skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't think we could build a train regardless. And the CA HSR program was idiotic from the start, based on basically fraudulent premises of potential ridership.

Absolutely true on both points. The math supporting the justification for this train is a complete falsehood. Something that lends further support to what I was saying in my other comment about researchers not daring go outside the politically and economically favored narratives. Imagine someone daring to prove the CA high speed train was stupid beyond any doubt. Their professional life would be over instantly. And for what?

The point I was trying to make is that we actually have people talking about saving the planet in a few decades --a planetary scale problem-- when we can't build a train and we can't even control fires.

Have we actually gone insane or are people so numb to this stuff that they just checkbox everything and let it happen?

Maybe it is a matter of education. When a large number of the population needs an app to calculate tip at the restaurant, how could they possibly be equipped to critically evaluate anything? An uneducated population is far easier to control than one with real critical thinking chops.
Yeah, though that’s also kind of my point. You know and I know (having learned the hard way) that the mechanism involves storing parameters and intermediate values in an object that is referred to later. It’s obvious now I know, but the design hides that from the user - they aren’t supposed to care about that. However, the footguns are still present. There should have been language features to prevent temporaries binding to const& for coroutines, but (according to a friend) the language doesn’t distinguish coroutines and subroutines at that level (… or something?)

Same problem with ranges. The footguns are remnants of abstracting something complex with a friendly interface and failing to secure it. It’s great for people who know the implementation, and it’s obvious where memory issues appear - but if you don’t know the implementation then you end up with holes in your feet.
I'm not sure I understand, everyone is allowed to apply. The position requires relocating to Amsterdam.
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Musk and JB were walking to AC Peopulsion about creating a car company based on their tech. The CEO of AC Peopulsion told them another valley company had just started with the same plan.

Tesla found no investors and were a half dead garage company.

Musk deciding to finance Tesla and have JB be the CTO is quite a bit different then just buying in.

The difficulty in building an EV company was never the initial prototpye as anybody who has studied this space knows.

Tesla was an utter shitshow until Musk took over the CEO and the company since then has been incredibly successful.

Its baffling that look at that and then dismiss it because he didnt start the company in a garage.

And your history of SpaceX is even worse. i don't even know where you got that nonsense. You timeline is off byany years at least. The DoD was looking at responsive launch at the time and that was far more relevant then NASA. But the DoD outside of a little student sat didn't book any flights.

Invention is just a strange term, are we only consider the guy by himself sits in a lab and figures out some new thing an inventor? Musk is not that. But that doesn't make what he did less impressive.

The companies he has built, and has lead are certaintly innovative.
And there are no metrics you can look at to see the impact of this, so it's not contributing to any of the metrics you are seeing, as I said.
I just got back from visiting my family in a mid-sized Ontario city and it seems pretty great to me. All of my close friends from high school own homes close to where they work, even the ones who didn't go to university/college. A ton of homes were also actively under construction. Everywhere I drove there were new retail businesses and signs for jobs/hiring.
Overall it just seems much more balanced than Seattle where you need to be a dual income tech couple to afford a home
That's mostly because there's very little value in deep speculation there.

It's not particularly more fluid than anything you couldn't whip up yourself (and the repo linked proves that) but there's also not much value in trying to compete with ChatGPT's frontend.

For most products ChatGPT's frontend is the minimal level of acceptable performance that you need to beat, not an maximal one really worth exploring.
That's still a failure firmly within russia as a state. That its population was so utterly fucked up after 70 years of hardcore oppression, lacking any kind of critical thinking, self-sufficiency (tell me what to think and who to vote, I prefer drinking more vodka) is not a failure of west.

The expectation that west would baby sit every single step this naive and messed up country would do is dangerously naive, since it wouldn't be possible for numerous reasons. Any direct help offered was promptly stolen without trace (we talk about billions to prevent bankruptcy of the state, IIRC something around 7 billions USD never to be seen again, and state went bankrupt of course).
> Can you elaborate what you exactly obfuscate ?

I would be very disappointed by grandparent if he/she actually does that.
my experience in 2023 is that I applied to a single job at fastly, got a referral through blind.

the only reason I applied was because it was uncanny how much the position matched my skillset.

this position was 1:1 what I've been doing in my career, pretty much an open req tailored to my experience.

dude on blind told me that it got fast tracked to the mgmt team from hr screening. I waited two weeks, and got a boilerplate rejection email. there were probably thousands of people who applied to that position.
> So we allow rent seeking, with limits

