skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
~13000 in "Current US$". You don't adjust for inflation and then adjust for inflation again. Vietnam is considerably lower today on that measure (3750), but if you use PPP the comparison isn't quite as stark (but ends in 1990).

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?location...

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD?locat...
Reminds me of a quote in GTD by David Allen:

"An ambient angst pervades our society-there's a sense that somehow there's probably something we should be doing that we're not, which creates a tension for which there is no resolution and from which there is no rest."

It's super hard to cut scope. Knowing that the software you write has imperfections but needing to move on to building the next feature creates angst. Knowing there's a better solution but not having the time to implement it can drive you crazy. You need to learn how to let things go and make peace with it.
Prove it. Walk away from your wealth, take a job as an hourly worker in a coffee shop, live as they do, start with the zero assets that a typical coffee shop worker has, make no use of your connections or wealth for the duration of the experiment, and we'll agree that your age has contra-compensated your higher IQ and education level. And let's negate your existing knowledge of how to write business plans by stipulating that no plan will be written for 4 months, and that any loan taken must be under the name of a co-worker similarly situated (no assets, no credit history) and cannot have any guarantors including yourself. Any loans must be from an FDIC-insured Bank or NCUA Credit Union or a regulated institution. This experiment must be done in a tier-3 mid-western or southern city or rural area in a red state and you can move if you wish to, but within those location parameters. These last two stipulations are to negate the advantages of better public infrastructure or public services.

Oh, and you cannot rely on public services such as social security - your only source of income for the experiment must be your wage work or assets acquired through the experiment, any medical services must be either free to indigents or through your work or work insurance or paid for through experiment income or assets, and must not be medicare and the like that you're eligible for. You can reference your previous work and life, but only in generics, and not in any manner that conveys an advantage immediately or over time. If any advantage is proffered based on your prior life, education or knowledge, you must decline. Needless to say, taking advantage of your credit history would be a no-no.

Obviously, you'll need some stuff, coffee shop workers have families too, so say 7 sets of clothes worth no more than $60 per set; a feature phone for safety and your IDs. If a smartphone is taken, it cannot be traded or sold. I'm debating whether or not you're allowed a car with current value less than $1000 and purchased where you decide to experiment. Since you said destitute people are desperate to get across the border without analyzing why, let's say not. You cannot lie or cheat, nor make promises to people based on your non-experiment assets, including your name.

Any family or friends that accompany you are subject to the same terms. The number of companions cannot exceed 1. Any travel or life during the experiment must be supported only by income from within the experiment.

How long would you like to run this experiment for?
Apple had Mark Markkula and Don Valentine, now-legendary VCs, investing at or near the company's incorporation (this is 8 months after Jobs and Woz started working together and after they had released the Apple I, funded by Jobs and Woz's personal funds).
Did you read the post? He obviously said that he was working on too much at once and then goes on to cut back and say he is happy and focused moving forward...

That is perfectly logical and doesn't invite judgment about his daily activities or "going outside" or whatever you are talking about
I think it is okay to still be figuring out the pricing and other details while you build this out, even if it is at a Show HN stage. Perhaps, I would not recommend using this on your sensitive projects just yet.

Given that most of the responses are about "what is the trick?", "how is it funded", etc., it seems like HN does not feel the same? If they were to respond with some random VC as the source of funding, would it suddenly be less nefarious (even though the incentives are probably worse)? What are the other implied obligations of doing a Show HN?
The lack of ECC memory is almost certainly not a factor. If you can train at FP8 your model will recover from a single flipped bit somewhere.
My wife worked at a 7-Eleven, when we got married.

7-11 is where the people that get abused at other jobs, go to abuse someone else.

Some of the stories she told me, at the end of the day, made me want to go back to the place, wait for the customers, and do some mayhem.

I know many, many folks in lower-echelon, and service jobs. I've learned to treat servers well.

My mother, on the other hand, was a "Hyacinth Bucket" type of English woman. An amazing person, but also incredibly class-conscious. She could be downright abusive with servers, and I always wanted to slide under the table, when she would start.
> It's forcing yourself to keep the number of active pursuits low enough to manage. If you don't kind of commit to seeing if someone is going to pan out, then they won't." This is of course the actual solution to the problem I experience with modern dating.

This problem is solved in a culture where friends and family suggest matchups. Of course, this requires a decent and somewhat large network in the first place, but each agent is incentivized to show matches that are somewhat in each other’s leagues (for the agent’s reputation), and each single person is incentivized to not burn their reputation in the network so they avoid churning through possible matches in pursuit of a “better” match.

