skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was something special about being in the same room (or at least building) as a bunch of friends playing a game.

Nowadays the internet makes it easy to play with friends, but it’s too easy now to make the effort of trying to be colocated not worth it.

Even couch coop games, while still around, aren’t near as common, and people would still just rather play games like that online.

The internet has made connecting with people so easy.

Yet the world feels much lonelier now.
People keep talking about blimps, but they neglect the price of helium which is rising.
anybody who believes this hasn't been paying attention to Spanish language sources.

It's clear to everybody now the government is cooking the books trying to get another IMF loan. It's all creative accounting hiding away the debt to importers (they are just not paying).

Milei brought in Caputo, the mastermind behind 2015-2019 admin that took huge loans from the market and later the IMF and defaulted in 2019. They set >70% (real) interest rates that straight up killed the real economy. Every single productive industry is picking up and moving to Brazil.
Isn't the obvious alternative "split TikTok and sell TikTok USA"?
For me, I approach programming as a way of building something. The same way an architect builds a building, or a carpenter builds a desk. You build something with purpose, because you find value in it.

When you figure out how to build something, you’re solving puzzles through figuring out the best language to approach that structure with, and learning how to build it with said language. As you build more parts, you naturally learn more.
Did torrents work?

I remember that era fondly as the golden era of unfettered torrenting.
No, Anduril and General Atomics will work separately on competing prototypes and at the end likely only one of them will win a final order for production aircraft.
If I see 65, I'm going 75.

I worry that raising the limit would result in people driving even faster
It's so ironic that in the future, some Americans may use a VPN to log onto TikTok to practice their right to freedom of expression, while all the local social medias will ban them, lol.
I'm personally a fan of the old stuff (Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Chick Webb, Jimmie Lunceford, Slim Gaillard, Ella Fitzgerald to name a few) but the best thing you can do is go to dances and lessons, and when you hear a song you like, go up to the DJ and ask them what it was. The best music is the music you like and that makes you want to dance, regardless of who made it.
The law doesn't authorize blocking access to servers outside the US.
Hmm. The experiences that changed and benefited me most were least predictable. As a result, I try to manage experiences less, and choose the unknown more.

But in the spirit of what you've said, I try to avoid doing dumb, damaging, or boring things twice.
Gamers and gaming killed it. There used to be a large element of computer exploration, making stuff work amd so on.

TThe decline started in 2000 when Counter Strike came out. The new type of gamers it attracted helped kill the scene.

Picture a wine convention, where a new breed of visitors just chugf down each glass instead of actually savoring. That isban apt analogy.
Pretty much all of my complaints with cycling come from having to share the roads with cars. I don’t want my commute to work to be a white knuckle adrenaline pumping experience.

If there was a safe and quiet way to ride to work, I’d take that every time.
The other problem I've found with structural types in Typescript is that it can lead to some very complex type specifications. Instead of carefully thinking about and naming the entities in your system you can get some very hard to parse type spaghetti.
I think it's ok to tell this story now. Long long time ago when I was still at DO, I tried to buy HashiCorp. Well, I use "tried to buy" very loosely. It was when we were both pretty small startups, Joonas our Dir. Eng at the time was really into their tooling, thought it was very good plus Armon and Mitch are fantastic engineers. So I flew out from NYC to SF to meet with them "to talk". Well, I had no idea how to go about trying to buy a company and they didn't really seem that interested in joining us, so we stood around a grocery store parking lot shuffling our feet talking about how great Mitch and Armon are at building stuff and then I flew home. I think that's about as loosely as it gets when it comes to buying a company. Probably would have been a cool combo tho, who knows. Either way, they're great guys, super proud of them. <3
It would be quite sad if metrics were the only acceptable means of conveying personal experience.
I’m sure Tennessee is a great place to live if you’re a straight white man, of course the core state principles of women having no right to bodily autonomy, only straight white people have the right to exist.

