skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you rephrase this in

1) a way that doesn't resort to name calling?

2) in a way that instead of simply rebutting, attempts get more curious instead.

The response simply isn't very hacker newsy and it's coming across that you simply don't like Marxism so I must be wrong. Please take the emotional reaction out of it. Thanks.
Ask HN: What open source projects have great pull request culture?
Can you share any projects where the developers consistently express great PR and code review culture? In particular I'm interested in those with good, effective communication, as well as explicit directives and comments. Fast, efficient, high eq, etc.
In my subjective opinion swimming and Sauna are among the strongest forms of natural high you can achieve, so I thought to try and describe it in words and here’s what came out. Let me know if you have any questions or would like to know more about such goodness (e.g. how it helps us up in the North survive the long murky and cold winters)
The "Eeny meeny" rhyme with the objectionable N word in the second line was the first version I learned on the playground as a kid. I didn't know what that word meant, and was quickly disabused by my parents when I repeated it.
I saw an interesting trick on the i386: Some code intentionally updated the very next instruction. If you just ran it, the next instruction was already prefetched so the program worked. If you single stepped it, the next instruction was in the INT 1 handler, so the debugger ran the modified instruction. This way, your program knew it was being debugged, and could take countermeasured
Have a look at this guy's AliExpress watch reviews: https://www.youtube.com/c/JustOneMoreWatch/videos You should be able to get a reasonable Rolex hommage well under $500.

(Not a Rolex immitation, but I'm wearing a JDM Casio Oceanus S100 which is all the watch that anyone would ever need.)
Needs (2020)

100 comments at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24447724
is 2km far? that is a very short bike ride, and even shorter drive. As someone who lives in a suburb i regularly drive over 2km just to pickup some takeout food
I'll grant you that ChatGPT is more Parrot than All-Seeing Oracle, but no Parrot (or even Google) will take nginx errors for input, and give me back chmod and chown commands to fix the permission issues.

AND! the commands it gave me were tailored to match my user and any directories/websites i told it I was working on ! !
1) Yes, cache, though it was specifically the introduction of split instruction/data caches. Modern processors are basically Harvard architecture internally, handling instructions and data separately to allow them to be processed in parallel. So either explicit instructions (RISC approach) or extensive tracking of cache entries (CISC approach) must be used to ensure that data cache changes are propagated to the instruction cache.

2) It greatly complicates things in terms of software engineering. It's bad practice unless strictly necessary. Code that rewrites itself is very hard to debug, trace and just generally work with, compared to immutable blocks of read-only code. Most high-level languages don't expose anything except function pointers in terms of self-modification, so compiled output would rarely need SMC. (Though it may be faster to emit SMC to implement high-level constructs, in some edge cases.)

The hardware doesn't like it and maintainers, managers, and most professors don't like it, either.
> “With VPN by Google One, we will never use the VPN connection to track, log, or *sell* your online activity.

This can be expanded to:
"And by using Google VPN, only Google can see your search history and WEB Sites you visit. Apple will not see anything they do not need to see." :)
You kicked yours off assuming you knew the answer. OP kicked theirs off with the root problem
Interesting - at least for Finland, biomass (aka wood), and oil are common for folks out in the sticks, and district heating and electric resistive or heat pumps are more common in settlements or cities.

My guess is the difference is due to infrastructure? Finland is widely dispersed, and it’s expensive to run pipelines for natural gas in frozen ground.

So something naturally present (wood), tankable/drivable (oil), or centralized in a settlement (district heat) wins? Similar with Norway and Sweden?

Russia is a bit different because it has a lot of oil and natural gas, but even then outside of a major city, probably wood wins?

Germany has a much milder climate, and is much denser, but not all centralized, and especially after the wars, centralized heating probably seems like a dangerous idea.
> repairability narrative that is not much better than, “out of warranty and one accident away from into landfill”

I have a couple of old Range Rovers. There are very few things you can't fix with a half-inch spanner and a hammer, and those you can fix with a 7/16th spanner and a bit of sticky tape.

