skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can throw out all the word salad you want about how you refuse to fly Boeing, but it doesn't change the facts.

Here's the facts: https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/2023-10/statsum_summ...

Anyone can simply go look at those safety records for themselves rather than listening to some random user's opinion. Look at both the safety of various Boeing planes vs various Airbus planes, and the records for how plane travel continues to be safer every year for the last 5 decades.
I second your anecdote. I ran both for a good amount of time but the last time I went to X, I opened it on my phone, waiting for a coffee, and got 3 posts about idiotic culture war nonsense chased with an ad for a crypto scam, and I genuinely aloud said, "what the fuck am I still on this for" and deleted it. Haven't missed it once since.
Destination Moon - the one where Tintin goes to the moon - is an absolutely remarkable piece of science fiction, considering it was published in 1950-1953, nearly twenty years prior to the actual moon landings.

The rocket design in that one is SO iconic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destination_Moon_(comics)
Have started listening to it, thanks.
Hugged, but here's a snapshot from Dec 26:

https://web.archive.org/web/20241226192120/https://www.hello...
I won’t be. The majority of accounts I follow have already migrated away or at least mirror their posts on other platforms. There’s nothing I need from X anymore.
Yes. I don't write for others though. I write because:

- It helps me gather my thoughts together and reflect on where I am.

- It helps me get better at writing and communicating.

- It helps me stay accountable for a few things. I like to write about success, failures, lessons learned etc and sometimes those things keep me accountable.

- It helps me learn better. Let's say you are writing about a technical topic. Now you will have to go and learn/relearn a few things related to it as you write about it.

If you write because you want to be found through SEO, that is hard in 2024 because Google search is now a shitfest with crappy ads first and real organic stuff doesn't even show until 6-7 entries.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42682305, which was posted first.
I'm glad that Fairphones are available in stores right next to Xiaomis, but they cost three times the price for half the specifications. It may plausibly be cheaper to buy a Xiaomi phone and then personally sue Xiaomi to get it unlocked than to buy a Fairphone.
Honestly, I just quit using social media entirely for the most part.

It’s been really mentally liberating.
In LM research, it is more common to measure the exponentiation of the entropy, called perplexity. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perplexity
You seem to be under the assumption that Doctors aren't interested in triaging, and the optimal allocation of resources. Of course they are - they want to be spending their time the most effectively in helping patients.

They don't need a paperwork hurdle to decide whether a blood test is needed.

Another reform that causes endless problems is the idea of patient choice/patient voice - which means vocal patients who are good at playing the system, and who are prepared to complain, suck up a disproportionate amounts of the budget - as it's easier to spend unnecessary time than it is dealing with the complaint paperwork.

Note the common theme of the above two pathologies - a systemic lack of trust in professionals ( in this case doctors ) in being able to do a good job - by people who aren't said professionals....
I left on 2022-12-18 after some of the muskian shenanigans and I haven't missed it since, quite the contrary in fact. Before that I had to put a time limit on using the app to fight off the dark patterns.

Now I'm going to actually delete my account.
Math isn't popular enough to have weed out courses, and math professors of higher division classes don't mind failing half the class. There isn't much of a drawback to letting as many people who want to major in math.

But intro STEM math is used as a weed out for other majors. You aren't going to get far in CS if you aren't able to ace your basic calculus classes.
Cloud Contact Centers: Myths vs. Reality
There are quantitative measures like story points velocity, time to merge, code churn, etc. Those can be simply measured but also simply gamed, so they should be used with caution. There are qualitative measures like code maintainability, satisfaction of stakeholders, communication skills, system design skills, etc. Those have to be assessed using peer feedback, stakeholder feedback, 1-on-1's, activity during calls and meetings and so on. Those are harder to measure, but also harder to game.
The first one is known in the Pragmatic Programmer as “select isn’t broken.” Summarized at https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-first-rule-of-programming-...
I don't understand the obsession with hating on X/Musk right now. He has his opinions, but X is still a great platform, and last I checked, Mastodon and Bluesky still feel like echo chambers (and the latter has a lot of... furry content). In the quiet, it feels like the media moved from hating Trump to hating Musk, and people are now obsessing over amplifying that message. But for what gain? It all kind of reminds me of Two Minutes Hate from 1984.
[dupe]

