skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"software is just fluff compared to the business"

The thing is, software pretty much is the business in many cases, or at least an essential component of it. Facebook is an advertising business, but without the websites and aps, there'd be no-one to advertise to and nowhere to do it.
"I remember my last two semesters of university. All the way back to last year!" It's kind of fuzzy being such a long time ago (or maybe all of the beer and other consumables), but if I recall correctly (from last year),...."

I can't tell if you were being serious or just a damn good understated bit of comedy
I always thought it was obvious: a program is/contains a concrete implementation of an algorithm.

A recipe book contains an algorithm for baking cookies, but how you do it vs how someone else does it is going to have slight differences (accuracy of measurements, size of cookie, etc).
I lived in SF for ~10ish years up until 2020 and still return regularly for work/friends.

I agree that it is mostly downtown that is dead but the rest of your comment seems hyperbolic to me. Hayes Valley, Valencia, Polk was way more lively when I was there.

> best job market

The hundreds in SF laid off this year may disagree

> most lucrative

yes, incomes and stocks do generally increase yoy. Tautology.

> and most advanced

as does technology
Did they fall under 1T? How sad.
Yeah and are generally more creative overall enjoying mastering another fine art of some sort different than their line of work
Reminds me of that saying "be careful what you wish for". As others have pointed out in this thread, it’s ok to have ideas but it’s the implementations that ruin the world.
So the phrase "from the river to the sea" is hateful to many but when it comes to disrespect Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) or Quran then it becomes freedom of speech no matter a vast majority of world population hates it. Hypocrisy to say the least!
Google's Lookout app (accessibility for the blind and visually impaired) was updated ~6 months ago with a multimodal LLM already.

It uses the Flamingo model family: https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/tackling-multiple-task...
If you have a business, you have a business without an app

If you don’t have a business without an app, the app is the business.
I've made my peace with the realization that motivation is something very physical, mostly related to dopamine. Many people like to manipulate that with caffeine, nicotine, methylphenidate etc. Some can achieve things with lower levels/activation. But in the end, there's not way completely around it.

There was a time in my life where I took huge doses of Isotretinoin, a compound that is known to disrupt the dopamine system. And I was barely able to do anything. Even "fun" activities like watching my favorite show were out of the question.
No, but it was will marginally bid up the price of housing, which is my number one expense right now and my expected number one expense for the foreseeable future.

Maybe this whole thread is a mislead and someone has their eyes on the peninsula ;)
Pretty lost yeah, but you're asking questions which is better than 90% of the people who are lost. Some very brief answers:

They're called qubits; a cubit is a length about 50cm. Pronounced the same though.

Quantum computers are not about being able to change connections in real time. We know how powerful such a computer could be (it can be simulated by a classical computer in polynomial time), and quantum computers are more powerful than that. (Some nitpicker is going to swoop by and say that technically we haven't proven that BQP != P, but if BQP==P then quantum computers are useless anyways.)

Quantum amplitudes are not just probabilities: they can be imaginary, and they can be negative. You can add up two non-zero amplitudes and get 0, which is very much not how probabilities work. You can't have a non-zero probability that A happens and a non-zero probability that B happens but a zero probability that A OR B happens, yet with quantum mechanics you get exactly that.

Whatever intuition you have for how quantum computers works, it's wrong.

Plenty of people have considered that the brain is doing quantum computations. It seems unlikely because the brain is large, wet, and hot, and quantum mechanical systems really like to decohere under those circumstances (breaking the computation). But Roger Penrose still thinks they are.

The main takeaway I'd like to convey is that quantum computers are vastly better than classical computers for a few very specialized tasks like taking discrete logarithms and factoring, and no better than classical computers for most everything else. (Vastly better meaning exponentially better: it takes a classical computer with roughly 2^1000 bits of memory to simulate a quantum computer with 1000 bits of memory.)
I moved to San Francisco from the UK about 10 years ago. Fortunately California has relatively strict gun laws so San Francisco is pretty safe for the US if still bad for a developed country.

Homicides per 100k (from a couple of years ago):

San Francisco: 4.5
US: 6.3
UK/France/Germany: 0.8-1.2

(While most of the difference is due to availability of guns the US is just generally more violent and despite what Trump says the US has 1.5x the knife murders of the UK as well as 70x the gun murders. https://www.euronews.com/2018/05/05/trump-s-knife-crime-clai... )

Living in the Mission there are a handful of shootings per year. But it's a pretty dense neighbourhood so per population it's probably pretty normal for the US. The level of street homelessness is shocking but not as bad as downtown and you get used to that after a while too. Petty crime is definitely a problem.

