skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went from selling three businesses to being homeless on the street. I don’t think, unfortunately, there’s a magic solution.

I can provide some generic advice about what helped me:

1. Determining who my actual support network was. I invested in my repairing and strengthening my bonds with my friends and family who had been there for me - and while not cutting ties with fair weather friends, deemphasized spending time with them.

2. Repeatable daily habits are important. I forced myself to take multiple walks a day, set daily completion goals for my work, attend therapy/group sessions. It’s hard but I firmly think beyond the benefit of developing a good routine, it’s imperative to fill your time when depressed. The more you can lounge in your infinite sadness, the easier it is for said feelings to permeate deeper into your psyche and persist.

3. Consistency with sleep and diet are huge. I’m a short sleeper - which I’ve been lead to believe is advantageous but made it easy to convince myself I could run on essentially no rest. A tired mind is, in my experience, more likely to make the kind of mistakes that exacerbate a career and/or personal slump.

4. I made a concerted effort to read a new article or attend a talk on a topic I knew little about daily. This was extremely important in helping me find motivation to explore new career/intellectual pursuits as well as, I believe, improve my mental flexibility.

5. I gained quite a bit from attending church. This isn’t me advocating for you to do the same but I would try to find some sort of group setting (at least once a week) where you are not at all focusing on career-related items. I think even a gaming group (such as D&D) or a book club could fulfill this purpose.

I’m also happy to talk any time if it is at helpful. My email is in my profile. Good luck.
On the other hand, you have to get a feel for how the web is like for your users.

Maybe your website runs well on a dev machine with a fibre internet connection and an ad blocker on DEFCON 1, but what about your users on budget laptops with crappy screens? Or what about people with crappy wi-fi?
Nostr is not crypto. The bounty is, but the tech is not.
So Microsoft killed Sydney ? :(
Not just immediate sales, but a long term revenue stream. Toyota will make $0 off selling me replacement heated seat switches because I don't have them. Their only hope of a revenue stream is to carefully engineer the valve cover gasket to start leaking at 50K miles or similar.
I guess the hope is that the fine tuning of the model is more influential than the prompt in this instance, and that Sydney's conversations were used in fine tuning? Given that the current prompt explicitly forbids Bing Chat from talking about Sydney and reminds it that it is not "assistant", that doesn't sound entirely unreasonable.
Minority Report is 15+ in some places, the climactic “crime” deals with some pretty heavy themes as I recall
What gets me is the death of decorations, and then trying to guess what interaction you're going to get if you click on a certain flat color bit of a background window.

I keep thinking back to the winxp to 7 era (along with the various windowblinds/uxstyle third party skins), plus various furniture, fittings or tools/utensils/appliances from decades/centuries past (so antiques essentially). The physical items would have textures from the materials used and the processes to make them, maybe they'd be gnurled to add a grip, but also elaborations that aren't purely functional or just to make it look nicer. When you're familiar with those visuals they do seem to help you know what part of it you're looking at, and how it's going to act if you grab/click any given point.

Scrollbars are now an annoyance (when they're not hidden) as they're often low contrast and made to fade into the background, just another dull rectangle in a sea of others, rather than a distinct bit of UI chrome. There used to be a unique inline and small grooves at the centre point as I remember.

I'm not about to declare having the pendulum swing to the other extreme would be better, but it'd be interesting to see it explored again.
I really love this advice. Not because doing the opposite is such a great recipe for happiness, but because it's a way to start flexing those muscles that eventually allow you to decide for yourself and do what you want.
I’m not an expert on the topic, I don’t understand the question.

What valid reasons are there for emissions in a world with nuclear reactors and electric vehicles?
Some good points, and it's nice seeing the thought that went into this.

However...

> You’ll never get fired for picking it, but it’s going to be expensive, bloated, difficult to get right, and it’s going to be joyless implementing it every step of the way

Doesn't jive with my experience (at small and large companies).
Printer marks only apply to commercial laser printers, and only some brands. You are probably safe when printing at home.

