skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you not just describing a skateboard?
Hey man, maybe just disconnect from the Internet for a while. I'm not trying to be snarky at all.

Legitimately when I feel like society is headed towards the end, I go do volunteer work at a soup kitchen or women's shelter or nursing home or something. It helps me understand that the mess I see online isn't necessarily real.

Not trying to be judgemental, but your comment sounds like you might need to just unplug for a couple weeks. A toy car shouldn't make you question some sinister plot to destroy us. Seriously.

Society has problems, but it's still pretty cool in the world.
Ha! I had this exact same moment happen to me before[0]. Apparently:

>This post has been rescued by the second chance pool at https://news.ycombinator.com/pool

>When this happens, the relative timestamps (X minutes ago etc.) are reset to the time at which the post is selected for the front page. The absolute timestamps in the tooltips, like you have discovered, show the actual time in this case.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37241731
Isn't crowdfunding a better way to bootstrap a startup?
You're not going crazy :)

Hover over the "minutes ago" string on any of those comments & you'll see the original timestamp. I guess this is a repost, comments got merged, and the "minutes ago" strings are cached/pre-generated from the old thread?
> And I don’t think calling it a quest instead of a goal would make much difference

Well, I of course haven't done it yet, but as one of those people who (stupidly, in a "the definition of insanity is doing things the same way and expecting a different outcome"-sort-of-way) makes New Year's Resolutions every year, and gets mildly depressed when I fail to reach them, there is something about this blog post that I loved and really clicked with me.

There are 3 reasons I like the framing of quest vs goals:

1. As you say, it focuses on the process instead of the outcome. I've of course known that this is how you're supposed to achieve goals (step-by-step I'd say), but something about the word "quest" makes it more real to me, and maybe even more desirable. I think perhaps that even though there are tons of painful things that happen during a "quest", they seem more connected with a "righteous outcome", vs. the laundry list of steps that I think of for most of the "goals" I want to attain.

2. I don't deal with unexpected curve balls well, and one reason I fail to reach a lot of my goals is I get dejected when things don't go according to plan. But I think the framing of "quest", where basically curve balls are 90% of what happens, makes it easier in my mind. It's like I'm actually planning and expecting the unexpected, instead of getting annoyed when the unexpected pops up. I really like it.

3. Finally, and though it may seem trivial or silly, the visualization of a "quest" for me is just something that seems, well, more adventurous than drudgery.

In any case, this is one of the first HN posts on self-improvement that I really liked and clicked with me (usually I roll my eyes at what feels like "survivorship bias" advice). I'll see how it goes.
It's selfish and limiting in the same way that going to the gym and eating well is limiting. Maybe the view of progress that says lazing around and eating sugar (poisoning our water supply, endless pollution, etc) will come home to roost. Ironically enough, we have already implemented lots of anti-progress memes like the EPA and CAA after seeing the fruits of progress!
Did you read my comment? That's what I was proposing to address. By "standard camera" I meant the standard front facing camera that is high quality.
> 4WD -> power gets to all wheels, but there is a locking mechanism that locks all wheels so they all turn at the same speed - if you know the physics of turning objects, it means turning while underway is either impossible or damaging to the drivetrain.

Is my understanding of your usage of "underway" right if you're saying that the only recommended and safe way to use the steering wheel on a 4WD is when at standstill? That you can't/shouldn't turn at all when in motion?
In addition to what the person has already said: An "obvious" effect is harder to spot than you think. Asking for statistical power to spot an effect in a week when you're trying a dozen compounds at once-- you'd need millions enrolled in this study, and they'd need to be very patient.
Ehh I actually don’t think that’s that bad — they do have to run a business! What limitation would work better on the free tier?

This came up on Reddit and the founder responded directly there, seemed like they were going to add a tool tip or something to make it clearer.
That was one of the best articles I've read in a long time. Thank you! A great overview of the toil and complexity of creating a new company and deploying a new product.
This is one of the things I loved about Overwatch when it was first released. You use a healer with a beam they locks onto people or a giant man with a shield blocking incoming shots, but you also had the soldier with his rifle and the archer if you want to take accurate shots and test your mechanical skills more. It really allowed folks with a wide range of FPS skills to play together somewhat effectively.

Here’s one of my games from years ago as an example of what the team gameplay could often be like in public matches: https://youtu.be/baz90mAkddI?si=LewykM57vcqniPUv
The other problem is that having an under-display camera doesn't stop everyone else's eyes from pointing in the wrong direction, so even if you prioritize eye contact you'd also have to convince all your friends to, as well.
Ok, so are you saying it contains mostly straightforwardly generated code?
I think I slip into this mode automatically. As soon as I think of a "goal," I immediately ask myself what kinds of habits a person who accomplished that goal would likely have. Then I find the lowest possible resistance way to have that habit from this day forward.

