skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> According to Occam's razor, it is very unlikely that it happened twice in history

Is it? Sure, if you start with "we have domesticated horses, how did we get here" then "one event happened" are less assumptions than "two events happened". But if you start the other way around with "humans lived in vicinity of a species that lends itself to domestication" then "they only domesticated it once" sounds like the wild speculation.

Even if you assume exchange between the two civilizations, spreading the idea that horses can be domesticated is much easier and lower friction than spreading actual domesticated horses. Especially with a mountain range involved and early generations of barely-domesticated horses.
This is a fantastic question.

In nature, every individual has to fight for survival. The strong eat the weak, there is no justice, only a fight to survive.

Civilized society, in my opinion at least, aspires to be something else, something more. There should be justice. We should not impose on the rights of others without due cause.

Currently, as your question points out, we rely on keeping people desperate enough to do uncomfortable jobs for little pay in order to survive. Our economic polices in the U.S. deliberately keep some percentage of the population desperate, whether that's targeting a 4% unemployment rate, keeping a rock bottom minimum wage, trade policy, healthcare policy, I could go on all day.

What if society didn't function this way? What if the wealth that already exists were distributed in a way that people were not desperate just to survive? One mechanism might be a UBI that was sufficient for bare-minimum housing and food costs. Then we'd have to pay people enough that it was worth their time to do those jobs. Goods and services, especially those currently underpaid, would be more expensive. But the people working those jobs would have a lot more income, which would be spent and re-injected into the economy, probably the local economy. I believe that would tend to bubble up the chain - Why should I deal with all the stress of project deadlines if I could check groceries for a similar paycheck? Things would cost more, but we would also be paid more.

Ultimately I think the goal would be a more equitable distribution of wealth. The counter-argument I usually see is that wealthy individuals have created the wealth they have, and have a right to it. I would disagree, pointing to the same policies above that depress wages and encourage people to take poorly paying jobs.
> This extensive data collection poses risks to user privacy and can be exploited for targeted advertising or, if mishandled, for malicious purposes.

Everyone knows Amazon and Google collect insane levels of data, but from a "level of concern" standpoint, Amazon and Google's data collection is 10 times better than all of the random IoT devices that are sending data overseas or to companies that pay bottom dollar for their cybersecurity and infrastructure teams. The risk of that data being "mishandled" is so much higher.

Yes, it would be great if overall data collection was lower, but with Google or Amazon many consumers are fine with gaining the usefulness of the smart assistant in exchange for letting AMZN/GOOG reap the ad tracking potential, but with the ability to trust that the brand won't mishandle their data by letting it fall into the hands of attackers.
Sorry, I had a /s after the first graph, but lost it in an edit. Of course I don't think that was any where close to actual intent.
Next up: ad-Blocking is old and gross and hard to maintain so we removed it, oh by the way totally unrelated here is Pocket(tm).. err Anoym(tm)!

Mozilla has become a bunch of ad supported grifters. Time to fund a real replacement.
If they are, they failed miserably. For once, there is no way to use a download manager.
It's the worlds premier consumer drone manufactor.

Founded in 2006, worth over $15 billion.

It's not quite as widely known as say Apple, Google, or Disney.

But it has more brand awareness than most other modern brands.

I'd recon it beats Alibaba, Figma, Webflow, etc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_grow...

looks pretty compatible to me!
> US made a very serious mistake by

Was it a mistake if the goal was to get cheaper products at the expense of foreigners losing fingers?

I agree it is myopic policy for the long term, but certainly many voters are happy to push safety problems somewhere else.
One of the hurdles you would have to overcome is convincing all of the conferences to go with these reusable e-ink badges.

Let's say all the organizers are convinced...why not use a common, non-electronic badge instead, since you have everyone agreeing to a common standard anyway? Perhaps something simple where the conference organizers can print out a paper slip (recycled paper even!) that you insert so they get some customization.
I have not used OCaml, but presumably Jane Street thinks OCaml makes their coders more productive.
I wish there was more tolerance for the Instant Pot situation in big business. Build a great product, sell wildly for many years, inventor becomes a multi-millionaire, many people are employed at good wages for a while, stock holders / investors make a reasonable return, millions upon millions of satisfied customers, and... that's it. The end of that particular story.

Keep a perfunctory tidbit of the once great company chugging along to provide replacement parts, do some servicing, and sell new ones at a much reduced volume. Just enough to keep a handful of people employed at good wages and turn a miniscule profit.

