skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
… especially when those startups are overwhelmingly outsourced R&D for monopolists, not in actual competition with those monopolists.
I love Apple Maps and use it every day in NYC. Hope they will make it require a slightly longer press to drop a pin. I can't be the only user accidentally doing this ~a dozen times a week. Happened just now in the browser, trying to drag the view. Rooting for the product.
And supply and demand will naturally raise prices when money is printed.
Something that is naturally selected is not necessarily good. Most of nature is horrible in fact. And everything we do is a fight against nature to make it better.
I haven’t looked at these closely but Apple has some WebAssembly powering some of their iWork on web stuff
Ditto. The lack of assigned seats has been the number one reason why I have avoided Southwest. I usually like to pay for seat upgrades. I have found that there seems to be an unwritten code amongst upgraders that we're not going to be terrible flyers (eating crunchy/smelly food, talking loudly on their phone, trying to talk to other passengers that obviously aren't interested). I know Southwest lets you pay extra for early boarding, but you still might end up sitting next to someone that trundles onto the plane with a giant bag of popcorn, takes their shoes and socks off, and wants to talk to you about the election.
Is there an example of a real OS for desktops and servers that is secure from this point of view?

I think SeL4 might qualify, but that can only realistically be used for embedded applications, it doesn't have, at this time, many of the features you'd need to build, say, an HTTP API server for it.
> Is your suggestion that the government go against the will of the people and apply those pro-worker-coop regulations anyway?

This litmus test is absurd. If more consumers buy products manufactured with child labour, is it "going against the will of the people" to ban child labour? Not in any meaningful way, certainly.
I sincerely appreciate the diligence. I really did see Pinterest results over a longish span. I may well have only noted their presence and not their absence - skewing my perspective.

Overall, my experience is very positive. I'm on many PCs throughout the day and I miss Kagi when it isn't there.
Could u explain why ?
On the other hand, hearing you refer to the people you’ve met as “consumers” before criticizing them sounds pretty dehumanizing.

It leaves me wondering if you were able to connect with them on a personal level at all, or if perhaps you were also “barely conscious” during these interactions.
The fact is, they did revolutionize homebuilding because they made people realize that homes were something the mass market could afford - if it was done correctly.

Many time the realization of the idea the important thing. Apple didn't win the personal computer market, but its ideas defined the personal computer. Levitt may not have become a billionaire, but his idea that houses were for everyone won.
(I live in the Bay Area) It’s been mostly fine for me
Unlike Spring, JIT-based ASP.NET Core deployments spin up very fast (<2-5s for even large-ish applications, the main bottleneck is how fast it can open connections to dependencies, load configuration, etc.). For AOT variant, the startup time is usually below 200ms if we don't count the slowness of surrounding infra which applies to any language.

Of course CPU and RAM per request when compared to Node.js are not even close as Node is easily slower by a factor of 2-10.
Profits and operating cash flow are two different things. Only the latter matters in terms of meeting payroll. Very few companies of any kind cut pay or lay off employees just because they "had a bad quarter." Even when there is a bad year or two (such as during coronavirus pandemic), the government will usually step in and offer generous tax credits to try to keep employees working.
Agreed! I vaguely recall SEIU doing just that.

Top hit from my casual search is a report containing case studies, two of which are SEIU.

A Union
Toolkit for
Cooperative
Solutions [2021]

https://unioncoops.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/...

Also, Richard Wolff has been advocating worker directed social enterprises (WSDE, aka coops?) for a while. Sadly, his now dated arm wavy book doesn't is more advocacy than HOWTO.

Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism [2012]
https://www.amazon.com/Democracy-at-Work-Cure-Capitalism/dp/...

And his website is not very focused.

https://www.democracyatwork.info/

I'm fine with polemics (about marxism, socialism, capitalism). But I'm already convinced.

Now I just want concrete action steps.