Funny joke. Everybody laughs.
Nothing works, everyone's mad, society is a pile of kindling waiting for a match
As well as overtones from an instrument, there are also combination tones that manifest in the cilia (tiny vibrating hairs) in our ears. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combination_tone ... So even if you play two pure sine waves with no overtones, say C and G, the cilia in your ears will still generate a bunch of other tones based on the relationships between the two notes, and I think a lot of the 'pleasing' nature of 'pairs of notes with simple frequency rations' (Octaves and Fifths etc) comes from that.
You can turn off suggested links on the new tab page through the cog in the top right corner. That’s been the case for years
If this is too minimalist for you, another interesting conlang is 'Mini' which has 1000 words. I haven't tried it, but I've heard it's pretty easy to learn.

https://minilanguage.com/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36788783
People really come up with the wildest nonsense theories. Incredible.
concerning how most second level comments get played by WSS. The quality of comments here on HN has declined horribly :(
I've been delving deep into the structure of toki pona and noticed some intriguing gaps:

Abstract concepts - The language seems to skate over complex philosophical or scientific ideas. You won't find an easy way to express ideas like "justice" or "quantum". It's a testament to its minimalist design, but it also means some concepts are lost in translation.

Specific flora/fauna - While you can use terms like "kili", "kala", or "soweli" to describe plants, fish, or mammals, respectively, don't expect to convey specific species such as "maple tree" or "cat". It's a broad brush approach that lacks granularity.

Intensive modifiers - Toki pona leans hard on the word "mute" for intensifiers. This simplification might hinder nuanced expressions, as there's a big gap between "mute" and a neutral descriptor.

Collective nouns - The language only really has "kulupu" to describe collectives. So, distinguishing between, say, a "flock" and a "crowd" might get tricky.

Idiomatic phrases - A repertoire of idioms or set phrases for common topics would make conversations feel more culturally rich and engaging. It's one thing to communicate efficiently, but another to do so with character and flair.

This isn't criticism but an observation of the trade-offs made for simplicity. Every language has its quirks, and understanding these nuances can make for a richer linguistic experience.
I bought an old HP LaserJet 2015 ages ago. Together with two 7000 pages toners for about 100USD. It just works. I can lea e it for two years, than plug in the USB cable and it jist spits out pages.
This is how printers should be.
I fully expect the Apple model next, where even if you can physically replace a part, the system will refuse to operate until the new part is blessed by the proprietary software.
I've used LibreOffice Draw for this with fairly good results just inserting text boxes on top of the necessary fields. It's not the fastest, and probably is a bit overkill for the job, but it does work!
A game idea: you wake up and find yourself in a mysterious land where people speak only Toki Pona. You don’t know why you are there and how to get out of there. In order to go home you have to learn the language and discover the secret of the land through interactions with NPCs.
The simplest retort I've heard to "I have nothing to hide" is "then send me a nude photo of yourself." Theres nothing wrong with nude bodies, but it is definitely private. I.e. privacy has nothing to do with hiding wrong/illegal things.

(obligatory disclaimer: a little inaccuracy saves a lot of explanation, but I think this gets the gist across)
We don't have our own hardware, we use cloud providers like AWS, Digital Ocean, Hetzner, Linode, Scaleway, Vultr to provide Intel, AMD and Ampere Altra (ARM64)

So to mitigate Downfall, we rely on cloud providers infra.

It's still way more isolated than a giant cluster hosting all the apps and routing becoming a single point if failure.
> Linux has a very explicit policy of never breaking userspace.

And when someone tries to do it - Linus gets very angry.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75
He also conveniently made comments pretending to be Ukrainian but spelling it "Kiev".
Mozilla has a revenue problem, sort of like Netscape. It's main product is free and doesn't directly generate revenue except through Google ads. Using Firefox to get the people who use Firefox to use Mozilla's revenue generators - Pocket or VPN through ads in the browser won't work.

Google pays it to select it as the default browser, but Firefox' tiny declining market probably makes Google want to not to continue this except perhaps as a way to avoid monopoly stuff.
> videos on Youtube aren't DRMed

They are: https://developers.google.com/widevine/drm/overview
Except using NixOS without flakes doesn't require this manual enumeration so it's clearly not a requirement, but a design choice.

Nothing is ultimately pure since you're running on top of a kernel which can affect computation. It's unclear to me what practical gain you get from trying to obsessively get "maximum purity", which is in any case illusory because you're still running on a kernel from outside the closure.

Making it impossible to write portable code isn't a good design.
That's fair - but that is assuming indefinite long-term deflation. What about intermittent modest deflation as a tool to bring prices down? It seems that just the idea of deflation is immediately rejected in any conversation about monetary policy.

Also, I think in the real world today, a home would still sell in a deflationary environment, given serious supply shortages. Especially for those buyers which are looking for a home and not an investment (investors would lose long term in a deflationary environment, as you say). Couldn't temporary, modest deflation actually open the housing market up for those "real" buyers primarily looking for a place to live?
How does it compare when you SvelteKit versus Svelte on Astro?
There's technically no difference between downloading and streaming, and in fact nearly all of the videos I "download" from YouTube don't get retained after I watch them --- I'm just doing so in order to be able to use alternative software that respects my freedom.

