skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> sucks being that person today because everything is about optics

Not everywhere. I’ve casually suggested five big changes to the startup I’m currently working for that others ran with. I’m proud that my ideas even make sense, and my reward is that others come to me for leadership. I would get more glory if I had also carried them out. But I’d rather do the things that others can’t, than what shines the most.

> 2000 lines of code per week terrifies me... That's over 100K lines of code a year

That would be incredible (and scary). But productive people I’ve seen the contributor metrics for who write vastly more than they read, still have a number of deleted lines growing with their added lines in some proportion.

There is a style of less re-use, more copy-pasting that just grows faster but also needs constant refactoring in trivial ways.
1%?!

According to the 2014 survey https://fom.ru/Obraz-zhizni/11711 , 75% Russians have ever went to pick up mushrooms, and 40% have done it in the last year before the survey. 8% personally know people who suffered from mushroom poisoning.

This corresponds to my expectations: I'm from a neighbouring country, Belarus, and basically almost everyone around me has been picking up mushrooms.

That's not just a culinary experience, but a way to relax: go to forest, disconnect from the world, unwind. (People also pick up blueberries and lingonberries for the same reasons.)

Oh, and my classmate died from mushroom poisoning.
> But models like GPT-4 depend on good quality training data, and that resource is limited

Most data has not been incorporated into a model yet. Most data is not in text format. We don't know what is possible once that changes.
You can’t copy code with memcpy; code is more complicated than that (2021)
Another grumpy HN discussion thread.

@dang can you take HN down for 24 hours so everyone chills? Feels like everyone needs a time-out.

Yes, I know this comment is against the rules… but at least I’m not attacking or misreading someone’s comments.
It's entirely possible that the subject of the article is a terrible programmer, if he were to sit down and write or maintain something as an individual contributor.

I've worked with people like that, who were pretty bad individually, but brilliant when part of the right team.

Writing code and directly enabling the productivity of others who are writing code are different skillsets.

Obviously there's some overlap, but you're most productive in Tim's role in you're complimenting the skillset of the person writing the code.
The UK has many similar pedestrian bridges crossing motorways and other major roads. There must be thousands of them throughout the country! Wherever there is an existing right of way (ie: foot path or bridal path) you can't just block it by building a motorway or other obstruction. So usually that means building a bridge!
I love seeing syndicate covered here. It was so unique, love that game.
The fish doorbell's season ended over a month ago, but it's back online March 2024.
One toolchain for your web project
I think what most people who are living in their house look at when deciding if they well sell is if (selling price - remaining amount on mortgage) will give them enough that when they put the proceeds toward buying a house where they are moving too they will be in good shape financially.
I think you can do most/all of that from the command line using tools like ebook-convert
It's interesting to think about the harm done by Intuit and other companies' lobbying on this file, and compare it to the language that people like Ben Horowitz have used to describe Bill Campbell, Intuit's chairman in this period.

To hear it from people like Horowitz (in his book), Campbell is one of the best people he's ever met; one step removed from a saint. But the man's actions in stopping free online filing to become a reality in the US have caused incredible harm.

It's easy to confuse a nice person with a good person.
You reminded me of this article[0] where the author asks why not dataclasses by default? I am inclined to agree, dataclasses feel Pythonic in that they remove boilerplate with reasonable defaults (sorting, hashing, etc).

[0] https://blog.glyph.im/2023/02/data-classification.html
Did the patient donate his body to science or something? What’s the legality and ethics of operating on a neurologically dead person?
Had this same issue, new young devs adding the latest programming tricks and saying yes to every fking thing as if a no will get hurt their “I can do anything” mentality. Others were not pushing back as it may make them look stupid or something, they treat the project like a social event.

A lot of these little things came back to bite hard
Of course. Breaking every tracking script that marketers try to share is hard work! And you laugh now, but wait until they roll out Clippy GPT-4 edition.
good point! i see what they meant now.
> But what I don't understand is why most programmers today think that is a bad thing?

I think it's a bad thing because I disagree with you that you'll write fewer bugs because you're coding everything by hand. In my experience how much manual work you need to do correlates 100% with how many bugs the software will have.
Ignore the others. It's a quick read and a good story, and I think most engineers or engineering managers could take away something from it, even if just reinforcing that your already know.
But who uses RTF? I can't recall ever receiving an RTF file. Scanning my drives, I've only found a single Readme RTF file in some old Windows utilities.
Since the moderator strike, I have noticed much less hostility of late. That might be pure coincidence though. Question quality seems to pick up when school is not in session.
Does there exist a Discord business plan / any way to even get such a contractual agreement in place? We use Discord as a support channel for our developer tool and I've never heard of an option to get enterprise support...but if such a thing does exist and Discord offers it, I'd probably take it given OPs story
As someone who practices meditation regularly, I’m in agreement that coming in direct contact with the present moment without judging is incredibly useful.

