skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve always enjoyed listening to albums. When I was younger, I’d listen to albums of pop music because that’s what I’d hear on the radio.

The albums often contained at least one track that was “catchier” than what was played on the radio. I always wondered why these never made the rounds.

Fast forward 20 years and I’ve seen a handful of those songs come back and make the rounds on pop channels. I’ve always wondered why they didn’t do numbers out the gate. Maybe they were missed at the time or maybe they were ahead of their time and needed tastes to catch up.

I could see taking an AI model that predicts a positive response from “the masses” being unbelievably valuable to anybody sitting on a massive catalogue of historical content. Most of that content is only valuable, at this point, in bundled deals.

But the prospect of there being a handful of diamonds sitting in there that could be panned for with AI? I imagine that’s billions of dollars waiting to be tapped at a near zero cost (plus, possibly, the cost of remastering).

(P.S. for fellow album lovers out there, I built https://audile.blankenship.io for personal use, it’s free have at it)
It was pretty big increase in interest and public visibility for something that most people don't normally know or care about. I make no claims about how many people actually started using these platforms or are still using them after a couple of months.
I'm not sure of the legal framework around securities in the US, but I imagine, when a novel financial instrument is being traded, the regulations work along the lines of "Here's the law. We expect you to use it to decide if this instrument is a security or not, and if it is, well, comply. And if you decide it's not, please have a really good argument."

Like when you're filing a tax return, you decide if something's deductible or not, based on the tax code, and if you get it wrong, then the Government unleashes pain on you. But they're not holding your hand.

It makes sense to me that the people with the most to gain from a novel financial instrument should be the ones who determine if it's legal, and explain why it's legal.

And if you don't have legal certainty about the status of token X... ...don't trade it.

The exchanges took the risk, made some good (fiat) coin doing so, and now they're finding out they were wrong.

And tbh I'm not sure there's an path to registering the many tokens that function as effective Ponzi schemes, because they're illegal.

Don't get me wrong, I think that the SEC was asleep at the wheel for years on this, but I can't see how that justifies being outraged when the regulator eventually pulls thumb. They made a lot of money while the regulators were napping.

And yeah, still don't see this as tyranny tbh.
I’ve noticed that people tend to work about the same amount, some just do more hours. The 11-hours-per-day crowd spends much more time resting on Reddit / HN, because they haven’t rested enough at home.

I’ve learned it’s better to put in fewer hours filled with work, instead of more hours of semi-alt-tabbing around
I was about to suggest that.

Some kind of containers that can use 1/2 1/4 of width and look good on mobile would probably be nice.

I would also add nav with mobile switch, I saw one fully in css.
Mocks force you to be aware of how your method/function under testing operates at a low level. At that point your test is now tightly coupled to a specific implementation. YMMV, but I can safely say from working on large codebases across several companies I've seen this get painful at scale when things change, whether it's a simple refactoring or an optimization pass. Mocks also tend to be much, much more complicated on a per test basis.

All that said, I personally prefer the upfront investment in stubs. At scale, it is something readily reusable by other test suites and teams out there.
My question is will stop the aspartame headaches? Because I could get used to the different flavor and aftertastes but the blinding headache was the deal breaker.
Well desalination for residential is ok financially in high income countries.

It costs 5$ for 1000 gallons and that is the monthly consumption of a household
I live in the western US. I didn't drive more than necessary because my only vehicle got 11-12mpg. I recently purchased a vehicle that gets 20-27mpg and can do light off-road travel as well, and just this weekend I went on a small expedition to camp, and when that destination was unreachable due to flooding, I had to improvise. I travelled roads I hadn't seen in 25 years or more, and many that I'd never seen at all. I was completely solo, and it was transformative in a wonderful way. Windows down, wind in my hair, radio off.

I had a similar experience when moving 700mi to my current home. I even wrote a song about the effect that solo driving, windows down, radio off, mind fully engaged. It's a thing.
I literally described how I achieve it. I don't "try to fall asleep", that never works.
> The switches are printed in PETG. If you want to see them in action, you might enjoy my video of operating the switch tester. The final incarnation of the switch design lasted over 350k presses in all cases, and some instances still hadn't failed at 500k presses. This is a lot lower than the "tens of millions" that might be expected of a commercial switch

It would be interesting to know whether that keyboard still works after 3 years if not reaching those numbers, my impression is that plastic becomes brittle with time, specially under sunlight. Those quality measures seem meaningless as devices get a little old. For example the screen of my Galaxy Z Flip3 started breaking by the middle after just 2 years with average use.
> Consumers don't trust manufavturers. If I pay 2x premium I have zero trust the product is better made or will last longer. My $300 laptop worked for 10 years, $3000 laptop has issues after 2 years.

