skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The question of how to improve the google experience for users has been clear for years, possibly a decade.

The question that remains unanswered is how google can do so without compromising customer revenue.
I wish there was some way to calibrate this.

My webcam sits low on my desk (it's built into a laptop screen that is one of many) so it was almost impossible to look up without it saying "too far" and I had to curl around myself and hunch to get it to maybe register as looking down.

I tried moving the display between monitors and that didn't help much.

If I could calibrate what "straight ahead" is then I could maybe play the game.
That's the literal opposite of the truth and basically just neoliberal propaganda. It's also quite an amusing take more broadly, considering that the market reforms were implemented by the original Communist revolutionaries, people who were deeply committed to Marxism and vehemently opposed to that idea.

China's system is defined by not letting the private sector take the wheel. Capitalists (major owners of capital, the 0.1%) have very little political power vs. in the West, where policies are almost wholly driven by the private sector.

Marx actually believed that Capitalism was a necessary step to Socialism, which would then turn into communism. Lenin added that a vanguard party would be required to oversee that transition. The CCP fulfills that purpose in China. When the Chinese leaders decided to allow some capitalism, they did so with heavy restrictions, referring to it as a "bird in a cage" policy. They quite explicitly did not allow the private sector to take the wheel, and that continues to this day.

The real history of China in the last 100 years is extremely fascinating once you get past all the western propaganda. If you want to see what happens when the private sector takes the wheel, look up "shock therapy in Russia".
Well, at least one CEO is being honest about the owning class's end goal with AI: a new source of cheap labor, but this time without entities that can negotiate.
To my understanding, everyone uses X because everyone else is on X. Give them the opportunity that you can see almost unlimited people on the grid, manage spam, and pic sharing, it might be possible. The last 2 aren’t easy problems to solve though. Getting the first few thousand users isn’t easy either, but practically free and not user hostile UX, would make a lot of people consider it.
Both? I was in charge of our codebase as well as managing our developers.

Is that not how it always is? Everywhere I have worked "Lead Developer" has been a management position, such that your team reports to you.

No, it was actually a pretty significant pay increase. I went from a very small company to a larger one.
Heh, TC changed the URL and removed the 'with AI' from the title midday....

(comment below from author https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42046177)
It's not. If my work (as a software developer) can be replaced more cheaply by a machine, it should be.

I'm still quite a bit better than SotA models, but I imagine that won't be true in 2034.
It is already used widely across industries where one would think people should be more conservative ( healthcare transcription services come to mind, but it is hardly the only example of this ). As always in America, only lawsuits will shows us how the dust has settled.
I'd say mostly just the sheer amount of money that was already sunk into it. All those people have very little incentive to break the status quo. Bitcoin protocol successfully resisted changes that could potentially alter its shape.
> the expectation there should be that the government should be restricting resource exploitation where that's undesirable

That's a system that fails more catasrophically than private easements.
About as well as automation of devs.
Servers that are no longer cutting edge can be repurposed for hosting websites or doing more basic data processing tasks, or they can be donated to educational institutions.

Alternatively, this means that those not doing AI are going to benefit from cheap and powerful equipment; that is, unless the declining efficiency of even non-AI software catches up.

And Microsoft has pledged to limit e-waste production from its data centers.

...while at the same time strongly pushing planned obsolescence in its software.
Please re-read the comment I was replying to and see if it was about "fulfilling your obligations under the terms of your employment contract".

I think you're hijacking this thread to make your point regardless if its related or not to it.
Personally partial to the SR20DET, that hatch was hot. And again, you don't have to look anything up to know everything from capcity to fuel injection and turbo count.
> development environments

Kubernetes has never ever struck me as a good idea for a development environment. I'm surprised it took the author this long to figure out.

K8s can be a lifesaver for production, staging, testing, ... depending on your requirements and infrastructure.
"Space colony" is a misnomer. Nothing of value to bring there or bring back. No indigenous population. No life at all. That's not how actual colonies work. A Mars base would be dependent on Earth very likely forever. If Earth blows up, the Martians die a few weeks or months later.
It's good that we have operating systems that are easy to use (e.g. Mac OS, Windows), but this is not a priority for Linux desktop distributions (which is fine); what counts as easy to opt in/out of is very contextual.
This is why you never work overtime under these conditions. Let them fire you, collect the unemployment, keep your sanity, and look for the next job.
If you're doing this, there are many cases where you might as well just spin up a decent Linux server and give your developers accounts on that? With some pretty basic setup everyone can just run their own stuff within their own user account.

You'll run into occasional issues (e.g. if everyone is trying to run default node.js on default port) but with some basic guardrails it feels like it should be OK?

I'm remembering back to when my old company ran a lot of PHP projects. Each user just had their own development environment and their own Apache vhost. They wrote their code and tested it in their own vhost. Then we'd merge to a single separate vhost for further testing.

