skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's disingenuous. There's a difference between getting into a topic because it interests someone, and getting into a topic because it's incredibly hyped right now. Do you really believe it's the former...?

Considering OP mentioned a lot of recent hype trains relating to AI, it's perfectly reasonable to assume they are chasing dollars, rather than contributing to the underlying technology without further expectations.

So, OP comes off as very disingenuous when they lead with the hype and provide nothing of substance.
Not sure what this is related to but the title is ;
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A lot of answers on StackOverflow are just awful -- the bar is incredibly low. I'm not sure SO will serve even a quarter of its current traffic by 2025.
You assume Trump is special here in comparison to other politicians? Why?
> Instead, they get slightly pitying looks from coworkers, which make them feel slightly inferior and ashamed, which makes them not do it again.

No they don't! Is my point. This is almost entirely a story made up by this bizarro world of smart people who think themselves into circles (and aren't working at pizza hut). Nobody cares how someone gets themselves to their job at pizza hut; the other people working there aren't thinking about this, the person riding the bike there isn't thinking about this. This is just people like us with too much time on our hands to write substacks and debate silly things on internet message boards constructing castles in the sky.

> Articles (and comments) like this one are describing what's going on, not prescribing it.

I recognize that it is attempting to describe what's going on. I am saying that I think it is failing to accurately describe what's going on.
New Chat Bots Could Change the World. Can You Trust Them?
That would seem to be just a new porcelain for git.
Passion cant save crypto.
> I always viewed watches as the only mainstream sociable acceptable form of male jewelry.

Now we have iDweebs, those Apple ear things.
https://archive.vn/Qaws4
Even Amazon had competitors when it started. Although it was the first online bookstore, they were competing with physical bookstores. Same for Google, Netflix, and Facebook.
Nothing wrong with being a bit shameless to promote it!

The episodes look pretty cool, gonna them a listen!

Are you also open to any guest speakers?
One of the many reasons I don't use Windows for anything but gaming (and even then, I'm keeping my gaming machine on 10 as long as I can)
Switching to Go: First Impressions
No, I do skip a LOT of content that I am not interested in though...
As far as I'm aware, Congress is trying to haul in SBF to rake him over the coals--he's been asked to come in and testify, and there are threats of subpoenas if he doesn't want to.
France is in the same boat because of the same calls to bring down our nuclear fleet. Every government for the past 10 years has been anti-nuclear. Our current president told the industry to shut down 15 nuclear reactors like two years ago.

So nuclear in France is a failure in the sense that it's made us the greenest country in Europe (along with hydro-rich Sweden) for the past 40 years, one of the largest exporters of energy, and that despite calls to bring it down we're basically in the same state as Germany right now except we don't produce 50% of our energy from coal and gas.
Also not to forget misuse scenarios. We already blockade roads around large events when there is lot of pedestrians around. How would we do same for the sky? If there was hundreds or thousands of flying cars. Drones are one thing, but tonne or multi-tonne vehicles?
One would be that people who steal $150 phones don't have $10,000 to pay for fines.
Because new plastic creation doesn’t include the cost of disposal, as the poster above mentioned.

In theory, the cost of manufacture a new piece of plastic should pay for the recycling of that same piece of plastic.
If you look at many early compilers (BCPL, Mini Pascal, B, ... and come to think of it, arguably Python etc.) they massively simplified their lives by only doing codegen to very small VMs.
I am increasingly frustrated with the widespread reticence to use Sam Bankman-Fried's name online. It's not a particularly long name, nor difficult for any English speaker to spell. Don't honor him with a three letter initialism. Use his name so that his name may become associated with his crimes.

I presume when speaking about Sam Bankman-Fried 'IRL' with your voice rather than text, you don't say "Es Be Ef". Right? Shortening his name to fit in headlines is one thing, but I don't feel that's appropriate in the comment section.
Probably to separate identities.
If you don't tell anyone about your idea, how will you get customers?

Tell everyone about your idea. But you have to silo people's feedback. Do they have enough knowledge to actually tell you if the idea is good or bad? Are they a potential customer? If they are a potential customer and they like it, are they willing to pay for it? If they are a potential customer and don't like it, why not? What would need to change about it for them to pay for it?

Build stuff for the people who will pay you for it and then you'll have a side hustle.
I hope they audit outline next
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Nice, but make a flexible version I can wrap around my arm. That'd really be handy, not needing to grab the phone all the time but still having a full featured touchscreen on my arm.
esc is caps lock (vim user) -- although this has the unfortunate effect of making other devs machines virtually impossible to use since for 20+ years I've used caps-lock-as-escape and it's muscle memory now...
That's what I was thinking too. Seems to be an ongoing issue:

(May 2022) "Helium shortage 4.0"

https://qz.com/2171115/the-world-is-facing-helium-shortage-4...