Like, say I want to hike/climb some specific set of mountains. Great. What kinds of habits does a person who hikes all those mountains have? Well, they're probably someone who exercises every day. I can, as of today, become "someone who exercises every day, no matter what," if I set my requirement as "only one minute per day."

Habits grow on their own. I don't think it's really necessary to stage them. Once you see yourself as a certain kind of person, you just become that kind of person. And before you know it, since you're just like a person who hikes all those mountains, you end up being someone who has hiked all the mountains.

It's also the only effective way I've found to deal with my fear of success when it comes to big goals. I don't set them. I just decide to become the kind of person who would accomplish them, and by then, it doesn't feel like some impressive accomplishment. It just feels like a normal thing someone like me would do.
Best take I’ve read here or anywhere. Thanks for the clarity.
New Method Tracks How Psychedelics Affect Neurons in Minutes
> The former evokes emotions around professional decisions while the latter evokes emotions around personal decisions.

That there is a division between personal emotions and professional emotions is a new idea to me. What is the difference?

> It’s really hard to say that the advertisement is not evil, even if it can be demonstrated to be a net good for some.

If we assume that advertisements can be evil, how are we certain the type that doesn't go after insecurities aren't the evil ones? Like you say, there doesn't seem to be much data published to back up which and which ads aren't evil.
A lot less than most people seem to think. By far the best predictor of someone's wealth is their parents' wealth. By very far. The vast majority of wealth is generational.

But even if you believe in upward mobility, the point is that needs to happen first before you possibly have time, energy, and money to devote to your passions. It's not backward; if you'd argue "no, succeeding in your passions is what enables upward mobility", then you (A) are thinking of a very small subset of highly marketable passions, and (B) have identified the catch-22 that makes upward mobility so uncommon.
>This post has been rescued by the second chance pool at https://news.ycombinator.com/pool

>When this happens, the relative timestamps (X minutes ago etc.) are reset to the time at which the post is selected for the front page. The absolute timestamps in the tooltips, like you have discovered, show the actual time in this case.

From: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37241997
I’ve been on a team life this in the freight auditing industry. Questions I have
1) how much time and how much money are you willing to spend before you have tool usable for production?
2) if the tool does 100% of what you want, what is the benefit and payback period?
3) Do you plans for more development? How will that be funded?
Why Google, Microsoft and Amazon Shy Away from Buying A.I. Startups
Curious as to why the title of this post was changed. The process of preservation here is just as much - if not more - important to the article than the actual practice.
The button next to the refresh button is what makes the side bar show wider tabs (Icon, title, close button). It took me way too long to figure that out.
> A USB DFU function embedded in boot ROM is flatly undesirable in an MCU with no memory protection.

Are you saying DFU is not useful without an MMU/MPU? Why would that be?
Hi! Thank you for you response! It was very informative!
Anecdotally I have found it faster to order pcbs and get them shipped from China than get them built locally. I’m not just singling out factory workers, they don’t work hard but their managers and multiple higher levels don’t either and I don’t know why. At times I question their motivation to even do business. I also don’t buy that this is a US wide cultural thing, I’ve had excellent on call responses from AWS, heck even my customer experience from Amazon is more prompt than many of the PCB/ Chip vendors, which is why I’m singling out the semi conductor industry, though I’m sure there any many other industries suffering from the same maladies.

My anecdotal experience aside, there have been quite a few news articles about TSMC’s struggle in Arizona that highlights the difference in work ethic: https://restofworld.org/2024/tsmc-arizona-expansion/
> In 2022 there were 13,524 fatalities in motor vehicle traffic crashes in
which at least one driver was alcohol-impaired. This represented 32
percent of all traffic fatalities in the United States for the year.

What percentage of all drivers on the road are "alcohol impaired"? Without this value, technically speaking the statistic doesn't mean much.

Obviously alcohol is detrimental to automobile piloting, but without an estimate for % of drivers who are intoxicated who don't get into accidents, what does the study really mean?
I'm struggling to understand your objections to the title. The headline says that it is the first time in chess an opponent was attacked with mercury, and that the perpetrator was Russian. I'm not clear what your interpretation is.

If we are to believe the article, poisoning an opponent has not happened before, so "In world first" is justified.

