skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are great benefits for sure, but one of the reasons I left is a totally ineffective and wasteful management structure that makes it extremely hard to actually do anything. It is very hard to feel like your work means anything at a company of that size, since the chances of having the goals of your work changed (or being laid off) at a moments notice makes it hard to stay motivated.

If I take another software gig it will certainly be at a small company where my daily work contributes directly to the company’s central goals.
VLC makes video choppy on my low-end Debian machine. MPV plays them perfectly.
I guess most people wouldn't know about the amount of backdoors that are on Chinese android phones
You disliked my idle thought so much that you needed to reply twice? :)

The various factors causing strong lock-in effects, their dominance, and the insanely high pricing of moving data out of AWS - I wouldn't be surprised if they got their antitrust moment within a few years.
I told the interviewer I didn’t have time to prioritize their interview.
If you want to look it up on Wikipedia, the relevant page is "Why is there anything at all?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_is_there_anything_at_all%3...
Well yes, what you say has some basis in truth.

Blockchain's early applications have been derailed by greed and stupid applications like meme coins and rug-pulls. Instead of leveraging the power of smart contract factories using the Factory Pattern, teams started releasing one-off contracts, and others gambling with them. This led to zero-sum games at best, and negative-sum at worse (for contracts with bugs or rugpulls). Compare something like UniSwap (which is a factory) to a random contract based on "SafeMoon" or "EverRise". The UniSwap pools all have the same trusted, audited, battle-tested code. It's the kind of stuff I am a fan of.

I've written about it here: https://community.intercoin.app/t/intercoin-smart-contract-s...

Going further, many COMPLETELY NON-BLOCKCHAIN enterprises, like FTX and Celsius, ruined the good name of Web3 even further, which is around Smart Contracts. Think of it like the Web2 tech bros and VCs trying to make a buck around Web3. YC-funded companies like OpenSea have been better actors, but many wallets etc. ended up using them and gateways like Infura as the source of truth, almost obviating the need for Web3.

Having said all that... I've been discussing this more on the applications and UX level. Users always have the power to switch away to a fork of something, and migrate away from an ecosystem. But a good ecosystem can "earn" its lock-in by giving them stuff they want. That's what happened with all the centralized Web2 platforms undergoing "enshittification" due to the profit motive.

So yeah, capitalism and greed have derailed a lot of Web3, but in a different way than Web2. It's why I built https://intercoin.org/applications . Look at https://intercoin.org/deck.pdf for what Web3 COULD be like. We call it Web5 to get away from the morass which is Web3.

Now, back in 2018 when I started it, I was planning to build a post-blockchain network, and I still do. It's going to be called Intercloud (a portmanteau of two words like BlockChain). But besides blockchain, there are HashGraph, IOTA DAG and others.

So yes, blockchains have a head start mostly due to the profit motive. Same with centralized Web2 social networks. You don't see HN being against those very much, but they are vehemently against Web3. I consider Web2 to have been completely ruined by megalomaniacal tech bros and VCs out for profit, and society at large has been harmed by it. Here is the diagnosis and the solution:

https://www.laweekly.com/restoring-healthy-communities/

(Over the last decade, I have spent the majority of my own resources, without VC, building an alternative open system. I've been sort of marvelling at how actively some HN users are against it, and often knee-jerk trying to downvote it because it contains words like "decentralization" and it can interoperate with Web3... but I am confident that once it goes mainstream, suddenly some people will look back on all my posts and finally get it).
That blows up pretty quickly though? Even a 10 minute video will take in the worst case ~20 seconds to decode at that rate.

Not really an excuse not to have it (since most video wont be encoded in such an insane way), but the developers owe no obligation to users to implement it.
Show HN: Grug Notes, a simple take on text notes
Hey hacker news, I've worked on a note/wiki app nights and weekends for almost two years. While still missing some essentials and polish, I'm happy with the progress and some of my use cases: personal CRM, work notes, and a place to write/record funny things my kid says.

I bought into the hype a few years ago with linking apps but quickly grew tired of spinners and steep learning curves, so I started over with a text box and my HTML skills from twenty years ago. Then Chatgpt came out, giving me the tools to add a bit of magic and dig into my stance on simplicity even more.

I'd love to get a few more people testing. HN may not be the target user, but it's the best crowd for feedback.

Grug Notes is an effort I've been able to fit in after my kid goes to sleep. As someone who is not always on a computer for my work, I became disillusioned with Roam Research, Coda, and Notion. I have no ambition to build a big company, but a cash-flowing saas sounds nice.

