skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the same as writing things down
Ah, I could go down this rabbit hole but (after a lot of trial and error), I have come to a (reasonably working) method. It's not enough to write down what you hear/see . I find it so much better to link what you write down to something you already know. That way, things tend to stick longer. Otherwise the notes are just that -- a random collection of things you have written down. No idea if they will ever surface in your memory.
this is missing the big one:

@ does not work at all the same way in ruby vs elixir, it's not even close

I would probably also put in

"Please for the love of God don't try to turn a genserver into an object"

Because many ruby programmers will try.
Why Roles Are Not Rules
I really wish I had the ability to downvote articles. Agree with you 100%, and I feel like I lost braincells from reading this sentence:

> You are changing the behavior of the function. That is a breaking change.

So this guy is declaring someone else "wrong" because he unilaterally decides to redefine what a "breaking change" means? This is one of the dumbest "all Internet arguments are over semantics" examples I can think of.

As an aside, I've seen a number of recent instances (here's another, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36826111) where a flat out ridiculous blog post makes it to the front page, only for the top comments to all point out how dumb and ridiculous it is. To stay within the HN guidelines, I'm going to refrain from speculating why, and I certainly know that HN audience is not some monolithic group, and that people have many different opinions. Would just like to know if others have noticed this or have other specific examples.
> There must be something in the water that is making people so stupid.

I believe it's a combination of things. Bear with me.

First, the increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, as well as pollution in urban centers, especially the dense populations around major routes (freeway brake pad dust, et al).^

Second, the capitalist methodology (in the US) which promotes a type of behavioral linear regression to meaningfully achieve goals, which few young people inherently believe in. ie Work hard/sacrifice on specific things early, to have the things you want later.

Third, information overload which hinders the ability to select indicators on which to base those variables.

Fourth, a belief that confounds ease of access with accuracy (short attention span).

Fifth, the astrology community is a combination of new-age mysticism, community, pschology, and social reinforcement. It's a great way to meet people and make friends, with limited judgement (leave it up to the stars).

^ Ironically, due to the digital revolution, knowledge about toxins (eg community water) is highly available, quickly discovered, and reported. Certainly more widely than in previous decades.
Please don't post snarky dismissals to HN. The parent commenter may have been wrong, even completely wrong, but they didn't deserve this.

Unfortunately, you've posted similarly in other places recently (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36515859). That's not what we're trying for on this site. Would you be willing to review the guidelines at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the intended spirit more to heart? We'd be grateful.
I feel like car enthusiasts should appreciate public transit options the most since it allows you to drive more as a hobby since everyone isn’t doing it.
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I don't want to support this idea because it goes against my worldview as an atheist from a very conservative society. I grew up on Hitchens and Dawkins.

But the YouGov poll [1] that the WaPo article is based seems to support this idea: 30% of Agnostics answered yes to the following question: "Do you believe in astrology, or that the position of the stars and planets influence people’s lives?"

[1]: https://today.yougov.com/topics/entertainment/articles-repor...
The DEA should be abolished, it's a ridiculously corrupt organization. Incorportate it into ATF (Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms) and be done with it alreadty.
> Blockchain have a lot of utilities.

I have yet to see a single application for blockchain that isn't better done without blockchain.

Zero. None.
Yea the 538 stuff (at least that audience) is a prime example of the McNamara fallacy[0]. It’s easy for people to find comfort in what can/is being measured and appoint it as objective truth, and consequently disregard anything that can’t be easily quantified.

Like u alluded to, people like to at least feel in control. And in the case of astrology it manifests in being able to have a simple explanation for things.

