skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s amazing this is happening in late 2023. This business didn’t make sense when things were roaring!
maybe time to build a YTclone on top of IPFS?
> I dont get why americans are scared of us: we're just as scared of them. It's not going well here.

Because your government keep threatening to start a war in the Pacific over Taiwan and no one is taking those threats lightly.
I hear you that it's important for a more diverse set of people to contribute to computing as an increasingly impactful field.

The way I read keyle's point is that computing is also a home for many sentient humans who feel awkward in meat space but whose creativity blossoms in regimented systems of abstract logic and in electronic workshops capable of infinitesimally cheap symbolic manipulation and storage. Computing is good for society, and it's also a therapy / practice / haven for a percentage of fringe humans.
Well I fixed it for the next person at least. It is still a bit laggier than it should be but it will no longer crash your browser. Thanks for playing!
> Christians I have known aren't trying to indoctrinate anyone

Every Christian who was ever born was indoctrinated to become one. Except Paul, who was the bronze age equivalent of Jim Bakker.
It always feels like I am chewing the chalk. No matter how I like the visual aspect of chalk, the other senses revolt.
So basically the author said they have destroyed the reward/punishment encoding neurons network and found what: a disturbed behavior. It's not really a surprise, isn't it?
ok what are they then?
I think the stat was that more than half of public school graduates in California couldn't read at a grade 11 level. The parent comment to yours seems to be saying these kids literally can't read, and don't even know the alphabet.
No force majeure clause in your rental contract? Even if it's not there, it's in the law.
I wouldn't say specialist, because GPT often ignores full context of the information. Sometimes, if a system is composed of A B C D E, and you only mention the first 4, it will answer with no problem as if E was irrelevant. As soon as you introduce E, then, it will quickly say sorry and reconsider. I'm a true hardcore generalist, and gpt can help a lot, but I wouldn't say I can become a specialist with it because it doesn't investigate at all - if you don't mention it, a lot of times it's as if it doesn't even exist.
> without a higher power, we have no grounding for our morality.

This might be more convincing if we had empirical evidence that this “higher power” even exists and could discern (and thus agree on) what it wants and why what it wants is good.
I'm pretty sure Yandex removed all borders was because the Russian government annexed territory but they hadn't clarified the territory borders that were annexed, so Yandex decided to be on the safe side and remove all borders to avoid this issue.
True! This is well outside of the original point, but Beijing and Tianjin are interesting cases and perhaps useful for regional aggregates because they are essentially black holes that have taken GDP and capital out of their surrounding areas, explaining some portion of the neighboring provinces' underperformance. Kind of like how New York state would look very different without New York City maybe?

https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/04/16/523632920/...
Implying "instead of path B, which is good for your child, do path A, which is bad for your child, to prevent A from becoming an even worse option?"
more like "tak tak hiiiiiissssss tak tak hiiiiiiiiisss"
You might also be missing a deeper problem you aren’t event aware of.

Startups and companies have had huge layoffs and haven’t been hiring and instead making their existing staff take on all the work.

You may have quit because you were getting run down and burned out from having to take on too much for too long.

It happened to me.

I quit my job same time, at the time it was because I was frustrated by so many pressures from my family and work at the same time and I got to the point where I just no longer gave a shit.

I was the #1 star performer having all the ideas and carrying all the heavy lifting and after several rounds of me asking for a promotion and being turned down, I just quit right before a big project shipped after getting fed up with being micromanaged.

So you may have just been on the wrong of the economy without realizing it.

I came to realize I was so burned out, I have had a couple months off and I still am not ready or excited to go back.
> if you put your video playback speed on 2, your video ads will also play on 2x speed, meaning an ad will end sooner
someone PLEASE make an extension that both makes much faster speeds (100x) and automatically sets the speed to 100x during an ad and returns it to whatever the speed was before after the ad
Laziness, impatience, and hubris.
> The paragraphs about git were interesting, in the sense that the author themselves suffer from the industry's "I'm right and you're wrong" motto that is the reason, by the looks, that they've left. There is some unresolved conflict there.

I don't necessarily think that's "I'm right, you're wrong". Instead it looks more like just being strongly opinionated on the matter.

As someone who is very opinionated on git and VCS in general, I get it. The difference in experiences between projects with good, clean, descriptive git histories (see most projects that follow the linux kernel/git patchset approach), projects with linear PR squash histories, and projects with lots of useless "fixup", "fix", "try again" type commits is utterly and entirely massive.

