skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obligatory 914 comment:

In high school, my friends and I managed to resuscitate a 914 that had been stowed away in a garage for over a decade. We towed it to the top of a hill with a pickup truck and attempted a clutch start after we'd picked up some speed. None of us (especially me in the driver's seat) expected this to work, but amazingly it fired right up. One of my friends managed to jog alongside and jump into the car as I tried to keep it puttering along, and we ripped a few laps around the neighborhood. Soonafter, we stopped the engine and were never able to get it started again. Thanks for bringing up this memory. Cool article.
I don't fully agree. Returning unique_ptr, optional or some error sumtype (absl::Status) is perfectly fine non-funky API, but it will require special Swig handling to rewrap.
There’s a I’me assumptions that were made here. To clarify, we set the budget together.
"OER is also a lagging indicator due to it being calculated on current rental expenses, not market rate rents."

What kind of an argument is this? Clearly the OER must be a current indicator (i.e. not lagging) if it is based on current rental expenses. The small section of the population that is in the market for a new place to live should not be taken as the average for the entire population. If anything the market rents are just an indicator of future OER.
Anecdotal but recently my partner and I were driving in an unfamiliar place.

We tried google maps on the way there and Apple Maps on the way back.

I expected Apple Maps to be worse but here’s what stood out to me:

1. Apple does a better job at showing vertical height. So when tons of routes go over and under each other, the map is much clearer about it whereas Google maps requires you to look for the thin breakup line.

2. Apple directions are more human friendly. Things like “take a right at the next light” instead of “take a right at XYZ street”. Also telling you to skip an exit and take the next one. It’s minor but that’s how most drivers I know prefer to be given directions.

3. When we’re walking, it does a better job at showing where the crosswalks are.

4. It did a better job at telling you which lane to be in if you needed to make a right and then a left. Google maps seemed to only care about the immediate next step whereas Apple cared about some distance.

5. Vibrating your watch when an action is coming up is great. On the way there, my partner missed a couple turns on Google Maps because they were hyper focused on the road, whereas that little watch nudge helped on the way back with Apple Maps.

6. Last one is purely subjective, but aesthetically Apple Maps is much nicer to my eyes. Things are better delineated and information is presented a little bit clearer.

That said, whereas I think Apple Maps is better for navigating, Google maps is much better for up to date information about an area. I presume that has to be just down to more users correcting things , but things like “this store is shut today unexpectedly” is much better reflected.
Apple Maps still feels like a half baked product the multiple times I’ve tried to use it. Businesses in the wrong locations, lack of details for transit options, and a clunky UI that makes my iPhone feel like it’s running on a Dorito… I wish Apple would allow third party apps to have access to things like directions without unlocking the phone.
Okta has been hacked a couple times now...
That they got away with the term "blitzscaling" still offends me. We had a plenty-adequate term for it before: dumping.

When your business model is "profit margins are for after we've killed or neutered all competitors", you don't have a business and that fundamentally shouldn't be permitted for a healthy economy.
Well, the article and the post are about aspartame specifically.
Let me see if I can find the study I've read quite a while ago.

Will link or write another reply if I can succeed. I have no time to look at it right away.
Any Windows product/system is a liability. I'm not sure how to put this lightly. It was designed to create a monopoly first before any other goal.

