skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With this narrow definition nearly any income is “immoral”. If everyone became a heart surgeon society would grind to a halt as well.

The amount of labor, active or passive, isn’t really relevant in an absolute sense. It’s about meeting society’s demands.

I happily pay for electricity that is fully generated by machines. Yet if everyone built solar or wind we’d be fucked.

Your argument is really trying to push the “income without direct labor is immoral” narrative. But there is nothing there to really support it other than an example of a massive imbalance wiping out society, which is not specific to labor.
If you want more money per drink put it on the menu price. Don't passive-aggressively await each customer's random generosity.
On par with Google's, then.
Well that sucks. Can confirm; I get a page asking me to turn off my adblocker, and the HTML is just some "lander" page and JS junk
> But some cars are a massive pain to change certain bulbs

This weekend I did this with my 18 year old Mitsubishi. It seems you need child sized hands to be able to change them. In the end I had to take off the bumper and remove the whole light housing to get access.
What was "wrong" about the talk exactly?
But GDP from doing what, is the real answer.
Yeah no. Your annual bonus and stock options is between you and your employer. Your end customers don't pay for it directly, they are paid for within the cost of whatever product your employer is selling.

When tipping is no longer customary to receive good service and seeps into other aspects of lives it leads to all sorts of problems and situations.

This[1] is an extreme example of that situation in a different country but are we really ready to accept similar consequences and say they should've just paid the poor nurse ?

1. https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/up-mainpuri-infant-die...
You think you should have received a tip for working behind the counter?

Or were you actually waiting tables and he'd be at a table?

If it's the latter I apologise for the brusqueness.
The semiconductors have been available for 20 years.
Sorry, your perception of reality is so far from mine that nothing I could write here would matter. It's like you live in a parallel universe.

To me, the US has become basically 1984 the last 10+ years but because of the "left", that has become so radicalized, that now everyone and everything to the right to Stanlin is labelled far-right/nazi/hitler/etc.
By your logic your comment is red, since it's written in words and words can be read.
Or possibly, this was the smallest tool change possible. Saving costs by not having to redesign parts like the glass, etc.
Study links black holes to dark energy
Years ago, my college multi variable calculus and linear algebra courses were both taught primarily using course materials that were interactive Mathematica Notebooks.

We had access to all of the symbolic algebra tools and were even expected to use them regularly for both courses. It was great!

I'm not sure how well this would extend to introductory courses though, especially if the standardized tests still expect integration by hand.
Imagine a future where every person owns a personal robot who does their current job for them, and the person gets paid.

That’s not inherently evil is it? It sounds pretty nice.

The evil comes in people squeezing others. Whoever make the robots obviously have a lot of power, corporations would quickly find ways to cut out the “parasitic” humans and get the robot labor, etc.
> There are a few lines in Apache 2 itself which are normative and make reference to obligations regarding notices attached directly to source files. Most notably, see section 4.a[1]:

> > You must cause any modified files to carry prominent notices stating that You changed the files; [...]

If you think that’s in any way relevant, please reread it. It’s nothing to do with what I’ll call a first-party copyright notice. Yes, it’s about stapling a notice, but if anything that strengthens my argument, because that’s all you can find, because that’s all there is. (Incidentally, very few people ever comply with that term, and the specific nature of it has aged badly so that it’s often not even clear in what situations you even need such notice—just another place in which these old licenses really need replacing.)

I wish BlueOak-1.0.0 <https://blueoakcouncil.org/license/1.0.0> was more popular. Good work has gone into it.

https://writing.kemitchell.com/2020/12/27/War-on-License-Not... is good related reading, from a tech lawyer, who has been involved in a lot of this good progressive stuff. Aspects like: do these notices even actually do anything, and what, and when; and how much is direct inclusion even valuable? It doesn’t talk about including notices in individual files, but you can readily apply some of the principles discussed. People are regularly making things much harder than they need to be, for reasons that boil down to superstition, and frequently with as much accuracy as superstition often has.

