skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After doing programming and being involved in startups for well over a decade, I decided I don't actually like coding nor startups anymore. I still have a company I run with my partners, and I still treat it like my 'job', but there's no passion there. Instead, I've discovered writing novels, music, and other artsy-fartsy stuff as my new passion of the last few years (it had always been a hobby, but I'm taking it much more seriously... not because it'll ever make money, but because I enjoy doing it!)

So my long-winded point is, I don't think there's anything wrong with this. Only you know what your interests are, but don't be afraid to follow them wherever they lead. If you aren't bored, you aren't boring.
Curious if there’s any reason this is of particular importance. E.g. is it bad for screen readers?
Good old S3 ProSavage VGA, sweet memories...
AI beets sounds terrifying
I second this.

In order to become an appreciated and appreciative generalist one also has to go deep down (at least one) rabbit hole of "specialized" knowledge.

The Dunning-Kruger effect is quite powerful and not only on a small scale of a couple of months but a couple of years, too.
I must admit that I experienced the imposter syndrome quite intensely relatively late in my life only after really digging into a particular field (on/off >5 years): the amount of things "known" is truly and shockingly (infinitesimally) small like looking into a void after all that acquired knowledge and skill.

This (humbling) experience makes you a better rounded generalist i.e. team player in being able to connect with the sensitive issue of "horror vacuui" specialists see themselves inevitably confronted at times: What do I know.
That would cause problems with regulations in the EU, as there is a “right to be forgotten”.
The problem of overturning government force is a different level of problem to say finding a clever way to create energy, transportation, a new medicine, etc. Its not a question of resourcefulness, its a question of understanding and coordination at scale. This is a weak point that has been played upon.

I don't think people even recognise the level of governmental force in this society - they think government is keeping them safe, rather than facilitating wealth extraction! No one has time to consider this - all are busy trying to get by, despite taxes, fines, etc.

But this force is going to become much more overt in coming years, technocracy will micromanage us. I don't think people will accept it. So I hope to see some solutions here too.
Is there room for advice on what happens if you have this affliction in the programming language space?

I did the guru thing, and then went on a journey of polyglotism for the last 10 years. And hanging out on HN doesn’t help! Should I Rust? Or Zig? Or React? Or … the list just goes on … and FOMO kicks in.

But I find on the rare occasion when I check linked in, there’s lots of offers for one specific language or the other. Im not sure what the market for polyglots (or scanners as mentioned above) is anymore.
Really depends on the individual and the circumstances.

I'm defective as a person. Because of that most people are able to pick up that there's something wrong with me on some level in short order. So for me, anyone approaching me unsolicited without a clear objective is already a warning sign. Not necessarily of ill intent, just something unseen and unknown to me.

Someone like you I'd assume as some sense of normalcy of being a functional human being. And I'd guess that's probably why some people would find you approachable and why someone would strike a conversation with you randomly.
Some great advice I was given, a few years ago:

Imagine you have a heart condition. It is treatable with some tried and tested keyhole surgery, but there’s another problem.

You were bitten by an insect and the bite became infected. You can’t go into surgery with a fever, but if you take some antibiotics then the infection will pass and you can get back on track for your surgery. The bite hurts a lot. An antihistamine cream will help.

One body. Three different problems with it, all linked together. The way your mind’a chemistry works, the way you think, and how you got there are three very similar things.

SSRIs are there to help bring you stability. They don’t make life magically better. That requires a lot of hard work on your mindset. Talking therapy (CBT) is the best place to start. It’s custom coaching to help you look to the future and move forward in life with tools to hold back the demons of anxiety and rumination.

When you have those two things under your belt — the bite stops hurting and the infection clears up — then you can turn around and look back on your past, with Analysis. Finding a good psychoanalyst is time consuming and expensive and not always even a necessary or desirable step. You can live with a heart condition if you accept that you are willing to drop your plans to climb Everest.

That’s the outline. Don’t be scared. Be brave and talk to a doctor*. They will help you with all of these steps.

*…or two, or more if you want to five-space-shuttle-computer-votes your medical care! I once took three eye tests in the same day because I was convinced opticians were quacks!
Nice development. Just yesterday I ordered a Pixel 6 to replace my ageing Ubuntu Phone — Google's Pixel smartphones are the only ones really well supported by privacy focussed Android forks like GrapheneOS and CalyxOS (I intend to install GrapheneOS on it). Currently, this seems like a decent middle ground between being able to run apps from one of the two app stores (Apple's and Google's) when needed without sacrificing too much control over your computing devices.