And now that I think about it, I’m sort of puzzled y more things don’t seem to get chalked up to random chance. It’s a simple enough explanation and seems ripe for abuse but strangely doesn’t seem to be. Maybe cuz by definition, its randomness isn’t that satisfying of a conclusion for people to draw

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNamara_fallacy
Any plans for devops jobs?
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The prevailing sentiment when this was brought up on HN a couple weeks ago was that the failure in Portugal is heavily impacted by severe budget cuts with respect to treatment. I would not say that proves, in and of itself, that this approach does not work very well.
I don't know how to tell if I'm not paying attention to thirst. I know that I can forget to eat for days at a time when I'm hyperfocusing, but I've at least gotten better at thirst management.

There was a period of time where I did switch to water, when I first started my ADHD medication. And you're right, even though I didn't find the water "tasty", I was perfectly fine drinking it and just using the feeling of it instead of the taste.

It did take a while even after the meds stopped working for me to switch back to soda. I think it actually happened just because we ran out of water bottles and I was still thirsty. Which I guess proves that I still have thirst at least.
The danger with this attitude is drawing the line.

Sitting around watching your breath as practiced by Buddhists is a useless "time sink" until you hit on the bliss states of the jhanas. As most people will never experience these they may believe they don't exist but they're documented and accessible with perseverance.
Yeah. Seems like Doom may qualify as a kind of early digital monument.
> enable functionality while maintaining data privacy

Ah but is it in (insert any ad business big-tech company)'s best interests to do this? Do they already have so much data that these user <> LLM interactions are only marginal that they don't care about harvesting the data ?
I bought a Vigotech VG-X4 and did get it to work.It was around 200 dollars.

However there were a few issues - bit fiddly to construct (the same might be true of the axidraw i guess) and windows only. Found some software online to drive it on linux.
https://archive.is/oW3w6
It doesn’t take much public creativity to stand out as a job candidate
The celestial objects probably have nothing to do with it besides serving as convenient and consistent identifiers, but why wouldn't the time of year of a person's birth have an effect on their development? Like if a toddler is of the age for first words in summer where long daylight and warm weather encourages interaction with more people than just immediate family vs being that age in winter where short cold days are often spent inside around the same few people. For a personal example I was a """gifted kid""" in public school a.k.a. almost a year older than many of my classmates thanks to October birthday just after the cutoff date for each school year enrollment.

Also a lot of anti-astrology screeds have an air of “I don't hate women, I just hate everything women like” lol
Indians often do this with marriages, by checking the astrological compatibility. All of it honestly seemed like bs to me, if anything it’s job security for so-called soothsayers and astrologers, who have been grifting generations of families
Aah yeah, but now people will not hear anything wrong about billionaires. Isn't that wrong?
> Throughout history people have used occult aesthetics to create a heightened experience.

Yes and even among hackers. Porting doom to a microwave oven for instance.
Very well noted! Bumping that feature higher on my priority list then :)
Thanks for the nice words.
I use a lot the left/right swipe gesture on the address bar to switch tabs on Safari. It saves many clicks from the show all tabs button. This plus the close tab is a perfect combo for minimalism and fast browsing !
Great UI options
> humour

Not when you spell it like that :-)
Not everyone “believes in it”.

This comes off a puerile take, akin to puritan paranoia over DND and comic books.
And how much land do you need for the mirrors, to evoporate the water at a reasonable tate?
wash yo a$$
For everyone saying "this doesn't work because I usually have more than three takeaways" – that is kinda covered in TFA. You write down more than three but are forced to only choose three, and this process of choosing three actually makes you remember the ones you "scratched out" better.

It's a simple mindfulness hack.
They are dehumanizing because of the relationship to the work. It is of no value to the worker. It is meaningless. And that is dehumanizing.

Digging holes in a random field for 8 hours a day for minimum wage to make someone else richer is rather dehumanizing. When it's digging holes for a fence in your yard, or for a community barn-raising -- the exact same work -- somehow it's less dehumanizing.
I don't know about llama.cpp, but yes this method works best if the binary layout on disk is exactly what you use for matrices in memory
you're so close! you almost get it! yes, the same work should get the same compensation, but then how would the global system of currency devaluation to exploit labour and resources work? where would America get for cheap all the stuff it needs? how would it be cheap if everyone got paid what Americans get paid?
> Validating the "flamewar detector" wasn't on my bingo card, but I've largely done that.

