skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If someone complains loudly, I go out of my way to help them, and then turn back to my quiet good work. I pivot sqls, I convert code to use memoization, switch to binary search or breadth first, I let them know everything I do step by step and make sure they understand. It's quick, helps me unwind from work while being kind, and it pays off very quickly.
I bought one in November 1998 ($1299 then, roughly $2400 today). It was an upgrade for me from an ancient Mac SE I’d had since 1990. The thing that struck me then was how easy the online purchase process was. There were very few options to pick from. It looks like I ordered it on 10/24/98 and had it by 10/28/98, which too was fast compared to other online computer purchases I’d done that year.

And…it just worked out of the box. No messing around with IRQs and other tweaks that I had to use with my work day systems. Software was limited but IIRC Microsoft had updated Office as part of the earlier deal with Apple, and between Office, the dotMac suite, and web browser you could do most routine things just fine.

Apple just totally nailed the end to end experience of buying, shipping, and using the system, which was a refreshing change from the status quo those days.
This makes sense if you're a mercenary. Which seems to be what most people here on HN are, and same with most companies I've worked at.

True believers are at companies because they other motivations than personal wealth. I find most companies have very few true believers.
> BSL 1.1 license. It converts to a free software license after a few years.

Oof. That's a pity. Otherwise interesting innovative concept.

Btw, in the README:

> This is not an open source or free software license, however, it converts to the AGPL v3.0 license with a linking exception after a few years. Note that the AGPL v3.0 does not typically include a linking exception. We have added a custom linking exception to the AGPL license for SpacetimeDB. Our motivation for choosing a free software license is to ensure that contributions made to SpacetimeDB are propogated back to the community. We are expressly not interested in forcing users of SpacetimeDB to open source their own code if they link with SpacetimeDB, so we needed to include a linking exception.

Is that open source then? I never heard of a linking exception before.
Future archeologists will wonder at the evidence they see in tree rings and ice cores: "These morons burned coal when they had renewable energy sources?"
Threads is a ghosttown round here. Far more activity on twitter still.
I wonder of the root of our differences about whether or not instances should be able to defederate with other instances is what we view an instance to be.

I view it much like a cocktail party being thrown in someone's house. The host has every right to decide who will be at the party. If they don't want someone to come because they know that the person will make the party unpleasant for the other guests, they exclude them.

It sucks, but it's not actually infringing on anyone's rights.

Or, to put it in totally nonpolitical terms: if an instance is all about awesome a particular movie is, they may want to defederate from others who are all about how that movie is terrible.

I genuinely don't see the problem with that, and while it is technically "censorship", it's not the sort that is actually problematic. Nobody is saying that the movie haters can't express their viewpoint, they're just saying that they can't do it in their particular clubhouse.
Trying to do the "right thing" in opposition to what your boss is asking for is the killer. Two things you need to understand are: 1) Your boss has a broader perspective than you and knows how your work fits into the bigger picture of the org. 2) Your boss is the only person, in a traditional hierarchical capitalist company, who is empowered to reward you for anything. Pleasing the PM or that manager of that partner team only pays off if it is positively received by your direct manager, because those other people literally can't give you more than a fist bump for your efforts.
Even in other scenarios e.g. ""semi-automated exploitative capitalism", as CEO, if I can replace expensive human workers with cheaper automated systems, I have reduced costs and the board and shareholders will like it.

I think that grandparent's point is that the ideal "limiting case" of this trend is zero human workers. Ideals are not necessarily attainable, but they point the direction of travel. Optimising for "more jobs, more payroll" is not what does or should happen.

_edit_ other commenters have pointed out that "clean power makes jobs!" is a political not economic or business reply to "what about the coal jobs?". And if it's true (as seems likely), then it's a stronger statement: "despite efficiency, this is a jobs growth area".

If the clean energy sector could be cheaply 100% automated, it would be done for business reasons, leaving the politicians to deal with the fallout of unemployed voters. But then, exactly the same is true of coal energy. Or anything else, really. Aren't there a lot fewer jobs assembling cars now than there used to be? Why is the "rust belt" called that?
I use the Nitter Redirect extension to redirect Twitter links to a Nitter proxy site, though I do it for more practical reasons - mirrors tend to be more reliable and faster to load than Twitter itself these days.

- https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nitter-redirect/mo...

- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nitter-redire...
Where do human rights come from? Did we have them from when we split off from our closest ancestors? Did they magically appear when someone first thought them up, and they just stayed? Why do our closest relatives not have human rights?

You yourself mention that people in Belarus have human rights. Why can the government ignore their human rights then? Why isn't there some magic barrier stopping the government from trampling on the populations human rights?
You say “modern” but we could say “western” as well. There is a well documented gradient in attitudes of elites to autocracy as a style of leadership between Europe and Asia. I.e as Alexander the Great moved east, he took up to the local institutions of totalitarian leadership, and was considered a total dick by his generals due this.

