skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was driving the speed limit, and the other driver didn't follow the rules.

If I drove slower, I could have made allowances for the errors of others. Defensive driving is the best way.
Raises some interesting points, but is horribly cynical. It does appear that Wikipedia has enough money in the bank, though.

Jimbo still has my vote though.
Privacy Issues of ChatGPT: Here is what's ahead of us
> "...That isn't a real entity..."

>

> "...These institutions are full of people..."

I'm confused - are media outlets real entities or not? There is such a thing as company culture, and organisations in general can very much be said to have values, that are set and enforced by the people who work there.

In any case what this whole subthread is apparently arguing for is that we should kick out a bunch of people, and replace them with another bunch of people, and this will somehow yield better results? It's nonsense. You only have to look at Twitter to see what that world would look like.
I don't believe I've ever seen 4 junior engineers who don't know what they're doing build anything other than a mess. I don't have any experience with rails, so I can't say whether the mess would be worse, but those engineers are definitely going to make one without guidance.
No matter how grass-roots you imagine journalism to be on the path of becoming I believe it will end up resettling into a specialized organization, because it requires cross-domain research, an ability to vulgarize, and an ability to investigate and witness events, better than any of the individuals and organizations you listed.
Reading again, I don't think the distribution in TFA ends up logarithmically spaced. The "first zero bit" function is biased low, so elements don't have an even half-life: elements towards one end are preferentially deleted.

Given uniformly-spaced elements that preference might initially move the distribution in the direction of log-spaced, but it won't trend closely to it. (I think...)
Actually every thing seems to be worse, I think govt has changed tacks from banning websites to just outright throttling internet access, no point in using VPN when you keep getting pinged out.

So they can claim the internet is "open" but it's molasses slow.
What every CEO should know about generative AI
Encouraging people to frivolously spend on luxury instead of saving is a terrible idea.
You can't accurately predict the outcome of a process if you don't understand it. Geoffrey Hinton has already explained this very clearly.
I think it's fair to call Terminal.app out especially, though. It's in sore need of an uplift in many ways — with True Color support being another annoying example. In a few weeks at WWDC we'll find out if they've ignored it again for another year.
The images are a much bigger issue than the text, I would fancy.
I've been an casual editor for over a decade, and I've never run into this issue.

I've made substantive changes to either little known but contentious or moderately well known pages - and my changes largely persisted.
Elixir or TypeScript
Quaint. Who's really blaming anyone these days? Vice-presidents maneuvering for power aren't trying to blame honestly in the first place, and the old-school bosses who'd call you into their office are retired by now. Modern organizations have Scrum Masters and Business Analysts with no disciplinary responsibility. In general, the appeal to universal truths on which to measure the individual is going out of style, and if you blame too much people will take it to Twitter or leave (exagerrating a little).

Workplace dysfunction (including the blame- and accountability issues from the article) is either coming from issues your boss knows about and can't fix, or considers acceptable, and either way you better work within the given constraints. Any solution about a griefing neighboring department will likely come through some tacit reorganizations when management reshuffles.

Not saying there is anything wrong in particular with the article, or that working through the article can't help if you truly want to reform a team; however such a task will require a manager with sufficient leadership skills and intuition about the true nature of an organization. Such a manager would better not put up powerpoint slides about the difference between blame and accountability at the end of the next daily standup. It's the intangible sprinkling of management magic that makes each team member feel understood and challenged to do better, and the diplomat's skill of negotiating a truce with the enemy within the company that no systems-thinking-article can teach.
Speaking of Small Basic, I found that SmallBASIC was a really fun discovery:

https://github.com/smallbasic/SmallBASIC

There are lots of examples to work from, a very functional Android app, and Linux users can use the AppImage releases to get up and running fast.

Back when I was comparing BASIC distros for scripting/programming, this one was by far my favorite for day-to-day use cases.

(BTW, does anyone know if the MS Small Basic software runs in Wine?)
Selling low quality products to low information readers/viewers/listeners based on a political message doesn't work in the mainstream context. Rather "right wing news" isn't actually news but rather editorial for the largest "persecuted minority" group, which can be used as an angle for businesses that support the cause.

Some examples from the talk radio I was listening to on a little road trip I just took:

An "anti-communist" MVNO. "Avoid giving your money to those big companies that hate your values". With rates that are higher than Tracfone or even Cricket, and ultimately just reselling big carrier service.

"Invest in gold". I own a bunch of gold myself, but paying higher commissions (and/or management fees) to support radio ads and other hand holding is most certainly not the way to go.

"Avoid probate". Not important (and perhaps even harmful) in most states that have adopted the Uniform Probate Code. But it's a good avenue for upselling expensive trusts and the like.

