skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
that's hour or two longer than it takes to adjust saturation to 0 on display device, even just setting up encoding software takes longer, so it's waste of time

what's the benefit of doing this? you waste your time and you lose color option, I see no advantages over just adjusting saturation
Still, why not have a function that formats a string and another that outputs it somewhere, instead of one that does two unrelated things?
> and my conclusion has been that at least up here in the north

That is partially why I am trying to hedge my bets here.
Rust is its own thing that may share some niches with cpp, but it does not replace it. I would really have to care about memory safety a lot to pick Rust over Zig (for example) as a cpp alternative, but then if I really care about memory safety I might pick something other than Rust as well. When it comes to performance, you will probably end up needing unsafe anyway, which raises the question of why you should write an entire application in Rust as opposed to mixing a simpler and slower safe language with a simpler unsafe language for performance.
This will keep going until there exists a cloud backend that you do control. People won't go back to non-cloud.
It would indeed be a more expensive grid for everyone. However customers tend to pick which ever producer has the cheapest sticker price and a large number will not consider the cost associated with potential blackouts when going into contract. Those situations tend to result in a rush to the bottom if there is no other forces involved in the market. In a market where the government guaranties stability people think they are paying for the kw/h, not power when they need it. It only if they are somehow forced to to consider "power then they need it" that they consider such thing when deciding which power company is cheapest.

Which returns back to investments. If consumers will reward companies based on the cost of kw/h, and they will assume that governments take care of balancing the grid, then companies that invest in technology that produce the cheapest kw/h and ignore grid stability. The only way out would be for governments to subsidize less economical ventures but which consider grid stability.
Not seeing how the physics can possibly work out for the real costs and land-area-use being too much lower than my guesses to achieve the same total stored energy, but sure, maybe there's some engineering magic I'm not aware of. Could be. In particular, maybe I'm overestimating how much more energy one can efficiently extract from, say, a liter of water dropping 5,000 feet over three miles, versus a liter of water dropping 600 feet over three miles.
That’s because you probably got the one labeled ‘vanilla’ that yes is effectively a milkshake. Now that I think about it, it’s pretty weird. We don’t have ‘white chocolate milk’ right next to regular with only very subtle marking differences. Hell, even slight fat content differences tend to be prominently labeled in the form of color coding.
This post already fell off the front page.

While there are posts that have lower points and were posted longer ago that are still on the front page.

This post is potentially very relevant to HN's startup founders and workers, for what OP mentions, and my comment about the risk of a hazard becoming a practice.
The main past threads appear to be:

Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice (2011) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28234937 - Aug 2021 (89 comments)

Don't Call Yourself a Programmer, and Other Career Advice (2011) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21303181 - Oct 2019 (307 comments)

Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice (2011) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12548043 - Sept 2016 (147 comments)

Don't call yourself a programmer (2011) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9015160 - Feb 2015 (84 comments)

Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice (2011) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8147008 - Aug 2014 (44 comments)

Dont call yourself a programmer (2011) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4822015 - Nov 2012 (46 comments)

Don't Call Yourself a Programmer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3170766 - Oct 2011 (267 comments)
Is there a local UI to view/export your passwords? The only one I'm aware of is https://passwords.google.com but it's been a long time since I've used a builtin browser password manager.

also- does Google (or other browser devs) release information on how they keep your passwords secure? Is it even E2EE?
Hot damn I don't. I always thought I'd be a cat person but sounds like I need to revisit my choices!
Can I ask what model and how much RAM?
Any idea how much GPU memory you'd need to run this locally?

EDIT: just tried it and it didn't seem to go past ~6gb
Are you looking for development help?
Have you considered buying the non-sweetened stuff before going on a tirade against alternative plant milks?

You've basically bought the SunnyD of soymilk.
Probability matters here. How many Nigerian princes that reach out to random strangers are for real? 0 to a large number of significant digits. How many studies with conflicts of interest are invalid? I suspect less than half until you show me numbers to the contrary.
I think they linked the wrong company. Then one talked about is based in Massachusetts and the one linked is Italian. One founded last year the other like a decade ago
Are you sure? Chrome could very well lock you out.
Not science fiction, but the first people to start topping out at those ages consistently will likely have the right combination of wealth, lifestyle and good genetics.
While I agree with your main point, I think confirmation that the URLs weren't encrypted and that they can all be tied to your Lastpass signup information is far from "best case"
>we’ll have a small class of property holding aristocrats and everyone else is screwed

I must be living in the future then, because that's what I see currently
But for conntrack and highly structured commands and data wouldn't you use netlink?
Highly unlikely. In most big tech companies you are strongly encouraged to begin pushing code immediately. You definitely don't need to know the whole stack from top to bottom to remove a popup which was what he was apparently tasked with doing (and didn't manage).
What great writing (Mencken, I mean).

