skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only way this makes sense to me is if government action is the cause of their business failing. I'm sure some of these mom and pop gas station owners will pivot into being more general stores, restaurants. Maybe even fast charging stations or some other thing. The ones who can't can try to sell the business or liquidate the assets and move on.

If there's a gov doing otherwise then maybe I'd reconsider but I think this is just how running a business works.
Having fully indexed instantaneous search for my emails in 1996 was absolutely living in the future.

Especially if you subscribed to a lot of mailing lists and went looking for information on something specific that you knew you had read, but didn't know where.
Dupe. From yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31716639 (80 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31718495 (24 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31721383 (1 comment)
Got it! I think you should also read up on dual quaternions for more mind-blowing math if you haven’t done so yet!
> Balancing the two correctly

There are some famous examples complementary and different personalities working together very well, like e.g. Kahneman and Tversky:

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-two-friends-...
In IT it's different. 9/10 software development, DevOps, System/Network/Security Engineering, and so forth jobs I've seen have required just a bachelors degree. Other fields are likely different.
Perhaps they shouldn’t try to farm in the desert.
I'm monogamous because people are fucking exhausting to me but I still have some weak emotional needs.

Hell, if "halfgamous" were a thing, that's what I'd be.
So use something that doesnt change (your fingerprints or face), to create something that should be able to be changed?
It's definitely newer than Gibbon, in the case of the fall of the Roman empire.
> If I really wanted to add a decedent selector from a body class to .class1, I'd start a new nest on the body tag.

a) maybe you don't really know how far up the chain that tag gets called from.

b) it creates new selectors for class1 and class1.class2, as well as class1.class2's hover

c) creates a hyper specificity

now, I'm not advocating this usage of SASS - but it can be a handy hatchet when you need to support multiple themes with minimal changes/effort, much to the chagrin of specificity and maintainability
But would you feel alone?
> I've also noticed that, up to a certain point, the smarter a person is, the more it has to be apparent in their work. Every algorithm needs to be perfect, every function needs to be side-effects free, every data structure needs to be the fastest, and every best practice needs to be followed.

Many engineers are somewhere on the Asperger's spectrum, as Temple Grandin tells her Googler audience in [1]. Overthinking is a prime symptom of it. I'm disappointed to see that not even mentioned in this article.

There are some engineering practices that, unfortunately, amplify this rather than tamping it down. Code reviews, in particular, can do that; a reviewer gets points by nitpicking ("you could have done that in one line instead of two!").

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA4tE3_2qmI
Cat Lady AI
The indexes used to measure inflation are picked to stay under 2%.

I kept track of my groceries and rent for 10 years up to last year and my perceived inflation was way higher than 2% (even allowing some margin of error). This year is being completely insane but it's hard for me to compare as I moved.

Wages don't grow with inflation (the sad 1% yearly raise) unless you job hop.

Stocks don't give you always the best window to withdraw your annualised 7-8% profit. If you'll need to buy a house or if you'll go to pension you may end up withdrawing at bad times.

Houses have been mostly going up.
Good to beat inflation, terrible for youngsters who need a place to live without paying someone else's mortgage.
Do people browse the internet on their servers? What exactly is the use case?
You can do this for small datasets and I built an app around exactly this use case [0].

As your data gets bigger (just over time even if individual days don't emit more data) you'll end up building out partitioning schemes yourself or you'll move to a system that does that for you like bigquery/snowflake/etc.

[0] https://github.com/multiprocessio/datastation
Good point. I was looking at the "Family" aggregation which doesn't list AMD in the performance share chart, which was a bit misleading.
Probably! I was in college at the time. All the fellow nerds either ran Linux or NT.
Thanks for sharing, I think many people out there are going through the same thing you did.
The initial setup (managed k8s + nginx + cert manager) takes 1h top.

Writing a Deployment/Service/ConfigMap/Ingress is about copy-pasting, `helm create your-chart` will even generate those for you, and you only have the values.yaml to fill out.

From experience, there is really no overhead to that simple setup. Our Github repositories each have a CI/CD workflow (github actions) to build and push the Docker images to our Dockerhub account. Creating a new repository requires copy/pasting (in fact, we automated this with a template repository).

We have a repository where all of our Kubernetes resources/helm charts/... live and are deployed automatically when merged to master/main (github actions again). This was setup once and requires no maintainance. We have no need for ArgoCD/FluxCD (aka: divergence reconciliation) at the moment, so this is enough.

Everything else I listed are extra that are not needed for small companies, but can be added later as you scale/grow.

My point is that when you scale/grow and start needing this extra complexity, the existing setup do not need to be changed.
>50 neurons they're working with in life.

so approximtely 10x more than me on mondays before caffeine
You might want to get that looked at :)
Or they did six days ago.
Secretly it is also a one party state. A neoliberal one.
I agree that this is pretty insane but apparently these pensions have a high risk appetite and have made some bad calls but historically have significantly outperformed the market.
You can very well sell these goods and buy new ones maintaining a fixed amount and using it to back your currency.

