skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One big problem if not "the problem" in software development is that it's just too easy to forgo responsibility for the code one writes.

With all agile sprints and shit, real feedback for one's actions still comes very very late in the life of a project. This means most people will collect their checks with zero liability for a long time and leave the minute they face the slightest accountability for their actions (code, architecture etc).

I'm not condoning it but it's a useful parable. Story goes that during World War 2, the engineers responsible for designing armor for Soviet tanks were required by direct Stalin orders to test it themselves in the final stage: they'd be crammed in a tank equipped with the armor they built and the tank would be fired at with live ammunition.

This sort of "your life depends upon it" test should be introduced as standard requirement for software engineers, there'd be a lot fewer remaining but at least we'd have some quality :)
Interesting; it used to be, but apparently that's changed. I've searched multiple times recently to no avail.
> ecoji

In a similar vein, a former colleague of mine created this Python package: https://pypi.org/project/piickle/

It's functionally the same as pickle, except it binary-encodes the data with spaces and pickle emoji.
Is there any support for translation?

If you self-host, can you use it flat-file or does it require a database? If I have my content in Markdown files in a repo, where does Vrite fit in?

Why is there no search on https://docs.vrite.io/? Or am I just missing it?
It's also not factually true. Xreal Air (formerly Nreal Air) has 49 ppd.

In "mirror" mode (aka a single giant screen), it feels like working on a 1080p projector. Not great. Not terrible.

In "nebula" mode (aka virtual desktop), it feels like I'm working on 3 720p screens. Great when I need to reference multiple different sources (like during development). If I'm just focused on a single document/window, a laptop screen is better.

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I think the tipping point is going to be at about 100 ppd. That seems like it will be the point where you can simulate a 1080p screen at roughly arms length while maintaining excel clarity.
Who is using UGC in their marketing material?
We're developing a platform where you can easily search for and discover UGC across social media to feature in your commercials, advertisements, and creative projects.

The tool understands key concepts such as “human connection” or “breaking the ice” and will return not only the videos but the exact timestamp where these concepts occur.

Here's a brief writeup including video:

https://learn.mixpeek.com/semantic-video-search-for-user-generated-content/
> It's obvious the "bad guys" got him.

It is not. The man that found the child had a shotgun. He was trying to convince the kid that he had his own wife and child. If he was one of the cannibals, he could have just shot him and got it over with...this is like a six year old we are talking about. Overpowering him, kidnapping him, or just shooting him would be more easy. It doesn't make sense for him to try and convince the kid to join him.

>If anything, the book is saying being moral is childish in an amoral world.

I highly disagree. the man had problems trusting others, for good reason. But the child was a reminder to him WHY it is important to stay good. It ties in with Plato's concept of Eudemonia. Helping others must come with a sense of self-preservation. To save others with abandon is not moral...it is recklessness. On the other side of the coin, having nothing BUT self preservation is cowardess. They represent both sides of the same coin...the boy tugs at the fathers heartstrings to keep him in touch with his morality, and the father has the common sense to keep them alive.

>Rather than taking the book for it is, people are trying to find a positive message to make themselves feel better. That's a childish notion.

Making your interpretation the "one and only interpretation" and dismissing others as "making themselves feel better" is closed minded, myopic, and also childish. While I disagree with your interpretation of the book, I respect it. However the point of art is to attach personal meaning to it. That is not childish...that is human.

Your interpretation is that there is no meaning, and that morality is pointless. Mine is that it is important to do your best in a world that is evil, even if you mess up and don't live up to your own standards sometimes. "carrying the fire" seems like obvious symbolism to me for morality. They don't always carry it...they are sometimes bad themselves. When that happens, the kid gets upset at the dad and there are consequences. The dad develops as a character and decides that giving up and killing them both is the wrong thing to do. Is he right? Honestly probably not. But that is the thing about morality, it is not always black and white.
In the IBM compatable world, portable was definitely a category, and it didn't include batteries. From my one encouter with a compaq portable, I think it was a lot harder to carry than a Mac SE, but at least you could attach the keyboard to the front for transport, and no mouse needed. If you had the Mac shoulder bag, I guess it probably had room for a keyboard and mouse though.
I'd venture that professional concert piano players or chess professionals (just to pick two random ones that popped into my head) are on average more intelligent than other fields which I won't name.

I suppose it depends on the definition of smart which I understand as intelligent/good rational decision making but maybe you mean somthing else.
If you want people to use it, use MIT or Apache 2.0. It sounds like you want to limit how people can use it so they can't put their own restrictions on it - which would suggest a GPL license. But then people won't want to use it so it sort of defeats the purpose.

Imo GPL is good for finished products that you don't want being closed up and sold commercially, but are useful on their own. Like LaTeX or Pandoc. If that describes your project, maybe it will work.

