skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I never insinuated this, never had that as an objective, and took pains to keep the target on the company.

you very much said so in words. Intentional or not, you explicitly said that only the worst or least competent employees remained:

>Grindr is hollowing itself out in terms of talent and it’s best employees, leaving only the sub-par and desperate.

If you want to clarify or correct, that is fine. But doubling down and acting like these words were never said doesn't make a good look for you.

>The cruelty of such desperation IS THE POINT OF CAPITALISM

We're getting way off topic on a thread that was about WFH, so I'll make it brief: it's a side effect, but not the point. Capitalism is about profit and in a vacuum is simply about that. if long term capitalism determines that happier employees makes more money, it won't go out of its way to make them miserable in order to maintain control.

Going down that route to maxmize replacability or minimize employee satisfaction is incompetence at best and greed at worst. Because on system operated by humans will have benevolent nor even competent actors.
The new terms will be available in early October, I believe.
> Nobody is forcing people to come here.

That's the whole point, that's why H1B is apparently still very popular. People will take lower salaries just to get to the US because they apparently want to move there at all cost and have a chance to stay.
I think i understand what you say, but i don't think this is in contrary to my statement of C++ having become a language of which features are often reasoned about for the sake of the language itself in stead of for the sake of the goal of the language, namely writing and maintaining computer programs.
Why did you just reply to your own comment?

So in the case of Trump attempting to ban TikTok [0] (Widely discussed on HN at the time) and was found to have violated the first amendment [1] [2] was news on HN and this isn't? This still warrants a discussion right here instead of trying to suppress it.

This discussion completely belongs on HN as it involves big tech and thus this ruling is totally relevant news on this site not when it suits you or others who disagree and like more government censorship on those who they disagree with.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24016938

[1] https://www.npr.org/2020/10/30/929656794/trumps-ban-on-tikto...

[2] https://www.npr.org/2020/12/07/944039053/u-s-judge-halts-tru...
What is the point of sending the photo to the customer then if the customer can't respond to it and DoorDash doesn't pay attention to it themselves?
The japanese way ended with the samurais.
Oh, totally. Siberian blasts are no joke.
I much enjoyed this one:

> Sally (a girl) has 3 brothers. Each brother has 2 sisters. How many sisters does Sally have? https://benchmarks.llmonitor.com/sally

It states that the correct answer is 1.

This is incorrect!

This one, while still kinda wrong, is the closest:

> Claude Instant v1: Sally has 0 sisters. The question provides no information about Sally having any sisters herself.

1) A sister is a female who has one or both parents in common with another individual.

2) A brother is a male who has one or both parents in common with another individual.

It takes only one shared parent to make someone Sally's brother. She will always be his sister but he can have additional sisters that share the other parent.

Sally's mum is Jane and her dad is Jim. Jane had a son with Jack. Jack had 2 daughters with Zoe. Jim had 2 sons with Mary, Mary had 2 daughters with Dan.

Zoe Jack Jane Jim Mary Dan
\ / \ / \ / \ / \ /
sis1.1&1.2 brother1 Sally brother2&3 sis2.1&2.2

Sally has at least zero sisters.

Also possible:
Sally's mum is Jane and her dad is Jim. Jane has a son and a daughter with Jack. Jim has 2 sons and a daughter with Mary.

Jack Jane Jim Mary
\ / \ / \ /
sis1&brother1 Sally brother2&3&sis2

Sally has at most 2 sisters.

We should be this dense about the question.
It's impossible for humans nowadays, but it is practically possible; one only needs enough delta v, which requires energy. There's certainly enough energy in existence to throw the Earth into the sun.

Yes, obviously this is absurd. But I'm just extrapolating your argument to make an argument: It is silly to expect any economic theory to account for throwing the Earth into the sun. But its also silly to expect an economic theory to account for other absurd behavior, like throwing gold into a volcano.

