skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your daily reminder that in the US the police:

1. don't work for you or your interests. They work for and to protect the interests of the owners of capital, in this case the airlines;

2. have no obligation to know the law they're enforcing; and

3. have no obligation to protect you.

US police are incredibly overpaid, under-educated, largely unaccountable (thanks to qualified immunity), are more interested in seizing assets than solving any crime and are armed like a military without being trained like one.

Not knowing, not caring about and lying about the laws they are enforcing is routine. Excessive violence is routine. Selective enforcement is routine.

"Defund hte police" is a bad name for stopping the police being an unaccountable paramilitary group of thugs for moneyed interests.
Computer aided diagnostic software has been around for decades. It isn't very useful in improving medical outcomes.

Diagnosis isn't particularly hard in routine cases. The hard part is in gathering relevant data and entering it into a computer. Some parts of that data gathering can be automated to an extent, but in general it remains an unsolved problem. For example, large language models can't collect a useful patient history.
The consequences of C in long-lived software are somewhat known. Granted, the track record of C is mixed, but many important projects have been successful with it.

Rust is exciting and proving itself about as rapidly as such a language could be expected to do. But there are big questions around how all of this plays out in a long-lived project. There's a good argument that C's simplicity is an asset here.

I like Rust a lot and have done some cool stuff with it. I believe the challenges of long-lived projects will be solved. But at the same time, I admit that there are a lot of other factors (including non-trchnical ones). If you pick a language that doesn't last for whatever reason, and you have a couple decades worth of code, the options are grim.
yep. Sadly, the food industry is different and in fact you see big variations across the trade, both in how buyers, sellers, brokers and distributors work.
Ask HN: What do you want to learn from current technical founders?
I recently started a podcast on Spotify and Apple called the Technical Founder (https://www.the-tf.com/), where I chat with other engineering founders and explore the technical challenges inside growing startups. Together we unpack the tactics and strategies being used to build modern solutions.

I am looking for feedback from founders and potential founders on how to get the most value from these chats. Specifically I would love to know:

- What issues are top of mind for you as a technical founder? Fundraising? Stack selection? CI/CD tooling? Hiring?
- If you listen to an episode, do you listen to the full thing? If not, where did you drop off?
- If you enjoyed an episode, what stood out to you? What would you want more of?

I’m always looking for potential candidates for the podcast, so if you have a great founder in mind (including yourself) please let me know!

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>The addition of the consultant led to a delegative mindset

That's it right there. I've rarely, if ever, seen that work out well honestly. The consultant has no real skin in the game and so you still always should be doing your due-diligence. They're there to help rapidly guide you to competency, but they won't do that work for you, you really need to be an active participant.
I’ve seen a two-party meeting end with a long silence. It felt like leaving a funeral service.
Advice from a cold-calling salesman? Yes there is a use for employing strategies in the dog eat dog of raw sales, but apply it to the rest of your life?

This is like getting childraising advice from a mafia boss, marital advice from a special forces assassination squad member, etc.

Sure, since they operate at the extremes, they have some perspective, but invariably their situation doesn't apply to yours, who live in the "normal" world of "normal" interaction.

So if your job involves collaboration, then guess what, this is a shitty shitty approach. If your job involves knife fight budgetary battles and internecine middle management machiavelli warfare, well, yeah.
It's a tradition. The US is more traditional than most of Europe. Its political system did not change for nearly 250 years, and the last major war on its territory ended in 1865. Europe had many more wars during a comparable period, and much more political reorganization. It had many more chances to scrap an old system and enforce a new system. The US federal government won't enforce a metric system, or it would likely be overstepping its mandate.

So, if everyone from your grand-grandfather to your dad use measures like 3/8 and not 0.375, feet and inches instead of meters and centimeters, etc, you naturally use them, too. All the books have them. All the public displays have them. There is just too much inertia that makes everyone keep using them.

You of course can use metric units (most rulers in my home have both inches and mm, every bottle or carton has the volume in oz/gal and ml), 24-hour clock scale (call it "military time"), Celsius temperature scale, etc. If you do science, you most likely use metric units. The metric system coexists with the imperial system, but does not dominate over it.
I asked about the intersection of animals and health by describing the kind of lentigo typical in orange cats (without naming it) and asking if it was dangerous. It jumped to cancer as its first diagnosis, but I guess that puts it on par with WebMD.
Have you asked GPT-3.5 about something as simple as the classification of sailfish? Wake up.
It depends on how you define your language semantics. If you choose 2's complement wraparound semantics, which is what nearly all CPUs in the world have standardized on, there is nothing for the compiler to do. It's a pure operation, a single instruction, and can be constant-folded, strength-reduced, CSE'd, moved, dead-code-eliminated, etc. If you want a different semantics at the source level, e.g. overflow is an exception, then the compiler needs to emit additional code.

