skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll put on my devil's advocate hat and try to argue for the positive social impact of tech companies.

Thanks to tech companies, people can communicate more easily with each other.

People call Google out for being an ad company. Their mission is to organize the world's information and make it accessible. Showing you an ad for burgers near your house when your recent YouTube watches have all been for burger reviews is doing exactly that.

Facebook helps people connect and stay in touch over long distances (and so does email). I have a brother in Canada, I live in France. We talk via WhatsApp. Basically every person I know living in a country far from their family uses WhatsApp or a similar service to communicate. Once again, those much vilified ads that everyone always complains about are helping people find things that might improve their lives.

Netflix entertains people. It gives them an escape from the tedium of their boring office jobs in tech companies (;D)

Amazon (and Ali Baba) has unified the world's market place. You can now get basically anything from anywhere, delivered to your house in less than a week.

The long tail of platforms like YouTube and Instagram have enabled hobbists and enthusiasts that would have spent their whole lives in isolation to connect and share their passions.

We're having this discussion on an online communications platform made by a tech company (Y Combinator). It is enabling us to both learn more about the world and improve errors in our thinking by communicating, despite that fact that we very probably live in completely separate world and will never have a chance to meet in real life.

The abundance of computing power and internet connection has spread knowledge throughout the world and is probably responsible for a fair amount of scientific progress. Any 10 year old with a basic smartphone now has access to basically the sum total of humanity's knowledge, especially if they use SciHub and LibraryGenesis.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to read a Wikipedia article about the Roman empire, maybe in Dutch or German to improve my knowledge of those languages, using Google Translate if I have to, and thank God that I get to live in these wonderful times. <3
I had a similar experience when I bought a pressure washer[1] that required an app. Some things just shouldn’t need one.

1. https://www.kaercher.com/au/home-garden/pressure-washers/sma...
We're definitely heading in the right direction!

Our company's biggest remaining problem is finding a reliable IdP that isn't primarily for individuals, self-hosted or based on Active Directory. There are some alternatives, but they are mainly country-specific (like Freja) or not well integrated enough with e.g. OAuth. We've considered at some point to pivot our company to focus on a fully European IdP, as we feel it's a fundamental missing puzzle piece!
Why make it work with a mobile app at all? How is that even a convenience? This is an appliance you need to be physically present at to load and unload.
Man I love it. Back in 1999/2000 I was very into Quake mapping and Half-Life mapping. I didn't make any good maps but the community was great. I remember talking to other mappers on ICQ every night.

I believe the community is still thriving.
> Piano Axioms

Quite disappointed it's just a typo...
>That's hard to believe.

I understand why you'd feel that way but classics departments aren't what they used to be. It's pretty common for even elite universities these days to not require grad students to understand the languages of the cultures they purportedly study across the board, let alone for Latin.

https://blogicarian.blogspot.com/2019/03/argumentum-ad-ignor...
He was just showing how tall something was, right guys?
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I wonder how long it will be before we need to start paying subscriptions to use our appliances or pay per use. Bosch is leaving money on the table by only allowing you to use DRMed detergent cartridges too.
Try cursor and 3.5 sonnet. It's definitely good enough. It's good if you give it specific functions to write or if you write a well structured plan in markdown.
I think you've made some good points.

However:

> All the non-USA-allies developed their own markets

I have friends and family in India, and I'm not aware of homegrown alternatives to any of the following:

* gmail

* amazon

* google search

* whatsapp

* linkedin

* spotify

* facebook

* yt shorts

On that last one, when India banned TikTok overnight, it was a golden opportunity for a different homegrown alternative to step in, but it looks like YT/IG captured most of that market.

Happy to be corrected, though. If you have concrete examples, that'd be good to know!
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> As for subtle push app updates by Signal themselves being a vector- i'd think the Open Source nature of the app prevent that

The lack of reproducible builds for Signal’s apps has been a topic of discussion for quite some time:

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/641
May I ask why you don’t get a used 3090 with 24GB VRAM?
Is OpenRouter planning on distilling models off the prompts and responses from frontier models? That's smart - a little gross - but smart.
https://archive.ph/xpZHl
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Same with so many things people fascinate on, in our short sighted culture.
If nobody was actually hiring people with "short stints" (<2 yrs) then you wouldn't be able to find anybody with a short stint ...

