skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Location: Orem Utah

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Technologies: node.js javascript typescript react redux tailwind express html css ruby Sinatra sql psql mongodb python jest supertest golang RESTful APIs GIT Docker Linux

Resume: https://sarahbunker.net/Sarah_Bunker_Resume.pdf

Email: Sarah.Bunker14@gmail.com

I am a full-stack developer. My most recent project is Test Lab, an open-source project for AB testing. This software is a self-hosted solution for small companies that wish to implement AB testing but need to be self-hosted for data storage requirements or want a starting place for their in-house test platform.
I love solving coding problems. While I was studying Chemical Engineering, I used my coding homework as a reward for finishing my other homework. After graduation, I continued to learn coding in my free time. I found Launch School, which is self-paced, mastery-based learning of the fundamentals. I decided to switch careers and go back to school full-time. After immersing myself in the curriculum, I joined a team of three others to create Test Lab. Some of the challenges I enjoyed working on for this project were developing the REST API interface, the full Jest test suite, and designing the PostgreSQL database.
I wonder whether they would have been caught if they had actually quit, rather than simply stopped showing up.
Here's a fascinating post by it's author detailing so many cool aspects of it.
I hope they've ported his work over in the new task manager.

https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/gqb915/i_wrote...
Porn is really amazing on the Quest. I look forward to seeing what Apple can do with it.
After we got used to multitask screen input in our lifes for years, VR is a huge bet that we somehow prefer single-focus-session in an environment controlled by someone else. No more checking messages in between, no more friendly distractions, and the VR companies have full control what we see during a session, including ads. This kind of hyperfocus is rare in most use cases, especially at work. I wonder how their UX reasearch justified the effort.
> We don't want women to be stay-at-home mothers for good reasons, but society as it is hasn't caught up with that

I don't think we should want women to be anything in particular. Saying they shouldn't be stay at home mums is wrong, just as saying that men shouldn't be stay-at-home dads is wrong, if they can afford to be. And society has caught up in the sense that house prices are driven up by bids from two-person incomes.
Looks great to be honest. The worst thing about the Quest 2 was the size and crappy pass-through.

Will be interesting to see how Apple's headset compares.
I wish more people saw this:

This PhD Student's data analysis project provides clear evidence on the effort by major news & entertainment media to shift the political culture.

"1/n Spent some time on LexisNexis over the weekend. Depending on your political orientation, what follows will either disturb or encourage you. But regardless of political orientation, I'm sure we can all say 'holy fucking shit'"

https://twitter.com/zachg932/status/1133440945201061888?s=11

Source: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/06/th...

The result... An attempt to shift the Overton window https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
It's not. comptime reifies types as regular objects (pretty much like maps), so you're not working at the type level; it's no more of a second language than reflection in Java. Of course, you cannot express things like the famous vector concatenation that's expressible with dependent types (https://gist.github.com/cbiffle/82d15e015ab1191b73c3) (unless the vector sizes are known at compile time, obviously).
>Big Governments are other threat that, IMO, it's much harder to fight against it.

Whenever people complain about Big Government I like to remind them that any attempt at regulating industries like Big Tech is decried by the owner class as "Big Government", which is often parroted by conservatives, libertarians, and other pro-business groups.

So is it Big Government when it protects the interests of Big Industry to the detriment of its country's people, or Big Government when it regulates it to protect the interests of the people? They can't both be the same thing, and I would argue what most people call "Big Government" is what they've been told to call it, namely the regulation of corporate interests. Nobody ever calls the consistent erosion of people's individual rights "Big Government".
I didn't know that. That's cool.
Conversations like this, and the pockets of earnest polyamory / ethical non-monogamy feel driven by the failure of a relationship mono-model to keep up with reality. Even if one, in theory, would like to be married to one person and build a deeply shared life with them - life does not wait for them to show up. My parents tell me stories of finding bay area housing by walking down the street in the marina district and doing a handshake deal with someone who had a room for rent - which simply wasn't the reality I faced when I struck out on my own. People who are in their mid-to-late 30s now often went through a focused process of peer selection and devoted life-intertwining in order to simply live and work over the last decade. It's no surprise to me that people in our generation are more devoted to that network of relationships that previous generations did not require in order to "make it."

I am personally really curious to see what will become of this tend. It seems to me that economic conditions will continue to reward people for banding together and pooling resources to get access to housing / work spaces / childcare. I don't think it's right to say that the economic pressure 'causes' these social shifts - more that it allows people to recognize that they could live another way if they so chose. The US has historically been pretty disdainful of living situations that aren't nuclear families - but I hope we are entering a period of greater openness and recognition of the diversity of arrangements that work for those in them.
Surprised that you don't take the watch off during boxing, is that supported? (Not saying you can't do whatever you want with it, just that are they really that durable?)
Is the difference from PowerToys FancyZones[0] enough to justify updating?

