skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I realize this video is begging for shallow dismissals but can you guys please take a minute to dig a little deeper? You don't need much. Here, for example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwRN5m64I7Y&t=16s

Obviously he was thinking about more than a filing cabinet.
Clang's lld also uses multiple threads. The author of mold also contributed (contributed?) to lld.
What is open about OpenAI? How does it differ from other “non-open” AI corps?
I used to think the reason I couldn’t read anymore was because the day drained me.

A friend suggested trying to read 3 days into a 1 week vacation. I couldn’t.

And from that moment I realized it was a muscle like anything else. Consuming media that requires active participation and work, that you are not rewarded for (professional learning) takes practice.

I come home tired most days but I still manage to crank out time to read.

Maybe it won’t work for you the way it worked for me, but give it a try. You might be surprised.
Fault tolerance was how Next branded it, IIRC. If an instance of a long running process doesn’t communicate with an external monitor, then it’s assumed to have hung or crashed at which point it is restarted by the external tool. Or at least that’s how things were done in the early/mid 90s. Like techniques are employed by Node apps these days, and undoubtedly many others.
- finishing Atomic Habits(worth the hype, imo)

- Pale Fire, Nabokov

- Speaker for the Dead - I thought the first book was just ok, but praise for the sequel made me interested

- House Of Leaves

- Godel Escher Bach
Don't.

Do you enjoy playing games or do you enjoying making games?

If you enjoy playing games don't kill your hobby, if you enjoy making games I would expect you'd already have a ton of example projects you could show and discuss, even just game designs scribbled on paper somewhere.

If you don't have that you'll be competing with people that do, and with people that will kill themselves in their 20's to work unreasonable hours for shitty pay because it's their passion. It's all they've done since they were 10 years old and it's all they ever want to do.
How much time do you spend here? Or on your phone or watching TV. Replace that with reading
There is likely no single good answer. Personally I break the issue into the long and short term. Long term (100s 1000s of years) the answer seems somewhat obvious. Preservation of information can be useful to future generations. Short term our societies are experiencing rapid change. Many things are built and soon discarded based on factors other than utility. So preserving the knowledge is useful for the minority of people that found those things useful. Also there is intentional mass truth distortion amplified by technology occurring. Preservation of the original sources of information is the first line of defense against it.
You could try:

- You get back 10x on your initial investment ($1.5m) before anyone else gets paid when you sell the company. In the form of preferred shares.

- After that equity split 60/40 (i.e. you have 50% more equity)
What I'd like is to have some sort of exportable hardware training and configuration. I use a few different laptops (and desktops), and I want the touchpad to feel the same between each of them.
I first stumbled upon this many years ago, when checking out the list of architecture supported by FreeBSD. It served me as a reminder, that computers are just like life forms: even if we expect to find DNA, carbon, sugar, proteins, cell membranes, nuclei, etc there will always be some crazy oddities that will break some rules and surprise us - and were here, living next to us, all along.

http://internat.freebsd.org/platforms/pc98/
I ran both in parallel for a while. Local to me they were pretty close but not quite the same. Dark Sky was always more accurate when they differed.
My obituary, probably.
For obvious errors (i.e. you get an error thrown) if you feed back the error to the session it's surprisingly good at keeping enough context to then fix the error. E.g. maybe in that specific example it needed to import some library or got confused which libraries are available where and mangled it up so it won't run but if you tell it that happened when you ran it it'll fix just that issue in a rewritten output. I was pretty impressed with what it could "fix" of this type of error in some JS code I was asking it to make. Overall this isn't much worse than a person trying to one shot a code example so I can live with this part fine.

The danger is in the non-obvious errors like semantics ones you don't have intuition or test cases for because you got a block of code given to you. A good example of something that tends to break down quickly is asking it to generate long or complex regular expression matches. They are almost always valid regex but there comes a certain point where it goes from "this is the perfect regex for the question!" to "this regex works 99% of the time and unless you spent about as much time looking it over as you would just making it to have the same understanding you'll not know until it bites you" to "this regex is obviously not going to work" very quickly. This part is much harder to live with, it requires you stick to smaller snippets and integrating them which can be helpful sometimes but obviously isn't the end goal.
Are you discovering new meanings or subtleties you missed ?
> Or then they will rob you blind. Your mileage may vary and is very much dependent on other things like the general work culture.

Seems like quite a wide variation -- so your proposed approach results in either the desired outcome or the worst case possible outcome? There's no middle ground?

> Anyway, failing to treat people like they would deserve to be treated is the most basic managerial failure. Any manager worth their salt should have an idea how their underlings need to be treated.