And it's not that the alternatives are perfect, but Windows is as secure as swiss cheese.
The main factor is that the Netherlands is 15(!) times denser than the US. That's why everything has to be compact.
You can't even really assume that strings are writable, they might well be in ROM on an embedded device.
I found it easy to pick up, and my React development experience is much better than when I used vanilla JS. I'm not even close to a full time frontend guy, so your experience may be completely different. I guess when you have worked with a bunch of languages, you tend to see them as tools to fix problems rather than something to be crazy about.
I think the most effective argument against Wansley and Weinstein is that the markets may reset after the companies involved collapse, so you essentially get a transfer of value from shareholders to VCs and from shareholders and VCs to consumers at the cost of disrupting (in a very negative way, certainly) existing competitors. In other words, given a long enough time horizon, it's not really a monopoly problem, it's a fraud problem, and the losers are retail investors who were gulled by VCs funding impossible and unsustainable business models in pursuit of IPO-happy greater fools. (And, if the bloom comes off the SV VC rose, as it well should, then those con games are less likely to work, and we'll see a rapid collapse in valuations, junk IPOs, investments, and, relatedly, these same attempts to corner monopolies in markets -- like software -- where there is no natural barrier to competition.)
I think it is finally time to de-google my digital footprint.
What I hate about Google routing is that it would change the pre-agreed one to save time. I'm not always watching the map screen so I would miss out the "dismiss" button and I will end up on a surprise route which is supposed to be quicker but ends up to be too involved because I have to drive through strange places that require active chauffeuring and there's a reason(potholes, kids playing on the streets, steep hills, narrow roads with parked cars that barely let you pass etc.) why it's not everyones default choice of route.

IMHO Apple Maps is much better on this, it even list the "less turns" option, so I can just chill on a straight line or follow the curves instead of trying to enter and exit intersections every few minutes.

Also, the road connection graphics are much clearer on Apple Maps.
While I totally agree, and I come from a time where one couldn't be a full stack JavaScript developer. (Also a time when folks DID make their living doing bread and butter style Delphi/PowerBuilder/FoxPro/VB apps). I get that some folks spend ALL day in a certain language/stack and it's easy for everything to begin to look like a problem they could solve using that language/stack.

I do agree that is boring, but it also pays the bills!
Well, that's too much in the realm of conspiracy theories told by right- and left wing extremists in Germany.

Let me just say one thing: It doesn't necessarily take the US for German leadership to shoot their feet.
Incentive models for operators who want to survive
Anecdotally, I avoided using GPS navigation whatsoever until a couple years ago. So, I feel I had no investment in either one. I tried them both on a cross country trip, and Apple Maps was hands down better than Google Maps.
Only reason it is a huge deal is because people absolutely love products with artificial sweeteners. People from all walks of life.

I just never got a taste for them, the sweeteners stand out to me as disgusting. I'd much prefer real sugar and simply regulating my intake.

So in my mind, the fact that it's even being discussed only affirms my decision to stay away from any artificial sweetener. I noticed recently a vitamin drink I sometimes buy as a last resort contains steviol sweeteners which are based on the stevia plant, that's as far as I'm willing to stretch my own rules.
Cool. I'll probably use Chrome more now. I'd use Firefox full time with an extension like this.

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Yes and: The Apple Passkey future can't get here soon enough.

Meanwhile, I wish Keychain allowed memo fields. Some place to record all those stupid personal security questions.

(1Password has memo fields. I switched to iCloud once I started using Apple Pay, because of integration, ubiquity.)

Also: I (officially) asked my credit union about using U2F with my account(s). No plans. This crap needs to be legislated, or some other forcing function.
Actually, he is now back at OpenAI.
Why would the statisticians be anonymous? I'm aware of at least a couple cases in which an independent set of statisticians were provided the data from a clinical trial specifically for a re-analysis. In one case, they showed some pretty concerning inconsistencies and the other confirmed no effect on the primary analysis, but suggested some sub-populations that might have shown an effect if a future study was properly powered. That follow-up clinical trial was just published showing pretty remarkable effect in the sub-population. I don't think there's reason to believe either independent analysis was anything other than independent.

There is already a mechanism for companies to submit questions to the FDA prior to clinical trial initiation. I'm not in these conversations, but I know the type of questions can be things like: would you accept this endpoint as a proxy for this indication, would you be satisfied with the effect size we expect, and are there other safety concerns you would expect us to evaluate other than those in our current plan. I assume EMA and other regulatory bodies have a similar process, but I'm not positive.

