skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> appreciation for maintaining a large project for the long term.

Nothing author describes is applicable for a large project or a long-term project or both.

He chose one of the worst editors available, and decided to incorporate it into environment setup. Any long-term or large project will have multiple people working on it. A fraction will find the crappy editor the author decided to use useful, but most will want something better. Most people with development experience will want to set up their environment in the way comfortable for them, this setup is asking you to jump through too many hoops, none of which bring any value.

Same goes for CMake -- I've worked on multiple large C projects. None used an off-the-shelf build tool like CMake. These tools are inadequate for large-scale projects. (But, lets give the author credit here, he never claimed that his project was large or long-term). Still, I had never found CMake to be useful, nor for small nor for big projects. Whenever I had to work on a project that used CMake, it was a major pain.

It is common to test stuff in containers during development. But, it's also more common the more lazy and less insightful the programmer is / intends to be. In my experience, better programmers usually set up their environment in such a way that they don't have to deal with the container nonsense, as it gets in the way of debugging and a bunch of other tools useful to interact / understand the program being tested.

So... maybe containers for a smoke test. But, if you plan on going long term... that's just not going to cut it. You need a proper environment where you have comfortable access to your program.
Yes. Qin Shi Huang commanding the human computer made by very large population is, I think, a satire on the obsession of dictatorship country with large-scale population performances (which always happens in China and North Korea), but that's really a very imaginative and mind-blowing scene.
I read this as "monkeys" several times trying to digest the headline. I scroll down and see donkeys. Brow furrows, continue to sip coffee.
> I think you're romanticizing the present.

You might be right, actually. Common bias eh? But I suggest we look at it practically.

> Would I prefer to live now than 2000 years ago? Certainly. Is that because of today's systems of governance, rather than today's technology? No.

How do you suppose that technology came about? I don't wish to trivialize this, but I'm convinced systems of government and levels of technology have a very strong connection. Maybe we just need to agree to disagree on that.

> It's a fantasy to believe the ruling class are not in an eternal struggle to take more, or that they have ever only restrained themselves due to the threat of revolt.

I did not proclaim otherwise. Elite assholes are exactly the same. It's just that they are less capable of actualizing it now. In my experience they lack the privileges they used to have. Sure, they are rich and fuck you over, but that doesn't come close to what they were able to do in the past. I am only interested in results, nothing else. Human souls are as murky as they ever were and maybe it's worse now. I don't know about that.

> You're trying to make it an all or nothing thing, but it's not.

I'm sorry, maybe I did come across like that indeed. I meant to imply that whatever is between cockroach and omnipotent, it is more now, not less. Cockroaches these days have way more power than they ever did.

> And what does "winning" mean?

It's not just money. This could also mean forcing them to change course. We had something called "Urgenda" that took our gov to court (and won). In this case our government was blamed for doing too little about climate change and they had to adapt. There were also cases that for example challenged governmental oversight.
https://archive.is/MEnoQ
Electoral Commission had internet-facing server with unpatched vuln
I loved the analogy of AGI takeoff with markets. People change their behavior when faced with new environments. If AI ever becomes threatening, there is no way we won't do anything and there is no way AI will reliably predict how we will respond.
The problem is, now I have to do this every time for shitty dumbed down apps.

Prime example: Twitter always responds "oops, something went wrong" even if the backend returns `{ error: "Video aspect ration is not allowed. Try 16:9" }`
The left and right audio channels are connected to two oscilloscope inputs to control the X and Y deflection of the trace. Think of animated Etch-A-Sketch using music.
Show HN: NLQ-to-API) Embed a GPT-powered chat UX into your app
I built this react component to add a Chat-GPT-like UX to any app. It supports multi-turn conversations, question answering, and task execution via your API.
If he wasn't native American?
How I do wish the site owner would get rid of that newsletter signup modal. It's right up there with slow site speed in terms of reasons I'll leave a page.
We do have randomised trials to support the argument, but (like most treatments) there's a very obvious dose-response curve. If we take outcome measures after each therapy session, we can see that each additional therapy session has a diminishing marginal benefit.

