skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why is this all so buggy?

> started using some similar (but less feature rich) products

You may have answered your own question here.

At least in my experience, PMs at "feature rich" companies love to push for more new and exciting products (and what's more exciting than AI!?) and find it really annoying when devs talk about fixing bugs or improving existing processes for customers.

I'm really hoping one positive result from the current economic turmoil is a return to focusing on delivering value to customers. I remember in years long past when product people viewed solving a customers problem as the key path to a successful company. But I guess years of cheap money and forgetting about the very idea of profit have made people realize that the real customer is VCs.
I would just as easily pirate movies as much as I would buy an xbox controller off amazon, replace it with a broken controller, and send it back saying it doesn't work.

These massive companies don't owe you anything. These companies exist purely to extract as much wealth out of you as possible while convincing you that they're the only ones that can provide that service.

It's so convenient that I can pirate videogames, movies, tv shows. These companies want you to keep paying for this mass produced content controlled and influenced by money and what "sells" based on algorithms, social media influence... These companies control and influence you (read: consumers/society) more than we think.

I'd rather see these companies go bankrupt and blown up into a billion different smaller companies than have massive conglomerates control and influence what we see.

If we were to see more originality in the higher-value sections of markets (think indie developers/filmmakers vs companies like EA, TenCent, etc.), then I'd probably pirate less things.

The hyper-optimization of art and culture by these massive companies designed solely to make profit (and the population willing to throw their cash at it for toys, theme park rides, etc.) is morally repugnant to me.
Oh sorry yeah they definitely care. Not just Google, also publishers like NBA care because it dents their revenue. But even they know installing ad blockers is a reasonable human behavior and spending $ to get around them an accepted cost of doing business.
How does this square with "Only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade" from his latest tirade/email
Generative AI, especially for writing, is really good at producing mediocre content.

I think people will quickly realize that poor AI-generated content is the new spam and we’ll see a surge of both algos and people prioritizing human-created content as a result.
No architecture is better than bad architecture
Or just retype it
There are nice companies like that even at 100-something employee size. The company being owner-run is paramount, as is the character of the owners (caring more about the product and the craft than about maximizing profit).
JS is single threaded.

Async / await is just a code transformation that introduces Promise wrappers.

The code should be equivalent to the original. (I've just overlooked the top-level `async`…).
I always thought the benefit of FP is thread safety, at the cost of a lot of data copying.
No, no one needs this in their life.
Yeah. Sure, "simple" and "complex" sorta have an objective definition. But colloquially "readable", "simple", "complicated", etc have a tendency to track with "things with which I'm familiar/comfortable (or not)".

Over the decades I've come to the conclusion that there's no such thing as a one size fits all sweet spot on this stuff. Different people are going to have different experiences with what they find straightforward or not. They will have different backgrounds, mental models, ways of perceiving the world. It all adds up. As a profession we need to understand this reality and find ways around it instead of getting into dogmatic arguments as if there's One Right Answer.

Common example I give - the GP complained about FP advocates wanting code to take up less screen space. I have come across many devs who struggle with concise code, and many others who struggle when code is not concise. Similarly, I have come across plenty of devs who start having trouble when code is spread out (sometimes that means within a file, across files, both, etc). I have also come across plenty of devs who have trouble when it's all pulled together.
Hey, DARE assemblies were awesome because at least you weren't in class.
No, at least on my '22 MY, you can use one of the stalks to turn on wipers or spray washer fluid. There's also an auto mode that turns them on when rain is detected that works about 80% of the time for me. You can also use voice controls.
IMO it's the future of finance because you own your coins. Nothing else aside from crypto allows me to do so in digital form. You are free to disagree, even if you think it's digital beanie babies or whatever. Luckily in this case you can vote with your wallet, as I did.
Computer Proof ‘Blows Up’ Centuries-Old Fluid Equations
It sounds like there are some misconceptions about "political correctness"
I'd buy that shirt if the backside read "But Philosophy of Statistics is", or something like that
Have you considered reading the article, you know, for more information and context?
I didn't mean to claim other than that anything is possible. I was just saying the original theory put forward wasn't internally logical.
Regarding the pop-out door handles - this is a fascinating video on how the Tesla Model S door handles design has been refined and made more reliable by someone who used to work at Tesla (SuperfastMatt) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bea4FS-zDzc
Companies often seem to employ terms related to armed conflict to heighten the sense of urgency and action.

In reality noone working at a software company is "getting their asses shot off" or even "goes to war".

Stop using silly terms like that in business. We are not here to murder people or commit genocide, using this vernacular diminishes and marginalizes the immense suffering of humans caught in an actual war for any reason.

I get it, war seems "cool" from far away and action movies/games, but I can assure you it is not.

edit: fix typos
You’re proposing that we should be using nuclear propulsion to get mass from earth’s surface to earth orbit?

