skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
for those saying "The Glass Bead Game" is a difficult read, be aware there are multiple translations from the original German. One in English is simply titled "The Glass Bead Game" without the subtitle "Magisti Ludi", another it simply titled "Magistri Ludi", and yet another is titled "Magistri Ludi: The Glass Bead Game". The first one I mention was originally translated during the 60's, when Hesse was enjoying popularity with the counter culture set, and that version is written to be largely understood by a general audience. The other translations are more literal to the original German and are a more difficult read. I read the first, easy one initially, but have read the others versions over the years as well. I prefer the easy one, simply because the ideas are the same on all of them, but with the "easy one" I can discuss with non-readers of Hesse and they understand what I'm talking about. The other versions use language that is not in common usage, meaning I have to translate to easier terms to discuss the book with anyone.
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Events and groups/communities (eg hobby, housing etc related). Otherwise I do not "follow" any of my actual (or not) friends.
It’s ideological. It’s using language that intentionally provides less information.
The future was 30 years ago.
I was certain that I read about a very similar issue here in the past, and after some searching, found this exact article posted 2 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32524702
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Why I'm skeptical of minimum prices for ride-sharing (because they're bad)
I'll accept Acquaintance. I still want some connection - we will meet again in person someday. However because they are that low and it will be years I need to put most of my effort into friends.
I don't want to argue the basis of system 1/system 2 as described in [1], because the point I'm taking away is more about whether they interoperate at times of decision making. The point I'm making is system 2 is a far more costly (effortful in the article) mechanism of decision making.

The point I'm making is, as an organism we avoid utilizing higher-effort or higher-cost actions when unnecessary. An untrained lower-cost (IR1 in the article or System 1 in my definition) decision will result in not caring about quality. A trained lower-cost decision will utilize heuristics to bias for higher quality.
Nah. You misunderstood OP about photography. There's a level in photography, as is in many other fields, where it's good enough to be used in print or on the Web without it being a major disaster. Anything beyond that will only speak to professional photographers, and not to all of them at that.

In other words: yes, there's a bar you need to pass, but it's low. Anything beyond that is not accessible to the general public, it will never know the difference. There are very few areas of expertise where anyone can easily measure / understand the quality. In most areas the only way to know is to rely on experts, subconsciousness isn't going to help you there, just like you wouldn't be able to divine the composition of the concrete with which the house was built prior to it possibly collapsing (if the concrete was low quality) without knowing how to use the tools necessary to measure that (subconscious level isn't going to help you here).

Even for professionals, testing for quality is very hard because of how many factors come into play, and how to weight those factors against each other, and often the impossibility or expense associated with testing. It's beyond naive to think that subconsciousness will somehow solve this problem...
When you’ve had a leg up, competition feels like discrimination. All these anecdotes don’t prove much.
> This already happened for smartphones.

Sadly even in tech many people do not seem to see smartphones as real computers.
Good advice for all product reviews and most articles too.
As it is usual in many areas of human endeavor, newcomers to the field tend to criticize design decisions that were made before them, only to re-invent what was already invented.

Sometimes it leads to improvements in the field, via rejection of the accumulated legacy crud, or just simply affording a new perspective. Most other times it's a well-intentioned, but low-effort noise.

I, personally, do it myself. This is how I learn.
Rails gives you the tools to do much of this already.

For example, this:

html_slice :stuff do
h1 'hello world' # @html_slice[:default] << '<h1>hello world</h1>'
text # @html_slice[:default] << '<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet</p>'
div do
_ '<b> some raw html </b>'
end
end

Could be written in a helper like this:

safe_join([
tag.h1('Hello world'),
tag.p('Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet'),
tag.div(<<~RAW.html_safe)
<b>some raw html</b>
RAW
])
Especially because you know a bunch of people will pay for it.
>Thinking of pursuing something like industrial automation.

>industrial automation?

>lost interest in software, what next?

Might have answered your own question. Hardware.
Bore is a tool for making tunnels to localhost
> Anyway, I'm not sure what you'd expect.

I was just proving the people wrong that were saying akin to that o1 was "oneshotting every question".

I completely understand from how LLMs work that they wouldn't be able to get this right. But then people shouldn't be proudly be pronouncing that o1 (or any model) is getting every question right, first time.
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The article sounds like someone complaining about words that they don't like to hear, but framed in a way to try to get others to stop saying them. It makes me cringe bigly
Consider using tailscale drives to expose certain folders using webdav. Have been doing this for de containers and VMs since it got demoted and since has replaced using winscp or other ways to share files
>They're just okay enough that it doesn't get in your way. That's quite a low bar to cross!

