skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're curious what this means... years ago, Firefox took forever to hit 3.6, and the decision was made (mirroring Chrome) that releases would switch from "release when everything is done" to "the trains always run on time", where the release would go out at a predetermined time and anything that was ready would make it.

Mozilla also has a habit of simple question-based domains, such as "arewefastyet.com", for tracking progress.
Breathing is something you can either do or not do, yet it's also something that happens automatically, such as during sleep or when you're not paying attention to it.

When done perfectly correctly, consciously breathing nets the same benefits to the body as unconscious or automatic breathing. You don't really have to spend any mental energy on it to get the oxygen you need (your body will even yawn for you if it needs more).

I think there is a way to find the ease and harmony in most things, or, the "automatic modes". You can design your life in such a way that you're essentially doing nothing, but to others you appear to be involved in everything.

I can only imagine what it would be like to stop paddling and see that I am still in motion, to be able to exhale and do nothing.
So far as I can tell his "gaming the algorithm" is having a few short clips near the start to hook people in (ie. an summary/abstract), and periodic bursts of excitement to keep people engaged. The first is so banal that it's hardly worth discussing. Articles in scientific journals have abstracts/summaries. It's not anything nefarious. The rest seems like standard narrative/storytelling advice, eg. hero's journey[1], or how broadcast TV shows have cliffhangers/plot developments to get people to watch the next episode or ad break. Do you think 24[2] is "gaming the algorithm" by presenting 24 action packed episodes where there's always some new/unresolved plot point at the end of each episode?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero's_journey

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24_(TV_series)
I mean, it might not be that - but it could still be a series of smaller decisions from people who could have known better deciding to choose greed and creating/reinforcing a marketplace where the competition likewise needs to choose greed to compete. It doesn't need to be orchestrated by a table of cloaked figures to still be an additive conspiracy where they all knew what they were doing yet did it anyway as incentives aligned. I'm not sure what in the OPs post makes it require some cartoonish villainy, when a decentralized herd of morally bankrupt people can serve just fine and be just as evil in the end!

I do get the reluctance there though to doubt collective conscious evil action. Which is fine - it's usually far more likely it was done in a "market incentives aligning" way, even when they're entirely conscious (still evil) moves. I think those dark board rooms do happen still, but they're subtle, or relegated to just approving preplanned media narrative directions and such. They do make long term concerted plans, and some of those plans can be downright dark - but they also just go with the flow a lot, or plain fuck up on executions with better intentions.

I think the takeaway should be that neither maliciousness nor incompetence is really required to make evil exist - it's an ever-present network effect potential of the [capitalist] system itself, which will trigger due to some mixture of the above regardless. You can't especially blame greedy people for capitalizing on it, nor incompetent people from dropping the ball with it. It's simply a complex system that's probably due for a better design - and/or it's something we need to try and live with (survive through). Though that could all just be my own personal bias as a systems engineer who considers those the start and end point of most discussions.

Glad my point made it across though, thanks for saying that!
I just couldn’t with this, until the very last page. I feel like so many founders write and expect performance like this, and they miss what he said at the very, very end.

So, I’ll give him credit for that.
I use Mac as my personal system and used Linux for many years. Yet all this Mac and Linux experience is part of the reason I didn’t hesitate to have two Windows machines: one for work, one for light gaming. Windows isn’t that bad. I use it the way most folks probably do: just a way to get to the application I need. I don’t notice most of the ads. It works. Its auto-update mechanism is better than the Mac’s.

I don’t love Windows, but as a launching pad for proprietary software made for it, it gets the job done.
These "adult baby videos" are the default content on TikTok.

My paranoid take is that it is a type of hypnotism or mind control yet to be deciphered.

In reality, it is just a cheap way of generating (remixing/stealing) content with TTS voice overs and algorithmic selections of video clips. I would bet there is software tailored for it, but I am not interested enough to find out.
You're spot on; every paragraph is one sentence, except for one paragraph that is two sentences.
Looks fine on my phone.
Log My Work
After college, I struggled to recall my accomplishments during internships when updating my resume and applying for jobs. To solve this, I started a simple Google Doc to track my achievements, but it quickly became cumbersome and I frequently have gone months without entering anything.

So, I built LogMyWork to make tracking and remembering work accomplishments easier. This app lets you log achievements (hopefully) easily, with integrations for Telegram and Slack to streamline adding entries (more integrations to come). It’s designed to help you keep detailed records effortlessly, making resume updates and job applications much smoother.

I’m excited to share it with the Hacker News community. Any feedback or suggestions are welcome!

Cheers :)
I was in Jutland, in Northwest Denmark recently, and the backstory of that place is that a thousand years ago it was covered in thick pine forest. Medieval people cut the trees down for firewood and agriculture, which led to an ecological disaster from erosion that covered entire farms and villages in sand. Hundreds of years later, at the beginning of the 20th century, however, people started replanting forests and have had success in mitigating a lot of the erosion.