Having to buy the hardware from Google leaves a bit of bad aftertaste though. I really hope that in the future I can just get something like a Fairphone and be able to run a fully supported more user-aligned OS on it.
These were the years of the GeForce 4 and the brand new amd64 processor. The Direct X version supported by GeForce 4 couldn’t even display the real pretty water textures at that time, or at least mine couldn’t on my GeForce 4 + amd64 laptop. Little guy was a beast back then. Compaq, I think?

That game was so good and around that time, people were figuring out how to get HL2 to be multiplayer in story mode, and gmod was in its infancy right around then.

Good times.
I think we need to look at this more like grading on a curve.

If I were still actively using Twitter and posting something that I later delete - OK. I can see the argument from a 'right to be forgotten' point of view. If the president of the US does so to beautify the public record, not so much.

In Germany we have the concept of a person of public interest. People who are publicly visible due to their position in politics, media, entertainment or because they try to have their face seen by any camera lens available, need to "endure" more public/media scrutiny than Jane Doe from next door.

The problem is, that this can only be decided (in a conflict) by due process in a court of law.

So Twitter deciding to use privacy as an argument to enable a few reported on whales to beautify their record (because let's be fair, who embedded a tweet from Jane Doe?) seems at least questionable.
> - make Sentry crash reporting opt-in (or at the very least have a popup that occurs with the content of what will be sent to Sentry before anything is sent to Sentry), AND

100% this. I don't entirely understand why Warp needs to connect to Sentry right at application launch. If it crashes, capture that crash and present me an opportunity to report it or not. If I do agree to report it, first present me the complete text of everything that will be reported.

I understand that this puts some hurdles in the way of getting crash reports. But terminals frequently contain information far too sensitive to trust with these things being automated.
> Depression isn't an imbalance of "chemicals", it has been marketed that way for decades to sell pills

Medical professionals have been finding that in cases of clinic chronic depression, the patients brain doesn't produce nearly enough endorphins compared to others. Also, antidepressants are from a time where we didn't yet produce problems to sell the solution and they have helped millions of patients.

But I guess you know something we don't?
This is called A/A testing and is used to vet the setup.
$3.99/mo for the Pro plan let's you run as many concurrent processes as you want!
totally agree on the first part.

That would shake up the market.

Universities should be funded by the government and aimed at low cost anyway. The price my dad paid for college was easily paid for while working part time.
> I won't be able to handle the demands of formal schooling

There are evening universities, certificates, part-time masters degrees (e.g. see The Open University), all meant for people who don't study full-time.

Degrees help in signaling that you're more than just a dilettante, which matters to get the corresponding opportunities. There's no way for somebody who doesn't know you to assess how deep you actually go when you switch from one topic to another, unless they are themselves experts in these topics. And indeed, it's easy to be stuck with a shallow understanding of a whole field if nobody ever questions it (compare reading a pop-science book and sitting an exam). I feel it's especially true with the fields you've mentioned where any ground truth is more subtle to discern than in e.g. mathematics.
What a pity. Merged usr is so convenient to manage.

I feel like most of the objections & problems relate to the transitory phase, to having to support both, to trying to install old packages. I was thinking Bookworm was committed to a merged usr, but sounds like the next release after, Trixie, will be the first pure usr-merged, when everyone should be on the new thing.

For all the dpkg maintainer's griping, it sure doesnt seem like there are viable alternative implementations available to aliased directories.
Deep work is a side effect of building strong internal self-discipline. There is a lot of useless advice on how to get into flow but these do not work because people lack discipline. With strong discipline, you can do deep work on tasks that you do no like or want to do in first place.

Start with waking up on same hour every day, after few weeks add eating healthy breakfast. After a month or two add going to sleep on specific time, then add minimum exercise etc. Gradually, you will build self disciple that would work across everything you do, including work.
I appreciate the response, but a few errors in your comments.

> To put it simply, you think: a technology must be tested safe and can only be used for the intended purpose, otherwise it will hurt you back and it's your (a technologist) own fault.

No I don't belive a technology can only be used for it's intented purpose. In fact exactly the opposite - almost every technology will be used for purpose other than what you intented it to be used for. So understand what common, or motivating alternate purposes you are enabling with your tech and make sure you evaluate the consequences of them.

An example (not ideal because it is not how history happened): Inventing/discovering atomic enery also invents the atomic bomb. Don't jump start spreading the atomic energy everywhere touting its benefits unless you understand you'll also be spreading atomic bomb tech everywhere. Don't be surprised later when it happens and say "it's not supposed to be used that way". "They've corrupted the ideals we had of cheap clean energy for everyone".

> but it is almost impossible for them to have complete control over even their own invention, let the lone alterations of it.

Noone has absolutely/complete control over anything. (And a side point, frequently when arguments describe absolutes they are often standing up straw men)

> Often in the end, you can only hope that you've designed something good, and let the progress of things take care the rest.

