skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am working on firedating.me - a community of people interested into Financial Independence / Early Retirement (FIRE), who look for friends and/or partner.

FIRE people rarely advertise they are into FIRE for many reasons:
- at work this sends a message "I will leave soon" and may have repercussions
- socially this might be perceived as "I am rich" or "I am retiring early" = weird and crazy.

As a result, it is hard to meet other FIRE people. At the same time, this interest defines lots of their life - they are usually frugal & save a lot, so dating non-FIRE people is also a challenge. That's why I made the website and my goal is to reduce loneliness in the FIRE community.
Isn't that the point? Disney counts on having more $$$ and more lawyers than some random artist who might or might not have intruded on the remaining copyrights? So they can bully the artist into submission regardless of whether they are right or not.
It took me a while to figure out the underlying problem with "group projects" in school, but I think what I eventually settled on is that there's no way for the grader to have any insight into the group dynamics. Or at least, after some non-trivial thought on the topic, I haven't come up with any. This creates certain inevitable pathologies; why shouldn't the whole group just sort of bet on one of their members doing all the work? Many of these people wouldn't even care if they only get a C out of it, really.

But that doesn't match the real world. In the real world managers dig into that all the time. They develop understandings of the performance of individual team members. If they don't, we call that a pathology and it's their fault because they have all the tools and time they need to do it. Certainly many fail at that and there are plenty of complaints about that in this discussion, but it isn't inevitable the way it is for a school grader.

I see no way to resolve this gap, and as a result, my recommendation, for all the zero good it will do, is that schools need to just accept they can't really simulate a group project and stop assigning them.

For those stuck in them in school, I have no particular advice. I'm not sure what I would do myself if I were placed in such a scenario again. Probably just grumble and be the guy doing the project again.

But for those in a work situation, you have a reasonably good chance of having an option you may not realize: Document, document, document! Document that your current task is blocked on $SLACKER's work. Document that you added unit tests to $SLACKER's work around your needs and they failed and you sent it back. Document that they broke the unit tests to make them pass and it still doesn't meet your needs. Document, document, document.

There's two reasons for this: One, it covers your own bum. You will find that even if at first you may be pushed into being a "team player" there does generally come a point where SLACKER needs to contribute something meaningful themselves to be of any value. Second, to get an employee fired nowadays, you need a solid documentation trail. If your manager does not or can not make one, well, they don't really have to. You can go a long ways towards providing HR with one yourself.

I don't guarantee that will work in every situation, but I would suggest that you not let your cynicism block you from at least trying here. And to be honest, if that just completely doesn't work and you are in a situation where HR is just perfectly OK with a paper trail of documented lack of performance over a period of time, well, maybe that's a signal it's time to leave. Even a cynic can see that paper makes the world go round and you can often turn that to your own advantage with just a bit of effort.
Looking at the map, it seems that the majority of those regions are hilly/mountainous. So the land may not be economically viable.
This is super interesting, as over the break, I was thinking of something exactly like this, but for video games.

Feel free to steal the following, if anyone likes:

Take a scrape of video game data from multiple sources, such as steam, amazon, game sales, forum sizes on reddit, as an example, then rank the games based on these metrics - but then have people vote for "hall of fame"

Include as much historic data one game sales for all time, if possible - as so many games were introduced during our formative years, and thus have a deeper, more memorable impact.

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I see the problem others state. Perhaps have a random button to just give you a new selection.

Great work though.
Disagree.

Putting "what" in the message can be fluff, in the same way repeating the code in a comment is fluff. But the broad strokes or considerations of the what may not be obvious from the diff. Expressing what the commit intends as prose can help with understanding, with discarding irrelevant change data, with post-mortem analysis, ...
https://archive.vn/IcU7V
Dupe because that's where the bulk of discussion is, including the archive.org download link mentioned and there's even more on this other thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38830223
I’ve definitely worked with companies that as Steve described where the process(es) get most of the focus and not the content.

If the content is not good, the only tool some managers seem to have is process.
That critical mass may be online now. And the internet is so silo'd that it may not form or may not be noticed.
Do you have "open URLs with a browswer" turned off in your OS? Because that's the universal way to open "whatever the user has set as their default browser".
Still somehow some animals can tell pure nitrogen from nitrogen with oxygen mixed in.

For example mice exposed to pure N2 show epileptiform behaviors (same with Argon or Helium but suprisingly not Xenon, maybe because it's somewhat anesthetic as well).

Helium seems to good for pigs.

The trouble is that most comparisons are against CO2 which is alltogether horrible with respect to every quality except the speed of death.

