skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting perspective. I am a solo developer for all my own companies, and I basically work alone managing a number of high volume businesses. I look at code as "art" oddly enough, and not a liability. I look for elegant solutions that wrap complexity up in the most elegant way possible, and I think a lot of "liability" comes from people not knowing what they want, and not refining features, as opposed to code (at least in the business I work on, it sounds different for you in your case)

Edit: Not that "high volume" means anything but I put that there to illustrate there's millions of dollars of liability on the line, not just pet projects or something. It just sounds like a different kind of business I'd guess. Working on a team is definitely something a lot different, that I don't really deal with, nor have much experience with.
Yes, I believe they do work in that respect. But when is being able to name brands harmful?
>I don't know why a shotgun cartridge could not be used in place of a shaped charge.

Shotgun shells don't do much without a barrel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SSdLQcGEio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osxBoO9Hs5E

But that's beside the point. There are folks on YouTube making all sorts of dangerous things in their garden sheds on a shoestring budget. If Explosions&Fire can do it, so can a dedicated attacker.
Agreed on all counts. Pynchon and DeLillo are often linked together, but Pynchon and DD seem to be at least a generational half-step removed from each other. And Gaddis nails the 80s in JR back in the mid-70s.
It's not floating. If you open the image on a new tab and zoom in, at about 350% you can see a few faint pixels connecting it to the nearby loop of hair.
Well, that site can burn in Hell. Did it hijack anyone else’s browser history?
I wonder if this is a problem that can be solved with zero-knowledge proofs. The website needs to verify that I am a part of a certain group (over a certain age, particular gender, have a certain net worth, whatever) but I don't want to connect that information to my identity on the site. Is it possible to set it up so that the organization performing the validation is also unaware of the type of validation that I am performing and with whom?

For example, to validate my age (or net-worth or gender) with a site, I generate a one-time key which the site can send to the validation authority and receive back a Yes/No response for the request? In this example, the site would not have any information about my identity but the type and target of validation would be leaked to the validating authority. Is it possible to design a system that would let both sides perform this operation completely blind to each other?
> China is too big and too integrated into the world economics to fake or dismiss Chinese data

Chinese statistics are notoriously biased. There is a cottage industry of hedge funds using satellite imagery to correct their figures and trade on it.
I prefer paper books, and have a copy of this. But it'll be great to have the ebook too for access to updates since my paper copy was printed.

Thanks!
A long time ago I read secrets of the JavaScript ninja. I feel like perhaps that is outdated though. I would probably recommend eloquent JavaScript at this point or googling for online materials
Hitler Studies was not the joke; having the major professor of that field unable to speak German, however...
https://transfermyti.me/

Tool to transfer data from Clockify to Toggl (and vice versa). It also provides the ability to bulk delete data from either service. For some reason, I have a weird fixation on time tracking tools. People have reached out to tell me how much they appreciate it, so I'm happy to keep it running.
> I really want to just plug in a conference room projector into my laptop and have other people already put in place out those workarounds for me sometimes.

Then you should definitely use Linux more, and buy hardware that explicitly supports Linux.
https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/

How is enshittification not objectively bad?

It's the logical progression of platforms, where they start abusing users openly.
Lyin' ChatGPT being a replacement for Google is about as credible as a BRICS reserve currency.

The analogy checks out.
This reminds me of how when I was a small child I noticed how pathetic the real McDonald hamburgers looked in comparison to the pictures. It always ruined my appetite
> You are making the mistake of equating incremental progress with the most extreme litmus test for quality

Sure, but at the same time don't think that incremental progress cannot get to a superlative product, either. A translator app might improve incrementally but when it gets to 99.9% accuracy, the way people use it transforms from a mere tool to being relied upon everywhere they might need it. We see this with every technology today, from cars to smartphones.

We already have bad CGI that most except the most eagle-eyed moviegoers will not notice or care about, if AI generation tech improves such that you can trust the output 99.9% of the time, then AI generation will be what is predominantly used. It's simply good enough and much cheaper than manually rigging models or filming actors (nevermind that Photoshop and video editing style tools are already being made for AI generation that will get you the exact output you want, more often than not).
WOW! I use Espanso and love it - this will send me off into new rabbitholes!
You think brain drain won’t happen if US doesn’t do so? It will always happen, people always want to move to more developed countries
I prefer an autocomplete mobile like experience for most typing. I use autohotkey to have global autocomplete for English, anywhere in any app i type it gives me options in a little tabbable box immediately. I disable it for vscode usually except when I'm typing markdown I manually enable it. I love it.

