skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Meanwhile, I'm working with a different dealership now.

Hopefully that goes well for you. When I recently got a new car, I called around to all the local dealerships before I found one that would order me a car at MSRP. But I knew I wasn't done with the BS. It took seven months for the car to come in, and they didn't add any cash markups, but they did give me a money factor for the lease that was really high. I could have walked, but then I'd be waiting another seven months or so and would be paying above MSRP and probably still get a marked up money factor. I really had no leverage.

More annoying than that, though, was that when I asked them about the high money factor, the finance guy just straight up lied right to my face that they didn't mark it up. What I'd heard on the internet was wrong. What the other dealers told me was wrong. The whole world was wrong. Why? Why would he lie to me like that? It served no purpose, because I couldn't really do anything about it anyway. It's like it was compulsive with him or something.
Yes, but the sooner you build to scale the better. More costly later on.
https://deadline.com/2022/08/batgirl-scoob-discard-warnerbro...

Has more information on the 'why?':

> But there were reasons for the move. In both cases, the filmmakers were told that it came down to a “purchase accounting” maneuver available to Warner Discovery because the company has changed hands, and also changed strategy from the previous regime. This opportunity expires in mid-August, said sources, and it allows Warner Bros Discovery to not have to carry the losses on its books at a time when the studio is trying to pare down $3 billion in debt across its divisions.
It's so unstable that the existing government has been firmly in power for over 70 years, passed down from one generation of leaders to the next from just a single family with no present signs of slackening practical authority. If this is hoped-for instability, i'd hate to see a stable regime at work.
## Asynchronous ORM interface

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.1/releases/4.1/#asynchro... :

`QuerySet` now provides an asynchronous interface for all data access operations. These are named as-per the existing synchronous operations but with an `a` prefix, for example `acreate()`, `aget()`, and so on.

> The new interface allows you to write asynchronous code without needing to wrap ORM operations in `sync_to_async()`:

async for author in Author.objects.filter(name__startswith="A"):
book = await author.books.afirst()

> Note that, at this stage, the underlying database operations remain synchronous, with contributions ongoing to push asynchronous support down into the SQL compiler, and integrate asynchronous database drivers. The new asynchronous queryset interface currently encapsulates the necessary sync_to_async() operations for you, and will allow your code to take advantage of developments in the ORM’s asynchronous support as it evolves. […] See Asynchronous queries for details and limitations.

## Asynchronous handlers for class-based views

> View subclasses may now define async HTTP method handlers:

import asyncio
from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.views import View

class AsyncView(View):
async def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
# Perform view logic using await.
await asyncio.sleep(1)
return HttpResponse("Hello async world!")
Researchers Visualize the Intricate Branching of the Nervous System
As someone who had diamond membership on Chess.com for several years(cancelled when my card was accidentally overcharged, triggering an alert with my bank. Chess.com refused responsibility and eventually offered me a free month to make me go away. I refused and just went away instead). I then found lichess. I realised all the features I was paying for on chess.com were available for free, either through lichess, or youtube. St Louis chess club has a wealth of grandmaster lectures on their youtube channel, all free.
For myself I figured that there is absolutely nothing you can do for climate working as a software engineer. The best thing you can do is to become politically active. Go join some environmental movement you sympathize with the most. The next best thing you can do is make money at whatever job you can get and donate a significant amount to the aforementioned movement. I know this answer is not very popular among the techies, but I am afraid it's true.
> - No long compile times because there is no compiling needed.

I respect that some people accept dynamic typing as a better tradeoff for various reasons (I've worked with Ruby for many years before I discovered my love for type systems), but to me that statement reads similar to:

"No long CI builds because we skip all the tests."

:)
Your AGI recommends depopulation and decarbonization.

Unless you use a brain computer interface to hijack everyone’s brains, I don’t think this is going to help much.
Friendly reminder, stackoverflow is licensed with the Creative Commons sharealike license[0]. If you copy and paste from SO you are required to attribute the original author in your code.

I don’t think anybody does this. Let’s also ignore the fact that people share licensed code (GPL as example) as SO answers.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/help/licensing
You need financial data of course, but you don't need a record stating I logged in 2 years and 5 months ago at 09:15 in the morning from an iPhone 8 from IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and used your app for 12 minutes, I have every right to request you to delete that information as it is not necessary for legal defense (chargebacks) or lawful. You might be non-compliant by keeping that information actually.
Sure, Because it’s not your core business
Climate is primarily a political and social issue, not a tech one.
I don't think its either actually. The work is insanely important

We need more basic research, I personally think it's underfunded and that's the reason that graduates are underpaid. Research in the sciences can be extremely expensive just buying equipment and supplies.

