skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Memories deceive; it happens to me and I'm guessing to everyone. Odd that Aristophanes would have written a comedy about this character whom Plato would only invent years later, and so also that Xenophon, a student of Socrates like Plato, also wrote about him. Indeed Socrates lived and breathed just like you and I do; he drank water and wine and took dumps in the morning, and especially asked questions. But your memory was correct in the sense that we can't know how similar Plato's Socrates as written in the dialogues was to the real man, and often in the middle and later works it becomes clear that Plato's Socrates has become almost entirely a mouthpiece for Plato's own ideas. In that sense, Plato's Socrates, especially after the early dialogues, was a indeed fictitious rendering of a real man. Most of the named characters in Plato were (largely fictitious?) renderings of real people.

Personally, I like to remind myself of the fact -- kind of meditate on it to get it into me -- that the long gone people of distant eras were indeed just as real then as you and I are now. Of course we know this consciously but I find it's easy to neglect and stop feeling. Ancient Egyptians or Song Dynasty Chinese or even 5th and 4th century BCE Athenians become flat just-so stories, and when that happens I lose touch of the deep and pregnant mystery that lives in the gulf between historical record, popular imagination, and whatever it was that the people of the past actually experienced, however they actually thought and related. When I (authentically) reconnect with that mysterious reality it lights up a sense of awe in me, and reconditions and renews my relationship with the present, myself and others. I guess, as Plato said, philosophy begins in wonder.
I don't see why it would be. You can easily determine what resources a player is likely to have, and what they need, by looking at the fully public board.
> I tried many third-party clipboard managers like Alfred [...] While great, they didn't fully meet my needs.

> As a developer, my requirements are:

> 1. Keyboard-centric operation to avoid using the mouse. I don’t want to waste my time moving my hands from the keyboard.

> 2. Display many clipboard history items at once. I don’t like the idea with big tiles, so I can see only 5-7 history items on my 32” monitor.

> 3. Full content preview for each clipboard item.

> 4. Quick search functionality.

But... Alfred literally does all of these? It's part of the paid features though and thankfully yours is free. But still, the functionality is mostly there and I'm actually curious about comparing what you've built versus theirs.
https://www.alfredapp.com/help/features/clipboard/
"Fossil" originates as "obtained by digging", and refers to any mineral resource so obtained. Transferrence to "fossilised remains" (as in dinosaur bones, wood, plants, etc.) is secondary.

1610s, "any thing dug up;" 1650s (adj.) "obtained by digging" (of coal, salt, etc.), from French fossile (16c.), from Latin fossilis "dug up," from fossus, past participle of fodere "to dig," from PIE root bhedh- "to dig, pierce."*

Restricted noun sense of "geological remains of a plant or animal" is from 1736 (the adjective in the sense "pertaining to fossils" is from 1660s); slang meaning "old person" first recorded 1859. Fossil fuel (1833) preserves the earlier, broader sense.

<https://www.etymonline.com/word/fossil>

I'll note that the 1833 date for "fossil fuel" predates establishment of Standard Oil or its predecessors by four decades.
My mom is an alternative medicine advocate and doctor. While I believe that some of the things she advocates for might have some merit (acupuncture) some things are total bunk (homeopathy). I have always leaned hard on "show me a study from a reputable journal about this" and occasionally she'd send me something from some source that mostly looked like a published paper.

The thing that is killing me is that the "good science" done by "good scientists" is increasingly being found to be bunk science done by people who have incentives misaligned with their actual studies. I'm rapidly losing faith in the reliability of published studies and their authors because more and more "good" work is being debunked.
Wait until you find out how Hawaii became a state.
> There's also a good chance I could turn 500K into 5M-20M in 10 years with reasonably low risk investments.

I would very much like to know where you can find low-risk investments that are likely to net you 10x-40x returns in the span of 10 years.

