skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"very complex issue that a non Indian cannot just understand"

So, every race other than Indians can't understand basic sentences.

"OP is making sweeping generalizations."

Wait.. didn't you just do that.
Wouldn't you want to curate? Maybe I'm missing the point too.
It can both be true that most of the people who were laid off were done for "performance reasons" and also that it's not rational to reject a candidate because of a "red flag" like being laid off, at least if you are doing any evaluation of candidates yourself. After all, the prior company could have been wrong? Or they value different things?
Hmmm. Perhaps I'm using one or more of these terms incorrectly.
Not sure if this is the best analogy because if I had a choice of cars I would almost always pick the one that has not been in a collision :p
The issue, I think, is that the 20yo are getting "crazier" and having more vapid ideas

And I mean, Wework is an ok business idea, the problem is the cult around the person (only to show it's not only a matter of age)
Also, VCs are herd animals.

Most of them are driven by hype and market trends, leading them to overgeneralize and make inaccurate predictions.

They swayed by the latest buzz in the industry and invest in companies that may not have a sustainable business model.
Tldr: teenager reads Macbeth and realizes that people are the same then as now. We just put our pants on differently.
Don't have a car or a license. I walk/bike/transit to the markets.

I am looking for a cart [1], that I can push to the store and back with my groceries. Ideally, it will have large tires so it can actually be used in the winter.

[1] which doesn't look like a stolen shopping cart
The idea is that if broader stock market returns 7% on average per year. Your 4% withdrawals include compounding inflationary adjustment without dipping into the capital (over many decades)
I think for most part, this is what Indians want to believe. Even the folks on this thread. When I was a kid in school I didn't think the caste system existed in "modern" India because it wasn't something I spent any time thinking about. Caste and religion didn't matter to me in my every day interactions, didn't factor into any decisions I made, therefore it didn't matter to others either. Or so I thought. That's privilege speaking. These things didn't matter to me because I had never suffered because of it. But they do exist, and Indians need to accept that.

Why you might find people being defensive on this thread is that it might feel galling to be talked down to by Americans on this subject. The Indians on this thread, like me, have never thought about caste and yet they’re being told to stop being casteist, to fight casteism etc by people who found out about it 10 minutes ago. For others, being told about casteism makes them feel bad because it’s a reminder that India isn’t as great as it could be, it’s not the land of equality and opportunity that we’d like to believe it is.

Not saying they’re right to feel that way, because we must do our part regardless of what others say. But it just gives you their perspective, so you might understand.
Does alpine have a proper security vulnerability reporting mechanism yet? One of the biggest issues with Alpine and APK is the general lack of security in the distro, which is especially painful given that one of the biggest reasons proponents say to use alpine is for security due to the smaller surface size. Surface size alone doesn't make you secure.

From what I can see, there still isn't any security contact listed. There's at least now a CVE tracker, but there's no stable package versions in alpine, which means you have to choose between upgrading everything and breaking, or keeping insecure packages around.

Debian may lead to larger images, but overall it's considerably more secure.
What are the best recommendations for modern day low latency RPC? Google protocol buffers? Or some message queue such as ZeroMQ?
1. The author changing his own work is in no way comparable to posthumously changing an author’s work.

2. How is this material?

You don’t know the motivations of the people making this change, and there’s no evidence that editing via “sensitivity readers” actually increases revenue.

There is, however, plenty of evidence of the ideological basis for these types of actions.

As for censorship ala 1984? The previous version will no longer be sold and will gradually disappear, and for new readers, the previous version will have effectively ceased to exist.

Never mind the potential automatic updating of ebooks.
... which "good people" are you talking about here? I haven't heard anyone talking smack about Hildegard von Bingen, for example, or Isaac Newton.