Have you managed a team before? I ask because the most basic managerial failure isn't "failing to treat people like they would deserve to be treated" but rather operating a team who delivers more value to the company than they cost, and ideally at or exceeding the level that leadership expects. That's it. That often requires the following:

1) Hiring high potential, high performance employees
2) Managing out low performance employees
3) Unlocking extra performance from employees where possible

Of these three activities, it's only the third one that approaches what you've mentioned. Why haven't you mentioned the other two?
The roadmap doesn't load on Firefox, it does load on Chrome
LedgerX offers legal crypto Derivatives in the US, but it's a pretty poor customer experience.
For company-internal webapps, we found that Postgres and Postgraphile [1] usually replaces the need for any other backend. You can do a lot with SQL and database functions. If you're worried that the application is coupled too tightly to the database, create another database schema just with views and functions as an abstraction layer. If something can't be done in a Postgres stored procedure, like rendering graphics as SVG or PNG image, use the python language just in this stored procedure.

The postgres+postgraphile combination is really powerful! We used to build GraphQL backends with Python and Ariadne before.

[1] https://www.graphile.org/postgraphile/
Even Aave itself has better rates -- the figure the author is quoting is from the the platform's option to lock in a fixed rate for your loan. Currently you can lock in 12.24% [1], but you can also borrow at the variable rate, starting at 3.15%.

Now, that does subject you to uncontrollable variation, but if you look at the chart, it's historically stayed at a very low level. Even the occasional spike you see is only for a day or two and has little impact on the annual average. [2]

Furthermore, the whole time, you're getting credited for interest accrued on your collateral. (1.18% on the USDC here -- so, all in all about a 2% annual carrying cost, not a bit issue if you think the crypto market are on borrowed time!)

"But what about the case where USDT borrowing surges and you have a persistent high rate?"

If that happens at all, it's probably because everyone else is dumping Tether, meaning its price is probably falling, and it's a great time to close the short anyway!

[1] https://app.aave.com/reserve-overview/?underlyingAsset=0xdac...

[2] People often miss that "omg high interest rate" for a few days translates into a very little expense in absolute terms. It was especially bad when banks were complaining about having to do one-off overnight loans on a very temporary basis for 4% rather than 2%, supposedly meriting Fed intervention!
Tether is 100.38% backed by assets. This means they can always trade Tether for USD. About 80% of their assets are liquid meaning that Tether's supply can shrink by up to 80% and they can still pay out within a couple of days.
Caro understands his subjects so so well that you feel you are inside their heads.

Caro’s works have spoiled me — other biographies feel out-of-focus and surface-level and speculative.

(And all this despite the fact that Caro isn’t even really focusing directly on his subjects, because actually his books are about power and its dynamics.)
Just graduated from pharm school but self-taught in tech

- Digital Marketing (To grow my start up. Realized I need to know how to sell rather than just build)

- Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (I find it very fascinating to try and uncover how life works)

- Math (Feel like I didn't really get a hang of math early on but now realize how important and fun it can be. Currently reading A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics)

- Machine learning & AI (Huge potential in drug discovery)

- Computer Aided Drug Discovery (Did a dissertation on this and loved it)

- Deep dive into Genomics and Genetic Engineering (I find genetics to be very similar to coding)

- Aging and Longevity research (I'm 25 but still see aging as a disease ever since I turned 18. It's why I chose to do a medical related undergraduate course. Hopefully we can better understand how aging works, and how to stop/delay it)

- C, C++, Python and R (For writing bioinformatics tools)

- Computer graphics and game development (This is a bit of a stretch. Hopefully I can manage. I find graphics and game programming to be one of coolest uses of math. Seeing stuff I used to dread like trigonometry actually being of use gives me a reason to learn them)

- Playing an instrument, maybe guitar and getting good at FL Studio (Music is fun)

- How stocks work (Trying my luck at financial independence plus the regards of WSB intrigue me)
I wonder if it will really depend on market demand for your specialization. Free agent poetry profs may have to wait tables and go begging but STEM profs can write their own ticket? What kind of university does that create? I think it sounds better than it is. High-skill jobs always have some built-in leverage. Heck, this is HN. We all know this. But technics is not merely crystallized knowledge at a point in time. After a while, all but the top 20% are competing at a disadvantage. Factor in reach/amplification technologies and I wonder if the university's pursuit of market efficiencies isn't going to expose contract work as more precarious than not.
Anyone who disagrees with you is simply poorly read and uninformed?

You cannot separate theory and practice in the way you are attempting to. It’s not just “bad books” that lead to the abuse of inheritance that is so familiar, there were (and are) broken concepts that only became visible with time.

I highlighted “module” for a reason, because one of the key mistakes of practitioners was to view the element of re-use as the “class”. In reality if we want to create a reusable component the boundary is much higher. We create an api and a library or some other component that can be distributed.

Building a reusable component is much more work, and recognising when that is necessary and designing accordingly is an important engineering discipline.

