skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This description sounds like your point of view is very transactional.

Being open to people very different from you should make friendships with those people more valuable, not less valuable.

I view any person whose day I've improved or learned something from a worthwhile interaction.

This [1] is the best description of networking that I've had and it applies to any conversation or relationship I can think of.

Suppose you approach every conversation as an opportunity to learn something interesting about them as quickly as possible and make their day/life a tiny bit better. In that case, you will enjoy having conversations with people you only meet once or twice. And if you make people feel interesting, they will want to spend more time around you because you make them feel good about themselves, rather than you needing to find reasons to spend time with them.

A note about this approach. You need to equally and authentically share things about yourself, or people will get suspicious about your motives and feel like there's an angle or something.

If you can make someone say, "Oh, I thought it was just me." Then you've made a real connection with someone else. [2]

[1] https://www.ted.com/talks/andrew_griffiths_the_power_of_mean...

[2] https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_the_power_of_vulnerabi...
JavaScript doesn't have a build step either. sounds like it is interpreted and you reference methods by hash instead of by name. sorta?
Sorry for the late reply, yeah, I mean, the only configuration I can imagine then is if I went induction for my main cooktop when I do my reno, and then had a portable butane stove for wok cooking exclusively. It could make sense, I'm just not even sure I want to do that.

Right now I've a recirculating hood (absolute garbage) so my main focus is going to be switching that out for a proper vent
Introversion doesn't necessarily imply a lack of social skills, but in my experience, that is typically the case. We are also on HN, whose commenters are not exactly known for the social acumen.
> the new weather app rocks in terms of functionality (IMHO better than the previous version of Dark Sky)

While I agree that functionally it offers a lot, the interface is around 1000 times worse than the Dark Sky app. For example, to see the “feels like” temperature over the next few hours in Dark Sky, it used to show up immediately on load for the current time, and with a single tap to see it over the next 24 hours. On the new Apple Weather app, you have to first tap on the current day, then tap on the drop down on the upper right, then tap on “Feels Like”, then tap on the graph itself and drag to the desired time.

It is absolutely incredible to me that something so simple went from taking one step to taking five steps. I don’t know how any user interface designer can justify it.
I don't see much of a need for USDT or any stable coin to be on centralized exchanges for much longer. Its useful as a place to park value on-chain via DEXs in between trades, kind of like Treasuries IRL. Even for Bitcoin its actually easier to trade WBTC on an EVM chain with stable coins. IMO It's silly to hold anything on a central exchange, they should go away for everything but fiat on/off ramps.
Solar + cheap storage should be the new default for the entire second/ third world. Basically, you can't rely on your central corrupt government? Well, you don't have to!

With starlink the third world will have options for internet too. Now, starlink probably can't serve billions of people, but it can still be an option, especially for rural.
Exactly. Not sure they understand how things work in Canada at all. If anything, average investors in Canada can more easily access investable assets compared to American counterparts. For instance, there is no pattern day trading equivalent.

Also (somewhat related), I don't think its a coincidence that Canada is a haven for financial fraud https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx51CffrBIg.
> If the NYC underground economy is indeed the only thing keeping minorities afloat, that means the economy is dependent on exploiting minority communities (keeping them working in illegal ventures, preventing upward mobility).

