skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm guessing that's a bit of the dreaded "Not Invented Here" syndrome at play, but mostly just that everything is evolving too fast, in too many places, all at the same time.

Consider, we've pretty much solved the problem of quickly creating good GUIs for software with RAD tools in the 1990s/2000s. But that was on the desktop. Then the web happened, and then mobile happened, and we couldn't port RAD tools to them because the web platform, having been created with documents in mind, was fundamentally incompatible with ideas behind GUI. We've collectively spent the last 20 years simultaneously trying to paper over this incompatibility, while slowly pushing the underlying platform to be more app-friendly.

Today, the platform is still torn between the document and app paradigm, and we've managed to begin replicating the most basic features of RAD tools of yore, but all on top of a mile-high heap of bloat. But the Earth didn't stop in its tracks for those 20 years - the world underwent the digital transition in that period, businesses had to make do with whatever tools were available, no matter how shitty, and thus we've been experiencing a high-paced churn, with services being constantly upgraded as old hacks stopped working, and new ones promised (often falsely) to be less shitty than those before.

Maybe it'll all settle one day. The web will slow its evolution, and people will have time to clean up all the mess, and then we'll finally dig ourselves out of this big regression in software quality, capabilities, and production time, relative to the RAD times. But until then, we suffer. Transitional periods suck.
Well, speaking only for myself, I'm a lifelong member of a benevolent organization that provides many ways to do good works.

I can assure you that the work I do, makes a pretty big difference in some lives. We're not out to change the world. We're only trying to police our own area*.

Being older and more experienced, means that the work I do is much more effective, and much more economical (we don't have a lot of means). It also means that I work well with others, and am much better at team stuff.

*> “I was in the Air Force a while and they had what they call “policing the area.” And I think that’s a pretty good thing to go by. If everyone just takes care of their own area then we won’t have any problems. Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there. And look around you and see what needs to be changed.”

-Willie Nelson
I think stat based bans are the ultimate solution for all the client side bullshit.

If you use statistics, you will sometimes get it wrong, but in the other cases the cheaters are completely out of luck. You could offer the source code to your game willingly and it wouldn't help them very much.

If the cost of a false positive is $50 for the gamer and the chance of it happening is rare, I think many would quickly understand the value proposition from a game experience perspective.

Assuming your false negative rate is low (I.e., you have high classification margins), you can make it extremely undesirable for players to engage in unfair play. Even soft cheating like aiding teammates with streaming and discord side channels could get picked up by these techniques.
Why? If he or anyone who announced that he is going to partake in disruptions tell them to leave, if they do not leave call the police.
> Dear website designers,

> Please don't force light mode

Dear UX, UI designers, please don't force any mode. Let the user choose colors like it was normal since some time ago.

> I would seriously consider talking to your doctor about this. This seems abnormal.

The doctor does not come with those ideas, unfortunately. /s
Hundreds of millions of people…?
nice try. The billionaires gave us none of the above. Sincerly, an old programmer who was actually there when these things were funded, often at the public expense in many nations.

Computer games are pan-et-circenses, IMO, but I also don't recall any billionaires having created any.

Your John Galt story is trite and untruthful.
That's not the same thing. Also, can you share this 128GB $2500 laptop?
Do All Democracies Have to Die?
it's interpreted everywhere that way(1) except if fascists are asked to take responsibility for their action which is when it was somehow just a strange accident

(1) through I would say it's interpreted as Nazi idolizing fascists in many situations which isn't quite exactly the same as Nazi but not necessary any better either
> `ctx.Value` is an `any -> any` kv store that does not come with any documentation, type checking for which key and value should be available.

On a similar note, this is also why I highly dislike struct tags. They're string magic that should be used sparingly, yet we've integrated them into data parsing, validation, type definitions and who knows what else just to avoid a bit of verbosity.
What are some good examples of products that handle large amounts of data well?
Hi!

For context, I am building a Personal Finance Tool, and looking to improve how our users manage their financial transactions. The obvious example I can think of is email, but can you recommend any other applications that handle transaction data well that needs to be reviewed and modified?
They're still not even close to 5%.

The US doesnt treat any of its puppets particularly well. America treats its European allies a bit like Moscow treats its Belarussian ally. With the new administration that is becoming clearer than ever.
How do you do semantic chunking using embeddings?

And yes, I perfectly now what you are talking about. And yes, that is a perfect strategy to chunk large texts so you can index it.

It does not sound like you are familiar with chunking and it's current issues?
Jeez what a paranoid sad viewpoint. With that approach, you will never find proper friends, lose all current ones, and attract biggest scum around. Talking about states of course.

