skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have something of an outsider view of this, as Capt. Kirk only had very senior engineers, and ones who were officers on a ship and not IC's. Maybe some CEOs are old enough to have learned from Capt. Kirk, but most engineering managers I've met in previous roles appear to have learned from watching Game of Thrones.

The difference between an officer and a regular engineer is that an officer accepts orders and both responsibility and accountability for executing them. The captain saying "fix it" isn't a personal request, it's that for this body to prevail, you get this done. His decision is, "can I wait for my engineers to fix this problem so we can use warp to leave, or do I have to pre-emptively destroy this unknown ship to avoid everyone being captured, interrogated, tortured, and killed?"

The analogy to software is quite weak. An engineering manager is not a captain. I have had to manage teams through "do or die" deals, where we needed a feature on a deadline to show we had the capability, or we lose the sale and the CEO gets embarassed in front of his board for losing a marquee client that was handed to him and that would have closed their next funding round. Engineering managers are not like officers in a hierarchy, they are political operators like everyone else in a corp. Their calculus is, "whose ass is this if we don't make this deadline, and if it's not mine, how do I use this need as leverage to extract other concessions from said ass-owner for my commitment?"

The most valuable asset to an engineering manager is a perpetually frustrated engineer who always has a very complex reason something isn't going to work, as they become a black box of risk and uncertainty the manager can use as leverage in those discussions with their counterparts. "My frustrated loose canon genius who will demoralize your team if you cross him? He says it's impossible, but maybe there is a compromise..." I don't think it's reasonable to hold engineering managers to the standards of idealized starship officers. There would be no survivors.
I was going to jokingly say “sounds like a job for a lisp macros”…
Well one reason is that much of the executive class colludes with each other in the short run, though ultimately they are competing.
Yanis was proposing this a decade ago when it was the blue collar workers you mention being displaced. The problem is merely increasingly visible as more classes of people become affected.
This.

As an adult (I'm 53) I've managed to make lasting friends in only two contexts:

1. My local arts community, where I've served as a board member and patron for many small organizations; and

2. Cycling. I'm a big roadie, but I dabble in gravel -- primarily for social reasons. This has actually been a larger source of friends than the theater stuff, but both have been big. The bonus with cycling is that you kill two birds with one stone: you exercise AND friends in the same activity!

Now, I'm sure that one could abstract these two things out to "volunteering" and "local sports," but I feel like cycling in particular is great for this.
I think that Copilot is much better/more promising for this kind of thing because it's looking at the code you've already written without you having to constantly prompt it.

I had a lot of the same hangups as you when I had played around with ChatGPT. How do I get it to handle the monotonous stuff without me having to spend all my time teaching it?

I finally tried Copilot the other day and it was stunning. I had a half-written golang client that was a wrapper around an undocumented and poorly structured API for a tool we use. I had written the get and create methods. Then I added a comment with an example URL for delete and Copilot auto-completed the entire method in the same style as the two methods I had already written. In some cases, like formatting & error handling, it was exactly the same as what I'd written, but other cases, like variable naming, string templating, etc., it replicated the spirit of my style but adapted for this new "delete" method.

I think ChatGPT is just the wrong interface for this kind of thing (at least right now).
People affiliated with openai have privately stated they are appreciative of this project.
When old rust belt factories got converted to residential, they often kept the old floor plan, and made huge luxury lofts out of them.

I imagine there is a big market for 10,000 sq ft single room apartments with glass on four sides and hookups for a restroom+kitchen (or 2 x 5000 sq ft, 4x1250, etc).

Of course those factories were sold at firesale prices. For commercial high-rises, to get a nice outcome like that, they’d need to sell the building off a floor at a time.

Hopefully that will happen this time. Let the new residents figure out what to do with each floor.

The result would probably be incredibly nice, but too quirky for a typical flipper to put in.
As a 36 year old that recently moved yet again to a new city (the third time in my adult life), I've had decent luck joining recreational sports leagues. Lots of leagues will have options to sign up as a "free agent", which usually means you'll get placed on a team with other free agents, which tend to be others in the same boat of trying to meet new people. If you aren't necessarily the athletic type, bowling and kickball are pretty good options. I've found that most of these leagues (especially if you sign up for the novice/recreational level) are NOT very competitive, and most people are just out to have fun, meet friends, possibly have some drinks, etc.
I am beginning to believe it's on purpose.
Ah, yes, the Star Citizen argument.
If there were doing one lesson a day at 2 minutes per lesson, that would be about 36 hours of study total. Sounding like a third-grader seems pretty good for that amount of study.

