skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unhook is great even if you’re not addicted! I used it to clean all the fluff to a minimal YouTube and suddenly it felt all like before Google had bought it! :) But now I think I understand why the extension is named Unhook?
Windows has this thing where "unpopular" software gets blocked by default. I'm not sure how exactly it works, but it's annoying.
I will keep this short.

I started working on my SaaS somewhere in 2016, and the first thing I did was hired a CTO. The person had around 3+ years of experience.

Not only was I paying a good salary, but I was also paying for his rent. When we started building the initial set of products, the overall product development kept getting delayed. He said we needed more developers, so we hired around 6-7+ developers.

All the developers were reporting my ex-CTO, and as per our mutual understanding, I was not allowed to have any say in how the product will be developed, and he will be offered full support and resources.

I agreed to that.

Several months passed, and the product was not ready, but I was also losing cash quickly. I was already under heavy stress because there was no flow of income for the product.

I met someone during this time who told me that I should launch my product, and some people will even buy during the alpha stage. I found it skeptical but fell for that trap because I was desperate to bring in more cash to keep the funding going on for the project.

This is where I made another mistake because I unknowingly ended up overpromising, and my team failed to deliver a quality product.

Over 1.5 years passed, and we still needed a stable product.

Over two years went by, and I still did not have a stable product, and this is when my ex-CTO quit, and a few other developers quit along with him when I realized that he used my resources to build his product and shortly flew out of the country.

..I ended up hiring an outside dev team with the little more money I had to keep my promise to the customers, but that did not go well either.

I had no money left; I had to shut the project completely because I had deep into reds and had gotten into heavy clinical depression.
It looks as if there's a business opportunity to develop a modern Voight-Kampff test to detect AIs. [0] Anybody doing this now?

https://nautil.us/the-science-behind-blade-runners-voight_ka...
When workers expect 50K a year per interview stage. Higher pay needs higher risk mitigation after all.
I could see myself using this for prototyping
Obvious based on what? Is there recent polling on this?

This doesn't seem like an obvious conclusion at all in 2022, with major shifts in understanding about the risks of smoking and rapidly evolving/shifting sentiment about recreational drugs in general.
If you’d be willing to chat about your experience of becoming self employed & finding new business, I’d love to chat with you. I’ve thought going freelance from time to time. My email is in my bio.
My friend, ad blockers will make your life so much better. I recommend Ad Guard for Safari and uBlock origin for Chrome and FF.
I really hope they find something for the tinnitus that is COVID related. It's insane. I'm on friggin' hearing aids for it. 34y/o, always taken good care of my ears.

And then I got infected 4 months before I could get a vaccine. It's just not fair.
great, I did not know about it.
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I think you mean "This could be great for university. Suddenly thousands of mediocre low effort papers are now good enough to pass them and keep getting money from the government instead of having to fail them". Big universities are businesses first, research institutes second, and educations maybe fifth or even lower.

Rare and blessed be the university that isn't a business in the modern age. But show me one, and I will show you a university that isn't on the international rankings.
do we know the format of the file in question? are we talking json trailing comma, xml closing tag type of bug?
Ah. I live in the EU where they a person is quite expensive to onboard and it makes no sense to hire people to be idle.
If you can only do one, then you are only half an engineer

In a proper engineering discipline, the only place for hacking towards a goal is within the confines of the lab.
I still would not call the diffusion process a form of compression. The reason why is because as a whole these models don’t aim to exactly replicate their dataset. If they did, that’s considered overfitting which is a failure of the model (as another commenter said). Generally, these models can almost never be coaxed to give their original data back. To really be considered a form of compression, you’d have to make it easier to do that. Technically, you can do it (e.g. describing a very specific scene in a very specific style), but at that point you’re basically just giving detailed instructions on what to do. If I told a human to paint a very picture and gave them extremely specific steps, that would not be considered compression. That would just be them knowing how existing art patterns work and using that knowledge to follow my instructions. In general, I don’t think it should be considered compression because the results are almost always novel and it’s extremely hard to get anything even close to the original dataset.
Interesting to learn she was the little sister of Constance Reid, who wrote a fantastic biography of Hilbert which is on my desk right now.
There are basically no mp3s still made supported by rockbox. I tried the same. What one did you buy? I bought the Agptek A02 and nhere are only breadcrumbs when it comes to finding it's official SDK.
> 1. Do not trust people blindly, especially your team.

This was the number mistake my cofounder Oscar, and I made. We trusted our team blindly.

Care to elaborate?
Books allowed us to store data indefinitely. However, they required lots of effort to read, understand and synthesize knowledge.