I'm confused — why are you talking about trusting "manufacturers" as a whole? Isn't the whole point of your anecdote that one manufacturer is trustworthy and the other is not?
It's ok to post your own work.
It does say 4GB x2 so 8GB, but still. Hopefully its one of those products that are 50% off every second month.
How? WeakMap (and WeakSet, more directly) can detect if an object has been collected only if you have a reference to pass to it. If you have reference to the object in a variable or data structure, it won't have been eligible for collection in the first place.
Same-ish, but:

I'm not using reddit in the meantime to send a message of "this is what you're looking at when reddit keeps their current plans". I don't know if that's also part of your master plan, but if not, at least if a significant number of people think like that, then reddit has little reason to care.

I'm also on Tildes now, probably because of the invite-only FOMO, but a full comparative study (figuring out which lemmy instance to sign up with, as well as looking into other alternatives) is something I'll be forced to do only after June 30th, and I've mastered the art of procrastination so it's not going to be any sooner.
That's part of what makes the experiment so interesting!
Rome: built by wolves, inherited by cats.
You don't want social connections which is fine, but most people do want them.
Reconnect with friends as much as possible. Do dumb fun things together.

In a couple years people will start coupling, nesting, having kids. You’ll still see them a couple times a year but it won’t be the same.

Now is the time to build life long bonds.
Parrots Are Taking over the World
It's a majority of the BSDs. NetBSD:

_pflogd:*:18:
_rwhod:*:19:
_proxy:*:21:
_timedc:*:22:
_sdpd:*:23:
_httpd:*:24:
_mdnsd:*:25:
_tests:*:26:
_tcpdump:*:27:
_tss:*:28:
_gpio:*:29:
_rtadvd:*:30:
_unbound:*:32:
_nsd:*:33:
_dhcpcd:*:35:
That makes very good sense. Pity they didn't copy the conclusion too.
Bootstrapping

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_(statistics)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrap_aggregating
Background jobs is the kind of problem that every company has but there’s still room to find the best DX possible. I’m glad there’s people tackling this problem.
Lemmy is actually surprisingly fast? I mean, it feels way faster than both Twitter and Reddit, despite being federated.
I’m a moderator of a fairly good sized sub (3M) and bots help flag things early but sometimes it takes nuance to determine if it’s something that needs action, especially if it’s for a very specific community.

There are rules that have been set up through time by mods that facilitate discussion and avoid people karma farming.

Lastly, there are also communities (one of them ours) that host AMAs or other community events and it’s us who approach people to see if they want to interact with the community.

I’m not saying mods are perfect (I myself am annoyed at ones from other subreddits and sometimes disagree with fellow ones) but mods aren’t there just to ban people and remove posts.

What makes HN amazing for me is how people hear moderate discussions and that’s one thing I’m trying to emulate.
Yes, because communism and atheism has such a great track record. The Salem witch trials killed about 25 people. Mao, Stalin, Lenin, pol pot, etc etc killed 100’s of millions.

”When asked about such tragedies Russian novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn explained, “Men have forgotten God, that’s why all this happened.” Another preeminent Russian novelist, Fyodor Dostoyevsky explained, “If God is not, everything is permitted.”

> there is a magical man in the sky who will reward them from being good

You might want to look up Jihad.

Communism is definitely a religion as the Catholic Church has claimed for more than a century. It's an atheistic religion. It's a religion created by atheists, celebrated by atheists and defended by atheists. It comes with its own prophets and prophecies, sacred items, soteriology, hierotopy, pseudo-spirituality, pseudo-morality, pilgrimages, temples, theophany, soteriology, cultic practices, sacred texts and exegetical commentary.
Yeah, I am mostly always alone and I love it.

I have never felt any reason to have it any other way.

I already read that humans are "supposed" to be social, but then why am I happiest alone. I don't worry about it and I just live the way I like to live and it's worked out great.
> Feels like unbaked software to me.

I mean... it is. A few weeks ago the user base was very small and there was very little activity on Github (bug reports, feature requests, additional developers). Now there is a flourishing community and a lot of pull requests from new developers, leading to many smaller and bigger improvements.

The timing could've been better as the Lemmy devs were in the middle of a bigger refactoring (getting rid of websockets), which hindered development and the release of new versions. But I for once are happy with how active the development is.
> Highly treated wastewater ... is injected into nearby groundwater, to be pumped up and treated to drinking-water standards by local utilities.

This seems convoluted; if it's clean enough to go in the ground, and ground-water is clean enough to treat and then add to the drinking-water supply, is it really just optics to use the local aquifer as a buffer, or is there some actual benefit from traveling through the ground (maybe different dissolved minerals?).
I’ve been seeing companies that have tried to get people to commute to/from and “work” from their office (any number of days) starting to lose the good people - the ones you want to keep around.