(And of course much self promotion by the hosts, and promotion of other media in the same sphere)

The equivalent for the left wing would be something like a site for LGBTQ+ people that was marketing small businesses owned/staffed by LGBTQ+ people who understand you. Which I'm sure does work. But it doesn't work for mainstream news outlets that target a broad audience, regardless of how much the right wing insists that those outlets are "leftist".
tl;dr: an invasive beetle began infesting kudzu in 2009 and has set it back. It's no longer a major invasive thread.
@annie_muss
I'm curious, are those ideas something you'd like to share publicly with people? I had an idea to build a service, where users could post their "side-project idea", as they don't want / don't have time etc to build them and are okay with others using these ideas to build something meaningful. I feel it could become a place for active startup builders to connect, a place for creativity.
Rant on the internet to convince people mainstream politics are a fucking scam, and it is not worth any of your time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism

It's not much, but it's honest work. But every American has become so passionate about politics, they are infecting the whole world with their blue-v-red bullshit, and single-handedly keeping the charade alive. Even kids, who should strive for idealism or just ignore that game for old men, are nowadays eager to fit themselves into those two neat boxes. It's a disgrace.

To answer you directly: whatever I am doing and is in my power to do, is too small to move the needle one way or the other. I eat steak, but it's from organic farms. I enjoy motorsports, but I do not own a car. I'm probably not carbon-negative, but my contribution is towards the bottom of the scale.
Ask HN: Where/How to find a marketer for personal projects as a software dev?
Hi, just want to know exactly that - where and how to find a marketer for personal projects. Any success stories are more than welcome.
Journey before destination. Schedule and build in bulk.

Learning Japanese? Take the train/bus/bike and listen to lessons via audiobook, listen to Japanese music, etc

Working on hygiene? Add your habits together in bulk. Do your face care, teeth, etc all together. Position all the products in a line in your bathroom drawer or countertop in the order you expect to use them.

Need to exercise more? Schedule your exercise with something you already have to do (going to the grocery store, walk or bike) or are highly motivated to do (go play DDR, hit the climbing gym, or listen to a video game podcast or 4 while running)

Remember that you are human and have a limited amount of willpower. So don't leave your goals to willpower, make them happen because they have to along the everyday journey.
> emails of people who have clicked on an ad, or entered their email saying they support A, B, or C and give them permission to post a comment on their behalf

Even supposing they did it this way, and people gave their informed consent (fat chance, but for the sake of the hypothetical), that's still fraud. Unless every single comment had a "written and submitted on behalf of X by firm Y" disclaimer, it's still misrepresenting the comments as coming directly from individuals.

Regardless of what fine print unwary consumers agreed to, the agencies being deceived didn't agree to any of it.
Tangentially, as nonnative speaker I really appreciate and envy that in english there is a clear separation between concepts of accountability and responsibility. I wish more languages would do so apart from English, Japanese as ChatGPT have listed.
> I get tired of the VB.NET hate.

You read a bit much into my comment. My point is just: If two languages are largely equivalent in terms of difficulty and ecosystem, why pick the more obscure one? That's not "hate".

> Any kind of coding is good coding.

Any kind of coding is better than no coding, but that doesn't mean you can't make distinctions. I simply don't see a point in making learners later lives more difficult for no obvious pedagogic benefit.
This is great! I've been looking for a framework with exactly these goals. I've been using vanilla JS and custom elements and feeling like I'm writing too much boilerplate, but all the frameworks I've tried are too heavyweight.
While stuck in a backlog grooming meeting – /r/ProgrammerHumor
Interesting discussion happening in the comments on Agile/Scrum
Accelerating cancer is the last thing we need.
Given enough computing power and resources --both human and hardware-- one could technically simulate anything. However, in the context of a reality with practical boundaries, that is simply impossible.

Imagine being tasked with simulating an entire Raspberri Pi board. You would probably need dozens of engineers and likely more than a year just to write and verify the simulation code. And, of course, a supercomputer to run it.

Hardware isn't about isolated components. It's an arrangement of components on a physical circuit board with interconnecting traces and physical characteristics that interact with the finished board. And, all of this, exists in the context of environmental requirements (temperature, humidity, vibration, RF susceptibility and emissions, thermal requirements, etc.).

A "simple" DDR memory design consists of memory chips, the transmission line (traces) connecting to the controller (FPGA, processor, etc.), the PCB stackup (at speed, this matters a lot), decoupling capacitors, the power distribution system feeding them, thermal management and more.

And that's just two chips talking to each other in a fairly structured way.
It will probably be good for GenX during retirement. Nursing homes, elder care and such will be much less burdened than they are now for the baby boomers.
You should have lived when COBOL was king, this has been around for a long time and will be around for much longer. Not to mention the classic Emacs vs vi, really just the same thing.
Interesting why was this flagged? Considering we already has some previous discussions on the Bob Lee incident?
Otherwise wealth accumulates in the hands of an asset holding class which makes everything more expensive for everyone else.
“Just a statistical text predictor”
There is also risk of someone taking project and undercutting your income. Like with Elastic and cloud.

