skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Especially since board members are typically execs at other companies. Anyone remotely competent knows that the macro changes leading to remote work surprised everyone. I just don't find it credible that RTO is about CEO's wanting to keep office leases looking like smart decisions.

If anything, it's exactly the opposite. If remote work is genuinely good for the company, a good CEO will acknowledge that and work to minimize downside from unnecessary leases.

IMO execs are often wrong about RTO, but for simple cause/effect reasons, not elaborate conspiracies to retroactively justify office leases.
While I agree that people getting internet in this day and age is _basically_ a necessity (and thus the govt should interfere when needed to make that happen), doing it in this way is the worse possible implementation. Was it necessary in this case? I don't know.

First, foster competition. I don't know the NY landscape, but in the West Coast, it's not uncommon for a residency to have effectively a single option for ISP. Ensure consumers have options (incentivize creation of new ISPs? Stop allowing big corporations to buy small ones? break up big corporations and force them to compete?)

Second could the government offer public internet? (ie, be a player in the market).

Only as a last resort should these types of heavy hand price enforcements should be taken.
Show HN: Chat Recap AI, AI Relationship Tips by Analyzing WhatsApp Chat History
I made this as I see the 'Chat Recap' trends, now it's free to use and no signup required. Now it has basic chat stat feature, and the AI tip feature is on the way.
Five years of React Native at Shopify
Any links to good third-party apps?
Increased AI use linked to eroding critical thinking skills
Thanks! I appreciated our face to face chats as well :)
> And what did AOC get in return?

We probably won’t know for a long time.
Yep, that's the progress I'm referring to. I'd say this is pretty basic functionality (managing more than one cluster) for enterprise type deployments. Proxmox might do a lot, but it doesn't have feature parity with VMware's stuff.
> You can't just make any shit up and get away with it.

Trump and Elon Musk literally just make any shit up and get away with it.
This article brings way more questions than it answers like:

1. Starlink has more than 20K customers, can I get Starlink at home?

2.
A) What if I live somewhere remote and the nearest cable is 20 miles from home?

B) If Verizon has cable but I want Xfinity, should they be forced to dig 20 miles to my home?

C) I am waiting more than 14 days for this 20-mile cable to come to my home and I am running out of patience. How long can they stall this?

3. Will there be a cap on how many customers can access the $15 plan per ISP?
What if we all hate Verizon and make a hidden Facebook group where we all choose to go to Verizon for this cheap internet (for example)?

4. If someone is already locked into a long-term contract with a higher price, can they switch immediately to the $15 plan without penalty?

5. Will the $15 plan include unlimited data, or can ISPs impose data caps?
So far in the article I saw only bandwidth requirements—no mention of data caps or latency.

6. What happens to customers if their ISP gets an exemption after initially offering the $15/$20 plan?

I am sure the lawmakers had good (PR) intentions here, and probably my questions are already answered, but this article is in pure Ars style.

I'm not even from the USA, I'm just curious how these things work.

Edit: Formatting and swapped ISP names in the examples
They're not expected to have predicted the next pandemic; rather, they're expected to come up with novel ideas of how to do business. That's the point, or, rather, the justification for why just one year of one job can have them set for life. You get paid an insane amount of money - many multiples of the median lifetime income of Americans - because you make the right bets that either save the company massive sums of money, create new revenue streams, or both.

We were having "disaster recovery" days at my old employer in 2015. You found a place outside the office to attempt to do your work from, and made adjustments to make your various pieces of technology work. It worked, and the implications of it working should have been obvious to our betters.
Oregon trail was conceptually simple and so well crafted BASIC would be plenty fast. Most other games were move complex and probably needed assembly. Though it was common to call inline assembly (as binary code) in that era as well.
Hey! It's 50% of the year, thank you very much (October to April).

