skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I certainly don’t love the system, but the difference is “checking credit score in order to take more credit (eg a loan or credit card)” (hard) vs “checking credit score for my own knowledge” (soft). This distinction feels reasonable to me.
Notes for My Death
> It's not the AI that's the issue, it's the use of it that's the problem.

this is exactly what people against gun control say
Yes, the people who jumped over themselves to present half-baked GPT chatbots as the future of their multi-billion dollar search businesses.
It could be a translation error. The author clearly does not speak English as a first language.
So jobs (and not being 'soft') define manhood? And this is an unchangeable, biological fact disconnected from cultural influence?

Curious if you see any benefits to therapy, or does it all boil down to parental blaming?
My point is there's something wrong with targeting TikTok for "spying." I wouldn't compare this to banning books.
Writing "But that next big moneymaker hasn’t materialized" seems a bit hard to believe. I am sure there are plenty of new innovations for industries that people just plain haven't thought of yet. So much of the last 20 years has effectively been based on just moving paper proceses to forms and databases. Hopefully whatever is next launches a new set of tech companies that can inject fresh ethics into the industry, but we'll see.
That...doesn't cover anywhere close to everything back to 1993, which would be 30 years.
EU and "regulations." Name a more interesting combo. For some reason EU sees x and wants to regulate it.
Which one? AppKit, UIKit, Catalyst, or SwiftUI?
To be cynical, there are no dumb questions, only dumb people. Some people ask the same question over and over, and others have different questions, rather rapidly getting to very interesting questions.
This is true, but it's a small difference. It took only about 10% of a 486's CPU time to mix four to eight channels of wavetable audio. You'd never be able to notice or measure if that 3d scene was running at 11 fps instead of 10.
Clearly not since housing prices are falling due to affordability.

And if you look at the capital buying up houses, it's a tiny fraction of all available housing out there.

The correct answer is - just like when housing prices went up with low interest rates, they'll go down with high interest rates.
I'm confused... What's wrong with merge?

For all I know, I once joined a company where the policy was to only do squash-merges. I left from there at the brink of mental breakdown.
Well given that the "sheep" keep on appropriating the wolf's symbolism and rhetoric, and get so very personally offended at every last fact about the which could be considered a slight against the wolf doesn't represent them, isn't exactly a good sign for the very pointy-toothed "sheep". It comes across as dishonest disavowal of something fully approved of but they don't want to own up to.
Didn't mean it that way, something being 100+ times slower is a LOT. And I care a lot about tool speed. I just didn't really think I needed to be shamed for asking a question they had a ready answer for.
Assessing the theory that Covid leaked from a Chinese lab
I self host a lot, including some business related infrastructure for my home office (some employees also work from here).
However services designed to be accessed by a wider public audience (eg; websites, emails, Nextcloud) are hosted on a rented dedi.

As other comments have pointed out, kids suck up every minute of your life, and when the internet or Plex don't work I'll know about it real quick (DAAAAD!).
The important question for me is; how fast can I rebuild all of this if all the drives were wiped?

Here is my home setup;

Hardware:

* OPNSense - old i5 desktop, 70GB hdd, 20GB RAM

* TrueNAS - AMD A10-5800K, 16TB hdd, 1TB ssd, 8GB RAM

* OpenNebula Frontend - Random Intel NUC, 128GB ssd, 4GB RAM

* OpenNebula KVM Node - Xeon ?, 4TB hdd, 64GB RAM

* OpenNebula KVM Node - Xeon Silver ?, 2TB ssd, 128GB RAM + GTX 1070Ti

* Unifi EdgeSwitch ES-48

* Unifi WAP's

Software:

* OPNSense for routing

* OpenNebula for VM's

* Nomad for docker containers

* NetMaker for Wireguard based VPN

Main Apps:

* Home Assistant VM

* Plex (+rtorrent+sonarr+radarr+jackett+ombi) containers

* FusionPBX container for VoIP

* Kasm for remote desktops

* Rundeck container for various infrastructure based automation jobs

* Zabbix + Grafana containers for monitoring

* PacketFence VM for NAC

* Shinobi container for NVR

* Snapcast container for multi-room audio

I also have plenty of containers and VM's for various testing apps, or dev projects.

