skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's fair, but the other thing happens WAY more.

It honestly just strikes me as very odd how e.g. even "just use multiple languages" is done a whole lot, but not really talked about as a good idea (as much as MY LANGUAGE IS GOOD AND YOURS IS NOT)
Paraphrasing here, but I know George Saunders has basically said that he attributes his success as an author not to any ability to crank out excellent drafts on the first try (and tbh I mildly distrust anyone who claims they can do this), but to having the stomach to sit with crummy first drafts and refine them over and over until the final edited product is good. Even for someone who's spent years cultivating a razor-sharp ear for language (which is a skill in itself!), the act of creation still involves the brute force of patience and persistence and plain old time.

I find it pretty motivating, actually. "Natural and magical talent" as a frame of reference is less accommodating to bad days and false starts and crummy first drafts; a combination of persistence and honed skills, on the other hand, gives you the freedom to try things and fail and then gradually make them better—without the shadow of that initial failure looming over you and undermining your so-called "natural talent."
The FreeBSD Foundation and FreeBSD Project members have been investing in and working on improving FreeBSD security for at least the last several years. Much of that "FreeBSD – A Lesson in Poor Defaults" blog post is outdated/incorrect/conjecture.
> All the features they exclude from the MIT code base and only include in the The GitLab Enterprise Edition...

> > I would enjoy seeing the specific features of the MIT codebase that they "don't allow" you to use

I feel we are not on the same page. But, good luck with your BSL future
Iconic Joshua trees threatened wildfire spreading across Mojave Desert
Post histories are the only way to hold people on a pseudonymous website accountable.

I think I made it very clear why their opinion should result in a ban.

Also, as a general rule, it's impolite to use anything other than "they" if you don't know someone's pronouns.

edit: any comments on the object-level issue at hand, shkkmo? Or are you going to be like the worst people on the internet and focused entirely on the meta level?

Also, I don't trust dang enough, given reports from Hector Martin and others of being ignored. So I post about it here. (As to why I don't just leave HN, well, it's too important a forum.)
If such a scenario were recognized, and we end up with something like UBI, how does one 'get ahead?' It seems some people are always wanting and willing to get ahead, either through multiple jobs, long hours, or study. Is that dream now crushed into just do nothing and exist like everyone else? The robot owners aren't going to just hand out money, so would have to be taxed at some insane rate, I think.

Being able to survive without 'working' sounds like a dream, but I get hung up on the technicalities of it all.
Frankly speaking, probably the latter. I've been using Copilot for over a year now, and obviously it makes stupid mistakes, but it sped up my general coding speed. Now, I don't have much experience (maybe around 10ish years of programming professionally) in comparison to greybeards, but it works. Haven't used ChatGPT much, but as long as the user understands its shortcomings and reviews/refines its outputs, it's fine.

People who write code also make mistakes, yet we don't consider it "inherently risky practice". We just review others' code, tweak it, make it more appropriate for prod and voila. Same thing applies here.
People can get depression and suffer other neurological issues after taking antibiotics can't they?

I'm not saying your sexuality can change, but I thought there was fairly conclusive evidence that microbiome changes do impact people neurologically?
I just responded with the same thing but think you said it in a better way!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36971490#36973675

This is open source to most of us. I can read the code, use the code, and contribute to the project. I don't care if I can't make a SaaS offering of it.
Why are you so attached to calling something open source when it is not open source? You know it will piss people off. You know it will generate bad will. You can avoid all of that by simply not calling it open source. Why are you so insistent upon using deceptive labelling? Where is the benefit?
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I read once an explanation of Brazilian soccer greatness as being because they played a hacky sack game which was bouncing a soccer ball across their knees kind of.

Talent is transferable skills. Getting good can’t come without practice but you don’t have to be practicing the exact thing.
Interesting.

