skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes — I set out to write a blogging platform to learn tools of the trade when I first was getting into the workforce in 2017. It’s been an on and off effort over years, and I don’t actually have that much writing to show.

Taking simonw’s advice (shout out since I see he also contributed to this thread), I’m trying to be less precious about my writing. I finally published a post that I’ve been wanting to see out in the world for years and it got to the front page of HN, which was of course immensely gratifying.

My motivation is partly “branding”, but also because I am a strong proponent of owning your own digital presence. Even if nothing ever came of it, there’s an artifact I can point to that’s a deep expression of my own sensibilities, and that’s what keeps me going.
That period of time is now. That filter is still active.
It's not conspiratorial, it's how HN works:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

But it has nothing to do with "cutting checks". PG hasn't been doing that, nor influencing HN, nor even reading HN as far as I know, for many years.
It's not that the skin is thin, but that the muscle is tired. Our muscle (or sense) of guilt has been overused and abused. Now it's prone to inflammation when we hear people who intentionally or unintentionally trigger it.

I think the irritation towards guilt may look like rage but I think it's a weary hopelessness. No matter what is done, history cannot be undone. It cannot be forgotten and many people feel it can't even be made right anymore. All the guilt of recent history did not lead to a new Civil Rights Act, it did not change the Constitution. And any of the good that was done to right history in the 20th century-- many claim it only belongs to yesterday's victims.

Those with the wrong ancestors are stuck in their sin waiting for history to be twisted & jabbed into them by their neighbors, who wish to ease or to glorify their own individual conscience.

IMO, the cycle breaks only when there's hope of true, genuine forgiveness that MLK preached and LBJ effected. But that forgiveness is beyond human power.
Riddle me this: if my web page is for a local cafe and I've uploaded 5 images and 7 paragraphs is there anything I shouldn't share?

Wordpress optimized hosts will have "servers" sharing the apache, the kernel, the php libs, even the DB instance. The effective burden of an additional host is tiny. Which is perfect for a local cafe's webpage which might be lucky to get a hit an hour.

Now how do you think you'll compete on price by using containers when your competitor can host a 100x the cafe web pages? The cafe owner does not care that they are sharing a php lib instance. They care that their 7 paragraphs appear when the page loads.
Ah, speaking of that, of course you don't generate the fake data as fast as you can. You just trickle it out often enough for them not to time out.
Wow as simple as that, thank you.
> But I think you already know that and went with the selective quote anyway.

Whenever I see someone try to pull bad-faith arguing like that, I just immediately bail.

Another fan-favorite of that cohort is incessant demands of proof.
Singapore has execution instead, since the people bringing in the drugs are usually foreigners and the consumers are foreign as well with no local reputation to uphold. Not condoning it, but it seems effective.
Rule 4 is divide and conquer, which is the 'splitting code in half' you reference.

I'd argue that you can't effectively split something in half unless you first understand the system.

The book itself really is wonderful - the author is quite approachable and anything but dogmatic.
> begs the question[1]

> [1] in the usual sense of the phrase, not the historical one recorded in some dictionaries

Wait, are you calling the correct usage here historical despite it still being frequently used in contemporary times, and advocating that the incorrect usage should be normalized?
... which ignores the hazards of pencil shavings in a zero-g environment, especially the graphite, a good electrical conductor.
Vancouver, BC is another city that considered it - but the incumbent mayor lost the last election, partly due to the issue.
Paul makes clear what definition he is using, so let’s discuss that instead of an unbearably boring discussion about which definition of “woke” is the real one.
Exactly right, it’s normal. But it’s wrong to pin it on immigration. My 10-year-old daughter takes the Tube to Bethnal Green nearly every day, and it’s an incredibly diverse and culturally vibrant area.
Based on the pager incident, I'd think you should avoid companies that don't have a publicly-known link to Israel. It's not like Hezbollah thought they were buying pagers from 8200 alumni.
12G Roller Coaster
If we wanted to make a drone have the intelligence of a dragonfly (which might still be a decade away), we would at least need a billion parameters and a trillion tokens in training data. Just helps us appreciate what nature is capable of.
Having access to Twitter may well have made that one and a half days seem like 4 months though.
That was happening even when they were still calling it machine learning in the papers. Longer before that still. It’s the way some people reliably get papers out for better or worse. Find a known phenomenon with existing published methods, use the same dataset potentially using new method of the day, show there’s a little agreement between the old “gold standard” and your method, and boom, new paper for your cv on $hotnewmethod you can now land jobs with. Never mind no one will cite it. That’s not the point here.
Can you recommend a better book on the same topic?

Is it possible that this is just the nature of writing about regional cultures?
Republicans spent a lot of money and energy to poison the word "woke".

I don't know if Paul is ignorant or evil.

