skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Before bullying was eliminated from schools, bullying was pervasive, and I know several friends who were bullied throughout their schooling. The emotional scars and struggles with self-esteem they faced lasted long after the bullying itself stopped.
GPL is more restricted than MIT, not less. I would never make significant contributions to a GPL project.
Mahatma Gandhi doesn't work when the tools of the apparatchik and the people aren't with you, or when the dominant force is unreasonable and disrespects the rule of law.
> Look at China's economic situation right now to see how ultimately unproductive that can be.

I’m confused why you think China taxes the rich to take over the poor? Their taxation system is less redistributive than most western developed countries.
Grow up. What a stupid thing to brag about. And in no way refutes the original point, that it's disgusting, stupid, and inconsiderate. But obviously you know that and don't care.
Ay usually "this fucking guy" has a pejorative tone... I think you were agreeing with me but yeah not sure everyone understood the same.
Linux Is a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA)
> aligned on whole real pixels

Remember that you're working with two screens, not one, and they have to have coordinated projections that will also depend on the user's IPD.
Friend,

A) poverty can be reduced while inequality increases. And inequality is definitely increasing. And the assessment that inequality isn’t that big of a deal and that we should focus only on poverty is very from a “categorical” assertion, imo.

B) “the world isn’t getting worse because bad things have existed in the past” isn’t a very clear argument. I think the BBC says it best: “Nationalism has always been a feature across Europe's political spectrum but there has been a recent boom in voter support for right-wing and populist parties.”

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36130006
Interesting perspective, but not enough for me to be sold. I never understood how one can be at work and expect to be enjoying lovely scenery at the same time. Those are mutually exclusive for me, especially when coding or hacking. My mind can only be one place at a time. If only we could set aside the computer and truly be in nature... Oh, wait, we can...
Huh. How many repos do you have? And how many emails? I have... A lot of repos. And two emails.
Your reasoning is circular. Humans who go to performances of other humans playing instruments enjoy seeing other humans playing instruments. That should not be surprising. The question is whether humans as a whole intrinsically prefer seeing other humans playing instruments over hearing a "perfect" machine reproduction. And the answer to that question is no. There are plenty of humans who really do prefer the machine reproduction.
How about making a static website that doesn't require extensive hosting lest it crash for a few thousands of visitors?

Serving static blog content should be trivial if your code isn't absolute lunacy.
Other people are using the same technique for nafarious purposes so they will at least have to change techniques
You'd be too late. You're just waiting for someone to imbue a model with agency. We have agency due to evolution. Robots need it programmed into them, and honestly, that is easy to do compared with instilling reasoning. Primitive animals have agency. No animal can reason on the level of GPT. That will get us to HAL2000. If you stick it in a robot, you have the Terminator.
Not silly at all cause I do the same. I wonder if it’s a Mac issue displaying modals or a teams thing. I have the same issue with slack messages so I always assume it’s a Mac problem.
DiskClick: Ever wanted to hear old hard drive sounds
There's been an ongoing special investigation into charging Trump with election interference and or insurrection.

This is not "precisely 0 attempts to charge him with insurrection" which is a delibrately silly thing to claim.

Full on insurrection charges are a political hot potato with all manner of side issues.

Also, it only just this month (Februray, 2024) that a panel of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled that Trump is not immune from prosecution due to his position as active POTUS at the time.
Quite far I'd imagine. We'd get it hooked up to teletypes pretty quickly, even if we had to do it by acoustic coupling because nobody could figure out USB. I mean, if you are going back in time, take a USB GPIO board and a power supply FFS! Then start building your nuclear weapon simulators on that. Probably aerodynamics simulators? Quite possibly broken the enemies encryption?
Python isn't a serious language for programmers.

It's for non-programmers.
Things dont have to be wrong to be considered wrong :)
AI Comes to Slack
100% of my social circle works outside tech, and nobody uses memojis
> Idk, optimizing inefficient systems sounds a lot more interesting to me

Yeah, I guess I’m being somewhat disingenuous. I like optimizing systems, but I’m aware that it’s not everyone’s cup of tea.

You learn that very quickly at cocktail parties when people ask you what you do, ask for more than the headline answer, and then have their eyes glaze over when you get into the details.

> than working for the man, as you put it.

As a nerd/geek, and I fall into that category, working in a good skunk works type of place is pretty damn fun. It usually doesn’t pay well compared to most tech jobs, it’s often not that prestigious, but damn… it can sometimes tickle the brain like no other.

One potentially bad part of it is that most skunk works are funded in some way by the DoD, so some folks may object to that.

> Thanks for writing this out.

My pleasure.

> It seems very difficult to get into.

Hmm… my first instinct is to say that it’s not, but I might be short-selling my skills, network, and (frankly) privilege if I say that.