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42683753
I'm certainly no insulation or window expert, but AFAIK argon filled gaps between windows are more common than vacuum. https://vistaza.com/gas-filled-windows-guide/
Curious: what happens when Bluesky has all the same people/posts as Twitter? Will it be any better? Or will it just be the same thing on a new website?
Yea, it's entirely possible that I'm simply expecting a different game and just don't find the current one's endgame fun or satisfying. I played it a few times, chugged along building a nice colony, and then suddenly the big full-screen "Haha you lose, your opponent bought you out on the stock market (which you can't prevent)".

I'm trying to think of any games that try to include an in-game stock market, where the gameplay doesn't eventually utterly hinge on playing the in-game stock market instead of whatever else the game was about. Looks like we've discovered a rule: "Take any game about anything, in any genre, and if you add a stock market, the game eventually becomes a stock market simulator instead."
Over the past few months, I’ve been developing SuperSaunners, a platform built to engage local communities and support authentic sauna & cold plunge small businesses.

In a lot of places, it’s almost impossible to get a real sauna and cold plunge experience. However, these amazing locations exist somewhere and likely somewhere near you. Even worse, their hosts and businesses struggle to get the spotlight and visibility to find you and really grow their operations.

Why SuperSaunners?
Our mission is to fix this by offering a single source of truth for authentic sauna and cold plunge locations that includes a large community of both public and private backyard rentals. Here’s how we do it:
• Backyard Saunas & Cold Plunges: Exclusive access to a network of privately built backyard saunas and cold plunges in your neighborhood
• Global Directory of Saunas & Cold Plunges: Single view of every Sauna and Cold Plunge on the planet, including relevant details like temperature, sauna stove details, bench height and many more
• Customer Engagement Tools: Free listings for Sauna & Cold Plunge businesses and direct engagement to the high intent user base, without the crazy high costs of search and paid advertising
• No hidden fees: There are no surprise costs. We have a simple subscription fee to help keep the platform going.

Why does this matter?
I’ve spoken to tens of dozens of sauna and cold plunge businesses and it is so hard for them to keep the lights on. By supporting us, we help them build their digital presence and direct customers to their businesses within our sauna and cold plunge search platform.

We just launched and we have so much more to do. If you have a friend or family member that loves to Sauna and Cold Plunge, this is for them. Send them a note and tell them to check it out. Thank you all for your support and email us at steven@supersaunners.com
It's not just about familiarity. People are willing to try new things. The actual problems are network effects and vendor lock-in.

The hardest part about switching from Facebook isn't installing some other app or anything like that, it's getting everyone else you know to switch from Facebook.

The hardest part about switching from Windows isn't installing Linux, it's getting e.g. game developers to target Linux before it has significant consumer market share.

That isn't to say that doing these thing is impossible, but it certainly isn't trivial, so anyone wondering why it hasn't happened already can't seriously think the only explanation is that nobody cares. It's like saying nobody cares about high healthcare costs -- of course they care, the question is what do we have to do to fix it?
Ryanair calls for limit of two alcoholic drinks at airports in Europe
This ship has sailed a long time ago.