I have heard people who believe we should tell the whole truth about historical figures like Thomas Jefferson, who raped a teenage slave he owned & perpetrated genocide of Indigenous people, or Christopher Columbus, whose contemporaries condemned the genocides he committed, but that isn't "cancelling" anyone: it is just no longer being willing to lie for the comfort of the powerful.
I cannot agree enough with this statement. While some products such as glass and aluminium can be recycled quite effectively, I can’t help but cringe when literally every recycling bin I peek into is filled with 90% contaminated or flat out non-recyclables, because people just put everything in the wrong bin to avoid guilt. I wonder if recycling is even a net positive at this point? Ie, would we be better just throwing everything in the trash if it meant people actually considered their consumption?

Another crazy invention is “compostable” packaging. This has really taken off in the past few years. Yet no one seems to understand that it needs to be composted commercially, yet virtually none of it is. It can’t be recycled, and if you put it in the bin, it won’t compost. Conveniently this is never mentioned. These products are basically a trick designed to keep consumption high by allowing individuals to absolve themselves of guilt.

Reducing consumption is the only solution.
I feel like, if tech workers were ever to properly unionize, it would be to force employers to not use fucking Microsoft Teams.
I go to an independent locally-run "meat shop" as they call it. Thy do use butcher paper, but then put the whole thing in a plastic bag to prevent leakage.

I haven't actually asked them if I can bring my own container. Maybe they will be open to it.
There's nothing stopping companies from giving out shares, plus cash to cover the taxes on those shares. Companies don't do that because it costs them more. Options expiring and returning to the pool is a feature, not a bug, to the employer.

I'd suggest employees unionize and demand actual shares if they want equity, but individually there's not much you can do.
100%. I worked on a very popular Open Source project, and for years those "manchildren" were making my blood boil, borderline made me depressed, and it was clearly turning me into a bitter and angry person. To a point I decided to just get off all social medias, start ignoring bug reports, and isolate my work to less public-facing parts of the codebase. The day I got off bugzilla and moved to a standalone project was a massive relief.
Where is cancel culture when you need it.
> For most of my life I had assumed that all the people that had lived before our modern times were dumb. Really dumb. Borderline braindead.

What education institution is responsible for this?
>A perfect fit?

>Many developers with ADHD feel their job is a perfect fit for how they think and approach problems. “Coding can give ADHD brains exactly the kind of stimulation they crave,” explains full-stack developer Abbey Perini. “Not only is coding a creative endeavor that involves constantly learning new things, but also once one problem is solved, there’s always a brand new one to try.”

>In addition to a revolving door of fresh challenges that can keep people with ADHD engaged, coding can reward and encourage a state of hyperfocus: a frequently cited symptom of ADHD that developer Neil Peterson calls “a state of laser-like concentration in which distractions and even a sense of passing time seem to fade away.” It’s easy to draw parallels between hyperfocus and the flow state, a distraction-free groove in which programmers, writers, musicians, artists, and other creators produce their best work (occasionally while forgetting to eat). Our paid platform, Stack Overflow for Teams, is popular with developers in large part because it helps them avoid distraction and protect the productive sanctity of their flow state.

How much of the "hyperfocus" is just from all of the Adderall these people are popping--both those with actual ADHD, and those just feigning it to get pills from their Dr to boost their productivity?

If anything, it would seem like people with autism spectrum disorder, who can hyperfocus without popping pills, would be the perfect fit (and were seen as such 10-20 years ago). I actually wonder what % of SV SWEs (especially at FAANG) would lose their jobs, or wouldn't have gotten them to begin with, if Adderall didn't exist.
you need to think 2nd order effects: VCs need mega exits to make returns, which usually are blockbuster IPOs. Higher rates will crash quite a lot of high-growth stocks making IPOs less appealing for investors, which messes up with A16z business model of exiting via IPOs.
That's effectively 'timing the market' though. Because the broader stockmarket may well not realize those returns when you need them most.

But sure, if you see having your funds in the stockmarket as risk free and guaranteeing you that 7% then you can base your retirement strategy on that.

