skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just spent a weekend there: I heard more English spoken in public than German, and even found myself having to backtrack and switch to English (my first language) after instinctively starting conversations in German (my second language). It didn't quite feel like I was still in Germany; only the street signs and some business names brought me back.

A few of the people I met at the tech events I visited have lived in Germany long enough to get citizenship, but haven't applied because they aren't sure they could pass the language exams, and would have to take a lot of effort to get enough practice speaking - they work in English all day, and speak English to all of their friends.

Berlin is a different world from even the larger cities in southern Germany, like Munich or Nuremberg - reachable by high speed train in 3-5 hours.

For Americans, think NYC (Berlin) vs. Dallas (Munich).
I've found life in a rural or suburban area 15-45 minutes outside a city with a ~1-2 million metro population to be the sweet spot.

Life is slower, there is more of an emphasis on community, the cost of living is lower, the schools are solid, there is far less crime and homelessness, and you can commute to the urban amenities as needed.

Does it have EVERYTHING an large urban area provides, obviously not, but life goes on just fine without those things. What's more important to me? A boxing gym in walking distance or being able to pay my house off in less than ten years?
Good luck with that one Apple. I think the iPad Pro is already expensive enough. It's similarly priced as a notebook, think I paid around £2000 for the 12.9"/1TB edition.

I am definitely not considering paying £3.600 for a iPad Pro with OLED screen. Maybe if they going to make it more like macOS but I don't see that happening anytime soon.

Already found it difficult to pay the same amount for the iPad compared to my Mac mini M2 Pro and MacBook Pro.
>That’s very unique

That's not even close to unique. Software engineers have been doing that since they existed.

>but the founder role is kinda unique in that it’s just “do everything and if you’re successful you should be constantly replacing your job with an employee”.

That's maybe the ideal of a founder, it's definitely part of the mythology, but it wasn't true for the majority of the many founders I worked with back when I was consulting for early stage startups. Based on my experience with a large sample size, the job of a founder is to convince VCs to give them money.

>How do they apply to software engineers exactly?

It's one of the definitions of the singularity. When AI can write itself, it will improve so rapidly that humans won't be able to keep up.
I discussed this on: https://community.openai.com/t/playground-and-general-help/3...

I got confused by hallucination in German (details see link above).

Summary: I got told in German that ChatGPT doesn't know the date, but then I asked it in English about incremental backup and it using today as an example somehow triggered my flight instinct.
Competing with Robots Is Making Work Worse
> But I've always been skeptical that the human body would be completely unaffected by higher doses of non-ionizing radiation beyond baseline, for extended periods of time.

Well, what would you consider to be baseline?

The overwhelming majority of the non-ionizing radiation that we experience comes in the form of visible and near-visible light. If you sit near a window all day, your baseline is going to be much higher than someone who sits in a gloomy, dark office. No amount of EMF fog from nearby electronics is going to come close to making up that difference.

According to NASA, the amount of energy reaching earth’s outer atmosphere from the sun is about 1360 W/m^2 for the portion of atmosphere directly facing the sun.[1] Most of that is non-ionizing, and some of it is filtered out, but that’s still a lot.

Another great example is a smartphone. If you use your phone for a few hours each day, the overwhelming majority of the non-ionizing radiation emitted comes from the screen, not the radio.

While you could theoretically exceed that dosage per square meter by, say, sticking your hand in a microwave oven, doing so would be fairly uncomfortable.

If we were to find that non-ionizing radiation causes problems at low doses (below where we perceive it as heat), it would have to be specific wavelengths, not just non-ionizing radiation in general.

[1]: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/EnergyBalance/pag...
Do you dislike the modern society that's found in an urban city, or do you dislike modern society in general?

It sounds like you simply don't want to be in an urban area, and that's ok. If you're remote and you don't own a house, once your lease is up try moving to a smaller town, say one with a college in it. A place like Ann Arbor, Asheville, etc. If that's still too "modern society", then maybe look at renting a place that's even more rural. Once you find a place you like, then look at buying a place there or somewhere else that's very similar.
Someone needs to connect you to Stripe Press (maybe folks in HN can do it?)
Some of us recognize this as being more than a little inspired by https://www.motherfuckingwebsite.com which was hilarious and poignant when it first appeared over ten years ago.
Side note, the flour I use is organic we get from Costco and is grown in Quebec.

The inflationary pressure did not effect the price of organics from our side.

Flour, chicken and pork organics have stayed basically the same price over the last few years.

The premium on organics appears to be closing due to the lower fuel/transport costs not really changing much for them and already having a premium built in.

It's an example of shorter supply chain migration I did not expect.
Yep, was working as a PM in London then lockdown hit and I decided it was a good time to retrain as an engineer and luckily my wife wanted to move out too.

