skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Example project? what example project? np what? and then what?

I all this complication to show some clicky things on a web browser while inputting some data?

Why does your recommendation starts with "just download some other dudes code" to START a project?

These questions are obviously a means to make a point.

You can cross-compile Java and I'm not even defending Java, I used it as an example if we are going to suffer with this Rube Goldberg machine of mediocrity, then we might as well just program in Java, since it has the better tech and their package/import stuff is light years better than any TS or ES script and btw, it looks pretty much just like Java/C# now.

The JS people in charge completely lost the plot and given the nature of the industry, many software devs just started their careers with ES5/6/Typescript and don't even realize how ridiculous this whole thing is.

The problem was the misplaced "need" to make "Javascript" a "serious", best-of-breed ( ugh.. ) language to make big complicated web-apps. Given the premise and the context, of course we end with something like Typescript, which is as boring and mind numbing as Java.

How ironic it is to see the "hip" cool people at the time ending up with a mediocre copycat version of the Java world.. :)
I think the titlet does a disservice to the article - it has a single line about almonds.

It's a very interesting read about life without water (or when your water bill quadruples in 6 months)

They also mention that alfalfa uses 4 times as much water as households in Arizona, alfalf is a cattle feed crop - dont know that almonds are pointed to as the issue
If they’re tricky to produce well, that suggests another possibility - maybe they were a journeyman piece for bronze crafters. Does it require combining a number of different techniques to produce? Would deficiencies in particular techniques manifest in obvious flaws in the finished artifact?

Or maybe they’re more like fizzbuzz for gallo-Roman bronze artificers. You show up at an interview and they ask you to knock out one of these to prove you’re not an idiot.
Did the author mention C++?

Also, as a user of intelliJ, I would prefer it be written in C++. It's dog-slow.

> Facebook is originally PHP

I doubt it's success was based on its tech, but the fact it was rewritten tells a tale in itself, no?
That's not true, fortunately. You do need a router with a beefy CPU, though.

With SQM (CAKE) enabled, my WRT1900acs router (1.6GHz dual-core) can handle my 500/100 Mbps FTTH connection just fine, with plenty of CPU to spare. From my calculations it probably doesn't quite have enough CPU to sustain 1 Gbps, should I ever upgrade to that. But the router itself is a few years old now, so that's not really surprising.
Selling time (hourly), I can't keep it up forever, and 10 years ago it was more like $100-$120k. I already see this year slowing down some, but it might be back to more like $120k, but on a part time effort, which will be nice in its own way. I was regularly putting in 50+ hours/week, and it's just not something I could maintain long term.
"Ditched" as in "off the road and in the ditch", sorry wasn't clear.

Any training for driving on ice is going to be verbal only, as it would probably be 2+ years before the next winter storm and a chance to acquire practical skills. "Steer into the direction of the skid" doesn't acquire real meaning until you've actually had to do that.
https://chat.lmsys.org/?arena (Click 'leaderboard')
> Why didn't FBI raid these companies?

> They raided a ex-Presidents private residence for papers.

Because that's not really how the FBI works. Recovering classified material from someone not entitled to be in possession of it is totally different. You probably want to read more, you seem to be speaking only at a very surface level, probably more than just Facebook too.

That said, while your rational for why they should be raided by the FBI is insane. I'm with you on the underlying idea. It seems crazy to me too that no federal agency is seeking charges under 18 USC 1001. How'd they avoid that?
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This is the first code I've written in WebGL2. It supports Chrome, Firefox, and Safari (macOS or ipadOS).
Googlers are no more unbiased than someone who gets a job somewhere else. Getting a job at Google might affect your opinions somewhat when you see what people are doing, but there is no special training in being unbiased.

Also, the document we're discussing was not written as a serious research paper. It's a more like one of Steve Yegge's rants, written to be provocative.

When something Yegge wrote while at Google leaked, people knew who he was, so it was interpreted as "here's what Yegge thinks." It's the same in this case, but it's someone else who isn't famous.
Yes, some people like their jobs or see a way to advance their career.
It's not just you. I think it is with great generosity that this article can be described as merely ignorant.
I think DomTerm (in addition handling sixels and extended emoji) does multi-plexing and remoting quite well. Remote access (https://domterm.org/Remoting-over-ssh.html) is done with a simple wrapper over ssh. Mosh-style predictive echo. No special priviliges needed: Just drop a domterm executable somewhere on the remote machine. Multiplexing with tabs and tiles that can be dragged between windows. Builtin attach/detach.
I’ve worked in organisations that distinguish between responsibility and accountability. If a manager assigns a task to someone then that person is responsible for it. However, the manager may be accountable if something goes wrong, e.g. if the person isn’t correctly trained.
I don’t think it’s particularly stretching the analogy, unless you think it would be appropriate that Terrence Tao could only be taught as he was if the lowest 9th grader would be taught Algebra II.
Thanks for the update. It's a timesaver.
That's trivially proven false by the numerous examples of social sites that subsist for decades with a healthy community.
That'll change once 90% of posts on Reddit are bot posts. It's already happening...
Yeah except this time we are outsourcing to AI.
> When having conversations in HN does it bother you that you have no way to know if you're talking to a real human, not hiding behind fake usernames?

