skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I am reminded of the day Ronald Reagan fired the air traffic controllers for their illegal strike.

I am reminded of the day this union was formed after two striking workers were killed by the police. Next time around it's going to take a lot more to get people to unionize and protect each other. Not with social media around telling everyone how everyone agrees what a bad idea it is. It is ironic the spellchecker is telling me "unionize" is not a real word. Or is it?
One note, I don’t think the author is saying that the person should be anonymous but rather the way they talk to their audience should be. In the backend they will be known but for the audience they have a specific name that doesn’t have to be their full government name.
You can of course find anything annoying. But you said that it's annoying that people choose to do this, and you called speaking without vocal fry "speaking normally", implying that it's somehow wrong/abnormal and they should stop. Similarly, it's perfectly OK to find some accent annoying, but it's not OK to say that you wish people would stop using their accent and "speak normally".

And while of course you can do vocal fry or not, once you've established a pattern of speech, it's very hard to change. You can try speaking a whole day only with vocal fry and see how often you'll slip back to your regular speech pattern, and just how weird it will sound to you. Or try saying "aboot" instead of "about" for a whole day, if vocal fry sounds too annoying to you to try out (which, again, you're perfectly entitled to). Either way, the discomfort you'll feel trying to change your speech is exactly the same discomfort someone like your colleague would feel.
It's interesting then how cooperatives aren't more popular or more successful. You'd think that if they were significantly more efficient than the typical dictatorship companies then they'd outcompete them, but as far as I'm aware that doesn't happen.
>which is a "win-win" situation

All these company support websites are so bad that people have been trained to ignore them in google search results, and hence they go directly to stackoverflow or reddit where real humans interact. Not seeing how anyone wins in this model. MS also has this issue. If you ever google for windows problems, the stuff on any microsoft.com domain will be utter garbage with clueless people talking over and over about things like clearing the cache or rebooting the machine with a paragraph long boilerplate that will ask for upvotes.
- Age, gender, sexual orientation etc apply to all human beings. But caste is applicable only to people from the Indian Subcontinent, and even though Indian Muslims, Christians and Sikhs all practice caste it was presented as though it was only applicable to Hindus. So this was seen as a bill that was specifically targeted at Hindus.

- The senator who presented the bill is a first generation Afghan muslim. This adds to the suspicion among Hindus that this is a Hindu-phobic action. It is kind of like a Palestinian senator pushing a bill to protect Sephardi and Misrahi jews from discrimination by Ashkenazi jews in Californian workplaces.

- The bill was based on a questionable survey by Equality labs - this survey has been challenged as unscientific and biased. For e.g. see [1] Anatomy of a Dishonest survey.

[1] https://medium.com/@rachelgotham5/equality-labs-caste-report...
why did they commit .vscode/ ?
OP missed the elephant in the room. Patreon is the only platform that allows you to launder softcore (nothing explicit from in front of a camera) NSFW content with legitimate payments. There is an incredible amount of erotic artwork, drawings etc. that are sold through Patreon instead of having to resort to niche adult video site payment processors.
Could you please give an example of one (or more) such recorder(s)?

I'm thinking about getting a cheap tiny dictaphone for logging ideas daytime for distilling them to my notebook/journal when at my desk.

ps: I find phone apps too cumbersome to get to the point where the record is running, by that time the idea might slip.
If you want something pre-Matrix that has similar themes, I recommend "Nirvana" (1997) by Gabriele Salvatores.
Didn't Graeber speak with people who self-reported their jobs being "bullshit"? Doesn't really sound like:

> look at other people's work and conclude that it's useless just because you don't personally watch them all day.
At the moment open source artificial pancreas systems are way to go.

Have you checked androidaps or loopkit?
Too easy to game: People are just going to gauge for themselves what management considers "not a bullshit problem" and report that, making sure that the blame rests on unpopular people or third parties.

