skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One of my biggest culture shocks in moving from Ireland to the Netherlands

I've only been to Ireland once, but I absolutely loved how the local pub felt like the shared living room for the town. It was so different from my experience at most bars in the US (there are some that also fit this bill, but they're rare). I ended up going there every night I was in town for dinner and a pint, and some friendly chit-chat.
Technically soylent news did, but then, they also used the whole codebase and just changed the site red.
ebike is a lot different than a bicycle, they are often really big and heavy.
I think we were here for a lot of time in a lot of industries, but then specific people bring it to other industries.

Elon brought this to tech in an extreme way.

This problem won’t be solved until CEOs and execs are able to take over behind limited liability.
How is it supposed to work if "Webhooks to listen for billing events" is on the roadmap? This is a strict requirement for any billing system...
Thanks for the link. Instructed by the federal government not to comply seems quite a bit different than what gp is implying. Why would legislators bother considering the full implications of their bills?
So you're the one ultimately responsible for all the suffering it's wrought? It looks nice, but not having access to the plain text source for pages is infuriating.
Or just a simple byte. A laceration. A simple fall with a random stone in the road. And so on.
> BillaBear is a standalone Subscription Management and Billing System that integrates with Stripe

This confused me -- is it standalone, or is it a front-end for Stripe?

FYI, the links for "User Documentation" and "Technical Documentation" in your readme.md are pointing to the wrong place.
Super excited for Walter Isaacson's biography of Musk which comes out in September. I found Isaacson's books on Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs just really great reading.
I'll expand once again, I use GPT to help me write title, summary (for excerpt) Intro and conclusions. I mostly focus on dumping down my thoughts from the things I am learning into a markdown file and use a script to sprinkle GPT magic on it which makes it much better in terms of phrasing things into a short and crisp article format and proofread the content for any mistakes (syntactic as well as semantics).

I am exploring Linux myself for this year and hence more focused for content around that these days.

Given said that, completely understand your sentiment here, so feel free to skip it, no hard feelings but I'm gonna continue with this workflow till I find something better to improve upon this as well. :)
30-year study: Hyenas inherit power from mothers, but pay for the privilege
I don’t know if there’s one that prohibits it (well, for any rule, it has been implemented somewhere, but this seems like it must be a rare one).

I can imagine some general feeling of pressure to finish up in a crowded place, though.
Autocut!
I guess the meta lesson is find today's blue ocean markets.

The "obvious" things the Atlassian founders did back then were not obvious at all at the time.
Eh wisdom is experiential and a lot of it sounds mundane and even cliche when stated straightforwardly.

"We're all interconnected," "live life in the moment," etc are boring and cliche we've all heard them a lot. But they are also profound & wise and you could spend hours thinking on their details and consequences and how to apply them to your life.

The wisdom is the experience of doing it, not saying or hearing the words. Psychedelics can give people insight into that experienced value and grow a resolve to apply them to their lives.
Companies being greedy and attempting to maximize their profits is a totally new thing. Up until recently, companies were all about being great to employees and saving their customers money.
Very similar to Python's "finally" keyword [0] used in a try block, the "Exit Traps" are meant to allow for clean-up action(s) if a script fails.

[0]: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/errors.html#defining-clea...
You could at least use a "degoogled" chrome variant like Thorium, Bromite, Ungoogled Chromium and such.

And some "farther from the tree" variants like Vivaldi are not as shady as, say, Opera.
There was never restraint and it used to be much worse. This is why the large body of laws and regulations we have today came into being.

Edit:

Also, in the West society in general is one of abundance with people housed, clothed and educated in school from birth, which IMHO removes a lot of incentives for scams and fraud.

