skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m with you in simplicity and the cult of being busy.

And I even personally prefer the social moment of a cashier to performing self-checkout.

But from the “simplicity” perspective, it’s actually pretty reasonable to tally and tender your own purchases. It’s the kind of simple practical task we probably benefit from making time for.

If someone were to help you, of course they should get paid, but it’s only a quirk of history that that’s been the default.
We're also running a large rails app and I can't remember a single downtime caused by rails itself, it's always been some db, network, cloud or business logic issue. Rails is pretty far down the list of the issues you encounter.
Yep. On all counts.
> A lot of people will often not respond to Slack for several hours

Fire them.

One hard rule I have for my team is not being responsive on IM for extended periods is treated the same as not showing up for work.

If people need to be taught how to work remotely, or anywhere for that matter, then the company has the wrong people, or maybe interns who need such training.
Surely, You Joust: Medieval Times Workers Go on Strike
> how to foster goodwill by demonstrating your company acts in ways that benefits the public good

Can't you just have a sign there that mentions the generous donation? Maybe even a big sign? Multiple signs? Naming the park might even backfire and do the opposite of fostering goodwill. It’s dystopian.
fair point. Plenty of ways to circumvent this, also since there's is nation sponsored DMCA, there'd need to be clever ways to avoid the detection of video upload itself.
The press talked about a lot of fads for weeks, like PokemonGO. At this point there's nothing to indicate that this is or isn't a fad. Everything starts like this:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=bing,chatG...

And many things end up like this:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=g...

Not trying to say AI chat isn't cool, but I think a common tendency is for humans to overhype the wins and oversell the losses. Seeing a lot of people praise Bing's chat as revolutionary is cute because while it's a 10x better AskJeeves, it's not even on par with incumbent search engines at this point. The only real "innovation" here is that they changed the interface from search to natural language context-preserving chat. That itself would be meaningless if it didn't achieve parity with search...
The length, is the point.
Is there a place to find good 3d models to use in this software? I want to plan out a "computer lab" room in my home, so of course I wanted to map out where computers would go, which desks, at which heights, etc.. ... but I found that the models available on the software's site are relatively few...
The question wasn't "what is the best way to write code" but "is 1000 5 line functions preferable to 1 5000 line function". Of course the best way is somewhere in between, but that wasn't what we were discussing.
Actually, it does work from Linux! I just tried it and "dotnet publish --os win" cross-compiled from Linux to Windows. Nice!
too bad that device support isn't stellar :-( https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices
I’ll take all sorts of funny over open-office.
It's hard to respond to these questions without thousands of words, but I'll try some scattered responses to various points above.

From what we understand, all of your scenarios were true at various points. There are times when humans expanded at a lightning pace and times when we seem to have been at a standstill. We don't really know to what degree these are accurate reflections of the reality vs illusions caused by an imperfect material record.

One well-known obstacle to human expansion was the Arctic itself, which seemingly resisted human inhabitation (even by archaic humans) until relatively recently.

As for how fast we could have expanded, modern humans are incredibly specialized to rapid, optimized adaptations. Our language capabilities, high order thinking, sociality and other rapidly adaptive traits evolved at least partially in response to periods where climates could shift by tens of degrees in mere decades during the pleistocene. On top of this, the kinds of nomadic foragers that would have been these early pioneers live a lifestyle that's not only adaptive to variable environments, it's designed to exploit that variability. If the winter is going to be too cold in this valley, you move over to the next one. If there are dangerous animals too close, you pick up camp and go. You're using the resources from multiple environments as those resources are accessible, which allows you to exploit landscapes that any other lifestyle would find completely inhospitable.

Happy to talk more about any of the above in a more focused way.
I really don’t want to hear any of these tech execs bloviating about climate change after this nonsense.
the thing with that book, and many similar books is that if you take the recommendation verbatim they often 1) only apply to one language 2) get outdated really fast.

What matters is understanding the "general concept/ideas" and apply them "as appropriate".

Most important over obsessing about specific rules is nearly never a good idea, but to some degree that is what is needed to write a book like that to illustrate the idea. And this is also where Clean Code fails, it's often too specific in exactly how to do certain things. But that is also what made it so successful because it makes it accessible.

Today Clean Code and some other such books are still a grate source to compare your experience/knowledge against in a critical way to find additional insights.

Through if you want a book which you can blindly follow or you don't have the experience to judge code style recommendations its probably best to keep the hands of it.
> green is experiencing degraded availability. We are still investigating and will provide an update when we have one.

Anyone knows what service is called green.
One of the custom emoji I use the most is a picture of a judge’s gavel mid-swing. It’s useful to convey the finality of a decision that’s been made. There’s a judge emoji where the judge is holding a gavel, but it doesn’t quite work the same way. If I were going to ask the committee for one emoji, this would be it.
I just realized how useful queues can be.

