skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a very nice project, to start with. Thank you very much for that!

I checked Paris and most of the people I see are either CEOs or VC (or something around that). I was expecting this demographics in the US, probably less in France.

I am a pure nerd, interested in technology applied to everyday items (think Home Assistant, some amateur 3D printing) but also history and all these discussions about random topics that many perceive as a waste of time.

OP: would you consider adding interests (say, the top 5) to help with matchmaking?

EDIT: woah, I just realized it is there!! Thanks!!
"more natural" is a good reason any time since otherwise you get to perpetuate these bad conventions for all the future generations to suffer.
No I'm not saying they must work the same way. I'm saying it's evidence there is a more efficient way as they both solve the same problem and one is more efficient (in truth both are more efficient in different areas).
At an abstract level they can be doing the same thing. What does a simulator do?

Think a little further yes, currently it's a brand new model each time but why will it be this way forever? Its an engineering problem one that we can solve and the brain is evidence it can be done.

Neural networks were originally inspired by the brain. Yes, they've deviated but there's absolutely no reason they can't take further inspiration.
"Fall in love with the problem and not the solution", Uri Levine (founder of Waze and Moovit)
Those aren't flying cars. Flying cars can drive on the ground. On wheels. Hence the name.
But nobody follows the actual guide so it doesn't really matter.
Agile/Scrum and all forms of project management is a scam you should work in layers serving layer above, have wbs and tasks assigned out of it in your layer, justifying urgency by impact on business/users, reward people who accept and close most tasks by appreciation and break. And fire anyone who misbehaves.
A lab invents a way to store petabytes of data for thousands of years in glass every few years.
I'm very much on the side of the hackers in this argument, but honestly, why is a hacker turned businessman seen as a bad thing? Most people on this forum and in this community are trying to do the same thing.
San Francisco isn't a purpose-built lab, it's a real city that grew organically over centuries, like every other city. So if it works only in San Francisco now, it means it's 99% to working everywhere else on the planet.
Scored a 6 or a 7, depending on the answer to one question that I'm not sure of. I think more likely 7 than 6.

This pretty obviously impacted my happiness when I lived with an abusive parent and I have some physical issues that could possibly be related to starving so much as a kid and some others that fall out of not getting basic dental care, but I don't think it's obvious that my background is a dominant factor in how happy or satisfied I am. I find it plausible that my resilience in certain situations is lower than it otherwise would be due to my background, but it's not clear that it's even lower than average in those situations. And, overall, I was probably happier and more satisfied with my life than most people starting a couple years after moving out on my own until a few years ago.

Maybe the version of me that wasn't abused so much as a kid would've been even happier or maybe that version would still have above average life satisfaction today, but maybe not.
How many years need to pass until HN stops with the "what would Steve Jobs do"-mentality, where it's entirely unclear how he would operate in the current environment and where Apple would've been with him still being in charge (if he still were in charge - he would've turned 70 next year). It's been 13 years. I think most assessments are merely projection by now.
Private passenger vehicles is under 10% of global CO2 emissions. Electricity and heating is about 4x. Manufacturing and construction 2x, farming 2x, freight 1x. Repurposed light commercial vehicles would be a tiny fraction of those numbers. I suspect they are not what's killing the planet.
"Hallucination" is derogatory and insulting when aimed at normal people who hear normal voices which don't necessarily belong to corporeal beings, or originate in the natural world. Labeling "hallucinations" and pathologizing, then medicating them, constitutes assault and bigotry.

"Hallucination" applied to inanimate and non-sentient software is insulting and presumptive on a different level. I'm fine with "confabulation".
I don't see anything in there about efficacy. Did it actually work to combat obesity?
This breaks my heart a bit. My first browser extension Cacheout was around 2005. Back in the days of sites getting hugged to death from Slashdot. The extension gave right context menu options to try loading a cached version of the dead site. Tried Google cache first, then an another cdn caching service I can't remember, and finally waybackmachine. Extension even got included in a cd packaged with MacWorld magazine at one point.

This has always been one of Google's best features. Really sad they killed it.
Absolutely golden.

Paul Graham et al. are spewing out these godawful, borderline fucking idiotic ideas and he giggles as all the emptyheaded fucking idiots copy it, try to interpret it and gospel it like some fucking world changing mantra. Wake the fuck up naive plus stupid mudabitches, those who have the brains often feed shit to you, so you won't succeed.

Really, people are like pigeons. Walking around and picking up all kinds of debris, thinking that it will change their business or it has some groundbreaking idea enclosed within. Why? Because people are STUPID, utterly stupid, brainless monkeys.

He said that the sky is not blue, but green. He is an established person with high net wealth, he must be right. So let's say the sky is green. Fake it till you make it, suuuuuure.

