skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
None of the docs I found said that.

And we could get on to the network and join pubs. Only there was nothing in there. We should also have been able to invite each other and follow each other's posts, as we were both using devices on the same wifi, but that just silently failed.

A week or so later the iphone app rolled out an update with a patch note saying something along the lines of "whoops, new signups went to the test servers instead of prod by mistake" which _may_ explain some of it. But going back in to the app after the fix was no better.
I was struck by the sentence where a clearly talented coder (based on the website) said something like, "I couldn't afford $450".

Perusing the website further exposed the tragedy. Some brilliant people can't live like the normies. They could learn, though, if they wanted to.
Empty commits are useful to indicate that lengthy, manually run tests match some prior good state in development branches. For example commits like...

1.Good
2.Refactor
3.Rewrite
4.Empty with goodness re: 1
5.Rewrite
6.Refactor

...and now you retest and something is broken. You have an easy way to isolate any issues as happening after #4. And you have left markers for yourself 6 months from now if something goes wrong after a merge (i.e. confirm 1 and 4 match).
Humans are:

- fundamentally limited

- rough edges sanded off in the ball tumble mill of evolution
I see major impacts it’s immediately having that warrant the hype:
- as a programming tool it completely replaces google+stack exchange. Although if it kills a community like stack exchange it does raise the question where will chatgpt learn future programming questions answers? Github copilot might be a better longterm bet there.
- as a writing/drafting/summarizing tool it saves a lot of time getting started writing something, or researching a topic.
- It could also be really useful as a second language learning tool.

It does return invalid results quite often, but so has google for the last 20 years. And like google when it returns the right answer it’s such a time saver that it is a complete game changer. The ai accuracy can improve and there will be a lot of financial and social pressure to improve them.

I’ve been in tech over 30 years, to me it’s pretty obvious this will be as impactful as Google was, and probably more.
Not true. The verifiability policy only really came into effect in 2006 (https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2006-July/050...) - five years after Wikipedia started.
Do they hire you as employees or as contractors? I would assume the latter as unless they already have a nexus in your country there’s a whole lotta hassle for a single employee. Or is it, say, eu hiring within the eu, etc?
I think this is the right answer, big AAA games moved to seasonal/battle pass models. In-game purchases at much smaller price points for gear/cosmetics hits the disposable income decision threshold much quicker than a $60 full game you may end up not liking. You already like the game you're playing so its easier to get you to spend $10-20 here and there and those are on things you use/wear in game.

Video games are more engaging than movies because of a feedback loop. A movie is a scripted adventure that ends and its done, some are re-watchable but 2nd to Nth time thru won't ever evoke the same feelings as first time. With a video game there are adventures to go on, gear to chase, puzzles to solve, high scores to try and top and in a lot of cases you're creating or customizing something in game that gives you more of a sense of ownership. This feeling is kind of like having collectibles and your own customizable toy chest. Even playing through games a 2nd time or repeating activities in-game will have varied outcomes, especially if you're playing with others and overcome some challenge in a new way.
Yep, can confirm. I spoke with some folks from Beckhoff in Vienna during EuroBSDCon 2022.
Notion post from former community moderator on the state of Replit. Should note this poster and several other mods of Replit's Discord guild left their posts 2 weeks ago in protest of poor communication, among other things.
This has a similar feel to Russell's paradox:

Let R be the set of all sets that are not members of themselves. If R is not a member of itself, then its definition entails that it is a member of itself; if it is a member of itself, then it is not a member of itself, since it is the set of all sets that are not members of themselves.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell's_paradox

Also the Lowest Uninteresting Number paradox:

If there exists a non-empty set of uninteresting natural numbers, there would be a smallest uninteresting number – but the smallest uninteresting number is itself interesting because it is the smallest uninteresting number,

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_number_paradox

I suspect that the resolution boils down to what it means to "describe" a number.
I totally agree with some of this, starting with the "your name is your bond." People hire you because they can trust you. Your reputation is your most important asset, more than your knowledge. If you're a reliable, honest, easy-to-worth with person, then clients will forgive your lack of knowledge. But if you're a brilliant jerk, then no one will hire you.

