skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a similar experience. My first wife had an amazing ability to remember all kinds of details about everything. It sounds weird, but I just remember trying to do the same thing, and then I did. And now people often comment about it, but I wasn't always like this.
Reviewing web hosts based on comparing feature checklists? Oh dear.

For those who aren't aware, feature checklists for web hosting services are 90% bullshit. Not that they aren't true, but the items that get checked off are often trivial nonsense which are implicitly available from any commodity hosting provider like "control panel", "access logs", or "password protected directories".

The real differentiators are usually things which don't show up in marketing materials, like "is the support team halfway competent" or "how badly does this provider try to nickel and dime you". Which is why you need to actually work with the provider to give them a meaningful review.
Veryl: A modern hardware description language
I use an Apple Magic Trackpad 2.

Probably not "small", but it fits between the two halves of my Moonlander quite nicely :)
Ask HN: Is there a job where you're paid to implement well-defined tickets?
Hi HN,

I realized over the years that I'm very good at writing quality code very fast, building features, investigating & fixing bugs, and knocking out tickets. I understand systems easily, have a reverse engineering background, and can usually start contributing to a new codebase within a couple hours. But, I don't enjoy writing specs or design docs, leading projects, or working on open-ended problems. I don't want to "own" entire subsystems. I understand architecture and can contribute suggestions, but I don't want my job to consist of making architecture decisions. I just want to write code. I'm a good low-level problem solver.

Is there a job where I can just get paid to take well-defined tickets and implement them? I'd like to just be a machine in the org that takes tickets as input and produces commits as output. I'd be very good at fixing bugs, refactoring, cleaning up tech debt, building well-defined features on top of existing systems, writing tests, and such.

I'm aware the current meta is something like "writing code is the easiest part of software engineering" and it's all the stuff I don't want to do that gets you promoted. I basically want a terminal non-senior position, with the understanding that I'm happy staying there.

Is there anything like that out there? I recently discovered https://www.gitstart.com which sounds like the ideal, but they don't seem to be taking new applicants.
It’s unlikely automated testing would have caught this first time round.

The bug fix probably should have fixed this ‘for good’, but that shouldn’t require a test, either.
It's also because of the Iowa caucuses. Why is that continued to wield such outlandish control of the Presidential Election Process?
Yeah I use LibreWolf[0] which has all the Mozilla telemetry and services stripped out. Firefox should be shipped that way and have all those features opt-in only, but they won't do that since they're doing a data-grab.

[0] https://librewolf.net/
Maybe. But at least today my experience is that AI podcast transcription with good audio is off enough that I only use it to check quotes or pick out short excerpts. If I'm going to publish a full transcription, I'll just have a human do it. Not clear to me if it's faster for someone who does that sort of thing to be making a lot of corrections as opposed to just transcribing--though it will get there.
Are we sure this isn't just because Tesla is tainted by association with Musk, and the whole world has finally realised what an awful human he is? I'd be embarrassed to be driving one.
Good point, although that may be a bit US centric, and that's only new cars – much of the market is second hand cars.

I don't know the numbers for Europe/UK, but anecdotally, that sort of price doesn't seem at all common to me, whereas I do know people who would only ever consider buying second hand cars. Plus the fact that trucks aren't a thing here probably brings down our prices significantly.

A quick look at the Office of National Statistics suggests that the average UK price is £36500 for electric/hybrid, or £29000 for petrol/diesel (still the majority of the market here). That seems quite a bit lower than the US, and is still only the new car market.
Glad to hear you like it! Haven't done that, but it's pretty easy to find some really great hidden gems! We already have a few really amazing titles that are quite small on other platforms, check out Existensis, Evertried or Super Mombo Quest!
Hi, this sounds very interesting. I'd consider it as an indie dev if the DRM stuff weren't there, IMO any injectable DRM stuff is going to cause more problems than it solves, and piracy is not a huge concern anyways (it's "crappy free marketing"). Also "not changing the source code" isn't really a big selling point, if a indie dev is going to release on a new platform, making a specific build for it is not a big task. Big platforms like Steam don't require any DRM, the developer can of course still add their own.

The other problem that "pay-for-playtime" has shown to have on Apple Arcade and similar is that it penalizes "content rich" games where the player can play through rich, authored content in ten or twenty hours and instead rewards more endless mode game. Not that there's anything wrong with those types of games but this means that eventually, more meaningful games will be driven off the platform and it will be just idle games, puzzle games and farming simulators. I love those kind of games but it can make the platform feel cheap. I think a pay-per-install metric would work out a lot better in the long run for you.