I now live in West Sussex (1 1/2 hours from London), surrounded by fields, I walk my dog in nature every morning, I see a kingfisher once or twice a week, I chop wood for exercise, go on hikes with my wife and sometimes oil paint outside.

I work completely remotely as a dev, work 4 days a week and we're about to have a baby. I've also heavily cut down on Twitter, I rarely have any meetings, my life is as simple as I want it to be and I couldd't be happier.
I think this is not accurate. I put a few of those into Google Maps and none of the addresses I checked seem to be for a Blockbuster.
How many times do I have to come on here to point out this nonsense?

People read “reserve requirements have gone to zero” (which is true) and assume it is so that banks can keep lower reserves. In fact, reserve requirements became meaningless because banks had (and continue to have) so much more in reserves than they were ever required to have under the prior system.

The point wasn’t that reserve requirements were “lowered”; they were removed - because the Fed moved to a different mechanism to set short-term interest rates.
If banks choose to keep lots of reserves (because you’re paying interest on them), it’s hard to change the willingness of banks to lend by changing the reserve requirement, right?

In economic terms, the supply of reserves is meeting the demand curve for reserves in an inelastic region.

So the Fed decided to announce a new approach; the so-called “ample reserves regime” where short term interest rate control would be achieved by administered rates rather than by the reserve requirements of the “limited reserves regime” that went before.

Honestly, "but reserve requirements went to zero!" has become a dog-whistle of some kind. There are many things to pay attention to in the behavior of the Fed, but this isn't one of them.
You're neo-nazi!
And this submission is FLAGGED — how specifically is it a violation on HN’s guidelines?

This is toxic - and claim that some how Dang is able to moderate the toxicity is telling — as is the claim the HN is a community based on spirit of curiosity and open reasoning.

* Please feel free to click the timestamp for the submission then click “vouch” if you feel this submission should NOT be flagged; if it’s unclear how to do so, happy to try to make how more clear.
Feedback with ChatGPT by AI Characters
Previously lived in a city with 1.7 million people in the greater metro area. Now, live in an area with 100,000 people and a few good universities. Life is MUCH better. Easy commute, lots of woods to hike and bike in right from our home. Traffic is a cake walk.
The only way this might make sense is to setup a "burner" bank account with a low balance and little financial history to be monetized. In which case, there isn't much to protect and you're unlikely to be approved.
I moved to a small village town in Latin America to remote work my software programming job, even though my work warned me this arrangement was temporary. I still did it. It's been three years, now they want everyone back to the office. so now i have to go back, but it was the best three years of my life:

1. I got fresh cow's milk every day
2. I lived in a farm house next to a lake with a beautiful community of Mayans and ex pats
3. I woke up every day at 6 am to work out
4. I finished my work earlier because i was so happy
5. I worked on complex tasks, and pair programmed, with no issues

Now tell me why it makes sense to make everyone come back.
> The problem is that doing that will very quickly tell you that modern society fucking sucks. Almost nothing works, everyone hates each other, things that are important get ignored because of greed, and most importantly, there's almost nothing you can do about it.

I come from a small town in India. I can't speak for everyone, but I don't think these things are any better in rural parts of the world. In fact, they could be worse. Yes, life is simpler and the community aspect is good. But what you mention are fundamentally human problems. Greed will show up on the door as soon as ancestral property gets mentioned. It doesn't take long for a small issue to turn into a verbal clash. The things that people believe in could be borderline disturbing.

On the plus side, I like the general slowness of everyday life. I like how things like productivity and using time well are alien there. I don't deny pursuing a simpler life might work for you, but I don't think it's the magic pill. Smartphones and Internet have created unique problems, but they still stem from human nature.

Additionally, I don't see why pursuing a simpler life isn't possible, to a good extent, without uprooting your life. Stop watching the news. Go out in the park, and "waste" 1-2 precious hours just admiring the birds and trees. Meditate. Rather than trying to fix the environment, prfioritize how to view your life better. I highly recommend reading books for this.
>> Slightly tangential question: what value have people derived from LinkedIn in their careers?

I found myself in need of a job, and after some time failing via online applications I used LinkedIn. I just went through my connections, thought about who actually knows my capabilities the bast and sent them messages telling my situation. Top 12 I think was how many I sent. Got a few responses and one led to an interesting job. Also, I ended up talking to one guy who was looking for a change and I put him in touch with someone we both worked with before, and he found a new place!

But it's not much other than a fancy contact list where people update their own information.
Is that really a parser for "action, thing, amount"? It appears it's trying to ride the AI hype
>the more modern society depresses me

I would pursue addressing feelings of depression directly before attempting to radically change your life in the hope of fixing things indirectly.
> One thing I always do is ask it for evidence. And then I look the references up. Sometimes the references don’t say exactly what it said they will.

