skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My energy levels drop drastically when I'm doing too much "high velocity media" or bottomless wells, be it Reddit, regular news, tv shows, movies, games, etc.

I think it fries your dopamine and other neurological circuits. I don't know the science in depth but I have seen enough anecdotal evidence on myself and others to be persuaded that the relationship is huge.

Do a screen fast for a couple of weeks and check out what happens.
Sounds like the perfect presentation material then. I wonder how well ChatGPT would do on creating those slidedecks used to essentially drive your executive audience to agree on Option #3 (recommended route).
It does to me. These are likely people that are living in lower quality housing with more people packed in per square foot of housing out of necessity. I don't have actually data to back up this assertion, but this has been my personal observation of folks that do the kind of informal work that allows them to be paid under the table.
Lisp is perfect for one man projects, personal tooling, templating for languages you prefer not to write, etc.

To me it's more of a programmer's swiss army knife than a language I'd use in a big project that needs to be accessible to a larger team.
CS324 – Large Language Models
From what I know its considered most important for various things.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20181126-is-breakfast-goo...

https://share.upmc.com/2017/07/reasons-breakfast-is-importan...

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/do-you-really-need-to-eat...

Was able to get some quick references from Google, but I really did read and hear about it from multiple sources as well.
I suspect the brain alone cannot do it. At a some point the chemistry needs to happen, and it has to be in the right place (so the physics of moving liquids inside your body is also required).
I suspect the intention was to get an MVP out the door and get some initial "growth & engagement" so they can attract VCs - cost-effectiveness wasn't a priority at this stage.

It's a shame because there is a small but sustainable business here.
> * I would assume that the same would apply for gold above some reasonable value (e.g. a really big gold necklace :) ).*

Whereas with Bitcoin, it is much more difficult to confiscate it because it's purely information. You might be trusting the manufacturer of a hard wallet to protect the privacy of your seed phrase, but once you memorize it no one can forcibly take it from you.
There isn't a hard boundary between "somebody messing around, learning, and making art" and "capital holders stealing from everyone" but my real problem is the latter state of affairs, AI isn't really relevant to the morality of the situation just a means to an end. A situation where they use massive volumes of labor to the same ends would have similar issues (ignoring the obvious human rights violations). The only problem AI has is that it makes abuse more efficient.
Have you been working from home for the last 3 years? Less social interaction could contribute to this.
Trends in GPU price-performance (2022)
You're being way too kind to the crypto haters, who were predicting crashes in 2014, too.

HN has predicted 10 of the last two crypto crashes.
Sure

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20181126-is-breakfast-goo...

https://share.upmc.com/2017/07/reasons-breakfast-is-importan...

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/do-you-really-need-to-eat...

https://www.piedmont.org/living-better/why-breakfast-is-the-...
Everything in the article screams that they did not know what they were doing.

Why would you think that a company using a $25 Adafruit HAT that could be found for a magnitude less elsewhere would be using cheap LED matrices?

Put another way, what from the article gives you enough confidence to say that they would have used cheaper parts?
What kind of password manager are you using that freely puts passwords in regular ( or unmasked) text input boxes?

Edit: typo
> Office + ChatGPT is coming, as in...integrated.

Mmm! Perhaps finally delivering on the dream Clippy aspired to.
If a group with a strong claim to representing one of those names comes forward with a public statement about why it's harmful we can evaluate it. We don't need to create a perfectly generalizable framework to address a specific concrete request.
I love how you're arguing that a single family worth $250 BILLION dollars [1] shouldn't have to pay employees a living wage.

How do you think they amassed that fortune?

(Hint - they did it by paying their employees an extremely low wage.)
Fay Weldon’s death is a reminder of advertising’s golden age
There are lots of terms that exist in separate realms and we understand the context without much issue at all.

Do people get confused by ‘Windows’? Or ‘Desktop’ or ‘Office’.
This has led me to calling Indigenous people, North American Indians, Central America Indians, etc.
These code bases are effectively worthless without the training, which is definitely not open.
> This is not a company that’s on a trajectory of growth. They’re on a trajectory of death.

Maybe Rackspace is on a trajectory of death, but this is a false dichotomy. It isn't (or at least shouldn't) be necessary to grow for a company to survive. If you are profitable, staying the same size is perfectly fine.
Bodega cats exist to keep the rats from eating the 8% xD
I don't think I'm following you. You're using technical terms such as 'parameter space' in the wrong context. Maybe you want to sound clever, but you aren't making a lot of sense.
The decisionmaking behind those deadly products happened long before the CEO in question came on board.
As a developer I feel we are too easily jaded. I went to a hackathon for kids and some of the ideas they came up with were really innovative and possibly worth pursuing. I like "I have an idea for an app" conversations. Especially if they are buying drinks or a meal. Most of them are too far out there. Others are done to death. Others the market is too small to justify the effort. Occasionally, you encounter an idea that truly checks all the boxes, this is rare.
Retiring Pinafore, the Mastodon Client
Theory-building and why employee churn is lethal to software companies
> some imposition of white, Western morality

While I totally agree that imposition of white, Western morality is commonplace, applying it to the idea of economic autonomy is somewhat obscene - autonomy is universal, not culturally specific.