There seems to be not much research on pure nitrogen especially as pure gas.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S175173112...
Honestly HN is more hermetic than it would otherwise seem. People tend to instantly upvote their pet topics and idols. I've seen many actually interesting stuff on /new flying below the HN hivemind's radar.
This is what I came here to say. Assuming the team is working from JIRA or something, put the ticket number in the commit message. The ticket itself is where your “why” goes.
I agree, if they are interjecting themselves into everything and taking all the “cool projects”, they aren’t superstars - they’re supera$$høles.

A real superstar would empower the team with that extra sprinkle of confidence so they can tackle the cool projects and succeed. They should be SWAT, not Mayor.

I’m sorry you feel this way and you should bring this up with your manager.
in this case what it's providing you is (instant, seekable) access to (recoded versions of a falsified version of) a public-domain video which it attempts to prevent you from storing a copy of locally

it's ridiculous that we're even considering depending on those legions of engineers given that most of us have at least ten-megabit internet service at home, but decentralized alternatives like lbry/odysee and even bittorrent are getting lobbied out of existence, in large part because they are resistant to censorship
Consider what the bombe could do and how prized a secret it was. There is no non-existence proof of a quantum computer with an analogous role today.
I developed a bad case of perfectionism-procrastination after working for a toxic boss.

It didn't matter how polished our product was, he'd find a way to tear it apart. When he'd have a bad day, he'd start picking apart a random team's product. "Unbelievable!" he'd say in Slack, dropping a screen recording of the app that showed something we were supposed to be embarrassed about. It could be that the app took 3 seconds to load and show fresh data from his hotel WiFi, or it could be as simple as the UI not matching some directive he gave to the UI designers who failed to update the designs or tell us about the change. He would rant about how disappointing we were. At his worst, he fired some people on the spot for a problem that wasn't even their fault.

I quickly learned that the only way to avoid that pain was to not ship anything. The people he liked most were the ones who were operating in hypotheticals: The people who made UI designs in Figma, or the architects who drew nice diagrams about how things would work, or the people who wrote long design documents to hand to other teams. They never shipped anything for him to critique, so he thought they were the geniuses of the company. As long as they could avoid having to actually implement anything, they continued to be favorites.

It took me longer than I like to admit to shake that habit when I finally escaped. I found myself delaying shipment, pivoting from design doc to design doc, and trying to operate in that hypothetical space as long as I could. Fortunately I learned to get over it, but it was scary how much that single job could shape a large part of my personality.
But tigger has now entered the public domain.
"Inbox Zero has undergone a thorough security process with Google to ensure the protection of your emails."

Can you go into some more details on this? What security process, exactly?
[Dupe]

Lots more over here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38830264

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38830223
The press release states that one of the questions posed were: "As a rational being who believes in scientific acknowledge, do you think the following statement is true? [Statement]". Where "acknowledge" was clearly supposed to be "knowledge". Such a mistake might make a reader question the rigor of the study.

Fortunately, this is an error in the press release not the actual paper.
Saying "a star can't do it without a team" is very silly. That's like saying "well, sure but Shakespeare couldn't have written anything with a pen". True at some level, but I think we both know in that equation whether the pen or the man was more valuable. The point is that teams are necessary, but in many cases, are easier to come by than stars. Engineering stars do exist. Not all are loose cannons, like in popular culture. Some just do great work that others can't.
- I find interesting the idea of taking advantage of the notch.

- When I go to the site I first was confused about what was the problem you tried to solve.

- I first tried your site with Safari and it gives problems. I think Safari is the most important browser for Mac users. In Chrome it works well.
Being anti-emigration seems to be winning in the minds of pretty much every rich nation right now. But it is just bad policy:

https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.25.3.83

People said the same thing about the Irish and the Italians in the US. It was wrong & racist then and it is wrong & racist now.
I'm seeing moderate housing price increases at best in Germany and Italy, and that's generally going to happen because of inflation in general. I don't see the evidence that declining demographics are directly causing housing in cities there to get more expensive.

Like another reply said, it's more likely that general movement from rural to urban is what's causing that, and that if their population growth was higher, those cities would've just gotten even more expensive than they're getting now.

Germany: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1150526/annual-house-pri...
Italy: https://www.immobiliare.it/en/mercato-immobiliare/
This can only magnify the biases that everyone has and pretends they don't.

A video will show more than "soft skills." It reveals age, gender, ethnicity, accent. It might show things in the background that some viewers will make judgments about. Few people perform comfortably in front of a camera, so either they will look nervous and awkward or coached and fake.