(But overall I very much agree with your point that $500k now and $45M later can be a much much much better deal for someone than $0 now and $50M later. I would likely take that deal every single time.)
Maybe it will be lucrative for them, but I disagree that it requires them to wipe away their privacy stance for a few reasons:

1. Privacy makes them a lot of money right now; it's a huge part of their brand, and one the CEO talks about frequently.

2. Media coverage of Apple Intelligence talks a lot about how privacy is a core differentiator for Apple's AI approach compared to Google, Microsoft, or OpenAI. Apple's approach is on-device-by-default approach, going as far as to have an explicit opt-in per interaction if you want to talk to chatGPT.

3. Apple clearly spent a lot of time and money on their "private cloud compute" approach to larger server models -- why would they immediately squander that by switching to ad-tech.

4. If they were going to use that treasure trove of information, why would they spend so much time not doing that in the lead-up to their big launch of Apple Intelligence?

5. Apple has spent a lot of effort making that personal local context local-only, and designing APIs and training models on schemas for apps to provide local context & local actions to local Siri. That's part of their killer feature set.

Ad tech team doesn't really require any of this data. That's an entirely different business model, and Apple is a lucrative business because they didn't do what Google did.

It all comes down to this: Apple spent the past decade plus building up a brand based on privacy, and spending a lot of extra time, money, and effort doing things more privately than their competitors. It's now a compelling differentiator for Apple, and I have a lot of trouble seeing why they would squander a reputation they clearly spent a lot of energy building.
Why Apple is taking a small-model approach to generative AI
But this shows you that the tools (LLMs included) don't understand what they are producing. It takes an expert to extract the value. The tools do enrich the probability distribution greatly, raising the concentration of solutions much above the noise floor. But still they are only amplifiers. Even if they can get over the stage of producing apparent nonsense in the end they still can't get into the user's head to see what is exactly desired, and a precise specification of the intention takes experience and effort. A precise specification of a program can exceed in effort that of actually writing the program.
Yes, Oracle does have a reputation for integrity in that respect.
>Maybe as a consumer I’m better off leaving their ATM machine alone for now.

Or we can go after the surveillance side too. "As a consumer" IDGAF about lining Apple executives pockets.
Man I have had a significant number of games where I have had a robber block my resources to the point where my turn is just a roll and then pass... For like 4-5 full cycles. And at that point I am playing for silly self imposed goals or to allow the game to keep going for the other players... Not for my own enjoyment.
>it's still very early days in terms of anything at the complexity/performance level of these cores being manufactured.

SiFive announced P870[0] last October[1]. It competes with ARM's absolute best.

Ventana Veyron V2 and Tenstorrent Ascalon/Alastor are other already announced, highly competitive, very high performance microarchitectures.

The high performance chips are coming. RISC-V is inevitable.

0. https://www.sifive.com/cores/performance-p870-p870a

1. https://www.sifive.com/press/sifive-announces-differentiated...
Unplugged Privacy Smartphone with no ID tracking
I’m sorry your friends and family look down on you for expressing joy.

If I was guessing, they don’t actually disrespect you less. They are actually jealous, but don’t feel comfortable expressing their own joy, so they take it out on you, to pull you back down. They probably aren’t even aware that’s why they are doing it.

But that’s a problem with them, not you. You aren’t responsible for their emotional disregulation. It’s your job to take care of you, before you help others. Put on your oxygen mask first, yeah?

It’s a sad life to be rigidly beholden to only express emotions in ways that you imagine others would approve of.

If you care about the person or have the time, then it is good to at least consider their views and feelings (which are often different than what we imagine them to be — you can only find out if you go to the source of truth and ask them. This might sound scary but in a healthy relationship it’s okay to talk about this stuff), but you don’t have to be beholden to them.

And, of course, it should go without saying that doesn’t mean you should completely ignore the current circumstances. E.g. If you are at a funeral, you should tread more lightly, obviously. Every situation is unique, and you have to use your judgment.