Beyond this I use ahk's hotstrings feature to have "snippets". I separate them by topic and activate them as and when they're required. For example I have one for css which has things like

display: flex;
justify-content: center;
align-items: center;

bound to a single hotstring.

I know I can use vscode snippets but I prefer this.

I also have global hotstrings for say my emails, address, etc,. Unencrypted in my home directory. I don't care too much but you might.

The coolest one is a password manager that lets you use your username/email on any website as the password.

You just press a hotkey and are prompted to enter the secure master password. Once you do that, it decrypts your passwords and activates the hotstrings required to convert usernames to their respective passwords. When you press enter and submit the form it kills it. This is only one of the variations I have. The previous one had me enter the master password in the form itself, and it'll read the context of the browser itself get the URL from there and automatically replace the correct password. I stopped using this as it became unwieldy once I had to have multiple Gmail accounts for example.
In Australia at least the biggest issue with the health sector is the lack of talented staff e.g. nurses.

Smokers despite being a net-positive contributor to the government's tax revenue doesn't change that they are a net-negative drain on society.
I've missed the window to edit my original post, but you're absolutely correct. Apologies for the misinformation and thanks for digging.
Choosing usenet over tiktok has nothing to do with nostalgia, it has everything to do with online freedom
78% false. Please do not discourage patients from exercising our rights and accessing our own PHI, like this crack-smoking nurse did to me.

https://www.aetnainternational.com/en/about-us/explore/healt...

https://www.alight.com/blog/can-patients-record-doctors-offi...

https://www.verywellhealth.com/secretly-recording-your-docto...

You've got to understand: clinic visits are very stressful, time-limited, and high-pressure. Doctors don't write anything down, but it's crucial that the patient rememberd everything that was said, with high accuracy and confidence. Audio recording is our best tool to these ends.

I'm glad I don't live in California!
>it is a crime to provide restricted publications to people that are under the restricted age.

Does this imply that parents, or those delegated by them, would be commiting a crime by showing their children material out of the government's chosen age range? That strikes me as absurd.

Furthermore, how does this work with broadcast TV or Radio? Do the receiving devices need to implement a control?

Actually, this also makes me wonder, will a public library check ID for books that teens check out?
Its not that cut and dried. Whether or not you were fired for cause depends on whether its reasonable to ask you to return to office or whether that would be considered forcing you to accept inferior work. An employer cannot arbitrarily change the terms of your job and not pay unemployment if you quit.
https://kiwifarms.st/threads/why-host-dox.130254/

No, it really isn't.
> Buddhism came about primarily as a response to Hindu orthodoxy and the caste system.

This is a modern myth, that has been proven to be grossly untrue, time and again.

Buddhism was a mostly upper caste phenomenon.
Do you have people from all over Europe heading to Finland for the free housing? From what I can tell, a big portion of the Bay Area's problems have to do with more and more people heading there, knowing that they won't be punished for drug use or the petty crimes they commit to fuel their habit, and a relatively moderate climate.

It really is quite shocking the changes in just the last decade. There seems to be some misguided belief that if you just stop punishing folks with drug problems they'll somehow "come out of it" and rejoin society as functioning members after some revelation. That's just not ever going to happen IMO.
Is it possible that the US continues to interfere in foreign elections but we don’t know about it because we are subject to propaganda? 50 years ago, do you think the US populace was aware of their governments complicity in overthrowing democratically elected governments? Or did they only come to light 20-30 years later?
By the way, how does the software calculate solicited votes? Does it omit upvotes from a user on the same IP as the story creator?
"Climate science should be less political, while climate policies should be more
scientific. Scientists should openly address uncertainties and exaggerations in
their predictions of global warming, while politicians should dispassionately count the real costs as well as the imagined benefits of their policy measures"
Of course they did. It would be extremely surprising if they did not. But this - like the various origin hypothesis - has also been thoroughly politicized. I really hope that we won't see a repeat of COVID, but there is a very good chance that there will be. After all, habitat destruction continues unabated and whatever wildlife that remains is more and more forced into contact with humans. This substantially increases the chances of more of such outbreaks. And if how we dealt with this one is any guide the next one could be much worse. Very little solidarity, bad communications, lots and lots of bad actors, profiteering (both by 'the good' and 'the bad') and politics. So now we have a whole pile of people who have been brainwashed to distrust vaccination (even vaccination of kids is still well below where it was before), and a ton of conspiracy fueled organizations that are ready and primed to expand on the next wave that they can ride to more power.
> I moved from SF to Utah in ~2018, and managed to buy a few rental properties since then, and despite my "income" not keeping pace with my peers in the city my wealth is exceeding them. So the first thing is, the money argument is holding less water every day that goes by.