Thanks the MPAA and RIAA.
If I buy my grandma a device that is locked down in a way that NOBODY (including her, under the patient guidance of a scammer on the phone) can root, that is my choice. If you want a device that can be unlocked, the world is full of android tablets. Go wild. Some of us want an un-rootable device!
I've once heard from an RTS game caster (IIRC it was Day9 about Starcraft) "Assuming... Is killing you".
+1, very curious what completes the phrase
If you do do this, consider leaving your tweets/posts up: there's already quite a lot of link rot out there.
Reminds me of this clip from Family Guy

"Good news, everybody! Democracy just kicked in!"

https://youtu.be/N_ClsQsZ9uI?si=zGzxssHJwNmvDKyl
“Juvenal does not say is that the panem et circenses are either how the Roman people lost their power or how they are held under the control of emperors. Instead first the people lose their votes (no longer ‘selling’ them), then give up their cares and as a result only wish for panem et circenses, no longer taking an interest in public affairs.

…

I don’t think we get the sense – as is often how the phrase is used today – of the people being bribed to give up their votes. Indeed, that’s the thing: the people stopped being able to sell their votes and so could only wish for bread and circuses (rather than buy them with their votes). Instead, the People weren’t bribed from their freedoms but broken and subjected to the lash by men like Crassus and Pompey and this one fellow we’re not going to name because Juvenal is a giant hypocrite who doesn’t want to get in trouble with the emperor either. They were thus reduced by violence to merely wishing for panem et circenses (which Juvenal, in appropriately Roman fashion, views as a cowardly abdication of duty).”

Oddly enough, panem et circenses fits. The Syrians lost their democracy in 1963 [1]. (“The coup was carried out without violence, as the politicians were too demoralized to resist. The coup was met by indifference in the population at large.”) Come half a century later and millions can only wish for enough food [2].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963_Syrian_coup_d%2527%C3%A...

[2] https://www.wfp.org/emergencies/syria-emergency
> Specialist knowledge is for cowards

What a strange and thought provoking statement.
I've been continually impressed with Sonos.

I spent $2-3k on a full Sonos setup over a decade ago, and everything* is still fully supported and works perfectly. Without a subscription fee!

Sonos is the only company whose hardware I'm using 10 years later, outside of large home appliances.

Edit: Oh gosh, the sentiment in the other HN thread is literally the opposite as mine. Bracing for downvotes. I'm surprised that others have had such a bad experience.
A lot of sites don't have enough traffic to get statistical significance with this in a reasonable amount of time and it's almost always testing a feature more complicated than button color where you aren't going to have more than the control and variant.
For XMPP, the problem is unfortunately not just discoverability – actually joining the discussion is becoming more and more of an ordeal.

Many once-popular servers have stopped accepting new registrations (e.g. jabber.ccc.de), were involved in some nation state espionage activities [1], or simply seem to no longer be around.

For modern clients, it's not looking much better. There's always a promising new one around for a while, only to not live up to the expectations and become the "still current best but unmaintained" option of the future.

As much as I like XMPP, I can't help but notice that its future looks somewhat grim.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37955264
If you’re going to quit one thing just to transition into some other thing you’re not really doing anything.
No, the point is that both "driver" and "navigator" (as some pair programming referred to the roles) are looking at the coffee simultaneously, just one has the keyboard at the time.

This is extended to "mob" programming where you have whole team of "navigators" and one person at keyboard.
I tried signing back up a couple weeks ago and despite not following and then blocking Elon, and only following non and a-political topics, I was inundated with right wing propaganda. Every 4-5th post was from Elon or similar. It was too distracting to use normally so I deleted my account and moved on.
> When code is going to live for several years, no one will care if it took minutes to create vs a week.

No, but... if it took minutes instead of a week, that leaves you the rest of the week to create N more things. That matters, and may still matter in several years.
The Dolores Umbridge Effect
dangerous to students

It's fatally dangerous to students who ignore it or dismiss it out of hand. That much is already certain.
(This comment was originally posted in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42683660 but we've merged that thread hither)
What Is a Software Engineer's Job?
We've been happy using Thompson sampling in production with this library https://github.com/bayesianbandits/bayesianbandits
IMHO companies should aim for courteous interviews, with faster decisions, and if there's any take home work then it's fully paid. I've seen your work at Beaver.digital and on GetFractals.com. If you're still looking, feel free to contact me; I'm hiring for a startup doing AI/ML data analysis. Specifically Figma + DaisyUI + TypeScript + Python + Pandas + AWS + Postgres.
The author is saying that the output token is not deterministic. I don't think they said the distribution was stochastic.