You also get a somewhat reasonable background check via the agent proposing a possible match since they might have a cursory knowledge of the proposed match’s history and family and whatnot.
I do hope in the future we just tell everyone to learn to critically reason.
No, I overlooked that. Good point.
It sure beats being stupid enough to leave a trail of self-incriminating evidence all over social media.

(You're not as smart as you think you are.)
yup; you can easily run your own or just set GOPROXY=direct to use go modules without a proxy at all.
Everyone has a different criteria - for me, the Pro just feels too heavy, I love how I almost don't know if I have the air in the backpack.
As someone who graduated into the Dotcom Bust, your expectations need to be pulled back a bit from what you saw your somewhat older friends get right away.

Not only the amount of your starting salary (it was about a 30-50% decrease for those of us in Class of 2002 vs our friends in Class of 2000), but also the coolness of the job (Them: web startups. Us: government contracting.)

I also watched some of those slightly older friends struggle with car and/or condo payments taken on the presumption of salary and stock options going nowhere but up. Ouch.

If you get a job offer you can stand in a place you wouldn’t mind living even if the job went away, you should probably take it. As others have said, it’s a lot easier to get a job if you have one. You’re a lot less likely to become desperate and have to accept something awful if you’re already in an ok job.

As for pay expectations, look at what similarly-educated mechanical engineers in your region make.
I am absolutely convinced that the past had higher standards for content and presentation. The choice of font faces probably is just a consequence.
Yeah don’t fucking pry about my childhood either.
But it does make you better qualified for some jobs than others.
ITT: People who seem to think non-profit means 100% volunteer.

Honestly, the information being so easily available and transparent is pretty neat. Kudos.
Point #1 can be like the servers point, you can tell a lot about how they treat their spouse. Also, my wife tends to have a dominant personality (somewhat), and I tend to have a more submissive / little brother personality. I guarantee you meet us and how my wife acts says things about me. That is much less true over time though.
For number 2 and some of the other points it's important to get a representative sample to make a determination on. I have once complained about food to a waitress when I was having an otherwise bad day. I have once held back anger when demanding a refund from a customer service rep - because the company pissed me off so much, not the rep, and it was really really hard to hold back the anger toward the company when talking to the rep, and I know that the anger bled through, I could hear it in my own voice.

But usually I tip very well (75% for a haircut, at least 20% for food) and try to be both polite and considerate.

People have bad days. For any given interaction a person loses very little by writing another person off because of that other person's bad day. But, of course, that reflects on you making the judgement to write them off based on a singular incident.

And I cheated once on a test by taking an extra few seconds because I just couldn't leave a test question unanswered (I've since matured).
I have seen so many articles about evaluating people popping up recently. I expect someone to write an article soon about how you need to watch someone make love to a hooker for assessment purposes.
Show HN: Bravoboard.xyz – a collaborative place for all your kudos and gratitude
Bravoboard is an online group card that allows you to create a board and share a unique link with contributors. Contributors can post messages on the board to celebrate a co-worker, friend or a family member.

I built Bravoboard to scratch my own itch. My friends and colleagues use a competitor (anonymized intentionally) and while it's a great tool, the pricing is steep and the free tier is barely usable at just a few posts per board. The most basic version requires you to pay a decent amount, yet, there are multiple basic features behind a paywall. Judging by how often my friends use the platform and are forced to upgrade each time, I decided to spin up a platform that would enable them to have a cap-free experience at a fraction of the cost.

Bravoboard has all the core features. Creators have full control over the board and can moderate any post on their boards. Bravoboards can be scheduled for delivery at a later date and reminders can be set for users to be reminded of upcoming events. Gifs are powered by GIPHY. A single Bravoboard with unlimited posts and unlimited users costs less than $1. This can run up to a lot with other leading platforms.

While you're here, check out our -

- see our samples (<https://www.bravoboard.xyz/#samples>)

- live demo (<https://www.bravoboard.xyz/board/69d95f4f94bc4554b403c17e682...>)

- 404 board (by accessing a random path e.g. <https://www.bravoboard.xyz/404>) and leave us a post

Twitter - <https://twitter.com/TeamBravoboard>
Worth noting that only the extension is actually free (as in speech), the actual important parts, the server and model, are proprietary.
All the frameworks work on CPU. At the time I tried it, the 5950X was about 10x slower than my GPU, which was a 1080Ti or 2080Ti. GAN not a transformer though.
Yeah the shoes we wear most of the day do matter a lot.

Don't recall having plantar fasciitis or shin splints; but spent a lot of time on steps doing many many single leg heel raises, to work around achilles tendon and calf muscle pain.

Exercise finds our weaknesses.
Maybe reread that one, I think you are putting stuff in there that wasnt present in the article. I dont think the point is to measure how successful you were but to get a sense of the kind of person you are. In my experience with questions like this a rocky start is not held against you, tends to make you stand out in a good way if anything.