This is hilarious. You don't have to worry about the financial aspect of your job when you can collect extra income every month as a landlord.
I tried searching for something obscure recently - I knew the exact phrase and was confident it was only on one site. Google gave me nothing so I almost assumed the site was dead until I tried DuckDuckGo. I assume Google purged it because it wasn't using SSL.
In 2019, 26.5% of Australia had travelled overseas with the percentage growing y/y:

https://www.roymorgan.com/findings/australian-population-gro...

And the reputation of being the best country in the world comes from city/country rankings which routinely have our cities in the top ten:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurabegleybloom/2023/06/21/ran...
Absurd Success
> I actually saw a E450 wagon AMG on the streets the other day

Awesome. When I was growing up, my parents had a big orange wagon with the Oldsmobile Rocket 455 in it. Kind of like the predecessor to the AMG wagons :)
> how come you felt the need to procedurally generate levels?

Three reasons:
(1) demand for new levels was too high - game traction exceeded my laziness threshold as a designer;
(2) puzzle lovers suffered from lack of replayability - game was effectively punishing core users who engage with it the most;
(3) designing a 'good' difficulty curve required me to quantify a level's difficulty objectively - anytime I design a puzzle or strategy game, I also try to design an algorithm that can solve it to get a general sense of how the different levels compare in difficulty;
(4) I tend to get obsessively curious about stuff - wasn't sure if it's feasible to have a 100% real-time procedural gen of chess mazes so I decided to do it to find out.

> I've often heard debates around whether content needs to be "hand-crafted" to be worth another human's time

LLM jokes aside, I think this is a great point and I'm not sure exactly what the right answer is here. I ended up keeping both Classic and Endless modes for this exact reason. If there's enough interest, I'll add a manual level generator for the community of 'humans' to submit their own hand-crafted creations for others to play.

> a general set of principles to procedurally generate levels that apply to games outside of echo chess?

Good question. I think it really comes down to this:
(a) can you formalize the concept of a 'level' and its components for your game in a way as to encode/decode every game state (at a minimum) easily and efficiently?
(b) can you parametrize this formalism in a way as to connect malleable randomizations to every meaningful component of a level to generate (hypothetical) infinite variability?
(c) do you have a confident way to make sure whatever generation of a 'level' you're churning out is as playable, achievable, and as fun as the manually crafted one? The fun part is the hardest one to automate. That's where I think you need a very strong grasp of what actually make your puzzle game fun. All the rest can likely be generalizable to other games.

> puzzle designers would burn out before they create a few dozen-hundred levels

Tell me about it.
Texas town has 250 people and 50 police officers
Yep, this is the correct answer. The new Land Cruiser is built on the same platform as the Lexus GX, which has the 3rd row.

Also, the 3rd row is being occupied by the hybrid battery system. In other countries where they offer a non-hybrid Land Cruiser, they have a 3rd row.
A quick way to spot one of these is once you establish a nominal connection, ask to meet or video call. The standard scammer response will be something like “I don’t like video calls” or “let’s get to know each other online” first.
What is so difficult about creating a small explosive that could take a chunk out of someones neck so they bleed out?

> In the extreme case, countries like the US would onshore manufacturing of certain components, acquisition would require licensing, and competing products from overseas would simply be banned.

Which parts exactly? the PCBs? The motors? the microcontrollers? the batteries? How would that work exactly? How do you regulate any of this without per component DRM? What would that look like exactly? Would I need a license to buy a child's toy that had a microcontroller in it? Would they nerf microcontrollers for devices like appliances and toys so taht they weren't fast enough to handle the needs of a drone?
Didn’t see any benchmarks or comparisons

Is it worth it to do it?

There’s been plenty of comments lately indicating that fine-tuning is not that effective and that in a lot of cases reduces the generalization capabilities of the model

Some say it’s better to just do some type of augmented search/retrieval on top of the model instead

Does anyone have any numbers for reference?
My Amazon interview was one of my worst experiences. It gave every indication that you were to be viewed as a cog in the machine, and I was treated as such during the interview process, which ended up being a gigantic waste of time from my point of view. And their company values/principles are hilarious. They make it sound like they're operating at 100% efficiency in a demi-god-like way. Meanwhile, most of their services and products are outright terrible, with a lot of product success driven by consumption addiction and monopolistic practices.

You can see here in the posted article the cognitive dissonace Amazon has. Some of Amazon's principles are "Strive to be Earth’s Best Employer", "Be Right, a Lot", "Frugality", and "Dive Deep". All of these are on display as being violated here.
It's a horrible metric for EVs. I own an EV (not a Tesla) and probably average 75% of the stated range, and much less than that when I'm in situations where it matters.

