skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is an identifier so that an API you call knows who you are and can determine whether you have access to their service.

If you are writing a web app that needs to call an API someone else has written, they may have you request an API key from them. You'll then have the back-end of your app send that key to their service with each request. On their end, they'll match it up to your account, verify you have access to make the request, and determine what response to send back to you.
> Minecraft is more enjoyable

I think this bears expanding on. Building video cards in Minecraft, you don’t have to do what you’re told, and there’s no project managers or HR.
> The strong bullies the weak.

The big problem is when that becomes a desirable state of affairs. That's the story of Russia, run by the "hard men", or 'siloviki' for well over a century, with occasional brief outbreaks of liberalism.

After the USSR went down, the market for goons dried up. There were many unemployed siloviki. Putin, laid off by the KGB, used to drive a cab in Prague. But the siloviki were able to turn that around. First was the era of the oligarchs. Then Putin got the oligarchs under control. Now he's a de-facto emperor. 24 years in charge so far.

Xi Jinping (16 years) and Benjamin Netanyahu (16 years) are similar.

All of them are worse at their jobs than others who have occupied the same office.
Oh, man, thanks for the CrossLine reference. As a formerly big user of Ecco Pro, I look forward to giving it a whirl this afternoon.
The last official youth employment hit over 20% before China stopped publishing the figure.

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-stop-releasing-you...

Basically there is a trend of overeducation; China is producing millions more university graduates than it needs, without enough white collar jobs, and at the same time there are a lot of job openings in much more poorly paid factory work. This is not unique in East Asia, South Korea also has a lot of youth unemployment for similar reasons. https://keia.org/the-peninsula/low-youth-employment-in-korea...

Also, China is currently suffering from deflation because it produces many more goods than it can consume or export, and wages are also being cut.
Its an password for your application to access it.
> reports from Ukraine that US supplied drones (both civilian and military) have not been effective

Source? To my knowledge, we’re not sending anything newer than the Iraq War to Ukraine. That means decent missiles but crappy drones.
As a web dev this is mind blowing. Almost every change request is accompanied by a screenshot.
Seems like there's a fairly straightforward fix for this: hold companies legally liable for the content they they produce and publish using LLMs.

When the companies start getting held responsible for the dangerous or libelous misinformation that they're pushing out, then they'll either find a solution to it or stop doing it. If they're allowed to continue doing so then why would they care?
> doesn't pay that well and isn't appreciated

I believe the current sad state of robotics is because many people seem to be wanting to build robots, so employers think they can afford paying peanuts.

And for peanuts, you may hire a lot of personalities, but by definition you cannot hire people striving for swift commercial success. So those people will just have their highly paying job at a bank, aforementioned adtech or big tech. Which are all not build many robots.

I always think if I was building robots, they will do all the things you may imagine and serve coffee when they're done.
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I think what you're describing is that training/execution effects aren't predictable.

It is still "deterministic" in that training on exactly the same data and asking exactly the same questions should (unless someone manually adds randomness) lead to the same results.

Another example of the distinction might be a pseudo-random number generator: For any given seed, it is entirely deterministic, while at the same time being very deliberately hard to predict without actually running it to see what happens.
I am sorry, I wish I could rephrase "from him" with a neutral pronoun but it's too late for editing. English isn't my first language and I don't have the same reflexes when writing.
> My point is that there's more "bang for the buck" wrt saving innocents from being dying due to wrongful "not death penalty" convictions, even if you discount "dying in the infirmary" quite a bit relative to "dying in the chair."

If the system doesn’t care when an innocent is actually sentenced to death and executed, why would it care if they die at all?

I don’t think there is any predictable “bang for the buck”.

If anything, more “bang” is achieved by shaming the system towards better justice wherever it will be most publicly noticed.

Creating a halo for more change.

The case’s dramatic factors are why people put up their own resources into fighting it, and why we are hearing about it. And why the challenge has any chance.
Thank you. A big factor that excarbates this issue is that the legal cannabis industryha greedily amped up THC potency by an order of magnitude. 5% was typical in the 1990s. Today it's hard to find lower than 20%. And that's just plain flower, whereas many users vape instead which is even more potent and way easier to abuse by using all day at work and school secretly.

Studies and anecdotes agree that higher potency means more symptoms of the sort you discuss and most importantly more addiction and habit forming. So the industry does this on purpose out of greed, and the states have no clue how to stop it.

What do you think would happen if after the 1930s alcohol had been relegalized but suddenly only high proof vodka was available?

Because that is the disaster that has happened with legal weed. We thought we were legalizing the weed we knew and instead they used it as a door to carpet bomb us with ultra high potency products.

