skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree it's an unpleasant trend but please let's not cross into personal attack ourselves.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Uh, I'm not using the Amazon ecosystem so I didn't know that this store was so inconvenient. Thanks for letting me know.
> Certain types of code should not be thoughtlessly copy/pasted, and providing multiline `$` prompts enforce that the user copy/pastes line by line.

I hardcore oppose this kind of thing, for the same reason I oppose people putting obstacles in the way of curl-to-bash.

Adding the prompt character doesn’t make people think, it just makes people press backspace. Frequently I’m reading a tutorial because I’m trying to assemble headless scripts for setting up a VM and I really just need verbatim lines I can copy/paste so I know I’ve got the right arguments.
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>Same situation, I truly empathise because it really does seem to take a lot of purpose out of everything.

Mainly though if all the purpose-giving focus was on just getting money and the related grinding to begin with.

Getting mega-rich didn't take the purpose out of Steve Jobs, for example, which was focused on building stuff with some specific twist (his idea of good design). Or Steve Wozniak for that matter, he found hobbies aplenty. Or take the Rolling Stones. Filthy rich, but did they ever give the impression they got bored? Or Dylan, equally rich, which doesn't even have the extravagant lifestyle of models and exotic vacations and high life the Stones had, but is still content to record, jam, play concerts etc. into his 80s.

If the person has other interests, from programming to mountaineering, and from politics to art, they can still be there with or without money. Like the "guitarist in the local jazz and blues scene" thing.
The author co-founded Loom [0], which was acquired by Atlassian a year ago ~$1B.

If the insights are correct, each cofounder netted ~$56M [1]

[0] https://vinay.sh

[1] https://www.cbinsights.com/research/loom-valuation-investor-...
Databricks, Snowflake and Stripe required NDAs for the onsite portion of the loop.

The NDAs covered anything internal discussed during the hiring loop.
Three words: pomo fucking doro
What does tmux control mode do in practice? I use both (iterm2 and tmux), but not for this specific reason. I have just used both as a default for a long time.

So, what magic am I using without realizing it?
> facilities needed to use those links to find and retrieve content

I'm not using the ISP to find and retrieve the content though. They don't understand the queries I'm actually doing, they don't know what information I'm looking for. All that is encrypted noise to their perspective. Nothing they do manipulates the data or assists in the query for information except to pass along packets to a destination.

If my ISP disappeared tomorrow Netflix would still work. Hacker News would still be there. How does my ISP do anything about making those things available outside of being the same thing as a phone line calling a library?

> it's hard for me to see how it's "corrupt".

Because it's the logic industry lobbyists project and is completely illogical past that understanding.
Pretty sure unions provide much more stability for members
Phone screen was 2 problems in 45 minutes, I believe the onsite portion would have been more of the same but I didn’t get that far :D
Woah that's weird. Left shifting either takes 3 cycles or 1 cycle, depending on how you initialize the cycle count register?

This patch from the article makes it take 1 cycle instead of 3:

- MOV RCX, 1
+ MOV ECX, 1

>It seems like SHLX performs differently depending on how the shift count register is initialized. If you use a 64-bit instruction with an immediate, performance is slow. This is also true for instructions like INC (which is similar to ADD with a 1 immediate).

Practically speaking, is this sort of µop-dependent optimization implemented by compilers? How do they do so?
Also true in the programming world where JS, Python and Java dominate.
See this is why people need to get married. If I have no idea what to do, my wife will surely think of something.
Both are very competent terminal emulators. Just use either and you won’t miss much. I started using iTerm before the Terminal.app redesign (which was very much needed) and kept using it mostly for the tmux integration (which is a strong reason to use it). Nowadays, I would be happy using either. Ghostty is fine as well, though not as polished yet.
One to move society toward tolerance and one to move society toward 1984
"price of butter"
Automating Real Estate Transaction Process
Hi, I'm looking to build the Turbotax for Real estate transactions.

Wondering what you all out there think when you hear this. I've already help dozens of people save 10k+ per transaction doing this and to be fair there is a still a lot of manual stuff involved. They can all be theortically automated.

When is the right moment to really dive into the automation and dev work? Anyone out there have experience turning something that is considered to need a bit of "human touch" into something fully automatable?
Ghostty GitHub – Why users cannot create Issues directly
Not in the Bay Area, but I have friends at FB and I believe their RTO policy is strongly enforced unless you’re senior and have been at the company for a year at which point you can go remote.
I'd be shocked if they hadn't. Particularly, cymbal makers who have already mapped out the other parts of the process. In fact they may already be using the same or similar alloys. Consider that violins are all made from approximately the same materials.

