skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with virtueman's comment here that there is something messed up with environment (using that term quite liberally here) where you have material luxury but can't quite share it with anybody. However in every problem lies an opportunity. And allow me to share it as how I -an outsider- sees it.

When you say `software developer quickly approaching 30 with no direction in life, no hobbies, no friends, no family, and no idea what I even want to change.`

I see the following facts: a person who can earn a reasonable amount of money to live well and who does not have pressing personal obligations to others at this point in their lives. This allows this person to do things that a lot of people can't do and as such he/she should try somethings that are well suited for said person as described by the facts.

Some actionable ideas:
1. Volunteer - ideally through physical labour.
2. Leave the country you are in work in a different place/culture.
3. Leave the country you are in and travel while keeping your job (this requires you have a remote job)
4. Explore new hobbies. People typically make friends around shared interests.
4.1 - eg: photography but of type that requires doing something new like, sports photography - forces you to go out to events and capture action; astrophotography - forces you to go out explore the night skies and be a part of that group; macro photography - forces you to see things that most people miss, Microscopic photography - get a microscope, stick a camera on it and stick a small piece of whatever you are having for lunch or dinner under it; bird photography - forces you to chase birds and the next thing you know you will meet interesting members from the Audubon society.
4.2 Arts: drawing, painting, sketching.. take some classes - ideally in person- see if anything sticks.
4.3 Creating something with your hands: wood working, ceramics etc
5. Last but not least - start listening to your inner voice. Most people feel lost (including myself when I was - more before than now) when for one reason or another have stopped listening what they wanted. I think this typically happens during childhood/yound adulthood and progresses over time to a point where what you want is completely overshadowed by your conceptions of what the society/environment/culture thinks of what somebody your age/type should want. This is usually years in the making and take some time to undo but with perseverance can be undone. Start small with little things like lunch - what do you want for lunch and not what you should be having for lunch. ask yourself such questions at various time during the day everyday to see if there is an incongruence between what you are doing in that moment / timeframe and what you want to do ideally (even if its impractical). this is how you listen yourself and over time learn to listen to you 'voice'

Good luck and the best is most definitely yet to come for you!
Thanks for the inside. I watched the Component Model repo, it's very active (had to turn off noti).

Still confused why the need for wit file instead of wat directly which is already human-friendly. Now wasm has two versions of text mode?

Appreciated, specification is a hard work.
That seems to be a straw man its never just plain html and CSS. Even if it were, what you describe just devolves into dozens of similar or slightly different (many times by mistake) classes that all need to be maintained.

I would much rather dig into a component that has been built to be flexible for all of those needs to keep it up to date, restyle of add new behaviors and designs requirements vs going through hundreds of html files looking for all of the classes that were created to do those variations you list above (including effectively duplicate (or worse yet cascaded with different behaviors to accommodate the different html construct they were placed on when created).

I really did dislike tailwind from first learning about it, but using it has turned me on it 100%.
Telegram shares data of users accused of copyright violation per court order
Does anyone have an idea how much they were spending on compliance moderation? Fines of these types seem rather low normally, so I could imagine reducing a few blocks of 10 100k jobs (in reality costing the firm perhaps 1.5 million, including payroll taxes, benefits and a manager on top of them) to save more than whatever small sum they expect to be fined.
For profit primary care insurance should be illegal. Everyone is at some point a forced customer too.

Pay up or die.

Or maybe it is pay up or be crippled.

How about, pay up or she dies. Terribly?

Most importantly, walking away is not a meaningful option in most cases. Who thinks trying to get the best dealz during a trauma event or heart attack makes any sense?

We all know what happens when a person cannot walk away from the deal, right?

They get the absolute lowest value for the highest dollar possible. And that happens because of greed.

No judgement on the greed either. Just recognize it is a thing, is going to be a thing and has always been a thing. We humans tend to do that sort of thing and frankly, committing to the common cause of our mutual good health is mutually selfish and a great way to make sure the games are there to be played by everyone. I am dead serious.

Now, what happens when one can walk away from a deal?

Much higher, if not the highest value for the dollar!

Why?

Greed again, only this time the greedy forces must work together to arrive at an equitable deal.

Because of how health care actually must work due to our human condition, it is not well aligned with markets. And some of us LOVE markets!

Trust me, I get that. I love markets when they make sense. There are enough competitors to insure robust market action delivers good value for the dollar without anyone getting hurt.

I do not love markets where the core value proposition is not losing your home, for example. And I basically had to do that once. Trade a home for more time with my wife.

An experience like that tends to wake a person right the fuck up proper. Yup. That happened and I dug into this matter deeply too.

Why?

Well, my inventory of homes ran out and she is still at some risk and, well you get the idea.

Thing is when it happened it was not even my call! Let's just say someone made a trip to Belize a priority over the well being of the people doing the work and again, you get the idea.

