skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You need to really distinguish between rent seeking landowners, and value add landowners.

No, I don't. Rent-seeking is derided behavior by basically everyone who isn't rent-seeking.

If you buy property, improve it, and sell it, there's your profit for providing that service. No ethical lapse whatsoever, unless you used that godawful gray laminate that every flipper uses. Then I'm mad at you still but that's a different reason.

If you own a thing that people need, and you gate access to it behind a paywall while maintaining ownership, and extract value from those people so they may use it but retain full ownership and control of it, that's rent-seeking and it sucks. You're the economic version of wind drag.

Yes, that includes the 98 year old lady who rents out a room to fill the gaps left by social security to the nice young man who's going to college in the area. Still value extraction. That young man is losing the value of his labor because he has to live somewhere and she has space he can live in. That's unethical.
Rather than a troll post, it feels more like a marketing spiel by using vagueness of "AI" buzzword to me. "AI" is vague, so they're taking an example of a minimum-effort integration of a basic LLM API with their project (which they deliberately try to not call an "AI" project here, but which is marketed as "AI" everywhere else) that at least bothers with embeddings (so it's "engineering" and not "just" an "AI").

Could be a troll marketing too - marketing and ethics are rarely seen together in the same room. Any publicity is a good publicity, controversy brings backlinks.

Or maybe I'm just too paranoid. Those days I'm spotting those engagement patterns way too frequently I'm not even sure if it's deliberate or if I'm just making it up and need a tinfoil hat...
Yes make an account and you can enter your solutions
Don't you have to register with your personal address in a public database?
But they also can reduce memory pressure and cache misses, so maybe that evens out.
Perhaps you'll find it useful that a double-blind study found no improvement in outcome from use of a parachute when jumping out of a helicopter.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC300808/
My most recent trip to the dentist include a brief recommendation to floss, but they weren't really pushing it like they used to.
Wow, the US are crazy.

Here in Europe I never heard a dentist recommend that (yearly check-ups yes, of course, but they're manual - and accurate)
Specifically in the case of Debian, who is going to pay for all the additional infrastructure (build servers) that switching to dependency vendoring/static linking would require?
Looks good, but... but... well, it feels a bit like a prostitute's indicator made for the waiting males.
Not just NixOS. Ubuntu with ZFS creates a snapshot of the system on every `apt install` command.

But yeah, it’s pretty great to know that if your system fails, just `git restore --staged` and redeploy.
WordPress code is all GPL
If it were WPE only, that is true. But right now there are some very large companies also in the crosshairs as possibly next on the list:

- GoDaddy

- Amazon (AWS)

- Bluehost

- Dreamhost

and about a thousand smaller hosts, all of whom would be very unhappy to suddenly have to pay 8% of revenue to Automattic.

A real community-owned fork could quickly get a lot of traction.
The first metro line in Thessaloniki, Greece, planned to open next month, started construction 20 years ago. It took so long because (among other things) they kept bumping onto archeological sites. They have uncovered 130000 archeological finds so far.
This is one of those moments where you make your opponent look really good and you're too blind to see it.

I never took much issue with DHH and now I feel I just side with him. Talk about being out of touch with everything Matt.
There are devices that are sold with various swappable cuff sizes.
Hmmm, that seems like a significant disadvantage compared to fan heaters then. Where at least the fancier ones have a ‘cool touch’ design.
> And I won't claim that Uber/Lyft is fair to their drivers. But I don't really care if they had to break laws to get where they are.

"Technology and throw-caution-to-the-wind made life better for me as a consumer, and I openly don't care (much) about the negative impacts on communities and other individuals".

> Sometimes laws are wrong. Sometimes laws are the result of corruption and lobbying that isn't in the interests of the actual constituents.

Certainly. That's why we have a process to change them, rather than simply ignore them.
Feels an awful lot like Matt's just angry that he didn't move on to the final stage of enshittification soon enough. WPEngine is making "too much money" that he want's in his own pocket.

