skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Neil Postman quote resonates with me for how I learned Spanish. I moved to Buenos Aires and took three weeks of intensive formal education and would have gone longer were it not for the fact that I had built up a sufficient enough understanding to be able to ask locals questions (and mostly understand their responses). I'd go out to cafes and clubs with locals. It was fun and rewarding, even if I'd sometimes be out of the loop at times. I realized I was learning faster this way than the school was providing and so ended the classes.

I realized that at some point I still needed to return to classes for the more advanced grammar, but that came after over a year of building out my vocabulary and confidence the informal conversational way.
I'm with you, the Prometheus trailed spoiled the whole movie by revealing a major action from the last 5 minutes of the movie, I was so angry.

On the other hand, there's a hilarious counter example where Alfred Hitchcock "spoils" the whole movie in a 6 minute trailer and I would still want to see the whole movie. It would be awesome to see trailers like this for a recent movie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTJQfFQ40lI
The credit bureaus are moving in to work/payroll verification by hoovering payroll data that US companies voluntarily give to them. They sell access to data to people verifying income for loan application, and law offices, and child support services.

I got job offer and told recruiter to put in writing that my payroll data will not be released without a court subpoena. Am waiting on response from recruiter. My outlook is that HR does not care about employees if they purposefully leak this info.

Those concerned may want to ask their HR about payroll data sharing.

https://www.experian.com/consumer-information/employment-inc...

https://theworknumber.com
Yeah its to use energy more efficiently when we are under stress
I don't think it's sad. We all change and some of us also grow up. Older people and parents find violence in general harder to take as entertainment. It's part of your brain changing over time. I would say that isn't an argument for less violence in movies. I'm not making a moral argument about violence in film - it's just an aesthetic thing.
Survivor!.io, seems a somewhat similar game available for mobiles.
It's interesting seeing the American credit model malfunction so badly so often (massive data leaks, crappy gaming of the system - even today i read on HN not to pay off your mortgage if you don't have any other loans or it might tank your credit score).

As with a couple of other things, it's basically the only developed country with this model (useless for-profit middlemen for no good reason), it really sucks for the average consumer, yet there is no actual change coming. Why? Is it American exceptionalism refusing to acknowledge that there are better ways used elsewhere? Is it free market "absolutism" hoping the market will fix itself?
I pair it with half-page ups/downs. The cursor is always on the center line for easier vertical movements after scrolling

nnoremap <C-d> <C-d>zz

nnoremap <C-u> <C-u>zz
Sr.ht should set up their own graceful rate-limiting anyway, or they're going to have problems with badly coded CI setups as the service becomes more popular.
With all that traffic, what is the cost of the hosting?
This is actually one of the reasons I trust the Go project is in good hands. The Go leadership has smart engineers, with good taste, willing to say no. The Go module implementation and version selection mechanism are better than what the community had converged on.

Go has demonstrated that its governance model is capable of making better decisions than a pure democracy. This is not the case for most open source projects.
You just don't want to be in the position you are in now to start. I am currently in a similar position that you are in. Where you get spread really thin due to your specialist role in just about anything. If you don't want to be in management long term you need to let them know that and get your role changed. I find it is hard to do this though because as long as you are at the same company you will always get requests that are unique to you and distracting. The only way to truly dismiss that is to leave.

Spending a lot of time doing things like you are doing causes your marketable development skills to decay over time. If you did spend the 5 years of your life like that, and decided you wanted to move on and wanted a staff engineer/lead position you would be up against people that are doing mostly software development most of the time.
> Everything is reasonably good: pay, co-workers, work itself.

If ONE of these core elements change, THEN it’ll be time to move on.

There is an interesting formula for change. V and D (vision and dissatisfaction) are multiplied: V x D yielding the motivation to overcome R (resistance).

In other words, right now— if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
DoSing SourceHut? And the perpetrator is known? Why don't you try to sue them?
This is 100% correct. All your points are right.

But the Go team ignored it for _years_ until dep got a lot of traction and we had this big community meeting about it and live on the call Russ said he was going to work on minimal version selection and build a tool.

Sam Boyer had given a big talk about package management at GopherCon and on that call his only response when people asked what was going on was "no comment right now" or something like that. It was almost like it was his first time hearing of it.

It just seemed to be handled very poorly.

All parties involved are active on HN AFAIK so they can correct me. I am not trying to dig all the past back up just for funsies... maybe something will happen here and the Go core team will realize they need to work with Drew and sort it out. But history points to them doing what they want to do irrespective of the community.
> Just for fun, it would be cool if each of us remembers to take the time to leave at least 1 or 2 little puzzles for our descendants to figure out, as a way to have happier feelings again one last time with you, in a way.