There's a reasonable argument that the most severely affected patients might gain clinically meaningful benefits from very small incremental gains, but that's very difficult to falsify because the effect size is so small. Long-term psychotherapy undoubtedly fails any reasonable cost-benefit test, but even setting that aside, I'd suggest that anyone who isn't satisfied with the results of therapy after 12-18 sessions would be better off trying something else - either a different therapist, a different psychotherapeutic modality, or a biomedical treatment.

Anecdotally, the vast majority of people who I encounter who are in long-term psychotherapy aren't severely unwell; obviously that is in large part explained by the barriers to access faced by most severely unwell patients. Many of these people aren't "mentally ill" in any meaningful sense, exhibiting only subclinical symptoms of anxiety or depression even at the point of starting therapy. They don't have clear goals for therapy, or any real sense of when it would make sense for them to finish therapy. If they find therapy to be an enjoyable activity like doing yoga or having a massage then I have no qualms with that, but many of them ascribe benefits to long-term therapy that simply aren't supported by the evidence.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30661486/
It did, however we would probably have hit a ceiling if QM remained unknown to us.

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/112615/why-is-it...
I'm not sure if we're agreeing or not to be honest. I'm not sure if you're implying it's a bad thing that people won't contribute to AGPL+CLA (and thereby justifies these more restrictive licenses), or agreeing that people shouldn't contribute to AGPL+CLA (and thereby volunteer their time to the benefit of one specific vendor).
It's easy to understand why, I think. People will tend to pick up the tasks they think they can easily complete and avoid the ones they will be stuck on for multiple sprints while management breathes down their neck because it's a really important task. If you're an inexperienced dev picking up that kind of task can be intimidating, especially if it's a work environment where you're expected to operate fairly autonomously.
Thanks for sharing; this project looks very promising!

What precipitated your fork of pgsync and how do you foresee maintaining compatibility with that project?
To learn he's an American Jazz critic makes perfect sense, it's almost exactly who you would expect to be this pretentious.

Love it!
A lot of fancy links referenced, yet as usual it is really simple

Desire to get shit done and motivation is more important than anything else
> In the short run, the market is a voting machine. In the long run, it’s a weighing machine.
Control over the product direction is more important than free labour
https://archive.is/aTYNC
It will sort itself out, once the tribe breaks camp and moves to greener pastures? Dad has the same emotional attachment to things.. It's all connected to some wild future plans that never gonna happen..
https://archive.is/938zK
There is a general conception that real estate is an instant “I win” button and it is very, very hard to dissuade people of this.

You have to research “tenants from hell” on YouTube to get a bit of an understanding of it, but even then the successful landlords often don’t even correctly account for all the finances and times and work out what they really made.

One bad tenant (or one bad uninsured disaster and there are thousands of possibilities here) can destroy years of leveraged appreciation.
Poietic Generator
Heh, this is exactly why posting on HN is worthwhile. Probably just wait for FF now though.
Owning an IP block is baaically free, with IPv6. Pity that network effects (pun not intended) make that impractical right now.
https://archive.is/gStXI
thanks Magdy, there's 30 languages available on the app for anyone to create their podcast in. If there's enough interest for HN Recap in other languages we'll launch those!

Which language would you want it in?
Firefox lost power-users because 1) performance was bad 2) Chrome does very aggressive marketing and various Google sites break randomly on Firefox. And performance was very often bad because of extensions.

Perhaps anecdotal, but whenever I ask a Chrome user why they don't use Firefox, that's the main two reasons they cite. I do ask often though.

