skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Power user is the wrong view.

The problem here is whether someone wants a good knife or a bunch of specialized knife like devices like cheese slicers for specialized knife functions.

The problem in technology is we presume it's Either the mandolin Or the knife and not both.

The fleeting elegance in the craft of engineering tech products is in empowering all these modalities and not the endemic narrowcasting we see plaguing the industry.

It's possible, it's just sadly not common
I think we're actually talking about different phenomena. It's not that booktok is driving sales for all books, it's that certain books sales are primarily driven by booktok and there's an attempt to figure out how to make that trigger consistently to drive traffic where publishers want it to go. Consider that Night And Its Moon is critically panned, but has a huge following on BookTok and was primarily got a book deal due to the initial pitch going viral on BookTok.

Of course one of the things to note is that the books with disproportionate BookTok audience whose sales are driven this way are often written by pretty, white, well-off women.
> If you drink from a river and get cholera, would you drink from that river again in the future?

No. Further, I'd stop drinking untreated water from all rivers. (Just answering your hypothetical. I spend a lot of time in the wilderness and wouldn't drink untreated water from a river or lake to begin with.)

This effect, though, has happened with software for me years ago. Enough bad actors exist that I've reached the place where I trust very few software houses (and I trust exactly zero SV-style companies). Not that all of those rivers are polluted, of course, but that it's impossible to tell which ones are and which ones aren't by looking at them.

I would never dare to start a business that depended on any of them. The risk is simply too great.
Considering the quantity of unsavory content on Reddit, it's incredible they ban anyone. (But somehow they do...)
He could face the death penalty, the title and article say the same with respect to this. It hasn't been determined whether he will face the death penalty. It could go the same way as with Dalke.
Realistically, at 36, you're too old to start in pro sports and no military is going to take you unless it's extremely desperate times or you're an MD. That's about it as far as being strictly limited. I didn't start in software until I was 34 and it didn't present any barriers I could see. Chances are you have a much more demanding life and possibly other people depending on you compared to when you were 20, but on the other hand, I also wanted to party, travel, experiment with drugs, date and have sex as much as possible, when I was 20, and had gotten that all out of my system by my mid-30s and I was ready to just hunker down and work.

Why do you even care what Sam Altman and Paul Graham think? What's your goal here? There's a world of difference in how much you need to impress someone to have a stable, rewarding career earning four times the median salary of any other industry that isn't finance or pro entertainment performer compared to trying to convince a VC firm they should give you 9 figures so you can hire a few hundred other people and expand your own business globally.
>the gap between 3 and 4 is not anything as large as the gap between 2 and 3.

We'll just have to agree to disagree. 3 was a signal of things to come but it was ultimately a bit of a toy, a research curiosity. Utility wise, they are worlds apart.

>if there really was no innovation at all as you claim, then there will be a limit hit at computing capability and cost.

computing capability and cost are just about the one thing you can bank on to reduce. already training gpt-4 today would be a fraction of the cost than it was when open ai did it and that was just over a year ago.

Today's GPU's take ML into account to some degree but they are nowhere near as calibrated for it as they could be. That work has just begun to start.

Of any of the possible barriers, compute is exactly the kind you want. It will fall.
Maybe they need to classify the need to be classified with a mental disorder as a mental disorder, and then everybody would be happy, and the book would be thinner.
Free and functional = relevant. It already is these things. The LibreOffice community is huge and really strong.
GPT-4 for personal productivity: online distraction blocker
It cannot be overstated how important getting transit right is and what an abject failure transit policy in the US has been.

Cities can not efficiently scale with car-only infrastructure, and the long-term costs are too high. This doesn't mean "we all go live in skyscrapers" either, and in fact you can keep your car. But we have to stop prioritizing car traffic (and its problems) over everything else.
All I gathered from your comment is that "Mozilla is lost," and some other negative epithets, but nothing on why you think that.
There are things people argue over, and things no one cares about.
In theory, passkey replaces password. Single factor passkey is more secure than single password, and it doesn't matter where it's stored. A passkey in whatever password manager we use (KeePass etc) makes sense. Such a passkey should not replace 2FA - you'd better still have a second factor.

The confusing part is Google, Apple and Microsoft implemented a hardware-secured (hardware is by default the enclave of your phone AND vendor's HSM in cloud) form of passkey, which can also serve as the second factor, replacing both password and 2FA. Some website then decided to support this type of passkey only, NOT passkey + security key, some are even deprecating security key U2F support.
Yes, there's nothing novel about an append only log. What's missing (or unbeknownst to me) is a library or small server that provides a good general purpose implementation.

It's not just a matter of "write to log, done!". Ensuring persistence, keeping track of consumer offsets, transparent compression, waking up consumers on new message availability, support for transactions...

