skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Participating benefits your career.

That means NOT participating hurts your career, or at least doesn't further it, which is the same thing. Career outlook should be dependent only on your performance at work, and requiring to do extra unpaid stuff after work is simply a form of silent exploitation, favoring young people (mostly men, as women getting wasted with their superiors might be considered unprofessional) with no dependents (e.g children).

Push that to the extreme, and you have an extremely bro-hierarchical culture like Japan, where guys are expected to spend their (unpaid) time with their superiors at karaoke bars at late parts of the night, while not doing so puts their career prospects at risk.

All kinds of these silent expectations (but not demands) achieve is form a power imbalance where the ones not wanting to participate (in senseless drinking, or idiotic child games of team building) are pushed to the fringe and not considered "team players". This, naturally, creates a culture of fear that you might miss some of those unspoken rules of the workplace, and also a form of competition of who will simp more to their boss by letting them win at laser tag. Grown up people have families to be with, old parents to take care of, hobbies to do, errands to run, so in a culture of drinking/hanging out after office hours, they often have to choose between possible career prospects or family, and that's always a hard choice.
Substack is a good display of why editors exist. Any time I read a Substack link on HN, it's twice as long as it needs to be.
Michael Pollan claims that alcohol was safer than water, then coffee came and boiling water stopped people from being drunk all the time, fueling the industrial revolution. There are still pockets of old habits where kids are given wine assuming it gives them strength, in Georgia and Abkhazia, where it is a big problem now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD6cYabx0nk
Just a note for anyone who needs to hear it: you don’t even necessarily have to be a maintainer and have complete open source repos to show off. If your entire GitHub is you just forking libraries, fixing a bug or adding a feature, and then creating a somewhat tasteful PR then I find that extremely reassuring. It means you’re doing real work, experiencing pain, diagnosing the issue and fixing it. I do not need to see seventeen green badges at the top of a readme to be impressed.
Thank you so much!

My current plan is to add a couple more templates (CV, generic invoice, maybe some basic contracts), and just list these on the index page. Curious why would you need multiple tabs though?
Nope, from what I can tell the entire backend is a Qt C++ binding[1] for the C++ Yoga library[2][3]. You can see the Qt C++ backend is exposed to QML here[4]. So it's C++ all the way down just in a comfortable setting.

[1] https://github.com/tripolskypetr/qml-flexbox/blob/master/obj...

[2] https://github.com/tripolskypetr/qml-flexbox/tree/master/thi...

[3] https://github.com/facebook/yoga

[4] https://github.com/tripolskypetr/qml-flexbox/blob/677a1287df...

P.S. I'll answer your other reply very soon. I'm releasing a new version of my app so it takes its toll on me.
>there's thousands of non-profits that'll do it for free, or for a few bucks a year, and where an actual human will be reachable.

Doubt.

But open to examples. However I suspect they'll all be subject to ifs and buts and paper cuts.
The campaign also coincided with the rise of cassette-based portastudios for musicians. There was concern that any record industry levy on cassettes would unfairly hit (unsigned) musicians recording their own music for demos. I think it was Sound-on-Sound magazine which came up with the "Home taping is skill in music" slogan as a counter.
Also down. Will email you
Wouldn't hire him on a supermarket checkout counter, the guy seems insane.
No, what you are railing against is that your actions have consequences. But it is your choice wether you are willing to bear them and act or not and do not act. That's a basic anarchist tenet reaching back to the Cynics of ancient Greece.

The things you say in public could be heard by someone and those someones have the gall to form an opinion of you you don't like -- some may even confront you about it.

Disagreement, unemployability, hostility, these are among the prices we pay for saying things in public places such as the internet. You can decide to pay the price and maybe turn it into a fruitful discussion (granted, unlikely on the internet) or you can shut up and seethe with anger for "being silenced".
If you like this, you will surely enjoy The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage. It talks about the optical telegraph and the electric one, and more than the technology, the culture that developed around the telegraph.

If nothing else, download the free Kindle sample, or read the preface and comments on Tom's site and see for yourself.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JW5WQSR/

https://tomstandage.wordpress.com/books/the-victorian-intern...

One of my favorite chapters is Love over the Wires:

> Spies and criminals are invariably among the first to take advantage of new modes of communication. But lovers are never far behind. There are no known examples of amorous messages being passed over the optical telegraph, since it was not available for general public use; but within a few months of the electric telegraph being opened to the public, it was being used for something that even the most farsighted of telegraph advocates had never dared to imagine: to conduct an on-line wedding...

