skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is the author really trying to make the case that Garry Tan in the second most influential person in SF politics after Mayor London Breed? Give me a break. People really need to get off Twitter and live life in the real world once in a while. This is nothing more than a puff piece desperately trying to paint Tan as a new Elon Musk. He may have thrown money at a few candidates, but on the streets of SF he is a nobody, and his Tweetstorms don't really amount to political activism (at least not the effective kind).
LOL, an article about some posts where the author has confused Xitter slactivism as a proxy for actual involvement devoid of any actual policy. It's all just a morass of criticism.
I'm one of the maintainers of Evidence.dev - happy to answer any questions here
The thing is, an importer adds real value to their clients by selecting the products, taking the risk of moving the goods, etc.

You are right that the current state of dropshipping is an abomination, and there's not much left to save of that job. But the reason for that is that more and more of the job and benefits from that business are being taken by Amazon, and the sellers are left with that doesn't really justify their position.

What they're left with - being a plausible scapegoat and discovering new products - is not their choice, it's the part that is not profitable to Amazon.
I found a (relatively minor) bug in Git and tried contributing a patch for it. That time it was definitely partially my "fault" that it didn't get merged, since I was new to C and their contributor process. The feedback on my patch was kind of overwhelming (something like "instead of your one-liner, it's probably better to fix the root cause of the issue by refactoring this and that..."). Didn't get around to it, then saw it got fixed by a regular contributor quite some time later.

It was a bit discouraging, but I didn't feel robbed (since circumstances were different!) - and I realize it's difficult for maintainers to also find the time to onboard new contributors.
Or less of a problem. If they are durable then they won't break down and contribute to the microplastics problem. There are worse things than sitting inert deep inside a landfill.
> For anything designated an "appliance" I want it to be fixable by someone locally, or it's just throwing money away.

What does this have to do with the price of tea in China, or AI for that matter? I agree we should have repairable appliances. I also want better AI.
Tescreal hallucinations: Psychedelic and AI hype as inequality engines
> Can you imagine how many people we could employ if we banned all tools for digging and required everyone to dig by hand?

Even better, agricultural machinery. At one time > 90% of humans were unfree agricultural laborers ("unfree" = slaves, serfs, or something similar). The remaining 10% were mostly soldiers, with a thin veneer of lords and priests at the very top.
NYC weather sucks though
A good chunk of employers will let you work a 4 day workweek in return for a 20% pay cut.

For most people here on HN, you could probably survive on a 20% pay cut - you'd just have to have the kids share a bedroom rather than having one each and a guest room.

Downside: Those on a 4 day workweek really struggle to get promoted to senior positions.
15 years of working on SaaS products and a "how I would build it" guess. So basically exactly what you're doing.
Won't happen, because they view the Left as well-intentioned, but --in the case of SF-- badly executed in some specific policies. Whereas they view the Right/GOP as fundamentally ill-intentioned: theocratic, increasingly authoritarian, etc.
Yeah, those details like whether or not it works really don't matter. NASA is overrated.
The worst case scenario for Millennium Tower is that it will lean so much that the elevators don’t work anymore. That’s it.
You can conceptualice them however you want, but without people there are no companies

Companies are a completely made up concept. Made up by, you guessed it, people

People create them, people run them, people decide what to do with them

It’s the same for any organization

It’s people all the way down
> People had to physically take the input away from him if they were pairing with him because there was nothing anybody could say to stop him, and if you tried to tell him it wasn’t right then he’d just be pasting the second code snippet on the page before you could get another word out. He was freakishly quick at it.

Sounds like this guy understands concurrency. :)
Waiting List and Feedback Process with Tally.so
Can you configure the knob to hold down the left mouse button when you turn it and move either up/right or down/left diagonally?

If yes, it would be great for adjusting parameters in Audio Workstations. If not, well ... I guess I'm out, sadly.
I can't run a search engine in my own environment to prevent leaking to Google/NSA that I'm asking questions about nuclear weapons.

Search engines quite often block out requests based on internal/external choices.

At least when a self ran model, once you have the model it is at a fixed spot.
Not for the workers, no.
Obligatory, my favourite StackOverflow answer of all time: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454
such bullshit: to regard a loss of a "potential" as a realized actualized loss....
Benefits to the country tend to also be benefits to the people of the country - or perhaps their children.
A patch, by definition is a modification of an existing piece of code, in this case a very small one. Now, it is possible that copyright protection would apply to such a small piece of code in that context but plagiarism usually does not involve a perfect record (the mailing list where the patch was submitted) that states exactly where the original work was submitted, what was done to it to make it ready for inclusion as well as an admonishment that the patch was not usable because it wasn't properly signed off.