Now before I continue, elective care can be a market. So can related services and options. But primary care, like being able to live and work? Nope. People can't just walk or wait for a better deal and that means far too many are paying too hard or are dying needlessly.

The whole pay up or die proposition is pretty goddammed brutal and millions of Americans face that crap all the time and they should not need to.

Fact is when we commit as a nation to take good care of our own, we can pool our risks and fund doing that very well and the fact that we are not doing that means our well being as citizens is just not a priority!

Frankly, that is completely unacceptable!

And that somehow via corruption and a largely dysfunctional government we continue to "accept" this brutal state of affairs is exactly why we spend so damn much on health care too.

"Nice life you got there. Sure would be a shame if something happened to it."

Think it through. I did. Forced to.

Maybe we can avoid you being forced to like I was.
The way to do that safely (for your own people) is to use enemy POWs to disable the bomb.
Ik is actually pretty standard in the Netherlands to have a big box/container near the exit(s) where you can get a cardboard box.

Most often they are boxes for bananas or wine bottle boxes. Very convenient to carry stuff home if you forgot a bag.
That's true. To borrow from another famous quote:

All abstractions are leaky; some are useful
Musk is delaying Twitter’s paid verification to avoid Apple’s 30 percent cut
They should develop smart plants with a distributed root system, an overabundance of shoots, a preference for seeking mines, and a high threshold for shoot pain.

This would also prepare us with countermeasure systems control for when the AI tries to take over.
Amazing project - I love the art on the "cards"! Who was your artist or where did you source it from?
I wish it were pogo pins, but they're so expensive. I'm using spring fingers and they're surprisingly reliably and durable (so far).

I'll look into using a demultiplexer, because maybe then I could afford the pogo pins.
There are some fun surprises in there. For example, I didn't know Rand designed the logo for Columbus, Indiana, a small town I used to live by. The C's from the logo are sprinkled in art and signs throughout downtown.
I’ve been slowly watching it, and while the actual Foundation aspects are lackluster (the alien Vault feels gratuitous), it surprised me by how compelling the Cleon genetic dynasty was. Of course, Lee Pace is an amazing actor, and having more of him is a real force multiplier.
Yeah it sounds like x32 is really only practical for embedded systems, if anything

Limited use of registers in x86 does sound like a good explanation for it being a wash in terms of speed

It seems like there is very little language-level support for small pointers. Only the unreleased Jai language seems to have "relative pointers" (or maybe they took this out)

The Zig compiler recently replaced pointers with integers in their code representation for memory/speed, but lost some type safety in the process -- i.e. a T* isn't a U*, but indices into t[] and u[] are the same type. I'm not sure I like that tradeoff, and it seems like language-level support would help
"Profit" companies have no reason to keep being profitable if the engineers have no life. That's the simple science of cause of effect. It's about "when it stopped" and "fucked itself".

If a company is not transparent about their "employee life", then that company is worth called a scam itself. They stole lives.
> 5. Job market is weakening with no recovery in sight

> 6. I'm in my early 40s

> 7. Startup success ... is going to be rare in the coming years

If you're in your early 40's, you'll likely have worked through and/or witnessed the 90's recession, the dot-com bubble and the 2008 financial crisis. There's always a recovery in sight and there are often great opportunities to be found during market corrections.

I've given up on terms like "lifer" as they don't account for changing circumstances. If an opportunity presents itself to earn 2x my TC while maintaining all the rest, I'd give it serious consideration. Fully remote work is my preferred arrangement and I'll never go back. Corporate friendliness to work/life balance can change as can one's personal definition. Interviewing can be a horror show but it can also be like having a great technical discussion with like-minded professionals. I've experienced both ends of the spectrum on that front.
> 1: https://youtu.be/DpYBhX0UH04

I got a minute it, and it mostly reminded me of a fugue.
Same, but the best software engineers write code that's maintainable and understandable by anyone, including themselves on 5 years.

If you ever find yourself asking what's actually in this variable, and the code is too dynamic for the IDE to tell, it's going to be too hard for a lot of developers to tell, and maybe even the author themselves in a few years.

If the type hints are too complex and involve multi line annotations with 500 unioned types, then we should remember: the programmer does still have to remember what type that parameter can be, even if it's not annotated. Leaving out the annotation doesn't simplify the program, it just moves some information from from explicit to implicit.

Calling static typing a crutch is like calling a passenger airliner's takeoff checklist a crutch. I mean maybe it is from one perspective...
Just because it can be faster doesn't mean it's fast.
Actually COVID ruined my lifer plans, it absolutely demolished my previous company. Resulted in insane/pointless re-orgs and just killed the culture. It became so unpleasant I followed my current manager elsewhere.

