skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This plus do not get overly distracted by the ones who can’t figure it out on their own after some basic guidance. Identify the juniors who do well, and leverage them to help drive your / the org’s goals. They will get promoted and you will hit your goals faster. It’s a balance though because you have to carve out your own time too.
Or the developer can do it themselves.

When the new Dead Space was released, the original was renamed to "Dead Space (2008)".

Similarly the Mass Effect titles had years appended to them when the Legendary Edition was released, even though the names were not the same.

XIII was renamed to XIII - Classic when the new one was released.

Also XIII is an example of why you'd want to buy the original even when the remake is released, because the remake is significantly worse.
Announcing this with one week notice while failing to include pricing details is just sloppy — or, “hardcore,” I suppose.
Wait till you find out how talented people are using AI, AI is but a tool, it's up to the user how to employ it.
Zapier is very easy to use - everything you want to do/learn is in the no-code interface page, no need for reading documentation. This (as a developer myself) seems very complex to use. I have to read each integration's library, and also use Typescript (why not JS or something more popular?), at which point, I may aswell just write code and use an API.
The problem is this is how social networks work - what you're describing is the classic social media bubble outcome. Everybody and their networks upvotes content from publishers they trust and downvotes content from publishers they don't but half of them trust Fox News and half trust CNN. Then of course the most active engagers/upvoters are the craziest ones, and they're furiously upvoting extreme content.
I’d say that this is less “how fangs work” and more “what gangs are like in 2023”. If you look at the devs hired per Q stats for your company I’m willing to bet that seeing mostly people with 2yoe will suddenly start to make more sense.

My personal theory is that the MBAs discount how much this messes with quality engineering culture, and have no idea what they’re doing by running teams with one experienced manager, one senior, and a bunch of excited juniors.
Or, the singularity.
The EV transition isn't just about cars
To all those who believe that "one bad apples spoils the bunch", I do question what your proposed solution to that is.
Been at FAANG 6-7 years and was equally surprised as you coming in.

I had a peer more used to it coming in, the best thing he did was build a relationship, subtly establish this wasn't going to be a great place to bring my full self, and be kind day to day minute to minute as questions came up.

More directly, what you described is how it goes and it's sad. The worst part is watching them either find a way to be a part of the grinding machine, get chewed up by it, or give up and be sad. Best thing you can do technically is what you're doing, if you build a personal relationship, you should help them pace and signal the lack of incentives
Yes, they will. The computer industry doesn’t want to repeat IBM’s loss of platform control. Mobile phones are walled gardens with very restrictive app models and one should expect VR and AR devices to be even more so.

As an example, camera access is available on smart phones (cameras on phones being an established killer feature even before iOS and Android) but are completely off limits on all standalone VR headsets (Meta, Pico, HTC) for “privacy reasons”.

Expect other big players to lean into this.
With 15 years of experience and a bunch of new engineers on your team, your job is no longer to build shit. It's to help everyone else on your team build shit. If that's a problem, you might need to find a new team. I hear that Netflix only hires senior engineers.
That brings back memories. We put the files on a shared network drive in highschool (windows computers) to which we had access during our IT classes.

We had teachers who'd let us stay in the classroom over breaks to play the game, lol.
> Anyone who is really into something illegal will use something alternative anyway.

Thats the same argument for less gun control.
With the US govt. literally creating a Ministry of Truth[1], and no one batting an eyelid, 1984 is actually a reality.

Our media is compromised. The recent Pfizer scandal has been buried, NYT went to great lengths to dismiss it. The article was laughable.

The phrase "conspiracy theory" is slapped on any descent. We have lost our way while we sleep through social media. We follow the script or face social isolation.

10 years ago our current society would look like China, now the general pop is adopting that as a good thing.

We are fucked and it's going to take violence and death to claw back any sense of moral decency. No one wants that, and when all our wealth has been extracted we won't be able to compete with the robots that will keep us compliant.

I know this sounds crazy, but the writing is on the wall. I can see no reason it won't happen. Crazy shit becomes reality time after time and it's accelerating.

[1] https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/3472878-joe-bidens-m...
and the next thing will be a scandal about how said service that was supposed to be AI-free content was actually AI generated (much cheaper), it will flop and then a replacement will come up and do the exact same thing until people get used to AI-free being just a gimmick marketing term.

