skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In general, though, my issue is with the system, and defenders of the system, rather than with the beneficiaries of the system.

Finally, we agree on something. This is exactly it. The problem is the system, which I am happy to change. The people who get rich are simply playing by the rules the system allows.

Rich or poor, we all do the same thing, we all try to maximize our income, reduce our taxes, use any crack in the system we find.

> To me, it's not an axiom.

I struggle to understand why anyone would think this. So you think hard work is inversely correlated with making more money? That would be an incredible statement to defend.

> The question is, why should I have admiration for something I don't care about, or even something I dislike?

If you have subjectively decided that Tesla, SpaceX and OpenAI are not impressive, then I'm afraid we simply view the world differently. I cannot comprehend how someone would be unimpressed with companies at the forefront of technological progress.

The only way in which I can explain your view is that you are not able to separate Musk's personality from his ventures. I can.

> Just to evoke Godwin's law, are we supposed to be "impressed" by the "accomplishments" of Hitler?

Anther clue that we simply think very differently. Yes, I am impressed by what Hitler 'accomplished'. I am also impressed by what Bin Laden 'accomplished', for example. Imagine if this same amount of work, ingenuity, scrappiness was applied from 'good'. Then we might have had two rich entrepreneurs that you'd find just as despicable simply for being rich.

> Back to the more mundane subject of wealth accumulation, from my perspective, gluttony and insatiable greed are not an accomplishment, they're a personality flaw, a pathology.

Back to what the real problem is - the system. Don't hate the player, hate the game. Also, if Musk wanted to actually just make money, I'm sure there are better avenues than doing the hard work of creating disruptive technologies.
It should be, but I’m not holding my breathe for the US to suddenly start ancting like a functional government (and there are probably other countries where a legal fix is less likely as well). Until then companies are free to offer private alternatives to users who find that to be a valuable service.
Our last batch named -themselves- "minions" and there's still little yellow dudes everywhere in the images they posted to internal comms platforms.

I agree that some care would need to be taken to ensure that the redshirts felt like active participants in the joke rather than the butt of it, but at least in a reasonably informal environment it could, in fact, be very funny -to- the interns themselves.

(though as tech lead, I always make sure that there are a decent number of jokes flying around directed squarely at me, which probably helps set a baseline of how seriously to take such things - and if in doubt about any particular joke, I just aim it at myself ;)
Please extend this with the position of the Sun in your window.

I don't mind the Sun if it's coming from the back, for example.
That’s not the full story though because there are random spot checks and they’re very very annoying when they happen.
>I am not sure what to do about the burnout problem.

Get paid for it, and don't do anything more than you are paid to do.

I've done volunteer work, per se. My biggest takeaway has been that humanity overall is not worth giving away my free time to.

When I volunteer my time now, I do so only for individuals who I know will sincerely appreciate it.
i have some thoughts on it here: https://tech.lgbt/@jyn/111771280764615511. i'm planning to make this the subject of my next blog post.
Ah yes. I wonder if an OSS project should set forth a time budget in some way? Hard to “enforce” though. And goes counter to wanting contributors to feel free to contribute on their terms.
>Do you account for the fact that it might not be the same people making both arguments?

I don't. It's possible to (dis)prove this with comments but that would be a bit invasive (ironically enough) without doing a lot of work to anonymize the dataset I gather and prove sufficient random sampling. It's possible for admins to (dis)prove this through voting habits, but not for me to bring about such evidence.

All I can say from here is that so far, there's a local sample of one reply to me that seems to indeed think this way.

>Where would you put your “public commons”? Did this ever happen?

The "commons" in this case would be the OS. I don't think we've ever historically had another OS as locked down as hard IOS. Game consoles come the closest to this, but are ultimately ephemeral; no gaming OS store has lasted (i.e. been officially supported. I cannot submit a PS3 game today even if I wanted to) as long as IOS, and I don't see IOS closing anytime soon.

On top of that, there is the argument on IOS being a general OS compared to games being specialized; no one de facto seems to desire doing much more than consuming media on consoles (consoles don't even have proper web browsers these days). So that's another factor to consider when determining what is a "major OS" and if/when it should be opened up if closed down.

These seem to be questions that are slowly being asked in formal channels. So I suppose these are all TBD. But if you want my sample of 1 answers:

- At some point I do think a "major OS" should become a commons for those who seek to publish through it. Microsoft was dinged 30 years ago for much less and Apple has way more control and restrictions now than MS ever did.

- Apple is entitled to profit from the App Store, but isn't entitled to be the only store able to distribute apps on its platform. Again, MS was considering this with Windows 8 and 10 and it was an absolute disaster. Another aspect of an "existing commons" trying to close up in a way that MS in theory feels entitled to but in a way that would hurt consumers and developers.