Although you wouldn't also see so many short stints if people weren't paid the direct cost of replacement ...
Yes, but researchers use Pytorch and those researchers end up being the end users of the GPU clusters.

NVIDIA GPUs sell so well because they work with what researchers actually use.
I'd love to take a stance like that, but the reality is I've already sunk about 6 hours total into the whole operation, and I have quite limited time for my home maintenance + improvement projects as it is (my bench currently has a new faucet set to fix the leaky bathroom faucet, as well as an exhaust fan to fix the broken one in our bathroom... and those are just the things that are currently broken, not the dozen or so routine maintenance things I am behind on otherwise!).

If taking a stand means sacrificing another 2-4 hours (and wrangling that dumb dishwasher back into the minivan, probably with some water spilling out this time, causing more pain since it'll cause minivan issues lol), I don't know if I have the time for it.

That also assumes I can find a suitable replacement unit (and wrangle it, and install it) without seriously disrupting the dish-handling routine in the house for another day or three!

Sadly, that means Bosch wins this time. But if I never buy another Bosch device again (I have one of their water heaters, and a fancy ear thermometer that I rather liked...), maybe they will lose in the long run.

Plus, now I have a long-term project to hack my dishwasher.
Best of luck. I've been wanting to build this for 2 years but don't have the time or passion available to do it justice.

My goals overlap a lot.

If you haven't seen https://huntr.co I think they do a great job helping you manage job hunting.

I think the social feed is LinkedIn's weakness as well. It creates a bad incentive for the company. I would use it a lot more if the feed was useful instead of fake engagement bait. Same with LinkedIn Learning being more about basic entry level courses than quality expert content.

My suggestion is to help people build valuable networks that discuss actual hard topics. I've seen a few companies try to create small exclusive groups that cost money to join but they try to guarantee meaningful, intelligent discussions & sharing. LinkedIn once tried to limit your network, which I still think was the right way to run it.

A popular marketing technique is to be the "Anti" company. I hope you can pull off the Anti-LinkedIn. The copywriting for that should write itself.

One more aside on recruiting. LinkedIn's infamous for terrible recruiters trying to fill quotas it seems. I don't know if recruiters need limits on messaging people or some type of ranking system.
They have had software for decades. They were run by microcontrollers. The only difference is that it was an embedded system with no network capabilities.
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HN's idea of 'repost' is not totally obvious but is something like 'would it produce more-or-less the same discussion' and in this case it likely would.
very beautiful. I will be using this
Interesting. Summer 84/85 (maybe 85/86) I used a port of PCC to System/360 (done, I believe, by Scott Kristjanson) on the University of British Columbia mainframes (Amdahls running MTS). I was working on mail software, so I had to deal with EBCDIC/ASCII issues, which was no fun.

I sometimes wonder if that compiler has survived anywhere.
This is not just dishwashers - robot vacuums are super bad with this one, did not see any with local first app. ACs are just as sketchy. Another opportunity where EU can fix worldwide market.
Democrats provided a negative 6,265,888 votes for better engagement in Election 2024 than in 2020.

But Democrat engagement was somehow negative marginally higher, at huge expense by independent voters.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250114165808/https://projects....

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_president...
Excited to see another ReactOS update! Congrats developers and testers!
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> It was up to the author to parse the sentence in advance of posting it. And competent writers don't invite such obvious double meanings -- they undermine the value of the essay.

The author? She can't do it for the reader; to my knowledge it's a correct sentence, just a a bit verbose.

> Expressions change over time, but normally by consensus. Without consensus, one is entitled to wonder whether the writer knows what the expression means.

Yes, you sure had trouble understanding it...

> Some writers don't need a spell checker. Others require it.

Some are trying to win a Pulitzer, others just to write a substack article.

Let's not pretend those were the reason why you didn't like the article, come on.
The best friend you can make is an appliance repair man. Ask him which brands are good and which bad, and you'll rarely be steered awry
Is there kinda gui builder for web?
“Launching” an application (browser) has been a common phrase for as long as I can remember.
That is why if you are a cracked hacker, to want to join one of these large tech companies is like wanting to join IBM in the 1990s.

