skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My apartment complex has a hot tub. I spent many nights there meeting a few neighbors. From there, some of us played Pickleball. I started noticing a few other neighbors playing, so I started a group chat. Now a bunch of us play 2-3 times per week and the group is growing

There’s a local developer community that hosts meetups every month that I’m a part of. They also have a slack group

I’m in a slack spiritual group. I don’t really care about the spiritual aspect, it’s kind of interesting, I guess. They’re just very thoughtful interesting people and now some of my closest friends
To be clear, you want to dump enough gasoline-napalm into the Atlantic Ocean to incinerate a 5,500-mile-long belt of something that's mostly submerged in water?
> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something. [0]

We all experience life differently, come from varied backgrounds, start our careers with varying levels of life skills, carry defaults passed on from our parents (for good or bad), etc.

What seems cliche to you may be revolutionary to someone else. I would have benefited from a list like this earlier in my career.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Good thing his product isn't "advanced AI" and the entire reason this conversation is coming up is misdirection to hype it.
That really isn't true: supply is very important, which is why OPEC tries to restrict it and things fall apart when Russia pumps too much or a Saudi Sheik decides to buy a new private jumbo jet. Also, the cost of production in the Americas is high enough that it isn't even profitable to bother unless oil is over $100/barrel.

My guess is that things won't change as much as diesel fuel becomes more niche in terms of distribution, but the pressure will be against future price rises, especially if that hastens the move to EVs. The Saudis have to sell their oil before there is no demand for it.
A non-citizen doesn't have any inherent right to enter the country at all. If they are allowed to, it's a privilege generously granted by the state—and as a privilege, it's entirely conditional and revocable. That being said, guests of the country must always be treated fairly and honestly, just as you would treat a guest in your home.
There is no such zone. That page is misleading. There is SCOTUS case law back to the 1970s establishing that a border search must have a nexus to an actual border crossing; you can't simply search anybody within some distance of a border.
The great downfall of hooks, IMO, is that they allow you to create components that look clean and legible, but act unpredictably because all of your state updates are triggered by variable reference changes. The idea is that this makes your state updates happen automagically so you don't have to think about them, but this is a classic example of an abstraction that works until it doesn't.

Redux mainstreamed the concept of reference changes triggering updates, but I think this is a horrible pattern - we don't even have an operator in JS for explicitly passing by reference, so you end up destructuring large objects constantly in order to change one property and create a new object reference, which is a totally inefficient alternative to calling a render method. Plus javascript developers don't generally think about the concept of passing by reference vs value anyway, in large part because the language gives us so few tools for making those choices.

As a result, there is a class of bugs where the only solution is to change the list of dependency variables for a given hook. It doesn't take a huge amount of complexity for the implications of those dependency trees to bend the mind, and the "clean" syntax of hooks comes crashing down.
Agree. Obviously if you're a staunch atheist or otherwise just can't stomach the idea of "God," then visiting a church not recommended. But if you grew up Christian and drifted away, or you can entertain the possibility of a higher power, then I recommend checking out a church as a place to find community.

Denominations are different flavors of Christianity, and which denomination you visit is important. I'm personally a member of "The Episcopal Church," which I find to have a very small amount of dogma and is tolerant of a wide range of beliefs. The theological dogma can be summarized in the "Nicene Creed," which is a pretty short list of what the church holds to be true (and even if you as individual differ, TEC is chill about that). After that, members of The Episcopal Church are more united in what they do together rather than what they believe togther - songs, taking communion, common readings, etc. The Episcopl Church is generally one of the more liberal/progressive churches around (we ordain women and LGBTQ individuals into the clergy and perform same-sex marriages, for example).

Otherwise, it's a nice group of people that I see every week. A lot of churches have a "coffee hour" or a meal after the service, and it's a time to chit chat with others. They care about me and I care about them, and people check in on each other to see how everyone is doing. When we had a baby, people brought us food, and we always get cards in the mail for birthdays and such. It's nice.

Since we're a community of people, we can sometimes work together to accomplish things I wouldn't be able to do on my own. We run a food pantry and we've supported families fleeing from bad situations (and not in abstract sense, but doing the legwork of finding an apartment in town and providing furniture and stuff). One family attends our services, and their kid is about my kid's age, so we've become friends over that.

Again, I know religion can invoke strong feelings, so if the very idea is offputting, leave it alone, it's fine. But for me, it's been a community I've appreciated having.
Won't there be toxic remains?
Doesn’t mention the special core reserved for the NSA and other national security agencies :-)
probable cause is whatever they say it is, so that's really not much of a show stopper. the only way you can prove it is not proper probable cause is through a lengthy (aka expensive) court battle after the fact.
To be fair no one is forcing you to switch, just recommending options per your request.