It's the type of gripe that I personally would place alongside projects not having good unit testing. A project can still be workable without them but I'm going to fight like hell to get things fixed up so we can move fast in the long run.
Most of the world, not just Americans, are angry at the Chinese government for releasing a virus that killed millions worldwide, and debilitated millions more via long covid and post covid effects like loss of smell and taste. A virus that killed their loved ones and their heroes.

Most of the world, not just Americans, are scared of the Chinese governments' utmost focus on nationalism and military in the last 2 years, in exchange for economic stability. At its ability to build warships at 20 to 40 times faster than United States. At its ability to reinforce Russian military and its war against a nascent democracy in Europe.

And you see, some of the world are annoyed that the Chinese, despite 1.2B large, cannot take down a mere 100M CCP party members - members that have brazenly started to oppress people like yourself with each passing day. Zeroing out your bank account. Saddle you with fines and bogus taxes. Murdered your reform hero Li Keqiang last week and kept you quiet.
I remember reading Stephen Mitchell's version waaaay back in 1991, when I was still young and impressionable. There was one line that really blew me away in his translation, and I might be remembering it slightly incorrectly: "The Tao is older than God".
If the author's reading, thanks for writing this. I'm also about to turn 30 and dreaming about quitting my job so I can rediscover the joy of programming. Very interested in hearing about any plans you've made.
> refocus on the prime objective: being nerds

I hope not. We need more structured approaches, I personally vote with all hands the amount of "play" we do to be drastically reduced, enforced by revoking a professional license even (if our industry ever gets regulated).

I am sick or nerds reinventing wheels because they are privileged and bored. Like I ranted recently here in HN, can we stop with the millionth LISP interpreter already? We have people dying in hospitals because the software of the heart monitor glitched or misread a sensor. Can we get on those problems instead? Like, before the 41th century for example? When will we get to do something genuinely useful that actually, [gasps], helps people?

[takes a deep breath]

First order of business: rework our interaction with the OS the command line, stop all the legacy lunacy of TTY and many others, and figure out one way of doing things. Do it on Linux. If Windows and macOS don't want to play along then too bad, the devs working there will have a miserable time, and that will introduce pressure from them to Microsoft and Apple to play ball.

Let's go. No more nerds. Let's be correctness + simplicity fanatics, I say.

> I hope that this industry turns it around

It will never do that. Let's not forget we are workers paid to produce value. Let's also not forget that IT is always viewed as an undesired cost center -- I hate it as much as every programmer but it's how people view us and curiously enough, that perception is very persistent.

Many people understood we need to "play" to gain more knowledge but these times are mostly over, at least in popular development categories like web and mobile. Most people there -- myself included -- are paid to assemble IKEA furniture, at least 90% of the time. Creative tasks are few and far between, sadly.

> The paragraphs about git were interesting, in the sense that the author themselves suffer from the industry's "I'm right and you're wrong" motto that is the reason, by the looks, that they've left. There is some unresolved conflict there.

As a guy who started 20+ years ago -- like you alluded to these times being more lax (which I haven't observed but then again I never lived in the USA) -- I stand with OP here; appealing to popularity and cult of personalities are sins I didn't imagine the programming area will suffer from, yet it happens every day. Try criticizing one of Python's many obvious pitfalls (no, I will not elaborate, they have been described a million times, including here on HN) and you'll be buried under a mountain of "millions are using it successfully every day, have you considered that you are the problem?". As if the amount of supporters of a thing ever had any correlation at all with quality but hey, don't tell them that (tidbit: burning the "witches" in the middle ages; I bet 99% of the time somebody had a beef with the neighbor lady and they set her up as a "witch" to get rid of her).

--

I share your nostalgia about how things were done long ago but I really hope we emerge more disciplined, structured, and much less bikeshedd-y out of the whole thing.

Play on your own time, not during work.
Didn't say they were, but, like.... they are. Ads are fucking gross. I can't wait for the future where we almost entirely abolish them. Probably has to come after we stop worshipping the stock market, though.
It's very likely just a US thing. You go to Europe, you see villages (as in groups of houses) and agricultural fields extending out from each village. While US, I believe it's isolated houses surrounded by farmland.
Sentry: From the Beginning
Finding a good place to work at is hard. Welcome to the workforce, I guess?

I only had one job in my life that I truly loved. Years later and the team is still on a Slack instance, chatting it up once in a while.

That said, the tech sector in general has changed. The elders remember when this job might have been unstructured and demanding but still fun. We got stuff done, and we felt productive.

Now, the young engineers are settled with unnecessary complexity and the microservices grind. It's not you - it's stupid. It's just that the younger devs think this is how it is, but this is fairly new. In addition, the information firehose is absolutely overwhelming and draining. So there are some pretty big things happening at the same time.