Mentioning the nationality is common in news reporting. Maybe look up the "Florida Man" meme and don't be sore anymore.
A general purpose, all encompassing ERP system that works for ANY industry

Yeah. That sounds awful

The author makes some great points, I think the biggest one from a business perspective, for anyone who is ever involved with a project that scopes an ERP is how do I get my data out of this thing? AND then, example output! I’ve seen ERPs that are basically impossible to ever get all your data out of, and then others where they export everywhere completely verbose, in CSV based on some C code from 1976 … so then what?
There’s no “forcing” chip manufacturers into exclusivity deals. Chip vendors want the business, and Apple wants stuff customized for them. Plenty of IP that can be used in general market parts, too. Also, I can guarantee you that there’s a good amount of vendors that would rather not be forced to offer their chips that they provide to Apple on the general market.
For me personally, I get a little bit salty about it due to imagined, theoretical business needs of being multi-cloud, or being able to deploy on-prem someday if needed. It's tough to explain just how much longer it'll take, how much more expertise is required, how much more fragile it'll be, and how much more money it'll take to build out on Kubernetes instead of your AWS deployment model of choice (VM images on EC2, or Elastic Beanstalk, or ECS / Fargate, or Lambda).

I don't want to set up or maintain my own ELK stack, or Prometheus. Or wrestle with CNI plugins. Or Kafka. Or high availability Postgres. Or Argo. Or Helm. Or control plane upgrades. I can get up and running with the AWS equivalent almost immediately, with almost no maintenance, and usually with linear costs starting near zero. I can solve business problems so, so much faster and more efficiently. It's the difference between me being able to blow away expectations and my whole team being quarters behind.

That said, when there is a genuine multi-cloud or on-prem requirement, I wouldn't want to do it with anything other than k8s. And it's probably not as bad if you do actually work at a company big enough to have a lot of skilled engineers that understand k8s--that just hasn't been the case anywhere I've worked.
The artificial distinction between a prototype and a production system rarely survives reality in my experience. But that doesn't matter because the situation with long-term maintenance is not so different with freelancers doing the development to what you'd have to do with an in-house team.

It's rare for anyone to be around to look after the code they write for you forever. Ironically you might have more chance of a good long-term relationship with some of your freelancers - having a few good clients who come back to you from time to time is an excellent strategy as a freelancer.

So you always need the system and processes to be designed with future maintainability by other people in mind. Good developers will do that whether they're employed or freelance. Bad developers will mess it up either way too. Choose the people you work with wisely and try to make sure when you do bring in new people they have a good way to get up to speed so they can naturally take over as others leave. There's not much else you can really do.
> the argument that racism is "prejudice plus power.

Is it difficult for you to understand that two people might mean different things by the same word? One might say "racism is discrimination based on race", and the other might say ".... But it's only relevant coming from those with actual power". The concept for two people talking past each other should be pretty intuitive to any adult, but when it comes to this specific topic it's like people dont understand it (or pretend not to)
Another death in nationwide outbreak that spurred meat recall
The Rise and Fall of Lisp – Too Good for the Rest of the World
So, no examples? :)

That’s my gut feeling, that writing fast C# basically ends up looking like C++/Rust/etc where the niceties of C# are no longer present.

Which is the same as rewriting Python in cython. It’s way faster, and it doesn’t look like Python, or have the benefits of Python, and now just looks like weird C.
String of record hot months came to an end in July
Not saying you're wrong, but what is your grand plan ? I've never seen anything perfect.
For that you could just some FRAM with minimal effort

https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/877-FM16W08-SG
In which universe migrating from docker containers in ECS to Kubernetes is an effort measured in years?
Sadly the number of people on IRC took a huge hit the last few years especially channels
previously on Freenode.
Would you rather buy space broadband from a billionaire, or Communist China?
Extremely slow times - from development to production, backend to frontend. Depending on how bad things are, you might catch the microservice guys complaining over microseconds from a team downstream, in front of a FE dev who’s spent his week optimizing the monotonically-increasing JS bundles with code splitting heuristics.

Of course, it was because the client app recently went over the 100MB JS budget. Which they decided to make because the last time that happened, customers abroad reported seeing “white screens”. International conversion dropped sharply not long after that.

It’s pretty silly. So ya, good times indeed. Time to learn k8s.
not probably, their lambda service powers much of their control plane.
It's a surprise, I'm a UK citizen living in a UK dependency and will shortly be returning to Great Britain, and I can't access it.

Huh!
Congrats on the acquisition.

Does anyone have any experience with Amazon Q Business?
Agree that games design for immediate feedback and visual, tangible rewards. I think this is a big part of it.
Verisign under fire for increasing .com prices each and every year it can
This is amazing IP; it makes you wonder if the RPi foundation could be a target for Aquisition by one of the big microcontroller manufacturers.
You call it breeding competition, I call it geopolitics and demographics, which is not a breeding competition or a conspiracy theory.
Agreed, we're a small team and we benefit greatly from managed k8s (EKS). I have to say the whole ecosystem just continues to improve as far as I can tell and the developer satisfaction is really high with it.

Personally I think k8s is where it's at now. The innovation and open source contributions are immense.