I find some of the graphics off-putting. This habit of putting random phrases on a picture, and then drawing a line to some random part of the subject (a plane in this case) is stupid, insulting, ignorant, lazy, oh I'm running out of adverbs it's so senseless.

'High lift system design' is apparently held entirely in the wingtip? 'Fuel volume' has something to do with the cabin? That particular part of the wing has '20% Increase' in something-or-other?

As marketing literature it's to be expected - just a junk graphic to catch your attention. But in an article on a bit of science? I find it unforgivable. But that's just me.
Anyway, my pet peeve.
http://mocha-java.uccs.edu/ECE5550/index.html
I can tell you haven’t ever received a self-pay bill, waited a month, and unrequested a cheaper bill shows up and mysteriously Dr. Popped-in-for-5-minutes got dropped from billing. Sure it’s the “cheapest rate” but they’re billing for every tiny thing.
I used to think that it's much harder to find a manager job than a dev job. Eventually I learned that this is not the case - quite the opposite. There is obviously lack of good managers. After reading "Peoplewhare" I understood why. There are two main manager objectives: 1) Advance the project 2) Advance the people. I can't even imagine how one finds a symbiosis between people's ambitions and project needs. Someone has to get hurt.
It seems like you don't practice what you preach, seeing how Hacker News relies on cookies for authentication.

Besides, GDPR isn't about cookies, it's about what companies are allowed to do with your personal information. Functional cookies don't require consent, abuse of your personal data does.
That was my thought: Women have an opt out. Given how sexist Japan is, being a housewife isn't great but at least there's an option and some agency. Also it's far easier to be a socially reclusive woman without being judged or people thinking you're not contributing. If you want to spend all day at home with your baby/toddler, people still think of you as a responsible adult even if you never talk to other adults and spend all of your spare time on hobbies. I also believe there's some cultural sense that not being able to do things can be 'cute' for girls.
> Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince answered this directly on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828702

Archive.is' explanation is quoted in a comment below:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36971650
On the one hand, I'm all for other people having stupid ideas that interfere with their own lives. Since I know that these ideas are substantially false*, and I'm not inclined towards giving other people's opinions "rent-free space" in my own head, I largely ignore this sort of stupidity these days.

On the other hand, I'm not a fan of the disservice these types of opinions do to people in general. In the young, it sets them up for "failure"**, and also DOES diminish and disrespect the work the people put into what they do. That's maybe, just, "like their opinion, man", but, it's part of a whole range of "lack of empathy / social cohesiveness" issues that are helping push our species towards its "brink" far more quickly than 'strictly necessary'.

* There are many papers on studies, including "twin studies", examining genetic vs environmental influences on performance, expertise, etc. There is an undeniable genetic component - the simplest examples are typically in the realm of athletics. There is no environment that turns me into a viable NBA player***. However, just as people are incredibly "innumerate" and just plain bad at "statistics" elsewhere, absurd numbers of people apparently believe that there is some "talent jar" (most, even worse, viewing it in terms of "born with / without" vs. an at least more sensible "set up within the first 3 - 5 years of life, substantially") and either someone was given a certain "talent" from the jar, or they weren't.

As a certain "muppet"**** once said: https://youtu.be/VmXSfFY0CO0?t=4m36s

** In the sense of "not reaching THEIR full potential" - studies in psychology have clearly established that ideas like "talent", rather than "work invested" are 'caustic' - they can massively interfere with performance, learning potential, etc. Simply search for terms like 'talent', 'work', 'practice', 'belief', 'skill' etc. on PubMed or Google Scholar etc. (tight on time, else I'd add some refs right here)

*** Edit / important note: this concerns POTENTIAL, not realization of such a goal which obviously takes just as much hard work, generally, as reaching high levels in any other area.

**** Who apparently COULD join the NBA, most likely, despite height limitations...
> It's not unheard of that in certain corporate environments people work 60-80 hours a week

> certain corporate environments

it happens, both in terms of company, and situation (e.g. crunch weeks), but that ain't the entire country all the time the way it is in Japan.