It’s ok to do things other people don’t like, as long as you aren’t a jerk about it. Live authentically and listen to your inner voice. Do so with kindness, wisdom, and courage. You might be surprised by the positive reactions you get from others.

Good luck to you.

P.S. This is so important I have to say it twice. Everyone has issues and will project those issues in the way the interact with the world around them. It's not our job to cater to the issues of others. It's our job to take care of ourselves and live honestly and authentically. Sure, we make compromises for those that we love, but we want to do so because of that love, not because we are afraid of what they might be thinking.
This is a pretty good article that talks about other reasons for everything going awry in Japan regarding software:

https://www.disruptingjapan.com/the-forgotten-mistake-that-k...
Embedded Swift [video]
> If the 100% upside is guaranteed, then sure, you should hang on.

Overall agreed, but that's not even always true! If you're -- for example -- under crushing levels of debt today, you very well may want to take that $500k now, even if that $50M is 100% guaranteed in 5 or 7 or 10 years.

Or even if you aren't in debt, but would find it a huge quality of life improvement to be able to have a down payment for the house you'd really like to live in now, and not have to wait 5 or 7 or 10 years.
Nietzsche is being turned into self help content even though as a historian of ideas he had some interesting theories. If you want a more sober analysis of 'greatness' you should read Jacob Burckhardt's chapter on the topic in his book Force and Freedom:
https://archive.org/details/forcefreedomrefe0000burc/page/n7...

He was one of Nietzsche's mentors and analysed what being 'great' means from a scientific perspective. It's a clear historical deep dive which can't be as easily reduced to bombastic slogans.
This intuition denies the inherent human power: that we are not merely individuals, and can work together to accomplish greater things than any individual could. Software engineering has certainly _not_ stopped doing cool things-- exactly the opposite-- obviously. I don't care to justify this since there was none in the claim I'm responding to.
The hardware is just a microphone, a speaker, a tiny computer, and a WiFi chip. It's easy to keep providing updates for old hardware when all the brains live in the cloud.
It's rather dated, but https://github.com/nst/iOS-Runtime-Headers
> Incrementalism normalizes dystopia

Radicalism creates dystopia in the first place (e.g., the USSR was far more dystopic).
Imagine just how many more could have been saved if we just stopped bombarding each other for profit?
If you’re doing winforms work, you’re probably going to want/need Windows if for no other reason to run whatever it is you’re building.

I’d personally use a VM in that scenario.
Magic Maze is a great one!

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/209778/magic-maze
They could somehow whitelabel and embed Windmill.
Soft Software
Neurallink will fix all of that

Said in 75% jest and 25% all seriousness (if you have a long time horizon on it)
This is sideloading mandate following EU regs. IANAL, details may vary, the spirit is the same.
Looks like he got tripped up by the fine difference between arete and virtue. In Aristotelian philosophy, virtue is something you are born with but arete is something that is taught. (Accordingly, most peasants are born with virtue, although it might be hard for them to access arete). When put like that, it doesn't sound too off-putting, does it?
My partner and I have played dozens of games of Spirit Island, far and away our most-played board game
Bad founder behavior is quite prevalent and should be called out for sure.

I disagree though with the general notion that employees are taking similar or even greater levels of risk. If you get a stable monthly paycheck, and the reasonable worst case is you're laid off because the company runs out of money (or downsizes), then the risk is in finding a new job.

That situation exists in a job at a large company too. Founders however are so tied to their ventures, that getting a new job is effectively out of the question, because it very likely means the death of the company.

And starting a company is an exceedingly difficult, stressful, and sacrificial thing to do. There is a clear and significant asymmetry in risk, and frequently in blood, sweat, and tears. So the nonlinear rewards should be commensurate too.
JIT code execution, NFC access, ability to use microphone and webcam while multi-tasking, to name the ones I've encountered.
Realistically, no hardware manufacturer of a significant size (let's say 100k total devices) should be allowed to dictate what software can be distributed to users. It opens up all kinds of unfair business practices.
There are only ~2300 Series C companies.

