skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surely HN doesn't require the existence of YC as a startup accelerator to exist, right? HN has to me survived because of its community and shared values wrt discussion. The moderation probably plays a role in it, but that's also easily decoupled from big money.
I was a biological anthropology postdoc for a year or so. My office mate used to refer to the process of turning one decent idea into as many papers as possible as producing LPUs ("Least Publishable Units"). He was joking, but it wasn't a joke.

It was depressing. I dropped out. I have love for academia, but there is a pretty overwhelming amount of gamesmanship in surviving that system. I found becoming a developer a much easier career to navigate.
Moron, Idiot, and Imbecile were coined as precise medical terms by Dr Henry H Goddard in the 1900-10s. Retard(ed) was devised as a euphemism to replace them in the 1960s.

Once an unfashionable euphemism falls out of use, people gradually cease to recognise the offensive meaning which made it unfashionable.
Still has caffeine. Also no zero calorie soda is truly zero cal. They take advantage of labeling laws and serving sizes to be able to put “0 calories” even on gigantic 2 liter bottles.
Server maker sues Elon Musk's X for not paying for hardware
I think the precursor neutron star might be closer.
They are super hostile to users of their OS, and these days are right now.
I burned a couple hours debugging some generated code only to finally realize copilot was referencing a variable as ‘variableO1’.

Artificial Incompetence indeed!
It's the master, the mold, the negative. It's an inverted record.
The open-source CLI is indeed all you need. On Mac, I could just do `brew install typst` to get the compiler, and then run it on a local `*.typ` file. I'm sure there are packages available for most Linux distributions as well by now.
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That’s just like your opinion, man.

Just because you think that doesn’t mean it’s true. The sheer fact that TS has overtaken JS for the majority of web development says enough.
He didn't do it a third time.
It's not just C, but also any object-oriented language.

Basically the most popular imperative paradigms are just ill-suited to making the most of SIMD hardware. They're designed with other goals in mind.
My understanding is that Canadian FAANG offices are staffed mostly with those who cannot (and often will never get) a US visa, plus the odd local who doesn't want to move to the US for personal or family reasons.
One is that the variable is called openFile and not f. I don't know enough python to see something else wrong with that but would love to know too, since I've written such a line just last week.
That makes sense, LLM training data probably has tons of common problems in it, but maybe only a few or no instances of really niche, difficult ones. So it just comes up with a bunch of garbage.

My experience has been similar, it is amazing for stuff I am a beginner at but kinda useless for my actual work. It was invaluable today when I was trying to grasp CA zoning laws, but its almost useless for coding.

This also points to why it will never (imo) be "intelligent". It will never be able to take all its knowledge and use that to solve a problem it doesn't have training data for.
Another value of cost-effective testing is to see if a particular medicine is working or not. Extracellular vesicles have been explored for a while now, and I wonder if the key term here is "low-cost".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extracellular_vesicle
Computer science is much, much more marketable than typical PhDs.
Depends on the distro, Fedora for example works with secureboot enabled.

If you are using Nvidia graphics you have to deal with signing the kernel drivers but it is pretty easy, AMD or Intel works out of the box.
The issue is our government doesn’t function anything like that. We don’t build roads. We write checks to for profit contractors to build our roads. What would government internet look like? A massive check to meta and more or less the same environment we have today.
Using the phrase "draw the short straw" is a little confusing here, because there are 0-n short straws in this scenario. He is describing the probability that there is exactly one short straw (which isn't just 1/n+1 because the straws are not all "present" at once... it's just not a perfect analogy).
OSI was usable as a wide area network before TCP/IP was.
mozilla used to have this smart guy, brendan something, as their cto. but he was chased out of mozilla and created a new browser called brave. it actually does what this current cto claims to be trying to do
You're right that the roles are somewhat flexible: somewhere between raw technical output and technical/design leadership and "program/project management".
Hacker News is a communal content fountain. Lots and lots of websites use the HN rss feed to stock content, and where that content gains traction, it gets propagated elsewhere. Slashdot, Reddit, tons of "news" aggregators, and so on, in a giant graph of relations where HN sits at the center, with the firehose of content getting actually curated and discussed here at the source.

It means your upvotes and downvotes on this site are exponentially more impactful than any site downstream, because anything making it to the front page here will automatically get reposted to hundreds or thousands of other sites.

There is virality, but there are also savvy content producers that know the overall graph of content dissemination, and they certainly utilize that to their benefit.

