skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fellow software devs & CPAs unite! Thanks for the kind words.

There aren't many of us, so I’d love to connect. If you want, shoot me note at: Anthonyj at gwu.edu
Nerd and hacker culture aren't the same ... I think hacker culture is alive and well, albeit less so than in the past. Some posts here on HN give me hope - people are still breaking things and figuring out how stuff works under the hood, but nerd culture seems to have developed into rampant consumerism. The article touches on that a bit. It's prob a result of the 20-30 somethings of today being advertised to super heavily. Corporations realized that nerds have quite a bit of spending power, and with the rise of silicon valley/the internet, its become a big market.
It is virtually always a thing here in Sweden. The only exception I have encountered the last like 5 years is Paypal.
It's not hard. Start with the WHATWG's spec, then incorporate the other specs it references using a reasonable heuristic to determine if a given item should be included or not.

If you don't think the estimate from Reckless, Infinite Scope is wildly off, then you either didn't read the methodology and do a spot-check of the dataset, or you really don't understand the scope of what gets published by W3C and how little much of it has to do with Web browsers or how many revisions of them there are.
I don't want to be on a platform that doesn't have a mod that I trust and will do most of the dirty work for me. I want to have fun, not extra work.
> has just gone mainstream

Care to provide some examples? Most "nerd" interests like SciFi have been neutered if not completely bent out of shape while going mainstream.
I think 'geek chic' (i.e poseurs) went mainstream a while ago, but actual nerds will never be popular by definition.

I've tried in vain to find people at parties who care about my favourite arcane programming languages and obscure political doctrine, it's impossible :(
> Almost nobody outside of HN has a similar experience with Google products.

YouTube's algorithm and recommendations are both memes and well analyzed in popular media, and people who have only ever used phones and iPads know to add "reddit" to their search terms to sort through the garbage Google would show them otherwise.

There are also office workers and consumers who have been burned by adopting Google services, like workplaces that adopted Google products for chat and voice/video, or by buying Nest products or investing in Stadia.
I also found it lacking when asking for chord variations and inversions on guitar (gpt-4)
I’m learning so much from this thread.

The idea of warming milk for cereal has never crossed my mind.
They will argue in court is not the same GZ... its generative after all...
The first mistake IA made was engaging in CDL aka DRM in the first place. They should have just focused on making things available without restrictions.
Clippy can help you to write more idiomatic Rust, so if you aren't already, definitely check out the clippy lints for a working program you wrote:

cargo clippy

Clippy won't tend to spot unnecessary Arcs and similar architectural mistakes, however it would notice if you act as though things aren't Copy when they are [e.g. you've probably never 100.clone() but if you did Clippy would point out that's just 100 and the same would apply to types where it's less obvious that they're Copy and you might have forgotten]
I think they should add Alice: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mystery_of_the_Third_Pla...
Oh ffs! No they're not! These questions are attempts to establish a connection to you - maybe you work in a similar field to them (or one that they find interesting), or grew up near to them, or have kids the same age.
Wait, hipsters have...gone? They missed my town
Why not? Is the name that bad?
You can really just give your title and a little flavor. I generally say “Oh, I’m a software developer for an educational company. I work on a reading app.” and that’s usually all there is to that unless they ask follow-up questions; I would say that’s less than a third of the time.

Every once in a while you get the hyper-interested person who asks a ton of follow-ups but they’re at least usually actually listening.
That is just a narrative that Mastodon instance operators insists to appease Apple/Google authoritarianism, and also literal German/French authorities, not what actually matters.
Prompt success is not binary as there are multiple ways of being wrong as well as multiple ways of being right.
Not only is it still working for me (12:29 UK time), but their most recent article (published today) is titled “Most significant cameras of the DPReview era: Part 1”, implying more content to come!

https://m.dpreview.com/articles/5191963353/most-significant-...
My go-to answer for “what do you do for a living?” is “as little as I can get away with”.
I use nvim-dap[1] in combination with jester[2] (by me) to run and debug Jest tests in my project, it works perfectly.

