skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this style of meta commentary is more damaging to any discourse than the behavior that you're saying you've identified. Looking over the top comments, other than yours, I see a good majority of people honestly trying to engage with the content. I'm not exactly sure where you're seeing a "ubiquitous "sour grapes" attitude", but it seems to me that your own post typifies such a description more than the rest of the discussion here.
> But success has different definitions.

Yes, except doesn’t Mr. Beast define the kind of success he’s aiming for in the PDF?

> I do not consider Jimmy successful.

By the definition he set for success or the one you made up?
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Smalltalk or Simula
It may be a “worst case, only when actively cooling at maximum power” figure. In reality you’d expect ambient conditions to make a big difference to aircon energy use.
As a heavy ledger user these are great recipes in my opinion.

Since you’re here and clearly you know ledger well I’ll share a pattern I have that perhaps is a good idea or perhaps has an alternative approach.

We need to track customers and suppliers carefully and then assign payments both made and received to specific projects and categories within those projects. Invoices can contain a mix of these projects in either direction. So our workflow is:

- assign transactions to an account labeled by the counterparty when imported from bank account transactions.

- a script uses ledger print command and creates a 2nd journal file for each counterparty with a mirror transaction inverting the original transaction out of the counterparty account and into an Unknown project and Unknown category sub account as a place holder.

- transactions are then matched by bookkeeper to specific invoices and then assigned to Project:Category accounts in the counterparty journal file. transactions will be split if it’s needed at this point. so a single payment can be split to multiple Project:Category accounts.

- by including all bank transaction journals and all counterparty journals then ledger bal command show if all transactions have been processed by bookkeeping.
Interesting that such an important nerve could possibly have genetic instructions like "just grow around this direction and do branches".
Presumably the mailmen can just take a lesson from Amazon, UPS et al and leave the vehicle idling in the travel lane when that happens.
How is Microsoft going to train their new AI models without using all your chats as part of the training data though? If you're not paying for the product, then you are the product.. And LinkedIn is "free" as in beer.
> Wild, I would literally never work for a company where I had this kind of relationship with my direct manager. My direct manager should be in my corner and on my side always. They will get me the highest pay, highest title, best perks, lowest amount of stress and work, most time off, best benefits they can and anything they ask me to do is in service of that. If I find out that my direct manager is the one gating a raise or promotion from me I'll just quit.

Nothing is infinite and managers are both people and have their own constraints. In my experience, expecting otherwise will just select for either managers who work really hard but fail to get you much (due to lack of political skills), or those that are very good liars that say they're helping you but never do (and you never realize otherwise).
Libfive is the closest successor. Blender also starts to support implicit modeling. https://libfive.com/
I agree with the first two of these, they are great. (And I bet the third is too, I've just never needed it.)

If I had to submit one tip it would be to set everything up with a Makefile or similar. I keep my transactions spread across quite a few separate files for different accounts, and the actual commands I issue to include the right files are very long. Similarly I have various plotting and summary scripts whose exact syntax I don't usually remember. But with make I can just "make cashflow" "make balance 'A=Checking'" "make balance-plot 'A=retirement'" and so on.
When ever someone describes me what their feed is full of or taken over with, they are secretly telling me what type of bubble they are in and what type of content they actually consume.
"Big Time" on Fediverse: 20k users joined mastodon.social. That's less than 1% of the people that went to bluesky.

The main TV news program in Brazil (Jornal Nacional) is now promoting their bluesky. There is no real comparison.
I think it mostly happened when HN became flooded by Reddit users. One of the reason I think this is because of how HN and Reddits way of dealing with new lines is different. In a lot of the comments on HN that I would consider to be fitting on GPs point you’ll see a format a long the lines of this:

This is the first line of my paragraph.

This is the second line of my paragraph.

They are separated because HN and Reddit formatting is different.
>But LLMs are marketed as more than that, and that's the problem. They're marketed by their makers as more than that.

The new snake oil, same as the old snake oil. This is no different than any other tech bubble. Nobody paying attention should think otherwise. I don't care how it's marketed, I mean half the US is going to vote for a serial rapist conman thanks to some twisted marketing. People are idiots and are easily fooled, and this has gone on as long as there have been humans. I'm not sure what to say about "marketing".

So finally we can sort of agree on something. But I still think you're giving the LLMs too much credit in suggesting that they will always infallibly say "Paris" when asked where is the capital of France. There's simply no mechanism for the LLM to understand "Paris" or "France" or "Capital". If I asked the LLM that question 1,000,000 times, do you really think it would result in "Paris" 1,000,000 times? I kind of doubt it.

