skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've lived in Seattle for 25 years, have been hearing about "Seattle Nice" and "The Seattle Freeze" that whole time. By which they mean that people are friendly and polite on a surface level, but cold and distant when you try to get closer. I think it's a myth, or at any rate I have never experienced it as a trend (individuals, sure). People here are as nice as anywhere else I've been. I think maybe it's confirmation bias: people hear about it, then see it everywhere, like stereotypes about rude New Yorkers, or snooty Parisians.

It would be strange if whole a region, with such a huge population of transplants, all shared the same personality. They don't make you sign a contract to be rude when you move here!
IMO his best bet is allies maintaining interest (and internal political goodwill)
Do you think it's better? It's twice as long and kind of seems like someone told ChatGPT to rewrite it with attitude but no new content (I know it's from 2016 and the nice version came second).
It's interesting that this rumor has been pointed out at least three times in this discussion, and every time it's voted down. Doesn't fit with the passions of many posters, I guess.
That's because apartments and houses have indoor power, which took a while. Neighborhood streets still don't have outdoor power at every curb.
I am not picking on you in particular but want to bring a general point up to readers:

Why is it I always read the parent opinion when it comes to laptop shopping, but never the opposite (which is mine):

-Bigger -> better

-Thicker -> better

-Terrible battery life

-Desktop CPU and GPU

-Blow torch thermal exhaust

-Maximum storage and RAM

All so I can run lm-studio, having Llama 3 pump out my edgy 4chan shitposts and effortposts for me, within the absolute comfiness of Qubes OS. I couldn't imagine relying on something thin and low powered unless it did very specific things (and, if it can't run Qubes, then it stays offline).
Next or next next generation would be used to it. Digital content would be consumed differently, with automatical scepticism or so...

Remember when people believed that camera took our soul when we are caotured on image?
How bad is Windows spying? [video]
I really dislike that so much of hacker culture is $$ focused now.

1. Being a hacker means walking the world being constantly dissatisfied by all of the inefficiency you see on a daily basis and wanting to fix it.

2. Being a hacker means feeling like most of the software world is fraudulent and you are going to build a solution that actually works.

3. Being a hacker means building something because it is fun or cool.

Making money is a side effect of doing what you would do naturally because if you didn’t you would lose self respect.
According to the book "The Naked Neanderthal" by the paper's lead author, no.

This suggests that humans socially dominated Neanderthals when they came into contact.

The evidence does show that humans were vastly superior at making weapons.
The words of the master Persian poets carry a mystical power – and can transform
I mean Intel has value, but I think the largest part of the value would be the technical knowledge, experience of making and designing chips, and the foundary is a large asset. I am unsure if Intel makes non consumer chips for the CNC, robotics field, or military but those are all potential customers for a Intel fab especially if its a USA based fab.

Side question about modern hardware architecture, why is pcie all handles by the CPU. The CPU determines how many lanes you have available be it on Intel or amd. The GPU was created to accelerate graphics and the specific architecture benefits, just as NPU or DPU can help offload work from a system onto a acceleror architecture that can handle specific tasks way better than a CPU could. Why isn't pcie interconnect handles by a separate chip with way more lanes but instead forced to be handles on the CPU die and as such is size constrained and has to share layout space with cores and other accelerators?
- me: solo dev or small team
- you: microsoft, mongo, redis

one of us is being disingenuous, but i don't believe it's me
(username on point ;)

i agree with both your examples being bad. for #2, they required one-sided CLAs while "open source". the alternative to signing the CLA was to fork, which is rarely well-received by the community, ie the same basic issue i raised

FLOSS is great in that it can facilitate collaboration and adoption, but at the expense of greatly limiting the business models. and even then context still matters - eg there's big difference between the kernel with 1000s of independent contributors, and mongo with one party holding CLA rights to the entire codebase (FLOSS in name only, i'd argue)

- for me, what's ultimately important is that people are free and that people that do good work are rewarded
- software licenses are just a tool to help us get there
- non-FLOSS might enable much of that same good while scaling to more business models and software
- they might ultimately be good for society, but getting the details right is hard
- i'm no longer actively working on my own stuff, but my attempt was: https://github.com/db4j/pupl
- note: if i was doing this today, the core limit would be much higher
For example: https://alihammoud7.substack.com/p/how-to-read-a-hafez-poem-...
My understanding is that most early stage medical research on finding specific targets for drugs, and often drug discovery itself is publicly funded. Private funding only really takes over once you start trialling the drug in animals and then humans.
Moved all my stuff to porkbun.