Plagiarism means that the kernel maintainer included the code and pretended that it was their original creation and nothing of the sort happened so I don't think that word should be used in this context. Nobody doubts the OP wrote the code, nobody is saying that they did not and nobody passes it off as their own.
The source material ban seems like it is just closing a loophole. I have a vague idea about a time-traveling cowboy and robot, tell ChatGPT to write a script, script is terrible, so tell a writer to fix it up. Now that writer has different rights than if it were an original script, even though it is basically an original script.
they should've called it winamp
As I said in another comment,

> These are politicized by certain patient advocacy groups and associated publishing circles but the evidence is considered pretty strong in the broader medical sphere.

The “critiques” of the PACE study are mostly based around p-hacking the objectives until you get the results you want. PACE participants saw significantly fewer hospitalizations, lower mortality, and better reported questionnaire scores as a bonus.

Because there is a lot of ire against recommending CBT among patient advocacy groups (including threatening to kill the authors and their families), some researchers have critiqued PACE because they have found some metrics in post-analysis that PACE did not improve (classic p-hacking). But that does not represent the broader view of the field.

Described by other scientists: “[The critiques come from a] fairly small, but highly organized, very vocal and very damaging group of individuals who have, I would say, actually hijacked this agenda and distorted the debate so that it actually harms the overwhelming majority of patients.'

> It shall not be dismissed as “proposed mechanism”.

That is literally how the paper self described. I am linking you multiple RCTs demonstrating impact and you are linking speculative causes of a disease that do not yet meet Koch’s postulates. But even if a neurological mechanism holds up (not at all unlikely in my view), this is likely to not be the case for all populations currently diagnosed with long covid - but rather a subset. CBT will likely be helpful for both populations, given the evidence I have linked.

My proof of my claim is that I have researched alternative treatments for long covid and CFS and none of them have these effect sizes :) If you have contrary evidence, that’s on you to prove, but fwiw I am not going to keep replying.

And again, I’ve linked RCT evidence for the effectiveness of CBT in long covid, which I guess you have nothing to say about.
Satellite data is cheap, but it will never be as cheap as alternatives when they exist.

Satellite data is bandwidth limited. A single StarLink satellite has 20 Gbps bandwidth (with 2polarization 64QAM modulation). That's roughly equal to four or five 5G base stations (uplink speeds). Most of the time satellites are over the seas with only a few customers, so we are talking maybe max 5-10% utilization.

Satellite data will never be competitive in urban areas. The value comes from rural and remote regions, ships and aircraft. Smaller number of customers means higher price.
> May the painted ladies be demolished and replaced with supertall skyscrapers jam-packed with cheap apartments, maker spaces, and startup incubators!

Without value judgement: Manhattan doesn't look like this. The parts you're thinking of (midtown and downtown) are full of luxury skyscrapers; the majority of the "cheap" (by relative standards) housing is in the north of the borough in 6-10 story apartment buildings.
Competing with China is easy when their working population is compressing and getting old rapidly due to structural demographics [1]. The competition is between the extremely wealthy and the people who perform the actual labor that generates the value being vacuumed up by the former. I am no fan of the CCP, but at least they gave Jack Ma (a big supporter of 996 [2]) the boot [3] and overall, are a lot more adversarial with their wealthy system participants.

[1] https://www.brookings.edu/articles/chinas-shrinking-populati...

[2] https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/15/business/jack-ma-996-china/in...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ma#Disappearance_from_the...
As a kid I liked giving up, and rolling over. It was fun to see how hard I could work for nothing.
I was thinking of something along the lines of "payroll management".

But otherwise yes, there probably are some special, advanced, use cases.
A politcal landscape of career politicians and undignified, multi-millionare ideologues may be better than a landscape of just career politicians; I'm not sure if it's much better, however.
StackOverflow and those AIs optimise for the same thing - something that looks correct regardless of how actually correct it is.
std::deque, although it would be nice to use an implementation where you can control the block size.
I would say that a mathematical construction is based in logic, maybe not in the traditional sense, but there is definitely logic behind the construction itself. I think we are talking past one another, what I mean by logic here is more nebulous than predicate calculus. There is an innate logic behind the philosophy of mathematics and I believe you cannot divorce mathematics from logic.
Those breaks are massive. The average UIUC student pays 13,500 per year and receives 15,000 in "aid". That is less than half the sticker price.

https://www.collegesimply.com/colleges/illinois/university-o...