I recall a study about how the average workday in Japan was peaking at 13 hours, and the corporate execs were worrying that it was starting to trend down. Similar approaches like 996 are a thing in China, too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/996_working_hour_system
My major complain here is that, as far as being a web framework there is precious little information here about the framework. How does this framework scale with multiple requests? What concurrency strategy is it using (threads, processes, actors, etc?). Is this opinionated (it doesn't seem so but it also doesn't say it isn't either). How does this work with popular libraries x,y,z. The full docs have a little bit more information, but not a ton. But mostly there are some cute toy examples and "built in python" and thats about it.

Lets compare this with for example play https://www.playframework.com/ I know from this that it built on Akka, its stateless, aims for predictable resource consumption, has non-blocking io, etc. There is a ton of really important information on what does this web framework actually do that is really important when you are making a choice of a framework.

I have no idea how good this framework is, but besides a few toy examples, I can't see anything that makes me thing "wow this is great I need to use this". Using python to generate front end attributes isn't new, most any web framework can do this also.
I don't think this is it. The world is full of competition, despite attempts to sanitize it. Infact, it seems like people are more aware of the competition due to global social media. If we're looking at this from a learned helplessness perspective, I would guess that modern society is an impossibly competitive environment that crushes children more easily, not that they are weaker.
It's unlikely that model weights can be copyrighted, as they're the result of an automatic process.
Whenever I see these gut biome results, I can't help thinking that there are so many common causes that can explain both biome and diagnosis/behavior: region, ethnography, socioeconomic class, etc. Has anyone gone deep enough into the studies to know if/how that is controlled for?
The concern isn't that the website will know the IP, it's that every single entity on the network between Cloudflare and the authoritative DNS server (most or all of which will not be operated by the website) will know it.

It still may not be the right decision, but it's important to frame the trade-off correctly.
a couple years ago a friend of mine got into botting Diablo II, which seemed like a whole game in itself, which made me think, how neat would that be, a game where you start off doing regular gameplay stuff, and then you eventually automate/optimize that gameplay at increasingly more meta levels of play. still think there's something to that idea...
I used to think sales was pointless and beneath me, I don’t anymore.

I work in biotech and feel my job is pointless because we don’t make any sales.

I’m trying to learn sales actually.
Agreed, but I think slowness is the one that is impossible to fix without making Python into something other than Python. Since the day it was born we were promised that Sufficient Smart Compilers would come along and make it as perfomant as C. We know what that looks like in the limit now, which is basically PyPy; it doesn't get to C except in small cases and eats a ton more memory in the process, and there's no reason to believe it will ever happen.

The semantics of Python are fundamentally slow. To fix that requires changing semantics. Such a change would dwarf 2 -> 3 in size and be effectively a new language, like "Perl 6" was.
> people

Who?
Silver is very good for RF power work, so good that I doubt that anything will be able to supplant it on a cost basis because you only need a tiny little bit of it to plate your copper carrier to get really good results. Obviously not perfect, there is still some resistance but it's hard to compete with because of the combination of properties in terms of ductility, flexibility, resistance to deep corrosion and so on.
Well, automation optimized away most need for physical work. Information technology and economies of scale optimized away a lot of thinking. So, the only driving factor behind many jobs is now the power dynamics.

Power is when you can tell another person to change and they are forced to do as you tell them. So, the more power-driven your corporate ladder becomes, the more useless jobs it creates. The whole purpose of those jobs is to please the boss and contribute to their feeling of power. The actual economic output of the job can be zero, or negative, as long as is produces "power output" to the next level of management.

Normally, when companies are forced to compete against each other, playing the power ladder too much makes you uncompetitive, so you are forced to bring merit back on the table. Except, the zero interest rates of the whole decade and the uncontrolled mergers have mostly destroyed this. So yeah, unemployment is low now, but every job sucks and people are miserable.
> Can you explain why people should care? I get a guy who is not well adapted socially, who thinks he is the best thing to ever walk through the door and I know he’s going to be a short-lived nightmare for his sup and potentially for HR.