Disclaimer: I work in pharma, but pre-clinically. I am not involved in these clinical or regulatory issues.
The article is basically saying that a non-gnu Linux distribution, like Alpine, is less linux than ChromeOS, just because it uses GNU.

And while being pedantic about this, they still called Linux a Unix (which it's not) while ignoring the commercial unixes because they're dead (which, as much as I'd like it to be true, it's not in the case of MacOS).

The person who wrote this article was dishonest or ignorant in so many levels.
For me the turning point was Fall Creators Update.

I bought a Samsung Galaxy Book 12 bundled w/ a Staedtler Noris Digital Stylus, and it was perfect --- then Fall Creators Update crippled the stylus making it impossible to select text --- rolled back to 1703 twice, but finally broke down and bought a Samsung Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360.

Currently trying out a Wacom One paired w/ a Linux box and wishing someone would make a nicer screen w/ touch which used standard pens (don't want to go to a Cintiq since it would lose on the synergy/compatibility of _all_ my devices using the same pen technology).
As a person who habitualy closes everything, I often average around 5 tabs open, rarely going above 10. With so few open at a time, the giant column of vertical space for the tab tree would be a waste of screen real estate, which can be better utilized to open another window i a vertical split arangement, or just for the website's content. Having said that, I know one of my friends has always at minimum 100 tabs open at any time, so he jumped at this feature as soon as ut released. It's a matter of preference I'd say.
Did he explicitly state that as the reason? I thought he said he didn’t want to be in an executive role.
Yes, he’s wrong. To apply your metaphor: improvements to the mess that is string handling in C are still an improvement, even if they don’t solve the underlying problem.
"since it's now included in your taxes, there's an incentive for you now to use it."

The ironic part is, the poor and middle class may vote for it, but it's the local property owners that pay for it.
> I'm involved in pro-housing politics and it's just amazing how many people are like "well, ok, sure, people need a place to live and all, but let's think FIRST about where to store the automobiles. If that works out, then I guess we can build some housing".

Out in the real world, as we have constructed it, this is (sadly) pretty reasonable.

It's a chicken and egg problem. If you limit the market for an apartment to people who are willing to waste an extra hour to make bus transfers and/or those who are willing to risk their lives cycling on deadly stroads, you're going to have a much smaller pool of potential renters.
HN continues to track millennial life progression! We are at the mid-life crisis.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36391971
Revoke their license and titles to start with so they cannot operate anymore in the field
I don't want sweeteners, and yet in some products, my much preferred sugar is replaced by sweeteners, because producers just don't want to have two products. I suppose people who hate sugar are more numerous than people who hate sweeteners, so the artificial product wins. Like sweet-n-sour pickled herring. Delicious. But off-the-shelf, it's spoiled with sweeteners today, instead of good old sugar.
What are some proven yet not premium priced boards for MicroPython besides this one?

Goal is just to play around with a bunch of sensors from Joy-It X40 40 sensor sampler - nothing serious.

Looking at https://forum.micropython.org/ looks like activity is evenly split between various ESP8266 and ESP32 boards.
An early version of C didn't have structs, the initial attempt to get the OS off the ground failed, and after adding structs it worked. Structs are just syntactic sugar over memory offsets relative to a base pointer, a construct for which many CPUs include primitives.
Freakanomics did a show on this topic which is pretty good - https://freakonomics.com/podcast/should-public-transit-be-fr...
Two more things that annoy me about Google Maps

- Related to the routes make more sense, Google seems to prefer side streets to save one minute but then you get dumped back on the main road not at the light and need to cross traffic and might lose your minute back just waiting for a chance to cross. I'd much prefer a main route with a light that guarantees a safe turn.

- Google Maps advertisements on the map. No I don't want to see a Whole Foods with a sale two miles away over other landmarks.
It's good to simplify transit fares as a way to reduce friction, and make it easier to get a ticket. Pittsburgh Regional Transit has done a very good job with these recently.