But it used to be (and still is in some countries) that most people were born with nothing in a very tough environment and had to fight just to eat every day. The world of Charles Dickens was real.
That's different and an unfair comparison. Android will open the system browser (which will be chromium based in most instances). It can't just open the default browser because that might break certain functions of android apps if the non system default browser is broken
Not the worst things to write about. Kinda normal things really. Everyday things.
> recent research on how to make LLMs stateful so they don't need to pass back the entire conversation for every token but can simply initialise to a remembered state

I’m very curious about the insights that will give us in to LLMs. My initial instinct is that it won’t work unless you have essentially the entire state remembered since each “point” in the LLM can lead anywhere. I’m imagining an experiment where the task is “Get a person who’s never been to this city before from point X to point Y without describing the destination and while providing as little information as possible”. Giving them the full map with directions is the equivalent to giving the LLM the full previous conversation.

Intuitively there is low-hanging fruit (just provide the directions of single optimized route), but it feels like it gets chaotic quite quickly after that. How many steps could you leave out of turn-by-turn directions before the person is hopelessly lost?

This is based on my current understanding of LLMs so YMMV, but I’m definitely curious about ways we can start from a remembered state.
> A part of it is the concern that it will do something weird to my repo that I'll then have to waste more time undoing manually. I usually don't trust sugary wrappers around tools.

You can easily look at magit's process buffer with $ to see got commands run.

Magit is also good about not running more hit commands than necessary unlike other porcelains.
I'm curious how does credit work in these situations? Is it first to upload/publish somewhere (arvix) or is it "here are the logs when we found it"? If it's the former, I'd build a pipeline that autogenerates a quick paper and uploads immidiately when the number is spit out. If it's the latter, how do we make sure the logs are not tampered with?

Either way it's fun for me that one of the teams used the Noctua 2 cluster, I was in the server room a couple of month ago. Looked very underwhelming but it's quite interesting because I've never seen an FPGA cluster before. They are also doind some interesting ML things there (optimizing for power consumption).

Edit: nevermind the first part, I read the van Hirtum paper and they registered the number in Github. Can't find any other time mentioned in the Jäkel paper.
Caffienate will save my ass going forward. I don't know how many times I end up being the person that runs some batch job on my system...
He had to take mushrooms to change his neuro-circuitry! What an ape!
Is this because not all browsers support stuff equally?

A few days ago on fresh windows install I couldnt watch netflix on ff/edge, but on chrome it worked. Player error.

I guess it was related to some missing drivers?
It definitely wasn’t always this way:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_capitalism

Not that I agree with welfare capitalism, I think it’s an unstable position and greed would always kill it. But let’s not forget that for some people, the past was definitely better than the present when it came to some economic matters. Note: I’m not excusing or wanting the bigotry of the past.
with sleep comes "unlock screen" ;)
Local storage can be easily bypassed if you don't encrypt the values in that array...
What if the cocaine is actually there as a secret anti counterfitting measure?
Wouldn't then using nix be better? Or at least base the distro on nix?
It will become GPL according to the license: https://github.com/billabear/billabear/blob/main/LICENSE
Effectively the same aside from time if you are waiting on yours to be rebuilt. One is the engine you have that needs to be rebuilt and the other was rebuilt because someone did a swap and now its inventory in a shop that sells refurbished engines.

[Edit] Adding jaclaz's very good point that one might be able to save money rebuilding their own if it requires less parts.
> "Make me an egg."

I'd be reaching for the polystyrene, spray paint and duck tape. Possibly, a 3D printer to show my technique is up to date.

I suspect I'm far too literal minded for this kind of test but then I'm an engineer.

The man wants to be an egg. The customer gets what he wants.
Most auctions just don't allow real inspection at all. At best they pop the hood and let you look at the undercarriage or drive the car by for a minute (and quite a few auctions will ask you to pay for even that tiny amount of inspection).