Now, knowing that the line between man and other animals is totally arbitrary, we should be fine to retell that story with beavers instead of people, right?

(I won't even get into how I flew there at 1000kph in a giant metal vehicle and carried a universal translator in my pocket, also neither of which were made by beavers.)
Nuance is hard and everyone just wants a quick hit. Especially in these modern days of zero attention span.

I read the blog post and I found it interesting. It's something I will file under "interesting" and over time with many other things informs how I think about the topic of building successful businesses and teams. It's something I've been thinking and doing (more on the teams side, less on the business) for a while. It's not something that you just read a blog about and then go do what that blog post says. This is true of technical topics as well. If life was as easy as just do what this other (successful) guy/company does or thinks (in whatever discipline or on whatever topic) then we'd all be immensely successful at everything. It's true that success and failures should feed into building our intuition of what works and what doesn't but intuition is built over a lot of experiences.
Amazing. I came here to specifically recommend another RV Jones book, the Most Secret War (https://www.amazon.com/Most-Secret-War-R-V-Jones/dp/01410428...). I wasn't aware of his other book, so very much looking forward to reading this.

I first read this book when I was starting out as a Dev some 20 years ago. It made a huge impression and is still relevant. Some things I remember off the top of my head.

- It was the first time I came across Occams Razor. This really helped me understand how to approach debugging issues and generally dealing with problems.

- It discusses the dangers of people who don't understand areas at a technical level being in charge of programs that depend on those technical things. Even more so when they have an inflated ego. Apparently Churchill was very good at seeing through this.

- If I'm remembering correctly, there was a section about a practical joke someone played on their apartment neighbour that involved swapping out their pet tortoise for gradually larger versions. I very recently read a Roald Dahl childrens book to my kid which had this exact story. Now I have no idea if this actually happened as RV Jones wrote, or if it was a well known story at the time that Roald Dahl also adapted.

- The dangers of making assumptions.

I'm sure there are more. It's a worthwhile and highly entertaining read regardless.
> Let's just face the facts, the Scandinavian governments, and the Scandinavian people are just smarter than americans...

Citation needed. Norway has a population of less than the Bay Area, a massive sovereign wealth fund due to oil exports and is about the size of the average state in the US. I drive an EV but the state of charging infrastructure outside of CA is pathetic. I get why Americans don’t want to drive cars they can’t fill up on a roadtrip unless it’s a Tesla.
Nietzsche called it 'Ressentiment'
Been running it for 3 months, very pleased with my all AMD pc.
> You going to the beach with your dog in a big pickup truck, along with a couple hundred million other people, is the same level of non essential as people flying in private jets (of which there are very, very few).

Again, whatever level of nonessential you claim it might be and however you measure that, is irrelevant to what is destroying the environment.

Did you not take anything from the previous comment I made? The fact that your idea of "non-essential" means that poor people starve to death while rich people fly around in private jets to parties and vacations. Do you acknowledge that was wrong, or at least proved that the economic measurement of "essential" that you invented is totally arbitrary? I don't see how you can just keep going on without acknowledging this and addressing it.
> Don’t try to bring my overall point down by attacking one particular aspect of one particular example. What should the snobbery of some of the commentary on HN here render the entire site moot? No. My point stands regardless.

No, you giving two for two garbage suggestions shows how easy it can be for garbage content to masquerade as good. Both on YouTube, in HN comments, and elsewhere.
Desktop and laptop sales have been declining worldwide for years and while laptops have dipped up in 2023 desktops continued their downward trend.

My hunch it’s less that people have suddenly discovered Linux and more that desktop sales have been slipping for a long long time so either it’s shifted to Apple or people stick with just phones and tablets. Thus it’s not necessarily that Linux market share has increased because of increasing numbers vs a dedicated minority sticking with a dying market segment.
I know virtually nothing about Mr Beast other than that he's massively successful due to dumb videos that apparently raise lots of ethical questions.

That's not an endeavor I'd be interested in participating in, but I did find the PDF fascinating and read all of it.

A good bit of his guide is about
1. taking responsibility for delivering what you are expected to
2. keeping the big picture in mind

Plenty of folks could benefit from that advice and the examples he provides to make it more concrete.
You can put a blindfold on and throw lots of darts at the board, sure. I was specifically addressing the idea that economics somehow determines which CO2 producing activity is destroying the world and which isn't. CO2 is CO2.
Access to any of this kind of information at a big tech company is logged and scrutinized like you wouldn't believe. You will be nuked from orbit before you can exfil even a single DL pic. There's a reason you don't hear stories like "Facebook employee stole my drivers license!" -- despite the media salivating for the opportunity.
I drove myself too hard, survived 3 cardiac arrests, no longer interested in sacrificing my health, sleep, food, hobby time, mental health, and time spent with loved ones, and finding it extremely, extremely hard to find exciting opportunities that are compatible with this lifestyle.