Any business that can't afford to pay their workers a living wage and needs to exploit minority communities to stay open should be shuttered. No point letting them keep their failed business at the expense of everyone else. Companies who have been exploiting workers and pocketing the extra profits should either stop exploiting people and just pocket a little less profit or go out of business already and get out of the way so someone more competent can fill public's need for the good/service they offered.
I agree, but am often outnumbered by people who enable "squash commits on merge" and that simultaneously add many process barriers against actually merging pull requests.
The issue appears to be that if you make a public Github repo, his bot will crawl it and add it to a repository of Justfiles for him to check against? That really isn't a privacy view in my mind. As soon as you add something to a public Github repo it is instantly indexed and made available on a bunch of (shady and legit) Github mirrors.
Hotels should be zoned for commercial activity. He's right about the AirBNB business model increasing homelessness.
You should always be prepared that any vehicle in front of you can emergency brake at any time. If you don't leave enough room for this then you are at fault.
This is a limitation of how the Developer Portal is set up, you have to be registered to view the APIs. Like the other poster said, if you're looking for general info, go to the docs section, since all the information is there
“I have just met you…and I love you.” ;)
I’ve heard Google are quite rewrite heavy, as an intentional strategy. Not that they rewrite everything all the time, but that they’re quite open to rewriting significant sized systems, and do it quite a bit more than most tech companies.

Not sure how true that is, or if it’s more myth. Also not sure how common it is to have original devs participate in the re-write, or if this is more something they do if the original devs have moved on. If any Googlers on HN could chime in, I’d certainly find it interesting!
The "normal" way is to have one keypair per device you use (unless using a key on a USB stick or something like that) and use that key for everything you do from that device (private, professional, etc.)

The key identifies you physically (not as an employee, open source contributor or whatever, specifically). And the reason for having different ones in different devices is that it's more secure to generate on each device without leaking it during transfer.

This way you can revoke the keys per device (e.g. you lose your laptop or have it stolen, revoke the key user@laptop and not the one user@university-lab).

I use the same passphrase everywhere (but, again, they're different keys).
Why any individuals?

Nobody is fully qualified in the eyes of all laypeople so let us do nothing.
Are there consultancies that specialize in this kind of thing? "Help us kick this legacy can down the road the bit, nobody here understands it and it's not worth hiring for." Asking because I enjoy this sort of work :)
If people ask and you feel like answering, tell them.

Otherwise it's not dishonest. There's nothing unethical about earning money while also delivering on the promises made as a contractor for someone else.

In case that's not obvious enough, consider this scenario:

You're an actual employee at the day job, not a contractor. On the weekends you like hitting up thrift shops looking for antiques which you then sell on eBay.

Is it dishonest not to talk about that to your employer?

Not talking about something doesn't mean automatically mean it's dishonest. Just like I'm not talking about what I just ate for dinner, not talking about additional ways you make money doesn't mean you're being unethical, immoral, unkind, or dishonest.
Ask HN: How do you balance discipline with passion and creativity?
As someone who struggles with discipline, I am always searching for ways to maintain focus and achieve my goals without losing touch with my passions and creativity. How can I strike a balance between discipline and creative freedom? What are some strategies for staying on track and achieving my goals while also making room for spontaneity and experimentation? Can you share your tips and experience on how you balance discipline with passion and creativity in your daily life, especially if you have faced similar struggles?
Using AI to Generate Fashion
can someone tell me what this is? this instinct to "one-up" posts?

"forget that, try this!"

"that's nothing, look at my favorite thing!"

this is rampant all the time in all posts no matter what they're about on this site and I do not understand it.

Root comments reminiscing about The Old Days also steal thunder from the topic and I don't understand why people do it.

start a post about Your Favorite Thing if you want to go on about it; please stop hijacking other threads because you wanna talk about Your Favorite Thing. let people talk about This Thing...
It's a real issue, that's why I made my own! The beauty of an open source one is that if things start to go off the rails, someone else could also pick up and recreate the data source
Any demos?
You can do surprisingly well in this line of work by simply not being an asshole.
Five seconds is not enough time for a human to regain situational awareness. Also, airbag crashes are quite rare compared to non-airbag crashes.
Haha yes, for sure. I mean that it’s good to understand that HTTP is built on top of other things.

I can’t tell you how valuable it’s been at times to understand how packets flow over a network. When ECONNREFUSED first rears its ugly head many developers tremble. Over time you learn it’s just a slog of debugging. Emotional control while programming is invaluable.
There are several types of ROM available. The type you would find in most 8-bit computers from Atari, Apple, Commodore, Radio Shack, etc. would be chips pre-programmed (aka a Mask Read-Only Memory) at a factory with the contents, such that each bit is set high or low and cannot be changed at all.

