skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been journaling for more than 15 years. I don't know if it changed me, probably not. I use it mostly in a braindump kinda way. I almost never read old entries. Sometimes, I search for stuff though and it's interesting to read about it (for example, about milestones of my kids, but also themes that interest me).

If you want to get into the habit, here are a few tips:

- Remove friction as much as possible. I use Day One for Mac and iPhone, but started with a text editor. Don't use templates, don't setup anything complicated. Forget tagging or any kind of structure. You can optimize note-taking and journaling for two things: fast input, slow retrieval or slow input and fast retrieval. You certainly want the former, not the latter.

- Don't beat yourself up about frequency. I have weeks where I journal more and months with zero entries.

- Write in a braindump-kinda way, just to get it off your chest. This is for you, not for an audience. It's not even for you, because you probably won't read it anyways. I mostly write staccato-style. Sometimes I use lists with one bullet point per sentence, because it helps to me braindump misc thoughts without a coherent structure.

- I don't focus on "big thoughts" or "big insights". Surprisingly, stuff I did that day, what I ate, people I know right now or hang out with, a movie I watched or a game I played is much more interesting later than having life-changing insights through journaling. So, if I read that my weight was 70kg in 2015 and now it's 67kg, I find this a lot more interesting than some presumably philosophical big thought I think I might care about later. Big thoughts will stick to your mind anyways.

- I usually search for stuff like what year I have been on a particular vacation or when I was sick the last time or sometimes, when one of my kids said this or that for the first time.

- But: Sometimes, you find patterns. I sometimes are surprised that the idea of "start a blog" goes back for more than 10 years and I never did it. Make what you will with that information, but for me at least, it puts my own thoughts into perspective: I carry stuff a lot longer around than I'd think if you just asked me.

- As a small test: Do you ever read your old HN comments? Probably not. Journaling is similar. Writing stuff down helps, but can you really tell if participating in HN changes who you are?
"But that “really means nothing for what’s already in the environment,” De Miranda says. Mitigating against exposure is tricky, she adds, because, unlike with pesticides, underground TCE locations aren’t always documented."

Really disturbing.
Started gabapentin, couple weeks later I had Parkinson’s
Took awhile to clear up. Had a few rounds of this before I figured out that gabapentin induced Parkinson’s was a thing.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31633228/
Except we're talking about currencies here, because they are meant to be traded, not stores of value. It's impractical to buy bread at the bakery with stores of value like real estate or gold.

And since we're off-topic anyway, there is no global fixed inflation for everyone but each currency has seen a completely different value of inflation, and USD inflation is far lower than most other currencies that saw proper inflation.

You're far far better off having your savings in USD than Turkish lira or Argentinian pesos or Russians rubles or even Hungarian Forints. USD inflation is a joke in comparison.
> Its even easier now with the websites that do it.

Wait, as someone who super-duper probably has ADHD but is nearing 40 without having ever gotten a diagnosis or meds, despite getting partway there a couple times, because [list of reasons in other posts here complaining about how hard it is to navigate the ADHD medication dance when you have ADHD]... they've got what now? Is there like an ADHD version of the easy, fake-but-gets-the-job-done online medical screenings for medical weed cards? Because if so I'm doing that today (um, haha, maybe).
I have it and it's not helping me a lot as a beginner. Maybe there should be something between the "paint by the number" and "get a master in electronic" levels.
It's because conservatism whether big or small c, political or technological, tends to be seen as standing in the way of progress by those who didn't arrive at the same underlying intuitions about the difficulty of tabula rasa development. Because the intuitions are so deep, we barely articulate them and that leads quickly to misunderstandings. Conservatism can easily be perceived as errant obstructionism or even the result of a hidden agenda that stands in the way of a better future, if Great Leaps Forward feel easily achievable. Hence why the OP said when he was younger he saw the past as "evil" - a very common way for young radicals to perceive conservatives.

For example, most companies with large software assets will at some point go through a fight between the old hands and younger devs about whether to do a rewrite in the hot new thing. Which side you're on may appear dominated by age, but it's really more about your intuition about the risks of rewrite projects. That in turn is determined by your experiences of people's ability/inability to fully comprehend complex systems.

