skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know a person who was a technical customer service manager (for a very technical product) and a general-purpose writer.

She now writes the customer-visible bug-fixed notes for a very large, very technical software product (with minor releases on the order of every 4 weeks, and major releases annually). A good bug takes 5-10 minutes to write up in an appropriate, customer-friendly, legally and security-appropriate way.

A bad bug might take hours of tracking down engineers who did the work, claimed they did the work, mis-tagged the bug entry, improperly closed the bug, improperly left the bug open, improperly merged the bug...

But at the end of the day, she isn't responsible for fixing the bug, just documenting it properly. The workday is essentially 9-5. And there's always another bug.
I believe "only really decentralized" meant, where important components are concerned (minings, nodes, development, adoption, marketing, etc) bitcoin sets the standards and maintains a balance. Cant have a second immaculate conception where this particular template is concerned.
I think upon casual reading, one finds that is not true. The Bitcoin Genesis block contained metadata that suggests otherwise:[1]

"The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks"

I personally don't particularly agree with central banks being a utility of commercial banks, but I also don't believe that creating a digital deflationary asset that cannot allow intermediaries to solve human problems like fraud is the answer.

It seems infantile to me to suggest otherwise.

[1]: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Genesis_block#Coinbase
Indeed, the "data per unit time" is a required parameter for human intelligence. It is useful to grade the 5 senses in bits per second, and I'll make some very wild (and wrong) guesses:

Sight 1e6 bits/sec - our primary high-bandwidth connection to the Real World
Sound 1e4 bits/sec - again an average, probably less than this
Touch, Taste, Smell: 1e2 bit/sec

The Temporal Nature of problems (e.g., how quickly is this lion coming at me before he eats me) is essential for a true AGI to understand.

In the limit, could an AGI exist with only 20 WPM Morse Code I/O? Or 10 CPS of a Model 33 TTY ? I dunno...
My understanding is that the answer is no. The 25% generally refers to what is called ethical non-monogamy, or open relationships. I also think 25% sounds high.
Daily user of nvAlt for years!

I switched to LogSeq about 3 months ago.
Sketchy part is when operations read and write with the same argument. Op first is nice for that as it becomes op arg0 arg1.

I quite like the SSA style which tends to be
dst0 dst1 opcode src0 src1
but that doesn't model assembly brilliantly. Perhaps that order with read-write arguments required to appear on both sides of opcode with the same symbol has some merit.
Without having actually written any Rust, but being familiar with it and having written a fair bit of Python, the most obvious ones are: speed & static binaries, with cargo+crates coming a close second.
That's great, thanks for taking the time to reply to me.
Technically pretty impressive, but if I am permitted to be blunt, it's severely lacking in polish.

Overall the website doesn't look good on desktop. I look at this: https://imgur.com/3SoPR67 and think that some elements have failed to load. It's so empty and white. The "learn more" button is completely unnecessary. You could just put the information there in the first place.

Overall much of the landing page feels like unnecessary filler, pro forma rather filling an actual function. Like it's almost all fluff that doesn't really tell me anything and I'm just wearing out the scroll wheel on my mouse before getting to the free trial so I can check out what the heck it is.

I'm also immediately assaulted by multiple popups, one of which keeps animating and making noises. That's a big turnoff. I don't want to talk to a sales rep before I even know what I'm being sold.

Like none of this is a major flaw, it needs polish and iteration.

I'd make some use cases, consider some user categories (maybe someone who has heard of the product and want to try it, someone who doesn't know what it is, etc.), and consider what would such a person ask when they visit your website, and then investigate if the website answers the questions.

The first question I asked is "what is this?". The answer I got is "It manages the entire cycle of Building, Hosting and Serving websites," which is pretty vague. Maybe prominently display some demo websites that have been built using getlivewebsite.com? I think that would sell a lot better than merely talking about the service and its features.

On a technical level, you've got some z-index issues on Firefox. https://imgur.com/B53ghcP
You can’t short bad ideas directly. But you can (or could until recently) make money off them by coming up with them and pitching them to VCs yourself. That’s kind of like shorting.
Popular solar markets like Australia are filled with junky panels because we ended up in a race to the bottom price-wise. I can say with certainty that the panels bought by the average consumer aren’t lasting 25 years. In Western Australia we have the cheapest solar in the world. Just don’t ask how long your system will last for.
I believe I'm remembering either Crystallizing Public Opinion (1923) or Propaganda (1928), both by Bernays. (IIRC, the exploitation of local social graphs is in his description of the techniques used to sell US entry into the Great War/WWI)

But there were other authors I consulted in the same timeframe, and Linebarger, in Psychological Warfare (1948) points out that propaganda/public relations men (they were all men, in those days) are less than completely reliable sources when it comes to testimony as to their methods and their efficacy. So you'll probably want to triangulate a bit yourself.

