skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> IMO being responsible for other people is tiring and unrewarding, I just want a structure to tackle interesting projects without a middleman.

You're not wrong, but that's also only a problem to you, not the client. So it's not an ethics question, but a matter of what you enjoy doing. All the power to you if you sort that out.

If I put myself in the shoes of my clients: They want their problems to be solved in a cost-effective way. They don't mind paying a premium for genuine expertise, because they see the value. But they WOULD have a problem paying that premium if it turned out that I was quietly passing on the work to people without the same expertise.

Most projects don't need expertise for every aspect, or can't justify the budget needed for true expertise at each level.

For example, let's say you're building a website. There are several functions involved in that:

- Planning

- Information Architecture

- Copywriting

- Design

- Front-End Development

- Back-End Development

- Infrastructure

If your client is a major corporation, there's an argument to be made for expertise at every one of those levels. So they pay for that expertise. But what's galling is how rarely they actually receive that expertise, because even though they get face time with the experts, the work is being done by juniors, often without the client's awareness.

If your client is a small company, the problem isn't with getting the expertise they paid for, but with only paying for the expertise they actually need.

The advice I give to my clients is to focus on the planning and copywriting, because those, in my opinion and experience, are what make the biggest impact on whether or not your website will be an effective sales tool for your company. Invest there first, and if you need to hire juniors for the rest, hire juniors for the rest. Or hire me and I'll hire the juniors so you don't need to worry about it.

What agencies and consulting firms do, however, is charge expertise-level rates for every aspect of the project, even though 80% of it is being done by junior-level people. This, to me, is dishonest, and is what I'm trying to avoid as a consultant.
Cosmological time dilation in the early Universe
Well, that's more or less what things like the TCP/IP modems are already. You could just add an optional TLS layer on it.

Go all the way and you'll get something like this: https://www.wic64.de/
> So many more apropos sayings instead…

Here's why the parent chose bananas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose
I’ve gone back and forth on the question but with storage costs as they are I always have a Source of Truth in FLAC.

For listening I figure I’ve spent so much $$ on my setup I’d be dumb not to ensure the source is not perfect too - for free.
to be fair, CSGO was a failure for the first few years of its existence. so it's likely you're remembering it best from around 2016.

all I know is that I have the operation payback challenge coin, but no real memory of those maps. i do wish they'd bring back some of the operation maps... (santorini anyone?)
Enjoying the Internet Again with the Fediverse and IndieWeb
Many of my friends drove after drinking heavily at bars in their 20's and luckily never had any accidents. 30 years ago driving under the influence was more common. If a cop pulled you over and you were close to home, he might let you go with a warning and just say "you'd better go straight home."
Now my friends can't believe how stupid they were and are very thankful that they were lucky. Different times.
Lol. All of my time at G is summed up very elegantly here.
> nuclear power plants take decades to bring online

This plant is already online. That’s what makes the debate interesting.
I don't think the value of inverse reasoning is that it lets you think of new ideas. If you're trying to list all the ways something could go wrong, you're pretty much just listing the ways they could go right, and flipping them. What I mean is, I think your list of bullet points for "how to have a great career" would be able as long as your list of bullet points for "how to have a terrible career". Both lists would usually contain the same essential information, just framed differently.

Where I think such a practice can be useful is in forcing you to confront unpleasant possibilities you would otherwise try to ignore, and thus at least briefly plan for them.
I think AI in general, across almost every industry, will shift value away from technical proficiency and toward creativity and taste. Implementation of an idea/vision will be commoditized, but having a great idea, a unique insight, the taste and ability to identify top-tier work will still be highly valuable. This could well remain true post-AGI.

In graphic arts, the overlap between people with technical proficiency and vision/taste is probably quite high, but it's not one-to-one. There are people with excellent taste who can identify great art or design when they see it, and who can perhaps imagine incredible masterpieces in their minds, but cannot draw a convincing stick figure. On the other side, there are people who can expertly make someone else's concept real, but can't come up with a compelling concept themselves. AI will be great for the former, and bad for the latter (or at least force the latter to adapt).

Whether this will have the effect of concentrating wealth or distributing it more widely strikes me as a very difficult question. It may be devastating for certain professions, but could also enable a whole new class of entrepreneurs. I could see it going either way, or the two effects may cancel each other out and economic equality stays about where it is. We're in the realm of complex systems here, so I wouldn't put much stock in anyone's prediction.
Nice! Thanks for trying it and glad you found it interesting :)
I didn't claim that it was. I was speaking to the more general point that ceronman was making.
Massachusetts is #20 in total tax burden by state in 2023.
Deja vu from the late 1990s
If you are interested in novel keyboard layouts, there are many 2-dimensional chromatic layouts where transposition is isomorphic (i.e. playing in a different key only requires changing where you start). In one notable example, all major and minor triads can be played with a single finger[1], because 5ths and major/minor thirds are always adjacent.