It's a day's work in the right spectroscopy lab. A bit more difficult to figure out is how to turn the cast blank into a cymbal.

And, finding a place in a mature market.
Relying on that logic, the court could come back and say "Netflix could cease to exist, but Breaking Bad Season 2 would continue to exist; does that make Netflix a telecommunications provider?"

I think one sane way to look at this is that the most reasonable way to look at the concepts of "telecommunications" and "information" are different in 2024 than they were in 1996, and the 1996 interpretation will control.

Later

I didn't see that bit about lobbying in your original comment, but you get that the "other side" of this issue has even more powerful lobbyists, right? Google alone is an order of magnitude more valuable than Verizon and AT&T combined.
Ghostty hasn't had to put out a critical update since before 1.0 launched.
I appreciate the author’s openness in sharing their experience - it’s really worthwhile to share experiences where money isn’t everything, and that it can be a poor generator of meaning.

Speaking of meaning, I think it’s a task for everyone to find their life’s calling - something you’re uniquely suited to do. Sometimes that pays the bills and sometimes it doesn’t. I’m a bit surprised that “start another saas company” wasn’t really on the list for Vinay, but there’s probably a good reason for that. For me, I found that starting a family completely changed my life, as well as helping me appreciate more the family I already had - but I suppose that’s not something that lasts forever either. Good luck to the author.
What's not proper about Ghostty's quake mode?
This is categorically false: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTYveLPTC/

Also it just doesn’t make sense.
Except it’s not true, that’s a myth.
Fair enough. All depends on your threat model and risk appetite
Not really, historically far-left is the revolutionary left, the one you see organize global strikes (they don't believe in representation democracy, only in direct democracy, bottom up, so it is _very_ rare to see them participate in elections). Since global strikes are forbidden in the US, you'll have to define it by its negative: anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist always, anti-globalist sometime.

You have some groups who have a far-left affects in the US, but honestly since the BPP and the Rainbow Coalition they are either ideologically weak or ineffective.
"Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water"

You do what you were enjoying before, just now you don't need to get paid in money for it. May be you will get paid in fame, noble prize, smiles of people whose life you impact etc. The money you have can't buy those directly but only when you put effort.
https://archive.ph/DGqUI
I'm not sure if you are responding to the vague, unsubstantiated claim that the parent comment is, or trying to push a vague claim yourself.
I honestly cannot imagine living with these thought patterns, it truly sounds like hell to me. You don’t need to do hard things or overcome adversity every day to have purpose and find life fulfilling, it is an Infinite Game (read the book), not a Finite one.

If you are reading the comments, IMO these giant grand gestures to find some spark of insight (climbing mountains, moving to Hawaii, etc.) aren’t going to accomplish what you want. Ground yourself - go volunteer at a homeless shelter. Get a hobby that is social that you have no innate skill for, don’t tell anyone about your money, make some friends while learning a low-pressure skill. Don’t do anything until after the first day you didn’t worry about what you were going to do. Recover from your burnout.
What is "proper Quake mode"? Have you tried https://ghostty.org/docs/config/keybind/reference#toggle_qui...? (I don't have the habit to use this feature, but I'd like to!)

The others do sound useful too -- I personally hit a lot of spurious "tab output indicator" notifications in iTerm2, but if it _did_ work I could see how giving it up would be painful.
Very true. My manager at one of my first jobs liked to say "get the data model right and everything else will be easy" and that has largely been proven true in my experience (and it even applies if you're not using an RDBMS).
> To push myself to be completely (and awkwardly) vulnerable to a blob of nameless strangers over the internet.

This tone speaks to me, even if I have no desire to present myself in such a way. :)

> The immediate 2 weeks after leaving an intense 10-year journey, I did what any healthy person does and met with over 70 investors and founders in robotics. I had been learning about robotics for quite some time and was positive I wanted to throw myself into giving computers arms and legs.

FWIW, I see this a lot from normal-money people when they leave companies, even with shorter journeys. I've been that person, in more ways than one.

I also don't know what I should do with myself, but have considered doing an extra physics degree. Unlike you, my financial situation is currently only on the border of FIRE (and I've always been a low spender) and therefore not secure enough to actually drop off the labour market and into the second degree on a whim.

Not being American, the combination of you cringing about Musk and also finding the DOGE mission to be important is… surprising.