There are a handful of similar sites and content aggregators that sit in the center like HN that determine what goes viral and what goes stagnant. It's what drew me to HN in the first place, after all the sites I liked were essentially showing me the same thing, and I had to figure out where they were getting their links from.
Has Peter Thiel ever put his thoughts on higher education down in long-form writing? I've seen him speak about it, but I'd be interested in a deep dive.
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> the impacts of our modern warmer, drier climate.

Nit: on average, the world will get wetter as it warms. Warmer air carries more water, so the volume of precipitation each year is likely to increase averaged over the planet.

The issue for many of these areas is that that increased precipitation is not going to be evenly distributed. The trend has been wetter areas getting wetter, drier areas getting drier, and increased warmth causing increased evaporation and less snowpack persistence into summer.
If by Hollywood quality you mean that it's professionally produced to a high standard (of production, of course), than I don't see what's bad about that. I only said I value content quality much more than production quality. Great content produced to a high standard is better than the same content badly produced.

There are some great movies out of Hollywood.
The irony is that "unalive" has its origins in the currently-trending character Deadpool. There was an episode of the 2012 animated series Ultimate Spider-Man in which Spider-Man teams up with Deadpool to take down a criminal. Deadpool then casually discusses his plans to "unalive" the criminal at which point Spider-Man says "Unalive... you mean kill him?!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXknwMx0_BQ&t=3m38s

Deadpool's fourth-wall awareness (which manifests in-universe as mental illness) enabled him to know that he was in an animated cartoon series, but he was applying the standards of animated series from the 1980s and early 1990s, in which death was not discussed and the topic was avoided entirely. Sometimes the baddies spoke of "destroying" or "eliminating" their opponents, but never killing them. Ultimate Spider-Man was a more mature series released in a time when we thought we'd moved beyond such standards-and-practices nitpicking in the name of "protecting the children" but... apparently we have not. New media (YouTube) provoked new moral panics and the cycle repeats...
> “But where are my TYPEs!? How do I know what type that variable is!?”

Someone clearly hasn’t worked in any sort of sizable code base. Come back when you are writing something spanning hundreds of JS files and where it takes you three times the time to verify that any small change isn’t a typo or wrong type off from a runtime error. TS heavily speeds up the development cycle by bringing an entire class of errors from runtime to compile time and that has nothing to do with OO and inheritance.

Simply put, TS is an infinitely better and safer language to develop in and it took the web world by storm for a reason. People didn’t decide to switch en masse for shits and giggles and you should realize that just because you have a different view does not mean that everyone else around you is wrong.

> m$

Seriously? It’s 2024, and we’re all adults. This does nothing but water down your point.
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Because the local organic free-range kenyan pour-over place that serves me coffee in a biodegradable urn along with a kale-based "eco brownie" and some indie hip-hop playing at volume 11 doesn't have a drive-thru, obvs :)
Hack my mind all you want Costco, if it means this? Lol
People who claim that "The Congo" is offensive don't say that because it's not the official name (which it is),

Except it isn't. Not without "The Republic of ..." (or "The Democratic Republic of ..." if we're talking about that other much larger country the phrase usually refers to) in front.
And given that there are two such countries -- there's absolutely no modern use case for "The Congo" as a country name in any case.
As much as I love lisps, and I've written a fair bit of code in Scheme, Racket, and Clojure, I have to admit, when you are an immigrant in another person or organization's code, their specific abstractions, DSLs (macros), etc., can be very (VERY) burdensome to get up to speed on to even begin to start contributing to the codebase (much less debugging complicated issues).

On the other hand, there is a ridiculous amount of power in Lisps. Operating at a higher level of abstraction is like having magical powers. When you go back to programming in Go, you feel like someone chopped off one of your arms or legs.

On the other hand, to be fair to Go, when you are an immigrant in a Go codebase, everything is very easy. Turn this way ... oh I've seen this a thousand times before its an XYZ. Turn that way, oh, I don't even have to read that, I know what that is. Oh what is that ... oh its my greencard to this codebase, I can now fix bugs with confidence.
Maybe a lot of people will think most will use similar strategies like 30 because it’s 10 more than 20 so you would go and say 40 if you actually don’t respect your peers intelligence, but if you do you may want to go around 50
I think next time I’d better make the apologies to Kronecker explicit.
> I wonder how flows like that happen.

These flows are intended to dissuade problem reports, because the business is too big to care.

I once reported a ui bug to Discord(the game chat). This is how it went.