US alone is meaningless, powerless and insignificant and needs friends and peers more desperately than ever, containing less than 5% of the world population. Sure you can go North Korea style but why lose everything that was gained so hard.
A good reminder for EU to reduce their reliance on the US, and look for other business partners.
Point 5: even if your startup exits successfully, the math of exits are brutal for employees (even early ones).

Between double dipping for investors, accelerated vesting for the c-suite, and taxation intricacies, employees make out much less than they'll think even in good scenarios.

Everyone makes 10X less than their head in the food chain: investors -> c-level -> VPs -> directors -> senior staff.
I suppose they want to constrain total supply, so need sheer numbers of countries for whom they can cut it. I guess from a purely utilitarian PoV, it's inevitable that a fraction of sold chips will end up in China et al. So there may be no suspicion of foul play.

But, f*k me, the optics are terrible.
“Annoying” describes an emotional reaction to a pull request, not a property of a PR. Rather than blaming PRs, think about why you get annoyed. What part of dealing with PRs frustrates you?

I would bet that many companies would like to sell an AI solution, sweeping the PR review and approval process under the rug so we can pretend something useful happened.

I review almost all PRs for my team (all but my own). Sometimes I think I have other tasks I would prefer working on, but reviewing PRs lets me see what other programmers did and discuss alternate solutions, or learn from their work. I think of it as an important part of my job, one of the reasons I get called Senior.
The Red Giant
I've got an i9 and an NVMe drive. running npm test with 10k no-op tests takes 30 seconds, which is much quicker than I expected it to be (given how slow everything else in the node world is).

Running dotnet test on the other hand with 10k empty tests took 95 seconds.

Honestly, 10k no-op tests should be limited by disk IO, and in an ideal world would be 10 seconds.
FDR’s criticism of public unions applies more generally: https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/02/18/the-first-b.... The elected government shouldn’t have to cajole and negotiate with unelected civil servants to execute its agenda.

The comments about Starmer are shocking. So was the “Resistance.”
You're spawning a goroutine per Read call? This is pretty bonkers inefficient, to start, and a super weird approach in any case...
Now would be a good time to delete that account and the app.
Apologies. I stand corrected. Thank you for this insight.
There's server industry in Poland too. Ie many servers provided by big mainstream vendors, located now in data centers around the world, were actually assembled in Poland.
Why has the US AI factsheet disappear from: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...
How would they prevent it? Using military force? Because if it becomes an existential question, the drive to achieve it will be very high. Also, the intelligence complex has failed to stop countries like North Korea, so I don't think they are allmighty in choosing who can get it or not. The status quo is a consensus. We will see what happens when allies to the US sense the relationship has fundamentally changed.
Right. So if I go for the paid plan, I give them root access to a server I own, and they'll manage everything from there? What exactly are they managing in that case? Wouldn't that count as self-hosted, as I'm the one who is actually providing the server, from my infrastructure?

Alternatively, the free plan says "Install Dokploy UI on your own infrastructure" + "Self-hosted Infrastructure", implying the paid plan isn't Dokploy on my own infrastructure or self-hosted, how does that fit in with that I bring my own server?
I believe that’s called “soaking”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soaking_(sexual_practice)
It is usually user-based flagging. There is nothing rational about that. I've been in both (flagging/flagged) situations.
the hard oart for me to grasp is since the day of the theocratic state influence groups have been a thing

how can it be a separate thing if it has been a part of the state since its inception?
Switzerland is in Schengen and they kept border checks all the time, also strict limits on goods transferred etc.
> In industry, nobody seems to use big-O notation.

Ironically, it's because big-O notation is too theoretical and doesn't respect real-world complexity. Big-O is used to see when the operations are of sizes out of normal use and big-O doesn't represent hardware complexity (like latency differences, size limitations, or caching).
> This shift isn't isolated to these two posts.

Is there a statistical analysis which backs this claim?
Hard work, poor pay, known perverse incentives, and awareness of the probably replication crisis in your field == burnout and tears.

Half my friends are postdocs or associate professors (including my wife) at top universities and none of them are happy with how it’s going. Most apply for jobs every now and then to imagine escaping. And they’re the ones doing well in the system!
sure it is.
"mature" markets are only interesting for large moneyed entities to try to tweak things and squeeze .01% more profit out of a service/process/product.

innovation is risky and rewards accordingly.

Ycombinator app-startups are low-hanging-fruit with marginal innovation and marginal risk => it ain't hardware, and it's just webservices and a few React devs...

