skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My 2 cents is that this book was one of the worst excuses for historical analysis I've ever read (not that the author is even a historian; he's a journalist). It felt closer to astrology or a Buzzfeed quiz about what Harry Potter house you belong to than anything of actual value. It reminded me of a litany of corporate workshops I've experienced, where the author comes up with an interesting hook and then works backwards to support their conclusions. Great for selling a story to those looking for intellectually empty calories. Pretty much garbage otherwise.
I actively tell friends and family to not try to imitate my home setup after this app garbage, where as I know specifically of a few friends who got into SONOS based directly on my recommendation and my demonstrations of the system.
I was pretty surprised to hear that singlestore added a baseline compiler years ago but afaict barely mentions it anywhere - https://docs.singlestore.com/cloud/query-data/advanced-query.... Just a single line in the 7.5 release notes.
Have you ever thought of why? Just ‘magic’, is an open doorway for bias and unreliable memory to enter and influence the conversation.

Is it perhaps that there are specific people, who are doing the ideation, or are particularly good at helping you think? Or is it anyone and everyone? If it’s anyone, then is it a social / biological quirk? Is it something else?

For everyone reading, this is worth reflecting upon, if only to move our regular WFH / RTO discussions on HN forward.
SpaceX still insists on being cagey too. I watched a launch a while back where the center stage failed to land itself, and the hosts pretty obviously were instructed to beat around the bush and pretend nothing was wrong ("A telemetry failure" as you could see it in the video footage belly flopping into the ground) and do literally anything other than admit the center stage had a minor failure that resulted in it's loss. Like it's not even a big deal, the boosters were right then having a picture perfect landing.

But a profit driven company cannot be honest about anything ever. Honesty is never as profitable as being extremely controlling about the information you share.

I consider this a huge negative of the privatisation of space. When the Shuttle killed people, we could expect great transparency and a general peeling back of the curtain. The public got to learn that their government agency was suffering from management failures by loser managers unwilling to face reality.

We will not get that same transparency when a SpaceX rocket inevitably kills someone. Especially with Musk hanging around the oval office.
IANAL, but my understanding is that if you treat people differently based on one of the nine federally protected classes, you are in more trouble than if you treat people differently based on some other class (though treating people differently based upon a proxy for a protected class can also be an issue; e.g. redheads isn't a protected class, but it has correlations with both race and national origin).

Note that both of your examples given fall under the protected class of race/color. You still might have a more sympathetic judge and/or jury for one example or the other, so it might be relevant in practice, even if it is irrelevant by the letter of the law.
Robotics is capital intensive and doesn't scale the way a software startup does. It's akin to starting a new car company but for a product category that has not yet been successful in the market - very risky. Then combine this with inevitable competition from China, who has dominated recent robotics-adjacent consumer product categories: drones and robot vacuums. I don't blame investors/founders for being hesitant.

Edit: Oh yeah, and then there's safety/liability. A robot capable of doing laundry is also capable of breaking your finger(s) or poking your eye out. Just imagine the TikTok "challenges" kids would come up with interacting with such a device.
It won't. BlueSky is heavily censored.
https://wagtail.org/who-uses-wagtail/ lists a few companies who would care about low resource use due to the sheer amount of traffic they see.
Meta: this needs "2020", at least [1]. Blog spam?

[1]: https://www.designboom.com/technology/nomoto-motorcycle-conc...
the intent of creating an office environment that is pleasant to work in is rarely something that employees provide enough input into. I would argue that the side effect of making an office that disrespects some employees perferences is more than a "blind spot", it's a "I don't give a damn"

Examples:
- talkative/noisy areas
- lighting level
- speakerphones/headphones/cellphone conversations
- kitchen/ping pong/foosball noises
- privacy/divider existence/divider height
- personalization
- lighting/glare/sunlight/color reproduction
- start/stop/break schedule
- "cool" versus "comfortable", "public" vs "private"
- "corner office" versus "bull pen"

In my new office, I was given the choice to rank my preference from nine desks in a small area (group/team cluster, because "synergy"). I didn't even bother asking if I could sit closer to people I like or identify with (the parents of children at home subgroup).
Yeah I understand. I've seen many responses along the lines of "my drive to work is 30 minutes; if I had to take public transit then it's 3 buses in 90 minutes". So far, I'm tolerant to those comments.

What I have a problem with is that instead of saying that a car works for them personally, they start attacking the people who challenge the car-dominated status quo. They propose ridiculous edge cases as gotchas, blithely ignore any evidence presented, and make it clear that you're an idiot for proposing any idea that differs from the norm. Furthermore, they fiercely attack any incremental change - whether it be congestion pricing or upzoning or adding bus-only lanes - even when every time it has been tried the populace is satisfied with the outcome after it gets implemented.
Amazing. You just ruined the internet for everyone, making us all wade through heaps of meaningless bullshit, only generated to drive the ad revenue!

