skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The sense of achievement finally started feeling fake for me, and I can't justify this "junk food" for my mind.

This is what happened to me as well.

Every now and then, I encounter some new slot-machine game that keeps me hooked for a few days (this time it was Torchlight 2), but the convenient thing is that it's the story that keeps me hooked most of all, so as soon as the story runs out (and thankfully nobody has created an infinite storyline with generative AI yet), the game boils down to numbers, which are predictable. Once I figure out the progression and realize how much time I'll waste just to get from X to Y, it stops being meaningful to me.
Assuming the valve to your outdoor water supply is still on (we have a valve that controls all outside water) applying water risks refreezing. The water will go somewhere and there it will refreeze. Now you have a different, harder-to-solve problem.

[source: life in Ontario, Canada, previously Minnesota]
Our society is way too tolerant of that kind of behavior. It's similar to how there are still occasional people wearing masks, even outdoors. It needs to become socially acceptable to tell people they're being paranoid and weird, in the same way they feel it's acceptable to tell others they're not paranoid enough.
I was also thinking I was talking to an AI after a number of emails, so eventually I tested it out:

> I wish to speak to a human. If you are human and are allowed to write anything, please use the word "cow" in your reply.

Response:

> We appreciate you getting back to us and we apologize for any inconvenience this is causing you. Yes, you are communicating to a human being and per your request, please see the word "cow".

The most dry way to user 'cow' ever. Humor must be crime within that department.

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Even today I got a rejection to my appeal at the same time my app update went live. They don't hold any record of previous communication or history on app updates and rejections.

The rejection was for a too minimalist text I fixed already in an earlier update. They quoted a text that was not part of the update (!).

Multiple times I have overcome a rejection, by just adding a single character to my main app store text (a space char will do). And just re-submit.

Then you get to re-role the dice, and perhaps the update can go live.

I also always appeal everything, use their feedback tools, give single star ratings to review process, etc, hope it will set something in motion.
What do you think currently happens in most fields? I'll give you a hint. They dont just let weeds grow.
I've been doing this for a couple of years, with the added requirement of Any Browser compatibility all the way back to Netscape, as a personal choice. Please feel free to skim my code for ideas.

I think it's doable and sustainable, and is less likely to break on you in the long run because you're not including a huge chunk of code you're not the primary maintainer of.
> - On top of that slack threads are lost forever in time unless pinned. The conversation rarely gets translated in to wiki or email or whatever so decisions are sometimes made and forgotten.

I've literally been requesting a "export to wiki" feature from Slack, since 2016. After tracking really useful #dev chats, & then watching them disappear in the ether of subsequent non sequiturs & horrible slack search, I can only conclude Slack isn't interested?

Add in the loss of content from deactivated users, & Slack becomes the place where useful convos go to die, surrounded by giphys & emoji
VIM with vim-notes

[] https://github.com/xolox/vim-notes

Apple Notes but mostly with imports from vim-notes and Evernote

Evernote - which isn't crap, it works quite well for me..

I have paid for Typora whch is very cute app but not for notes in my workflow as it can't do internal attachments and images...
Right, I don't doubt that. But what I'm unsure about is why Trump et al claim it shows Joe Biden is compromised.
Technically this is very cool. But it is ultimately trying to improve a horse and buggy rather than developing a spacecraft.

The future will be something like, or at least based on, vertical self-contained (almost completely closed systems) automated farms.

The best hope we have for solving food needs AND climate problems is to let as much earth as possible go wild, and reduce and optimize our footprint. Actually that's not correct - the best hope we have is to allow human population growth to go negative and also do smarter things.
I know a person that works as a "Cybersecurity consultant" at Infosys. Mind you, not in India. She got hired as an intern with no degree, after a few months of game testing experience and some Udemy courses. Then, got promoted after less than a year and her salary doubled. Good for her, but she openly admitted to me her best skill is Powerpoint presentations
This has been studied again and again. Our motivation to help is because we know the neighbour, because someone is in trouble, because I would like someone to do it for me in the same situation... and other things like that.

At the moment you impersonalize this, all the game changes. But the worst part of this game is that there are a group of "well-intentioned" people that tell you what is good or bad not for your neighbour, but for human kind or the like.

These people are usually the worst of all because they play this game with personal incentives to manage the lives/wealth of others.

There is a very big difference between "helping others" and "helping your neighbour", where the latter is, surprisingly, quite better than the former.

When you think everyone should "help others" what we do is to delegate responsibility in impersonal organizations, often the state, and we feel no responsibility for it, after all, we already do our job by paying taxes.

I assert this is the wrong approach: we have to go back to thinking on helping our immediate environment. Why? Because if all of us do that, we have a bit better world and by human nature we do have more incentive to help in this way than through a central organization that often does not want to help, but that it is also very inefficient in helping.