1: http://www.shapeofmusic.com/note-pattern.php
Well said, Subomi. I’d like to see more open source companies be public about how they think about open source as a strategic decision (admittedly, I could do better about this myself).

I think Vercel / Next.js and Automattic / Wordpress are great examples of aligning value to the business while also creating (and not capturing) a bunch of value to users of the open source project. As a result of leaving some value on the table for users, both projects have a thriving plugin/extension community that wouldn't exist if they were closed-source or confined to a single vendor. Likewise, I'm more likely to start a Next.js project knowing that I can host it anywhere, even though my default is to use Vercel.
I bought a house last month in Texas using a 30-year fixed loan.

We did use a RE agent, though I'm not convinced they are worth the ~6% they get on the transaction (3% for seller, 3% for buyer), especially on the buying side.

We put 20% down and then payed down to get to a ~5% rate. This was a gamble, but it looks like it'll pay off over the next five-ish years as the rate we would have gotten otherwise would have been substantially higher (as rates go). It was previously a rental home, so not in great shape - but not what I would call a "fixer-upper".

Sometimes you just need to decide whether the home, layout, neighborhood, school district, loan, etc is worth it and, if so, go for it. Assuming you are being responsible to your obligations (kids, for example), live your life the way you want to live it.
This is also a great argument for power saving. Shave a Watt or two of consumption from your mass market device or application, and suddenly you've saved hundreds of Megawatt-hours over the years.
What a load of crap. People become “gay” in jail because they have no choice. A lot of people in heavily conservative societies where they aren’t allowed to easily come in contact with women are “gay”. It’s not genetically defined.
Notes on Algolia and NextJS for Ecommerce
What do you mean by "better resolution"? In my experience the resolution is the same on both OSs
It's more interesting to me the fact they tried to recreate a LaTeX article design in their website. But without hyphenation...

Though about the subject of the post I too am still kind of a retro-grouch regarding the music I listen to. Everything is stored in my computer and I listen to it with ncmpc - even did a little dumb patch to change that horrible progress bar with a straight thin line, but I like it more than ncmpcpp that feels kind of bloated.

I got a bluetooth speaker so I can "stream" to it when don't feel like playing it from my computer for whatever reason, and with KDEConnect can control it with my phone. I'm using mpdbus[0] to bridge mpd to mpris and kid3 to tag songs.

No longer carry around music in my phone but when I did everything was in a micro SD card. I got an USB adaptor for it just in case, so I guess that makes it for the "streaming" capability.

[0] https://github.com/mpostaire/mpdbus
So you're volunteering to put the nuclear power station in your backyard? Because that's the problem - lots of people say they support nuclear power until you try to build a nuclear power station anywhere close to them. Which brings up another problem, you need to build a nuclear power station near a water source such as a lake, or a river, which, interestingly enough, are the same kinds of places where people want to live.

The ship has sailed on the current generation of nuclear power.
Yeah, more great examples of why compound interest is not the only explanation.
> As input, any permutation of full year, full month name, and day of the month is unambiguous wrt any date on or after January 1, 100 CE* and therefore sensible, no matter how unusual/obscure

If you are using a proleptic Gregorian (or Julian, but why on earth would you do that) calendar, sure.

If its not one of those (but its still the Roman-derived Christian calendar in some form), there are ambiguities, and if its any other calendar, it may have ambiguities and/or the elements needed to specify a date may be different, and the CE/AD year is likely not an element and not relevant to whethe or not their are ambiguities.
I think all you've stated is "The South could have chosen not to be assholes, but they couldn't help themselves".
They probably have scrubbers for nitrogen oxides, like how coal plants have flue gas desulfurization.
Good term, "escape velocity". Agree with everything except:

>access to better financial advisors and portfolio managers

If anything, active wealth management usually ends up yielding less than a broad market index fund.
Norman French, the official language of the English court became Norman French.

Different from say Parisian French.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Norman_language
“The best time to build a nuclear generating station is 10 years ago, the second best time is now”

-ancient proverb
In terms of $/B.

Yes, HDDs are slower than SSDs. If that axis matters to you, you'd use an SSD, particularly NVMe. (Which is sort of implied by the hybrid setup I suggest.) If storage capacity matters, HDDs. You can see this reflected in market prices, though it does look like SSDs are surprisingly cheap these days, comparatively. Historically this has not been the case. (I wonder if economies of scale are now working against HDDs suddenly, or what? There's no reason for them to cost the same or more than an SSD — the market would collapse. Although I swear market pricing for many components hasn't made a lot of sense, recently… i.e., RAM has seemed horrendously expensive.)
“on Windows” is no longer a worthwhile phrase when it simply means “targeting a Linux/Windows shared compatibility ABI”.