I so wish that were true. I feel like I'm regularly fighting "good enough” sites that get in my way. Or worse, dark patterns that are deliberately making it hard for me to complete a task.
I always thought reddit would be a better place for such topics, and before reddit, forums.
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I was not able to finish reading this text. Webdesign is such a mess.
Street View as a game engine: Localised sounds
> an app developer has the right to refuse service just like I have the right to refuse running an app.

In this case it feels like an app developer having the right to punch[0] you in the face just like you have the right to refuse being punched in the face :-P.

[0] (to use a family friendly verb)
Yeah what's crazy is that VRchat has existed for years, aside from getting sick and looking like an idiot, what people want out of VR seems like a solved problem...
Almost the entire US South is now being blocked by Pornhub
I would strongly implore people not to follow the example this post suggests, and write code that relies on this monotonicity.

The reason for this is simple: the documentation doesn't promise this property. Moreover, even if it did, the RFC for UUIDv7 doesn't promise this property. If you decide to depend on it, you're setting yourself up for a bad time when PostgreSQL decides to change their implementation strategy, or you move to a different database.

Further, the stated motivations for this, to slightly simplify testing code, are massively under-motivating. Saving a single line of code can hardly be said to be worth it, but even if it were, this is a problem far better solved by simply writing a function that will both generate the objects and sort them.

As a profession, I strongly feel we need to do a better job orienting ourselves to the reality that our code has a tendency to live for a long time, and we need to optimize not for "how quickly can I type it", but "what will this code cost over its lifetime".
Any computer or phone can play it back I’m sure. It’s just an MP4 file. And with Airplay or an HDMI cable your TV can too?
Teams is very similar. Every week or so: 'check out this new hat'
Lt. Barclay is both hero and cautionary tale.
I think the default go for solitaire from MS now has either Ads or subscription.
Depending on the bit size of a watermark, device-based watermarking should be easy to defeat using a quorum of devices to agree on bit values. It should only take around log2(n) attackers to remove an n-bit watermark.
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From reading that non-sequitur, I'm guessing that you are a bot, powered by someone's home-trained LLM.

Which is fine(?), but usually these go to reddit.
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Just pull the fuse on the infotainment systems. Disconnect the antennas and pull the Sim card.

GPS jammers are (AFAIK) quite illegal in most places and buying one will attract much more attention than modifying your car in your garage.
Ironically, DC makes me feel that way the most, where I routinely have to suffer the indignity explaining to people in professional contexts about my “diverse background” while they “ohh” and “ahh.”
Algolia Search and Refined Hacker News appear to treat title strings as case sensitive, so didn't highlight the original version...

i.e. Unusual vs unusual
It depends on the size of the team, and how well you run meetings (agenda, specific issues to be discussed, how well these issues are written, precise topics), how large the project is, etc.

You can have a very tight feedback loop (sometimes writing experimental code and coming up with a proof-of-concept during the meeting) if you run a tight ship.
The Rise and Fall of Goo.gl
Absolutely Windows. The win32 API is easy to use in assembly and is an easy one line call to createwindow. The message loop isn't hard to work with either. Lots of tutorials. eg. https://www.codeproject.com/Tips/1035362/Simple-Window-With-...

I wouldn't go too far past that if your goal is to get the hang of it. SDL and the various GUI libraries abstract more away but the Win32 API is easy to work with and a good starting place. X11 has another layer of complexity as it works via sockets and that should be ruled right out.

Having said all of the above i also wouldn't do it beyond learning. I've made my own game engines from scratch, i've written games in assembly, got them down to a few KB in size. No one plays them and i'd have to link to webarchive to find them. No one wants to play a very simply game that took a lot of effort to make that doesn't even work without emulation these days. It doesn't even look good on a resume.

You know what i actually use for productivity these days? Unreal or Unity.
This sounds like a trivial thing to take advantage of. Update the game to randomize damage and add a unique seed for each instance played.
I can’t say it’s not possible there is symbolism such as “the scarecrow represents farmers,” so when the scarecrow is elevated to the position of Ruler of the Emerald City, that symbolizes something.

At the literal level, though, the government in these books is an imperialist monarchy. We read all the books to my ten-year-old, and he had criticisms of this without us saying anything, pointing out it didn’t seem right for entire races/cultures that had never even heard of Princess Ozma to be considered her subjects and subject
to her rule.
Warning, it's a single novel in twenty one volumes.
Also called Telecine (or at least, a very related process), as in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecine_(copying)#Piracy
> Then you decided to throw it away?! Why are you bothering to ask them in the first place?

Usually this was a mismatch of mgmt or expectations. Hiring old school DBAs and letting them think they "own the data", while plopping them into a huge dev team changing the big SaaS features daily is a recipe for trouble.

