skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like what you've done, nice job.

Without making the page too cluttered, you've got room to expand the design in terms of width and I think the entries could benefit from a timestamp of some manner (Thursday 5/12).

Basically let people know that it's fresh, beyond the slogan at the top.

Then snapshot the page weekly (pick a date to do an end of week snapshot), and provide archives for browsing / searching. That could either be all historical weeks, or merely recent (a month or three deep).
Does it have good support for writing GUI applications?
The Bianchi incident was so odd and I've only (accidentally) saw one video of it since as far as I know, no broadcast camera captured the incident. But F1 learned and red flags seem more common now and they don't race with reduced visibility.

Agreed about Mick as well, its always terrible when they don't show replays for a while. But I also think that fact alone contradicts the OP, they won't broadcast a serious crash.
That reminds me of my runescape days 15 years ago. The number of friends I made from that game was a huge help! Not only we became friends in game, but i got to know these friends IRL, i’m still in contact with a few of them. I even met them in person. Some have kids now, others still play the game and invite me to go PKing (raiding). Gaming communities are great really.
They pay you a lot of money, so you stay. I think this is well understood.
Reports from Chinese graduate students to their sponsors - of course they would report to their funding agency, any funding agency will insist on progress reports. There's no need to elevate that to some sort of conspiracy straight of Our Man in Havana, complete with atomic vacuum cleaners.

Right now the federales are coming after a mathematician from Southern Illinois University: https://www.science.org/content/article/trial-mathematician-...

Dude is interested in control theory and had a joint appointment at two Chinese universities. You do ask - what does the government hope to achieve?
semantic accuracy matter more than accessibility, especially in a world where espitemology is not taught.
But yeah I agree for this specific instance.
I wonder about ads for this. For example Reddit seems a decent place to advertise to target a group of people with a common interest, in a way that is not obnoxious. Do an hours freelance work for someone else and that’ll pay for a small test!
This was a great and enjoyable read. I think whoever runs this substack ought to consider renaming, as the name "The Upheaval" kind of conjures the image of some far out conspiracy website, like "A Storm Is Coming" or the like. When in reality, it's some really solid geopolitical and historical analysis.
I like to be in control precisely over how hardened I'd like my system to be.

If I wreck it, I know how to reinstall it and restore my backups, thank you very much.
It's financed by the same company that does telephone surveillance in the US and last time I checked self hosting was a major pain compared to running, say, a minimal python IRC server.
Calling it a science does seem to have been an odd decision. It looks more like a branch of mathematics, from the outside at least.

Engineering... I dunno. The digital realm doesn't seem, to me, to have enough of a split between "design" and "actual device," so we can't really split the job into the engineer's task and the manufacturer/builder/etc.

One annoying thing about this the whole "software engineering" discussion is that often casts the engineers as gatekeeping or being snooty and not wanting to include the programmers. It just seems like a different type of job, though, still perfectly respectable and decently prestigious. Nobody gets angry that we can't be called "Software Chefs" or "Software Conductors."
> Does that mean something in the environment changed

Absolutely. Smoking and being overweight are huge risk factors for sleep apnea. It could also be something about how we're sleeping now.

Even so I think there's a difference between physical and mental disorders.

With physical disorders we mostly have pretty clear, objective and mostly society independent metrics for success, for example not dying and retaining mobility. If anything, our expectations have slightly reduced over time now that we don't need to walk for miles to fetch food and water. Yet still there are valid questions regarding over-diagnosis and over-treatment of benign conditions that we wouldn't have ever detected before PET-CT scans.

With mental health, metrics we use such as happiness and ability to do one's work and daily activities, which are themselves extremely environment-dependent. They even vary hugely within society. When asked "are you able to perform adequately at your job?", the answer might be completely different if the job is software development rather than being a journalist.

Then there's the deeper philosophical question of what are we even "supposed" to function like, and whether that's even a valid question to ask.
Except it's not like that, software is not standardised, it's custom made.

And software engineers already have their toolset. The real analogy would be telling all the builders that they now have to use those shitty multi tools that are 10 screwdrivers and a hammer all in one.
For Atlantic horseshoe crabs, love is a battlefield
>"You sound like you work in a wonderful environment."

For the last 20+ years I sit in the basement of my house where I design and build my products. Some for my company. Some for clients. Every once in a while I would get out and meet with perspective clients / subcontractors or for some meeting with existing ones. But it gets increasingly more rare and everything is done using Zoom/Skype/Remote Deployments/Couriers. The only reason I get out is mostly for fun - meeting friends, cycling, swimming etc.
"The people at this company actually believe in the mission of bringing the world closer together. They recognize and embrace the huge responsibility it puts on us.”

I just don't understand how very smart people can so passionately believe in a closed loop. The metaverse will never immanentize until it is a protocol. A single company in charge will never exist in perpetuity unless you subscribe to PKD's "the Empire never ended".