> as determined by middle-class researchers

This is a somewhat hilariously (and depressingly) circular critique given the economic barriers to entry in US education. How can the researchers be anything but middle-class if we can't even agree people should earn enough to go to / send their kids to college.

> often include things like owning your own car, a private living space, private food consumption, etc.

This tends to reflect local infrastructure and available amenities - which, yes, are likely governed by white Westerners, but that isn't a commentary on people needing a car for individual reasons. If the public transport is poor & my economic circumstances force me to do things I need a car to access (childcare, healthcare, work commutes), then private car ownership becomes less a cultural choice and more a local white-Western-imposed necessity.

> if you are from a culture that doesn't cherish individuality so much

This is the most ridiculous part - bringing up individuality here is so odd, when the whole resistance to mutual support provided by regulated living wages is about individualistic ideals of "everyone fending for themselves".

> people still come from around the world and still thrive on them

Citation needed. Sure, you will always find some individual who'll claim that they're "thriving", particularly if they were also subsisting in their country of origin (NY isn't the only place where people are struggling - out of the frying pan, etc.), but stating this is universally the case is obvious nonsense. Keeping in mind many such folk send income home, making their overall needs even greater.
Probably the latter. There are many senses in which it's not ideal; at the same time, I think most people in NYC would happily take a rent controlled unit (if they're not already living in one).
Thanks. Good feedback. That's first confusion point (for myself included).

My improvement plan is:

- Remove that valueSource

- Allow raw sql string for field and value for operator. Actually field and value in this case is left and right operand.
Kind of a nitpick, but AIs mostly don't get to choose what's "right". I mean they're trained with a particular goal in mind already, so either their training data or whatever metric their self-training is set to optimize defines "right" for them in advance.

It's not AIs that are struggling to find a better version of "right", it's people building AIs.
I Interpret the Body Electric
Thank you very much! Indeed it looks really useful. I hope I can implement it soon.
The article is written by "ADAM RECVLOHE, HOLLY GRIMM, DESIREE KANE". It sounds more like an opinion article than factual to me. But it's not up to me or anyone else to decide. Changing a company name is an expensive proposition. I don't see it happening without going to court.
Not really, since they are the ones who will probably end up buying it. Overvaluing it raises the price they'll have to pay for it later.
My understanding was that people use Fentanyl due to the expense and difficulty in obtaining other drugs due to their illegal nature.

If they could easily obtain legal heroin of known purity and concentration then it would presumably lead to less deaths as they would be less likely to overdose and less likely to use more dangerous chemicals such as Fentanyl as a substitute.
Energy yes, and focus. When an interest is lost, it's harder to focus. Like why the hell would I still have to write this algorithm, it would be exciting when I was younger, now it's meh lets find out if there's a lib for this. And then every piece of software is garbage through lens of experience .. why would I write software at all .. of course because I need a job and money. Now I may think I'm not sharp as my young self.
It would seem to make a difference to the 3 Indigenous software engineers who wrote the article.
I'm seeing the IDs as acct and pw.
> If you think everyone earning just enough to keep themselves physically alive is a sufficient standard to strive to for modern society, then I would question your ethics.

And what are your ethics? And why are you so sure you've got them right? If people are living so poorly in New York, they are free to leave, and yet they choose to stay there. There is no "human right" to live in New York. I certainly don't want to live there, and cost of living is only one of many reasons. Most importantly, it is certainly neither compassionate, nor wise, nor good, to subsidize people living there with other people's money, or, even worse, money we have to print from scratch or borrow from others, further driving inflation and national debt, which consequences affect the future and security of everyone.

Stop and consider that you may not be the compassionate hero you think you are. The great swindle of our times is to convince people to do very bad things in the name of empathy or compassion, all the while allowing them to feel good about themselves.
Both LastPass and Bitwarden have browser extensions that will attempt to fill in login prompts on demand for sites that are detected as being connected to entries.
I'd recommend checking out your local community of hackerspaces [1] and/or hardware meetups [2] to meet others to discuss your idea with.

The "new type of material" is probably going to be really difficult, but you can check out Material Connexxion [3] and MatWeb [4] to see if something is already available.

Also, there's a lot of product designers and engineers on UpWork / CAD Crowd [5] that will do quick consulting calls for like $20-$100/hr.

[1] https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/List_of_Hacker_Spaces

[2] https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1qwBGJ5jUOf-zquVw...