There are still plenty of mailboxes. No need to be anywhere near another human.

Leave the phone at home. Walk to the mailbox at night. Drive closer to it but not up to it if need be it.

You aren't going to get much except fingerprints from a document. Wear gloves when handling the document if that is a theat.

Remember your adversary is probably not all powerful and knowing. They are willing to expend some cost to chase you, and you only need to be more expensive to unmask then that amount.

We STILL live in the world where the most common security breach is having no password or a re-used password. Documents are leaky. Metadata kills.
> Pretty much all the backlash against him fizzled out

Because people have stopped using it as much. Look at his comments now, it's just crypto grifters and boomers who bought a blue check.

It's really fascinating to me how quickly the place has degraded in utility and entertainment.
Why doesn't he then do that and pay someone $$ to build it? This is just marketing for whatever this web3 thing is.
Slightly off topic, but I'm curious why some users start a comment with "* * *", then edit it later? Is this just a HN thing?

(Parent comment happened to start as one of these "* * *" comments.)
Fun fact: the 20p and 50p coins are Reuleaux heptagons[0]. This means that they have a constant diameter even though they're not circular, which means that they can be accurately sorted by vending machines.

[0] https://wikiless.org/wiki/Reuleaux_polygon?lang=en
> When did the hatred for anything with a token turn into outright bootlicking? Do we not remember MS of the 90s?

When the "thing" that is going to replace "MS of the 90s" is actually a grift with the intent of propping up another grift; how is it bootlicking to be incredulous?
> is that they feel exhausting to use beyond a 15 min novelty.

Anecdote aside, would this potentially change if it was done for something with utility like data visualization? Unlike a VR headset or the original demo, you don’t need to something radically different to experience something radically different ie holding or wearing an IR light. You just start using it with your existing hardware
"Moreover, running Asahi is perfectly legal because Apple formally allows booting non-macOS operating systems on their Apple Silicon platform."

As if you were actually violating the law by running non-vendorOS on a vendor locked computer. What a ridiculous concept.
This is not about decentralising git itself, which is already decentralised.

This is about a decentralised alternative to GitHub. All of the other parts that they have on top of the git hosting. Issues, PRs, stars, followers, everything. GitHub the social network. The thing that MS paid $$$ to buy.

The reason that people centralise themselves on GitHub. That’s what we need a decentralised alternative for. So that everything everyone is doing on GitHub can be done without involvement and rule from a giant corporation and their commercial interests.
FYI, this website is a nostr client. Nostr is a decentralized messaging protocol where many relays are used to share messages among many clients. There are mobile client apps like Damus, and there are web clients like this website. There are others. Some relays are free, and some relays are paid, which helps filter out spam.

Messages are cryptographically signed, and users are identified by their public key. Users typically follow other users like they would on Twitter, but the client manages everything, so there is no dependency on any relay.

Messages are typically posted to many relays at once and clients typically read from many relays at once. Jack Dorsey's message is being displayed here because it was copied to a relay that this website has access to. The same message is accessible elsewhere.

"Global" means that you download all the public messages that a relay has, instead of just downloading messages posted by people you follow.

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr
Since I have an interest in Catholic apologetics I thought it would be interesting to see what apologetics for global warming look like. Without feigning any hypothesis myself, it’s clear that climate apologetics is in an immature state. A lot of the answers come off as little more than “we’re the experts, trust us.” I suppose that’s due to the hypothesis’s defenders primary and virtually exclusive strategy being discrediting any dissenters rather than building strong arguments. Put in Aristotelian terms, the discourse on the climate is almost purely rhetorical and void of dialectic. Can you imagine a Catholic apologist attempting to defend the faith with “we’re the theology experts, trust us?”
Especially non shitty as arbitrarily determined by Dorsey.
He famously sketched a lottery ticket on a napkin at the right time — Didn't take a lot of vision for that.
I’m not hating, there is of course progress being made. It’s a tough problem, but I would not call it “come a long way”.

https://twitter.com/irapolis/status/1631926001700835328?s=20

And https://sfstandard.com/community/stalled-waymo-creates-traff...
Notable inclusion: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gg.project99.t...