All of my non-critical containers (eg; Plex) self update daily at early morning hours.

For the critical stuff, I have tried to automate updates as much as possible.

The majority of things can be recreated from ansible, docker compose, or Nomad scripts, all of which are backed up to an offsite Nextcloud instance.

I use a lot of services on Opnsense, but I think one of the most important for me is the Traffic Shaper, allowing for bandwidth control.

I have about 14 VLAN's, and am in the process of setting up VXLAN's for further isolation.

I use restic for encrypted backups, stored in Wasabisys.com (no cost to download, unlike Backblaze).

I will admit there is still one design flaw that I'm yet to spend time overcoming; if everything is powered on at the same time, there is a chance some devices won't get an IP because OpnSense is not yet ready.
My current flawless work-around is to boot Opnsense 30 seconds before everything else.
That could work in low capital intensive industries, but I'm not sure the numbers would work out for high tech, high capital intensive industries where you need to invest billions that you may never be able to recover.
That's the crazy thing, right?

I'm a software engineer. I've seen how poorly software is written, how badly it's tested, and how many stupid mistakes developers make. I've been the one making staggeringly stupid mistakes!

And yet... the vast majority of the software we use just kinda works. And if it's broken, it doesn't tend to stay that way for long.

It's easy to see problems as a developer, but our software could be so much worse.
My point was more that you can get capable engineers without any technical interview process.
How Tiny Formula 1 Engines Make 1000 HP [video]
I don't think many of those are 4+ hours. Famous actors are not made to wait 4 hours to read lines, for example.
Well, there are certainly use cases where purely functional languages (at least the ones that currently exist) aren’t the tool of choice… But in the grand scheme of things, like you yourself pointed out, these types of problems are not what the vast majority of engineers are working on.

I had assumed that initially you were referring to the difficulty of the “domain problems” when I wrote my comment.
Royal Caribbean's ships are flagged and run out of Nassau. I doubt US labor laws are relevant here.
Purple-Teams: MS Teams Plugin for Pidgin (2022)
Funny you say this, because I actually cite my failed start-ups when talking about my resume when chatting with bigger companies. It provides a uniqueness that you are a risk taker and you should use that narrative to your advantage to stick out separately from other candidates who may have a more traditional background.
Brain-Inspired Cognitive Intelligence Engine (BrainCog)
ive sent you an email. looking forward to talking to you.
> softest of sciences, but labeling it as non-science would be ridiculous

It is about as scientific as chiropractics and acupuncture, full of anecdote and very little substance, you even provided some yourself. How can you possibly trust much of anything coming out of those disciplines when the majority of papers can't even be replicated?
Adding to existing suggestions.

- About 5, https://github.com/99designs/aws-vault is super handy to keep AWS credentials encrypted.

- Use full-disk encryption as a team policy.

- About 7, it is likely that this is solved by having preview environments so that developers don't need to manage infrastructure manually.

- About 8, 1password shared vault works nicely for us.
Hey, just to let you know, your comment may have really helped out my friend.

He recently had his gallbladder removed. I saw your comment, did some searching, and asked if he'd heard about it. Apparently he never had.

His wife has a variety of health issues, too, and it sounds like it may help her out, too, so two birds with one ox bile comment, apparently!
I had an n900 on 3g on T-Mobile USA.

They should have continued maemo 5 and bet hard on it. The big rewrites for n9, and continued focus on symbian as a cash cow, hurt them.
I had a pair of these for doing webhosting back in the day. I'd colo'd them at a sublet space in a New Orleans data center. Reliability got really spotty at one point - turns out the guy I rented the Us from had failed to pay his bill. We got kicked out and he took all the equipment (about 3 full racks) and piled it into his car. He then took it to his pool house where he'd had a T1 line dropped in. He owned the IP block, so they didn't need to re-address anything. I only found out why things were so slow when I demanded to come get my hardware.