My assumption is it will become a mandatory move for people, and if they “choose” to not live in a state where murdering them is legal that’s their choice.
> Privacy yadda yadda

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it's very funny when people bring up this kind of static nonsense. Milei himself says he wants to turn the country into Ireland.
I realised this some years back, after an advise that if you find reading hard, read faster. Don't spend too much time understanding each word and line. Good advise
> There's an open fork at https://reducedlens.org.

Been a few years since I read endmyopia - didn’t realize there was so much drama going on.
You're right, they kind of assume the reader knows what they are thinking. My guess is that it is because white isn't used for comradery except if you are extreme, whereas it is normal to do so for non-white groups, so they are trying to delegitimize the extreme group. Whether it is the effective course of action given the goal is an interesting question.
Hopefully this time the incumbent doesn't get paid twice as much for a worse outcome, as happened with Commercial Crew...

NASA paid Boeing 4.5 billion and counting, SpaceX 2.6 billion. SpaceX launched astronauts to ISS 7 times, completely fulfilling the original contract, and continues to launch on new contracts with NASA. Meanwhile Boeing has yet to fly a single astronaut and required NASA to pay them extra for their own delays and failures.
The wokeness just oozes from this piece.
The F-16 avionics are limited to 9G, but the fuselage is able to handle much more when not carrying a full load of fuel. 9Gs is standard for a fighter.
> and many orders of magnitude less restrictive.

That's true, but when I had a hard time convincing them when the US were the *perfect* model of no speech restrictions, it's much harder when US is just less restrictive. They will just dismiss such difference in quantity as cultural difference, rather than different principles when China and US had qualitative differences.
That’s not a good way of framing it because the vast majority of the headsets were sold in the US. I would be surprised if there were even healthy sales in developing countries, so we shouldn’t be counting all of the children in the world. Not to mention that you probably have to exclude children under 10 give or take.

Yes, I agree that VR is not popular with most of the adult population. At the moment, VR has a similar stigma that computers, the internet, and video games once had. It will likely stay that way until these children become adults, unless Apple can refine “spatial computing” fast enough to overcome the stigma.
Very much depends on the model, trim level, and generation. Even on the Mazda 3, the location of the USB hub depends on whether the car has a CD player.

I did the "drill holes in the front of the USB hub" trick so I didn't have to remove the console. But then I dropped a socket and ended up having to remove the console to retrieve it and it only took maybe 15 minutes. I could do it again in 5 knowing all the steps.
Can you connect to the Internet in China and visit google.com?
I remember making some comments along these lines to my optometrist in my teenage years when I still had the spicy zest of youth and boundless curiosity for pursuit of knowledge. He grunted. That was the first time I realized what burn out was and I felt doomed. Also , my eye sight got worse from first diagnosis in my early preteen years to early adulthood so I concur with your point (aside: Chickens with contacts. God bless you chicken ladies. What will we think of next ? neuralink? Bomb guiding?)
HashiCorp Vault: Connecting Entities, Auth Back Ends, Groups, and Policies Oh My
Quaternion Knowledge Graph Embeddings (2019)
Sounds like she's the problem, not TikTok.
And old people losing their connection with objective reality is connected to fox news. Next argument. It's being banned because old technically illiterate people (most of congress) latched onto a simplistic solution to the wrong problem,
One approach I like is to relax and read the book quickly the first time, don’t take notes or anything. If it’s good, read it again (and again periodically). If not, don’t.

This gives natural spaced repetition on the good stuff, and also you pick up different things in subsequent readings.
Most people play their role in this sort of thing without being clued into any sort of explicit conspiracy. For example, my friend's PCP who attributed his newfound cardiac issues in his mid 30s to a mild COVID infection, and not the 3 Moderna injections he had had before that. No report, nothing to investigate or attribute. There are countless stories of people who suffered severe adverse effects in close proximity to a vaccine dose being similarly shrugged off as hysterical by their doctors.
This seems like the only ethical choice.