Fuck website owners. Fuck agencies using WordPress for their clients. Fuck hosting companies who offer WordPress hosting. Fuck theme and plugin developers. Even fuck non Automattic WP core developers.

It's all about funnelling all the money to Matt now.

We had a big discussion at work yesterday. We are now actively researching WordPress alternatives for the two dozen or so client sites we run on WordPress and WPEngine.

In the short term, we're planning to rely on WPEngine to keep some form of WordPress and plugin/theme repo available and provide at least security updates for core and the largest plugins (either via the plugin authors, or by patching their local repo with security bug fixes if needed).

In the medium term we are planning to increase our use of static site gen to publish WP sites to S3/CloudFront wherever possible, as a stopgap before we migrate sites off WP.

In the long term we are going to completely remove Automattic/wordpress.org/Matt from our business. This might be by staying with WPEngine using whatever they end up pivoting their platform to. This may end ups with ClassicPress or some other WP fork. We feel we have a reasonable amount of time to let everything play out and make the best future decision, but we are also developing a disaster plan to ensure we can keep out existing client sites functional and secured very quickly - even if some loss of functionality is the result.

Matt's WordPress is dead to us. I feel sorry for all the plugin and theme developers we buy paid WP themes/plugins from. None of them deserve this. None of out clients deserve this. I suspect none of the wordpress.com and Tumblr customers deserve what's about to happen to them either.

Matt though? You totally deserve to have your life's work and what _could_ have been an ongoing legacy completely destroyed.
Not optimized for mobile? In 2024? This is a joke.
Amsterdam to Amman at Mach 10 in Microsoft Flight Simulator [video]
> How come GNU/Linux is worse than it was 10 years ago?

This hasn't been my experience at all, as someone who's been using it for more than 20 years now. Today, for the most part I don't have to tinker with anything, or think about the inner workings of my distro. Even just a decade ago that wasn't true.
I mean not if the dentist refers them to a specialist. Usually that involves a kickback; there's a whole slew of problems with that in the US with lactation specialists referring parents to dentists over a tongue tie problem without actually viewing the baby.
Visual-fill-column: Emacs mode for wrapping buffers at fill-column
Yes, i experiment with eyes open/closed as well
Good question. I think someone would have to run the numbers here!
> Environmentalists were successful in opposing nuclear construction because it was expensive and unprofitable

As far as Europe is concerned, there seems to have been various political move and lobbying to affect energy independence (e.g. France): economy is transformed energy, so by nuking (…) energy independence, you're suffocating countries. The military role of nuclear is furthermore crucial; civil & nuclear must be correlated.

That's to say, giving up nuclear is not something a sane, well-driven country should do lightly, regardless of ideologies.

It's a tricky topic; what I regularly hear from economists is that wind & solar are still far from being able to compete with nuclear. And because of the previous two points, people can't but frown upon "green" arguments, even if the underlying intentions are honest and well-intended.

(China may not have misguided greenies, but it has a strong incentive to sell whatever it's offering).
What a world we live in. Dangerous times.
Is there a way to train this on common AI voices from video games/movies, I'd very much like a voice assistant to sound like Father/Mother from Alien or Dead Space.
I've seen broadly 2 attitudes: a refusal to accept AI as an existential threat to a high paying career, and a belief that AI is an existential threat to a high paying career.

As with most things in life, the truth is likely somewhere boring in the middle.
Unlocked QR wheels and seats get stolen and vandalized. QR should generally only be used where transportation space is limited or for stationary security, but otherwise prefer permanently-installed ones at the expense of having to carry a wrench with the tire patch kit.
Is this a human getting their nickers in a twist and being human or something generated from a corpus and a squandering of resources:

"No one cares about the technology used when making a buying decision a product unless it represents a very specific benefit or a risk. Yet, the AI hive managed to sway many into this herd thinking of building products."