I'd recommend trying them out for a bit and just keeping Gmail in your back pocket. May as well decide for yourself than listening to randoms on HN.
The hard part of software engineering should be figuring out the problem, tradeoffs, etc.

But the reality is this field has multiple completely different groups of people calling themselves software engineers.

There's those who basically work at consultancies/shops that get paid to push out tons of client projects using a standardized approach and their job is to write a bunch of code. Or those that work on in-house systems that get paid to largely implement pre-scoped work.

Then there's those that are actually designing systems, improving them, iterating on them, etc. You know, actually "engineering".

The fact that coding itself is fairly easy and the proliferation of bootcamps that teach coding (and now ChatGPT) has flooded the market with individuals that know nothing of good software engineering practices let alone CS and systems fundamentals.

I expect that's the group most exposed to AI risk. Pumping out lots of shitty self-contained code is something LLMs excel at.
Mac OS 7 with networking running on PocketChip
I have a neighbor who was looking at those plastic boards some people will use instead of wood for a patio. He goes to the factory for this big presentation with an audience and they start talking about the boards being made from recycled plastic. My neighbor wants to know how much recycled plastic was in each board...the guy gets evasive and the neighbor presses him, and come to find out it was the bare minimum legal requirement to label them as being made from recycled material. It was some stupidly low amount, like a single water bottle or plastic bag per batch.
2 months ago they had a blog post titled "bit.io’s new pricing
Always available. Guaranteed performance. No surprises."

Surprise!
> But it's clear that they have no problem shutting down a production database offering with 30 days notice

Maybe there is no production db left from paying customers?
It's good that this article discusses idempotency.

Suppose temporal is correctly configured and operated, and gives you reliable and robust workflow execution. Your custom workflow executes code that attempts to perform operations on your other services over the network, via those services' APIs. Temporal itself doesn't know or model anything about your API calls, or your other services. Temporal uses the abstraction of an "activity" to wrap operations with side-effects, such as API calls to your services that workflow might need to make. Temporal can guarantee that it will keep re-trying to execute an activity until it succeeds, but this means that the code in your activity may get executed multiple times.

If you want each state-changing operation in your workflow to execute exactly-once, so your overall system has exactly-only execution semantics, it is your responsibility to ensure that the APIs exposed by your other services and used in your workflow are idempotent, and that they are called correctly from the workflow, passing an idempotency key that does not vary when a temporal "action" wrapping an API call is retried.

For another interesting (temporal-agnostic) discussion of how to build a system achieving similar 'exactly once' behaviour, there's a good infoq podcast interview with Jason Maude: https://www.infoq.com/podcasts/cloud-based-banking-startup-j...
It's also a really strange thing to suggest because there are a lot of physical problems with the world that AGI won't be able to solve without access to extremely advanced robots (or some way to control humans to do its bidding which is even more terrifying). And then there's even more human problems such as getting people to agree on such as immigration or gun rights. Regardless of where you stand on the issue it's laughable to claim that AGI will be able to get people to agree on an action there.
William J. O'Neil has passed away
Here’s some easy risk mitigation: don’t like it? Don’t use it. Running to the government to use coercion against others is childish. It’s unfortunate that the “force is only justified in response to force” principle is not followed by all.
The government's argument here is that if the agents knew they had to obtain a warrant to search the phone, they would have held the individual, or just their phone, until they got the warrant and it would have been searched anyway. If they were unable to obtain a warrant then the phone's contents would be suppressed.

While it's now clear that warrantless border searches of cell phones are illegal, the very fact that this took 4 years and had to go all the way up to the Supreme Court to determine this means there was ambiguity. It's not that the agents were "ignorant of the law", it's that the law was unclear on this aspect. If agents were just ignorant of well established law this never would have made it to the Supreme Court.

And these decisions generally don't apply retroactively since it would be incredibly disruptive. For example, if they were retroactive then in states that have always had laws outlawing abortions on the books, abortion doctors could be charged for crimes after Dobbs v Jackson overruled Roe v Wade. (Previously, Roe v Wade nullified those state laws).

Of course, I absolutely agree with your sentiment. It's absurd this was ambiguous in the first place and that it took this long to establish that these warrantless border phone searches were illegal.
Biology is beating us over the head about how to address climate change.

