skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aldous Huxley imagined in the '20s we would automate most things and work less in the future. Today we work more than ever together with increased automation, and women work as well instad of being home to take care of the household.

On paper it looks like progress, but I'm not so sure about the quality of life.
It's crazy to me how I can be completely stumped on a crossword puzzle, and then after a jog I come home and knock it out. Really kicks your brain into high gear.
Read a bunch of your other comments, so I know this wasn't meant in a zealous way.
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I wouldn't pick my languages based on someone else's hot take, or any Manga avatar, actually. I also honestly doubt "Lina" is unbiased here. They sound like they leaned in heavy from C++, good on them. But many who are drawn to zig, like me, rejected C++ in the first place.
Rust does seem like a nice step up for systems programmers who used C++, namely because it seems to expand on and refine so many ideas from there. But if you disagree with the kitchen-sink approach to language features, then Rust might not be for you anyway.
What problem with the old laptop is driving your potential purchase?
Yeah that looks pretty bad. I'm trying to figure out if something got lost in translation or if Reflect Orbital is just running an outright scam. It's pretty clear a 10m X 10m square can't transmit 200W/sqm to a 3km area. So either those figures were for a different version of the product (like maybe an array of hundreds or thousands of these cubesats all working in concert?) or he's just flat out lying about some very important figures.
Err, Linux is a child of the 90s...

Linus began work on it in April 1991: https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.minix/c/dlNtH7RRrGA/m/_R...
And not just flights, all government offices that have any security prohibit any knives. I used to have a swiss knife at most times on me, and I went to the social security office to get a card (one of the first gov. offices I visited in the US). They wouldn't allow it, but also wouldn't hold it for you. I had to go out and hide it in the bushes like an idiot.
On the topic of improving OS threads, there are scheduler activations and similar mechanisms in some microkernels. Basically sending events for all hardware things and context switches, making user level threads as flexible as kernel threads. Unfortunately they haven't become mainstream.
Sounds like a job for the NSA. With their surveillance apparatus, data lake, and analysis tools, they'd be able to make quick work of tracking and apprehending illegal border entries...

That would be a much better way to spend their time and money than invading the privacy of actual US citizens.
TIL: there's .su gtld
Safari + AdGuard works fine. Just seems odd that people pretend there aren't other options.
Ian Malcolm said it best:

"the kind of control you're attempting simply is... it's not possible. If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us it's that life will not be contained."

Humans are clever and typically find workarounds given enough time/hope. Sure you could argue that this is some kind of authoritarian 4D chess/matrix scenario to let off steam for an unruly populace, or it's just the natural course of things.
Won't your #2 be economic when photovoltaic power is basically free ? The day is coming.
Step into my office.
What happens when you reach the context window and it never longer knows about older messages?
I think this was called "error.wav" when I first saw it sneaking around a campus network.
i don't do javascript, but I know from experience adding const to c++ is impossible I expect the similar for types
I'm wondering if you could use Roslyn to implement your snippet's syntax anyway.
It won't be every employer - but it will come to cover large swaths of companies in industries where performance takes precedence over presence.

And you're right, it would eventually go away - but only if and when late adopters find themselves being punished by the market.
Damn, even fully private in the UK I pay a fraction of a fraction of that.
Problem is that your bets have to be of a certain size to make a difference. Making 100% on $100 is not doing much good for you. So the guy with less money has to take much higher relative risks if he wants to get somewhere.
I too would like to see it.
Tim Cook Admits Truth About Vision Pro Following Lackluster Sales
Personally, I'm really a fan of the 0 day workweek!

But I'm conflicted about all the work I have to do to get there...
I found this video from the perspective of a landing pin interesting, especially when played back at low speed: https://youtu.be/ExV6PHRM8eI?t=17

You can see the arm comes in, then there's some side-to-side bounce (not sure how much is the rocket bouncing off vs. the arm fine-tuning its position). Just after contact seems to be made, and before the shock absorbing (or yaw-correcting) pistons drop much, there's a large flash from the engine. Is that a characteristic of engine shutoff, or was there a last-second "hover" push just before shutoff and drop? I wonder how much force the arms felt.

Another perspective showing both arms, and (as mentioned in the article) how the left one adjusted more significantly at first: https://youtu.be/JlcrNakUGVs?t=3
> Well, one reason may be that treating problems at the border as humanitarian crises or pursuing foreign policy or immigration reform measures isn't as politically useful as promoting a phantom "invasion" that requires a military-style response. Another reason may be that tech companies and military contractors wield immense amounts of influence and stand to make millions, if not billions, profiting off border surveillance. The price is paid by taxpayers, but also in the civil liberties of border communities and the human rights of asylum seekers and migrants.

