skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did something similar with Blazorise, a personal project of mine, https://blazorise.com/. It started as a hobby project. After some time it grew too large that it took most of my time, not to mention the time I could spend with my wife and son. Things changed during the Covid when I was laid off. Then I started freelancing for a while, and last year I finally took a big step and went full-time with Blazorise. Switched to dual licensing, where larger enterprises must purchase a commercial license. It is working, and hopefully, it will continue to work. Or otherwise, my wife will rage on me :/
“It is when we are using what we have learned that we wish we had studied more” - Chinese proverb
Hi Matt, thanks for sharing. Just a proof of my staying power, I saw your Preceden post on HN; and paid for a license 13 years ago promptly your v0.1 and I am still here. https://i.imgur.com/ejUm3Gh.png

I had bought a license purely on a whim as I was browsing HN on company-time. I was in 20's, bored and ambitious with no concrete plans and I proceeded to play on company-time in my cubicle the rest of the day and planned out my life plan on Preceden instead of working, like the timeline for when I should get my next promotion (maybe in 2 years for at least 10K, rite??), when I should buy my 1st house etc (maybe a fix upper? duplex so I can rent it out?), when I should get married etc (in 5 years). I showed my entire life plan to my co-workers whom all laughed at me b/c (a) I planned everything out in my life, and (b) I paid for a $19 license to plot out my life plan.

To get to the bottom-line, I never got that promotion, am still renting and still haven't gotten married! So definitely you who got my $19 license fees and my co-workers got the last laugh!

(But like you I kept on and off workin' my side-hustles since 2010 even when it seemed entire hopeless - which was building a trading bot; and like anything in life after so many false starts, it eventually started becoming consistent and compounded; and my capital gains from trading has been significantly greater than my W-2 as a SWE for the last 3 years. So much has changed on HN since 2010: crypto, Web3, new JS frameworks that pop up every year, unicorns; but the only thing that has paid off at least for me - it seems is sticking to something and showing up for it every day for 13 years and counting... thanks again for sharing!)
> Will my trajectory / resume be a hindrance?

On the margin, but not in totality. Will you get a Super Duper Senior Coder job right away like somebody who's been coding that entire time? Of course not. Will you get SOME coding job? Sure.

Just pick up some web dev stack that's popular (e.g. JavaScript/TypeScript/React), get somewhat comfortable with it (a handful of weekend projects) and then start applying places.

I will say you picked a really bad time, tons of companies are laying people off and freezing hiring.
The key problem here is that most of my friends will never have a blog. The barrier to create one is just too much, and I'm not only talking about the technical ones. It's a much lesser commitment to post a photo on Instagram with a few lines. And actually see your friends seeing it, so you don't feel like you're wasting time.
I'm currently writing a novella. I also have plans for a non-fiction work.

I'm also publishing free content at https://taylor.town

> I don't think it's worth it to publish free content anymore

If "worth it" means "make you rich", I wouldn't recommend pursuing writing :)

If "worth it" means "provides meaning to yourself and others", books and blogs will continue to be enriching!

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EDIT: Just noticed a new thread describing the 2022 earnings of a self-published book of "4 years worth of SRE blog posts": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34250688
> Personally I think leaving everything to "the market" is also a very bad idea since all the market cares about is money. Not the environment, not people, not society. Trying to get the market to take these into account makes for very awkward workarounds like carbon taxes/credits. There needs to be a balance between free markets and protecting our own interests, and those of the world as a whole.

This isn't a problem with "the market", but how finance and stock markets are heavily biased with short-term thinking. Money _in the short term_, is the predominant issue.
The problem is HBO max is worse than HBO Go was. Content is less visible and harder to explore. The player is worse. Region restrictions are greater aka worse.
I have unsubscribed from HBO max because the content was boring.
I'm absolutely not interested in superhero stuff.
Then there's a LOT of gay content, which I'm also not interested in.
And finally depressing dystopian fiction, which I also don't like.
And the drug stuff is also degenerate.
Nothing interesting.