This would be my favourite currency.
I was reading the new Apple app UI guidelines, and under the section about "inclusive language" it basically said "You are not to make jokes. You must speak as if to an idiot. You must write like a PR release.". Horrible stuff. Absolutely not utilitarian to make all software products bland corporate pablum in the name of not offending people.
The National guard is adequately equipped, trained and funded to put down an armed revolt of obese and unemployed police larpers.
I'm pretty happy about this: K-9 is my daily driver on my phone, and Firefox my web browser. This is a win for the open web.
I’d recommend https://metarationality.com/.

It’s a book optimized for arguing with rationalists (who among other things think overthinking can solve every problem) so some of the points seem irrelevant to most people, but they can be useful.
So the question is basically "How fast does credit decay?"

Let's switch from goods to services and favors. Let's suppose you're in a real bind one day, and need some help -- painting your house, moving cross-country, who knows -- and I step up and help you as a favor, and spend a solid week of my time.

How long do I have to redeem that favor and get a week's worth of time out of you? How does the intervening time affect the answer? If I disappear for twenty years and show up on your doorstep expecting the favor to be repaid in full, is that a reasonable expectation? What if we are close friends for those twenty years, trading favors back and forth?

There aren't necessarily right or wrong answers to those questions, but that's basically the question inflation answers -- it's the price for not participating. You do a job, you get your currency, and then you can roll your currency into participating in the shared risk for maintaining our systems of production, or you can stand back, and see the credit for your past contributions decay over time. Sometimes it decays slowly, when everything is going fine. Sometimes it decays quickly; if things begin going badly and you're not invested in the outcomes improving, your credit for your past contributions declines faster.
When Descript[^0] came out with automatic overdubbing, it was absolute magic and it stayed magic for a long time. Happy to see that there is now an open-source alternative, although I'm not sure how easy their models are to use.

Does anybody know how they prevent you from creating a voice that isn't yours? I expect the text they make you read to be random, but if you have a large enough corpus of the person you want to imitate you could just piece it together.

[^0]: https://www.descript.com
"Halfgamous" made me laugh :D

Also, go easy on yourself. Emotional needs are a sign of humanity, not weakness.
>It's easy to fall in love with someone who is young, hip and all that

>Here, I don't have to chase the next bride.

Who hurt you? :)
It's as dumb as can be. There is no hardware for networking; caveat on this is I haven't cracked it open but my network is monitored and I have not seen a peep from it in 4 years. It can read media files from a USB or external drive which is nice. If you have a lot of devices to connect, you'd be best suited to get a nice hmdi switch, but I only have three so a nice universal remote and some cable management works just fine.
-edited for spelling
Fascinating. I'm not sure I agree on all or many points here... I wonder if the author is illustrating the extent of their own insecurities.

For example, one might have all the confidence in the world, but prefer to pursue a monogamous relationship for practical reasons.

I might be fairly content with or without a monogamous relationship, but I know that certain experiences would be exceedingly unlikely without one, and they're things I want to experience. For example, raising kids in a healthy environment. In a monogamous relationship I can provide a stable and functional environment for my kids to grow up in. I don't care all that much about who my partner has sex with, but I do care that our relationship meets their needs such that they don't feel compelled to have sex with other people, so we can raise our kids under conditions that keep everyone happy. It's not really about who they have sex with so much as creating a life where that isn't really a concern in the first place.

If I was concerned or insecure about sex, well, I wouldn't have had kids I think. They aren't conducive to having more sex at all, nor necessarily all that great for ensuring someone is monogamous. Divorce rates are evidence enough to illustrate that.

So am I insecure about something here? Not passing on my genes? Not having stability? I suppose you could frame it that way, but at some point you need to choose one thing over another, and it wouldn't be useful or informative to call that insecurity. I feel secure in my choice, for what it's worth.
You might like Lewis's Till We Have Faces. It's a retelling of the myth of Psyche and is interesting because some parts were conceived before and some after his conversion, which gives extra depth to the characters' relationships with the gods.
Netscape, in general, was incredibly unstable. I remember 3.x crashing every half hour.
> PA Yeomans, the 'other' father of permaculture, had a checklist he called the Scale of Permanence.

What an interesting case of nominative determinism.
It is pretty unfortunate, I don’t know how else people think we’re going to solve driverless cars and eventually save tens of thousands of people from dying in car crashes every year in the US. At some point these systems need to be tested on real roads.
The best app I have actually paid for is the Gibson (guitar) App. Playing the guitar with the app or without the apps has made me even happier!
Context: they are no longer processing withdrawals:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31723286

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31720277
> The "software" modem/telephony device was interesting, but the backing software was too crashy.