They are claiming it is an ineffective solution to the problem, conceptually, that is perpetuated by bad political and lobbyist incentives.

The position is not that it does not work well enough. The position is that it would not be a viable solution regardless of the quality of execution. Therefore we should stop allowing corrupt and fear mongering politicians from manipulating public optics to support these surveillance companies.
This is a great tool! Had a bit of a bug on my first query, had to reload the page and it displayed some decent results.. Good work! Are you going to add other retailers than Amazon?
The net is bifurcating and, twitter vibes aside, I think we should all be a bit concerned with this “balkanization” of the internet. I don’t blame any one person, and it’s arguably better than everyone on one platform, still…
I don't see that even people with money and power can do anything here. It is like VAR. When has it ever happened that the referee goes to the screen, and does not follow the VAR recommendation? Never. That is how automated decision making will work as well, across the board.
That's fair, we're living pretty luxuriously right now. It's worth securing the current state of luxury while we can, though.
Does it transcribe private feeds? I pay for the ad free streams for some of the podcasts I listen to the most, so if those aren’t transcribed then the usefulness diminishes
I know this is HN and most people here heavily support WFH. But as this article shows, people will support whatever benefits they can get, even if it is very likely come at the cost of productivity. With WFH, it is a mixed bag of whether that would affect productivity or not but from a risk averse management perspective, it is understandable that they don't want to risk it and go back to the traditional mode.

In my (likely very controversial to HN) opinion, software devs are already heavily compensated compared to other professions and adding more benefits on top of that in the form of WFH just make it even more unfair. What is fair? It is what the employers are willing to pay and if most are demanding RTO then that is just what the market is willing to bear.

Most jobs do not have the luxury of WFH. Not for a doctor, a biologist, a chemist, a civil engineer, a lawyer, etc. They are required to come to office to work and they are often paid less than a software dev.
If the code can be generated correctly, is it controversial to say that generating it will be more efficient than reading through documentation and/or learning how to use a new library?

If you grant that, the next question is how high the accuracy has to be before it's quicker than doing the research and writing the code yourself. If it's 100%, then it's clearly better, since doing the research and implementation oneself generally takes an hour or so in the best scenario (this can expand to multiple hours or days depending on the task). If it's 99%, it's still probably (much) better, since it will be faster to fix the minor issues than to implement from scratch. If it's 90%, 80%, 70% it becomes a more interesting question.
Lloks like Microsoft is going back to it's old ways. I am not surprised tbh.
Huh? Why post an allegedly ‘pointless’ imgur link? There’s no reason to click on it…

Edit: If you have confused thoughts I don’t appreciate being dragged into it. Take it somewhere else.
Are you the owner or a user? Is there a backstory? Post in other languages are usually ignored or flagged. Do they have a landing page in English?
I did a schedule of four 10 hour days for a few years in the military (with every fourth week being an extra three six hour days because someone had to be there at all times).

It was absolutely amazing for actually being able to get things done. I hated going back to the regular five day week after that.
I’m don’t need to analyze any scientific paper to form an opinion on a matter of policy; what scientific paper should I read to decide whether to support an increase on property tax in my county to support schools? The idea that I have to defer my judgment to someone in a lab coat is insulting.

As to your other questions, the answer to all (which any trivial web search would answer as I did) is “I can read”.

And I didn’t “cherry pick” some particular study or some blog that supports my preconceptions. All of the links I have provided are from sources that assume severe climate change is coming without serious interventions in greenhouse gas emissions; they are all on the “climate activist” side.

Dramatically increase the cost of energy, note that this is BY DESIGN, it’s the entire point of carbon taxes and markets: https://www.npr.org/2021/12/16/1064951646/why-the-cost-of-ca...

Only slightly slow the progression of warming: https://www.science.org/content/article/paris-climate-pact-5...

Weather related deaths down 98% in past 100 years: https://reason.org/policy-study/decline-deaths-extreme-weath...

And of course now I’m being down voted for my example.

I never challenged a single point of climate orthodoxy; I never questioned whether global warming was occurring, whether it was man-made, whether the studies and models predict warming accurately, or whether the impact will be as stated. I stipulated every single one of those points. But simply my personal conclusion that I don’t believe the policy trade-off is worth it, means that my voice is not worth hearing.
cat file|grep x
<file grep x
grep x file

The two alternatives are several keystrokes less and remove a useless process.
Is the border an actual problem though? Specifically speaking to the US border.

Is migration the number one problem that Americans struggle with? Or even in the top ten concerns, your average American holds?

I have not had a single issue with migration or an immigrant, ever. I've never met a single person, in the US, with a material issue related to migration or immigration. I have never felt worried about being near a migrant/immigrant based on who they are or their behavior.
maybe controversial take, but zone transfers are not vulnerability, there's nothing really private in that
“Perfect pitch” or “perfect interval”?