Summer days here are sunny and super long.
It helps to keep a burner phone just for those. We don't use them everyday anyway.
But do you need to wear sunscreen in said glass box?
FWIW, I have no idea if this is any good. My point is, I found this after maybe 3 minutes searching. If we were to spend 30 minutes, we would definitely find something reasonable.
I don't think human-replacement is most people's goal. I think ordinary people want to express themselves and generative AI is a promising technology to help with that. Unfortunately, I think current paradigms around LLM/genAI products favor automation over creativity and human involvement.

All that said, human-replacement is certainly the goal of many businesses.
Careful now. Don't want to upset the future generation of unemployed prompt engineers.
Or perhaps is suffering from realization that there's no free lunch on this planet and sometimes it is paid for with drama and even very very rare one may get to be the one who calls the shots. Question is whether one is in position to pull it up when one needs to take the credit back.

He seems do be doing fine, though, perhaps also is having the time of his life, nothing wrong from perspective of other for-profit projects. Wonder who promised this and how was it guaranteed it'd not happen at some point?

Besides LLMs be soon spitting 'wordpress retold' with Cursor and all, and he may have just realized it.
Treating people with respect can sometimes mean learning enough about them to understand a little about what life is like in their shoes. There are a lot of different kinds of people wearing a lot of shoes. Learning about them is a lifelong process. It’s not about learning “a long list of rules” but more “learning about a lot of kinds of people and their experiences.”
> In other words, it's common usage has devolved to mean "you're an idiot."

So liberals call conservative idiots "woke"? I think people have lost the plot here in trying to define this word.
It doesn't offend me.

Picture going into a restaurant, and before the hostess seats you she says "I'd like to remind you that I love black people".

That's out of place it is. It doesn't offend anyone, it's just an odd thing to say. You may not perceive it so if you're inside the bubble.
Fun fact: We have a place called Billy Bob's Bagels in Houston, and it's actually fantastic!
I think the basis of his arguement is a prig is incentivized by calling out the moral failures of others to make themselves feel more virtuous.

Where perhaps the quakers or MLK were doing it out of moral outrage.
> I have no faith that there is some authoritative entity that could objectively determine what is a lie and what is the truth.

I read this as "it is impossible to determine truth". If there exists a well resourced entity who's entire purpose in life is to determine objective truth and they are unable to do so what chance do I have?
Ai is less useful for those people because they cant tell if its right or wrong output
My more qualified anecdote after 30 years in the industry is that you are wrong. I've worked with 20-somethings that have been all-in-drink-the-koolaid, as well as anyone of any age, as well as people of all ages that were there only there for the paycheck. It isn't "generational", it's a personality trait. You either have it or you don't.
> Price increases are to be capped at 2 percent per year, and state officials will periodically review whether minimum required speeds should be raised.

2% is below current inflation rates, so this could potentially go haywire super easily.

New York has been here before; the subway was fixed to a nickel for four decades, which ended up bankrupting the private subway companies and set the stage for the underfunded, deferred maintenance of future decades, which New York is still working through the backlog for nearly a hundred years later.
I think tracking vibe shifts is interesting and noteworthy.
Nick Clegg left just in time.
>My personal take on this has to do entirely with how the decision to block WP Engine access to WordPress.org, unless they were willing to pay for it, was arrived at.

Matt would be allowed to charge for access to Wordpress.org. It's his property. What you can't do is:

make a service publicly available and then threaten a company that it needs exclusive terms

In the lawsuit the judge asked Automattic to come up with a price for access to Wp.org and Matt did not provide an estimate.

>we think we're going to need either ask that you setup local mirrors, or we can maybe arrange a pay as you go deal.

In the lawsuit Automattic asked the judge to force WPengine to shut down their mirrors. They want control over the system. Which is also legit, but legally you can't offer public terms for all and then threaten a company with "the nuclear option" unless they agree to a separate set of terms for 8% of revenue.

