skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "SO was incredible when it came out."

Amen to that.

> "That begs the question, what fills the void?"

ChatGPT or another
language model.

StackOverflow started with the vision of not being what made Experts Exchange so terrible - that was a brilliant plan at the time and SO did many things very right.

Now, many years have passed and not only have we seen SO grow into the whole plethora of QA sites that are Stack Exchange but also a couple of other QA sites. None of them are great, none of them are nearly as useful as the original SO was. I think it is save to say, that this approach simply does not scale.

I might be wrong and maybe, some day, someone comes around and nails QA at scale. My bet is that with ChatGPT the humanly curated QA site is as dead in the water as the humanly curated web directories were when Google came around.
I did, and I strongly disagree that online dating is a market for lemons.
I think you got exceededly lucky with your MBA repair. And honestly it's a bit tough to believe they replaced the motherboard for free 3ish years after they typically refuse to stop servicing the device entirely for anything besides the battery and have declared the device obsolete. Had it hit the 11 year mark they probably would have offered to recycle it and maybe give you $50 off a new one.

I've had extremely bad luck with Apple support and products. The last time I had to do some ridiculous process to prove it was still under warranty and they still tried to pawn it off on the retailer.
It still works for me. Looks like it was just a temporary problem?
I take it you did not visit the link?
I'm pretty sure that was just a technical difficulty. It seems to be up now. New Reddit is straight trash though.
As long as governments attack networks with impunity, it’s a mistake to trust them.
We're in a Crisis of Male Friendships
I don't agree. A subset of high performance applications in a datacenter can use a new protocol while still supporting TCP for other applications. I'm not saying this is easy, or even worth it, but it isn't all or nothing.
mmm... i disagree. fault tolerance is more of a reliability property that sits outside of the performance of a discrete logic or signal processing system, it describes how well a system can remain functioning in the face of adverse conditions like internal failures, hardware substrate failures, dependency failures, adverse inputs, etc.

but... yeah, some problems have continuous performance variables (typically ee'ish) and others have discrete ones (typically cs'ish). the discrete account ledger either computes the correct value or it does not, where many signal processing problems have to contend with noise and are allowed to produce a wide range of noisy outputs and therefore their measures of correctness are based on statistical arguments.
I will agree that it's not quite as easy to fix/service/upgrade as it used to, but I bought my Macbook Pro (Intel i9) in 2020, used it daily since then, thrown it in a backpack and had to thrashed around in airports repeated, and the thing still works about as well as when I purchased it.

I really do think Apple does a reasonably good job at making sure stuff lasts. It hurt to pay nearly 4 grand for a computer three years ago, but I suspect I'll get at least another five years out of it.
> we shouldn’t forget that schizophrenia is mostly social and psychological in origin

While it's not possible to completely decouple biological and social risk factors, my understanding of schizophrenia is in direct contradiction with your claim that it's primarily social.

As I understand it schizophrenia, the extremely high heritability strongly implicates biological factors. Beyond heritability, many of the other risk factors also implicate a biological basis, from microbe infections, drug use, and pre-natal biological stress (nutrition, maternal health, etc).

None of that contradicts the need to treat people suffering from schizophrenia with empathy, or to improve the social situations they're in, but I think your central claim about "mostly social" is wrong, and undermines the rest of your argument.
Not disagreeing with your first point, but as I see it - this only enables HF to continue to spend money on making good open source tooling + doing research on open alternatives to closed source LLMs (something sorely needed), while opening them up to more enterprise customers who primarily use AWS.

FWIW I am an ML engineer there (maybe should have disclosed earlier) and I feel pretty optimistic about the opportunities this will enable for the open source community. Maybe with the visibility into the closed door discussions I have a more positive attitude, or maybe I'm being naive.

Time will tell!
Hearsay: in Germany if US vehicle kills a pig, uncle sam is on the line for 6 generations of what hat pig could produce ...
This is the perfect app I'm looking for. Since moving to London, I fell in love with the trees here. Knowing nothing about trees before, I carry a tiny tree atlas with me. It is challenging to look up a tree from a booklet shall I say.

Simply beautiful.
I'm not trying to be overly critical here, in fact, I want to share the type of empathetic feedback I'd hope to receive as a founder.

Have you actually talked to Blaze/Bazel users to understand what frustrations (if any) they have with their current build system? Have these users asked for a Bazel-lite? If so, and you still want to position yourself as Bazel-lite, then you should include some of their direct feedback and write your messaging accordingly.

As a daily Blaze/Bazel user, I don't have a desire for a Bazel-lite. I've worked at a midsize company that used Bazel, and I'm working at the company that created Blaze/Bazel.

