skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm happy to send years at a company, if there's a point to doing so. But the only means to advancing one's career, from what I have seen, is changing jobs.

The flip side of the coin is that it's frustrating as a dev: nobody knows anything, when the entire employee base flips so often. Middle managers just don't get it, AFAICT.
Yes, I know his point of view, but it doesn't really help answer the question.

> I can respect that it's a consistent viewpoint.

I don't think I agree that there's a great deal of consistency between that stated perspective and what OpenAI is actually doing. It's also, conveniently, a point of view that allows him to keep doing what he wants to do, and making bank by doing it.

Understand, I'm not saying he's a bad actor. I'm saying that it's hard to rule that out. From his WorldCoin stuff to this, there is plenty of reason to be suspicious of his motives.
The United States has the highest median income in the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_income

If we look at the income level of the poorest 10%, the United States ranks 16th—not as good, but still among the 10% best countries: https://ourworldindata.org/poverty (click on the Table tab)
People say this now in hindsight, but I very, very distinctly remember how people ridiculed any efforts at creating a third ecosystem. You had very influential tech sites literally memeing the likes of Windows Phone or Palm or Blackberry's renewed efforts.

Of course that ended up having a massive negative effect on the willingness of developers to support these platforms.

If the argument is that they just weren't good enough, then nobody should be complaining today seeing as we now have by definition the best mobile platform in iOS.

If I sound bitter it's probably because I still think back fondly to my Nokia Lumia devices. :(
Makes sense. My question was what magnitude of data amount are we talking about? Because for the average website, receiving less than 100k monthly session, a single MySQL instance is more than enough for real-time queries in sub-100ms query times.
> Well, a lot of traditional unionized blue collar union jobs went overseas. So the employers didn't have a lot of control over that.

Who exactly was sending these blue collar jobs overseas if it was not the employers?
There are people making applications based on LLMs. You may quibble with the term LLM Developer, but to sneer or roll your eyes at it as if it were prima facie inaccurate or laughable is unjustified.
Yes, and? I prefer the DB to take care of it for me.
I understand that people expect a lot from platforms that claim a lot like Etsy, but enforcing policy at scale is difficult. At some point, the consumer has some responsibility to be an intelligent consumer. I use Etsy a lot and it's not incredibly hard to figure out the dropshippers and stuff that is not handmade. Usually handmade shops will have a more curated inventory that is all related to a certain material, craft, or skillset. When a shop has a ton of different items, many generic and modern looking, and many different materials and skills needed to create them, the likelihood they are a legit handmade or vintage seller is less likely.
Love the level of introspection going into this post. I'm compelled to add my own two cents to your narrative since it's helped me.

I think step 4 is where people really get caught in a feedback loop. You come up with a reason why you should feel bad, and then you do (step 3) and before you know it you're back at step 4.

One approach is to try and cut it off at step 2 like you mention, but I've found this to be a never-ending rabbit hole because installing a better narrative requires constant work.

While of course it's not bad to work toward a better narrative of yourself, I've also had great success with meditation and humility targeting step 4. My friends with anxiety and depression all (somewhat paradoxically) are extremely confident when it comes to the rational side of their thoughts. They think they've got it figured out and it's just their emotions or other people that are the problem. I train myself in meditation (don't rationalize at all) and humility (recognize that my rationalizations are never going to be accurate).
Agreed. Maps is the only product remaining where Google is a leader. There are much better alternatives to GMail and Google Search, but not to maps. I think online maps are only going to become stronger and more important in people's lives, as everything there is real and not machine generated. Apple will never be able to compete until they allow users to add places that are missing.
Wanting Windows 7 back does not mean there should be no further development. By all means update the cipher suites.

I just want the window borders easy to grab on a high resolution and a sensitive mouse, and no latency when I activate a program in the task bar. I want no ads in the start menu and no telemetry. I want an operating system doing work in the background, and not an anonymous entity called "we":

https://www.itmagazine.ch/imgserver/artikel/Illustrationen/2...

Re-reading your list of improvements it doesn't impress me either for a decade of work. And I don't think people in this thread are particularly 'rude', i.e. they're not expressing what they really think about Windows 10+ ...
Isn't that true for every startup that needs capital before it knows if it will succeed? Usually we consider them high risk investments, not ponzi schemes.
Not surprised. So many stories about an organization doing something that’s evidently crazy turn out to be bullshit.

The truth is always more nuanced than what gets reported. People are (almost) never as incompetent/crazy/malicious as it might seem on a cursory review.
None of those "features" are relevant for the user.
I read what you wrote and I believe I understand what you're saying.

Interest rates in the early 1980s in the US went as high as 14% and the economy didn't shut down. Businesses kept right on doing business, despite the high interest rates.

