skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really appreciate the thorough response. I agree with everything you've said, except for it being the prime cause of the issue. I definitely feel that it's a contributing cause of the issue. Anecdotally, I've had this problem, and it was ultimately something I was able to mature out of. In my opinion, I think the problems you've described can be easily bucketed into a general issue with prolonged immaturity and adolescence. I definitely admit that getting to the primary cause of this issue is tough, and although I feel strongly about social media being one of the more primary causes, I'm not in a position to prove that claim.

Anyhow, I agree. Victimhood is a pernicious belief. People don't understand that it has an appeal to it which must be resisted. I'd describe it as a vice just like anything else: anger, jealousy, etc. These are natural emotions, and they do have their own appeal, despite being "negative." And although it can be difficult, these sorts of feelings must be kept in check for the sake of yourself and others.
Why hate? Just don't read.
I pay for a lot of services and I don't pay for many more of other ones. I also don't use a lot of free services. I'm sure that I'm a product of a lot of services I pay for, despite I'm paying for them. They are probably selling my data with or without my consent. There are so many fine prints and different ways to interpret the terms of contract.
Of course it does.
I have noo idea what happens if I press "Save settings" on all these cookie banners.
Pretty sure somewhere there is a hidden checkbox that allows everything. It probably still tracks, just makes you happy reading the giant popup list.

They invented "essential cookies for marketing purposes" anyway.
And after there was this "You accept tracking ads or you pay to us" popup.
The front server doesn't need to wait for the entire first chunk to arrive (as in scenario 2), any more than it needs to wait for the entire file to arrive before starting (as in scenario 1). Unless a chunk needs repair - then of course it needs access to lots of the chunks to rebuild the missing chunk.
I wouldn't even trust that it had booked the hotel on the correct date, or with my breakfast or room preferences. I'd need to go double check everything it did anyway, so what's the point.
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hard core science!
> Twitch is an ad publisher which uses tech, not a tech company

That's highly disputable. In the first place do they offer a service for communities, making it a social platform. Then do they seem to work intensively with AWS and for AWS, making them indeed a tech-company too. I mean, AWS seems to resell Twitch-Technology since some years.
And finally did they had no significant ad-volume for many years, and in most countries did they not even serve any actual ads, outside of Amazon Prime Video-Ads.

Yes, they do work on transforming into an ad-company since 2, 3 years. But they are still on a pretty low level. Viewers are already complaining hard just because of 1,2 minutes of ads per hour. Getting to the level where they find their sweet-spot and making them a primary ad-company will still take some time, I think.

> is moving away from high-volume low-intent advertising to low-volume high-intent.

Yet, this seems to be where twitch is aiming for, because nothing else actually works with the type of content their customers serve.
I mean, they only added banners last year or so.
Non-programmer here, can someone explain what is wrong with that code?
Hahahah, you beat me to it. +1
> The people who hold the purse strings for Sports Illustrated are more interested in gaming Google search results and the resultant ad revenue from that practice than actually serving their readers.

Then by running an ad blocker I'm doing my part to make the world better.
Ah yes, the old “guns don’t kill people, I do”
From the top of the page:

>Viewing and searching of historical data will still be supported as it is done today.

Disclosure: I work at Google (or at least I hope I still do), but not on this.
Warsaw is a counterpoint to that, for example.

It has a developed IT job market, and as a senior software developer you'd likely be spending ~20% of your salary on rent.

Europe is more than just the few most expensive cities.
As platforms become flooded with AI-generated garbage, I wonder how people will be able to find meaningful content. Are there going to be a new set of AI tools for content curation? It just seems like this will only spark a new AI-driven arms race.
Not just books. I remember seeing a "movie" on Amazon (not sure if it was Prime or some other service I was subscribed to). It was called "how to pronounce 'Stranger Things'", and the total length was about 10 seconds. I'll leave the plot to your imagination.
>At the end of the day, ads exist to make money, and until the bots have credit cards that means money from humans. Google etc. will notice it in their bottom line if there's suddenly a lot more "engagement" or traffic in some area but none of that converts to humans spending dollars.

You seem to have a hilariously over generous opinion of ad tech spending. The biggest players are already doing this themselves.
How could someone use their last months of university access to academic papers?
Throwaway for reasons. I'm a student at a UK university. This gives me access to academic literature that is otherwise paywalled. My course will end in a few months. What might someone who isn't me do in such a privileged position?

For example someone (not me) might purchase the largest hard-drive they can afford and download as many paywalled papers onto it as they can.