Edit, you're right, this includes loans, but grants make up the majority of that figure. It's not entirely clear to me how each number is weighted:

"Grant and scholarship aid does not need to be paid back. 36% of students received Federal Student Loans averaging $4,863 and 9% of undergrads took out private student loans averaging $6,819."
They did mention the mandlebrot set was made in Lisp.
We'll just have more leaning towers - SF land is horrible to build on, unless the foundation hammered in for months - even then I wouldn't trust it for tall skyscrapers.
It says people are using sqlite for production. How big can you grow your database before it becomes a problem ?
I recently bought https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CBWJ9SKX ($35 USD) which I was skeptical about since cheap mechanical keyboards tend to be shitty (I tried quite a few). But this one has been absolutely amazing, so much so, that I prefer it to many $100 keyboards, and has been absolutely amazing for work (the nice brown feel, with a very muted sound). I wish for $10-15 more they had a full version, but this one is great as well.

In any case, thought I'd share.

Also when he said "after uni... covid lockdown" really made me feel old :P

For those reading, cherry brown or equivalent switches are your friend. I used to use blues with the clicky sound (browns are like blues without the sound) and I can tell you the blues got my keyboard kicked out of work AND my fiance threatened to beat me with it. Those blue sounds are bad bad bad for others, all jokes aside.
He's donated some money. Local politicians will dance around for money.
I think that, by and large, MacPorts wants to ultimately build things. I was just looking at the MacVim port and it does not have a way of downloading the Release from GitHub (as far as I can tell). It will download a precompiled binary from the MacPorts build farm, but it has Sparkle disabled, etc., so it is managed fully from MacPorts.

It would be an interesting discussion to have, as they do have some of that sort of thing (the 1Password CLI, for example), but I don’t know what the general policy would be.

I’d love to see MacPorts get more funding for build resources and to potentially add that, because the way that Homebrew works occasionally leaves things broken (`pipx` venvs are a great example).
For me, a big part of why I like this are the pre-ambles to the "wisdom" especially the bullets under "Brief introductory remarks regarding the Project:"
When StackOverflow was new, it was an incredible resource. Unfortunately, so much cruft has accumulated that it is now nearly useless. Even if an answer was once correct (and many are not), it is likely years out of date and no longer applicable.
According to https://wolvic.com/en/faq/ it uses GeckoView.

Wolvic currently uses GeckoView. That said, as part of our experimentation in 2021, we showed a version of Firefox Reality backed with WPE WebKit through an experimental abstraction layer. Igalia has since developed a a robust abstration layer which will allow it to be somewhat more decoupled from the underlying engine, thus allowing different engine backends. We are currently in the process of integrating a Chromium backend.
I would submit that it’s influencing the public discourse, since it’s being reported in the Standard and now we are contesting the issues in these comments. Public discourse affects politics, and politics affect our lives. Some people think SF can do better!
Is it not possible that they overprice products and services to merchants while under pricing products to consumers?
Nothing wrong with that. I don't, though -- so LLMs have made me more productive with less annoyance.

(My personal struggle is figuring out when to stop trying to use the hammer that is LLMs. I've definitely fallen victim to the sunk cost fallacy here.)
K-19 The Widow Maker comes to mind.
YouTube videos are just letting other people do research ;)
Usually new OS efforts seem like they're too "boil the ocean" impractical. I like this. It immediately sticks out as something with some promise.

Tips:

(1) Add virtualization early. That way it'd be possible to run other OSes and thus familiar apps. In the long term a seamless form of virtualization similar to Parallels Coherence could be explored as a way to run foreign apps on their host OS. This would be a short-medium term solution to the 'no apps' problem that dogs any new OS effort.

(2) Limit hardware support scope by targeting a few target platforms. I'd suggest Linux-oriented laptop vendors like System76 and Framework, the Raspberry Pi, and a few other familiar things with related ethos.

(3) Look at using foreign drivers such as those from Linux or BSD via a compatibility API. This might let you support notoriously painful to support things like wifi cards.
Ever wanted to see a photo or video or something before you purchased it ?

Glance at a long term weather forecast ?
Do people who actually live and vote in San Francisco want to turn it into another Manhattan? If we want more super tall skyscrapers jam packed with cheap apartments and offices then why should they be built in SF specifically? Why not Bakersfield or Cleveland?
Why assume a pithy tweet is the only mechanism they’re using?
Unions are "conservative" in terms of resisting certain changes. Interesting dichotomy.
> Self-preservation? Do you expect them to roll over and die?