For Virgil I chose to settle on 2's complement because it's what hardware gives and has no overhead. It comes with the full compliment of fixed-width integers of widths 1-64 and odd-width ones come with zero-extension or sign-extension as necessary to make the underlying hardware width unobservable.
Most refrigerators have compressor (exists mostly mobile schemes, powered by heat, but anyway they have pressure inside).

From conditioners installers, I've hear, they mostly have issues with external connections, but near none with what made on big enterprise.

So window conditioners, or mobile conditioners, or heavy duty industrial conditioners with salt water as working liquid, are extremely reliable.

Same thing with heat pumps - if it is possible, to make all pipes with high pressure on enterprise, there will be no problems (reliability 3 Sigmas usually). Only potentially problematic, what done at fields.
Just doesn't seem reasonable. You buy a ticket, get a SMS saying your flight is delayed, and proceed through security and to the gate.

Sure things happen, but shouldn't the airline figure out what to do with you before saying "get out of the secure area"
It does…
No that is definitely not my view at all. Everyone should be free to do whatever they want.

I am just talking about what behaviours/views/values I find a turn-on/turn-off and what I personally seek in a partner.

I do however believe that some lifestyles are healthier than others, although maybe there is no one universal best lifestyle and it depends both on circumstances and life goals to some extent.
In the case of food retailers you also need to consider the time on shelf.
To take the coffee example. If any average shop buys 4 cases of coffee (24 bags) and on average sells 2 bags per week, then the last bags will sell after 12 weeks.
On avg. it will be 6 weeks (42 days).
Product will also spend 1-2 days in transit and might not be unpacked on the floor until 1-2 working days later (so maybe 2-3 days).
We can assume payments take 1 day to process.
So 46-48 days in total.
So 50 day payment terms means they are more or less cash flow neutral.
Numbers are made up, but roughly align with my experience of selling other durable food to grocery retailers.
I’m guessing you don’t have kids and haven’t seen what happens if you tell them to put down the phone/iPad cause it’s time to do X, then watched them bargain with you for the device back. It’s like seriously like talking to a drug addict.
That is definitely a fair list of body-based customary units; thanks for pointing those out!
Content that hasn't been legally obtained wouldn't be legal to consume in any way. That's not what I meant, and I think that's a bit of a disingenuous interpretation of my comment.

The debate is about content that is generally legally obtained, but might come with certain restrictions. Where restrictions is a broad term and might also just come in the form of a copyleft license, eg. My main point was that in many situations, eg involving open source licenses, it's really not clear from the terms what the creator's intent regarding AI training was. And the broader question is whether training is fair use, or something else, maybe even a new legal concept that would have to be established. Or, what's the difference between art students going to the museum to be inspired, and Dall-E 'looking' at public domain images?
> conformity

This sounds ideal. Today we are largely missing the shared society.
It gives me the correct answer (as judged by experts) to a complex medical problem. If you want to keep saying this isn't reasoning, be my guest. But IMO that's irrelevant.
This is totally right, but I think the majority of people understand this, and use "screen time" as shorthand for completely passive and solitary use of screens. I know many people really do say it is the screen itself that's the problem, but I don't think that's the most common colloquial use of the term.
Vision is too important . . . it seems too risky.
there are other considerations as well. a dishwasher has a breakeven point of about 2 people eating ~2 meals a day (e.g., 4 place settings a day), because that's the least amount of dishes you need to run it once a day. anything less, and it becomes an additional cognitive load rather than being a mindless convenience. moreover, stuck-on food becomes extra dry overnight and that generally leads to less clean dishes. if you're a single person looking for an apartment (or even a couple who eat out all the time), you should consider a built-in dishwasher negative value because it's priced in to the cost but you likely won't use it (a washing machine is always nice to have though).
You may not be a visual person, but many people are. Add this tag and you'll have a screenshot on your site.

<img src="https://is3-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple126/v4/51/a7/...
I've made a similar transition. For clarity, I was an engineer for 15+ years before making the switch. I've been a Product person now for about ~6.

As another comment mentioned - I find that PM/TPM roles vary depending on the company and the expectations of your colleagues. It's only sometimes visible from the outside or the job description. This is a big point for me.

I joined a large company (FAANG-like) as a TPM - the interview was great, and I got to talk about technical architecture and solutions. My interview task was to do some 5W analysis on data, dig out the bug, sight reading architecture/code, and talk about iterative product processes as applied to long-term platform work. It seemed perfect. I joined only to find the teams I worked with were amazed I could follow technical discussion/planning and near-offended that I could participate in their conversations.

