skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(1) agreed this is why it was created

(2) not sure what you mean by 1.5 trillions of inflation, but your point seems to be that inflation is bad. I disagree. High inflation is for sure bad, but zero inflation is also bad. Capital needs to be put to work, inflation forces people with capital to use it (productively) or lose it.

(3) I don't agree that bitcoin has "way over succeeded", seems like an opinion and not a fact.

(4) It's not the fault of the US Government that Bitcoin is lawless. It was designed that way from the get go. The government can't stop people from sending and receiving bitcoin on the blockchain.

Why would anyone want to trade their ideologically pure bitcoin for those filthy fiat dollars they've been so desperate to escape from? Bitcoin maximalists say it's all about the bitcoin, but at the end of the day they want a pathway into the USD system.

I don't see any real arguments here on how this is the future of finance.
there are many reasons to not own a car but if you can afford it then having a car is always better than not having a car.

i bought my first car in my mid-30s. if you'd have asked me a year earlier i'd have assured you that i don't need a car and don't intend to own one ever.

if i needed one i'd just rent it. but taking an hour long trip to the airport or somewhere else for the rental station got old after a while. especially the stress of having to be back at a certain time. planning traffic issues into the schedule. because overrunning the rented duration can come with disproportional cost.

then came corona, the lockdowns, restricted public transportation and i started to crave for easy access to nature while at the same time living in the city. and i don't mean crowded parks. actual forests where you are alone. away from cars.

you might say i got a car because i hate cars and i still do.

but a car provides me with a freedom that now seems so obvious that people who claim they don't want a car seem almost brainwashed.

especially because nobody says that having car means you have to use it all the time. i'd still prefer to go to work either by public transportation or by bike or even by foot. my car is standing somewhere about 5 days a week. but those 2 days i need the car or my options are limited.

as a matter of fact i bought a car because i prefer the bicycle. at first i was taking the train for more remote bike tours. but taking the train with a bike in germany is torture. it wastes a lot of time. confronts you with problems like no place left, what ticket do i need, where do i get it, train not even coming and so on.

now - i just hook up the bike and off i go.

this you-don't-need-a-car thing really feels like some manipulative agenda with the intention to reeducate the simple people towards believing it and also accepting it - because no car is going to be the future for most of us - that's already been decided ("you'll own nothing and be happy"). i'm still looking forward to this future as well as i anticipate it with horror because i fear it's not going to be so great having your movement restricted. and of course those who decide those policies will continue owning and using cars.

i'd totally ban cars from the city and certainly favor a tempolimit of 130 on the autobahn but it will need solutions that still allow people to flee from the city if they feel like it or spontaneously visit relatives whose villages can't be reached by public transportation.
I don't know about Chrome, but you certainly can set your User-Agent on Android Firefox. I have it set right now to Linux desktop, so all websites render as desktop by default. Just set general.useragent.override in about:config.
> "hell is other people"

Also, from the same author, "heaven is each other."
I think we can agree that KYC/AML rules are... somewhat effective, in the face of determination to circumvent.

Honestly, to op's point, the IRS audit would be the likeliest to nail you, post-purchase.

"Person without demonstrated income suddenly buys expensive asset" is hard to hide and a huge, trackable signal.
By your own admission you have never used the knowledge you learned.

Why exactly is it “good to know how it works” if you literally have never used that knowledge? Why is it “something you want to get a handle on pretty quickly” if you don’t touch binary?

Are there places where it would come up? Most certainly. Is it required learning for every single dev out there? Highly debatable.
I looked into this and here are my thoughts:

Astro is a static site generator, which is different from a full dynamic component library and rendering/routing framework.

Looks like a stripped-down version of SvelteKit with prerender = true.
https://kit.svelte.dev/docs/page-options#prerender

I wonder if Astro will remain a simple static site generator. If it tries to add dynamism (and complexity), I think it will lose some of its luster. But if all anyone needs from it is a static site generator, it looks very clean.

