skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This matches my personal experience. When I moved from Boston to Austin it was like night and day how different interactions with strangers were. Strangers in Boston kept to themselves and when you approached them it would have an air of “what are you trying to sell me?” in which their feet were already pointed away from you and they were prepared to keep walking.

On the other hand, Texans are far more open to speak with strangers and shoot the shit with people in public. There’s less rush to keep moving and people are far more open to chatting.

My theory is that population density may have an effect on this behavior. Boston is far more dense and when you ride the train or bus everyday people keep to themselves. It’s far more emotionally draining to keep interacting with everyone that you meet so people conserve their energy.
I'll watch your efforts with enthusiasm! I think it's hard and I think commercializing it is particularly hard. I also think your framing is exactly correct - the shape of our social relationships is transforming quickly, but our social habits aren't transforming as quickly (as least mine aren't). I hope you succeed!
> because as a society we are completely OK with it being natural and all.

To be honest, it hurts when it's a family member, but the people really upset about this with no relation to the deceased just have weak stomachs, in my opinion. The bear was hungry, or annoyed, or threatened, and did what it had to do to reconcile the situation from its perspective.

> was about industrial farming

Sure, and industrial farming was a thing that humanity did to continue our natural eating habits but further society in other ways. If we're all out farming with our own livestock, we have far fewer IT professionals, doctors, lawyers, scientists, etc. So to make way for that, we furthered industrial. It's not ideal for the animals, granted.

Anyway, I digress. You feel bad for the animals and did something about it. I can respect that. I'm not going to change my diet regardless of the outcome of this conversation, though. If the bears figured out how to process humans in an industrial farm setting to ensure their kin don't go hungry, they would have done it too.
> Our findings demonstrate that the COVID-19 vaccine mRNA is not confined to the injection site but spreads systemically and is packaged into BM EVs.

I thought Pfizer tested the vaccine and said this wouldn’t happen.
No, it only reaffirms, if anything, that fast moving startups benefit from in-person relationship, guidance and communication with peers more than they would over Teams.
That's fair, according to the Walter Isaacson biography, that just came out, Elon Musk left home with very little money, and made everything on his own. He didn't really receive any material support from his family. When his mother and brother joined him, she had to work three jobs to support them.

There are a lot of memes accusing Musk of nepotism, and inheriting his wealth, but that simply is not true
All of Paul Graham's Essays in One PDF
It also reduces the number of people with bad intentions who will approach you. A dog may be cute and small, but they are also fast, bitey, barky and very good on picking up threats.
There really is no privacy is there?
There's a significant difference between buying something and reselling, and then having bots buying hundreds/thousands and reselling.
0.5 to 1.0 is just one F-stop in photography. If you make your sensor 2× better, that's not going to overcome a 100× reduction in front glass area when moving from a DSLR to a phone.
It's nice to have especially if you need to find a rogue employee but if you catch a bad actor only when he is already exfiltrating, you failed at your job.
I learned early on to avoid nesting conditionals. I assumed this was standard practice.
>I think centralizing learning into a brain is smarter, if you pardon the pun.

even we humans don't really do that entirely. the gestalt of different nervous systems that interconnect between themselves and our brain appear to be responsible for a significant portion of the constellation of traits associated with learning.
> Kindof implies pretty strongly “their identity”.

Respectfully, it doesn’t, I don’t think you’re being fair, and I think saying it does is rude and presumptuous.

It pretty strongly implies “what they chose to write a blog post about”.

If, in the blog post they described focusing on nothing else but money, I’d agree with you. But they don’t.

> I still want to get more revenue, but I realized that this is a moving goalpost, and it will never stop. $10K, then $20K, then $50K. I knew I would never satisfied.

> It’s much better to work and play at the same time.

> So I traveled. I went for a trip around Vietnam.

