skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My most ambitious web project was https://noiseblend.com which is a web app for discovering music on Spotify.

It’s a next.js + React slow and memory hungry mess [1] which could have been static HTML with some JS for the dynamic bits.

Experience taught me to keep it simple nowadays, but I had to go through the Noiseblend mistakes first.

The stack is Python with Sanic for the backend, Postgres for db and Redis for cache.

That’s what remained after removing all the unnecessary services I implemented because I thought they were paramount: high availability, data locality, time series databases, performance monitoring, alerts etc. Forget about those until you start making money on the product.

The biggest disadvantage a web service has over a desktop app is that you have to keep it up. No matter what, you have a server to manage and make sure it keeps responding. That worry doesn’t exist on offline desktop apps.

The other is finding the market for it. Noiseblend didn’t have a market, and it being dependent on Spotify didn’t allow me to ask for money unless I did something more. That’s another problem, avoid creating functionality that depends heavily on big companies.

I thought about “pivoting” and turning it into a playlist building tool for DJs. I added filtering songs by key and mode (e.g. A minor) and asked a few people if they would use such a thing. Turns out that they use a semi-offline desktop app [2] that already does that and is much faster and powerful.

Oh well, at least now I have a way to find songs to improvise on with my Kaval and guitar.

From my observations, people are reluctant on paying for websites. I guess they don’t feel as “owned” as a desktop app.

[1] https://github.com/Noiseblend/ui/blob/master/pages/artists.c...

[2] https://mixedinkey.com/camelot-wheel/
4 and 5 points stories. They can't even make the 2nd page let alone the front.
Please be aware that the FDIC *does not insure against losses from these exchanges*.

Do not put money into any crypto exchange, relying on the FDIC to protect you in the event the exchange goes bust.
you give him benefit of the doubt, a bit too much.
Ideally this should mean everyone immediately stops using Amazon for being too unreliable.
The "worlds best employer" is horribly mismanaging this layoff. It's all hush hush, and nobody is admitting anything until suddenly you have a meeting at the end of the day with a bigwig and HR.

The severance is a pittance. 60 days garden leave like twitter where if you find employment external you give up remaining severance. If you're unable to find another job, you get a week of severance per 6 months of employment (min 4 weeks, max 20).

Oh, and we're being told to use those 60 days to find a job internally at amazon....during a hiring freeze.

World's best employer my ass.
Malinvestment
Who wouldn't license their media to Netflix in a world without DRM? What are they going to do? Make a $100 million dollar movie and then only release it in theaters, just out of spite? That'd be leaving a lot of money on the table.
Hot take here: Haskell is also a better imperative language.
Tesla seems to be a moderately successful but enormously overvalued car company.

Why?

Because Elon himself is seen as a super-genius and a savior of humanity by a lot of people, including smart dudes like Geohot or Lex Fridman.

Also, Telsa valuation is tied to L5 (full autonomy), and the TelsaBot and the impressive giga factories and the AI hype, and the Solar panels etc.

But most of that will flop...
Both of these things can be true. There is a lag time behind hiring someone, PIPing them, and terminating them. Amazon was on a hiring spree. They are almost certainly still be bloated even after these layoffs.

Disclaimer: I work at Amazon as an SDE II on the logistics side of retail.
It's also possible that he calculated the number of bytes, searched the logs, didn't find anything and then tweaked his numbers until something matched. And then fired that random person to make a statement and lied about how he found out who to fire.
So it definitely descends from the Phoenician alphabet which is also what the Greek and then Latin alphabets descended from. The Etruscan alphabet, Cyrillic, Arabic, and Hebrew are all related in there as well.

It doesn't seem too far removed from other alphabets in that area. I'm honestly more surprised that they're saying they've only got the first word figured out.
Laser printers do yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code
Major oversight by Paul here. Elon is a knob and always will be. Soon nobody is going to want to work for him in any industry.
Your link has 4 points. My RSS is filtering to minimum 20, the post you linked never reach the front page, not even the 2nd
Is that unique to EVs? I'm pretty sure the lack of a spare is trend with new cars in general.
Several groups of people offered to maintain python 2. They were told very clearly they could not do so "officially", and we're even threatened with lawyers if their thing looked like it could be mistaken for "Python 2".
> Why have we as consumers become to addicted and depended on brands?

Because we are poor and got addicted to getting apps for free.

We used to pay for services like email, messaging, and web hosting. Then advertising companies started giving us that software for “free”. But we didn’t know they were advertising companies then because (1) the companies hadn’t decided that yet and (2) they framed themselves as app companies.