Since we're talking about video, I think a better analogy would be using a VCR to record broadcasting, and there was certainly a legal battle over that too.
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I believe the ink cartridges that come with (some) new printers aren't close to full size, so you wouldn't be getting a full set of new ink cartridges with every purchase. I would speculate that if they went to that length, they probably calculated the break even point for the price of cartridges vs. the price of a new printer. My guess would be no, but it would be very funny if that was wrong.
on arch it comes with extra/texlive-binextra
I feel like we're describing short vs long term memory.
France is actually one of the main producers (in Réunion - where the hand pollination process was discovered - and French Polynesia) but I guess the others are just doing some import/export.
"Vibes for me, data for thee".

People lean heavily on anecdotes when it comes to worker productivity. But actual data is much more nuanced on the matter.

People seem to have completely forgotten how worker productivity actually went up a noticeable amount during a time when most people were working at home – and under some very unusual circumstances mind you – and actually began declining after restrictions ended and companies started asking people to return on a hybrid or full-time basis.
Remove privacy (from state and society) and you will live in constant fear of being shunned, ostracized, persecuted. The result is less individuality, less creativity, less exploration.
TBH I'm not aware about their specific offering related to distributed Elexir. But we do provide load balancers that can be easily configured from the UI, from our api or from our Terraform provider.
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Thank you for sharing

My perspective is that writing this kind of system in a language such as Python is actually a great thing because for myself Python is more widely readable and approachable compared to C++ or C which is what databases are often programmed in. If someone wants to be serious they can port it to a low level language . As it stands it's educational and useful for studying.

I wrote a distributed pseudo multi model SQL/graph Cypher/Document and dyanmodb style database in Python https://GitHub.com/samsquire/hash-db for the same goal of learning how database engines could work in a distributed way.
not only can you easily turn off any ads or suggestions, but you can set custom urls in easily-accessible settings at about:preferences#home
People want to see “the elites” as one homogeneous cabal out to protect themselves at the expense
of the little guy. In reality, it’s a bunch of self-interested individuals whose incentives don’t overlap here. The companies using office space have no reason to waste money helping out their landlords, and would much rather profit by screwing them over.

As you say, this theory does not make much sense.
If you live in the US. Auto parts stores take used oil. As do Walmarts with auto service centers. I’ve never had an issue.
Yes, this is exactly true among the popular FOSS licenses.

The attribution licenses such as ALv2, BSD, MIT, etc. which are generally considered to be "permissive" still require attribution, and this condition is not upheld by popular LLMs.

Of course, the copied material has to be judged substantial enough for the license to apply in a court of law, which is a human-arbitrated threshold.

It will most likely be a copyleft author who eventually brings a court case, but the attribution licenses do not allow for LLM usage either unless the LLM provides attribution and preserves notices as spelled out in the licenses.
I related a lot to this – thanks for sharing. It's good to vent sometimes.

I notice you're not asking for advice though... Is there anything we can help with? Just judging by what you said here you seem smart, definitely self-aware, but maybe a little unfocused? You don't sound stupid at all.

Why are you unable to get a programming job out of interest? Is it because you lack skills or something else? I'd be surprised if it's "impossible" for you to earn a living given what you've said. It sounds more like you haven't found the right thing and perhaps you're not sure how?

I'm INTP and everything you said here sounds so characteristic of someone who's INTP. We tend to be smart, curious, but overthink everything. We also tend to struggle socially and with focusing on tasks which means as a group we struggle with maintaining employment despite being quite intelligent. You might relate:
https://www.reddit.com/r/INTP/comments/knnm8l/seriously_help...

Also, your girlfriend clearly loves you. Stop over thinking things and just do your best to show her how much she means to you. Having a job isn't the only way a guy can give in a relationship.
sounds like the Colundi Sequence
I don't need to write all those functions that I'll never call. I write the few that I use in my own code, which is probably doing something fun or practical rather than abstract.

(But if you use these abstractions extensively, maybe Haskell is for you?)
Storage cost is nuts. They announced a migration to AWS that is going to start rolling out. I'm not sure if that's going to let us utilize cloud native storage.
Why is there yet another legal framework with basis for legal jurisprudence being a rule from a child's game ?
Yeah, and they'd have a much stronger leg to stand on in court (or more likely never even get dragged into court) if they were focusing only on rare, out-of-print music.

My question stands: why are they deliberately picking this fight?
I think it's a Chesterton's Fence thing -- nobody remembers why we give out participation trophies, so we continue giving them out. Their importance is overblown. Nobody is fooled.

I remember my daughter came home with a ribbon, and I asked her what it was for. She said: "Oh, it's just one of those ribbons that you get for participating."