Grow more of it and sequester the remains.
After years of react dev that is probably one of the wildest takes I’ve ever read. Kudos!
Yeah, but then you need the knowledge, experience, and decision making to act on that feedback. LLMs are also notoriously bad at things like edge cases, etc. and more training data won't necessarily help.
Halftone QR Codes
>markwhen

you are building crazy cool stuff
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In an adversarial system, you know that at the very least your opponent is checking your cases (you should also assume the Judge/clerks are too, but I never practiced enough in State courts to know how well that holds. In Federal District, it's absolutely true). Usually it's for incredibly small things, like unquoted/cited distinguishing remarks, later cases reversing the decision, and misquotes. So a whole case not existing is going to stand out like crazy.

Occam's Razor here is that this person was lazy, ignorant, careless, stupid, or any combination of those. To be intentionally fraudulent in this circumstance is the equivalent of trying to steal a gun from a cop. You're fucking with the one person in society who definitely has the training, motivation, and willingness to stop you.
I think one of the most influential factors of a topic making a top post is simply the timing of the post. The most interesting topic won't make it if it is posted at an inconvenient time for the largest audiences.
Anyone have historical data? If this is not what they paid last year and before, it's clearly offshoring.

If, as some speculate, it's just part of the comp and equity is. The other, then it would have been the same last year.
happens to lots of stuff and is not react specific
Our economy has been based for too long on debt and real estate. When Canadians became the most indebted households in the G8, the government simply opened the floodgates to immigrants to ensure rents and house prices would stay high.

We are following the same path as the UK now in that the conservative parties are moving rightward and gaining ground on populist notions of “this isn’t the Canada we grew up with” (because of immigration) which plays to certain folks who are upset that their quality of life has eroded due to the increase in housing costs. Now these groups have been whipped into such a fury they’ll vote against their own interests like electing politicians who commit to privatizing healthcare, one of the cornerstones of our identity.

Wild times.
I'm there to get paid to live. I don't ultimately care if the code makes it into the final project as I have a life outside of work. I'm passionate for my paycheck, nothing more.
> Dumb AIs that are given access to the internet plus a credit card and told to maximize profit could easily cause massive damage

North Korea and Iran are (essentially) already trying to do that, so I think that particular risk is well understood.
Do you have experience doing this in C/C++? There are a bunch of things about the language models for both (e.g. how symbol visibility and linkage work) that make doing DI in C/C++ significantly harder than in most other languages. And even when you can do it, doing this generally requires using techniques that introduce overhead in non-test builds. For example, you need to use virtual methods for everything you want to be able to mock/test, and besides the overhead of a virtual call itself this will affect inlining and so on.

This doesn't even consider the fact that issues related to things like concurrency are usually difficult to properly unit test at all unless you already know what the bug is in advance. If you have a highly concurrent system and it requires a bunch of different things are in some specific state in order to trigger a specific bug, of course you CAN write a test for this in principle, but it's a huge amount of work and requires that you've already done all the debugging already. Which is why developers in C/C++ rely on a bunch of other techniques like sanitizer builds to test issues like this.
The one time I administered CPR both victims of the accident I stopped at died. In retrospect they were already goners (both ejected from the car) and I didn’t know what I was doing - hell none of us really did, but we tried.

It was objectively one of the most traumatic experiences of my life and I used to dream about those people’s faces for a long time - indeed I can still see them if I try. Regardless, we tried and I wouldn’t have it any other way. We tried.

I wrote a poem about it a few years ago:

Violence

Do you people know what it looks like when a man dies?

What you think his fucking soul flies?

As he serenely and comfortably lies,

And he flutters his contented eyes?

Not at all - there’s blood and pain,
And vomit in his mouth,
and foul brutal smells of bile and shit,
and his eyes look crazy and wild,
as you pound on his chest to exhaustion,
“Scoop out the mouth - take those kids out of here, somebody fucking call 911!”

<ah ah ah ah stayin’ alive stayin’ alive>
<ah ah ah ah stayin’ alive stayin’ alive>

They don’t tell you CPR never works,
Or how the body jerks,
Then the EMT smirks,
“I can’t zap him again, but dudes dead.”

So it was done, and I drove my truck to the truck stop to buy gas and clean the blood from my hands and jacket and reconcile with the two ghosts that had crawled into my head.
Altman etc really make me think of “people who have no real problems making up problems to have so they can feel special”.
It's not clear that you _can_ make a cheaper solution.

Solar and wind have lower EROEI than fossil fuels.
Insurers' Climate Alliance loses nearly half its members as more quit
IMO a passionate developer is one that really cares about doing a good job. That doesn't mean injecting things you think are cool just for the hell of it, it means only injecting things you think are cool because they ALSO will help the project and/or the team.

