skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't necessarily have to travel far to experience the benefits. People seem to assume that distance is the main point but the main point is actually just exploring and experiencing new things.

I learned this during Covid when I started taking walks in the city I live in (Berlin) and realized I had only explored a tiny part of it in the fifteen years or so I have lived there.
It's really sad to me that Hashicorp never found a monetization model that worked.

100% of the companies I worked for over the last 6 years all used Terraform, there really wasn't anything else out there, and though there were complaints, it generally worked.

It really provided a lot of value to us, and we definitely would have been willing to pay.

Though every time we asked, we wanted commitment to update the AWS/GCP providers in a timely fashion for new features, and they would never commit and tried to shove some hosted terraform service down our throats, which we would never agree to anyway due to IP/security concerns.
Recommendations on rap music or electronic music? Or funk/soul/jazz/blues?
On a serious note, it's so amusing to me to read the comments of people who hate TikTok, but who clearly haven't used it. They simply have no idea what it looks like and the kind of content that is popular on it.

But they're very certain that it's bad!

Meanwhile, I'm scratching my head trying to understand how my watch history could have any value whatsoever. Cute kittens, shirtless guys chopping wood, sad hamster memes, Sanchez the sleepy racoon, Young Royals edits, some dude eating all kinds of cheese, A bunch of confused Americans in Europe and vice versa, PEDRO PEDRO PEDRO, guys promoting their onlyfans, schwapeepee, and of course Donghua Jinlong content, although it seems to have run its course now.
But what about the dozens of us using Nomad and Vagrant?
I often wonder how friends back home in Texas can believe the things they do, say the things they say... and then when I visit and we sit around to watch a game and I see how many ads many people are exposed to every day, I start to get it.
The US saw an enormous improvement in the average standard of living of Americans in its first century. Scores of millions of people moved up from poverty into the middle class.

This happens in every country that tries it.

For an example of an economy entirely focused on resource extraction? The Arab oil nations.

For examples of highly prosperous nations that have no resources to speak of? Japan and S Korea. With free markets.

BTW, it wasn't possible in the 19th century to have a 40 hr week and vast welfare payments. The productivity wasn't enough to fund it.
He has some government roles apparently!

Care to clarify?
And similarly, I, Robot, which is much more enjoyable when you realize it started as an independent murder-mystery screenplay that had Asimov’s works shoehorned in when both rights were bought in quick succession. I love both the movie and the collection of short stories, for vastly different reasons.

https://www.cbr.com/i-robot-original-screenplay-isaac-asimov...
Ghost Jobs – it's not your fault that you are not getting hired in 2024 [video]
Half are laid off. The other half get briefcases and pocket protectors and are told to wear ties (excluding Jerry Garcia brand) and black dress shoes.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110220214126/http://www-03.ibm...
To me, it's a nice and fancy intellisense. Great for finishing the line or making comments.

Saves tons of time
What's an example of a company that reproduced the TikTok algorithm?
Unless they grew up in a culture of oral history, in which case they may know a great many things.
> Commuting has long been known to be detrimental to health.

Commuting that isn't walking/biking.*
In Popper's philosophy of science, the concept of verisimilitude plays an important role, or is a technical term.
Go right ahead! Let us know how it turns out.
Coming at it both ways, from the people that bought us ΛNØM Phones | Operation Trojan Shield.

Need a secure phone for your next shipping container sized cocaine and cash exchange? Want something so secure you can only get it from a made guy who knows a guy who knows a guy?

Why not get yours fourth hand from a joint five eyes task force?

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

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/sep/11/insid...
"Sure, we're trying to hack your brain to enrich ourselves at your expense, but it's traditional."
Cars spy on more americans than tiktok.
I am currently in China; Outline doesn't work at all reliably.