Building this has been a source of flow and optimism when the rest of my life has been chaos. My entire career and current business is building carbon fiber outrigger canoes, but competing against good products made in China is nearly impossible. I've tried for 17 years. I may try for 17 more. But it's also very realistic that without some diversification into aerospace or tech, my days as a small business owner in manufacturing may be numbered. My last three years have not gone as planned personally and professionally, and the reality is that I've used programming as some form of escapism. I've enjoyed it and will keep working on Grug Notes indefinitely, but with my daughter starting pre-school next week and my regular business needing my attention, I'm at an inflection point. It's probably time I push to move beyond seven paying customers so I'm not paying server bills out of pocket. :)

Anyway, I'd love for anyone to take a look, and I am happy to answer any questions about Grug Notes or canoes!
A factor of six is a very long way off, pretty much universally.
where do you keep your pictures today?

with the take all pictures and don't store much stuff philosophy, i felt you're the right person to ask for advice on this.
Quite familiar with the fossil record (at least as well as we know it now).

The great oxidation (probably the single most apocalyptic biosphere wide event yeah?) nuked ~ 80% of the biosphere, far from all. It was the modern day equivalent of if a simple life form evolved to (energetically favorable) emit sulphuric acid and cyanide.

And no known life at the time had things like hydroponics, nuclear reactors, bunkers (or concrete), chemistry, nuclear weapons, gene editing tech, etc.

We’ve also had events that pushed atmospheric Co2 to > 3000 ppm, atmospheric oxygen to 35% (above current levels of 20-22%), massive asteroid strikes, etc.

The whole world is running on copium right now, which is why none of the issues being brought up are being addressed.

When people are no longer able to ignore it, it will change and rapidly. Probably involving over correction and create a whole slew of new (and different problems), as is the norm.

As you note, we have the means. And it isn’t technically difficult. It’s just not as fun/easy/pleasant/cheap as the current behavior.
I know my degree required a technical writing class. I've rarely had the chance to use it. But my org is dysfunctional and documentation is considered to be garbage compared to speed.
this is really good work, any chance of an anchored index ?
so I can search for what i want and maybe even pin the things that I have common issues with?
> Using 4 or more dictionary words provides excellent password security

I would not call 44-48 bits "excellent". It works if there's a good password hash being used, but if someone left PBKDF on basic settings then a GPU might be able to do 50 million guesses per second, or for a plain old salted hash 50 billion guesses per second.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10563156

Can you reconcile this with the comment I just replied to?
Mojo is interesting, because I get to keep all my existing Python code and libraries for free. Then when I need to speed things up I can use Mojo syntax.
Much of O’Keeffe’s work relates to gender in a way that was counter to the zeitgeist of the contemporaneous southwest. Johnson more or less embodied a nascent Delta blues, defining it on wax, then died. It was too early in the codification for there be something to transcend. His career was like 9 months long. McCarthy I don’t know, can’t read because I don’t like the violence.

Nonetheless your final point is far more vapid because the frontier is where civilization is created and destroyed. It is where norms, values and modes of production of some civilization are placed with decreasing amounts of their domestic support, and usually in increasing conflict with a different civilization, so that it becomes clear what aspects have some more fundamental truth or at least robustness, and what is simply town and gown, responding to the ever shifting attentions of easily bored patrons.
A counterpoint on focused ultrasound for essential tremor - just because you don’t penetrate the brain with a physical object doesn’t mean you don’t have side effects - as usual, benefits come with risks

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaneurology/fullarticle/2...
I suppose we have to assume that it wasn't Brin's idea to launch the Chrome browser 3 years later.
Anki is very much... an expert's tool? I think there's quite a lot of opportunity (not necessarily monetarily :)) for SRS software with a good UX.

Anki's data model is rather strange, which partly relates to its flexibility but has some unexpected downsides and trap-doors.
I would love a slightly more opinionated SRS tool! (Maybe with a bit more UI polish, rather than rewriting the backend in Rust)
How so? Could you elaborate?

Just to be clear, this is in no way intended as an endorsement of rioting.
The MPV of images for linux is IMV: https://sr.ht/~exec64/imv/
> But excuses about not being possible for absolutely every possible codec in a completely generic way is just denying that the world is just a chaotic and dirty place where things are not ideal nor perfect.

It's also not consistently applied. VLC will happily let you jump around in the videos, so his claim that the only way to do it is to play the video as fast as possible from the start of the video just doesn't jive with what is already there.
> This sounds like an erronious error, ie the error message displayed is not the correct error message. There was definitely an error but the error was not that you tried the same password as your current.

What exactly is this based on?

I know I've seen that listed as a requirement (well, actually can't be one of the last 3) on some systems that have annoying password requirements.
Thanks! Will the segments with formulas ever turn into Latex which one could copy and paste?
The New Testament supersedes the Old. The examples you list are from the Old Testament. At least the first one about eating pork is. I don't recall any OT commandments about the other two.
I do this but for something I think is even more critical: Toilet paper! (Running fully out is much worse.)

