skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah that's basically where I landed on this discussion. There isn't really a "pay you full time" vs. "pay you part time" - there is just what you're being paid and the kind of work you're putting in. It's totally plausible to me to work part time for the same amount of pay as your peers make working full time, which I think is exactly what the OP is doing. But what was confusing to me is calling that "full time work" because it really isn't; it's just well-paid part time work.
I don't feel lost.

I feel everyone else is lost. THAT is my problem.

That philosophy doesn't mean anything to me. It may define what I feel but in the end it's just a word. Do you read it and suddenly come to the conclusion that eugenics is a valid strategy?

People claim to pragmatic, but true pragmatism involves some horrible stuff. See my 6 points.
Ene mene miste, es rappelt in der Kiste.

Ene mene meck. Und du bist weg.
Remember about 10 years ago when Cyprus started confiscating money held in private bank accounts to settle government debts and the people holding cash kept their money because it was physically in their possession and harder to confiscate?

Remember earlier this year when people in Lebanon had to hold bank managers at gun point to try and withdraw money from their own accounts so they could buy basic goods as the economy collapsed?

The "CaSh hAZ nO PuRpOSe eXCePt fOR cRImE" crowd in this comment section have massive blind spots due to a general ignorance of monetary history. I'm not surprised politicians are laughing while taking advantage of it.
I really enjoy your podcast. It’s the only podcast where I go back and listen to past episodes multiple times, they inspire me as a developer!
Not VM. ISA.
Being humble is good for popularity sometimes.
There are great bits of discussion about SQLite being maintained and enhanced by a very small team - three people.

While I very much appreciate the safety of being a very small cog in a larger machine, I also wonder how my career might be more enjoyable and satisfying if I had chosen to limit my options to small teams where every single person on the team had a critical impact on the success of a project.
> I presume when speaking about Sam Bankman-Fried 'IRL' with your voice rather than text, you don't say "Es Be Ef".

I do and would find it slightly weird not to.
> I presume when speaking about Sam Bankman-Fried 'IRL' with your voice rather than text, you don't say "Es Be Ef". Right?

I've heard lots of "SBF".
>The fundamental anonymity model Google have employed is that the VPN tunnel is authenticated using "blind tokens" which are signed by an authorization service "Zinc." The Zinc service validates OAuth credentials passed in from the client app to verify a user's subscription, then signs the blind token created by the client app to authorize the user's session with the actual VPN backend "Copper." Ostensibly, this will separate the user's Google identity from the VPN identity since the VPN service only knows that it got a valid, signed user token, not what user that token belongs to.

In video form for those not keeping up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ
A very good question - FOMO is a real fear and it does not help when the job market and esp recruiters are so out of touch about I.T requirements and the buzzwords that they ask for irrelevant things in job adverts.

There is joke going around on LinkedIn where somebody asked for x years Kubernetes experience, and it was not even released that long by Google.

LinkedIn is just a harvesting farm for recruiters to meet their quotes - my last contracts I found via word of mouth and connections in the industry.
20% is huge and you don’t really worry about containment if you’re setup to just replace the hydrogen as it escapes.
Can you clarify how it makes 10k/mo? I don't see anywhere on the site where a person could donate/buy something, and I don't see ads. Your download also seems free. How does it actually generate any cash for you?
I created MyGPT after seeing that the other solutions couldn't save parts of a conversation that were hidden due to edited prompts or "try again" being used.

MyGPT properly saves all branches of a conversation.

Simple example: https://myg.pt/exTVkm

Branching example: https://myg.pt/sB9P7Z
Yeah the frameworks do force a disciplined approach. It still boils down to separation of concerns like presentation from business logic etc. Historically the front-end computation existed on the backend but with NodeJS everything sort of mushed together (creating more complexity and possible architecture mistakes). Template libraries are great way to Split View from Model—but even that is taken care of in languages now like Golang templates and JavaScript template literals etc.