On top of that, we have universities taking massive chunks of the research funding for their own pockets to fund admin and other departments

One route to making things more affordable could be more nonprofits working as research supply companies instead of profiteering corporations.
> I just need to reimplement a function I've written before

There was a project here some time back that allowed to call function using its hash. This avoided replication. It was entirely different paradigm to resolve dependencies.

Anyone remembers its name? It was controversial here but it was interesting nonetheless.
Oh yeah. We are extremely careful
Everything here always is, I've stopped clicking links to climate job pages (there have been a couple). I wonder if it's the language barrier that makes the EU so much more fragmented.
Interesting since they are managed by the same company. But I'm not even sure Google is the best search engine for Youtube or video content in general.
Don’t you regret wasting so much time? Or do you just suppress these thoughts :-)
Accept that your understanding of JavaScript is outdated. Appreciate you have at least some experience though.

If you care to learn modern JavaScript, which you should, check out Eloquent JavaScript [0]. It’s a free web-based ebook providing an introduction to modern JavaScript.

Also, stop with the negative narrative. You are overwhelmed, not helpless. Instead of telling yourself you don’t understand code and giving up, just Google said code. It’s easier than ever. In a few weeks, you won’t need to reach for Google. If you encounter a dependency you don’t understand, try to find some documentation.

Accept that there are black boxes that “just work” despite being deprecated or lacking documentation.

Your job is not to learn the history of JavaScript and how it evolved from your understanding. Your job is to get up to speed with modern JavaScript enough to make functional programs to solve the business’ needs.

0: https://eloquentjavascript.net/
Have you opened this thread? There are nearly 200 comments, some more concrete than others but still, do none of them sound like a software developer could do it?
I mean, of course, it will happen, but not as a voluntary self-limitation, but as hitting against hard limits, especially as they start shriking.
Ordinary computers can beat Google’s quantum computer after all
Morse code translator: https://morsecode.world/international/translator.html

(WHAT HAS GOD WROUGHT?)
3D printers are becoming extraordinarily inexpensive. When you can get a decent 3D printer for a couple hundred dollars, it’s more important than ever to have firmware with impressive functionality that can run in the cheapest of microcontrollers.
Like many I am still waiting for my access to be granted to it. I can understand them slowly opening it up more due to apparent resource constraints.

This does make me wonder if it would be feasible in the future to run these kinds of solutions on your PC, even with pretrained models. Or will these AI solutions generally trend towards being hosted in the "cloud" as consumer PC will never catch up in required resources for them?
For me it was when I saw a taxi app on smartphone (it was not Uber, but… some clone? Predecessor? Even official taxi app? I don’t remember at this point). I can see where the taxi is now? I can see where he will go so he doesn’t cheat me?

I come from city that used to be known for cheating taxis… at that point I knew I will never go back.
It’s fine until you have an artificially limited number of essential goods (food and water, housing, etc).

Then it’s bullshit that will lead to violence.
Modified cropduster design wins SOCOM “Armed Overwatch” contract
Now I started to think what is the actual ratio of software we need and software that is produced or distributed.
First Pull Request • What was the first pull request you sent on GitHub?
In EU private messages are protected, companies can't just read through your entire mailbox as you have a reasonable expectation of privacy. Of course they can read it if they have a good reason: e.g. you're leaking information to the competitor, but you can't just read random emails between an employee and their spouse for no reason. (Article 8 ECHR).
>how about the US government put a firm privacy policy that forbids TikTok, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Twitter and co from collecting excessive data on users

Because the U.S. has access to and therefore benefits from the data that these companies collect. The exception on that list is TikTok - the U.S. can't access that data, but their rival can. That's why they're keen on banning it.
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This is very cool. Thank you.
I worry for teenagers just as I do for the adults if we don't curb everything stealing our sleep and concentration. I don't think it's the same old "young people are lazy" trope, it's significant.
> Scenario: You want consent to use Google Fonts

> Outcome: You can’t include the Google Font CSS until you have consent

> Why: You don’t have consent to allow Google to process the IP, which is considered personal data

Are you fucking high? Better not use a CDN then - they'll get the IP. Better not have any links - the users browser might prefetch, giving the link their IP. No embedding youtube or twitter. They'll get the IP.

This is beyond fucking stupid.

