skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not paying the premium for health insurance, no. But I am paying 200 a month to upgrade to "platinum", I'm paying 400 a month because Blue Shield lists a lifesaving medicine I've been on for 2 decades as a tier 3 drug, so I had to battle with them for 3 weeks to get them to "cover" it at 400 a month out of my pocket. I then have a 4k per family deductible we need to reach on top of the drug co-pays. So when my wife thought she broke her toe it cost is 1500 out of pocket. This is the absolute best, top tier platinum" insurance afforded me administered by a "non profit" that was stripped of much of its non profit status for making billions in profit.

All that adds up to 7204 out of our pocket per year before any sort of catastrophic or even regular event like childbirth.

And we're the lucky ones
king hommelix decrees that people are not allowed to monetize recommendations lists on the internet.
I do not love them, but I hate the feeling of the withdraw so much that I love taking them in a Stockholm syndrome kind of way.
I would think the problem is that these LLMs don’t have a concept of any reality/objects outside of language. So many of the insights that come intuitively to humans, like Newton’s apple, will probably not come to an LLM. But I’m really just guessing. I also wouldn’t have thought that ChatGPT can draw a unicorn, and yet apparently it can.
Phone hacking authorised at highest levels of publisher, court hears
He has an ESD mat! And it's on the table already, as mentioned in the article. It's the gray surface.
I have not used Pharo yet, but I've used Cuis Smalltalk for a college class and it was one of the most fun experiences while writing code that I had since my first steps back when I was a kid. I'm pretty eager to learn more about Smalltalk and write something meaningful in it.

To anyone who has not yet tried it I suggest heavily that you do, even if it's just for the sake of having fun, it just can be a bit confusing at first since it's a pretty different environment.
This is a great question. and I have worked at multiple startups, and mega-corps. The only attribute I would look for is the engineering culture in the team or org you are joining. I found the best orgs to have a cultural tone set by engineer-turned managers who remain hands-on and value excellence in engineering.

Majority of managers are average coders who have moved on to management. Such managers look down at engineers with disdain (or as code-monkeys) or worse they see themselves higher in the status hierarchy and impose themselves on the engineers or god-forbid, they see themselves as technically better and interfere in technical decisions. this leads to a poor engineering culture in the org as excellence in engineering is not even measured or appreciated

granted, the cultural tone of a team or org is difficult to gauge from outside and during the interview process.
Agree. I've learned an approach to picking up new things, solving problems, and thinking things through such that I get it right the first time more often. It's a measure twice cut once type approach. Where as, my younger self would just start trying things and would end up getting it right eventually. It felt fast but took longer and might have had some collateral damage depending on situation.
Maybe kinda pedantic but, this is not Plato/Socrates saying this here, but Socrates telling Phaedrus what King Thamus said to Thoth. It's kinda important I guess, because Socrates is ultimately somewhat ambivalent by the end of the dialogue on this issue.

Consider also Derrida's thoughts on these matters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmakon_(philosophy)
A lot of know-how is learned on the job. What are the jobs? Well, look and see what your day-to-day looks like and if there’s a service you could provide to make it better.

If you’re commuting 2+ hours a day buying a bus and helping other commute for $ could be a start :-). All just ideas, though.
Normal bing is still crap, the main reason to switch is Bing AI, will they allow it on Firefox though?

The best private search engine IMO is Brave Search.
It has nothing to do with a sex tape. There was an allegation, but generally speaking it is a strategic move to get more votes for Kılıçdaroğlu
Definitely - adding contacts in TFC is an unreasonable burden, cannot copy paste addresses into the source machine, 56-character tor addresses have to be typed in manually, followed by the recipients' public key.
I'd rather an application existed and asked me to use my own key than the developer thought "bugger that. I won't bother" and never built it.
Yep, it's taking a lot of time. Please try waiting for 50-60 seconds. I'll work on it for sure.
Most big tech employees are not startup people. That's why they work at big tech.
The new human pangenome could help unveil the biology of everyone
Everyone seems to be doing the same thing these days: bigger text, more padding and hiding things in submenus
> Less that 10 years ago, JavaScript sucked bad. It had no imports, no classes, no async, no arrow functions

No classes in JS was much better than with. As someone who used and contributed to CoffeeScript, I was initially excited by them but in retrospect, they've been a huge negative IMO.