You're going to need to be this size to have a ~$100M+ exit.

There's about ~5 years between funding Series C and Series D [1].

Only ~55 Series C companies got funding in Q1 [2].

Only ~39 Series D companies got funding in Q1 [1].

You're going to have a MAX of about ~.7 * ~2300 * 1/5 = ~322 successful > $100M VC exits per year.

Ultimately, you really need to IPO to have a successful exit - and there's only ~257 per year total, only ~65% of which are VC = ~167.

~5% of FAANG is L7+ - if you're including Microsoft, Nvidia, AirBNB and all the other companies with FAANG-like pay - you're at >2M employees.

That's ~100k If the average tenure is ~10 years before retirement - you're looking at ~10k per year.

Okay - it's about ~100 per successful exit.

[1] https://carta.com/blog/state-of-private-markets-q3-2023/

[2] https://www.mosaic.tech/saas-startup-funding/series-c
You're supposed to wait for the CTO interview.
next step would be to flash the printer with linux firmware . I'm guessing it had as much cpu as a pi zero
At vesting time you are taxed (immediately) at ordinary income rates on the fair market value the day that it vests, and that's what the cost basis is set to. If you sell on that day, your capital gains from the sale will be (near) $0.

The only reason to wait for LTCG on RSUs is if you decided to hold it for some non-zero amount of time after vesting and then the stock price shot up. But then you're also taking on the risk that the stock price will drop again before the year has passed, and end up with less post-tax money than if you'd sold at short-term tax rates.
I think Google translate is just wrong here
Broken off-boarding process.

HR forgot they have to create a ticket for when they ask a contractor to leave early. IT has the account expire on the date the contract expires, but somebody needs to tell them that someone left.
"One month" is a tricky unit because it's not always the same size. They have a good example right there. What's a month after Jan 31? Feb 28 or 29. A month after that? Mar 28 or 29.

What's two months after Jan 31? Mar 31.

Maybe you think it should behave otherwise, but they picked a way and changed the name so you wouldn't think of the addition operation and its expected properties.
You've written a lot but only touched on the smallest part that they're trying to automate:
> If ChatGPT were to start writing code that didn't suck and as a result started replacing lower-level developers and eventually higher-level developers, that would of course suck,

YES this is the future that they want and are pushing towards. AI will eventually write code and make entertainment that will surpass what coders can do. To think this isn't coming is naive.
First it's scaffolding and simple stuff. Next it's the harder engineering tasks you enjoy the most.

This is the future that is coming and the reason people have been saying this your entire life is because they're right. It's coming and it's coming NOW.

Don't believe me? Read up on what happened to graphic designers in China.

https://restofworld.org/2023/ai-china-video-game-layoffs-ill...

Next up: web devs
Ultimately, the author concludes:

> So let me end our lecture by expressing both my deep indebtedness, my deep gratitude for Nietzsche as well as my ultimate dissatisfaction with him in the following way:

> I've been too convinced by Nietzsche to be convinced by the rhetoric of the sick.

In spite of "beyond good and evil", Nietzsche was himself caught between Hebraism/Hellenism.

> Okay, then why is this lecture about how to be an aristocrat if that's impossible for me, a common peasant?

What if you suddenly found yourself, through luck or hard work, in a gentrified position?
>some engines like the Garrett TFE731 have a TBO of 4,000 hours which is significantly more than many GA engines like the Continental in an entry level Cessna.

That shouldn't be a big surprise: jet engines are turbines with basically only one moving part that just spins, whereas those crappy GA engines are reciprocating piston engines with designs that haven't changed since the 1950s.
If you are worried about copyright, code leakage, trade secrets, IP infringement, etc, I wrote a more detailed post: https://prompt.16x.engineer/blog/ai-coding-enterprise-adopti...
I wonder how much these "resonators" are tuned to a specific tire and even tire pressure?