Want ad free radio? Pay for audio books and music. Want ad free video? Pay for YouTube premium or HBO MAX. Want your personal website to be add free? Pay Wordpress. Want an add free smart TV? Pay a little extra and buy one.
Even after reports of him firing people who disagree with him? I would hate to work for someone with such a big ego. Short way to have a team of bootlickers and opportunists.
Yes, I love my laser printer. It's somewhere around 10 years old, and has printed a grand total of 99 pages. But it's still happily using the same toner it came with, while an inkjet's ink would have dried out and needed replacing countless times.
For Model 3 in particular, the cars made in Shanghai which we receive in Europe have much much higher build quality (in terms of paint, pannel gaps, …) than the ones that used to be shipped from USA.

Ultimately I think it takes a new company a few tries and building a few factories to learn how to mass produce cars with satisfactory quality of these "details". Berlin is also good afaik and I expect the same of Tesla's next production lines.
>Clicking is way slower than coding.

I think w/ a suitable UI it doesn't need to be. Things which need to be addressed:

- it should be easy to instantiate new objects

- minimize scrolling/present lists of choices efficiently --- when using the Blockly version of OpenSCAD, BlockSCAD I often wish that the variable list could be made hierarchical so that the variables from a particular module could easily be identified or limited to

- being able to collapse blocks of code and expand them is very powerful

Trying to get over my aversion to Electron wrappers to try this out.
Maybe if the pay was extremely hardcore, but let’s be honest
Maybe someone can explain this to me (not an expert in traditional finance), but how in the world are lending instruments not categorized as securities? Let's say I lend you 10 bucks (and I earn some interest on the money over time T), you give me a receipt/contract, and then I sell that receipt to someone else before T expires (the price I sell at is some complicated equation based on your chance to default, inflation, interest rates, the time left out of T, and so on). Can I do that? Is that receipt not a security? Seems this would trivially fail the Howey Test, but it's also completely ubiquitous in the crypto sphere (see stETH, CurveFI, Tomb Finance, etc.). So.. I'm confused.

Forget all the super degenerate stuff (shorting, options, yield farming, nth order derivatives, speculating on NFTs, etc.), this whole insanity is happening because people are seemingly allowed to lend willy nilly without any regulatory pushback.
I'm also thinking about DIY vs going to a retail mechanic which will probably add a couple hundred dollars to the cost.
> Taking screenshots requires to click the preview in order to copy to clipboard, which also causes to save it to Desktop.
> No, it doesn't.

How do you take a screenshot that saves the screenshot to a specific spot that isn't the Desktop and ALSO stores the screenshot in the clipboard?

cmd+shift+3/4 doesn't store the screenshot in the clipboard. It just stores in on the Desktop. You can click the preview and it will move it into the clipboard as well as save it.

The other method, that puts the screenshot directly into the clipboard with ctrl+cmd+shit+3/4 but it doesn't save the screenshot.

What's the single keyboard shortcut command to take a screenshot and have it saved to your machine as well as have it stored in your clipboard?

I'll enjoy watching people down vote learning and knowledge sharing.
For achieving a high accuracy for matching, it really comes down to details of your specific domain and dataset. Regarding the attempt of using large pre-trained language models to be able to find semantically similar documents, which is what you are attempting now, maybe try Whisper or other multilingual models, and then fine tune them on your dataset.

But a better bet might be actually turning looking into simpler embedding and methods and attempting to directly improve them by including some domain knowledge in the method or the process. Again, it is hard to judge what might work better just looking at the surface.

In case you really need to work with labeled datasets, set up a strong baseline, look into the active-learning methods and set up the loop, do a few iterations and try to predict if it will scale sufficiently fast to your target accuracy.
"Click here to agree to an ambitious workplace".

Like SpaceX, only the motivated will agree. That's a requirement for turning Twitter into a SpaceX or Tesla scale success.
> You really would want to work yourself down to nothing for the worlds richest man with extremely hand-wavy equity value?

If I'm being challenged enough to have fun, I don't see why not. I like building software, it's my passion, and if I can get paid good money for doing interesting things while working for Elon, then good for him. Especially if the alternative is "do mind-dulling tasks 8 hours a day" for the world's richest men in some other megacorp.

> There's a difference between being in a focused envcironment and being in a shitshow

Yes, I don't want to be in a shitshow, I want to be in a focused environment. I don't see where the disagreement is.