The silly criticism of the story itself is the first paragraph, true, but then he goes on, beautifully, about Fitzgerald's writing, in a way that you'd rarely see today.

As for the characters: he's right, the author doesn't go inside their heads. In that way, it's more like a play or a movie, where we can only see them from the outside. I think that's perfectly fine. "Third person omniscient" is not the only voice a novelist can have.
I for one would love to see a $$ breakdown of what is being proposed here. This is the one thing I find always catches people out. That, and some of the default aws options which aren't necessary but can really run up the $$ intentionally.
Hey, the point of an internship is to trial the job, during the trial he decided there wasn't much he could contribute and so he decided to bow out. That seems pretty reasonable to me.
Thank you! Huge difference! Lack of research on my part. Sorry
Patterns (YC S21), a platform to build next-gen AI systems, is hiring devs
I feel the same way about TV. I miss the ability to quickly flip through channels.

When I was younger and my family had our first internet connection my dad said "One day internet webpages will load like changing channels on the TV - click click click. instant page loads"

Today TV soo much slower and webpage are... well... you know.
Indeed. The kernel isn't a museum, code or architectures that aren't used can and will get dropped. But the converse is also true, if somebody steps up to regularly test and fix issues in some code it can stay. Even if said somebody happens to be a bunch of retrocomputing enthusiasts and not a zillion dollar corporation.
Lots of Stable Diffusion web UIs have "Negative Prompts", which attempts to remove that stuff from the image. It does actually work phenomenally well, and watching 20 steps with updates each step is mesmerizing. You can really see the random colorful blobs deciding what they want to be, as some err too close to a negative prompt, then flip into a less-blurry thing that looks more like your positive prompt.

The trouble is, any pixels/objects that are interpreted as "negative" according to this prompt are reduced or removed. So, overzealous Negative-Prompting can Negatively impact images. Ha ha!

For Text AI, chatGPT is more than capable of even removing "length" from it's responses, if you spend 3-4 messages telling it "I'm dyslexic", "Please be concise",, "Please do not repeat prior messages unless they are relevant".... it finally went from "Essays" to "Tweets", for that session
I think the word insane may be a bit much here, but it's definitely extremely important to (1) Mind your mental health; (2) Beware of your limitations and knowledge. Even if you want to help the world, you can't do it in self-destruct mode. You can't do it with arrogance -- you can go against the grain, but only with solid knowledge, humility, and skepticism.
It's not "tracking" it's just ensuring a "consistent user experience throughout our ecosystem".

/sarc
How weatherly the ship is (how close to the direction of the wind it can sail) seems like such an important performance spec on a sailing ship, but it never seems to be listed.
I always imagined it was a play on "surfing" the web and a Beach Boys reference to "Surfin' Safari".
Making Tools for Big Games
There is a rhyme and reason to it. There is a stream argument, with the convention that if NIL is used, the stream is an implicit string output stream created for that call, such that the string is returned. And if T is used, then it's a shorthand for standard output. The argument may also be a string with a fill pointer.

This convention isn't just in format. It has a name, stream designator:

http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw50/CLHS/Body/26_glo...

Other functions like write support the convention.

Moreover there is a broader designator concept at play: there are other kinds of designators.

http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw50/CLHS/Body/26_glo...

A designator is some object that by convention stands for another one, under the semantics of some function.

For instance, functional arguments may be function objects or symbols: (mapcar #'list ...) or (mapcar 'list). The list symbol isn't a function, it's a symbol; the reason you can use it as a function is that it's accepted as a function designator. When you call a symbol as a function, it is resolved to the function via its global function binding.

Another kind of designator is the spreadable argument list designator:
http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw50/CLHS/Body/26_glo...
Some functions use this to take a single object or a list in the same argument position. It makes the functions nicer to use in the case when there is just one object, not having to specify the argument as (list arg).
Apologies, I didn't proofread my comment.

The point I'm trying to make is that for certain technical concepts (mathematics, programming, etc.), it's not the technical detail that must be remembered. Sure, you forget exactly the syntactical details of implementation, but you do remember (assuming you understood it at the start):

1 - How do I traverse the tree?
2 - Is there any ordering required among the nodes so that my traversal is 'correct'?
3 - How do I maintain such an ordering and establish correctness after my new node is added?
4 - Can I make any improvements so that locating the position of the to-be-added node doesn't take forever?

You don't begin to touch on these higher level "computationally minded" ideas until you can understand the primitive action of adding a node. And once you've grasped it, you forget the primitive details, only the essential concept remains.

The author seems to suggest that the next generation doesn't need to make an attempt to understand the fundamentals. I argue that unless you're a genius, you need to first add a node to a binary tree before labeling yourself a computational thinker.
What is the reason for using a symlink for your node_modules directory?
>most of the time they switch to the standard alternatives that are heaps of cane sugar (Silk soy/almond) and vegetable oil (Oatly / oat milk)?

