skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The paid off house is a very important milestone and one that only a fraction of society can aspire to

If you insist on spending your life and retirement somewhere expensive. I bought 3 houses in cash for less than $150k total. If you want to live and retire in the center of Paris or New York or whatever, that is your choice and then you need a lot more money. Houses can be found for next to nothing in many places. If you are capable of DIY (I am not), you can really pick up stuff for nothing and spend 10 years before your pension doing it up as a side project.

And sure, social security, free/accessible healthcare or your pension pot may no longer be available once you reach this age; society might have collapsed and the money you saved might be worth nothing anymore. You cannot plan for those things reasonably; I am going to assume healthcare and social security are good still in my country and next to that, I live of very little (couldn’t care less about ‘things’) with my family at about $1200/mo while making about $300k/year (excluding stocks and other passive income). No reason for that to change (inflation corrected of course) unless some type of societal collapse.

Retirement sounds as boring as heaven, so I am doing neither anyway.
I feel like the author barely learned anything from that experience. One can imagine the irony of reading writings by a devout Christian who gets surprised by sophistication of heretics like Aristotle and Avicenna yet still keeps his absolute conviction in his own beliefs without any doubt or self-reflection as if it is something self-evident.

Have the author ever tried to understand what is science and engineering, and how they are justified? Does he believe in human rights? Have he ever thought where his ethical system originates? The author seems to firmly believe that he lives in “the end of history”; so the biggest insight he could come up with is that scriptures are kind of self-help books and prayers are kind of exercises that treat anxiety.
So, as you scale up and out in size, you stop being able to depend on higher level abstractions from elsewhere.

You can't build a Tier-1 service like S3 or EBS on top of RDS. If you need a database solution to help you with building and running tools of that scale, it has to be something else that is a lot less complex and a lot more robust.

It's okay for RDS to be dependent on a Tier-1 service like S3 or EBS, but not the reverse. You don't want to get into priority inversion problems here.

And when your service has to be in every AZ in every region, and they all have to be kept separately running, then things get even more complex.

Then you have to ask yourself what is the bootstrap process for building a new region.
Generally people do not pay extra for faster deliveries, that has never penciled out. If you need it fast you spare no expense and use air freight.

For the rest it is all about cost. Your scenario can happen if the nuclear setup cost less than synthetic fuels, ammonia or hydrogen. But seems incredibly unlikely in the coming decades.
As much as the thread is interesting, the author is mentioning the most important point in the end - VC's operated are looking for commission. They will get massive commission from the money already committed to them. and some commissions from startups. They can't lose.
Docker compose isn't exactly meant for production
Well-structured exams are the single most effective teaching tool available. Assessment is a fringe benefit. I'm a strong advocate for "even more exams", where you take the highest score on particular topics.

There are variations, but if you're curious check out "Standards-based grading" or Mastery-based grading. It's in a weird and shitty limbo where a lot of primary and secondary schools have adopted it partially with inadequate training/support, and it's also getting fucked by our shitty publishing industry, same as the botched common-core rollout.
That's because gods evolved to more comprehensively capture their hosts, early gods might not have been so efficient.
That's not central control of private sector research, that's the government (or an agency of the government) acting as an independent research and development organization. I agree that can work very well - also think of all the public universities.
None of those things were part of what they taught me at the mandatory school lessons, only at the entirely optional after-school "convincing communication" 45 minute session they had one time.

Actual school was basically "prove you actually read this Shakespeare play we assigned to you by mentioning some of these standard points".

As for comments sections… that they're low quality is the reason I chose them as an example, beating them necessarily improves the quality of global discourse - the people writing them don't recognise their poor quality.

https://xkcd.com/810/
You would obviously need to give an overview of the types of customers and assignments and you had while consulting. And provide references on request.

No different to any other job.
https://teams.microsoft.com/v2
Usually space ports can not hit all orbits. Some of them are target only to fly polar orbits, launching north.
stuff like USB, the touchpad, keyboard, speakers, 3.5mm audio, suspend/sleep are all still WIP

That makes it sound as if they are barely (un)usable which isn't true either
Which of the answers do you think shows deep understanding?

They are all generic (“asking additional information”… as the motivation behind a question. Are you Cpt. Obvious, ChatGPT?) , vague (“provoke or challenge”), or wrong.

> They may be suggesting that there is more to language models than kelseyfrog is acknowledging. Alternatively, they may be asking kelseyfrog to provide evidence or examples to support their claim

No, this would be asking “and that’s all?”, or “and who says that?/and where’s the evidence?” or something like that. “And you?” is clearly not referencing how LLMs work, but how the OP works.
> What do they mean by "live comfortably"?