I suppose the question is: how much time does it take to master stock HTML5/CSS/JavaScript versus mastering a framework, through-and-through.

Frameworks are constantly in flux but the foundation they are built upon is a more lasting skill set. But the more we spend learning framework X we are spending time away from foundations.
Ironically Pluto was found the same way that Neptune was, but it turned out to be a calculation error.
An added advantage of using that approach is that as you drop off cargo (or use up food, water and fuel supplies for multi-day passenger trips) you can siphon off some of those cells to power the propulsion motors and thereby increase your effective range.
Besides obvious flaws in the article, let's assume that there is general "Blitzscaling is dead" phenomenon going around. That is exactly the time to Blitzscale.

On a separate note, this is exactly the time to double-down manufacturing in China and supply-chain homogeneity.
Not going to university or dropping out of it is the most expensive countersignal of all, and it also knocks away the ladder for people who might try to follow you into your chosen endeavour.

I've been articulating this dynamic for a long time and tell anyone who thinks I am an example that it's a terrible example to follow - mostly because the countersignals become the signal, as really, if you really want to prove how smart you are, go win a Fields medal, or perhaps you have a cancer cure to help my friend, or maybe you can make something somebody else actually wants for a change - and if you aren't that smart, then maybe you should work less on seeming smart and more on demonstrating you are good at something and use the opportunities that come from the respect of your competence and ability to share it with others, instead of affecting the aura of brilliance at being a failed or frustrated genius. These admonishments are as much to myself as anyone else who resembles them.

Countersignals are vulgar artifacts of the 90s that a bunch of nouveau middle class people are just starting to figure out now, and they only fool rubes and are a way to figure out who to follow and how to climb socially, but never how to do something beautiful or great. I call them fart-connoisseurs because I know what it is like to be one. These days I use this quote a lot, which is, "Don't be so humble, you aren't that great."

When I'm great, I will be humble. Until then, check out how awesome my effort that yielded something objectively crappy is, and even though it's not above criticism, it did the job, which is more than brilliance ever did. Maybe that is knocking the ladder away too, but that ladder went nowhere anyway. :)

Big fan of Rob Hendersons newsletter. Recommend.
Not the kind of anxiety I was expecting when I clicked tbh

Just try to remember that nobody could possibly keep up with everything, and that you don't need to anyway. Follow what stokes your interest and/or pays the bills, and don't worry about the rest
The Innovator's Dilemma book popularized the idea that it's frequently newcomers who are the beneficiaries of breakthrough changes for mostly structural reasons. Could it apply to individual people too in this case?
Yes, gas has been much cheaper than electricity. Heating your house with an electric boiler was several times more expensive than a gas one. Anyway, you still need fossil fuels for industrial processes and agriculture
The imminent airship revival has been going on at least since the 1970s according to Popular Mechanics.

It's an evergreen magazine topic, like six-pack abs on the covers of men's fitness magazines.
And sadly, there is no reason to believe other companies will not end up going down the same road.

Hence we should fight for open hardware.
This is where it will come back if it does.

Since lifting empty space is “free” you can have absolutely huge rooms in a cruise ship of the skies.
What about the embrittlement? That seems like the deal breaker.
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> The person who shows up to Pizza Hut on a bicycle isn't thinking about social status consciously. Instead, they get slightly pitying looks from coworkers, which make them feel slightly inferior and ashamed, which makes them not do it again

This is not how social dynamic at Pizza Hut works.
> the evidence points to matter that hardly, or perhaps not at all, interacts* with the stuff we are familiar with

I think this is why people get frustrated with the DM story. It's not the evidence that points to that. It's the lack of evidence that points to that. Specifically speaking, we keep hypothesizing limits on interaction in the hopes of finding it below some threshold but keep pushing those limits back. A multimodal observation would be clutch, but we keep confirming that a multimodal observation can't happen.
Neovide: Neovim Client Written in Rust
> Uses the Fossil user interface but it uses the low-level file format of Git. So that then you can work with Fossil’s interface but push and pull to legacy Git users.

