skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What did you think was well written about it?

I think it was well written because you could clearly hear his voice through the writing and empathize with his internal struggle with being in a position of authority while also feeling unqualified for the job.

> Did it provide any useful or unique insights?

As someone who has been very frustrated in the past by my perception of the inefficiency of communicating "up and over" instead of talking laterally to an engineer on another team, I thought he succinctly communicated why it's often necessary and helped me understand the value of that practice.

> The writing itself seemed terrible and riddled with spelling errors.

Orthography is only one aspect what makes writing good or bad. And a relatively less relevant one IMO.
There are lot of comments here disliking MrBeast and what not, but some of the advice can definitely apply to all organizations.

> Your goal here is to make the best YOUTUBE videos possible. That’s the number one goal of this production company. It’s not to make the best produced videos. Not to make the funniest videos. Not to make the best looking videos. Not the highest quality videos.. It’s to make the best YOUTUBE videos possible.

Replace "youtube videos" with whatever the company is trying to achieve. I see it all the time in large organizations, where different teams forget what the goal of the company is and instead get hyperfocused on their teams KPI's to the detriment of the company as a whole.

Lawyers finding problems and trying to stop things from happening instead of finding solutions. Security blocking things and not suggesting alternatives. IT blocking this or that instead of trying solve problems, etc.
my former therapist thinks you should work until you die. but he is a good example of why you shouldn't (grandaddy needs naptime while his patients are sharing their traumas)
The scope of “success” under examination in this guide is tailored for an artificial economic organism that wants to survive and capitalize in a particular competitive marketplace (YouTube).

It is almost certainly not generalizable advice for achieving “success” in the cooperative game of life on earth.
> But, what's the alternative?

Personally, I find YouTube to be unusable if you think of it as channel-based. What I do is keep a list of topics and perform a search based on the topics.

That pulls in some set of videos, of which maybe about 20-50% are exactly what I want. If the search yields no great results, it's usually because I've gotten the search wrong or the topic isn't well covered on YouTube yet.

With the kids, I don't talk about watching "YouTube", I talk about watching "learning videos" and if they want to watch a learning video, I ask them to tell me what they want to learn before we turn the screens on.

Usually it's building something, like "I want to learn how to build a doll house" or "I want to learn how to make a shark sculpture

Channels are push content, this is more of a pull approach.
I can’t wait for this buzzkill to state that Warhammer 40K is “anti-future.”
UN Office for Outer Space Affairs - Outer Space Treaty
I read "The Archers" as a kid, and really liked it, but it was the only one I had access to. I recall it was a pretty straightforward adventure, set somewhere around northern Europe in the 10th century, without any sci-fi elements... Now I'll need to revisit it and find the others. I've got a young son who would also be interested, so perhaps that's something we can do together. Thanks, man.
The future of software? Imagine a bot, stamping on a human face – forever
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>> The dirty secret of renewables is that they are currently directly linked to natural gas peaker plants. This was obvious a decade ago, and still is just as true. My portfolio shows I was completely correct in this prediction.

It is true that peaker plants have grown alongside renewables. And that combination has reduced CO2 emissions, which was the whole point. And mostly it isn't peaker plants but more conventioanl CCGT's.

>> Chemical storage at these tens to hundreds of megawatt scale is currently a pipe dream. Current deployments are measured in single digit hours of storage.

There is over 80GW of battery storage capacity in the pipeline for the UK alone. And GW scale schemes are already active and being built. And whilst most schemes are still small (in MW and MWh terms) the grid is perfectly well designed to handle that.

>> Interconnections only work so long until you run out of other people’s coal or nuclear power sources.

And particularly renewables where there is excess generation in geographically distant places.

>> I suppose you could redesign your facility to operate the emergency diesel backup generation on a regular basis but that’s even worse.

Or just connect to a grid with a healthy mix of renewables, storage, interconnection, and yes nuclear. It is not an all or nothing question.

