skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You asked if you were being toxic.

I answered yes. As someone who has built communities online and in the real world, you are someone that, at best, needs careful management. I wouldn’t willingly include you in a team or community. I’ve done life or death stuff with the teams I built, I’m pretty good at this.

From reading through here plenty of other people think similarly. You are more willing to argue than you are to hear that your behavior is problematic. Even after asking specifically, and being told so.

You are exceptionally talented at this. You have literally dozens of people bickering. Congrats.

Unambiguously, I consider you toxic.
A long time ago a small startup used unusual tooling in the industry. The startup was small, but the tooling had some great qualities, which allowed the startup to compete with bigger teams feature for feature, spending less efforts to produce the same functionality as their industry peers. Eventually the startup had a successful exit, the founders become rich, and one of them even started sharing his experience in a rather systematic manner. Happy end.

Is it so that SVG requires to use all the features of it, or is it possible that you can mix and match, choosing what's important now and what's not, while benefiting from already existing SVG features? Is it possible that SVG followers don't do something which SVG does for them? Aren't there features, sufficiently aligned with SVG, which outperform directly working with other layers?
Well, that's fair. I had lived in the swamps of interior Florida for thirty-some of my years, having been born there, two miles of sand-gravel-mud track from the nearest pavement. Miiiiles of cattle. Internet from our little radio tower. So yeah, that's pretty idiosyncratic. I'm sure it's not representative.

The locals had just managed to shut down the volunteer fire department year before I finally left. Another notable instance from that year is four county cops getting blown up in a meth house, which was super hinky in lots of ways. A while before that, there was a deputy or somesuch that kept on stabbing people he pulled over. Of course he got slapped on the fanny, but then out he goes again, and another few months - bam! - stab a dude. Another local cop cussed the same way old telegrams used the word STOP, which was super weird with the inlaws in the car.

Our local cops all the way up and down were notorious even to other cops. Buddy of mine with the State Troopers had a working regulation, that if they were called on scene by one of the local cops, to always make sure that more than one trooper responded. "The hell?", I think I said at the time. He shrugged and said, "They don't trust 'em, that's all."

But the worst - the absolute worst - were all those people who moved out into the middle of a frickin' swamp prairie and complained how the cows mooed too loud. "And the snakes!". Or when their pets "get et" - by raptor, gator, or who-knows-what. Or "I think I heard shots from your house!". Oh for pete's sake lady, the paved road is TWO MILES from here . .
Remember a nature special about spiders changed the patterns of their webs because the bees learned to avoid the ones that caught their sisters.

I suppose that means spiders can learn as well?
As a side note, I remember the days when Reddit had to beg the community to bail them out as they were at risk of being canned from their corporate owner's disinterest: https://techcrunch.com/2010/07/10/reddit-gold/

By all accounts, it was very successful and saved the site, also leaving them resourced enough (including in hardware resources) to embrace the userbase from the imploding digg.

I think it's clear Reddit's current leadership have forgotten how the userbase stepped in for them in the past.
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https://nixos.org/

You only have to configure this once. Don't install too many things. Just what you need. This level of complexity is needed because this is not TempleOS in which all software is made by one person. Most software exists to bridge the Tower of Babel lost in translation scenario.
It's part of my job to have meetings with VCs. You are not wrong.
Coz most crypto is scam and get rich quick schemes ?
I can’t help but wonder if right now, we are unwittingly building software in such a way, that in 100 years from now, our decisions will result in some kind of crisis, that the generations to come will wonder why we didn’t take more care with what we were doing.
chaos is an opportunity.

whether the original signal was generated by little grey men or at the behest of old white ones, there will be amplification by opportunists.
Aww shucks. You’re welcome!
I only care if software serves the user when I’m the user.
Operating systems are great abstractions. If the author ever wanted to build an actual application on top of kernel APIs they would appreciate things like boost or libc more. While not always perfect, the alternative of implementing purpose built abstractions is not worth it for 99% of projects long term.

The author should look into golang which amazingly gives you one fully static binary (without dynamic linking glibc) and builds directly on top of kernel APIs. They will find reasons to rant about go itself though, I'm sure.
Most economy long haul flights have power outlets. I do at least 20 ten hour flights a year and always sit in economy so for me, the battery power isn’t an issue.
> once your fingerprint gets public it gets compromised until the end of the times

I'll just respond to this, as the other commenters are doing a fine job of addressing your other claims.

Your passwords aren't encrypted with biometric data of any kind on Apple devices (and I suspect that's true of Android as well). Simplifying a bit here, but it's broadly accurate: your biometric doesn't unlock your entire password database, it unlocks the stored secrets needed to decrypt your password database. iOS (and, likely, Android) devices have a simple way to force a passcode/password to be entered rather than using biometric data to unlock the device.