What "certain features" do non-tech-savvy people need? I know lots of devs who rarely even know or care which browser they're using. Not to mention non-tech-savvy people..
>the streaming services there haven't made the huge mistakes the movie/TV services have

I'm not sure it's so much mistakes of the streaming services as the fact that music has a near enough to universal for most people licensing scheme from a handful of major labels that the major services can offer a near-universal essentially interchangeable (other than UX and integration with other services) service to consumers.

Whereas the fragmented (and frequently changing) rights owners in the film/TV business have no equivalent. I'm honestly not sure of the impact on piracy though. A lot of us shrug our shoulders, see all the content that is at there with a few subscriptions, and just ignore all the stuff we can't trivially watch.
Ask yourself why you’re so repulsed by him, it’s probably not due to his writing skill
The safest way to do this is to rent the room to a local business/church/school that needs regular housing for qualified visitors.

Otherwise you’re dealing with random public in your house with all the issues associated with that. At least with renting to a business you have some sort of middleman.
If tapping the escape key to say you don't want to be on their mailing list is a major reason to not finish reading an essay, perhaps you aren't the target audience.
My main takeaway: GraphQL moderately improves developer enjoyment (DevEx) by majorly increasing the cost of making production ready APIs.

I've worked on bigger teams where the job was boring and there was plenty of spare capacity to improve DevEx. Spending a lot for a more enjoyable DevEx was worth it to retain good talent. They typically spent about 50% of their total capacity on DevEx and technical debt. Those teams would probably benefit a lot from GraphQL.

Other projects it's just me building an entire product with extremely tight timelines. Or it's a small team without a lot of spare capacity. I probably won't elect to use GraphQL in that situation.
I'm sorry, but please take Wikipedia articles with a grain of salt.

"Many academics" is commonly known here as "weasel wording". It's a good way to be vague and gain an aura of authenticity without actually saying who you're talking about. On Wikipedia, if someone wants to write "Most academics believe..." or "A majority of scholars say..." then we need to find a consensus reported in a meta-paper, and not just collect a few random references that agree with the position.

https://journals.lww.com/jonmd/Citation/1966/02000/A_COMPUTE...

In this case, there is one reference to Weizenbaum himself, and there is a reference to a paper with three authors: Colby, Watt, and Gilbert. So we can safely and accurately rephrase your quote as: "Three academics wrote a single paper in which they said they believe..."
I see. it's like, Vrrroom? The takeoff sound for the AI blast off?

Back under my rock I go
> Would I prefer to live now than 2000 years ago? Certainly. Is that because of today's systems of governance, rather than today's technology? No.

If you lived in Rome this time 2000 years ago, well, you'd be going through a period of relative stability (Tiberius was, well, a bit odd, but things were mostly stable enough), but just coming off about a century of civil war, and looking at, well, interesting times in 2038. And, post the end of the republic, that stretch from start of Augustus to end of Tiberius was about as good as it got.

Even ignoring the civil rights issues (unless you were (a) a man and (b) pretty wealthy you were an unperson; while Rome had a concept of citizenship some citizens were very much more citizen than others) it was just very messy relative to just about any developed country today. Your chances of being collateral damage in a civil war at some point in your lifetime would be, well, quite high.

Even if you assume wealthy man, btw, don't think you're off the hook. In fact, in the period covered in the article that might even put you in more jeopardy than a normal person. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proscription#Sulla's_dictators... - have the wrong politics, or even just the wrong friends, and you might end up on the extrajudicial murder list. Cicero, one of the lawyers mentioned in the article, died this way.
Russia Will Launch Its First Mission to the Moon in Decades Tomorrow
Most common translation tools already support this. From GNU gettext where it's called context [0], to FormatJS where it's called a description [1], all translation tools worth their salt support providing additional information about the usage. The problem is generally not on the tooling side but on the awareness side, if the person implementing the feature only speaks one language it's easy to overlook issues that wouldn't occur in their native language.

[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#Con...