To finish with a snipe of my own; I think people who take an OOP is primary view of the world need to do a little more programming in lisp to properly understand the fundamentals.
What exactly are you struggling with? The main challenge with Midjourney is to open up a broader style pallete, while the out of the box vanilla results are usually amazing in v4.
> People have certainly done some dumb things

This sentence doesn't need to be continued. It's already the ultimate state of affairs since forever.
I realise that, but I leave it running so it isn't as noticeable as something I run once in awhile :)
Conformist social learning self-organises prevention against adverse risk bias
Are you saying... they're a solution looking for a problem?
No, that's the second link - generated data, separate from tweets.

Tweets alone generate petabytes of data a year.

https://ankush-chavan.medium.com/twitter-data-storage-and-pr...

Also, many people would disagree that stuff required to run a business is "mostly unnecessary".
Does managarm run on raspberry pis?
I read it last year, I started in September 1st and didnt finish the "last" page until mid January, reading multiple hours a day.

I read a lot of historical biographies, I have never read anything as good about a president most people dont care about.

I thought book 3 was the best, everyone should read the first 300 pages just to understand how and why congress works the way it does today.
Congratulations for getting this done. A very small percentage of folks who want to do this actually do it.

My constructive feedback is that the app asked me to register immediately. I didn't really get an idea of why I would get value from it.

Consider giving me a little tour or letting me browse before I have to give you my email address? Thanks and good luck!
The guilt by association -which Pleroma suffered of at some point and probably still does, too- exists. I kinda think it's fine in the end. You are free to not use an instance that uses that kind of blocks. I kinda get why they exist, like many Soapbox instances users are actually trolls and stuff. It's a bad way to protect yourself from unwanted content, but it can make sense.
Lack of force-touch is also a bit annoying.
Any firm making more than zero in advertising revenue is automatically untrustworthy when it comes to privacy and data collection. Apple is no exception, and their stance is more hypocritical than most.
> The second I see an ad, I am dumping all of it.

Where will you go?
I think more than nupur saga a decade ago a professors hand was chopped off for alleged blasphemy. This might be more relevant to the headline.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_on_T._J._Joseph
Why impossible? I sleep about 6 hours a night (I can stay in bed longer than that, but I wake up after 6 max), work for about 8 hours, live near-ish the office or work remotely (call it 1 hour total commute, but since I can work remotely my average is lower), 30 minutes for lunch and 30 minutes to get ready before heading to work. That's only 16 hours total, leaving me with 8 more hours in the day. That's a lot of time if I'm not wasting it on HN like right now.

A good workout can be done in 30 minutes, though I prefer about 90 total (core/weights, rowing, running in the non-winter seasons, about 30 minutes of each). Dinner, about 30 minutes to cook and 30 minutes to eat, another 15 max to clean (mostly done while I'm cooking so really usually just 1 minute to put plates in the dishwasher). So that's 2.75, leaving me with 5.25 hours for spending time with my wife, wasting time on HN, reading, or working on side projects.

And that's just the weekdays. Weekends I get 9 hours back since I'm not commuting and working, though some of that goes to yard and house work so realistically call it 7 extra free hours as an average.
Tell me you haven't read the paper without saying you haven't read it.
Don't.

The pay is shit and the work is grueling. You'll make more money shoveling some enterprise's Spring Java shitpile than you will developing games, and you will still be able to see your wife and kids.

If you like making games, make one yourself, or help out a small indie studio with people you know. Hobby stuff. Don't let the business quench the flame of passion for the art form.

There are good AAA gamedev jobs. I knew a chap who worked with Ken Levine workshopping gameplay ideas for the BioShock series with Python prototypes. But he was in a very fortunate intersection of "has the right skills" and "knows the right people". If you come in cold, you're most likely going to find yourself "texturing the right eyeball of NPC #642" or "fixing glitches that arise when the player presses a certain combo of buttons" or something, 12-14 hours a day, 6-7 days a week. Every bit as grueling as enterprise-shop work, but under constant crunch and for very little pay, comparatively speaking because the demand for game-dev roles vastly exceeds the supply. Every kid wants to get into games, so if you're not willing to accept the shitty working conditions, there's always someone fresh out of Full Sail University who is.
What do you think about his interesting comment on the possibility of a mainframe?

"I also didn’t try to investigate configuring an IBM mainframe, which stands a chance of being the one type of “machine” where you might be able to attach enough storage to fit historical images."

It seems theoretically possible it could accomodate the entirety of Twitter in 'one machine'.
I have an epub if you want it.
> I know you think you’re smarter than everyone at Twitter. But those who really know what they are doing have a lot more respect for the engineers who built this insanity. There are always good intentions.

You ignored one possibility - that twitter engineers, or people managing them might be just incompetent and all of that might just be overly complex POS

There is that weird disgusting trend to assume just because company got big that means the tech choices were immaculate, and not everything else there is to successful companies.