The first sentence lacks a word, which could be a simple mistak: " ... decision [about] a product... " and the second sentence seems to lack the word mind - "hive mind" is a thing but an AI hive just sounds odd and I think writing that would actually feel odd too. OK fine, perhaps it's late and another word went walkies whilst scribbling away on the keyboard faster than the speed of thought but then we get "herd thinking" which breaks new ground whilst sounding vaguely familiar.

It's either a demo or the writer lives in Blandsville and wrote this piece on Blandsday.
That's completely beside the point. It's been instructed not to do that, and this person made it do it anyways. Of course they're going to do something relatively benign in their POC.
Probably never, I have really long arms and they usually take it just barely above the elbow also. I have always been on the higher end even when in my 20s and training/dieting for athletic events.

Used to flummox me until I bought my own meter, they can be like $30.
Does OpenAI count? Founded 8 years ago, but have completely blown up in the last couple years.
Hate to burst your bubble, but as an amateur musician I fear this would backfire, or at least fail to result in any improvement in playing ability. Silence and time are absolutely critical to playing music. By analogy, measuring 'time spent drawing bow across strings' would be as useful to a violin student as 'time spent pressing foot on accelerator' would be to a driving student!

From my own experience learning to play the organ, I have improved least when I play relatively fluidly, practising with music well within my abilities. On the contrary, the most improvement has come when I've slowed down, allowed myself to count the timing, repeat sections, read the sheet music more carefully or even just take a break entirely. So although silence won't improve one's playing by itself, I think it's a natural by-product of an effective studying technique that, if at all possible, shouldn't be discouraged with such a timer.
If you copy Wordpress code, you do have a license to it.
How easy/hard would you consider the amount of work needed to create a ecommerce for digital products using Payload? I'm currently using WP + Woo but the plugins that I'm using aren't flexible enough and I'm re-inventing some of them, so might as well re-invent some more and learn Next.
Just PEEK every address.
That's not at all what that "study" says. It is a critique (in poor taste if you ask me) that everything does not require a double-blind study.
> The Kairos Hermes reactor design is based on a design that was tested in the '60s, the Molten-Salt Reactor Experiment

MSRs are a costly distraction. They are not viable without literally hundreds of billions in research and development money. That's why all the MSRs startups are failing long before they even start the licensing process.

> For example one quite unexpected effect in the MSRE was the enbrittlement of the reactor vessel caused by tellurium, which shows up as a fission product when U-235 burns.

It was not unexpected. The _main_ issue with MSRs is that they have to contain fluoride salts that release elemental fluorine radicals as a result of radiolysis. So the reactor vessel walls will be eaten up by them, rather rapidly. Especially when reactors are scaled up to a level that makes them practical. And then you have all the fission byproducts that literally include almost all the Periodic Table.
> Lots has been written about how way too much contemporary US business is about value extraction not value creation.

I wouldn't even say it's isolated to businesses anymore. This is the same economic forces that's prompting all the crypto nonsense from a few years back, bullshit businesses like drop-shipping, social media influencers, etc. There's just nothing left to build anymore it seems. Every industry is stagnating, year over year there's no crazy new innovations anymore, nothing to get excited about. Just dumber and thinner versions of things we already had.

The tech industry is currently bending backwards so far it's collective spine will snap any second now trying to convince people LLM's are the next big huge thing, and there's just nothing there. 150 billion dollars for fancy autocomplete.
> Some interesting talks and videos [...] GNU is Bloated! by Luke Smith

Strange reference because that video isn't relevant to the topic at all. It's about the difference between GNU coreutils command line options and other standards such as BSD and POSIX (the title is mostly a joke). In fact Luke Smith is vehemently against the idea of AppImages/Flatpaks/Snaps and believe they go against the spirit of GNU/Linux [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPXLpLwEQ_E
But he isn't enabling any of that. You're spinning a narrative that is fundamentally untrue.
Sorry, I thought he disabled that.
My concern is that’s not a good way of learning, that it will produce lower quality devs than the traditional model. Or at least takes longer to get to the same point.

