skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Believe it or not, I tried to make this essay as short as I could. But its length at least means it acts as a filter. If you made it this far, you must be interested in doing great work. And if so you're already further along than you might realize, because the set of people willing to want to is small."

I scrolled up and down quickly through the essay, and the above was the very first thing I randomly read.
I love gping, but wish there was more of an in-depth info/manpage. The one it ships with doesn't explain much (What's t/o, for example? How are things calculated?), and the github page doesn't help much either.
I don't understand why parents want to expose every facet of their children on instagram and TikTok. I have 2 children and I take pictures and record videos of them almost every day and I've never posted anything anywhere. In this day and age, privacy is almost a luxury and I want to protect theirs as much as I can. When they grow up, they'll decide how much exposure they want to have but that'd be their decision.

My biggest fear is their photos/videos popping up in wrong places. Heck, with instagram being used basically as a "flesh" market for women, there are parents dressing their toddlers in outfits that are for grown ups that frankly make me wonder if the government ought to remove their children.

There are some truly sick individuals out there and parents need to stay vigilant to avoid tragedies.
The problem is that as the Internet has advanced and filled every aspect of our lives, the average technological literacy of users has fallen off a cliff. I understand that in every aspect of life you cannot and will not care about being fully literate with everything, for instance most car owners are not mechanics, but that literacy used to be a requirement for access. I speak as someone who experienced the tail end, and thus one of the lowest bars of entry, but I still had to work to find things. I had to tinker with IRC clients, with port forwarding torrents for my Linux ISOs, for self-hosting servers for me and my friends. To find new communities was a mix of Google plus word of mouth, and took a bit of effort, but that effort was okay. It made finding and joining them more special. If I just click a “subscribe” button then it’s not as interesting to me. Not to mention by making the barrier of entry so low, it means the barrier of quality is lower too.
> offers scope for groundbreaking work

Hah, and make sure to be a genius with a workaholic attitude, otherwise the 100 people that are like that will make the groundbreaking discoveries a few years before you.

The more people alive and able to work on research, the higher the bar gets. For most people, implementing existing bleeding edge knowledge is already an achievement.
"Follow your interest/passion" - is such an easy advice.

However in some societies / economies, it's simply not possible. Where I'm from (India), where a majority of my generation has to lift their families from money problems, there's no option of following passion. There's only "learn/do what makes money". It's not entirely a bad thing though.

For example people here just jump into doing something and then eventually develop a passion for it (setting up a shop, or running a business or producing/distributing boring everyday products, etc).

The other alternative is to spend precious younger years of my time in search of "passion". This happens too, but mostly from folks who already have financial freedom to explore and experiment, who are relatively scarce in some societies.
I just got into 3d printing as a hobby a few months ago and this has been my take away from their offerings as well. I use TinkerCad for most things; I'd like to get into Fusion 360, but I'd be a little afraid of learning a bunch about that software only to have more and more of it become out of reach behind licenses that don't make a lot of sense to buy as a hobbyist. That said, the products look great and seem to have everything a creator might want, so it definitely makes sense for pro shops to license and use.
> But what’s the value of a degree if everyone has one?

Um, education? What's the value of a high school diploma if everyone has one?

If college is nothing beyond a financial investment, as the author seems to portray, then the government should not be involved at all. But there's a lot more to it. Arguably, society is better off if more people are educated. This is why we publicly finance education through high school. But after that there's a arbitrary cutoff.

> We should ask ourselves…why are we lending $250,000 to someone who makes $52,000 a year?

We should ask ourselves…why are we charging $250,000 to someone who makes $52,000 a year?

Funny how universities charge the same tuition, regardless of major. Nobody seems to question this painful fact. Should we simply abolish every profession that isn't lucrative?

> There’s a reason they are sprinting to restart payments after Covid. This is a huge money maker for the US.

Sprinting? The Biden administration has repeatedly postponed the restart of payments. Who are "they" exactly? Congressional Republicans demanded that payments restart now, as a condition of not defaulting on the debt of the United States government, a high stakes game of chicken.

> Reducing the number of college graduates will make employers not make it such a simple gatekeeper.

That's a very questionable prediction.
They paid probably. Not sure about reputation of this report, but a lot of them is just an ad catalogue with fancy comparison graph on top. Graph has to be at least somewhat reasonable, but if it showed last pass on the bottom, they wouldn't pay for participation and here we are.
Quick googling says that Piorun is heavier, slower, smaller payload, and smaller operational range. But even if it is better, can Poland ramp up production to meet the demand?
it says a lot about the state of society when I actually cannot tell if you're being sarcastic or not. I think it's sarcasm, I'm almost convinced it is, but at the same time it's an argument that I'd expect Big Tech companies to make.
Protein-Protein Interaction Prediction Is Achievable with Large Language Models
Deploy Aperture for runtime protection.

https://github.com/fluxninja/aperture
I agree a custom case with any appropriate buttons would make all the difference.