Above I said “A society that leaves members behind will be out competed and replaced by societies that are smarter about this. Ditto for a society that imposes costs on others so that some group can continue to maintain some legacy way of life.” Are these ideas unreasonable? If you think they are good ideas, the rational thing to do is spread them so there is collective will to have a safety net that ensures nobody is left behind. This needs to exist and be collectively paid for ahead of time. That many do not understand this is a problem. One solution is laws like forced purchased of private vehicle insurance. Another is to include such insurance as part of citizenship which now has a higher price / taxes. What is needed are some prices signals so that those who make decisions that put them at greater risk should pay higher costs to prevent such decisions.

> Did the factory owners not feel it was their right to suddenly and massively disrupt the industries that Luddites were making a living in? What about the cost on them?

Nobody “owes” you a job. Factory owners must follow laws but are otherwise free to run factory as they like even shut it down. They are at the mercy of a market of consumers. Are you willing to pay for hand made goods / services when machine made offer better value? What do you suppose happens to a business that refuses to modernize?
The large Del key is great, it makes it easier to hit it blindly while typing.
They do take up a lot of space between the right hand and the mouse.

I sometimes try to go back to full size keyboard but I just can't take it for more than a few hours. It's just too uncomfortable. I'd love to have a keyboard with the numpad on the left side.

If I were a lefty with regards to mousing I'd use a full size keyboard and be happy.
I don't agree with your point, but I love that Facebook released llama into the open. I realized it's not necessarily to undercut their competitors, either. Their revenue grows when high quality content is easier to create. If they commoditize the process of creating content, they make more money. Commoditize your compliment.
A hiring round nearly two decades ago we realised something was off with the answers to the usual pre-phone interview screening questions. They were simple, and we asked people to only spend like 20 minutes on them. We knew people would "cheat", but they were only there to lighten our load a little bit, so it was ok if they let through some bad candidates.

But for whatever reason, in one hiring round the vast majority had cut and pasted answers from search results verbatim (we dealt with a new recruiter, and I frankly suspected this new recruiter was telling them this was ok despite the instructions we'd given).

These were not subtle. But the very worst one was one who did like the developer you described: He'd found a forum post about a problem pretty close to the question, had cut and pasted the code from the first answer he found.

He'd not even bothered to read a few comments further down in the replies where the answer in question was totally savaged by other commenters explaining why it was entirely wrong.

This was someone who was employed as a senior developer somewhere else, and it was clear in retrospect looking at his CV that he probably kept "fleeing the scene of the crime" on a regular basis before it was discovered he was a total fraud. We regularly got those people, but none that delivered such obviously messed up answers.

For ever developer like this, you're probably right there will be a lot more that are less extreme about it, and more able to make things work well enough that they're not discovered.
I agree that the maintainers work is better. But he could have just done this as a code review on the patch and ask for an update.

That happens constantly for new contributors to a project and it is the proper way to do things - it teaches people and brings them up to speed. If you just redo their work, you are discouraging them from contributing while also not allowing for a teachable moment.
Indeed it's a "signal that's hard to fake" unlike, say, calling something a "autopilot (beta)"
To paraphrase an old saying about bipartisanship, no matter how poorly run the restaurant you're eating in is, if the competition across the street is serving tire rims and anthrax you're going to stay put.
Who still has elevator operators today?
San Francisco could add a ton of housing without adding super tall skyscrapers across the city. Maybe some YIMBYs want to Manhattanize SF but certainly not all of them.

Paris has a height limit of 12 stories for most parts of the city https://www.archdaily.com/1002165/paris-reimposes-the-ban-on...

Hopefully the San Francisco BoS does their part and approves reasonable housing so it's not purely up to developers with SB 35/423.
Happy 40th Anniversary of Software Freedom
Keychron also has many keyboards with Bluetooth + USB-C cable -- the ones with "Pro" in the name, I think. I am personally a fan of the "Q" or "Q Pro" series (because of the knob), but there are other lines.

I think all of them have hot-swappable keys and many of them even have hot-swappable mechanical switches, I think. In most of their keyboards, all the keys (and key combinations) are fully configurable at the hardware level as well.

I can vouch for the quality of the ones I have (Q3), but mine don't have Bluetooth so I don't know how well that works.
The article above is referring to UCLA.

"California on Thursday became the first state to guarantee free health care for all low-income immigrants living in the country illegally..."

https://apnews.com/article/health-california-immigration-gav...

Billions of dollars are being spent on health care for illegal residents instead of spending the money for California residents at California Universities.

There is plenty of money in California. The problem is that the leadership doesn't prioritize affordable university education, preferring instead to fund people living in the country illegally. California residents are taking out student loans to subsidize people living in the country illegally.
It is tremendously unfair.