Read books so you could hone your bullshit filter.
It can be very useful at the start of a project to synchronize everyone but the over use of it can clearly be a problem.
What’s the use case for running a 32bit binary in a 64bit cpu/os? Is there any advantage? Or is it simply to avoid having to recompile twice to support two architectures?
It may be better to start with understanding why on earth the it’s so expensive to get educated in the USA, while in other countries it’s much cheaper, even when unsubsidized
But of course it can be changed, you can make it configurable even if you decide the default should continue be this silly mistake "for compatibility"
It seems like just a templated link in a hidden corner.

"The Wayback Machine has not archived that URL."

A large part of the usefulness of the cache links came from the inherent freshness and completeness of the Google indexing.
I do not know how zip codes work in the US, but in France this is very, very specific to the city you live in. There is no concept of "area".

The first 2 digits of the zip code are an area, but a large one.
That's a nitpick on the order of "LLMs are a dead end because they can't reconsider their output before writing it". Duh, run it in a loop. Duh, attach wheels to the "scaled up drone flying cars". If that's the standard, then every plane in existence meets it.
I would also add to this.

Aligning your personal goals with your company's mission can be a game-changer in achieving both professional success and personal fulfillment. When your values and objectives resonate with those of your employer, every project becomes more meaningful, and motivation naturally increases.

Your personal goals become much easier to achieve, and you have more fun achieving the company goals because they're also helping you.
I wich

while it's not quite as bad for us 30min are the norm and it spilling to 40 min not rare and that is with us trying to cut it short

but too many other things are conflicting with short dailies, mainly sure to company structure/size
You said you have to babysit each line of code, I mean this is simply untrue, if it works there's no need to babysit, the only reason you'd need to babysit every single line is if you're looking for perfection or it's something very obscure or unheard of.

Your example is perhaps valid, but there are other examples where it does work as I mentioned. I think it may be imprecise prompting, too general or with too little logic structure. It's not like Google search, the more detail and more technical you speak the better, assume it's a very precise expert. Its intelligence is very general so it needs precision to avoid confusing subject matter. A well structured logic to your request also helps as it's reasoning isn't the greatest.

Good prompting and verifying output is often still faster than manually typing it all.
My point is that if you take a snippet designed to be terse in bash, it’s an unfair advantage to bash. There are dozens of countless examples in python which will show the opposite

> And you couldn't read the command pipeline I put together?

It took me multiple goes, but the equivalent in python I can understand in one go.

> Put the thing you want to do in a function, execute it on a line, if the sub-shell returns a failure status, execute it again. It isn't like bash does not have if-statements or while-loops.

But when you do that, it all of a sudden looks a lot more like the python code
> But when people just create problems for themselves out of a thin air and insist on keeping these problems as pets

People aren’t creating these problems for themselves, society is. Think of it this way, you might have decided that you want to focus your carriers on Rust, but your workplace has put you on a task that requires C++, and you can whine and complain all you want, but that’s the requirement. Then you dig in, get the job done post a smart solution you made to make work on HN, and the first post is a Rust programmer calling you out for choosing C++ and making life difficult for yourself.

And sure, you could just quit your job, but that’s a high consequence move. So to act like you chose this all on your own in a vacuum is just insulting.
I am not sure previous epochs and generations ever had to face this kind of active throttling of creativity and problem solving capacity. Maybe they did and its just that the context and feeling of despair is lost to us due to distance.

But in any case due to the cumulative nature of both knowledge and our own aggravating problems with sustainability, the impact of this socioeconomic malfunction is probably the gravest its ever been.

There are very few hints we can escape the stranglehold (as in, effective organizational forms or governance that are immune to this regressive cancer).
>You can make triangles small enough that you can't tell the difference, and define them mathematically in terms of curves..?

This doesn't work if you already have a mesh. You need to generate your triangles on demand from the BREP data.

Alternatively you need to use tesselation, but then you need to design your models with tesselation in mind, such as people do in blender.

>Isn't this how any rendering will ultimately work? The primitive is triangles.

Uhm no. 3D printing and CAM do not work with triangles. The slicer and CAM software generate tool paths in gcode.

Importing STEP files into OrcaSlicer/BambuSlicer gives me better quality results and better print speeds than using STL files.

I have personally never understood the love for STL files in the 3D printing community for anything that isn't the result of a blender export. Like, is it really that fun to constantly export different versions of STL files set to different quality levels? Rescaling a print in the slicer is not recommended with STL. You have to re-export the model from blender where the tesselation happens.
There are at least a couple of examples in the article that you refuse to read that describe hybrids from different families. Sorry, but your purported basic knowledge is wrong.
vim-pencil and goyo are great options for (n)vim users.

https://github.com/preservim/vim-pencil

https://github.com/junegunn/goyo.vim
Consequently we also shouldn't use intelligence or thinking when dealing with AI
> When something breaks, having only 1 or 3 changes makes it really easy to figure out why. Recovering after a big release with 40 PRs in it is absolutely painful.

