skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not saying the root of all criticism is jealousy. Obviously there's legitimate utilitarian value judgements to be made on any particular human activity.

However, I would argue that on this particular forum, in 2024, there's a lot of people pretending they are making "highly rational" value assessments which are in fact emotional upvote blankets. It feels like a vibe shift over the last 10 years from a community of optimistic entrepreneurial types to a community of, as another commenter eloquently put it, Nietzschean "Last Men."
Yeah, apple brought mfi hearing aids support to Mac OS recently.

It is possible to relay audio via a smartphone, I've done this in the past. The main problem is latency. Fine for music, crap for videos.

I also potentially want to use Pico-ASHA for teams calls at work, instead of trying to fit a headset over hearing aids. USB audio means no custom software.

At the end of the day, this is a stop-gap until LE Audio becomes common.
Flatpak is winning and will ultimately win. Flathub is really good and has momentum behind it.
I never understood the appeal of streaming. Sure, you get lots of positive attention. And most people are honest, friendly, and kind. But the more attention you get, the more you attract bad actors and jerks. There's a reason why many celebrities don't read social media comments or reviews, and why they have security.
Phone 16 Pro Demand Has Been Lower Than Expected, Analyst Says
Same. Link needs to be updated -

https://old.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/1fhsai3/rest_in_pea...
Online dating caused a rise in U.S. income inequality: research paper
I think there's plenty to learn from it, but there's two big problems when applying his approach in a more generalized way:

a) The youtube market is not like other markets, his strategy is successful because (among many things) the youtube algorithm promotes frequent posting. He knows youtube very well, but it's clear from his other business ventures that he's not good in other markets. I don't think you can translate ALL the stuff there into other markets.

b) There's a lot of unhealthy stuff mixed in with the parts that seem like they drive his success. If somebody does X, Y and Z and gets insane levels of success, they may not realize that it's X and Y driving the success, and Z is actively harmful. But I guess it depends on what you consider "harmful" - some might think "harmful" means "hurts the bottom line" and some might think "hurts those lowest on the rung". Either one of those might be true. It's like people who think being an asshole like early Steve Jobs is the way to be a successful leader, when he arguably achieved more lasting impact when he mellowed out.

With that context, I think some of the critiques you mention have substance.

"He's making low value content" -> I think this is true, because he's optimized for the market he's in. I think it's a legit critique that this strategies may not be sustainable or applicable to "high value content". He even expressly says this: "Not the highest quality videos.. It’s to make the best YOUTUBE videos possible."

"the culture of the company is horrible" -> I absolutely think this is worth talking about, and I find it hard to see building a long term company on his approach. The myth that you need to push people to breaking points to be successful is poison.

"he's a fraud/it's more luck than skill" -> Well anyone saying that is just wrong. He obviously is very good at what he does.

Personally, I don't think it's a good long term business strategy to depend so much on a single larger company, one who has a history of changing the algorithm without warning or explanation. But it's a good, but painful, short term strategy, and he will come out of it perfectly fine whenever he suddenly becomes irrelevant. But there are others who won't/haven't come out with much, and I think it's good to have a discussion if this is right or not.

But there are good things there, the critical components, the importance of communication. The direct feedback of "You are my bottleneck" is good, but it easily could turn into passive aggression and ways to pass the buck. I'm sure there's plenty of low quality comments here, but don't just write off all criticism as virtue signalling or whatever. There are def lessons in here, but that doesn't mean it's all above questioning.
I really don't understand the hate for Agile. Adaptation, empiricism, iteration self-managed teams etc...what's not to like?

I'm currently involved with two programs run by project managers who probably haven't written code for 30 years (if ever), and it's a nightmare.
Narrator: Google was, in fact, not getting rid of third party cookies
An unexpected side effect of this is that my Bluesky feed will now spoil the weekend's F1 qualifying and race.