> with the telegraph operators relaying their words to and fro in Morse code, the two were duly wed by the magistrate. "The exchange of consent being given by the electric flash, they were thus married by telegraph," reports a contemporary account.
Thanks to coffee, that created the coffee break by companies to increase productivity.
Been to Bosnia once or twice. Still hitting plum brandy. They just added beer into the mix.
While I don't doubt the value in finding the very best percentile in something, at the end of the day this is very much yak shaving. As the article admits, regardless of the exercise, these are relatively small drops when looking at the bigger picture. The general problem we need to find good answers for is that as a society, on average we just don't move enough.
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> If a lot of people smoke, then a lot of them develop respiratory (and other) problems. So a lot more people need treatment, which could have gone to other patients. At that point it is no longer an individial situation which affects only you, it's a societal problem. Societies which don't address their problems eventually fade out.

By that same logic we should be locking down juice boxes, donuts, and bacon to prevent heart disease and diabetes.

At some point it’s definitely babysitting and we’re well beyond it.
At the grocery store today, I can get soft drinks in a glass bottle as well as in cans and plastic, I can get forzen food in paper based containers as well as plastic, I can get pringles in a cardboard tune bit lays stax is in plastic, I go out of my way to buy things in cans instead of plastic, delivery food arrived in cardboard containers sometimes but most of the time it comes in styroform inside plastic bags, I use a water filter instead of buying plasic bottles and I can buy metal forks, spoons and straws for at least around a dollar a piece which is not a big addition to any delivery order.

Not too long ago, a world existed without plastic and styrofoam all over just fine.

Electronics can be stored in glasses or metal enclosed cardboard (and it would look cooler!).

I don't really care that much about recycling and I am doing all this now. I mostly refuse to recycle after finding out most places here just mix them up anyways and throw them in landfills.

But my more important reasoning is that similar to "carbon footprint" this is a government problem not a consumer problem. Producers can use expensive products but if only a few do it in a few states then it is too costly for the producer and prices will increase. But if the government bans and regulates material usage then although material costs increase, so long as producers have a profit margin and competition the consumer will not see too much of a price increase. But even in competition and fighting price gouging governments are sucking big time.

There is no reason every chip isn't in cardboard because pringles can turn a profit just fine and soda makers already have glass stored products for quite some time so they have no excuse.

An argument I've heard is the other materials are hard to make at scale, but I already see them at scale. Even apple from what I hear has eliminated all but 4% plastic from their iPhones (not sure what the material is now).

I am convinced that just like governments can solve climate change with nuclear power, water centric infra buildout and reducing cars (not replacing with evs), so can they solve waste that isn't degradable.

I have said it before, the root cause in my opinion is the US needs constitutional reform and the rest of the world will catch on, even China will if their export economy depended on it.
VR is good for short sessions but "real" gamers play for hours.

This is why most VR games are casual and gimmicky affairs that remind me of Wii Sports. Completely different audiences.
Yea, felt the same but haven't used react native for years either. Some concrete examples:

- Generally a poorer developer experience (bugs, bad documentation).

- Couldn't use some popular/common react native packages. It needed to be compatible with Expo, and there was an expo specific version to use the camera for example. These would have different (and more) bugs. Trying to use any unsupported packages meant ejecting, a hell that might be similar to ejecting from create react app or using craco, perhaps.

- Wasn't really adding much apart from being "all-in-one", but unfortunately each piece was sub par to the original react native.

- Unfortunately the react native docs were defaulting to suggest using Expo. They still do that now: https://reactnative.dev/docs/environment-setup. And yet developers often eject from Expo, so you'd rewrite the scaffolding of your app without expo instead of ejecting. IMHO that's quite sad to see the React Native docs still suggests Expo.

Side note: I've been using Flutter for a few years now, much better developer experience. Doesn't have code push yet, but https://shorebird.dev/ is working on it. (I am not affiliated with them).
Same. I first learnt SQL 20 years ago as a teenager and even back then I remember thinking how odd and, quite literally, backwards the language was. Back then I probably thought I just didn't understand enough to see why it had to be so. Now I know there is no reason. SQL has become more like a natural language. There's no arguing against it, you have to speak it even if it doesn't make sense. But it's not a natural language and we can do better.
They did now – https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/159g2k4/roomtemp...

Either way we should hear from people trying to replicate it soon.
This makes a lot of sense! I’ll try that.
Count by grapheme clusters and stop right before it exceeds the limit?
I agree in principal, but in my experience, a different way of looking at an emotion can sometimes really be eye opening and even poignant.

In particular for grief, I remember I was very moved by that quote from the show WandaVision: “But what is grief if not love persevering?”. I believe it helped me cope, even if just a bit.
The number of consumers that pirated music increased mostly because the record companies missed the boat in the third round of being able to sell us the same music. They quite literally sat on their hands for years while there was huge demand for online music. iTunes finally served that demand and Apple made a bundle of money on that.