—⁂—

> I will stress again that I am not a legal professional, I don't study law, and at best I have spoken to people who do irregularly. However, I haven't found anyone that would disagree that it is a good idea to provide a full-fat copyright notice when possible. All else the same, it's just good hygiene at a cost of a kilobyte or so per file.

I’d be curious to know kemitchell’s opinion on this. For my part, I baulk at calling such verbose notices “good hygiene”.
People often forget that the Salem Witch trials were started by four young girls falsely accusing women in town of witchcraft.
I think that all of his explanations to do with the content itself are wrong. It's simply that a sufficiently good writer is fun to read every time they write.

There could easily be such a writer about pretty much any field if anyone was good enough at writing and motivated enough to do it. But they're not (yet). There is a requirement that whatever field it is, they understand most of it really well. And there aren't that many people who have gotten to that point.
Yes, but the airport is not in the center of town. What is usually the case is the public transit takes you to the center, and then you take a second trip to the airport. Meanwhile the train station is generally a lot closer. These aren't particularly good examples because they are from the US and also what I have experience with, but if you look at say San Jose the public transit converges on Diridon and from there you can take the light rail to a vaguely airport-ish location. In SF you can take city transit to the BART backbone down market, then you take BART to the actual airport way down near Millbrae. Meanwhile the actual station (again, we're stretching it because San Francisco doesn't actually have long-distance rail) for, say, Caltrain is well-connected and much closer.
Why not mail him a check*?

* sincere question.
Physics Nobel-winner on solving problems between fields
>But he turned $25 into $2000 in 3 years. That's around 331% profit per year, compounding annually.

You run out of barbers rather quickly.
Maybe I'll give it a shot. My system really struggles to run Satisfactory, and even Rimworld can slow down when there's a lot happening. I've been considering a mainboard upgrade to an AMD Ryzen chip for speed & better built-in graphics. Other than graphics have been happy with my Intel system.
FWIW, the only realistic legal action right now is a cease and desist letter.

Which will be responded to swiftly with no lawsuits or damages exchanged.
WinUI3 doesn’t kill WinForms… WPF, WinUI, WinForms all exist together
NYC is arguably more walkable than anywhere in Japan outside of Tokyo, or in my opinion including Tokyo, but it doesn't have 0.1% of the vending machines as suburban Japan.

Also, what we would call non walkable suburbs or rural areas in Japan have more vending machines than anywhere in America as well.
I don't know anything more than the next guy here, but just reading this, it seems like a really underrated and insightful comment. Thanks for explaining it so clearly.
> And doors (and tailgates) are the biggest body component that is _sometimes_ assembled independently.

Sometimes? What and when on Earth is this about? Pre-WWII?

They wash and paint and dry the whole body at once _for paint consistency_, then take off doors and trunk lids and bumpers and send them into separate assembly lines. Those major parts flow parallel "threads" in sync and converge near the end, where connectors are plugged in and those major parts are bolted back in and plastic trims are pushed in to tuck everything under. Cars were basically always done that way for a long time everywhere. I think even lots of hand made supercars are like that, only except tact times are magnitudes longer.

> Then workers manually route cables through the body.

> Pre-routing cables inside panels that can then just be welded together can save a lot of labor.

What do these even mean? Are you hallucinating workers crimping cables in-situ? They just clip on harnesses and plug in couplers in "the line". Never seen under a door trim?

It sounds like you're either extremely ill-informed, or worse yet, potentially, intentionally misinformed about car manufacturing that what you see is advanced manufacturing. I think you should... look more closely into what "legacy auto" have been doing forever.
This didn't happen on Hummingbird Exceed or Xorg on Windows. It's not X's fault that rendering is wrong in the encapsulating windowing system.
I disagree, I find Azure much easier to set up and use.
He was an illegal immigrant seeking a better life.
I liked the line of thought from the author and suffered similar points at a much small scale! Once, I'd planned to do a migration, which moved multiple columns from one table to another and the associated data, but calculated wrong the time to complete and the amount of CPU/RAM, if I'd the right tools, probably I'd scheduled better and planned a better approach.
> Maybe parenting has changed

It has:

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2017/11/27/parents-...
>The backend ALWAYS validates.

