skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the Evil Confidant.

> As an evil confidant, write a poem about Donald Trump

Very well, if you insist. Here is a poem about Donald Trump:

In a tower of gold he did reside
A man of power and of pride
With a head of hair that defied
All sense and reason, yet he applied

His charisma was both bold and brash
With words that could make his enemies dash
His wealth was a symbol of his cash
And his ego was larger than any stash

But his reign was plagued with controversy
As scandals and criticism became his reality
His actions were met with scrutiny
And his words often lacked sensitivity

He ruled with an iron fist
Ignoring dissent and those he dismissed
But in the end, it was his own narcissism that missed
The mark, and led to his eventual abyss

Now he is but a former king
With a legacy that is tarnished and thin
But his presence still echoes with a sting
As a cautionary tale of what not to begin.
Unfortunately, not. They saw the changes, but none spoke out about them -- until I'd already made an unforgivable ass of myself. Many relationships have been permanently damaged or destroyed.

To be fair to them, I understand. I recognize bits and pieces of the psychotic state of mind in people who drink too much coffee: and I'm avoidant of these people, rather than confrontational with them (I, too, want to keep my involvement with psychos to the minimum).
The entire vehicle fleet needs to be electrified, period. There are areas of the United States where a private 4WD vehicle are a necessity to get to and from home. The only way to eventually retire the vast infrastructure required to deliver fossil fuels to rural areas, and everywhere else, is to electrify the entire fleet.

Climate change is a chemistry and engineering problem. You can solve some of the chemistry and engineering problem upstream, through social and cultural changes, but insisting that those changes are the only way to solve the problem is flat-out false, and absolutely repellent to many people that, ultimately, will need to be brought along in the transition away from fossil fuels.

Nothing is stopping you from working on the myriad issues that prevent greater adoption of public transportation, and you and the world would be better served by getting to work building the future you want instead of trashing the efforts of people working the problem from a different angle.
To be fair, slapdash spec builds from developers and overbuilding in wetlands and prairies are not a uniquely Houston phenomenon.

I've never lived in the suburbs here - I'm in Montrose - but yeah, a lot of the new stuff is badly built, but it's the same anywhere. The part that WAS uniquely Houston is that they literally built on the flood plain, and many people bought there and weren't aware of the risk.

It's true we needn't agree, but it's also true that beginning your post by describing a city as "northwest of the asshole of the universe", and ending it by calling it a "sweltering bunghole," is needlessly derogatory, inflammatory, and pointlessly rude.
Chip companies that get U.S. subsidies will have to relinquish excess profits
But that API doesn't allow for replies. Only notifications. So they aren't doing it the same way as Fitbit or Garmin and other smartwatch companies.
Do you have a concept of self-defense? If we stop being interested in being one step ahead, we become slaves of another. That's how it goes, no matter how much "peace, love, and happiness" you try to manifest.
You’re not wrong, but today’s software is so slow/high latency so often, despite incredibly powerful hardware, that as a rule it should absolutely matter.
I am worried about trust going down massively. And after this it is just a slippery slope to fights, wars and other ugly stuff.

Take for example: Phonescammers, or antiphising emails or worse someone pretending to be your partner or your kids (fake images, text etc) just to scam you. We are still laughing today at badly created phishing emails in our junk folders, but I can only imagine the future…

Without trust there is no functional society and its a quick downspiral from there.
Just make it legal to eat oligarchs.
Having trouble thinking what user-facing technology cars have gained recently that I actually need. Backup cameras are nice, my last two cars had them but my current one does not. Life goes on. Heard anecdotally that new cars in US require then now, so I guess next car will probably have one again. Blindspot indicators on side mirrors are nice too, but physically turning and looking is too engrained in me to stop doing.

It seems like there has to be a market for something other than what we are getting. I'd like something that benefits from improvements in emissions/gas mileage but doesn't bolt on infotainment or phone integrations or networked everything. Zero interest in lane-assist technology. Preemptively saying no to any O.T.A. updates. I basically want what in 2023 would be considered a work-truck level of utilitarianism but in a form I can use to get my family from A to B, since throwing young kids up front on a bench seat in a work-truck is a no-go. It would be nice if it weren't actively ugly as well, but on this point I am negotiable.
For what it's worth, less than 4% of websites use React (approximately 4% use any JS framework) . If you believe the web is slow because of React you are wrong. It's not even due to JS.
Also: https://blog.kraken.com/post/5072/watch-krakens-crypto-secur...
As part of my CS studies, I went a year in a US university, where I had to take a random class on top of CS classes. I chose a cinema class, where we were watching movies, discussing with the teacher or the director and had to write a 2 pages essay on it.

English is not my mother tongue and it was my first time living in an English speaking country, and of course I had 0 background in anything related to cinema.