I'm surprised that's the #1 magic-wand project for anyone. I'm not trying to yuck his yum, but am just surprised.

But the larger elephant in the room for any such effort is that Fossil's mental model is, by choice, way different from git. If they just want a new ui that isn't as "git sux," surely a new cli to kid-gloves git would be less work than trying to reinvent a whole new version control system, and that goes 1000x for trying to maintain wire compat with every git server in the world
Ask HN: Should HN ban ChatGPT/generated responses?
It's already happening [0].

Stackoverflow recently banned generated responses [1].

We're facing a new karma-generating strategy and, IMO, a policy is urgently needed.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=clay-dreidels

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/help/gpt-policy
Honestly, ubuntu is doing similar UX breaking crap... every two years you need to relearn where to set the static ip, apt-get is snap, or snap is apt-get or who knows what you'll get when you need a simple install, and phoning home is preinstalled too.
I've been a software engineer for twenty years. What I know is a small circle in the Venn diagram of what there is to know. That doesn't give me anxiety. I learn new things every day, and I enjoy doing that. Nobody understands everything. You can go broad or deep in your knowledge, and you'll do some mix of that in your career. Just follow your curiosity and don't be afraid when you're going requires learning something new. Here's the most important part: stop comparing yourself to others. That's only a recipe for unhappiness. There's always someone smarter, better, better looking, richer, more successful, seemingly happier. Happiness comes from inside and from being happy for other's success instead of envying them. It's all lies anyway, everyone shows the image they want the world to see, inside they're just as messed up as you, or worse!
it is neither as simple as the person you are responding to, nor as complicated as you make it seem. it will only get simpler with time.
The social climate and the urban planning are no more and no less than how people in your community conduct themselves behind the wheel and at the microphone in the community hearings. Incremental bike infrastructure improvements can take a few years in very dysfunctional polities, but 16 would be an outlier, and they can also be done very quickly in healthy ones.
> Humans haven’t been successful because we are innovators. Rather, we are successful because we don’t think for ourselves, and save time and energy by copying others.

This is just plain incorrect.

Humanity functions in three groups: creators, mimics and teachers.

The creators are the less cautious types that strike out and build new things, attempt to invent or innovate. Their personalities and behaviors are quite often noticeably different from everyone else.

Mimics copy, copy, copy. They're probably ~95-97% of the population. Their success depends on successfully copying other models that work.

Teachers primarily exist to train mimics, to amplify knowledge out to humanity. They're mimics with bullhorns and a desire to pass on things that have worked and knowledge acquired broadly by the species (lessons learned, etc).

This works, this is successful, initiate copy mode. And off it goes. Humans are exceptionally good at that for sure. We just got a remarkable, prominent, several decade demonstration of it at a global level in so called globalization. Creators are the ones that initiate the next things to be copied, the next things that get taught from a textbook in school, and so on (to be clear, most creators suffer terribly and never achieve much of anything; theirs is a low success rate, high reward path).
There are literally millions of podcasts out there. You have to do something special in order to get people to listen. The episode I listened to part of sounded just like it was a couple of normal devs chatting about development. Nothing wrong with that, but it's not special. If you listen to major podcasts, the people on the podcasts are highly charismatic and it's easy to listen to them talking about anything. Your podcast, on the other hand, has people who aren't particularly charismatic, just normal people talking, which I can get anywhere. Podcasts can be informative, but they are a form of entertainment, which means you have to be entertaining.

"Devs chatting about development" is also a pretty tight niche. You could probably do better than 200-300 listeners per episode, but not by much. You're creating a product very few people want. Very few people would come solely for the information being conveyed. Nothing wrong with that, but just as a podcast about European pickles would never get millions of views, no matter how good it is, neither would yours.

