skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here in North Carolina, the flagship state universities are still only about $10k/year or less for tuition. If the student lives at home with their parents, it really wouldn’t be difficult to pay most of their way through school. College is expensive in general but it doesn’t have to be as bad as a lot of people make it out to be.
Even DARPA dropped the idea of brain surgery and has gone back to non-invasive technology, Neuralink should do the same. (2018)

> "To try and figure out how to make this technology more accessible and not require surgical placement of a metal probe into people's brains, DARPA recently launched the NExt-Generation Nonsurgical Neurotechnology (N3) program. The plan is to make a device with similar capabilities, but it'll look more like an EEG cap that the pilot can take off once a mission is done."

https://futurism.com/the-byte/jets-pilots-mind-control-darpa

Plus enough with the animal torture already, for very dubious reasons at that.
The victim note posted on the leak site of the threat group does not mention the amount of data exfiltrated or the ransom amount demanded.
"real interest rate" is also sometimes an informal way to refer to r* ("r star"), the discussion of which is definitely into metaphysical territory!
I'm also INTP, and I've learned to wait a day on any important decision or problem as my subconscious percolates out better ideas as the day goes on. If I'm stumped on something, I move to a different problem, go to the bathroom, answer email. Whatever. I find that the answer comes to me, and it's often that I need to stop banging away on the same problem the same way and try a different tack, and if I don't break away from what I'm doing I keep trying the same thing the same way.
How do you know that people change their mind so easily? Isn’t it much more likely that the haters and fanboys are different people, commenting on different topics? It’s much easier to hate on a topic like this and much easier to cheer for him when SpaceX had some world-first success.
Disclosure, I tried it in passing about 2 years ago.

> 1. What were the drivers and motivators for you to try Nix? What did you hope to achieve?

(a) Reproducible dev environments. I worked in a company back then had a big mix of different projects: Elixir, PHP, Java, JS, C#. We wanted everyone to just `cd` into a directory and have identical tools, versions of languages / DBs, everything.

(b) Ability to do transactional-like upgrades or downgrades of various pieces of software.

(c) Isolate software that usually pokes deep in the guts of the system or the user's home directory. PHP and JS were the main offenders here, especially with PHP on Linux (and Apache2 integration) you had to modify a good amount of files in various non-home-dir places. And JS is, well, JS, NPM's global `node_modules` directory is a horror to behold as we all know.

The experience was mixed. While we had one guy who was super invested in Nix and made sure to help us all install it and set it up, the day-to-day experience was lacking and people had to find ways to "repair" their setup after a few small upgrades of software. It felt like a chore. Sorry I can't give you more details but for us back then the main goal was to reduce the chores, not invent a different kind of them.

All in all, I'd say points (a) and (b) worked somewhat okay, while (c) we definitely didn't feel it did so we just migrated to Docker for some of our workflows.

> 2. Was the current experimental status of the new nix CLI and flakes the primary cause of the confusion?

Again, my take is outdated, but as a burned out senior dev my criticism boils down to the following:

I don't want to care about "flakes" at all. I want all tools to dispense with the cutesy pun-y terminology already and realize that people use them for work.

Give me one `nix` command with subcommands and good help outputs (and good centralized docs website). Reference: the `borg` backup program, also `git`. Before Nix gets into that state I'll not recommend it anyone.

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I am in no way attacking you or disparaging yours and others' work but to me and my team back then it felt like Nix simply replaced one complexity with another. What drew us in was the promise of less complexity and that did not materialize.

I feel the general user experience is often lost on maintainers because they live and breathe their tool and to them the workflow is second nature. That's why I wrote this reply. Hopefully it brings some perspective.

Keep up the good work.
These are hardly settled legal issues. This is uncharted territory. It will be years before appellate courts nail down these kinds of questions.
Nobody said unpaid.
Let me know if I can help! If you are interested in new developments in this area, I can recommend reading the papers of Stefan Walzer. His work is quite amazing.
SimCity launched a decade ago, and it was so disastrous it killed the series
Past Returns Do Not Predict Future Performance – Not Even for Indexes
See I understand that, with Microsoft and Apple support you would get a response along the lines of:

"I see you are trying to find the Static IP of your Raspberry Pi, a static IP is a .....<long paragraph describing static ips>. You also have a raspberry pi which is....<long paragraph describing raspberry pi's>. Given all of that I think you should really start by resetting your Raspberry Pi and ensure that your Windows license is up to date.
Great! Please send it my way so I don't miss it. Thank you
> You’re responding to things the article isn’t saying. It’s a pretty plain and honest article. The facts are genuine and the conclusions have nothing to do with what you wrote here.