- me wrote an elaborate email and screenshots of the problem with step-by-step guide to reproduce it

- support responded me by asking build version, my os version, device type

- me screenshot all the requested details + manually wrote down in response email so someone can also copy-paste somewhere directly from my email

- support responds by asking me to clear my iphone cache(sending me a guide for Android's App data cleaning process) and see if issue persists

- me respond that it is not Android and since I knew what they will ask, I have uninstalled, reinstalled, logged-out, logged in and documented the whole process by recording my screen while doing it

- support, please try to logout, then uninstall and reinstall again

- me begrudingly do it again(record screen), send them everything

- support, could you try updating your device OS?
- me check for updates, iOS says it is latest, me send screenshots

- support, can you try disconnecting and reconnecting to your network or rebooting your device?

- me follow the steps(by recording my device using another device) and send it back

- support, can you try factory resetting your device

- me get pissed off, I mean c'mon, the issue is that, the client is incorrectly handling the on-screen keyboard events and has nothing to do with my device,
but giveup anyways and write on twitter that I tried to report an ui bug, is there some engineers I can reach out to?

- twitter official DM me and what do you know, it was the same person who was responding to my emails and tells me, if I tried resetting my device to factory default, else they'll close my ticket as not reproducible

I just gave up and uninstalled discord. I mean, sure there are lot of useless problem reports, but when your user goes on to extreme lengths to document an issue and cooperates, please take it seriously.

In most cases, the whole script is intended to deter the less patient consumers/users and not actually solve any problems. In some cases, the support is just an outsourced team with no connect/contact with actual team or the product.
I was only getting 2 weeks vacation
That's eBay's fault, if not their problem.
Metagame it. Instead of ensuring that the largest number of students get credit, ensure that none do for fairness. Bell curve adjustment of grades will nullify the question.
The rationale for async/await I keep hearing is that the separate stack required for each thread uses a lot of memory. I’m not sure going full on function colouring is the answer though. A concerted effort for language runtimes to use less stack space and then simply allocating smaller thread stacks sounds to me like a more elegant solution. It certainly is a whole lot easier to debug than a deeply-nested async/await chain.
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Strange claim, can you explain a little more please.
I never said not to ask questions or to not ask about the product.

I said that people that ask for discounts or generally fixate on the price are, in my and many other’s experience, bad customers.

I’m happy to sit and talk about the service, the features, etc. I’m even happy to discuss pricing if there is a circumstance that merits it like a bulk deal. But a huge red flag is when people focus on price exclusively.
Beware the Moon Remembering an American Werewolf in London [video]
Can confirm based on experience in Vancouver
Love Clojure, but am repulsed by the idea of a “responsive DOM network stream”.

This feels over engineered to me. The classic cool factor influencing the “if we could vs if we should”, bolstered by developing it as a software engineer on a performant dev box with impeccable internet connection; hell, maybe even a local dev db clone.

I suppose you could argue server side caching would alleviate some of the pains of a design like this, but you’re still performing redundant server round trips for the stream when a piece of data goes in and out of view.

Does the tech have any local caching options to make this a little more sane for a worst case an end user?
The fediverse gets all those centralization advantages without being centralized. However there are not (yet!) the quantity of people needed to make it work.
Beyond gene-edited babies: the possible paths for tinkering with human evolution
The internet loves samurai Vader

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=laDBqnU5yH0

Especially because, you know, filmmaking credit where credit is due. (Not that Lucas isn't talented, but Kurosawa should never not be mentioned)
NCAA College Football 2025 game – 11k players designed with AI
How was this done? anybody know what technology EA used?
The world needs codes quantum computers can't break
I don't really know how to point this out without sounding rude and obnoxious, which is not my intention, but it's "per se" (Latin for by itself), not "per say".
They'll get it added to your Disney+ subscription.
I'm not saying the video is wrong. I'm saying that often when you have to consider the message, to understand the message, to put it into perspective you need to understand the messenger. If you have one part of information readily available and another part not, you may register the information as a sort of "conditional" one - you don't "feel" a good understanding of it. For example, if you convey this information to somebody else, can you answer basic questions about that? If not, then maybe you don't have a good understanding. The mentioning in this branch is that who's the messenger could be important to understand the message, and the previous history is what you may rely on.
No good adblocking for safari like in firefox though
While I’d love to see that, it’s known that anything free will be majorly abused for various attacks. Heck, even paid but cheap TLDs like xyz are often completely blocked in corporate networks.
no one said any thing about functional vs oop. Why does every vanilla js "veteran" think types === OOP and the reason we do typescript is for OOP? How about basic things like not even have a module system (before nodejs) for Christ's sake? How about doing functional programing properly, with types?
No, that's not what science tells us is going on. There are no in-person cues that tell someone their behavior is unacceptable or must be controlled:

- Other people watching (no social cost)

- No facial expressions or body language from others triggering mirror neurons that serve as empathy precursors.

- No risk (violence, loss of property, loss of status... etc.)

