skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The non-paywalled start of the article reads like a ChatGPT answer to a high school essay question (i.e., no new insight beyond things anyone knows).
Here you go:

* I'm a big fan of Chairwoman Khan.

* The government should be suing many of the companies FTC is going after because their behavior yields bad outcomes for consumers, such as worse health outcomes after a private equity group captures an entire geography then drives up prices while reducing quality.

* They tend to have broken laws around creating and abusing monopoly positions, usually with various illegal details like kickback arrangements and self-dealing.

* These laws make sense.

* I don't mind big companies and many of the companies FTC goes after are not particularly big.

* Companies that utilize edge cases in market dynamics to produce bad outcomes for consumers should be taken down a peg.
You know they're totally a winning team that everyone wants to win, when you have to offer money to strangers to help find people who MIGHT vote for the guy.
"Podcast" is now a generic term that covers any "talking head"-type Internet show, most of which are on YouTube.
I also noticed an elitism from other devs when it comes to Rails devs. I literally heard on multiple occasions "we don't hire Rails devs here!" followed by a laugh.

Of course it was tongue in cheek, if the candidate is amazing yes they're a hire.

But it spoke to a reputation that Rails devs had seemingly received. I think because prior to JS/Node, it was Rails that offered newbies the fastest path into web dev.

I don't believe this is the reason for any sort of exodus, but the negative perception may be partly a reason for devs choosing other frameworks.
Whey to go!
Not everyone has student loans. Non-signatory parties aren't beholden to other people's terms, and even then their agreement doesn't inherently prove the legality of a particular loan provider.

Apple's de-facto control of iPhone software can be illegally abusive without violating the terms of their developer agreements. If that wasn't true then I don't know why the FTC would be actively investigating them.
There's this modern trend to call a bunch of people staring around a table a podcast. Whether they have cameras or not...

It annoys me too but I'm young enough to tolerate the kids on my lawn...
Babylon.js 7.0
As someone mentioned, the app store started without a 30% cut so they also baited and switched. The only difference is that Apple won the case because Justice works like that. Different judges and it would have lost too.
That's awesome! Reaching the point where subscribers cover costs is a huge milestone. Rust's reliability making it easy to revisit projects is a big plus. How do you find Rocket and Actix compared to Axum? Why Tera instead of Askama? Would love to hear your take!
Over the past few years, I've worked on and used a bunch of different frameworks to try to solve for distributed state. Jazz feels like it has the right "shape" - the right primitives to quickly build an app with magical powers like offline, real-time collab, etc.

If you can push the distributed state problem below the framework level, it becomes dead simple to build apps, which feels great.
The trifecta. If we regulated the supplement industry, ended MLMs and removed the requirement of car companies of having to use dealerships the country would be at a much better place.
Sure, but I would argue that Google's platform was open enough in that it was possible to download and install alternative app stores. They shouldn't need to do most of the things that are being requested here, like distribute play store apps in those alternate stores or change their requirements about what payment systems are used in apps downloaded through their app store. For the most part I think they should still be able to do what they want to do in their own app store, just like Apple.
Prof G also interviewed her recently. It was a good one.
> Eh, that term has a lot of loaded meaning among academic circles (or just hacker / e/acc ones...) that I don't think Altman openly subscribes to -- especially if you include its founder Nick Land, who's now a "Hyper-fascist" with some appearent brain damage. Long story short it involves burning down the current system, not just building a new one. See this amazing Guardian article: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/11/accelerationis...
I'd call Altman simply... arrogant. I don't think he subscribes to any academic trend, simply because he doesn't seem interested in reading any academia. Case in point is his recent decision to try to be the one to name the new era of human development, a task for which he chose "Intelligence Age" (https://ia.samaltman.com/); that's some serious confidence, at the very least.

I think you would be shocked at how much these philosophical trends actually are part of the discussion in these SF circles.

Sam Altman is also absolutely not a normal MBA-type, having met many of those.
See also https://www.frontpages.com/

https://www.frontpages.com/us-newspapers/
I take it you're being purposefully obtuse, but I was referring to the person you responded to.
There is also "satisficing" (vs. maximizing).

Your model of the world is not perfect so instead of trying to find a globally optimal solution, you are satisfied with a local optimum that exceeds some threshold that has to suffices.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisficing
lol post flagged
I'm sorry, there are 10,000 individuals on Earth worth ~$3b or more? Wow, I would imagine this club was a lot smaller
This is why pinning anti-trust to monopolies is a mistake. Anti-trust is about competition and creating more of it... and if it's about increasing competition then they both need attention. They are both very big and abuse their dominance in ways that stifles competition. That is, in the last 15 years we added another company that needs anti-trust attention, nothing was replaced.
The cheapest per serving is currently a rice protein with no amino acid profile listed. This likely means that it doesn't provide all essential amino acids. Cheap protein isn't what you want if you want a robust ability to build muscle.

