skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. Mine is only used for timers/alarms, weather and as a bluetooth speaker. I just want those to work reliably. Every time it tries to change my behavior ("I can also...") it is actively annoying me.

But I also recognize that my usage won't generate revenue and will continue to cost. Surely they can't just keep offering free service forever on equipment that was purchased at deep discount. But I don't think offering gimmicks is the answer to this.
``I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously. We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines. I don't think we are. I think we're responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house. I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun. Above all, I hope we don't become missionaries. Don't feel as if you're Bible salesmen. The world has too many of those already. What you know about computing other people will learn. Don't feel as if the key to successful computing is only in your hands. What's in your hands, I think and hope, is intelligence: the ability to see the machine as more than when you were first led up to it, that you can make it more.''

Alan J. Perlis (April 1, 1922-February 7, 1990)

As quoted in the dedication of SICP, aka the wizard book[0].

[0] https://mitp-content-server.mit.edu/books/content/sectbyfn/b...
Hopefully they aren't able to get a list of all your user accounts. The IDs should not be iterable (like a UUID, for example!), and the friendly name (like an email address) is private information that shouldn't be getting out.
Kite was good, integrations were plentiful, sad to see them go!
I hope Tabnine learns from this and ups their game, I love what they are doing.
Not so sold on Github Copilot yet, and probably the observations of Kite are applicable to Github Copilot, but due to their deeper pockets they may survive long enough to make to the AI breakthrough needed to get this product/class of products flying!
I strongly agree with what you're saying here and having been thinking along similar lines while browsing this thread. Taste is an important factor in food appreciation and one that most people already have and can develop further, to real value (including health benefits) in eating. It often reflects the quality and freshness of the ingredients (and thus nutritional value), as long as the cook also has some skill and hasn't 'ruined' those ingredients in the finished dish. Taste with wine simply doesn't have the same richness and usefulness, beyond indicating when a wine is 'off' or has been too cheaply/chemically processed, etc.
Reminds me of an Alan J. Perlis quote:

> Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble?

http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html
*half-open intervals. There have been times I needed an (open, closed] interval. But there have also been times when I wanted a fully closed interval because I was setting an arbitrary limit and it's easier to tell a user "100 is the maximum" versus "it must be below 100”, so what value should be put to max out out, 99? 99.99? etc

To add some nuance I'd say that if you're dividing a larger interval into smaller subintervals then a half-open one is probably what you want.
I’m sure in a few decades people won’t even need to drive. Let alone know stick.
It's already breaking down. HW/SW aside, a lot of the services had teams monitoring them, which don't exist anymore.

Some of the side effects of that:

- Trends are not working correctly.

- Copyright reporting is not working.

- Appealing flagged tweets isn't being responded to.

It's only a matter of time before these get abused with no one to fix them.
Whoops, my bad. I'll be sure to get my condemnation right next time I find a class of deserving product-folk.
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> I asked them what sample attribute had the highest correlation with sales and without even hesitating they told me it was sugar content.

This was the cause of a big scandal back in the 1980s when it was discovered that some Austrian winemakers were adding antifreeze to their wines. The wines are tested for their sugar content, but diethylene glycol has a sweet test and wouldn't be detected on standard chemical tests for sugar. Unscrupulous winemakers began adding the chemical to their wines to make them taste sweeter and boost sales.
How would you introduce programming, from scratch?
As if the mere thought of Ukraine joining an alliance, which they didn’t even join, is justification to start firing missiles?
My analogy.

Someone purchased some land for $1. Built a house for say $100. And now spends $100,000 a year making it the perfect place to rent, receiving $100,000 a year in rent.

Someone comes along and borrows $1m to buy that house. They feel ripped off but eventually are force to go ahead with the purchase. As a result they have to pay $100,000 a year in interest. They need this thing to be profitable!

To do this they need to cut back on the $100,000 a year spent. They decide go go in quickly and so email all the services saying "go hard or go home". So the plumbers, tradie, cleaners etc that don't like it leave.

As a side hustle also charge visitors to the house $9 to be allowed to wear their bowtie they used to wear for free.

Some of the people do maintenance jobs and improvements. They keep the termites out, fix subsidence issues, and so on.

And the house didn't fall down within 3 weeks of it being purchased.
> Maybe.....maybe ask for the weather

I remember one time I asked my Google Home the weather to see if it was cold enough to put on a jacket, and after hearing a temperature that I was ambivalent about, I took a risk and tried asking it what the wind speed was. It started reading out the Wikipedia page for "wind speed" until I told it to stop.
I don’t know. Steam was DRM, but they smartly saw its ability to be a platform for selling everyone’s games.

Proton/OS/deck all just seem like hedges against their constant enemy: Microsoft. That was always the existential threat to Steam, and MS made it official when they launched their store.

