skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is supposed to be his ”manifesto”.

https://x.com/SyeClops/status/1866353712148685002

Doesn’t seem to me like he has a superiority complex. He is devastated by his mother’s illness and the actions of United Healthcare.
How disappointing.

It is not at all "say no to JS". It's "use my preferred flavour of JS instead."

I want to return to the pre-JS internet and especially the pre-JS Web.

Say no to Javascript at all in any variant. Also say no to PHP. Nothing of lasting value to humanity would be lost if both of them went away completely, forever.
Well I guess you can probably use such an account for sole proprietorship, meaning doing business in your own name with full liability etc...
But insect populations are also declining precipitously (e.g, 1), so killing birds might not have that much of an impact

1. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2023989118
Inverting this:

If you were to develop a programming language, IDE and DX optimized for coding on a phone, what would that look like?
So, how is TikTok different from X, Instagram, et al? Are they just smarter in borrowing your focus? For example, one of X key features to get your focus is rage and polarity.
This article is actually better than the average... as a Bluesky user who left Musk Social for the very reasons this article spells out. Title is a bit click-baity
I think this will become more common, not just in developing countries but also in the West, where phones are practically mandatory to have and laptops aren't, so lots of kids will get their first programming experience on phones.
Ethan Kurzweil on Venture Investing in the Post-ZIRP, AI Era
Indeed, so if it's on the same continent/building/room is it a backup? depends why you need to restore it. You can't tell whether something is a backup until it's restored, it's Schrodinger's backup.

A snapshot is a backup if a user deletes/edits their file and wants the old version. Raid is a backup if you're recovering from 1 disk failing
There is SEPA with instant payment in the European Union, which has to be available at no additional cost. Which in practice already works for micropayments, as can be seen by various entities booking 1ct to verify the validity of the account holder/data.

Amazon does this, Aliexpress does it, many others already do this. Why can't the effing press/media do it?

Similar applies to US-American ACH.

But no, those r-tards always want to sell their bundles and abonnements.
https://archive.is/dvqcu
I’ve fixed one or two things on my phone in a pinch, or restarted some services but having the patience to code fully on a phone/tablet is a whole different level of dedication. I feel naked without an LsP.
It was indirect, and people always see themselves as the good guy. It's easy to justify in your mind. "I'm saving shareholders money." "Most doctors over service patients, so they are the bad guys." "They would have died anyway," etc.

I would bet a lot of the healthcare CEO's are totally surprised that anyone would want to harm them.
I don't get the "type checking is the solution for the problems of the world". A lot of good things were/are written without type checking. Most of the problems I see in production have nothing to do with the wrong type being used or some forgotten required parameter.
Also, typescript is just javascript with a mustache. It's the same thing
Having a single backup with the same provider as your compute is a bad idea, no matter the provider.

Same goes for having your domain with the compute provider.
Hi, I have optimized the code so that it can be used normally on mobile devices.

Thanks more.
There have been people advocacing for universal basic/guaranteed income since the dawn of times and people against that.

The subject is broader than musicians only.
> The US is getting closer to the guillotine.

Sorry to say that but, the US has the _best_ propaganda system ever created.
It's plain JavaScript
This sounds ridiculous, given his family background, from which running out of money seems unlikely, but it’s actually plausible. I know a lot of people who came from wealth but who insisted on fighting their own battles. I personally wouldn’t recommend it, though.
Actively Learning Languages
>DMM and DLSite end up offering a large variety of pornography

What's really twisted is these same payment processors seemingly have no qualms about Steam's large variety of pornography[1], some of which are Japanese eroges[2] (with less/no censoring![3]) that DMM, et al. are demanded to delist.

Banks and payment processors really need to stick to just doing their business, which is securely storing money and facilitating the transfer of money between two parties regarding legal business transactions.

[1]: https://store.steampowered.com/adultonly/ (Warning: NSFW!)

[2]: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1073440/__Koikatsu_Party/ (Warning: NSFW!)

[3]: https://store.steampowered.com/app/955560/Evenicle/ (Warning: NSFW!)
This is what they make you do in Guantanamo
Cool since you know, at what point in the process do you swap out all the white ppl? Thanks in advance!
Classic HN: The Story of Mel (1983,1992,1999,2001,2002)
This is defeatist: compilers do not usually use the system RNG to make decisions, so what's happening is entirely accidental introduction of difference which propagates.

There is "intentional input" (contents of the source files), and "accidental input" (source file full paths, timestamps, layout of memory given to you by the OS, and so on). A reproducible build system should give the same output for the same "intentional input".