I’ve kept in contact with a couple of them and they’re now 100% remote, one is working for a local company the other an international and they seem genuinely so much happier.
Contrast that to how OpenBSD handled this. There was a thing, disk access, that shouldn't be allowed to those who could shutdown/reboot, so they bounced it around internally for a while, then de Raadt submitted a patch that said, "we're doing it this way, our users will figure it out, it's not a complex thing."

No massive re-architecting, just add a group, done. Businesses could learn a lot from the way the *BSDs and Linux do things. They're all different, but you can't argue with the results.
> To me, there is more to having children than breeding. Having children is something that, generally, ages well. You see your children grow, become adults, start their careers, start their own families, etc. You find new satisfaction and joy as your children age and progress in life.

I hate to point out that it doesn't always- your children may hate you (difference in politics or lifestyle) or abandon you. Or they may be simply too resource constrained to do anything other than visit you on holidays. I guess the lifestyle in most Western cultures has normalized elder neglect and loneliness anyways. Though I recognize there are many examples to the contrary. On average most families relegate care of the elderly to homes or caretakers if independence is no longer an option. I guess I don't see the point of children if they don't actively care for you till death. Do I expect too much, or just reject the Western norm?
If the _feeling_ of loneliness starts with a sensory/somatic experience then to know it means it is interpreted. If it is interpreted then it went through a filter of values and beliefs. And all of this is contextual to environmental cues

In other words if we could stimulate the same somatic experience in people then some may find relief and others distress and others may not notice it amounts the billions of sensory input in any given moment.

Want to feel (dis)connected. Change the somatic experience? Change the environment/context? Change the interpretation?

My mantra for a while

“I am a tree in woods” ( reminded that I’m part of a connected system)

“I am a tree in a field” ( I’m unattached )
Thanks for a comprehensive reply. There might be a market niche then, but we no longer have infinite VC money to for many attempts to plug it.
I think the hardest part here is attracting the right moderators that can tread the line between keeping the conversation civil and not enforcing their opinion, which is harder by the day. Both criteria are very subjective and hard to automate.
https://archive.is/2023.06.20-115544/https://www.reuters.com...
From the article:

"Put another way, ChatGPT seems so human because it was trained by an AI that was mimicking humans who were rating an AI that was mimicking humans who were pretending to be a better version of an AI that was trained on human writing."

OK I know where AI is supposed to be going, and I think we know what the improvement curve should look like. This sounds like we're at the very steep uphill portion where, collectively, the tool requires much more effort for the same result.

Their examples of the typewriter and telephones make me excited to see the future in a world with AI. And I wonder how much of that future involves banks of people classifying data to improve the AI to save me time figuring out a powershell script.
Exactly - we have many users that have come over after using Temporal. We designed our SDK to be more lightweight and flexible. We want it to feel more just like writing normal code, not a new coding paradigm. For example, you can define steps right within your function, not as separate "activities."

Being HTTP based (push vs. pull), it's easier to manage and works natively with serverless and servers.

Inngest is also event-driven, so you can fan-out and do things like have your workflow wait for another event. Our `step.waitForEvent()` allows you to pause a function until another event is received, creating dynamic jobs that can wait for additional actions or input. Also, using events allows us to replay failures super easily.

re: ActiveJob - Yeah, multi-step workflows are a huge difference. We manage step retries and the function state for you. That makes things like sleep and coordinating between events easy. As you mentioned, it leads to simpler function definition so it means that almost any engineer can write workflows quickly and easily read the code in a single place, reducing bugs due to disconnected jobs.
If I can see the difference I would assume I will be able to see a difference between 27" 4k and 27" 6k.

My canon 80d has a resolution of 6k x 4k.

I also can perceive the sharpness of text.

I don't mind to not run 8k IF driving the display pixels consumes too much energy. The argument of Performance though should not really exist. It's much more pixels true but there are plenty of technics to separate this technically.

Even on gaming they have adaptive rendering but the display resolution itself stays the same.
The edge is long and wide. I'm also like that.
Honestly I wish all the old awk fanatics had been tcl fanatics instead.
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I think it depends on how you interpret "fundamental level." It sounds like you're more interpreting it in the sense of "what are the basic important things that a programmer needs to build on." But then I think there's an interpretation that also makes perfect sense: bits are the fundamental building blocks of which the programmer can manipulate.
This isn't about speech. This is Zuck doing what he is really good at: making a place advertisers want to be on, providing the best tools for advertisers, making money for advertisers and, hence, for Meta.

Twitter, meanwhile, has hired an ad sales head, called her CEO but denied her the tools to make Twitter a good place to advertise, which puts her on the "glass cliff." Elon has someone to blame for failing at ads.
I used XEmacs for that brief period when it supported antialiased text, but GNU Emacs didn't. I'm glad there are still people using and working on XEmacs.
I disagree quite strongly. KDE is more aligned to the classic desktop environment that most people are used to and familiar with.