I am trying to remember anything about what was painful about it but it all basically Just Worked. Everyone had remote access via VPN; the worst case scenario for them was they'd have to work from home with a bit of extra latency.
We also tried out nest.js, but I wasn't really happy about it.

To me it seemed more interested in being a smart dependency injection engine, and enforcing an - IMO not very JavaScripty - module pattern rather than being a useful tool.

You can do everything you want, but you will have to make all the decisions yourself, and you will have to make everything play by nestjs's rules. And from my experience the seemingly comprehensive docs often don't get you very far.

Follow the guide for Prisma and you won't be able to extend the Prisma client unless you refactor the service you've just made.

Follow the guide for file upload and you will have a file in your controller, but very little information about how to store that file.

That being said, I can see that lots of people really like nestjs, so maybe I'm just not getting it.
>house color restrictions

And have courts ruled that cities (or other governments) can't impose color restrictions?

>yard sign restrictions, political activism restrictions

Not sure what's meant by "political activism restrictions", but cities most definitely have restrictions on signs. You can't put a brightly flashing LED sign next to a busy intersection, or plant a billboard to make some money on the side.

>and free association (visitor restrictions).

???

I've literally never encountered this, unless you count having to register to use the visitor parking.
> The HOA fined them before they moved into the house for having goose poop in their back yard.

It's not as dramatic as it sounds. the house was owned by _someone_ before they moved in. at _some_ point the guano was left and the HOA found it (whether that alleged violation cited done in a good-faith effort is irrelevant). The HOA applied their process, and at _some point_ ownership changed. Leaving your sister with the bill, which she is probably able to recover from the previous owners.

HOA's are agreed to by the owners and they preserve the value of everyone's property and enforce common decency. (no trash, overgrown yards, RVs parked). I own a house under HOA and I get a letter or two per year about leaving the garage door open or the trash cans out too late. It's not a big deal and the neighborhood stays beautiful and desirable.
Imagine. If there’s no more consumers with money to buy shit I wonder if these CEOs are going to realize where their market went.
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That is interesting; I can see it from that perspective. I suppose when I read "unrestricted competition," I infer it to mean that any contractual agreement created for the purpose of limiting competition would be regulated to maintain the free market. I'm under the impression that this is the reason for most of the anti-monopoly regulation that currently exists. Outside of regulation of anti-monopolistic regulations, I don't think a free market (where competition isn't hindered) could develop?

Alas, I could be in over my head, but I guess I don't interpret "free market" to mean anarchy (no regulation).
I knew Packard-Bell were pieces of garbage back in the 90s and never bought one. There's no way on earth I would buy one now for retro experience. Some things should remain dead permanently.
Isn't replacing various workforces the majority driver of this soon-to-be trillion dollar market? Everyone is speculating by counting the chickens they'll be eliminating. This usecase has to be worth more than showing us ads.
I never liked the 48 series or the 50G (I own both) that much. I can never remember how to use them half of the time. I always end up back with my 38 year old HP 15c. That has done me through separate engineering and mathematics degrees and about 30 years worth of jobs.

They just issued new ones as well! (HP 15CE)
needs at least a team to remove whatever 5-letter word becomes offensive next year!
As I understand it, the Q-hypothesis is often situated within the hypothesis of Marcan priority (Mark was the source for Luke and Matthew), and Q is a way of explaining agreements within Luke and Matthew that are not also found in Mark. The hypothesis would be that Luke and Matthew each combined text from Mark with Q.
I've been mostly using the VS Code Excalidraw plugin. Any file with name ending on `.excalidraw.svg` or `.excalidraw.png` is an Excalidraw-editable image of the respective format. This means you can save it alongside your markdown docs and embed them directly, but also edit the exact same file on the IDE.
> The silk road guy was got on conspiracy for attempting murder and not drug or human trafficking charges

Actually, the murder stuff was not part of his sentencing or what they tried him for.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Ulbricht
That would mean it, yes. And yeah there is a bug in rust's borrow checker which can trigger something like that for some very special, "no human will ever write code like that" case. But this is an implementation detail for a semantically memory safe language, while in go's case having UB is a language primitive here.
To be fair, I think the public bristled at the longshoremen strike because the vast majority of their leverage comes not from (most) of their jobs being particularly high-skill but from the fact that they can unilaterally destroy the entire economy for everyone else. Add to that the fact that their union chief was extremely blunt about the whole thing, and that longshoremen make, on average, triple the average household income in the US, it wasn't a very sympathetic cause.
What if they use it as an augmentation rather than completely replacement? Could it be used to reduce time required per person? Could it be used to reduce headcount, without a lack of quality?