I think it’s open to far larger group than is actively trying to participate in it.

I think the main keys are:

- Understand fundamentals of business. I have been around this my whole life, so it came quite naturally to me. That said, it’s learnable, and a lot of things fall into the common sense or empathy categories.

- Be good at contracting and hiring/firing. There are a lot of bozos in the workforce, but there are also plenty of hidden gems.

- Be good at marketing/sales. Although it’s possible, I think it’s tough to hide behind a screen and also scale.

- Talk to your customers. PG beats this drum, and there’s a good reason. Note customers here are customers of any business you own as well as business you want to buy or entities you want to sell a business to.

- Start small, but do things that scale. People think you need a lot of money to start doing this. You don’t. If you do really well, you don’t have to ask around much before relatively large sums of money start finding you. I currently prefer to self-fund, but I’m thinking about transitioning to some sort of dividend growth entity — I think that they will be en vogue in certain circles over the next 10 years or so.
Or you could just write it the first time in the real language.

Python isn't appreciably faster than something like Typescript to someone with actual experience making programs professionally.
Kara Swisher: How Trump Pushed Silicon Valley Off the Rails
Yes, for instance if a big tech company knows that a person is demoralized already (for example, out of work and isolated), and if a major life trauma event occurs for that person, create a satirical and insulting depiction of that trauma event for the person unannounced on their personalized feed. They will never know for sure whether it was intentional, which will add to the stress and demoralization effect. The big tech parter could conceivably then measure their response to help refine the psychological warfare weapon.

Another technique is to use past trauma events such a divorce or childhood abuse as part of customized content on one’s feed.

Without transparency, how could one know if this was being done intentionally or not? Big tech valuations are largely tied to information asymmetry and secrecy as such. What power could they enjoy over a user if the user was able to see all of the data they hoard and how it’s being used in full transparent detail?
I bet most employees get a slight fraction of that 69 million.

Imagine what having more millionaires would do for the world and the economy ? Such a silly system we’ve created.
Yeah the islanders might say they are happy but are they meeting or exceeding their OKRs?
Maybe not the solution you're looking for but...pick something else?

If you're below average after 7 years and unemployed for the last 3, it makes one wonder why you keep trying to do this? You're a decade in and it isn't working out. That's okay. There are millions of other things people do to support themselves.

What else do you enjoy? It might not pay as well as being a programmer, but it probably pays better than being an unemployed programmer. Why keep your wagon hitched to this one path?

It doesn't sound like this is the path for you. I don't know what voice is telling you otherwise, but I wanted to add mine in to say you don't have to keep trying to do this.
>But what if we implemented agile and scrum?

thats what i am afraid of.
It will all evaporate the day we get a better demo from someone else. The game has become capital/market capture before that event happens.

This is the colonization mentality of the west in over drive, only today capital/hype is used instead of armies. It will fail just faster than the colonies fell.

The Hype engineering mega machine doesnt understand effiency is a double edged sword. Getting over efficient in one dimension (hype/market capture) weakens the machine in other dimensions.
Yeah this seems like the important factor to me. The whole industry is doing layoffs, at least partially in an explicit attempt to combat the insane amount of privilege that we techies have cultivated since the .com boom. Hacker News is bound to get a little more vicious when people are being fired and told that it’s because someone else took their job
what are socially undesirable qualities?
This is a fundamental problem with the standard approach of shipping serialized state and rendering logic to the browser. It simply doesn't scale, and frankly its an asinine approach.

Rendering should live inside the same system as the state being used. In most cases that state lives on a server somewhere, though there are plenty of cases where (usually small bits of) state live in the client exclusively and are never sent back to the server.

The current approach of leveraging build systems and bundlers to generate RPC calls is only going to make it worse. The goal is to effectively hide obscure the split between backend and frontend, in reality all this will do is lead to a terrible debugging process and countless bugs cause by a misunderstanding of the complex DX required. Worse still, given that any piece of state has to either be the responsibility of the backend or the frontend, we can't blur that line completely and will be stuck papering over it with more and more complex solutions.

HTMX has been getting more attention recently. I have no idea if its really the "right" answer for the next few years of web development, but it seems to strike a chord with devs precisely because it goes the way of leaving rendering of server state where it belongs...on the server.
This is like asking why UX sucks at code. It's a different job.
This is assuming everything continues in the same direction the dominating company is innovating in though right?

Maybe AI is here forever, maybe there are different approaches that will blindside them?
That's entirely a consequence of the made-for-marketing headstrap instead of the headset itself. Check out companies like BOBOVR that make more ergonomic headstraps (not for AVP yet, but they've hinted at working on it).
You are very far out of touch.
That’s because Reminders on the Mac isn’t a native app, it’s some half assed port from the iPad. Maps. Home. Stocks. Many of the newer apps are dumpster fires that eschew many of the things that made the Mac great. No keyboard nav. No scripting dictionaries. Settings stored on the web or in some keyed archiver file instead of a straight defaults plist.