Also I didn't try to to be neutral, hence the digs at communism and academia. If I was aiming for karma I'd have left those out. But I'm not.
Not the coolest answer but I feel like QT is gonna be hard to beat here. It has a ton of this functionality already, signals are not the enemy for something this complicated and time-driven, it runs on anything and performance is great, and its pretty powerful/flexible when you need to whip up custom graphics stuff. QML and JS are really nice to have. I wrote a modular synthesizer GUI with it (https://github.com/ohmbre/ohmstudio.git). Took a gamble on QT5 because I wasn't a big fan of QT4 or below, and don't much like KDE, but it turned out perfect. Just never came across anything and said "ew well that's gonna be hard with the tools I have." There was always something handy. GUI never got in the way of audio performance, as long as its on its own thread and using ring buffers etc, you're fine.
We're all planning a transition around post-LLM software development ;)
And everyone needs to pretend it's good so their feelings don't get hurt?
This is the actual answer. Why rent when you can own. The beefy GPUs of today will still carry their weight years into the future. If you take it even remotely seriously you'll save money and have resale value
You can negociate some of those in the term of your b2b contract. And in the case of healthcare, the company supposedly doesn't have to pay for it so they can pay that additionnal amount to you directly.
> i wanted anyone and everyone to make whatever use of it they could.

> didn't foresee this use

So you really didn’t want any use. You just wanted the use you found acceptable? So you didn’t really want it to be “open”
I agree that the environmental changes are affecting birdlife as well.

But even taking the lower end of the estimate of the number killed by cats, 40 million birds each year is a felt loss. The RSPB may opine as they wish, but that's the data.

Anecdotally, my neighbour's cat is known to bring home as many as three birds on some weeks. I've seen them stalk my bird table using the bushes as cover. Data + eyewitness observation makes a compelling case.
This sounds like standard tracking that every financial institution does for compliance purposes.
Was it? Read about its use in industry in 90s including a story about someone who got brain damaged by it.
This is dystopian. Something like this would be illegal in the EU.
> Free market assumes that goods from different producers are substitutable

No it doesn't. A free market assumes that there are no constraining influences on trade except supply and demand. With the possible exception of a working contract law system.

Free markets happily allow for people to make buying and selling decisions for any reason they choose. If it happens to be for a non-fungible asset, no matter how pointless it may be to other parties, so be it.

Efficient markets imply restricting assumptions on fungibility, so that there can be a meaningful fair price, but it's not required in general.
Probably the most exciting future technology is precision fermentation.

We use massive amounts of land to grow monocultures because that's the cheapest way to produce food.

We're in a conundrum: more expensive food would cause mass suffering. OTOH, our current food production methods are destructive, and cause mass suffering.

A cheaper method to produce food that uses a lot less land and resources would be a game changer.

Enter precision fermentation:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/24/green-...
Almost all not American. Thalidomide was never approved for general use in the United States -- in fact, the FDA rejected it six times. As a result only 17 thalidomide babies were born here. Today, it is used for several conditions, but never in pregnant women, or women who might become pregnant.
There are no significant changes in architecture AFAIK. I used it just for fun a long time ago and may not know everything.
> That sub is +95% made up posts though. Like frustrated fanfiction + attention seeking at the same time.

Isn't that just reddit in general?
Some of the most populated zones of the Bay Area are built on top of superfund sites, which have high concentration of TCE underground.

https://www.epa.gov/superfund-redevelopment/superfund-sites-...
This goes against so many basic principles of human dietary needs and sustainable agricultural practices.

The problems that frequently lead to the argument for cutting meat consumption for ecological reasons are all actually concerns with industrialized meat production practices, not with meat production itself. We don't need to cut meat production, we need to change how we raise, process, and distribute the meat. Raise thousands of cows in concrete pens in a remote area will always require too many inputs and produce too many unwanted outputs because it's not part of a larger ecosystem.

Ruminants like cows and sheep play a vital role in managing pasture and creating fertilizer. Chickens play a vital role in pest management and creating compost. Chickens and hogs both play a role in making productive use of waste products, eating food scraps and garden waste that would otherwise be lost.

Heck, we couldn't even have egg and milk production at all without producing meat or culling animals along the way. Only 50% of eggs hatched are female, we have to do something with the males. And dairy cows will only produce milk for 6-12 months after giving birth, meaning there are calves that need to play a part in the system as well.

That doesn't even get to the challenges of trying to raise crops without animal byproducts. Where does all the fertilizer come from?
Imagine thinking that regression based function approximators are capable of anything other than fitting the data you give it. Then imagine willfully hyping up and scaring people who don't understand, and because it can predict words you take advantage of the human tendency to anthropomorphize, so it follows that it is something capable of generalized and adaptable intelligence.

Shame on all of the people involved in this: the people in these companies, the journalists who shovel shit (hope they get replaced real soon), researchers who should know better, and dementia ridden legislators.

So utterly predictable and slimy. All of those who are so gravely concerned about "alignment" in this context, give yourselves a pat on the back for hyping up science fiction stories and enabling regulatory capture.
Miniature IMSAI 8080
As a sysadmin and hobbyist music person, i always struggle to recommend volutarly keeping your machines out of date. It's how most viruses propagate, etc. But unplugging totally makes a lot of sense in the music world, and honestly i sometimes think that for the purposes of recording instruments in a studio, the music/technology boundary has been solved fully and it is useless to invoke new features as a motivator to update.

