skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What’s more, a source at X told The Verge that the company still owes staff their annual equity refresher, which was supposed to be doled out in April. Musk previously assured employees that they could regularly cash out stock, similar to SpaceX staff, according to two employees. However, he has not yet followed through on this promise.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/23/24226830/elon-musk-email-...
Causal Inference on Human Behaviour
Yes I'm pretty sure this is what they do. The DHCP from the router gives 75.75.75.75 and 75.75.76.76. I've tried overriding that with different resolvers in my /etc/resolv.conf and it doesn't work. And logging in to the modem/router config does not offer any option to change DNS settings.
Frivolous Theorem of Arithmetic
This is probably the best thing the justice dept can do to help promote a competitive market for renters.

Also…we need the government to encourage housing policy which produces a lot more housing stock.

The long-term reason housing is expensive is because there aren’t enough good houses and zoning has a lot to do with that.
Any recommendations for the genre? Most games are just way too slow nowadays.
I’d argue the opposite in fact. It’s more often than not making it worse. It adds nothing and it’s a waste of bandwidth
So hire people to finish it?
> but people shouldn't really have to put in the effort to change diet or exercise or lifestyle habits

Everyone is directly responsible for their own health and nobody else is. The insanity of this statement is baffling.
Did you read anything else in my comment?
IMHO Wireguard + SSH is a better (more robust, widely supported and more secure) approach. Maybe the OP simply hasn't yet heard about or used Wireguard.
The existence of things like psychiatric meds imply that the answer to "listen to your own body" is not universally yes.
Ok can we reduce sudoku to something Turing complete and hence prove TypeScript is Turing complete?
I mean, there are a lot of things it could depend on. I'd like to say that it should depend upon the value that the programmers are creating--that more productive programmers should make more.

Unfortunately, if the article in the OP is true, these programmers were negatively productive :-( so it can't be as simple as just how much value a programmer produces. It's more complex than that.

Honestly, I've never gotten any good answer from anybody about what wages "should" be, for any job, programming or not. In reality, what happens most of the time is wages are simply determined by supply and demand, like anything else. There are plenty of people working for $9 an hour in very expensive cities in America--so whatever it depends on, it most certainly does not depend on standard of living.
Building a logistics app, I wish I could query in Firebase for items that don’t have a “shipped” field.

But I can’t.
LLM Applications I Want to See
FAA Axing 30-Year-Old No-Smoking Sign Rule
Yeah, I haven't trusted photos in a long time already. I'm not really sure this changes much.
Not arguing anything in particular, just want to point out it's not completely unusual to be both. Many of the top "Chief" positions I've worked under were former PhD engineers and researchers who went and got an MBA to move up. The legendary director of JPL, Charles Elachi, for example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Elachi

And many of my former bosses.

Maybe that's a symptom of the same disease ("without mba you cannot rule"), but I think it doesn't necessarily mean an MBA holder is a bad candidate for leadership.
100% Week over week growth on simple app
I built it for my self as managing a large team and dealing with real estates, relationships, society is exhausting some time. I just dump my thoughts and live care free. I launched it recently and seeing a 100% WoW growth. Yesterday I started an fb ad just to see if this growth can be 10x. I am surprised that it's so simple and lot of players in the market, still people are actively using it. I have no big plan, it's just a hobby project.
I wonder if "low carbon cattle" exists in the grocery stores. I'd actually pay a premium for this.
I can’t stand these “tools”. And I find it morally wrong trying to automate every little thing a developer does.
> “I can’t travel here”

Being allowed to enter another country is a privilege, not a right. This is something people who have passports that allow visa-free travel to almost anywhere often forget.

Thus if another country doesn't want you to unnecessarily become a burden on their healthcare system it is not unreasonable for them to demand you've gotten vaccinated. Even if there are risks associated with it, you will have to take those risks to earn the privilege.
Entirely voluntary and under their control. Relax who gets citizenship, and voila! Population will grow.
I know, but maybe if they want the epic store to be popular maybe release new versions of your classic IP on it?
>Physicists seem to be really good about this

Consider the possibility that what you're observing is not so much different cultures, but different levels of resources being provided. Experimental physics receives vast amounts of funding from scientific agencies. Much of this goes to support expensive equipment like particle accelerators and neutrino detectors. However the funding of this infrastructure doesn't occur in a vacuum: the operating budget for these systems also requires the resources to perform careful data collection and analysis. You cannot justify running a quick low-budget experiment with the LHC, simply because it costs too much.