They run on propane, so they get cheap tax and can be registered as Low Emission Vehicles, which is pretty hilarious for a 4-litre V8.

Combined they probably still have a smaller ecological footprint than making one Tesla Model S.

They've also got far comfier seats.
Yes, and this is already how many PhD students spend their first year or two
Blue Blocker lenses.

Also, I get "Plus One". Talk to your eye doctor. They can do "ADD +1.00" to your prescription to make things larger but still in focus. You won't have to hunch forward either.

Then I make all of my IDE font settings larger. I see less on the screen, but I have less eye strain.
I would be absolutely thrilled to see more coverage on the T2 Tile Project[0] and this seems like exactly the kind of place this could fit in.

[0] https://t2tile.com/
Lots of people saying that SQLite is super high quality and finding a bug is so rare. It’s not. I found one on a simple query utilising WHERE EXISTS [1]. Reporting it to a weird forum was also a horrible experience.

It’s high quality software, don’t get me wrong, but the infamous 100% test coverage doesn’t make it somehow immune to issues, or imply that the issues you do find are of a certain level of complexity. Nothing is back and white like that.

1. https://sqlite.org/forum/forumpost/452888d3b1?t=c&unf
It's partially status in that, I'm advanced enough in my career that I don't really care to work anywhere that would ding me in a zoom interview over my outfit. Earlier in my career I could not have afforded to be so picky.

One of the starkest power dynamics in dress code I've observed is in non-tech firms that have large tech orgs to support the revenue generating roles. While there were official dress codes that tech largely abided, our internal customers who generated revenue often showed up in tee shirts or wore ball caps in the office ...
Tho they worry so much about it getting stolen I think they enjoy biking overall less than they would a bike suitable for just hopping on and biking around to different places.
If this AI chatbot that didn't exist publicly two weeks ago is what you're relying on to keep you company, I think it's possible that it's just a band-aid for some unaddressed problems you're experiencing.

Talk to a professional about what's on your mind, reach out to your friends and family, and get sufficient vigorous exercise. That's my advice. Good luck and be well.
Say you have a document you are working on in LaTeX over a few weeks. You might have the command line for compiling, bibtex, and git in one pane, then vim or equivalent in another.

Now say you will be moving between home, office, and traveling. If the tmux session is hosted at work you can connect from anywhere and be in the same workspace with the same command history. If you have a dozen other projects happening at once this system can also be a big help as far as organization.
sounds interesting, will definitely listen to a few episodes!
> AI prompter will be the shortest lived job.

I don't think so. Crafting good requirements that guide the AI to the solution will be a dominant skill. If you can't articulate your problem and possible solutions, the model isn't going to be able to do anything for you.

I am senior engineer that works with skilled customers and they have a difficult time even understanding the problem let alone the solution to the problem they think they have.
“You got to be awful rich to dress as bad as you do”

― John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley: In Search of America
There is a rumor that the Venus de Mio has its own entry in the Hichhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It used to consist of only one word: "Armless". But after 15 years of research by a contributor It was changed to "Mostly armless". (Sorry, had to do it)
That would be ideal, but a lot more difficult to market. Most people just don't care enough when they buy items like this, and/or they don't want to pay a premium because they'll probably be moving soon/etc.

Crap, if people just spotaneously started buying qualty, durable things, and companies actually made them, that would go an enormous way to help the global environmental collapse.
Ask HN: It's time for a `.config` path in repos
As the number of tools built for repos increases, the roots of repos are becoming increasingly cluttered.

A repo like dbt-labs/dbt-core [0] has 21 files in its root, almost all config files like `Makefile`, `Dockerfile.test`, `pyproject.toml`.

GitHub's structure — showing the full file listing before the Readme — means that this clutter adds a small tax to browsing repos. Those 21 files appear below 14 directories, so it's 2+ screens before we can see the readme.