If you and your loved ones like puzzles, sure, but it’s a stretch to say each of us should do it. For many (I’d bet “most”) it’d just be frustrating to come up with or try to decrypt the puzzle.

Do whatever makes sense for your case. I remember (but am failing to find) a story about someone who had Mario Kart on N64 and showed it to their grandfather who enjoyed it so much he bought an N64 and Mario Kart (and only that game) for himself. When they played together, the grandfather always won. Years later, after the grandfather died, they got his old game and console and occasionally played against their grandfather’s Mario Kart ghosts. They still failed to beat any of them, and that triggered fond memories.
I've done the whole "why is my arm vibrating thing" before, except in my case I was trying to get the end of a light fitting off, and both the hot and cold prongs were in my hand. Got a nice couple of blisters where they touched the skin.

My guess would be not enough of the main current was passing across your heart to kill you? I didn't think mains electricity was necessary powerful enough to kill people in most scenarios, just that it is powerful enough to do it in an unlucky few. I'd also imagine the floor wasn't really conducting to earth.
>I mean this kindly

I don't lol. OP is a bundle of sticks. Every time there's a tiny bit of tech progress with this stuff they just go "MAH REGULASHIONS PLEASE PAPA GOVERNMENT SAVE US!"
I rewatched it a few months ago. Fully expected the parts where they talk about the tech to be laughably wrong compared to the current state of the art in ML. Nope. Spot on.

(Edit: with artistic license obviously. It was plausible-sounding instead of cringe technobabble).
Chollet's view on this can't just be dismissed. There can't be many people better positioned to understand the current state of the art and the immediate prospects for advancement.

It's fine to disagree with him, but most people doing so will be from a much less informed position.
Laptops sort of have gone away, in the sense that the smartphone has become many people's first computing device over the past decade.

Adults who did not own a computing device before the smartphone, may choose to continue living their lives without a laptop/desktop. Kids who have grown up with iPads and Chromebooks at school may look for mobile options in college first instead of a standard Mac/Windows laptop.
I have a question as I have no experience with it but does the Kernel play an important role regarding performance? So does Kernel 5 perform a lot better than 4?
I like this because it feels like malicious compliance and it would allow Google to seemlessly continue working should Google figure out their caching situation. Plus it uses a rarely used HTTP status. Love it.
Hey everyone,

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In addition, BitEscrow is incredibly fast, with transactions being 130-190 times faster than fiat escrow, with future plans to support the Lightning Network. There will also be a full customer service suite to handle disputes.

We are scheduled to launch by the end of the year, with a fully functional website and API for wallets, marketplaces, and banks. This will be an important product for Bitcoin because it will introduce the concept of disputable Bitcoin transactions for buyers and sellers - similar to a credit card. We have also built parts of it on Nostr - to help us be the mediators of the contracts, and not the host.

Let us know if you have any questions, we will answer as many as we can.
What's this?

DWIM is evolving!

DWIM evolved into ChatGPT!
We don't A/B test core values
How much value do the credit agencies add beyond what could be obtained by knowing income, location, number of dependents, and current debt/liabilities?

verifying identity is another matter, but I’d expect what you put on the credit application to be the data that explains the defensible reasons to not give a loan, without needing a magic credit score.
Lets not forget that Valve was one of the early adopters of loot boxes with Counter Strike and TF2.
Course is free, cert takes about 60-90 hours and cost $350 dollars.
Something approximating intermittent fasting, was probably an extremely common condition for humans to experience, until the development of agriculture.

In a mobile culture without access to lots of salt, there are few ways to preserve food. You eat what you find as you find it, as much as you can. Then you go hungry until you find the next big score. Hunters may go many days or weeks between large kills or a group reaches a more promising foraging ground, everyone scraping by on minimal nutrition like dried jerky and plants collected on the move. But doing that for a few weeks, or even months, is just fine, if everyone was well-fed at the start, anyway.
Firefox is still doing great as a browser, on Android, Linux and Windows it's my first choice. Chrome played a huge role in Firefox's market dhare loss, it used to clearly be the superior browser but now I think firefox is better, lighter on resources, faster and more flexible.
Am I wrong to guess that this domain is worth more than a million dollars?

Rejecting that kind of money for making a point is… I don’t know, but it’s definitely something.

Edit: not just rejecting money, but defending it in court!
Self referential vs inflection of existential being?
I too have lived through many hype cycles. I jumped on one in 1992 and created one of the first ISPs in Michigan. That changed my career path from automotive to tech. It was an exciting time as thousands of ISPs were launched.

I completely ignored the hype around blockchain, NFTs, etc. I even block anyone who says they are a blockchain expert on Linkedin.