Also traditional example is the feud between Greek city states and Persia (Which is documented in the painstakingly historically accurate movies such as ‘300’).

I’m not saying peoples are predestined to be forever in one system of governance, but the differences predate enlightenment way, way back.
You can lock it down a good amount:
- 80 is only required for Caddy to request certificates. If you BYO certs, you can take that off
- TURN is optional, so if you disable TURN then dont need 3479 or 8089
- The remaining ports are only for specific features (EMQX and Prometheus exporter) which are not enabled by default.

So really, you could get it down to just 443. However, this should be better documented.

Also worth noting these are all server-side requirements. The actual WireGuard clients do not need these ports open.
Flatly stating, presumably with a straight face, that "a phone is not a personal computer" is a really wild take.
After reading that, I understand exactly where he’s coming from - I too have overridden a bunch of Devise in a bunch of different ways in various projects.

But, unlike the rest of Elixir and Phoenix, this approach doesn’t feel like an elegant solution - it feels like a moderately ok trade off.
I agree with all of this, but

They'd probably make less money

There is no incentive for farmers that already operate on razor thin margins to make less money. They will produce whatever makes them the most money. How do we incentivize changing behavior without putting farmers out of business? Or I guess another way to put it is, how do we correct the system that got us here without punishing the farmers? AFAIK they are not the bad guys, rather they are the ones feeding us and are subject to operating in the system that was created before they were born. Changing water rights does not feel like it addresses the problem in a way that does not harm innocent people. Maybe that should happen long term when water demands are lower but it feels like the demand should shift first through some incentives.

How do we change incentives without harming people so that we can later change the water rights without as much push-back?
I know some people still use Dropbox, but tbh it never clicked for me. It went from being a simple cloud solution to a bloated crapware. To my surprise, MS OneDrive performs better than DB, but it's kinda slow at times. Google Drive otoh, is fast but I'd never put all my data there. iCloud is "ecosystem-ware"—you can access it from Android and Windows, for sure, but the UI treats you like a child (maybe it was made for kids). On top of that, Apple is anal in terms of authentication. I don't want to own an iDevice just to login to my cloud. I wonder if there are genuinely decent cloud platforms out there...
This is the very reason why I loathe performance reviews.

If they will not take into account actual work done, why should I subject myself to a multi-day of interviews and polls and whatever the bored people at HR came up with?
Does diplomatic relations make the difference? Seems like splitting hairs. Read about what happened to the native populations which had established hierarchies and relations with each other throughout the continent and it looks no different to my eyes than what happened to the Hawaiians.
Wow, I hope that this cron job won't win anything significant. Imagine the remorse of nut buying those lucky numbers!
I had the same vibes with Herb Sutter's cppfront. It offers full source compatibility by introducing a new syntax that can be mixed freely with the traditional syntax. Seems like it's actively being worked on here https://github.com/hsutter/cppfront.

I've not looked at Circle in depth. Do you or anyone else have a perspective on how they compare?
Next up, improve usability and consistency with tailwind by making component classes via things like https://daisyui.com/.

Then you realize you can just use the classes with css and forgo the tailwind Middleware.

Then we'll be back where we started.
US workers say they need $1.8M in savings to retire
> 16 weeks of base pay, a prorated 2023 bonus, continued health insurance and a $10,000 stipend to assist with transitional needs.

Fairly generous.
He was campaigning against equal rights for homosexuals, not polygamy, incest, "etc.".

In some countries a wide degree of relationships are today being legally accepted as "family", such as brothers or friends living in a household. The important thing is that this does not affect anybody wanting to live in a traditional family.

If democracy was purely about what the majority votes, and not also protecting the minorities to some degree, we should not call it civilization then. Reducing it it to a "legal majority rule" does not make e.g. slavery legitimate or morally acceptable.
Yeah, most are pretty crappy.

Curious if you give ours a try: https://stainlessapi.com (it's a commercial/non-oss option, but one language is free for smaller APIs). You can see an example of a Python library we generate here: https://github.com/Modern-Treasury/modern-treasury-python
> I suspect VC distorts value in tech choices.

I agree. I think what we're seeing is investment risk assessment as a proxy for a deep understanding in technology. After all, if you don't know how anything works, all you can do is look to what _has_ worked for you and other investors in the past.

I'm guessing here, but it's plausible that once a given stack has proven to make money, the fix is in. It wouldn't matter if it's the best choice out there or not. The track record itself makes it more attractive. Example: Ruby on Rails.
I'm in biotech. My graduate education involved a fair bit of volunteer work with , believe it or not, human brains.