Creative suggestions, words of caution etc for such a person are all highly welcomed. Moralistic lectures not so much.
As far as I'm aware amortization is only used for tax purposes. I guess you could use the adjusted profits and losses if you had a reason to show lower profits, but as far as financial planning goes the money has already been spent so its largely a game of when you want the expense to show up on your tax bill.
There's an old Bob Seger song I quote about work:

"I used her, she used me and neither one cared. We were getting our share." - Night Moves / Seger.

In a sense, that's how I view work. I'm there to get a check, they are there to use my labor and make money. As long as we're both happy. It is all good. But... never forget we are using each other.

"Ain't it funny how the night moves

When you just don't seem to have as much to lose

Strange how the night moves"

Ain't it?
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/09/tech/duolingo-layoffs-due-to-...
I don't like conspiracy theories, but the ruling Tory party jumping on to this as a blame match against Labour (for the scandal dating to their reign) and their leader (being head of CPS during some of the prosecution period) and taking swift action to legislate something to overturn and compensate the victims of this great injustice and this whole thing being timed right before an incoming election that was more or less guaranteed to be a disaster for Conservatives implies either 1) a massive conspiracy orchestrated by the greatest British minds 2) or an incredibly opportunistic move to capture the public mood.
Rather they have some bare metal, FTP-ing files directly to prod, right?
Corporations are not fictional entities. They are real things with their own goals and decision making networks independent of, and capable of enacting larger environmental change than, any individual human.
Not if you're using it to still read Sports Illustrated.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
"Is AI going to make the important decisions like who the person should vote for and actually cast that vote too?" - Funny you mention that use case - I know for a fact that its being worked on right now (at least the "who to vote for" portion). The younger generation has allowed TikTok to talk them into seeing how many laundry pods they can eat ... so yeah things are going to get increasingly stupid most likely.

To your point:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feeling_of_Power
There's a Behind the Bastards from last month on him as well. I am not endorsing it (I am only half an hour in) but https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236...
Not really my problem.

But any bulk mailer that doesn't solve that problem is by definition a spam engine, and should probably be blocked at the ISP level.
I hear you. I am also an engineer-turned-EM.

> Your job is NOT safe.

Nothing would make me happier than to eradicate this line of thought, but laying the responsibility of that on the employee is poor management at best, malicious bullshit at worst.

We EMs do nothing to re-assure our employees that they are valued co-workers and not "resources" to be managed.

When one of my valued employees comes to me and says "I got another job offer and the increase in TC will change my life," most of the time they are a top-performer I want to keep, so I go to my manager asking to match their comp. But...they have to ask their manager, then their manager, so on and so forth. Even HR sometimes steps in with excuses why we cant. By the time a decision is made, if one is ever made, the employee I wanted to keep is already at their new employer.

So I would recommend my employees look out for themselves, bc I (and my management hierarchy) certainly won't (though they can, they just don't want to).

And if you are still looking to lay responsibility on to someone, look in the mirror.
Same.

I also have megalophobia specifically related to ducting and that picture set of my panic response. I hadn’t really thought too much of it, but I wonder if Thr Empire Strikes Back is to blame.
CoffeeScript inspired ES2015, jQuery inspired querySelector and some other DOM APIs, but none of them would be a usable polyfill, and the standard APIs/syntax is not the same.

Apart from that, I'm not sure if I even agree with the point as a metaphor.

Some parts of htmx would make it easier to implement a form submit confirmation message or similar stuff.

everything else is either better served fully server-side or needs heavier client JS.

E.g. ajax pagination is useless without routing... well maybe I need to try htmx more thorougly to understand this stance. right now I don't.

it's not hard to do a fetch request and set innerHTML on an element, right?
I can't see how being used as training data has anything to do with this problem. Being able to differentiate between the AI slop and the accurate information is the issue.
It was a bit annoying, you just kind of wandered around aimlessly until you stumbled upon something interesting.

Google was a breath of fresh air.
Does anyone really script VScode in the same way as emacs? It's trivial to knock-off a little function in emacs to scratch an itch, but in VScode there's so much boilerplate to create an extension.
Generally speaking, people in charge shift a lot of blame for what may be pinned on them (interest rates in this instance) to other crises. Some of the manufacture of which can be traced back to said people. The case of Ai in this context is arguable. They did not create it, but are their hands clean of pushing Ai doomerism?
The API is not used for training purposes either. https://openai.com/enterprise-privacy
I'm sure they "self-acknowledge" that their ideas are very complex. It's something I've seen leftists claim time and again. Their ideas are quite simple and flimsy from my POV.

