skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> On top of that the only thing most of us can say about almost everything under your rules would answered with 'I am not fully informed', shit, humanity isn't fully informed on anything.

Yes. Exactly.

I'm calling for more modesty, and less political vitriol driven by a fictional, exaggerated sense of certainty.

(Also, reinforcing that ideas cannot hurt you, which is an odd mental pathology that has become distressingly common as of late.)
Interestingly enough, this was the original intent of the NFA - banning pistols. Eventually we ended up carving out an exception for allowing pistols but kept the restrictions on short barrel rifles, which were included only so people wouldn't turn rifles into pistols after they were banned. The law is a funny thing sometimes.

Generally, I agree on pistols. The whole point of the second amendment is that people should be free to defend themselves from tyrannical governments and other threats. Handguns are much less useful in that capacity than long guns. Handguns are excellent if you need to conceal a weapon but I'm not sure there is a constitutional case for that.

My concern about banning pistols is that it won't stop there, though - see current Canadian gun legislation.
Also if you had some catastrophe where you're no longer able to build overnight or if you have to replace 100% of your infrastructure, you're still able to operate because you have a single compiled binary to ship.

It eliminates whole classes of business risk. The more hosts in your fleet the more risk eliminated as well.
There is an interesting take that Russian part of the Yandex group opensources as much as possible, in order for the overseas companies of the group to leverage technologies without legal or financial ties with Russia.

For me this seems very plausible, as for the last year they first did everything to distance from anything related to politics (e. g. they sold their news and their blogging platform to the basically state-owned VK), and then to separate Russian and overseas businesses as much as possible.
The problem I ran into when I lived in Chicago was there were quite a few renter protections built into the city statutes. So landlords were quite weary of renting to someone like me with bad credit and rental history, as eviction could be burdensome. AirBnB allowed long term residents like me to actually get a place to stay by side-stepping renter protections and allowing a landlord to take a chance on a bad apple. Without AirBnB I would have been homeless.
Be did get too greedy with the asking price, you're right.

But that was not the only thing.

Be had no particularly special story about dev tools; NeXT had the world's best, plus a charismatic, visionary CEO.

Be should have gone and done a deal with Acorn, who could have done them a silent-running, passively-cooled SMP multi-ARM workstation in 1998 for less than the cost of a mid-range Mac.

Acorn had cheap SMP hardware ready to go. Be had the state-of-the-art SMP workstation OS before Linux 2.2 made it able to scale usefully.
I won't be the one to do PostgreSQL for Developers, but I think _someone_ should!

I think a good teacher could make a lot of money doing it if they wanted.

This course talks briefly about ORMs, but does not go into usage of any particular one. All raw sql!
Not just at MSFT, seems that the entire industry is headed in that one direction. It seems now you have 1-2 true innovators in the industry and then a littany of copycats.

Short form video is probably the shining example of this. TikTok was first to make the innovation (technically Vine), and then everyone copied them verbatim from there (Reels, YT Shorts, Whatver the hell FB is doing, Twitter). Sometimes this copying has a positive effect like when Twitter copied Clubhouse with Spaces, but often times it just ends up being half assed versions of the thing that was initially popular/innovative.
A 50% drop would wipe out millions of households, ruin the economy for decades, and take housing prices back to ~2015 when they were already unaffordable to most.

Letting the housing shortage/bubble spiral out of hand was a mistake we’ll be regretting for a long time.
I think the implication here is if you lose your job and can’t find it for a while you suddenly can’t afford your mortgage either
I don't think the article is saying it should be frowned upon, just that it traditionally has been (not always for valid reasons).