SpaceX and DARPA and ARPA = our tax dollars.
Consider this:

ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 60*time.Second)
reader := ioContextReader(ctx, r)
...
ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, 1*time.Second)
ctx = context.WithValue(ctx, "hello", "world")
...
func(ctx context.Context) {
reader.Read() // does not time out after one second, does not contain hello/world.
...
}(ctx)
> We experienced two cultural revolutions, first in the world of ancient Greece, subsequently in the modern era of scientific enlightenment.

Oh yeah, I remember them well!
The fascinating thing about JS/TS UI frameworks is that they seem to grow out of a frustration with all the complexity, heaps and heaps of oddball syntax, implicit behaviors and things that need to happen in a particular order or things blow up in ways that take years to learn to avoid.

So someone sets out to "fix" some aspect of this, discovers that their new design was incomplete, and then all of this weirdness seeps back in to "fix" the problems that arise, and then the cycle starts over.

I had hoped that WASM would provide an opportunity to invite more disciplined designers to accomplish something in the browser, but that never happened. I've often wondered why. I've tried to make use of WASM on the server side, but I have to admit that it is limited and clumsy and leads to heaps of unpleasant and risky code.
Civil rights leaders both protested and engaged in civil disobedience. Protests and civil disobedience are not the same. Protest is allowed, civil disobedience will get you arrested.

When things are wrong there is no right way to do things. You just have to act with your morals and what you believe is right. If enough people agree with you then things change. Or you just ahead of your time and will be looked back on as a savant.

I'm sorry you grew up in a cult. One of my hobbies is investigating local cults. (Legacy Center in NC)

I don't know you're circumstances about your health or if there's a third to your life, but if I was going to be dead soon that would give me the more freedom of agency than if I had more to lose.

People think there is some magic planned to protesting, like you can protest or engage in civil disobedience and just the right way and this hinders people from doing any action.

If you see something wrong, do something. That's all there is to it. I stood up and screamed at representative David Price when he attended his speech at a local University at the beginning of the Iraq war. I just knew it was right, was it effective,? Hell no. Did it make me feel good? Hell yes.
Nobel Lecture – Herbert Kroemer [pdf]
High Frequency Trading systems

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-frequency_trading
Previous Trump's admin was more friendly than Obama's/Biden's towards Poland. For example they removed need to apply for a visa to visit; the process to get those was time consuming and frankly humiliating. Another thing is that Trump's insistence on increase military spending for EU countries is also in line with Polish foreign policy so overall there is a chance I guess.
I mean I don't expect Poland being anywhere high on priority list but we already got slapped by Biden's admin so it can only get better.
The point is about a specific technology, like software, not technology at all. For example, we continue to use the same vehicles (e.g. cars) with a well known technology while SpaceX is advancing on sending rockets to the space. Technology is advancing but some technology is well known.

This is not to say that software is not evolving but most startups don't have an issue with building software but with business development (e.g. selling).
Sure, maybe the Slaughterhouse Cases dicta was just wrong. But maybe there is something in the historical use of “jurisdiction” that sheds more light on what “subject to the jurisdiction” means. I haven’t done the deep dive myself, I’m just unpersuaded by the common law argument in Wong Kim Ark unless that really is all the historical record leaves us to go on.
Sold Anything Online? The IRS Wants Its Cut
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/taxes/1099-form-income-...
> predatory VC/backers using convertibles/senior debt to turn your equity into Zimbabwean dollars

Liquidation preference!
I seem to remember being able to vouch for stories. Maybe the karma limits have changed? Or it is also very possible I only remember being able to vouch for comments and confusing the two.
This is a nice text, but it's heavenly oriented to the very upper class society.
The author talk a lot about "sexual books" of the times, but you will certainly not find the "Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure" (Fanny Hill) in the hand of a proper young woman.
(this stuff where costly rarities for men too).

It was far more simpler than this, no need for books.

Every rural girls and boys, and women and men living in a city did know, without any books,
what there is to know simply by looking at the animals in the farms
or the horses and dogs in the streets.

There was also the "education" at the wash-houses... The hubs to know everything there is to now at the time.
> whoever supplied this Polish citizen would be breaching the terms of their US export license or license exception

And whoever (if that's an entity trading in the EU) refuses to supply a Polish citizen on the basis of his nationality is most probably breaking the rules of the Common Market. So if nobody wants to break any laws, this ultimately ends with EU buying GPUs from China.
An idiot admires complexity, a genius admires simplicity - Terry Davis
Although this solution is as cool as Coolify and will probably improve in the future, I still prefer to Dockerize my applications because, after that, switching between cloud providers becomes easy.
> The trick is to NOT have your script depend on the specifics of the environment, but reverse the dependency. So replace all `If CI then Run X else if Local Run Y` with the ability to configure the script to run X or Y, then let the CI configure X and local configure Y. For example.

