skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a new word: commode-ification.

The point we’re at with some products where every single choice is shit so they are all interchangeable with each other.
this is not a correct description of xp or of the history of software development

certainly wirth and dijkstra laid the foundations of modern software development; so, too, did mccarthy, perlis, sussman, steele, kay, minsky, mcilroy, ritchie, thompson, and perhaps most of all stallman

here's minsky: https://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/Why%20programming%2...

article title: "WHY PROGRAMMING IS A GOOD MEDIUM FOR EXPRESSING POORLY UNDERSTOOD AND SLOPPILY­-FORMULATED IDEAS"
The 11km/h central lane was wicked fast. It was really exciting as a kid... But always broken.
Unofficial Speedify Installer for OpenWrt
If you think parasitical behaviour is wrong or if you think killing other creatures is wrong but also think that you have to get your hands dirty, then yeah, this place is a mess.

But, if that is your sense (re killing, parasitical behaviour) perhaps your lesson here is to learn not do those actions that you abhor. Don't act like an Ichneumonidæ, if that is not what you are. You should act coherently according to your sense of right and wrong (not some external view of good and evil). Ie don't be a hypocrite to yourself or try not to be. Simples.

Eg If you think it is wrong to kill animals for food, when there is fruit or produce that does not harm available, but you like the taste of a burger and eat what you think is the wrong thing anyway, you own that. You need to resolve the question in yourself - either meat eating is fine really or it is not and you shouldn't do it. It can't be both. Acting in a dissonant way according to one's own terms is wrong for you. Your job is to resolve the dissonance. Judge yourself.
They’re… Chinese people that buy locally?
> closed due to too many cases of harassment.

Yes, some say that the reported 70/30 male/female split among the Antarctic employees, along with a macho culture, and liberal access to alcohol - that being one of the most effective drugs at inflaming emotions, social and sexual passions, lowering inhibitions, etc - creates an Antarctic atmosphere that is quite a nasty experience for some people, particularly women e.g.

Discussion:
https://www.reddit.com/r/newzealand/comments/162nadz/women_w...
Source: https://apnews.com/article/antarctica-sexual-harassment-assa...

"Monahon, 35, is one of many women who say the isolated environment and macho culture at the United States research centre in Antarctica have allowed sexual harassment and assault to flourish."

"But the problem goes beyond the harassment, the Associated Press found. In reviewing court records and internal communications, and in interviews with more than a dozen current and former employees, the AP uncovered a pattern of women who said their claims of harassment or assault were minimised by their employers, often leading to them or others being put in further danger."

I haven't seen it, but apparently the 2020 documentary "Picture a Scientist" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture_a_Scientist) also looks at this phenomenon.
Because people care about price and quality, if they're within what the person wants, where the car comes from couldn't matter less.
Firefox. I have way more tabs and even more across containers. I can’t remember Firefox ever crashing.
I love everything about this. Shopping for hardware now. If I get it up and running, I'll submit a PR for the US Episcopal calendar.

This is a bigger and more involved project than I think a lot of people will realize. One of my recent side projects was a Mastodon bot that posts a daily verse from the Episcopal Hymnal 1982 (botsin.space/@hymnal1982), and getting it to reflect the liturgical calendar was a job and a half. (It missed all of Christmas after Christmas Day; have to go debug that.)
the supposed creator of parasites do have it though.
You comment recalled the moment when Elon Musk laughed off BYD years ago for me. You will be told why with hard data.
IF you tell your doctor about how you can't get an erection should they be allowed to sell your name to the company that makes Viagra? Do you think there is an expectation of privacy? Do you think that would have a chilling effect on going to the doctor if that were allowed?

Carta is paid to store my data securely and privately. They broke that contract.

Even Libertarianism demands that contracts be honored and enforced. Without contracts we don't have a system anymore.
You can avoid that issue by offsetting the pedestrian crossing one car's length from the roundabout. This allows a single car to stop and yield, while allowing subsequent cars going to other directions to continue unimpeded. It also reduces the angle between driver and pedestrian, greatly improving visibility. You can see this in practice at [0].

