skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there’s an unacknowledged end to that phrase, being that “people just don’t want to work for unfair wages”

But of course employers don’t want to acknowledge that they’re being unfair in compensation. To them, the compensation is just, and therefore people are simply unwilling to work.

I think there is a degree of tolerance that’s shifted. A job is not a job, anymore. Healthcare is insanely expensive. Housing is insanely expensive. Raising kids is insanely expensive. What used to be a “good honest job” has transformed into maximum-value-extracted job.

And everyone is desperate to get as big a piece as they can to ensure their own survival.
It's great to work with. I can't wait until someone makes an OSS equivalent of Databricks' Catalog Explorer
I disagree - I think the intuition that mathematical addition being commutative means that the + operator must be commutative is not pragmatic. Whether + must be commutative is less relevant than whether + must be mathematical. I.e. I see no problem - theoretically, practically, or semantically - with using + to combine things in programming, mathematically or otherwise. As long as it's in a strong language that doesn't support nonsense. E.g. JavaScript might not deserve operator overloading (I imagine - I rarely use JS).
PDFgear is free and works great.
> Mozilla has no plans to deprecate MV2

as long as this doesn't change, we're in good hands
> work harder and harder. The message was to “get some magic” out of the LLM“

Does Prasad really talk like that? It sounds like a caricature, not unlike stuff Michael Scott from The Office would say.
> and multiplexed per sample on digital lines (T1 and up).

Technically even on ISDN because you had channel bonding there. Although it's all still circuit switched. The timeslot within the channel group is reserved entirely for your use at a fixed bandwidth and has full setup and tear down that is coordinated out of band.
There's at least one known person who survived a fall from more than 33,000ft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulović

So by your logic, a fall from 33,000ft does not cause death.
How? Single-family homes are way below the most valuable use of land (unless la nd use is artificially limited to prohibit more valuable uses, as by zoning), and so should see taxes increase a lot in a revenue-neutral shift from traditional property taxes to LVT. That's one of the commonly-cited selling points by LVT advocates.
Of course they're net reducing the dollar assets they hold. But you don't have to sell your bonds to do that. You can just let your current bonds mature and not roll them. That way there's no big selloff to spook the market.
Fresh water appeared on Earth a half-billion years earlier than thought
That's just repeating the problem - or even making it worse.

Land is still finite, so there will be competition for portal locations. Connectivity is valuable, so land with easy access to a lot of portals will raise in value: who wants to walk through 20 portals when you could also reach your destination in 1 or 2? This means there is a very strong incentive for the formation of a portal monopoly or cartel.

Anyone in control of a central portal hub is able to make a lot of money by opening a new portal from that hub to a far-off location. That far-off location was previously worthless, but the presence of a portal suddenly makes it extremely valuable. And being able to charge people for portal passage makes it even worse: Not only can you profit from land speculation, you're now basically charging rent on the land you sold too!

The only way to really work around this is to have essentially infinite land, accessible from a single central portal. But as the linked article mentions, that's quite immersion-breaking.
So many hopeful (?) patents on this stuff - kinda sad to see.
It's definitely coming though
True land value tax collects almost all of the lands rents. An asset with no profits is inherently worthless.
Why do you say the same issues would happen on fuchsia?
> Millenial. Own a house. No generational wealth helped with that, just being incredibly fucking lucky in Silicon Valley. Roll again.

A handful of people win the lottery. That's not proof of anything and doesn't change the overall trend.
It had some significant differences. Mainly the fixed SRAM render target. Fun fact is that a lot of tech from the 360 GPU made its way into Qualcomm Adreno GPUs. Reading about the tiled render pass OpenGL extensions in the Adreno was very reminiscent of working on the 360.
Correct. For the avoidance of doubt, India and China have signed no peace treaty. They're increasingly militarising their disputed borders, which have never actually been agreed upon, and India is now joining mulitple U.S.-involved security arrangements.

