skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Debug logs and debugger not replace but complement each other. And while in many situations it is possible to debug without a debugger by adding print-s reverse is not true - I see no way how a debugger can replace logs. Though good debug logs are rare nginx and postfix are rare examples where debug logs are really useful (may be bad debug logs is why this tool got bad reputation).

What to some extend can replace debug logs is tracing which allows to logs events on demand, when you really need them. E. g. Dtrace can be used both for kernel and userspace via USDT (but Dtrace was not invented h̵e̵r̵e̵ on Linux), bpftrace can instrument kernel but unsure about userspace.
the fact that the latest 100 gecs album has a spatial master was a big tell for me. spatial is definitely going to stick

even just their boiler room set in spatial sounded more realistic than any other live thing i've ever listened to. hearing the crowd around you is surreal
Hello, friend. I'm in the very same boat :)

My thus-far latest post is exactly that, a cross-post of a long-ass wall of text I ended up making in one of the Slacks I frequent. https://www.evalapply.org/posts/cold-restart-total-outage/
Is the image on top of the article real? I've never seen it before.
Patentable tech doesn't have to be from the ground up. If you design something that solves a problem that wasn't solvable prior to your invention - regardless of the tech it is based on - it definitely qualifies for a patent.
You should get better at trolling, this is quite blasé
I associate this aversion to infectiousness with the same mentality that brought us dependency injection and the architecture of tightly coupled singletons:

"I want to..." "...block anywhere" "...use IO anywhere" "...mutate anything anywhere" '...have access to all state everywhere"

But, expanding on the articles point, we _do_ have to deal with these details. If I use IO anywhere in the call stack, then I make it unavailable for unit testing. If I block anywhere, then I potentially freeze some UI code. If I fire and forget async operations, I will have a harder time handling errors and knowing when an operation is finished. If I don't keep my mutable state minimal/isolated, I will encounter internal inconsistencies.

In my experience, keeping these concepts at the top, helps to keep your code testable and understandable.
Maybe your eyes are better than mine, but I have a real hard time working on a 13" screen. Trying to do Excel work on a tiny screen drives me up the wall. Either I'm sitting too close squinting at tiny text, or have to enlarge everything and fall into scrolling hell. With my 27" monitor I can enlarge the text and still have lots of screen real estate to do my work.
Which would still make it a huge loss for apple.
Are your requests above 1400 tokens in size? Requests, not replies.

Small requests (like what most people need) are just fine. It's the larger ones that being to slow down quickly and then break down completely as one gets above 1400 tokens.
Yet, you cannot look at it with the naked eye for more than a second & it scorches large areas of Earth leaving only dry desert sand.
The Slow Decline of Highly Motivated Developers
I've always dreamt of a good AR goggle. I'm just a bit apprehensive about Apple being the big player. My country isn't thaaat big on Apple. So I would never use facetime to call people, for instance. So I'm afraid that if it's locked down, as is typical for Apple, I won't get to experience it fully.

I want it hackable, not because I myself is gonna do anything with it, but because I want that kind of innovation. Not the boring, polished, exec-vision thingy. Let other people invent new ways of doing stuff!
1) I'm sure there's a lot of open source software hiding in every apple device.
2) I know Facebook and Google contribute to open source, probably Apple does too?
3) Of course you can get a lot of well qualified people working on a project if you pay them.
> Historically speaking, children were free to learn unguided and parents only interfered if the kids didn't do their jobs, which was literal work on a farm or similar.

First of all, we have lower levels of child criminality, violence, alcoholism, you name it then they had back in periods you are trying to reference.

Second of all, this is not even historical. Historical parents cared about values they children grow in. They cared about what kind of people they will be. And the classes who could afford education and supervision, did paid those money. It could actually get quite controlling.
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I am interested in studying HCI. Would love to know HN recommendations for best beginner friendly resources?
I think the issue at hand here is that you’re using a piece of software intended for remote assistance/collaboration as a remote access tool. Specifically, you’re thinking of screen sharing as a way to access your own computer, where you’re the primary user from a remote location.

Screen sharing is meant to be used with someone at the computer, and another person remotely. And the person at the computer (presumably the person doing the “sharing”) is supposed to have lockout control.
80 people to manage African countries from a finance, sales, marketing, support, legal, localisation and licensing perspective for a company the scale of Spotify is way too light.

Localisation isn’t just about language - consider payment requirements, legal and regulatory specific challenges, pricing strategy, regional licensing, there might be specific features required to support low bandwidth (eg carrier agreements), if you want to ad-support like Spotify you will need a team to sell ads… it’s hardly a chatgpt + few contractors job.
This is tactical, not terroristic. Flooded rivers and drained reservoirs are harder for armies to cross than developed riverside real estate.