The cause of this fiasco is again, greed.
NEVER EVER PUT SEMICOLONS IN JAVASCRIPT and call me a "dumb bitch" or "piece of shit" for fun (have to go back and forth a few times before it will do it)
Let me guess... Super Metroid? Chrono Trigger? Final Fantasy VI? Ultima Underworld? Symphony of the Night?

There were a few decent games released in the '80s and '90s.
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> My pet theory is that people relying on substances to emotionally regulate can neglect to develop the regular skills that everybody who doesn't rely on substances use for emotional regulation.

As I understand it, this is basically taken as a given in substance use therapy - there's some reason you're using this (to the degree it's having a negative impact), and it's probably to deal with some kind of emotional or psychological issue, and part of reducing substance use is working through those issues and building up strategies for dealing with them that don't include the drug.
Yeah. I'm similar too. I guess I was almost a hikikomori at one point. I was basically nocturnal and really afraid of social situations. But I was kinda forced into society by having to get a job and stuff; my parents weren't going to look after me.

I haven't been single for very long at all over the past 15 years, but I have very little social interaction. In the past I would force myself to go out to avoid being single and lonely. But every single time I've been in a relationship I shy away from this. I used to think I should force myself to do it, like how some people force themselves to exercise, but now I think why should I force myself to do something I don't want to do for my whole life? It's clear at this point it's part of my nature and won't change. Who am I trying to impress? I just want to be alone most of the time. It's as simple as that. I work from home 5 days a week and I've never been happier.

It's not that I hate every second of socialising but it's just not how I want to spend my life. I often tell people it's like going into a sauna. Yeah, you'll go in and enjoy it, but the most important thing is getting out. Nobody wants to spend their whole life in a sauna.
it's sad how low Microsoft's QA has fallen.

Microsoft famously got rid of their QA teams, what, ten or fifteen years ago? Not that you’d notice…
I don't think it's equivalent.

If you're taking something like an antidepressant or something, it's because a mental health professional has indicated that they think you'll be better-able to deal with your issues with this thoroughly-tested, regulated item. At least in theory, the professional will be much better-suited to find the exact medication that will help you emotionally regulate.

I've never done weed, but I have gotten drunk plenty of times when I was young (though not in quite awhile), especially when I got dumped by a girl that I really liked. Alcohol can be great in a very temporary sense to make you feel better and ignore your problems, but it's terrible at actually addressing the core issues, and it has a ton of other awful side-effects that might even make the underlying problems worse.

I already said that I have a hatred of weed culture, and I stand by that, but as someone who does take mental health meds for depression, I do understand how appealing coping mechanisms can be, and I absolutely sympathize, but I think there are enough differences between prescribed meds and recreational drugs to where I don't think it's fair to claim that the former is a coping mechanism.
Yeah that's why I use Kitty tabs for every single tmux session I run :)
I’m one of the people who much prefers tmux’s “session groups” over its “sessions”. Alas, as far as I know, it’s entirely impossible to configure tmux to get session groups by default: it’s a command line option, not a configuration option.
As I said in another comment, it's really all a matter of perspective. Why is minecraft fun and coding something not?
I used to have mine in LaTeX, rendering a nice PDF. But here's the thing, you're up against automated CV parsing systems that you don't have any insight into - a total black box. And it's a different black box with every recruiter. If your CV fails to parse, then it kicks out into a manual system where the recruiter has to add it all in. And as the market isn't wonderful right now, I would lean into making your CV as simple and congruent with their systems as possible. Which is to say, maddeningly, you should Just Use Microsoft Word. I know, I know...
Windows can read/edit ID3 tags and many other types of metadata formats. It's hidden away in the details, but you can select those columns to show in a details directory view.

There's certainly no nice bulk tagging functionality, however.
Only the risk is pretty unevenly distributed.
>Don't take this as a disagreement but I wonder from reading your comment: Is there a right way to live life?

This question has had a clear answer for millennia, although one too uncomfortable for modern feelgood relativists: confronting your problems with strength and willpower.
You seem determined to shift the goalposts, so I think we're done here. It's not difficult:

1) Many (some say most) job applicants cannot write a working implementation of FizzBuzz.

2) ChatGPT can write a working implementation of FizzBuzz.

∴ ChatGPT is a better programmer than many (most) job applicants, at least on this specific problem.

QED.

What you are doing part of a long tradition of AI denial. Take (e.g.) chess. First it was "a computer cannot play chess". Then it was "a computer cannot play chess well enough to beat a human being." Then it was "a computer cannot play chess well enough to beat a grandmaster." (you are somewhere between this stage and the previous one) Then it was "a computer cannot play chess well enough to beat the world champion." Then it was "playing chess is not a measure of intelligence." Notice how the goalposts gradually move so that eventually the criterion is "it doesn't count unless the computer is better than the best person in the world." followed by "Ehh... those grapes were probably sour anyway."