It's a question of who benefits from these tests.

Clearly, the company is in the driving seat, and should therefore be the one committing resources, or at least committing an equal amount of effort/resource by paying for the tests to be performed.
Boeing just finished construction on a brand-new factory for the MQ-25 refueling tanker drone; they must be anticipating building a bunch of them.
I fully expect my 2017 EV to last for 15 years without significant degradation[1]. I see the usability of EV batteries like Solar panels - in about 10 years, they get to at worst 90% range, and are probably usable well into 20+ years.

Battery tech is what makes our present and future tech economy possible [2].

[1] I don't baby my EV - always charge to 100%, use fast chargers, don't worry about getting it to 10% or lower. It has lost maybe 5% of it's rated capacity.

[2] with apologies to CEO Morgan from SMAC.
Wouldn't removing 3rd party cookies break oidc / oauth2?

At least Keycloak on SPA won't work without.
Biden Makes $11B Push to Beat China at Chip Research
I don't think the blog post necessarily supports this view. You still have your free will.

Your past experiences also teach you what to ignore. You are free to do that to my comment. :)
I can’t argue with that. Why do you think the exposure leads to less or equal camaraderie? I know interpersonal exposure to groups tends to reduce dislike of those groups, so is it an issue with the medium?
Qlora won't work well to add knowledge via private data.

Parameter efficient methods are not useful for these cases at the 8b scale without a more complex training procedure that periodically merges back adapters. Maybe at the 70B scale.
The massive irony here is that the internet itself has become a much more dangerous place for kids than itself or going outside ever was. Particularly when it comes to mental health, parents don’t let their kids go out but the same parents put no parental controls or at the very least, screen time limits on their devices.
The law doesn't require or permit blocking access to Chinese servers, and virtually no current TikTok users are going to use VPNs to access it.
Before that, the most brilliant minds were figuring out how to annihilate the world with nuclear bombs. Hmmm … do we need to worry about ourselves?
You are a product of how you process and interact with your environment.

Be alert, situationally aware.

Process actively, notice and distill patterns.

Try things. Push the environment.
Nop. That's not going to happen. They will continue to thrive. And such criminal investigations mean more businesses will avail their services. Recently, RedHat hired McKinsey to streamline Techies jobs: https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/27/red_hat_hires_mckinse...
Anduril Selected for U.S. Air Force Collaborative Combat Aircraft Program
I don't really get this point; I see pro-Palestinian stuff on other networks CONSTANTLY. I also see information that is incredibly incorrect about Palestine on Tiktok (and others) all the time, like Hamas wasn't targeting civilians etc (obvious lie.) I also see pro-Israel stuff that is incorrect all the time across Tiktok, etc. It's the nature of the beast.

I think people that have this view are pretty new to the internet in general. It's no surprise it's a popular belief with Gen-Z, thinking somehow their "filter bubble" is unique in any way or that they have escaped the filter bubble and stumbled upon "the truth." Complete nonsense. You're hooked into whatever algorithm makes you engage more, that's the whole point of this. To make money from you. You think you're special because you got on a pro-Palestine feed on Tiktok? Hilariously naive.
I was skeptical at first - tried the copilot beta, got annoyed by it, and quickly turned it off. Later I tried it again and haven't looked back.

For the most part it's not that I'm ceding the thinking to the machine; more often it suggests what I was going to type anyway, which if nothing else saves typing. It's especially helpful if I'm doing something repetitive.

Beyond that, it can save some cognitive load by auto completing a block of code that wouldn't have necessarily been very difficult, but that I would've had a stop to think about. E.g an API I'm not used to, or a nested loop or something.

The other big advantage that comes to mind is when I'm doing something I'm not familiar with, e.g. I recently started using Rust, and copilot has been a major help when I vaguely know what I _want_ to do but don't quite know how to get there on my own. I'm experienced enough to evaluate whether the suggested code does what I want. If there's anything in the output I don't understand, I can look it up.