And yes, stop work if a client fails to pay. It's so tempting to say, "Well, they're nice, and if I just do xyz for them, they'll pay." No, you've found a deadbeat client. Join the club.

But there are other parts of this with which I'll disagree.

Chief among them: Contracts are important, but I see them as a formality more than anything else. If I have to sue a client, then it's all over anyway; the time and legal fees won't be worth chasing. I work with people with whom I get along and (generally) have mutual trust.

Also: I've consistently charged at the top of the market for the last few years. Some clients don't want to pay top dollar for Python training, but others do -- and the ones who do are the easiest to work with, who understand that they're spending a lot, but also getting a huge ROI.
The ones that are worth it happen by themselves.

If one or both people are mainly trying to make friends, the driving force is transient & non-intrinsic - at odds with that which endures.

Whereas with relationships that "just happen", there is a cascade of circumstance and shared interest, and those rise greater than any desire to connect. The connection is intrinsic and unstoppable as opposed to cultivated.

Pursue your own interests and the truth of your circumstance as fully as possible, as often as possible, and - crucially - for its own sake. Not to meet others, but to meet more of yourself.

Your friends will appear.
Dungeons & Dragons. Seriously.
While Bhopal was a terrible tragedy and absolutely criminal, it was Union Carbide who were responsible and not DuPont.
Cool. EC2, ECS, EKS, Serverless?
I disagree: The main problem with advertising is with its primary goal, which is manipulting people into excess consumption. There are of course other secondary issues as well, but even without them ads are already a net negative for society.
Out of curiosity, do you have a partner/girlfriend/wife?

Because much like you, I haven't really kept good friends along in life. I've had periods in my life when I had a "good" friend, that I could talk a lot of stuff with, share my problems, and generally do activities in common, but I moved around, I haven't really kept in touch.

Problem is, without a social circle, it's much more difficult to find a partner, and I'm at an age now where that's the main thing I think I'm missing.

But I understand the issue very well from a theoretical standpoint. At its core, it's about a disordered attachment style, a sort of fear of attachment, or a failure of the brain to regulate the affect resulting from interactions. A result of early developmental trauma. I'm also familiar with some techniques that are supposed to fix the problem (I was building a neurofeedback system based on ADS1299 at one point), but life got in the way. Which is ironic, since I think this is the most important aspect of any life, social functioning.
What if we could make it happen 100-1000x more frequently thru the power of BIG DATA?

http://zeroprecedent.com/A%E2%9D%AF%E2%9D%AEON%20deck%20v.3....
Naw. Suggesting meats are more expensive than plants.
I'd argue it's a game of chance. You already mentioned a lot of things necessary to "build" a friendship, but I dislike the word "building". While there certainly are mistakes you can do, friendships are usually not "build" - maybe some work needs to be put in to be "maintained" in the long run.

Genuine friendship comes with shared interests (which is why it's easier to find friends in common activities that you are genuinely interested in), but also the simple chance of meeting interesting people. The best predictor of friendships in student dorms seems to be the relative distance of their rooms - see Kurzgesagt's "Why You Are Lonely and How to Make Friends" at https://youtu.be/I9hJ_Rux9y0 for some more interesting facts.

It's completely normal to have different level of friends - some to party with, some to nerd around certain topics with, some to have deep meaningful talks but you only can stand a meeting once a quarter... And you are only able to actively maintain a certain number of friendships.