I can't imagine hiring managers or recruiters taking the time to watch intro videos. They won't take more than a few seconds to read a cover letter and résumé now. I've had candidates send links to videos, or even DVDs in the old days, and I never bothered to look at those.
Ultimately, population is the driving factor. Technology always propagate and diffuse on the whole planet, it is only a matter of time. Take China, look at the trends over time. We're lucky their population is not growing as fast at it was.
I think you’re right. Generally speaking things go through cycles of centralization and decentralization.

Generative AI is going to cause centralization of trust back to authorities and authoritative sources for now. It’s already occurring for the news and media, and it will occur for hobbyist communities as well.

Perhaps with a public/private key “is human” verification we might see continued success for creators and content on the Internet, but I think that using AI to detect AI is likely to falter because it’s just easier to meet in person or use a key instead. It’s a matter of category difference.
I had a conversation based on the GeoNB borders, and we had basically come to the conclusion that neither of us were going to be nasty about things. He was still annoyed to find out the realtor told him wrong, and he wasn’t in the middle of his property like he wanted.

With the official survey, his camper pad became officially on his land, instead of maybe on mine, so we’re both happy about not dealing with that.
I imagine most systems needing a trusted clock do so with a positive GPS lock.

Spoofing that now gets you in trouble with the FCC as well as the DMCA.
iOS limits what you can do in the background with Bluetooth. At least one of the iPhones needs to have your mesh app running in the foreground to communicate with another iPhone that has your app. Two locked phones with your mesh app will not be able to communicate over Bluetooth.
Past commit messages have 2 uses to me.

- Blame view, where I usually want to know the ticket number so I can track down a story which has the business rules the dev was implementing.

- Bisect, where I want to know if this works or not without having to do a test run every time.

This format is alright I guess, but the best thing you can do honestly is just

TICKET: [done/works but wip/does not work] [describe what you’re thinking]

AB-1234: does not work, trying to rewrite this controller to remove all the duplication, /api removed temporarily

To me, that doesn’t have to be set in stone. No one likes working with a commit message stickler when standardized formats are only useful ~20 times a year to save 10 minutes each. (In my experience)
Here in Germany, we had a bad experience listening to our superstar Adolf and decided we should try democracy next time. Some parts of.the political party AFD is trying to change that, unsuccessfully, so far.
* Apple rumoured to be working on sunglasses similar to Meta Ray-bans

* Regulation is passed specifically to limit what artificial partners can do. Possible limitations: alignment required, limits in ERP, limits on session time. Best bet is China.

* Stronger regulation is passed to limit unauthorised cloning of people’s voices in one of the major economies. This beyond current weak IP and privacy laws.

* AI becomes a scapegoat in several major elections.

What I got right last year:

- text and image generating AI is hugely disruptive to education and content generation

This was pretty obvious

- Inflation eases, stock market recovers

Less obvious at the time but still likely

- A Twitter alternative breaks through.

Who woulda thunk that it would be Meta with Threads

- One of the big tech companies joins the fediverse (Microsoft most likely)

Once again, Meta for the win with Threads joining the fediverse

Now, nobody look back at all the predictions I made that didn’t happen.

Also, fairly gutted that Reddit hobbling its API was my 2022 prediction. I’m clearly prognosticating too far into the future.
14 dollars a month is more than i spend on internet access and transportation put together, because i live in a third-world country in an economic crisis

right now i'm visiting my in-laws for the new year, and they have netflix; i think they pay 8 dollars a month for it
Huh, also failed with YouTube Downloader latest version. It got the thumbnail and the list of streams but couldn't download it. WTF?
It's a reasonable thought exercise to ask what the ultimate limits are if technology is allowed to vary. That's no more unreasonable than asking what the limit is if technology is completely frozen. The actual answer will be between the two.
It's not confidence-inspiring that https://webui.me throws security warnings. I'd want folks to make applications "that make applications" to take security a little more seriously.
"you open Confluence and desperately read through six possibly relevant pages"

Too real. What's left out is the detail that all contain stale references and are last updated by Unknown User no longer at the company.
16-Bit Vector Normalization: Finally Putting That Math Major to Work
A German submarine sank the USS Reuben James in late October 1941. The US did not declare war for that incident. In fact Germany declared war on the US after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Observation is not advocacy.
For comparison, this is how the message looks when wrapped manually:

https://github.com/matklad/repros/commit/7d7dc3e3539e8cc68e5...

(Every time I see someone advocating for _not_ wrapping plain text formats, I can't get an image of a hammerhead shark sitting in front of a 16:9 display out of my mind :-)
As that article says, approximate classical algorithms "can find solutions for extremely large problems (millions of cities) within a reasonable time which are with a high probability just 2–3% away from the optimal solution."