This new generation of AI is going to remove the slow to synthesize part
And the customer has the right to hack their car to activate their already installed heated seats on their own terms because they own the damn thing.
Although used to implement security, I think the mechanism is really about access. I would simply have named the token "Access Capability" and a system that only uses these for access to be an "Access Capability System" (or "Access Capability Secure").

Specifically adding the word "security" for the token itself rather than the system (to me) conflates it with previous security systems that use indirection and security checks based on the 'other' information.

Given that we have "capability-based security" already, I'd say keep it as-is. It's fine if people think they know when they don't as long as they're not the ones creating the systems.
I recall renting this on laserdisc when I was teen and being thoroughly entertained. I'd be surprised if it doesn't hold up as the popcorn flick it's always been.
Well it is a machine so of course it doesn't care:

ChatGPT is a bullshitter in the (Frankfurt) sense of having no concern for the truth at all

Detecting true plagiarism with it (or a derived entity as a service) would be as useful the currently proposed watermarking. Turn the technology to some advantage, because the profit seekers and free riders certainly won't be deterred.
Having worked in embedded, debugging through an Oscilloscope is a cherished memory that I sometimes talk to junior colleagues about. Knowing these things are possible can sometimes help people find more novel ways to think about debugging their applications.
> Any candidate is free to apply at a smaller software company with likely less bullshit.

That's not my experience. Smaller companies have plenty of bullshit hiring practices too.
For me, updates for apps distributed outside the store have been a surprising hurdle.

On the surface, "just bundle an update framework and be done, right?"

Sparkle is great, but very complex--xml AppCasts, delta updates, fancy mukti-party signing etc... Not a workflow you can quickly set up.

Squirrel (which Electron uses) is dead simple, but is absolutely ancient and basically unusable outside of Electron at this point. I seem to remember that the Electron project had some custom patches to keep it alive, but these weren't usable elsewhere.

And with either of these, because it ships as part of your app you have to be very careful to never push a broken build. If you do, your users get terminally updated to a broken app that you can't update again.

And never shipping a crashing build is easier said than done :) Are you really testing on every point release of the OS? Are you confident that you've tested all of the "magic" security behavior of macOS (the OS loves to insta-crash your app for these things)

The inevitably of shipping a broken build is why big companies build update agents that run in the background and independently update (or roll back) the app, e.g. Dropbox. But to my knowledge none of these updaters are open source.

Is the situation any better on Windows?
I think you raise the right point. I remember reading about how the team was burned out.

> What was the atmosphere like during the final days of coding?
I think there was a lot of panicking going on. But it was still very organised, there was lots of people working very hard. I think it was quite laid back at the very end, not many bugs, gameplay was sorted out on time. One of the programmers had quite a hard time of it – two of them decided not to make games anymore because of Mario 64. Not because they didn’t enjoy it, but because they’d burnt themselves out.

https://pixelatron.com/blog/the-making-of-super-mario-64-ful...
It's not a Twitter replacement, it's a Twitter alternative. It's actually not necessary or desirable that every platform has to "win" and replace all other similar platforms, this is the thinking that gave us giant privacy-destroying monoliths in the first place. People that are satisfied with their Twitter experience should definitely stay there, Mastodon really won't work for them.
but reading the M1 section

"Sticklers will point out that the Preston Bypass was the first motorway, and they're right. It was part of the M6, but only eight miles long. Opened just a year later, and initially covering 60 miles, the M1 was the first long distance motorway in the UK."
That’s interesting. This is really interesting: a REPL for Rust

https://github.com/google/evcxr/blob/main/evcxr_repl/README.....
It's a huge mistake. The point of life is the synthesis and growth through working through things. We are moving towards a completely meaningless but instant world.
Nitter[0][1] (which does not use the official API) still works.

[0] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

[1] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances
The most expensive Walkman is 3699$ (nwwm1zm2)
https://electronics.sony.com/audio/audio-components/hi-res-a...
I'm not sure we actually would disagree on anything concrete but for the sake of argument:

> 2. Who is interested in those assets.

This is the wrong question to ask. The right question is how important is it to US to keep this asset confidential/available/unmolested. That is a question that is actually tractable and understandable. If you have a service where it is very important that it is always available, then you need to have mitigations in place to prevent DDoS attacks. Whether or not you have some hypothesis as to who exactly might want to attack you is beside the point. If it's important to YOU then you should just assume that there is some threat actor out there who will attack you. On the other hand, if it doesn't matter at all whether said service is consistently available, then it's not worth the time/effort/expense to put in place DDoS mitigations regardless of whether there is any threat actor out there.
I suspect the problem is that the fallacy has assumptions, and like most economic theories you need to know what those assumptions are.

