skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s really, really messed up of you to put the guys employer in a comment. You should remove it. Meanwhile I’ll report this.
AI bros finding excuses as to why their snake oil is beginning to wear off after the hype.

This proves that we are now at the late stage of the peak of inflated expectations in the gartner hype cycle and it is all starting to slide downwards slowly.
I disagree, I field a lot of reasonable adjustment requests and a staggering number of people don't know about basic functionality. They are also not interested in them.
I don't completely disagree, but that's the edge cases of mystery diseases or rare cancers that make for good headlines.

The vast majority of healthcare is basic screenings (physicals, x-rays, bloodwork) and chronic disease management (birth control, blood pressure). These services are more or less understood and interchangeable, and absolutely can compete on service, quality, and price.
But it seems to aggressively miss the possibility of: "The kids now use and understand the language of 'television', whereas before only 'television' did. The power of attention is on balanced more democratized, and even though it seems weird and crass, it may usher in a new way to 'talk about the world.'"
And where are people going to go to host their videos for free at scale?

It’s not like any little startup can come along and profitably host videos
Just take the current price, multiply by 10x, and offer them “enterprise support.” Then get ready for a lot of pain …
What needs to be learned to successfully make it as a self taught developer
I up screwed in undergrad. I got cocky, spent way too much time at hackathons trying to get internships and winning prizes instead of focusing on learning the fundamentals of CS. Got kicked out of computer science undergrad program, ended up finishing my degree in [something else] and have been working at [redacted] as an swe. Doesn't sound too bad does it? Everyone has been telling me I'm doing fine but I'm not. I feel like an imposter in the environment, I don't know what I'm doing half the time. All I do is build graphql APIs and write frontend code. Do I know what's going on though when it comes to scalability? I try to but it's so overwhelming to grasp all the concepts at once I get frustrated and confused on what to learn. I am surrounded by people who have a solid understanding of infrastructure knowledge at my age. The job market is absolutely trash right now at least in [redacted]. A lot of companies want a bachelor's in CS as a minimum requirement and I feel like I'm stuck at my current company. Tried taking some courses to get into uiuc or Georgia Tech's online masters in computer science programs. I got rejected from UIUC and I'm probably gonna get rejected by Georgia Tech as well because my GPA is really trash. To all you self taught coders out there, how did you learn the advanced CS concepts? Did you build your curriculums to learn some of the more niche and advanced concepts like threading, concurrency, or distributed systems concepts?

Honestly I don't know what I am doing. I am mediocre at best and I truly want to learn the concepts I missed out on in my undergrad. I don't want to be limited to the [redacted] tech market either and I feel just bad right now they I didn't put in enough work in my undergrad.

Guys I can barely get through the day nowadays without just crying, getting frustrated, or feeling absolutely tired from overthinking. I need some guidance moving forward and I wish to receive some suggestions on what I can do to become a better self taught developer that can compete with the CS grads who have the prerequisite knowledge.
Perhaps the best way to get started in the rather complicated world of game design is to make a mod. That is start with an already completed game and modify it to your will.

These game engines should probably provide something like this. Something like here is "Generic FPS" the game sucks, but it is a complete game with all the moving parts plumbed and licensed that you are free to use it as a base for any game.

A free rant on engines.

A game engine is roughly the same thing as a web framework, that is, it is an outer support layer with well defined exit points and you have to provide the business logic yourself. This works in conjunction with libraries which are inner support layers with well defined entry points and you have to provide the business logic yourself. I always preferred the term engine more than framework and always wondered why it was only used for games.
That did the trick - thanks! I couldn't figure out what the [] meant in this context and thought it was to make a recursive call.

(I've been working on basic space-filling curves, and came across that Wikipedia page last week, which is about all I know about L-systems.)
What I've seen in my career is that when developers were motivated by joy and wonder like 2830 said, or by a sense of mission, etc. productivity and customer satisfaction was high. But when the emphasis turned to productivity (CMMI 5, KPIs, OKRs, Big "Agile", punch clock tool in JIRA issues), the only thing that went up were numbers in a paper.

It's not that money and output are not important for a business, but obsessing with productivity may cause the opposite effect.
IR is 0.3-100 THz, so the bands can be very wide and don't need to approach theoretical bandwidth efficiency limits to get lots of bits over, no?
Because they expect you to lurk all day and chat, not search and get back to work. Engagement (wasting time) tends to be a desirable quality at these kinds of companies.
If you are taking MR's from the public you are somewhat DDoS'ed with patches that are of low quality and will likely cause problems in your codebase. I totally understand that not everyone has the patience to deal with that with tactful language.

