skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you admit that shame can be bad? Then you’re close. Next you need to realize that shame’s effectiveness is dependent on a person feeling shame the way you want them to. But that’s not how it actually works, is it? Instead, shame is sourced from the judgements of others, so one way of effectively mitigating shame is to hide the behavior from others, rather than stopping it. So shame is ineffective.

And I’m not being silly. You tried to dismiss the legitimacy of my citation by dismissing an entire category of people. That was inconsiderate.
> Your "logic" is unsalvageably flawed, in so many different ways. At this point it's just a propaganda meme. Past performance does not predict future results. Bang that into your head until it sticks.

No, I'm not going to bang something so wrong and counterproductive, into my head. I prefer filling my head with correct and useful information, rather than incorrect and harmful information.

Past performance absolutely does predict future results (often). Of course it doesn't guarantee them, but neither does just randomly guessing whatever outcome you want by what makes you feel good and emotionally happy.

If you don't look at past performance at all to inform the future, you're kneecapping yourself and any unfortunate person who has to rely on your judgment. There's definitely a pitfall for people who are too extreme on "data driven decision making" but throwing the baby out with the bath water is certainly not the answer.

So what's your solution given that it's so simple? Should the government be subsidizing cutlers and wheelwrights to make sure their jobs aren't replaced by technology? Or should we just straight ban factory-made wheels and knives? And should we also be banning automobiles so that grooms and crossing sweepers/pooper scoopers who clear the horse manure from the streets don't lose their job? Where do you draw the line where progression/betterment of society is worth any job loss? And let's say you do ban all technological development since as you say, it's "stoppable." What do you do when an aggressive country develops technologically superior weapons and takes you over? How do you stop them from innovating?

Suppose we ban AI completely to save jobs, and some other country (pick one at random) does not. 10 or 20 years from now their AI doctors are diagnosing diseases way better than our human doctors and it's saving millions of lives a year. Are you still glad we saved a doctor's job here even though millions of our people are dying every year for that? Is that really better?

As you disagree with me that the advancement of technology is unstoppable, I assume you have some good answers to these questions, and I would (truly) be interested to hear some of them.
ICAO standard prescribes "fower" as four (making it two syllables), as well as all the others that have been cited (tree/three, fife/five, niner/nine).
I'm curious to know how you're using Mermaid diagrams for hardware. Can you give an example?
Trust me, you aren't the first to recommend the name. I love the idea of saying godos, but then I'd have to constantly explain that it has no relation to God or TempleOS haha
> Is a google employee in US somehow more competent than the one in India?

Broadly speaking, I would argue yes.
Wonder is a more modern balance, but it still does have quick tutorials for new mechanics which is fair.

The more traditional tutorials are replaced by the Talking Flowers.
I have been happy with Kagi -- Like that I can change the site rankings on the results.
I don’t see how this is working. The QC audit will just testify that a bolt, somewhere, has been tightened. Or we need nuts with chips that communicate with the wrench and the part it’s fastening.
this is exactly what happened in vienna too. when i was there i had more pizza in a month than i usually have in a year. :-)
So, from the tone of your message I infer the following opinions of yours

- We shouldn't eat chemical non-food

(whatever that means)

- We shouldn't eat meat and diary

So then how do you get a balanced diet? "Chemical" non-food supplements? Expensive (both ecological, and for my personal wallet) vegan options such as nuts?
> Are we back to the era of curated sources, encyclopedias and web rings?

maybe even further. I subscribed to the physical, printed and delivered, Wall St. journal a few weeks ago, i really really like it. It has a first page and a last page, i can read it and be done. There's no infinite scroll. I also am subscribed (by chance more or less) to a physical magazine that arrives monthly. I really enjoy it too, the magazine isn't an answer to a question I asked so I always run across something unexpected/new there. Also, like the newspaper, it has a last page and there's no engagement bait because it's Read Only.
How to be More Agentic – On a supposedly difficult thing
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> idealistic purity to forever run only the latest version of everything

But the OpenSSH devs are specifically saying “just use the old version if you need this”?
Taking care of yourself is valued at zero. Taking care of a spouse and/or children is valued at greater than zero.