[1]: https://github.com/mfussenegger/nvim-dap

[2]: https://github.com/David-Kunz/jester
That’s a pretty invasive question to ask a stranger though. I don’t like to share my thoughts with strangers, as they are much too personal. Someone asks me what I’m thinking lately, and I immediately have to deflect or think of lies to tell in order to not have to say what I’ve been thinking. I don’t want to stand there lying or telling the truth. Much easier to talk about something that isn’t so personal.
> Looks like it's not emulating x86 at all, just interpreting assembly mnemonics as if they were BASIC.

Wow. Reading the authors other comments, it sounds like they couldn't find an assembler they liked for their operating system, and instead decided to spend their course building their own instead, as they imagined it would work. Stay away from this tool if your goal is to learn about 8086. This project is an 8086-inspired programming language.
Strikes me as somewhat ironic that on discovery of something that is decent at understanding free form the first thing people do is set out specific templates.

Reminds me of the early days of hand writing recognition where you had to memorize a specific "alphabet" of letters that need to look a certain way. Same with speech recognition that could only do some accents initially.
https://www.popsci.com/byzantine-science-deceiving-artificia...
Other nerds don't have to care about the same stuff as you, they just have to be interested.

I am still tight with my group of 7 guys from school and we are all nerds but hardly share a single interest. We are interested in hearing about each other's niche shit and that's what keeps us together.
Is this a physical Azerty keyboard? How do you get around having to hold shift to type any number?
Make Everything Ok
I know people say "but they cant give good support at their scale" but really at some point, with the amount of money they make, the real answer is that they choose not to give support and therefore choose to treat people like shit. It shouldn't be accepted as it currently is.
... It's where I personnaly differentiate nerd culture and Geek culture.
Car parks could collapse under the weight of electric cars
According to the wiki, it's the chancellor in wartime (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundeswehr). Either way, it's a civilian position that's temporarily filled by the ruling government which was democratically elected.
As Flatcar is a very minimal, immutable distribution to run containers / Kubernetes, our development environment (aka the "Flatcar SDK") is containerised too.

Flatcar releases are tied to git commits in our distro automation repo; so to develop for Flatcar, one would:

1. clone the distro automation repo

2. check out the release version one wants to develop for (tag or branch)

3. starts the SDK container via a wrapper script in the repo

This enables Flatcar development across all distros that run git, and docker or podman (it even works on WSL if one is inclined to use it that way).

More information here: https://www.flatcar.org/docs/latest/reference/developer-guid...
It's a reference to a Mitchell and Webb sketch about the status games that people play around employment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THNPmhBl-8I
It does "sound" expensive, but so does separating out all the steel beams from the concrete of a tunnel. That kind of thing is pretty labor intensive and people cost a lot of money. If you have a big enough grinding machine, it may well be cheaper overall if it only needs a single operator.
Some sub-groups of people are more frequent visitors of some type of events than others. Depending exactly what you mean with "parties", it could be that those types of events are not the right one to find the sub-group you're out after.

If you wanna find people to talk about finance, you wouldn't attend a football match, for example. So if you wanna find programmers, you're gonna have to attend programming related events, or some related area like hardware hacking, or just generally "makers" meetup.

For political groups, there tend to be groups of those all over the world, for every affiliation, but depending on the ideology and the overall political temperature, sometimes people try to avoid letting those opinions bleed over to other areas of interest.
VS code plus its vim key binding plugin. The neovim plugin world is just way too unstable in my experience.
The term "MCU" being in the common cultral lexicon.
Debuggers aren’t only for debugging. They’re also for exploring an unfamiliar codebase, speeding up the process of familiarising oneself with it.
My son watches The Simpsons and I put that in the same boat.