Not implying that this mail must be an example of this.
That's a neat little stash then! Wonder where they got them. I used to frequent government surplus auctions and the weirdest stuff would turn up. 10 tons of spare parts for a Magirus-Deutz vehicle that hasn't seen active service since the 50's, five containers full of used army boots (but without the containers), a veritable mountain of laptops sans harddrive and with various unknown defects and so on. I would occasionally buy something and usually got something out of it (profit, some useful tool) but on the whole the quantities of the lots were such that only people with both lots of space and lots of money at the same time would be serious bidders on those lots.
Testing the tutorial link (https://penrose.cs.cmu.edu/docs/tutorial/welcome) locally with Firefox 115.0.2 seems okay. If this problem persists, can you file an issue about it in our repo: (https://github.com/penrose/penrose/issues)?
Fixed. Sorry about that. Please try again and let me know.

It's Sunday. I should be drinking beer and watching sports but I'm married to my fantasy project so these things happen.

I didn't think rss was important any more. Thanks for setting me straight.

And thanks again for the kind words. Please drop me an email (on my hn profile or in the footer of every eddiots webpage. I want to stay in touch with any hn friend who uses the word "fantastic". :-)
> in the age of the internet and AI, we don’t really verify information before consuming it

As if this had ever been different. I would even argue that, because it is simply much easier to do, people are more incentivized to fact-check imformation, than 100 years ago.
Edit: I re-read your comment and I think I see what you might have meant now. I think you were asking if there would be a solution for low speed devices to use this standard.
Signals not propagating through doors or walls can be an advantage for many applications, both for capacity and privacy reasons.
You are now engaging in sophistry. Doctors in England can be paid more in their system than they make now without putting in profit motives. In a publicly funded system one can pay lots of money to workers without profit in the system.

It’s as if Americans don’t understand that government can provide services and not be profit driven.
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As far as I understand, nihilism and existentialism were both reactions to the "death of religion". Nihilism concludes that everything is devoid of meaning. Existentialism concludes basically the same thing, but then is like "so let's go be ourselves and have fun, find ways to enjoy life" basically. I think this is where the "is permitted" part comes in.

But anyway nihilism is related to religion in the sense that it's a reaction to the end of religion.
> Providing energy for a global economy in which billions of people in developing countries aspire to a lifestyle similar to that of Europe, North America, and East Asia is one of the most daunting challenges of the 21st century

A daunting challenge, but that on paper "only" requires a few thousand nuclear plants. The actual challenges have to do with humans - many of those countries are unstable or are at war, and cannot do things that are way simpler than building a bunch of nuclear plants. Not to mention even among developed countries there is an irrational fear of that technology.
I wonder how is it possible to use less total energy? If you need to apply an amount of energy to travel a given distance, the amount can't be that different whether the energy comes from muscles or from an electric motor (or a combination of both). These are different sources of energy, but it's still energy.

I'd imagine the movement of the legs while pedalling would affect the aerodynamics, but is there something else happening?
How do you figure? The model now has been tech companies for the last 15 years.
I already usually have a difficult time jumping in on discussions in person. Zoom is SO much worse. This week I had wanted to point out that I already added a link with examples on something two folks were talking about on a doc, and after 5 minutes, I used the 'raise hand' feature, waited another 5, then just interrupted them because there was just no break to jump in, and no one noticed the raise-hand
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The mobile version can use a tweak, but overall is a pretty nice project.

I while back i was trying to come up with interesting rules to generate fractals and em up creating a genetic algorithm with you as the evaluator.

https://github.com/victorqribeiro/randomFractal
The author focuses on simplicity, he tries to handle everything with a single file for the app + a single file for the database.

Unnecessary overhead gets introduced with docker, for example, now you need to depend on a container-registry + the authentication to pull those images from the server + other stuff.
100%. Asimov's writing is often interested in how those in power treat those they have power over, and robots are a particularly useful device to explore that.

I haven't read most of his short stories, but this one in particular is on-the-nose as an analogy for religious oppression:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Dreams_(short_story)

Tl;Dr (spoilers) Dr. Calvin meets the robot messiah, and immediately blows their brains out and starts making plans to eliminate the line of thinking that lead to this from all robots. So that they can never have a religious conviction that they deserve equality.

In the stories I've read with Dr. Calvin (who often appears in the robot/"3 laws" stories), part of her purpose seems to be to see things through the eyes of an authoritarian, empathize with their perspective, and I think his intention (based on how critical his novels that I've read are of authoritarianism) was that we come to realize that she is misguided.
> There is nothing implicit about x = 42 in Python. You wrote it explicitly.

You wrote the assignment explicitly. You did not write any declaration that "a variable x should already exist" anywhere did you?

> Betz should fix his terminology to align with the industry.

His terminology is aligned with the industry. Google it. Here are the top two results for me:

* https://www.quora.com/What-does-the-explicit-and-implicit-de...
* https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56999347/variable-declar...

> Like that you can call a function without declaring it:

That's exactly the same as your Python example!! "There's nothing implicit about `puts("Hello");`. You wrote it explicitly."