On HN, I'm not bothered at all. If I see the username "dang" for example, I know it's YC moderator dang also same with "patio11". I see HN as more of a private group discourse vs Twitter where it's public and where blue makes more sense. Akin to a forum, where I frequent like home-barista, the community is smaller and more focused so I don't see why having blue makes sense.
Honest question: how many people employed as journalists do you personally know?

I ask because this sort of comment against an entire profession is generally a symptom of a level of separation that allows for the lack of nuance like "journalists are dishonest".

I am troubled by these views shared by so many on HN too. Journalism, especially the editorialised version, as a profession is extremely valuable. There are certainly problems it is facing with the advent of the internet but a replacement that consists of "individuals broadcasting their views" is going to be a worse deal because there will be no expectation for having an editor that sounds out their views. There is no check valve for individual ambition.

I would like to see a system that incentives factful reporting instead of sensationalism of course, but I have seen enough to believe that we can't do that with individuals for similar reasons we choose democracy over autocracy most of the time.
this applies to any large community. no reason to suggest those sites are uniquely worse.
This is a very good essay. I don’t understand the assertion about the “this is a path predominantly used by women”, if that led to the necessary epiphany, great.

I remember being impressed the people who were good at snark: clever sarcastic quips that were funny with a germ of truth in them. I was sorry I wasn’t so quick on my feet (tongue) but participated.

And then somehow, one day, I realized that yes, people liked the humor, but often weren’t close to those folks, because maybe the quips could be aimed at them. And luckily that happened when I was young enough to drop it. There are other ways to be smart.
No, just make sure that everybody is properly buckled.
Oracle does the same thing with MySQL to limit how much MariaDB can do.
The mere fact that BlueSky is on wired is a sign it's doing something right.
Name such a company.
I _think_ they're often nitinol, i.e., shape-memory metal. Nitinol can be hot-formed, cooled, then formed a further limited amount. When reheated, they will return to their hot-formed shape.
It's not uncommon. Some departments take the "CS" label serious, and focus on that. Arguably it should be more common to have degrees with explicit "software" labeling vs expecting CS to focus on development.
Mathematical models aren't real in the same way as human social life is. Just like social structures, they are accorded certain laws, which determine their order; but human social structures have real effects, whereas one can modify axioms in a mathematical model and nothing changes until you apply that model to social life. By all means, math can model certain things from basic, accepted axioms that even we aren't aware of and give us conclusions we could've never predicted; but to pretend that this somehow implies that our axioms, which we constructed, are somehow "right" or "wrong" in and of themselves, and not in their relation to how we use such math to organize society--I believe that logic is extremely flawed.

Political ideology is always in the service of constructing a logic to sustain itself, consciously or not, someone constructing a set of axioms that just so happen to lead to the political conclusion they find most favorable, and then they call those axioms true. Whatever truth value someone ascribes to mathematical axioms, whether they be "right" or "wrong," is far less important than for what purpose they are employed.
Recently Wikipedia editors in Belarus and Saudi Arabia have been jailed —in one case sentenced to 32 years— for editing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_imprisoned_for_...

The Wikimedia Foundation resists requests from foreign governments to unmask editors, but sometimes they’ve already publicly identified themselves or been discovered because of state surveillance / control of ISPs.

Governments using this tactic to silence the most active Wikipedia editors and create a chilling effect is a really serious threat to Wikipedia, and we need better technical tools for helping Wikipedians stay anonymous.

The biggest thing HN folks can do here is contribute (code or dollars) to projects like Tor. Unfortunately since Tor is really complex to use and the source of so much spam and abuse, it’s just not very effective today at protecting people from state actors.
Depends. Also in my experience I see a huge dropoff in coding interest when students move from the fun environments I mentioned, to the professional tools programmers use. Unfortunately there's not much of a middle ground, and there's only a small slice of students who "get" the stuff (like lexical scoping) we throw at them at such an early age. I think we are doing them a disservice by trying to make professional coders out of young learners.

