skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are exactly right, especially with the example of the famine. Maybe in some cases moderate amounts of greed and selfishness can lead to the common good (though the market), but higher moral principles must always take priority with there's a conflict. Unfortunately a lot of people miss that, especially with the astounding amounts of free market propaganda out there, hocking incomplete models and nonsense like defining good as whatever the market does.

If you find yourself in a famine with a warehouse of food, and your thought is "how can I exploit this situation for maximum profit" you are doing it wrong.
Not at the moment, but at some point it might be. Real estate on earth has lots of competing uses, so it has a lot of opportunity costs.
This is super depressing, but probably on point. I agree that the article has good points.

I think the spirit that the author is trying to capture is that there is a better way. I just think that they don't go far enough. There is a tendency to arrive at a idea and believe it to be a good global model - my intention with these comments is to try and provoke a more holistic assessment of the issue, despite the fact that I think their criticism of startup culture is valid
Different user logins
Some advice: If you're going to monetize a side project, and you do it in a way where you're providing direct support, be sure the customer base it targets are people you actually want to deal with. Whatever the niche, imagine the worst people you've encountered on it, and be sure you want to use your spare time talking to them. Otherwise, the juice is likely not worth the squeeze.
> Depends on who your employees are.

If this is correct, then on the assumption that employment is commerce, Congress cannot possibly have the power to regulate employment in general under the Commerce Clause; it could only regulate employment in cases where the employees are in a different state or country.

> It's commerce because money exchanges hands. Labor is sold and bought.

Some definitions of "commerce" are this general, but others are not. The term is ambiguous.

> I think this entire textualist idea of "let's interpret the constitution like its the 1800s" is bogus.

For things which didn't even exist when the Constitution was written, of course we have to make decisions about what it means that the Founders couldn't possibly make. For example, the Supreme Court had to rule on whether wiretapping is a "search" within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment, and they couldn't just ask what the Founders thought since wiretapping didn't exist then.

But employment did exist then, and it wasn't a new technology or cultural development. In such cases I think the intent of the Founders is a pertinent question.
That's good to know. I built an MVP to help indie hackers and product builders document their ideas on the go, and I'm trying to decide to either drop it and build something else or to keep improving it. This is my attempt at validating it. Your advice would be really helpful.

It's here if you want to check it out: https://sandbox-mvp.vercel.app/
I don't think I was clear above. I want embedded objects. I wish there was a more "database-native" way to do it than using JSON, and all the ugliness that JSON brings. (Like dynamic typing, schema-within-a-schema, more complex indexing & querying, etc.)

Sounds like something the databases should be able to provide natively, without needing to use JSON at all.

(And apparently support for this sort of stuff is slowly improving! Thanks to all the sibling comments for details!)
Generally, it's the right thing to do, but sometimes it leads to motorists feeling that you're in their space and getting angry about it. They simply don't recognize your place on the road. There is no easy answer other than an abundance of space for small (e.g. bikes, euc, e-scooter) vehicles.
> I suspect there are more profitable uses to the Singapore economy for land reclamation than dropping solar panels on it?

Oh, I thought you were talking about power stations in general, not only photovoltaic.

Yes, there are more profitable uses in Singapore. Though for many uses you can add some solar panels on top of eg roofs of buildings.
Maybe not.

But there are many ways in which AI can improve or help support. So even if "AI chat support" turns out to not work, AI can still be very helpful in automating support.

Like detecting duplicates, preparing standard answers, grouping similar requests, assigning messages to priorities and/or people and so on.
Not a lawyer, but I think it might be ok, if the products are totally unrelated, which they are. I doubt anyone at the management of the company behind WD-40 would even know what a http server is, or could name one.

Also, it is written Wd-40 not WD-40..

As long as it stays a dev http server, it should be fine.
> "Stop Project 2025" implies what I'm saying

Kind of, but not really. Because Project 2025 is just a vessel.

You see, conservatives are so dedicated to maintaining problems they will go to the ends of the Earth.

Project 2025 is a power grab, so then that power can be used to maintain the status quo and prevent solutions even more effectively. Of course that will then target transgender individuals, women, gay people probably... whatever is new-ish and we should "go back" on.

So:

> there is a status quo that the Democrats want to protect and the Republicans want to undo

ehh... Republicans want to reverse our positioning and trajectory, and Project 2025 is how they do that. In that sense, republicans are still maintaining the status quo (or the status quo of a few decades ago).

> Which means in practical terms they have to play the same game as the Democrats do

I agree. Both "sides" have to pass laws and use "big government" to get what they want. And then there's libertarians, who don't really exist because even they themselves don't believe their beliefs. So this is what we have.
> the entire amendment process? How do you think federal minimum wage was implemented?

