skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Respect.

I'm gonna start using "shitlit" from hereon out.

And also, there are people I respect who said they read 100+ books a year, and that you should, too. But while others in my circles were eager to jump on the train, for me, I thought it would be performative, and be about having read said 100+ books than digesting any of it. And what more, I recall that I best retain info via reading if I have skin in the game, rather than feeling like reading makes me appear more approvable to others.

All that is to say, it's good to hear from someone who reads a ton that a lot of your reading is kinda junk stuff (even if 150+ books a year is still a crazy metric – and as a tangent, people who ride bikes a ton say that a lot of their miles they rack up are junk miles, so I'm sure there's an equivalent of shitlit in any pursuit/ hobby/ interest/ endeavor).
LLM the Ultimate Heuristic?
It's about 2 bunches of Bananas (4)

4. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU0000711211
> Getting punched in the face is actually a necessary human condition for a healthy civilization.

This is factually false - in fact, it's literally the direct opposite of the truth. "Getting punched in the face" is base violence that is incompatible with a healthy civilization. A good government with a robust justice system is what is actually needed for a healthy civilization.
Which statistics are you talking about? According to the article, the only statistics available are from self reported data.
They'd probably just use a treasury offset to collect. Not sure if they'd do it for $200, but I wouldn't be surprised. AAFES used to do it for less. Maybe they're more vindictive than the IRS.
> dont beat yourself up, focus on beating yourself.

Maybe "use your time well" is a better thought?

Focusing on beating X just makes it a metric, and can be destructive when you'd be better off switching to some completely different activity instead.

When it's a metric, you can be tied to keep meeting it (or even just attempted to) well past it's usefulness.
The automated threats from the 'legitimate' DMCA firms aren't much better. Typically they scrape and match by substring. As an example, if an unreleated PDF file's title/file name contained the name of a film as a substring and they'd send an DMCA complaint to the hosting provider.
They give you a key card. Without some prior knowledge, try to figure out where to use the key card.

Putting it near the B-pillar is not the first or second things I tried. In retrospect given the RF nature of how NFC works, it makes sense that behind something non-metallic makes sense. I think I may have tried things near the edge of the windshield (didn't Zipcar work like that?).
> Why does every store have self opening doors, but no houses do?

This is easy to answer: I don't want a door that opens by itself (except in my dreams) because it's potentially dangerous, might open when I don't want (and let my cat out) and it's likely an energy sieve.

The juice isn't worth the squeeze - even not counting maintenance.
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Maybe, but I'm just talking about the potential here.

Most type of volunteer works require more people, with some level of organizations before it becomes effective.

While open-source software projects are often started by one very good SWE, as a hobby, in his own time: a very low barrier of entry. Plus, a project can live with a solo maintainer for a very long time. Though, I digress that can be detrimental in the long run, like the recent xz-utils fiasco.
It's been a while but I did work remotely for about 6 months back in 2020. I enjoyed not having to wake up earlier, not having to "hide" my short downtime breaks that I normally would at the office, and being able to do some basic quick chores during those breaks so that I'd have more time to spend with my partner after the work day. It was a nice pace but since my partner would also work from home with much longer breaks between her active working periods (multiple part time contracts), I would get heavily distracted because she wanted to take breaks together. I really did miss working at the office where if I wanted to focus, I could.
Hit #1. Encouraged us to apply for YC. Told we made "top 10%" but no dice.

I think we could have leveraged it more effectively but it's hard to get everything lined up right. We sort of pivoted from what was big on "show me" to something we thought was more practical and salesworthy, but eh. It's an odds game in the end.
If by "not able to" you meant "prohibitively expensive" - well, I also don't see why it's prohibitively expensive even without indirection. Moving blocks would seem to be a matter of (a) copy the data, (b) back up the old pointers, (c) update the pointers in-place, (d) mark the block move as committed, (e) and delete the old data/backups. If you crash in the middle you have the backup metadata journaled there to restore from. No indirection. What am I missing? I feel like you might have unstated assumptions somewhere?
I have no idea why ppl don't use tools like LibreOffice and OpenOffice over MS Office and the other cloud (joke) products.

If you're working on a file in the cloud instead of a local file then you probably should've already written/bought your own locally hosted server product instead.

OpenOffice Calc (and similar products) are a staple for ppl who need applications that work without all the "c-suite needs their bonus" silliness.
I'd lean pretty heavily towards capitalism in a contest with communism or any other authoritarian system strictly based on personal liberty. It may suck at times, but I do have a choice. I'm thinking about Hayek's well known road to serfdom here that explains how well meaning systems like communism inevitably end up.