[0]: https://www.google.com/maps/@52.1124016,5.1914329,70m/data=!...
Some scenic parts of China are really far from HSR network, and this car is for people who want to visit those places
AngelList offers a equity management product

Product: https://www.angellist.com/startups/equity

Comparison to Carta: http://angellist.com/startups/angellist-vs-carta
1. It's like how networking isn't cronyism

2. Politicians need to know how the businesses they're regulating work, and theoretically they gain a lot from being able to talk it over with the businesses themselves (the existing ones, mind you - not the future ones which might be stifled, and currently have $0)

3. Lobbying is another word for talking with your local politician, what megacorps do (and what basically everyone means when they say "lobbying", really) is paid lobbying, i.e. run the "lobbying" errand on your behalf. Banning the former type of lobbying is impossible, and banning the latter is hard to do when it's a legitimate service for people who have more money than time (and also might violate free speech laws, and also is hard to actually stop)

4. Fuck paid lobbying, it does more harm than good
Makes me wonder why there isn't something simple that encrypts and decrypts comments.
The root problem with the American diet is that it's 3,600 calories per day. If it was 3,600 calories of fats and proteins with no added sugar, it'd still make you obese and kill you.

The solution is to eat 2,000-2,500 calories per day (give or take depending on your activity level, age, gender etc.).

Achieving this solution mostly comes down to portion sizes. For sure limiting added fats and sugars plays a role, because both of those ratchet up the calorie intake without filling you up very well.

What doesn't play a role is demonizing just the sugars - this approach is based on pseudoscience and it's guaranteed to fail. It's a tempting idea that you can still overeat if you overeat the correct stuff, but it's wrong. The current anti-sugar cult is the inverse of the 1990s "fat free" craze where people who wanted to gorge on junk food latched on to this idea that dietary fat was the real enemy, we produced lots of snacks with zero fat and tons of sugar, and Americans still kept on turning into bloated whales and murdering themselves with heart disease anyway. If we now go down some zero added sugar rabbit hole and gorge on bacon cheeseburgers and pepperoni pizzas the same thing will happen, because it really comes down to the calories.

At the end of the day you eat a responsible number of calories or you die young.
> To those that seek power, it is an end, not a means.

Perhaps that's just a psychological condition inculcated by modern society.

> today's "poor" people live like kings.

The actual standard of living doesn't matter as relatively poor people continue to make poor short-term economic decisions even after escaping poverty. That's why it's often called a disease.
True, but I take loading a dishwasher as a puzzle to do it in the most compact/efficient way, which helps with adding enjoyment to the process.
> It has nothing to do with your subjective experience and everything to do with the fact that wanton use of resources, animals, and people for selfish purposes is fundamentally immoral and atrocious.

I'm trying to clarify your position here: Do you think that eating a creature, farmed, raised and killed in accordance with current legislation, is the same level of atrocity as laughing with pleasure as a live animal is torn apart, just for the joy of the audience?

Because, TBH, if you argue that those two are the same in level and intensity of "evilness", then you are, in all fairness, not playing with a full deck.

If you argue that they are not, then your original comment is off the mark.
I have been thinking along the same line as boring ideas that make money. And I have come to conclusion that you need to build or acquire assets. A business owner still is on/has a job but an entrepreneur has an assets.

Assets can be anything : an online tool, saas, an ebook, graphics, icons, stocks etc.

So, create or acquire digital assets.
"Made" or "designed"?