Most estimates I've seen are more like 100+ hours to gain basic conversational proficiency.
We'll see how far the whole working from home thing goes, but there are a number of types of business for which it is impractical (e.g. anything that requires expensive or bulky equipment) and many people prefer to work together in person. As for co-working spaces...co-working spaces I've seen have offered offices and suites in addition to shared space. I worked out of a private office in one for a while because I wanted to use my own equipment and didn't want to schlep it in and out every day. That same reasoning applies to larger companies.
yeah, I am a bit confused by the statement. I have never planned this, it just happens after repeatedly meeting at the same pub in some frequency. I've also seen a shared, regular activity create this, for example the monthly pub quiz or sneak preview in the small independent cinema. I think it's important that it's somewhat accessible everyone so that it's not a chore.
The Revision mod it's really bad. GMDX gives consistency and it doesn't have nonsensic Chinese
characters in Hong Kong.

Also, it doesn't crap out the lightning, neither makes superficial changes because of "look, shiny!!!".
For what it's worth, and I know this isn't a perfect fix, you can set the keyboard language to anything. The keys still show qwerty obviously, but they'll be mapped to your language of choice's keyboard. You can also bring up software keyboards that show on the screen, but let you still use the keys to click the virtual keys.
> A long term lease is beneficial for the renter in many circumstances.

That really depends…

Take a well know British retailer (was either Debenhams or House of Fraser can't quite remember)

Until the 80/90s it owned most of it's stores but a PE company bought the retailer and split the property into a separate company which them leased the stores to the retailer on an ever increasing rent

The property company was then sold off for a good price as it had assets and a 'good' income stream

The retailer now unable to cope with the rent levels become unprofitable and eventually went bust
Unless it's piracy.
IMO in that situation it's more appropriate for the engineer to give a list of options, with trade-offs and estimates. If the manager insists on the fast approach, then I would insist they take ownership on that (which can mean managing comms with other teams / stakeholders). If it means cutting corners, then fixing that needs to be added to a backlog with some sort of prioritisation / resource attached to it. If that's all fine, then I think the engineer should accept the fast approach as the prudent one.
Any luck getting the Index to work on linux? I hacked away at it for about 3 months w/ Fedora but kept running into issues, random stuff like making sure the names weren't capitalized in files, etc.
There's several levels of risk, and having separate entities is what allows us to segment it.

First, let's think of it like a layer cake. We can call them tranches as well.

The company that owns the buildings borrows money from the bank. They want to pay the loans back by managing the buildings in such a way that income from rents outweigh the interest on their mortgages, plus the admin costs of staff and other little stuff. The loans (and salaries) have to be paid from the incomes before anything else. The thing is though, the bottom layer, equity, takes anything beyond the obligations. So if you owe the bank 1M and the staff 500K, but the renters are paying you 10M, you get to keep the whole 8.5M profit. If the renters only pay you 1.5M, you get no profit but the bank and the staff are happy.

If you can't pay the bank, the bank will repossess the properties. Basically, the bank's loan is converted to equity. This also means the bank can lose money on the deal, because it's possible that even selling the building leaves them in the negative, for instance if it somehow becomes worth a lot less.

So actually both the owner of the building and the bank are taking related risks. The bank is taking a credit risk: they mainly only care that you can pay the loans back and that the collateral has reasonable value. The owner is taking an equity risk: they want to balloon the profits above the interest/admin expenses so they can get those dividends.
"what kind of person feels like"

It's a quest for victimhood to justify hate.
> tl;dr - as I said before, you technically can do it but it's absurdly expensive and just not worth it.

And, of course, have sources for this?
Has done since 3rd Dec for the 388 branch

https://www.asuswrt-merlin.net/changelog
Only once in my entire life have I actually been FRIENDS with a neighbor.

Fortunately, it's right now.
That's similar to my own experience. I quite liked my Blackberry Key2. I bought a Titan Pocket, but it's just not that well made either physically or in terms of software. It's quite heavy. The keyboard has an odd layout. The screen is significantly smaller than the Key2's screen. And the software is Google Play apps plus a weird assortment of off-brand East Asian Android apps.

After years of using a physical phone keyboard (which I prefer because it reduces feels of RSI), I gave up on the Titan Pocket and just switched to a Google Pixel.
And in the context of discussing "whole word" vs "phonetic" systems of learning the English language, it seems like outright deception.
The whole point of externalities is that they’re not accounted for though.
The irony of having someone comment on the complexity of running bare redis on the same server, only for someone else suggesting a whole Kubernetes setup for essentially the same thing.

If you're already heavily invested in Kubernetes this is certainly a solution, though I feel this adds too much abstraction for the amount of problem it's solving.
Wikipedia also tells us that aged 102, "she is the last living female SOE agent of the forty who worked in France during World War II." Quite the life.
Tesla's hold their value better than any other car on the market. In 10 years, i'll spend an order of magnitude less on maintainance than every other car on the market.
I haven't come across of any project like that, but in case anyone wants to implement this and doesn't know where to start, here's a way to do it on a freedesktop-compatible linux:

Make a userspace daemon process that adds eBPF tracepoints[0] to open{,_at} etc syscalls which match files of your user directories with specific extensions (e.g. .docx).