It's experiences like this that make me question the wisdom of staying in a place for a decade. It's hard to see things you enjoyed wither away and die.
I wonder how much of this has to do with The Peripheral doing so well? (Both books are by William Gibson. Highly recommend.)
AWS Lambda Snapstart – Upto 10x faster startup performance
Syrus is a technocrat's technocrat and a big open source contributor. I watch from the sidelines in awe as the community builds wasmer and the wasm ecosystem.
I'm in exactly the same situation (a few more years down the road), in specialised technical niche that I really enjoy, and that a smaller company wouldn't need enough to pay someone to do it. so apart from all your reasons I just enjoy the ability to work in niche fields that don't directly drive anyone's bottom line.
‘Gasland’ driller will pay millions for new water system in Dimoc, Pennsylvania
Fuck them for not letting petulant manchild do whatever? Ok
all you have to do is google search on author and name of the video. you will be watching it in no time
I'm 47 and wish I had found a lifer job. Literally could not as I believe every company I have ever worked for is now out of business. Bad sign perhaps. I now do contracting here and there but the pay is low (think poverty level) and unpredictable. Points 4 and 5 on your list are particularly relevant. Maybe the new year will bring me a change in fortune.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasland
Getting out of an alcoholic/neglectful/abusive/suicidal childhood home without complete self-destruction. Worked, still haunted
I'll have to check out Duel Monsters, maybe can get some more inspiration.
Have you ever seen Angelic Layer?
Yeah, i think it's about what kind of CRUP apps is fun that's more important.
S.F. supervisorss approve the use of killer robots
It's 6 AM. My wife's away for work, I didn't digest a pizza, I have dishes to do before the plumber comes at 8, a gift package to collect at some UPS point at 7, some residual burnout due to too many things to do in the last week, month, year, years, and a Monster energy drink yesterday which has completely blown up my metabolism. I'm on Discord looking for humans, you know, a little irrational, non-conformant human beings.
That spark of chaos that brings curiosity back in and depression out. I've been struggling all life with minor depression, I'm 38. A developer who hasn't done any career. I remember times being younger nerding at night learning Linux with no regrets , or when I was playing in a videogames' music band. It's not what I do, it's the degree of freedom that I felt in doing it. Now I could play bass again but it would not be the same. But I'll tell you, keep on searching and fighting. Life is a journey, you'll never know where you'll end up. Things come unexpected
>There is often little appreciation for the "science" in data science.

It feels like even Google falls prey to this at times: they keep redoing the same A/B test until it comes up in favor of the change (or the designer whose pet project it is runs out of political capital, presumably).
Ahh... I used Stable Diffusion!
https://link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007/s10508-022-02482-6?sh...

That has a sharing token and should work. That’s the URL I posted, but I guess HN strips off the query part.
> A product manager really should know and understand this, because it's not like it's impenetrable tech jargon.

It's not tech jargon but it's a medical term, that has to do with people possibly dying or wounded soldiers that can't be handled, and now we're using it in tech? Ignoring the ridiculous overexaggerating that is, this is exactly the kind of jargon that techies will get mad at managers for using.

Just say what you want. "We have other priorities, how does this fit with those, and what item will have lower priority now?"
I think something clicked yesterday after reading a comment. It works for SPA/css-in-js/components-based projects, and this long class string is manageable as long as it is only present in one single place in the whole project (thinking about versioning and the mental model of where's what).
> But generally speaking the code is only 1/3rd of the size. So you have a lot less to read.

Are you implying type hints triple the size of code? This is very far away from my experience, no idea what kind of monster types you're writing.

The only places you need hints are really function parameters and return types - your IDE can infer the rest.
I only had a duplicate cat and thought that it was a trick question
You may be right, a few other commenters said something similar.
People can't complain about high salaries not working for you in high COL places. In Atherton a 0.8 acre lot (no house) is on the market for $5.2m lol. If you stop looking for the prestige and high numbers of FAANG you can have a far better salary:COL and get that nice house/cool car.
Efficacy of Nicotine in Preventing Covid-19 Infection
I think the gulf between opinions here is I see adulthood (and fundamentals like ability to do as you please to your own body) as irrevocable until at least a crime against a (not yourself) victim has been performed. Ideally I would live in a society where people have agreed to such, in practice I've just tried to move to places where the least number of people such as my counterparty above exist so as to reduce my exposure to such impositions of violence. In practice I've ended up in fairly rural western states where individualism is highly preserved, you can do things like buy weed without a card or carry a gun without a license and hell even be senile/demented/schizophrenic at the same time as both and as long as you don't fuck with anyone else people tend to not impose anything on you -- notwithstanding no such place perfectly does this and you'll no doubt find horrible counterexamples where this didn't play out.

