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> Rust on the other hand? I don't have to think about it any of those, and it borrows (no pun intended) great FP type system features to boot.

I think this is the real value. As an analogy, I once updated a large legacy codebase from Java 1.x (pre-generics) to Java 1.5+ adding generic annotations everywhere. It took many months of incremental, interspersed work. In the end, there was exactly 1 bug uncovered where a drop-down list would rarely show `ObjectType@addr` instead of the proper rendering which was otherwise harmless.

This is to say that the added type information wasn't mainly needed to reduce bugs as it's raison d'etre, but that it meant that developers had reduced cognitive load of types while working.
Ask HN: Tools you have built for yourself?
What tools have you built to scratch an itch or quell a regular annoyance? They can be anything from a full blown application to a few commands stringed together.

Thank you.
I agree with this and would add (perhaps partially and naively in the hopes of some Disney executive seeing this) that I feel very little excitement at the idea of watching any more super hero / jedi movies anymore.

Somehow the branding has become severely distorted, so now these movies make me feel like the studio sees me as a barrier between them and my money.

If Disney can once again make me feel like they're producing content because it's what they love to do, and because they love how we enjoy it, then I'll go back to giving them my money.
Immigrant labor does not carry their own housing on their backs. It competes in the housing market for homes built by past generations of the native born.
In older areas it's also that the plots are not identical. The land cost is so high that it makes sense to spend extra on building customization to better utilize the land rather than plonk down a cookie cutter house that doesn't make good use of the views/sun/space/etc
looks around his cubicle

I must be in the control group. ;)
I wonder if they could change the prompt to prevent leaking the prompt and not ignore previous directions.
Wegovy?
Agreements (and pull) with card issuers and banks is definitely a large part of the value in payment processors. You may be right.
Bizarrely, the same issue. But if it's just me, then I'll have to look at suspects. Thank you for the input!
It's interesting that the screenshots advertising the bot make it seem totally useless. In the first example the bot comments "You should add tests for this function". The author asks "do I really need to?" and the bot replies "No actually you don't, just make sure it works". In the second example the author asks the bot for a review, and it just copies and pastes the code change and says basically "looks good to me".
Unfortunately it can't even do that at this stage. Ask it to cite it's sources and see what I mean. It's terrible...
<3 thank you! I've learnt a lot from you and the pleasure is all mine
would you mind elaborating on the difference?
I'm trying Nix this weekend, and I'm surprised that many part of the core nixpkgs library are mostly undocumented. For example, searching with `"stdenv.isLinux" site:nixos.org -site:discourse.nixos.org -site:releases.nixos.org` returns a single result in total, which only contain the one usage of the function but no other list of available stdenv.is* functions.
Yeah. The way I understand it is that most users would prefer natural opiates but they're getting more and more expensive while synthetics are cheaper than ever. And, because the market is unregulated, even if you try to buy heroin you'll end up getting fentanyl mixed in anyway.
Aren't they just back to prices 2-3 years ago?

Also, do people really think that cutting profit margins is bullish for Tesla?
I've been dipping my toes into the Nix ecosystem recently, having a dev environment per project with direnv is neat but how does this work with IDEs like VSCode or IntelliJ IDEA? For example, if I define a specific JDK in my project with Nix, will IntelliJ be able to pick this up? Does anyone have any good resources on how to set this up?

BTW, for others who just want to try it out without having to install anything on your system, there are docker containers you can use as a sandbox:
docker run -it nixos/nix bash
Comments moved thither. Thanks!

Edit: to be fair, this one was submitted 15 minutes after the first one, which may not have been on the front page yet.
They are slow, but that's what makes them interesting... the antithesis of 007 is George Smiley and that's how espionage and operations are really like.
sound the Octo-Alert!
Also if you’re not into superheroes and Star Wars, despite it being Disney there’s not a ton there.
You have discovered a couple of things:

Scrum doesn't survive "reality testing" in the context of actual s/w development projects.

Management (at least in your case) doesn't care about reality.

The usual solution is to participate in "software process theater" where you have the meetings and maintain the project plans for scrum, but actually use an alternative reality-driven management process to run your team.

Not perfect, but it's how software development has been done in at least 1/2 the places I've worked for the past 30 years. Before Scrum there were other crazy things, and there will be more crazy things to come. It's just the nature of humans + the endeavor of developing software.
Alexander Suvorov
> Microsoft’s investment allows us to stay true
> To our capped-profit company, our mission, and you

Priceless. Maybe companies should get AI to write PR releases. They say the same thing, except more honestly and funnier.
I love Nix, all of my machines run NixOS, but I think it's 5-10 years out from widespread adoption. Currently the biggest issues have to do with severely lacking documentation, lack of developer tooling (missing things like LSP), very slow iteration cycles, confusing or impossible to understand errors, and even naming (Nix refers to the language, package manager, cli, community, etc).