I see him as trying to get out ahead of conclusions the author had too much professional integrity to draw but that the internet peanut gallery will draw after speed reading (if that) TFA in search of numbers and then irresponsibly mix and matching those numbers as if such behavior will yield insights.
>The regulator said the company needed to do animal testing to show the battery was very unlikely to malfunction, which could damage brain tissue.

>Another reportedly serious concern from the FDA was that the implant's tiny wires—which are thinner than individual human hairs—could migrate into the brain, potentially causing inflammation, rupturing blood vessels, and impairing brain function. The FDA was also concerned about the device overheating and questioned whether it could be removed from people's brains without causing damage.

Brutal. I can't even imagine which is worse - a closed source neuralink or an open source one lmao.
I love the game!
FSD is not available to the general public. It’s beta, can be used by customers who select to do so.
This. If the idea of doing sales or marketing at a small startup turns you off, don't become an indie hacker because that is your main job - to promote what you've made.
"Streams"... such an overloaded term in tech. A low level abstract concept prefixed to a term describing a comparatively complex domains.
https://archive.ph/2U0GM
How about the ads, though? Did you see as many as usual?
That’s the point. Running trials in a controlled environment is responsible and exactly how something as dangerous as self driving cars should be tried.
Uber had the decency (or foresight, shame, acceptance of reality) to give up on autonomous driving not too long after that.
That's not surprising. Intel's best GPU is nowhere near as capable as the minimum GPU Microsoft is supporting here. The NVidia 20xx series is still pretty beefy.
2/ encrypt your ids before rendering them and decrypt them for queries. No need to store a huge string when int64 does the exact same.

Also, nothing wrong with incremental ids. Twitter and fb are doing just fine.
Not actually sure which came first, this site or the term, but indiehackers.com [0] is one of the main internet communities built around this.

[0] https://www.indiehackers.com/
There's nothing wrong with quinoa. Makes excellent insulation or packaging material. Some crazy bastards will even try and eat it.
Eventually they can downsize, but corporate leases are usually signed for very long terms because of all the investment in “building out” the space to meet a company’s customized needs. You can’t just snap your fingers and walk away from these lease agreements.
How long do you think it takes to build a skyscraper? Cuz it ain't short. Just he zoning, funding, and pre-project tasks can take years.
Look, Microsoft Tay is _right there_.
Do you want me to say my dishes are dirty since they banned phosphate? It's not the case.

Honestly the fact phosphates are banned even in the US shows the impact they have, given the crap this country doesn't ban, including in food products.

Maybe if CRTs had had a major impact on local water quality they would have been banned too (and I sure hope so)
The author seems to be making an assumption that the average person cares as little about preventing centralization of power and having any semblance of online privacy as they do about the speed of their dishwasher and that the projects that focus on improving these things fail to gain a large user base because users don't care.

That's simply not the case. Talk to most people and they'd prefer that their entire digital lives weren't dominated by a few megacorps with access to all your private data. It's true that a lot of people have no idea how to begin achieving that, but that's not the same as not caring.

The problem is that when you develop a new system, privacy and decentralization generally aren't things that can be easily added in as later optimizations. If you care about those things then you need to build them into the design from day one, and they are hard problems to solve. Something as simply as resetting a forgotten password can turn into quite the challenge when there is no centralized authority. Getting to the point where your basic decentralized and secure platform works well enough that you can build stable, user friendly apps with all the expected niceties takes a lot of time and thinking by highly skilled developers and many projects never fully get there. This doesn't mean that it isn't worthwhile to attempt to develop such technologies.

There is also a weird fallacy going on here around building stuff based on a shallow perception of what consumers* supposedly care about. Looking at the current social media landscape and thinking "this exists because it's what people really want" betrays a particularly narrow way of thinking about the economics and power dynamics of the modern internet. This type of willfully naive thought process would have us optimize toward a highly profitable software skinnner box. The wetware equivalent would be to suggest that we design the most profitable and addictive drugs. After all, consumers are consuming them so that must be what they want, right? Why are you building something that isn't optimizing for maximum consumption? You must be blinded by your own weird ideology or blinded by interesting but irrelevant technical challenges.

Then there's the weird comment about exciting technical challenges not necessarily all being businesses. The author seems to have an underlying assumption that if it's not a viable business then it shouldn't be worked on.

*Thinking about participants in a two-way global communication system as simply "consumers" seems in-line with the rest of the author's thought processes
Same applies to drugs? No?