It isn't to say taking care of yourself has no value to you, but it is to say that no exchange of value happens.
The "occasional garbage food (that isn't straight up poison)" is quite literally irrelevant. You can fast for many reasons but this is really a silly one to mention
Just asking for the subtraction it just gives me 1.0, what did you ask?
With practice I’ve found that it’s not hard to tell LLM output from human written content. LLM’s seemed very impressive at first but the more LLM output I’ve seen, the more obvious the stylistic tells have become.
Why should everyone use a VPN?
There isn't really an equivalent of things like emacs text overlays and text properties in VScode, which makes it difficult to build complicated functionality in the main editor. You have to use a web view for most nontrivial things.
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It always fascinates me how much people bend over backwards to create euphemisms for "Autistic people" or, in this case, "high IQ, STEM-focused, Autistic people." Even "people with Autistic traits" would be fine. A large part of me thinks we would be better off to be specific, and another large part of me thinks this pattern reinforces stereotype of Autistic incompetence. (Stereotype of Autistic incompetence: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8813809/)
For me my "emacs" is my home-manager managed home directory. It's less monolithic, and yes, comprised of a bunch of random apps. But it's a thing I've crafted over years. I rock various apps with various configurations, but at this point it feels like home. I now ask, like a picky little diva, what OS I get to use at new jobs I apply for, because I don't want to rebuild my home.

I recognize that emacs can run on all operating systems, but my "home" extends out past my terminal, and my text editor. It includes random apps that just don't have an equivalent i.e. my browser, my music service, and my work issued chat app.

I like to be able to manage ALL of that all the same way, and I can with home-manager, nix and linux.

Someone tell me what I'm truly missing with emacs.
This isn't the right way to view it -- it's not necessarily about a dollar amount. People making 6 figures and people making 5 figures are not enemies. The segmentation is between those tho provide work and those who perform it, with the former profiting off the surplus value provided by the latter
I have several dozen that go back at least two decades, but I don't think I should post them without asking the owners. OTOH, here's a rather public one:

http://www.baloneypotd.com/
I agree. Nested functions are very useful often lead to substantially better code. With GCC 14 you can also create heap trampolines, so an executable stack is not required anymore when you take the address of a nested function (if you don't take the address, it isn't required anyway).
U.S. developer salaries are also higher than in Japan and over developed salaries, even if those labor markets aren't exactly known for unionization, either.
Just gonna say, this is why i wrote KlongPy - an array language in Python that lets you interop with Python while also getting some array lang. efficiencies. Klong isn't as smooth as K, but it's still quite useful.
You're offering hypothetical, worst-case whataboutisms. In the real world, any shop that isn't stupid will use defense-in-depth to protect the unupgradable bits.
Sneaky buggers
I think fasting is probably healthy, but kind-of presenting it in context of being a solution to elevated cancer rates seems like a stretch.
I gave it a try on desktop. I don't know if it's much better or much worse. Probably it's just an art installation, we take what it is. BTW there was no sound on mobile.
While reading about memexs, there is a side trail into the stuff of AI dreams. Bush describes a system (page 9) that can continue to work and investigate and set up links that the master can then come back to and join into the main trail of thought.

I imagine this is already an area of research but the more I look back the more it looks like we're creating stuff that was already thought of.

I would love to know what Vannevar Bush would have written about the memex now in the age of llms.

"Man can face an increasingly complex existence with hope, even with confidence."
So Hertz is continuing their narrative to blame EV's for their own executive mistakes.

If you dig deeper you'll find that:

- most of their EV's were rented to Uber drivers.
- All Uber rentals, gas and EV, have higher milage, higher maintenance costs and lower resale values.

In other words this state of affairs was highly predictable. That it wasn't taken into account is the fault of Hertz executives. They're trying to shift blame off of their own shoulders.
> If you don't want your family to know something, you shouldn't tell it to OpenAI either.

Yeah, I think this is an over reduction of personal privacy models, but can you tell me why you believe this?
It’s more a North American problem. Europe has far stricter food safety standards, whereas the U.S. lets corporations poison the population for profit.
It's a bit surreal that not trying to grow inifintely is considered perverse. It's a competely normal behavior of normal companies. Especially Slack has a product with a pretty clear scope, already good feature set. There's no need to expand it in a major way.
There is a graph that's rate of change, as opposed to rate of occurrence.

Rate of change was already climbing through the 80's along with the other age groups, then dipped in the early 90's for about 10 years and then started climbing again for the age range 15-39 while the older age ranges decreased.

That would lead me to believe any environmental cause has been around for a while and it's likely that all the focus has been on screening 40+ and not enough screening for those under 40.
Postgres and SQL:

postgres=# select 9999999999999999.0 - 9999999999999998.0 as result;
result
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1.0
Interesting that colorectal, kidney and stomach cancers are some of the largest increases which could point to something in the food supply.

It's surprising that the rates increased in Western Europe that also have more stringent standards on food additives. This could mean something wide spread like microplastics rather than food dyes.
Maybe some people are using it to avoid JS at all costs. I am using it to have everything (validation, authentication) in one place, the backend. It also saves me currently four serialization and deserialization steps, which drastically improved performance. meanwhile there will also be a few 10s or 100s lines of JS to enable some specific behaviour that I do not want to (or would be awkward to) implement in HTMX.