That being said I love the idea and this trend of simple and useful comparison apps.
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Mild nit: your website hijacked the back button, I had to spam click back like 30 times to get back to this hacker news comment thread
Why not? Really, why not? If we had a profitable way to extract CO2 from the atmosphere at scale, to deacidify the oceans, clean up toxic waste, etc., what would be left? How would that not solve the problem?
This reminds me again of the tremendous opportunity of making a spacesuit with a five finger articulated 'hand' at the end of the sleeve. Imagine an astronaut who puts their hand into a controller at the end of the sleeve that wraps around their fingers and hand such that their hand movements are exactly replicated on the robotic 'hand' outside the end of the glove. This would revolutionize what could be done on spacewalks.

At one of the NASA tech days at NASA Ames (Moffet field), they had a space suit glove simulator where you put your hand in it and it had the flexibility that you would expect with a partial pressure spacesuit glove in vacuum. It was super hard to do anything precisely when pushing so hard just to move your fingers around. A robotic 'waldo' type device which replicated your hand movement precisely would minimize hand fatigue and allow for doing precise alignment.
That seems really bad for the government to be doing this. If she is losing, then using the resources of the government to harass businesses that are acting lawfully seems like fascism.
> Disk is cheap, memory is plentiful, your time is expensive etc.

Spend 30 minutes one day playing around with Postgres, trying different column combinations out. Boom, you now know how best to order columns. This doesn’t seem like a big ask.

The flip side is that changing data at scale is HARD, so if you put things like this off, when you do finally need to squeeze bytes, it’s painful.

Also, memory is absolutely not plentiful. That’s generally the biggest bottleneck (or rather, the lack of it then makes IO the bottleneck) for an RDBMS, assuming you have connection pooling and aren’t saturating the CPU with overhead.
Google is the developer.
After a cursory review of the docs, it conceptually reminds me of iroh: https://github.com/n0-computer/iroh.
Not wanting everything to become politicized - and, beyond that, politicized in a very ressentiment-leaning direction - is not gatekeeping.
I read Frankenstein a few years back. it is an interesting book, years ahead of his time. But while the monster is quite a sympathetic character (apart fron the odd homicide) Frankenstein is such a drip.
Yes, Khan has been a disaster for the FTC. Grossly overreaching, media grandstanding and then quickly losing in court in not-even-close rulings is not some kind of win.
20 years old, 0 work experience, can't find my first job
I'm 20 years old, almost 21, I've never worked in my life, never, I have absolutely 0 experience. I send my CV everywhere - waiter, stock boy, dishwasher, cashier, shop assistant, stocker, ALMOST ALWAYS THEY ASK FOR AT LEAST 1 YEAR'S EXPERIENCE. I sent a lot of CVs to McDonald's (at least 30-35) to different restaurants in my province. Almost no one has answered me. 3-4 restaurants rejected me. I'm trying to find some work as a stock boy, stock boy, dishwasher, but they ask for years of experience.

I'm studying adult high school in the afternoons and I have time in the mornings.

I repeat, I'm almost 21 years old and have never worked in my life, I've never earned anything. Many guys my age work as waiters and some are younger than me. And right now I'm getting angry, I'm getting hysterical, I WANT TO SCREAM, PUNCH AND BREAK SOMETHING AGAINST THE WALL RIGHT NOW. WHY DON'T THEY GIVE ME A FUCKING JOB DISHWASHING OR SOMETHING? WHY? I WANT TO WORK NOW. I'M DESPERATE AND I'M ANGRY NOW.

What do I do? How do I find a job in my situation? Could the Red Cross, Caritas help me? I'm angry and frustrated.
Likely more due to the paywall than the fact it's anti-Altman.
very cool! I was there for maybe 2 minutes before HN took the system down :D
Tricky communicators make the best friends.
Yep it’s the return policy that allowed me to gamble on items that may or may not be real/functional vs spending a ton of time to find one elsewhere that maybe is, but if it’s not it’ll be hard to return
Hum.. he led OpenAI to their achievements?

Like him or not, the guy is competent.
I assume that 'worse' often means find adequation with average and mass. This ensures a longer existence, later you may absorb the "better" you didn't have early on. Look how dynamic languages started to have better data types, various traits (generators, closures..), jit .. all things they could pluck out of old "glorious" languages that were .. somehow too advanced for the mainstream. It's a strange schizophrenic situation.
Humans invented shock absorbers instead of fixing roads flexibility=scalability
The original complaint has a number of pages starting at 39 (43 in pdf) dedicated to defining the relevant markets and why they feel brick and mortar isn't part of the relevant market.

https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/1910134amazonec...
Well Mr. Dang, we've got a new edge case for you lol: An article with substantive content before the paywall, but that doesn't have any workarounds for the rest of the article. I would love to be proven wrong, but AFAICT we'd need a subscriber to this particular person's Substack to host a version for us.
There are tools for measuring the level of dependence and addiction for different substances (like the severity of dependence scale.)