You can make perfectly well doing company on totally mediocre product that hit the niche at right time
YMMV but many of my human professors were sometimes wrong.
Automation and better technology massively reduced the fraction of the population that works in farming, whilst simultaneously we ended up with a food surplus. Machine translation definitely had an impact on the human translation industry. Seems likely that this is what will happen for art.
Well, maybe. But that is a different debate. I do not see where this topic was raised, except by you right here.
This book is an easy-to-read and short reference for all of the financial jargon / skills you'll need to know: https://financialintelligencebook.com/. Worth it to read and to be able to reference quickly. (Covers cashflow, balance sheet, working capital, etc)

Agree with others here that working with someone else at the C-level to help you come up with your own small curriculum would be great, even if they don't need to teach you themselves.
They merely claim it is fully backed.
Who was going to write it and maintain it?
It's like sawing off a tree branch you are sitting on: if Tether falls Ethereum prices will be severely impacted as well.
Waiting lists and signup pages can't be Show HNs. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.

I've taken Show HN out of the title now.
We don’t have an IT department per se but hundreds of offline sites consisting of thousands of servers each which cannot be changed in this manner and for which neither I nor any person I have ever met has the option of complaining that they’re using “obsolete” solutions that happen to work fine. The more likely end result is that there will simply be no GUI available on most servers when more recent OS releases are deployed and we will shrug and life will be worse.

So I guess you can say it’s someone else’s problem but it sure feels like my problem.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34301509

It seems to be much less serious than the headline implies, as is common
people like news stories that reinforce their perceptions, not news that tells them they're wrong. this isn't going to be widely reported on, because "you were wrong to like that company that everybody likes" isn't a nice story.

if the fine was huge, it would be news. but this fine is an amount that's easily ignored, so it will be.
Red herring.

The tragedy of the commons is a parable that advocates neither capitalism nor socialism. It advocates the existence of a _responsible manager_ for any resource subject to exhaustion. Whether that manager should be a capitalist owner or a public entity is a separate question that comes in later.

And of course, it is entirely irrelevant whether the events described really happened. The broken window fallacy doesn't refer to one particular window-breaking incident.

Anyway, the concretization of the parable to the subject at hand is actually very straightforward: the atmosphere is the commons, and the carbon emitters are the commoners. Enclosures are an impossible solution this time, because we need to let the air to circulate freely. But the parable still teaches us the need for a single entity to be on charge of the atmosphere. National-level solutions - much less individual action - can only be a delaying tactic at best: the ozone layer was only saved by the Montreal Protocol. I'm old enough to remember public service messages encouraging the population to refrain from using unnecessary spray bottles, and that would have helped about as much as Dutch bikers help against global warming.
Vertical integration doesn't decrease competition, it increases it. If there are N companies in a market, and a company that purchases from one decides to vertically integrate.and enter the market, now there are N+1.
Yeah I was going to say these are ridiculously small numbers to try the bet with -- each of those transactions mentioned was around $3 worth of ETH, which adds up fast. I wouldn't try something like this for less than $5k.
Isn’t a unit usually defined as 1.5oz (~45ml)? So it would be 5-6 unit, not 10.
I'm the author of the linked post, thanks for sharing your experience. I'm curious what you preferred of the Interlisp environment over the MIT world.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belling_the_Cat
This year I have set my goal high: completing 100 books from start to finish. For this, I need to consistently read about 2 books per week(2 * 52 = 104). I plan to read the classics and the most recommended books from the West and India. This will dovetail two objectives: a) Cutting down the time I spend mindlessly on reddit, youtube and so on. b) Assimilating more thoughtful material to ruminate over and write down my thoughts on.

I created a blog just today to record my notes and thoughts on some of what I read, at
https://chitramdasgupta.bearblog.dev/
Ask HN: Where to look for Canadian job?
I am from Nepal. In 2023 I want to land at a job in a Canadian tech company part time or full time. I am a web developer with skill in PHP, Node.js, Vue.js. What are my chances? Where do I look?
Note that this narrow definition of Linux leaves out the leading touchpad implementation: ChromeOS. If you wanted mac-like touchpad performance and Linux, you could have had it for many years now.
Not really. Eliza didn’t come with baked-in knowledge, or the ability to associate concepts.

If ChatGPT is Eliza on steroids, string theory is creationism on steroids.
> I've found a potential co-founder who brings motivation and quick learning skills to the table.

Why are you onboarding this co-founder?

Motivation and quick learning skills can be an illusion for the lack of skills, network and experience that will bring the company forward: „This person has none but this person is really motivated and eager to learn!“.

If the previous quote resembles your line of thought, you should question the co-founder position. The person could start as regular employee (you have money), prove themselves and „earn“ the co-founder position.

I have experience with this situation and can share more details privately. Feel free to write me a mail proxy+hn32@stroschein.me