Can you give an example? I'm surprised there's room in there for actual resolvable URLs or paper references.
why would they care? just pay them by task/result, not by hour and you don't need to care how much and when they work if they fulfill deadlines
Ask HN: Is it normal now to have the interviews spread over weeks?
I have been interviewing with multiple companies during the last month, and one major difference I noticed compared to my last job search is that most companies now have multiple interviews spread over weeks, last time I did a job search it was usually a 1 hour screening interview/test followed up by half a day of interviews, but now 1h interview, then submit availability, then another 1h and so on, and you end up spending 4 weeks doing what you used to do in a day.

I don't understand how this is better than having the interviews in a single day, is it because of the volume of applicants this time around? or was it always like this but I got lucky before?
Yeah that's my point: that would be like saying cURL supports XMPP because there are HTTP/web socket bridges, but that's not the point.

I guess cURL could connect, with, send a message and leave, or list rooms, but that's already a hack on the original use case of IRC. And it's only a small fraction of what IRC is used for, namely people interacting with each other. "Supporting IRC" would mean at least that.
For some reason, I was looking at the degrees offered by my undergrad. I see a significant number of the STEM degrees now have variant that is essentially X with computers.
Scratched EV battery? Your insurer may have to junk the whole car
Same way people pay for cable tv even if it has ads, because it gives them enough benefits to justify it.
Go with the lowest common denominator (read: quality)? No thank you.
Of course there are loads of differences between how humans learn and how AI models learn, from substrate to architecture. I don't see why any of those differences should make a difference to the morality or legality of learning from copyrighted material.
Many people in my country moved to rural areas and dedicated themselves to either simple lifes or creative endeavours.

When the pandemic started and it was possible to work from home, even more people moved out.

There are some folks who lived in great cities such as London or Berlin which settled in my country because they thought it's amongst the rare places where authentic country life can be experienced.
I find there are more than two kinds of people. Among them some are skeptical and some are not. The latter are good at exploring, even if blind alleys while the former keep them in check. We’re lucky we have some variety otherwise we’d risk go full force into dead ends or we’d ignore fruitful possibilities.
So set up your own instance. With blackjack. And hookers.
Be careful here. The "modern left" is not the ones in the US actually pushing laws to (by legalese and administrative decree) effectively censor opinion and material under the guise of being "too woke".

These days, any social media that allows "silos" eventually settles into such, and they are gate-kept. The strong silo-ing is also IMHO a byproduct of the modern social web of binary upvote / downvotes that fuel algorithmic feeds, a feature not present in the early days of the web, and (my theory) one that tends to reward the "strongest" opinions, which also tend to be the most extreme. "Left" or "right" isn't the problem I see regarding social media, instead it's the overall design. I don't know if Mastodon has avoided this (IMHO) cardinal sin or not.
It's not really a problem if none cares who you are.
Another thing which makes bioavailability difficult is competition inhibition by other supplements, e.g. zinc and copper. There are also genetic changes between individuals that make it hard to track; e.g. impaired folate metabolism due to MTHFR C677T gene. And then there’s the “does any of that really matter with respect to any metrics I care about” question, because presumably people are supplementing with some goal in mind beyond changing levels of minerals in their blood.
Yeah still release it for sure. I don’t line python and that’s enough for me to check out a different language.
How? One's political views are largely an expression of innate personality traits. And, as we have seen, the basket of deplorable includes anyone who is not explicitly left wing.
Our brain excels at pattern matching. We attribute a lot of human abilities to “intelligence”, but the line between that and pattern-matching (or “autocomplete” ad it’s being referred as here) is being challenged by these latest LLMs.

If it can look at a picture, explain what’s in it, and hypothesize about physics inside the picture’s environment, is it “just pattern matching”?
Tbf, they the engineers I’m referencing right design The rockets but rather the test stands. They were used to things like manually actuated valves, analog data collection etc. In their world, they could have came up in industry with little to no software. Even after adoption, they thought software testing was a waste of time because “it’s just software, it doesn’t break.” Obviously, they were thinking as a mechanical engineer where “breaking” is synonymous with “wearing out” or “physically breaking”.
Note that at some point, some people-identifying-as-artists tried to attack Creative Commons. They were making very similar arguments to the arguments we hear against AI today.

Since Creative Commons is commonly used by charities, museums and volunteer organizations, they had some trouble maintaining the moral high ground. The attacks eventually fizzled out. (Even just finding back their texts attacking CC turns out to be pretty tricky)

But I still remember something of those attempts.