You may also be interested in studies on caffeine dependence, like: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3777290/

> Numerous controlled laboratory investigations reviewed in this article show that caffeine produces behavioral and physiological effects similar to other drugs of dependence. Moreover, several recent clinical studies indicate that caffeine dependence is a clinically meaningful disorder that affects a nontrivial proportion of caffeine users.
Have you used the SOTA models? Can you honestly say that any person is easier to work with than an LLM? Have you seen the capabilities of the realtime voice API that OpenAI just released?
Sure, but you led with something that implied the opposite. Were I your editor, I'd've struck it.
It's my go-to for static sites but for backend I'd rather use something else.
I am curious who your top 5 is now.
This is the new norm on HN. Gang-flagging is rampart but the mods are ok with it most of the time. Altman is a YCombinator darling so of course this post won't stay up long.
Sure there are more secure ways if you own the code base. But listen you have a mix of those in any system.

Consul template can render a config in memory. That is safer. But my gripe is the phrase. The phrase leads to worse situations.
Mega Tesla Light Show | 902 Tesla Finland [video]
Droidify used to be much better because the official F-Droid client had a lot of problems, but now the latter is alright
MySQL 9.0
I think Toyota would have gotten your point across better. Tesla is most certainly not expedient. It is a luxury purchase.
At no point did your original post say anything about the politicization of tech; you literally were upset about the "chattering class" (definitely apolitical, unloaded term there) simply knowing about tech.
Neat work! Can the author provide any ideas around:

1) Differences from fire-svelte for core functionality?

2) For the beyond core aspects, like Group-WebRTC (great innovation btw), how will things like TURN/PEER servers work to manage the WebRTC connections?
>Is Amazon "the best" place to go shopping?

The number one reason I use Amazon, is not for the best prices, but because of their return policy. Amazon returns are actually often more painless than physical store returns.

Being able to return something predictably and easily outweighs a small difference in price.
Heh I was recently searching and comparing protein powders and other supplements and it reminded me of something I read

Back in the Yahoo days (which was just before my time) my understanding was that a lot of the internet and links and such were based around a categorization scheme.

Google came through and disrupted that whole business by building Really Effective Search

But now, search is Harder. There's so much junk in terms of content and products that it's hard to really find what you're looking for, and do reasonable comparisons in an effective way.

You see new search engines popping up that focus hard on link provenance

Or the spreadsheets various subreddits build out to compare products (/r/ebikes is an example that comes to mind), disk check or even this site itself is another example

Kinda results in me feeling like a move back towards curated lists collaboratively contributed to alongside some contributor reputation scheme to mitigate bots might be Useful

Or at least some shift back towards directories in some sense.

At least, a site that aggregates all these lists would be quite nice
No you don't because there is no expedient solution.
I think most manned war vehicles are dead now.

We are definitely entering into the era of drone-vs-human warfare.

Drones are cheap and deadly and can be remotely operated, and soon probably operated by AI.
Congrats on the impressive project! Sharing structs between the frontend and backend sounds very helpful. I've experienced the advantage of shared FE and BE code in JS/TS projects, and it’s definitely valuable.

What led you to choose Leptos for the frontend besides the shared code advantage?
It’s an issue over time, LTSC 2024 just dropped so it seems fine today.

But in time you’ll see hardware compatibility and API features missing, at least based on earlier LTSC versions. Which is why I said it’s a business issue not an issue with that version of Windows. It’s stuff like not being able to use the latest Bluetooth or WiFi versions and occasional software compatibility problems.

If you’re fine using the same hardware and software for years as intended then it’s not a major problem, but it’s designed for ATM’s and medical devices not gaming etc.
On the contrary, making easy things easy and hard things possible is about as good of a value proposition as I can realistically expect. Hard things are going to be hard no matter what, and making them easy usually either adds excessive complexity or else makes easy things hard (if not impossible).
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Black Forest Labs is raising another $100M on a $1B valuation, say sources
What makes you say this? I just tried a few Reddit searches about events from the last few days and they work as expected (tested in Kagi)
> Altman isn't a deep technical problem to be solved.

He's running a company that has created one.

> What he does next depends on how much money he thinks he can burn in the next year.