- the 30% is definitely a question to ask and not one I have a particularly strong answer on. I feel this is where the invisible hand should take charge, so it comes down more to "would the audience take a lower cut if they were able to find an alternative (which may or may not include themselves)?". So my concern here is with providing alternative options and seeing if the market shifts rather than throttling existing rates.
Network, some go-to websites. It's all looking pretty dry right now.
Rubygems introduced a file option to specify Ruby version in Gemfile
I think most (early) human clones would be female, and raised like normal kids, possibly with no one knowing any better.

So I'm thinking cloning might be a viable alternative to regular IVF at least technically, somewhere mid-century-ish.

Once there's a solid protocol, the cost of the equipment isn't even that much (a few thousand dollars). Except for one essential component, which only 50% of the population possess. (Thus since the only people who can directly afford to clone themselves would be female, their clones would be female too)

The main delay is actually the fact that many people are opposed to the concept of human cloning, so research is limited.
Is it hopelessly crude? I mean the model is definitely wrong by some high level behavior might be useful enough
When the entire field of archaeology experts calls someone out as a crank, you should really ask yourself if you have a good reason to know better than them.
C is/was fueled by positive energy: "Let's be (relatively) portable and improve on Assembly."

Rust seems to have vengeful victory at its heart: "Let's sock it to those reckless, ignorant C programmers."
> This is a good description of what life is like working on almost any significant open source project.

Open contributions project.

An open source project does not necessarily have to accept random contributions, issues or hatemail from the general public. [1] They just need to make the source available with a permissive licence, period.

I believe that Linux with its idiosyncrasies in its communication model (mailing list vs the ease of Github, strong dictator running the show) works as a great filter from entitled users, and that's an underrated feature in open source. See also sqlite.

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1: Yet hell will freeze over before Github lets maintainers turn off the PR tab which would lessen this problem a bit.
> On the innovation side stable diffusion turbo does like 100 cats with hats per second

2028: Energy use on hat-cat generation exceeds energy use on bitcoin.
>The inability to unsubscribe should be fixed in the law

Even taking your second part as given without addressing the actual complexity here: then how about you accomplish that FIRST? Because I've heard a lot of "we'll break this hack that makes things work suboptimally but better than nothing and then fix it properly in law later" over the decades and 99% of the time it breaks the hack and then surprise surprise never ever gets the "fixed in law" part, leaving us worse off without the gain. I'm all in favor of passing some laws in this area that'd accomplish stuff more efficient with fewer perverse incentives on all sides. I'd like to see users have the option by law to control their root key stores, to require standard secure APIs for subscriptions so that multiple 3rd parties can offer central management and users can cancel without any interaction with what they're subscribing to, for long basic price linked warranties required by law, local use and ad free data control options by law, but also for manufacturers/devs to be protected by default from liability etc. It'd be great to fix a whole lot of stuff.

But until that happy day happens I'm less inclined to just mindlessly bash down what we have and a lot of people are pretty happy with and seems to have struck an ok if far from ideal compromise. I mean, killing upgrades alone makes me hate the app store, but still fix first.
Also to consider: CapCut. Although I don't know if it handles 10 bit.
they like it because

# title

this is the paragraph

is more natural to write than:

<html>
<head>...<head/>
<body>
<h1> title </h1>
<p>this is the paragraph</p>
</body>
</html>

when you're just jotting some thoughts down.
Annoying? A person comes and scans a few of the items on the counter, then leaves again. If that is already annoying to you, you must live a very stressed life
Wait, are you saying you just trade the wireless functionality from the built in Bluetooth to an external Bluetooth dongle?
You can still plan based on day-ahead prices. And just take the risk on the difference between day ahead and spot pricing if you like. And if you don't want to take that risk, you can buy contracts for difference between the two from someone else willing to take on the risk. And if you don't want the hassle, you can sign up with an electricity provider willing to do all of the above and not even tell you about the complexity of such stuff.
it keeps saying its green and safe for the environment but doesnt explain how lol
meh - no status page is perfectly in sync with reality, even if it's updated automatically. There's always lag and IRL, there's often partial outages.

Therefore, one should treat status pages conservatively as "definitely an outage" rather than "maybe an outage."
What makes you think it wouldn’t be twice as fast, assuming the same number of items was being purchased? That certainly seemed to be the case at my local Whole Foods before Amazon ruined it.
https://willowprotocol.org/more/projects-and-communities/ind...
Lab crafts mutant Covid-19 strain with 100% kill streak in humanized mice
Ex teacher here. This was a common complain from other university departments.
We did not include debugging in the curricula, instead we taught debugging when a student got lost in their own code. Experience showed that was the moment they grok it the easiest. When they had their own code, their own baffling test case, and suddenly a new tool made it transparently easy to fix. They loved it immediately.

