skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing I found. Note that I have a job, a couple of hobbies and a family, but nothing sticks.

Job is just a job. Hobbies become jobs if I dip too deep (like writing an interpreter), and family is mostly chores so it's job anyway.

But TBH I have never met anyone who figured that out. My wife apparently does not have a purpose, unless you count growing up the kid as one. My parents in law doom scroll tiktok and other similar apps everyday. My parents doom scroll the same apps and make posts criticizng the government everyday.

My best friend owns a small workshop so he is pretty deep into his work. But he told me he does not enjoy the work. He has few hobbies and little time anyway.

My other best friend owns maybe 10 renting properties. He is very good at it I can tell you, but apparently he likes to be busy but hate the content.

My another friend actually likes his job, but he also wants to write iOS apps and be a indie. I do not think he has found the purpose either, although he is probably in the best shape mentally.

I know a few other friends but they are mostly in the same shape. They all own some small businesses so they are sort of passionate about working, but that is defintely not their calling if you ask me. They do fare better than the salary earners I guess.
http://archive.today/UcMvZ

(In case web.archive.org is blocked at your workplace.)
Reminds me of the rage comics of old.
This is not the advice the OP is looking for and is possibly dangerous advice
I am in fact facing a similar question as the OP. I have done Full Stack in the past but lately I have been focusing/specializing more on the backend. Currently I have an offer for Full Stack role, it pays better than the actual company where I am at but I worry if going back to full stack again it would hurt my career in the long run. I am afraid to fall into the jack of all trades but master of none role. Other thing that I am not sure is the tech stack, the role is for a react - ruby stack. Although I am of the opinion of what matters is focusing in the concepts and the fundamentals of programming where those can be applied to most of the languages, but I’m not sure if adding one more language to my toolset would be the best,since I am currently focusing in java/kotlin and golang .. what is your take on this? Am I overthinking this? (Not trying to hijack the OP question, just thought that would fit into the same topic)
Co-Founder Departure
Hello,

My co-founder, for two months, decided that our idea was too risky, and she wanted to go her separate ways. Neither of us is technical. I need help figuring out what is legal to do and what's right to do. Here are the facts and timeline:

We started talking about the idea right before Christmas 2023. I was laid off in November, so I immediately jumped right in to research the landscape and whatnot while she continued to work for her company. Her company was undergoing restructuring, and she was expecting her last week with the company to be in late January 2024.

We agreed on a company name, purchased a domain name (~$5000), and incorporated the company in late January. Last week, almost exactly a month after incorporation, she decided the idea was too risky and wanted to pursue something else. I disagreed and wanted to move forward with the idea. So, she proposed that we "split up as partners."

We built a website, where I prepared the initial content and the first iteration of the website. She went in and made improvements to the website (5 pages of short website). We spent a lot of time interviewing potential technical co-founders but never landed on anyone. We have no MVP, no business lead, no traction, no revenue, and no actual plans to move forward. We applied to two accelerator programs but don't believe we will get into either one.

During our last discussion, we agreed that I would pay her for the domain name and the time that she put in for the website. I made her a reasonable offer on the website based on the fact that she had no prior experience in creating a website and was learning as she built it. (Neither did I! I watched a lot of Youtube videos!) She now wants me to pay for her idea, partnership, leadership of messaging, branding, contributions of time and expenses, and business strategy. Her request was nearly 20 times of what I offered for her work on the website.

I am at a lost of what to actually offer her. Please help!!

Should I just dissolve the company, abandon the website, and start from scratch??
Everyone is up in arms about the Gemini image generator, forgetting that it is not a search engine. It is generative AI, creating something new and random, every time. It is generally an input to a creative endeavor, not basic research. Unfortunately if you really want to know what a Viking looked like you're going to have to do some actual research. It's wild to me that people expect something that can generate an image of a penguin roller-skating on a loaf of bread shredding on a guitar to generate a historically accurate image of a Viking or whatever. These two problems are very different.

The text interface, also not a search engine. And it is definitely not a *truth engine*, which is what people like Musk expect Grok to be. It's not capable of that level of reason or understanding.

Other commenters have brought up that asking it any type of question like is X worse than Hitler, whether that X is Biden or Trump or anybody else, it's going to respond "it's hard to say." It's being tuned to not pass value judgements at all, because that is not what LLMs are for. It's never going to be your truth engine.

If you think these things are thinking, or that they have values, you've been duped.