This is, by far, the most important reason to practice continuous deployment. I've been part of enough of these fire fighting sessions following big releases to see that it's not a sustainable way to deploy software. And yet, I've never been able to convince any boss I've ever had to adopt CD because they're worried it'll introduce more regressions into production.
The whole issue around the removed package and the pedantic totally out of touch discussion around it started by Peters really shows how difficult it is dealing with certain types of people.

I don’t fault the PSF here, the rule changes were overwhelming accepted. It doesn’t mean you ignore or shut down the dissenting opinion but there’s a point you need to draw a line with it.

There are people and we all know a couple, who will just argue asinine points to the point that you realise it’s all just a game to them. They are a type of troll who pick and pick to avoid “getting the point”. I’ve seen it happen all the way back to the Usenet days.

It’s a shame to lose people with the technical knowledge and experience, but sometimes they are just too disruptive and refuse to acknowledge it.
Waterfall might have been a straw man but SADT and other structured design principles put an unbelievable amount of dependency on diagrammatic and black box formalised boundaries of flow. All done up front.

People mocked things and prototyped things but I sat beside people who worked for 2 years or more on wall sized collections of ring binders of requirements specifications and flow charts, to end in acrimonious lawsuits.

I do kind of hate agile language. It's smug. But I love rapid prototypes and sprints.
Scrum/Agile is basically an answer for things that went wrong in the past. Building software has a long history of delays, running over time, running out of budgets, etc. As a stakeholder/customer, you need certainties up front: how long is it going to take, what is it going to cost? And if you think this isn't reasonable, just consider, would you hire a contractor to work on your house that can't tell you up front cost and duration?

Anybody doing work needs to be able to estimate duration, progress, risk of delays, etc. Other people's work depends on your deadlines. Go/no go of a project depends on cost and duration.

Insight and tracking is required. None of this was done any better before agile.
There are just as many young blowhards.

A lot of "tech" is mature now. People whine "where's the innovation" in phones, for example. At this point, WTF do you want them to do? Where's the "innovation" in spreadsheets or word processors?

It IS kinda boring. And it's not going to get better when it's a bunch of recycled pablum shat out by "AI."
The reply was "But if we didn't have sprints, how could we possibly measure the team's productivity and individual productivity?"

"Do you really need to measure that, or perhaps something else is more important?"
> unfair to label Jobs along the line of all the other MBA spreadsheet CEO's

I suggest you read the post again. It's not against MBAs as such, its against blowhard "heroes" that go around trying to proxy what Jobs did by copying him being an utter prick, rather than a domain expert.

Jobs was successful despite him being a prick. He was fired for not doing what he was supposed to do, and over stepping his mark.

NeXT Inc. burnt a boat load of cash, and were destined for obscurity had they not been bought by apple.

I personally don't like Zuckerberg, but hes not an altman. Altman has virtually no redeeming qualities apart from being able to make PG think he's jesus.

Zuckerberg has many fucking faults, but he is much much closer to Woz than Jobs. Thats probably part of the reason why he's so hated. Because he's either incapable or unwilling to worry about the public persona.

Altman is in the same class as Adam Neumann, ie a mystery cult with great funding, that happens to be a tech CEO.
Because they have to be stupid. Otherwise the "AUTHORITY" will come knocking. You are too smart, tone back, you have to look like stupid... per the invisible/unspoken rules.

World is fucked. And those who create these invisible rules must be carpet nuclear bombed out of this world.
React is steposhi level soft.
work 4 days not 5 as money allows

Then work 3 days not 4 as money allows

Then work 2 days not 3 as money allows

….

Then retire
Just wait till you see these in action. Driverless is here
I honestly don’t think we need more amateurs performing healthcare services for fun and profit, but I also think that barriers to self-care should be nearly nonexistent while encouraging an abundance of caution. Not sure how to best accommodate those somewhat disparate goals.
Could be many reason I guess (after all, there's only 5.5 million Finns around), but the map is a bit pointless IMHO because it only counts university and research lab projects. Most recent languages I'm aware of (and which are actually useful in the real world) had been started by individuals in their spare time.
"yippee look how edgy i am in saying the word fuck alot"

-written by some dude probably working a b2b saas product somewhere
>don't ask them if they want it or not

