skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
EDIT: replying to my own post...

The whole "then stopped"... I didn't mean I stopped running altogether. I stopped aiming to 'close the rings' every single day. A 400 day streak was too much effort to keep going.
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He's an open book?

I needed to let off some steam?
I believe the universe we live right now is no different than a simulation. Subtle difference in belief but I think it might have a big implication.
How many speeches has Trump plagiarized?

Here’s another huge Biden lie…

He said that he graduated in the top half of his class in law school, but he really ranked 76th out of 85.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/05/that-time-joe-b...

Like I said, I can continue this thread all day until I prove to you that Biden is a pathological liar.
I have my suspicions but I'm still gonna ask the reason for the chiropractor hate.
You can always buy GitHub stars if you need that kind of validation: https://baddhi.shop/product/buy-github-followers/

Or just remember GitHub stars are like any other kind of useless social media currency and don't mean anything.
I've started to consider "commit to writing about it" as the price I have to pay for giving into the lure of another project. It's one of the main reasons I publish so much content on https://simonwillison.net/ and https://til.simonwillison.net

A project with a published write-up unlocks so much more value than one which you complete without giving others a chance of understanding what you built.

I've maintained internal blogs (sometimes just a Slack channel or Confluence area) at previous employers for this purpose too.
> Well forgive the repetition here, but because that’s both an incredibly vague definition and because it’s incompatible with a society that values individual agency.

> I could imagine the possibility of a drug that has just the right combination of effects to be both irresistible and destructive to such a degree that it threatens to collapse society in such a way where no solutions are obvious where I could see reconsidering as a matter of pragmatism, but we’re quite far from something like that

OK, so it is a coherent argument then and just one you don't agree with? The collapse of a portion of society is ok with you, just not the collapse of all of society? Hard drugs are exactly that addictive to many users that try them. Most want to stop but they can't, where is the retention of prime control over their bodies?
Looking at my library, it's about half:

- Game used to be Mac playable, but isn't because of 32-bit

- Game doesn't have a Mac version at all

Valve's work on the Steam Deck shows they could fix both problems but why should they do free work for the world's richest corporation?
One of the reasons I hate remote learning is that it eliminates the informal knowledge swap. If you've ever taken an in person class with a wide range of people you know how much swapping of knowledge happens during breaks and before and after the class. With zoom training people usually don't ask questions, they aren't fully focused as they are likely multi-tasking -training is in addition to their daily work not in place of their daily work and finally when class is over it's over everyone hangs up.
How are you going to sell access and divide the resources?
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Hosting your own LLM is anything but free. Aside from the constant operational expense with people monitoring and fixing issues, you need to provision enough resources and run your own inference server, which is both nontrivial and likely to perform far worse than OpenAI. There's legitimate reasons to host an LLM yourself, but it's not a "make this cheaper" button.
How Japan is tackling a syndrome that creates recluses
Could you elaborate why iron pipes wouldn't work?
Talk to any doctor about the priorities of the MBA-holding decision-makers at their hospitals.
Dating apps rely on a variable-interval schedule of rewards (think slot machines). Dating sites don't sell matches. They sell the /hope/ or /anticipation/ of matches. Very rarely, two people do match up and form a successful relationship. It truly is a lottery. Lottos want people to keep buying tickets. If the vast majority of people won substantial prizes, hardly anyone would play anymore. They'd simply take their winnings and ride off into the sunset.
https://archive.is/cr4eC
The cultural affection for Orthodoxy is expressing itself in many ways.

The folks who want to make and enjoy experimental, non-pop music are more empowered to do so and share their work than ever before. They're just not getting talked about by the people who are convinced they're more important than the rest of us.

We've also had the recent "bad" hits; songs that're popular but shouldn't be: CMT pulling videos and radio stations refusing requests etc. Are they popular or are they "subversive"? Are we changing what "popular" means now?
Maybe they need it to route the traffic to the right CDN? That kinda would make sense.