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/fancyzon...
Your best bet is likely a MacBook Pro.
Eh can still just automate creating a bunch of accounts and do it manually. Use one of the many captcha completion services where you pay for people to complete captchas for you. ML models can already pretty much do them anyway.

Then rotate between accounts and put a random time between requests. Restrict certain accounts to browse within certain hours/timezones. Load pages as usual and just scrape data from the page rather than via api.

However, I believe in a company's right to charge whatever they want for their services. But I also believe in the right for people to choose not to use that service and for freer alternatives to spring up.

Just like Tumblr, Reddit seem intent on killing themselves, although these days I'm not so sure. When Elon took over Twitter everyone was saying that all the users would leave and it would die. This is not the case, human nature means that people seek familiarity and will cling on, hmm.
Binary executables are a nice feature, especially for distributing to users.

It's much easier for most people to download a standalone "mac" or "windows" binary than to know if they already have the right version of Python or Perl or Clang (and all the transitive dependencies your project adds).
This is why I use more than six numbers in my lock screen pin: the field itself turns from six slots into a single large field, such that you cannot tell if the password is seven digits or seventy. It massively increases the potential address space.

Sure, you have an enter key you have to press to submit the pin instead of having it auto-submitted with the sixth digit, but that’s a small price to pay.
From my experience with Zig (limited but not zero) it seems like an ok solution to a problem I don't have, and don't forsee having.
Have you been in an arcade recently? These already exist
I think Dr. Mate raises some interesting theories. Chronic stress is poorly understood and not well addressed in modern medicine (because it’s really hard to study and treat) but:

> is it about as good of a risk factor as smoking is to lung cancer

I wouldn’t go that far. Smoking has a well understood pathophysiology and extensive evidence as it relates to lung cancer.
> to create and sell a product.

This is not model training.

> Copilot is a derivative work of that code, the license terms of that code (e.g. GPL, non-commercial) should extend to the new function that was derived from it.

But the very act of training copilot is not problematic. And in fact, if GitHub never did anything with Copilot, the physical act of training the model is not problematic at all. And that's what at issue here. How Copilot is used is orthogonal to the article.

> Sure, I can make a shirt with Spider Man on it and give it to my brother, but if a company were to use what I made or I tried to sell it, I would expect a cease and desist from Disney.

Yes. And training the model isn't the part where you sell it. It's the part where you make it.

> Training the model may very well be a copyright issue. The images have been copied, they are being used.

What do you think "being used" means here? If I work for a company and download a bunch of text and save it to a flash drive, have I violated copyright? Of course not. If I put that data in a spreadsheet, is it copyright infringement? Of course not. If I use Excel formulas on that text is it infringement? Still no.

And so how can you claim in any way that the creation of a model is anything more than aggregating freely available information?

I don't disagree with you about the use of a model. But training the model is just taking some information and running code against it. That's what's important here.
By comparison, I imported a 32 year old car into the UK from Germany and it wasn't even inspected... I applied for plates and they turned up in the mail. After that I did the MOT (road worthiness inspection).
It used to be easier before Covid. I was able to try both the Quest and Vive in a Best Buy in 2019.
They did a shy little experiment with Nintendo Labo VR, it has also a little integration with Zelda Breath of the Wild and Mario Odyssey. I would expect Nintendo to be the last player into VR because 1) the association with Virtual Boy 2) Nintendo's long history of only jumping into a technology after it is well established.
Yes, people should definitely get a beefy GPU and run their own AI server so that they can say "please design a mood lighting scheme for my house" and burn megawatts to set the dimmer instead of learning to use a smart switch with Home Assistant on a $100 5v SBC.

Anyways, if Nvidia was pivoting out of some weird altruism attack where they suddenly decided, in defiance of their shareholders, to service the more constructive sector of AI instead of the (admittedly toxic af) gamer market, you might have something there.

But they're pivoting because AI is momentarily at the top of the hype cycle and the capital is desperate for growth so there's a lot of exuberant attempts to force a bull market. That's why this is happening, sir, not for your vaunted higher social purposes of burning more power for simple tasks that people should damn well learn to do themselves.

But yes, I have snark for you, if you're looking for it. The level of idiocy right now is higher than the levels of hydrogen in the universe, particularly about this new parlor trick.
> Proof of impossibility does exist in logic:

In logic, sure. But we're not living in a system of formal logic. We're living in a very messy world, full of physics, chemistry, and even (shudder) biology.

Here's the important question:

What would you consider to be sufficient proof that AGI is impossible?

Like, hypothetically. Doesn't even have to be based on any of the current facts on the ground in our universe. What facts or arguments could possibly convince you that this is not something that can ever happen?