The assumptions get shown when thinking about why many countries are raising retirement ages, or what happens to work when pandemics occur, or just how fungible people are between different jobs, or why we allow immigration.

The article says that the author thinks the “lump of labour fallacy” is wrong, but doesn’t provide any hint as to why they think there actually is a lump of labour (except to read their other work).

A very sloppy editorial in The Economist on the topic: https://archive.ph/attgx

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> Disclaimer

> This is not an officially supported Google product. It's released by Google only because the (original) author happens to work there.
Between Rust kernels for Jupyter notebooks, PolarRS, and Gstreamer bindings, Rust has become my tool of choice for computer vision pipelines.

I used to prototype in Python, then re-implement the final algorithm in Rust for performance on an embedded device. Now I just start prototyping in Rust.
This is not, what this is about. This is about running macOS in a docker container on another system - most likely Linux or Windows.
It's possible you got lucky, but it's also possible we're comparing apples to oranges. What sort of jobs and in what market? I'm talking about full-stack, frontend and backend web roles in the USA.
What possible reason would it have for decelerating?
Maybe there are researchers who want to study the discrepancies of static electricity but if they don’t get funding, then they won’t be paid and have to take other priorities.

Seeming to demand these problems are resolved is a road to cynicism, in my opinion.
There is no inconsistency. The programmers suing Github put their code online purposely for other people to use in their own open source software for free. They aren't suing for their protection; quite the opposite. The programmers are suing out of a hatred of copyright itself, not an interest in getting themselves better copyright protection for their work, nor for money.
> Today, I am sharing the learning lessons so that you do not make the mistakes I made.

> 1. Do not trust people blindly, especially your team.

> This was the number mistake my cofounder Oscar, and I made. We trusted our team blindly.

Your number-one mistake was trusting your team?

That sounds like it could be finger-pointing downwards by a leader, so you might want to expound, or reconsider.

For example, even if the entire startup team turned out to be dishonest and incompetent, weren't those clowns were hired and led by the founders? If so, the buck might stop with the founders, so maybe there's a better way to characterize and learn from the failure.
This man is too powerful
My previous startups (Non-SaaS) which I had just sold.
My French relatives are always impressed with the (mostly) civil behavior at 4 way stop signs in California and claim they would never work in France. It’s funny to me because every time they visit, they comment on them.
I left France too young to know if they are right though.
Chat GPT reveals that academia has fallen short of the trend as follows.

" When you are growing and everyone trusts you, you can do no wrong, and your mistakes shrink into nothing on their own."

" When you begin to shrink and your reputation sours, you can do no right, your wrongs balloon catastrophically and your rights slowly shrink into nothing like your wrongs used to"

Academia I'm sure provides tons of stuff, but once you sour your reputation and you pop your balloon, it's very very hard to recover from it. We've gone from a world where the average person trusts institutions to a world where the average person doesn't.

Even I don't trust anything coming out of any large institution anymore. If I look up news, and I see CNN and MSNBC and any of those big networks, I keep scrolling until I find someone showing me the raw event with no commentary.

If I search some review I scroll past all of the official review sites and find some random nobody who appears to be expressing their own experiences.

Why?

Because I don't trust anything bigger than an individual. Doctors hide themselves behind hospitals with a million accountant sent number punchers who are incentivized to screw you over.

Companies pull the journalists into their wings so that the journalists are beholden random advertisers, and can write whatever they want without much risk to their own credibility.

I'm confident academia is falling to very similar issues. These institutions take responsibility and spread it thin like butter over toast, and when you do that everything and that institution needs to be considered not credible.

All of these opinions of academia probably come from the behavior of a small fraction of bad actors who get popularized in the news, but because those bad actors aren't named and shamed as individuals, the institution takes the blame and all of the good things that come out of it are no longer worthy of trust.
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> the current list of Mastodon servers feels very limited

Try this site: https://instances.social/

It helped me find some instances that matched my interests. Just keep in mind, most instances will die out if they're not sufficiently funded either by donations or the pocket money of the owners. This is why I treat all my Mastodon accounts as potentially ephemeral accounts that will die out given enough time. The more popular instances seem to be in it for the long haul, so go with those (as much as you enjoy the smaller instances).
That’s very true, but when running your car idle at the school run, you are poisoning a kid two meters away. You can hear them coughing, even with the insane sound insulation that cars have these days. I don’t get how that loop is broken.
I had a total developer team of roughly 12+ working full time in the office.
Don't ignore it. Laugh about it! It wasn't lost on me writing the comment either. Isn't it great that the very thing that brings us pain can also be the vehicle for our healing?
Ah sorry, got it the other way around.
People typically also say things like watching youtube gives them dopamine hits and they will get rid of their addiction with a dopamine fast. The problem with using the word addiction is that there are two possible outcomes. Either the word becomes weak and stops having the seriousness it should, similar to how OCD now can mean liking organation or people associate the action with all of the negative connotations of addiction. The second happens more often, as observed in this thread, and people start shaming you, and casting and projecting their moral judgement on you based on an inconsequential fact.