Too prone to false positives: Any project which is genuinely going really well results in everyone getting fired, and the company absolutely tanks as a result.
I use 3 +'s or 3 *'s in my notes.

Clearly Carmack is 3x as efficient as me.
Microplastic in Clouds
in that case, maybe i did not properly understood how the author describes that model.
OMG, it's "A Mind Forever Voyaging" except it's a tv movie, awesomes!!!
Yes as a former competitive programmer I think there are a lot of benefits to learning algorithms

- It makes you habitual to pushing bug free code as there is a penalty you give in every wrong submission.

- You have to make sure that you get the submission done is shortest possible time, you learn to execute with speed.

- You have great debugging skills

- Edit (Edge cases as well)
This is exactly the same in France. The system is fine when you are in the mold as you are saying. It is at least much better than in the recent past.

Another aspect of French bureaucracy is that it becomes fuzzy when you are dealing at a more local level. Say you want to get a library card for which you have to show proof that you live in the city. I did not have mine handy, and after a lengthy exchange of gazes and after everyone has done "pfffff", "hmmmmm", they got a form from a drawer on wich you could state on your honor that you live there.

Lots of foreigners are rebutted after an initial no, when it is sometimes just an invitation to a longer exchnage.
And hopefully with a Creative Commons licence. Too much stuff gets digitised and put under a "All rights reserved" paywall gate.
Those people were harmlessly bullshitting (or maybe demonstrating the concept of revealed preferences), but you're still doing it when you take them too seriously and proclaim it's a society wide trend.

(Not you personally I mean.)
Everything evolves to crab eventually.
JP Morgan confirms deal for methanol-powered chemical tankers
Imagine getting your sincere questions from a Top 10s tabloid post. "Ten signs he's into you".
That is a form of historical appropriation that we should not just blindly accept. The word originates in the 1820s and the word as is much older. I for one will use it in its original meaning and encourage others to do as well.
> The Metaverse is so bad even Facebook employees won’t use it.

Well, should they change direction with it? Or should they continue with their original vision?
Maybe the economists who study asset pricing in financial markets should, but that's just one subfield among many. No one is beating the S&P with their knowledge of Japanese labor market dynamics or the 19th century Spanish wool industry.
Take less information in, but do more with it
Since VSCode is the most popular editor, it sets a pre-configured environment for people who want to contribute. For exemple it suggests extensions we recommend using.
Does anyone know a way to subscribe to find when he adds a new game? I checked out his blog and Twitter and they don’t seem to be a great way to follow just the games. Can’t find an RSS feed either.
> You cannot do business and be anonymous. The tax man would eat you alive. At least outside of USA. You also need a license as sole proprietor or be incorporated as a company in order to make repetitive sales and not one-offs. So again, no anonymity whatsoever.

There is no anonymity between the creator and Patreon, or between Patreon and patrons. The anonymity is between the creator and the patrons.

I don't see any reason why this would be illegal, especially as Patreon does this in countless jurisdictions.

> "by works" payment model is illegal. You can receive donations or have subscriptions or pay per view but you cannot "maybe deliver", "deliver maybe one work, maybe ten". Again, illegal as fuck.

This is a model that Patreon already supports (again in countless jurisdictions), so unless their legal counsel is completely incompetent it can hardly be "illegal as fuck".
Will Chinese AGI kill us differently than US AGI corp?
and, the -u option lets you send and receive UDP!
I have been wanting to get into competitive programming. I am quite an experienced programmer. Is leetcode still applicable, or are there other sites that are more suited?
The Epic v. Google witness list: Andy Rubin, Sundar Pichai, and more to testify
Most people decouple code for the sake of decoupling (cargo cult) vs. actually knowing when to do so. For example, I was reviewing a software project written by a bunch of junior/mid-level devs. They had decoupled the clock from the physical clock (good for unit testing time-based workflows), but when asked about why they did it, they didn't know or understand why it was done and there were no unit tests using it. When I asked the dev who implemented it, he explained that he decoupled it and so it was good. (to be clear, I was only seeking to understand, and not asking these questions in an accusatory way.)

