skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"...baker who gets up at 3 am..."

But those 3am bakers are being exterminated by at scale corporate chains, no? Generalizes to just about anything that could reasonably be described using "artisanal". Social atomization inexorably spreads, and after thinking about it pretty hard for many years of travel putting eyeballs on "artisanal" processes I don't see any possibility of any other outcome. So we enjoy what is left.
Like journalists who retain the copyright on their articles.

This is also a reason lots of decent open source code comes out of the media industry. As much as we despise the media for its effect on society, journalists are much better than software developers in enforcing their worldview on others.
Ok wow, I did not expect to be actually entertained!
Getting a (useful) notification and drifting off to other stuff is definitely a problem. Interestingly, a smart watch has helped me with that. I now read notifications on the watch, and about 75% of the time I don't have to take out my phone anymore.
Trimming down a Rust binary in half
There are the things you can ask about, and there are things you have to do.

You cannot just ask how to build or cook or paint or weld something. AI cannot help with this (certainly not yet) beyond the sort of information that the internet (and youtube in particular) is already providing.
I wish them luck, but the last time this was attempted it was rejected as it apparently doesn't make sense that you would even want to do it in the first place.

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10671#c16
> lol, how many illegals has Germany for example deported? Deporting people in the EU is a huge hassle and the source countries often don't want to cooperate in taking back people.

> Plus they can also claim asylum once they get here to escape their slave employers and not get deported.

You are confusing two groups of people. One group consists of illegal migrants, usually from MENA countries that claim asylum and are a hassle to deport back.

Migrant workers usually come from southeast Asia (India, Nepal, Philippines..) and there is no problem sending them back because those countries are considered safe. Also they got families back home, their motivation is not really to stay here long term but to earn a decent amount of money (from their perspective). And despite sometimes poor treatment and shitty jobs, EU is a much better place to work than gulf countries.
here is a review:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7wRu1xcyQY

Those guys channel is worth checking out by itself, they are making Ferrari Testarossa's electric and reviewed our taxi on the side.
That's not true, and only seems true because of highly selective examples.

Money can force people to work, out of the necessity of survival. What it buys is reliability. You can force a toilet cleaner to come to work day after day, and the toilets stay clean.

But human progress, social progress, economic growth, does not solely come from people grinding through their jobs. It comes from people 'giving it their all', look at the great scientists, Newton, Von Nuemann, all the people at bell labs etc. These people create titanic economic value in their wake, and they are motivated by passion, which heavily mixes altruism with self interest.

Indeed, the 'developed economies' are precisely the ones that also allow 'care' to scale, that's why we have social welfare, that's why we have free education.

Its that 'Care' doesn't scale, its that its impossible to centrally monitor and control. People in the third world work harder than the first world, and are 10% as rich, because no one in their societies care.
I don't mind "eccentric" personalities in my online spaces. I hate people trying to restrict online freedom more. To a degree that I think the threat of far-right people is pretty miniscule in comparison, but people allegedly trying to combat them let themselves be driven by fear. And the result is usually as bad as you could expect.

There are a lot of excuses for bad policy with the deflection of "at least I am not a far-right unperson".

A chat application usually cannot put me in any risk at all. Public personas might have different problems here, but the rules of PR aren't that new and these cases build a poor general case.

Fair to have the choice of a supervised chat app as long as people don't try to enforce all chat apps to adhere to arbitrary rules due to the latest outrage or panic over certain people, opinions, politics, bubble tea or whatever can be the source of ire.
I am currently involved in two R&D projects:

- CyScout [1]: We’ve added support for the Solidity programming language in GitHub’s CodeQL. This enhancement engages the community to help identify security vulnerabilities in smart contracts on EVMs using a semantic code analysis engine.

- Roughchain [2][3]: A new blockchain focusing on solving the collusion problem [4][5], with participants who have a stake in the “real world” such as S&P 500 companies. The latest version of the whitepaper is available here <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L0Me9si4iMclOq8n-oG2yNQf...> , where comments are welcome. Currently, I am focused on a notes section addressing typical issues with L1 technologies, accessible here <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pV2Tcx_txCbfiPrNzcgKdOsE...>.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41916861

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41691162

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41687715

[4] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089982561...

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgHboH7C0FM
From a "learning the basics" perspective I think it's fine? It could maybe have more emphasis on transformers I suppose.

I think to get somewhere in the AI space you usually need to work somewhere that's solving real problems where AI can help. I know that sounds trite and reductive but it's also where the success lies IME.
> Though perhaps intimidating in their grandeur, they weren’t intended to inspire fear. “It was supposed to be positive, transcendent, and godly, not scary,” Dr. Bork explains. However, ...

