skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You make a good point. I've latched onto some goals (like making games) because I forget that they're a stepping stone to something bigger.

The bigger thing would have been the web framework, or the programming language. But even those aren't quite big enough.

If I'm being honest, the biggest stuff is curing disease, eliminating wealth inequality.. biblical stuff. Truly I want to be an inventor and work to solve the very hardest problems.

So it feels undignified to be fixing someone's computer when I could be helping researchers to like, cure death and stuff.

But you're right, that act of helping someone is the very essence of our humanity and shouldn't be written off as something inconsequential just because it's not glorious. There is glory to be found though, a different kind of glory in that covenant.

And I totally agree about AGI.

Edit: as far as scarcity goes, I think that economics correctly attempts to allocate resources between people with unlimited wants and needs. It just never got as far as the endgame we're in now, where the primary scarce resource is time. That's an artificial scarcity, so we might have a chance to turn things around if we optimize for that instead of material wealth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_scarcity
Okta employee here. I can assure you that there are no clear-text credentials in our source code.
UX preferences vary. Imo, hf is too verbose and their pages try to cram in too much information with poor information hierarchy. For example:

https://huggingface.co/datasets/glue

https://www.tensorflow.org/datasets/catalog/glue
Since when does InteliJ support JNI debugging?!?

Android Studio's C++ support is done by Google's own licensed CLion for integrating it into a proper development experience.
All words appear in some wordlist.

This is the kind of password I use to protect my actual secrets. So if someone is able to crack it, I'd like to know. The bounty is for a 'realistic' use case.
Why not just use C++?

Also why can we not get better syntax for C? Function pointer syntax is so bad that people actively avoid using them. #pragma once is a hack. Every string library function is actively dangerous in addition to puts/gets.

I know that nobody wants to be the one to mess with the core language and ruin it but this is awfully low-hanging fruit that hasn’t been fixed in 50 years.
How does Paul Graham think? A deep dive into his essays
I've been fascinated by PG's essays since I read How To Start a Startup in 2014. Recently, I've been studying his work more seriously and am looking for two or three people who might be interested in doing a deep dive in January.

Our primary goal is to look into PG’s mind and share what we learn. Open to suggestions on what we should do, but here are a few initial questions we might explore:

* How has his publishing cadence evolved over time? It would be cool to create a timeline of all of his essays and overlay it with his tweets, public interviews, and videos to have a more complete picture of his thinking.
* Who are the most frequent reviewers? These are the people PG trusts most to review his work, so it might be interesting to see how this has evolved over time.
* How are the essays interconnected? PG frequently cross links between his essays and it could be interesting to illustrate this visually. Perhaps we can also explore which other sites cross link to PG's essays as well.
* What are the key insights within each essay? Perhaps this can be distilled into principles, a la Ray Dalio.
* What are some of the best analogies in his essays? PG is a master of analogies. Maybe we can parse them out and highlight them in some cool way.

Experience building and searching data sets from HTML and Twitter, synthesizing text using ChatGPT, and visually displaying data could be particularly relevant.

If this sounds interesting to you, or even if you just have ideas, please fill out the form linked below.

https://forms.gle/MGBczvuFZUnriDSJ9
Sounds like a quick $400 for you then. :)
Java and .NET aren't fashionable, but internal apps for many businesses use them. You probably won't use them at cutting edge startups, but they will pay the bills.
That's an awfully low bar.
Sad to see. I mentioned it before that the work UD are doing, making much higher quality data sets [0], are likely to offer big gains over only using LAION datasets which are rather poor. Perhaps they'll find another type of donation scheme, such as a Stripe page.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33958037
This is somewhat common and can be done legally. Search for "cram down" or "recapitalizing". It is usually done when a company is about to go bankrupt and a new investor comes in, but wants to clean up that cap table of existing shareholders (who would lose everything if the company went to $0 anyway).