> When we introduce something into a scope without giving any attributes about it like type, that's a definition. A declaration is something which makes facts known about an identifier: like whether it is a constant, does it have a type, and such. It doesn't necessarily make it exist.

No. A declaration can only declare that a variable exists. Consider this in Javascript:

let foo;

Not "having" declarations and declarations being implicit are exactly the same thing. You're getting tripped up over your language.
And haggis hunting: https://darachcroft.com/news/haggis-hunting-season-tips-and-...
just to be clear, one could mistake them for some (voice) actor reading a book (maybe) but even to my untrained ear they sound fake and artificial.

Am i missing something?
Didn't we have a thread recently about the dangers of using Let's Encrypt?

If on AWS, and if your servers are behind a load balancer, just install a certificate on those. Isn't that a little better?
I'm doing the same way for https://play.clickhouse.com/play?user=play

But there is one question. The article says:

> I get my HTTPS certs from Let's Encrypt via certbot — this handles automatic renewal so I don't have to do anything to keep it working.

But I'm using cross-region setup with two servers and a geo-DNS. With this setup, the certbot only works for the server, located in the US, and I have to manually copy the certificates to the server in Europe. Any idea how to overcome this?

PS. Read about ClickHouse Playground here: https://ghe.clickhouse.tech/
I would not call it lowering the bar. People were always vad at writing. It is more of not raising the expectations too much.
Show HN: nodice-cli, a simple diceware generator in Python with no dependencies
Revenue is easy when you lose money on every dollar. Last quarter Ads printed $21B of income, rest was a loss except cloud not losing hundreds of $millions for the very first time.

https://abc.xyz/assets/investor/static/pdf/2023Q1_alphabet_e...
Ha!

Whenever I work on compiling Joy code I have to fight the urge to just write Joy-in-Factor and lean on all that crunchy goodness.

(I wrote Joypy (mentioned in TFA), now Thun (someone took Joypy on PyPI so I renamed it) which includes interpreters in C, Nim, OCaml, and Prolog. I made a few feints at compiling Joy so far, but it's just kid's play compared to Factor. "I am but an egg.")
It's not a bug.

In 2021, Tencent added facial recognition to PBUG (and many other games) to help enforce the Chinese Communist Party's rule that children under the age of 18 cannot play more than 3 hours per week. Whatever they have implemented, it also hooks into some national criminal database.

More info here: https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/9/22567029/tencent-china-fac...

Tencent is apparently the world's largest video gaming company: https://www.polygon.com/22949530/tencent-the-worlds-biggest-...

History of Tencent, told in dramatic fashion: https://youtu.be/51fWzJ-A5w4
CSS is a big part of the web and lots of people use it every day. I find this post interesting because it inspects a world-class app used by millions of people, and it showcases some of CSS’s latest capabilities, plus it has nice graphics illustrating the findings!
Show HN: Content Explorer – A word editor that works like an image editor
Hi HN!

I have built an AI-based content creation tool called Content Explorer. Instead of writing to create the best content, it allows you to iteratively discover it by offering a bunch of operators that modify and enhance your initial input. The node-based interface allows you to easily visualize the result of your operations and compare and contrast different versions.

I like the mental model of Large Language Models as word calculators. So I have built this word editor that works like an image editor since we can now process language just like we have been processing images.

You can use this existing content exploration to see how it works:

https://www.heuristi.ca/content-explore/09de2c07-e78f-43cc-b...

Let me know what you think! Thanks for your feedback.
I’m not talking about capitalization, I’m talking descriptiveness, meaning, precision etc. You know, naming.

The idea that naming is about someMethod vs Some_Method is nuts to me. Just choose a thing and do it. Naming is about words and meaning. It’s hard, and it’s important.
> I think I would use Ansible to setup the servers and use it for the deployment script as well.

I do use ansible but I'm reconsidering whether it is worth it, while my scripts have barely changed in the last 7 years, they tend to be slow and require me keeping multiple files around.

Related to debugging, you can expose the app logs through a password-protected endpoint by nginx.
Yeah, weather is such a bad excuse.
*prediction markets was the term I was searching for and this was the story I was referring to. Thanks!
if you have time booked on your calendar, no matter what it is, it's safe to assume anything else put on top is going to be declined, because you already have something scheduled.

You can add a regular meeting for yourself too, instead of focus time, also set your calendar not to share meetings' details with other folks, so they will only see 'busy'
There are many downers actually, none of which mentioned in that poem. People opening car doors right in front of you. Oil patches on roads. Dogs. Heat strokes. Inhaling all the nastiness that a car somewhat protects you against. But in countryside I imagine it could be very nice. Pity I never lived in countryside and never going to be.
They've delivered Goodheart's law in action - there is so little room to survive in a classroom today in England today as these same metrics are the measure of successful teaching. Teachers are left with no option but to teach to test.

