skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You must be very fun to hang out with.

This is kind of a childish response presuming this is sarcasm. If it's not, then you're actually quite right (at least in my experience).

Anyway I'll let you continue to have fun on your own terms.

Edit: To be clear, I mean "degenerate" as more just going against general expectations. I.e. partying, drinking, doing drugs, not having kids if you don't want them.

Anyway you shouldn't read too much into my posts here. I'm generally pretty successful and the older generation probably likes me more than you ( ;) ). My overall point is that you should go out and have fun make friends and do what you want. You only get one shot at life and it's far too short.
Democratic governments with freedom of expression and free speech is not compatible with the Chinese governance system
Cars are awful. I was fantasizing about an e-bike after reading a thread on HN, but in Phoenix, I'd die for sure. I do not feel safe around other cars in my car much less a bike. I really wish the US weren't so all in on cars. It's only getting worse with the oversized death-machine trucks saturating the roads. My in-laws are blind as bats and drive something that should require a commercial license.
> "HackerNews is the worst place on earth to share a side project, specially on its early days."

Depends on your expectations.

A lot of online forums are hobbyist cheerleading groups. You get a flood of likes and heart emojis, but when it subsides, you're left with very little that would actually help you improve your craft.

HN is closer to the style of brutally direct criticism you get in art school (I know because I went to one). When professionals are tearing your work apart, it definitely doesn't feel good. But artists know they need to train themselves to receive that kind of feedback and process it beyond the initial rush of defensive emotions. The other people aren't necessarily right in what they say, but they decided to tell you something you didn't want to hear even though it would have been more comfortable for everyone to stay quiet. (And it's always possible that some negative feedback is simply active meanness — but that's also a useful lesson because every profession has that kind of people. You need exposure to different feedback styles to filter out what can help you grow.)
Oh how very true. I’m going through at this very moment. As a dad(of a 4 year old), having moved to a new city during COVID, it has been a struggle to find friends. Although I do attend a few meet-ups every now and then, play tennis in a group, take Dutch classes, I just could not meet anyone often enough to become friends with.

Whenever I try to organise something to hangout, it’s a nightmare to find a time that works for most. Often a couple of months away.

The anxiety of “do they think I come off too weird trying to force them to be a friend” is very real.

I wish there was a commonly used app like Tinder with explicit intentions of making friends, hanging out with a wider user base than one-off local apps which is dominated by a handful of people.
Not just bikes makes it feel like the solution to everything is to be like the Netherlands. In that sense it's a fraud. To some extent yes you should be more like us and offload some of that traffic onto a bike path. To the extent that works and is efficient. But... I have lived here all my life. It is not a solution to anything else. It turns out, bikes do not talk to each other very much either.
You mean like windows 11 or office 2023? Yes, absolutely.
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I must admit to largely preferring the less open version.
I have never played a sport outside of gym class. When I went to local sports meetups, I mostly found people practicing the sports they played in high school or college. I sucked by comparison, and it showed.
Unfortunately idiots run the state but IMO California has the greatest geography in the world. It has the most amount of experiences one can get than any other state, some countries even. There a great variety of people and cultures here, only rivaled by NYC. Despite the fires the weather is fantastic most of the time.

It's definitely gotten worse to live in these days (homeless, dumb politicians, rent, traffic, etc) but it's something I would put up with because it's truly a great location. I really wish someday someone competent would come to office there, but alas.

Not saying California is perfect, absolutely not. A shithole some might say, but there's so much Cali offers that you can't get anywhere else.

source: I'm from California, grew up SoCal, went to uni in NorCal. Went and seen it all. Unfortunately now I live in Seattle due to job reasons.
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The "and per se and" origin sure feels like the kind of folk etymology that ultimately doesn't really have anything backing it up.

But as far as I can see there really isn't any controversy over it.
Wouldn't it potentially leak everything you send it? ChatGPT that is, I heard with the API it's different.
Safari will become irrelevant. Users, some through ignorance, others coerced by incompetent front-end teams ("Safari is the new IE") will switch to Chrome. It will be the end of Safari. There will only be a few extension developers left.

When that happens, please switch to Firefox. It has more extensions than you'll ever need, and it's better for the tech environment and your privacy.
I use Apple Maps and prefer the CarPlay interface. Google maps still seems better for searching businesses, but most of the time I’m going to an address in city or suburbs.
Could you share more about how nd why you use AIX? How is it in production? Im very interested in corp Unixes but have never met anyone still using one, alrhough new features keep getting added.
Building your own data center isn't enough, land ownership is a myth as you'll still be locked in to your government via property taxes.

The real self-hosted solution is running your server off a solar powered yacht in international waters while transmitting and receiving all data via worldwide shortwave radio. Fire any customers not willing to invest in a SW-Ethernet adapter.
Yes, they’re being overclever “&” earning an eyeroll from me (& everyone who expects headlines to be clear and easily parseable.
That's very short term though.