Sadly, not my worst colo experience. That went to a Texas-based, name brand "dedicated server" operation who had a secondary site in Chicago. I bought a server there solely for offsite backups; it was plagued with issues. Turns out, the data center was the scene of constant theft - by the employees. It came to a head one night when off-the-clock employees injured the on-duty employee, cut a hole in the wall, and then made off with all sorts of networking and computing gear. The company lied for months, held data hostage, and kept money for services they didn't provide. I think Chris Faulkner is still in jail now, so he can't make good on his threats to sue me now. Dude got really pissed when customers told the truth on Web Hosting Talk. I hope he enjoys every last minute at FCI LOMPOC.
Sorry, but I don't see it. Short term rental laws in NYC are crazy strict. How is "buy a building" any different than "buy an apartment".
I'm really interested in the Data/ML roles! Is there anyone I can contact directly? I'm not seeing any Data Science or Machine Learning Engineer roles on the website
I love working from home. It's all I've dreamed of doing. I hated when my company moved me into an office.

I've been doing it for the better part of my work career... same job:

2012 - 2014: worked from home.

2014 - 2019: worked in an office.

2020 - 2023+: working from home.

2020 COVID pulled everyone back home. My boss recently asked me if I wanted to go back into the office and I told her that I refused. They couldn't pay me enough to return to the office. In all honesty, I'd need to see at least double my current salary + half to even consider it. And considering my company cut my pay and blamed it on COVID, I know that's not going to happen.

My schedule:

Wake up. Do a few things around the house. Run errands. Have my laptop with me that allows me to connect anywhere I am, no matter what state I am in, as long as T-Mobile is available. If I return home, I'm watching Netflix or any of the many shows available on Roku.

The worst thing I'd say it doesn't allow me to socialize, but I wasn't doing that in the office anyway. My coworkers barely say two words to me online unless they need something. Why would it be any different in an office? So enjoy your remote life. Use it to your advantage.

Go travel. Some days, I've woken up near or on a coast at beach and even worked on the beach. Other days, I've hiked a mountain and returned to my car and I'm working in my car. I bought a solar power generator which can give me 5 - 7 charges and an additional mini one which gives about 1-2 charges for my laptop battery needs.

I've gone to visit family, house sat for family, and visited friends. It's all in what you want to do with your time. I'm even renting out a few rooms in my house to make some extra income. And I'm home so I can keep an eye on my roommates. I mean the other way to look at it: I'm paying a mortgage. Why would I want to pay a mortgage, only to go sit in an office all day? Why not get more usage out of my house so that paying my mortgage actually means something?

Enjoy the opportunity!
Thank you!

Everything I am and every single penny I've earned can be attributed back to you or M. Hartl. I'm so happy I stumbled into rails 10 years ago.
Scala has a lot of interesting concepts in it for sure! The problem is that the JVM is a deal-breaker, either because of its complexity or because of the associated licensing risk. Clojure has the same problem, for what it's worth.
I truly think this will happen.

Most people I know, smart people included, really struggle with writing. People struggle to clearly communicate ideas, express themselves, form sentences and more.

I'd say the majority of people I work with are actually poor communicators, especially via text (email, sms etc). Writing is a skill and no one is "perfect" at it, including me. It's only going to get worse without practice. I know this because I'm learning another language and if I take even a few weeks off, I lose it pretty quickly for being at an intermediate level.

There was a period in my life where I picked up a pen to write something and I realized that it had been so long since I used one I was actually intimated and struggled. I was too used to keyboards. I don't see outsourcing writing itself to ChatGPT being much different.

I cringe a little when I read all these messages like, "Oh, I just use ChatGPT to respond to everything now and write all my code etc". Well that's good it's saving you time, but you're also not exercising your ability to think anymore, and that will be detrimental. Many of those people probably didn't have a yardstick to measure there own writing ability by in the first place and now just assume they're better off outsourcing to ChatGPT. It's a questionable position to take.