> Scenario: You only provide an ok button on your consent banner

> Outcome: You’re not compliant with GDPR

> Why: The user must be able to refuse consent

User can easily refuse consent - go visit some other website.
I don't think most Ultimate players use "frisbee" in the name anymore either, since it's a trademark of the non-preferred brand of disc...
This is also a study to compare the insurance costs YoY for the companies. To calculate the monetary value of the damage from the climate change.
I absolutely hate to be THAT guy, but this whole thread brings to mind the Newsroom segment from 2014 - https://youtu.be/XM0uZ9mfOUI?t=83 .

We had a good chance of doing something meaningful 60 to 70 years ago, but now we're really just re-arranging deckchairs on the Titanic as the ship goes down. I've spent the past four years working for a climate change mitigation company, and the more people I met in the 'industry' the more depressed I got.

Almost all of the work being done in the environmental space is 'make work' stuff. People shuffling research papers around, attending conventions and expos, networking with their peers to build a route to their next role. It goes on and on in a huge circle of ineffective (albeit sometimes sincere) activity. The problem is all stakeholders demand a return on investment, preferably a large one. Forget about the return being a liveable future for our grandchildren, they want cash in x years or no investment. Hilarious and so stupidly tragic.

Yes we need massive systemic political change, but we all know deep down that's not going to happen in time. The pandemic showed us what we could do if we really wanted to, and what happened? Here we are now with emissions rising even faster, and people blathering about 'net zero', which everyone knows is just smoke and mirrors. And now Ukraine is 'forcing' countries to return to dirty fuels to stay warm this winter.

We're kind of done.

But seriously, I heartily applaud anyone here and beyond if they feel the need to do something to help, no matter how modest. I still try and remain upbeat and optimistic as I search for a new role to help out. But it's increasingly clear that my biggest concern for the future will be how can I try and maintain a secure food source for the family as things start to tip over.
I'm not sure if you know this, and it might not be useful to you even if you do, but workers can interact with the cache directly: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/runtime-apis/cache...
Yeah a third way - if the problem is they're being treated like employees then let's not double-down and legally make them employees.
I like PHP for its simple deployment. Symfony has some interesting concepts with the adoption of Stimulus via their UX packages. But their ORM and Queue handlers are a bit annoying. Or maybe i'm just too dumb for that, because i'm just a hobbyist.
Unlocking type-safety superpowers in TypeScript with nominal and refinement typ
I'm sure your LSD dose must have been low. A good dose of LSD creates the most powerful experience I've ever had, and it's not really controllable. Shrooms are much more gentle; it's much easier to "look away" from the experience.
Async/Await makes your asynchronous code runs like synchronous code, synchronous code is more readable than asynchronous code. Your dont have to worry about goroutines execution order, communication, exceptions(leak, panic, deadlock). Besides, Async/Await can help your write less code.
Men have a high probability of outliving women
> Or just run 20 workers and let the OS handle async. OSes are pretty good at this. Async is pretty hard to reason about.

def slow_sync_view(request):
# these requests won't be executed in parallel;
# async version could eliminate this extra latency
foo = requests.get('https://www.google.com/humans.txt').text
bar = requests.get('https://checkip.amazonaws.com').text
return HttpResponse(f'{foo}\n{bar}')
> In the German system, for instance, PhD students are paid (mind you, it's an academic salary, which is not a lot but a first year PhD student with a full time contract already makes more money than the median German salaried worker)

Just to put numbers on this: PhD students earn roughly 4300€ per month (before taxes and insurance), resulting in something like 2600€ take-home pay. This is for a “full-time” position (quotes because all positions are full-time, it is only the pay that is reduced). In CS full-time positions are common, in most other fields they are not.

If you want to look up details, search for E13 TV-L.
There are jobs that allow working from anywhere.
That's a good thing in my book, that's a feature.

Recommendations are made, and they are random in some sense.

