skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I was addicted to connectivity and over reliant on tech to live my life. Giving up my phone means not having constant bombardments of information and notifications and distraction making it difficult to be present in and enjoy the real world. When I walk away from my desktop computers, or leave my home, I am offline.

Why didn't you (want to) do this with your phone? Couldn't you turn off notifications, leave it on your desk, maybe leave it at home? Was it too much of a temptation at all?
Thank you. I've been a lone programmer from a long time, means a lot to me to read that.
How S.F. is dealing with its homeless encampments ahead of APEC summit
Until a company is dissolved, somebody is speculating that everything's part of a plan or that it's all going to turn around. Speculation is armchair effort that helps passive bagholders stay hopeful and that helps savvy traders work out of their positions.

I suppose it's a fun curiosity to hear the detail of somone's speculation, but it shouldn't be taken for much and it shouldn't be a surprise that there is some. There always is.
They currently claim 660 locations in 119 cities (avg 5.5/city) NYC seems to be the biggest with 49 or so. They will try to renegotiate all potentially profitable locations and cancel everything else, so maybe 50-75% get canceled? In average that's 2-4 canceled leases per city. That's commercial real estate so no effect on housing.

https://www.wework.com/locations
Bought season passes for me and 3 of my kids this year, we’ll ski as much as possible. Have multiple pairs of skis myself. Resorts are always busy and 50/50 ski/snowboard.
Apparently they're down 99.8% from their IPO ... some of those crypto-currency rug-pulls had better returns.

Sometimes now is the right time to move in ... but I'm typing this from an apartment so don't listen to me.
I recall we (my family) bought a couple things from them. The big thing about DAK, Sharper Image, etc was that this wasn't just selling regular electronic stuff. They were selling electronics that were new inventions. So the hype was not just on the product, but the product category -- CD players, Bread Machines, DVD-ROM with massive databases [such as encyclopedias, greatest book collections, etc], and all the hi-fi equipment such as compact speakers with a separate subwoofer.

This is something that makes be a bit sad in that now that I have money to buy whatever, there isn't anything "new" category wise (just upgrades on existing tech) that are worth buying. I miss dreaming about gadgets. I think the closest modern gadget that opens up a new category to play in is things like 3D printers and laser cutters/etchers.
Recovering "lost" treasure-filled floppy discs with an oscilloscope
Great to see the interest growing around native Web Components. I've been working on a no-code (markup only) platform which is also based on web components.

https://saasufy.com/

I built a whole chat app with authentication, blockchain and GitHub login with just 120 lines of HTML markup no front end or backend code (all the logic is abstracted away via generic, easy-to-use components provided by the platform).

You can also build apps which display filtered views by category or with text search with custom parameters and it does so efficiently with indexing and all updates in real time. Real time updates are delivered efficiently only to relevant components. Components automatically subscribe and unsubscribe to and from realtime changefeeds in an efficient way. Access control can be specified at the object/model level or on individual fields.
How Money Laundering with Spotify Works
It usually happens to me at around 8km. I get inspiring thoughts, feel like I can achieve anything and at this point I would definitely not want to stop running. Maybe it could be similar to ADHD medicine then.

You have ran some very impressive distances though.
To me its a bit surprising the platform wont even POST, seems a bit more like a problem with the platform than the PCIe card no?
Used it for the past two years. Was a wonderful experience - everything I wanted out of a coworking space.

I'll probably split my time between indie coworking spots and "unofficial" coworking spots (in SF, Celo space).
My father passed from Lewy Body dementia. His brother died of Parkinson's. The diseases appear different in the order of symptoms, but are similar in the end.
All part to the casino which is the stock market. Buyer beware.
OpenAI just slurped the entire internet to train their main model, and the world just looks on as they directly compete with and disrupt authors the globe over.

Whoever thinks they are not interested in your data and won't use any trick to get it, then double down on their classic "but your honor, it's not copyright theft, the algorithm learns just like an employee exposed to the data would", isn't paying attention.
Get Korean teacher irl or on italki. At least once or twice a week.Try to speak and listen to much Korean as you can.

Watch Korean kids tv shows on Netflix with Korean & english subtitles (I use language reactor chrome plug in)

Real life Korean conversations for beginners by Talk to me in Korean is good.

When you get to an intermediate level (TOPIK level 3ish) the iyagi podcast is GREAT.

Ive been going through the sejong institute practical Korean textbooks. You can get them for free online. They focus on understanding and expressing youself in spoken Korean. The audio examples emulate Korean speech much more than other Korean textbooks I've used.

The sejong institute also to free Korean online courses with weekly zoom lectures.

How to study Korean, sells anki flashcard decks with audio attached. The lessons are free. They're quite dense but are BRILLANT as a reference to grammar you have forgotten or want to know in more nuance.