When we tried differently, the times we used to taught debugging in the whiteboard , it was a mess. Debugging requires carrying a lot of context line by line. Having 80 eyeballs watching the same debugging exercise, made the bug shallow and stole the aha experience from individual students.
A possible reason is the use of Static Single Assignment (SSA). While it makes many optimizations easier, it has to translate its IR out-of-SSA to generate code. This is very expensive as it needs computation of dominance on the Control Flow Graph, insert copies and much more. But it's just a guess.
Ask HN: Is there any good semantic search GUI for images or documents?
When OpenAI's CLIP model was released in 2021 and other major advances in representation learning were made around that time, I expected, or rather hoped, that these models would soon be integrated into file browsers to improve semantic search capabilities, especially for images and documents.

Now, a few years later, the train still doesn't seem to have arrived. Vector databases are now a thing, but despite hours of research, I couldn't find a single GUI application that allows embedding and semantic search of (local) files.

Was I just unlucky in my search or is there really no such tool or integration, e.g. for Gnome Search or file browser such as Nautilus?
It's been said here before, but university CS programs tend to expect the most crystallized knowledge of incoming students of any program. I did not code in my free time in high school nor did I have formal CS education in high school, and I always felt that my university CS courses weren't designed for me. They were designed primarily for the student who self-taught during high school.

As to why this is, I think it's the path of least resistance for the teaching staff and it seems to work so why change it?
Well, the Sami arrived at the scene quite some time before the Norse though.
Agreed and I don't know. For that matter, why not an AI assistant for the whole website? I think chat interfaces might take over site search. So good luck with Gali!

...I'm surprised OpenAI has not made Custom GPTs easily embeddable into a creator's own website, perhaps that is their next step. I don't know how they expect anyone to easily find Custom GPTs when there are 3 million in their GPT Store.
> Somehow, the self checkouts in Switzerland are mostly free of both problems.

You're experiencing the difference between high- and low-trust societies.
I'm a bit confused, you one side say there's no cheap car in Europe, then give a price in USD - are you actually in Europe and know what you are talking about? You can get a new Fiat, Citroen or Mitsubishi under 15k (some even hybrids) even here in the high-price-island Switzerland.
I love Obsidian for being a dead simple UI for managing my markdown files. I’ve found that the cloud features are not for me. What I need is to wire it more organically up to a GitHub repo.
I would not call self-checkout a failure. Yes things like weight checks are annoying but what self checkouts are great at doing is increasing throughput through a store checkout. Often times I can be standing in line to a self checkout with 10-15 people in front of me and only wait 2-3 minutes because there are 6 self-checkout registers, meanwhile the folks waiting at traditional checkout are still waiting as I'm already walking out.
Did that work with Microsoft and Internet Explorer?
> I personally feel that no amount of money is worth spending the best part of your youth doing mostly meaningless things

It depends on why you’re doing it. Supporting a family, and contributing money and spare time to your community, are very meaningful. I’m building <yet another API> for <Company> in order to do my real job which is being a parent and citizen.
You could probably make a lookup table that works "well enough" in like a few hours.
The dongle is definitely not using Bluetooth. Wireless peripherals with USB dongles generally have their own custom radio protocol, for better or worse.
Markdown is so much easier to read and maintain in its raw form. I can't imagine trying to take meeting notes in html.

```
- [ ] Item 1
- [ ] Item 2
```

```
<ul>
<li><checkbox> <label>Item 1</label></li>
<li><checkbox> <label>Item 2</label></li>
</ul>
```
We can each have our very own Dixie Flatline construct.
Self-checkout relies on high trust. There are places where this works and shrinkage is manageable, but that seems to be higher income areas.

So it works in Norway or Japan, but put this in Indonesia or Honduras or even in small city USA and it’ll run into problems. It can work in areas of larger cities where most of the clientele are high income, but it’s bound to fail in most other areas.
Pretty much. You want to optimize for fluidity in writing, and angle brackets just get in the way too much.
WaveCoder: Enhanced instruction tuning with refined data generation
I had a similar problem with my Windows gaming PC after I upgraded CPU cooler. Motherboard/BIOS decided that I've upgraded my CPU and it would not proceed without me pressing "F2" key on my keyboard.

Obviously my BT keyboard did not yet connect to the computer, since it was before BT drivers loaded or something, so I had to buy a wired keyboard to press "F2" and proceed. Would be nice to have 2-3 buttons right on a case to interact with BIOS. Or you know…load BT drivers.
this is a wonderful comment, thank you for writing it <3

i am trying to model these behaviors; this post was primarily intended for other people working in the project. i feel pretty strongly that this is a cultural issue moreso than an individual one. i have seen too many of my friends burn out to say it was all their fault individually.
Sure will. Canonic sounds like an amazing tool for my needs.
This is rapidly changing with Tesla first. Outside the tires not much you're going to get after-market except from Tesla.