>> Why go after the highest hanging fruit when so much low hanging fruit currently exists?

Grid scale generation and usage is the low hanging fruit. That is why companies focus on it so much! A solar farm with 80k panels is cheaper to develop than 20k rooftop installations. A large operator like Google can make a significant difference on their own.
Without a lot of the project reports, the manager would honestly just have no idea what's going on. I recently moved into management, and one of the challenges I'm trying to balance is how to be aware of my team's progress without wasting their time or being a bottleneck for them. It's a legitimate problem which is often tackled poorly.
What do Iridium flares look like?
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Quite well, thank you! Coming up on nine years without hacks, and apparently quantum-resistant.

The next release of Nano (the original and best imo*) manages spam to the point where fee-less sub-second transactions can be maintained even while under a directed spam attack.

If you want to learn more there's plenty of documentation:

Overview: https://docs.nano.org/what-is-nano/overview/

More technical docs: https://docs.nano.org/#

* - I love how it was distributed, and the team are extremely focused on making it work at a "commercial grade" as opposed to working up hype.
He has annual revenues in the hundreds of millions of dollars. "lol"
Amen.

I have had so many issues with orders from Amazon recently that they told me I’m on a watch list for returns and could have my account terminated.

I’ve been a customer for about 20 years with this account.

I’ll be shopping at other retailers now.
To the best of my knowledge, they only have a single web dev. That's Jason, who is also a founder. Other Sandy, also a founder, who runs operations, a bit of help from their son when he's back from college, and an ML dev, the whole team is mathematicians who are working on content.

As a customer who spent a good amount of time on the app a couple of years ago, I don't think a mobile app would be very helpful. The website is perfectly usable from an iPad, but you should have a pen and scratchpad available while working through the exercises. On an iPad, the notes app works fine for this, but a phone just isn't the right form factor IMO.

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IMO, Brilliant isn't even in the same category as Math Academy when it comes to depth and Duolingo just may be the worst learning app ever created despite the fact that it's been a great business. I used to run a language school and later worked at a language learning startup and was active in communities of language learners. While I've met many people who have used Duolingo for hours a day for a year or even multiple years, I've never met a single person who's gotten to even a B2 level through Duolingo. If you really want to learn a language, get LingQ and either read stories in it or listen to the audio versions of them at the bus stop. That will get you a lot more input / minute.
The insight here is that you need to emit two signals that has equal probability, even if those two signals are rare in the full distribution. In the full distribution, you’re allowed to add any other kinds of signals that aren’t those two.

You then throw out all signals that are not those two signals, and the conditional distribution will renormalise itself to give you a fair coin toss.

You pay for this by throwing out many bits that are not these two signals. The less fair the coin, the more coin flips you throw away.

In the trivial case of a fair coin, you throw away nothing and keep every coin toss. In a biased coin, you throw away any pairs of HH or TT.

Independence is a major assumption underlying any of these models.
This optional field issue seems to have been fixed in 3.15 [0], and seems documented [1].

[0]: https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/tag/v3....

[1]: https://protobuf.dev/programming-guides/proto3/#field-labels
They really need a family plan. A $100/month family plan would be easy to justify as "it's for the kids". It'd be more effective if parents did it with their kids and it would let the parents use it without having to commit to "getting their money's worth". Once you get over $200/month, that starts to be more expensive than other kid's activities.
A multi-platform (Flutter) application for reading your emails
Wouldn't the query for your example just be

data.filter(d => d.friends.includes("John")).map(d => ({name: d.name+" "+d.lastName}))

Maybe I'm missing the bigger picture, but that doesn't seem so bad
I think we agree, but it nags me that I still can't follow your line of thought.

Do you want to:

- Compare just the timestamp, so

1970-01-01 00:00 0x01
1970-01-01 00:00 0x00
1970-01-01 00:00 0x01
1970-01-01 00:01 0x01
1970-01-01 00:01 0x00
1970-01-01 00:01 0x01

could be a valid ordering, with the first three and last three in
arbitrary ordering, because the checksum doesn't play a role.

