skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People don't like high density because it sucks. I want a yard, not a tragedy of the commons communal space. I want to be able to remodel without having to get a commities approval. I want to have lavender flowers in my garden because they remind me of my mom. I want to sit on my porch and drink coffee in peace, not have communal tables. I don't want to come home and not deal with vomit in my entry way/elevator. I don't want an HOA/COOP Board gatekeeping and policing me.

People don't leave college and move into dorms of 'in-groups' that meet their bias.

Do you make up in your head your partners movitions, frustrations, wants in your head too? Or do you just dehumanize motivations for people who don't hold your 'correct' opinion?

EDIT: Anyone who wants to force high density housing on others should ONLY be allowed to take vacations on community loving cruise ships. I mean, there is no valid reason to not want to vacation on cruise ships, and by putting all vacationers together it improves efficient, maximizes space, and reduced impact, right? That is the only acceptable vacation. There can be no valid reason to not require all vacations be via cruise ship.
Does academic social science research have credibility to damage?
I find that, in practice, the more a manager knows about how things are done - the more they have the urge to micromanage and resist delegation, especially if they're perfectionists.

Doesn't sound completely horrible in theory but in reality it's bad for everyone.
> "curl was selected in January for $10,000.00 provided one month, for ten months through GitHub Sponsors."

If this statement was meant to be confusing, it succeeded at that.
I think pfranz is on the right track - in one of the other publications they released today they show off how their tech does jaw positioning based on certain constraints (it seems to know where the jaw hinges and how the jaw bone interfaces with the skull).
Docker just announced Docker Extensions for Docker Desktop -- already configured long-running agents that are "managed" with a nice GUI.

I use the Tailscale extension to let my development pods talk to my tailnet. It's really handy (would be even better if it worked with the local Kubernetes cluster in Desktop). Of course you can do this yourself fairly easily, but it's nice to have it "managed" for a non-essential part of the workflow.
One thing I wish git did (maybe it does and I don't know how?) is to be able to say that a new branch is based off an old branch (not a commit that used to be that branches head). so I can branch a single pr in progress to start the next. Then if I change the base pr in progress (say via rebase or via squashing or the like), I can easily rebase my new commits in the new pr on top of the current state of the branch.

Currently, one can just do it by never modifying the underlying "branch" (i.e. just adding new commits), but in practice that doesn't always work, as many times you have to rebase against one's master/main branch to pull in changes, which even if no conflicts, will reflow your "base" branch" changing all the commits.

TLDR: Basically, want to be able to state that branch depends on branch (which is currently commit id x) but if I rebase, use whatever the current commit id is for that branch, not whatever it was when I first made the branch.

possible? stupid idea? thoughts?
A federated messenger with a small-tech view
Yeah I agree. If you can merge things into a central branch quickly, it’s much better.

In my experience with this sort of process you spend quite a lot of time managing your different branches, especially once you start getting feedback and requests for changes. Then keeping everything in sync. Git helps make this quicker but it’s still effort & cognitive load.
if engineers think we don't check references and backgrounds anymore – including reputation – those days are long past

How do you check reputation?
>Batteries at the core are commodities

I would argue that might have been true 5 years ago, but now it's proving to be the competitive advantage. Batteries and the materials that produce them are no longer selling at 'Razor thin margins' because the 'Commodity' is extremely constrained. No EV manufacturer can get enough batterys to produce the cars they sell.
"Refusing to be convinced by evidence" is a simplistic false dichotomy. The evidence is interesting but I have several reasons not to immediately take it as definitive.

Are you really certain that a big debunking in PNAS, surfing a wave of other celebrated debunkings, should be taken as definitive, when a good deal of the research being debunked was published to similar fanfare in PNAS back when a different kind of research was fashionable?

I take neither the original research nor the debunking as particularly credible. Without technical expertise, I'm left to educated guess. It's just my guess.
I switched from docker desktop to Colima, my life has been much better since then.
I cannot even imagine how much work GAFAM outsource. Don't know about Apple, only for Google and Facebook, and only for Eastern Europe, but dude, they often outsource both internal and external projects, even very visible parts of their business. Sometimes, the actual devs cannot talk about it nor put on resumes because of NDAs.
> Was that an issue with them being Indian

There are a gazillion very talented Indian developers, but they're (usually) not the ones working at budget outsourcing shops...
Hexagons are the bestagons

https://youtu.be/thOifuHs6eY
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downfall:_The_Case_Against_B...
I would be equally concerned about the stability of the file formats for the data stored inside the archives. Even plain ASCII text files have not been around very long - about 60 years since standardisation, but it took a while for the standard to become largely universal. And ASCII is pretty restricted in what it can represent. Note that I'm talking about plain text files, not things like Markdown which might use ASCII.