Regardless, good luck figuring yourself out.
I tried Ghostty but the configuration file seems to be flakey. For example I wasn't able to turn off the cursor blinking in it (huge distraction for me) despite there being a configuration flag for it, it just wouldn't take it.
Even still, I wasn't aware that Ottoman Turkish had its own alphabet, even if it still uses the Arabic script, so I don't mind the clarification.
Having a vuln that many other terminal emulators have had is pretty different from the string of unique and extremely bad vulns that iTerm has had over the years. It’s possible that we’ll see similar from Ghostty, but it’s a much newer and I believe smaller codebase, so I’m willing to give it a second chance.
I have my doubts you'd take any such arguments seriously, if you are set on the idea that productivity universally requires a 14-hour battery and a 2.5k screen.

I was traveling recently and got a lot done on an 8-year old tablet. I was very productive, I suspect the combination of being offline (no 5G modem), no random notifications, just me, the terminal and a Bluetooth keyboard. The compact size & weight, and not having to worry about losing or having an expensive iLaptop stolen made for a worthwhile trade-off. Any productivity gains would have been marginal at best, and not worth the cost.
>> Has there been another Supreme Court that has overturned as many precedents than the Roberts court?

Yes, every modern Supreme Court (1950's and on) has overturned not just as many, but more, precedents than the Roberts court.

"The famously liberal court led by Chief Justice Earl Warren from 1953 to 1969 overruled an average of 3.1 precedents per term. The number ticked up slightly as the court moved to the right under Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, who led the court from 1969 to 1986, to 3.4 precedents per term. It dropped under Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who led the court from 1986 to 2005, to 2.4 precedents per term.

Through the end of the term that ended in June, the Roberts court has overruled precedents at the lowest rate, at 1.6 per term. But it has picked up the pace since the arrival in 2017 of the first of three justices appointed by President Donald J. Trump. Since then, the rate has been 2.2 precedents per term, still the lowest of the four courts."

-- https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/29/us/supreme-court-preceden...

What news sources have you been consuming that have been telling you otherwise?
I also recommend listening to the drum history podcast which has episodes with Zildjian and Sabian family members.
Zildjian's original craftsmanship actually lives on in Istanbul. Mehmet Tamdeger, who began apprenticing at age nine under Mikhail Zilcan (grandson of Kerope Zilcan, of K series fame) and master smith Kirkor Kucukyan, continued the traditional techniques from the 1950s K. Zilcan factory in Istanbul.

What's fascinating is that Tamdeger and master smith Agop Tomurcuk preserved these methods by founding "Istanbul" cymbals. Initially exporting to the US under "Zildjiler" before switching to "Istanbul" in 1984, each cymbal was personally signed by both masters. After Agop's unexpected death in 1996, Mehmet continued under "Istanbul Mehmet", maintaining the 17th-century hand-crafting methods with the philosophy "Machines don't have ears."

The cymbals they make are particularly sought after by jazz drummers for what's known as the "old K sound" - referring to the original K Zildjians made in its place of birth.

Here is one for sale:

https://soundsanatolian.com/products/istanbul-mehmet-22-mika...
Was there an occult(ation)-like timeshift that I missed hearing about, which somehow made today April 1st?

Or is this a test ChatGPT or other LLM post to see if HGI exists, considering the comments that seem to be taking the OP seriously?

H for Human. As in Human General Intelligence, as opposed to AGI.

Or is the OP just an Elon-level narcissist and/or a huge startup koolaid alcoholic?

Genuinely can't tell.

Emperor mumble clothes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor's_New_Clothes
The hardest part of getting what you want is figuring out what it is.
What if the local university killed its electrical engineering program after a hurricane?
"Buy more bicycles", duh.

That, and find some ways to leave the world better than you found it.
That one was posted first—you can tell this from e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=arbesman, or just from the ID number in the URL. But its timestamp got relativized by the second-chance pool—see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 and https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... for explanations.

Also, it had the original source (https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/12/16/400-years-zildjian-cymb...) that this one points to.

Your post was great though! We just try to pick the earliest one (and/or the original source) when choosing stories for the SCP.
I find it a little unsatisfying when people write these things without telling me roughly what they're worth. "Rich" can vary wildly depending who you ask.

edit: according to another's comment referencing a $56m payout, it now occurs to me that his confusing mention of a $60m figure may have been exactly that
Fair enough, I'll edit my comment to just call out my dislike of the term without making it personal about the author.

(for anyone seeing this later, my comment above was originally more of an attack on the author, which is what dang was rightly calling out.)
> We cannot get them to agree on cookie banners and you’re talking about something much more complicated.

Another good example of something that’s technically feasible and not that complex, but was made infeasible due to either ignorance or malice, with all of the dark UI patterns and scummy behaviour.