America's superpower is in trade and diplomacy. Agreements. We don't win because we can blow stuff up bigger. (Though we can.) We win because we're uniquely competent at knitting together alliances. I believe that directly draws from our commercial culture--it encourages cutting deals over face-saving Pyrrhic victory.
Hey everyone! Thank you for your feedback.

Whether it is positive or negative, I do appreciate it as it helps me to learn and improve the product. I really didn't expect this to get any attention, let alone dozens of comments!

To clarify: This was originally designed to help me auto migrate URL schema. I am learning as I develop this website, and SEO has been one of those vague topics where there are few hard rules. I wanted to leave space for experimentation. As I rolled it out, I became intrigued with how it functions and wanted to share my experiment with you to get feedback.

Based on the feedback, I plan to change the logic such that:

- I will track which URLs are associated with which products
- If user hits 404, I will check if there was previously a product associated with that URL and redirect accordingly
- If it is a new 404, I will display a 404 page which lists products with similar names

I appreciate everyone hopping in to share their perspective!
It's a big deal because other large companies invent "open offices" and "unlimited vacation" policies.
Shocked! I am SHOCKED....
That's exactly what I said above: most Excel users are non-programmers. Hence Python in Excel would only be used by a subset of Excel power users.

Moreover, having to pay $$ recurring subscriptions for that stack to run open-source software (Python) they could run for free elsewhere mean it'll only be used by commercial/enterprise Windows-stack users who are already locked into some legacy workflow/data built around/glued to Excel. For example, financial users, or users who have some expensive license seat of some enterprise product(s). Means an even smaller subset of users.

We're saying the same thing.
Didn't read it but, couldn't this be a "battlefield" where LibreOffice could have unbeatable advantage?
I had lots of technical books and I fancied this idea that book is like a computer it gives us information, so having many books is like having many computers. But then I had to move and I realized I really didn't need those books only some of them had information that was hard to find on the internet like Windows shell-programming. So I decided to get rid of most of those books before moving. But it was not easy to get rid of them and nobody wanted to buy them either.
> you don't have to sell your bonds to do that. You can just let your current bonds mature and not roll them

They're selling like $18bn a month [1]. That is 2% of the daily trading volume [2]. Until recently, the Fed was running off 4x as much [3]. (It's still, at $40bn per month, $25bn of which are Treasuries, running off more than China is selling.)

China is diversifying. But they're doing so about as cautiously as one could.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-16/china-sel...

[2] https://www.sifma.org/resources/research/us-treasury-securit...

[3] https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/fed-announces-reduction-b...
must be nice.. :(
First detection of frost on the solar system's tallest volcanoes on Mars
It's better for the company - they can pay less and the employee gets the same equivalent amount in their pocket.

E.g. if the company were going to pay $2k extra but it would be taxed $1k, they would have to pay $3k to get the equivalent "happiness" boost. The employee gets $2k / year either way.

$2k tax free -> $2k in your pocket

$3k + $1k tax -> $2k in your pocket
Firefox development is moving from Mercurial to Git (2023)
Chanterelles are not a great example as their look-alikes are easily distinguishable. Furthermore, they exist in symbiosis/parasitism with particular tree roots as a host. When you return to the same spot you’re harvesting new fruiting bodies of the same organism that you visited last time.
What do people think happens when every company of hnw sheds 10% of their tech staff for board KPI points?
> I don't get the hate for landlords

Maybe it's because you pay their mortgage, often close to a hundred dollars a day if not more, and they won't fix the front door or the refrigerator. Then when you move out, they charge you for normal wear and tear like you threw a series of raves.
I use a simple approach.

I use an external TB3 m.2 SSD for everything work related. When going away when I may/will need to work, I unplug the drive from my desktop and put it in my bag with my laptop.

The drive (and tb3) is fast enough to run multiple VMs from it without a problem.