Disclaimer: Opinions expressed are my own; not representative of my employer.
IPPROTO_SCTP does this today. Just have to convince middleware/box vendors to support internet protocol.
Products at the grocery store typically aren't novel.

When they are (GMOs, Beyond Meat) you do see a similar reaction.
> > The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote

> It's pretty clear "the people" refers to citizens.

No, this doesn't support that assertion. The Constitution doesn't forbid non-citizens from voting; fairly recent legislation does, and even there, only Federally. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-citizen_suffrage_in_the_Un...

"Since 1997, the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 has prohibited non-citizens from voting in federal elections, with the threat of fines, imprisonment, inadmissibility and deportation... At one point or another before 1926 40 states had non-citizens voting in elections."

The Constitution very specifically uses "citizen" in some spots, and "person" in others.
From https://stackoverflow.com/help/whats-reputation:

> Reputation is entirely optional

> The three most important activities on Stack Overflow are Asking, Answering and Editing - none of which require any reputation at all!

Looking at what reputation brings, the highest one that matters to me is downvoting questions, which requires 125. My reputation is over 400, and I didn't have to deal with any trauma to get there.

Sure, if you want to do more things (edit wikis, etc) you need a higher reputation, but 99% of SO users don't care for anything above 125. Put another way: Most of them will not benefit if you do have the high reputation.

At a certain level, this is a complaint out of a desire to gamify points.
Sounds like it's a combination of not wanting to deal with the number of submissions increasing every month, a philosophical stance of wanting to support serious, human writers rather than people trying to make a quick buck, and perhaps some trepidation about the legality/ethics involved (since they use the word "plagiarize" in the article).
The age of cargo cult Agile must end
IMO that was the genius of
Warzone’s “resurgence” mode. A lot of the fun of BR without the waiting around.
pd.yeet("/data/data_1.csv")

pd.yeet(lambda x: yeet(x))

pd.yeet_to_csv("/clean_data/cleaned_data_1.csv")
So you need more staff to write down a larger fine on a piece of paper?
The way I see it is as expanding the high-level-low-level spectrum of programing tools towards the high end. In very large-scale projects that have many levels of complexity, I would argue "probabilistic software" is already a reality. You don't even try to fix all the bugs or edge cases. You try to minimize the impact of failures while accepting that there will always be failures. Building in logic to fail more gracefully is a big part of that and cost/benefit of such efforts is a probabilistic question, even if it might rarely be framed as such.

It's usually much easier (and never harder) to specify what needs to be done than how it should be done. Whether you can trust the result (enough) depends on the application. AI driven development will be applied first wheree errors and failures are least harmful and advance from there. It might take a long time until the degree of correctness improves enough and trust is build around it. After all, some countries' railroad networks still don't use computers but instead have a human map out new routes and schedules on paper to make sure trains don't crash. Nevertheless, the speed of AI development has exceeded (at least my) expectations time and time again in recent years.

What might happen is that we eventually get a lot of software that fails more often than now but is a lot cheaper. That would still mean that the new methods are widely adopted. People accept software errors as a part of life already, so even if they get more frequent in less critical applications, we will adapt.

What is really dangerous is when the various software components get too fast and complex to understand or control and develop pathological feedback loops in situations that cause real trouble. This kind of thing is a continuum of badness which tops out at "AI taking over and wiping out humanity". Given market incentives driving adoption, which I anticipate to be strong, it's hard to imagine how such risks might be mitigated.
Merch for Your Modus Operandi
Chrome 110 will automatically discard background tabs
I think a big intractable part of the problem is the location of the windows (i.e. exclusively on the outside of the building). Big floorplates just don't have enough windows to utilize the space well for residential, since building codes require all bedrooms to have windows, so your living area would be interior and have none.

Like if you take a 1-2k sqft pie slice of the center-to-window of a floorplate it ends up being extremely awkward to lay out a desirable apartment on that.

I'm here for the general idea of rethinking residential though; personally I think we do more harm than good by requiring all bedrooms to have windows. Cheap pod apartments could be strongly preferable for many working-class folks that presently commute 1.5+ hours into metropolitan areas. But making that work would require a deep rethinking of permitting and zoning.
I can think of other ways to keep the government from taking sides in religions
Everyone Has a Plan Until They Get Punched in the Mouth - Mike Tyson
> It's always ' I want Multi billion dollar company X combined with multi billion dollar company Z. Build this for me in exchange for 2.5% equity vested over 5 years.'

Those are the generous ones.