You could look into old video-doorbell units, which had I think 4" crts.

Looks great anyway.
You can’t get financing for 7 years, or if you can it’s at rates that will cost you more over your lifetime than just paying for school.

It will also make financial institutions actually assign appropriate risk to the loans, and schools will be forced to correct tuition. Right now schools can charge whatever they want because the only associated risk to banks is death.
Like the executive from Huawei who was imprisoned in Canada
And it’s unbelievably tone deaf and ridiculously offensive to those who actually suffer. A reminder that a total loss of human perspective is woefully easy.
Depending on their age and interests, scratch might be a good first step. It's extremely accessible.

Then kaboom seems like a really fun next step. You can get from zero to fun really quickly.
its over here :

https://jollyrogertelephone.com/
Those 10k 5-star reviews are fake. Now they’ll also be illegal
Hindsight, dude
People aren't that logical on average.

My personal pet theory is that it's biological in nature and likely related to the spreading obesity. But necessarily causal, but potentially correlated by the diet or similar.
I agree about the privacy concerns but I occasionally share funny or nice photos of the kids on Facebook - for the purpose of sharing those pictures with friends and family, and with discussion and consent from them. These are not public posts. Not everyone is seeking a dopamine hit, they are just exposing a part of their personal life to people in their circle. I only have like 150 friends on Facebook, all of whom I know or have known in person.
Mearshiemer was saying one fucking week before the invasion that the US was being hysterical, that there would be no full invasion, that Putin was, quote, "much too smart to do something like that".

He has been entirely wrong about Ukraine for years but still people pretend that no, actually he was right for some vague reason that has little basis in reality.

And lately he's resorting using "Moon of Alabama" (newspaper run by a religious cult) as if it was a legitimate citation, because his ego won't allow him to back down from his wild statements. Why does anyone take this guy as an authority?
> This is the sprinkles on the icing of the five teir cake why C scares me. Thanks for sharing this, I'm sure it will help someone but I sincerely hope the never write C again.

I looked through this list, and I gotta ask, which items exactly do you find scary? Most other popular languages have similar, if not worse, quirks than the ones in this particular list.
> Maybe this whole thing could have been solved by politicians understanding tech a little better?

How often do we hear, on HN and elsewhere, people complain about laws they don't like wish politicians better understood what they are legislating? This implies the existence of a technological solution, set by technocrats who "understand" better. Whoever asks the question suggests politicians don't know better, offering that explanation without proof.

Also, for the Free Market enthusiasts out there, why hasn't the market solved this problem? What forces are preventing all parties from working out a technical and economic solution?
Blackmail is not about stealing or ransoming physical property, but rather about a threat to communicate damaging claims, true or fabricated; stop trying to change definitions.

False allegations need not be used to induce arrest, but may be to defame, shame or stigmatize. Theft of non-physical property, e.g. almost all money, need not involve any force.

> What force am I using on you or your things when I decide not to host you on my website?

You're really not getting it; "force" is not the point.

> And you don’t get to combine actual physical threats with things that are not force to pretend like they are force.

Combining fiolence with force, and comparing the outcome with force alone naturally tells us about the impact of fiolence. When human rights experts say that prolonged solitary confinement is torture, it is because the psychological harm is severe, not because the threat of physical force is any different. If you think there's a moral difference between imprisoning someone and imprisoning and torturing someone through non-force means, then those extra actions must bear some real moral weight.

We live in the context of a society where the threat of force by the state is omnipresent, and non-physical means of manipulating that threat can nevertheless be fatal.
I've been using it a lot while working through two very math-y books right now - Princeton's Companion to Mathematics and Data-Driven Science and Engineering. To your point, I have some background in undergraduate level mostly applied math, but there are a lot of things where I don't understand the argument or immediately have an intuition for what's going on, and I've found gpt-4 to be actually really helpful with that. Sometimes it is wrong, but it can't totally BS me, because I'm sitting there looking at the correct equations and proofs, so if it's wrong I always know what's right. But a lot of times it really helps me with intuitions on things that if I was purely just self-learning, outside a class with a professor and TA, I'd probably just accept the poorer level of understanding and move on, instead of investing the time in trying to find what I'm looking for on the internet.
Does ketchup go in the fridge? Heinz settles the debate
Could that just be India blocking Chinese sims?
There are 4000 companies, of the top 50 some of the publically traded ones seem to have <500 k in Revenue (Momentus)

Does that mean the vast majority (3950/4000) ~99% of YC companies have less than 500 k in revenue?
I heartily recommend Masters of Atlantis, which is funny and relevant to what's happening in the US today.
just stick a diesel engine in there
Mary Helen Immordino Yang has some interesting thoughts about how to change education to make it nudge kids towards doing more interesting work:

https://youtu.be/S8jWFcDGz4Y
> Preaching abstinence almost certainly doesn't work.