But I am all in on leveraging LLM for new business use cases. My mind is blown at what we can do with DaVinci 3.5 and looking forward to evaluating 4.0. ChatGPT is a demonstrator. DaVinci is ushering in the next wave of innovation.
Pulp – open source artifact hosting for RPM, debian, docker, etc
Why did sourcehut not take the offer to be added to the refresh exclusion list like the other two small hosting providers did? It seems like that would have resolved this issue last year.
Ahhh didn't realize they were reversible like that. Makes sense that those would cause issues.
You are on a completely different level. Wow. I am going to spend absolutely too long tomorrow trying to work out how on earth you've done that. Cheers!
Old ladies in economy cars will pass you...
Another use of rebase is cherry-picking commits, which is also plagued with all sorts of issues. These aren't "bugs", since the issue is that commits aren't really suitable for doing this: patches (like in Pijul or Darcs) do solve this.
For some yes, for some no. My point is that having that warning won't help the reckless. It's not needed for the intelligent. It might help those people who have come to expect warnings for things. However, it hurts them overall because it's a common risk and other areas won't have those warnings possible causing then to act without caution and getting hurt there. So the warnings might help in a specific Cass for a very small group of people, but will overall be a negative if the person encounters that risky situation when it doesn't have a warning. I hate to say it since it tends to have political tones, but sheeple - people who just do whatever they're told and don't think for themselves - will increase as we remove the need to think to survive. Supposedly wild animals are more intelligent than similar domestic animals.
"Back to the Future is a perfect movie!"

- Quentin Tarantino
Hence having even less sympathy for the company when they feel that it's a problem if their employees only do what's in the job description that the company themselves created.
If the proxy changes a new version of a package, when you update it, there's no way to detect it since it fetches through the cache anyways, so a poisoned sum will be added to sumdb, and anyone who isn't fetching their packages through Google's proxy will get told that whatever they're using is trying to trick them.
I am honestly impressed that Kia managed to create a logo that looks even cheaper than the previous one and yes it doesn't even look like it says KIA. Why??
If I start a company with the express purpose of having it commit crimes, it will be shut down and everyone employed will be fired. That's not on the government, that's on me, the employer. So then where is the line that we draw that says how badly a company needs to behave or how many crimes it needs to commit to justify it being dissolved? We should not tolerate crime for the sake of the livelihoods of the henchmen. "The death star is bad, but think of how many people would be unemployed if we stopped them" is exactly the argument they want you to make.
What a really neat waste of time
That's really interesting! I like this, thanks for sharing the link!
> This is not true. Market price will not go up arbitrarily. Scalpers will not keep scalping if the retail price is greater than what they can sell it for, which will happen at some point.

How are you using such confident language on what the scalpers in this space will or will not do base on ... what looks like Econ 101 supply / demand curves? Do you have some expertise you're not including as context here?
Did not downvote, but the basic cert price (Foundations) appears in the website for $350
It seems to me like you have a very clear idea of what you like and what you don't like. You also seem to be self-aware enough that you notice that your mental health is suffering.

When I come to similar realizations, I make a career transition. Speaking personally, in one role I found myself managing a team of contract software developers in a different time zone. I didn't enjoy the extra communication overhead, quality issues, and the feeling of not being able to establish an interpersonal relationship with them. When I learned that our senior management was going to hire a team of contractors again I left the position. Leaving this position resulted in a pay cut but the benefit for my mental health was huge.
No it is not my article. I just know weird things from other articles I also didn't write involving doing weird stuff with NES tetris.
I think the actions here are meant to generate attention. Google is acting in bad faith and needs to be called out.
Nice, thank you for this.

I'm having one issue here is that ELM is not a language I know, so I'll have to learn it along with him in case he get stuck :D
Same boat as you, tried for a decade to figure it out, tried many of the suggestions here, eventually gave up and switched to starting small startups and then when they start to grow past a certain point, transitioning to someone else and then moving on to a new company.

A lot of people are just really good at different stages of a company's growth. Me, I'm good at starting from scratch and going until we've shipped the first few major versions of a product or service and have a small but significant number of paying customers. I like the chaos, the blank slate, and I'm not overwhelmed by analysis paralysis on what we should do. I love being involved in everything and wearing lots of hats, and being knee deep in both architecture and development.

Other people are far, far better than me at taking it from there and growing it to "enterprise" level and having 1000s of paying customers. They are good at taking things that were owned by one person and growing a team around it, filling in the feature gaps, etc. They are good at maturing the company's organizational structure as well as the product offering.