Associate PIDs that open those files with their .desktop entries[1]

Store results in some database like sqlite3.[2]

Search this database with your favorite interface, like a CLI script or a GNOME shell search provider[3].

I have seen this Rust project on HN which does something similar but with file attribute syscalls, you can use it as reference: https://github.com/javierhonduco/sweeper

[0]: https://github.com/iovisor/bpftrace
[1]: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/desktop-entr...
[2]: https://sqlite.org/
[3]: https://developer.gnome.org/documentation/tutorials/search-p...
Quantum light source fully on-chip, bringing scalability to the quantum cloud
seems your ISP is blocking the It. The interesting question is this the effect of a) barred by law or b) considered harmful.
If anyone wants to hear some excellent talks on mastering mathematics, listen to Sal Khan on youtube. It is a stark contrast to Boaler's utopian way of thinking.
One thing I learned from reading Jung and not just the MBTI stuff based on his work is his core distinction between introversion and extroversion:

Introverts have an inner model of the world. Extroverts rely directly on the world.

It doesn’t mean that extroverts like people more or that introverts necessarily prefer being alone. It’s just that for extroverts, when nothing external is happening it’s like a little death. And for introverts, we need down time to reconcile our inner model with all of the day’s external stimulation.
Now you got me on the edge of my seat. What is this personality type?
I'm certainly not arguing that it's a way to make money. If I put a fence across a river I can make money from that too.
> solo founder

Why do you want to be a solo founder?
Even emscripten, which compiles LLVM to WASM has to use a relooper algorithm to get around the lack of jumps.
I'm actually surprised I was so close on my estimate. The point still stands. You could triple that return and it would still make almost no substantial mitigating impact.
I feel like this is a bunch of ceremony and back and forth, and also considering GPT-4 speed - I feel like I would fly past this approach just using copilot and coding.

I look forward to offloading these kinds of tasks to LLMs but I'm not seeing the value right now. Using them feels slow and unsatisfying, need to triple check everything, specify everything relevant for context.

Also maybe it's just me but verbalizing requirements unambiguously can often be harder than writing code for it. And it's not fun. If GPT4 was GPT3.5 fast it would probably be a completely different story.
> Nobody is going to pick up the hobbyist VMS license and then decide to adopt VMS at work. I bet it doesn't lead to a single extra commercial sale. It's nice that they're offering it despite that.

While I think you're probably right, having the hobbyist x86 option might help with testing and identifying bugs though, due to the larger user base.
Is that how it works?

I thought it was the other way around: states/municipalities made their budgets and spread the property tax liability around according to the property value in proportion to the sum total value of all property.

So, if all property values went down by the same percent, taxes would stay the same.

Maybe this differs by state?
"Because I like it better."

There, saved you a click.
> "and the communicator doesn't know the cells - broadcast your radicalisation on radio and let the cells organise themselves. At least one cell member knows about the communication method"

Couldn't be done by sending messages encrypted with private key and the cells decode it with public key?

Then the problem is: How to trust public keys to have been provided by the "right" correspondent, and not someone from another gang or law enforcement?
I did a stint for a website y'all know very well and believe me, the amount of optimizations we had to do were on par with Netflix. That codebase was much more well organized and sane than any Fortune 500 project I've seen in a long time.

Some days I used to wonder if I could get a book deal off of this but that's thinking too big xd.
Someone has to keep the matrix pods and hamster wheels in business. I for one welcome our human body warehousing overlords and hope to keep them solvent.
Idk. I’m not the one making the claim we’ve already nailed the optimal point though.
Everything is political, my friend. Hacker culture was never apolitical, it lived off the fat of the military-industrial complex and was a product of the politics of its day.

Allison Parrish did a great job of deconstructing the idea of hacker culture as an idyllic metritocracy independent of politics or bias, exposing its more problematic elements, and proposing an alternative value system: http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/programming-forgetting...
Is anyone having issues connecting to London/Slough servers from outside the UK?
We're encountering major problems connecting to our servers there from Asia.
Cities and towns sound pretty similar to your steden and dorp. The US can get complicated because every state defines things their own way but generally there are different legal requirements and rights for cities vs towns.

In North Carolina there is a "city" called Brevard with a population of just under 8,000 but you also have the "town" of Cary with population 170,000.

