skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your parents have had one shot at deciding how to save for retirement, at one time. They've had an extremely limited number of shots at choosing health plans. Maybe they have a couple of friends with weird, memorable stories about those things... probably memorable because they're outliers.

Their experience is approximately useless.

... whereas there's a huge amount of well-supported expert advice out there. You don't even need to take a course. Search the damned Internet.

... and don't give me any "cocky youth" bullshit. I'm old enough to be the parent of a large fraction of people on Hacker News.
It's being marketed as "NEXTGEN TV" so not far off.
It wasn't rethorical and I appreciate your extensive answer. Being male myself, I can relate to some of the points you made. But I don't feel threatened. I guess there is a wide range of the meaning of this word, but I would describe it as perceiving a danger to ones life, livelihood, happiness or something. I did not experience any more disadvantages from being male than being young or old, short, brown-eyed, not too smart, overweight etc.

And your reasonable demands...are you seriously at a workplace where meritocracy is lived? Ever? Out of the many different non-meritocratic factors that come into play in a workplace, being male certainly was never in the top 10 for me. If anything it was an advantage. I'm sorry if you had different experiences. It's not true, where I live, that men can't apply for certain jobs, and I doubt that is the reality for you. The usual term is "everything else equal, a female candidate will be preferred", which is just an encouragement to women to apply. If you want the male candidate, you always find a reason that he is not equal to the female applicant. So if you have the feeling that you didn't get a job because you are male - perhaps it was because the female candidate was better.

And those recurring "leftist", "leftism" references make your statements a bit biased. The time to put everything in left and right categories is somewhat last century. It's all more complicated than that. Nobody hates you because your male and white. But it sure sounds a bit whiny what you are complaining about - imagine you'd be black and female, you really think you would be in a better position, you would have an advantage then? Come on.
Same with me. Extremely difficult to persuade people and to win arguments.
>what kind of kaska-esque system is this?!

It's the system that us Americans are tricked into believing is the best and nOt sOciAlIsM. Certainly USA healthcare is "the best" — if you can afford it!

My personal belief is that the kafkaesque nature of so many systems is designed to keep people destitute and despondent — to quote ole TedK: "our system keeps people demoralized because a demoralized person won't fight back."

~"We'll keep them poor and tired; if they're poor they can't afford to fight back, and if they're tired they won't have energy to..."~ —Jeff (Jonestown Massacre)

Having dropped out of a US medical school (almost two decades ago), I can assure you things have only gotten worse (from a bottom 80% POV). My best method of pyhhric victory is to not reproduce, earn just enough to live minimally (i.e. lessen tax burden/revenue), and never pay for health insurance.

YMMV — I quit, a long time ago.
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A grand chick saved me!
What would be the right number of absolutely clueless adults?
Maybe it's just me but every car I've rented while traveling through the UK for the last 3 months starts beeping when you go over the limit. Really helps keep you under it by annoying the shit out of you.
Even if the breaking changes were massive, you could keep the dependency pinned at the version you're using and not upgrade if the new features aren't useful/compelling
On my own systems, I use /opt for this purpose, including program installs and app images.
Text-based interfaces can be done with techniques other than simulating a very restricted device from 1978.
It doesn't matter whether that person is right or has a clue themselves?
Mandatory short duration TLS certificates are probably coming soon
No it’s different because threats to get concessions, and actually enacting them to self sabotage your economy, it’s entirely different.
First time I heard about the Moomins. I thought this was about Mumins[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumin
That's so cool, thanks for the detailed reply. I agree walking around with a big bouncy screen in front is probably not going to be very ergonomic. Still I can't let the idea go completely. Going RSVP+TTS might indeed be a more viable approach, certainly something to test with the current wave of AI/LLM agents.
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- Dark and light mode
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Hope you enjoy it!
Pidgin is back, so let'stalk about why a localchat client matters
It's not one-size-fits-all? If you're regularly driving extreme distances and peeing into a bottle while driving, and you don't have access to home or work charging, then your vehicle choice can and should be different at present.
I don't get why you're being downvoted here.