> there are some interesting bits that turn up.

More on these items, please!
I don't think they think that no one will pay. I think they don't think about it at all, or they think that government somehow has unlimited resources at its disposal.
Yes, a great analogy

> ... It advances dead cat legislation and reactionary edicts...

The legislative circus is a sideshow to the main event, which is fundraising from a small core of donors (which is a perversion of 1A, but we digress...).
Ask HN: Recruiters for CTO Level Roles?
I am looking for CTO level roles. Can you suggest some good recruiters that hire for such roles?
Show HN: PDFAgent with Observability
With the number of ask your PDF SaaS solutions, I noticed there weren't any solutions focused on people who wanted to build it for their business/SMB. Most of them also weren't production-ready (requiring a lot of work to productionize applications like LangChain). We therefore built a solution that provided Helicone-like observability that handled everything out of the box. We built PDFAgent to combine the capabilities of asking your PDF with built-in observability on top of Twilix’s RAG infrastructure. It handles parsing, cleaning, splitting up your PDF to provide useful embeddings (the user just needs to submit a publicly readable URL link) and a MixPanel-like interface to monitor and observe queries.
Thank you! I'll answer on GitHub if you don't mind :)
There are still plenty of subdomains, for example, https://www.cnusd.k12.ca.us/
> I do agree that development time is an important factor

In my experience, development time is much less of an important factor than management would like to think it is. I've seen companies burn customer goodwill by releasing a quickly-built, bug-ridden product too early, because they wanted to be first to market or whatever.

And I've also found that the companies that push for faster releases (without reducing scope, of course) end up shipping late anyway. If they'd accepted a later deadline in the first place, fewer coding mistakes would end up getting made along the way. (Stressed-out developers rushing toward an unachievable deadline make more mistakes than those whose time estimates are listened to.)

I know I don't represent all developers, but I do much better when I write in a "slower" language when that language's compiler verifies more things before we get to the point of running the code. The end product is more stable and more correct than what it'd be otherwise, and I don't think I deliver slower in a way that's significant to the business.
That font for the pull quotes - SourceType's Reform[1]- is grotesque. And not in a good way.

1 https://www.sourcetype.com/typefaces/2793/reform
In many cases, in the same countries.
This is exactly what they're doing tho? Removing rights by laws
Bruce Lee and Me
But have you had issues when sending SES emails to Outlook/Hotmail clients? For some reason those clients block emails coming from SES
I agree in general.
I think that if for some reason you do not want to see a therapist some kind of "alternative" (like Family Constellations or Jodorowsky's Tarots/Psychomagic may offer some solace.

The main problem is that (in my limited experience) they also conveniently offer solace but not much impulse to actually try to change things.
Why wouldn't a 10% holdback work? Would a company consider it "simply a cost of business" to block 10% of people at random? That's going to cause a huge amount of support load and probably a lot of negative press. 90% of data will still be good for analytics.
They've also been good with the messaging on drugs. Colombian Drug Cartels right? If only we can go to war in South America we can fix it.

But the majority of drug use are home-grown. [1]. Take marijuana out the picture (home grown) and Oxy, Prescriptions and other (home grown) drugs prevail.

Criminalising weed is a failed policy, which thankfully is being slowly dropped.

Less impressive is that the drug machine that created the oxy crisis is more or less ignored.

[1] https://drugabusestatistics.org/
Yeah it turns out humans are mush and goo seeking to survive and propagate

When exactly was this magical past where things were better, I wonder?
Or nearly every small outlet, YouTuber, podcast and independent blog. They, too, are trying to be profitable, after all.
While I agree that astrology is complete nonsense, you're not likely to win many people over when you treat stereotyping (which you've described here) and racism as equivalent.
Not sure I follow your argument, but I use union types extensively in TypeScript and I don't think they're horrendous at all.