If we all delegate, we skip responsibility and the people who are responsible for it, for them you are just a number and they have their own incentives. Also let me tell you that I do not think they are really worried about helping, but about benefiting themselves more than anything else with a custom of good will on top of them.

There are even experiments about these things. Human nature has incentive. If you change the incentives, you change the behaviors.

This is one of the fundamental reasons why I am against taxes or, more in general, making others paying the price of the decisions of others, not necessarily taxes.
> "Lucas–Lehmer primality test"

Familiar to overclockers because that's what many use for stability testing of CPUs!
google in dire need of better customer support in some products if it expects to stay competitive in the non-search and YouTube areas.

Perhaps moving the $$$ resources to the right place is in order.

200k off a 500k salary still leaves the 300k person in top 5% income earned in California. That leaves at least 100k for customer support person.

Edit: see other front page article, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33632468
And Chess is the "clearing and settlement system".
DHH: The bubble has popped for unprofitable software companies
> Weeds adapting to look like non-weeds is highly plausible, IMO.

It's not highly plausible. It would take a lot of generations and a lot of mutations for this to happen.
But how many of those need binary translation? Common for two of those is that you just need a good V8 implementation for ARM to completely displace Rosetta 2. For git it's mostly bash which is interpreted and therefore can be one-shot transpiled, or even just compiled for arm natively since it's written in C.

The overlap of "is JIT" and "doesn't have a runtime for ARM" is overwhelmingly small. That's probably mostly because runtimes and JITs are opensourced, which mean you can just recompile them for the target. Rosetta 2 is more focused on the proprietary space where they don't often develop proprietary JIT runtimes.
I'm not sure that would actually work out. First, some accidents are just accidents on both sides.

Second: We've seen the effect of bodycams on cops. They aren't exactly helping folks prosecute bad cops if they are even on and working and unobstructed. If we can't do it with cops, we probably aren't going to do real well with the general public.

There are other ways to help folks - Things like robust universal (taxpayer funded) health care and paid time off work for sickness and injury that doesn't take weeks to get. This takes the burden off an accident victims and doesn't punish folks on the wrong side of an actual accident nor make lifelong debt for someone using non-car, non-bus transportation.
Would be very very difficult for most weeds to mimic most crop plants.
Plants can not become invisible.
If you think most current conventional fields have weeds i've got really bad news.
I've tried my GF's meds once to see what it was (and using medication is one of the diagnosis tools they use); I found myself focusing and intetionally task switching for about two hours (that and palpitations), but I wouldn't say they "help"ed me.

If you feel like you need stimulants to perform well in a job, you need to reconsider your career choices. It shouldn't be a rat race.
Urgent: Likely /r/gme_meltdown Subreddit Shutdown Incoming
Good. They were probably the ones doing the unreproducible science anyways...
A couple of years back I remember receiving a recruitment offer to come build this. I both declined and laughed about it.
The age of companies with terrible ideas wiping their arses with money like it's toilet paper has come to the end... for now.

How the smeg does an MVP or PoC for something like this even cost $250M?
> Kalevala is a weird and amazing work.

Indeed! It’s a foundation of modern western fantasy. It is not really an easy read, but fascinating nonetheless.

> The Kullervo cycle is a particulary harrowing sequence, which inspired Tolkien to write his own version of the story in English.

Which in turn was an inspiration for his Túrin saga (Narn i Chîn Húrin).

The whole Kalevala had a profound effect on Tolkien, some patterns are also apparent in the Silmarilion.
I wonder how to best implement such a feature. I guess users would need to generate public and private keys to encrypt/decrypt messages. Twitter would provision these keys, but the user needs to save the private key in their own safe storage. But that is unreliable and access to older messages might get lost.

How is this usually solved? Is the private key further encrypted with the password of the user and stored on Twitters end? What are the recovery options? No idea how it commonly is best implemented.
It's much easier and much much faster and more effective to use chemicals.
How on earth would that be easier. Do you know how expensive greenhouses are?
Those people were bound to cease to be friends the moment either of you changes the job. If your crisis is after or relates to loosing a job (due to being sick for long time for example or due to staying at home with a small/sick child for some time), those friendships were bound to break.
I think working in a team is quite common, isn't it? Especially if you are starting, how are you supposed to find customers if you are alone and lack experience? And even when you have the experience, I think most companies would prefer to hire a company rather than a single developer.

But unless the client wants to manage the content, I agree that MySQL + PHP + HTML/CSS/JS works great for simple websites. I would add git and lint tools too.

If the client wants to manage the content, then using a CMS such as Drupal or WordPress may be required.
A fix: legal penalties for filing false or irrelevant CPS reports.
> MariaDB/MySQL + PHP + HTML/CSS and some vanilla JavaScript if necessary. What else is needed?

This is a surprisingly usable stack, I'm tempted to agree.