As a side note, I think all the big companies are making the same mistake of trying to get a generalized model for all queries, or with the layer that directs them to a specific tuned model. I want sharp detail and lack of hallucinations when it generates code. I want it loose when I'm generating creative text. But in no case to do I want it to talk to me about values.
Unsealed court doc shows why Apple rejected Microsoft's offer to buy Bing
that is all correct except for the hl registers, which were an 8080 thing, not a 6502 thing
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> Elon Musk made people uncomfortable; Hitler is responsible for the deaths of millions

History is written by the victors. Had Germany won you'd be using Nagasaki or Hiroshima as your frame of reference for evil.
Apple does it properly - version + moniker. Searching google/etc for specific issues related to version numbers alone is a disaster, so monikers have a use.
Gemini won't even talk about Fox or Daily Wire anymore! NYT and CNN are fine though, hah. It's funny when these things are really obvious.

https://g.co/gemini/share/85464078bf89
My favourite 'good in the beginning, middle and end' book on Buddhism is Thich Nhat Hanh's The Heart of the Buddha's teaching.

It is not like the typical western Buddhist/mindfulness books that obfuscate or obscure the Dharma.

It contains a wealth of wisdom and helped me overcome fundamental misunderstandings with regard to the Four Noble Truths. Suffering is exists, but not all is suffering!

I'd recommend this to anyone curious about wanting to know more about the Buddhist path.
Precisely. And each org may have slightly different biases in which training data they feed into their system!
Lost in all the discussion about the cultural issues...

Who wants to pay for this? Seriously? What value does Gemini provide when it's limited in this form?
No, this is wrong. Just because it is not a secret does not mean that is disclosure is not valuable. You need that information to compromise it.

It narrows all the possible account IDs to one.

Is that ID already compromised? Can you gain access through someone else that does the work for you?

You can cross reference with other systems you have compromised. Is that account ID in their system? What access does that give you?

Etc, etc. It is not a secret, but it absolutely is valuable.

For example, if you considered it a secret (even though it is not), you might not choose to use third parties that require it, and that can improve your security posture.
This is becoming funny.

I recommend this book for you, you should read it. I have: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/term-rewriting-and-all-...
Yes, but why are these opt-out instead of OPT-IN? [answer: $$$, "ease of use"]

Why must you use command lines to disable features which should have been opt-in, in the first place?

Why must one use a 3rd party device (e.g. PiHoles, which ARE awesome) to disable stuff — particularly when you can't even turn all telemetry off in the first place?
If you pull on that thread, the reaction would probably be: fine, not giving you any more of my money.

I doubt that is a tenable option for the owner/curator(s) of the endowment fund.
That sounds bad but still it's a response. Ghosting is what I hate most.

I once had two two hour meetings with a body leasing company that were mostly bragging about their great feedback culture. They ghosted me instantly after finding someone else.

Once I took a Monday off, to go to deal signing with small onboarding and meet-the-team. I came early and watched this one guy for an hour, making tea, preparing for work. My co tacr didn't respond on phone. Finally the guy that walked by me all the time came, asked me to the room (he knew exactly who I was), and told me there is no job any more.

They knew since Thursday. Rejected an offer from a friend on the weekend.
Do you really want 998 goats though? It must cost a fortune to transport them home from the studio, finding a space for them to live in, and feed them, etc.
"You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?!" is one of, if not the, most popular ones. Saw a lot of myself in there.

What are the things "most people" agree ADHD "is"?

Above all else, it's an executive functioning disorder. Not entirely dissimilar from OCD in some ways.

You find yourself unable to focus on what you know needs to be done, quite possibly because you're unable to tear your focus away from something else.

Inattention, impulsivity, hyperfocus, hyperactivity. Adult ADHD does not often involve physical hyperactivity.

Hyperfocus can be an incredible boon if you happen to be hyperfocused on something useful. But the catch is that it's not a switch you can flip at all and you can't necessarily choose what you're focused on.

There are different subtypes such as "primarily inattentive" etc.

A lot of people don't believe in ADHD or think it's a "lack of discipline" etc.

Like many disorders, symptoms of ADHD are things everybody experiences to an extent and it becomes a "disorder" when it starts to impact one's functioning. In much the way that everybody is sad sometimes but when it becomes pervasive we call it a disorder called "depression."