That might be to do with going to a Digital Ocean IP, but if you can use an innocent IP, anything works. So what benefit is Outline supposedly offering?
I just tested it on Copilot. It starts responding and then at some point deletes the whole text and replies with:

"Hmm… let’s try a different topic. Sorry about that. What else is on your mind?"
I was under the impression that you wouldn't. If you want access to proprietary knowledge, you would use RAG + LLM.
Ongoing, low-key exposure to pathogens is usually good for you, as it helps you keep immunity. Conversely, quarantining yourself is not a healthy way to live.
Facebook Reels and Youtube Shorts have pretty good implementations at this point, especially facebook, it is kind of scary. But I didn't use the original TikTok app so I don't know if TikTok is somehow better than these (I only started watching them because they started placing them in my Facebook and Youtube feed, sneaky!).
Let's hope they don't try the Broadcom shenanigans on terraform!!
> I wonder why parents consistently listening to older music than their childless peers

Oh that one is easy. They probably watch Bluey with their children. That show features stuff by Rossini, Offenbach, Tchaikovsky, Holst (Jupiter!), etc... which then gets played in the house because it's so much fun.

I know my kid can't stop dancing when John Ryan's Polka (Bluey episode Fairies) is on! :)

https://www.reddit.com/r/bluey/comments/ph5sot/whats_your_fa...

It's weird that a kid's show can make the entire crave Rossini, but so is life, just roll with it! :)
Why is home ownership critical to a meaningful life? I've rented my entire life, never even wanted to own until very recently, and it's been completely irrelevant to meaning in my life.

For that matter, for much of European history, most people did not own their home (the local nobility did), and were subsistence farmers.

Many strong connections to other people (mutally) is much more likely to bring meaning to your life than property ownership.
Quick search..

Trudeau government had spent $66 million on sole-sourced McKinsey contracts since coming to power in 2015... under the Liberals McKinsey contracts have “exploded” by a factor of 30, according to Radio-Canada. This is particularly true at Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, where insiders have fingered McKinsey with designing the Trudeau government’s policy of dramatically ramping up immigration to unprecedented levels.

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/first-reading-canada-the-la...
Understanding Comics (1993)
https://xkcd.com/391/
Theory for Faster Coding
I'm getting confused. I thought most of my teenage and adult life that it's been settled that "sitting close to the TV causes myopia" and "reading a lot of things causes myopia" and generally "looking a lot at things close to you causes myopia" was total bullshit, up there with "looking at microwave oven while it's active causes myopia".
Romans didn't use chariots, except for chariot racing. For military purposes, they used cavalry and footsoldiers. For domestic transport, they used wagons. And as far as I'm aware, they never constructed "tunnels" for transport - are you referring to mine tunnels?
Every single time I’ve had a frustrating, anti-user experience with a product, it’s tied to some bottomline boosting “optimization” dreamed up by an MBA

MBAs are the worst thing to happen to capitalism, and McKinsey has been at its very forefront
I would additionally apportion some blame to the YouTubers who cherry pick fsd footage and make ridiculous claims about how good it is, especially those who also use defeat devices so they can do it with their hands off the wheels.
Russia's aggression against Ukraine, started a decade ago, the war on Palestinians has been going on for ~55 years.
In my country, NZ, it's always been that way - men aged 15 - 30 are disproportionately higher in suicide statistics.

There's varying theories why, but our culture's emphasis on the "strong silent stoic man" is above and beyond the quiet stoicism expected of men in general.

That stoicism/quiet desperation was often used to sell products.

E.g., the Speights (a terrible beer) Southern Man...

https://youtu.be/q25aJ6UNvhw

https://youtu.be/Su0MCBim7FA

Barry Crump's "Good Keen Man" deerculler persona used to sell Hiluxes...

https://youtu.be/iqwnr2sza_o?si=mmRvEiEMa6pLKDbo

https://youtu.be/_yj1gff-ndc?si=mcGjE44Ys20g5ILz

https://youtu.be/bGGX8sPOFAg?si=jldACun8AdRPuUyC

https://youtu.be/VCkjBKjCikU?si=69GZwGalke2bc_nj

Barry Crump, a national legend based on his books about his deer culling days, was revealed after his death to be an alcoholic wife beater. Nobody was shocked.