The "last" roll of last resort is cheap 1-ply, and it serves as an unavoidable reminder to restock and replace it.
I agree, other than the part where he worked at a steel mill. But that was only 5 months.

Glass clearly had a can-do attitude that not many of us possess.

And yes, supporting a family on a single income these days is difficult (I do it), and you wouldn't be doing random plumbing jobs any more!
You can't avoid randomness and entropy, it's just something that's needed in too many places. For test repeatability though, whatever seeds a test run uses should be saved in order to repeat that test exactly.

Best of both worlds: you get to cover weird bugs that only show up when stuff is in a certain order, and you can repeat the tests exactly.
Also, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41278499
So no country have freedom of speech? Because in the U.S a person can't say that they will kill someone... Pretty sure that's a crime, right?
Absolutely not. He is piggy-backing on the landmark work by other groups; he just re-applied it to the eye organ. The doxycyclin-based approach which this kind of studies are using can't be translated for clinical application in humans and in general partial reprogramming carries the risk of teratomas. So contrary to that tweet, it won't be ready for the clinic for years, decades, maybe never.
Reading this healed me of my need to work at Google or a megacorp. Cool story, cool journey! Good luck in your next step
mplayer has DVD menu support, mpv doesn't. I use Kodi if I need to navigate DVD menus these days, which is rare but it happens...
I used to have migraines and eventually had one with aura. Turns out I just needed glasses. Having an out-of-date eyeglass prescription can probably cause the same problem.

(Posting in case this helps anyone)
Do you use Twitter often and see it for yourself?
I've been running Pairdrop - https://pairdrop.net/ on my home network and it works great to let my wife out visitors easily share files off phones or laptops when you need a GUI.
But who has the guts to call out the emperor has no clothes. No one corrected the covid mortality numbers or even gave any kind of estimate other than the officials numbers out of ccp.
That's right, but that's because every judicial decision can go to Supreme Court. A random person got arrested because it stole a chicken? You can appeal up to Supreme Court.

Btw, there's "assistant judges" to help each of the 11 Justices here. The Justice is able to pick 3 of his choice.
9 years is a long time just for money tho. Too much money focused on that attitude
To be clear, in the context of this article, the alternative to drilling multiplication until you've memorized it is to space out the learning over a period of time. It's probably good to study for the test, because next week we're learning PEMDAS, so you better be solid on your multiplication.
Reverse usually works significantly worse, at least with common video codecs that work on key frames and intraframes. Depending on your work flow, codecs that don't operate on keyframes/intraframes will actually provide mpv the capability of playing backwards at full speed (eg: rawvideo, ffv1, magicyuv...).
Oof. I knew it was going to happen, but people thinking boq/pod are good rather than actually killing the company makes me pretty sad.
> The question that needs to be answer is how far democracy is willing to go outside of democratic bounds to preserve itself.

To answer this question you first have to define what democracy is.

A decent definition is probably something like, a system of government in which policy is decided by having a public debate in which anyone can participate and then, after everyone has had a chance to say their piece, policy is chosen through voting.

From this you immediately run into potential problems. For example, suppose the majority is quite fond of the current leadership and wants to put them in power forever and stop holding elections. Is that democratic? It's the policy people are voting for. And yet, it would be the end of democracy, so the answer has to be no.

From this we discern that in order to have a democracy, there have to be certain things the government is never allowed to do, even if they're what the majority wants. You can't cancel elections, censor the opposition, throw people in jail without due process, etc. These types of things are inherently undemocratic, regardless of what the majority wants, because if the government does them you no longer have a democracy.

It should go without saying that the government can never do these things to "save democracy" because they are the very things that destroy it.
Tinygrad fits all of tqdm (~7000 lines of Python) into 26 lines
Let's debate AGI: Can a Turing machine simulate the human brain?
In the US, there is also a "pay a person" scheme, where you only need to know someone's phone number or email to send them money.
I default on ewa_lanczossharp; it does pretty well at upscaling normal SD video to modern resolutions.

I also often use oversample, for video game footage and whatnot where I want all the pixels to be not blurry.
Microsoft and IBM used to have a similar extremely talented teams. IBM ran research centers full of the world's top Ph.D. The innovation that happened at those places easily rivals Google's.

It's a similar trajectory is what people are saying. When Google was small and everyone wanted to work there they could take their pick of the top talent. When you run a huge company you inevitably end up with something around the average. I.e. all those huge companies that pay similar wages and do similar work basically end up having similar talent +/- and within that there are likely some great people and some less than great people.
vim or Neovim --> If you are a programmer and not already in love with emacs
Indeed, I see no reason why taking the address of a literal couldn’t be added though, that’s a cheap win.
This has nothing to do with knowledge of customers but really just a lack of caring.
The point is that you should check for null, then be able to represent the variable as something that can't be null.