"Nothing gold can stay" is the better measure of a single company espousing a single vision for all.

Protocols not products. Surely some of these very smart people at Meta see that their baby must be let go before it can touch the hearts and minds of all humans everywhere.
Just check the channel log. There's no reason to make this so complicated. We're not even talking about "normal users" these are people involved in the Gnome project. I'm sure they can figure out how to click a link in the channel topic.
That is fair, I admit I'm mainly an open-wheel fan. But as far as I understand, closed-wheel racing cars are more robust to side-swipe/rubbing incidents, which in open-wheel often forces a spin at best and breaks suspension at worst.
he drew the circles :-)
They are now starting to train the model.

https://wandb.ai/laion/diffusion-prior?workspace=user-

https://github.com/lucidrains/DALLE2-pytorch/issues/23
I wish toxoplasmogondi contamined more people already..
It's plumbing, but you're also expected to know where the water came from, the exact specifications of the treatment plant that cleaned it, exactly what is in the water down to the parts per billion, and have ideas for what kind of faucet will make everyone trust the water the most.

Also bonus if you know how to run a business and give guidance on what type of house to buy before putting in pipes.
> For all the hand wringing about google amp, one good thing they did was try to require that there be some main content which displays without any javascript.

That's absolutely not my experience? It needs googleusercontent.com scripts or something? I get blank pages from amp stuff, and 'de-amp' it for it to load.
While you’re at it, also read Salt Sugar Fat by Michael Moss.
How do you “forget”? You get plenty of warning notifications.
Shirky's review is much better than the excerpt: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/01/books/review/after-steve-...
Exactly this. Everytime I start a new project and I think between PHP and Python (Django), the fact that I can throw the PHP one into any cheap server is very very convenient. Someone should do a Python/Django managed hosting.
Nice! So is Clojure also used for the AI model and for training?
I'd much prefer tech being open to everyone rather than kept to megacorporations that OpenAI deems worthy (and has received funding from). A neural network isn't a lethal weapon, the potential for malicious use is much more limited than its potential positive creative applications.
I personally use Adobe XD for almost everything vector. It's not the job it's made for, but it's way faster to work in and is easier to organize. No need to switch between lucidcharts, illustrator and XD when everything I need is in one place.
>Robert “Razerguy” Krakoff, the co-founder and former president of gaming hardware company Razer, passed away last week at the age of 81.

>In 1999, Krakoff was behind the first-ever gaming mouse: the Razer Boomslang.

He was 58 when founding a company for gaming peripherals, pretty cool IMO. Always make me feel better to see other accomplish successful and fun things later in life and maybe I am not over the hill in tech in my mid forties, never too late etc.
This reminded me of the video of a french guy telling an american guy about his baby: She looks like a "grosse phoque" (Chubby seal, in french)
> I’ve been here for almost three years

> ...

> I’ve been at the company longer than almost 70% of people,

That seems like a staggering amount of attrition
Every statement that paints Russia in a positive light must be propaganda, right? This becomes tiring really fast.

> Moscow average salary: 1100 USD 2021 Bucharest average salary: 1,614.91 USD 2021

It makes precisely zero sense comparing absolute numbers without factoring in cost of living. And we are talking about experienced software professionals. OP's uncle is probably making at least 4x more than that. Imagine making 4x average salary in your region.
Delete the apps and start holding yourself accountable for your decisions
Core is SQL + Python (or Java/Scala for the actual Engineering part).

Most of the data warehouse work is data transformation and scheduling, so Apache Airflow and writing DAGs in python is a large part. For some of the larger streaming things you've got Kafka and others.

Also every cloud has it's own stack that is sometimes worth using.
I found the included case study [1] about a marketing agency designing Razer’s branding and first mouse particularly interesting.

[1]: http://toddpr.com/articles/ProductPR.pdf
I did all my sequencing on a ST Mega 4 for years using that version of
Cubase that everyone had back in the bof-bof-bof rave music days. The
reason techno musicians loved it, and stuck with Ataris WAY past their
natural life, was the MIDI timing. The UART on the ST was clocked
absolutely rock solid. Remember this was before DAWs and so most of
the gear was external - synthesisers and samplers - so you needed
really fine real-time accuracy. Nothing else beat the Atari ST.
That’s literally what Zuckerberg emphasized over and over in his talks though. What makes you assume that the folks at Meta won’t be developing such a protocol?
I find it odd that people who don't trust government will readily trust unregulated crypto "exchanges".
Well, it seems to be more than that: "High pay, free food, endless perks, business travel, free gear, extravagant parties and events. I really feel like a rockstar here."
The AR revolution has been promised since the 80s.
He really is.. how has he not been snatched up by OpenAi etc.? He embodies the commitment to open source.
Loving the Bible-themed whataboutism. Musk has definitely paid for some extremely cool stuff to happen, but it's fair to point out that he's been making this particular promise since 2014.