E.g. it's very common to define a helper type like

type Maybe<T> = null | undefined | T

and then with TypeScript's flow analysis I can easily determine when it's safe to call properties on a value, e.g.

const foo: Maybe<Foo> = ...
if (foo) {
// Typescript now guarantees foo is not null or undefined
// thus it's a Foo, so I can call any Foo methods on it
foo.bar();
}
Sufficiently large? The software is there, I could deploy something like that in an afternoon. I'm not a criminal organization. Anyone can deploy their own e2ee infrastructure.
It's actually not. There's simply a 'use Option::{None, Some}' built-in to make them easier to work with.
> An imperfect system, but still worth protecting as it improves.

It's not improving though. Quite the opposite.

For the past two decades, individual rights in Western democracies have consistently been eroded, under both right- and left-wing governments. I cannot think of a single major change in any major Western country since the start of the century that I would call an improvement of individual rights.
How does that impact, say, the Saudi ownership of Twitter?

Think broader, more completely.
I get this is related to the whole Twitter -> X -> Twitter thing, but what is the discussion here?
One can only wonder how much this domain is worth today.
Conspiracy theories and pseudoscience in all its forms might also be aspects of this fake industrialized religiosity!!
> Pyrex cookware breaks in the microwave

Pyrex cookware can break in the microwave. So can glass cookware from other brands.

These incidents are RARE.

Your original claim is that they are "likely." This is wrong. Your new claim is that it "breaks in the microwave". Leaving out a qualifier implies it is inevitable and common. That interpretation is clearly wrong given the hundreds of millions if not billions of such glassware in use.

"Pyrex" is a brand name. You need to be specific. Do you mean Pyrex soda lime glass, Pyrex borosilicate glass, or both?

Why do you not care about non-Pyrex brand glassware?

> The platen glass is doped with a microwave absorbance metal to provide some protection to the magnetron

I am not able to verify this claim. As best I can tell, I was wrong - borosilicate glass is most often used, not lime soda. See https://patents.google.com/patent/JP2013063861A/en ("As the glass used for the turntable, borosilicate glass having a low thermal expansion coefficient and excellent thermal shock resistance is used.")

While boron is a metalloid (not a metal), it is not chosen for microwave absorbance reasons.

I do not believe your claim is true because "microwave absorbance metal" means the glass will heat up faster than otherwise, which is not what you want.
the reason this is happening is science and rational thinking has really let them down in their lifetime, especially during the pandemic. they (and people in general) dont know what is real anymore, what to believe any more when everyone seems to be making up things as they go along, especially the so-called experts. why not review everything they have access to but told by the experts not to pay attention? ie they want to do their own research now.
Many human experiences are better understood by means that are not scientific. Life is full of aesthetic, moral, spiritual, and even unanswerable questions. Science is incredible and beautiful and profound - but it's not everything.

I can't remember what TV show I heard this on, but I like it; "the true sweetness of wine is... but one flavor."

(ETA: The show was Marco Polo.)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36839446
I lost about a day trying to debug packer builds of vagrant boxes for vbox last week. The vbox builds were glacially slow and would reliably fail at rebuilding the tools dkms components.

That was on 7.0.8 I think. "Lucky" me 7.0.10 was released that same day, but didn't show up in an update check. I just happened to see the reference on their site to 7.0.10 and it resolved both issues from the previous day.

I don't have much day to day use to report with it though, I don't use the vbox images much myself.
But this isn't how it will work at all. EVs will take over because ICE cars will be excluded from too many markets by law for the remaining ones to stay profitable price wise due to negative scale effects. People won't switch to EVs because they will want it, they will just have to. Question is who will make the money resulting from it.