You shouldn’t care in most cases. I wouldn’t care. I hadn’t had any open source contributions since 1994 when I submitted code to the ftp info Mac archive until 2020. The only reason I have any now is because I get paid for it.

> On the other hand, I get a guy who I can see is optimistic, friendly, humble, hungry etc and know I’m going to be happy to give him his raise every 6 months. He will be a good employee which is only really 10-20% about his skill.

Are you going to do a strategic hire who only has 20% of the skill you are looking for? Are you going to hire him as a team lead? Someone leading a major new initiative without having proven industry skills?

> A homemade stupid flashy website tells me he has a rudimentary understanding of computers,

And that’s why I don’t do coding outside of work. Every piece of code I have on GitHub is running at a company somewhere and they paid my employer to use it. I more than likely spent hours on calls gathering requirements, vetting the design, teaching them how to use it, etc.
Whuffie

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_and_Out_in_the_Magic_King...
Are you talking about Archive.is or Cloudflare?

Answer: "Yes."
> I strive for a world where art isn’t a transaction, but a gift of human expression and connection. A world where art is appreciated for the emotion, stories, and ideas it conveys rather than the monetary value it holds.

In a world where nobody is compensated for their art, the only people making art will be the ones privileged enough to have the means to do so for free. I don't see how this leads to "Renaissance: Part 2."
does this model help in TTS(text-to-speech), badly needed only free option is bark and tortise TTS right now.
> cache miss

Ooh, I like that one. Stealing it
To be clear, I am describing my actual usage of jj. It’s worth noting that there’s currently not a `jj pull` command, so divergences typically involve manually setting a branch pointer for me.
Are they planning to use an X-Box controller for this? Too funny.
Doesn't it require a surgical procedure? I meant it's extreme in contrast to something more mundane like diet augmentation.
It's the most strange figure from that whole paper, there is just so little context for it.
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber

https://www.amazon.com/Bullshit-Jobs-Theory-David-Graeber/dp...

Great read, right on topic :)
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/16/1176513695/does-the-u-s-have-...

https://www.marketplace.org/2023/05/05/heres-why-the-u-s-has...
I think where this is headed is algebraic effects, not using an io monad.
Tell me you’ve never been part of an RFP process without telling me you’ve never been part of an RFP process.

Sure, in some cases what you say is true, when you have an undifferentiated product in perfect competition with other products where potential customers have perfect information, a smoother spokesperson can make the difference.

But in complex sales, the sales staff’s job is to understand the client’s needs and opportunities well enough, then coordinate experts on their team to present promising solutions. A sales person who is a value add is going out and finding people with problems that can be solved with the company’s product, thus pulling a customer into increased productivity.

The role does not need to be a waste, even though many are wasteful.
What do you mean we aren't on the same page? These are two options when opensourcing things:

- GitLab went with Open Core and kept most of their features closed source and not available to the community

- Companies that choose BSL provide all their features to the community both from a source available standpoint AND a usage standpoint.

In my opinion BSL is a MUCH better place to be in than the open core model.
Kenya suspends Sam Altman’s eyeball-scanning crypto project
The story is an excellent metaphor for how people like him (dare I say “us”) look at life. We overthink and we are uncomfortable at the thought of being “pampered” as though we are superior to the person pampering us. Logical or not, that’s how I feel about it. Perhaps it’s because we are aware of the lousiness of a job such as “porter” whereas the average person is oblivious, disinterested, apathetic or whatever else.
It's fairly common for people at prestigious institutions to write papers about stuff that already existed for years to try and snatch some points, and then to get all the credit, because they are from a prestigious institution with many press related megaphones. The most famous example is probably Von Neumann writing about ENIAC a project he wasn't involved with at all.
That's why you have a blinking taillight and a continuous light.
It saves around 10-20% in seconds
There is an overwhelming level of nihilism in society. It's even more apparent since most have decided to use their occupation to define their purpose in life.