I’ve already seen higher level devs ask AIs questions and just copy/paste the answer without checking it as if that’s useful or trustworthy. How is a junior supposed to learn?
Apple still hasn't fixed 6-year-old "fake headlines" flaw
> edit: to be clear, 1GW of wind or solar is $1B.

No, it's not. Right now it's probably more than $10B a GW if you want the same level of reliability as nuclear.
Lots of assumptions buried in here.

There are rural/tourist-dependent communities that had an adequate supply of housing when the only visitor accomodation was licensed as a hotel/motel/inn/B&B/hostel. They didn't need a lot of extra, but some slack to accomodate tourist season workers, and occasional new arrivals.

Then AirBnB came along and converted not just the slack, but some residential property that would otherwise have been available for long term lease, into much more profitable short term rentals.

Income at licensed residential stays sometimes drops; short term and long term housing options either vanish or are reduced; problems begin to occur that were not present before.

None of this is in any way dependent on the failures caused by zoning, permitting and housing policy.

This story has been repeated at tourist locations across the world.

AirBnB was fundamentally a message to anyone with residential property: you can make more money with it as a short term rental than via any other use. This is why in many locations we've seen new construction of residential property intended solely for short term rentals. Nobody wanted to build that stuff when it was only going to be LTR; AirBnB changed the game.
> Nuclear power needs to come down by 85% in cost to be equal to the renewable system.

Only if you don't care about reliability.
I don't know about kicking, it's not exactly thriving.

I prefer Lisp for tricky problem solving, but it's unfortunately a no go professionally outside of prototyping ideas.
Building a massive business out of an open source project is by itself a huge contribution to the project. Ecosystem growth is a tide that lifts all ships.
No, I think many people use a definition of "know" that doesn't include "knowing" falsehoods. Possibly you and they have fundamentally beliefs about the nature of reality, or possibly you are just using different definitions for the same word.
I wouldn't. The majority of problems there have mathematical optimizations which real problems never do. Worse if you start thinking in the way those problems encourage you to your programs will be completely invalidated even with a tiny change in the spec.

A good set of questions would be something between the advent of code - where the problems are hard because the spec is so bad on purpose - and project Euler - where the spec is so exact you don't really need a computer to solve the problems with enough thinking.

Something like 'plot the histogram of collatz sequence lengths of the first 100,000 numbers'.
> The US is not in a real danger of becoming an authoritarian state

So you're saying democrats are lying? They say that may happen by the next election, so at least 50% of the population believes this is possible.

Moreover, from the point of view of foreign policy the US is already an authoritarian state. People have no say on weather to start or stop a war, anymore than the Russians have.
You need a novelty budget (2018)
Will and I actually work on Vortex :wave:

Perhaps we should clean up the wording in the intro, but yes there is in fact a file format!

We actually built the toolkit first, before building the file format. The interesting thing here is that we have a consistent in-memory and on-disk representation of compressed, typed arrays.

This is nice for a couple of reasons:

(a) It makes it really easy to test out new compression algorithms and compute functions. We just implement a new codec and it's automatically available for the file format.

(b) We spend a lot of energy on efficient push down. Many compute functions such as slicing and cloning are zero-cost, and all compute operations can execute directly over compressed data.

Highly encourage you to checkout the vortex-serde crate in the repo for file format things, and the vortex-datafusion crate for some examples of integrating the format into a query engine!
This is why it is better to take three measurements and do an average every time to minimize errors.