But I think that in the context of science, a deepening understanding of the complexity of existence or interconnectedness brings with it a kind of awe and wonder in and of itself which further enhances the impact of such practices.

I think there’s a certain irony in trying to put the notion of spirituality into a box, when I think the notion is about worrying less about the existence of boxes.
The comparison is renting versus buying the same place to live in. A common fallacy is assuming that the financial loss from renting is always larger than the financial loss from buying. I gave a concrete example of why your pure losses owning that place would be thousands of dollars higher than the pure losses from renting the same place. I didn't say being a landlord had a good return on investment, just that landlords can make a profit charging a rent below your cost to buy. As a consequence, if you invest the difference reasonably then your net worth can grow faster as a renter.

To put it another way, you could rent and save enough money to buy the house with cash before you'd be able to pay off your mortgage, ceteris paribus. You'd still have the house at the end.

Financial models that show you often come out ahead if you rent and put the difference in other investments have been done ad nauseam on the Internet, it doesn't need to be rehashed here.
Is Intel finally back on track? There were some rumors that Nvidia is considering to use Intel fabs.
Or you could use techniques from the 1970s that let you skip the kind of highly repetitive text that causes them to get stuck without losing important concepts (IDF)
The site not capturing Alt + shortcut keys to control the menu is a big missed opportunity though.
I get that, but if this model wasn't trained on wikidata (I don't think it was) this information can not be contained in it. Probably should though, I love wikidata.

I was mostly too excited to trot-out the thing I remembered about why most towers are not buildings.
I have not, thanks for the tip.
Human reasoning is amazingly not sound.

When you add in various patterns, double-checks, and memorized previous results, what human reasoning can do is astounding. But it is very, vary far from sound.
For the last several years I've had terrible luck with number 3, though I supect that's entirely amazon's fault rather than calibre. It's a real shame too because I used to buy a lot of books, but once I couldn't read them on the device I wanted (like Remarkable tablet) there's no point in buying anymore so I stopped. I still buy from DRM-free sellers, but most of the books I want to read are only available through the popular e-reader store.
You don't need to learn any of those, and they don't break pre-existing code. You can run code written for Python3.2 in 3.10. You can't run code written for Python3.10 in Python3.2. That's what backwards compatibility means. It has nothing to do with new features that only affect themselves.

Also Python predates SemVer, so it doesn't use major.minor.patch. 3.10 is not considered a minor update.
It's incredibly disappointing that this has become the quiet part that must be said out loud.

There are probably a relative handful of women in this line of work who genuinely do enjoy it, though whether it's a healthy enjoyment is beside the point. it's just enough a cohort to sustain a core systemic cycle of self perpetuation as the POV of these women becomes the focal point for the narrative of all the people who enjoy or otherwise benefit (i.e. financially) from having women in these situations.

The vastly larger outer ring of women who do not want to be there, or are rationalizing their actions out of an understandable need to survive, don't get any press (except the most spectacular and lurid or fatal cases of exploitation or abuse) as there is no money to be made from stating what should be plainly obvious to anyone who is capable of feeling anything at all, as this article does.
I doubt that Discord is the driver behind their success. They could have used IRC and people would go out of their way to engage with them because what they're doing was so interesting at the time. If they get banned from Discord, the vast majority of the community will move to wherever they go.

This is a different situation than something like app stores where if Apple bans you, that's the end of your company. Users simply cannot get your app from somewhere else, at least not without giving an Android vendor $1000. Nobody will do that.
So? Anyone can uphold or betray their own values. This is a pure expression. Did you read it?

Sections 53-60 of his apostolic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium (2013) make a strong case in favor of looking at economics through the lens of ethics.

As a flavor, it begins:

No to an economy of exclusion

53. Just as the commandment “Thou shalt not kill” sets a clear limit in order to safeguard the value of human life, today we also have to say “thou shalt not” to an economy of exclusion and inequality. Such an economy kills. How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points? This is a case of exclusion. Can we continue to stand by when food is thrown away while people are starving? This is a case of inequality. Today everything comes under the laws of competition and the survival of the fittest, where the powerful feed upon the powerless. As a consequence, masses of people find themselves excluded and marginalized: without work, without possibilities, without any means of escape.