Personally I worry more about being hit by a car crossing the road since cars are allowed to drive through the pedestrian crossing even when there is a walk signal.
Respect is at the heart of the issue. Disrespect for programmers seems to be endemic and it results in people suffering needless indignities. Even their choice of words is offensive:

> throw a website with a database together

People who say stuff like that think we're monkeys who slap shit together until it works.

I don't know why software developers don't have practices with partners like lawyers, doctors and other professionals do. Seems like it would go a long way towards imposing some much deserved respect.
Hmm when I think about it, the only two in that list I’ve used are just and only. Whenever I see myself writing them in my response, I spend the 5-10 min to throw together the PR to do it. It’ll lack testing but I deploy it to a QA server and let the asker go wild with seeing if the solution matches. If I can’t do that, I realize there’s something else there and rewrite my response. I find that to be a useful gauge on the appropriateness of those words.
> a single name of a scientist or paper

Unlike philosophy or religion, science does not rest on the laurels of one accomplished prophet. The idea that something is only true if it comes out of the words of a famous scientist is antithetical to science. Compare the temperature of the inside of your car to the outside on a hot sunny day if you want an example of the greenhouse effect.
Yes... You had plenty of people saying "this is going to be your own version of Afghanistan/Iraq if you decide to do what you want to do..."

Israel wanted revenge, not a solution. Their strategy has guaranteed that there will be another cycle of violence as the kids that grew up seeing their parents blown up in airstrikes are understandably going to be ripe for recruiting into whatever organization steps into power in place of Hamas.
Sure if your idea is 'uber for X' then it's worthless.

And of course, any idea that stays just an idea is also worthless.

But in the right hands ideas themselves can be valuable. Would you rather have your crack new team work on 'uber for doughnuts', or some genuinely innovative and market-making idea? So then, which is more valuable, the innovative idea or the crack team? The answer is both, together.
I'm surprised there aren't adapters to connect two or more micro SD cards to one device and duplicate written data to both of them. I assume you couldn't do it with wiring alone, and would need a chip in there.

Even finding a microSD extension was tricky when I wanted to mess about with the hardware.
Undefined behavior is critical for performance. Without undefined behavior, C compilers would not be able to optimize at all. You'd be running everything at -O0 or worse.
They always help a business and the other party signing it. If there was not mutual benefit, there would be no reason to sign the contract.

The state may have concern if that mutual benefit is harmful to the rest of society. A medical doctor, for example, agreeing to not compete could see him no longer able to provide medical services, which could see a third-party to not receive the care they need. As such, the state may find a need to interject to protect the society (i.e. third-parties in need of medical care) it represents.
> Rents in SJ are like 2500/mo for a single bedroom in a newer building, but its not that great of an area tbh

Schools are better. Most techies are Asian or Eastern European immigrants, so school rankings matter.

That's why a house in San Ramon is much more expensive than a house in Walnut Creek despite WC being better connected by public transit.
If you don't understand why that's bad, look up the 2009 crash of Air France 447, when a pilot made an error that should have been impossible to make with any kind of flight training and killed 228 people.
Why block outbound SSH connections? Inbound I understand. And given how easy it is to tunnel over HTTPS this seems to be targeted an accidental or unsophisticated clients - neither of which seems to be a likely descriptor of an SSH connection.
I know some pilots (actual licenses, a couple of whom are commercial pilots) who tell me (non-pilot, don't even pretend) they use MFS to get an idea of the approach to an airport they've never been to.

I know some pilots who tell me they use MFS to practice multitasking they various things they need to do to land the plane.

I know some pilots who tell me they use MFS to get familiar with the instrument layout on a plane they haven't flown.

Every pilot I know says something to the effect 'at the end of the day, MFS is a game and not a hard one...you can't be a pilot without flying the plane and MFS doesn't teach that".
The best estimate I can give you is "not many" but it hasn't been exhaustively studied, especially with tens of thousands of tree species. I would like to point out though that crown shyness is a lot easier to observe in monoculture forests that were replanted after logging. A diverse forest with lots of trees is really hard to observe tree shyness in because it's a specific adaptation between members of one or a few species. If they're standing next to another species that doesn't cooperate, the shyness might not be readily visible.

It's also not universal, which is why it's increasingly believed to be some sort of stress response. One patch of trees in a forest may exhibit it while another patch of the exact same species a few hundred feet away might not. It might even be the case that this is an old adaptation that most trees are capable of but no longer need.
> Like I’m not even sure what language you’re supposed to use.

Economic migrant, most of the people 'fleeing' venezuela are elites, not people who were actually victims of the economy collapsing.
The Praise Paradox: How Not to Talk to Your Kids (2007)
Everyone can explain how we know that. The base of ships disappear before the mast from far away. You can see the tops of skyscrapers, but not the bottom, from the right distance across a body of water. We have photos and video of the Earth. We've flown in planes. We can call up people in different latitudes and compare lengths of shadows or positions of the sun and stars.