Many of us who learned on systems like basic became professional programmers eventually, so I don't really see why it's so important for early tools to mimic what software developers use. Excel is an example of a language with globally-scoped variables, and it's used by more people than all other languages combined to successfully run everything from personal finances to business operations. SQL is another example of a language that is used by non-programmers that doesn't have the typical lexical scoping rules. So it's certainly possible to build complex systems without lexical scoping, and it seems like non programmers “get” this version of programming moreso than even Python, which is lauded by programmers for how supposedly learnable it is.
If you have a startup idea you can try applying for credits https://aws.amazon.com/activate/
Ha - I was thinking the exact opposite. I'd have figured that tools that require an understanding of an entire project (imports/exports/types/etc) would need be VERY memory intensive, and something that would actually benefit from manual management/rust.

I don't know much about compilers/formatters/linkers and how they work though, so I could easily be wrong.
> You're not the arbitrator of who people want to work with or of the definition of what "as a society" people choose to do.

Obviously, I am just parroting the general opinion for your awareness. We have consumer protection laws for a reason. You are free to be "anonymous" but it's mostly not true (you can easily be found out) and you will find it difficult to do business.

Do you want to have a higher probability for success of your business?
Given that it is all metals including heavy ones I suspect these sponges would be even worse than chelation, even if it left calcium alone. Hello anemia.
Any integral you can sample can be solved with monte carlo methods. This doesn't really have anything to do with the link.
I read the preface and there are things I agree with and things I find problematic depending on how the author goes about explaining them. The major one of these last is the seeming identity of probability with randomness.

Statistics and probability are tools humans use to predict outcomes of the world, they are not necessarily accurate reflections of the mechanisms of the world. Maybe I'm strawmanning the author here, I don't know. I may read the full book at some point but probably not yet.

There may very well be a limit where events are random (such as particle decay), but surely even fully determined events can have probabilistic outcomes, when aggregated. Like say you have 4 beads, 3 black and 1 white. And you non-blindly align all combinations of three beads. You'll have four combinations, three of which contain a white bead. So the probabilistic odds of any one combination of three beads containing a white bead is 75%. If a person picks three beads based on preference, another person can say that there's a 75% chance that those three beads will contain a white bead, iterated over enough picks. But the actual picking for all picks is fully determined by the current preference of the person picking the three beads.
The End of Online Privacy
> I doubt it's success was based on its tech

Never underestimate how powerful a low barrier to entry is for trying things quickly. In a winner take all market like social media, it’s very possible the choice of PHP over something like lisp gave them a huge advantage.
One thing this tool doesn’t offer is an over time component. I wrote this (it’s pretty primitive) to examine latencies over time.

https://github.com/acolombi/ping_parse
Agreed, however UNTIL we figure out how to do that, we're stuck with pvp nightmare capitalism

To get where you want, you have to actively change the structure and trajectory of society
It’s really a pity because nest.js is an awesome and very intuitive backend framework. Because it’s written on top of express, the real power comes from being able to drop down to the express layer anytime.
yeah I make similar as FAANG employees but in a mixture of businesses and capital gains, deducted by retirement contributions (doing your own employer match is a super power! 3x higher contribution limit), QBI, illiquid asset based donations to donor advised funds and deducting the expenses to generate income

my tax is basically 0 every year, down from closer to 52% marginal in California (effective 40%)

if I was doing the same with W-2 income there would be almost nothing I could do
> The only reason to believe Worldcoin would be a “bright spot” is if you did zero research and are taking the creators fully at their word.

you misread. the bright spot is the funding event.
There's even a quote investigator entry for this phrase, which dates to at least 1911, though I'd assume it's been around almost as long as the original idiom it's an inversion of.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/08/30/practice/
airplane meme

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EqR7AbhVQAAuuvA.jpg

celebrities who get attention for mental illness ignores all the ordinary people with mental illness who get no such coverage
https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-cpaasch-ippm-responsiv...

You may want to read the RFC draft. However, the results are meant to be opaque. You just need to know that more RPM is better.
At the same time, I'm not sure I'd give any more weight to something written by "leading forces within relevant orgs" when these are the same people who missed ChatGPT and are playing catch-up.
The Internet Statistics That Matter in 2023 and Beyond
Unfortunately, few of these fully apply to investing in early stage small businesses. These are criteria used by bankers when making loans to small businesses—which they don’t like to do because of the risk.

I will go through each criterion:

1. Yes! Always important.

2. Impossible on so many levels. Nobody knows-not even large businesses.

3. Also irrelevant. Early startups don’t even do books let alone produce credible balance sheets. It’s not good, but it’s reality.

4. Important, but so difficult to determine over short periods of time. I try really hard to test this. I’m right about 50% of the time. Background checks can be helpful; and references can be good.

5. Also very important, and difficult to discern. But definitely worth including.

6. The “what makes this fail” analysis is a good thing to do, but usually the answers are the same: no cash, founder is a flake, market timing is bad, and go-to-market is too complex and/or expensive.