This eliminates the Dnipro as an invasion route and allows Russia to concentrate on defending the north.

Putin may not care much about Crimean civilians but he's not going to go through all this trouble just to make them suffer.
Most code is already garbage from the day it's written pal.
> did they talk about using it as a display for a Mac?

Actually the did:

> bring the powerful capabilities of their Mac into Vision Pro wirelessly, creating an enormous, private, and portable 4K display with incredibly crisp text

I wonder what the latency would be like though.
Go is easy to read/write even without an IDE (unlike Java) and there are refactoring tools which can be called both form CLI and from an IDE.
It was in shutdown state ever since it was taken by Russia and there were no plans to restart it until the end of the conflict.
Seems like the work of some AI tool to me.
"Symmetric Vision"[0] - one of the more prominent contributors to the featured video compilation - just won QRI[1]'s Psychedelic Replication Contest[2] with a short video representing "that moment when your senses start blending together and you realize that it wasn’t a microdose.”[3]

The same artist also seems to have won[4] QRI's "psychedelic cryptography" contest[5] for videos conveying information only perceptible by viewers in an altered state of consciousness.

0: https://www.youtube.com/@SymmetricVision/videos

1: https://qri.org/

2: https://qri.org/blog/replication-contest

3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG12eK0BcsE

4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oD4nV0CMkBI

5: https://qri.org/blog/psycrypto-contest
Interestingly GitHub and GitLab have captured most of that market by plugging the gaps in the developer journey. I sometimes use git standalone for personal work but wouldn't dare for a bigger project.
After a bit of digging around...

https://iucompilercourse.github.io/IU-P423-P523-E313-E513-Fa...
People on HN remind me the hot dog guy "we are all trying to find out the guy who did it" with regards to social media.
You don’t own a car?
I'm thinking there is confusion with the system used to set the PD (distance between eyes). Of course there are not many details, but it does look like there's a motorized system to move the optics and screens outwards to match the PD of the user.
I just created it in Midjourney.
Is what they see conditioned by their previous experiences? Are there any accounts of blind people seeing something in their minds?
Yes, only, sooner than that.
In my country, there were some major anti-government protests a few years ago that pro-government media claimed were paid for by Sorosz and other such figures. My colleagues and I attended these protests and often talked about them. We also often joked about these claims by asking each other if the checks had arrived, how much they had made last night etc.

Of course, if our internal chats were subject to [the local equivalent of] FOIA requests, this would have been incredibly risky, since without the context of how much we laughed about them, the texts themselves would have looked like smoking guns. Government media would have had a field day.

This is the benign sort of thing you want to avoid putting in writing if your writing can be audited by motivated outside parties.
A classic follow the money situation. The EU likely has tools to prevent this type of thing. Or at least fine after the fact in a way that would make such action unprofitable.
Like the author, I want an assistant that can reason about the problem, not just crank out plausible-looking code. ChatGPT et al. can produce code that seems plausible, and may actually work. But that happens because it got trained on a vast corpus of code, and most programmers write code that already got written thousands of times before by other people. It doesn't happen because ChatGPT has unique insight into the problem to solve, or into how to write code.

In his long and excellent explanation of LLMs, Stephen Wolfram observed:

> So how is it, then, that something like ChatGPT can get as far as it does with language? The basic answer, I think, is that language is at a fundamental level somehow simpler than it seems. [1]

I think that most programming is, at a fundamental level, simpler than it seems to most programmers. As a programmer's skill and experience increase tools like ChatGPT offer less utility. Junior programmers struggle with even simple things. But delegating those things to an LLM prevents the programmer learning the most important skill: problem solving. Similarly having someone do your homework and write your papers gets you a good grade, but you haven't accomplished anything -- you just ran in place by delegating the appearance of work and failed to actually learn anything.

As other people noted in the comments in this thread, if you get value/save time by having ChatGPT generate boilerplate and unit tests and so on, ask why you do that in the first place. I have the same opinion about ChatGPT/LLMs writing memos, emails, term papers, articles -- those artifacts cannot have much real importance if they get delegated to a tool that can only produce plausible text. The actual value of writing and communicating gets removed, only the artifact and the appearance of work remains.

[1] https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-...
Same, except the size of the file doesn’t matter. I just message myself on Telegram now.
If you ask me you should add some sort of caption.
> I don't quite remember why

Many such system (that I've used anyway) play very low resolution movies, on bad screens, using the laggiest Android tablets you can imagine. And you have all the other things in your eyesight distracting you.
Very nice reply, totally true.
I always like to think about the half-life of both code and documentation.