I know it is heresy to suggest this kind of thing when our entire way of life is predicated on infinite growth, but our entire way of life is also grossly inefficient (not to mention inequitable) and we are facing ever more scarce resources on a planet with less and less carrying capacity for our wasteful and destructive tendencies.

Of course this is all just yelling at clouds, because billionaires and the people who service them cannot be made to think in these terms, else they wouldn't be where they are in the first place.
> something akin to the network effect

Yes. Kids are tuned in to the negative effect of phones/social media on themselves, don't want them, but feel they can't not have them because … everyone else is on them.

This is more about social media, but a research report [1] quoted by Jonathan Haidt in conversation with Tyler Cowen [2] expresses this:

"Users would need to BE PAID $59 to deactivate TikTok and $47 to deactivate Instagram if others in their network were to continue using their accounts."

BUT

"Users would be willing to PAY $28 and $10 to have others, including themselves, deactivate TikTok and Instagram, respectively."

Emphasis mine on the above two quotes.

[1] https://bfi.uchicago.edu/insight/research-summary/when-produ...
[2] https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/jonathan-haidt-a...
Fortunately, in the store, we can both do this in our preferred way. Kiosks are there for those who prefer them, and those who don't can still talk to a human at the counter (although ordering from the counter has been made worse by the fact that the menu boards no longer seem to show the whole menu).

But in a drive-through, somehow, I don't think there will be options. I bet it would be one thing or the other.
No - because that's clearly an attack vector to steal information as well.
Definitely looks like one and now I really want to know why.
Consumers just do not care about privacy. I talk to people every day who have essentially given up on even trying to protect their data from the Amazons of the world. I work in a secure environment, but I also know that about half of my under-30yo staff are on tictok the moment they get home. Alexa is listening in to every word of their personal lives 24/7. They just don't care. They think they have nothing to hide. Worse yet, anyone who suggests even a modicum of security hygiene, Signal over WhatsApp, is looked at like some sort of deviant.

Then their laptop gets stolen or their cloud account hacked and they are crying as their pictures are all over some website. But a month later they are back in exactly the same patterns. "But I have 2FA turned on now. It won't happen again."
Haha sure.

Let me guess, the train is to a third tier Chinese city no one is interesting in going to, on tracks that the local government can't afford to pay the construction financing on, let alone future maintenance.
Don't trust changing your card either. I had a predatory LA Fitness membership. When they made me jump through one too many hoops to cancel, I called up WF and had them issue me a new card (Visa). Well, Visa, in their infinite wisdom, gave my new credit card number to LA Fitness and they kept on charging me for almost two years before I noticed. I don't remember the name of that program at Visa, but I'm sure they and other CC companies continue to do this. Should be illegal.
Yes - I've noticed these trends as well. I still have a fondness for the quirks and limitations of the earlier generation models Disco Diffusion and it's kin.

Sadly it's become quite hard to run some of these due to bit rot and the fact that "pinning your Python dependencies" doesn't appear to have ever been a thing for large sections of the ML dev community.
Hopefully some rlhf-using companies will realize saying "I don't know" is important and start instructing the humans giving feedback to prefer answers that say I don't know over wrong answers.
So, this might be fixed, but you could get around the cancellation fee by changing your plan to the Dreamweaver monthly plan and then cancelling that. You'd get a prorated refund when you changed plans and then an additional refund for the monthly plan when you cancelled it.
Not OP, but IMO you look at their actions compared to their words over time.
Gas stations can't and won't be blanket converted to charging stations. The use models are just not compatible.

EV chargers belong in gigantic parking lots. So shopping centers and office complexes. The great thing about putting chargers in these locations is that they are both often close to highways, are places that people regularly visit, and they have complimentary usage hours (offices are empty when shopping centers are full, and vice versa).
What kind of BMS do you like?

Do home systems do thermal control?
Mocks can be useful when there is a standard protocol and you want to document and test that your code follows the protocol exactly, doing the same steps, independently of whether some other component also follows the protocol. It tests something different from whether or not two components work together after you change both of them.

It takes time to come up with good protocols that will remain stable and it might not be worth the effort to test it when the protocol design is new and still in flux, and you don’t have alternative implementations anyway. This is often the case for two internal modules in the same system. If you ever want to change the interface, you can change both of them, so an integration test will be a better way to ensure that functionality survives protocol changes.

Database access tends to be a bad thing to mock because the interface is very wide: “you can run any SQL transaction here.” You don’t want to make changing the SQL harder to do. Any equivalent SQL transaction should be allowed if it reads or writes the same data.