Most more complex file formats suffer from variant formats. Some, like Markdown and RTF just have multiple versions. Some like TIFF and PDF are envelope formats, so the possible contents of the envelope change over time, introducing incompatibility. Then there is bit-rot as formats go out of use, e.g. .DOC (as opposed to .DOCX).

My own objectives are simple compared to your brother's. I want to preserve simple formatted text files until about 40 year from now, in a way that is likely to allow cut and paste. I started accumulating them about 20 years back. Note that this is before Markdown (which is in any case poor for recording formatting). LaTeX was around and seemed ok in terms of expected lifetime, but is poor for cut and paste because the rendering of a chunk of text depends on instructions which are not local to it. I settled for RTF, which this carries significant long term risk for both compatibility and availability, but is documented well enough that migrating out may be possible.

That's just formatted text. Images have been worse, particularly if you are handling meta-data such as camera characteristics, satellite orientation, etc.
The competent people in India usually end up working for foreign companies directly in a development center, or for a WITCH type company in dev centers.

I assume some work for Indian companies doing ordinary development work, banks, government, manufacturing.

Also competent people in Indian are not so cheap any more. The days of IIT Bangalore top 10% of class graduates working for $5K a year are long gone. The $8K average salary is going to lead to a world of hurt.

> prove he was a hotshot

First time I heard the term "offshore", the VP who used it sound like he was so clever. It should be noted the company was gone within two years. People who worked with this VP at another company didn't want to talk about when I ran into them later.
It's relevant to your comment - the author is discussing why pornography doesn't depict people enjoying genuine sexual intimacy.

Which parts of her essay do you believe are factually or logically incorrect?
I think what’s not clear is what’s in those papers and what exactly they have to say about nudging and what definition they’re using. It defies credulity to think that changing defaults in software doesn’t change behavior if only because most users aren’t technically savvy enough to change their settings.

On the other hand the dream of nudge theory is something like a study done in the UK that suggests that adding the line “most of your fellow citizens pay their taxes” will increase the likelihood that people pay taxes. This I’d be more likely to believe the benefits are not clear, and more importantly difficult to replicate across time and culture.

It seems that trying to do a meta-analysis on all of nudge theory (or large categories of it) would indeed show know impact. It’s not like you’re testing one thing, you’re comparing well designed programs, with ones that aren’t.
it does not. the article essentially says that the width of the distribution of land caused over-farming. too many people with little bits of land. it makes no direct mention of the brain drain that heavily enforced decolonisation will have brought about
Keyboard only navigation! Right now when you press Enter after (incorrectly) answering a question the next question get's answered with an empty value.

I'd like to see:
- Fill in answer
- Press Enter
- UI shows correct/incorrect
- Press Enter again
- UI shows the next question
- Repeat

Edit: tested in Firefox and Chrome
Maybe go for erotic novels (or Visual Novels to video games) instead?

Male oriented erotica in book form is rare in US culture, but common in the Japanese light novel / visual novel community.

Books focus on characters thoughts and emotions because that's the medium of words.

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Most book-based erotica seems to be aimed at female audiences for some reason, so I think there is a bit of a cultural expectation here.

Still, with the growing popularity of erotic visual novels (and heck, just novels in general) I have to imagine that the male reader base exists out there.

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I'm not saying Hunniepop is the best written piece of literature I've seen. But there are words and emotions there, and a mild focus on what the various women want (albeit with the male sex fantasy slants).

Since the majority of the game is in fact, reading mundane situations and figuring out which gifts work best for each girl (ie gameplay mechanic to force the players into reading the story), it forces the player to at least explore the female characters a bit before you get the porno scene.
Perhaps Isaiah 65:17 "For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind."
> There’s probably some value in the study

As a rough approximation, it's probably fair to assign it the same value as youtube comments.
Sure and I (a white Eastern European immigrant) might place a different weight on those thoughts and feelings in part because you are a brown South Asian immigrant, without it being racism. It's a shoddy redefinition better abandoned in poorly ventilated dorm rooms and talk radio studios. You touch on the problems with the whole 'who are the real racists' millstone yourself when you mention agency. If Democrats are the real racists, what sort of rubes are the majorities of Black Americans who vote for them? It just doesn't go anywhere but a circle of nothing or worse.
Let’s hope so! And also for similar treatment for some of the 19th century literary classics whose authors were paid by the word.
Respectfully, I see this as an oversimplification. Though, I can definitely understand why someone would say this and I do agree to some extent.

The thing is, I think there is a lot of subtlety in most implementations. Those subtleties come from unique requirements outlined by the client/business need/ or existing patterns.