The audio quality was also not great, but this isn't a major issue if the podcast is entertaining.
That doesn’t mean that the laundry baskets at the dollar store didn’t cost more than $1 to make. The inventory of dollar stores sometimes comes from bartering rather than buying inventory. My brother worked in this industry for a few years and it was really bizarre. You’d have one company with several thousand cell phones that didn’t meet FCC standards, so they couldn’t sell them in the US, and they didn’t have the infrastructure to sell them overseas themselves. You’d have another company that had several thousand packs of last year’s baseball cards, but that also has some overseas brands that sell electronics. They’d come up with some sort of trade. The baseball cards would end up in a dollar store, and the cell phones would end up in Africa. Problem solved, no money changed hands.
Chrome became the most popular browser in the market. (Unfortunately with its own issues.)
My computer ran well with Linux with one display after instaing Linux. Then I tried to use a second, daisy chained, Displayport display. And the mess began. Confusing tips on forums, confusing and experimental drivers to install... And so on. Didn't manage to get it running.
If you’re going to “use for everything” why not be more creative?

Use DynamoDB for everything? Use SQLite + S3 for everything. Heck use Redis for everything.

I understand that Postgres is insanely flexible. It supports pretty much any type of data storage you want.

But if you’re going to focus all your developer knowledge on on product, consider whether another DB might be better.
Reading the article, I got the feeling technology hasn’t been the limitation, infrastructure has.

It wasn’t surprising that the first picture was at Moffit Field. There’s an airship hanger there you can see from the freeway.

But what fired my neurons is the mention of Akron, because there is an airship hanger there because that’s where Goodyear was/is headquartered. [1]

These are specialized buildings with non-trivial structural requirements…when buildings get that big holding them down is at least as hard as holding them up.

Not technically, all it takes is concrete. [2] Physically it takes a lot of concrete and the more efficient the superstructure the more concrete it takes. Cover a skeleton with fabric and you have a very very large sail.

This makes staging for humanitarian missions more difficult than ordinary alternatives like a C130. A minimum viable airstrip can be constructed in days (i.e. weeks), an airship hanger will take months (i.e. years).

That’s not to say there’s no possible niche in humanitarian missions. Just that it is no more obvious to me than to the article’s author (and presumably it was not clearly delineated by the company to the author).

But I am being presumptive and recognize I may well have missed something.

[1]: Too lazy to research tire industry consolidation.

[2]: and steel to transfer all the uplift and sheer forces to that concrete and more steel to distribute those forces —- and no, Roman concrete doesn’t avoid this…and besides the Tufa makes it less dense and therefore would require more volume even if unreinforced concrete is brittle and therefore terrible in tension and fails catastrophically. But I digress.
Maybe SBF is Sam Bankman-Fried's personal pronoun?
Maybe I wasn't clear enough but of course I'm not implying that you can reach sota on image classification with fcnns. There are many problems where the input space is not as noisy, redundant and structure bearing as with images.
Check out the song "No Scrubs" by TLC for another angle on the same topic. It's a real phenomenon, not just something made up by nerds on substack.

Some people are blissfully checked out enough from social competition dynamics that they don't notice it.
A leaky bag of hydrogen in bad weather. What could possibly go wrong?
This type of argument can be made about anything, and isn’t really constructive. If HN triggers an anxious thought in someone, it’s more than fair to say it’s the cause. Otherwise anything can always be explained as if it’s some “physiological change” or whatever, due to previous experiences in someone’s life.

It’s also not relevant to the question OP was asking, as it doesn’t matter for the answer whether or not HN is the direct cause or not — everyone knows what OP meant, and it doesn’t affect the answers anyway.
From what I have heard, all television and radio media is calling him "Sam Bankman-Fried", not pronouncing the initialism.
I didn't search enough. Stories about 4500 women who were treated like this:
https://www.dr.dk/nysgerrig/webfeature/spiralkampagne
Fossil also supports bug tracking, wiki, forum, email alerts, chat, and technotes.

I don't think it's right to call that "just a new porcelain".

