skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I imagine you will lead a successful coup in your country to become a dictator and instate the wildly unpopular measures that will make life better for the human climate refugees, all those people displaced by faltering agricultural output, infrastructure damage and the resulting civil conflict as droughts become longer and weather phenomena more destructive, or temperatures render their places of living outright uninhabitable.

Not on the table? Then maybe you should reconsider what that belief entails.
Those are the things I want to use TypeScript for, but it often requires me to adopt the whole ecosystem. I want a middle ground solution; I really just want JavaScript with some parts of TypeScript.
Funny credit cards survive when it’s the same thing
there are literally no peer reviewed scientific study demonstrating the pathology of "long covid". In fact, there aren't really any knowledge that there is such as thing as "long covid" in the way we traditionally define diseases
> which the supposedly progressive author presents as a positive

David Brooks is absolutely not a progressive. The very first sentence of his Wikipedia page is:

> David Brooks (born August 11, 1961)[1] is a conservative political and cultural commentator who writes for The New York Times
To me that really looks like pattern matching where there isn't actually any (though I'd like to know more details around the "statistical skew")- saying that there's a lot of antipodal land-water or water-water pairs only makes sense considering the vast majority of the planet is water.

Regardless, it's just an interesting snapshot in time considering continental drift.
Cosmic Coding and Transfer for Ultra High Security Near-Field Communications
I find it hard to take this seriously.

The argument basically boils down to "America has survived turmoil by adapting before - so we should assume it will again".

But that has nothing at all to do with "America is on the right track". If anything, I'd argue that the current pessimism is fairly warranted, and a crucial step in the process of adapting.

The current format doesn't work for most people, in the same way that it didn't in the 1890s. The way we adapted was by tanking the financial industry (great depression) taxing the ever loving fuck out of the "robber baron" class (90%+ taxes) and creating an entirely new social contract (the "new deal").

We also lucked out with our industry remaining intact while the rest of the world dealt with the fallout of the world wars...

Basically - If anything, we are decidedly NOT on the right track right now, but we arguably have the ability (and may be moderately well prepared) to change course.

Optimism about the status quo is... not exactly warranted in my opinion - although pointing out our strengths is a good reminder that we have the ability to change. But it still requires... you know... actually changing.
I've been looking for a gergoplex but gboards.ca has been down for a long time. If you read the later blog posts on web.archive it's a sad situation, I doubt it'll be back online.
Mark Cuban predicts [wash trades] will be the next possible implosion in crypto
The conclusion was that Russia was without a doubt meddling with the election. But the conclusion was not that the election itself was fraudulent or something that we should not abide by.
I think I'm the opposite. I like solving problems as part of a team, evaluating different tradeoffs and approaches, figuring out what people need from the software and how to get it there as simply and cheaply as possible. It's very engaging with no easily identifiable "best" or "optimal" in most cases.

Actually dealing with code is a pain in the ass. It's better than digging a ditch for ten hours a day but not really enjoyable for its own sake either.
The whole trilogy was a dead end. ;)
To contextualize opinion pieces like this just consider that the writer gets paid regardless of whether he is ever wrong or right.
Substantial software engineering jobs tend not to do "sprints" and no or limited "agile". You still want to always be learning.
I liked the illustrations on this post. Where are they from?
That approach (i.e. the jquery style of attach logic to the DOM) just doesn't scale when you're writing a single page app where _everything_ needs to have JS logic attached to it. It turns into a complete mess of imperative UI twiddling and it's extremely easy to forget to update some little element in response to a change.

The bigger question IMHO is if you actually need a SPA. If you don't then yeah the old jquery style (now alpine.js or similar frameworks are spiritual successors) is perfectly fine.
as does Microsoft. Even NVDA pays a dividend albeit tiny.
Make a blogpost talking about this, say you won't pursue users who pirate, but you hope that once they realize the value you provide they come to purchase the real thing.

Demonizing and chasing people who pirate will only work against you, just like it happens with gaming.

Consider the pirate version a "trial" for people who are considering whether to buy the official version. Again, many with gaming do this.

Don't feel bad. In all seriousness, piracy is probably helping you spread the word and get people to try your project.
I believe ChatGPT inserts invisible characters that watermark the text. I'm sure it isn't hard to remove them via some third party tool
It's a matter of course to firewall all Networking of all DLLs in Illicitly Downloaded applications
The good thing about speculating on already-public companies is you have access to a lot of data you probably do not have access to at your current company, and of course, they are already public :)

Not that I'm advising you to speculate on the market... I just buy ETFs lol
The Gas-Stove Debate Exemplifies the Silliest Tendencies of American Politics
:o) I can agree that a discussion about health benefits would be more compelling with data.

As an anecdote, I'll say I find my ortho keyboard using a Dvorak layout much more comfortable to type on than row-stagger QWERTY; and certainly looking at videos show that the latter looks much busier at the same WPM.

