skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless tens of thousands of different people are commenting in each thread, my description is accurate for the vast majority.
It would be interesting to repeat the experiment with different integers.
>Kremlin

I take seriously the idea that Lex has an under-the-table relationship with government, but if you think the Kremlin is the likely suspect I've got a VR headset to sell you...
I'm not scoffing at the petty vandalism, I thought it was humorous to link grafittiing the subway to Luddism.

I had a wonderfully filthy adolescence, and like the subject in the article my parents often didn't know where I was at night. Unlike the subject in the article, it didn't seem to bother them. When I abandoned the C64 to spray paint "Circle Jerks" on the walls, it wasn't a rejection of technology. Spray paint is awesome. If I wanted to create a can of spray paint, I wouldn't even know where to start.

If the Teen Luddites had opened for the Circle Jerks, I'm guessing that would have been one ferocious pit.
Forcing a mandatory Facebook account is "doing an ok job"...?
I gave up having ChatGPT do the math when explaining/doing homework with my kids. I don't have time to proof its mistakes. As such my prompt for it when dealing with math is along the lines of:

"Solve <description of the problem, usually 2 to 5 phrases>. Use WolframAlpha and give me the link".

Then I just copy the link it's spitting out and I go myself to WolframAlpha for the correct result.

ChatGPT is great at understanding the description of the problem in plain language and writing the WolframAlpha input I need. It shortens greatly my time to verify my kids exercises since WolframAlpha's input box is not that great.
Zero Hedge is not a reliable source of information. They also tend to push a lot of Russian fake news/propaganda. And of course Putin would love to have a major news item showing how the West’s gas sanctions have harmed the West.
I considered this but ending up loading Linux Mint instead with exactly the same basics.
Sure but the idea isn’t exactly preposterous.
This is not a difficult problem. I block off time on my calendar for “Deep Work” from 2-3 hours at a time, change my status to “Doing Deep Work” and quit slack and Outlook.
> I get it, I'm an anarchist

You may need to read up the definition of that word
Humans can explain rational thought, sure, but not subconscious or acting on impulse. When you say something you shouldn't have said, how do you explain the thought process that led you to saying it? Were you an unconscious actor when you unwisely started an argument with your manager?
Their counter-argument is that leaf services like that without measurable impact aren't things the company should be investing in and it is up to the individual to recognize that and re-allocate themselves onto something that's actually aligned with the company's goals.

You simply working on a project isn't useful to a company, what's useful is working on the right project.

You get promoted and compensated more if your work aligns with the company, and less (or none) if it doesn't. It's your job to figure it out. Just as it's the company's job to figure out what the market needs. Yeah, projects that are most valuable to a company will be competitive. If you don't want to compete, you'll have to figure something out on your own that isn't as sexy but still provides value.

This becomes especially true as you become more senior at this kind of company.

If you don't want to work in that environment that's fine, maybe that's not the right corporate culture for you. I hope you found somewhere that was a better fit!
>the Russians (Telegram, prolly not)

I wouldn't call it a "Russian" system. Just consider where Durov currently resides and has his wealth.
It would be cool if there were other ways to actually get things passed
> we brought toy cars and ordered piles of mashed potatoes for him to drive thru.

Brilliant! Way better than screens in my opinion.
> narrow definition of what "programming" is compared to what it has become.

Isnt that the case in every field in technology? Way back engineers used to know how circuits worked. Now network engineers never deal with actual circuits themselves. Way back back programmers had to do a lot of things manually. Now the underlying stack automates much of that. On top of TCP/IP, we laid the WWW, then we laid web apps, then we laid CMSes, then we came to such a point that CMSes like WordPress has their own plugins, and the very INDIVIDUAL plugins themselves became expertise fields. When looking for someone to work on a Woocommerce store, people dont look for WordPress developers, or plugin developers. They look for 'Woocommerce developers'. WP became so big that every facet of it became specializations in itself.

Same for everything else in tech: We create a technology, which enables people to build stuff on it, then people build so much stuff that each of those became individual worlds in themselves. Then people standardize that layer and then move on to building next level up. It goes infinitely upwards.
Whatsapp's developer had a similar frustration. Why are they selling to big companies and expect to have complete control? They aren't being realistic. Big companies are going to do what they feel is best for them not the the other way around. There's nothing new about that. I guess it's too hard to reject the big payday.
This is speculation, not established fact.
If I understand the situation correctly, there are different headsets aiming to solve different goals, and there are projects to integrate each headset into a headset that has all the desired features.