Douglas Crockford saw it immediately: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSGEjv3Tqo0&t=300s
What about people who get their stuff done with mature, well established, and high performant Java and C# frameworks? The benefits of static languages is already established, particularly for longer maintained and larger code bases where multiple people work on them.
You're right; I misunderstood the comment to mean, "the matter of whether something is a conspiracy, and the fact pattern of that thing, are unrelated."

But it seems like what the commenter meant was, "the matter of whether a given act is properly regarded as a conspiracy, and then the evidence supporting a particular instance of that act, are unrelated."
I've been rewriting Python->C for nearly 20 years now. The expected speedup is around 100x, or 1000x for numerical stuff or allocation-heavy work that can be done statically. Whenever you get 10,000x or above, it's because you've written a better algorithm. You can't generalize that. A 35k speedup is a cool demo but should be regarded as hype.
You could also have said that about Altavista, and you would’ve been right. Like GP said, it’s too early to tell.
> I'm a PM and I think veeerrrryyy few people understand this, including many of my fellow PMs.

Preach. And the universe of people who can actually do the work to start something and get it to PMF is a pretty small subset of those who understand the concepts in theory.
I think that's true for most paradigms.

Most people see .prototype and the end-all-be-all of Prototypal Inheritance and base everything they think they know about it, from how a frontend from the early 2000s was coded.

They work through some lisp book in school, have an exam and think that's all lisp development can give you.

Same for functional programming, where most "we love functional programming" companies just compose some small-ish functions in a chain and call it a day.

Everything that is initially niche, finds a good fit and becomes "mainstream" or even a bit popular, tends to be mushed into some other paradigm while getting there.
I'm glad System76 is flying the flag of a strong desktop environment for their distro. It's been a bit of a vacuum since Ubuntu stepped away from Unity.
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies:

System Management: Jira

System Design: UML, design patterns, database design, UX/UI design, real-time, communication protocols

Languages: Java, JavaScript, Typescript, C/C++, Python, C#, HTML5, XML, CSS, SVG

Database: PostgreSQL/PostGIS, DynamoDB, MySQL, Oracle, DB2, MongoDB

O/S: Linux, OSX, Windows, AIX, Solaris, HPUX

Cloud: AWS (S3, EC2, ECS, EB, RDS (PostgreSQL, MySQL), DynamoDB, Lambda, SQS, SNS, Route 53)

UI Frameworks: Svelte, React, Vue, Angular, GWT, MeteorJS, Bootstrap

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Email: Paul.Wujek@gmail.com
> If you take a step back, human technology has indeed improved our living condition massively: Never in the history of mankind so many people have lived so comfortably and also so healthily

True, but we also have the ability to kill more people more quickly.

Technology presents both great opportunities and great risks.

We are well served to take seriously the short, medium and long term risks of that technology. From nuclear war, to climate change, to becoming a multi-planetary and eventual a multi-solar species.

It is both simultaneously true that the potential of technology is not so great as to justify destroying everything we have in it's pursuit and that the potential of technology is great enough to take some risks in it's pursuit.

In the end, I think we are best served by empowering people to make their own choices. Whether that choice is to become transhuman or to live in harmony with nature, or some fusion of the two.
No pricing, but given that OpenAI's GPT-4 doubles the cost-per-token if you go from 8k to a 32k context window, I suspect the pricing here will be 2-4x from the base Claude model which is 9k: https://cdn2.assets-servd.host/anthropic-website/production/...