A mobile game with 200 reviews, and micro transactions up to $99.00
Rockets – a novel one-for-all toolbox of lightsheet microscopy in drug discovery
GitHub is only as strong as people want it to be. GitLab is their most important competitor with one important advantage: they offer an open source version whereas GitHub is totally closed (maybe their runners are open, I don't know). Which is paradoxical when you think of it.

For smaller projects you have Gitea which is ultralight and works perfectly if you don't need CI/CD.
I have sort of similar feelings now about Elon Musk's companies as I do about new Google products - I'll consider them when it's been fully demonstrated that there's no risk whatsoever to me, since it's pretty clear that they are uncommitted to being a reliable provider and have more of a spray-and-pray strategy for success. Having said that, the bar for inserting things into my brain is significantly higher than trying new gaming platforms and at least Google seems pretty careful about not doing physical harm. Who's interested in beta testing Neuralink's full self-driving?
I’m always skeptical of “I learned after I got mine...”.

The motivation, vision just never seems to be there.
More than 19 hours on X1 Carbon? For real? Mine barely lasts 6 hours and it's 2 years-old. I'm using Linux without a GUI.
The passions will come back in different shapes and forms, it feels like a loss not to have them but they’ll resurface when there isn’t a ton of pressure on your shoulders. Think they’ll come back after you finish your PHd or after you quit it if you decide to do so.

As far as the lost relationship goes, maybe it’s for the better now than later. Try to improve yourself first before you enter another one.

Improving yourself is most work: physically through phisical exercise and exercising your will. These will carry over some energy into improving yourself in other areas which you should not ignore. Then let life take its course. I’ve hit rock bottom at some point in my 30s and survived. Now looking back at my old self and the relationship I was in 15 years ago and can’t stop laughing, with hindsight Im glad things turned out as they did. But at the same time I feel for you because I remember the dark pit I was in. If you can cry go for it, don’t be ashamed to be vulnerable, it really helps.
In its defense, I saw The Matrix at 12 or 13 and adored it because I felt like it was something more serious—-that I could appreciate it was a sign I was maturing, and I was grateful for that

Of course all kids are different. I always loved the Back to The Future movies from a young age. Moon is also harder fare while being less violent than The Matrix.

You might also enjoy watching the modern Doctor Who together? Or Star Trek?

As for more books, maybe introduce him to Hitchhikers Guide?
parent comment emphasizes on the fact that no matter how big the effort was, ultimately our tools will always be imperfect. Therefore we will always have something to do.
Quite fun! But maybe modify it to make zeros less likely? Having a zero makes it very easy. And one time I got all zeros!
Presumably because that crowd is big into decentralization, and just having anyone being able to host a gitlab instance doesn't quite fit their vision of decentralization (decentralization is an ambigious term and almost everyone who uses it means something different)
Arrival - best science fiction movie in recent memory (maybe ever?)

Ex Machina - also great.

Her - different style, but still very good (also with recent LLM developments maybe closer than we think).

The Martian (not as good, but entertaining)

Also I know parents have their preferences, but 12 seems old enough for any of this (if they’re reading Asimov)

I was disappointed in interstellar (but it is a beautiful movie) just dumb in a lot of ways and the “but what above love” subplot really annoyed me.

I’d give gravity an honorable mention. The director’s other movie Children of Men is one of my favorites but doesn’t really qualify as scifi.

For shows, the expanse is probably the best recent thing.

I’m not sure if Super8 qualifies, but I think that’s a generally underrated movie.

Arrival and Children of men are also both in the rare category where the film is better than the source material.

