skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the underlying issue for anything where software isn’t the primary goal. Nobody wants to change their workflow that they’ve trained over years, no matter how absolutely broken and absurd it might be.
> another "systemd" developer

What does that mean?
Well, from the streetcar conspiracy [1] to the Ford Pinto [2] to Dieselgate [3] the auto industry isn't exactly famous for honesty.

And there's also the climate change, and the ~40,000 deaths per year in car accidents in the US.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Pinto#Cost%E2%80%93benefi...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal
Squatter who moved into empty home, won legal right to keep it, has sold house
Does it have a map? Like with rooms connected to each other.

I tried a little but didn't find any part where I would go "north", "south" etc

Or there are rooms, but without directions?
> You mean the expected payout is -$5, right?

No, 5$. The reason is that you sell/auction these lottery tickets. The price that the customer pays has to be subtracted from this payout (and this way the final payout very likely will become negative). But the price that the customer will pay in this experiment is not known beforehand, so the initial payout has to be positive.
Everything worse than previously thought
I know everyone is mentioning whether or not you should do a bootcamp, but I’d suggest a different approach?

Get a freelance job. Do something on fiverr. Get yourself solving real problems for people. Figure it out, by doing the job itself.

If you’re not confident you can do it, try searching and doing a freelance request on your own.

If you can stick with it to the end, you can build confidence for the next thing.

Best case you end up with more cash and connections for work. Worst case you realize you’re not into the work.
This style of journalism predated “online” by decades or longer.

Even then people skimmed print newspapers. It’s why they were in columns and grafs were short (often one sentence). All of that was designed to make articles easy to skim.

And yes, distraction/boredom was part of it but so was a lack of time for most readers. A lot of news was read over a short breakfast before going to work. A lot of conventions were designed to make it easy to get a quick and broad overview of what the editor thought was important: pyramid style, short blips before “continued on page 11”, putting important things above the fold, etc.

It’s interesting which of those aspects translate well to online journalism and which don’t.
Show HN: Wren – simple yet extensible task management with CLI, Telegram, HTTP
They’ve been calibrated on Earth for use on Earth.
have you ever heard of steam tables?
Show HN: Nectar, Survey that can ask deep followup questions
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In fact we’re using it ourselves. And our completion rate so far is 90%.

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Got laid off in August right before my wedding. Thankfully found a job quickly, but the lesson I've ingrained is that (at least in America) you can do your best possible job and still end up on the chopping block.
It's very bothersome. I suffer from anxiety and have trouble compartmentalizing my daily struggles. I have trouble sleeping at night.
The rat race is exhausting.
Cruise isn't at fault for the collision with pedestrian, since it was a second order impact. The primary cause being Nissan Sentra and pedestrian. But could cruise avoided the impact and is this how humans react when we drive? Here is the timeline from the report.

- AV starts moving at -9.2s, after light changes
- Prediction output shows pedestrian path crossing AV travel lane: -7.7s
- Pedestrian leaves AV's travel lane: -5.3s
- Pedestrian pauses at crosswalk : -4.7s
- Contact b/w Nissan and Pedestrian; -2.7s
> our brains are wanting collapse uncertainty or resolve some belief

A firm basis for standup comedy, and spoken humor in general.
I meant the CPU part of 8000G, not the GPU. Could've been clearer about it.
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Ok, but it’s digitalized, I didn’t say it was good. You can now directly go to an Apotheke with your insurance card and get your medication, even the prescription is digitalized.
When you buy an actual piece of art, the provenance is useful because it lets you know the art you have is the real thing.

What does provenance even matter if you don’t actually own the art? If you want to support the artist and you don’t want / can’t afford the actual piece, just donate to them and you’d have the same effect.
I guess we have different notions of what the horizon is. For me is "in my lifetime". To put it in context: I watched the first Moon landing on TV as a child, so I'm used to wait.
oh i'm not sure if it does self-hosting. i just use their cloud version.
But the issue is why does Amazon get access to so much cheap debt that it can buy all those bookstores, competitors, iRobot, with loans for more than those other companies are really worth worth and then saddle them with that debt and shut them down?
Kernel is operative rather than applicative - i.e. fexpr-based - and I don't think you can get something quite the same without it.

(arguably a macro is really just a limited fexpr that's executed and the results inlined at compile time, though I mean that as 'morally equivalent' rather than making a technical claim since I haven't attempted to implement that in my fexpr based interpreters yet)
Show HN: JSONLint – Validate and Format Your JSON Online
What specific problem requires you to build a PC?

If it is curiosity, then just build one.

If it is a business problem, hire a consultant.

It's not 1992 anymore.

Good luck.
Talking works great! But I struggle to give reasonable answers because I do not speak my language of choice. I understood all though. So suggestion: offer on option to learn something new and practice verbs.
10 Minutes is ~1% of your day
JavaScript stack for real-time reactive LLM heavy workloads
Kubernetes for Lazy Developers
Not defending Apple, but one of the big transitions was stopping support for 32 bit apps. Even 20 years ago it was clear to anyone even mildly technical that 64-bit apps were the immediate future. Continuing to develop 32-bit only apps well into the 2010s was a conscious decision by developers to limit the lifetime utility of their software to a few years at most.
It's not only the young Americans though. Young people everywhere are like this.
https://forums.simplenote.com/forums/topic/customized-simple...
I have tried a lot of tools. Epic is terrible. capital T terrible. And its still better than just about every other thing out there.