That doesn't seem to be what your theory would predict and yet it happened in real life.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_funds_rate
Have been wanting to get a device just like this for a long time to do live-coding (Glicol) on. So glad you had the foresight to expose the rpi pins so I can just stick an audio hat onto it to get audio in/out
I agree, I wonder if depression is not always rooted in some random, mental problem but rather a reasonable reaction to reality.
Yes and even if the motivation of all the people leaving Twitter were futile, it still happened. I no longer see the content I once saw and that is an objective measurable effect which not only happened during Musk's watch but arguably happened in direct reaction to what he said and did.
Not CS (Counter Strike), NS (Natural Selection).
Which will be compensated by war and climate change.
Nice try, but I’ve never worked at or even considered FAANG jobs.
A lot goes into a specific recorded performance, I think it's unrealistic to expect a film-worthy performance out of a MIDI renderer.
And now housing prices for large portions of the Canadian population (e.g. GTA) are so high that the prices only make sense if you're going in it for price speculation. If you treat your Canadian house as an investment, the only way that you could possibly come out ahead is if you sell it later for an even higher price.
The truth is always more complicated and boring than the viral meme.
I kept saying this for years on HN but until the 2022 study it was always voted down and told that NO, it is due to a chemical imbalance and that we don’t understand
The trolley problem[0] is instructive.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem
Why are your people asking so many bad questions?

Good questions are "how can we X?" And good answers are "here's how: Y"

Then the asker decides if they are willing and able to Y.
My experience with cloudflare is that it counts every bot as a visitor, so Facebook pinging your site 5000 times in a day shows as 5000 United States visitors - not so useful to analyze. Is it different nowadays?
> I.e. what is wrong with Intellij's existing right click-execute on a single junit test method to debug and inspecting variables that way?

There is definitely nothing wrong with it if there are unit test cases available. But there is some extent of context switching in the current code-test cycle. And in the worst case scenario there are no test cases altogether and the team would rely on sanity testing + qa testing, eventually leading to some regressions on production. So you would be able to do the same thing with Atomic Run which you are doing currently with junit test cases but faster.

> Isn't this just reinventing the wheel and just replicating a built in IDE feature?

There is an overlap of functionality but no reinventing of wheel for sure. What we are trying to invent is construction of test cases itself without them being in the form of a junit test case (which is a maintenance overhead)

> Also this is seems to be unit testing, E2E (or to be precise "component") testing in my experience is what takes much longer and is where time is lost constructing the fixtures, but importantly E2E tells you if you've made stupid mistakes like using GET instead of POST, or have an XML serialiser overriding the JSON one you intended, which you don't pick up in unit tests.

So this is actually E2E testing and not unit testing because we don't have the capability of mocking down stream calls. If you do a Atomic Run on method1 which calls method2 and method3 on a different service, the method2/method3 would still be invoked and the outcome would depend on their response. Once we have the downstream mocking ready then it would be a unit test.

> Now if you could somehow save an entire VM stack/state of a system for E2E tests that wasn't brittle to code change, that could just rebuild that state with a single line of code, that would be my dream time saver. The closest I've seen anything like that is recording HTTP request responses or serialising individual Java objects to JSON and using those as fixtures...

Believe me this is what we started doing in the first place, and we have still have that in the plugin. It is just hidden from the UI since we received a mediocre response on generating junit test cases (maintenance headache). So we trimmed it down to the current form. If you are interested I can share a custom build with that enabled for you to try it out. Just send me an email or ping us on the discord group.
I think the more accurate way to conceptualise this is that treatment works by interfering with processes in the brain that cause depression, not that it cancels out the depression by adding enough euphoria/mania/happyness to compensate.

Antidepressants don't typically cause mania in healthy people, but they could paradoxically cause depression.
Part of the problem is there's some use of e-paper to mean "e-ink but we don't want to trigger their trademark lawyers" polluting the space. (The part of the description that actually made sense to me was where it said "same display tech as in Pebble!" ... which is pretty neat, and not-at-all-eink...)
A Tesla that is always parked has the least risk from Autopilot.
Armed with this information I discovered the endpoint codepen hits when it detects that the ad-serving script is blocked!

https://codepen.io/cpe/puppies-and-kittens?id=<id>

It looked so innocuous it took me a sec to notice. You can definitely tell it's named in a way to avoid blocking rules. I appreciate the little humor too.