It's not just a append only log that's wanted, it's a system for managing append only logs, without the complications like leadership election, replication, partitioning, etc.
hmmmm, interpreting that as antisemitic is almost as wild as blaming the war on drugs for all of societies problems
The challenge with UPSERTs is ambiguity, and the variety of syntax options you see on the page indicates different attempts to try to address that ambiguity while still keeping a simple syntax.

Personally, I work with MSSQL which has skipped adoption of UPSERT syntax and supported MERGE statements for probably 15 years now. While there's a certain degree of complexity in a MERGE statement, there's also a strong level of explicitness that is helpful in making sure certain conditions don't fall through the cracks or don't perform an operation that isn't expected.

The ability to handle different conditions in match statements is incredibly powerful and allows potentially complex ETL statements to be handled within a single merge statement. I'm not saying that's always the best practice, but if things are structured in the right way, it may be.

I believe the transaction isolation of a MERGE statement (in MSSQL at least) means that the lock on the rows is not released between the read and the write, which means you'll have fewer issues with reading data, attempting an update, then having it fail bc another process made a change in between the two calls.

I regularly use output tables to debug the results of a MERGE statement, and in this case the $action keyword is incredibly helpful for knowing what was done.
Actual Java dev here, not just someone who used it in college and got annoyed -- but I have no idea what you're talking about. Java has not been boilerplatey for a long time, I'd say since sometime between Java 5 and Java 8.

You do know you can declare multiple classes in a single file (static nested classes), contrary to the popular convention, right? And "public static void main" doesn't count as boilerplate, that's like one line in the whole program...

The real nice thing about Java is everything is statically typed, unlike in TypeScript where just your code and if you're lucky some of your dependencies BUT NOT ALL OF THEIR TRANSITIVE DEPENDENCIES are properly statically typed, and before you know it you've lost the nice safety and it's a crapshoot whether your type errors will really be caught, because a transitive dependency can do whatever it wants with your callback that you typed one way but it didn't care because it was plain javascript....

This is why I am not a fan of either Typescript or PEP 484 statically typed python. Typing works best when it was mandatory from day one, as long as there is some random untyped code in there somewhere nothing is really guaranteed.
It doesn't work well enough yet. The flashcards it generates don't actually fit well into its own ecosystem. When you try to build the "quizzes", the wrong answers are trivially spottable. Further, even the generated questions are stilted don't hit parity with manually generated flashcards.

My use of ChatGPT for this purpose is so far mostly limited to a sanity check, e.g. "Do these notes cover the major points of this topic?" Usually it'll spit back out "Yep looks good" or some major missed point, like The Pacific Railway Act of 1862 for a topic on the Civil War's economic complexity.

I'll also use it to reformat content, "Convert these questions and answers into Anki format."
Nothing to do with tech industry bubble.

I am shocked how little sympathy people have for e,g, teachers, who impact their kids every day, and have been consistently crapped on for decades on this continent. General public's overall sympathy to unions and/or truckers is limited.

Unfortunately, most people's attitude is "I don't have that, so they shouldn't either!" or "My life is hard, theirs should be too!!!". It would be more productive and compassionate to say "I don't have what they're asking for either, maybe I should do something about that and we'll all get better", but sadly that's not how it tends to work :-<
It took me a little while to get it but now I do. They want their community to continue on even if some of their members are moving off of Unity.
> To talk about "reclaiming" the net is to adopt the territorial language of revanchist movements, which does not make sense for networks.

I don't think that's necessarily true, "reclaim" can easily be used to refer to restoring an overall state of affairs or social-norm, as opposed to involving legal ownership or control of some tangible asset.

For example, consider the statement: "This holiday is too commercialized, we must reclaim Christmas." It would indeed be creepy-nonsense if that meant making Christmas® a trademark and all related paraphernalia copyrighted beneath a quasi-governmental entity tasked with its ideological purity... But that's probably not what someone means, they're calling for a broad cultural change.
The windows registry is both of those things.

It has a "hive" which is part of the user profile. User preferences are stored there ("HKEY_CURRENT_USER").

System-wide preferences are stored in a "hive" for system apps ("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE").

It allows applications to mix and match system-wide stuff with user-specific stuff, which only differs by which "hive" it wants to query against. It has several data types for different types of records. There's conventions for how to store things (although apps can do whatever they want), so apps usually store their state and config data under HKLM\SOFTWARE\MyCompany\MyApp for system-wide stuff, and user specific stuff will live under HKCR\SOFTWARE\MyCompany\MyApp.

All in all, my experience has been that on average its usage is a bit more standardized than config files. Of course on windows, apps (particularly C# apps) ship both with config files and a boatload of registry entries.