While I'm very privacy conscious, I don't really see the benefit to hiding my region in the DNS request. Because the very next step after the DNS is my browser making a request to their webserver, at which time they will have my actual complete IP anyway.
If one found a way to hack a camera to produce arbitrary signed images, I bet this could be automated to be pretty fast.
Oh, your treatment of website visitor data seems in violation of the GDPR.

I see outgoing requests to multiple third parties (the chat widget looks like a source) without any form of notice, let alone the actually mandated informed and active consent prior to any of that.

Writing "By using this Site, you signify your acceptance of this Policy. If you do not agree to this Policy, please don't use our site. Your continued use of the Site will be deemed as your acceptance of those changes" does not fly. That this statement can only be found in a PDF link scurried away in the page footer does not make things better.

"Everyone's doing it and bigger guys are getting away with worse" is not a justification here either.
The top 80 percent of women compete for the top 20 percent of men on dating apps. The optimization is for physical attraction, which is orthogonal to what makes a long term sustainable relationship (emotional health, mutual respect and trust, etc). I don't believe an app will fix this people problem. You can't Uber or Doordash a great partner, but that is the expectation that has been built.

Citations: https://medium.com/@worstonlinedater/tinder-experiments-ii-g... | https://archive.is/JSFXx

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33585033

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25062789 | Thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25055501 (Never Pay for Online Dating (2010))

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22406583 (RFC: Let's Disrupt Dating Apps (2020))
That comment was a wild ride.

I'm curious if there is a way that I could phrase a polite request to you to ask if you're a human (that just happened to create your account 30 minutes ago to post this within the same minute) or if this comment was auto-generated.
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Some replies were coherent, but it took just a few tries to get something completely random - that's all one reply:

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I suspect when quality docs exist, no one _complains_ about them.

Having poorly-written docs can sometimes be as bad as no docs at all.

I just experienced this a few hours ago where I integrated a new library, tested in CI and locally. We see errors in production. Why? A connection configuration that I thought would merge with the defaults _replaced_ the defaults. The docs don’t mention this at all, but it’s pretty crucial for going to production.
Also - I really like your graphics in your blog post. How do you go about generating them?
> I think we're all horribly burned out by pop-science.

Speak for yourself, I'm happy to lend my positivity to people who think they might be close to breakthroughs even if they are unlikely moonshots, and you better believe I'll be maximally hyping up my own work if I ever feel like I am close to some kind of breakthrough too. That's part of the fun of being a living thing in this weird physical universe.
Well done on redefining austerity.
I've been working on timesheet and payroll code for years now and I assure you I've learned how to type the word "hours" but sometimes, somehow, 'Horus' ends up in my code. I think I could get away with auto replacing horus to hours in my .py and .[tj]sx? files
https://vdo.ninja/ is pretty good but not sure if OSS.
The primary source of members for all the Abrahamic religions are born into it, not converts. Churches, Mosques, Synagogues will continue to exist, as long as they are effective at boosting birth rates for their members, and manage to retain their children to a degree.

Homosexuals are therefore low-revenue customers, because the expected children count (including adoption) is far lower than heterosexual marriages. Churches that prioritize accommodating modern social mores statistically have shriveled massively.

Whether they have 'squandered' anything by sticking to their 'business model' will only become obvious in decades. They don't operate on quarterly targets or even 5 year plans. Judging by fertility rates, highly religious groups still have higher birth rates than secular groups.
Inspiration for The Human Centipede?
First paragraph of TFA:

> Roman Devengenzo was consulting for a robotics company in Silicon Valley last fall when he asked a newly minted mechanical engineer to design a small aluminum part that could be fabricated on a lathe—a skill normally mastered in the first or second year of college.

Except.... Engineering classes in college don't teach "lathe-work". Lathe operating skills are a trade-craft and Mr. Devengenzo would have been rightly surprised that a machinist did not know how to operate a lathe. But college engineering classes are not going to teach a new mech. engineer how to operate a lathe.
Mind elaborating, or just want to contribute empty snark? I know there's a bit of a meme about Gnome being terrible, but it works really well for my workflow, and plays nicely with my multi-monitor setup. It's also been super stable for me.