That said - odometer fraud is a big fucking deal here. A vehicle with unknown mileage is worth far less at auction (just the fact that it's unknown is a huge flag) and if the auctioneer was aware of the fraud (as they're implying Holman Fleet Leasing was) then I'm curious to see how this is resolved... a smaller auction house would likely see jail time for several employees.
I think you are painting past very nicely, ie DuPont has been knowingly contaminating whole world since 80s at least. That's my childhood years, for sure I wasn't aware of anything similar happening. That doesn't mean it wasn't, news reel was setup differently these days. In 3rd world countries this would not raise eyebrows at all, there were (and still are) big issues around exactly this with used cars in Eastern Europe.

People got addicted to ever more shocking news, I guess 9/11 in the west helped with that. Once you burn your receptors and they go back to flatline, the next kick needs to be a bit stronger to keep people engaged, and next one even more so. So just consuming news is a never ending progression of bad, amoral and over time progressively worse stuff.
Isn't there `xsel` or `xclip` installed instead [0]? These two commands are commonly used on the Linux boxes and they support pipes too. For example, the xclip is used by the original password-store implementation [1].

On [2] you might find the aliases to pbutil for X11-based Linuxes.

[0]: If not, why not run apt-get command to install one of them, like xclip?

[1]: https://git.zx2c4.com/password-store/tree/src/password-store...

[2]: https://ostechnix.com/how-to-use-pbcopy-and-pbpaste-commands...
If you view all beliefs as provisional then you’ll probably accomplish nothing. You have to go all in sometimes even just to figure out if you’re wrong.
> That is on iOS, on MacOS they allow other browsers and respect the systemwide defaults.

Why is that in any way exonerating? Most people do most of their actual computing on their phones now, it is not an irrelevant toy platform. We should be more, not less, hard on Apple than Microsoft for pulling this shit on their mobile platform.
This is really reminding me of a cargo cult. I observe that there is a prevailing mindset among software engineers that their peers are always better than them, and if there is a "standard" solution, it will always be better, more performant, easier to use, bugfree, etc. compared to a quick home-rolled version.

This is a good thing if you want to contribute to software bloat, but most use-cases can be solved by rolling your own, then adding features as needed.

I have a specific example - I wanted to do logging in a program I made. I experimented with adding different loggers to the project but all of them were more complex and harder to set up than what was needed. Ultimately, I've written a logger which does exactly what I need and in the exact same way in a few hours. (the standard loggers needed some finicking to produce output in the format I wanted)
Every open source developer has been asking this question for the better part of three decades. Possibly four.
New Star Games is a great little indy games publisher with multiple titles for Android and iOS. My favorite is Retro Bowl [1], a fun little retro-style American football game. They also make Retro Goal [2], a football/soccer game. There are some IAPs, but they are mainly used to unlock the full game and are very reasonably priced.

[1] https://www.newstargames.com/servlet/Content/en/text/release...

[2] https://www.newstargames.com/servlet/Content/en/text/release...

Edit: Formatting
The big three religions of Middle East were built around praising sun and wheat harvesting.
Yeah, that would be great. I have no idea why it chopped off the whole URL. I am 100% sure I pasted the whole link in there.
That's a valid take. Though, not all videos are equally ad-ridden. I suspect if I were to start using rss to subscribe to channels I'd be favoring those that don't make much use of them. But yes, it's not so cut and dry.
Tinc is a perfect tool to make a VPN mesh across different clouds/hosters. Been using it for 5 years. It's so much easier in support comparing with ipsec madness.
> it offers more privacy than 3rd party cookies

I mean yeah probably. You know what else does that? Removing 3rd party cookies and not adding an advertisement API to replace it. Literally effortless.

I believe chrome had been a good product but at this point it is clear the policy makers are no longer people who care about it as a browser (some may argue that was always the case) and are now just execs from the adsense branch.
And if you use a narrowing framework like consult+vertico+order less you can select the right branch super quick.
It was always like that. At all points throughout history. So law makers put in laws and regulations that had punitive fines on the conduct for businesses. 49 U.S.C § 32703, the law that makes federal odometer fraud a crime, was passed in October 1972 and had a $10,000 fine for screwing with an odometer. If inflation kept up with the punishment it'd be $71,897.64 today. But time passes, fine amounts don't get touched, and eventually it's profitable on the whole to do it. $10,000 if you get caught? That's less than the profit of the deal, so who cares? The conduct resumes.
You have a curious definition of "always" here...