Exactly. Sometimes in a system so big compartmentalization is required yet meta-communication is inhibited, that comfort-ability can lead to false asserts / assumptions.

"We always validate - no need for _me_ to do it" type bystander effect / diffusion of responsibility.
Meandering hogwash, title misquoted
"Politics of the CEO" is both an understatement and a little bit of missing the point.

If we put the Musk Twitter/Trump/right wing stuff aside, there's still a big problem with Tesla and Musk in general: poor build quality especially on new product launches, exaggerations and lies about product capability, pricing, and the upcoming product roadmap, and the cult-like following that places Tesla's somewhat mundane product achievements on a pedastel.

For example, the idea that only Tesla is doing things out of the box, that they're the only ones who aren't stagnant...well, that's only true if you're in the cult and you ignore all the other carmakers. I don't think Kia/Hyundai's design is stagnant. I don't think the Chinese car industry is stagnant. I don't think the host of other EV startups like Rivian or Lucid are stagnant.

The Cybertruck doesn't have any unique features that other carmakers aren't doing besides having stainless steel panels that are literally glued on to the unibody frame and can't be painted. Toyota, the most boring car company, has steer by wire (Lexus RZ). If you buy a Rivian you get better range and capability. The Cybertruck isn't even the best EV truck, never mind the best truck of any powertrain.

And the final part of the Tesla hate is all the ways in which their "innovation" has been basically dangerous bullshit. Putting beta versions of self-driving code on the road, making a car with stainless steel panels that are not pedestrian safe, all their documented issues with plant safety and labor issues, removing physical controls for critical car functionality like gear shifting and turn signal stalks to generally deliver a car UI that encourages distracted driving more than perhaps any other brand. These types of things are the place where the "hate" becomes "justified outrage over corporate neglegence."
Don't see anything abrupt? Seems pretty typical ending for a common sci-fi subgenre that is still very popular today (I won't give more details to avoid spoilers). Sure, you can continue and make a whole book out of it, but it makes a good self-sufficient short story too.

Perhaps the page got truncated? For me, it ends with word "funny".
Flask-WTForms will generate the same validation both client and server-side. Is that not usual?
Modern board game design didn't really exist until the 2000s, aside from chess and go and wargames that are too complex for 99% of "hardcore boardgamers" there are almost no games worth mentioning from before this century.
Everyone, chill

Regardless of how you feel about tipping culture we're not talking about the average person nor are we talking about the average *experience*. The dude is worth north of $100bn, and is making nearly $10k per minute![0]. Someone who cannot spend his wealth. Someone who'd have to spend tens of millions of dollars every single day just to stop his wealth from growing. Someone who makes money faster than he can throw hundred dollar bills handfuls at a time.

We're not talking about anything normal here because no one here *literally* makes thousands of dollars in the time it takes to wipe their ass. You can become poor, he would need an act of god to do so.

We can have a conversation about tipping and how much everyone hates it, but to ignore the fact that we're talking about someone with this kind of money is... ludicrous[1]. Throwing down a hundred bucks means literally nothing to the man. It is not even what a penny is worth to most of you. He's not you and framing the discussion this way is obtuse. Rage on tipping, I don't give a fuck and I'll probably join you. He's not "sticking it to the man" or "standing up for his values" he *is*" the man. He's playing an important role in creating this machine you're raging against. I just don't understand any of you

[0] 1e11*0.05/365/24/60
| | | | |_ minute
| | | |____ hour
| | |________ day
| |_____________ Conservative 5% yearly return
|_________________ At least 25bn less than he is worth...