I'll keep an eye on this service, definitely the more outlets an indie has the better.
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"Thus, even if solar or nuclear technologies were to be considered viable alternatives, they would not really displace fossil fuel energy for next 40 to 50 years, and CO2 growth would have to be estimated based on realistic market displacement of the fossil fuel technologies." [0]

40-50 years from 1982 starts about now. So tell me, would it make a difference if we have started 40 years ago? Or should we wait another 40 since "everyone in western world is creating CO2 anyway"?

[0] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2805576-1982-Exxon-M... page 24
10+ years for me. It wasnt like this when I started
Psychology plays a big part, change and differences. Folk don't like change nor difference. You have to be willing to embrace it.

You can do this yourself. Watch your mind freakout and give yourself a panic attack if you were to drag an frequented used app; icon from your phone in to an obscure new location or app folder. Frequent bookmark to another folder or off the bookmark bar.

You get used to it but change is scary because its unknown and so unless you can adjust the user quickly and promptly they will reject whats given to them. Or innovate something whole and new thats never been done before.

Add the fact that major brands have user friendly in hand, trying to convince someone to install Linux with its clunky installer as an example; really throws them off edge.

Nowadays trying to get anyone to change really causes them to melt and its only going to get worse as we go on further through the rabbit hole of social media.

So why change when you already have something that just works, that your used to and friends with. Even if it backstabs you with updates, missing icons and leaks your data to the world. It's still feels like your old friend, cosy and comforting.
No confidence at all, I wish doctors didn’t make so many mistakes and I wish doctors weren’t being ritualistically tortured. The fact that we get both just speaks to the incredible dysfunction of it all.
Everything you said is true, but it's not limited to JS once you add 'package.lock' isn't a solution.

I've had compatibility issues with rebar, rubygems, pip, go modules and many more.

Once you're pulling in third party dependencies and the tools that manage them - in any development environment - you open yourself up to these issues. At some point, you have to update dependencies and/or tools (for security reasons if nothing else). And at some point, either the dependencies or the tools will break in a way that has you hunting down issues and workarounds that are outside the scope of what you're actually trying to accomplish.

Is JS significantly worse in this regard? It does seem like the propensity for many small packages increases the surface area of things that can go wrong, but that doesn't seem to be a flaw in the tooling.
People still have high quality clothing available, but when given the option they choose to buy cheaper clothing more frequently rather than mend high quality ones.

This is a preference that has been demonstrated time and again throughout the world as it became an option.

So no, I don't believe it is clear at all how this is to the detriment of the average person.
Unfortunately, in medicine, there is evidence that just because a computer program is better then a Dr at diagnosing a patient is no guarantee it will be used. The classic example here was the MYCIN expert system developed in the 1970s. MYCIN was shown to outperform infectious disease experts by 1979 in a blind testing:

>... Eight independent evaluators with special expertise in the management of meningitis compared MYCIN's choice of antimicrobials with the choices of nine human prescribers for ten test cases of meningitis. MYCIN received an acceptability rating of 65% by the evaluators; the corresponding ratings for acceptability of the regimen prescribed by the five faculty specialists ranged from 42.5% to 62.5%. The system never failed to cover a treatable pathogen while demonstrating efficiency in minimizing the number of antimicrobials prescribed.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/36660...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycin
They just needed to show 20% growth in revenue to IPO, and like magic it happened
It's both.

The vast, vast bulk of computer users are more interested in the destination than the journey. They don't really want to have to care what browser or OS or app they're using... They want to manage their finances, or make art, or surf the web, etc.

When the destination is the point, small amounts of asymmetry tends to accrue more asymmetry because it's easier to solve problems if the help ecosystem is larger to address when the tool doesn't work the way the user wants it to.
Why Society Goes Easy on Rapists
No wonder they’ve been so aggressively pushing popups and emails to upgrade to a subscription service over the last few weeks.

My favourite was the bait and switch email with this subject line:

“Your complete personalised 2022 stats recap is here”

Which was actually just an email telling me to upgrade to see my recap.
Its genius marketing honestly. What other company has basically entire 3rd party subreddits dedicated to defending their products as if its an epoch-defining moment? People will pay whatever for it out of a delusion of moral necessity at this point.
I believe the following summarizes the article's main theme.

> AIs are not alien; they were conceived and built by humans and trained on the collected work output of humans, so AIs are more human than human; they are humanity concentrated and compressed.

> Soon we will start feeding the resulting concoction into every individual intravenously... giving all of us the power of the whole.

>Any civilization that lasts long enough would create this same technology, it’s just too obvious and too effective, and we now know it’s achievable.
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You don't fix industrial food systems with more industrial food systems. It's the industrial scale and the drive of capitalism to externalize costs and risks, and aggregate profits that is the problem.

I would prefer a traditional vegetarian diet to a "cultured meat" diet. I don't want industrial food poducts in my body.
I don't think the knight should be allowed to move in a full circle. It should be disjointed - four arches. Allowing a knight to move two squares orthogonally kind of makes it a completely different piece.
Netflix probably lost a lot of viewers when they didn't follow through with their original content.