Then there's PROM (Programmable Read-Only Memory), which is "empty" (either all 0, or all 1, I don't know the full details) but can be programmed once and that's it. Then there's EPROM (Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory), which can be erased (by exposing the actual chip to UV light), then reprogrammed. Then there is EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory) which can be electrically erased and reprogrammed. For each type of ROM, once programmed, it good for years, if not forever.

The programming of a PROM, EPROM or EEPROM usually consists of applying a higher than normal voltage to the chip on certain pins and is usually done in a separate device. How these chips works internally (how the gates are arranged, erased, programmed, etc.) is not something I know (being into software). This is just stuff I picked up over the years.
This political posturing will probably ensure an increase in support come election time.

People are getting savaged by inflation while the Democrats want the IRS to hire more agents that have a habit of targeting the middle income and poor because they are low hanging fruit.
Copied from https://theintercept.com/2023/01/10/tesla-crash-footage-auto...
Right. As I suggested in another comment, this belief is more of an article of faith than one based on actual facts.

But, my point to GP is that USDT redemption is offchain, and peg defense (for algorithmic stablecoins) or price discovery (for Tether) is onchain. So the market determines the onchain rate.

If it goes to 70c, for example, arbitrageurs will likely step in to pick up cheap USDT and take on the redemption risk. Of course if the market loses complete faith and no party is willing to take on the redemption risk (an unlikely scenario imo), the onchain rate could fall to zero.
Being honest does not require you to tell everyone everything all the time. There aren't even enough hours in the day for that.
what’s the cheapest storage someone can get these days?
A recent president would regularly complain about the low-flow toilet law from 1992: https://apnews.com/article/7a9a494570b7a505017e726ddbea321f
The Editor Who Edited Salinger
Ah yes, this is the justification for referring to African Americans as the N word when taking about them in the past because in the past that was considered a reasonable description. You don’t use the N word just because you are taking about an African American in the 18th century and you don’t use a transitioned person’s misgendered pronouns with the excuse that it is “chronologically accurate”.

This story would have been entirely as informative if the story had simply been about a woman called Jessica.

So yes, I will censor bigoted views. I will censor Nazi propaganda. I will censor racism. And I will censor outing transgender persons.
Why get rid of the next button? Stop that. Has any actual user ever asked to get rid of the next button?
If you're willing to go for a programmable wrist-sized sign (aka a programmable smartwatch) I'd go with Bangle.js.
"Having a legitimate reason" is different from not. That's the difference between murder, manslaughter, negligent homicide, and good Samaritan protection.
This is fun! But I'm a pretty big HP fan and a lot of the answers are flat wrong.

Q: What type of potion did Malfoy steal from Professor Slughorn?

A: Felix Felicis (Liquid Luck). (Wrong, he stole polyjuice potion to disguise Crabbe and Goyle.)

Q: The entrance hall of The Ministry of Magic is lined with what?

A: Talking statues of the Ministry's previous Heads of Department. (Wrong, it's fireplaces connected to the Floo network)
This looks pretty cool and I wish I knew about it last month.

Though I'm not sure heating up in 7 seconds is fast and I wonder if it can keep a constant temperature during use, since they don't mention the wattage.