There might be a time in 10 years where people are told they should write because it's good for their brain, like how we have to tell people who don't do physical labor they need to exercise...funny stuff.

Lastly, there must be truly something to be said for the fact that ChatGPT, at least currently (maybe it will train against itself soon) is trained off human inputs. If that trend continues and everything is ChatGPT, well where does that leave us? With a stagnant, flat way of communicating with stale ideas?

I feel like everything is becoming a little dystopian lately, ha!
I thought that this was going to have stories like when taking an exam in a large lecture hall, one student finishes late, and the professor says, "Sorry, you can't turn that in now." And the student goes, "Do you know who I am?" where the professor replies, "No, not at all." Then the student goes, "Good," and shoves his paper in the middle of the pile of exams.
As the headline is phrased, the answer is almost certainly "yes".

Even if you have an objective diagnosis and a rigorously developed treatment, you'd expect far less than 100% success; and you'd also expect side effects and other harm that happens with almost any treatment.

Given that mental health is much less rigorous than some other areas of medicine (because it's hard to make it rigorous), then its compounded by misdiagnosis and treatments where we don't understand the effects.
nice but font is a bit small.
For me Tailwind is an elegant and powerful design language, one which has sane defaults, and which gives me the opportunity to experiment quickly and instill life in the structure of my html right there where I type it, with just a few keystrokes and no change in context.
I think a lot of people are just not as performative as interviews demand. I think these people would be perfectly capable at the job if you hired them, but the interview experience (emotionally, collaboratively) is nothing like how you work day to day.
The paper (2022):

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2207.08533.pdf

I skimmed the paper. I think an accurate tldr is 'a framework for building brain models (simulations of actual brains) and brain inspired AI using SNNs'.
Then AirBnB can pay the fines until they do due diligence.
I am using cash more than ever. My farm stopped accepting electronic payments, as they are too easily reversed. It is not worth the risk, effort, or fees to accept them.
And yet someday we may look back and see this as the good old days.
> I wouldn't say that race and anti-Catholicism have zero connection in US history – but I do think Ignatiev fundamentally misrepresents what that connection is.

Sure, I tried to make clear that while I think it goes to far to separate anti-Catholicism from racism (And the evolving construction of race) in America, I'm not defending Ignatiev's particular characterization in so doing.

> The fact is, prejudiced people tend to have lots of different prejudices–that doesn't make all their prejudices the same, or make all of their numerous prejudices instances of just one of them. I mean, if someone is homophobic, is that racism?

I dunno, I think generally multiple bigotries shared by the same person are society constructing different labels for the persons "not like me-ism", so in that sense, yes they are all the same thing having different labels assigned to different manifestations of a unified whole. But, on the other hand, when you are talking about social impacts, it makes sense to look at them differently because the different aspects can have different dynamics as societal forces, whether or not they individually are part of a unified system.

But the relation between anti-Catholicism and racism isn't that they are the same social force, but that they are social forces where each colors the manifestation of the other. This is, AFAIK, not as true of, say, homophobia and racism in the same way (they interact intersectionally, but that's a different thing).
There's plenty of jobs out there, but what the MSM doesn't tell is, they ain't the kind of jobs most people want.
If I can chime in here, yeah that’s the gist although I’ll say Tailwind isn’t a panacea. My team and I still write vanilla CSS, but it’s less common and much more navigable. It’s usually because the Tailwind version (if the utilities exist) would be unwieldy.

When I started writing CSS I would commonly encounter modestly sized websites of only a couple hundred pages with 17 thousand lines of CSS or more because of frameworks like Bootstrap. At least a few hundred of those lines would be overrides and just as many would probably be redundant.

My team launched a 6 thousand page website this past year with only a couple hundred lines of vanilla CSS and roughly 3 thousand lines of Tailwind generated CSS total.