Wordpress.org could have terms that allow companies to setup mirrors, but they explicitly don't want this, and wordpress.org is hardcoded into Wordpress Core.
It's a largely artificial problem, too, with very small tidal effects originally.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embanking_of_the_tidal_Thames

The original marshlands were drained gradually for agriculture, and the land sank as it dried. The southeast of the island has been sinking relative to sea level for natural reasons as well.

From the link above:

> The Embanking of the tidal Thames is the historical process by which the lower River Thames, at one time a shallow waterway, perhaps five times broader than today, winding through malarious marshlands, has been transformed by human intervention into a deep, narrow tidal canal flowing between solid artificial walls, and restrained by these at high tide.

> With small beginnings in Roman Londinium, it was pursued more vigorously in the Middle Ages. Mostly it was achieved by farmers reclaiming marshland and building protective embankments or, in London, frontagers pushing out into the stream to get more riverfront property. Today, over 200 miles of walls line the river's banks from Teddington down to its mouth in the North Sea; they defend a tidal flood plain where 1.25 million people work and live. Much of present-day London is recovered marshland: considerable parts lie below high water mark.
You obviously didn't read the article. He calls out how virtue signallers quickly change what the rules are around which word are OK.

Here is someone who you may or may not consider to be a far right bad actor explaining what woke is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaHLd8de6nM
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42682055
It should be possible for vouch-capable users to un-vouch in order to demote obvious rage-bait like this article. I'm sorry, but no constructive or intellectually curious discussion is possible here.
I think what’ll happen when people say “AI will replace X people” (engineers in this case) it’s not that it’ll for example replace 100% of what 80 people might do (even if they’re kid-level), but rather it’ll make 8 people 10 times more efficient type of thing .. didn’t Tesla’s head of ai or self driving say publicly years ago that co-pilot wrote 80% of his code? It’s not quite apples to apples but you can see how it’s progressing. I know that’s not what Zuck said but I wonder if that might be what he meant?
2 out of 3 of my Sonos devices were rendered useless by their policies. One day they were functional and working, and the next day they were not. One of these was a fancy, very expensive jog-wheel remote that I rather liked (every one of these in use all got absolutely bricked, deliberately, in a bullshit move), and the other was a Sonos Bridge (a wireless access point) that they didn't deem worthy of working with new software (even though that was also bullshit).

The remaining device has mechanical issues (as old speakers sometimes do). This one is disappointing, but at least it isn't irrational.
If you only keep your entire site static while test one variable change at a time, it could be statistically significant, other wise if your flow changes some where while you do this algo, it may be misleading you into a color and then under perform because you've made a change else where before users get to this page.
Well if you tried this in real life your great...grandkids would now have modern cars to drive to the nearest store and buy more ammo anytime they want. Or they could just buy food from a modern grocery store.
Right, and mandates like this make the market that much less appealing for anyone considering the massive capital costs needed to compete.
Lorne Michaels Is the Real Star of "Saturday Night Live"
Five days ago Zuckerberg called for more transparency and the end of fact checking at Meta followed by a press junket to praise Trump for "just wanting America to win". Now he is asking for Trump's protection from the EU.

Could it be more transparent?
Very handy! I forgot about `git bisect skip`.
Fascinating that with such a simple simulation you can see grain boundaries like those in metals forming. Look at the second image, those are almost identical to what they looked like in our material science courses.
Hugo is by no stretch of the imagination a drop in replacement for wordpress in my understanding. I understand the average joe uses wordpress for the UI and huge ecosystem, rather than it's technical capabilities (there are a million cms). Yes, technically speaking there is nothing preventing you from reimplementing everything in hugo, nothing except many months of labor

Said differently, the person who will successfully and painlessly migrate wordpress to hugo is not an average case, but a minority.
shrug Well I've been on HN for about 20 years, and I'm not anti-pg (he's about 50/50 by my accounting). I'm also anti-censorship, anti-authoritarian, anti-mob.

