skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But "working hard at things that you love" isn't much of a challenge. Your motivation is already there, and your simply overcoming a lack of skills or knowledge.

What's difficult, and more common amongst mere mortals is twofold; trying to find motivation to overcome difficult things, and learning the skills and expertise to accomplish these things. Love for those things isn't really a factor.

Graham really is trying to simplify things a bit too much, and recycling the tropes of natural ability, practice and effort.
“ these can't be used to make weapons, so it's actually a win/win if they get used or stolen.”

I don’t know anything about it, but I worry about who is making those safety assessments and what their conflicts and incentives are. It seems like a lot of things can be weaponized or used to nefarious purposes. I can imagine a portable energy source having a lot of potential uses, say powering small sea craft or whatever.
I resonate with this completely. For me, it’s largely a result of ADHD. My solution has always been to partner with “finishers.”

I’m a spectacular starter, prototyper, and builder. But I cannot complete the damn project for the life of me. My best friend and first employee though? Thrives on that.
Having both could cause issues, as the digital menu is much easier to update than the physical one, which can lead to inconsistencies. Not that it means it shouldn't be an option, it's just something that needs to be considered
Kamala Harris' chief of staff limits access to vice president
> It's your money after all.

All money is debt. For you to have money, someone had to get into debt. Either privately via bank loans, or the public via the government spending (most likely bank loans, only 4% is government spending).

It's not JUST your money. Your money is also someone's debt.

So when Thiel stashes 5 billion away in a Roth IRA instead of spending it, that's 5 billion of debt OTHERS owe. And that's 5 billion in INCOME he is depriving others. (of course he isn't actually holding billions of DOLLARS, but assets valued in dollars, so this isn't exactly the same thing).

Think of it like musical chairs. Thiel just took one of the chairs away (put it in the closet) and someone has to lose the game unless more chairs are added to the game.

In other words, Thiel's winnings ended up as someone else's losses. The game keeps going as long as someone keeps bringing chairs (the government, or bank loans) but as soon as that stops (2008 or covid), someone will lose, and it isn't Thiel. It will be millions of poor people who will lose their jobs, homes, etc.

So the question is, should people hoard debt (and deprive others of income) and gain that much power?

That's the question we as a society need to ask ourselves. And so far, judging from the comments here, everyone is ok with that.

But as I mentioned before, Thiel doesn't hold cash in the IRA, but assets valued in billions right? So in some sense he is only wealthy if there is a system that can convert those securities into cash. In other words, he is only wealthy as long as the system keeps going. But his efforts ultimately undermine that same system (wealth inequality undermines the system, this is a historic fact).
Prometheus rising was such an instrumental book for me. At that point of my life I was dabbling into the occult which is why I ended up getting the book. In made me realize that there are multiple side to any story and you can easily get stuck in echo chambers that re-inforce your own pre-conceptions.

Ironically it's the book that drove me away from the occult. It also create a lot of uncertainty in my life, which at times even today, 20 years later bothers me. I am never 100% sure about anything, because it's all a "maybe". It has also led to a constant evolution of my thinking process because I am always open to new ideas and mindsets.

I remember the last section of the book was totally unrelatable to me. Still own the book, I should probably re-read it, twenty years later.
I think the biggest thing is that life can suck in any of the alternatives. Human suffering is universal. People are reluctant to switch if there isn't a well defined value proposition. Life is about trade offs, so there isn't a perfect solution. Even living very minimally is expensive due to things we have little to no choice in like taxes, medical stuff, etc.

Sure, I could go live in a cabin in the woods. That will mean my wife divorces me, I'd still need a job to pay for taxes and medical bills, I would likely end up incarcerated for not being able to pay child support, and loose the cabin/land anyways.
I have a js library I've been slowly working on for a long time now, that does similar. Rather than work a FUSE mount, it writes real files onto a file system. Still working a bit on part two, and three, which is watching changes to the file system & affecting the JS object live, and watching JS object changes & writing them to the file system. I do want it to be bidirectional. I envision it as a general tool for a lot of things, but being able to see & manipulate configuration easily is an obvious use.

I also have been meaning to extract the filesystem sync stuff out into it's own project. Right now it's a part of some other JS proxy tooling: https://github.com/rektide/prox/blob/master/plugin/write-fs....

