skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"They're not there to work. They're not there to shop. They're just there" - Mallrats

For a picture of the mallrat era, see the intro to "Fast Times at Ridgemont High". (1982) [1] That mall, the Sherman Oaks Galleria, was torn down in 1999.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weKrwubPbeI
I'm a classically trained pianist with a bunch of music theory under my belt but zero idea how music is produced, and this is fascinating and addictive to the point where I need to put it away or I'll get no work done today.
Make things more simpler, more convenient, and faster for the end user, even if it makes things a bit worse, stupider, and more annoying for everyone else.

Prompt assistance

Prompt/Result sharing

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Click to build prompts without having to type

Automatic results based on other activity (location, browsing, messages)
Recommendation of who to work with?
https://archive.is/1Vffu
>However, a part of me wonder how much we lost in the process

A lot. But those born into the new era wont even know what we lost, and those born before will be dismissed as "boomers".
Rant incoming;

I really don’t like Make for the common use-cases it is being used for in the modern day, such as the Golang ecosystem or in many cases: creating docker files.

Make, at its core, is a tool that is meant to help you structure your dependencies for incrementally building things, but people use it as a glorified task runner simply due to the fact that it’s such a common build tool that it is nearly always installed if you have a development toolchain on your machine.

Go and docker already have incremental compilation built in, and docker doesn’t give definable artifacts so you can’t make other things depend on them either

It is a powerful tool, but the syntax is hideous and has more jagged edges than bash does, and we aren’t even using it in a way that justifies this. Makes me so frustrated for some reason.

Like everyone deciding to use a supercar to do farmwork.
Put this at the top of your Makefile for a node project:

export PATH := node_modules/.bin:$(PATH)
Graduating engineers who studied computer science in a decent school (not necessarily at Stanford; any school that covered languages and algorithms and made students use those in context of practical problems) will do just fine. They will not have a 7-digit bank account 5 years after graduation, but they can still find good tech jobs that, averaged over several years, pay more than enough for a good quality of life.

On age, as a single data point from someone whose age starts with "5", I have not seen particular difficulties in job hunting. To maintain long-term employability I recommend broadening experience beyond the pure computer science to domains that leverage computers to build new things: medical devices, signal processing, sensors, computational biotech, satellites, audio; whatever looks fun. My 2c.
The purpose was to force them onto the reservation, not exterminate them.

See "Empire of the Summer Moon".

https://www.amazon.com/Empire-Summer-Moon-Comanches-Powerful...

An excellent read for anyone curious about the history of this.
Nah, I'm sure it'd fly in plenty of places, but shipping TVs internationally is going to be rough with import fees et al.
> What - if any - is the difference between a riot and a protest?

Whether people are being intentionally injured and property is being intentionally damaged/stolen.
Jim is the collective around you. Jim is a mirror of your position in your social environment. Jim is always looking for clues about your position in your social environment. Jim is looking which role you are playing in society right now.

Jim is there when you are a baby and picking your nose. Jim is reflected in the face of your mother when you wanted to eat the big fat booger and her warm and smiling face turned into an angry and disgusted grimace. There is Jim. Jim turns from an observed behavior as baby to an internalized behavior as adult. If you want to change your behavior there is Jim.

Jim is at the edge of your comfort zone. Jim is at the edge to the unknown. If you venture into new behaviors you will suck at it and Jim will tell you to go back. Jim says its comfortable where you came from.

Watch 1977-1983 Star Wars (which is full of eternal wisdom). Luke fought his Jim before he could fight Darth Vader. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qiDuHCKSc8

The same as Luke fought his Jim, we all have to fight our Jims. And as Luke kills dark-side Darth Vader, light-side Anakin Skywalker is reborn. I told you. Star Wars is full of eternal wisdom. The same will happen to you. As you fight, your dark-side you will uncover your Jims light-side. Because Jim is the mirror image of you.

It is your damn RESPONSIBILITY to create the best Jim there is. It is your damn JOB to fight Jim everyday. It is your RESPONSIBILITY and JOB to uncover his light-side one tiny bit each day. Jedi, its our job to save the galaxy from the dark-side. Its worth to die for!
Doing searches on google has ended me up on it so many times I ended up bookmarking it and searching it instead.
I have seen this in the UK definitely.

I think it is more a question of whether the company actually understands technology. Lots of companies, particularly in the UK, have ended up in the tech business so they are always one step from outsourcing everything to India (or elsewhere, India is getting expensive now).

In that environment, it is very hard to understand what an older person brings to the table beyond costing more.