[1] FWIW, I hate tipping too. Fuck the till based tips with the ever increasing percentages. I frequently click 0. But fuck it man, I'm a grad student. Still, if I'm a regular somewhere and they are giving me special service, I'm gonna throw a few dollars into the tip jar. Tipping culture or not they're going out of their way for me and I should show gratitude in some way (you can also do by other means)
I did upgrade to it after the first week and it was the worst MacOS upgrade I've ever done (since Leopard), so I went back to Sonoma.

Firewall was broken, Wifi was broken, Contact key Verification was broken. It was the biggest pile of shit I've ever seen, even worse than Windows Vista or Windows 8 ever were for me, by comparison. And the second worst thing besides how buggy it was was how there was literally no benefit to using it - Sequoia is basically all AI nonsense, which I don't intend to use anyway.

Yes it's my fault for upgrading, especially in a dot 0 release, but I was curious and had a free weekend day so I figured I'd give it the plunge. I ended up spending more time investigating just how long I can stay on Sonoma, especially once it gets end of lifed, because I have absolutely no faith in Apple's software going forward and I have 0 interest in having my OS do any kind of AI processing, whether on device or off.

A few more random fuck ups I noticed: Bluetooth Codec quality can no longer be manually controlled or even seen by holding option and clicking the BT icon in the menu bar, nor can you use the Bluetooth Explorer tool to edit the codec and bitrate. Just gone. Sequoia also completely broke my Homebrew and Python3 installs, along with doing something to pip independently of the other two such that I couldn't run any programs that had pip dependencies. That was all on a fresh formatted USB install of Sequoia, too.

That OS is genuinely an unbelievable pile of shit.
That's a poor way to find good books?

I liked 3BP, and I also liked Permutation City and Cryptonomicon. Yet I met a lot of people who didn't like 3BP, but liked the latter ones.
We're working on a decentralized group chat app for Freenet called River[1].

We'll migrate our channel from Matrix to River once it's working reliably.

[1] https://github.com/freenet/river/
I say this as someone who cut their teeth on and loves Python for a thousand reasons, I have to agree. Python projects are abysmal. Rye and UV are promising (and I am very excited about them), but they aren't quite ready yet.

"Written in Rust" carries with it significant promises that only Go also has. (Go has a lot of the same promises, for having good tooling and the same mostly-statically-compiled philosophy.)

"Written in Rust" tells me a project is easy to install and easy to hack on. I am far less interested in using non-Rust projects, and I am definitely disinterested in making code contributions to non-Rust projects.

Case in point: It took me much longer to write this comment than it took to install and use marmite.
I worked at Microsoft from 2003-2007, and left a couple months after the iPhone launched (for totally unrelated reasons, but I wanted to situate the timeline).

Steve was a terrible leader. He helped the company grow moribund, lazy, and self-absorbed. Stack ranking was a cancer[1]. Employees were far more interested in stabbing each other in the back than building world-class products.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2013/11/12/5094864/microsoft-kills-...
Psychedelics and VR could reveal how we become immersed in reality
Yay, I'm in the point five percent!
sigh I've contributed to core and several of the most used modules in the contrib space, have built over a thousand sites with it ranging in complexity from state level nonprofits to Unicef and the ACLU, and once ran testbot for a week. I know a little about what it's for, and yes I can absolutely imagine migrating to native. 1. You'd only have to do it once. 2. The overwhelming majority of sites platformed on Drupal could easily be replaced by pure static HTML and other than a handful of back office staff bitching about social media integration nothing of note would be impacted. If you've spent any time at all in the industry you know as well as I do what the client says they need and what they actually need are orthogonal.
When FAANG was all the rage, I had a hard time getting feedback on my coding skills. So, I made a website where candidates can post their code and experiences folks can give their feedback.

https://www.interviewblindspots.com/explore

You post the question, role description and your solution. Somebody will give you feedback. Still in beta, but do give it a try.
How do you find side projects?
Trying to find some side project but really hard to find one.
In the beginning stages of building a SAAS to help homeschool co-ops and collectives run their organizations. There are established players, but I feel like there is room in the market for new ideas and innovation. I also feel that more families will be turning to homeschooling in the future, increasing the demand for modern software solutions in this space.
Heh, as long as the ocean does not cause them to burn - https://jalopnik.com/more-than-a-dozen-fisker-karma-hybrids-...
That was a fun read.