It wasn't when I was a kid and watching it fresh, because everyone watched it, but I've asked my son if any of his friends watch it and apparently it doesn't register at all with kids today.

I'm sure he only got into it because I must have put it on at one point or he stumbled into it on Disney+
hahaha omg, that sucks so much. Yes, I should have ™ everything
I agree that small claims court is a viable venue for attacking large companies, especially if it's a coordinated effort between many people in many jurisdictions but can a small claims court force a big company to continue to do business with a customer that has conducted a charge back?
Past discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2758629
> I am still tight with my group of 7 guys from school

While that's nice and all, it's not super helpful advice for people who are trying to make new friends, as we cannot go back in time and repeat school from younger days...
My plan is actually to set up a mastodon instance on my own domain exclusively for myself, and I will be the only user. From what I can see, people from other mastodon instances will still be able to interact with me and my posts?. Is that your experience?
For what its worth, this is called “occupational prestige” and sociologists run public opinion studies to create actual lists like that: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational_prestige
If it requires "experts" then I guess it's already past the threshold where it stops mattering whether it is real
A lot of 'content' to me is worse than elevator music. That at least tries to somewhat improve my experience (though you may not like it). A piece of 'content' as an intro to a recipe is there primarily to make the page longer and contain keywords for SEO purposes, but it makes my experience worse.
Perhaps, but by an amount that is negligible when compared with fossil fuels:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-p...
I believe it’s still wildly wrong. Had arp242 not spoken up at that time, I’d have been saying something similar, because the numbers were to me blindingly obviously extremely unrealistic. The entire HTML Standard (which is somewhat of a misnomer now, it covers much more than just HTML, quite a bit of CSS interactions, other web platform functionality, JavaScript APIs, and the likes) is now about half a million words by the most generous of counting methods (it’s written in a fairly verbose style, which is a really really really good thing when you compare it to the average IETF RFC), and I suspect it’s bigger than everything else put together, apart from ECMAScript (around 270,000 words¹ and probably growing at a faster rate than all other specs: it’s written in an even more verbose style, most of which is effectively straight code in prose form, whereas in the HTML Standard “straight code” is only a decent chunk of it).

As for WebGL, the WebGL parts are actually quite little. https://registry.khronos.org/webgl/specs/latest/1.0/ is only about 20,000 words. I gather it defers significantly to GLES20 (PDF, 204 pages, ~60,000 words), and GLES20GLSL (PDF, 119 pages, ~30,000 words), and it has GL32CORE in its references (PDF, 404 pages, ~125,000 words), but doesn’t actually use cite it in the text and I don’t know if it’s relevant. There doesn’t look to be anything else significant that wouldn’t already be included.

But really, WebGL is a fairly thin layer atop OpenGL ES 2.0, just removing some functionality and applying some restrictions. I believe you would reasonably expect a browser to use an existing OpenGL ES 2.0 implementation, so I’d be quite content to exclude the 90,000 (or perhaps it’s ~215,000?) words of that, just like it’s common to reuse an existing JavaScript engine (though you also don’t have to). Yet note this: it seems that even if we include it all (and presuming I haven’t missed anything, which I admit I could easily have done, I’m not conversant with these specs like I am with HTML/CSS/JS specs), it’s still under 0.2% of Drew’s massively-inflated figure.

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¹ Whew, https://262.ecma-international.org/ took me several minutes to download, despite being only 7MB. Sigh; the trials of being in Australia, where things hosted in the USA are often inexplicably painfully slow—like, sub-256kbps. When already downloaded, it renders in under four seconds, which is really fairly impressive when it’s doing all that layout on a document a million pixels tall—this ain’t a PDF where you can only render one page at a time. The HTML Standard is almost two million pixels tall, and also loads completely in under four seconds—simpler styles, perhaps? I refer to it often enough that I build it locally so I don’t have to download its 13MB all the time, or compromise with the multipage version that you can’t search through as easily.
I disagree. I don’t think this will be a Star Trek future. There won’t be a post scarcity world or UBI.