It's worth pointing out that most of the boogeyman results people hold up in the "replication crisis" literature are in the fields of the social sciences, where funding is vastly less available. Here you get weaker techniques, fewer resources for replication, and many people who are struggling just to fund any small studies at all. What you immediately diagnose as malicious behavior is much more adequately explained by lack of resources.

It is very human to think that the problem is bad humans. But in the real world, the biggest factor is almost always resources. Everything else is downstream of that.
I wouldn't be happy either if I was a landlord.

But the landlord-ing business is a tough business, and business is about to get tougher.
Cautionary tale on using Chase bank for indie business
I followed the saga as Jason was going through this. You may not have the same sway as large entities if you are an indie dev.
Besides my opinion about file sharing this scheme seems to bypass the legal system but pretends to be based on legal grounds. What we have here is [more] privatization of the legal system and bypassing democracy.

To state the obvious: If you have someone doing things you don't like in office you can vote them out and replace them with someone who doesn't do those things. This is already a slow and cumbersome process that may take decades to materialize.

Or does this provide a framework for implementing direct democracy? Have a website with law proposals that can be implemented in a privatized way, have the citizens vote for and against them then pressure corporations to implement them.
> They incentivize by offering no data cap if you use their bs router.

Yes, this is why I switched over to their modem-router, I was starting to hit their caps every month and it was costing me a lot of money.

I really don't care if they monitize that my live-in mother-in-law streams game shows all day.
1. Pointing out a garbled message is not "toxic".

2. I tried to word it politely, in fact.

If you understood it then what do you think it meant?
I understand your point, iterating with ChatGPT or Claude can be a great approach for many cases. Our focus with Webcrumbs is to speed up front-end component creation, especially for those looking for a quicker, more direct solution. But of course, there's always room for improvement! If you have specific suggestions, I'd be happy to hear them.
Last commit was in 2023: https://github.com/w3c/epubcheck/commits/main/

85 open bugs; 9 open PRs.
Yeah, there's nothing inherently wrong with algorithmic pricing. Issues would start to occur if the pricing was actively manipulated and RealPage was used by so many landlords in some geographic areas that competition broke down. That may be hard to prove.
Sure, in america you might have a hard time finding a restaurant that serves both cheese burgers and american style spaghetti w/ meatballs. But when abroad you might find an 'american restaurant' that has both on their menu.

I think it's just down to people starting a 'foreign restaurant', there may just not be enough market for a specialty foreign food so you pack in a few popular dishes together and run a 'foreign country restaurant' instead of just a specialty place.

Certainly even in my corner of america (the pnw) where sushi is quite popular, we have a mix of places that just do sushi, or most do sushi and a few other dishes, or just a 'japanese restaurant'.
dismissive and slightly insulting replies to concerns about price are daily business
The difference in accent in relation to the written word between the old and new world is tied to the geographic and religious histories of the two cultures. North American english strives to mirror spoken and written language, whereas the older cultures in the UK see little problem with such differences.
You punch 80 columns worth of DEL. The card will jam the reader, but will get punched just fine.
> things that normal companies do successfully are impossible at Valve.

By "things" do you mean "build an even moderately successful PC game distribution platform"? Because no one else has managed to do that. Epic, EA, Xbox, Ubisoft, and a dozen others have tried, none of them reached 10% the popularity of Steam, and if they still exist today its because they have one keystone game keeping them alive.

Or, by "things" do they mean "make successful games"? Because Valve does that too; they produce games that have far more and longer success than most publishers. They've had failed projects, sure; its funny how when projects fail in hierarchically structured companies, as they do every day, we just put our hands up, retro it, and move on; but when they fail at Valve it has to be because they don't have managers, right?

Do your friends mean "be profitable"? Couldn't be that; Valve is tremendously profitable by any account. Highly productive? No... they're also that. Loved by customers? Strike three, Valve also checks that box.

I guess you could argue that "things" means "build twenty different directly competing messaging apps". Got me there, Google's army of managers did manage to do that when Valve couldn't.
I had no idea Werner Vogels had a systems blog. Awesome read, thanks.
"Maybe the OP simply hasn't yet heard about or used Wireguard."

I have, but I do not want to run a VPN solution on my private sever, for which I barely have any need. Also Wireguard, although VERY secure is still not "simple" software.

In addition there are usecases where Wireguard would not help, for example when I want to open up an http service for the current network that Im in.
I just ported Quake III to the web with multiplayer and mobile support: https://thelongestyard.link/. I was hoping I could use this project to do Unreal Tournament as well, but it seems like it's not that playable yet.