But an interface needs a certain persistence to be user friendly. Too annoying to glance something, try to go back, and it's gone. Some persistence creates an environment that is a bit more spatial and nicer to my brain.
> I wish there was an auto filter to remove everything with a TikTok logo because if it has that it's certain I'm going to hate it :)

I'd love for that to be an option. I've tried looking at Youtube Shorts and it's pretty much 500 TikTok videos being uploaded by dozens of channels and dumped on everyone. Making it possible to filter by "the TikTok voice", "the TikTok laugh" and the top 5 songs used for TikTok would improve the experience by a lot and I might actually see something I care about. Downvoting doesn't change anything either, they'll even start looping around and showing me Shorts I've downvoted before. Or maybe it's really not used by anyone and automated TikTok uploads are all there is, I don't know.
https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ncas/alerts/aa22-187a

Google: "North Korea Ransomware"
Why would they? They are buying into these companies at a $2m valuation which is absurd. It's a no-brainer move and almost nobody can rationally say no since YC is so powerful
Looking at the profile, seems more like someone who's convinced we need to change the system (for whatever reasons) and is happy to grasp at some perceived hope of achieving a fundamental change, like swapping out stable regulated money for something power-hungry and anarchistic like bitcoin, without knowing what impact that would actually have (in regards to climate, security, privacy, economic usefulness, anything). Don't get me wrong, I also see some advantages of bitcoin, but the good comes with the bad and I'm not seeing a net positive for anyone but speculative investors (we don't trade with volatile stocks to buy bread at the bakery, for example, and at least for the moment that's the function bitcoin fulfills).
Don't give people money for disaster relief, give them goods and services.

I'm perfectly happy for a government food program to give people food. Much less so for giving people money during an incredibly inflationary period. You still end up with people not having food, but also not having gas, rent or health money either.
Technology is not the solution here, it's the problem.
FWIU there's no algorithmic reason that AlphaZero-style self play w/ rules could not learn the quantum chemistry / physics. Given the infinite monkey theorem, can an e.g. bayesian NN learn quantum gravity enough to predictively model multibody planetary orbits given an additional solar mass in transit through the solar system? (What about with "try Bernoulli's on GR and call it superfluid quantum gravity" or "the bond yield-curve inversion is a known-good predictor, with lag" as Goal-programming nudges to distributedly-partitioned symbolic EA/GA with a cost/error/survival/fitness function?)

E.g. re-derivations of Lean Mathlib would be the strings to evolve.
> then not many engineers will apply

I would. I don't run server farms and don't need to provision entire environments so K8s would be extreme overkill for anything I do. Docker makes sense to formally define system requirements but even that I use sparingly.

I develop embedded systems though and usually only trace coffee machines.

I do host stuff on AWS and gladly use all the services they provide. Neat, easy and less maintenance, but the most important thing for me personally is that I work with an account that doesn't use my own credit card.

I can understand the applicants though, there is a fear to commit to solutions where any experience might not increase their market value. But from my experience that fear is highly exaggerated. There are people that reject candidates on these accounts but usually not the good one that know they need to invest in engineers. There are also quite a few bosses that are only interested in the newest tech. They have absolutely no idea what that means, but they will buy it. And a lot of cloud software hits the sweet spot for them.
Postgres Improve Performance of Order by / Distinct Aggregates
Google Play app store is similar IME; also, it doesn't even let you sort by ratings, like, isn't that the very first thing people want out of a curated store?

It's like Amazon's search, it's ridiculous how bad it is.

A quick glance at these shows Western Capitalism fails to optimise the market and instead optimises profit.

Google's shopping search is definitely not designed to help one shop.
Brings back memories, but also reminds me of the more recent 'Ring' by Mint Royale:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziRaY2FJR_0
Why should established companies get even more of a head start on new players?
We actually thought about doing YC and demurred because (1) it wasn't a great deal and (2) because the batch size was so big, it wasn't a particularly good signal anymore. I've heard from other founders that they have so many startups no one gets much individual attention.

That didn't stop us from launching on HN though :-P
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32266086
It's funny, in that my (current) PhD hasn't felt anything like that. I dunno if it's my source of funding or whatever, but I've not had to do much more than the research I said I was going to do when I got the funding. I've had a module here and there, but otherwise, I've been able to 100% focus upon the research that I've been doing, which I've totally self directed. My supervisors have been great, supportive, etc, and I've benefited from links to industry as well. It's been a great 2.5 years, and I'll be sad once it's over, really.
But the CCP is not our government, and at least it can mean that your government knows less about you.

In the old East Germany, it wasn't a problem that the CIA knew everything about you. It was that the Stasi did.
You can go to https://labs.openai.com/waitlist and join a waiting list. I think most people here put that they are Developer.

I joined a month ago with no invite yet so it may take some time.

AFAIK it is free either after you get in. You will need to buy some tokens to generate images. See: https://mixed-news.com/en/openai-announces-pricing-for-dall-...
I'm with the above poster. I started playing online chess within the past year. I do not pay chess.com a cent. I find their UI to be more pleasing.