Just like it has happened with so many terms before it.
still have B32, B14, commacommacomma memorized
I wonder if AIs will be able to evolve a philosophically correct worldview of their own, or failing that one that’s at least politically neutral wrt humans?
Why not but then what's your plan against the explosion of crime?
uhh no the blatant problem here is american mentality where everything is illegal by default including breathing and walking. breathing is only legal because it's necessary to survive. walking is legal but only on certain areas of land. you HNers display this mentality every single day with your latest "oh cookies should be illegal" and "oh AI should be illegal" nonsense. your narrative about car culture (the first time i heard this one) is insane and probably some left wing talking point or something, i don't read the news. normies have that pathetic mentality you describe regardless of cars. call it american mentality, not car mentality, although it's actually the same in all countries (including whatever "well designed" city like oslo or whatever you have in mind), but america invented it. tl;dr the disease is statism, not car culture.
It may just be an arms race—the same AI that generates the nonsense also learns to identify and filter it out. Perhaps it'll also take down SEO spam with it. Feels unlikely but Google has an incentive to combat AI spam if people stop clicking on it, and presumably strong in-house AI capability…
> The world’s most, and least, democratic countries in 2022

I was expecting a list. Instead i got map coloured by children.

A country where an organization has a revolving door with the government is not a democracy.
At a LAN party I hosted, I'd typically demolish my friends at CS. So one time, unknown to me, they installed a hack on their side (aimbot?) and always started headshotting me. I remember getting flustered (I was and am a competitive person) and then just broke out laughing.
How could it rank higher tho? SO has a huge domain ranking. How an arbitrary website can compete with that?

I always thought it’s the opposite and platforms like SO and Medium incentivise posting there exactly via their crazy domain ranking.
I typically do look at the commit history of a part of code if I'm not familiar with it and I'm going to make changes there
Show HN: Generate Blocklists by ASN
I made this to scratch my own itch. When I get DDoS'd I can relieve the pressure very easily by blocking Cloudflare, ChinaNet, DigitalOcean, Linode, Hetzner and OVH. The problem is, it's difficult to get the up-to-date subnets associated with those hosts in bulk.

I stumbled upon a free source of AS data a while ago, and integrated it into my custom OpenResty/Lua firewall.

But I wanted a quick way to block an ASN earlier in the process (iptables), mostly to keep my HTTP logs cleaner during a DDoS. And thus, ASN Tool was born.

I am running it on a cheap DO box with OpenResty/Lua as the backend. It seems to handle about 500 requests/second, which I hope is good enough for the time being.

After this https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/12/six-charged-in-mass-take... I haven't been hit by any DDoS attacks, so this might be all for naught. But I'm putting it out there anyway.

Under the "Info" section, you can download the data file to run ASN lookups yourself. I suspect bandwidth may be an issue in the future. If anyone wants to sponsor hosting the file, email me at rumpelstiltskin at asntool.
You can't replace Twitter's API (or any social network interface, as the network effects are the value). If you build on OpenAI, you can at least have a forward looking plan to swap out their API for your own ML system (or a competitor) once other systems reach parity (which, assuming current trajectories, they eventually will).
The problem with the Internet Archive, which does an amazing job, is that they do an amazing job despite the problem being fundamentally intractable. Web content expands too quickly and too massively.

I wonder if the answer is a network of topic-focused archives; like moving from a "Library of Alexandria" model to a modern nationwide system of libraries.
Although ChatGPT is going to worsen the problem of garbage information online, I don't think it affects anyone who is willing to learn slowly and deeply.

We are already at the point that only certain books and videos are good references and their golden status is not going to wear down by time.
I've found with time that the easiest way to fall asleep is to try to meditate. Sit there or lay there in a quiet room and just watch your breath going in and out, not chastising yourself or getting frustrated when your mind inevitably wanders. Simply acknowledge that you've gone off track and come back to your breath. Normally in meditation, the goal isn't to fall asleep, but it is definitely something that you can let happen if you want to.
Three Python Trends in 2023
TL;DR: using Rust from Python, web apps, and type safety
Name one riot OR name the imaginary world you live in where these fantastical events occur.
A lot of large companies do this. I think in the past 2 weeks I have had maybe 3-5 hours to work on my stuff. The rest is meetings and showing others how to do something.
You generally need special headphones for that and they really didn't work that well 20 years ago. I don't recall there being any way to tell the Half Life engine or my sound card "output 6 channels to the headphones" and the engine wouldn't do A3D if it was a stereo device.

By having a 5.1 setup surrounding me (about 2 feet away in each direction, it was.. cluttered), the brain produces a surround sound effect the way it does in normal life.

An expert would have to speak further about how headphones can emulate that, but I don't recall it ever really being a thing in the early 2000s.
Just for the benefit of others reading: you can get on the FBR[1] if a grandparent was born on the island of Ireland. If you get on the FBR before your kids are born, they can get on it too, and their kids can get on it and so on. If you have a right to citizenship through a grandparent and you don't get on the FBR before your kids are born, they cannot get on it.