Instead of letting the system fail under heavy load.

You put the tasks in a holding place.

They will be processed later.

Computers have spoiled us with instant and now.... But even a 1 hour processing time is amazing if that task would take 3 days manually.
I don't know how you keep failing to understand this. How little Apple and Google care about privacy doesn't matter. What matters is being able to avoid them as much as possible. iOS fails completely at this, while Android fares much better.
> sometimes people do actually want to clean up

There are two scenarios I want the cleanup to happen: 1) app is buggy and I'm trying to fix it by reinstalling from scratch, 2) I need to free disk space. Both are pretty rare, and in the second case I am already using a specialized utility like DaisyDisk to see where my space has gone.

> transient data files

/tmp? That gets actually auto cleaned up!

> settings

Maybe. Do we want macOS to introduce the concept of uninstall to shave a few of those kilobytes? Hoping programmers do not screw up with rm -rf /? I already hate it when I have to use an installer so that's a no from me.
Note that a period emoji was approved in 2019

https://emojipedia.org/drop-of-blood/
The metric I was going for was incidents per day. But otherwise you're right, maybe I'm being too hard on them
Or saying climate change is fake if it benefits your oil company right?

Why was your example the opposite. Who makes more money a scientist or exxon?
First Impressions of the VisionFive 2
Would HN be exempt or you'd punish it too? There are job ads for the YC companies.
The title is quite deceptive. It's all dependent on Vue3 (not VanillaJS, which i was expecting), has many modules in fact which it is dependent on (so it's really NOT simple) and alot of it is actually in TypeScript.

The only truthful thing that can be said about the article is that it is "modern".
Yeah, that’s my one hesitation. But proceeding until I come up with something better or have time to polish. Trying to be brutally honest with wall of text on what it is and isn’t. My normal business has always tried to present as having it together. With this, putting up every update I make each night is kinda freeing.
If the app isn't signed (that's the so-called "developer tax", because it costs you USD100/year), then its:

1. Drag into Applications, try to open it, get warning.

2. Open System Preferences > Security & Privacy > General, click on lock, enter admin password, allow the app to be opened.

So it's not as easy as it used to be.
So now your concern is for a specific set of businesses not people in general?
If you accept hangry then we have to go back and also accept that fantastic angry poo, for balance.
It is though? GPT-3 is an incremental improvement on GPT-2 (AFAIK, no groundbreaking scientific insight here), and the chat interface is arguably not even an improvement over a keyword search engine interface that supports pseudo-natural language queries. With every single chat-bot search interface from 2000 to 2022, people used it for a while, the fad died, and people stopped using it. Then the next one came along and the same thing happened, over and over again for 20 years.

There is a threshold where chat-bot improves over the current search experience but it's not there, so I don't understand how, from a business side, this is even an incremental improvement (purely for chat-bot marketed as a search engine of course).

I would be way more interested in other capabilities of GPT-3:

1. Text summarization.
2. Explaining concepts in articles without having to read the article.
3. Boilerplate code generation.
4. Boilerplate technical work.
> But she doesn't see that as being anything to do with autism!

Don't forget that she is also a teenager. Growing up is hard, socializing and fitting in can feel incredibly important -- but there's always an alternative cost: less time mucking about with mean girl types, more time to study the sword.

This is a blessing in disguise. The payoff will come, for that reason alone, and so will the true friends down the line. She probably wouldn't choose this now, but later on she absolutely would.
Ask HN: Who you hire for SWE? 0 exp with personality or exp with 0 personality
I’m not sure what you’re arguing.

Any theory that explains all the facts is valid, there can be more than one competing theory. Fame of the author absolutely matters and so does elegance of the theory.

Chomsky has held on so long because it did pretty well and he became very famous, but over time it has needed larger and larger patches to cover its flaws, so other explanations are gaining traction once again.
I think CAR-T and cell / gene therapy is going to cure a lot of these orphan diseases with enough time. They really seem like miracles. Carl June winning a Nobel needs to be a bet on DraftKings. We have seen 10 years of remission with some ALLs in children
It does allow you to import 3ds/OBJ files. So that might be able to help some.
Aww, the fun is over. Sydney was fun to talk to. OpenAI's ChatGPT is very boring and lifeless.
Good news

Edit: This is objectively good news, given the creativity demonstrated throughout the game's history.
The long anticipated spin-off of the ever popular "Men behaving badly" sees a newfound artificial intelligence moving in across from flatmates Gary and Tony. "AI behaving oddly" premiering on BBC One, March 8th at 8 o'clock.
Always excited to have more options in the PKM space. I have a couple questions — have you tried Obsidian.md? And what does grugnotes plan to use OpenAI for (besides as a development aid)
My understanding is that the campus they took over from Sun was all offices until Facebook ripped them out.
Ooh you are going to be so mad when you find out people use to talk about so something other than the purple vegetable...
Just imagine googling around and see the name of this park. I’d probably think it’s a joke.
Are we sure it isn't a Surface Pro?
Something like this maybe? The website claims 6,000m depth (20,000ft), which is more than enough to do the job.