The main thing I'd argue is that many of the design features of a standard keyboard (asymmetry; big spacebar; row stagger, with different stagger for each row..) don't seem to be good design decisions compared to even a grid of keys all the same size.
DALL-E is massively overpriced for the compute it uses. The current DALL-E price is based on what they think they can get away with, not on compute costs.
Unfortunately it also generates negative press on social media from frustrated users, and people who avoid subscriptions will avoid the product. But if you're an already established market leader that doesn't care, then subscriptions are fine.
Also a note about the dangers of cracked software. There could be malware, viruses, etc. The value becomes much smaller to use something that could ransomware your system.

Then, cracked software becomes free advertising!
I love taking existing code and making it better while adding functionality.
> How do you know if someone uses an alternative key layout? They’ll tell you.

It is a post about a keyboard; if you don't want to hear about keyboard related topics, maybe consider reading different posts.
You could always do the Windows 10 Activation model.

If you don't activate Windows 10, you have no ability to personalize your PC (change wallpaper, colors, Lock Screen image, etc.) But you can still use it - which makes it annoying, but still functional.

After a few weeks without activating, it also adds an always-visible watermark warning to "Activate your PC." But it still lets you use it.

Perhaps the OP could do similar. Where... he has his standard system of copy protection, but then adds additional checks that stamp watermarks on printed documents, or show a watermark about illegal copy, doesn't allow adding business information to documents, so forth...

Maybe that's even the trial version. Always free, forever - but certain features disabled and lots of watermarks.
Effectively superseded by https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS
An attitude recalibration may be helpful in this case. Software engineering is merely your "profession", and you perform it in exchange for other people providing you with clean water, cheap goods, security, etc. (Whether that's a fair trade is a different discussion).

Unless you're an owner or a shareholder you're essentially a skilled laborer. Clock in, ply your trade, clock out. If they're jerking you around on hours get a better job or "quiet quit". Do things you like and feel fulfilled about in your free time, it's better to take joy and meaning in the society that you theoretically are working for the privilege of living in rather than looking for that satisfaction in your work.

A quote I often think about from an article titled Smart Guy Productivity--"Son, I don't go to a place called fun, I go to a place called work."
These aren't super close friends, from my understanding all the arrangements are done in the group chat, when i saw one of these people in the street they stopped me directly to ask if i was in the group chat, since i hadn't come to the event.

They did then invite me directly to the next one.
And yet this only happens in the US.
> Refactoring, rewriting, sprint, agile, rearchitecting things etc aren't that fun.

Speak for yourself. Lots of those things are fun. Sprint and agile have more to do with the workplace, sure. But refactoring, rewriting and rearchitecting things can be really fun. The first implementation of anything is going to be burdened by complexity and wrong assumptions. It's only on the second time through that you have clarity. The joy of having the solution work pales in comparison to knowing that the underlying code is a thing of beauty. Like a jacket with a beautiful lining, paying attention to the details that nobody sees makes your product inherently better.

> Finding and fixing bugs is a lot of fun.

Refactoring is a part of this process. Squashing bugs and edge cases is fun like playing whack-a-mole, but it's also fun to see the bugs and edge cases as a chance to question your assumptions, is this really a one-off, or could I prevent all bugs of this kind in some way?
It's really not, Creative Cloud is the most pirated software suite in the world, and the company that makes it is almost universally hated by its customers.
This article makes a very good case for why the American economy is on the right track. However, I doubt this is what most respondents were thinking about when asked about "the direction of the country" (which to me already sounds like a question that biases people to answer in the negative). Brooks talks repeatedly about how the news media has influenced people's perceptions, but the news media he talks about has (from my perspective) spent more time on social issues rather than the economy, so of course there's a discrepancy there. He's tackling a fundamentally different question than the poll he mentioned. Just because America is on the right track economically does not mean that people are wrong to demand more from their country in other failing areas.
Single one liners tend to be quite functional in style and can avoid a lot of side effects that you might get with a 20 liner in a function.
Maybe one of your main revenue sources shouldn't be trying to squeeze already cash strapped 3rd world entrepreneurs
You could make the argument that America is great because we think we suck and drive ourselves harder than might be necessary. It's when you think you're great that you become complacent.
How much green house gases did Exxon actually release? They produced a lot of oil and gas which comes with some emissions, but you know who actually released the majority of green house gases, you and me. And the industry, but even them really only on our behalves because we wanted them to make stuff for us. So should we not better fine ourselves?
yes, but it's a best thing of the cloud - your cluster doesn't run when you don't need it, plus you can advantages of spot instances, autoscaling, etc.. And you won't do TPC test each every half an hour.
We need more progress. Everything has been getting worse and worse the last 80 years since the New Deal because we just haven't had enough government management to make things good. We should cede more power to the managerial class of academic experts, corporate leaders, and the elite journals (like the Atlantic) that vouch for their brilliance at managing us all, as their poorer and poorer performance is likely because they just haven't had enough control to make more progress.
You can't tell that from the data provided.
These aren’t your customers.