Just be careful with usbs :)
Yeah. Git repositories can grow very large very quickly. A single clone here and there isn't too bad, but if you're scraping tens of thousands of projects, you can easily rack up terabytes in disk and network access.
Honestly, I think that most of the dystopian developments happened during Covid. When I left whiteshoe finance back in 2019, it wasn't this bad. Sure, swipe cards and stuff were normal, but nowadays, it even baffles me how much people-to-people things like online interview selections and the like have been automated away.

Edit:- I was also in a European office so it's possible that we didn't get to experience some of the more dystopian facets.
Session players having been paid a flat fee were not the only ones whose music would get sampled and remixed, though.
Because what matters is not the number you can think of, but the scale proportionate to human life / needs.

For somewhat related context: all my life until recently I rented, but now had become a house owner. My strategy with things I bought for daily use was that they were meant to survive until the next move. For many things it wasn't economical to take them with me to the new place. So, for example, I didn't want to buy a "proper" pan / skillet, and was happy with a teflon one just because it would wear off about the time I needed to move again. I could just throw it away and get a new one. Now that I don't intend to move, I'd choose to buy things that last, because cost of moving vs cost of garbage cleanup changed.

Now, when it comes to software, it looks like the industry is overwhelmingly motivated by short-term benefits, where, in principle, it shouldn't have been. And this is the surprising part. Lack of vision / organization leads to the situation where we never even try to make things that last. There are millions of e-commerce Web sites in the world, but they are all trash because nobody could spend enough time and effort to make one that was good (so that others could replicate / build on top of it, and also have a good product). We have the most popular OS, that's absolute garbage, both the core and the utilities around it, which is due to shortsightedness and even unwillingness to plan on the part of the developers. Same thing with programming languages, frameworks etc.

So, looping back to your question: why the magnitude matters? -- what matters is how your own planning compares to the lifespan of your product. Many times in my career I was in the situation where I was building an already broken thing from a design that was known to be broken from the start or very soon afterwards. And that had nothing to do with changing requirements, it had all to do with the rat race of getting a product to the market before someone else does / investor's money dries out. The idea behind "things that last" is that at least at the time you are making them you cannot see how whatever you are making can be done better (as in more reliable / long-lasting).

In the end of the day, what happens now in programming is that things that shouldn't outlive their projected deadlines do, or, predictably, die very fast. But we don't have any section in the industry that builds things to last. We just keep stuffing the attic with worn-out teflon pans.

Compare this to, for example, painters, who despite knowing that most of their work will likely be lost and forgotten, still aspire to produce "immortal" works of art, and if a picture takes a lifespan or more to make, then so be it. (In the past, some works of art were carried out by generations of artists, especially, when it comes to books where scribes were succeeded by their children who'd continue writing the book after their parents death).
> everyone should be taking mitochondrial complex 1 inhibitors

These processes have billions of years of evolution behind them and are highly conserved.

People shouldn't mess with them until there are huge studies, and not in the context of cancer therapy. Just because something helps with cancer, like mitochondrial complex 1 inhibitors (or radiation) doesn't mean we should all do it.

Remember all the talk about how we should all eat lots of anti-oxidants to prevent cancer? It turns out it's more complicated than that, and an anti-oxidant rich diet can actually increase cancer risk.
Have you not had coffee with fresh ground beans less than 4 weeks after roast? If not get to your nearest real coffee shop pronto!
It's worth noting that almost all decaffeinated coffee is made using water as the solvent. Even 30 years ago this was true.
The tool and department seem real but it’s possible the Reddit post is heavily exaggerated.

JPMC has thousands of managers. If all of them have access to the strangest/most invasive aspects of the tool described it wouldn’t be a secret. It would also be a great way to create a toxic culture.
Clean implementation is an approach to guarantee a lack of pollution. It is not the minimum level necessary to avoid it.
I was going to make a joke about how it isn’t all that surprising that a person with this history of language selection would completely misunderstand and misuse relevant technical slang in the English language. But I’m not supposed to sow discord so I won’t.

The author navigates the technology world very differently than I do.
>>The frequency with which this sort of thing has happened suggests that, for some people, anything is preferable to the simple acceptance of the superior abilities of the people in question.

American society has made a huge effort over the last 70 years insisting that deep down we are all the same and no group is inherently superior to any other. So when we see some group doing better than another group we need to explain it away as being due to some cultural phenomenon. Suggesting that a specific group of people does in fact have superior abilities is a very ugly thing.
If memory serves me this is the chemical at the basis of the John Travolta movie A Civil Action, which is based on the true story covered in the excellent book of the same title.
> In his first appearance before a congressional panel, CEO Sam Altman is set to advocate licensing or registration requirements for AI with certain capabilities, his written testimony shows.

papers for thee but not for me
There's long term investment in London, but the North never recovered after losing its industry.