We’re headed for a world with a GINI coefficient approaching 1. Those people aren’t going to give away their wealth. They are the new Crassus, Pompey, and Caesar.

You think we can vote our way out of it? The politicians will be pawns of the rich. Rebellion? The men who will fight will be employed for security purposes already - they’ll have jobs and status. A human fighter will always be cheaper than a machine. Why should they fight for a bunch of obsolete poor people?
Hand and feet people: “finally, our passion is an asset!”
(Warning: quote attribution nerdary ahead)

> In conclusion, the earliest instances of this remark were anonymous. The comedians Rags Ragland and Ukie Sherin employed the quip, as did the writer John McNulty. In addition, there is some evidence that Yogi Berra employed the joke, but in all cases the jest was already in circulation.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/08/29/too-crowded/
It’s funny that the day after gpt was release there were already posts about how it started replacing people. Their marketing campaign is just crazy spam all over everywhere.
Not at all. Those are valid questions. In some parts of Asia, those are the first questions you'll get, including your salary. You might as well get that out of the way from the start.
this is how we enable 10mb+ file ingestion and search /w http://mixpeek.com
> If there is any one person who still tries to consider things by some measure of quality, it’s like a needle sticking sharp in their side

While Sam's articles are quite enjoyable to read, I'm not sure this argument holds. If nerds don't care about quality they wouldn't spend hours complaining about how bad the new Star Wars films are
You appear to have missed my point. My second para is simply an example, not the point I'm making.

The point is: your friends don't have to be interested in exactly the same stuff as you, they just need to be interested in you.
On the live-action front, there was Laugh-In, which runs in syndication now, and seeing an episode 50+ years after originally seeing it aired (when I was under 10 years old) gives me a whole new perspective on the show. I realize now how much of it flew right over my little head. While today some of the jokes have aged like milk, it's surprising how much of it is spot-on even today.

Saturday Night Live with the OG cast was also a groundbreaker. To this day, I find myself imagining a Dan Aykroyd voiceover for a wide variety of current commercials.
Sorry to pile on the name thing, but it is important! A venerable UNIX tool's reputation shouldn't be misappropriated like this.

The name "grep" brings up the imagery of an efficient search tool for most Linux users. That's based on years of work from the UNIX tool's contributors. A new web service shouldn't just swindle that; it feels wrong in many ways.

As others have already mentioned, I strongly suggest to change the name. Otherwise, it undermines your own message and importantly, does a disservice to the original grep. A lose-lose situation overall.
Violation of the Bell inequalities tells us certain things. Other things it doesn't tell us might also be true, but that's speculation not derivation unless we have some other evidence to work with.
That level of hallucination is certainly going to come in handy when creating military LLMs!
very helpful comment, you might want to add that to the readme or a pinned issue
Thanks for the feedback :) Apparently there's always room to improve our docs. A maintainer has taken a stab on that (see https://github.com/flatcar/flatcar-website/pull/263 for progress) and we'll update our docs shortly.
A plamipsest diatribe drenched in nihilistic snobbery, but very, very entertaining one.
Live performance hasn't gone away. I live outside a village (in Ireland) with around 1000 residents and there's live music in one or other of the pubs 4 nights (or more) a week
Although this isn't a proper setting to provide consultation and I have to remind you that a trained physician in sleep medicine in a sleep laboratory setting could be more specific on answerimg your question, here are my thoughts.

Are there any signs of gastroesophageal reflux? Like burping, or feeling hearburn, maybe even non-cardial chest pain? If so, I would suggest consulting with a gastroenterologist before visiting a sleep laboratory. GERD (gastroesophageal reflux disease) is often associated with late sleep on-set phenomena and with fragmented sleep circle pattern due to central apneas taking place when the acidic reflux enters the esophagus.

