skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve actually been exploring this concept myself with a blogging side project I’m working on.

Things were “mehhh” for developer interest for the first month or so, as a I was working off of an internal todo list. I didn’t think anyone cared about my 300 line long todo.txt file, but then I started to wonder if I should find a way to put that doc out in the open for developers to follow, and possibly jump in and contribute.

I had a hinkling that I could use GitHub issues to help with this, but I believed the title “issues” would hurt my project. I was under the impression that a new open source project with a single contributor, and a ton of open “issues” would look bad to developers.

I started to inquire with devs on IH and hear about using issues for feature tracking. Much to my surprise, I got an overwhelming “yes, you need to use issues”. I was also told not to worry about the misleading “issues” title, and that enough developers were knowledgeable enough to know they weren’t just bug reports.

As I started to open issues, and ask for help; surprisingly I started getting traffic and interest. The more issues I opened, and the more open I was online about my code and plans for it; the more followers and contributors I’ve gotten.

My plan at this point is to just follow Gitlabs model, and go full open transparency with everything.

My side project mentioned above can be downloaded here: https://github.com/elegantframework/elegant-cli
If you want a special job, why not approach it in a special way? Instead of looking at job boards, pick a company you want to work for, and keep chasing them until you succeed. If you have any vague idea at least about the field you want to work for, go for some industry exhibitions, just to check out the companies are there and what they work on.

One of the most interesting companies I have ever worked for used to post job ads along the lines of "Looking for software devs who know what git is". But they do very exciting measurement devices used by other high tech companies - you would never know until you are in, or if you know the company from other places.
I don't think I can do justice to the entire topic on here so I will just point to this small part of your reply:

> pushing out small businesses from every town

Those small businesses are also run on a for profit basis and are market driven. If there is something causing them to fail despite providing a better quality of service then perhaps we are still looking at market distortions rather than a fundamental failing of capitalism.
Glyptodont Performed on the Qwertar?
Yep, we used to deliver milk door to door daily in the UK with a fully electric fleet 50 years ago.
As they say, most regulation are written in blood, they are there for a reason, have you not learned anything from the titanic submarine disaster? Or the earthquake in Turkey? Same for worker protection, also there for a reason, workers fought hard to get those protections, do you really want to go back to the 19th century as a worker? Today it’s the protection of the Mexican workers that’s taken away, tomorrow it’s yours…
Or just make it yourself, it's dead simple to do, especially with all the silicone waterless airlocks for mason jars showing up on amazon under cheap chinesium brand names (the original masontops product was more expensive)
Fairphone 4 Comes to the US
you don't need to send patches via email, you can push them over ssh pretty easily

For example on my team we have a few devs who push patches from laptop directly to their work desktop, as a part of day-to-day synchronization. No central ssh server involved.
It's strange to me that Thunderbird is even on their chart. Surely only a few free software enthusiasts use that anymore? Most of the population doesn't even use a desktop email client and if they do its work-provided Outlook to connect to Exchange/Office365.
as a Zen trainee, i am pretty sure there is no secret meaning to the otherwise normal words. beginer's mind is just that mind when you have no experience to predict what is expected next.
Did any threads about it get significant attention? That's the criterion we use for reposts.
I have checked right now the Latin Vulgate,

https://www.vatican.va/archive/bible/nova_vulgata/documents/...

and it uses only the word "fructu", i.e. fruit, presumably translating "carpo" from Greek. There is no other more specific word.
This.

So called left-wing parties now only care about Identity politics. They have abandoned the working classes.
Sure, but since they can destroy competition after a certain size, does it matter?
We're calling it LLMOps
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The rules for what homeowners are allowed to do vary by jurisdiction, but the underlying principle is that if you are living in the home, you have an incentive not to mess up.
Eating too much added sugar increases risk of dying with heart disease (2014)
This is a common tactic observed with toxic personality disorders. People will repeatedly ask for examples knowing they can dispute any example given because the topic is subjective. You can spot the loop in these threads. An army of people comment/flag asking for examples regardless of how many are given in the thread. When you provide them examples they nitpick and call your prompting bad. Not saying it's bots but there's a pattern with these "OpenAI nerfed" threads across social media right now.
Former Contractor Employee Charged Hacking California Water Treatment Facility
Take a virtual tour of The Seinfeld Apartment
Permanence is a major theme of _why's work. Some of his final tweets were about comparing computer programs to works of literature, specifically Kafka. A longer meditation on this appears in this work.

Kafka asked his friend Max to burn all of his works and not have them published, but he was betrayed, and so we have Kafka's books.

_why burned his own works, but thanks to git, we were able to posthumously un-burn them.

And then this work was temporary, and what I did was make it permanent. Again.

