skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I am fairly good at overengineering and optimizing, I have always hated doing it. For the longest time I wasn't able to do it but then I learned about low level hacking, and throwing things into assembly. Then I had a friend enter the HFT field and he taught me a thing or two about optimization.

godbolt.org is fun to check out :)

But yea, I really like making quick scrappy prototypes that deliver business results quickly. I've always had that mindset rather than crafting good quality code. In software engineering teams I threw that mindset to the wayside because they'd get mad. Sometimes rightly so as tests have saved my life, but quite often I think SWEs focus too much on code and being technical rather than delivering impact. I think in part that's also because it seems that in most places I've worked at product owners are "supposed to" think about that. The dev is only supposed to think about the technical implications, maybe the UX implications (depending on the company) but the moment a dev thinks about business implications, I've gotten quite a few times to "stay in my lane".

In most cases the care for code quality isn't needed, sometimes it is. I'm taking a page from Jonathan Blow here (the game dev that created The Witness and Braid). He'd develop everything unoptimized and only later when he'd run into performance issues would he optimize it.
Heh, this thread reminded me that I own Sonos speakers that I haven't used in several years because at some point they updated and I needed to install an app or make an account or something to use them and never did.

So while it's maybe neat that they solved fringe use cases, it's unfortunate that they failed at the basic use case of "just easily play audio from my phone"
Claude is pretty good at writing Python programs.
I've been really impressed by how they keep pushing features out to old devices. Like, there was no reason for them to give the Mini 10 band PEQ - they could have made people upgrade. But no, the working (seemingly quite hard) to get the performance out of the chip in the Mini to do it, and pushed the update out to everyone.
>or keep them off the streets if they can’t.

Sounds good.

>I suppose this may be better than the US, but that’s a pretty low standard

What else they would do? Miraculously cure them?
No that’s the most common usage now. It’s almost exclusively used pejoratively. Very few people use it in a positive sense anymore.
Nooo I can't make money off of other people's work! This is an affront to FOSS!
It’s fairly stable, but with a large codebase I’ve seen it take a day + to rebuild the search index, not to mention GHES relies on GitHub.com for the allowed actions list functionality which is a huge PITA. It should not rely on the cloud hosted version for any functionality. That having been said, I don’t think there’s much of an alternative and I quite like it.
I have observed Hacker News commenters to be more predominantly left-leaning and "WOKE" compared to the general population. Not sure what the reason may be, but it is possible that they are taught about woke culture in their companies or universities. Generally, compared to the founder and startup culture that we all aspire for, wokeness is more prevalent in the majority of the YC audience.
I did not know that, thanks. But still - if I have to research now how to do that it‘s still going in the wrong direction, no? Besides, it‘s rare that Apple gives a choice, usually you have to adapt at whatever they decide.
English is defined by its usage, and the historical sense of that phrase is not actually in live use outside of "well actually" hypercorrections.
I wonder how long until this is standard, and PFYs coming into the industry look at our current practices much like people now look at non-encrypted credentials being sent over the network.
Ugh, agreed - I remember doing a GitHub+TeamCity to GitLab migration and I had specifically designed all of my jobs to just directly call out to a bash script. Artifacts and GitLab's infinite hooks made that much harder than it seemed like it would be.
You blame the sales-oriented CEO for the problems but then point to a list of highly technical changes as the ultimate cause. A salesman knows nothing about these architecture decisions and would have trouble asking for them to be implemented even if they somehow knew it’s what they wanted to do.

Could a more technical CEO have turned the ship around more quickly? Sure. But let’s be honest, the blame rests at the feet of the engineering team. Someone got excited about using some new tech and didn’t fully consider the ramifications. This happens all the time. And if you’re lucky, the code review saves you, or if not then QA saves you, or if not then the beta testers save you. If a problem remains after that, then it tends to become really hard to undo, from an organization perspective.
yes exactly -- like a free sample of a snack food is an ad but not all snack foods are ads
42k people in the U.S die per year from being hit by drivers, and far more get injured.

There's no credibility to your statement, whatsoever.
> Why exactly should arguably one of the MOST important parts of a state get exceptions to the law and transparency based on feelings?

In exactly what way do you think people's personal medical records are "arguably one of the MOST important parts of a state"?

If you believe so much in transparency, put your money where your mouth is. Post all of your medical records here, right now.
Or his original: I asked her to take it to the dump, she said 'too busy, do it yourself', meanwhile I remembered I wanted to double check which drive I'd thrown out but she'd had a change of heart and taken it already.
This is a rare case where I think I preferred the Wikipedia article - the neutral, impassive retelling of events somehow makes more of an impression on me, whereas I don't like so much the breathless style of the new article.
Could DINO or some other model be used to identify fillable form fields in webforms and/or PDF forms and/or desktop apps?