A lot of the functionality and minimalism leads me to believe it was inspired by Svelte and other recent web tools. That said, the complete lack of JavaScript in the output seems to me like a stylistic—even ideological—choice rather than an established use case. Still, it's easier to make a simple solution elegant than a complex one.

Astro fits into its intentionally small niche very well.
Nuclear is not a great and proven solution. It's a terrible solution, because it costs too much. All sorts of terrible solutions are available if we discard cost consideration. Cost is an inescapable part of engineering.

Nuclear has the disadvantage that they've been trying for longer than either of us have been alive to make it cheap, and it hasn't worked. This real world evidence can't be easily dismissed, especially when competing technologies have crashed in cost by orders of magnitude over that time.

Note that my position here would be revised completely if nuclear were, unexpectedly, to become much cheaper. But at this point I can't take mere promises of cost reduction as anything other than sales talk of that kind that has proven false too many times in the past, too many times to accept the facile excuses that it's always someone else's fault.
Incredible. I sent that to Google translate and it translated fairly well.

(For those who can't read it - the text is English transliterated into Hebrew script, not actually Hebrew. I'm impressed that Google managed to make sense of it)
I'm in a tough spot with this new RTO guidelines (similar ones issues by my company). I live ~2-2.5 hours from my assigned office due to two-body problem. I travel to the office once/twice a week, but thats the max I can do - 3 days per week is impossible. I'm more productive WFH, however I utilize my office time to meet as many people in-person I can. However recently that has reduced to mostly VC time in-office as most of my team are from a different coast altogether. To me, going forward Remote works best, but these blanket rules really doesn't work for all edge cases like mine.
Why Bayesian? How Bayesian?
And yet somehow Android, Windows, Linux and even MacOS itself all manage to be just fine while still allowing sideloading. Of course MacOS is going down the same dark path by hiding the install option in an obscure menu and lying to the user about potential security issues, but still.

iOS is the only platform that supposedly NEEDS to extract this fee. Stop believing Apple's lies, they've been grifting everyone for years.
Oh boy, you didn't even answer my question about Nix. I guess you can't in a way that doesn't concede to my point - guile is definitely not obscure in the sense that nix is.

For what its worth, here is at least one recent funded project that is using Guile:

https://spritely.institute/goblins/

You also seem to think that I am some kind of Guix/Guile evangelist. No (I actually also prefer CL). I just happen to think that Guix is a better solution than Nix and that it uses a much better language.

> No, it is not. Software development is a social and technical field, not a branch of philosophy.

And I guess you get to say what's good and bad in field? Lol
Maybe I’m old but I recall a time in my life where I never thought a gps, cell phone, palm pilot, etc would be very useful even after seeing them in person and seeing other people using them. Many of them I bought as I just liked tech and they collected dust. Until a certain point they did become useful. Usually around iteration #3. But I’ve personally found that v1 is not usually for me on these types of things. I’m more like the average consumer as i just don’t value the novelty of tech as much as initial adopters do. I’ve invested too much in failed products and categories at this point.

The investment on building a product is not even remotely considered by the market when a product comes out. If there’s no worthwhile utility, it’s going to be DOA and they’ll have to keep plowing money in hoping they can get to that iteration #3 where the value proposition becomes apparent. It’s probably why they want to release it and let third party devs create the value while they refine the tech and likely improve the consumer investment (eg. non Pro version coming next I assume)
Very much education level and field dependent. It's certainly the case that high schools will grade on coursework more. And, further, many fields primarily grade based on papers, because these are the currency of knowledge, and research skills are difficult to test in an exam setting.
I've found this to be the case. But I don't think it has to be face-to-face. Booking a meeting/lunch on zoom where people have fun by playing an online game (https://www.drawasaurus.org/ was my favourite), can do wonderful things for team cohesion in my experience.
https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/hpsci_snowden_r...

