skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i'm not rich but i know what i want to do

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Problem then when you get bored, your bookstore still requires work.

At a certain level of wealth, any job you can do can be done by someone else better and cheaper
Humble brag:

This brought back shades of 20 years ago to me. I went back to school to add a credential after my name to make myself employable. My experience running the back office for a long-distance reseller (FoxPro 2.6 database: application support, running customer service, billing, reporting, and being the networking yeoman) didn't look impressive on my resume without some additional alphabet soup.

This was my programming languages -- interpreters class. Dr Daniel Friedman ran a teach-along that culminated in implementing miniKanren in scheme. First day of class, the front row was empty. I was ten years older than every other student in the room (with the exception of Will Byrd). I sheepishly shrugged and took one of the offered seats in the row. For the next hour, the sheer force of scheme being written on the whiteboard blew my mind open. That continued for 16 weeks, three days a week. I highly recommend the experience.

I (probably) still have a pre-press copy of The Reasoned Schemer in a box in my attic. It was one of the goodies handed out on the last day of class.
Yeah it’s always interesting to me when people get rid of stabilizing social forces in their life to “work on themselves”. Changing doesn’t happen in a vacuum, in fact, it’s usually DUE TO those social forces that we learn, grow, and improve.

Gutting an otherwise healthy relationship to navel-gaze seems like a bad choice.

Source: My wife has absolutely pushed me to address hard things in my life and I’m better for it.
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If you don't want to live your own life, you can live it for others.

If you get tired of living for others, you can live your life for yourself.

There are a lot of philanthropic pursuits that could really use an extra million or two per year (LEVF would be my top pick), which is less than you'd expect to make from index funds returns.
yes they are. i use them more for covering bowls, etc. They don’t get as messy that way.

This looks great for wrapping avocados, cucumbers, etc. Thanks for the tip!
Lol isn’t that the truth, or my son !
> When you're dealing with ten notes, it's trivial to dump them into an LLM and generate connections. With a hundred notes, it's still manageable. But what happens when you hit 10,000 notes? Or a million? We quickly run into the limitations of context windows and processing capacity. Vector search helps narrow things down, but it's prone to missing important connections that a human mind might naturally make.

I run into the same problem. I made a RAG system and imported 15 years of reddit and HN content (my own message logs) + 2 years of LLM chats, totaling about 80MB of text. I can use it to retrieve fragments but there is duplication, and almost all duplicate fragments have slightly different approaches. How do I merge all of them, and how do I get a deduplicated taxonomy? I got about 290K unique keywords extracted from the text, it doesn't fit into LLMs.

I am gravitating towards building graphs of ideas, and having a way to generate unique (non duplicate) new ideas while ingesting new text.
I recommend reading The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**
Thanks for that comment.

I laughed aloud at "It's not as bad as you might think if you know what you are doing."

... because that pretty much describes all human activity :-)
>You may not beat an Apple Mx chip

That's Wei-han Lien, whom later led Tenstorrent's Ascalon design.
Tell it to my boss, he wants his app last week.
It’s hope and prayers kinda season, maybe bunch of people will figure out something. I have no clue what they can do, but I’m not a smart person with 6496493 IQ.
That last point is salient. I grew very rich in the last 3 - 4 years and I funded a bunch of my friend's startup ideas. Now I cannot bear myself to reply to their happy new year wishes because how the relationships have soured.
this part was disturbing. this guy cant run his own life but wants to dictate how others will live and get involved in government. the US is going to have to deal with real consequences from idiots like this.

I think running successful companies and making lots of money like this is just random luck sometimes. how did a person with no ability to introspect, surrounds him self with people that like and cant critically think manage to make so much money.
> However, there are some questions left unanswered.

> Why did I need to do the absolute most to reach this point?

> Why couldn’t I just leave Loom and say “I don’t know what I want to do next”?

> Why do I feel the need to only be on a journey if it’s grand?