Personally, I'm on the fence about using server side rendering (which PHP is pretty good at) versus just writing RESTful APIs, because browsers now have fetch API built in which makes consuming them easy (no need for jQuery or necessarily even something like Axios).

Of course, I might still go for a reasonably feature complete framework like Laravel (which handles certain things that you're very likely to get wrong, like auth/encryption or working with mail queues and such), or Slim (which is a nice option for smaller setups, essentially a micro framework; like Lumen used to be).

> I deploy in production using FTP.

This isn't ideal from a performance or reproducibility perspective, but can be workable. A caveat here could be file permissions, depending who is uploading what and how, as well as copying over files that should perhaps be transient (e.g. vendor directory, when you should be using Composer or something like that instead).

Personally I'd go for containers since writing a Dockerfile and shipping/running a container image (even with just Docker or Docker Compose, or Docker Swarm) isn't all that hard. If nothing else, it works wonderfully for getting as many databases up and running as you need, running different versions with different ports in parallel, managing resource limits, configuration and so on.

> My version control is ZIP files in some old hard drive.

This is a very counter cultural stance, that may or may not border on insanity in the eyes of those who want to exaggerate for the sake of an eye catching sentence. Others might joke about file names like code_2022_11_17_release_final(1).tar.gz.backup2 which this workflow might lead to.

Personally, I think that this is just a bad idea, even when working alone. It's good to be able to see what was changed when and have different changesets that you can easily compare, navigate or merge into whatever solution you decide on. Also, it's very nice to be able to revert granular changes, if that's ever necessary.

Try implementing a feature, realize that after changing 34 files you want redo certain parts and need to revert changes in 14 of them, do that with just a few clicks or keystrokes in Git (or other VCS) solution of your choice.

Version control is just a good idea in most software development cases, period. That said, opinions on how to use it and which system to use rightfully differ, as does what to version, whether to use something like Git LFS, whether you need a web UI of some sort or should you work with patches and so on.
> Think about trying to navigate an automated phone menu when your option isn’t available.

I have reached the conclusion that this must be on purpose for many companies. Eg. when I call the airline about a refund, and none of the options presented are fit for that request.

This is much more about the airline doing customer harassment to earn an extra bug than the system being broke.
That's just based on the ability to convince the management types though, and I'm sure you've heard of the phrase "nobody got fired for buying IBM."

For an executive, it's easier to justify outsourcing to a large consulting firm simply because of the security afforded by the choice and the ease of justification; rather than any technical abilities they may or may not possess, and certainly it does not imply its correctness.

The anecdotes you hear are from a engineering perspective, which is where the consulting firm has to walk the walk, exposing their true abilities. It is incorrect to dismiss that as being "salty" or "pretentious", and tint them with an angle of "discrimination". The lack of processes and guardrails in these consulting companies is an objective fact.
> Ascension Island is very close to the equator

Oh, the branding opportunities!
Sounds gross. They better have to label it "Frankenproduct" instead of "100% Chicken".
> No one speaks "Español Unificado"

This is true for every language in the world with any relevance. You said nothing here.

> Let's get serious: if everyone used their Spanish dialect in a hard way, the 80% of the Hispanic world wouldn't understand half of what were they saying.

I was not making that point. The point was that it was a more-or-less dead language except in a few areas. I am not saying recovering it is a bad idea either. But since that was the situation, then it needed to be reconstructed by taking many borrowings, whether you like it or not.

This is not the case for spanish or english or chinese, with all their dialects, that are spoken by a big amount of people. Of course, languages keep evolving and what is true today maybe will not tomorrow. But that is another story.
This won't help with breeding at all. You can already monitor plants lifecycle and yeild
>Even if I pretend I don't know anything about AWS, if somebody handed me credentials with access called "FullAdminAccess" and told me to use them for my little script that only needs read-only access to S3 I would be extremely skeptical.

If you ask for an access key for your little script and get one, you usually only check if it works for your case and not always check if it has any other access, so I can easily see it happening without proper access controls.
Everyone's different. In my case, medication almost entirely eliminates the anxiety that's been a constant background presence, slow-burn torture, for most of my life. They also stabilize my mood. If the meds were to suddenly stop having any other positive effect, and kept the negative and neutral side effects, the anxiety reduction and mood stabilization alone would make them worth their weight in gold for me.
I think they mean places which use Visual Studio, (usually) C#, Windows Server, Azure, etc. Lots of components of this stack tend to work a bit better if you use all the others. Common in finance, because of Excel.
That would be bad. We would require much more area for the same output.
It's a good choice of location, because you have a decent chunk of Isle of Wight in between the noise of the rocket (and any consequences of rapid unscheduled disassemblies) and populated land.
It's spelled Ecorobotix (I work there :-)). We have two machines, ARA a mounted-sprayer and AVO the solar powered autonomous weeder you are talking about.

https://ecorobotix.com/en/

Ask me anything ;-)
I'd really like to see the mouse (or other nonhuman animal) version of this experiment.