> Hey, by the way, would you trust some Chinese or Russian root certificate?

Most people already do: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/net/da...

For example:

CN=CFCA EV ROOT,O=China Financial Certification Authority,C=CN
CN=GDCA TrustAUTH R5 ROOT,O=GUANG DONG CERTIFICATE AUTHORITY CO.,LTD.,C=CN
CN=UCA Global G2 Root,O=UniTrust,C=CN
CN=UCA Extended Validation Root,O=UniTrust,C=CN
CN=vTrus ECC Root CA,O=iTrusChina Co.,Ltd.,C=CN
CN=vTrus Root CA,O=iTrusChina Co.,Ltd.,C=CN

If there’d be an issue of not wanting to support a certain country, then removing such a group of CAs from a store would be trivial for a particular service, same as with the above.

Plus, the opposite is also viable, if for example the Russian govt. wanted to allow anyone to verify whether particular requests come from their citizens, they might also run their own CA akin to https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/russia-create... except that the attack vector would change from MitM to fake identities being issued by them as needed (but since the server is the one doing the verification, it might as well drop the CA when desired).

> What if in February AfD comes to power?

Revoking the eID and anything dependent on it would be akin to your passport being taken away.

Essentially the modern day digital equivalent of getting your Google account banned by some bot, if you use that account for auth in a bunch of places.

Fundamentally, that’s no different from the reality that we already face - my regular eID could also be taken away if my own government felt like it, same as with my bank account and other assets.

Client certs themselves are nothing new, same for PKI. It’s a cool technology that could but presently cannot solve the problem of client identity globally, because we just can’t have nice things and order.
Thats some top 1% shit
I guess honey is just going all out now?
> I'd guess that the ability of a very small model to do well on the TinyStories dataset isn't just because of the limited 3-4yr old vocabulary, but also because of it being an LLM-generated dataset.

You guess is correct. The level of vocabulary has little to do with it. There was a paper about this a while back (sorry, can't find the link) where they found that the model still learned just as well when they increased the complexity of the text, as long as the texts were LLM generated.
Plaster casts for broken limbs are produced by an application of will also. And those plaster casts help bones to heal more rapidly.
Grieving killer whale who carried calf's body spotted again with dead baby
Mike Cannon-Brookes is pursuing Suncable and other energy projects for the future, he's partnered for periods with non software billionaires from the hard resources world (eg: Andrew Forrest) ... there's no shortage of big projects that take big commitments .. even while ensuring you still "never need to work again" (ie. don't push all the chips in).
i recommend everyone test the web with TOR to see how dead the public internet is. Reddit won't respond. Many sites have a 10-minute captcha challenge (e.g. substack).

So many sites have deployed countermeasures like Cloudflare, but they aren't actively monitoring the failure mode on those countermeasures.

The web is on it's knees and these countermeasures are another nail in the coffin if we don't act fast.
Science and technology change rapidly, leaving interstitial gaps that often need quick policy-filling — difficult for most Congresses, next to impossible for the forthcoming one. Likewise, the judiciary does the damndest things and sometimes needs to be overridden or worked around quickly — and by someone who knows what they're talking about.

I see both sides of the issue. Truth be told, the Constitution does not provide for a fourth branch of government. But agencies are so ingrained in our fabric that they're not going anywhere anytime soon.
I think your problem is shared by a lot of rich people. I think a lot of them have no idea what to do with their lives.

Wealth is like a clicker game. As you work you earn money, like clicking the cookie to earn more cookies. Once you have enough surplus cookies, you can put them to work earning more cookies, and then put THOSE to work earning even more cookies, and so on. Eventually you're well beyond the point where clicking the cookie makes any damn sense, but you're still in the game, seeing how fast you can accumulate cookies and seeing how far you can go, just for the sake of seeing it.

Welcome to the life of the super rich. That's what investors do -- spend their time looking for ways to spend their money that will make them even more money, just to see how rich they can get and how fast they can get there.

If that doesn't sound like a fulfilling life, think of something challenging and beneficial you can do. Start a biotech startup. Look for ways to clean up oil spills. Invent a new battery. Build a toy for your kids with Arduino. You're smart, and in a position to do things many smart people can only dream of. Take advantage of it.
At least in the US, copyright is a monopoly on certain rights for a limited time. By locking those rights for an extended time, it is stretching that definition. The time to benefit from your creations is in that time window. That goes for my creations, yours, and everyone else too. Public domain is patient, but I don't think it is worth depriving it of moderately older works with which others can start to use as a foundation to build upon.