Our Tesla Model 3 was made in China…
Plane Operated by a US Airline != Plane Manufactured in the US
Recent and related:

Carta CEO's response to the unsolicited outreach to their customers' investors - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38897363 - Jan 2024 (77 comments)

Carta doing unsolicited tender offer outreach to their customers' investors - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38886915 - Jan 2024 (73 comments)
Discussed here: Carta CEO's response to the unsolicited outreach to their customers' investors - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38897363 - Jan 2024 (77 comments)
'FriendlyName' Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in Wemo Smart Plug V2 (2023)
Because it's not just a chip, it's everything else too. There were 2 startups in Boston, may be 500 meters apart, doing optical computing. 4 years and there is still no product. "everything else" is a lot. It's hardware and software. Just brilliant idea is not enough.
There are plenty of countries that don't use the dollar but that have significant current account deficits.
dijkstra wrote an extremely influential operating system, hoare wrote several influential compilers and worked with wirth on algol w, and they both made extensive progress on formal methods. neither of them would ever utter the phrase 'mere software'; the excellent body of theory they developed is about software and investigates software in detail. boehm's does not. instead he theorized about how to manage programmers, which is not at all the same thing, because your theories are not falsifiable. he does not rise to the level of being a theorist

all of dijkstra, wirth, and hoare were instances of your 'Scientist/Engineer/Technician/Programmer/Coder' polymath. hoare still is
Related:

DNS Toys - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31704789 - June 2022 (104 comments)

DNS Toys: Useful utilities and services over DNS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31637226 - June 2022 (1 comment)
It's like they took an obstacle from some Mega Man stage and implemented it in real life.
This is a cut-down RTX A6000 (i.e. same generation) made to fit within the limits imposed by US sanctions against China. I think you're misinterpreting the performance numbers.
It’s one thing to think it’s obvious, but quite another to prove it. I think this is the true value of this kind of work, is that it’s helping to decipher what these models are actually doing. Far too often we hear “NNs / LLMs are black boxes” as if that’s the end of the conversation.
Discussed at the time:

Teachable Machine: Teach a machine using your camera, live in the browser - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15399132 - Oct 2017 (90 comments)
There will be a small amount of startup winners (OpenAI, Perplexity, Midjourney, Stability, Mistral, etc) enriching the big tech incumbents (Microsoft, Meta, Apple, Nvidia) and a sea of overhyped companies struggling in the long term over this so-called “AGI” nonsense.

“AGI” was just another obvious narrative to part VCs from their money to build more highly unprofitable startups once again. OpenAI being the ring-leader in this and executing this hype with an overvaluation of $100B for investors to purchase shares at that valuation. This is even before much larger risks such as the competition catching up quickly (Yes they are), mounting lawsuits and the costs / difficulty of training new models.

Reminds me of the Stripe hype with its valuation crashing more than 50% from the peak of $95B. Same with Klarna from the top of $45B with an 80% correction and I bet that Clubhouse is due for a >80% devaulation from $4B.

At least Midjourney was bootstrapped by the founders and making $200M+ without involving VCs with a small team. So I guess that justifies a much higher valuation >$10B and I assume it is also highly profitable.
> Lacking access to an Android or iOS device basically excludes you from modern life.

As someone who made this transition a while ago i can only say that i enjoy the experience. Modern life - in my opinion - is a sickness.
It starts already that contrary to most systems programming languages that predated C, the only way is to do math with sizeof instead of specifying types, and when arrays decay into pointers many get it wrong.

So then there is always the helpful macro, doing what should have been a language feature in first place.
Yes, robots.txt is only a suggestion. But stealing tokens - akin to password reset tokens - from emails is a completely different feat.
I'm curious if you have any suggestions for such people to find a successful therapy fit (I'm asking both out of personal curiosity as well as hoping that it will help others)? I'm not in that category of brilliant, but I tried therapy off and on for 10 or 15 years before I started feeling like it really helped. I think part of the problem is that I didn't know what was "wrong" with me - I knew that I had trouble with maintaining romantic relationships and I knew that I was sometimes unhappy (though I was rarely willing to admit to myself how unhappy I often was), but I didn't really know why. And I spent a lot of time introspecting, so generally when I tried therapy out the therapist wouldn't have any real insights that I hadn't thought of already. I didn't dislike my therapists, but generally would give up after a few months of not feeling like any progress was being made.