Page 20:

"As of August 19, 2016, press outlets had published or referenced taken by Snowden.'™ This represents less than one-tenth of one percent of the nearly 1.5 million documents the IC assesses Snowden removed."

Page 22:

“As of June 2016, the most recent DoD review identified 13 high-risk issues . . . . Eight of the 13 relate to [redacted] capabilities of DoD; if the Russian or Chinese governments have access to this information, American troops will be at greater risk in any future conflict.”
> So Vivaldi lets you set your own User-Agent string? How is this notable? Doesn't every modern browser let you do this in some form or another?

No and no. I think neither Chrome nor Firefox have that feature built-in in the settings UI, and the blog post is about how Vivaldi doesn't just masquerade as Edge, but completely identifies as it when visiting bing, to get over the fence. All other sites still get the normal UA string.

> This is a poor characterization, and attributes as malice what is actually just technical debt. Did Vivaldi forget that every major browser's User-Agent basically masquerades as all the others?

Err what... The cluttered UA string we have today is the result of exactly that kind of practice, blocking browsers because they're not X. If companies still decide to block browsers in new products today because of their UA string, this is the opposite of technical debt.
My selfish POV is that there should be companies that are remote, and companies that are in person, and employees should have options in terms of the type of work experience they'd like to choose. This may even lower compensation so it will be a win for the employers, because employees will choose to work for you for reasons beyond compensation.

Seems like the way to go, but instead these companies are all copying each other.
It's a mix of bikeshedding (many people experienced remote work during the COVID lockdowns) and there being no data available for this.

Also consider who would be more likely to respond in this thread: people heavily invested in or against remote work (since there is no actual data). Always-relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/386/
No, it’s not guns. They probably don’t help, but I think that’s way too simplistic. I’m not worried at all about having a gun pulled on me in San Francisco, but it can feel quite unsafe at times due to rampant drug use and untreated mental illness, burglary and theft, and general unsanitary conditions. I think it’s far more deep rooted in an American culture of hyper-individualism and anti-social behavior, said untreated mental illness and drug addiction, and poverty. Take guns away and I think 90% of the problem remains.
That’s how almost all autocompletes work
> Supreme Court simply ruled that EPA exceeded its authority given by lawmakers.

The supreme court could have abolished the EPA and this statement would still be true. They simply ruled it, no politics happening here!

It is completely meaningless to discuss the supreme court without discussing the actual circumstances of the cases and the precedents set by their rulings.

Disagree? Just ask Kavanaugh w.r.t. their clean water act ruling, which of course just simply ruled that the EPA exceeded its authority:

> The majority had “rewritten the Clean Water Act” and ignored its text as well as “45 years of consistent agency practice,” Kavanaugh wrote.

> The statutory text, Kavanaugh wrote, “does not require a continuous surface connection between those wetlands and covered waters.”

> By narrowing the (Clean Water) Act’s coverage of wetlands to only adjoining wetlands,” Kavanaugh wrote, “the court’s new test will leave some long-regulated adjacent wetlands no longer covered by the Clean Water Act, with significant repercussions for water quality and flood control throughout the United States.”

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/25/politics/supreme-court-wetlan...
Microphone is not strictly required for telephony. After all, if you're willing to add a few processing steps, (recording and file transfer), even a near audioless computer can handle marshalling a telephony message.
I still don't understand that a company who makes a ton of money from creating tools that fascilitate better remote working is against its own employees doing it.

Remote work is here to stay. Sure, colocated work is too, but trying to put the genie back in the bottle _at a tech company_ is surely a losing battle. Or is the total comp at Google really that good?
We recently switched from ff4j to togglz and are very happy with the choice.

ff4j's audit feature was buggy and caused our database to run full with entries: Togglz' simplicity is a feature I guess :)

Added plus: Togglz is maintained by people from my corp.
I think it is very much possible, especially in economies like India and China. If some business cases for Chat GPT are realized, I expect competitors to surface.