You are much better off joining a startup or starting one of your own.
How do I use Home Assistant to run my dish washer, charge my electric car, start my washing machine, etc based on the capacity of my solar array's battery and the fluctuation of electricity prices day to day to pay the least amount of money without software connectivity? All of this is possible today with the right hardware.

It does NOT need cloud connectivity and all of these devices should be able to communicate locally to a matter or zigbee hub or over Wi-Fi without Internet directly to my server. That is the actual problem. We should not let corporate greed stifle innovation by saying new features are pointless because a company then can try to exploit it for further profit.
This is the same logic that got DJI a ban from some proposed invisible link to Uyghur oppression.
I often wonder how we impart this kind of knowledge to AI.

Imagine someone steps into a subway carriage with only one other passenger in it. They're not likely to sit directly beside or opposite the other person. Would a robot follow this kind of etiquette?

I suppose if you emphasize personal space in the training data, but would the developers realize they need to do that?
> so few Americans are familiar with the actual work behind jobs in the agricultural sector or related ones, I would argue that for many Americans the reality of this type of work is almost indistinguishable from fables or myth in their psychological context, due to lack of exposure.

The lack of exposure isn’t accidental. Romanticizing farming doesn’t extend to romanticizing farmers. It’s not like you couldn’t go to a county fair, take a stroll around and ask yourself what this thing is all about. Or, actually talk with the farmer at your farmer’s market. Keeping the people at arm’s length is key to maintaining the romantic idea of farming as something to be escaped to rather than a difficult and sometimes dangerous job. Even some reading about silo safety would be edifying.
Diversity makes teams stronger but makes clear communication harder. 20% of the population aren't neurotypical... they're simply not wired the same way. Throw in cultural differences.

I was so excited when I found The Judge: Am I misreading the tone of this?

What a wonderful tool to have at hand when things go awry in email threads, chat rooms etc.
The problem is the control board/electronics was not the only thing going south on that GE unit.

The door hinges were giving way, the door gasket had started to get iffy (not quite leaking yet, but it needs a new one), the top rack doesn't go in and out easily anymore...

All those parts aren't even made to be fixable anymore. At least if it's a pump or control board, those are relatively swappable. The rail system seems to be integrated into the sidewall!

On our old fridge (only like 12 years old), we lived for 6 years with a broken drawer because the slide for it is literally integrated into the inside wall... not repairable at all, without an entire new shell.

If we had a 30 year old device, it would probably all be repairable. Sadly, there seem to be very few consumer options (and nowadays even 'professional' options) that are made with longevity as a feature target.
What would stop anyone from putting this on a quadcopter to deliver payloads to parking planes?
AMD's limitation is more of a software problem than a hardware problem at this point.
I like how Cognizant is listed twice.
My dad built houses. Sometimes, like another poster here, I think about how his work will be around for decades if not centuries (they were nice houses). I think about how I might feel if I had kept his business going, maybe worked to expand it. Then I think about being 16, leaving the house at six to go pour concrete piers and being exhausted and caked in mud and cement by lunchtime. And how it felt a lot less exciting on the first Friday than it did on the first Monday.
https://www.axios.com/2022/07/15/gas-stations-prices-closing
> If just having a label to apply alleviates the negative emotion, isn't it a placebo?

You could use the exact same line of reasoning to ask "if just talking about an issue with a professional alleviates an issue, isn't that a placebo?"

And the answer is obviously, "No, talk therapy is an extremely well-known mental health intervention with an extremely high effect size on average"

Anxiety and depression are disorders in the way you think about things. If you provide someone with a different and effective way of thinking about things, your are directly treating the disorder. The "maladaptive pattern" flowchart[1] might be a meme, but it's also a very real concept in psychology.

From a more personal point of view: while a label can defining be used in a confining way where it serves as an excuse to not "have to" do a thing (and I certainly know people like that), I find it's very useful to have something concrete to point at and say "this method that other people claim works great won't work for me because my brain doesn't work like that, I need to find a way to alter the method to make myself successful".