Or does it likely just work on real world photos and cartoons and stuff?
Has anyone pursued ADA accessibility claims against social media platforms? Their algorithms seem clearly predatory toward ADHD users. Basic accommodations like 'focus mode' should be required, just like other accessibility features.
PEI Homeowner captures sound and video of meteorite strike on camera
What is race? When a student is applying for college, are they free to check whichever box they think will maximize their chance of admission or are there specific, objective criteria to which they must adhere?
How should it have been done differently? How else is the researcher supposed to know if the attack works? "Hey random company, we have no proof it's going to work but we think maybe your system, which we can't see, is vulnerable! Go waste time and check!"
A source is not required for something to be true. An uncountable number of things that are true have no source to back them.
Pyret, the pedagogical language for the next intro course seems like a massive improvement over Racket. I have faith in the PL team at Northeastern, especially BLerner to not skip problem-solving fundamentals in an introductory course. Having been a TA for Fundies I and seeing what these professors value, I feel confident it’s in capable hands and that it may ultimately be an improvement.
I couldnt get past his definition of woke. It seems to mean "brown lady in my video game" today but the ranticle didnt seem to even care. It just wanted to hate on social justice.

The issue is this: 2010s SJWs were annoying. Gamergate, anti DEI, anti Woke people of today are even more annoying.
Well these things should be tested and verified periodically, just like ANY backup. You shouldn't just tick the "enable backups" box in AWS and then never actually test them
In general an essay writer believes his opinion is the correct one. Otherwise he wouldn’t write the essay.
> Microsoft controls Windows and DirectX, Valve only gets to play until Windows landlord allows it.

DirectX has to stay reasonably close to Vulkan. And Vulkan is not an afterthought for graphics card manufacturers, quite unlike OpenGL of yore.

And Win32 (sans Vulkan/DX) is mostly feature-complete for gaming purposes. Manufacturers can just target the current state of Win32 for a decade more, if not even longer.
nice. Thanks
The wiki is free and open-source? Or the contents of the wiki are free and open-source?

If it's a wiki, it would be less than courteous to restrictively copyright public contributions (but I'm sure it's been done).

And presumably, paywalling it would reduce contributions.

My impression as to the number one barrier to hardware modifications is soldering. For some reason people can't or won't do it.

So I'd like to introduce the non-sponsor for this comment, "Pincel" the open firmware soldering iron

https://pine64.org/devices/pinecil/

It's running a risc-v chip on open firmware so you'll have cool points with when you whip it out at Richard Stallman's next BBQ.
This could just be because people don’t walk in general… that was part of Jane Jacobs’ argument, that basically more people around makes things generally safer. Changes like these tend to be pretty exponential once they start.
I think that how big those problems get is going to depend on how much critical infrastructure we can hack back into a working state despite the fact that it can't phone home, which is going to be a problem if nobody knows how to work offline anymore.

Or, if it's a political scenario, it may depend on how well we can coordinate en masse without the cut connection. If we can exceed a certain threshold then we'll have removed the incentive to cut it in the first place.
> The amount of vitriolic comments here from entitled "service" members is astounding and makea me wish to safeguard it personally.

As someone who's never been in the military and isn't even acquainted with that many people who have been, I think I should give you a head's up that you are being an entitled asshole.

I think most people would be mad if they found out some of the most private and personal records about them (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42685002) would be made public to anyone who'd care to request them. It's a pretty terrible violation of privacy. Try to think about how you'd feel if something like that was going to happen to you (say, your complete browsing history would be made public, because I'm sure you have one and you almost certainly want to keep it private).
Here’s how:

Don’t discriminate on the basis of sex and race.
If you are not on that hype-train, yet, then

don't waste time skimming over, reading and understanding any LLM and AI papers.

Read about ELIZA. Build your own.

Get Tensors, Vectors, Fields, Linguistics, Computer Architectures, Networks.

Focus on the subjects themselves, not them in the context of Neural Networks, "Deep Learning" et al.
There were a grand total of 50 homicides on U.S transit in 2022. The number of deaths from drivers was 42k that year.

This is not a serious concern, and it's telling of the mindset of drivers in the U.S.
It is really not hard, and it demonstrates a baseline level respect for other humans. I know plenty of people who go by alternate pronouns or have changed their pronouns over the time I've known them, and even in cases where I've slipped up _repeatedly_ and used the wrong pronoun, I apologize and make a mental note to change my behavior.

Humans have been able to handle this sort of thing long before 'woke' was ever a thing: name changes due to marriage, or social pressure or immigration, or title changes like Miss/Ms. becoming Mrs.