Very fun to see some neighboring efforts! Thanks for sharing!
Every company I've seen that has one of those pays jokingly low salaries compared to competitive companies. Rather than it being used as a tool to ensure fairness, it seems more used as a shield against negotiation. "We can't pay you <competitive salary>, that'd be $50k more than someone more senior than you! You wouldn't want to be unfairly paid more than your colleague, would you!?"
Absurd. Perplexing. Truly these people are mad.
It's funny that GitHub ships their own text editor, Atom, but the second example (under the "More than Autocomplete" header) on the Copilot website is clearly using VSCode.
I seem to remember that when React was first introduced, DOM mutations _were_ very expensive. I was under the impression that a lot of optimization was done in reaction to, err, React and similar frameworks?
This comment and the one below it, also about China[1], should be higher up. It was very convenient to be in a restaurant and have a digital menu in a standardized format. Of course, it required a number of factors to align: all interactions were through one of two apps (WeChat or Alipay), the menu layout was standard, font size was not tiny (no zooming necessary), cell and/or wifi coverage was not lacking. There was also a choice between having a menu portal and just a payment portal. Street food vendors usually had a laminated QR code tacked to their cart and you could scan and pay without the vendor needing to ever handle cash, which made for a more efficient processing of the line.

It certainly wasn't a perfect system, but it was a lot better than the US, where restaurants have multiple different menu layouts, some are PDF, some let you pay via mobile, etc. The lack of relative uniformity makes for some positive but many negative user experiences.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27671788
While there is a lot of tinkering, it’s not clear what this adds up to since accuracy seems inherent in the technology used?

> Most FDM/FFF (that is, filament based) printers are capable of approximately the same tolerances and print appearance, as the biggest limiting factor is in the nature of extruded plastic. Asking if a machine has "good prints," or saying "I don't expect the best quality for $xxx" isn't actually relevant for the most part with regards to these machines. Should you need additional detail and higher tolerances, you may want to explore SLA, DLP, and other photoresin options, as those do offer an increase in overall quality.

From: https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/npu0yd/purchase...
I recall some kickstarter maybe that consisted of a white-noise-type speaker physically mounted on top of a smart device that would stop passive listening, anyone remember this
> the media ecosystem around them is worse than what we had with good old color tv+radio

Have you forgotten how vapid TV was in the 80s and 90s? Sure, it's not fantastic now, but it's vastly superior to what it replaced. Before, there were a tiny number of content producers, and what they produced was garbage. We still have the garbage producers with deep pockets, but it's easy to find good, niche content in whatever subjects interest you.
Like an IDE?
Browsers have improved to the point where VirtualDOM is basically unneeded.
> we probably would have argued that this person should have either been fired or paid less.

Does not sound like a healthy conclusion to me. Actually, a pretty shitty one. Not only they were bullied by most of their work colleagues, but they would conspire to lower their salary. The problem is not that salaries are public but that your work environment was really toxic. I hope they found a better place.
Maybe thirty four years later. I don't think there's AI to gather requirements, talk to people, understand a problem and produce code. That's kinda general intelligence level AI.
But this thing can possibly make devs work easier and if it's good enough maybe smaller teams can produce more.
Freight forwarder Hellmann to use drones to beat backed up supply chains
Yes, you are over thinking. Maintain your current setup as long as possible. If at job#1, there is an indication by managers that you're not meeting expectations, then drop job#2.
If it helps, read a bit of history to see how your transgression is all but an invisible blip compared to the depravity humans are capable of.
That's a valid point, looks like we are not in the same role. I work mostly on internal software in a big "enterprise". My customers are mostly internal customers (marketing, sales, ...) but I have a luxury of having a business analyst, project manager or product owner that receive calls from them, so I don't need to explain anything directly to customers.

In rare cases that some C-level break through and complain directly to me, it's usually easy to explain that if he wants a solution or an estimate fast, he should be dealing with datacenter team, since I don't have any leverage upon them, and he can complain directly to the IT-Infrastructure Director, to whom I don't even have direct contact.
It's been a while, but when I developed Windows applications, I generally had a well-defined, observable central data structure. You made updates to it in systematic ways, and then each important section of your UI would handle updates and redraw intelligently.

Sometimes, I'd make use of a component that did this itself, but yeah. At least back then, it was a lot of manual wiring. Maybe similar to backbonejs in some ways.

The toy video games that I wrote were more React-like, in that you would simply update your models, and then a separate process would re-render 30-60 times per second. So, as a developer, you could really just think in terms of data transformations.

Anyway, it's been 15 years since I've done either. I'm not sure how modern, native toolkits work. I assume there are decent React-like top-down-dataflow approaches these days.
Gigantic caveat.

> I agree to these additional telemetry terms as part of the technical preview
> If you’re doing dishes you are not taking a college level course.

It sounds like you assume everyone suffers ADHD and that's no the cause, not everybody learns the same way and the dish washing strategy always worked for me in college.
It no feeling challenging doesn’t make the work itself any less hard; it just makes it more doable. That’s Paul’s point.

I agree with the rest of what you said, but it is orthogonal to the essay’s main point.
It was awhile before I got one - I think I waited for the 3g version - and it was the last piece of technology I've owned that felt truly like holding the future - it was so much better - contacts, calender, photos and phone that worked, visual voicemail, weather app (is this the only iphone app that hasn't changed since inception?).

