skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're not wrong at all, it doesn't know everything.

But it does know a lot of things and can be super useful. Personally i think search engine is a terrible use case, unless you use the Bing enabled version, or bing chat.

I've used it to write pretty complicated scripts where I had no idea what I was doing, rebuild crusty httpd configs from first principles, explain disassembled code, explain regular code, explain configs, read dmidecode and lspci for me and make a pcie slot report... It's bloody brilliant.

Other: read and translated my blood tests. Accurately!
Salt doesn't work below -15C; most snowmelt is actually other solutions these days
So you don't like that large corporations can abuse current copyright laws, and your solution when they find a way to launder what they don't control yet (e.g. open source code) is to burn the copyright system to the ground, such that now they can also abuse what remains?
Bee Brains a Key to Advancing Artificial Intelligence Reveal British Researchers
My suggestion is to spend less time doing the kinds of work that you want to move away from, and start spending more time doing the kinds of work that you want to move towards doing. People notice what you do, and associate you with it, and then ask you to continue doing more of the same.

It might sound like I'm being flip, but I'm not. The problem is that following this advice is difficult. It might involve, for example, ignoring the tasks you are actually supposed to be working on, and doing other tasks instead which are more aligned with your career progression. This could have the affect of pissing off your boss, or getting you fired if you're not careful. This is a line that you have to toe if you want to change your career path swiftly.

It may involve, as another example, deleting most items from your resume, so that it contains only the things you want to work on. If your resume is then missing too much, you'll need to find creative ways to gain experience, such as doing meaningful work for open source projects. If you have a comfortable savings, one thing you could do would be take a year off work to spend time on gaining skills, notoriety, and personal connections via open source projects which you could then put on your resume.

To reiterate: you will do more of what you work on. So, do everything you can to avoid spending time on the wrong kind of tasks for your goals.
As mentioned elsewhere, hooks have very little criticism from any remotely experienced developer who used them, as they are simply an easier/better mental model.

It is probably also easier for that “2nd or 3rd rate dev”, unless it is a legacy project where pre-hook react is mixed with it arbitrarily (and God save us, not even the “seniors” know what to make of that)
> Then, for less than the cost of Evernote, you can get a O365 subscription and get the Office suite and 1TB of storage.

Take the slightly more expensive family pack, and 5 people can use it on 5 devices each. It's one of the too-good-to-be-true deals out there.
Tangentially related, I had GPT-4 plan the sightseeing on my latest holiday.

It both picked out the interesting places of note, and then I asked it to plan them in such a way that made sense walking-wise (so I wasn't backtracking) and it did so without a hiccup.
It's a shame no one can rewrite the law should circumstances change. /s
correct, and this is the reason op is a swe drone (120k toc being a momentary blip), not a cofounder of a company IPOing tomorrow
I work in Ag-Tech. Hire-ups are always so confused on why nothing is "working out" the way they intended and THEN surprised to hear we are doing waterfall, yet, our process is literally bullet for bullet what you posted.

Except as others stated, we use Jira and have a Kan-Ban board...

We were doing this very long drawn out milestones and now have switched to releases, which eases it up a bit, but my god it is just terrible.

Going off of ideas, designs, and requirements made four years ago just doesn't seem to work out. So weird!
Is it going to stay free or you are going to introduce pricing later. How you will keep it running for free do you have any future plans ?
It is perhaps worth noting that spoon bending is a scam from the 1970s.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoon_bending
Wow, they even doubled the price of the personal plan..

I use it occasionally but to that amount it's not worth it. I need to figure out a way to export my data and then I'm out.
> the amount of time humans been around is

??? The timeline as some of us know it is: -4,400,000: Ardipithecus ramidus (half-arboreality); -2,300,000: Homo habilis (tools); -1,700,000: Homo erectus (organization and "world conquest"); -315,000: Homo Sapiens, approximate anatomy; -250,000: Homo Sapiens, current anatomy.

«Tens of thousands» may refer to the "Cro-Magnons"...

Check the page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_human_evolution_fossil...
I don't think it's a knock on the approach, but rather highlighting an opposition between outdated tech on one side and ultra-modern, unproven tech on the other.

IOW, hinting that using proven, modern tech would have solved the issues company was having more readily than jumping straight to AI.
I've used https://getrocketbook.com somewhat recently. Supports Evernote and other cloud services too.
I disagree; there are millions of unemployed people all over the world that can speak great English, that you can hire right now to do many things remotely.

The problem is that the vast majority of them are unable to do the things you can do with ChatGPT (writing copy, for example).
Thank you for your kind words and interest in my app!

My app uses the CoreData framework to store all the data locally on the device, and iCloud to sync and backup the data securely. The data can only be accessed from your own Apple account, and you can choose to share it with others if you want to.