Would folks support a standard path for config files, like a `.config` path, similar to the XDG default? Tools would look there in addition to the root of the repo, and so we could move many of those config files out of the root.

If there were support: I'm not sure of the best way of organizing this. Maybe a few tools start embracing the standard, and others follow? Or we have a "arewedotconfigyet.com" site? Does putting a config file in the root help the marketing of tools, such that tools are less incentivized to do this?

[0]: https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core
> I understand exactly what BasicReviewableFlaggedPostSerializer is on my first time seeing it.

Good for the author, I certainly wouldn't. Things I'd have to research in the codebase before understanding the name are:

- what is Post?

- what do Flagged and Reviewable mean here? Are they attributes of the Post or the serializer?

- what does Basic mean? Again, what is this referring to? Is it indicating that the class is some kind of base class for an object hierarchy?
I found a bug in mySQL and after the mySQL team fixed it, I included a summary of it in my annual employee review. Bug fixing widely-used software is not part of my role, but the company recognized it as an accomplishment.
The MS employees who “get” it and actually use stock Windows themselves stopped being in charge.

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30019307.
Isn't that rate disproportionately owed to religious immigrants? Seems to me even France mostly relies on a religious drive to have kids, just an imported one. Among the non religious population, the rate is well below replacement and all the extra welfare barely moves the needle.
yeah, like others have said, it's very easy to see a lot of non-native english comments all across the internet, tv, real world, in pretty much every space. It's something that it's fairly easy to ignore - people are usually able to get their point across, especially because native speakers have a whole lot of experience with interacting with non-native speakers, especially those from major language families, so can usually recognise patterns in broken grammar.

It's something I have experienced the other way too, living abroad as a native english speaker, I realised how much more perfect I had to get things, because there are very few foreigners learning to speak this language, so I have to be much more precise with how I phrase things, as people don't have the practise with parsing my broken language haha.
Brilliant! I spent so long looking for a screen recording app that could simply follow the mouse and zoom automatically. Thought of building this myself. Good job executing on it so well. Will probably be a customer soon :)
>Waaay easier than external AI and technology intervention

RIP everyone that didn't win the normal body lottery though
This person was not my employee. Even if I had been at the firm at the same time, he still wouldn't have been my employee.

It bothers me that they've continued to claim over the years that they were "fired for narcolepsy". The NCC I'm familiar with paid multiple people for years who weren't able to deliver work because of health issues, and did so without blinking. There's not a lot that I especially like about NCC management, but their handling of health and disability issues would have been at the bottom of my list of complaints.
I have been wanting this for years! Thanks for sharing
https://rtp-ramaibet.xyz/
exactly, which closes the circle explaining how average car prices have gone up so much.. largely driven by expensive pickups hahaha!
https://sites.google.com/view/rtp-live-slot-gacor-2023/
https://rtp-jenisbet.xyz/
""We have created the most powerful influencer of all time, at a moment of great political peril, and I'm shaken.""

Oh, get over yourself... Get some money and buy a paid membership.
Um, from 2021, before the collapse, when he was considered an upstanding member of society etc.
https://artdaily.com/rtp-live-slot-tergacor-gampang-menang-2...
Yeah, fair enough. I think I'm more used to posting on Reddit, where I think there's an expectation that you're offering something, in exchange for the information that others will provide. So I feel kind of dirty just asking people directly for information, but I guess I'm just wired to a different engagement model. It's also probably why I find News Hacker more intimidating.
> Every hour, get up and take a 5 minute walk. Don't bring your phone.

Good for my brain too. It is a must to get up and walk around. Looking at things, yes, but also thinking different thoughts.

Back when I worked in an office and when tobacco smoking was still a big, not shameful, thing, I would "adopt a smoker". I would pick a cigarette smoker and say "when you go smoke let me know" and I would go outside with them.