It's always been considered better than innerHTML though; it's only textContent people think it's worse than.
Raw mango juice –| Delicious raw mango juice
It's about power like the other one just said. Workers are in a weak position unless there is a surplus of demand. Or you know, actually unionize for gods sake.
the links are posted kind of weird but I'll take a look -- thanks!
Notion x Clickup x Threads

Looks nice though!
I'd say some of it is, but I don't know enough about Maria to say much more than that. MySQL and Maria have diverged quite a bit at this point, so I'd proceed with caution on any of the specifics.
I have noticed the same trend where I live and among my close group of acquaintances and friends. Some couples are buying houses way north of 600K even while still having a mortgage on a perfectly nice home a few blocks away. My wife and I look at each other completely puzzled. Like what is going on? Are people making this much money? Or are they getting into terrible deals due to FOMO? We could certainly afford a new home now but no way in hell we are jumping on this market, our money goes to buy discounted stock or sits on CDs.
No, which goes to say the price-escalations and white-hot housing markets are still a thing across North America, straight through the tech crash, bond crash, layoffs, and now banking crisis.
You can analyze it considering “time required to acquire a good” as a currency. A shortage is inflation in the time dimension to compensate for lack of inflation in the “dollars & cents” dimension.
I'm thinking about the Bridge of Death scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

"Where on the Thames do I measure the flow? And what time of day and day of the lunar month?

"What? I don't know that!" Then the interviewer plunges into the gorge of eternal peril.
What all of you are not understanding is that if house prices drop, large property hedge funds will swoop in and buy them. They can't let the rest of their portfolio plummet, so they are going to keep buying to prop up prices. So it might drop a little, but heavily invested ares of the country like Sacramento, Phoenix, etc will not fall too much.
And what if a human tells it to control other people? What if a rogue third party terrorist group replicates OpenAI's latest and greatest in the year 2030, but explicitly tasks it with hurting people instead of helping them?

I don't agree with "we will have full control over it." I'm more concerned about how much control it will have over us.
There are obviously huge distortions in the housing market.

- how many buyers are investors from private equity or foreign investors vs residents (who intend to live in the property)?

- What is the true population including undocumented people? this will be off by 30-50% in some areas

- What is the true vacancy rate? In my area there are many houses sitting vacant. I’m assuming they are investments or tax dodges

It baffles me at how critical the housing market is and that no one takes responsibility to understand what is affecting prices. We just accept prices as a force of nature.
> (ignoring the consequences of doing so)

There it is!
Why would women have designed the process any differently if economics were the driving factor?

This is a roll-out; women are just as proficient with difficult finance decisions as men even when those decisions don't make initial conditions ideal for women.
Prices are still way, way up over the past decade. This seems like data mining at its finest. I don't see how this is so newsworthy. Unless prices never fall at all, some down months or even down years are inevitable . Every few years it's like this--prices fall, like in 2020 during Covid or in 2018, or whatever, commenters and pundits start to prematurely celebrate a supposed new regime of housing affordability, ignoring or losing sight all the earlier accumulated gains--and then prices come roaring back when least expected, sorta like GameStop stock today. It's the same pattern over and over.
Your arguments are almost identical to the ones greybeard embedded devs have against the Arduino. Yeah, it's expensive, uses an outdated micro (at least the AVR-based Arduinos), but it's effective because of its popularity. Basically a flywheel effect. Doesn't have to be good or optimal, just has to be flexible and have a big community.

I doubt anyone is using an off the shelf Pi with SD card for an actual safety critical deployment and expect to get it certified. There are options like the Revolution Pi which is half PLC and uses the Pi's Broadcom SOC for non-safety calculations. Some even support CODESYS.

I agree that most ARM embedded Linux SOC's can be absolute dumpster fires when it comes to peripheral documentation and poorly maintained device trees (looking at you, Texas Instruments!!!) but that's nothing new in embedded dev. Learning how each manufacturer/platform do hardware peripherals is half the battle.