7.& 8. I so wish this data were available, but it never is. Startups rarely keep track of KPI. It’s all chaotic management and 90% of time spent on fundraising.

9. So valuations have been “out of whack” for awhile. Startups with no revenue are asking for $5+ million valuation out of the gate. This is 2-3x too high with no revenue. With the economy changing so quickly, risk is increased, multiples are dropping, so valuations have to come down. Then, the out year estimates start to make more sense.

10. It’s a crap shoot, honestly. Opportunity cost analysis would cause any potential investor to run in the opposite direction!
It's not about testing only. All future features have to be vetted against the design decisions made in those contributions. Maybe the primary maintainer, after accepting a contribution, has to mind consistency with a feature, they now have to make Tain they don't care about from the start and is in the way for a feature they'd like.

Taking contributions has long-term cost.
It is what it is. Physics does not discrimate.
This is my approach as well.

I don't need to believe I have some pre-ordained mission or grand vision for my life. I'm ok with the fact that I am one in 7 billion, insignificant to most, but significant to my wife and my family.

Pursuing goals is a great feeling and so generally I do my best to optimize my life around performing well in body and mind. Control what you can, have peace with what you cannot, and cultivate the wisdom to know the difference.
Terror is a fucking stupid method for bloody-minded idiot barbarians. It worked so well that the French went to dynastic emperors!
The Intention Heuristic and Non-Profits
.NET 5+ supports VB.NET, but only barely. You cannot use VB.NET for ASP.NET Core web apps (due to missing support for Span<T>).
Remembering My Hijacking
My guess has been that they are an item a journeyman blacksmith had to create to be promoted to master. From the photos I've seen, they're similar but not identical. So they likely aren't being made as a regular production item like nails or hinges would be.
Even if you are the clear owner, your company can be taken away from you.

If not, this would be even more possible, especially if financial prosperity were to arise.

It may not be every day, but there are definitely arbitrators of what they will tolerate before turning "society" either for or against you when you come up on their radar.

Whether you are well identified or not.
Which is why I like specialized orgs for niche topics.
Not always, some can hit the sweet spot of being simple in all phases of development and quick to learn. They are super rare though and their lessons are forgotten; industry often standardizes on inferior things with better marketing.
They look cool and I would love to be able to buy one but the sustainability tax seems too high to be a successful product to me.
I'm pretty sure US has never been condemned by the UN to the degree Russia is now. Even China and India formally acknowledged Russian aggression against Ukraine.

Also, if you are letting in some of one propaganda does it make you obligated to also let in some even worse propaganda?

The idea that you must do what someone wants you to do because if you don't you are somehow unjust or inconsistent is a known psychological manipulation technique.
Before the 19th and 20th century, much of the basis of modern math was entirely leisurely and recreational. Even today that still rings true. I recommend reading Barry Mazur's "Number Theory as Gadfly" to add some context to that claim.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism

“Nominative determinism is the hypothesis that people tend to gravitate towards areas of work that fit their names.”
I've seen it crash a few times, typically when I'm running a flaky video driver, like Matrox Millennium in the old days or nouveau more recently.

Modern Windows, by contrast, knows how to restart a crashed video driver, without the clients even knowing anything has happened.
Not saying that it isn't useful in practice, but ping is not the best tool if you want accurate latency measurements (ICMP is often deprioritized, in the network and by the OS when sending back replies).
Cool AI projects to play around with when you're bored
Should note that this article is from 2021. It references this article by Thomas Fuller: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/21/us/san-francisco-shoplift...
I don't think a thought that fits in a tweet is really worth sharing in the grand scheme of things.

Even such rare occasions when this is the case is incomparable to the sheer mountain of value that Wikipedia represents to everybody in the society who has any desire for any education.
i dont get it. there are people shilling mastodon, there are people shilling for nostr, or bluesky. there are people who are hating on these "platforms" as if the community built on top of these tools is relevant because of the underlying tech.

I dont get it, people who use twitter and have migrated to mastodon or bluesky or whatever, will be the same toxic level nonsense. what has that got to do with the tech?

what do these tech journos know about the underlying technologies, activitypub for example and how can they "feel" if a tehc is good or bad depending on the community that uses it?

example.

1. mastodon= twitter outlaws.

2. pleroma= manga / emoji

oh, also, how do you say a tech is good or bad by the values publicly potrayed by the dev, primary or one of the dozens?

like for example, rebased is said to be bad because it is used by trumps social network and the dev is helping them.

same for mastodon. or pleroma or some other thing?

shouldn't the mastodon v pleroma v twitter v bluesky v nostr be on the technical specs, which one is more open or more restrictive or light on resources or more manageable or more accessible or some other objective metric?
Why every startup needs a password manager
Has anyone tried running encryption algorithms through these models? I wonder if it could be trained to decrypt.