I hope this reassures you that my app is privacy-friendly. If you have any other questions or feedback, please let me know. I appreciate it!
It uses S3 as a filesystem. I'm talking about using S3 as a block device. Slightly different approach.
Many thanks for the thoughtful reply! Coming from Europe here where it’s been on every car for about 20 years so has become very much the norm.

Belt (1) troubles me slightly in that it’s easy but not necessarily intuitive enough for grandma to get it right every time (and indeed many don’t). The base has the great benefit of being definitively installed correctly (all goes green / stops beeping).

The reported numbers on belt errors are pretty terrible:
https://www.besafe.com/child-car-seat-misuse-study/
Depends on how simple's simple. Having the bandwidth to troubleshoot an unexpected problem for a paying customer is a rough line I'd draw between side project and more than a side project.
Higher up in thread, people are saying there is no desktop client. iOS/Android only. Here I see links, and now I'm confused.
Every privacy policy and terms of service document is an ex post facto "law" if it was changed even once.
Thanks, that's the thing.
How much of enshitification can be explained by rampant managerialism?

Managers need to feel powerful, hire more managers.

Managers need to meet their performance targets or just want to carve their own little Mt Rushmore face in the product, wacky user hostile decisions ensue.
I hadn't seen this, but just commented[1] noting the link between working memory and cyclometic complexity.

I suspect your experimental results might be slightly weakened by the way mechanical Turkers will always do the easiest thing possible to get paid (I've had studies broken by this too). That probably explains this: In fact, we found the preponderance of linear traces somewhat bewildering — participants appeared to just click through each function, remembering what they could and then synthesizing the information into an answer at the end.
What you're describing already exists in Azure Blob Storage (Azure's S3 compete), known as Page Blobs, which is also how you host VM HDDs (VHDs) in Azure, as it allows for page-level (i.e. disk-block-level) reads/writes.

I'm not clued-in to AWS's equivalent, but a quick google suggests it's AWS EBS (Elastic Block Storage), though it doesn't seem to coexist side-by-side with normal S3 storage, and their API for reading/writing blocks looks considerably more complicated than Azure's: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-acce...
Thanks for this, sounds right to me.

It’s interesting to me that the ideal curriculum changes as a function of the resources available.
Which is why for some pool heat pumps you get claimed numbers of around 9, with the fine-print that the air temperature has to be higher than the water temperature.
It's usually not black and white. Sometimes the safe way could simply be to reduce speed, change lanes pre-emptively, etc. And when an emergency situation does happen, reaction speed is key. Good judgment is doing things in a timely fashion and decisively. A distracted human would drop the ball on both fronts not realizing they are in danger and then doing the wrong thing or act too late or overreact.

That's how people get killed on roads. Early experience with self driving taxis seems to suggest that journeys are uneventful and passengers stop paying attention and leave the driving to the car. So, yes, they quickly accept that the car is driving the car just fine.
I just checked out a tweet in an private window. Looks like that works as well just like before.
thats very interesting..
When is this from? A few days ago (when it was already posted with a different url) or earlier in the year Februaryish when Doctorow wrote his stuff on enshittification of TikTok etc? Is this actually new?
Id say that the well-kept gates of forums was a feature and the thing I miss most. The current web is like, "oh a communication platform, everyone should be here, how can we optimize for everyone (no-one)"
Which is just bad construction? You can add coolant reservoirs to buildings. The tiles in Mediterranen housing come to mind. You could make temperature creep highways, like moving the water of a night cool pool into the cellar. It's just rarely done because moving part and lots of space. Finally AC, a gets your air cold, thus the materials in contact with air, but it's way to late a defense line. Sunlight does not have to reach your house. Plant trees or have masts with sunsails on them.
Back in the day it was a comic about a guy wearing a fedora who made overly smart quips about everything, and there were some rather embarrassing comics where the author pined over a woman named Megan in a way that made it seem like he was either an incel or not over his ex.
This seems like a weirdly trivial thing to categorize as enshittification. It's just a vanity badge, not a core component of the app experience.
I was more skeptical with ChatGPT but started paying for it. For better or worse, my company/team uses documents for communication, and it helps me automate the boring stuff - word smithing and clarifying ambiguity.

The flip side of this is those will be summarized with AI for those who don’t care about the fluff. The world is doomed to expansion and compression in this way.

Also, just like the switch to digital cameras from film, my role in writing a document transitions to editor from careful composer.
I've been thinking about how enshittification, venture capital, shareholders and the life cycle of a company are in some ways related. Any company that has external investors is bound to go through this cycle of
- building a great product
- taking in external funding money
- growing and then either being acquired or going public (or more commonly shutting down)
- then all the head scratching decision making starts

It's head scratching to users and outside observers, but the incentives are such that there is pressure to grow on a quarterly basis, get those charts looking good and individuals in the management chain are doing what they can to optimize their career growth leading to short term decision making at the cost of users and customers.