And nobody dies if I break a promise. Autopilot/FSD has claimed quite a few lives, in large part because it doesn't live up to the hype coming out of Musk's mouth.
This is why I still use LDAP. And I spend my days at work happy.
In other words: they make sense for making prototypes.
> I'm not sure how many people on amphetamine you've seen but it's a group not generally known for the quality of life they enjoy.

I’m betting you may know more people who take amphetamine in therapeutic doses than you think - assuming it or other medications that break down into amphetamine (vyvance) are legal to prescribe where you live. Methamphetamine is similar but very different in bioavailability and minimum effective dose (“methylation” is interesting but not relevant to go into here). It is largely believed that the ill effects of meth is primarily due to the garbage they cut it with before being sold on the street.

Amphetamine is tolerated exceptionally well and is very safe at therapeutic doses and has been used as such for 80-some years. If there were major issues identified with it, we would have seen late night TV advertisements from law offices promising to get you a settlement if you or someone you know has used it. The truth is, this is one of the most effective medications we have in modern medicine with 70% of patients reporting major improvement to their lives when on the correct dose. The fact that it’s in schedule II in the US is a travesty given how many hoops one must jump through every month just to get a script filled especially considering it very effectively treats a disorder that makes following through with that stuff difficult.
There's a limit to how much you can do that and not owe a penalty.
Or, hiring.
When was this sort of terror-based public information messaging abandoned, anyway? I grew up in late 80s/early 90s Ireland, and there was still some of it around (I’ll never trust a chip-pan, which I suppose was the point), but it seems to be almost entirely gone now.

I’m kind of curious if people who grew up either before or after the period when it was common _get_ Scarfolk.
One thing I’ve not seen mentioned/asked about DALL-E 2, which I’m really, really intrigued about is what hardware its typically running on and the average time it takes for image generation? Maybe I’ve somehow missed it, but I’m really intrigued by what their hardware set up is and how long it on average takes to generate the eight images from a users text input? I’m guessing it’s really quick, but I honestly have no idea… How does this system scale? Typical cost per image generated?
> I was hired by Facebook (now Meta) in 2019

> I’ve been at the company longer than almost 70% of people

Apparently they’re not doing much? I would expect this from either a company rapidly scaling up, or one with almost everyone jumping ship.
IRC is so far behind it almost seems unusable these days. My primary use for communication apps is IMs on my phone with embedded media, and voice chat also often on my phone.

Gone are the days where people left a desktop running 24/7 to run irc and a torrent client. And sat at a desk to chat.
elixir is a good option, if you're looking for commercial viability
No, you can absolutely use it (but you most likely want to clear() or assign an empty string to it before doing e.g. push_back as move does not necessarily clear the moved-from object - std::move(some_int) won't clear the int)
According to the article, one idea is it's because they slept on the ground and were more vulnerable to predators. But then speculates that it could also be because people were better at using dark time more productively than other animals, thanks to story telling and fires.

If I can add my own speculation, I think we are our own predator and selection pressure. People haven't been threatened by nature for a very long time, but we are threatened by each other.
Since 2019 on and off in my spare time. I've found motivation comes and goes and I actually spent one year not working on it at all, but resumed work in 2021.
The referral bonus must be off the charts... good luck to the author.
How London became the dirty money capital of the world [video]
> Is it really possible that this many people are ill, or is society expecting impossible things from people and ADHD-like symptoms are the consequence. Or is it something else?

Civilization is humans, who are animals, pretending they are not animals. This pretending is often very hard.
No, either you get the previous content of the string (if it was under the small-string optimization limit) or a new empty string, but never garbage.
The confusion here is between throttle-by-wire (which, as you point out, is now ubiquitous) and steer-by-wire, which Teslas still aren't. There was some hope that the newest yoke-equipped Model S would be, but my understanding is that it's still a direct mechanical link, i.e. wheels still turn if you move the steering wheel when the car is off. The driver-assist functions use motors to move the steering linkage.
Based. Maybe the Russian scientists will save us from the great stagnation after all.
Or, more likely, both.
Thanks for the pointers, I'll be bringing this up with some friends who work in related domains and see how to best bring this to practice.

> What are your other issues with methylphen?

Those 80mg is what I require, on average, to get the desired effects and have them last throughout the entire day.

First problem is an inherited cardio-related risk factor. Even if not an immediate concern, it is a permanent one.

Second one is that sometimes. lasting a day or two tops, methylphenidate has no effect on me - even not that high dosage. Happens with any brand/vehicle/release I've tried. Apparently this is really weird. We went to great lengths to try and figure out the cause, but there was no correlating pattern that we could find, and the drugs and production lines tested clean and unchanged. It's a mystery.
That's unsustainable and short-sighted. Good point though, that can very well be the reason for lots of devs.
Another esoteric choice would be the Odin Programming Language [0].
While being very simple it is modern and effective with some real projects built using it.