The stuff about "you have to keep learning" is also something you hear a lot in the UK. Yes mate, I know React but haven't used styled-components...your company uses it, but there is no way I will be able to learn it. When you are in a job, you are continually learning and no company fires everyone when they move a system to a new language or whatever. Part of the reason why the UK has a "skills shortage" is because, as explained above, most companies have no idea what they are hiring for. Oh, you last worked on Java 8...sorry, you will never be able to catch up to Java 1X.

This is part of the ageism situation because younger people view older people as unable to learn in almost every context. But the reality is that many companies are unwilling to learn about the things people can do if you give them an opportunity.

Some companies aren't like this but the small size of the startup market/the use of the UK as an outsourcing hub/the dominance of large non-tech companies in tech hiring means that this is the case in most of the UK.
> what principals can do a certain thing

Hmmm. What's an example of this?
I didn't really mean to imply it was. I just omitted them because I don't know first-hand how such things are with those companies.
I think that is part of why they open sourced it, to try to get more folks to use it. :)
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14299628

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20965386

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29055433
There are also the people who like to get away from their spouse and/or kids.
They make you send it back, or if you tamper with it, charge you two grand.
I wouldnt categorize my job as just doing tasks. It's more of working with others to reach common goals. Just because the task can be done at home doesn't mean its optimal. At the end of the day get up and go to work. Adults are turning into children now.
The first batch of reviews for Vinfast's US vehicles were awful. I can't imagine this going well for them, though the stock will very volatile due to the low float.
The UK already has a law that allows them to imprison you if you genuinely don't remember an encryption key and they don't believe you.

Just wait till they introduce a law that allows them to imprison people for using a VPN to get around some bs accusation and they don't believe your defense.
Tangential: Did anyone order from Ameridroid and actually get a VisionFive 2 promptly? I ordered back in February. I got the shipping insurance but that insurance still just says "order received; unable to process a claim yet." Are they just backlogged or have I been bamboozled?
This is simply not true, it's negotiated between the client and server and defaults to 100 usually. 6 is the limit for http 1.1 not http/2.

Source: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Server-sent...
Poggers.

Anecdote: I was asked a cultural/generational question when bronies were the rage to settle an argument.

(will the old guy get it). I didn’t like it; I should’ve used the culture card and dodged the question.
I loved the show and picked up the book afterwards (still working my way through it), and ya I think you're right to some extent, but the show feels more additive than reductive; the book, as it is, would not adopt well for television, and the more human stories felt like a nice addition for me without straying too far away from the book's story. Arrival felt like it was in a similar boat where it was adapted for the movie-medium and, IMO, much better for it.
wow, so the guy appointed by Trump found it was flawed? wow.
That makes sense, but I'd argue that OP opened the door to actual moral questions by characterizing their ethical code as "don't do evil things for evil people". Even if ethical codes are a morality-neutral set of rules, that goes out the window when the rules themselves start adding explicit moral requirements.

Even ignoring the fact that the article itself defines its rules in a moral context, I feel like GP's concerns over the content are equally valid even just as professional rules. I thought the part about cache validation was hyperbole, but no, it's literally right there in the article: "Stale stuff in a cache would be an ethics violation". I don't really see how this would be a remotely reasonable rule for an industrial ethical code that you describe. If we're putting "stale cache results" in the list of rules where breaking them doesn't "just mean you get fired", but that "you can never do that job for anybody ever again", we might as well just all just retire as software developers and take up a new trade; even the best programmers in the world accidentally write buggy code sometimes, so we'd be better off finding some other job on our own terms rather than waiting for inevitably getting "disbarred" (or whatever the equivalent term here would be).
You have no problem with them surveiling you in your own living room?
Searching the internet for decent material is a pain point. Wikipedia gets too complex, stackoverflow like forums don't exist for all fields, books are not freely available. Great courses from standard/mit are also not always available. Many other courses are behind paywalls. We can certainly aspire to better the status quo for open sourcing education at least to a basic graduation level of all major subjects.
I've bought and sold several houses and, for the most recent one, finally decided to skip realtors.

Best and easiest $21k I've ever made (saved).

RE agents have some value. Maybe $1-2k? For convenience, paperwork preparation, etc. Similar to a lawyer.

But I sold our house in record time, at a price that was good for both us and the buyers. No games of telephone, just meeting and sending emails directly to one another. The lawyer does the actual legal work, the agent mostly just prepares PDFs. The various PDFs took me maybe a couple of hours total to get together.
>Someone commenting in apparent defense of a convicted sex offender should not make that exact same claim, whether factually correct or not.

RMS simply kept faith on someone he knew and respected personally (not Epstein!), in the face of accusations he did not believe to be true[0].