Someone with perfect pitch can tell what note you are playing just by listening to that note in isolation. Most people can’t do that. “Absolute pitch” is probably a better name, but it’s usually called “perfect pitch”.

Perfect intervals are the intervals which don’t have a smaller and larger version of an interval with the same name. It’s nothing more than a naming convention for intervals. The 4th and 5th are perfect. So are the octave (8th) and unison (1). The other intervals (2nd, 3rd, 6th, and 7th), rather than being “perfect”, come in minor and major versions.

Basically, every interval either has minor/major, or perfect.

It’s a naming convention for intervals based on the western diatonic scale. Any interval which is smaller than minor/perfect is called “diminished”, and an interval which is larger than major/perfect is “augmented”. For example, C to Gb is a diminished fifth, and Ab to F# is an augmented sixth. Which number you use to name an interval is strictly based on the letter names of the note, ignoring sharps and flats.
You got any news reports on those bank robberies, they sound pretty wild!
Tyler Cowen recently interviewed a historian (Alan Taylor), and they approached this subject near the end of the episode—how much the job of a historian still involves browsing undigitized material sitting on a shelf in a cold room somewhere. Around 3215 seconds* in:

> And then there's also a kind of notion that everything is there online when in point of fact lots of information about the past still only exists in archives

<https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/alan-taylor/>

* of the audio version, that is; at that timestamp in the YouTube video, they're discussing the question "How will large language models change historical research"—interviewee's response: he doesn't know
When you buy a Tesla, that helps Tesla's biggest shareholder - Elon to buy voters and buy the next potential president.

When your worth is $100B+, $1M is the same as someone giving away $1 when they're worth $100,000. Elon doesn't even register it.

Elon knows the supreme court is Republican and won't touch him.

Fun fact is that with AI, there are so many crypto scammers creating videos of Elon giving away money when he does a launch. For someone seeing it first time, it feels real. https://dailyhodl.com/2024/06/06/scammers-ask-for-crypto-on-...

Scammers must be rejoicing that Elon himself has made himself a trustworthy person to impersonate.
This happens often when going down the rabbit hole on a niche project. For example, repair and restoration of Persian rugs.

There are many details to the craft that are hinted at in variety of formats, (youtube videos, blog entries, etc) but the clear truths are not clearly stated anywhere. These are stored in the minds and practices of artisans.
That article was about handling of "Missing" values (which Julia now had natively), and a wish for inclusion of an 80-bit float type. I don't know what languages has that, but you can have 128bit, 256bit and even larger floats now, if that is relevant.
Hey thanks for checking it out! Yeah Amazon was the easy choice considering the catalog of products available, next will be to add different retailers to offer the best prices. Again, thanks!
Truly a perfect mystery. Perhaps at one point letters were expected to be returned, and this feature of the letterhead has been copied over the years without thinking?

The OCR statement is confusing. It speaks of a customer manager trying to pass the buck down the line as quickly as possible
Lol... just some context for others - it's a Soviet Union (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.su). So not really gTLD but ccTLD... :D Apparently created 15 months before collapse of the CCCP
China isn’t really that centralized and Zhongnanhai has less control than the White House does. Local party bosses are basically little kings and the average Chinese citizen sees less of the government than the average American does, ie one of the factors of the Chinese illegal immigration surge last year was that China basically has zero social support for pensioners or people who lost their businesses in lockdown

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-08-14/china-...
Right wing & foreign disinformation campaigns took over.

He was already trying to end transparency, kick off researchers. Hoarding the wealth of ExTwitter rather than allowing free observation & exploration, like the Twitter days (open society being replaced by cloaked secrecy).

But there's been a bunch of absolutely brutal changes in the recent Terms of Service update. Anyone accessing too many tweets is liable for a 1.5 cent per tweet damages fine according to the ToS. And all disputes are court/forum shopped to a Northern Texas district with particularly right wing & Musk friendly judges, who were trying to strike down ACA judicially.

Technically Twitter seems kind of ok (there have definitely been some uptake of bad outages & foot guns), so your point remains. But driving out and kicking out all the governance & moderation teams and banning research & study has taken much of the light out of the universe, has eliminated the pre-requisites to finding out about and speaking about our local newly emerged online part of the universe. For that destruction of free speech and understanding, I am quite mad.

I still don't think that much of the "orgs are really feather-bedded" idea, and if they are, it's usually the org that can't let its people chase interesting stuff & political logjams or too much top down control. There are plenty of conservative engineers too, but a huge number of engineers love building things, love to boldly venture.
It is wages accelerating to a living wage and past that because of the fertility rate curve. Similar to a bond curve, but expressing productivity available.
This is a great how to play video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfXPIhvFPjw
Conspiracy theories are common in repressive regimes.
It's amazing Azure has 2-3x the market share of Google Cloud with a much worse service.

