skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do the latter yes. I use SearXNG to shield my searches, I use matrix bridges to keep the privacy invading chat apps off my phone. I use a local LLM and home assistant to shield from datamining IoT. I run DNS based and in browser adblockers.

It's a lot of work but I still consider it very viable. It's also very educational.

The problem is just that it doesn't scale. Google will block SearXNG if it becomes more than a fringe phenomenon used by some geeks. WhatsApp will start fighting bridges again if significant amounts of people start using it.

I don't really care about fixing society as a whole to be honest, but it's important to realise that this can never be a solution for everyone, even when talking the technical difficulty level out of the loop. These things work because they are niche.
There are lots of authors and journalists who either go there, or interview people who escaped. I think we learn a lot more from them than we would by taking a heavily curated tour of pre-screened sites.
Navigating the future: Brain cells that plan where to go
Judges were aware of what the producers themselves claimed the content to be and how the content was being promoted. There were clear references to the elections and to people involved in the elections. Moreover, It's not like members of the electoral court decided to bother the producers out the blue. There was a denounce that the producers were abusing their economic power during the election (which is illegal). Evidence and hearings involving their lawyers were conducted, and that's where and how the judges became aware of everything.

What you have, thus, is a scenario in which 1) the producers were already being investigated for electoral misconduct; 2) they were known supporters of B; and 3) they were boosting and promoting B.'s campaign material in social media disguised as "news" and "documentaries" (which is a way of trying to dodge the accusation of economic power abuse). The case in question is just an acute one.

And even in the face of all this, authorities didn't outright ban the release, but delayed it until after the election (about a week), effectively preventing misuse without imposing censorship.
If the default assumption for consumers should be that it may well be a scam, and there is no practical way for Google to do any better, then maybe it should take the same default.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/17/global-f...
He should go with just naming it "Bold." Not "Bold Edit", just "Bold." Not be all Sean Parker, but that seems obvious to me.
Unfortunately the account no longer exists... but about a decade ago while I was in school, I created a Markov twitter bot trained on:

1. All of Linus Torvalds' mail to LKML for the prior year.

2. All of Jesus' direct quotes from the king james bible.

It was absolutely hilarious. The two training sets had very little overlap, so it was necessary to add a heuristic that weighted options from each set more heavily the longer the chain had been "stuck" in the other set.
It is yes. But a lot of notable people like politicians are on it. Considering the shift in atmosphere I don't understand why left wing politicians still use it but I guess they think they can still reach their voters there. I think they're mistaken but anyway
a lot of efforts to prevent malpractice are like this. Anti-piracy software only really hurts paying customers for example.
https://archive.ph/RPQie
Reliability is fine, performance is, depending on your demands, not. F the coordination server is not up to task of matching throughput of the two servers, and a lot of bytes need to be transferred, then it's noticable. But the tech at large works, depending on the implementation you choose to use. (I'm partial to Tailscale, although that's a different service, it lets me transfer files between computers (with additional SW) without manually mapping a port. They are using DERP for the coordination server.
Listened to the first few mins. Did he say anything controversial in the? The part about Google work-life balance isn't that big a deal. It's no secret that startups grind more.
Unless they are federal police, they have no authority to enforce federal law.
They have evolved together, though, not in isolation from each other.
I can get angry at the drop of a hat, and I may be in the right, but my anger may not be proportionate. So for me, the action is to say sorry and explain what else happened that annoyed me. Also, it pays to fix or accept whatever made me angry.

Character is not purely an internal thing, but rather something that is built through your interactions in your environment, especially with people.