This I strongly disagree with. You cannot an should not "only hope you've designed something good". You should also have evaluated in designing something good that you're not also designing something bad. That is your responsibility as well.

Don't make an information harvesting platform and then be dismayed when people use it to harvest information you don't think should be harvested. Don't make cell hacking software then be shocked that authoritarian govts use it to hack their citizens' phones. Don't put backdoors in software then be apalled that the "wrong" people use them.

> Let me put my end opinion here: Internet is promoting democracy,...

It is now. And I sincerly hope it continues to do so in the future. History, all of the above and the linked article on TikTok shows that "[letting] the progress of things take care the rest" means that it likely will not continue to do so in the future without diliberate concerted effort to ensure it does. When most of the internet looks and behaves like TikTok.
I get a eyelid twitch from that type of engineering. Open source teaches us one thing above all - adapt yourself a little and you gain a lot. Only develop an app to fit the specs, and the users will do the rest. It should be fine to be a little tough around the edges - consumers ought to grow slightly thicker skin.
I've long wondered about a search engine that doesn't index a page that has AdSense or similar code. There'd be a lot of collateral damage, but it would knock out a lot of annoying made-for-adsense sites at least. Basic thinking, but along the lines of what you suggested.
Totally agree. I wonder if this is by-design. Lots of companies would love to have control of a javascript snippet operating on the worlds biggest websites.
Oh boy wait until you see what adsense does
Those early Sierra games, the ones that used typed text to interact with the environment, were really inspirational. I was very disappointed when they replaced that CLI-like interface with mouse-driven icons. No doubt the icons were more user friendly and had none of the flaws of trying to enter the right text, but it still felt like something was lost.

Relatedly, I'm working on natural language understanding, which I believe is key to AGI. https://lxagi.com
Sure I read a statistic that roughly half of "happy", long term marriages are, in fact, unhappy and unfulfilled. If true then about 20-25% of first time marriages do not have happy endings.
That's a lot of money ($200k) for anyone to expect to have a comfortable work/life balance.

This isn't true at all. In my last job (not tech) a "brutal" week might be 50 hrs and people were making double that, albeit in more senior roles (10+ years of experience).
They intend to make money selling your data.

> Monetize without ads: As a browser extension, we can focus on monetizing free users by selling information about user's search intent.

source: https://wefunder.com/flightpenguin
https://ucarecdn.com/965fe8bc-2ccd-4bd9-9984-465144810f57/-/...
This guy is getting a $1500 earplugs custom made with 10 drivers for best music experience and I'm here begging for my $300 apple Airpods not to fall out while I'm sitting straight on my chair.

Something is off with earplugs as a product
There should be an HTML <remote> tag or something that downloads and embeds HTML from a remote site without scripting
It is even worse than that. Google nowadays still uses this argument telling you that only this way they can optimize your ad placement towards Conversions.

While at the same time telling you (in their documentation) that due to script blockers and gdpr they just estimate (using more fancy terms and talking about ML & AI) the Conversions they report (and use for optimization).

They basically tell you: Trust us - we estimate your success in the best of your interest. As if they were a neutral party in that equation.
Both Watts and Kerouac were outsiders looking in. Watts was also a very scholarly book-learned about Zen Buddhism, but he never claimed he did the thing or meditated much, he just wrote beautifully and inspired others to try meditating.

When I started meditating, I asked about Watts or Kerouac from long-term practitioners and Zen teachers. Pretty much everyone says that they wrote lots of "beautiful zen nonsense", but it's not bad because they have inspired thousands of people to try.

From a daily practice perspective, zen feels more mundane. It's like going to the gym or brushing your teeth. More people like the idea of doing zen than actually doing it. Stopping and sitting with your daily shit every day does not feel cool. When the exotic, aesthetic and philosophical aspect wears out, most people quit.
So interestingly to get multiple RTX 3090 cards using NVLINK you really need the blower style, which NVidia recently stopped making in the consumer line, otherwise you are fighting thermal properties and getting in to exotic cooling solutions. And you also get in to placement in slots on the motherboard on three-slot cards. And then you get into the number of PCIe PSU connectors on most supplies. You also get in to weird corner cases of four way NVLINK on 3090's acting as a "single card" but four way NVLINK on RTX A5000 is still independent cards as far as the OS goes. Regarding NVLINK, 3090 cards only support NVLINK (NVL 3.0 IIRC), rather than NVSWITCH. With NVLINK/NVSWITCH, with two RTX A5000 cards I get a total of 48GB of usable RAM for storing the machine learning models, and so on for multiple cards in the RTX A5K & A6K & AX00 line. But with the consumer cards, even though each card has, e.g. 12GB of RAM on them, your deep learning model is also limited to 12GB of RAM, no matter how many 3090 cards you put in. You're also limited to a maximum of four 3090 cards in total, whereas with the NVLINK & NVSWITCH on the professional grade cards, you are limited only by how many cards you can stuff in your data center - technically it is 16 GPUs on a single switch IIRC, things get funky with the fabric once you progress beyond 16 GPUs on a single switch but that's outside of the scope of this conversation. I may also have some details wrong, my brain is a little fuzzy afer dinner.
The literature proposes sone theories, e.g.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6384527/

says comprehension is about the same, but that a physical book makes it easier to remember if something happened earlier or later in the book.