Are you saying there was a Constitutional amendment empowering Congress to impose a minimum wage? Which one?
Interesting, that on website there is no mention of building "Chrome extension" only extensions. They should even work on Edge. Was this the result of some unfortunate editorializing of post title?
> This power of Congress is implied by the powers that are explicitly written in the Constution.

Which ones, and how?
At least uv doesn't lead to an absolute clusterfuck of poetry conflicting with virtualenv. Or broken package.toml format with minor poetry changes. Or amazingly dumb "sources" which doesn't work for transitive dependencies and leads to even longer resolve times in case of multiple indexes.
one thing I found interesting is the observer or hawthorne effect. in short, people perform differently when observed doing a task. this means that simply by observing people while they are coding, you might make them perform differently, and come to a conclusion they are not able to code, while if you did not observe them, they might have done well.

the reasoning is that it's ok to pass on excellent candidates. as a business owner I find that a real problem. I would prefer the best, not just people who had time to grind leetcode and rapidly crank out solutions to standard problems you can find online. i think it would be better if interviews erred on the side of caution and preferred to let people through especially if they have experience. you can always fire them if they don't perform. there is no job security in the US anyway.
"Ban corporate self insured policies so that the risk pools are unified to contain everyone."

There should be only state or nation wide risk pools.
Images on the landing page look very pixelated
Your link, links to this thread ..
>When I worked in the field, they were persistent rumours that modern submarines did sink aircraft carriers in actual exercises which I’m ready to believe.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/navy-freaked-out-how-...

This one was pretty widely reported (from 2005)
> the catch all that is usually used is the Commerce clause

Ok. I am posting in another discussion downthread on whether "commerce" includes employment.
Yes. The program actually includes an ONNX runtime, which uses SIMD to accelerate NN inference.
I would also look at Qubes. It basically reinstalls a new desktop vm every time you boot the computer, and allows, but has extra safe guards for using usb, cut-copy-paste, templates, support for tor etc. But it's slow for obvious reasons.

https://www.qubes-os.org/
I've done exactly one legit "SaaS startup" type venture around 2012-2015. I still think about the absolutely insane customer service requests we'd get. It was a very niched down Eventbrite competitor, so we did things like PDF ticket generation, QR code generation, attendance tracking, there was a big fundraising component as well so lots of payment infrastructure. We charged a percentage of ticket sales so any one event or even customer was not worth very much (a positive IMO). I still remember someone emailing me directly with the "oh we'd love to give you money but you have to add these features for us first" so they could use this event ticketing and fundraising platform to ... run their dog grooming business.

As many have learned, the people actually paying you money are usually pretty reasonable. It's the people who haven't paid you a cent who have all these crazy demands.
toasts are like those friends who always show up 2 hours late to the party and then stand in the corner. if your app needs them, at least make sure they're not doing the cha-cha in the wrong corner of the screen.
Saw a lot of people get nailed by this in the Framework community. On the flip-side, if you eschew Microsoft products completely, I've had a really good experience (for the most part) using Secure Boot with custom keys on Linux on my Framework 13 AMD laptop. I am using Arch, and have it setup to build UKIs that are signed automatically via a post-build hook using `sbctl` and EFI booting using systemd-boot. As much as I generally dislike SystemD, if you go all-in on it, it does work relatively well on modern hardware.

Shim is really only required on Linux when dual-booting, and really only because the entire Trusted Computing Platform architecture is not user-centric and is designed around the needs of Microsoft more than any other entity. But because they at least paid lip-service to users, you have the ability to just eliminate Microsoft keys entirely on your system and go all-in on custom Secure Boot w/ Linux. I am hard-pressed to find a reason for any moderately technical user to still be running Windows in 2024, as most important productivity tools are primarily or at least optionally web-based, and Linux is significantly better in every other capacity.
Your link goes to a blank page. :-?
Not a developer in the field, but I believe generally the HLSL isn’t packaged in the game. Instead an intermediate format called DXIL is produced at build time from the HLSL, and that’s what is packaged.
Who says the car has to be small? There were no SUVs when I was a kid; people drove small families around in sedans, and larger ones in station wagons - later, minivans. It worked fine, and this could all be done again.
Genuine question. What's the practical difference between duel-booting and running Win-11 in VM?

I understand there's some performance differences, obviously. And VM requires perhaps a bit more setup and understanding.

However, is it reasonable to VM Win-11 to mediate SB concerns AND be able to have access to basic windows software and services since they're used a lot by industry and universities?

i.e. that is I just need access to Onedrive and MS office for the most part.
Doesn't need to be AI, most customer support was already automated before ChatGPT rose to prominence. Hell, I developed a mobile website once for a power company that was basically a wizard / checklist of "Have you checked for known outages? Have you checked your breakers? Have you checked if your neighbours have issues too?" before they were shown the customer service number.