I like having the super key bound to a single quick animation that:
1. Let's me see all my windows in context
2. allows me to quickly access files and applications via the keyboard by typing their name

Like, it's barebones, but I can keep it very uncluttered. At first I was bothered by the lack of desktop icons, but came to really like it. It works super well for switching between local work and remote environments (via remmina). Over the years I've run Mate, Cinnamon, KDE, and Unity among others, and I really fail to understand the Gnome hate.
Will this compete with Zapier or other low-code/no-code platforms?
Pretty funny to see a constructive comment downvoted faster than sweaty blather. Not a good day for HN.
Only men would use it though, right? Women probably wouldn’t need to, and any mate crowdsourcing would be done off-line, bounty-free by friends and people you trust anyway
It's not obvious to me so if you want to persuade me you'll have to make an argument.

While you're at it you'll have to make another argument if you want to persuade me you're in a position to know which are the right questions and which are the wrong ones.

Finally, if the dark energy equation of state can't be measured with experiments, you should've told the Department of Energy. You could've saved them a lot of money.

https://science.osti.gov/hep/Highlights/2019/HEP-2019-08-a

It's not too late to save them even more money, though:

https://lsstdesc.org/
Children and those deemed mentally unwell in a legal sense lack various individual freedoms though. There's always some trade off.
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Previous discussions:

Tell HN: Archive.is inaccessible via Cloudflare DNS (1.1.1.1)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828317

- This particular discussion includes a comment from Cloudflare's CEO, referenced in the article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828702

Why does 1.1.1.1 not resolve archive.is?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21155056

- StackExchange question, on the subject

Does Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 DNS Block Archive.is? (2019)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28495204

- Discussion of this blog post
This is true in many European countries. But for a kid from a poor family where no one has an academic background and chances of success in higher education are low, a good technical education can still provide significant upward social mobility. If you train to be a competent mechanic, welder, carpenter, mason, electrician, plumber, ... you're set up for a pretty comfortable middle class life. You can even get quite wealthy if you start a business.

I don't think it's necessarily bad that the education system tries to identify students which have low odds of making it in higher education, and offer them an alternative route that results in them having an in-demand skill and some work experience when they graduate at 18 years old.

I'm not at all convinced that an approach where students of all levels are kept in the same classroom is better for the weakest students. I imagine the experience of struggling (and often failing) to keep up every day must be exhausting and demotivating (and perhaps even humiliating). I also have never seem any evidence that such an arrangement is better for weak students in any metric (but I'm happy to change my mind of this if such evidence is provided).
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They've had a bunch of trouble in medicine-adjacent fields. Nutrition and sports science has had an especially tough time, but it's been cropping up all over the field.

I do think most of the problem is rooted in the fact that it's difficult to do this type of science, especially without serious ethical breaches. There are so many confounding variables, and self-reported observational data just isn't a very good tool. To truly eliminate confounders, you basically need to lock someone up for decades and control their entire lifestyle.
I don't think it's that funny, given that "best" and "most consistent" are both highly subjective.

I am a huge fan of the HTML/CSS/JS stack—it's far, far easier to knock up simple GUI-based apps using those technologies than, for example, the Visual Basic / Delphi tools that we were all using beforehand. And, remember, apps are not really what HTML was ever intended for, so any kind of 'app' support is a big bonus.
Where I live, Tinder is mostly millennials looking for long term relationships. I suspect younger people have mostly migrated to social media, I hear a lot about using insta as what is effectively a dating platform, and is certainly a better user experience. The whole dating app experience is pretty awful.
>Are you hosting that somewhere?

Tensordock. RTX4090 instances are ~$0.50/hr and can handle 3/4 concurrent users each.
Hmm, no clue but if i ask 1.1.1.1 for the a record for archive.is i get 89.253.237.217

asking the office DNS the same question i get 51.38.69.52, asking 9.9.9.9 it gives me the same IP as the office DNS. Finaly asking google or 8.8.8.8 i also get 51.38.69.52

So i think their record is borked.
I recall a period where Musk was going to be forced to buy Twitter and the anticipation of his comeuppance was palpable...