I joined another large company (again, not FAANG but FAANG-like) as a non-technical PM at the opposite end of the spectrum, UX interviews and labs etc. They loved that I could articulate what I saw more technically and appreciated my experience, involving me in high-level planning and architecture discussions. I ended up contributing to code, architectural decisions and more.

On paper, I was perfect for the TPM role, but it was an excruciating experience that knocked my confidence and depressed me. I believed I was NOT the right person for the out-and-out PM role, but it turned out to be one of the best experiences of my professional life.

I guess my two pennies' worth is to try and understand what the role is going to be, ask probing questions of the recruiter or hiring manager, ask if you're able to meet the team or the EM's you'll be working with - find out how the work is done. You can't change who you are on paper. People will look at your Linkedin profile and always read it their way. I've been the hiring manager for many PM and TPM roles - you'd "stand out" to me by making the right kind of inquiries about how the work is done, how you are expected to contribute, and talking about that.

Worth noting after six years as a PM, I'm considering going back to code. I love being a PM, but code was my first love, and nothing compares to building things yourself.
Could be. Does not even have to feel like anything, this could be a independent additional component. This goes into the direction of the Chinese room, how do you figure out if someone understands something? I would say you ask questions and judge by the answers.
It's a small operation. I doubt they could afford someone on staff for this and similar responsibilities. That's likely why they went with the food broker, expecting that person to consult with them. Many of these people don't work with startups, though, so they're mostly there as rubber-stamp folks and connectors, and can't help consult.

I doubt this is some "I know better" mistake. It's an "I don't know what to do here and I asked someone I think would know but because I don't know, I didn't know how to select that person to ask either" mistake.
Yes. It's too confusing.
> Right. You are a joke. The one game he played was what won Brazil the WC that year. In 62 it was Garrincha who took Brazil to the promised land. Benezema has a winners medal too btw.

He played two games, not one game as you claim (a factual error). He also actually played, and scored, unlike Benzema. And, as I said, if they lost the games he played in, they would have been kicked out. You have addressed none of these facts, and have resorted to name calling and ad-hominem attacks.

> Yeah I stand by the shit league comment. They didn't even have proper record keeping so the 1200+ goals is a bad claim. He was surrounded by great players at the WC Jairzinho, Gérson, Tostão, Rivelino in 1970.

So if it was a shit league how come players in that league won the world cup 3 times in 12 years? All his goals are well attested to (do your research), I'm not sure what you mean by lack of proper record keeping.

> He was surrounded by great players at the WC Jairzinho, Gérson, Tostão, Rivelino in 1970.

Please read my earlier comment in reply to this argument of yours.

> You are comparing that to Burucchaga and Voldano. Lol. I sincerely hope you bring more rigor to your day job.

Hmmm, Valdano for example, won the UEFA cup with Real Madrid in 1986, scoring twice in the final. He also scored several important goals (4 in all) in the world cup that year. If that is a mediocre player then Pele's team-mates were also mediocre.

> Pelé included goals scored in friendlies or matches against semi-professional or even amateur teams. These facts are not even in dispute.

They are still goals, no? They are all certified by FIFA. You claimed they are "suspect", the implication being that they are somehow not genuine or falsified.

> Christ, you are not even wrong.

Indeed, I am not wrong because I am arguing based on facts, not irrational emotion.
This is available already, and has been for decades. Trump's refusal to do so has made him an anomaly.

https://www.efile.com/historic-1040-income-tax-returns-of-us...
> I don't think a lot of people dispute that more screen time is harmful.

I dispute it. Me and my friends played video games a lot, watched a lot of tv, etc. We all turned out fine. I think most people did the exact same thing and turned out fine too. Screen time = harm is an idea that flies in the face of the common reality lived by everyone born since 1980.

This idea sounds a lot like people who thought novels were dangerous, that comic books were dangerous, that rock and roll was dangerous, etc.
It's actually generic "authentication for the web" which is why it comes off as generic. They started off with being authentication for NextJS and it was definitely helpful for a quick auth implementation. Now it's being opened up to any web framework which is kind of a cool evolution.
I think the number ranges functionality is pretty handy. In addition, I also like how it supports comments. (However, I do think if the regex grows to needing comments, it is probably too complex.)
My tongue-in-cheek theory at the time was that it would allow him to do things that would help the prosecution.
IIRC ULA's accuracy is also a bit better, so for an expensive payload going high up it can be worth it to spend a bit more if it means your $1b payload is gonna last a few more years before running out of fuel. There's also the whole vertical vs horizontal integration thing
While gperf (unlike, say, CMPH[1]) is also intended for small sets of short strings, I expect the difference here is in the definition of “small”: in the article, it’s six, whereas in gperf’s intended application, it’s more like six dozen (and CMPH’s “large” is thousands to millions).

