skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That thread is mostly about Google completely messing up their response to what Microsoft announced yesterday.

I don’t see that unanimous acceptance, there are a lot of interesting discussions about the shortcomings. There are many comparisons between Google results for examples, with also potential solutions to problems you cite like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34709883

It’s not about replacing search overnight, but if it can take even 10% of search volume that would have serious consequences for Google.
Generally I think mental illness will remain in the dark ages so long as there is a divide between neurologists and psychiatrists, and so long as the ICD and DSM are the gold standard of diagnosis. Mental illness is mostly defined based on others perception of you, and is rarely defined based on any sort of psychological testing. There are a few which can be objectively tested for like Alzheimers but they're in the minority.
I am sorry that you (and your daughter) went through that. Would socialized medicine in the US have prevented your health issue?
Learned activation functions do seem to be a thing(https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.09529)
Yep, this resonates heavily with my own thinking. Thanks!
>If only there was a way for us to get together...as people...to unite as a group. To hold hands and stand up for ourselves. To become so large that the corporations and politicians must notice us and must change.

Isn't that what the state is? It has all of that, plus a monopoly on violence, which a union doesn't have.
Created an account 18 minutes ago to lecture everyone to develop in Rust :/
Is there a tried and true instruction to prevent windows 11 from running updater at all?

I keep losing sensitive work because of the windows penchant to reboot at times when im not at the PC, causing my tabs and docs to be lost.

Edit: yes im aware we need security patches but id lile those on demand, not randonly
If by C, you mean, descendants of C, I agree with you. If you mean C itself will survive, I strongly disagree.

I think with the recent focus on safety in languages, Rust and Ada, especially SPARK, will have better futures than C and C++. I think business is going to turn against C[++] for new projects, and there will be a push to rewrite C[++] code in safe languages, especially for operating systems, networking, and security code , making C[++] the next COBOL.

Since safety isn't something you can simply bolt onto a language, many other safe languages will crop up to replace the rest of the unsafe languages.
I was being affected by household money problems when I was 8. That shit rubs off on your kids no matter what.
ChatGPT has actually helped to get unstuck with my hobby project. I asked for a SQL query, it got it wrong, but I got hooked on fixing its mistakes and somehow overcame the "programmers block" to continue building my app.
GitHub's beta launched without Pull Requests, but we did have private messages…
Your long list of desired features and properties, especially cross compatibility, is sucking all the fun out of the project. I also suspect the hobby project you chose (whatever it is) has so much idealism in it that it implies a lot of toil, e.g. a cross platform messaging app or one-storage-system-to-rule-them-all or The Next Great MMORPG.

The goal is too big and you are but one person with a day-job.

Don't quit your day job.

If you want to finish a project and have fun:
Do not attempt to solve world hunger or censorship or any big problem, because you will find it is big and thorny.

Do: make a list of tiny projects. Extra tiny. Make sure they are fun, e.g. asteroids or Snake or displays-a-random-emoji or something silly.

Make a list of non-goals for your project: e.g. it will not be cross-compatible, it will not be multi-threaded, it will not support multiple users, it
will not be scalable, it will not support multiple resolutions, etc. Try to make it so dang simple you think you can knock it out in 2 days. (It might still take a month)

If you need a framework or library, pick one and only one library. (write the rest yourself) Pick the smallest one you can find that covers the part of the project you don't wanna do, whether that's game physics calculations or databases or whatever.

And then write your project, preferably all in one big ugly file that does not meet anyone's definition of organization or documentation or quality.

That's when it's fun, when the scope is small and understandable, and there is no expectation of having to fix anyone else's bug reports but your own.

(To be clear, these rules are only for personal projects, I do not recommend this level of anarchy on a team or a "real project", just a project where the goal is to have fun.)

I've made snake, asteroids and Galaga clones in JavaScript. I had fun with them, and I threw the code over the wall for other people to look at; but for personal projects I am not promising anything other than that I had fun writing the code and playing the game I wrote.
One possible answer is that you make that a feature: the database can contain null, and it means something. In some cases you will trade one problem for another, but the economics of the tradeoff in overall productivity can be favorable.
The title is a bit misleading (I first though it would be about prioritising college education over toy projects) but appart from that, the article is pretty good at explaining the situation that exploded since COVID: "Easy financial freedom".
Nowadays, every influencers are pitching for it, you open TikTok or Instagram and see all the same images and clip from Dubai.
In the end, education stay, for the better or the worse (I mainly learned by myself), the best way to validate skills and get a job, especially in those times with massive layoffs allovers industries.
It is written with the confidence that ChatGPT has when teaching me how to use a javascript library that does not actually exist
Why was there a questionmark added to the title? It's against the site rules
The gap between the needed software engineers and the available engineers if anything is growing.