Most of _why's projects don't really work on modern hardware, or with up to date compilers, or up to date versions of Ruby. Yet we can still read this book today.
I thought this was a fun use case for Matterport. Could be really cool if this eventually gets combined with the Apple headset getting launched.
Correct. It's the rapid transition from low rates to high rates that hurts.
Yes!, I'm always looking for good detective stories or games, in particular where the reader/player can actually solve the case. Any recommendation?
A technology that is expensive to run and hard to scale. They’re doing work trying to scale, in what world is this unprecedented?
I've had a lot of experience on one of the rungs of the commercial construction ladder. There are multiple reasons (of course), but there's an interesting correlation (in my experience) with the advent of higher technology.

CAD software, and now the various BIM tools, make it more likely rather than less likely to go into cost/timeline overruns.

Way back in the olden times, drawing plans was extremely labor intensive. Draftsmen using pencil and pen are many, many times slower than drawing on the computer. Because of this strict and unforgiving hard limit, a lot more time was spent in the planning stage. Architect and owner would work for a long time to get all of the details and requirements together before anybody touched a sheet of mylar. Any changes needed to be minor, because erasing and redrawing was expensive and difficult.

Because of the manual drafting restriction, details depended very much on using knowledgeable and experienced tradesmen. This also applied to specifications. Specifications were a lot more general, and were heavily reused between projects, because retyping 200 pages on an IBM Selectric is also time consuming and expensive.

This selects for a high level of competency across the board.

Now, because it's so easy to make massive changes at the last minute, everybody is pushing things down the road. "We'll catch it in addendums," is the rule, not the exception. And one of the biggest problems is the interface between architect and owner. The owner has ALWAYS been slow to get their people together and make decisions. So you end up with a project out to bid, and they're just now making calls on AV equipment and the like.

And the professionals, the architects and engineers, tend to put more on the drawings, and more in the specs. And because of this, a lot will get missed, or overlooked, or ignored. The general contractor sprays their sub-contractors with the drawings and specs, and the attending billion addendums, and so things get lost.

Plus, nowadays, J. Random Guy with a truck and good patter is now a licensed plumbing sub-contractor, who gets the job because he underbid. So he is now deeply incentivized to interpret the drawings and specs in a way that what should have been caught in the bidding phase is now considered a change order, which the owner has to pay for.

TL;DR: the ability to work fast in the design phase does not necessarily translate to better results in the construction phase.

(This works for software as well. We're still using software that was hand-chiseled into clay hard drives by the Great Beards Of Yore, while software that was programmed with amazing syntax-highlighting IDEs with built-in AI is riddled with obscure bugs.)
Agreed. Society's checks and balances breaking down so far that people feel compelled to start fires and wreck cars because they doubt the system can be changed is generally not a good thing.

I'm less familiar with the situation in France, but in the US at least I'm low on alternative approaches that are likely to succeed.
Ditto, I play Slashem daily. My deepest level it's been 13 or 17, but I won't surrender.
Also, IF games and csokoban games.
>>> single-use plastic shutoff valves with non-threaded supply hoses

Yes, this is the standard now for an number of reasons:

* because it is far easier to cut damaged sections of PVC on site and assemble replacements than it is to cut metal piping

* PVC is wildly less expensive than the equivalent length of metal piping, because it is used in a huge number of applications

* PVC is non-reactive and does not corrode like metal

and lastly, threaded pipe connections significantly decrease the throughput of a pipeline, reducing available water pressure at the endpoint. It is basic best practice to limit where threaded connections are used so that you can maintain uniform pressure across the whole unit.
It still requires some courage to do so.
Same here. It does sound like Amazon reviews tbh.
The launch also excluded EU. Those are 450 million people.

In contrast, worldwide (including EU) there are 43 million blind people.

So acting outraged because the launch couldn't address everyone everywhere all at once is disingenuous. They're working on it. 70 million sign-ups in 2 days is not too shabby.
Is there any legal way to obtain your own data from these companies? Does the US have any law that compels them to provide my own data they have on me and any derivative scores they calculate from it?
Ironically, a significant part of public debt we have today still comes from the aftermath of the last private debt crisis we had: first as a (too timid) response to the 2008 banking crisis, then as the result of the economic crisis that ensued.

When an entire society is built on private debt, it doesn't matter if you don't own debt by yourself, this is a society problem, and thus it becomes your problem.

Also, unless you are super wealthy (and should be taxed more) it's unlikely that you'll stay debt-free for your entire life.
I agree that a good autocrat can be more effective than a democracy, but also think that bad ones are much worse. Plus autocracies are notoriously bad at picking good rulers/successors, so you end up with a lot more poorly run than well run countries.
This channel reviews mobile games exclusively:

https://youtube.com/@PocketGamerVideo
> your comment suggested that not burning down muslim neighborhoods was an act of restraint on behalf of the non-immigrant French

Sorry, that wasn't what I was trying to suggest. I'm pushing back against the idea that mass violence is justified simply because you think a member of your in-group was wronged. The non-immigrant French manage not burn cars in the street and loot PS5s when one of their own is murdered.