I think you may be splitting hairs with regards to terminology. I said niche as in unpopular and not well known. I think it and many other systems match that description and are interesting to talk about.
My sqlite-utils Python library and CLI tool includes a fix for the lack of advanced alter table:

- https://sqlite-utils.datasette.io/en/stable/cli.html#transfo...
You're happy with what you are using, so that's great, and I'm not knocking that.

But the difference is not 'killer features". The difference is in the million small details and polish. The integrations, formats, UI, workflow, things it just "gets right" that I don't even know its doing.

I try Libre Office every once in a while. But each time I try it just feels old and clunky. It's all in the tiny details that add up to the overall experience.

Clearly you're not missing anything since you're happy with what you have. But going from Office to LibreOffice is painful. Not bullet-wound painful, more like thousand-paper-cuts painful.
Tell me that the 'language model' behind this won't be capable of solving the just-walk-out problem before long: https://shot.3e.org/ss-20240310_145736.png

Go ahead, tell me. Life is short of opportunities for good sensible chuckles.
A lot of people accumulate wealth by refusing to pay what is owed. A prominent politician comes to mind as an example.
what are the symptoms? i have BPH and its been a struggle. I been taking zinc, saw palmetto but its only temporary.

maybe i need to experience anal sex to fix this problem
For me, test driving a Tesla was a very scary experience because of this. They're not intuitive at all, though I'm sure those who own Tesla's are mostly familiar with the quirks.
Gross negligence or harmful intent can not be waived at least here in CA
Imho it doesn’t come down to one or two killer features, it comes down to momentum.

Stuff like font rendering, grammar- and spellchecking, the exact set of Excel formulas, graphs, templates, and VB scripting matter. The office suite’s localization changes keyboard shortcuts, Excel formulae names, and swaps between decimal points and commas. It is absolutely horrendous, but people rely on it for their daily work.

In essence, if we accept that Excel is both an IDE and a dialect of a programming language, we can compare it to asking what makes C# in Visual Studio worse when people are used to Java in IntelliJ. The answer might be “nothing, but I’m used to my setup and it’s ridiculous that I’m even having this discussion about my main work tool” for programmers, Office users, and video editors alike.
Governments should use only free software or software that's built in-house IMO. They shouldn't keep giving easy money to big corporations.
The AI searches have the same problem as their regular searches: it's overrun with trash, except now it's going through an AI first. Why would I pay for that?
This one did OK: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
(Disclaimer: not mine)
Do you have versions of the languages like en-uk vs en-us?
My point was, learn it first, then learn docker and Ansible and such.
If it ran at full speed, you could run tons of original 6502 software, which almost universally rely on cycle-accurate timing to generate video output.
KDE1 on Debian 13
Google Books Is Indexing AI-Generated Garbage
>Not to mention, outside of major metropolitan areas (US and Canada), charging infrastructure is spotty at best (esp. if you don't plan for it).

EV owner here. It’s VERY state and location dependent.

Generally speaking, if you’re following an interstate, charging won’t be a problem even “in the middle of nowhere”. If you aren’t following an interstate, in general, “red” states that haven’t had any programs to build out infrastructure are a nightmare compared to “blue” states that have. Tesla in general is far better about charging in the boonies than CCS.
All the AI generated music just sounds like someone jamming without any hint of any real melody, original or a cover. It's very strange to listen to. It sounds exactly like an AI generated photo of a person looks like. Looks/sounds kinda real until you look/listen closer.
That's not capitalism or a free market, it's corrupt governance and was never an intended 'feature'
Gotta teach the kid about using the brake and the "poomp" slide (called boost after N64) on the corner. I race Mario but when she's on, mine (8), can get me on the 150 tracks (switch). I'm still crushing on the 200 tho (for now) ;)
Ouch. Sounds like someone's impersonating law people.

If the authorities decide to go after whoever did it, that could go pretty badly for the guilty party.
Configuration, deployment, program initialization/start is all still “user interface” just a different part. Most software feels like that part was largely an after thought and not part of the design process.
Oh boy. Go to Ko Chang or even Vietnam with plenty of ironed-out bills and see how much the locals like you more.
The scenario of Elon aggressively cutting prices was likely not something they modeled as it is pretty unprecedented.

Elon should have kept prices high while giving deep discounts and priority on parts to fleet purchases. That is what a sane car manufacturer does. To keep cars moving for retail you can have limited sales for holidays and seasons with "cash back" (not officially changing base price) and buying the loan APR to a lower rate.

Instead Elon crashed the price of Tesla's entire lineup.
This is more of an issue with copyright law and DMCA than AI.
This is the most correct response, and the only one which acknowledges the role of the reader.
> Why? Schleswig-Holstein cites cost, security, and digital sovereignty - though not necessarily in that order.