> What is wrong with being insignificant?

> Why is letting people down so hard?

For these questions, I would suggest, you please read blogposts on https://os.me

Om Swami is an entrepreneur extraordinaire and has discovered his own truth. I am sure you will find it helpful.

Spoiler: He was(is?) also ultra rich and has figured out this stuff.
Learn a musical instrument. Stick at it and over time you will find you can create music , which will make you feel successful.
These days, what doesnt have microplastics in it?

Seems to me that a list of products without microplastics would be more useful and more likely to cover more than 0.0001% of the items it should include.
>experts in one field [assuming] their skills are transferable

That appears to be the premise of DOGE.

This sentence also killed me:

>working on various projects I’m definitely not able to talk about

It's not because they're classified. It's because a bunch of unaccountable private citizens are plotting behind closed doors to tear down the government.
Why does a terminal need an SSH integration. Answer: it doesn’t and you shouldn’t use this because it is unsafe.
It's commutative. Happiness also doesn't buy money.
Why not? I think the main barrier is the programmers are not comfortable with recursion, rather than a technical limitation.
"conservative administrations tend to favor cutting regulations"- citation needed. They favor looking like they do, but end up putting in punitive regulations that only the large entrenched, conservative owned companies can afford to comply with, stifling competition from below.
Another is how you index your docs. Today, most RAG approaches do not encode enough information....

Could you please provide some more info (or maybe links) about this, please?
If you detonate hydrogen and oxygen, you get pure water.
There are many IP vendors to license video codec RTL from.

RISC-V isn't a factor.

Many RISC-V based SoCs already in the market have some level of hardware video codec acceleration built in.
it is discrimination
I moved to Etsy after turning 40 (actually quite a long time after!). I’ve found it to be a really nice blend of respected work/life balance and egoless engineers working on a variety of technical paradigms at scale.
pyramid scheme of having a purpose
Not quite, because a successful business could be as simple as a lemonade stand. Government finance, on the other hand, is an exceptionally delicate game of safely maximizing spending to stimulate economic growth (and therefore future tax revenue).
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He's right of course. His argument builds on the "newspaper effect," where articles in your area of expertise are full of errors, but those outside it seem accurate. The elephant in the room is that AI-generated content doesn't need to be better than Pulitzer Prize winning authors to automate novel writing. It just needs to be better than Colleen Hoover.
What AIs Should Know About Humans at 1,700M (Unix Epoch Time, a.k.a. 2025)
If you're never getting that money back, you might as well forgive them and forget it. Then at least you'd keep the friends.
It's not impossible for a rich person to develop spiritually and attain heaven. They just have to give up all their riches. So functionally it is easier for a camel to do this other equivalent nearly-impossible thing.
https://github.com/OpenXiangShan/XiangShan-doc/blob/main/doc...

The list of fused instructions is kinda weird; besides the ones that correspond to SH{1,2,3,4}ADD anyway, I don't think I expected any of the others.

I don't see a mention of Sifive-style short jump predication there either, though I'm using Google Translate.
This is very common among people who sell their companies. AJ Wasserstein[0] at Yale's school of management has written a few things about it. He built up and sold a (non-tech) business for a substantial amount of money, so he's not just theorizing. Here's one of the things he's written: https://yale.app.box.com/s/ye0naovus7anbz875vcrcpzrdskjskgf

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You would not learn this in an economics course. Source: someone who has taken economics courses. Maybe a civics course.
This idea of machine-curated or machine-generated training data goes back thirty years or so under different names, at least in analogy.