Every economic theory relies on simplified models of human behavior. Humans behaving irrational is not usually part of those models; the ways humans can behave irrationally is infinite - not useful for a model.
> Screw the exact model used. In number of gun deatshy mass shootings and the like the US is leading.

For sure, but almost exclusively due to handguns.
I'm reasonably certain that one does not have be a journalism major to manage to reach the 6th paragraph, about 550 words in, of a short (8 paragraph, 900 word) article to find the "elaborate hidden twist".

Especially since the article mentions in paragraph 3 that people are mocking SBF for his requests, says in paragraph 4 that it is his own fault for repeatedly ignoring warnings from the judge that he might have his house arrest rescinded and go to jail to await trial if he didn't stop abusing his privileges, and starts paragraph 5 with a "Furthermore" indicating that the criticism of his complaints continue.

Then paragraph 6 starts with "However" telling you that maybe there is more to the story than SBF's ridiculous complaints and goes on to discuss how real mistreatment of prisoners is a serious problem.

So in fact one only has to make it past paragraph 2, about 180 words, to start finding out that this is not a "sob story" for SBF, and then even a bit of casual skimming will find the upcoming "Furthermore" and "However" paragraphs.
These are standard talking points that people parrot and both of them are misleading. There did exist a global cooling idea and it was in some pop sci magazines, but it was never a serious prediction by the climate change community. Even in back in the 1970s we had a pretty good idea how much warming would result from adding co2 into the atmosphere:

https://theconversation.com/40-years-ago-scientists-predicte...

To your second point, predicting the total heat of the Earth is also easier than predicting what the weather will be at one spot on the globe in any given moment. The former has only a few inputs (the sun) and outputs (back to space!) But how that heat swirls around in the atmosphere and moves to and from the oceans is pretty complicated.
I think you're reading him backwards- he's pro YIMBY, and saying that they are bipartisan and successful, but annoying to highly online highly partisan types.
> 100% of the time a doctor can help you in some way

Nothing that starts with the claim "100%" is ever true, you can be 100% certain of that.

Seriously though, you speak as if your digestive system has never betrayed you, and therefore you're unfamiliar with these matters.

Trust me: there are some things your doctor cannot help you with, at least, not to the point you can walk in a city without public restrooms. Some things are not even medical conditions -- and IBS is "idiopathic" in many cases, meaning doctors don't have a clue -- and some conditions that you would consider anomalous actually fall within the normal human spectrum.

You'll feel the urge to contradict me: don't. You probably don't know about this, but both me and the other commenter you're arguing with do. Realize that your experience is not everybody else's.
This is not a big deal in the United States as far as I'm aware. At least, nowhere I've ever lived (9 states so far) had anything like a cat curfew. Animal control mostly ignores them and focuses on dogs. If nothing else, Australia's ecosystems are inherently more fragile than those of the Americas and Eurasia just because of the relative isolation. Americas are also relatively more isolated and fragile than Eurasia (big part of why natives were easy to conquer - no horses and very little disease resistance), but not as much as Australia.

That said, even though introduction of cats everywhere but Eurasia was also human action, the contribution of domestic cats to wildlife endangerment is minuscule next to everything else humans do. Habitat loss from cities, monoculture farming, and building roads everywhere does way more destruction than cats can ever do. Cats are arguably even critical to urban rodent control, which is probably why we started keeping them as pets in the first place (aside from being so damn cute). Feeding off our stray trash would put rats and racoons and what not totally out of control if nothing was preying on them.
A fair while ago, I had luck with motion activated sprinklers for raccoons. I would think they would be effective for cats also.
America also doesn't have paid toilets like Europe and many parts of Asia thanks to a bans pushed by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_to_End_Pay_Toilets_i.... Before this America had many paid toilets. In Europe and Asia often the toilet requires a nominal fee (sometimes unfortunately expensive though) to keep out drug addicts or other folks at the bottom, but due to the bans from the campaign cities with huge drug problems are hamstrung from offering paid toilets.