It's been attempted before and costs has always been higher. But it's not a matter of costs. Reason and responsibility should make it mandatory for certain institutions and the government to own their data. Companies would be well advised to keep owning their data as well or try to get it back. We've all seen what happened with the "privat" Github repositories. No access from Github employees, but as they admitted by AI bots. I don't remember and it doesn't matter if it was on purpose or accidentally.

If using cloud then at least with true E2E encryption. The cloud should only hold strong E2E encrypted blobs and meta data. There're providers out there that I think can be trusted.

My (very large) employer has surrendered to Microsoft. Everything is Office 365 and in Azure. Our IT told us proudly that it's all E2E encrypted and Microsoft can't in any circumstances read our data. But how come I can search for content of Powerpoint and Word docs on Bing for work? A colleague of mine found secret project information this way before the classification levels were on place.

Am I missing something about E2E encryption or is our IT that stupid and naive?

EDIT: And recently our IT announced proudly that we soon can use Copilot.
If it’s Boeing …
Can you name one example where the context was not someone who was handling/processing/had the data as a part of their platform (i.e. FB) but rather a hosting provider where you've been burned assuming?
Certainly having a different dedicated work space works better for a lot of people. I think I've been pretty good--and certainly don't watch video or take more than short walks during the day--but I appreciate that keeping work/life separate can have advantages.
Thoughts on a B2B service that lets you hire someone to view apartments and cars
I would love your thoughts on a start up I created that lets car dealers and apartment managers add our service to their website were a gig worker will go check out a car or an apartment for you if you are moving or are too busy
They have a FAQ about it, but I still think that the name and speed are all wrong.

The core of the demo is that procedurally generated landscape and how that's supposed to evoke a feeling. I am paying 0 attention to the hills as the UI, sounds, and boost button are all clearly designed to get me to drift around these bends as quickly as possible.

To me, those two parts of the game are absolutely pulling in opposite directions.
Thanks for posting this! I’d love to donate as well. Homie got pulled out of much needed holiday for this?

I looked up and GoFundMe at least is available for recipients in Scandinavia, if that’s where they are.
Doesn't mean you should risk a takeover of all your game databases because you decided to bypass every single security measurement linux has in place already.

I'd argue it's even worse, and network programming wise I'd argue that every custom implementation of TCP/UDP was broken in the past and lead to a lot of remote exploits, and eventually was abandoned due to maintenance costs.

Just think about the shitshow of the source engine, for example. RCE'ing in the wild for what, 14+ years now? Took a long while and a lot of steam runtime sandboxing code to fix the decision to use a custom unsafe networking code.
Mario Kart 8 is now frozen, no more patches to come.
Does this relate to the shutdown of the thymus (the "murder university")? The thymus goes dormant at the age of 85,as I've read.

The lymphoid strain can specialize into t-cells, which is the speciality of the thymus.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LmpuerlbJu0

The myeloid does provide macrophages, but they are of little value compared to an activated b-cell on a mission.
...why not just print to PDF then since all browswer support PDF?
Apple Lays Off 600 Employees After Canceling Car Project
Not a paid shill, but Until recently Teams had capabilities Slack was laughingly behind :-/

Biggest one for me was that I could

A) start multiple chats with same audience and rename them - so I can have chat with thom dick and Harry on system architecture over a few days and separate conversation with them on performance testing issues. This is trivial in teams. I have to create awkward channels in slack to approximate the functionality.

B) seamlessly start a conversation with two people, then as you troubleshoot and expand, add more people, then jump in a call, then finish a call and keep chatting. Until recently slack would force you to start a new blank conversation when you added people - absolutely useless. Now they've hacked a solution that works up to arbitrary number of ten people and is so clearly a script in the background which still creates a new chat with added person but helpfully copies all conversation over. Then you need to add 11th person and too bad you've hit the magic number.

In operations setting and evolving incidents, teams was just better. And don't get me started on slack "huddles"!

My inlression has always been the opposite - startups used slack because it was cool. Serious businesses used teams because it worked and integrated well.

Now. I've realized lately that when people talk about slack vs teams, they're usually not actuslly talking about slack vs teams. They're actually talking about their companies security and usage policies, as incidentally instantiated through the collaboration tool of choice. I've become aware that my experience with teams is bit everybody's, due to various policies and limitations imposed, and similarly for slack.

But mostly... Not nearly as many people that disagree with average internet forum dweller are paid shills as may be believed :=)
>Because Woods continued to insist, throughout the judicial process, that he was William Woods and not Matthew Kierans, a judge ruled in February 2020 that he was not mentally competent to stand trial and he was sent to a mental hospital in California, where he received psychotropic medication and other mental health treatment.

That's the stuff of nightmares. I hope the real Woods sues the system that put him through this.
I do the same thing in sublime. Doing it still feels like I have super powers even after years of doing it.