Worth noting - all that "Godly" Gothic architecture was built in an age when Christianity was the religion in Europe. And Christianity's #1 message-to-the-masses during that time amounted to "Do exactly as you are told, or God will condemn you to the fires of Hell for all of eternity".
This is only true to an extent. Self-love only goes so far.
I built my own 3D Game Engine with Open-Source Tools [video]
I have hopes that live music makes a huge comeback in the post-labor world. I work as an engineer, but I'm a classically trained musician. I'm working pretty hard on getting back into shape on the horn!
Which is quite remarkable, because up until less than a century ago when women “entered the workforce” virtually every woman who had ever lived somehow managed to care for her 3+ children.

Incidentally, large families do scale sublinearly with respect to the parents. The reason why is that even with merely natural spacing by the time they have a fourth child, the oldest is in a position to provide significant assistance. Every mother with a large family that I’ve spoken to confirms that the difficulty peaks with the third child and then plateaus.
I’ve been working on a bespoke smartwatch for kids with Type 1 diabetes & their parents. The watch presents reliable CGM data and not much else, so the only distractions from the watch are important medical alerts. It has a novel haptic algorithm that taps at a frequency based on the current BG trend, the idea is the wearer can develop a sixth-sense of their BG without looking at the watch at all. The entire watch is custom-made from the PCB up. I have a small batch of prototypes assembled and my son has been wearing his at school. I have a few screenshots up at my product studio website: https://subtractive.computer

I’m considering how to take the watch to market as-is, or if I pivot the watch to be a fully open-source Pebble successor.
The founding members of the WHATWG really are the Thomas Midgley's of the software world. The world will spend the next century of software development trying to repair their screwups.
I have looked at competitors (other extensions that do email scraping) and offered lower prices. What do you think might be a fair price for such a tool?
I'm a typography nerd, and the author of another DAW. I think that Live looks pretty good, but it doesn't have much to do with typography in my eyes.

Now, their education website(s) ... that stuff is gorgeous, and I think does represent somebody's typographic imagination, to the extent that HTML/CSS makes it possible (which is .. a lot).
I've been working on making collaborative databases in the browser using SQLite WebAssembly and WebRTC.

https://github.com/adhamsalama/sqlite-wasm-webrtc

It's a perfect alternative (at least in theory) to online centralized spreadsheets.
I'm curious what if we replace Rust with C/C++ in those tiers. Would the results be even better or worse than Rust?
Disagree, asking a teapot for a cup of coffee is an invalid user request. The server is working as expected, but is not being asked to work as expected.
The hands and feet on some of them are downright disturbing. I would not want my child coloring in AI generated slop, there's something fundamentally disconcerting about that.
Nah, a physician assistant is sufficient to escort you to a pod and press a button.
Thinking that you can just edit any title by applying a regex is a sign of hubris, doing it automatically and silently is an arrogant affront. Not to mention it contradicts HN's own guideline that says you should keep original titles intact. It's a title mutilator.
A really incredible find! It's a massive shame it was plugged with Steinway and Lang Lang, but that's the world we live in.
> I've absorbed 10,000+ qps on a couple of cheap tiny VPS instances.

This metric doesn't convey any meaningful information. Performance metrics need context of the type of work completed and server resources used.
have a look at NewPipe's own fdroid repo: https://newpipe.net/FAQ/tutorials/install-add-fdroid-repo/
"The story, then, is everywhere. It is the founding myth of our system of economic relations. It is so deeply established in common sense, even in places like Madagascar, that most people on earth couldn’t imagine any other way that money possibly could have come about. The problem is there’s no evidence that it ever happened, and an enormous amount of evidence suggesting that it did not.”

"Debt", David Graeber
> profit maximizing at all costs is bad, or not well understood

How is it not well understood ? It does not seem very hard to imagine what the consequences would be since it already happens sometimes... Or do you think abuse when scaled up can have unexpected good social consequences ?

I would like to defend that brothel metaphor. You say the goal is to appeal to emotions (brothel bad == advertising bad) but it could be argued that the actual purpose is to be striking: It's unexpected so my brain will notice. To me this is just good storytelling and I didn't feel manipulated. Actually I would feel more manipulated if the metaphor was more discreet.
Microsoft's definition of unsupported or incompatible hardware appears perfectly aligned with forcing users to buy new PCs. In fact, it seems most of their requirements, are about more profit for themselves and partners, regardless of the inconvenience to even already paying or paid for it customers. Thus if Windows users don't like it, guess they will have to jump to Linux or Macs.
I prefer self checkout.
Yeah, usually the continuous improvement part of Agile is completely overlooked and so is the important aspect that it requires not assigning blame for eveything that does not go as planned.