I'm guessing when you say they "can't explain how we know that", you're discounting photo and video evidence that they've seen; you're discounting the flight trajectory maps they see on planes; you're discounting the nature shows and documentaries they've watched; you're discounting the fact that any other explanation makes no fucking sense; you're discounting the history they learned about Magellan. There's no reason to say that none of that is evidence. They're not blindly following like sheep, they have an enormous body of evidence in front of them and there is no counter-evidence. Stop acting like they're stupid.
The whole comment history is suspicious, they portray themselves as an expert in literally any topic
> Leonardo da Vinci was human, he had flaws, he wasn't always right, and I think these are important things to point out in order to make the real achievements stand out.

I don’t think any, or many, people believe da Vinci had no flaws. He was, however, indisputably brilliant in many ways, and is the literal embodiment of the Renaissance Man / Polymath.

It takes a specific type of person to be confronted with a persons’ achievements and say “well, you know, they still had their flaws, and not all of their ideas worked.” Da Vinci was a known self-critic, nobody was harder on him than he was on himself: he lamented on his deathbed that he had offended god for not being better at his art.

I’m unsure what you are contributing to the discussion.
I don't think it indicates any change.

I think people always want the programmers to work for free to fund their business deals and ideas that aren't very well though out with little understanding of what's involved.

I think people also feel this way about most professions that the doctor can just look at your issue or the lawyer just implicitly known the answer to complicated legal questions and they have "quick questions" that they don't want to pay you a dime for.
While data races may not be a top category empirically, they are undefined behavior, which means that (a future version of) the compiler is allowed to make your program do anything at all after a data race happens. We are setting the bar incredibly low for ourselves if we just accept that things like that happen on the regular.
Both are hateful to many and both are protected from laws by Congress. Facebook can remove whatever it wants on their platform.
Comparing the chant "from the river to the sea" with the confederate
flag is completely preposterous. The chant is a call for
liberation. Anyone who has a problem with someone's freedom is
themselves a racist and probably has a lot of views in common with
what the confederate flag stands for. Fwiw, the phrase was coined by
Jewish settlers in the 1930's
(https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/2018-12-16/ty-artic...)
and ADL is an anti-Palestinian hate organization whose opinions no one
should take seriously.

> You can’t travel to my “moderate Muslim” country with an Israeli passport. Guess why that is?

Perhaps for exactly the same reason Russian passport holders aren't welcome in a lot of places?
To the wrong kind of person you're identifying a sucker, not a big bad bully. I don't condone it, but I have definitely seen it. It's just as ignorant to not identify someone as naive at business as naive are the programmers who take on these kinds of projects.

The adult way to handle this is to say no and explain why they're crazy. Desperate people find each other regardless. Not dissimilar from other aspects of life.
I mean I would not provide labor for free and I will likely not provide labor at all for family and friends, it's too complicated, but still for friends I'd at least listen to the elevator pitch and steer them toward a reasonable outcome (which may include "you cannot do that without capital, set up a landing page on the cheap and raise some funding" or "wordpress now can be an entire e-commerce you don't even need a programmer" ) before firing off the consulting rates.
Was that before or after you married Morgan Fairchild?

Yeah, that's the ticket!
It may be obvious, but as a relative HN long timer, I've been hit too many times with the "source please" when making statements based on what I thought were obvious well known things, so studies like these are ammo for those sticklers who insist on seeing the sauce for everything.
> Since this was a dry year, that cost a painful amount of alfalfa in addition to forage, which contributed a lot to the price.

Yeah, that's the problem with "grass finished". Corn is super cheap while grass and alfalfa can be expensive.
That isn't what we're talking about here.

We're talking about people who have an idea, ask for it to be implemented, and assume that the labor involved has no value. The idea is worthless because it is only in the implementation and execution processes that it gets fully fleshed out to become a reality. It's still absolutely worthless on its own, and is akin to going to a logging company with a bunch of pinecones and demanding to be paid a tree's price for each seed.
The proper reply to "I have an Idea for a business" is "we all have bills to pay, and we can't extend credit to any commercial project..."

You may think this sounds unreasonable or crass, but one will end up getting conned eventually if you accept sweat equity deals for commercial projects.

Also, if someone is deprecating something you value... like your area of specialization... the premise of a "good" friendship should be reconsidered.
I don't think you appreciate how crazy Ramanujan was in his time. While he was somewhat appreciated in India (not at any high level though), when he reached out to professors in the UK, the first several thought he had no ability to become a mathematician. They were used to seeing mathematical proofs, and Ramanujan not providing any made him appear fraudulent. The only one who understood his brilliance was G.H. Hardy, also considered an eccentric by his peers.