It took a lot of Brazilians (and their love of Lewis Hamilton) to make that change.
It is, until it isn't. If you deal with people in the mainstream business, legal, healthcare, etc. worlds you'll run into issues. If you work in one of those mainstream fields, you'll find yourself quite limited if you're running anything but Windows. None of your corporate/enterprise software will work unless it's web-based (which is more and more the case, but certainly not always).
*eventually becomes
Vector Search on GitHub
I am from Gloucestershire myself and I never realised that DanBC was from my manor. I could have walked past him in the High Street to never know that he was the owner of a HN handle I recognised and read.

May Dan rest in peace, and in Gloucestershire. There are worse places to spend an indefinite period of time.
Link seems to be incorrect, should be: https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/s/dGGy8PXAMG (www.reddit.com, not old.reddit.com)

Which is this now removed post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/1fhsai3/rest_in_pea...

That had the title "Rest in peace" and contained this image: https://i.redd.it/ng75ptntl2pd1.png

Which is a screenshot of the uBlock Origin page in the Chrome Web Store, displaying the message "This extension is no longer available because it doesn't follow best practices for Chrome extensions.": https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin/cjpal...
What would you do?

I'd claim the prize, sell for USD, then watch BTC crash
I don't think "exploitation" is the right word to use for every business transaction.

When there's choice/competition and transparency/information (i.e. not some form of advanced psychological manipulation going on that can be impossible to economically avoid for many), who's being exploited?
> It is 100% legal and moral to seek asylum.

If you're persecuted or fleeing conflict. Its not particularly moral to lie about your origin or persecution though.

It's a fact that the services handling asylum applications are overwhelmed and that many people try to take advantage of that.
If ever there was an antitrust situation it is Google and Chromium.

(a) Widespread use of the engine which means its behaviour is what is largely defining the rules of the web today.

(b) It is driven by the financial interests of Google, specifically their Ads division. For example: Google recklessly adds every API under the sun even though they know they are being abused for fingerprinting. And they have long lived first party cookies which are used for re-targeting, attribution and conversion tracking. Both of which have major impacts to ad revenue.
I buzz in ahk on timeout paths (e.g. dialog failed to show), also signal the end of lora training (half an hour+). Tried to voice over tsc -w errors, but that got old quickly.

I work in automation so sending an IM in case something’s wrong (or finished) is not a rare thing. May count as a sound too. I also shoot videos of everything a visual script does for debug (xvfb, ffmpeg).
The HN community is way more diverse than that, though you're probably spot on for a slice of the community. At least in my experience they are nowhere near the majority.
> taking a step back from the relentless grind, and reconnecting with the world around you

The world does not want to connect with me. The world is in many subtle ways actively trying to kill me, harm me, and reduce me. If I'm taking time off it's for myself.

> rebellion against the incessant noise of modern life, which demands constant action.

So does my own body. Eventually I'm going to get hungry no matter how much nothing I do. Having stillness of mind allows purpose of action. You've got it all backwards.
Imagine an ignorant otherworldly being observing earth from a very macro timescale, and trying to understand what series of chemical reactions caused the production of so much plastic so suddenly. It would be like the KT boundary.
Airbags weren't invented until many decades after the Model T. And cars were already exceeding 100mph by the 20s. Airbags remained a premium, nonrequired feature until the 90s iirc.
I honestly attempted to read this article, but... psychobabble worse than a ST:TNG ep...

Anyway, I was surprised to find nothing with Ctrl+F+"psychosis" because my (perhaps naïve) understanding is that disunity of consciousness is typically pathologized that way: having a wandering or dissociated mind where someone can't cope with everyday experiences.

And I believe that disunity, or psychosis, is way more prevalent today than we think. Because with all of us online, absorbed in cyberspaces and AR games, and thinking of FB/IG friends even while we're showering, our minds are guaranteed to be a million miles away, under normal functional circumstances.