Of course there is still the issue of how the words are commonly used vs their actual legal definition but if you ask 100 different people the difference between a city and town, you'll get 100 slightly different definitions. Someone that grew up in New York City will have a very different definition than someone that grew up in Wyoming 50 miles from the nearest gas station. At the end of the day, there's just some vague notion that cities are bigger than towns.
> Of course, without an owner, the property is immediately subject to the tragedy of the commons which is almost always worse than even the worst landlords.

IIRC, the "tragedy of the commons" is basically a fiction, at least when it comes to things like the example literal plot of common grazing land. People aren't the stupid, pathologically self-centered and antisocial agents simple economics often assumes they are. If they're in a community, they work out systems to prevent overgrazing. IMHO, "tragedy of the commons" only really happens when no community can form and no community coordination can happen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons#Critici...
Is it me or does this just create a bunch of extra steps and gratuitous complexity? These tools are not so efficient or make anything easier, it seems. I'm sorry to the enthusiasts here - I am usually excited about AI and a student of Computational Linguistics, but I think this emperor is naked.
"If you can only understand what a function does by looking at the call site then the function is no longer a self-contained piece of functionality"

Wow, this is a solid guideline. Alright perhaps "SOLID" isn't the best adjective to use, but it's great advice :)

I find this in line with John Ousterhout's "Philosophy of Software Design", where there's a guideline saying that modules (classes/functions/components/etc) should be deep and interfaces simple. Instead of dividing methods/classes due to their size in lines, you should be dividing where interfaces can be simpler. Because a complex interface imposes a lot of complexity in the consumers of the module.
Shufflecake has been posted recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33586503

https://shufflecake.net/#news
One thing you might try with Copilot is to ask it to explain the code. It can often give insight, even on code that you yourself wrote a few minutes ago.
You're abusing the word "gaslighting". Nobody is claiming that Nupur Sharma deserves any retribution beyond expulsion from her position.

High-profile figures are more vulnerable than average individuals and it is not in anyone's interest to make incendiary statements that expose themselves to higher security risks. Sharma should have taken this into consideration before saying what she did on national television, even though any violence against her would be unjustified.
Why can't they do it? A tiny boot strapped company like Kagi has already made a much better search engine than Google. Are no good engineers working at Apple, or what is missing in the equation?

> but what would be gained?

People needing to buy an Apple device to reap the benefits of the internet, as Google continues to sink into their SEO-optimized malware swamp.
One you run in emacs, the other you run on someone else's computer, I guess my expectations were mismatched.
It takes three weeks because I will procrastinate the task until the last day. Then I will solve it in a couple of hours, unless if I get an extension and can shuffle the task over on someone else.

However-

If the captain of the starship knows that replacing a part takes 5 hours, it is not unreasonable to expect it to be installed in 3 days.

A starship engineer doesn't procrastinate like I do, for him, as head of engineering it takes 3 weeks because he knows there are other tasks with higher priorities. When the captain say's it takes 3 days, it is because he knows how much time it takes - this is common knowledge and they learn this in Starfleet - and most importantly he uses his right as captain to prioritize this work. this is well within the captains mandate.

If there are known knowns it is easy to make an estimate, for known unknowns the captain knows estimation is difficult

for unknown unknowns estimation is more similar to gambling than anything else. and for these tasks you need to gather information so that you remove unknowns in order to get into the territory of known unknown :-)

projects and solutions are in separate rooms, and in-between are the estimations.
Thanks for including the time stamp. That’s a pretty amazing sight to witness
It happens every now and again, they're just generally only released in India for some reason.
EU fear general purpose AI like ChatGPT has already outsmarted regulators
Hot Takes on the Modern Data Stack
> Something I've been thinking about lately is how World War Two is receding from our collective memory and how "archaic" it will eventually come to be seen?

Yeah, we're already seeing this with Holocaust denialism - as ever more and more witnesses die, revisionists have an ever easier game denying or downplaying what happened, and with no small "thanks" to the US who never bothered to follow the European example and criminalize Holocaust denial.

At least for the Holocaust, we have the physical evidence kept alive in the former death camp sites... but what about those atrocities that didn't leave much physical evidence?
> Just because people exist and have some skills doesn't mean a company can find them and hire them.

I claimed it's technically possible with 'exponentially more resources', not that any private organization could feasibly possess the resources or cachet to, in practice, hire a million top notch people.

Maintaining the literal same average quality with Googler #1001 to #10000 would probably have required spending 10x more per hire, compared to hiring #1 to #1000.
Can you please explain what TNG and TOS refer to? Thanks!
Christopher Lee (of Dracula, James Bond, Star Wars and LOTR fame) worked for the SOE, did he not? I wonder if they ever met.
Intentions are good here , but the name is highly similar and so if you want to promote the project it seems fitting to rename for the sake of gaining more trust from new users. It is annoying though that the open-source well-intentioned project has to make the change tho.
internal flash for boot, internal power control, internal clock