The studies on correlation probably have a large enough sample size to become statistically significant - i.e. you have to read the "Method" section to find out how reliable it is, this requires certain kind of statistics and/or scientific background.
Just someone release a trojan that zeroes all wordpress sites and every repo that contains the source code. Let them recreate that abomination again.
> godawful gray laminate

dude! godawful gray granite or go home :)
I did, routinely, with my ThinkPad until a month or two ago. See, it would surreptitously turn itself back on (to hit Windows Update!) and kill its battery overnight. I tried turning everything off; didn't work.

Just over a month ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41442490 was posted. I went into the BIOS, changed the "sleep mode" to "Linux" (at least ThinkPads still consider this), and... in sleep mode, I lost about 2-3% of battery overnight. Tops. I still hibernate for most situations, as I don't use the laptop much, but when I know I'm going to be using it often, it's nothing, and it works the way things were supposed to.
My daily cycling mostly consists of a mile and a half to the station each way without any serious hills, but my station bike is one we got second-hand for my brother when he was a teenager back in 1980 or so and we repainted it back then, so it's probably over 50 years old. It is the scruffiest bike in the bike shed at the station, which is just the way I want it. But most importantly, just about everything on it still works. It was once a racer with a lightweight steel frame, but I put straight bars on it 20 years ago. It lives outside year round and has done so for 25 years, so it has a nice patina that means thieves always look the other way. A little rust converter every now and then ensures the corrosion looks much worse than it really is. The original pedals finally fell apart a couple of years ago, but replacements were readily available. The front derailier failed and I removed it, so it's a 5-speed now, but that is fine for my use. The saddle has been replaced many times. And the rear wheel needed replacing twice. But it's still on the original chainwheel (!), brakes, rear derailier, shifter and remarkably, front wheel. Headstock bearings and bottom bracket are original too. Anytime I have needed something, the local independent bike shop has it - all the parts are still available.

Alongside it at the station are so many nice looking bikes, but chances are mine will outlive all of them and not get stolen either. Anyway, if you're getting a bike as transport, get yourself something used from way back that was a high quality bike back then. Some of them at least were built to last, they're easy to repair, and are still way lighter than most modern bike shaped objects.
Minecraft Bedrock is one of the main things holding me back from doing that.
What exactly does it mean to know something then? As distinct from believing it. Just the justification, and then, I guess it doesn't have to be a very good justification if it can be wrong?
Not transformer based?
I don't think anyone is arguing that routine x-rays don't ever find something that wouldn't otherwise be found. That would be a pretty amazing and surprising result. But it still can be the case that, for most situations, regular x-rays are not only unnecessary, but can be harmful too.
They're not a problem until they are. I recently had a molar out likely due to damage from an impacted wisdom tooth I had out years ago. The rear of the molar was compromised on the back, and there was no way to save the tooth. If I had my molars out earlier when I was young, it probably wouldn't have been an issue.
> I don't know why anyone cares.

Not because of what you're thinking. What's concerning is how easy it is to bypass leading AI companies' best attempts at restricting output. It bodes poorly for future AI if we can't even control the kinds we have when we're trying really hard. (Alternately, that we aren't trying really trying when we should be.)
I want to be happy about this but man oh man, that bespoke special Android userland layer makes this feel like a major old-school Microsoft embrace extend extinguish.

It's going to knee cap progress on getting a phone we actually have permissions too, a phone running a regular Linux userland, and it's going to have so many limitations and restrictions.

This will open some horizons and be pretty cool, but man, I just have so little interest or excitement for Android, for the many layers of sandboxing that will be used to being this us. Android is a notable weirdo & it doesn't contribute much.
You have a short-term perspective. All kinds of governance structures can work for a single human lifetime, if they manage to get the right people to the right places. But those people will eventually retire and die. Good institutions make it more likely that their replacements will also be competent and have the right motivations and incentives.

PRC has enjoyed ~45 years of stability and economic growth under four leaders. Until now, the leaders have retired voluntarily, and there has been an ordered transition of power to the successor. But Xi Jinping is clinging to power in a way his predecessors didn't. If he stays beyond 2027, it will be interesting to see if China can survive his death.