skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a 20-something year old, trying to make friends with people that you don't know is an incredibly frustrating experience because there's a good chance that the group you're trying to join were friends since childhood. No matter who you meet at this age, it seems that there is always a group they're a part of that you need to get acceptance with before you can call it a "friendship".

This isn't to say it's straight up impossible to make individual friends or join a friend group, but attempting to make friends but being treated in a lukewarm way by their clique goes a LONG way to reinforce avoidant behavior, even without an explicit rejection. Sitting in my room and learning math is far more enjoyable than that, so that's what I'll end up doing.

Once I move away from the place all of my childhood friends are, I have no idea what's going to happen.
I worked at a digital agency for years. This is the most true thing I've read in ages. Every single point struck a nerve with me. I honestly wish I'd read and believed this before starting my job there. It would have saved me endless hours of stress and pushing back with my leadership about technical requirements that went nowhere.
> Russia says

Russia is a proven liar. Whatever Russia says I would default to the opposite, until irrefutable evidence comes along.

This reminds me of Molotov's bread baskets. I bet there were also some useful idiots back then, saying stuff like 'Russia says they're not dropping bombs, only humanitarian aid'.
https://blog.ctis.me/

This blog is statically generated by Hugo. It’s compiled and hosted by Cloudflare Pages, using GitHub for version control. Image files and other large assets are stored in BackBlaze B2 and served via Cloudflare.

I originally built it atop a functional Werc installation, but ultimately decided I would prefer static sites to running a server. Luckily, I stumbled across a port of the base Werc template and styles into Hugo’s templating system. From this I was able to port my own revisions and achieve a pleasing result, combining Werc’s aesthetic simplicity with my desire for a static site.
https://bailey.is

Keeping it simple
https://patrick.wtf

Built with next.js and Ghost as a headless CMS
Ask HN: What are the best Technical Marketing Blogs?
I haven't had my finger on the pulse of whats going on in marketing for a while... I'm curious what blogs are out there that are doing a good job discussing technical marketing now?
We aren't a company that uses Lambda at scale but we have exposure to a few thousand AWS customers' cloud costs and I definitely say that the customers who are all-in using Lambda are saving a lot of money relative to their container/EC2 counterparts. That being said, I see very few companies "all in" on Lambda these days at an organizational level. It's still the exception - I think you need to be very intentional with its use at an organizational level architecture wise...but I see a lot of companies with sprinkles of Lambda usage here and there.

Source/Disclosure: I am Co-Founder and CEO at https://www.vantage.sh/ - a cloud cost platform tracking in the hundreds of millions of dollars of annualized cloud spend.
probabilistic generative models have been applied to DNA and protein sequences for decades (my undergrad thesis from ~30 years ago did this and it wasn't even new at that point). The real question is what question you want to answer and what is this system going to do better enough to justify the time investment to prove it out?
Syncing music from Spotify is illegal under their Developer Policy, a client wanted to do it recently and it seemed iffy that you wouldn't eventually get shut down.

Section iii, bullet 6: https://developer.spotify.com/policy/#iii-some-prohibited-ap...
> not what you think needs to be done because you have read about it somewhere

So then we shouldn’t follow the advice in this article either.

Maybe we should just do nothing lest we follow someone’s advice.
On my personal site, I've published my explorations (so far) on the future of personal computing, by way of designing an "operating system of the future."

https://alexanderobenauer.com

The site is built in Svelte using Elder.js as an SSG.
CLion supports Fortran via a plugin. I've used it a bit and it's fine.

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/clion/fortran-support.html
First 5 languages are the hardest ;)
It's pretty clearly documented on the Tailscale website. This is not something they are hiding.
I believe the ethical principles of Free Software have a stronger basis than the software development methodology arguments of open source.

That is, I see "open source" as primarily an assertion that "open source" practices lead to better software. Eg, the argument that people will submit patches, documentation, etc. 'for free', or that the wider user base for no-cost open source software will lead to additional sources of revenue like consulting and support work for that software.

My experience has been that no, they don't.

On the other hand, "open source" can certainly be used as a sales loss-leader, or as way to commoditize one's complement (https://www.gwern.net/Complement ), and it gets the umbrella of terms like "community" and "volunteer contributions" that mask what Zed Shaw correctly refers to as "Begger Barons" (https://zedshaw.com/blog/2022-02-05-the-beggar-barons/ ). ("The Beggar Barons aren't stealing this labor though, they're just using unscrupulous business practices and social manipulation to beg for free labor.")

> Is free software a lost cause?

I don't see a way that I can support myself and family with a business model built on free software-only I tried and it failed. And the problems seem insurmountable.

Like, if you sell free software, how do you let people demo it? How do you provide discounts to academics?

So, yes, it's a lost cause. At least not until we have Universal Basic Income. ;)

But with that said, if you don't have to worry about money or reputation, then yes, GPLv3 it!