> as if the unhinged terrorist had anything to do with the larger muslim population.

Interesting. In your view it's fine to view the actions of one police officer as "happening in the larger framework of systemic racism and bias against immigrants."

So what's wrong exactly with viewing the actions of one muslim immigrant murderer as happening in the larger framework of fundamental Islam, rejection of secular values, and resentment/hatred of the French people and state?
I've run the same prompts as before and received different responses. I'm not sure how that's a hallucination.
Very very intriguing. Always liked roguelikes and now I might have a nethack addiction.
We have never spoken. He came to my hometown once, for an event, but I could not attend as I was out of town that weekend.

Part of me would love to talk to him someday, and part of me would prefer that we don't. I am incredibly thankful that he braved the danger to give us this; in some ways I do feel like this was us talking.

It's complicated.
Clearly you have no idea what you are talking about. But don't worry, you might not be a part of the disabled community right now, but one day you will. We all will. "It's a matter of when, not if."
Absolutely, but precision was also a bit of a problem for the text based games. I remember Space Quest was the king of this, requiring frequent saving to make it past certain sections where a single accidental button press could cause you to fall off a ledge or step on something that just killed you.

If you, say have a movement disorder, this happens all too often.

Still I have so many great memories of Sierra’s games from my childhood that I can’t bring myself to hate all the foibles.
How will I know the bad games without wasting time playing them? Should I trust those reviews on the Play Store?
Also Nethack offers a turn based top down gameplay simulated with ASCII chars, MUDs are real time or almost real time based with a wall of text and prompt based, like a text adventure.
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https://zerodium.com/faq.html

>Zerodium reviews, tests, validates, and documents all acquired vulnerability research then provides it to institutional clients as part of the

Zerodium only cares about shit their own customers want to target. They aren't trying to fund the entire world of software security.

Their customers in particular are select governments wanting exploits for their own use. You can sure as shit bet they already have specific targets in mind and what they use.

EDIT: For example, the forum software noted on Zerodium's list are popular for "blackhat" and "darkweb" forums from everything from card dump selling to malware. Many governments would love to get themselves a database dump with some user IPs. Conversely, this is why Discourse which is a major BB these days is missing as it's not popular in those circles.
Fed Up Citizens Disable San Francisco's Self-Driving Cars with Traffic Cones
Honestly at the time I remember getting weird twee/precious vibes from the Ruby community and I wasn't particularly interested in it or Rails. I only discovered _why's poignant guide later after I had to learn Rails on the job, and to be honest I never finished it.

I still strongly prefer the worldview, circumstances, mindset, etc. where that kind of content is written, read, and celebrated over today's focus on Influence and Professionalism.
Well if you’re sold on paying 2000 euro for the display it’s a drop in the bucket. Who reads newspapers in 2023 anyway? Why not just get a subscription to a newspaper for like $50/yr? Then you can sit and read it instead of standing facing a wall. I don’t get this product. A solution in need of a problem
no special sense here, just experiencing things without the sense of knowing the outcomes to expect. just sit and see.
I get that, on paper. Most of the risks shouldn't be correlated in a systemic way, though? If a local plumber goes up on their loan, why would that mean a local construction company is going down? If you over lend, sure, but otherwise? One going down should be somewhat shiftable to another. Unless you are lending to people that have absolutely no assets that can be liquidated? But, that just seems to say that we only lend on leveraged value nowadays? That is a depressing thought.

And again, any systemic risk to a town seems to still exist. Just now there is nothing keeping money made on interest in the town. Literally all profits from localities are shifted out to wherever the bank is located.
Slowly but surely, the comment gaslighting all of the people reporting the issue, makes its way to the top, while other comments with genuine discussion are flagged and slip lower. Seen this before...
https://frantic.im/

I’ve been coding for 20 years now, sharing insights I’ve learned about software engineering, product design, side projects, productivity.
Despite high turnover, and lots of complaints, my last company had one of the highest Glassdoor ratings I'd ever seen> How? Simple, they'd pay their employees to do so.
Can you please stop posting flamewar comments to HN? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for, and we eventually have to ban such accounts.