Savings = Cash in the bank

Stocks = an asset class, so an investment, which has an ROI but also a risk (the ROI is effectively a risk premium)

The bulk of the people that have this kind of money will have the majority of it in the form of home equity, not in the form of savings in the bank or stocks.

Depending on where you live your first healthcare crisis can wipe out that million easily.
Quadruped Robot Spidar: Vectorable Rotors Air-Ground Amphibious Robot“ [pdf]
Needlessly complicated? there’s a thousand ways to start a blog in 2023; sure, your artisanal handcrafted static site generator can handle traffic, but so can my free Substack blog

The hard part is sticking to it; content is truly king
Ask HN: Why isn't distributed scraping used on social media sites
Suppose I build an extension for LinkedIn where it adds some functionality on LinkedIn user profile pages. This means the extension can see the complete profile of every LinkedIn User that the chrome extension user interacts with.

I can then send this data to myself and scrape a good chunk of LinkedIn. Apart from this being illegal, Why isn't this done yet?
If HIV were really not a big deal anymore, why should people still worry? If you could have risk-free sex with the seediest of characters, why would it be "not a responsible thing" to do so?
Honestly, I'd just trawl the interwebs for all the reasons folks have had grief with LFS, and then see if Oxen can even do a fraction better. If it can, you'll have many billion-dollar companies that would be highly interested in your solution :)

A few starting points from personal experience would be

- Ensuring git-aware code editors don't try and mangle blob histories when they encounter them
- Modern, high-performance blob downloads/version-resolution
- Human-readable/debuggable meta-files, where it's easy to recover from bad states (instead of an opaque empty file with a GUID...?)
Land of plenty meet exponential population growth, add several decades to taste. Sustainability is important, just ask the Lorax.
The title of the paper is:

Design, Modeling and Control of a Quadruped Robot SPIDAR: Spherically Vectorable and Distributed Rotors Assisted Air-Ground Amphibious Quadruped Robot

But that is longer than what is allowed as a story title
But you suddenly become dependent on someone else, in this case what if they suddenly increase the price of the HIV medication? Or there is a global shortage? Or we discover that a subpopulation has a resistant variant?
For every card I've had, it builds up in a separate pool, and every so often you either have it deposited to a bank account or applied as credit toward the bill.
The human memory can be really faulty. The best communication really boils down to having great documentation processes in place. The issue I see is there are always a few people with a great memory around, and instead of focusing on improving documentation processes, these people often become conduits within organizations.
The metaverse will materialize, but it will not be in headsets we wear.
bernstein "touched up" the orchestrations, and of course orchestrated the overture, but you're right. Hershey Kay and Maurice Peress did the orchestrations. West Side Story was also not orchestrated by bernstein (except for the orchestral suite)
Just use Blogger. Unlimited everything and full HTML, CSS, Javascript control for every page/post/category. Plus it's free and been around since '99.
Not tapeworm.

Ivermectin works on other types of worms and is used esp. for roundworm (Ascariasis). And ivermectin kills lice, bedbugs et al.

In any case, anyone living in the southern USA likely carries some parasite that ivermectin kills off. E.g., children often pick up head lice and other parasites at day care or school.

Ivermectin is well-tolerated and easily applied, really a "wonder drug" that we're lucky to have (but aren't they all?).
I don't disagree with you, but I do think the economics of static sites are pretty different which may keep the free tiers around for longer. Even if it's "free for sites under 1MB", which would cover a lot of sites.
YAML is such a poor default choice for most things, that it's not odd at all to want to improve on that. In the same vein, people used to say that JSON is a bad format to use because everyone just uses XML.
Here’s a calculation for Christchurch, New Zealand, today:

1. Own a home (landlord shenaningans suck, especially when older). Median price in Christchurch is about $700k, but ideally need to spend a bit more.

2. If over 65, get superannuation of about $20k after tax.

3. Median income is about $60k before tax. So let’s aim for $40k from investments before tax (investment income is taxed). No mortgage so reasonable middle class lifestyle (nowhere near extravagant).