I still thought a Blackberry was better for (corporate) email and messaging - keyboard and wide screen but carried two devices around until my company no longer provided a Blackberry.
Pedantry time: there is no such thing as a vanilla JS way of building web applications, in the same way there is no vanilla C way of writing compilers. JavaScript as a language does not concern itself with web browsers - that's the responsibility of the DOM API. But even ignoring that, there is no standardized or widely adopted way to build interactive web applications without frameworks.
I'm not at all worried about AI taking over software development. In all likelihood, what you'll see instead are AI plugins in IDE editors which just assist in a much more advanced way than the intellisense we have now. Having machines code out the business logic is very much so something that would be less efficient than having a person do it.

Realistically, it just means that, rather than your coworker code-reviewing you and making a handful of comments, you get a machine to do that, and get two or so comments from your coworker about the business logic.

To answer your question: never.
now they just need to build this into vim.
Or he just was working on a feature, and got annoyed with password prompts. Commented out authorization code, then forgot to comment it back in
That would mean putting effort ("working hard") at understanding something outside one's own thought bubble.

PG's essays are exercises in narcissism and confirmation bias: they're the last place to go to for the kind of wisdom you suggest.
So if it was trained using "source code from publicly available sources, including code in public repositories on GitHub." was it also GPLv2?

So everything generated also GPLv2?
Fiddler Everywhere is moving to premium subscription only beginning June 29th
I would rather live in a cheaply made wooden house than a cheaply made concrete one. The simple common way to build a wooden house is massively redundant. Concrete houses use post and slab, even in poor countries. So in Nairobi, they were having six building collapses per month.

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2016/0430/Why-ar...
But then we wouldn't have the ability to build cross platform apps in HTML/CSS/JS. I'm working on an app that is built on Ionic (packages app for various platforms) and Electron (primary deployment model for desktop utilized by Ionic) that would not be practical if we were stuck on a server side rendering paradigm.

I can use HTML/CSS/JS skills (and Angular) to build a serious business application that runs anywhere and looks the same on each platform (or morphs to the platform UI if I care about that).
What is "the blob" and "blobsters"?

This sounds like a valid critique but the speaker disqualifies themself from me taking them seriously.

To be clear, I totally engage in such gratification myself, both as speaker and reader, but I don't expect anyone who doesn't already agree to be part of the exchange. If I call some one or some class a name, I'm just masturbating with other people who already feel the same. It's gratifying but it's not informative or persuasive or valid argument. I don't expect anyone else to take it as anything but the emotional attack it is.
>The aggregators never really delete anything.

Sort of. Data that is 5+ years old is pretty stale. How many things don't change over that period of time and how can you be sure that they haven't changed? The most valuable things are phone numbers and email addresses. We expect those to be maintained so we can re-establish contact with old friends.
Don't most IDEs handle this already?
Modern reactor designs do not melt down.
If cryptocurrencies have a staying power, there is probably a market opportunity in providing a societal hedge against the ensuing meltdown.
Apple reportedly increases spending on Google cloud services by 50% YoY
LOL, w-a-y b-a-c-k when it was only your name and address that was sold to marketers and the spam was snail mail, friends and I would sing up for things, order catalogs etc. using a different name each time. Then when the junk mail came you knew who sold you out.
It could be a blog post. Hell I can even summarize it with a few sentences.

Work on one thing without distractions for big blocks of time, 1-4 hours. You will make great progress by concentrating on one thing at a time.

....there you have it
I've done this too, and I have one of "those" hard-headed boys that loves to roughhouse, but I've come to believe there is no escape from "Where attention goes, behavior grows." You might be inflicting a punishment, but you are also granting him zealous attention, which is a drug worth some negative side-effects to their mind.

Withdrawing attention - say, to attend to the kid he's injured in another room - seems to change behavior much more effectively, exactly as the psychological literature predicts. Ignoring violent behavior is extremely difficult, but it can produce surprising results. It's taken a few months of this, but my hardheaded 3 year old has just started expressing sincere apologies.
and ethical
Whats going on in the animation? Whats the blue stuff and why is it rotating before the collision?
Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft (2018)
"Participants 92 aircraft passengers aged 18 and over were screened for participation. 23 agreed to be enrolled and were randomized."

"Intervention Jumping from an aircraft (airplane or helicopter) with a parachute versus an empty backpack (unblinded)."

"Main outcome measures Composite of death or major traumatic injury (defined by an Injury Severity Score over 15) upon impact with the ground measured immediately after landing."

"Results Parachute use did not significantly reduce death or major injury (0% for parachute v 0% for control; P>0.9). This finding was consistent across multiple subgroups. Compared with individuals screened but not enrolled, participants included in the study were on aircraft at significantly lower altitude (mean of 0.6 m for participants v mean of 9146 m for non-participants; P<0.001) and lower velocity (mean of 0 km/h v mean of 800 km/h; P<0.001)."