Compare with testing serialization: do you want to make sure the format remains stable and you can load old saves, or do you just want a round trip test? It would be premature to test backwards compatibility when you haven’t shipped and don’t have any data you want to preserve yet.
> Finally, who drives garbage trucks, picks food in hot fields, delivers goods by driving all night

Someone's children - which is why the scramble for elite education and employment is so brutal as well.
> Students actually report liking it because they are now more in real physical contact with their fellow students directly instead of immersed in their phone every chance they get.

I wonder what a poll of those students would actually show
What does this need to be a collective action?

Why can't a school decide on their own?
Also Corman Mccarthy. His books carefully balance the 'sound' of the prose to help the reader imagine the story. That's why his writing has a poetic tone that drives some people crazy.
No, it is protecting them from 100's of PhDs spending their days optimizing their apps/websites for addiction[0].

This what I explain to our kids and they understand it very well.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39987490
Deep Dive on MySQL's Replication Protocol
I did this but added an "escape hatch" that allowed password logins from the local network only.
Some of China's new reactors are pebble-bed reactors, which I just think are super-cool: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble-bed_reactor
The only graph in that article that shows a strong trend supporting the thesis is the first one - essentially, "movies that are remakes or sequels to previous movies". It goes from 25% in the 1980s to ~80% today.

But doesn't that follow sort of naturally? Filmmaking took off as an industry not that long ago - roughly in the 1960s. Of course you didn't have too many remakes of old movies back when you just didn't have that many movies to begin with. And cinematic universes - often centered around superhero action - started popping up only in the 1980s. Before that, it wasn't easy to make a sequel to "Gone with the Wind" or "To Kill a Mockingbird". It was a literary problem, not a matter of corporate consolidation.

And it's dictated to a large extent by audience preferences. We like sequels, prequels, and remakes of the films we remember from our childhood. The same goes for video games; it's a lot harder to sell a brand new idea than it is to market Fallout 5 or Dragon Age IV. It's not the studios doing it to us, it's what we want to play.

I don't know. I don't find the thesis particularly compelling. On the flip side: it used to be that everyone was watching the same TV shows at once, because you only had so much choice. Now, you have far more variety than you used to (albeit the average quality has probably gone down). The same goes for music - sure, "top 100" lists are still dominated by studio-produced albums, but what percentage of people is listening to "top 100" when we all get personalized streams?
Sadly my first exposure to programming was in FORTRAN on a mainframe (when I took a summer course at a college in 8th grade). I could not initially make heads or tails out of fortran or the imperative approach, but I knew it was magical. Eventually bought a VIC-20 and other computers later.

By the time I was ready to start college was well versed in a number of (imperative) programming languages, data structures, algorithms, etc. However was exposed to SICP in college and fell in love with both the book and emerging functional languages (this was the late 80s).

SICP remains my favorite CS / programming book of all time.
We peaked at flip phones. I remember learning to type on a typewriter. It was really fun. I loved the internals.

Kids are missing out on the fun stuff and replacing it with phones. i hope we start to see change.
A reminder that like all good companies adept at scamming folks they have HUGE ethics policies :)

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In modern Fortran, functions should be pure (although the language does not require this), and procedures that mutate arguments are made subroutines (which do not have return values).
Lol, as a European, thank god that people like you don't make our laws here
I quite like 'XOR buttons'. I wasn't intending to correct you; just to point out that those buttons have a name that originates precisely from the application we're talking about (well... Winamp's not a radio per se, but close enough).
Using ChatGPT Tool/Function Calls with JavaScript and Node.js
Leaked messages show Adobe employees worry AI could kill the jobs of their own customers, reducing the number of Creative Cloud subscriptions.
https://petapixel.com/2023/07/31/adobe-staff-worry-their-ai-...
there are some free credits to try things out if you sign in
I really enjoyed "Coders at Work". Joe Armstrong's interview really stuck out to me; it seemed like he just thought differently than everyone else in the book. In a way, he reminded me of Larry Wall.
Then deliberately struggling more isn't going to help you.

It's possible that you've reached the limit of your mental arithmetic ability (at least for now), but even professors of mathematics can struggle with mental arithmetic. Mental arithmetic is mostly important in school, and while shopping, but it's not really important for doing maths (especially not now we have calculators).
Where is the boundary between appropriately protective parenting and overprotective parenting?
You can write a lot (but not all) Python on one line.