Although faster quantum algorithms for the exact solution exist, I see no reason why this would result in "vastly" improved efficiency.
> GGPoker's anti fraud detection system:

That just looks to me like a list of rules with vague promises of “sophisticated proprietary software, trust us bro” enforcing the rules. Who knows for sure how much of that is actually implemented? We have to take the company’s word for it.

I don’t doubt some of that cheat detection exists, but some of it also seems pretty fantastic.
Um I meant the transition effects are also a problem, not that they are a bigger problem - my wording was a bit slack there. Yes probably we could overcome those issues, but with no clear reason for birth rates to increase as population falls (and quite a few reasons for the reverse - e.g. greater proportion of elderly requiring care that would otherwise be given to infants), our population and civilization would simply evaporate.
It seems in the AI era SEO is now starting to become irrelevant and a relic of the 2000-2020 era.

Why is SEO needed still needed here when AI / LLMs can just conjure up answers with references to valid links, bypassing search engines.

Even privacy based search engines like DuckDuckGo, Brave and Kagi doesn't prioritise 'SEO'.
An experience on its own, setting it apart from what's offered through the usual "tourist traps".
Dave Barry's 2023 Year in Review: Yes, the situation is hopeless
Why Blog in an (AI) Apocalypse?
It will be interesting if one could have one's webapp also be able to accept browser extensions as add-ons to functionality to the app - such that users can create their own 'packages' for your webapp just as anyone would do browser extensions? or does this sound stupid (obviously the biggest risk here is malevolent extensions (dont make medical apps out of this :-)
> They used Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy—which measures the absorption of infrared light to determine to what degree a sample had been heated—and archaeomagnetic analysis, which determines whether samples containing magnetic minerals were sufficiently heated to reorient those compounds to a new magnetic north

Awesome, it is crazy to be an archeologist these days! But you need to have a lot of patience before you discover something to apply the existing technology.
> I think a big difference in our framing is that you're putting things as if there is a universally optimal strategy by a single nation.

That's exactly the opposite of my point. I explicitly say that nation A going into direction X may lead to nation B failing when going into direction Y while it would have succeed if nation A would not have gone into direction X.

As advice, I would say that you should not provide any "counterfactuals" to not-deep-details-enough, because those counterfactuals are also not-deep-details-enough. For example, in C0llusion's comments, you react on the causality error, which is just too simplistic anyway. But you react by opposing their not-deep-details-enough argument with a not-deep-details-enough argument. Both of these arguments are not useful. What you need to do is to show the complexity and why concluding while not having a deep enough overview is stupid. What you have done here in part of your comment is stepping down to their level and arguing with a similarly not-deep-details-enough argument as if this argument is somewhat not as bad. At least you could have added a lot of disclaimer around it, such as "please don't use this argument to jump to the opposite conclusion, as it is as bad, but as a naive example contradicting your logic ..."
Yeah. Even sites that encourage "real identities" like Facebook are full of would-be liars seeking validation.

...But anti AI-AIs are not going to work. Even of they work technically (and I strongly suspect they will not), the keepers of the internet do not have a financial incentive to pay for it.

Seems like the larger internet will be zombified, and users will go back to private online circles and meatspace focused interaction. Thats not so bad.
Rise – The calendar that works for you
I had not tried pulling the LIDAR, but yes, especially where the deadfall is 3-8 feet thick in the logged areas, I can already see spots where their generated topo doesn’t match my work.
During summer I played around with this technology and built a simple messaging app (written in Common Lisp), see:

http://cl-repl.org/meshtastic.htm
I've literally pasted benchmarks measuring actual job (webserver request per second) in a comment below.

But besides, the critique isn't meaningless even without providing a better one;
If your benchmark is measuring things that are trivial no matter the language (like stack-based operations), but ignores things that actually differ meaningfully (like handling of heap objects), then criticizing such aproach is perfectly fair and valid objection
South Africa's application to the ICJ regarding Israel [pdf]
Atomic Design – Brad Frost
I’m sorry you had to go through this, and I’m glad you learned from it.
Procrastination due to perfectionism (instead of working on the thing you want to do perfectly) is also due to emotional discomfort avoidance (because the procrastination takes your mind off the imperfections associated with what you ought to be working on).
It is also useful for conveying intent. If the commit message describes one thing, and the code does the opposite (or doesn't do it at all), that's something the "gatekeeper" can and should call out.

I've certainly sent out changes for review where I forgot to include a crucial file (or subdirectory).