And of course, rugby culture encourages quiet manly suffering.

Here's renowned All Black Buck Shelford talking about losing three teeth, suffering a concussion, and then losing a testicle, all in one game of rugby. But he kept playing on, because that's what a Kiwi man does, according to the mythos.

https://youtu.be/nvy32d-jk4E?si=a68eL2btXL8hmdNU

Young men who don't measure up to this artificial concept of masculinity then feel like even more of a failure, and well, you know.
but it is cross-platform and supports Windows.

There might be Windows specific bugs but those are fixed as soon as the community gives feedback.
I go to real life protests for both climate change and for better housing policy in the U.S. so I’m hardly someone who believes there are no problems.

And I’m also not a homeowner.

But the idea that someone, anyone, living in Australia has a worse outlook in life than 99% of humanity is absolutely not true.

But I have seen enough of that in person here as well, so I’m not questioning either the actual feeling or the validity of the feeling.

However, something appears to have changed where younger folks in a certain set of circumstances feel despair when someone of the same age under similar circumstances even a decade ago might not have felt that way.

I have to believe social media and the expectations it creates but also the way it bombards young people with issues that they can do nothing about today has some responsibility here.
TF, Vault, Packer, Consul, Nomad.

Waypoint and Boundary don't seem all that useful.

Vagrant has fallen by the wayside supplanted by Docker and K8S.
Vagrant was the origin, but quickly went from FOSS to FOSS-washed when it reneged on VMware support as a premium-only, closed-source option.

IBM is indistinguishable from Progress and Broadcom... it buys things and milks them while they decline.

Microsoft just lacks taste and any sense of accountability for all of the vulnerabilities and exploit damage it has, and continues to, inflict on the world.
Seymour Papert: Remembering a Thinker Who Thought About Thinking (2016)
When NIMBYs First Got Their Veto Power
I missed a flight and rebooked for later on the same day. My return flight was still cancelled because how could they know I maintained the trip. There’s no way for them to be unaware that I bought a new one-way ticket. They were just predatory about it.
I haven’t used copilot. Isn’t it collecting a lot code from the Internet and combining to make auto complete suggestions?

I just don’t see how it could think and write new code like a human developer would.

Any feedback from copilot users?
https://archive.ph/ex52G
The ESP32 line is the natural progression. Specifically the ESP32-C3 is the successor to the 8266.
The magic is in how it combines the code based on context.
zip-rs - This crate is unmaintained
“Climate doomerism” has been around for at least 3 decades.

Heck, the last decade has seen more good news on the climate front than any decade before, with wind and solar energy becoming cheaper and growing faster than any other source of energy, EVs actually not just becoming a reality but an inevitability, and most countries setting carbon reduction goals something which didn’t even sound possible a few decades ago.
If we don't what's the point of debating it?
I agree with the closed mind thing, except it appears your mind is closed.

This artist is saying that it’s not a tool because it disconnects him from his task, rather than helps him invest the task with his own agency. This is not logically inconsistent.

If it is not consistent with your experience, then it suggests there can be different experiences. But perhaps you don’t care as much about your own contribution to your work, because, as you say, you aren’t “famous.” All that means is that what makes you special is not as valued by strangers as what makes him special. How is that an argument to make yourself less special?

His argument is completely consistent with my experience and feelings about using AI. I am in a completely different field.
does that mean that it could be used to basically block any app made by the Chinese?
I meant other countries make the plane portion (not Anduril’s unmanned controls) that General Atomics is responsible for. Predators and Reapers are very expensive.
When I got on the net in 1990, my dialup ISP sysadmin had all home directories were globally readable, "so we can learn from one another." And we did!

That same admin had made cool menus and guide posts, documents that showed everyone about the net.

We had many system wide chats about stuff and everyone was all about helping everyone else.

Then we had the Eternal September... or was it December. In any case, for a couple years there before we got the first browser.

Everyone was mentored onto the Net in the early days. I wish that would have continued, but it would never have scaled, ah well.