The problem is with the person who is expecting truth from an LLM. So far I don't really see too many people putting absolute faith in anything an LLM is telling them, but maybe those people are out there.
I’m fairly certain most of the “sour grapes” comments are AI generated
This site has a lot of interesting people that did and do interesting "hacker" type things that keep me coming back, but a lot of commenting is people looking to build things of questionable value, legality, or social good and sell them off and gtfo before the cracks show.

Less "Hacker" More "Greed via Computer" So the idea that they aren't bothered by Mr Beast's lack of integrity is because they too find deceit acceptable so long as they profit. Because, someone else before him did, so why shouldn't he? It's toxic greed all the way down in this view.

the bizarre social Darwinism nonsense that permeates the internet has done a nice job of taking this antisocial mindset - passersby at a glance recognize it quite rightly as the ideology of the asshole - and rebranded it as 'smart' and a mere recognition of the 'real world' (much to the confusion of people succeeding and enjoying the company of others doing so without robbing one another)
Unless you have a recent Mac, there is currently no way to listen to audio from a computer to most hearing aids without some sort of adapter.

Manufacturers sell such adapters at outrageous prices (hundreds of dollars). I wanted a way to stream audio to my hearing aids from a PC/laptop without paying an eye watering amount of money.

ASHA is the protocol used by android phones to direct stream audio over Bluetooth LE. The reference source and spec are openly available.

Also, it has been a fun and rewarding challenge.
>> Found out much later it’s ME/CFS from hEDS (TNXB)

What led to you finding out about TNXB?
Exhibit 5478 that Grok is infringing Groq's trademark and creating confusion in the mind of the customers.
An open door will kill your mileage. USPS vans are designed for an incredibly specific role.
Towards Measuring and Modeling "Culture" in LLMs: A Survey
In this profile from 2022 Jimmy said his goal was to become the number one YouTube channel: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/mrbeas...

According to this Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-subscribed_YouTub... he finally achieved that goal on June 2, 2024.

So definitely successful by his own chosen metric.
Please share what you wrote, lots of people might value it despite all the naysayers.
One explanation I've heard is that companies don't extract the same value from women as they do from men because society's sexism causes managers and peers to assign "low value tasks" disproportionately to women even when they have the same job description as their male counterparts.
If it makes you feel any better, this sort of nihilist puritanism, combined with the people who actually sell data complaining to the EU it's "anticompetitive" they can't track me via 3P cookies, means this is DoA. And users are the only ones worse for it, modulo Google's sunk cost in investment in trying to do something better.
They knew what they were getting into, it's never been a secret that iOS is advertising hell.
It's the conceptual equivalent of your phone helpfully hanging up when you turn on airplane mode.
> And that the nitpicking is merely a failure to express that understanding of the world, especially since it seems like pro-status quo commenters don't care to learn more?

I agree with you on this but I don't think it's a failure. I think people just get tired after a while. They get tired, and then they start displaying their disapproval in ways that require less work.

It's just easier than typing out all those words and being ignored.

> My greatest frustration is trying to describe for instance why someone like Mr Beast is antisocial and then being met by responses that obviously never bother to understand what my point was

It's really tiresome.

At some point you start to realize that you have fundamentally different values than the people you're trying to discuss things with, that these values are irreconcilable and that further argument will just make people hate you instead of convincing them.

This isn't really about "sour grapes", we have moral objections to what others are doing, and there's no point in trying to have those arguments with people who do those things for a paycheck.
Pretty sure he regards c players as ones that only “carry their weight” but nothing more
Most hobbies are just as dumb when you think about it.

Sports = watching grown men play with balls,
Games = giving yourself unnecessary problems to solve,
TV/Reading = learning (usually) completely useless information
No, this person/LLM model indeed writes way too long sentences.
My first time hearing of it too, am ACE 10.

In my mid 40s and have been having an increasing desiring for no particular reason to unpack some baggage. I think I’ve done ok in life generally, much better than the course my childhood put me on, but I think I’ve suppressed a lot of stuff and ultimately is starting to wear me down. Most notably, I just feel like a fraud a lot of times. My peers talk about how they did stuff in college and before (stuff normal people got to experience I didn’t, going on family vacations and being social in college) and I end up just laughing and making some jokes and stuff but never have similar stories to share.

I’ve completely disconnected with my family as a coping mechanism for example but now that I have a young kid asking about his family on my side it’s bringing up some weird emotions I hadn’t experienced or thought I had dealt with. Idk. Maybe therapy is in my near future so I’m glad this is being openly discussed here.
Stylometry: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33755016 & https://web.archive.org/web/20221129004703/https://stylometr...
I think that's a reductionist view. Platforms like Twitter are pretty unique in that unlike most other social media, you don't have well-defined communities organized around topics or locations.

