skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This a article cites an N=2 anecdote, conflates a couple of trends at random, then draws a conclusion that we live in an age of moral decay (ie, a perennial no-signal communication favourite).

We should consider the likely alternative - Americans are actually pretty nice to each other, all things considered. It is really quite impressive what American grass roots organisations can do if people let them. Trust in institutions is low because the institutions are being exposed to the harsh light of Very Good Communication and it turns out that bodies that rule by decree are kinda corrupt. That should shock people, but it doesn't represent a radical change in the status quo.

There are serious economic headwinds that someone needs to do something about.
Since English intellectuals at the time included both Orwell and TS Eliot (and I suppose Tolkien and Chesterton and Aleister Crowley) is it really fair to paint them with such a broad brush?
If you're going to post that, then let's also remind people that it's only a paradox if you treat tolerance itself as a moral imperative:

"Tolerance is not a moral absolute; it is a peace treaty. Tolerance is a social norm because it allows different people to live side-by-side without being at each other’s throats [..] the model of a peace treaty differs from the model of a moral precept in one simple way: the protection of a peace treaty only extends to those willing to abide by its terms."

- https://medium.com/extra-extra/tolerance-is-not-a-moral-prec...
>Hooks are undeniably great

I recall seeing far more negative sentiment than positive over the years re. hooks. Maybe it's just me.
Ha. I saw one of these yesterday and was wondering what the “weighted” meant. Thanks!
This can't be good that fetch continues after restarting. Process termination helps however.
I can definitely see if you were say generating images how it'd be a real skill to end up with an image that has a certain style, composition etc.

Otherwise, I feel like to be a good prompter in another domain e.g. coding you need a combination of technical understanding (the right jargon etc) and ability to explain yourself.

It doesn't seem to me like it's "a job" though - it's another tool that will help us be more productive with the tasks we're working on.

For me as a Coder, I've found it pretty intuitive and get the results I'm after most of the time.

In the times where it hasn't given me what I'm after, it seems to me that it's more a limitation of the tool itself than an issue with how I'm prompting it.
So, as someone with considerable Python knowledge but no gamedev knowledge, what would your suggestion be for me?

Specifically, I want to have some fun developing a few game ideas into at least prototypes. I never really had time to do a proper analysis of Pygame, Godot, Unity etc.
It's worth bearing in mind that the West was pretty awful too with a vast quantity of appalling crimes that our rose-tinted spectacles might like to forget because the victims were "non-people". It was Imperial Britain with it's colonies, the US with it's viciously racist segregation, Leopold II of Belgium chopping of limbs in the Congo. Not cool.

It's not difficult to see that the early Soviet Union was actually better on a number of dimensions over both the Tsars and the West on basic equality and humanity when comparing against the life of an Indian or an African American. It had decriminalized homosexuality and was arguably less anti-Semitic than the West. The trajectory was utopian... but it nosedived into Stalinism which was, well..., a nightmare.
It's grown in Australia slightly in recent years.
My God, you're in trouble!
I found the creator on reddit a year or so back where he showed it off. I want to support small guys so I took a chance that it wasn't a scam, and it came and works.

I find that it forces standing perfectly straight and still, while I like to wobble when standing so I never use it long.

I never tried sitting with it, the FAQ says you can. YMMV.

Learning doesn't take long, just plug it in, stand on it an watch your mouse move.
I didn't pivot at all, if you scroll back you'll see for a fact that it was yourself that introduced the topic of eating the rich.

You advocated for raising that as a thread topic.

I'm familar with several dictionares, nothing I have said has been false.

Be explicit - what exactly do you consider to be sophistry here?

We can talk about prion disease and its relation to eating brain matter (the Fore and mad cow disease), the history of funerary practices, the European fad for eating ground up mummies, the UK practice of eating parts of executed criminals, etc.

All of these relate to the topic that you suggested .. and the topic you apparently wish to tap out on when faced with someone happy to take it on.
Just use lasso first. It's so much quicker and often gives most of the value.

To be fair though, most value from data science is driven by the analysis, not the models.
One high-level benefit of Kotlin Coroutines is that they're multiplatform, so one could write common Kotlin code that could compile to JVM, JS, or Native targets. Virtual threads are only for JVM.
Maybe not hooks in general, but useEffect hooks seem to get hate these days. Even though they were the recommended way just about a year ago?
In practice, backcountry hikers in the US do commonly bury toilet paper. There’s definitely a growing contingent arguing they shouldn’t, though. Portable bidets (like the culoclean brand) and pee cloths (like the kula brand) can reduce toilet paper use and make packing it out easier.
Ask HN: What's your experience with the 85% rule, in the gym
Reference: https://twitter.com/FitFounder/status/1690364931252830208

Asking this independently from your goals: weight loss/gain, strength, endurance and so on.