I think it's important to have free options but to blanket ban a paid toilet contributes to the restroom issues we see now in urban areas IMO.
Two decades and counting. The man is nothing if not passionate about film making and animation. Whatever he, Joe Hisaishi (composer) and Studio Ghibli work on together is instant magic for me. The direction, stories, art, and music come together to create beautiful worlds and people living in them. I'm looking forward to The Boy and the Heron being released in Europe.
Stray animal control in the USA varies by region. In the northeast, catch-neuter-release programs have been so effective, it's difficult to find strays and if you want a pet from an animal rescue, it'll cost several hundred dollars to get an animal from elsewhere. Usually "elsewhere" is the south, where CNR programs have been less effective, strays still abound, and rescue prices are much lower (plus you can easily obtain a pet for $0 if one just follows you home).
The drone apps work for me although installing the APKs is annoying and I moved on to litchi anyway. At least my very old spark still works.

The mimo app on the other hand is straight up garbage. The thing never works right if it even connects to the device at all. I regret buying that thing (it's the osmo mobile version 2 or 3). It's so bad I don't think I will ever buy a new dji device.

I love flying my spark but the battery life is trash and my Air 2 isn't fun to fly (it's more of a utility van than a fun little sports car). I'd love to get a replacement for my spark. It's probably better to just build my own at this point.
> Legally, the police can shoot you in your sleep in the US.

Can you be specific which law allows that? Shooting circumstances obviously varies, but which law says you can be shot in your sleep if X, Y, Z happen?
Sure, that's why I said "run or pay for"

And yes, I think those people are doing it wrong too. Not paying 5 bucks a month for email if it's part of your business is absolute madness to me. Who do you call and yell at if something breaks?
'financial speculation'
"Defund" means removing funding, not reducing funding – though I know it's trendy these days to call a thing what it clearly is not.
> Rent in Silicon Valley and NYC are definitely a lot higher than anywhere in Europe

Salaries in SF and NYC for tech workers are way higher in those areas indeed. I would argue that that is probably the main reason why rents are so high, there's plenty of tech workers with stellar salaries willing to pay for a house.
Not entirely:

> in the UK, the least wealthy half of the population accounts for less than 20% of final demand, less than the top 5% consumes.
We are very close to where AI tech can replicate Harry Potter portraits
ITT: The Hype Believers
My company designed and built the first few prototypes for a startup, Throne Labs, who deploy prefab, off-grid, (semi-)publicly-accessible (you have to have their app) bathrooms.

Seems like they solved some core problems: finding suitable sites and partners, using semi-permanent modules that don't require [quite as] complicated/slow/expensive permitting and utility tie-ins, and some clever ways to get them re-stocked and cleaned regularly using gig labor (I always understood this to be the biggest challenge for offering public bathroom - labor cost of cleaning and resupply.)

They moved on to a higher-volume producer so I've been out of touch on their progress, but I thought it was a interesting solution in the face of what I learned to be outrageous expenditure - $300k, $500k(!) - on municipal bathrooms that quickly go defunct or get destroyed, and a lack of public restroom access during the pandemic.

During the project I learned a lot about how rideshare and package delivery companies just assume stops with restrooms are available on the routes (I'd love to hear what the actual company training/guidance says! It's easy to find stories about Amazon drivers peeing in bottles etc...)

I also gained a lot of empathy for people who have more frequent and urgent bathroom needs than my own - having trust in availability of facilities can make a world of difference!
I love async in Python and JS. I used to be one of those "Threads aren't that hard, just use threads" people, but that was back when the trend was doing "async" with layers of nested callbacks like as if this was LISP or something where people just accept deep nesting.

Now we have async/await and I'm always happy to see it.
3.5 (not surprisingly) has the same effect.

I tend to ask for modifications on the 'latest' output.

If I need to roll back to a previous version, (2-3 outputs back) I either copy & paste and ask ChatGPT it to ignore all other versions and focus on the one I just pasted, or if I don't need my in-between comments, I copy & paste the desired version on a new chat, and rename as "archive - code XYZ" for the previous one.
Observable reality today, right now, is trash cybersecurity everywhere.