Are they going to make the noise worse if you get the wrong replacement tire that has a different rubber compound or sidewall stiffness? If you under or overinflated your tires?
Free app stores like F-Droid are also great for stopping you from downloading crap software. Whenever I need "normal software" (music player, PDF reader, RSS feed, what have you) I search for it there and don't suffer through ads or microtransactions. It's like using Linux, free software is just what I default to now.

Using stock iOS and Android today, it feels like both sides have lost the script. The entire pipeline of "consumption" dominates both platforms, and demands you pay money or accept a competitor's inferior product. Google didn't even let F-Droid auto-update apps until recently, it's a racket on either side. We need to bring the hammer down and enable people to stop supporting shit businesses. The current loop of consumption is going to kill everything we love about computing with a long and painful extortion process.
I will see that and raise you the president’s house at Tulane University
I was looking for a promotion within my company. One day when I was standing in the cafeteria waiting for someone else, the hiring manager walked up to me and said, “if anyone asks, I interviewed you.” Best interview I never had.
WTF? This must be the dumbest comment of the day here. There's nothing wrong with pointing out that only Anglophone (which refers to a language, not a race) countries use the British common-law system.
Listen but... make your own philosophy?
What a fun and interesting paper. I suggest those that scoff at content like this to re-evaluate what it has to offer. At a minimum, it is fascinating piece of cultural anthropology. More charitably, it is excellent world building, and a good example of structured writing. Even the authors admit it is far fetched.

If people find this to be "trash", I wonder what they are looking for, "chill out", and have some fun.
Skill required near zero? I'm approaching 15 years as a developer and React is still completely foreign to me. I'd need days full-time just to learn one version of it, not to mention every prerequisite skill.

And what do you mean by "real" value? Carrots have value because we can eat them, React apps have value because they communicate information (or do other things app do).

Or do you mean artistic value? We can agree, if you like, that SPAs are not as much "art" as RCT. But... who cares?
If you ain't immortal, get outta here!
I vaguely remember Coca-Cola being accused of doing the same thing with their bottling plants there but not sure what came of it legally
I was too nice/eager and they DID get through the screening process, clearly this was broken too. I learned lots.
I never listen to a podcast on less than 1.5x because there is already too much crap conversation, and I only want the nuggets of value; so I would only use tts for listening to text.
I think it's mainly from the fact that they had the same problem in SD 2.0. In the interest of safety they removed so many NSFW images from the training set to the point that it could no longer generate coherent images of humans in general. This was resolved when they added NSFW pictures back into the training data for SD 2.1.

We won't really know for sure unless stability ai comments on it or releases the training data but it is the most likely explanation.

Someone will likely train this model on porn anyway in the next few months so we'll see if the finetuned models work better.
Would really love to check that out if you could share a link :)
It's beautiful and fun!

$199 seems expensive, but when an EInk screen is around $80 and it has a carved oak case and brass fixtures and a nice finish, it seems worthy of the price.

But what about all of the great quotes that will occur from 12a to 6a when I'm asleep? I would have to set it to random wrong times on different days to read all of them!
Yeah, like, don't hack quantum computers.
Japan is purple but that still means they're not Common law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_law_(legal_system)#:~:te....
There are about 195 countries in the world (depending on how you count), I find it hard to believe that Japan is dead last on the list.

I'll be the first to complain about the bad state of software in this country, but it still sits very comfortably in the top half of that list.
> software engineering is now a giant assembly line and the productivity (or skill required) per individual has dropped to near zero

If you want a more engaging job you can take a paycut and work at a startup where the code is an even bigger mess written by people who are just as lazy and disorganized but in another (more "prestigious") programming language.

Joking aside, when inevitably someone needs to fix a critical bug you'll see the skills come out. When products/services become stable and profitable it doesn't necessarily mean the original devs have left the company or that someone can't rise to the occasion.