Perhaps you're implying I'm wrong about Musk's places of employment being as I see them - you might as well be right, but you might as well be wrong. Unless I start working for them, I guess I'll never know for sure.
So hydrogen isn't popular in cars because of some conspiracy theory, and not the blatantly obvious fact that it takes much more electricity to separate hydrogen from water, super-cool that hydrogen for transport, and turn that hydrogen back to electricity in a fuel cell, than to just transmit the electricity to a battery.
> gaslight

That's a loaded term, used at the outset to poison the well, so to speak, so one has to question whether the question was asked in good faith and therefore would answering be worth the trouble.
You are correct. What I was pointing out is that actual regulated banks are also prone to failures, especially in these trying times. Because they also hold a fractional reserve.
Panel gaps don’t even matter from a pragmatic standpoint.
> Yes, that has been discussed thousands of times in the literature.

Yes, and that's why the strawman is bad.

EA folks don't in practice follow or advocate for any form of ethical system that leads to doctors killing people for their organs.
> My kindergarten teacher has a Model 3, so that's not really luxury at all.

Dual incomes make this a weak metric. The Model 3 also retails for the same price as the BMW 5 series and Mercedes-Benz E class.
Even Hollywood masterpieces with high critical acclaim are trying to make money. I don't think you're actually saying anything. I don't have super highbrow movie tastes so independent artsy films bore me. I like action movies, run and gun. Things like Snatch or Bullet Train and only companies like Disney and Sony are making those.
Classic issue with Universal Links, assuming you're on iOS. I implemented Universal Links for an app a few years ago. I think many developers think it's trivial to implement, follow the one-page guide to setting it up, and think the feature is complete. In reality it's much more complex to do for an app of any real size.
Part 1: The request

Do you have a writeup that you can point me towards that goes into detail about why functional programming isn't about map/reduce/filter and is instead about reconceptualizing your entire program as consisting of recursion schemes[1]?

I'm asking because I've been working with FP languages for 15 years now and the first time I've seen this point of view is from your comments. [Although, I suppose you sort of see a half formed version of this in the little schemer and seasoned schemer books. But just not enough so that I would consider it the point they were trying to make sans your comments.]

Part 2: Furthering the discussion

Of course personally, FP isn't a single well formed idea or philosophy any more than a hurricane is a well formed entity. Just a bunch of dust and wind going in the same direction. As with all other programming paradigms. I'm perfectly happy with the true soul of FP being some reconceptualization of a program into recursion schemes because my plan, as with all paradigms, is to pick and choose the individual conceptual motes and mix them together in a way that allows me to best solve my problems.

I actually dislike what I think you're saying recursion schemes are for a similar reason as to why I dislike excess shared mutable references and loops with excess mutation. It places the programmer into a sea of dynamic context that must be mentally managed in order to understand the meaning of the program. Meanwhile, map/reduce/Result, places the programmer into a static reality where all meanings have computer verifiable proofs associated with them.

My version of FP doesn't have recursion or loops. Just map/reduce/ADT and functionality that allows you to convert recursive data into lists and lists into recursive data. Maybe that doesn't make it 'true' FP. Which doesn't bother me.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33438320
> Reconceptualizing your entire program as consisting of recursion schemes and operations that use those recursion schemes, what I think the deep, true essence of functional programming as a paradigm is
Heck no.

I actually looked up to him before he started going downhill in the last few years. I thought, “Maybe I would work for SpaceX for a few year as long as I had a plan to get out.” I knew it would be hard but possibly rewarding enough. But after it seems like he sort of crystallized (at least publicly) on work culture (no WFH, people must be hardcore), frankly toxic personality (lashing out on Twitter, etc), and seemingly not knowing what the hell he is doing (incredibly naive views on running a social media platform and moderation, managing Twitter via fear and his own paranoia — firing people who disagree), I would not touch a job with him anywhere in chain or close to it.

I have to wonder if something happened to the guy or if he was always like this. Like, we’ve seen a few famous people go from themselves to essentially an evil caricature of themselves recently. Not that they weren’t somewhat objectionable (to me) before, but the objectionable bits got cranked up 100x. Trump, Kanye come to mind. Kanye obviously has some health issues. Is it mental health? Just getting older? Some sort of conservative/paranoia-fueled “mind virus”? That sounds silly, but there’s such a pattern and resemblance to “having your parents get stuck on conservative news” which is so common.
Artemis I: A giant rocket to set new space records
The article seems ignorant of native tools built right into macOS. For example, it claims macOS is missing:

> Missing native Alt+Tab and individual window switching (only does app switching)

This is simply false, and the whole list is by someone who just hasn't made an effort to learn how to use a new OS they are not familiar with. For example, I just use Command-tilda, two keys right next to each other, to switch between windows of the same app, and Command-Tab to switch between different apps altogether. Is this not what the author wants?
I am glad that you are content with iPhone, and that it works for you. - It's what really matters. But I just want to point out that the latest nexus phone is from 2015 and iPhone 8 was released in 2017.
I immediately had the same thought

https://media.tenor.com/jVpPsiwNI-gAAAAd/indiana-jones-door-...
I do agree with a lot of this.

