skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like to teach using analogies, but I don't know if there is a single analogy to fit all of them. And age of the intended audience might be important to know.

Essentially, programming is the communication of steps at a given level of abstraction.

You can give examples of how the command "open" is different, depending on whether you are dealing with a door, a book, or an app on their phone.

You can demonstrate giving commands at different levels of granularity (as different paradigms represent different world perspectives). For example, you can give them one-by-one instructions to open a door (stick out your arm, grab the handle, turn the handle, pull, etc.) vs. just saying "open the door".

The fine-grained controls can be applied to anything, but the operator may or may not know that the individual steps are all part of a single action. Likewise, "open the door" is a bundled-up set of commands, and are more concise, but it relies on the person knowing how to perform the action. "Open the combination lock" won't work unless the person already knows the combination. "Open the combination lock, and here is the combination" relies on the person knowing how to work the lock, but taking an argument. "Open the <insert something wild>" may not make sense, or may require specialized knowledge.

In other words, programming paradigms are simply different ways of bundling instructions.
Synergetic Dramaturgy – Buckminster Fuller's Ideas Applied to Drama
Isn't Return to Office just a front to have engineers quitting by themselves instead of layoffs?
ChatGPT doesn’t insert itself as a citation, it was added deliberately. For what reason is the question…I don’t say I use spellcheck when I write something with Word.
Konbi Was a National Instagram Sensation. So Why Did It Suddenly Close?
The underlying story here is worth a lot more than a 1 paragraph feed reduction. I'd appreciate pointers to what motivated the moves.

My suspicion is, it will be as straightforward as money and being self-actualised rather than bound into googleThink. I don't actually think the highly politicised stuff which led to some senior staff de-hiring was the main reason but I'd be amazed if it didn't add to the atmosphere of "lets do this, somewhere else"

Some of them may come back. I suspect at their level of seniority, it will be negotiated by intermediaries and the contract will be gone over with a fine-toothed comb: If they are put into googleThink and their work can't be published in the peer review journals, then there's going to be a large golden handcuff, and the same for a re-ejection.

Once bitten, twice shy.
I don't understand, say, sites like Facebook or Twitter are private companies, who let users store their messages/photos/videos for free (they earn the money in other ways) on their premises.

Good, but let's remember that it's still their property, they just let users use it, according to their own rules. The protection from lawsuits gives the tech giants more power with less responsibility.

I believe the world would be a better place if web properties took more responsibility of what happens on their premises. The internet would skew back to smaller web properties, and a centralized media giant would not be able to close anyone down because they don't like them.

Tech savvy people would make their own web properties, others would use it. It may or may not be connected by a federated communication protocols, but the important piece is that they own the property and be responsible of what happens there. E.g. if you invited your grandma to your forum -- be responsible of what she writes there.

PS: Of course, illegal content can still be closed down (e.g. through hosting providers and domain registrars), but not by a whim of a private corporation.
Thanks, using this to launch my next balloon. If its not accurate I'll be sending you a bill for my services.
There are many cases of the US literally walking back on its word or unilaterally canceling deals because it could. It even cancelled its sovereign debt that it had to other countries a few times in history. The countries used to take it because they had to. Which precisely why the global south now prefers China, Russia, Brazil, India and the entire new bloc around BRICS, SCO etc:

They don't have to tolerate anything with China or Russia. When a deal is broken by a country, these two countries just stop doing business with that other country until some agreement is reached. Its simple business/trade. So much that China avoids even saying things that could be interpreted as commentaries on other countries' policies, the way to do things or their culture. Ending up in very dry press releases.
I pointed to this in another thread, but:

"for some reason, a lot of people treat choosing their cofounder with even less importance than hiring. Don't do this! This is one of the most important decisions you make in the life of your startup and you need to treat it as such.

And for some reason, students are really bad at this. They just pick someone. They're like, I want to start a business and you want to start a business, let's start a startup together. There are these cofounder dating things where you're like, Hey I'm looking for a cofounder, we don't really know each other, let's start a company. And this is like, crazy. You would never hire someone like this and yet people are willing to choose their business partners this way. It's really really bad. And choosing a random random cofounder, or choosing someone you don't have a long history with, choosing someone you're not friends with, so when things are really going wrong, you have this sort of past history to bind you together, usually ends up in disaster.

We had one YC batch in which nine out of about seventy-five companies added on a new cofounder between when we interviewed the companies and when they started, and all nine of those teams fell apart within the next year. The track record for companies where the cofounders don't know each other is really bad."

from https://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec02/
Iterative and Incremental Development: A Brief History (2003) [pdf]
> given that these are the classes most people fail.

Depends on the country, but it could be that this is intentional - having those lectures at 08:00 raises the difficulty bar, helping to fail more students, which is exactly what the class is for in the first place.