A better character is built by doing things that are challenging.
I'm not an electromagnetic radiation expert, but I know my garage door opener has a useful range of about 10 feet, and my wifi about 30 feet.
I'm surprised Eric Schmidt would do this. A celebrity or someone who doesn't know tech, ok, but this guy? c'mon bro.
I got banned within 24 hours ^-^. Rightfully so, I assume. The Markov chain agent was supposed to send everyone who tweets "I am bored" an event recommendation based on their profile and location. I severely underestimated how many people tweet "I am bored"... Lessons learned, I guess.
And don't forget about the "Star Wars Science: Force Trainer"! (2009 - Uncle Milton" (toy company)
If a normie can sign up for a Twitter account they can sign up for mastodon. It's not difficult.

The problem is more marketing. The commercials have the ability to spend money where mastodon has to rely on enthusiasts' word of mouth. They simply lack the reach to the normie community.
FWIW, a nice comment[1] from forum.nasaspaceflight.com (no affiliation with NASA):

> I'm retired now but did propulsion and systems engineering on the Transfer Orbit Stage (TOS) developed by Orbital Sciences and Lockheed Martin for NASA/MSFC in the 1990's. [...] I'll make a few comments on how/where things might have gone off the rails with the RCS thruster thermal problem.

[1] https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=60593.msg2...
The word "hate" is often hyperbolized in online discourse.
You might be microsleeping

https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/work-hour-training-for-nurses/long....

“The human brain can respond to sleep deprivation by reducing alertness and generating microsleeps – involuntary episodes of sleep lasting a few seconds.

During microsleep, you may appear to be awake (eyes open), but your brain will not process information. Thus, lapses in attention occur.“
"Ace in a space, fool in every other place"
You know about VSCodium, right? No telemetry.
> The world of art was completely transformed by the introduction of photography in the 19th century, because the capturing of lifelike scenes was no longer part of the goal, and we entered an era dominated by the artist’s imagination.

That's a common viewpoint, but it's not quite true, for multiple reasons. A camera is a rather limited tool: it will transform colors, sometimes unpleasantly (value compression, color shifts), and can never quite capture reality as an artist would.

Then, while many paintings look lifelike, they still are absolutely out of reach of a camera. Landscapes in particular (e.g. [0]) are heavily staged: the light is invented, trees and mountains are moved around to fit various æsthetical choices, etc.

Or, consider how Bouguereau's, while life-like from a distance, are much less so from up-close (see [1]): the artist is among others playing with transparency and opacity of the paint to increase the feeling on depth and realism.

Art changed drastically during the 19th century, and photography played a role for sure, but IMO the decline of religion is probably a greater contributor.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Albert_Bierstadt_-_Among_...

[1]: https://www.muddycolors.com/2023/02/bouguereaus-the-oreads-a...
I'm honestly a bit lost for words here. Babies aren't supposed to be mobile in a bassinet -- usually they're swaddled or wrapped up. If they're mobile then they're supposed to be in a crib.

A baby in a sleep sack in an unplugged snoo ("strapped down") is not wholly distinguishable from a baby swaddled in a soft-sided bassinet.

I'm not advocating for actually using it this way, nor for soft-sided bassinets, but... you compared the snoo to a swing. You are not making much sense to me.
Why does a health monitor need to be in constant connection with the internet? If there's a problem, it can just beep at you.

Yes, school shootings are a problem. But why does there need to be 30 cell phones in the classroom? The landline on the teacher's desk can be enough. Or even a button to turn off the jammer.

For wildfire, call the principal who then hits the fire button. We had tornado drills in elementary school. No phones were required, it was a siren mounted on a pole. It worked fine.

Who needs 1000 phones in the school?
Do you have any proof that NASA is making decisions to avoid making republicans look good or is that good old-fashioned biased editorializing?

Please don't lower the value of conversation on HN with tacit politicizing like that, thank you.
Large Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41263143
Cool, high peformance Go HTTP framework
> * So your knowledge of other people is better than their knowledge of themselves? And you get to make choices for them?*

I don’t understand: Neither of your statements follows from mine.

Oh, and sometimes — not always by any means, but sometimes — others do know us better than we know ourselves.
I feel there's something missing in what you describe, and I'm trying to pinpoint what it is...