As a young hobbyist I found a lovely escape into my favorite 6510 processor, but when I joined the workforce, I was extremely dismayed to consider that my work was 100% invisible and 100% intangible to everyone, and I had nothing to talk about with my family or girlfriends about what I did at work, even if I was utterly preoccupied and still working problems out at dinnertime.

When distraction and stolen attention is the currency, opiate, or Spice of the Information Age, it's no surprise that we're no longer the masters of our own thoughts, and Eastern Mindfulness is preached from the highest authorities, including a young Obi-Wan Kenobi, because distraction and lack of focus are literally fatal errors for human beings.
I've also heard this exact same thing from my employer who hired ke straight out or college. Most of the company was comprised of young people. My boss, who was C level told me young people are easier to mold and now that I'm older I 100% agree with that. It's much easier to learn good habits than to unlearn bad ones.
Are we sure these are desktops like Ubuntu or something a little bit miscategorized, like Android or ChromeOS?
Satellite Imagery of Every Outdoor Basketball Court in the USA
It's easy to validate the veracity of 'War mode'. If survival hinges on a critical deliverable, then the promised reward must be in line with the stakes.

You can't have an employer offering a 20% bonus for keeping them alive. It's an insultingly low payoff or the crisis was a lie.

There is definitely such a thing as wartime software engineering. But such moments offer a clear path to millions of dollars or generational glory. Otherwise, you're being fed koolaid.
It seems #125 is already solved? If so don't they have the power to solve #67, 68, 69?
>The problem is, HN is a crowd of people who grew up believing they would all become the next Steve Jobs...a decade or two later, the chips have fallen, and most of us have not become that (yet many have had to watch their former peers become wildly successful). So what we have now is a community of bitter, frustrated, and resentful people hurling those feelings onto whatever the topic of the day is.

Your description well fits someone who is not on HN (and is well known for being very anti-HN). <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40826280>
It's not particularly intriguing, he is trash talking the competition.
> 750+ words of my takeaways <...> I briefly considered also posting to share with the community

I'm not going to beg you to share it after all, but just letting you know: if you would, I'd read it.
Can confirm. I've been working with a VMWare Linux Mint machine for two years, and very recently installed Windows 11, and decided to try WSL2. It's seamless, and literally Linux. I installed asdf and all the stuff I would normally do with zero headaches. No more vms for me.
How many people will figure out how to do this 5 times per year?
It's a cultural problem, but we like to call it race because a divided people are a distracted populace.
This is not how YouTube, or people, or virality work though.

The fact there is some useful educational content is a byproduct of the machine of lucrative trash of the capitalist hellhole spiral, and the written word will always prevail comparatively. You can always bet on text. https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/193447.html

Also, as you likely know, YouTube is owned by Google so it’s very silly to say it’s “more important.”
I agree that there’s a lot of fetishisation going on. Which is fine, if that’s what you’re into. Graph linking and visualisation in particular seems like a total furfy.

On the other hand, I have derived great value from adopting a practice of writing discrete things I need to remember or refer to later into a folder of date-stamped .txt or .md files and then later surfacing them with a generic full-text search tool. I can’t imagine sitting down to do my taxes, for example, without that information at my fingertips. Others may have more luck retaining in-memory the multitude of small details life throws at you.
No. Sorry the quick search result was dead wrong.
Sorry, I don't follow. What whataboutism? Where did the Freud came into the picture? I though I asked you a simple question about your belief. This should be easily answerable just with a single yes or no.
Getting rid of third party cookies will not be an issue for advertisers.

They simply have websites use first party cookies, send the data server side to data harvesters, tie it all to a global user profile using either identifiers from the website or from fingerprinting and then serve targeted ads.

i.e. Conversions API (Meta), Server Side GTM (Google)

I would be surprised if most advertisers would even be interested in this topic API.
You have my permission. This is snark.
Care to elaborate on the second sentence with any proof?
> That's what it is like watching some people try to use LLM's.