On iOS, activating the Emergency SOS feature (without subsequently calling emergency services) and then locking the device as normal (with the power button) will require the first factor (your passcode/password) at the next unlock attempt. No amount of finger-cutting or face-slicing can get past it. It's been that way for six years now, and was famously referred to as "the cop button" when iOS 11 introduced the feature.
- monitoring and observability are more complex/require more tools to work and/or extra convention like forcing people to name their queries
How is that consistent? DPRK and Russia can already use their own messaging systems. They cannot create a cryptocurrency and make Americans use it in order to steal their money.
Why must you support iOS(-2)?
Trying to figure out elder care for three aging parents.
1st, you need to read up on how commodities and securities are regulated. 2nd, showing off your wallet balance is the same as showing off your NFT, and NFTs, digital skins, etc. are all obviously consumables.
Isn’t this a gpu card though? Should the cpu and system ram be separate?
Stress-corrosion cracking would like to have a few words about edge-cases in metallurgy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress_corrosion_cracking
Can someone explain to me how a species that can do one of the following can also do something as mundane as…crash?

1. Travel faster than light

2. Sustain a peaceful, productive, spacefaring civilization over millions of years to travel here

3. Create AI that can do 1 or 2

Am I missing something here? How can both of these facts be plausibly true? These are genuine questions, not snark.
> Intel for example provides very detailed technical documents on their new GPUs

Intel sells parts to other people, and those buyers expect that kind of documentation. And when it comes to GPUs they’re in 3rd place for high end GPUs and are incentivized to give people as much info as possible to optimize for their hardware.

Apple doesn’t sell their computer hardware to any other OEMs, or hsve a 3rd party making their OS, so they don’t need to produce documentation for anyone.

I agree it would be nice if it was documented. But absent a law forcing them I don’t see it happening.
I've certainly experienced that. Depending on the complexity of the replies, I'll either reply to everyone or choose one of them to respond to.
What originally got me thinking about it was a variation of these Analog Fractals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv26QAOcb6Q which show how you can generate fractals with feedback from analog signals, and how feedback in general has some fractal qualities. We know our senses use electrical impulses, so it wasn't a leap to imagine that we could cause feedback in them. That it's chemically induced is just ridiculously cool.

I don't entirely discount the spiritual aspect or disrespect it either, in spite of my original comment. While I've never used DMT, the experiences of friends who have used ayahuasca could not just be feedback and distortion artifacts of impairment, they are a complete break, where the needle on the player of self just lifts off the record entirely. But for milder recreational stuff like lsd and mushrooms, it's nice to just have the self shut up for a little bit by impairing it.
The problem with that argument is the "developer experience" is also awful for a lot of "modern"[1] software. The JS ecosystem is notorious for this, especially huge dependency trees of tiny fragments which no one really understands, tools on top of tools, etc. A lot of that complexity isn't actually necessary.

[1] Whenever I hear that word, I think "is that the best adjective you can come up with to convince people to use it?" because it often has no other advantages.
One of the constant lessons I preach to my engineers is to make everything as simple as possible. You can always complicate it later if absolutely needed. Once you make 20 simple things and start to mix them together, you are already in a combinatorial explosion beyond man’s comprehension. The good old devs know this instinctively. The young ones haven’t learned the hard way. The old ones who never learned the lesson must be avoided at all costs.
Definitely. There are some cool badass things in EU. There is also the French military industrial complex, a mini version of US. That said, I was shocked to learn about average software engineering salaries in Europe. Why can't Europe build amazing high margin software businesses or any hyper growth companies? And pay their engineers like kings? That'd be cool and give a strong reality check for California.

For now, I'll honestly take 2.5x salary in US over pretty much any other place. And I love guns (own several).
Man there's plenty of amazing examples of caste systems on the internet, but Discord Nitro ain't it.

Discord is a free app without ads. Nitro is a reasonable monetization strategy for a chat app that works incredibly well and fosters probably millions of communities.
Am I missing something or did I actually just stumble across a conversation where people are seriously comparing being put in a steel box on the way to being murdered in a slaughterhouse to suffering the indignity of riding in a crowded transit car on the way to work, because holy fuck.
> tired of people propping up an almost totally useless technology as the savior of all financial, political, and social woes

If that's how you feel then you're not going to like startup culture in general. Every second SaaS founder thinks that they're changing the world with the launch of their crappy CRM #3432.
I gave up on interactive applications like this using web tech- Qt has the QGraphicsView framework which is far and away the best implementation I've seen so far in terms of programmability. There is a (significant) learning curve, but basically you're just learning how modern windowing systems work (and once you do, the browser model starts to seem awfully clumsy).