I have no clue how Hipp thinks to implement it, much less in a way that allows push and pull to legacy Git users.
which? B? I'd thought that was at least threaded. BCPL and Mini Pascal definitely had VM targets...

Edit: anything targeting PDP-8 native code could be considered to target a reduced ISA, but I don't think any of those were really mainstream. PDP-7 as a target looks like a pretty vanilla ISA to me?
Google One VPN is a big deal, and potentially as big a nightmare for shady data brokers as the iOS cookie apocalypse was for Facebook and others. Google One was available to paid subscribers on Android, then on Windows, and Mac. Now some Pixel owners can use it. Imagine if they turn it on for all Chrome OS users, or all Chrome mobile users, or all Chrome users period. You can have your suspicions about Google, but I'd trust them over any other tech company or VPN provider.
Tim Dodd made a lovely point in his stream of the event.

People keep asking why this is a big deal- we did this fifty years ago, right? It should be a lot easier now with modern tech.

Yes, but now we're doing it safely. The Apollo program took risks that today's NASA never would allow. We're better at that now, but it's a lot more work.
Isn't that the point of both projects?

Git is primarily a file format. There's also a canonical set of low-level command-line utilities. But you can create whatever interface you want. Most programmers and GUIs happen to use the canonical command-line tools, but that's hardly necessary. Fit would keep the necessary part of Git (the file format), and provide a different human interface.
Traveler is stressed on the first syllable; referrer is not.
Android fork of Linux kernel uses it. Bluetooth stack was rewritten in Rust for Android 12, and the new virtualization stack in Android 13 is based in crosvm, also a Rust.
This is just a backtesting tool enables users to experminet with various strategies. I'm using it actively so do others (retail and small hedge-funds).
No, but I do feel something that I can't keep up with all of the interesting things going on. I have thousands of HN post bookmarks. I want to organize them, but I am having a problem with procrastination, and also I don't know when I would possibly get to actually read them (beyond just organizing).
give me liberty or give me death
Every moment spent contriving and derisking a plan to virtue signal to born followers is better spent talking to leaders and figuring out which calculated risks to take.
On the other hand “harassing innocent minorities and the blue wall that lets police get away with everything hasn’t exactly engendered trust either”
Well no. Is it not obvious that if you could prevent the damage that would be better than patching it over?
There is the kind of tech enthusiast who's excited by new information as they GET to learn more, and then there is the kind who is stressed that they HAVE to learn more. If you follow HN because you have to stay on the pulse, you're gonna get stressed, cause tech moves too fast for any 1 person to follow completely.
Who Lost the Middle East? – Richard Murphy (2016)
More than interesting anecdotes of an american diplomat.
You’ve never made a change to such a codebase that was generated by a massively parallel evolutionary computer running for billions of years.

You could just as easily make the argument that there is probably no body of data more stable than existing genomes.
> HL-2350DW

They do. I have this model and aftermarket toners work effortlessly. I'll never buy HP or Lexmark. They're the worst.
Is there a possible future in which lowered cost to orbit and helium scarcity makes it economically viable to harvest helium in giant sacs in space, and then use “gas stations” floating in the upper atmosphere at different buoyancies to shuttle it down to airships?

I have no idea how many problems there are with that, or how diffuse helium is/how hard it would be to harvest from space, but floating airship stations like Bespin would be awesome.
Soon we will see clone/Genetic engineered armies and space babies. I give it less than 200 years. We might be the last naturally born humans
It's actually amazing how well games work under Proton. Even a significant number of multiplayer titles just work, despite anti-cheat. There's some "random problems" sometimes with some titles, sure... but that's also true on Windows. Interestingly the problematic titles are more or less exactly opposite to Windows - new titles tend to work well on Windows and perhaps have issues on Linux (requiring some specific launch options or Proton version, perhaps graphical glitches). Meanwhile older titles are often problematic on Windows, but are less so on Linux. Might just be my selection bias though.
Can you elaborate why you trust them over Apple?