So I agree that the pi isn't always the best device for an application. Cost and power savings on an ESP32, better processing on your old laptop-turned-server, and so on. But the Pi does have excellent documentation, and was lucky enough to gain enough traction to create an ecosystem that reduces friction to just get something running for beginners, which is literally its original design intention.
You've moved the goalposts from, "we should assume that predictive text models are sentient," to, "we should be wary of programs explicitly designed to interact unpredictably with other computer systems," something that everyone from the Amish to the NSA to Cozy Bear would agree with.
Please don't start random language fights.
Had a very similar experience hanging out with him and his equally-brilliant wife Robyn in ATX between 2011-2012. Very approachable guy -- impressively so, given his stature in the industry -- but could be quick with the "what the hell are you talking about?" look.
From another point of view "usable" isn't a word I'd associate with Go, especially not when there is an "unlike Rust" in the phrase. I've not had any issues of the sort when building out Rust applications. At this point the only time I touch Go is if I need to modify something else someone has made-- which I avoid at all costs
for me it's a challenge to keep my personal projects focused and structured

a job helps with prioritization, as there's a driver towards a common goal and schedule

of course it can also be infuriating and frustrating.

I took time off from January to about July of last year, but by April or May I was starting to get stressed out by aimlessness. But also financial fears, and a fear of falling way behind the market in terms of tech stack and relevancy.

Also, in software development projects especially having multiple contributors can really help. i tend to stall on personal projects after some time with work (UI work especially) i simply don't want to do.

EDIT: What I'd ideally like is a job ... but built around one my personal projects/interests. How great would it be to have a product manager, a UX person, other developers, etc focused on refining something I was passionate enough to start building myself? Which I guess is one way that people end up heading down the technical cofounder path, but that is a whole... thing.

So far I've had some bad luck when my employer's interests intersected too closely with my own, because there's always the frustration that I'm putting aside my own creative ownership for someone else's who just happens to have the $$.
Again, you missed the point. LLaMA is under a non commercial license. I never stated it is illegal, just that a company will not want to violate license terms even if it is legal, simply because getting sued in a civil case is still a risk they wouldn't be willing to take compared to the benefit.
You might enjoy this piece I wrote at the start of the year.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/11/haiku_beta_4/
Thank you. I don't think I was being careful in my phrasing. By capital, I'm referring to the actual machinery and so forth used for production. Also, I expanded on that idea (as I noted) by including transportation, considering transportation to be, broadly speaking, involved with production and contributing to its cost.

But, as your question points out, I'm not really talking about destruction so much as I am about capital lying fallow for an extended period, and the chain of production—which endeavors to work as a well-oiled machine—being disrupted. My central point is that our ability to produce was greatly curtailed, resulting in less goods and services available.

Finally, I'm not quite sure what you mean by "who" and "why." I'm not pushing some kind of conspiracy theory. I'm just making observations of what has happened.
San Francisco condos are down a lot, many going for less than $1000/sqft now. But that's also the political climate and the increase in crime that is contributing to all that. I might come in when condo prices fall to about $600/sqft.
Reminder that they read your code as part of this which then feeds their models. Basically you're paying to replace yourself long term.
Interest rates in the 90s started in double digits and ended just below that. Also things that weren't mortgages (like cars) still had double digit interest. In 1999 I paid 13% interest for my car.
Is there anyone doing more for open source today? I hear you, but it's clear they've changed that tune dramatically.
Already added a working mirror https://dface.online/post/51_file-sharing-site-zippyshare-sh...
With savings & investments so volatile people are taking riskier bets in order to diversify
Ideally, not in real terms: debt will be extinguished, but that debt has already been spent into the economy. The underlying asset equity (say, a house) will be transferred to the debtor. Some non-debtors (not many, in todays economy) will get a big immediate cash influx, but most of them are wealthy and will save, rather than spend that cash.

Relatively, the wealth of the poor will increase more because, say, 100k, is life changing for a poor person but not as big a deal for a rich person.

The important part is reducing the total debt load and the exponent sitting on top of it.

