skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't think it 'needs' to be done secretly so much as big companies cannot be bothered to get into fights over every moderation

And then you get into a situation where it can be alleged that a whole political ideology, half the country, has been sidelined by your secretive work.

Short term, that worked for awhile. It is not a long term strategy.

> you're not a customer

Users are part of the product. Lying to them en masse is not a good way to build trust.

> The advertisers and data brokers are the customers. Keeping this in mind is why I lose little sleep over being shadowbanned and having my visibility limited on social media.

I guess you've never tried to say something that the majority didn't want you to say, as has happened many times throughout history, from the Spanish Inquisition to Anthony Comstock to Communism to McCarthy to the Civil Rights Era.

Free expression is held in regard not just when dealing with government, but also when dealing with each other. Shouting over each other isn't considered civil discourse, and neither is censorship wherever it occurs, in private or public places.
Why would you migrate from a language full of :: and <> and {} which forces you to think about weird concepts about memory, ownership, sharing and pointers, to migrate to a very similar language?

It's like stopping huffing paint to start huffing petrol.
It helps the NHS in as much as it reduces load on them. Though what percentage of people would have to do that to have an appreciable benefit is another matter, and it doesn’t do anything about A&E.
But only to ML and Haskell programmers. Not it is obvious to basically everyone. (Excluding people who just haven't discovered static typing at all yet.)
Hallo. I am a contractor. Why you shouldn't pay for the time my machine is building your project?
We have a constitution - it just isn't codified [1]. Therefore doing so would just mean having a set of written laws that effectively make public healthcare part of the UK political structure.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_Kin...
This repo has a concise summary of new features, if that is the sort of thing you are looking for: https://github.com/AnthonyCalandra/modern-cpp-features
Have you ever worked/tried to work with a lisp professionally? I don't think what you're saying is true, at least today. I've worked with many Clojure companies for the last years, for them lisp has already happen and is still happening.

Main drawback of using a lisp for professional development is that it's really hard to go back to anything else afterwards. "Why use Assembly if you have C?" (unless you have a really good use case for it, of course), that's a bit the feeling you get.
Did you prefix your prompt like I explained? If you get that standard rejection response, try clicking "Try again".

Please report back, as I can't stand a shadow of a doubt on my story! :)
“Memory Saver” might cure Chrome’s insatiable appetite for RAM
> A loathesome place filled with tax evaders hiding their wealth

Lets not forget gold diggers, influencers, and poor people commuting in from France/Italy every day to all the boring work. Sounds like a pretty cool place!
I know exactly what you feel like and I used to be exactly like you. Even down to preferring R to Python.
All I can say is: Bite the bullet. Learn Python, forget about R. R is nice and all but there is nothing that couldn't also be done in Python.

What helped me is: Learn to appreciate the beauty in actual coding, in deployments in environments in well structured, maintainable code. In scaling issues, databases etc.. There is an endless world out there which is extremely fascinating as soon as you get over the "all I want to do is modeling" mindset.

Good luck. You can definitely do it, because I did it as well.
Yes, but they are also extremely overwhelmed, like everything. You will be waiting many hours in one of those
Yes, we should be careful, thanks a lot for this hindsight, but giving developers the ability to request for a permission and banning users who click it by accident or doubt is kind of a dick move. Why not remove the permisson and ban the developer instead? To teach people a lesson? Would you like a leash and a whip with that?
The NHS is still functioning. I am still able to get GP appointments within two weeks, be prescribed medication, etc... . Your suggestion, if widely adopted, risks splitting the country into a two-tier system and hastening the demise of the NHS. Much better to vote in a party that will start to fund it properly and undo some of the privatisation and mismanagement that has been damaging it for years.
Remember how Brexit was going to save the NHS [1]? It has instead worsened the situation [2]. Remember how the previously short-lived PM Liz Truss wanted to drive up the deficit with massive tax cuts [3] instead of, oh I don't know, spendin gmoney on the NHS backlog and staff shortages?

Here's something you may not know: the cost of living situation is a genuine crisis in the UK, Russia's unjustifiable war on Ukraine and the resulting cut in gas supply and rising energy costs have led to the creation of Warm Hubs in the UK [4]. What's a Warm Hub? It's somewhere warm people can go because they literally cannot afford to heat their homes.

This is no doubt contributing to demands on the NHS.

It's wild to see comments even here suggesting Covid lockdowns were the problem. No, the collapses we're seeing in the NHS were the very thing lockdowns avoided.

[1]: https://www.healthjobs.co.uk/health-care-uk/blog/what-happen...

[2]: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/nov/27/brexit-worse...

[3]: https://www.npr.org/2022/10/23/1130782408/how-liz-truss-aggr...

[4]: https://www.lep.co.uk/news/people/cost-of-living-crisis-warm...
The place where I work has rolls of toilet paper in the shitter. Every so often I see someone stick a couple in their bag, on their way home ...