Exactly. I made a game testing prompting skills a few days earlier, to share with some close friends, and it was your comment that inspired me to translate the game into English and submitted to HN. ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41545541 )

I am really curious about how other people write prompts, so while my submission only got 7 points, I'm happy that I can see hundreds of people's own ways to write prompts thanks to HN.

However, after reading most prompts (I may missed some), I found exactly 0 prompts containing any kind of common prompting techniques, such as "think step by step", explaining specific steps to solve the problem instead of only asking for final results, few-shots (showing example inputs and outputs). Half of the prompts are simply asking AI to do the thing (at least asking correctly). The other half do not make sense, even if we show the prompt to a real human, they won't know what to reply with.

Well... I expected that SOME complaints about AI online are from people not familiar with prompting / not good at prompting. But now I realized there are a lot more people than I thought not knowing some basic prompting techniques.

Anyway, a fun experience for me! Since it was your comment made me want to do this, I just want to share it with you.
> LinkedIn is pretty important nowadays when searching for work

I agree with your larger point esp. Gmail - would be quite crippling - but I haven't had LinkedIn for years now, and it hasn't negatively impacted my job or searches. If anything, it helped me be more proactive when I was looking instead of feeling like I was praying to the abyss.

There was a second in ~2020 where LinkedIn was starting to feel like finding work in the Myspace days - people were expressing themselves in more personal ways on their profiles (I guess because of the lockdown) and remote work was just kicking off. It had this glow that reminded me a lot of the early 2000s work scene online.

Soon enough, as LI caught onto the trend those quirky profiles and posts were replaced with branded influencers and "viral posts". The platform quickly became as influencer-focused as Instagram or Twitter, which feels inappropriate for a job site. But it's not a job site they say, it's a career platform... or professional network... or something (of which a huge aspect is uploading your resume and applying to jobs). Anyway, the way the LinkedIn influencer sphere covered layoffs was like an E! television show - they loved it.

Turns out LinkedIn is not an "essential social media" shall we say. It's not the career accessory that my GitHub and a Macbook are, it could have been, but they chose their path.
android and chromeOS are usually excluded, but steam decks are included
Are you visiting not from Chrome?
I have a custom domain with a site-specific email. No 2 sites have the same email address.
I have not seen any activity using that 'hacker-news' account.
Not saying your experience isn't accurate, providing one additional datapoint for analysis.
hmm ... postgresql extension?
Oh, wow, and this is for the old Reddit site, too.
Yeah, that detail of terminology always bothered me a bit. That said, we do call HTTP servers that, not “Hypertext servers”. Then again, we don’t call an HTTP server “an HTTP”. :)
"How to be lucky"
If it included Android, the numbers would be way higher. Android is over 70% of mobiles worldwide, and mobiles outnumber desktops by 2 to 1.
False. I happen to know that Amazon delivers in hilariously bad terrain. But yeah, they probably only use Rivians in easy areas. I've never seen one.
My Instagram account was banned. I was never an active user, and I'm not sure I actually had a single post, so I have no idea why they found it necessary to disable my account. I tried the ID verification process but got nowhere.

I had no problem creating a new account. All of the accounts are linked together with my Facebook account, so it's not like they weren't aware. I didn't care until Threads came along, and now my preferred handle is unavailable.
Consumer Reports did a study on this and it only reduced gas mileage by 3% on a Honda.

https://shop.advanceautoparts.com/r/advice/car-maintenance/c...
how do they meausre this?

I mean, is it counting distro hopping fresh installs?

or simultanous concurrent running sessions (telemetry hell) ?
The cookbook section is rather unfortunately named in the context of accounting :^)
This has been nagging at me for a day, so just to clarify real quick:

I wanted to push back a little on the notion that Chapoly was "cool" and GCM was "lame" back in 2015-2016. At the time, GCM was coming off a pretty rough run of implementation bugs. It was the tail end of a period of time where a concern was that some mainstream architectures wouldn't be able to run performant constant-time GCM at all; like, the fast software GCMs had a table-driven multiplication? I forget the details.