Although with flash attention, who knows if marginal cost scales that consistently.
This is why I don't read news articles on my phone. It's absolutely ridiculous what publishers do with ads
Ohh man.
The usual crap: Desingers adding unneeded whitepace to show of their super skillz.
These GUI designer bros should really limit their work to their own tools and leave the productive part of the world alone.
Just to add a non-snarky reply: I agree, we are lucky, but I fear (especially based on the replies to your statement), the majority of American engineers would prefer things to be more like they are in Europe.

"There are dozens of us!" that are aware of how lucky we are!
Can confirm. When I can't work off my internal MacBook storage, my working drive is a RAID0 NVME array over Thunderbolt. Jobs setup in Carbon Copy Cloner make incremental hourly backups to a NAS on site as well as a locally-attached RAID6 HDD array.

If the stripe dies, worst case is I lose up to one hour of work, plus let's say another hour copying assets back to a rebuilt stripe.

There are so many MASSIVE files created in intermediate stages of audiovisual [post] production.
Random committee draft of the C spec from 2007 (552 pages): https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1256.pdf

Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer’s Manual, Volume 2 Instruction Set Reference (2552 pages!!!): https://cdrdv2-public.intel.com/774492/325383-sdm-vol-2abcd....

The ECMAScript language spec is closer to the C spec than the C++ spec, by a large margin. I'm not sure how much you can deduce about relative complexity from these figures.
Yes I believe most people are a "little bit narcissistic" if you have to term it like that.

Do you believe it's binary or a spectrum?

At what point do you think people "cross over" to meet a threshold of being a "narcissist"?
Have you filed bug reports? I've found the developers pretty responsive.
Erasmus is a common word in european language, meaning "exchange". Imagine you live in Paris, you're a French person, you will probably "go on an erasmus" during your studies. You will study abroad during one semester, in Berlin for example.

In Europe, we also say "erasmus" for people who went abroad, outside the EU (USA for example). It's harder to go on an exchange in the USA as you have to translate your grades, everything is more expensive (no european health insurance, etc).

Hope this helps.
I am interested in a concept close to a CRDT - but I think meaningfully different.

Is there a 'data structure' or 'scheme/setup' which fits the below description?

Have a repo (with a specific git commit hash), which is specifically constructed to reproducibly construct some data (database, dataset, set of examples files, etc) (which can then be checked by a checksum), such that when a different person pulls and executes that code, a decision could be made to either run the code again, or to pull it from the decentralized group of people that have that repo database.

This is effectively "code as data" which is checked by a key value pairing: [git commit hash <==> data checksum hash]. So if you have a process that runs for 24 days on a good machine and produces a 30 MB file for people to use, they can check for reproducibilityif they want with the code, or just grab the file from everyone who pulled the repo to save time. Obviously having defaults for download or rerun could be determined by certain logic like execution time etc, but the base idea is something I've looked into for a while.

Is there a name for this type of setup?
i've been keeping my own resource list for a few years: https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy/

much more for developers learning a bit of design rather than designers learning to design.

just offering for anyone else interested!
I rowed in a 4 and 8 in college. As we were a club sport, we didn't get much funding from the school. As a result we had numerous ancient watercraft with some newer boats in the mix. It was always a joy to get to row in the newer boats, of course, as they were lighter and stronger.

We also had a thing called the "twinkie test". Rowing is a sport where everyone needs to be in perfect sync and "pulling their own weight". If you could replace a rower with a twinkie and the boat went faster, then it was fair to say you weren't contributing enough.
Well, that's one way to put it.
RankScience (YC W17) is hiring SDRs with a knack for SEO
Doesn't anyone review their work before presenting it?

There is no way this should have gotten past your co-workers eye if they put any amount of diligence into their writing. I would give them a warning, because it is a red flag that the rest of their work is probably one-shot without review as well. It's just plain sloppy and unacceptable even if the word wasn't a derogatory one.