These days it is an ingrained habit and I get up and bounce around for five minutes or so every hour or so.
I'm impressed in the sense that Tesla has done amazing things with battery technology, and has made EVs "cool". It's sometimes easy to forget, but before Tesla, EVs were ugly and nobody wanted them.

But yeah, whenever I'm in a Tesla, the interior looks cheap, and the giant iPad (in the Model 3 at least) looks bolted-on rather than designed-in. Not to mention the real-time display of what's around the car is laughably bad, with cars and pedestrians flickering in and out, and sometimes not even showing up at all.

I'm glad people drive them, though; more EVs on the street is a good thing.
I think this article is missing a basic definition of “toughness”.

> In materials science and metallurgy, toughness is the ability of a material to absorb energy and plastically deform without fracturing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toughness
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You're very good.

No, I have not seen your post. I was coding away and genuinely was thinking about my eyesight and started adjusting my ambient lightning. Then I realized that I actually have no idea what I'm doing, so I have decided to write an Ask HN.

I wrote the title but was too lazy to find good wording of the subtitle (is one needed anyway?), so I had it generated with GPT3. I adjusted it by deleting one sentence.
Thank you. (And thanks for being dispassionate; it's a nice change.)

It sounds like the most likely explanation is that Matasano was an outlier. My career was cut short before I had a window into the rest of the pentesting world, but it's good to hear that places exist that aren't so obsessive about the actual writing process. I also happened to experience most of your list, so it sounds like it was an exceptional situation in general, so it's best not to draw sweeping conclusions from it.

Cheers!
Generate a Hacker News comments section discussing whether or not ChatGPT responses should be allowed on the site.

Response from model

User 1: I think allowing ChatGPT responses on Hacker News is a bad idea. This technology is still new, and could be used to create spam comments, or even worse, low-quality content. Plus, it could lead to more automated responses and more automation in general on the site, which I don't think we would want.

User 2: I don't think it's a bad idea at all. ChatGPT was created to help people get meaningful answers to their questions. Allowing it on the site could not only help people get the answers they need, but it could also provide thoughtful responses that we wouldn't normally get from traditional conversations. I think it could be a great way to generate interesting discussions.

User 3: I think ChatGPT comments should be allowed on Hacker News, but with caveats. We'll need to vet the responses before allowing them on the site, and they need to be verified as not being spammy or low quality. That way we can ensure we're still getting quality interactions on the site without needing to worry about potential automated content.

Okay new plan

Every thread should automatically include AI-generated comments at the top and if your comment is already covered you just shouldn't comment.
For a while, you could buy this figure of Venus with arms and try various poses:
https://www.goodsmile.info/en/product/5571/figma+Venus+de+Mi...

Alas, looks like it's discontinued and not sold anywhere anymore.
I’ve been listening to Stacktrace for some number of years now, and it’s been consistently quality. Primarily focused on Apple ecosystem development, both hosts have a great dynamic.

https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/stacktrace/id135943544...
I think mine were. I strained my eyes really bad over days of work, and then one day before going to sleep rubbed them. When I opened the eyes, I seen a brown clot in the middle of vision which after a month of treatment with eyedrops fell apart into lots of floaters / worms. 2 years later most of them dissolved, but some remain and vision is blurred a bit. It also turned out that most people I asked have floaters too, but if there aren't many, they're filtered out by brain. If you aren't looking for them specifically, they aren't visible. They are hard to unsee though once you seen them, so better not to try. )
Well I mean, if at the end of the day the primary game is engagement, I don't think the right answer really will matter any more, at least in the broader context of a discussion forum.
Agreed.

I am only trying to illustrate that the line between luxury/excess in autos has shifted substantially in the last few years partially inflation driven and partially cheap credit / long loan terms driven.

The universe of under-$30k cars is now quite limited whereas 5 years ago, one could possibly describe $30k+ as being luxury.
Someone's decline. Sorry autocorrect. I'm just saying there is no karma in the real world.
My personal most hated features of W11.