Before that CDs sold for twice the amount that the original records cost when they came out ('they will last forever, and they're as good as the original masters').

You seem to have a strong conviction that piracy killed the music industry but they didn't need our help to do so, the quality on offer went down, the back catalog is large enough to sustain you for a lifetime (or even longer) and given the choice between something modern and something old I find myself picking 'something old' more and more frequently. There are some exceptions, but these are happening with lower frequency every year. It's probably a function of getting older but I'd just as soon listen to an old record by Kate Bush, 10CC, or a classical recording from the 1950's or 60's than that I will listen to something new that doesn't register with me. I can't remember when I last had the radio on, the only one I have is in the car and I probably didn't even bother plugging in the antenna.

Piracy had absolutely nothing to do with it - for me. I spent a small fortune on music and would have been happy to continue to do so. But the innovators dilemma is harsh and the music industry was too caught up in combating piracy to see that installing root kits on people's computers (Sony) or suing your artists (everybody else) is bad policy for a middle man. And so they faded. A bit late, perhaps, but I think it was inevitable. The ones (labels, not artists) that survive into the streaming era are doing well enough financially, but the music they put out just isn't compelling to me.

To this day there is a levy on any storage medium that goes to the local equivalent of the RIAA.
Is there ever a benefit to adding refined sugar to anything, though? We know there's a benefit to eating fruit and vegetables or arguably to eating dairy, and these foods contain sugar, but when would you want to add more of it? Or is it like alcohol in that it's mostly useful for enjoyment?

Long bouts of exercise like a marathon or the Tour de France or medical conditions like diabetes are the only exceptions I can think of where you'd want to instantly flood yourself with glucose.
Obviously they need something to wash down their 40 potatoes a day.

I also find the amount questionable, as I suspect that our modern expectations of what that means and the details of what they meant when they recorded personal consumption means there's something lost in translation here.

Even when I was outside scouting crops 10-12 hours a day on foot in southwest kansas with peak 110F temps, I'd still not need to drink more than 4 liters of water a day. I could push it up another liter, but it wasn't needed and could actually be harmful if one overhydrates. And that's the extreme of the year, way more what I'd reach for most of the year.

Whereas the daily motto of the fuckers was apparently "I am a machine that turns beer into piss"
I would consider a well-defined mean and standard deviation an assumption. The distribution of maximum entropy is determined by the constraints. Those constraints have to be assumed. If you constrain your problem to only have nonzero probabilities in a fixed interval, then a uniform distribution will have maximum entropy.
Look at it not from the angle of killing everything, but from the angle of how fast will trace amounts of life multiply in that environment. Absence of trace amounts wasn't really a thing before canning, which was at the stage of promising military prototypes during the Napoleonic Wars.
I also saw lots of Internet Cafes in Middle East (Iraq/Syria) few years ago (in 2014/2015) but in the latest years they are almost extinguished.
Plenty. I have an unusual background with no education beyond high school and all-over-the-place career history, and everything I got in my career was on the strength of my work. It's amazing how many times my publicly available work was crucial for being able to get an opportunity.
Yeah, it really was way too expensive. A single with one or two remixes or other songs did cost 5€. Linkin Parks Meteora did cost me 19€ and Reanimation 16.50€. Double CD samplers were around 25€ to 30€.

I'm happy with streaming but I'm also happy to buy a vinyl to additionally support my favourite artists, even when it costs 30-40€.
I’m in the same boat: convinced my family to install Signal and now going through this headache. I hope they fix this issue.
I don't need something new every day

Neither do I, but I'm also not going to spend decades - or even years - listening to the same thing week after week. Not to mention that my music tastes are much more varied than they were years ago.
I think what the author is hinting at is that you don't want to write a big `if` statement every time you use a node.

I would include sum types in what they meant with polymorphism here, because as you say there is no big practical difference between using an `IExpression` interface, or an `Expression = Sum | Product | ...` sum type for the nodes.
I can see the value in the streaming services for this because it's easy and convenient. However, it's also fun to discover new music on your own ("pull" versus "push" for content discovery) by researching genres or musical influences/history (Wikipedia has really well organized tags for this) and then just downloading a few GB via your friendly torrent network. Sure, "piracy", but if the music is over a few decades old then it should be public domain anyways.
Funnily enough there still seems to be a music industry.
Ask HN: Any GPT use-cases that blew your mind beyond chatbots and content?
I see a lot of chatbot related products and social media content creation related products. In fact even I made one chatbot product.

These products have become quite generic in just 2 quarters.