The reason for Europe's natural gas demand at the moment is because the EU has this minor dispute with that other large supplier of natural gas: Russia.

Lesson learned: Don't depend on resources that can run out or be denied to you.

Right now there are literally simply not enough craftsmen around able to rip out/replace/supplement (my corner of) Europe's natural gas heating systems fast enough. The waiting lists are insane.

This means that the EU is stuck having to import natural gas as an interim emergency measure. But ask any county in northwest Europe and I bet they'd tell you that Berkeley is doing the sane thing here.
You might be interested in this I'm working on, it also came up when the original mentioned articles was posted here.

It's fine tuned for my own needs but I think I'll add another more barebones config set.

https://github.com/lloydjatkinson/configuration
The thing is, the efficiency standards of the past two decades greatly shaped the sizes of vehicles produced. Bigger footprint -> lower required efficiency -> easier to meet requirements.

There's some amount of buyers prefer larger vehicles too, but buyers can't buy small vehicles if there are none on the market, and manufacturers won't make them when small vehicles are hard to fit into their fleet economy numbers.
I'm a nomad travelling solo so it's crucial for me to be good at socialising. I now consider myself to be quite social and can gel with anyone.

Most of the friendships happen over some common interest or activity like playing sports, dancing, seminars, group tours, etc. If you can get into some hobby or activity that involves other people (common interest) then it is much easy to strike conversations (mutual interest) and make friendships. However, If you can't even start a conversation or keep the conversation flowing naturally then that's a personal issue.

Some tips:

- Smile when you talk. Smile in general if you could.

- Asking questions is the fundamental of converting strangers to friends. Asking question means getting to know person. Ask questions that you are curious about otherwise you gonna bore yourself as well as the person. Personal questions work wonders.

- While travelling I realised most people are not that social and feel awkward starting a conversation with a stranger. I always assume that it's my responsibility to start the conversation so I lead. And, once the conversation starts flowing I see that the other person is actually friendly and interested to know about me as well.
The only thing that comes to mind is JITs everywhere and maybe that dotnet is trying to do more stand-alone compiling stuff. Other than that, completely agree.
I'm guessing it's because the creator, Hickey, is anti-inheritance, and the Clojure community as a whole is uncritical of him. I actually agree that inheritance can be tricky, but is still needed sometimes, especially for interop.

Elsewhere in Clojure, he makes his preferences the defaults (like immutability over mutability), but always has an escape hatch when necessary. For inheritance, there's no escape hatch. Best you can get is a crippled proxy.

Another issue is how mutable fields in deftype work. Mutable fields can only be mutated from class methods (protocol fns in Clojure parlance), so you can't use outside helper fns. You can add helper fns to your protocol (like an interface), but that's a public signature, not generally meant to have internal-only fns.

The joy of interop with Java from Clojure is occasionally getting to discover that there's no good code reuse in certain situations with a family of classes, and realizing, oh yeah, this is why we wanted inheritance in the first place.
all the more proof that AI has reached the point where it can replace most web dev. You get what you train for ;P
> [1] Well even dictatorship China relented when protests against Covid restrictions got too big.

Ultimately, all societies are democratic, because they require the buy-in from the population. The moment the population isn't willing to play nicely anymore, a state is doomed. See: France, ca. 1789.
The stock price has little to do with product quality, especially for a company like Microsoft with multiple revenue streams.

That said, Windows OEM revenue is down almost 40% [1] — yes weak PC sales have contributed, but these days I suspect it’s going to be difficult for Microsoft to find enthusiastic PC buyers. Most buyers grit their teeth and spend time undoing Microsoft’s obnoxious defaults.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/24/23569050/microsoft-q2-202...
>> Researchers also find that when we develop groups, our friendships are more sustainable than they are with individuals. Because there's multiple touch points now, right? Someone else in the group could reach out to all of us, and then we all keep in touch.

My personal experiences echo this statement. My most personal active groups are the ones where we share the same interest, e.g music, photography, church, etc. We still regularly meet a few times each month either for coffee, business discussion, watching movie, outside city trips, etc.

Family/school groups? Not so much.
This covers in detail one day of gassing in one place, if an intense one, but between PPB and the feds tear gassing went on for months and extended into neighborhoods on both sides of the river. The long-term impact on plant growth in repeatedly gassed neighborhoods alone is incredible.
Yes I currently only generate 3 questions per article.
I tend to get worse results if I generate more questions per article. I instead try to encourage exploration by showing
related articles (clickable) to try to get a wider ranger of topics instead.

I have a lot of work to do to make that whole experience smoother though.
> So maybe they won't outright insult the US like Macron did but they will not join an US-led cold war on China.