IME, nothing impressive there. If only they'd read some Sowell instead of headlines on Reddit.
you could memorize the TOTP secrets
Four cold-causing coronaviruses may provide clues to Covid's future
Reminds me of speech inflection.
How about recording whether Boeing 737 door plug restraining bolts have been correctly torqued?
Aside from assuming the secure firmware on the tool - and now, too, on the battery! - whose absence you were trying to solve a couple of posts ago, this sounds like a solid approach.
I heard from some sites long ago that users with 2FA are enthusiast, and disable account recover to prevent social engineering attacks for people who care about security. Today 2FA is the new normal, often mandated by organization. I think it invalidate the previous believe and account recovery should be a configurable option not tied to 2FA.
Happened to me recently when moving. Couldn't find one of my zigbee temperature sensors, but it was still reporting information diligently, so it had to be somewhere in the house. Took about 6 months before I found it.
I still wonder if those two ever met up at the beach.
If it is in human nature to never be satisfied, then why were Americans more satisfied a few decades ago?
A bulk of data that the product trained upon in order to execute a task based upon promoting instead of a rigid command?

They only have nothing in common if you think of a Voice assistant as no smarter than those auto prompt customer support lines. Clearly Siri/Cortana/Google assistant had sole basic context mapping.
I would refer it as a library.

Like any library, it has a bunch of functions available to use. The difference, however, is that you don't use them directly. You are just writing html with htmx tags, etc.. and letting htmx, the library, do the rest.

This is it for the most part - but I understand some complications could break that rule. I doubt it would be that often if at all.
Dependency management is an unrelated issue and it exists for any platform. Unless you copy paste code or unless you just avoid dependencies. Which is easy to do in TypeScript as well. Nobody says you need to install hundreds of packages.
This is the article I wanted to write about Emacs. Bravo.

The comparison to a bicycle is a good one. Emacs is the only software I have ever truly loved. People throw that word around a lot these days, but I mean it. I love it in the same way I love my bicycle. My bicycle is a machine that I've carefully built and maintained, it's been with me through the years, to various places, in all weathers, good and bad, and, ultimately, it carries me to places. Emacs is the only software that comes close to feeling the same way.

I wonder if the analogy might be lost on people who don't have a bicycle or any machine like it, though.
It's pnly impossible to interpret if complying is an existential risk to your business model.
> AI-related changes in how content is generated and shared

This has to do with them leveraging AI for their product, not replacing software developers writing code. They also didn't fire any full-timers, so I fail to see how this fits your assertions.
> The amended law changed the burden of proof from the prosecution proving the system functioned correctly to the defence proving it didn't, without access to the systems being used to prosecute them.

It is mind boggling that someone thought it is OK to put this into law. What happened to the idea of innocent until proven guilty?
This headline does not confuse the issue.

The article is clear on how.
> The modal editing thing as some sort of mark of superiority or pride... is a bit of a recent obsession of a subset of nerd culture that I don't get, nor do I care to.

I do agree that it's overblown. But I found the bindings more "sleek" for me personally. Vanilla Emacs keybinds seemed very odd to me, and was the biggest barrier to entry when I first looked at Emacs in high school. I appreciate projects like Doom that bring it all together in a neat and (more) intuitive package.
Is it possible to create a second Google account to use just for the Chrome Extension?

I've heard that Google will sometimes demand you login from a known device anyway regardless of settings as a form of unexpected 2FA although I haven't experienced it myself.
This is not necessarily refuting what you said but perhaps a different point of view. I wrote a simple backend servive with go and wanted to have some on off switches and status icons for it. I don't know js and am not interested in learning it. Htmx gave me enough interactivity to put together that one status thing with buttons in a few hours. To me that's valuable.
Yes. I would say that it took more than ten minutes for the Roman Empire to collapse, for example.
The Mediocrity Limbo
The mistake in your comment - and probably the course - is the assumption that the measurement, which you limit to only profiling and a vague notion of "instrumentation" (which I assume usually means "reading the performance counters"), is the easy part of performance engineering. Actual performance engineering is rarely as simple as "this huge section of code is slow and hot and hasn't been hyper-optimized yet, let me hyper-optimize it." I have done projects like that in real systems, but they are few and far between compared to projects that involve a lot more measurement and a lot less assembly-level code. Usually, performance engineering either means (1) finding someone doing some O(n^2) shit and diplomatically telling them that they were stupid or (2) finding a relatively subtle and diffuse source of slowness in your system and making equally subtle changes that speed things up significantly.

See the following paper for an example of real life performance engineering, where the engineers involved slowed down their own code to create a significant improvement in general application performance: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/osdi21-hunter.pdf

As another example, performance engineering in trading systems often involves figuring out how to do non-invasive measurement of events that cause systemic tail latency so you can find the bottlenecks and slow parts. If you do the hamfisted things that most engineers think of ("let me chuck performance counter checks everywhere"), you will prevent your system from making money and often destroy the usable signal.
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I seem to recall similar statements about EFTs, crypto, Web3, Metaverse, Second Life, and many others.