The OA and Glow were really interesting shows that got cancelled prematurely, without any resolution to the storylines. When this becomes a trend, it makes me not want to get into any new Netflix series, and that usually ends with me cancelling my Netflix subscription.

TBF, Amazon Prime has also done the same with some of their shows (e.g. Forever).
Yikes! As a starting point, I'd love for Workoutdoors to add a valid SSL and not index their HTTP site to Google. I tried this once on my Apple Watch Ultra and found it a maddening experience. I'm hopeful though that investment in these space improves because, to your point, Strava has not been contributing all that much.
Sometimes you have to provide it with some context like mentioning that your question is for educational purposes.
I’m simply shocked by the length of loans people will take on cars. BMW will give you a term of 84 months!?

I was stressed at having a 36 month loan as a public school teacher (I did not, of course, spring for the BMW).
They are, but Tesla is still massively above average prices(at least here in UK). Even the cheapest model at(now) £42k would be very much a luxury purchase and in fact would be subject to "premium vehicle" tax every year. The best selling vehicle in the UK at the moment is still a Nissan Qashqai, a family friendly crossover, starting at £26k. A basic model 3 doesn't compare in terms of usability, Model Y does but it's £20k(another very decent car) more than the Qashqai.

And finally, I imagine most Brits can't actually afford a £42k vehicle - even on decent finance that's £500-600 a month - that's how much I pay in mortgage for my house.
It's a shame Opera didn't go to the open source route. Opera with Presto was a great browser.
This brings the model 3 back into contention for a lot of drivers. If I was in the market I would consider it. It will be interesting to see if other vehicle prices start coming down.
It's hard to know because most don't report EV margins separately.
Seriously, if I could do all of my work without people trying to talk my ear off all day and let me keep my work life and social life truly separate, that sounds ideal to me.

"Oh the tech was textbook perfect but I didn't like that nobody wanted to stand around and bullshit all day"

Like bruh.
Heated steering wheels (seats are standard), back massagers, hands free lift gate, air filtration systems.

That said, EVs are very much compressing what "top level" even means because even cheaper EVs perform better than more expensive ICE cars.
Do you reckon it’s possible to build on top of OpenAi?

For instance let’s look at Jasper.

The only difference between and ChatGPT is their GTM strategy right?

Or should all startups try to own their models? Or fine train them
The Best of Paul Johnson
Sadly, historian Paul Johnson died in the past hours.

His history of the XX Century, Modern times, and his biographies - among which are Intellectuals (1988), Creators (2006), Heroes (2007), Humorists (2010) - are some of the books one can warmly recommend.
HN strips off the "How" by default.
Build a Dynamic Avatar Component with React and TypeScript
In the 1954 book Horton Hears a Who its entire universe is inside a speck of dust.
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Mozilla had a lot of goodwill, particularly in the tech world. With the right strategy, they could have translated that into thousands of influential websites encouraging users to use Firefox.

Things like releasing features for firefox users first, because devs like firefox and it had better devtools, would have kept the firefox userbase afloat.

Instead the mozilla devtools have been allowed to fall behind, web apps are no longer developed firefox-first, and mozilla lost it's opportunity.
I believe HN automatically removes 'how' from the start of titles on submission.
I'm not sure what this means.
The "real" bug here is Motorola's. Having instructions that fail silently (vs. trapping, as DIVU actually does if the divisor is zero!) is just outrageous.

For clarity, because the article takes too long to get there: DIVU has a 32 bit dividend, but a 16 bit divisor and a 16 bit result. So if you try to divide e.g. 0x20000 by 2, the result should be 0x10000, which doesn't fit in the output register. So... the CPU sets the overflow flag but otherwise does nothing!

I'm not quite old enough to have been writing assembly for the 68k, but I've heard this issue before. This was surely not the only footgun situation with DIVU in the market.
I think I've encountered this type of person. On physics stackexchange there was a guy who would write with great confidence about all kinds of difficult topics, like string theory. When he wrote about my area of expertise, most of it made sense, although he was sometimes vauge and ambiguous. From his interactions with others I would say his knowledge was genuine there too. But every now and then he would make grandiose claims about fringe topics (cold fusion) or really weird political remarks. And when criticized he would snap and insult people. I think he eventually got a lifetime ban on stackexchange. I never figured out if he was a genius or crazy or both. The guy didn't have another online presence as far as I could tell.
Processes are the norm at large corporations, but less-common to non-existent at startups. I'm guessing you're working for the former rather than the latter.
Not a touchpad, but gutting off-the-shelf trackballs to populate custom casings is a popular option, e.g. this mod for ZSA Moonlander boards: https://www.reddit.com/r/ErgoMechKeyboards/comments/wp1db9/m...
this part:

> I don't understand this factory farm model

is prven by this part:

> For a slightly higher cost we can rear animals like cattle and chicken humanely

I think a better statement would have been, you know nothing about this topic but have strong opinions on it.
OpenAI has to pay for resources to run the service. I'm more concerned about whether the research is "open" in the sense of being public and open source.
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> the navy out with the bathwater?