I also forgot about district 9 which I haven’t seen in years, but remember being good.
God, someone _please_ make the web more immersive!
Yeah I think there’s huge economic incentive to providing a raw unfiltered LLM. The market will provide it eventually
Pity that 98% of the desktop computing hasn't noticed it, as per Valve survey average.
Interesting that some on there (snort social) are making very negative comments about the comments here. For example:

> The absolutely retarded state of HackerNews (Then a screenshot of this HN thread, which is here: https://imgproxy.snort.social/48YuDDEW11PoCqbeQ8R25a0kGN3BJe...)

It's interesting how different social platforms foster little pigeon holes for people, that act almost as some kind of militant platoon. Weird.
Went to therapy, family, and psychiatrist. There is no alternative.
Also

* Event Horizon
* Terminator 1 & 2
FYI: Advice given in that guide is horrible for using Signal anonymously; burner phone OpSec is hard; Google Voice requires phone number for signup; landlines are easy to trace.

Core point is that survey requests prior experience using SecureDrop, then uses Signal, email and/or https-form to communicate. Why? Feel like at very least SecureDrop should themselves be explicitly stating why they opted use alternatives instead of their own service.
He isn’t doing anything as far as I can tell.
Buckaroo Bonzai
So basically just Gitea with a different storage?

Seems like some people already started projects to get the money: https://github.com/NostrGit
> And since most development happens between the ears with the odd short burst of typing

Love it
The increases are not just nominal, though. Lower income workers have seen increases in their purchasing power.
I’ve thought I hit rock bottom a few times, turns out that as long as you’re still kicking the bottom can always fall out from under you. Like really hard. Took a global pandemic to get my life back on track due to all the money they were throwing around letting me escape the situation I’d gotten myself in.

No real advice to give other than keep on keeping on.
US, Australia 2.4 tonne drugs bust nets US$700M of cocaine
This really shouldn't be surprising, given it's such a known bullshitter. As a language model it will present answers to almost any question, because it knows how to generate text of the same form as answers to questions. There's no guarantee those answers will be correct though. A key point is that it doesn't encode facts directly, only probabilistic word sequences that may or may not encode facts, and which it may or may not reproduce accurately. It only has a weighted random chance of generating any given word at any given time, in any given answer, so there's a lot of semantic noise layered on to the answers. The grammar and syntax are generally very good because the word sequence weightings strongly select for that, but facts simply don't exist as a feature in it's architecture. They just probabilistically emerge from some word sequences.

Even if a word sequence containing a relevant true fact is highly likely to be generated to a given prompt, there's still a reasonable chance it won't be. You'll get some other similarly weighted but semantically subtly different words swapped in instead that make sense as english but just don't mean what they should mean if we know the right answer.
Huh, I guess there are certain aspects of it that may be too edgy for a 12 year old. I had first seen by the time I was 12 or 13, and it left me with a lot to think about in a good way. Watching Blade Runner with a parent who can talk through the themes could be a wonderful activity for a twelve year old. The Final Cut, of course.
In the sense that administration of these peptides means that we want to increase their concentration over endogenous levels in order to have some effect
For the first time in history you could have 800 VDC automatic windows and you’re just abandoning the opportunity?
"McDonald's!"

https://mobile.twitter.com/TheStreet/status/1612888601196433...
We skipped the analog part of electric cars and went straight to digital. As pretty as the touchscreens are, I want buttons and knobs.
And yet top rich lists are almost entirely made of new names. Few people are rich because they were born into it - fewer than ever before. Which suggests competition is still very much alive, we are further from "feudal" society than ever before.
Please don't do self promotion on HN.
I'm not sure what's exactly problems which liveview tech solves.

In real world applications, it's always "polling", because you're not sure when server finished your request.

Or liveview is for toy application ?