"Conclusions: Parachute use did not reduce death or major traumatic injury when jumping from aircraft in the first randomized evaluation of this intervention. However, the trial was only able to enroll participants on small stationary aircraft on the ground, suggesting cautious extrapolation to high altitude jumps. When beliefs regarding the effectiveness of an intervention exist in the community, randomized trials might selectively enroll individuals with a lower perceived likelihood of benefit, thus diminishing the applicability of the results to clinical practice."

;-)
https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/363/bmj.k5094.full.pdf

"Participants aged 18 and over, seated on an aircraft, and
deemed to be rational decision makers by the enrolling
investigator were eligible. Only participants who were
willing to be randomized in the study were ultimately
enrolled and randomized"
There is Tabnine that can work like this
There's a comparable stack using Skynet and HNS. HNS is a lot cheaper than Ethereum because it's a blockchain dedicated to domains, you aren't competing with things like yield farming or crypto kitties for block space. If fees are high, it's because a lot of people are buying names.

Skynet is different from IPFS in that everything is hosted by paid servers, and it uses direct routing instead of a DHT, so you get a lot better latency. Skynet's IPNS equivalent (called SkyDB) is also a lot faster, p999 on the order of 200ms to update something.

The other nice thing about Skynet is it's all http accessible. Anyone can run their own Skynet portal, and that portal by default serves over http. You can grab any content from any Skynet portal, and there's even an upgrade in development that will automatically find alternate portals for you if requests fail.
This process was one of my most hated "innovations" in food ordering in China. It turns every restaurant into a production line fast food operation, exactly like American chain restaurants. At that point, why even bother going to a restaurant at all? Might as well just order a Sysco-equivalent microwave meal at the supermarket or 7/11, because the flavor and the service will be exactly the same.

For me the best restaurants in China were the mom and pop joints where the person who takes your order is also the person who cooks your meal, or at least where you can see into the kitchen from the dining room so you can call out a request or ask a question as they're preparing it. This way it's much easier to figure out what's in the dish, see if the food is fresh, ask for it a bit more spicy, add another side, whatever. It makes the meal into a more of a social experience, and something that feels homey and satisfying rather than mass-produced.

Ironically going to these sorts of Chinese chain restaurants with the QR code menu, they also tended to be twice the price of the mom and pop joints, so whatever money they might be saving by eliminating a server is definitely not passed down to the consumer.
I think it is more likely related to the pre-established 28% increase in masturbation during home isolation.
Blockchains right now mostly are trying to do exactly this - bring economics into computation and network space. This is of course a higher level solution, but the one that is quite achievable now. Protocols like NEAR and Internet Computer can be good examples of this.

I know this is a holywar topic and many would disagree simply by seeing `blockchain` word used here. But to my mind this exactly the place where this technology is beneficial. We need automated algorithm controlled currency to have this type of smart internet subscription.
Formatting code according to a given style is a much easier task than what Copilot does.
Tabnine, It's you?
What do you mean? Just because something is a prohibited transaction doesn't mean there is a magical fairly that ensures you don't. I'm sure you are aware that the audit-rate for wealthy individuals is (and was) significantly lower than other income brackets.

There is no magical automated system that is going to catch and flag a not-arms-length transaction, and I'm sure he (well, his legal team) is sitting around saying "well it's a shame this wasn't caught at the time, you know, statute of limitations and such".
React’s changes over time have always been broadly compatible, and the same under the hood, just presented and manipulated a different way at the surface. Migrating to anything like Svelte would be a radical and extremely incompatible change on multiple fronts. It’s never, ever going to happen; the closest you’ll get will be another layer on top of React that embeds something like Svelte—such as https://github.com/Rich-Harris/react-svelte.

Svelte’s approach requires detailed knowledge of the structure of state, and requires compilation: components’ <script> blocks are not written in JavaScript, but rather a language with the same general syntax but different semantics, and some places where JavaScript is too flexible to be tractable get replaced with special template syntax (like {#each} instead of for-loops or Array.prototype.map). Svelte cannot be implemented as a JavaScript library (I disqualify eval()). Svelte is also deliberately severely limited in what it can express in various places, whereas React gives you the full power of JavaScript (for better and for worse).

You could perhaps implement an optimising compiler for a small subset of React components that avoid problematic patterns and are written in TypeScript with proper specifications of the types of state and props; but if you considered it unacceptable for this compiler to change the component’s semantics, I think you’d be surprised at how little serious React code in the wild could actually be supported. Even simple loops might be out of reach. The Svelte approach can’t be a progressive enhancement, it’s an all-or-nothing (at the component level).
> semi-rural Texas

Pattern matched.