Edit: Propaganda Ch.I,p18 is already promising:

... it must be remembered that these thousands of groups interlace. John Jones, besides being a Rotarian, is member of a church, of a fraternal order, of a political party, of a charitable organization, of a professional association, of a local chamber of commmerce ... This invisible, intertwining structure of groupings and associations is the mechanism by which democracy has organized its group mind and simplified its mass thinking. ... To admit that [this structure] exists, but expect that it shall not be used, is unreasonable.
wait, why are CO2 emissions "bad?" it might even literally take 20-25 years to "pay off the CO2" used to make, deliver, and install the solar panels...

to me it seems like our CO2 emissions are not bad and the effects on climate are very minor. this is playing out in real time as we make dire predictions that never seem to come to fruition. the world is ending in 12 years, said someone popular in ~2016. Well, halfway there, lady!
And to give some further context to the over-inflated 10M tons of solar panel waste stat (over 30 years), our carbon emissions from fossil fuels are about 570M tons per year into the atmosphere. That doesn't count all the equipment used for extraction of fossil fuels, all the massive amounts of toxic waste water that comes with fossil fuel extraction, all the ash from coal, etc.

Which is to say, all the concern, even on inflated numbers, was FUD and a distraction from real problems.
People complained about the amount of RAM NeWS apps took up, too. In retrospect we realized NeWS was a missed opportunity to revolutionize networked-app UI.

Electron is the dream of NeWS for current-era hardware and software. In the future we won't even blink at the space it takes up.
You think the internet is an app?
Do you find the type definition work to be better/easier than using model validations? I’ve found that I prefer that logic in the model instead of type def files, but hey, to each their own, of course.
That is something I immediately noticed. There's no follow up as to whether any of this actually worked. This just seems like a way for management to rationalize understaffing and shift the blame to anything but the lack of adequate staff.

The article paradoxically argues against specialization but then goes on to say generalist must choose a team and specialize in certain team tasks. The entire article just smacks of managerial double-speak that puts employees in a situation that's unwinnable by design while alleviating management of any responsibility for their decisions. Don't specialize enough? Well that's the employees fault. And if they over specialize? Well that's their fault too.

Just hire more people. And if you can't afford to adequately staff your own company, that's your fault not your employees. Your poor management skills is what got you into that situation. You have no one to blame but yourself.
I'm super confused, how is this better for the Earth? Aren't you using a gigantic amount of CO2 to make these panels that work intermittently, with giant batteries to help make them realiable?

Why not just use 1 reliable power system, instead of having 1 unreliable backed up by 1 reliable?
> People go to prison for stealing a car

Well, not any more.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/bayarea/heatherknight/article...
> how on earth are you going to legally differentiate this from a company simply hiring someone with experience in the political sphere?

Experience in the political sphere is no longer a thing when the entire government consists of 1 year lifetime term limited random selections. Experience only has value now because there are "career politicians", political parties, campaign fundraising, etc.

Also keep in mind that without elections, they are no longer "representatives" and don't have "constituents". Therefore, the legislators no longer have to take private meetings or phone calls with anyone. This doesn't mean they won't listen to anyone or take advice, it just means that this can all occur in public hearings and not in private where deals are made. Lobbyists as such should cease to exist.
I think something like this could make sense as a place to run large machine learning models locally. I don't need a server to run my browser or my apps, they run just fine locally. But a server to run large language models, Stable Diffusion, Whisper voice recognition, etc would be useful, as these types of models can run much faster at higher quality on a beefy GPU than they ever will on a phone.

The endgame of these models is an agent that knows practically everything about me and can perform tasks on my behalf, which I would really prefer to live in my house running on hardware I own, rather than in a data center under someone else's control.
Hierarchcies are handled by 3.2.15 (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5545), and I suspect that could be leveraged to handle multi-step tasks; reminder dates are handled by VALARM in 3.6.6 (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5545#section-3.6.6). Tags could be stored in comment properties (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5545#section-3.8.1....), but there's probably a better way already in the spec, which also includes support for extension by adding non-standard properties (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5545#section-3.8.8....).
I don't think he is chasing the spotlight more than necessary to promote his business. Besides, chasing the spotlight does not imply honesty. Just look at SBF.
Sounds like an interesting licence, good luck!
Yeah my sign is the wrong way. My bad.
Good one. Actually quite helpful. I like the circle metaphor.

I suggest you make the right “hold” text-align:right. Right now, on my phone, I can only see the first two letters.
dest = src

That's how I think of it.

ALSO: I really do not like the MOV instruction; I much prefer LD. The Z-80 instruction names got everything mostly right.
>The picture is from the library's electronics room which has cool gear such as laser cutter, 3D printer, and much more.