There also existed many interfaces with exactly one implementation, which just increases the cognitive load when writing code because you see an 'IDoX' interface only to discover it is ALWAYS an 'XAdapater' that if you had known, would have saved mountains of logic (ie, getting a new 'XAdapater' from the container while copying some stuff from the 'IDoX' interface). It was a mess.

Are they going to be glad that all these abstractions exist at some point? Probably not. This is a pretty simple, but mature project. There's no real reason to refactor it at this point. The business owners just wanted to know what was going on and why simple changes took months to implement.
You’re on HN. Everyone here understands English to a degree. It is very common for people in countries where English is not the primary language to be able to speak it fluently.

You just presented your app to a bunch of people who can’t see it and who will never bother to give it a second look. In other words, you’re losing a significant number of potential customers for no gain. Those people will in turn not upvote this submission, further restricting your reach even to those who can use it.

Waiting for doing localisation before launching to other countries is the first big mistake. The second is, as long as you’re restricting the audience, not having a website where other people can see the app to give them a reason to check back later.
I wouldn’t call that “stand out” especially when it comes to game engines, game engines are very complex and they are all different from implementations to their algorithms having a native thread management keyword does more worries than stand out
Until recently pixel did not allowed 5G in several Europeans countries, it was sw disabled. Meanwhile they activated it some weeks ago because they are launching the phone officially there . This kind of things is just stupidity, no one in the world does that why would they do? To provide a bad experience? It seems that they have a product team full of lawyers. Instead of putting sw engineers working on these blocks they could put them fixing the 911 issue
Encountered this too often in my career and had a lot of wtf moments debugging that «de-coupled» stuff others (and sometimes me) have left.

I decided to follow the «Wrong abstraction is worse than duplication» approach. Doing this for 5+ years now and did never regret it.

Sure, copy-pasta sucks but in comparison to over engineering it’s an acceptable price to pay.
Quake 3, I do believe, had it's own shader language so the designers could have more control over visual effects.

https://icculus.org/gtkradiant/documentation/Q3AShader_Manua...

The dude was definitely doing stuff no one else had ever done.
Then again I have a 90's game dev book that covers ASM as well as manufacturing then programming your own sound card using the parallel port so... you're not wrong.
This is all you need to know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z9UyPurVok
Except for the pixelation! That didn't exist back then.

But this is the stuff I was talking about, thanks.
The people that fail to reason will continue to fail to reason regardless of any comment I make.
Colossus was a bit of a bore. If you want an exciting and somewhat prophetic film about an AI assistant I'd recommend Demon Seed (1977) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_Seed
It doesn't seem LLMs are capable of "understanding" that they don't "know" something, so there are certainly some observable differences. But the intent of my original comment was precisely to highlight that we don't know. It could be that next token predication is somehow mathematically equivalent to what we call consciousness. That would certainly be a revelation.
Show HN: Track time spent on activities that matter to you
Either someone else decides for me what's reputable, or I do. I prefer it's me, it's not something I'd like to delegate. I read books, and if I like them I follow the authors. I follow people at the forefront of AI research etc. I also have a near zero-tolerance for political and incendiary tweets, it doesn't matter how amazing the person is if half their tweets are woke or anti-woke. I wish there was a way to filter out the bad parts so I could follow some of these people, should be fairly simple to implement.

> "I have a PhD in X"

PhDs are a dime a dozen these days, I don't believe in credentialism. They have to show that they've done something exceptional outside of gaming academia. This may all sound elitist, but I also wouldn't follow myself because I'm not exceptional in any way. By my own logic I probably shouldn't pollute HN with my midwit comments, but it's a selfish way of practicing writing and making arguments I suppose.
I used to think I was working hard until I began tracking my focused work time, excluding trivial tasks like emails. I was surprised to find I averaged only 40-50 hours a week. My goal is to maintain a consistent 60.