I don't know that AI won't be able to do that, just like I don't know that AGI won't be a thing.

It just feels like it's harder to have the AI detect your dependencies, maybe browse the web for the sources (?) and offer to make a contribution upstream. Or would you envision downloading all the sources of all the dependencies (transitive included) and telling the AI where to find them? And to give it access to all the private repositories of your company?

And then, upstreaming something is a bit "strategic", I would say: you have to be able to say "I think it makes sense to have this logic in the dependency instead of in my project". Not sure if AIs can do that at all.

To me, it feels like it's at the same level of abstraction as something like "I will go with CMake because my coworkers are familiar with it", or "I will use C++ instead of Rust because the community in this field is bigger". Does an AI know that?
Not disagreeing with you, but education and intelligence without qualities like empathy, common sense etc is useless. There are lots and lots of people with advanced degrees who lack basic common sense, basic decency, empathy for fellow humans etc.

I'd rather take a kind uneducated person over a cold hearted person with 10 PhDs to his name. I have no clue about the right way to teach empathy etc though :(
> I don't really know what to do about it, if there's anything that can even be done.

I wouldn't really worry about it too much. A certain amount of this is normal, happens to all of us, and just an illustration of how our brains aren't perfect machines. You can certainly mention it to your doctor, and they can give you an idea if it is happening to you more than what would be considered normal.
Korea used to have substantial auto tariffs. Every nation with an auto industry does.

Tariffs are/can be effective, you're just not supposed to tariffs everything on a whim.
reminds me of the BPS Space youtube channel, he makes rockets too:

https://www.youtube.com/@BPSspace

https://bps.space/pages/about
Then don't visit the site. Cloudflare is in the loop because the owner of the site wanted to buy not build a solution to the problems that Cloudflare solves. This is well within their rights and a perfectly understandable reason for Cloudflare to be there. Just as you are perfectly within your rights to object and avoid the site.

What is not within your rights is to require the site owner to build their own solution to your specs to solve those problems or to require the site owner to just live with those problems because you want to view the content.
This whole thing has multiple layers of annoying to even a slightly reasonable person. Naturally, further consolidating strength of the existing major behemoths is among those as well.
"thanks for the training data, goodbye"
Unlike the author, I would actually say that Go is bad. This article illustrates my frustration with Go very well, on a meta level.

Go's design consistently at every turn chose the simplest (one might say "dumbest", but I don't mean it entirely derogatory) way to do something. It was the simplest most obvious choice made by a very competent engineer. But it was entirely made in isolation, not by a language design expert.

Go designs did not actually go out and research language design. It just went with the gut feel of the designers.

But that's just it, those rules are there for a reason. It's like the rules of airplane design: Every single rule was written in blood. You toss those rules out (or don't even research them) at your own, and your user's, peril.

Go's design reminds me of Brexit, and the famous "The people of this country have had enough of experts". And like with Brexit, it's easy to give a lame catch phrase, which seems convincing and makes people go "well what's the problem with that, keeping it simple?".

Explaining just what the problem is with this "design by catchphrase" is illustrated by the article. It needs ~100 paragraphs (a quick error prone scan was 86 plus sample code) to explain just why these choices leads to a darkened room with rakes sprinkled all over it.

And this article is just about Go channels!

Go could get a 100 articles like this written about it, covering various aspects of its design. They all have the same root cause: Go's designers had enough of experts, and it takes longer to explain why something leads to bad outcomes, than to just show the catchphrase level "look at the happy path. Look at it!".