But you could have done a secure WireGuard instantiated on AES-GCM. It's true that GCM was out of fashion and Chapoly was in fashion. I just want to say, that fashion had (has?) some real technical roots. That's all.
> placed everything into 64KB size blocks. Any pointer within the block is 16-bit, and you can also have references to other blocks.

Just reinvented segmentation
I finally made the switch earlier this year after realizing just how good Steam Proton is for gaming on Linux. Day-to-day computing on Linux is just so nice compared to Windows. It doesn't feel like I'm fighting with the OS anymore; the machine actually serves me now, instead of it constantly trying to undermine my intentions.
What he’s doing is very clever and very effective.
When I'm driving along, I simply modulate my cortico-thalamus with a diffusion refractor, in order to maintain motor commitment and properly integrate hyperrealistic streams of sensory-motor inputs, and effect instantaneous responses via activations and relaxations of relevant muscle-groups, to output parallel threads of control-surface movements. It's pretty simple, if you think about it.
You mean the one where someone else pays a higher ATM fee and scoops my cheque deposit? We can talk about reduced bits in the puzzle vs a regular transaction but when you need to consider how you are going to safely claim your money as if you are laundering you have to admit this is a little nuts.
No, I visited from a Chrome profile that doesn't have it installed.
NASA Postpones Mars Mission to 2025 as Jeff Bezos's Rocket Isn't Ready to Launch
I never went through a phase of admiring Steve Jobs, and to me the word "hacker" still has connotations of alleviating oppression. This post amounts to "you're just jealous!" - a total cop-out given the myriad ways this website and the people on it are /making the world worse/.
Why did you expect that? Why would someone reward your personal choice in dedication?
Actual PDF, 2 links away from the original article.[1]

Has a lot in common with Roger Corman's "How I made a hundred movies in Hollywood and never lost a dime."

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YaG9xpu-WQKBPUi8yQ4HaDYQLUS...
More like FPV drones; if you can recover them that’s great, but the expectation is that you’ll lose them and that’s fine.
that's too bad.

I enjoyed his commentary, even if often it seemed that he didn't enjoy mine -- I'll miss the perspectives.
I’ve had pretty good experience with it personally. It quite often just tells me it doesn’t know or isn’t sure instead of just making something up.
> How has this space not seen more action on the consumer side? Roombas came out 20 years ago then there's been basically nothing but tiny increments on the same idea since.

This is a great example of "short term improvements are overestimated, long-term underestimated". As someone who jumped from a top-of-the-line robot vacuum in 2014 (not a Roomba - they were already slightly behind) to a high-quality-but-average one this year - those incremental improvements have added up to almost an entirely different product. That's not even counting the experiments out there like SwitchBot's plans (looks like the humidifier is out, but I don't see the dehumidifier on their site).
direct copy and paste from the https://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html site...
I don't agree that the comparison is correct. In modern AI, Python is either used to describe a graph built of predefined operations or as a language that is translated into this graph (or into C++/CUDA, potentially through multiple intermediate representation languages). Once the translation is done, Python, with its GIL and object-based model, is almost not involved.

In contrast, game uses an imperative, immediate rendering library, where the developer directly controls every sprite with something like `pos += velocity * dt`. It's very classic, and it reminds me of the Touhou PC-98 Restoration Project - https://github.com/nmlgc/ReC98/blob/master/th05/main/boss/b1...
For $49/year, I'd rather vote for Cthulhu.
Which is just an `npm install` away: https://npmjs.com/package/flux-capacitor
That's a clarification that you can take all the way to the bank—or at least to the AT machine.
It’s not a complaint, just an observation that anything non-natural language simply didn’t work for almost 100% of my “patients”, including myself. This format isn’t even a format. It’s how they write notes for themselves with a little agreement on regularity to simplify the parser.

Btw, we tried everything: appstore apps, web forms, our own app. Everything sucks irl except just text. I still use this entry despite not having a database anymore for a script to load my data into.