I found that I don't have nearly as many "friends" as many of my peers have (being a 40-something doesn't help much either), but the friends I got are rock solid. They are kinda lopsided because I'm offering too much help most of the time without accepting much help from them - that's what I need to work on.
Indeed, this type of writing is what will get replaced by GPTs first.
I totally get the risk. As a consumer I feel similar fear about EV car batteries. Even if you can find the escape hatch in a pinch (some EV doors aren't normally manually opened), your house could still burn down or there could be other life changing property damage. It's a small risk but still feels like a real risk.
Sorry to say this, but this "CSS framework" looks awful when JavaScript is disabled.
Solid State Active Cooling - Enable slimmer and more powerful laptops
Overthinking is a shure way to loose friends, Sheldon. /s
In the past the age of female fertility was higher than today, mostly due to nutrition. Age of 14 was more of an exception than a rule, it used to be 16 or more. Also even 24 is a right average for 14 and 34, most women even today can have children at 34.
Modern C++ has many tricks to get memory and thread safety pinned down, but in my experience the new capabilities are entirely subsumed by old code. If Bjarne wants C++ to be a language worth choosing, we need some options to remove all of the footguns from before c++11, and remove the redundancies with partially-well-done new features to yield a single-well-done way of handling memory and multithreading.

If Bjarne put something akin to Rust's Editions in C++, and regularly removed poor designs, then yes C++ would be pretty close to Rust for new projects.
It can be, if you're taking advantage of them being poor in order to pay them way less than you would pay others.
The seminal "No silver bullet" paper states that there is no universal way representation for arbitrary programs. The alternative is making specialized tools for your usecase.

I think Tudor Girba has the most usable and real-world implementation of a Victor-like vision; moldable development in Pharo

https://moldabledevelopment.com/

The idea is that you adjust your development environment in real-time with default and custom widgets, tools and visualizations.

I've never really understood Victor's examples to be "examples of applications you can create if you follow my way of thinking", but more "hey, this is some cool stuff you can do with computers that you probably never even considered.".
Oh. It’s linked on Wikipedia as an official front page, and on the github also. Is there an official frontpage?

… oh I get it, it’s decentralised, there is no official front page?

Anyway yeah Manyverse seems to “work”, in the sense “is up to date, I can run it if I ignore the OS X insecure errors, and I can even join a server”.

But the one server where I could get an invite has 0 posts and 0 people apparently so, I need to keep digging I guess
Must be part of that labor shortage i keep hearing about.
That argument will quickly devolve into just https://xkcd.com/435/ , though.

But the point is, evolution is not a “thing”, it is an observation explained by selection pressures, an emergent property if you will. The characteristics/statistics for people are way different than any other wild animal, so I think it is fair to attribute that to society vs nature.
I have used cscreen [1][2] for a while to switch resolutions beyond what macOS offers via its GUI. You can install it via `brew install cscreen`.

It seems like displayplacer is the spiritual and de facto successor to screen. [3]

[1] https://www.pyehouse.com/cscreen/#comments
[2] https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/73696
[3] https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/173875
> Not everyone subscribes to Science Advances.

Science Advances is open access, so no subscription is required. For those looking for the article: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abm7047
Discipline. Perhaps a harsh answer but it's true.

Some are self controlled enough to remind themselves HN is a dangerous time sucking rabbit hole as soon as they see the homepage. They close the tab instantly.

Others require browser plugin or DNS level intervention because their self-control is not strong enough - yet.

Personally I have a my medication bottle _next to my monitor_ as a visual reminder. My ultimate goal is to accomplish the same tasks with zero medical assistance, and I acknowledge this might be a long journey finding out what works for me.
> Never price at the top of the market. It's better to be 100% busy at 80% of the fee structure, than it is to be 50% busy, at 125% of the base rate.

No way. I'd rather be 50% busy at 125% of the base rate.
women in their 20's wanting someone close to their age is a recent phenomena and only in the western world. Go to Africa, Asia, South Smerica or even eastern Europe and wonen in their late teens to early 20's will regularly express an interest in guys in their 30's or 40's.

tldr: America is a woman's dating market but the odds are better stacked for men once you leave the country.
I think it can be tough for technical minded people like us. It’s tough for me. My most lasting friendships have been the ones I made in grade school. I hear that is strangely common in Minnesota because so few leave, and when they do, they often return.