If you're a tech person and you 'join as employee #1' then you have just decreased your chances for a reasonable payday by about 90%. So make sure that salary is a substantial one, or negotiate for double digits stock. Otherwise: better to be a founder. Same risks, more control, better payday if it works out.
> What assumptions do you make, what edge cases do you cover, how much flexibility you build into the design, how extensible is it, what kind of tests do you write, etc.?

This what I was referring to. I'm not sure there are shortcuts here beyond saving some keystrokes.

As you've mentioned tests, this is one place I see a lot of people thinking they can save time not writing them out, even opting for no tests. I expect a good test suite for the average application easily doubles the number of keystrokes required, at very minimum. The code doubling in size sounds like a lot more work, but is it really in the grand scheme? You still have to put in all the same amount of thought into those tests in order to write the code (and again if you choose to manually test it). All you've saved is the effort of typing out the tests, which I don't find takes all that long.

Maybe there are some slow typists among us? If you spend most of your time clacking on the keyboard then, indeed, the number of keypresses required could become significant. But that's not my experience.
You need the staff to enforce it...
A Hilton is already built for residents, albeit short-term ones. Do you have any idea what the "conversion" entailed there?
I'm no expert, but this still seems like avoidance more than mindfulness. Obviously, meditating for six hours as a means to escape and avoid uncomfortable thoughts is healthier than blacking out or doing opioids, but it's still escaping versus being present, processing, and facing uncomfortable feelings and emotions.
But you can only put in $10K
Rep. Angie Craig assaulted in apartment building elevator
Speedup Rust's heapsort by 1.5x by making it branchless
I posted an article by the editor 5 days ago on this issue https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34817148 but didn't get any notice.
I don't want Apple to make a car.

But I do want them to make the software in my car. Preferably so that the car is just a wireless dock for my iPhone. So every time I upgrade my phone, my car gets a hardware update too.
I'll grant that perhaps the giant will eat itself, or collapse on its own weight. In a general sense, I'm inclined to believe that there will be at least a couple more decades of digital feudalism before it really breaks, and it breaking does not guarantee a return of the Internet of Yore in its aftermath. I applaud open source software and the little guy, but realistically they have to burn the candle at both ends in order to keep the dream alive for a new generation to pick up the torch.

That said, I'm pessimistic and cynical, and I find myself seeing every new "advancement" as portentous of a grim future.
LLMs are Level 2 automation
People are either getting extremely excited by LLMs or dismissing them outright. I think that there's a middle ground where they are very useful today--as level 2 automation tools. What do you think?
Yeah, many things people haven't tried can sound terrible to them. But it turns out the experience of collaboration is not in fact "someone is constantly looking over my shoulder". Pairing may not be for you, and like any collaboration it takes time to learn to do well.

Honestly, I think whiteboard interviews are terrible. And pairing interviews can be a challenge to run, which is why I go way out of my way to make people feel comfortable in them. But done right, I think they are no worse than any other kind of interview, which inevitably puts people on the spot. And for many it's better, because coding is way more their strong suit than answering vague questions about their history and character.
How is it bigger issue than AI or climate change or dysgenics?
We've had a lot of success with Brisk (https://brisktest.com/) doing this exact thing. It keeps our environment running so we don't have to rebuild on every run, kind of like a dev build. It's really fast.
> There are thousands of derailments every year. The bigger problem is not the derailment [...]

I think that's a problem worth discussing as well. Obama passed legislation to upgrade trains braking systems to make them a lot safer, which was then weakened by lobbying, which was then repealed by Trump, then the rail companies spent billions in stock buybacks and tried to tighten the screws on their labour force even further for cost-cutting reasons.

There are a lot of pathological behaviours that have gone into "thousands of derailments per year" that are worth discussing, and I'd say those are a lot more important than just this one derailment.
I think the problem is there is a lot of turnover. I appreciate the work of most moderators to keep the quality up, but like open source, the work-for-free model comes with it's problems
There's already too much entertainment. It's a completely oversaturated market.
I would use it in a job search.

I'm sure tech sales people would find it useful as well
Typically you'll also see people chip away at Turing completeness. There are programs that in theory are correct, but aren't allowed by the rules of the environment which cannot tell your correct solution from a slightly different and wholly nefarious one.

We don't always need to solve the general problem, and in cases where the general problem is undecidable, you're foolish to even try. Your boss needs to be set down and explained that in this house we obey the Laws of Thermodynamics, Lisa.
I’m confused. Does this mean my retirement savings somehow benefits or is related to the LDS?
I would go one step further and say that donations to religious organizations should not be tax deductible. They are not charities in 99% of the cases.
Some people have a belief that they have five fingers on their right hand. Some people have a belief that 1 + 1 = 2. Some people have a belief that the world is flat and worldwide governments are conspiring, for shits and giggles apparently, to deceive you. Are all these beliefs equal?