I’m sure there’s some magic key combo in emacs and/or vim to do it, too.
Seaweed Straw "Looks, Feels, and Acts Like Plastic," Says Startup
One thing it's good for is when you read a book, hate it, and can find someone on Goodreads with a review that gripes about the exact same stuff you hated about it. Especially if the book in question is highly praised or award-winning. Do I need someone else to validate my hate-read of a book? No, but it scratches an itch.
SQLite works great when used correctly. E.g. if you split metadata and blobs into different tables, it'll be super fast even without any indexes. Real life example:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39793805
Pack archive format, which is magic byte to distinguish as separate format + sqlite database + zstd compression for data chunks. Inside there are no indexes, three tables - file info (like name), with proper parent_id logic, data chunks and relationship between these two.
We need to seriously reform how treaties are entered into. I'm not going to say "all treaties are bad" but when governments are saying "we're not going to even entertain what you're asking for because we can't get out of this treaty", something has gone terribly wrong and you don't have a democracy anymore.
That requires “just compensation”, as per the text of the very amendment I cited. Texan voters are unwilling to provide the compensation. Therefore the project does not go forward. It’s really a very simple concept.
They are actually not that -- useful. When I was an intern at the company I am currently working at, I remember the first pull request I opened. This was 2 years ago and my PR was still open, until recently closed without merge..
Onboarding process takes time even for experienced developers, and experience of most students/new grads is highly limited both in programming and team work. You might want to consider the output you need is not just good code.

With all these being said, hiring interns to get them ready to work for you is a good idea. That's what happened to me, and what I do right now. While we are giving students an opportunity to involve in a real company which benefits them, we also direct them into learning our tech stack and conventions, which might benefit us in the future.
Your resources (money and time) is used like a future investment in this case
Apple Exploring 'Mobile Robot' That 'Follows Users Around Their Homes'
Ask HN: How do news API services get their data/content?
I'm looking for a service that can provide me with news articles across the web via an API call. There seem to be a lot of such services, all costing roughly similar amounts -- $100+ per month.

Makes me think they are all wrappers around some other service, but I can't find anything else. Does anyone happen to know how this works?
OpenAI’s DALL-E is getting a couple of upgrades today that help you shape your AI-generated masterpieces. First, you’ll now find image editing tools when using DALL-E within ChatGPT, both on the web and on mobile.
The Basics of Basic [video]
> exact measurements are not something a human palate can do, and I think there is a lot of posturing in recipe writers who insist on such

To be clear, when I'm saying more precise, I mean in the sense of "a cup of something is whatever fits into the cup in my cupboard", not using ISO standards with accuracy +/- 1 millilitre.

> who was the superhuman tester

Again, I'm talking about the difference between "This is clearly uncooked" dry rice, and "this is no longer rice, it's just vaguely rice-coloured mush".

Both states are relatively easy to achieve with absorption method cooking, because you have a lot more variables to consider. It depends not only on the rice, but the cooking vessel, the stove and it's performance, and a bunch of other things.

Perhaps you don't have this issue and are naturally skilled at this. If this is true then I'm happy for you.

Please, however, do understand that there are many many people however who do have this, and find using a rice cooker a much more convenient tool. Some of them would find cooking rice on a stove with a pot would either be difficult or stressful.

This is the answer to your question: "Can someone explain? Why is a rice cooker needed?"
Less money on interchange may mean more money on interest charges on balances
Or ship vehicles they knew had build issues.
Woah! just went through the website, and this is the most unique and oddly inspiring thing I've ever seen.
Same.

At first I loved the bucolic setting but very quickly the high pitched whine and fast pace got me annoyed and actively seeking change.

Very dissappointed with how the car handles underwater, topping out at a meager 20 mph.

I'd have been happy with a slow drive, as advertised.
Assuming you meant pola.rs (one fewer `r`), I thought the same.
My understanding is that the alleged link between testosterone replacement therapy and prostate cancer has very weak evidence: https://www.health.harvard.edu/mens-health/appropriate-use-o....
It would be convenient if true. I'm a little skeptical it will go that far, but at the same time humans seem to better understand a tricky problem after an internal monologue about it or a quick conversation with a rubber ducky.. so maybe?
You didn't ask him to clarify, you asked him to leave.
OpenAI (relatively) hasn't been around for that long, the other 2 are more questionable.
I had wanted to do this as a project, but a truck driver told me they already used special navigation software that took their clearances into consideration. Seems like not all of the drivers do this…
Nice results! It reminds me of the Portal song about Aperture Science: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6ljFaKRTrI
In other words you can have whatever discussion you want unless it can actually accomplish something, at which point powerful players start fucking with the playing field. Just because it’s not straight up censorship doesn’t mean it’s not an immoral way to play the game.