As someone who did NOT want to play MP the first time through the game, it's not an issue. (I got the impression that brand new areas start with other players disabled until you pass some quest threshold ?)
It’s also why funding our institutions and fighting to keep them honest is so damn important. Regulation is insufficient without enforcement.
I haven't done a lot of research, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadal_zone seems to suggest it really has only been a handful of people; Jaques Picard and John Walsh, James Cameron, and a few Chinese and Japanese explorers; even unmanned craft struggle to go down that far it seems.

Which... is kinda weird to me, like with space missions, I'd expect them to launch probes or permanent unmanned observation things down there. Surely they can transfer data through water efficiently enough?

I can imagine they don't want to use nuclear power (like a RTG) on those though, which limits lifetime. A cable going to the surface will be difficult as well, because of its own weight and currents.
(1) is what elections are. It authorizes the mandate proposed by the candidate during the election cycle. Democracies aren't really about giving individuals authority to exercise their will, they're about authorizing individuals to execute the will of the people who elected the individual.

I.e. it would be more proper for a candidate to pursue a platform they were elected on but which they no longer personally believe in than it would be for them to get elected on platform X then pursue platform Y. One obvious reason is that you actually can't know whether they changed their mind X -> Y or whether they knew X had a higher chance of election than Y. In either scenario, their mandate is for X, not Y, and they ought to be somewhat beholden to that. Of course not beholden against all new information, compromises, or circumstances. All of this wiggle room and the individual's propensity for wishy-washiness is considered during the election and is, in fact, part of the mandate. Some people prefer a candidate who has shown willingness to compromise, others do not. Again, in either case, candidates are expected to behave similarly to how the electorate expected them to behave.

Point (2) is a valid one. The modern world changes very, very quickly and this is indeed a problem for democracies, but it's a problem only because all of this^ is true. We could simply elect tyrants (not in the pejorative sense) and they can react reflexively to the changing world, but that's not really how democracies work. This dynamic is exactly why crises (a fast-changing world) push democracies toward tyranny.
I have very little personal brand (I went from writing about React to around 900 subscribers to running an uptime monitoring SaaS - https://onlineornot.com), but am still managing to grow in a red-ocean market.

The trick is:

- being default-alive (the business will never go under, as I have a full time job)

- continuous progress (2 hours a day, every workday)

- learn everything you can about sales and marketing, the engineering is the easy part :)
Stating that margins/profits are causing inflation is like stating that water vapor is causing global warming.
Not a command-line tool but the network link conditioner is also really great. Never seen such a tool on another OS

You can simulate a really bad network. Latency, bandwidth, packet loss etc. Great for testing but also if people insist on cameras being on. Just screw up the connection so bad that everyone gets annoyed with your blocky image and robot voice and suggest you turn off video and then you make it 'magically' ok - lol
This isn’t the kind of information that has ever been easy to find on the Internet.
I picked this up from a local food writer.

One of the categories in which he bins bartenders is "they don't know what it is, but don't try to wing it & when I tell them they make it correctly" and he views that as an acceptable outcome as well. If they can manage to make 1/3 each of 3 ingredients it means he can trust them to follow instructions on other drinks as well.
Even if they do that would require you catch the error fairly quickly. I'm not sure how long it would take me to realize my odometer was broken, honestly.
I recently switched from Tinc to Wireguard (4 machines) due to simpler configuration and better support for road warriors. Transition was quite painless.
George R.R. Tolkien.
I did this many years ago, ran into a bunch of issues and switched back.