If the answer is "nothing that I can think of", then you're asking other people to provide something you can't even define.

(If the answer is "nothing, definitely", then that means AGI is, for you, unfalsifiable, and essentially falls into the same category as religion.)

> Is it possible to create artificial intelligence? Unarguably yes. Is it possible for human-level intelligence to exist? Unarguably yes.

And here, you're falling victim to the ambiguity in human language (or, at least, in English).

"Intelligence" is not a clearly-defined word in this context, and while you seem to be presenting it as meaning the same thing in those two sentences, I would claim that it does not.

In the second sentence, it is clear that it is intended to mean "thinking intelligently, in a manner and to a degree similarly to humans".

In the first sentence, it cannot mean anything about "thinking in the same manner as humans," because you are talking about "artificial intelligences" that have already been created, and none of them think in anything like the same manner as humans. The difference between existing "artificial intelligences" and either humans or a hypothetical AGI is a difference in kind, not in degree, and you (and many others) gloss over that when you talk about "artificial intelligence" in one breath and "human-level intelligence" in the next.

Saying that all we need to do is keep going on the same track we're on with LLMs and similar "AI" programs, and we'll very soon (or ever!) reach AGI, is very like saying all we need to do to solve NP-hard problems in P-time is to throw more hardware at it. Sure, you'll get faster at doing the thing you're doing, but without some hitherto-unforeseen breakthrough (proving P=NP in the latter case; figuring out how to make AGI in the former), you'll never bridge a difference of kind by increasing the degree of effort.
So, I'm a huge fan of regulation but the problem with over-regulation is that it will stop really fun products from being released in those markets.

Like, imagine a watch that has an inflatable cuff that can take your blood pressure. It may be unsightly, bulky, and very dorky. So maybe it wouldn't fit this new "EU Watch Band Standard" that was imagined for Apple Watch. So a very large company like Apple could lobby the EU to change the law and might even do that with enough lead time so it doesn't delay the product launch. But a small company, kickstarter, etc would be screwed because there's no way they could expect to get the legislators' attention for something like this.

And yes, the legislation could be written with sensible carveouts, but we all know it won't, or they'll either not be comprehensive enough, or they'll be a leaky sieve that lets every shady corporation say "oh yeah there's a standard watchband but our special watch falls under exemption 312(c)." Or you can have a government agency handle "exemption requests" without legislative action, but then the small kickstarter will go through 6 rounds and 18 months of records and documentation requests, if they even bother looking into the process at all and not just saying "oh fuck that."
That's such a weird way of thinking to me. I'm not saying you're wrong, it's just super alien.
Other than the main documentation, check ziglearn.org and ziglings.org. Also read the std code, specially the tests when you want to know how to use something.
Meta hopes that this could be their Windows 3.0 moment.

With desktop GUIs, Apple created the market and built a beautiful product that was also expensive and closed (the Mac II).

Microsoft's cheap GUI environment seemed like a pointless also-ran for years, until suddenly the software and hardware stars aligned and it was good enough to power 95% of apps that people wanted, for a fraction of what Apple charged.

Of course we haven't yet seen what Apple Reality Pro actually does. Looking forward to it!
I can't find the podcast but, IIRC, Bryan Cantrill said that at one point VCs would look at GitHub stars to gauge interest in various projects in one period of time. Apparently this might have been a factor Docker's rounds.

I think this was Oxide and Friends show, but I'm unsure.

Makes sense on its face, popular projects = potential money. Whether that's a good signal or not is a different discussion. I even think on the episode they mention how misguided this was, people using something might not mean there is potential for revenue if the people are using it solely because it is free and licensed appropriately.

People are just looking for patterns anywhere to justify whatever they want. I've seen npmtrends used to justify adopting certain libraries. Really makes you wonder.
this sounds like you think you are saying something entirely novel. it is actually just common sense. see it is true there are many kinds of relationships, but there is only one type of relationship that resembles having a successful marriage and family, and it is quite special
Yeah, Shark watches were all the rage when I was a kid. They had lots of different straps, and early versions of complications (add-ons you could stick on the band).

https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/a-definitive-deep-dive-on-...
Development Data Lab
The sound of one influencer crapping
Developers should appreciate the upcoming Dev Drive [0] feature which allows you to disable many of the file system filters, thus improving performance for large repos.

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-drive/
The quality of these systems varies wildly IME. If your car has a good one, they are quite useful. If your car has a glitchy one they are dangerous.

How do we keep the glitchy ones off the road? Extended return policy? Make the unit swappable/replaceable?
Agreed that overall it can be an improvement. But I've clocked up a good 40K km since I got rid of the car that was equipped with defunct EAB and I'm fairly sure (but of course can not prove it) that I would have been in an accident by now on account of it triggering falsely. Conversely, I've never had a problem with airbags deploying without cause and my seatbelt is on just to move the car 10 meters because it is deeply ingrained and I refuse to drive - or be in - a car without it.

