skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW the same kind of crap is also happening in Canada : https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/competition-bureau-probe-so...
If I remember right, Walmart also has (or had) a reputation for doing this. When opening a larger store in a city, they would close the old store and retain the old property, preventing anyone else from using it. I know it doesn't happen all the time (I've seen just the opposite happening in my area).
Yes, workers will take advantage of opportunities for their strike action to be more effective, good point.
The Overton window has truly shifted that far right. We're in trouble.
Maybe consider chained comparison operators early textual replacement along the lines of the C preprocessor, although the exact textual replacement would involve temporary variables to avoid multiple side effects and be more complicated than just "(a) == (b) and (b) == (c)". (a==b)==c does not expand, only the version without parentheses expands, so you can still do the boolean comparison if you want.
awww, how recently were you born to think that a corporation doesn't do villainous deeds as often as they can?
This isn't regulatory capture, this is deed restrictions. HOAs, water rights, mineral rights et.al. use this same mechanism.
> Modern cables are fiberoptic and do not increase their bandwidth once laid.

No kind of expert at all, but I understood that better control over / perception of narrower bandwidths of light have allowed fiber-optic cables to improve their data throughput immensely. Is that incorrect? Or are you using a narrower, technical definition of "bandwidth" that I've not understood?
This unfortunately is not true for large codebases. The language and the basic library are extremely stable, but the overall runtime is not. So the 8->17 switch resulted in lots and lots of regressions.

So companies either pay Oracle to maintain the old JDK8, or use something like Amazon Corretto. It's so bad that there are companies promising JDK8 support until 2031 at least.

And yeah, upgrades past 17 are easy.
"skeptical" is in most cases just a euphemism for "opposed".
The logo presentation booklet's cover - with just the letters N E X T in white scattered across a black page - is simply beautiful to me. I can't put into words what about it appeals to me. I can only imagine the effort put into that cover was far greater than it may appear.
It's possible to have capitalism without certain shitty practices like this. It's entirely within the government's capability to outlaw these things.
Most people have an incredibly shitty diet that can be improved 10x by implementing simple rules.

Some people are ignorant, some people are lazy, some people are addicted, some people straight up don't care

My dad didn't even know the difference between carbs and sugar, as in if his doctor told him to eat 100gr of carbs per day he wouldn't know what's best between sweet potatoes or pure white sugar. It's almost like not knowing you need o2 to breath or water to survive
Have folks seen success with https://earthly.dev/ as a tool in their dev cycle?
Isn't this part of the Go memory model (https://go.dev/ref/mem)?
Oh...so not the consultancy agency. Got it.
FYI, there are a few terminals that can set the window size in pixels (with `CSI 4 t`). And it's also worth mentioning that there were already terminal emulators back in the 1980s that supported in-band resize notifications (lookup `VTEEWR` - Enable Window Event Reports).
I look forward to executives trying it and discovering exactly how fucked they will be.

I get the chance to talk to a lot of people who think this will work, and, it's really striking how poor their grasp of the business is.
Until it gets blocked as spam and then they will get a watermark stripping agent and bam. They are back in business.
Personally I'd agree.

But his having different priorities than us doesn't make him a hypocrite.
Sure, if you’re active in local government / community. To rephrase, what I meant was you can’t complain if you don’t partake at all because then you’re offering no solution or doing anything to make things better.
Yes it is, but big company bad so no one cares to look at themselves to see the true problem.

This could be solved today by not imposing arbitrary restrictions on what other people can do with their land without their consent.
> Can you give some examples that are applicable today?

HOAs are pretty famously restrictive of free speech (house color restrictions, yard sign restrictions, political activism restrictions), and free association (visitor restrictions).

Their are some speech restrictions that governments apply to historic structures, but you would have a hard time as a government trying to register the name of every visitor to a residence, or restricting hours that visitors can come, or how long they can stay, but those are all things that HOAs try to control.
FTA:

Vice President Kamala Harris tore into Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., on Saturday for his comment that Republicans might seek to repeal the CHIPS and Science Act if they take control of Congress in the upcoming election.

“I also want to speak to the comments that have been recently made by the speaker of the House,” Harris told reporters in Milwaukee. “It is just further evidence of everything that I’ve actually been talking about for months now, about [former President Donald] Trump’s intention to implement Project 2025.”
I appreciate where you're coming from and sorry if my tone comes accross accusatory or like I am attacking you, it is a more general frustration with the patent system, hate the game not the player you know?

I am not arguing against the concept of patents either, just that in their modern implementation they are not fit for the purpose they are supposed to have.
The tools C# provides are far from "shallow hacks". Go does not provide "equivalent" ability to malloc and free, or write C structs with explicit layout. Does not have the same type of struct generics C# has ala Rust or C++ templates, it's not even close.