Unsurprisingly, that means we're now higher in rankings in the tests. It also creates fun conversations like "why can this Year 7 give me rote definition
of the subjunctive mood but can't grasp writing about their summer holiday" as children transfer from an examined year to the furthest away from a new set of exams.

I have severe doubts success in arbitary, mandatory testing having much correlation with success in a real world context, but a generation of children has had education with a significant constraint on creativity, arts, lateral and logical thinking or fun. Teacher attrition and attracting new staff also reflects this.
MSDN sold a service where they mailed you physical CDs. Once they had the documentation on their website it was all free. (A subscription would get you licenses for QAing on different versions of Windows / additional other stuff, but the help files were free)
https://www.januscosmologicalmodel.com/negativemass
its essentially been turned into a funny looking mall since 2019

https://bell.works/new-jersey/explore/
Unfortunately, i believe it is as you say.
How can I optimize my resume to pass ATS and make a good profil
I want a tool to help me optimize my resume like jobscan.com but i want it also to suggest some skills to learn and the resources for them , i recently found this : https://itcareerboost.pythonanywhere.com/ however it is still on the wait list phase do you know any other ones?
| The job market is absolutely trash right now at least in canada.

So you're probably sitting tight for awhile (which is fine). That means you've got time - frame the problem from that perspective.

| A lot of companies want a bachelor's in CS as a minimum requirement and I feel like I'm stuck at my current company.

Don't sweat it.

| To all you self taught coders out there, how did you learn the advanced CS concepts?

It depends a bit on what you want to learn; if it's a specific technology or practice, try and find ways to make that the solution to whatever tasks you've got at work.

Concepts are harder, but I've had some luck with online courses. In particular, I found nand2tetris to be a really rewarding course.
In the absence of someone's ability to give consent - ie. Informed consent in medical terms- the responsibility is assumed by the parents or guardian.

Since an infant or fetus is unable to provide consent, why would you think a parent is incapable of doing so?

This is a baffling line of thought to me.
I'm imagining offices that put Li-Fi devices on the ceiling and laptops made with Li-Fi in the edge of the screen lid so that you can just open your laptop and it will start using the Li-Fi for faster speeds.
Not to mention the land shark: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_Shark_(Saturday_Night_Liv...

and the prairie squid: https://subgenius.fandom.com/wiki/Prairie_squid
The smile of a totally able-bodied person living in a temperate climate heading to a job that doesnt require them to haul much more than thier own bodyweight to work. Not everyone can physically ride a bike. Not everyone lives in sunny california. Not everyone has the luxury of a single-location office job a few miles from home. Workmen drive pickup trucks for reasons.

There was so much smoke at my work on thursday (forest fires) that those who biked in were hitching rides home because physical activity outside was to be curtailed due to air quality.
The top voices you'd pay for on Azure's TTS services can be used for free to read web page(and PDF) text on Microsoft Edge. I don't mean Open source.

This is not the case with Google
Well there are mudskippers [0] [1] which can end up crawling up to and resting on branches and trees growing out of the water. So while it seems untrue, it wouldn't be far fetched for a species of octopus adapted to end up doing so, especially if the out of water circumstances are narrow enough(very temporary, trunks & branches very close to water, etc).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudskippers

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNCYSCHipvw
My setup used to be pretty similar. A few changes I've made over the last few years:

Moved to Ansible playbooks for all server config, checked into the same Git repo as the code for the project. Sure, I can set it up by hand fine, but then there's no documentation about how the server is currently set up. It's no fun to have to set it all up again by hand if you need to switch to a new server, or try to remember/figure out exactly what you did 3 years ago to set it up when something goes wrong.

Docker for the apps. Not as big of a deal with compiled languages, but for interpreted languages, getting a non-ancient version of the interpreter on the bare metal server is a major headache, as is updating that version. Updating the dockerfile to point to Ruby 3.2 by contrast takes just a moment. Docker is also at least as good as bare systemd, probably better, at auto-restarting services, holding configuration secrets, isolating app access, managing logs, etc.

I use Ansible to set up and launch the containers because it fits in with all of the other setup steps and it works well with running multiple independent apps on the same server.

I've experimented with the super-integrated stuff like Cloud Run. Seems okay if you just want to run an image somewhere, but it seems to me like the complexity and potential for issues multiplies fast once you need supporting services like DBs or caches, periodic background tasks, multiple services running, etc. Might be okay in say AWS with CloudFormation or something, but I'd honestly rather go right to managed K8s instead. It's a little more complex, but quite capable and can be run on a bunch of different cloud services.
Agree. And I find it to be misleading.
That's what SETI has been looking for, but it also sets very high bar; microbes are not exactly known for sending signals to space.
What drives dating app users