But an article such as his on this topic that doesn't mention the machine is not factual.
Performance. A museum visitor may not have a good internet connection, so any solution that involves uploading a photo to a server will probably be (much) slower than client-side detection. There’s a thin line between a magical experience and an annoying gimmick. Making people wait for something to load is a sure way to cross that line.

Also privacy. Do museum visitors know their camera data is being sent to the United States? Is that even legal (without consent) where the museum is located? Yes, visitors are supposed to be pointing their phone at a wall, but I suspect there will often be other people in view.
US mass media is the longest-running experiment in the world at "if you scare people for long enough, can you make them more paranoid?".

Since 1972, Americans' trust in each other has fallen by half[1]. Pew Research has been showing how trust in all forms has been plummeting for a long time[2]. Of course trust in Government nose-dived in the 60's and 70's. In 1976, the movie Network! satirized "The News" as a force of corrupt capitalist enterprise meant to sensationalize rather than inform.

But none of this is new. In the 1890s, William Randolph Hearst waged a "media war" of propaganda at an unprecedented scale, intended to both dominate an industry, and turn popular opinion. He coined the phrase "if it bleeds, it leads" [3]. And well before then, newspapers have been used locally and nationally to push agendas, frighten, lie, exaggerate, and taunt the public into a submissive frenzy.

Today we have media juggernauts that wield a massive pulpit with brazenly political spin. They can lie, intimidate, insinuate, and generally bombard an already terrified public into believing just about anything. And the political fringe weaponizes it into not just political action, but also inspiring real violence and oppression at all levels of society. We allow it because it's good politics, it's good business, and, well, that whole freedom of speech thing.

But politics is a small part of the story. The media controls the narrative, and society is nothing but the accumulation of stories. Everything we consume is delivered to us through the media in one form or another, and all that accumulated payment funds the machine.

Society in America is big business. Most countries can't hold a candle to the control our media wields over our populace. Its tendrils seek out every eyeball and ear, pumping us full of fear and elation, followed by the next commercial break. Our culture is a media product. We wouldn't know what to do without it.

So, why do we fear our kids on the train, where other places don't? We're way better at packaging fear, and we're damn good consumers.

[1] https://gssdataexplorer.norc.org/ [2] https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2019/07/22/trust-and-di... [3] https://pepperdine-graphic.com/opinion-if-it-bleeds-it-leads...
"No Harm No Foul" in this case would be a simple demonstrative failure case, not functioning malware.
Sailing a load of drugs into Australia would be a cake walk compared to sailing them into Japan.
How many submerged Libraries of Congresses is that??
> If you didn't fix it, it ain't fixed

AKA: “Problems that go away by themselves come back by themselves.”
I wouldn't want it. Even if all countries implemented it, the first country that cancels it gets an advantage in attracting wealth.

It's also inefficient, punishes good behaviours (saving and investing), requires the state knowing what everybody owns.

If I was designing a tax system, I would try to tax directly where it is used. Car owners and drivers should fund roads, cyclists should fund bike trails, students should fund universities, insured people should fund healthcare, people living in towns should fund their waste removal, firemen, sidewalks, etc.

This would create self-optimising loops where people would spend based on how much they really want something. More drivers paying for roads = more roads; more cyclists paying for bike trails and bike lines = more bike infrastructure.
I’m curious what the real impact of this is as it only shows what the reduction in people entering the district is and not a reduction in traffic rates on any given street.

I’m surprised that they are allowed to have these rules as it appears to give preferential treatment to non-residents who don’t live in a district vs residents who live in a district, which runs counter to general principles that roads in America that are funded by all of our tax dollars should treat drivers equally and not offer preferential treatment to residents.
BTW, similar to DragThing, you can add a folder next to the trash can on the Dock. And to move a file to that folder, drop it there while holding CMD.
> Personally I'd love it if they managed to get to the library and home on their own at 13 by public transit. And to a certain extent I don't think that's a big expectation; it's a single bus transfer from a stop right outside our front door.

That's a ridiculously low expectation. My older daughter took the bus alone to school by herself when she was 7 (and was immensely proud) and took her little sister with her by age 9. We live in a country with much worse public transport now, but she is walking back to and from the swimming pool (Abt 2km though the city).

I believe giving them independence and trusting them early is the key to success. It's actually much easier now then back when we grew up, she just got a kids smart watch (her request) so she can call if there is something wrong, we never had anything like that (if we were lucky there was a public payphone)
> it showed the nature of what I was talking about

My apologies. Yes, it did do that. The overall point is that you have to be there in person to judge quality - there was no advice for how to do it with internet sales.

The rest of my reply was, as they say, me being triggered.
I don't know, but if I say it's about working with things you don't fully understand people seem to trust me.
>a boogeyman that the conservative right uses as a summary label for various political movements on the left.