Codepen plays nice and just uses this for logging purposes. But when other sites take more aggressive anti-ad-block measures your ad-blocker can still defeat them by silently redirecting some analytics/ad-serving JavaScipt to an internal no-op resource. That way the error handler isn't called but the JS doesn't actually run. Or the JS is replaced with a no-op equivalent. See uBlock's resource library here: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Resources-Library

(I imagine a site like codepen, with its technical audience, sees a lot more users with ad blockers.)
100% agree. I used to have podcasts or an audiobook on to listen to while I was doing 'boring' tasks but I found it was just causing my brain to work overtime and drained me of mental energy so quickly.

Now I just enjoy the sound of silence. Sometimes I may put on some music quietly to drown out another background noise but always something I know well so that my brain knows it and doesn't spend time or energy processing it for the 1000th time. I've found it can be any music providing I know it well enough.

I actually listen to fewer podcasts now because of it but I am much happier about that as I seriously began to worry about how my brain needed constant stimulation.

I was unable to just be still in silence.

I worry a lot of us are just overloading our brains with constant stimulation leading to faster burnout and mental health issues but that is a conversation for another day!
Not that I've actually heard it, but you could describe the creator as "the man in the arena", which alludes to a Theodore Roosevelt speech:

https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/Learn-About-TR/TR-En...

> It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
In the US they are expensive and usually bad.
I looked at this author's other posts, and I sort of understand why he's so angry. He complains again in April about lack of discovery on Substack (aka 'nobody's reading my stuff').

But are the posts worth recommending? His posts are all snippets of some sort of book (or play?) that he's writing. Example - his latest post is titled "Empathy No. 123 01/11/03, Roderick bedrm. 2:00 PM (approx)". It's a few sentences of dialog that have zero context. Even if these posts were recommended, what would you guess the clickthrough rate for a title like that is? I'd say that Substack's recommendation algorithm is doing just fine not recommending these posts.

Sure, Substack could probably do better at discovery. But there are other possible explanations for "nobody's reading my writing" than simply "Substack sucks".
It’s definitely mining for Rome, mining was done more or less exclusively by slaves and life expectancy was short.
I'm surprised you don't push people towards open standards like an email newsletter or a Matrix channel. Twitter? Discord?
Hire your own mobster. Have you tried body doubling? You work on your task, and the other person is just watching you (or doing the task with you). Maybe Bob is squeezing your abdomen, but there's also Mike. Mike is real, and for some reason you do not want to dissapoint Mike. Mike looks like a nice guy, but he is watching you. You don't know what's going to happen if you piss off Mike, but your lizard brain tells you not to do it.

This is how it works on me. I don't know why, I'm not even a social person. People say I don't care what other people think about me. Still, body doubling is the only method that has worked for me.
Leadership: you can tell them what to do.

Management: you can change their pay grade.
Sources would improve your claims. Aversion conditioning is understood to change behavior more than desire. And many people do not develop a taste for leafy greens or heterosexuality after decades.
Reddit is my Achilles heel for the very reason you outlined.

I quit Reddit and I remember the exact day it happened. I found myself typing and deleting a reply to a comment that was overly negative on something that I was well versed in. I knew this person was incorrect and taking a knee jerk cynical approach.

At some point I just said what the hell am I doing here I need to not be on this website anymore.
Sorry, looks like this new feature is being re-tooled today, but should be up again within a few days!
Manager gets evaluate by the performance of their reports.

Engineer gets evaluated by the products they contribute to that launch.
After the fire I uploaded some photos I took at the park and visitor center in 2018 to a gallery here if anyone wants to take a look!

https://imgur.com/gallery/ukxqDBf
I mean if you don't know a single person who can build a website in React than I would say that's more indicative of your unwillingness to learn new technology. There are tons of React developers so not sure why you think I'm in a bubble.

Also you have a very pessimistic view of websites and web apps, which is fine, it's your prerogative, but that's just your opinion.
I copy pasted the attention is all you need paper into ChatGPT4 and gave it the prompt "Explain like I'm 5 years old".

The Transformer is a new type of computer program that helps translate languages and understand sentences. It works by paying attention to different parts of a sentence at the same time, instead of looking at one word after another like older programs. This makes it faster and better at understanding complicated sentences. It has been tested on translating English to German and English to French and did a really good job.

(Edit)
There's also research showing that the perplexity reduction is less at higher parameter counts. E.g. a 65b parameter model barely has any impact at all when reducing from 16bit to 4bit
> If I remember correctly, Substack has said that traffic from Twitter is ~2% of their inbound traffic.

FWIW this is unlikely to have any correlation to their total inbound traffic, but moreso to demonstrate that Twitter itself is notoriously bad at generating any outbound traffic (from Twitter to anything) itself. I was actually surprised that the author mentioned Twitter in their list of referrals period for this reason.

