skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally don’t understand how to have a phantom like vendetta because of a person’s behavior, following them around with negativity their whole career.

Like, they made something awesome and need to monetize it. Focus on the awesome thing. The entity is going to pay those involved and they might sell shares for a higher price, thats how our system works. Suddenly caring only because you dont like 1 of those stakeholders? I don’t understand that.

I’m a fan of organizations becoming disconnect and unbeholden to public opinion. Some people try to become judgement proof - uncollectable funds after losing a civil suit - I’m a fan of cancel proof. Companies that dont have to change anything based on a stakeholder’s behavior.
> If HN goes away it's because it's replaced by something else

Why are you so sure of this? The internet is chock full of counterexamples to the idea.
That's how it always starts! :) I think the origins of the state in agrarian societies is super interesting. Does it start organically (like you and your neighbors agreeing paying a small % for a security service) and then one day you blink and its morphed into a massive bureaucracy with royal granaries, armies, ziggurats and human sacrifices? Does a certain class of people step in and intentionally turn the system into one that primarily benefits themselves? How complex does a society have to be before that happens? etc...
Quantum startup Photonic raises 100M
Author here!

> Why does the author want to swallow these exceptions?

Sometimes you want to swallow exceptions and sometimes you don't. The examples in the article may be a little contrived, but there are situations where logging an error and continuing is better because it prevents data loss.

> Let them propagate and it's obvious where the issue lies.

If they propagate down the stack then you lose context. You also may not have all the data you need to properly recover (e.g. still write to a table but make the errored field null).

> You still don't know what type of errors a function will throw without inspecting the code and thus how to resolve them.

You're right that we don't know which error occurred with the approach in the article, but you at least know that there could be an error. This is better than try/catch because that doesn't tell you whether an error could happen
Interesting. What do you use it for?
How has the immigration law situation changed in the past 10 years? Have things become easier (doubt it), harder, or much harder, to work in the US? If I had to guess from what I've heard secondhand, I would say harder.
> On the other, both Chris and I left Google to found startups, and neither the Socratic team nor Google as a whole have yet produced an AI powered tutor worthy of Google's capabilities. But a few Socratic Googlers might yet make it happen, unless they've been re-org'd

Feels a bit like the post is upbeat padding to share the real experience/criticism which is this part (ie exactly what you expect for a small focused app getting acquired by a giant directionless company)
https://mpdc.dc.gov/trackmystuff

> What happens if someone steals my vehicle? What steps should I take?
Report it. Call 911 and let the Office of Unified Communications dispatcher know that you vehicle has a tracking device. When responding officers arrive, you will have to provide them with the real-time location of the device.

I don't know, this almost sounds reasonable. Doesn't seem that you have to give access to your Apple account to police, just tell them where the car is
This topic is explicitly about considering alternatives to the current Pythonic way.
I couldn’t hear it perfectly, but I’m pretty sure the instructions it provided were to transform the vertices of the cube to make the sphere. It’s like using MS Frontpage. It may look right, but it’s a convoluted mess underneath.
Which is also a good plan! However, most people don't understand the complex care that forest's require.

Most forests in North America evolved millions of years ago to deal with fire to reproduce and keep invasive species culled. Humans interfere with these process in several ways (::grunt::, logging bad, ::grunt::, fire bad, ::grunt scratch::). Studies need to be conducted where we could substitute fire for logging without impacting wildlife. Certain forests would be better candidates for this, but it's also important to make sure slow-growth forests have adequate fire protection to prevent runaway fires.

There's already a lot of momentum with sustainable logging in North America, but it is something that needs to be done in South America and Asia as well.

Logging creates _a lot_ of useful products for people to use, but it requires continuous monitoring and research to keep it green.
Inconvenient and for much of the country, unnecessary. Even when living in the same county as Detroit (but not in the city limits), porch pirates weren't an issue.
> I understand that a huge part of why HN works is dang. I'm unsure how we mirror him though.

dang possibly has the most prolific and easily accessible structured data on his moderation decisions and replies we can have for modeling the domain specific behavior of a single person... surely we can train classifiers and language models for him
Two unrelated things..

- Ranji (CFO) suddenly quit after a bout of yelling and screaming from CEO James Dolan.

- Revenue for the quarter included $4.1 million in event revenue — those two sold out U2 shows, $2.6 million from suite licensing and advertising on the Sphere exosphere.

However, it shows that 1 show fetches $2M. 30 shows in 90 days (3 shows in a week) would fetch $60M.Eliminating $98M/Q loss may not be that hard.
Ahh... I miss n-gate's webshit weekly. You know he'd have been all over this thread.

Omegle (business model: "Uber for child grooming")
At the moment, it is against Disney's interests to admit to losing that much on streaming. The primary effect it has is to tank their stock price.