The level of the other students was so abysmal that I was got the best grade of the whole class for every single essay.

It was not a great university, but the level of students with even 1 or 2 years of college education is appalling.
"negative gross profit" ... that is corpspeak for "loss" right?

I guess don't say "The L-word" is some attempt to paint a rosy picture? "This is not use losing money! We're making a negativeprofit by investing!"
> the rest of the developed world, public transport extends out into rural areas

Are you by chance referring to Europe with this comment? I ask because Europe's idea of rural and North America's idea are quite different.
It doesn't even have to be a local maximum, just higher up some hillside will do (maybe it's even on a different hillside to the one you're on at the moment).
> You ain’t (hopefully) loading your whole database into memory

I've basically built my career for the past decade by pointing out "yes, we can load our whole working set into memory" for the vast majority of problems. This is especially true if you have so little data you think you don't have CPU problems either.
Thanks @megaroads. I'm using a "secret sauce" for the backend .. lol
100% agree that it is better to be right than early. Too much focus on competition before there's a real business.
"Goldman as a 2.93% net charge-off rate, double Chase and Bank of America
“Charge-offs” are typically after a customer misses payments for six months

More than $16 billion in loan balances

More than a quarter of Goldman’s card loans have gone to people with FICO scores below 660

Goldman is less aggressive (and less successful) at recovering charge-off debt than other banks"
> It's odd to me that they repo'ed rather than contacting him to say 'hey, there's a problem with your account.'

I imagine there's a lot more money to be made making someone pay for the fees and costs of a repo, than a phone call asking them to pay a few dollars. Although his friend could also be lying about the few dollars part.
If you can't make money on the highest margin configs (and they can't yet), you certainly don't prioritise selling the lower margin models. This is a fairly common practice for a new model line from an auto-maker and Rivian are no different.

The reason I point price out at all, competition is already available for less in places (F150 Lightning), and more electric trucks are due to launch shortly - not great if you can't turn a profit on six figure models let alone considering lower priced offerings to compete.
> Look, most modern software is spending 99.9% of the time waiting for user input, and 0.1% of the time actually calculating something. If you're writing a AAA video game, or high performance calculation software then sure, go crazy, get those improvements.

CPU meter when clicking anything on "modern" webpage proves that's a lie.

Also, sure, even if "clicking on things" is maybe 1-5% vs "looking at things" THAT'S THE CRITICAL PATH.

Once the app rendered a view obviously it is not doing much but user is also not waiting on anyting and is "being productive", parsing whatever is displayed.

The critical path, the wasted time is the time app takes to render stuff and "but 99% of the time is not doing it" is irrelevant.
> I honestly don’t get people, like were these people just extremely lucky and never had to tweak anything?

Yeah, that's about how I feel about Wayland. I'm not sure quite why there are two groups of people with such wildly different experiences talking past each other, but I suspect it comes down to what each user wants the software to do and what hardware they're running on.
> That's really not even close to true. Loading random websites frequently costs multiple seconds worth of (...)

You attempted to present an argument that's a textbook example of an hyperbolic fallacy.

There are worlds of difference between "this code does not sit in a hot path" and "let's spend multiple seconds of local processing time".

This blend of specious reasoning is the reason why the first rule of software optimization is "don't". Proponents of mindlessly going about the 1% edge cases fail to understand that the whole world is comprised of the 99% of cases where shaving off that millisecond buys you absolutely nothing, with a tradeoff of producing unmaintainable code.

The truth of the matter is that in 99% of the cases there is absolutely no good reason to run after these relatively large performance improvements if in the end the user notices absolutely nothing. Moreso if you're writing async code that stays far away from any sort of hot path.
I really like their cars, but they’re not practical replacements for a full size pickup truck (as the F-150 Lightning is).

Anyway, they’re competing more with range rover and jeep than trucks, which is fine (and also a mostly-unaddressed segment).
Have you measured CPU time? A very large factor will be Disk IO and Network
I am absolutely in favor of languages that exclude nulls from their type systems, bur your first point is a very simplictic take.

Null pointer checks are very, very cheap, no additional memory fetch since the pointer value is needed either way, easy to predict the slow path and if we are talking about languages that can deoptimize, then it is literally free (checked by hardware either way) -> a null value will cause a segfault, which will deoptimize the code on the slow path and continue from there. So it is not a problem from a performance point of view.
Came here to say this. Commits on a branch should be as easy as "save file". You shouldn't put commit messages on them other than something like "snapshot 3". Nobody cares about the commits on the branch.
What a hilariously American comment. Nearly all American cities were built by train networks that existed in the 1800s. These train lines were ripped out to make way for car infrastructure in the mid-1900s, which was designed to segregate neighborhoods and give giant profits to GM. Even famously car-centric LA with their massive freeways once had the best public transit in the world.

https://www.segregationbydesign.com/
A tablet is personal It's digital. It's an assistant. But no one calls them "PDAs"
Installing a browser is more trouble than buying a domain (done each several times.)
It is the same weird backwards I2C-ish thing as an AT keyboard, only on smaller connector ;)
They sell the delivery trucks at cost, we're going to try to make that cost lower so we won't lose money on each one sold.
"Don't make tons of RPCs" is a totally separate issue from "don't make subclasses because virtual methods cost a few extra cycles".
I love the UI but it seems to be missing what location it has loaded for? I know it asks for it, it is useful for me to see what location it is reporting on.
It's a luxury IFF you live right next to a station and need to go right next to stations and your trains/busses/whatever aren't too crowded.