I just think, from a realpolitik perspective, your average car user (who you definitely need to persuade in order to get their representative to support transit funding) already perceives transit as unprofitable (rightly, for basically anywhere other than NYC) and would therefore find it not just unfeasible, but deeply unfair.

If they're right, then it's a dead end. If not, then it's a persuasion problem, and I don't think people who have advocated for free transit have made the case very well.
I use Keychain’s secure notes for security questions and the like.
I'm not sure it addresses a different use case than Fedora or Ubuntu. Fedora and Ubuntu on the desktop are likely mostly used for internet browsing and productivity applications. This is the same for ChromeOS.
“Move fast and break things” is outdated advice for startups
I grew up in a large city without a car. Public transport was my primary form of transportation until I got a car in my late 20s. I can't remember a time wherein the lack funds for a fare was used as a pretense to kick 'troublemakers' off of public transportation.

The underlying 'trouble' that makes someone a 'troublemaker' (e.g. aggressive panhandling, disruptive behavior, public drunkenness, etc.) are still reasons to be kicked off public transportation irrespective of how much the fare is.
If you thought the whole point had anything to do with Lyft's self-driving efforts, I think you missed the point, or maybe stopped reading before it got to the point (it did bury the lede a bit).

The argument being made is that the predatory pricing is a means to inflate the an eventual IPO so VCs can cash out. It's framing predatory pricing as being half of the strategy combined with a pump and dump, to work within the bounds of a dumb SCOTUS ruling.
Well, you can train the LLM to "provide source", but LLMs are prone to hallucination. You run into the same problem with a trainer model; the trainer also has no way to confirm where the model actually got the answer from. One thing that may work is a fundamental architectural shift where the LLM looks up all its info as it needs it, and then you can just list the sources it actually used. Microsoft tried that with Bing, but it turns out the model will search for a website, read it, and then ignore what the website says and claim "according to this website, <some other belief>". So it's definitely not easy at any rate.
It's meant to be an illustrative anecdote, I do think there's some validity to the idea that the industry is based on taking on heavy losses for many years to own market share while simultaneously building out tech infrastructure and capabilities to shrink operational costs once you own that market...do you not?
I remember over a decade ago when some of the connections to aspartame and cancer were first coming out. My mom decided to switch from Diet Coke to regular Coke because it was safer. Yet she continued smoking until she got cancer and a bit after until complications from Covid (unvaccinated) finally finished off her lungs. People generally seem to be pretty bad at risk assessment.
Closer to 50% of trials are probably junk since they cant be reproduced independently
Which prison? As the article says:

> Ultimately, a lingering question is — as with paper mills — why so many suspect RCTs are being produced in the first place. Mol, from his experiences investigating the Egyptian studies, blames lack of oversight and superficial assessments that promote academics on the basis of their number of publications, as well as the lack of stringent checks from institutions and journals on bad practices.

A substantial part of what's happening here is that first-world countries with generally good cultures of research integrity are basing medical policy on studies done in countries where the system encourages researchers to cheat. British and US authorities can't put Egyptian or Chinese researchers in prison, can they?
Any stevia users here? Never liked the taste of aspartame (sucralose is okay) but if the docs start pondering whether or not stevia has links to cancer, I might be nervous. I drink a lot of the stuff.
I would say that certain managerial / bureaucratic classes also have sweeping criminal immunity. Sometimes based on legal resources, sometimes not.
That argument really feels like a bizarre stretch. Also, I work fully remote. I take breaks by cycling around and bet that between that and a mindless commute it is way better for my brain’s plasticity. Also, I can sleep longer which is even better.
Living in an area where new houses are built and new roads created, Apple is much more up to date than Google. Neither are perfect.
I have no dog in the game, I love plain Javascript as my second programming language and have limited knowledge of TypeScript. That said, please look at the large set of CLI tools that have already been created in Javascript. It's not inappropriate language for the job by any means. Even portions of NPM and Node are written in Javascript. Grunt, Bower, Angular CLI etc. are just a few examples of CLI tools in Javascript.
Then don't read it, jsut scroll over. And yes, you should read the Fing article before compaining about it. Thats basic stuff.
Counterpoint - given that people will always text and drive, the auto makes the task slightly safer.
Ask HN: How to deal with 0.1X programmer colleagues?
I worked at tech-team-of-one startups for years. Now I'm working at a big organisation.