Until the US actually changes recognition over from China to Taiwan this is a joke. The US is just saber-rattling right now, and Macron pretty much said the EU should not blindly follow either side but listen to what the people want. So I think the other reply here is more on point about people not wanting to give up QoL should Europe decide not to side against China.
Agreed, instead of "a dozen layers of docker/terraform/k8s bullshit" they just need they application code and some config that will take them an hour to setup once.
The industry has gravitated to giving up and putting everything in containers because most languages’ version and package management was so terrible.
Everyone charges for convenience. A lot of people don't want the headache to run and secure their own Postgres, for example. It's a trade-off, same as servicing your car vs just handing it off to a garage mechanic.
I dislike hearing people talk. I think they don't talk nicely unless they're actual chads. Because I can detect when a person means something else, or when they are hating, or worse, my brain can take out-of-context phrases and hint that I'm in danger or among hostiles. I dislike voice chat as well. I limit myself to text communication.
There is already clojurescript, not much use for clojure to WASM in the browser. I guess there are or will be JVMs for WASM at the very least. And Clojurescript running on Nodejs or Deno won't be that much of a difference.
That's kinda lame, way to waste people's time proving that AI is impressive. Everyone already knows.
These are the prices for end customers and contain various taxes, surcharges for transmission and various other things. All of these costs are real and it's good to have them as a part of the actual price. You know what it actually costs and it's a good motivation to be energy efficient.

Compare it to France which has the highest market prices in Europe right now [1] (and also last year) but allegedly the customers pay just 22c. It can't work - the nationalization of the EDF was started last year [2] and it posted a 20 billion loss [3]. The true price will be paid one way or the other, through taxes in this case.

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/energy_charts/status/163859905194...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jul/19/france-to-p...

[3] https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2023/02/17/france-s...
Yep I just recently launched a SaaS and we got over $900k in revenue in our first 3 weeks (affiliate marketing). I'm not going to post about it because I would just get shit on for something. Welcome to the internet :(
There’s certainly some room for improvement along the “cultural assimilation” lines you mentioned - but in historical context, I’m not too worried as the second generation seems thoroughly “Americanized”, for better or for worse.

Canada is the country that needs to be looking at pumping the brakes soon; they’re talking some wild immigration numbers given the size of their native-born population.

I think it’ll be fascinating to see how Canada comes out the other side of the “homogenous to multi-cultural” rapid immigration pipeline that the United States has been (badly) traversing since 1965.

But I’m mostly concerned about the apparent “reverse assimilation” happening throughout IT. I’ve personally witnessed multiple departments clearly adopt de facto racially discriminatory hiring practices that apparently can go beyond race into caste dynamics - I lack the cultural knowledge to determine the truth of the “won’t hire below a certain caste” thing, but have had multiple India-born acquaintances bring it up in unrelated casual conversation.

Edit: fwiw, I happen to agree with several of your Chinese dude’s example opinions - but I get what you’re saying as far as the whole “why are you even here if you feel that way?”
California has had rolling black outs the last few summers.

And im not talking the boonies. Im talking just outside San Francisco.

Gas is way more reliable than electricity in CA.
"break" has many meanings, but assuming you meant "break up" instead of "destroy":

- China has openly supported Macron's "strategic autonomy" principle which aims to distance EU from USA.

- Ever since Xi got his regime extended, they've been inviting nation leaders to increase their influence. In last 5 months, they've invited Germany, Iran, Spain, France and Brazil.

- They've brokered a peace deal between Iran and Saudi. Which is another loss for US influencer in middle east, threatening the current petrodollar hegemony.

Note that I'm not condemning China. It's just an observation. And honestly, they would be dumb if they didn't do this while US is pissing off their key allies with rate hikes and the IRA Act.
I’m curious as to your experience using Render? When I tested it out, it seemed very clunky I was seeing build times in excess of 30 minutes even for small projects.
Hard agree. I cringe at these projects using GPT4 name. I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of these devs don't even have access to the actual GPT4 API.
Ask the Roman Catholic Pope? Wasn't a decision made centuries ago?
This was a nice article! I used Duolingo a lot until the latest redesign which I totally despise. It's nice to see a face behind it all (even if it's not enough to bring me back to the current version of the app).
The folks at Strong Towns tackle this and related issues from many directions. They've changed how I experience the built environments around me.
The Pile already does!

Part of its contents come from the "USPTO Backgrounds" dataset. From The Pile's paper:

> USPTO Backgrounds is a dataset of background sections from patents granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, derived from its published bulk archives. A typical patent background lays out the general context of the invention, gives an overview of the technical field, and sets up the
framing of the problem space. We included USPTO Backgrounds because it contains a large volume of technical writing on applied subjects, aimed at a
non-technical audience.

