skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's great advice actually. Thanks a lot for your open words, appreciate it!
> Personally, I have "Sentry but serverless" on my idea list, but I think it will never be realised

I would be curious to hear what that looks like in practice :)
It might not have intended to be snarky but theres really only one way you can take "you should probably do some answering".
The author and the book pretty clearly lay out what they mean by conservatism and yes it's aligned with fiscal conservatism.
That’s not a too generous reading of my comment..

All I’m saying that it is already a problem that should be better solved, so all the talented artists that as of now can’t sustain themselves from their work can also feed their families.
What's the problem with GC? Between C and Go (and maybe Scheme) there's not much choice of languages on plan 9 today.

So not having to think about memory management in a browser pet project is surely the best choice when it comes to a relatively ambitious project as this.

Also of note, Limbo (the language the successor was written is) is also garbage collected, so it's not like it's against the spirit of plan 9.
The predecessor language, Alef, supposedly was abandoned in part because it didn't have GC.
Loomio [https://www.loomio.com/] would be a great forum, cooperative decision making tool for running such a group. The next step would be building out any tools that are not covered by loomio and the likes.
Sticking with the extremely well documented SimConnect for now (although to be fair, those docs are a very recent thing) mostly because that's what I'm having fun in, but if I ever start playing with FLightgear, who knows!
Well, maybe not pocket calculators, but phone calculators for sure.
Indeed it is! :)
Which services that Facebook offer would that be?
> pay a cheap freelance copywriter for like 1$ an hour to write the essays

I am willing to bet there is no freelance copywriter doing American high school essays for $1 an hour. Or at least none that aren’t using chatGPT :D
It's where all of us ADHD programmers go to procrastinate while all the neurotypical folk are harnessing that attention on business-aligned things.

It's like that post on blog options, and how a disproportionate number of blog posts are about setting up a blog.
Show HN: Social Network for Active Learners
I'm building networking app for active learners, where you can submit what you're learning and get into chat and discuss your specific book, course or video with your peers.

As I will generate information, I plan to add analytics tools to recommend on what you should learn next.

What do you think?
I think the wealthy children in olden days probably had stricter teachers who gave them plenty of adversity in real-time. However there were also fewer wealthy producing fewer of these children so there was less competition for schools and jobs.

You now have a sort of college prep industrial complex and mass affluent feeding into the same small number of prestigious school seats.. and thus more disappointment.

I got into schools with scholarship money 25 years ago with 1300 SAT and no resume that kids with 1550 can’t even get into now.

It’s quite an arms race.
No thanks, we don't need another 737 Max.
That's good to hear. I didn't mean to be indignant, I just don't have a nuanced understanding of this. So thanks for the insights.
Voluntary organisations like the Scouts have been a good choice for me. It's tricky to get into if you're in the US because of all the dogma, but Scouting is an awesome thing to get into as an adult leader.

If not the Scouts, then any voluntary org with a cause at its centre is great for forming connections.
One of the comments on the article stated, "What a pleasurable read.". I have no idea if this article was generated using the method described, but this gave me pause in the era of ChatGPT/AI.

Can something be pleasurable to read/view/listen to/etc., knowing the author of the work doesn't, for lack of a better term, have a soul? I don't know.

Perhaps this drifts too far into philosophy, but I myself find it adds something... more, knowing that a human being put their thoughts/feeling/heart into a piece of work. This is certainly, in part, informed by my theistic beliefs, but I recognize that others (like Sam Harris) wouldn't delineate at all between human thought processes and something like ChatGPT.

That being said, I would have to imagine some portion of people also feel something "other" about human connection that brings works of art/literature/music/film/etc. an undeniable beauty BECAUSE of their human-origin.
It sounds like you haven’t ever worked with a good salesperson.

(I realize the irony of this comment.)
Here's another article summarizing the OC article [1].

It summarizes the details without any narrative, and concludes with:

> While he was mostly stone-walled, Galuten was able to confirm this from at least one major producer. A General Mills representative told him that the Progresso Chicken Broth recipe starts with a broth concentrate. Then they add in water and additional ingredients to create what you buy in the store. Or, Galuten, says “just buy literally any box of chicken stock because they are probably all the same.”

Frankly I don't find this as interesting as the original post.

I guess it seems more down to earth and less sterile than presenting the facts in a traditional "journalist" third person way.

Maybe I'm biased because I also write in this style for my own blog, but I frequently see this style used by hobbyists exploring technical topics on the front page of HN. E.g. a random post from the front page right now [2]

[1]: https://www.tasteofhome.com/article/whats-in-store-bought-ch...

[2]: https://oneusefulthing.substack.com/p/my-class-required-ai-h...
When I started secondary school in the UK, the home economics teacher (i.e. cooking and sewing) in the first lesson had a rant about how she absolutely did not want to see anyone write up their cooking with the phrase "I think it tasted quite nice" because it was a generic and content-free cliché.