And do you know what’s the best part about that? You even made money off of that you can use to purchase the stuff you got ads for! Isn’t that exciting? Thank you for your service!
Just want to say how much I appreciate traintimes.org.uk

It's perfect

Compare to National Rail that has a pointless loading page, uses the entire initial viewport to show anything but the train times, and search is weirdly stateful. Just terrible all round

Thanks Matthew
Some of us actually like it this way! The cool grey skies can feel calm and even cozy. From my desk on the 22nd floor, I get to watch the low cloud layer rolling across the hills of the city; every now and then the Cascades peek through. If it were all sunny blue out there all the time, it'd be too bright to enjoy; I'd probably pull the blinds.

My company's previous office had a view over the rooftop garden of the building next door. Even when the sky was fully leaden, it was fun to watch the workers poking around taking care of the plants.
FWIW there are several third-party mobile applications that work just fine to operate Sonos equipment.

The speakers expose a few SOAP-based APIs to any clients on the LAN. Those allow for track control, grouping, etc. They don't allow adding new music services, but they can do the vast majority of daily interaction. These APIs continue to work nearly flawlessly even for my Play:1 devices that are 10 years old.

Streaming via AirPlay is indeed hit-or-miss, but it hasn't gotten worse in the past couple years.

I control my Sonos from a jQuery-based web application I wrote nearly 10 years ago that runs on a raspberry pi in my closet. I have not had to change anything in several years, and I use my 15+device Sonos system all the time.

The new app is indeed a dumpster fire. Somehow the company managed to make their first-party application worse than any of the third-party applications.
You're getting downvoted, but I think this is fair.

DE is not a game for everyone. It's a point-and-click adventure game that feels like it is intentionally designed to be obscure and difficult to follow. The game is forcing you to role play as a alcoholic detective who woke up after a bender and has no clue what is going on. You the player are just as clueless about the world as the character you're controlling is.

FWIW, I completed the game four times, and it was only on the fourth play through that I really felt like I understood how to play the game. Not just from a mechanical perspective, but also a how to role play as an alcoholic-detective-who has-no-clue-what's-going-on. IME, the game only truly makes sense when you play the game as Harry would.

There's a point where Kim tells Harry that he's probably a phenomenal detective, as he was able to close an absurd number of cases. And to get the best experience from the game, you have to match Harry's true level of authenticity, intelligence, openness, and assertiveness. You can finish the game as Hobocop, Superstar Cop, or Detective Costeau, and you can blame all the world's problems on communism and you'll solve the mystery, but you won't have the full experience.
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That's a pretty subjective definition. We're back where we started.
I dont think you understand just quite how much harder a laundry bot is than simply stealing everyones work and training a model to learn an approximation of the source distribution.

Where would you even get the training data for starters? Not like people tend to wear mocap gear to do their chores yanno? Not like theyve been doing it the last few centuries, cataloging and digitizing everything dilligently.

Solving washing machine bot would get us a lot closer to AGI than I think llm's / music / art bots will in the forseeable future.
Utilitarian analysis inevitably is coopted by those in power to frame "good" as what the powerful want.

For example, some say it's more important to keep people's stock-invested retirement accounts solvent by increasing stock prices rather than take corporate profits and pay people who can't even afford groceries or rent, let alone invest in a retirement account.
trick users into clicking malicious links, host ads, seo link farm, host other questionable content, or some people just like to deface websites
I've never owned Sonos, but I have owned and researched a lot of wireless routers and generally active on their forums. Across them all, it seems like tons of topics of people constantly complaining about Sonos connectivity and blaming the routers.

I don't know what makes them different, or if they are just that popular that I'm seeing the noise, but it's something that I'd personally dig into more before investing.
Mostly because of smearing and the direction of writing: left-hand writers "push" the pen more, while right-hand writers are "pulling" the pen more (not totally and not 100%)
> from the standpoint of human metabolism

I mean ... is this serious? "Chemically identical" means something meaningful, but "from the standpoint of human metabolism" does some heavy lifting. If you had said "from the standpoint of our current incomplete understanding of human metabolism" then fine. When you say "the only difference" do you mean "the only different in the way they are metabolized" or do you mean "the only chemical difference"?

In short I think our understanding of human metabolism and especially long-term adaptation of metabolic pathways to diet is extremely poorly understood and I would be wary before accepting any blanket statements about where the truth lies.

There are certainly papers in animals about preferences between sucrose and HFCS, for example [1], and just looking at the references indicate a number of human tests of a similar nature.