In fact none of those pay2streamNotOwn services are attractive.
Back to piracy for me. At least I can watch what I like when I like, don't have to be online to do so, can copy everywhere.
Maybe you could do OP a favor and redo the calculation, assuming that an attacker knows that he used passphrases. Assuming that an english dictionary has maybe 10.000 meaningful words... And then even worse if you assume that the attacker even knows that he was using Bitwarden for that and an attacker can easily lookup the dictionary that Bitwarden is using. So with maybe 1000 words and 5 words used ...
I've never heard Red Deer, Alberta make that claim.
I’m very much interested in this underground system (I don’t know if it is actually implemented): https://www.core77.com/posts/102208/Amsterdams-Smart-System-...

It seems to me this sort of trash deposit system would greatly simplify trash collection.
Interesting final point. Makes me think that a solution to the apparent crisis around Moore's law may be to break up monolithic super-chips into smaller co-processors. This would help alleviate the bottleneck of waste heat management that apparently these mega-chips seem to be getting throttled by. This is already being done for other reasons, but mitigating the volume-to-surface-area ratio extremes of large chips may have second-order benefits for computing performance.
This is pretty weird. Usually, it's Democrats that can't get it together. But this, in particular, has never quite happened with Democrats. I wonder if Congressman McCarthy might now say, "until this moment, Representatives, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness. Have you no sense of decency, at long last?”
AHK is what keeps me on Windows
I said:

> Cirrhosis and alcohol deaths and domestic violence decreased drastically during prohibition. Prohibition is the best example of a full scale nationwide 'war' on a drug, IMO. The data on alcohol prohibition are extremely clear... wars on drugs work. No they don't eliminate consumption or erase all problems... nothing can do that. However, they lead to fewer consumers; and thus fewer problems due to consumption.

Reduced cirrhosis, alcohol deaths, and domestic violence don't count as consumption-related harms? Very confused right now.

I'm not a fan of alcohol prohibition, but rationality requires us to consider the data, especially the data we don't like.
You find broccoli addictive?
You don't even hear people from LA or SF boast the way they do in New Yawk.
Here's a gentle introduction. https://github.com/jart/blink/tree/master/third_party/sector... See also https://justine.lol/sectorlisp2/
If we assume addictions as a disease then we mostly treat them with regulation. Smoking companies would have loved if we just made a pill that mitigates tar in your lungs instead of all but legislating them into obscurity.
I got calculus in college, from mathematicians. :-(

We spent about 15 minutes (well, ok, one lecture) on series, then a couple weeks on limits, then limits and differential calculus, then the rest of differential calc. (throwing the limit stuff away), then limits and integral calc., and finally the rest of calculus.

Limits are a horrible way to learn calculus if you're trying to understand it at the same time as doing the algebra. :-)
The "Elektromote", the world's first trolleybus,[6] in Berlin, Germany, 1882. Maybe New York is lacking the infrastructure, but the technology has existed for a long time. A trolleybus may be expensive to implement in rural areas but in the biggest city in the USA it should be quite cost effective.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromote

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybus
Put SEO into the picture and things get hairier. Incredibly realistic spam is about to go through the roof, so search engines will have an insanely harder time distinguishing between useful content and spam.

Making money from search traffic to your (presumably useful) site is going to get harder in a bunch of ways, due to generative models.
We haven't seen a paradigm shift in search since 2000 when Google came on the scene. If y'all don't remember what it was like back then, it unlocked a new era in information retrieval. It made other engines like Alta Vista irrelevant overnight. It was that much better at ranking results. It was incredibly how quickly Google gained mindshare and "indexing the world's information" was actually an inspirational idea.

ChatGPT in search could be the first paradigm shift in 20 years, so someone had to do it. I'm grateful it's Microsoft, since at least it's a company with liability and everyone will be ready to jump on them the moment this new era of search gets out of line, which it likely will.
> if you have perfect bloodwork

I see a lot of health influencers always say whatever diet they are doing is best because nothing bad has shown up on their bloodwork.