The user who is willing to stomach the time and risks associated with cracked software is NOT your target market anyway.

This is essentially a free trial program for “aspirational users” who will circulate it for you.

I’ve had my software (games) pirated, and been a pirate in my youth. Now I wouldn’t consider pirating because I have more money than time now. I suspect your actual addressable market is in the same boat.

The worst thing you can do is add draconian copy protection that adds friction to your product for actual paying users.
I mean you're right but also; what does a manager do if not producing "software" to a small group of individuals. Or a designer for that matter.

Anyone who produces direct output to a small group of people is expensive in a similar way.
Gen Z starts in 1997.
I stand corrected. I just assumed so because he’s writing about the anti-trump coalition, and defending the “liberal world order”
I suspect they end themselves. The rest of us just need to lay low.

I'm reminded of the scene in "Seven Samurai" when the villagers bring the seven samurai armor and weapons from dead samurai and Toshiro Mifune's character explodes at the peasants — always pretending to be afraid, humble, powerless, but all the while hoarding weapons, food....
Not true for Canada and most of EU.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again :D

A programmer is a person who writes program code.

A software engineer applies engineering principles when designing and/or implementing programs.

A computer scientist uses scientific methods and rigor when solving problems relating to computing.
It is kind of ironic :)
Yes, which is why giving antibiotics to livestock that are going for slaughter is illegal pretty much everywhere except the US.

If you actually need to dose some to treat an illness, there are protocols to follow to ensure that they're clean before they go off to market.
I think you’re underestimating doctors.

Viral infections sticking around has been known about for a very long time. Chronic infection of Hepatitis C for example occurs in about 80% of those infected and it can be asymptomatic for years while causing liver etc damage.

This includes many viral infections that the general public don’t realize stick around: “The causative agent for shingles is the varicella zoster virus (VZV) – a double-stranded DNA virus related to the herpes simplex virus. Most individuals are infected with this virus as children which causes an episode of chickenpox. The immune system eventually eliminates the virus from most locations, but it remains dormant (or latent) in the ganglia adjacent to the spinal cord (called the dorsal root ganglion) or the trigeminal ganglion in the base of the skull.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingles

Typhoid marry is a famous example of this behavior occasionally extending to viruses that generally get cleared from the body.
regarding dall-e, eventually we would up with stable diffusion, which lets you tinker to your heart’s content at no cost on fairly cheap hardware.

my hope is that an open source alternative to chatgpt will emerge and see similar iterative, community developed models for specific purposes
Batteries and hydrogen power these cute Toyota AE86 factory restomods
> Today, DALL-E cost 15$ to use it 115 times, but 90% of the time you don't really get good images, or necessarily exactly what you want.

So you're paying $15 to get 11 great images that are what you want? That still seems pretty cheap.

The point is, the cost includes the failed images. If you wanted the cost to only be for the good images, and you get free bad images, they'd simply charge 10x the amount.
Ask HN: Do you track your pet budget?
Congratulations! Having cracked versions out there indicates that your software is both useful and notable, which is a point where many developers would love to arrive at, maybe, one day.

As to what to do about it, there are two basic tracks, neither of which is incompatible with the other:

1. The legal route: notifying distribution sites that they're hosting content in violation of copyright law, requesting takedown, and if required, demanding such (with a DMCA notice or similar). If a distributor is unresponsive to both, DMCA Google, Bing, etc. to at least suppress the cracks in most search results;

2. Having some fun with it: make sure that a special page on your own site becomes the #1 search engine result for "<productname> crack" and similar. On this page, put a human face on your pricing, explain the available discounts, and finally offer to supply a free registration key to anyone that truly wants it, so they don't have to download all kinds of shady binaries. Of course, any such free keys don't come with support and display a prominent PIRATED VERSION notice in all window captions, printed outputs, et cetera, but you disclose all of that upfront and explain how that's a small price to pay...

But above all, make sure not to confuse a "pirated copy" with a "lost sale". In 99% of cases, the Venn diagram of those has very little overlapping area.
> Our annual interest payments are ~400B/yr.

Last time I heard it is closer to 700B per annum
Yup klarna is notorious for this, up to 100m dollar bribes!
Maybe I just haven't had the opportunity to buy any big ticket items with BNPL, but the few times I tried it (trying to do the "free money" thing, getting a bit more interest in my HYSA by amortizing the total payment out over time), it just created kind of a financial tracking nightmare. I'd get flurries of emails about how my "pay in 4" payment was about to process....for $13. Trying to keep track of all that for a few pennies became too difficult (matching up which purchase each micropayment was from), although those pennies add up for larger purchases indeed!