For me, I really prefer KDE over Gnome. Gnome seems to do what Windows is trying to do, and they are failing as Windows is. Gnome just seems counter intuitive to me. It's obviously subjective and anecdotal, so take it from that perspective.
I once worked with a mockist who mocked out hashtable. It didn't end well when we had to debug his code.

I once knew a mockist who mocked out all the external code's behavior, but didn't add tests to ensure that the external code behaved as they expected.

That didn't end well either.

Just don't use mocks, unless they're the simplest thing that could work (usually not).
It's the opposite, contrary to untrained intuition.
How Startup Founders Should Spend Their Time
The HN hug of death is really not specific to the Fediverse.
Presumably the assets from the loan still exist? If those were somehow deposited in SVB there might be a case. But if you buy a house with a mortgage and then a bank run wipes out your lender, you still own the house and could conceivably sell it to cover the cost of the loan. Frankly if you’re sophisticated enough to bank in multiple countries I would think you’d know that.
Use ChromeOS Flex - it works great. I'm running it on a ChromeBox that was out of support in 2018. Perfect video conference setup.
> For example, general clout, influence peddling, an outlet for low power people to experience power, etc.

Does that meaningfully differ from "some laughs when you strike the ban hammer"? One may not physically laugh out loud, but no doubt the appeal of which you speak stems from pleasurable emotions that stem from the entertainment in experiencing those things.

It is understandable why some people would be drawn to those incentives, but I am not sure those incentives align with good faith participation. Power and influence is best experienced when used in bad faith. When only used in good faith, one will not even recognize that they have it.

In the old owner/operator forum days there were other incentives to be a good faith mod. Financial gain being one possible incentive. But in the case of Reddit, they take all of those parts for themselves, leaving just the scraps for any would-be mods. As such, the earlier "reddit has some of the worst mods I’ve ever seen in any capacity" assertion is not surprising. There is nothing to attract "good" mods.
well I guess it's the kind of thing you have to experience to believe.

from my personal experience, being with the wrong crowd can definitely make you more lonely than being alone doing your own thing.
This is surely speculation or a hunch rather than behavior you’ve actually noticed in others. For example what experience would give you real insight here?
Obviously I don't speak for everyone, but the Fortune 500 company I worked for at the time was presented with two options: either migrate your Skype infrastructure to Teams, or... actually, no, you don't get to choose. Migrate or else.

I don't doubt that the plan is to keep people in the MS ecosystem and I don't dispute that it's working. But let's not claim that Teams' popularity has anything to do with its technology when it's clear that MS used it's dominant position to push it down everyone's throat.
Make sure you don't an extension enabled that might be messing up with CORS headers.
What you wrote is factually true, but a lot of businesses do handle complaints through them and I have personally had luck where other avenues have failed. Maybe I am a little too moneyball but if they get on base they are good with me.
I only came across TCL as the scripting language used internally by the F5 (BigIP) load balancer. Writing irules was fine because they are usually one and done. It was tempting to try to do complicated things until you realized that was exactly the wrong place to try to fix the underlying problems of a broken web application.
You've missed screen size as a factor. TVs are getting larger by about an inch per year since flat screens took over, and that trend doesn't seem like it's stopping any time soon.

There's also the type of content and your personal visual acuity. If you're young, your eyesight is probably quite capable of resolving much finer details than normal 6/6 vision. I can tell the difference between 4K and 8K at a normal sitting distance on a 65" TV.

However... the difference isn't enough for me to care. I'm much more interested in brightness, colour, framerate and a load of other things over another resolution bump.
I look at it as they're are two types of languages - computer science languages which are for researching new concepts in computer science and software engineering languages which are used for building applications for commercial use and who's lifetimes may reach up to 20 or more years.

Languages in the first class should die quickly. They're intended to be for research. They tend to have a longer lifetime than they should when people use these languages for commercial use. Languages in the second class should be long-lived as the systems depending on them may be long lived. Some of the useful language features from the research languages may be introduced into the software engineering languages. C++ is a great example of this as it has been borrowing concepts from research languages for some time now.
Correct, right now aider does not provide the ctags repo map to any gpt-3.5 models. I still need to evaluate if those models can actually understand and use the map effectively.

Improving and deepening support for the 3.5 models is probably my top priority next effort. Previously, they were barely useful for editing code. The 16k context window and functions support may have shifted that balance, so I need to dig in more.

One other thing to note is that aider now distills the repo map to fit within a token budget. The default is 1k tokens, specified via `--map-tokens`. It tries to use the budget to convey the most important parts of the repo map to GPT. So in theory, even very large repos should get a useful map.
Ask HN: How do you measure tech debt?
There’s many answers, but how do you measure and define tech debt?
“Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.”

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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