I believe not worrying about money.
Ask HN: Is ChatGPT Down?
It's been spotty the last 15 minutes. Frequently erroring out. I'm using a paid account. Anyone else experiencing this?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34876082
Basically yes. In finance this is considered to be pretty normal AFAIK. Maybe not directly sending them a message immediately after adding them, but in general people try to add other people from big shops(Goldman, MS, UBS, big hedge funds, market makers,etc.) and then once they want to start exploring a move it isn't really that uncommon to be able to reach out. If you announce yourself that you are leaving a company and looking for something new you might not even have to go looking yourself.
This is basically a frontend person looking for some validation that they are so smart.
Legendary anime and manga creator Leiji Matsumoto passes away at 85
This reminds me a bit of the fake journal club that was posted about some time back. Again a great idea, it's often a much better learning experience to try to spot errors in work than just regurgitating some essay with minimal effort.
Java is slowly absorbing the ideas from other systems and is much more fun than it was.

Also versatile.
Also average IQ at any given time is 100, by definition. I believe this post was trying the classic "all contemporary creations are degenerate" take on architecture and art, but not doing so very eloquently.
Shocking difference in quality of conversation between here and on Blind.
...or, you know, some kind of spiritual world is real, and people of the past, being less distracted with stuff, were better attuned to it. Like most people can't see the starry skies anymore (direct and obvious evidence that it doesn't exist!) and yet, you know, it's there.

I guess you put the line somewhere between considering other people's beliefs and "duh".
I have been trying to find a game just like this from the mid 2000s for years now. I think it was called something like Qwyzle? I recall the format of the game being identical to this, of individual html pages and there were Facebook groups of working out of the 100 clues.

I recall GEB (Gödel Escher Bach) playing a key part in a lot of the puzzles?

A big part of my early internet experience sadly lost
It’s funny to see someone, after realizing that humans in the past are just as intelligent as the ones today, interpret all past human beliefs through his own worldview rather than seriously considering that his worldview may be the one that is flawed rather than the most intelligent humans of the past. Believing that people in pre industrial societies had post industrial beliefs and were only pretending flies in the face of mountains of evidence both historical and anthropological.
What does a Rust/Zig port buy that the current implementation cannot do?
> The reason people use systems programming languages is because they need to efficiently and effectively manage and manipulate memory.

That's not true. Assembler and machine code predate C. And do the job much more effectively/efficiently.

For example Menuet OS an OS in pure assembly has like 2MiB and has stuff like GUI, graphics, etc. What Linux does in hundreds of MiB.

But they need to rewrite it for each hardware platform.
You can get a read-only system with SilverBlue, the immutable variant of Fedora:

https://silverblue.fedoraproject.org/about
OK so don't need offloading at all for the quantised model - nice.

In practice, how good is the 30B model vs 175B?
I probably won't die if I get food poisoning but I'm not going to go around eating raw meat for the thrill of it and expect the taxpayer to pay for me every time I get sick.
Think for example how you would robustly check that resources of certain types are labeled in a way conforming to a given schema, or that would rewrite the label values in your stacks to a newer format. Linting CDK code can't get you this.

It's possible of course that I don't know enough about CDK and these examples have CDK solutions.

Imperative and declarative are not hard requirements for this but they make the domain easier to reason about and they are a good fit to the CF model of configuration-as-data instead (vs CDK's configuration-as-imperative-code).
>I feel like the author barely learned anything from that experience.

The author very likely did learn nothing, he unfortunately doesn't have a sense for appreciation and learning:

"... when you visit a museum everything is kind of broken, so nothing is really that impressive."

You have to have a certain level of historical, scientific, and cultural apathy and arrogance to be able to say something like that with a straight face. Being in a museum is a humbling experience.
Yep, seems so. Also Plus. Was working 10-30 minutes ago.
Immigrants take note: "Leave your garbage at home".

Sincerely,

By another immigrant.
I fix plenty of weird bugs. But I don't build a reverse index in my mind of "weird bugs".
I'd roughly put individual 'religion' of a person into one of two bags: cultural and faith (what you're talking about). The faith part by far not every member of a religion actually shares if they can talk openly (and the differences between the religion on this matter is quite vast).