If they lack reading comprehension sure. It isn't difficult to compare nutrition labels and get something healthy.
There may be less distance than we think.

I'm not sure what's going on in https://youtu.be/LffLqUwlY2Y?t=200 , but would not be surprised if it's something to do with rehabilitating Stalin (of the eponymous tanks)?
It was popular for a time to try and turn side projects into obligations. The idea being that you would obligate yourself to finish them.
There will always be pacifists and isolationists. It's a tough position to defend given what happened in WW2 when the Allies didn't act immediately to invasion and genocide. We won't make that mistake again and I don't think it's hard to convince people of that who aren't idealistic pacifists and isolationists. People get emotional for a reason. There are lots of connection still to things like the Holocaust. Russians, and Putin, for sure need to be held at bay. It's too bad that people won't be more civil about discussions, but don't be expect to be treated as a savior.
The meta analysis of dairy that I have seen suggest there are health benefits, especially for cultivated dairy (cheese, yogurt, etc). Do you know otherwise?
Betrays is fine here. https://www.macmillandictionary.com/us/collocations/american...
I suspect that the majority of people would begin to act like teenagers. It seems like a world where everything is automated would remove many of the consequences we have now. I see a strong likelihood that human conflict would significantly increase.
I missed that part. What is the problem about URL exposure?

EDIT: all three replies to this comment are about sex-shaming people via their email address, ip, home address. hardly pearl clutching. go to DefCon some day, you'll see how that information is basically for sale legally, let alone on the darkweb.

i don't have a horse in this race because i use my own password storage software but the amount of FUD in this thread is cray cray.
I disagree. Sequences of reals are still sequences. So maybe hypothesis one has nothing to do with integers, maybe it's that the intervals are increasing geometrically. You're still going to take ratios and and start having suggestive numbers fall out. "can't just switch ... without explanation". The point is that this putative alien observer would be looking for the explanation. Maybe the first few explanations they come up with are the wrong ones, but they are trivial to check. It's not like it's a research project to reject the Fibonacci hypothesis.So you would still have the right answer on day one.
I recommended FCM for iOS instead of APNS because OP is already using it. For iOS clients, FCM just forwards notifications to APNS.
There's no scientific reason to expect that anyone alive today will live to 150. It's purely based on conjecture and hope. If that was likely to happen then we would be seeing some incremental progress towards the goal already. But still we haven't seen anyone verified to live past 122. And she died in 1997.

Maximum lifespan is unimportant anyway. What actually matters is healthspan. If anything we're going backwards on that metric.
Lyft’s business model is broken. Here’s what I saw when I became a driver
The fact that both humans and LMs can give interpretable justifications makes me think intelligence was actually in the language. It comes from language learning and problem solving with language, and gets saved back into language as we validate more of our ideas.
Only on those ancient internal combustion computers.
You might be able to compare divorce/separation/unhappiness rates between arranged and non-arranged marriages, but culture differences would be a confounding factor… maybe study the average lifespan of relationships started on reality tv haha
This book was where I learned of the Curta as well...but the whole Blue Ant trilogy was a gateway to existing things I had no idea were real. Gibson turning his considerable talents to something close to "real life" makes these three books my favorites of his.
Is anyone else here building AI programming services based on models like this? I see a lot of comments saying the models can't do much programming. But I just suspect there must be a silent contingent that is also working on services like that. And maybe less likely to promote the abilities of these models because it encourages competition.
How long ago did you switch to Mac OS? This sounds like an argument from 2004, not 2022.
I certainly wouldn't choose LastPass over 1Password, but given 1Password is deprecating local storage I wouldn't recommend 1Password anymore either.
My local, managed-by-me KeyPass database has never had a security incident or even come close.

That's all I'm gonna say about that.
> Add to all that, Window slows down over time - again, the periodic reformat and rebuild is part of life on Windows.

My windows install is from 201*, it was an upgrade from win7, and switched from an i7 to a ryzen. I do clean out the registry/startup/task scheduler on occasion.
While I agree that incompetence and bad incentives are ever–present, and that all software can be optimized by application of a little elbow grease, I disagree that these are the only reasons.

For example, properly displaying text now requires having a copy of at least the most important parts of the Unicode standard in memory. Things like knowing if a character occupies one, two, or many character cells are very important for even a simple text terminal. Word splitting, kerning, shaping, bi–directional text display, the number of possible refinements grows without bound and all of them need metadata about each and every character. Your average web browser has megabytes of the stuff just sitting around in memory so that it is ready as soon as a character has to go up on the screen. Older computer just didn’t have that kind of memory to spare.