I don't think the question is whether we can taste the difference or which one we prefer when blinded, or whether the difference in taste is consistent between people or stable for an individual. The question is if there are latent health issues associated with them, and I think the jury is still out; it's very hard to do large scale studies on long-term effects of these things because they can't be done in a controlled way. Many would argue that writ large we have undergone a significant study across the population of the United States and the results don't look great, although there are a ton of confounding variables.

EDIT: Note that I am not claiming that HFCS is definitively bad, I do feel that confidently stating the opposite is also epistemically poor hygiene. If I had to weigh the evidence of "appears to trigger identical metabolic pathways" with the evidence of "societies with HFCS adoption have an obesity problem" I would tend to err on the side of "HFCS bad".

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00319...
If you completely ditch escaping, how do you handle filenames that contain special characters (in this context, mostly ? and *, but ()[] are also perennial favorites)? And to preempt the most obvious answer: No, you can't just ban them, because existing OSs and filesystems allow them and you need interoperability.
Oh give it up. Very few jobs require 100% attention. At my job I'm on the phone at least half of every day and on 70% of those calls I only need at most 10% of my attention.

The rest of the time I'm going through emails, filling out endless bureaucratic forms/documents, doing mandatory training, and every now and again I get to actually write some code (more likely: reviewing PRs), LOL! My performance reviews are always spectacular and I'm the only one in our (much) larger team that's actually 100% in compliance/up-to-date with everything and completing all my work on time.

The one thing all those tasks have in common? They can wait five minutes while I take care of something and if I'm on the phone I can do something else entirely while I'm listening. Just the other day I did--the horror!--laundry while I was on a call discussing how we should move forward to solve a problem. And I was the one speaking most of the time while I folded my laundry and put it away!

I could easily watch a 6yo and do my job at the same time. Based on how much real "work" comes out of your average corporate office employee I'm certain they could do the same.

Employers should give zero fucks about what their employees are doing while they're at work as long as they get all their work done on time and don't cause the company any problems (and no conflicts of interest). We hire people to get things done not to dress a certain way or keep a chair warm in a very specific place all day!
This is a dishonest argument. Paul can oppose an ideology without agreeing with everyone and especially extremists who also oppose that same ideology.

I dont think wokeness or paul graham are communist or fascist respectively so forgive the hysterical sound of the analogy im going to make here, but i think your argument is similar in reasoning to this one:

You oppose fascism? Well, fascism opposed gulags. If you oppose gulags I guess you were a fascist after all."
> [PHP] makes sharing a server trivial

Is that still a thing? Why would an application on a server share anything other than the kernel?
This sounds nice, but how many people out there actually want to do "writing and art" purely for their own enjoyment? I know they are out there, but I wouldn't actually place a bet that that number is bigger than people who enjoy doing laundry.

I think people are missing the forest for the trees - if AI does become the ultimate media wish-fulfillment machine, and I have no need for the creative visions of others - what else is there in life besides consumption and chores?
Perhaps more indicative of late stage capitalism where rent seekers try to extract more and more value and consolidate more and more power.
The humorous part to me is when folks talk badly about 'antifa' they either forget or gloss over what the 'fa' means in antifa.
That's... an odd clarification. I mean, yes, a lot of people drop out of music because it's hard to get good at it and stay good at it. But how does Suno AI solve that problem? How does Suno make it easier for someone to learn how to express themselves through a musical instrument? How does it make it easier for people to enjoy the craft of sound?

This doesn't work as a clarification because it doesn't explain why his original comment was relevant when talking about his company. What would explain it is if he meant exactly what the interviewer took it as: that he believes more people want the end result of musical creation—the musical piece—more than they do the creative process itself. Because that's what Suno AI does do: it shortcuts the path to statistically average sounds.
This is basically true, though I'd point out that most of those themes and plugins are hot garbage minefields full of bugs and security vulns, and due to the fact that it's all just wild-west PHP here, a nontechnical WP admin actually making use of the whole wide world of plugins and themes out there is exactly as safe as downloading absolutely any .exe you want while running Windows XP as Administrator without any firewall or antivirus software.

Not disputing the usefulness of the platform, just that it's a risky thing to expose to the Internet.
I am speaking of the composite opinion of Toronto (in-person consultations and Facebook groups/people/threads), Canada+USA as represented in mainstream news and social media, and Reddit/FuckCars (with a big North American and youth tilt).
ChordChord (https://chordchord.com) is close to this idea: it has an "AI suggestions" panel that recommends chords based on a progression
> We're just talking to each other, shooting the s*, and it was cool to meet some Junior Devs who were just starting their career. But none of that made me a more productive worker.

You're not the only employee of the company. They aren't trying to maximize _your_ output, they're trying to maximize the company's output. You being present for a junior dev to ask quick questions to (the type that don't get asked if they have to message you) will increase their productivity much more than your productivity loss. It isn't all about you.