Perception problems do not affect technical capability, and there exists a world of gamedev beyond enterprise engineering that treats C# appropriately.
Yeah, I wrote my CS dissertation on this. It started as me writing a GPGPU video codec (for a simplified h264), and turned into me writing an explanation of why this wouldn't work. I did get somewhere with a hybrid approach (use the GPU for a first pass without intra-frame knowledge, followed by a CPU SIMD pass to refine), but it wasn't much better than a pure CPU SIMD implementation and used a lot more power.
Right. What am I looking at? It seems clearly a case that it started with the final logo they wanted and finished with 27 pages of pure justification BS.
>I understand whataboutism as bringing up something that is somewhat related in order to shift the focus away from the original topic.

...or it's to draw attention that the author might be selectively applying arguments whenever it suits him, and readers shouldn't take him at face value. Between the two articles, it looks like Stroller is against big corporations first and foremost, and musters whatever argument is handy to back that thesis. In the case of house builders, he's explicitly says land use regulations aren't a significant factor ("just pointing at over-regulation in and of itself isn’t a satisfying explanation"), but in the case of supermarkets he turns around and says it is. He doesn't try very hard to explain why it's justified in one case and not the other. The first article is basically "I don't find it convincing [no refutation given], here's my alternate hypothesis". I feel like all of this is worth pointing out, even if it isn't exactly a straight up debunking of the two articles.
It's becoming apparent that many large tech companies were government-backed entities and their success was fueled by public money. Where else did they get the rights to do this kind of stuff? Surely the public owns these cables as they are built in public waters.
There is no single state of capitalism. We should think of markets as a fluid mass filling the vessel that government provides. In some places these practices are allowed, and other places these practices are restricted - markets form elsewhere in those economies.
It's only a matter of time until one of these jackasses creates a ChatGPT wrapper called scab.ai and markets it for this exact use case.
5 Months to Run Code Locally
Why would you say that performance is bad on public cloud infrastructure?
I believe UB without unsafe is considered a bug by the Rust language team.

I should’ve said in my original comment, but I don’t mean to dunk on Go. In practice the issues illustrated in the blog post I linked seem unlikely to cause problems in practice, they are interesting nevertheless.
https://mynews4.com/news/local/renos-caughlin-ranch-hoa-prop...
yeah after a decade in my job, I have a ton of utility functions in python that I reach for when given a new request to think through something. I doubt a smaller screen where I have to type in stuff and then copy out results would make it any easier.
Liability. Till we solve this, we cant really give AI any real responsibilities.
> How is replacing tech workers with AI any different?

It is not?
Isn't the tech union the one striking? So what is he implying -- that perplexity would automate the software development of the NYT needle or something?
scumbag move tbh
HOAs often restrict freedom of expression which would not be legal if done by a city government.

The first amendment, however, only protects against government censorship, not private organization censorship so an HOA can force you to paint over the mural on your garage whereas a city government could not*.

Some of this depends on state of course. California, for instance, recognizes HOAs as quasigovernments which imposes some restrictions on an HOAs power to censor speech, but many other states do not.

* Case law on this is actually quite minimal. Local governments do try to ban free speech of course and almost certainly overstep their bounds, but no one has gotten a case to the Supreme Court.
If you feel so strongly about it, become a Union rep and advocate for whatever you see fit.
> [...] I would be considered a TERF [...]

I had to look that up. I'm I out of touch with the times by not knowing such acronyms? I am standing here at the station minding my business and Overton Express is passing by at 60 mph. "TERF" seem to describe most progressives. But I think I lag the avant guard conscious by 10 years of something.

But anyhow, I would say NYT is very much not left nor progressive. Maybe on some tangential culture issues. It is a centre corporate newspaper.
> A contract is agreed to by two willing parties.

That doesn't matter at all, "two willing parties" doesn't make a contract legal. Neither of those willing parties are the ones harmed being harmed by the anti-competitive contracts.
So now can we pay out the money to Intel?
This is a new-to-me and reasonable idea: that Q is the union of a collection of things.
Well. That was a pretty drawn out way to not end up saying anything at all.

Great tension building in the writing though. I’m glad for the “good ones” who are about to do that thing now or a moment from now.
I think we can safely say at this point the singularity ain't happening any time soon
What if someone finds your IP address and sends you a bunch of crap? It would be very easy to use someone's entire monthly data allowance.

Plus, it only works if you can afford and have access to cell service, and in those cases you or have access to normal Internet stuff.

Unless cell towers are able to route between two phones when their fiber backend goes down. That would make this actually pretty useful in emergencies if a rower could work like a ham repeater, assuming it wasn't too clogged with traffic to have a chance.
Even if I still liked playing multiplayer games, I would never (willingly) install a rootkit.
> These sorts of land use restrictions should be illegal

An easier solution is mandatory sunsets after a period of time. Because the flip side of making them illegal is you'll have a lot more land with conservation easements being exploited for resources.
Yep and it's not just the cube projection. It was in not a very good contrast with the futuristic elegance of the machine. First time I saw a NeXT in person, the logo looked like a placeholder of some sort, glaringly out of place.
No, it already exists. The big companies already have fully LLM generated code going into their code bases. The code is being reviewed by humans.