4. Need $40k above inflation (so not depleting investment). Also need to cover volatility risk. My guess is $1.5 million investments to do that.

5. Government is slowly tightening screws on the “wealthy” so my guess is that you need another $1 million to cover that risk in next decades.

In New Zealand, $1M NZD total today would leave you struggling (careful budgeting for heating and food, no budget to cover health risks beyond government care). $2M NZD total equity is risky but likely okay. $3M NZD total equity would be minimum to have reasonably low risk, and a comfortable middle class lifestyle.

I.e. you need 1 to 2 million NZD investments. Much more after inflation in future decades.
Will I need to use a git commit after every sentence? I write my essays in plain text that is backed up automatically by git once per day with a script and a generic message. There is no say to prove I wrote stuff and did not paste in ChatGPT output.
They’re obviously more expensive to hire rather than less exciting. Native cross-platform development for a medium-to-large app is a hell of an investment. On going maintenance and dealing with platform upgrades is costly. Probably super impractical more often than not. I don’t see it boiling down simply to “developer experience”, but I don’t completely disagree on that point.

Instead, you leverage what you already have - any modern product is already going to have a web interface. The idea of packaging that interface into a self-contained desktop application with little to no additional effort is just too appealing. Sure, everybody else screws it up when attempting this route, and performance becomes a huge problem, but surely your team will do it right. And besides, webdevs are a dime a dozen compared to C++ guys (and fluent on two or three platforms? Good luck. You’ll pay through the nose the get them and more to keep them.)
> I also tried having a meta-package, which has my “list of wanted packages” as dependencies, and then remove anything no required my it. Again, I needed extra scripts and complexity on top of the package manager itself.

I have something similar for my dotfiles, a list of packages, their manager and version in a TOML file: https://github.com/kdeldycke/dotfiles/blob/main/packages.tom...

I then feed this to meta-package-manager[1] to install:

$ mpm restore ./packages.toml

[1] https://github.com/kdeldycke/meta-package-manager
Richard Stallman had a whole speech about this. From memory, his main point was that most of a Linux distribution was built with GNU tools and the kernel was only a (key) component of it. So he was asking to say GNU/Linux to show some appreciation.
Why Solid Design Matters: Avoid Code Smells and Write Maintainable Code
If she truly possesses all physical knowledge, then she knows exactly what every possible rose looks like from every possible angle, in every possible setting and lighting. She knows in excruciating detail, at the level of every individual atom, how the scent of the rose will reach her brain, and exactly what responses it will trigger.

And indeed had she that knowledge, nothing new would be added by seeing one in person.

The implausible part is presupposing any person could ever have a complete enough understanding of all physical knowledge to achieve that.
Is this guy a teenager? Or do you just mean metaphorically?

It’s a weird article. There are Christians right now who are scientists and mathematicians. Are they dumb? Clearly not if they achieved certain levels of education.

And if you made it past high school and did sciences, you quickly realise the ancient people figured out all sorts of nifty tricks to workout things like the diameter of the earth in 240BC.

Modern people also believe all sorts of dumb things. That’s why we have conspiracy theorists.
Just took a long hike up to Mt. Hollywood on Saturday, next to Mt. Lee. So it was on my mind thanks.
How can anyone think that people before modern times did not know anything about science, practically “brain dead” as the article states (CRINGE) when Einstein died almost a century ago?

The Dunning-Kruger makes my head hurt.
VC returns are fiercely skewed: a long tail of stuff that's effectively negative to zero returns and a tiny minority of stuff that does really well.

How does it do really well? By having a very profitable in-demand public IPO.

How do you get macroeconomically favorable in-demand IPOs? Lots of capital looking for alternative returns.

What creates willingness to consider alternative returns? Among other things, reductions in the risk-free return rate obtained by bonds.

High bond rates reduce the demand for alternative returns, which reduces the demand for IPO participation, which in turn affects VC returns.
Anything novel here? Proprietary database or using existing ones?
This is what Stewart Lee talked about:

> And before, 400 million years ago, when the first fish crawled up onto the land.