For components that go into some bigger project, GPL is way to onerous a restriction as you're forcibly selecting the license of the finished project, so people will just not bother using your component.
It's along the same lines as Fred Brooks' "Second system effect," although not quite the same.
Fully under your control and fully on your dime. Your traffic may be low enough where it's not all that expensive. But it is on your dime.

Then again, that appears to be the future of Reddit, doesn't it? I've never created a subreddit but from what I've been able to gather you all are using tools to assist with your moderator duties and now those tools are going to have to pay Reddit for API access, meaning soon enough you're going to be paying for using those tools.

Either way it looks like you're going to have to pay. It's going to be a question of how much are you going to have to pay and how much freedom of control you'd like.
You don't need feelings for consciousness. Feelings are a biological mechanism to increase odds of survival in a potentially hostile environment. They have nothing to do with consciousness or intelligence.
>It's the fact that it's so centralised that makes it so valuable.

And as we see yet again in internet history, we see the cost of that comfortability when you put all your eggs in one centralized basket. This isn't the 90's dial-up days; I'd rather create a burner account in 5 minutes and keep my trail scattered across the net than fall into that trap where everything is in one place.
"see boss, nothing is using the word "keygen", so obviously we have removed all keygens".
https://12ft.io/

>How does it work?

>The idea is pretty simple, news sites want Google to index their content so it shows up in search results. So they don't show a paywall to the Google crawler. We benefit from this because the Google crawler will cache a copy of the site every time it crawls it.

>All we do is show you that cached, unpaywalled version of the page.
FWIW, I work in finance and often listen to Hackernews discussions on finance and investing. It is often some horrendously bad takes.

I then have the thought, "Am I doing this in areas where I don't have much experience?".

I can only assume there are some pretty stupid thoughts bouncing around my brain.
I appreciate you engaging with commenters on this, it’s nice to see.

From my perspective I agree with a lot of the other commenters - it’s just design for design’s sake. It’s an expensive way to add minor visual flair that heavily degrades the experience for a sizeable number of users. In terms of value provided to the user: it’s basically zero, or often worse than zero.

Personally, it feels over-designed, which the stretched font for the headings really reinforces. I’d drop the shader, re-evaluate your font choice for the headings, and focus on layout and readability a little more - using the site on my iPhone feels really cramped and like the whole page is getting cut off on the right-hand side constantly. I can’t scroll horizontally to see the rest of the code, for example.

I do like the little text-flicker/flipboard animation on the “keygen” logo though. That looks clean and well-suited to the theme of the site.
>Groupthink circle jerks

Hate to say it, but fleshy meatbag humans love this stuff on and off line. Our species is evolutionarily motivated to group up.

It's completely undeniable, societal progress regardless. We still do it all day every day, some worse than others.
Nope, you should be fine.

As a past electrical journeyman turned device engineer in a device lab about 5 years ago, you should be fine as long as all of your power supplies and cords are properly rated and not overloaded.

The only issue I ever had was a large 120v to usb-a power bank had an internal fan cease up after a number of years. In my past data center experience, a lot of server room fires were started by ceased bearings and increased heat, as well as the load spike from the locked rotor current.

We shut the power bank off and ordered a new one. And we didn’t leave it running unmonitored or overnight while we waited on a backup.
Yes, but not as easily. Just need to be accredited and find someone willing to take the other end of the trade, as with anything else.
You really only need one paragraph from that:

> What do we do with atomic blocks that do not simply consist of pure memory reads and writes? (In other words, the majority of blocks of code written today.)

If you could just get programmers to stop mutating, you could get STM (which incidentally would give you back the ability to mutate)
PNG is also obsolete :)
Karl Guttag on Apple Vision Pro (Part 1)
I disagree. Some wikis are better, sure, but some are wildly outdated or flat out wrong.
I imagine that's the only way to get someone to commit 100M+ in a seed round though.
> Since there are few male teachers, the boys without a strong father figure at home never get taught how to channel their masculine energy in a healthy way

I'll give an alternative perspective: people who talk this way try to shame men into traditional "masculine" roles

I'm not just talking about hetero vs queer either. More like, pressuring men to "care about" the marriage -> kids -> nuclear family life track. Or pressuring men to (implicitly) see women as sex objects

Something I've realized: whenever someone talks about this "crisis", they're always making some implicit demand on how other people should live
read the article.
they booted so many times to show that it was not reproducing. it's overkill but you don't need to boot 200k times
Discourse and similar traditional forum style platforms have horrible UX.