Technically the existing shareholders are asked to agree to the changes as a condition of the new investor(s) putting money in. Sometimes they are given the right to put in money to keep a real position in the newly-recapitalized company.
No. Honeywell TDC's were in other plants - polyethylene, polystyrene.
This was old olefin plant. Not any kind of control logic, no computers, no scada. Just control loops for flow, presssure, temperature on the field - with control room indications, and/or PI/PID controllers in the control room. So we could adjust PID loops from control rooms.
And most important - there was man in the middle, and his logic!
Later I lead maintenance on steam generation plant, and there we also didn't have any visualization of process, just bunch of logic cards in two racks, cards full of CMOS 4000 IC! I loved it. We searched for logic faults looking at the bad xeroxed paper logic circuit schematics!! Checking inputs from field, and deducing why output is not ok, and some valve not actuating. Changing IC's, or repairing cold junctions. People knowing chemical proccess were crucial!
I am indeed lucky to have only 3 days instead of the regular 5 of commuting.

I don't know if I can get into tech, I don't know how to code, and... I don't think I could learn in a normal time frame. I said that mostly put of desperation at this point, as I am very jealous of my friend's life choices.
I hate that I’m saying this because I believe all of cryptocurrency to be a pyramid scheme, but… this is the perfect use case for a smart contract on ethereum…

(Now I gotta go wash my hands after typing this.)
Do you feel compelled to participate in that competition? If not, why does it bother you?
20-years is nothing in the terms of the life span something. If you look at a lot of the authors they spend their lifes writing. Just like you'll spend more than 20-years working, so will they. But it seems you want to hamstright their earning rights. To me it's absolute greed and stealing from the working man.

The entire point of allowing things to go public domain is they is no need for copyright protection anylonger. But if people are still earning their living off of that work then someone would be getting hurt.

And this talk of a total non-starter. You need to explain why 20-years is enough. Because it's 100+ just now. So you're the one on a total non-starter.
I don't know this article grasps what wisdom is, except for being able to shallowly write out a definition.

There's tons of wisdom out there, but the more widely applicable it is (across different people/experiences), the more abstract or general it must to be and is thus not directly applicable.

Specific wisdom (like for a highly constrained problem) is awesome, but you and your life are quite unique so this is very hard to find or probably doesn't exist. (Should I move away from home for a job? Well.. that depends on a thousand factors AND your unique self)

Trying to optimize for wisdom is a little like optimizing for meaning, I think. Adopting it from others can be counter productive.
The idea that you only need the full power for takeoff is nonsense. You also need it for go-arounds, or fighting strong downdrafts, or if you get seriously and quickly iced up and need full power to simply stay aloft, or if your engine #1 goes out and you need to add power on #2....

Check how MANY checklists for how many situations require full power.

Maybe this has applications for unmanned stuff where it is ok to lose the craft sometimes (which explains Raytheon's interest) but for human carrying, this is idiocy, i say again.
Note that your GPG key is discarded, and GitHub signs your commit itself with GitHub.com's own GPG key when anyone uses the GitHub UI to merge your PR.

All those "verified" buttons you see on a typical repo history tend to actually be for the GitHub.com signing key, which is shared by everyone. Your GPG signature is only used to convince GitHub to sign the final commit with its key.

It is possible to put your GPG signature on the merged commits, so that people can trust the commits came from you. That may be especially appropriate for security software. But you have to do the merges (or rebases as you prefer) outside GitHub for that, and push those merges directly to the main branch. That's what I do when I can, but it's not common practice. Many orgs require all merges to be done via GitHub, so end up with GitHub.com's shared signature on everything instead of their own.
I like Milly
Knitting is arguably a species of knot-tying.

I recall hearing once that Dirac was watching a woman knitting and applied knot theory to deduce the existence of the purl stitch. He told her about it and she was amused[1].