Please share any other (better) resources and links.
It works fine, and I live in a city with some of the worst traffic in the US.
When company valuations are fundamentally based on "faith to perform well", yes. It's a product of touting a speculative economy as one of "rational actors". CEOs function as mythological heroes more than anything. So there's no number too high to pay since even their defeat can be incorporated into the ongoing myth of the brand. It's very strange to me.
Using optional still has the secret third thing problem
Ok, replace MRI with ATM then.
New companies have no credit rating. Investors would never buy bonds sold by a new cooperative that needs a huge amount of capital to build a new semiconductor fab or something.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/357... (“S.3571 - Banking for All Act”)
Adobe exec compared Creative Cloud cancellation fees to 'heroin'
I have a running coupon UE dumps in my inbox periodically for 50% off $25 purchase up to $15. If gamed ever so perfectly it usually comes out to exactly what I would have paid for the food ordering from the store directly. I imagine the store eats some of this but I always keep some glimmer of hope that it takes pennies away from UE as well. It has to, there’s no way the store can eat all of that margin and come out ahead.
See also this paper by one of the foremost researchers in the field and colleagues for how Berger and his team haven't been rigorous with their methodology with Homo naledi

"No scientific evidence that Homo naledi buried their dead and produced rock art"
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00472...
> type inference

very limited, for instance you must declare the type of a public method

> alias

as you point out it's not

> Java also has interfaces, of course

but you have to implement them explicitly

> strict null checks, when you want that, you can use it

if we start accepting static analysis tools then C has null checks as well I guess
Activision is already selling AI-generated skins in COD: MW3
Right-wingers compare human nature to chimps; left-wingers to bonobos.

What does that tell us about humans? Nothing.
Maybe, but mutability does not require inbuilt operations.

I have often used data-only objects, and passed them to fixed-context functions.

It's a cheap way to get OO behavior, in non-OO languages.
Automatic security updates are widely touted as the gold standard in IT security, at least for anything that is not a life-support system.
It's a great concept. Something I would recommend is:

- a checkbox to remove the TM at the end of the logo.

- expanding the color and typography options. For quick prototyping, like the
"Lorem Ipsum" of logos, this selection is probably fine. If you add more palletes / colors / icons, you can break the toolbox off into separate tabs.

- Removing the "Product Hunt" badge from the toolbox to maximize the space of the content, and instead putting it in the footer

- (Personal preference): Moving the options toolbox to the right of the screen instead of having it on the left, or giving the user the option to change the layout.
The many systemic market failure modes of socialism and economic central planning are well documented and written about at great lengths.
Oh I see. I've found LSD better in some cases, but maybe it's just my implementation. For MSD, do you get a performance hit from putting your stack on the heap (to avoid overflow on recursion)? I don't just mean the minor register vs. memory differences in the codegen, but also the cache misses & memory pressure due to potentially long input elements (and thus correspondingly large stack to manage).

> Some cutting-edge radix sorts

Where do you find these? :-)
Many well funded open source projects are not Big Tech. And entities (public or otherwise) do sponsor features in open source software.

I work on one of these projects.
> The core issue is that Amazon envisioned Alexa as a product that would help it increase sales.

As someone who knows folks that worked on Amazon Alexa (back in its earliest days), this was almost never the focus of Alexa. It might seem cool or trendy to constantly hate on Amazon here on HN, and then somehow tie that to some comment on free market capitalism, Amazon did in fact have very normal ambitions with Alexa, build a smart assistant. Bezos, particularly envisioned building some computer from star-trek as his inspiration.

Alexa in its early days was also quite impressive for what they managed to do. It was an example of early ML scaling. They rented hundreds of houses around Seattle, had voice actors talk in different locations in the houses, collected all that data and trained a speech recognition model that was SOTA at the time. Unfortunately while their voice recognition was great, they didn’t apply this scaling approach to natural language understanding. They instead went the root of trying to manually understanding grammar, and iterating all the thousands of possible sentence reconstructions in a large decision tree to help Alexa answer your queries. This of course was hopeless, but this was also almost 5 years before OpenAI released GPT-3 so you can’t fault them for doing essentially what Siri did.

Now the issue with Alexa is like most issues big organizations face, they are slow moving and cannot pivot quickly. What they need to do, is actually hard and will need to be done by essentially a monarch CEO, he needs to delete all the work the Alexa teams have done over the last 5 years in 1 swoop and replace it with LLM’s. Many folks in Amazon made their career on improving the Alexa stack, they will of course mostly be defensive and argue vehemently against deleting entirety of Alexa tech “LLM’s hallucinate too much, we need a combined approach”, they will plead, but the stack needs to be deleted, the entire organization needs to pivot to LLMs. Apple has managed to take steps towards this, I won’t be surprised if Amazon soon will, or maybe they won’t, depends on their ability to not be disrupted.