There are more functioning games on Linux than I ever would have thought possible because of this (very difficult and certainly open source) work that’s been done by Wine, Proton, Valve and many many more. But of course, someone has to find a way to discourage all of that because it isn’t pure enough or whatever.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Complete_Manual_of_Suici...
Once there was a remote mountaintop monastery, nestled high in the clouds above a deep gorge. To reach the monastery, visitors were required to ride in a basket pulled up from the top, after paying the ticket fee for the ride. One day, halfway up the cliff, a tourist noticed the sparkling condition of the titanium cable upon which they were suspended. He asked his guide, why did it cost me ten years salary to take this ride? The monk answered "If we didn't charge that much, we couldn't replace the cable after every trip". The tourist asked "is that really necessary"? The monk replied "Well, we used to use a hand woven hemp rope, and it broke once during a trip. We wouldn't want that to happen again, now would we?"
Modular TypeScript+contentful+nextjs+tailwind Boilerplate for a Website
Just created this, sharing if someone finds it useful.
The early exit can be done without an extra flag, but increased code size.
Brave Browser has an AI assistant chat now
Germany didn’t replace its nukes with gas, but with coal.
While I don't disagree there are certain activities (skydiving etc.) I'm happy to wait until retirement to try, given the consequences of something going wrong - if I miss out on my last decade or so of growing old peacefully, so be it. But I'm not quite so cavalier about it when I'm hoping I still have another 30 years of good health ahead of me.
"This graph from McKinsey says if we waste any more money on test driven development we'll be bankrupt by the end of the month!"

"Did someone say TDD? Cause I think I heard someone say TDD..."

https://pbfcomics.com/comics/weeaboo/
Ah yup this is something that happens every 1 in probably every 20 or so times. Planning on adding a few layers of parsing after generations to prevent this from happening!
I fully understand that, and I think it's really bad policy, similar to rent control. It's just one factor among many, but it contributes to California's astronomical housing crisis - when you make it so distasteful for people to rent out their homes in the first place, people respond by being loath to add badly needed inventory and instead put their homes to other uses, including just letting it sit empty.
I think they should civil forfeiture the cars.
Blog-cells: Interactive code cells for static sites
Yup. I use beets.io to push downloaded, tagged FLACs to my NAS and then Plexamp for music streaming.
Looks cool. I'm not sure about the implicit state in the language. It sort of worked for Hypercard, but not always.

And can you iterate over multiple objects with the same label, e.g. if you want to replace all faces by emoji?
Trademarks are different from copyright.

Random variations aren't interesting, they just make something abundant even more abundant and secondary. Unless you have a model with sufficient intelligence that can create something conceptually original (at which point we're all fucked, not just artists or programmers), it's not going to fly. Text driven modifications imply conceptual human input; besides, they are inherently worse than higher-order input, just like text to image alone is worthless for anything meaningful.
Love the website design, but don't quite understand what it is and what problem you're trying to solve?
The problem with inheriting from dict and list in Python (2019)
Beware using ZFS with external disks: https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/3461
Having built a rather large CD collection (over the decades since there were like 5 albums available on CD), eventually I used a rack of old computers to rip them all to FLAC - storage cost is way less than the original CD cost.

Nowadays I tend to buy music on either CD or FLAC (from Bandcamp etc.). Storage keeps getting cheaper, bandwidth is cheap, and my bet was always the price of both will keep decreasing to where it's not worth the quality/transcoding issues of using any lossy format. It's now pretty much at the point where it's possible to stream lossless audio from the home server to whereever I happen to be (with a backup of an MP3 player with a big SD card whenever there isn't bandwidth).
You're mad at the wrong people here. I've never met a frontend dev who doesn't hate moving stuff vertically or scrolljacking. It's the marketing people that want it.
It is possible to think something sucks without thinking it needs to be regulated away with force.

In the best possible world, their niche would not exist (would not be profitable) because they would have no target market, because everyone would be able to acquire basic necessities at regular grocery/big-box stores. A UBI scheme is far more productive in achieving that world then either of the (likely facetiously suggested) ideas you mentioned.
Alright, based on feedback from everyone going to offer a lifetime license. The price is set at $165.

https://superwhisperapp.lemonsqueezy.com/checkout?cart=856e7...
I can phrase that in a less "woke" way, if that helps you ;-)
…Japan?
It makes for a very boring discussion (and makes this a boring comment) to recall some random person who ranted in a way that didn't age well. If you're going to make that point, at least link to the thread to allow reading some interesting comments there instead.