It’s great it worked out, but I don’t think what we have today was in any of the early plans. I think most of it came later.

But that’s just my guess.
"But the intensifying drought and wildfires in Northern California and escalating hurricanes and storm surges along the Southeastern coastline drove the couple to sell both houses."

This is a crock. HMB is no more subject to drought or wildfires than anywhere else in the country. They fled to NC for the same reason my retired Apple executive neighbor did -- lower taxes and higher quality of life than CA now.
To write web gui in Python, there are some other open source alternatives.

If just want to port simple shell interactive interface to web gui, can check https://github.com/pywebio/PyWebIO

If want to get a production level dashboard by using Python, https://wave.h2o.ai/ <<Realtime Web Apps and Dashboards for Python and R>>
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The new HARDCORE ground floor.
For a given repository, is it possible to have multiple worktrees for different "branches"? (Just like git worktree.)
99 range?

In all seriousness these kinds of stories are why I’m focused on going slow and learning a ton and doing things solo. A lot of my favorite artists are solo musicians and while they’re not super popular at least they’re lifestyle musicians.
Perlisms – “Epigrams in Programming”
If you want to expand on your points, please be clear and expand on them. Asking me to answer rhetorical questions as some kind of bizarre argumentation mechanism is tiresome and clearly against the kind of discussions I expect to be fostered on Hacker News.

Either do your own work and expand your argumentation so myself and others can properly reply or stop with this bullshit, it's boring to have to interact with this.

Also, by the guidelines, use emphasis like this, ALL CAPS is frowned upon on this forum. Thank you very much.
> They may be as straightforward as fetching a user's follow list and displaying their posts chronologically in reverse. That's still an algorithm.

Correct, it's absolutely an algorithm. Crucially, it involves extra steps to make it scalable without needing a materialized inbox. Or at least that's how Tumblr's reverse-chron dashboard worked from 2009ish through at least 2018, maybe still today.

There were a bunch of optimizations in there to keep the queries fast, and minimize the number of rows that need to be examined and sorted. One key step involved cross-referencing the blogs you follow against their latest post timestamp. For example, say you're fetching posts 11-20 on the reverse-chron feed. The worst-case is that posts 1-20 all come from different blogs, so you can sort the list of followed blogs by latest-post-timestamp, and then only examine/sort posts from the top 20. (That's a slight simplification; you actually need to look at the timestamp from post 10, and examine posts from however many followed blogs posted since then, plus 10 more. I spent months of my life tuning this stuff back in 2011-2012...)

That all said, in the context of dashboard feeds, "algorithm" often just means the opposite of reverse-chron. But even then, the "no algorithms" statement is completely incorrect! Tumblr has a "Best Stuff First" setting which controls whether or not your feed is reverse-chron. For a while in late 2017 (iirc) onwards, this setting was even enabled by default... maybe still is?
Probably having it start the robot vacuum
David Graeber, citing other researchers in his recent book The Origin of Everything, certainly believes this was true. I think the answer was that while subsistence farming was a lot of work, it also left much of the day and the year to wait / hunt / do other tasks, while the crops grew. They certainly didn't work 40 hour weeks every week, year round.
Well, I worked at Alexa in the past. For the jokes you like, there was a team of about 10-12 developers plus 3-4 product managers, and BI infrastructure. They had their own speechlet. This group cost what, $3m/year to Amazon, more or less. From here you can start seeing why Alexa would never be a profitable enterprise.

My fondest memory of Alexa was when its VP, Tom Taylor, came to my site, pulled up a blackboard and started jotting down the math of how much it should make to be profitable. Then, to our astonishment, he solicited the crowd for ideas on how to monetize the platform.
Also self-roasting, also beans from SM. These days I just order the 20lb bag of Espresso Monkey and call it good. In the past I've got their sampler sets with a range of different regions but once roasted they pretty much taste the same to me (all good). I suspect the roasting is what makes the most difference (often coffee seems to have been over-roasted).
Yeah, it's private equity 101. I can't believe it happens. A bunch of MBA sharks get loans to buy something with some chop shop plan or other ruthless scheme to carve up or spitshine a company.

The loans are then assigned to the company they bought, rather than the core sharks ... uh investors. The "investors" then repackage/selloff/spit shine as necessary to get it resold to some sucker. The investors get THEIR money back with a profit, leave the debt to the company and the sucker who buys it, and look for the next victim/target.

Musk likely went the rapacious route because he made a dumb move, and this is the only way he's getting the money he committed to the deal back.

Oh yeah, and when they buy the company, they are in charge of it. So they can pay themselves whatever they want in executive bonuses / etc.
> Organizations tend to bloat.