We'd take these brains out to schools and museums for public education. There were a lot of brains in the educational brain bank at the school. There were many different sections and cuttings of the brains, the dura mater, the spinal cords, eyes, etc. A great educational experience for anyone that wanted to learn more about the human body and their nervous system in general.

All the brains were fixed, and were the classic tired bubblegum color. It's that firm density you're thinking of and the texture is a bit cheese-like. They abrade easier than you think. The weight is always more than you think it's going to be.

Putting a real human brain into the hands of a child is a very magical experience. Again, it's heavier than you think, so they always seem to just not drop them, but know it's a very special thing so they all try their best to hold it up. And after that initial shock, the child's eyes just explode. You can really see their fascination, amazement, and reverence all at once. The 'adults' do the exact same thing, by and by.

It's a strange thing to transport the brains too. You have to go and get them out of storage (which is also a bit weird; you store them all over the place in the labs in very obvious locations and in very dull plastic buckets. This is so weirdos can't find them. There are no glass jars all up on a wall). It's typically a brain to a bucket, maybe some other parts. Then you just take them to your car, put them all in the trunk/back, and drive off to the location. You bring a bunch of gloves and coats, of course. I was always so worried that I'd be pulled over and the cop would want to look in all the buckets in the back, open them and see a ton of brains, and I'd be in a lot of shit. You don't need a permit on you to do this, you just move them like any old end table.

Eventually, the brains would get old and worn out. We'd dutifully collect every bit and ablated speck for disposal. I wasn't part of that part of the process, but I was told that all the bits were buried/cremated/disposed-of in the way that the previous owner or their family desired.

The donation process and the previous 'owner' of the brains is kept very secure. We never had any idea of the name/sex/race/ethnicity/gender/nationality/etc of the brains. From what I knew, all these were donated specifically for public education.

Happy to answer any questions yall might have on this!
With a disabled RAAS pathway, you die. Quickly.

And that's ignoring that there is a mechanism normally preventing this. And what happens when you become allergic to your own hormones is called a cytokine storm ... and it's serious enough that you can say comfortably that no doctor will miss it.
It is your civic duty to destroy each and every one of these if you find them out and about. They can't fix them all and will eventually give up. The west cannot become China. There is nowhere else to go.
Nitter just broke yesterday and it seems unlikely it can be fixed: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/983
> I don't know if he was still an active developer

According to Wikipedia he died in 2015:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Murdock
Yea, you're getting at a very unpopular reality that, if spoken would sink anyone's political career, so politicians will never say it: Many of these little towns probably just shouldn't exist. Nobody wants to admit that a community has failed. Go for a stroll through the Rust Belt or any other economically devastated area. People still live there, despite the misery! You drive through, and it's just old houses and the occasional Walmart vampirically sucking out what little wealth remains. There's no real industry anywhere. You wonder what do all these people living here do for a living?

Instead of trying to prop up obsolete mining communities with hopeless economic support, it would be better to 1. focus on retraining/re-skilling and 2. send fully-subsidized moving vans to help people physically get away from the misery.
I've suffered from nearly lifelong depression and panic attacks.

however, about ten years ago my general feeling of anxiety suddenly got much worse. I was able to cope with it using all of my usual anxiety coping skills but it seemed kind of off that everything had shifted. I went onto Lexapro, which helped. But then in 2019 or so things really started getting nutty again, where I'd be up all night with panic, often waking me up in the middle of the night, would be up until 5 am, finally fall asleep, then would have another during-sleep panic attack that would last all day.

Turns out I have a node in my thyroid producing thyroid hormone. I now take a very low dose of medication for hyperthyroidism and my panic-esque anxiety levels are kind of lower than they've been for like my entire life (still need the lexapro though, I am sure that my anxiety issues are not strictly the thyroid node).

Basically it sucks to have psychiatric illnesses that are standalone, but also compounded by other non-psychiatric pathologies.
I ran Quake III Arena on my Bondi Blue iMac B but had to run it at a very low resolution to get it to be playable. Unreal Tournament wasn't bad.
Unfortunately, he passed away in 2016. RIP Ian.
What I heard is that AWS got there first with Redshift but then didn’t really invest as much as was required by users so Snowflake found an opening and pounced on it.

BigQuery in GCP is a pretty great alternative and I know that GCP invests/promotes it heavily, but they were slightly late to the market.
> You can get an Asus Vivobook S with an Intel i9 13900H, 1TB SSD, 16GB RAM, HiDPI 15" OLED screen for $1100

Yes, but then you’re stuck with an Asus. Having been there before, that’s a hard pass. The real comparison for Macbooks are higher end models like Thinkpads.
Sure but fear created by biosphere collapsing all around, massive human migrations, desertification and miscellaneous climate catastrophes are not things that mere terrorist groups can plot. :)
What kind of headline is that?