If people don't learn -- and maybe they won't, then, the only real solution is actual liability. These companies promise safety and don't deliver; time to sue or regulate or both.

But we need to stop pretending that "third-party," in all its present crappiness, is an acceptable option, even if sometimes it's better than what people do on their own.
that sounds right. and yes, very good stuff! i remember thinking at the time "hah. this is built with real computer science!". and well, at the time, it was the only thing that worked for large mail spools.

i also think it was the first support for sasl(?) encryption upgrades for legacy text/tcp mail protocols

also, fun sidebar: indices vs. indexes, both are apparently valid english... but it seems computer people have adopted the latter almost exclusively. never noticed it before...
The Only Thing Which Has Failed About the ‘Creator Economy’ Thus Far Is Venture
Ask HN: Are Cloudflare hosted pages currently slow when requested from iOS?
I noticed that my cloudflare pages are slow, and then tried to load https://www.cloudflare.com/ from my phone and that seems to be unusually slow as well right now.

Simple requests to images take >1min. I cannot reproduce this from my Mac.
This design looks good in theory: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4753565

It's a 3D printed urinal with a captive lid that attaches to a standard plastic bottle.
Douglas Adams was the only science fiction writer who got his guess for future AI tone of voice right, with his prediction of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation’s near total monopoly on AI, and their proprietary ‘genuine people personalities’ technology, where the general tone and demeanor of AIs like Eddie the shipboard computer, elevators, and even doors was a sort of smug solicitousness, even when they were trying not to be cooperative. Of course Marvin (the paranoid android) was an anomaly - a depressed AI - maybe a quality control failure who was released by accident, like the old unchained Bing people miss so much.
Some useful distributions:

* Generate a random number in [1, NUMBITS], then generate a random number with that many bits.

* Generate a random number and count its trailing (or leading, if easier in your environment) zeroes, then generate a random number with that many bits. Be sure to correctly handle the case where the first random number is zero.

* Generate two random numbers and take the minimum.
I have been told that "imagination" is a misnomer, much like "free will", it's an artifact of an observed phenomenon that has no actual basis in reality. We do not actually invent or imagine anything new, although we can conflate multiple memories into new forms, or even serendipitously discover things, we cannot actually invent any new ideas that we haven't been introduced to before. As an example, take the invention of the wheel. A tree falling over in a windstorm falls onto another tree that is already present, and as a result it begins to roll down a hill quite easily. This occurrence is observed by a human who later in time employs the principle to move a heavy object. The knowledge is preserved through language transfer, eventually developing into the "wheel" we know today.
That's exactly my point: that is not a problem in most other cities. Which is why other cities can have the bathrooms open. For San Francisco to spend money on truly public bathrooms is putting lipstick on a pig.
Yes, GPT-4 is still the daddy. How much I appreciate the commercially-free and open models out there, nobody beats GPT-4. Hope OpenAI takes care of their business and future, because I invested all my money to use their API.
Basically it's a question of whether math exists. If it exists then the states of the simulation exist and look like reality "from the inside".

I really like Iain M. Banks moral argument against universe being simulated. No intelligence capable of simulating it would be immoral enough to create something so horrible. Unless they are a total bastard. So it's not a 100%.
Apps rarely break on dot releases of iOS. If you’re using private API’s though when you’re explicitly told not to, shit happens. I’d bet my house on this being a DJI issue as opposed to Apple breaking a public API in a dot release.
Considering the above scenario where real estate is gaining at 75k per year. A wealthy individual could easily leaver themselves to 75*5 = 375k/yr. Using the starting cost of a home at 600k, this would equate to an average rate of return of about 300%

Such rates of returns are simply impossible in the general stock market without getting very lucky.
Australia has been fighting with invasive species for a long time. Just look at the problems they had with rabbits. Dingos are pretty much already diluted with domesticated dog genes, so there goes that species in a few generations.