On Reddit or Nextdoor, you join to discuss specific interests, and that serves as "social glue" that lets you make new acquittances along the way. The same goes for HN, by the way. But on Twitter / Bluesky / Threads / Mastodon, you probably don't have anything in common with another user picked at random.

The most common (non-commercial) motivation for joining is probably to just hang out with the people you already know from elsewhere, and then expand your social network very gradually and conservatively, mostly based on who they know. So it doesn't matter that there's 10M strangers over there if none of your buddies use it.
Pretty sure TikTok’s vans were politically motivated
Just do what any real accountant does, true up the balance, throw the difference in a suspense account, and go grab a pint.
Good ole' TTP
Neither of which helps with elliptic curve cryptography.
Which Chinese EVs are available in the US?
Aliens and the Enlightenment
This reminds me of a video I saw on HN yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJkWS4t4l0k
I’m telling you, nobody getting rich from this leak.
> confronting to a consensus worldview

There's a bit of missed irony here that you decrying the 'sour grapes' crowd with 'sour grapes' of your own, and yourself have been upvoted to the top. I do agree this culture of indulged victimhood is really dragging internet discourse down, but you surely can see your own complicity in it?
https://www.iea.org/commentaries/china-s-slowdown-is-weighin...

https://www.iea.org/reports/global-ev-outlook-2024/trends-in...

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/chines...

I cannot overstate that we are at an inflection point with regards to the transition from combustion to electric for light vehicles, the evidence is clear. Future mobility growth in countries that have not yet fully developed will meet their needs with EVs as China's EV manufacturing ramp continues (with BYD building factories currently in Thailand, Brazil, Hungary, Uzbekistan, and plans for factories in Pakistan and Mexico).
Django Bridge – Django / React application framework
GNU recutils should become the standard backend. Plain text db which has a powerful albeit simple records format, proper ids, enforces constraints, removes need of silly type conventions better defined in fields with %type, built in encryption. Foreign keys. Auto generated fields. Regex.

No one in their right of mind will want to manually edit the data store holding critical accounting data. 99% of the times should be ETL with the odd visual check for inspiration.
NK can't strike the United States. Their low-quality "ICBM" probably can't even target another continent. They really have poor ballistic missiles. On the other hand, NK can't be targeted except from a sub in the ocean, or over Russia by ours.
Cool stuff but someone make this for a standard Toyota Corolla and other common cars.
Don't live in fear. Embrace the chaos.
Damn that’s bad
I don't have the energy for an intellectual debate, but personally, I have the sense that Youtube is net bad for the world and the monetization of Youtube has incentivized and amplified mediocrity, stupidity, and social decay.

I don't follow or watch Mr Beast videos, but from what I've seen, they are largely driven by a money fetish and as far as "creativity", it feels on par with the more boring "What would you rather" conversations I had in middle school.

Maybe he has unlocked the key to virality by vigorously analyzing data, but looking at his videos, at a glance, it seems to more be formulaic, predictable, and simply having an actual budget that sets it apart (if it is actually set apart, as I find it hard to tell how much of it is others copying his work versus hius work being unoriginal).
It’s jiggowatts!
That’s a lot of text for nothing.
Is the email listed on https://haveibeenpwned.com/ ?
You already need someone watching the screens. I don't see the driving being a big increase from that. Weight and battery life don't seem to be a concern. There are drive mechanisms that use mass distribution or inertia to drive it like a wheel and don't use much energy. This is especially true if you're throwing it and just need to retrieve it because you made a bad toss, or need to clear an additonal angle.
NotDildo needs some more tuning methinks
It's honestly not the junk mail, its all the crap from Amazon/Temu/Aliexpress etc etc.
On the 16 I bounced between a bunch before settling on Manjaro. It seemed to "just work" better than any other distro.
Haven't read this tweet, and I won't bother, but why is Elon's latest verbal diarhhea news on Hacker News?
In theory one could amend the parent commit such that its timestamp is after its child commit. In practice I do occasionally edit one of the commits in my branch if a particular change fits better with that commit (most often typos).

As such pointing to the parent is more stable than pointing to when the parent.
I lost access to a Google account almost a decade ago; trying to get it back was one massive Kafka trap. Every few years I go back and try navigating the Kafka trap again hoping against hope for better results. But I’m still locked out.

It’s particularly frustrating because IMAP is setup for it into another google account, so I can still send and receive email from the address but I’m fully locked out of the service.