Make sure to specify the context of your experience though.
https://archive.is/6GFli
That really depends on your tire and rim.

Having low profile tires with light rims like those used on performance variants of Teslas and ID.3s/ID.4s/eTrons I would avoid curbs for sure.
While some may view software development as low anxiety, my experience has been different. At various workplaces, I've faced pressures related to deadlines, increasing velocity, and ensuring successful feature delivery. Nevertheless, I remain passionate about software development, though I wouldn't describe it as low stress.

I also find the prospect of finding a new position in the software industry to be difficult for those with anxiety. Instead of having more behavioral and work history based interviews in other industries, software engineers are expected to complete leetcode exercise gauntlets and perform in scenarios that aren’t representative of daily working environments. The thought of interviewing for a new position makes me anxious.
You cannot find thousands in a simple, or complicated, Google search. And given the quality of medical research, and the political dimension of the topic, that induced the horde of free riders and spitlickers to publish even more garbage than usual, I will be able to poke holes in at least near all, most probably all you find.
Agree.

5 minutes a day on Twitter (after muting or blocking all the politics bullshit) and 5 minutes a day on LinkedIn is more than enough.
No /s, I wouldn't be surprised if half the people here genuinely believe it.
Discussion about it: https://space.kanaries.net/t/pygwalker-larger-dataset-suppor...
> This is, fundamentally, what archiving something means.

I completely disagree, you can't separate archiving from the accessibility of the content, the whole point of why you are archiving something is to make sure it's not lost and future generations can still access it in the first place!
Hooks are like cooking with really sharp knives - excellent when treated with care and healthy respect for the dangers, but will/can cut you up really badly in a moment of absent-mindedness.
Just because there are established, trustworthy vaccines, which hopefully all of us provide to our children, doesn't mean we can't be skeptical about completely new stuff shoved down our veins right?

Is someone an anti-vaxxer who gets 99% of vaccines but is skeptical of 1?
I think a lot of Americans hold a very self righteous indignation viewpoint of the world. Anything that disagrees with them is not just met with simple, mutual disagreement, but self righteous indignation, and a bit of vengeance. Parking spaces, what to teach in the classroom, just sitting on an airplane, it's very much an attitude of "how dare you disagreed with me."
Breaking change during Rails upgrade introduced by David Heinemeier Hansson
What does “work” mean in this case? If a student goes to university and gets a degree in medieval French literature and then serves coffee for life as a job, the university did its job iff the student demonstrated a level of mastery of medieval French literature.

The inadvertent economics education that came later was not the university’s doing and they take no credit nor blame for it.
White cabbage is now is 63 rub per kg (check CPI) - when you have a season of low crop yields and folks want to be paid in Dollars or Euros.
Summary: Telegram removed channels that were allegedly sharing private information of citizens.
To expand on your second point, if the other side is an unthinkable evil, then the leaders of your side can be as corrupt as they want and betray as many party ideals as they like, because at least they aren't the unthinkable evil. Because in the US you don't get to vote for anyone, you only get to pick who you vote against. Otherwise you are throwing away your vote and letting the unthinkable win. And in the vast majority of voting districts even that doesn't really matter because they aren't swing states.

Ranked voting would solve this issue. I have never read any critique of it that I found convincing. It exists at state and municipal levels. But until the big states switch it won't change the problem. If swing states adopted it, along with proportional allocation of electoral votes (a couple states do this now) it would definitely change strategies for the better.

The effect is that you can't be the most extreme version of your party and ignore moderates in the hope there are more people that hate the other corrupt extremist, because the moderate candidates will get ranked higher than you by both sides of the artificial duopoly.

In that world, the sensational nature of the media works to uncover sneaky extremists so you can rank all the boring candidates higher, or least higher than the extremist you don't secretly agree with. Either way the boring candidates win.

Someone once wrote that the best kings produce the fewest pages in history books.
Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is a pseudoscientific approach to communication, personal development and psychotherapy, that first appeared in Richard Bandler and John Grinder's 1975 book The Structure of Magic I. NLP asserts that there is a connection between neurological processes (neuro-), language (linguistic) and acquired behavioral patterns (programming), and that these can be changed to achieve specific goals in life. [1]

Fascinating, people speculating about how people think and can be manipulated are applying those unporven highly suspectable "theories" to computers, which probably function totally different, but appear to show similarities.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-linguistic_programming

edit: Oh, I just now saw "Output". So ChatGTP tries to steer you to become a NLP Practicioner :-)
I'm divided on this. I've found Californians, especially those of the tech type you'd find here in HN, and I've found many to be of exactly that nature. On the other hand, I've been to NY and the Midwest, and they've been extremely polite, in speech and action. It was funny how a policeman in Kenosha is very polite to a non-white me, or how most New Yorkers were extremely helpful, often giving me extras or guiding me throughout the city or what not, in spite of the bad reputations both have seemingly earned online.