Once they have to pay out more people based on streaming success, their incentives become more mixed. But at the moment, if anything I'd say their motivation would be to minimize their streaming losses.
While all that is true, I try to avoid breaking the law when visiting foreign countries. I wouldn't want to make future travel unnecessarily complicated.
Not only is it brand new, any prospective performance looking to book there is going to have to essentially create a bespoke show for that single venue only, that will not be able to be played anywhere else what with the big ass spherical screen being the primary differentiator.

In my mind this is like if you were to build the first IMAX theater if IMAX wasn't already a thing. You'd basically be asking Hollywood to create a special version of a movie for your single venue. Like... I'm sure some will take that up, as evident by it hosting a few shows. But it can't possibly be an "open every night" situation, the economics just don't make sense for that.
Now, sort by controversial.
What are some non-obvious mistakes we can make that might threaten our immigration status, for different classes (for example H1B vs got-a-green-card)?
The quietness will depend on how well sound-insulated those diesel generators are I guess. They'd probably have to be running for most of that trip given that battery technology is where it is currently.
There's an interesting progression watching him over time. While his technical ability has dramatically improved, so too has the engagement. Now you start to get more clips of people saying "Wait. I've seen you on Youtube/TikTok". Love his journey.
Probably because it's too expensive. Prompt can be processed quickly but output tokens are much slower (and that means more expensive).

From my local test on a 13B model, output tokens are 20-30x more expensive than input tokens. So OpenAI's pricing structure is based on expectation that there's much more input than output tokens in an average response. It didn't matter too much if a small percentage of requests used all 4k tokens for output, but with 128k it's a different story.
“They walk all over me, but at least I'm still considered a somewhat respected citizen, unlike those crackpots”.
> Tumblr could have done the same.

Not without being removed from the iOS app store. Apple played their hand.
> Everything we touch has a finite lifespan

Indeed. Nothing is permanent. The only constant is change.
Reading through the comments, I’m surprised that no one has yet mentioned the Yahoo Chat era. YC was huge!
I suspect that enough of the y combinator crowd gets enough value out of it (and y combinator itself) that it is in no immediate danger - either financially or from yc deciding to shut it down

Besides - it runs on a single box last I checked
> Ranji’s exit was “not a result of any disagreement with the company’s independent auditors or any member of management on any matter of accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosure or internal controls,”

"I am not being held hostage"
> The Hindenburg provided a recognizable meme but even with that, there were things that could have been done differently (with technology of the time) to make even those disasters more survivable.

It’s also worth noting that 64% of the crew and passengers survived. I’m not sure how that compares to the average plane crash, but it was certainly not as severe a disaster as it’s usually thought of.
That's nearly Ibiza prices.... which is OK if everyone is doing the same thing (well, I say OK, you know what I mean). But if there's any other option, no-one's going there. I've only been once to Vegas, but I don't remember it being pricy.
I'm not the only moderator who knows how HN works. Just the only one who posts publicly these days.
re: the lifting body thing, that's Hybrid Air Vehicles' Airlander https://www.hybridairvehicles.com/ (may also be others).
I'm on the spectrum, and I hate loud noises with a burning passion (due to the fact that the all of the information usually hurts like all get-out), but something ever since being a child that has gotten me extremely excited whenever I hear it is in the slow, giant-engine-whine "whip whip whip whip whip whip whip whip whip" sound of traditional old-school dirigibles from movies and such.

I don't even know if the classical dirigibles even make that noise. It just gives me dopamine.

I relearned a similar lesson while hiking the Appalachian Trail this year, I stayed at a paid campsite by the railroad tracks.

I thought I was going to hate it, but somehow my adult, self-believed rational self turned into a gasp-giggling, excitedly-breathing, and hand-clapping and jumping up and down experience whenever a train came by (and blew its horn at full volume because we were right freaking near a train crossing).

Intellectually I don't have the strongest passion for trains, but viscerally is something else. It did not matter if it woke me at 4-5 in the morning, I would always lift the hammock tarp and find myself very excited each time.

My emotions about the issue are roughly about the same as if you personally suddenly found your body and brain doing that around trains. I'll probably seek trains out more for that reason (because it feels...amazing!), and continue working through whatever residual shame lies in authentically experiencing such a thing as my self with that kind of joy. My brain may be autistic, but my soul is not, so some things require adjustment. <3 :')))) ;')))) :')))) <3

Still, what a beautiful thing to have such small things to make me extremely happy, no matter how unexpected or "strange", given the context.
Is this the limitations of Cruise or the limitations of driverless cars? Sure sounds like the former to me.