Vocab-wise when you do flashcards have two for each direction KOR<->ENG. Learn the words for 3 days before putting them into an Anki deck (e.g. 30 words a day, but every day 10 words 'graduate' to the anki deck)

I find Anki good for keeping words memorised but not learning them. When you are looking at the korean word play the audio, it helps SO much!

Remember Korean is one of the hardest languages for a English native speaker to learn. There are times when you will feel you're making no progress. Then one day you will realise you actually understand what you MIL is saying. Have a sacred time every day where you do some Korean. Ideally at least an hour, anything less you will not improve quickly enough to re-motivate you, or thats at least how it was for me.

Good luck
파이팅!
Not “passionate” per se but I’ve been taking the stairs to my penthouse for around a year now, and sometimes as a challenge (against firefighters who obviously do that for living) I take the stairs and go down by the elevator to take the stairs again four of five times in a row! Good cardio.
I guess WeWork Won'tWork then /jk

But I wish something like this existed in my town. Coffee shops are okay but sometimes you just need a proper working env.
AGPL is the way. Every time I see BSL I just laugh - the AGPL is enough to scare away people that don't want to contribute back. And the enforced contribution means the original author can incorporate changes they put no effort into back into their own product.

IMO the only options for a cloud hosted service are:

1. Closed source

2. AGPL

Anything else is a half measure that disproportionately puts users or the business at risk.

If they want a CLA, fine. It still enables a fork later.

GPL and its derivatives are the only licenses that will stand the test of time for open source products for sale.
As an aside: the Omnichord series is being revived with a new anniversary model – I believe the model's launch date is set for December.
According to the official announcement the wework locations will remain operational https://www.wework.com/newsroom/wework-takes-strategic-actio...
I learned a lot of electronics through their kits. Spring clips eliminated soldering, all the components were on the board and clearly labelled. The instruction manual's explanations were seriously written and at a pretty high level. It wasn't until late high school/early college that I had the background to understand them. In the meantime, I had a lot of fun with the suggested projects.
The docker image, and on the upside is fairly easy to get running. But I'm downside, I'm
zero for two actually using it.

I tried a Bloomberg article which gave me a "suspicious activity from your IP, please fill out this captcha" page, only the captcha was broken and didn't load.

Then I tried a WSJ article which loaded basically the same couple of paragraphs that I could get for free, but did not load any of the rest of the content.
I can't tell if you're making a joke, a troll, or genuinely believe what ChatGPT tells you with out bothering to test it.

This is why I hate the AI hype, because people do legitimately do this and think "wow it's so smart." When I explained the halting problem using Python to a student he asked "did you use ChatGPT?" No. Of course not...
They still have free beer if you want to drink in the office.
I guess WeWork Won'tWork then /jk
But I wish something like this existed in my town. Coffee shops are okay but sometimes you just need a proper working env.
There’s a fairly strong correlation between severity of Parkinson’s and vitamin D levels. It’s a nasty self-feeding decline as people tend to move less and spend less time outside as the disease progresses, which may potentially make the progression worse.
Nice work! I have a no-dependencies project with somewhat similar goals in frameable/el[0], which takes more inspiration from Vue in its interface.

WebComponents give us so much, but just not quite enough to be usable on their own without a little bit more on top. Reactivity with observable store and templating with event binding are the big missing pieces.

[0]: https://github.com/frameable/el
Laser sharks in the wave pool keep them away.
In the mid-seventies at Swarthmore College, we were mired in punched card Fortran programming on a single IBM 1130. The horror, a machine less powerful than the first Apple II. My job six hours a week was to reboot after each crash. People waited hours for their turn to crash the machine. I let a line form once people had their printouts. I'd find the single pair of brackets in a ten line listing, and I'd explain how their index was out of bounds. They thought I was a genius. Late one Saturday night, I made a misguided visit to the computer center while high, smelled sweat and fear, and spun to leave. Too late, a woman's voice: "Dave! I told Professor Pryor he needed you!" We didn't know that Fred Pryor was the economics graduate student freed in the 1962 "Bridge of Spies" prisoner exchange. Later he’d learn that I was his beagle’s favorite human, and I’d dog-sit to find steaks for me I couldn’t afford, but for now I feared him. So busted! Then I heard this voice “See these square brackets? See where you initialize this index?” He was spectacularly grateful.
The nice thing about having assembler code on punch cards was that you could reuse them to “write” new programs!
Ask HN: Do You Program on Paper?
I'm increasingly tiring of sitting in front of a computer and typing all day, and frequently wish that it was more convenient to work while walking or outside. I also find thinking with pen and paper to be much more pleasant.
I've been thinking about figuring out a way to do my actual programming work on paper, and only transcribing at the last moment, but using most computer languages isn't really optimized for that usage. I've strongly considered using APL for it, since it's much more like a conventional math notation and pretty suitable for paper usage, but converting the result at the end isn't very easy unless I actually want APL- which honestly has a lot of disadvantages in this era.
Has anyone considered this problem before or made any tooling to make it more viable?
...these go to 11.
It will have the same effect as a raindrop does to a flood. One of many contributing events that continue to create downward pressure on prices and rent.
I am wondering if you became believer, and what changed you if so?
Unicode was a meaningful change to the language that it's difficult to imagine could have been done without breaking compatibility or repeating C's mistakes. There isn't much excuse for the rest, as forks with miniscule development resources managed to backport everything else. 3 did turn out a generally nicer language than 2, even if it was slower and caused a solid decade of pain.
It's perhaps more obvious when you also study groups, rings, and fields, and then you've got an entire zoo of things with direct sums, direct products, homomorphosms (the structure-preserving maps), quotients, kernels, images, etc. along with basically the same theorems repeated (the isomorphism theorems). You also have things like free groups and free abelian groups and free rings and maybe you saw a definition of free for vector spaces, followed by a proof that all vector spaces are free, so who cares?