Amazing! I've never seen anything comparable in a U.S. library. What a wonderful resource. How do they maintain it?
I'm in the UK too. I think the 2030 date is unrealistic. I'm pro-electric cars but we're still a long way away from it being the only option. At the very least we need widespread on street charging for the half of people who don't have the option to charge at home. Rapid charging is ok but not suitable for exclusive use.
I think your own "angry bees" metaphor implies that this isn't just returning to neutral coverage of tech companies ;-)
I love linear but your advertised "offline mode" is not what I would expect it to be.
If I open the Mac app when I'm offline I just get a blank window and have no access to any of my data or a window telling me "Unknown Error loading your workspace data". So I have to login once and keep the app open before I go offline. If I close the app while being offline and reopen it without internet connection I won't have access to any of my data. This is sadly killing the app for me. Is this expected behaviour? Just a "read only" mode of the last state I had when last logged in would be enough for me.
Haha, love the story. Always wanted one of those Citroen sedans. It sadly feels like that culture of being able to get out of a jam with one's car with a bit of simple mcgyvering disappears a bit more every day in modern times.

And yes, you're right, mechanical diesels only in the most sensitive areas. You can see some delightful photos of those in the blog post at [4] above :)
The core question “what is this in service of?” is what separates good developers from mediocre ones.
I don’t understand why we don’t talk about this kind of stuff more. It’s really amazing.
I don't know about you, but recently when I bring up the idea of Turning testing AI, I get push back along the lines of, "Turning tests can be gamed." People instead suggest that Winnograd schema are better because they incorporate generalized knowledge. Now that we're getting human level Winnograd scores, we're getting suggestions that images, audio, and video are requirements. If this doesn't look like moving the goalposts, I don't know what is.
I use Typinator, which includes the TidBITS AutoCorrect Library. https://gist.github.com/a-gu/1218e4935d282a68795259e96c238fd... It's far less aggressive than macOS auto-correct, but corrects the most common typing mistakes and misspellings.
Completely depends on the market. A 45 minute drive from my locale in any direction is a totally different market, with differing prices, inventory, and local nuances. To the east - that area didn’t see prices increase much over the past few years. To the south - been a very steady but gradual increase. Locally, prices basically doubled in a three year span, but are now in a holding pattern. Your market is likely entirely different from mine and you could be completely right in your hypothesis.
I've seen people purchase or sell cars because they don't like what Elon is doing at that moment.
Ask HN: Best guides for hosting Mastodon/ActivityPub server for 5000-1K users?
I'm a reasonably-experienced community manager, but definitely not an experienced sysadmin, and a noob when it comes to Mastodon. I've joined an instance and it's clear there's lots of promise there, and with many people looking for an alternative to Twitter I'd like to provide a federated home for a couple of communities.

Are there good guides for hosting Mastodon from 0 to 500-1,000 users (and potentially beyond)? I'm trying to avoid making stupid mistakes, like using a provider's "1-click installer" and then discovering that I'd hit a capacity wall quickly and have to start over, or choosing an architecture that would quickly become prohibitively expensive. Basically, I'm hoping for a map with recommendations and "here there be dragons" information.

Something like masto.host could be interesting, but their prices seem a bit high and all of their plans are currently unavailable anyway. I've read https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/run-your-own/, but it's missing even basic sizing guidance. I found what appears to be an official Docker image at https://hub.docker.com/r/tootsuite/mastodon, but no instructions on using it.

Any feedback is welcome, thank you!
Yes, functional simplicity is tough.
Link is dead. New link seem to be https://blog.djha.skin/p/planning-and-notes-using-markdown-i...
Can you share pages using a public link and can you use your own domain for it?
>This is true, but if testosterone is what makes humans aggressive, wouldn't I have been ... aggressive, with 10 peoples worth in me, were that the case?

Not necessarily. Maybe what's normal for 10 people is normal for you. Natural testosterone levels are known to vary by a huge amount
I do not believe our economy’s output exceeds that of 2019, pre-Covid. We still have supply chain issues up the wazoo. We still have disease taking out employees en masse, and for weeks at a time. Potential customers are generally in worsening financial condition. I simply can not believe that conditions are such, that the stock market should have a higher valuation than it did in 2019.
There's a difference between being "morons" and lacking a self-sufficient industrial base.

As to the latter, there's a reason Russia is buying drones and SRBMs from Iran...
> lol but reposting half an article as a comment is

You seem to be confused about who you are replying to.
As an example of a company that doesn't touch AGPL, Google's policy is to "maintain an aggressively-broad ban on all AGPL software": https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/using/agpl...
Really hard question to answer simply. They're two languages that are at very opposite ends of the spectrum, yet they can usually both accomplish the same goal. I think the main difference is that Rust is significantly faster and uses less memory in the majority of cases, but also harder to learn and to reason about. Good package manager, tooling, etc, is a nice to have.