The major uses include for cooling magnetic resonance imaging equipment at hospitals, and for weather balloons (critical data for short-term weather forecasts). However, small drones may take over from weather balloons for data collection soon. Lab research and manufacturing processes seem to be in third place.

I suppose if airships can hang onto their helium long-term, it'd be less of an expense. Interestingly hydrogen though flammable provides more lifting power... maybe hydrogen-filled drone airships would be an option for delivering goods, if not people.

https://www.airships.net/helium-hydrogen-airships/
No "single person" is trying to determine if fracking in a specific location is legal, right? That's the domain of large companies with large staffs who are well familiarized with all of the regulations, isn't it?
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There are people who do.
Yes, I remember some 20 years ago there were projects for even larger airships (please read as carrying bigger loads) aimed at supplies to otherwise inaccessible places/construction sites/mines, called Cargolifter:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airship#Heavy_lifting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CargoLifter
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What nonsense is this? While I admit that Linux has real usability issues which none of what you wrote is remotely true.
It's missing something essential to blitzscaling. It's not just cheap capital, although it helps.

The presence of the internet and the amount software can improve everything created a business model of "add software to it!" And suddenly your TAM was "the entire physical universe".

Encouraging the strategy was the fact that add software to it is a very dumb idea, so anyone can have it. The way to win is to get bigger than your opponents, faster.

We are only in the middle of this trend.
Maybe you need a video element? I personally only listen to podcasts in video. I don't know why but I gave up on audio podcasts ages ago. I like to see the people talking.

Also for sustaining, perhaps you need to lower your expectations and focus on doing it for fun.
The style of this podcast bothers me. I was expecting it to be more conversational than narrated.
Thanks chatGPT?
Drop what. Again you didn't read the article. The article isn't about how far you go. It's only about how identity is correlated with stupidity. The more identity you have the stupider you are.

It doesn't talk about taking it to the extreme.

This isn't something you can drop. There are caricature movie characters that are in similar predicaments. If I name them you will understand. Rick Sanchez and Thanos. The term is cursed knowledge. You cannot undo knowledge gained, once you have it, it sticks with you.

Thanos is a villain. The slaughter he conducts is horrifying, yet his logic has a truth that he cannot deny. In the end it's the avengers who delude themselves.

Rick Sanchez would be more similar to where I am. Knowledge of the cold hard truths and apathy towards everything.
> His is a very counter "conventional wisdom" mindset. That appeals to me.

This is basically what I see going on here, and what I mean by "the iamverysmart crowd" (which to be clear: I am a part of). We overindex on this kind of counter conventional wisdom because it's more interesting. But I think it's more often the case that the boring conventional wisdom is closer to the mark.
It would be great if someone could blog about the reverse engineering of such a tape drive here.
Why people want any new media die? You don’t have to watch it if you hate it. Or they can go to North Korea so there is only one “right” voice.
If you count electric commuters you can get above $10k easy.
Programming Throwdown is awesome. Their last episode on quantum computing is one of my all-time favorite episodes of any podcast
https://podcasts.apple.com/il/podcast/programming-throwdown/...
> No, he's correct that each galaxy does need tuning. Specifically, the amount of DM and it's specific distribution is tuned to match each observation, which is what the OP said.

Not true. The LCDM predicts the DM distribution with a typical DM profiles, and then the amount of baryons is heavily dependent on star formation, etc. Therefore each galaxy of the same luminosity will have somewhat different dark matter halo. Those are not tuning parameters at all.

Regarding the linked article, it an article written by proponents of MOND and is not objective. That is fine, but at the moment I don't believe MOND is a serious alternative, and the majority of the astro community would agree. Just the fact that MOND still requires dark matter anyway to reproduce CMB is major problem for it. But if someone develops the version of MOND that has equal predictive power to LCDM, I'll be happy to accept it, but we are not there.
A related question is why journalists didn't blow this open months earlier. Coffeezilla did a video a couple weeks ago where he has Marc Cohodes accusing Bloomberg of spiking the story because it would be bad for (crypto) advertisers. I find the accusation credible, even though all we have is this guy's word, because them not getting the story is something that really needs to be explained.

[1]: https://youtu.be/FDqhM7vHR2o?t=885
Yeah, sort of. The game is Tibia, it has an item called copper shield. When I was a kid, all my friends and I used to write and pronounce it as cooper shield. I internalized that mistake to the point I actually thought the item was called cooper shield despite knowing what copper is.