The only proposed method of doing this that I’m aware of is nuclear pulse propulsion like project Orion. I think there are a few pretty legitimate reasons that we’re not doing that.
The general advice is that if you're actively shopping for a home most or all of your down payment should be in cash or very low-risk securities.
I think the reason hydrogen storage costs won't fall much is because the cheapest technology (metal tanks) have already benefited from economies of scale. The parts that make them suitable for hydrogen storage specifically will get cheaper, but it's unlikely that there's a lot of low hanging fruit for manufacturing the tanks themselves. There could be a breakthrough in metal hydride storage or cryogenic storage that could reduce costs, but I'm not too optimistic. I think the most likely scenario is that most electrolyzed hydrogen is converted to methane for storage and use. Methane is much easier to convert to liquid and much more energy dense, which helps with storage costs.
Yea, nobody is using phones anymore... LMAO it's all figured out

Like how in 1995 desktop PC applications were all figured out. The web all figured out.
Musk posted screens of his Elden Ring progress a couple weeks after launch. Given other players had to sink 60-80 hours in to get to the same point Musk was broadcasting, he was working 48 hours a day at his companies and on Elden Ring.

Bezos has given interviews about his habits. He works maybe 10-20 hours a week.

Billing 40 hours every week to run scripts that generate a Github repo structure in minutes has been profitable for me though. Not going to knock Musk and Bezos optimizing for themselves by gaming others agency.
that didn't stop them from announcing new speeds (80 and 120Gbps) as USB4 2.0 though...
The Reggio Emeila approach might be what some parents are looking for when they’ve heard about Montessori.

It was designed for children after ww2 to reintegrate with their neighborhoods and communities after being shut ins and isolated from other children. It has turned out to have especially meaningful parallels in the past few years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reggio_Emilia_approach

I have heard a lot about Montessori and how it’s relative to the practitioner. One thing that comes up is how reintegrating into society can be harder.
> Panel gaps don’t even matter from a pragmatic standpoint.

This is your statement.

They "don't even matter". It's not pragmatic to care about panel gaps. It doesn't matter.

That is what you are stating, that isn't me misquoting or being malicious, they're your words!

If you meant to instead say "There are diminishing returns to reduce panel gap size, and Tesla have got it right!", then I agree with the first statement, disagree with the second, but best of all it clarifies your point. Cheers!
A few books need images. For instance, to show up some weird figures in mistery books.
Or being the second biggest political donor to the political party in power at the moment. Surely that doesn't hurt...
The answer is that both parties have agreed that 40 hours of work a week is worth that much money. And if there are people already willing to work 84 hours for less money then they would be employed already for less at 40 hours.
War is a business
It's interesting that in an employment marketplace with mounting evidence that reducing working hours improves worker efficiency, performance, and quality of life, Elon Musk insists on doing the exact opposite. This seems like vandalism.
If you're interested, can compare tfs to git. Maybe it's ide integration quality, but FWIW:

1) tfs: shelves are named and can be worked with independently; git: stashes are numbered in a sort of a stack and only the top stash is unpacked and deleted destroying your data, infuriating, also local edits are moved into the stash, not copied.

2) tfs: branches are mapped to different folders and can be worked on simultaneously; git: branches are mapped to single folder and switching branches deletes local edits.

3) tfs: pulling from server merges new text preserving local changes; git: pull and checkout deletes local changes.

4) tfs: can't commit unresolved merge conflicts; git: commits just fine, it's also not obvious if you have merge conflicts to commit or not.

5) tfs: handles concurrent edits as merge conflicts and handles them as they occur; git: you create feature branches and in case of concurrent branches you have merge conflicts when you merge to master, then you have p.4. Feature branches are advertised as a big fat killer feature of git, but I don't quite see the win here, you still have merge conflicts.

6) tfs: all commits in a branch are visible, it's not obvious how to delete them, you can only create rollback commits; git: if something happens to the branch label, the commits are gone.
> You're essentially saying "the company prefers social control over productivity, and lets just let that go"

yes, that is exactly what i'm saying :)
It's a horrible name that should never have been used externally, but it makes sense if you're familiar with the NT architecture. There's various environment subsystems for win32, os/2, unix, and now linux.

If you look at the graphic at the top of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_of_Windows_NT it makes sense. But the fact that it needs this in order to make sense, is why it shouldn't have survived as a product name.
Well, right today there's an article on the economist, one on the guardian, two things on the front page of hacker news, etc. This is a debate, with clear criticism of their current views. Let's see.
I'm looking forward to the coming arms race: crappy articles and memos expanded and mostly written by software vs automatic summarizers that strip out the padding and puffery and just leave any useful part.*

This "limitless power of AI" (their words) addition to Notion is a great example. It's a kind of anti-compression.