Say I'm an engineer. And I write code all day. And I get paid by a company to do it. And it blows up in production. And I tell my boss "code tends to blow up".

Or I tell my boss "code tends to take longer than estimated to deliver".

I wouldn't be given lots of promotions/bonuses with that outlook.

We're talking about a Twitter CEO with $30m/yr+ in total compensation.

There's no way his/her view was "shrug, organizations tend to bloat" while racking in extremely competitive + good pay as somebody whose main job is to drive a company towards maximum growth/profitability.

There's no way the CEO was able to convince a majority of people responsible for paying him (the board), to pay award him $30m/yr in stock options, while he was also "bad at his job enough" to let the organization bloat without as much as an afterthought to it.

We, the people on the outside looking in, have to be missing something.
My pick for a sight that sounds mundane but is actually fascinating:

https://www.jetro.go.jp/en/eccj/ind_tourism/metropolican_dis...

TL;DR: It's the world's biggest storm drain, hiding under greater Tokyo.

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2013/03/g-cans-tokyos-massive-...
Now to be fair, as of last week Musk-o backed off the mandated return-to-office. Turns out that didn't quite go as planned.
People have been making this argument since the 80s and possibly even earlier. My experience is often the opposite. Little languages are usually far, far harder than (mis-)using "big" languages for small tasks.

The problem is that your DSL has to be understood by other people, including future you. Programming tasks are vast, combinatorially explosive state spaces full of weird potential interactions between features. Once you get above the complexity and universal familiarity of say, arithmetic, it's difficult for others to understand what's going on just by looking at 1-2 live examples. You have to heavily invest in proper docs and tooling (if your language doesn't provide it for free). By the time you've completed that your "little language" usually isn't such a little effort anymore.

If you don't, you've just made the next CMake. Congrats you monster.
Just to train the ML models used in the NLU, ASR, and other ML-based platforms, I heard the number of $150m/year when I worked there.
I've certainly seen cases where people would "use asymptotic complexity" to, say, argue for a system that was better for their CV than one that was appropriate to the amount of data actually being processed. I did mean to at least suggest a certain amount of nefariousness; I think a lot of those who adopt intersectionality as a way of framing/approaching issues do so not solely out of sincere truth-seeking but because (consciously or otherwise) it makes it easier to reach conclusions that suit the upper classes and, perhaps even more importantly, makes it easier to avoid reaching conclusions that don't suit the upper classes.
turns out CEO with exceptional track record & success in 2 different industries is some what competent.

I'm pretty surprised to see the occasional redditesque "Elon is an idiot" rhetoric on hn tho.
Userspace capability. Especially when running inside containers.
>>That was completely and utterly a senior US political position that demanded non existeant evidence to support a bizarro "known unknowns" claim

Asking people to "Prove a negative" is such a logical stupidity that is hard to understand how often people get into this.

Imagine you ordering something online on Amazon. And not getting it delivered. And then when you complain to Amazon about this, they asking you to provide a proof that it was not delivered and you don't have it.

How does somebody prove they don't have something? How do they get punished for not showing the absence of something they don't have?
You assume that the places I go are close to where I could live. Work from home so no travel there, supermarket is a mile away but I can't bike there because the roads are shit and the only time I go is usually after hours before the store closes and biking the dark is even more dangerous. Everything else I go to in my life is not very often and at least a 20 minute drive away.

My walking is to get me away from urban noise and people. My recreation takes me to places like get away from urban noise and people.

I find your travel time report interesting. I believe it that for where you go, it works. But I did a test with places I would go to in the Chicago area and none of them accessible by public transit and are typically an hour to an hour and 1/2 drive away (state parks). I test travel time by Google maps and driving is almost always significantly faster.

Yes I am glad that parts of Chicago were spared the insanity of interstate highways into urban spaces. It makes no sense doing that. Interstates should bypass urban centers. Although we should probably look at history as to what might happen. I suggest looking at what happened to urban centers that lost the competition for rail lines back in the late 1800s.

Another interesting experiment would be to map out the impact of replacing highways with train lines and full switching yards etc. that carry the same load of passengers and freight in the same timeframe.

I agree with you that we do need to work out a way to minimize costs of human existence both suburban and urban. We also need to fully account for all the externalities for both living spaces. We also need to reckon with there are country mice and city mice. We have very different values and very different physical tolerances in our living space.

We also need to look beyond the dichotomy of driving or walking but instead consider neighborhood delivery services for food and other ordered goods. see: https://www.businessinsider.com/lifvs-grocery-store-sweden-u.... I found this article interesting because I got a chance to see firsthand urban and rural Sweden and Finland this summer. Both places have food deserts of a sort. I don't fully grok it yet but it looks like people are comfortable with having only one or two vendors for a given item in a small store with a relatively small selection. There didn't seem to be the same "obsession" we have with getting a better price.
servers don’t really rot if they don’t rely on 3rd party cloud software.