> I'm not saying it is always easy and obvious. For bigger builds, you often really want caching and have shitloads of secrets and configurations going on.

Here's the thing. When you don't want secrets, or caching, or messaging, or conditional deploys, none of this matters. Your build can be make/mvn/go/cargo and it just works, and is easy. It only gets messy when you want to do "detect changes since last run and run tests on those components", or "don't build the moon and the stars, pull that dependency in CI, as local users have it built already and it won't change." And the way to handle those situations involves running different targets/scripts/whatever and not what is actually in your CI environment.

I've lost count of how many deploys have been marked as failed in my career because the shell script for posting updates to slack has an error, and that's not used in the local runs of CI.

What you _actually_ need is a staging branch of your CI and a dry-run flag on all of your state modifying commands. Then, none of this matters.
>And also: Jony Ive.

The person who created the distinctive Apple design language, several iconic products, got tons of awards, and his designs are still guiding today's Apple products (they're all Ive-derivative still), is one of your examples of failure?
Of course it can be separated. There is no inherent reason the two must be molded together. Zero.
This is such a bizarre thing to do from a young man/evolutionary instinct standpoint. I wonder if his hormones were awry. I see speculation that he had hypogonadism or phimosis.
Yeah the conservative stuff that gets censored is crap like pizza gate and Wayfair selling children. Or sandy hook lies. The two aren't even remotely the same.
Political action is fuelled by beliefs and ideals for the future. As a subjective observer, no one can attain a complete image of reality, or "the thing in itself". All we observe are appearances (phenomena) from our subjective point of view. In the process of a wider societal dialogue, we can exchange these points of view and eventually come to a rough approximation of the objective state of things.
Meh...the phrase "deep dive" has been around forever, not sure what about that phrase specifically gives "AI generated" vibes? For me, I just read through those and focus on the content quality of the article - "verbal seasoning" doesn't phase me at all.
I also joined around 2012, had the same impression as you, but I still have that impression today, just that I stopped seeing anyone as a hero. But I frequently end up coming across comments that were written by people who worked on my favorite childhood PC game/book/website for example, still to this day.

/bestcomments is a great place to discover these types of comments, in case someone has missed it: https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments
Is it also that many of HN's audience have gotten older and tried these things?

I'm currently working on building my own startup in the billing industry which has a massive barrier to entry just on functionality and then marketing spend and whatnot. If I was in my 20s all this work wouldn't be that much of a big deal. In my 30s it's rougher. And in 40s it would be even rougher.

That's not to mention other issues like funding becoming harder to get.
HN flags and removes lots of this sort of discussion for not aligning with their goals (imho, anecdotally). Censorship is a creeping disease that already has its foot over the winning line.
Poland is aiming for 4.7% in 2025 and is supporting Trumps proposal for 5% for NATO.

Meanwhile Italy is allowed to buy chips with 1.5% defense spending.

It doesn't make sense to think that defense spending is the criterion used to select the countries.
and a lot of it is directly funneled to crony's of the current king...

I doubt DOGE will recommend cuts to SpaceX funding.

I need to remind you that Mush has invented nothing nor is he an engineer.
His vast personal wealth is extracted, and at least part of it's vastness is due to corruption.
Mush's personal views expressed on his own-media-trumpet Xitter, have hampered more technological innovation than he has ever enabled or paid for.

BTW what's SpaceX carbon footprint like? This 'man' also just paid for a slice of the US presidency that just pulled the US out of a global treaty to attempt to address human-caused climate crises that are unfolding in front of our face on a daily basis as predicted.
Mush has done net harm to Earth, not good.
Depend on the contract but maybe they are the one updating the OS, database, etc.
Frequent Fliers Are Done with Loyalty Programs
Correct, but if you're interested in that, you start a regular small business, and you take a loan from a bank for seed capital. Venture Capital will give you much more more money and ask less questions precisely because they expect you to go for world domination - and they expect corresponding returns.

You don't reach for VC if you just want a lifestyle business, much like you don't reach for mafia money just to pay down your mortgage earlier. You have to know who you're getting in bed with, and what their expectations are.
Well, I have my primary browser (Vivaldi) set to block ads with uBlock Origin and reject any cookies or persistent storage request that is not specifically allowlisted. The number of websites that fail to load with a JS error, for what is basically a content page that should be static HTML rather than a "rehydrated server-side rendered page", is just infuriating. It's not even as if I disable JavaScript by default, although I really should.
free during a promotional period
It doesn’t work for the first three years, so it’s two years in practice.
No, because you’re pointing to a phrase with a verb and object but no subject. What’s the subject in the actual sentence he said? To whom is he referring?