Replacing your whole workforce with a machine, at this state, is silly, but that's not the only option.
Scumbag? Based? Not sure what to say on this.

If NYT loses, we all win.
Makes me consider writing a post on misconceptions of GPU computing, such as requiring the problem to be fully data-parallel.
You're cherry-picking and generalizing an entire population based on anecdotal evidence. Sounds like you're projecting.
You just write the stuff down or translate it to LaTeX.

Incidentally the 50G (and Prime) has a decent CAS built in which seems to get stuck less than some other commercial ones.
Show HN: Colorful Images with Uniform Grayscale Values
Normally, when you convert a color image to grayscale, you can still recognize the image. But what if you could keep the image’s color while making it convert to a uniform gray?

This project explores an algorithm that takes an RGB image and adjusts it so that it appears visually similar in color but turns into a single shade when converted to grayscale. The method uses color-space math to preserve hue while adjusting brightness and saturation, resulting in unique images with hidden uniformity. It touches on color theory, the RGB and HSV color spaces, and some linear algebra. Check out the code and math behind this experiment!
What about experience?
Interesting that the author of this extension has not commented on your question...
I don't love the "simple" lexer for PL/0. Specifically, I don't think this

> m = re.match(r"(?P<num>[0-9]+)|(?P<op>[-+*/()<>=])|(?P<ws>\s+)|(?P<kw>begin|end\.|end|if|then|while|do|var|!|\?|call|procedure)|(?P<id>[a-zA-Z]+)|(?P<semi>;)|(?P<asgn>:=)|(?P<comma>,)", code)

can be called simple. APL's is similar but less complex.

Notably, however, the BASIC and LISP interpreters are* delightfully simple throughout.
Logic bugs != memory safety bugs.

E.g. in java you can mess up your logic with data races, but the racing itself is safe and can never cause the VM to enter an invalid state.
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Some of us (mathematics side) still actually work on paper with calculators. Most of the job is thinking which tooling doesn’t necessarily improve.
Also, behold a market failure.

Edit - we’re talking about two markets - groceries and land. Rules in one market (land) are being used to create a monopoly in the other (groceries). While the land market may still be “free”, the grocery market is not. And now we devolve into debate about what’s better - textbook free markets or markets that require government intervention to ensure the most social good.
They're sketches, it's part of the brainstorming process. As stated in the final presentation, Rand was trying to get away from the capital "EXT" in the name from reading like "EXIT". He ended up using a lowercase E for that, but it's obvious from the sketches he started first by stylizing the X instead, basing it on the Bifur typeface (as referenced in the presentation booklet).

Since the logo with the "hourglass" styling was never presented to NeXT, it was obvious that it wasn't considered a strong candidate to show as part of the design process for any number of reasons.

It's important to remember that brainstorming and sketching are just that. You're just trying to get all the ideas out there, you critique them afterwards. We usually do not see those sketches, so I wouldn't take them literally.
Same conglomerate, different company
It's only on Go, leave Rust out of it. Rust's safe part is entirely memory safe. Unsafe is the escape hatch, which pretty much every language has in the form of FFI.
I guess this is just another instance where every system will end up Turing complete. Most don’t make it all the way to ISA though
Only experience America has is losing wars
Cash in hand is cash. Framing it as “no money spent” is disingenuous.

Especially when your entire team gets lower bonuses after a successful product launch, while the company spends $8B profit in buybacks with minimal impact on share price. Large funds and executives get rewarded (10% of millions is a nice amount), employees get shafted.
> This isn't complicated. Matt Stoller, a guy I've never heard of and do not know personally, is a NIMBY.

Except, that isn't true. Arguing that the YIMBY explanation of our housing supply problems is incomplete doesn't make you a NIMBY. Your uniformed commentary also adds nothing to the discussion. Next time please take the time of read the opinions of someone before arguing on the internet about what they are.
> You can't fit a reasonable hash into 10 cycles.

Not 10 cycles, but my polymur-hash can hash any value <= 49 bytes in 21 cycles on an Apple ARM machine: https://github.com/orlp/polymur-hash/.

I think it's a "reasonable hash" too, considering against non-interactive attackers it's provably secure (collision probability bounded up to n * 2^-60.2 for n bytes).
On further reflection, I think what makes this example particularly difficult to understand is not so much its use of generics, but the way it uses functions. It's a function that returns a function that takes another function as an argument. The generic [K,V] type arguments are actually pretty straightforward.
I am glad that you know these things, but cancer research has still failed society as a whole.

3 of my immediate family have had cancer, 2 took chemo and it ruined their lives (it caused weak bones, their spines to virtually dissolve, which led to surgeries to insert plates and things, which have failed multiple times, it has been a mess).

The third was not eligible for chemo because they were too sick and they had an existing case of lupus. So we started trying things -- probably 100 different things at first. What worked for them is taking Sanguinaria canadensis daily orally. It is now 15 years later and they still have cancer but are living a normal and healthy life.