Why doesn't it work? Do you think perhaps it falls on deaf ears? Could it have something to do with a sexualized culture people live in that is overwhelmingly more influential than perhaps one clergyman one hour a week? Does it have anything to do with hot blondes on Carl's Jr commercials munching burgers, or dancing e-Girls on TikTok? Have men been disempowered, emasculated, and humiliated in their rightful roles by feminism? Is it perhaps related to third graders getting sex ed, how to don a condom, and a fresh supply of hormones no matter what their parents think? Is it perhaps related to unfettered access to contraception for everyone, abortion on demand, and no-fault divorce that nobody cares about keeping a family together or staying with their wives to support them in sickness and in health?

Yeah forget preaching, that preachy stuff never works.
Pretty much all animals will avoid and deliberate action to avoid pain I think it's a reasonable assumption
I always curse whenever someone posts "news" from twitter, I pretty much just ignore them already. I've never had a twit account, and don't intend to get one, particularly just to see HN posts from poorly chosen sources.

Much like paywalled sites, can we please stop posting twit links now?
It's intentional. https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-users-bein... It's to prevent web scraping by people trying to avoid paying for API access.
Asian Americans have been slandered by some on the left as the "ideal minority" and not worthy of extra consideration or support.

"The repetitiveness of the affirmative-action debate has come about, in large part, because both the courts and the media have mostly ignored the Asian American plaintiffs and chosen, instead, to relitigate the same arguments about merit, white supremacy, and privilege."

"the commentators defending affirmative action ...dismissed the plaintiffs as pawns who had been duped by a conservative legal activist."

Affirmative action is a political weapon and its effect has had a damaging effect on innocent people, particularly Asians. The media, the left, and just about everyone in between discounted Asians in the name of reducing "white, etc." acceptance at university.
> You need to be good but not too good you’re a threat.

Even worse for CTOs. If you make the development look too easy your CEO will wonder what you even do.
Smaller, like people?
> I might not be out here inventing C++

thank you!
How to store images in your database
I'm sure a $5 digital ocean droplet would go a very, very long way.
I agree with the spirit of the post, but:

- You don’t need to be doing a PhD to realize that there’s something weird about sharing your intimate life stories online with strangers. Might be a bit crude, but you’d have to be pretty thick not to consider it.

- This part:

> Social media companies, these corporate giants that have so much influence in today’s culture and the way we connect with each other, are the ones normalizing oversharing and benefiting from it

This is not exactly accurate. Social media companies are not the ones normalizing this behavior, bad parents are. They do benefit from it or even encourage it, but ultimately it’s the parent’s responsibility as they are doing it only for themselves.

Bad parents are not the victim, they are the problem.
Would you want the Russians to go nuclear like Mearsheimer anticipated of them? Perhaps the reason he is wrong is because he doesn't think of them in the best possible light.
Sapient pearwood
I’ve been seeing memes about genetic mutations causing cancer (textbooks, papers, and such) — guessing that’s the anti-mutation lobby.
The proxy war started in 2014 with Euromaidan. Here is what's baffling: no army goes to war except with strategic plans. The geniuses in the Pentagon decided to push for war but omitted to make plans for armament supplies! The same mistake thankfully did Hitler in - the switch to the war economy came only in 1942 when it was clear that Stalingrad was going to fall.
I dont really get how this is suggested seriously as a new behavior.

The inspiration for Moby Dick, one of the most read books in English, was based on a ship sunk my sperm whales: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essex_(whaleship)

Yes I know orcas and sperm whales are different, but its weird that this is suggested a new behavior in general. And not just a new counting of something that has been going on for centuries.
> Supply chain is really really really hard. Keeping it warm for decades is really really really expensive.

I’m glad this realization is making its way to the knowledge of the general population.

People have been seduced by cheap foreign goods, and balked at the idea of something costing more than the lowest cost.

Come to think of it, I am wondering if making cheap industrial labour generally available was a “soft power” exercised by some countries. This enabled the dismantling of flexible Western production capabilities, increased reliance on these countries, and dissuaded aggression towards them.

Also see the reliance of Europe on Russian fossil fuel imports.
It’s quite odd that Twitter never adopted this as a first party feature; virtually every third party app did it, until Naughty Ol’ Mr Car got in.
You can debug Jest tests in Chrome use node's included inspector.

Ironically it's vitest that doesn't support this (IIRC, haven't checked in a minute)
I do wonder with all those cool .custom something TLD domains. Currently the private registry might be charging 10s or 100s of dollars for them. But what will happen once the brand will become a household name.

If Google had been an .supercool back in the day. What would the owner of .supercool charge them today?