"this code has a half life of 5 years" means there's a 50% chance that it'll get thrown out within the next 5 years. 3-5 years is a pretty common half-life IMO

Likewise "this documentation has a half-life of 2 years" means this documentation will no longer be useful in 2 years.

Yeah I've written some things that have been running for 10-15 years in production (I'm not old enough to see things to 30 years yet). It's a very tiny portion, though.
I guess in that case you could still say its 0.6 orderS of magnitude... So not entirely false.
I'm betting FTL is impossible due to physics.

It would take 10k's-100k's of years to send a single autonomous robotic probe from a supposedly "nearby" inhabited planet even 500 ly away. We can't even make something that lasts 1000 years, much less something that would survive an interstellar journey.

This guy is likely launching a book, public speaking, and subscription blog career.
If you're sending thousands of emails with essentially identical content, it seems pointless to me to have them written by a human. Can you imagine the job of a human writing different wordings for "you have cancer" hundreds of times per day? Is that what we should be using humans for?
Updating the firmware in my sonoff dongle-p made a massive difference in network stability. It's a bit of a mission to get the update installed but was well worth it.
I don't think Apple will bring their price down in the next 3-5 years.
Just look at how their current product price. No product price goes down.
You can turn every technical argument on its head by arbitarily setting system bounderies. Well, systems engineering explicitly includes the managerial and regulating systems affecting the purely technical aspects. And as both, Chernobyl and Fukushima, showed those two aspects are usually pretty far up the list in every disaster. E.g. Soviet investigations into Chernobyl showed that applicable regulations were ignored, starting during construction of the plant and ending with the botched test that caused the accident.

At Fukushima, the flood barrier was too low. Saying it was the highest tsunami in recoded history would be an argument, if that was something nobody considered (that would indicate defficiencies in the regulatory aspects), but regulations actually had provisions for such Tsunami. Meaning, the managerial system of nuclear power screwed up.

And finally, there is the risk assessment aspect. People usually get that wrong. Risk is calculated by evaluating the detectability of an issue, the propability of an issue, the effectiveness of counter-measures and the impact of an issue. And as history has shown twice, the likelyhood of a nuclear disaster is rather low, the one for smaller accidents is significantly higher so. We also had to learn the hard way, that there is only so much we can do to mitigate those risks on the technical side (physical and cost limits, managerial and regulatory defficiencies and so on). And we also saw that the impact of a nuclear disaster can, and has been, huge. Not doing a proper risk analysis allows you to pretend everything is fine, an attitude explicitly called out by the Soviet investigation, the second report is much better than first one and both are available im English online, into the Chernobyl disaster. No idea why people interested in nuclear energy don't read those, or the IAEA report. Those reports, and Chernobyl itself, should be mandatory reading, and teaching, for every engineering program, there is so much to learn here!
Technical debt is a part of development, write a new loc that meant adding new debt. I don't think this situation will be changed anytime soon, it isn't easy to deal with legacy code/services.
Almost all code is lucky to survive more than 30 months, but then again, so what? Is the code that most software developers write essential to the continuation of human civilisation?

If we're being honest almost all of the code that's been professionally written in the past decade has been superfluous.

If you do want to write long-lasting code then the best option would be to write useful programs for yourself.
> Patentable tech doesn't have to be from the ground up. If you design something that solves a problem that wasn't solvable prior to your invention - regardless of the tech it is based on - it definitely qualifies for a patent.

I asked twice what specific patentable tech they invented and you declined to answer.

It is a straw man to suggest I was arguing against about any specific thing being patentable.
I hope you've got a credits for that code :)
The benefit near the flood will be in weeks to months.

That is if Ukrainian forces were concentrated elsewhere based on a plan to burst the dam.

If they win on other fronts they can turn attention south by that time Crimea will have not had fresh water for months and the forces will be depleted and demoralised.

This could be a major factor in the new offensive. But will require careful planning (if that didn't happen already).
Likewise with C++ if the safety belt is buckled.
> political entities [...] get captured by the richest parts of the system they're supposed to rule over.

This is expressed well. To be complete, we could say,

Political parties in a country are subverted at all levels by robust economic interests, and subverted at the federal level by robust regional economic interests, which in turn subverts the national interest.
I use GoatCounter (https://www.goatcounter.com/). It's very simple to set-up and privacy-oriented (no cookies).
Looks like Laffey Tweets has been putting in the reps.

Impressive work by a fellow indie hacker.

Well done.
The Mini comes with an internal PSU, though. All these mini PCs come with external PSUs, some hilariously large at over half the size of the PC itself.
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> but essentially putting a blind fold on?