Have you encountered any product that is doing things remarkably different and re-defining any existing large use-case. Would love to explore more.
Any good resources you recommend for a noob to the art who doesn't know assembly?

I've reverse engineered file types. But not actual code.
The article says "many people just can't do them" which I can't but think points to an underlying problem.

So maybe.. start small? Half planks. Gentle wall squats not full squats. Build.
I loved my A3000 (we got it for work...) but it took two expensive expansions (a Picasso graphics card, and an ethernet card - both way overpriced compared to PC expansion cards) to make it competitive at the time. With that, though, it was still nicer to use than our PC's in '95-'96. First with Windows '95 that Windows became usable enough even with graphics cards. We ran X11 on most of our 486 PC's, and that felt better than Windows at that time, but so much less polished (I ended up gradually spending more and more of my time with Linux, and it's been the year of the Linux Desktop for me every years since ~'97 or so)

Even then we hoped for a resurrection because it still seemed possible - I remember we tried pitching a software dev. project to Escom in '95, shortly after they'd bought the Amiga rights. I'd co-founded an ISP, and another Amiga fan among my co-founders and I were considering developing an alternative Amiga web browser back when it was still viable for tiny teams to do so. But of course Escom went bankrupt a year later, before we'd gotten anywhere with them.

> If they had put AGA in the A3000 (1990)

Yeah, I agree. The A3000+, in other words[1], only 2 years before AGA. Such a missed opportunity even in '91/'92 - it was faster than than the A4000 (better memory bus, SCSI instead of IDE), and had a DSP for 16-bit audio recording and playback or a modem.... And of course in being designed for the A3000 case it would've been oh-so-much prettier than the A4000 bulky PC style case. In classic Commodore style axed without a rational reason.

That two year difference would've at a minimum given them the reprieve to possibly get AAA out (plagued by problems paying for test runs through '93)...

What could have been... I still wish for the feeling of a modern "Amiga". I contributed code to AROS for a while, but it's "too Amiga" in the sense that it accurately reflects AmigaOS 4.x for the most part, but what I really want is something that matched a modernised version of my rose-tinted nostalgic view of Amiga, and I don't know if that's possible, but I occasionally wonder if a Linux-based AmigaOS-inspired desktop environment might get me there... (of course, finding time to do anything about that is another matter...)

[1] http://www.bambi-amiga.co.uk/amigahistory/prototypes/a3000pl...
Room-temperature-pressure superconductivity comes true!?
Everyone pirated in the Eastern Europe back then. You bought a CD only if you were a big fan of the band. The rest was downloaded off the net. I've never bought a single CD in my life. Transitioned straight from pirating to Spotify.
Currently, alcohol consumption is quite unevenly spread: an 80/20 rule applies I think (and in my country, it's the higher educated who drink most). I wonder if this was true in the past, where beer might have been the only way to drink uncontaminated liquids.
> "Strings are always UTF-8. Anything else is a bug. Deal with it."

That’s how I did it: everything is utf8 (symbols and strings), but you can specifically indicate you want a byte array or nibble or word array etc. And they all work the same transparently.
That's fine, not everybody is the same in this respect. I can drive people absolutely nuts by listening to the same piece a few hundred times in a row.

Recently: Miriam Stockley, Perfect day (1999, sorry).
> CDs used to be crazy expensive. They cost much more than what was reasonable.

A market economy determines the value of goods by what people are willing to pay for it. Apparently, halfing the record price would not have doubled the sales, so the vinyl/CD price reflected the value of the music pretty well. But nowadays, legal music streaming has to compete against illegal piracy, which is free and only a little inconvenient, so the streaming price is forced to a very low level. Musicians can hardly make money from music sales anymore. If you make a type of music that isn't well suited for concerts, and you aren't massively popular, you are screwed.
I used to get work through word of mouth, occasionally from my own web site. Now I have an agency that represents me, they bring customers to me.

LinkedIn was always a bust for me, waste of time. If I'm going to spend significant time promoting myself I'd rather do that on my own web site rather than feed a database for web scrapers.

Sometimes leads or customers ask for my LinkedIn or Facebook (or Twitter) ID so they can connect. When I tell them I don't use those or any social media the most common response I get is "I wish I didn't use those." Anecdotally I know a couple of people who tell me they got leads and customers from LinkedIn, but more people tell me it's a time suck.
ROCm is not the only option, compute shaders are very reliable on all GPUs. And thanks to the Valve’s work on DXVK 2.0, modern Linux runs Windows D3D11 software just fine.

Here’s an example https://github.com/Const-me/Whisper/issues/42 BTW, a lot of BLAS in the compute shaders of that software.
Pity those bad design decisions like surrogate pair pollute the future for generations instead of being cleanly cut off with a painful, but temporary transition period