(the only place where you do see RNG driven optimization is things like FPGA routing, which is a mess of closed toolchains anyway. It has no place in regular software compilers.)
I have never seen two sponsored segments in a single video. I think that goes against most standard sponsored agreements. Those may just be regular ads.

>I'll always prefer written content. But often it's not available or not as well suited

Makes sense, this whole post is because text ads is proving hard to monetize. Menawhile, video is flourishing for now.

>it doesn't matter where they come from.

Matters to me. I wanna support the little guy with my time, not the trillion dollar conglomerate.

Another fun fact, but your youtube premium sub also spreads out some extra revenue to whichever creators you watch that month.
With respect to the American public, the majority can and do utilize nuanced thinking as a survival skill. The problem of modern American era, is not that our public is low in average intelligence. Rather, that on average, we have been miseducated to seek the eradication of discomfort, uncertainty, inconveniences, and unknowns.
I think so. To me it seems like yet another implementation of lambda calculus with a poorly made webpage which does not explain why it is interesting.
Space Nukes Are Bad
A precondition is likely that one has mainly watched CGI-heavy movies for most of one's life. Compared to old school analog movies or fairly raw photography that looks as fake as the Coca-Cola Santa. There's a rather obvious lack of detail that real photography would have catched.
Genuinely speaking, are there UX/UI/CHI innovations about developing software on small screens? I think it go both ways: it is not only about the form-factor but rather programming languages and UIs specifically adapted. For example, it is not the same to develop in C++ that using Python or LISP.
I have pondered much on such things.

Not every developer gets to work on Sora, Quantum AI chip, or CUDA source code.

For the very vast majority, it is facing stupid PMs, MBA bosses, daily standups, and getting fired with no fault of your own. There are good sides, too, of course. But you have to live through these.

Do you choose these or getting VIP treatment in society with tenured jobs and after MD + 10 YoE, you can say fu to any boss and open your own clinic, and economically be forever in the 0.1%?

And honestly, outside the US, many of the positive sides of being an SWE disappear completely (like crazy compensations, having too many options, etc.).

Programming is crazy cool, but the profession of Software Engineering is not always that cool.
I have a lilygo T-Deck, I use it for writing in bed with a custom text editor [0]. It has a surprisingly great typing experience, and I can get up to a decent speed. Typing can be good on handheld devices.

[0] https://github.com/coolcoder613eb/notepad
Tree Calculus Visualized
I found this gem on tree Calculus in another post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42373437) and thought it is worth submitting it for itself
I love the Internet Archive in its current form, but let’s assume that a court rules it can’t operate as it does now. Why couldn’t it adopt a system similar to YouTube’s ownership claim? For example, if the Internet Archive hosts a song owned by Universal, the company could claim ownership of that song and receive a share of the revenue each time it's streamed. To help cover costs, the Internet Archive could introduce a paid plan, like YouTube Premium, for 10 bucks a month. While this might not be the perfect solution, it would at least be better than a world without the Internet Archive.
IDEs and Proc-Macros (2022)
Conspiracy theory below, so beware, I warned you.

What are the odds that since case is high profile they probably used some grey area or illegal surveillance tool from their 3 letter agency friends and made up some story how a patron recognized him.

Convinently guy also had a copy of all the incriminatint stuff with him. (In russia he would also have sims3).

Since he talked on phone, they used some voice recognition software. They probably record all the calls and the system recognized him when he made a new one (or even worse - from someone elses' phone).

Then they used this whole doctrine of not revealing the real source.
I know it sounds silly but vim controls surprisingly well on a touch keyboard. Not needing modifier keys nearly as often as other editors is a major blessing here.
well it's not really "free" in that case, is it? The other issue is that those payouts vary a lot on whatever is ad-friendly and various other channel statistics we never see in public.

But yes, Youtube (to my charaign. There's loads of problems) is very much the "indie scene" in comparison, where it doesn't need highly produced million dollar sitcoms to bring in viewers.
Usually I don't tend to get caught up in stories like this. But one thing has me completely fascinated, is how far off the deep end the internet went over the last few days. A murderer became a cult hero online. I saw many posts even suggesting "the snitch" should be hunted down and get what's coming to him/her.

I try not to overreact to stuff online, but this took me a bit by surprise. Things really feel like a melting pot at the moment, with so much pent up anger amongst people who actually lead pretty decent lives.
They're both corporate shills, they get away with it because they pit the population against each other. If you forcefully take yourself out of either camp it becomes more obvious. You've probably been programmed by one or the other camp for most of your life through family, news, friends, etc.