If you want the old–school experience you can still boot straight into the Linux Console, which still thinks that there are only 256 characters. It seems to be reasonably snappy.
> Is there a local UI to view/export your passwords?

chrome://settings/passwords
That's only, like, half the problem.

It's an array of string parameters.

No semantics! Just an variety of customs about what it means when a parameters begins with a - or a -- or if you have -- by itself preceding some characters, how to break lists of arguments with separators, what happens when you pass the same argument twice, etc etc etc.

To choose the worst possible solution better than that, we could instead be passing in a single string with a JSON dictionary that says things like '{ "recursive": True, "force": True, "files": [ "file1", "file2", "file3" ]}'
>But the pay is so much more too. This means you can retire sooner and then use the free time to find meaning.

The type of person that goes into Finance/Consulting is certainly not the type of person that will want to retire early.
When the Intel Mac arrived, so maybe 14 years ago or more?

Are you saying Windows has fixed all these problems?

The registry is still there.

I do actually have some Windows machines I use sometimes and recall thinking "still the same" but I can't say that as a hard core user, so I'd be interested to hear if Windows is now a sleek, reliable multitasker that instantly kills dead applications. Nothing will make me OK with the registry and the general mess of Windows though - it's like a house someone hasn't properly cleaned for 40 yeaes.
That’s a valid and fair point, unless the study was registered ahead of time to protect against that.
2019 13" MBP, 16GB. Pretty much anything I do will spin up the fan now. Compiling an app uses so much battery that I get less than an hour of battery life. I've resorted to remote development only, a la Chromebook.

My previous laptop was a similar Lenovo X1 Carbon with Debian and wow do I miss it, but I don't have too much of a choice since I do mobile app development :(
I can honestly say I’m pretty good at this and feel like its more of a burden to me in my life so far. I no longer know anyone who shares this trait, and most people find even hearing me talk about it uncomfortable.

Perhaps I will get the opportunity to use it someday, but as of now it is really just emotionally taxing to have many uncomfortable thoughts that I have to bottle up.
> How often are closed-form equations actually useful for real world problem domains? When i did my PhD in applied math, they mostly came up in abstracted toy problems. Then you get into the real world data or a need for realistic modeling and it's numerical methods everywhere.

And closed-form equations are themselves almost always simplified or abstracted models derived from real-world observations.
Once, an article about some of my work reached the top. I got rightfully destroyed in the comments because of one major mistake I did.
I wish I saw what you saw. I was also fortunate not to have it ruined in high school. I didn't read it until my 50s.

I just didn't get it. All I see is a bunch of horrible people being stupid and terrible to each other.

I don't doubt that that's a very American thing. I just don't want to read about it, no matter how well it's written.

Inconsistency note: I love doing Shakespeare, even though it's precisely a bunch of stupid people treating each other horribly, but very, very well written.
What do you think about his promotion of NMN? I was very excited at first, but looking at his past, it all seems very shady.

In 2004, Sinclair, along with serial entrepreneur Andrew Perlman, Christoph Westphal, Richard Aldrich, Richard Pops, and Paul Schimmel, founded Sirtris Pharmaceuticals. Sirtris was focused on developing Sinclair's research into activators of sirtuins, work that began in the Guarente lab. The company was specifically focused on resveratrol formulations and derivatives as activators of the SIRT1 enzyme; Sinclair became known for making statements about resveratrol like: "(It's) as close to a miraculous molecule as you can find. ... One hundred years from now, people may be taking these molecules on a daily basis to prevent heart disease, stroke, and cancer." Most of the anti-aging field was more cautious, especially with regard to what else resveratrol might do in the body and its lack of bioavailability. The company's initial product was called SRT501, and was a formulation of resveratrol. Five years later, GSK shuttered the Sirtris program without successful drug development.

Sinclair broadly discusses his longevity practices on social media and includes them in his book. They include daily doses of NMN and resveratrol, which Sinclair says are activators of SIRT1.

Studies published in 2009 and early 2010 by scientists from Amgen and Pfizer cast doubt on whether SIRT1 was directly activated by resveratrol and showed that the apparent activity was actually due to a fluorescent reagent used in the experiments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_A._Sinclair
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirtris_Pharmaceuticals
You can get SBCL for free with no limitations which actually beats Lispworks on performance AFAIK: https://www.sbcl.org/
I really loved Great Expectations.

Also Britten's Billy Budd is one of the 2 operas I really love.

1966 BBC version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1lVBfqQyjs
I honestly don't know how people in Europe surf the web, it's so annoying now. When I was just in Germany, every site I'd have a GDPR popup, then the ads would load, then some random ad would popup with a close button the size of a pixel. This was on major sites. The modern web is so broken, the GDPR popup made it worse. Why can't you just have a browser wide setting to accept or deny GDPR in force. In the US it's bad enough, now with the GDPR popups, it has become almost unusable, especially on mobile.