A classic thing to do with ancient fraud detection models was

a) train a large/complex model on a reasonably accurate dataset

b) select training examples from the original training data and other examples that the original model gets right.

c) train a simpler model on the filtered dataset

This worked very well in the simpler world of simple classifiers particularly when the original training data had errors in it. Trying to fit these errors made the first model more complex (and still it often failed). The subset of training examples excluded many or even most of the erroneous examples and also excluded subtle cases that were impossible to learn within the complexity bounds of the time.
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Probably not gonna get upvoted but I’m pretty surprised none of the the top comments mentions volunteering or philanthropy. I believe people who get lucky should land a hand in making the world a better place. We are facing huge crises (climate change to name one) and as a wealthy individual you have both the time to spend helping to fix that and the fortune to donate. Being a smart wealthy individual just makes everything more valuable
Yeah altruism, but more...effective. Wonder if anyone has looked into that idea and if so how it worked out.
It’s unlikely you’ll find someone who takes an interest in developing you, who isn’t a personal connection or someone you pay, in my experience. You will probably have to take the first step yourself, either to develop yourself or to find and develop a nurturing relationship.
You don't have to have a PhD in macroeconomics to have useful policy insights.

For example, I wish someone could convince my city to stop planting a specific high maintenance tree on my street that constantly clog sewers and crushes cars.

Policy is far from perfect and there is plenty of room for improvement.
Yeah. When you have to work in order to live, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that you would be happy if only you had money to quit your job and time do the things you want to do.

Once you get there, you have to face reality: while being poor leads to unhappiness, being financially independent does not lead to happiness either. Don't believe me? Look at billionaires out there; do all of them look like happy and well-adjusted people to you? Not naming names.

And that's why wealthy celebrities repeat again and again that "Money doesn't buy happiness". It's because they know from experience that it really doesn't help all that much.
If you want to see the picture of success in spending one's money, find the pictures of Lebron James surprising the kids in the school he built in his home town of Akron, Ohio. His smile is the verifiable truth of "you reap what you sow".

Find other people to make happy, by first reducing their misery, and you ensure your own luck and happiness. It's the most important magic there is, along with repeating a Holy Name of God, like Nyame in Ghanaian (I learned that today on a walk).

Lebron reaps the joy of those hundreds of kids that he makes happy every single day. It comes back into our inner peace and happiness. And power.

Succeed for others and your success will only grow. Because compassion. Always compassion.
Very glad to see the work that byroot is doing as the new ruby-json maintainer!

Since I was mentioned by name in part 3, perhaps I can provide some interesting commentary:

> All this code had recently been rewritten pretty much from scratch by Luke Shumaker ... While this code is very clean and generic, with a good separation of the multiple levels of abstractions, such as bytes and codepoints, that would make it very easy to extend the escaping logic, it isn’t taking advantage of many assumptions convert_UTF8_to_JSON could make to take shortcuts.

My rewritten version was already slightly faster than the original version, so I didn't feel the need to spend more time optimizing it, at least until the simple version got merged; which I had no idea when that'd be because of silence from the then-maintainer. Every optimization would be an opportunity for more pain when rebasing away merge-conflicts; which was already painful enough the 2 times I had to do it while waiting for a reply.

> One of these for instance is that there’s no point validating the UTF-8 encoding because Ruby did it for us and it’s impossible to end up inside convert_UTF8_to_JSON with invalid UTF-8.

I don't care to dig through the history to see exactly what changed when, but: At the time I wrote it, the unit tests told me that wasn't true; if I omitted the checks for invalid UTF-8, then the tests failed.

> Another is that there are only two multi-byte characters we care about, and both start with the same 0xE2 byte, so the decoding into codepoints is a bit superfluous. ... we can re-use Mame’s lookup table, but with a twist.

I noted in the original PR description that I thought a lookup table would be faster than my decoder. I didn't use a lookup table myself (1) to keep the initial version simple to make code-review simple to increase likelihood that it got merged, and (2) the old proprietary CVTUTF code used a lookup table, and because I was so familiar with the CVTUTF code, I didn't feel comfortable being the one to to re-add a lookup table. Glad to see that my suspicion was correct and that someone else did the work!
> No path out of this valley involves traveling alone.

Unless you have a schizoid personality.
Was Searching from July till October, landed a job as a Fullstack TS dev.