Another time, Dirac was watching Anya Kapitza knitting while he was talking physics with Peter Kapitza. A couple of hours after he left, Dirac rushed back, very excited. "You know, Anya," he said, "watching the way you were making this sweater I got interested in the topological aspect of the problem. I found that there is another way of doing it and that there are only two possible ways. One is the one you were using; another is like that. . . . " And he demonstrated the other way, using his long fingers. His newly discovered "other way," Anya informed him, is well known to women and is none other than "purling."

[1] http://www.dirac.ch/PaulDirac.html
Powerpoint is setting a real low bar. Microsoft 365 feels almost the same as it did when it was SharePoint Office Web Apps.
I'm willing to sweeten the deal.

What amount of money would make you actually try to crack it?
When they handle the low hanging fruit of having an electric motor to propel the aircraft from the gate to the runway (bonus points for being able to pushback under their own power) it might become worth while.
If you are going to recompile everything statically into a new target, why don't just build an αpε? It seems like a more elegant and clean solution.
Refactoring UI: Building Your Color Palette
I spent a lot of time as a young teenager on various message boards, particularly TalkOrigins, arguing against creationism and its various nonsensical offshoots. It taught me a lot about biology, but it also taught me a lot about the nature of truth, and how people believe things emotionally more often than they believe things rationally. The quantity and persuasiveness of evidence doesn't matter if a person has an emotional investment in their own version of the truth.

So when Trumpism came around, with all of it's big lies and little lies and conspiratorial thinking, I wasn't too shocked. It almost seems natural that as one set of emotionally-driven mythologies fades away (biblical literalism) some other version would have to fill the void.
Dynamic typing is "difficult" in the same way that a microwave is "difficult" to someone only used to fireplaces. Some never get used to it, but that doesn't mean that microwaves are "bad".
The Basic Programming cart for the 2600 was made mostly to satisfy an advertising promise. Atari had advertised the console as expandable into a programmable computer, but there wasn't any way for a user to do it. There were threats of a class-action lawsuit, so Atari made that cart to head that off. (I remember this from years ago, though can't find a cite for it now, the search terms are too vague and wikipedia doesn't mention it.) It wasn't really intended to be a usable programming environment for anything useful.
They actually did the same in NL, when they ran afoul of regulations here. I had to transfer to Coinbase to cash out.
Link to 15min video from July 2022. Producer is an australian outlet. Apparently there is a growing movement to buy a brick phone, because people feel controlled by their smartphones. Selena Gomez is cited as being offline for four years and enjoying it.
I feel like the specific case of "sofas forever" is because of a clear lack of feedback channels.

If you buy a sofa, especially at a different vendor, it doesn't send a signal back to the ad network which could be used to deprioritized the sofa ads.

There's also no trust in the advertiser relationship, so you couldn't just have an "already bought/don't show anymore" button because people would either ignore it or insist they bought everything in the hopes of poisoning data or suppressing ads.
Mammals island-hopped from Australia to colonize the world
... How would you monetize it?

Wikipedia is the closest thing to what you describe, and they have to petition for donations yearly.
Do you mean that you are forgetting to increase/decrease at the right points? As mentioned, stitch markers will help, as will a good row counter.

Of course, you will still have to remember to increase your row counter at the end of each row. I have a row counter I keep hung around my neck, so it's easily accessible. A physical row counter (as opposed to an app) is better for this. I really like this cheapo one: https://www.amazon.com/Clover-Knitting-Stitch-Counter-Kacha-...
this doesn't, it uses the browser's builtin Web Cryptography API.

if using a crypto algorithm also counts as "rolling your own crypto" then what's left? just don't encrypt anything, ever, because HN says we shouldn't roll our own?
So with X inactivation it sounds like it hardly matters whether the X Chromosome is a duplicate or different, other than any effects that might be seen by having 100% of your cells be behaving a certain way instead of a mix of the two evening some things out. Like metabolism, endocrine and renal function.
Normally you'd be right about how you can't prove something doesn't exist, but if you go up thread you'll see that xcrunner claimed that the laptop contained only dick-pics. It's fair for Alvah to ask for proof.