I can see it working if you have very few developers touching each piece of code, or if you get to exert control over the final application. But I don't see how it can work for large codebases or teams over long periods of time (read: large businesses)... especially not for library development, where your team is only responsible for providing library functionality (like string.indexOf(string) in my example, or matrix multiplication, or regexes, or whatever libraries do) and you don't necessarily even know whom the users are. There is no "system" or "integration" at that point, you're just developing one layer of code there, which is the library -- a piece of code responsible for doing just one thing. How the heck do you make sure arbitrary team members touching code don't end up introducing silly bugs over time, if not with unit tests?

Have you built any commercial libraries in this manner, rather than applications? i.e. where everyone on your team is jointly responsible for your library's development (like the implementation of string.indexOf(string) in my example), and other folks (whether inside or outside the company) are the ones who piece together the libraries to create their final application(s)?
Maybe not everything is just like apps all the time.
Seems like a summary is: "scripts that don't use document.write (the majority) can use this to marginally increase performance". Unless I'm missing something.
> Brynjolfsson: ”I asked Sundar [about Google losing the initiative]. He didn't really give me a very sharp answer.

> Schmidt: Google decided that work life balance and going home early and working from home was more important than winning. The reason startups work is because the people work like hell. I'm sorry to be so blunt, but the fact of the matter is if you go found a company and compete against the other startups — like [we did] in the early days of Google — you're not going to let people work from home and only come in one day a week.”

It’s pretty cack-handed to publicly talk about your successor like that. While the WFH part of this got a lot of press I wonder if the free-wheeling side-swipe at Sundar Pichai had more to do with the cringe backpedaling.

Also, the humblebrag about his medal!… he’s an investor!… he showed Sam Altman his calculations that OpenAI will need lots of electricity!… he’s an investor!… he wrote a report setting national AI policy that was “only about 752 pages long”!… he’s an investor!

Schmidt has done some amazing things and his achievements will eclipse many others but I do wonder if even he feels a bit of the post-FAANG blues where one misses the glory days of ones peak, over performing and telling everyone about it to show you’ve still got it.
Watching Sunsets
They’re less than $1 on AliExpress and $4 on Amazon. Do you really want to spend time optimizing for something cheaper just because you don’t want to waste some MIPS?
I usually try to think about what I’m going to say before I say it. My train of thought for this comment certainly did not start with “I usually”.
Well, unlike in web software, very real people could die if they screw up, and they aren't exactly pressed for time right now, so what's wrong with being careful?
Alcohol Can Harm Those Not Drinking
Agree. I'm no fan of Google but when you are in the business of enforcing what amount to fuzzy (some would say arbitrary) rules you're going to let some crap slip by, and reject some innocent apps. It's these two tails though that will get the headlines.

To be sure, they should be called out for abuses on both sides of the equation, but it's understandable that it's going to happen.
Maybe it’s pervasive because it’s literally the architecture of these models?
> VLC isn't a business

On the surface this is true, but my guess: The core team work as consultants. See "Consulting services" -> https://www.videolan.org/videolan/partners.html

I assume this means you can hire lead devs to fix bugs and add features.
Study: Rocks from Mars' Jezero Crater, which likely predate life on Earth
My first board rev had level shifters too, but they weren’t needed in the end.
SQS does offer long polling, which looks closer to "push" semantics.
The Charming, Eccentric, Blessed Life of Lee Maxwell
> Another heuristic I've used is to ask someone to come up with a solution to a problem. Maybe they say it'll take 4 weeks to implement. Then I say "gun to your head, you have to finish in 24 hours, what do you do?"

Pretend to be capable of doing this, and in the short moment where the other person is not attentive, get the gun and kill him/her. This satisfies the stated criteria:

> The purpose here is to break their frame and their anchoring bias. If you've just said something will take a month, doing it in a day must require a radically different solution.

> The purpose of the thought experiment isn't to generate the real solution.