Once I had the lightbulb moment that (a) I wasn't very good at those later stages and that (b) I had zero interest in becoming better at them, it allowed me to choose a more compatible career path and made me way happier. Thinking of it as a relay race has also helped me do better at planning ahead for the eventual transition. Just one example: I do much better now at preserving documentation around a lot of our original thinking/planning, especially tradeoff discussions of now vs later things.
As primarily a Steam user it always surprises me how low the platform counts are in the grand scheme of things. In particular with Steam setting itself to auto launch by default I never would have guessed the peak in game stat would peak as high as 1/3 peak logged in if I didn’t see it. Even given that though the peak concurrent player count for all of Steam is less than 2x that of Roblox alone! I always keep Steam stats as a personal example of needing to verify what you feel you know about something with actual numbers.
> I was also taken aback when Peter Bourgon, a great programmer and contributor to the go ecosystem was banned from all go channels.

Bourgon was frequently helpful and great, but also frequently rude, condensing, dismissive, and generally just unpleasant. I've seen this countless of times first-hand on Slack, Reddit, and Lobsters. I specifically stopped interacting with him long before he was banned. Whether he's a great programmer/contributor not isn't really important here.

I kind of hate how it's brought up here because I think he's not a bad bloke at all and I know the entire situation caused great personal hurt to him. But that doesn't change that he was the kind of "brilliant jerk" that would chase people out of the community with his behaviour, and that he was unreceptive to criticism of it (often getting pretty defensive/aggressive). No one liked how all of this turned out, but it did make the Go community a better place. Being helpful yesterday doesn't cancel out being a jerk today.

Same with Drew: he posted legitimate helpful issues. And he also ranted about how people were all a bunch of morons. I don't blame anyone for getting tired of that.
I recommend using an existing implementation rather than reinventing it.

https://supabase.com/docs/guides/auth/auth-email or https://auth0.com/docs/authenticate/passwordless/authenticat...
I'm guessing your salary depends on you thinking that AI-generated marketing copy is a Good Thing™.

To me, it just sounds like more dystopian attention spam. If absolutely all marketing copy vanished overnight never to return, in my opinion the world would be a better place.
I wonder, if creators will save pure T1, or will do like with Star Wars, where first episodes re-rendered with modern graphics.
My experience donating stem cells
UE5 would be awesome but it's too complicated for someone that never did any coding at all.

But if all goes well, that might be something we'll learn!
as has my Twitter with a giant wave of influencer bros who are all of sudden AI course experts and conveniently have discount codes for me to use.
HN gets so caught up in logic. Has no one watched interviews of scammed people? Huge numbers of them report that they were suspicious it was a scam but they were so worried for a loved one they sent the money anyway because it was worth the risk to them just in case. Anything that helps push scams in the even slightly plailusible direction will make scams more successful.
I hope this is broad enough to include the three major credit bureaus and their ilk.
It calls out AI / ML specifically.

Guess our regression models will have to go back to being "statistics". Shame, it felt so much cooler to call them "Machine Learning".
Survivor.io is a game that completely stole the entire gameplay loop from Vampire Survivors and added garbage mobile game things to it. Vampire Survivors has a lot more, except it's completely (actually completely) free on mobile and only costs 5 bucks on Steam.
Ask HN: Best tool to archive a Facebook page?
I've been ready to delete my Facebook page for years but what stops me is losing memories - all the photos, comments etc from people I knew. Anyone know of any tools that could generate a static archive? I was looking for a crawler that can handle Facebook's dynamic pages and render images, any other ideas?
This article isn’t explicitly about that but it overlaps:
https://commoncog.com/tacit-knowledge-is-a-real-thing/

HN convo: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29531947

Here’s the FAA’s Aviation Instructor’s Handbook. It’s not peak pedagogy but I liked it. https://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/handbooks_manuals/a...

The Gleim FOI test prep would be a condensed version. You could probably get an old version dirt cheap. https://www.gleimaviation.com/shop/foi/
It's nineties-level internet security. Stuff like that was the bread and butter of security researchers of that era.
I saw about Roblox, yeah! As a matter of fact the kids already played with it (but as a gamer, not a developer). It might be interesting to dive into this indeed! I'll take a closer look, thanks!
Not close enough, IMO, after reading the wikipedia page. It says more about US legal practices than about the stories.
Earth’s ozone layer on course to be healed within decades, UN report finds
> Why there is demand for offers somewhere between hotels and long-term rentals, which frequently are completely out of reach of those who have to move to a new city in a short notice.

You see that's the problem, I'm not in the US or Europe, long-term rentals are traded in local currency, in a price reasonable to the local economy, whereas AirBnbs are traded in USD at a more global price reasonable for tourists (which is crazy expensive for us, considering our minimum wage is pennies in USD).

Moreover, long-term rentals have certain regulations that favor tenants, like, you can't raise the prices a massive amount compared to inflation while the contract is valid, etc. AirBnbs are not regulated.