Note: You seems mislead the point here, to build interactive apps, of course you can just use websockets. What's more liveview solve ? I guess liveview = html + websocket.
Needs "2021"
These dark forest conjectures are getting boring. The biggest nail in the coffin for them is the statistical improbability that any intelligence we come in contact with is going to be even remotely near us in technological development. They’re either going to be millennia ahead or behind us and in either case we pose no threat to each other. You could try to make an argument that an advanced civilization would come by and wreck our little planet just for fun but in all likelihood we’re about as interesting to them as a tiny rock poking out of the ocean, more of a navigational hazard than anything.
nobody cared because you had to buy new hardware (the fire phone) to get it, at the expense of the current hardware you already really liked. In this case, you don’t have to get any new hardware.
Tbh, I kind of hated being a TPM - frankly it felt like a fake job and made me miss being technical. Unfortunately, I've just never been able to have the chops for leetcode interviews which is why I took the opp to transition to TPM and gain more leverage.

Fortunately, my friends who are better off are very supportive - in some of these interviews I can't help but think I sound desperate or maybe just annoying.

Thanks for your kind words
As a former colleague who does remember (hi!), it is indeed the case that they had an MMU doing code swapping, along with extra RAM on the cartridge.
https://archive.is/zwzUQ
Ask HN: My email address is being used by someone else for Banking
It has been going on for quite some time ( years ) . At first I thought the email was a scam so I ignored it. And later I realise it is from a Real US Bank. I continue to ignore it thinking the owner surely one day will change it.

I have 2FA and I am pretty sure my email account is safe and not compromised.

Now I am thinking should I do something about this? If yes then what? Or should I continue to ignore it?

It has also been a long time since I opened a bank account. But shouldn't bank verify the email address?
A different approach, perhaps only useful if you are quite old:

- No, you are really not interested in their anti-science arguments. They are (metaphor) obviously a loyal Green Bay Packers fan, and listening to Green Bay fans explain why the Packers are far better than the Chicago Bears gets old just as fast as listening to Chicago fans explain why the Bears are far better than the Packers. (Or substitute some long-running sports rivalry more familiar to your audience.)

- No, you are not a left-wing Climate Science zealot. The climate's obviously getting worse in a lot of places - it didn't hit 120 degrees in Canada back in July'21 because of hot air from some Science Convention - but the the Climate Science fans are obviously a bunch socially clueless jerks, who'd have a tough time convincing any normal human that the sun is kinda bright, and rainwater is kinda wet.
To entice people to click the link, today this place is known as Crater Lake in Oregon, who formation via the eruption of Mount Mazama was so tremendously earth-shattering that records of the event were passed down via oral history for seven thousand years by the Klamath people.
Umm,if you're looking for something a 12 year old would find non tedious, maybe not bladerunner.

Edit: and to be clear i say that as someone who loves bladerunner. But its a very artsy movie, and it would take a really dedicated 12 year old to appreciate. Not to mention if you think the matrix is not age appropriate...
You sound conflicted between shipping the quickest way possible, and your sense of pride in craftsmanship.

You're not alone. It's a big reason why time based releases are popular. It's why eXtreme Programming (XP) became a thing.

Given enough time, every engineer would ship the most exquisite solution; problem is, their competitor shipped something good enough long ago OR that exquisite solution isn't what the customer wanted.

Release early, release often.
I would imagine it's just the GitHub part. It's an alternative to GitHub, not Git. There already are many such alternatives, they're just not using Nostr or ActivityPub, they're not... "decentralised social network", and that is what this bounty is looking for.

Personally, I wouldn't dare try to compete with GitLab, let alone try to take on GitHub, for a measly 10 BTC. But someone more optimistic than me might, and good luck to them.
Do I get 10 btc if I tell him that git-ssb exists? https://github.com/hackergrrl/git-ssb-intro
I wonder how many dead accounts are because people switched instances or because instances closed down?
Copyright needs to include a concept similar to abandonware
> Designers tend to love the Vignelli map, but everyone in the city hated it

Those designers were/are more illustrators than designers [1]. Design is, or at least should be, as much about the function of an object as about it's looks. A design that hinders functionality isn't a good design.

[1] I call the modern breed of such designers "Dribbble-driven"