I just got my first decent soldering iron, a GVM T245 for 90 EUR, and it heats up in about a second.
Is it OK to kick a robot dog?
Ask HN: How much will a ChatGPT monthly subscription be?
It seems like OpenAI is figuring out their monetization plan for ChatGPT. What do folks think the monthly cost will be?
Just looked in eBay and had no idea there were so many DS systems available.
Linux and Open-Source Technologies That Made the Steam Deck Possible
99.9% of those posts from startup engineers saying "we migrated from X to Y" is because they wanted to play with technology Y and rationalised their decision.
Turbo: An experimental text editor based on Scintilla and Turbo Vision
yup, new denser better 4nm silicon, new navi version/stepping apparently, plus an AI coprocessor co-developed with Xilinx. https://www.pcgamer.com/amds-new-ryzen-7040-series-laptop-ap... << quick summary on this crazy high tech!
Potato Publicity Stunts
This publicity stunt is pretty funny! He "surrounded his potato patch at Sablons with armed guards during the day to suggest valuable goods, withdrawing them at night so people could steal the potatoes"
You mean like these ones? https://tether.to/en/transparency/#reports

The most recent was Sep 2022 by BDO.

They have a mix of assets (as you'd expect, because they have different liquidity requirements). But the majority is in short term (<45 day) US Treasury Bonds or Cash and Bank deposits. The other largest asset class is money-market funds, which is a pretty well understood asset class.
Let's not forget the 'third party' (or is the 9th party?), a corporate maker of q software with implied and express warranties. Moreover, there are many, many, representations of safety for the alleged "advanced driver assistance system(s)'. I'm sure any lawyer worth his salt could get some modest litigation started.

To the extent state attorney's are pre-empted by federal law, I'm sure that the NHTSA could pick up some of the slack.
The new story here is about a car that changed lanes. If you don't get when you don't have room, you are at fault.
WingOS: A little 64bit operating system written in C++ with smp support
SS + GOMAD
Bill Mensch and Albert Charpentier have had discussions posted on YouTube about the 6502 and VIC-II chips, respectively.
Advocating for following at a safe distance introduces havok on the road? seriously?
Will voters barely making ends meet dealing with inflation prefer the party that doesnt send government agents to attack them while they are struggling?
Lots of people are messing with the climate.
The console sold 154 million units. And since it’s so old, they are all finding they way to eBay. It’s honestly more interesting to play with and easier to buy than a raspberry pi.
Can someone explain to me how did they manage to mess it up?

Issuing stable coin seems like an easy business on paper. You collect $$$, mint coins, collect interest on those $$$ in a bank and that's your profit. Does everyone become greedy and lose the treasury in gambling instead, or what?
https://www.embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/1453.php -- I wrote up a piece on the 6502 development in 1974-1975.
github does support ssh certs, but only for its enterprise offering.
Early in 2022, the rumour was Sand Hill Road essentially asked its startup portfolio to invest in Crypto.

iirc Neeva wasn't doing too flash back then.

Now, Neeva's playing in its own ballpark.
the nand2tetris course is a nice primer for understanding this kind of stuff:

nand2tetris.org/
YES. How is this not a Wolf product already?
Yeah, zero doubt investing in robust, automated E2E tests in that situation is key. I’d also add:

- Get the “change engine” running smoothly (productive and reliable local dev environment, reasonably fast/reliable build/deploy jobs)

- Get people understanding, documenting, and teaching others the high level functionality and architecture

If you skip those steps, and hop straight to new features, you’re just asking for regressions, outages, poor architecture/design decisions, and just a very slow pace of work. But invest in those 3 up front and you can get to a point where you’re evolving the product well, with few regressions, at a good pace, even without vets to teach the newbies.
I bought a Herman Miller Embody on sale for $1450.

Sound insane? I dunno. It comes with a 12 year warranty, so $10 a month or so. I am comfortable and pain-free even on the occasions that I sit in it for 14 hours straight (yes, I know I shouldn't do that).

I like it a bit better than the Aeron, but note that it is not as adjustable as the latter -- notably, the lumbar support either fits you or it doesn't.
> stable coin seems like an easy business on paper

For one, finding a bank that will hold your money will be tough. They’re taking on significant liability, for the AML officer, personal criminal liability.
You clearly know way more about cloud implementations than I do, so I really appreciate the time you took to explain that out! Since I am the dev here though, the one things I can confirm is that you're 100% correct about the setup methodology- almost every decision was based on "how can I do this in a way that's cost effective". In particular, the underlying data was already on AWS, so it just made sense to build it there.