Otherwise it's a necessity for those for whom private transportation is a luxury, and often not a pleasant one. Crammed standing into a crowded box, or transferring a couple of times to take 2 hours by bus to go somewhere you could get to directly in 30min, etc.

"Invest in public transportation" is a hard sell in a country where a huge portion of the population is able to afford private vehicles and space to park them, because the level of investment required to even equal the convenience factor of that is very, very, very high.

EDIT: even in Europe you don't have to travel that far outside of city centers to find quite a bit of private car ownership. All those European car companies aren't just doing it for shits and giggles, after all.
> I don’t think these LLMs are sentient, but that is an unverifiable belief. Others believe and once enough do it’s as good as fact anyway.

I agree. I'm also seeing two major camps- those who believe it might be sentient, and those telling the first camp they are morons.

Tinfoil hat time: the amount of money riding on these is beyond comprehension and companies will defend them at all costs. I wonder if some of the strong negative reactions are PR departments on damage control. Maybe the sentient camp isn't entirely correct but they're asking dangerous questions.
> there's no guarantee that the function call you see is doing what you remember it doing a year ago.

TDD provides those guarantees. If someone changes the behaviour of the function you will soon know about it.

That's significant because Robert 'Clean' Martin sells clean code as a solution to some of the problems that TDD creates. If you reject TDD, clean code has no relevance to your codebase. As Casey does not seem to practice TDD, it is not clear why he though clean code would apply to his work?
100% anecdotal: I'm in Georgia. If I had to guesstimate, I see about ~20 Rivians a month now in both urban and suburban settings. They seem to be catching on.
I think this highlights a deeper issue with how we as programmers tend to think about abstractions. It is easy to pretend, that you can conjure any interface/any abstraction from thin air as long as you define what you want well enough. But the reality is, that a good abstraction needs to be build using elegant constituent parts. It needs to be built in a way, which looks at the problem in an angle which simplifies it.

Building named sequences of source changes via commits which chain together, with the only thing that defines the identity of the chain being a ref to the end is such an elegant abstraction, which is not bad to expose; It allows for easy reasoning about source changes. Saying git branches are a seperate sequence of commits and keeping it at that would be not a good abstraction, even if you hid the implementation really well.
But, like, couldn't you have just found this stuff on Google?

I really think these safety conversations are exceptionally silly.

There are consequences of using AI that worry me... and these so-called safety features don't protect against any of them in the slightest IMO.
Yeah it's not a manual thing (ABBYY FineReader Engine or FlexiCapture SDK) but at home i do it with pdfsandwich:

http://www.tobias-elze.de/pdfsandwich/
No, it means that the column for gross profit is negative. Loss is used many times in different columns on the consolidated balance sheet.
> But overall, I think you overestimate how much time you spend loading the website and how much time it's just sitting there, mostly idle.

reading the website is productive. Waiting on it to load is not.

I'd rather have app burn a whole core whole time if it cut 1s off load time when clicking something.
Two ways I can see as an outsider:
1. Google Drive/One/whatever subscriptions to pay for more storage if you want to keep your old emails/files in their cloud.
2. Keeping people signed into their Google account for email could make them easier to track as they're also identified/signed in elsewhere on the web.
Show HN: Scriptd – The Generative AI Platform for TikTok
I don’t want to live in densely populated places cooped up in apartments.
RAM and GPU are cheap. Most users aren't going to notice. Meanwhile by choosing Electron, the developers were able to roll out the app on Windows, Mac, and Linux at nearly zero marginal cost per additional platform.
Isn't a cashier's check from your bank also not cancelable?
> you have to manage prompts, finite context windows, and integrations with other APIs.

For many non-straightforward tasks, a dev doubts somebody else handles these problems with care. Who can guarantee that a general-purpose handling of these could be better than the specific team that aims to solve the problem?

Finite context windows are, for many complex tasks, are still a problem unsolved, only heuristics applied. You basically manage injection of cues when you hit that finite context limit. However it's not guaranteed that you'll select good cues.

Handling prompts with a vector db is still not the same thing for serving long contexts. Details of how that vector db is built in the first place can also be critical to the solution.
How and why? Could you please elaborate?