I want to work on things I love working on, but 40 hours a week. I want to sleep 8 hours a day, cook 80% of my meals, and spend time in nature exercising. I also want to take 4-6 weeks of vacation a year and learn about other people and cultures. The whole "it doesn't feel like work" thing that every single silicon valley founder who works 100 hours/week parade around is fucking annoying. It's annoying because I used to be egged on to be that person, and I almost died. Stop virtue signalling. (a) You will die early (b) You an ass to your family and you aren't even there for them while you're still alive
Why not use duckdb？ It is a column database, and more situated for log entries (seems to me).
I've enjoyed using Sit, which is similar in spirit:

https://sonnet.io/posts/sit/
AWS is so anti-customer with respect to GPUs right now.

They have the highest prices of any cloud. What happened to “your margin is my opportunity”?

And, as far as I know, customers are unable to allocate a VM with fewer than eight A100, H100, or H200 GPUs. (Please tell me how if I’m wrong.)

So, customers are incentivized to use other cloud products for GPUs in the short term.

They seem to be heavily invested in their own chips in the medium term.
This was going to be the compromise that would allow Chrome to have a path towards deprecating third-party cookies without massively decreasing its ad revenue, but they've walked away even from that: https://privacysandbox.com/news/privacy-sandbox-update/

> Instead of deprecating third-party cookies, we would introduce a new experience in Chrome that lets people make an informed choice that applies across their web browsing, and they’d be able to adjust that choice at any time. We're discussing this new path with regulators, and will engage with the industry as we roll this out... We'll continue to make the Privacy Sandbox APIs available and invest in them to further improve privacy and utility.

Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41038586

There are numerous ways that the Topics API could leak sensitive information (say, for instance, increased values for a set of topics statistically related to life events with legal/health consequences) - I'm glad that opposition is being highlighted.

Apple's opposition comments are also worth reviewing: https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/111
>What happens if one of the big tech companies makes a mistake and closes your account?

If you have a friend who is an employee of the BigCo you can sometimes get results.

Otherwise your choices are: get frontpage of HN, or cope.
This was one of the worst articles on the topic I’ve ever read. Full of faulty assumptions, ill-defined terms, and just flat out misleading statistics. Numerators without denominator. The list goes on.
Also Taco Bell, which was absent here in Australia for many years, due to a long-running legal battle[1] with local chain Taco Bill. The first Taco Bell only opened in inner Sydney about 3 years ago (after decades of failed attempts).

[1] https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/taco-bell-and-taco...
The economic benefits of working illegally while the process drags on for a year or two.
It did not work for me either, in chrome.

The follow link work though:
https://svpow.com/2024/09/07/
Yes, correction of a detail is good and not a problem. But using that to mock the central point is a popular strategy in discourse.

In the disagreement hierarchy(https://paulgraham.com/disagree.html) this is level 4 or 5, but pretending to be level 6. Like using a bug to say that the software lacks basic value.
It sounds like what you are doing is plain text accounting!

> Later we loaded it into a script which would...

I too do not manually enter things in the ledger file (well, rarely). I actually enter it into KMyMoney, and have a script to convert to a ledger file.

Overall, your comment is coming across as a fairly weird complaint. It's a tool, and given that its in text, you're free to build whatever workflow you wish around it - including having people take notes on their iPhone and using a script to convert to the ledger format.
I always thought he wants to go to Mars and all the SpaceX company is a trick to collect enough money to pay his trip.
What on earth makes you think people working in porn and porn adjacent industries behave "in a professional context" on LinkedIn, when nobody else seems to?
This was the video https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1DUdMi27qWg

The anecdote about Chopin be Schumann was pertinent especially if you were already familiar with the accounts that Schumann injured his hands

This may also be of interest

https://youtu.be/Ffx1D1uSCfE?si=i3-GhEICj2hAjwcf
Even a small car can easily carry 4 people and a LOT of groceries. A LOT.
The Russians blew Grozny to bits but the issue is they started fighting militia with mostly small arms, then they ended up with a bunch of dead civilians plus a bunch of dead militia plus a bunch of surviving militia who now has... their own artillery pulled from the rubble.

In the end deploying the artillery in Grozny and elsewhere during the first Chechen war was a pyrrhic victory that ended in years of Chechen independence.