I do not think the alternative society that say maximizes certain utilities at the cost of consent is wrong per se as long as it's possible to freely enter/exit such a society, I just find it incompatible with my values. While I disagree with the notion of stopping someone who has asked his/her respects to be honored in regard to suicide, I don't think it's some moral failing if a private individual makes an in-the-moment reaction to stop them. It's pretty much human instinct to try to preserve innocent life of those around us, so hopefully it hasn't been read that I think you're a bad person or something if you see someone cutting themselves and you stop them.
I agree that the x32 ABI is probably a technological dead end, but I don't agree with "just" use a custom heap. I tried in C++ and it's not easy. You lose a lot of type safety and you have to basically rewrite every line of your program.

I mentioned the Zig compiler here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33797368

Another program I remember that uses small integers instead of pointers is the Sorbet type checker (not coincidentally it also has a fine-grained AST code representation): https://blog.nelhage.com/post/why-sorbet-is-fast/

I peeked at the code awhile back, and it's not really idiomatic C++. It's obviously doable but you have to architect the program from the start for it -- it's not feasible to retrofit this technique onto existing software.
Cloud pricing for bandwidth is really limiting for a lot of applications. For comparison you can get a 1gbit/s line with your server on OVH EU for about $100/mo, which you could utilize for a theoretical ~321TiB/mo total transferred
If you haven't encountered it you should check out Legends Untold
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/legendsuntold/legends-u...

Obviously not eink, but exactly that kind of card game exploration.
Ask HN: What&#x27;s an example of a good Express backend?
I consider myself a stronger frontend developer than a backend one. I want to learn what the best file structure is for an Express backend. Do you guys have any good source available examples?
IT salaries have gone through the roof, the economy grew by 3.9% over 2021-22. This is an objectively true statement.
From the author's open access paper (linked in the article) [1]:

>High vacancy rates in off-street parking areas are typical in many cities, with a substantial portion of street parking used by residents with access to garages. Central city garages also have low utilisation rates; even before the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020-21, apartment parking in central Melbourne had a considerable vacancy rate (26–41%). This extent of underutilisation is significant considering that the municipality has 49,500 off-street residential parking spaces, more than double the on-street allocation of 23,500 spaces.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s42949-022-00073-x
> I'm in my early 40s

Ooof that's a reason?
In the days when Sussman was a novice Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6.

"What are you doing?", asked Minsky.

"I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe."

"Why is the net wired randomly?" inquired Minsky.

"I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play."

At this, Minsky shut his eyes. Sussman asked his teacher, "Why do you close your eyes?"

"So that the room will be empty."

At that momment, Sussman was enlightened.
It seems they're cutting their losses with everything.

4 years ago, IBM was putting out blockchain commercials but following their links e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VQsMwNCqZ8 you see that they've been removed. They were putting out courses etc. too but this supply chain offering was their main move, from what I know working around the industry.

I recall discussions about private blockchains being all companies would actually really want - and how IBM was trying to frontrun SAP and so on by putting out a blockchain enabled solution first. But already in early 2021 they started closing it down after 90% losses: https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/02/01/ibm-blockchain-...
"we know it's plagiarizing and combining other, third-party, materials half the time" does not seem like an accurate description of what a model like GPT3 does either, though, since:

1) No explicit content (that could be plagiarized or combined) is actually stored by GPT3: only statistical relationships between tokens are retained. You can't point at a specific subset of weights and say "see... this is where phrase/idea X is stored".

2) GPT3 makes no specific claim to be generating "original, own work" (which would be required for something to be considered "plagiarism")
All of those are existing TCG mechanics, though easier and more flexible in digital-only TCG (hearthstone, snap).

For instance in MTG day/night cycles were featured in the original werewolves (I want to say innistrad), location mechanics can be continuous effects on lands or ETBs, likewise for reaction to other cards in play.
There's no "best" ones. But there's guiding principles to help you achieve one.

It's Clean Architecture, or Hexagon Architecture.

The idea is, the business layer dependencies is just interfaces. So you can easily mock in test.
Your ISP and mobile provider still know :) your gadgets have registered IDs in the hardware.

Every mechanical thing we come up has a decode-able sequence.

DIY filter bubbles each of a unique configuration, decoupled from someone else’s monolith is the only way to be sure.

It’s reverse Highlander; there cannot be only one. It’s fine, we were never all going to get along anyway.
I work at an 800 year old institution. I have been here for 20 years. My wife works here too.

Salary isn't great in global terms, but puts us within the top 20% national household incomes. Enough no not really care about money.

We work 35 hours per week, pretty flexible schedule, about half from home and have more vacation days than we know what to do with.

The work is a bit monotonous and the office politics terrible, to the point of giving us depressing "golden cage" feelings sometimes, but when we take a peek outside, it doesn't look better than what we have. So we'll probably stay for the next 20 years.