> My average working hours during this period was about 4 hours/day. I still tweet a lot

Clearly there’s more to this person than doing nothing but focusing on money. Just because they chose to write this blog post, doesn’t mean it’s their entire identity.
It is like suggesting that the link on a paywalled article be changed to an archive link without the paywall. That isn't the way HN has decided to operate.

Instead, users get taught to visit the comments first and upvote a comment with that link.
It also limits the audience to people with Twitter, I can only see the first post.
One of my favorite early blog stories is from stilldrinking.org, where he accidentally ingested way too much and ended up institutionalized. It's great writing about the entire experience going there and back. http://www.stilldrinking.org/the-episode-part-1
It is not any more reasonable as a theory—or even a hypothesis—than the theory that vaccine causes autism or that fossil fuel usage does not contribute to global warming. If there is no evidence to back up a theory—or a hypothesis—it is unreasonable to push it as a possibility.

What is reasonable is to assume that people are pushing these theories (or hypotheses) because they have an agenda. What ROGD is stating is basically that transgender people are contagious. This is a very disgusting thing to believe so they decorate it with science sounding terms and provide compelling—and suspicious—anecdotes to support it. This isn’t science and it is definitely not reasonable. I’m gonna call it what it is, this is hate speech, and it is not reasonable by any definition of that word (not even political convenience).
The artists may not be MBA types but their managers are. If the artists really cared they could do like Garth Brooks (?) and book repeated nights in one venue until the shows no longer sell out.

(I may be wrong about the artist but recall reading about at least one act that toured like this).
Some context. This road is entirely outside the city limits of Hickory (the city's zoning ETJ extends to one side of the creek in question). In NC, only cities and the state maintain roads, not counties. Outside of a city, almost all roads outside of a neighborhood are state "secondary routes," which have a number but are referred to by name. Some neighborhood roads are, and some aren't. This one is not, and apparently no private entity is actively maintaining it.

These "orphan roads" have become a statewide problem. Normally, the issue is not as severe as this--just a road that needs paving. The rule is that NCDOT will usually accept the road, but only after it is fully maintained. Wake County has a program to fund this and assess a special tax on the owners to repay the cost: https://www.wake.gov/departments-government/planning-develop...

Good image of bridge in 2021:
http://gis.catawbacountync.gov/_TileStitch/printn7q2sl.jpg
City Limits (dark) and ETJ (light): http://gis.catawbacountync.gov/_TileStitch/printszuxzi.jpg
Reading out loud (I had to) such heavy, thick next level propaganda diarrhea makes me wonder about so many things. Like, who cares?
Be honest about winner's bias... there are a lot of dead horses in their graveyard too.
AI Unleashed: Virtual Characters with Humanlike Behavior (Stanford)
I recently came across a fascinating piece about Stanford's new 'generative agents'. Unlike traditional NPCs, these virtual characters use large language models to exhibit convincingly humanlike behaviors based on their given "biographies". The implications extend from gaming to potential game-changers in social science through "social prototyping". However, this advancement isn't without its ethical dilemmas. Curious about this community's thoughts on the potential and pitfalls of such a breakthrough.
They're missing the boat so much, they're getting record usage

https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/22/bluesky-saw-record-usage-a...
Fascinating. Reminds of Gone Girl
Glad this Termkit prototype work is right on track then. Generated a 655MB lorem text file and it came out at 0m8.186s.
I agree, but of course all CI vendors build all their documentation and tutorials and 'best practices' 100% on the first option for lock-in and to get you to use more of their ecosystem, like expensive caching and parallel runners. Many github actions and circleci orbs could be replaced by few lines of shell script.