> Are there tasks where you explicitly avoid them?

Not necessarily that I can think of, but after having copilot on for a little while it's gotten easier to tune it out when I'm not interested in its suggestions or when they're not helpful.

> How often do you find bugs in the generated code (and a corollary, how frequently has a bug slipped in that was only caught later)?

90% of the time I'm only accepting a single line of code at a time, so it's less a question of "is there a bug here" and more "does this do what I want or not?" Like, if I'm writing an email and gmail suggests an end to my sentence, I'm not worried about whether there's a bug in the sentence. If it's not what I want to say, I either don't take the suggestion, or I take the suggestion and modify it.

If I do accept larger chunks of suggested code, I review it thoroughly to the point where it's no longer "the AI's" code -- for all intents and purposes it's mine now. Like I said before, most of the time it's basically the code I was going to write anyway, I just got there faster.
What country has more efficient and effective military aircraft?
Brains have to have repeated exposure to a stimulus before they find it pleasurable. This is why you may need to try a new food a few times before you develop a liking for it, and the same goes for new music genres.

If you purposefully go out and listen to new music, you'll quickly get accustom to the sounds of new genres. On the other hand, people who are not in the habit of trying new things never train their brain to enjoy new types of music.
Oh that's pretty much guaranteed.
I hear their pay is pretty well. Integrity and ethics are fair weather phenomenon even at the most respected of world's companies. I am not saying integrity is not important, but it's not what makes the economy and humans tick.
Or if you're not running PHP, since surprisingly enough PHP is not the only software using iconv() function.
Is Anduril really that good? I am trying to figure out what is the potential of Anduril is. Their first phase product was in observability towers for border protection, then they made drone-ramming drones and now unmanned fighter jets.

I am genuinely curious. I was in the whole retail investor space since early 2010s which saw the EV hype. Workhorse was supposed to supply vans for federal postal vans, Nikola had that GM deal going on etc.

Hanging around retail investor space helped made me be very skeptical about the idea of enterprise led innovation. Contract like this in my opinion requires seasoned engineering managers who have survived decades of bureaucracy but never forgot the essence of no-BS engineering. I believe SpaceX was able to bring some of these people in before they had a functional rocket. Where does Anduril stands with their management and innovation?
I was in a similar position in a company that _might_ have been able to make a good enough offer, but never could convince the brass how amazing a company it is and I never got any traction.

Disappointing to hear about this, Hashicorp was an amazing company. C’est la vie…
Ongoing discussion:[0] (46 points, 3 hours ago, 34 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40152049
Must watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiOUojVd6xQ
That will only work if the author also rushed to write the piece. Understanding is more desirable than finishing a book.
I'm not debating that China is bad or not, or if it is an adversary to the US.

My deeply held belief is that we should allow speech from even the most hostile foreign countries. Do you know that every administration of China, starting from Qing Dynasty, resisted the idea of freedom and democracy by painting them as plots of foreign governments to destabilize China?

I am being called a sock puppet of China here, and I have been accused of being agents of US propaganda in China. That is how the future holds. Every thought deviating from mainstream is labelled as propaganda from a foreign government, ergo not subject to the protections of freedom of speech.
China has made a lot of investments into Africa and Central Asian countries, more like IMF-style loans, which give it considerable political leverage. But as to whether this translates into substantial economic advantages for China in terms of cash inflows, not just outflows, I haven't seen much to that effect.

China's housing market is its biggest problem. Most people invested their savings in second/third/etc. apartments as the stock market was notoriously unreliable (and investing abroad was very difficult). That means that a tremendous amount of middle-to-upper-class wealth is tied up in property values, creating a tremendous bubble. But the gov cannot let the bubble pop (see Evergrande, others before), as Japan did in the 90s, as that is the one thing that (in my opinion) could actually bring the CCP down.
That it's not part of the official app just shows you how strange our industry's prioritization practices are, and if it doesn't have an ROI, it won't happen. We should encourage developers to think about their users and have some pride and craftsmanship when it comes to shipping stuff to their users.
MAX_PATH used to be 260 characters but was changed fairly early in Windows 10 life to 32k.