The truth is that countries, or even cities, are not monolithic entities. It's entirely possible for each place to have two characters. In the same NYC that was largely kind to me, I was also stalked at by some lowlife with presumably evil intentions.
That takes a whole bunch of historical shortcuts that I'm not comfortable with. For starters, the communists in Western Europe advocated violent revolution and - no surprise there - the rest of the people wanted absolutely nothing to do with it. If they couldn't get there through an election then it wasn't going to happen. Democratic socialism was the voice of reason next to the bloodlust of the 'true' communists.
It could be a VPN that you're using
Fair enough if you prefer to slog through an entire textbook. But for anyone else.. I can't recommend this series more highly, it was just amazing, no filler, pure step after step, explained methodically to the end goal.
No offense but Australia, UK very much tend to have the same mentality as the US, from an exterior point of view.
We should just treat these so called communism as monarch communism, because every practical communism end up being having a monarch.

This is different from ideal communism or let's just call it fantasy communism. Because the ideal form of communism where everyone is equal and nice never happened and will probably never happen
This isn't particularly relevant. Java has been very conservative with language changes since at least 8 (2014) but I'd argue 5 (2004) so for the past decade or 2 it has been a conservative language.
Got it, so for now using `synchronized` actually prevents the concurrency benefits of virtual thread because it pins the carrier thread. Plus, there's also the possibility of deadlock when mixing `synchronized` and `j.c.u.Lock`.
Some people earn a decent living from doing just that lol.

Apparently, it’s a trillion dollar global market, mostly in the US.
Not so sure about the lots of money.

Will Uber make lots of money? I doubt it.
Completely agree. The way I like to think about it is they designed the document to involve as much grand standing, yelling, horse trading, politicking, conniving, and debate as possible because that is what human beings will do with government. You might as well embrace the fact they do it and give everyone just enough power to make it extremely hard to change.
> I also know that whatever Americans adopt they push it onto the rest of the world.

I don't know if that's supposed to be about me, but I'm not from "murica". You and I are nearly neighbors, only separated by Poland. But I'm not proud of my country either: I vote for what I think will help us get better, but about 70% votes for a "let it burn" party

> Meanwhile Americans still don't have a substantial excise tax on gasoline to discourage its use.

Although we at least have some tax on some of the fuels (kerosine being a notable omission), ours is also not about discouragement, as far as I know. Fuel prices are dominated by market effects, not by discouragement, and evidently the high market price is not sufficient to make the difference that would be needed.

Maybe it's similar to movie/software piracy: not a pricing problem but a service problem (as Gabe Newell said). Having realistic alternatives rather than prohibitive pricing
https://archive.is/rfErE

Comment by zamadatix 9 hours ago - Recent similar discussion :https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37093854
Well I a right now descomposing business processes into atomic human actions (do X here, decide Y there, submit Z to there), get the interface into a usable form for scripting, and "engineer" a prompt to do exactly what a human does, which ultimately mostly is some kind of data classification or (very rare actually) transformation. Mostly its like: which of those things is important, how many of those are fake, or this thing contains the relevant bit of information I need to proceed.

So, its actually a lot of language tweaking to get just the right context/task description/data embeddings so the LLM (GPT3/4) gets it right >=90% of the time, which surprisingly often is better than actual humans, and in many cases there are also ways to detect imperfection and simply retry automatically which increases success chances even further.

The fetching/formatting/submitting data part (the manual coding) is getting easier over time, but the prompting remains somewhat, and I so far had no luck with any kind of recursion to let the LLM design its prompt, since ultimately all the specifics needed in the context has to somehow got into the context, which is me engineering it into big string structures.

probably doesn't sound shiny, but step-by-step making jobs irrelevant in businesses without sacrificing customizations. I think of it as a silent revolution thats happinging in many places now, ultimately making myself redundant, but hey the ride is fun!
I think it is more negative towards centralized store and using it for every possible project being ridiculous since hype died down recently.
But you said orbital resonance between two planets will eject a third from its orbit. Just... no. A physicist would never make a claim like "an orbital resonance between Earth and Venus would disrupt Mercury" without a study to back it up.

As an aside, it is the the fact that you say things like this with confidence really sets me off - people who do know what they're talking about are careful to point out speculation. Our intuitions don't map so well to borderline non-newtonian complex interactions. Only a fool would claim otherwise.

You can't just show up to another field and use your observations and a wikipedia page to make good points. I'd be happy to recommend astrophysics literature if you want.