I realise it is not good HN form to talk about the comment instead of adding to the conversation but the subtlety with which you injected this was brilliant.

I was ready to ignore the change as human error/typo until it hit me.

Point about AI driven subtitling very well made!
Yeah, good point, in any case I would expect the "most recent stable" branch to get _all_ the "potential fixes" (that otherwise would only be available in RC releases).
I’m shocked they still have such bad route management on desktop and mobile.

As a cyclist who likes to use many different routes in different areas, I have accumulated 100+ routes.

Yet there is no filtering or grouping system. Why can’t I filter by geography? Or make folders of routes.

Edit: I did see on desktop they recently added filter cycling routes by distance or elevation, but that isn’t my problem at all. And the max distance filter is 50 miles which doesn’t filter down the list very much.
I think you’re romanticizing the past. For 99% of human history, 99 of women had to make do with one I’ll fitting “dress” from teenage to death, including pregnancy
"Turned into"? It is a social platform with large networking effects. It also supports decent analysis of your performance for self-coached athletes.
Good point. Inflation may well have been higher than 8% over 2 years.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but HB includes a lib of 50+ indie games with the Humble Choice subscription. Why should they split revenue with you as a competitor?

edit: https://www.humblebundle.com/membership/collection
It was true agile, not "Agile" in the sense we see today (empty ceremonies, time wasting meetings, micromanagement, endless jira tickets...)
> Is there anything in the OpenAI license that gives you pause?

OpenAI's terms say they can ban you for any reason whatsoever as long as they give you 30 days' notice. If you did build something on top of ChatGPT and they later banned you, you'd have no product and no recourse.
Most of the money made by credit card companies is from the transaction fees paid by the merchant. Credit card companies would still be immensely profitable without receiving a cent of interest.

[Edit] This was my understanding but some fact checking on Google proved the majority of income is from interest payments.
It sounds more like Garmin are eating their lunch in terms of training features for the general public.

TP is obviously even better as a product if you’re working with a coach hence why so many triathletes favour it.

Strava’s a fantastic social platform but I don’t use it for anything more than that.
Prices should not go up for hosting and development. Prices should go down per user as there are fixed costs. Same with development.

Unless strava is losing users their costs aren’t going up, especially not 30%.

It’s easy to argue that costs go up but that’s not due to development, but due to corporate overhead.

Unless they are doing something really wacky with saas costs, they should have low marginal costs so as long as they have a decent growth, costs go down.
I agree that OpenAI's mission statement has always been complete horseshit, but they need to generate revenue eventually or they will run out of money.
Heads up Display. Apple Carplay / Android Auto. A button that makes my windshield wipers work. Lumbar support on the front passenger seat.

Its... gotten quite sad how bad the Tesla interior is. Meanwhile, real luxury cars with actually cool technology are putting augmented reality head up displays on the windshield.

https://www.audi-mediacenter.com/en/electric-suvs-in-the-pre...
I see, so if you have the freedom to define hemispheres however you want, what are the chances you can fit a definition that captures the majority.

I think that is also fairly solvable. let me think on it. I cant understand your example, but is this the same?:

Roll a d100 once per continent (e.g. 7 times) and write the numbers down.
What percent of the time can you pick a range 50 numbers that captures all 7 results. the range can wrap around from 100 to 0.

The problem would be easy to monte carlo, but I would have to think about how to solve it in closed form.

Will update if I have a solution.
I agree with others saying "do nothing"... mostly. Trying to prevent piracy is a waste of time and resources better spent on people who actually pay you money. To that end, if you do anything, the goal should be to ensure that you can tell the difference between who is paying and who isn't. You don't want to field support for cracked copies.

Some developers I know and will not name have been known to leak their own cracked copies of their product, just to ensure that there is something broken about them that easily identifies them as a cracked copy.
It's likely not her choice.

In the UK medical professionals are doing the sensible thing, and leaving the profession. I'm sure most of them would much rather stay, but they're making the rational choice as individuals.

That's not the best choice for patients as a group though.

There's a serious under-staffing, under-pay and conditions crisis.
Congratulations to the team, and I hope things go well in your new team!
Have you read it in Chinese? Or are you projecting your impressions of the USSR on 3BP? Have you thought that what rings to you like “authoritarian communist China” may just be “authoritarian for centuries China”?

For all I know you may be right on the writer, but judging the translated work of a guy from a country half a world away from your clichés on another country (I will assume you neither lived in nor speak/read the language) sounds a bit like a stretch to me.