The fact that topic replies are presented sequentially and not as nested threads makes large topics downright miserable to navigate, and responses almost impossible to follow. And I will die on this hill, I don't care how many grizzled old timers try to tell me this is better. I'm not a zoomer who doesn't remember the internet pre-2010, I've been here since the '90s. I know exactly how bad it was, and the better UX is a massive part of why Reddit largely replaced these old communities over the last 15 years.
> the C standard is horrible. Just about everything is undefined behavior

How is this horrible? This is the core defining feature of C. It is equivalent of saying that a phallic shaped object with a sharp edge is terrible because you may cut/stab yourself and bleed to death, therefore dull equivalent is better (always). This is known as a knife. Knives with extremely sharp blades exist because grinding at the thing you're trying to cut for hours isn't something all of us enjoy. Have you tried not hurting yourself instead before calling it terrible? Sure, one idiot may die because of it, some unlucky guy may get killed with one, but really, I prefer using a real knife when cooking my food and I will never change my mind about that until I die.

> In addition, for large projects, all of the manual namespace management is also a bit of a bore.

When you're writing in C, fun is the least of your worries. I can recommend C++ for big projects, noone but yourself forces use of templates and classes in that department. I can't speak for people writing for controllers made in 1984 with proprietary compilers that probably aren't even maintained anymore, but that's not my problem. For projects like Linux, C++ would be more than sufficient. It's ironic that Rust has been accepted to Linux kernel because what he said about C++ over a decade ago couldn't be more true for Rust aswell, even though all you need to fix that is a bit of discipline, ironic given C programming is practically 99.97% of that.

> One big issue with C is that more or less, the CPU architecture has to treat memory as an array of bytes.

Not relevant, virtual memory is used in practically all modern hardware and "virtual" here means that you have arrays and have no clue what it's truly like already in hardware. Even kernels run in this mode, and all kernel code is written with this expectation. Before you make up such bullshit nonsense, you should tell us about this memory model that's superior to dumb arrays, because until then, noone has ever thought of a better one.
heh Tons of API errors and dev panel weirdness going on last 12 hours. Accounts suspended, API panel malfunctioning etc. Jinx!
Everyone feels fine. Then everyone feels bad. They start taking iron supplements and feel better again. Inference: something in the environment messed with their iron supply, be it less iron in the food, something in the water that hinders iron absorbtion, or other.
I practice anesthesia. My most significant change so far has been to drastically reduce the amount of ketamine I give. It is a very interesting drug. Very stable re. cardiovascular concerns. Maintains blood pressure nicely. We use it to induce anesthesia and for pain, but others use it for depression, chronic pain, borderline personality disorder.

It's fine for pediatrics. Adults not so much. We dose ketamine quite a bit higher as an induction agent at the start of operations than what would be considered a recreational or psychotherapeutic dose/"K hole".

In opposition to kids, adult patients have frequently found themselves in a very bad place on emergence from anesthesia and in the recovery room. They sometimes endorse reliving trauma and confronting themselves in a dark region of their minds that they possibly have never known about. This is why it has promise as a therapeutic agent in psychotherapy, however it is often the case that patients are cared for by one recovery room nurse who is run off her feet/has more than one patient. I have learned that "K hole" context is everything.

Kids are just fine with ketamine. I think it's because their brains are much more plastic & the variation of experience in their waking lives is higher than adults. I think that experiencing the moods and expressiveness and novel situations as a 3 year old for a day would be an incredible hallucinogen or psychedelic.
Deckard's releasing as a response to Apple would be great for Spatial Computing. I'm not sure if Simula is interested in 3d spatial computing like Apple or is doing 2d spatial computing like 1980's text terminals.
Apples to oranges comparison (no pun intended). SimulaVR aims to be a general computing platform allowing professional "desktop like" workflow, with the performance of a high-end laptop. For what has been revealed, Vision Pro is designed towards tablet-like content consumption.
That depends on the domain. For technical skills where rapid feedback is required during performance, coaching is critical and even reviewing video of yourself immediately after the fact is much worse. For non-technical things where skill involves knowing the correct combination of simpler actions to take to achieve a complex objective, coaching is helpful but not required.

Nobody is going to succeed at gymnastics without a coach, but you can totally reach a high level in a game like chess just by reviewing your games afterwards, reading theory and studying the games of past masters.
You build up the muscles and it's not a big deal. I've never heard of anyone getting hurt, only some fatigue at first.
I agree that it's a technical challenge. And that it wouldn't work with a heavy/uncomfortable form factor. But c'mon, even if you don't agree with "so close", you see how we could get there with just a few more iterative improvements?

Criticizing XR for displaying redundant information feels a little like criticizing smart phones for needing expensive multi-touch screens. Or laptops for not hooking up to your desktop where all the power is. Or personal computers for not hooking up to the school's mainframe. In other, less snarky, terms: the cycles aren't wasted if they get you 9 monitors IMO :)

EDIT because apparently I'm obsessed with this topic: at my latest company the only program we ran on our laptops was chrome, and all computing happened in the cloud.