[1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/maladaptive-pattern
when all of the sudden europe is flood by ukrainian women leaving their husbands in the country to fight a country under bombs, you don’t really need media to provide you with a particular point of view. Reality and personal testimonies are far more than enough.
Many such bureaus have been established over the years that have extralegal powers existing basically outside the Constitution. I’m thinking of the NLRB, CFPB, FBI, IRS, and several others.

We as a society have a consensus that we need such agencies to manage the hugely complex country that we have become, but that doesn’t necessarily mean these bureaucratic organizations are themselves properly managed.

Years ago, I read about a man who the IRS was trying to levy extensive fines on. After five years of court battles, he committed suicide.

Perhaps this was an extreme case, but there is nonetheless an important question that arises out of this tragedy: does the government exist to serve the people, or do the people exist to serve the government?

I believe our colonial era checks and balances no longer protect us from a bureaucracy that is automatically funded by the Treasury, that the President has limited control over, and that only an act of Congress can change.

In an era when no one political party has enough control to enact legislation (i.e. a filibuster proof majority), the bureaucracy is effectively out of control and the only real way it can be reformed is by uncovering waste and corruption.
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Pixels already have the Screenshots app that indexes screenshots and makes them searchable. My assumption is the context window size is still too small for all of your data to go into it.
The Internet of Things is the ultimate digital land grab.
No medication to make people ripped (yet). Though I have to imagine someone is trying to find a way to induce myostatin-related muscle hypertrophy without gene therapy.
indeed. open source will win. sam Altman was wrong: https://www.lycee.ai/blog/why-sam-altman-is-wrong
Why Did the Government Declare War on My Adorable Tiny Truck?
Obligatory reference to John Shutt and Kernel whennever FEXPRs are mentioned.
Would be great if Bosch found some magical way to make their firmware work with button combos for the 'hidden' modes. Or to at least make local connection the default, and have a way to set that up without Internet.
And women
“Haters” is nothing more than a thought-terminating cliche.
>but these products have to be rejected at retail

That only works if other options don't have these requirements.

Having recently bought new appliances, they almost all have some features gated behind "the cloud".

Even many exhaust fans (that go above your stove) have wifi now!
https://archive.is/aCXTh
I think that's the myth promoted by his opponents, to win the 1980 election and of course to demonize all Democrats and other enemies.

But forget all that and examine it on the merits: As a start, he inherited the post-Vietname military, a shambles already, OPEC embargos, Iran, an America that had lost great credibility in Vietnam. He did Camp David, the most successful and effective security action in the Mideast to this day; began deregulation (yes it was him, not Reagan); put Paul Volcker in the Fed and signed the relevant legislation to get inflation under control; implemented the new all-volunteer military; was right about energy policy, ...
It’s not about whether the person knows or not. It’s more about that the person can’t believe this is happening even if it follows all the norms that we’re all supposed to know about, apparently.

In other words, just because such a system could be used in this way, is it good that it is being used this way? That’s the energy this is coming from.

But I agree with your premise, even in its snark, none of us are stupid - we should already know.
I could see a remote notification that it finished being useful. That said, the manufacturers would never go for this, but a dry contact for a GPO that is asserted on the machine finishing is likely all a number of people here would ever need/want.
We've had this with TVs for like 3 years now... though when they do terrible things, they don't turn off a home's heat or start fires, usually.
Who moved my (virtual) cheese?
How did the diagnosis help you cope? Did you seek some kind of treatment as a result? Did it help you change your behavior? You are describing a lot of what I experience but having someone say "me too" doesn't help me personally with overcoming these challenges.
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When Roger Bacon discovered what Gunpowder was capable of, he kept it to himself - he thought that once the poor knew how to make gunpowder, the poor would make weapons to destroy them.

We cannot let that happen with AI technology, and it is a very difficult conversation when we're talking about technology that has already replaced likely hundreds of thousands of jobs in the form of extending the amount of productivity individuals can produce.

To you, this is a moral issue, and one I absolutely agree with at its core. But this is technology, in my opinion, has the risk of eventually triggering a form of social stratification. The focus should be on keeping the technology ubiquitous, accessible, and unrestricted.
Yup. It's time to replace the controlboard with an ESP32 or something! Did you keep your old dishwasher?
There has to be some backpressure on the supply chain. I appreciate that you used your clout to make the issue public, but sometimes I worry that it only goes so far as our little echo chamber.