Just bear in mind that if it's useful then you'll get people begging you to switch to MIT or similar permissive license ... so they can use it, in their commercial projects, and not have to worry about finicky license details or ethical arguments.

> If we believe in things like right to repair, must we also believe in free software?

Right-to-repair might restore the right to fix the software in your car. I wasn't aware that it also gave you the right to take the modified software and sell it to others.

> Is using free software for financial benefit and then not contributing back simply by promoting and using free software immoral?

Stallman says "The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose" is freedom 0 of the four freedoms of free software.

So, no.

> Are we building a bad future for software by not fighting for something like the Free Software movement?

I do not wish to die on the cross of St. IGNUcius.
http://cushychicken.github.io
> Must-have requirements that will never ever be used by anyone

Heck sometimes the folks who created the requirement forget they were the one who created the requirement, and certainly forgot why…

Or my favorite they requested it, forgot it was their request, and they make a big stink about why it is there.

I got that one this week. Fortunately no real consequences aside from me shaking my head with my camera off / off camera.

In my experience these situations are as much a company exploring “what do we even do here?” as much as looking at software or services.
https://baris.io
I am also using a template with nextjs and tailwind. I like how snappy it is
https://mrsearer.com/

Logging trips and hikes over the years.

The main thing that is slightly different is that trip reports can be viewed in chronological order as opposed to reverse chronological order like most blogs are arranged.

For instance: https://mrsearer.com/travel/costa-rica-2014/
Pico-8 Education Edition for Web
It’s like all of these things tho. Like not spending on marketing or not using typed languages or literally all the other things. That’s the point. They were successful without spending the not insignificant effort required to get grants and rebates, despite advice such as yours.

Getting a product to market and getting sustainable revenue is the really, really hard part. Most of the stuff on their list is just work to be done - different kinds of technical debt, as it were. Leaving that work - even the low hanging fruit - until after the business is established is very disciplined.

Now that they’ve established a firm product and financial foundation, you could almost see this as a to-do list. They can do these other things confidently, and measure the impact of them.
Many people working on games have graphic design backgrounds rather than programming, so they're more comfortable with it.

A lot of game programming is tweaking parameters, which the blueprint systems provide in a click-and-drag UI rather than editing numbers in text files and recompiling.

I'm curious to hear other suggestions.
We wrote our own tools for most things. Our build is a single dotnet publish command, followed by copying the output to an S3 bucket for final consumption.

That output is 100% of what you need to run our entire product stack on a blank vm.

Monolithic pays for itself in so many ways. Sqlite and other in-process database solutions are a major factor in our strategy.
https://www.jamieonkeys.dev/

Made with Eleventy.
Oh wow... In my brain I was confusing it with the Intergraph one.

I also was not surprised to see Rick Belluzzo's name in the press release... The devastation that man caused has no parallel in the history of personal computing. It's comparable to what Steven Elop did in the mobile space.

I use to joke Microsoft had perfected the use of executive outplacement as an offensive weapon.
https://www.catpea.com/ custom code exploring github editable data, that is then processed into a local .cache folder and made into an express (JS) website which I then spider to convert into a static version.

UI uses bootstrap with minor modifications.

Compilation is handeled via https://github.com/catpea/eternia which I can't replace with hugo, as I want to have a notion of books, playlists, maybe javascript apps in some articles. I need a custom static site generator.

I am learning how to Narrate audiobooks while reading my own poetry, and learning how to write out philosophical ideas in the process.

I also convert the audio into simple videos on youtube, and recently uploaded a 70+ hour behemoth to the Internet Archive (3.6GB) https://archive.org/details/@catpea-com

I recommend making an audio recording of your writings (I use audacity and a mic with a pop/plosive filer) even if just for your family for 50 or a 100 years from now.

I have no views, I have no time to argue with people which is why I keep away from social media, I only have time make a stranger laugh (I do digital portraits on reddit and occasionally compose a weird song on youtube).

As to the content it self, I am just exploring random subjects, that capture my own curiosity. It is nothing special, it will take me a couple more decades to grow into a writer. This is my start.

Currently I am babbling about digital painting, previously 3D Printing, Music Composition, Circuit Design, Programming, Teaching, Dancing (I dance to Blanco Brown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7U6AoZ27yE at the gym every day I can't help it), Bicycling, Camping, and sending people on the Appalachian trail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPSvdKTEZug

I host with vercel, as a hobby project. If you want to grab all the audio, use the archive.org or youtube. The archive.org link has everything one file, and youtube has a playlist you can hop around.

I am not a fan of ads, I understand YouTube maybe running their own ads on videos I did not monetize. If I recorded a video of my readings, and did video editing, I would regret putting all that time into videos that now would have ads between them.