Obviously not an option for all jobs/people/locations, but I'm confident such a setup would work for many of the current owners of heavy expensive "Pro" laptops. LLMs and their need for datacenter-level compute during training may accellerate this among certain dev circles, too.
Speech 100, at least the ceo have job security. Jokes aside, I wonder why people think that public available means copyleft.
Ah yes, the age-old hacking tool: ssh-keygen.
The solution is to examine all words that contain that substring and explicitly whitelist them.

Nowadays though, we have a different Scunthorpe problem. I call it the "Hidden Garfield" problem, because that phrase is detected as a racial slur after you run Double Metaphone on it and throw out spaces.
yeah, not a thing in this comment makes sense.
you can train a model to have specific (subtle or less) opinionated approaches to answering, a good example of this is midjourney apparently only generating attractive people in its compositions due to the preference of the internet media to that category of humans
The data collection for use with training AI is causing an increasing number of smaller hobbyist websites to shut down or become member-only.

It's not a lot of sites (yet), but it's making the web get smaller, and worse, it's affecting the most useful and interesting parts of the web more than the commercial stuff.
> It's pretty sad that "look like you know what you are doing and convince gullible people" is probably the best future career advice I can give to my school-age daughter.

I would like to think that you would want your daughter to get more out of life than just raw cash.
Unfortunately LLMs directly undercut the work of the people and companies who produced the training material. Releasing a bunch of art, writing, or code into the world for others to use is starting to lead to AI models that threaten to take work away from the original producers.
China's Economy Is Imploding. That's a Problem for US, Wall Street
Oh yeah, I have a computer for a minecraft server. A computer hosting my kiddo's website(just for fun, its silly, but randomly he will want me to pull it up from outside of the house). That same computer hosts some listeners/watchdogs for a media computer, but I havent actually used much of that information or features in a year (WFH kind of removed the need for me to use my remote tools).

I suppose that's it for now.

Oh, I thought of another use, I run a small business on the side and my interns occasionally don't have a laptop, I give them a crappy laptop. (they are basically just using excel/google sheets)
Yes absolutely! I love the RP2040 and have used dev boards for several projects.

My goal with this intro is to make something hand-solderable though, which is why I'm using QFP32, 0805, etc. In addition, this is Arduino Nano compatible to ease the transition. I'm using a CH340N for USB. An unfortunate consequence of this is that you need another MCU board to flash the bootloader first.

TBH ATmega328Ps are surprisingly expensive ($2.x) for their functionality.

Especially with the smartwatch, we are considering using an ESP32 WROOM/MINI module and will write about that too, eventually.
Ask HN: Does anyone face difficulty in managing sales script or email templates?
I am building something for Sales and HR teams that would help them manage and share sales scripts, email templates, chat templates, cheatsheets, and more.

I want to know whether more people are facing this small issue.

Notion and other knowledge bases can't perform quick fuzzy search on customers questions while in a call or chat. Moreover it's hectic to manage 200 templates in a notion doc.
Every time npm comes up I remind everybody that npm is shit, and nobody should use it. They have a bad track record of doing things right and bad attitude when told.

But you keep using it.

I refuse to use it at work and refuse to use it in personal life. It’s not real software and will cause you harm.
> we are explicitly building headsets which are meant to 100% replace your PC/laptop as your primary working device.

This seems like a mistake. I'd be more intrigued if the vision was for seamless experience across workstations, laptops, phones, vehicles, tablets and kiosks with or without a stylus, and immersive computing with or without a headset.
Pretty sure with RDP type apps and lower res you can easily push 2 or 4 screens... but yea probably not at 4k. Sheesh that isn't even necessary for people doing productive work. Except for maybe video editors.
Right, there was no "fraud" at WeWork in the legal sense. All of the pillaging of investor capital was properly disclosed and didn't break any laws.
Something is missing from this story: delivery drivers don't have the ability to turn off someone's smart home devices, even by complaining to Amazon management. This is pegging my BS meter.
But you will still have a job when everyone around you is replaced by a large language model. :)
If the Info Explosion problem that the Internet produced gets solved some other way.

Sure it will - asymptotically.

But it took 18 years to grow Reddit. Even if a solid alternative emerges in a fraction of that time -- that's still a multi-year gap. Plus we're at a significant knowledge deficit (for us lowly humans, never mind LLMs) if Reddit's archives don't re-emerge sometime soon.

(Google search has been braindead for some time now -- so we can leave that source out of the equation).
Thanks! :) It feels so surreal to be launching on Hacker News! When I was first discovering tech the people launching YC funded startups on HN seemed like wisened old Gods to me. Now I laugh about it because obviously I'm still learning so much, even the basics, every day. I hope we get to inspire someone else the way the early YC cos inspired me