Python focuses on being simple, interpreted and dynamicaly typed, Rust requires you to specify the exact types of all the things (like C/C++) which allows it to generate really optimal compiled machine code before execution, it has more information to work with. Accessing a struct/"object" field is not a hash table lookup, it's a direct pointer access, as the exact size of things are known at compilation time.

If you're writing a script, a tool, a small game, it's simpler to use Python. If you're writing a database engine, a mission-critical piece of code that has to behave predictably without the possibility of random GC pauses, anything that has realtime constraints such as audio, lower-level languages like C, C++ and Rust are a must.

A lot of higher-level folk seem to enjoy Rust as well, especially in networking/the web, for whom the speed is worth the additional difficulty and complexity.
Contracts in the US also require consideration (IIRC from my intro biz law class). IANAL, but I think that the consideration is allowing you to use the IP (in exchange for your compliance with the license).
I think that you have misread my comment.

I have said "a diet to avoid gaining weight", not "a diet that allows gaining weight".

If I eat more than 1900 ... 2000 kcal per day, I gain weight rapidly, so the problem was reducing the amount of energy intake so much, while ensuring an adequate daily intake of proteins and of any other essential nutrients, and without feeling that I am starving.

I agree that there are differences between people and there are also differences for a single human depending on circumstances, e.g. in many cases when you are ill you lose your appetite.

Nevertheless, for the same human, different foods containing the same amount of energy can behave extremely differently from the point of view of causing satiety, both immediately after the meal and some hours later.

For remaining satiated many hours after the meal, at equal energy content food with higher content of proteins and/or fat and/or fiber is more effective.

For being satiated immediately after the meal, at equal nutrient composition food that is more consistent and requires prolonged chewing causes satiety much faster than soft food such as creams, mashed potatoes, ground meat and the like.
Okay let's talk to the average American on HN.

Your point (if it even has much value) does not affect them. US banks and stocks are strictly better than BTC as a place to park their USD as American citizens. Unless they wanna gamble.
agreed, but on AirBnB, AirBnB was huge because it was cheaper than a hotel, they could ignore zoning laws, and it was meant to be for more personal & honest experiences. it's now far more expensive than a hotel, governments are restricting AirBnB subletting after complaints now, and the experiences are far more sterile with scams more common.

the complaints from the peanut gallery was always "this will work until it doesn't anymore", just like Uber, and that's exactly what's happening, it's crashing down now.
I don't think that makes any sense if the money was spent.
Yes, but the article is about California.

I am not sure how that is relevant.

Also, New Zealand's population is less than that of SF Bay Area and one of the lowest density states in the world (hence more per capita access to resources).

There will be similar sized patches in the US with similar levels of low corruption.
Ellison was not GG's boss. GG taught in the B School; GE is in HASS.
Where can I read more about Musk's coding prowess?

Because the little I've gleaned is that he insisted on porting PayPal to Microsoft stack, got pushed out, and picked up enough about rocketry to impress Carmack in casual conversation.
New pipy package to generate Dependents stats for a GitHub repo
GitHub API does not allow to collect information about package usage (Used by insights section)

This package uses GitHub HTML to collect information and output it as text or json, or generate a markdown file.
I think a (but not the only) central conceit of a microservices architecture is that most development teams cannot be trusted to maintain proper separation of concerns, and enforcing at a technical level the inability to call Any Old Function is a big part of what you’re buying into.
I looked into this and found, annoyingly, that even if used the Remote Desktop rarely and I could deallocate the machine to not get charged, it was actually the price for storage that made it too expensive.
You can sort-of "clean" whatever output you get from your camera because the symbols are typically around the periphery. Adjust focus+zoom so that your subject is within the rectangle that doesn't have symbols, take the camera output and put it through OBS with a crop filter and you've got something that's clean.
I understand where you’re coming from, but when you have expert users of your software, they’ll be extremely sensitive to speed. Maybe a casual user won’t care, though.

For example, my company has a team of experts who use our internal tool for managing company-related tasks. They use this tool every day as a core part of their job. It’s a team of literally hundreds of people who use this tool.

If we add a feature which adds a click to some step of something they’re used to doing, we’ll never hear the end of it. Their team celebrates whenever we can add any sort of speed increase to something they’ve been using for a while. Adding shortcuts to common functionality is always a big user request.

It’s obviously not a core part of our job to consider only performance, we add and change lots of features all the time. But if we ever neglect performance for too long, it can really start to weigh their team down.

It’s interesting working so close to the people who use the software, because they don’t hesitate to give feedback like that, which you’d never get from just an internet software release. Lots of other software will have these “expert users” too, but you won’t hear the feedback.
Like Eminem said: Be smart, don't be a retard.

See keto diet. (I do it and carnivore).