It was known by advertisers for ages that Twitter was a poor source of click-throughs but when Twitter started showing view metrics on tweets, everyone started realizing the click-through rates on links were abysmal compared to other social media sites. It's like Tiktok, you're consuming short bytes of content, you stay there to continue consuming short bytes of content. You don't leave to go read a long [whatever].
Simplest Usable PC
Sorry to hear that. Our process is to follow-up with everyone, so I'm not sure what happened. If you want to DM me on Twitter I can look into it.
Wall!it’s great.
This doesn't make sense. People have been writing for a long time. If that was true we would already all write the same
Incremental Life
It looks like Musopen, at least partially, created their sheet music archive by scraping IMSLP.

I picked a somewhat well-known (but not too well-known) composer (Wilhelm Stenhammar) and selected three works at random. In each case, Musopen's file is the same as the topmost file on IMSLP.

https://musopen.org/music/22022-violin-sonata-op19/

https://musopen.org/music/22020-symphony-no2-op34/

https://musopen.org/music/22021-turandot-op42/

https://imslp.org/wiki/Violin_Sonata%2C_Op.19_(Stenhammar%2C...

https://imslp.org/wiki/Symphony_No.2%2C_Op.34_(Stenhammar%2C...

https://imslp.org/wiki/Turandot%2C_Op.42_(Stenhammar%2C_Wilh...
> Model weights can't really be described as source code though. The equivalence isn't exact, but I'd describe the weights more as the compiled binary, with the training data & schedule being the source

I think this is a really interesting discussion! I see where you're coming from, but I'm minded to disagree in part.

For one, I think it's possible to release model weights under a liberal licence, yet train on proprietary data. (ChatGPT is trained on oodles of proprietary data, but that doesn't limit what OpenAI do with the model). Normally, obviously, the binary is a derivative work of the source.

Also, the GPL defines source code as 'the preferred form for modification'. I don't disagree that model weights are a black box. But we've seen loads of fine tuning of LLaMA, so we don't always need to train models from scratch.

Ideally, of course, having both unencumbered training data and model weights would be perfect. But in the interim, given I don't have that million dollars, I'll settle for the latter.
This is almost exactly half the tokens (or twice the model size) that the Chinchilla scaling laws would predict (in fact, Table 3 in the Chinchilla paper gives 3.7T tokens, almost exactly this number, as optimal for a 175B parameter model).

Some comments on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35891444 back when it was mostly assumed Palm2 was Chinchilla optimal said it was surprising that they hadn't taken inference into account (lowering the size, training for longer, for almost the same training FLOPs but faster inference -- good blog on this here: https://www.harmdevries.com/post/model-size-vs-compute-overh...).

So what gives?
If you like Matomo, I built (over the last 13 years) a (premium) self-hosted solution similar to it: https://uxwizz.com

The main difference is that UXWizz is self-hosted only, so there are no "premium" features hidden in the cloud-only solution (like their heatmaps) or features that cost extra per month. Apart from this, the performance and ease is considerably better than Matomo's.
> Firing a specific person for something <snip> needs paperwork

Assuming they've been employed for longer than 2 years. If they've been there less than 2 years, it's pretty much in line with the US.
Yes, I'll look into it.
I think this is the key: employment contracts/ip policies should be designed to encourage spinning off internal projects (that are ‘distractions’ front he core product) as separate business units or as open source projects.
When is anyone going to ask him how he shows up for all his jobs at the same time in their office?

- SpaceX (CEO)
- Tesla, Inc. (CEO)
- Twitter (CEO
"Deserve" has nothing to do with it. I want everyone to have the opportunity to make something of themselves and keep more of their labor. I recognize that not everyone will succeed at that, and that there are no guarantees that I or anyone else will thrive. I am OK with this tradeoff.

It's not that I think some people deserve to be miserable, but I am confident that no political-economic system is capable of fully eliminating misery, let alone ensuring that everyone thrives. (I assume we agree that there is a middle ground between misery and thriving.)

Consider that even Norway, which is a truly remarkable combination of a monoethnic culture that values hard work, high social trust, and incredible natural wealth, has homeless people to the tune of 0.62 per 1000[0]; vs. the US at 1.8 per 1000[1]. You'd think that homelessness rate in Norway with all its advantages would be one-tenth that of the US.

Moreover, I am confident that a political-economic system that can guarantee everyone's success is not one that is sustainable over the long run, nor one that isn't a few bad generations away from turning into something authoritarian and rapidly worse off for its inhabitants.

[0]: https://www.feantsa.org/public/user/Magazine/Spring_magazine...

[1]: https://endhomelessness.org/homelessness-in-america/homeless...
I don't know why I never thought until this moment about buying my mortgage. That seems super advantageous over just paying it off (or buying some other debt at par, since there is zero credit risk on a loan to myself).
Is it just me or is this paywalled?