In the last sprint, I chalked up 41 story points. The rest of the team (3 other devs and a mostly hands-off tech lead) collectively achieved 9 story points. That's 1 medium-sized ticket each over the space of a fortnight. Everyone has a good excuse, but they ALWAYS have a good excuse.

It's driving me nuts. I'm a good coder, but this isn't about me being good, this is about them all being, on paper, completely ineffective. No one inside or outside the team seems to be batting an eyelid about this. I feel resentful and... confused.

It's hard to stay motivated when the bar is so low, but I would feel guilty slacking off all day. What do I do?
Hamilton Morris recently did a podcast that touched on some of this, I think it was https://www.patreon.com/posts/pod-78-legal-84786504

An interesting point he made was that in the wake of the Thalidomide (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide) scandal, the FDA started requiring drugs to be both safe _and effective_

https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/histories-product-regulation/p...

The 'effective' part has proven to be a big source of complexity in the following years, because while it's relatively easy to prove a drug is relatively safe, it's much more difficult and subjective to prove a drug is effective. That closes off a lot of areas of research and development.

The kicker is that Thalidomide was never sold in the USA to begin with.

Anyway, as any reader can imagine, there would be a lot of negative social outcomes to allowing the sale of ineffective drugs. There's a lot of trouble now with medical devices and drugs not being effective, even though we have the rule. I'm not against regulation, I think medical sales are a really complex issue and I don't know how to even judge where the right balance of safety/effectiveness and innovation/freedom could be.
An A-Z guide to artificial intelligence
I've tried a few of those, and the bundle size is typically insane. The amount of code you have to ship just to get the semantics of your language and your standard library is nuts.

There may be a few exceptions that were designed from the outset with JavaScript in mind, but then you're back to being at the mercy of JS quirks.
There's always going to be a large amount of data, especially observability data, that's never used to make significant decisions. However we want high cardinality data both to increase the chance that the information we're storing will be useful, and to make compression and other data management easier. For example if we're storing fully paramaterized URLs as metrics names we'll never be able to consolidate or average that data.
Because a float contains bit fields including sign of the exponent, sign, mantissa, sign of the mantissa. It's a bit of a pedantic argument but technically it makes sense.
There was no one suggesting that the scene but cut, it was a clickbait-like appeal to the reactionary press to get some extra awareness of the project out there. And it worked.

It wasn't “someone has suggested/demanded it be removed, and we have refused” but “if someone did suggest/demand it we wouldn't”.
Are you in a big city?
“Their workers” you will be much more convincing if you actually know the people who are employed pays most of the taxes in the US.

Taxation almost never makes anything cheaper here.
What is this magical world you live in where a company can put up job listings for "Polyglot Software Engineers" and consistently, successfully get them through the hiring pipeline and staff up teams?

Where I live, (a) there's much more junior and mid-level talent with 0-2 years of experience than anyone else, (b) talent is far more likely to have TS/JS experience.

If you hire for JS talent, you ship. If you try to hire anybody else, you struggle to hire, struggle to collaborate ("I don't know X, so I'd prefer to open a ticket than to struggle and open a PR to that other team's repository"), and therefore ultimately struggle to ship.

Startups should run on the JS ecosystem by default and only write code in other ecosystems if there's a very good reason to do so (business competitive advantage, JS ecosystem options are severely lacking...).