That's the standard ChatGPT has to beat to make you look good at school.

Likewise, the average comments section is all you have to beat to seem erudite as an adult.
Show HN: Simple tool to create podcast clips for free
I don't know if that would match up with reality. I know several people who have ADHD and are hunters. They seem to find it very easy to focus on the hunt and all of the associated preparation and activities.
Why not mitigate both, force people to learn the basics, allow them to use the tools later.

It isn't mutually esclusive
My first thought is - why is this traffic going through CloudFlare at all? There's no caching benefit and it's all going to be coming from a datacenter anyways.

Maybe it's more trouble than it's worth to bother setting up a separate non-CDNed DNS for API routes for this particular site. But then how much time was spent trying to sort out why those requests were being blocked?
The GP suggested that the reason immigrants have succeeded is because they knew to learn to open a bank account, ergo, if people in poverty wanted to learn to open a bank account then they would escape poverty. My point is that is not the reason immigrants are so often successful: rather, immigrants succeed because their entire life is built around seeking out something better for themselves and their family, and they're taking risks and making sacrifices to get it. Education is a means to an end for immigrants looking to build a better life for themselves, it's not the reason they've succeeded. Many immigrants succeed without education!

What predicts high school graduation? The framing of your comment ("did you graduate..." "did you wait for marriage...") suggests that these are choices made by people which determine whether they'll go on to live in poverty and if they just stayed in school and just didn't have kids then their lives would be great. The problem is, poverty does not start with the individual, in fact, it can be traced to before the person was born. High school graduation rates can be predicted based on the circumstance the child was born into.
Erlang is largely a different kind of niche than Haskell and lisp. Its more focused on distributed and reliable processing than more general purpose. In effect its the Actor model taken to the extreme. Where I'd categorize Haskell and lisp more general purpose but they take different approach. Lisp the more "keep it simple" approach and Haskell the high theory approach. I've yet to encounter someone that claims expertise in haskell that isn't obviously lying or delusional as it is probably the largest language feature wise. I've been learning it for years but still have yet to find the "target use case" that it is the best tool for the job. It certainly is worth learning about even if only for the new perspectives on problems it encourages.

At least in my opinion:
Lisp is amazing for its simplicity and homoiconicness and the great powers that come with those.
Erlang is amazing for its approach to distributed computation and reliability.
Haskell is amazing for at least its theory, and probably more I'm not yet aware of.
The world is the process of moving from x86 to Arm. This is a huge opportunity for lots of tech companies.
So what does IBM do? Innovate on POWER and s390x. Why? Because they need to avoid competition, because they'll lose.
Also, PS1 and PS2 was easy to pirate too, and it thrived
Maybe, but even if an anomaly, they were quite lucky to be given certain opportunities. It's impossible to account for all the bright-but-impoverished kids who were not.
Because the US is no longer a full democracy, and the government mainly represents corporations rather than its citizens?
And, as a former secondary math teacher, I would argue that the use of a calculator has absolutely created a generation of zombies who can't do, or understand, basic math. We're talking simple things like multiply, or figure out how many Monsters they can buy for $5, or calculate change.

If they can't do basic arithmetic, there's no way they can understand the actual concepts underlying math, or have any type of number sense (and they don't; though, granted, neither do most of their elementary school teachers). It'll be absolutely horrible if they have no idea of how to craft a coherent argument, or deeply think because ChatGPT just spews out something (and who knows if it even gives factual answers; they'll never know to check). Couple this with other issues arising from over reliance and overuse of smart phones and we're setting ourselves, and them, up for a grim future facing serious existential problems (.i. climate change)
This is usually the approach of people with fixed compute. If I have a VPS then I'll let it churn through the backlog overnight.

But this is also where the disagreement comes in with flexible serverless workers. They generally do not cost more, so you'll end up spending $24 in an hour rather than $1 an hour all day. If the serverless costs more then you are likely not working through your backlog.

I agree it should be a business decision, so you catch up on weekends instead for example, but non-technical folks don't always grasp those numbers and that they are getting a lag with their data.
A portion of it has to be because of Emacs. I read all these front page posts because I love Emacs, and I’m sure I’m not alone. I picked up Clojure because I got familiar with elisp. The gateway has to be Emacs for a lot of people. And it ends up being a very good first impression for the people who stick around so the cycle builds on itself.

The tricks my muscle memory does on its own accord with lisp syntax within Emacs makes programming more fun than any other context.
Creating an open market for compute, labor and goods that would compete with AWS, Amazon and the gig economy would be a good place to start. These groups skim a large portion of companies/individual's profit.
If you're just worried about the pragmatics of being caught, I'd keep in mind that ChatGPT doesn't actually have a very high "dynamic range" given some specific set of inputs. If you use it enough, or explore the same topics and prompts enough, you'll quickly start to see structures, words, phrases, presentations that its output gravitates towards.