[1] https://formatjs.io/docs/intl/#message-descriptor
That book sounds like a great read. It appears to be hard to find however!
Did anyone get my consent before burning coal and spewing toxic gas into the atmosphere?

Did anyone get my consent before pulling all the fish out of the ocean?

Did anyone get my consent before dumping toxic chemicals into the river that runs through my backyard?
In civil disputes, both parties agree to have their case heard by a prominent member of Rome's upper classes. When this judex makes his decision, he has no power to carry it out -- but if his decision is ignored, the guilty party can be brought by force to a magistrate and made to answer for his dishonorable conduct. (Despite the name, the magistrate is also not a judge, but an elected administrator of the Republic with various executive functions at his disposal.)

See: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Roman-legal-procedure

> After the issues were delineated and sureties set, both parties agreed upon a judex, who was neither a lawyer nor a magistrate but a prominent layman, to try the case. The proceedings before the judex were more informal: advocates spoke and gave evidence, and witnesses often appeared. The judex made a decision but had no power to execute it. If the defendant refused to pay the fine or make restitution within a certain period of time, he could be brought by force to the magistrate. Then his property could be seized, or he could be made slave to the plaintiff to work off the debt or property claim.
I was about to say the same thing: this just came across as snobbery, especially when he tells you that classroom learning is worthless.

So worthless, yet he couldn't miss the opportunity to brag about his top-tier college education.

He's just saying that because any pleb can go to class, study, and get an A. Only snobby smartypants people can read an excessive number of books and reach "nirvana."
Not covered here: fonts and glyph appearances, which will nearly always end up displaying wrong in certain Asian languages -- https://heistak.github.io/your-code-displays-japanese-wrong/
Any you’d recommend? I’ve listened to the History of Rome podcast and read SPQR. I’ve thought about Gibbon but it is long and everytime it’s brought up online people say it’s outdated.
I do the following exercise, each time after YC demo day, I review startups and evaluate their ideas. This helps to come up with new ideas. Another thing, I try to solve my own problems, this is a good source of ideas.
> And if people can't learn their tools, I don't know if we can seriously expect them to write good software...

Last time I suggested [1] an approach to learning and taming the git CLI, somebody said that they want to design and write code, rather than learn too much CLI-fu. Big projects like Linux and Emacs can get away with requiring their contributors to learn the tools well enough. However, many developers may decide to avoid contributing rather than learn the tool, if the project is a small one.

Again, I agree with what you say - that's what I practice too.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37014286
Not related to this case. Once, when I was super young, someone put me in a project that clearly would take 3x more people and 2x more time.

They said it was challenging because they couldn't loose the project bla bla and if everything went ok we would all be promoted.

People worked almost 24x7 for months. But the project got done with no major delays.

When time to credits came, a friend of the boss who was actually in another team got the promotion and we all heard that there were not enough vacancies for promoting the team but they wanted us to know that they appreciated the effort and it wouldn't be forget.

Months later, a layoff came and half of the team got laid off.

Since then, I only work extra time with OT and I demand that to be written as a plus in my formal evaluations.

Does it help? No. But
I guess it’s good to have the option of not caring if you want even more speed
If everyone in the US was in the same risk pool, and we had some good rules in place to prevent insurance company fuckery like denying legitimate claims based on spurious accusations that are difficult to prove wrong or preexisting conditions, then it probably wouldn't matter that it was private. But at that point, why make it private? If we acknowledge that insurance is so fundamental to existence that we require people to buy it, and the individual mandate says that we do, why add stockholders into the mix? At least make it a gov-owned private company like the fed if people are worried about executive dexterity.
Their Rooftop Photos Are Stunning. Their Subculture Has Its Critics
I've never had a professor understand me like this. I picked up Lisp during my Freshman year when I bought SICP. If you look at my transcripts you can easily infer my mental state at the time. Some semesters all A's, others all F's (or W's), with no rhyme or reason. I graduated with a 1.7 GPA, showed up high to class (if I showed up at all), and barely made it through. It took me 9 years to graduate between all the stopping and starting, working at Pizza shops most of the way through.

