be made and tested to see how they affect the metric, etc.

The Objective part of OKR is the goal I guess you could say. The KR part are the measurable tactics used to achieve the goal.
But now you can save and reuse that prompt on your future bills, can't you?

(How exactly was it getting the caluclation wrong? Gross error? Arithmetic? Charges?)
I am so glad Tim (and thus Luxcious) are in the Lower Mainland. I don't need them currently, but it's nice to know it's an option.
> Since I cannot install stuff from a third party on my iPhone without paying Apple (unless Apple says I can)

Today, that’s only partially true, finally, depending on where in the world you live.
OKRs as the summary of a strategy conversation (not a “visioning” session) that actually happened, in the words of those who will do the work, fine. In most other scenarios I would proceed with extreme caution.
> And then cease being a non-technical user

I'm glad you said this because Feynman has a beautiful response to it: basically, there is no such thing as a "non-technical user". Almost everyone is adept at navigating _some_ complex system in their life. I agree with you that they probably don't want to learn.

but the reason they don't want to learn is because they don't think there is any value on it, they believe it is a waste of time. For the same reason I (used to) believe it's a waste of time for me to play puzzle games (I'm bad at it, I don't enjoy it, what's the point). Or learn to manage people, or learn to understand politics, etc.

I'm asking you (and everyone reading this) to suspend disbelief and pretend that these users DO have capacity to learn, and they just don't see any value in it, and it's on us to clearly (and concisely) communicate the value without gatekeeping and without dumbing it down. I have been surprised at how people's capacity to learn was much greater than I expected, and I hope the same will be true for you.

I see this attitude a lot of, "well, if you want to understand how this system works, we have to start from scratch" (and they start to lecture for hours about some fundamental things). I think this is a failure mode: an inability to figure out _what_ fundamental pieces actually matter to understanding the current system.

Apologies for the rant, I feel strongly about this because I think there's a lot of low hanging fruit here that everyone can benefit from, but I'm still trying to refine my thoughts.

i tried to write about this here: https://omarshehata.substack.com/p/my-favorite-1980s-canadia...
I like it, good job! I would suggest working on how you name things, like "action" and "operation" are a bit confusing for me.

May I ask if it was worth layering on top of Symfony, instead of just using it directly? It looks like a lot of work was put into this.
Have you used Firefox recently in 2024 ? I had switched permanently to Firefox in early 2023. But, even in late 2023, there were issues with "misbehaving tabs" are you put it. However, now in mid-2024, everything is butter smooth. A fair number of pending issues were fixed in Firefox over the last year. Including a 25 year old bug!

A lot of Firefox contributors rolled up their sleeves over the last year. Chrome is FULLY in the "Enterprise Spyware" space now with the glaring introduction of ad topics over and above community objections. The need for an alternative cross platform browser that is not corporate and ad-controlled has solidified.
Because gratitude lowers stress levels :)
Yes this is one of those spam sites that regenerates existing articles (including modifying quotes of people, or hallucinating them entirely).
> People do not follow certain content creators because they are the most economically efficient and provide the “best” information, they follow them for largely human reasons.

You recon? I think most of this today is algorithmic, while for most of the 1900s it was effectively a lottery.

> Ergo I think the large shift will not be from jobs to no-jobs, but from jobs to entertainment-based jobs. In a world where everyone’s basic needs are met, the result is an attention-driven economy, not no economy.

Peacocking will still be thing[0], but I don't expect it to go the way you describe.

Even with your assumption, we cannot all be creators. At best we can signal to each other how "refined" we are, that we "have good taste", but we'd already passed from the age of writing poems or playing instruments as a primary way to woo others to one of sharing mix-tapes before I was born (and from mixtapes to playlists now).

Instead, I think we may have a world where the super-rich pay for humans to be valets to show they can afford it, where those humans themselves are "forced to get by" with robots who do a better job of it, in much the same way and for much the same reason that a $20 Casio F-91W keeps better time than a $20k Rolex or a $200k Omega (and of course, your phone or smartwatch is constantly syncing with someone else's atomic clock).

[0] and indeed, I think this is the only correct argument for the claim "AI can't ever make art": to the extent that the point of art is to be an expensive signal (rather than merely "pretty"), then AI can only be that when it's unaffordable.

I think the conflict between "is art the signal" or "is art the stuff" is a similar pattern to the arguments over "if a tree falling when nobody is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" being secretly about "does 'sound' mean the vibrations in the air or is it your qualia caused by that?"
Have you tried Appke notes. It does a pretty decent job. Here is a example https://youtu.be/eoIIUpdhKZs?si=PXWdhTt0DmFjbrLs
https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX

Not sure about the law but I’ve been running MacOS in a VM for a while for compiling things
Shipping doesn't use gasoline, it uses bunker fuel, which is currently about $700/ton. There are 4k gallons in a ton of such fuel, so approximately 18c/gallon. So the shipping cost in fuel should be about $20, which amusingly checks out.

Of course the cost in greenhouse gasses is astronomical, which is a big part of the problem.
The author in PEP mentions, that you can use Github Actions for building of the libraries [0].

[0] - https://peps.python.org/pep-0730/#ci-resources
Sheet music doesn't require me to buy an instrument from a specific manufacturer, nor do the instruments come with EULA that limit how I can use them.

Price is not the point. Some of us simply refuse to buy such products.
Weirdly enough, the food safety of urushiol was the topic of this recent and heavily discussed HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40399224

I can't say I have any desire to try it myself.
I was thinking the same thing.

So, how is that story going to help me? Apparently, I can't buy a sofa of this quality any more, and if I want it fixed, I apparently have to go to Canada.
I will point out that even if the author is 100% correct (which other comments here have been great at disputing), that still doesn’t explain how all the hairdressers and physical therapists and restaurant servers and line cooks are going to be losing their jobs.

Even truck drivers are somewhat safe because even if you get self-driving working perfectly, you still might want a human to physically operate parts of the truck that a computer can’t interact with, because a computer doesn’t have any hands with opposable thumbs that can adapt to an infinite set of situations.

E.g., Truck drivers who deliver Pepsi and Frito Lay aren’t going to be replaced by self-driving because driving isn’t really most of the job.
> Tbh egress filtering is generally not very useful

i found it sensible to log-drop non-internet traffic (rfc1918, linklocal ...) on internet-facing egress
haha, yes - it’s definitely possible, just may be bit tricky.

You can get detect planes and the mesh geo of the room.
That list _glaringly_ excludes butter. (Why ? That is so silly). Try adding it back and India will fall into top 5.
$2000 is expensive for an open source project where people are contributing in their free time. Are you suggesting that EVERY person that wants to work on the iOS support of python buys themselves a $2000 mac, switches their entire workflow to MacOS etc?

> Again, it's one of the cheapest hobbies you can possibly have.

No, definitly not, ESPECIALLY not for open source development.
I’m sorry to be ageist, but at 25 I thought lots of things were going to change the world, but they didn’t. I hate to break it to 25-year-olds, but the world is far more complex, messy, and beautiful than most
of you can conceive of.
No, it's actually German, using words that sound English to a German speaker.

> Fusio is made in Düsseldorf / Germany.
when is this ever going to end? computing is so promising but we use it for activities like this....
Next Generation Cloud Native Java [video]
Doesn't that mean renting Microsoft VMs to develop Python for iOS? Github Actions don't fall from the sky like rain. They are a commercial service that happens to offer a free tier.
50 comments 2015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9605118
https://www.recurse.com/blog/21-little-lisp-interpreter

46 comments 2013 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6090464 https://www.hackerschool.com/blog/21-little-lisp-interpreter

look like the same content (the beginnings and ends match)