That way once you've checked it's not null (somewhere you're not forced to panic ideally), you can pass around the pointer & be confident you don't need to ever check it again.
the pay is great
That doesn't sound too unusual. I'm more impressed that they made L6 in 9 years. I've known Googlers 10+ years forever stuck in L5. The easiest way to promo at these companies is to leave and come back at a higher level.
> The way this worked in many places is that workers formed political parties.

Given the current political system(s) in the US, this is practically impossible at the federal level; difficult at the state level; somewhat more possible at the city level (eg New York City's Working Families Party). Third parties exist but generally have almost no influence.
lol this brings back memories. Spent 5 years working in BBV in high school and college, my first day on the job was when they installed dvd shelves in the middle of the store, was there when we removed all VHS, was there when Netflix streaming began and when we launched our own streaming service. Good times.
Since this post is about SRE…

Slight OT: what do people recommended for simple server & db monitoring (for a small saas business)?

monit, nagios, victoria metrics, etc?
And how would you implement one, if not with soft-delete?
Me: wow what a cool cutting edge AI project idea.

Article: yeah just dusting off an old toy I used as a kid

HN: $various relevant stories from 10+ years ago

Me: need to leave cave

Cool project

Looks like autocorrect has turned the learned gentlemans perceptrons into perceptions.
Note that this is across many locations:

>The Observer gathered the information by filing freedom of information requests to 12 ambulance services. While the information related to more than 30 Amazon sites, ambulance services did not record complete data for a significant number of the sites in question, meaning the figures are likely to be an underestimate.
I started in basic IT, worked into SRE, and once I had established an understanding of it, immediately did whatever I could to transition into full time SWE. I went in hoping it would be cool coding to automate infrastructure, but it felt mostly like being tier 4 support.

I miss working in software that also utilizes my skills in infrastructure, but I do not miss the constant escalations, terrible on-call schedules, and only about 20% of my time being spent on the rewarding parts of the job.
Funny enough, many organizations will actually punish questions due to optics, noise, or RTFM (which fair enough do read it, but also don't presume the asker didn't just because you understand what you wrote. Being written down doesn't mean it's understandable by a new reader, or that it's optimally setup for discovery)
Violence is not speech. Is punching a person in the face as having a conversation with him?
If you look back in time it seems pretty accurate for the vast majority of humans.
I'd almost say high concept books pair better with blue collar work. I'm mentally exhausted after a day of meetings or programming, but if I'm doing manual labor I end up physically exhausted, not mentally exhausted
Love the scripting system. I spend 100% my time to write scripts for mpv and vim and 0% for actual work.
Both are good enough and it might not be worth spending time imagining you are optimizing. Good luck.
If using KDE, I recommend Haruna as a frontend. Really easy to use!
that team is probably telling a story how someone convinced management to ditch their best in class product which would conquer market share, with a lame cookie cutter version that didn't even validate jwt tokens or something at launch and now they're one of the bottom also-run in the market.
I've heard this several times - "Go would be great if only they added <my-favourite-feature>"...

Go's philosophy is that a coherent, curated feature set is as valid an approach to language design as the C++/Python/... approach of adding every possible language feature.

In particular I doubt Go will ever add null-safety - given the above philosophy, the language's pervasive use of "zero values", and its strong commitment to backwards compatibility.
[2019] should be added to the title
Mastering Geo-OSINT: Integrating Social Media with Geo-OSINT
Form Energy to Build World’s Largest Battery Energy Storage System in Maine
Not to mention using custodial services for cryptocurrencies defeats the entire purpose.
No, it was a fair point, just over-optimistic in regard to absolute truth. We can't be certain that anybody believes, knows, or has even heard of, any true things. However, we're pretty good at collecting together a widely-believed set of ideas where none of those ideas conflict with any of the others so far, at least not in most people's conscious awareness apart from in the minds of a few stray dissidents who may turn out to be brilliant or wackjobs. Once in a while a popular idea is shown to conflict with the rest and we have to revise our sketchy collection of tentative theories, to keep them all in apparent agreement and hence looking true. That's rational.

Sometimes, as in physics, bashing them all into line is beyond anyone's ability, for now.
Another path to avoid is working "W2" for a BigCo via a contractor. You don't get any of the security or compensation, and you may not even get the benefit of the name for your resume.
I like the idea but I don't like the scoring. There's only two possibilities, so simply making a large number of guesses within the time limit is going to get you a high score. I want to see the ratio of correct to incorrect.
Well it sounds like glass was charismatic enough to get people to take a chance on him
Just a few hours ago a pretty well-known site was telling me my password was wrong. The same one I'd copy pasted and logged in with for years from my password manager, including as recently as within the past 24h. I tried their app and it logged me in just fine. This wasn't the first time I'd had such issues with the site. Why do these happen? No idea, they must just hate me.
Which platform? Supposedly the issue ("feature") is specific to the iOS version?