So one thing you get is a unifying theory that tells you what things like "free" or "product" or "sum/coproduct" ought to mean.

Another thing you get is a vocabulary to connect different areas of math. So in topology, you have a space, and then you can associate each point to a group, and then it turns out continuous maps between spaces correspond to group homomorphisms. Or in differential geometry, you have spaces called manifolds which have a vector space at each point (the tangent space), and the derivative turns smooth manifold maps into linear maps of those tangent spaces. So you have ways to associate one type of thing to another type of thing, where their structural maps also get transformed.

Now you can start asking questions like "is the fundamental group of a product topological space a product group?" or "does the derivative send a product manifold to a product vector space?" etc. and try to understand when these "type level maps" (functors) preserve things like decompositions you have for different types.

All of this can give you a more compressed vocabulary for complicated things you might already know, which can make them easier to remember/rederive. It also gives you a new set of interesting questions to ask when approaching new topics.

Edit: for programming purposes, functors are a specific flavor of generic type (generic types are a sort of type level map. e.g. List turns the Int type into the List[Int] type), and maps of functors ("natural transformations", of course functors are something we can study with their own structure maps!) are generic functions. e.g. List and Option are functors, and `head: List[A] -> Option[A]` is a natural transformation. This assumes no exceptions or runtime reflection shenanigans. You also have sums/products/exponentials (algebraic data types), and you have facts about types that look like facts you learned in middle school like A^(B+C) = A^B*A^C, which says the way you define a function from a sum type is by pattern matching (i.e. provide a product over the cases). Neat, I guess. There's also infinite series for recursive types and other silliness, and if you pretend you're working with numbers and solve it like in calculus, you actually get something reasonable. Spooky.
What the effects of this will be:

1. Like many companies who go through Chapter 11, WeWork will come out stronger after they cut a lot of their debt, offload leases on non-performing locations, and shrink to only be in those locations that can be sustainably profitable.

2. WeWork users are likely to also be happy, as with the greatly reduced debt WeWork can invest in their product (though I think most folks that used it always thought their product was good). Of course, this assumes the locations you use don't get cut.

3. Some landlords are going to take a bath as their leases are terminated during what is essentially a depression in commercial real estate. Given how big WeWork is in many cities, it remains to be seen whether this will have any cascading effects.
Let's say you're at Tesla service and there are 100 cars parked there. You need to find the next one to service. This setting is for finding cars in a parking lot.

It has nothing to do with privacy.

I mean, it literally says what it is in the dialog that's posted.
I mean, Tesla gets away with straight up not even recognizing children [1] and running them down in crosswalks in high visibility vests as demonstrated publicly over a year ago. Over a year later and they still have not fixed it or pulled it [2].

Why bother with safety when a criminal disregard for safety makes you the world’s largest car company and the world’s richest person?

[1] https://dawnproject.com/dawn-project-safety-test-tesla-full-...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPMoLmQgxTw
Visionary cofounder & CEO still gets investments for his new ventures.
Inline skating for the last N years, and it is still the best few hours of my life every weekend.
Ah, that's a dataset with a size certainly intimidating, and in an environment where performance means money. Thanks for pointing that out!
I believe the reason is more sinister, it’s a rehearsal to ban RISC-V in the future, so only the backdoor-ed chips like Intel/AMD are used.
Buy property where you have no flexibility to scale your space (and thus, debt payments), then offer it to others with maximum flexibility to scale down on a month-to-month basis.