Caveat; yeah gut reasoning doesnt lead to unbiased hiring practices, no argument.
(deleted previous comment... misread and didn't understand that's what it lookED like before).

The new one doesn't seem all that bad to me, either, although I did try it on a desktop machine. I see that some of the complaints have to do with how it looks on a phone.
The author of the blog post makes a wild leap (from "A daemon connected to Apple's servers when I used QuickLook on a file" [paraphrased] to "Apple Has Begun Scanning Your Local Image Files Without Consent [...] Stock macOS now invades your privacy via the Internet when browing local files [...] macOS now contains network-based spyware"), with the strong implication that information about those files is being sent to Apple while stopping just short of actually claiming that.

I've seen these kind of accusations of spying be made a lot based on misinterpretation of very scant evidence, and without something more concrete I think that's almost certainly what's happening here. A far more likely explanation IMO is that the daemon is doing something like checking for regional availability of the Live Text feature (still somewhat problematic but definitely nowhere near the same ballpark), as partially suggested by this commenter: https://infosec.exchange/@yProd/109698545121198396
When I download the Unbranded/"Nightly" build, it says it's v107.0.1, versus Stable is v109.0. You seemed to be of the impression the declared version string was incorrect, so I dug a bit deeper. The security fixes mentioned in the changelog for v109, such as CVE-2023-23601 [1] are not present in the latest Unbranded/"Nightly" release.

So basically Mozilla telling developers: want to be able to run your own code? Fine. But only if you use a months-old browser subject to a bunch of security vulnerabilities we keep a list of on our website for any would-be attacker to consult.

[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2023-0...
Dear media: Stop illustrating Metaverse articles with pics of people in VR
I really hope it is because I get maybe 1 person every 8 months to write back so if the average person has so many dates they need an app to track them all that's just seriously depressing that I'm so far off the norm.
Minimal Software Project Management
I had donated to Wikipedia almost every year before I saw this kind of thing and Wikipedia basically became an entity advancing US foreign policy.
On point two I think you are both right.

His observation that people are infuriated when they see their own flaw in others is often true. But the converse is not : if a flaw is noticed, the observer must have that flaw.

E.g. ive noticed that I was disgusted by people wasting time at work... over time i've realized this was a judgement on myself that I was externalizing.
I saw this behaviour from MS/Azure IP space about 3 weeks ago; there were so many requests that some dynamic pages started to get slower because of it, so I gave in and added Cloudflare in front. It stopped minutes later as per the logs on my servers. Cloudflare blocked 10000s of visits in short timespans. Not sure how to really handle this well without something like cloudflare ; I would block like OP but I cannot risk that for paying b2b clients. We had no complaints at all by the way.
Reading the FAQ it seems to come down "people copy/paste from publicly available code anyway so who cares. We'll look into attribution in the future maybe".

I've never read an FAQ that avoids it's own questions this much. They say "permissive licenses", they could've just listed what licenses were deemed acceptable by their scraper. Licenses like WTFPL, MIT-0 or CC0 are perfectly usable for ML because they require nothing in exchange for the code. There are projects out there using these licenses, though most will require attribution at the very least.

Microsoft went full "licenses don't apply to machine learning, sue us", just like most AI companies when it comes to things like copyright, but I don't think claiming to care about licenses and then refusing to name any permissable licenses for your model is much better. At least MS doesn't lie about their intentions.
Larry David takes the exact opposite stance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yViS2QEzPLY
Anecdotally one (only been in one accident ever), but regrettably in that case I was the idiot braking at the last moment, and the driver behind me was distracted and rear ended me. Gave me a concussion that would have been nice to avoid.
It's hard to imagine a world in which hiring full-time editors would not have much, much worse outcomes.
> but it is not at all clear that it needs to be always the same guy grinding, while next door someone else is dying of boredom and watching netflix until he passes out

Unemployment is 3.5%
I fortunately found a life partner before dating apps took the foothold they have now, but from speaking with younger relatives and friends, I think virtually all of them (at least the male ones) could only dream of ever even being able to use something like this. It seems to me the far more common experience is for, at any given time, their number of active prospects through those apps to be on the order of 0. Or are all my friends/family just ugly?
I noticed this a few days ago when following a [pdf] link from HN. It's pdf.js as on desktop, though the UI is not too full-featured yet. It's going to save me a lot of irritation dealing with other PDF apps.

Article from a few weeks ago, before it was enabled: https://www.ghacks.net/2022/12/10/firefox-for-android-is-get...
Absolutely not. Not supporting more than 1-bit alpha was a huge reason to avoid doing anything serious with PNGs if you cared about IE6; gamma was like a cherry on top.