If they are guilty of anything, it’s being unable to do good research to discover GPT-3 on their own (though tbf no one except OpenAI did this), and then being unable to ditch all the technical debt they have accumulated over 5+ years and pivot completely into LLM’s.
For most of the items like toilet paper and paper towels and soap, we have specific brands that we always get the only differences which size seems to be the cheapest to me at the time. The wife is very adamant about those.
But instead of things like mandatory co-ops, rent caps, minimum wages, etc., could we get the same benefits from UBI instead? It's a much simpler welfare system.

It would be cool if I could live partially off of welfare and have my job be an unprofitable charity making free software, where even if I had stock it would be worthless. Such a public good cannot exist under capitalism alone, not even for-the-workers-colored capitalism.
Great work, many thanks!

Out of curiosity, what do you see as next steps, and what possible futures do you see for typescript in the node- and overall JS-ecosystem?
1) Because a UBI program has to be paid for. It will be paid for out of taxes. If everybody simply consumes it but doesn’t contribute to helping to pay for it the entire system will fail anyway.

You cannot have a UBI if it incentives the majority of people to not work in some capacity because the system will naturally fall apart.
He lists a bunch of "we musts" that most intelligent people understand to be definite "we cant's" and the "we" is fairly vague (a coalition of whom exactly?) and states plainly that if "we" don't do these things (e.g. secure our data centers against CCP hackers -- haha good luck!) we'll be enslaved fairly soon by our communist adversaries. Is this his way of seeking forgiveness?
IIRC the Sun-2 has an 8 MB virtual memory limit, which prevents most modern programs from fitting.
not really. as long as you own the domain, you can put a cname to one of their servers and voila… server side tracking with first party cookies.
Pretty much every Greek that I have met (my father included) did it for a better future (money, no future with the military junta, american base left later.)

Plenty of Greeks have no interest in going back because they want the "American" life, but there's no question you ate better in the village, had more community, or had a sense of history - what you didn't have was more than ~35k euros a year, if you were lucky.
You are responsible for optimizing your own happiness. A company can't and shouldn't do that for you. Unhappy with your job? Find a different one. I don't presume to know what will make you happy and dictate to you how you need to live to achieve that and neither should you presume to do that for me.

Some people are happy focusing on their family. Some people are happy working hard in their career. Some people just want a job to pay the bills and plenty of time to play video games. These are all fine and valid choices and no company is going to optimize for all of them.
Dumping third-party cookies is going to cause people's privacy to end up in a way worse position.

Almost all of ad tech is moving towards identifiers like hashed normalized emails (e.g. removing +'s from gmail), phone numbers, names, etc. for personalized ads.
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Oftentimes dealing with such flows would involve navigating a maze of files and functions, and making any edits would involve a lengthy process of doing corresponding downstream/upstream plumbing.

Haystack attempts to address this in the following ways:

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> You should have asked her why she came to the US

People sometimes have rose-colored glasses about emigrating to the US.
Agreed. Running it without increasing the monetary supply is critical or the whole thing will collapse under its own weight.
Companies can issue new shares to dilute existing investors. I feel like on HN of all places, this should be common knowledge? Like, this is literally the scheme under which every tech company already operates, and yet on HN of all places some of ya'll can't conceive of a system where employees automatically get some stake in the business?

It would be straight forward to require companies over a certain size to issue and distribute some number of shares based on current pay to employees. Existing shareholders will have their stake diluted but are welcome to buy more shares on the market while employees are welcome to sell or hold. If the investors are actually good at allocating capital, they should have plenty of profits from previous investments to maintain their % ownership despite the share inflation. If they aren't, then they should find a different job.

Under this scheme, Bezos would still have become a billionaire, and we know this because Amazon and tech companies already do this exact thing by offering stock options!

And the neat thing is, when a company does a stock-buyback, this is literally the same giving a dividend of the profits to employees.
What I find fascinating is the bifurcation of R-rated behaviors between chimps (violence) and bonobos (sex). I read somewhere about a similar bifurcation in species of dolphins or porpoises where there were was one species which would exhibit high levels of violence and another which was all about the sexy fun time, but that was 30 years ago or so I read it and I have little hope of ever recovering that information (assuming it’s even true, which is not guaranteed for popular science reporting).
What construct? Having a job is also a construct and it seems it's the dominant one. 26% of women are housewives [1].

The status quo is working mothers, are you a chatbot that thinks this is the fifties?

I'd say you are being too imaginative. You are framing a traditional family as this abusive thing, master and slave except it's 2024. Marriage, at least in the US is extremely dangerous to men, if their wives divorce them, men could be forced to support them or else go to jail so who really has the power in the relationship since the govt has given all the power to women?

1. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/08/03/almost-1-...
My experience is quite similar. On top of that, 99% of the time I am unable to understand what they're speaking (Indians and many other Asians). Their writing is slightly better - but still has a large room for improvement in understandability.
not if they meet spec/are fit for sale, no.

obviously that’s not the case here, but as a rule yeah, your cpu could have been reworked or something and it’s not normal for any brand to tell you that.
home prices also dont scale linearly across their subcomponents. the most expensive part of a home is often the kitchen and bathroom. once youre on the hook for those costs, the tendency is to increase square footage overall in order to justify the price at all to the market. the nadier of homebuilding during the bush era was the McMansion at around 5000-6000 sqft, with a triple garage. not that you had three cars, just that the Hummer H2 took most of that real estate. most of these either got demolished after 2008 or sit in a capital management firms investment portfolio, about as attractive as a barrel of radioactive waste.

the other issue is a lot of municipalities (United States in particular) mandate and encourage large single family homes with outmoded energy and environmental requirements. suburbs work by siphoning resources from larger cities, sort of like a parasite. in turn they produce and encourage among the worst trends in US homes. acres of irrigated lawns and uninsulated attics and windows arent a concern but a feature of their housing code malaise as the cities subsidize this largesse.
> instead of learning how to start and run a business.

Maybe people want to be developers, and not managers/CEOs/business owner/entrepreneurs?

They're completely different jobs. Why would you expect everyone to aspire to the same thing?

We don't look at nurses and say "its funny how so many nurses have an aversion to become a multinational pharmaceutical CEO"
Reminds me of a time I had a heat pump water system installed with clearly labeled warnings on the outlets that the covers needed to be removed or requirements that the fans be sheltered.

None of this was done. It was out in the sun (laminate on control panel fused to the screen), air intake was factory sealed (system failed after a while) and it was left in the rain after an installer came to remove the covers (air intake / exhaust are top facing).

I could have easily solved the issues myself but didn't want to give them the option of pinning liability on the client.
If coops make it harder to raise capital, then they make it harder to invest in new tools, which makes it harder to increase productivity.

Workers keep more of the profits but there's less produced so there's less to buy? That doesn't actually make workers' lives better.
Mistake isn't the right word. It's just a tradeoff.

There was no perfect solution available, so a tradeoff was necessary. You can disagree with this particular tradeoff, but had they gone another way some people would disagree with that as well. To be a mistake there would have had to have been an option available that was clearly better at the time.

Anyway, the idea that TS 5 should be backwards compatible with TS 1 is probably a bad one. Personally, I think packages with wide usage break backwards compatibility far too easily -- it puts everyone who uses it on an upgrade treadmill, so it should be done very judiciously. But even I wouldn't argue that TS 1 should have been its final form.
> data only ever resides on a single cluster node and its replica

So a shard is not replicated in multiples nodes? If this node is down/in maintenance you can't read/write to this shard at all?
Chinese EVs are impressive. I saw BYD once and the difference in quality between a model-3 is stark. Especially the interior.
I consider identity to be an object that is exclusively itself, and knows what it is. You can treat it in an opaque manner, and its own identity will dictate how external stimulus works on it.
Even if we accept the premise, and the conclusion that this equation 'explains the triumph of open source and public domain software', it explains very little about the relative success of open source/public domain work vs. commercial closed source work.

I think history indicates that some commercial works can also triumph.
I don't think you're flipping it around, I think that's exactly what OP was saying, just clearer.
Again, it does not appear you understand cycling.
> It is a little ridiculous to think that Greeks don't prioritize making money over some nebulous "community happiness"'

She said that the people of her community prioritized happiness, not that the people prioritized community happiness. That might, for example, mean working less to enjoy more free time at the cost of maximizing profit. And, indeed, we can see in the data that the average worker in Greece takes 9 more vacation days each year as compared to their American counterparts.
There is an area where "mass production of housing" became widespread, which the article completely overlooks: multi-storey apartment buildings. These are arguably better for a city than suburban sprawl, but (due to being affordable) got a bad rep too, so the building of these larger buildings also shifted back to more artisanal processes.
> If you don’t know how to behave without a wall of text explaining how to behave online then you shouldn’t be online.

He has a point, there are people searching for drama and the only contribution they can make is a CoC. I understand wanting to keep those kinds of people away from the project.