More details in the paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2101.00027.pdf

The Pile: https://pile.eleuther.ai/
Really? I found the EU's willingness to cut themselves off from Russian fuel supplies, despite the risk of their own citizens literally freezing as a result, to be uncharacteristically ballsy. (And yes, I know the EU still imports some Russian gas, but it's a lot less than they used to, and they got quite lucky since the winter was mild.)
I just hope you won't be billed twice too
Seems to be a thing: https://www.meetup.com/mountain-view-area-runclub/
Both Baerbock and Macron are just there to milk China for whatever China has left. They both know China is now entering its third year of its own Great Depression, with 30% unemployment rate (even food delivery jobs are scarce now), 90% unemployment rate for new grads (it's so bad, Guangzhou government just sent 500k youth to countryside for a program), 80% retail collapse (entirely empty malls in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen), 50% real estate price collapse, 40% export collapse. CCP can't hide this kind of economic collapse when Germany companies are closely watching the sales figures of cars and luxury goods of its own stores in China.

3/21 Germany's Economy Minister: "We must become less dependent on China" https://www.agenzianova.com/en/news/germany-economy-minister...

4/16 Germany backs EU-Indonesia trade pact to curb China reliance
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/germany-backs-eu-i...
He already has a battery, a Honda EU2200i to supplement it during blackouts would only be $1,200. Outrageously cheap compared to installing a 2nd home battery.
I'm an expat (immigrant?) in Germany. IME expat circles are a problem in itself. People who cling to them end up leaving much quicker than people who mingle with natives, or mingle with people from other nationalities. Not only you don't make long-term friends in those circles (because people are constantly leaving the country), but there's a lot of negativity and shit talking. You need to at least make an attempt to adapt, and those circles can be a replacement to that.
It would still be a sucky ten years, a sacrifice many people probably don't want to make. It's like the natural gas situation. We could already have a robust renewable setup here technology-wise, but it was easier to just rely on cheap gas. Now we cannot pull that renewable wonderland out of a hat over night...
It’s not HN specifically. It’s the world of JS and communities with voting mechanisms. For example I deleted my Reddit account years ago.

JS has a serious cry baby problem. If code is written without maximum consideration for easy, whatever that means, people will cry. These are large tears like an overflowing river from people who supposedly are adults wanting to be taken seriously.
I thought Max Tegmark had some pretty awesome words to say they resonate with this on his latest interview with Lex Fridman, it was quite inspiring albeit kind of scary. Worth checking it out if you like him.

But yeah, we really need to start questioning if optimizing everything is the best way forwards as a species.
This is a really smart idea! If you can't kill the process, make it completely ineffective by making it's api calls fail.
no need an extra layer of abstraction to get an "in memory" database in javascript. no need, babel, webpack, ChatGpt, npm and 10000 libraries for this really.
Let me show (works even on the browser):

const KV = {};

KV["credentials"] = {access_key: "XXXX", secret: "YYYY"};

console.log(KV["credentials"].secret);
You may have purchased an SD card with a fake/spoofed capacity, which can cause all sorts of issues. This is apparently a pretty big issue with stores like Amazon that comingle inventories from multiple vendors.
I had the thought that many of those services broken off can now be recombined. No one likes having to use 100 saas products imho.
I think it's deliberate because plebs socializing is a destabilizing factor to the state.
That works both ways. If the EU slams the door shut, the Chinese export market suffers. The Chinese are playing this very clever. The EU matters more to them than the US as a market and weakening ties between those two allies (classic divide and conquer) is a good move. Hence the Chinese are all friendly smiles when Germany pays them a visit. Win win. That visit has just one goal to ensure trade continues to function, which is a mutual interest of course. And also helps prevent things escalating into war.

The US is of course highly selective when it comes to human rights. It says one thing to China and another thing to Saudi Arabia on the same topic.

There's a lot more one could say about the apparent double standards applied there and elsewhere. But it all boils down to economic interests and level of influence it allows the US to wield. The EU is no different of course. Nor China.
Care to share the meaning of that acronym? Can't find it online :)
> Another factor I think is whether you come from a “welcomed” country.

Definitely a factor. My wife is not Asian and she gets way more opportunities than me to make friends in Japan, though it is a double edged sword as being treated differently can get really annoying after a while.
You lie by speaking selectively. BJP leadership was supportive of Nupur Sharma initially. Prominent Muslim figures like Nasiruddin Shah (who normally despise BJP) have come out and said that Nupur Sharma did not say anything wrong about Mohammed.

BJP distanced itself from her after they got a lot of push back from friendly Middle Eastern states. BJP are a bunch of opportunist cowards themselves anyway.

There is no case against Nupur Sharma and she only said what she said (on that TV show) after having been provoked by another Muslim panelist about Hinduism and Hindu gods.
It's no longer textiles and cheap plastic trinkets "we" outsource to China - there's a lot of technical knowledge, infrastructure & skill now available in China that is not easily replaceable by opening a factory in Bangladesh or Turkey.