Gandi was looking great a few years ago. Now they just milk their customers, calculating that many will be too lazy to leave. I was surprised how easy it is these days to move a domain. Hope porkbun won’t play the same game on me 5 years from now.
The obvious spelling would be "3 million", why replace obscure abbreviations with more of the same?
Snaps are not popular in hacker news, but if you want basic functionality, try nextcloud snap. It is good, and takes care of itself.

I like nextcloud, and always have an instance for file sharing with people. For basic features, it works good.

That said, I think it would have been better if they could focus on core features, remove code complexity, make it faster, remove bugs around the edges, make sure it just works and upgrades reliably. It could not possibly do such diverse range of applications, and now AI.
+1 for FolderSync, it works great. I haven't had a single synchronization issue or missing files whatsoever after using it for 2-3 years already. Note that I never had the need to handle conflicts (I don't modify files from two different devices at the same time).
this is intentionally missing the point
Why not just ship what's ready at the end of any particular cycle, and spill over whatever's not? Customers don't care about your 2-week cycles, and rather than rushing something out the door, they can just wait a little longer?

I think there will always be some tension between developers who need some undefined and undefinable amount of time to produce work, and managers who need to protect timelines for the business's (and other teams') sake, and the only real solution that I've seen is to underpromise work on purpose, every time.

Maybe you lose a little productivity only aiming for 70%-80% bandwidth to start with, but that's way better than aiming for 100% and then not having any bandwidth left to deal with the inevitable bugs and sudden issues and help requests from other teams. And then suddenly it's the end of a cycle and everything blows up. A steady, slow pace helps prevent that terrible crunch at the end and makes work easier for all your employees and your customers don't get saddled with an explosion of bugs with every release.

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Separately from all that, my current job uses Shape Up and Basecamp (https://basecamp.com/shapeup) instead of Agile or a Kanban, which is a different enough methodology that it's worth considering if you've never looked at it.

Personally I don't really like it that much and wouldn't recommend it (especially Basecamp, which is way over-complicated and slow and not very code-friendly), but the other devs seem to really love it. Perhaps it's worth a look and you can decide for yourself?
Thread about the same research https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41512191
I prefer his "brass tacks" writing style, but it's also interesting to compare the versions (Grillo-Marxuach is a screenwriter, after all).
Rails doesn't force anything, you can change default batteries out for different ones (this analogy, like most falls down pretty quickly). Ruby itself allows a lot of coding style freedom with the creator of Ruby stating the goal being developer happiness. What causes readability and maintainability issues are the people writing/maintaining the code, no matter what language its written in.

Regarding "function soup inside HTML templates" I think you should strongly consider Rails Hotwire [0] (in Rails 7+, add-on for 6.1) and having the server, well, serve the HTML. Rails is a full stack framework and Turbo/Hotwire can do a lot of the heavy lifting for dynamic applications.

[0] https://hotwired.dev/
From Wikipedia

> Working closely with Jobs during their tenure together at Apple, Ive played a vital role in the designs of the iMac, Power Mac G4 Cube, iPod, iPhone, iPad, MacBook, and the user interface of Apple's mobile operating system iOS, among other products. He was responsible for the design of major architectural projects including Apple Park and Apple Stores.
I live in central Los Angeles and use Starlink as a failover to my cable internet. Sometimes there are outages and Starlink takes over. I've also tested Verizon 5G home internet but Starlink was faster and more affordable.
When it’s something this trivially small, why don’t you just… do it? So long as you can demonstrate your ability to deliver on “real” work, why not just knock these tiny things out too if you can? Work it into an adjacent change if that comes up. “But my manager and PM and CEO all say this is ILLEGAL TO DO” always seems to be the answer… but if your company isn’t completely rotten to the core with toxic waste, I don’t think anyone is going to axe you for making small microscopic incremental product improvements…
I think homelabbing is still alive and well. Biggest issue i'v faced is how ISP's can basically limit your options. Without access to highspeed fiber 10G or higher, it can limit what your doing.

Does everyone need fiber in their lab, no they don't. But its frustrating when your entire state has basically no options for 10gig symmetrical fiber, and your only alternative is to either move or somehow spend tons of money and start your own fiber ISP which isn't feasible for most.
That book is definitely incorrect given we know the neanderthal "y" chromosome disappeared some 60 thousand years before neanderthals did, replaced by H. sapiens sapiens's.

H. sapiens mtDNA was also found in "recent" neanderthal remains.
Show HN: Components for Jetpack Compose
was your friend selling videogames to millions of people on the back of these lies?
The Universe May Do As It Damned Well Pleases.

Maybe it is "made of fields", maybe it isn't, but "I think that's nonsense", which is just a gussied up way of saying "my intuition rejects that", is not a valid judgment method. The universe does not check with our intuition before doing what it Damned Well Pleases.
It’s not just drugs; look at the difference in medical equipment now versus 40 years ago.

