skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well that's a strawman. That is not a belief I hold and no where did I claim or imply I did. There's nothing in my comment, or in von Neuman's stance that I'm aware of that, that endorses world domination. I also don't see any reason to evoke the emotions associated with the word genocide either...

What I believe is that preventing development and possession of nuclear weapons by other nations would very likely lead to less deaths over time than nuking Russia would have. Are you really not concerned that we as a species may eventually wipe ourselves out? I am.
What’s the purpose of an article like this if the author starts with a list of decisions which lead to his success, but then immediately follows with “my journey was 99% luck and 1% planets alignment”?

The article is clearly supposed to be a “how-to” of sorts, but then goes and muddies it’s messaging with that second part. The list of things to do isn’t really useful then, is it?
I love Vaillant's work. His and many other studies definitely point to the importance of relationships as determinants of happiness. We found evidence of the same a few years ago - people who mention their friends and their spouse/partner rate their lives more highly: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/11/20/americans-w...

What I'm really interested in, though, is not just what the formula for happiness is - it's whether people are actually tapping into the key components of that formula. That is, knowing that strong and healthy relationships bring meaning and satisfaction to life, to what extent do people have and prioritize those relationships?

The fact that our latest research shows family and friends ranking highly around the world suggests that many people are doing just that, but there are other places where there might be room for improvement. For example, compared to four years ago, Americans are half as likely to mention their spouse or romantic partner when describing where they find meaning in life: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/11/18/where-ameri...
> Don't go too hard on crypto

> 11.2% of NW is tied up in crypto
> If you receive a docx document and it formats funny, or vice versa (common on LibreOffice and not entirely their fault), it's on you for using weird software, or penny-pinching on a MS Office license.

But the funny thing is that Libreoffice has better compatibility with documents composed with older versions of Word than newer versions of Office do. When MS Office loads up an old MS Office document badly, people gripe about Microsoft. When Libreoffice loads an old MS Office document badly, people gripe about whoever made the decision to install Libreoffice.
There's no reason that a web-based chat cannot also have a "thick" client which works as IRC currently does.

We can do both with a single service...

the true problem here is that IRC is long-forgotten by many, completely unknown by most, and those that remain remain because they have a strong attachment to IRC. That strong attachment will make driving a standard forward very difficult, because no two true IRC fans are going to have the same opinions on what a new version should look like.

It's the true fans of open source stuff that hold open source stuff back the most.
That’s the part covered by this:

> Mixers are of little consequence, just like money laundering schemes aren't a magical loophole around laws regulating transactions and tracking asset ownership.

The key is understanding that governments don’t just say “oh, it involves computers, guess we have to give up”. Once something grows to the point where it’s worth caring about, blockchains are easily censored as we’ve seen in e.g. China. It’s not just that they’re a complex high-volume network stream which is easily blocked but, more importantly, that most of what people want to do happens in the real world where those governments control things.

If businesses are required to report their customers, a blockchain doesn’t help you because the auditors are going put them out of business if they don’t comply.

If you are linked to a mixer or anonymous coin network, congratulations, you’re now at risk of being charged as an accomplice for the worst crime committed using that system – better hope you can prove and they care that you weren’t knowingly helping them! (Are you sure that service isn’t run by the police so you can pay them to make a confession?)

All of this is fully retroactive, too: you might think you’ve evaded attention but that changes when someone you transacted with turns over their transaction history. How many of the people you’ve transacted with are you willing to go to jail for rather than testify against them? If the government published a list of tainted addresses involved in illegal activity, it’s going to be quite expensive to ignore it since whoever does do is taking on both the risk of prosecution and a reduced pool of potential buyers.

All of those things cut into legitimate usage: most people have alternatives so if a blockchain isn’t cheaper people aren’t going to touch it if it involves legal risks.
In France I've always seen OpenOffice and then LibreOffice being used in schools & administrations, and it never was an issue
I really like Discord's implementation of threads as ad-hoc lightweight temporary channels. Putting them in the sidebar is a great idea, at least for how we use them.
It's such a weird concept to me that it's up to individuals and companies to figure out how much tax to charge.

Since the governments are collecting taxes it should be their responsibility to provide all the plugins and integrations needed to do it seamlessly.
Not my nickname, my name.

It's good for you that you are not a racist (it's sad that such a normal thing has to be a compliment, but it is a compliment. Good for you.), but racists do look for these cues and make their judgement based on these.

It's an unfortunate current state of affairs that we have to live with. Ignoring it does not make it going away though. If you don't like it, you got to call it out whenever you see it, which I hope you do, instead of being taken back by it, as you seems to be.
It helps that hardware vendors attempt to make their platforms run like a PDP...

C and hardware are a bit of a cyclic match of dependencies.