What should not be forgotten, however, is how much of the basic UX primitives are being thrown away with the new Catalyst iOS style apps.
Furthermore a lot of ads seem quite obviously designed to annoy and harass, not to entertain, just so they get their hooks in deeper. But I'll also agree with the counterpoint - it's all a matter of perspective and what's entertaining for some can be annoying or harassing for others.
> Watching Elon gaslight current and former Twitter employees in the public square, I couldn’t help but wonder if any engineers would actually work for this guy going forward and why?

There are _far_ worse people to work for. These people normally don't get any publicity, but there really are some absolutely terrible places to work. The worst people don't fire you, they make it impossible for you to leave and punish you every day.

People are looking at the Twitter employees and judging him by this, but it's not a secret that Twitter employees (old and current) are actively trying to sabotage him. Imagine shit-talking your own CEO on the platform you develop. I would fire these people on the spot too, and I wouldn't hire those people elsewhere. The proper way to correct your boss is through internal channels, politely, through management.

The people I would like to speak to is the Tesla or SpaceX engineers. He clearly has built out the teams he wants to see there that he trusts, and I would be interested to hear how they rate their work culture.

Twitter will continue to be an awful place to work for a while anyway, Musk is quickly trying to spin it to stop the extreme bleeding of cash. Twitter employees scaring advertisers signed their own firing. He is not lying that Twitter will die unless they can at least break even ASAP.
> Agloe is a fictional hamlet

Very fitting, if people weren't sure if it 'be or not be'.
Never use px to set font-size in CSS
Frankly, if I were evaluating a job candidate and I saw that they joined Twitter after Elon, I’d see it as huge red flag.
It seems to me that the main benefit is the ability to give a prompt, and be given a starting point.

An h1 (or h2 I suppose) on the site is "Let Notion AI handle the first draft."

That makes sense! That's a lot easier than starting with a blank page.
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> There are a variety of ways in which such a person could be less moral than the pitifully ineffective non-billionaires.

I think we might be talking past each other a bit.

I'm saying, given no other information, someone who has given away billions, effectively, as in saved lives, is "morally ahead" of someone who hasn't similarly done so.

Of course they could've done other things that make them morally worse. Of course the way they donated money could be net-negative, if they caused negative things in the world.

But in the absence of other information, if I told you someone had donated a billion dollars to, I don't know, give food to hungry people, do you really think that is a morally neutral act? Like, if someone is a firefighter that has saved hundreds of lives by their heroism, do you think they are literally morally the same as other people who haven't? If that's not what you're talking about, I'm not sure what you are talking about.

Btw, I don't think morality is just an issue of summing up all your good versus bad deeds. I'm not exactly sure how to even define "ahead morally". A firefighter who has saved lives but also abused their kids - how do you even deal with a case like that? I think people are complex, they can do both good and bad, and the good that firefighter did is good, while the bad is bad, period.

I think one thing you might be objecting to is the idea that you can say something like "person X did 100 good deeds, and 99 bad deeds, therefore they are net good" or even "it's worth giving money to a cause that causes 99 bad deeds and 100 good deeds cause it's net positive." And I agree, that's a valid criticism and a wrong way to think about things.
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I respect your choice and to each their own, but to characterize Elon as a wartime CEO when he’s caused 80% of the crisis is a very generous characterization. His “leadership” thus far has been sporadic, ill thought out, and reckless.
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I believe they started out with the intention of becoming a true democracy.

However, somewhere along the way politicians came to the conclusion that democracy is a merely nuisance and only pay lip service to it.

Democracy also means transparency and that would thrust their corruption into the light, which they can't allow.
I had an old HP printer from 2009 that I finally got rid of this year. The case was broken, the tray was falling off, and it spent years collecting dust. It still worked! Only the ink dried out. I'm curious about the reliability of printers, and how often people have to replace them.
Nothing better than meeting a guy in a trench coat behind a garage in the shady part of the town to exchange your cash for outlawed, non-refundable token. No way that can go badly.

Actually, scratch that. Nerds will lose their crypto wallet AND their physical wallet to the rubber hose cryptanalysis. In fact, this is a great opportunity for enterprising criminal minds.
I’ve done it (years ago). 4 managers fired in 8 months. I had to leave so I could do actual work. Seeing these Twitter reports is giving me flashbacks.
Yet another reason to lock your screen when you stand up. The guy could have printed it from someone else's computer.

It seems incredibly naive to print out a leak letter from work.
A stack of Apple laptops could work as a powerful supercomputer