I had a Mac from that era that sipped with a software modem, and at some point I upgraded to a serial modem for exactly that reason.
> There are those who have a strong self-interested opinion on "what should be done" that would be imprudent for most everyone relative to the factual reality. To convince more people of their preferred action, they work to undermine everyone's belief in the factual reality. So talking about what the public believes, independent of any proposed course of action, ends up being quite relevant.

You mention a "factual reality" in an area of disagreement but there is no such thing prior to the establishment of a consensus. The phrase "undermine everyone's belief in the factual reality" is misleading because it assumes that there is already some established consensus that is being undermined prior to its own establishment. But of course, one of the ways to establish a consensus is to talk about it as if it were already established and legitimate

> So talking about what the public believes, independent of any proposed course of action, ends up being quite relevant.

I think that talking about consensus can be useful, but I've yet to find an example of anyone discussing what the public "believes" in complete disinterest and without some implicit course of action
better to take a selfie than having your image taken. otherwise, you need liam neeson and his special skills or you'll never get your image back
Or maybe if politicians had put together a bill to improve roads and bridges and highways. Some kind of bill to improve the Infrastructure of the country everywhere...

Now why don't politicians do something like that...
Their definition of negative carbon footprint is broken. Unless there is something in the computer that permanently binds carbon from the atmosphere.
Related discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31711990

(I guess Economist must have a theme week on this...)
> the current settled law is that throwing money at politicians and them then spending it is speech

iirc the ruling is only about donating to pacs (political action committees) and not politicians directly (small distinction i suppose)
But which came first, and does this tell us why it crossed the road?
Things have changed. You can get far with just a bachelors degree, if you are open to working other places than Big Four and corporations with tens of thousands of employees. I have anyway, and I'm only 10 years behind you. If you move into InfoSec the requirements for degrees are even smaller, at the end of the day.

Also how much is a masters degree even worth after a handful of years of relevant experience anyway? Not much...
Probably true, but it was so baked into the system that it was hard to escape. Even the five good emperors chose their successors via adoption, so on paper it was still direct inheritance. For Marcus Aurelius to pass over his son would have been a huge break from tradition.

The best attempt to escape this was Diocletian's tetrarchy, but that just led to yet another civil war.
> Can we agree to remove "in any scientific sense" from there?

No we can't, that's the entire point. As soon as you remove that, you remove any testable, repeatable observation, which is the whole point.

> I think I can imagine a patient who contacts a horrific virus that cuts off all external and bodily sensations.

Think harder. There's a reason some patients are declared "brain dead". There are observable processes associated with human sentience, e.g. brain waves and body functions. If one fails (e.g. the heart stops and the vital signs collapse), they can sometimes be restored externally. If both fail and cannot be restored, the patient is declared dead and thus no longer sentient in the scientific (i.e. observable and testable) sense. Everything else is religion.

It's really that simple.

edit: as far machines go, different criteria have to be selected, because obviously language models don't have a pulse or emit delta waves.

edit2: also forgot to mention that the perception and interaction proposal applies to the system (or organism) in principle - accidents or illnesses don't count; a system that's by design incapable of interacting with and perceiving its environment cannot be said to be sentient (again, because I cannot stress this enough: in an observable/testable way).
Because we're all boring nerds and seeing something other than code all day amuses us. Happy to hear you're okay though
I actually read your blog on this while applying :). It was very helpful and part of my initial decision was exactly your quote to yourself at the top of the post. I do think I underestimated the time tradeoff as I generally breezed through my undergraduate coursework.

These are all good points to consider, and I definitely think I learn better & am more motivated when learning via projects, rather than the classroom environment. Work is more of a question mark, am on the lookout for what I want to do after having found analytics work unrewarding. Have considered SWE and product management, I just feel very _behind_ in the former (doubly so in research). Additionally I do feel I would generally enjoy a more social role. Regardless, thank you for the reply, this is a good framework for thinking about if this will be valuable or not.

Edit: Additionally, reading your post again: really like the point about figuring out what you don't know. Right now there seems to be so much 'magic' that I cannot comprehend; definitely feel that satisfying that curiosity is one reason to push through.
Thanks, I'll keep Linux users in mind and will at least test out using Ubuntu if time permits.

I haven't ran Ubuntu locally in years though, so I might go and spin up an EC2 GPU instance to test .
Happy to hear you've made some positive changes!

That said, as a cybersecurity practitioner, this:

>a lot of compliance and security related tasks which added zero benefit to our service

scares the bejeezus out of me. Security is never of zero benefit.
Amazon has an internal tool called "Forte", a tool used once a year for employees to provide "anonymous" feedback for one another. One piece of feedback that cropped up multiple times for me, from multiple people, was that I could improve in "bias for action", akin to analysis paralysis mentioned in the article.