On a completely unscientific annecdote that seems to match my experience, where with paper I subconciously remember positions in the book, while on a kobo every page feels the same. That said, full text search is sorely missed on dead tree.
My hunch is that it has nothing to do with the screen. It's the device that's the problem, reading on a device that you can theoretically do anything from watch porn to build a business to doom scrolling facebook. When I'm on a computer my brain knows I could check some attention stealing thing so I get the idea in my head, interrupting my attention.

When I switch to a kindle or a physical book I can feel those impulses to divert my attention for the first minute, but they dissipate quickly when my brain realizes I'm not on a computer. Then my brain stops trying to interrupt itself, hunting for some dopamine shot.
It's bad for English readers
>of almost 27 years

It shouldn't but I'm willing to be that worked against you as well.
It doesn't even matter. Even if 10% works it's enough...
That is why cloud companies are now also offering game development workflows completly based on their platforms.
Very cool, what a time machine!

I wonder what the single person with a 9-pixel wide game screen was doing, and how they enjoyed their gaming experience. :)
Reading, studying, writing and thinking about Zen Buddhism like these guys did certainly does not cure anything.
Have you used a phone at all?
In this case it’s more like “why should the lower middle class pay for the upper middle classes interpretative dance history classes”

Educational institutions in general are utterly obese with bloat and it’s a direct consequences of moves like this. I don’t really put the same weight on somebodies right to learn within a brick and mortar institution instead of being auto dictate learning from the internet as I do on peoples right to healthcare, especially considering the economic argument for it has long gone out the window due to elite overproduction. The more money we pump in as well the more degrees flood the market and the more the credential requirements are raised to get any job forcing students to waste years of their life stroking the egos of incompetent teachers so somebody will give them a job.

A pox on fuelling the education cartel with more and more debt. Starve the beast.
you can't have a backlink without a link. you can't have a link without a page. so you can't have a backlink to a "page that doesn't exist" because without a page, there is no link.

the right way to say this is, "a tag is a special kind of page", which is far more boring (like.. didn't del.icio.us do this years ago?), but way more understandable.

In fact most of this article could be summed up as: most interfaces can be represented as a page of links.
I personally am on anti-depressents currently. Side-effects haven't been bad at all, and I have felt a lot better. There are still bad days and such, but at least I also have good days.

Talk to a doctor you like/trust, see what they reccomend. The worst which can happen is it doesn't work ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
all you need is a graph
The stats show that going to university is a massive increase in long term earnings. That means it is good for the individual financially (as well as for the country). It should be an option for everyone regardless of cost, it might not be a fit for some people, and we also need technical schools that are low cost and can teach skills/trade.

From my POV college/university is great for teaching people how to think and getting a better understanding of the world. I think we could improve that in high school by mandating philosophy/ethics, financial literacy, critical thinking from 9th to 12th grade as well.

You should also check out the stats on degrees, you will find that a lot of humanities majors actually have super high payoffs. I don't think there are any shit degrees. University can be about improving your ability to think critically and improving your overall education. That can be generally applied to just about anything (for example, I've got a history/political-science/international-relations degree and it has helped me in so many ways in my professional career).
Slightly off topic, but any idea where I might find any of the Union Mattole Oil Company well-heads that were apparently abandoned in place? https://ohp.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=21420 (No. 543)

From the very limited information I've found they were somewhere along/above the North Fork, maybe somewhere near the underground Scientology base? The name of "Oil Ridge" seems like it might be related. There are a lot of private parcels up there though and I don't want to trespass :)
I'm amazed by Gwern's ability to write. It seems that this guy's writing throughput is higher than my reading throughput. It also reminds me somehow Fravia's SearchLores, it has a similar philosophical feel to it.
The end result will be that Ukraine will retain their statehood albeit with some possible loss of eastern regions. It will join the EU eventually.

Ukrainians have made this choice and they are living by it. We need to help Ukraine to minimise human cost.

It is clear that Russian army is targeting civilians. It may not be systematic targeting in all places but very sadly in several instances like in Bucha war crimes really happened. Do not gloss over that.
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