Epic suffers from "it has to be all things for all people". so it is nothing for anyone. It is bloated, big, overly customizable, yet doesn't fit. Steep learning curve, bad UI/UX, expensive, just all around terrible.

And yet it is still better than everything else i have ever seen, except native single-hospital EMRs like Beth Isreal hospital, Boston, EMR.
I implement EMR’s and related software. They slow down the process of providing healthcare to the point that medical scribes - personal note takers / assistants - are basically necessary to keep things rolling smoothly.
Because they're more concerned with bolstering b stock trades and executive payouts than actually delivering a good product.

They continue to have massive layoffs and lean into outsourcing over preserving knowledge workers and draining those that know the hopes and why's of correct processes.
Ron DeSantis will now decree that this sort of experiment is illegal in Florida state supported universities.

In other words, ignorance is not just a good thing, it's the law --- because Ron and his ilk.
Interesting concept! I wanted to try it out but I’m missing Hindi in the list of languages you can learn. Curious about why the languages that made the cut did so and if you plan to add more languages in the short time?
Contexts, Friction and Distractions
I added it using prql-js
I think if anything it's a tradeoff, you definitely need blood circulation but it seems to make sense to not let too much wrong stuff in through dental issues, cavities and all that right next door to your brains too. But not a doctor of course.
Good faith discovery requires that the receiving party was ignorant of the malicious behavior of the collecting party, thus suggesting the receiving party formed a warrant in good faith. A good defense attorney would get that tossed. The primary legal theory to bypass an improper collection is inevitable discovery which does not apply here.
Shamir's secret sharing with 3 separate lawyers is kind of hard to beat if you have cryptocurrency or other similar assets that absolutely need a password to recover it, and it is a relatively easy algorithm to run. Give them the same instruction sheet on how to run the algorithm, plus a different second page with their fragment of the key.

Most of the time, though, the "call us" approach actually works, and you can give your relatives power of attorney to handle this.
I came across a comment on HN a few weeks ago linking to a different post in this subreddit, but apparently this myth is confirmed and even has a FAQ entry in AskHistorians

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/wiki/vfaq#wiki_middle... (Middle Ages, subsection Health and Hygiene)

The other post I cannot find right now was much more detailed than the faq links, but I can’t seem to find it again using HN search
I have attention deficit disorder and I agree with you. I got diagnosed as an adult and treatment changed my life. It felt like my brain's features had finally been unlocked. The effect of the medication got less pronounced over time but it is still very noticeable. The effect also proved to be long lasting: significant improvements in my cognitive functions remained even without the medication.
Really wish people would stop invalidating others because of their own god damn protection.

I haven't eaten fast food in decades. Cutting gluten changed my life. Go on everyone, tell me how I'm a fraud.
RFC means nothing in the real world, there were designed in a very different age with different needs.
The 123s and first generation 124s were little jewels. So much brilliant engineering.
It is a management issue indeed. Good management holds the software company feet to fire.
But Japan has a population crumble, a long LONG tradition of home price devaluation (earthquakes destroy everything, why build super high quality stuff and why maintain, after 10 years your protection is more fragile or obsolete) and prices are extremely low.

In China, they had a speculative bubble sure, but what s gonna kill the market is that in 20 years a lot less young people will exist to even buy the houses, like in Japan.
Lack of current data produced offers potential adversaries a hunch, not confirmation.

In a hypothetical scenario where Nazis come into power in the USA, who is safer, the Jewish person with their real name tied to their Amazon account, who orders menorahs with their voice over Alexa, or the Jewish person who does not own an Alexa, only buys religious items from a physical shop, pays with cash, and offers a fake name to the seller?

Everything that you do or don't do produces data in some sense, but the odds that what you're not doing is being explicitly logged are almost certainly lower than the odds of what you are doing being explicitly logged. Besides, what you're not doing is data point. What you are doing is information. Data does not deterministically produce information, it is merely possible to extract information from data, and it's possible to extract the wrong information from data.

Ergo, I posit that the optimal amount of data to voluntarily hand over under the premise of "I'm doing nothing wrong, so I have nothing to hide" is zero, because voluntarily handing over your data is offering more concrete information than not doing so offers, and because other people, including those who achieve positions of power, can define "doing something wrong" extremely differently than you do.
> This is a blog post aimed at people who want to do important work or make meaningful contributions to work, but **feel** they aren’t that smart and don’t have any talent.

So yeah, it's not for people who truly are not smart, it's for people who limit themselves as a result of mispercieving their own abilities.
...but any apps from 20 years ago like the Corel Draw example will have a nice "No" cross over them, as they'll be PowerPC (either Mac OS X or classic). 15 years old stuff will probably be a no go as well, as they'll largely be 32 bit x86. And frankly, most people expect 64 bit x86 support to go away sooner rather than later. Apple really are aggressive about this stuff.
The scale of systems to set up there for humans to stay for weeks is mind-blowing compared to the robots currently there: it's likely not before tens of years. Even doing so on the moon is years away. Sending robots with more science equipments seems more likely in our lifetime.