It doesn't have to stay this way, but it probably will.
You've modified this response 4 times and counting to try to twist my response into something it wasn't and isn't so I'll respond once and be done with the conversation. I never said ZIL is a write-back cache and neither did you. Sync writes are the only writes you should be doing if you care about your data in almost all circumstances.
"You do not extend tolerance to those who are kicking the crap out of you because they are Black" is the argument that was made by every authoritarian regime in the world.

See how dumb that sounds? There are absolutely instances where intolerance to some behavior is acceptable. The question only becomes, "Are they denying another's humanity or not?"

Not denying another's humanity and right to simply exist? Then it's not authoritarian. You should tolerate them. Easy peasy.

Claiming simply being homosexual should be a crime or that police should have the right to kill people who aren't posing an immediate threat? That's authoritarianism. You should not tolerate them. Easy peasy.
There's a lot of negativity in the comments here, and many of them have merit. However, the thing that is interesting to me about OpenAI, AI21, Cohere, and all the other LLM providers is that they are broadly useful, and often helpful. Perhaps they don't live up to the marketing hype, but they are still interesting.

For example, I used to have a biology blog, and I've been thinking of starting it back up again. I've been using OpenAI and Mantium (full disclosure, I work at Mantium) to generate the bones of a blog post so that I have something to start with. Coming up with ideas for my biology blog posts was almost 50% of the work.

If you're interested in judging the quality for yourself, I have a biology blog post generator here: https://f0c1c1e0-f6b6-46bc-81a1-eff096222913-i.share.mantium...

and a music blog post generator here: https://8aaf220e-4aff-4d4e-ae61-90f08011c9ac-i.share.mantium...

(they were both "created today" because I moved them from our staging environment)
The trick is to be a 10x dev and work 0.2x of the time, remotely of course. Everyone thinks you're decent and you get a full salary working 3hrs per day.
Very performant!
Is this not a one-time thing that's shown after every update? Or is it recurring?
Yep. It'll buy you a house, a nice start on your retirement, and maybe the ability to fund your kids education. But no more than that.
I just printed out that image and stuck it on my wall.. nice.
That's one way to get on a list quickly...
I use this combination too, and I love it. Sphinx has great hackability and support, while github pages is free and very reliable. Here is a script that I use to publish to github pages, assuming the sphinx config is under "docs":

sphinx-build docs docs/html
git branch -D gh-pages || true
git checkout -B gh-pages-stage
touch docs/html/.nojekyll
git add --force docs/html
git commit -m "Docs"
git push --force origin $(git subtree split --prefix docs/html --branch gh-pages):refs/heads/gh-pages
git checkout -
There are people in Cornish fishing villages decimated by Brexit who would vote the same again. Don't underestimate the British island fortress mentality.
I'm not familiar with linux development, what did that one german do?
The amount of times I do the same, only to think that everything I've written sounds so self centred that it's not worth posting, so then I think to myself "there's my therapy on the subject, delete."

Sometimes just the writing is cathartic enough that once you've gotten it off your chest, you don't really need to hit submit.
> Ultimately, closed-source software is like running a factory with a machine you aren't allowed to repair.

But that's exactly how big organizations handle most internal needs! They don't have mechanics on the payroll to repair company cars - they take out a lease with someone who handles all that for them. They don't employ cleaners, they contract it out to a service company.
>Preamble: I'm extremely lucky. ... So what you're going to read is 99% luck and 1% planets alignment.

I mean, that's pretty much it and he states it up front. If that's the crux, then why write about this other than to brag?
Stopping a perceived enemy from researching what you've already successfully researched by using pre-emptive nuclear strikes is lunacy, yes.
> Preamble: I'm extremely lucky.

Good for the author, but this really says it all. Specialization as a software developer seems like good advice though.
Not necessarily. C/C++ relies vastly on dynamic linking which means keeping your dependencies up to date will be outsourced to distro maintainers. You'll have to make sure that your package builds for new versions of the distro.
Why not use a laser?
This is the annual shakedown to lower Microsoft license costs with threats
>but if the last 5% become powerhouse brands it could be worth it.

wouldn't they switch off the platform as soon as they get big enough?
>But they aren't just a few weeks ahead of the students they teach.

Sure, and I find trying to teach something extremely useful for retention. I found it useful to have students who had just finished the content attempt to explain it.

> Honestly, every time Lambda is mentioned there's a flow of new accounts who "graduated" from these bootcamps and companies that are "extremely satisfied" with these hires... but never is a company actually named! That's strange, to say the least.

Agreed, although it's not obvious to me that it's orchestrated or automatically invalid which seems to be in a background implication here.

I saw a discussion about Lambda where upvoted comments were stating clearly false things, and I felt compelled to engage and I'd have made an account to do it. That also looks like astro-turfing/brigading/dislike-attacks/whatever you want to call it. It also looks like individuals voicing their opinions.