I am not really sure if bloodwork is all it takes to asses your health.
> I think Lego is the perfect example of this. I never understood the point of it as a kid. Why would I want something that comes with an instruction booklet to recreate the exact thing shown on the box?

1) The same motivation as a model kit... except what you build is intended to be played with and won't be (permanently) destroyed by play.

2) Same motivation as a puzzle.

3) Modern Lego instructions do a lot more hand-holding than the ones I had in the 80s and 90s did, so I'm not sure how true this still is, but the ones back then were basically a series of sometimes-pretty-challenging spatial reasoning puzzles. So anyone who enjoys that kind of thing might enjoy assembling Lego sets.

4) Once assembled, you could customize, re-dress, and mash up the sets in ways you couldn't with other toys, and fall back on the directions to fix anything you screwed up too badly, if you wanted to get back to baseline. For example, one of the "good guys" bases from the Pirate series spent more time as a marine research base than it did hosting swashbuckling shenanigans, for me. My big castle sets would grow castle towns from a mix of smaller castle-series sets and custom builds on big flat plates. That kind of thing.

5) You could really destroy a Lego toy built from a set, then put it back together. You couldn't smash apart any bit you liked of an ordinary airplane or ship or castle toy and not ruin it permanently. With Lego sets, you can.

For my part, I've never understood people who don't understand the appeal of Lego sets, because I find the appeal so multi-dimensional and obvious.

[EDIT] FWIW I do find a lot of modern Lego sets worse for some of these purposes than the ones I had as a kid. They've leaned more into the "model" side of things and less into the "play". Exposed nubs get covered up (looks better on a shelf, or on the box photo, that way) so you have to tear pieces off to attach other things to it. Builds are incredibly fiddly and use tons of really tiny bricks even for basic things like a wall, so re-building from memory or a little simple reasoning after destroying a small part of a set is now far more difficult (I suspect CAD run amok is to blame for this one).
I was thinking they compiled Blink to Javascript and are rendering web pages with it.
TBH I’m not sure. The run queue (high load) issue seems the kind of thing that could be an issue with the client kernel, not necessarily the protocol, although I’m not sure of the details. It’s possible it’s fixed now, I haven’t been an NFS admin in 10 years :)

But the real point is that the filesystem, as an abstraction, has too much baggage from clients that make local-first assumptions, like that stat()’s are cheap (let’s use lots of symlinks! Hey, why is the NFS server CPU usage so high from stat() calls?), or that the filesystem can be used for easy cache (which on NFS is kind of the opposite of what you want), etc… silently and transparently making your filesystem an NFS mount is a bad idea unless the software using that mount is aware that the other end is a (potentially slow) NFS server and not local disk. The two really shouldn’t be conflated.
I don't think you are following my points likely due to me not explaining it well.

Kids can easily access porn on accident. That is all my point is. We should make it easy to prevent kids from seeing it.

Pornhub was on Instagram and so kids could get to PornHub's page and view content directed to kids about porn. I think banning Pornhub from Instagram was the right choice and helps prevent putting adult related content on a kid's feed.

My point about tube being in other websites is when you google YouTube you may end up with a porn site if you have a typo. Kids, in an attempt to go to child friendly content on YouTube may end up on a porn site just by accident.
Uhh it’s a bit hacky at the moment but I can clean it up a but and release what I got.

Really it isn’t much more than an abuse of the Hotkey function and (effectively) function pointers.

I’ll put it up this evening though if people want to peep at it.

[Edit] In case people miss the other reply it's here: https://github.com/url00/ModalAHK
Photino Birds immediately jumped into my mind. https://xeelee.fandom.com/wiki/Photino_Birds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeelee_Sequence
The reality is that most other major cities have garbage collection figured out in a better way. For instance in my city, garbage is kept in a dedicated garage area in each apartment building, and on a scheduled day, it's picked up either right in the building or in the alley after the caretaker moves the dumpsters there. The fact that this is considered politically untenable in New York is frankly insane, glad I don't live there.
Twitter's political ad ban was not "designed to stop misinformation spread", it was designed to avoid controversy. Facebook never had a political ad ban.
> Why are they using garbage trucks to plow snow?