Waymo is in my city and tbh I'd rather be near one of those than a human driver, from my experiences so far.
If this was cheap, I'd definitely ride it for long trips like that, but I'm sure it will not be. I guess I'm curious also what the interior is like and how much square footage they have available too.

Edit, I found this information in a different article:

It could eventually carry up to 14 people and has a cargo capacity of up to 11,000 pounds. To that end, LTA says the airship will be primarily used to bring humanitarian aid (food and supplies) to remote areas that are difficult to access via traditional aircraft and vehicles.
This improves the impedance of high speed signal transmission - at high speeds the currents want to flow through the ground path as close to the signal path as is possible. Said another way - designers work to reduce the total area inside the electric circuit to support high switching speeds. The additional power pins in high pin count chips serve to reduce the distance between high speed signal paths and their return ground paths. This is actually true for both ground and vcc, but is easier to visualize when working with signals and their grounds.
I think the discoverability of Smalltalk code within the IDE lends nicely to that too. It'd be quite obscure to many these days, but there's something to be said about the ability to browse and experiment with a catalogue of classes like a graphical REPL on steroids.
> I rarely see cycling jumping red lights.

Do you live in London? I find that surprising since I see it literally every time I go the centre (which is quite often).
Change is inevitable, and going to extreme lengths to preserve the current status quo is almost never worth it. Consider the recent death of Twitter, which seemed so real that tweets were being routinely embedded in news articles. I personally spent a lot of time there, but when it became unusable for me I moved on, to discord communities and bluesky. These are not the same, they are not a twitter-replacement per se, but they fill similar niches in my life. This process is normal, and has existed for all of human history. People are adaptable.
Lemmy already exists
You can set it to "non-Windows" (aka real) standby in the BIOS settings.
If you can't find it in settings, this might help: https://www.reddit.com/r/Lenovo/comments/zq3tc5/how_to_disab...
LLove – An AI Dating App
Silly me always thought Microservices was just a new word for SOA. What was the difference supposed to be?
To be honest, as some person experimenting with an idea, it's really cool. As "marketing" it's trash since it is slow, clunky, and the answer is never actually given.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VuQHSVnnvs
Yeah exactly, I was looking for a movie but D and D people got the formula right, it takes creativity to have it be like the game but no look like you are playing one. Imagine if that movie had these dice and little card rules, what’s what a B movie studio would have done
> Do we really want another religious war over microservices vs monoliths?

I guess not since microsevices have won already.
> What if the program receives an interrupt signal during the get_user call?

You shouldn't catch interrupt signals regardless of whether you're throwing or returning errors. This is why your error classes should extend Exception and not BaseException. The interrupt errors (e.g. KeyboardInterrupt) extend BaseException
I’m old so I have seen many communities come and go. Usenet went from being the go to source for documentation and troubleshooting to a front end for IRC groups. Those IRC groups were great but then died all of a sudden.

It’s even happened with personal communities. For four straight years, my friends and I primarily stayed in contact and shared pictures of our latest adventures on Livejournal. Or hell, I had an entire long term relationship that largely happened because of Twitter.

As those services disappeared, I changed too. Sometimes I found replacements and other times, I found that I don’t need those particular dopamine hits.

But the one thing I do know is that whenever someone started planning a replacement, the world went off in a different direction. My LJ usage was a great example - there were a lot of conversations about replacing it with something else but none of those conversations predicted that an identity required platform like Facebook would replace it. We actually thought that it would be replaced by something even better for privacy. Whoops!!
In America , Corporate Interests and demands are taken more seriously than the Rights of Citizens or what the Law states. And our Senators and Congress fall right in line behind the Chamber of Commerce to make sure Unions do not expand and our citizens are denied their lawful rights to organize any unions. Corporations hold meetings threating loss of jobs if any organizing by any employees. They turn employees against each other. All this is illegal but our elected officials go along with the companies and they can do what they want.
Obviously it is digital and Omnimax (not IMAX) is analog but how does the Sphere compare to Omnimax? Is it an even bigger field of view?

The most recent time I went to an Omnimax was to see Oppenheimer, but it actually wasn't that great since Oppenheimer was filmed in IMAX versus Omnimax.. the end result was a gigantic wrap around movie that had spherical distortion and made your neck hurt from turning it to see everything.
How long before this language server makes it into android studio?
GP post is correct in the general sense that the Internet used to be a thing only accessible to researchers at major universities; and therefore a place where everyone could be assumed to have some basic level of technical knowledge (if not common sense), and to consider themselves "an intellectual" of some kind or another.