I'm glad we made the switch. I understand the frustrations of the past, but I think it was much harder to use 4+ years ago. Now, I don't see how anyone could mess it up so hard.
My High School teaches it as the introductory Linear Algebra course and - while it is a bit difficult - it does an excellent job priming students to think about Lin Alg as a higher order discipline.

After doing it both ways, I really appreciate introducing vector spaces and linear transformations before even touching matrices.
I imagine that a single modern desktop GPU could encode more video than a room full of old androids.
GDC video from Spiderweb software

https://youtu.be/stxVBJem3Rs
How much does the third-party software cost?
Agreed, waves from DALnet!
I am truly humbled by your decision. If you haven’t done so already, check out the folks at vitalism.io who share your view and are very ambitious.
Configuring innodb file per table was pretty common years ago when I last worked with MySQL. I thought the entire file gets deleted if you nuke the table. This would be for the default config with a single innodb file right? To remove some tombstones.
Good freelancers are expensive because they know the value they provide. In this sort of situation you tend to get what you pay for.

I don't know why you think they won't stick around long-term. I've seen many freelancers maintain relationships with clients for a decade or more - not necessarily full-time as if they were employees of course but with a genuine connection and coming back to do more work with the same client from time to time. If you want to retain access to the knowledge and insights of your early developers but also want to bring things more in-house - often because you don't need an all-star team to do every little thing once the system is in production and hiring a more mixed team is sensible financially - then this kind of occasional recurring contact can work well for everyone.
For those unaware, the UK police are currently promising to go after people posting misinformation and retweeting content (including video of riots) that might incite hate.

In response to this the UK police are being trolled on their live chats (largely by Americans I believe). I did originally post a link to these (you can find them on X), but given the content I don't want to risk it.

I'm assuming they're now blocking IPs because of the abuse.

This started yesterday when the police said they have officers looking through social media for offences, https://x.com/ElijahKyama_/status/1821180825007763660/video/...

But heated up again today after a 55 year old women was arrested for posting inaccurate information to social media,
https://www.cheshire.police.uk/news/cheshire/news/articles/2...

I'm currently waiting for a knock at my door along with 65 million of Brits who have posted inaccurate information online from time to time.

Legal note: if anything I have said here is inaccurate I was unaware of it at the time of posting.
Needs a 2021 in the title.

There seems a genuine loss of mojo amongst those purporting to support freedom of expression across the spectrum.

One does not wish to feel as though there were some "Dark Age" pending, but here we are.
Most common optimization path is simply removing the junk and making the code drastically simpler, using appropriate CoreLib APIs and similar. A C family language that looks like other C family languages, very surprising.

Is there something specific you would like to see an example for?
https://archive.today/h341X

p.s. I understand why they blocked it, but it's a shame archive.org won't allow archive.* snapshots anymore.
They could just as easily given people the option to not use their website while still letting those who wanted to use it. Whatever google does now though is a different story entirely.

My personal preference back in 2008 would have been the ability to pull raw data off the device, but also for it to include an accompanying CD with some basic software to generate pretty graphs or whatever locally. It'd be easy enough to text/page/email a friend with the number of steps I logged for the previous day, or even write up something that would let us share/graph our results together. Admittedly, I actually do enjoy writing software in my offtime though. I'd like to think that if if things had been different there'd have been several open source options for visualizing, tracking, and sharing FitBit data for those who couldn't or didn't feel like writing their own.
I get a HTTP/2 403 from a US IP address. The html payload has Cloudflare Ray all over it.
I’m part of a 20-person company that was in a similar situation. We have since built our software in-house, replacing the software we previously struggled with, and it’s worked out even better than I originally hoped because it felt so audacious at the time.

One thing I think is key is making sure that whoever is leading this project (the lead developer, not just the person they’re reporting to) needs to know the business cold. They should spend serious time learning the roles of the people who will be using the software so they can design it well to solve the problems those roles face. I lead the development for us, and I attribute most of the software’s success to simply having spent so much time in so many roles in the company. It’s that cross-section of knowledge that makes all the difference.
It's not so funny, because this article was written at the time freenode was burning to the ground, and the article suggests that it would be very easy for everyone to move to libera if it turned out to be the better option.

And that it worked so well is the point of the article!

IRC is highly resilient because it's simple to set up, the clients and servers are free software and can be endlessly and independently configured to talk to each other, and it's light on resources - both server, client, and bandwidth.

I'm on terrible, legacy satellite internet (ie, not starlink, with 700ms-1.2s round trip times), and IRC is the only chat system that works fine.
I mean, I build testing infrastructure for video conferencing software. I guess I can see how video conferencing can be misused, but my conscious is relatively clear.

You are just doing the social justice warrior thing, which is great and all, but I've seen it before and it never seems very effective. Vote for political change if you want to see things really happen.