I'm sure thousands of scientists are using twitter more too.

As just one example... Coming out of covid, if you think no mistakes were made in the censorship of ideas and actual science vs government mandated policy decisions, then... You probably are qualified to write for Nature.

What happened to the idea that you don't need to censor the people you don't like or they said a wrong thing? That if you expose their ideas to debate and truth that they will fall apart if they have no merit?

There should be BAD takes on Twitter. You should understand that is desirable.
>As coal jobs gradually fade away, the community can either adapt to renewables and tech, or die out.

This is very easy to say if you don't live there. There is no reason to think that a town that exists because it has a coal deposit is going to be a logical place for any business to put a clean energy plant of some sort.

If you are going to be for phasing out coal very quickly then you have to be willing to bite the bullet and accept that certain regions of the country are just going to be completely effed over.
Why do we talk so much about how employees are destroying the workforce and not the managers and how we fucked up the system chasing quarterly metrics and losing sight of long term growth? Quoting from linked article about quiet quitters

Quiet quitter:

> “There was no reason for me to hustle because as a teacher, there’s no promotion opportunities. If you’re the person who wins the award for teacher of the year, [you’ll] make the same salary as somebody who isn’t

Quoting from the actual linked article, a loud laborer:

> Also, some people are motivated by external rewards and recognition rather than the inherent satisfaction of the work itself. This can lead to a focus on visibility and self-promotion in order to attract these rewards

Which should make perfect sense. Let's get this straight. People aren't hustling in the traditional sense (doing more work) because it doesn't get them anything. That's no fucking quiet quitting, that's a terrible business model (no matter how prolific it is). The loud laborers? Well they are hustling because they found that they can get rewarded for doing this. YOU INCENTIVIZED THEM. People are just responding to how you are incentivizing them, plain and simple.

Let's look at Silicon Valley. What caused all the growth? It wasn't just good pay (that did matter). It was opportunities. Your managers pull some bullshit like not rewarding your hard work? You jump ship and get a new job in a week or two. That competition is healthy for everyone, including the businesses. They also realized that once compensation reached a certain point that the incentive power of a dollar decreased, but you could still incentivize people other ways (free food, laundry, day care, etc). Money was always a proxy. They gave workers a lots of freedom, encouraging the creativity. We work with our minds, number of hours doesn't change the number of widgets produced because we're not automata doing manual repetitive labor.

What of that is left? That hacker spirit seems to have died. The companies are cutting costs at every turn, and for what? Did they make themselves any better? Apple is the first $1T, $2T, and $3T company. But did the iPhone get better? It's been pretty stagnant. The M chips are nice though.

The problem is we're using the wrong metrics. The proxies became the target and for some reason we can't get out of this trap.
You just said it happens so often that it’s no longer interesting. If it’s not interesting, then you shouldn’t care enough to comment. Nor is your comment remotely interesting to yourself, the author, or anyone else.

Which is why there’s a whole guideline about it. Shocking, I know.

> so I will point them out whether nicely or otherwise.

And you will continue to be downvoted and flagged when your comments, which we both know are not anywhere near “nicely”, are against the guidelines.
You’re mixing up different arguments making it impossible to respond.
It's basically a slippery slope argument. Which is not completely unfair, police have a terrible track record when it comes to using technological means responsibly.
It's your own responsibility to learn this, or not learn it, that's fine too.
Mastodon is a good way to get at this content in unfiltered form. Take a look at the raw feed of the sigmoid.social instance or follow the #LLM hashtag.

If you want it more predigested and summarized I can recommend the AI Explained channel on youtube.
Hey, this was a fascinating read. Thanks for sharing it.
'There's this strange idea that books are good for you and television is garbage. Nothing is further from the truth.'

This seems very hyperbolic. I might agree with you if we are talking about short form content...a magazine column vs something similar in video format. And of course, selection matters as well...watching one hour of a well vetted documentary vs watching an hour of Love Island are going to engage the brain differently.

Consuming books is a very active way of thinking, and consuming video media is generally very passive. The research that needs to go into getting a whole book across the finish line is pretty staggering(again, if you're not choose complete trash). Even when I read fiction, my brain has to create the imagery from the text, in rough form...and that is kind of beautiful. Watching an epic like Lord of the Rings...the scene is already there...there is little room for your brain to interpret it any other way.

Your comment about becoming more biased as one engages in one direction of thinking definitely holds true...each "fact" reinforces the held world view. Which is why it is great to try to read things across a spectrum on one topic...its difficult, but it gives way more perspective on the issues.
Aah nginx my first love when it comes to networking. Back in the day I played around with it so much. Such a good piece of technology and really taught me the benefits of being highly performant, low memory. There is just something elegant about it.