Would humans there be more efficient than robots to solve this question? not very likely: humans would need more tools to perform the same research.
In-n-Out has saturated the southwestern coast, which is a pretty significant fraction of the United States.

The key is they have an absolute ton of employees in the restaurant (a busy McDonald’s might have four or five, In-n-out can have double or triple that. I’ve seen other fast food with two employees, never an In-n-Out) and they work exceptionally hard on specific tasks.

They also only deploy in areas where they’ve determined they’ll be able to keep the store busy enough.
Perhaps this is how the world ends up with "PHP: a fractal of bad design"?

Not that I want to be too snarky about it: I used PHP a bit back in the LAMP stack days, and as bad as the language was it was easy to get stuff up and running. So perhaps Mr Lerdorf is right. (I hear PHP might be somewhat better now, though I can't vouch for that myself)
Elon's fixation on Mars or bust is kind of irrational and monomaniacal.

I'm more of a Moon fan really, but I wouldn't bet against him reaching Mars in the next twenty years or so. The man is persistent.
Hey, I built Wren after being a little frustrated with everything else. I wanted something that let's me (1) enter tasks as quickly as possible, (2) let's me do it on the go, (3) can be easily backed up, (4) requires no fiddling around.

I'm super happy with how this turned out. Hopefully someone somewhere would also find this useful!

The following is straight from the README:

Wren is simple because every note is one file. The filename is the title, and the content is the note's content. This makes it very easy to sync tasks between devices, as conflicts can almost never happen, even if syncing isn't done real time. The files are plain text, so you can just write. If you want a task to repeat every Saturday you just prefix it with a cron syntax, e.g. 0 8 * * 6 weekly swim, and if you want a task to appear from a specific time you just start it with the date, like 2030-01-01 check if Wren became super popular.

Wren is advanced because it is very extensible - it comes (optionally!) with a Telegram bot that you can chat with to manage your notes, and even get AI-driven daily summaries as if you had a personal assistant. It also includes a tiny HTTP server that you can use to manage tasks using an API or from the browser, which can be used for displaying you tasks elsewhere (e.g. in your e-reader).
Your comment should answer your question -- there's really no fair comparison between them considering how far apart their eras were. It was much "easier" making new discoveries back then (there were simply fewer mathematicians, and maths itself was much younger).

Making any significant contribution in modern times is so much more difficult. It's said within algebraic geometry most mathematicians will publish perhaps a handful of papers in their lifetime -- it takes too long to even get up to speed with the subject before you are able to start contributing.
If you ever go to one, you'll understand. They're like the Rolls-Royce of fast food burgers.
This type of app has been built so many times now.
I literally said even criminals don't have to worry.

I think my main point here is not only is there too much data. But that the reason for too much data is most of it is fluff data no one gives a shit about.

That's the key. Your data and my data is the fluff. Nobody cares for it. Amazon doesn't give a flying shit about you. You're not important. At best you data is analyzed by an algorithm and you're served the relevant ads. Oooh shit big deal.
As AI models continue to progress, I have a hard time seeing how captchas will stick around. GPT-4 can surely already answer which squares have traffic lights in them faster and more accurately than I can.

What is the future of captchas? Reverse captchas - where only a human could do such a crappy job?
This is a great talk on exactly this topic from a Clojure conference, if you want a long answer. It focuses on the “functional” feature of Clojure but all of it applies to the whole language (and probably any good lisp) IMO. https://youtu.be/QyJZzq0v7Z4?si=y3hhYaInMkRLBCJK

My brief text answer (focused on Clojure):

-python has been around about 20 more years than Clojure

-the advantages of Clojure vs python/etc probably aren’t nearly as big as python vs a non memory managed, compiled, static language like C. That whole generation of “scripting” languages had the wind at their backs in a way Clojure and its contemporaries never quite will (though Clojure et al tend to be much better at concurrency and parallelism and this will help a lot)

-unfamiliar syntax (not Algol like) and paradigm (not oop)- and the truth is many programmers back away slowly when a thing is too alien

-hasn’t found a niche as big as data science or scientific computing or CRUD website building - I think python has aggregated some great academic niches, at least one of which (ML/data science) exploded in popularity. Ruby had the rails community. Clojure seems to have some popularity in fintech but has no big single niche yet that it dominates.
This is true of most people; we all survive only because of the society around us. We'd all be hosed if everyone became commune hippies, but we'd also be hosed if everyone became a programmer or construction worker or truck driver.

That said, the communes are now gone usually through their own dysfunction, abuse, unsustainable economies, and so on. People tried the life and didn't stick with it because it wasn't so great. There are a few though... mostly religious in some way. I'm not sure if the religion makes the deprivations more palatable, or the religion builds the community trust that either avoids or apologizes for whatever problems occur.