Just because some people are saying bad things about you, doesn't mean that those things are necessarily true.
And Janet Yellen, before Congress, will NOT commit to backing all account holders to 100% of their account balance unlike the FDIC did with SVB. Community banks are seeing a massive outflow of large accounts to banks which are considered to be "preferred" and will have all accounts fully protected which could cause a cascade of failures of community banks as their assets under management start to disappear.
What? Have you tried lowering your tolerance for sugar?

Try it, because it'll make everything taste wonderful. All other flavors come out when you have a lower sugar tolerance.
https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1637087219591659520

I don't know if that helps, I thought it was an interesting take.

I believe we still have humanity, even if everyones job was replaced, I don't think we're going to just let each other starve, even if Microsoft have their own auto-coders, I think we'd all do our best to keep some type of economy going for as long as possible.

I don't think everyone in the world wants to be living in the gutter, nor do I think the majority of the people in the world want to be filthy rich either.

We'll likely have a lot of people working on open source initiatives to help democratize access to important technologies etc.

Who knows what the future will bring. Maybe a massive solar flare while wipe it all away next week anyway...no one knows.
Yes, moved to semi rural GA (Carroll County), work for a state government, fiber to the door. I get to work on things important to actual people...feels like 1998-1999. I get time to solution properly and when I leave work I actually leave and work on fence or our garden. We have cows, horses, and chickens...a small 25 acres farm. I get to spend time with my kids, work on their cars, work on my own house...it just feels more real.

...a guy I knew growing up gave me this advice "Find somewhere you want to live and figure out how to make a living there." Boring, simple, evident but it took 20 years to sink in.
No, that must be applied for separately.
it's a combination of reasons outlined in this thread.

primarily, it is your expectation that advanced low-level knowledge of these topics is "fundamental" to being a modern programmer. today, you can get along just fine without knowing them.

additionally, most cs graduates are simply taking the class as their major, and it is not their great underlying passion or hobby. where you or i spend our spare time reading about how chess.com balances load or the changelog of the new postgres point release, most students will simply be doing something else.

i took a few introductory cs classes at my university. we were taught to use IDEs and were only given a cursory explanation of the shell. i would consider proficient use of a shell to be foundational knowledge, but in an era where all your files exist within a gui and the only shell you ever need to touch pops up at the bottom of vscode, it can be largely avoided.

most students don't feel the need to go beyond the bare minimum to graduate, so they don't.
> Database Systems (relational algebra, SQL)

Comp sci students don't typically deal with a lot of real data, and the requirements around data that shape how it's structured in the real world. They definitely do not deal much with scaling dbs, or concurrent access, or anything you might find in the typical distributed systems that make up IRL.

> Concurrent Programming

Same for the same reasons above. They usually just have to do some simple things with simple systems on a local level.

> Network Programming

Same again.
that happened in the last Mac OS9 days too.. lawyers as a small company who took customer money and did not pay developers, but continued to solicit.
I would like to, but my wife usually can't work from home, she would have to find some work that can be done from home. Schools are best in the big city.
I actually feel more anonymous and self sufficient in a city. Maybe even a touch reclusive. And if you think moving to a small rural community will solve your cynicism about society, you're in for a shock. Things get super petty in small towns, and everyone knows who you are and where you live, and what church you go to (or if you don't go to church)

Stop watching so much news, dude. Everything has always been terrible. The reality is, you have more access to more information than ever before in human history, and it's all pushed by companies trying to suck you in with more engagement, largely by inducing excessive emotional reaction to things outside of your control (and in many ways, things that have no actual bearing on your life)

Maybe I'm spoiled for parks in Philadelphia, but it shouldn't be that hard to get to nature from any city. I also go on urban hikes to clear my head.

The problems you describe won't be solved by a move to a small village. You need to ween yourself off the news you read. I'm not suggesting becoming a luddite, but stop gorging.
I live in the middle of nowhere, UK.

We have the same problems here with less job opportunities and fewer online services. Maintenance of things is underfunded so I'm not sure the everything sucks would be solved tbh

Might just be my area but people seem a lot more "us vs them" than I've seen from city folk, probably through lack of exposure, people here still casually use all the slurs that the internet got rid of. Might be a bit of a culture shock if you're not used to it.

Everyone still hates each other, but for different reasons. Best believe any gossip spreads like wildfire too.

Having said that there are good things too! The walks in greenery here are endless. I could set off now and still be on the same trail tomorrow, fields and woods and stuff to explore all the way on both sides.
We’re already there. The US alone makes more than enough food to feed billions of people year round. That humans aren’t ensuring basic needs for all humans is a choice-the resources exist but people aren’t able to access them. (This isn’t saying everyone who wants to eat steak is going to be able to eat steak. It’s assuming basic caloric needs.)

Then there’s the inefficient allocations of resources that could boost production. The building water infrastructure where needed, etc. It’s all doable but not done.
no paywall: https://archive.ph/ouCNW
The Making of Mario’s Boots