For smaller things I use regular sync tools (ie browser bookmarks in iCloud; IDE settings sync via JetBrains).
I loved working on the cell. I remember writing my first spu code when the ps3 dev kit was a huge stainless steel box. I later went in to implement predictive physics for racing line optimization for midnight club on the spus. Was a lot of fun. Weird thing was the floating point unit had a different intermediate bit size than the ppu so for deterministic results you had to schedule threads to always be dispatched to ppu or spu deterministically. That was essential for network games where the sim had to run bit for bit the same across players.
Just like any other day — surviving, working on my family's future and present safety (financial and all others).

Weekend is only different in that I have more time to invest in activities not related to a fulltime job.

Sometimes I envy people who don't have to worry too much about the roof above their heads, about kids, about the future etc.

But then I realize that I would never really change my way and what I have to anything else, to anyone's else's life. Even with full memory reset :)
I used to work in luxury automotive infotainment. The general feeling is that luxury customers want luxury level systems. EVs are still considered by the industry to be upper-level vehicles. Which is to say they still believe they’re catering to with more money.

We’re not going to see a low-tech EV for a long time. In my opinion, we’re not ever going to see one. And respectfully to you and all the other folks here who feel like you, I don’t think you represent the average driver in this regard.
You will note that mark twain did not die in a skydiving jetboat accident at 27 years of age.
this is like asking disney to reduce wait times for their rides. in other words, it is against content aggregation platforms' interest to let you get what you want directly.
To clarify this even further, as someone who professionally plays an instrument that is traditionally placed at the back of an orchestra, you absolutely cannot play by ear: you MUST play by watching a combination of the stick in the conductor’s hand and the bow of the first violinist and cellist at the front. If you play what sounds in sync to you, the conductor and audience will hear you too late; the round trip from the front to the back of a stage, plus the sound traveling through the brass tubes of your instrument, plus the trip from the rear of the stage to the first row of the audience simply takes so long that it will sound noticeably wrong. The same is true for the far sides of an orchestra pit underneath the stage of a musical or opera. It only takes 20 meters/yards to become an issue.
> The source is a paper run by an ex-News Corp employee.

So someone who's used to being owned by a billionaire and pushing their agenda, and good at it, and presumably doing the same thing now under another billionaire? What point were you trying to make?
...but can you game out how one might achieve this in way that the victim won't immediately die, and the organizers are not criminally liable? As a thought experiment, of course.
(7 months ago, 227 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38160161
I don't blame them but I do feel there's a certain irony at work. The same forces that lead us in the direction of a browser mono-culture also lead us towards a source control mono-culture!
I, too, wouldn't mind living in that timeline, but that's just not going to happen for a number of reasons that are so obvious as to not be worth enumerating. Dwelling on unrealistic solutions prevents you from perceiving the possible.
It wasn't a talking point, but a genuine question.

This link from the EPA suggested that EoL solar panels could be considered hazardous waste under RCRA due to heavy metal leaching, which is an "externality" like CO2, and the very reason I asked the question.

So, if you believe the EPA, they are not "non-toxic" and could add up to "up to 10 million tonnes" of panels that need to be safely disposed.

https://www.epa.gov/hw/end-life-solar-panels-regulations-and...

So perhaps you should care about panel recycling?
This. The US Dollar could have crises and be flaky because Sterling was the global reserve currency (and everyone on the gold standard, obviously).

It'll be interesting to see what happens now. I suspect the Russians will play silly buggers because they seem to enjoy that. And they have significant oil to play silly buggers with.
San Francisco has Golden Gate Park, Mt Sutro, Lands End, and the Presidio as forests. I think park maintenance in those places is less to ensure trees thrive and more to keep up trails, remove hazards, etc.
A bunch of the models still only ship with 4GB RAM today! 8GB is just recently more common I'd say, but still plenty of 4GB ones out there you can buy brand new.