IDK who these people are that are vandalizing code bases and making life more difficult that others are calling passionate, but it feels like someone heard the word used wrong and ran with it.
I don't think it matters how fast the cooling happens. Basically waiting means heat has left the liquid. The sooner you add the milk more heat is used to heat the milk before it escapes to the environment.
Going to court is the only way you can prove any legal wrongdoing made by anyone about anything.
It reminds me of the algae in Benford's Timescape novel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timescape
Not if you're running a flame hot enough to guarantee complete combustion; this is the difference between a proper waste incinerator and a burn barrel.

Plastics are hydrocarbons; nothing special going on there.
This right here describes me perfectly. On work I am not passionate about I still want to do a good job and be satisfied with my work in the end.
Getting started with parcel is pretty damned straight forward.

https://parceljs.org/recipes/react/
Not to suggest you shouldn't be concerned -- you absolutely should be -- but please note that the language in this article contains a lot of qualifiers, like could and appears to.

They don't really know what's going on and so they don't really know if this is all bad news or if there is some silver lining here of some sort, such as a potential means to get rid of plastics in the ocean.

That possibility is not unprecedented. We use petroleum-eating microbes to help clean up oil spills in the ocean. Such microbes are typically harmless to humans.

(Typically -- with the exception that people with cystic fibrosis sometimes die from infection with them though normal humans almost never get infected. To me, this implies people with CF likely retain petroleum products, including plastics, more than average.)
Interaction Designer @ Google, pretty senior too

And was a photographer long ago, double luck huh.
It seems to me that the most viable routes to human extinction are through superscaled versions of contemporary disasters: war, disease, and famine.
> I think americans need to really reflect on how inflated american dev salaries are

What is there to reflect on? The reasons for this are well-documented. OP was just stating a fact, but got the ranges a bit off.
Good to see you again, Vinay. You seem just as well-adjusted as last time.
This. Robotic sargassum farming and harvesting, followed by depositing remains in sacrificial oceanic trenches.
It's because people are sick and tired of the wealthy committing crimes and getting away with it either entirely, or receiving only a slap on the wrist.
"Boson stars have also been proposed as candidate dark matter objects, and it has been hypothesized that the dark matter haloes surrounding most galaxies might be viewed as enormous [toroidal] boson stars."

That's quite a sci-fi plot.
"The Metaverse" is a marketing term looking for something cool to be attached to.
mmh, on ipad i cant add an new issue. my issues > add issue. enter title/desc, click add issue. issue is not saved, all fields blank
The part you're making might have some legal issues?

Other than that, I do keep noticing a strong downward spiral of all customer support services. Everything is becoming generic, automated and useless. There are multiple hoops you constantly have to jump through to get in touch with a real person and even then you might still get generic answers.
Can confirm. I’ve been through a number of those checkpoints in SW Texas. You stop they ask a question or two and then you’re waved through. I’ve never been asked to show ID. On one occasion they did have a dog walk around the car but I think that is done randomly.

/before people ask: I’m white my wife is Mexican.
HN has an inherent bias against India and Indians.
Just open any of the H1B related posts and you will see how open minded the liberal tech worker of USA is about India and Indians.
Of course, they are all for immigration just the H1B brings up debate about 'Quality of Work. Hypocrites.

I think the American Narrow Minded view of the World is due to they growing up in a 2 party system that only looks at things as Black and White ( Not the race ), as Right and Wrong ( that's better ).

They are basically fed what they are supposed to think by CNNs, NYTs, Guardians etc etc

Like Uncle Soros they believe they understand India better than Indians.
Uncle Soros wants to bring 'Democracy' to World's largest Democracy, because 1 Billion Indians don't know what they should vote for - They need a White Man to tell them that. .

In their own Country they created False Accusations against their President - Published in all 'respected' mainstream Newspapers.

United States of Gaslighting is where they are at.

Let's see if @dang is open minded enough to do something about the title after 400 upvotes are already made.
A reminder here that our common understanding of the term "warrant" is not that of the 4th Amendment, and the Constitution has never forbade warrantless searches ---
only "unreasonable" searches, where "unreasonable" is almost a term of art meaning "whatever judges agree to", and which currently capture a whole bunch of specific kinds of warrantless searches, like searches incident to arrest and searches at border crossings, many of which were also employed at the time of the founders.

The warrant clause of the Fourth Amendment was a response to the "General Warrant", an instrument issued by the British government to local officials that was essentially a license to harass at will; that's why Constitutional warrants have to describe particular places, persons, and things (because that's what General Warrants didn't do).