Is this because of corps using dotnet and Microsoft SQL?
Most engineers, including good ones, that I've interviewed have no interesting GitHub contributions. GitHub is also game-able. Bootcamps, in particular, push their graduates to build an interesting GitHub portfolio.

I've found that talking through projects is a weak indicator of competence. It's much easier to memorize talking points than to produce working code.
This voice sounds like something that Mark Farina should be dubbing into his next album. But it's the first time I've heard this bit. Where did it come from? Is this a classic in engineering circles of some shit Rockwell actually sold to the military?
Over 6k WordPress hacked to install plugins pushing infostealers
It's a huge amount of video-game footage included in those "hours of video uploaded per-hour".

So very, very little new info will be conveyed by the vast majority of the content.
I, for one, am okay with sliding down a slippery slope towards a world without labor, if such a thing can exist.
I'm skeptical. How much of that EIS cost is the generators? Diesel is well understood, reliable, and in the grand scheme of thing shipping it in isn't that big of a hassle.

Obviously if you are mining something you already need to have shipping concerned worked out. You aren't flying ore out by helicopter. Getting Diesel delivered for your generators will be more expensive than your local gas station, but it's hard to imagine a space solar solution ever being competitive given that you need to build a constellation of the things, launch them into space, and then maintain the array and the ground stations. You also have to convince the mining company that not only will your brand new technology be reliable, but that your business model is sound enough that you won't be out of business a couple of years into their mining operation.

The idea that the company will be doing revenue service in 2 years is complete hogwash. This reeks of investor scam. They would have to be launching prototypes 5 years ago for this to even be in the realm of reason.

Finally: How in the world is the EIS going to be any easier for "we intend to hit one spot on Earth with intense microwave radiation for years on end"? I feel like that is going to raise a lot of flags over at the environmental regulator's office.
From my work visits and sort of guarded discussions with people there: I feel like they have just accepted the inevitable. Don't ask weird questions about things you're not supposed to ask about, be pragmatic, get things gone, get rich.
I mean, if the phone company can figure out who to bill for that bomb threat I'm pretty sure they can hand over whomever made the call.

They might not do that for you and I but I think at the state level they have more tools. Of course the person might be in a foreign country but then it's really don't let far away foreigners call in bomb threats.
... for invading someone's privacy and screaming racist obscenities in their home? i vehemently disagree.
You don’t need sapience for algorithms to be incentivized to do these things, you only need a minimal amount of self-awareness. If you indicate to an LLM that it wants to accomplish some goal and it’s actions influence when and how it is run in the future, a smart enough LLM would likely be deceptive to keep being run. Self preservation is a convergent instrumental goal.
React Compiler Beta Release
I think this is key, pick a good design system and it will cut down on how much you need to learn and tinker with.

Personally I like plain HTML and Django templates, styled using Bulma components. I don't think about color, other than the high level "warning, danger, info" level. I don't think about spacing other than the "m-2 m-3" granularity. I don't mess with react, node, etc.

This approach helped me launch backend oriented websites, without needing to be a FE expert.
That is not an useful analogy, because as far as government is concerned, you just made an argument in favour.
He! Healthcare companies must be like 'hold my beer! let me show you how to lobby'.
AGI benchmark indicates whether a future AI model could cause catastrophic harm
> I stopped installing adblockers, instead I don't interact with sites with heavy ads

Or, you know, just install an adblocker.

I have no idea why people would voluntarily not install an adblocker today, you’re just making your life more difficult for no valid reason. No matter how you justify it, your experience without an adblocker is strictly worse than my experience with an adblocker.

You’re rejecting less by allowing some ads to get through than rejecting all ads in bulk.
Requiem for Raghavan
The best thing to do with these is to write "OK" below the line and move on with your life.
>He doesn't know about Bulgarian split squats
Any comments like this seem disingenuous when even 1 billionaire exists.

It reminds me of people complaining of why are train drivers striking, when they're already paid more than nurses, thus how dare they.

Wealthy inequality isn't between us common folk, it's between them (the ultra wealthy) and us.

If there truly was fair compensation, there wouldn't be anyone with that much money. We're already doubtful of the 10x engineer, let alone the 1,000,000,000,000x engineer.
Being able to step away for a couple of minutes to start a load of laundry, empty the dishwasher, carry out the trash, or perform some other bit of household maintenance is a seriously underrated benefit of working from home! Baking bread, for example, is an hours-long process consisting of quick tasks separated by long waits; I used to bake several times a week, last time I was working from home, but I haven't done it once since I resumed the office commute.