We have a few in the office and they are surprisingly OK. Let down more by the weaker processor (i3 instead of i5) but workable for a lot of things.
Is this actually happening soon? This seems to be linked to a 7 month old issue that is still open.
Hmm, but party of the strategy of this one is that different cells have different odds, and you know those odds. It's not just a random 50% chance, that wouldn't be so interesting.

I could see probabilistic cheese working as each grid square having an odds that the move will "work." Those odds stay the same the whole game. If you try to move from that square, the odds dictate whether you do your move or just lose it and skip your turn.

This would mean that certain squares become very valuable. A queen on a 95% square is much more powerful than a queen on a 40% square. But those squares may not may not be in useful positions. And the battles may be over who gets to put good pieces on those squares.
"I found answers via my sister in Johann Hari's book Stolen Focus, which explores how and why our attention is collapsing: "The phones we have, and the programs that run on them, were deliberately designed by the smartest people in the world to maximally grab and maximally hold our attention.""

If only they were designed by "the smartest people in the world". This is a journalistic trope. They were designed by people with social problems not to help address their problems but to feed an unhealthy addiction to computers as an escape.
Caricature works, but I maintain a visceral disklike for seeing the human form distorted in imagery.

Cur that noise out.
>Cruise control is low tech and negligible cost, especially on an electric vehicle.

Radar cruise control is not, and may be what the OP was thinking of.
Silicon Valley/SF wouldn't be what it is today with all the defense tech investments in the 1950s and onwards, paving the way for more "consumer" tech
Is it bad that Git has become a defacto standard? I do think the saturation of GitHub is problematic (for obvious reasons) but at this point Git feels as generic to me as like, I dunno, DNS. Unless there's more going on that I'm not aware of, which is always possible!
Am I the only one that cringes at "10x fewer?"

How do I multiply positive numbers and get something smaller?

Is "1/10th" or "90% less" not better arithmetic?

Maybe I should have done more gooder at math but it hurts my ears (eyes).
> We’re not going to see a low-tech EV for a long time.

Have a look at last years low end BYD domestic market EV offers, there's a crazy amount of choice in style, design, and no frills offerings.

By "we" I'm guessing you mean the tariff protected domestic north american and european markets.

The domestic BYD Seagull sells for under $10K USD on home soil and isn't being exported much ATM:

https://www.drive.com.au/news/2023-byd-seagull-unveiled-not-...

China spins out a lot of variations on a theme, there's bound to be limited run versions with little more than the absolute bare essentials to have a functional EV - the asian phone market is an indicator of the kind of range that is just not seen in the western markets.
being first/early doesn't always mean long-term dominance, see tensorflow.

at consumer level, npu are becoming a useful accelerator, and here google can choose to become the platform of choice.

but nobody comes close for training workflow but nvidia as it stands. imho it is currently possible thanks to community efforts afforded by cuda being the only realistic option.

politics and leadership aside, it would be nice to sustian a market for highly efficient matrix multipliers. also a s/w ecosystem that finally makes multiprocessing workloads easy to integrate for dummies like me.
They’re only doing what other intelligently managed orgs are: defensive retention via compensation. With the labor force how it is, orgs that prey on precarious workers are in a game of musical chairs. Where do you want to be when the music ends?
Get back to me when git wants to put ads in my commit messages.
My point, while admittedly weak, was that the WP is not as institutionally anti-Trump as is often bandied about. Though I now realize that was a useless thing to raise in this context.
I tried pulling their mercurial repo once and it took forever
I'm just happy that I can put the days of CVS, Subversion, and Perforce behind me.