I think what I've said above is all mostly universally agreed upon.
> feverish Christian moralizing

I realise that Christianity in the USA _means_ (to the average
American) something almost unrecognisable to me as an Englishman. But
if we're talking about punitive prison systems don't you think that's
a little harsh considering a central tenet is the forgiveness of
sins.
Slimming down windows 11.
Step 1: you don't.
Even when I’m working cutting edge, 99% of my work is still mundane. You still need to get all of the basic stuff in place.
If for some reason you’re dealing with thousands of accounts that are architecturally indistinguishable, bucketing them by ID prefix isn’t a particularly wild thing to want to do.
You mean 1/3:2/3, right?
How to Make a Historical Animation with Landsat [video]
Here's how to whip up a three decade animation of deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest, using Landsat imagery. Only takes a few minutes.
> The left moves society forward, the right holds society back.

There's good conservatism and bad conservatism, just like there's good progressivism and bad progressivism. The latter consists mostly of change for change's sake, while bad conservatism consists of resisting change for no reason. But the good kind of conservatism is an important force in a society that has any sort of progressive energy (read: almost all of them) - it serves as a reminder of Chesterton's fence (that there is a reason (or reasons) why things are as they are, and you should understand those reasons before you change things).

I would not consider myself a conservative (though my kids perhaps would), but I consider that kind of conservatism important even if ultimately the change I want to see overrides it.
username checks out =D

I never liked the 10^x other doors version either. My thought was, what say me and a friend play a the same time, and pick the same initial door? If I NEVER change, and he ALWAYS does... I'm still going to win 1/3 of the time, and if Monty always shows the goat, ONE OF US has to win, so if I'm 1/3 by not switching, he HAS to be 2/3 by switching.
> creating something new and random, every time

It might be creating things that are new but it does not create something random otherwise it would be useless.

> It's being tuned to not pass value judgements at all

This is a value judgement. Also it clearly has bias in where it chooses to pass value judgement and where it chooses not to.

The people that trained this thing trained it to prioritize DEI over accuracy and truth. That is their priority.
Even if it's not that doesn't mean pattern matching IDs is good.
Doctors earn high incomes on average in the U.S. People can donate as they wish, but making tuition free for medical students makes little more sense to me than making tuition free for say Harvard MBAs.
I don't think there is a purpose to life. I used to think I was an existentialist and thus believed it's up to me to find my purpose. So I kept looking for a purpose and I kept getting increasingly more depressed by not being able to find it. Recently I understood that I am in fact an absurdist: I don't think there is a point to this game, and thus I don't delude myself into trying to look for it - this realization really took a lot of weight off my shoulders.
But: a true absurdist par excellence would do the most absurd thing he can and STILL look for some purpose, despite assuming there is none. Ernest Becker while himself dying of cancer wrote in "The Denial of Death" of strong human need for some "immortality project" - something that outlasts the decaying human form; something more than your own form to keep going on as if for you, after you. Probably the most direct path to such thing is to have a child, but it could also be coming up with a cure for cancer, or fighting for some other good cause. How would you like to be immortalized and do you even care?
What I'm left wondering (and I suspect we'll never know the answer to) is how much of this WTF thinking is actually a computer trying to moralize, and how much is it a human who artificially injected their own (apparently warped) morality.

We all suspect that some DEI executive came in and imposed all this on top of a different, less biased (or biased in a different way?) AI... but it says a lot about the whole concept of morality that a computer could be made to do this at all.
The essence of existence lies in aiding others—be it humans, animals, or the environment. Witness the profound satisfaction that comes from lending a hand.
Harvard's latest financial report (https://finance.harvard.edu/files/fad/files/fy23_harvard_fin...) says that 30% of the endowment is flexible and 20% is explicitly allocated to "scholarships & student support". That's more than $25 billion, easily enough to eliminate tuition forever.
What if I told you there is no purpose?

Maybe this is crazy but what helped me is to just accept everything is not real except what I perceive right now. Don’t take this the wrong way but you for example are just a construct that happened to ask this question and I pondered upon it. Similarly I might be the same for you.

I find that liberating because then it means whether or not it’s real it just is my present situation. I just need to get through this “existence” because who knows what comes next or before. It’s all unknown and that’s kind of cool.

Like the best video game ever with endless mini games built in. And this might be a mini game too.
Find a big problem you care about and start doing your part to solve it by taking small steps.
Are you saying this having read the full answer in the linked tweet?
My first real IDE and still my favorite IDE.
Microsoft Azure blog post on Mistral partnership: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-and-mistral...
"The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fellowship_(Christian_orga...