At the end of the day, Tailwind is a zero-runtime, tree-shakable CSS framework generator. The burden of naming many common and universal design artifacts is alleviated. Class reusability goes through the roof. Custom stylesheets regain the ability to be edited with confidence again. It’s good. It makes the HTML a bit bloated and ugly which deters people at first, but dev tools pick up the slack and so far I’ve yet to see any performance impact there.
Except you provide the key to the app and the app is controlled by FB. There’s really no way to prove the key stays on your device. Or that your messages aren’t just forwarded without encryption to a FB datacenter.
Is there rigorous evidence that these treatments do more good than harm?
Plenty of non-malicious people are incompetent, and there's a lot more of them
I'm beginning to feel like DSP programming-- even visual DSP programming-- puts the user in the wrong domain for making music using a computer.

It's a bit like learning to play the piano, if your first lesson were to learn DSP.

Edit: clarification
Right. We're going to blame the engineer for not updating every piece of software on earth they have installed when updates break stuff every other time, and when managing updates takes a full time job these days?

Give the man a break. The blame simply is on not practicing proper isolation and keeping work to a secure and controlled environment.
> 2nd person narration to me most strongly is associated with the genre of interactive fiction.

This isn't narration, though its phrased descriptively rather than imperatively; it is direction, which is normally in second person (though, often only detectable in verb conjugations, because usually the imperative is used, and in the imperative the subject is usually omitted.)
How old do you suppose that software is?
There's plenty of universities in the world with nominal fees.
>standard hotels even have "accountholder must be present to check-in" policies

Funny you mention that - once I booked a room in my SO's name using my card

She fell asleep in the room before I got there, and they refused to let me up even though I had the card on me, along with several forms of photo ID

Eventually she woke up, but it wasn't the best start to the stay
Swift, kotlin, Java
>... software of no complexity works in practice.

That's trivially disprovable by mere fact that you have used software to send your opinion to everyone this forum also using untold amount's of software, and that we have received it and are replying to it. Unless you are using some black and white definition of `works` where everything acts exactly as expected 100% of the time, in which case I would suggest not doing anything ever because there is no agreed upon definition of behavior on anything more complex than basic math. Once you start defining behaviors there are a million ways to interpret any sentence
I thought that was very fitting, just like with HN, I immediately zoomed in ;)
Author here - Glad you found that line helpful. Of course, the goal would be building your business on the side until it's making a substantial amount of money, and then quitting your job. But I know that isn't a feasible path for everyone. Personally, I tried starting my initial project as a side project, but made very little progress over two years, which was the catalyst for going "all in". I'd still suggest trying to build the business on the side first, just to see if you can manage it. Best of luck!
This was one of the best resources at the time. I restarted my career as a programmer around that time and looking for realistic samples for known challenges.

Most of the early episodes were precisely those - how to do x?. I ended up purchasing the Pro version for the full team.

Around 2013, I somehow had a feeling it wouldnt last long. High end of the devs cant be living on meager income for a long time, unless they have no family.
I am starting to doubt that interest rates are the best lever against inflation.

Rising prices are supply not meeting demand. It feels like improving productivity would be an equally powerful tool with less human cost. Granted that is a harder thing to control quarter over quarter.

Consider this analysis that intetest rates may in some cases raise prices.
https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2023/02/04/do-high-inter...

And more links along that line from the pluralistic blog. https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/04/if-i-was-a-horse/#friedma...

Does anybody else hear talk of productivity in talk of inflation?
There are hundreds of different pieces of software used every day to keep planes flying, both on the aircraft and on the ground.
How We Created Personalized Snippet Suggestions Without Storing User Text
I'm curious - what in Rails is like that? I've been doing RoR for a long time, and while "Rails is Omakase", I've never felt it was hard to swap out a component.
I shot 100 asteroids with fewer than 300 bytes of WebAssembly
That is a fantastic story.

These HD's were EXPENSIVE, back in that day.

I'm impressed no bit-errors crept into your drive, at least none that you mention here. Did you use a clean-room (a humid bathroom) or did you just YOLO it?
WPF was great, but it was incomplete for the longest time because of lack of dog fooding. Why is it saying goodbye again? Didn't they announce the death of this 10 years ago?
I wish I understood this many years ago.