I created a web app with a stopwatch and a bar chart log. Start the stopwatch when working and pause for breaks.

Here's an example of how my friend, Sam, has been using the app: www.countthehours.app/u/samdarmali

Hope you guys find it helpful!
I get that but you cannot be selling anonymously as long as it is a way for you to make a living, fully or partially, and it is not a one time thing(like selling some used items on ebay or similar website). I cannot speak for all countries but I would say most have a law that requires you to get a sole proprietor license or incorporate as company when you are getting income from repeated transactions. Customers have various protections so they must know the identity of the seller. Not that they want to, mostly they don't, but by law they must be able to get that information, possible even receive an invoice that lists this information. Not to mention that if you are buying works for business purposes, VAT might get involved and other legal and tax complexities.

If you are making a platform you must make it universally usable. Just because one creator does not like or is missing some thing, you just cannot bend the platform to suit his needs. It just does not work like that.

Personally, I have solved the anonymity issue. It's not hard to do but it requires legal layering, which sounds way more complex than it actually is, but i don't want to get out my solution in here.
Ask HN: Foundational Books
Hi, I am looking for examples of technical books that are relatively short but well-written and provide a strong foundation for their topics. Such an example for me is Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus. Do you have other examples - e.g. about forecasting, linear algebra, graphics, etc.
Glad to see alternatives but disappointed that Bruno does not support OpenAPI specification.

At my company, we hand-edit OpenAPI specs in YAML and it gets consumed by many tools that generate types[0], static analysis and dynamic checks[1]. The OpenAPI spec itself is linted[2]. And of course, Postman consumes OpenAPI.

Tools that are built on open standards will naturally see greater adoption over those that use proprietary formats.

[0]: https://openapi-ts.pages.dev
[1]: https://openapi-enforcer.com
[2]: https://stoplight.io/open-source/spectral
Putin: Prigozhin's plane crashed because leadership set off grenades drunkenly
> and for the most part have chosen to have the bulk of their medical treatment in the U.S.

Citation? Because that is very rare, even for the very rich.
What happens when you were right?

Eg, as an SDE in 2017 you worked on Amazon Device’s econometrics team and were screaming the entire org was in trouble — but the PhD economists and directors ignored you.

We’re at 5 years, a gutted department, billions in losses, etc. Now what?

Or you warned WarnerMedia executives about their internal corporate misandry just before they fired Johnny Depp for being a male victim — and destroyed two tent pole properties in the process.

Or were at Amazon again and warned there’d be financial troubles circa start of 2022 based on unprofessional conduct in FinTech?

…what happens when you’re repeatedly right about multi-billion dollar mistakes before they happen, but your employer just doesn’t care?

I don’t want to participate in what I see at WarnerMedia, Amazon,… Target, Disney, Bud Light, etc.

I want to be able to say I did the right thing for shareholders — not shut my mouth and took the hush money to defraud them.
The IRS and Patreon need to know who you are. Patrons don't. The article is pretty specific about the distinction. (Looks like the US is 30% of patreon's business, more than any other single country, so I'm reasonably comfortable acting like my US-specific response matters.)

Likewise, are you claiming that the "by works" model that patreon supports today is illegal?

As for the "non quid pro quo" case - as a patron I care about this one in particular - patreon does this (or at least only screws it up in minor ways), the article is just recommending that any alternative handle it too. Maybe your donation management approach handles this?

Finally, "api access to third parties without being able to monetize it" - the request isn't so much for third party access, as first party - primarily for artists, maybe optionally for patrons. (This one is a little less important if you have a broad enough range of artist-CRM options, but really, noone has before, api support for developers is a great way to let other people fail fast so you don't have to...) Also, the API in question is something slightly less sophisticated than "a single google sheet per artist", it's not going to be that expensive.