I dislike Java more than I dislike Go. But at least Java was designed, and doesn't have this particular meta-problem. When Go was made we knew better than to design languages this way.
I am partially bedridden ... so far mackbook air remoting to my desktop PC looks like the best solution - it's light, sturdy, stays cool, has decent resolution and excellent battery life. The only thing I don't like is non-standard keyboard.
The whole point is that it is multiplayer.
Wait until you try refactoring in Go. Java has plenty of warts, but the explicit inheritance in it and other languages makes working across large codebases much simpler when you need to restructure something. Structural typing is surprisingly messy in practice.
His goal is to create confusion; to "flood the zone".

Him and his cronies know when that flood is coming and can profit from it.

It's only confusing if there is any expectation that he is working for the good of anyone else.
The oneplus3 cannot be relocked as it wrongly trusts test-keys. It also has public EDL firehose files available allowing anyone to flash it arbitrarily even when locked or further dump ram or userdata.

I previously documented this here: https://web.archive.org/web/20250120181249/https://divestos....
Cable is losing subscribers, too.

https://evoca.tv/cord-cutting-statistics/
I would wish for that as well, but it’s unlikely to happen. In the EU for example, some countries would be on the losing side, either by getting “bad” hours or by having to move to a different time zone than their neighbor, which has significant economic consequences. Such countries won’t agree to a DST abolishment that disadvantages them.

And for program code, it wouldn’t really help as long as it’s still expected to be able to correctly handle dates in the past.
> I honestly don't see appeal why anyone would use Facebook when you literally have better alternatives that are specialized for the particular niche you might be interested in e.g. images, videos, gaming etc.

The particular niche I am into is staying connected to friends and people I like or have an interest in. And reading their posts.

I like to mainly read posts, not watch short videos or see images without too much explanation.
Serious gambling in most industries like casinos, NFTs, F2P and PTW games is all driven by whales[0]. Horse racing has been taken over by math whales, too. The house knows the small fish are only there as food for the whales.

[0] Source: I'm a former dev at an NFT/F2P game studio owned by a large slot machine maker.
Sorry to pick apart your sentences, I wrote as if I was picking apart something computer generated, without a human in the loop.
To help visualize that amount, an Olympic size swimming pool would fit ~12,000 barrels of oil.
Computers are definitely better than wives :)
China picks up where Musk failed, turns Maglev into actual technology
Too bad the search for libraries has to be consolidated.
* Cough * Nix * Cough*
… are you hearing yourself? “It’s a good time to buy!” has the plain english meaning “you should buy stock”. Everyone, you included, understood he was talking about US company stocks. Which, if you did, you would have profited. This theoretical code would be “when i say it’s a good time to buy stock, we should all buy stock!”. That is, well, not a code.
Would it make sense if you wanted to engage in some insider trading and short everything?
HARC Stack: Semantic and HTMXy
Most redditors are children, which is why they come across as "stupid," they aren't stupid, per se, just are not operating at an adult level because they aren't adults.
iPads could get more Mac-like features soon
>I never worked at Google (or any other large corp for that matter), but this sounds like the exact opposite of an environment that spawned GMail.

Friendly fyi... GMail was not a "20% project" which I mentioned previously:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39052748

Somebody (not me but maybe a Google employee) also revised the Wikipedia article a few hours after my comment:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Side_project_time...

Before LLMs and ChatGPT even existed ... a lot of us somehow hallucinated the idea that GMail came from Google's 20% Rule. E.g. from 2013-08-16 : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6223466
The keyboard is the real issue for me. Sure they make the laser protected ones, but they just feel weird (not to mention pricey). Maybe the super thin folding/rolling ones are OK. But why not a phone or a laptop? What use case does this really solve?
You don't need to wait for a cause until September: Birth defect.

I can say this because I have been diagnosed with autism (or "cognitive development disorder" way back then), physical damage, congenital brain damage, and non congenital brain damage.
Thought I'd check to see how his memecoin is currently doing. It's exactly as expected.

I wonder how many of his supporters bought at $70 ...
All the things you mentioned are what it cost us. He doesn’t care about us.