You know, despite being the most effective treatment you could possibly hope for in this situation (besides an actual cure), there are only a few papers on Sanguinaria canadensis, and most research discredits it. Other friends of mine have tried chemo and died in a horrible way. Now you understand my criticism of cancer research. For all the money that has been spent, the most viable treatment available through a hospital is still a living nightmare.
There are lots of small towns in valleys that literally cannot expand outward from the one highway that passes through them. Needing a large flat lot in a mountain town is a huge challenge. The article discusses this.
It's unlikely that an investor will pay significantly more than a non-investor for a liquid asset. There is certainly some premium, but a large premium would imply something very strange about housing as a market.
"Its survey in 2024 found that China ranked top in six out of seven crucial defence-related areas: advanced aircraft engines, drones and collaborative robots, hypersonic detection and tracking, advanced robotics, autonomous systems and space-launch systems."

China is ahead of America in space launch systems? By what measure?
> I used 'assembler' back in high school, when I was learning about the 80x86. I remember because I was 'corrected' by fellow student who had never touched assembler, assembly language, machine code mnemonics, or whatever you want to call it.

Wow, you got the Hacker News experience 30 years in advance!
Plenty of problems to solve down here before we even start considering the idea of living in a dead rock that can't support life.
To be honest, I think all of those should be abolished as well.
I can't even imagine the price of the cable that will go from Australia to the east coast, that must be astronomical
The state of democracy in the US into bad that you cannot really conclude anything about what “the majority of people want” from what the law happens to be.
Versus China [1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_Peo...
I think they should do it no matter the outcome. If a state can't prove that only alive eligible citizens have voted - then the state have no right to claim that the results are valid.
First off, great job misrepresenting my point! Secondly, let me ask you this: did you spend the money on the app? I’m going to assume no, just for the sake of argument, since obviously you’ve bought it and will pay for many years to come since you want to support an indie dev.

But again, for sake of argument let’s say you didn’t, why not? Because at its core you didn’t find it valuable. But they deserve to make money off their creations right? So by your logic everyone should buy this, regardless of value, because they deserve the money. Except they don’t. They have a right to charge $20/yr for an app they made in a weekend, and I have every right as a consumer to refuse that and even mock it. Especially when they make poor business decisions such as taking on unnecessary fixed costs and limiting themselves to ~50% of the market. This is what they call the free market, and I suggest you go back to Econ 101 if you don’t understand.

As for what I do for a living: I provide value to others and receive monetary compensation in return, something this app fails to do.
Apparently not completely sitting ducks, since no American naval ship has been damaged by drones. But the "conventional" anti-aircraft weaponry is like shooting a fly with a howitzer (almost literally). More CIWS systems and a rapid-fire laser or two seem like they might be effective and perhaps lower-cost.
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I'm not at all convinced about the idea of selling something and being able to limit what the buyer can do with it.
This thread is making my point for me rather well.
My HOA is worded such that it must exist for at least 30 years and there are no facilities to dissolving it before that time (after that time, a simple majority can vote to dissolve it, so long as the city agrees to incorporate the land and infrastructure). In this case, it's because the HOA is responsible for the loans taken out and long term leases to manage the sub division's infrastructure.

And yes, geese love to poop everywhere.
How is this different from simply inviting your friends for a party?
I think you're abusing the saying "at scale, rare events aren't rare" (https://longform.asmartbear.com/scale-rare/ etc.) here. It is true that when you are running thousands of machines, events that happen rarely happen often, but that scale usually becomes relevant at thousands, or hundreds of thousands, or millions of things (https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage/resources/hard-drive...).

That concept is useful when the scale of things you have is the same order of magnitude as the rate of failure. But we clearly don't have that here, because even at scale, these events aren't common. Like I said, there have been, across all cloud providers, less than a handful over a decade.

Like, you seem to be proclaiming that these kinds of events are common and, well, no, they aren't. That's why they make the top of HN when they do happen.
You're greatly overestimating how much an oral tradition leads to fixed wording. This is a pretty well-studied field at this point in time, and non-poetry oral traditions just don't generate the kind of long word-for-word identical passages that we see in Luke and Matthew.

There's a lot of debate over the synoptic problem in the academy, but almost nobody doubts that the solution involves a literary source instead of an oral one.
Here's his tweet promoting that article:

>I took on the YIMBY’s here and pointed out that the problem of housing prices and construction is about consolidation of homebuilders, not an upsurge in annoying people who want to maintain neighborhood character.

I'm sure you can come up with a contrived worldview that proclaims those two statements, but doesn't believe "land use regulations aren't a significant factor", but it's pretty clear that's his view, even if he doesn't say those literal words.