So decades later I went a gaming community on the internet and suggested we all play this old game. Everything was fine until I said cooper shield. One guy immediately messaged me "br?" and I was shocked. No one else noticed it. Turns out he was also a foreigner who learned portuguese by playing the game together with brazilians and he recognized that specific brazilian mistake.
Pedantically, in the US, laws are also "written" by court precedent. Consider that prohibition was performed via a constitutional amendment yet drugs are criminalized today without amendment by the controlled substances act, itself allowed to exist due to the expansion of the commerce clause (see Gonzales v. Raich 2005). [0]

While judges in some places are directly elected, at the federal level they are not. Beyond that, enforcement of laws is at the prerogative of the executive. If the laws written by directly elected officials are ignored, that is making law as well in some sense. For instance, marijuana remains illegal at the federal level, but the laws are unenforced and states are legalizing it themselves (contravening federal law).

[0]: https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/03-1454.ZS.html
Make a deal with a demon and it will come around to bite you in the ass every single time. They've written instructional parables about this stuff for thousands of years.

Learn from the ancient wisdom. Say no to demons.
Yes, it's hard to believe. You worked at Matasano/NCC for like a minute immediately after I left. What you are describing is nothing like the ordinary workload at NCC; the modal NCC engagement is 2 people, 2 weeks --- in fact, that's the modal engagement across the entire industry, not just at NCC. "A week, max". Sheesh.

I'm not interested in defending NCC; I have no interest in NCC (other than the friends of mine who still work there, I guess) and haven't since 2014. But I'm an inveterate message board nerd and I'm going to damn sure correct false things said about pentesting on HN.

In this instance, I'm going to go ahead and say I have better information about this than you do.

It's "Thomas", by the way.
The UK already has 3 LNG import terminals, built about 15 years ago in response to the inevitable decline of supplies from the North Sea.
> Windows is still my favourite OS

Now there's an unpopular opinion if anything. I've heard the "yeah it's kind of shit, but the games/applications I use only really work with Windows" a million times, but this one is kind of new.

Edit: this comment was indeed intended to be read in the context of HN crowd.
I'll second the recommendation of CoRecursive and provide a link to the SQLite episode:

https://corecursive.com/066-sqlite-with-richard-hipp/

I recommend that episode in particular.
Yep, 100% of it. Please ignore the hill down the street from my house that two wheel drive cars often can't climb when snowy. It only has about 90 feet of elevation gain over about 2000 feet of distance. The steepest section is about 10% grade over 600 feet. No problem for a typical person riding a cargo bike without electric assist.

Note that the maximum grade for a wheelchair ramp is 8.3%.
Unless you really need ultra performance, PowerShell is certainly much better option.
I've held on to windows just for gaming, but Valve has been making huge strides turning linux into a viable option for that. Whenever support stops for Windows 10, I may have to give it a try
Still not seeing anything that addresses the counter-points made here the last time the tech was supposedly good enough to win:

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/helium-hokum...

Airships occupy an unfortunate gap in the cross-section of mass moved over distance per time and energy space. Unless they build one that goes faster than a plane for the same fuel or consumes less fuel to get the same amount of cargo across the same distance, it will always be better time/money spent to clear a dirt runway or build a road.

New materials don't get us there. At best, the new envelope saves on how much helium needs to be bought in addition to fuel...but that's competing against other tech that doesn't need to buy helium at all.

And going all electric doesn't do it either. That only forces the trade off between cargo capacity and energy generation/storage. We already know batteries are not more energy dense than jet fuel so that will continue to be a losing trade until batteries equal chemical fuels. This is made even worse by the fact that fuel burns off in flight, making fueled engines more efficient during the flight while batteries are just as heavy empty as they are full.
Four tons but you don't burn fuel like crazy just to stay up.
Really depends on where you are. Parts of Ontario and BC you could probably get away with just a heat pump, but lots of places in the prairies you could only use a heat pump for maybe 1/2 of the winter months. It's just too cold the rest of the time, so you'd have to augment with electric or gas anyways.

With the amount of flak raised about infrastructure not being able to handle electric vehicles I can't even imagine the chaos if the prairies went electric heat.

I'd really like to see strong baseline energy efficiency standards put in provincially for new builds and a lot of investment in retrofit, but with the current political climate in the prairies that's impossible. Promoting anything that doesn't burn both oil and money is anathema.
It hasn't been, though - not for any particular technical reason, mind you. Yes, they are 3x as efficient, but meanwhile we have heaved so many taxes and other costs on private electricity prices (to keep industry use cheap) while natural gas had stayed dirt cheap that the upfront capex really made no sense.

If they weren't so impractical, everyone should have been buying gas turbines to make their electricity - that's the level of market failure we are talking about.
The issue is that when the MV3 transition was announced, we decided to revamp our freemium structure. We've now completed that for our MV3 extension, but that only runs on Chrome. Our Firefox version is still running the MV2 extension, which is perfectly functional but which uses our old freemium model. We are going to have to explain to our Firefox users why the freemium structure (free use on X websites forever) differs from the freemium structure described on our Chrome extension, website, etc. (free use on all websites for Y days).
The realworld differences are slighter than many think, on the order of 20% more lift. The mass of the h/he isn't a significant factor compared to that of the displaced air. And hydrogen is harder to contain, which further limits available lift.