It’s dire.
Anthony Alecia’s courses have the best explanations if he wants to truly understand whats going on and they’re great. Start with HTML CSS and move on to Javascript
You can't force a social group to be accepting of people.

'Bullied' or not, these people will be scarred by being rejected from the social group in any context that they have interactions with their peers. There will always be people who are rejected by their social group for various reasons.

It's extremely jarring because in ancient times it generally foretold literal death. I remember it feeling like that sometimes.
Your idea of "easy" is stupid. Possible yes easy , no. And all that money they spend to catchup just to find Nvidia used that time to RD the next step. At this level it's a patent game. Also at this level the companies literally employ the best in their field. The best out of 8 billion. Replicating talent is impossible.
Finding way too many mistakes in Hennessy-Patterson
I've been going through the Computer Organization and Design - RISC V edition textbook by David Patterson and Hennessy by myself. I've half done - 3/6 chapters and have kept a list of errata the book contains, mostly slight discrepancies, but sometimes, pretty horrendous ones. For example, the Assembly code for DGEMM optimized with subword parallelism is copy-pasted from a previous chapter - meaning it wasn't optimized.

Apart from these small mistakes, the textbook is absolutely amazing and I'm learning a ton from it. Needless to say, I will at least try to submit these errata, but I just want to know if others who are reading the book are getting the same problem.

Or maybe, I'm just tripping.
Mostly it’s just that git makes it unnecessarily hard to do atomic commits across a file
> bullying was eliminated from schools

It was? Not that I've been in primary school in a few decades, but I find this claim exceedingly hard to believe.
The technology loss side of this is a little scary. Imagine a large war or disease that takes out a large portion of population and productivity. With so much interdependence between industries, like agriculture's dependence on computerized equipment, chemical fertilizers, and so on, a collapse of one industry could lead to further collapse.

When building cloud infrastructure a practice I've seen used is to avoid creating dependency cycles between systems. Otherwise an outage of one can result in an unrecoverable situation for many systems. We don't avoid cyclic dependencies in our economy; I think we reward it.
Two is still more than one, and it seems reasonable to, for example, keep work separate from personal stuff.
You can add Raspberry Pi Zero 2 and camera. That's enough hardware for PHd++. In other words for a few hundred $$ you can get more hardware than you can handle. I wish I had something of it when I was a kid. If you are interested in robotics, vision, AI today is the best time in mankind history. Tomorrow will be better, and nobody knows what after that.
I was bullied as a child, and it is something I remember vividly to this day. As a result I was kept in at recess, found a computer, played a game on it, figured out how to make little modifications to it, and… a couple stints each at VPE and CTO haven’t been so bad.

I’m lucky. That teacher was exceptional.
Facebook published research years ago showing the ability to manipulate users’ moods by changing the content on their feed and measuring engagement / sentiment of their subsequent posts.
Many systems have concepts of booking date & value date https://support.mambu.com/docs/booking-date-vs-value-date

You may also have suspense accounts for certain types of use cases: https://gocardless.com/en-us/guides/posts/what-is-a-suspense...
Which geocoder is $100/mo? Nominatim? Which cloud?

Either way this looks really cool and I’ll give it a try!
1) post unpopular (sincere) opinion: get downvoted/flagged

2) post unpopular (sincere) opinion, with a disclaimer that you expect to get downvoted: Get accused of being manipulative

3) wrap said unpopular opinion in flowery emotional language “I’m not an X by any means, but I think Y” still get downvoted and flagged

4) pretend/lie: post what the hive mind wants and get upvotes

The system encourages you to lie, in fact it rewards you for betraying your convictions and just posting what you think others want to hear. Your post is accusing me (subtly) of posting in bad faith, when in fact bad faith posting is what would make my karma go up.
Well, Einstein and Da Vinci were fallible as well.
I used to love Medium because it got the "text on a page" design right. Now I hate Medium precisely because of how wrong it gets that.
> In 2020, Showmax acquired exclusive licensing rights to stream HBO’s content in Africa, which has become one of the biggest advantages for the company. “Although we now watch a few local shows on Showmax, my favorite shows were Billions and Curb Your Enthusiasm,” Johannesburg-based designer Mpumelelo Cindi told Rest of World.

Billions is not an HBO show. It's from Showtime (owned by Paramount).
Do you ever wonder if you're now trying to solve new problems with an old solution, and that's why it doesn't work anymore?