I wish Epic had GPL'd their old releases the way id Software did. I'd especially like to have UT2k4. I played a lot of ONS-Torlan in college.

Instead of UT I may do Serious Sam next. Serious Engine was open sourced and there's already a web port (without multiplayer): https://www.wasm.builders/martinmullins/serious-sam-in-the-b...
I don't know. I think Pluton is going to be a temporary thing until the alternatives are more mature.

OpenTitan is a great option but it'll be at least another 2 or 3 years before it truly stabilizes and has at least some amount of battletesting in ARM chips as a secure enclave.

Alternatively they may go with Caliptra as they've been involved in its development for a long time however it is a less mature option and it's not as flexible of a secure environment as OpenTitan is.

The FOSS secure enclaves have a lot of heavy investment but it looks like the AI boom happened earlier than anyone really anticipated and Microsoft jumped the gun and demanded their SE environment because the other offerings weren't mature enough.
I'm glad these questions are being raised and bringing more awareness. I always suspected there was something that was going on to artificially raise rent prices. It sounds like collusion to me.
ah a cute but soon-to-be-dead project, since they apparently are intentionally breaking the macos experience. either support your users or remove support for your users - shipping them an intentionally broken experience is a bad move.
It's important to recognize however that Valve has a history of being very slow to ship product, and financially is supported by the existence of Steam alongside lootbox bonanzas like CS:Go and DOTA 2. Those are successful products, so by no measure is Valve a failed company, but compared to most other successful game studios their ability to ship a completed product is very poor - if you look at their track record, they release a few full-size games per decade and then some of them end up failing. Comparable studios with their staffing and budget can typically release double their number of games without whiffing on quality - look at From Software, for example, which delivers hit after hit with ~equivalent staffing on smaller timelines and smaller budgets.

It's true that a product shipped early is bad forever, but a product never shipped is certainly not a success by any metric either.

My suspicion is that the way the studio runs means that the stuff they eventually ship is high quality, but a lot of potential smash hits wither and die because of process dysfunction and staff attrition.

On the other hand, if you're a successful middleman taking 30% of everyone else's revenue, you don't really need to be good at making games anymore. You can leave that business if you want.
Seattle is great, but have you been to Newport Beach? I wouldn’t want to leave either.
> Safe medical treatment for obesity is still in its infancy and we need to understand fully how the treatment works.

If they don't know how it works, how can they be sure about long term safety and long term side effects?
The goal of Frontend-AI isn't to fully automate the process, but rather to save you time by generating a strong starting point. As the code becomes more complex, it might require some refactoring, so developers still need to put in effort to refine and enhance it.
I think they should have opted for a more sinister move.

Use AI to Photoshop the family into new clothing and offer a discount on that clothing.

Or use AI to Photoshop them at vacation spots and advertise those spots.

You can all go on vacation! Book now! Grandma (who has been dead for years) looks like she is having the time of her life!

/s
A service like that would be worth a premiumize amount
ISP equipment should be considered compromised. They even have remote access. We should buy our own routers and bridge them to the networks of ISPs.
Should we as developers put more effort into defending our craft? The movements in the artistic space with AI were very widespread and vocal, but we developers seem not to care. I feel like developers in general are a bit more quiet and timid with things and it leads to companies or entire industries taking advantage of us.

Am I the only one who feels like developers really need to be a bit more vocal in defending themselves, their craft, and even their sanity? Are we quiet because of the large salaries in the space?

I suppose the biggest question is how do you defend the craft but at the same time keep the advantage of automation and AI? (is it unions?)
Consider it an improved version of auto complete in your IDE. It helps type pieces of code faster, it doesn't do any of the thinking involved in building a software product.
> Has it not already been shit for like 15 years?

You could argue that it has been, but "being shit" and "enshittification" are different things.

I don't think it's been shit. As a customer, Valve is one of the only companies left that I feel good about giving money to.

But it simply has not been enshittified. From Doctorow:

"Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a platform allocates value, combined with the nature of a "two sided market", where a platform sits between buyers and sellers, hold each hostage to the other, raking off an ever-larger share of the value that passes between them."

Valve hasn't started abusing gamers to benefit developers in any way that I can tell. Compared to the rest of the video game industry, Valve treats both very well.