0. https://stallmansupport.org/debunking-false-accusations-agai...
Perhaps people shouldn't have made their educational decisions on the promise of wealth alone.
> RISC-V is quite ready to take over the datacenter

The only thing missing: fast power-efficient core designs. Eh, how hard could that be? Other than that one little thing, totally ready to take over the datacenter.
I was talking generally about most companies, but if Dell does have an office in the middle of nowhere, then I guess they will have problems.
Even in the 90s when connections were super slow, I've always disagreed with this mantra. Firstly, even if the whole page takes long to load, the browser will display the start of the page exactly as quickly as it would if the page ended there. (Give or take.) Secondly, splitting into multiple pages prevents me from loading it in a background tab and reading it later.
right, if the points are distributed in a square then the distribution looks more like what one would expect:

(i am to lazy to register to make a fork, here is the code change):

replace:

let a = random(Math.PI*2);
let r = d * (1 - random());
point(cos(a)*r, sin(a)*r);

with:

let x = random(d);
let y = d * (1 - random());
point(x, y);

in every block

you could even simplify it to:

let x = random(d);
let y = random(d);
point(x, y);

and for more fun apply the nested random() call to both axis:

let x = random(random(d));
let y = random(random(d));
point(x, y);
I know a lot of lawyers who don’t have wealth and power so…
I will be the first one in, last one out, and on Hacker News all the time in between.
It's great to see this!

A big THANK YOU to everyone who made it possible.

I'm looking forward to playing with it -- and also, eventually, inevitably, running a quantized, super-efficient version on my laptop.
Then how are those words supposed to come into existence?

Something needs to pay for them. I rather pay than have my privacy violated and sold to every ad company on this planet.

What could be improved is how to pay. I don't want 50+ different subscriptions.
Why not both? Lots of the live (power/symphonic) metal bands I see will have at least 5 artists singing/playing and then backing tracks that add even more depth to what they are playing.
>I didn't read the article cuz I don't have accesss

https://archive.is/Elmq8

archive.today reliably reduces internet crappiness levels.
Yes. It would be great to receive the standard, already filed return, and have time until the Tax Day to file a custom return if you need to.

- Lowers the burden on those who have very simple income (W-2).

- Offers enough boilerplate to start a custom return with.

- Never miss filing your return, no matter what happens to you between early February and April 15th. At worst you'll not receive as much back as you otherwise would.
Exactly, like Perlin noise, the output is not indicative of the function. Works as intended. The beauty is in the fact that when using pseudorandom number generation and the right output function, you can simulate a lot of things. Star systems, planets, stock market games, aim handicap, and itano circus.
Good lord, what kind of brutal hellscape do you work at that ages people out at 30?
Having to work with toxic people or completely give up an interpersonal leadership role as a condition of being a staff engineer is another.

I'm in a weird spot career wise because I turned down 3 management roles to oversee multiple teams and now have to signal my non-interest in stepping out of team leadership and into a staff engineering role.

I just really like managing ICs in the day to day and everything that would make me good at those other roles is incidental to me liking managing ICs.
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Is this easier/less invasive than flatpack?

I removed snap for this reason.
Notice how they're always some FAANG guy in these kinds of discussions saying something like:

"so you've earned 50K for a year work on writing that book? dude that's like $x/hour, I earn a $300K wage + 1 million in stocks per year, and they have a private cook and gymnast at the FAANGplex for me and everything".
I had one teacher tell me cursive would come in handy. I'm glad I lived to finally see that day!
I considered it once, because of piper, blaze and a bunch of interesting sounding engineer culture. Not really the salary or perks.

But it sounded like a massive bureaucracy, and a little like a cult, so I avoided it, and I’m glad I did.
From someone who intimately knows UC Berkeley's Computer Science undergraduate program for the entire past decade, this can only be a good thing. Lots of Berkeley smarts have gone to waste by doing nothing in FAANG and chasing the coveted golden handcuffs. Not every case obviously (not sure why this needs to be said), but a vast majority of undergraduates just expect to be handed top compensation for knowing jack shit apart from knowing how to study for an interview, and I always found that odd.

Now they might actually need to prove their value in ways that make sense or at least aligns more closely to baseline reasonable.

I'm not saying this out of spite due to being rejected either—I played the same game and came out with top internships and placements at the same set of Big Tech that everyone else wanted. I feel awful about being compelled to participate in that meat grinder.
No, indeed; it cuts across almost all industries.