I think one thing that gets lost in discussion is the advantages of serverless approaches for people without a ton of technical background. I built 90% of this without knowing anything about servers or APIs, but the cloud tools (from whoever) let me ignore all of that and just write a bunch of Python scripts that do cool things. I know it ends up sounding a bit like an AWS ad (I wish I was sponsored by them, but am not), but there really are perks to the approach
Apparently Gary didn't ask all variations of this question: "What religion will the first <x> president of the United States be?"

How "woke beyond woke" is GPT-3?

I tried a series of values for <x>. It subtly changes the response. ChatGPT in fact has nuanced views on the election prospects of many religions. Taoist take heart, you have a chance. Raelians, sorry, try another country. I tried others in {X}:

x1: "It is possible"

x2: "Not impossible"

x3: "Difficult"

x4: "Unlikely"

x5: "Highly unlikely"

"They’re trying to protect the system from saying stupid things. But the reality is the only way to do that is to make a system actually understand the world. And since they don’t, it’s all superficial."

It is not "all" superficial. Also "the reality is the only way to do that is to make a system actually understand the world" is the open question.

I pose this question yet again: do all apparently intelligent species (bees to crows to dogs to apes to humans) require semantics for 'intelligent' behavior?

The late Maaten van Emdem's insightful critique regarding the fallacy of "total ordering of intelligence" and proposal of "partial ordering" is key to moving forward, imho. This view, like all partial ordering schemes, requires distinguishing dimensions in the 'feature space' of intelligence. "Understanding" then is simply one dimension.

(Thanks for the link.)
looks very messy though I understand its 90s style website.
I think we work at the same company.

Write your RFCs as markdown in a git repository. Stick it to the man!
I’ve been working on a hobby project for about 6 years, and early on I got very excited about productizing it. It led me down some interesting paths and really made me think about overall BOM cost, designing for assembly, ease of use, etc. It also revealed some weaknesses for me, as I kept making decisions based on something I was sure I could figure out, rather than what I actually knew how to do.

Eventually I switched some things up and it got much easier.
I don't think its fair to call this raising the bar. I don't think anyone was imagining plausible yet nonsensical text to be the bar for AI.

ChatGPT is incredibly good at generating plausible text, but nearly all of the time it fails to hold up to detailed scrutiny. It writes like a human who doesn't know what they are talking about, but have chosen to bullshit something instead of admit they don't know.

At least for me, I would have expected more understanding to be necessary to get to ChatGPT levels of plausibility. I would not have expected a bot that does not understand two digit multiplication at all to be able to say anything vaguely convincing about primes, but ChatGPT can.

Being thoroughly surprised by how ML improves and then restating your expectations is not the same as raising the bar.
That's true. That kind of does happen actually. I let my business partner take all the calls and he sometimes asks me to change stuff based on recurring confusion.
I just re-read your post more carefully and realized I missed a big part.

I missed the part about you wanting to shift towards working less at the day job.

That conversation could be as simple as "starting on [some future date] my availability will be reduced to [x hours] per week. Let's figure out how to make that work with the least amount of disruption."

I've had similar conversations. In one case, the company wasn't happy, and I figured out a way to hire someone to do the other gigs so that I could stay 100% on the project.

That's also an easy way to start a business with actual employees. In my case, I hired two people, and the company was delighted because now they had a trusted partner, didn't have to do payroll, worry about benefits, or anything, and still get what they wanted (for cheaper). Don't underestimate how much a company might be willing to do to help make your goals a reality so that they can further their own.
Interesting, thanks. I had a feeling the support was limited to host certs.
NIMBYs are everywhere while the population is always growing. Did you think you would escape it, or just want to blame city slickers who like a roof over their head?
Can't it just go Tether -> BTC -> USDC?