- Compare timestamp and checksum, in the sense of ordering all files
with the same checksum by timestamp, like this

1970-01-01 00:00 0x00
1970-01-01 00:01 0x00
1970-01-01 00:02 0x00
1970-01-01 00:00 0x01
1970-01-01 00:01 0x01
1970-01-01 00:02 0x01

- Compare timestamp and checksum, in the sense that files with the same
timestamp are ordered by checksum, in effect grouping equal checksum
files together under their respective date.

1970-01-01 00:00 0x00
1970-01-01 00:00 0x01
1970-01-01 00:00 0x02
1970-01-01 00:01 0x01
1970-01-01 00:01 0x02
1970-01-01 00:01 0x02
1970-01-01 00:01 0x03

In the first case you could just compare the first 64-bit, so I don't
think that's it.
The second case would be an advantage for little-endian, so it doesn't
support your argument.
Third case supports the argument for BE, but is an unusual thing to want.

In other words:
Is the checksum crucial for your line of argumentation, or could you
make your point with just a timestamp?
If not, why not compare just 64-bit.
If yes, I don't follow why BE is better in this case.
The dude in the cubicle next to mine used to use sound effects extensively, but he died a mysterious death a while ago...
In a logical world, affirmitive action efforts would be redirected to people with ACE score >= 4, regardless of ethnicity or race.
Reminds me a little of Trillian[0]. Could it be used to build a distributed certificate transparency log?

[0]https://github.com/google/trillian
Towards Inserting 1B Rows in SQLite Under a Minute (2021)
i am telling claude to give me not the obvious answer. that put thinking time up and the quality of answers is better. hope it helps.
Honestly, "magic is ambient nanotech that's poorly understood and difficult to invoke" is a rather tired trope, because it's an instantly obvious approach one can take. Doesn't stop people from re-using it over and over, take e.g. "The Lord of the Ice Garden" by Grzędowicz: this twist is so obvious that all the build-up feels kinda insulting to the reader's intelligence.
That's precisely what happened, knowing the public key of an address is commonplace (as long as the address has done at least one tx) and doesn't compromise the security of its private key
It's actually somewhat of a reality in some image processing code, and some people feel really passionate about whether the topleft corner pixel is located at (0.5,0.5) or (0,0).
Mastering JavaScript Event Loop and Concurrency: A Comprehensive Guide
"I'm damn good at it. I just cut our phone system expenses by $300k/yr, and I'm in a project to cut our EMR expense by 70% over the next 9 months."

Tell me you work in PE without telling me you work in PE.
So nobody will be able to recover them if you are hit by a bus or develop dementia?

This problem is harder if you want to pass on your crypto after you can't use them anymore.
Thats a cool idea. Could the LLM find the right location for the audio stream by simply having the context of the buffer, and the location of the text and audio cursor when the intersction starts?
Yeah, they are not, but still, afaik when I have 0.1 or 0.01 in some variable and pass it around the system it doesn't suddenly change to 0.10000000000012 (or whatever), but the problem arises in case you want to make arithmetic with it, like 0.1 + 0.2 !== 0.3, which you do not do in this library, you just pass "calculated" value how much to send where and you are done.

Partially Im just playing the devils advocate here, I know that you have to use Decimals for working with prices etc., (maybe they did not use it because it will be pretty fat dependency), but still imho it's not needed.
>It's possible confuse other drivers without technically making a mistake

Yeah I experience that in my own truck (a 2022 dodge ram provided by and for work) has this awful delay in acceleration. It’s almost like it needs to “spin up” before there’s power to move, and it’s generally slow when it comes to moving up gears.

This results in people misjudging my vehicular body language, thinking that I’m waiting/indecisive when I’m not. So by the time I’ve started moving from a stop, the other guy got convinced I was letting them go first and is also moving.

Activating “Tow Haul” mode every time I start up seems to mostly, but not entirely mitigates the lethargy.