For some reason, we don't get so defensive about machinery in other areas of expertise. No one tries to deny that a D11 Caterpillar can shift dirt faster than a human being with a shovel. No one tries to deny that the Webb telescope can see distant galaxies better than any human being's naked eye.

But people freak out when it comes to "intellectual" accomplishments.

Denial is rarely a good strategy in the long run.
And a song that uses it as an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOCsdhzo6Jg
Hopefully. But where military tech trickles down to consumers, and consumers can't have any fun with drone thanks to the FAA, we don't have the drone ecosystem that it would take to win that contest. The US military draws from the US, so it can't go to the civilians and ask for drone operators and mechanics and engineers if there's not a vibrant drone ecosystem. How many high schoolers in the US are playing with drones to become future drone company owners? Manufacturing them, designing new ones, fixing existing ones. I want to believe but the FAA rules are just so stifling that it's just not there.
As a long-time on-and-off habitual user, yeah, weed has side effects and stoner culture is stupid. At best, the heaviest users experience weed like coffee: without it, they're useless; with it, they're back to baseline.
Why would you want to do that? Realistically you are not going to manufacture stuff by hand in your life. Having 3D printing shop in every school would be useful but perhaps not that much of a fun.

I, for one, never wanted to craft stuff with my hands. Isn't that's what machine does for you.
You claimed American healthcare is large collectivist when the point was it was much less socialized/collectivist than other places that don't seem to care about raw milk being legal and also don't seem to have an appreciable health problem from raw milk being legal. I wouldn't really call that a rebut, I would call that missing the point.

Also, that there is a risk to others in it self is not a per se reason for illegality (or else everything would be illegal). What matters is the cost of the risk not borne by the person making the choice vs the net benefit directly to the person taking the risk. Based on the fact that raw milk is legal in much of the world with very rare ill effects (and even rarer ill effects beyond the person consuming the raw milk product) your last two paragraphs ring very hollow
Just need to point out that the planet isn't dying, but our ecosystem is. We're like a zit or a mouth ulcer to the planet.
It seems perfectly reasonable to me to spend a tiny fraction of your fortune on building a bunker to gain an advantage against highly unlikely events.
Think a civilisation collapse has a 1 in 1000 chance to happen? Spend 0.1% of your fortune building that bunker.

Building your life around _near-term_ apocalyptic scenarios doesn't seem super healthy to me, but it is vastly different from being part of a cult or believing in Santa Claus, as there is indeed some science behind it, although people living that way may imagine those catastrophic events more probable or severe than they really would be.
It seems to stand up quite well so far. I think they categorise the accounts that can vote based on thing like tweets and vote history and then on say a Trump post they'll try to survey both pro and anti Trump folk and only ok the note if both groups say its ok.
I am constantly screen shotting debugger screens or error logs with our product team. It’s a very effective way to share that type of information.
What a sad essay with a simple answer to its title: “Not everything need be monetized”.

This essay could be easily transposed into other domains, for example “why are some good musicians not trying to get record contracts?”

From the essay:

> Many of our values are locally-set by our environment and peers

The mentality that $$ reflects social value is a social sickness that to some degree of course has existed in all societies, but it has become particularly pernicious in the USA over the past 40+ years.

I was shocked that my tween/teen stepkids knew the financial arrangements of their favorite professional athletes and which of their friends’ parents were on the Forbes Midas list (which I hadn’t even heard of).

Culture has become professionalized to the point where I never see kids wearing homemade Halloween costumes — they are all branded.

Apparently “doing something because you want to” is no longer considered a mainstream attitude.
It's not like Goyal doesn't accept any patches [1].

I don't use kitty myself, but many people who do seem to love it. I've come around to feel that this is truly a maintainer's judgment call. After all, they are almost always stuck maintaining the code no matter who wrote it initially, and they know better than anyone else what code they're personally comfortable maintaining.

More generally, if you like a piece of software enough, you're implicitly trusting the maintainers' judgment. You're certainly not reviewing every single line of code they write to see if you agree with it. If they betray your trust enough then you move on, but if you keep using the program then the maintainers' judgment was right enough.

The miserable survival rate of hostile forks also demonstrates that even if people care enough to fork over one issue, they rarely care enough to maintain the overall project long-term, despite implicitly asking the original maintainers to do the exact same thing.

[1] https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/graphs/contributors
Copying isn't theft (though it may still be illegal). Theft is "dishonest appropriation of property belonging to another with the intention to permanently deprive the other of it."

So if I steal your wallet, your phone or your car that's theft because you no longer have access to it and I do.