> If I had to think, I imagine the entire point of RTO mandates is to keep cities sustainable.

This is, essentially, a conspiracy theory. RTO is happening because management thinks it will increase productivity. Right or wrong, it's crazy to assume the are all working together to keep cities alive.
If you’re comfortable with php writing an importer for Kirby is simple, checkout their cli YouTube video. Nice modern api and easy to import content. Being flat file if there’s a mistake, just delete the content folder and import again!
I wonder if he knows that his personal blog seems to be hosted in the template for a yoga studio in South Lake.
We only know the affected functions for less than 1% of OSS vulnerabilities
Was there ever a case in the wild of malware being installed into a host by inserting a floppy disk, without entailing the user boot off it, run a program from it, open a datafile crafted to exploit existing software, etc?

I always thought if you insert a floppy (with any OS autorun crap turned off of course), open a textfile to read, then take it out, you'd be pretty safe. (It's unfortunate the same can't be said of a USB drive).

Thanks, I missed RS-232.
I think part of this is correct regarding the professors who started off as "radicals" or hippies in the 1960s but there is no mention of why the cultural revolution of the 1960s happened in here. Couldn't that be examined more closely?

In my opinion, we have been undergoing a cultural clash for power at the top of society for decades between various groups. At one point in time this country was firmly in the hands of WASPs. Waves of immigrants arrived in cities who clashed with them. There were fights about who could get into the most powerful universities which was directly related to the struggle for power between the groups. Wokeness in the US, is in my opinion, a consequence of identity politics which we have had for some time. I think identity politics is probably more natural than not having it because we see it all over the planet. I think a lot of people have created a narrative that they are fighting against identity politics but in fact have just recreated it in different terms.
I find dangerous red berries and colored frogs very attractive.
Funny you say that because multi-armed bandits is one of the articles on the front page right now. https://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php?id=132 , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42650954
There is no universal answer to RTO vs WFH.

What is abhorrent is employers changing these terms as if they're trivial. We probably need legal protections treating swapping workplace requirements as requiring someone to relocate or accept lower pay.

> If every single office job went remote, what's the point of a city like New York

You really don't see the value of New York beyond its office buildings?

> it's a big club and you ain't in it. The powers that be one as many people in office chairs as possible, so they're real estate holdings appreciate in value

This is a Bay Area conspiracy theory that doesn't make a lot of sense, particularly when the cost and need for layoffs explains the effect more parsimoniously.
It makes sense to me that Mexican coke could taste differently for multiple reasons. Most obvious of which could be a recipe tweak.

US vs Mexican Doritos are a good example. The bags look identical, but the US version is cheesier and the Mexican version has a mild kick of lime. Yet you wouldn't glean this from the nutrition label.
“An aggressively performative focus on social justice.”

Paul is giving the strawman definition (or, ironically, the PC definition) of “woke”. It’s a code word that can be anything the user doesn’t like, and isn’t anything they do like. It’s used as a weapon along with its alias, DEI.

But people aren’t using it with that “performative” definition in practice. People are using it to label social justice topics that they don’t agree with. So it’s disingenuous to try and define it in a way that is much more narrow than its practical usage.
Yes, Locomotive BASIC also supported DEFINT command, so, all variables in a given range would be treated as integers without "%" suffix.
Yup.

But I'm not convinced it'll be a Gartner type hype cycle https://emt.gartnerweb.com/ngw/globalassets/en/articles/imag...

rather than a Wait But Why wtf https://149909199.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/201...

Indeed the hype/whatever already is carrying on - eg. "Researchers began speaking urgently about the arrival of supersmart AI systems, a flood of intelligence. Not in some distant future, but imminently." 10-jan-25 https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/prophecies-of-the-flood
Even Obama is not a fan of "woke" culture and calls it out for the hollow vapid gotcha politics that it is: https://youtu.be/qaHLd8de6nM
Imagine some people arguing that cars should be driven with the steering wheel while others argued it should be driven by using the accelerator and the brake pedals.
The app operates independently of your phone. Start music, turn off your phone, then control it from your iPad. Reduces battery drain.

That said, the app is so terrible now that I avoid it and use Airplay. Will never buy Sonos again and glad my newest Sonos is now several years old. Bought a JBL Authentic and it works well with Airplay and is cheaper than a comparable Sonos.
I wouldn't recommend either. I bought into the ecosystem around 10 years ago because I had just gotten my first real job and wanted to treat myself to some nice stuff. I got the Play:5 and then the sound bar and subwoofer soon after.
Then, like two years later, everything I bought became 2nd class citizens. I have use Legacy apps that are just barely working. It sucks.

It was super cool when it all worked but if it took them this long to get rid of that CEO, then I don't seem them turning around at any point soon.