Would it be perfect? Of course not, nothing is. But it's the fairest way I have heard of to broadly reduce the debt load in a manner that addresses the underlying issue of too much debt.
Monetary policy says that the most dangerous thing is when inflation expectations become un-moored, which is deeply and fundamentally psychological. If you've lived through that, you probably have a better understanding of the most dangerous part of inflation than any modern US central banker who doesn't have a similar personal experience.
>and isn't the best in a single product

Managing a Windows OS vs MacOS and Linux?

Active Directory, GPO, Intune etc.

Jamf for Mac comes close.

And interoperability is a feature between the apps (somewhat) It used to be way worse.
Ok 1k is certainly a sizable fleet, and I only got 3B's or newer.

Nobody imports BeagleBone here so have to get it through DigiKey or similar, which means prices are way higher.
Ca you imagine people's reactions if gas prices dropped 10%? Or if food prices fell 10%? Or car/university prices fell 10%? Society functions best when it actively tries to minimize cost of living. Unfortunately we have created an political-economic system where half the population is incentivized to push housing costs as high as possible, or at least prevent it from falling, because it will enhance their personal wealth.

I hope for my childrens' sakes that there will be a massive boom in medium/high density housing construction over the next few decades, that brings house prices and rents to all-time lows. But this will never happen because homeowner-voters will never allow their personal nest egg to be threatened.
https://zippyshareme.com
Once, not so long ago, inexplicably, I waded into the fetid swamp that is a new article's comment's section. There was a particularly unhinged commentor, we'll call them Pat, that was railing against the newspaper's staff. For some strange reason, I looked up Pat's past comment history, and it was mostly, though not entirely, all screeds against the paper.

The paper is the Denver Post. The Post is a paper thin shell of itself, gutted by the machinations of hedge funds too greedy to realize that sub-prime newspapers are even worse investments than world class ones. The Post even ran a picture of the wrong stadium for Opening Day for a few years, I think. Most of the Post's good staff had left years ago for the 'greener' pastures of purely online journalism.

Pat had further filled out their entire profile for commenting and said that they were a proud resident of Des Moines, Iowa. Seeing as they spent nearly all day commenting on the Denver Post, I had questions. So, I made a profile, got a free 30 day subscription and ability to comment, and then asked Pat the questions. Namely, are you a real person, are you really living in Iowa, and why are you spending all your days on this earth railing against a zombie newspaper in it's comments sections?

Pat confirmed that they were real, and that they lived in Des Moines. Further, and I'll not forget this, Pat said that the reason they spent all their days attacking the Post was "I just really fucking hate the Post, Rocky Mountain News was better and should come back" Rocky Mountain news had been truly dead for a decade at this point and was never coming back.

I could ask them more questions, and try to dive into their strange psychology, but lets be real, Pat is crazy. I have since returned to my policy of never reading the comments section. Thar be the weirdos.
I think the 10x will become a sad concrete things, with salaries crunching and a team lead expected to take up the work of teams being fired, resorting to AI minions. It's a crazy tables have turned situation.

I don't really see that it's sad. Imagine truly democratized programming. Not like how the refrigerator did the ice man, but in how Youtube and smartphone cameras did video production. A rising tide that lifts all boats and can give absolutely anyone a taste of what they could achieve with a little effort.
One way I use the trigger character(s) so I can use fzf anywhere in my prompt.

For example setting:

export FZF_COMPLETION_TRIGGER='~~'

Will allow fzf completion for a commands. Just need to hit the <TAB> key after ~~ and fzf will pop up:

git diff main..HEAD -- ~~

ls -lh ~~
It looks good for interview formats st least, with ChatGPT it's harder to make it play roles. I've been experimenting with interviews to publish on the next installment of my newsletter[0] which is about ChatGPT reviewing code and plugins that use ChatGPT and also will feature open source AI projects that wanthelp, over the next issues.