The good news is that the industry is reconfiguring to the "lean times" (read "regular, non-diamond-hands and non-ape-NFT economy), and it's going to get a little better.
I remember hearing a quote from an architect who was working well into his late 90s (unfortunately I forget his name). He was talking with another architect who had recently turned 50 and said to him, "Ah, to be 50 again, and have your whole life ahead of you!"
My role unfortunately doesn’t allow for this. I do more “in the trenches” data science stuff. The value is quite obvious to me for a role where there is more space for this or in product planning.
Why? It's mindshare. The world thinks about California a lot.
It's just as easy to buy Monero on a major exchange as it is to buy Bitcoin. Just as easy to send a ransom.
Reading the article: it dropped from the peak, still small percentage overall (a few million kids).

With online schooling supplemental options, parents working from home, it does seem like this will get more popular.

Part of why we end up with a cohesive society is that no matter where you come from, your kids will be educated mostly together. It will be interesting to see what happens long term if that stops being true.
Necessary but insufficient

I'd argue the more important big 3 are
obsession, organization, and ambition
Was in e-commerce, got burned out doing meaningless work, so now I'm working at a pro-farm non-profit. I get to be self-directed and smart.
Not OP, but fwiw I think there are 2: Having the communications skills and domain knowledge to understand what problem needs to be solved and why, and having the technical skill to do that in the most direct manner that closely matches those constraints.

Sometimes you need to get better technically, sometimes you need to get better at figuring out the problem (solving the wrong problem isn't worth a lot. regardless how "clean" it is). Sometimes you need to get better at figuring out what you need to get better at.
Their real innovation was a way of finding the stupidest VC money.
I'm a bot? Alright 20 karma, 6 month old account
Does this include modification of online games where that is against the TOS of the game?
When I use a TLS forward proxy, networking software from the 90's works fine. For example, I still use original netcat from 1996 every day, as well as tcpclient from 2000.

Personally, I actually trust the "TLS code" in the proxy, e.g., to be up-to-date and correct, more than I trust the "TLS code" in today's "apps". It's easier to update the proxy, a single program, at the user's discretion, than to worry many different applications, all expected to be free of mistakes and to update prudently themselves.

With the proxy, it's open source so I can do a diff with the version I am using before deciding whether to compile and use a new version.
>> The paragraphs about git were interesting, in the sense that the author themselves suffer from the industry's "I'm right and you're wrong" motto that is the reason, by the looks, that they've left. There is some unresolved conflict there.

> I don't necessarily think that's "I'm right, you're wrong". Instead it looks more like just being strongly opinionated on the matter.

Are you honestly making the claim that the part of the post that repeatedly states "You're doing it wrong" isn't saying "I'm right you're wrong", but rather just being "strongly opinionated on the matter?"
There was so much hoopla on HN about Chrome abandoning JPEG XL recently while Safari added support for it.
What geographic location? I grew up homeschool-adjacent in Massachusetts (I wasn't homeschooled myself but had common activities with many children who were), and the homeschooled families I knew were atheist, atheist, atheist, Unitarian Universalist, and Jehovah's Witness. All except the Jehovah's Witness were doing it because they felt the public school system wasn't serving their kids well (and usually also because the mom was a housewife with an educational or academic background), which kinda underscores the homeschooling diversity point of the grandparent.
You're welcome! I'm glad it's been helpful for you.
If you don't load too many web pages, nor use too many apps, nor try to game then command tab; etc. Yes, if you have the most basic of needs it is fine. But then if that is the case, a potato computer from 2015 should be fine too. And that makes the "great CPU" case much less compelling because it is basically useless at an extreme price.

In other words, the way the product variables have selected makes it a pretty stupid product overall, like most luxury products are. They do not exist to fulfill a need but to flatter the ego of the buyer.
And this is EXACTLY what Apple entry level products are, otherwise they make zero sense...
Picasa will only run on 32 bit as well.
It's Halloween after all.
The processing of the content in the PDF happens outside the context of the chat itself. The only prompt I've been able to get from that directly is just the auto-generated URL used by the headless browser that reads the file.
Individuals beliefs are often contradicted by science. Citations for the point you replied to would be welcome.
My buyer's agent worked with us for probably 5 months. Saves us from visiting dozens of houses that looked good on listing but wouldn't work for us, brought us to properties that were good that we wouldn't have thought about, saved our ass a few times with local knowledge (eg: this street seems quiet now but this is where school busses queue up in the morning) and finally helped us structure the right offer on the right house (we ended up bidding way higher than we would have, but it was just enough to beat the next best offer - we would have missed it w/o her.)