There are simply too many people that don't consciously monitor their own behavior for right and wrong. Absent those other layers and pressures, we all tend to make unconsciously selfish decisions. That many young people don't think about the morality involved in those behaviors is a failure of upbringing, not nature (IMHO).
The mother of all of these is the word "capitalism". See

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism#Definition

What I'd noticed is that people who want to defend "capitalism" won't accept any reasonable definition of what it is: for instance you might follow many historians who will trace it back to the Dutch East India Company and they'd say, no they were a bunch of statist jerks like Lenin and Stalin. Ultimately they won't accept anything unless it keeps all the good things and loses all the bad things.

The word was coined around the time of Marx and essentially reflects a Marxist viewpoint which posited a split between a large population of "workers" and a smaller population of "capitalists".

Actual advocates of the status quo would rather the system go unnamed because their best defense of the system is Margaret Thatcher's "There is no Alternative" and any naming or description of the system, particularly drawing a circle around it and saying "this is the system" and "this is exterior to the system" helps in the conception of alternatives.

The strength and resilience of the current system is precisely that it doesn't have a single center, instead it is like a Hydra with a tremendous number of heads. This is why "colonialism" and "mercantilism" have been replaced by a

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World-system

Even if the United States was wiped out overnight by a solar flare as happens to the Soviet Union in Larry Niven's story Inconstant Moon it might make less change in the direction of said system because the primary complaint people have over our chief competitor, which claims to be Communist, is that it seems to practice Capitalism better than us.

If your ideology is anti-Marxist, however, you might be tricked into adopting Marxist terminology such as Forbes magazine calling itself a "Capitalist Tool". It's why you don't ever want your ideology to be anti-something.
I love the vibes of this site.
Huh. I had the opposite experience, bought some canned hardware store fuel for my snowblower out of laziness, and it wouldn’t even run. Seemed to be too high octane or something, kept stalling out. Had to drain it completely, put regular gas in and it’s fine.
I studied my rights carefully. The country in question is Switzerland, which isn’t exactly pro-immigration.
Except that it is not, because it is not voicemail.
I would think so! Looks like the author tried some similar approaches.

In the disclaimer section:

> Before creating Isaiah, I tried to "serve lazydocker over websocket" (trying to send keypresses to the lazydocker process, and retrieving the output via Websocket), but didn't succeed, hence the full rewrite.

> I also tried to start Isaiah from the lazydocker codebase and implement a web interface on top of it, but it seemed impractical or simply beyond my skills, hence the full rewrite.
It's not guaranteed, but these big tech companies always give severance with layoffs. At Microsoft I believe it was 1 month pay + 1 week pay per 6 months employed. And that's not including any extra downtime where you're not working but technically employed(maybe, due to 60 day notice required by WARN act, for example)
I largely agree with the comments here, that LLMs struggle with Clojure but Claude does it best at the moment. I also use it mainly for writing individual functions, though it occasionally correctly generates a simple Electric app with my desired functionality (Projects help, along with giving it lots of examples).

The most optimistic outlook I've heard on AI+Clojure is that AI is not magical and still benefits from good abstractions. So hopefully as models get better at reasoning, using something like Electric Clojure will help them write clean, maintainable code.
The article emphasizes the profound impact of relationships and human connections on our happiness, overshadowing the pursuit of material wealth. It's refreshing to see such a positive and heartwarming perspective amidst the usual news cycle. Reminds me of the quality writing service offered by https://domypaper.com/ , highlighting the significance of empathy and understanding in communication. With their help I always write so interesting article like on your bbc website.
We need a Raspberry Pi hardware and community, but for wrist watches.
At the very least, GitHub Copilot will have an easier time with an SDK loaded into context than an API documented only on the web. If the customers are using typescript then they'll have some red squiggles that at least some of these people will bother to read prior to asking for help. The uninformed consumer of OPs API will probably be more comfortable to work with an SDK instead of writing their own clients.

The way I see it is that OP can either complain about customers being annoying, which will happen whether or not OP does anything about his problem, or OP could proactively produce something to make their product better for the demographic they're targeting. At this point it's pretty clear that the users would rather be helped than help themselves, so meeting them where they're at is going to be more productive than trying to educate them on why they suck at both coding and asking for help (or free work).
With a price like that I’m assuming this product has a shelf life. It would make way more sense to ask a dollar a month. In 13 years they will have made more than that $150, and this model also incentivizes them to keep up development for years and years.
people are stupid only you, some javascript coder of all people, knows the secret of programming, spit it out in clear terms instead of making non-argument.
Sure, this is why you won’t be offered a permanent position (say, in France). Too much hassle. Much easier for them to hire you as an unprotected contractor.