Independent tutorials unfortunately fall in the same bucket as they first look at official documentation to try to follow so-called best practices or just try to get their things working, and I would say also because shell scripts will seem more hacky for many people -unfairly-.
Hmm isnt that usually a sign of corruption and influencing the justice system?
I was just telling someone how I wish there were higher expectations for personal hygene at airports. I've had many flights made significantly more miserable by smelly people who obviously haven't showered recently. A very slight dress code, like no sweatpants or tank tops, would go a long way towards encouraging people to wash themselves and wear clean clothes before they sit 6 inches away from me for 5 hours.
I often highlight that every claim of +X% "productivity" with RTO is based on an implicit assumption that the commute is uncompensated, and that employees will eat all the costs (man-hours, fuel) of coming into the office.... At least for a few quarters, until angry people leave for closer or better-paying jobs.

So we've got (A) a misleading "productivity" metric sometimes being used to rationalize (B) one-sided policies which are (C) not sustainable in the long term anyway.
Would have liked to read why in person is better.

I imagine the biggest reason is it raises the sense of commitment for everyone involved.
Unfortunately I do not. The app has some advanced functionality that Google approved, but I can't imagine Apple would allow the same integration with iMessage.
a linux avionics system isn't terribly interesting -- what do you think a g1000 is...

open source, however, could be interesting
> A lot of people who try to go from being a dev to entrepreneur focus entirely too much on the engineering side (I'm guilty of that) and think that what matters most is the product and how well it's made.

This is important, at least for me. Some people can be confident without backing or just fake confidence, some people can't. It is a natural process to take a long time building the right abstractions and just then get into marketing mode, when you have a solid platform to back your confidence.
Or just make it an auction. Every ticket goes to the highest bidder.
I kinda have the opposite problem. I have 50-100 people in my phone, and I would only care to use the app for maybe 20ish... Here's the thing... I absolutely don't want to give it cart-blanche access to my contacts (perhaps irrational; I'm being honest). As a super-nerd (as are 94% of us here), I completely understand from a technical perspective why it's that way... But, it just feels creepy and I don't trust it (again, I'm quite sure this is irrational).

That was a long-winded way of saying "this is cool, but I wish I could key in contacts separately."

Hope that made sense.
Zide Door, a church in Oakland and now SF, you can buy it over the counter.

I found out recently that they have 91,000 members, and counting.

There has to be a way, the cat's out of the bag and has been for years.
> It seems like engineering guidelines, if composed carefully, would help solve at least some of these problems.

That's now how this works. It's hard to know how to design programs, it comes from experience, you are paying your engineers to apply that expertise. There isn't a formula for all problems.

Every large software company I have worked at simply accepts this, and allows engineers to do solve the problem the way they want, while requiring interfaces between teams/software to work properly.

Besides that, there are a few approaches you can take to share knowledge:
1. Limit the number of technologies used in your stack. You just listed 4 languages that all fill a similar role. If that was 1 that would reduce a lot of the cognitive load.
2. Cross pollinate engineers so that they get to work on all parts of the code.
I don’t care about the salt, I don’t like people making wild assumptions that aren’t founded on anything, and then criticizing that.

There’s plenty to criticize in the post, but I think making things up about the author is just not a kind thing to do.
These look like great options, I'll check them out. Dokku looks like it could be a good balance between offering a managed server experience while letting me deploy multiple apps to a single instance
Literally any event/gathering is a great place to start.

The whole point of bringing groups together is to encourage people to interact. It’s awkward for everyone, but you can make it less awkward for others by just being friendly.. complimenting someone, or even just asking a simple question to get some engagement.

As long as you are respectful, friendly, and not pushy, everyone will respect you back.

Try to find some local gatherings in your own community, maybe a church potluck (they won’t care if you’re not religious, they are just happy you are there) .. maybe a local game shop has some DND evenings, or just find something that aligns with your personal interests.

To improve your nervousness about speaking, toastmasters or a Dale Carnegie class are both good options as well.
Quite possibly; I'm not sure why calls would be better than straight-up buying the stock, but I am certain that Nvidia is going to have a pretty good time of the LLM hype.