It may be helpful to remember that the "ask" of you is a minuscule amount of effort compared to the person making the ask, who has probably agonized and struggled with their identity, their relationships, and what sort of repercussions they may face when they ask others to change how they refer to them.
> the reality is the market segments, new expensive housing only releases limited amounts of cheap housing, and does not significantly affect low cost housing availability

Yes on the former, no on the latter.

The differential effects of new luxury versus affordable housing on pricing in our most-expensive real estate markets is pretty much entirely a hypothetical given we haven't built enough of either to have a massive effect. What we can say is the effect of both is marginal and systemic. (Where affordable housing plays a unique role is in inhibiting gentrification through the creation of high-amenity neighbourhoods.)

In terms of the effect on affordable housing, you have to dig to find cases where the gentrification effect is positive, i.e. where more luxury housing didn't moderate or lower lower tier rents.

That all said, a YIMBY who argues against public housing is a hypocrite. We need more housing. How it comes up is less relevant than that it does. The parsimonious solution is to remove the restrictions that inhibit both public and private housing creation. Barring that, either is better than neither. (And yes, that includes only new luxury housing.)
You have it wrong. You are grouping in that top 10% the millionaires/billionaires who pay nothing with the 6-figure W2 workhorses who cannot hide anything.
Consider a Chromebook. They are well supported,and therefore work well despite being Linux based.
It's not. Open Source has its own definition.

You can define however you want, but it's not Open Source. What you mean is "source available".
A surprising (?) number of medium-term Bitcoin HODL'ers held because they lost access to their holding during an exchange collapse (Mt Gox etc) and then regained access because of government action. The irony is poetic.
Houses should not be an investment, but only used for what they are: a place to live. That's directly opposed to why someone not local would buy them.

This fall short, it should be straight up forbidden, also for EU residents (who are a big issue as well, looking at you German and French people that buy houses, leave them empty all year but 1 month and/or don't even learn the language and traditions of that place)
well, thanks for the nudge, moved my domains elsewhere.
> The only way this trend reverses, is if compute becomes so cheap and ubiquitous, that everyone can achieve the necessary scale.

We would still need the 100 M+ images with accurate labels. That work can be performed collectively and open sourced but it must be maintained etc. I don't think it will be easy.
> Because (a) that's not the topic at hand,

What is the topic at hand? The author's true beliefs? You're also just guessing them based on stuff he hasn't written. I can make my own conclusions based on a wealth of information on similar "essays" (much of this is not original and quite regurgitated), but we can't sit here and pretend they're simply unknowable. If you really got so worked up that you'd write this many words about the performative nature of DEI/wokeness etc, then why would you so overwhelmingly focus on the things about this that impact you rather than the groups these kinds of policies actually impact? What are PG's "damages" compared to such groups? C'mon. This is why I say this kind of talk is dishonest. If I were to give you the complete benefit of the doubt here, I would tell you to simply look to what else PG has written on social media or his blog about similar topics to conclude what he actually feels about such initiatives and whether they are worth doing at all even when done correctly (spoiler, he doesn't think so). Reading his problem statement, you wouldn't immediately guess that, and that's what I believe is dishonest (not to mention cowardly).

Why this is a problem is that this person, perhaps more than several 9's of people out there in the business world, actually has the means and capacity to do something meaningful about this and instead spends all of his mental and emotional energy bitching about a problem that honestly really isn't a real problem for anyone that is actually trying to help the problem at hand here.

> and (b) in American discourse, it's rather obvious what the correct (or at least default) position is with regard to racial discrimination and injustice: Don't discriminate on the basis of skin color, national origin, or any number of other things that have nothing to do with a person's character. Love your neighbor as yourself. It's even been written into law, including an amendment to our constitution.

This is just so decidedly untrue I don't even know where to begin. This author can't even bring himself to say without dancing around the language (weird that he has no issue with terminology in this case) that George Floyd was murdered in cold blood, which is an absolute fact backed by evidence. Why do you think this? We live in a world where saying afro americans should have the same opportunities as whites is "woke propaganda." Why do you think this?

it just reads like a petulant teenager complaining he got his wrist slapped for saying the n word in class. Sorry if that's "offensive" or oppressing anyone, I'm just reading the words he literally wrote. If he has anything else to say on this matter in contradiction to what I've said, please by all means show me. Again, I can draw my own conclusions based on what similar people (and not to mention PG himself) have had to say about this topic.
Interesting. I wonder if this association of $ with strings is related to the use of $ (rather than NUL) as the string terminator for DOS output routines?
What a weird thing to lie about.
Where's the source for your assertion? You're making a claim that foreign investment is beneficial with no source, but then requiring one when someone disagrees with you?
I still like Vagrant. But I believe it's yet another victim of the Hashicorp license change debacle from a year or two ago.

Unlike with Terraform/OpenBao, I know of no community effort effort to keep the open-source version of this project alive. The latest open source version is still available on the Ubuntu repo, but who knows who long it will work until somefor of bit rot occurs.
> The people arguing against high fructose corn syrup specifically are doing so under the misguided notion that sugar is somehow healthier.