Isn’t the point of the FDA to limit the consumption of potentially harmful substances despite the willingness of someone to consume it?
but how many people are willing to participate based on false information or reputation due to the perpetual hype/marketing/lies he has thrown out with regards to something. The general public thinks he has solved self driving, after all it's coming next year (for the tenth consecutive year), meanwhile an industry report recently ranked Tesla dead last in likelihood to deliver when compared to nearly 20 other companies.
To elaborate on 1: the rise in the reliance on third party payers has been mostly due to the steady expansion of Medicare/Medicaid, and the piling on of laws that encourage reliance on health insurance over out-of-pocket healthcare spending, like "Patient Bill of Rights" laws that probibit all but the most comprehensive health insurance plans, and rule out catastophic-only plans that were at one time more common:

https://archive.is/GHjIl
How is laziness differentiated from ADHD?

Too be clear, I’m not accusing you of being lazy, but your description seems to apply to me and I consider myself lazy.
You're right - I would have been better served by saying skeptical. Otherwise I stand by my argument.
It's true there's a disconnection between the account domain and the hosting domain, I already use this, but the Activity Pub object IDs are on the _hosting domain_, and if you want to move that you do need the IDs to continue to resolve in order to not (partially) defederate.

As far as I am aware there's no other good way to move that content between software on the same domain. Mastodon will import/export, but that data still assumes it'll be backed by Mastodon code with the Mastodon database schema, which is not correct if you're migrating to or from Mastodon.

> but you can scrape as for federation to work your endpoints need to be accessible to all but instances that are defederated

...with Activity Pub. Mostly.

This is not true for all linked data, and my post was mostly looking at the general case of linked data rather than sticking to Mastodon or Activity Pub in particular. Activity Pub can be authenticated in some cases, although I think that may be something Mastodon has implemented on top. Not sure.
The same happened to me.

Actually, I begin to wonder if maybe Google might be switching to some "high-quality" mode when it detects that you are a "technical" user?

Seems like a bit of competition was all Google needed to be good again.
There are plenty of "neurotypical" people who apparently can't separate fact from fiction.
The EU law doesn’t say you must have banners. If your site doesn’t collect information on users, it doesn’t need a banner.

Also the banner, if there is one, must have a 1-Click "reject all" button.

Most sites fail to fully comply, because they want to force (annoy) users into clicking on "leave me alone I don’t care" button to keep selling user data. They make you go to some overly bloated list of things to disable, scroll all the way down to finally "confirm my choices". It’s voluntarily painful and with misleading wording.

These sites want you to believe that all this clunkyness is required by the EU law. It’s not. It’s the good old mislead-into-approval strategy, using dark patterns and blame-the-EU rethoric.
I wish I was a slower thinker. It might keep me out of the tiring loop of hopping on news threads and posting comments on articles and waiting to see how they're received.
At the same time he also demanded that everyone return to the physical office, in a company that prior to acquisition had committed to permanent WFH for anyone who wanted.
Are you quadriplegic/paraplegic? I'm sure that will influence you decision
The key though is this operation only happens when it’s part of a requested credit evaluation for the purposes of expanding credit. The act of requesting new credit diminishes your credit worthiness. The intent is to throttle issuance of credit by providing for a race condition - if I go out and apply for 100 credit cards at the same time, they each get a credit report without the others line of credit established because they’re all in the pending state. But each request to evaluate the worthiness of credit dampens the quality of credit. At a certain point all credit requests thereafter fail.

On the flip side it also causes a hole that’s increasingly hard to dig out of because if you have bad credit or borderline credit and apply for a card to see if you’re allowed back in at the capitalist buffet, you enter into a feedback loop of diminishing credit worthiness.

It isn’t true however that any form of read changes credit worthiness. There are many routine reads that have no impact. It’s specifically when you’ve directly requested an evaluation for expanded credit. It can’t happen passively, as sometimes banks refresh your credit history and even offer more credit automatically. It also can’t happen for other purposes than expansion of credit.
It would have to be extremely misty to interfere with bees on the level they operate at. They fly so close to the ground their landmarks are probably less than a meter apart. It almost never gets misty enough to not be able to see that far. In that case I would bet bees just stay home at the hive.
+1 for PikaPods - very good value, fast performance and the developer has a track record of solid service offerings such as https://www.borgbase.com/
> It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt.” In the case of thinking in the moment, if I don’t have something cogent to add, I say as little as possible.

Many people know this yet still fail to do it.

I am much the same although I was not always. I used to jump in first with a quick and usually basic comment.

Now I listen and think of multiple responses before I open my mouth.

Is it maturity? Wisdom I have picked up over the past two decades? Perhaps my brain is just a slower with age?

I don’t know but I certainly feel less pressure to answer first these days. If someone comes to me first for comment I will almost always answer with “I will need to think about that a bit more and get back to you”.

I’ve had a few people give me unsolicited feedback that I don’t “engage” enough (what they mean here is fast enough). To which I just say it is far easier to start correctly a bit later than start sooner and make mistakes.