But I never had problems with the programming assignments or the labs, I enjoyed those. And when I finally got my degree, I found out that all it takes to make hundreds of thousands of dollars is to solve a couple of algorithms for someone. I guess it all worked out in the end, although I do hate the corporate world (and have trouble staying anywhere long) with a passion and would very much like to find a way out.

Note: I was put on bipolar medication because of the wild swings in my grades during college, but I don't believe I am actually bipolar so I no longer take it.
Firefox on Android has no tabs.
> Plus encrypting then zipping removes any compression opportunity so that's just a bad idea.

Not always!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRIME
> Our research didn’t evaluate the impact of donkey-dug wells in arid Australia. But Australia is home to most of the world’s feral donkeys, and it’s likely their wells support wildlife in similar ways.

Definitely possible, but not sure on likelihood - the water table in the arid parts of Australia is going to be pretty deep. TFA cited 4m deep holes made by modern wombats - but the holes they dig tend to be narrow, as their burrows are defensive - so the claim made:

> In Australia, for example, a pair of common wombats were recently documented digging a 4m-deep well, which was used by numerous species, such as wallabies, emus, goannas and various birds, during a severe drought.

... is hard to reconcile.

A 4 metre deep standing water table would mean most deep-rooted trees, and many tougher smaller plants (eg comfrey, vetiver, maybe grasses like lucerne/alfalfa) would sustain through drought, and that's clearly not the case.

I'm sure there's some benefit to native wildlife to have these introduced animals dig and expose water, but I'm sure the damage they cause outweighs it.
It's double edged: if Airbnb didn't exist, more hotels would pop out, so tourist flux may be the same long term. On the other hand, in hot spots, airbnb ruins living in the city for locals: ppl specifically buy property to use it for short term rental, as result price for longterm rental is skyrocketing, incentivising ppl to move out of the city. Also, since prices are so good, even locals that already have a property are considering moving to get extra $ and as result the city becomes predominantly dominated by tourists, esp the center. Prague is a prime example of this problem, but I guess there are others
https://piped.video/watch?v=4gibcRfp4zA

Smarter everyday has a good video about it
https://archive.ph/hPE4l
The Chemistry Behind the Love Affair of Steak and Beer
GPT-4 would probably do a good job at that if the code is not sensitive
Nearly all of this does seem to be in reference to the late Republic (ie 1st century BCE)
> there's nothing about a liberal democracy that says government must have a massive centralized concentration of power

That seems like it simplifies a few things like national security, civic safety of any kind, health care, migration, education. I can see a lot of arrows pointing towards centralization of power and for good reasons.

Not saying I'm happy about it, but I really, really struggle to imagine a solution for it that is as stable.
> considered Artificial Intelligence anymore

That is just the confusion between AI and AGI - which may seem to be peaking for some reason (in the past few days it seemed like a zombie apocalypse). The so-called "AI effect" is said by some to originate from some "Ah but this is not intelligent" - but there where we wanted to solve a problem of replacing intelligent action, not of implementing it. Be contented with the rough discriminator "I would have had to pay an intelligent professional otherwise".

To speak about «powerful AI, with broad capabilities at the human level and beyond» Ben Goertzel adopted and popularized 'AGI':

https://goertzel.org/who-coined-the-term-agi/

Edit, update: this confusion is like having robotics and some people rising a "Ah but this is not Artificial General Ability".
Read https://en.algorithmica.org/hpc/pipelining/branching/ and the following chapter.

TL;DR: you can generate different, and more efficient code if you know how much it is going to be mispredicted.
Northern Ireland police officers’ details exposed in ‘monumental’ breach
And they live there - if the guests are being problems they’re the first to know.

If your neighbor’s house is owned by someone a thousand miles away they’re never inconvenienced by anything that happens in the building itself.