I think it's a push to be first to market with a headset that serves as the foundation for a monopoly on metaverse-like platforms.
The entire incentive structure and cycle at FAANG and FAANG-like companies requires relentless self-promotion and buck-passing not just to move up but to _not get fired_. Many of these companies have levels with a clock attached, where if too many quarters pass while you're at that level you're automatically managed out. If you don't get promoted you get fired, and the way to get promoted is to get relentlessly good at the perf cycle metagame.
You don't know that's what will happen, or what will come of trying to find a lawyer who has experience with things like this, or pursuing the suggestion.

What a defeatist attitude. This isn't what I expect to find on HN.

We all know it's within FB's rights to refuse service to anyone and the convoluted ToS an policies we all agree to when using online services these days.
I think (barring excesses) they’ll generally be fine regardless of the way the parent raises them. It’s mostly about me feeling good about the way I’m raising my kids.
> network effects mostly.

Many guests, for Joe and Lex, say that they are fans that listen to the podcast. At least some of these people do it because they're passionate about what they do, and want to talk about it with someone who they enjoy.
> but what does the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine have anything, in particular, to do with science?

Nothing. The page starts with “ The best science images of 2022 […] Images selected by Nature’s visuals team, text by Emma Stoye and Nisha Gaind”

Halfway through, there’s a paragraph

“A personal view of the news

In compiling this year’s collection of striking science images, Nature’s media and news editors identified a photograph that said something special to them. Here is their take on the past 12 months.”

So, there are two groups of photos:

- Science images that Nature’s editors find striking.

- Images in general that said something special to Nature’s editors.

I think they should have made that clearer, for example by moving them to separate web pages.
This! Parenting is not a "Here is the rule, here is the consequence" job. Raising responsible humans requires, well, giving them responsibility, the opportunity for soft failures to learn from and having those awkward long talks and figuring out how to set healthy boundaries.

The other part of the equation: The internet is an important aspect of the current generation's identity and culture. What seems like addiction to us could very well be our children's identity, lifestyle. The comparison to TVs is flawed because TV is not social. The unhealthy aspects have to be spoken about in the same vein as drinking and drugs, but any kind of limit-setting that doesn't acknowledge this might push children away from conversation.

There is an hilarious episode of Everybody Loves Raymond that goes into this with refreshing honesty.
Saying this seriously a few decades after computers were room sized is I think a bit short sighted. Betting against technical progress especially in density / materials / weight is not a good bet.
NT 3.51 was rock solid stable. 4.0 had some GUI implementation changes which made it unstable in the early days.
The problem with that is the world never gets any safer if we have full acceptance for companies creating unpredictable danger.

There are standards people are expected to follow, so we know what to expect in most situations.
Migrated to Ghost and happy. All without PHP and Babylon of addons to getting things done.
Show HN: Kids Stories Podcast Using ChatGPT and Voice Cloning
Hi HN, I'm the host of a popular kids stories podcast called Maked Up Stories (>6 million downloads). My biggest problem is that I get way more story requests than I can handle. I just cloned my voice and started inputting story requests into ChatGPT to automatically generate a kids stories podcast. I'd love your thoughts.
This isn't whats happening at all, at least in ag. There is a huge amount of deadweight loss to extremely wealthy long time ag landlords who own water rights. At this time, they have extremely inefficient water uses because water is costless to them. If water prices were to be raised, they would install various methods of water conservation (drip irrigation instead of flooding, etc) and maintain production levels, resulting in similar prices and availability for consumers.
I think your answer depends on their age. Honestly anyone where their oldest kids are younger than 5 and proclaiming how awesome they are as their kids don't use screens obviously did not do digital learning during the pandemic, where kids had to be in front of screens, or work from home with kids who had limited means to entertain themselves for a full day.

My eldest just started elementary school. She doesn't own her own devices so any videos or fun stuff on the tablet is earned through a reward system and usually we're around to ensure she doesn't go off the rails. I did uninstall YouTube on the ipad. Now she has only PBS kids, purchased videos from iTunes and the likes.

No netflix at home...any movies, tv shows is rented from the library - which also they can watch w/ reward system. Living room is full of toys, activities books etc for things they can pick up and easily do. It's not in a dedicated "toy room" where they play out of sight. Though, the living room does end up being messy all the time.