This is also because most teams and organisations are not agile. They have only seized on buzzwords.
Pretty sure no one will see this so: I'm working on a little game where you collect those really old T206 baseball cards and even worked out a system where you can send cards to people offline using a code system like Animal Crossing on the GC used

Still haven't come up with a fun way for the player to collect them though
IT IS DEAD SIMPLE. VSCODE IS FREE!!! VSCODE IS FINE. Sublimee text is not free. NUFF SIAD!!
What's your response to this? https://github.com/encoredev/ts-benchmarks/issues/2
The term "function" sadly means different things in different contexts. I feel like this whole thread is evidence of a need for reform in maths education from calculus up. I wouldn't be surprised if you understood all of this, but I'm worried about students encountering this for the first time.
True-ish. But try talking to some old folks, about the vastly reduced scale of such volunteer work since (say) the 1950's. That "voluntary unpaid" stuff would include religious organizations, civic groups, housewives, ...
A random chat bot for Telegram! https://telegle.vercel.app/
When I read quotes like that, I realize how much Moore must have idolized Michael Moorcock when he was young (and maybe still does). It's reminiscent of Epic Pooh, Moorcock's essay about Tolkien and epic fantasy more broadly.

Though, if we're being honest, I like the critique of the immaturity of genre fiction more when Moore makes it. That might just be because I think Moore is the better writer, but I haven't read nearly as much Moorcock so it isn't exactly fair.
> It causes social isolation.

What is it about suburbs in particular that causes social isolation?
1 is in large part a reflection of idiot proofing everything. Every party's judgement gets reduced down to some some quantitative stuff like wire gauges, stud spacing, etc, that even idiots with poor judgement can reliably assess. Instead of failures because people do shoddy work we instead get failures where people are dumbly building things they know won't last because it's easier to just let things be crappy than to try to get permission to deviate from the plan. Basically decision making authority is being abstracted away from the people who have actual context. This limits the screw-ups from people doing work below the minimum at the expense of preventing anyone from who would have done something better than the minimum from doing so.
Check your Python version.

Try switching to the newest version of Python with something like Pyenv, or even try spinning up a Docker image with something like:

docker run -it -v $(pwd):/mnt python:3.13 bash

...and try using the utility there. Good luck!
That's the policy. The reality is more complicated, inconsistent, and unclear.

Checked baggage service in my experience is rare, and actually figuring out whether it is available is hard. It appears it isn't available on any NYP-ALB service, so unless you're starting from Albany, checked luggage would not work for this trip. It used to be available at some (maybe 10% or fewer) stations on the Pacific Surfliner route, but is 'suspended', so it appears it is now only available on very long distance routes. So if you have a connection, you likely won't be able to check baggage. If your connecting short route does offer checked baggage, you'll need to make sure your connection is at least two hours.

Carry-on items can be larger than on a plane and 50lbs, but the trains are poorly fitted to accommodate these, and you'll need to handle the luggage yourself. On the NYP-ALB trains in my experience, for example,
there is one luggage rack for large luggage, able to fit perhaps eight pieces at most, for an entire car; since it can be converted to a bike rack, if a single passenger checks a bike, all that storage goes away. There's sometimes space on the floor toward the ends of the car, and sometimes not, and using it is unclear. The remaining option is overhead, so you'll need to be comfortable lifting those 50 pound items above your head while surrounded by impatient people. Just to get them on the train, you'll also need to carry them up rather difficult steps, while surrounded by impatient people. You also need to keep in mind, while placing your luggage, that
different doors may be in use at different stations, so if your luggage happens to be in the wrong direction for the the flow of exiting passengers, you'll have a challenge getting to it at a short station stop.
> Why is the average bytes smaller? Shouldn't it be the same size file?

The content being encoded in the PNG was different ("https://www.reddit.com/r/rustjerk/top/?t=all" for the first, "https://youtu.be/cE0wfjsybIQ?t=74" for the second example - not sure whether the benchmark used different things?), so I'd expect the PNG buffer pixels to be different between those two images and thus the compressed image size to be a bit different, even if the compression levels of DEFLATE within the PNG were the same).
One for the Arab league to sort out. Drugs are after all Haram
If we're going to talk about how to "scale care" and how not to, then Buurtzorg has to be mentioned[0][1]. It's a Dutch home-care company that was started by nurses who basically got frustrated that managers got in the way of them doing their job. It operates by having a flat organization working with small teams of highly trained nurses, and trusting them to make the right decisions. The result is a low-cost provider of high-quality health-care.

So when the author says care "doesn't scale", they obviously mean "you need a one-to-one ratio of caretakers", which I fully agree with. But what they're also accidentally doing in the process is explaining why creating bigger teams with bigger hierarchies and structures does not appear to increase the efficiency of care.

Some projects do need big teams with hierarchies - even in healthcare. Effectively responding to a pandemic comes to mind. I suspect it's when the core problem to tackle most naturally breaks down like a tree - a hierarchy then mirrors the way the problem breaks down. For some projects, like general homecare, the efficiency sweet spot is a flat structure of autonomous individual teams, because it doesn't scale beyond those teams anyway.