I’d sure rather pay a little extra and have 2024 equipment than 1984. That 2024 equipment exists because someone imagined they could make a profit if they successfully created it.
When it comes to marketing I think we can take a page from the Apple playbook. Never show anything incomplete. Critics and the general
public don’t understand the artistic process and will only become uneasy. nobody cares how you did it. Just show results.
If training data is the constraint for LLMs, and scraping from web and books is exhausted, what is a new source that you could tap into to leave Meta, Grok, Anthropic behind…?
Lol. Geez, we gotta do something about key sequences getting 'molested'...
It was when Khrushchev took over that the economy began to sink.

My understanding was that the Soviet economy actually boomed from the mid 50s to the late 60s (Khruschev's tenure from 1953-1964) -- but that once Brezhnev took over, that's when it started hitting the brakes.
I recently had to juggle 'do I pay out of pocket for this skin cancer surgery and save $600 on the $3000 total, or use insurance so that what I pay goes towards my deductible (would have fulfilled 30% of my deductible for the year). It was better to pay out of pocket.

In the last 30 years we went from affordable ambulances and insurance that worked to people too scared to use ambulances and insurance that our doctors encourage us not to use. Glad we are letting the free market work it's magic. Thankfully the market worked in our small town, the ambulance company went broke and we joined together as a community and now have county services that are not only better but much much cheaper and don't see peoples' emergencies as a profit center for some located elsewhere mega-corp. Weird how inefficient small town hick local government can now make work (and work better) what mega corp for profit 'big brains' couldn't.

Side note: USE SUNSCREEN PEOPLE! I wish I could go back and slap dumb 'too cool for sunscreen' Santa Cruz surfer kid me.
If no one will pay for the solution, the problem might not be that important.
It's 25th on the fortune 500 list
For the people that Qt doesn't work it, it may as well be 100% proprietary; (L)GPL does not play well with super-duper-proprietary hardware. That's not a bug, it's (L)GPL doing what it was designed to do. These companies just aren't fans of providing their customers the code to the applications they sell.
When I started indie hacking, I looked around for how to grow an audience. Tried to model what various successful posters were doing, which lasted about a week, because turns out it’s like a full time job.

References, spreadsheets, scheduling, analytics, sourcing, markets, targeting, timing optimization, drafting, research, etc.

It gave me a lot more appreciation for the people who grow a large audience in this sort of manner, but also made it clear that it’s not for me. There isn’t enough time in the day for me to build the products I want to, I’ll just have to settle for posting randomly whatever I feel like.

PS:, recently there seems to have been some changes to the x algorithm. Just spontaneously posting and even shitposting seems to be doing a lot better than the formulaic stuff from a few years ago. YMMV
You don’t believe in intellectual property? Well, I don’t believe in gravity.

Ill be waiting for your public domain repo with ios syncthing build instructions - no need to doxx yourself. ill happily build it for myself - i don’t have a dev account either.

FWIW that app works much better than icloud has ever worked for me. eg with icloud you never know when the device decides to remove a file from local cache until youre offline and need to use it.
UN unanimously adopts new "Global Digital Compact" [pdf]
The UN has adopted the above document which includes an Annex for the new "Global Digital Compact". Sourced from: https://www.reuters.com/world/un-adopts-pact-that-aims-save-...

For example, they have committed to:
```
17. We commit by, 2030, to:
(a) Develop, disseminate and maintain, through multi-stakeholder
cooperation, safe and secure open-source software, open data, open artificial
intelligence models and open standards that benefit society as a whole (SDGs
8, 9 and 10);
```
https://archive.today/iP6Tv
I am describing things as I see them, not casting aspersions. As far as I care people can manage their friend groups however they wish even if that results in my own exclusion.

I think what people criticize most is the insincerity in the 'nice'. I see that as a cultural communication issue and not properly understanding local norms. At least in PNW they won't make plans with you, the Northern California version of 'nice' will make plans with you but then flake at the last minute. From an organizational perspective this appears to be rather sub-optimal but I understand why people do it.

Personally I'm weird so I have to navigate cultural differences no matter where I go and I don't expect people to change to accommodate me.
we need to stop pretending that CSS is awesome though, it's been in use for about twenty five years now, keeps reinventing itself and still fails at simple things (as exhibited in this example)
Anecdotal, but it seems like all the people who “build in public” end up trapped by their chosen distribution strategy.

What I mean by this is, if you’re building in public there’s a 99% chance you’re going to end up building products for other indiehackers who are interested in following people who build in public.

This means you’re probably going to end up building yet another micro-Saas dev tool (Saas boilerplate, incident monitoring, etc) or growth hacking tool (for social media, SEO, cold email, AI content, etc).