There are jobs everywhere in the mid-level companies.

The actions of these giant monopolies are not a reflection on the career of software engineering. A large percentage of us will never work for them anyway by choice or by happenstance.
No company will pay for you more than what you produce, excluding exceptional circumstances. So no, it is not free money. Either it is money that you produced with your labor, or is an investment from the company to motivate you to produce more than what they are paying you for.
> The only anchor in reality appears to be Biden suggesting that they knew how to take it out which seems like a pretty weak place to build a large story.

I'd bet my last dollar that at least four nations had "blow up Nord Stream to force continued conflict" contingency plans.

Who did it? Germany, Russia, USA, Ukraine, or a curve ball from the one of the Nordic or Baltic states? We'll probably never know, and none of those answers would surprise me.
One thing to keep in mind is that counter assertions have been made without evidence.

> Asked for comment, Adrienne Watson, a White House spokesperson, said in an email, “This is false and complete fiction.” Tammy Thorp, a spokesperson for the Central Intelligence Agency, similarly wrote: “This claim is completely and utterly false.”

"This is ... complete fiction." is a claim that the story was fabricated. I think it's worth examining who would be doing that fabrication and what they would have to gain, especially considering who is making the counter-claim and what they would have to gain from that.
That would require talent.

It seems that the reason these hacks continue to piggyback off of existing art and demand its "modification for diversity" is because they can't create anything novel or unique on their own.

This is just a byproduct of that where the university demands non-males be allowed to audition for a role that is supposed to go a male.
Coming on HN to ask that is about the same as going to the liquor store to ask how to give up drinking. You want real answers go to places where people don't have internet, then ask what they do.
Right, but people (and companies) lie all the time, and it's not something that's illegal. It's amoral, but not illegal.

I'm not sure where I stand on the matter personally.

Like, taking the constant social turmoil in America as an example: anything people dislike they call disinformation/fake news, but are equally guilty and okay with of spreading and allowing the same behaviour if it furthers their agenda. Or they will at least be more lenient to their side of the arguments indulging in it, since it aligns with their biases.

I've seen this happen from both right wing and left wing members one Twitter and on Reddit. I personally don't use these platforms, but I've seen various threads with insane amounts of hypocrisy.

There's so many nuance and unresolved problems.

Like, how do we know truth isn't what's being censored?

How can we even tell in this day and age when the truth is? It's often diluted with some hidden agenda. Either political or corporate (or oftentimes both). I can't sit for hours fact checking everything I read from different sources. I have a job, and I also don't want to spend all my free time on it. But on the other hand it's also topic I care about (just not THAT much I guess?). Who to trust?

And I feel like this "the ones in power control what's true" generally feels like a slippery slope.

I also hate that I'm beginning to sound like a crazy tinfoil-wearing person.

Idk, humans are complicated. Social media in its current iteration was a mistake, since it created platforms for some very dangerous and narcissistic people
> I feel like there aren't really any good options in software development any more. It's always one big compromise with lots of possible decision fatigue. Every direction has drawbacks.

You just gotta pick something and go. I know nothing about your app, but there's plenty of general purpose languages out there that wouldn't be a bad choice. Over-optimizing is gonna kill the fun and you'll get nowhere. Choose some tech that solves your immediate problems and maybe keep things modular so you can break out the pieces that aren't working later.

Remember the fun part is building things. So go build something.
What's wrong with https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal64_floating-point_for...

Or with C# 128 bit implementation of decimal?

Is there no good implementation anywhere?
The first step would be to bless as much as possible of rust-crypto and promote it to Stdlib.

I sometimes wish the rust foundation would hire someone who does for rust what Filippo Valsorda does for go.
> We have no idea what Apple and Google share unofficially

There is a phrase that describes "we have no evidence of them doing this, but they might be doing it, because there is no proof of them not doing it" pretty succinctly - baseless speculation.

> Remember the Apple China bribery scandal? No? Of course not, it was barely a blip in the news.

Are you referencing a Foxconn employee getting hit with allegations of bribing some of the Foxconn suppliers back in 2013[0]? If yes, then I remember it. However, I don't see how one can in full seriousness refer to it as "Apple bribery scandal", given that Apple wasn't aware of it happening, and none of the people involved were Apple employees.

0. https://qz.com/42409/why-apple-is-probably-in-the-clear-over...
Seymour Hersh, also a advocate of the Syrian rebel chemical weapon conspiracy and is a Osama Bin Laden death truther. Maybe we should also include his later work as well?
That's not the only crazy conspiracy theory he has claimed in the past 10-20 years.
Where's the showmanship? There's no need to get into details, just get excited about the product while you're showcasing.
Honestly. As European I'm glad that somebody did that. No matter who.