Nvidia seem to me to have been consistently competent in improving their product lines. Perhaps my only criticism would be of their artificial hampering of some of their products, which they do in order to appease certain PC gamers by excluding the gaming market from usual supply/demand effects. This has the knock-on effect of severely reducing the compatibility of the hardware with Linux, which of course is by far the most sensible option for cloud computing hosts right now.
> The British Library exceptionally holds four significant 15th-century manuscripts...

They misspelled the word "stole".
Much of it not punished because many of the scammers are in other countries.
They lose less money on the losers than they make on the winners. The whole game is about maximizing the number of wins, not necessarily percentage.
It’s a perfect case for market segmentation - cheaper “less desirable” tickets that are NOT transferable (eg., tied to ID somehow, I could see them being cryptographically tied to a Apple Pay account, for example) and more expensive transferable tickets designed to soak the rich.
100% correct.

In addition to being generally legal in the US, in key markets, resale cannot legally be constrained. A venue or artist cannot legally institute policies or practices to prohibit resale.

Even if resale were prohibited or technically impossible, it will not necessarily be any easier to get tickets to a high demand event as resale is only a factor when an event has enough demand to sell out far in advance of playing.
So the only place I can find the last version of Drone is https://github.com/harness/gitness/tree/v2.20.0

You don't see how that's a bit ridiculous?

https://github.com/drone/drone redirects to harness/gitness too, leaving the entire https://github.com/drone organization without its major repo. Not to mention, again, that all GitHub links on https://www.drone.io/ are now 404.
Based on what data exactly? Gut feelings? What could be faster than communications across vast distances at the speed of light?
Aren't legal proceedings generally public information?
Their operations were much smaller, though, and arguably they affected overall ticket prices much less. There are only so many hours in the day for you to wait in line (or pay someone else to wait for you) to get tickets. And standing outside the venue for hours trying to sell your tickets is a high-touch, labor-intensive process.

Some of these scalper sites sell tickets that they don't even have yet, which helps give them the capital to actually buy the tickets later.
This is not one of those stories, yet that’s how some people here are reacting.

This person did a lot of work, including drudge work like support, building a Twitter following, building a newsletter audience, etc.
> We've now tried every point on the spectrum: fully remote, hybrid and fully in-person. So now we don't have to worry if we're being luddites: in-person YC just really is the best.

How was this determined to be best?

(Obviously, they haven't controlled for variables like the switch to 4 smaller batches, and the high percentage of startups all doing one exciting thing (AI). And do they realize the costs. And is it best for some people, and not for others.)
I did this just yesterday with my dad. Super convenient for ‘family tech support.’
In other engineering disciplines, it means there are agreed upon engineering principles that practitioners are obligated to apply.
You can interact with strangers everywhere! In a queue in supermarket, in a football stadium or in a train.

If they don't want to talk you should be able to recognize it instantly.
‘Plummeting’

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=us+life+expectancy
Cryptographically exciting. Unfortunate that the code is all copyrighted, and nobody in Seattle or anywhere else would be able to test, use, or extend it.
This.

And it saves all the history, which slack puts behind paywall.

Also, it has neat features like conferencing.

Some of the OSS I follow do nice QAs, presentations, etc on Discord, that just didn't happen or was unfriendly.

I've been on Zulip, Matrix, Libera and Freenode before, discord is simply easier for users and admins.
I think we're talking about different things. The rule is: nothing should appear to the left of your tabs - use spaces everywhere else.

Here's what it should look like (if you really want to go full-alignment):

class Demo {
\tfunction thing() {
\t\tlet height = 123;
\t\tlet width = 456;
\t\tlet title = "Foo";
\t\tlet description = "Foo bar baz";
\t}
}
> Maybe, just maybe, if I set things up right, this effort will be worth it.

Worth it how? For your own curiosity or in some meaningfully productive way for your future self?