I am not saying that it is a silver bullet and people may use it for a variety of reasons, even avoid JS. I try to be less biased and make the best of both worlds. Until now, it has been pure joy.
Doctors, lawyers, psychiatrists, accountants...
> People hate on Electron because they have bad experiences with many Electron apps, but that's not because Electron is inherently terrible, it's because most developers choose Electron because it requires the lowest amount of effort. When you start with that as your single reason for choosing a tech stack, it's unsurprising that optimizing performance never happens.

Which amounts to a strong argument in favor of using a tech stack that has superior default performance, and therefore requires less dev effort for optimization.
Wait till you find out the toxic elements that make up table salt!
For those advocating for “dead internet” aka “it was all dogshit anyway” – where is the boundary for non-dogshit information? Presumably everything we consume originated from or is adjacent to content from the internet. Even original content & sources are reading the internet themselves.

Perhaps you are internet aristocracy advocating “Google for thee and arXiv.org for me” . Are the folks writing our peer reviewed studies in an air-gapped compound in the amazon?

You can’t put the sewer next to the water supply and expect the two not to mix together.
> Although I agree with the title, I also don't think the internet is that significantly different from before GPTs 4, 3, or 2.

I feel the same way.

I'm sure some corners of the internet have incrementally more spam, but things like SEO spam word mixers and blog spam have been around for a decade. ChatGPT didn't appreciably change that for me.

I have, however, been accused of being ChatGPT on Reddit when I took the time to wrong out long comments on subjects I was familiar with. The more unpopular my comment, the more likely someone is to accuse me of being ChatGPT. Ironically, writing thoughtful posts with good structure triggers some people to think content is ChatGPT.
I'm not trying to be difficult Dang, but there is more than one very legitimate issue with "as intended".

While I acknowledge my comments are upsetting to many, I do not think you are substantially taking into consideration that it takes two to tango when it comes to getting upset. And while it is often good policy to please the majority over the minority, sometimes the majority is actually incorrect.

Further, is it not also true that many others are doing, and repeatedly so (though not ~solely), things that are also upsetting, and at least arguably worse (telling untruths)? I do not deny you or others their right to their opinion, I am saying that it is often wise to realize that what one is dealing with is an opinion.

Look at all the "serious" conversations we have on this site, day after day. I do not deny that it is enjoyable, but I think it is worth considering whether maximizing enjoyment to the detriment of everything else (risk management, for example) is the way to go. You are welcome to disagree, but can we at least mutually admit that we are comparing opinions on the matter?
Someone has to run the server. That's the point.
Or maybe "I wish I were a bird."
I think EMACS is a fantastic editor, partially because you can extend it however you like. And, those extensions work forever, they don't get lost every time you change teams and have to change IDEs.

No, you can't live your entire life there, but that was never a great idea. Instead, it's great for software development activities. Org mode and magit are very hard to match outside of EMACS.

The primary things you do in an IDE are debugging, browsing code, writing code, and then writing documentation. With LSP, it's now fantastic at all of those. I can write documentation easily with org mode, and GUD is a really good debugger. And I can extend GDB with Python, to simplify the common stuff I often have to do with my own data structures and types.

With emacs, a web browser, and a terminal, I can do effectively anything I need to do on a computer and do it well.
> every time someone praises EU big tech regulations here, someone from the US inevitably complains it’s just the EU being anticompetitive ... The things we learn thanks to these regulations keep proving why they’re necessary.

The thing-to-learn from the EU rollout:

The public is a stakeholder and needs to be represented by 1) folks correctly knowledgeable to do so and 2) be invested with enough weight to not be overruled by govs & corps.
Interesting. Do you still find yourself using search at all to verify answers?

I’ve found it useful for getting the general gist of something, but anything that requires something beyond the surface - I always end up having to verify because it’s usually wrong.
> Internal restructuring of the company may even take you from working on backend web apis to distributed databases

This is a stretch. It's unlikely that an interview process would test such disparate skills directly, and a competent company will avoid moving an engineer into a role that requires a drastically different skillset without separate verification that they can handle the new role.
> LLMs are massive productivity boosters.

Only if your product is bullshit.
> In the long run I don't see any company being able to build a moat around AI

Why do you think they are screaming about "the dangers of AI"? So they can regulate it and gain a moat via regulatory capture.
Although it offers an explanation, which is something it could not do by just evaluating the expression. So the explanation is in its training set. And given that this is an understood flaw or limitation, it is possible it didn't even need to run any code.
Why should everyone use a VPN?

It’s a false sense of security and a waste of resources. The ones making the money are datacenters and middle-men.
I had a similar thought when I first looked at it, but then I thought about my browser history and URL bar. It is sort of a lot of work to open files to write scripts, keep them organized, and make them accessible just to make some commands simpler to run. I wrote https://github.com/ionrock/we for this very reason. I moved most args to env vars and made loading different env vars easily via files. Maybe the history is a better way to make these things reproducible and useful by avoiding the redirection necessary by scripts?