Numerous promises such as "northern powerhouse" have failed to materialise.
I expect Gates has a PR firm tasked with reducing this kind of stuff. And I am cynical enough to believe it includes astroturfing any social media or site (including HN) to disinfo it away.

RMS doesn’t have Gates’ resources.
"You did nothing wrong, neither did the hooker, nor is sex work "immoral." "

This is one opinion, not held by the majority globally.
> as if JPM issues corporate laptops

Really? You think they dont issue corporate laptops? The suggestion that they do "destroys" the case made?

> You mean like just normal work? You don’t text your colleagues? Since when is iMessage a forum? Dumb.

At most banks using non monitored communication tools to talk to colleagues would be a fireable offence. https://www.efinancialcareers.co.uk/news/2022/09/whatsapp-ba...
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Install `siege` if you don't have it and run `siege http://test.andreafontana.it -c 100 -t 1m`; it should be more than enough.
Ive seen it once in Rhode Island
I want to play Global Thermonuclear War !!!
In this case (Lejeune vs Pendleton), there would likely not be a substantial socioeconomic difference between the collective backgrounds of Marines who did basic training at either one. But comparing either camp to OCS at Quantico would, in fact, show a pretty stark delineation between the socioeconomic backgrounds.
In that case, they by definition aren’t “employees at Dell”.
Incidentally, AFAICT C23 now allows stashing log2 alignof(max_align_t) bits in pointers in a portable (if awkward) manner: for example, for a char pointer p, the lowest such bit can be retrieved with memalignment(p)<2 and masked off with p-(memalignment(p)<2).

(C++’s std::aligned would be less awkward, but, well, memalignment() is what we get.)

You still can’t portably store pointers and integers (or doubles) in the same place and distinguish them, though.
Hydrogen sulfide is a common killer of farmers in Ireland.
If you read the article, they actually argue that the cats don't really have an effect because those 40 million birds are usually of species that aren't endangered and are usually birds that otherwise wouldn't have made it anyway.

Though 40 million dead birds sounds like a lot, in regions where wildlife had millenia to adapt to cats' existence – in continental Europe cats have existed for tenthousands of years – it’s not a significant issue.

And it's sad that so much time and energy is wasted on this discussion when people are still spraying their own backyards with pesticides and destroying "weeds", which are actually necessary for insects, and as result birds, to thrive.
OpenAI is not the same company as GitHub, and it has always been pretty clear that chats on ChatGPT are recorded and used for training (unless you now opt out).
Changing jobs is something very different from escaping a country.
Just wanted to be sure, I tend to be rather paranoid in that regard! :-)
Most of the surveillance is because of banking compliance. I'm not convinced they actually use that data for managerial purposes. The last time I worked for a financial company, they were reasonably open about all the tracking, but never really looked at the data.
There are essentially 3 ways to judge 'art'.

- Do I find this aesthetic

- Do I find this historically/culturally interesting or significant

- Do I find this a good investment

The problem is that people don't always make it clear which one they are judging by and end up talking past each other.
Re: "1 on 1s walking around the block and seeing this cool cafe that closes at 2pm?"

That does sound nice. All of my in office jobs were sitting at my desk staring at a computer for 8 hours. No one was walking around the block. :-) But that was over ten years ago.
Companies should be required to disclose what they are tracking. This way they can compete against each other for employees on knowable metrics.
I'm curious--what have you fine-tuned it on?
Finally we'll regulate linear algebra. Joking aside, AIs that on the one hand can cure cancer but can do nothing against misinformation, let alone genocidal AIs, are perhaps mythical creatures, not real ones.
He has rescinded that position: https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#14_September...

Not that you would likely have heard about that since (like, say, Michael Jackson) pro-Stallman reporting is unwanted.
You don’t need VCs and startups if you are this good. An entire multibillion market research industry, and you can end run that with your intuition. You are Midas!
But will that actually be against ToS or copyright? Many people tend to say that copilot learning from OSS doesn’t infringe any copyright and is no different from a person just learning from someone else’s work. So how is it different if copilot is learning from private repositories? Or eg from leaked source code?
Alright, let me be more clear: WSL1 is NOT the POSIX personality of Windows NT. The POSIX personality was very dumb and minimal. WSL1 is NOT that. It is a different thing. And the POSIX personality doesn't even exist anymore.
There's some interesting links between Curtis and the old Revolutionary Communist Party / Living Marxism crowd which has weirdly transformed itself into provocative right-wing libertarians of Spiked.

https://twitter.com/cstross/status/417666074298318848

That whole group baffles/fascinates/frightens me:

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Spiked

They'd actually make an amazing subject for an Adam Curtis style documentary.
Chatgpt isn't a penultimate life form that contains all of the worlds knowledge. It's a language model. Mostly useful for bulk scams and filling voids in very sad lonely people's lives.