> Maybe in the future I will want to know exactly what the thought process that made me choose one font over another was

Maybe, but if it's trivial it's trivial so you don't need to remember it. If it was something you spent a lot of time deciding you probably are going to remember it anyway - if it was important. This kind of historical decision documentation becomes more useful when you have teams and want to onboard new people (and even then it has a limit)

> Do you have any suggestions? How do you stop yourself from overthinking and over-engineering task/project management?

For single-person projects you can go very simple. Most people are worried they're going to forget important tasks, but important tasks have a way of coming up again and again. I think storing list of items in a simple todo app or on paper is about all you need - this list can be as long as you want, but the longer it is the more diminishing the returns. Choose some small set of priorities you will do today - maybe 4-6 items. Do those then move down the list. Feel free to re-prioritize frequently.

> How do you determine what is worth specifying/documenting/archiving, and what should be ephemeral and only exist for the sake of facilitating taking the next step?

Specs are most useful in making you write, and thus helping you think. If you can't write it down you probably don't understand it. Small tasks don't need a lot of writing because you understand what you need and why. Specs are worth writing for the big items if you need to force yourself to think deeply. They're not important for historical purposes - once the feature, project, whatever is done, the spec is no longer needed. And in fact it's not very useful to review again as it's always better to review the thing you actually built instead of the spec (which in most cases will differ). Documentation (how to use the thing) can be useful if you want your future self to remember or others to use it - so document APIs, Libraries, things like that. Don't spend time documenting self-explanatory functionality.
Yes if it's a large/unlimited capacity venue this is a good approach. I was at an outdoor festival recently and people were basically giving away tickets on the day of the show.
Insightful comment
Maybe it's the best for that crowd. The stable edge slow moving corporate world isn't obligated to have the same things work for them
Love yourself first.

Love yourself first. If you truly believe that you have value;

that when you open your mouth and speak to others, you brighten their day;

that when other people meet you, they are happier or smarter than they were before they met you;

then it is your natural obligation to talk to other people (don't dehumanize them by calling them strangers), because you are giving them the gift of your own special human light.
Interesting documentary, thanks for sharing; watching it I got the impression that nobody actually liked JS, but everyone seeks for static type checking and related tooling features.
A lot of people who'd like to see the show don't have $500 they can float for that long.

A lot of the "solutions" presented end up making shows too expensive for a large portion of the artist's fans. That's not an outcome the artists want.
I was always curious about the original cells of the parents (or more specifically the molecules forming it). Are they somehow “staying” in the baby?
Ask HN: Long Form DevOps/PE/SRE RSS Feeds?
I would love it if a few people could share some of the long form DevOps/Platform Engineering/SRE RSS feeds they are consuming, even if it's your own personal blog.
It's this and the tiny little super guy that occupy the same corner of my childhood memories.
They used DCA (dichloroacetate) to do the inhibition. It's going to be ironic, if DCA will actually be useful for cancer treatment.

For those who don't know, DCA treatment made a lot of noise in the early 2000-s, with all kinds of conspiracy theories about it. Like drug companies covering it up because it "can't be patented". People even crowd-funded its clinical trials.

Unfortunately, it turned out to be too toxic on its own because cancer cells can adapt to the levels of DCA that kill the rest of the patient.
When I was in grad school, I would catch up reading journal papers on the plane and keep to myself, but finally on two separate occasions it sparked lengthy conversation, because the other person was an engineer or a mathematician.
Not in New York, at least. Foo rhymes with Blue and Flu, while Foot rhymes with Soot and Put (same vowel sound as Book, Look, Cook, etc.).
Why is an “app not responding” message better?
Not really. It doesn't tell us anything except the opinion of a partner. Has S23 resulted in more successful startups, happier founders, higher valuations than W19, S20, W20, S21, W21, S22, and W22? There's no elaboration.
Show HN: Cup – expose declarative APIs over config stored in Git
I haven't logged in for months but seemed like they hadn't figured out a way to moderate in a distributed way, they are dependent on the developers to gatekeep and ban the undesirables (eg anyone accused of being a nazi/transphobe)