[3] https://materialconnexion.com/

[4] https://www.matweb.com/

[5] https://www.cadcrowd.com/
I think the indigenous argument is that we (Americans) decimated them and shipped the rest to reservations, then here we are making a cutesy pun with their name. I don't think the Apache foundation is unique in this regard. There's really no indigenous cultural exports from North America, so what we see for the most part is pretty bastardized.
Man, I love tax deductions too much to do things off the books

I could have earned 7 figures that year and still get every stimulus check

but I understand the need to go off the books if you are living in NYC state subsidized housing

one city, two systems
Presumably by somebody in Mornington Crescent?
I found the OP very insightful, and would recommend reading and thinking about it. The lessons we can draw from the construction of The Empire State and other buildings of that era, before the advent of computers, are applicable to any large, capital-intensive project.

My only reservation is that the OP fails to mention that some workers died during the construction of The Empire State building: According to the builder, "only" 5 workers died, but according to a newspaper, 14 workers died.[a] No one in the developed world would want to finish a project faster and for less money if the cost has to be measured in human lives -- expect in extreme circumstances, like war.[b]

See also: https://patrickcollison.com/fast .

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[a] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_State_Building#Construc...

[b] In some parts of the world, projects are routinely finished faster at the expense of human lives. For example, according to https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/nov/27/qatar-death... , between 6,500 and 15,000 workers died, and more were injured, to build all the stadiums and facilities in time for the World Cup in Qatar, a tiny country in the Middle East / Western Asia with a total population of under 3M people.

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EDITS: Added " -- expect in extreme circumstances, like war" to the last paragraph, and a link to Patrick Collison's fantastic page with examples of "people quickly accomplishing ambitious things together" and thoughts on why projects take so much longer today.
I don't really think it has a material impact in how people view my culture. I understand that they've incorporated some of the core tenants and mixed them with their own, but the existence of it doesn't bother me, and I don't think you can really appropriate ideas.

Free for me to use, free for you to use.
The Bird-ride of Rocketman a discworld novel
The shortcuts app is a tantalizing glimpse of what could be. Directionally, it was a sea change for iOS when Apple acquired it and subsequently introduced its first-party iteration. But imagine the potential of Shortcuts if it were evolved into a fully-realized HyperCard successor.
> Maybe Manhattan COL is insane,

Manhattan COL is completely ludicrous. I knew a lawyer who lived in an actual closet; it was exactly long enough to hold a small bed and about twice as wide. He shared a bathroom and a kitchen with the owners. He paid $3500/month for this, and he considered it a terrific bargain. (The kitchen was nice.)

One-room appartments in southern Manhattan were being advertised for $1-2 million at the time.

There are some cheaper options in northern Manhattan, and definitely in the other boroughs. But transportation in NYC means the subway and busses (or $$$$$ for taxis and parking), and it's really easy for trips to take 40-60 minutes. So living too far out means a brutal and unpredictable commute.

There are options, obviously. But when living in a literal closet is a good option, plenty of the bad options are pretty awful.
This was fun. Really dig the arpeggiator.
Interesting area and well done on the work !

Have you looked at https://perspective.finos.org/ ? It has at least some overlaps and can manage pretty big datasets by levering Arrow in WASM in the browser.
I'm not really understanding the distinction between a "plan" and a "workflow". It sounds like they had a plan but we are bending over backwards in TFA to call it something else because a plan is bad in some agile circles.
That's a tax problem, not a regulatory problem. Or do you still have moonshiners running around with their trunks full of white lightning?
This is a really solid point with which I agree!

I think the only caveat is there is much debate about where to set the minimum wage, and it's not crystal clear what is the appropriate number. So for that debate I do think it is reasonable to use as a proxy "is the employee paid enough to not qualify for means-tested social assistance programs," because there is obviously a relationship in practice between the minimum wage and the amount ultimately spent on social assistance. This is only really true because the means-tested programs phase out as income increases, which would not be true of single-payer healthcare (so the argument doesn't make sense in that case).
This could also be a case of developers not pressing hard enough back on technically-less-competent manager-driven architectural decisions
So I experienced this as well at that age. I would recommend looking at your sleep and diet patterns. After that look into Testosterone Replacement Therapy, this was life changing for me in my 40’s.
> Firm C that combines the advantages of firms A and B will eat their lunch.

Read what I wrote again. The point of sectoral bargaining is to remove downward competition on wages as a possible competitive advantage.

> I'm not quite sure what you mean by underpaying? If people are willing to work for a company, and everything is as promised, what's wrong with that? (If things are not as promised, the legal system can help.)