Guess what happens when demand falters? Though, to be fair, they were losing money before the pandemic...just much closer to break even.
The IPO was canceled because it was an utter turd. They went public (with a $9 billion valuation) through a SPAC.
Helped my kid’s teacher win some Teacher of the Year award where a company gives away grants for PR, and as punishment, she charged me with using the money she won to set up a makerspace in the library. Funny thing is when I went to see what they already had, there was more than enough to start with…LittleBits, Makey Makey, a ton of supplies for paper circuits, etc.

Used the money to buy some more things like a microscope and sewing machines, but realized that it had failed before and will fail again because there isn’t enough humanpower to guide the kids in activities. So I’ve enlisted a couple of other parent volunteers and we’re trying to figure out a sustainable program. One step is to make the space (a corner of the library) look cool to attract current and future parents. Think I’m going for a satire of a corporate lab, with snaplock linoleum tile and a steel worktable.

Working in ad-how volunteer groups is a new skill I’ve been learning since we started at this public school. Very valuable, but not a personal passion!
As I get older, game controls just get too complex for me to enjoy casually. Way too many combinations of stuff to remember. NES is most fun - 2 buttons and a d-pad.
It's a Chapter 11 bankruptcy so likely they're not all shutting down. Some locations will probably renegotiate the lease term with the landlords and the profitable ones will stay open. With the office vacancy rate rising, I'm sure some landlords want to keep them.
Right. Buyers should be careful to only buy stocks that go up.
Litestream: Replicated SQLite with no main and little cost
You are incorrect, this is not their second bankruptcy. They renegotiated some debt and leases previously but they have never actually filed for bankruptcy before today.
it's just an agent framework
Chapter 11 petitions have been accurately and usefully described in other comments, I justed wanted to add, chapter 11 doesn't "cap" or "downfall" anything, just as record profits don't cap or downfall anything. It's an orderly measure to try to preserve as much value as possible for stakeholders.
I've been able to generate some preliminary code editing evaluations. OpenAI is enforcing very low rate limits on the new GPT-4 model. I will update the results as quickly my rate limit allows.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38172621

Also, aider now supports these new models, including `gpt-4-1106-preview` with the massive 128k context window.

https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider/releases/tag/v0.17.0
Not all states have income tax
I'm in Europe (Germany) and have been happily using them for years.
It might.

With commits like "typo", you might as well squash these into the commit which introduced the typo in the changeset.

If there are changes across many files, and the changes were made automatically with some search-and-replace (or some refactoring tool).. by having a commit that's only that automatic change, it's easy to look at that commit and tell what the changes were. -- Presumably, non-automatic changes are going to be smaller.

I guess roughly, if it makes sense to apply a changeset that changes 5 things, you'd want 5 commits. Having commits like "typo" means there are more commits; but squashing those 5 things together makes it harder to discern the granular change.
The solution isn’t to switch away from Cloudflare DNS. Particularly when the most notable alternative is Google or my ISP DNS who sells my internet history to the highest bidder.

I really wish the community would post links with a service that works on Cloudflare DNS.
I agree that some parts of the process now seem more like “open”, but there is definitely a lot more magic in the new processing. Namely, threads can have an arbitrary length, and OpenAI automatically handles context window management for you. Their API now also handles retrieval of information from raw files, so you don’t need to worry about embeddings.

Lastly, you don’t even need any sort of database to keep track of threads and messages. The API is now stateful!

I think that most of these changes are exciting and make it a lot easier for people to get started. There is no doubt in my mind though that the API is now an even bigger blackbox, and lock-in is slightly increased depending on how you integrate with it.
And of the same vintage, hands up who remembers "line printers" (hence the device name lpr).

They had a row of solenoid driven hammers that would belt the paper+ribbon against a spinning drum or chain that was embossed with metal characters, typically 132 rows of 96 characters. The drums/chain spun very quickly. Big printers could print several thousand lines per minute (say a full page every 2 or 3 seconds, and much faster for empty pages.)

They were Rather Loud - all those hammers belting a spinning metal drum several thousand times each second.

A couple of tricks. Printers were not bolted to the floor. So imagine if all the hammers struck at the same time ... bang ... pause ... bang ... pause ... and the printer would increasingly wobble forwards and backwards, walking across its platform! The letters on the drum were staggered, so a row of "--------" wouldn't cause this, but rows of ABCDEFGH... would.

They used fan-fold paper, and blank lines/pages could be ejected VERY quickly. There was a built-in a limit on pages/minute but if you produced the right (wrong) output, and someone left the printer lid open, the stream of paper would flow straight out of the printer and start to bunch up in the air!

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_printer

And a early one operating: https://youtu.be/FiEGoVzmyvs