I like being a narrator, not a fan of videos, decades from now I'll write an AudioBook, in which I complain about High School.
Sure if you want to be pedantic. However even if you double the number of rounds, the number of operations required to brute force increases by only a factor of 2. Since the number of operations is likely to be a very large number already, such a change is insignificant and we can consider the brute force cost to be independent of the number of rounds which is usually a small integer.
Vert.x is what you're looking for.

That being said, async/Callbacks tend to create a pile of spaghetti, with no measurable performance gain. It's certainly a style of doing things and it creates an odd abstraction that really doesn't mirror the way our [current] computers operate.

The benefit of "fibers" or "green threads" is they are less of a jump and doesn't involve rewriting everything.
Verifiable Quantum Advantage without Structure [2022 April, ArXiv/quant-phy]
They do show some diagrams with comments.

It's true that there's no validation of comments. But there's also no validation that the name of a variable is what that variable actually means, or that the name of a function is what that function actually does.
What is a virtual DOM?
I used to play Wolfenstein 3D co-op with friends - one of us would 'steer' and the other would do the doors and gun. Bizarre now to think about it.
Most people get stuck where you are. The fastest way possible to explain it is that it will bring rapid and fundamental change. You could say jobs or terminators but focusing on the specifics is a red herring. It will change everything and the probability of a good outcome is minuscule. It’s playing Russian roulette with the whole world except rather that 1/6 for the good, it’s one in trillions for the bad. The worst and stupidest thing we have ever done.
> I’m a parent of two children and most of the time I’m extremely bored and struggling for motivation.

>>My older child is a pre-teen constantly screaming and raging about the tiniest things. It’s a tremendous energy drain. But the children are certainly not the reason for my lurking depression: it was there before I had kids, and being a parent hasn’t magically transformed my life with meaning. These things are roughly orthogonal in my anecdotal experience.

I think this anecdote needs to become more mainstream form of advice, people are so quick to suggest having kids as a cure-all for people's depression or other mental health issues like it's just going to make everything else disappear.

Personally speaking I'm sorry to hear this, but this is also why I have put-off having kids--although its mainly for environmental issues, I can't see how people can in good-faith bring children into a World in which they will inherit such catastrophic climate change and a World where it's still possible that aging kleptocrats can shell and occupy a nuclear power plant, one of which was the location of the most dangerous environmental disasters of the 20th century and most people shrug it off and care more about Will Smith slapping Chris Rock!

Still, I don't know what the source of your depression is, and this is kind of harsh, but you are a cautionary tale for people like me: I have bouts of crippling weltschmertz after a life of being an environmentalist activist with a background in tech as a founder that merged the two together. As you can imagine it's certainly not as lucrative as destroying the World, and that is the saddest thing.

After 20 years at least I can go down knowing that while most of my existence have been a mix between Pyrrhic victories and burnout that I did more than I ever thought I would given the World I was forced to inherit.

My angst, rage and anger was channeled into something positive, and it helps but it's a corrosive and toxic form of fuel that corrodes you from within; hopefully you will in time be able to use the same energy draining you to do something that helps alleviate your situation.

The only time I don't feel the Weltschertz is when I'm building, the problem is that I can't anymore after destroying my body after 20 years of living this way and I'm having to heal all of these injuries: physical as well as mental.
Don’t you need an SRE or Devops focused person regardless?

You still need a way to test and deploy the code your pushing. You also need to set up logging and networking that ties it into the rest of your systems
> Yes

Give me some examples.

> Oil/Gas usage is inelastic to price.

Horseshit. Here's a report from the Congressional Budget Office saying the exact opposite.[1]

"The relationship between gasoline prices and the demand for automobiles was the subject of several economic studies in the 1980s in the aftermath of the gasoline price shocks of the 1970s. Those studies found that higher gasoline prices increased the demand for smaller, more-fuel-efficient vehicles relative to larger, less-efficient vehicles. That relationship continues to hold with recent vehicle sales, according to several current economic studies."

> Carbon taxes didn't work.

Saying that over and over doesn't make it true. You haven't given any evidence to support your claims. I have.

1. https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/ftpdocs/88x...
> it's fine to provide a stable service to a stable amount of users with a stable amount of features

like RSS?
Making a really strong argument here.
In general, I like the idea. Couple it with a UBI to protect the poor, and I like it a lot. (The poor pay very little income tax. They would have to pay the VAT. That would hurt them compared to the current system.)

But that won't get you where you say you want to go. Who's going to collect that VAT, and make sure that everybody pays it? The IRS. Your approach would get rid of the tax code, but not the IRS. (In getting rid of the tax code, it would let you get rid of the computer code in question, though.)

The other problem is, you can't implement a "soak the rich" approach with a VAT. And currently, there's a lot of angst around wealth inequality, and most plans to do something about it involve taxing the rich more than everyone else. So your idea is fighting an enormous political headwind.