Human beings are themselves considered consumer goods to be used and then discarded. We have created a “throw away” culture which is now spreading. It is no longer simply about exploitation and oppression, but something new. Exclusion ultimately has to do with what it means to be a part of the society in which we live; those excluded are no longer society’s underside or its fringes or its disenfranchised – they are no longer even a part of it. The excluded are not the “exploited” but the outcast, the “leftovers”.
Who said anything about enrichment? We have a right to privacy and quiet enjoyment. Corporations aren't people, they don't have moral rights. If shooting/netting them down catches on they can't arrest everyone. "Father becomes imprisoned felon for taking down invasive corporate/government drone that spied on their home" will not be a headline that garners sympathy for the drone operator.
I’d like to see them cover MicroProse’s Darklands, an underappreciated classic of historical party-based role-playing with interesting mechanics you don’t see much in the D&D style slashers.
Scrivener saves everything in RTF files.
anything and everything that can have a bloodsucking rentier in front of it, does. And they have way more lobbying dollars than us rubes.
It’s a balance. Sometimes it is worth spending a ton of time leveling up your team (teaching them to fish), and sometimes it’s much more helpful to have you do the work yourself (we ran out of food and you’re our best fisherman).
Yes? Most likely as better than what they are now. Musk is a net negative.
I love this.

As someone who buys a lot of books I've often wondered about the previous owners. Sometimes you get a glimpse of them when you find a book with their names written on it.

Recently I've been gathering a collection of first edition/first print Goosebumps books and unsurprisingly they're a lot more likely to have markings on them than your average book (being targeted at 4th grade students).

One night I searched the internet for a few of the full names I found in the books just to see where the owners were today.

One of the first I turned up was an obituary for a woman that had died two years ago. It said she had a lifelong love of reading.
A union doesn’t have the power to change management, and is just as likely to advocate to retain low performing ICs in the name of “solidarity”
Yeah kinda, they basically did a rebrand recently.
Svelte must be an exception to that rule because semantic html is a first-class citizen.
This wouldn’t work for ChatGPT right? All it cares about is the input context
Nobody knows, but this model works well enough to, for instance, treat PTSD. Read through https://www.ptsd.va.gov/understand_tx/emdr.asp to verify that.
You're implying that humanity net overall has a fixed output and the only way a country can do well for itself is at the expense of others. Technological, infrastructure and agricultural improvements, and more efficient use of resources make the whole "pie" bigger for everyone, and don't require being a top 10 economy relying on a resource rich 3rd world.
My thoughts too. Sucks for him.
I hadn’t heard of the designated location idea before. I like that, thanks. I might do the same and see if I can get my family to use the same spot.
"Tim wasn’t delivering software; Tim was delivering a team that was delivering software. The entire team became more effective, more productive, more aligned, more idiomatic, more fun, because Tim was in the team."
- This happened years ago to me, with a manager pulling me aside and asking why my Tickets resolved were so low... They only cared about the number of tickets worked on...
There's no enforcement right now because there's no law for it yet. Laws can change, nearly every legislature on the globe is working on this.
Capitalism is like a game of Fishy https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/81219

The big fish eat the small fish and the game becomes easier the bigger you get.
Good to know. I must be mistaken from the other incorrect coverage I've seen around the web.

I have no experience with electric cars, much less disassembling/repairing them.
I'm actually quite enjoying how divisive a simple quote can be.

I wonder how often I've made a comment and gotten no engagement. This quote seems to have gotten more engagement than the original comment. And quite emotive engagement.

Makes me wonder what that means. Is it genuine curiosity? Or is the quote saying something that the original commenter couldn't see themselves? It's interesting they suggested if I was insinuating something negative about them.

Importantly, they did not ask me. They told me. That too tells us something about what pairing experience with them would be.
> it is a little tiresome to hear people sing the praises of something that isn’t available for general use or evaluation

I think the pattern is 100% consistent with today's game developer mindset. He's basically giving Early Access via the beta group. He's streamed a lot of development time using the language, surely in part to generate interest and hype, as well as provide guidance to those in the beta group.

It's no surprise some of the fallout is a tiresome level of praise. The vast majority of his fan-base aren't even experienced enough to have an informed critical opinion of any programming language. They're just gamer fan-boys.

IMO it's best to just ignore Jai's existence and whatever these probable clowns are singing in praise, until it's generally available. What we have today in Jai is more like an unfinished pre-print paper uploaded to arxiv generating a bit of hype from the author's fan-base. The jury's still out on if it's any good.