* Ah, turns out this second feature has been baked into unix for decades. Most of the email I get and pages I am offered as output of a web search can be summarized using this handy shell command: `echo < /dev/null`
Or lying. When you are rich or famous people or in vogue socially let you get away with these stories e.g. Consider feynmans "I'm modest but look at my genius"-isms
Hard disagree. I'm not a Fed economist though...

How is a scarce resource going to devalue in a high inflationary environment? The cost of building homes continues to go up, the availability of land has not changed, restrictive housing policies are not being lifted, wages are growing, the population is growing... Where does the decline in price come from?

Demand side prices can come down if lots are divided. But supply side profit remains the same or grows. High rates will not help first-time home buyers. More housing will.
If you look more closely that’s not the case. If they pay the refunds, they get to subtract a portion of that from the fine.

Dan has more detail and isn’t paywalled: https://www.dansdeals.com/more/news/airline-news/dot-issues-...
You can refi the interest rate (maybe). You can never just change the amount owed.
The save location for cmd+shift+{3,4} can be configured through the command line.

defaults write com.apple.screencapture location <path>

There is apparently a settings menu inside the Screenshot app now that allows this as well, though I found the above solution before the settings in that app came about.
Yeah, was my favorite app for a few years, I was even a paying subscriber, but then thy started pushing adds for some group chat thing and other random stuff. And the webapp became almost unusable after a redesign to this "modern" information sparse style where you have to hunt around and click an excessive amount of times to get simple things done.

I ended up moving over to Obsidian, and while I am not entirely happy with it, it's at least better than what Evernote has become.
I joined MSFT in 2002 as the .com bubble burst. Microsoft was one of the few companies still hiring and building that year and it was a great place to cut your teeth and learn how to build software at scale.
Context: I recently left Amazon

Some orgs within the company are fairly lean, some are hugely bloated. Amazon isn't homogeneous. For example, Alexa is very over-resourced and it's common to hear about 4+ teams working on slight variations of the same project. Lots of redundancy there. I believe Alexa as an org is losing $5b+ per year. Contrast that to all the criticism Facebook is receiving for their investment into VR/AR. The investment in Alexa was a platform play. Amazon thought that voice would be the next big platform. I'm not sure results and trajectory justify the investment anymore.
I don't doubt the UX is better, but internal users are a captive audience. I imagine most developers will not think twice about what vcs they are using unless their organization makes the change.
HN is a news aggregation site, which means what people find interesting gets posted, not every fact. An escalation of the war is a whole lot more interesting than the discovery that this is a non-event.

Western media has correctly and widely covered the correction, so this is not evidence of (or against) western media bias.
> My guess is that most celebrities would figuratively crawl through a field of broken glass to get their fix of attention and kudos from their supporters.

Yeah I think the network effects are stronger than anyone would like to admit. I think Twitter has a lot of challenges going forward and my analytical read of the situation says he’ll fail, but my gut says he’ll succeed, now it just remains to be seen — succeed at what?
Lithium prices should fall dramatically in the future as production increases.
@dang can we change to original source: https://www.peta.org/media/news-releases/hellofresh-under-fi...
if you have 20% now, you had 16% before and 3% mortgage rates. Now you have 20% and 5% mortgage rates or an ARM. ARM might work to lower monthly if you think Fed will chicken out and you are happy to pay refi cost.
Self-sovereignty was web 1; you could run your own webserver and e-mail server from a broom closet.

Web 2 was the walled gardens, in part due to facebook et al, but in a big part due to min/maxing and malicious actors; spam e-mail is why you can't run your own mail server anymore, SEO spam and the simple fact the internet is infinitely larger now than in the 90's is why your homepage isn't found anymore.

Web 3 is billionaires and would-be billionaires trying to make (fiat) money from solved problems. It may be decentralized (in theory), but that doesn't make it self-owned & operated. You can't run your own blockchain (it requires participants after all), so you have to join someone else's (walled garden) blockchain. In theory you can convert fiat to crypto and vice-versa without a middle person, but in practice you need an exchange.

In theory, web 3 is the great emancipation from everything, in practice it isn't.
Thank you! Will take a look
What Are Zero-Knowledge Proofs?
I think this is why the whole web3 things seems like a scam to me, proponents are telling people such things didn't exist before FB et al, and that's just BS.

I suspect it's more about monetising every little interaction on the web, every click will cost you a penny, micro transactions taken to the next level.
There are reporting agencies that can be used to determine who employs a person. That's not including some other shady shit I wouldn't put past the company getting up to (i.e., bribing recruiting firms to tattle on former employees). Plus, I bet there's clawback provision if you don't tell them and they find out about it.

But yeah, I'd take that gamble and just keep a low profile online. Or one could slow walk the hiring process: land a job then push your start date back out 61-x days.
Isn’t sports gambling full of fraud?
Is that so unlikely? They would be on the same network, same configuration.
I do something similar using entr [0][1]. I use it instead of `watch` because I would rather not re-run things if no relevant files have changed.