I'm definitely curious about what you come up with, especially if you get traction with artists - but only about half a dozen of the artists I support through patreon are outside the US anyway, so until you work out US support I'm probably not going to notice. Good luck, though.
Are you like 20? Your own country and allies have probably thrown fuel into some of these fires historically.

> It’s getting a bit boring to be honest.

Learn some empathy. Or next time something happens to your country I'm gonna feel the same.
This is called feature engineering if you want to look up more of a history and use of this idea.

Edit - tokenising is a form of this, you're pre-transforming the data to save it having to learn patterns you know are important.
> There is no anonymity between the creator and Patreon, or between Patreon and patrons. The anonymity is between the creator and the patrons.

that is exactly the problem. You have two relationships here: author -> patreon and author -> patrons. The first one is irrelevant, the second on is the problematic one. You cannot be anonymous in one case and not in another. That is not how business, law or taxes work - anywhere. Just because patrons do not want to know the legal identity does not mean it is legal to hide it. You could get sued for tax avoidance like that.
Does QUIC offer MP-TCP like capabilities? e.g. multiplexing connections to different IPs.
If you want to start an important conversation ask if they see any viable path to property ownership before their 50s
What is a "document"? (1997) [pdf]
While analysing my web traffic I’ve seen 5 sessions from an IP registered to Starlink in Antarctica specifically
Fair enough, will make it available in all countries, thanks for the feedback!
Do you have links to more writing about howard carter ? It's quite interesting to me, those artefacts are still on display and are very famous
I don't think there's much doubt on that actually, the diagnostic was confirmed by CDC analysis and antibodies were found.
Proof that editorialised titles are acceptable.
> As an aside, using `any` gives you the worst of both worlds: you have to fight with a type system, and the type system isn't even doing anything

Not sure I agree there. You can use `any` judiciously so that don't have to fight the type system where it's too difficult, and yet still get the benefits elsewhere in your program.

I think it's actually one of the biggest benefits of dynamic typing - in rare cases you can use `any`. Most static type systems don't really let you do that. (I think Dart is one of the rare exceptions because it started dynamically typed and switched to statically typed.)
The very notion of "base tastes" is confusing. It's not like you can decompose every taste into just these 5 base tastes, i.e. a strawberry taste. Yes, they are omnipresent and prominent, but why single them out?
And? We're here discussing an article most can't access otherwise. Why give them this?

Find another source.
You can, but your whole life in data is only worth pennies to the data vampires. They need to feed continuously.
> IT has a responsibility to keep the network secure

By chopping the head off?
Nice! Pretty interesting syntax. Not sure about / for comments or the function argument syntax but you have a solid point about not using " or ' for strings!
The author starts the article with "take Patreon's lunch money". What lunch? The one VCs fed them? Is Patreon even profitable?
Upvoted for Christopher Lambert, the B movie lover's action hero. If you haven't seen Fortress (1992) it's well worth your time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_(1992_film) (but nothing to do with AI)
There's a great Emacs mode, and it looks like it works in the same way, putting it in a file:

https://github.com/pashky/restclient.el
Some people think that if you don't throw exceptions then you don't have to bother dealing with errors. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Seeing Like A State seems interesting, Thank you for the reference.

From the Wikipedia article:

> A main theme of this book [...] is that states operate systems of power toward 'legibility' in order to see their subjects correctly in a top-down, modernist, model that is flawed, problematic, and often ends poorly for subjects. The goal of local legibility by the state is transparency from the top down, from the top of the tower or the center/seat of the government, so the state can effectively operate upon their subjects.

I can definitely see that happening with excessive reporting in corporate life. Also seems somewhat analogous to the corporate/state mass surveillance topic (à la Snowden).
So losing your voting rights after a felony doesn't violate your constitutional rights but banning gun possession does?

Nuts.

Seems like it's harder to vote in the US than getting a gun.