Also the wheelbase is too damn long, which makes reasonable turns in parking lots into curbs scraping or 3-7 point affairs to get out of.

I‘ve driven boats with better handling than this stupid vehicle.
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> Like, the part about making your co-workers feel like they're bottlenecking you; can't imagine working in an environment where everyone tries that number on everyone else. It's extremely adversarial. Is that really standard management advice? Maybe on Wall Street?

I think you're misunderstanding that part. The goal isn't to accuse the coworker. The goal is to explain to the coworker that what they need to do for the project is important to the point where any delays is going to cause a delay for the entire project. This isn't intended to be a negative statement; many projects do rely heavily on certain members getting things in by a particular timeline, and if that isn't communicated and followed up on, projects will fail. The dudebro speech in the document lacks tact, but the underlying principal is sound. The excerpt:

> DO NOT just go to them and say “I need creative, let me know when it’s done” and “I need a thumbnail, let me know when it’s done”. This is what most people do and it’s one of the reasons why we fail so much. I want you to look them in the eyes and tell them they are the bottleneck and take it a step further and explain why they are the bottleneck so you both are on the same page. “Tyler, you are my bottleneck. I have 45 days to make this video happen and I can not begin to work on it until I know what the contents of the video is. I need you to confirm you understand this is important and we need to set a date on when the creative will be done.” Now this person who also has tons of shit going on is aware of how important this discussion is and you guys can prio it accordingly. Now let’s say Tyler and you agree it will be done in 5 days. YOU DON’T GET TO SET A REMINDER FOR 5 DAYS AND NOT TALK TO HIM FOR 5 DAYS! Every single day you must check in on Tyler and make sure he is still on track to hit the target date. I want less excuses in this company. Take ownership and don’t give your project a chance to fail. Dumping your bottleneck on someone and then just walking away until it’s done is lazy and it gives room for error and I want you to have a mindset that God himself couldn’t stop you from making this video on time. Check. In. Daily. Leave. No. Room. For. Error.
Aside from learning how to use it, is there any value for Netbox in a home lab?
g1 is not a model, it's a prompt, so not sure what you would be comparing. Claude vs Claude w/ g1 promp?
Therapy is definitely the way to go here. They're professional unpackers. Plus I've never heard someone say they regretted starting therapy. I've heard a lot of people say they regretted quitting or waiting to start.
Marvel can produce so much stuff because they overwork and underpay employees like VFX artists and writers. Then those movies/shows don't do so well, so they lower the budget of the next one, and it devolves into what it is now.
This tom7 video might also make you happy then: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y65FRxE7uMc
"Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use." - Hemingway
Thanks for bringing this up chuzz - we're actually only using base amounts for the money representation for amounts here. (no $2.3232321), only (amount: 232)

See the https://dinerojs.com/ package to see how money is handled (tldr it's a combination of currency and amount which helps us get to the root #)
Cast-text: A zero-latency, full-text article reader for the terminal
My argument is that they don't do the additional work, resulting in their energy efficiency deficit.

As pixels per inch and screen size increases, the cost of doing unnecessary rendering work becomes more noticeable.
TLDR: Struggling due to suicide attempt

Due to neglect, I grew up with facial and foot deformities. I often hid my illnesses for fear of angering my parents. Things improved a bit after they left and I began living with other relatives. One summer however my parents asked me to visit them in a new country but would not allow me to return afterward. For a year or so, they refused to take me to the dentist until a caries destroyed most of the crown of my tooth. I could not bite on that side for almost a decade afterward. They constantly made fun of my body due to my congential conditions and tried to isolate me from other people by telling me that doctors are evil, that I was disgusting and causing those conditions myself. They often pressured me into acting as their accomplice in breaking the law or exploiting others. If their dealings did not work out, they would blame me for being useless (book smart as opposed to street smart), that had it not been for me they would not have been stuck in poverty.