Linux doesn’t upgrade itself.

the web is very standards based.

Hacker news has pretty much been running for decades on the same software hardware stack
The number of DVD subscribers that netflix has is definitely less than 2 million. That number is three years old, and in 2019, they lost 500,000 subscribers.

This service will not exist in less than six years.
How is it a "colossal failure"?
Amazon has tens of millions of these devices which are a 24/7 microphone, and with the wireless transceivers even more data-collection capabilities.

THe data is worth more than $10-billion alone.
Your comment history is 80% unquestioning pro-Russian goose stepping, and 20% mathematically nonsensical anti-vaxx nonsense.
Research is going strong. The Whisper model, recently open sourced, is great for ASR and runs on the edge. https://openai.com/blog/whisper/
Credit where it’s due though: he did supply a spare sink.
Have you actually verified that it isn't?

Which assumption is the safer one?
You don’t know shit about how I think about value, or how I feel. Don’t presume to tell me what I think or how I feel.
By depth I meant depth of the job market and community. As in, there is more than just one big employer, which is why I was asking if there were any other big tech companies in/near Holmdel than Bell
Every SRE knows that the leading cause of outages by far is someone making a change to the system. Twitter isn’t shipping many new features right now or even doing much maintenance. But eventually they will have to.

So the analogy becomes, the new boss sold all the fire extinguishers and also placed a short temporary ban on cooking in the building. But eventually people are going to start turning on stoves again… and then…
huh. turns out people don't like all seeing eyes.
The size of the language is a red herring. You really just want programs that are well structured, which can be greatly helped by choosing a "perfect language" for each task, but often helped just as well by choosing (or creating) a great library to express the business logic.
With the mental disorder(s) I suffer from, whatever names might be attached to them, my stamina is poor and I find it somewhat impossible to serve as a full-time employee.

My last in-office part-time job was stressful. My supervisor criticized my obvious unwillingness to stand up and move around so much. I woke up every morning in fear and this fear propelled me to arrive on time, lest I be reprimanded and fired for tardiness. I spent 2 or so days every week in "bliss" which meant doing nothing whatsoever except Internet games in my shorts and trying to soak in the air conditioning. I was arguably burned out every week, day in day out.

It was this same scene when I had fulltime jobs, I would spend Sat-Sun attempting to recuperate some energy and sanity off the clock. I couldn't budge. It was not pretty.

Thankfully I have found a WFH remote job that does not burn me out whatsoever, and I'm happy to put in 20-30 hours per week and it's really somewhat energizing. I get paid good money for it so I'm thankful for the lack of burnout. I hope and pray that this job lasts me through retirement, which will be real soon now.
If that's it's business model then sure, that's how it works.

A "de facto public square" would be public in conception, construction, and support from the start, which is one of the ways we know that Twitter is no such thing. Though it would likely also have some rules for how speech is/isn't conducted.

And all things considered, advertiser-friendliness is a sort of low-resolution but approximate passable democratic mechanism for marking boundaries of civilized discourse.
true. if twitter, Facebook, reddit, and hackernews go down for a couple days it wouldn't affect me at all. if GitHub and npm went down I'd me mildly annoyed but could still work.
I will admit to this. I was so angry at how Musk treated his employees, and I took them at face value when they predicted outages. I still think that we will see outages in the coming weeks and months, but probably not in spectacular fashion.

A lot of Musk’s fans get emotional about this too. I remember people gloating when they rolled out the new Twitter Blue, saying that Elon got more done in a couple weeks than Twitter had gotten done in years beforehand. And then they shut it off, and now they’re delaying the relaunch. People were praising Musk’s “moderation council” concept, and then he promptly abandoned it to make these decisions by fiat (and in one case, a poll).
Because you gotta work with other people's code at some point or another. And much of it is unreliable, buggy and/or badly documented.

I hate guessing parameters for a API call, i hate debugging the garbage that my coworker installed from Github, i hate learning into some software and having it obsoleted within two years and i hate fixing the CI/deployments.

I love writing bare-metal code for the 8086 or AVR, because these platforms and their peripheral chips are well documented. I love platforms with formal standards and good documentation like C or shell script. But this isn't always useful these days.
What a wild card. Has Musk said why he purchased twitter in the first place? IRL he seems so introverted. It's just odd to me he'd have any interest in a social media company.
A great essay (also check out "The Left is Not a Church" by Benjamin Studebaker) but by 2013, feminist bloggers online had made all these same sort of urgent, crucial observations about female solidarity. Eventually, I'm sure they will be seen as the original canaries in the coal mine of the post-Bush internet-enabled progressive-political holding pattern.