https://www.anduril.com/hardware/dive-ld/
really? epyc used a lot for host cpu to work with nvidia gpus, which is totally cuda, nobody uses rocm for ai.
I've been using Sweet Home 3d for a bit now and it has grown on me. When I first started it wasn't very intuitive at all, but after a bit it got better. Currently, I just use it to do floor planning and get a rough idea, and then I use Fusion 360 to actually layout the technical parts of the project.
> Anyway, I don't have the inclination to engage in heated online discussions

Really? That's surprising actually. Have a good one!
Super cool! Have you considered making it a Logseq plugin?
It's a hat-tip to https://grugbrain.dev/
Can't you take off from a closed box? For landing the flight controller should be able to compensate for the wind and come down in a somewhat vertical position.
I actually have them both for if I really need some heavy duty anc (for sleep, have tinnitus, can't use earplugs and earmuffs, tried them, uncomfortable).
Concerns aside, automatic structured data is an exciting idea (and one I've been wanting in my workflow). Looking forward to seeing how it turns out!
Working on some open source rust, getting my instrument flying rating, learning a couple human languages.
St. Thomas is a small city (less than 50k, and it's not a suburb of a bigger city) in Ontario, Canada that is probably almost devoid of any tech or startup action, so it's cool to see one that stuck there and made it work instead of moving to Toronto or SF.

I would doubt anyone in that city isn't aware of the one big success in tech they have going right now and are probably happy to see them actually giving back to help out the folks who live there (which likely include the founders and employees). It's not like they are buying the naming rights to an arena in downtown Miami, it's a small park on the outskirts of their hometown.

I live an hour away in Kitchener-Waterloo, we have RIM park and there has been a culture around these parts of companies putting money back into the community, sponsoring events and helping develop areas and I would view this more in that realm than anything shady. I've been all over South Western Ontario and I still haven't made it to St. Thomas because it's out of the way (even when visiting nearbyish London) and there is like nothing there, so I don't see this as something dirty or they would have spent their money on somewhere that it would make any marketing impact at all.

Good on them for trying to help out their own community.
It’s like the difference between sparring with a teacher vs sparring with Tyson Fury. You don’t learn that much from being obliterated by Stockfish. Stockfish is too strong.

An engine which is tuned to beat Carlsen would demonstrate his specific weaknesses, for example specific issues with an opening he plays.

For his opponents, they already try to do this. “He plays this opening a lot” is a model of Carlsen, just limited to the first few moves of the game.
I wouldn’t mind one triaging my email, voice mail can calls.

Yesterday I just tested a stream of conscious rambling paragraph of things I need to do with chat GPT, then asked it to extract tasks, infer importance and interdependencies, and then enumerate a list of them. It had even grouped related things together, but I asked it to separate them, and it did. I really want to wire this up to Apple reminders.
Can't read the article. Did they reinvent offices with walls and doors that close? Because that's what a push to solve the noise looks like. The picture at the top shows a study nook. That's not going to do anything.
I had a good streak going for a while with maintaining a good diet and exercise. Once you decide to take a break it's easy to stop though.

Recently I've had a project at work which is just enjoying and engrossing, so I'm "choosing" to be busy with it at all hours at the expensive of other "good" habits. (Spending long hours "in the zone", if you will). I take the motivating and energizing peaks at work when I can get them.

I found this audio book enjoyable and accessible. It's nothing earth-shattering, but it does shed some interesting light on the "busy" epidemic we feel surrounded by.

https://www.audible.com/pd/Addicted-to-Busy-Audiobook/178753...
"It is time for the UTC to own up to their mistakes. This whole ordeal has gone on for way too long. I am not asking for much; the solution to this problem is laughably easy. The current gender situation in Unicode is discriminatory, end of discussion. It excludes transgender people by pretending that only women can get pregnant. It excludes non-binary people by treating the third gender option as secondary to male and female, and by neglecting it for virtually all current human- form emoji. It excludes gender non-conforming people by carefully avoiding gendered sequences for characters like BEARDED PERSON."

Source: Analysis of Gender Proposals, https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17439-gender-analysis.pdf
Logseq is awesome. But I really wanted a text box on a website.
I like how job "losses" makes it sound like Meta just misplaced or otherwise can't find the jobs. The right way to say it is "tens of thousands are justifiably angry at being fired while the investors and senior execs continue to rake in the profits"
I have far less to complain about with image search than normal web search. Maybe Yandex is better, I’d need some objective metrics to decide.
> How would you change the Type System to fix this particular issue?