> I would argue their early business model directly lead to the death of game modding in the first place

Game modding isn't dead or anywhere close to dead, so no.
Since I work with punch cards at the Computer History Museum, I can answer this. A standard IBM punch card has 80 columns and 12 rows, with each character represented by 1-3 punches in a column. A lace card has all the holes punched, so it's not punched with a normal card pattern. You can create a lace card, though, with a keypunch if you hold down the "multi punch" key. This lets you punch multiple times in a single card column, allowing you to punch patterns that don't have keys. So you could type &-0123456789 with multi-punch in each column to punch all 12 holes, which would be tedious but give you a lace card. (More efficient key combinations exist).

A second alternative is punching the card via computer using the card reader/punch attached to the computer. Normally, this lets you punch characters on the card. But using the optional "punch column binary" instruction, you can punch an arbitrary 12-bit binary value in each column. So you can create a lace card this way, if it doesn't jam.
I think RealPage foot-gunned their corporate structure and marketing by being so blatant about it. If they had set up a separate structure that offered "benchmarking" like what is used in healthcare[0] and other industries, they could have performed the same service but avoided legal trouble.

0. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5379508/
I think the major difference is price is set at the margin, so only the marginal renter has to use the software in order to move the market. Since rental owners, like wealth, exist on a power law curve large numbers of properties are owned by very few people. I.e. it is possible for both the average landlord to not be using the software but the average property is owned by a landlord who is.

The other thing is that normally there is an advantage to breaking the collusion which is what generally prevents them. AFAIK the software is capable of punishing people who break from the suggested price so this pushes the cost of maintaining the collusion onto the participants who have to put up with vacancies for longer than they would otherwise.

So in my view you can have an implicit collusion, or a collusion in effect even without an explicit collusion and with most of the participants not participating in it.

I also think this is one of the most important points of contention of our time. Our ponzi economy requires extracting monopolistic rents which is absolutely crushing the middle class and younger people. When I last visited SF downtown was a ghost town with many of the businesses that survived Covid being driven out by high rents - it appears that rental collusion has already been more damaging than a global pandemic.
But "not giving beta blockers" is also a decision.

In that context, there is no "we can freeze time for the rest of the world while scientists add new studies", you have to choose.

Imagine a parallel universe where beta blockers are a good solution and where Poldermans' study was fraudulent and said that beta blockers are bad. According to you, doctors should have not trusted Poldermans' study and, therefore, should have continued to give beta blockers. So, in this parallel universe, your definition of "not trusting the study" = "doing exactly the opposite of what not trusting the study means in the first universe".

Then there are also parallel universes where Poldermans' study was not fraudulent. What about there? Is adopting the opposite of the conclusion the correct things to do while waiting for new studies? Or are we rather saying "well, I know there is not much there, but the probability that the study is crap is lower than the probability that it is not, so in the meanwhile, let's follow its conclusions, it's the best bet in the meanwhile"
Ask HN: How do I grow my open source project
A few years ago I've created a semi-successful open source project called ARIA DevTools [1][2]. It's a browser extension that shows a nice visualisation of a website accessibility tree.

People continue to say that they really like the extension and I'd love to improve it, but honestly it doesn't feel great to spend my free time on something that doesn't bring any revenue. On the other hand, I'd like to keep it free and fully open source.

As you see I am a little bit stuck here :) I am looking for ideas on how to sponsor the project. Just asking for donations looks naïve, but perhaps there's some company that sponsors this kind of projects? Or, perhaps you have some completely different ideas that I just didn't consider?

I'd appreciate any advice here.

[1] https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/aria-devtools/dneemiigcbbgbdjlcdjjnianlikimpck?hl=en

[2] https://github.com/ziolko/aria-devtools
I don't use Gmail :-)

You could use something like lieer[1] which will also sync your notmuch tags with gmail labels.

If you don't want to sync the labels, I'm sure there are plenty of solutions out there to download Gmail to your local machine in a well known format like Maildir.

[1] https://github.com/gauteh/lieer
So people are buying their daily caffeinated milkshake from Starbucks, and we wonder why there's an obesity crisis in America.
I very much agree. I just want to provide some evidence of one if your points:

> if someone is interested in making video games I feel like they'd actually be a bit disappointed after a while of working at Valve.

In 2018, valve aquired Campo Santo. They were a 12 person company who made Firewatch and were working on a new game.

Since then, one of the founders worked on writing Half-Life Alyx. The rest have done little to nothing at valve despite being industry veterans who alwys seemed passionate about games. At least half of the employees at the time of the aquisition have left valve. Im too lazy and sick to look up everyone, but the people who wanted to make games left to good companies where they could work on games.

I personally am happy for the Campo Santo team that they hopefully did well financially in the acquisition, but I an sad that a team working on novel narrative games with high production values was disbanded with little to show for it.