Google had a fairly costly outage due to a fully LLM generated CL, already.
Exactly, if you had a need to job the job atlas is doing, you’d replace it very quickly with a specialised bot with ten hands.

Not saying the bot isn’t useful, just that it seems more of a gimmick than a real need in any serious factory / plant.
I don't see how this is negative PR. It's an effective, positive, advertisement for anyone actually interested in the service (business or personal): "Oh wow, it could replace a reporter? I should try it!".

The purpose of technology: reduce human effort. But, technology is always unpopular to those whose efforts are being reduced.

Now, is it possible for their AI to replace them is another question. What sort of reduction for headcount/time spent, without a negative impact on quality, is a better question. But, a question that people that hear this might be asking now.

And, to be fair, I don't know anyone who enjoys simple facts being wrapped in corporate bullshit. What would be better verbiage? I think it's refreshing that it was stated directly, rather than some nothing statement about striving to do good and support customers without responding to the issue at all, as is usually the case.
This guy should have consulted an LLM before he opened his mouth …
It's different because automation of ports actually works
NVENC is trash, fast trash, but trash none the less. Encode the same source file with FFMPEG at the same bitrate using NVENC and the CPU and the loss of quality with NVENC is readily visible. NVDEC is fine, but if you're encoding with the CPU, you'll lose performance moving the frames over to the CPU. Sure you can offload it all with NVDEC+NVENC, but only if your only criteria is speed, rather than quality or file size.
You don’t have to have faith in a product to market it effectively.
[dupe] (because TechCrunch changed the url midday)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42044956

More discussion on main thread:

New York Times Tech Guild goes on strike

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42040795
> That is a weak argument.

It's merely an observation.

> Bitcoin cannot store more value than there is value.

There no hard cap on entirety of future value that will exist at some point in time. And bitcoin growth is slowing down in a way. Same way since the day one. Hence simple fit to a single curve. I have no idea what fraction of value bitcoin will ultimately "store". You can look at gold amd take some guesses but there's no real reason for any of them to be right.

> Past performance is not indicative of future results.

Yes. And this is not an investment advice.

> [...] I would die tomorrow, you'd be wrong every time. I will therefore live forever.

Which is true to some approximation and good assumption to live by. Vast majority of people lives everyday with assumption they won't die tomorrow or anytime soon (for their definitions of soon). Then, if they were lucky they grow old and everybody seeing their decline adjusts their expectations. Where are the signs of decline of bitcoin? Is market cap shrinking? What about transaction volume?

> Biology and statistics be damned.

What statistics or rules of science understood at least as well as biology contradict the working assumption that bitcoin will keep for the foreseeable future its shape that it's been keeping since it popped up?
That is indeed a downside, but the expectation there should be that the government should be restricting resource exploitation where that's undesirable.
Perhaps it's just me, but I'm pretty glad that we don't have the government interfering with our every contracted act (a sale is such an act).

On the flip side, without the government to enforce a contract one party has broken, there would be no reason to ever fulfill a contract - you'd have to rely on citizen's force, and history has not shown that it's been particularly good to rely on regular citizens.
When the incumbent owns the vacant lot, it's capitalism. Free formation of contracts (saying you promise not to open a grocery store there, in exchange for getting the land at all) is also a big part of capitalism.
Oh, mine wasn't intended to be a literal quote from anyone, hence why I said `- executives, lying through their teeth.` and didn't name anyone specific.

But this notion is definitely rolling around in the heads of these people, even if they won't say so because it's bad optics. What a CEO/executive says and what they believe and what they do are three very different things. You often cannot trust their weasel words.

But as for "the PerplexityAI CEO didn't say "with AI" in those words!!!"... how else exactly would an AI company help out with striking workers without their product of AI? That is an obvious subtext unsaid.
And it’s very kind of you to spend the $20/yr on the indie food app. Oh, you didn’t? Interesting.
Building codes were updated, and I'd guess a similar earthquake today would have less damage, but San Francisco did not exactly do fine in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.
I think here it is bearable because the page is more like a presentation. The worst is when nothing special happens, and you only notice scrolling is off.
Would second your proposal
> In the case of house builders, he's explicitly says land use regulations aren't a significant factor ("just pointing at over-regulation in and of itself isn’t a satisfying explanation"),

Umm... what? Those are two quite different statements. You can't conflate them that way and be arguing in good faith. You have either misunderstood his stance or are deliberately misrepresenting it.
Seems wildly successful to me considering we're all still talking about it despite the fact that they don't even use the logo any more.
The Fediverse Desperately Needs Sustainable File Hosting
I don't want to live in a neighborhood where my neighbor's yards are full of poop. This is true even if the unit is unoccupied.
Better than becoming dead!
Who is to judge that it didn't work better for the people? Maybe some occasional minor tensions and conflicts is worth it.