Some examples: East Asian state religions are almost entirely a cultural thing outside of monk communities. Judaism I'd also expect to be majority cultural only. Christianity in Europe, again, mostly cultural. I think the US has a bit of a different viewpoint since the boundaries between Christians that have faith with those that don't, are much more extreme and seem to regularly cause interpersonal conflict.
The preference for silence may not be universal. John Von Neumann, a highly regarded scientist, appears to prefer noisy environments according to his Wikipedia entry [1]:

In Princeton, he [John Von Neumann] received complaints for regularly playing extremely loud German march music on his phonograph, which distracted those in neighboring offices, including Albert Einstein, from their work. Von Neumann did some of his best work in noisy, chaotic environments, and once admonished his wife for preparing a quiet study for him to work in. He never used it, preferring the couple's living room with its television playing loudly.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann
Combustion vehicles have other externalities, like contributing to the city heat island effect. All in all even a compact car going through the city is equivalent to a 5-10kW heater.

Also gasoline combustion doesn't just produce CO2. Emissions include NOx, CO, unburnt hydrocarbons - even in this day and age it's a significant amount.
Nothing. I tried to address my desire for these items at the end there - it would serve as an excellent demonstration of the power of these languages (to take on a performance critical task like audio transcription).
I can definitely relate to the notion that really good ideas come from somewhere outside oneself. This happens to me sometimes with musical ideas. If I consciously try to come up with a melody, it will never sound any good - whereas any good musical ideas I've had, just sort of appear fully formed - from somewhere...
whig history
John, any other thoughts to share on changes in the department? I’m curious to hear your perspective.
I immediately thought it was about fonts, because I saw the website was “typenetwork.com”-never heard of them before, but their name rather obviously suggests typography over anything else.

Personally, I wouldn’t associate “type 1” without context with diabetes over its other possible meanings (type 1 fonts, type 1 errors, type 1 hypervisors, HIV type 1, herpes type 1, etc). Diabetes may well be the most famous example, but numbered types are very popular in medical science, and many other fields besides
I had the exact same sentiment when the arrow function was added to JS. My mind has not been changed in the years since. Clear is always better than clever, arrow functions are not clear (despite the desperate cries to the contrary by complexity loving programmers).
I think that this sort of CSS is smart being put in some kind of reset.css, being a base for the design, rather than being used occasionally while developing. In both cases, it would be smart to have explicit comments describing what the snippets do.
Well at least you can google it… But it certainly doesn’t help. I keep my css specific to each class and try to be as explicit as possible to avoid any weird consequences.
We do have an almost complete understanding, and I actually think I was being too generous; but at least for the purpose of this convo, we certainly do know about X & Y chromosomes.

I don’t believe that gender is a psychological construct. I believe that gender & sex are synonymous & it’s a politically correct construct to differentiate them in any way.
> How do people deal with Teams' vastly inferior chat after coming from Slack or Mattermost or anything else remotely modern?

I'm an engineering manager at a multinational company, which also have remote employees.

Half a year ago, we got a new Director of Engineering, who decided to move from Slack to Teams, due to compliance implementation.

No one in the engineering teams want to use Teams at all; they deal with it by secretly having a Slack Team that only they (as far as they know, at least) know about.

While the rest of the company is forced to use Teams, the engineers are using Slack as they've always been doing.
> 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.

It's an extreme strawperson argument. That's not what I think and thought of pre-modern people, nor does it match anything I've read.

They were biologically the same species as us. However, there was almost universal illiteracy and belief in things like causing sick people to bleed, witches, alchemy; embrace of extreme cruetly; disasterous (by modern standards) outcomes for lifespan, health, survival of children, justice, freedom, prosperity, famine, war, etc. etc.

We're not so perfect. The trick is to learn about humanity - about ourselves - from them, and look closely in the mirror for our own cruetly, etc. How many people die from lack of healthcare, for example?
C++23 Is Finalized. Here Comes C++26
Not sure what makes you think I'm diminishing its utility as a tool; like I said, it's an incredible tool and I lean on it very heavily for various speech-processing pipelines.

I'm just pointing out that Whisper definitely hasn't "solved" speech recognition, and there's still a lot more fertile ground to cover from a research perspective.
agreed. grid & flex, combined with a standard set of custom spacing/gap utils for your design system are making life so easy when trying to build coherent layouts.
Knowing your worth is a big red flag, maybe?
I’m from your generation and my only memory of the film was a lot of talking and very little action. Have you seen it as an adult? Curious how it holds up.