Yes, I had a list of machines I could telnet to. Each offering some resource.

Oh, one cool thing was being able to ask for a bigger disk quota, download some big stuff and swing by the office to move it onto portable storage. SCSI disk or floppy or tape. I loved those chats right there in the server room!
Explaining code using ASCII art
I wonder how the taxes and fees refund works. Fees I can see airlines trying to say “we already paid these”, but taxes are only charged on services rendered, no? Is there a situation where the airlines have already paid sales tax to the local authority and don’t get a refund for canceled service?
Most Tech Jobs Are Jokes and I Am Not Laughing
> Code generation in Golang is something I've found removed a lot of boilerplate.

Not a gopher by any stretch, but to my way of thinking code generation is literally boilerplate, that's why its generated. Or does Go have some metaprogramming facilities I'm unaware of?
Someone like you, some tool like glue
What does a fundamentalist even mean?

All of our actions are happening in the context of the politics we operate in. Do you have an example where this isn’t the case?
360° Client Management AI Tool
The projection on most of these batteries life times now is 500k+ miles before they hit 80% of their capacity. The car around the battery will be falling to pieces before they reach that point. Its not like there weren't quite a lot of ICE lemon vehicles with engine and other problems that caused issues, its always been part of any industry and there will still be packs in the future that don't perform as they should for as long as they are meant to.

EVs generally will require less maintenance as they are substantially simpler vehicles with less moving parts.
If you are on TikTok and you don't think CCP has all your personal data TikTok has collected from you, I have a bridge to sell you.
>Meanwhile, we have users fairly regularly starting browsers 24/7 for tasks such as generating PDF exports of dashboards.

This seema like a bizzare thing to pay for, i can think of probably 10 free tools that will so this. sure im a nerd but i assume a company that needs this 24/7 has some nerds on staff.

Its gotta be some fintech, health or, gov regulation thing right? All i can picture is some 80yo exec that was willing to learn pdfs but thats it no interactive dashboards lol.

I love hearing things like this though it really is motivational to hear about oppertunities out there to make money witb some saas product still have low hanging fruits.
Repairing the Nightmarish Hands Produced by Stable Diffusion
I dunno, most of the time, the offered vouchers have been more than the cost of the flight by a good amount. I haven't had an offer in a while, but the last few times were often starting at around 2x the price I'd paid for the flight for a 2-3 hour delay. I've never seen it be less than $200.
I’m sorry if I offended you by answering your question.
I, as owner of equipment I have bought and is operating on my network, also want backdoor into https to see if companies are doing some child pornography or terrorist activity on my connection to the cloud or their own servers. /s

Joke aside, it wouldn't be a bad idea to demand by legislation, a requirement for companies, to allow to install your own CA certificate on any equipment in your home.
Had this experience across statically typed languages and not. I do admit if your type system is set up correctly, Copilot improves greatly.

For me I didn’t find the value I got out of typing 90% of the code I wanted for 10% completion to be worth the $20/month subscription.
> America did. Still does.

Where and when did America claim that?
Another important detail that has been burried in this discussion is that in the late aughts and early 10s there was a lot of domestic political pressure against US companies building products that could facillitate Great Firewall censorship. At the time that was a bigger concern than being allowed into the Chinese market.

All the talk of a digital services trade war/import ban ignores that US tech companies were facing a de facto export ban from the US side by being prohibited from complying with Chinese regulations.
I suggest US and China to be merged in to One Great Country in the planet.And as a result, US will be great again, so as China.
I think I’m a strong programmer, but my learning style seems to be inquisitive and it’s a perfect match for GPT cos I can ask a million questions. So for me, GPT has been like working with someone much more knowledgeable about my platform (I haven’t done a lot of modern front end stuff before), but seemingly not as strong on architecture or domain.