As someone who has implemented a lot of CRUD functionality, I can honestly say there is very little code overlap between any two projects. Sure, the frontend calls the same CRUD endpoints. The backend essentially performs the same DB edits... but there's a lot to be considered before and after this. And no, it has nothing to do with just validation. It's about UX, performance, maintainability, extensibility, etc. All considerations when writing the code. When you're done the CRUD project, it's distinct. I think there's empirical evidence for this in the sense that the most we can abstract CRUD, is through CMSs. I've worked with a lot of clients that have great CMSs but still need to retain developers to support the CRUD ops and everything in between.

Is this the same type of "software engineering" employed as someone writing a custom backend for a electronic stock exchange? Likely not, though that's a whole other discussion.
I have yet to find a conclusive analysis on how well RAR with recovery works for different failure modes.

I mean I can guess it works pretty well for single-bit flips, but how about burst errors, how long can those be? Usually you want to have protection from at least 1 or 2 filesystem blocks, which can be 4 or 8k or even more, depending on the file system. How about repeating error patterns, data deletions, etc.?
xz makes sense for Debian. The article author links to a Debian mailing list thread as if that somehow provides evidence that Debian made a bad decision. I just read the thread and that is the opposite of that thread's conclusion. The consensus in that thread is that Debian's existing use of xz is just fine for its own purposes.

Debian uses external cryptographic verification for its packages and apt archives so it does not need additional robustness in the compression format.
They aren’t summing effects. An effect is not cancelled by an inverse effect or as you put it, backfire.

The methodology should (I haven’t investigated theirs in detail) not be susceptible to this, and I doubt a mean of effects would make it through peer review for reasons including the ones you’ve mentioned.
You two were debating the benefits of `tar.gz` style solid compression vs zip style independent compression of files.

Zip allows random access while solid compression will give slightly better compression for small similar files.

I was pointing out that you can have the best of both worlds by catting all the files together like `tar` but then compressing it in chunks instead of as one big stream. Plus compressing it in chunks allows you to decompress it in parallel.
Reading this, I don't get how you can take all "nudging" and declare "No evidence". Surely "nudging" encompasses a whole range of different actual actions. Some nudges work, some don't. You can't just average across all of them.

I'm probably totally misunderstanding, but it sounds similar to saying "there is no evidence for medicine" because you've averaged all the papers describing medical interventions that work and those that don't.

I thought the point of "nudges" is that they are so cheap to implement you can easily afford to try many. Most won't work, some will.
-Wall -Werror is mostly designed to catch dangerous but totally well-defined idioms, not UB. It doesn't warn on every signed arithmetic operation or unchecked array access, for example.
we pay him in line with someone in the midwest would be making. its significantly more than someone in southeast Asia. Its worth it to make sure he doesn't jump ship.
The problem is that capitalism is the way the vast majority perceives the world.

Progress is just another club for the prehistorical hi-tech person.
unrelated to technology, and as the comments show, this buys into the libertarian agenda of this website
> a Vancouver parent that was "fighting police for the right to send his kids to school alone on public transit" or something.

It's true (although it wasn't the police but rather the Ministry of Children & Family Development). It was a big local story. Fortunately he won.

http://5kids1condo.com/we-won-common-sense-prevails-in-bus-d...
I think at the societal level though there needs to be a re-adjustment of the family court so that "I will support you to pursue your own goals until whatever arbitrary I time I decide not to" does not default to "I will support you to pursue your own goals, even if you cheat on me and then ditch my ass to get filled up with cum by strangers." That is just an act of tyrannical judges using unilateral violence of the state to pursue their own hate against the generous.

>who might work 40 hours at the workplace

Lol I was working a lot more than that to support a loved but at the time dead-weight wife on top of my kid and paying for full time care workers for my kid. There was one month my fingers and wrist were in such pain from working waking to to night all day everyday I could barely work without being in constant pain.
I'm guilty of doing this in the past, but it seems like an anti-pattern because it attempts to create a local optimum, a big no-no in the Theory of Constraints[1]. Better to find ways to sustainably ease the constraint (code reviewers' time/attention) than to find ways to create more WIP at the constraint.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_constraints
Spain contribution/benefits to the EU budget has been pretty much flat after the latest EU expansion to the East, so no, the Spaniards are paying for this themselves. Spain was a large beneficiary of the EU budget in the past though.
It’s unavoidable sometimes. I get inspiration and time together rarely, I can’t wait for small chunks of code to be merged before I continue. A lot of times it’s an extremely
Productive Sunday afternoon and I have 2500 new lines of code that builds a full new prototype. What am I to do?
> He acknowledges that several pieces of evidence he presents in the book has disappeared and can't be replicated.