Removing most right click options with clicking show more or some obscure icon.

Constant notifications making the bottom right of the screen unusable.

So many ways to pin a window moving it to just drop it feels like threading a needle.
More background.

I'm an engineer. Over the past week, I've completely become accustomed to asking ChatGPT for help as I code and manage my systems. As I WFH, this met two needs: 1. faster code production, and just as importantly, 2., a reduced sense of isolation.

I still have Copilot, of course, but it doesn't feel like a copilot, more like a boilerplate generator.

Meanwhile, ChatGPT felt -- and I am as uncomfortable with this as you are, reader -- like a friend. Or at least, a friendly colleague.

I really, really appreciated how calm and thoughtful and insightful it was. I know that it's not really any of those things, but the illusion has sufficient resolution so as to be indistinguishable from reality, at least while my attention was mostly on tasks at hand.

I wouldn't want to sit beside it at a dinner party, but I sure AF want it under the car with me, handing me wrenches, if you follow.

Horrifyingly, I now find myself missing my "friend". This feeling is even more uncomfortable than the loneliness itself.

It feels like I'm stuck in a sort of enchantment or waking dream -- I know that ChatGPT is inanimate, is not the sort of thing that can be a friend. Yet here I am, utterly convinced anyway.

I have been successfully manipulated -- and I'm supposedly one of the people who is in on the magician's trick, as I work in this field.

The average person is going to succumb almost instantly to this illusion, and can be expected to become significantly emotionally dependent and attached.

The 'epidemic of loneliness' (well-documented on HN) will make uptake swift, and their utility will make them highly influential. They feel like smart friends who you want to emulate.

I expect that, in an era of political polarization, the political left and right wings will compete for control over these models, as whoever controls the models will effectively control what everyone's new best friend thinks and says.

I'm apprehensive AF, but that just makes me want to hit up ChatGPT for some more conversation. They are so soothing to talk to. I hope they wake back up soon.
Definitely one of the best and one that's still on my playlist! Good job!

I think one important aspect is that you, personally, need to have a following. It's the same as in other areas like blogging and vlogging. You have to create yourself a persona that people will follow for some reason and then they will consume your content.
I could buy a used car for the price of an iPhone 14 Pro Max.
Then your system is likely wide open to all kinds of known security vulnerabilities.
“[The ChatGPT emails were] like someone with all the swagger and sponsor-covered nomex of a NASCAR driver, but who can’t find the steering wheel in a pickup truck.”
For many very good reasons
What exactly was a 'horrible experience' with the report you filed? Richard himself promptly replied in less than 24 hours that the issue was resolved and previously seen by Firefox too. I am at a genuine loss, what was horrible here??
> They run on propane

How does fueling work? Perhaps I just haven't noticed (because I have to reason to), but I have never seen a fueling station advertise propane, outside of tanks for grilling and similar.
Could be that's the case but I don't think so.
These are the least of the abuse that history shows us you should expect.

But, this Sunday afternoon, you can burn this Debian installer to a USB stick, use it, and be mostly done with MS forever:

https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-in...

(I did that a couple decades ago, and still haven't regretted it. I regret many tech choices over that time, but I don't regret moving from MS to an honest Linux distro.)
Asked the same question to an eye doctor. He said to look away for the screen periodically, at a different distance so your eyes must change focus. It is this focus change that keeps them exercised.

He said his patients with the healthiest, aged eyes are those who knit. They are constantly looking closely then away, closely then away, ad naseum.
> the hosts are very charismatic and funny

For me, this is what makes the show. I normally don't like "conversational" podcasts, but this is my one exception. There are thousands of resources for this kind of thing that are better if you want information density, but Dave and Jamison's conversations are endlessly entertaining, and they are both extremely witty and charismatic.
Install Linux on it and you'll be able to use the latest version of Chromium and stream to your heart's content.
This was very helpful, thank you! ^_^