Our land.

You get back in the sea.

You finned c$nt.

Coming up here, onto our land with your barely developed lungs and your hopes and dreams of a better tomorrow for fish.

Get back in the sea.

My name's Paul Nuttall of UKIP and I say we need to ensure the brightest and best fish stay in the sea and concentrate on making it aquatically prosperous instead of coming up here onto the land and beginning the process of evolution that will eventually lead to all life on Earth as we know it.
I've had similar revelations to culturally held beliefs which look like rituals.

Some Hindu communities don't allow families to enter a temple if someone in your close family has passed away for 14 days. They couldn't explain contagious diseases then, but realised that if it can kill you, something would show up within 14 days and it's better if you don't enter community spaces.

Reframing these rituals as explanations that could be given at time is a good way to look at the world.
If you get a job at Google you might even recoup the costs of GmailFS ;)
Will this be on mac OS too?
+1 for thunder client. Simple and clean, works well for what I need to do and nothing more. A bit more approachable for someone newer to this space.
They can also get fabulous deals currently so it is not bleak as it sounds. Also both Andreessen and Horowitz have that cockroach like ability to survive so I would not count them out even whole business model would collapse overnight.
What are credible images anyway nowadays? The source of the images is what gives them credibility. A person that you trust.
That movie was always strange to me as a person who watched it in kindergarten. It was in my memory peak cinema, with an amazing tie in of reusable cups from the best restaurant chain (Pizza Hut)that lived in my house for years later and I drank out of regularly. As a kid I loved pretending to be able to fly around the sky.

But I've never met anyone in my generation that has ever seen it and even people older than me barely remember it existing.
Curious to read the book when it's out. I did work on some IA-64 software some time ago before Merced taped out so I'm interested!
That’s why Indian movies are called “Bollywood”, Bengal “Tollywood”, Nigerian “Nollywood”.

Because… nobody ever heard of Hollywood?
So for those earning 41,600 ($20 per hour), which in several states including mine makes you eligible for the food bank and is not adequate income to buy a garage spot let alone a house, putting away 15 to 20% of your income is laughable. And yet $41,600 is nearly triple the federal minimum wage.

Putting away $3m is fine for those earning 6 figures but for the vast majority of US households struggling to pay for housing costs, childcare, food, etc these numbers are laughable. I have had a good career and was lucky enough to love my work but my savings and investments were wiped out twice with major medical emergencies (cancer) in the days prior to the ACA when health insurance companies regularly refused to cover treatments. I have a friend wiped out by a forest fire with insurance that fought her and ended up only covering half of her losses. I have friends who had children with disabilities that required them to make a choice as I did, do you forgo the needs of your family or your own health to keep your retirement funds intact or do you deal with the emergency at hand. 1-3 million is a pipe dream for most Americans. Perhaps there should be a discussion on how Average Americans will survive in retirement.
I remember the first time I genuinely lost my "modern techno hubris", I was about 25 years old.

I was in the throes of lamenting the peak oil situation after watching the doco The End of Suburbia and reading The Long Emergency. I was at the tail end of a mechatronic engineering degree and thought it was just my luck that, after having found something I really enjoyed, it was all about to become obsolete as we devolved into picking through rubbish tips for food scraps.

I became interested in permaculture and went to visit a farm on the outskirts of Sydney to see how it worked. While talking to the guy there about the land, I all of a sudden realised how information rich this environment was, and how similar the task of managing it was to any other creative or engineering endeavour.

I realised that the people who stood in that spot 60,000 years ago and worked with the land to sustain themselves were "doing engineering" as much as I could ever hope to.

It was a tremendous relief to know that I could get the same thrill from engineering a landscape as I could from engineering a microcontroller, and it gave me a respect for Indigenous Technical Knowledge. I thought about how much ITK must have been lost during colonisation, and how we might regain it.