Keeping up with the "Current Thing" orthodoxy has to be exhausting. Does it leave time to do anything else?
Excited to see this potentially integrated into FreeCAD. It is already very good at utilizing assets from other applications like Blender, and producing assets that can be used in other applications.

It would really help smooth out some wrinkles in the building industry if we could freely interoperate with each other while using different applications. I can't afford (stomach) anything but FreeCAD for my building projects. All the engineers I work with use autocad.
(1) The children of Harvard-educated people are more likely to get a Harvard education themselves. True.
(2) The children of prison inmates are more likely to become prison inmates themselves. Also true.

If you want to do something about social mobility, you should presumably prioritize doing something about (2) over doing something about (1), because it affects a much larger number of people in a much deeper way. Yet, somehow, issues similar to (1) are the ones that receive a lot more air time in the media.

That's because most people's underlying motivations are a hatred for those at the top, which they then hypocritically paraphrase as a concern for those at the bottom.
If the problem gets fixed, then by definition the decision was not correctly made.

The more you say in this thread the more you prove the critics points.
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I've got myself to a position where I feel that a project is "done" when it has solid tests and comprehensive documentation.

Sure, I could add new features in the future - but I no longer feel actively guilty about things that are missing from it. And someone else could pick up from where I left off if they really wanted to.
Not the person you're replying to, but as someone who is... struggling with weed addiction, I can confirm I use it, among other things, to stop flashbacks/simulating past trauma. It's a tradeoff, because it feels like I'm playing life with 30% lower efficiency (shit makes me stupid, yo), but at least the PTSD doesn't make me want to die constantly.
Even if you do private research, you still need your work to get peer-reviewed. The pressure comes because we need to make the results sound more dramatic, rather than "meh. some effect is visible, but nothing to lose sleep over" - that will not get you the awards, the grants, and the Nature publications. Almost all these carry over (more so) if you are doing private research, since in addition to publications, funding is a more pressing need.

Is corporate life any better? I've tried both. And in terms of autonomy, it is a huge relief not to be bound to quarterly evaluations and KPAs and trying to belittle others' work just so that you don't get axed and so on.
> mr/ms

What does this mean?
Dating apps fail due to an inherent asymmetry.

A small percentage of the population will attract a large percentage of the dating pool.

A large percentage of the population will attract a small percentage of the dating pool.

The job of a dating app is to give the appearance of progress and engagement to a very wide segment of the market. It sells hope and false positives.

Better?
1) Learn core social skills. Making people feel good about themselves is fundamentally attractive.
2) Upgrade listening skills. People who make others feel heard and understood are very attractive.
3) Do stuff. Fun stuff. Whatever leads to your personal happiness. Happy engaged people are attractive.
4) Stop using dating apps. Suck it up. Face confusion, rejection, and bad choices. Learn what you need to learn. Improve. Wash - rinse - repeat. People who have earned their confidence and skills are very attractive.
5) Learn to laugh at yourself.
6) Have real friends. Do stuff with them. There is a direct relationship between having good friends and feeling good about life.
6.5) Keep social media to a minimum. It sucks your attention and gives you envy.
well, if you have a full-sized keyboard, you will see the (goto) end (of line) key peering up at you all the time. but i must admit, i hardly ever use it.
I've realized it's actually not just dating. Dating and Hiring overlap a lot conceptually, and both have serious unsolved problems right now. They really are the same problem - match people to other people based on various (but different) qualifications. Solve Hiring, you've solved Dating. Solve Dating, you've solved Hiring.
I like this idea. What it lacks is accountability after the match has been made.

When you meet someone IRL, you’re generally embedded in some social network. You met through friends, or at a function. Someone was responsible for introducing you, and that person is held responsible to a degree if one of you is a major jerk.

Dating apps are the ultimate ephemeralization and atomization of our society. “We met through an app,” while now commonplace, is also an absence of rich social embedding. At best, your friends meet their friends; but when you break up, it’s likely those networks bisect as well.