Human contact doesn't scale, or is prohibitively expensive. I sat with customer support a while ago (again energy sector, but different company) to observe, and every phone call was at least ten minutes, often 20-30, plus some aftercare in the form of logging the call or sending out a follow-up email.

They also did chat at the time, where a chatbot (which wasn't ChatGPT / AI based yet but they're working on it) would do the initial contact, give low-hanging fruit suggestions based on their input, and ask for their information like their address before connecting to a real human. The operator was only allowed to handle two chats at a time, and each chat session took about half an hour - with some ending because the person on the other side idled too long. I mean granted, the UI wasn't great and the customer service guy wasn't a fast typer, but even then it was time-consuming and did not scale. They had two dozen people clocked in, if they were all as fast as this one person, they can handle 50 support calls an hour at most.

It does not scale. This was for a company with about 2.5 million users who rarely need customer support. Compare with companies like Google or Facebook that have billion(s) of users. They automated and obfuscated their customer support ages ago.
A full night's rest isn't 8 hours, and the sleep doesn't have to be accumulated in one block. This is a myth that persisted after the invention of street lighting.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16964783
You can check some numbers (and sources) at https://www.withouthotair.com/c24/page_168.shtml
Or, just don't disable (anonymous) metrics.

There's a BIG difference between tracking and metrics, but they are often treated the same, especially by "power users".
No. I just checked the front page [1] for each August 21 from 2014 to 2024, and there is typically no or one complaint in the title. Some lamenting here and there, an uplifting tone every now and then, but most of it is neutral.

Perhaps you are running into some negativity bias? [2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2014-08-21

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negativity_bias
I just spent two weeks in Germany and noticed that almost nobody there keeps their dog on a leash. Dogs are loose on city streets, in open parks, pretty much everywhere. No one seemed to have an issue with it, and none of the dogs were misbehaving -- all of them were keeping up with their owners and not disturbing anyone else.

Maybe this is a cultural thing, both in terms of people's expectations of encountering dogs in public places, and in terms of the way dogs are trained and conditioned to respond to stimuli. Maybe keeping dogs on leashes prevents them from learning the skills they need to be off-leash reliably.
Machine Learning and the Probability of Bouncing Back
Please use your turn signals.
I'm very interested! Before I adopt, could you please share what's your business model?
No, because Iran and America don't engage the world with the same peaceful demeanor. Again, it's objectively true that Pax Americana has brought about a heretofore unheard of level of world peace. The entire world is mostly at peace. War, where it exists, is controlled (and frankly, every war today can be ended at America's behest).

But, realistically, if you were to work for Iran's weapons program, while you wouldn't change any of the outcomes, you also wouldn't necessarily be making things worse. The US still has way more firepower and is actively working to acquire more.
> But employment did exist then, and it wasn't a new technology or cultural development

kind of, but not really. Because corporations as we know them did not exist. Times were very, very different. A non-compete COULD make sense in mom & pop contexts in a small 1800s town. In a multi-national corporate context things change.

So no, the type of employment we have now and that most people experience did not exist in the 1800s. To me, while both share the word "employment", they're fundamentally different arrangements.
Ask HN: Favorite Pixel Art Editors?
Ideally:

* Free

* Web app

* Source code can be imported / exported

* Common source code format supported by different tools
Is this thing broken or just server hugged? Added HN feed - icon is blocked because of "Tracking", feed is not displayed.
Because every action, including ones that are otherwise good, have a larger context in which we have to judge them?
i disable mine. 100% false positives. agree though, great for the masses.
When you say "finance" I assume you mean Wall Street type stuff?

For accounting and ERP systems, fixed point is pretty much the universal standard since I entered the industry in the 80's.
> When I get an email, I try to answer it as best as I can. Years of working with clients taught me to explain things in a simple and easy-to-understand way. So, I spent hours patiently answering questions from potential customers only to never hear back from them.