My daughter already asks for things she sees from other kids, like piercings and toys...I'm able to say no now but it'll be a hard battle in the future when kids at her school or on her bus watch TikTok or browse social media.
The problem is not adding one. The problem is that it would complicate the infrastructure. From adding more performance requirement to WP wherever it is hosted to the compatibility concerns with plugins. Its a tall tale.
The thing that always holds me back is the lack of open datasheet. Then again, I won't touch anything with an NDA,so that's probably more a me being picky problem.
You're just being pedantic that's exactly what skilled vs unskilled labor means.
I doubt you need the work but, man, you'd make a dream Integration engineer. Like on a scale of 1 to 1,000 you sound like a perfect 1000.
That's a lesson we all learn, and most of us learn it the hard way.
Working for 2x FAANGs, management incentives engineers to work on new features and not on integration testing and optimization. Quality, testing, automation are highly looked down upon and generally don't give huge refreshers come review time. However QA, automation, and testing are not only looked down in FAANG, but the majority of companies and engineers. How often do you see engineers in any company call themselves test engineers? How often do you find a software engineer who wants to work as a test engineer? There's a hidden snobbery in the industry against quality, testing, and automation engineering.
That is a bit too much of a generalization. I mean, sure, what you describe does in all likelihood exist somewhere in some capacity in any company that is large enough (and likely many smaller ones as well), because "humans", but to pretend that this trait is so endemic to work in a large organization is just wrong.

Because meanwhile, HN thread after HN thread was, for example, fawning over (very real) gains that some new technology brings (be it, say, the monitor you're staring at), while generally using a staggering amount of products coming out of large organizations. And before you think that there is a lot to complain about those products sometimes, there is also a very large amount of stuff that you don't complain about, that just works, and so you don't consciously think about it very much.

This work is put together by many passionate people at those organizations. Some of them are very passionate, and some of them feel that a small company would not have the resources to do the same level of work with the same impact.

Incidentally, I never cared about promotion at all, I just did the work that I wanted to held up to my own standards and those formed by my peers, and I got promoted because of the outcomes. I am honest when I say that it came as a pleasant surprise each time. And I do have quite a number of peers who seem to think and work similarly around me.
Posting a controversial figure's location to the web in real-time puts his safety in jeopardy. That's as black and white as it gets, champ.
I get your point. But does hepatic steatosis cause the animal to suffer? The end result for the animals in both cases is death. How quick you make that death is is the difference between humane and inhumane.
AI's Year of Text-to-Everything
Sand is - strangely enough - quite stable. Clay, peat and lots of other substrates are a lot less stable than sand and when building on them you need to take all kinds of precautions to ensure your foundation doesn't one day go for a walk.
Sounds like poorly informed policies are the problem here - those water use grants that we now know permit more to be taken out of the river than the river produces would need to be revisited. It doesn’t sound like they’re implying more government is needed when fixing the cause of the river and reservoir’s shrinking. Rather, they’ve suggested UBI as a means to help take care of those whose livelihood might be lost by plans to fix the water usage.

> How much history class did you sleep through exactly?

This is a little bit below the belt, isn’t it?
Our manager was recently talking about the importance of everyone being together in the office, for maximum real-time collaboration.

He would be delighted to hear about OPs Slack situation. "Look at all the collaboration!"

Anyway, similar in-person problems can also make it hard to focus. Even if you are not part of a conversation, you hear it nearby and tune in. (Yes, headphones can help.)

At least Slack is easier to mute.
This seems consistent with Chris Palmer's hypothesis, that mental disorders are metabolic disorders of the brain, discussed in his new book Brain Energy[0]. He's done lots of podcast interviews[1], if you don't want to read the book.

[0] https://www.chrispalmermd.com/
[1] https://www.listennotes.com/search/?q=chris%20palmer%20md&so...
“California law prohibits employers, including those who operate out of state but employ California residents, from enforcing noncompete agreements.”

https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bont...
This is not meant as a criticism of you by any means for providing the URL - you are providing an answer to a question by advising of an existing service - but the fact that this methodology has to exist in order for this option to be available to anyone is sick, and it also seems a de-motivator for any non-bribery-related legitimate path to ever be put in place.
Plants respire, as we do, so much of that water goes into the air. Water + CO2 + light -> sugar + oxygen. Metabolized sugar -> water vapour + heat + CO2. Also, much of that water, now in the form of sugar, is used to grow the plant. Cellulose, in particular, in the cell walls, etc. There are certainly pathways to unlock the water again; burning cellulose releases water vapour, for example. But how much are you going to get for the work involved? 1 tonne of dry hay would release a few hundred litres of water if you burned it, very roughly.

Conceivably, you could grow them in a greenhouse and capture much of the exhaust, but it'd probably be cheaper and easier to desalinate, or just dehumidify air directly. Just growing them in a greenhouse at all -- with humidity and gas exchange under control -- would allow water consumption to be cut enormously.
No. They wont do anything with it. The compatibility concerns with existing 60,000+ plugins are more important than whatever performance improvement sqlite could bring. This is especially less important in shared hosting where cpu is cheap and shared. Adding a 5-10% performance on average is not something that would rationalize changing entire infra.
Give your back end a front end
Starting from low-level to high-level languages and then frameworks Clix.dev is building the next step in building backends for web and mobile apps.
Responding to myself because outside edit window.

I see why people keep mentioning/focusing on "legal action" -- what I should have emphasized is "send a letter", not "bring a case against Facebook".