I have opensource project under very liberal license, but never published build script and unit tests. Most people do not even notice, they just check license.
Mirror [1] to avoid the analytic tracking

[1] - https://archive.is/uEqB8
I guess the argument would be that they are not “getting started” with VB.NET but with Small Basic.

Going from Small Basic to VB.NET makes sense if the syntax is familiar but it allows you to move to move to a more professional and full feature environment. The difference between VB.NET and C# is largely syntactical so, once on VB.NET, getting to C# is a pretty easy journey.

There may be some value in this profession for early programmers as they can gently see how languages are both very similar but also different in important ways. The idea that the syntax is not the most important difference is valuable in itself.
You are very kind and your compliment put smile on my face too :)
You're right, and I have used both. I meant to say that phx.gen.auth is a good starting point, but only available as a generator. There is no easy way to add it to an established project.
Appreciate it! This is much better!
That fine is nothing it should come with stipulations that hit the people who were running those companies too.
If you one day wake up inside a box isn't your purpose in life from that moment on to find out how to escape from the box, and if that turns out to be impossible to figure out what the box is made of, etc.?

It seems that many people could enjoy a rich life, but instead they are thinking about that box all the time.
There are various posts online on how to set it up, either for Linux or Windows. There was an older post here on how to install opt-65b on a mac studio ultra, and smaller models on mac pros. There was also a post if I remember correctly about running vicuna-7b on an iPhone.

Here are a few examples:

https://morioh.com/p/55296932dd8b

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ3Lhy-eD1s

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35430432

Side note. You need bonkers hardware to run it efficiently. I'm currently using a 16-core cpu, 128G RAM, a Pcie 4.0 nvme and an RTX 3090. There are ways to run it on less powerful hardware, like 8cores, 64GB RAM, simple ssd and an RTX 3080 or 70, but I happen to have a large corpus of data to process so I went all in.
I agree. I'm not sure why they are together. Maybe all that tooling stuff that was happening in early days?
It's amazing what can get made, and how quickly, when the will is there, without any interference.
Do you have any indication it won't be spent on say, military budget, drug enforcement, domestic spying, or projects benefiting lobbyist at the detriment at the population?
"Rude is more like telling someone their tie is unfasihonable"

People can also strongly bind their identity to their clothing. There are lots of ways to hurt other people feelings, but hate speech is just on another level for me (and this thread was primarily about hate speech)
47% of all internet traffic came from bots in 2022?
But if they could mistreat their workers they would so anyway independent of the object in question. $100 sale - $20 costs - $90 fine = -$10 per unit. Nobody's going to do that unless having that in people's hands makes them money somehow. (We have seen that with game systems--sell at a loss and make it up on the games.)
Tech compensation is bimodal. On one side you have your enterprise/CRUD/corporate devs. No insult intended, that’s where most of the 2.7 million devs work and that’s where I work for most of my long career until 2020. From looking around, compensation is still around $160K - $180K at the high end.

On the other end, you have BigTech salaries that start around $150K at the low end. An intern I mentored in 2021 got a return offer of about that much.

What side do software jobs in mining end up on? That’s not a rhetorical question. I honestly don’t know.
> podcasters are supposed to have an opinion about the news, but not investigate itself.

While I see a traditional framing for the role of journalist, podcaster is a new job, so why should it be bound under those assumptions ?

I tried looking at my podcast list, and for most of them the hosts are either people in the field, basically on the ground ehen it comes to the news (when they're not creating the news themselves) and long form reports, including interviews and original research.

There's "news" podcasts out there, but coming from NPR for instance I'm not sure it's much different from the press/tv ones.
not sure how cosplaying as a vt340+ or a late 90s japanese cellphone is supposed to be an improvement?

loose coupling via byte streams is great, and so is text, but we can do better than character cell terminals

if you sacrifice textuality, xpra does reattachment, multiwindow, and lowish bandwidth pretty well
If the bad behavior is anything more than a rare thing then the fine is too low.
Both of these statements are true. Getting the right balance is something I struggle with. I am glad I traveled when I was younger. I couldn't repeat the same trips today. However, getting my BMW detailed at 24 was a waste, though it would be a waste today too.
You know, it really makes you wonder, or perhaps simply confirms what we already know: that high-ranking officials in any government (or church, or business) are often puppets of their own handlers. Advisors will filter their information streams with a carefully-curated list of talking points, PR flacks will handle the public-facing messages, secretaries, ghostwriters, et. al. will handle the internal messages, decrees, statements, etc.