Your uses of words "stable", "unstable" and "consonant" and "dissonant" are the key here - I have no idea what "stable" means in music theory, and I don't think you'd know what I mean when I say "metals", because every field has its own jargon. But I'm not trying to make a point about music, whereas you are trying to make a point about astrophysics. Fine - but you can't expect to be understood or paid attention to if you don't learn the jargon and the underlying physics.
What has been, that will be; what has been done, that will be done. Nothing is new under the sun!
> Maybe instead of writing a new framework, we should consider doing a React 2.0 with batteries included.

Besides what's already in NextJS, what are the batteries you're thinking of?
This name will always be synonymous in my mind as the point where Mozilla jumped the shark.

They were extremely bullish with the database project when they wanted to use the name for their browser. They were of course backed by the huge AOL legal team at the time and did not shy away from using it.

Without diminishing the hard work the developers have put in to build a decent browser, I am and always will be sceptical about Mozilla. I think something happened to their culture during the AOL era and it's just not the same organization anymore.

I have sympathy for the database project too. Unfortunately I didn't get a chance to use it.
GPU-Accelerated LLM on an Orange Pi
Have you checked sqlite-utils[0] ?

[0] https://sqlite-utils.datasette.io/en/stable/
Node is taking the entirely opposite approach to Java and Go, so not sure why you're putting them in the same boat.

Basically what Java is doing now, and what Go did when it came out, is to turn the clock back on (explicit) async/await or promises/futures, and return to simpler threading+blocking IO APIs, while retaining the performance benefits of async code. This is achieved by integrating the blocking IO implementations with the thread scheduler, and by using user-space threads instead of expensive OS threads with their large stacks.

Of course, Java has other threading constructs than Go, but the core idea with Project Loom will be similar: you can just do something like

int[] xs = new int[N];
Thread ts = new Thread[N];
for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) {
ts[i] = new Thread(
()->{xs[i]=blockingRead();}
);
ts[i].start();
}
for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) {
ts[i].join();
}

Or something close to it, and you will get efficient threading even for large N.
Also why do we need to fund education at all, there is such a huge workers shortage that seems madness to give up on so much labour
Plenty of people have similar feelings about Xi in the present. I think they are headed for a similarly rude surprise.
A Full Payment Gateway Inside a Database
Link to the PostgreSQL FSM library used in the talk
https://github.com/kronor-io/statecharts
In 2122 most western countries will look like slums in Brazil and South Africa, mixed with disproportionate wealth in a few places. Add a sprinkle of minority report, since (state) mass surveillance tech will be cheap and ubiquitous.
People will still eat, fuck and shit. Coca cola and major brands will still exist in some way or another. The environment will remain the same.
I’m old enough to remember pointing out all the ways that React sucked when it was new. It’s unsurprising and profoundly depressing that it’s losing its grip only after so much damage has been done.
The etymology of the word implies rule by a demos (demos / kratos), a demarcated ingroup of people such as the citizenry of a country. And yet, so many of these 'democratising' technical endeavours keep control of the project strictly behind lock and key. There's nothing democratic about it - they just want popularity.

Is 'popularise' an undesirable word now? I wonder why the euphemism treadmill has had to advance in this way.
Also it's people that shoot people not guns, so we should regulate people not guns
To add to war stories: actually knowing vi commands saved my life once because I could not mount my file system (can't remember why) on my bsd and I only had access through a serial line terminal. Basically I figured out that ed was the only thing usable and it basically has the same commands as vi with the big difference that I could only effectivly look at one line at a time. Using a dumb terminal was quite an experience (the vt520 I used on the port actually supported much richer interactions). It was the one instance when I suddenly understood why also vim commands worked how the do (I think I am using vim since the old Amiga days and therefore never considered another editor due to my muscle memory).
Sorry to disappoint you, but I'm not interested in taking the bait today. Good luck finding the kind of discussion you're looking for. Have a pleasant day.
This has never happened? Of course it has happened. There used to be buildings full of telephone switchers, did those jobs come back? We replaced horses with cars, the horses also never came back, and now we're the horses being replaced. I'm frankly somewhat bored trying to even recall every single example from history at this point, every time this myth about how "it always turns out fine" comes up. Survivor bias is a b**ch. "I wake up every day alive, therefore I'll live forever". Makes as much sense.

Maybe in 50 years some electronic brain LLM human-like androids will be posting here and saying "See, it worked out, sure, organics no longer exist, but we're humans as well, just more modern humans. Tech demand goes up every time. Lots of jobs!"
It is a simple setup. The frontend is NextJs. The backend is Python.
We use an OCR framework to get the text out of the image/pdf uploaded by the user and then OpenAI to interpret the data and structure it the way we want.

Simple, right?
I think the people expressing negativity about hooks are a small minority.
Hooks are a massive step up from class component lifetime methods, and the composability of hooks can lead to some very clean and powerful code if you know what you're doing. We're using hooks at work, with rules-of-hooks linting, and I can't remember the last time we had an issue or bug because of hook semantics