This combination has meant that I’ve done in about 3 days what I thought would take me 2 weeks. And I’ve enjoyed the shit out of it too.
It’s banning it because of national security concerns and has nothing to do with capitalism. Honestly though this administration doesn’t seem to take national security very seriously so this will probably fall to the wayside and be enforced with the same vigor as our border security laws - so yeah nothing for them to worry about.
i don't mean to alarm you, but i think you're failing the literacy test
the bickering is why it's so expensive, but unless you have a way to get other people not to file lawsuits, that's the system we have.
Funny experiment, I asked ChatGPT 4 and I always responded with “that’s not correct” 2-3 times and it eventually answered with Seer Gilligan.
> Isn't it a bit funny that America can't manage to educate[1] its citizens so they are resilient to propaganda?

Since you imply it's not difficult to do, which country has educated their citizens to be resilient to propaganda?
GP is probably referring to the standard railroad gauge which is alleged [1] to have been derived from the width of roman chariot wheels and which would have driven the train tunnel width in modern times.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard-gauge_railway#Origins
To be even more fair, America never claimed that free speech and free markets are wrong.

China did. Still does. And now it's begging and suing to keep those freedoms.
Yeah - my taste has pretty steadily churned slowly over and over and over and that's how I like it.

There's so much music out there. It's like asking "when do you stop finding new books": you only stop finding if you stop looking. I enjoy the looking, and I see no risk at all of running out even if no more new stuff is ever made.
Thank you for saying this! The number of people that would need to fine tune vs just using RAG is really small. People that are not familiar with the source often jump to fine tuning as an option
More like "Unaccountable decryption."
For anyone who wants a good source of random music, radio Canada has a great French station with an excellent show “l’effet pogonat”.

You won’t understand the host if you don’t speak French but the station is mostly songs and I’ve found so many good ones there.

The Montreal Gazette had a good write up: https://montrealgazette.com/news/pop-goes-the-world-ici-musi...
There are very fast text to image or image to image models that run interactively today. A few take well under a second to generate based on the next few characters typed or lines sketched. That's not really new. I built a somewhat slower version months ago. And I think I saw an image generator recently that was over 30 frames per second.

Also Adobe Photoshop has already incorporated image generation.
Average js developer thinks that react invented className and htmlFor
And that's sufficiently concerning to nip this in the bud now. It is either happening or could be made to happen with ease and neither of those are good outcomes.
> if you do a lot of near-work it can think you are still hyperopic, causing further myopia progression.

Does this mean we should let our eyes see blurred images so our eyes would feel like they are seeing far away stuff and stop axial eye growth to stop myopia. This is in direct contrast to the claim in the post

> a few minutes a day with glasses or contact lenses that correct for blur stops the progression of myopia

which believes corrective lenses that correct for blur would stop the progression of myopia.
Exactly. Now that they own it, they can just roll back the license change and tap into the rest of the world doing the heavy lifting in terms of development. Hashicorp retired from that role when they changed the license.

Win win for IBM. They offer stability to their big corporate clients and they get to resell the work done by third parties. The BSL license is an obstacle to that because it means they have to reinvent wheels internally. Changing the license back means they can gut the R&D department at the price of a simple license change and focus instead on sales, support, and consulting.
The DOM is bad and knowing browser quirks probably isn’t the thing I’d gatekeep a junior engineer about
Ah yes, the ol' "you can't put the genie back in the bottle" argument—which is completely nonsensical.

Everyone can just decide not to use these tools. Simple.

Put another way, take a look at all the cities around the world making great strides to limit motor vehicle usage…and in some areas outright banning cars. Decades ago, that would have been unthinkable! Today, it's real and it's happening more and more.

Never underestimate the ability for society to wake up from collective amnesia at various junctures and realize, y'know, actually these technologies suck and we can reach for better ones.
Just like crack and fentanyl! Let the market decide, cowards.

Although it is fun that it's totally fine for an American company to take the reins and continue on.

This could have been done with emphasis on the way China engineers TikTok/Douyin in each country and the effects on the end users - but that wouldn't make anyone with money or power very happy. The thing it does is fine - merely where the data goes and who pulls the levers is the concern.

The "ban" will change nothing in our society, thank God.