Even this unsourced story makes more sense that Russians did that themself.
For stuff that can't use fdroid, check out obtainium, it can pull releases directly from GitHub, etc. Shizuku is also useful for background-installing apps via some of the fdroid alternative clients (and some apps like Tachiyomi can use it for extensions and other local-adb things), as is App Manager for background-installing apps via local adb.

https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium
https://github.com/RikkaApps/Shizuku
https://github.com/MuntashirAkon/AppManager
Allegedly a "burn the ships" [1] moment. The goal is to prevent any energy spent on even considering going back, the only way is forward.

If Germany has no Russian gas (it's not possible) they won't spend any time even broaching that possibility - the only way forward is to look for other sources (which happened concurrently with the opening of the Baltic pipeline - convenient).

[1] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BurningTheShips
> You have linked to an article that can be fairly summarized as "Educate yourself".

And crucially, provides a reading list for doing so. I posted this understanding that anyone not interested in educating themselves is not going to find prescriptive recommendations for doing so useful.
> You do not even know if the one you replied to is even a programmer.

The person lectured, "The time is ripe for a Rust rewrite." People who read that comment would believe the author to be a programmer.
Assuming that Google is in a panic over ChatGPT, as suggested the HN commentariat and the "tech" news media, then arguably this only highlights how little confidence Google has in the quality of its search engine and the trustworthiness of the web as a source for information. For example, instead of trying to match or beat ChatGPT, whatever that would entail, Google could instead focus on illustrating the shortcomings of conversational AI versus a search engine as a reliable and trustworthy means of locating information on the web.

As usual, it appears "tech" companies have an extremely warped view of web users as being non-discerning consumers of whatever garbage "tech" companies feed to them. Perhaps online advertising services companies are not a good choice to serve as arbiters of data/information search and retrieval.
If poverty were a major contributing factor, it should be immediately obvious in terms of who's affected. The children of the professional-managerial class should be roughly exempt. What we see is in fact the opposite.
Nothing I said is intentionally misleading, it's right there in the source I linked. Apple Chinese users are still Apple users.

Google employees rejected that same requirement to operate in China, showing that Google cares more about user privacy than Apple does. Apple has shown they care more about profits than privacy, which is the point.
Because without an indisputable evidence it would only play for "RUSSIANS DID IT" narrative, "See! Because they say it was US means it was themselves!".
It's now like Star Trek movies.
The open worm project is the product of microscopically mapping the neural network (literally the biological network of neurons) in a nematode. How isn’t this biologically inspired? If I’m reading it correctly, the equations that you’re misinterpreting are the neuron models that make each node in the map. I would guess that part of the inspiration for using the word “liquid” comes from the origins of the project in which they were modeling the ion channels in the synapses.

They’ve been training these artificial nematodes to swim for years. The original project was fascinating (in a useless way): you could put the model of the worm in a physics engine and it would behave like the real-life nematode. Without any programming! It was just an emergent behavior of the mapped-out neuron models (connected to muscle models). It makes sense that they’ve isolated the useful part of the network to train it for other behaviors.

I used to follow this project, and I thought it had lost steam. Glad to see Ramin is still hard at work.
“These other products give you cancer! Only use Febreze to mask odours in your home.”

viewer goes and tosses out all their presumably-cancer causing products, never purchases Febreze
That's undoubtedly true for "reasoning". I don't think it is true for "search".

When I ask <search engine> a question that is "demonstrably" answerable based on "reliable" sources (e.g. what is the capital of Mexico), I don't need or expect it to reason. I want it to (a) tell me the most likely answer, probably (b) provide a list a of URLs that also provide an answer, probably the same one.

And that's what Google and others do right now; ignoring the results presentations being skewed by commercial interests, they do it rather well.

Figuring out when a question is not answerable in this way, but requires reasoning, is certainly a part of the challenge.
Practicing self-restrictions is a good advice in general, but I wouldn't equate the addiction problem with dopamine levels. There is a meaning in everything you do, including your addictions. Sometimes this meaning is very deep. And you won't solve the problem without understanding roots of it.
Can anyone think why they are trialing in Canada, Portugal, Spain, and New Zealand first?
fair, that was completely the wrong example.
Dive into CPython Internals
Don't forget- the Dutch and Porteguese both had limited trading outposts (basically monopolies, but incredibly restricted). See https://iisg.nl/exhibitions/japaneseprints/ships.html
and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dejima
It will answer the following:
The highest scoring NBA player is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar with 38,387 career points. Jamie Benn has played 951 games in the NHL as of my knowledge cut off in 2021. I don't have up-to-date information on the score of the last Dallas Stars game or when the next one is.
Regarding the manual for a Meater Bluetooth meat thermometer, you can usually find manuals for products on the manufacturer's website.
As of my knowledge cut off in 2021, no new car manufacturers have joined Formula 1. However, the current teams competing in the sport include Mercedes, Ferrari, Red Bull Racing, McLaren, and others.