You always have the option to not buy a ford, or not buy an iPhone.
QBasic gave me my start in PC programming when I was a freshman in high school. When I was younger, I learned to code on my Commodore 64. I loved QBasic so much I saved up every penny I could to buy the QuickBasic Compiler. One thing I missed from that era was how much documentation came with software. The book for it was HUGE! Tons of detailed code examples taught me so much.
Industrial robots have a training mode where the motors and clutches are disengaged so the operator can position this multi-ton robot through the movements it wants it to make. I thought that was really cool to watch them being programmed through physical input.
It would be interesting to learn more about what type of people become incels

I do belive that most are 'just' normal humans who haven't gotten the proper feedback system in their lives which also implies that the incel crisis is not necessarily a mental health issue but a social issue.

It doesnt' make it easier of course if people with borderline personality disorder and others are also affected and potentially also take over those type of groups in a form or push them in particular directions.
I really appreciate when a product thinks about this use case. It's real annoying to have your data get all messed up in whatever app you're in because you're showing it off to other people.

Your user is doing the best thing possible for your growth by sharing something virally, it's nice to make that a pleasant experience.
Proprietary wireless dongles for keyboards and mice are often not Bluetooth.
I’m pretty sure macOS does warn you that turning Bluetooth off will disconnect your keyboard/mouse/trackpad, if thats the only input device you’ve got connected.

Not sure when it was introduced but it’s definitely there on the latest version because I bumped into it the other day.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding this whole post, but isn't it about having to pay 27% even when you don't use the store?
Yes I get it, we shape our policies based on "the really bad cases". This reminds me of a - probably largely exaggerated - comparison: one party denies help to 10 persons out of worry one might be a fraud, the other gives help to 10 persons out of worry one might need it badly.
So the answer to my original question is - yes :)
Curious if you’ve applied in this market. I think that self perpetuating cycle has broken for a lot of experienced people (like me)
Yes, right after hitler.
Orellana's voyage down the Amazon river is the subject of one episode of Michael Wood's Conquistadors, a series of travel videos linked below. Orellana described seeing large communities and cities from the river, recording the existence of a large population that had been decimated by the time the wider world ventured into the Amazon.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5mko7v
Just want to say, appreciate the discussion about the environment. Never actually thought about what is better towns (rural areas) vs cities.

And I am sure the answer is not as simple as it sounds. But my guess, there are too many people in the world, and living in the house in that sense is a privilege.
The hard truth is: Some teacher's don't know the material (and surrounding skills) as well as they should. They are embarrassed to have students inadvertently point this out with questions and would rather have that embarrassing "problem" just "go away" instead of learn to be a better teacher.

I say this as the son of two teachers who enjoyed their craft. Boy did I hear a lot of stories growing up ...
This is true, but then the corrollary is that new PRs need to come with this higher, rigorous level of test coverage.

And then that becomes a bit of a barrier to contribution -- it's a tradeoff

I often write an entirely new test harnesses for a feature, e.g. for https://www.oilshell.org, particularly using other implementations as "oracles". All of these run in the CI - https://www.oilshell.org/release/latest/quality.html

The good thing is that it definitely helps me accept PRs faster. Current contributors are good at this kind of exhaustive testing, but many PRs aren't

Even so, I do find myself simply adding test coverage from time-to-time -- that's an important job of a maintainer
Why Are American Cities Squalid?
> Part of the problem is that MPs are on average too old, too stupid, or too reactive

Politicians are the PE teachers in that old joke. If they had a minimum of competence in anything they do, they would have gotten a serious and honest job like everyone else.
Still better than Biedronka ones.

I'm usually using ANC headphones when shopping, so it's not a big deal for me, I dislike all the usual peeping, squeaking and alert bells in contemporary shopping environment.

>The best ones I’ve used are at Rossmann. Completely silent, and don’t measure the weight of anything, so you never get to the “sorry, your shopping’s weight is off by 1g” part.

Agreed, but this is due to specific requirements of a drugstore - measuring weight is meaningless if you have 100s of nail polishes or toothpastes weighing pretty much the same.
China Told Women to Have Babies, but Its Population Shrank Again
Fantastic. Anyone who comes to HN more for the comments than the articles -- read this one.
The main point of Markdown is that it's easy to write and read without any extra rendering processes.

https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#philosop...

Here is a nice article of many light weight markup languages:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_markup_language

I like Markdown a lot, though I prefer org-mode due to the extra features it comes with.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Org-mode
HTML was not really meant to be generated by humans. Just like XML, it's supposed to be machine readable first and foremost.
This is a great story. Thank you for sharing.

Did he omit his current role from his resume? How did he not disclose where he was currently working?
I agree with you even though I think some will view this as a hot take. It is interesting that the US government has historically subsidized both smaller telcos and airlines to fill these types of small gaps where they exist.
autojump is first on my list of command line things I can't live without.