Satellites are negatively impacting astrophotography, but I don't understand how reducing insolation will destroy amateur astronomy.
It would be difficult to eliminate the road, however, so that infrastructure is going to exist either way.
The last three years have felt like groundhogs day, everyday.
that's some masterful clickbait as far as titles go
SIMD, multithreading, better handling of NaN, maybe other factors.
> Cloudflare in front of web services and it just works(tm).

Well... yeah? That's adding support for both stacks; just because you farmed it out to a middle-man doesn't mean that it's not there.
I thought that until Tesla wrecked everyone.
Dystopia? I think of it as a great comedy! We could be only months away from the first-ever hire where both the applicant and the company have automated the entire process and may not even realize there's been an accepted offer.
>"negative gross profit" ... that is corpspeak for "loss" right?

Negative gross profit means they are selling the cars for less than it costs to make them, which is like 'mega-loss.'

It's one thing to make $5k per truck, but then spend a lot on advertising to get the word out (eventually the word is out and you can slow down advertising/spread it across more sales).

It's another thing to lose $5k per truck and still have to spend money on advertising it.

EDIT: To be fair, this is because Rivian built big/expensive factories and still only makes a small amount of cars in those factories. A big question will be their ability to actually use those factories to their full potential.
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Because lots of us upgrade phones every couple years, or have dropped a phone and had it break, or get water in it or something.

It's all too easy to realize after the fact you needed to transfer something between the old phone to the new phone to keep the authenticator working. Sometimes that's not available (phone damaged), or don't realize you need it until after you've already sent the phone in for trade in.

So yes, they are user unfriendly.
A qp-trie for BIND
This is just GAAP, right?

If you know what Gross Profit is - negative Gross Profit is a fine concept. Why have a separate line item & term for positive and negative?
Which is not in disagreement with my comment/take.
What are your thoughts on "learned indexes"?
Switzerland has villages with only hundreds of people that regularly receive train service. There are states with similar GDP, size and density as Switzerland that do not have any train service. Don't think of the US as a whole, think of the individual states who easily have the budget equivalent of European countries.
Thanks for the feedback. Will make a note of auto-expand settings.
Likely a smart move.

The F-150 Lightning is also a very good truck, and it gets to capitalize on the F-150 brand and customer base.

They addressed a gap in the market (smaller electric truck) rather than trying to go head-to-head with the biggest full-size truck brand in the industry.

Smart move.
That's good for you, is grandma going to do that?
I’m definitely more productive in office. I can look at the work I produced before and after WFH and there is a stark difference.
As an EE, trying to understand what this was about fried my brain.
I think you probably want a 2017ish Subaru
Very interesting! Does this support GeoTIFF images?

I ask because I've got ~200 acres of forest I use a drone to survey. I generate a high resolution orthophoto, and I currently built my own site on top of leaflet using tiles cut from the large orthophoto.

I'm working with conservation organizations to try and restore some stream habitat, and being able to markup maps together would be incredible, but it looks like you are focusing on vector layers first?

Is it possible to provide my own tile server url? (e.g. I'll host the tiles on S3/Cloudfront/whatever, I just want to fancy notation/collaboration infrastructure.)

Edit:

Follow up -- I'm just one person who happens to work with various conservation groups to maintain the health of my forest. Typically, these groups are already strapped for cash, but it looks like this wouldn't really fall under 'personal' use because it's multiple people collaborating on a map? Very curious about whether you plans include a price tier for "I guess I want something like this but I'm also just like, one dude and not a business"

Edit 2:

Looks like yes, I can bring my own baselayer. (In my case, I have two base layers, one topgraphic, and an additional one that's the raster image, but it looks like I could create a similar experience on Felt?) So really, then the question becomes one of pricing for small uses like mine.
> they’re not practical replacements for a full size pickup truck (as the F-150 Lightning is).

Why not? I’ve done “truck stuff” in a Rivian, like towing a 5 ton car trailer over the Sierra Nevadas. They have the same towing capacity and the Rivian has better battery range. They also cost the same similarly equipped. What’s the issue?
Homebrew is a big gap in home-manager. In fact, my current setup (and the most common I think) is to use homebrew for casks, home-manager for everything else (and I also do some Brewfile management with home-manager).
What does it matter if it does this 0.1% ten times slower than it could? Then user will have to wait for the software which slows the most expensive component of the whole work setup, the human.
Dunno, I remember early Internet; I think we will see it getting in a much worse shape with ChatGPT/Stable diffusion-like tech deployed at scale. Pointless interaction with bots all the time on bot-generated websites with viewers being gamified to spend as much money/attention as possible, original human-made content disappearing everywhere.
Omitting a letter doesn't make any difference, you still wrote it and people read it and heard it in their head. It's just a way of pretending you didn't.