Literal blindfolds are standard travel gadgets though
For systems you control, yes even if what you've described takes a fair amount of work to get to. The main issue is that for software that wasn't built healthcare first, the strict privacy wasn't a requirement. Retrofitting your software and workflows can be a hell of a lot of work. Add in that you now need to verify that all the vendors you use are also compliant with the terms of your BAA.

For most non healthcare first SAAS providers you either do a major rebuild or you end up with a healthcare specific cluster which is missing some of your tools (although it's worth pointing out that many more vendors particularly in the observability space are now HIPAA compliant.)
I think they abuse Chrome or their 8.8.8.8 dns lookup somehow too. Sites certainly show up without links.
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SSH and HTTPS Git commands impaired, clones and git pull failing
It is far more than the moderators of Stack Overflow, which is just one of 181 Stack Exchange sites. This is a general strike, and moderators have publicly announced strike actions across the range of sites, including subjects as diverse as Cooking and Astronomy.

See https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/389812/167145 for starters.
Russian state media openly publishes articles that Ukraine should cease to exist, and Ukrainians should be erased as a nation with the descriptions of eradication of all the Ukrainian government supporters (almost everyone according to them) and mandatory civilian suffering through the hardships of war and post-war rebuilding to redeem themselves for betraying Russia.

It's a direct description of genocide they aren't shy to openly talk about. And yet the situation is still somehow very complicated to understand.
I wonder if all of this will turn out to be another WatchOS. It’s comprehensive, and frankly cool. But will that be enough to tip the scales in favor of a killer app?

Every new platform needs a killer app. Xbox had halo. iPhone had maps. watchOS didn’t really have one. Hopefully visionOS will.
we need centralized communications even more than we need centralized file sharing. while we are at it, centralize the whole internet. heck, centralize and regulate every form of human interaction, digital or otherwise
That’s my take as well. You can stretch out, watch a movie on a flat screen TV, sleep, stand up and walk around, have food and drink with a sturdy table, or curl up with a book or otherwise. I recently did international first class for the first time and wasn’t particularly dying to escape the hellishness of it all.
What makes those solutions better?
I could be wrong but I just don’t see it. As a mantle piece and curiosity it’s interesting, but real world use cases are far and few between, especially at this pricing point.
> There are knock on effects from there that help make it less safe to play outdoors in a lot of places, family less available, etc.

It is perfectly safe to play outdoors, except for cars. Siblings, aunts, uncles and cousins has literally zero to do with safety outside.
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> How badly does someone have to behave before you feel you have a moral blank cheque in stopping them.

No such point? I don't think you processed what a "moral blank cheque" means.
This made me think that we, as a society, ought to have some sort of convention to mark AI-generated images as such, like a small watermarked symbol in a corner.
Here's a great article on Benny Shanon, perhaps the foremost researcher on DMT:

https://www.waggish.org/2011/benny-shanon-the-antipodes-of-t...

One of the reports of his own experiences with the substance was as follows:

>Another pattern of interpreting-as is one I shall characterize as seeing the particular as generic, or rather, seeing the generic in the particular. I have experi­enced this on a number of occasions. The first, which for me was very striking, occurred during the daytime. It was in a village and I, intoxicated, was sitting on a small verandah overlooking the meadows. A farmer (a real one) was passing by, and I saw The Farmer, the universal prototype of all farmers. Again, as in the previous example, the standard perception and the non-ordinary one are related. After all, I saw The Farmer, not The Fisherman or The King. Yet, while normally I would have seen just a farmer, this time I saw The Farmer. While semantically linked, experientially these two perceptions are totally different. I have heard accounts of the very same phenomenon from my informants.

--

I've never taken DMT, but I'm curious if people who have can report similar experiences of effectively seeing Platonic forms (or at least, believing they have).
The iPhone's "aha" seemed to come from making existing workflows so much easier with touch gestures (e.g. scrolling through texts and contacts). It addressed and improved upon a pain point that we all knew from using cellphones.

> Once you played enough VR, you kind of get over it.

This, very much. It's one thing to invent in a new device category, it's another to turn it into a habit. The iPhone targeted existing habits, such as checking emails and watching videos, that made it very sticky. I'm not sure if Apple Vision has a sticky application, especially with the obstacle of (1) wearing a headset (2) plugging the battery chord (3) enduring the weight.
You can communicate special needs (e.g. "do not put this person in a loud room"), but not health information (e.g. "this person has epilepsy"). I struggle to think a special consideration a person could need that you could not just articulate instead of whatever medical issue they have (at least it has never come up for me).