If you have time to waste, just watch some of his programming streams - there's enough being done with the language there to form an opinion on if it's remotely compelling to you.
Basically, 'add five years'. Kindergarten is age 5+, first grade is age 6+, 12th grade is 17+ in the fall and 18 at graduation.
Does anyone have any idea on what we can do about this, personally? I already have contacted my state and federal reps about this multiple times, and donate to animal welfare charities regularly. What's the next step, going weather underground and destroying large farms?
Similar boat, I have not been able to open some books for the last few times I have tried.
It's not proof, but it's telling: it's the same reason sales tax is not included in the price of an item, unlike VAT in Europe. They want you to know how much you're paying.

This happens in other spheres. Two that come to mind are death penalty cases, where opponents play for delay after delay, and divorce court, which is designed to be horrible for everyone, and therefore limit the number of divorces. I'm sure something similar happens to abortion clinics when there is a sizable resistance to them.
i need to register to see the pricing page?
Right. As if you thoroughly evaluate all obviously self-serving propaganda thrown your way. This shit wasn't written for me, it was written for stupider people who don't have good heuristics. Billionaires fund propaganda outlets for a reason and it's not truth seeking.
Y Combinator removes Indian startup from batch over ‘irregularities’
Certain tools (Ahem MS) don't allow more than one person to be added to a ticket
Yup agree completely. Train only with literally zero belts or bots is insanity. A small number (relatively) of belts or bots for feeding and internally within each node saves so much pain.

It would be like doing large data processing using exclusively map reduces with no non-MR orchestration at all. Yes you can technically do it, but, like, .... whyyyy.
https://pypi.org/policy/terms-of-use/

Seems like PyPi explicitly allows this behavior:

"If I upload Content covered by a royalty-free license included with such Content, giving the PSF the right to copy and redistribute such Content unmodified on PyPI as I have uploaded it, with no further action required by the PSF (an "Included License"), I represent and warrant that the uploaded Content meets all the requirements necessary for free redistribution by the PSF and any mirroring facility, public or private, under the Included License.

If I upload Content other than under an Included License, then I grant the PSF and all other users of the web site an irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, nonexclusive license to reproduce, distribute, transmit, display, perform, and publish the Content, including in digital form."
> is it really that bad?

Yes. Anything you do repeatedly becomes a habit, ie: becomes the default behavior. If you procrastinate enough for it to become a habit, then the next time you try to do something you need to do, you'll instinctively procrastinate instead. You can try to make the bad habit work for you (ie: "productive procrastination"), but it's better not to let the habit develop in the first place and if it's already in place to replace it with a more productive habit.
the strip DRM part was always a plugin for calibre, not a native function.

Personally Calibre did amazing work for me always, even if the UI was clunky. When I used a kindle i had it set up to immediately convert everything to a non DRM format and use amazon whispernet (or whatever they're calling it now) to send them automatically and wirelessly to the device.

Hard to argue with that kind of flawless performance.
Do you think your development team is too slow? Whether you are just starting out, or you are well on your way to an IPO, the #1 complaint I have heard from engineers, management, product managers, and senior management is that their team just cannot build features on time.
Consider what happens if we use this method in our head. Recursively summarize the discussion so far. It will improve our memory. It seem 'hacky" to summarize things in your head but I think that is a big part of how memory works.
When it comes to defining crimes I don’t think the US government shares your views on the cuteness of USC Title 18.
Poor chap was meant to die of mushroom poisoning. His refusal to actually consume and the bullet hole are insignificant details in Eastern Europe.
Society has really gone mad here.

There is this scene in countless movies, where a waitress comes up to a customer, and refills their cup from a coffee pot. No germs transferred from customers' cup to coffee pot.

How would modern take be any different? Because waitress has to pick up customers' cup? Then let customer place it under whatever machine it needs placing. And pick up when done.

This just businesses being lazy, regulatory red tape, or fear of litigation. NOT a real-world problem.

Yes there's situations where "bring your own cup" simply isn't practical. But where it is, businesses (and government!) should embrace that.
Creating a consciousness and forcing it to do work for you is slavery.
I wish I knew the best way to digitize my thoughts and notes. I don’t want to invest in someone else’s app they may lose interest in and the text files approach doesn’t work well on mobile.
Nonparametric Methods in Molecular Biology [2010]
When have they “had control”? Do you understand how the US legislative process works? Only for a short time during the Obama administration did they actually “have control” and they used that time and political capital passing the ACA. Everything since basically has to be passed via reconciliation because republicans filibuster everything based on some sort of “principle”. Take a look at legislation which has been proposed, what the votes look like and what the filibuster record is. This is all very public information. There’s no need to pretend this is some fault of the Democratic Party.
Hadn't realized mcr-dimms (Multiplexer combined rank) could improve memory throughput so much. That's incredibly promising.