Fundamentally it prepetuates the older generation mentality that screen use is the causes depression, dismissing the underlying struggle people face. If someone comes out and says they are depressed, someone will respond, "oh, you're watching too much youtube, you'll stop being depressed once you stop." It happens with every shift in the most popular mainstream technology.
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In fairness, they’ve been saying this exact same thing since about 1800.
That's what the CRC is for.

Granted, it's not perfect...
Evcxr is great, and I used it to write Data Analysis with Rust Notebooks [1]! There's also this video on getting up and running with it [2], although it's 2 years old.

Ultimately, the ecosystem isn't yet as convenient as something like Python. I used to keep an eye on "Are we learning yet?" [3] - although it's been a while now!

[1] https://datacrayon.com/shop/product/data-analysis-with-rust-...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZKEzNL9als

[3] https://www.arewelearningyet.com
Something that really helped me with YouTube was installing the Unhook browser extension https://unhook.app/
Unhook can remove all 'suggested' videos. The home page will just be blank, and when watching a video, there will be no other video links on the page. This means I can still use YouTube, but I have to search for what I'm looking for. This alone has completely solved the endless video merry-go-round sessions.
Here's how you can stop the youtube algorithm:

step 1) install libredirect (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libredirect/?...)

step 2) on invidious go to settings and uncheck show related videos, set default homepage and feed menu to "search"

on your phone you can install newpipe (https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.schabi.newpipe/) and do the same.
Email Outreaching Tool to be more specific.
Also recommend this in Tokyo!

Great artwork and interesting stuff with many remaining ones effectively unique as they were put in by a particular locality for a time and then others have been removed.
I'm interested in possibly contributing / optimizing in polars, I would be curious to hear from a user first-hand which things are painful and/or slow still.
Yep. Didn’t even notice.
Can nano or pico do it? Can vim do it out of the box? For that matter, how does VSCode stand up to "very large" CSV files? I really don't know but I suspect this is less of an Emacs "problem" than it is a matter of fact for most editors that aren't specialized to the specific task of "very large" CSV files.
Not blaming anyone other than myself. These are my learning lessons. As a CEO, every decision falls on me.
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Cast iron casserole, iron steel pan. These are the only things I trust "for life".
I just edited the original post, and added a small backstory.
Is it all web based or a web interface to command line tools?
I imagine OP might create a tonne of tools in coming days now that ChatGPT can help in writing code.
No one's saying that recent LLMs "fully capture human existence," whatever that may mean.

But the evidence in this paper suggests they simulate human beings well enough for these kinds of experiments.
I may be overlooking your point. x-x+1 is evaluated left to right like any other additive expression, and after the x-x part is evaluated, the intermediate result is zero. This would be the case with any numeric type, wouldn't it?
I gave up alcohol as part of an experiment. Prior to that my routine on Fri and Sat night was usually to have a few drinks and zone out and watch youtube or a movie.

For me, one of the unexpected hard things was that zoning out to watch youtube or a movie was no longer entertaining! I could do it for an hour or so and that was it.

Now I read, work on projects or otherwise am more "engaged". I still enjoy youtube but my ability to be entertained by it has dwindled dramatically.
My experience with Glassdoor is that there is a significant amount of non-disgruntled employees reporting. I think this is because if you want to look at their data, you have to put in some details about your own employer. Certainly most people are writing either milquetoast feedback that gets them through the door or moaning about their employer so the information is biased, but it's not quite Yelp.
Either way, Apple has 154k employees, it's such a large company that it'd be surprising if in aggregate it was the best place to work.
MARTA does have a pair of old cars converted into a “work train”. Not sure what its purpose is though.
No need for the app store for that.

Plus I have known many offshore colleagues from African and Asian countries that managed to be successful in selling software, despite the conditions they were raised in.

So painting the Apple story as gate keeping is playing it short, there are many ways to skin a rabbit.
I don't believe that quote to be true if we suppose "success = printing money".

And if we don't suppose that, I do not see relevance of that quote.