Who is the stupid one in this situation?
https://archive.ph/vbDQD
New measurement finds neutrinos weigh one-millionth the mass of an electron
> What's the business case for broadcasters?

My uneducated guess is government funding, plus becoming part of a new "essential backbone" infrastructure, thus guaranteeing incentives to stay operational for a longer period of time.
OK, I've heard of the second part about being unable to devalue the Euro because it basically reflects the economic power of the Eurozone as a whole and that e.g. Greece leaving the Eurozone could have helped Greece in 2008. But as a whole I'd guess that especially export-focused Eurozone members like Germany would welcome a depreciation of the Euro. At the very least I think they would not try to bolster it.

It does, however, not bring me any closer to understanding the "exporting unemployment" statement. I guess it is some kind of multi-step reasoning that is eluding me, or maybe it is an example of a control illusion? I don't know.
Berlin is not Germany.
What do you mean with the cursor question?
Why not a helicopter with space to do CPR etc? As is already done...
Thank You. I guess I will submit this as an operate entry. Mind blowing figures.
For _ordinary_ two‑valued classical propositional logic, e.g., YAML, they are congruent.
The latest Xreal glasses provide 3DoF tracking natively in the hardware. Your eyes in this case would perceive the screen as stationary as you and it inevitably "bounce" during motion.

I still don't recommend walking around with them on while reading.

I will also plus one Samsung Dex. It really is amazing to have a desktop like experience with just glasses on, and feels properly cyberpunk.
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A member of staff who goes “poof” as the only one who understands your wrapper library that has a critical bug is a more common kind of hidden debt.
Cost of AI coding tools may decrease in future making it more accessible for everyone. And we will all be forced to move up the value ladder.
Curious about examples of projects being killed by dependencies.
>You're telling me cloudflare has to store something on my computer to let them know I passed a captcha?

You realize this is the same as session cookies, which are used on nearly every site, even those where you're not logging in?

>This sounds like "we only save hashed minutiae of your biometrics"

A randomly generated identifier is nowhere close to "hashed minutiae of your biometrics".
Not at all. But Facebook is not used only by Usians. So the article might seem a bit misleading for people from different parts of the world.
Its pure insanity. Tracks change their metadata seemingly on a whim. Tracks that I own straight up disappear from albums for reasons that the user is never notified of. Its always the most popular tracks which makes me think its about licensing..

Anyway the situation is dire. I'm moving my music into PlexAmp, which has a CarPlay app. This is 99% of my use case! :)
Training a splitter based on existing paragraph conventions is really cool. Actually, that's a task I run into frequently (trying to turn YouTube auto-transcript blob of text into readable sentences). LLMs tend to rewrite the text a bit too much instead of just adding punctuation.

As for RAG, I haven't noticed LLMs struggling with poorly structured text (e.g. the YouTube wall of text blob can just be fed directly into LLMs), though I haven't measured this.

In fact my own "webgrep" (convert top 10 search results into text and run grep on them, optionally followed by LLM summary) works on the byte level (gave up chunking words, sentences and paragraphs entirely): I just shove the 1kb before and after the match into the context. This works fine because LLMs just ignore the "mutilated" word parts at the beginning and end.

The only downside of this approach is that if I was the LLM, I would probably be unhappy with my job!

As for semantic chunking (in the context of, maximize the relevance of stuff that goes into the LLM, or indeed as a semantic search for the user), I haven't solved it yet, but I can share one amusing experiment: to find the relevant part of the text (having already returned a mostly-relevant big chunk of text), chop off one sentence at a time and re-run the similarity check! So you "distil" the text down to that which is most relevant (according to the embedding model) to the user query.