But faulty EAB caused more trouble for me than any other safety feature to date and I really wonder what caused Mercedes Benz to release this feature in such a horrific functional state. It is beyond belief how broken it is and I would love to see their internal stats for how often their EAB caused - not prevented - single vehicle accidents.
> The Brits don't think much of the war at all.

I've never studied history, and especially have never studied it abroad, but I think I've just always assumed that nations who've lost wars don't generally spend a lot of time educating their students about them.

I'm sure there are exceptions to this - World Wars 1 and 2 seem too big to go missing from literature, for example, and perhaps this is my naive, too-literal interpretation of "history is written by the victors," but I'd just always expect losses to either be minimized, or be taught exclusively to vilify a persistent enemy.
>Dude, this isn't "normal".

That is debatable. What's not debatable is that it's not healthy. Unfortunately a lot of marriages are not healthy so what is 'good' and what is 'normal' significantly differ.

I grew up around a lot of evangelical religious people and there was a massive amount of pressure on people to get married. Conversely there was no pressure to make sure you got along with the people and were going to be happy. This lead to pretty much all my friends having short marriages that ended in divorce.

Marriages are like diets. Some people eat healthily and get the benefits from it, a lot of people have no idea how to eat healthily and suffer because of it.
I was thinking that 'big tech' is heralded as a saviour but then it ends up just stealing everyone's information and attention. Although big tech also gets the gold, so it's not a perfect match to the story.
So? That isn't even a necessary condition for being a good Catholic. It certainly isn't a sufficient one. The message is clear: a good person, from the point of view of Catholicism, is one willing to sacrifice everything, even in a gruesome fashion, for the lowliest person.
I've been using Guix for around a year now (installed alongside Arch Linux), but I haven't been able to grok G-exprs until now! What a cool feature
> The best the Linux community has now is a bunch of rebadged Clevos, apparently. It's disheartening.

Mostly fair, but what about Framework?
Not the poster

Vw golf r 2016 the sensor was low to the ground and it would randomly brake for stuff it thought was a threat like a cardboard box.

Subaru crosstrek 2018 - would brake for no reason, cars turning up ahead of me, etc.

VW atlas 2019 - brake for no reason would also scream at me and show a red symbol on the hud when nothing was in the road in front of me.

Subaru impreza 2023 - brakes for turning vehicles up the road, had it brake in a car wash.

On my vw vehicles i bought a can bus programmer so i could turn off as much if the safety stuff as possible because it made the car less safe to drive. In the impreza (current car) turning off the eyesight features is part of the pre-drive ritual.

I also had the lane assist on the crosstrek almost cause an accident on the highway at speed. Roads here are inconsistent and it was violently jerking the wheel trying to stay between lines.
The D root server seems to be in Maryland, perhaps they could sort that one out.

https://www.iana.org/domains/root/servers
University of Maryland

Maybe the H server too.
The problem is two fold because the VR video games are boring.
It's pretty annoying personally IMO. You should be able to point the Wiki tab to a folder in the main repo instead of having to maintain two different repos.
What the parent is describing is not a "close" relationship, it's probably more binding.

To pull out weird analogies, a mother and a fetus share the same system, they're different people but work as a single unit and need to survive together. I think some marriages are in that level of symbiotic relationship, and when it works it's incredible, when it fails it's really really messy.

But it's pretty hard to explain to people that you're seeing the other person as an extension of yourself and think of their well being literally as your own.
She probably sees it differently than you do. Because when she wants socialization or interaction with you, she gets it.
> “The number of people who lived in the factory getting these machines up and running, 24/7 sleeping bags on the floor, is not zero. People’s whole lives to get that one slot perfect.”

Why do companies brag about this sort of thing? That's not something to be proud of. Hell, in my state, that would be a workplace violation (one mandatory day of rest every 7 days, and I believe mandatory minimum rest between shifts, 10 hours I think?)

That 24/7 nonsense with sleeping bags on the floor wasn't to get that one slot perfect....it was to get the slot perfect on an unrealistic schedule set by management.
> There’s no reason for $5/month to be what the average user pays. It’s for power users who spend way more time on the app.

According to the Apollo dev, the average user would cost $2.50/month in API fees. I imagine power users would be substantially more costly, so $5/month would not cover the API + apple tax for just themselves, let alone supporting the regular users.
Yeah, this makes sense to me.

I’m sure if you asked a trained chef if they’d buy some overpriced gourmet food at a chic place, they’d say no. They’re making exactly the same choice as a developer when it comes to visualising how much effort it takes to make a similar tool/food.

Since developers know (broadly) how the sausage is made, it’s going to be hard to get them to spring for basic sausage dressed well and slickly presented.