[1] https://cmph.sourceforge.net/gperf.html
They agreed a per-unit price. But they thought a unit was a bag, when it was actually a case of 6. So they thought they were getting 6x per bag.

As someone that has gone through the process of trying go to build a business that sells to distributors, I cannot understand how you’d miss a 6x discrepancy in your price model. Your margins are slim, a 6x markup means you’re seeing more than 500% profit margin. (Probably by not having a price model, if I had to guess…)
> reasoning occurred, rather than pure statistical model-fitting

What's the difference?
My personal opinion is that somewhere along the line this year they had to sharply recalibrate their risk tolerance. I think they might have expected to be able to more easily extend their launch approval out of Starbase as needed (ie "regulatory considerations"). Alternatively maybe they're expecting a much sharper drop in investor capital in the next year or two.

As such they may have had to change their success criteria for the first launch such that while previously they would've considered simply not damaging launch infrastructure to be a success, now they might need to at least be able to make orbit.

An alternative explanation is simply that most of their work this year has been on "stage zero" - the launch infrastructure. It isn't as open to the sort of rapid iteration seen with the vehicles themselves but it needs to be sorted out so they can start building the various additional pads they want in Florida. So perhaps that's what's preventing them from launching for now.
PostgreSQL and Software Development
very interesting! if OP is here, there's a typo: https://tamagui.dev/blog/version-one#:~:text=.%20Core%20will...
In the food business net-terms pain starts from the retailer and work backwards towards the manufacturer.

OTOH, it's very difficult to raise money as a retailer or distributor but 1000x easier (still hard) as a brand.
I don't know if it was a response to anything. I only saw the small section where he asks for the pizza.
All speech must be legal short of threats,fraud, etc. If one administration is given the power to outlaw speech you don't like, you may not like it when the next administration you didn't vote for does the same. Everyone should have the right to say what they want free of government repercussions. I would even go so far as to say what someone says and does on their free time is their business and not their employers as long as they are not representing themselves as speaking for the employer. Non violent Nazi on your free time, cool that's your business as long as you don't discuss it in any way shape or form at work and you treat all of your coworkers equally and with respect. Obviously if someone is committing felonies in support of their beliefs that's something else.
Phones are newfangled. My parents used to tease my dinner-time book-reading by making comparisons to Evelyn Waugh's Edward Ryder. (thus demonstrating they were not above a nip of the old hotmetal themselves?)
The primary cause of this discrepancy was that one piece of ground software supplied by Lockheed Martin produced results in a United States customary unit, contrary to its Software Interface Specification (SIS), while a second system, supplied by NASA, expected those results to be in SI units, in accordance with the SIS. . . .

. . . The discrepancy between calculated and measured position, resulting in the discrepancy between desired and actual orbit insertion altitude, had been noticed earlier by at least two navigators, whose concerns were dismissed because they "did not follow the rules about filling out [the] form to document their concerns".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter#Cause_of_...
This isn’t really “special treatment” so much as it’s “how federal bail works”. For a breakdown: https://www.serioustrouble.show/p/how-did-sam-bankman-fried-...
I doubt whatever you're doing is going to work in Rust or Go.

Say that the length of your string is n, and the length of your regular expression is m. Isn't Regular Expression matching in those languages guaranteed O(m n) time? In plain English, that's only linear time - which you practically can't improve on - even if you tried! It can only do worse if your implementation uses backtracking instead of Finite Automata - which was very common at one time, but is now considered The Wrong Way: https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html

There is actually a way to optimise your queries, which is by precompiling them to DFAs, but I don't think that's what you're doing.
With a quick search, I couldn't find the percent volume due to day traders vs institutional and regular retail traders. I think it depends on how much dollar volume they contribute. I feel like it's a relatively small percent compared to institutional trading (algorithmic and manual). I also don't see everyone switching to index funds anytime soon -- people want to get rich quick.

If you include algorithmic trading I think volatility would be reduced because it would be spread over a longer time frame. But that's probably all. Individuals and institutions would still pick individual stocks to try to beat the market, just over a longer time frame.

If all money (or a significant portion) was only invested in index funds, liquidity of individual stocks would decrease. That would result in a counterbalancing increase in volatility.

It's an interesting what-if scenario.
Hate speech is not legal in many jurisdictions and it is perfectly possible to create a stable statutory definition of hate speech. See, for example, Germany: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksverhetzung
No, Southwest does not have personnel to escort passengers through the airport. Certainly not passengers who don't want to be escorted (as is strongly implied by the headline, or the brief snippet of article before the paywall). Even for unattended minors, Southwest only escorts on and off the plane, not through airports to connecting flights.