Performance wise it is at the very top with other low level languages.

[0]: https://github.com/odin-lang/Odin
I love inkskape, but I wish it took some interface tips from modern graphical software like Sketch. Inkscape's interface hasn't changed much in the last 15 years or more, and since then a LOT has changed in the UX world. Tools like Sketch and Figma introduced so many tiny interface and usability improvements, that when combined with each other they raise productivity be a factor of 10 or more for tasks like drawing a vector icon.
>> When C++11 came out Rust, Go, Zig, Swift were all either in their infancy or didn’t exist yet

I don't see Go as a natural C++ competitor. Go primarily competes with Java and C#.
No, you hit the nail on the head. There are probably many people who frequent HN that have ADHD which drives up the arrows.

But this is the study:

https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2120529119

I think it was written by AI, but basically they are saying that the eyes may be the key to linking the science of ADHD with the treatments. It's kind of boring.

"Our findings demonstrate that the visual system is a platform for understanding the neural underpinnings of both complex cognitive processes (basic science) and neuropsychiatric disorders (translation). Addressing basic science hypotheses, our results are consistent with a scenario in which methylphenidate has cognitively specific effects by working through naturally selective cognitive mechanisms. Clinically, our findings suggest that the often staggeringly specific symptoms of neuropsychiatric disorders may be caused and treated by leveraging general mechanisms."
> while keeping out the Putin-aligned plants

America doesn't need political purity tests, let them all come. If the concern is espionage, that's the FBI's concern to worry about. If the concern is them sending money back to Russia, simply forbid that. If the concern is their influence on American politics.. well that's a non-issue because native born Americans sympathetic to Putin far outnumber all the PhDs in Russia. And besides, American society can and should be able to tolerate dissent. A small number of wackos are outnumbered by reasonable people and aren't a realistic threat to the system.
I can't say I outright dislike anything you're saying, and I do understand your position. My key issue however is that I need to risk assess and budget my life just as you need to do your business. I simply can't do that on the basis of a bonus. It might give me the chance to take a more luxurious vacation or pay down a debt a little faster than I had anticipated, which is wonderful, really, but it's like an inheritance: I have next to no control over it and can't plan my life that way. Lesser comp. that I can plan for gives me control of my life that I'd rather have instead. Stock options are where I'd rather take the risk, because that's a longer haul that I can plan and adjust for with well worn investor metrics, and more importantly, I don't lose and can exercise when it works for me.
is it LAION ?
Monetization and the pursuit thereof; they need to forgo the profit motive.

I don't think they're able.
> I just don't understand how very smart people can so passionately believe in a closed loop

Does good programmer == very smart?

Does good mechanic == very smart?

Part of the echo chamber bias on HN is that programmers are an elite class of citizen that is head-and-shoulder's above the rest in terms of intellect. I whole-heartedly disagree with this proposition because I've met many, many programmers who were absolute ding-dongs.

If you stop deifying programmers (& engineers) it becomes easier to see they are just average tradespeople who trade happens to be in extremely high demand right now. And then other things fall into place, like how they can fall for their own bubbles.
If it's not in the language it will be in separate preprocessors, which will all be strictly worse.
Haha, memories. In my first internship I left a great impression by picking up a 4GL that was used for some backend stuff and nobody in the team knew (other than how to trigger pre-defined jobs through a UI). Built a few nice things with it, but boy, it was limited.
I still love the story of White Town who made Your Woman in 1997:

https://www.wired.com/1997/06/white-town/

Both the single and my album were made with an old Tascam 688 multitrack tape recorder, an Atari ST, and a free sequencer disc I got from the front of a computer magazine because I couldn't afford a "proper" sequencer.

It's a great interview from 1997.

Sent to a radio station and was #1 in 4 weeks. Still a banger:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lVL-zZnD3VU
Keep in mind Meta isn't developing just 1 product. The metaverse needs advanced tech for it to be realized. Once one or two companies develop the tech, of course new competitors will come in and possibly do it better. But you still need a pioneering company with vast resources to lead the way. For example, Microsoft developed XMLHttpRequest, which led to Google Maps and many other wonderful modern products/services.
I think you're overly focused on the long term. Consider that helping people now is, in itself, often a good thing, even when a product doesn't last.

Also, there are more ways to contribute to progress than inventing new protocols. Big tech companies often release open source tools that take a life of their own. (Not always, but often enough.)

There are also research papers. Research is often not directly useful, but someone can use it to build something that is useful.

And don't discount imitators. Good ideas are often copied widely.
does paddle make taxes a lot easier than stripe? I've been having issues with VAT taxes