In Ramanujan's words, "an equation for me has no meaning unless it expresses a thought of God". In mathematician circles of the early 20th century, this was an obscene statement. Even today, can you imagine a researcher in any field saying something like that, and being taken seriously?

Yet Ramanujan is probably one of the greatest mathematicians of all time. In Hardy's word, he had "never met his equal, and can compare [Ramanujan] only with Euler or Jacobi".

To think that "we" (whoever you mean by that) can recognize sheer talent of Ramanujan's type is, frankly, arrogant. If anything, the ivory towers are even more enclosed - research is more and more about the quantity of publications, not about the quality of ideas. A recent Nobel Laureate stated that if he had not received the Nobel Prize, his university would have probably fired him, for lack of a consistent publication record.

So no, I don't agree with your statement. While the scientific method you describe for approaching nature has worked tremendously well for understanding the world, it still completely fails to capture the core of what it is that makes a person a true genius.
Choice in job market is a luxury, not sure if it's only a China thing. But most fresh grads will end up with whichever company who'd hire them in whatever role they offered.

The OP also mentioned the low retention rate, behind that, it means that for young people, they may start in a low pay job, but there will be tremendous amount of chances for new opportunities elsewhere after a few years of work experience. There will be less BS in the interviews, and ~50% of pay raise each time (sounds familiar?). After try and errs, there's a chance you'll find a fair-paying job with reasonable workload and non-toxic workspace, they call it landed (Shàng Àn 上岸), comparing to the endless Sea of Suffering(Kû Hâi 苦海).

They have the hope for the future.
> and in general this site also has a massive trend of people who are losing a debate leaning in to rules-lawyering as a means of suppressing disagreement etc.

Is this specific to or more prevalent on this site though? Seems like common human/business behaviour. If you can’t win on merit, win on technicality, etc.
I rewrote my rust project in zig. Final nail to coffin was finding out static building is basically unsupported and cross-compiling is even more annoying. Ended up with way smaller codebase, the code is more readable and im more confident about it because im aware wherever memory is allocated and where it isnt. Async in rust is also complete mess and mixing async / non async is not fun. I dont even want to start on the meta-programming and traits which needs a degree on rust to get started.
I am referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stein%27s_example. See also https://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~rjs57/SteinParadox.pdf.
you've got to stop, your beliefs are way overstated. did you read the comments on TFA? pilots saying that they (and anyone) can get useful experiences out of flight simulators and they give examples, preflying a flightplan, IFR, etc.

your examples, "fighting for control with your instructor" and "lying" expose nothing about flight simulators. Instrument flying entails learning not to rely on physical sensations and to rely on the instruments. Practicing things and preflight preparation reduces cognitive load freeing you to better handle unexpected situations that might come up.

people who have never flown before have landed planes in emergencies. but people also get in accidents with their instructors. instructors who are doing it for their own purpose of racking up hours toward their own advancement are especially not incented to cut the number of hours you'll need them instructing you. thinking that any flying is safe, like flying with an instructor, is the type of arrogant attitude that gets you into trouble.

source: i've never even flown a simulator, but I've got many hours in blancolirio, pilot debrief, etc.
I run DrawThings with SDXL Turbo on my M1 Pro w/ 32GB RAM

I get a 512x512 5 step image generated in 5 seconds. No refiner, upscaler, or face restoration.

My understanding is that DrawThings hasn’t been optimized for SDXL Turbo and/or pipelined generation yet.

For reference: SDXL Base+Refiner with face restoration at 2k x 2k 50 step image generation takes about 120 seconds.
They didn't gave me a cent. Just living with them and not paying rent and food meant I could save almost 100% of income. After 13 years I was able to buy apartment.
Syntax is such a minor detail, I don't know why people care about it so much (unless it's APL or something similarly exotic).

The much bigger elephant in the room is the semantics. My personal pet peeve is that Ruby, just like Perl or C, doesn't have any sort of file-based isolation. While importing something in Python normally doesn't mess up any namespace except for the stuff you've just imported, Ruby basically leaves this to programmers' and they create monstrosities where one require statement can do way too much magic to my liking. And while there are some libraries and frameworks that are closer to Python in spirit ("explicit is better than implicit"), Rails is something that really throws me off as most things just magically happen to work with some incantation that seemingly comes out of thin air.

This new autocomplete thing may be a real breakthrough for people who learn by getting their hands dirty and trying to write something, probing around the available methods and functions to find the appropriate one. If it can suggest what's possible/available, a lot of the magic may fade away and become proper, explainable hard science.

Just a personal opinion, of course.