This is very slow and stupid, especially in real-time (though kinda fun to watch), but kinda works for the "approximately one sentence answers my question" scenario. A much cheaper approximation here would just be to embed at the sentence level as well as the page/paragraph level.
This is just plain wrong. With glider planes, you can fly around wherever you like (in the non-restricted airspace) and aren’t required to have ADS-B or FLARM in Europe. Most people don’t do it but you could entirely rely on visual detection to prevent collisions.
The Air 2 sadly went backwards in the clarity at the edges, which makes them harder to use for work.
https://archive.is/vePeY
I can relate to that.

Personally, right now I find it difficult to imagine saying "I made this" if I got an AI to generate all the code of a project. If I go to a bookstore, ask for some kind of book ("I want it to be with a hard cover, and talk about X, and be written in language Y, ..."), I don't think that at the end I will feel like I "made the book". I merely chose it, someone else made it (actually it's multiple jobs, between whoever wrote it and whoever actually printed and distributed it).

Now if I can describe a program to an AI and it results in a functioning program, can I say that I made it?

Of course it's more efficient to use knitting machines, but if I actually knit a piece of clothing, then I can say I made it. And that's what I like: I like to make things.
Maybe he is smart and could do it but he is just very lazy and prefers to lie in bad playing games. That would cause him to feel that way when he realises that he could do more ;)
>Cloudflare is too stupid to realize that carrier grade NATs exist a lot in Germany. So there's that, sharing an IP with literally 20000 people around me doesn't make me suspicious when it's them that trigger that behavior.

Tor and VPNs arguably have the same issue. I use both and haven't experienced "infinite loops" with either. The same can't be said of google, reddit, or many other sites using other security providers. Those either have outright bans, or show captchas that require far more effort to solve than clicking a checkbox.
This is a nice little article. The doula doesn't have any hidden agenda, and the regrets she identifies are entirely credible.

I would just posit this: If you have reached mature adulthood (not necessarily "old") and are someone who regularly sets aside time for a healthy kind of introspection, then the regrets you will have at the end of your life will be quite similar to the regrets you have now about how you are living your life.
They said nothing about deserve. They said they want it to succeed.
Is there any part of the Python standard library written in Rust? I would see that as a big impediment to having Whenever adopted as standard.
I often wondered about an alternative but related metric called "organization"

Entropy, in some sense would seem to measure "complexity", but it's more accurately related as "surprise" I think.

It's useful but limited (for example, you can measure the "entropy" present in a string -- of keystrokes, or text -- and determine how likely it is that it's "coherent" or "intelligent" but this is fuzzy, i.e., "too much" entropy, and you are at "randomness", too little and you are at "banality"). It seems like a more precise (but still 0 - 1 bounded) metric would be possible to measure "order" or "organization". Entropy fails at this: 0 entropy does not equal "total order". Just "total boringness" (heh :))

I considered something related to some archetypal canonical compression scheme (like LZ), but didn't flesh it out. Considering again now, what about the "self similarity" of the dictionary, combined with the diversity of the dictionary?

It's more of a "two-axis" metric but surely we can find a way to corral it into 0..1.

Very self-similar, and rather diverse? Highly organized.

Low self-similarity, and highly diverse? High entropy / highly disorganized.

Low self-similarity, and low diversity? Low entropy / high banality. I.e., simplicity heh :)

High self-similarity, low diversity - organized, but "less organized" than something with more diversity.

I don't think this is quite there yet, but there's intuitive sync with this.

Any takers???? :)
Given the list of issues (most of which I had never heard of) that the library author describes with datetime, I think I trust his tests over the ones I’d write.

Given how many tests I see fail on 29th February at the companies I’ve been at, I don’t trust my colleagues’ tests either!
Meditations on Investing
> you look like a gargoyle

I'm glad to see that at least someone, here, reads classic literature.

More seriously, there is something truly disturbing about someone's eyes not being visible. This definitely crosses a social boundary or two.
What a happy accident this came up on my feed. Fascinating if you are interested in the history of inventions, tech. Some amazing stories…
The iPhone sucks with most if not all AR glasses solutions. Most flagship Android devices just need a single cord. Apple made their choices, and it sucks.