:-)

---

Lesson learned from this: if you can't solve the problem that the manager asks you for, a solution is to kill the manager (of course you should plan this murder carefully so that you don't become a suspect).

:-) :-) :-)
What was the cause of the fork? An unresolvable internal debate? I am curious to know more about the history.
People also don't understand what it means to actually stay up for a week straight until you do... they think "I've pulled all nighters in college" or something.

You completely lose your mind and start hallucinating. You feel extreme physical and mental pain. You can potentially fall asleep suddenly when it is dangerous to do so. You can get lost or confused in your own home- and be unable to remember the words to communicate simple ideas. You become reactive and easily startled and can become dangerous to people around you. Your entire body and its systems starts to progressively fail on you.
This is so accurate that it really can only be compared to photography.

I'd ask 'why,' but I know the answer already. Much respect to the artist.
Genuine question: what would be the refutation of this opinion, if any?

Out of options like "Google are not actually losing", "Google are losing but not because they chose work life balance", "Google are, indeed, but so be it", etc.
Google around for "hyperrealism", the techniques are well-documented.

You can see in a few pictures the existence of a grid. It was originally used to transfer/scale drawings, but is also used as a substitute for untrained eyes who would struggle to get fair proportion otherwise.

Then the rendering itself relies on pencils that are sharpened quite thinly: the thin lead will be less sensible to the paper grain, and provide a smoother result. If you want more texture, used a duller lead. An even softer texture, use a brush or a stomp.

Generally, you'll want to draw quite big, so as to have enough room to articulate the details.

Finally, the key difficulty, "trick" even, for hyperrealism, and for fine-arts in general, is patience: good results are often produced with plenty of time.
Eh, I used chat-gpt to make up a story (with elements specified by the little). Was quite good for keeping them entertained in the car for the 10 mins mommy was in the store picking up a prescription.

Bedtime stories seems unnecessary. Like there is no shortage of good books out there. Plus, I would feel a sense of loss if I didn’t get to do pirate voices when reading treasure island.

Tutoring … lol. Those kids must be better behaved than mine if they can be trusted to do that sort of thing autonomously.
I first learned programming from a "C++ For Dummies" book my parents bought me. I wasn't familiar enough with the subject to find something reliable online and there were no classes on programming at my school. It ended up being a great starting point for a total novice.
> dependency graph spaghetti

The worst spaghetti comes from hard dependencies on minor versions and revisions.

I will die on the hill that you should only ever specify dependencies on “at least this major-minor (and optionally and rarely revision for a bugfix)” in whatever the syntax is for your preferred language. Excepting of course a known incompatibility with a specific version or range of versions, and/or developers who refuse to get on the semver bandwagon who should collectively be rounded up and yelled at.

In Rust, Cargo makes this super easy: “x.y.z” means “>= x.y.z, < (x+1).0.0”.

It’s fine to ship a generated lock file that locks everything to a fixed, known-good version of all your dependencies. But you should be able to trivially run an update that will bring everything to the latest minor and revision (and alert on newer major versions).
I think you only miss (or at least I noticed this happened to me) a plugin system when you've engaged with the programmable side of your editor and then have to use one that isn't. I dont use/try to stay away from using (neo)vim plugins but I do like to pull out repetitive things into little snippets. I have things to manage my clipboard, pull up manpages in another editor tab when I put my cursor over a command and press a key in terminal mode, and a scattering of other quick useful tools. A lot of it's not reasonable to upstream, so it's a bit frustrating to me personally to use stuff that isn't programmable.

I've also toyed with emacs in the past and think I could like it for this reason, but ironically most other programming editors don't seem to be committed to the user's abilities as a programmer. I don't think it's nearly as easy/accessible/encouraged to program vscode, for instance. Self-documenting programmable programs like vim and emacs are so magical--- I hope they never go out of fashion.
You can screw over a small business with chargebacks, but not like a CC processor is going to drop Google over one, or tens of thousands of chargebacks.
The reason that they want me to create an account is to know more about me. I don't want that.
Geekbench has an AI benchmark now
not OP, but I'm about to graduate (I have some previous experience though) and already tired of this industry, mostly due to the intense competition for juniors. I feel like I'm already burned out.