One of the crazy bits about QGraphicsView is that it provides not only simple primitives and the ability to make arbitrarily nested primitives, you can also render SVG, *and any Qt widget including a web browser) into the space.
My karma is almost entirely from comments. Karma is a function of time and participation. If you comment a lot, you'll get points because chances are someone somewhere will like what you said.

I care a lot more about the names of people than internet points. I've commented on threads here only to realize days later I was interacting with the creator of a major programming language. Some people are interesting enough that I've bookmarked their comments page.
I think both of you recognize a noble & true goal of optimizing & empowering people.

I somewhat think there's a huge error here though, a massive mistake in computing that we have such a huge divide between user and developer. A couple small vim tricks or enough shell knowledge to be a little dangerous, or even someone ok at excel macros blends the line so much here.

We have been building more and more totalistic apps, which afford less & less view of computing & developer-ish sensibilities. It keeps getting harder to see because we are so entrenched in pro application anti computing paradigms, but I think some day consumeristic computing will be worn thin. I New-old dynamics can re-start, embracing systems that also try to offer more developer-like sensibilities & capabilities.

Douglas Engelbart's idea of augmenting intellect to me speaks of the need for people to get great at toolbending, I at taking some good existing tools & capabilities, and being greatly empowered to bend create & explore different configurations & possibilities. Soft systems, with malleability, where users can ad-hoc cross over the aisle & become developers: that's a strong culture, where softwares real hidden noble purpose lies.

And where we can stop hating, stop being adrift & trapped, amid unyielding prisons of hard computing.
In the iOS vs Android case, iOS does in fact typically bring at least 50% more profit to developers, often far more.
Sure but it's a bit misleadingly reductive to both say that "only the end product matters, intermediate steps should just keep adapting to be the most optimal in producing that product" while also complaining about the exact artifacts that are resulting from that adaptation of intermediate steps.

Tooling does not get complex because engineers are somehow magically attracted to complexity. They get complex because the world is complex. To "hate [the complexity of] the tooling" is really just indirectly saying you hate the complexity of the world... which, I mean, I guess is fair, but not that interesting.
Discord is arguably the smoothest experience there is, like bar none. How do you suppose it should be paid for? Discord Nitro is the least obtrusive way.
> the experience of the developer making it.

Is a infrequent commonly one time thing that pales in comparison to operating it.
I think your view is too narrow and short sighted. The tech elite had Blackberries, iPods, and laptops when the iPhone came out and didn’t want to re-buy them. They didn’t rebuy the the first two items but did buy iPhones. This is a similar situation in my opinion.
I understand you're being facetious, but if the military had visual and sensor data of a foreign power entering their airspace due to astrology, then the answer would likely be "probably".
I first encountered the term "programmer-archeologist" on an IRC server in the 2000s, since the server was named after a Vernor Vinge character.

>>> The Programmer-Archaeologist churns through this maddening nest of ancient languages and hidden/forgotten tools to repair existing programs or to find odd things that can be turned to unanticipated uses.
- lambda-the-ultimate.org

At the time, I was a freshman in college studying "Classics" - dead languages and history, like Latin and Ancient Greek.

I dropped out that same year, flabbergasted and excited that I could experience the same archeological thrill on a much shorter time scale. All I needed to learn was some system engineering...

So I did that. Been here ever since, loving every day that I got to make some beautiful jank soup of software work for another epoch.

P.S. I was on the IRC server trying to pirate some music and textbooks I couldn't afford to buy. Wound up gainfully employed throughout my 20s, able to retire in my 30s (programmer / data archeology pays well)
I can echo/support this claim - I wandered down the same rabbit hole.

It doesn't even get much better with many drives and avoiding the docs/tooling

BTRFS arrays will consistently corrupt with my reset button -- RAID10 on gen4 NVMe drives... while LVM/dm-raid + traditional file systems are absolutely fine
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Ultimately I think a lot of the human condition boils down to being stuck in a local maxima and deciding if you want to go through the valley for the potential of higher heights.
Do you think Discord should be free? Strange hill to die on..
> military brass is not supposed to be wrong by going along with such unlikely scenarios.

True but that was before we started having idiot legislators in congress willing to throw a few tens of millions at "investigations" by the military. Nothing like easy budget and a cushy assignment for several years to encourage some motivated reasoning. "Hey, if you're payin', I'm investigatin.'"
> So far it seems like the SEC is ruling and enforcing the above cases, clear cut cases. If you have a part of the current enforcement that is on something that is ambiguous rather than pretty clear cut then I would be interested what makes it ambiguous and potentially reading more into it.