I'm not sure all of what went into things working out for me in therapy the past couple of years, but I think at least a part of it was shifting into a more emotions based approach. I'm not sure how open to that I would have been when I was younger. My tendency to approach most things intellectually was a very powerful tool, but it wasn't successful at getting to the underlying feelings I was not really aware of. Having more access to those feelings has been overwhelming at times, but also has enabled a lot of ongoing progress on being more satisfied with my life.
The term "dad joke" is already promoting a stereotype.
> Yes. Go was funded by Google because Google had a problem.

random HN commentators say things like this a lot because they don't understand how Google works or appreciate how big it is.

Go was written because *Rob Pike* had a problem - he didn't like C++ or Java or Python, and because he's Rob Pike, Google-as-a-company let him go and write a new language for a few years. Larry or Sergey or Sundar or Eric didn't go to Rob and ask him to do anything.

more or less, Go was funded (ie people were allowed to work on it, since that's about the only type of company money that matters in Google Engineering) because Rob Pike asked for it to be funded and Google liked having Rob Pike work there, and thought he'd almost certainly do something interesting.

because Rob Pike is an excellent engineer, Go turned out to be quite good in some ways and a good match for his initial problem - that writing Google prod apps required using C++ or Python or Java. and some other people in Google agreed, and started using Go, and some of those people had power and "encouraged" others to use it instead of Python.
This planet has a lot of time left in it for humans to do things. One human missing an opportunity doesn't lead to the statistical outcome that that opportunity wont be fulfilled in the future. An individual is not that important to humanity as a whole progressing. Live your life.
I'm a German speaker and even though I understand the difference, the word makes me struggle each time and I have to figure out whether en-shittification or de-shittification is meant.
I too am Catholic, and understand the Catholic teaching that, within its domain, science honestly pursued tells scientific truth, e.g., evolution. Science trespasses when it leaves its domain to make assertions about God or the soul. That you encountered so many Catholics bereft of that understanding is sad.
Picking C == abandoning Pascal (which had been commonly used for Mac and PC development.)
One does not have to search for mice when the room contains an elephant.
Not-run-by-Trump?

Imagine living in a country where the concept of liberty is so strong that calling for insurrection over the democratic process is fine.
Because they're cheap. The majority of people don't care about quality as long as it's presented well and meets some fairly low benchmark level (whatever that is). Pretty much all industries have demonstrated this, and cars seem to be no exception.

Country of origin/ethics/politics also doesn't really play a part in purchasing for the majority of people (again, simply shown through sales)
C# is programming language of the year 2023
Are you referring to the new Chromecast with Google TV? Because I've set up Chromecast without internet access or a Google account before. I wonder if this changed somewhere along the way.
Related:

Parable of the Polygons (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19714441 - April 2019 (27 comments)

Parable of the Polygons – a playable post on the shape of society - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14332138 - May 2017 (2 comments)

Parable of the Polygons – a playable post on the shape of society - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8716538 - Dec 2014 (86 comments)
Their marketing in Sweden is big: https://bydauto.se/

They claim to be the world's biggest manufacturer of "battery charging" (electric and hybrid I suppose) vehicles.

They look like high end vehicles and I've seen them around often... but never drove one so can't really comment on quality.
Agree with you except that the value in studying ancient thinkers and intellectuals is also in recognising patterns and seeing how they probably recognised patterns too.
News media are private businesses. Control the flow of money or buy the business and you control the narrative.