We signed her up for kids' soccer. It was a league where they didn't keep score. Yet the kids knew exactly what the score was after each game, and who the best players were.

I remember as a kid that my motivation came from things where I could measure my own performance, such as getting through a math problem, or playing pieces on the cello, of escalating difficulty.
I discovered that Midjourney can’t generate a question mark, and if you use the /describe command and give it a picture of a question mark, it hallucinates.
I used to use Epson for this reason, but unless they've really polished their drivers I will be sticking with my HP. Yes, HP is more expensive and anti-consumer but when I want to print something it just works. My last Epson worked fine at first but soon got to the point that I needed to clean and reinstall the drivers nearly every time I wanted to print something.
Most vanilla flavour, 99%, is produced by creating synthetic vanillin. I guess this is included.
I work with and around a lot of really smart people, including for my job. I have a very intimate relationship with the very smartest of those people. I get to see behind the curtain quite a bit. The top 10% have no idea how hard the top 1% work. Many think the top 1% are coasting because everything is so easy for them. I fall into that trap myself a lot. The truth is that most real results take time consuming work.

I once had a conversation with somebody who lost their bid for a networking job to some 18-year old kid who "probably just plays a lot of video games." They never saw the 1000 hours the kid had spent the last two years fighting for better network latency. They didn't know the kid could quote two dozen different RFCs and could give you the strengths and weaknesses of 6 different routing protocols.

Which candidate was "smarter"? I have no idea. I know which one had spent more hours preparing for the job. Even if their competition thought they were just playing around all hours of the day and night.
What front end is better than ChatGPT? Is the OP implementation doing running summarization or in-convo embedding lookup?
The Flaw of Averages
Yeah, the great Zoom UI, where it pins itself to the top during a login process so I can't get to my password manager under it, or when it prompts for MFA and you can't paste in so you have to go type it by hand.
Can someone knowledgeable comment on the possibility of VivLdi becoming the de facto standard browser for Linux? I played with it a little, thought it worked well, and most notably, it worked well for websites that gave Firefox trouble.
It would almost be better if it required orchestration. Maximizing profit is an idea, and ideas are bulletproof....
Together, Linux + ChromeOS (much closer to standard GNU+Linux than Android) have something between 6% and 7% of the desktop. I don't remember people saying the same about MacOS when it was around that mark.

Of course, we must be realistic. Linux around 6% is very different from MacOS at 6%. In that case, they already had support from items people complain to this day about Linux not having; main examĺes are msoffice and photoshop.

Nevertheless, Linux on the desktop has never been so good. Flatpak (or even AppImages and snaps) allow me to have a "stable core" with recently updated software. Support for most hardware is much better now (looks like most vendors make sure the hardware supports Linux, even though they themselves don't announce it). Pipewire and Wayland matured to the point where you can finally stream your desktop on Wayland using Pipewire. GNOME is snappier today then it was and cleaner and more elegant; of course we still need some consistency but windows suffers from that too; and, look, it even has thumbnails on the file picker! The kernel evolved to a point where desktop is just another well supported system: MGLRU and other improvements made latency on the desktop even under memory pressure just ideal.

The environment around it also evolved a lot. Many FLOSS software are on a quality level today that mostly only professional on almost niche areas can't use Linux on the desktop. Consider Blender, Godot, Audacity, Inkscape, Firefox, OBS... these things are refined, stable, elegant and don't try to steal your attention, require periodic payments or throw ads on your face. Actually a Linux desktop user feels very sorry when they see a "standard" windows user. And I'm not even talking about proton or areas where Linux leads or is well established.

So yes, it improved. Nevertheless, I'd love to, but I don't think I'll see Linux on the desktop beat windows or MacOS. But, know one thing: I don't care. Linux on the desktop has been good enough for me for a very long time and it will only get better. I just hope someday its market share will be big enough for it to no longer be ignored by so many vendors. Watching current growth, I don't think that is too far anymore now.
Well actually, it was a comment on a blogpost (I don't know what it was about). It said since if our world is a simulation, then it needs a computer to run on. And every computer needs a clock. So this statement changing its truth value could act as a clock.
Yes -- sorry, my comment about critics may have come across as aimed at you, but it wasn't!

I was thinking more of all the other times this has come up in the past and I have to say, "you understand it's not just a text editor with network access?"

It has pretty much unique capabilities, and as another commenter has said, it's even remarkably agnostic as to the _kind_ of remote container. For example you can run the editor on Windows with the remote as WSL, and it really blurs the boundaries between them in a way that cannot possibly be a coincidence for Microsoft.
Of course they do, permits, fines, taxes, etc. Remember when Amazon was shopping cities for HQ2? Just think of that in reverse.
We have Chromite (formerly Bromite) for that, as well as its native dark mode.