[0]: https://generativereview.substack.com/p/the-generative-revie...
I think that critiques of the Bay Area are overstated (probably because of cognitive dissonance). Yes, it's extremely expensive, but it's also very nice. If you can afford it I don't think there's any inherent reason to expect to like anywhere else more. Of course if you can't afford it then, yes, you should probably leave, but that's not some crazy revelation.
We used that to make a simple "VPN diagnostics" app for our helpdesk (app checked connectivity and config of the machine then displayed the summary page). Only thing that needed to be written per-os is how to call a browser to display the report
You’re right.

I meant something along the lines of “I want Google to be as effective today as 2007 Google was in its era.”

I know Google and especially their ads are responsible for a huge chunk of what I dislike about today’s Google and the web.

ChatGPT 2026 being trained (probably unknowingly) on the output of ChatGPT 2023 is going to be ‘fun’.
The job market is still historically EXTREMELY strong. We would need unemployment to hit over 5-6% before mortgages became an issue.
I run a Mastodon server. In one of the giant floods of new users, I installed Docker on an RPi that I already had laying around and used it to increase my asynchronous worker capacity. I doubt I would have gone out and bought an RPi for that, but I had one up and running anyway, and it turned out to be perfect for the job.

Note that I could solder my own boards together from bare PCBs and components. I just don't want to have to when someone else has already done the hardware work for me.
Same, I’ve had a 6 month break from work and I don’t miss a single damn thing about it, except the pay! My lifelong chronic boredom actually went away for the first time ever. It’s really made me re-evaluate how much effort I intend to put into work when it brings me almost nothing in return.
Again only going on off hand knowledge. But colour is one of those things that seems straightforward to begin with, and soon becomes insanely complex as you start peeling the layers back XD.

Different files, applications, media can be encoded in different colour spaces, as can different displays, printers, dyeing processes take them as inputs - and the conversion isn't always straight forward.

For most consumption activities this doesn't matter, but if you work in colour and your job is to make sure that that signiture 'Pepsi Blue' is consistent in print media, television advert, merchandise, and the product, some finer treatment of them in the OS becomes necessary.

To iterate - not a colour expert, but I just thought I'd politely enlighten you as why macOS is so highly regarded for this kind of work, it isn't just marketing. Though no doubt, there is plenty of that too.
"Candida species" are ubiquitous. Literally inhabiting you, right now.

This one is rare. Those are not.
You are using cellular data then. Your exit point when using 3-5G can be a lot of strange places. Not unusual.
BeyondCorp only working on Chrome. Every single tool and vendor integrated with BeyondCorp. Access to internal systems (including SSH) checked against BeyondCorp.

Using Firefox for anything was literally painful.
Is “no” the answer to the first or the second question?
Not just that but Firefox has become stagnant when it comes to a lot of interesting Web standards. WebUSB, WebSerial etc... are the ones where people are really pushing the web and Mozilla refuses to implement them.

https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/#webusb
Next Year in Moscow
It would seem, then, that those surrounding states should have even higher per-capita mass shooting rates than California, given they have a higher concentration of those sorts of weapons. They don't. In fact the states surrounding California are substantially lower.

It seems apparent that this strategy is both misguided and ineffective.
I tried a similar thing today parsing unstructured text (client excel documents) and turn them into JSON. I ran into the problem that the output format changed and sometimes the JSON wants parsable.

Thanks for your prompt. There are some pointers how to improve mine
How dare you think critically about economics!
Isn't Notion itself also a "walled garden"? It seems appropriate that Microsoft has a copy/competitor to Notion.
Do you need anything more than uBlock Origin on mobile, really?
> Bunch of new homes being built here in socal

Not even close to enough. California is a good million units short of where it needs to be. Socal needs to convert the endless supply of ranch houses into 2 and 3 flats.
Publishers Prepare for Showdown with Microsoft, Google over AI Tools
I was surprised actually not to see any in that category. There are many A.I. adjacent fields that “hackers” seem to ignore. For instance there are a lot of papers applying deep networks to simulation and modeling areas such as solving differential equations.