The movements exist and they demonstrably stem from a common ideology

Naming a political tendency is not making a "boogeyman" out of it.

>The complaints about, say, LatinX have far surpassed the number of actual proponents of it, which were a small number of people of the left. However, it still brought up again and again because it forms a useful image of what people are fighting against.

Here's CNN Business casually repeatedly using the term in 2021: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/26/business/netflix-diversit...

More generally, the point is that there is something to "fight against", which is causing real harm, including to people I know personally.

For example, it's fundamentally behind the idea that Tim Peters somehow "used potentially offensive language or slurs" by literally writing "XXXX" to censor a word and then providing context to enable people to figure out what word he had in mind, because it was relevant to the conversation. (I know that this was ideological because they do this for the word "slut", but not e.g. for "shit" or "fuck".)

Or the idea that he "made light of sensitive topics like workplace sexual harassment" by... claiming that workers sometimes get "training" because a higher-up did something bad. (Or the idea that "making light of a sensitive topic" is even bad in the first place.)

Or the entire bit about "reverse racism and reverse sexism" as explained at https://tim-one.github.io/psf/silly . (Incidentally, Tim, if you're reading: you cede too much ground here. "Racism" isn't a term that activists get to define. Discrimination is discrimination, and it's morally wrong in and of itself; injustice in the surrounding social conditions simply doesn't bear on that.)

It's also responsible for the fact that prominent members of the Python community are still making hay about the supposed mistreatment of Adria Richards - who, as a reminder, eavesdropped on a conversation in order to take offense to it and then went directly to social media to complain because a couple of other people were being unprofessional (although mutually completely comfortable with their conversation).

And it's behind the entire fracas around the removal of the endorsement of Strunk and White as an English style guide from PEP 8, as a supposed "relic of white supremacy". (There are public mailing list archives. I have kept many bookmarks and have quite a bit of detailed critique that wouldn't fit in the margins here. But here's just one example of the standard playbook: https://www.mail-archive.com/python-dev@python.org/msg108879... )

Outside of Python it's also fundamentally behind the plain misreading of James Damore's inoffensive and entirely reasonable takes, and his subsequent tarring and feathering. To cite just one example that sticks in my head.
Oh that looks nice. I've used Hugo before but for the lite stuff I need it abstracts the content too much. This looks exactly what I want.
That is year to date. There are on average around 250 traffic fatalities per year city-wide: https://archive.is/2025.01.03-112032/https://www.nytimes.com...

Meanwhile, there have been around 50 murders on the subway, total, since 2020.
i feel that a lot were better, better prompts are needed to achieve the same level of comedy now
We're "exclusionary" in the sense that we want males be excluded from spaces intended for women and girls, yes. This is entirely compatible with left-wing political views.

Really, this should be uncontroversial.
Do you think you live in a high-trust society?
I've long wondered what technological advancements would be necessary to make it profitable to mine landfills. There's so much raw material buried in one place.
reads to me like 95% of the "conventional AI" was applied to the problem and then using llm in the end seems to work like a lucky three-faced dice.

when "embeddings" are used to perform closeness test, you are using a pretrained computer vision model behind the scenes. it is doing the far majority of tasks of filtering out hundreds of images down to a handful.

visual llm works on textual descriptions that seem far too close for similar images. regardless, more power to the team for finding something that works for them.
> Unless you're already established or willing to play the AI-SEO game, it feels impossible to build genuine readership for a technical blog in 2025.

I think it depends what you want to achieve -- I keep a blog without playing any engagement games and get ~500 visitors per day, which is much more than I'd have imagined.
Apparently his version of Lisp does not allow it ;-)
Who cares about news articles? If you're worried that dense cities are dangerous, then back it up with some statistics about deaths per capita due to EMS delays.
We have multi-room, so I use the Sonos app for EQ between speakers. Sometimes for starting a station from Pandora or playlist from Spotify.

If we need more control over the music, we go to the Pandora or Spotify apps themselves, but Sonos for the speakers.

I guess I didn't use the old one so I don't know what I'm supposedly missing.
I don’t buy the excuse of DJI adhering to a principle that the responsibility is in the drone operator’s hands. Their motivation is almost certainly to cause disruption, aid in espionage, and do the bidding of the CCP. There have been so many instances of Chinese nationals “accidentally” flying drones near sensitive properties. Or accidentally approaching or encroaching on military property on foot or in a vehicle. And many properties adjacent to sensitive properties have been purchased by Chinese nationals or China-affiliated companies.