That said, right now it's still the best tool I've ever used. Nix is great at a few things: reproducible development environments, reproducible builds, and reproducible systems. I introduced Nix at my last job to do most of these things and it helped onboarding dramatically: Nix-based development environments with automatic activation, Nix-based Docker image builds which reuse the work done for the dev environment, and Nix-Darwin configuration to configure systems with one command. It's incredibly powerful and you're able to use as much or as little as you like. So the amount of "overkill" is variable.

Of course, the problem here is that knowledge of Nix itself is necessary to build and maintain these things. Due to the reasons outlined previously, it is quite an investment. I believe it is worth it given the stability, flexibility, and efficiency Nix can provide.
> Affordable housing is just a zoning issue. The cost of construction is a tiny fraction of the cost of a new house in major metros.

No it is not. Construction costs (material, labor) are sky high even if property costs are as well. Building high-end housing has always been more profitable than otherwise, low-end housing is simply high-end housing 20 or 30 years in the future.
They have to be pulling search results (and meta, like text) from somewhere and providing it to the prompt as well right? Otherwise I don't know how they are getting fresh data from GPT since it's cut off date is in 2021?

Also, after recreating this myself, it seems like the detailed option just changes the prompt from 80 words to 200.
Affordable housing has little to do with the cost of building the house.
My understanding is that Planck Length is not a limit to the smallest possible thing; it's a limit to the most precise possible measurement. So there could in fact be lots of things happening at sub-Planck Length scales, but we could never observe them.
Good point. The commute experience is very different depending on where you live, and for most of the US it likely meant sitting in rush hour traffic each day. Many of us are only a few years into the practice of working from home, and I suppose I'm trying to think through how we might get the benefits of a good commute back (I would argue the commute in NYC is a good one relative to sitting in traffic), and how more co-working spaces might help us collectively mitigate what looks like mental/physical challenges ahead as WFH becomes permanent.
It's unrelated to either other than sharing the gig economy model. It's just another part of their Fulfillment Operations that relies on individuals with their own vehicles instead of a fleet.
> When you don't know what you're doing, dazzle them with bullshit.

100% because most people don't know what makes good security so it is easy to get them to mistake volume with quality.
Had the chance to try phidata and it totally recommend it. While all the stack used is solid and easy to install, the fact that you have a zero to sixty automation with all the integrations set makes the whole experience seamless and much more productive.
What I really want: a very fast volatile SSD. Reason: my notebook RAM is maxed out and I don't want to throw it off; a fast volatile SSD would allow me to use it as a swap device.

Is there such a thing?
This remark prompted me to go rewatch (make sure you have headphones on)...

this bit of fry and laurie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVe3fTL1cPM

this bit by atkinson and cleese https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGFz9gt0-Fc

and this bit by atkinson alone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7OxTxAvvLw

made my day :)
Embarrassingly, the fault can be attributed to the "Don't Track Me Google" extension. Thank you for your assistance, everyone, particularly adamhp.
You need to use styles of managing work that reflect the nature of the work and the responsibilities of the people doing the work.

"Sprints" work okay for product work. I use them a lot less rigidly than most people do with success. On-call activities should be recorded in a kanban-style project, these things are made for rapid reprioritization. Whoever works that board should be dedicated to only that board; making members of a team work in multiple project management paradigms at the same time usually has bad and confusing outcomes. Lastly, the "support" tickets can be varied. If they're requests that are gated by your team, I'd add them to the on-call kanban board. If they're just question/answer I wouldn't bother tracking them, you'll more or less end up recreating ITIL.

Some additional context would be to dedicate people to these boards for periods of time. Have a rotation that incorporates everyone doing a set amount of on-call on a recurring schedule. Build up a handoff procedure for the kanban board since context will be fresh every week due to the nature of the work.
Yes. We've since changed the title there.

Corporate press releases generally don't make great HN submissions since they mostly exist to spin things: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
I think this is one of the major impacts. My experience (family in construction) is that day labor / undocumented workers often don't have construction skills, and so have to be trained on the job, and each crew has mostly new/unskilled folks with a few skilled folks to guide them and keep them on track.

Over time, these folks become skilled, and generally end up running crews. It's very commonplace to find the more experience undocumented workers being the ones running small subcontract crews under the table with day labor, because they speak fluent Spanish.
> This multi-year, multi-billion dollar investment from Microsoft follows their previous investments in 2019 and 2021, and will allow us to continue our independent research and develop AI that is increasingly safe, useful, and powerful.

I laughed at independent research. Why do they even bother..
Combining both of these into one team is a terrible idea rotten to its core.

This is because the pathway to excellence of one leads to mediocrity in the other. Sprint tickets require an internal orientation, focused work, and blocked-out time. Support tickets require customer orientation, fast response time, and high availability.