Then there's the alternative as my compatriots saw in the YPG -- small arms bought them enough time to ally with the USA.
Thanks to Valve and Steam, it is a viable option and apparently a pretty good one at that
HP is a global meme at this point, why did they get an HP “printer” in the first place? It’s okay to ignore fine print, but one must live under a rock to buy anything from them today. Could get a proper printer for that $98.72.
I suggest use some other tool for data entry, and as long as you can figure out its internal format, write a script to output to ledger. That's what I do with KMyMoney.
There's positive thoughtfulness, critical thoughtfulness, and knee-jerk reactions of both kind as well.

At least personally I appreciate both kinds of thoughtful comments, and it's what's keeping me coming back here. Equating valid criticism with "negativity" on the other hand honestly seems pretty toxic/cultish to me.
0-60 in under 5 seconds is impressive, but I think the question on most of our minds is how fast it can hit 88.
Lightweight Window Manager (Lwm)
BSD vs. System V death star poster
I'm sure there are management lessons to be learnt from the Mafia ;) There are other tech companies the skirt things like regulatory and other borders.

I'm not a fan of Mr. Beast but it's quite a phenomena and human nature being something universal I'm sure there are some interesting nuggets from how that business is run.

I also don't get or watch reality shows from more traditional media.
> its auto-update mechanism is better than the Mac’s.

Wow, what can a Mac auto-update do that is worse than Windows blocking your screen for 10 minutes during a Powerpoint presentation because the OS is «updating itself». (The only auto-update I know to be worse than Windows is Telsa's, bricking your car in the middle of the road for 45 minutes if you missclick on the touchscreen in traffic)
> If I had to submit one tip it would be to set everything up with a Makefile or similar.

If I had to submit a tip on top of yours, it's to use justfiles instead of Makefiles :-)

https://github.com/casey/just
Is anyone seriously denying the success?

What's definitely a valid target of criticism are the methods, though.
This is pretty cool. Actually a lot of mid range phones don't have esim compatibility and it's extremely annoying to need to buy a physical sim.

The cost for these seems pretty high though.
In almost every instance, I love when function is prioritized over form. This seems like a landmark implementation of that philosophy. Brava!
Of course there is a reason. It is part of the act and the meta-culture.

I'm not saying I like Mr Beast or this document, but it seems extremely obvious to me that this document is the way it is very intentionally.

The specific sentence offers relatability and a (perceived) degree of honesty. Stating the obvious isn't always bad — it often builds empathy and connections.

In my opinion, he is not at all trying to shield himself from criticism, he is building a connection with the reader.

We are not machines.
I think about 1988 I paid $1200 (with a student loan) for my student-discount Mac Plus when they were going for at least $2000 otherwise.

Smartest purchase I made.
True. But if you have a DMC, VW camper van, classic Jaguar E-Type or even a classic Ferrari, it is a death trap. You have not got a NCAP five star rating.

I would want a 'skateboard' that can take forged carbon fibre body shell, a replaceable one, that really does have a Power Wheels aesthetic of fun to it, with women and children able to like the colour and not care for the exact accuracy.

With an immaculately restored DMC you are going to get elderly male anoraks that will 'helpfully' point out that, for your indicator lights, you have 1983 anodised bolts holding them on instead of the period correct painted 1982 variants.

Much like how Power Wheels don't like to pay royalties and do some designs that 'look familiar', I would be happy for this market to go that way, with half a dozen companies making faux DMCs body kits to choose from.
Do school buses even have seatbelts?
I see it, and it shows up as installable, at https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin/cjpal...
Looks like the upward trend shows that it is not in fact “game over”.

Steam making sure than the vast majority of games run fine on Linux at the first try is much more impactful than WSL in the grand scheme of things.
I do hate the direction Windows is going. That said as someone who also uses Linux / macOS I just use group policy to disable all of this and do not notice any of it, even across major version updates.
Maybe! I can't think of many times I've read something I wrote the night before, literally cringed, and thought "what the fuck". I'm enjoying it! I recommend everyone find a way to have this experience. You have to do it in good faith though or it doesn't work.

What you're saying about Apple and AirBNB sounds plausible? I know next to nothing about ABNB's culture and operation. I know a fair bit about Apple's, and reductionist takes about Apple bug me. But like, if you're saying something concrete about Apple you're doing better than the post we're commenting on!

"Vectors along which we recapitulate our existing beliefs". Yeesh.
being redirected to submit a link...
> Ignoring the ethics [...]

I think that's very straightforwardly the point of contention here. Some people are doing that and are discussing the business aspects; others aren't.

I don't think any particular discussion is more appropriate than the other, as long as people are in agreement on which one they're having.
bash.. the developer's and the player's experience can't be that different.
If I order something from Amazon, I use it. If I get junk mail I throw it directly in the trash. They are not the same.
Yes, exactly. Every decentralized service eventually backend dominated by a small number of service access providers who are actually willing to deal with hardware.
and the reddit post is behind a login wall, ha ha. The enshittification continues.