I can count the fingers on my hand. I can understand the definitions of "1", "+", "2", and "=", and verify to my own satisfaction why that statement is true. I, and anyone else, can challenge these beliefs, and I personally commit to changing them if the challenge is successful.

That's not what happens when flat-earthers or the religious have their beliefs challenged. It's completely the opposite. They refuse to change their beliefs even when their own experiments prove them wrong. They usually refuse to challenge their beliefs at all.

You're choosing to use this word "belief" in very different ways, and then pretending it means the same thing. It doesn't.
fine = scale of crime x (number of ppl working at SEC/1000000)
You're right, but there aren't any tall office towers near me. The office buildings that I'm aware of have not been converted to anything. Do you know of some?
Nationalize the railroads, 100%.
…yes? Because with larger fines comes larger court cases - and larger numbers of support staff.

Corporations have lobbied and purchased their way into these freedoms at the cost of our wallets and futures.

Don’t play thick. I too wish these assholes got prison time for this behavior.
Yes you are right..In YoBulk we flatten the CSV to a JSON schema store it in a document DB and do all the validations.Chunking the CSV and analysing the stream buffers for validation is giving us speed also.
You can check on the SEC homepage if their is a corresponding whistleblower award. Could be as high as 1.5 million, which is not nothing but still less than one would have assumed.
I Love Paper Books
The hints for followup questions is an interesting feature and something that could become a USP for this search engine. The followup questions were at times exactly what I wanted to ask next and sometimes thought-provoking and I was compelled to click and ask them.

The performance could be improved. I've having to wait several seconds before the summary is created.
Absolutely, but be careful about the corners you take when making a demo, or as someone else suggested, make it clear in the demo that something isn't done.

My first big assignment on my first job I presented a demo ~1mo into a 3 mo project. It didn't persist data, or work on more than one host, and it saved state to a json file on the one server I manually copied the executable to. Everyone is the demo doesn't see that, they see it working as expected. The first question I got was why can't we ship this today, it appears to work as expected?. PMs, SDMs, etc care a lot less about the "it takes a while to set up something that scales, and stores data in a safe encrypted database, etc" when they see something that works.

Now whenever I do a demo like that I append "DEMO DATA:" to any visible string, and ensure I demo at least one failed behavior, just to guarantee that no one thinks it can be shipped that day (if I know it can't).
Its basis is that taxation is a form of coercion, and government having the ability to coerce or even persecute religious organizations through taxation would violate the separation of church and state.

I personally think the incestuous menage-a-trois between corporate interests, the Republican party and Conservative Christianity is a bigger threat to liberty, but whatever.
When asked « what is the best time to go skiing? », Phind fixates on Colorado for some reason, then proceeds to delivering a huge blurb about skiing in Colorado ending with « in the end, the best time to go skiing in Colorado is a matter of personal preference ». Well, that was useful.
In 2023, when I think of "word processors", I think of them like Notion. When I think of "spreadsheets", I think of them like Airtable. And when I think of "to-do lists", I think of them like Basecamp's to-dos feature.

Also, since the SaaS platform will support document embeddability natively, we may end up with something that could replace Notion, with the advantage that embeddability will be possible with any document.

Regarding the fact that many companies pay for Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 to get emails, I believe that may change in the future.

The SaaS platform will provide powerful communication abilities to unify emails, Slack-like apps, and document comments.

Sure, emails will not disappear in one day, so we are considering offering email addresses as a gateway to the platform communication system.
I'm sorry, what?

> the status of the Brahmin caste as the "uppermost" or "holiest" caste was that they were the priestly caste, and skipped the Grihastha stage,

You linked to the section that specifically prescribes conduct during the Grihastha stage. That contradicts your assertion that Brahmins are supposed to skip the Grihastha stage.

> A wealthy Brahmin was therefore, by definition not a Brahmin.

The very section you linked to says He shall be either one possessing a granary full of grains. Accumulation of wealth is explicitly allowed.
I agree with Apple being the king of the hill... But it really isn't all that bad on the other side. There are some Windows laptops that will last you a work day on battery, albeit none of them can do considerable compute. I've seen some non-Apple hardware last for 5-ish years all right too.

And if all you need from the laptop is Chrome and SSH, then Chromebooks are actually a pretty sweet deal. I still run a 6 year old Pixelbook as the daily driver. Battery deteriorated to the point of lasting only 6-ish hours, but I have nowhere near that many meetings in a day. A new premium Chromebook should reliably last 10 hours and stay good for 5-ish years.