He mostly says that about just one chapter. A significant portion of the book is fallacies of basic statistics and logic.
Take more screenshots
Ask them, in person. Many small businesses have unarticulated needs, that they have trouble finding people for.

But due to resource constraints those things just get pushed. Specially IT things like backups
Any UI suggestions to make stacked PRs easier? Other than graphite.dev - that needs org access on GitHub.
I use this one since few weeks: https://www.super-agent.com
The system is that you're by default in some register. The choice has already been made. Many people aren't even aware of it, or only remotely. You have to undertake action to change it. That's not a "choice architecture" in the nudge sense. That would require that you are presented with both options simultaneously, and are forced to choose. A nudge, e.g. on a web form, would then be to have one option already checked.
This comment would be more compelling if it gave any hint about what aspect of the tooling the author didn’t understand or what they should be doing differently.
I think you are missing the point. With academic publication bias, sometimes an unbiased coin gets heads 600 times by chance. Those studies get published. But, if you ran the test again, you might only get 525. That study won’t get published.

And, in opposition to your assumption: there is nothing to prevent A/B tests being published with high academic standards— like a low p value and tons of n. In an academic context, that’s just fine— it’s a small but significant effect.

A/B tests are simply controlled experiments—which are the gold standard of scientific evidence generation in psychology. My point is that the main generators of this evidence are only permitted to use this evidence to inform commerce not public knowledge. That is a loss for science and public policy, in my opinion.
In a lot of the US, getting a variable speed system can actually cost a hell of a premium, even though the wholesale cost of the equipment doesn't vary by much.
The difference is that Russia’s MO is to level cities and kill every single person they can. The US is far from perfect, but this is not what they do. Whataboutism is not relevant here
Mostly the G community
What, do you mean in your windpipe?
AFAIK, it does have parallelism support, via `CRYSTAL_WORKERS` env variable, however, it's not production-ready, and it's not clear what's the priority for the team.

Probably it's good enough to run personals scripts, but widespread and/or production adoption is another level.

I considered adopting the language at my company, but no (production-ready) parallelism is a dealbreaker for me.
Everyone has a story about how software projects go off-track and generally, it is not the nationality of the developers that matter. But here is an interesting observation - you do not manage a remote, outsourced team of developers as if they were local. We know about this from software architecture too - a remote object is not the same as local object, no matter how much of abstraction you write to hide the fact. The abstraction is even more leaky for people.

The rest of the comments ring true - if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. I recently read somewhere that software salaries are US > China > India > EU. A lot of people in US still carry the colonial mindset and that ship has sailed long past. For India, you are paying between 40% - 70% of an equivalent US developer pay if you hire them directly. You are likely to be paying more if you go through a contracting agency and the only reason to do it is because you want people fast and for a short term.
Let's see if you accept my answer as I accepted yours.

I don't believe our government thinks that gays should be violently persecuted.
You mean like free roads...?
How Common Is It for Founders to Get Some Liquidity in a Venture Round?
Our stats for heyklaro.com are public [1], the acceptance rate is around 50 %. We've always had a dialog with one-click Accept / Reject flow, even before it became officially mandated. We see similar rates for our customers.

1: https://heyklaro.com/demo
I don't think the client was in the USA. If it was, of course it would be a tremendous bargain.
What about tar?
He drew a deep breath. “Well, I’m back,” he said.

gets me every single time.
> but it also isn't amazingly beneficial.

The hell it isn’t! Kids learn a ton by being on their own, and not relying on a grownup 100% of the time.
> Also competent people in Indian are not so cheap any more. The days of IIT Bangalore top 10% of class graduates working for $5K a year are long gone.

Yes, but IIUC, the going rate for FAANG quality mid-level engineers is still about the same as entry level startup engineers in The Bay, LA, NYC, Seattle, etc (most of the US SWE workforce).
This is very cool. Back when Facebook messenger used xmpp, i wrote a python client to track when friends would sign on and sign off. I built a webapp for my friends to learn about their sleeping habits. I never thought of saving the conversations from eg Pidgin to build a friend recommendation engine.

What is clearly evident is that all the major social media platforms are actively performing these calculations (and more) across their entire user base
There's a SCOTUS decision, nickname Chevron deference which is due to be overturned, and I think most of the posters here should be in favor of overturning it. In AZ, I'm pretty sure the Legislature and Governor never intended that parents like this should be prosecuted, but DCS is interpreting their broad statutory authority that way.

IANAL, but I believe it says that an administrative agency's interpretation of the law, if it considers the law ambiguous, should govern. Overturning it will mean that the Legislature and Governor make the laws, not the agencies.

Yeah, that probably will mean that either nothing or the wrong thing (from your perspective) happens, but that's another problem.