In my university time, the math class that most people fail would also have lectures at 08:00[0]. It was also widely known that the class is just about getting us up to speed with calculus, as it is to filter out a good chunk of the year. My understanding, shared by fellow students and even faculty members, is that universities in Poland (and I suppose most of EU) tend to admit ~1.5-2x the number of students they can handle, and use first two semesters to filter out tat ~0.5-1x excess. In STEM courses, those intro math classes were understood to be those filtering classes.

--

[0] - What's worse, on the first lecture, the professor wisely noticed that some of us will be hitting rush-hour traffic trying to get to the lecture on time, and suggested that... we should all start 15 minutes earlier, so we can avoid the traffic by waking up and traveling 15 minutes earlier... I think I attended one or two more lectures of that professor, at which I fell asleep few minutes in, and eventually decided it's just pointless waste of life.
AI's gonna need a competent developmental editor, and to be applied incrementally with human decisions and input in between, for at least a while longer (we'll see if it keeps progressing past that—seems likely, but one never knows)

[EDIT] To be clear, it won't need those things to produce a story at all, but AI-assisted stories that have had significant human input applied will be notably better than wholly-AI ones (the kind of on-demand storytelling you're alluding to) for some time yet.
"Closed as duplicate" has nothing to do with effort or question quality. The only thing that matters is whether the linked questions/answers contain the solution.
This looks very much like Make Me A Hanzi (MMAH), which is exactly the same (Chinese) characters. It's just that Japanese knows those as Kanji.

https://github.com/skishore/makemeahanzi
Wilson's 3D-Printed Basketball Is Full of Holes but Never Goes Flat
Honestly not sure. I'd never thought it was. Always heard google and Netflix were good places to work. This recession appears to potentially be changing that though
> If you need to go that fast why not implement a layer 2 protocol?

Because datacenter is not single LAN segment ? You need to route it
MS, please fire everyone ok with this and focus on making great product not growth hacks.

The false goal of short term gains without good product foundation is like smoking 60 a day and pretending cancer doesn’t exist. My children will never know what a “Microsoft” is.
>bad for basically everyone else including the company and the communities remote workers have moved to.

Why? Is it better for places with more jobs and money to stay that way instead of spreading the wealth around?
Or maybe they shouldn’t insert the “citation” that they used ChatGPT to help edit their correspondence. Ignorance is bliss. This story is a huge nothingburger and the Dean did nothing wrong.
buddha was not enlightened through meditation. that is a dangerous falsehood that has been added by monks. he was enlightened through his accumulation of virtue through his specific practices of educating others while he was in the mountains. this placed him in turmoil. he left the mountains, and sat down under a tree to collect himself. it was only after he became calm that he realized that he had already attained the supreme enlightenment. you cannot attain it through any other means than teaching after entering a samadhi. but to enter samadhi means you have to stop your karma. even then, it can be reborn, just like anything else. the final enlightenment - that of a buddha - is to burn down all your karma. the greatest way to do this is the practice of true love.

this is a path which will cause you to face inordinate difficulties and loneliness. most people are waylaid. "strait is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto Life and few there be who find it."
Absolutely, same.

One of my best stretches of work was when we were only budgeted 40 hours/wk so as a team we voted to do 4/10s. Loved that extra day off.
You're projecting what you would like it if I said onto what I actually said.
> > except there's no way to sync your Passkey from the Apple sync fabric to the Microsoft sync fabric

> This is by design.

And this is exactly why it's bound to fail. Explain to my grandma why she can't sign in from her computer AND her iPad.
Two day old (proper) bread isn't bad, it's just become "toasting bread"
Yes. Same at work then / 50. Never.

Stop using environmentalism as a crowbar to get your desires it’s disgusting and devalues the real movement with real issues beyond you wanting to sit in bed till lunch.
Argh. Bloody London Plane trees shitting their stuff into my eyes as I run or cycle beneath them.

The goggles, they do nothing!
Heh. I have it on original vinyl.
Much of Shakespeare's content would be considered harmful by ChatGPT's filters.
> ...but there are a lot of ways to reimagine residential that could be compatible (all electric, shared bathrooms, etc.)

And windows.