Having an 'incentive to defend the brand' goes without saying IMO, and is the whole purpose of a disclaimer.
The check is done server-side.

At the time of a password change, the server still has your old password hash stored, and in the process of changing it, you are sending both your old password and new password. The server can verify both that your new password and old password differ enough while also verifying that the old password you sent it is valid.
3) Excel macros and VBscript
I got through the waitlist.
Noticing a lot of takes on here that are side-stepping the "You don't actually own anything" part to suddenly focus on community buildings, as if a community has formed on the basis of receipt collection
Comparing Facebook to the cops and ideologically aligned groups of users to Mafia families is a strange analogy. Not sure why you chose it, except maybe to imply things.

One of the things that your analogy implies is that speech is criminal. Many, including the actual cops, believe certain kinds of speech indeed are. But who is saying what?
Very conspicuous list of available countries. Both English and non-English, from the most rich to some of the poorest and non-digital countries in the world, both democratic countries and brutal absolute dictatorships... yet the absentees are classic "enemy" countries - Russia, China, Syria, Iran.

Unfortunately, technology is, once again, not exempt from politics.
I don't see why there isn't a rule that requires a method of unsubscription using the same method by which you subscribed (but not only by the same method).

If you can subscribe by their website, you should be able to unsubscribe by their website. Same for phone, in-app, or in person.
Love this. One idea that I haven't seen implemented in other drawing tools: the default behavior after drawing a shape is to revert to the select tool. This is rational but it can also pull you out of flow if you're trying to diagram quickly. It'd be useful to extend the keyboard shortcuts to the select tool, so that when I highlight a region with select, I can press, e.g. 5, and have a circle automatically filled inside the selected region, so that I can bail myself out and not have to draw the same selection twice.
Why are you doing video calls in a browser in the first place ?
How would you use the data?
As a previous Singaporean resident, you had the upper class experience. The dystopia is when you are worker class (usually Malay or Indian) and have to live in a shipping container to tear down and replace the 5 year old apartment complex down the street. Or when you are the prostitute that was imported from Vietnam to serve the local upper class population.

These people have no rights and any protesting ends them up in Changi or shipped back somewhere else.
Recently found "Just The Docs" https://pmarsceill.github.io/just-the-docs

It even incorporates search with every build.
Best-Case Scenarios for the Future of Humanity
Thank you! As I mention further down in the conversation, I use VimFX with Waterfox Current alongside Firefox. I'd rather just use Firefox though. I've been staring at those LegacyFox instruction more than one time. Being lazy I've just continued using Waterfox. Using LegacyFox means I have to build/make it after every update of Firefox, right?
He says he's lucky for growing up in Italy. If you grew up in a developed country, you're extremely lucky too.
Being a contractor would require me to spend about $10,000 more for health insurance above what my workplace premiums are. US, obvi.

When I was a contractor fifteen years ago, I billed at $1,000 a day ($125/hr) in the US, not remote. Seems like wage stagnation has hit the software market as well.

Really enjoyed the story. I love seeing the personal histories of people in my profession.
I don't want to necessarily argue with OP's CSS file but there is a teachable moment here. We make a master CSS file because we don't want to serve bunches of CSS files per page. The constraint we want is:

n << 100

There are other solutions besides n=1 that satisfy this inequality. Serving 2 CSS files per page does not introduce substantial latency over 1, even on HTTP 1.1 user agents. Once you get to 4 you start to cause some problems, but 2 is barely noticeable.

CI/CD can fight your CDN by reissuing every asset on your website on every single publish, causing all of your visitors to soak up bandwidth at the same time. If you name your JS and CSS bundles based on the hash of the contents instead of prefixed with a version number, then many publishes will reuse the same assets, except that doesn't scale so the bigger the website the more evictions you'll see. But a site bundle with a per-page or per-subject matter bundle does scale, because targeted fixes often won't affect your home page.
Meanwhile, I got wealthy by living in big cities, showing up in person, and being pretty good at many things. There are multiple paths.
Don't you see the whole problem is personality politics. If more voters understood the economic consequences of Brexit it would have died a death.
It somewhat boils down to violence, doesn't it?

1) Your degree of freedom is strictly a relationship between you and those who are able to legitimately use violence against you. Legitimate here meaning you have no means of recourse besides violence of your own.

2) How free you are is then expressed as a graph of all possible actions you may take which are not prohibited by the threat of legitimate violence (often expressed as "law").

3) Then a "free and equal society" is one the total size of the graph is optimized for. This mandates laws which delegitimize violence except where strictly necessary to enforce said delegitimization.