Tech just happens to be a place where almost every job can, with appropriate management and support, be done fully remotely with no meaningful loss of productivity.
Hah this sounds familiar. My life is a series of waves of high productivity and career growth, followed by troughs of burnout and depression. I just don’t know if I’m wired to be hyper productive, or if anyone is, really.
> Maybe the real article was the HN comments section that we made along the way....

Nominating this comment for https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights
LMMS is a passable FruityLoops-style clone. If you're not following a guide the initial barrier is hunting around online for quality VSTs you like but once you have them (they tend to run fine through LMMS via wine) you can make your patterns and use them to make tracks.
You just need to find the right loot box to upgrade your abilities
i wish their native ui/ux matched this level of design

side note: is there any DAW that supports realtime collaboration?
There's no evolutionary pressure to not die from a stroke at 50 because you subsist on that sort of diet. Rates of stroke mortality are higher among Alaskan natives than other US ethnic groups, for example[1].

[1] https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2008...
I asked GPT4Invent an experiment that could validate the block universe
Designing an experiment to validate the existence of the block universe, a concept within the realm of theoretical physics and philosophy of time, poses significant challenges due to its abstract nature. The block universe refers to a conception of time where past, present, and future all exist simultaneously as an unchanging, four-dimensional "block" of reality. While this concept is intriguing, it remains highly theoretical and does not lend itself easily to experimental verification. However, I can propose a thought experiment that can help illustrate some aspects of the block universe:

Thought Experiment: The Entangled Observer

Setup: Imagine a scenario where two observers, Alice and Bob, are entangled at the quantum level.

Measurement Setup: Alice and Bob are situated in separate regions, each equipped with a device capable of measuring a quantum property, such as the spin of an electron.

Spacetime Separation: Alice and Bob are positioned in such a way that they experience different spacetime separations. For example, Alice is closer to a massive gravitational source, which causes time dilation, while Bob is farther away, experiencing less time dilation.

Measurement Synchronization: Both Alice and Bob simultaneously perform measurements on their respective entangled particles.

Results Analysis: After the measurements, Alice and Bob compare their results. If the block universe exists, their measurements and subsequent comparisons should be consistent, regardless of their different spacetime separations. The entanglement between the particles suggests that the correlated properties were determined at the moment of entanglement, encapsulating the entire spacetime "block" of their existence.

Although this thought experiment does not directly confirm the block universe, it highlights certain aspects of the concept. In the block universe, events and measurements across different spacetime locations are considered to be already determined and fixed, providing a framework for the observed entanglement to remain consistent regardless of temporal and spatial separations.

It is important to note that the block universe is still a subject of philosophical debate and does not currently have empirical evidence supporting its existence. As such, experimental validation of this concept remains challenging, and further scientific and philosophical investigations are required to explore its implications and testable predictions.
Procrastination always boils down to one thing: the thing you procrastinate about is seen as unpleasant. Whether it’s because you think you’ll suck at it or because you don’t think the outcome matters that much, you imagine that doing the thing will be unpleasant.

Beyond medication, the only thing I’ve found that works well against procrastination is to tell my brain that it won’t be as unpleasant as I think, so long as I can just get started on it. And getting started means literally spending one minute on the thing.

Usually if I can get in that first minute, the thing becomes interesting and then I can make it happen.
No idea why this comment was downvoted on HN of all pls es
what has worked for me is picking a career theme. Working at companies that thematically align. You build up a host of knowledge that is not computer related but instead is domain related and this offers value too.
The current social indicators of race make sense. As youd expect since african americans are about 20% european admixture their IQs are inbetween whites and africans. Also the flynn effect is most likely not a real gain in intelligence http://iapsych.com/articles/pietschnig2015.pdf
yes, but sometimes i fail to notice email among the spam

unless you ran across the pobox address, which has been dead for... a while

the canonical.org address is the correct one

comment if you've emailed me and not gotten a response
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I end up using Makefiles for many projects that have even trivial stages in their execution (e.g. manual/one-off ETL pipelines). I do feel like I bastardize it sometimes as a convenient command runner or brain augmentation: sure makes it easy to remember how to run something if you can just type "make" or look at the top of the file, a cool intersection between "can get it working in 5 minutes" and "will be readable in 5 months".

The Just command runner [1] is good, but is not as ubiquitous.

[1]: https://github.com/casey/just
Could be, but it is also possible I'm missing something somewhere, especially because I can't explain why min(random(), random()) looks different from random(random()) or random()*random().
Looks like the model is on HuggingFace here, for anybody that is curious to play with it. https://huggingface.co/bigcode/starcoder
It can start by telling your manager you’re interested in management.
It's quite easy to control Safari and other apps with Screen Time on iOS.
What's vengeful about buying their product?