I've banned some of the other accounts who were posting flamebait stuff in this thread, because they didn't have much history and some look like serial trolls. I don't want to ban your account because it's been around for a while, so if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use this site in the intended spirit, we'd be grateful.
No mention of Metal
Nice! I actually knew the correct term, though. Have a bad habit of switching binary things a lot. :(

Edit: Amusingly, I think I was thinking that I was bullish against it. Such that I flipped a different part of the sentence. Still, wrong as written.
Because that's what comes on computers, and that's what the software they need runs on. The obvious reasons. If you want to fix that, work in antitrust, work on getting at least governments and public schools to choose FOSS solutions, work on improving FOSS solutions, work on Debian installers...
Yeah my teenage self was an idiot, there's no nice way to put it.
The filters really have changed.

I started using it relatively late, but earlier in May, you could have given it a DOI link, and it would have summarized it for you. Now, it argues that it's not a database and that it can only summarize it if you provide the full text. However, if you ask for it with the title of the paper, it will provide you with a summary.

You could have also asked it to search patents on some topic, and it would have given you a list of links. Now, it provides instructions on how to find it yourself.
ChatGPT drops 10% traffic, as the hype around it wears off
For anyone who is interested, my friends and I have a small book club called "Public Works"[1], where we only read stuff that's in the public domain.

Recently we started a campaign of classical antiquity, and we're about 1/4 of the way through Thucydides. The plan from there is to continue where that book leaves off, so Xenophon, Plato, some of the plays, Aristotle, and then later Alexander, etc... until the fall of Western Rome.

If you're already into classics, or if you've always wanted to get started but you didn't know how, our group might be a good choice. It's a relaxed atmosphere, but we still manage to go pretty deep.

We've also been seeking to increase our membership because we want to get extra help with some of the projects for the site. Just stuff like help with producing ebooks for rare or hard to find stuff, etc... any kind of extra help though is voluntary of course.

Membership is open, with updated info posted on the site each week about the next meeting.

[1] https://r33d.org/
I don't think anyone is disputing that? The challenge has always been getting people to eat less, not making them realize that is what they need to do.
Since it’s a hard google: Interactive Fiction
It not that simple.

Eat healthy and you become obsessed with it and get a eating disorder.

Work out, get injured, need pain killers, get addicted.

In hindsight it's easy to spot your mistakes. Should have turned left instead of right.
As someone reminded me on a very downvoted comment on another post, you're missing the point. :) It's about presentation or artistic value, not the contents of the image.

You can use an LCD panel to get a similar effect, but you'd need a reflective or transreflective display. Those aren't cheap either.
> All these startups who experience a 100% dev outage when github or gitlab go down are fundamentally broken.

On this I totally agree. Although if you have deploys fully automated and gated behind CI/CD checks (which in many cases is required for compliance), how do you structure things such that a total outage of the CI/CD platform doesn't knock the dev cycle?
Fast Whisper API
Stuck at level 4, looks fun though.
The "smarter" you are, the faster you leave this industry (if you can help it). Unfortunately the massive usage of drugs (alcohol, minimum) to cope with a failing body from decades of not-being-given-a-hoot-about... tends to dull any potential brain development. Around the time most subs begin "realizing their value [wage]," is when the next-lowest bidder becomes king.

I'm stereotyping my own kind, and once thought of myself as "a fairly intelligent person" — but my occupational history would prove otherwise.

I absolutely loved the freedom of running my own shop (typically just myself, one-man one-van) — but after standing up for a few undeserving GC's, one of them sat me down and explained that "he has insurance for a reason, and necessarily must continue using sub-qualified labor to remain competitive [insurance covers his good name, he says]".
"Highest spend per pupil"

PSA a primary driver for this (along side other issues) is that in "major cities" the affluent pull out and stick their kids in private schools, creating a feedback loop of public school increasingly capturing all and predominantly the least- least-supported kids.

And teachers then teach in over-crowded classes with 3x the student-teacher ratio of the private schools, while also providing de facto baseline social services of many kinds. While horrifically underpaid.

Meanwhile the right wing is driving this feedback loop on multiple fronts, as it has been for decades—with the collapse of secular public education an open agenda for those decades.
Not trying to shit on anyone, but that screenshot reminds me of 1990s/early 2000's games. I'm sure there has been a ton of work that went into it, but having some better textures or highlighting the usability would go a long way.

Just based on the screenshot, I am not sure that I would even bother to dig too deeply into the library.
Interesting that a simple trick like this disables the self-driving cars!
Under Retrozilla, TLS 1.3
This article feels like it's 2011 again. You probably don't need jQuery now, BUT I think the "bandwidth" and "cpu" arguments of not using jQuery are less relevant now, even in slower networks and lower-end devices.

A lower-end device of 2023 is more than capable of downloading a few kb's of jQuery. There are certainly niche use cases to optimize for, but they are getting more and more niche, as average performance of mobile devices improves.
Why do you think you contributed?

Edit: maybe “how” would be a better word to use.