While Git has its warts, it's firmly in "good enough" territory.
Well hopefully this means they will begin taking security seriously.
The monetary actions don't seem that important compared to fiscal, rate changes are normal and people are still buying things and making investments. But the gov't could have practically bought Dubya another Iraq war with all the money that was given away, much of it to fraudsters or people who otherwise have no need of welfare assistance.
Discussion on HN [0] (34 points, 3 days ago, 7 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40635512
you remind me that as bad as it gets, it could always get worse
I'm half with you, but riddle me this: in a ZT environment, every request needs to be accompanied by some verifiable assertion of identity and authorization. In this case, and others we've seen recently, the identity provider themselves has been compromised. For example because an attacker has obtained signing keys that allow them to effectively masquerade approval from.the identity provider. So even in a ZT environment, isnt it game over at that point?

It seems that we have a situation where all out trust is in the identity provider now, and we suffer when that provider is compromised.
I would rather they focus on their browser product.

Nobody have the energy working on multiple dying projects at once. (except google)
Something being priced in dollars, doesn't mean it is bought with dollars.

Oil has been bought in every currency on the planet for a very long time.

The dollar clearing system is a transit route, not necessarily a destination. Buyers buys things with the currency they have, and sellers end up holding the currency they want to hold. Those involved in FX make a turn causing that match to happen. Otherwise the transaction never happens in the first place.

The expiration of the agreement merely means that Saudi now has the option to move its oil retained profits out of US Treasuries and into something else, which may very slightly affect the yield curve.
Its a fascinating story, Shkreli is a character to say the least.

There is a very poor quality recording of Shkreli playing it on stream available on a shady file sharing site near you. Sounds interesting but probably not worth the flight to Tasmania (as per article, there are listening sessions available at MONA) or waiting 79 years for the crypto crew to cash in.
Probably referring to Omar al-Bayoumi. It has been widely reported in connection to a lawsuit against the Saudi Arabian government. (I don't know whether the allegations are true.)

https://www.propublica.org/article/sept-11-family-lawsuit-sa...

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/06580007
Gimp is painful to use for even once off small stuff. If you at all do anything commercially, the benefits of photoshop would have paid for itself over gimp.
Why GitHub? Of course it's the most popular (due to goodwill before it was acquired, and then inertia), but there are also other options that might be a better match for Mozilla's open mission.
That's a very bike-shedding take. Just because something is better than its competitors does not make it a mono-culture. There's no "nefarious plot" behind git adoption any more than "Linux is causing a UNIX mono-culture"
Is this supposed to be concerning? Most research groups publish a list of their staff online, including graduate students and undergrads. They contribute to and get credited in published work and attend conferences. If you're going to perform oversight of such a group, it has to include all the researchers, not just the people signing the grant paperwork.
Doesn't this make the "AI" even less creative and more like full-text-search instead? What makes some data a "fact"? If everything is written in the training data, in the end, won't everything be treated like a fact? So the LLM will have 100% accuracy and 0% creativity.
is github still aggregating ~everything like it used to? I'm interested what effect the Microsoft had on overall adoption.
In large parts of the United States it should affect single-family homes.

A lot of cities constructed their suburbs with one-term fees and subsidies, but are charging extremely low taxes on the houses once constructed. In fact, the taxes are so low that they don't pay for the upkeep of the infrastructure required to service those houses. They are losing money on every house and are trying to make up for it in volume! The sole reason they have been able to continue is because the dense urban core is subsidizing the suburbs.

But it'll inevitably end up with decrepit and neglected infrastructure, and cities going bankrupt. The only way to solve this is to increase the revenue per land area, which means a higher land tax, which in turn means a bigger tax increase per-person for single-family homes than for multi-family dwellings.

If you want to know more, the following NotJustBikes videos are a good introduction of the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IsMeKl-Sv0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfQUOHlAocY
60% of Millenials are homeowners, only a few percent lower than boomers at that stage.

https://www.redfin.com/news/gen-z-millennial-homeownership-r...
How do you type something like this out without being incredibly embarrassed? None of this behavior is acceptable in a work environment. Full stop.
My only concern here is the use of GitHub. This move will give Microsoft more power.
I mean the areas advances are happening in. Capabilities is a poorly chosen word on my part.