GP post is technically incorrect, though, in that during this time, the web didn't exist yet. The tech folks were on Usenet and IRC, not on "websites." (In fact, the creation of the web and "Eternal September" basically coincided: the web was the killer app that got regular people to sign up for Internet service. Despite HTML being designed for scientific-research use-cases, the web that actually formed in practice was "for normals" from the very beginning.)
I would love to see a side-by-side example of C and assembly to demonstrate what you're claiming here.
If dang broke off and started a for-pay site he’d get rich. The numbers are sort of unavoidable. If a million people subscribe to HN and only 1% stayed with him to pay $5/month for the ad-free version to start, it pencils out nicely.

He could easily afford an apprentice, though finding a good one would be tough.

I would love to see that happen be dug before the burnout kills him or drives him batty.
US immigration? If I live past tomorrow, I want to leave the US. Idk how to even start.
While your team would still need to be involved creatively, I would hope the sphere has an in house team to create content as well?
Vegas has gotten way more expensive over the past 20 years. Now comparable to Silicon Valley prices
I used to despise auto as well but with new standards it’s just powerful. It’s better to truly understand how type deduction works, you’re gonna be a much better C++ programmer.
I wonder why. I'm running Ubuntu 22.04 on a Dell Latitude and battery life hasn't been an issue for me. I probably don't really do power-hungry stuff but just browsing, editing code, ssh, email, etc. it's been fine.
> if you can imagine an IMAX screen wrapping all the way over your head you are on the way.

Those actually do exist! [1] That picture isn't great, but if you search for "Imax Dome" there's some videos and stuff. I still remember watching a movie in one that was kinda like an early racing drone flying through a canyon and being awed as a kid.

They're projector based, rather than curved screens. The first one was built in the 1970s.

The Sphere probably still blows it out of the water specs wise, but more people than you'd think are familiar with the "surrounded by the image" phenomenon.

1: https://www.spitzinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Fleet-Do...
Worst case: it might at least save a few large buildings or containered cities.
MJ should translate to an increase in gaming previous for various cognitive reasons.
They could do better than bricks. They are making a component of mortar or concrete. This is already a construction material.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium_oxide
That there is a denyonym for it—and an ex-denonym even—tells you enough.
Seemed fairly dystopian before you get to the examples. It also seems fairly trivial to bypass even if it's through crude brute force methods (ie. screenshots/copying framebuffers).

Is this essentially just enforcement through building a moat around editing applications?
Is this a happy story? Having read it my takeaways are that they were immediately asked to rewrite their app in Google's way, then a separate research team went off and wrote them a new API for their core functionality. And now given Socratic by Google on the Play Store was last updated on Oct 21, 2020, and is not available for my Android 13 device, so seems to have just died?

Kind of seems like Google bought the company, mushed the team into the rest of Google and killed the app off.
If you write cross platform software, you might want MSVC on Windows and gcc on linux and their assemblers masm and gas have very different syntax. nasm outputs object files for both directly. Also the syntax in the context of especially macros is often a little better.
Sounds like something with similar goals as Hashicorp Otto¹

1- https://web.archive.org/web/20190506063632/https://www.hashi...
I can't imagine doing what he does and not needing a margarita or several. I don't know how he survives it.
I use "The Boring Report" for this. It helped wean me off sensational websites, including hackernews, because I was able to get my "fix" without addictive toxicity. Some of the summaries were hilarious though, like five sentences explaining that an announcement was made, but not the actual announcement.
I just want equal opportunity to take testosterone to transition from male to alpha male.
> I don't remember it being pricy

You clearly haven’t been there in the last few years. $16 for a beer is the norm at clubs and bars if you’re not gambling.
Oops! I'll make that correction later today. You're right: they're mutually exclusive
You make laws expire after X number of years, so the main function of legislature is to reevaluate past laws.
Humane's AI-powered wearable Pin projector to cost $699 and $24/month
That's only one side of the "repairable" coin though. They offer a deep list of thorough manuals for those who want to DIY their repair.[1]

I agree though that getting the parts for the repairs can be a hassle.

[1] https://support.system76.com/articles/guides/
What are the biggest issues that you see in the immigration mechanism that the US currently has in place (in terms of tech work visas) and how can we improve upon them as a community? From your vantage point is the immigration mechanism (for tech) working effectively for its intention or does it not align with its stated intent?
Why aren't there easier more accessible law and accounting services for early stage Startups. We used clerky for most of our registration and setup but the other 90% was just them telling us consult an attorney.

For non us founders it's almost impossible figure that out. There really should be more price accessible law and accounting services for early stage non US founders.
I'm shocked Java is the most popular language. I thought it was primarily a Node market.
Hello Peter,

Thank you for taking the time to provide insightful answers to our questions.

My question concerns EB-1 visas and greencards for extraordinary ability. The usual route to prove 'extraordinary ability' seems heavily skewed towards those with scientific publications under their belt. Would it be possible to qualify for a software engineer leaning towards tangible tech contributions, for example significant commits to open source projects and building online products with a decent user base ?