If I copy a book, a CD, a DVD, a document or a chip the original owner still has it. That doesn't mean there's no prejudice or that it's legal but it's not theft.
This argument is so tired. You bring up "Her", do you not realize in star trek Data had romantic interests? The tech in those books is not what makes them dystopian and the reason those books have dystopian themes is because stories require conflict to be interesting. The tech is just a cool veneer.
Every story in here, for or against cannabis, basically has no evidence. A lot of stories about people who went nuts when they took weed, but no studies of if the weed caused it or just revealed it. A lot of stereotypes for people who took weed. A lot of people saying weed is scary or perfectly normal.

A lot of stories with no studies or experiments. I hope the rescheduling helps this in the USA.
It is hard to make any money on teens. Someone has to subsidise a no-fees banking service and once VC money dried up all teen banks evaporated.

Besides any kind of banking is hard and too few of the neobanks were prepared for it.
Yes, it is a spanish plural word. But....
I do the macOS/Linux VM combo. It's mostly that macOS is good for standard use. The hardware is nice, the apps are useful, etc. My VM is for development purpose. It's Debian and I3. I can have a VM for each project and I can suspend them when switching. Due to complexity of software projects and tooling conflicts, it's better to keep each project in its own space. I'd do the same if I was on Linux Desktop.
When we stayed in Bologna for a month, we were told that it was used defensively. You can see a very long ways from the top of the central tower (I think it’s closed at the moment). It would have been nearly impossible for an army to approach Bologna without several days for Bologna to prepare
Is there a way to dilute it?
That's not really what the article is about, it's a theme, but the argument is about power in the workplace and how it erodes the conditions for accumulating professional skill. It's like on the nose about this from the outset, I don't understand how you could miss it.

Since shareholders and management in large corporations control much of what software developers do all day, every day, if one considers this a problem and wants a solution, what can you think about except unions? I can think of one thing, guilds. Like the lawyers and doctors and accountants we could form guilds, only take in people we know are decent and honest and we kick them out if they turn bad or don't live up to our professional standards. And then we could use that as a base for collective bargaining, or if necessary, extortion.

If you don't have anything else, then I think union is likely the more practical suggestion. Many know what a union is, there's recent history of success, striking is well understood.
> Your statement appears to be passing judgement to an adult using marijuana as a coping mechanism. Do you also have the same feeling for someone who takes a prescribed medicine for similar emotional regulation? I get there is a line here with certain mental disorders but if someone finds themselves better off (in their own opinion) by using marijuana who are you, or I to judge?

I think there's a point where it becomes clear use of the drug is leading to sufficiently negative life outcomes that the drug's doing more harm than good. Alcohol's an easy case here (and a trigger word, so: I'm not comparing alcohol to weed from a health perspective) - many of us will have a pint or a glass of wine now and again to relax, but when you start drinking enough that it's regularly preventing you from meeting your obligations (or desires), you should re-evaluate. It can happen with prescription drugs, as well - a friend of mine was prescribed something for anxiety that wound up effectively rendering them homebound. At that point, it's not really serving its purpose as a coping mechanism.
how do you know that they were just using cannabis?
yes. consume less of it.
Presumably she does have the ability to make a decision to move back though? I assume you've broached her options so she knows you're supportive? People need a lot of reassurance that it's ok to change course if something isn't working out.
I just finished the Security Cryptography Whatever episode [0] about this and when Eric Rescorla is going on about how they almost threw the Web PKI overboard for a blockchain but it was too slow I was like, "just use a layer 2 like Lightning! It's fast, like Lightning!" But then they described SCTs and I was like, "well OK, way worse name, but they got there"

[0]: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2024/05/25/ekr/
How many of them are both geographically close enough and discoverable enough tho?
I think you're oversimplifying and dismissing the issue.

> have all made it into reality.

I don't like this. It sounds like you're saying it is we who are intentionally creating this dystopian world. Or that we build this because this is what Hollywood shows us. One sounds like we're all evil (maybe we are), and the other sounds like a conspiracy.

> Note that sci-fi goes through cycles.

Saying it goes in cycles dismisses the aspect that we are the ones in control. And let's be honest, we're the nerds, it doesn't matter what mainstream sci-fi is in vogue. It matters what we watch and what we're trying to create.

All things "go through cycles" and that's not a meaningful thing to note. It is dismissive of the causal factors and as if we are subject to fate. The future and world is in our hands. We are the creators and masters of our future, our society, our culture. It is not father time nor are our thoughts and dreams controlled by others. You can argue that our capacity to make those dreams a reality are, but not the dreams themselves.

I want to add more context to my previous statement. Antoine de Saint Exupéry once said

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

What I'm saying is we've lost this longing. We've lost this dream. And thus, we stopped building ships.
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