If you already have ben checked by a gastroenterologist (and/or are under treatment) I would suggest visiting a sleep laboratory. They would perform a sleep study and will be able to better assess your sleep patterns.
Many nerds don't really care about the outcome of the complaining/arguing, but merely uses their position as an excuse to connect with people, to have discussions with fellow human beings. Not wrong or right, just trying to fulfill a human need.
prompting it into an interactive q and a mode has been very useful, here's a favourite prompt from today... just repeating 'please continue ' until it starts to repeat itself then go one back step and ask it to do an interactive q and a stopping so I can answer each question with pertinent information, then back to please continue, rinse and repeat, then ask it, what would a good prompt be knowing what we know if we started from the beginning, and then off you go, handling the output then becomes an issue, we need a better way to work and view it's output
wha?

so nerds are enthusiastic detail oriented people, but for bad stuff, but the same attitude toward good stuff is not nerdy?

or something.

'dreck' indeed.
I recently removed Reddit, Imgur, Twitter from my life and realized there is so much more interesting and edgier content out there.
Ah, but the parent made the explicit point of trying to find people they have two specific topics in common with. To argue that they shouldn't, doesn't help them in their quest for what they are specifically asking about.

It's ok to want to look for people with common interests, just as it's ok to feel it's enough to spend time with people you don't have a lot of common interests with.
"nerd culture" is not about what but how.

There were popular D&D shows already in the 80s.

Most comic book movies are simply bad, and "real" nerds hate them.

No nerd loved the last Star Wars trilogy or Rings of power or Wonder Woman 1984 or the nth spider-verse repetition, mostly because studios take something popular among nerds and change it to please modern audience which is exactly what's wrong with the so called "nerd culture" today: it's not a culture.
Here’s a trick: allow yourself to notice things and then comment on them. That’s what people want. A few examples:

* Damn, she made these biscuits big as hell. Love these biscuits.

* Not sure what 36 is doing on the sideline like that.

* Hey man, that hat looks baller.

* Yeah, last weekend I saw a dude in stilts
The end of that article reads like it was AI generated.
I think this just demonstrates how the goalposts are shifting though.

Until pretty recently most people would probably say “the average human is very flexible at solving reasoning tasks compared to machines which find reasoning incredibly challenging“.

Now it’s “well of course this AI which wasn’t specifically trained for verbal reasoning can beat an average human at verbal reasoning - humans are useless at almost everything!”

Your goalpost seems to be that GPT needs to be better than experts in their field to be considered “good” at something - but I think it’s just interesting to reflect that that’s the benchmark we are applying now.
Can they mathematically be “mushed” and then create an improved model?

I have yet to understand the difference between fine tuning and training and therefore yet to understand if a distributed decentralized eventually consistent training approach is a possibility or simply not realistic.
It's absolutely not a "tangential annoyance" in this case.

Your serious point is critical and it must be considered.
In my experience doing the frequent small upgrade steps is better. It's valuable to know what the update actually does because the list of changes is so small. At the same time it's possible that small updates degrade the system stability so slowly that it's difficult to notice at first.

Right now I'm running Fedora on my old laptop and I was positively surprised in how many details it got better in terms of user-friendliness and predictable behaviour in general, I hope it'll break the curse of "stable" distros constantly falling apart on my PCs.
Segment Anything is orders of magnitude more powerful than anything we've ever seen before within the real of image segmentation and the first 'foundation model' in that regard, so this is a real step-change in background removal/editing, etc. -- hell, we might not even need green screens anymore!
I said. Good luck in 5 more years when Tesla decide that your car is now unsupported.

>Service has also been way better for me than when I had cars serviced by franchised dealers

Which franchised electric car dealer are you comparing it to?
> EVs are much heavier than cars manufactured in the 1960s and 1970s, when many car parks were built.

A modern Mercedes SUV (2t) weights more than a Tesla model 3 (1.5t). Clickbait headline.