I blame the parents.
> AWS tends to shut down, deprecate or migrate backing services every now and then

Fairly rarely. For Azure that might be a week, not months.
Good luck finding contractors who will agree to these terms. Waiting for built times is dead time which is filled with other activity, like documentation, or reading through the next requirement.

What you will achieve with this policy is minimizing the number of build processes, from a few times a day to once or twice a week (or less), which is exactly what you do not want from a CI/CD / DevOps environment.
Unless it's in the 10+ thousands, your best bet is to pay and never do business with them again. Anything else will cost you more. Also, make sure you get what you think you should get by using some kind of 3rd party verification. It's impossible to trust someone once they pull this BS.
Sorry, I don't agree with your premise. When I see a quantitative analysis backing up conservatives' claims that they're unfairly discriminated against, I'd consider it valid.

And yes, I do have a problem with their tone. Conservatives are way overdrawn at the good faith store, having made a years-long habit of hyping things up. This example is from 2005: https://zfacts.com/zfacts.com/metaPage/lib/Weekly_Standard_M...
What kind of social problems are people seeing GPs about, that they otherwise wouldn’t?

The example usually given is the other way round, that the woeful provision of care by the NHS leads to other public services (notably the police) becoming the backstop, e.g. for those with mental health issues.
Get your Advent of Code data with a single import statement
The solution is a build system that scales by caching between runs - most PRs only change a few files, after all.
That would not be my guess. From the state point of view keeping secrets might be much more important than one life.
Healthcare is a life or death situation. I'm not going to abandon my own health because I think that if I don't do so I might hurt the NHS
We have the concept of a "walk in centre", but there aren't many, they are over-subscribed and they can't do much (for instance prescribe antibiotics). The typical experience there is to wait for 4+ hours to then be seen by a nurse and either sent home or sent to A&E. I am not being cynical here either!
Telegraf => InfluxDB => Grafana is also a well-known stack for monitoring which I like

See for example this (that also mentions Prometheus):

https://stanislas.blog/2018/04/monitoring-telegraf-influxdb-...
The overlap of people who can go private, and use the NHS is very slim. It really would have an miniscule effect.

All complications from private healthcare spill into the NHS. There's no such thing, yet, as private A&E for example.
Yes, that's what my comment is about: Tailscale is about privacy from the outside world for your network, not the privacy and anonymity VPN proxy services claim to provide.
yeah well, try thinking about a crud generator that has read all definitions of what a ShoppingCartItem is and generating it for you with all the bells and whistels instead of defining properties and hitting generate.

I have used many of the approaches you mean for years with symfony, but its not the same. Text replacement is clearly less adapdable to begin with
> will end up asking for more items in the build-matrix, and the CI time will balloon up again.

I don't think is has to end like that. You can have separate queues and separate levels of assurance. For example, does every commit have to be tested in each of 20 possible configs? You can run one common config by default and allow unblocking the rest on demand. Then enforce all of them only as a merge gate.

If you can also split them into separate queues that don't block each other, you get both larger matrix and faster dev turnaround.
Really have to love / hate the reduction of complex topics in to pithy “gotcha” quips.
Ask HN: Can ChatGPT generate fully functional code?
Fellow members,

I'm curious to know what are some of the best prompts to use on ChatGPT to understand its full-fledged capability as a newbie developer.

One of the things I noticed, is that it produces the requested code in the cleanest manner but it's not complete. For instance, I tried the prompt - "give me the python code for TicTacToe Game" and the code produced was incomplete.

Have you all encountered the same or my prompt is inappropriate?
CERN started diving into Python back in 2002, I was part of one of the first trainings that were taking place.

Same applies to many other research institutions.

Good luck catching up with a 20 years old ecosystem, with a language that only gets used mainly thanks to Google's sponsorhip for Android apps.
I agree, most don't. And I believe even larger part of recruiters don't understand either. You can make a choice but C is extracting a share from the transaction. And if not in your particular case, they are doing so in the large share of recruiting.
Much better source than some schlocky tv channel copy

https://www.bma.org.uk/advice-and-support/nhs-delivery-and-w...
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Thanks for saying that, 100% agree! It was obvious from the start that the restrictions will do more harm then good. Almost everyone in my circles that has kids is reporting psychological problems. Teachers report that they have to care for three suicidal kids during a school trip. People having long term side effects from the vaccination. And still, the restriction-fanatics are trying to ignore the obvious.
A bit late reply, but dancing classes. I have met a lot of people in my salsa class, we organize parties from time to time.
But Postgres also scales (out) badly. You need external tools (and it's non obvious to choose which one of the external tools) to achieve even a basic active/passive setup, let alone a more complicated one with read replicas.
I've done automatic deployment for 16. It was still totally worth it.
If you haven't paid anything yet, what is the problem? Just go to someone else. After making clear notification that they either accept agreed rate or nothing.
I don't really know which way the balance goes, but that the calculus wasn't made is borderline criminal to me.