I am not sure how true that is. I do argue against corn syrup under the notion that sugar is bad, and more sugar is worse, and I am far from alone.

> You see something similar in the seed oil discussions.

That’s quite a leap. Are you saying that people arguing against corn syrup (which was demonstrated to be terrible from a public health perspective many times) and those arguing against seed oil (who do not have a leg to stand on and are making counter-factual points) are in any way similar?
There are dedicated models for recognizing UI elements such as form fields. One example is https://github.com/microsoft/OmniParser
Just 4 images?! Damn. I’ve had to do at least in the 100’s. I guess it depends on the complexity of the segmentation.
I attended a corporate training on harassment where it said you can’t say “all hands” because it’s disrespectful toward people without hands. Use “town hall” instead.

On one hand, sure it’s an easy substitution to make. On the other hand, who decides these things? How does this affect our company? Do people without hands actually care? It all adds up and it’s wearisome like PG says, all these rules and you just try to avoid stepping on one.
Oh interesting. I was recently in my local HiFi shop (been a customer there for 40 years) to buy a new CD player and I noticed a WiiM box behind the counter in a display cabinet. I just assumed it was some sort of aging Nintendo Wii gimmick.

I'm being serious. If it has nothing to do with Nintendo then it's terrible branding.
Ah, the unintentional ambiguity of language, the reason there are so many lawyers in the world and why they are so expensive. The GP's phrasing is not incorrect but your comment made me realize: I only parsed it correctly the first time because I've heard managers use similar phrases so I recognized the metaphor immediately. But for the sake of reducing miscommunication, which sadly tends to trigger so many conflicts, I could offer a couple of disambiguatory alternatives:

- "her job was to be a crap-umbrella": hyphenate into a compound noun, implies "an umbrella of/for crap" to clarify the intended meaning

- "her job was to be a crappy umbrella": make the adjective explicit if the intention was instead to describe an umbrella that doesn't work well
Is Musk imitating Kim Dotcom or is that just inevitable behavior when you become rich without maturing first?

https://kotaku.com/arrested-megaupload-boss-cheated-his-way-...
I think that your focus on high school grammar is (perhaps intentionally) missing the point here. I've explained my position on multiple other comments in this thread, if you care to look, and it's not about a grammar issue. It's a societal issue which I've seen called SJWs (social justice warriors) which is characterized as mostly wealthy white Americans (although it spread to other groups too) deciding that they need to "help" minorities that they've never met in some way, usually by policing language or fashion. It's a low effort way to appear to be affecting social change while actually not doing much and in fact most likely just alienating potential allies who would otherwise be supportive of more important changes.
A related topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42673596
Beating cuBLAS in Single-Precision General Matrix Multiplication
I've seen that. Some Haskell libraries use Unicode for custom operators. Makes the code even harder to understand.
NINE other millionaires read this weird, angry screed. Not a single one felt the need to gently guide Paul Graham towards the truth.

These people are willfully ignorant, but they're so arrogant that they think that they're right about everything.
You would disempower people far more than empower them. You would be denying them the right to free speech and the free exchange of ideas. It would basically result in the wanton destruction of probably hundreds of thousands if not millions of established little pockets of community for self-expression that people had worked to build and maintain*. Name one other type of media that does not then also deserve the same ban on the same grounds you had in mind for why short form video is inherently evil.

* By freedom of speech here I basically mean the usual social norms about what things are generally not prohibited. I say this to avoid being misinterpreted as my position being one of "all speech is permitted no matter its content" because that's not what society has decided.
All this negative feedback had me second-guessing as well. But I took the plunge this month and I’ve been very happy tbh. Setup was flawless and I haven’t run into any issues since purchase.

But my setup is just Beam + Ikea Symfonisk for surrounds. Planning to add the sub mini later on.

My guess is the issues start to occur the bigger your setup and if you heavily use the app? I havent touched the app since setting it up.
> For whatever reason we don’t as a society let “tech” markets mature. We demand growth long after everyone is satisfied.

The reason is tax law and it applies to all companies not just tech. Removing the double-taxation of dividends would fix so much of our economy.

If you run a stable, no-growth but profitable company, and each year return the profits to the owners (shareholders) in the form of a dividend, that's bad because the income is first taxed when the corporation declares it as income and then again when the shareholders receive the dividend.

If instead you don't issue the dividend, but re-invest to grow the company, then the value of the shares can increase without creating a taxable event for the shareholders.

We could avoid a lot of the boom-bust cycles, enshittification of products and other economic problems if we just structured tax law to encourage stable, profitable companies issuing boring predictable dividends instead of our current system that requires infinite growth.
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