In TS you really can't (that's my point and why I prefer to avoid the language) because of JS and API baggage. But just about every other static language that I've worked in can complain for this kind of thing.

> Hows your compiler supposed to know you don't know what the parameters are?

Why does the compiler care about what I know? The compiler itself knows what the function's parameters are and it can tell me that something seems wrong because I'm asking it to call a function that maxes out at 2 parameters with 3 parameters.

TS does catch this kind of thing in a lot of places. It just intentionally decides not to do it for these kinds of callbacks because of the same JS and API baggage.
Meta understands, better than anyone, the need to see your coworkers’ legs.
This is really cool, surprised it has so few stars and I've never seen it talked about here. I like the LISPs but I've always thought not having a CPython type thing was a bit of a deal breaker for making it a go-to "primary" language that I would use everyday.

I'm definitely going to try with Janet though.
It'd be even funnier to have a pond stocked with phish.
There are still a lot of these old phpBB style forums in the wild, and some of them are still going strong. I have in mind TDPRI, Steve Hoffman, and Whiteblaze:

https://www.tdpri.com/

https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/

https://whiteblaze.net/
They're in for some deep shit.
First react, now cubicles.
revolutionary, just like metaverse
It's a Lisp. For anyone acquainted with other Lisp dialects, it's about as readable as it gets.
Do the YC companies pay for placement alongside relevant content and get preferential visibility over non-paying content? If so, then no, HN doesn't get a pass.
Hope they’re thinking more Civ V than Civ VI.
It’s really not.

The stuff in ~/Library is caches + preferences + any other data. Deleting an app on macOS, even back in the day, did not delete the preferences.

The problems with Windows is that you needed an installer in the first place, and then an uninstaller, and then you couldn’t move an application to a different location. On a Mac, you can still just drag the application to the /Applications folder, or somewhere else, and then delete it later. The user data remains.
> it excludes gender-non-conforming people by carefully avoiding gendered sequences for characters like BEARDED PERSON.

I don't understand this part. Isn't it a good thing that those emojis lack gendered sequences? Or is it that they should have modifiers to make them appear the way that a person wants to present themselves?
No, they were deliberately added in: https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17232-gender-gap.pdf

There's some evidence of support at the end of it, many of which were angry Twitter posts. Some of those posts seem like satire/shitposts, but it's hard to say without context.
I think corporate branding of train stations, etc is an excellent way to raise money.

I haven't understood why this isn't used more often. If there's a station next to a corporate HQ or mall, let the company/mall pay for naming rights. They get publicity, the transit system gets money, it's a win-win.
Finally. I hope they allow me to play it on GeForce Now.
So the goal is not to fix the problems, but to make it harder to encounter them.
Good job human(s)! It should be obvious to anyone who's following chess AIs: Progress seems endless; we're constantly discovering tactics and anti-tactics to defeat the latest model. That's why computer ELO is going up on a straight line. Progress in Go is admittedly a bit more obscure. Fewer people are working on it (leela go, katago etc). This article demonstrates that we can expect a similar trend.
Then basically damn everything qualifies, unless management and the business decides for some deranged reason to work for free any business would qualify. Hell, so would working in the same field because it lowers the value of the labor by competition. Neither assumption is what could be called reasonable.
Did Civ6 end up being good?

Civ games usually only beat their predecessors once the last expansion comes out. I stopped playing 6 after the climate change DLC. Was pretty underwhelmed. Has it matured now like 5 did?
Hold on. I'm not biased here. I already admitted my knowledge is outdated. I am actively welcoming new information. I am not arguing.

No the elegance of the theory does not matter. The truth of the theory does. I'm saying does the universal grammar you describe, is it actually universal? Amongst all the languages in the world, do they all share this other grammar you describe? If not then the theory is incorrect. It doesn't matter how elegant the theory is.

I brought this up specifically because your reasoning wasn't "scientific" it was more along the lines of logical elegance.

>Chomsky has held on so long because it did pretty well and he became very famous, but over time it has needed larger and larger patches to cover its flaws, so other explanations are gaining traction once again.

See this makes sense and is basically the answer to the question I am asking. So you're basically saying that there were flaws? As in he had to make up new rules constantly because the science was contradicting his theory. Am I correct in this characterization?
Loosely speaking, it’s a type signature for a function that

1. takes an immutable reference to a vector of strings and

2. returns an immutable reference to a string,

3. with the constraint that the strings in the input vector must not be freed before the result is freed.

It’s a reasonably concise way of saying all that.
Slightly offtopic but I have summarized my own 20 years of clean coding experience into a system:

https://www.fabianzeindl.com/posts/the-codequality-pyramid
Laser measuring tools avoid the need for a physical tape these days.