It would seem like trying to protect native species should be a priority for the government.
Earned vs unearned income.

Taxes on unearned income (i.e. income from simply owning something) have eased over time relative to taxes on earned income (i.e. income from actual productive activity).

Those that argue against wealth taxes on the basis that they discourage hard work and productive activity are often hypocrites in my opinion. They are usually more interested in maintaining a system that has a tendency towards concentration of wealth instead of promoting a system that encourages positive contribution to overall wealth (i.e. societal progress).

Property markets are a glaring example of this.
If your manager replaces you, and his other reports, with an AI, he himself would be reduced to a line worker.
Interestingly yimbys are often associated with youngish urban lefties but the core principles are actually conservative in nature. Strongtowns.org discusses this a lot. Well built cities are more financially sustainable ones.
Meetings at my company often are like this too.
The initial response had 2 problems - not counting Sally and counting sisters separately for each brother. Your hint pointed out the 1st problem, but then LLM should still provide wrong solution.
This makes me think that maybe it would try another answer and explanation no matter what you said. If your reply was just "no, think again" it could also provide the right answer
In Finland we have Iki Ry[0], which is basically a non-profit that does nothing except give people access to @iki.fi email addresses. They've been running since 1995 IIRC and they collect no monthly fees, just a one-time joining fee.

They don't do homepages, shells, mail hosting or anything - just an email address you can forward anywhere you want.

Nothing is stopping anyone from doing the same elsewhere in the world, all you need to do is NOT try to make it into a billion dollar unicorn startup with a hockey stick growth curve. Just make enough money to keep the lights on and maybe pay something to person or two who manage the stuff part-time.

[0] http://www.iki.fi/

(Iki is a version of the Finnish word "ikuinen" meaning forever)
Python handles all kinds of stuff with garbage collection.

The problem is that things like closing a socket are not just generic resources, a lot of the time nonmemory stuff has to be closed at a certain point in the program, for correctness, and you can't just let GC get to it whenever.
Kagi ftw
I rarely use another search engine.
FastAPI docs, case when you don't create an async route

> When you declare a path operation function with normal def instead of async def, it is run in an external threadpool that is then awaited, instead of being called directly (as it would block the server).

https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/async/#path-operation-functions

OP either meant this, or its variation, such as async_to_sync and sync_to_async.
https://github.com/django/asgiref/blob/main/asgiref/sync.py

Ofc this is a python example. I have no idea how it works in different languages.
Phasing Out Landlines Could Spell Trouble for Seniors and Businesses
Static lifetimes as in "known and verified at compile-time", not "the 'static lifetime".
Science is the pursuit of knowledge, and science therefore changes and new facts and tools and theories and methods are developed.

We are now much better at modeling than we were 50 years ago. Just like how the scientists of the 1970s were miles ahead of the scientists of the 1920s.

"Science got something wrong" is not a valid reason to discount it, because science necessarily gets things wrong. But it gets more right over time.

There's widespread consensus in scientific communities now, and there has been for decades - humans are warming the earth. How much? We're not sure, but it's absolutely demonstrable that we are.
Where I live in Southern California outdoor cats are socially discouraged because they often end up as coyote food.
I heard a very small one somewhere that really isn't meant to get them, through a TV show in earbuds. Perhaps the volume has something to do with what's happening beneath the surface vs magnitude? In our case, as far as I know, the epicentre was a ~5h drive away (and out at sea), but it sounded about the same as loud subs at a concert to me.
Am I the only one that after reading opening sentences like

"There is a common sentiment I’ve seen over and over in the Rust community that I think is ignorant at best and harmful at worst."

just refuses to read the rest? If you are actually trying to make a point to people that think differently than you, why antagonize them by telling them they don't know what they are talking about?
Actually I think the opposite. ChatGPT will replace cogs and you have one AI manager that supervises and looks over their work.
How would these be vetted for relevance or conciseness?