These may not be enough of a watermark to generally detect what was written by an AI and what wasn't yet, but it does suggest that the proliferation of AI-written assignment essays will quickly produce a catalog of plagiarism sources that works with existing tools.

In other words, once people submit enough AI-written essays about popular assignment A, existing plagiarism detection tools will easily start to notice the phrases/sequences/structures that it statistically gravitates towards (because that's what it does by design!) and start detecting these in later work. That software won't know what's AI written or not, but it will think that your submission may be plagiarized because a lot of it looks pretty specifically familiar.
There's also Myrddin, Ocaml (port), and Haskell (nhc and Hugs), and there was some work on getting Zig working on Plan 9
Round-Robin (Document)
It's not hard to make a model that rewrites the text without changing the meaning which fails this. Our model[0] which is based on feeding chatgpt random things from the interwebs from before 2020 and letting it wobble on about it is pretty good and nice to play with, but it's pretty easy to change the score radically with just changing a few words. This is whack-a-mole no matter how it's done. For now you can be sure people are too lazy to do it, but there will be many tools in the future to evade tools like this.

[0] https://filteroutai.com/validate/a07e081b71b294ba2de236441be... https://filteroutai.com/validate/2c3fa6de32845df02be7a4ff185...
This is overstating the case by a lot. I guess I agree that innovation should not come from the management layer of a company, organization and motivation should. But, I have worked with great PMs who multiplied the effectiveness of their teams, and they were indispensible. A lot of people who should not be PMs end up in PM roles, but I wouldn't generalize that to the whole profession.

> First most product managers believe that the most important thing to do, is to interview users, look at data of usage, and then take some obvious bet to take the best decisions

Heaven forfend! We've got to put a stop to that sort of behavior. I agree with the author, people should be making big, incomprehensible bets without talking to users or looking at data first.
You add a lot of complexity and points of failure with this model.
it's not a policy suggestion, it's a rhetorical device. If you pick a person in poverty, and give them a million dollars, they'll probably escape poverty and probably go on to live a prosperous life because poverty is caused by money, not education. Education helps people escape poverty because education can be used to earn money, not because knowing how to open a bank account is the path to salvation. There are lots of smart and well educated and successful people who are terrible with money but never end up in poverty because they have enough money to absorb the mistakes.
What kind of dystopian bullshit is this?

Occurrences of phrases like "better pay"/"higher wages"/"more benefits" in this BBC article: 0

Creative descriptions for intentionally burning people out: I stopped counting, but "maximise their potential" is certainly my favorite euphemism.
I've had 2 previous companies do something similar. Team of 5 or so develop a product. It's realeased and they move / layoff all but one or two devs including me. I get overburdened; ask for a raise. The first company that did this, the boss literally scoffed at me. I was gone within a couple months.

The second company recognized my value and gave me a very generous raise. Unfortunately for them, shortly after that I got an offer I couldn't refuse.
Let’s bust these four myths of digital privacy and security
If students acknowledge that they used ChatGPT and what the prompt was (as required by the OP), then it's not plagiarism.

But I think many professors who don't accept AI as a writing aide would say that it doesn't satisfy the assignment and is worth zero points.
What I'm about to say is controversial, but "better" is not possible without meaning, meaning is not possible without overcoming evil. Without man to interpret the meaning of it, there's no meaningful difference between a decimated world, or a world that sustains itself for trillions of years since there's no measure to tell anything what is "good" or "bad".
I don't fully agree with this. While it's true that 90% of everything I create happens in isolation until I publish it, I've also participated in a few Game Jams where the full creative process is very collaborative.
Perhaps ADHD people are more susceptible to the attention-hijacking effects of computers and software.

So they decide they should go on to work with software since it keeps distracting them from everything else.

Ironic that they end up building even more psychologically exploitative software that hijacks our attention
That wouldn't work. WiFi doesn't work underwater!

You wouldn't want to swim around dragging an Ethernet cable all day, right?

For this reason it was inevitable for us to evolve asa land species.
Able-ist is a criticism.
Assembling the words is a skill you need, which is why you're taking a class that requires it.

To some extent, you are probably thankful your elementary school teachers didn't let you use a calculator to do stuff like 2 + 2 = 4 or the multiplication tables. Doing that quickly without any tools is useful in the real world.

Similarly, you will often have to argue for your point of view in real-time; there won't be time to craft a prompt and ask the AI what it thinks. "Why should we do this your way?" "Why should we hire you?" "Why should I let you go with just a warning?" It all matters.
How is laying down an opposing view that I don't necessarily support and using "one could argue" incendiary ?