The big picture thinking and long term decision making are incredibly hard. Very few companies are able to do this over the long term. Micosoft and apple are doing great currently and it will be interesting to see how stripe and openai navigate this process.

My current opinion is that only small founder owned companies or foss organizations can avoid this trap over the long term and it involves not trying to squeeze out every last bit of value. Both of these require a certain level of financial security + there's the opportunity cost vs just going the vc route.

VC funding is incredibly valuable and it opens up a lot of possibilities that small orgs can never hope for. I guess what I'm saying is: expect enshittification and enjoy the ride while it lasts and then jump ship when trouble starts. Jumping ship becomes incredibly hard with network effects, so that's the challenge we are seeing with social media companies now. Also once companies become too big to fail, it's a drag on society.

Personally I would still go the VC route since I don't have a few million lying around and tell myself this is just the cycle of life (for corporates) to avoid existential questions and going down the rabbit hole of questioning everything around me. Sorry about the disconnected thoughts.
You could see our consumption as part of the natural dynamic. We came from nature. We are no less animal than any other animal and our actions are perfectly natural. "Humanity evolved a brain that allowed them to access previously untapped energy sources leading to population growth. This eventually led to an unsustainable population growth, shortly followed by a massive disruption in the global ecosystem and climate. However, the sudden dip in diversity led to an explosion of new species over the following 1.8 million years."

It's total hubris of us to split the world into natural and artificial. The stuff in the ground that we dig up came from nature, we came from nature, so everything we produce is the result of nature. Not excusing our actions or inability to change, but also not ascribing it completely to malice or saying stuff like we should be in balance with nature which is meaningless.
If I can’t remember the reason for a piece of code, and it wasn’t obscure enough to comment, I need to use “git blame” and then look at the message from the commit.
Autocracies have more variability. There were good kings and bad ones. When the tyrant is smart and genuinely lifelong committed to the good of their people you get the most efficient system. This is the classic argument monarchists have. Problem is in reality the planets alignment rarely happened.
It was investigative journalism, if you can call it journalism. CNN investigated the origin of the gif, and used biographical details revealed on reddit to determine the gif creators real name / identity. They didn't ruin his life, but threatened to go public with information which probably would have.

Anyway, here's the article in question: https://www.cnn.com/2017/07/04/politics/kfile-reddit-user-tr...
Maybe I just read your post wrongly, but my impression is just very different. Even though I don't do bleeding edge work mostly, I still spent about a third of my coding time dealing with performance related issues. And I do use postgres, the jvm and generally mostly mature technology. But much is related to the specific domain I'm working at, so I don't think more standardization would have been of any help in my case.

I guess we just do different things.
> "when he felt that one of his builders was overengineering a circuit, he would begin snipping out some of the electronics components."
This is outright false[0] - 27% of Ontario's power is gas, with a possibility of 59% nuclear[1] but the nuclear infrastructure in Ontario is aging and shutdowns/refurbishments is pushing Ontario towards >50% gas (and imported coal/gas) as of this summer[2]. Further, per IESO[3] Ontario is facing a 2GW shortfall this August. Maybe if not mismanaged, Ontario could be an exporter - but the joke is that's not the case anymore

[0]https://www.ieso.ca/en/Learn/Ontario-Electricity-Grid/Supply...
[1]https://www.ieso.ca/en/Corporate-IESO/Media/News-Releases/20...
[2] https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/CA-ON
[3] (PDF) https://www.ieso.ca/-/media/Files/IESO/Document-Library/plan...
The docs, apparently is still under construction. But, it has similar features to fly.io & Render. They have more regions, support for more computing power, and a simple but powerful user experience. They don't have a free plan, but they do give $100 in free credits to new users to try out the platform. All in all though, fly.io, Render, Railway and Klutch.sh pretty much all have comparable features - it's really a matter of personal preference.
The answer given is thorough, but somewhat abstract. As a more concrete response, go to projecteuler.net, solve a problem, and go to the discussion board for it.

For most problems:

There will be a ~80 line C solution.

There will be a ~120 line Java solution.

There will be a ~50 line Javascript solution.

There will be a ~40 line Visual Basic solution.

There will be a ~30 line PHP solution.

There will be a ~25 line raw Python solution.

There will be a ~20 line typical Lisp solution.

There will be a ~15 line Python solution using some obscure library.

There will be a ~10 line Lisp solution using some clever hack.

There will be a 1 line J solution.

(other languages omitted, and line estimates are pulled out of my ass)

Whether due to unfamiliarity or genuine opacity, some of the shorter solutions will be incomprehensible to some (most?) people. So while technically more expressive, what good is that if you can't read the solution, let alone write it?