[1]FBR = Foreign Births Registry. If you have a right to citizenship, you become a citizen once you are in the registry.
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What happens if the majority of your group is trusting fake news aka people who exclusively listen to sources like NewsMax. Do you just abandon these people as trapped?
They still have other issues, though. You ever had to put `template` before a templated member function called from an object of a `typename` type? Not fun, yet I have to do it all the time in my C++ code. MSVC and Comeau make this problem optional, but GCC and Clang don't (as per the standard).

The chevrons also confuse all my editors, because they can't figure out whether `<` is an opening bracket pair, or if its just a less-than operator. I'm a bit miffed that Cpp2 doesn't try to replace the chevrons with something else, like D did. I'm also miffed that Rust uses the chevrons too.
> But in the meantime, my days are quite frustrating because I'm in teaching mode most of the time instead of building stuff.

Look at this as a huge opportunity for you to grow and increase your impact, to become a staff+ eng. Uplevel, teach, "use" them as a lever to do at the end much more than you would be able to do alone
Too late, ChatGPT isn't going to be the driving force behind inaccurate content on the web, we were there long ago. Google search is almost useless now for anything outside of "places to eat near me" and the blogosphere died long ago and was replaced by ad-rent-seeking recipe sites. All the value has moved on from web pages to small forum enclaves and video.

There is a bright future though in direct real time communication. There's also a new search and indexing revolution waiting in the wings for whoever wants to lead the charge on distilling or better facilitating those conversations. LLMs will play a part in that if they can get the data of the quality question response interactions and use them to fine tune the models.
There are numerous other hard working people from similar backgrounds who didn't become billionaires by the time he was 30. That suggests that he was lucky.
New data illustrates time’s effect on hard drive failure rates
Remember Code Pink that was so active protesting the Iraq and Afghanistan wars? They are protesting the war in Ukraine, but notice how the media is not giving them hardly any attention now. These grassroots activist movements are just as much provoked into activity as they are genuine organicly driven.
While the BEAM is the real magic, the languages (Erlang and later Elixir) are designed specifically to enable that. You can't just decouple the two.
> Without commenting on the other issues, but something that struck me as very odd living in the USA, was how people in California appeared fully disenfranchised during presidential elections.

That's the case of every state which is away enough from swing. Only "purple" states[0] matter during presidential elections.

Then again, swing states only get pandered to for a few months every 4 years.

[0] and Maine and Nebraska which use district voting, but at 4 and 5 electors they're to small to really matter
Or people could go to a competing search engine...
A Significant Regime Change
Thanks. Looking at the numbers, Verbal is a bit below average but above other fields that you might not consider filled with morons, like CS and electrical engineering. Quant is indeed the lowest but also the least important for the field. Maybe that's the only one you were looking at? Writing is above average.

Going by the percentiles here https://www.ets.org/pdfs/gre/snapshot-test-taker-data-2016.p... they are indeed below the Verbal and Quant medians, Writing is unclear. Overall it does not come close to the "literal moron" bar, especially since they are presumably aware that Quant skills are unimportant for the field so they don't need to focus on it much.
Simulacra and Simulation comes to mind. Eventually, the real internet will cease to exist.
lol dumb.

find Twitter here soon:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_social_network...
Sure, but it's not a singular shadowy cabal in a star chamber. There are different groups who all have an negative impact on our lives.

The banal and stupid: Elon Musk and his fellow trust fund buddies and VCs doing jello shots and going "Antifa sucks amirite?" and acting on their stupidity because they have money and power.

Banal and stupid category 2: CEO groupthink. Let's all have layoffs before there's an actual recession because activist stockholders demand it and we don't have the guts to propose something better.

Then there's the John Birch Societies of the world: the actual organized shadow political movements. The Koch brothers using massive corporate profits to fund the right wing think tanks over multiple decades. They don't take credit, but the ascent of the right wing crazies is entirely down to them and fellow travelers.

Banal and stupid category 3: the people attending the WEF/Davos. enough said.

etc. you can probably list your favorites here, and you might slice them differently than I have. What there isn't is a single central group making decisions for the rest of us, nor is there any organized left-wing cabal. If you do think there's any kind of organized left-wing group of any sort in America, I'd love to know about it, because I'd like to join that group and I've never seen one in 20 years of looking.
source engine is different from goldsrc, and the "feel" of goldsrc goes back to q2 (and some idiosyncrasies from q1). so if you spent several years playing from beta days, or for some people transitioned into cs from even more years of q2 or q1, then source would just be an entirely new experience. there's nothing valve could've done to preserve the right feeling, which is fine. old timers continued playing goldsrc until full blown grown up took over, where's new timers were formed by the conventions of source and further.
What is a vent
I'd just point out that the TSA is known for exploitatively using it's naked scans of people.