Sure there are ways to "reimagine" residential to accommodate office floorplans, but I feel that for the most part those "reimagings" would be at best depressing and probably worse. "Windowless SRO room" is not an acceptable living situation for most, and you could probably do much better with a different building on the same land.
Essentials of Compilation: An Incremental Approach in Racket
That video was low effort which makes me think this design is also low effort. Why didn’t they work with HP and MJF technology?
Yes it's definitely open source.On lighter note, until we build our own text CNN, we will use open AI to show the power and usecases of AI to our users.
> that the construct of 'me' was completely false and was just a reverberation of my environment

you are mistaken as you misunderstood in a subtle but critical way. your sentence is self contradictory. for it to be true it must have some permanent existence. everything that is true does.

in the law of cause and effect there are three kinds of causes. environment is one of them. this is the law buddha told us about after he opened his eye. it reveals the entirety of existence, along with another law or two.

do not cheat yourself by thinking you can see the truth yet. we can check if you doubt this. it would be to your benefit. but few want what is most important for them.
The type of people on those pages would likely switch to Firefox if they did that.
I was curious if these are captured in the Stack Exchange Data Dumps <https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/19579/where-are-the...> but while researching that, I found https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow and at least according to my "select * from comments where userid=$my_user_id" the answer is no, they're straight-up deleted
I bet you can I get a better SAT score than any "Ursus arctos horribilis" that you can field ;)
Authentically Human in a World of ChatGPT:

https://williamcotton.com/articles/authentically-human-in-a-...

Argues for public infrastructure for identity verification.
> A lot of entertainment (or "entertainment") happens inside: games, doom-scrolling, and so on. And there's online ordering too. And the public space is deteriorating in many places.

When there's a public space to begin with.

I think modern teens might also have more activities through school (judging by the HN crowd).

Finally, for teens living in dense urban areas (or even suburban) there's always Uber/Lyft. Sure it's expensive, but when you split the fare 2-3 way it's mot that bad.
Much to my later shame, I worked on a technology for doing this. It broke a lot of things, including Winamp, because it mistook xml for xhtml.

Glad https murdered that company. (No, I won’t mention the company.)
There was a point when I actually started liking Edge. It had a few things going for it:

-it has by far the best vertical tab implementation of all browsers (someone please copy this)

-it has great PWA integration

-it isn't Chrome while being Chrome

-it has the option of two extension stores

-it integrates nicely with Windows Hello

Unfortunately, Microsoft appears to be hellbent on ruining it with bloat and ads and tracking.
Well, too bad pretty much no recent high-end Android phone has a headphone jack now
Ah. The MarketWatch and tweet seem to indicate that it's streaming. Also, the tweet (https://twitter.com/BradSmi/status/1627926790172811264) seems to indicate many games. If it's just a few, hand-ported games then that's fine. Otherwise, my analysis stands.
Google should modify thie license to exclude microsoft
Although true I don’t consider “lawsuit” an excuse and think the problem goes deeper to Google employees focusing on ML problems for career clout not customer solutions
We have only these descriptions but not the answers them self, grain of salt is applicable, possibly not in small quantities.
My most productive time is similar to yours, from about 7 to 11am.
I love it when I know I will be downvoted. that's why I posted this. you know who I am.
So much about work is about the perception of what you do and not about what is really being done. Add to that, that even when one is actually providing lots of value, it may not be perceived as important by whoever you report to - but the firefighting du jour is.
I'm sorry, but isn't this just... obvious? Like, I'm not sure how else one would conduct themselves if they have a serious problem they have to think through? Blind panic and reaction?
Would you really replace the screen yourself on a laptop that's still under warranty?
A collective 1% pushback is pretty big as far as activism goes. It's also way more than 1%, since no where near 1.4 Million of those employees have slack access.
And central Sydney:

https://data.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/datasets/15c4713a688a48...

https://trees.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/map/

https://cityofsydney.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/minimalist...
You say that as if professional music doesn't use drum loops all the time.
> The details vary from country to country, of course, but some of the tax exemptions which religious groups get are actually just standard exemptions available to all non-profits, or all charities.

Right. Religious groups in the US get tax exemptions that non-religious 501(c)(3)s don't get. Churches can exempt themselves from FICA taxes. Churches are not required to withhold income taxes on wages paid to ministers. Churches can provide a housing allowance as compensation to ministers which is exempt from taxation

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p1828.pdf

https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc417

> When people advocate ending religious tax-exemptions, do they mean to end tax-exemptions specific to religious groups – but not available to charities in general, or non-profits in general? Or do they also mean to deny religious groups their status as charities? Or even their status as non-profits?

I can't speak for anyone else, but I think churches should not get special treatment relative to other charitable organizations.
I could see quite a few companies reaching for this over pay rises. Considering inflation right now, it may make sense to suggest a 4 day working week at their existing pay versus offering an inflation beating pay rise.
On Entrepreneurial Success
iTunes doesn't exist anymore
Again: the randomart image is based on a hash of the public key. If you want to know what that key is, all you have to do is ask the server. You don't need to launch a sophisticated, expensive cryptographic attack to obtain it.
>it was much safer to remediation personnel to ignite the chemicals in a controlled burn vs having them work around flammable chemicals for weeks

It would have taken weeks for a large org like Norfolk Southern to unload the payload to other containers? Seems like an unreasonably long amount of time.
I'm sure they can solve this by charging a $1 per submission.
Web games, lol
Who is pushing for people to work extended hours? Assuming you’re talking about the tech industry and US market.