Tried again maybe 4 (?) years ago and have stuck with it - everything is pretty smooth for my purposes now. I do run into some random issues sometimes - like display drivers randomly resetting. That seems to be the biggest one.
Changes to LinkedIn's Algorithm
I only recently discovered his letter to Nora Barnacle professing his fondness of her farts. Quite possibly the funniest thing that I have ever read, although I did feel a tinge of guilt since it was never intended for the public.
> From a more general perspective, our paper is loosely linked to the strand of literature which analyzes profitability and market power using firm-level data (e.g., De Loecker et al (2020), Davis et al (2022)) but we focus on national account data. [1]

[1] https://www.imf.org/-/media/Files/Publications/WP/2023/Engli...
What you want is irrelevant here. If they wanted to sell it for the Steam Deck platform, they would have done so.
> There's some interference coming from me running Emacs/Magit on WSL1, and corporate nuking my Windows Defender exclusions lists

In my experience this brings emacs to a crawl.
Another comment quotes something that it was only an outer pane, probably more functional than structural.
Thanks for your reply and thanks for your insight and wisdom.

500 million requests per second. I think that's awesome for _intra thread communication_. I have a sharded bank simulation which naively sends money between accounts and it gets 700 million transactions a second which is the aggregate of 12 threads all transacting local to a thread, so 500 million across threads seems good (I split money up rather than accounts per thread). I see that some web frameworks can handle up to 600,000 requests per second on techempower benchmarks. So we need to combine the best of each!

Especially the part about one writer. I have a journal entry called "Golden concurrency" inspired by someone's comment on HN (I really should have linked it!) talking about writing to a database from 3 processes and they decided to split the database into 3 databases rather than suffer contention from concurrency control.

"Golden concurrency" is my term or desire that degradation caused by multiple producers/multiple consumers in different configurations could be optimised for and could be a scenario that is handled without performance degradation. I suspect you need a different design if you have 1 producer:1 consumer producers to consumers, or 1 producer:N consumers or N producers:1 consumer or N producers:N consumers.

I enjoyed the following benchmarks with Kafka and RedPanda which made me think of this too.

https://jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2023/5/15/kafka-vs-redpanda...
I prefer a lot the e-mail messages that are saved as individual plain text files, grouped in directories.

In this case it is trivial to do, even without any MUA, any operations like exporting, importing, searching, moving, deleting, extracting and so on, either manually or with scripts.

I have seen in the past problems with certain MUAs that had an obfuscated mailbox format, where the mailbox was a black hole that captured your messages, which were very difficult to export and import into another MUA, if a change was desired or if the original MUA became corrupted.
try it out with different voices, for starters try

say "process failure" -v trinoids

you can find all the available voices with

say -v '?'

or from Accessibility>Spoken-Content>System-voice>Manage-voices
I'd had a bee in my bonnet about Boosted ever since their original Kickstarter back in 2014 [1], so I really specifically wanted that one. From a purely vanity perspective, I love the look of a powered longboard— I feel much cooler riding it than I do teetering on an EUC/onewheel, or derping along on a scooter. But certainly there are tradeoffs too; the battery life is shorter, and the tiny wheels make you way, way more vulnerable to road conditions (like loose gravel) that would barely register for any other vehicle.

[1]: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/170315130/boosted-board...
A lot of people enjoy Khan Academy: https://www.khanacademy.org/

If you do better with an honest-to-goodness course, I'd recommend Outlier, as they have for-credit courses in introductory stats, calculus 1, college algebra, and pre-calc, depending on your previous math level: https://www.outlier.org/

Many people, however, have found more success starting with a course like fast.ai, which does not assume much mathematical maturity, before later diving into mathematics. But, I'd still recommend learning the math, even if you ultimately don't fall in love with the field of statistical learning. I've met many people who took a "higher" math course for the first time as adults and discovered that they loved the subject so much more than they did in high school.
How do people pay the bills when they start a company? I'd go start a company right now if I could figure out how to pay my car payment while doing it.