But he missed the mark here. It feels like he published a first-draft without getting any dissenting takes on one of the biggest hot-button topics on the web. I (or a million other people) would have been happy to read a draft of this and explain that he'd create offense and confusion with his... attempt to explain the history of priggishness around social justice based on his lived experience... if that's really what this is supposed to be.
It's not like the salesy-CEO was writing the code, there was still a bunch of engineers who said "hey this sounds like a great idea". Personally I want my CEOs to be on the sales side, make more money for the company. That being said you best have a good CTO/CIO that aren't sales-oriented.
I hear a lot of qualitative speak but nothing quantitative.
Performance Discovery: IOPS vs. IOPS
Sucrose breaks down to fructose and glucose very rapidly so by the time you consume it there's no longer any sucrose in the drink to the point that it is chemically identical to a soda sweetened with HFCS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY66qpMFOYo
https://www.kavitareader.com

Kavita is awesome. I host it on my pc and serve it to my iPad/iPhone over a zerotier VPN
The parallels between the "original sin" in Christian theology and "... privilege" in social justice discourse are pretty obvious.

I also find it rather amusing that the social justice movement tends to be so US-centric - i.e. focusing on the issues that are specific to or manifest most strongly in US, and then projecting that focus outwards, sometimes to the point of cultural intrusiveness (like that whole "Latinx" thing which seems to be nearly universally reviled outside of US).

At the same time many people sincerely believe that US is not just a bad country - I'm fine with this as a matter of subjective judgment, and share some of it even - but that it's particularly bad in a way that no other country is. It's almost as if someone took American exceptionalism and flipped the sign. Which kinda makes me wonder if that is really what's happening here.
Don't argue with me about definitions, I'm trying to explain what I think the GP meant and why `the "late stage capitalism" people lack rigor and don't add to the conversation` is incorrect.

Capitalism-imperialism: a system based on endless growth and expansionism, where the proletariat in the imperial core is pacified by the crumbs the capitalist give it from the plunder of the colonies; the crumbs also allow the proletariat to buy the goods and services, thus maintaining demand, sort of.

Late stage capitalism-imperialism: the entire planet in conquered, the "low-hanging" resources have been consumed, there is nowhere left to expand, except inward, so the capitalists start cannibalizing the proletariat in the imperial core by giving it less and less crumbs, in order to achieve even higher rates of profit; to remain in power, while the masses see their quality of life decline / starve, they need to consolidate more and more power. More than the absolute monarchs ever had.

> the entire planet in conquered, the "low-hanging" resources have been consumed

that same sentence canNOT be used to describe any human endeavor in any other epoch. We are in the anthropocene now.
This is simply bad writing. And it's also quite offensive given the origin (and ultimate conservative perversion) of the term "woke."
I used to be a fan of Sonos and bought one of their speakers. The state of speakers to play music is actually pretty sad now: you're basically relegated to Sonos or a smart speaker (which I do not want).

I believe my (rather old) Sonos is now not supported and there's really no reason for that. It's such a Google move (eg earlier Nests aren't Matter-compatible for really no reason).

Even when I was using it, there were basic issues that plague most network-connected devices: they're usually really bad with dealing with transient network issues. Like if my Internet hiccups, I don't want the Internet radio station I'm playing to stop and have to be manually restarted.

Also, Sonos insists (or it did when I last looked into it) of creating it's own 2.4GHz mesh network. There was really no way of forcing it to use your existing network. You could kind of turn off the internal mesh network and force it to use Ethernet but not entirely.

As a user, I want to play my Spotify or Apple Music and have that synced across multiple speakers. That's the real value proposition of something like Sonos. It shouldn't be that hard. Particularly with music, you get fetch the whole song. There's really no reason for a network interruption at all.

I don't necessarily want to use a dedicated app either. I want to treat my Sonos as just another output choice on Spotify like headphones or a Bluetooth speaker.