Even so the distribution of the second token output by the model would be stochastic (unless you condition on the first token). So in that sense there may also be a stochastic probability distribution.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42683753
> If you can't agree on our brains being chemical in nature, you're engaged in magical thinking and we have no more to discuss.

I agree that our brains have a lot of chemistry. I can't deny that. Science shows we can mess up brains by messing up their chemistry.

So far, though, we still don't understand how it works. We can't use chemistry to improve it, just to break it or fix it. That alone should be a huge red flag for the reductionist point of view.

It's our best hypothesis, but is not good enough to travel disciplines to IT. We don't know enough to compare the two, hence the skepticism.

> What does it mean to "reason on human content"?

Pass the turing test should be enough. I'm just changing the requirements (no tiny humans inside, complete or otherwise).

> no human alive can read Linear A

If we had a living human fluent in Linear A, I believe we could decipher it. Machines have us, living humans speaking a living language, to learn.

> If you can't come up with a test, there's nothing to distinguish you personally from the AI that you're dismissing.

I can. Open the machine and prove me that there are no tiny humans or human pieces inside.
Advertising is the highest tech problem you can tackle. It literally is about using compute to bend the will of humans. How do you not get that?
You are welcome to take this up with Mark Zuckerberg.
I'm active in the retro game console modding community and we pretty much all jumped ship same time in early November.

I still log to Twitter once a week to check, there haven't been anything new in my following feed for at least a month beside the people cross posting.

So I can easily see myself do just that, I wouldn't miss anything anyway.
have you seen arthur whitney's code style?

https://www.jsoftware.com/ioj/iojATW.htm

i tried this style for a minute. there are some benefits, and i'll probably continue going for code density in some ways, but way less extreme

there's a tradeoff between how quickly you can ramp up on a project, and how efficiently you can think/communicate once you're loaded up.

(and, in the case of arthur whitney's style, probably some human diversity of skills/abilities. related: i've thought for a while that if i started getting peripheral blindness, i'd probably shorten my variable names; i've heard some blind people describe reading a book like they're reading through a straw)
I don't mind the AI stuff but find the censoring of conservative voices extremely disappointing.
Vacuum with big glass doean’t work. They use argon mostly because the noble gases have only 3 degrees of freedom, not 9, thus transferring heat less
Black String in the Standard Model – High Energy Physics – Theory
I hate to be critical, cause whatever works for you, works. And if you worked hard on something, that's a good thing even if some nerd on the internet is critical of it.

Having a long attention span is something you can develop, and you'd probably better served trying to develop that attention span instead removing the texts which encourage that development from your life.

The more classic solutions (training, meditation, medication, or waiting till you get a little older to try certain things) are probably all better fixes for the issue than an app would be.
I just don't want anyone to copy the content and sell it. It's meant to be freely accessible to everyone.
Those two seem contradictory and not encouraging for the continued existence as the industrial giant it (still) is.
This is a bit of a random place to mention it, but while I very much like OXO goods, IKEA makes the best (in my opinion) potato peeler for $5 - cheaper than anything OXO makes: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/ikea-365-vaerdefull-potato-peel...
There are some languages with books that remain relevant over decades, notably books for any Lisp - Common Lisp, Scheme, Clojure, also:

- C (post-ANSI) - fundamentals largely unchanged since 1989

- SQL and Erlang - basic concepts stable since 1980s

- Prolog and Forth - core concepts stable since 1970s

Although modern books might cover some improved practices or new tooling, older texts on core concepts remain valuable.
The people fleeing X are leaving because they are being exposed to views that they disagree with and they can't stand to see it, except bluesky and mastadon are even more draconian and capricious than before Elon buying it. I'm staying because finally the views that I agree with are being exposed better, but still 50% of my feed is dominated by views that I disagree with but I can at least tolerate it now.
Computer science is designing a new video compression algorithm to be more efficient. Software engineering is taking that video compression algorithm and putting into an application users actually use.
There are not N more things to create. It’s better to focus on making the things you do make as good as possible. And even if there were N more things, you’re creating NxN maintenance issues at an overwhelming rate.
Actually the good news is further down the article. Due to removal of checkpoints where a bribe had to be paid, the daily produce is now much cheaper. Also fear of being raided is gone.

You can make jokes on sugar or cancer, but this is life changing and how positive is to the people there.
I wonder what it's like to be ridiculously talented at everything ?
Microsoft tests 45% M365 price hikes in Asia-Pacific
The worst is when it works only when your oscilloscope probe is pushing down on the pin.
Don't know if he was involved with the recent app updates, but they really suck.

Additionally, they recently added a handful of Sonos channels to my favorites. This is my territory that you're not welcome to invade.
This launched today, trying to address your valid concerns:

> Bluesky is an opportunity to shake up the status quo. They have built scaffolding for a new kind of social web. One where we all have more say, choice and control.But it will take independent funding and governance to turn Bluesky’s underlying tech—the AT Protocol—into something more powerful than a single app. We want to create an entire ecosystem of interconnected apps and different companies that have people’s interests at heart. [0]

> FreeOurFeeds aims to build a new social media ecosystem on top of the AT Protocol, an open, decentralized framework designed to enable interoperable social media platforms, giving users greater control over their data, algorithms, and online experience (it’s what Bluesky runs on). They want to leverage this tech to create a social media ecosystem focused on individual control, creativity, community well-being, and free expression.

> They basically want to build Bluesky out from one company into a whole ecosystem of different apps and companies by making a non profit foundation that opens up its underlying technology so anybody can build on it. [1]

That last part is not very accurate. Anybody can build on it now. Their goal is to make a second AT Proto Relay [2] that is not under the control of Bluesky.

[0] https://freeourfeeds.com/

[1] https://www.usermag.co/p/freeourfeeds-a-30m-plan-to-take-bac...

[2] https://atproto.com/guides/glossary#relay
eBay acquires Caramel to reduce risk and complexity of online car sales
Holy cow, I created my account in May of 2007. What a different world we live in now.
Forgive me — what’s a prig?
The real problem with this setup was that a vanilla Pentium 3 would run circles around the dual Celerons. I had my Celerons clocked to something ridiculous at one point like 600MHz and still could not beat the Pentium.
That's just a BS trope. People who can't self insure either insure, or don't. And of those who don't some get lucky, some get unlucky.

If everyone who said screw it got unlucky the way the internet likes to make it seem then insurance as a business model simply wouldn't work at the price points it does.
Yes, Ubuntu has AppArmor and Fedora (RHEL, et. al.) have SELinux.

The problem is that both systems are quite difficult to use properly. The out-of-the-box configuration is good for a base increase in overall system security against common threats.

However, if you want the real isolation benefits that these MAC systems are capable of providing, you'll need a full-time security team with years of training to manage your personal desktop.
why do people feel so strongly about this? presumably you're only engaging with those you follow, which is at your discretion. does it really matter what platform they're on?
Well it probably won't promote people paying for blue checkmarks into my feed.
Only if you work on it more or less full time and have colleagues or someone holds your accountable for the outcomes. Otherwise it's a hobby.
There are three things you can expect from HN:

* People who like AI or China or Trump or Apple.

* People who hate AI or China or Trump or Apple.

You see AI slammed as much as it is glorified here. And AI is the topic of the industry today, it would be like shoving your head in the the ground if you ignored it.
Analyzing R/weirddalle then vs. now
Claude got it on the first try for me.