It's the reality of modern campaigning. People don't give candidates millions of dollars because they like the cut of their suit. They expect reciprocity.
The problem is that if you don't do much, you will get out of touch and all the other Ds will be coming from a place with little understanding. I have seen it a lot, especially with companies growing larger. Then they focus on the wrong things due to telephone game between layers.
Because the purpose of libraries is to destroy organisations such as Universal and the faith they represent.
And frankly, how easy it is.
Conditioning prepares aluminium-ion batteries for real-world use
> Also, the more qubits you have/the more instructions are in your program, the faster the quantum state collapses.

Was this actually measured and published somewhere?
How about reproducibility?

I always took for granted most compilers will generally output consistent binary code given identical inputs. Then the other day I saw a post here about optimization timeouts and such.
Mine is outside for this very reason.

At the time Powerwall2 were the best value/capacity by a country mile, but I didn't trust Musk to not burn my house down.

So its outside, with a very large planting trough above it to provide some level of weather shield, and a strategic supply of sharp sand if the powerwall goes full Musk.
Plans for your blog after you die
yes, but they could have been made robust quicker with types. You still have types in untyped code, they're just in your head and the runtime doesn't know about them. That means you have to be extra thorough to do the type checking manually yourself, and having to write even more tests to validate your types and all those implicit assumptions
Open Source and Paid Alternatives for EOL Firebase Dynamic Links
Please let me know if you have any repos I can add to the open source list.
Albatrosses are beautiful creatures. They mate for life. Sadly, many are caught in long-line fishing -- just another example of how we destroy everything that is beautiful in the world.

"A conservative calculation of the number of albatrosses killed annually on Japanese longlines in southern oceans in 44 000." [1]

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/000632...
> "just be privileged as I was to get all the necessary education to be able to not be fooled by this tech". Yeah, very realistic and compassionate.

This has nothing to do with privilege, a person in Indian slums on his 2005 PC with internet access can have better internet BS radar than an Ivy League student.
> in order to let someone "deserving" collect the reward.

Very unlikely. That’s the most expensive $60k anyone ever collected. The person who made the call needs witness protection, immediately. He needs to start over and never go back to Altoona.

The assumption that Mangione can protect this person by saying, “He’s not a snitch, I told him to call me in,” relies on his having an ability to control the narrative while in custody… which is generally not the case.
I thought this was a parody of Guardian-style opinion columns at first. You know, "I have a strong opinion and here are Y meandering and mildly amusing/lighthearted reasons why" op-eds.

I like opinion columns and would love to see more about software development, but this one feels like it's going for the lowest of hanging fruit. Anyone who cares about JavaScript either way will already have an opinion and won't be won over by a humorous take.

I do like the author's style though, so don't interpret this as crapping on his work. Looking at the "More from this author", it seems this is his genuine style, and I found some of his other pieces to be good reads. More please.
Font designers are a lot like musicians. They think the revenue of one hit song / font should be enough to retire on.
People say always use the tool that's best suited for the job. This is very good example of why that advice shouldn't be followed.
I understand that you can start creating faster using their utilities, but as a UI library creator, I have to write more complex styles and can't do this with Tailwind.
He was working for TrueCar as a data engineer, he had employee provided health insurance.
One wants comments, another wants single quotes, third wants ...

Just acknowledging someone wants something out of scope is not an apology
"Wait, this doesn't make sense", believe it or not, is not the default state of humanity, nor is it even the majority of our thoughts.

I know I am not doing my body and health a favor. There's a tool called journaling, but I am not even using it right now. It's a very useful tool to get your mind into thinking "wait, this doesn't make sense", or "why am I behaving this way?"

Everyday, I say to myself that I am speeding up my decline in health, and yet nothing changes(because I don't journal).
I have two!

https://gifmemes.io, haven't touched the code for years, makes between 100-300$ a month, depending on the season.

https://vocabuo.com - a side project I hope to turn into a business, so I work on it around two days a week, made around $3.5k in revenue last month but most of it went back into ads.
> and the "vias" don't really make sense for any location I could think of

Most likely because the board has been decommissioned and the flaps got flapped around randomly. Very likely that is why one can't find a picture which shows the board with its surroundings.

> I don't think that example is a real one.

Real as in what sense? Do you think it is CGI?

> but for airports it doesn't really make sense because there are too many potential destinations.

Here is an other one: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Departures_from_ITM-...

and here is an other one: https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/ws/640/cpsprodpb/16C66/producti...

and here is an other one: https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/976/cpsprodpb/85EE/pro...