Fault tolerance and ease of setup is what something like Sonos should be about. And that's hard because you have to deal with a long-tail of issues like packet loss, token expiry with third-party providers and so on.

I have no idea what Sonos have been doing isntead.
One thing to keep in mind, WordPress being open source was an afterthought. It inherited a GPL from b2/cafelog.

If Matt woke up one morning and decided he wanted to make WordPress closed source, he couldn't. But what he could do is force everyone to pay a license fee for the name, and anyone who did not pay he publicly makes hell for them. You could also pretend to encourage them to fork, knowing full well they would be bound by a GPL just like him.

This is actually a very successful business strategy and even has a name: racketeering.
Is there a reason to choose VGG16 over more modern models?
Only the newest sonos speakers have bluetooth, the problems with Sonos are nothing to do with it. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-happened-sonos-app-techn... has a good write up.
Yeah, the wiim mini is very reasonable.

The other option for multi-room sync is AirPlay, on any device where that is possible (including wiim), so it’s pretty easy to solve multi-room audio these days.

Chromecast Audio lost the ability to do multi-room sync in a patent dispute with sonos
That must be the trickle-down effect everyone talking about in the 80ies. ;)
A silver lining is that if fewer sites use WordPress, the web won't look nearly as homogeneous as it does now.
woke wasn't bad in the beginning, but it became more powerful than needed and that power was abused. When you get people to rename universities and streets you grew up intimately with, it's very annoying.
RootLoops: A color scheme generator for cereal lovers
> The issue with this approach is that the more you can control, the less the compiler can assume.

That's absolutely true, but there's a workaround, albeit a complicated one. The compiler internals need the same kind of constraints or traits that abstract code such as language interfaces or template parameters can have. These can then be used to constrain the internals in a way that then would allow assumptions to be safely "plumbed through" the various layers. The (big!) challenge here is that these abstractions haven't been well-developed in the industry. Certainly nowhere near as well as the typical runtime "type theory" as seen in modern languages.

> some very basic ones like allocating heap memory.

Well... this is sort-of my point! For example, what's the fundamental difference between allocating memory in some heap[1] structure at runtime and a compiler allocating members in a struct/record/class for optimal packing?

IMHO, not much.

E.g.: Watch this talk by Andrei Alexandrescu titled "std::allocator Is to Allocation what std::vector Is to Vexation": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIb3L4vKZ7U

It really opened my eyes to how one could very elegantly make a very complex and high-performance heap allocator from trivial parts composed at compile-time.

There's no reason that a nearly identical abstraction couldn't also be used to efficiently "bin pack" variables into a struct. E.g.: accounting for alignment, collecting like-sized items into contiguous sections, extra padding for "lock" objects to prevent cache issues, etc...

This is what my dream is: that a struct might just be treated as a sort-of comptime heap without deletions. Or even with deletions, allowing fun stuff like type algebra that supports division. I.e.: The SELECT or PROJECT-AWAY operators!

There was some experimental work done in the Jai language to support this kind of thing, allowing layouts such as structure-of-arrays or arrays-of-structures to be defined in code but natively implemented by the compiler as-if it was a built-in capability.

[1] Not really a traditional heap in most language runtimes these days. Typically a combination of various different allocators specialised for small, medium, and large allocations.

PS: The biggest issue I'm aware of with ideas like mine is that tab-complete and IDE assistance becomes very difficult to implement. On the other hand, keeping the full compiler running and directly implementing the LSP can help mitigate this... to a degree. Unsolved problems definitely remain!
It's not a huge ask or heavy lift.
the issue is that the other side applied a context to it that is not the same context people who created it mean. So you’re taking your own interpretation applying it to somebody else’s saying and turning it into a negative thing even though that’s not what they mean by it. And then you are lambasting them for your own negative connotation applied to what they think is a positive thing.
Github repo: https://github.com/hamvocke/root-loops