But yeah -- typical line count proxies (inversely) for expressiveness.
Expert advice. This is very important information to know if you run an Internet forum, social media site, gaming convention, etc, anything where a lot of guys show up who call women "females" in conversation.
In the words of Jeff Goldblum, "life uh... finds a way." https://youtu.be/kiVVzxoPTtg
I did see a job posting recently for some company running "headless Android" and I was super confused. Like trying to hammer a screw.
I think the article you refer to is this one: https://www.reforge.com/blog/balancing-user-vs-business

It looks like an interesting read about what this decision looks like from the other side.

Thank you for introducing me to reforge, I know what I'll be doing with tomorrow's downtime now.
Any chance we could get the link pointed to the source[1] rather than this podcast aggregator?

1. https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/co...
I get that Kubernetes is a hugely popular repo, and they obviously have lots of issues opened frequently, but my god, the stale-bot they have in that repo is the worst for that.
Well I can live with out realtime but prefer some thing that runs every few hours.

My primary concern is some one else in the company erasing files by mistake or a hacker erasing / encrypting my files. Github is a perfect soltuion as the files are imutable ...but any one who has my user id / pw can go and erase.

Putting a server with a Verbatim Blu-ray Recordable in a remote data center and backing up to that. The only issue is the advance investment on a server and also the max capacity of 100GB.

Ideal service is some thing like Amazon S3 but the files cant be erased at all (The only way files can be erased is when I stop paying)
Late to this thread but I have always asked why nuclear powerplants can't use seawater for cooling and the condense the steam to create desalinated water?

Ocean waves can be used to create electricity and it is also possible to create a dam that uses an artificial river sourced by the ocean and make hydroelectric plants to use that energy. Is it a cost issue in both cases that prevents using electricity generated that way to desalinate?
Experience with Haiku?

https://www.haiku-os.org
It's not free ice cream, it's free cigarettes.
You're indeed right.
It is always a great day when I open my mailbox and see a Lee Valley catalog sitting there. I don't order from them very often, but they are always interesting to browse through.
I think this is the key issue here. There are a lot of VC funded start ups that have a good product and a solid market fit, but they were never supposed to become 500+ employee companies.

If you have a product that works and makes a good profit, and you can maintain it with 10 people and extend it with 5 more, sometimes that just is the company.

In this context I think it is important to note that Ycombinator was founded in 2005. For the majority of its existence, and the general hype of tech startups, money was incredibly cheap. Now that the gears are switching, a lot of the advice given to startup founders does not work as well anymore.
So you need a little browser extension that will delete all your posts for you.
https://thomas.zoechling.me/journal/

I mainly write about developing for the Apple ecosystem in general and Swift development in particular.
If a Canadian, connecting to his Canadian ISP hacks into a computer in the US, if they aren't extradited, I think they should be cautious about traveling to the US.

The law exists to protect the person being recorded, so if the person being recorded is somewhere where the law is in effect, then it can be applied.

There is case-law supporting something similar within the US at least: if a person in e.g. California (where all parties' consent is needed) is recorded by a person in e.g. Virginia (where only one party's consent is needed) then they have violated the California law.
How about a better definition and a source for it then? :)
Gnome on Debian is very different than Gnome on Ubuntu though, if you are referring to Debian, which likely uses Gnome defaults, I agree that it is suboptimal. On Debian Gnome does not have the dock visible unless the application menu is opened. Also there are considerable less settings available in the Settings app.

Two problems with Gnome I have is the Software center getting stuck on the loading screen, this has been going on for a while and is really a shame, since it provides easy access to a vast collection of awesome software. I think KDE's store is better in this regard. Although I use Muon myself.
The other problem is that I could not use it with a touchscreen. The build-in onscreen keyboard cannot be disabled and sadly is lacking many basic keys. I had to use KDE on my touchscreen Linux devices for that reason alone.
Also the Contacts app has a little shortcoming where it does not handle the business field in contacts as expected.
Maybe I should get involved myself rather than complaining about it. It is awesome software though and I use it daily.
... you lick the ice cream for a few minutes every day while your friends watch from a distance, the ice cream company monitors your behaviour and creates a profile of you.

It’s a perfect metaphor.
See, and nobody bans this words. The reason it's considered a slur is because it's used to disrespect and attack a person. So the word is okay, hate is not
Horrible comment which adds nothing to the discussion
Same issues on both my nvidia desktop, my amd desktop, and my amd laptop.
I definitely first suspected nvidia, since well, it's nvidia. But I wouldn't have the exact same issues on other machines without nvidia as well then..i hope
For me, it's an example of a company messing up the technical side.

I was a happy customer in the beginning. Until I didn't have an important note that I had prepared for a meeting, because it didn't sync to my phone. A few weeks later, it happened again. I lost trust in the app.

Then the Android App got worse and worse. It sometimes didn't sync at all. Notes would conflict all the time, and I'd lose work.

For some reason, Evernote (both android app and windows client) just seemed to get worse every year.