NTFS has always supported 32k characters in the path with each part being no more than 255 characters.

Office, OTOH, does not respect/observe MAX_PATH. Do not exceed ~240 characters in the path + filename for an Office document as Office will be unable to open it.
I deleted/tossed my entire music collection, subscriptions/accounts about two years ago. I decided it was kind of keeping me in a mental rut and reinforcing old patterns rather than supporting new ones im modifying my life with.

I think it helps. Kinda like being 16 again.
> A Buddhist teacher once explained to me that one of the expected effects of certain kinds of meditation was a growing sense that the world is insubstantial, as if it were made of tissue-paper that you could stick your finger through.

This is called "emptiness", and the second level "but actually it's all real too" is supposed to add up to something called "non-duality". Buddhists historically spend a lot of time arguing with each other about how exactly it works.

The practical upshot is supposed to be that you can look at a statement about yourself like "I have depression" and realize that it is empty of independent existence ie that you're the one doing it to yourself, and this may possibly make it go away.

If you do this too hard you then realize you don't exist and also go away.
Mostly copilot is a nice autocomplete. Sometimes it writes what I would write and then I don’t have to type it out.

Sometimes it helps when I’m writing code in a domain I don’t know. It can pull in a library function I wasn’t aware of for example.

It isn’t always right and sometimes hallucinates, but usually static analysis notifies me when the library function doesn’t exist or the signature is wrong, and then I have to go back and do the work I was going to have to do anyways.

The key I think is that most software isn’t writing unique code. We might write little nuggets of unique code and then glue it together with a ton of boilerplate. And LLMs are great at boilerplate.
trying to diversify your interests

In this instance - and others in my experience listening to the recommendations on this and similar services - "diversify" is used when "dilute" would be more appropriate.
If I put in the work to build a successful business and someone offered me a hundred million dollars for it, I’d have a hundred million dollars.
I almost never plug my phone in the car, and I have wireless android auto dongle. Might be an iPhone issue.
Was the URL supposed to include the location hash?
There is a massive lack of garbage on Chinese TokTok. It's not actively injected into society like they do in the American version. It's a propaganda tool in both countries, each having a targeted purpose.
I seriously doubt you can make PHP convert anything to that exotic charset automatically even with creative configuration, and pretty much sure it wouldn't do any of the sort in common configuration. What I suspect is going on is that the author is interested in exploiting PHP engine and is assuming PHP code using iconv() and wants to talk about how to get from there to full scale RCE. It is indeed a fascinating and non-trivial topic, though the relationship between a particular CVE and the PHP angle is rather coincidental - any buffer overflow would do, it's just the author happened to have one in a reasonably common function.
I want a station that plays everything that was ever in the rock top 100 from around 1950 to around 2010. There has to be all kinds of great stuff that never gets played on "oldies" stations. Probably a bunch of duds too, but if they made it as far as the top 100, there can't be that relatively many.

You could do this with almost any genre, I suspect.
I honestly don't think this is it. High speed internet enabled a whole new class of games and experiences, and new distribution methods. And the relatively monocular monoculture of games exploded - suddenly, everyone was playing different games.

So no, it wasn't "those kids".
I disagree with his notion that I just cede control of my output to AI.

I am using LLMs to help me improve my writing. I was asking for revisions but I found myself just copying what the LLM is outputting

Instead, I told the LLM to analysis my writing and encourage me to create more effective sentences. Instead of generating the output for me, the LLM help me think of better revisions of my writing.
Telling a business it's free to do something if there's no profit involved is like telling a man he's free to drink whiskey if he can jump over the moon.