I don't fault DBAs per se, though I did work with some who wouldn't look outside their blinders at all.
The author could collaborate on developing further phlex!
I’m seeing tons of explorations around ways to do things happen today in the Ruby world. Starting to feel like 2008 again with an explosion of cool fun projects.
Funny how the west had outrage when Israel did this. But there’s no outrage when an Arab body or Arab country does the same.
Amazon has their Nitro secure enclave system that's pretty easy to use. IIUC its based on isolating the code that runs it and in it onto one core set aside for just that, possibly just when it's needed. Having the SE be easy to use is a key thing. Not that the Nitro approach extends well to consumer hardware (it doesn't).
When I am managing very large cloud projects, I still have to deal with the client’s different departments priorities, fiefdoms, dealing with the operations side wanting everything locked down and the developers wanting the freedom to do what they want. It’s part of dealing with any large organization.

I got an offer to be a “staff architect” at the company that I acquired the startup I worked for before going to AWS. I would have been responsible for strategy across all of their acquisitions.

While the technical requirements didn’t worry me. I had never seen how a large product company worked at that level and didn’t have confidence I could pull it off from an organizational level. Before going to AWS I worked at small companies.

I did know the expectations in consulting. But in all large organizations you have to deal with that. It’s the nature of the beast.
It's not just the UK. As someone who is themselves in the same age range, as a hiring manager it's been eye opening to see the clusters of resumes from older candidates.

It continues to boggle my mind how many resumes out there are people who have spent the last 20+ years working on the same set of problems, using the same tech. The reason a lot of these people aren't getting jobs is not that they're old. It's that they've stagnated to a degree I would not have thought possible. Meanwhile there are people out there who are staying relevant *and* bringing extra wisdom to the table. Those people get hired.
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One point I wanted to add- an older car like this is fully depreciated, and will often increase in value if you manage to keep it in the same condition. Buying older cars- especially models with rarer desirable traits like a Turbo or manual transmission, I've often been able to drive them for years, and ultimately sell them with enough profit to recoup all of my purchase and parts costs.

There's a somewhat tongue in cheek book "Porsche Boxster: The Practically Free Sportscar" that makes a pretty solid case that if you but the right model of car right at the age where the price is lowest, it can appreciate enough to virtually cancel out the full ownership costs. Although for the math to work out you need basically not consider the cost of a garage to keep it looking nice, or your time to maintain it yourself. Which is, I think a fair point if you consider the car a hobby, and get joy from taking care of it.
Even humorless curmudgeons (like me) can get in on the action with a huge array of people to disagree with, act snobby to, and never before heard of stupid opinions!
Anyone know of a browser extension that opens pages right to any detected tl;dr headings?
That's a very strong indictment from some anecdotal experience.

From what can be seen of the real criminal records, and media coverage, it looks very doubtful that both of the criminals driving these rental vehicles were guilty of as many felonies combined as some of the better-known real estate shysters who have not yet been adequately restrained from future dishonest activity. Just the opposite in fact.

Well if people are aware of the old saying "when the going gets tough, the tough get going !"

They've probably also heard the H.S.Thompson version "when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."

I think it goes without saying, when you celebrate felons, felons get away with moider.
>The Postgres patch solves the problem by repurposing 12 bits of the UUID’s random component to increase the precision of the timestamp down to nanosecond granularity [...]

>It makes a repeated UUID between processes more likely, but there’s still 62 bits of randomness left to make use of, so collisions remain vastly unlikely.

Does it? Even though the number of random bits has decreased, the time interval to create such a duplicate has also decreased, namely to an interval of one nanosecond.
A weird case on photography is dating. Apparently absolutely flawless professional-grade photos are entirely mandatory for men, and heavy depth of field is a hard requirement.

It comes off as total nonsense to me. Smartphone pictures of people look great to me and depth of field isn't something I give a shit about on a dating profile, in fact in any picture I'd prefer to be able to check out the background details. But I apparently live on a different planet from the people judging these photos. Even as a bi person I can't empathize at all with these fellow androphiles who apparently vomit and convulse at the sight of an unblurred background in a profile picture.

Alas, from the evidence, you need to be a highly skilled photographer with expensive equipment and perfect photos to get responses on those apps: https://killyourinnerloser.com/why-your-tinder-pictures-suck... https://killyourinnerloser.com/inspiration/

So it's one case where the fine details absolutely matter to outcome, even if the women on the other end may have a hard time articulating what's better about one photo than another.

(God, being a man with a dating profile is so exhausting - where has our species gone that something like this guide with millions of words is required for men to be successful? Wasn't there a time they could just be themselves? I'm eternally grateful I don't have to play that game anymore now that I'm in a great relationship.)
I too am missing the win on this. It is breaking the spec, and does not seem like it offers a significant advantage. In the eventual event where you have a collection of UUID7 you are only ever going to be able to rely on the millisecond precision anyway.
That place sounds great. I complain about more than an hour of meetings a day and am told that is unrealistic. This is a small company with under 30 people. Half of them seem to go to meetings all day long.