Don't you think there's value in playing the devil's advocate, just for the sake of the argument ?
I think what's been achieved in a little over a year with the Ladybird Browser from the SerenityOS project shows that it's quite possible to build a new browser from scratch. And yes, they are absolute heroes for doing it!

https://awesomekling.github.io/Ladybird-a-new-cross-platform...

https://linus.dev/posts/ladybird-browser-year-in-review-2022...
> I've often seen people launch mailing lists and pre-orders for products, books, courses, of which they have not yet written a single line.

I can spot these people from a mile away.

What they're doing is antithetical to the sentiment expressed in this post, which is about being creative. Not doing pre-marketing for some side hustle course or e-book.
oops, you are wrong :)
We had a very similar issue recently but with s3 presigned url uploads, cloudflare WAF and OWASP rules.

Worked fine one day on 'high', next day started blocking random file uploads with a 'blocked by cloudflare page'.
I’ve visited a board game club before and there were only a few people over 30. And a lot of younger. Very fun if you like board games. Literally just people there to have fun. Some cute girls too if that’s what you’re looking for.
It's a great idea to give people a chance to reflect. Really like this! Technically, I"m just wondering, the app says 22 languages transcribed, offline, and it's ~480Mb in size. I thought only the large model (> 1Gb) had more than English (and the models don't compress). And when you say transcribed do you mean transcribed to English?

BTW - to modify an existing app, can you just fork the repo and open a new Xcode on that fork? I don't know iOS but I'm getting into MacOS dev and I like this idea of modifying an existing app, as I've already got so much boiletplate I think I can reuse.
Because some “exceptional” paths actually make the world worse. While some humble ones make the world better in some small way.

The CEO of TurboTax makes the US worse by leading a company that lobbies to keep taxes complicated so they can remain an expensive middle man. A line cook is doing infinitely more good for the world.
Hacking Apple: Two Successful Exploits and Thoughts on Their Bug Bounty Program
> can reliably detect the output of ChatGPT.

I imagine schools will have to put minimal value in out of person assignments, relying on proctored exams for final grades. This might be an investment opportunity!
Music to my soul.
Sure, people who want to work from office fully or partially would prefer team based agreement as well. That is a good idea as long as the ones who prefer 100% WFH or work from different location are not told to "take one for the team"
The article talks about it being required, so I assumed this was a similar scenario, personally.
The splashback scandal: should all men sit down to urinate?
The AirGradient, after a easy assembly process and a bumpy setup process runs like a champ and has identified some issues in our house. If it died, I'd immediately buy another.

https://www.airgradient.com/open-airgradient/instructions/di...
ChatGPT is way above your average high school level.
John Michell and Black Holes (1996)
I'm so sorry for your loss.

I've been surrounded by substance abuse my entire life, and narrowly escaped it myself. Feel free to schedule a call with me, if you think talking to a stranger will help:

[1] https://calendly.com/taylor-town/30min

You may also want to talk to a professional:

[2] https://www.betterhelp.com

It's not specifically about grief, but The Anthropocene Reviewed is a collection of essays that have really helped me navigate my pursuit of happiness and meaning. It was published as both a podcast and a book:

[3] https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/anthropocene-reviewed

[4] https://www.amazon.com/Anthropocene-Reviewed-Essays-Human-Ce...
The new search term to add for finding books is 'epub'. This will yield what you want if it's reasonably available.
> “We were gobsmacked by what we found. It turns out there are fewer earlier retired today than at the start of the pandemic. You wouldn’t believe that from ministers’ speeches and talk of getting people back off the golf course,”

It turns out that government ministers dont have the faintest idea of what they are talking about, except what their base wants to think so they can virtue signalling the correct message - which seems somewhat dangerous when they are setting the policy.

If you want more "growth" getting a young person into (meaningful) work would generate more short term growth and vastly more long term growth.
Researchers Propose a Fourth Light on Traffic Signals – For Self-Driving Cars
True, consistent fuel efficiency is a huge part of the limited design life of modern aircraft, and why it makes sense for airliners to pay for brand new aircraft to replace perfectly adequate 10 year old aircraft on competitive routes. And the fuel economy of the Comet and 707 was awful. But to my knowledge the DC-3 fuel economy doesn't compare favourably on a passenger-km or tonne km basis with later generation jet aircraft that have been retired

Difference is you can keep an ancient DC-3 around for occasional use with relatively basic maintenance, whereas a second generation jet or turboprop comes with service and life-limited parts requirements to make it considered airworthy that would cost more than the aircraft is worth...
Switching to a system where students watch lectures at home and do homework in class was overdue anyway. I think that’s the real way to stop AI from writing everything.