Some of this will probably shake out to be real long term but a lot less than people think right now.
The funny thing about recipe spam is that now the best cooking information is youtube, even though objectively it seems like a video would be a bad format for a recipe, at least with youtube you know up-front how long the video is going to be, and the ingredients are generally in the description.
Does anyone actually use those? I have not seen any instances of it within the companies I've been at.
I just store my TOTP/MFA stuff in 1password, along with my username + password. I understand the risks here, but I prefer the tradeoffs vs. putting all my 2fa on a physical device that might get destroyed or stolen. My 1PW vault password is long and secure, and my devices are configured to require it.
Their Pocket Operators are great although, as the article points out, the rest of their audio products are incredibly expensive for what you get.
https://lamer.cz/ in Czech Republic. Definitely thought that was the original long time ago.
You don't need to return partial html, you can use hx-boost and return full pages and it will only update the body.
When I initially read the htmx documentation I was confused because it kept talking about a hypermedia client. The context clues suggested they were referring to htmx but my brain kept saying "isn't the browser the hypermedia client?" Eventually it sank in that htmx is an extension of the hypermedia client. When I first tried to use htmx I experienced a lot of discomfort regarding areas where htmx feels non-standard, such as redirects in the hx- readers on a 200 response. Once I understood that htmx is explicitly trying to move the boundary of the hypermedia client a lot of that discomfort melted away.
There are a lot of hackernewsers frothing at the mouth for layoffs, so excited that all the engineers they don't think are good are gonna get laid off. This right here is the thing they don't understand: companies are typically incompetent when it comes to performance measurement and there's a good chance they'll lay off good people and leave the suck ups who don't do anything. After all, if you're so confident that you're company has been incompetent enough to make a bunch of bad hires and keep them to this point, why would you be confident they'd suddenly get it right this time?
People use it for the sake of not using JavaScript.

To a React client-side developer everything should be done in React on the client-side, with maybe a sprinkle of backend for unavoidable things, like where API keys live.

They’ll foot-gun as much backend stuff into the front end as possible.

To a certain kind of backend developer, everything should be done typesafe in non-JavaScript on the backend, with a sprinkle of client-side JavaScript for unavoidable things like showing/hiding elements. Of course even for this, 10 lines of CSS is preferable to 1 line of JS.

They’ll foot-gun as much client-side stuff into the back end as possible.
> the first place do they offer a service for communities, making it a social platform.

All social platforms are advertising publishers. Facebook is an advertising company (though they refuse to say so; calling themself a publisher is a legal liability for them), they make almost all of their revenue from selling ads. YouTube is an advertising company as well.

Working with technology (and even developing your own technology) doesn't make you a technology company. insurance companies employ software engineers, but they're still insurance companies.

Even if twitch fails to make any money at advertising, they're still an Advertising company.
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Show HN: I made a guitar solo improvisation app
Hi HN,

As a beginner guitarist who loves guitar solos, it felt amazing when I improvised over a backing track with a pentatonic scale.
I wanted to make it easy for any beginner to pick up the guitar and start jamming solos, so I put together Guitartonic.
I plan to add more features as my personal learning journey unfolds, and I'd love feedback from other learners as well as experienced musicians.

Happy jamming!
That‘s why there is a lock file. The package manager and node version can likewise be locked.
Not just YouTube, but every social media platform seems to be spammed by it. I feel like I am seeing these stupid ads almost every hour now.

A ton of people jumping on the bandwagon promising insane profits from AI. But if you thought for more than 1 second, if they themselves could make this much profit why would they be trying to convince other people to do it.

The reality is they are likely the ones making any money by building up a following making these promises.
The fact that it took a TV Show to make this blow up as much as it did really speaks to the state of the UK (and possibly other countries too). I remember hearing about this a few years ago, I remember being outraged by it, but what could I have done? Why did the people who are meant to be our leaders not do anything?

There are still other scandals out there that aren't getting the recognition they deserve (Infected Blood Scandal[1] being a big one but I'm sure there are others I'm not even aware of). So what can we do to ensure our politicians empower these campaigners instead of extinguishing them?

1 - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/10/infected-blo...
you think existing is unethical?
A worrying spin-off from this is the constitutional change. Allowing Parliament to overturn a decision by the courts is unprecedented and a worrying change.
No industrial revolution also means infant mortality rates of over 46%(in the US at least).
The future is bright people. Technology will save us and usher in paradise!

But personally, I'm pretty happy about the internet filling up with dogshit, if only because I think it's likely that it will foil the plans of SV, singularitarians, etc.