There was a similar thread to this a couple years back, and I had a number of people contact me. I honestly tried and I just didn’t connect with any of them.

I think it comes down to the specificity of our interests and having trouble even finding a shared vocabulary.

I think that is part of why so many of us rally around fandoms so fervently, it’s a strong shared interest and culture. For better or worse I have just never cared about a fiction enough to have much to say.
It's interesting to note that webflow was also inspired by Bret Victor. I'd certainly say this is a succesful product.
I feel you. There’s so much good stuff out there.

But you’re only capable of handling so much. You’re under no obligation to process every piece of information you think you might like, and moreover - you shouldn’t. You’d be setting yourself up for disappointment.

The way I work is I acknowledge my limits and follow my gut. Sounds vague but that’s what I got.
>I think this is becoming increasingly less common.

That should be the case. As regulations get stiffer and stiffer the amount of area under the "long tail" get smaller. Of course there's always people who want to screech about how more is needed but at some point the tail is so narrow that society just ignores them because the amortized cost per improvement is just so high it's a no-starter.
I'm in my mid to late 30s and I don't want a 20 year old wife. I can't even imagine that at 50.
I would also guess bonding and then using that adds two conversions worth of losses to the equation and are not free.
Death sentence in that you envision the services and economy can’t handle that many new immigrants?
One thing I didn't know is that certain macOS apps keep their own version history of files, which you can access by opening the file in TextEdit (Xcode for instance will do this) and then File > Revert To > Browse all versions. So if you've truly lost work and can't restore with reflog or another git command, it's worth trying this.

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mh40710/mac
Just because it's inconvenient enough for employers to check that they currently don't doesn't mean that it will stay that way. Digital archives generally get easier to access over time.
Off topic, but I’m surprised Slashdot is still alive. Have not heard of it for a few years.
You can use #ChatGPT to generate #API tests in #RestAssured
Sitting Ducks in object-oriented programming
Maybe in the 80s, with discrete versions sold physically. With the internet it's not similar. Maybe TV.

Movies are done and gone, software can live and need updates forever.
For fans of Tom Scott, they've done an episode of Citation Needed on this topic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KzcZZ_3vL8
> Hydrogen is a less efficient energy store than a battery

Less energy dense, but not less efficient
Ouch, that's a good point.
I think the author is simply showing that Circle can implement Carbon syntax using its metaprogramming capabilities on top of C++. It is not making a statement that the syntax itself is desirable.
Google's top management takes position on AI progress
ser why http
If your example of pro/anti vax being "nuance" was just an example, and you don't actually think being "against vax" is supported by current evidence, then the answer to your question is to go with sources that tend to align with meta surveys. This will filter out fringe and anti-science, generally being more reliable.

. . .

How do you know whether it's reliable or not? Or do you mean that reliably supports a non-medical worldview one way or another?

Interesting framing, as if looking for nuance in "reliable" health info that -- implied by your example -- would include info "against vaccines" when being against vax tends to suggest either anti-science or perhaps a preference to go back to survival of the fittest, when measels, mumps, rubella, helped cull weak kids in challenged communities. Where's the nuance in that?

Maybe you meant against boosting immunity with mRNA tech to smooth SARS-COV pandemic spread? Sure, that's nuanced. But you wrote pro or against vaccines in general.