Contacting legal is a different avenue that could be helpful for finding someone with power to do something about the problem.
Michael Burry Says Crypto Audits Are ‘Essentially Meaningless’
Increase in price would increase amount of mineable U. Nobody even prospected it in last 50 years. There is enough of of known deposits, why trying to find new ones?

That is like peak oil stories. Increase price twice or thrice and suddenly there is enough place where it is worth mining. Nobody even talks about peak oil anymore. It's not like U is significant part of a cost/kWh. We could get U even from seawater.
At the end of the day everyone's really a pragmatist. Exceptions tend to shake the world, and not really for the better.
It doesn’t need to be verified. I am one amongst many creatures with slightly similar qualities, the bounds of which I can determine through experiments. Or, my experiments are all being thwarted by unseen parties bent on confounding my understanding of the world, and this is all a simulation where not one of you matter but the npcs all pretend to be offended when anyone asserts it.

In that case this is all probably pointless and I should just die rather than play the game. So by continuing to live I chose the assumption that the rest of you live, or that at least we will all continue to pretend that is so. Any state in between those two options is something I’ll only know if someone turns the thing off, but doesn’t turn me off at the same time, which is a huge presumption. So fuck it, you’re all sentient.
After all, isn't this how every action within any corporation is set into motion? →

"We want to make more money."
→
"How can we make more money?"
→
"These are the ways we can make more money."
→
"Which of these ways is the cheapest to execute now / maintain later?"
→
"Make this."

It's only coincidental if an action aligns with the interests of anyone outside the corporation.

In fact, this is how it works within any group in human civilization, sometimes substituting "money" with "power".
The BBC did a pretty good audio adaptation of Neuromancer. You can listen to it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S89BHnaxULo

Neuromancer would be hard to do well as a film. But as fairly short TV series it would be excellent. There is huge potential as well because you could do, say Neuromancer in 4 hours and then do the rest of the trilogy.

The best screen adaptation of a book I know of, Brideshead Revisited from 1981, took the book almost word for word and made a fairly long TV series. Neuromancer and the rest of the trilogy could be done the same way.
"Up or out" is perhaps a form of this - keep a stream of pressure over the org so you don't have any careerist settling in and (eventually) clogging up the productivity.

I don't know that it's actually effective at that (or if it is, that the inherent costs are worth it), but it's a bit of the reverse of most recent thinking: keep people for as long as you can if they're sufficiently useful.
> The big tech company game has deviated very far from execution.

This is yet another reason why I'm certain the whole metaverse project will fail.

If this moonshot had any chance of succeeding, the only way is to give this project entirely over to a someone who is passionate about the vision and has an incredible track record of execution.

Even if it where the case that Carmack where being ignored I would feel like that's a bad sign, but him being driven out by the culture means that nothing of substance will really happen. Certainly not the industry changing break through they're hoping for.

In the last decade Meta has had no impressive, game changing releases (unlike say Apple that has several), clearly the current culture is not great at solving hard problems. Sticking with that culture to see something like the metaverse through is hopeless.
What are you talking about. They sold 100M quest 2s. People like it. Have you tried it? Most naysayers haven’t even tried it.
It had online activation and online updates. People freaked out. There was a Software called XP-AntiSpy. It was so popular that it was soled in stores on physical media!
Company politics makes me amusingly think that tech building would be so much more efficient if we had basic income. Then perhaps people would be deincentivized to show up for work where they didn't care about the output. And everyone who did show up are there to get something very specific done.

You get less people but you might get people who are there for the right reasons. Kind of like OSS.
They do, all IDs are in ID-1 form factor, stamped by the countries and the EU [1].

It's the same for driver's licenses [2], they are accepted in all EU member states and basically look exactly the same, just in different languages and show a different flag.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_identity_cards_in_t...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_driving_licence
The way I see it is one or two days in the office per week rest at home, depending on how far you live. I mean why shouldn't a US company be able to hire from South America where there is no time-difference?

But back to the hybrid model: Coming to office for a day to present what you have done and plan for the next week is great. Then working from home is like a "sprint", (remember Agile?). Point is when you are physically present only one day you must spend it well to do much of your communications, and then you are ready to sprint the actual work that needs to be done.

I do believe there is a benefit to physical meetings, if possible. You feel more like you are part of the team. It is much easier to be rude to people when you are far away. And email, it is the worst because it leaves a permanent record of insults made.
It's even more interesting, I think. The tokens are a byte pair encoding [1] of the input string. So a short, frequent word might be represented as one token, but an infrequent word (such as "bbbbbbb") might be represented by several tokens, each of which might or might not correspond to a letter.

This might also explain the weird "off-by-one" errors with the ROT13 task.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_pair_encoding