The a difficult part is probably getting high quality training data. And there may very well be a barrier where improvement of the model stops and completely new strategies must be devised.

Sure, you would need significant investments to start such a venture and success is not guaranteed. It is nothing a garage shop could do.
58k seems insanely low. Even with extreme amounts of good will that is two developers for a year. I see no way for this to result in anything close to a competetive product.

I would guess this ends like most kickstarter projects.
Why would the disk activity or "power on" lights be "on" if "everything is "off"" though
> on average we found productivity plummet with remote junior hires

I'm curious how you're measuring productivity. Most people really struggle with this and can't do it accurately.
Yep indeed, it's really only useful for simple questions. The main use case is for the many people on Leetcode / Reddit who ask for help to analyze their code - I have found it is quite good for those types of problems. Example: https://www.reddit.com/r/leetcode/comments/12lwkhg/comment/j...
Hi, thanks for your offer I just sent you an email. If you haven't received anything let me know ;)
I wired up an SDS011 to an ESP8266 running esphome, and then integrated that to home assistant. All in all under $40 USD, and I’ve found it very sensitive and reliable
Of course, you and I both know that this is the first, second, and only reason for RTO: everybody who doesn't know how to program a computer is convinced, and will remain convinced until the day they die, that the only way to keep us programmer grunts "productive" is to have somebody standing behind us monitoring our behavior with a clipboard 40 hours a week.
That's... Incredibly scary.
This is another reason to use OSS LLMs: the bar to entry is much higher, so they’re not targeted for countermeasures and they circumvent human pattern-matching.

You’re less likely to be “found out”, especially with there being LOTS of fine-tunes and even a couple fundamental models.

Though I don’t think this study is accurate, people are trying and they’re only targeting “Open”Ai’s products.
> After everything that's happened in this space, the number of "true believers" I'm seeing here is astounding to me.

I think part of that appearance is the rest of us have just kinda moved on from commenting on this space. We've been saying "this crap is dumb" for ten years, it's getting old at this point. Let the true believers play around in their litter box; I got other stuff to do :)
The parent poster said "distraction", not "nuisance", in the context of being able to be in the "flow" of programming.
What until you learn about javascript and npm
> How many managers do you think a google/amazon type company would need to fire during a transition to a fully remote culture because they are unable to learn the required skills?

Zero that would be missed?
The "solution" is for everyone on a team to come in on the same days.
Unfortunately its scrolling performance is kinda laggy around 200 items or so in Chrome. Here's someone's example at 5,000 options which is absurd but you might think it would perform better being that it's a native control. https://jsfiddle.net/klesun/mfgteptf/
> If psychology could make predictions to the 13th decimal place like we are able to do for the gyromagnetic ratio of the electron (and confirm via experiment), there would be no complaints

This is an issue in biology as well/in general, and it doesn't get near the amount of pushback here as psychology.
> I don't doubt your experience, but it is not my own.

Are your scenarios the symptom or the cause? Do juniors prefer in office not because of the office or other reasons? E.g. do they have the support they need remotely, is there enough documentation, etc? Usually requiring adhoc in-person interactions is just masking the real issues. The seniors are fine because they've already had workarounds for it.
> Meanwhile it's the small things everyone can do. One thing I advocate for is to adopt the most common style for identifiers in Java, Javascript, Typescript, Python, and even some parts of the C/C++ world and do away with snake_case.

snake_case is used a lot in Python:

module_name, package_name, ClassName, method_name, ExceptionName, function_name, GLOBAL_CONSTANT_NAME, global_var_name, instance_var_name, function_parameter_name, local_var_name.

(not mandatory, it's just from the style guide)

But I don't even think snake_case or CamelCase matter as much as plain keywords vs. symbols or "commonly used" symbols and ones that are not too noisy.