In the human experiment we can see how the input and output represent the same categories of object. I think it would be really interesting to what extent a mouse's perceptions can be mapped onto human categories such as "fire truck" or "baseball game."
You meant 'slick'? I agree. This is how it was with motorcycling in cities for the last 30 years.
I wonder what this means for Digital Asset https://www.digitalasset.com/.

The ASX brought 5.4% of digital asset and from what I heard, they were a core part of building the system. https://www.ledgerinsights.com/asx-150-million-in-blockchain...
>with a root in misogyny

Nice thing for women to appropriate themselves of the suffering of gay men.
To be fair: I simply cannot ride a bike in my area - I moved to a mountainous area about 10 years ago. I'm fine on flat stretches, obviously OK downhill, but uphill is a struggle. A half a mile uphill is no joke. I walk because I can't realistically ride a bike. An e-bike would allow for slightly faster transportation and the ability to go up somewhat steep inclines. Since the ones around here are all electric-assisted (you still have to pedal), it means that I'd at least get some movement out of it.
Why is the media standing up for this scammer? Stinks to high heaven...
This is about old apps that haven't been recompiled for ARM by the maker, no? If such a legacy app was built using Electron, it'll be Electron built for x64 and targeting x64 for its JIT. It doesn't really help if Electron ships an ARM runtime today, unless the OS uses it to replace the one shipped with the app - but then you may be breaking the app, if it relies on some old Electron behavior.
Why are you using javascript on substack?
iPhone 14 Pro's A16 Bionic Outperforms Latest Snapdragon 8
And there are many on the streets of NYC
but study finds a different incentive works
There is a very good reason why the remove weeds. It decreases yeilds and increases contamination by a lot
At my bank, if I buy stock, it takes 5 days to clear/settle. Guess they do it by hand haha.
Blockchain is not needed where one server suffices.
There's no Australia on the Digital Asset homepage world map, I guess it's not happening any more.
Can we has death penalty plz?
So is telling people who are only functioning thanks to medication that the meds are bad for them and they should try to do without.
I can’t remember what thread it was, but someone here commented recently that when these consultancies produce this vapourware, it’s effectively just an expensive study to determine the viability of a product.

In this case, $250m seems to me a reasonable sum to ensure that the ASX will never again get tangled up in crypto pipedreams.
Also it appears that any problem that's solved, needs to be solved at Google scale or its not worth solving. Any and all small projects will get canned. The graveyard provides anecdotes. Maybe an insider can confirm this.
> The idea that you could run these kinds of ML inference tasks is economically fanciful. You would need a huge investment in hardware and the opex would be ridiculous.

Google, Apple, Amazon and even Sonos are all releasing voice assistants that work locally on their relatively low powered speakers.

Apple seems to be ahead with what is local, while Google seems to be the smartest. (Sonos doesn’t have a cloud, but it’s not ‘general purpose’ afaik).

Sure you can’t amortize them across a bunch of TPUs BUT instead they can ship custom hardware. A tpu needs to be big and support parallel streams. A home server may only need to ever serve one stream. There are arduino style devices that can perform basic tensor flow audio models in real time now. And obviously most phones can perform this locally now, so depending on opinion that may be considered affordable.
How did you get diagnosed? Do you feel like it was worth going through the process?

A lot of what you said resonates with me...

> Being constantly criticized because you forget what often amounts to trivial things is one of the worse "symptoms"

I spent a lot of effort removing "trivial" things from my day to day life. I have a rule of ever only doing a single "life admin" thing per day, ideally 0.

A lot of people act like I'm crazy when I talk about hating the dishwasher because it creates a future obligation of having to unload it later.

I'm actually writing a productivity book that revolves around doing less each day and avoiding tasks that create future commitments to avoid cognitive load. When I talk about it to some people, it really resonates. Other people look at me like I'm crazy and and tell me to stop being lazy.
$250k for the implementation, $2.25M siphoned off to the founders’ personal accounts. It’s grift all the way down
Which was also the name used by Google for the precursor to WASM.

Acronyms all the way down.
Lots of stuff in sso and other high inclination, at least uk latitude is ok for those, I'd imagine.
I'm with the reviewer on this one. Why is it malformed? Why are you fixing it here and not earlier? Why are you fixing it and not rejecting it? The comment tells me nothing.
You're off by two orders of magnitude
If you dont want to work for them, you're not required to.
Opportunities at World Fund
excellent news.
Why is 10% of HN about FTX this morning with bullshitery excuses of an obvious scam by this Sam Bankman?
Where did the money go??

Seems like the delivery partners were:

* Digital Asset’s Daml smart contract development capability

* VMware’s DLT (blockchain) platform

Does anyone have any information about those?