If your memory is about [1], which is the first main topic on Proton, the criticism seems quite muted (and otherwise downvoted).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17815892
in the first year of covid-19 in the USA, millions of small business people on Main Street had serious impacts or simply closed, worse for common employees.

Yet in that same year, the net worth of the top 5 wealthiest individuals in the USA (carefully watched on Bloomberg terminal and elsewhere) increased a LOT. Famously Elon Musk in particular.

How does "compound interest" explain that?
Those are great suggestions! I especially like having an 'I'm feeling uninspired' button to help fix the blank canvas problem + make it easy to test with real HN posts. Appreciate the feedback!
I would recommend a good psychic for this -- someone skilled at cold reading. You will receive even better validation and a similarly reliable "external sanity check."

If I were in Europe, I'd leave it at that. For the Americans, it's important to dot the i's and cross the t's, so: An art of the industry is telling people what they want to hear. That gets you hired again. Consultants are no good as an external sanity check.

They are great for taking the blame for decisions you had planned on making.
Why is this the expected result? The original transformer algorithm has a n^2 computational complexity, where n is the amount of tokens. As far as I know, there are some improvements which bring it down to something like n*log(n). A linear complexity seems surprising however. Is the reason that calculating the attention can be completely parallelized with decent hardware, so the response time stays linear?
Honestly the real conspiracy is that Lindell and other dipshits are making legitimate concerns about voting machines impossible to talk about.
Vision Pro is both more expensive than decent work equipment (but less expensive than top-of-the-line work equipment) and also potentially far more ergonomic than top-of-the-line work equipment. If it delivers on its marketing, it does also replace a significant amount of typical equipment: definitely monitors and potentially also desk, chair, and input devices (less likely).

More importantly, the article was only about the Vision Pro as the first step in a long journey. Vision Pro leaves a lot to be desired and, as you noted, is priced prohibitively. But if you squint, you can see a future where we are able to work productively without incurring the physical costs of the current computing form factors.
From using regular ear plugs, my experience is that you really need to get them in there quite far. Also, I find that the disposable ones are really basically single use. After they've compressed and expanded I find they don't seem to work as well on subsequent uses. So, taking them out and putting them back in is something I would try to minimize. Maybe they've improved in the meantime?

The molded plugs to me do feel a lot like a properly inserted ear plug and with the filters in, there should be no gaps. It should be a very snug fit. I've got 10db, 17db and 26db filters. The 17db filters are the sweet spot for me, but it's nice to have options.
> Then there’s the possibility they bought that company and killed it to stomp out completion and suppress the IP.

At their own expense, then, since they lacked a competing product. (And still do, and AFAICT, forever will, since I think this company has declared publicly they're out of that market.)

> other reasons

Yeah, sorry, none of these apply or make sense. Occam's Razor applies: it was a bad 9 figure mistake, that's all there is to it.
Would society benefit from AI replacing politicians?
I think these days there are other distros that do it better, like Pop!_OS
It is called medicine in large parts of the world.
My steam deck has been basically flawless with its software with the exception of assetto corsa, because it needs a million .net installs.
Why should the next thousand generations pay to prop up our greed and consumption for another fifty years?

Climate collapse will cripple us, but the system is self correcting. The next civilisation will do it better

In the time scales of pollution that nuclear power entails there is room for many such cycles

I really cannot square the greed of "consume now" and "pay for a thousand generations" with any moral framework

We should pay the price ourselves for what we have done to the climate and leave room for the future
If I remember right, in "The Inmates are Running the Asylum", Alan Cooper says there are two golden rules:

* The user is always right.

* The user is not always right.

And then the explains the first point is that the user should be treated as the authority on what their problem is. You can't just tell them they're "doing it wrong" or rationalize away their pain.

The second point is that users are not designers and shouldn't have to be. They'll often come up with ideas for solutions, but you shouldn't take those as what needs to be done.
Global inequality has declined in recent decades.

(Mostly thanks to India and even more so China going from dirt poor to poor or middle income. But many other countries like South Korea or Singapore and previously Japan have also caught up. Poland and many, but not all, former Eastern block states have also done quite well.)
I am a software "consultant". In reality, I just end up an FTE on a project for 2-4 years. Definitely self-complimenting, but that's what happens if you actually do your job until the company grows enough to finally replace your team with 10 teams.
I updated the plans to include lifetime deal.

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Elephant in the room: People looking for open-source solutions are not looking to spend money, it's usually the opposite. If you want to build a business around open-source you should keep in mind, that your users are not your customers. What individual software developers want is different what enterprises want to pay for. Focus on the latter
BioTech :P
I have the California Historic Vehicle plate on my NA Miata and I love the way it looks on the car
I thought the idea was to spend as little time in rooms as possible