You are sort of answering your own question here.

> snowplows a few days per year that you need them

NYC has 6,300 miles miles of streets. Maintaining an entirely separate fleet of plow vehicles large enough to clear the streets quickly would have its own additional costs.
True. I think it’s on the surface.

BUT THATS JUST WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT in that universe XD

jazz hands
I doubt it. Even if it was trained with 100% accurate information chatGPT would still prefer an incorrect decisive answer to admitting it doesn't know.
For a while it was fashionable to tell people who were having a hard time finding work that they needed to move. I'm wondering if people are so tolerant of suggesting it the other direction, so:

Have you considered moving?
There's a lot of things I try to do in Stable Diffusion that I could do in minutes in Photoshop.

But half the fun is trying to do it entirely inside the generative art tools available. If I were really trying to make something good I'd use both together.
Damn; this article speaks to me.

Despite lifting heavy and doing light cardio 4x/week, I have a lot of trouble staying asleep.

Melatonin makes this worse; I'll fall asleep more quickly but jolt awake three or four hours later without being able to go back to sleep. I originally thought this was due to me taking too high a dose, but this happens even if I take 2mg or less.

Drugs like diphenhydramine help a lot but they contain alcohol and have well-researched long-term side effects. I'd also prefer to not need drugs to sleep.

Unfortunately, sleep depravation is terrible for me, as it makes me extremely irritable and makes doing things like putting coherent sentences together really hard. I also get headaches if the sleep depravation gets bad enough.

I've been using Autosleep for the last few years and have noticed that alcohol WRECKS my ability to get deep sleep...unless I put a lot of effort into pacing my drinks (drinking at least 1.5x more water than beer and waiting 10 mins or so between drinks, or more if the ABV is high). I don't like being drunk anyway, so this isn't a big deal, but it's kind of annoying to have to be so particular to prevent Hyde from coming out.
Here's a side/meta question out of curiosity:

How come HN doesn't have nearly the number of bots or lame AI commenters as Reddit or other places? Is it an effect of the voting system? The user filtering and security steps in place?

Or there's just no money in it?
In what sense is "all food addictive"?

If you just mean "if you don't eat, you die", I don't think that qualifies as an addiction.

If you mean "if you suddenly eat a lot more for some meal than you usually do, you will likely be more hungry the next day than usual", I also don't think that really qualifies. It's not the same kind of thing?
Galileo/Copernicus wrote about Catholicism?
If a ranking system treats your expertise in one area as being relevant to another it's not doing its job.
Accepted, religion is a bit of a special case given the way it tends to encourage views on subjects as broad as "how the universe came into being" or "how to be a good person" (and those views are almost never "religion isn't your best guide"), but a good page ranking algorithm should still be able to only apply "expertise" rating when it applies specifically to terms in the search phrase.
Blink is short for Blinkenlights. See https://github.com/jart/blink#blinkenlights and https://justine.lol/blinkenlights/
There's also enormous time dilation, they would appear to be moving very very slowly from our POV.

It would be magical if both those phenomenon exactly counter each other (I have not run any numbers, but my instinct tells me time dilation will win out).
I didn’t say there is no level at which you’re clearly unhealthy. If you are obese because of unhealthy habits or lifestyle, this will impact your overall health. Being fat alone, with a healthy eating habit and lifestyle, is not indicative of a lack of health. Eating with abandon, especially of low quality food, and not exercising is what underlies the lack of health. It happens you also get fat doing this. People with a high metabolism that stay thin no matter what they eat or do still develop heart disease and diabetes.

Healthy at any size doesn’t mean someone who is morbidly obese is healthy - the strain on their heart is significant. But that’s true for any human of large size regardless of “what” constitutes their body mass. But the correlation is the fat goes with unhealthy diet and lifestyle. But not everyone who is fat is unhealthy.