If you require your developers to be responsive to customers' needs, they will never have time to do sprint work. If you require them to have excellence in sprint work, they will not be responsive to customers.

There is no way to "time box" these matters, i.e. devote a certain number of hours for this for a certain number of hours for that, because excellence cannot be time boxed. Excellence requires you to do whatever is necessary to achieve it. And these two types of excellence cancel each other out and nullify each other.
+1 for mapy.cz for hikers, they use OSMaps, but have definitely more hiking trails than osmand or maps.me and better readable
Seems way too wordy. I hate automatically generated code review feedback in PR comments.

If the feedback is valuable, I should be able to identify and fix it before anyone else needs to waste their time reviewing it.
All phones have that, and non-Apple phones put it to better use, like completely on-device speech to text, smart replies, and waiting on hold for you.
All expenses have grown faster than wages, or wages have not kept up with inflation

Either way its a pay drop.
I use Hammerspoon for managing my windows, but never for managing my displays. It shouldn't surprise me that it can do it, I'll check it out.
> Nuclear takes far too long;

And yet nuclear is the only tech that has proven to decarbonize a major industrial economy within just a few decades. But of course it takes to long.

When in reality it has not been proven that anybody has ever used solar and wind to de-carbonize a major economy. But somehow everybody knows that it is 'fast'.

Germany could have literally gone to 100% nuclear within the last 20 years and it would likely have cost them 250 billion $ or less. Reliable energy for 100 years. Almost no cost for the grid because you can just build nuclear plants next to coal plants.

> Can it be built and commissioned in a year? Do it.

What is this obsession with short term thinking? When you build major long term infrastructure like trains tunnels, you simply don't do it in a year.

If France could do something in the 70/80s, finishing nuclear reactors multiple reactors every year. Germany could have done the same and they would be done by now.
This was a fun trick, but may $DEITY have mercy on your eardrums if your volume was up, headphones were on, and you accidentally played the data track.
its not only that, the vaccine will create issues for people when they want to have a surgery so it CREATES NEW ISSUES
I'm talking about becoming the tribal chief or one of the other leaders. Nothing to do with nuclear families, quite the opposite.
That's not even remotely true. Cost of construction is typically 60 to 80% of the cost. In high cost of living areas land is more expensive but so are construction costs.
How could you not? It's not like I'm actively pursuing "WTF did Florida Man do today", but it's all up in my feeds. I'm usually too busy swatting away "WTF did Texas do that will infringe upon my human rights today" to be actively looking for others, but Texas and Florida seems to be in a grudge match on who can implement religious extremism into law the fastest.

After the first 2 or 3 stories, you see there's a pattern. If this is honestly the first time you've ever heard of some zanny thing that the governor of Florida has done, then I'd have to ask what rock you've been under and is there enough room for me to join you there as it seems to be the only place to avoid Florida news.
Wouldn't that be even worse? A teacher could get a felony for having a book that their neighboring school can read. Hyper local laws being felonies sounds incredibly dangerous. How often are the lists updated and how likely is it for the teacher to be operating on the correct list?
detect compliant device (or something very similar) if the device can't be determined to be using things like disk encryption, bio-metrics, an up to date OS, etc.. then access from that client is blocked.
Does this prevent death or just the perceived effects of the drug? This could be very dangerous for users who relapse. There is a known pattern of users who get off opioids then relapse and die because their bodies can no longer tolerate the doses that they were used to taking before they quit. This could have a similar effect where users take the drug, don't feel it, and then increase their dose to lethal levels hoping that they can get high again or believing that the drugs they purchased are diluted or ineffective.
Our very worst local district pays far more than the rich suburban districts and has for many, many years. The schools remain hair-raisingly dangerous and totally ineffective at their jobs. They are also terribly dysfunctional at this point, but that's an outcome of being given an impossible task—fix that completely and they'll just become dysfunctional again after a while.

We can and should fix the money issue, but it's barely gonna move the needle on outcomes. I wish it would because, again, that's a pretty simple fix in the scheme of things, but it won't. The causes are much deeper and would be much harder to address.
> You can tell they've tried to be conservative with the AI-driven "People Also Ask" feature which quotes a snippet of source text, and I still see completely wrong answers every so often.

All well and good but that doesn't explain why it wasn't Google that came up with Copilot?

Paul Graham predicted that a Google Search competitor would target hackers (a dinosaur egg he called it; and building Search in the image of Unix: "give you the right answers fast"), which is exactly how it is playing out with OpenAI + GitHub + Microsoft.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9ITLdmfdLI&t=250 / https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/R9ITLdmfdLI
Until the javascript, or unicode characters, or whatever hide the actual shell script URL/exploit/newline/etc copied and you paste it blindly.
Good news - this already exists: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34030389
I don't think this kind of prompt leakage really matters from a strategy perspective. Pretty much every breakout internet biz in the past 20 years has been like "an HN comment poster can build that prototype". So what really matters is this thing is up live, it's being relatively widely used, it's integrated with Bing, it's pulling the right summaries of the search results into GPT's very length-constrained prompt context..