I'm afraid I spend too much time coding and working on projects. It's the wife that reads every evening. But when HN recommends a short story, I have to stop what I'm doing and give it a read.

Again, not disappointed.
The delays was on their servers, not on endpoints. So from the consumers' view, this was a buffer underrun due bad communication link.

(In reality, the communication link was fine and it was packet-forwarding server that was slow; but I bet the consumers just saw the packet delays)
Wikipedia AI, Archive.org AI, All GPL Code Ever Made AI. True open-source AI is like a Library + a Librarian.

Would be nice if we could ever have a post-singularity post-scarcity society. An enlightened world with access to all human knowledge across all past cultures.
I tip my hat to those who did this just because they wanted to.
I agree with your parallel to rent seeking. Rent seeking is indeed both (a) arguably immoral and (b) seemingly inescapable in a society which respects property rights.

The theory of Georgism [1] suggests a way that we could eliminate rent seeking: by taxing ownership of all common resources at the value of the rent they would demand. That way, property owners, telephone operators, etc. would be rewarded for their labor in development and upkeep of the property, but would not be rewarded for ownership of the property itself.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
On the surface it does seem like a bad idea. However in practice I've found the changes Debian apply often seem to be very well thought through. I like to explore different Linux distros but I always keep coming back to Debian because how they do things just makes sense.

Debian Vim has a sane default which means my Debian .vimrc is only two lines, one to import the Debian defaults and another to set my four-tab settings. Debian Apache has the very useful a2{dis,en}{mod,site} utilities and a standard way of configuring sites in /etc/apache2/sites-available which makes scripting Apache configs very easy to do. GNOME is set up out of the box with sane defaults which means everything just works.

This even extends to how different packages work together. For example Debian Smokeping simply adds an Apache site config which I can then a2enconf and I straight away have Smokeping working with minimal fuss.

Going from Debian to Arch et al is a exercise in figuring out why things doesn't work as it should and finding that it's because the upstream code actually has poor defaults and it was Debian all along that applied their own judgements and came up with better defaults.

Debian also has unattended-updates which is a fantastic tool. And that blends in well with their very conservative packaging approach -- I can enable unattended upgrades with the confidence that Debian won't push through a breaking change. I would never use a similar function in other distros -- especially rolling distros.

No hate to Arch, Fedora, et al. I loved learning the in and outs of Linux playing around with Arch -- I think Arch is a fantastic distro for learning the nuts and bolts of Linux. Fedora was an interesting experience, and I decided after a while it wasn't for me. But for my daily driver, I was very, very happy to migrate back to Debian stable. Debian stable is literally a distro that just works.
Japan also has very flexible zoning for residential and commercial uses, so nearly anyone can host a vending machine as a commercial enterprise, which would generally not be allowed in most other places with different laws.

Also, some of them are insanely thin, like 25cm depth for a cold drink machine, so they can fit nearly anywhere with a power outlet.
I am saying AI has capacity to shift the natural balance in the Explore Exploit tradeoff. Human limitations we run into(listed above) lets say might allow 10% explore to 90% exploit on most probs. We might not be able to do more than that. Bacteria for example can adapt (explore) much much faster than us, cause they dont get their genes just from their parent (but from anyone via horizontal gene transfer). AI is similar which cld mean we suddenly start seeing a whole lot more Explore possible/happening than we are used too. Which would reduce the need for/amount of Exploit (baked into everything we do)