Some precious files were in that account from childhood.
All true. And of course, at low critical mass, for any new participant, the likelihood of your buddies being there is lower than when you go to the one everyone is one.
First one maybe but definitely not the second one.
Have you actually thought of it?
How would the platform know who sent what. They can't. So it's definitely not shared on the deposit side. And I doubt they'd move the money around because of fees so I doubt it's shared on the withdrawal side too.
From my experience, of course it depends on the blockchain used, but they all have static addresses per user
It clearly biased for young people or those without a family with something to prove, the perfect type of employee to exploit and vampirize.
Depends on how big they are, what layer they land on, what they’re composed of. I was a semiconductor process engineer for a few years, and honestly the worst damage came from people, and not in the “people shed dust everywhere” sense, but in the “people do dumb things” sense. Like when the robot goes bonkers and you have to manually recover a wafer, so you just grab it with your fingers, slot it back in the carrier, and send the lot off to cleans after processing the rest through on a different machine. We would have whole lots with elevated defects because people did stuff like this.
Offline/PDF: https://www.acesaware.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/ACE-Que...
I've never seen a Mr. Beast video prior to reading this. I thought there was some interesting stuff in it (I have a recent professional interest in video stuff, though let me reassure everyone I don't plan to show up in any), some standard-issue "trying to keep a founding team culture going" stuff, and some stuff that read like self-gratification. I didn't write the PDF off. It's worth filing away. I'd be interested in your takeaways.

I did go watch a couple Mr. Beast videos. I can see why people knee-jerk about them here. They are just not my cup of tea, and they're not in a way that really rubs me the wrong way. That's OK! I can be convinced that's just a "me" thing! It doesn't matter; I'm not building too much of "don't like Mr. Beast" into my identity.

I take your point, but also get why people might have viscerally negative opinions about this particular subject? I get the frustration with superficial negativity crowding out discussions though.
Nothing. The phone number service does not use mobile networks, it uses the Internet via XMPP/Jabber. Connections to the Internet is your problem. Or buy the JMP Data Plan, which is a separate product all together.
Intriguing. Perhaps adding focus gained detection with a timer reset would increase the motivation to do nothing.
How to Succeed in a Torment Nexus: Make the best TORMENT NEXUS videos possible
> The best feature of SuperHTML is that it is based on the official HTML living specification, but it deviates from it when it makes sense to do so.

I think this is actually a decent design decision. Unlike in networking, where application of Postel's Law (specifically, the "be liberal in what you accept" part) can lead to implementation details becoming de-facto part of the spec, SuperHTML isn't outputting data to another system for further processing - it's giving information (validation errors) to a human for their own use, and if this information leads to humans writing HTML that's a more-robust strict subset of the formal HTML spec, all the better.
The fidelity vs. performance decision is precisely what Sony markets the PS5 Pro as eliminating. I’d also just prefer developers make 60fps the baseline, then use any additional horsepower for more frames or more real resolution.
Actually, why wouldn't people working in porn and porn adjacent industries send porn related content to each other in DMs, totally in a professional context ?
I don't get it. The article says most of the fleet will be electric.
For a case argued in those reports that oil as car fuel was driven (sorry) by China, and now China has moved tracks that growth path is removed? Sure. I can buy the argument.
> 5 spindle drives can already read and write faster than line rate on the NIC (1gbe) so what is the point of adding another failure point?

SSDs are more about latency than throughput. (And who wants to deal with five spindle drives in a desktop computer?)

In any case, in my case I had the SSD first and bought the HDD to expand my storage capacity.

I don't know whether your use case cares about latency, or about the number of drives. Your trade-offs might be different from mine.
> if we're gonna all be terminally online, we might as well at least bring as much of the human experience back into it as we can

So Myspace, Foursquare? (Not being witty, I loved that era)
> It's a documentation site. You want it to pretend the API doesn't exist, or what?

MDN is a documentation site for web technologies.

In order for something to become a web standard, it needs two independent implementations. If Google can’t build consensus or convince anybody outside of Google to implement it, it’s not a web technology, it’s just some Google API that Google built for Google’s needs.

This is out of scope for a site dedicated to web technologies. This is like expecting them to document Android APIs.
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What did you have to do to get it to work for Intel iGPU? Passing all combinations of command line flags never made it work.

intel_gpu_top showed both Video and VideoEnhance markers signaling hardware decode as inactive, and all commenters on message boards that I came across essentially came to the same conclusion, that it doesn't work at least at the time I as trying a few months ago. I think it was that Chromium devs don't support it and block it from functioning in the code because of this or that upstream dependency not being stable.
The A,B and C teams seem to line up with the Sociopath, clueless, and losers in Gervais Principle.. or at least from this url(https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...)
Trinitron: Sony's Breakthrough Color TV [video]
As a child on road trips I would stare out the window while my mind wandered. I got carsick from reading and other activities so it’s all I could really do.

On the return trip a week or so later, everything I thought about would come back to me as we passed everything again, but in reverse order. Sort of like unwinding my train of thought back to the very first thought that started it as we left the garage when we finally got back home.