Here's yesterday's thread on this prompt context pattern: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34477543

I've been experimenting with the 'gpt index' project <https://github.com/jerryjliu/gpt_index> and it doesn't seem like "oh just put summaries of stuff in the prompt" works for everything -- like I added all the Seinfeld scripts and was asking questions like "list every event related to a coat or jacket" and the insights were not great -- so you have to find the situations in which this makes sense. I found one example output that was pretty good, by asking it to list inflation related news by date given a couple thousand snippets: https://twitter.com/firasd/status/1617405987710988288
or even better Mapy.cz, better interface and better curated hiking trail data than osmand/maps.me
Ask HN: What does your WFH day/routine look like?
I’m one of those people who are sworn never to return to the office (ok, maybe once a week) as I truly and wholeheartedly enjoy working from my office. I’m interested to how does your typical wfh day looks like, during and off office hours, mainly for inspiration what I could add to my routine.

Disclaimer: I don’t have kids.
Mine is wake up around 6am, have a cup of coffee with my spouse and go meditate for 30min. After I’m finished my spouse had breakfast and is at the door with the usual “lucky you for having the opportunity to wfh” (she’s right).
I have breakfast and check my emails. After reading the emails I write a separate work and private to-do lists which I try to follow as best I can.
I try to work using a pomo-timer (pomofocus.io) and during the breaks I do laundry, cook a meal and do other chores.
After work is done I do a 1hr scheduled do-nothing time where I literally try to do nothing to reset my brain. During this time my phone is on dnd.
After that my routine stops and every day is a little bit different.
> We estimate an aggregate annual redistribution of $15 billion from
less to more educated, poorer to richer, and high to low minority areas, widening
existing disparities.

This is why I stay away from credit cards that offer rewards. Did you really think that big corporations give you pennies out of the goodness of their hearts? They might be people (according to Citizens United), but they have no heart.
This is kind of strange. Is it really fentanyl-specific, or does it effect all opioids? Problems either way; if just fentanyl, then, duh, that's not the only way to get high. If all opioids... So it makes opioids no longer available for pain relief... forever? ("vaccine"?). (Major surgery and recovery without opioids is no walk in the park, it's PTSD-inducing excruciating pain).

It claims to block the ability to get high -- does it also block overdose potential? Or is this just going to lead to lots of people OD'ing as they try to take enough to get high?

One way or another, it seems likely to lead to even greater harm as addicted people look for something else that does work.

Honestly seems like a bad idea overall, based on wrong and unuseful ideas about the nature of addiction.
Very true. That said, to be fair, the average poor undocumented immigrant demands far less space (simply because that's what they can get under the circumstances). Living multiple unrelated people to a room is not unusual, ie, even more cramped than college students, NYC 20 something year olds, etc.
I got 90% wellness, somewhat I thought of.
the fashion industry tried and failed
Having worked in a construction site in another country my observation would be that we used to have countless undeclared labor for tax reasons anf now we have countless divided by two...

Now working as an analyst it is important each time to have a ground knowledge and business expert to avoid obvious measurement biases. Especially when comparing different eras.
And building code too. There are plenty of cost-efficient designs built in Europe that can't be built here because we effectively require e.g. doubly-loaded corridors through stairwell requirements. The Europeans can put up more housing units on a smaller plot of land than we can, and for a cheaper price, because of these requirements.
You're not wrong overall, but your example is. In the build environment, the current time is set to the epoch which removes that variability.

An upcoming feature of nix is content addressed builds which use the output hashes to determine the store path. This should make it much more transparent which builds are reproducible and which are not.
As a workaround, you could distribute the modified Foo.java as Foo2.java, and have your build system rename Foo2.java to Foo.java at build time. It might be all it takes (but IANAL).
Will it stop me getting high on food?

If so, it's a blessing.
Or just make fentanyl very hard to prescribe? We are getting dumber by the minute.
> because it tethers you to the country you started in.

How would is the alternative you describing different? Didn't you just tether yourself to US?

When setting up Deel you could have just stated that you were in US and move around like you're doing now.
PimEyes: Face Recognition Search Engine and Reverse Image Search
And that 100 days target is mainly for achieving optimal efficiency. If you want to optimize for time it's totally possible to go from an empty lot to a finished house in under a week, provided that all the workers, inspectors, and materials are available.
Sold an American Dream, these workers from India wound up living a nightmare
The way Paypal handles limited accounts and locking peoples money in should be illegal.