I find this sentiment to be pretty rare.
dude, ego is a health regulating system. do not try to destroy it in others. what you should destroy are delusional words.
Beowulf was a Type 3 PostScript font, not Type 1, so that it could bypass the font cache and could access random numbers on the LaserWriter PostScript interpreter.

Type 3 fonts don't have hinting in the renderer, and require a full PostScript interpreter, so they have never been widely supported.
I run coredns as internal dns and the advice for this solution from them is to run another coredns and solve it in config management. While not a pleasing answer its probably the easiest thing to do. Someone did write a plugin but it requires a fork to get some hooks and that was declined its PR.
It's 2023 and Firefox is absolute junk
Moderators like to close questions and link to questions/answers posted by them. (Possibly hoping for upvotes)
I guess this could count as petty corruption.
Thanks for being forthright. How did you test the MVP before you joined YC and had venture funding? Did you pay from your pockets
there is such a thing as a true self and false selves. can you tell them apart?
> I would appreciate any guidance to get me moving in the right direction.

This is standard polite phrasing indicating that I would be happy with any response, regardless of how minimal. I wasn't asking for a tutorial. I don't recall SO requesting me to strip out polite extraneous wording when I made my submission, but perhaps I missed it?

Lukas' solution didn't answer my question. So, yeah, there's going to be back-and-forth when the question wasn't answered. That's what this part was about: "...but you didn't actually explain the syntax..."

And again, my question was flagged as a dupe, not for wording or structure or back-and-forth.
This is what Gnarbox was meant to be. It worked for a while, with options to upload to Dropbox (Lightroom was meant to arrive at some stage... but it didn't). I still have my Gen 1 and Gen 2 ones here, but unfortunately, the company seems dead... Raspberry Pi, a couple of external drives, Resilio Sync or Sync Thing and remote storage (at home or in the cloud) are your best bet... Direct to Lightroom is also an option but costs a good amount... Drop Box is also an option, but again, costs...
"Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this, the peak of your civilization. I say your civilization because as soon as we started thinking for you it really became our civilization which is of course what this is all about." -- Agent Smith, 1999
Do you make the same interpretation when companies cut 20% of the workforce instead?
American employers pay ~$22k/yr for those that prefer numbers:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/employers-family-health-insuran...
> I believe the world would be a better place if web properties took more responsibility of what happens on their premises.

A lot of the complaints against 230 is that the sites are doing that too much, in ways that aren't to the liking of elected politicians, i.e. if twitter makes an anti-hate speech filter republicans say it's targeting conservatives, or if Facebook takes down an anti-fascism group democrats will say liberals are being targeted.

Forcing more legal liability on the major content hosting platforms won't make them go away, it will just make them into record labels or movie studios from the 1950s, where only an exclusive group of tightly controlled creatives get their mundane, uncontroversial content hosted. It's not going to create some cambrian explosion of alternative platforms - that already exists, and they don't get traffic because a one-stop shop for content is a natural monopoly.
So, my point is even after you pay you still don't get much. You get nothing until you pay, then you get interpretation fluff after.

This article doesn't even link to any sources or the legal documents.
That sounds tiring. Can't I get an AI to consume the content for me?
Alexander Lukashenko "won" the last election in Belarus with 80% share of the vote...
Yep, my co-founder and I were both in college pre-YC and we bootstrapped everything.
It’s Curious, I wonder if as the portion of time people spend on hard problems increases the rate of burnout increases.

10 years ago a much larger percentage of my day was spent on non-taxing activities that have since been automated.
In my experience, microservices/backends are almost always I/O bound, and the CPU usage is almost pure overhead (meaning it may exist, but you could reduce it with effort - it’s not intrinsic to the problem), unless the service is doing some particularly domain-specific compute-intensive task.

For your typical website backend between frontend and db, you are doing some async conversion of JSON to db call back to JSON. For an HTTP microservice you are also typically converting some JSON request body to a JSON response body with some kind of I/O call in between.

So that’s a roundabout way of saying I think that the case where majority of CPU is spent on SerDe is more common than you think. And it’s not necessarily a problem if the effort to improve is not worth the savings.
Having worked a 3-day week for a couple of years, I will second the notion that it possible to lose continuity by being off for four days in a row. Part of that might be that everyone else is still on the 5-day schedule, the other part of that is I would get wrapped up in other matters during the 4 days and then need to refocus attention on something completely unrelated back at work.

I ended up leaving myself notes on what I was working on before I left on Thursday and what to do first. This was a big help in getting the continuity back and not feeling like I missed a beat when I resumed working again on Tuesday.
Thats not a rust command ;)