Ensuring that the government has access to everyone's nudes includes children's nudes.

Pedophile police officers is worse than pedophile non-police, since the pedophile police would have the law on their side
I think you missed the point: the claim was that the obsession over safety (partially the kind that manifests in cases like this) is the culmination of a robust car culture. Things like this obviously don't happen overnight; they require decades of normalization (and, for car culture in particular, alienation).
108.0.2, also nixOS.
You see Ryan, in capitalist America, you fail economy!

Hmm, the joke doesn’t work as well reversed.
Not at during my time at Apple, but I did experience this at Intuit. It seemed like the best way for a manager to be promoted was by their headcount.

It’s important when hiring to make sure you have the resources needed to bring someone on. For hiring a junior dev I would be asking myself if the team can dedicate 10-20 hours a week for pairing for six months.

Also I find it helps both people if there is an expectation around when someone should feel comfortable. Again, no less than six months until I would expect them to feel comfortable.
How many Google messaging apps are there? Five, and here's why
These are all symptoms of living in a police state. We've normalized this behavior so much while living in a police state that we no longer see it, much in the same way proverbial fish are unaware of water.
so basically you get treated like rich person in the US.
What helps me: write down a list of all the things going on, preferably pen on paper.. Allow yourself to do turn on the lights again and write additional stuff on it... Repeat until there's nothing more to write down.
How do you find the time/energy to get the example sentence on the back of each card? Do you have a process/method to make it easier?

When I encounter new words in real life, it tends to be all at once (i.e. watching a show while making dinner). I scribble the word quickly on a nearby notepad and don't have time to look at it again until I'm bulk-uploading new words later. It bothers me that I'm maybe not getting the full benefit of Anki, because I'm missing the context and/or example sentences.

I would love to hear ideas about how to resolve that timing issue.

I seem to retain more from those 20k word decks you mentioned than my personal decks, likely because they come with example sentences and context that my personal decks are missing.
This is close, but misses a major issue: self honesty in one's self conversation. Address that, and the majority of one's stress and anxiety evaporate. The majority of one's stress and anxiety is in the form of negative forecasting unknown future events - essentially fantasizing failure. Address that, and a personal revolution takes place, with the simple but not easy task of self honesty.
>I think most people would agree that a lot of the content on the internet is left-leaning.

This is an empty statement. The internet is vast, and it's filled to the brim with content, from all sides. For a demonstration, check the linked website, and click the Bias categories. Huge amount of publications, in every category.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com
Ask HN: Co-Founder? Seeking Co-Founder?
This is the monthly "Co-Founder? Seeking Co-Founder?" post.

It would be great if whoishiring takes over this.

Example:

SEEKING CO-FOUNDER | FinTech | CEO/Sales | US/EU/Worldwide | Pre-Seed

A great idea in the taxation niche, MVP ready to go. Ideally someone with local connections to SMEs.
modern software which does this is soooo infuriating, when you have the muscle memory of typing entire sets of commands before the UI even showed up and it just registered them all and did them perfectly
Finally, starting to see an apartheid occupation as what it really is.
It really says a lot about the system when the people who pass laws bipartisanly are not happy about what they just passed. It's almost like they could have, I dunno, read and thought about what they were passing. Just imagine all the other BS slipping through.
That is certainly one perspective that one can have. The point here is that the language and its usage precede the specification, and a pedantic, narrow-minded adherence to a certain interpretation of a document which was actually a post-hoc rationalization of existing practice has made the language less useful for certain applications.
> Well, how does that compare to traditional search?

Poorly.

Traditional search is a dumb pipe, it gives you multiple links to review and evaluate on the basis of a well-understood PageRank algorithm. It's gotten a lot worse, but humans adapted to its limitations, and know what not to click on (affiliate marketing sites that rank #1 for instance).

GPT3 is a dead end, it provides a single response and you can either accept what it tells you or not. It is not going to disclose what links it scraped to provide the information, and it's not going to change its mind about how it put that info together. This is because of the old Arthur C. Clarke axiom "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”."

AI peddlers will use every UX dark pattern possible to make it look like what you are seeing really is magic.
Correct, that's my point. It's easier than ever to be self employed and more people should be taking advantage of that.
In fact, it sounds awesome!
The slaveholder and rapist Jefferson deserves the Noble Prize in Hypocrisy for his ramblings about freedom and liberty.
Come on.Nothing is more boring than fixing bugs. Adding new features on the other hand ... /s