With a globalized coercive system as ours, we're headed for a mass extinction event.
Try Devbox, you can basically ignore nix entirely and reap all the benefits.
Appears as $14.83 to me...
In my very limited experience this happens when managers (above team leads) insist on being present in chat rooms. No offense to any manager in this topic, I know that you mean no harm in 99.9% of cases and that you do want to make things better, but honestly your presence creates a chiller effect. Jokes are no go, because who knows, maybe this one will be interpreted badly. Local questions are no go, because you can't ask them during work time (he's slacking!), you can't ask anything which can even remotely be treated as improper. Can't show that you lack knowledge in things which should be obvious, can't banter about colleagues or about work in non-positive way. And the list goes on. We have a chat with 100 people which started as a meme and joke one, a lot of people were posting funny stuff there. Now the last meme picture posted there in mid october, and the second to last was in august. And the only people posting there at all, even sirius stuff, are the 3-4 teamleads very close to the management. Same shit in the chat of immigrants, we have a quite a few semi-permanent relocants on the projects, but manager is not one of them and is still present in that chat room. No one posts there, everyone talks either behind the scenes (because there are a lot of questions for people in new country) or in the independent big chats outside of the company.

And again, it's not like our managers are bad, quite the contrary, they are very good professionally and personally. And we don't have layoffs. But people still won't talk in the presence of even mid level management, it's an instinct of sorts I guess :) .

PS: this is only about informal optional chats. All work chats are never hidden or avoided. We divide them by program, Slack for work and Telegram for fluff.
Because in a ruthless cuthroat world everyone but the very worst of people lose out, and even then the very worst tend to lose too since the whole distribution shifts down, not just the mean/mode/median but the min/max as well.

ultimately, if you create a system where the only tools left are those also avaliable to the stupid, and therefore skills the stupid have an edge in, given a lifetime of experience, then your whole system becomes run by / dominated by these types.

toxic behaviour and violenece in general are tools of the stupid, for only the stupid would fail to see mutually benefifial alternatives.
Human CEOs generally aren't held liable for their actions, so why would AI need to be? Once again, I think we're just smoothing out a wrinkle here.
NYT is going to respond with a lawsuit
tl:dr - brains are weird man

There's a tremendous episode of Radiolab called Fault Line that talks about the effect of a total resection of the Amygdala. It worked out very poorly. I heard it weeks before I was scheduled for a right temporal lobe resection, including Amygdala and it scared the bejeesus out of me. A quick call to my neurosurgeon's coordinator assuaged my fears.

The bilateral resection caused Kluver-Busey syndrome in the patient that Fault Line discusses.
In a single comment you mixed:

* Professional reliability

* People who don't care about what type of job they do

* Hobbies

* Parenting

* People who don't care about the company, but cared about their job

* Tryhards

* People chasing the latest fad

* People that have opinions about software architecture

* Job hoppers

My initial comment was about people caring about THEIR work, not the company or anything else. It was about people not doing something they dreaded for >8h straight and thinking that's what life has for them.
It's not really capitalism, but its late stage cancerous form, where businesses grow too big (too close to monopolies) and go unchecked, so the markets start to fail because the competition is killed.

I could be wrong, but I think property use restrictions are actually more of a socialist concept. When done right, they're meant to protect others (aka society, in general - not some businesses that don't like having competitors across the street) from various harms, such as emissions, noise, overcrowding or things like that. In other words, not about what goes on at some property, but what happens to the outside because of it. But as the uncontrolled abuse grew unchecked, it became something else entirely.

This stuff, together with non-competes and exclusivity agreements is something different. I don't know what it is, but it's neither capitalism nor socialism "as they were well-meant", but rather a weird amalgamation of perverted concepts from both, leading to both erosion of healthy markets (so, harming capitalism) and degradation of life quality (so, harming socialism).
> Federal government could not pass a law prohibiting me from painting my front door purple (that would be an infringement on my 1A rights)

Uh, D.C. has plenty of aesthetic restrictions.
Roboscabs!
“ The NYT and Perplexity aren’t exactly on the best of terms right now. The Times sent Perplexity a cease and desist letter in October over the startup’s scraping of articles for use by its AI models.”

Just trying to smooth things over now… in the most supervillain way possible.
How is it not material? You only need to accidentally write and read a map at the same time in language that is supposedly for concurrency (which is why not the same as parallelism, in its case it does largely correlate).

This is a ridiculous design issue with big ramifications.