You could actually make it work with non-standard DirectX filters, but it came with its own set of drawbacks and wasn't always a viable option.
well, to be fair, the article didn't say how you should interpret early life experiences. You state that looking at early experiences are "biased towards those people who got off the blocks quickly and easily" but when I ready #3, my first thought (as a manager that interviews and hires frequently) was looking for people who had to solve problems when young, as opposed to people who got everything handed to them. Now that shows my biases which may be negative biases towards sons of wealthy parents who are talented and motivated, but the point is that your comment assumes a specific type of bias. I suspect that whether you're hiring or just meeting people socially, having a sense of how someone got to the point they're at tells you more about that person than just knowing where they're at now.
Yes, switching languages not being a single click any more is a major usability regression. They should at least allow to configure a set of “favorite” languages that can be directly accessed.
I didn't know about Thonny, but I teach some Python as well. In VSCode, I tell people to add #%% at the start of their script. Then ctrl-enter will run it in a nice interactive window with an interpreter below it for "live" debugging. (The Jupyter notebook integration is also working better than before, not sure what I prefer this days)
To be clear your joke is:

1. You don't understand something

2. Someone tells you that you don't understand

3. Got you good, can't believe you fell for my ignorance
Stay away from software engineering. It already pays little. It will degrade over time.
I'm sorry, but zooming is just... dumb... at least for me, sorry. Having a giant text doesn't help the readability - at least for me :( And it's not like changing window size only when visting Wiki is a good solution too - it's nuisance to change window size when you came for a quick 30 second read. At least for me.
Isn't the population sparseness in the United States heartland also the raison d'être for the Electoral College?

Anyway, speculating about what the majority of people think seems quite pointless as they themselves don't know.
This person had ample opportunity to answer the question. But he didn't, just like the other thieves who don't answer questions about the legality of their datasets.

It's a pattern.
By Rothko or robot? We ask experts to tell the difference between human&AI art
I was about to say this (I also produce). Definitely sounds like a lot of sampleable material in there :)
Regardless, it shouldn't be pinging the Internet whenever the user previews an image file. No good can come of such behavior.
Maybe sans fonts are easier to read through hipster glasses.
I'm no purist, either. But I'll buy a box of old vinyl for a pittance now and then, just to spin them up and see what's on them. I've been well-rewarded with some real gems, like Maurice Andre's Trumpetissimo. It's so beautiful it gives me chills. I never would have expected that.

https://www.amazon.com/KARIUS-PEDERSEN-WALLWZ-TRUMPETTISSIMO...

I used to play a trumpet, and have no idea how a mere mortal could make it sound like that.
even if it is at a Show HN stage

'Show HN' is for things that can be tried and that's about it. It has different criteria (and inputs) from things like 'Launch HN'.

A Show HN needn't be complicated or look slick. The community is comfortable with work that's at an early stage.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
What a bizarre combination of goals. I wish you nothing but good luck in your quest.
Wonder are you trying to walk around the limit or it just happen like this?
Show HN: Backhooks, hooks for Node.js and the back-end
I disagree with your point about juniors with unfinished side projects. There are fun parts of coding and tedious parts. Greenfielding, using a new language/framework/library, coming up with high-level architecture is fun. Tracking down bugs, forcing a new feature into a legacy system and writing test is not fun. I'll do it if I'm compensated, and it can be rewarding in it's own way, but if I'm coding for leisure (and avoiding burnout), then yeah, I'll drop a side project as soon as it stops being fun.
I have found that it is valuable seeing whether people gossip: if Mark starts gossiping about Steven, I know Mark will gossip about me with Steven as well. People (not even thinking about it) use revealing "secrets" or talking sh*t about others for bounding.

I try to stay away from these people, and while writing this post I realized that all of my closest friends rarely gossip.

I also noticed those kind of people in a work context are both a treasure and a peril. They are a treasure because they tend to give information for free, but they are also liabilities as these kind of people won't move far the social/corporate ladder.

People who give informations for free do not understand the value of information in the first place.

The second way I judge character is by checking how late they are at appointments, meetings, parties, video calls, whatever. People that are often late simply value their own time more than yours, they disrespect you.
> Did you read the post?

Yes, which is why I cited specific details from the post in my comment.

I also read some of his other posts which is where I gathered the “monastic code machine” and additional context.

Please don’t jump to conclusions about other people not reading the post when they’re clearly referring to details within.

HN has a guideline about this specifically https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that".
But most projects aren't designed to use it that way, as a virtual 48GB single GPU.
This reads like the 5 knight virtues from medieval times in a lot more words
> you will always have the option to switch back to the old theme.

The only issue is, you need to log in to do this. I don't want to have to log in to a website that I read, and never edit, to get rid of the giant distracting table of contents.