All of this is part of a continuous campaign of asymmetric warfare. We need to ban flight of DJI drones, disable them all through some means, or confiscate them all. Unfortunately that may only affect law abiding citizens and the ones looking to conduct espionage or disrupt operations will still just do whatever they want to do. But the bigger problem is that American politicians have been absolutely asleep at the wheel in managing China. They need to be FAR more aggressive with China, wage asymmetric warfare back, and even wage direct warfare by destroying key Chinese properties like ship building facilities, to reduce their ability to gain power.
No. They're doing it because it's marginally cheaper and more convenient in the aggregate, but if they didn't and stuck to cane sugar, the practical difference on the consumer side in terms of consumption and price per product would be essentially nil or close enough not to matter.
Many smaller companies and startups don't do any background check at all.

Try one of them.
They're just regular speakers you can connect to regular amps. If the raspberry pi doesn't work out I can simply switch that out.
I was born and raised in the US, and now living in Japan with my children attending a public elementary school here. I have been very pleased with my kids' preschool and elementary school so far: the teaching staff, the way subjects are taught (except maybe for English), the sense of responsibility and autonomy they are learning, healthy lunches, the musical performances, their physical fitness, etc. My kids also generally seem to be more fond of their school, and take more pride in it than I had growing up.

> “Our job is to prepare them to enter society” by teaching them to collaborate, take initiative and treat everyone equally. He calls it hito-zukuri, the art of making people.

> The education ministry’s slogan is chi-toku-tai: a blend of chi (academic ability), toku (moral integrity), and tai (physical health). This means lots of sports and arts. It also means that teachers praise effort, rather than achievement. Studies suggest this is an excellent idea: it makes children more resilient, notes Jennifer Lansford of Duke University.

I actually think there is something to this. I struggled a lot in school with depression and behavioral problems - and drugs when I got a bit older - and it wasn't until I finally went off to college and gained some autonomy and was really challenged for the first time that I snapped out of it. With my kids I feel like I can already see that internal drive that I didn't develop until I was 18.

Not all perfect, of course. But in general I like what I see.
Or an underappreciated risk to Bitcoin: people getting bored with it. That could happen much sooner than 150 years.

I agree that it'll likely be worthless in 150 years. We just don't need any massive upheaval for that to happen.
Did you know that car ownership in the Netherlands has continued to rise?

This is a blog post of a cycling advocate, from 2019 but still relevant - [0]

Quote:

In 1992, 42% of Dutch households were car-free. By 2016 this had dropped to about a quarter. Car ownership has continued to increase since then. Higher car ownership leads to higher car usage. Almost anyone who can easily afford a car has one and there aren't many people at all who choose to go without if they can afford one: Amongst people of average income, just 12% of households don't have a car and that drops further to just 6% for high income households.

In other words, people choose to own a car if they can afford it, even if they cycle frequently at the same time.

[0] -https://www.aviewfromthecyclepath.com/2019/08/the-car-free-m...
Yes, much, much, much cheaper than the life of a kid.

Used electronics don't sell for much these days, especially the Switch which barely hits around 300 USD new. And then you have to find a fence, and potentially deal with serial numbers being tracked (especially when it comes to violent crime against children, even lethargic police spring into action).
Ha! Guilty as charged. I have a coworker who's probably very disappointed in me right now!
And if you are not born into a family that can "invest and take care of", too bad.
I imagine life will be very different, but I doubt money won't exist. Just like how different the world is today compared to 150 years ago.
Sure but that has almost nothing to do with how it’s used today.

Language and the meanings of words change over time, and it’s all but impossible to make people go back to using tre old definition.
Could one build off this to run the desktops on the local host's display? I.e. as an IoT device with a display and some custom UI?
Masayoshi Son: Japan's Most Controversial Businessman
I find it personally valuable because it’s how I think and reason about things. I like to write, think, delete, edit, write, think, repeat. I do it with work, and in private I do it with a journal. Almost everything I’ve written about has lead to major revelations and accomplishments, or accompanied them. It’s basically how I make sure I’m firing on all cylinders. It’s how I go from interested and tinkering to highly engaged and working deeply.

The result is that a lot of what I’ve written has come up in interviews, caused me to meet new people I’ve eventually worked with, and it has generally enriched my career.

The key is that (in my opinion) you have to write mostly for yourself. I don’t write as though I have an audience (I don’t, really) and I think it shows. I’m just building or talking about stuff that I care about, and I get into it however I want to. Sometimes it isn’t even technical.

When there’s a target audience, unless you’re trying to sell something you care a lot about, you’re going to burn out on the content and there’ll be no passion leaking through. Write if you want to, and write about what gets you excited.

Even if no one reads it, you’ll benefit a lot from time spent thinking, writing, and learning about yourself and your work.
> While Chinese developers are focused on building great products, US developers are focused on pushing politics. As a result, the Chinese apps are clearly more desirable for users.

What specific features does Rednote have that beat US competitors?

Where do you think that US users heard about Rednote? If you are not a TikTok user, then you would had never heard of this app. Clearly, TikTok used their algo to "raid" Rednote, like a Twitch stream raid.