I’m a big believer in choosing your battles when communicating online. I’ve found bad grammar, lack of focus, confusing content, etc are all signals that the sender didn’t put much effort into their communication, and if I respond to those at all I usually put in proportional effort. Rarely have I experienced low-effort comms leading to high-reward outcomes, and I found my mental health benefits from the “justice” of proportional response. I’m curious though, the writer seems to imply that lack of active communication led to a decrease in sales. I wonder if/how my approach could be sabotaging me.
That's so cool, mine was about 30 years ago. I had no idea they were still doing this!
If you're from Iran, and support the current regime, and want peace in Iran and the status quo, then getting nuclear weapons is basically a guarantee of that.
The project must be tested in an application linked against libharfbuzz with WASM shaper enabled. Since it's not easy to build a library like this, I make a Docker image which contains both the ttf file and a modified gedit, so that anyone can test the project with a single command.
> But your usual 10x engineer you'll meet is the guy who knows the ins and outs of all running systems at work giving him the ability to debug and solve issues 10x quicker than the rest

You're talking about the 100x engineer now. The 10x engineer is the normal engineer you are probably accustomed to working with. When you encounter a 1x engineer, you will be shocked at how slow and unproductive they are.
It sounds like you should take it from where they left off and publish your own post about your perspective, and fulfill the prophecy!
Software and Artificial Scarcity in Digital Media {2016)
> The entire world's power supply could be met by sacrificing just 3.27% of the US [1]. The Sahara desert is already economically useless as it is completely and utterly inhospitable, unable to support life beyond a few shrubs, insects and felines.

So? We can always grow our energy consumption to meet supply.

> Simple, the amount of desertified space will grow, and so space that is now unusable for solar power because it can actually be used at the moment can then be used for power.

The oceans are a lot bigger than all the deserts put together.
Is there a "Mr. Bones Wild Ride" section of Instagram I've been missing?
That gave me a chuckle too. The list of "reasons someone would use a stolen credit card" is what, 2 options?
I mentioned decades though, most environmental models target the 20-30 year range and I've never seen one that goes out to 500 years. You're changing my point so you can argue against something I never said.

I'd expect a model that is expected to be accurate over a handful of decades would in fact be predictive on the scale of a year or a few years.

I also specifically left open the avenue that a model didn't predict this as a likely outcome but did have smaller probability outcomes that would have predicted a temperature decrease.

Its reasonable enough that the model may have found this as unlikely, but unreasonable if the model was so wrong that it wasn't even aware of this as a possible outcome in the first few years of the model. The data simply can't be useful 30 years out when it has such blind spots only a year or a few years out.

For clarity, when I mention models here I mean all recent environmental models attempting to predict global climate or specifically ocean temperatures. If we have no idea why the temperature has dropped then every model failed to provide any scenarios where that would have happened.
> Thunderbird operates in a for-profit subsidiary of the non-profit Mozilla Foundation.

I guess the answer is yes.
In general sure.

However, in a specific case, I find local types useful to do that for code that makes JSON requests to another service. You could care that the request has a certain intermediate structure but serialization is fairly deterministic so I don't see an advantage of that over just testing you send a HTTP request with a valid (String) body.

If you control that endpoint then it would make sense so share that type between them but if you don't then might as well make the type scoped to just that method.
Your observation is spot on. LLMs represent a transformative capability, offering new ways to handle tasks that were previously more challenging or resource-intensive.
Hacker News folk wisdom on visual programming (2021)
The United States has called for an end to the theocracy, but we love the Iranian people and culture. More realistically, we probably would be happy to tolerate the theocracy if they simply normalized relations and deferred to America. America's a very easy nation to get along with. You do what we say and you will be made very rich and have peace. It's a pretty straightforwards bargain.
Ah, sorry, then I carried over an assumption from OpenGL (where GLSL is actually what's packaged, or at least was a couple of years ago when I last looked at it).

In any case, that intermediate representation is probably still easier to compile to hardware-specific code, especially if the hardware has a Direct3D implementation. That's what it's designed for, after all!
> I'm surprised this is still up… All the old personal web pages of professors of the CS department (cs.uu.nl) have already been purged…

Then the traditional ~username URL and home page will bring some nostalgia:

https://webspace.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/idl/idl.htm

https://webspace.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/

And the statcounter dating back to 2008 should make you happy:

https://statcounter.com/p3895088/summary/yearly-pur-labels-b...
Low-cost agricultural waste accelerates tropical forest regeneration
> In 1998, as part of an innovative agricultural waste disposal service contract, an estimated 12,000 Mg of processed orange peels and pulp were applied to a 3 ha portion of a former cattle pasture with compacted, rocky, nutrient-poor soils characteristic of prolonged fire-based land management and overgrazing in Área de Conservación Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica. After 16 years, the experimental plot showed a threefold increase in woody plant species richness, a tripling of tree species evenness (Shannon Index), and a 176% increase in aboveground woody biomass over an adjacent control plot. Hemispheric photography showed significant increases in canopy closure in the area where orange waste was applied relative to control.
Did you click through them? Only 1 sounds like a simple case of a parent letting kids out to play and CPS taking any action, and cites several people in that community claiming the CPS response as irresponsible. A few of those links are about a law specifically protecting parents rights to allow children to go play at a park unsupervised.