For example, I run:

fd -e j2 -e py | entr -c python3 build.py

To rebuild a static site every time the build script[2] (py) or a Jinja2 template (j2) changes.

[0]: https://github.com/eradman/entr

[1]: https://jvns.ca/blog/2020/06/28/entr/

[2]: https://gist.github.com/polyrand/3bed83897658806bd490e1d44df...
https://archive.ph/mL9Xr
Oh I read the article and know what the article says, but the headline is still a mess. I’m imagining monkeys in cubicles at hello fresh corporate frantically dialing coconut milk vendors
How does one upgrade? WSL already nags me from this morning that "A new WSL update is available." But when I try to update it says that I already run the most recent version, which I don't - reported version is 0.70.5.0.
Formats change. Could you use some disk image formats from old Mac emulators made for the Amiga?
My daycare had it. I don't really know if it made a difference or what I think about it or what it even is. My mom liked it, I guess?
Companies that sell things in catalogues also do this
but more is still, well, more. So, it's still a better deal for the company. Maybe we haven't found the optimal point, but it definitely doesn't appear to be 40hours (or at least, not 8 * 5).
In my opinion, here are some thoughts and I hope it's helpful:

Ideate and create your wireframes, mockups, prototypes, etc. You have to make your idea visible and ready to talk to others. Some tools that can help you with this are Whimsical (flowchart), Visily (wireframe and mockup), Justinmind (Prototype). This step can wrap up all your idea and you can use them for presenting to others.
In the end, no one can succeed alone, find a Co-founder - a CTO to build up the product with you. You can have some freelancers to execute and build an MVP.
I would love to read some blog with more details about your experience.

As a long time backend and full stack developer my brain is stucked in web services. Which works Well as employee but when it comes to have your own product you are playing against Google,AWS,meta and so on.

Maybe I try developing desktop applications too.
It's also a matter of vocabulary and writing about your knowledge. It's almost impossible to find somebody that solved the same problem you currently have, because somebody that solved it didn't write about it. We're kinda OK searching code nowadays, but we're not able to discover architectures or abstractions properly.
It can be efficiently stored in metal hydride, e.g. Ti hydride, at low pressure.
I think web2 vs web3 can be understood by analogy to medicine vs alternative medicine.

Alt-med has a boogeyman (Big Pharma) which it uses as a non-sequitur justification for any bullshit non-solution (homeopathy, naturopathy, supernatural). Web3 has boogeymen (Big Tech and Evil Gov) to push for irrelevant non-solutions (blockchains, NFTs, DAOs).

Both stem from a fallacy: the other thing is bad (somewhat true), this isn't the other thing (true), therefore it is good (nope; this is illogical).

Both web3 and altmed have some true believers who really really wish the solutions worked. Alt-med promises good health, harmony with nature and inner peace. These are very nice things! Who wouldn't want them? web3 similarly promises decentralization, democratization, self-determination, resistance against commercial exploitation and government overreach. These are nice too! Who wouldn't want them?

The core fallacy is that the proposed solutions are wishful thinking, and that doesn't change no matter how bad the status quo is, or how wonderful it'd be if they actually worked as imagined.

Both will tell you "you just haven't done your research!", "that pile of past failures doesn't count", "you're just in the pocket of the Big Enemy". Both are full of sociopathic scammers willing to sell any buzzwordy trinket to any sucker.
I’m all for a shorter workweek, but I definitely expect that the social aspect of a job is good for overall productivity. Maybe I’m weird, but I enjoy asking my coworkers how their weekend was prior to a meeting starting or (back when I was in the office) as we ran into each other in the hallway.
They have not. There are still optional components of USB4.

I’m not sure how or why this happens. USB, HDMI, BLE, all have optional components and it’s insanely frustrating. It’s got to be some new feature of designed-by-committee groups where it’s easy to get a feature only 1/2 the group wants.
Your books will be readable in 20 years. Not so with a USB drive.
Soviet maps of the UK are extremely detailed
Well I went to a major feeder school and know a lot of people hired by JS.

The class of people hired by firms like Goldman Sachs is obviously nepotistic in nature and very different from the class that JS hires.

A substantial portion of the GS mix is athletes & what I would call traditional Northeast elites, Jane St hired mostly out of the top physics, CS & applied math classes I was in.

Beyond that, having parents who are prominent professors is nothing special at these schools and definitely would not give you pull at these institutions. Finally, Jane St has no incentive to engage in this sort of hiring because they are not customer/client facing.
Irrelevant. I'm just saying that interest rates determine the cost of borrowing money and the interest you can earn by having money, it does not really matter what you are borrowing money to buy.
Interesting. This implies that psychology is strongly likely to "get better," like out of it's 19th century phase? I see no reason to believe that?