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

Are you implying that divinity is free of corruption and fuckery? Because history tells us that is not true. Rather we should look fist at those who claim any sort of divinity for all the ills of the world.
It does seem like a tacit admission that they cannot create a superior system and they fall back to the ban to enforce it instead. Some people might still prefer the plane but they will probably be the minority. With shrinking usage prices will go up to compensate and eventually airlines will reduce the amount of flights naturally.
Maybe it would have the Constitution thrown in there also and figure out that "women cannot be President" is untrue? Sort of like in the real world.

Because otherwise, I guess I agree, you only know that you are taught and presented; AI especially because there is no intelligence in it whatsoever, only endless if blocks tuned for correlation.
We all die eventually, but if you dedicate your life to something bigger than yourself, then you can feel like your life was for something and that a part of you will live on.

Historically, many people have gotten this sense of "something bigger" from things like kids/church/patriotism/etc. But you don't necessarily need things external things like this. I used to feel a sense of purposelessness like you, but I've gotten a lot of satisfaction from trying to live my life according to a set of higher principles.

What frustrates you in life? If conflict bothers you, try to find ways to foster peace and cooperation between others. If ignorance bothers you, try to find ways to teach others, and spread knowledge that you feel is important. If inequality bothers you, find ways to help effect change in the world. These are just examples; I have my own things I care about, but that's not important, as you might be completely different.

The possibilities are endless, so don't expect to figure out what works for you right away. It takes time to figure out what principles resonate with you, and it's not trivial to create a personal code to live by, but I believe it's totally worth it.
Seems simple enough for a startup idea but prolly has been done thousands of times
Not to be a downer, but one perspective is that there is no meaning to be found and any purpose is yours to define. Both Stoic and Absurdist thinkers have written from this angle. I'm not an expert, but realizing there have been smart folks dealing with the same issue since ...forever, has helped me power through.
Exercise is a good choice, spending time with my dog and experiencing life through their eyes, being out in nature and connecting with the geology and biology, the physics and chemistry of existence fills some gap for me. YMMV
> you have to setup auth DNS with xyz.local and use it in air-gapped environments for your alert mails

True, but I was talking more about creating DNS entries for NPM (and other package managers) and redirecting them to our internal services. I just thought it was funny to mention since we impersonate public sites on our internal air-gapped network.
I think GP is implying that you would reject 50:50 as absurd in this case (answer that rhetorical question with a "no"), and therefore should also reject it in the original. I agree that was not clear, though.
That sounds very interesting. So when the unfortunate happens and it's time to fire someone, how is that approached?
Great tip for anyone who aspires to be a functional alcoholic.
Google explains how Gemini's image generation went wrong, and how it'll fix it
Subsea fiber cable damaged in the Red Sea
Bigger numbers make it easier to convince yourself if skeptical.

The problem stated with 3 doors is hard, with 5 is still not quite there for many. 100, 100, 10_000_000... becomes almost absurd.
The staff should be able to answer questions about what ingredients are used in the kitchen and in specific dishes. but they shouldn't be responsible for answering the question as you posed it : "is this safe for someone with celiac" ? Safety is up to you to decide, as only the customer knows how sensitive they are and what the reaction will be.
o7

Rest in peace, Ingenuity. (Or should I say, rest in pieces?) You will be missed.
The problem really is that some Apache projects are actually alive (Apache itself, apparently Superset, Groovy, etc) and some appear alive at first glance.

More things should move into the Attic, like OpenOffice.
TFA is about drug use. The comment you replied to was about visible drug addicts. You went from claiming that all large cities have drug addicts everywhere to stating your subjective preferences.
Building stuff to take care of others. While I agree with those stating that kids give you purpose, for me it gave a lot, ... but not purpose in life.

The more I reflect on what brings me fulfilment in life is:
1) projects that are physical in nature. Meaning something you can touch. Building a house, cleaning the environment, event building IKEA furniture. (Latter is not so much a purpose for life, but it's a piece of the Project House which is for my family)
2) Building business - it has multiple sides of it - you take care of your clients (B2B especially as you get familiar with clients and their problems) and you take care of your family (money / security wise)
3) Building community - to take care of environment for people living around you.

Ultimately - there is no purpose in life, we can only create it for ourselves. While some may think it's depressing, for me it's liberating - you don't need to search for something you haven't lost and instead build something of your own.