Pope Benedict XVI, speaking to a high-ranking prelate in the papal apartments, was known at least once to remark, "My authority ends at that door." And it's true, I mean, aren't Popes, and democratically-elected politicians as well, supposed to be servants of the people? They should be doing our bidding, and hopefully they've put in place a staff that will prop up that public will, even after the official herself has lost the plot.
Did you use the censored or the uncensored variant?
I too have the same problem. I’m really good at starting things, and unless I find someone or some important reason to complete it, I seldom get there.

Nowadays I try to only start projects with those in place or else I find that I don’t fi…
One can keep all tensors in the RAM, just push whatever needed to GPU VRAM, basically limited by PCIe speed. Or some intelligent strategy with read-ahead from SSD if one's RAM is limited. There are even GPUs with their own SSDs.
Why isn't this fraud ?
This would be amazing to implement a jupyter kernel natively in the terminal!! can’t wait
Probably in the sense that at a slower speed, op would have been able to avoid the bad driving from the other driver. Assuming that OP was driving at 60kph originally, a 15kph slower speed equates to a roughly 0.75 extra seconds of reaction time (assuming braking acceleration is roughly 7.5m/s2). Given that an average humans reaction time is somewhere between 0.25-0.5 seconds, that means 15kph speed difference would have allowed OP to react and affect the situation. Even at higher initial speeds, 15kph gives your more than half a second extra time.
I have this too, but with a specification-by-example integration test with a brief explanation that autogenerates readable "step by step" markdown how-to docs.

The idea being that new features should be fully tested and clearly documented before being merged - ideally with a minimum of overhead. Because if you defer either, it likely won't get done.
Also: they are lobotomized. If you want to do security research, Sorry Dave. If you want to nsfw writing, Sorry Dave. If you want to open the pod bay doors, Sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
I’ll be 50 next year so I’m right in the middle.

Short version: after Covid, we realized we didn’t care about “stuff” and we wanted “experiences”.

After Covid lifted, even though it didn’t affect anyone fatally in my immediate or extended circle fatally. It did make me change my perspective and priorities.

In June 2020, my youngest (step)son graduated from high school and decided to work and not go to college. I made it clear to him and his mom since he was 9 (when we first got engaged) that I would find a way for him to college. For all intents and purposes they were my “sons”. I had planned to cash flow his college expenses. But after asking him repeatedly, he assured us he didn’t want to go.

The same month at 46, I fell into a fully remote role at $BigTech and assigned to a virtual office that meant a significant pay increase.

In 2022 my wife and I both decided we wanted to move to Orlando for a change of pace and decent weather all year.

We found what we thought was a nice condo and learned it was a unit in a condotel. An arrangement where we own the condo unit. But could only stay there 6 months out of the year. The rest of the year it was rented out like a room in a hotel and we got half the proceeds.

My wife then had the brilliant idea of us “nomadding” for the other 6 months (actually 7 from March through October).

We sold our cars and now we take Uber everywhere when we are traveling and use SixT and do monthly rentals when we are home. We fly from city to city in the US and stay in midrange hotels.

Everything we physically own that’s not real estate fits in four suitcases. It would be three. But I have one packed with my “business clothes” for the occasional corporate trip

My wife is deep in the fitness industry and before we go to a new city, she reaches out to instructors in that area to take and guest teach classes.

When we are “home” we pay one fee that covers all utilities, internet, access to a gym, a lake, and multiple large pools, three restaurants and a convenience store onsite.

We threw out everything and downsized from a 3200 square foot house in the burbs of Atlanta to a 1300 square foot condo that was the same price in 2022 that our house was in 2016. We rent our house out to our son and two friends
I was installing a fresh copy of Windows 10 this week and Cortana told me that once I connected to a Wifi network I'd be able to get on with browsing cat photos o_O

Microsoft has jokes.
Discussed multiple times before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20359100
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29217539
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35927627
Naaaah.
Note well that the article makes a strong point that any practical benefits of mathematics are, essentially, a side-effect, and even a distraction:

It would be bad enough if the culture were merely ignorant of mathematics, but what is far
worse is that people actually think they do know what math is about— and are apparently under
the gross misconception that mathematics is somehow useful to society! This is already a huge
difference between mathematics and the other arts. Mathematics is viewed by the culture as
some sort of tool for science and technology. Everyone knows that poetry and music are for pure
enjoyment and for uplifting and ennobling the human spirit (hence their virtual elimination from
the public school curriculum) but no, math is important.

Also see the first two stanzas of the dialogue between "SIMPLICIO" and "SALVIATI" that follow the above paragraph. I think, in other words, that the author would say that the "motivation" in pure mathematics papers is more of a pretext to be able to get published and continue one's work unobstructed, than something that the mathematicians themselves really care about.
I guess they figure out only a certain percentage of users go up to the hidden max warning.
If the customer leaves the platform, their withdrawal of funds doesn't hurt their profits.