The problem for me is that the people I like or admire have jobs that seem completely unattainable. I have considered product management, but that's not something you can just get into straight out of school (as far as I'm aware) and it appears to be just as competitive as software.

Musicians, film/TV directors, Youtubers (e.g. Tom Scott), writers, historians, game directors (Masahiro Sakurai is a favorite of mine), indie hackers, indie gamedevs.

In other words: creative, somewhat independent people whose jobs are one in a million.

Unfortunately I don't have any financial safety net to pursue any of these dreams, so I'd appreciate guidance or advice in building a career that pays the bills and is at least somewhat enjoyable to me.
Sort of. They fill the “locked” requirement, but open models aren’t SOTA like gpt or Claud.
The idea that you constantly need to tweak your config files in vim/neovim is a bizarre myth that seems to have sprung up because vim is so flexible that some people love messing about with config. You can just copy something like vim-sensible to give sensible defaults and get going - you absolutely don't have to do a bunch of tinkering. I have used vim and then neovim for 24 years now and most of my config customization I did more than 15 years ago when I decided to add a bunch of extra keybindings.

I very occasionally will add a plugin or tweak something (eg if I want a new snippet or something) but it's really not necessary to have a big complex config and I would say I spend well under 5 minutes per year on config.

I really wanted to like helix but there are a few really fundamental things that are really crucial to most of my workflows that were just missing (eg reflow text) when I tried it.
Go prioritizes simplicity and pragmatism which is much more like OCaml than Haskell.

Haskell is more like a Rust of FP. But Rust is also much more pragmatic than Haskell.
HHS Strengthens Head Start by Requiring Higher Wages for Staff
Until the time comes to try to clean up the site. The plants are sold that you just turn them back to 'an empty lot', The truth is just one site in the UK is forecast by the government to cost GBP124bn 'over the next 120 years'

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nuclear-provision...
> Its UI is asinine

Well, that's not a very nice thing to say. And, it isn't productive to the conversation.

What is it about end-user software with a GUI that seems to trigger such heated, emotional responses on HN? Each time that I read discussions like these, everyone and there uncle pops into the conversation to add the "one thing" they don't like about it. Or "I'll never use it again after that UI bug from 2004." It is exhausting. One thing that I have learned over the years: Never ask a dev their opinion about a UI. Or, if you do, make sure to ignore whatever they say. It is mostly complaining about "hang-nails".
It makes a lot of sense because those proxies disarm the privacy invasion done by twitter. It's not just about its owner. I personally have never used an account even before musk.

It's not about principle. At least not for me, I don't really have principles when dealing with big business anyway. They certainly don't when dealing with me.

I don't just do this with Twitter but with a whole lot of other services too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41287271

I'm not running my own nitter because I don't really care about X enough. Probably use it once a month if not less.
And, oddly, they chose to do their own Scheme implementation for it. Not that I'm against Scheme in particular, but a lot of other people justifiably seem to be. It doesn't have the speed or learn-it-in-10-minutes of Lua (nvim) or the historical excuse of Elisp/Vimscript (emacs/vim) or the ecosystem of Typescript (vscode). Strange choice.
What are the solutions then, out of general curiosity?
I'm actually not following the model's fine-tuned/desired prompt at all. I am operating in purely pattern completion mode. The first text the LLM sees are alternating lines of input and response examples that look like what it will get getting from the IRC client front end written in the tone I want it to respond and giving some information about itself. Then I just tack the IRC chat history+input onto those example chat pre-prompt lines. Nothing but single lines and newlines with newline as a stop token. No instructions, nothing meta or system or the like.

But that's also configurable by users. They can invoke any pre-prompt they want by a command passing a URL with a .txt file.