Yes, it is not as common as the per-character deesign, but it certainly was used sometimes.
A voice from the field here (Puglia, southern Italy). I can assure you that the landscape has changed drastically in a decade. Where a few years ago you could see immense expanses of green, now you see a ghostly landscape. It's incredible. Years and years have been spent inconclusively, both by politicians and by investigators, who have also wasted time with conspiracy theories.

Only a few people have replanted olive trees using species resistant to Xylella.
I believe their point was that, if you accept the reality of _this_ universe being created from nothing, why wouldn't you also accept the notion of _other_ universes similarly existing too.

I can get on board with that: that there may be other, distinct universes, but I do not understand how this would lead to the suggestion they would be necessarily linked together with quantum effects.
I have observed the change in approach to use aggressive (clickbaity) thumbnails, but I do think the quality of the content has not changed.

And I can't blame her for adopting this trend, in many cases it is the difference between surviving or not on YouTube nowadays.
Pay your mortgage on time every month for a few decades?
> who actually lead pretty decent lives.

It's because the whole image is fake. In theory everything is fine but you know there is something very bad about the healthcare system, and the power of an institution to decide about someone else's life or death is just one aspect of it; prices inflated beyond imagination is another one (these two are related). So we pretend to live normal lives but in the back of our head we pray we don't ever need to become a victim of this system. But on the outside yes, it looks like everything is fine and we have decent lives.
Precisely. Operating systems aren’t hard. They’re so easy and well established it’s crazy not to use them directly, and even though I’m not the world’s biggest Docker fan, Compose is kind of awesome to be honest. Deploying software and maintaining and OS is simple in this day and age.
Youtube =/= Youtube Music. I can't speak to the latter ( I miss Google Play Music), but I have yet to receive a normal ad on Youtube premium.
"Many-world interpretation" is just a religion, it has nothing to do with physics. Pilot Wave is an example of a physical theory, Copenhagen is an administrative agreement.
Yep. I want to see it for a small time (.1 seconds???) and then that it dissapears. I think it would look more nice.
Edwards subtext had table centric representation of logic iirc.
Yes, I was talking about jury duty and sortition.
People on HN skew young, smart (in one domain), and tend to live in a bubble of similar people. If you know you're smart, the smart people you talk to validate your smartness (in one domain), society validates it some more by paying you massive amounts, and you're not experienced enough to know better, you're bound to overestimate your abilities and knowledge.

It needn't be most, or even many on HN, and people of all kinds vastly overestimate their abilities. It's just that on HN it's overestimating with great ambition.

(I say this very confidently, don't I?)
This is the first time I’ve heard of him, so I looked him up on YouTube. For anyone else who may be interested, here is an example:

https://youtu.be/CTf0yE15zzI
https://github.com/tensorflow/tpu/issues/3363
Show HN: I made a timer with background music and stats to stay focused
I listen to music when doing stuff at my PC, also I'm curious about my productivity during the day, also I find making pauses essential to me to stay focused and sharp. So I've collected a list of high bitrate stations, grab some graphs and I built this timer. Let me know what you think.
Is OpenAI's o1 model worth it?
Python actually has a good typed ecosystem these days, and unlike JS -> TS you don't have to add a compilation step to benefit from it: you just have to enable type checking in your IDE.

JS is in a different spot where to benefit from type checking you have to add a build step or reconfigure your build tool, switch files to another extension, add some "type stubs" dependencies, and make significant changes to the codebase to benefit from type checking.

I think if Node and the browsers started allowing type hints in their parsers you'd see much less resistance to TypeScript.

Other scripting languages are probably not popular enough to matter as much as JS does.
Flawless Replay - time-travel debugger for Rust workflows
I think simplifying her to 'youtube influencer' is unfair - she is a doctor of theoretical physics with a specialism in quantum gravity who produces science content for youtube. She knows the field enough to comment.

She doesn't even say that this isn't a big leap (she says it's very impressive - just not the sort of leap that means that there are now practical applications for quantum computers, and that a pinch of salt is required on the claim of comparisons to a conventional computer due to the 2019 paper with a similar benchmark).
> there is a 50% chance that in general all the evidence has a 50% chance of being fake

No, not all evidence - only the one needed for the Parallel Construction.
> carbon dioxide in the air

Because CDs just appear out of thin air and involve absolutely zero CO emissions during their production; during the extraction of their base materials; during the logistics of the final product; the sale of the product; and the CO produced by the consumer travelling to the shop and back again, multiplied by 10,000,000 consumers per year… none of that counts because of wishy thinking and space-star-ology.
Yeah, he worked on Civ VI as a software intern.