It's well known that advertising dollars influence decisions, and it's also well known that western news media is owned by only a few huge companies that often are advertising subsidiary companies on the same platform.
I'm not sure if I'm understanding you correctly - do you feel like emotional intelligence and resilience are not appropriate to teach kids? There are a number of fairly simple social and emotional tools/approaches I have learned in adulthood that I really wish would have been taught to me and those around me growing up.
Sometimes the inability to stick up for themselves is less due to lack of skill than lack of a sense of value in themselves apart from their achievements.
Maybe it will now.
If the failures are independent random events, yes.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38893456, which has that article and was posted earlier. Thanks!
Is it a harmful stereotype though?
linkedin was never good. remember it started by hiring content farms to feed fake profiles? it was just marginally better than monster jobs. nothing else. now Microsoft cleared that a bit but online they are an advertising business, so, they don't care if you get a job, but how many ads you see daily.
Here’s a talk the author of the project gave recently, fun story of how the project came into being

https://youtu.be/ANmFZ8rbmnc?si=ndEWH4xY2oxJuEnB
Different people have Different speeds in $things.
If one piece of the system is at a different (slower/ faster) speed where majority pieces are on another but more or less similar speed to each othet, the one piece is going to get burnt quick.

Options...
use gears at touch points to match speed, or
have a robust outer layer to eliminate impact of friction, or
Try to control speed to match the system

A combination of these options, may work. Challenge is to identfy the required option and apply what works for a given situation, which is another activity needing quite some brain cycles.

Just an observation...

Hope your upcoming life is pleasant.
Nice I want to die
have a good point there: Einstein, Nikola Tesla, the Wright brothers, Edison, Ford (with his usage of mass production), Alexander Graham Bell, modern surgery techniques... and that's only after thinking for 20 seconds...

... although, "somewhat" agree with pixl97 that there was so much to learn and discover during that time period, that many ideas were discoverable by only one or two people (where as things like CRISPR took dozens of researchers decades of building off of each other work to invent reliable DNA editing).
To continue on the concept of illusory freedom:

> "I should not agree with your young friends," said Marcus curtly, "I am so old-fashioned as to believe in free contract."

> "I, being older, perhaps believe in it even more," answered M. Louis smiling. "But surely it is a very old principle of law that a leonine contract is not a free contract. And it is hypocrisy to pretend that a bargain between a starving man and a man with all the food is anything but a leonine contract."

> He glanced up at the fire-escape, a ladder leading up to the balcony of a very high attic above. "I live in that garret; or rather on that balcony. If I fell off the balcony and hung on a spike, so far from the steps that somebody with a ladder could offer to rescue me if I gave him a hundred million francs, I should be quite morally justified in using his ladder and then telling him to go to hell for his hundred million. Hell, indeed, is not out of the picture; for it is a sin of injustice to force an advantage against the desperate [...]"

-- The Paradoxes of Mr Pond (1937) by G.K. Chesterton

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks05/0500421.txt
Chromecast is very hackable, it's literally just running a browser. Most anything that you can put on a webpage you can display on a Chromecast. There are plenty of PIP integrations in the wild.

From a client perspective it's not trivial to say "display another video on top of this one in a region" and I am not sure how you could achieve that while making it "simpler" than it is today.
I've been enjoying playing a single-player/small-scale multiplayer mod of Ultima Online inspired by the early Ultima games called Ruins & Riches.
If you have nostalgia for Ultima and/or Ultima Online I strongly recommend it.
It doesn't have a dedicated webpage anymore, but there's some reddit posts describing it's current state, see e.g.: https://www.reddit.com/r/ultimaonline/comments/10axsri/ruins...
Their last raise was $500m at a $7.4B valuation.

Using a 10x rule of thumb, that implies they make $740m/year, or the vc believes they will grow into making that.

I can't understand it either.
"China won this conflict before it began'

Sad China mythos propaganda. They haven't won much, and are quickly following suit of other past economies like Japan. Conversion from pure industrialization to advanced economy is hard and the slow down is practically inevitable, especially when China started trying to push antiAmerican geopolitical aspirations againsts their neighbors in the China Sea.

Th only winner here is Mexico who looks to be the onshore of choice out of China supply chains.