And my IDE makes it very easy to indent a snippet.
The number of graphic artists working from home well before COVID definitely put a kibosh to that theory.
Is the Universe Finite or Infinite?
In the winter it’s common for kids to walk home from school after dark, if there are after-school activities. I did that many times as a kid and it was scary. I would have felt a lot better with a smartphone.

I’m a grown adult and I wouldn’t feel comfortable walking around London in the dark without a smartphone.

Taking a phone away from an 11 year old before they walk back home in the dark is unhinged, it’s not hyperbolic to say that or a sign of addiction.
Yep. Ebikes can do a lot of things motorcycles aren't allowed to do. For example, it's customary (while illegal) for ebikes to not stop at stop signs in the US because there's little-to-no enforcement of it compared to the enforcement of traffic laws against motorcyclists.
I disagree. You don't need a warrant to search your child's phone as a parent.

Teachers have many of the same powers over children that their parents do. Power to detain, to punish, and yes to search.

If you're not happy with that as a parent then you can home educate them instead.
Ever seen the videos of ... thing being dropped on people from a drone in the last two something years? That drone is usually DJI Mavic
Dioxus Labs and "High-Level Rust"
Honestly, I think the problem for the USSR were more closely tied to early on becoming a military dictatorship than the particular economic ideas that military dictatorship took on.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Mulligan_and_His_Steam_Sh...
Taking people's property is not acceptable. Parents can confiscate phones if they want. Schools can suspend disruptive pupils.

The UK has no sense of personal autonomy. Culturally no limits on controlling people to suit authority preference.
it sounds to me like you are describing overprotective parenting
Again, depends on your source content. Obviously 4k/HDR is H265. Plenty of shows are still 1080p source though even today. Not the 'flagship' shiny ones, but there's a lot more 1080p max source content. And for those, the proper format is H264, and still is what is released today.
Don't know if I want so much energy right beside my ear, but it certainly sounds like an amazing achievement.
> What does that look like in terms of actual implementation? Also, where do we draw the line between basic needs and extras?

The most realistic version seems to be Universal Basic Income. Realistic because it’s so simple to implement cf. any system that has to evaluate who is “eligible” and what each person “needs”.

There’s still a debate to be had about how much the UBI should be. Linking it to some linear combination of a food price index and a housing price index seems like a good alternative.

> Finally, who drives garbage trucks, picks food in hot fields, delivers goods by driving all night, etc when they have all of their basic needs met for free?

“Basic needs” could mean many things. Many people arguing for UBI just want to give everyone enough money to afford to rent a small moldy basement and eat something basic for dinner every day. I would assume most people want something more out of life.
I don't know the story of how the Android team went Kotlin-first. If that wasn't a deliberate plan they got quite lucky. Could Kotlin arguably be backed by Google?
The complaints stem from the fact that the title says it was physical. If the title was "winamp made of diamond" but it was made of plastic instead, it wouldn't help to tell us diamond is expensive. We know physical is more expensive/difficult, that's why we got excited when the title promised it, and then felt let down.
Let the fear mongering begin....
They are a well-established company, but few people will have directly engaged with them outside supplier logistic chains. At least not in the past decade.

Looking at their product directory, it's all B2B

https://product.tdk.com/en/index.html
An internal AP in a gateway device isnt "directly connected to WAN" any more than an external AP.

In both cases it is behind a firewall (and NAT, if applicable).
When I implemented the test suite for my JS framework [1], I realized that there was a ton of cruft and noise in most test set ups. The solution? Just start a mirror of the app [2] and its database(s) on different ports and run the tests against that.

Do away with mocks/stubs in favor of just calling the code you're testing, intentionally using a test-only settings file (e.g., so you can use a dev account for third-party APIs). You can easily write clean up code in your test this way and be certain what you've built works.

[1] https://cheatcode.co/joystick

[2] A mirror of the app/db creates a worry-free test env that can easily be reset without messing up your dev env.
Unfortunately I can't edit the title at this point. As for the link, HN wants posts to link to primary sources instead of alternative front ends (archive.today, Nitter, Thread Reader).
I was just having a terrible experience trying to uninstall the "Adobe Creative Cloud". I have used it and paid for it. It's full of anti-patterns to make it difficult to uninstall, and now that I don't pay for it any more it just exists on my computer to nag me to renew my subscriptions.

They have good products and I gladly pay for software I use. But the whole cloud service experience has not been good for me. Cory Doctorow coined a word for this that I am too polite to use.