But for a floor rate of 10%, BNPL is just a less terrible credit card, not a good deal :(
Of the 24/7 Hour News Cycle**

This all came out of nowhere, and nobody was discussing Gas Stoves one week ago. But now ALL of us are! Yay...
Yeah.

For two-hands-on-keyboard tasks, relying on layering is good.

For gaming, I make use of a number row.
I still remember seeing a map from 2019 or shortly before showing countries preparedness for a pandemic.

The USA and the UK were at the very top, being considered the best.

It might have been this one:
https://www.statista.com/chart/20629/ability-to-respond-to-a...

Notice how Ireland is obviously worse than the UK.

Portugal also worse than Spain.

USA on the best tier. (No one is green I think)

Another one even better:

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/global-pandemic-preparednes...

USA at the very top followed obviously by all the anglosphere.

Brazil, Belgium and Japan at the same level!

Now contrast this with reality.

If this pandemic showed anything is that the premise of this post is completely wrong.

Look how that turned out.

Must really suck having to spend so much energy ignoring reality.

Then again, given the level of religiosity of the place I guess it really doesn't take that much extra energy.
The biggest thing I think is that he was vilified, to an extreme degree, by corporate media. Every step he made and every word he uttered was spun or reworked by every major news outlet (except Fox) to look like he was somehow being racist or some other thing. So most peoples' view of him when they turned on the TV or opened up their news app was just the headlines with which they were bombarded. I'm also not a Trump fanatic either, but I did realize after he left office that there was a considerable amount of spin applied to basically everything he did.
> game mechanics and rules are NOT copyrightable.

Correct. This is where patents come into place.

For example https://patents.google.com/patent/US7264242 and https://generalpatent.com/professor-s-company-wins-1-6-milli...

https://patents.google.com/patent/US3208754A/en is another fun one.

But lore and wording gets into trouble. Is "Magic Missile" copyrighted? How about Halfling ( https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/116283 )?

> A missile of magical energy darts forth from your fingertip and strikes its target, dealing 1d4+1 points of force damage.

> You create three glowing darts of magical force. Each dart hits a creature of your choice that you can see within range. A dart deals 1d4 + 1 force damage to its target. The darts all strike simultaneously, and you can direct them to hit one creature or several.

Without looking which one is D&D and which one is Pathfinder?

https://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/all-spells/m/magic-missile/

https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Magic%20Missile#content

Would the pathfinder version be considered a derivative work of the D&D version (well, not that D&D version since that was 5e... still).
> Try using ChatGPT on a topic you know really well.

And read what it says carefully. On many occasions I've seen it say something in a subject I know well and it's started correct so I've mentally autocompleted and assumed it had the whole thing right.

Eg. This for "What is Gell-Mann amnesia?" - contrast to the actual meaning. [1]

> Gell-Mann amnesia is a term coined by science writer Michael Crichton to describe the phenomenon where people tend to forget information that contradicts their preconceptions or beliefs. The term is named after physicist Murray Gell-Mann, who won the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles.

> According to Crichton, Gell-Mann amnesia occurs when people encounter information that contradicts their beliefs, but rather than updating their beliefs to reflect the new information, they simply forget the information and continue to hold onto their preconceptions. This type of cognitive bias can be a significant barrier to learning and can lead to flawed decision-making.

Learning from ChatGPT as if it's similar to "books, blogs, courses, etc" really doesn't seem like a good idea.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#GellMannAmn...
Most of the writers for the Atlanic are dead wrong (hell most op-eds are regardless of source) but David Brooks is a "conservative" by liberal standards so people on HN and Twitter love to call him out more than their progressive talking head darlings.
Came here to say the same thing. Django gives you admin tools on day one.
In my understanding, it takes more to maintain such setups. Talking to the HVAC guys that do this for a living rather than just the scientists reveal more about the practical realities of these systems.
I pity the poor soul who needs to use multiple key layers in a game, especially SC2. But if you got past Silver League, then you're better than I was in Wings of Liberty.

I remember using AutoHotKey back then to swap caps lock and CTRL (or was Backspace in there somewhere?) to cycle through my hatcheries and spam larvae injects, since they weren't queue-able at that time.
Were you also doing demo-scene for your cracks ?
I may not be the "smartest" in the room in terms of raw compute power of my brain, but as a result I'll write better code (more maintainable, easier for the next dev to understand). I want my code to be easy to follow. One of my personal rules I have through experience, is if I revisit a bit of code that I wrote a while ago, and I can't understand it easily, it's probably time to refactor it.
It's a pointless point to make, and I think people are rightfully calling you out for it. "If my grandmother had wheels she'd be a bicycle."