While I agree it may not work with everyone's workflow, maybe it could be a powerful change to folks workflow. I'm going to try it out and see for myself!
It goes both ways. They can't collude woth hundreds of studios so they offer top salaries to out-compete the bulk of competition. Then for the remaining studios who can pay, they sign the agreements so they don't keep trying to one-up each other. Which would be bad for their business if they start trying to bid 300k for every worker (which may be what they deserve, but companies will always penny pinch).

>That was preventing other companies from hiring people away from them because they were useful employees, not hiring people to prevent them from competing.

Aren't these synonymous? You either entrap a necessary employee with contracts and/or absolute top compensation becsuse they are useful or even vital. No one's colluding to keep a janirot wage low (well, society is, but it's no one entity you can sue).
“Early in the Reticulum—thousands of years ago—it became almost
useless because it was cluttered with faulty, obsolete, or downright
misleading information,” Sammann said.

“Crap, you once called it,” I reminded him.

“Yes—a technical term. So crap filtering became important. Businesses
were built around it. Some of those businesses came up with a clever
plan to make more money: they poisoned the well. They began to put
crap on the Reticulum deliberately, forcing people to use their
products to filter that crap back out. They created syndevs whose sole
purpose was to spew crap into the Reticulum. But it had to be good
crap.”

“What is good crap?” Arsibalt asked in a politely incredulous tone.

“Well, bad crap would be an unformatted document consisting of random
letters. Good crap would be a beautifully typeset, well-written
document that contained a hundred correct, verifiable sentences and
one that was subtly false. It’s a lot harder to generate good crap. At
first they had to hire humans to churn it out. They mostly did it by
taking legitimate documents and inserting errors—swapping one name for
another, say. But it didn’t really take off until the military got
interested.”

“As a tactic for planting misinformation in the enemy’s reticules, you
mean,” Osa said. “This I know about. You are referring to the
Artificial Inanity programs of the mid–First Millennium A.R.”

“Exactly!” Sammann said. “Artificial Inanity systems of enormous
sophistication and power were built for exactly the purpose Fraa Osa
has mentioned. In no time at all, the praxis leaked to the commercial
sector and spread to the Rampant Orphan Botnet Ecologies. Never mind.
The point is that there was a sort of Dark Age on the Reticulum that
lasted until my Ita forerunners were able to bring matters in hand.”

Anathem (Part 11: Advent) by Neil Stephenson

I like "Artificial Inanity" as a description of LLMs
> Is there any reason you haven't tried to turn it into a real desktop environment given that Godot provides the mechanisms to do so?

It's just too complicated to embed third party applications into a Godot game. I suppose it is technically possible to do so since you can use GDExtension to glue C++ code, but I can't even begin to imagine how that can work. Thanks for the feedback anyways :)

As a side note, Godot can't be GPL because it would imply that you can't make closed source games in it (they'd all have to be GPL as well).
Form/join a union
> If you can't update a system, you have no business exposing it to a network. Full stop.

Ah, another i-know-better tells everyone how to do the things.

Okay, I cut the CAT5 cable with a wire cutter with nonconductive grips (shoulda be safe!), you don't whine what you can't access your mortage/medical history/whatever else thing and should physically be present at the facility to receive the documents.

Deal?
"Computers scary" is a perfectly valid takeaway for the general public. "Computers scary... because programmers/IT are fallible" isn't wrong but it's needless detail. The important thing is that people stop trusting computers to only output infallible truth, and "computers scary" gets that point across efficiently.
In FAANG and hot startups, maybe.

In the rest of the industry, not many software workers make enough to realistically retire by 50, anyway. Not without living like monks their entire lives. (recall: you need a lot more money to retire at 50 than at 65) And older workers mostly do OK in the rest of the industry, at least until age 60 or so.
Its not that SWE's have it so good, its more that everyone else has an unacceptably bad situation with workers rights.
If this means we can make television screens that aren’t a big black rectangle when switched off, but, say, look like a picture frame with a glass screen in front of it, I see a market.

Tiny ones could be useful in smart glasses, if we ever find good use for them.
Shh. Be quiet and drink the Kool-Aid.
This isn't actually the case; we've had transparent displays for years, and they don't help AR. Hold your finger to your eye. Can you make out its prints?

Existing AR/VR displays are a hack around the human focal length, not a hack around solid displays.
> You're offering hypothetical, worst-case whataboutisms

Otherwise known as “security”, yes
Emacs is able to run prompts, just like any other tool that's able to make an HTTP request. E.g., https://github.com/karthink/gptel provides hooks to both OpenAI and local LLMs, and allows you to use them anywhere—since everything in Emacs is a buffer.

There are some pretty great examples in the README.