Lastly - by design, HKCR (the user profile hive) is assumed to sometimes have orphaned data. If a program is installed per-user, and you uninstall it as a different admin user than who installed it, the other user profiles cannot be loaded and modified by the installers thereby orphaning any other user data.
Ahh maybe it was the X terminals I remember. Probably from a magazine though. The only X terminals I got to use personally were from NCD, DG, HP and Apollo - and that was all before the ISP, since Linux was obviously pretty big by then.
FWIW in Australia we have reasonable exposure to baseball (and/or softball and even "rounders", both of which we got to play at school a few times), so much of the terminology and the basic rules are well enough known. I wouldn't say the same for gridiron though, which I've never seen played here at all.
Do you even see people playing cricket anywhere in the US? Surely in areas with large subcontinental populations (SV?) there'd be some uptake?
The issue is that console SDKs are under NDA, meaning that open source tools can't target consoles because they would reveal details about the SDK. Some projects have workarounds for this, for example SDL maintains a private Switch port that you can get access to by emailing one of the maintainers with proof you're a Nintendo licensee.
Firefox on iOS still doesn’t support content blockers, or web extensions - something supported by Safari and other browsers on iOS.
I think it's %LOCALAPPDATA% and %APPDATA% respectively.
I used to be able to buy amazing handmade items for reasonable prices and reasonable shipping from actual people running small storefronts on Etsy.

Now it’s just another e-commerce site that’s been completely and utterly overrun with marked up Aliexpress junk and low quality copies of anything novel that gains the slightest bit of popularity. The few remaining authentic sellers now charge so much it’s laughable unless you’re wealthy enough that cost isn’t a concern.
Mozilla's entire existence as anti-monopoly "paid opposition" seems more and more plausible.
They have their own format yes.
Most courts in the country have laws mandating electronic submissions for all documents.

They all have to have an exception in the statute for prisoners as they are stuck using paper for everything.
Metaverse: What happened to Mark Zuckerberg's next big thing?
Cory Doctorow coined it to mean something different from how it is now used:

Here is how platforms die: First, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification.

It now means something like "the process where products or services become worse as a vendor tries to make them more profitable".

Cory's definition doesn't really apply to B2B transactions (e.g. the word makes no sense for RedHat especially given abundance of other distros).
I agree, if we can get them into other jobs. So many other times we've seen workers who flat-out refused to participate in retraining because politicians talked them out of it. I'm specifically thinking of coal miners who believed the lie that their jobs were coming back, and based on that turned away free education offers that would have given them modern-world skills.
Read my answer below
OpenZFS is another great example.
Really dislike the “give up” terminology and related digital nudging in group/out group.

Just like I can’t give up:

- paperless billing bc I’d like ironclad proof I’ve paid my mortgage off and have experienced plenty of database failures

- driving without an insurance black box plugged into my car for a few % off my insurance

- cash because it saves the small business a few % points and I’ve (/s) never seen a POS crash and burn before

- paper maps bc you’re completely insane to do outdoors stuff without a paper map and analog compass. When you have the emergency that needs it, you’ll understand.

The best success IT has had is convincing the world that the digital metaphor is as good,
No… better! A total replacement! Stop killing the environment paper-man! … than the analog thing.

I have no idea how you can work in and around technology and have this mindset. I get sketched flying on software-defined airplanes these days even. If the scheduling software falls over under load.. I’m sure that implies every other airline software is A+!
Unless you're making a ridiculous amount of money, you can definitely match a developer salary remodeling homes. So long as you're the actual business owner. This was just an example, of course.
Or an exponential perhaps. Like the Wait But Why thing (https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revol... bottom of the article)
My mental model of that situ is "money chasing eyeballs" since having a curated list of folks to market to is the value - it's all about the user list
I read the poster’s question as leading due to extensive interaction online with that kind of sea-lioning or otherwise promoting a point of view (always one of a few, and mostly clustered in one ideological area that definitely includes love of precious metal standards) by posting (often wrong or biased) sources, framing them a certain (also often wrong) way, then asking what others think about that. It’s also a great way to accomplish (classical) trolling, by making a post that’s weak and controversial (so, invites replies, including from those who will refute it poorly, which is the OP’s lead—in to goad them further by responding only to weak rebuttals) but can hide behind ignorance or naivety (“I really wasn’t sure, I was just asking”) to skirt moderation.

But there’s a tiny chance it’s not any of that and the poster really is, literally, just asking questions. From the form and topic of the post, I give it about, I dunno, a 3% likelihood.