If you're unhappy that anti-vax material isn't as widely published, consider that could be because it's not as widely valid, so doesn't withstand peer review or other scrutiny. Perhaps given the facts scientifically in evidence, an absence of such nuance suggests the publisher may not be more political but simply more "reliable".
My wife and I joined a local group of conservation volunteers when we were new to the area. Great fun, new skills, new friends. We had kids and stopped going. I've just recently started going back and nearly all the same people are still at it. I joined them at the pub quiz last night and we won. The theme was "Bees".
I'm glad someone mentioned JJ. It's easily one of the best ways to make friends as an older person. It's also a great way to be exposed to people outside of your usual social bubble. I'm not sure I know of another activity that cross cuts society so effectively.
I agree with this. I moved to a new city and struggled to make friends. I’m a natural introvert and kinda shy so reaching out for friendships doesn’t come naturally to me.

But I joined a language school class and made friends there. I joined a basketball team and made friends there too.

It seems weird but I’m starting to think that it’s as simple as if you interact someone once a week for a decent period of time and their personality is kinda compatible with yours then you become friends.

So if I was looking to make friends now, I’d look for a group activity with a weekly commitment that involves people who are likely to share some common interests.
Deepmind is working on a rival to ChatGPT
If a man at 50 wants to marry, it is usually because he wants kids, otherwise there is no reason to get married at that age. If he wants kids, the woman must be in the fertility age, which is 15 to 35, with the best bet in the 20-30 interval. Just biology. Yes, the maturity gap is big, but if that is the price to pay to have kids ...
"they'd have to be a person I'd spend time with when I'm bored" - I don't think this is fair to expect from anybody. It has a similar vibe as expecting from a relationship to pull you out of sadness. You have to be able to enjoy yourself and your time, if you can share that with anybody and elevate it, that's just an extra.
That hindsight is at least marginally closer to 20/20 than foresight.

Lotta people just continue on operating from the assumption that we knew the severity of COVID upfront which… we didn’t. It was very severe and it appeared even more so (as is well within the bounds of possibility of a novel pathogen).
You can’t say you can’t chose an item from a set because you can’t describe the item.

If it is sufficiently impossible to describe the number, how did it get in the set.

Irrational numbers are not impossible to identify symbolically, so if you stuff them in a bag and ask me to pick one, I’ll just take sqrt(2) thanks.
The axiom of choices is about picking elements of infinitely many sets at once.

In the example we are talking about a single set. The deduction "the set is non-empty => we can pick an element" is much more basic than AC.
Well, he’s wrong, objectively so. And its easy to prove. But I can’t blame him for feeling attacked and wanting to defend the work he’s poured his entire life into.

(For the record: I’m a lifelong C/C++ programmer who has written large systems in it)
I thought the article was fairly to the point:

> There is a “common understanding worldwide that hydrogen should be limited to applications where it would be difficult to achieve decarbonisation with other methods”, says the report by the Tokyo-based non-profit think-tank Renewable Energy Institute (REI), but Japan has instead laid out a vision of a “hydrogen society where hydrogen is used in every sector”, while promoting and subsidising the use of highly polluting grey H2.

The "save the planet" bunch are unsurprisingly not fans of plans that don't "save the planet".

edit to add: batteries are now at the point where a new pumped hydro scheme from scratch (i.e. no pre-existing dam) would be challenged to be a viable business case versus spending the same amount on renewables and batteries, even if you have a suitable geographic site for the water.
> ..and doesn't seem to be under my control at all.

Correct. You don't control someone else, and it takes two to become friends.

I don't think there is a secret trick. You can try to increase the chance to meet someone. Take up a new sport, charity work, etc.
>literally freeing them from fossil fuel dependency, which is a big part of why they keep trying to make it work.

Exactly. Freedom isn't free. It's always mind boggling that HN doesn't get this despite this being a community in which paying more for energy sources we like is highly popular.
Writing Code Without Plain Text Files
Java supports dynamic libraries. As long as the API hasn't changed, your class may be initialized using a different version of its superclasses than it had when it was compiled, so checking statically is not that valuable. And this is not just a theoretical possibility, it's quite common for Java libraries to be distributed in bytecode format, and to be run on various versions of the JVM - so at least any library which subclasses any standard library class is going to often run with various versions of its superclass.