I know that today Google would probably buy him out, but the transition period of going from nobody to Google they might needs to pay 100,000s of dollars for their domain.
Quantity has a Quality all it's own
This isn't a proxy war between NATO and Russia, this is Russia invading a neighbor, and the neighbor being supported by many different countries, some of which aren't even in NATO or "the West". Framing it as NATO vs Russia is precisely what the Kremlin talking heads try to do on a daily basis. NATO is a defensive alliance and a set of shared standards. Also, Russia has no proxy in this.
Anyone who says that GPT-4 doesn't hallucinate is either clueless or an AI grifter, though I don't think GP was claiming that, just calling out that GPT-3.5 is really, really bad at it.
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-users-bein...
I haven't finished this yet, will take more than one sitting to digest, but I'm already 90% sure I'm going to disagree with this one a lot.

I like to validate people's advice by playing it out in hypotheticals, so let's take some random fields people may think they want to be great at, and apply this advice: chess, piano, philosophy, quantum physics, soccer. I think it's self-evident that his algorithm isn't suited for the wide set of cases.

Here's my alternative proposal:

- If you're interested in a field, first ask, what % of people who dedicate their life to that field get any kind of fame/wealth/recognition (or whatever greatness means to you). So if we're talking chess, and you're already 14 and can't play, you have a 0% chance of getting to the top 100. Or if it's being a famous writer good to know what your base odds are.

- Look up people who RECENTLY (within 30 years) succeeded in this field and look for patterns. I know 0 famous philosophers of the last 30 years, but the closest ones would probably be youtube philosophers. So maybe that's the current meta.

- Look at the power-structures that determine success in the field (soccer is a fair game, art is judged by a few powerful tastemakers, news may be judged by clicks, some academia is judged by splash), decide if you are okay with the system and think you can excel in this system. Don't become a professional writer because "You have something to say," become a writer because "You have something other people want to hear."

That's all I got for now, it's his blog post not mine.
I didn't mean nitter _specifically_ but rather all forms of alternative/anonymous UIs for twitter (that strip all of the engagement/ad/tracking stuff from twitter.)

Of anything I suspect Elon saw what happened woth reddit and had a "wait, we should do that!" Moment.
I liked Far Cry 4's setting and characters, but the game otherwise seemed very lazy and uninspired. Bland map and very little do to in between outposts. Little emergent fun to be had, except for doing missions or clearing outposts. Same complaint with Far Cry Primal; really neat idea but lazy/rushed execution.
This has been my exact experience (some of it gained working adjacent to a big bank).

At a certain level, folks dropped any real pretense that the compliance regulations in industry were for anything other than shifting liability around and ensuring you can check the right checkbox when doing sales or getting audited.

Actual security varied widely, and had zero relation to the compliance checklists.
I am pretty sure the Supreme Court has held up that cops have no inherent need "to protect" citizens and you can't sue them for that. Qualified immunity covers this. Castle Rock v. Gonzalez. Essentially the only thing that gets them in trouble is flat out breaking the law. (Robbery, gross assault, laundering, etc)
CORBA is one of the first technologies that I came across and saw that it was kind of 'hot', but decided I'd learn it if I ended up really needing it. And I never did.

It's important to learn when to ignore things in this field. It's never possible to be 100% sure, but there are always going to be 'new! hot!' things.
JavaScript’s Backtick Strings Are Likely the Wrong Tool for Your Job
At my last job we did exactly that (no squash though), then our branch got merged to the development branch and the commit messages would be all stacked on top of each other. But we had a policy to include the jira ticket in all commit messages so the commit messages were still useful.

Imagine if it was just lines of ... and "checkpoint" and what not.

If YOU want to go back and clean up after the fact, that's fine. I don't want to do that.

> And that’s just it. When you go to your other computer you don’t know that Dropbox has synced all of your changes.

That's what I meant about reliability. You CAN trust that dropbox syncs it after a few seconds. You don't need guarantees of atomicity, you just need to be sure that you're only using one machine at a time. Which was an easy rule for me. That is the whole point.

Also, you are very consistently making a lot of assumptions about me and how I work that are incorrect. I suggest you think on this.
They also recently got rid of most of the free tier. Many files I had from years of use gone overnight without warning. I used the free version as a personal depository for files, I made using the pro version paid for by my employers.
I think this is just downstream of the general accumulation of demands on one's time in adulthood. It would be a great thing for people in their first decade or so after finishing school, much like meetups and conferences are great for that, but eventually it's difficult to prioritize this sort of thing over family and other life happenings.
That’s what a password manager is for
Because of the Gini index and rising wealth and income inequality.

Although 95th percentilers do all like to claim they have middle class values and were all self-made millionaires. Doesn't change the fact that the middle class is getting hollowed out.
Skimmed it. Yikes. I can't believe in the analytical ability of someone who thinks the invasion happened because of rational Russian security concerns as opposed to the fever dreams of an unhinged kleptocrat.