Undoing mistakes, in my experience, takes far more time than starting a little later. This is especially true in design, development and management.

Sometimes undoing mistakes is not possible without throwing all previous work out and starting over. That to me is far more frustrating and wasteful than taking a little time before you start to give yourself the best possible platform from which to begin.
Amusingly, Microsoft is neither a FAANG nor GAFA member.
Reverse Engineering: When Can Users Lawfully Decompile Software?
Such devices are a dead end, imo. I think the next generation of BMI will likely be something you can put on your head like old time headphones with some being even less invasive than that maybe as mere 'pebbles' you just put on your temples or where ever else is potentially optimal for interacting with the human brain.
I am like this.

In elementary school, there was a math game we would play. A student would stand up and move next to the desk of the next student in the row. The teacher would ask a math question - "What's 4 times 4?" - and the student who answered correctly first would move on, and the other one would sit in the desk. I would _always_ lose, because while I was always right, it would take me several seconds longer than the other student.

I'm an ENFP.
I ran infra to power a vps hosting solution where I was the solo admin for 6 years. A hard drive crash took out a critical database and that spelled the end of my cash cow. I now keep websites on cloud servers and autopay, however most terms of service gives the provider the right to discontinue service after your death. Best to keep a will and a reputable steward to maintain your systems posthumously
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Seems you would need to first override ocaml and then override the ocaml used in mkOcamlPackages. [1]

let o = ocaml.override { flambdaSupport = true; }; in
let oP = ocaml-ng.mkOcamlPackages o (self: super: {}); in
oP.apron

[1] https://discourse.nixos.org/t/install-ocaml-flambda-compiler...
I mean, I've thought he was a weird idiot since before it was cool, but I think the Twitter debacle really has made it a lot clearer to people (and has made me revise my previous assessment; I hadn't previously realised he was _this_ bad).
I know most HNers probably haaaate this idea. The upside is that lower repossession costs lower the risk and make goods available to lower wage income workers.
> How is that Google's fault

Because the top results are complete crap, and obvious SEO spams in most cases. If Google just allowed me to blacklist some sites from my search results I could actually get good results.

Also maybe they shouldn't not rewrite my queries for me, I don't need them to helpfully remove 3 words out of 5 from my search.
I don't want "content", some generic attention grabbing placeholder around which they spam ads. I don't want some professionally made lowest common denominator product designed to appeal to the widest possible audience. I want creations with heart and soul. I want to read the opinions and writings of real human beings, not corporate PR articles with cleverly disguised pitches at the end.

People who don't have enough intrinsic motivation to create regardless of financial reward probably aren't producing anything of value. That basically excludes every for profit website out there that would be "killed" by less monetization. Killing them off is a good thing.
No, what you are entitled in the EU is to have the decision reviewed by a human, I fail to see how an AI changes that.
It’s simple. To write efficient AND maintainable code in java you have to be both very experienced developer in general and proficient in java.

Which most developers are not. So they end up in a pile of piles of crap.

While typescript learning curve is negligible and js single threaded nature helps avoiding overengineering mentality.

So unless you’re shitty js coder, there’s just less reasons and ways to shoot yourself in the foot.
I've been using openmediavault. I'm thinking of switching to fedora.
Looking at all the cell phones catching fire and seeing how short the lifespan those lithium batteries have, I don't think it is a good idea to put them in people's skulls.
I get really strong "Fringe" vibes from all of this
There is an opportunity cost. Time spent washing dishes means time not doing something more productive.
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Beekeepers have known this for a long time. Treeline, fencelines, streams, etc are great places for swarm traps. Beelining also makes this pattern somewhat apparent.
Your prediction here incorporates the paradigm shift I mentioned above. The AI software upon which your prediction relies does not yet exist. There is a huge gap between the current functionality and AI that can produce non-trivial end-to-end programs.

It’s tempting to fall into the trap of “five years away” because things like copilot are so significantly different from what we had before.

As far as I’m concerned, Occam’s Razor tends to suggest much bigger changes in how robotics affects labor. We simply have to build new robots. There’s no paradigm shift necessary to design a new robot; only labor on the part of the engineers. It’s also relevant here that most folks aren’t too keen to be employed as automation engineers. It’s not exactly glamorous to work explicitly towards the purpose of removing others’ jobs.

I personally feel that scientific advances in AI will slow down, not speed up. There’s plenty of research to do in computer science, obviously, but scientific breakthroughs slow down over time.
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> That’s a good point, reading Carl Jung is in my todo list. I generated an personality embedding from data and only mapped it to MBTI and the Big 5 out of personal curiosity rather than using it for work. The main surprise I got from that work was just how genetic personalities are.

Could you possibly expand on the details of "generated an personality embedding from data"?