After reading the book my understanding was to not even ask this question. See if they have already tried to solve the problem by looking for another app or going to excruciating lengths to solve it another way. If yes, then they will probably buy your product.
And those"Lean Startup - million copies sold" pivot gurus.
Cool, I didn't see this tool before. I have tried most open source load testing tools out there, as part of writing a couple of review articles on them (https://grafana.com/blog/2020/03/03/open-source-load-testing...) and my gut reaction is this one looks like a Golang alternative to Wrk (https://github.com/wg/wrk) in that its main feature is speed. I'd bet Wrk still blows it out of the water though - in my testing, no other tool got anywhere close to Wrk's level of performance. Still, if you need scale and want to hammer a single URL with a very large number of requests/second and prefer a Go application (Wrk is written in C) it may be a good alternative.
Taking you seriously: I’m pretty sure NK has non-oceanic interconnects with both China and Russia. So unless your plan involves attacking within the internationally recognized borders of either and living with the consequences, the answer is “not easy.”
> > Real top-tiers programmers actually don’t feel threatened by LLMs.

> They should, because LLMs are coming for them also, just maybe 2-3 years later than for programmers that aren't "real top-tier".

Not worrying about that because if they've gotten to that point (note: top tier programmers also need domain knowledge) then we're all dead a few years later.
This is some creative (and cringe) marketing for a calendar app.

To summarize in a sentence;
Basically build something that people want, make it accessible and don't burn out on useless cargo-culting
That reads like 99% cities are like San Francisco.

The world unfortunately is lot more diverse than that.
> Like the way people claim Steve Jobs had a "reality distortion field", as if the term "charisma" wasn't coined for good reason a billion years ago...

Charisma is active - as in, the charismatic leader talks you into believing their bullshit. Reality distortion field is passive - as in, you hang out too much around the leader, or people hanging out around the leader, and you end up believing their bullshit.
search “cache:https:// gizmodo(.)com/google-has-officially-killed-cache-links-1851220408” on Google.. the cache is still around, just the links are gone. also this article is from February
AT&T's Hobbit Microprocessor (2023)
I'd rather work for a leader with a strong product vision. Their job is to know where we are going. How we get there is what I'm being paid for.
Are you saying you’d prefer to sit next to some rando’s kid?
Living in Las Vegas, a Leaf was the perfect daily driver. The whole valley isn't big enough to ever go beyond the range in a single day no matter how many errands or kid soccer games. Plus you could remotely turn on the A/C which is a game changer in the desert. We also had a Land Rover Discovery (LR3) for when we wanted to drive to LA or Utah or whatever else.
A key element is that Norway has some of the highest taxes on cars in the world, and one of highest VAT/sales tax rates, which created a very politically palatable opportunity for very significant tax breaks, with a perfect confluence of overlap between those who wanted an environmentally friendly policy, and those who wanted less tax.
> If you are hiring “professional fakers” that means you are a poor manager.
> Tech has become all Jobs and no Woz.

If the expectation for your average Woz is to handle seasoned bullshitters, how can you expect them to also be hackers?

It's true that VCs and an ossified economy contribute more to the blandness of new companies, but ignoring the problems with the hiring market leaves you with half a picture. I'm not blaming employees for doing what's best for them, but it feels naive and unempathetic to put the blame of aligning incentives to founders, when the problems are systemic.
I mean you can even have a shittier product as long as you nail your acquisition channel (seo, social media, mailing etc)
Easier said then done, which is weird because you would think everyone is on board with optimizing for happiness?
Great read!

Design it exactly Twice. If you cant afford that design it once. Twice will also not be enough. Attempt to approach a local maximum because all design has competing values. Design for yourself, or someone you like more, or at least someone with a lot of money.

Dont fall in love with your first design and spend days weeks years developing it before getting feedback, or comparing it to the second design you never made. Also make sure the committee all gets a say and all their feedback is in the new design, to approach the global maximum design that eats all other designs.

Be sure to ship a design, but also a good one, that's better than the other one. On budget. With good taste.
Go read the whole riddle, add the rest of it and you'll see it's contrived, hence it's a riddle even for humans. The model in it's thinking (which you can read) places undue influence on certain anomalous factors. In practice, a person would say this way more eloquently than the riddle.
Anders Hjelsberg and Bjarne Stroustrup are both Danish, who together account for what feels like 90% of all popular programming languages ;)
Unfortunately researchers can't fork the universe with a different set of defaults for this rigorous study you appear
Most of the time I'm impressed when a business acts humane. If your business does that, consider yourself novel.
Another famous De Havilland aircraft, the Beaver:

https://youtu.be/4wQjAB-jnI8

With commentary by Harrison Ford.

Sounds like this plane wasn't De Havilland to start with, they just bought the rights to build them.
One man’s wilderness