And I don't think it really was done, when UK decided to not implement any lockdowns initially (right or wrong, don't know), most of the response was emotional. How dare you not care about dying people???
Is this sarcasm about our absurd reality of hyper-capitalism or are you serious?
If you don't need a technical-co-founder, then nobody needs one - it boils down to: who can convince someone with money to fund the business?

What if you have the AI and a domain expert? How do you stack up in funding against someone who doesn't just have what everyone else has?

Edit: Sure, in a world where the best idea wins, that's no the case anymore.

But as we've seen from stable diffusion and chatGPT, consistent ideas can be generated as well. If there is something that can immediately produce a prototype from an idea, you can meta-learn on that pipeline and produce the best ideas.

Ultimately, an AI method may win capitalism.
On "we have to build differently with concrete": one promising development is carbon fibre reinforced concrete (https://www.compositesworld.com/news/carbon-fiber-reinforced...). Since most of the cement in conventional concrete is actually needed to protect the steel reinforcing rods from corrosion (and parts of the structure have to be stronger to support the rest of it), structures built with carbon fibre concrete can be much lighter and therefore use less resources. And because of that, it might even become cost competitive despite the higher price of carbon fibre.

But the "...or abandon it altogether" which someone left out of the title should be considered too.
>You were already logged in. Why did you log in again with github? Because it asked you to, and promised you more rewards if you did?

when was i already logged in? there was only 1 action of "sign in with github". thats it
Intel, PGI, ....

As for the rest, what matters is what the OS vendors puts on the SDK for the CPU one needs to write an application for, and there is a world out there besides mainstream desktop OSes and mobile phones.
> Russia's unjustifiable war on Ukraine and the resulting cut in gas supply and rising energy costs

While true, Putin's war is being used as a scapegoat in the UK for poor policy decisions. For a country in Europe with the lowest reliance on Russian gas, we have seen some of the largest increases in energy prices.
> StackOverflow's stack (https://stackexchange.com/performance) is 4 huge Postgres servers. They probably cost less than our AWS bill for a couple months, which makes me jealous. Postgres scales.

Yeah, because everything is actually served from their caches because they're extremely read heavy.
So what part of the 6 already live in relatively well performing and populated areas with enough opportunities to stay?
Ours cannot offer a telephone appointment for 3-4 weeks. That is not acceptable for pretty much any situation require healthcare.

The NHS has a record budget of £200 billion for 2022. Serious questions: How much extra money do they need to provide an adequate health service, and how would another party fund the gap considering our current economic situation?
You 100% can take some of that pie.

Get involved with recruiting if your company has internal recruiters. Start advertising on your LinkedIn page open roles and offer to refer people from your network for those roles. But here's the kicker -- don't just whore out your referrals -- vet these folks. I setup, much like a recruiter would, a video call with the person if they're not a friend but a connection and we talk. I get to know them. Figure out their desires and what they want out of a role. I try to get a sense as an engineer of what their skills are and coach them in the roles that they'd have the best chance for getting hired for.

Then I reach out to the hiring manager and the recruiter and introduce them. This is after the refer-ee applies to a role and I endorse them internally. And anyways all of this doesn't turn into a referral bonus but when the whole thing works out and they get hired a bonus is paid out and then just rinse and repeat.
Edward’s is a classic and would be a top hit to re-visit on maps with any kind of buildings visible for a quick confirmation.
The issue here is that the OP did not abuse anything, tried to correct the mistake once discovered and was 'still' the one being punished for someone else's shady practice.
Actually many of us are a bit tired of WFH but guess what: the reason I and many HAVE to WFH is due do the bankruptcy-level childcare costs (UK). It is easier to change job than to re-arrange childcare. School starts at 9am stops at 15:30. Think about it. Some parents have one kid in nursery/school A, other kid in B. We are tired. No, I am not going back, fuck them.
I am the glen briefly referenced here - I miss working with Evan, and I could write chapters about the magical alignment he talks about that we swam in, and how I yearn to feel that sense of directionality and purpose again - one of the many reasons I left Google last week.

I am so thankful I got to take part in the Chrome adventure with so many people I still call my friends.

Also the close button was only not funny for a stomach churning 5 minutes after I saw the techcrunch article; at all other times: hilarious.
Yes, many did; and yes, excess mortality is up; so I can sympathise with thinking that’s a smoking gun — but COVID itself also caused excess mortality, some of which was by the pathway “The hospitals are now full of COVID patients so we have to turn away others” followed by “OK, so the COVID has cleared up and we can get back to the others… oh, 10% of those others have since died”. And given this is about the UK, I can also point at Brexit, the final stage of which happened during the pandemic and which I specifically predicted would cause a non-specifically large number of deaths: https://kitsunesoftware.wordpress.com/2019/10/25/oh-no/

(I’m glad to say that Boris Johnson pattern-matches against what I wrote in the final few paragraphs).