At first, I got a bit defensive ... and in response, I ended up running an experiment, delivering code & written documents that — inside my head — felt incomplete, unpolished, not quite at the "bar".

The feedback following?

Overwhelmingly positive.

I had anticipated that my peers and leadership would notice a drop in quality. Instead, I was commended for speed of delivery.
> Windows 95 absolutely had memory protection and preemptive multitasking, at least for “native” Win32 applications.

I know it had preemptive multitasking, but did it have memory protection? I didn't use Windows in that era, but my recollection is it didn't.

I do remember all the apologetics for cooperative multitasking, because that's what Macs were stuck with so it had to be justified.
36,000 DKK. before taxes give or take 2000 is the average starting salary for people fresh from university, in Software Development, System/network engineering, DevOps, Security and those kinds of IT areas. The nerdy stuff.
Libgccjit.so: GCC as a Just-In-Time compilation library
Yes [0] including a laser rangefinder

0: https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/products/f-35-lightning...
Ask HN: How broken is YouTube these days?
I've been sick two weeks ago and had lots of time to spare while laying on the couch. I used that for viewing too much stuff on YouTube.

Here are some findings (German user) and I'd like your experience on this. Maybe it's anecdotal but I've got the feeling YouTube is really going down the drain.

- _lots of_ ads everywhere

- I got unskippable 15 second pre-roll ads on 17 second videos

- I got three pre-roll ads regularly, even on short videos and smaller channels

- I got lots of post-roll ads, too

- I've got lots of video ads where pharmaceutical companies are promoting to "talk to your doctor about the vaccine for XY" - wtf, is this even legal?

- Ads load better than the video

- In-App ads are directly from the shady/scummy section: "get rich quick"-schemes/courses, cartoonish erotic apps, phone optimizer apps, "lose 30 pounds in 30 days"-fitness apps, "free" book downloads with signup pages from hell, probably fake IPO signups, crypto investment apps... the list goes on...

- after reporting too many of those ads, I've lost the function to report any ad at all. I'm not kidding, the menu item is just gone.

- recommendations are showing me lots of videos I've watched before OR are totally unrelated to what I'm interested in

- recommendations are often filled with videos from 6 to 10 years ago

All in all YouTube seems to be a total shitshow and it feels like they don't care anything at all about the user experience.

With all those scummy ads I felt like 15 years ago on some crazy "free movie downloadz"-website but not on THE biggest video platform of the world.

Does Google/YT care so little? Have they automated and laid off everybody who could veto against all those "create your sexy arabian princess and play with her"-apps or all the "phone optimizers" who are going to do god knows what with your phone?

What's your experience on YT these days? Is it similar to mine or totally different?

I really like lots of the content, but the surroundings...
To try and find ways to prevent people from leaving in future. They are looking to improve retention.
Try caffeine free and see if it persists. I drink caffeine free.

I’ll be going on a multi month purge from it though. Water only for a few months. It’ll be brutal especially because I have high standards for water. (And most water tastes terrible)
Then all the good developers leave. A series of decent people hire in, get frustrated and quit. After awhile you just have a core group of either incompetent or desperate people hanging on.

Management can ignore for a few years. Rebooting things isn't too hard.
But then the issues that could be ignored can't be anymore. Eventually you get sold for the intellectual property or customer base.
Curious if you have a link so we can read what it actually says rather than your interpretation?
I don't think you're looking high enough. Try looking over your head as that's where this bit of humor sailed ;P
> Windows 95 absolutely had memory protection and preemptive multitasking, at least for “native” Win32 applications.

Apparently the first 1MB of RAM was mapped for compatibility with DOS and 16-bit Windows, which meant that the common bug of writing through a null/zero pointer could easily crash the system.
Yeah, the 3 million that Thunderbird specifically got in donations last year is absurd. I suspect it’s more than any other user-facing non profit open source application.
Beethoven was deaf; are you thinking of Bach?
You can hike to the campground from your home?
> The dominant hypothesis now is that exposure to daylight is the main variable.

Which is obviously wrong. The main variable is the time the eye spends at a short focal length. Like every other part of the body, the eye adapts to the stresses it experiences. Focusing on nearby objects for extended periods is stressful for a normal eye and as is the case for so many stressors, the body adapts[1]. This is easily seen in that ceteris paribus a person with myopia can comfortably focus on much closer objects than someone with normal vision.

Incidentally this means that corrective lenses can actually cause myopia to progress. Contrariwise a prescription can be written such that there is an effective training stimulus to reverse myopia[2]. However, that won’t fix the decreased focal range due to age related hardening of the lens of the eye.

[1] See Selye for details.

[2] Inexplicably, most optometrists refuse to do so.