I don't see how we can continue down this path and see positive results.
Design for disassembly of concrete slabs with mortar joints
Correlation isn't causation (Wet streets cause rain).

Unless you have some kind of mechanism to explain it.
I have built three quick sites with Reflex and it is fantastic for a systems programmer like myself who has no interest in learning Javascript. The recent addition of supporting Tailwind CSS works well and makes it very easy for me to make not terrible looking frontends. Their discord is very helpful for questions and issues that I have raised on their GitHub are responded to quickly.

I wish them the best with their hosting platform.
RHEL had BTRFS as a technology preview in 8 but removed it in 9. So I don't think they were that vested in it.
Sure, some people want to get ahead just for the feeling that they're doing better than most people, but a lot of people try to get ahead out of fear of not having enough. In a system where everyone has enough wouldn't that fear be at least greatly diminished?
There's a part of me that suspects that the arc compiler has bitrot to the point HN can no longer be rebuilt. Has pg even touched arc in a decade, or more? I don't think it was ever much more than a prototype in the first place.
It can be reverse: People with ASD prefer some food that promotes a specific biome
Interesting thought. I was raised in a rather hygienic house. I started mountain biking a lot. Part of which is regularly eating a banana covered with all sorts of filth from a backpocket. IMO I got much more social and less awkward in my late 20s. Could this be improved microbioma?
How language models use long contexts
Not at all. You just swallow fecal matter. Usually in a pill.
I think you mean universal healthcare. Most of the countries in Europe have universal healthcare systems, not socialized. For example Netherlands and Switzerland don't have single payer healthcare. Its basically compulsory private insurance with subsidies and highly regulated.
Yet another reason why the credit card industry needs to go. Security protocols non-existent or haven't been upgraded since the turn of the 21st century. The amount of middleman abuses is innumerable as well. The costs of dealing with these nuisances is passed on to the merchant (via higher transaction fees, charge back fees, ...), and inevitably passed on to the consumer.

Let's not forget that the CC industry encourages the worst spending habits for consumers thus perpetuating the never ending cycle of slaves to debt.
I think this is a very good point, and a failure for education and 'para-education'.

We got lost along the way.
From my perspective this is undesired by the vendor because there was no therapy session, just various free uses of OpenAI via their account.
The general rule of thumb is to ensure you've returned to safety guarantees before exiting an unsafe block. Obviously it's too much to expect humans to be perfect at this, but having that mentality makes it orders of magnitude harder to leak UB into safe code. The overwhelming majority of violations I've seen are where engineers dip in and out of unsafe code without upholding safety guarantees inbetween.
Hey, you know the most popular programming language in the world? They don't have a way to write web applications. If you fund us, we'll build a tool for that, tap into a huge TAM and make bank.

Sounds like a pitch that would make VCs start falling over eachother
I already wanted exactly this when an early usbarmory prototype landed on my desk @ CoreOS. There was enough room under my thinkpad's palmrest for a couple of them.

The main missing link I saw was the need for what's essentially a KVM switch builtin to the laptop, so the keyboard+trackpoint+video could be physically cycled through the host and the little embedded machines.
> Surprisingly, researchers identified a strong microbial signature for autism spectrum disorder, challenging the idea that autism is a primarily genetic condition and suggesting that environmental factors may be behind the sharp rise in ASD

It doesn't really challenge anything without some evidence for causation from microbiome to ASD beyond correlation, since causation from ASD (or its genetic determinants) to microbiome is also consistent with a correlation.
It's hard to get rid of bullshit jobs without changing humanity. One of the biggest jobs of what's considered bullshit is dealing with the quirks of people.