And you’ll probably get modest success fast, since indiehackers like tools that help them indiehack and if they follow you on social media to hear stories of how they can get rich quick, they’ll definitely buy a product from you promising to help them do that.

However, I think you’ll struggle to ever “cross the chasm” so to speak into building a company that’s bigger than whatever online personality you build (no mass markets or low churn businesses without pyramid scheme dynamics).
> a time when humans could barely speak with eachother.

That's a pretty wild claim
Because what you've described isn't a laptop but a shitty desktop computer. Laptops that large are heavy, which sucks to travel with. Such a monstrosity isn't convenient to throw into your bag and bring with you everywhere all day. If you're not even using it for graphics, get a desktop, install Tailscale, and remote in for your shitposts.

Is the opinion, anyway. Nothing wrong with your opinion (or mine), they're just opinions after all, but if I was on my feet all day in the field and needed a laptop, I'd rather something small and light with a long battery life. If I wanted something luggable, I'd go for a usb-c monitor and as small a desktop chassis as would fit a proper GPU inside of a mobile one. But dealing with the cables for that would get old real quick, so a laptop like you describe would be my pick in those circumstances. Eg my friend's a VJ and performs at random clubs and a gaming laptop like you described is the most appropriate device.
That is understood… but why do you think such a child would have received more ‘admiration and respect of others’ 300 years ago in some tiny peasant village?
At this point they're mostly decorative anyway.
> That book is definitely incorrect

That's a rather bold claim about one of the world's foremost paleoanthropologists.

"When you are searching for ancient DNA [from 40,000 to 45,000 years ago] … all these early sapiens have recent Neanderthal DNA, and that's why we have [Neanderthal DNA] today. But when you reach and you try to extract DNA from the last Neanderthals, contemporaries of these early sapiens — let's say between 40,000 and 50,000 years ago — there's not a single Neanderthal with sapiens DNA." https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/simply-did-not-work-...
Interesting choice of study then. To exclude that concerning period.
Look at almost ANY arcade game of the 70s/80s. Most of them weren't designed with an end in mind. You play as long as you can for the accolades that come with posting your initials on the scoreboard.

Asteroids is a quintessential example - relatively flat difficulty curve once you've mastered the game - it really comes down to a test of the player's endurance. Scott Safran set a record game that lasted a grueling 60 hours.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Safran

EDIT: Anyone who has EVER tried for a high score (whether a personal best, or a world record) is familiar with the natural nervousness that increases in direct proportion to how close you are to breaking it. That's not a Flappy Bird thing, that's a literal every game thing. Go watch a live stream of a speed runner that's got a heart rate monitor attached to the feed for example.
I’m not generally a fan of XML either but what you posted there is just factually incorrect in just about every conceivable way.

1. There’s plenty of XML parsers already available for most languages. Yeah there have been high profile exploits based from XML but given the scale of XMLs usage, it’s fair to say those exploits are atypical usage where XML can be user supplied. And as long as you’re not allowing users to upload their own XML, then you get to control the schema so there isn’t any risks in using XML.

2. XMLs entire purpose is a data store. I’m not someone who likes to blame the developers for using their tools wrong but honestly, if you can’t unmarshal an XML schema you have control over then you’re not going to succeed with JSON either.

3. It is. But it’s also highly compressible because of its repetitive tags. So for HTTP endpoints, it actually doesn’t work out any different to JSON.

> Leave the markup languages for intended purpose: text markup. Don't force them to carry data.

You do realise the entire point of XML is to carry data? It might have fallen out of favour in recent years but those of us old enough to remember a time before JSON will talk about how JSON is just a simplified reimplementation of XML. And with things like JSON schemas, JSON is continuing to copy XML features.
Well that’s the 10% it cannot answer. Most questions are much more mundane.
1) Most of these games are really great

2) As with us and our friend, many gamers knew Molyneux for exactly who he is, and thus moderated their expectations accordingly.
Renting a cargo bike is my default option to haul something bigish from ikea nowdays. Rich people love them, as you can put all your three kids and go haul them to school 300 meters away much easier in this thingy compared to both car and walking.
I think the idea is as a growth hacking strategy, people lost their way. The space is crowded and now it usually means people are posting positive numbers go up charts. What value is in that? Why is my chart more engaging than other people's charts?

It's not interesting, engaging, or educational. So as an growth strategy, it sharply slumps off after the initial launch post, and there's zero value to the reader aside from knowing it exists (again, initial launch post).

So it's a call to arms to reevaluate what you're doing. If you're posting number goes up, it's really no different from building in private, it's likely a wasted effort on your part and unnecessary noise to the community. Or maybe return to the old meaning of building in public. Create value for people, actually have a dialogue, and that'll pay dividends (that's the hope anyways) .