Imagine if this was in front of a customer. The entire company's credibility would be in question, and possibly lawsuits would fly. So I'm prone to taking a hard stance on this one.
Assisted Generation: a new direction toward low-latency text generation
I explained the point twice.
I like introducing people to new concepts, and I will assume this entry is for non-technologists. This is an excellent start.

If I may suggest, stop insulting your readers (e.g., several places implying reader does or does not do something 'normally', or not know something).

In cases where an error is well known, describe the error so it is understood you are using it as an example, and not an actual error (e.g., Null character (�) a black diamond with white question mark in the middle).

Single bit is the most often used type of data (vs "single bit is almost completely useless"). Your lights are on, or off; you are dead or alive; it is today or not, vast majority of network flags in various protocols are single bits.

There are a lot of weasel words throughout the post. If you plan to educate, uncertainty reduces comprehension and retention. There are some absolute statements are made too, but might rightfully questioned (e.g., [b]inary is the only language computers understand). Make sure your absolutes are truly absolutes.

Keep up the good work.
I agree that most will be fine with a monolith, I never said anything to the contrary. But let's not pretend that the limits don't exist and don't matter. They matter to my company (and we're not Facebook or Google, but we're far older and probably have more code).
I’m convinced that the Erasmus programme (and it’s not so serious counterparts such as AEGEE and IAESTE) contribute to lasting peace in Europe by marrying people between nations.
> I could also admit that in 1970, there were even cheaper cars than a Dodge Dart, but I'm excluding them b/c at the time, they were still a sort of novelty..

The cheapest car I can find from 1972 was $2131 or $15k in today's dollars [1]. That's pretty close to the cheapest car today, the Nissan Versa at $16K.

There was no time when cars were significantly cheaper (inflation adjusted) than they are today.

The Model T would have cost $27000 in today's dollars. And in almost every other year in car history, cars have on average been more expensive than that [2].

1. https://blog.consumerguide.com/6-cheapest-american-cars-1972...

2. https://blog.cheapism.com/average-car-price-by-year/
A truck has more bandwidth than network adapters technically
A couple of thoughts pop to mind:

https://learn.sparkfun.com/

https://learn.adafruit.com/

Both have lots of tutorials around all sorts of "programmable gadget" kinds of things. Now to be fair, both sites are somewhat centered on products that they sell, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.
To be fair, any authoritarian worth worrying about will either simply not care or secretly staff Congress and the courts with sympathizers who will do a Palpatine and "make it legal."

The Constitution is just a piece of paper. Its only power lies in the willingness of people to believe in the political fiction that is "law." Trump is the closest the US has come to a truly dangerous authoritarian so far, but he wasn't competent enough to get his shit together and really take over. But he could have. He had millions of people convinced the Democrats were involved in an international communist conspiracy to steal the election. People within the government and military leadership openly espousing their support for a coup. Support within law enforcement. Half the country willing to ride or die for him.

And ironically his greatest success in terms of forcing his political agenda was completely legal - stacking the Supreme Court with ideologues. Doesn't really matter how hard the Constitution is to change when nine unelected people with lifetime appointments can just decide what it means.
My late `09 Mac Mini blew up a few years ago. I had a spare one a friend gave me that I fired up and when I sent an email to the BBEDit folks asking if could download and unlock that version they gave it to me without any hesitation. All they asked for was my email address. Same with the folks at "Fetch".

Adobe basically told to piss off when I asked for a copy of the version of Photoshop I'd paid for. I downloaded a version of Pixelmator for free instead and haven't given Adobe a nickel since, and I won't ever buy anything from them again.
I am certainly not one to defend the new ansible docs, but part of the woes that you're describing are due to the fact they just doubled down on `ansible-galaxy install` based setups, meaning there isn't "an answer" to what filters are available in ansible

The authoritative answer to what filters are currently available in your distribution is by running `ansible-doc -t filter --list` which does include a summary line, although for some of them it's "geez, thanks" just like any open source collection of disparate modules glued together

I used to actually build the ansible docs locally with singlehtml because I despised that chopped-up view, but now that they're all "galaxy all the things" it's practically useless again (although I will also say that building it locally and eliding all their tracking bullshit makes the pages load like a bazillion times faster, so ... still valuable in that way)
... just to clarify, when you say pass ...
Imagine coming in 2023 to an American site and telling people to have any sort of moral standards, like not having extra-marital sex. What a sucker.
Show HN: Hacker News with Tags
Hi, I’m Kirubakaran. I’m building histre - a knowledge tool for individuals and teams.