I did this a couple times too before realizing the problem was that I was afraid of the hard work of staying somewhere and making it work. It was a short-term fix, but led to long-term misery.
I think that demonstrates relative hatred of Democrats, not love of Russia

You might liken it to vowing to never voting Republican, even if you agree on some issues
> Before bullying was eliminated from schools

I have bad news.
https://archive.is/xGihD
Okay but as I sit here in my own private space in a city, one of these I need and one of these I don't.
Canarian chefs and beermakers have reached out to the scientists about using barley with DNA traced to the ancient Canarian stock

I don't even drink beer and I find this charming. My recollection is when scientists tried to replicate ancient Egyptian beer, it wasn't bitter like modern beer.
https://homotopytypetheory.org/book/

I disagree. There's a migration from Haskell to Lean 4, which is influenced by HoTT, and is a credible general purpose programming language.

Arguably, _the_ credible general purpose programming language, if one believes that programming should feel like doing mathematics. Languages are shaped by their target tasks, and writing tactics for proofs subsumes any other task one might consider. Programming is recognizing pattern, and pattern runs deep in Lean.

When we're young, but past existential BS, we start to think that ten years of training will yield productive years that outstrip decades of muddling in ad hoc languages if we hadn't made the commitment. But soon, few want to make the commitment.

If programming is ever going to become far more advanced, it will take the form of successors to Haskell and Lean.
I’ve wondered the same. Apple has been a “given” for 20 years because they somehow keep shipping great stuff and avoid the Microsoft trap of looking like total dorks by existing in an echo chamber.

Even if they made a small misstep or had an awkward moment in a launch announcement, it was seen as endearing and forgivable.

But there seem to be an increase in moments where Apple comes across as behind the curve, or not as aware of where the public is at relative to them, compared to then.
I usually use K-bars for known tasks. Sublime Text's bar is the one I use the most by far. I like that it matches abbreviations, and bits that are not at the start of the command. It also has different kinds of bars to call projects, files and commands. Sublime Merge has the same feature.

I wouldn't like an LLM version because the delay would negate the benefits of such an interface. It's currently absurdly fast for me to use this bar to do stuff. The response time matters a lot.
Well it's tough competition, but at the end of the day eating too much (of anything) does bad things to people and makes them feel bad.

Ozempic (and other GLP1 RAs) helps people get to their goal weight -- they don't work for everyone but they do work to lower cravings for those other foods, for most people.
Staying the course is risking it all. We've built a system of incentives which is asleep at the wheel and heading towards as cliff. If we don't find a different way to coordinate our aggregate behavior--one that acknowledges and avoids existential threats--then this golden age will be a short one.
How I did the layout for my self-published book
Capybara – During Lent in Venezuela, the largest rodent becomes a "fish"
LGBQT was considered socially unacceptable a decade ago, I would think someone like that who was in a tolerant society probably would have better outcomes than an intolerant one.
I know. I understand. But you still have to grope around for a couple of seconds to find them.

It's not impossible, it's just annoying.
> how normal everyday people use tech products

What do you mean? Obviously normies all browse the web in emacs and write their own plugins in elisp.
That's what makes it bad. A fixed algorithm that soon will spawn pittances would do an utterly miserable job if it ever gained status and usage as actual currency. Deflation is bad. So much worse than inflation. Not having flexibility in the money supply is lunacy.
Mild inflation resulting in 100 year buying power going to fuck-all is good. It forces money to be invested, put to work. If sitting on your stash is its own investment the economy is screwed. Reduced circulation means less business means less value added and generally more friction. Why would you want that?

Crypto does some things well (illegal stuff, escaping currency controls/moving lots of money "with you") but in the end that also requires it is only just big enough for reasonable liquidity, but not so big it has an impact on the actual economy. For what it's being pushed for... it's a negative-sum game only good for taking people for a ride. It should stay in its goddamn lane.
Well at least some people there should be familiar with it - https://docs.stripe.com/payments/pix
> After a few days the eye strain seemed to get worse and worse, until yesterday it give me such a bad headache I decided that was enough.

Curious if you've ever gotten your vision tested?

I don't need glasses in everyday life, but I did go to an optometrist and got a pair anyways after I got annoyed one night that a friend could read a faraway sign and I couldn't quite. They make things a little bit sharper but not that it ever makes a difference for anything I actually need.

But then I discovered that if I wear them, zero eye strain in VR. Without them my eyes hurt after 20 minutes. With them, I can use VR for hours, zero problem.

No idea why. And I can't seem to find much information on it, but I asked my optometrist and they said it's a whole thing -- people who wear glasses sometimes not to see better, but to reduce eye strain and headaches.
Mistral AI launches Mixtral-Next
I had zero problems on Mac or Android
Voters want people representatives that will work out of civic duty. but is H.O.A.'s have taught us anything its that the people who claim to be acting out of civic duty to make a better place are mostly petty tyrants.

sure it would be nice if we could have Aristotelian philosopher kings style politicians but that's not human nature.