While I'm really grateful for having an income, I wouldn't want to do this for more than 2 years. Hopefully they either give me a project that's peaks my interest more or I find a different positions (hey Rust companies!)
> ...they would need to be feeding those snippets in almost real time into a system which forwards them onto advertising partners who then feed that information into targeting networks...

I think this is totally mistaken. An ad seller which also wants to respect privacy keeps this data in-house and does the ad targeting themselves. The advertiser never needs to see personal information for this kind of market to give people ads related to overheard conversations.
Original Siri used a primitive sentence embedding and then nearest-neighbor of the vector to supported commands.
It’s always climbing mountains. Why does nobody ever go money-mad and excavate an exact replica of the dwarven city of Khazad-dûm in the Black Hills of South Dakota?
Hard to take such general advice seriously from someone who apparently doesn’t practice it. In fact, it seems mistaken to do so.
> unless scholars lean too heavily on the opinions of AI analysis (which is the real risk, IMO).

This is what I was talking about. Knowledge and ideas develop often by violating the prior patterns. If your tool is (theoretically) built to repeat the prior patterns and it frames your work, you might not be as innovative. But this is all very speculative.
A terminal doesn't need SSH integration, but it's convenient if it does, to allow you to easily start and manage connections. Is there something inherently unsafe about such an integration?
The vast majority of government spending is not about growth and isn't an investment. It is about placating voters and interests groups.

Arguably positive budget categories like Education, research, and infrastructure make up a miniscule part of the overall pie.
discipline is all you need
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> Employers dont like instability, period. They want continuous, headache-free production. Unions can cause instability.

Unions cause cost and bargaining.

If all you want is simplicity, stability and throwing money at the problem, instead of dealing with each of your employee's individual asks and try to gauge what's the most common complaint, you deal with a single entity.

Now I'm sure the US have a ton more baggage regarding unions, but we'd then come down to feelings and history, more than arguable reasons.
I was crazy enough to try this as well this year. It would be an extreme stretch to consider me a SQL expert, but I did make it to Day 14.

I agree with all the points in the post. It's really not that bad. If I had more time to devote to it, I think I could have reasonably completed more.

Here's my writeup, contains a link to the repo if you want to see some of the soutions.

https://github.com/ty-porter/advent-of-code/tree/master/2024...
> Money doesn't buy happiness

Yeah, but it let's you suffer in relative comfort which is the most that anyone can realisically strive for.
I don't think you have to have Fuck You Money to get to this point. Most people eventually become disillusioned with work enough that they reevaluate what matters to them. Getting a very profitable exit is just one way to trigger that experience.

I’ve seen a lot of people have random outlier success they didn’t earn and it seems to have the same effect as what most people get out of their careers: crushing failure they didn’t earn. By 50 or so, everyone figures out:

* it was almost all random.
* the things that seemed so important were not.
* working for money is a waste of time for almost everyone.
* you can count your real friends on two hands, whether you’re broke or a billionaire.

It’s surprising how the paths converge. There are differences, and the rich version of alienation is better than the poor one, but the mindset this society leaves people with is remarkably stable. No one feels like they won, which is why Musk and Trump are so full of rage at everyone. Either the gods shut you out or you are forced to find out that the gods never existed.
On one hand, this is a report from a group that has disclosed it is also shorting the company stock and expects to profit if the value falls.

On the other hand, their reasoning for the accompany being risky and overpriced sounds pretty strong, if perhaps in way too many un-grouped bullet points.
The vast majority of men develop depression at retirement. So you can say this with scorn if it pleases you, but the group you’re talking about is massive and doesn’t deserve this derision.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42575060
>Google had been making moves in this space – it officially supported RISC-V in the Android-specific, Linux-derived Android Common Kernel (ACK) up until May 2024 when it removed support from the ACK

>*a significant setback for the architecture*

Why do articles like this continue to repeat this baseless nonsense?