[edit] why do I judge this almost certainly not a genuine question born of curiosity? There are several clues, but the post leads with “reminder that…” This indicates a ready line of argument and/or beloved second-hand ideological factoid the poster has picked up and has ready to mind. The post almost certainly has a slant, and if it does, yes, it’s reactionary.
Like every article about NYPA's strategy, not a single word in the article about the impact, if any, on the cost of electricity for consumers here in new york city, where we pay the second highest rate per Kwh in the usa (behind HA).
Yeah, though I've seen a lot of raw talent in people who just can't stick it out. I think this is more correlated fields and perhaps a mix of tolerance for fields with similar frustrations mixed with coping strategies for dealing with failure based on technicality.

At any rate I think a lot of people fail out of programming and into another tech career, so it's not really a bad idea for a 30 something from any field.
What about

"range may have relative error of no more than 10%"?

where the relative error is the usual 2*(max-min)/(max+min)
I've done a lot of work on MERGE queries recently. For postgres I suspect that self updating CTEs that report back what actually happened are maybe a better idea.
what relationship exists without dependency?
About 20 years ago I was watching the local news (small town in Brazil) and one of the things they showed was a farmer's 130th birthday. He had been bedridden for nearly a year at that point but everyone commented how he had been still working hard until that happened. They showed his wedding picture where his wife, now herself an old lady, looked like a teenager while he looked pretty much like the old guy he was during the interview. His youngest son was 30 at the time, which is another thing people who wouldn't believe his age would accept.

It might have been fraud for 15 minutes of local fame. This wasn't national or international news and nobody had any interest in a book of records. But it seemed real to me.
How could they not notice this?
Yeah, I can definitely believe that TikTok is changing the way that books are being recommended. But I’m not sold (haha) that TikTok is changing the way books are being sold.

There are quite a few stories of books going viral through BookTok, Bookstagram, and BookTube. But it does feel like slightly different. On TikTok, a random user can make an unknown book go viral. But on Instagram, it’s usually an already established influencer that makes a book go viral and often it’s their own book lol. YouTube is more for longform discussion and the level of virality has changed. But some influencers do still sell books similar to what the influencers on Instagram do.

Related to books being sold in Britain, I wonder how the demographics of these communities affect the stats. Most of the members are white teenage girls and women that live in the United States.

Also, related to books being sold in general, many of the members of the various book communities have similar opinions to HN’s users. They don’t like ads or affiliate links. They’d prefer to go to the library or buy from a local/indie bookstore. They’re anti-Amazon. They discuss overconsumption. On YouTube, they really dive into the ethics of it all.

I do believe that TikTok has gotten people to read more. But that’s different than recommendations and selling.

(I’ll admit that I started reading Cain’s Jawbone due to TikTok. I had heard of it before for years but never bothered to try it out.)
Bangkok8, read Bangkok8! A riveting thriller.
> At SEA it's pretty miserable unless you pay for PreCheck and Clear

But PreCheck is $78 per 5 years, and Clear doesn't really have much benefit if you already have PreCheck (it gets you to the front the PreCheck line, which at most airports, is already very short).
Human drivers are well known to be inherently dangerous!

They/we kill 10s of thousands of people on US roads each year.
I was going to observe that another totally-understandable reaction to getting fucked in a business transaction (or getting cholera from untreated water) is to begin researching everyone you do business with (or testing/treating all the water you drink).

I may be stretching the limits of the analogy here, but either way that "verify, then trust" approach is more work than "adaptive blissful ignorance", and a lot of people aren't going to do it, or will at least slack off as the pain of the original incident becomes a more distant memory.
> No Open AI is in the business of creating their vision of Artificial General Intelligence

that's a project, not a business.

> GPT as a product comes second and it shows

we can agree on that, at least.
It just doesn’t make sense. One would think that someone under federal investigation isn’t going to leave out ill gotten money and gold bars… but here we are. Smart enough for global bribes but dumb enough not to cover up evidence of said crimes. Make it make sense. Just piss poor OPSEC?
I use vaultwarden for my personal use. It's fantastic.
Ian probably re-invented it, like many people before him, but unlike your dad, and I guess, many other dads, he made a website, and the website became successful.

There are only so many ways to twist a string, and practical knots tend to be simple, knots get reinvented all the time before ending in a book. This is also why there there is no approximation in knox tying. If your knot is slightly different than what's on the book, it is probably another knot (see: square knot, granny knot, thief knot, grief knot), or just a mistake no one bothered to give it a name.
> Mixin Network confirmd on Monday that it has "temporarily suspended" all deposit and withdrawal services after hackers broke into a database and stole about $200 million in funds from the Hong-Kong based cryptocurrency firm.

> Mixin, which is a decentralized exchange,

These 2 statements seem to contradict each other. If they are a decentralized exchange, how were funds stolen by hacking into a database?