And just like the author concludes, I find that there's something comforting about that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buurtzorg_Nederland

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSoWtXvqsgg
It requires a copilot to spray saline in your eyes though.
Stripe's Acquisition of Bridge Is a Stroke of Genius
This is such an important point. Caring is often limited by the spare energy you have to care.

Care could scale, but we’d need the culture and societal changes to allow it to scale.
But Black Mirror is about us whereas the frustrating thing with depictions of aliens is that they're not us, that's their defining feature.
The Ioniq 6 is SO CLOSE to being beautiful.

The concept version was awesome. Somehow the production version got tweaked just enough to break the effect for me. I had no idea that Space Porche and Standard Sedan were so close in my mental space.
Is it really better if Mirka, Minka and Micka get to pay for a domain but won't be able to use it because the dominant webbrowser shows super scary warnings?

Still seems better to raise the issue as early as possible so they can find a solution (appeal or chose a different domain) before investing into the unusable domain name. It would also mean that the dispute is at a layer (ICANN) where you at least theoretically have some rights instead of at the hands of a megacorporation that thinks the best way to reduce customer support costs is to make it impossible to get support.
Littering in China: A Surreal Epidemic Captured in Photos (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SfPyg-mGhU
To complete the thought, the baker example is explicitly in opposition to OP's point. In the economy we exist in, a 3am artisan baker does so explicitly out of a care for craft and community.
The sesame seeds in the bun would be a trade good. And there are tomatoes in the special sauce.
zstd, though that only shaves off a few GB total.
Don’t know if you are a mathematician or not but mathematically speaking “function” has a definition that is valid in all mathematical contexts. Functional clearly meets the criteria to be a function since being a function is part of the definition of being a functional.
I'm experimenting with an AI assisted world building / story telling tool: https://youtu.be/OGkSI3VfxRU . The idea is to do kind of what Cursor is doing for programming; accelerate the creative process (rather than replacing it).
Right. Even something that seems simple (such as a golf ball) is not trivial to model: the rough surface and spin end up creating lift -- the ball is essentially flying.
> Bin collections?

Slightly increase the price/tax for that for single-family homes.

> Street sweeping?

Yes, at a limit, I'd choose not having clean streets over people not being able to afford using them, even by riding a bus.

> General road, pavement and cycle infrastructure maintenance?

I'd get rid of cycle infrastructure if it's more than a token percentage of said road-focused expenditures, because it's mostly the middle class that is using bicycles and, as such, money spent that way goes directly for the only benefit of said middle-classes. But, yes, I'd personally settle for roads with more holes if that means public transportation that doesn't cost 2000+ pounds per year, you can bet on that.

> Sports centres, libraries, schools?

Yes, I'd get rid of sports centers, libraries are, I guess, just a token expenditure.

> Social care for the young and elderly?

I guess this is where, in fact, most of the money goes, and this is where Britain is, to put it mildly, fucked up, because (going by your word) that expenditure mostly falls on the local administration. It shouldn't be that way, it should fall on the central government, but I guess that's a bigger political subject to tackle.

As a point of reference, I grew up in Eastern-Europe back in the '90s back when our roads were full of holes and social care had started to accumulate holes bigger than the Bermuda Triangle, but, amidst that destituteness, public transport (both inside the cities and connecting them) was still very affordable. In fact, if it hadn't been for that I wouldn't be writing this comment right here, it is because of those small prices that I could still afford to go to uni (yes, you could tell me that "we have procedures in places for just those cases!", but that's just layers of bureaucracy over layers of bureaucracy that just don't work when you need them the most, it's way easier to not need that bureaucracy in the first place).
Intelligence isn't even particularly helpful in making good decisions, or predicting the outcomes of those decisions (often unintended outcomes).
Maybe the story you're referring to is https://marshallbrain.com/manna1
Hybrid Bonding Makes Strides Toward Manufacturability
Prompts Are Programs – Sigplan Blog
Jasmin has some great ideas. My goal in particular is to improve the tooling around C so that verification of C programs is easier. Because there are trillions of lines of C out there, I want to ensure that semi-automated processes can be developed for verifying and fixing this code. For cryptography, this involves similar features as Jasmin. The main difference is that I'm looking at ways to guide this while largely preserving the C language. That's not because I think C is better, but because I want to inject this into existing code bases and development processes, with existing software developers.
It has also enabled the opposite of those things for many people (e.g. disabled, elderly, lonely)
Are we living the good life? (2021)
The article's image of the hoard shows, off to the sides, various coins that look sliced in half. Did this modification occur to coins during this time period? Did the coins remain valid but half their value? If so, how many times could a coin be subdivided?
The worst part about HSTS is that the spec doesnt just define the interaction between the browser and the website but also goes as far as mandating that the browser restricts the options it provides to the user ... and would-be user agents actually go along with that.