Wikipedia’s page is interesting, apparently its got a cult following now.
"This scam is verified by Meta as being legitimate"
> it’s fine if it’s hard and painful

That’s sadistic. Making visa requirements high(er)/stricter is one thing. Making the process painful shows your morality (or its absence, unfortunately) more than anything else.
Don't spread anti-vaxxer propaganda here, thanks.
Use downstream Asahi and it probably already is. Read their todos, but much of it is “desktop” user related.
Ask HN: What is your idea of a Verified Professional Network?
Since Meta launched Paid Verification Subscription, its a good time to think of not only social networks but Professional Network who have Verified users.

At Peerlist(peerlist.io) we are doing present work verification. I would love to understand what are the other things we can include to make the Professional Network even more better?

Any feature suggestion?
I did not use ad hominem, I clearly and unequivocaly reflected on the post's brievity and unearned assertivity as being of little value in the context of a discussion. Maybe I'm doing a bit of sniping, but so are you, and I have the same feeling that if I wanted to read "religious is bad end of discussion" post I'd go on reddit.
Definitely, but they at least had medicare and medicaid covering their issues, and lived close to major hospitals.
Yeah, that was my sense. It's just...

vg'f abg pyrne jung gur nqqerff vf, be jung gb fraq... (V'z thrffvat whfg "uv" sebz gur HEY...? Be gb qb jvgu gur urk pbybef bs gur qrfnghengrq vzntr..?)

Edit: oh, hah. Got it. I somehow missed trying the right thing. I had gotten very close before, I just needed to add in the other hint.
Casteism is something which you cannot comprehend unless you are a lower caste person yourself.

Imagine how so many things are designed for right handed person and most of us never see that issue which left-handed people face on day-to-day basis.

That is why when you have discussion on caste-discrimination, you have so many upper caste indians defending with sort of "It does not exist anymore"

Its a legit vice in Indian community and I understand most liberal indians dont practice it. But by denying its existence, you are doing a greatest disservice to the community.
yea I understand, I can work on multiple problems, but the most interesting will win
Oracle is targeting users on Java compliance
You're generalising how your brain works to how everybody's brain work. My brain doesn't respond well to questions out of nowhere. I don't maintain a "weird bugs" index. If we are just talking and something comes up there is a good chance I will have a related story, though.
That's the key question here. I've personally not been exposed to such a sense of superiority over people of the past. I grew up in Germany, and I remember history class showing lots of examples of ingenuity and at worst mistakes that ought not to be repeated now that we supposedly know better (arguing we have more knowledge now, not intelligence). Is this maybe a local thing related to where the author grew up?
This. So much this. I wish I could make my colleagues understand.
Depends on where you are. I know of places near Sacramento where new suburban subdivisions are being built every year.
Survivorship bias. Buildings with brilliant architects and engineers are more likely to last through history and/or be preserved by their fans. So the expectation would be, when looking at the best products of the past, the average IQ of their producers would be above the average of both their time and ours.
Like some sort of perverse Andy and Bill's law, the more powerful CSS selectors we have, the sloppier document structures get.
> wrote the equivalent of affirmative action into the Indian Constitution

Reservations are not equivalent to affirmative action in America. Dr. Ambedkar was the Chairman of Constitutional Drafting Committee. In popular imagination, he is often called the author of the Indian constitution. Reservations are a small part of it.

> He was the Indian equivalent of Dr. Martin Luther King.

I understand that you are trying to make the context relatable to an American audience but I find this framing rather grating. I don't mean any disrespect to Dr. King but this is selling Dr. Ambedkar short.
After India got it's independence, many great people tried to abolish the caste system of India. One prominent name was Dr. B.R. Ambedkar. When he tried to uproot it through the use of law, he was faced with opposition from Hindus themselves. This system was kept in place so that a section of people can be exploited forever.

I have seen places where caste doesn't matter at all in India but unfortunately this system is prevalent in the very fabric of Indian society. Even at the places where it doesn't matter you'll still hear about it even if it is just a curious query from somebody.
It wasn't even social shunning, just a political defence against extreme popularity to prevent tyranny. After the expiration of ostracism you could rejoin Athens exactly as you were before.
Which would then leave a genuine red flag on your CV.
Rigetti Computing (YC S14) to cut workforce as it faces Nasdaq delisting
Do not let Dinesh AI talk to Gilfoyle AI !
Hah. There are absolutely people here on HN right now who would be happy to live in a world of quiet labor and pilgrimages and digital disconnection.

Other lifestyles needn’t be romanticized more than our own, but they also don’t need to be demonized. Keeping yourself safe and fed isn’t a big stress for most people through most of history, yet does get quite hard for some people some times even now. The difference is mostly just textural.
Nice keep em coming!
Yeah they were unknown until they became popular. But if you suggest the werent commercial this is clearly wrong. They were styled and marketed.