What if I ask ChatGPT: why do people resist new disruptive technologies?

People resist new disruptive technologies for several reasons, including:

Fear of job loss: One of the main concerns about disruptive technologies is that they can lead to job losses, as machines and algorithms replace human workers.

Lack of understanding: Some people may resist new technologies because they don't understand how they work or what benefits they offer.

Threat to existing systems and norms: Disruptive technologies can challenge established systems and norms, and people may resist them because they fear the changes they bring.

Ethical and moral concerns: Some technologies raise ethical and moral questions, such as privacy concerns, and people may resist them as a result.

Financial impact: Disruptive technologies can be expensive to implement, and some people may resist them because they can't afford the costs associated with them.

Habits and comfort: People may resist new technologies because they are used to their existing habits and are comfortable with what they know.

Lack of trust: People may resist new technologies because they don't trust the companies or organizations behind them, or because they don't believe that the benefits of the technology outweigh the risks.

It's important to note that resistance to disruptive technologies is not always a bad thing, as it can encourage companies to address the concerns and ensure that new technologies are developed and used in ethical and responsible ways.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34712815
Show HN: React components for playing ANSI animations
For completeness, the "Gulf of Tonkin" incident was two alleged incidents. One of them probably happened and the other almost certainly didn't (admitted by Robert McNamara years later.) The first incident, the one that probably happened, was insufficient casus belli for LBJ and then conveniently for the war hawks the second incident, which never actually happened, sealed the deal two days later.

McNamara's tacit admission: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HODxnUrFX6k
Such a nice anecdote for a period I have (and will) never see. The idea of private messages seemed cool when compared to the massive issues list we have on GitHub now
Maybe so, but please don't take HN threads on generic flamewar tangents.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
pick fp and haskell / ocaml/ racket/ common lisp
I couldn't even install windows 11 - it had some issue with my account, couldn't log in. A couple of hours wasted just trying to log in... no.
It’d be great if the OS told you the how and why in plain English.
Learnable activation functions are a thing famously Swish[0] is is a trainable SiLU which was found through symbolic search/optimization [1], but as it turns out that doesn't magically make make neural networks orders better.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swish_function
[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.05941
See, I _am_ a dev. I run telemetry on my infrastructure, I analyse it and fix what's broken, and if necessary, try and get upstream fixed. Also, I'm not opposed to telemetry in general, but if a switch like this is turned on by default, trust is broken for good.

Software which does any type of computing without it's user's informed consent is classifiable as malware, mind you.
postgres + rocks fdw would be a more interesting test case (or any LSM DB)
I don't care about official carrier support. I do care about supported bands and warranty.
This whole article is just a description of this YouTube video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT4vDfA_4NI

This video is substance-less, they hooked up Wireshark, watched packets fly past, most of which were DNS lookups, then described domains as if that is meaningful in itself. Most of the traffic is generated by Windows 11 widgets[0], which I'd suggest disabling either way.

Do I like what Microsoft is doing with Windows 11? Actually, no, I'm pretty unhappy with it. But I hate how lazy most of these critiques are. They do so much irrefutably bad stuff, this is the best you can come up with?

[0] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/stay-up-to-date-...
Wouldn't this apply to the venue too though? If you don't want to follow the venue's rules for what they will and won't host, find or build your own venue?
> What is the evidence that the loss of free play and risky play contributed to the epidemic?

And not being able to walk around alone. No freedom can't be good, even for children.
Ok, but please don't feed flamewars on Hacker News.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I don't think that is the problem. Rather it turns out everybody has been naive in thinking you can actually successfully manage memory, or other shared resourced in C without footgunning yourself.
Or that the quality of, e.g., customer support will decrease, like it has been the case with Google Fi, in my experience.
> Yet the NAACP...

TFA I linked to explicitly addresses this.
Under Settings > Accounts > Sign-in Options > enable "Automatically save my restartable apps and restart them when I sign back in". Most apps since Windows 7 register their current documents, workspace, etc. with Windows when they launch, and can then be reopened on next boot with the same context. If they don't support that API, Windows will just remember the command line and relaunch it.

I use this for a work computer that I shut down daily and it restores everything I had open: browser windows & tabs, email, Visual Studio solutions, PyCharm workspaces, Windows Explorer windows, Slack, etc. And update restarts use this mechanism specifically.