4) The only addition that is typically made in large, agrarian societies is the legitimization of the private ownership and transfer of property. Thus we have "free, equal and orderly" societies.

These lead us to the usual functions of the military (to protect from external violence), the police (to protect from domestic violence), and the courts (to resolve disputes, usually over property, which would otherwise turn violent). From there, any encroachment of the state (such as mandating participation in various insurance schemes) into the graph of its citizens would be strictly perceived as a curtailing of freedom.

It's important to note that these terms necessarily exclude material circumstance from their definition. They also define violence in the strict sense of physical force. You are not less free because you may be sick or poor, since these are not interactions with people who may use legitimate violence.
Account for luck bias, but then read the recipe.
> Take a $ 500-1000 / day, full-remote job

> Take 2 months for holidays in-between contracts

> Do this for 7 years while investing most of your salary in a diversified portfolio.

Working $1000/day contracts for 5 days per week, 10 months per year is equivalent to $217K of contractor income per year. But contractor income is not comparable to normal career income because you have to handle additional taxes and health insurance, so this is more like a $150K (plus or minus) full time job once you subtract self-employment taxes and pay for health insurance.

But that’s also assuming that the author stated out making $1000/day, always made $1000/day, and always had availability of these easy, low-effort, $1000/day contracts whenever they wanted. Most people don’t start out contracting with an unlimited supply of contracts that pay exactly what they want.

Working a $150K job for 7 years isn’t really a recipe for getting “wealthy”. Even if you could reduce your expenses to below $25K per year (eg $1K/month rent, $1K/month for everything else) you might be able to save $100K of that annually after taxes. But that’s best case and you really have to compromise a lot to get there unless you really enjoy living in the middle of nowhere, never traveling, and none of your hobbies or interests cost any money.

So there’s a lot missing from this blog post. I suspect maybe the author got lucky with some outlier investments, but that’s not something that can be conveyed in a “how to” blog post.

FIRE type wealth trajectories are possible, but this isn’t what it looks like. Working normally-paid jobs for 7 years and just living your normal life doesn’t get you there (unless you luck into some 1000X investment somewhere or get a huge inheritance boost, but those are rarely mentioned).
DARPA network challenge and how an (infinite) referral system won it
I wonder if there some specific bug you’re both hitting? I have a modest workstation and have not experienced this (fwiw 99% Writer/Calc, with the occasional slideshow)
I can relate, I have three and I feel it does give my life more meaning.

But I still feel like pointing something out: Know that phenomenon where users that paid for software are typically more satisfied with it and give better ratings than users who didn't?

Whish I knew what the proper name for it is, but having kids is kind of the ultimate version of that :D

(Update: Thanks so much for helping me figure out what to call it!)
It's quite possible that he started out putting 1% into crypto (or even less), and it just grew much faster than his other asset classes.
Have you tried WPS? https://www.wps.com/
> I let my title, rather than my beliefs, dictate my actions.

On the flip side, I've worked with junior and mid-level developers who want to have the entire context of every executive decision, and worse want to second-guess and judge those decisions rather than implement the feature or fix the bug they were told to.

I think more information is almost always better, but sometimes you just need to get your work done. Titles are a very rough and arbitrary way of trying to draw those boundaries between what you're supposed to decide, what you're supposed to influence, and what you're supposed to accept.
> I was born in a developed country in the 80s (Italy), with access to fresh water, very good carbohydrates and a decent education system.

This seem like a pretty hard to follow "how-to"
I don't remember Trillian having any of those problems. I remember loving it and using it constantly, but having to stop using it when my friends started moving to closed networks so I had to run a bunch of other clients.

irc3 brings irc up to modern standards so that when are using a combo client, the features you have on the other networks work on IRC too.
"I was born in a developed country in the 80s (Italy), with access to fresh water, very good carbohydrates and a decent education system."

If you grew up in a developed country, you're extremely lucky too.
> in terms of the level of OOP [1] insanity

I would have to question how relevant a piece of core plumbing is to a regular user of the framework, as a regular user of the framework would likely never come across this class.

Also if you're working in the domain as a Symfony core developer, the idea of a ContainerConfigurator is not so insane, if you're developing a dependency injection container.
If it was stocks, you would diversify more by sector according to your risk, but in general ~10% in a broad asset class seems fine.

I don't think we would question 10% of net worth in real estate.
Agree! I should have mentioned the multiple paths.
I'd like to hear your points. I am curious of your viewpoint.
Next up: how I won the lottery
Yep, where I enjoy living, 1m takes you comfortably to a ripe old age. I can see that if you want to live in the center of some popular city (or any city?), this won't really move the dial. Luckily, for me, that would be hell on earth.
Egon Metzinger, The Ego Tunnel - The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self, Basic Books 2009

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5895503-the-ego-tunnel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di9SPPx8Jic