This article is in significant part about the SEC going after Coinbase, which made a significant effort to stay on the right side of the rules and only allow crypto tokens that operated in ways that are closely analogous to e.g. frequent flier miles. They wrote a great many blog posts giving their perspective and calling for regulatory clarity.
Did you get that history lesson from a Raytheon marketing brochure?
Or, your stuck doing version upgrades of the framework before even getting to the fight.
FWIW, “the author” is the creator of nodejs and deno. That’s part of his personal context
What evidence do we have that they traveled faster than light rather than, say, leaving a very, very, very long time ago? Or launching something in our direction, in hopes of generations surviving, but they didn't manage to, so there's nobody on board anymore?

Or why couldn't they just have significantly misidentified what it would take to navigate in our atmosphere and have sent a ship that wasn't prepared, and didn't have a way to realize it wasn't prepared?

I can think of a lot of very prosaic reasons.
I thought it’s after something passes the event horizon time and space flip. So one is not traveling through space at some speed say the speed of light but rather through time at the same speed (whatever that means).

Just as an aside these conversations are amazing and I’m learning a ton!
It would be rent seeking if they didn’t continue to make investments in the platform, but nobody believes that is their plan.
Was there concentration risk? Yes, absolutely. It was completely gaping failure of regulators to not force SVB to address that previously.

But when you look at the scale of the bailout: how it fell to other banks to pay a special assessment to refill the FDIC insurance fund to cover 100% of deposits, you have to recognize that this event was far beyond the mismanagement at a single institution. Then, it happened again at FRB.

The solution that the government came up with to solve the issue —- creating a moral hazard by implicitly guaranteeing 100% of deposits —- undermines the claim that it was merely mismanagement.

We don’t deploy nuclear weapons as pest control.
have it owned by users and benefactors.
That he was misrepresented?
I think ants could say the same thing about us. How could someone as advanced as a human just drown in the water or fall from a window and die?
Entropy? Surely even hyper intelligent mega aliens can spill coffee on their keyboard at least once. Things just go wrong sometimes.
I agree with other commenters. Before Discord, voice over internet was not easy. Skype, Google Meet, Vent, TeamSpeak, and that other one I can't remember the name of that we used for a while.

Discord works. It works well. It might just be the most "desktopy" Internet app that I've ever used (yes more than GDocs).

If you don't want to pay for things, you get ads. And the ad market has been slowly deflating for over a decade. Just look at Twitch's most recent actions for just how well the ad supported Internet is treating users and content creators.

Pay for shit, or else.
Hey, I just fixed that one. Turned out to be a mystery evap hose under the rear seat with no visible signs of wear or failure.

Was it what any of the mechanics I talked to thought it was? Nope! Did anyone carry the part, or was anyone even able to identify the correct part number, even with a diagram? Nope! Did I have to hunt all over for some marine fuel line that happened to have the same inside diameter so that I could jury-rig a new part? Yep!

Diagnosis and repair actually felt a bit like working with third party libraries: all the documentation is wrong, the problem is never your first guess, and you end up rolling your own solution in the end.
> Would be great to have shows from all parts of the political spectrum on this platform!

Good luck with that I guess maybe?
Were they auctioning it, or was it direct buy?
I spoke to the original creator of Google Docs (from before it was Google Docs, https://www.theverge.com/2013/7/3/4484000/sam-schillace-inte...) and he confirmed what you recall; they had to write their own text rendering code because the browser does not implement the behavior required by a word processor (one example: flowing text around an image)
While I actually found your comment pretty funny, and do certainly find it tiring how people pretend as if some cookie cutter SaaS start up will change the world (personally made me think of the very first episode of Silicon Valley on HBO), I honestly don't think there's a parallel between people being overzealous and/or naive in thinking some basic productivity app will change the world and the subset of the cryptocurrency fans who honestly present blockchain as a solution to just about every problem that exists around the world.
Yeah, I'm somewhere between "that's fucking expensive" and "if it can legitimately replace a monitor for hours on end, that might well justify the price."

I'll admit one sticking point for me is the lack of noise cancellation on the earphones. I'm sure that is coming, so holding off for a generation or two might be a good bet.
> Why can't Europe build amazing high margin software businesses or any hyper growth companies?

It's a good question, my guess is network effects. The people who would want to do this want to be near other people who would want to do this - and the biggest extant pool is in California.

> For now, I'll honestly take 2.5x salary in US over pretty much any other place.

Yeah, that's basically my situation too. Honestly probably closer to 4-5X annually what I'd make back home. Nominally, not adjusted for PPP of course.

> And I love guns (own several).

Haha, we don't have to agree on this one - although I will say they are super fun to shoot.
Getting shitty ads is a by-product of privacy consciousness.

When I stopped clearing my cookies periodically, the ad quality went WAY up.

Also, I'm guessing that image processing is moderately related to porn.