What’s wrong with that is: low wages are bad. Your conceptual mistake here is thinking that jobs are “voluntary”. Most people are forced to do jobs in order to pay for food and shelter.
Well that definitely sounds like a dream haha

How did they know what amounts attract attention? Trial and error? That would be pretty bad
SBF Associate Nishad Singh Is Third to Meet with Prosecutors
Apparently it’s easier to go to war so we can pat ourselves on the back than it is to fix societal issues driving the use of hard drugs.
There was no straightforward way to tell in the post-pandemic environment which changes in the economy would be transient and which ones would be long-term. It's easy to tell a just-so story about how these companies' pandemic boom was obviously because of easy money and they should have known it wouldn't last. But back in 2020, I remember I used to go around telling a similar but wrong story about how remote work won't last.
I have my problems with burnout and depression and this usually leads to phases where I am hyper productive and can effortlessly take on any challenge, and then the opposite phase where I feel completely incapable and end up overthinking everything.

Even without burnout, sometimes a problem doesn’t motivate you and therefore you don’t really feel like solving it when there are other things that seem more interesting or more practical.

Either case, once the down period starts it’s a good signal to take some time off and get your head out of it.
The extrapolation from LSE deal makes absolutely no sense
The key point here would be "did things correctly" :)

The sign did use AWS IoT for real time configuration updates however initial configuration was pulled from their HTTP server. Using the vulnerability I describe in the article I just remove the connection to AWS IoT.
Conspicuously absent from this entire article is the word "abstraction".

Oh, sorry, I just said a bad word, didn't I? We're not allowed to use the a-word around these parts, or people will think we're being enterprisey and chase use away with pitchforks. What am I, some kinda enterprise programmer?

I can see why doing an "extract to interface" IDE command in the messy situation TFA describes would (rightly!) get this reaction. Of course that's just adding more needless complexity to an already needlessly complex situation. But that's not what good abstraction looks like. For some reason, everyone seems to get it in their head that abstraction is supposed to be some sort of list of features you support. So you take each public class Foo and extract them to an interface IFoo and you have your list of features. Abstraction!

No. Good abstraction describes your needs. That's it! If your module needs to do something, but doesn't want to be responsible for the exact implementation of that thing, then you define an abstraction which describes that need. It will be implemented by whoever needs your module.

> You can choose between having modules A and B using a module C doing something, or have them do it themselves. What's your call?

A defines abstractions describing what it needs to do its job, and so does B. Since A and B have different responsibilities, these are two separate pieces of code, even if they look basically the same right now.

Now you have lots of options, and you can vary between them easily depending on what makes sense:

- A and B can implement the abstractions C needs, and then use C. So A -> C and B -> C. ("->" meaning "depends on"). The code exists in isolated corners of A and B so it can be moved easily later.

- C can implement A's and B's abstractions, so C -> A and C -> B. The code exists in isolated corners of C, so it can be moved easily later.

- Leave A, B, and C completely independent of one another. Write a small module ac, which provides implementations for A in terms of C, and a small module ad, which provides implementations for B in terms of C. Now you have no dependencies whatsoever between your major modules, and you've introduced small adapter modules that you can throw away later.

- Leave A, B, and C completely independent of one another. Your end application handles stitching them together (like above, but ab and ac are just sitting inside your end application).

> Rumors tell that [XParam's] original host project uses <5% of its features.

Let the marketing people think in terms of "features". You should be thinking in terms of needs. You can spend months implementing features that you don't need. It's much harder to implement a need you don't need. An that's what abstractions are: a description of what you need to do your job.
That complexity only exists if you create it. The regular read and write calls are serialized by the operating system.
So the issue is many people are okay… but you may always come across ”orthodox/y” which isn’t. Does the minority opinion get to rain in the parade for everyone?
Sounds like I need to partner with the author.... as I wrote my own predictive Caltrain late train model/alert site:

https://caltrain.live

(twitter @bettercaltrain)
A study https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2019/12/17/aging-research-plas... found some blood protein changes at ages 34, 60 & 78.
Once I started eating only beef I noticed that I was just naturally hungry much less often. I've heard the same from other people who follow a diet of only red meat -- it is rare to eat more than twice a day. In fact, when I had to go off my diet a while ago during a trip to India I began getting annoyed at how often I got hungry and had to eat.
Yes. Serving content crafted for spiders specifically is a blacklist waiting to happen.
See also: no true scotsman.
> but weirdly you don't see things like implicit return

that's been a thing in ruby since probably forever and it's one of the defining things about it
We really need this, because if it's only the absolute economic elite that will have access to this 99.9999% of people are going to be dominated, psyopped, outworked, censored and drowned in noise whether on the "left" or "right" for ultimate AI centrism aka. bootlicker discourse.

A free for all will still result in a dizzying paradigm shift though, but there is no alternative. Like Guttenberg but exponentially faster - locality will become central, "corny pop culture hacker dungeons" / hackspaces could become important as no one will know whats real and only locally controlled compute and algo power is to be trusted.