They even discuss this in the article for goodness sakes.

In another comment I provided these references:
In one of the reference below, the conclusion is:
(i) Higher fitness should be considered a characteristic of metabolically healthy but obese phenotype. (ii) Once fitness is accounted for, the metabolically healthy but obese phenotype is a benign condition, with a better prognosis for mortality and morbidity than metabolically abnormal obese individuals.

https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/97/7/2482/2834446?logi...
https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/97/7/2482/2834446?logi...
https://diabetesjournals.org/care/article/28/2/391/24045/Met...
The rules are definitely not impossible to comply with. I'm not using third parties or collect data I don't need in the first place - trivial compliance.

Have you got a link for your case?
I don't believe there's any way for a LLM operating alone to recognize when it doesn't know something, because it has no concept of knowing something.

Its one job is to predict the next word in a body of text. That's it. It's good enough at it that for at least half the people here it passes the Turing test with flying colors, but the only kind of confidence level it has is confidence in its prediction of the next word, not confidence in the information conveyed.

If we were to take a language model and hook it up to another system that does have a concept of "knowing" something, I could see us getting somewhere useful—essentially a friendly-to-use search engine over an otherwise normal database.
For US non-immigrant visas it's citizenship that matters.
What we have is optimizers. Wishing machines. The monkey wishes for infinite bananas and shazam, the universe is bananas.

(I am of the opinion that GAI is just a fantasy)

See this fine piece of scifi for more on that : Friendship Is Optimal

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/62074/friendship-is-optimal
On-demand (as-needed) is handy for actually accomplishing things at work, but theory is the thing that doesn't become obsolete as soon as the trends of the industry sway once more. Being able to use react is one thing, but understanding why react (or angular, etc) works the way it does is highly transferable
> specialized power split transmissions

The thought occurs to me to make the rear wheels powered by the ICE and the front wheels electric.

Then no wacky transmissions.

I don't know anything about a "power split" transmission, but isn't that the sort of thing a differential gear set does very well at?
> And Android runs a VM, last time I checked..

But a significant fraction of apps still includes native libraries, too.
We just managed to compile Blink to a 300kb javascript file today. Follow https://github.com/jart/blink/issues/8 for updates on our progress.
Is it not too late to RiiR?
Why is HBO running out of hard drive space or something?
Well the scamcoin guys can just use separate library for it. I doubt any of the crypto uses would care about timing attacks either
I didn’t see any indication in the readme if this supports syntax highlighting. Any plans to add it?
My understanding is that ChatGPT is not available as an extensible service from OpenAI; it's more of a tech demo. Of course OpenAI offers a suite of paid APIs to use its language models such as GPT3 and even offers older versions of the model at a lower cost.

I assume that bloomberg was just confused and incorrectly stated that Microsoft is directly using ChatGPT, when really Microsoft is using one of the language models which OpenAI offers as a service...?
Wouldn't Tesla's Semi truck fit the bill in terms of power? If so, could the motor and batteries used in the Semi theoretically power an EV garbage truck for long enough to plow snow for more than the 4 hours they state they're currently seeing?
This is super inspiring.

I just started working on a side project that I hope can one day be worth something. I'm also the sole breadwinner of a household with 2 (soon to be 3) kids and a wife depending on me, so it's really inspiring to see that the dream really can happen, even if it takes a decade plus to realize.

Even if my thing never takes off, it's a tool I've wanted for a long time, so I'm motivated to keep going even if it never makes a penny.

Congratulations, wishing you lots of continued success.
Not exactly the same feeling because I do have few close friends (most of them I don't see very often because I left my home country, without any intention to really go back)

But, I like strangers.

I like exploring cities, chasing hidden bars, drinking some cocktails with a person I have just met few hours earlier.

Converse, debate.

And then never meet again.
Bad hypothesis: it ignores the many potential ways forward which do not include war.