I know compared to Rust strong points this all seems to be petty criticism, but we all read lots of code, probably more so than writing.
Yes, iterative improvement is the goal. But the problem is when everyone in the field believes X and must not challenge it else lost standing etc., then people don't actually delve into assumptions as much they should. A clip on the topic (from several years back) that I thought stated it well:

https://youtu.be/Zj7OmxhHsZY
Ask HN: What is the most cost effective way to do backups?
I'm interesting in backing up some large VM images, say about 500 GB.

I want to optimize for lowest cost.

I would prefer to use a tool like rsync (and not an inflexible closed source GUI). So, things like Box don't appeal to me.

I'm doing this in case of catastrophic failure to my HD. It is a risk, of course, but I would prefer to pay less for a service that might "only be 90%" as reliable. I don't need 5 9s.

I see a variety of services, the best of which seem to be rsync.net which is priced at minimum of 700 GB for 1.5 cents a GB, so about $15/mo (https://www.rsync.net/pricing.html)

I could run my own VM on Vultr and can't do better than that AFAICT.

I see services like pCloud which have a *lifetime* cost of $199 for 500B (https://www.pcloud.com/cloud-storage-pricing-plans.html?peri...). That seems interesting, and I expect in five years they will say "Sorry, we are out of business!" I'm ok with that risk and will likely plan for that.

But, are there other options to consider? Is there a sweet spot for storage if I almost never need to put more files, can tolerate slow retrieval, and am OK with a discount because the company will probably go out of business?

I could just buy a used desktop off Craigslist with a 1TB drive for $200 and pay for the power myself. That's another option, but I wonder if there is some reason I can find a cheaper option.
"Learn to Code like a Developer" is a funny tag line to me. Isn't the point to become a developer? Or are you saying: "you're going to learn with modern tools, just like how a may use tools to facilitate coding?"

Maybe highlight the fact that you have an AI bot helping you through it. I would not have known it unless I read your HN comment.
The sweet spot is finding where all the artists are moving there or nearby. Within 10 years it will boom. Then the artists will leave and it'll be Starbucks and 24 hour gyms until it rots into a slum and the cycle starts again.
100%.

We don't need to rehash each side. Obviously there are two strong camps, each with merit, for how to optimize productivity.

I think that information is also known to people making decisions and is why we’re seeing hybrid policies which essentially codify the pre-covid behavior of taking a WFH day. Pre-covid, having two or three company sanctioned WFH days was the dream. Let’s not forget.

So what really annoys me at this point are the holdouts still arguing for 100% fully remote positions for every employee or the employer is essentially abusing them and just wants to creep on people working in desks and watch them type. I mean come on… fully remote just doesn't work for every employee, sorry. For every “I’m more productive at home” there’s an “I need face to face interaction with other humans to effectively collaborate”. That’s life.

IMO, hybrid work policies are an incredibly positive and generous outcome of the pandemic. If you don't like even that then either become a fully remote employee after a discussion with your manager. Or go work for a place where it’s explicitly part of the policy/job/contract up front.

Mostly sick of hearing whinny parroting of the same arguments ad nauseam.
It has cons cells, and lists terminated by a symbol whose name is nil. It's more of a Lisp than Clojure.
You could say the same about fingerprints, facial recognition, or behavior patterns. People get really paranoid about DNA for some reason but then willingly give out other kinds of PIID without caring.
FTA: “According to Cathie Wood's Ark Investment Management, Tesla currently has 2.7 million vehicles on the road testing the beta version of its full self-driving software. In the first quarter of 2023, those customers reached an important milestone: The number of total miles they've driven using the autonomous technology crossed 150 million”

150 million miles by 2.7 million vehicles is about 55 miles per vehicle. I would expect the average Tesla owner to drive that in a week, so they must have full self driving enabled a fraction of the time they spent driving.

⇒ if those numbers are correct, I wonder how full that FSD will be, once released.