As for supplies of lithium - supply is created when there is demand. Surely today's lithium reserves are insufficient, just as existing oil reserves were insufficient for even the whole eventual production run of Ford Model T when it was first launched. Reserves are created by demand, we should ignore current data: when there is demand, miners will find and give it to us.
Honest question: You know where the term "asshole" comes from, right? :D
China has some pretty decent cities.

Many of them much more walkable and bikeable than the vast majority of the US and Canada. (Admittedly, that's a low standard.)
I saw them live once, in a small standing room only venue. The musicianship on display was insane. Watching Muhammed belt out those vocals while playing extremely technical guitar parts was unforgettable.
This is Elon Musk's website. As far as I can tell ownership was transferred to PayPal and then Elon bought it back reasonably soon after that.
I don’t understand how Twitter and the X idea overlap. Elon just wants to use the existing user base to seamlessly switch to the new app. If that’s the only reason he is bulldozing Twitter into X, feels like a bad idea. With his celebrity (though severely diminished) he can pull in a lot of interest to X as a new company. That would have automatically added a few billion in value for him. Instead trying to morph Twitter into X reduces Twitter’s value and doesn’t net anything positive at all. I don’t get this madness
It used to be single-letter TLDs couldn't be registered. Here is a look into the current status I did a bit ago: https://github.com/ryjones/single-letter-tlds
Mountain Duck – mount online storage on disk for Windows and Mac
... so far ...

Stay tuned for more changes as soon as Broadcom takes control
Still a step in the right direction.
Only a pisces would say that!
I recently finished reading "The PayPal Wars". The book recounts an interesting episode regarding PayPal's history where Elon Musk pursued his vision of rebranding PayPal as X.com. Despite his efforts, the initiative was not successful, ultimately leading to his resignation from the CEO position. It remains to be seen whether history has the tendency to repeat these kinds of events.
The only way I can imagine humans stay relevant in the job market, is if we can someone augment our intelligence to the point where we can basically keep up with AIs progress.

I don't actually think this is impossible as in some ways, mobile phones and other wearable devices are probably the first steps to get there.

Who knows?
How to solve problem X (... but not really) ... use our product.
It's the same thing as Nostr, wanting to tie payments to identities.
GP should name his method the "Runge-Kutta" ;)
Dawkins [1] and Hitchens’ works on religion are pop-science/culture books, not serious academic studies. Virtually no scholars in philosophy, religious studies, etc. agree with the narratives they present.

Instead, I would read Taylor, Robert Bellah’s Religion in Human Evolution, and maybe Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morality.

1. His non-biological work, that is.
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Wow. You're right in both cases. Sorry!
Very interesting perspective - thanks for sharing.

I definitely belong to this category at least subconscioulsy if not consciously :

> Many associate power with being dictatorial, telling people what to do, being political for self-gain, being brash, contradicting, bullying, etc. We most commonly associate these with “not being nice.” Those are all signs of demonstration of power, but there is more to power than such perceptions.
And that happened because of Twitter ??
I was talking about a different user.
I was hoping this would be a way to train an LLM that somehow knew when to seek out external knowledge and when not to.

I guess this is a pretty unsolvable problem with current architectures. There's just no concrete "confidence" value. I mean, an LLM will give you a probable value for what confidence could be given the words preceding it, but that's an entirely different thing
Nice article. How long did it take you to tune the Bloom filter parameters?
This reads like a Serbian owned business from the North of Kosovo. But anybody following the local politics would know that:
1) Corruption as an issue is disappearing in Kosovo, especially compared to Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia where it flourishes.
2) Corruption of police is practically impossible in Kosovo.
3) The IX is literally under USAID/EU control, good luck not getting blocked.
4) The North of Kosovo until this year was lawless. What they wrote about the east makes 0 sense.

All in all, this is either a honeypot, or somebody trying to discredit Kosovo.
Lights are one but no one is home.

It’s a bit pointless trying to reverse engineer some sense out of the whims of some people who think very highly of themselves.