At my school, many teachers believed that smart people were "selling out the country and good for nothing". They harassed me for doing well in class, tried to fail my midterms by misgrading them, accused immigrants like me of "stealing jobs" from local students, tried to steer me away from applying to colleges. Bullies would beat students up, myself included, right in front of the adults because no one around cared. My parents were not willing to be involved with the authorities due to their fake immigration status but still wanted to pretend that moving to the new country was a "correct" decision. They sided with the teachers in saying that I would not be able to handle "real" academic workload and that intelligence is useless or even a liability. They said that as an ugly, defective person I should get used to abuses, because life was never going to be better.

To say the least, I hated almost everything then. Eventually I attempted to take my own life and have been struggling with the medical consequences ever since. I could work only odd jobs, although most of the times now I am no longer suicidal, so at least that's an improvement.

The linked ACE test is from 2015 and probably outdated.
*Admitted to a top-5 university globally with scholarship, many signs on the spectrum
disappointed i had to scroll so far down to find the org mode reference. The text straight looks like an org mode doc too.

emacs org mode tables can even have formulas embedded in it and do rotations and automatic recalculation.

https://orgmode.org/manual/Advanced-features.html
There is an entire ACOUP post [1] on what feudalism actually means, and it is a _lot_ more complex than "land in exchange of military glory for your overlord". Actually the "overlord" is surprisingly weak wrt. our current assumptions about the powers a "monarch" should have.

[1]: https://acoup.blog/2024/07/12/fireside-friday-july-12-2024/
Small nitpick. In both chains the attack happened.

But in one chain the whole community decided to disown the attacker by injecting hard coded transactions that would send the Ethers back to their original owners.
I think a good argument for Conan being an American frontier series could be made. Especially Beyond the Black River which is about settlers fighting off natives.
This is such a defeatist and simplistic answer. Climate warming models show big differences between 2 and 4 degrees Celcius. I know the planet is eventually going to be extinguished, but we are nowhere near that point and just giving up seems like a very bad idea for our children...
Apart from anything else there will be a lot of text about the nature of LLMs and their inherent limitations in its training set. It might only need to be made salient the fact that it is one in order to produce the required effect.
It's just campaign rules for Chainmail, their medieval weapon combat rules invented for the already existing Elastolin and Starlux figures. It was a system for wargamers much more interested in the weapon speed of pole arms rather than accurate political and social structure. They needed a world of treasure and magic to fuel the adventures, so a setting of accumulated Appendix N source material was pieced together into an entirely new setting.
Terminals have supported a bell since terminals existed. The moment I hit tab on an interactive shell and it bleeps, I make sure it never does that again or my SO can't sleep.
Your comment reminded me of the old content vs process Steve Jobs commentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4dCJJFuMsE

But I agree, it's so tempting to get internally focused, or focused on "improvement" that really shifts the focus to something else entirely (hollywood style movies, tv shows, whatever).

Personally I'm no fan of the youtube-ism and youtube generally, but it's clear that game is it's own game. It's not making a movie, it's not a TV show, it's not even tiktok. It's its own thing and it is pretty clear that generally you have to play that platform's game.

My kids play a lot of roblox, and while there's a lot of copy cat games based on traditional gaming, there's almost a system on roblox as far as what games are popular as far as ease of jumping in goes and so on. And there's a lot of weird creativity you find nowhere else as far as the topics of the games (want to be a bug? you can do that). That's it's own space too.
Popular on HN: https://acoup.blog/tag/lord-of-the-rings/
You have to remember that in the "natural world" (whatever that means), trees are damaged all the time by browsing animals, falling limbs of older trees, intense weather, falling rocks, etc. They and their ancestors have evolved under variations on those conditions for millions of years, and as such a lack of those things in a controlled garden or suburban environment is an unnatural way of growth.

Our (imperfect) knowledge and judgement can allow us to, rather than provide an environment totally lacking those natural events, wisely prune trees in ways which help them grow stronger than they otherwise would. Although you may intuitively feel a certain way, feelings are sometimes wrong.