Had xcrunner simply asked for proof the burden would be on Alvah to provide it, but because xcrunner made a claim he took the burden of proof on himself.
The train is the longest part of the journey, and seemingly one of the calmest (compared to subway and that short tram ride). Are you able to do any deep work (reading, learning, brushing up on CS, etc.) during this commute on laptop or phone?

I don't think anyone can bear through that commute for extended periods of time, and trying to bear through it is a fool's errand. The quickest way out of your current situation for the medium- and long-term is to get a job in tech that allows full WFH/remote. In the short-term, it would be looking for new work or new accomodation, but I think that's pretty hard given what you said.

So, I would look for reasonably low-hanging fruits in tech such as webdev, specifically front-end - it's a great starting point and you can make some very tangible side projects for your portfolio to showcase. If you want any advice on getting started or some mentorship/code reviews/resource recommendations, I'm more than happy to help (for free of course) - feel free to shoot me an e-mail (in profile) anytime!
is there an auto repair union in Sacramento? that's where i'd first look to the source of the law.
I want to clarify, I don't think paying someone to fix your car is disgraceful, and that isn't what I said. My problem is with having the inability to do basic maintenance and repairs by choice, because you think it's beneath you (e.g. low class) to learn. It's like an adult that can't dress themselves because they've always had a servant do it for them. If a person is capable but just doesn't have the time, is incapable because of a disability, the repair is free under warranty, it costs more to do it yourself because of special tools needed, is an unusual job that requires a high level of experience, etc. I don't see that as disgraceful.
Because it won't remain that way. Clear will push for their service to be used in as many places as possible, and try to get legislators to create reasons to require such a system.
Incentive structures are as old as the hills. You can’t sell me evolution just to be correct.
It has been fixed. The fix has the codename "zig".
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I dropped out during my freshmen year of CS, so... That's a 4 year project at best... I said that out of desperation, honestly. It also spirited into a lot of other... Issues, mostly related with confidence.

Glad you were able to make it out of it all!
> All this talk about the government forgiving student loans is disingenuous if the government is still doing them business as usual.

They...aren't. I mean, while the rules on issuing them haven’t changed, the rules on repaying them have in ways which are designed to avoid the problem prompting the broad, one-time relief. Attention on the one-time forgiveness program seems to have distracted from non-one-time changes to:

(1) Alter the calculation of disposable income for income based repayment to reduce the income considered disposable, and reduce the required share of disposable income paid under income driven repayment plans (which have automatic forgiveness after a set # of payments.)

(2) process reforms to public service loan forgiveness to expand practical eligibility,

(3) limitations on capitalizing interest for student loans,

(4) reforms to how the executive branch handles undue hardship claims in bankruptcy so that their are clear criteria under which DoJ will stipulate to undue hardship, making it less cumbersome to secure discharge in bankruptcy,

(5) expanded eligibility and streamlined process for Borrower Defense to Repayment for those affected by deceit/fraud by schools,

(6) Closed-School Discharges for those impacted by schools closing during attendance,

(7) Streamlined process for forgiveness in the Total and Permanent Disability program.
Ask HN: Hrs of team meetings a week is burning me out
That's just the required stand-ups. Once a meeting goes to the 50- or 55- minute mark, I start losing focus, I need to lie down, I need to close my eyes. But I am the most junior person on the team and should listen, even though most of the conversation is over my head and not-actionable for me. Is there a polite way to get out of these meetings sometimes? Sometimes I just get a shitty night of sleep and can't deal with the meetings. I don't know. I just want to vent I guess.
I have worked at lots of small start-ups in the Bay Area, all of these companies were 100% Mac exclusive.

I could see this tool being a decent competitor to something like the google drive suite
And just because your crypto lost 90% of its value yesterday doesn't mean it can't do that again tomorrow.
> Con: Eventually the secrets will become exposed due to advances in crypt-analysis

You can claim this con for literally any crypto. And I'm not actually sure it's a reasonable assumption.