You could propose something like VAT + income tax for those who make over $1 million/year or something...
In terms of architectural style RISC-V is more similar to MIPS (via DLX) than to RISC-I, II, SOAR and SPUR (and Sparc).
Perhaps they just want to move on?

Not needing to tend to a project you no longer find interesting (or view as a failure) is very liberating.
https://reyan.co

Hand crafted html/scss and posts full of quite literally no meaningful content, just nice design. I’ve taken the time to make it reasonably responsive too so i’ll most likely take a break for the next couple years before adding animations or something.
Source for that?

I mean a source that's different from 'some Russian government asshole on Telegram' picked up by Tass. Some independent source I mean.
Why would one want to write a module instead of using a library to achieve the same?
How is it different than cloudflare workers?
Gestapo was a kind of police, just extremely brutal and politically targeted. Rosguardia isn't police, not even close, and in particular it doesn't do investigations. It is just an armed force that is applied against civilians.

SS was an armed force directly under political command and outside of military command, and thus it was widely used against civilian population, in particular on occupied territories. The SS didn't do any investigations/etc. The Rosguardia is exactly like that - directly reports to Putin, and it is thus not subject to even minimum rules/regulation/oversight what the military is subject to. Thus Rosguardia has been used against Russian civilian population, and is now used against civilians on occupied territories, just like SS.

Wagner Group is a a kind small special force outside of law. It can be used for anything of course. It hasn't been noticed though in massive pacifications (even if just for the reason of it being too small for that), its role has so far been more like targeted terror at various places in the world where Russia has visible and not so visible engagements.

>Putin is basically a mini Hitler

the "mini" part may unfortunately be just temporary as the things may just be starting, and Hitler didn't have nukes. And unfortunately Russian Nazism isn't limited to Putin and his cronies, it is the country level issue, and (while it may be just a failure of my imagination) i don't see a way out other than forcing the 1945 scenario onto Russia like it was done back then to Germany.
https://www.elliotcsmith.com/

Writing mainly about AI and healthcare these days. Using ghost (hosted) after many years of picking a new platform every time I felt compelled to write more.
> (1) I do have children

Awesome. I still stand by everything I said.

> (2) your statements assume, without possibility of falsification, that such mental illness is not at all due to environmental factors

No, they quite obviously don't. I'm pointing out the difficulty of knowing what contributed to a child's death in the context of mental illness, which can be both genetic and environmental in origin, and is not always in a parent's ability to influence. You can have two perfectly nice parents raise a literal psychopath and no one knows why. Happens all the time.

The idea that you can ignore this and zero in on the parents based on the info in this article is completely contrary to our scientific understanding of child (and adult) psychology.

The abuse, on the other hand, is obviously an important contributor, as you said. No dispute there.
No... These models are trained to predict.

You can definitely make them incremental. You can give it a task like "make a more accurate description from initial description and clarification". Even GPT-3-based models available today can do these tasks.

Once this is properly productionized it would be possible to implement stuff just talking with a computer.
>But Google is currently facing anti-trust scrutiny by Senate subcommittees, and the bigger it gets the less answerable the regulatory threat will become

Worth noting again that the article is from 2011. Did anything come of this "scrutiny" then? Will it now? How reasonable would it be to therefore charactarize "scrutiny by Senate subcommittees" as "donation requests to Google from sitting Senators"? Is asking leading questions a rhetorical flourish or intellectual dishonesty?
You can scale up that one machine a lot. If you start with a normal sized machine you have a lot of overhead in increasing ram/cpu on that machine (eg you could start with say 16 cores and 100G ram or less and scale up to like 2TB ram and 64/128 cores). There’s also runway for scaling things by eg shooting down certain long-running queries that cause performance problems or setting up read replicas.

So even if you’re a bit worried about scaling it, you can at least feel the problems are far away enough that you shouldn’t care until later.
Yep, that's exactly what it was. UA had a feature that let you say to increment/decrement by N, and they maintained a cache + cleared it appropriately when the app launched.

Obviously we could do that too with some additional storage, but handling it across multiple OSes and weird iOS + Android lifecycle details was enough of a pain that we didn't end up doing it.
Right, that aligns with the anecdotes I heard about tipping and taxes. I inferred from OPs post they were working in the Wild West of tips not being consistently or accurately taxed.
https://muffinman.io

My longest living website of any kind. Technical blog, mostly frontend and javascript, but recently I created a section for my generative, pen plotted art.

It is made with Zola and deployed on GitHub Pages. Design is my own, I think the fourth iteration.
https://wooptoo.com

No images, just plain HTML/CSS generated with Pelican. I try to keep it as minimal as possible. Haven't posted in a while though.
https://blog.oxplot.com

Statically generated by my own static site generator. Hosted on github pages.
Nice site. I like the breadth of topics.