One of the features of histre is to auto-organize your knowledge. I thought that a fun way to demo that could be to apply that to the Hacker News front page.

This page mirrors HN with tags automatically applied: https://histre.com/hn/

You can filter by or exclude multiple tags. For example, if you’re tired of posts related to ai and politics, this will remove them https://histre.com/hn/?tags=+all-ai-politics

The tags for the posts are picked by gpt-3.5

You can get these tags inside Hacker News itself with these open-source browser extensions for Chrome and Firefox:

Source: https://gitlab.com/histre/hn-tags

Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-tags/i...

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hacker-news-t...

People use https://histre.com/ to keep track of all kinds of web research, make highlights, collaborate with their teams, generate documentation from chat conversations, automatically extract information from pages and create comparison tables, etc. I’m excited to be building a comprehensive knowledge tool.

If you can play with it and share your thoughts, I’d really appreciate it.
Soft, miniaturized, wireless olfactory interface for virtual reality
In contrast,

> If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks. What you have discovered is a recipe not for memory, but for reminder. And it is no true wisdom that you offer your disciples, but only its semblance, for by telling them of many things without teaching them you will make them seem to know much, while for the most part they know nothing, and as men filled, not with wisdom, but with the conceit of wisdom, they will be a burden to their fellows.

- Plato

Although this is different, because it is still written, just not by oneself, which probably makes the effect of relying on it and forgetting even worse.
There's already a very simple way to describe this kind of relationship: competing. They're competing protocols and products.
Do you understand that the Luddites were protesting the use of technology to undermine labor, not technology itself? Calling someone a neo-luddite isn't the insult you think it is. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-the-luddites-rea...
Ask HN: Why does the HN point system penalize comments that elicit good debate?
I just made a comment which got down-voted twice, but then elicited a strong debate beneath it. Doesn't allowing down-voting without allowing up-voting (or equivalent) lead to a more oppressive form of debate? I am okay with moderators making choices, but allowing only a mode of castigation without the complement seems incomplete.
Also, in terms of funds, I understand that can be a constraint especially if you can’t finance things. You can always try to work and band with your community to solve problems. Group funding is always in option.
P.S: Thanks for saving me the time to download and try out Pharo

Unnecessarily snarky
I think the OP is talking more about community rather than pure learning resources. It's not like you need different resources at 50 than you do at 30. It's just fun to shoot the shit and compare war stories and strategies with one's peer group, I guess.
I started writing a small static site generator for myself using JavaScript and QuickJS by Fabrice Bellard[1]. QuickJS is not quite complete, and there are some cross-platform inconsistencies, but overall I found it pleasant to use and its libc wrappers to be powerful enough. I also found that JavaScript is actually pleasant to use when I'm not using classes, or dealing with metaprogramming/Babel, or implicit globals. Dependencies are just pure .js files I keep in a /lib directory and import.

I still think JS is a nice language although I tend to side with Crockford (before he started promoting the "next" language) in that JS has some good parts, and you can write clean and powerful software with it if you ignore most of its warts (even if you're using Node). My best advice is be very careful with what dependencies you choose; and also, don't feel pressured to be at the bleeding edge all the time. The Node/React world is a constant hype machine that flip-flops on best practices every 6 months. Be very skeptical of them, and don't let them spoil JS for you.

[1] https://bellard.org/quickjs/