As first time home buyers, she also held our hand through the psychology of the process which in retrospect was helpful. I think she got $40K commission out of that, which seems totally fair given the amount of effort and at the end of the day, she made a 1M+ transaction successful for us. Yeah maybe if we ended up bidding and buying the 1st house we ever saw, I'd feel differently, but this woman really worked her ass off and was well worth the fee.
Phones are Apple's main business. At this point, Macs are second-tier. With Google, I suspect it's their engineering practice. Google doesn't like to make engineering mistakes.
Appreciate the feedback and suggestions! Added a pricing section.
Can he sue for damages?
Setting aside the rest, NIMBY's are part of why we don't have projects like the Three Gorges Dam that displaced over a million people from their homes.

Sure, a lot of it is just wankery, but a certain amount of input from the people who will be harmed by social projects is a good thing.
There have been movies shot on GoPro (notably scenes from The Martian), so I cease to see the novelty of "shot on iPhone".

https://goproessentials.com/3-films-utilized-gopros-filming/
There are many secular Jews in the U.S. - people for whom Judaism is a culture and ethnicity that's part of their background, but who don't believe in a higher power or any of the scriptures.

I remember asking a friend's dad "So are you Orthodox, Conservative, or Reform?" and he was like "We're kinda beyond Reform."
My personal favorite is Kerson and Rosemary Huang's translation, which includes some of the historical background for the hexagrams and is a very spare rendition that always seemed to me the closest in spirit to the original.
Surely everyone's had enough of the WeWork catastrophe by now? What kind of investors would tip in more money to rescue it yet again?
Exactly!

This can be seen first hand with Beijing+Tianjin versus Hebei.

Those 2 cities were under direct State Council control so it was easier to push economic reforms versus a largely rural province like Hebei, plus they were close enough that it made sense for anyone half ambitious in Hebei to leave for the big city than to stay back.

This is what happened in NY State as well with NYC and IL with Chicago. It's called the primate effect in economics.
I have a pair of tin snips that make short work of any kind of packaging. They're absurd overkill, but for less than $20 you can get a pair of scissors that can handle cold-rolled steel sheets.

You can also cut pennies in half if you're ever bored with traditional packaging.
None of that is even vaguely true, haha. What, on hacker news you're going to argue that apple's insane import restrictions are fair?

They're real apple parts from the real factory. They are genuine. Thats the whole point. Repeatedly he has said that removing the logos is better for him but that the logos are just on the parts and he requests they be removed from what he buys because duh, they are real parts!

Apple not wanting to sell the parts to rossman doesn't make them less real or functional or his business ivnalid, Lol. Apple is pure evil and would rather every spare part for every device be destroyed and the ewaste pile up rather than be sold to repair shops.
Yeah my guess is that $120 million revenue is likely breakeven at this point, probably being run over by salaries and even more compute / GPU / hardware costs to run this expensive LLM service.
Someone needs to make this automatic for paywall posts.
Unless ESPN is in the business of selling creative fiction, this is an irresponsible way to treat their sports journalism license. In fact, maybe media institutions should be licensed for reporting now, and any deepfakes should be labeled as such. What a shitshow.
shipping what business requires, and communicating with other humans
easy to deny a claim. difficult to prove it wrong.
I'd say that git rebase -i + squashing selectively is my favorite. I generally strive to make each commit into a meaningful set of changes than I can explain one-by-one, but if they are too big, it's harder to review.
https://terebess.hu/english/tao/mitchell.html

4

The Tao is like a well:
used but never used up.
It is like the eternal void:
filled with infinite possibilities.

It is hidden but always present.
I don't know who gave birth to it.
It is older than God.

My favorite, although my favorite depends on the season

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Fill your bowl to the brim
and it will spill.
Keep sharpening your knife
and it will blunt.
Chase after money and security
and your heart will never unclench.
Care about people's approval
and you will be their prisoner.

Do your work, then step back.
The only path to serenity.
To be clear: I think it's fine to be exclusive. A bunch of YouTubers got together to make a backup in case YouTube did what YouTube often does. If they ever open it, I'll call it a competitor. Right now, it just isn't unless you have some unconventional definition of competitor. They're trying to survive YouTube, not beat it or even operate in the same space. Nebula is currently a backup for a (large) niche of YouTube.
My first thought when I saw the company name was the Pebble Watch as well.
>Writing code is creative, its like art. Debugging is like science

I feel like writing code might be a science too. Coding science? Programming science? How about Computer Science? Or maybe coding software systems is more practical. Maybe it’s engineering?

No, you’re right. It’s Art. Save the science for after you’ve written it and it doesn’t work, amiright?