Most importantly, the "wind-in-your-hair kind of travel" that you call "noise" is exactly the kind of travel where EV owners care most about accurate range estimates.
For starters, I’m certainly right that it is a crime for New Zealanders to read the document, and if an exemption process that individuals could leverage to access it, that wouldn’t change that fact.

However, you’ve linked to a process that educators can use to screen restricted films to their students.
This is basically Emmet for the English language, right? A nifty application of the idea, none the less.
> but fixing search

You can't fix search no more than you can fix social meda because search and social media has grown so big that they are politically important and hence state property.

Once search and social media reached critical mass, the state got involved. The state was probably always involved but they took control when it got 'too big to be independent'. When google and social media showed that they can overthrow governments and affect elections, the party was over.

Even if there was an internet worth searching, google would not showing us that. Google will be showing us what the state wants.

'Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase.' - Dune
I tried it. Regrettably it didn't turn up any names that grabbed me.
Can you name some of these hedge funds?
I use VS Code on a mac for C# development. I recently discovered this extension and it works really well out of the box.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-dotne...
Or just install some cheap steel cable mesh awnings...
A ‘people-first’ view of the AI economy
It has everything to do with nostalgia. Nostalgia is the only reason you can even express a concept as nebulous as "online freedom," when hardly anyone in the current generation can even conceptualize what that means, nevermind how it's lacking in TikTok, or why they would desire it in the first place. Waxing nostalgic for the "online freedom" of usenet is no different than extolling the virtues of "hard work" that are lost on those damn kids nowadays who don't even need to hike up a snowy hill to get to school.
You can't buy back your time, so be careful what you sell it for
What is the benefit of that?
yes, I remember 10 - 20 years, long time ago, Microsoft made something similar to Google Earth to showcase how SQL Server could store and serve massive amounts of binary files.
Also it's a matter of skill fit. To take extremes I worked with engineers experienced in mobile app game engineering, who were thinking about UI latency in obsessive detail, and engineers skilled in thinking about ML ranking problems, who had deep knowledge about the strengths and weaknesses of various ML approaches. You could've swapped their roles and it would've been a disaster, not because they're not proficient, but because it would've taken a long time to ramp up on what's important in the other's area
"Relevant Search" - in the field of search engines

TBH I can't say I've mastered the field. And have even given up on the idea of expertise. Things change too fast.

I think its more fun just to be an "enthusiast" which should imply a high degree of humility and understanding of the limits of one's own knowledge.
Yeah quite the opposite for me - I have to use Google to search YouTube because YouTube's search is completely unusable now. If I want to search for a video I go to Google and click the Videos tab instead of going to YouTube. YouTube's search
gives you like three possible matches but then pollutes the page with "you might like" and "people also watched" videos, all of which are simply invalid results.
What happened is that people didn’t want to pay for high quality content. So sites need to rely on ads. Delivering more ads is not aligned with user interests. If we lived in a world where people paid for content, the incentives would have been better aligned.
You wouldn’t have seen it because that kind of behavior in Pakistan is reserved for Ahmedis.
It may be, but I repeat that it's not "silly" for a metric concerned with aggregate consumption to reflect driving conditions that match aggregate reality and not vacation travel. Should there be a metric for EV owners to yell about that measure "Road Trip Range"? Maybe! But that's not what the existing efficiency measures were designed to do.
Vim has a feature called "abbreviations" that can be used to expand abbreviations as well as correct common typos. Here's an article about it - https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/vim-abbreviations
Hong Kong and mainland China have separate import bans. https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/artic...
This perspective makes total sense if you never have to write code that is maintained by someone else or deal with code that some else has written.

All of our abstractions make sense to us. We wouldn’t have written them otherwise. But unless we are gods at documentation passing that context off to someone else is hard. It’s very easy to casually dismiss a bunch of code as over engineered by also casually dismissing requirements. By being extremely diligent about what you introduce in terms of code you will save yourself and other engineers hundred of hours down the line (if not thousands)

That being said, if you’re a startup who won’t survive without working code and your end users don’t ever see the code you write, who the fuck cares about the 10,000 lines of code you write that would take some other engineer half a month to understand? 10,000 lines of code that make money are worth infinitely more than 10 elegant ones that don’t
Yes I got schooled by dang about this as a n00b in the community :') Long time lurker, first time commenter. See comment thread from dang above, he was super nice to explain to me all this stuff. Thank you all for being kind and welcoming.
I did the same search and if you consider these to be decent quality results we should just agree to disagree because we value information differently.