Block ciphers seem to be pretty unbreakable so far. Even good ol Triple-DES is secure in practice barring some caveats (don't encrypt more than a certain amount of data)

I'd wager if I gave you a real world message encrypted with AES with a strong key it won't be broken in our lifetimes.
I have a 120 hz Oled Android TV. Unless Youtube drops frames speeding up a 30 FPS video 4x should hit 120 FPS.

I've never heard of someone filming a video for cats in 4x slow motion and asking people to play it at 4x to entertain a cat, so I'm assuming this experiment has been tried and doesn't work, but I'll give it a shot.

(It occurs to me I would need to confirm the Android Youtube app supports 120 FPS otherwise I'd need to play something through a PC).
Kim Dotcom. Owns a very rare signed copy of Mein Kampf, has been seen wearing a SS helmet, commended Ye for questioning Jewish people in the media/positions of power.
Mastodon Explained in 100 Words
Underground Water Tunnels
Very interesting and good to know! I'm relieved that this is something that's done in the event of near-bankrupcy and not something that founders use to shadily "take back" equity from departed early employees.
First line of Wikipedia (and OED) on rent seeking:

“Rent-seeking is the act of growing one's existing wealth without creating new wealth by manipulating the social or political environment.”

Describes copyright abolishment quite aptly.
I cannot see much issues with realistic generated speech if the content is not AI written and high quality. There are plenty of people who are not very good at speaking but good at writing or being able to create interesting content.

Low quality posted by spambots I would not mis.
Yubikeys and PKI: What Are They For?
> adoption is the goal

Absolutely, someone needs to fund the 100/1000x Ponzi returns that they want.
I don't think it's wildly off base:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS-RWsl7l5c
None. Early investors often have a ROFR (Right of first refusal) in their share agreement, in which case they will have the right to buy shares proportional to the amount of dilution they would otherwise suffer (so they can maintain their % stake in future funding rounds) but I've never heard of an employee having that right.

Also note early investors often have a liquidation preference meaning they get their money out before subsequent investors but this also isn't something which is usually extended to employees.

You will get diluted beyond all belief. Not just by investors but by future grants to employees. The best that you can hope for is that that dilution corresponds to growth in the equity of the company such that you own a smaller share of a larger pie and in overall dollar value your stake becomes more valuable or at least maintains its value. It's worth mentioning that in the vast majority of startups this does not end up being the case and equity ends up not being that valuable. There is a very small probability of a lifechanging exit though which is why people go for it.
I tend to agree - unless you had the ability to compare the ride of identical frames made of different materials - same angles, same components and tires, I suspect a lot of the 'feel' of the ride comes from having been told steel is more forgiving, aluminum is harsh, etc. We have a lot of very subtle control over the frame, angles, wall thicknesses, and I would expect a skilled builder to be able to produce the desired performance for whatever frame material. That said, there do seem to be some obvious poor choices, I am not going touring on an all-carbon frame that could fail catastrophically in the middle of nowhere, no matter how comfy.
Is that some weird American thing? I went to a Catholic school in Poland, and we were told about evolution as a matter of fact. No one questioned it. I think our biology teacher was actually a priest in fact. And as far as I understand the Roman Catholic church completely supports evolution as the dominant theory, maybe with a bit of "god helped along the way" somewhere but no one questions it being true. And suggesting that dinosaurs weren't real would just get you laughed out.
There's more nuance to that. A 4130 steel frame with oversize top and seat tubes and thicker walls (0.9/0.7/0.9 mm) typically used on touring bikes is also going to be stiff. A too thin down tube will make the bottom bracket flex too much.

This is a quality modern steel tube set:

https://ciclicorsa.com/shop/columbus-spirit-tube-set/

A frame will retail to at least 4x times as much.

https://ciclicorsa.com/shop/cinelli-nemo-tig-disc-frameset/
Change it to text on focus, password on blur. It will still be in the history though… clearing it on submit makes the most sense.