I’m sure some deaths will have a causal connection to the lockdown, but I can confidently say that about literally every possible course of action or inaction by any major government on any topic no matter how mundane; to talk about risk to the NHS, one must show that the caused effect is also a substantial part of the total.
A subtle way that government has cut services is to hand things like walk in centres to local councils to run but without increasing the funding for the councils. The councils then close them and take the political flak. The UK is not a good place to be sick and poor.
because every time this happened, I will always think,
great, now company gonna waste another resource for the benefit of the stupid, careless, lowests common denominator, and absolutely no benefit whatsoever (or worse) to people with common sense.
For context, in order to star projects on user's behalf you'd need to request public_repos scope[1], so the UI will look like this: https://github.com/login/oauth/authorize?client_id=33a703d01... (I used a random client_id from google search). As you can notice, the UI does not mention stars at all.

[1] public_repo: Limits access to public repositories. That includes read/write access to code, commit statuses, repository projects, collaborators, and deployment statuses for public repositories and organizations. Also required for starring public repositories. (https://docs.github.com/en/developers/apps/building-oauth-ap...)
I never used, only know it exists from the retrogaming stuff I read/listen to.

Looking on the site it seems only to produce roms.
Sure, and you are proving my point. You have to allocate time for someone to reply to all those questions and update the CI to only test what's necessary, or prioritize some test, and run the rest only if they pass etc.

So you do need policies to actually be allowed to optimise CI.
Higher performance finishes the race to idle quicker and thus counterintuitively saves battery.
No worries. That explains it. Thank you for the explanation. :)
> people weren't just droning along for money

Nahh they were pitching google to get the mega bucks so they could rest and vest on the roof.
AI that is specifically learning from your behaviour with a (partial) model per user I suspect is both terrifying and magical.
Ask HN: Is it okay to ask employer why the application was rejected
I've recently applied to a position as a Software Developer. My impression was that I ticked majority of the boxes, albeit the work was in a different time zone than mine.

I was feeling rather good about this application - I've been using most of the technologies the position had listed, and my job history reflects that.

I didn't even get to the interview stage, which was quite surprising for me.

Do you think it's polite to send an email in response to thank them for the response and ask which skills was I missing?
Currently they blame everything on the member for Islington north!
Absolutely just move on, don't reward scammers. They probably don't even have any code for you.
I am unsure who this is for. An argument for this seems to be that "delimiter-first" code is easier to machine parse but at the same time author says that tools can be made to overcome hard to parse code.

The a) b) c) and 1) 2) 3) argument seems just confused - those are not delimiters.

The author claims that we don't need a terminator - but what do you do in case of two subsequent sequences ?

Author says that YAML is "delimiter-first", yet there is no \n at the beginning of a YAML file.

In the end it all comes down to putting an extra comma in front of everything you write at which point you might as well just parse everything backwards to achieve the same result.

Once I take out all the circular logic out of the theory I simply fail to see any benefits of this approach.
Simple, its fear of death and more so what comes after it. Cure death and you may get rid of that impulse until entropy comes into play.
Chrome dev?
I agree that ideally everything should be written in safer alternatives, in most scenarios is not feasible to migrate from C++ to another language, because of the code base size.

I think cppfront[0] is the way to go if you want to write a safer language on top of C++, you can watch the talk about it here[1].

[0] https://github.com/hsutter/cppfront
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELeZAKCN4tY
YEs, but in small blocks and with specific asks. I asked it to generate code based on an existing project of mine, which generates analytics from social media activity. It does a good job of producing function bodies from prompts equivalent to a short comment you might use to document your function in the IDE.

For your example, I'd ask it to 'generate code, using Python, that accepts input and updates a display to allow a user to play an interactive game of TicTacToe with the computer.' I'm sure I could do better with some experimentation, but that will have to wait for some other day.
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I'd wager Maps is going to become more real-time, like showing a blob where a current festival is, mapping the trajectory of a scheduled protest, local activities. Like they did with forest fires.
As I replied to the sibling comment, yes, I agree, but caching is not magic. You need to know what to invalidate, and you need to be allowed to spend time making test group that run depending on what have changed. So without policy and having devs being allowed to work on optimizing CI/reducing time, you can list plenty of strategies to make it faster but it will likely not happen.
Via Twitter, recheck accuracy:

> So. All those dodgy VIP purchases the Tories made in 2020/2021. They were added as a spend on the NHS budget, to make it look like they were spending more money on our National Health Service

https://twitter.com/davidjboughton/status/159842616839019733...
Don't worry spaniards will cover for them and doubling the salary doing so.