Which is why personality analysis is entirely the wrong tool here. It offers you absolutely zero predictions. Why you would double down on this is beyond me.
To add to your point. Disposal of nuclear waste at sea was common up until 1993. There is still a couple hundred thousand tons of such waste sitting in the ocean right now. In addition, about 214 times as much radioactive material was generated by nuclear testing than the Chernobyl breach. Fukushima wouldn't even come close to the waste that has already been released prior to the 1994 ban on Oceanic dumping.
It's not about "intelligence" or about any particular factual misinterpretation, I'm sure there's some "source" that more-or-less backs each individual claim made in the video, the problem is, in broad strokes, the standard of evidence for each individual "fact", and the narrative that guides the viewer through the set of curated and disconnected facts to an implied conclusion, which is less like a conclusion and more like a sentiment: "The crypto industry is a bunch of rich scammers like FTX and Sam Bankman Fried that are trying to grease the wheels of power with all of their ill-gotten wealth to protect themselves and continue to rob dopes that are buying into this trash." It's easy to imagine a conjugate set of disconnected and non-sequitur facts that with the right presentation lead to precisely the opposite conclusion.

But, neither of those is thinking. I mean that, the problem is not that the ambiguity of the situation provides for two or more interpretations, which it seems to me that it does, but that this mode of investigation, which outwardly accounts for itself like "Each side go to your corner and gather as many facts as you can, then we'll gather in the middle and compare, whoever has the more and heavier facts shall be found truthful!", but is really more like, "Let's all divide ourselves in two, randomly, and amass as many facts as we can that back up our point-of-view, while dismissing any that support the other, and just for fun let's add in hating the other corner too, because it makes all of this more exciting."

If you hang your thinking on the results of some surveys, and one account of what happened in some particular historical event, plus some truistic phrase like "All's well that end's well" and a couple of well-timed stock photo gags to pull it all together, you will find yourself 1. impermeable to any ideas that don't fit in the point-of-view or framing of the question you already have and 2. completely and willfully uncurious about the world and questions you aren't already asking about the things you don't already have preconceived notions of.
Automatic async to sync code conversion (psycopg)
This is exactly the situation for desktop games right now, something Epic is profiting immensely from. It's an extremely annoying situation for users, having a dozen launcher/store apps around contributing to bloat.
> I ended up ditching search alltogether and ended up finding a semi-relevant paper on the nih.gov and going through the citations manually to trying and find information.

I've been doing this for years now. The normienet as I call it is nigh worthless, and I don't even bother trying to find information on it.
I think at one time, a mechanical calculator would have been considered AI
How I see it: https://www.ottavionuccio.com/en/steampunk-groom-italian-tai...
Oppenheimer therefore has the right to wield nuclear weapons?
I listed that definition also, to differentiate it from the one regarding the mountains.
Whether something is human generated is (mostly) beside the point. The problem is that spam is incentivized today. Any solution must directly attack the financial incentive to spam. Therefore what's needed for a start is for search engines to heavily downweight ads, trackers, and affiliate links (obviously search engines run by ad companies will not do this). Shilling (e.g. on reddit) should be handled as criminal fraud.
MySQL 9.0 supports JavaScript Stored Procedures
I wrote cboard, a simple text-mode frontnend for playing with UCI engine, which basically works the way you describe. It is part of the Haskell chessIO package.

https://github.com/mlang/chessIO

And Emacs Chess (also known as chess.el) has a "chess-plain" board variant which is configurable down to which letters should be used. Borders are also optional, all configurable.
As far as I know, there is no workaround in this case.
I wondered if I would see that here. It is an interesting read, packed with ideas. Not exactly light reading.
Yeah, well, the Ukrainian army is on record saying they'd rather have more artillery shells than more drones.
FM definitely wins for audio quality. But if you are facing a major national disaster where Internet may be down in various places, you need to have AM. The quality is plenty good enough in most cases. Even in the worst cases, it rarely performs worse than a traditional phone call. Really, the quality issues become apparent mostly because you can easily get partial reception on stations that are extremely far away, leading you to think that the technology is inherently bad. It's not a binary success outcome like digital TV signals. When AM radio was more popular I would often listen to AM stations, with some of them being pretty far away. Back in the days before the Internet, radio was THE way to get informed.
Yes, that was my point as well.
sure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6Kau7bO3Fw

this is a debunking video. it addresses a video where Hossenfelder says that "normal people" think it's crazy to suggest that transitioning saves the lives of transgender teens.

but (as the video shows) the peer-reviewed evidence for this "crazy" idea that "normal people" don't believe is in fact overwhelming.

anyway, dismissing peer-reviewed evidence as "crazy" is not a legitimate way for a scientist to act. but it gets a lot of clicks for Hossenfelder, because lots of people want to hear that, even though it isn't true, and they really like hearing a scientist say it, even though that scientist is a physicist talking about a very different field (and dismissing reams of peer-reviewed research in that field without even a moment's consideration, or a base level of professional courtesy).
GitHub Accessibility
templ is great, it's been my go to when working on web stuff with Go.
Didn’t they drop the two-day shipping promise a while back?
We will still be stuck with it forever for compatibility reasons