Another less-discussed option is hot air/helium combos, which at large sizes have some distinct advantages.
Remember about 10 years ago when Cyprus started confiscating money held in bank accounts to settle 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 as the economy collapsed?

The "CaSH hAZ nO PuRpOSe eXCePt fOR cRImE" people in this comment section have massive blind spots. I'm not surprised politicians are taking advantage of it.
Yeah I don’t think there’s anything to worry about if you’re overwhelmed: there’s a lot to learn in the world, and HN is just a place where’s you’re exposed to a lot of specific knowledge about certain topics. Just dig deeper into the things that interest you at the moment, and be patient — it may take decades to get up to the same level of knowledge and/or expertise as some people over here.
For me it has to be offline and local. I don't want any cloud provider having my secret keys encrypted or not.

I wouldn't put my password vault in the cloud and neither will I put any passkeys either.
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Only about 40-50% of the headlines on here make sense to me. When I started frequenting this site years ago it was more like 25%
To this day, I'm still unsure whether there was a misunderstanding or if I was being taken advantage of, but I presume good intent from the person.
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> Doesn’t sound like a big market, and it has to compete with cargo planes (faster, more capacity than this Pathfinder 1 with only 4 tons) and helicopters (more nimble).

Some companies manage to be successful by tapping a market whose demand comes up rarely but is highly inelastic. We're talking about stuff like sea lifters that can handle ocean liners, or even mobile power stations.

I'm sure that some deep-pocketed organizations whose know-how focuses on subcontracting and commissioning work, like the UN, would willingly pay a premium to be able to transport large volumes of cargo throughout regions with little to no transportation infrastructure and where roadway traffic is a major volnerability. Being able to secure logistics without having to control routes or have to police anyone would be worth a small fortune.
Hey, great list of awesome podcasts. I’m the host of Software Engineering Unlocked https://www.se-unlocked.com.

The episodes focus on the experience of my guests with software engineering practices such as testing, or code review, their journey to advance their career and often also on how developers build their successful business.

Would love if you give it a listen and see if you like my show.
No one "gets anxiety" from following HN.

Some people think anxious thoughts, which they identify with and take seriously as if they are objectively real and significant occurrences, which then produces physiological changes that are interpreted as feelings of anxiety, about things they read on HN.
I do it out of laziness
Not a very convincing article. I don't think risky VC investments are going anywhere. This downturn is just s blip in the big scheme of things, and as expectations of long-term economic growth are built into so many things we do (e.g., buy-and-hold investing), expectations of "bigness" are extremely likely to return. And a new cycle will be born.
Perhaps V will be suitable for writing production systems one day. Until then, it doesn't seem suitable for anything outside hobby development.
I agree but this won't be a "real" problem. It just gonna be put under the rug by most.
They buried the helium bit! I really had to dig for confirmation that they weren't going to give hydrogen another go, what with the constant comparisons to Hindenburg throughout.
lol a startup I worked at literally have a prod web server deployed through tmux like this.
And the truth comes out. Yoel Roth, Twitter's former head of censorship, is a child groomer: https://mobile.twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1601778632552...
Reads like ChatGPT
I would love to see a vacuum based airship! Stop filling the void with anything and recoup the some of the added structural weight by (nearly) complete absence of mass. Then the game is just keeping all gasses out instead of keeping a special gas in. Implosion hazards would be interesting to mitigate though…
So many good recommendations! Thank you everyone for the suggestions!
You find it unrelatable (and most commenters on this website will too.)

People can be broadly separated into 2 categories in terms of cognitive wiring for personality psychology. "People people" and "Things* people". (Theres a lot of overlap between interest in aesthetics and interest in ideas here too, but a separate discussion) These map rather neatly onto other things like introversion and agreeableness, but parking that for a moment. Additionally, "People people" can learn about 'Things' and "Things people" can learn about 'People'.

Things people (so lets say, your bog standard software eng.) And people people (communications director) do have one thing in common, which is assuming they understand how the other thinks. What is irritating minutae to one, is the essence of importance to the other. Talking about the superiority of UTF8, Linux or Vim might come across as repulsively "iamverysmart" to "People people".

Observing social signals as signals, and the various hierachical cues that inform and are informed by them is the essense of being interested in other people. We all adhere to varying degrees of social order. To disparage the rules is perilous and risks ostracisation (in the olden days, this meant you didnt reproduce and died).

This dichotomy is responsible for a lot of the mechanics of organisational hierachies. Not everything is a math problem.